00:02:32.000They've already got something like eight or nine security officers.
00:02:35.000And Amy Coney Barrett went on to explain her son opening the door to a wall of police after she had been swatted.
00:02:42.000And the interesting thing here, it wasn't just Coney Barrett, it's Kagan as well, talking about the death threats they are receiving for the rulings that they are creating or that they're issuing.
00:02:51.000And the funny thing is, somebody did a breakdown of Amy Coney Barrett's opinions before Dobbs.
00:02:56.000And after, and you can see that after Dobbs, she goes full moderate.
00:03:40.000She tells a story where she had to explain to her 12 year old son what a bulletproof vest was.
00:03:45.000Because apparently, he's been so sheltered, he's never played Fortnite or Call of Duty or any other video game like GTA and didn't know what a bulletproof vest was.
00:03:51.000Now, I don't believe her, but I will say this if it is true that her kid didn't know what a bulletproof vest was, she has those kids very sheltered.
00:04:00.000So it must be very, very terrifying when people are trying to murder you and your colleagues.
00:04:05.000I can only suspect then, as we've already talked about on this show, that when her opinions start shifting and contradicting themselves, she's doing it because she's terrified the left will kill her.
00:04:16.000Now, the funny thing is, guys, it's riot season.
00:04:22.000You could say that after USAID was shut down, the riots just stopped, which is kind of true and weird.
00:04:28.000But many are arguing it's because the left has found victories in other ways, notably with these death threats and with the attacks on ICE facilities.
00:04:37.000They are now, it is being reported by Daily Wire, ICE has been instructed they can no longer pull vehicles over, which is the principal method by which they are deporting these criminal illegal migrants.
00:04:46.000And of course, the death threats against a sitting Supreme Court justice, her opinions have markedly shifted to the left following the assassination attempt on Brett Kavanaugh.
00:04:55.000Some would argue the left might actually be winning.
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00:08:37.000Pre Dobbs, you can see that she was siding almost entirely with the conservative wing of the court, 81% of the time in October of the Supreme Court term in 2021.
00:09:26.000But there are other issues as well, and you can see it plain as day.
00:09:28.000I don't need to go through every single ruling, but on the issue of the 14th Amendment, Her arguments, at least in my opinion, her opinion that she issued seemed to make no sense, arguing that there was fear back in the 1800s that without a set day for the election, it could lead to a second civil war.
00:09:45.000Indeed, my friends, in 1872, we were on the verge of the civil war breaking out again.
00:09:49.000In 1876, a committee decided who would be president.
00:09:53.000There were concerns that because elections were being held randomly or just different times in different states, you could exploit the time or day of an election to make sure certain voting blocks would not come out.
00:10:02.000For instance, if you don't want farmers to vote, You say election day is the day of harvest, or one of the most important times of harvest.
00:10:09.000So the farmers are going to say, Are you kidding?
00:10:20.000It seemed like she was arguing against herself, probably because after the Dobbs decision, before and after, you had massive death threats.
00:10:28.000You had someone trying to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh.
00:10:31.000And then we get this Amy Coney Barrett giving emotional testimony about the moment her son saw her bulletproof vest.
00:10:46.000And those statistics sound abstract, but being on the receiving end of them is not.
00:10:50.000So I thought I would just share a little bit about how the threats have affected me and my family personally.
00:10:56.000They have required me to, my children, to think about and see things that children should not have to see or think about.
00:11:04.000One example is when threats to my life were particularly intense a few years ago around the time of the Dobbs leak.
00:11:11.000My security detail sent me home with a bulletproof vest and I carried it into my house, put it into my bedroom.
00:11:17.000Dropped it down on a table, turned around, and my 12 year old son was standing in the doorway of my bedroom.
00:11:23.000And he wanted to know what it was and why I had it.
00:11:26.000And I didn't know how to respond because maybe I lack imagination, but I didn't expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was and why I had to wear one.
00:11:38.000Ma'am, if your 12 year old son did not know what a bulletproof vest was, then you must keep him locked in the basement or under a rock.
00:11:47.000I'm sure he's played Fortnite or Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto.
00:11:51.000Or, literally, watched any movie ever at any point.
00:11:54.000The ignorance of that statement, though, the idea that she would say, I just didn't know the gravity of being a justice on the Supreme Court.
00:12:01.000I didn't think that people would be really upset.
00:12:03.000If you don't, you know, if you can't handle the heat, you get out of the kitchen, right?
00:12:24.000Y'all know I was just spending last week at the World Series of Poker.
00:12:27.000One of the pros that played published a story.
00:12:29.000He said that after he cashed out, because he had something like $80,000 in prizes, he went back to his Airbnb, said two black dudes were waiting for him.
00:12:36.000They knew they were tracking him, hog tied him, and stole all of his stuff.
00:13:02.000But the reason why celebrities walk around with big groups of people, it's not always just because they're rich and their friends cling to their asses.
00:13:08.000It's because my friends are also de facto security.
00:13:11.000We're a big group, we're not going to get screwed around with.
00:13:14.000I understand being in this line of work is dangerous.
00:13:19.000Amy Coney Barrett, if you think the threat is too great and you are issuing rulings that are tepid, weak, and bad for this country, you need to resign right now.
00:13:30.000For the safety and sake of your children.
00:13:31.000I'm not on the Supreme Court and I got Bulletproof Fest and I got plates and stuff.
00:13:36.000I watch a podcast about video games and I get death threats on a day to day basis because I know what a man is.
00:13:45.000That's forbidden knowledge on the internet.
00:13:50.000Listen, I get what she's going through here.
00:13:52.000We have tried to plan events for our company multiple times, but the reality is that whenever we try to produce any sort of event anywhere in the world, anywhere in the United States, we have to account for.
00:14:04.000Way more security than a traditional event would because of silliness like that.
00:14:10.000You know, and I mean, I just go back to that statement.
00:14:12.000Yeah, the Fortnite thing and the body armor thing, that's insane, right?
00:14:17.000But the fact that she was naive at the idea of being a Supreme Court justice wasn't going to be, there weren't going to be threats associated with that.
00:14:28.000But it goes to show that she has not been paying attention.
00:14:30.000And I'm just, you know, I get headaches from this because I'm like, I'm the Civil War guy, you know what I mean?
00:14:36.000Always screaming like things are getting crazy.
00:14:39.000And, you know, as of right now, I'd argue, I don't exactly know where things are going because it looks like the crushing of USAID may have been like, The right may have routed the left infrastructure to a degree where they're getting pushed back to an insane degree.
00:15:08.000Like, she knew exactly what they did to Kavanaugh in terms of accusing him of being a gang rapist, as well as trying to bash the doors down.
00:15:17.000And then with the Dobbs decision, she's like, oh, heavens me, I'm so shocked this is happening.
00:15:20.000Well, was she like a prosecutor before she took the bench?
00:15:27.000So, like, she worked in law, then she went on to be a judge.
00:15:29.000I mean, my guess is that she was very career minded, and this is a once in a lifetime opportunity that so few people get that she underestimated just how much security and how dangerous it was going to be.
00:15:39.000Being a federal judge isn't exactly a safe position.
00:15:43.000She was on the You're not immune to violence.
00:15:45.000She was on the Seventh Circuit for U.S. Court of Appeals from 2017 to 2020.
00:15:50.000And prior to that, she was a law professor at Notre Dame.
00:15:53.000And now it's, look, we've talked about it with all of her rulings.
00:15:57.000In the past couple of years, she may as well be a liberal.
00:16:05.000She got swatted in May and then issues these placid, moderate rulings with the most pathetic of opinions that she may as well have not even issued an opinion at all and contradicts herself.
00:16:14.000And I'm like, clearly getting swatted has her shaken in her eye heels.
00:16:21.000If my child is not even that old, But I could not imagine your 12 year old child opening the door to a wall of police, probably screaming, hands in the air, this kid freaking out.
00:16:35.000There was that one story, I think it was like Oklahoma or whatever, where a guy got swatted, opens his door with his gun in his hand, they shoot and kill him.
00:16:41.000There was another story I saw where cops were responding to a domestic and they're banging on the door and they're at the wrong house.
00:17:16.000Like, if it's that bad now, it's only going to get worse.
00:17:18.000It's not like it's something like you could make the argument that maybe when her kids are old enough to move out of the house, maybe she has a little bit more of a laissez faire attitude towards it when it's just her and her.
00:17:33.000And I mean, there aren't any actual cases that I'm aware of that are as volatile as Dobbs.
