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00:00:23.000 Welcome to everyone's favorite coup show called Brimcast.

00:00:27.000 I do this whenever Tim lets me and or I make him so he's so exhausted after Iowa that I can just stage my own show.

00:00:35.000 Guys, welcome to the after show.

00:00:35.000 No.

00:00:36.000 I'm happy to be here.

00:00:37.000 I actually don't know what we're going to talk about because I left the room.

00:00:41.000 RFK was very thirsty.

00:00:42.000 Oh my gosh, I actually just submitted this to Chris Carr, editor, to put up on the site while we were on the show because I caught this right at the end.

00:00:49.000 So we were talking about this a little bit.

00:00:51.000 Have you seen these?

00:00:52.000 There's a screen recording from TikTok of RFK uh it's it's this it's an OnlyFans model and she's posing basically to show off her butt she's in like black shorts and if you look at the comment section the RFK official TikTok page here we go wow with some emojis it's his legitimate thing

00:01:12.000 And so today he addressed this in a thread that I actually thought was also very funny and it leads off with, because if you look at the, it's not there anymore, but if you look at the comment it was in I think September of 2022.

00:01:22.000 Yeah, 22, 9, 16.

00:01:22.000 What?

00:01:27.000 And he said it was a staffer.

00:01:28.000 Here's his explanation.

00:01:29.000 He said, best lead of all time, do people really think I was TikToking in 2022?

00:01:35.000 Which is like both true and slightly boomery in like a very nice way. 0.89

00:01:39.000 And his explanation is that when he launched his campaign, his TikTok did not have a thousand followers, which is the minimum threshold for going live.

00:01:47.000 So his social media manager, who's this 33 year old guy from Georgia, No problem, you'll just use mine.

00:01:54.000 We'll change everything over.

00:01:56.000 But that did not scrub any of the comments.

00:01:59.000 And so it makes me wonder what else is out there.

00:02:01.000 Like, I don't know TikTok, I don't use it, so I don't know if we can go back and easily find your comments and delete them really quick.

00:02:07.000 Can we find those?

00:02:08.000 Can people go out there and... This can't be the only one.

00:02:11.000 It was wrong.

00:02:12.000 RFK's got a bad PR guy.

00:02:14.000 He should have said, And.

00:02:17.000 Just own it.

00:02:21.000 He's on his third marriage.

00:02:23.000 So people were sort of like, it's very Kennedy.

00:02:26.000 People were sort of like, this means that he's just this terrible whatever else, which again, like maybe is on brand.

00:02:33.000 Maybe isn't the person.

00:02:36.000 It kind of makes me like him more. 0.97

00:02:38.000 I'm running for president and they come to me and they say, uh, everyone's sort of laughing because they found a comment from you two years ago on an OnlyFans girl with a big butt and I'll go, oh. 0.96

00:02:48.000 But you're not married and I feel like that does make a slight difference.

00:02:52.000 But either way, like, what are you doing with this?

00:02:55.000 Like, it's just funnier if you're, if, and they're like, well, what do you have to say about it?

00:03:00.000 I don't know.

00:03:01.000 What are you supposed to say to this?

00:03:02.000 What do you think I'm gonna, what am I supposed to, what is, what are you supposed to say to this?

00:03:07.000 You can either deny it or there's nothing to be said.

00:03:09.000 Which is, it's really interesting.

00:03:11.000 I mean, I think the question is, remember when it was Bootgate and DeSantis was in trouble for, you know, maybe, probably wearing lifts in his cowboy boots?

00:03:19.000 And the whole conversation was, would America elect a short president?

00:03:24.000 What are they more likely to do?

00:03:25.000 Elect a president who's short or one who's lying about wearing lifts?

00:03:28.000 And in this case, it's, do we want a president that is actually on social media commenting on OnlyFans creators?

00:03:35.000 I think it's maybe not that what they're trying to sell, but maybe this would make him more endearing to many people.

00:03:41.000 I don't know.

00:03:42.000 He's already like, there's people I know, uh, women who find him really attractive.

00:03:47.000 And when like the whole, uh, shirtless thing.

00:03:49.000 Well, he posted that like workout routine.

00:03:52.000 He's posting thirst traps.

00:03:53.000 He's liking thirst traps.

00:03:55.000 This is his whole thing.

00:03:58.000 Did he name the staffer?

00:04:01.000 Daily Mail had the guy's name.

00:04:03.000 Really?

00:04:04.000 So did RFK release that?

00:04:06.000 He's like, it's this guy.

00:04:07.000 I don't know where it came from.

00:04:09.000 Daily Mail was the one who said, we've identified it as this guy.

00:04:11.000 It was Charles.

00:04:13.000 Yeah, he was like, that guy.

00:04:14.000 But also this means that he went to his wife and was like, it's not me.

00:04:18.000 It was that one guy.

00:04:19.000 And we had to do it.

00:04:20.000 It was like, Cheryl, I stopped this.

00:04:22.000 Two years ago, you know?

00:04:24.000 Two lives ago.

00:04:25.000 But I do, I mean, the best defense is, do you think I was TikToking in 2022? 0.94

00:04:30.000 And I just, I don't.

00:04:31.000 Who knows?

00:04:32.000 He was podcasting all through 2023.

00:04:34.000 I feel like podcasting is much more accessible to people of his age than TikToking is.

00:04:39.000 Perhaps I'm wrong.

00:04:40.000 How far back do the videos go that he's posted?

00:04:42.000 This is the only comment that I've seen surface, but his video started right around the time of his campaign.

00:04:48.000 I would have loved it if they reached out to him and they were like, can you explain what is going on with this comment?

00:04:56.000 And he went, well, you've got to understand that women with very large butts are very sexually attractive and I appreciate them very much. 1.00

00:05:04.000 So I thought commenting, wow, was appropriate here.

00:05:07.000 And I think you would agree.

00:05:08.000 And most men in this country would vote for me.

00:05:10.000 He's like, oh, he's I like the gym.

00:05:12.000 She likes the gym.

00:05:13.000 I'm just appreciating the fact that she's taking care of her physique. 1.00

00:05:16.000 I'm all about that.

00:05:17.000 What if he was like.

00:05:19.000 When they asked, like, what is this comment you posted?

00:05:22.000 He'd be like, well, I think you agree with my comment, right? 0.99

00:05:25.000 It is a shockingly large butt! 0.99

00:05:28.000 Wow! 0.99

00:05:29.000 He actually gets her to campaign for him now.

00:05:32.000 She's the new social media director.

00:05:34.000 Have you seen RFK Jr.' 's OnlyFans page?

00:05:39.000 Look, somebody has to win the OnlyFans vote, and I think maybe it's going to be RFK.

00:05:43.000 Yeah, I guess.

00:05:44.000 I could have been Trump.

00:05:45.000 I mean, his wife has posed nude.

00:05:47.000 Yeah.

00:05:47.000 Yeah, but she's a classy lady in a way.

00:05:49.000 Too classy for OnlyFans.

00:05:50.000 Yeah.

00:05:51.000 No, no.

00:05:51.000 I think this is obviously kind of a weird snafu.

00:05:55.000 So you believe him?

00:05:56.000 You believe his statement?

00:05:58.000 I find it really believable that he was not on TikTok.

00:06:02.000 I just, you know, maybe he podcasted, but I just like don't give that much credit to the boomers. 0.89

00:06:08.000 I think anything's possible.

00:06:11.000 I gotta push back on that.

00:06:12.000 I don't think that TikTok is that complicated and I think that if you're an older married guy who wants to find videos of sexy women dancing around and like you go to TikTok and it's not that difficult to figure out how to create an account And start commenting on the videos.

