In this episode, we talk about the latest in the Iran crisis, the latest on the price of oil and gas, and the potential end of the war in the Middle East. We also hear from Brandon Herrera, who is running for Congress in the upcoming primary election.
00:02:12.000Gas prices were, there was a fear it was going to skyrocket because crude oil had shot up so high due to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:02:20.000And then Trump comes out and says, the war is basically over.
00:03:11.000Over the weekend, Islamic extremists lobbed IEDs, improvised explosive devices at protesters in New York City.
00:03:19.000Now, that in and of itself is absolutely insane.
00:03:22.000And then you add on top the depravity of the media, who has repeatedly misled the public by framing this as though the protesters planted bombs at Mamdani's house.
00:03:34.000It's ridiculous seeing these headlines they're putting out saying suspicious devices found near Mayor Mamdani's home.
00:03:42.000When the real story is, with video, Islamic extremists threw nail bombs at protesters.
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00:05:51.000We're not out of the woods yet, but we completed the one goal that we had in the very beginning, which is getting the rhino Tony Gonzalez out of office.
00:06:43.000I think it has to do with a lot of factors.
00:06:46.000You came really close the first time around by within a couple hundred votes, I think, is the reporting.
00:06:51.000This time around, aside from the fact that people already were questioning his choices, we got this other story in which people really questioned his choices about this affair and everything like that.
00:07:04.000So we'll get into this later on for sure.
00:07:06.000But, you know, in all honesty, I'm more interested in what you want to bring, like your story about what you want to bring to Congress, which is particularly dysfunctional.
00:07:51.000He added that the U.S. is very far ahead of its initial four to five week estimate, estimated timeframe.
00:07:59.000Now, I don't know what that really means for Trump to be like it's very much, pretty much complete, but you take a look at oil prices.
00:08:07.000When Donald Trump comes out and says, I think we're done, oil drops from 97.
00:08:14.000It was over 100 before, down to 84 just a few hours later.
00:08:20.000So it's looking like the market is reacting to this may be the end right now.
00:08:26.000And I will stress this: based on my conversations with people in the Beltway, a lot of these fat cats and big wigs, the big money, they've been acting as though they fully expect this to be wrapped up in a couple of weeks.
00:08:56.000Look, if this actually does get wrapped up, you know, say, say on a fast timeline within two weeks, and the U.S. can make a legitimate claim that the majority of their goals were met, think that it might end up being you know a positive thing look the iranian regime has always been or at least for the past 47 years has been a thorn in the side of basically everyone in the west all of the middle east they're all their neighbors hated them um
00:09:24.000They were constantly funding terrorism.
00:09:27.000There's plenty of history of them attacking U.S. forces.
00:09:32.000Because of Iran, there was a lot of people that were in Iraq that ended up losing limbs or dying because of the bombs that they were supplying to the insurgents and stuff.
00:09:41.000So again, I wasn't for the war beforehand, but if I am pro-America, so if it ends up where they wrap it up in the next week or so, I mean, I think that's a good thing for the United States.
00:09:54.000Remember that audio saying that Phil's audio is low.
00:09:58.000But let me just add real quick, also, Phil, the way your laptop mandar is angled, your shirt, because they can't see the second word, it looks like it just says, I stand with Israel crossed out.
00:10:08.000But then you can only see the top of Palestine, so it looks like you actually stand with Palestine.
00:10:23.000There's this post on Reddit that went viral where they said, I can't remember who they said Trump Jr. and someone else bought, invested into a drone manufacturer or something like this right before the war started, signaling that they knew and they're profiting off of it or whatever.
00:10:41.000But I don't think these leftists understand what invested in means.
00:10:44.000They assume that investment only just means like, I'm going to make money.
00:10:47.000They don't understand it means I am funding the creation of what they're doing.
00:10:51.000So like if we're getting involved in war and we know that there are enemy countries that are producing these specialty drones for warfare, and you're like, if I provide money, we can have those too.
00:11:02.000See, they don't understand the point of what investment is because they're communists.
00:11:05.000So, you know, and Reddit's just basically all communists.
00:11:09.000Is it insider training if like Nancy Pelosi knows a company's about to start, so she invests in another company that's going to support that company?
00:11:16.000Like it's technically still insider training.
00:11:18.000As soon as they were moving aircraft carrier strike groups into the Middle East, you kind of knew what was going to happen.
00:11:46.000I think that he might – I never know.
00:11:49.000like Phil, you were saying he blow like he loves to trick people and to say nonsense to get the world like I have no idea what this guy's gonna do.
00:12:24.000It was pretty extreme the first night.
00:12:27.000I guess if they have the, you know, the chain of command or whatever, the line of succession, and he wiped them all out, I guess you could say 40 or whatever.
00:12:36.000I don't know that actual, but my understanding is that they came in and they voted for his son to come in.
00:12:41.000And we'll get into all that too, but I'm curious, Mr. Harris, you will be very likely going into Washington, D.C. What do you think about Trump?
00:12:50.000You know, they're not calling it a war.
00:12:51.000They're saying it's a combat operation.
00:12:54.000Heg Seth said, we'll have the lawyers, you know, figure that out.