00:17:43.000And she kind of ducked the 14th Amendment question that was here.
00:17:46.000There is the rifle ban that'll come up next year, but I don't think that would set anyone off the way that the Dobbs decision did.
00:17:56.000So, you know, but that doesn't mean that something couldn't present itself, you know.
00:18:00.000Isn't it amazing though to see whenever there's going to be a ruling and you know which way it's going to go based off of whether the fence is up or not?
00:18:10.000And also, it's interesting that she would be demanding more security while there being less security in the United States, you know, for people coming in and voting.
00:18:20.000And I mean, everybody has to see the hypocrisy in this.
00:18:23.000I mean, the whole idea of her needing or requesting more security, I don't think that that actually is going to have any kind of effect on her voting, right?
00:18:34.000Like, just because she has more security doesn't mean that she's going to be like, oh, now I feel at ease to vote my conscience or vote what I actually think the law says.
00:18:44.000She probably wants more security for her family and stuff, but she still knows that if she were to vote in a way that inflamed the left, then they would still make a target of her.
00:18:54.000And even if you have security, it doesn't make you immune to intimidation.
00:19:00.000It doesn't make you immune to attacks.
00:19:02.000There have been a lot of people who have had security that are no longer with us.
00:19:33.000So she doesn't got to come out and scream, you know, tradcon revolution and start rubber stamping every, you know, right wing policy and screeching the left.
00:19:44.000But she can be reasonable and correct and just say, look, you know, if, as that chart showed, 81% of the time she was the conservatives.
00:22:16.000He put something in the Slack today, and that was my first question.
00:22:19.000I was like, do you think that it's because of USAID?
00:22:22.000If they don't have the funding to bust people in, because Tim's talked about tourists, it's not even about that.
00:22:28.000It's about organizing, it's about making a flyer and saying, hey, come here at this time, having it ready to go when it's time to use it immediately right then.
00:22:36.000I've heard for decades where they're like Soros funded protesters, and these protesters don't get paid.
00:22:41.000However, there's like seven people who do, who put the flyers up at the universities, who go on social media, who go around and tell everybody to show up, and then people start showing up.
00:22:52.000But without those organizers, nobody shows up because ain't nothing to show up to.
00:22:56.000So I figured bad economy, all of the pallet of brick companies are just amazing how many bricks just showed up on the side of the road during the summer.
00:23:12.000If she just was totally honest about it and said, I did not anticipate this and this is too much for me, I don't think anybody would falter.
00:25:03.000Let's jump into this next story that we got this from CNBC.
00:25:05.000Trump to claim declassified intel reveals 2020 election interference, according to MS Now.
00:25:12.000It's funny because, you know, we love MS Now.
00:25:14.000Trump plans to claim in a speech Thursday that newly declassified intelligence reports reveal a foreign nation's plans to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
00:25:22.000CIA Director John Ratcliffe, acting DNI Bill Pulte, Kash Patel, and Mark Wayne Mullen will join Trump, according to MS Now.
00:25:30.000Trump earlier said he will make a speech to the nation on Thursday evening at 9 p.m. Eastern without providing further details.
00:25:37.000And of course, MS Now is losing their minds.
00:26:33.000Well, Georgia, even if he had won Georgia, it still wouldn't have swayed the election.
00:26:36.000And I think the most fascinating thing about this is the idea that, you know, the narrative behind this is there was no election interference.
00:26:44.000Well, there wasn't mass election interference, but I don't know.
00:26:48.000Maybe it's just me, but the idea of having any sort of interference or any sort of, you know, corruption in your election process is a bad thing.
00:27:04.000The situation in California has really shed light on the problems with the elections that are going on.
00:27:11.000And the fact that technically in California, I think the only thing that was actually illegal that they found was people paying homeless people to vote.
00:27:21.000Now, I mean, there's plenty of homeless people in California that you can give a buck or two to have them vote.
00:27:28.000But this kind of thing now has become more something that more people are aware of, I think, and actually are concerned with.
00:27:38.000The evidence that Donald Trump says that he has, hopefully he can actually produce something that is compelling to the American people.
00:27:46.000And then, I mean, I say that people will demand it, but I mean, 80% of the American people want the Save Act and Congress won't do anything about it.
00:27:52.000So it does really, I totally understand where you come from.
00:27:55.000It does feel like, well, I guess we can't do anything about it, you know?
00:27:57.000Best you can have is daylight savings time.
00:28:00.000You know what would really be awesome is if he came on and he said, look, you know, we're going to make these guys resign or they have to resign.
00:28:09.000They're just the faces of this, right?
00:28:11.000They didn't, you know, unless there was some sort of direct line to them saying, hey, we're going to, you know, cause this fraudulent activity or whatever, right?
00:28:19.000But if he was to actually point out and say, this person is going to jail and give you a list of eight people that are actually going to have punishment for this, okay, I'm on board with that, right?
00:28:28.000Set a precedent for what's moving ahead.
00:28:31.000If you mess with our elections, right, there will be consequences.
00:28:35.000And because I, you know, it's just such a simple process that I just, my brain does not wrap around the idea that people, Don't want this idea of votes counting fairly?
00:28:58.000Congress has passed it, the Senate won't hear it.
00:29:00.000Well, in recent times, I've realized that what really matters in politics is just saying the thing that the machine state will promote.
00:29:08.000So instead of actually having any integrity, like many of these other podcasters, I've decided just to say whatever they want me to say, and that is.
00:29:32.000No, in all seriousness, I'm sitting here and just in my mind, I'm visualizing Donald Trump going on TV and being like, at this moment, we are deploying federal agents to arrest all of the Democrats.
00:29:46.000And then it's just perp walks of all these Democratic.
00:29:49.000Not necessarily politicians, but like election officials, and it's not going to happen.
00:29:54.000That's what I mean when we make the joke about nothing ever changes or nothing's ever different.
00:30:00.000It's the idea that what people want is the movie version of something changing, right?
00:30:05.000They want somebody perp walked out of a building that they can watch on TV that makes it feel like they're seeing the completion of a story with the good guys winning.
00:30:28.000And it's going to be like, so Roger Stone had his home raided at five in the morning, and CNN was tipped off, and Steve Bannon went to jail, and Peter Navarro went to jail, and they harassed Michael Flynn endlessly.
00:30:38.000They put me in, they arrested me twice, they arrested my lawyers, and so we're upset.
00:30:44.000And we're going to be like, this is why I feel like so many people just don't care anymore.
00:30:48.000One of the reasons, because you can only bash someone over the head over and over again, screaming, like, look at all of the corruption, and nothing ever happens.
00:30:56.000And I just got to say this the left is.
00:30:59.000Fully cognizant that they have been rioting, that they have killed, that they will likely kill again, that they arrested Trump's lawyers, accused him of fraud, tried putting him in prison, sued to make it so he could not run for office, and they've done all these things.
00:31:11.000And they go, But we have never done anything.
00:31:14.000And the Republicans just sit there going, Well, you know, it's bad, I guess.
00:32:11.000We hung out at Mar-a-Lago, had a great time.
00:32:13.000For what reason would a guy so well off and successful need to stick his neck out in the way that he's been doing other than he means business and he believes in it and I love it?
00:32:23.000And you don't have that with most of these people.
00:32:25.000Now, to be fair, Blanche is doing great.
00:32:27.000Mark Wayne Mullen coming out the gate, doing well.
00:32:34.000Bill Pulte to like starting a UFC match with a charging flying roundhouse that you leap at your opponent, and then we'll just leave it there.
00:32:43.000One of the reasons why they're fighting so hard to prevent Paramount from owning Warner Brothers right now, it's got nothing to do with the movies and it's got everything to do with CNN, right?
00:32:52.000Because one of the reasons why conservatives struggle in these situations is it becomes a full on media onslaught every time they try to do anything of any note, and they get a lot of pushback in the traditional press, and that still bothers them to an extent.
00:33:06.000Whereas when the left goes out and acts awful, they get their pushback from Fox News and, yes, from podcasters, but it doesn't create the same friction that it does, which is why they want to make sure that they can control what's going on on CNN.
00:35:19.000Like, it doesn't, like, even if nobody's watching, it's like if you watch, like, if you go watch movies and they try to show, like, a traditional network or a traditional show rather than creating their own fake one, they use CNN if it's supposed to frame a story a certain way.
00:35:33.000When Paramount acquires CNN, Timcast IRL will, we accept, Paramount take over the 8 p.m. CNN slot for which you can air it in airports all across the country.