00:06:29.000 And in fact, I would even argue if you are a boomer, you're probably not sitting there thinking like, oh, other people are reading my comments too.

00:06:35.000 This isn't just between me and Big Butt Girl. 1.00

00:06:38.000 Yeah, that's how my grandma used the internet. 0.99

00:06:40.000 She would leave me direct messages, but in comment sections of pictures from like years ago.

00:06:45.000 Like, Grandma, this is very personal information you're asking us to do right now.

00:06:49.000 No, that's true.

00:06:49.000 Because I think that's one of the... I mean, I've talked about this a little with Biden, because he just lies so constantly and gets caught all the time.

00:06:54.000 But part of it is because he started his career pre-internet, so he could just say whatever and no one could really fact check him that efficiently.

00:07:01.000 Whereas now we're able to go back and be like, two years ago, you said this thing, we have it on video.

00:07:06.000 Maybe this is more boomer core.

00:07:08.000 The wow comment with two emojis is a boomer comment.

00:07:10.000 I'm sorry.

00:07:10.000 It's not some young guy comment.

00:07:12.000 Young guy would say something like, damn girl, you're looking fine. 0.99

00:07:15.000 That's actually a really good point. 0.99

00:07:17.000 There's one underneath that the guy's like, why does it look so good?

00:07:20.000 And she like responds, Jim.

00:07:22.000 She was engaging with some of them.

00:07:23.000 How old is the video?

00:07:24.000 Does it say?

00:07:25.000 I mean, the comments was in 2022 and I think that's when the video was posted.

00:07:29.000 Have we found her?

00:07:31.000 Can we... She's around, yeah.

00:07:32.000 She said it was another name who actually first commented and then randomly became a comment.

00:07:37.000 Oh, she had a comment on the story, but she's active on OnlyFans.

00:07:39.000 Okay, so we got to find her, everybody, and we got to find where RFK Jr.

00:07:43.000 was in September 2021.

00:07:44.000 Two.

00:07:44.000 2022.

00:07:46.000 Where were you, RFK Jr.?

00:07:48.000 Probably writing that Fauci book.

00:07:49.000 That's true.

00:07:50.000 Yeah, that book is... So he was spending a lot of time online researching, question mark.

00:07:55.000 Okay, here we go.

00:07:55.000 I got her profile.

00:07:57.000 All right.

00:07:58.000 So this one's from, let's get the date on it.

00:08:01.000 It's from September 3rd, 2022.

00:08:04.000 RFK is a man of culture.

00:08:05.000 Where's RFK Jr.?

00:08:06.000 They deleted it?

00:08:07.000 RFK led me here.

00:08:09.000 Someone tag him in a lower comment.

00:08:11.000 Oh my gosh, that's great.

00:08:14.000 Is she on Good Morning America tomorrow to talk about this?

00:08:16.000 Like this is the kind of thing they would do.

00:08:17.000 Look, she honestly owes some credit.

00:08:19.000 There are going to be so many people who know about her.

00:08:20.000 This was like marketing in a way that she never could. 0.99

00:08:24.000 As a woman, would you like to have a butt like that? 1.00

00:08:27.000 Oh, she posted a video 42 minutes ago. 0.99

00:08:29.000 I don't know, I mean... I think it's unnatural.

00:08:31.000 I think it's too big, but it seems unnatural.

00:08:32.000 Not my thing.

00:08:33.000 It seems unnatural to me, but also, the thing is, I think with women... Wait, what? 1.00

00:08:37.000 There's too much variety in bodies.

00:08:38.000 She posted it.

00:08:40.000 Look.

00:08:42.000 She posted it.

00:08:44.000 You got my vote!

00:08:47.000 You know, I was thinking for, like, women like this, I'm like, man, like, how do you run? 0.99

00:08:53.000 How do you do a lot of stuff? 0.99

00:08:55.000 Yeah, like with big boobs and big asses, it's like, what if you're running from a bear? 0.99

00:08:59.000 It slows them down. 1.00

00:09:00.000 Look, we have problems. 1.00

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00:10:07.000 That's a terrible quote, but I said it anyway. 1.00

00:10:09.000 What is this?

00:10:09.000 Get info on US elections?

00:10:12.000 What?

00:10:13.000 Oh, she tagged RFK Jr. 1.00

00:10:15.000 The thing is, the screenshots have been out for a while.

00:10:19.000 I saw them a couple months ago, but they went sort of, you know how this happens, like something will go around, you'll see it, but then it started getting shared really rapidly this week.

00:10:26.000 So now I'm thinking his campaign is sharing because his campaign seems to be dying.

00:10:30.000 And now they're like, we need some type of... His campaign definitely seems to be dying.

00:10:34.000 Chris Carr just told me this.

00:10:35.000 He did an interview where he was saying, I have You know, 26%, I'm gaming steadily 1% a week.

00:10:41.000 I only need 34% to beat both Trump and Biden, which I find really interesting.

00:10:47.000 His only energy is in kind of whack podcasts.

00:10:50.000 I'm sorry, are you hating on podcasts right now?

00:10:53.000 Well, there's like podcasts that like love him, that look up to him and they let him like talk forever and there's no pushback on anything. 0.65

00:10:59.000 And I think it's kind of ridiculous.

00:11:01.000 And that's the only place I see energy for RFK Jr.

00:11:03.000 Honestly, there's none in the real world.

00:11:04.000 Maybe that's enough, right?

00:11:06.000 That's what I love about a third-party candidate.

00:11:09.000 You can't always wait the variables.

00:11:12.000 To me, like, I see people who are interested in him at first, but it's really people who are also interested in Trump and their love of, what love they have of RFK is not trumped by Trump.

00:11:24.000 No, the other way around.

00:11:25.000 See, I felt like I saw the opposite, which is like, there were people who were like, gonna vote for Trump, but actually they lean more moderate or left, and they are the ones who got behind RFK.

00:11:31.000 There's definitely those.

00:11:32.000 There's definitely those, because they're like, he's definitely against the vaccine stuff, or the COVID stuff, where they lost, you know, a lot of respect for the left.

00:11:38.000 I mean, he's socially left in a way that agrees with a lot of them.

00:11:41.000 Yeah, I just think he's still like a liberal at the end of the day.

00:11:44.000 And there's a lot of things I really disagree with him on, even though I really agree with him on COVID stuff.

00:11:48.000 He's still the thing that will make for the inevitable world that we're in now.

00:11:52.000 I actually feel like his campaign would be stronger if, you know how every once in a while for the past year, they've been like, a new version of COVID, another virus.

00:12:00.000 They've been sort of trying to hype that back up.

00:12:02.000 If one of those had been taken seriously, if there had been another, like, are we going to lock down?

00:12:06.000 Is there an illness fear?

00:12:07.000 I think he would have jumped in the polls.

00:12:09.000 In 2020, I had said something to the effect of, if Joe Biden wins, these people are going to show up on like November 10th or whatever and storm the White House.

00:12:18.000 They're going to be crazy and furious.

00:12:19.000 And I was wrong.

00:12:22.000 It was January 6th.

00:12:23.000 They went to the Capitol building.

00:12:25.000 But the general essence was correct.

00:12:28.000 I think what happens with Trump and this election is Trump wins, RFK gets 24%, Trump wins with like high 30%, and then the left uses that to argue he's an illegitimate president because of his minority victory.

00:12:45.000 Do you see Trump and RFK working together again?

00:12:48.000 No.

00:12:50.000 I don't see why they would.

00:12:51.000 I mean, RFK seems very irrelevant right now.

00:12:53.000 But enough people who don't like Biden will vote for him.