00:12:57.000It's very obviously a war, but I'm curious what you think of it and what would your position be?
00:13:03.000Yeah, like constitutionally speaking, if you're going to go to war, you need the approval of Congress.
00:13:07.000And now that's changed over the course of, especially since World War II.
00:13:10.000We've gotten a lot looser with that definition with the War Powers Act and different things like that.
00:13:14.000I still, I'm personally in favor of the idea that if we're going to go to war with another nation, you need the approval of Congress.
00:13:20.000That being said, I don't think anybody wants another forever war in the Middle East in the sandbox.
00:13:26.000I don't think anybody's in favor of that.
00:13:28.000Yeah, every day, all the time, forever.
00:13:32.000The thing is, though, I really, you know, less so with this Iran conflict, but we'll see how it pans out.
00:13:38.000But especially with Venezuela, is if we are going to get involved with something, I vastly prefer the kind of conflict where you go in, the entire op takes an hour.
00:13:47.000You go in, you get out, you accomplish it, you get it done, and you don't spend 20 years somewhere, spend trillions of dollars in a war that fathers and sons are fighting in the same conflict generation apart.
00:14:41.000I know people are going to be like, Tim, we sent all those, but no, no, I'm saying, let's say we've got troops, you know, and then Iran's like, we're going to go blow them all up.
00:14:50.000Trump says, okay, we're going to take out their capability to do this.
00:14:54.000If he goes to Congress and says, put it to a vote, you just told the whole world your next military move.
00:15:00.000And that is, I think, largely why they don't want to go to Congress, but also how they exploit the rules so they don't go to Congress.
00:15:11.000I mean, that's clearly like, it's kind of like, I think it's the same justification for no-knock raids.
00:15:15.000Like, I am largely against no-knock raids, but I understand there's certain situations in which case you're like, okay, we have verified actionable intel.
00:15:23.000If we try to knock on this door, there's 18 armed cartel members on the inside.
00:15:40.000And then if you threaten to take that power away because they're abusing it, they'll say, then what will you do when you actually need to no-knock raid?
00:15:46.000It's the same thing with abortion, where they always come back to the, oh, well, it was rape or incest or whatever when like the vast majority of cases, like the very vast majority, that's not the case.
00:15:55.000Do you think we're headed towards a future of central control and authority where we trust the president to make the decisions about who we attack?
00:16:03.000Or are you, do you want to scale it back to congressional world?
00:16:07.000I mean, I think we've been headed there for a long time.
00:16:10.000I mean, this is, people think that this is unique to Trump.
00:16:12.000I saw there's a couple like gotcha moments.
00:16:14.000Tim, you kind of got a little bit of a, you know, crap storm on the internet over the thing that you posted.
00:16:33.000I posted a quote from Stephen Colbert about gas prices because everyone's a retard and I know.
00:16:39.000And so I was like, I'm going to post Stephen Colbert's quote without quotes in it and then ignite the internet and get really angry.
00:16:45.000For those that don't remember, there's a huge story three years ago where Colbert said something like gas is hit an all-time high, but I'm okay with paying a buck or two for a clean conscience or something like this because we are going to get involved in the war in Ukraine.
00:16:59.000So now that Donald Trump was saying, look, oil prices are temporarily going up.
00:17:03.000And now all of a sudden liberals were losing it being like, MAGA's going to support high gas prices.
00:17:09.000Was like, this is the perfect opportunity for me to trap all these libs.
00:17:12.000I'm going to quote Stephen Colbert, who they defended, in this context, and then they will insult and attack me saying MAGO will do anything for Trump.
00:17:47.000Because, well, and it does point out the fact that like people are just headline readers nowadays.
00:17:50.000Like, how many people actually take the time?
00:17:53.000And, you know, I'm guilty of this occasionally.
00:17:55.000How many people take the time to actually open up the article and read the context behind the two sentences that they read before, you know, that are in the headline?
00:18:04.000This is like the sole basis for my job in media is that, you know, people are always like, Tim's kind of a milk toast fence.
00:18:11.000And I'm like, yeah, because my opinion on like the tax rate and, you know, the policy for abortion, I go, wow, I don't know if I'm smart enough to answer those questions for you guys, nor do I have the clarity, of a moral clarity to tell you how to live your life, but I can certainly tell you the media lied to you about everything.
00:18:27.000So that's the challenge we have right now, it's not even that the media lies, which they do incessantly.
00:18:32.000It's one of the stories we've got pulled up.
00:18:35.000So that, you know, the NBC knows they can write this fake headline making the victims of a terror attack sound like the perpetrators because most people are not going to read the story.
00:18:47.000And I guarantee you now, there's a bunch of lips going around saying, did you hear about the white supremacist rally where they threw explosives at Mamdani's house?
00:18:54.000Because that was the headline that NBC created, even though the real story is anti, I guess the protest was like anti-Islam or Islam critical or something.
00:19:04.000And Islamic jihadi extremists lobbed nail bombs at them.
00:19:09.000And then the media frames it to make them the bad guys, which again, we'll get into.
00:19:13.000But yes, people aren't reading the news.
00:19:15.000They're just skimming the headlines and then assuming that's the truth.