00:35:42.000And then we will be the ubiquitous news program.
00:36:07.000Because you know what's funny is I meet a lot of liberals, and I tell you, the average person is not some raging psychopath, hyper partisan individual.
00:36:15.000And I'm not saying that to suggest there's not a risk of conflict or violence or anything like that, because there is.
00:36:20.000It has always been a small group of people that foment the most of the conflict.
00:36:24.000But I got to tell you, especially playing in Vegas and going to all these places, I would say that 90% of the people come up to me, they're like, I'm a big fan, I watch you all the time.
00:36:32.000The weirdest was when they were like, I'm a huge fan of you, I watch you on TikTok all the time.
00:38:31.000I don't think that Ellison wants to do that.
00:38:33.000I think he wants to find a way to the middle where he believes that they can find a more profitable version that'll bring in the moderates.
00:39:02.000They'll say things like, oh, I don't agree with you, Tim, but they're not spending all of their time hyper focused on, you know, midterms or anything like that.
00:39:10.000But it's going to happen in the next couple of months.
00:39:12.000I mean, look, we're midway through July.
00:39:30.000The Republicans got the procedure with redistricting.
00:39:33.000If Trump comes out on Thursday and says something like, we're issuing several executive orders, I feel like it would be a little early to do so.
00:39:41.000But maybe the strategy is this If Trump came out in October and said, executive order, stop, right?
00:39:46.000Well, what's going to happen is they've already got the mail in votes, they're printed up ready to go.
00:39:52.000They will file it at a federal court, get an injunction, and do it anyway.
00:39:57.000If Trump moves now, theoretically, he could force them to stop the creation of universal votes or implementation of these systems or hiring of individuals, which could jam them up and create a delay by which they may not be ready by October.
00:40:10.000So if he does this now, and right now they're starting to ramp up the production of universal mail in votes in many of these places, then they put a stop on it, they file for an injunction, they get it, Trump appeals.
00:40:28.000I don't know if actually that's what's going to play out, but I'm just trying to speculate as to why Trump would make any moves now, considering he's mid July.
00:40:36.000I would argue that the strategy then is probably let's jam up the starting process for the universal mail in voting system and not do it too late to where you could lose the injunction and the machine is already built.
00:40:48.000Yeah, I think that he's probably getting a jump on the fall, anyways.
00:40:52.000That's And, you know, maybe it's going to be an onslaught.
00:41:27.000And there's nothing you can do to stop them.
00:41:29.000I mean, it's kind of ridiculous that our system operates this way.
00:41:31.000Trump could come out and be like, here's one, sue me.
00:41:34.000And then they'd be like, okay, I'll do another one, sue me.
00:41:37.000Could you imagine the accusations of the tyrant, the king, the fascist, whatever, how quickly that would escalate on CNN, on MSNBC, go down the list?
00:41:47.000And man, that would be a great payday for all those lefty influencers.
00:44:03.000However, the conspiracy theorist in me is like, what if Russia really did interfere, but they just stopped the rigging?
00:44:11.000That is, the machine was rigged from the get go, and it was meant to be that the American people don't really choose who the president is going to be.
00:44:17.000And there's a deep state that exists beyond administrations.
00:44:20.000Russia then does something that blocks the standard rigging.
00:44:24.000Hillary Clinton was supposed to win, but because of Putin, she doesn't.
00:44:28.000And it wasn't that he coordinated with Russia, but that Russia attacked our machine.
00:44:32.000And the reason why the Democrats were screaming, Russia did it, was because Russia did, but they couldn't actually release the evidence because the evidence would prove they've been rigging our elections for decades.
00:45:30.000Michael Moore argued that Trump only ran for president because, what was it, like Gwen Stefani got a better pay package with NBC or something?
00:45:39.000I mean, it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard because Trump had registered MAGA in 2012.
00:45:43.000He was clearly planning on running for office.
00:45:45.000But there is a legitimate argument that Trump was running for office thinking it was a long shot bid, but it was going to boost his Q rating.
00:45:53.000The funnier version of that is the idea that somewhere in America, Hillary Clinton is actually really popular.
00:45:58.000Like in this version of it, like if the idea here is that they stopped.
00:46:08.000The argument is she could never legitimately win.
00:46:11.000This is actually a conspiracy theory, by the way, because I've had people pitch me this that Russia turned off the rigging machine and this was the real result.
00:46:19.000Hillary barely got any votes and then Trump ended up winning.
00:46:21.000Not that I really believe it, but it'll be interesting to see what Trump says on Thursday.
00:46:26.000What if it's like a total curveball and he's like Papa Doogie has been interfering in our elections for decades?
00:46:33.000Iceland, Greenland, something like that.
00:46:37.000Trump, I didn't realize this, but Trump registered MAGA in 2012, you said?
00:46:48.000So right the year before, I still firmly believe that it was because of Barack Obama that the best thing Barack Obama did was give us Donald Trump.
00:46:56.000I love the idea that this all, like, Donald Trump's presidency, everything goes back to Gwen Stefani.
00:47:06.000Michael Moore did that documentary that nobody went to see, and it was supposed to be about how Trump is bad.
00:47:11.000Michael Moore is never going to live it down because he gave that speech in 2016 where he said Trump's going to save the day and everyone loves him.
00:47:19.000Is that Michael Moore did this speech about he was like, Donald Trump went to the auto manufacturers and said, If you move production, manufacturing overseas, I will charge you a 30% tariff.
00:47:32.000And he said the executives were shocked.
00:47:34.000No one had ever stood up to them this way before, and they were worried.
00:47:38.000And so he's like, Trump was the FU, the Molotov cocktail thrown into the machine that people were begging for.
00:47:46.000And he's like, so they'll vote for them and they'll be happy for a week, maybe a month, but then they'll come to regret it.
00:47:53.000And the funny thing is, they never did.
00:47:57.000Some people in 24, don't get me wrong, libertarians that voted for him did.
00:48:00.000But what people started doing is the speech was meant to be here's how Trump conned you, and now he'll betray you, but they cut off the back end.
00:48:09.000And then they took only the beginning where he's like, he was the Molotov cocktail thrown into the machine.
00:48:47.000You know, with AI video being so perfect nowadays, bro, 2028 is going to be the craziest thing.
00:48:53.000You're gonna get video like indistinguishable video of JD Vance like saving a bag of puppies from a fire, and you're gonna be like, I can't tell if it's real or not.
00:49:01.000Yeah, but the smartest people working on it will know to find the idea where it's just believable, like that's just too far from believable for most people to buy into it, which is really gonna suck if he actually did save a bunch of puppies from like a burning building.
00:49:15.000The real threat with AI is not that someone will make a video of Donald Trump shooting someone on Fifth Avenue because no one will believe it.
00:49:24.000When that happened, Trump said, There were very fine people on both sides, and I'm not talking about the neo Nazis and white supremacists because they should be condemned totally.
00:49:31.000And the example I give is someone will take a video like that and they'll change it so that Donald Trump says, And I'm not talking about the neo Nazis and white nationalists because some should be condemned totally.
00:50:18.000But if someone made an AI video that was very simple, where he just said, thanks for coming, and that was all it was, people would believe it.
00:50:26.000If you made it real simple, take that photo of Mitch McConnell, and then what you do is, You animate it so that he's looking at his wife as she says something, or it's probably easier to do AI of him because we all have his voice recorded, but he can say, I'm getting better and thank you for your concern.
00:50:42.000Then what you do is you film the screen on your phone.
00:50:45.000So now you're getting that broken resolution that makes it hard to tell when it's AI.
00:51:31.000No, but your point about AI, the AI video stuff, people.
00:51:37.000People still like think that they can figure it out and they're like, Oh, I can tell.
00:51:43.000I don't think that maybe 50% of the people out there can actually figure it out.
00:51:47.000The audio is a bigger concern, anyways.
00:51:49.000Like, if you look at any video that they post when they're getting the clips from, like, what's his name, whenever they do the undercover videos where they're exposing journalists, James O'Keefe, or anything like that, all you need is a low resolution video and then a copy of someone's voice, and you can pretty much change anything they're saying.
00:52:44.000If I understand correctly, there are already dudes in India that are selling their OnlyFans, and they're actually dudes in India.
00:52:51.000Oh, did you see the one where it was like a five foot four, scrawny, bald Indian guy?
00:52:55.000And he's doing like a string dance like this with his hips, and then he winks and turns into like a hot anime waifu.
00:53:02.000And he was like, he was doing it to make the point about who you're really buying your sex content from.
