In this episode, we talk about a video of a guy robbing a Home Depot and a bunch of dudes beat the shit out of him. We talk about the difference between the mafia and the modern day goons, and if we are better off or worse off now.
00:00:03.000I gotta tell you guys, I watched this video from our friends over at Clown World on Twitter, and it just... I was so satisfied watching this video.
00:00:13.000I was filled with a certain kind of satisfaction.
00:00:16.000I want you to watch this video, because I know that all of you will also feel a kind of satisfaction.
00:00:21.000And the video is, a guy robbing a Home Depot, so a bunch of dudes beat the fucking shit out of him.
00:02:22.000I wouldn't actually want to be in a situation where I smash someone's hand like that.
00:02:27.000But the reason why it's satisfying is I think all of us are just so fucking fed up with these scumbags taking advantage of our kindness and our goodwill.
00:02:36.000Watching these guys just say, fuck no.
00:02:41.000We gotta pay what we pay because of people like you.
00:02:44.000And they beat the shit out of them, they pushed them, they shoved them, they stopped them, they hold them down, they say, call the police.
00:03:02.000Like, the reality of the mafia is not some glorified movie.
00:03:04.000No, they were robbing people, they were going to stores, they were stealing from them.
00:03:07.000My question is, as bad as that was, are we better or worse off now?
00:03:12.000I almost would rather have a couple of goons show up and be like, yes, we're gonna do you're gonna pay me and no one's gonna fuck with you.
00:03:20.000Other than what we have now, where could you imagine if there was still a mafia?
00:03:25.000What would happen to these dudes who raided the store stealing everything when they run into a clothing shop and they'll just grab clothes?
00:03:46.000The criminal coordination ability on the internet now is like post mafia so like they can organize around like it used to just be strong dudes hanging out on the corner with baseball bats that was the mafia basically I mean but now you got dudes with like Facebook groups that can coordinate be like the guys at the coffee shop on 4th and 11th let's meet there at this time and fuck him up kind of thing and they can... Dude that scene from a Bronx Tale?
00:04:12.000When the guys are being all loud, because the bartender won't serve them.
00:04:41.000Because the mob boss looked at them and said, I know your clothes, you're underdressed, but you're a gentleman and you will be allowed to drink in my establishment.
00:05:55.000They got fired because someone had come in and done the thing where they, like, grab all of the clothes that are on the front display and the company fired them because they said our policy is explicitly that you do not engage with shoplifters, you let them run away, probably because the company would face liability if they got injured or something like that, like workman's comp.
00:06:15.000That's what they say, which is interesting, right?
00:06:17.000And so there was this social media backlash where people were saying, you know, they're trying to stop people from stealing your products and you fired them.
00:12:31.000Look, I don't know that we'd be better off, I don't know that we're in a good place when you live in a kind of society where a guy's gonna beat the shit out of his vigilante justice, but I will tell you right now, our country, our society would be substantially better, crime would be way lower if we had this instead of what we have now with these mass looting gangs.
00:12:51.000Like, I watched a video, I think it was also from Clown World, guy in a pickup truck, two guys, back their truck up into, I think it's like a Walmart, smashing the sliding doors, walk in, lift up an ATM, throw it in the back of the truck and take off.
00:13:07.000If Chaz was running town, those guys, this would never happen.
00:13:12.000I think I've told this story on air before, but when my parents first immigrated to the US, they were first married and living in New York and they wanted to buy property in Brooklyn.
00:13:32.000Because it was like, this is how we know it's safe because the mob is in control.
00:13:36.000But, you know, unfortunately, it's kind of like the it's better to know your enemy proverb.
00:13:41.000Like, this is a system with structure as opposed to just random criminals all acting at random times, which makes it so you could run into crime at any moment.
00:13:51.000You don't know what's going to happen to your property.
00:13:53.000Like you say, vigilante justice is better than no justice.
00:14:10.000I really enjoy watching, this is maybe some twisted to me, but watching like bullies get fucked up and like watching like a dude mess with somebody with his hand and then he, but I'm like sick in this way.
00:14:21.000Like I want to see his hand get crushed into paste so he'll never be able to use it again.
00:14:25.000Like full torturous retribution kinda.
00:16:54.000And watching him just, like, paint that horrid, painful transition.