00:19:21.000Man, there's even just deep fake fake news headlines that I'll read and I'll be like, is this real?
00:19:25.000And I'll ask Grock and I'll be, nope, this is fabricated.
00:19:29.000The American ship did not get blown up by Iranian missiles today.
00:19:33.000Like, it's got 17,000 likes on it or whatever.
00:19:36.000I'm sure you've seen the billions of AI videos that have been going around where it's, you know, like an American fighter jet being chased or an American helicopter being chased by a dude on a flying carpet.
00:19:47.000This is going to one-shot your grandfather on Facebook.
00:20:11.000Speaking of the lies and manipulations of the media, I have a tweet here from NBC New York, which reads: Multiple arrests made after, quote, suspicious devices found outside Gracie Mansion, home of Mayor Zorhan Mamdani, during anti-Islam rally and counter-protest.
00:20:28.000Now, any person who heard that is going to assume that anti-Islamic protesters planted suspicious devices.
00:20:37.000In fact, what actually happened is that an Islamic extremist lobbed a nail bomb at protesters.
00:20:44.000And here we have a video where there's the guy.
00:20:51.000This guy, Walter Madison, says, I was in the middle of saying, as a born and raised New Yorker, we welcome everyone in the city, when he threw that over my head.
00:20:57.000And as we learned after the fact, what he's throwing is a nail bomb.
00:21:07.000Yes, which is actually, I'm glad you brought that up because TATP, they got very lucky on that because people were like, oh, the fuses, you know, they didn't ignite, whatnot.
00:21:16.000TATP is very notorious for being an impact explosive.
00:21:20.000So that's something that could have immediately gone off the moment it hit the ground, just from the impact of smacking the concrete.
00:22:46.000But he said, think about how bad it would be if a nuclear device was lit off by Islamic extremists, all the poor Muslims or whatever would face all that hate or something like that.
00:22:55.000And yeah, that's the way the media operates.
00:22:58.000So the question is, what is the job of the press?
00:23:00.000It's to inform the public so that they can make the correct decisions to better lead their country through the democratic processes.
00:23:08.000That means you tell people, Islamic extremists threw an improvised explosive at protesters and they say, okay, let's assess that and figure out how we should adapt our country, our city, our state, or otherwise.
00:23:20.000When you put the headlines like this, what are they going to think?
00:23:23.000Oh, wow, white supremacists are scary.
00:23:29.000Zorhan Mamdani tweeted Jake Lang, a white supremacist, blah, blah, blah.
00:23:33.000And then he said, what happened next is even worse.
00:23:36.000It is wrong to use violence and explosives.
00:23:39.000He made it sound like Jake Lang showed up and his guys threw explosives.
00:23:44.000How dare you peaceably assemble as is guaranteed your right under the First Amendment and give an opportunity for one of our people to do that to you?
00:23:53.000Like, that's really how that came off.
00:23:56.000Yeah, it's like the Sultan Nitson said in that passage about a soldier was about to be murdered, stabbed, and then he fought back, grabbed the knife, and stabbed the attacker, criminally charged for it.
00:24:09.000And when he was in court, they said, why didn't you flee?
00:24:12.000And he said, he was trying to kill me.
00:24:15.000And so it's the poor, the poor criminal.
00:24:18.000Why didn't you, you know, actually a really great example?
00:24:22.000One of my favorite episodes of Made with Children, a show I'm not a big fan of, because El Bundy's always losing.
00:24:27.000Except, no, ma'am, they had their successes.
00:24:29.000But I love the episode where he punched a guy in the face and then sued the guy for hurting his hand on his face.
00:24:38.000And I guess the point of the story was it was always, something was always backwards or whatever.
00:24:42.000Or the point of the show, it's always going wrong.
00:24:44.000But this is basically how they operate with these terror attacks.
00:24:47.000Like you just said, how dare you create the opportunity to entice these poor young men?
00:24:52.000You know, and I assure you right now, there are lefties in New York saying that I guarantee this, because I've been in their meetings, they're probably saying things like, well, you got to understand they're internalizing white supremacy and victimhood, and they're lashing out at the only way they know how.
00:25:06.000Yeah, I mean, they take away the agency of the people that are actually carrying out the crime.
00:25:10.000They say, well, these poor people don't know any, they don't know better, or they can't help it, or what have you, which is completely and totally taking away their agency and the fact that they are human beings that actually make their own decisions.
00:25:21.000They lay the blame on someone else all the time.
00:25:23.000You were talking about the role of media and journalism, particularly.
00:25:27.000And I feel like it used to be find out what happened and then tell people about it.
00:25:32.000Now it's find out what's a lie and then tell people so they know which one's the lie.
00:25:37.000And then you kind of leave it up to everybody else to go find the truth.
00:25:40.000You know, there's just so many things happening that one guy cannot deliver that amount of information properly anymore.
00:26:03.000It's just, it's insane to me that now, like, the narrative, like, weaving a narrative is part of the job when it comes to mainstream journalism.
00:26:09.000That wasn't the way it was ever intended to be.
00:26:25.000The moment people pointed out that Phil's mic was low and they started saying turn up Phil's mic, we got a bunch of no, turn Phil's mic off.