00:53:08.000Well, you know, so I work with a lot of VTubers on a day to day basis with our show, and that's kind of the running gag is that, you know, a lot of the VTubers, you know, People say they're like, you know, 40 year old dudes, like me.
00:53:19.000But, and you never know with voice changes and stuff.
00:54:04.000You know, because you can't, you can update your computer, you can't update humans.
00:54:08.000So that's why, like, even two factor is not good enough.
00:54:12.000One of the techniques that they'll do is when they create a shell website that asks for your password, when you type in your information, they will, it'll then intercept and go to the website.
00:54:22.000And then the two factor pops up as well.
00:54:24.000And then you put it in and then it goes to them and they put it in.
00:56:50.000But the crazy thing is, you've seen these stories where innocent people are getting arrested because flock cameras are wrongly flagging them.
00:56:58.000There was a guy driving his car, and the flock camera entered the wrong license plate number because it couldn't read it.
00:58:28.000But, like, am I going to defend Flock?
00:58:31.000No, but I'm not going to defend the DSA either.
00:58:34.000I mean, look, the fact that the left is so strongly against AI data centers and just AI in general, it really is kind of counter to what they've been saying they want forever, right?
00:58:48.000Like, you don't get the super abundance that capitalism is supposed to create.
00:58:52.000Like, Mark said, That capitalism was going to become so good that it was going to create superabundance.
00:58:57.000And then we would move to a socialist society.
00:59:00.000We wouldn't need money because everybody would have enough for everybody.
00:59:05.000There would be enough for everybody, basically describing the kind of abundance ideology that a lot of people in the AI industry are known for.
00:59:14.000And the DSA is totally against it because they say, oh, well, it's going to put people out of work.
00:59:20.000Well, first of all, I think they're wrong.
00:59:24.000That doesn't change the fact that if you actually want to have a post capitalist, post money society, the things that people need have to be produced somehow.
00:59:33.000But I think that this actually just points to a flaw.
00:59:36.000Well, not a flaw, but the deception in the left's kind of narrative.
00:59:43.000They want to control the AI, they want to have the AI for themselves or be able to make sure that the AI is producing the correct narrative and they're in control of it.
01:00:45.000You know, I'm anti AI, but my view is that we need to keep one hand on the steering wheel.
01:00:52.000You know, and what I mean by that is I think AI is going to cause a lot of short term problems, but at the same time, I've been thinking about the issues that we face, and we've talked a lot about the AI apocalypse, what it's going to do in terms of white collar jobs, how it's going to be like the Industrial Revolution 10x.
01:01:45.000You know, 2030, there's going to be AI surgeons who are better than real surgeons.
01:01:50.000And then by what, 2040, he thinks everyone's going to have this universal high income and everyone's going to not have to worry about retirement because it's all going to be good and la dee da.
01:01:58.000I mean, just last week, there was the first gallbladder removed by robots using the tools that surgeons usually use.
01:02:07.000It was, I think it was an animal, something like that, but they removed a gallbladder.
01:02:11.000That kind of surgery and stuff, that's coming in the next, I mean, honestly, I think that it's probably going to be within the next 18 months.
01:02:18.000And, and, Maybe an additional year for FDA approval and stuff like that.
01:02:24.000But it's going to be very soon where people are going to start saying, okay, robots have a one in a million error rate.
01:02:33.000And every single time this procedure is done, that information goes to all the robots that are doing these procedures.
01:02:41.000So when you ask a heart surgeon, how many times have you done this procedure?
01:02:45.000And he's like, oh, I've done 75 of them.
01:02:48.000And then you look at how many times it's been done by a robot and shared with all the robots, it's like 432,000.
01:03:13.000I think that that's why, that's part of the reason why, as much as, you know, I think that there's legitimate criticism for Anthropic and ChatGPT and Grok and all of them, I would much rather use an American AI.
01:03:29.000Than any of the Chinese open source models, because you know that the Chinese open source models, even though they're six months or whatever behind the American models, like you know that your information is definitely not secure, right?
01:03:44.000And it's going to the Chinese government.
01:03:46.000I don't want to see China advancing past the United States.
01:03:50.000I mean, and there's a lot of good models.
01:04:42.000And for me, I've never gotten into VR.
01:04:44.000I know people who are champions of VR, but the only aspect of VR that I could potentially see being useful are number one, training for doctors and such.
01:04:54.000But from an entertainment perspective, it's for me, it'd be like going to a basketball game and having courtside seats and being able to experience that way, right?
01:05:12.000But I tell you what, yes, when it gets there, there will be a lot of people lining up to do that.
01:05:17.000And that's why I say it's also like the conservative vision is like, wow, that's hell on earth, right?
01:05:23.000But what are you going to do about it?
01:05:25.000These people are going to choose to go into pods and then get the roach mush pumped into their stomachs because they'd rather be wizards than live in this reality.
01:05:33.000Is it Cypher was the guy that decided that he wanted to go back into the Matrix?
01:05:42.000You're going to read right to your brain, and then they're going to pull the license on all the movies you've downloaded, and you're not going to be able to watch them anymore.
01:05:57.000I think very few people, like conservatives are saying, like they wouldn't do it, but it's going to be their kids who are like, oh, well, you know, it's no big deal.
01:06:19.000Like, you are not getting one of those things.
01:06:21.000And then he's going to be like, this is not fair.
01:06:23.000And then he's going to go to his friend's house and they're going to hook him up and he's going to use it anyway.
01:06:26.000So, you know, one of the reasons people at least got into Xbox Live and stuff like that was because you'd get teams together and you'd play games.
01:06:33.000Is it, like, would it be a reasonable substitution if you're getting together and playing games?
01:06:43.000With your friends in virtual reality, or is it something where.
01:06:47.000Bro, you're going to have a friend who lives in a different state.
01:06:50.000And they're going to put their neural link on, and they're all going to be running around like Dragon Ball World fighting, you know, Freezer or whatever.
01:07:25.000And if you can ramp that up to 25 instead of 10 and make it an all encompassing experience that goes directly to your brain, like you're saying, yeah, people will be all about that.
01:07:33.000Yeah, because I mean, right now, there's still like the effort to make video games as immersive as possible.
01:07:40.000So once you can actually just, you know, send a signal straight into people's brains and they experience it.
01:07:46.000I don't know if they'll be able to actually do like a hat or a helmet the way that we're talking about here, but they definitely will be able to do it with implants.
01:07:53.000And there's going to be a lot of people that are going to get it.
01:08:14.000If I'm sitting there in my living room with a VR headset, I don't know what's going on around me, right?
01:08:18.000I may have my kids over here or whatever, you know.
01:08:20.000Whereas, like augmented reality, it's supposed to be, you know, in addition to what's happening.
01:08:24.000And I think that's probably a better use case for this.
01:08:27.000People, you know, augmented reality of you going down the street and seeing a Mario block and all of a sudden, you know, Mario is in real life, you know.
01:08:35.000When Pokemon Go came out, I was working at a gas station at the time and I watched so many people almost get hit by cars out the window.
01:09:23.000But I was told basically it's probably not going to happen over here because too much of a headache to try and go over a big podcast's property with power lines.
01:09:32.000Now they say in the letter, they're like, this is about the needs of the community, but everybody knows it's data centers.
01:09:37.000They've been trying to build power lines in Mount Airy, Maryland for a while because all the data centers in Northern Virginia, and they're trying to run them through.
01:09:44.000West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia as well.
01:09:47.000And it's happening in Western Maryland.
01:09:49.000They're starting construction already.
01:09:51.000Now, I doubt it'll happen here because when they found out that, you know, I made one phone call and they were like, oh, none of these people want to deal with the headache of a high profile.
01:10:02.000One of the biggest challenges for AI and data centers is when the public becomes aware.
01:10:07.000And so the moment they realized the public was about to become very, very aware, they were like, yeah, let's not go there.
01:10:13.000We don't know exactly what's going to happen.
01:10:35.000But again, to the point about AI and all that stuff, it feels like we can sit here screaming and banging on the table, but it's coming anyway.
01:10:43.000So let's try and be as influential as we can to the better.
01:10:56.000You know, you'll like put the headband on and you'll think that you're playing a video game, but they're actually rewiring your politics or something.
01:11:05.000I've been, I mean, I'm not so sure that I'm going to put the headband on, but I've been, you know, probably one of the most pro AI guys around here.
01:11:12.000I think you might put the headband on, Phil.