00:12:56.000 And then Trump wins the Electoral College, bare minimum.

00:13:00.000 CNN saying Trump's going to have 272.

00:13:01.000 Spiking just enough, RFK stops Joe Biden from being able to compete with Trump.

00:13:08.000 Trump crosses the finish line.

00:13:09.000 Because it's got to be at least 270, otherwise it goes contingent.

00:13:12.000 It could go contingent.

00:13:13.000 Trump only gets like 30 or so.

00:13:15.000 The Republicans in the House then vote for Trump and the left says it's illegitimate.

00:13:19.000 He didn't actually win.

00:13:20.000 We refuse to be ruled by a guy who represents only nine. 0.98

00:13:24.000 They do this thing all the time with senators. 0.56

00:13:26.000 Half the country is represented by only nine million people and they're banging and screaming. 1.00

00:13:29.000 Repeal the fucking 17th. 0.99

00:13:31.000 That's why you do it. 1.00

00:13:32.000 Anyway.

00:13:33.000 What's your read on RFK?

00:13:35.000 Um, I don't have strong feelings one way or another, honestly.

00:13:40.000 I want him to stay in the race.

00:13:43.000 I think it's only good for us if he does stay in.

00:13:45.000 I think he would siphon off Biden votes more than he would siphon off Trump votes, and ultimately I think that's a good thing.

00:13:55.000 I don't really care about him that much.

00:13:57.000 I like things he talks about.

00:13:59.000 That's kind of how I felt about Vivek.

00:14:00.000 I mean, I don't like his policies, if that's true.

00:14:01.000 I agree with you, he's much too liberal.

00:14:03.000 He's way too liberal, but then he also talks about things that I really do like, where he, you know, his, I mean...

00:14:08.000 He knows how horrible the FBI and the CIA can be.

00:14:11.000 You know, he, like me, believes that they killed his uncle and his father, right?

00:14:16.000 So he'll talk about crazy, you know, conspiracy theories about, you know, because he understands them so intimately.

00:14:22.000 And he also wrote a crazy book on Fauci.

00:14:25.000 That book is a really hard read. 0.94

00:14:26.000 Every few pages, I'm like, I got to put this down because I'm fucking enraged with Fauci. 0.97

00:14:31.000 Yo! 1.00

00:14:31.000 Uh-oh. 1.00

00:14:32.000 Wall Street Journal laid off their Washington bureau?

00:14:35.000 What?

00:14:36.000 During the election year? 1.00

00:14:38.000 Yeah, what the fuck? 1.00

00:14:39.000 Excuse me? 1.00

00:14:39.000 Hold on, hold on. 1.00

00:14:40.000 Holy shit. 1.00

00:14:42.000 If any bureau, I thought that would be the one that hung around. 0.99

00:14:44.000 Washington State.

00:14:45.000 I'm just gonna say that.

00:14:46.000 Okay.

00:14:47.000 No, but I don't know.

00:14:48.000 I'm looking it up, but like... It can't be.

00:14:51.000 This is the year they need them this year.

00:14:53.000 Or do they?

00:14:53.000 Yup, D.C.

00:14:54.000 The D.C.

00:14:55.000 bureau? 1.00

00:14:55.000 Holy shit. 1.00

00:14:56.000 They're going A.I. 1.00

00:14:57.000 20 staffers laid off in their Washington bureau. 1.00

00:14:59.000 Damn. 1.00

00:15:00.000 Dude. 1.00

00:15:01.000 Why is that so funny to me?

00:15:03.000 Guys, I just want everyone to understand.

00:15:04.000 They're just like, the election's over, who cares?

00:15:07.000 This is the money.

00:15:08.000 This is the golden ticket.

00:15:10.000 Like the amount of money we made off advertisements in 2020?

00:15:15.000 Because what happens is all politicians are running.

00:15:18.000 All of them!

00:15:19.000 And they're all competing for similar spaces when they want donations.

00:15:23.000 Most members of Congress will run ads in their district.

00:15:26.000 PAX, however, may run more generalized ads in a certain area, which can cross over.

00:15:30.000 Senators that are running.

00:15:32.000 And then, of course, the presidential race is going to be billions of dollars.

00:15:35.000 This is when news outlets are like, ramp it up, baby.

00:15:38.000 We want as much content as possible to get as much ads.

00:15:41.000 They're laying people off. 0.99

00:15:43.000 That's fucking crazy. 0.99

00:15:46.000 How bad must it be? 1.00

00:15:47.000 Yeah.

00:15:49.000 They don't think they can recover?

00:15:50.000 Yeah.

00:15:52.000 Maybe they know something we don't, and they're like, there's not going to be an election, so we're not going to waste our time on it.

00:15:56.000 What other beers have they laid off?

00:15:57.000 That's my question.

00:15:58.000 Like, was this one the first one to go or have they been sort of letting people go for a minute?

00:16:02.000 Yeah.

00:16:03.000 I wonder how many of these places are really gonna turn to AI to write articles.

00:16:07.000 I mean, I've heard stories like that already.

00:16:09.000 Yeah, doesn't BuzzFeed do it already?

00:16:11.000 In ESPN, I think?

00:16:11.000 I feel like, what's the difference between AI and their writers?

00:16:15.000 Hey, they have some of the best quizzes.

00:16:17.000 I've learned a lot about myself.

00:16:19.000 What cereal tells you what city you should live in?

00:16:21.000 How would I know if I didn't take the quiz?

00:16:22.000 Oh, jeez.

00:16:23.000 No, but like, do they still do listicles?

00:16:26.000 They did.

00:16:26.000 I will give it to BuzzFeed.

00:16:27.000 They had some investigative reporting.

00:16:29.000 They did have some, and I will say like- Some years ago.

00:16:31.000 Ballistical format worked. 0.98

00:16:33.000 Like, it's dumb, it's stupid, but people shared it, like, there is a reason that they were able to sustain what they were doing for a while. 0.99

00:16:39.000 You won't believe number seven. 0.99

00:16:41.000 I was working, I was writing for Vice when I was, uh, Vice Sports was the first thing to go.

00:16:46.000 I was actually working for a story for Vice Sports, and right before the story got published, it died.

00:16:51.000 The story never got published. 0.96

00:16:52.000 I'm like, damn, Vice is even going out? 0.98

00:16:54.000 And that was 10, 12 years ago. 0.96

00:16:57.000 Hi, it's me.

00:16:57.000 Hi, are you on your way?

00:16:58.000 Yeah, or you know what?

00:16:59.000 It's a bit of a crisis because there's no train. 0.73

00:17:02.000 They just ended up going like full-on porn.

00:17:05.000 Tell me what pizza topping you would put on your pizza and I'll tell you about your future job.

00:17:10.000 I just, I learn a lot. I think it's great.

00:17:13.000 Do you have any predictions about this coming?

00:17:18.000 Hello!

00:17:19.000 Hi, it's me.

00:17:20.000 Hi, are you on your way?

00:17:21.000 Yeah, or you know what? It's a bit of a crisis here because there's no train.

00:17:24.000 Oh, yeah.

00:17:25.000 You know what? I don't know what I'm doing.

00:17:27.000 No, you can just hire me.

00:17:29.000 Well, so I did a real turnabout with Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:17:32.000 Didn't like him at all.

00:17:33.000 Find out how at Hyrano.

00:17:36.000 Election year, like who do you think is going to be VP for Trump?

00:17:40.000 Hmm, well, so I did a real turnabout with Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:17:47.000 Didn't like him at all.

00:17:48.000 Didn't trust him very much.

00:17:50.000 Um, although I think I had good reasons for it.

00:17:54.000 I mean, let me say this.