00:16:58.000In the beginning of the movie, when they're introducing De Niro's character, and he's at the bar, and he, like, looks over to the guy to his right, and he's like, excuse me, is this your pen?
00:17:59.000Not that it was good, but we were better off.
00:18:01.000You know, this might be a little bit off topic, but I also like the stories in American History X where you have Edward Norton does all the stuff that he does, then he goes to prison and he winds up getting, you know...
00:18:13.000For all intents and purposes he got fucked in the ass, you know, and he's he he went through but it's it's a redemption story, right?
00:18:20.000but then it has a tragic ending at the same time, but But I love those redemption stories, too.
00:18:26.000Yeah And you know and I and I don't think I don't think that That America's too far gone.
00:19:13.000Oh, I mean, yeah, it's basically... Different kind of iterations, but like, yeah.
00:19:17.000Yeah, it's basically kind of like tag, you know, but like you're the queer, or sometimes you can play it with a football too, but like if you have it, you have to like run, and the whole goal is to basically tackle you, so it's kind of like full contact tag.
00:20:04.000Has it really gotten so bad, which I don't know if y'all have seen this, but has it really gotten so bad that now the NFL is considered sports entertainment like WWE?
00:20:15.000Is it rigged, and is it really considered sports entertainment?
00:20:18.000But they also get more commercial breaks and everything.
00:20:20.000If you were to watch a high school or college game, it's a different structure than the NFL, right?
00:20:25.000This is not my area of expertise, but NFL players actually take more time on the sidelines because there's all these commercial breaks, from what I understand.
00:20:34.000They're not like under the same kind of physical pressure.
00:20:36.000I don't know whenever you're trying to go to college.
00:21:47.000This question's for the future representative, Jamison Ellis.
00:21:51.000Tonight, I'm actually going to go against the grain, all right?
00:21:54.000So, I'm not a Texan, but I have a lot of friends and family that are in Texas.
00:22:00.000With the issues that we have with the so-called grifters in Congress, said by the so-called esteemed Eyepatch McCain, I speak for my Texan friends when I ask, why should they trust you?
00:22:14.000Yeah, so that's actually a great question.
00:22:16.000So the only thing that I can really do, because whether someone decides to vote for me or not, it's going to be a risk either way.
00:22:22.000So if you vote for me, it's a risk, right?
00:22:32.000So what I'm doing differently is because other than giving my word that I'm going to go to Congress and do exactly what I say I'm going to do and represent the people, everybody does that, right?
00:22:41.000What we're doing different is we are actually building an accountability coalition.
00:22:46.000And it's not going to be run by me or my campaign.
00:22:50.000But the whole point of this accountability coalition is to be able to hold me accountable.
00:22:55.000And if I don't go to Congress and do exactly what I say I'm going to do, Then they'll have the numbers to vote my butt out of office and put somebody in there that, you know, they can give somebody another shot.
00:23:06.000The problem is right now is that incumbents have a 98% re-election success rate and it doesn't matter how bad they screw up, they're going to get re-elected because they depend on the apathy Of the majority and so we want to change that what we want to do is prove it out here in Texas or here all the way up here but in Texas in Texas too and then we want to roll that out to the rest of the state of Texas because we got to get Texas right first and then once we prove that this type of accountability coalition can be rolled out across a great state of Texas we can start rolling it out in other states but at the end of the day man as I am one voice amongst 435
00:23:48.000And I'm not running to be anybody's savior.
00:23:50.000I'm not running to be anybody's honored leader or esteemed leader.
00:23:54.000I'm not running to be Jesus or pastor.
00:23:58.000And the moment that I stop representing my constituents, they need to have the numbers to vote my ass out and put somebody in there that will.
00:24:08.000If I had one other question here, what core principles do you think you share with Crenshaw and what he will or would have done differently in office under similar circumstances?
00:26:23.000So I'm down here in Southern Arizona and we know that illegally immigrating to the United States thrives on businesses paying people under the table, aka with cash.
00:26:34.000So with this in mind, do you think that the government steps towards moving us to a cashless society is intentional or a massive oversight in regards to the illegal immigrants?
00:26:45.000And should the illegal migrants not be granted amnesty under Biden, what do you think would happen to them if we still push towards a cashless society?
00:26:54.000I think somebody would still pay them in cash.