01:11:16.000But I've been one of the most pro A, you know, vocally pro A guys around, pro AI guys around here, right?
01:11:22.000Like, I mean, I've got an open claw agent that I use still regularly, and it's incredibly helpful and it's worth the money, in my opinion.
01:11:32.000It is still a little on the expensive side, but it does make just doing searches for even basic stuff.
01:11:41.000I tend to go to the agent more than I go to Google or whatever because I can specifically ask for context and it'll even ask me questions like, hey, what are you looking for specifically and stuff like that?
01:12:35.000I can't, I don't know what's going to happen in 10 years, but I do think that, like other, you know, other developments in the entertainment and music world, like I think that there, that it will be a tool that people use more than replacing people.
01:12:48.000You think that there's a chance that people will build like a there, there's already like a revulsion people feel to AI thumbnails, like to certain texts and fonts that they see recycled because it's overly textured.
01:13:01.000Of course, every time you like reprint one, I did a video on AI music that was basically just going through it and saying, I think there's a point in here.
01:13:09.000About this, and I was trying to get your thoughts on it.
01:13:11.000It's like, like, there's some of this that's just too perfect.
01:13:13.000Like, it feels to me that it's made by a fan rather than somebody who has an understanding or a desire to create music.
01:13:21.000Meaning that when an artist goes on like a vocal run, it's always exactly what you expect to be.
01:13:27.000And after a while, it all starts to sound the same, and you start to see fragments of it in other songs, and the same with certain riffs and things like that.
01:13:35.000And the public will become so attuned to what they're hearing that they'll look for.
01:13:40.000Some of the spontaneity that comes from real artists.
01:13:44.000The thing is, like, people are already, their ears have already been tuned for perfection as it is, right?
01:13:48.000Like, if you are an artist and you're like, yo, I don't wanna play to a click, I don't wanna play to a click on our record, and I don't wanna have, you know, I don't want you to tune the vocals or whatever, people are gonna hear that and they're gonna say that it sounds sloppy because it's human.
01:14:04.000All of your music has, like, the vast majority of bands, everything they do is on the grid, and whether or not the vocals get, Auto tuned or put it into Melodyne or whatever, just about everything goes through some kind of tuning because it is a competitive marketplace, right?
01:14:20.000You've got so many people putting out music, and if everybody is doing a certain technique to produce a certain sound, if you're not doing that, there's a lot of people that'll actually just skip over it and be like, that doesn't sound good or doesn't sound right.
01:14:33.000So I don't know that the scenario that you're describing is going to actually happen.
01:14:39.000I do think that the Artists that actually connect with their fans are still going to be able to write music that fans care about.
01:14:48.000And then what about 10 years from now?
01:14:51.000Like, to an extent, yes, people aren't selling out stadiums the way that they used to, but live music is still a huge part of the music experience.
01:15:25.000So, you look at the layouts, and there's these artists in these that have these tours with these seating charts, and it's full of blue dots.
01:15:35.000And so, they're pulling back on their tours and stuff.
01:15:39.000But we're talking about the larger scale of the music industry.
01:15:41.000Like, I grew up in Minnesota, so First Ave, Seventh Street Entry, like those venues were quintessential to discovering what your music taste was.
01:15:49.000Growing up, and that would be something that you saw in person, not something that was created.
01:15:55.000There's a lot of people with a human being tied to it.
01:15:59.000A human being has their voice, whether it's their voice, or even if they're, you know, if we do end up, God forbid, in a day where, you know, he's just creating the songs in Suno, but then he goes and what, like a DJ and performs them at an event, there's still a human being tied to that.
01:16:12.000There's still going, there's still, like, when you produce AI music, a lot of your, um, a lot of your, uh, what's it called, your, your vocals.
01:16:21.000They're kind of like amalgamations of many popular singers.
01:16:25.000If you get someone with a unique voice or whatever that can stand out, I forget the girl's name.
01:16:29.000There's a country artist that recently did a cover of, what is it, the Nazi Osbourne song.
01:16:44.000Well, the question I have is whether or not there's going to be lawsuits because when you do AI music generation, there's two, like for female vocalists, there's very few notable female vocalists.
01:16:56.000So, for example, when you AI generate music, if you make it pop punk, you're going to get Haley Williams.
01:17:01.000And if you make it hard rock, you're going to get Amy, what's her name?
01:17:10.000There is a service, and maybe it's been shut down, but this is in the last couple of months, that you can actually reference an actual musician.
01:17:17.000We did it with Garbage, and we had to create a garbage song.
01:17:21.000And one of the guys on my show, Phoenix, he is a huge garbage fan.
01:17:27.000And I played it for him, and he goes, That sounds exactly like garbage in real life.
01:17:31.000I'll tell you this you guys are talking about the experience, right?
01:18:47.000You need to control the mechanism by which people receive that content.
01:18:50.000So, what they would have to do is on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, algorithmically block out everybody except for their approved personality.
01:18:58.000There's also a business model behind it with the human artists that's different.
01:19:03.000They still don't have the same viability for AI artists.
01:19:06.000When you're these record labels, you're picking the stars that you want, you sell their music to the radio stations, and you're basically creating a persona for the public.
01:19:17.000To support, yeah, and that's backed by a human being as of now.
01:19:21.000That's not backed by to the to the to this conversation.
01:19:25.000Our old guitar player, Jason Richardson, actually has recently played with uh Hatsune Miko, really.
01:19:29.000Yeah, he was he was doing the what is the Krypton uh future media tour.
01:19:34.000Uh, so yeah, there there is gonna be you know, there will be AI artists that will have live performances.
01:19:41.000I mean, if you look at a band like uh um Baby Metal, right, they're a band that's basically created by a Japanese corporation and the.
01:19:52.000The girls are the singers, and they have dudes behind them that are actually playing.
01:19:56.000The guys are like top, top level, and they wear masks.
01:20:00.000They're not allowed to promote their own brand at all because the focus is on the girls that are playing.
01:21:37.000You know, one hit and you need a million people to buy it at 99 cents or whatever.
01:21:40.000Oh, who nobody buys music anymore, they just, but you know what I'm saying.
01:21:43.000You know, like, you know, there have been cases, and and uh, I don't have the guy, um, the guy's uh name off the top of my head, but there, there has been guys in the last couple months that that have generated AI albums and and they've they've charted, yep, you know, so but the the current generation, Gen Z and Gen Alpha, is the most parasocial of any of those generations, which means they're tied to the private lives and the comings and goings of celebrities, right.
01:22:10.000Olivia Rodrigo is as famous as she is because she also pushes her Plan B stuff and, you know, and Planned Parenthood and all those things.
01:22:18.000They care as much about the politics and the personal lives of these celebrities because they have a parasocial relationship with another person.
01:22:26.000And that's not, in my opinion, the same thing as AI.
01:22:29.000You can get invested, don't get me wrong, like there are people that follow like AI artists on Instagram and stuff like that, but it doesn't have the same level of investment that people have from an artist who can go out, make public statements, go in virtue signal at, Award shows and things like that.
01:22:45.000I think there will always be a separate business model that's tied to the parasocial relationships that artists create with their fans.
01:22:52.000That's the reason why social media is so important now in acting.
01:22:55.000Look, Taylor Swift isn't so popular and famous and successful just because of her music, right?
01:23:02.000It's there's there isn't she's created QAnon for women, yeah.
01:23:05.000Well, there is an intangible that young women, young millennials, and Gen Z, you know, they can relate to her.
01:23:15.000And I'm not, you know, and that's not something that you can just, you know, point at and say that's what it is.
01:23:20.000If you could do that, then you'd be able to sell that to someone and be like, look, I have the plan.
01:23:27.000And anyone that said, I want to do this could go ahead and, you know, get on your program.
01:23:32.000And there have been, there are plenty of people that were incredible, you know, managers that really took artists to high level and stuff.
01:23:41.000But just because they were able to take artists to high level doesn't mean every single artist that they tried to work with.
01:23:49.000There are people that know the ins and outs, but it doesn't mean that every artist that they tried that they started developing had the intangible.
01:23:56.000So, you know, I do think that AI is going to be a big part of the future when it comes to creating music, creating art, and stuff, but I don't think that it's going to totally supplant.
01:24:05.000Also, one of the ways in which record labels monetize artists is when they die.
01:24:11.000Sure, if the AI never dies, then you know, I guess it can go on forever, but so can the music.
01:24:15.000Well, look, I mean, Kiss have said themselves that there's no reason why Kiss.
