On this week's episode of Sunday Uncensored, the boys talk about the tragic story of a 37 year old man who died of a heart attack in his sleep at the age of 37. They also talk about how dangerous it is to get pregnant with unvaccinated sperm.
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00:02:32.000And the first guy that I knew from high school died of COVID or not of COVID after he was like, you fucking assholes that aren't getting vaccinated.
00:03:59.000And then there's hopelessness, like people without purpose.
00:04:01.000Like that'll just, your body, I don't know if everybody, if your body will just shut down, but like people say, if you have nothing to live for.
00:04:05.000Yeah, Luke's trying to get us banned because he said you're sitting next to people who are shedding spike proteins on the airplane.
00:04:13.000I said you don't want to be sitting next to a bunch of people who shed... I said a bunch of stuff.
00:05:39.000This woman says, I can't do anything, my quality of life with this illness, it's almost non-existent.
00:05:45.000So she's asking the government to end her suffering.
00:05:48.000I'm wondering if long COVID is just vax injury.
00:05:53.000Or a combination of the vaccine and COVID at once, like you get both at the same time.
00:05:59.000So long COVID is basically, because I know people say they have long COVID, that's COVID that lasts for a long time and it doesn't go away.
00:07:10.000I mean, I think depression is through sky level, through the roof right now.
00:07:14.000Everyone I know is depressed and has anxiety and they're suffering and they can't sleep at night and they're up all night having anxiety attacks at the end of the world is coming.
00:07:20.000Dude, suicide crossed my mind three days ago.
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00:11:51.000I've been thinking about death lately and like, I'm having a hard, the last month or so, I've been having a hard time visualizing anything in the future, which is kind of weird.
00:11:58.000Cause normally I can picture my, like my life.
00:12:00.000And I'm like, I'm like, I don't want to die, but maybe I got to go do an ego death.
00:12:04.000And like, I've been thinking about ayahuasca and combo, talking to Luke about combo, which is like this toad poison that they like burn into your skin.
00:12:57.000Again, this should be something that you need to decide for yourself that is right for you as an individual.
00:13:02.000But it is also some of the kind of esoteric archaic kind of deep down the rabbit hole stuff that you truly need to be prepared for yourself because you're dealing with stuff that is beyond our comprehension.
00:13:14.000Yeah, that's what I feel that and I've tasted ayahuasca in the past and I've you know, I like that the psychedelic realm but like it's the death like I don't I'm going to experience some sort of death, and I want it to be an ego death and not an actual physical death.
00:14:19.000I feel like it's all like putting out the stuff that's really gonna happen.
00:14:22.000They're like preparing like, you know, how they're gonna take your conscience and put it in a pod and you'll be able to live in a different body.
00:14:30.000Like all that stuff seems feasible now.
00:15:29.000But Ian, what if it turns out this is one big simulation and you're the only conscious entity in it, and when you get to your deathbed, it just flashes and then you're back as a kid again, fully aware of everything.
00:15:40.000I used to think that, but then I met you.
00:15:59.000I mean, Trump has too much magic going on.
00:16:03.000So I had this idea for a show where it's about side characters, but you don't realize it until later on where, like, you'll notice in the background crazy things are happening that aren't relevant to the story of the main characters, but eventually it's like, you know, a zombie apocalypse happens, a plague is unleashed, and the characters are trying to survive.
00:16:24.000In the background, you periodically notice some people doing things, and then eventually, when you piece together all those background stories, it's them finding the source of the virus, finding the cure, unleashing the cure, and the story you're following is totally irrelevant to the grandiose vision of humanity or anything like that.
00:16:39.000I thought about this because I'm like, every movie is always about the heroes.
00:18:11.000Well, if he's watching now, I hope he would give me, you know, some more coins and... Oh, that's a really good idea for a video game!
00:18:18.000Using... Once we get to the point of, like, more advanced computers, make a video game where it's, like, farming simulator or, like, gardening simulator, and your character just gardens, but there's a whole universe of crazy-ass shit happening outside.
00:18:31.000So it's like real elections are being simulated... And you're just the NPC living in it.
00:20:14.000If you inspire people and remind them, you are the momentum.