00:17:56.000 Okay, cut to the end.

00:17:57.000 Now I do like him now.

00:17:59.000 And he's grown on me a lot and he's earned my trust to a degree.

00:18:04.000 I don't trust anybody implicitly.

00:18:06.000 But I think when Vivek first came on the scene, he was super polished.

00:18:12.000 His delivery was too clean, and I think that's part of what fed into this kind of like he's snaky or he's a used car salesman.

00:18:22.000 He said so many of the right things using the correct buzzwords.

00:18:25.000 I think it did raise some eyebrows.

00:18:26.000 Yeah, and it was just a little bit, I think, too mechanical, a little bit robotic.

00:18:32.000 I think he started making all the right decisions a little too late.

00:18:35.000 You know, I think when he went down to just, like, the jeans and the vest and, like, started talking a little more human and really addressing the really controversial issues like, you know, January 6th and the FBI and the Whitmer Fednapping and all these different things, things that, you know, no other candidate was really even talking about.

00:18:54.000 Why did I go down this road?

00:18:55.000 Oh, predictions for the election.

00:18:57.000 I would like, I'd be very interested in seeing Vivek be considered.

00:19:02.000 I don't think he will be.

00:19:03.000 What was it?

00:19:04.000 Was there a certain moment that changed your mind on Vivek?

00:19:06.000 Because I still don't trust him.

00:19:07.000 There's something about him.

00:19:08.000 I just, I think he says everything I like.

00:19:10.000 I like all the things he says.

00:19:12.000 He's bad. 0.93

00:19:13.000 He's bad.

00:19:14.000 I just, I, there's something honestly about him that I distrust and I can't really place my finger on it, but also by his campaign that I distrust.

00:19:21.000 Cause it reminds me of like a Jimmy Carter campaign where he's, you know, a well-meaning person and saying a lot of great things.

00:19:28.000 Um, but then we'll fail, uh, horribly.

00:19:31.000 Um, I, that's just my gut telling me that.

00:19:33.000 Was there a moment for you where like that switched in your mind?

00:19:36.000 Yeah, the moment for me that it's, well, okay, first of all, his team started reaching out to me and we started having communications and I thought, that's cool because I have a huge appreciation for any Republican candidate who understands the power of Influencers, which is not a term.

00:19:55.000 I usually used to describe myself, but you know, we don't have Celebrities on the right.

00:20:00.000 We don't I mean, yeah, we don't have a lot kid rock.

00:20:04.000 I don't want to talk about it I don't want to react to that.

00:20:09.000 I Like kid rock though.

00:20:12.000 I'm just gonna put that I like kid rock too.

00:20:14.000 No, but we don't have actors and actresses we have sort of people who are in media or Correct.

00:20:19.000 Yeah.

00:20:19.000 Yeah and and They're rarely ever well utilized by most presidential campaigns.

00:20:28.000 So Vivek's team was the first to start reaching out to influencers and invite them, come hang out on the bus with us, come out on the trail with us.

00:20:37.000 And I was one of the people.

00:20:38.000 So I was like, well, no matter how I feel about him, of course I'm going to go because I want to get to know, I would do that.

00:20:44.000 If Biden said, come ride the bus with me, I'd be like, absolutely, of course.

00:20:47.000 You take the megaphone and run with it, for sure.

00:20:50.000 And you can see up close and personal what's really going on.

00:20:52.000 Yeah, so spent the day with him in Iowa a couple of months ago and went to six campaign stops and I'd say between stops three and four, four and five, they let me do a 35 minute interview with him on the bus.

00:21:10.000 You know, the first half was just general questions, second half was all January 6th.

00:21:14.000 And I explained to him a lot about January 6th.

00:21:17.000 Things that I've never had an opportunity to say to any politician because I've never been granted that opportunity.

00:21:22.000 Explaining things like why people are pleading guilty to things they didn't do, why people are taking plea deals, period.

00:21:28.000 Things that the public at large doesn't know yet because everybody who took a plea deal is still on probation and can't speak freely about why they made the choices that they made.

00:21:37.000 And so one of the things I said to him in that moment was, and this was not a live interview, it was, you know, I got to edit all this out later, like the public has never seen the conversation we had.

00:21:48.000 But I said to him, look, you keep saying that if you're elected president on day one, you're going to pardon all nonviolent J6ers. 1.00

00:21:56.000 I said, here's the problem I have with that.

00:21:58.000 A lot of people are pleading guilty to violence who did not commit violence.

00:22:01.000 A lot of people are confessing to doing, you know, fighting with police officers who did not.

00:22:05.000 It's not true, but they're being given no choice.

00:22:08.000 And I said, so if you're elected president or if you come into power, I need you to assure me That you're going to look at every case, case by case, give the defendants a chance to explain why they pled guilty and did what they did, and then you make the decision about who gets pardoned and who didn't.

00:22:24.000 And I made him literally say it back to me, which he did.

00:22:28.000 And then for the rest of the day, on the remainder of the campaign stops, four, five, six, because he had been talking about J6 on every stop and saying, on day one, I'm going to pardon all nonviolent J6ers. 1.00

00:22:36.000 he immediately changed his messaging right after that conversation.

00:22:40.000 And for the rest of the day, he said on day one of my administration,

00:22:42.000 I'm going to pardon all nonviolent J sixers. And he said, then the next thing we're doing, 1.00

00:22:46.000 we're going to do is go case by case and get an understanding of, you know,

00:22:50.000 what these cases are really about, why people made the decisions that they made.

00:22:53.000 And then we'll start issuing more pardons beyond that. And I was like,

00:22:56.000 that's really impressive to me. I can dig that. And, and not only did he say it the rest of the day in front of

00:23:00.000 me on those stops, he has said it on Fox news. He said it on all of his live

00:23:04.000 appearances.

00:23:06.000 He's always taken it to heart.

00:23:08.000 That's great.

00:23:08.000 I mean, that's great.

00:23:09.000 And I'm not saying, you know, I'm going to give him all my debit card codes and everything.

00:23:15.000 Right.

00:23:16.000 But he earned some trust.

00:23:18.000 But that's the thing.

00:23:18.000 And I get a lot of people will tell me like, maybe Tim has said it, you know, he's shifted the Overton window and that's, that's great.

00:23:25.000 Right.

00:23:25.000 And I totally get it.

00:23:26.000 And you giving him that idea and then him taking that idea and running with it with a bigger megaphone.

00:23:30.000 Perfect.

00:23:31.000 Yeah.

00:23:32.000 That's good.

00:23:32.000 I love it.

00:23:32.000 I was like pointing at me.

00:23:33.000 I was like, Hey Tim, what's up?

00:23:36.000 All right, let's do that indeed.

00:23:39.000 We got a good... Is this girl still on the TikTok screen, man?

00:23:42.000 No. 0.63

00:23:43.000 Shane's like, put up the Nancy Pelosi AI porn.

00:23:45.000 What are we doing? 0.60

00:23:47.000 There you go.

00:23:50.000 There you go.

00:23:50.000 Stop it, Hannah-Claire.

00:23:52.000 Now Shane can focus.

00:23:54.000 America First, you are on the air.

00:23:54.000 All right, let's get that call.

00:23:57.000 How are you?

00:24:04.000 Thanks for taking my call.

00:24:05.000 Of course.

00:24:08.000 So I'm wondering if the panel remembers in 07, during an interview with the retired General Wesley Clark, he told a story when he visited the Pentagon in October of 2001, right after 9-11.

00:24:21.000 And he said that an active general approached him, showed him this memo that he had just gotten from the Secretary of Defense office.

00:24:28.000 About how the U.S.