00:26:36.000But Phil's mic was fine the whole time.
00:27:33.000This is the one thing where I realize TikTok started it, and now AI is definitely one of those things that I'm seeing how easy it is to fall behind.
00:27:41.000Because I think this is where I'm pushing back.
00:27:43.000Where I'm like with my parents or my grandparents, I don't understand how you can't understand Facebook or whatever when it was coming out.
00:27:49.000Now I'm like, nope, nope, this is scary.
00:27:52.000I understand the importance of it, but like whenever I see AI music or AI art and things like that, my initial response is just like, uncanny valley, wrong.
00:29:49.000I think when that happens, if there was a member of Congress that was like an advisor or an advisor to Congress that was AI or something, like a state advisor.
00:30:45.000There's a like three, it's like six lane highway, so three and three.
00:30:49.000So to turn left, you have to stop in a median and then wait until the road clears.
00:30:54.000So I'm in the middle lane autopilot going, I think like 70 miles an hour, and there's a pickup truck sitting in the meeting waiting to turn.
00:31:02.000And as soon as it pops up on the, it was in the Model S, it slams the brakes on from like, and me and my wife are like, need to say, we were like, holy crap.
00:31:10.000And I, you, you tap the get the accelerator to stop it, make it go forward again.
00:31:48.000A couple times where there was issues, but it's for the most part, I can basically rely on it to go wherever I want to go without any issues.
00:31:56.000You know, and I don't really care about the cyber truck because it's got curb weight.
00:32:05.000So the way Elon put it is, I think, in the crash testing of the Cybertruck, he said, if the Cybertruck gets in an argument with another car, it will win.
00:33:32.000I can only represent myself effectively.
00:33:34.000You could pass a note for me, but then what, 700,000 people, you're going to like, you've got to make your own decisions at some point and we can trust you.
00:33:41.000But that system, it's getting so big, it feels like it's not sustaining.
00:33:44.000Well, I mean, it's represented based on population.
00:33:47.000And really, the job is not to represent each individual person.
00:33:50.000The job is to say, okay, this is the area of land.
00:33:53.000These are the people that I'm representing.
00:33:55.000These are the issues that they're having that aren't being put on a national stage.
00:33:59.000Like, for example, in my district, it's the biggest border district in the country.
00:34:04.000We've got water issues, water shortages.
00:34:07.000We have AI data centers that are moving in.
00:34:09.000We have oil thefts that are happening in the Permian Basin areas.
00:34:13.000It's my responsibility to then take those issues to the national stage to represent the broader whole of the people, not each individual person.
00:34:21.000Because I mean, realistically, the best form of government is the one that governs most locally.
00:34:25.000So you want to take the most amount of power away from federal, give it to states, states down to local communities.
00:34:31.000And the ideal form of government is the individual.
00:34:33.000But in lieu of that, you have to have somebody that can represent that voice.
00:34:36.000And if you're looking for things that affect you personally, like on that kind of level, you do have state representatives.
00:34:41.000So like you wouldn't go to Brandon, who's a federal representative.
00:34:44.000He represents a district in Washington.
00:34:46.000You can go to your local representative and talk to the people about the needs of your community on a state level.
00:34:52.000It's about the district, not every single individual as an individual.
00:34:57.000And even when it was 35,000 people, it's impossible.
00:35:01.000Come on, you think back in the day when they created the country, one guy was going to go to each and every of the 35,000 and be like, literally what you want, I will advocate for.
00:35:10.000No, sometimes there's going to be contradictions.
00:35:12.000So I agree with you in essence that it is getting pretty wild.
00:35:16.000these districts are getting so massive but the general idea is do you have a do you have an understanding of what your district is looking for and wants in terms of you know uh brandon will be going to dc uh dealing with federal policy and representing the interests of everybody in this district correct And that means there's going to be challenges.
00:35:35.000And I don't mean just to say this about Brandon, but literally any member of Congress.
00:35:38.000You got 100,000 people who think raw milk should be banned.
00:35:42.000You got 100,000 people who think raw milk should be legal.
00:36:12.000I mean, I feel like on one element of it, you could interpret it that way.
00:36:16.000Things are getting crazy in that regard.
00:36:18.000But also on the other one, with the age of information technology and instant communication, you could say that representatives, if they actually gave a damn about representing the people that they were responsible for, they're in the best position possible because they can instantly from D.C. talk to their constituents and ask what they need and ask what they want and ask what the issues are from the district.
00:36:53.000Technically, I'm still the president of U.S. term limits for the state of Texas.
00:36:56.000I mean, a lot of what I did when in between the last two elections, or the last election and this one, was go to the Capitol in Austin and ask other members of the state legislature if they would sign on to the term limits pledge.
00:37:08.000Because I don't think anybody goes to D.C. and gets better.
00:37:13.000I'm kind of of the opinion that if you have term limits, you're going to end up giving the bureaucracy more power because you have people that are only there for, say, for Congress, it's whatever, four terms, right?
00:37:25.000Just at the point where they really learn the ins and outs about D.C., they're term limited out and they have to leave.
00:37:30.000So what could end up happening is the bureaucrats and the staffers that don't have any kind of term limits end up running the show even more than they already do, which we understand that staffers really do a lot of making decisions for Congress.