00:20:17.000The advantage that the right has over the left... So the left's advantage is...
00:20:22.000They're retarded, so they march in lockstep behind whoever tells them what to do.
00:20:28.000The problem the right has is individuality, and so people do not act in cohesion.
00:20:33.000But the advantage they have is hierarchy.
00:20:35.000Meaning, if you're on the right and you build a business, people will trust and follow you and work for you, and you can use that to your advantage like Elon Musk does.
00:20:43.000The left uses coercive collective power like government on social media.
00:20:47.000Elon Musk used raw hierarchical power to buy Twitter and turn it into X.
00:20:52.000So, we can argue all day and night about the proper strategy for Bud Light, but none of that really matters.
00:20:57.000Timcast is being supported by everybody who watches the show and believes in us, and all those little increments of membership allow us to launch Cast Brew Coffee, team up with the Daily Wire on making a song, launch the Boonies HQ, and have a tremendous impact on culture.
00:21:12.000So, It's like, the left wants to play this decentralized follow-the-leader weird cult amalgam game, and the right plays the prove-it-and-I'll-listen-to-you kind of game, which I think ultimately will win out in the end.
00:21:24.000Because you've got the likes of Elon Musk, you've got Joe Rogan, you've got Donald Trump.
00:21:27.000Strong leaders prove something they can do works, people get behind them, and they succeed.
00:21:34.000It also requires a willingness to be wrong, because you need to make bold claims.
00:21:39.000And take bold risks, and you may fail.
00:21:41.000It's a big part of looking like an idiot in public.
00:21:43.000But when you can get over that, and you just go anyway, and it's like, you'll fail, fail, fail, succeed.
00:21:48.000That really gets people behind you, and really inspires people to start doing the same thing, and creating, and becoming the momentous force of like Elon Musk.
00:21:57.000Like that guy's probably failed so many times.
00:22:38.000However, on the left, you have problems of hierarchy, where people are always screaming at their bosses, refusing to work, and weird shit like that.
00:22:44.000And then on the right, you have people want a job, and they'll work, and they'll respect hierarchy.
00:22:47.000Yeah, and people on the right are, like, willing to work together and get past, like, little differences, but people on the left, like, if you're slightly different, like, hit the road, man.
00:22:55.000That's the one thing I've noticed, at least.
00:22:58.000We used to love to argue liberally about politics.
00:23:00.000Well, there are some good classical liberals out there, I feel like, that really don't... The current Democrat Party has completely lost its mind.
00:23:10.000Classical liberal means early Americans, founding fathers, so it's a reference to right-leaning libertarians.
00:23:17.000That's what the I always consider myself a classical liberal now all of a sudden I'm labeled to like a far-right extremist and it's said in a derogatory way when I'm described on certain things like far-right extremist Cara Castronova just because like I was I'm for like medical freedom not persecuting American citizens stuff like that makes me a far-right extremist.
00:23:34.000I don't know how I get classified, but I was always very liberal, like classically.
00:23:45.000And if you really look at the quote-unquote far-right wing of the Congress, like the Freedom Caucus, like they're really like kind of classical liberals for the most part is what they are.
00:25:52.000I read a story on Reddit and then some guy responded with, I just walked up to my 20 year old son and lifted him straight up and put him down and he said, dad, what the fuck are you doing?
00:26:02.000I called my dad like three days ago and he was at the gym.
00:26:05.000And I was like, he was like, yeah, just call me later.
00:26:38.000This is pertaining to Bud Light and the, you know, some of the comments that you've been kind of, at least in the direction that you've been kind of like going with it.
00:26:49.000I'm opposed to how you've been thinking on this, and I was hoping to see what you would think on this question.
00:26:55.000So, my question is, why wouldn't you want to create history with the downfall of a major company that has completely gone off the rails?
00:27:06.000Good luck going to war with Joe Rogan.
00:27:12.000I hear you on that, and you keep saying, like, good luck and everything.
00:27:15.000The issue is, I mean, when you set a precedent, when you actually put this, like, right now we have an opportunity to teach, you know, this company, but, like, a permanent lesson, a lesson that, you know, that you probably won't be able to teach for, like, a long time, or the opportunities you get like this with a major company don't come every often.