00:24:29.000 was planning to take out the next seven countries in, like, five years.

00:24:33.000 Yep.

00:24:34.000 And it said starting with Iraq and Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off with Iran.

00:24:41.000 Yep.

00:24:42.000 What are your thoughts about, like, the whole World War III, Iran kind of BS, that it really doesn't have anything to do with Biden precisely, but it's more of just, like, the deep state continuing... Right.

00:24:53.000 ...that whole... That's why Hillary Clinton lost. 0.99

00:24:58.000 That's why Hillary Clinton lost, partly. 1.00

00:25:00.000 I mean, Trump didn't win by that many votes, but people knew things like this, and that got enough people to be like, I ain't gonna vote for a warmonger.

00:25:10.000 And she's unlikable. 0.98

00:25:11.000 But of course, we knew as soon as Joe Biden got in, he was gonna kick off this plan they've had for a long time.

00:25:20.000 Do you think it's kind of The way that a lot of people talk about it on the right and conservatives, they keep saying Biden's doing this, Biden, Biden.

00:25:30.000 Do you think it's an error to keep saying it like that?

00:25:33.000 No, because Biden is doing it.

00:25:35.000 He's part of it.

00:25:36.000 Do you really think he's doing it?

00:25:38.000 Do you really think he's mentally even Around at all that he's even doing anything besides like taking medicine and well, yeah, I'm not saying that it's his plan It's the CIA.

00:25:51.000 It's a deep state intelligence assets the permanent government and he is the current Figurehead for this plan when we say Joe Biden's doing it's especially important because we want to vote him out You go around telling people vote for Donald Trump because we're up against insert intelligence officer and they're gonna bet who?

00:26:06.000 So Joe Biden is the front face of this plan and he represents everything they've done up to this point.

00:26:14.000 Yeah, they're just using him as a vessel.

00:26:15.000 I do agree with that.

00:26:15.000 I just sometimes I think we miss the deeper plot and people keep wanting to point fingers at Biden and he just seems so feeble.

00:26:23.000 I just doesn't seem like he's doing much.

00:26:27.000 I think it'd be fair to say, even if he's not doing much, he's still playing a role in a theoretical plot, right?

00:26:33.000 Like, every... It's unlikely that it's one person who's just calling every single shot all of the time.

00:26:39.000 It's more likely that there are lots of cogs that are put in place to make this ultimate plot move forward, in my opinion.

00:26:47.000 Yes, very true.

00:26:50.000 I don't know if that... Yeah, well, if there's anything else to add... Anything else to add to that?

00:26:56.000 No, that's it.

00:26:56.000 Thanks, guys.

00:26:57.000 Thanks for calling in, pointing that out.

00:26:58.000 That is an important story people should know about.

00:27:00.000 Yep, appreciate it.

00:27:02.000 Alright, Brian, Threat to Democracy.

00:27:04.000 Uh-oh.

00:27:05.000 Hello, how are you?

00:27:08.000 How y'all doing tonight?

00:27:09.000 Can you hear me okay?

00:27:10.000 Loud and clear.

00:27:12.000 Alright, good deal, good deal.

00:27:13.000 I got a question for the whole panel.

00:27:16.000 Today on scanner.com, Hannah Clare had an article up about a current Supreme Court case where West Point is having to defend its use of diversity bills as a criteria for selecting cadets.

00:27:36.000 The argument being that having a diverse officer is important for national security reasons.

00:27:46.000 Given that the service academies are the most selective colleges in the United States by far, shouldn't they be looking for the best candidates, or is there merit to the argument that having a diverse officer corps is an important goal?

00:28:09.000 Agreed.

00:28:09.000 No.

00:28:09.000 It should be on a case-by-case, you know, basis.

00:28:15.000 What do they offer us?

00:28:16.000 Are they good leaders?

00:28:17.000 That's all we need.

00:28:17.000 Yeah, this is the interesting... I find Students Prefer Admission a really interesting organization and obviously they were the ones who led the first lawsuits, the UNC and the Harvard lawsuits, that ultimately led to the Supreme Court invalidating affirmative action.

00:28:32.000 And then this is their next go-round because In the original Supreme Court ruling, they noted specifically that the military academies are exempt from this because they're technically part of the Department of Defense.

00:28:45.000 They're regulated differently.

00:28:45.000 They're a different thing.

00:28:47.000 And I find, if you read the, I think I pulled a chunk of it for that article, but if you read the complaint filed by Students for Fair Admissions, they say West Point used to be about Ability and leadership, and it used to be about what they brought to the table, but it has now shifted to prioritize race over these things, and they specifically take complaint with the fact that they publish their goals.

00:29:16.000 They have specific, we want to have this percentage of the next class be African-American, be Asian, be whatever.

00:29:22.000 And their argument is that this is discriminatory and ultimately as long as this goes on it's, it is discriminatory to every pool of applicants because you know you already have to, you mentioned this Collar, but you already have to be You know, Harvard doesn't make you pass a physical fitness test.

00:29:41.000 It doesn't make you get sponsored by your state senator, right?

00:29:44.000 You have to work really hard to get into these things.

00:29:47.000 And if you're willing to do all of that, as well as potentially sacrifice for your country, shouldn't you be admitted based on your merit, not based on race?

00:29:55.000 I grew up on West Point.

00:29:57.000 This is my home of my whole life.

00:29:58.000 My parents are still there.

00:30:01.000 I was raised by these cadets.

00:30:03.000 They happened to be black and white.

00:30:05.000 Boy and girl from all over the place.

00:30:07.000 But that didn't matter.

00:30:10.000 They were all the most craziest, smartest people I've ever met. 0.76

00:30:14.000 Leaders and really physically strong. 0.73

00:30:18.000 Had to run a certain amount of miles every day.

00:30:21.000 There'd be certain things that they would have to do, whether it's carrying your books in a certain hand or knowing how many lights are above you, because you've counted them prior days.

00:30:30.000 And then when you're asked, you need to know how many lights are above you.

00:30:32.000 Stuff like that.

00:30:33.000 Over the years though, some of those things have started to fall away.

00:30:36.000 So you can't, let's say, they call it pinging, which is you have to walk around in the summer when you're wearing your shorts.

00:30:41.000 Your socks would be all the way up to your knees.

00:30:43.000 That's pinging.

00:30:44.000 And you'd be hazed if you weren't pinging your socks. 0.57

00:30:47.000 That's gone away.

00:30:48.000 There was something kind of nice about the hazing, I thought.

00:30:49.000 Not to a certain degree.

00:30:51.000 Obviously, it can get really bad, but the hazing kind of built a camaraderie and also made you on point for every day that you were there.

00:30:58.000 But now, because my parents are still there, I've seen that these kids are just soft gamers who deal with everything.

00:31:06.000 Freshman Hell Week at my high school that I went to for a few months.

00:31:11.000 And once everybody knew when it was, the freshman just didn't show up.

00:31:15.000 Right. 0.99

00:31:16.000 That's like a fucked up thing. 0.98

00:31:18.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:31:18.000 But whatever, I don't give a shit. 1.00

00:31:19.000 Fuck that school. 1.00

00:31:20.000 I think there's a piece to this too that we're not really identifying, which is particularly when you're talking about something like the military. 0.99

00:31:28.000 I didn't join the military and I'm not from a military family, but I mean, it's always kind of been my understanding that pretty much on like day one, when you enter the military, Your individual identity ceases to exist and it's really about you becoming a part of a unit and part of a chain of command.

00:31:44.000 And what they're doing essentially is prioritizing identity.

00:31:48.000 And so they're saying the chain of command in a way doesn't really exist anymore.

