00:02:07.000A lot of conservatives are ragging on these people, being like, they've been propping up communists the whole time.
00:02:12.000And my attitude is, dude, when they start agreeing with you and pushing people to your side and you're winning, don't snatch defeat from the jaws of victor.
00:02:23.000And then get as many votes as you can because they're not in control of the Trump administration, but they're going to help the Republicans win and shut those things down.
00:03:11.000Outside of the fact that I love Spider Man and we're going to talk about the film and some spoilers, I want to just stress it's showing a cultural cohesion again.
00:03:19.000You know, we had this period over seven or so years where nobody was watching the same films, listening to the same music, woke was ascendant.
00:07:02.000Well, because I had some roommates from Trinidad, they're super into cricket, so I was just like, I'll learn.
00:07:07.000Don't cricket games take like three days?
00:07:08.000It takes like three days, and it's like the scores, like completely like you're like doing math problems around the game.
00:07:13.000And even the people at the game are bored, like they're playing checkers in the crowd, they'll panic people, they're doing like whatever except watching cricket, anything like it's just an excuse to just like hang out.
00:07:22.000It's passive viewing, just like a lot of these streaming shows.
00:07:24.000Actually, do I have to say, I gotta bounce, I actually like that a lot.
00:08:09.000I'm not going to play the full thing for you, but I just love this intro.
00:08:12.000And finally, new rule Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communists, that's not one of them.
00:09:26.000We got a whole segment on this one, but I'm just going to stress the reason why people won't vote for these people socialist grocery store causes local grocery stores to go out of business because they can't compete.
00:10:45.000Gen Alpha is about one or two cycles away from voting.
00:10:48.000I think they're 15 years old right now, 14, 15.
00:10:50.000So, we're looking at probably 2030 is when we're going to see them voting.
00:10:55.0002032, a little bit more prominent, but still younger voters, not so prominent.
00:10:58.000But more importantly, at half the size of Gen Z millennials, they do not hold weight.
00:11:05.000So, Hassan may be ascendant in a small faction of the left wing of the Democratic Party.
00:11:10.000But what's going to happen is you're going to see a split, and you're going to have the moderate liberal types like David Packman having to contend with the Hassan Pikers.
00:11:18.000You're going to have Destiny and Hassan Piker who do not get along, and Ethan Klein and them, they fight each other.
00:11:24.000So, I don't see a Democratic establishment dominated by Hassan Piker.
00:11:28.000I see multiple left factions in a shattered Democratic Party.
00:11:31.000Yeah, we have this weird situation where you have these guys like Ezra Klein, who are like policy wonks and put out pages and pages of what they would like to see from policy from the Democrat Party.
00:11:42.000The problem is they never get any of that.
00:11:44.000They get, you know, for lack of a better term, gay race communism, and they just plug their nose and vote for the Democrat Party.
00:11:50.000So, it's actually kind of irrelevant what these people think because if they're not willing to quite literally just vote for the Republican Party, Who cares?
00:11:56.000Because Hassan Piker, even if he himself won't be this influential figure, his ilk will absolutely be dominating the Democrat Party for years to come because, like you said, boomers are dying off.
00:12:07.000That's the last voting cohort in the Democrat Party that is overwhelmingly white.
00:12:11.000So you have a large non white majority voting block now in the United States for the Democrats, as in the majority of their constituents will be non white.
00:12:20.000So they don't like this whole idea that DEI identity politics is on the way out, maybe for the Republicans, but certainly not for the Democrat Party.
00:12:58.000But the thing that I think that people need to be aware of is the DSA intentionally.
00:13:05.000Tells people to lie about the policies, right?
00:13:08.000They know that it's still generally unpopular to call yourself a socialist or a communist in the United States.
00:13:15.000They have specifically said don't tell people that you're actually looking to destroy capitalism.
00:13:24.000They'll tell you you want to sound closer to the center left than you do want to sound like a radical when you're dealing with regular voters.
00:13:36.000I don't believe Saeed for one second that he's not at least a socialist.
00:13:40.000And another way you can see that they actually do this is they tell people, you know, they'll say things like, oh, the Nordic model.
00:13:47.000The Nordic model is a capitalist society.
00:13:54.000Yeah, they've all got markets, they've all got private property.
00:13:57.000Yes, there are generous, you know, social safety nets, there are generous benefits, and they pay over half of their money into taxes, except for Norway, because they're sitting on tons and tons and tons of natural gas.
00:14:14.000Market economies, so much that, like, you know, the I think the Danish prime minister came out and said, Hey, we're not a socialist country, we're a capitalist country.
00:14:22.000You still have reasonably secure property rights.
00:14:26.000And the policies that the DSA want when they're actually articulating the platform, they were talking about expropriating major corporations.
00:14:36.000And major corporations means like Amazon, you know, they're going to go after the banking industry, which means that you won't be able to get a loan to start a business.
00:14:44.000People get down on the banking industry, and I get it because, you know, You look at stuff on the internet and the irresponsibility of just banking in general, the fact that anytime you use a credit card, you're actually creating money and it goes towards the overall debt and stuff.
00:15:00.000But the function that markets for money, the function that those perform, they're integral for being able to start businesses, being able to expand the economy.
00:15:14.000And that's something that everybody wants to be able to do.
00:15:18.000Fixed pie that is always the same that everybody's trying to take from.
00:15:23.000You want the economy to continue growing.
00:15:26.000And so, like, the things that the DSA are talking about when it comes to, like, again, expropriating property or nationalizing industry, that is going to destroy the whole U.S. economy.
00:15:36.000And these people think that that's a good thing because they want to reimagine the United States in totality.
00:15:42.000They want to get rid of the presidency.
00:16:31.000I actually don't know how possible it is at this point because the Democratic Party is becoming two different political parties.
00:16:36.000I think my concern isn't so much about whether it's possible now.
00:16:39.000It's about what happens, as you outlined earlier, when the boomers die off.
00:16:45.000I understand that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are smaller generations, but if the motivated people, Are the ones that are actually out there being activists and they're out there voting regularly, you know, reliably.
00:16:58.000You know, if there's a strong push for socialism, again, Gen Z and stuff, they don't have the same kind of allergy to the term socialism.
00:17:06.000I saw a video from Ariel Scarsella, who was just recently on the show.
00:17:10.000She was asking college students about why the Democrats lost.
00:17:14.000And it was interesting to see at a university, some of these kids were like, well, like the Democrats were, you know, just like basically it wasn't, I would say, aligned with like hard conservatism, you know, like it wasn't like something you hear Jack Posobick say,
00:18:21.000And they say, they basically line it up like this Democrats can't win enough political power, even if they do in the midterms, to affect Trump because it would be a thin majority if it was.
00:18:31.000Trump's critics are retiring or moving into other state level positions.
00:18:36.000So Trump's administration is basically saying, look, If we lose the midterms, it'll be very similar to how it already is.
00:18:56.000The oldest political party in the world, how do they survive?
00:18:59.000Well, I think the DSA is their MAGA insofar as when MAGA first came on the scene, a ton of pushback.
00:19:06.000You had to shake out the old guard who was like, oh, you know, I'll never vote for Trump, the never Trumpers, right?
00:19:12.000And a lot of them ended up, you know, just.
00:19:13.000Buggering off, or they got CNN gigs, or they just became Democrats.
00:19:17.000So I think the Democrat Party is going through their phase of like, you know, shedding the old guard, shedding the old consensus.
00:19:23.000I think what you're seeing now is like this endpoint of Obama style, like liberalism.
00:19:28.000And a lot of those people now who, you know, guys like Bill Maher, a lot of these other Democrats that we're seeing, Jim Carvel, obviously, who were like huge cheerleaders for the Obama administration are now like, oh, I don't know about this DSA stuff.
00:19:39.000That's the exact same thing that happened at the Republican Party when MAGA first came along.
00:19:42.000So I guess I'm trying to say is while it might be ugly for a few years, I think the DSA will ultimately come out decisive winners in that exchange.
00:19:50.000And I think whoever wants to remain, keep in power in the Democrat Party, shall have to play ball with the DSA.
00:19:57.000As far as young people go, I mean, yeah, I think it's a bit of a LARP when people are like, oh, you know, the reason why young people are turning on Trump is because they're actually to the right of him.
00:20:04.000And I'm like, dude, there's no polling that reflects that at all.
00:20:07.000Like, I wish that was, like, trust me, I wish that was the case as a 25 year old who would like to see that happen.
00:20:17.000Something like 80% of Zoomers are pro choice.
00:20:20.000Like, I'm sorry, this is not your super base trad generation.
00:20:22.000It's like, are they slowing down on trends we saw among millennials?
00:20:26.000Yeah, that's true, but they're not even more religious than millennials, let alone more conservative.
00:20:32.000It's not what you think is going to happen.
00:20:33.000You cannot depend on a based revolution.
00:20:35.000Yeah, but I think with the left losing cultural institutions, this is going to change.
00:20:42.000The question of what does it mean to be pro choice, I think that's the issue with polling.
00:20:46.000First of all, I don't believe it outright.
00:20:48.000You go to someone and you ask them something like, You ask them the question to get the answer that you want so you can frame it the way you want.
00:20:54.000You'd say something like, Do you think that if a woman was suffering a medical issue, she should be allowed to get an abortion?
00:21:04.000But also say this, I think a lot of these people don't understand the arguments.
00:21:06.000Like when you tell them that Colorado legalized abortion at the point of birth, they go, I don't believe it for a second.
00:21:10.000And then once they find out, they go, ah, I'm not for that.
00:21:13.000Yeah, I think Zoomers surprisingly are a bit more pragmatic than I think people would give them credit for when it comes to policy.
00:21:19.000But insofar as, like, yeah, they just have this kind of baked in liberalism that you can't really do much about.
00:21:25.000And yeah, I just think it's a bit of a larp when people are like, oh, like when the boomers die off, then we'll get our like super based right wing revolution.
00:22:07.000You know, I like to reference Star Trek The Next Generation because I'm a fan, but I do think it does represent.