01:25:47.000The one that's growing up with this and the idea that, oh my gosh, AI vocaloid person here, they said hello to me and they send me a five minute message.
01:25:57.000Or even further, you talk about a parasocial relationship with these folks.
01:26:04.000Be chatting with this person, this quote unquote person, regularly, you know, as a chat bot.
01:26:10.000There are chat bots right now that are like that, except they're for women, for lonely guys, you know, that they have this parasocial relationship.
01:26:17.000It's all AI, you're telling them how hot they are or whatever.
01:26:21.000You know, this is definitely, you know, it's going to change.
01:26:25.000Music, AI, it's all going to change the relationship that people have.
01:26:30.000I think everyone around the table here is in agreement that things are going to be different and it's going to evolve.
01:27:08.000In a music video I just made, but you wouldn't be able to tell because it was used tastefully and it was like clips of me that I gave and said, Make this from a hidden camera somewhere or like, you know, B roll shifting.
01:27:25.000You know, like on our last record, I think we spent like on one of the videos, we spent like $20,000.
01:27:30.000On one, we spent like another one, we spent like $10,000.
01:27:33.000That's going to cut the AI is going to cut the cost in half because instead of having, you know, having a human being generate the effects, You just pump it into AI and say, hey, this is the effect that I'm looking for.
01:27:44.000And it's going to, you know, your cost is going to go from, you know, $20,000 for a video down to, you know, $2,500 because your visual effects are going to be much cheaper.
01:27:54.000I mean, they're using AI for visual effects in major films now.
01:27:58.000And there are some people that sometimes are like, oh, I can tell that was AI.
01:28:01.000But there were people that were saying, oh, I can tell that that's CGI.
01:28:12.000Now people don't even think about that.
01:28:14.000Like, I mean, At least half of Avengers Endgame.
01:28:18.000Like the whole, like almost like the whole third act was all green screen and computer generated and nobody, you know.
01:28:25.000Well, it's the light boards now, which are like built stages with actual LED screens that have the background there to make it more immersive for the actors.
01:28:35.000I mean, have you seen the new Moana, the quote unquote live action Moana?
01:28:38.000It's just, it's, it's, I mean, I've only seen clips of it online, but it's essentially The Rock and the other actors standing in front of.
01:29:11.000We're seeing this across entertainment and every industry, whether it's movies, games, whatever.
01:29:16.000The budgets have gone up to a point to where it's impossible to make the money back.
01:29:20.000I mean, I've always said if somebody gave me $100 million, I would make $25 million video games instead of one $100 million video game because.
01:29:29.000You know, it allows for smaller teams.
01:29:31.000That's the thing that teams have gotten so big.
01:29:33.000And, you know, the thing about CGI that I truly just cannot wrap my head around when it comes to movies and entertainment is I thought the idea of CGI was that it was supposed to be cheaper than practical effects.
01:29:45.000But the budgets for all these movies just go up so high.
01:29:49.000It's because the movies went cosmic in a lot of ways.
01:29:52.000So superhero stories used to take place largely in it.
01:31:55.000Unfortunately, that gets turned into like a boring eight episode TV show now, and every episode's like an hour and a half long.
01:32:01.000No, there was a post that I agree with.
01:32:03.000It was like, if in the 90s they made a show called Surfing Dracula, every episode would be about some zany adventure where Dracula is surfing.
01:32:11.000But now, with like Netflix, it's 10 episodes with some like circuitous backstory.
01:32:20.000I mean, that was the trope for a lot of the origin stories as well, right?
01:32:24.000You always know in the first movie, you're not going to get the actual character until like the very end.
01:32:29.000Well, that's why when they did the new Spider Man, they were like, no more origin stories.
01:32:32.000I mean, I want them to know they need to get back to the origin stories because they've forgotten how to actually tell good stories and they're actually introducing a bunch of characters nobody cares about.
01:33:09.000I don't need to see every actor in every movie.
01:33:11.000Well, I mean, I understand what you're saying, but like, that was.
01:33:15.000I think part of the reason why they're doing that is because when it came to, you know, team ups, like the Avengers.
01:33:20.000Or, for team movies like the Avengers or X Men stuff, you did see a lot of crossover in the comic books.
01:33:25.000You know, a lot like that's why they're, you know, they're doing Secret Wars after Doomsday, and that's that covered the entire, you know, the entire Marvel universe basically.
01:33:34.000The same thing, same thing with like, you know, the Apocalypse Saga and all the stuff with Mr. Sinister over the X Men.
01:33:40.000All that stuff was across all of the X Men books, and it was a big deal.
01:33:44.000I mean, the Doomsday trailer, notwithstanding, maybe they release a really, really good trailer and it gets a lot of people on their side.
01:33:50.000The fact that it's a winter release, I still think Spider Man's gonna make more money.
01:33:55.000Well, if it does, it's going to be really, really bad.
01:33:58.000I was just listening to something about the Doomsday movie, and they were saying that the Russo brothers thought that they had everything they needed when they were actually doing principal photography.
01:34:07.000And then when they get into the editing house, they're like, oh boy, there's.
01:34:09.000It's because they don't actually plan their movies ahead of time.
01:35:26.000Phase four Marvel wanted to be as far as tone and hitting the family elements and all of the humor and the way that that movie was presented.
01:35:35.000That was everything that they wanted, like Miss Marvel, to be when they got going in phase four.
01:35:40.000If you guys haven't rewatched the 2019 Shazam movie, you should.
01:36:14.000Like, whenever they started introducing, I guess the larger point is whenever they started introducing the non mainstream characters, right?
01:36:22.000Like, I just, as a normie, right, who goes and brings my kids to the theaters, right?
01:37:14.000It's funny because most of the known superheroes that are black are either black something, black lightning, or they have electricity powers.
01:37:22.000Miles Morales, you know, he has electricity powers.
01:39:06.000We, a long, long time ago, there's a show on YouTube called Death Battle, and it's a show where you have two pop culture icons and they score off and they end up fighting, right?
01:39:16.000It was a show that started on a brand I started a long time ago, and it's still going almost 20 years later.
01:39:23.000But the issue that the guys behind it always had was.
01:39:26.000Superman was so strong that he literally couldn't lose.
01:39:30.000Did they do the video about Deathstroke versus Deadpool?
01:40:18.000All I know is that they did it three times, and your explanation is why that show is so viral and successful because people go, no, Post a wrong answer and you'll get all the right responses.
01:40:36.000It's funny because you look at these like back when Yahoo Answers used to be a thing or Quora, you'd have all these questions that never get answered.
01:40:43.000But then all you got to do is post the question, log in, post the wrong answer, and then people, whoo!
01:41:51.000Just have them fight against each other, see who wins.
01:41:54.000And Hassan basically, you know what he does?
01:41:57.000When he powers up, he gets struck by lightning like Shazam or Raiden, and then it puts on his communist outfit, which is like the Gucci necklace and all the super nice clothes.
01:42:06.000No, he's got the, he powers up with like the dog zapper that he's got.
01:42:10.000He clicks the button and it shocks him, and then he's dressed like Raiden.
01:43:01.000I didn't never watch Dragon Ball Z or.
01:43:03.000Yeah, Dragon Ball Super introduces Ultra Instinct.
01:43:06.000So they're just like constantly finding ways to be like, be stronger now.
01:43:10.000When Zachary Levi did the show Chuck, that's what happened when he had the Intersect put in his brain, where in the first iteration of the show, it just, all the government secrets were like, Put into his brain.
01:43:21.000First of all, why would you ever do that?
01:43:22.000Why would you ever put all the government secret in one thing in his brain?
01:43:27.000Well, no, it was sent to him by somebody that he knew, and then he did it by accident, but it was actually supposed to be used, just not on him.
01:43:35.000But then in the second iteration of The Intersect, it actually can download skills into your brain.
01:43:40.000The show just never did anything with it.
01:45:56.000Commies are not people says we need to go into these cities like Portland, Minneapolis, and do to those cities what they did to Fallujah and Hughes City.
01:46:43.000Uh, people in Texas that are concerned, yeah, wasn't it like Indiana's building a bunch of mosques despite not having a Muslim population?
01:46:49.000Same thing in Texas, Texas, yes, very much so.
01:46:52.000I live outside of Dallas and it is very much a thing.
01:46:54.000You go to Costco on a Sunday, my oh my, there's a scent of curry, and uh, that's not enough, it's not hyperbole at all.
01:47:03.000I mean, I'm being dead serious when I say that.