00:31:52.000 It's your blackness and your transness and your individual identity and the way that you see yourself and perceive yourself now kind of supersedes all things in a way. 0.94

00:32:03.000 That should be the last priority for them.

00:32:05.000 Like, look, if we're going to have DEI at all, I mean, maybe it should be in circumstances where we can actually learn about each other's cultures in an environment where it's appropriate.

00:32:15.000 You know, what is it like to grow up on the West Coast versus the East Coast?

00:32:19.000 What's it like to grow up?

00:32:21.000 You know what I mean?

00:32:21.000 There might be times where that would be valuable information.

00:32:23.000 When you join the military, it's unimportant.

00:32:25.000 I don't care if you're rich.

00:32:26.000 I don't care if you're poor.

00:32:27.000 I don't care what the color of your skin is or your gender. 0.98

00:32:29.000 Rich and poor both matter.

00:32:31.000 I'm just saying that I think that you're supposed to shed your identity and your identity becomes about protecting the United States of America.

00:32:40.000 So, actually, the military considers your wealth for two reasons.

00:32:43.000 If you're in massive debt, you're a security risk.

00:32:46.000 You might sell secrets or try and make money to cover your liabilities.

00:32:49.000 And if you're too rich, you will disregard orders and eventually buy your way out.

00:32:55.000 I agree, but that probably doesn't apply as much to the cadets who are coming out of high school.

00:32:59.000 100% does.

00:32:59.000 It does.

00:33:00.000 You think? Because I feel like they have to write to the congressman.

00:33:03.000 There have been many people who have enlisted and then their wealthy parents changed the rules,

00:33:09.000 got them special privileges, or got them out or things like that.

00:33:14.000 And this is just my experience, so it doesn't mean it's the truth at all.

00:33:17.000 But I noticed that a lot of kids who were second or third generation West Point kids, meaning their parents went and their grandparents went, sometimes they didn't take it as seriously as the kids who were the first generation.

00:33:26.000 And some of those families had lots of money because they were like generals and stuff like that.

00:33:31.000 But yeah, I don't know.

00:33:33.000 I'm thinking about this and I think about how didn't Mattis even defend teaching critical race theory at West Point?

00:33:38.000 Yeah.

00:33:38.000 Two or three years ago.

00:33:39.000 That's the thing.

00:33:39.000 It's never just the super, it's never just checking boxes and saying like, you know, I want to see X number of black faces and X number of whatever.

00:33:45.000 The next step, there's always the next step and always the next step.

00:33:48.000 And then it becomes, well, having to get up at 5 a.m.

00:33:50.000 is racist. 0.81

00:33:52.000 That's, you know, this group of people isn't used to doing that.

00:33:54.000 Functuation, right?

00:33:55.000 Ironing your uniform is racist.

00:33:57.000 My favorite thing is like, uh, The dress code rules the army has and there's a difference between the rules.

00:34:05.000 I don't want to I don't want to speak out of turn, but I just you know my brief experiences There are certain ways everyone is expected to dress, but there's actual codified rule they're not the same and so I think it's something like Your belt has to be above your belly button or something, because the rule was made back in the 40s or whatever, but nobody does that anymore.

00:34:28.000 Now everyone's basically improperly wearing a uniform.

00:34:31.000 It has to be a quarter inch above or below your belly button, and you can opt to wear it just above.

00:34:36.000 Exactly.

00:34:37.000 And so you look goofy with it pulled real high, but if they yell at you for it, they're breaking the rules.

00:34:42.000 Anyway, was that sufficient, sir?

00:34:45.000 Yeah, I hope that was enough there.

00:34:47.000 No, thanks for the answers.

00:34:50.000 I thought that was a great discussion and I appreciate you having me on once again.

00:34:55.000 Thanks for calling in.

00:34:55.000 Thanks for reading Scanner.

00:34:57.000 It's the best.

00:34:59.000 Thanks, mate.

00:35:01.000 Alright, we got a big one here.

00:35:02.000 Sniper493, you are live.

00:35:05.000 How are you?

00:35:08.000 Doing good, doing good.

00:35:09.000 Thank you for listening.

00:35:10.000 This is actually my first call in.

00:35:13.000 Right on.

00:35:16.000 So this is actually a question for the whole crew and it's a white pill question.

00:35:21.000 Amelia's plane might have been found.

00:35:24.000 Amelia Earhart?

00:35:29.000 And her achievements that she has done.

00:35:32.000 I thought they already found it.

00:35:33.000 I thought it was like she washed up on some island and they found her bones.

00:35:36.000 Yeah, that's what I thought too.

00:35:37.000 I didn't think so.

00:35:38.000 There was a report this week with someone saying like they have a theory about where it went, right?

00:35:42.000 I'm looking at our spooky paranormal thing.

00:35:44.000 I don't want to, because I am typically the white pill person, but I'm just like this is probably a fake one.

00:35:48.000 But did you see that report?

00:35:49.000 Do you know anything about it?

00:35:50.000 No, I had not seen this.

00:35:53.000 Deep sea visions.

00:35:55.000 um, which is government funded, but did sonar images and they have an image

00:35:55.000 Wow.

00:36:01.000 that they picked up that looks like it might be her Lockheed 10 E Electra.

00:36:05.000 Huh?

00:36:06.000 Wow.

00:36:07.000 And where is this?

00:36:08.000 Yeah.

00:36:08.000 Did they say where?

00:36:11.000 Let me see.

00:36:12.000 They didn't say where.

00:36:13.000 They just found it and they're like, yeah, we're not going to tell anybody.

00:36:15.000 It's a secret.

00:36:16.000 It's like Texas.

00:36:17.000 What if someone built it and then put it there and then they found it?

00:36:21.000 I also feel like this is bad timing to bring up Amelia Earhart given all of the stuff around diversity, higher pilots and all women.

00:36:30.000 Near Howland Island.

00:36:32.000 Okay.

00:36:33.000 Howland Island.

00:36:34.000 Okay.

00:36:35.000 Yeah.

00:36:35.000 Interesting.

00:36:36.000 I just, again.

00:36:39.000 She's not the female pilot I would invoke right now. 0.97

00:36:40.000 You know what's really funny?

00:36:42.000 How many works of fiction have her depicted as being abducted by aliens? 0.94

00:36:45.000 Yeah.

00:36:46.000 It's like, dude, she crashed. 1.00

00:36:47.000 What the fuck? 0.99

00:36:48.000 Like, there's no big mystery. 1.00

00:36:49.000 It's like, she crashed.

00:36:50.000 I don't know, whatever.

00:36:51.000 What if the aliens made her crash?

00:36:54.000 I feel like aliens would be better right now. 0.55

00:36:56.000 Again, we'll see, but...

00:36:59.000 She landed in Japan and lived a long life.

00:37:01.000 Yeah.

00:37:01.000 That's right.

00:37:02.000 Also, what if she was just like, bye guys, I don't want to be a female pilot anymore. 1.00

00:37:06.000 And then she couldn't, she couldn't tell anyone.

00:37:08.000 So she had to just like retreat.

00:37:09.000 So she had to kill herself because she didn't want to be a female pilot anymore? 1.00

00:37:12.000 And it's secretly, and she's like living in Siberia, being like, I just can't get back on the plane. 0.75

00:37:17.000 So you're saying she's still alive.

00:37:19.000 Oh, I have no idea.

00:37:20.000 Well, like Captain America.

00:37:21.000 I thought you were saying she intentionally crashed the plane because she didn't want to be a female pilot anymore. 1.00

00:37:24.000 No, she didn't.

00:37:25.000 No, no, no, the plane, the plane crashed.