00:22:11.000The boomer dream of the future, where, you know, communists think Star Trek is communist because there's no, because they have like replicators, but they have credits, they have money.
00:22:21.000But if you take a look at that show where you have like the noble military captain who's like, no, we don't harm innocent civilizations, it's like that was their dream of the future.
00:22:30.000They didn't actually build it, but they still try to vote for those ideals.
00:22:49.000That's like very, I mean, because they grew up with Reagan.
00:22:50.000So it's like obviously, like, you know, Reagan, even if you're critical of him, is like you had to concede he's like one of the best politicians of all time as far as like how he presented.
00:23:26.000There's more of them, but also a higher proportion of boomers are right wing versus Zoomers, where it's a smaller proportion, even if they're more authentically right wing.
00:23:32.000Well, it doesn't matter if you can't win an election.
00:23:34.000So the one of the things that the young people, you know, are facing now is the fact that they don't have a buy in to quote unquote the American dream, right?
00:23:44.000They can't start a business, or they feel like they can't start a business.
00:23:47.000They don't like the idea of owning property is as alien to them as the idea of like, You know, being on the moon.
00:23:55.000Well, that seems interesting what you guys have been bringing up, even like young people with entrepreneurship.
00:23:59.000It seems like that's on the rise, but you're talking about, like, well, are they actually going to be able to make some sort of a difference because of how many they are, how interested they are in politics, and obviously the ideological game?
00:24:10.000It seems like the left is losing consistently, but you have that.
00:24:13.000It seems like the opportunities for entrepreneurship are there, but at the same time, like you're saying, the American dream and entrepreneurship.
00:24:38.000But yeah, like, yeah, I totally agree.
00:24:40.000There are so many people that are like, you know, because on the left, you've got people that are like, oh, we should have a bunch of government programs for basically the marginalized community.
00:24:49.000And the people on the right are like, well, actually, we should have government programs for Americans.
00:24:54.000So not, you know, maybe they probably wouldn't want, they might even exclude, you know, Second generation immigrants, as well as first generation immigrants.
00:25:03.000But that's going to be an ever growing.
00:25:04.000Thing too, the marginalized communities could be like the LGBTQ community.
00:25:07.000That you've had so many numbers and letters to that at some point, it's pretty much everybody.
00:25:11.000Yeah, that's because the left wants to be the left wants to make it so that way everyone can join their group.
00:25:17.000But you're still going to be like, if you're a white guy and you say, Look, I'm two spirit, they're gonna be like, Well, you're still a white guy, so screw you, you're still at the bottom of the barrel.
00:25:41.000Yeah, I think, like, you know, it just really epitomizes the disconnect between older generations and Zoomers is that, like, it seems like older generations spend much more time on culture war issues than Zoomers actually do,
00:25:56.000where I think the good majority of Zoomers are just fairly nihilistic.
00:26:01.000And the interesting thing is, I would push back on the idea that, like, the left has lost cultural institutions, but they've definitely lost the rhetorical battle.
00:26:09.000So something that's interesting that you'll see is even among, like, Full blown trans communities among Zoomers, they will be using language that you would have seen on like 4chan like 10 years ago.
00:26:26.000So I think like that's kind of an interesting to see is, okay, they haven't really lost the cultural war at all.
00:26:31.000Actually, I like, I think declaring woke is dead is like way too premature.
00:26:35.000But as far as like rhetoric goes, it's actually kind of fascinating that even among in like far left circles, they'll say like retard and stuff like that, like all the time.
00:26:57.000I get what you're saying, but right now I'm looking at a video that someone retweeted of Francesca Hong describes having a half white son as being in proximity to whiteness.
00:27:23.000But yeah, I mean, look, like the woke isn't going anywhere.
00:27:26.000It's not like there will be a resurgence of this kind of stuff.
00:27:30.000There will be attempts to cancel people in the future.
00:27:32.000It's not going to stop until, well, I mean, do you think it has a chance to be defeated, though?
00:27:38.000Like, I mean, I know we're going to get into it later.
00:27:42.000I know I don't want to get ahead of things, but I mean, I even think of the cultural driver of Riley Gaines and Will Thomas on the same podium.
00:27:50.000I see now with the Sophie Cunningham situation where it's like, okay, the vast majority of Americans think that this whole discussion is stupid.
00:28:09.000Look, if you're going to say, look, men cannot become women and women cannot become men, you'll probably never lose a job for that again, or at least not anytime soon.
00:28:19.000Well, and I think the culture where topics are just burnt out, I mean, people hear that and they're like, Dude, gas is like four bucks.
00:28:24.000No, but if you go on a racist triad about something, you might lose your job for that.
00:28:29.000Sometimes, yeah, but the culture has definitely changed from five to six years ago, where if Shiloh Hendrix did that six years ago, she'd probably get shot.
00:28:36.000Got it, but now she's got a million bucks.
00:29:35.000Where we've had these conversations in the show of like, okay, when a Japanese person is thinking of an American, what are they thinking of?
00:29:42.000Like physically, they're well, yeah, but they're thinking of someone like Peter Parker, you know, whether you like it or not, no matter what color you are, that's just something you have to kind of reckon with.
00:29:51.000So, again, when Spider Man is like marketing these movies and they're like, even though Queens, the average person from Queens looks nothing like Peter Parker anymore, when you're thinking of like a comic book kid from Queens, you know, you think of the Ramones, etc., you think of Peter Parker, you can't be like uncanny with your presentation,
00:30:06.000I gotta ask because I, I, I half agree, but I don't think that's what's at play.
00:31:08.000Peter Parker's Spider Man is a hero's journey every time.
00:31:11.000Well, and what I'm trying to get at is like, The reason why Peter Parker can be a hero's journey is because he's presented as like an everyman.
00:31:17.000He's presented as a very typical, ordinary person.
00:31:20.000And in the United States, even today, that is still just going to be like a dorky white kid.
00:31:24.000Like, that's just the reality of the situation.
00:31:26.000So, again, you know, to no fault of anyone's own, if they were to deviate from that character when designing a hero's journey that be told to the majority of Americans for it to resonate with them, if they made them black or if they made them Hispanic or made them Asian,
00:31:40.000that would be an aspect to their character that would deviate.
00:31:43.000From the everyman story that would add another extra element to it, etc.
00:31:47.000So, like, again, it's the reason why it isn't political.
00:31:51.000Part of the reason, part of the way you get that done is by presenting him as an everyman.
00:31:55.000And, like, again, for the vast majority of Americans, even people of different colors, they're going to see a normal white person as an everyman.
00:32:01.000He's gone through legitimate loss in the last movie leading into this.
00:32:05.000And then it's a genuine, just good time watching this movie.
00:32:09.000I haven't had that much fun watching a movie in a theater in a long time.
00:32:14.000And I think, in general, like, People resonate with Spider Man now because he's not just like Iron Boy.
00:32:30.000Here's the thing everything was derivative of Iron Man, but Spider Man, when they introduced him in Homecoming, he was in Civil War, but when they started his own movie with Homecoming, No Way Home, and Far From Home, or Far From Home, then No Way Home, it was derivative of Iron Man in the first two, I'd say,
00:32:45.000and Infinity War, but it was still part of his hero's journey.
00:37:10.000The woman is in a committed relationship, goes back home, meets a handsome everyman, and ditches her fiance for this guy overnight, abandoning her multi year relationship.
00:37:21.000How many lifetime movies are about a woman leaving her fiance for some guy she just met?
00:37:49.000Well, and that's also, I mean, this is my point is like before 50 years ago, can we even name any Heroes' Journey stories that were like a woman lead?
00:41:33.000Cause like men don't have a regular thing where they have to self medicate because of the pain that they're in while they're at their job.
00:41:38.000But it reminded me of when the Democrats came out and they were like, women should get paid time off for having periods.
00:41:44.000And I'm like, you know, back in the day, women just didn't have to go to work.
00:41:49.000So when they had period pain, they were just at home chilling in the bathtub.
00:41:53.000But now that we're in this, like I said, feminine, feminine, feminism-esized, I don't want to say feminized, but like, A feminism-ified society, now there is a need for a pharmaceutical to help women while they're at work because they're in pain that it didn't have to do in the past.
00:42:09.000If women are given time off for their periods or they're given special treatment, then men should be given time off for dealing with women on their periods.
00:42:19.000Well, you'd have to because it has to be equal.
00:42:21.000So if they're like, women get three days off for their periods, men can choose three days off throughout the month.
00:42:47.000No, it's just like, I mean, it's like a chicken or egg thing.
00:42:49.000It's like, did they hire robots because we were lazy or whatever, or the other way around?
00:42:53.000I'm like, it's probably inevitable that we're going to go to a three day weekend soon.
00:42:57.000I mean, this seems like when you see all of these, not even just tech leads, but business leaders in general, they're all starting to sort of prep the American people for the fact that, hey, we might move to a three day weekend pretty soon.
00:43:11.000And so poor people who can't get jobs will lease, they'll rent a car for $100 a week to drive Uber and DoorDash.
00:43:23.000And so what now we're seeing is a second layer there are people who will buy 20 Teslas and then list them as available for weekly leases to DoorDash drivers.
00:43:35.000And so they're like, I make $15,000 a month off my fleet.
00:43:39.000And so, you know, and they say like 6,000, 7,000 or so is profit for me to live off of, but I have to get tires fixed.
00:43:47.000I have to get repairs done, brake pads, all those things.
00:43:49.000So, all in all, it's like I'm making, you know, 70, 80K a year off of my fleet.
00:43:53.000We're going to have the same thing with Tesla bots.
00:43:55.000And I was talking to Seamus Coughlin actually just the other day.
00:44:01.000And I said, when Tesla Optimus bots are functional for a restaurant, no one's going to have the initial 30 to 50K to buy one of these high end Tesla bots to make tacos at a Taco Bell.
00:44:12.000So, what's going to happen is there's going to be a dude who's going to get a loan from a bank to buy 20 of them.
00:44:17.000And then they're going to say, Your store will lease three to us for, you know, 10 bucks an hour.