01:47:05.000Uh, there's a love, though, hey, me too, but it's so good, yeah, it's uh, listen, it is a if someone was to use the word invasion, I would.
01:47:31.000It's correct me if I'm wrong, but people are playing a video game where you can plug your brain in and then the coder of the game shuts off the exit so everyone gets trapped inside.
01:48:04.000Yeah, it's two college homies play, and then one guy chooses the female character and the guy chooses a dude character, and then they just start banging.
01:48:11.000And then they try hooking up in real life, and they're like, no, it doesn't work.
01:48:28.000And then it ends with like, he has an open marriage with his wife, and she takes her ring off and like bangs a random guy while he bangs his dude friend in a girl body.
01:49:38.000You can get like doo wop versions of Linkin Park.
01:49:41.000Yeah, I mean, and those songs were written by people initially, though.
01:49:45.000Like the genre of music that your song is in is like, that's like the spices or like, you know, but like the actual music itself, if the song is good, you can have an RB song or a country song.
01:50:01.000RB artists and country artists will perform the same song because the song itself is good.
01:50:06.000So you can just go ahead and add whichever flavor you like, which is, I mean, We have a gold record for doing a cover of The Thunder Rolls because the song's a good song.
01:50:15.000The band, they made a whole career off of covering different songs that were pop in their middle.
01:50:21.000When you think about when it comes to AI generation of songs, the idea that this is it.
01:50:27.000Let's just say 2026 is the end of the input of new songs.
01:50:31.000You can say the 80s had a distinct sound, the 90s had a distinct sound, whether it's 80s RB or rap had a distinct sound versus 90s.
01:50:40.000So there's all these different genres and subgenres.
01:50:42.000And let's just say, Hypothetically, if this is the direction we're going, it's all stopped.
01:50:47.000So you have to, you know, there will be no growth or advancement at all in music at any point moving forward because it's just going to pull from everything from this point behind, you know.
01:50:59.000Quantum Strange Quark says if ACB wasn't affected by the threats, then she wouldn't have even mentioned the story about a child commenting on the bulletproof vest.
01:52:52.000Just for the comments, Reese Kane says ACB failed to know that when you're nominated for SCOTUS, you have to be ready to throw down with murderous intent.
01:53:05.000I mean, look, I saw someone posting about this earlier the attitude that Justice Thomas had when he was in his hearings.
01:53:15.000You know, Joe Biden and the Democrats were, you know, there was the whole alleged scandal and stuff.
01:53:23.000And he was like, you know, I would rather die than withdraw.
01:53:26.000You know, and to have that kind of intestinal fortitude, you know, you should have that kind of commitment if you're a Supreme Court justice.
01:53:35.000And clearly, Amy Coney Barrett does not have that.
01:57:01.000So Vegeta is shown, Vegeta and Nappa are shown coming to Earth, and to show you the scale of their power, he points his finger and blows a planet up, and they're like, oh, this is the biggest threat Goku's ever faced.
01:57:13.000And then when he's fighting, Vegeta's like, I'll just blow up your whole planet, and then fires an energy blast, and then Goku stops it.
01:57:19.000Superman can't get anywhere close to that.
01:59:04.000Kirsha is, uh, probably a leading voice when it comes to the pushback on DEI, bridge, all that stuff.
01:59:10.000She has a so if I just stopped doing my morning show and then just use like a filter to be some like big tittied anime waifu, I'd probably get way more views.
02:00:16.000There is going to be a carrot with gigantic knockers walking around with big googly eyes and gigantic knockers, and you're going to be like, hey, and it's going to, you know, make sexy voice, but it's actually going to be like a 400 pound guy.
02:00:30.000What is the ultimate attribute that will be added to all AI men pretending to be women online to make money?
02:04:41.000And one of the things that David Ellison has been doing quietly behind the scenes is working with exploratory committees trying to get more.
02:04:49.000They want federal tax credits for the entertainment industry.
02:04:51.000And I just think that that's a really bad idea.
02:04:53.000I think for the most part, the reason why Californians push for that type of stuff is because it benefits their local economy.
02:05:00.000There isn't a reason for somebody in, you know, Wisconsin to be paying for tax credits that don't benefit him or his local economy at all.
02:05:08.000I mean, anytime there's government money that could be sucked up by any industry, they're going to put as much effort in to get that money as they can, which is why you shouldn't be getting subsidies for basically anything.
02:05:20.000I didn't like Trump proposed that at one point, too.
02:06:22.000We just want to give people who, we talked about this on our show today, this idea that there's so many people that feel outnumbered when you see the doom and gloom online and all this stuff happening that you just have to give them.
02:06:34.000The opportunity to connect and meet in real time.
02:06:38.000And whether it's a gaming YouTuber playing games in person or just going out and shaking hands and saying hello, that's huge.
02:06:48.000Just providing the opportunity to do that.
02:06:51.000But you look at the quote unquote influencer is the new celebrity.
02:06:58.000And you see, look at Streamer University with Kai, Kai Sinet, and his whole thing, right?
02:07:05.000Five cities for tryouts or whatever it was.
02:07:08.000And there's tens of thousands of people that are trying to get into this thing, hundreds of thousands of people, because he has a reach that is on par with your Sabrina Carpenter or whoever.
02:07:20.000And to this person's point, Jitterroot, I do think that there will be people that there'll be old bands that are grandfathered in, but the younger generation will absolutely gravitate to this AI.
02:07:37.000Version of whether it's Tim as a carrot with big boobs or me or whoever.
02:08:19.000If you want to live on the other side of the internet, you hop onto VR chat and do it with a headset on.
02:08:25.000The amount of dudes pretending to be girls, you know, then they'll walk up to you with their giant, big, fake boobies and be like, What's up, dog?
02:09:22.000The connection to people is still something that, you know, to Brett's point about the parasocial kind of relationships, I still think that that is something that people are going to desire.
02:10:00.000I mean, I'm telling you, conservatives are going to jump in this thing, not the same degree that liberals will, but I can give you one very easy scenario where a conservative guy puts on the headband.
02:14:28.000Outside of the US, also, it is one of those things where when I say that, I'm like, I've never met anybody who cares about Avatar on the show.
02:14:35.000I get a million comments that are like, You, I care about Avatar, and I'm like, Really?
02:14:46.000I mean, I think the question I always ask, and I was scrolling through on the way here on the plane, they had Avatar, Avatar, whatever, and I had no idea what the subtitles were.
02:14:56.000And I think if you ask 100 people on the street what the three Avatar movies were called, they would go, Avatar.
02:17:25.000When you see the reactions to how she gets the shit kicked out of her, the inability for them to push the golden goose out of spite and ego, as you said, it is crazy to see.
02:17:39.000And the fact that nobody will call it out from a mainstream perspective, or at least have that conversation.
02:18:11.000Uh, so, uh, my question here, um, as someone who watches both side scrollers but also uh 10 PS, a couple months ago, uh, Craig actually did stand up for his daughter at a basketball game.
02:18:23.000When they were trying to have a young man or young boy play on the women's team or the girls' team, even though other people would not stand up, they did quietly say they would stand up with him.
02:18:36.000What would Craig have as advice for other fathers or young or just new fathers about how to stand up for your children, even when others try to make you stand up for their kids instead?
02:18:49.000Yeah, man, that's so quick background.
02:18:51.000My daughter was playing in a volleyball tournament.
02:22:20.000So, yeah, my question is for Craig and also for anyone else on the panel that wants to put their two cents in.
02:22:27.000Do you think that there is any chance that the consumers can push back enough against Sony to get them to reverse their decision on physical media?
02:22:40.000And if not, or if, well, if yes or if not, do you think that there could be a way?
02:23:02.000So, for those who don't know, Sony announced that starting in 2028, all their game consoles will all be digital, no physical media moving ahead.
02:25:48.000It's a specific type of release they do for the Blu rays for movies and stuff like that.
02:25:53.000From a gaming perspective, I think everybody here who grew up with games can relate to the idea of going to a store, picking up that game, opening it on the way home, looking at the instruction booklet, getting the background, the anticipation of it.
02:26:21.000Well, you say that, but there have been no launches in the last couple of years.
02:26:25.000Now, it's not like it was 10, 15 years ago, but they still exist sparingly.
02:26:29.000But with this, they won't even have an opportunity to exist.
02:26:33.000I was in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan when Halo 3 was released.
02:26:37.000We played a show, and when the show got done, me and about 20 kids from the show walked down the street to the GameStop to grab Halo 3.