00:26:59.000I think that it's, It's like why are there still video stores in the US?
00:27:04.000Well actually there are parts of the country that don't have regular access to internet so they don't depend on streaming.
00:27:09.000Just because the majority of people would move to a cashless society doesn't mean that a person who's hiring day laborers wouldn't know to have cash on hand.
00:27:21.000It shifts the consumer experience but not necessarily the business experience.
00:27:27.000You know, obviously I'm against amnesty.
00:27:28.000I don't think Joe Biden should grant it.
00:27:30.000Maybe he will at the end of his term just to give, you know, potentially President Trump something else to deal with.
00:27:36.000But I think you're, obviously you're probably experiencing this more directly than a lot of us are.
00:27:41.000I think the idea that there are ways that people encourage and support illegal migrations, including businesses that hire people who are here illegally, it's difficult to challenge, but unfortunately, I just don't think They would agree to be cashless.
00:27:57.000I think they know they would keep cash on hand to support people working on the table.
00:28:01.000Well, and I always think it's kind of funny when I hear the term cashless society, because back whenever I was, you know, getting into Bitcoin and whatnot, one of the biggest selling points for me was, you know, we don't, I don't know of very many people that still carry cash to this day.
00:28:15.000Like literally we swipe cards and it's just digits on a screen.
00:28:19.000And so, you know, I don't know that it would really make that big of a difference.
00:28:24.000I mean, any time that you want to pay somebody for something, you want to give them some kind of, whether it's tangible or intangible, there's always ways to pay people off, to buy people off.
00:28:38.000Or, you know, like how it is in Houston, you've got a whole group of illegals that will show up to the Home Depot and say, hey, I'll pay you 20 bucks and a six-pack of beer to come and help me do this, and then they'll just do it.
00:28:49.000You know, I don't really know that it would make a difference, cashless or not cashless, to be honest.
00:28:54.000It doesn't surprise me to think of a government creating a problem and then creating the solution for the problem.
00:29:01.000So they're like, oh, we accidentally let in all these people that shouldn't be here.
00:29:04.000Let's go to a central bank digital currency so we can monitor the economics and make sure that we can get all those people out.
00:29:27.000I don't think that they're intentionally letting people in just so that they can be like, oopsie.
00:29:31.000Now we need to do a digital service, but that's a happy, you know, by-product is that you could make that argument.
00:29:37.000I tell you one of the things and this is again just from from a congressional standpoint what we this is one of the reasons why I fully support the fair taxes because it untaxes income and it taxes what we spend not what we earn well what that means is is that those that are over here illegally aren't going to be exempt from is right now we have illegal aliens coming over and they're incentivized to be over here with all the benefits and everything else they can also evade Having to pay taxes as a result.
00:30:06.000It doesn't matter if it's a cashless society or not, if we get taxed on what we spend and not what we earn, illegals won't be exempt from it.
00:30:16.000So it actually de-incentivizes illegal immigration if we are able to repeal the 16th Amendment, which does away with the progressive income tax and set an active fare tax.
00:31:03.000So this is actually a question that I wanted to ask one of your earlier guests but wasn't able to get it in, but I guess let's ask the panel instead.
00:31:11.000Just what are your thoughts on the utter state of just mainstream Western Christianity and how it's just utterly failed in defending its values and just failed men in general?
00:31:20.000And do you think there's any reform going on?
00:31:22.000Because I see people like Matt Walsh and Jeff Youngers talk about this too.
00:31:26.000They just keep saying get married and have kids when the environment just isn't permissible for that really for men.
00:31:34.000It's very unfair and the consequences of divorce are so high and it just...
00:31:40.000It's asking someone to get married as a man in this day and age is like asking someone to walk into machine gun fire or charge a trench with a loaded musket.
00:31:53.000Well, even prenups can be overturned in court.
00:31:57.000And even if a prenup is financial, that may not protect your kids from being transed.
00:32:04.000I mean, the thing is, like, if you are feeling blackpilled, that's a very different conversation than how is Western Christianity failing, right?
00:32:12.000Like, there are a lot of ways to look at culture in the state of the world right now and say, like, things are awful, and no matter what, everything could go wrong, I could get a prenup, and then You know, the person I marry could cheat and then I could step on a landmine and, you know, I think we all go through periods where it feels like we are up against a very, you know, up against a stack deck, so to speak.