00:44:24.000Hey, a human costs you 20 bucks an hour.
00:44:25.000We're half the price for the Tesla bot.
00:44:26.000Here's the best part if it breaks down, we deliver a replacement on the spot, take the broken unit back, we deal with it.
00:44:32.000Those are going to be the future businesses we see popping up because we're already starting to see the car one.
00:44:37.000You're already seeing like McDonald's.
00:44:38.000I mean, they've already kind of moved away from like people.
00:44:40.000Like you go there and they have the big machine and you.
00:44:42.000Punch in your order or whatever, and then like five minutes combined, like the only real person in the entire restaurant pops out with your food.
00:44:51.000You order to kiosk and then the arm goes and like picks up the french fries and then like, yeah, and it's just like one, just like kind of heavy set lady will just come out and be like, Oh, 223.
00:44:59.000Oh, no, no, no, only lady that oh, no, bro, bro, the automated McDonald's, the robot arm just picks it up and goes and then drops it.
00:45:05.000I think they'll always have her because someone's got to like yell at the robot.
00:45:07.000You know, they also got those women run McDonald's now.
00:45:12.000You have a McDonald's, yeah, you also got the app where you just type, you know, order and then you just go up to the drive through and you say, This is my number, and they're like, All right, pull around.
00:45:21.000I was at it, you know, just go straight to the window to pick stuff up.
00:45:25.000Now, the drive thru is at a bunch of these Wendy's or whatever.
00:45:29.000Oh, you can make them just order a thousand waters.
00:45:31.000No, there was a really funny one where a guy was like, he started filming after you already ordered, but it was like, he had like a number one and number two, and it said it was $15,900.
00:46:19.000Just, bro, just give me a scoop of ice cream, man.
00:46:22.000Yeah, they had my university, they had like a vending machine or whatever that automatically made burgers, but like the buns were always like soaked every time and the cheese would be like on the wrapper.
00:46:31.000And it was just like, got this reputation within a week of installation.
00:46:34.000And it was just like the worst experience of your entire life.
00:46:37.000And then, like, a week later, someone just destroyed it.
00:46:38.000They actually just got so mad that they lost $8 that they just destroyed the machine.
00:47:40.000That's actually how you're going to talk because the toxins and the radiation and the post apocalypse is going to leave you with one of those things.
00:47:46.000You're going to be like, I would like a cheeseburger, and the robot's going to sound like a perfect dog.
00:48:05.000Unironically, like this is the only, you know, I've been like pretty pro tactically pro AI purely because I'm like, look, the current trajectory that everything is going so far is just like a disaster.
00:48:16.000There's no way we're ever going to get women to stop working.
00:48:19.000Like that rabbit's just out of the hat.
00:48:21.000A myriad of other problems, immigration, et cetera.
00:48:23.000I'm like, honestly, AI might be able to screw up enough stuff that like it might revert us back to a sort of pre modern state of living.
00:48:33.000Like it actually, women, because they just hate working anyway and they're all depressed, they might just be like, finally have an excuse to go home in like a dignified way.
00:48:40.000And then, like, immigrants will just stop coming here because we don't need them anymore.
00:48:43.000Not that we really need them now, but like, we definitely won't need them anymore.
00:48:45.000It's like, sorry, we can flip our own burgers.
00:48:47.000So, I just like look around the economy and I'm like, actually, AI might like destroy enough things that it might actually just end up working out in the end.
00:48:54.000So, I'm like, it's worth it because the current trajectory right now, we're just like swirling.
00:50:40.000And now podcasters are paying people to post their videos.
00:50:45.000So it used to be you post a clip, you made money off it.
00:50:48.000Then there was a bunch of piracy and we're like, well, it is what it is.
00:50:51.000Now it's so competitive that bigger companies are paying people.
00:50:56.000To clip and post their videos, hoping it'll generate marketing for them, but you can't monetize them.
00:51:01.000One of the things we're looking at is how do we monetize that?
00:51:04.000So, what's happened now is there's a handful of companies like dual.com does this where they put Charlie Kirk's face in the corner of a video for the algorithm, and then there'll be a clip of something totally random.
00:51:20.000So, the fact that some random Indian guy is generating 10,000 videos per month means companies like this are going to struggle to exist in the next year or two.
00:51:30.000Now, What I will say is, you know, Forbes put out their top 20, like most paid podcasters.
00:51:38.000I argue that list is largely fake because we would be on that list.
00:51:41.000But the point is, these people, they have contracts.
00:51:45.000So I'm not going to call anybody out, but the reason why one of these people might be getting 20 million a year is because a network pays them 20 million as a personality and they're losing money on the show, but it's a loss leader.
00:51:55.000Now, we were actually profitable and make a ton of money, but we have to make the money ourselves.
00:52:01.000We don't go to a company and say, just.
00:52:16.000The skateboard business, we sell more skateboards than any other company, despite the fact all the American skate manufacturers are going out of business.
00:52:28.000I don't want to drag Santa Cruz, but I'll just say the overwhelming majority of top skateboard companies are just Chinese manufacturers at this point.
00:52:39.000So we have to make money by other ways every day.
00:52:42.000And fortunately, because I would say that I planned well, we've actually maintained audience growth and revenue despite the fact revenue is dropping.
00:52:50.000YouTube revenue right now is half of what it was last year and it's half of what it was the year before.
00:52:55.000So last year was half of the year before.
00:52:56.000So when I say AI is destroying us, and then, you know, I hear you guys being like, nah, it's not going to happen.
00:53:02.000I'm like, well, count your days, I guess.
00:53:05.000Because every day behind the scenes, we are scraping our fingernails on the desk being like, we cannot compete with a 14 year old Indian kid producing 10,000 videos of me.
00:53:17.000I can't make money off of that anymore.
00:53:19.000And they're making fake videos of me, which is causing death threats.
00:53:22.000So we're trying to figure out how to navigate this.
00:53:25.000And that's why I was talking to Seamus about maybe we just lease 100 Tesla robots out to businesses because we're not going to be able to do this stuff anymore.
00:53:31.000Especially again, when there's already people in India en masse have been doing this for years making videos of me, of Joe Rogan, of Steven Crowder, and we can't make money off of that.
00:54:36.000On TikTok and Instagram, a large portion of videos will be a viral clip from a show or a body camera, and there will be some random guy just staring.
00:55:08.000It's weird because I've heard Nerdrotics talk about this in their space in film and TV, how there's people that will literally just, there's a trailer going on or some other, like their clip, and yeah, all they're doing is just staring.
00:55:19.000Like, how can such a massive thing like YouTube?
00:55:24.000Not understand that this is not original content.
00:55:27.000They're not adding original commentary.
00:55:30.000They're not creating a new discussion.
00:55:31.000They're literally just ripping it off in their faces.
00:55:34.000Well, here's the challenge it's not largely monetized as it is.
00:55:37.000YouTube Shorts, you'll get a million views, you'll make 20 bucks.
00:55:41.000So the issue is, I think TikTok was a site from the get go to rip people away from long form, higher level conversations and independent monetization.
00:55:52.000That's why Trump was like, don't destroy it, buy it, we'll use it.
00:56:06.000I mean, I think there's like two things going on here.
00:56:09.000First of all, like the Department of Education just should come out with data and be like, I don't know, we should just ban carousel content.
00:56:14.000That's obviously pie in the sky, but like banning carousel short form video obviously will just like literally fix everything.
00:56:19.000But I think what's going on here is anecdotally what I'm seeing is that more and more Americans are like spending less time on social media.
00:56:27.000Media and they're just spending more time on like other internet adjacent things.
00:56:33.000But like dead internet theory is like something that everyone's talking about now.
00:56:36.000And everyone's like complaining about the same things.
00:56:38.000They're like the reels, the TikToks is all just slop.
00:57:52.000So, one of the reasons we launched the Tim Pool show, I'm doing the straight one on one interviews, is because, again, we are planning for all of this.
00:57:59.000You can't, like, third party commentary is getting crushed, and original sourcing is likely going to be more dominant in terms of content reach.
00:58:11.000Doing a show where we talk about the news, we opine, we fact check.
00:58:14.000Is getting flattened by AI and content mass production.
00:58:18.000One on one interviews where a person will say, Here's a thing no one's heard before, will be the stone in the ocean and not the ripple.
00:58:26.000So that's one of the things that we're strategizing on moving forward.
00:58:29.000But I'm going to stress that point again revenue for the average person.
00:58:33.000If you got started doing the podcasting stuff in 2018, you are probably making like 7% of what you were at your peak.
00:58:42.000And it is largely due to AI mass produced content.
00:58:46.000It has split everything up and devalued the content.
00:58:49.000And it's also carousel content, like you mentioned.
00:58:52.000So, again, when I say, like, yeah, it's destroying these industries,
00:58:56.000I have no confidence in the next couple of years this business will be what it is.
00:59:00.000Now, I can say this I will have a company, it will exist, but that's because my company exists and we have the capital to move around and adapt to it.
00:59:08.000Yeah, because this is like what radio hosts were saying in 2008, 2009.
00:59:11.000They're like, oh, you know, I think like your Howard Stearns and all them are like, oh, crabble podcasting.
00:59:15.000You know, Mark Marone, whatever he's doing is like here to stay now.
00:59:17.000You know, guys like Tim Pool are coming into the game.
00:59:19.000So, a lot of these radio hosts, they lost their livelihoods.
00:59:21.000But the unfortunate thing is like the obvious point, which is radio was still replaced by something of substance, even if it was in certain instances easier to make than, like, obviously having a radio show with an antenna.
00:59:32.000Like, it's still a product that can be consumed and you can garner some knowledge from it.
00:59:38.000It's really fascinating to see like the way people are like bifurcating now.
00:59:41.000Like, something I'm seeing a lot of is now that Twitter is like basically unusable, a lot of people are like going to Substack.
00:59:48.000Like, I pretty much get all of my information.
00:59:50.000And to be honest, like, a lot of my takes from.
00:59:53.000People that I liked in the past who posted a lot on Twitter who like abandoned the website now because it's just like literally unusable.