00:37:27.000 Uh, and then she went underwater where she froze, like Captain America, and she'll be thawed out, waking up in this strange new world.

00:37:33.000 Let's do that.

00:37:33.000 What if she reversed Ariel, and she went down and was saved by very handsome Merman, and, like, converted to living under seas?

00:37:39.000 Yeah, she became the ghost of Kiev years later.

00:37:43.000 Oh, anyway, I don't know what else to say about it.

00:37:46.000 Fun conversation.

00:37:47.000 With these stories, it's like, if they come out and tell me they found the Malaysian flight, I don't even think I'd believe that.

00:37:54.000 That's how skeptical I am of everything.

00:37:56.000 I know that's a problem.

00:37:57.000 We know.

00:37:57.000 I know, but like, how could we?

00:37:59.000 How could we?

00:38:00.000 Because there's also reports of people, a really, I forget who his name was, big company, buying almost an exact replica of that plane that went missing six months before it went missing.

00:38:10.000 So, you know, it's...

00:38:11.000 It's hard to know anything is real anymore.

00:38:13.000 I feel like Helen Keller was involved.

00:38:15.000 Yes.

00:38:15.000 So you're saying she's a psyop too?

00:38:17.000 Absolutely.

00:38:18.000 And she was just faking everything?

00:38:20.000 Or she wasn't faking everything and she was flying the plane.

00:38:23.000 That's why it crashed.

00:38:27.000 Again, not a good season for female players. 1.00

00:38:28.000 Did not expect to get a Helen Keller impersonation tonight.

00:38:31.000 That's awesome.

00:38:32.000 Flying a plane.

00:38:33.000 That's what I want to see.

00:38:35.000 Guys, thanks for this question.

00:38:36.000 Yeah, that was a good one.

00:38:36.000 That was fun.

00:38:38.000 See, it was a white pill in and of itself.

00:38:40.000 We're all happy and laughing now, so thank you.

00:38:42.000 Okay.

00:38:43.000 Take care, guys.

00:38:44.000 Thank you again, and have a great night.

00:38:46.000 Have a good one tonight.

00:38:47.000 Likewise.

00:38:48.000 What a fun first call-in.

00:38:49.000 Hope to hear your call-in soon.

00:38:50.000 Yeah.

00:38:51.000 Scuba Steve, you are alive.

00:38:55.000 How are you?

00:38:56.000 Hey, doing good.

00:38:57.000 Thanks for having me on again.

00:38:57.000 How are you all doing?

00:38:58.000 Good, man.

00:38:59.000 Right on, bro.

00:39:00.000 Anytime.

00:39:01.000 I got a little bit of a darker but a fun question for the whole group just to see what y'all would think.

00:39:08.000 So what fictional dystopian future from literature, games, or film do you believe bears the closest resemblance to our current geopolitical landscape?

00:39:16.000 And what aspects of that dystopia do you see mirrored in our own reality and how can we learn from the different lessons and parallels and navigate the challenges of potential pitfalls in our present political climate?

00:39:27.000 Did you read that off paper?

00:39:30.000 I wrote it down on a note.

00:39:34.000 It's all of them.

00:39:35.000 It really is.

00:39:37.000 We're being spied on.

00:39:38.000 We're in the Panopticon.

00:39:39.000 There's collective censorship of information.

00:39:42.000 We're being drugged to keep us happy.

00:39:45.000 Insert all of them.

00:39:47.000 You got Viva Vendetta and then you got a pandemic.

00:39:49.000 I mean, come on!

00:39:49.000 Manufactured virus in a lab?

00:39:51.000 World War Z. World War Z. It does seem like they took a little bit of the best stuff.

00:39:57.000 We're in the best of version of dystopias.

00:39:59.000 Because yeah, I'm trying to think of that movie.

00:40:02.000 It's an old sci-fi movie where everyone has to kill themselves at a certain age.

00:40:07.000 Logan's Run.

00:40:08.000 Because even that to some degree is like how people are sacrificing themselves now, whether it's the maid program.

00:40:08.000 Logan's Run, yeah.

00:40:14.000 Where's the dystopia where the government starts mass sex changing everybody?

00:40:19.000 That was our original thought.

00:40:29.000 There's a documentary on this on Amazon Prime and they were saying at a certain point like their whole thing was like I'll help you find your soulmate and then they weren't it wasn't working and so they started being like because it was predominantly women they would go to someone and be like actually your spirit is male so you should transition and then we'll marry off to this lady because that way our premise works.

00:40:48.000 Well, for me, I would say the one way that I've navigated this dystopian landscape is I believe in God, and I didn't believe in God for most of my life.

00:40:55.000 And God has at least, or at most, given me an anchor in a non-reality where nothing and everything can be true.

00:41:01.000 So you're sympathetic to Gilead then?

00:41:04.000 The thing is, I've been watching Handmaid's Tale for the first time.

00:41:06.000 I'm super late to this, but I have to say, some rough stuff, but Gilead doesn't always seem so bad to me.

00:41:13.000 I'm a Gilead sympathizer in some ways.

00:41:16.000 Again, not everything.

00:41:17.000 Some of it's not good.

00:41:18.000 But, you know, it is interesting to see dystopians where you're like, the world I'm living in right now has some really dark stuff too.

00:41:26.000 I don't necessarily want this entire world, but there are definitely changes.

00:41:30.000 There are things that I don't like about Gilead.

00:41:31.000 What are the moral failings of Gilead?

00:41:34.000 You know, I think the forced handmaid thing is a little tricky.

00:41:37.000 What does that mean, forced handmaid?

00:41:38.000 That's leftist propaganda.

00:41:40.000 Oh, that's fair.

00:41:42.000 Women like being moms. 1.00

00:41:44.000 Well, but that's the thing.

00:41:45.000 It's actually, you have to convince them about the surrogacy.

00:41:47.000 They run into issues when the handmaids get attached. 0.99

00:41:49.000 For real though, what in The Handmaid's Tale was depicted as Gilead being bad? 0.95

00:41:54.000 I understand women have to have kids, but like, And the men are like, they all have like the Jezebel's thing, so they're actually all hypocritical.

00:42:01.000 I mean, like negatives, whatever, but their water is clean, their birth rate is up.

00:42:06.000 I mean, some stuff is like, and they all wear these gorgeous capes.

00:42:09.000 I mean, I just don't understand.

00:42:11.000 You're sold on these capes.

00:42:12.000 I love capes.

00:42:13.000 This is a whole niche fashion podcast that I'm in, but yeah, there are some negatives for sure.

00:42:18.000 I didn't like it when they would like cut off Panmate's eyes and stuff, negative.

00:42:23.000 But again, something is working.

00:42:25.000 I still haven't watched it.

00:42:26.000 Look, let me tell you, there are some characters that I just... And also, I'm really wrecking this question for this caller, but I just found that, like, June Osborn is just, like, she becomes more and more horrible the whole time.

00:42:41.000 So, she really did not sell me on this, like, weird America, Canada, other world.

00:42:47.000 She's your lead and I don't like her.

00:42:49.000 So you're into it?

00:42:50.000 I think we should consider Gilead as a philosophical- No, no, you're into watching the show.

00:42:56.000 You're enjoying it.

00:42:57.000 Yeah, I don't watch a lot of stuff, but I got into this- I had time off around Christmas and I started watching it.

00:43:05.000 Again, I remember being in an internship after college when this came out and people being like, FEMINISM! 1.00

00:43:12.000 But it is, like, not a good- I think the feminists got this all wrong, you know? 1.00

00:43:15.000 So, I highly recommend it right now.

00:43:17.000 But you have to remember that they want you to hate Gilead and you really can't.