00:32:30.000But I think ultimately, like all things, we are challenged and tested and there are reasons why you should identify your values and live them even if the culture tells you that they're bad.
00:32:43.000And I think that It's hard to stay optimistic and I think it's easy to find fault like if you're talking about Western Christianity there are a lot of ways that theology has been corrupted or that people's personal sins or greed or ego have come in and led a lot of people astray which creates bigger cultural problems but I think that we're all put on earth to try and make the world better and not worse and so therefore we should try and use the resources at our disposal to not give in to these things.
00:33:14.000So yeah, maybe you get a prenup and it gets overturned in court, but hopefully you're with someone who doesn't believe in divorce, who wants to work through problems, who you feel like you've built a strong relationship with and can produce strong children and then, in turn, help build a strong community.
00:33:30.000That's maybe my optimistic pep talk coming through.
00:33:33.000Yeah, and I'll just say this, and again, I'm coming at it from two perspectives here.
00:33:37.000One, as a Christian, and two, as a congressional candidate, is my personal belief is that marriage is a religious institution and government needs to keep its hand out of it.
00:33:45.000I understand that government needs to be able to keep track of who's married and who's not.
00:33:52.000But one of the biggest things that really irks me is that if you're married, you get tax benefits.
00:33:59.000Uh, just simply because you're married.
00:34:01.000And, and I think that's a, that's a way for the federal government to kind of use that over our heads.
00:34:05.000And that's also why you have people that want to want to change or redefine what marriage actually is.
00:34:10.000Uh, whenever marriage existed, uh, and marriage was defined by God before government ever existed.
00:34:16.000So that's why I say it's a religious institution.
00:34:18.000As far as the churches go, the Western church, um, they've been castrated.
00:34:24.000And so we have churches that won't answer questions.
00:34:28.000We have churches that won't stand up for the truth.
00:34:31.000We basically have, in most trendy churches now, you have TED Talks with God sprinkled in to make people feel good.
00:34:41.000If you go to China, China, I just know I have to say that too, I say China.
00:34:46.000Whenever you go to China where it's against the law to be a Christian and you have the underground church growing, that takes commitment and that takes guts.
00:34:57.000I don't think most quote unquote Christians here in America could go to China and be willing to risk their lives to be able to meet and congregate.
00:35:06.000And so I think, I just personally think that the Western church, the American church has been castrated.
00:35:12.000I went through like, uh, I think it's, I mean, Christianity needs a reformation to become more widely adopted because people are like realists right now.
00:35:20.000They're not, they're not like women are not men.
00:35:22.000Dude does not, imaginary man does not live in the sky and impregnate women.
00:36:24.000But it's entirely possible there are people who are Christian teachers that don't know what the fuck you're talking about and will say weird shit.
00:36:46.000He has studied all the atheists, all those arguments.
00:36:50.000And what was really kind of refreshing, I actually saw you talking about this, how you went from being an atheist to You're not a Christian, but you're more like a deist.
00:37:05.000I know that there's something greater than us.
00:37:07.000Don't know what it is, but it's spaceless, timeless.
00:37:09.000It operates outside of our space and time.
00:37:11.000It's greater than us, which is what we ultimately have to base our moral absolutes on.
00:37:16.000Because if it's just based on what we agree to as a society, then that means as a society, if we all of a sudden decide that screwing kids is okay, Then that becomes the law of the land and that's just it's always evil no matter what and there has to be a constant for that but You know, I always like to look at it from a historical standpoint, too You know, that's why I like people like Josh McDowell and Lee Strobel who actually set out to disprove They figured that we could disprove Christianity if we could just disprove that Jesus Did that the things that they say happened to Jesus didn't actually happen and if we could somehow poke holes in that
00:37:54.000Then that also means the rest of the Bible is false.
00:37:56.000And so they set out to actually disprove, and for Lee Strobel specifically, I don't know if you've seen the movie The Case for Christ, but Lee Strobel specifically spent two years trying to disprove the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus as an atheist.
00:38:08.000And at the end of that two years, he had to follow the evidence wherever it led, and he wound up becoming born again and gave his life to Christ.
00:38:15.000The easiest way, I think, to explain it to somebody is, Ian, are you above Baldur's Gate?
00:39:22.000But you are not the god of their game.