01:00:00.000So you're not based off like specific, like heavy politics?
01:00:04.000No, it's just like, it's all just slop now where it's like, you know, like Trump will say something and there's like 30 different accounts!
01:00:13.000And I'm like, it's the entire feed and everyone's pissed off all the time and everyone's regurgitating takes I heard from like 10 years ago.
01:00:21.000It's not just, it's, and the best posters are gone because they're either they kept.
01:00:24.000Getting throttled or banned or whatever.
01:00:26.000A lot of creators really got throttled.
01:00:29.000Like, I know, even like, not a big creator, my stuff got throttled.
01:00:32.000But how about we did this segment a month or so ago when people just rip off other viral content?
01:01:09.000The future is going to be if you are not licensed to a mainstream network and you are not an A-lister celebrity doing a show, you won't exist.
01:01:16.000Oprah Winfrey launched a podcast, Chevron launched a podcast.
01:01:20.000The strategy that I explained last year, two years ago, they're going to attack the space with AI content so that independent creators can't make a living anymore.
01:01:29.000And then they're going to finance the voices that adhere to the message and the narrative.
01:01:35.000So, it's going to be like it was 30 years ago with Network Television.
01:01:38.000Five channels, 10 approved voices, and nobody else.
01:01:42.000What do you think is going to happen with clipping, though?
01:01:43.000Like, you mentioned that earlier, and obviously, that seems like the route that some of these places are going individually.
01:02:36.000Every other video's caption will be V stepped into a crowd.
01:02:39.000Yeah, there's that one, or there's like about Japan or about like the soda made the old fashioned way in New York City.
01:02:44.000Yeah, they repeat the same caption for like an algorithm, it's all fake.
01:02:48.000And it's largely because here's the thing if you're in China or India and you're a peasant who wants to make money, you click a program and it will make 50,000 videos per day.
01:02:57.00020 bucks is like a game changer if you live in India.
01:03:00.000So this is why, like, I've maintained and you know, like, they got so close on like Twitter's like the last hope for social media.
01:03:07.000And like Nikita Bierre, he was so close where he was about to pull the trigger on like what would effectively geolock monetization.
01:03:13.000So, like, If you're an American, you can only earn money from the American market.
01:03:17.000If you're Portuguese, only from Portugal.
01:03:18.000If you're from India, only from India.
01:03:20.000Like he was so close to saving the app, but like Elon or someone waited for it.
01:03:26.000Someone tweeted, it's going to negatively impact expats who are like living in France, producing content for Americans and remote workers.
01:03:32.000And it's like, okay, you know, the solution there could be like, well, let's do basically the first world and then wall it off.
01:03:38.000Cause it's like, that's how the internet was.
01:03:39.000When everyone thinks about how great the internet used to be, the primary reason is because the third world just didn't have access to the internet.
01:03:44.000So it's like, If you can just let us geolock, like if you let us as consumers pick where I want to see content from, I'm happy to see from the Japanese.
01:03:52.000Honestly, the Nigerians make some funny stuff sometimes.
01:03:54.000I'd flip it on for a week and get crazy and probably flick it back off.
01:03:56.000But like, just let us lock the world where it used to be because that's where the good content's coming from.
01:04:02.000I'm sorry, you know, India, if you're from India, whatever, whatever, you're not making good.
01:04:05.000There's nothing good coming out of Indonesia anymore, right?
01:04:07.000Or like, that's not there ever was, or Bangladesh, or Oman.
01:04:11.000It's like, let us lock it to like America, Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea.
01:04:37.000It's crazy how like Zoomers, I can't remember who made this observation initially, but like Zoomer entrepreneurship basically just looks like people scamming each other like all the time.
01:04:46.000And there's like a lot of truth to that.
01:04:47.000Like I remember seeing that in high school and college.
01:04:59.000So it's like, dude, you're just seeing a lot of young people.
01:05:03.000Uh, really, people in general, but young people like tap out of politics not because their brains necessarily fried, but they've just identified that they can't extract any value out of the zeitgeist, and so they tap out when it used to be the zeitgeist was flooded with interesting ideas.
01:05:17.000Like, you would see stuff in the mainstream that's like, Oh, that's interesting, but we're at the point where we've heard it all.
01:05:24.000Like, every take I hear, I'm like, Heard that?
01:05:26.000Like, sorry, I agree, I completely agree.
01:05:28.000Yeah, so it's just like that's why a lot of these guys, like Tucker and Candace, it's like, Yes, they may be just audience capturing an audience, but I think a lot of it too is like, Where's the next taboo?
01:05:51.000It's been like you have Curtis Yarvin on a daily basis coming out and saying, like, we should just abolish America and establish a monarchy.
01:05:56.000And people are like, yeah, I don't know.
01:05:57.000I kind of heard that like three years ago.
01:07:49.000I think this is AI programming, basically.
01:07:52.000The wisdom of the crowd predicting whether they think something will or will not happen informs the network, the likelihood of an event to occur.
01:08:32.000So apps like that, with basically what I've been seeing, when you're tracking the numbers, when you're tracking what young people are doing, gambling has become massive.
01:08:43.000So it's not just like casino gambling, it's anything predictive and then making content about how you achieved something or you predicted something correctly.
01:08:53.000Explaining how you knew a team was going to win, how you knew someone was going to be elected, et cetera.
01:08:57.000I mean, because that's the interesting thing is not to throw, I don't think, Barstool is like trying to be like sinister about it, but I feel like there's a lot of the barstool bros out there.
01:09:14.000I feel like that's what's been interesting.
01:09:15.000And especially with the amount of money, specifically with a little bit more of those like actual, they promote themselves as prediction markets, is Calci and Polymarket.
01:11:17.000When we go into a gambling future, young people just producing videos where they gamble, watching content where you gamble, it's basically you're contributing absolutely nothing to the system.
01:11:28.000This show is a conversation I joked was UBI because go back 200 years and tell a farmer that you can complain and make a lot of money, they'd be like, you're nuts.
01:11:37.000But the gambling stuff is literally just you're making a living off of people who are losing.
01:11:42.000Well, that's even like there's no contribution whatsoever.
01:12:12.000And so, you know, that's again unlikely to happen in the States.
01:12:16.000But it is to say that it's not like we don't have that problem.
01:12:19.000It's just their economy or their market is structured differently.
01:12:23.000But we have the exact same problem in the US, which is guys, you know, leverage to the gills.
01:12:29.000And they, you know, one bad month, like we've seen with Iran, one bad month, they're done for it.
01:12:35.000So it's like you have a lot of these guys, it's mostly guys, again, whether it's gambling, whether it's, you know, at the poker table or in the sports betting, or they just go into the casino, which is the stock market right now, you know, your first bear market hits for Cook.
01:14:08.000I can make an episode of Freedom Tunes with AI, you know, at a dramatically lower cost than you can with your team.
01:14:13.000And he was explaining, like, yeah, but there's consistency issues.
01:14:17.000And so I explained to him, like, that what you do is you preload cells into the AI and then you have it render frames for you and it will work.
01:14:51.000It seems like the AI content is nuking the middle aged people far more than the Zoomers because, like, you're seeing, like, I mean, anecdotally, when you're watching a reel or whatever or YouTube video of like a person that's getting one shot by AI, It's almost always middle aged to older people.
01:15:06.000Same thing when you see like AI slop, it's always older people in the comment section.
01:15:10.000But you're talking about like believing fake news?
01:15:12.000I'm saying that people that like derive value from AI as it stands right now, I'm not denying that maybe in the future this could change, but as like AI where it is right now, like young people perhaps or people broadly that are just smart enough to detect AI versus not AI.
01:15:29.000We're talking about why would I spend a million dollars making a movie I can make for a hundred bucks using AI?
01:15:36.000And that the quality will be lower, but it won't matter because I can produce 7,000 of these movies in the span that it takes you to make half of the movie.
01:15:44.000But what I'm getting at is like a lot of these people that will be interacting with AI slop were already interacting with slop to begin with.
01:15:50.000I mean, why were these Marvel movies doing so well?
01:15:54.000It's like because people broadly just have bad taste.
01:15:56.000So I'm like, AI, I think for people that are producing content that is high quality, we'll always be able to find an audience of people that are seeking high quality content.
01:16:05.000I think that's just going to be a truth that's going to.
01:16:07.000Because again, when you look at who's getting one shot on the AI slop, it's like literally stupid.
01:16:10.000So I will pause you right now and say that's literally the opposite of what is currently happening and has been for the last year.
01:16:35.000These things exist, but we know that Gen Alpha is a smaller generation.
01:16:38.000So, outside of the content explosion, you've got obviously big movies.
01:16:45.000Spider Man, like, when the woke stuff dropped off, Spider Man's just following the trend we had already seen with the massive explosion of movies making more money than ever made.
01:16:53.000The big movies, like, Like, what did Star Wars make?
01:16:56.000Like, a million dollars in the box office?
01:17:07.000But when you were looking at social media, AI generated content, first, they're already using AI in these movies, they're already cutting their costs with it, which is the point.
01:17:18.000When you can go on Disney and say, I want to watch Spider Man Brand New Day Part 2, and it can render it for you in 20 minutes.
01:18:25.000Well, more and more content is coming out and less and less people can consume.
01:18:29.000People don't have the time during the day.
01:18:31.000But if you look at how much carousel content people are consuming per day, it's hours worth of content.
01:18:37.000So this has dramatically displaced the podcast for which people were doing about one and a half podcasts per day or they were doing pieces of each.
01:18:47.000So it's not even just about like a podcast, the 10 minute video is getting wiped out.
01:18:51.000And it's not about how much time people have during the day.
01:18:53.000It's that if a single human can produce 10, 10 minute segments in their morning show, but an Indian guy can produce 7,000, It's impossible to compete with it.
01:19:53.000And that's the interesting thing for me.
01:19:54.000It's like I'm in that sports space, and that's like X is still such a great place to get just really rapid fire sports content.
01:20:02.000Yeah, you'll get some of the same videos over and over, but keep going.