02:26:47.000And then I stayed up all night long on the bus playing until I finished it.
02:26:51.000We were at the flea market and stuff and some swaps over the weekend, and this guy was selling just two bins full of Sega Genesis games, all the manuals still included in all of them.
02:27:07.000I got an N64, a PlayStation 1, I got big stacks of them, Game Boy.
02:27:11.000I bought a new N64, like I rebought a new N64 for myself for my birthday, and my wife got me new copies of GoldenEye and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and I found my copy of Perfect Dark.
02:27:46.000Steam has been the key to the whole movement because Steam, it's acceptable to download digital stuff.
02:27:52.000And console games have always, you know, I say always, but.
02:27:55.000Consoles have always been so disc driven and physical driven, whereas Steam and PC in particular, like when was the last time anybody bought a physical PC game?
02:31:18.000There's nothing like going into an old school retro store is awesome, but finding a mom and pop that has any sort of variety in their old school games is very hard.
02:31:33.000I went in there and I just bought like $3,000 worth of things.
02:31:37.000That's what ruins thrifting is that thrift stores used to be able to find really, really good, like rare copies of games, and now because of eBay, they It doesn't even make it there.
02:31:48.000It immediately goes behind glass and costs.
02:31:50.000I saw a video where a guy bought a clock at a thrift store and opened up the back, and that was 10 grand in bills stuffed in the back of it.
02:31:55.000He was like, whoa, and legally it's his.
02:31:57.000Yeah, because he bought it and whatever was in it.
02:31:59.000I think of like, so I've been doing this a long time, and we used to host a number of different series.
02:32:05.000One of them was a show called Game Chasers, and they would, that was like their whole bit they'd go to flea markets, they'd go to mom and pop stores, and they would try to find these different collectible games, you know, in box and stuff.
02:32:17.000And to see the prices that they were buying these games for 15 years ago compared to today, I mean, inflation is real in the collecting space.
02:32:26.000They were buying these box games for 15 bucks, and now they're worth 300.
02:32:30.000Well, I was like, for me, it's like, I don't want to go look for it and pay a bunch of extra money.
02:32:34.000The whole point is to want to go find something at the.
02:32:37.000Like, there's a couple of movies that I really want to find at, like, thrift stores where the whole joy is to go look through all the VHSs at the thrift store because I'm still looking for that one copy of a specific movie.
02:32:49.000Yeah, no, there's a joy in the discovery of it.
02:33:17.000First is why is it then that it works for Steam and they can get away with it, but Sony and Microsoft can't?
02:33:28.000And the second is why do you think that it is that Microsoft isn't jumping on this?
02:33:35.000After all the grief that they got given when the Xbox One launched with the whole, this is how we trade games and, you know, that whole thing, you'd think they would capitalize on that.
02:35:44.000Oh, by the way, if there are any Street Fighter fans in here, there is a Street Fighter movie coming out, but they are making a Streets of Rage movie.
02:35:51.000So the Sega fans will finally have something besides Sonic to be excited about.
02:38:30.000It is true that, you know, obviously they are trying to get into power and everything.
02:38:33.000But I think the other part of it really is that for the average person, you know, it used to be the news that would keep you informed about this stuff going on.
02:38:42.000And, In lieu of the way the news is going these days and the fact that everything is done through independent media now, it's just a different beast altogether.
02:38:50.000It also might be the purchase of TikTok.
02:40:13.000If you want to talk about somebody who's pushing the boundaries when it comes to AI and the VTubing space, so there's always been a big barrier of entry when it comes to VTubing, right?
02:40:22.000You need somebody to create a model for you, then you have.
02:40:25.000What they're called riggers and riggers go in, and it's just like with any sort of uh, you know, motion graphics, you'd have the uh, and what Leaflet, this VTuber, has done.
02:40:36.000By the way, she used to have a long career in game design, she's just made her transition over to the VTubing space.
02:40:42.000She's created a program that is available for free that allows people the opportunity to go in and uh, more or less create a VTuber model and have it rigged uh, very easily, and uh, it's lowered the barrier of entry.
02:40:57.000To practically nothing, and anybody can do it at any time.
02:41:01.000And it has so many people seething that she's pissed off all the right people.
02:44:13.000Anyways, my question Do you think the recent Xbox layoffs.
02:44:17.000And the industry collapse at large was largely orchestrated by communists and institutional investors.
02:44:25.000I also know that Craig has personally mentioned in the past about doing a consultancy agency, but at what point do you just sit down and crack a cold one and let the entire system burn?
02:44:36.000They would never, ever, ever hire me from a consultancy agency, any agency that I started, simply because I'm not what they want to hear, right?
02:44:48.000We have a, you know, our audience is a bunch of normal people, normal men who like boobs, don't do the pronoun thing, knows what a man is, knows what a woman is.
02:45:00.000And in the gaming industry, I mean, as you were talking about, this is an industry that is rife with activism.
02:45:08.000And they don't want to end that by any means.
02:45:11.000You know why World of Warcraft was good?
02:45:39.000To answer your initial question about the Xbox layoffs, I think there's a number of different factors.
02:45:44.000I think this, obviously, the financial aspect of it when it comes to the games drastically underperforming has played a very big role in it.
02:45:54.000The bloated budgets, and the biggest thing I think for a lot of those games is they just forgot their audience, they forgot their core audience who was buying the games.
02:46:02.000Um, there's this myth in the video game industry that 50% of gamers are women, and I think anybody who has ever played a video game knows that's a bunch of um, that's because of the data tied to self bingo, Candy Crush, and cell phone use.
02:46:17.000But they're not the ones buying games for Xbox, so they have all these games, all this data saying, Oh, dude, you're 50% of women, and why aren't the women buying the games?
02:46:25.000Well, they're not going out and buying Dragon.
02:46:26.000This is what happened, an investor walked in and said.
02:46:48.000And I, but going back to the Xbox thing, I think there's a, it's a big part of it.
02:46:53.000Do I think, look, Xbox is a brand that has suffered for a long time.
02:47:00.000I mean, the last time it was, Truly relevant, um, you know, yeah, there was the Xbox One, but that was a far cry from what the Xbox 360 was, and the Xbox 360 was 15 years ago at this point, so Xbox as a brand has been struggling for a long time.
02:47:14.000The 360 was over 15 years ago because, like I said, in two whatever, whenever Halo 3 came out, yeah, it was on the Xbox 360, so I think it was probably 20 years ago.
02:48:23.000I mean, I used to be in like a game industry Discord.
02:48:27.000Not going to say it, but like one of the frequent arguments was constantly like a lot of these people just simply hate the players and hate the people who make play games and buy games.
02:48:40.000And you would talk to them and they would be basically straight up communists.
02:49:11.000Are they so resentful at the straight white male that they want to tear it down to the inside?
02:49:18.000I think it's partly what Phil and Tim have said, but I also think a lot of it is being a game developer has been largely seen as a really cool job.
02:49:27.000And you have people like me who, like, I don't associate, I don't agree with those people at all.
02:49:33.000I have no, utterly, I can't physically associate with those people anymore.
02:49:43.000But you also have, like, part of me thinks that, like, they come into the industry because it's a cool job.
02:49:48.000And when you're in college, you don't really know what to do.
02:49:52.000And being a game developer seems pretty easy.
02:49:56.000And, you know, you just slap a bunch of textures on and you just put the game out on Unreal and it's easy.
02:50:02.000And it's like looking back, it's like you have people like me who would spend, I don't know, 16 hour days, 15 hour work days just making DevOps pipelines and working on the back end of the games and just loving it.
02:50:18.000And then you had other people who literally just skated on by doing the bare minimum work.
02:50:24.000I would love to pick your brain and do, like I said, a detox of this.
02:50:30.000It seems like such a story that needs to be told from people who've experienced it from the inside, because that is one of the great mysteries of how they're going to solve that brand.
02:50:43.000And if it even is salvageable after what was thrown out there, and those cutscenes will live in gaming history for their infamy.
02:50:56.000I mean, like, I remember when the Bud Light stuff happened and, like, I had moved on and I was, like, sitting there and, like, talking with a bunch of friends.
02:51:07.000And I was like, I should message my old co workers and tell them to, they should probably do something.
02:51:43.000And sorry, you know, but I'll tell you what, it'd be interesting to hear about the life cycle, the development life cycle of that thing, and to hear, you know, kind of where things went wrong from a management perspective and maybe the way the story was supposed to go and maybe they pushed it a different direction.
02:52:05.000That'd be really, really intriguing, man.