00:39:24.000If you had console commands, you would be, but they've not released the patch for the console command, so maybe we gotta do a mod for that one.
00:39:30.000But, when you play a video game, and you control the lives of the characters in those games, and they are made in your likeness, you are a facsimile of how one could start.
00:39:41.000To try and interpret what God might be.
00:39:43.000And I say that very, very, very broadly.
00:39:47.000Is that the concept of what it means to exist outside of a system and to have characters made in your likeness is a concept humans can't understand.
00:39:57.000Yeah, of course, I think that the vibration of reality is forming us into what we are.
00:40:03.000And I can imagine if someone said, it's impossible for a person to grow two feet overnight, just instantly, by divine alteration.
00:40:13.000And then I play Fallout, and I press the little tilde button, and I put in the code to grow character by two feet, and press enter, and the character goes, boop!
00:40:44.000So that's not, that wouldn't be evidence that just because we can do that in a video game doesn't mean therefore the God of our universe also- I didn't say that.
00:41:03.000So the whole God creating, like being a man that impregnated Mary, like there's just some things about Christianity that I always had serious problems with that I think why it's not being mass adopted right now, why so many people like scoff at the stuff when there's so much good in it.
00:41:16.000So I would love people to take a more realistic look at the thing.
00:41:20.000I just think the real issue is that the average person, we have too many midwits who think they're smarter,
00:41:24.000and what they do is they say things like, Sky God. And the way you did that is why people would adopt
00:41:30.000Because instead of saying something like, let's start with the basics of simulation theory,
00:41:35.000which a lot of secular people will actually be interested to hear.
00:41:38.000That there is a higher intelligence entity of some source or race that programmed our universe as a simulation and all of us within it.
00:41:46.000Now you're beginning to understand Religion 101.
00:41:49.000In fact, theologians, scholars, philosophers, even atheist philosophers, have already speculated as to what simulation theory is before you even realized the possibility of simulations existing.
00:42:01.000Before the computer was invented, theologians, scholars, and philosophers understood the concepts of simulated existence.
00:42:10.000Now that you're finally at a point where you can see the development of technology so that you can understand basic concepts, now atheists are starting to say, oh, simulation theory, that makes sense to me.
00:42:21.000And then you say, so a higher power outside of our universe designed and created everything.
00:42:27.000In fact, in simulation theory, you're proposing it's plausible that our universe was created 5,000 years ago and that dinosaurs were placed in the dirt to test our faith.
00:42:39.000Because when someone makes a video game, they will put... They don't program the dinosaurs to die off and then wait a thousand years for the game to advance.
00:42:47.000No, they just drag and drop the dinosaur bone into the dirt.
00:42:51.000Yeah, Easter eggs and things like that.
00:42:53.000If someone truly believes simulation theory is a possibility, then they're essentially saying they understand the possibility that the universe was designed by God, and God exists, and we were created in his likeness.
00:43:08.000The midwits like to listen to George Carlin.
00:43:11.000I like George Carlin, he's a funny guy.
00:43:13.000But George Carlin has that famous bit where he's like, the greatest story ever told is a man in the sky.
00:43:19.000And if you do, and he's watching you always.
00:43:21.000And I'm like, the funny thing about that joke and the problem with the joke is that the average person has never actually heard the philosophical high level wise discussion of existence, philosophy, creation, But they watch Comedy Central and they hear George Carlin say, a man in the sky is watching you!
00:43:43.000And then you go and actually talk to, like, a theologian at a university, and he'll start explaining to you crazy high-level moral philosophies.
00:43:52.000What we know is real in the universe, what we think we know.
00:44:17.000What if he had Wine, and he had like 50 people, so he watered it down into two jugs, and then each of those two, he watered them down again.
00:44:24.000So they got a little bit of watered down wine.
00:44:27.000It still tasted like wine, because they hadn't had wine in, you know, 30 days or whatever.
00:46:00.000I'm allowed to believe whatever I want.
00:46:01.000If someone's gonna be like, this is the true thing, call or ask, what's wrong with Christianity today?
00:46:05.000You're gonna tell me that this is real.
00:46:06.000So I told this story the other day about a guy I met, Who said that, super long story short, drug addict, shitty life, one day in the woods, he was taking a piss, after a drug party, and he felt a booming voice from within him say, what are you doing?