01:20:05.000No, well, I mean, that one thing is like the World Cup because I was like, oh, wow, like, you know, this could be interesting to see who wins the semifinal and then like porn video guy getting his head cut off and then more World Cup news.
01:20:16.000But I think what we're seeing right now is more just like kind of a maybe.
01:20:20.000I think these social media companies are going to be an interesting bind.
01:20:22.000It's like, okay, do we ensure we dominate in the third world for eternity or do we like recapture American hearts and minds?
01:20:29.000And right now it seems like they're opting for the third world because it seems like Americans are just saying, okay, we're done with like YouTube, et cetera.
01:21:09.000And the other thing to consider is AI music taking over.
01:21:12.000We're already seeing studios being like, we're going to start producing with AI.
01:21:16.000There's a bunch of songs already released from legitimate human artists that use AI without people knowing.
01:21:22.000Yeah, I mean, it seems like, and I want to be like careful I say this the AI getting involved in music is just displacing people that I don't think anyone would call very good music anyway.
01:21:34.000Like a lot of rap music is heavily AI influenced now, but that's not like, that's not really like, you know, fine art.
01:21:41.000Like that's not music that people were listening to.
01:22:03.000But you're seeing a push back into like more analog music again.
01:22:06.000I mean, like Ella Langley is number one on the charts right now.
01:22:08.000And like, that's, I mean, yes, there's obviously electronics involved in the production of her music, but generally it has this very acoustic kind of analog sound.
01:22:16.000And I think like, I mean, yes, AI is obviously a threat to creative roles.
01:22:59.000I think we're seeing a mass crash out.
01:23:00.000And I think, again, I'm sure there's Instagram.
01:23:03.000There's people in America that are just completely like slaves to their social media, but like they were going to be that way anyway.
01:23:09.000Like these are people that were never pushing culture forward to be.
01:23:13.000And all these people want to be content creators.
01:23:14.000And I mean, this is coming from me, who's a content creator, and I make a living off social media.
01:23:19.000I think most people, they want to say, I'm given a political take on this, or I need to find a niche there, and I need to be able to build my brand.
01:23:26.000There's people, I wonder how many people are actually using social media just to post that stuff that we used to enjoy back in the day.
01:23:38.000They're probably not just actually providing any sort of here's my family and the kids, and then here's we went on this vacation or like it's all I have to give a take on something politically.
01:23:51.000Well, and the fundamental problem with like this phenomenon that I'm suggesting, which is like the great disengagement, is people aren't disengaging and like having families and like, I don't know, doing healthy things.
01:24:02.000The problem is that they're disengaging.
01:24:04.000But engaging with what we were talking about earlier, which is sports betting, like stuff that's not good for you.
01:24:09.000So, yes, they're disengaging from social media, good, I guess, but they're not pushing into like tradition again or like anything that would be like uplifting to the soul.
01:24:16.000Most of them are just finding something else that will like slowly chip away at them.
01:24:19.000Well, they're trying to find an outlet.
01:24:20.000Actually, this is a good point as to why maybe gambling content, sports betting, casino gambling, poker are taking off.
01:24:27.000It's because it's the one thing where you can't say something we didn't hear before.
01:24:30.000If you want to see something new, something different, it's not going to last forever, but it's watching the person say, here's a thing that never happened before.
01:25:03.000But as far as like, you know, taking up the gravity in a certain space, I'm just using this because everyone in the audience will know who he is.
01:25:08.000So I'm just saying like, this is a guy that, oh, he wowed everyone, but he didn't create an industry of claviculars.
01:25:49.000Well, I mean, but it's not even a joke.
01:25:51.000This is people wanted something new to happen.
01:25:55.000Yeah, there's a lot of people that are looking for some kind of escape from the mundane of the political world, especially seeing as there was so much energy around Donald Trump being reelected.
01:26:07.000And then there is a lot of people that feel let down.
01:26:09.000So there's a lot of people that are just like, ah, but this goes back to the whole argument about, oh, people are really cynical, people are checking out of politics.
01:26:17.000It's like when it comes to people that get their hopes up for some kind of Big change, and they put their, you know, put all their eggs in the Donald Trump basket, and then he doesn't deliver the way that they wanted him to or the way that they think that he should have.
01:26:30.000You know, it's really hard to not be like, uh, it never changes.
01:26:35.000Like Brett, he says all the time, he's like, uh, you know, things happen, but nothing ever changes.
01:26:44.000And I think this is the way to like properly understand Gen Z as well is like, okay, like, sure, you have a far left element that exists in virtually every generation, but I think the vast majority of Zoomers.
01:26:54.000Would probably vote for the Democrat Party.
01:26:57.000They do vote for the Democrat Party, actually.
01:27:04.000They think people that care a lot about politics are cringe.
01:27:07.000It's just when it comes down to brass tacks, it turns out that the policies that they would want to see are actually closer to what the Democrats would support.
01:27:13.000So that's why people are getting this perception that, oh, the vulgar wave is back, right?
01:27:19.000This kind of 2000s monoculture is back.
01:27:22.000But it's not like the Republicans are dominating now.
01:27:24.000Okay, yes, the institutions are becoming less obviously leftist, but it's not like the Republicans are necessarily.
01:27:29.000Dominating now, and it's like, yeah, because they'll still vote for the Democrats.
01:27:32.000It's just they aren't interested in like Victoria's Secret having fat people everywhere.
01:27:35.000I also want to stress there's no great battle right now.
01:27:38.000Spider Man hit a billion dollars in three days.
01:27:41.000I mean, it's like not literally, I know there's still elements there, and you know, get Hassan Piker and these weirdos, but as far as the threat to people's jobs, like you were saying earlier, no one's going to lose their job over saying retard.
01:27:51.000No, yeah, I mean, and that was the big deal.
01:28:29.000But the point that I'm making is, like, the social attacks for the most mundane, silly things are probably over.
01:28:38.000If you do something that's Actually, offensive to a lot of people, then there might be some kind of call for, like, you know, you have accountability or whatever kind of gay thing they want to call it.
01:28:49.000But, like, the fact of the matter is, if you're just kind of like, look, I have these opinions and they're not 100% in line with what's politically correct, most people are just like, meh, whatever.
01:29:00.000The real fire behind woke is basically gone, you know?
01:29:04.000Yeah, they still have a lot of their tools, I would say.
01:29:09.000Like, they're still able to impose their will if needed.
01:29:12.000But, yeah, they've lost their fastball and it doesn't.
01:29:14.000I think the reason why a lot of people feel like the boots off their neck is because it's not as, like, in your face.
01:29:18.000I mean, like, again, you go through Victoria's Secret, and it's actually, like, normal looking people on there again.
01:29:22.000You know, it doesn't look like the bar scene from Star Wars.
01:29:24.000You go to the movies, and it's not, like, obviously subversive.
01:29:28.000You kind of got to look between the lines to see how it's subversive.
01:29:30.000So, you know, even at sports games, like, they've kind of stopped doing the kneeling and all that.
01:29:40.000Benchmark came so high during 2020 that, like, now that it's coming down, we're like, whew.
01:29:44.000Yeah, and I think there's some sports leagues like the NFL, they've learned their lesson a little bit, but there's still going to be remnants of that stuff.
01:29:50.000And I wonder how long those remnants are going to last.
01:29:52.000Like the Super Bowl still has a black national anthem.
01:29:56.000You know, they're still virtue-stingling, but yeah, I mean, obviously, the peak between 2020 and 2022, people tuned out.
01:30:04.000And you're talking about, like, why does Spider-Man work so well?
01:30:07.000Because this is the actual outlet away from the culture war and politics.
01:30:12.000And it's a place where you put your phone away.
01:30:14.000Like, where's the other place within your life that you put your phone away for two plus hours?
01:30:19.000It's like where, and then actually be entertained and not leave a movie theater thinking, like, oh man, they really tried to push a message or an agenda or like this, that, or the other thing in previews.
01:30:31.000It's like, no, you actually got away for a few hours, it was an outlet, and you enjoyed it.
01:30:36.000And that's why it's like, oh, I want to go to the movie theater now.
01:31:04.000And then they'd watch it and they're like, yeah, it's kind of a fun product, I guess.
01:31:06.000And it's like, everyone, everywhere in the world was watching it.
01:31:09.000Certainly in America, that just shows you like sports is at its peak right now.
01:31:13.000Like, everyone, a lot of conservatives who are like, sports ball or goyball, it's like, dude, you don't understand that people are called like are engaging in sports because they're sick of the politics.
01:31:24.000Well, and even a lot of people like, Partisanship out without having to be political.
01:31:27.000And even like in America, I mean, soccer is the biggest sport in the world.
01:31:33.000But most people that don't care about soccer, they're like, I care about America.
01:31:36.000And I'm actually, it's not like the women's national team.
01:31:39.000Yeah, where they're like, that just like they make a Rapinos out there and Alex Morgan and they're pushing some stupid agenda.
01:31:45.000They're like, wow, this actually is an escape.
01:31:58.000Well, it gets in it like it's, and this is how it functions with soccer and Europe.
01:32:04.000This, I think, functions across all sports in the United States, is it's like a release valve for like partisanship, where like men, to be fair, you know, like I think about Scotland and it's so liberal.
01:32:13.000I'm like, you know, if the green team and the blue team would just like lock in, like take their country back, there probably wouldn't be many migrants there for much longer.
01:32:19.000But like, that's what I'm getting at is the point of sports is that it typically grows in popularity when people want to like get that partisanship out.
01:32:26.000Like, oh, I hate the New York Nets or the Brooklyn Nets and I'm a New York Knicks fan till I die.
01:32:32.000And it's like, cause that allows you to get out the partisanship.
01:32:34.000Without making you feel bad and getting involved in politics and like actually maybe hurting someone's feelings.
01:32:38.000I mean, I wonder, there's big stuff going on with New York, like Mamdani's doing.
01:32:55.000They're going to set the prices 30% below retail at their store, hold that price for the month, then reassess every month and keep their prices 30% lower than the competition.