00:27:41.000I mean, not only that, it doesn't teach other companies.
00:28:00.000Then come April, their sales recovery, the numbers will come in.
00:28:04.000Joe Rogan will do more podcasts, drinking 30 plus cans of Bud Light, saying, screw those guys, they're weirdos, Bud Light's great, UFC will do the same thing.
00:28:34.000What are you gonna- good luck going to war with Joe Rogan.
00:28:37.000Like, the biggest asset in the culture war for a lot of what's going on is Joe Rogan.
00:28:41.000The fact that he has such a massive podcast, has called at the machine, the fact that Joe Rogan said he would vote for Trump over Biden, these are all tremendously massive things and we all know it, because normies listen to Joe Rogan, and Joe Rogan says Bud Light's good.
00:28:55.000What's your strategy for countering Joe Rogan?
00:30:27.000UFC loses the sponsorship as soon as the contract expires, and then they'll go full Lil Nas X. This is a guy who gets the number one song in the history of Billboard at 19 weeks.
00:30:38.000And then the first thing he does is he sucks Satan's dick.
00:30:43.000And all conservatives are freaking out.
00:30:45.000Now you got to ask yourself, why is it that a guy who has the number one song, the biggest song ever, would feel comfortable blowing Satan knowing it would piss off conservatives?
00:30:54.000Because conservatives can't do anything about it.
00:30:59.000They don't wield enough cultural influence.
00:31:01.000So the marketing people probably went to him and said, listen, They're not going to buy your music anyway.
00:31:06.000Piss them off and you will get massive press attention.
00:31:10.000Bud Light is going to encounter a scenario where they said, we spent $300 million desperately trying to win back this 30% and nothing works.
00:31:27.000And they'll say, the left will let us in, and we might only see 1% returns, but at least we'll get some return.
00:31:36.000I guarantee you GLAAD and the HRC are already talking to Bud Light saying, Matt Walsh has said they'll never end the boycott, you've lost, you will never get conservatives back.
00:31:45.000You go the pride route, and we will make sure we tell all of our people to buy your product.
00:32:09.000And it's funny because conservatives, like, I guess because it's the first time they ever, you know, lockjawed onto something's arm, they don't want to let it go.
00:32:18.000But at a certain point, you have to recognize, how do you claim victory in a scenario like this?
00:32:23.000Bud Light needs to issue a public statement.
00:32:25.000This is why I tweeted out, Bud Light's new slogan is, trans people should not be welcomed in society, because that's what Sean Strickland said.
00:32:32.000And I can't even get conservatives, who are wanting to be on the boycott, to entertain that message.
00:32:39.000If y'all aren't even willing to hold up a Bud Light can and post a video saying, I agree with UFC, trans people shouldn't be welcome in polite society or whatever it is that Sean Strickland said.
00:32:50.000That's a horrible thing to say though.
00:35:23.000I don't know if this is a good analogy, but I look at the Twitter and how, like, okay, the only way that it was able to redeem itself was, like, getting bought out by... That's what I'm saying.
00:35:30.000It's exactly what Twitter reminds me of.
00:38:11.000All right, so it's like they gave him all this money and they're like, this is a hyper-masculine company.
00:38:15.000It's like completely against, Dana White has spoken out against female athletes fighting male athletes.
00:38:20.000So it's like, they're basically like, it's almost like they paid for their reputation back.
00:38:25.000They paid this guy who's hyper-masculine and represents like alpha masculinity And Sean Strickland said, trans people are mentally ill and society should never accept them.
00:38:33.000And he said, Bud Light paid me to say that.
00:38:35.000that are men and Sean Strickland said trans people are mentally ill and society should
00:39:57.000I'm not gonna lie, I've heard these points before, but it was spread apart.
00:40:02.000But thinking on it, as long as it's kept with the idea, and as long as you can get Most of these other prominent people don't understand these points.
00:40:13.000They're pushing back, but they have their people that are listening to them.
00:40:17.000I know you say y'all don't give a fuck about Bud Light.