00:46:19.000And he freaked out, he had adrenaline rush, spike, what the fuck?
00:46:58.000Did you make that experience up to trick me, or did you truly experience this, are telling me it happened, and whether or not I believe you or not is entirely up to me.
00:47:06.000It doesn't matter whether I believe him, I believe he believes it, and that's fine.
00:47:10.000But I also believe there is more than this universe, and that is... Anyone with any modicum of wisdom knows Our perception of reality is not the end-all be-all of reality.
00:47:26.000And the reason why is, before the publication of the charged electromagnetic spectrum, people thought the universe was what you could touch, smell, see, and hear.
00:47:35.000Holy shit, motherfuckers, we didn't even know what air was a couple thousand years ago.
00:47:39.000We didn't know that there was actually air until some dude, they had these little brass balls with straws.
00:47:45.000They would dunk it in water, put their thumb over it, Lift it up, put it over their heads, release their thumb, and the water would pour over their heads.
00:48:38.000Motherfucker could go in and fuse molecules together in a high-density fusion device that is neat, that we could theorize how to do.
00:48:47.000And I'm not saying that Jesus had a fucking matter compactor underground or anything, but it is entirely possible that you can take molecules and alter them at the atomic level into whatever you want.
00:49:00.000There have been amazing experiments where they've used two-dimensional planes to alter the electron count to change the chemical properties of a simulated atom.
00:49:10.000They actually did an experiment where they simulated the chemical properties of lead and turned it to gold!
00:49:16.000That being said, these things are all entirely possible, but we are limited by the technology of what we have today and what we've yet to discover.
00:49:22.000So for you to sit here and say, it's impossible to do, y'all need to read about some solipsism.
00:49:26.000Dude, Jesus Christ turning water into wine was not physically possible from all evidence that we have about what technology was available.
00:49:34.000How did they set concrete underwater in Rome?
00:49:37.000I don't know exactly what the process was.
00:49:39.000It was some of the strongest concrete on Earth.
00:49:40.000That's considered to be a lost technology.
00:51:32.000In any case, last night there was a discussion about French President Macron threatening to send NATO into war in Ukraine.
00:51:40.000NATO is a defensive alliance and the trigger that actually gets all the treaty signatories into war, Article 5, is when a member state is attacked by a foreign power.
00:51:52.000So if there's no Russian attack on a NATO member, Macron's threat is technically just a French threat because no one else is required to participate.
00:52:22.000Well, and it makes me think about what are they going to say is an attack on a NATO ally, right?
00:52:27.000So like Sweden's going to be a part of NATO.
00:52:30.000And we know that one of the things that Sweden has done recently is close their border with Russia because they say Russia keeps sending people across the border and they can't sustain this.
00:52:39.000And it's a form of Russian aggression.
00:52:41.000So if that continues, is that attacking a NATO ally?
00:52:45.000And is that enough for everyone to go to war?
00:52:47.000Or are they actually thinking like, You know, I just don't trust NATO.
00:52:51.000I feel like NATO will look for any excuse to escalate the situation.
00:52:55.000And so I don't think it's going to be like, oh, we installed a military and there was actual conflict.
00:53:00.000I think it'll be like, well, you started doing something you didn't really like, and we take that as a form of an attack on us.
00:53:07.000Yeah, it's like I see them kind of it's like a war one situation is everyone's got all these guns and stuff and can't use it.
00:53:14.000So they're just waiting and like otherwise NATO if I think NATO should be complete disbanded.
00:53:18.000It's kind of pointless like we beat the Soviets over.
00:53:20.000I don't get why we're we're continuing to have this but It's like they're just sitting there like, oh, if we don't do this, well then we have no reason to exist.
00:53:26.000They've realized that their raison d'etre doesn't exist anymore.
00:53:29.000They have no, they have nothing there.
00:53:31.000And I don't know, they're just trying to like, I feel like they're just trying to make themselves feel like they're worth it.
00:55:17.000But we are going to strengthen the Roberto line.
00:55:19.000Kim is going to give Roberto a lady to juice up.
00:55:24.000And then once we move to New Chicken City... So this is New Chicken City, and we're going to build Neo Chicken City, which is going to be cyberpunk themed.
00:55:33.000And we're going to get like little neon visors for the chickens.