00:43:23.000 Sorry, I'm so sorry.

00:43:24.000 Well, Scoobasieve, I hope that was at least something of an answer somewhere.

00:43:31.000 Yeah, it sounds like the greatest hits of Dystopian Future is where we're at.

00:43:36.000 Sweet.

00:43:37.000 Quick before I hop off, you guys mentioned Mattis earlier.

00:43:39.000 I highly recommend if you haven't seen it, there's a video of him arguing with Kamala Harris.

00:43:44.000 Pull that baby up and watch it because it's great because it's talking about recruiting Marines and stuff like that.

00:43:48.000 Cool.

00:43:49.000 Awesome.

00:43:49.000 Thanks for that.

00:43:50.000 Yeah, thanks.

00:43:51.000 All right.

00:43:52.000 Out.

00:43:53.000 Cheers.

00:43:54.000 That was an awesome question, though.

00:43:55.000 Yeah, that was great.

00:43:55.000 I like to sit with that question.

00:43:56.000 Yeah, that was a good one.

00:43:57.000 I feel like I want to really think on that some more.

00:43:59.000 We should have a show where we get to dig deep on these questions sometimes, you know?

00:44:03.000 But that's actually what they do on the Discord to shout out anyone else that doesn't check out the later shows on Discord.

00:44:09.000 They actually go through with the people that call in, and then they actually have them ask any more questions with people that are watching, etc.

00:44:16.000 It's freaking amazing.

00:44:16.000 Yeah, it's really quite cool.

00:44:18.000 It's so industrious.

00:44:19.000 The Discord is incredible.

00:44:20.000 It is.

00:44:22.000 USMCBert, hello.

00:44:24.000 How are you?

00:44:25.000 What's going on?

00:44:26.000 What's up?

00:44:27.000 Just hanging out at work, man.

00:44:28.000 You know.

00:44:29.000 But first of all, Tim, your sex change dystopia is probably Cyberpunk 2077.

00:44:34.000 Can you do that in there?

00:44:38.000 Yeah, I get a whole bunch of gender swaps and stuff.

00:44:39.000 What about like forced?

00:44:41.000 I don't know.

00:44:42.000 I don't know about forced.

00:44:43.000 I don't think you can.

00:44:45.000 My question is, you guys were talking about the illegals joining the military and everything, and I've been reading The Prince by Machiavelli again.

00:44:55.000 Oh, nice.

00:44:56.000 That's a good one.

00:44:58.000 He has an entire chapter dedicated to that, and that is how one of the main reasons a nation will fall and a prince will lose his power, by outsourcing his military.

00:45:12.000 Aw.

00:45:15.000 I highly recommend you all pick it up.

00:45:18.000 It's only like eight bucks and I think it's free on audible, but what do you guys think about that?

00:45:24.000 And the use of outside forces and mercenaries that can just be bought off by China.

00:45:32.000 It seems plausible and horrific.

00:45:36.000 Yeah.

00:45:38.000 Well stated.

00:45:40.000 We're already watered down.

00:45:42.000 We don't have an army.

00:45:43.000 Our population is a mess.

00:45:44.000 It's because our population doesn't feel united.

00:45:47.000 I was listening to... Biden spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning and he's talking about all these international... I'm not against praying for Ukraine, praying for Israel.

00:46:01.000 Those are not necessarily horrible sentiments, but then at the end he's like...

00:46:04.000 I've always said that we need to see each other not as enemies but as Americans.

00:46:08.000 You want to be like you're one of the most divisive people.

00:46:10.000 You're constantly driving divide.

00:46:11.000 You can't just pay lip service to the idea of unity.

00:46:14.000 You need to promote a national culture that encourages unity.

00:46:18.000 There is a reason that older generations saw it as their duty to sacrifice for their country and younger generations don't.

00:46:24.000 There is a reason that younger generations say things like, well I didn't choose to be alive.

00:46:29.000 This is a very pessimistic and selfish culture and I think That is one of the reasons that we ultimately say, well, somebody else can serve in the military.

00:46:36.000 I'm not going to do it.

00:46:37.000 Can we rewind real quick?

00:46:38.000 Did you say that Biden spoke at the prayer?

00:46:40.000 They'd let him, they'd let him pray?

00:46:42.000 Uh, at least let him talk.

00:46:45.000 I don't know if it counts as a prayer if you're just delivering remarks.

00:46:47.000 How'd he sound?

00:46:47.000 Did you watch or listen?

00:46:48.000 Yeah, I watched.

00:46:48.000 He sounds slurred.

00:46:49.000 Uh, I mean, it's just the way it is, but he also spoke last year.

00:46:52.000 Like this is something presidents do every year.

00:46:54.000 Yeah.

00:46:55.000 What if on Super Tuesday, like Biden croaks?

00:46:59.000 Who do they install?

00:47:00.000 Kamala Harris is like, here we go, my time to shine.

00:47:04.000 I mean, on another chapter, Machiavelli also has, those who have become princes by crime.

00:47:12.000 So I kind of feel like that fits all of our politicians.

00:47:16.000 Yeah.

00:47:16.000 It's a timeless book.

00:47:17.000 I remember reading that in like maybe freshman year of college and being like, it's kind of tough read, but there is a wisdom to this, uh, that I should probably pay attention to.

00:47:26.000 Like that one, 48 laws of power and, uh, how to win friends.

00:47:30.000 No, not art of war.

00:47:31.000 I read that one later on, but how to win friends and influence people were books I read in like the first year or two out of, out of high school and in university, 2010, 2011.

00:47:41.000 And those books, uh, helped me do a lot of things.

00:47:44.000 Yeah.

00:47:44.000 Do you think they still teach Machiavellian in college these days?

00:47:47.000 Dude, I doubt it.

00:47:48.000 I doubt it.

00:47:49.000 It's too dark.

00:47:49.000 The material is just too dark.

00:47:50.000 The things that you talked about are just too dark to handle.

00:47:52.000 It's just too mean, bro.

00:47:54.000 You think they would though, because they love power so much.

00:47:56.000 I know, right?

00:47:56.000 You think power dynamics would be all they would talk about, but they don't, unfortunately.

00:47:59.000 I doubt it at least.

00:48:02.000 Um, yeah.

00:48:03.000 Right on.

00:48:03.000 That was awesome.

00:48:04.000 Was that good?

00:48:05.000 Was that good, sir?

00:48:06.000 Oh yeah.

00:48:08.000 Yeah.

00:48:09.000 All right.

00:48:10.000 Thanks for calling in.

00:48:11.000 Yup.

00:48:12.000 All right, man.

00:48:13.000 Cheers.

00:48:15.000 Yeah, that's it.

00:48:16.000 Mr. Bocas is just chilling.

00:48:18.000 He is.

00:48:18.000 Over with Shane.

00:48:19.000 He's kind of so sweet.

00:48:20.000 Having a good time.

00:48:22.000 Brandon, thanks for hanging out, man.

00:48:23.000 Thanks for having me.

00:48:24.000 Been a blast.

00:48:24.000 It was good to see you guys.

00:48:25.000 It was awesome.

00:48:26.000 It was so fun.

00:48:26.000 And thank you to everybody who is a member.

00:48:29.000 And for all the love and the shout outs to Mr. Bocus, who is enjoying a good regal massage from Shane.

00:48:37.000 He's having a good time.

00:48:38.000 Purring away.

00:48:39.000 He's purring away.

00:48:40.000 He's got those claws getting ready.

00:48:41.000 I know.

00:48:42.000 I'm a little afraid.

00:48:44.000 We're chillin'.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - February 04, 2024

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