01:33:04.000The expectation is that surrounding grocery stores can't compete with a government run grocery store.
01:33:08.000So, they'll lose a percentage, they'll lose a decent percentage of their customer base, which will cause a collapse of these businesses as it does.
01:33:15.000Ultimately, these stores will go out of business.
01:33:17.000They'll be forced to lower their prices, trimming their margins, which are already small.
01:33:21.000They'll end up losing customers anyway because you can't compete with 30% off because they operate on like 5% margins if they're lucky.
01:33:45.000But fear not, with their new library card esque thing, they'll make sure you're only purchasing one loaf of bread and one gallon of milk per week.
01:33:56.000So now, as you wait in your bread line for your bread and you go to buy it, they're going to say, I got to scan your card.
01:34:02.000They're going to scan it and say, I'm sorry, someone in your household already bought bread this week, so you can't have any more.
01:34:08.000And now you're literally looking at a Soviet style system.
01:34:11.000This is why it's failed every country it's been tried in.
01:34:14.000It's why it failed even 15 years ago in Venezuela.
01:34:23.000And it's worse than it's ever been in New York City.
01:34:25.000But hey, Mamdani came out and lied, claiming that he got DoorDash driver's tips.
01:34:30.000And so Brett and Circus is, baby, your peasant workers who spend more money on their vehicles because of wear and tear, who don't realize they're getting ripped to shred by these delivery apps and by Uber, are now getting slightly more tips.
01:34:43.000It's like the people stand outside screaming, we're suffering, and Mamdani comes out and throws bread at them and says, I've solved your problems.
01:34:50.000Yeah, the arbitrage opportunities are going to be like sick.
01:34:52.000Like, you'll be able to totally print.
01:34:55.000If you manage to get your hands on a library card in New York, you can go on there.
01:34:58.000Because I think what the proposal is, well, it's not a problem, they're building one in the Bronx, is 30% off of all essential goods like meat, dairy, bread, et cetera.
01:35:07.000So you just buy that at a 30% discount.
01:35:09.000New York already has so many illegal street sellers anyway.
01:35:11.000Like, when I lived in Queens, it would be on the BQE.
01:35:14.000Traffic and they would have these little Colombian women like weave in and out with like pretzels and like fruit and stuff.
01:35:19.000So, those are going to be the ones that are just going to ultimately end up with a lot of these things and then sell it to us.
01:35:25.000You know, the people that magically are unable to get access to these grocery stores by all of us.
01:35:31.000This is why he doesn't say it, but it's a fact.
01:36:09.000That's the first thing I think of is like you're treating bread and milk and groceries like new Pokemon blaster boxes that are coming out of Target so much.
01:36:20.000I heard a really good or really interesting take by Freeberg on the online podcast.
01:36:25.000He thinks that he was saying that he thinks that these are going to be extremely popular, they're going to work for a while because it's going to take time for the disruption to actually filter through the whole city and stuff.
01:36:37.000And so they're going to get short term wins on these.
01:36:39.000And you're going to see a lot of people clamoring for these in other cities in the country.
01:36:44.000Because again, if these work for two, three years, that's long enough for people to be like, oh, it worked in New York.
01:36:49.000It can work here and demand that you get these kind of things in Chicago.
01:36:56.000You know, Seattle is going to follow suit because they've got a communist mayor.
01:36:59.000And so you're going to see a lot of this stuff turn into a short term win for the far left because people will vote because you give them free stuff, right?
01:37:11.000Getting people free things and they feel like they're benefiting from a politician, even if it's a communist or what have you, they're going to say, Oh, this is actually good.
01:37:25.000And most people are going to think, Look, we know that the rich don't have to pay their taxes and the rich get all this and blah, blah, blah.
01:37:38.000It's going to work for a short amount of time.
01:37:41.000And by short amount of time, I mean three to five years.
01:37:43.000And you're going to see these things pop up, and it's going to turn into democratic socialists winning more victories, more electoral victories because of this stuff.
01:37:53.000And it's going to give socialism, it's going to polish socialism up, and it's going to make it look good.
01:37:58.000And that doesn't mean that it's going to work long term because obviously they don't have the funds.
01:38:02.000You can't continue to do this forever, but they can work in the short term, and that can turn into electoral victories, which is bad down the road for the U.S.
01:38:41.000Well, like, they're putting them, like, this is the thing, is like they're putting them in places.
01:38:46.000To like what they've said is actually true is they are putting them in places where there's like limited grocery store options anyway.
01:38:51.000So you're only competing with like bodegas in your area and people hate shopping.
01:38:54.000Like everyone in New York glazes bodegas and it's like, dude, people hate buying groceries from there because like the milk's always expired, the eggs are always, you know, cracked and whatnot.
01:39:26.000So, if the USDA decides that yes, like municipal ran grocery stores will be SNAP eligible, then we're in trouble.
01:39:33.000Like, then you're going to see these pop up everywhere.
01:39:36.000If they're not, I don't actually think people will shop at these as much as you would think they would because if they can get SNAP benefits at Key Foods and they can't get it at Memdani store, they're still going to go buy it at Key Foods.
01:39:47.000So, that's going to, so who runs SNAP?
01:39:55.000Again, under Trump, but as soon as a Democrat gets in, the first thing you're going to do is say, Oh, well, the problem is SNAP is like, even under Democrats, SNAP and foods, like any sort of nutritional assistance, is like completely dictated by the private sector.
01:40:09.000Like, we literally had a bipartisan bill to make rotisserie chicken SNAP eligible.
01:40:15.000No, it's because, you know, infamously, rotisserie chickens are a loss leader at grocery stores.
01:40:19.000So obviously, like the entire grocery store industry, you know, Walmart, Tyson Foods, they're all lining up like, Yeah, yeah, make rotisserie chicken SNAP eligible.
01:40:28.000So You can like subsidize our loss later.
01:40:32.000So I actually don't think, I think that's like Memdani's blind spot.
01:40:36.000And I've seen a few pieces propose this is like, look, if the USDA, even under a Democrat, doesn't play ball, then you're kind of cooked.
01:40:42.000Like it's dead in the water because most people are going to say, well, I can get my food basically free or for 50% at Key Foods versus what a 30% markdown at Memdani Land.
01:40:53.000They'll just sell their SNAP benefits.
01:40:57.000And so that way they can get the money and go buy it at the, what's it called?
01:41:01.000Maybe either way, like grocery store, they'll be purchasing, they'll still be buying from because SNAP is federal dollars.
01:41:07.000So if you're key food, you're still making your money.
01:41:09.000They don't care, they don't care where that money came from.
01:41:11.000So, what I guess what I'm getting at is like it's actually kind of a nightmare scenario if the USDA doesn't do anything because people will still keep key food, they'll keep all these grocery stores afloat with our money, and the Memdani grocery store will do well.
01:41:23.000It's actually like a worst case scenario.
01:41:25.000But Trump has to come in here and say, you know, and various other organizations that say, no, actually, no, you're not doing that's stupid, you're not using SNAP benefits at Memdani stores.
01:41:35.000Keep everything afloat, let them survive for 10 years, and then people get bored of it in 10 years.
01:41:38.000Because, like, I think that's the ultimate takeaway from MDANI is like, if you get more vape stores, more like people on mats selling trinkets, he's gonna like rage bait the conservative media for another three years.
01:41:48.000Yeah, like I said, I think that the fact that they're gonna be successful for a short amount of time is gonna turn into more DSA electoral victories.
01:41:58.000People are gonna look at this and be like, look at what they're doing.
01:42:00.000They're helping people, and you're gonna see far more people from the DSA and far more people with these.
01:42:07.000You know, these types of programs on their platform list.
01:42:18.000People still go to Key Foods and they'll be like, well, at least our shelves are full.
01:42:22.000And like, I honestly, it'll probably be a lot of like hipsters that'll be shopping at them if I had to guess.
01:42:25.000Like, I think it could turn into like if poor people aren't able to get, if they don't want to use it because they can make more money buying from Key Foods, it actually, I could see it just become like a hipster thing to go to the Mamdani one in Hunts Point or whatever.
01:42:36.000Could be, but I, you know, I don't, anything that, you know, shines up, uh, The DSA, I think, is bad long term.
01:42:46.000So, you know, the feds have options here.
01:43:36.000I think, like, okay, you read the headline, it's horrifying, but then you actually think about it and you're like, I'm sure this provides future governments or whatnot, like options in case people want to reclaim autonomy over these.
01:43:48.000Massive data brokers that give them tools at their disposal if they quite literally are just storing all their data locally.
01:45:04.000And I think I bring it up in the context of the data centers because, as much as we're talking about, you know, people want to be more analog, they want to hang out with their friends.
01:45:13.000I'm not entirely convinced because that's boring to people, too.
01:45:17.000It's been five years and it's like, where is the time gone?
01:48:37.000Like, as I got two young kids at home, and I was walking my son and my dog one morning, and every single car that was going down the road, we walk to this spring training baseball field across the street from our place.
01:49:21.000Like he's living in a tactile world where, like, reality.
01:49:25.000And I've got some friends who have, you know, they've got kids of similar age and it's like they're talking about the shows they like and blah, blah, blah.
01:50:04.000A calculator that doesn't work, so she pretends like hello, like I'm on the phone.
01:50:08.000That's the closest this is the white pill.
01:50:11.000This is why, like, I'm actually kind of white pilled on whatever generation that is now.
01:50:15.000If this is like the tail end of Gen Alpha or if it's something new, anyway, because every new parent in the last like that's had a baby in the last like three to five years is saying the exact same thing in every single conversation, which is no chance in Hades my kids even touching a phone until they're 16 because they understand how much has destroyed their life.
01:50:30.000Where I think like it is possible for things to get better, like it is possible.
01:51:35.000Short time uncomfortability to get some long term comfort.
01:51:39.000And some connection and peace, and you're setting like all these people are doing, and not to just dog on a bunch of parents.
01:51:45.000Because I get there's times where if you're on a road trip, they're like, all right, if our road trip is longer than a couple hours or something, we'll give them an iPad to watch something for a little bit of time or whatever.