00:37:42.000They tell their congresspeople or their senators, this is how we're voting or what have you.
00:37:46.000But what do you say to people that say term limits actually aren't going to solve the problem?
00:37:50.000It's going to make the bureaucracy more powerful.
00:37:52.000Well, here's what I would argue in return: I don't think it's going to solve the problem.
00:37:56.000I don't think any one thing, this is a massive, multi-multifaceted problem.
00:38:00.000I think it's going to help in regards with the incumbency advantage because not only do you have the name recognition that comes with incumbency, but a lot of times you have the fundraising ability and everything.
00:38:09.000Like once you get to the levels of, for example, John Cornyn right now, who's done 24 years in the Senate.
00:38:19.000But he has the ability to throw $100 million at Ken Paxton because he's essentially invincible at this point financially.
00:38:28.000And so like that's something that snowballs and people don't get better.
00:38:31.000John Cornyn, I mean, he was never great, but he certainly did not get better.
00:38:35.000And now he has like a fraction of a billion dollars to throw at his opponent who's objectively a better candidate.
00:38:43.000And so I think you're actually kneecapping the ability of good incumbents to hold these people accountable.
00:38:48.000I mean, in my race, I got outspent $13 million, like 10 to 1 initially.
00:38:54.000And it was just because the guy had access to the appropriations committee and to all the big PACs and super PACs and everything like that.
00:39:01.000He was able to throw all that money at me.
00:39:03.000And I think if you start holding these people accountable in the sense that they can't continue to snowball those resources, things get a little better.
00:39:13.000I'm thinking about like AI, about using an AI to compile what your district wants.
00:39:19.000And then so it's easier for you as a candidate to focus on.
00:39:22.000Because I think what's going to happen is you're going to go to DC and get, I don't know what's going to happen because it's up to you.
00:39:27.000You know, you're sovereign, but if there is a temptation to get sucked into DC politics and like be part of the gang there and then kind of turn a blind eye to behind what's the past, you know?
00:39:37.000My understanding is that the first thing that happens is Mitch McConnell will bite you and then transform you into one of them.
00:39:44.000I have, what is it, three days to cut off my arm or else just tell us if you get notice all the teeth marks on the inner forum of all new members of Congress.
00:39:53.000Well, I mean, he has to wake up first.
00:39:54.000Instead of being like, hey, don't do that, which is like, well, all the Congress people pretty much, there's a re, they go there and they get involved with political, you know, federal politics.
00:40:02.000If we had an easier way to compile what the districts want and need using like an AI or some sort of system.
00:40:08.000I mean, I'm not discounting AI as a tool.
00:40:10.000Like maybe I came off as a bit of like a Luddite a second ago, but like I understand the utility of AI in that regard.
00:40:16.000But at the same time, I just, I don't know, especially what I'd like to do is kind of approach the problem from the other side of things when it comes to, because I know I guarantee any DC staffer watching this, they've used AI to summarize bills and they've used AI to figure out, okay, I have a 500-page bill on the table.
00:40:40.000Let's approach it from the other side and stop having these 4,000-page bills.
00:40:44.000Like, let's start going back to like couple page bills that any reasonable human can actually read and understand because otherwise it's just staffer slop.
00:40:51.000Matt Gates was obsessive about getting rid of the omnibus bills.
00:40:54.000Matt Gates, it was a big deal, and then he left.
00:40:57.000And you're the first person that's mentioned it since that's tangentially close to Congress.
00:41:24.000Well, I mean, to be fair, I mean, the first time I met Matt Gates, I was asked by his staff to fly in and testify in front of a congressional field hearing on ATF overreach.
00:41:33.000And I think it was like the end, the ATF Act, which, if I'm not mistaken, was either like a one- or two-page bill.
00:41:39.000I read it while I was sitting there waiting to testify on it.
00:41:52.000No, no, here's what I don't understand.
00:41:54.000When they bring in the omnibus, I don't understand why Thomas Massey doesn't just sneak up behind it, lift it up and just slide in a one-page amendment.
00:42:02.000Because nobody reads it, and they're going to be like, wait, what happened?
00:42:06.000I mean, that's one of the things that Congress likes about the omnibus bills, right?
00:42:09.000Like they can go ahead and slide something in and it gives them cover.
00:42:12.000They can say, well, you know, I had to vote for the omnibus bill because all of these good things wouldn't have happened.
00:42:17.000So this bad thing that you don't like, we had to vote yes on it because it was an omnibus bill.
00:42:22.000And it gives them cover to vote yes on things that are bad.
00:42:25.000My pitch to Thomas Massey was because he said they was able to get an amendment into an omnibus like a year and a half, two years ago, that said if they didn't pass a budget, they would reduce all existing budgets by 1% or something.
00:42:40.000And everybody in Congress was like, oh, that's meaningless because we'll just pass another omnibus or whatever.
00:42:46.000And so when they didn't and everything dropped a point, he was like, that's how you do it.
00:42:49.000And my pitch was using something like that where they'll make a concession, can you orchestrate this kind of like, how would you describe this?
00:42:59.000Series of bills, sleeper bills, that, oh, oh, we would call this a Voltron law.