00:40:22.000I'm like, if that's the plan, then you should give a fuck, because this is a pretty big moment in history.
00:40:29.000When it started, it was a pretty big moment.
00:40:31.000At this point, it's still a pretty big moment.
00:41:49.000So I don't care not to, if it was like, let me like boycott steak because you know, Dylan Mulvaney's face, like I wouldn't, that would be harder than boycotting beer.
00:41:58.000Especially cause it's a big multinational, it's a Belgian company that's like poisoning our youth through Dylan Mulvaney's selling to his 15 year old fans trying to do that.
00:42:29.000If you're for the boycott, that's so far where you're at in terms of your gains.
00:42:33.000My gains are the 28% loss in sales of Anheuser-Busch.
00:42:38.000And Anheuser-Busch gave $105 million per year to UFC and Sean Strickland said, brought to you by Bud Light, trans people are mentally ill and society should never accept them.
00:42:46.000Well, I don't agree with that statement.
00:42:48.000Then maybe you'd agree more with Bud Light, with Joe Rogan and Kid Rock, where they said, we gave them a black eye.
00:43:56.000So, obviously, Tim, you have a history in being in hot conflicts.
00:44:01.000Like, what did you think of how it was portrayed?
00:44:05.000And, like, my follow-up to it is basically, if our country does go in that direction, because seeing the way they're treating journalists right now, and seeing the way the journalists were treated in the movie, it seems like they want it to move in that direction.
00:44:18.000What would you... Journalists are always treated like shit no matter where you are.
00:44:21.000The idea that journalists get special treatment only exists in the United States.
00:44:27.000So what would you try to do to safeguard your journalistic teams at Scanner and so forth?
00:44:33.000The number one strategy in a conflict is not to wear press gear, armor, or helmets, hide your cameras, and act like you're a random person walking down the street.
00:44:41.000So, the first thing I would say is, I don't think any scanner reporter has the training requisites, uh, uh, prerequisites for entering any kind of conflict situation.
00:44:49.000And so I protect them by saying, none of the reporters who work for me are allowed to go into- into conflict or combat.
00:45:30.000Yeah, and I wanted to see, uh, anybody else have anything to add because I know, um, uh, Obviously, Luke, you're a journalist and so is Kara, so... What was the question?
00:45:39.000It was, like, about if you think a civil war... Oh, if, yeah, if a civil war actually happened in the United States, like, how would you try to safeguard yourself as a press or journalist?
00:45:49.000I find it, I find it, I don't know if anyone disagrees with me, but I've, I've, I, you know, ever since the beginning of the lockdowns, everyone like talks behind the scenes about, could there be a civil war?
00:46:20.000I know it's in Ukraine, but here in the U.S., I think, I don't know, I just, I don't, I don't see it happening.
00:46:25.000Although... There's a lot less racial divisions in Ukraine.
00:46:29.000There's a lot of racial divisions here, but I think that family, it's really just about like how families are so divided.
00:46:34.000So in the end, who's gonna really take up arms against their own siblings or against their childhood best friends or their neighbor, literally their neighbor.
00:46:42.000Like I live in New York where it's like very mixed politically.
00:47:16.000If there was no mainstream media, I think that people would be less divided and there'd be less chances of there being a civil war and there'd be more chances of people uniting against the government.
00:47:25.000There would be, you know, there would be just less division.
00:47:48.000No, that's why- And then there's Chicago, and they have like, you know?
00:47:52.000So, like, every civil war in history, yes.
00:47:54.000No, this civil war, if there was a civil war in the United States, it would be World War III on American soil, it would be Chinese bombers taking out Nashville, taking out fucking Atlanta, taking out every- God, it's so scary.
00:48:05.000It would be American bombers counteracting by taking out Sacramento.
00:48:10.000Maybe it would be a war, like warfare, like you know, I don't- Every country on Earth wants the United States to fail right now, except the United States.
00:48:15.000If we declare stupid shit on ourselves, that is the end, that is game over.
00:48:19.000All they have to do is turn off the internet.
00:48:21.000Right, the first thing that happens is a grid strike.
00:48:23.000Industrial control systems shut down instantly.