01:51:54.000But in general, if you're always good to go back to that, you're ruining your child.
01:51:58.000Do the drive overnight so that way the kid falls asleep.
01:52:00.000Yeah, we're seeing like another IQ filter.
01:52:03.000Like we've seen lots of IQ filters set up in like in genetics over the last few decades.
01:52:08.000This is another one where you're basically dividing kids between parents that had high time preference and parents that had low time preference, and your time preference.
01:52:18.000So you're seeing a lot of children are now getting nuked because their parents like don't care about them or they're like, they're dumb and they just can't read any articles.
01:52:26.000They're saying, do not give your kid an iPad.
01:52:29.000They're like purposely ignoring it or they're just, they're ignorant.
01:52:33.000Either way, it's not any positive traits I could attribute to someone that's just like shoving an iPad so they shut their kid up.
01:52:38.000But what's going to happen is that kid's going to end up like retarded.
01:52:40.000And then y'all's kids, y'all's very intelligent people who are raising your kids correctly, they're going to be fine because they weren't like on screens all the time.
01:52:48.000And they're going to be bossing around the dumb kids.
01:53:01.000This is like people have talked about this for years that we're kind of heading to this great filter where like it's no, there's no longer to be a middle class.
01:53:09.000It's just going to be like the smart versus the dumb.
01:53:11.000And it's like, but the problem though is like we have like IQ shredders where like people that are really smart move to like Austin and their birth rate drops like zero.
01:55:39.000I would estimate within one month you'll have a mod for the game where you can chat GPT one of your companions so that you can have an actual conversation or like a faux conversation with the AI.
01:55:51.000Hogwarts Legacy and the Lord of the Rings video game will help, though, too.
01:58:22.000So now Candace did this, like, this is the game she's playing.
01:58:25.000There are a lot of people that love the Mandela effect stuff, and you're going to get a lot of viewership by saying that the earth is flat or that you got psychic powers or whatever, you know?
01:58:33.000It used to be like, oh, my underwear label used to look different.
01:59:00.000Now it's literally like, remember that program where the government agents would come and run experiments on you to see if you had psychic powers?
01:59:17.000It's crazy how so many people can listen to that stuff and then hear Candace say, Charlie came to me, and they still take her serious.
01:59:24.000You know, maybe because it's the non schizophrenic people listening, because the schizophrenic people are why podcasting is dying, because they're already having a podcast in their head at all times.
01:59:44.000He says, what's happening between the Democrats and the DSA is almost a play by play.
01:59:48.000What happened during the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, with the Bolsheviks being an extreme minority, please familiar yourself and audience with it.
02:00:56.000If you're going by policy positions, the Lincoln Project is right wing and I'm left wing or lean left, but they're not.
02:01:03.000So I said, what does center even mean?
02:01:05.000And we had a great discussion about it where center for all sides means they don't present bias in the way they deliver news.
02:01:12.000But then the question I brought up is like, If a politician lies provably, should I say he lied in the article or should I say he said thing?
02:01:22.000And she's like, well, I mean, if you say he's lying, you're implying intent.
02:01:26.000And it's like, but what if we know he lied?
02:01:29.000And then her argument was, that's what the liberals say about Trump.
02:04:08.000So, he's challenging the WNBA, offering a $10 million prize to stage a modern day Battle of the Sexes basketball game between the reigning WNBA champion, Las Vegas Aces, and a boys' high school basketball state championship team.
02:04:32.000She said essentially, I would hope this would happen because WNBA needs to put their money where their mouth is because you have all these coaches, all these players, and essentially this league that's saying we stand for inclusivity.
02:06:14.000They took the story of Avatar, where it's like mid 1800s level technology, and different countries have people who can manipulate different elements, and then the Avatar can manipulate all four.
02:07:07.000In the second episode, Sokka, who's a warrior from the Southern Water Tribe, they go to Kyoshi Island where they get stopped by a bunch of women who are the Kyoshi warriors.
02:07:18.000And then he is immediately humbled by how skilled of fighters the women are.
02:07:22.000And he's like, he comes back to their training facility and they're like, here to make fun of us again.
02:07:26.000He goes, I'm sorry, will you train me?
02:07:28.000So we can learn from the fierce warriors.
02:07:30.000And I'm just like, bro, you could take any guy, any average guy, average guy, and put him against an MMA woman, he's going to win.
02:07:44.000Woman's gonna succeed with training and grappling, but if the guy can resist standard grappling, he's gonna knock her out with strikes before she can even do anything.
02:07:53.000And that's why every time, like this one, there was this one female MMF fighter who was like, I could pick a guy.
02:08:19.000So I bring that up because watching Avatar as a kid, you get all of these cartoons that tried to show you female characters were as strong or stronger than men.
02:08:29.000Take a look at like Bleach, for instance.
02:08:31.000If you guys are familiar with Bleach, you've got Ichigo, the main character.
02:08:35.000His name is Strawberry, by the way, in Japanese.
02:08:49.000You get this too with like, Comic books.
02:08:51.000They make these big, busty women with huge asses who are fighting demons.
02:08:56.000And it's like, this creates the perception among a generation of kids who grew up with this media that women can be as strong or stronger than men.
02:09:04.000When in literally any real life scenario, if you got a six foot tall, ripped man of a woman, she will do better most of the time against the average guy.
02:09:16.000Average five foot nine, 170 pound dude, still going to beat her ass.
02:09:22.000You just got to wrestle with your girlfriend once in a while to know that, like, women just like, if I want to, like, if me and my girlfriend are wrestling or whatever, like, I don't even do anything, I just lay on her.
02:09:36.000And I'm like, I'm not like a huge guy, and she's like, she's you know, smaller than me, but like, grab her arms and just lay down on her.
02:09:45.000And that's like, women just don't have the physical strength to be able to take on men, just overall, you have to be.
02:09:54.000Like an exceptionally large and strong woman to deal with an average size guy.
02:10:00.000And I feel like with these situations here, the simple question is and also the WNBA is purposely not credentialed outkick for many of these games because they know that we're going to ask the legitimate questions.
02:10:13.000And because the simple follow up is okay, Stephanie White, the head coach for Caitlin Clark's Indiana Fever, the Valkyries coach, any of them, it's like, would you allow a biological man in your sport to play and in your locker room?
02:11:54.000But it's just asinine that a lot of these players, too, and I know people constantly bring up, like, oh, Caitlin Clark just wants to focus on basketball.
02:12:01.000I can respect that to a sense, but it's not difficult to say men don't belong in women's sports.
02:12:15.000Well, you missed my whole rant when Phil was hosting, where I was like, there's sports where like femininity, it's possible for femininity to be like expressed.
02:12:46.000You take a picture of the baby, you like hold it up and like you weigh it, and then you're like, she's got a big one, you know, coming in at, you know, 11 pounds.
02:15:51.000Well, you know, I wish there were some wars worth it.
02:15:53.000I mean, obviously, it's not all women, but I think that the women that get offended when you tell them to do that kind of stuff, it's, I don't know.
02:16:58.000And I haven't seen the whole thing, but I guess like the synopsis is at the end, they all go there and they're just like, well, you know, I feel like I'm supposed to be offended, but they're all kind of nice and cool and it's all working pretty well.
02:17:09.000They're just nice and like pretty dull people.
02:18:18.000So, my question is So, Mondani's story kind of reminds me of stories I used to hear.
02:18:22.000From my family who lived in the Soviet Union back in the day with these IDs and rationing and whatnot.
02:18:29.000So, since we all kind of know what's going to happen with this insanity, maybe we should do our part and just educate the New Yorkers over there how to properly abuse the system and maybe help it crash faster than what it normally would be.
02:18:45.000Just make sure that you understand how to properly abuse a state run system.
02:19:32.000Well, you need to get a couple of different membership cards.
02:19:36.000So, what you do, what people will probably start doing is they'll buy them.
02:19:38.000So, you'll go to someone who doesn't go to the grocery store and say, Hey, sign up and let me get your card so I can use it and I can buy more things because they're going to ration.
02:19:45.000You'll have fake membership cards, like fake.
02:19:47.000Well, they're going to scan them most likely.
02:19:54.000You'll need someone to sign up and then you'll have their cards, or you'll get different family members with different last names, and then one household's getting extra groceries.
02:20:31.000And it's like the more conservatives get really mad about Mimdani, the more that legitimizes his policies somewhere that could actually pass, like California.
02:24:35.000With the ramp up of arrests of immigrants at airports recently, does the panel think this will make a significant impact on numbers of illegals in the country, or is this too little too late?
02:24:47.000I don't think that specifically at the airport is going to make a significant impact, but look, every little bit helps.
02:24:56.000Like when you're trying to save money, saving a little bit of money here and a little bit of money there and a little bit of money there, eventually it adds up.
02:25:07.000DHS and they are from, uh, actually, I'm not sure what it was, uh, from the government, from the administration.
02:25:13.000They said that they've deported 1.46 million hard deports, and that's not including the self deportations and stuff.
02:25:23.000So it's looking like they estimate that it's another one and a half ish million that have self deported.
02:25:30.000Um, so the 300 or the 3 million number that you've been hearing, it seems like it's true.
02:25:36.000And I had a, One of the AIs actually checked the numbers and the 1.4 million hard deportations is true.
02:25:43.000So, but, and they're over 4,000 a day now, which is the highest number they've done, you know, they've been able to get to.
02:25:52.000Like it's at its highest point in the administration.
02:25:54.000So, look, if they keep up, if they keep doing this, right, doing what they're doing, you know, you could be looking at, again, this is not the 20, 30 million that some people were hoping for, but you could look at, you could see, you know,
02:26:10.0006 million by the end of Trump's term, which would be without a question the largest deportation effort in American history.
02:27:43.000Yes, because they've got that app where you can actually get paid to leave because it costs less to pay them than to actually apprehend them and go through the rig and rumble of actually deporting them, hard deportations.
02:27:55.000And then that's where you're going off of is just like if we can get Vance or whoever would be next Republican, it's like.