00:43:06.000Each individual component of the law does very little and most people don't care.
00:43:10.000But when all of them get activated, then they abolish the NFA or something.
00:43:17.000When the five single-page bills come together, all guns are now legal and everything else is removed.
00:43:24.000Are you going to pass legislation you want to pass in Congress?
00:43:28.000There's a lot of priorities, I mean, specifically in my district and some that apply nationally that I'd love to get done.
00:43:33.000But one of them, I mean, again, comes down to border is codifying a lot of the stuff that President Trump has done to solve the border crisis.
00:43:42.000Because my God, I mean, I campaigned in this district last cycle, and I talked to the sheriffs.
00:43:47.000I talked to a lot of the Border Patrol and National Guard guys deployed on the border off the record, entirely off the record, just listening to the actual problems that they were dealing with.
00:43:57.000And now campaigning in this district for the second time, it's night and day.
00:44:46.000But the actual strategy is to force the debate in the other direction.
00:44:50.000So instead of constantly having a debate over which guns should get banned this time, the debate should start with the Republicans saying, we're going to make it mandatory for everybody above the age of 18 to own a gun.
00:45:01.000You are required to go to the Department of Gun Services, the DGS, where you will then fill out the paperwork, like basically just here's who I am, so that you can get your one sidearm and long gun.
00:45:13.000Then when Democrats say you're crazy, say, okay, how about we just go with don't ban guns?
00:45:19.000So I do laugh, but there is actually, I think there's at least two states that have a county that did something similar.
00:45:25.000I think one of them is Georgia and the other is Tennessee.
00:45:27.000I could be could be wrong on that, but they did it and they don't enforce it, but they put it out there because they're saying, like, this is our local crime prevention.
00:46:35.000Like, and, you know, the NRA leadership has changed a lot since then.
00:46:37.000They seem to be going in a much more based direction, which I'm thankful for.
00:46:40.000I'd like to see some results, but I will never forgive them for capitulating on the bump fire stocks and whatnot.
00:46:47.000Like when the push was coming from the Democrats, to my understanding, they were the ones advocating behind the scenes, like, oh, well, what if we just allow this to be banned?
00:46:54.000It's like, no, no, no, you should be fighting for us.
00:46:56.000You shouldn't be figuring out what the least consequential compromise you can make is.
00:47:01.000But now they're doing, what is it, the fixed reset trigger?
00:47:18.000The Supreme Court said, no, you can't do that.
00:47:19.000Right now, well, because if you actually look at the letter of the law, when it comes to a machine gun, it is a weapon that fires more than one round per pull of the trigger.
00:47:28.000And because the forced reset triggers forcing the reset, meaning that the trigger resets and you have to pull the trigger again, your own force of the trigger pull is pulling the trigger.
00:47:37.000If they wanted to amend the NFA and make that a machine gun, they'd have to get it passed through Congress.
00:47:42.000But as it stands, it does not meet the definition of a machine gun.
00:47:47.000And man, this is that's the new wild west in the gunfront right now.
00:47:50.000I mean, to be completely honest, the technology is out there for some pretty wild weapons.
00:47:55.000Rail guns have been around for a very long time.
00:47:58.000And I've noticed a lot of the laws that were on the books for ammunition specifically referenced like combustion of some sort or powder or whatever.
00:48:07.000But what's to stop a person from just making a railgun with bolts?
00:48:14.000My general real question for you, Brent, because you're, you know, AK guy is your handle on Twitter, and like you're notoriously a gun rights activist.
00:48:20.000At what point do the Second Amendment kind of be like, should I have a nuclear ballistic warhead that I can carry around and like accidentally drop on the rounds and bring it on?
00:48:29.000Real quick, and I'll add one more to also depleted uranium rounds.
00:48:34.000So there's also all sorts of stuff that's technically banned that civilians have access to just because of stuff that's fallen off the truck.
00:48:41.000You see it at gun shows and different things like that.
00:48:43.000It's kind of like, yeah, you know, it's one of those, like, there's never been a legal determination on it.
00:48:47.000So like it just kind of, because it's never been commercially for sale.
00:48:52.000A lot of the diehard gun nuts will know kind of the stuff that I'm talking about.
00:48:56.000But a lot of people don't know that there's actually an ATF form specifically.
00:49:00.000So like when you do e-file, so I'm getting kind of a little technically in the weeds here, but you do like a form two, form three, form four online through the ATF.
00:49:08.000On their own website, there is a drop-down option, and I do not know what it is for.
00:49:20.000There's licensing for it for whatever reason.
00:49:23.000Well, I would imagine, you know, Lockheed or Raytheon or whoever is developing U.S. nukes is going to submit a form for it and be like, although I kind of feel like when you're at that level, it's rubber stamped.
00:49:59.000But I mean, it's not really useful for anything.
00:50:01.000Like anything that people would be concerned about, it's not very useful for anyone.
00:50:05.000I am of the opinion that private citizens and entities in the United States are legally allowed, should be legally allowed to own nuclear weapons.
00:50:15.000Only, hold on, I'll clarify because all the libs freak out when I say this, because it is constitutionally protected and we have not amended the Constitution as such.