00:48:27.000The moment anyone declares any kind of civil war, just insert regions, industrial control systems are shut down.
00:49:03.000There's tons of different satellite operators.
00:49:05.000And the question is where do they operate out of and which state is paying, you know, giving allegiance to which region.
00:49:12.000In the event of a civil war, it's likely that DC would immediately assert tremendous authority over any rebelling factions, but I don't think it's going to be two factions.
00:49:21.000Americans just never read about civil war, so they assume everything is like America.
00:49:25.000Oh, a bunch of states will join a bunch of states and then they'll go fight each other.
00:50:01.000There may then come a point of unification between various factions, and then it could eventually become one-on-one, but that would redefine, it would only be possible if power could coalesce around communications and energy.
00:50:15.000Uh, someone in the chat mentioned as well, it'll be a lot like the 30 Years War.
00:50:17.000If anyone knows about the 30 Years War, that's what it's gonna, I think, will turn into.
00:50:21.000As well as, uh, What If All History has a good program on what it would look like, and if you know anything about the 30 Years War, you probably know what I'm saying.
00:50:28.000Um, essentially, what Tim said, like a bunch of different factions, it's gonna be a bunch of people that are just kind of wandering the countryside, that have just kind of...
00:50:34.000I don't know about raiding and pillaging, but it's gonna be... Electricity goes down, communications go down.
00:50:39.000Communications get controlled by probably the US military faction.
00:50:41.000stuff like that, uh, ideologically. I don't know about raiding and pillaging,
00:50:45.000but it's going to be... Words, yeah. Electricity goes down, communications go down.
00:50:49.000Communications get controlled by probably the U.S. military faction. You have the, uh, Great Lakes
00:50:56.000region, and you're going to have people who are unified around a collective idea of preserving
00:51:04.000You will get some kind of unification between all of these states, and probably Ontario.
00:51:08.000You'll then have, like, Southern Coalition with Texas, and maybe New Mexico, and Oklahoma, and Kansas, or something.
00:51:15.000And so, when the U.S., when people lose confidence in the federal government, There are five cultural regions in the United States, which is, I believe it's the Western, there's West, South, Southeast, Northeast, and Midwest.
00:51:33.000These are likely going to be weak factions, and they're all going to be fighting a federal faction that uses components from each and every state.
00:51:39.000In fact, it's possible, if a civil war results in regional fracturing, the federal government just evaporates within a matter of six months.
00:51:48.000Because they can't maintain control outside of, you know, with these states operating the way they are.
00:51:54.000I just wonder what happens to New York in all of this.
00:51:58.000People will die like rather instantly within a few days.
00:52:20.000You do not want to fuck around with this shit.
00:52:23.000You are technically correct, but you're missing the point on civil war.
00:52:26.000We know exactly what weapons people in a civil war will fight with.
00:52:28.000But no war that the United States declares on itself would stop at the borders of the United States.
00:52:32.000The entire world would attack the country and try and take it.
00:52:34.000Well, the borders are already open, so yeah, you're right.
00:52:36.000And the amount of missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles, that are pointed at the United States right now, ready to fire on a city, are like, outside the scope of comprehension.
00:53:49.000Uh, I know one thing I wanted to add, cause you guys are talking about the grid.
00:53:52.000So with, well, currently I'm moving soon, but with where I live in North Carolina, I know we actually have like, I think two, three main electric power companies.
00:54:02.000And I remember at one point when I was living under one of them, my parents live, uh, were under another electrical company and I was literally five, 10 minutes away from where they lived.
00:54:14.000And they had an outage at one point that was lasted for a few days and I never lost power and I literally lived five minutes from them.
00:54:22.000So the electrical grid thing is very, very special because you can, you, you could not even realize that your neighbor's on a different grid.
00:54:30.000So you could look across the street and be like, why are their lights off?
00:54:39.000Yeah well the well that grid that I was on it was very small it was actually a membership corp and it like it was they literally encompassed like three counties in North Carolina so like it was tiny it was like tiny so like it was very it was easy to shut down but easy to turn back on as well because of how small it was but yeah meanwhile my parents were under Duke Electrical which encompasses almost the whole state so like They're all over the place if there's an outage.