02:28:01.000Maybe you're going to continue to encourage people.
02:28:05.000If they are looking down the barrel of eight more years of the rigmarole, use the word again, then yeah, a lot of them might just be like, all right, that's.
02:28:34.000So, say for on the low side, it's 1.9, right?
02:28:37.000And you've got one and a half million ish that have been hard deported.
02:28:43.000You know, three and a half million, that's a lot of people.
02:28:46.000And then the TPS just ended for all the Haitian immigrants, and that's like three or 400,000 people.
02:28:53.000So, I mean, in six months, it could be, you know, four and a half million people gone, maybe five million people gone.
02:29:03.000That's not as many as some people hope for, but that is a lot.
02:29:07.000And you could see those kind of numbers continue for the rest of the Trump administration.
02:29:12.000And if you do see that, I mean, maybe even the original number that I said is low because, you know, like between self deportations and actual deportations, maybe you can start approaching like eight,
02:30:08.000There were so many people that are like, oh, you should do this and you should do that because they wanted to see that satisfying shock and awe and they want the fight that comes along with it.
02:30:18.000You want people to slowly, quietly leave and the numbers to go down and then the housing costs to go down, corresponding with that.
02:30:26.000And then to see the jobs that they were taking to be filled by Americans that are Americans and stuff.
02:30:34.000The balance is like, we don't need the shock and awe, but we also don't need Mark Wayne Mullen going and like cucking all of us on a daily basis.
02:30:40.000Mark Wayne Mullen seems more concerned.
02:30:42.000With, like, what the left and what foreigners think than, like, the base.
02:30:45.000And it's like, okay, shock and all, red meat for the base.
02:30:49.000You still need to communicate to the base, like, hey, by the way, we actually are doing what you asked us to do.
02:30:53.000So, Mark Wayne Woolen right now is either lying, which is bad, or he's telling the truth, which is like, yeah, we don't actually really care about deporting at the, you know, when it comes to net negative migration, we're cool with it around there when we should be, like,
02:31:09.000actually at the hundreds, if not millions, in that negative migration instead of just, like, breaking even right now.
02:31:35.000You want anything to that or shout anything out?
02:31:37.000Well, the only thing I could add to that is if they live streamed one hard deportation and tell everyone it's either this or you self deport, just one live deportation via Trebuchet,
02:32:15.000So we're like, I don't get the circus involved.
02:32:17.000You light the immigrant on fire as you, you know, yeah, yeah.
02:32:20.000It looks like a you know, fiery ballista or like for Canada, we like give them buckets of water and we launch the trebuchet into Canada where the wild.
02:32:28.000Fires were buckets of water, and he's like, There you go.
02:33:06.000If you want to go check out my YouTube channel where I am currently reworking some of the things for the Timcast base that I'm working on, part of it didn't quite go so well, so I have to redo it.
02:33:16.000But if you want to go check that out, the progress that I'm going to be making on that, go look at my YouTube channel.
02:34:42.000Legally, they're the exact same thing.
02:34:44.000One requires me to do research, to think about something, provide insight, and then give you thoughts on it that are informed opinions and sometimes uninformed.
02:34:53.000The other is a guy sitting there quietly pointing to my face as I say it and arguing that by simply looking at me, it warrants the same degree of work that I did.
02:35:09.000I was just, I just wanted clarification on it because.
02:35:13.000I'm looking at it as in, like, is there some kind of way to prevent other content creators, be it musicians, so on and so forth, from continuing to have their hard work stolen without compensation back?
02:35:27.000Because I could, I guess, I could see in some way, shape, or form one of these mainstream media companies coming at you and saying, hey, we deserve 25% of your revenue.
02:35:38.000And, like, do you understand where I'm coming at with that?
02:36:24.000The cultural distinction is the dude pointing at my face while I make the comments is just exploiting the work that I did for his personal benefit.
02:36:33.000And Fox News writing an article saying, here's a thing that happened, is distinct from me saying, here's what that means.
02:36:39.000Because I'm not pulling up Fox's op eds for the most part, unless I'm arguing against them, in which case it's public discourse.
02:36:46.000Someone staring at me and just pointing and nodding is adding literally nothing.
02:36:50.000But it's still legally the same thing, just not culturally.
02:36:57.000As a self described midwit, man, I appreciate you breaking it down a little further for me, man, because I think it'll probably help other people as well.
02:37:16.000My shout out is actually for you, Tim.
02:37:19.000You gave a group of young men an opportunity that they wouldn't have had if it hadn't been for you helping now.
02:37:27.000And, you know, you've talked about in the past, and I know it wasn't your words, original words, about planting seeds, you know, for the trees of whose shade you'll never sit beneath, right?
02:37:40.000And I just want to thank you for doing that.
02:37:43.000And I hope that we can continue a partnership just for your own personal viewing, if you'd like.
02:37:49.000Andy has a video of a young man that ended up getting one of the No Step on Snake skateboards.
02:37:58.000As a reward for being a team MVP, it's pretty cool, man.
02:38:02.000But anyway, other than that, I just wanted to say, Phil, if you need any help in the future with pursuing higher education and such,
02:38:14.000and teaching your son how to be a rock star or a musician, I know a school in Frederick called Let There Be Rock that would definitely work out a deal with you.
02:38:59.000So, my question here is today what are your thoughts with.
02:39:04.000The United States, many states within the United States, and the United States Senate potentially or if not definitely voting on government ID age verification laws meant to protect the children,
02:39:21.000Yeah, I think they suck because, you know, I think all these times, like I've said this on the show before, is whenever a left wing government throws conservatives a bone, you should immediately be skeptical and be like, okay, what is their actual angle here?
02:39:35.000Like, a good example is a few years ago.
02:39:38.000A lot of left wing jurisdictions started saying, We're actually going to loosen gun laws.
02:40:18.000The United Kingdom, the Anon will be dead because you will have to provide your personal ID to ensure you're going to jail.
02:40:26.000So, yeah, either you go to jail because if you are a British Anon and you're saying some spicy things, if they know who you are, you could go to jail for it.
02:40:34.000So, the United States, obviously, we don't have hate speech laws, but Shiloh Hendrix, I think that demonstrated that if you go too far and you maybe instigate something, then, yeah, potentially you could get hit with a charge.
02:40:44.000But at the very least, like, internet anonymity is very important.
02:40:48.000Like, people need to be able to speak their mind under a pseudonym.
02:40:52.000This is how the founding fathers were able to communicate ideas.
02:40:55.000This has been the case throughout history.
02:40:57.000And Trump would have never happened if it weren't for the Anon.
02:40:59.000That's just the reality of the situation.
02:41:01.000Like, all of these ideas that you're seeing in Trump, too, the good ideas that are being implemented, were first discussed by Anons like a year ago or two years ago.
02:41:08.000You know, like, I remember when DC was like, we're going to put the National Guard all over the place.
02:41:12.000I remembered a year ago on Twitter, a bunch of Anons discussing, like, here's how we could do it, here's like the policies that could.
02:42:19.000Well, New York will subpoena that information somehow.
02:42:21.000Like, there's all these agreements in place to turn over information.
02:42:24.000And then, Somehow that data ends up in a journalist's hands and you get a dox.
02:42:28.000This is how all these famous right wingers, you think of like Raw Nationalists or Bronze Age Pervert or Lomez, all these kind of famous anons that got doxed.
02:42:36.000They got doxed by journalists, but they miraculously stumbled across their personal information.
02:43:02.000And from the guy that I've listened to, Chibi Reviews, I recommend you watch if you're a weeb or just want to learn about your internet privacy just going up in smoke.
02:43:14.000Okay, I recommend you give him a watch because he just released a video on today called The Internet Just Died.
02:43:33.000All going at risk and all that sort of shit.
02:43:37.000Now, I think the interesting scenario is the people that have the wherewithal to operate anonymously because they want to discuss ideas that would be controversial, they will be able to find workarounds through VPNs, et cetera.
02:43:51.000This has been the case in places where this has passed.
02:43:54.000And I think companies like Substack, maybe a few others, will probably just relocate to Switzerland or Panama or wherever.
02:44:02.000And then people will be able to work around it.
02:44:04.000But the problem for the mass majority of people is they're just going to submit their IDs online and they'll do that anyway.
02:44:09.000I mean, Twitter has my ID because I got verified.
02:44:25.000For the last month, I have been blocked out of my Twitter because I've got the stupid confirm you're a human, scan the QR code and lead you to the online. Web browser and then tells me to use the app,
02:44:41.000which I can't because my phone is outdated.
02:45:10.000Like every time these high level, you know, these famous anons get doxxed, they're always like, you know, Rog Nationals, he was like an Oxford PhD holder, a Bronze Age pervert.
02:45:21.000Lomez, he was like a professor at, I don't remember, somewhere in one of the University of California schools.
02:45:25.000So these guys are typically, the reason they're anonymous is oftentimes because they have a lot to lose, actually, and they're kind of behind enemy lines.
02:46:35.000Anytime people start talking about children, they're trying to bullshit you or they have a shitty argument because they wouldn't bring up the chilling if they actually had a good argument.
02:46:48.000I've become very, very callous to the chillin' argument because of all the time that I spent listening to people make that argument when it comes to gun control.
02:46:57.000There is no correlation between children dying less with the liberalization of gun laws.
02:47:04.000There are 29 states that are now constitutional carry.
02:47:08.000There's not been the corresponding rise in crime or children dying because of gun violence that the left swore up and down was going to happen.
02:48:13.000And by that time, we will be all treated like the docile humans that we are denied our ability to grow up and just treated like perpetual little children.
02:48:34.000Sadly, Phil, I have nothing to teach you.
02:48:36.000My wisdom is not for you to know because I am not exactly all that wise.
02:48:44.000On the other front, I recommend giving chibi reviews a watch if you, like I said before, or if you are a fellow weeb like myself, or say, if you want to learn more about the draconian states that are happening in our internet,
02:49:00.000and if you want to go find a good old.
02:49:04.000Video watching platform like what YouTube used to be, I highly recommend Camtape.com.