00:50:22.000I don't think people should be able to get nuclear weapons.
00:50:25.000However, technology has outpaced the perception, our understanding of arms, weapons, et cetera.
00:50:33.000And so the liberals have to make the argument the Founding Fathers could never have thought about a semi-automatic, which is just plumb not true.
00:50:40.000They had, when the 1300s, they had that multi-barrel gun.
00:50:45.000I mean, several of the Founding Fathers invested in the technology that eventually led to things like the Gatling gun.
00:50:51.000Like this was a thing that was kind of, it was on the table.
00:50:54.000That being said, nuclear weapons is something different.
00:50:57.000But they did know and actually required the services of privateers with the most advanced weapon really.
00:51:04.000I mean, imagine if there was like an aircraft carrier floating around that was just owned by some guy and he's just like a, like Jeff Bezos buys an aircraft carrier and just mans it and he's got weapons and he's got a couple nukes on it.
00:51:17.000And so until we amend the Constitution and say the right of people to keep arms shall not be infringed, except if it is considered to be a weapon of mass destruction, which includes, then my opinion is the government restricting people from having access to it is an infringement on our rights.
00:51:35.000And it is a duty of the people to amend the Constitution as the Founding Fathers have laid out if they would like to change that.
00:51:39.000Also, I had a pragmatic argument on the nuclear weapons front, which was, you know, it requires, that's something that is done on a national level.
00:51:50.000I mean, the Russians had to steal information from us to figure out how to do it after, you know, they had a massive war machine and everything else and a bunch of German scientists.
00:51:59.000If someone in 2026 had the resources, the ability, the engineering team to be able to enrich uranium and be able to put together a nuclear weapon on an island Doctor Evil style, your law is not going to stop them.
00:53:05.000It has never been illegal to own a cannon.
00:53:07.000It has always, Texas was almost borderline founded on the idea that we're keeping our cannon.
00:53:13.000Like, and they used to ask, like, you brought up the privateers, they would ask privately owned vessels bearing cannons to come help us, you know, mess up some of America's enemies.
00:54:21.000So, I mean, what happens to us if people are able to wield compact, deadly weapons?
00:54:34.000I'm not talking about with high risk of collateral damage, like a discombobulator ray or a radiation death beam.
00:54:40.000And I mean, we saw this all the way back to Timothy McVay in Oklahoma City in the 90s.
00:54:47.000This is one of those things where, and it's going to get worse and worse in that regard, where man-made horror is beyond your comprehension.
00:54:53.000I think that there's going to be an issue where technology, like you said, outpaces these things and it will outpace the law.
00:55:37.000Ron Harbor, the creator of Atlas Survival Shelters, told the Telegraph of the weekend that orders have gone up tenfold since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.
00:55:45.000But among his anxious clientele are two chief members of Trump's team, according to the shelter maker, saying, One of them texted me yesterday asking me, when will my bunker be ready?
00:56:56.000You like walk out of a skiff and you're like, I can't tell you what went on in that meeting, but I will tell you that Atlas bunkers are the best bunkers.
00:57:03.000You can actually get, they have a website.
00:57:07.000I'm pretty sure I have a buddy who has one of their bunkers.
00:57:10.000Although I don't think that if it was sensitive state information, I don't think they would be very happy with him saying this to news sources.
00:57:48.000To put on top of it so no one knows where your bunker is.
00:57:51.000You know what I was thinking would be a really cool idea, though, is you can get mountainside property really cheap because it's hard to do anything with, right?
00:57:59.000And so I was like, what if we took one of these 250K bunkers and dug it into a mountain?
00:58:18.000The other portion is exposed and open.
00:58:20.000So what you need to do is find some, you go to New York, find some Islamic extremists that have TATP that can blow a hole in the side of a mountain for you.
00:58:30.000And then you can build your dream bunker.
00:58:32.000Dude, you could do like a bunch of them next to each other and build either a city or build tunnels between them and have just like a megalopolis in the side of a mountain.
00:58:41.000Well, part of the reason why you build a bunker, or part of the one of the things that people like about building bunkers is anonymity.
00:58:48.000They like that people don't know where it is, keep it secret.
00:58:50.000Because ostensibly in an end of the world scenario, if you have a bunker and your neighbor doesn't, your neighbor might want to try and come and get into your bunker.
00:59:29.000Well, you know, it depends on what your skills are.
00:59:31.000The funny thing is, I'd imagine most billionaires don't have functional skills for survival.
00:59:37.000Maybe presumptuous of me to say, but probably the I'd imagine farmers are going to be the first, well, preppers are obviously going to be the ones who survive any kind of real nuclear strike or apocalypse or whatever.
00:59:50.000But outside of anyone who's specifically preparing for the end of times, farmers probably would do the best.
00:59:56.000Hunters, people who naturally have basic survival.
00:59:59.000I'd imagine a tech billionaire would be completely useless.
01:00:05.000You don't get to these places without being smart, and technology is important.
01:00:08.000The question is, how would Elon apply his knowledge in a situation where it's like seven dudes in the middle of a field, city's gone, there's no fuel, cars aren't running, and they're like, okay, we got to survive.