00:55:16.000And I also wanted to add, cause, uh, the tactical community pointed out the, uh, the gentleman in the rose colored glasses in the trailer with a red dot sight on his rifle.
00:55:26.000The only question is how is he aiming?
00:56:21.000So my question is, I listened to X Space with Elon and Alex Jones the other day.
00:56:27.000I think it was when Andrew Tate was on, Elon was talking about global population and how Earth can easily handle 10X, I think is what he threw out.
00:56:37.000I hear conservative buddies talk about this all the time.
00:56:42.000You know, it seems to be a pretty popular conservative talking point.
00:56:47.000Every time I ask them if they're looking forward to more neighbors, You know, they want more neighbors.
00:58:13.000I think off-world technologies will improve.
00:58:16.000And, uh, if you've ever been on a road trip or looked at a satellite, this planet can sustain substantially more human beings.
00:58:22.000And I'm not talking about people living next to each other, because I understand you need farmland, too, but there are ways of doing that with vertical farming.
00:58:27.000I hope that with all these cool new technologies, a lot of them that I talk about, that people aren't like, yeah, yeah, yeah, up until it all ends, and then the regrowth of society has to like desperately use them to regrow.
00:58:40.000I hope that people take it upon themselves to adopt them before that happens, so it doesn't happen.
00:58:47.000I think we need to figure out a way to petrify every human on the planet using something like a Medusa weapon, and then once one of our most scientifically literate individuals frees themselves, we can then selectively choose who to bring back from petrification to rebuild the Earth in our image.
00:59:55.000You know, everything, you know, not to mention our food supply, you know.
01:00:00.000Seeds are genetically modified to, you know, to be farmed easier.
01:00:03.000But now we're finding out those are unhealthier for us.
01:00:05.000I don't see any technology that's ever come along that's been good for humankind.
01:00:10.000Seems like, you know, grip strength, testosterone levels, everything was better, you know, in the past, if we want to live as biological human beings.
01:00:31.000I'm not saying people shouldn't be having kids.
01:00:34.000I'm just saying, to me, you know, I hear guys like Elon Musk and as much as I love you, Ian, You talk about graphene, and that sounds cool.
01:00:50.000I just feel like the more technology, the worse.
01:00:52.000Like I was happier, I think, 20 years ago, before cell phones, when we used to have to do that thing where we had to like, you know, the letters, like you had to Yeah, press a button three times.
01:01:13.000I just want to give a shout out to Retarded Prude in the chat.
01:01:16.000Uh, first, recognizing you do claim to be retarded, so I can, I can, I can, uh, I, I now understand why you said what you said.
01:01:23.000He said, Tim honestly reminds me of my 13-year-old cousin with not admitting he can be wrong and yelling about it and the anime references.
01:01:29.000The first thing I'll, I'll say is, me saying I'm right about one thing and then also saying, like, probably 12 times today, I'm wrong a lot shows, uh, you're, you are retarded.
01:01:40.000And, uh, more importantly, you got that anime reference, you motherfucker!
01:01:44.000Don't call me out for anime references that you understand.
01:01:46.000I want to disagree with you because without technology, we wouldn't have the best unvaxed spermbroker.com.
01:02:46.000Well, it's like, in order to be a part of society, you're wired in.
01:02:49.000Yeah, it'd be like, we're not going to stop using shovels, for instance.
01:02:53.000We have gone substantially over time, and we do have to go, because we have the song launch coming up in 50 minutes, so I've got to get going.
01:03:35.000It was just crowd surfing over the crowd during Trump's speech.
01:03:39.000It did get taken to the Capitol building and surfed there for a while.
01:03:42.000And then, you know, when things got crazy, it got drug up onto the scaffolding there.
01:03:48.000Everybody thinks it was the side of the Capitol building, but it was the scaffolding that was hung off of.
01:03:53.000Anyways, that flag has been going around the country, you know, from Trump speeches to the Trucker Convoy, college football games, country music festivals.
01:04:04.000We've been hoping to get it in the hands of, you know, some rock stars like Phil or John Rich, Oliver Anthony, Jason Aldean.