01:00:21.000To be fair, that's exactly the kind of person I would trust to rebuild a society.
01:00:25.000But rebuild society, yes, when you have scale, but what if you're just seven guys in the middle of the woods?
01:00:31.000Well, then I you're gonna be like, look, someone's gotta find water, someone's gotta build shelter, and someone's gotta find food.
01:00:39.000You gotta protect him, too, because you're like, look, on the off chance that we do make it out of this, you're gonna be rebuilding society for us.
01:00:49.000No, while I certainly respect that someone like Elon or Bezos, they're intelligent individuals who are able to build systems.
01:00:58.000It doesn't mean they're good with people and building policy and governance or anything like that.
01:01:02.000No, I think outside of like a fallout style bunker where you have an actual functioning society with a lot of people that you could trust, okay, when we go topside, we have something that we can actually rebuild with.
01:01:12.000I'm not sure I'd want to survive a situation that I would need a nuclear fallout bunker.
01:02:10.000Because the amount of people that die in burning buildings because they don't know where the exits are.
01:02:15.000There was one crazy video where a fire started in a bar and everybody ran to the front door and got stuck.
01:02:21.000And then the guy who filmed it calmly walked out the emergency exit and then filmed everybody just stuck in the door because they all pushed each other in and then got, yeah, it's brutal, man.
01:02:31.000It doesn't surprise me, but it's still just, it's jarring.
01:03:07.000Oh, I think that was one of the big, God, I could be misremembering this.
01:03:10.000I think it was in New York or something like that, but there was like an attack on, I don't remember if it was just a nightclub or like a gay club or something like that.
01:03:17.000It was one of the biggest mass casualty events because they lit it on fire.
01:04:15.000I'm sure there's got a military designation.
01:04:16.000In that case, there's going to be some dude who invented something that he calls like the high energy output destruction device, the Hiyod.
01:04:24.000And now everyone's like, how's the discombobulator going?
01:05:04.000I don't know if we really went too hard on Iran, but like, what are your thoughts on the regime and the Iranian government and how to handle this?
01:06:17.000So Iran right here, the whole time has basically been saying, we will blow you up unless we get what we want.
01:06:23.000At a certain point, everybody's just like, dude, these a-holes need to be stopped.
01:06:28.000I am not advocating for anything that we did in Iran because my concerns are instability in the region.
01:06:33.000And that could screw the whole thing up even more.
01:06:35.000My point is only to say that when you have a bunch of different countries that sell 20% of natural gas and oil to the rest of the world, and they're constantly under threat of being blown up by Iran unless we give Iran free stuff like pallets of cash.
01:07:19.000Right now, we've been seeing reports that ships have been turning off their transponders and moving through the Strait of Hormuz and then turning them back on to try and get past Iranian missile strikes.
01:07:42.000There are other countries involved that are pissed off that Iran is shutting down the strait.
01:07:47.000And more importantly, When the strikes happened, Iran started bombing Bahrain, Qatar, and the Emirates and these other countries who did not engage in hostilities against them.
01:07:57.000South American military bases, I think, was their justification.
01:08:00.000That may be for some, but why bomb a hotel?
01:08:16.000They want the people in these countries to get angry that they're being targeted in the war so that they go to their governments and put pressure on the government so that the government goes easier on Iran.
01:08:54.000So, I mean, look, they're not friendly with most of the countries that we mentioned so far.
01:09:00.000And they're most, you're speaking about government, because the people are mostly, I don't even think the majority of the population is Muslim in Iran.
01:09:07.000Someone was telling me stats earlier, they're saying, is it literal majority or is it not?
01:09:41.000I'm kind of dancing around this question, which I was going to ask you before Tim asked me to remember it, is you said we got to do this.
01:09:48.000We need to protect American lives at all costs.
01:09:50.000But like that can get very broad, the at-all cost metaphor, because would you incinerate a million Iranian civilians?
01:09:58.000Because, well, I think you're kind of misstaking what I was saying.
01:10:01.000I was saying, if we have to do this, let's do it quickly to the least amount of American lives.
01:10:06.000If it was up to me, like if I had a vote right now, based on the information that I have, which granted is less than they have, I'm not sure if that changes anything.
01:10:14.000I would vote no if I was asked if we were going to declare war in Iran, if we would go in ground invasion or like declare an official war, I would vote no.
01:10:23.000I think we've, you know, I'm typically an anti-war hawk kind of guy, not the way I'm going to do it.
01:10:29.000However, I feel like my policy on it is very much to make a weird analogy.
01:10:33.000It's like the Bill Burr bit about like, no reason.
01:10:36.000It's like, well, okay, should we do it?
01:10:56.000It's a rock and a hard place because the issue is, and I think, you know, I like to bring this up, it's not just the Strait of Hormuz.
01:11:04.000It's also that Iran's been funding the Houthi rebels in Yemen who have been bombing the Red Sea down here where the ships are trying to come on in to the Red Sea, where they head up through the Suez, get to the Mediterranean.
01:11:15.000Iran has basically been disrupting a massive amount of global trade.
01:11:22.000If we give them some money and tell them to chill out, but they have not chilled out.
01:11:27.000Attacking us in Iraq, I get the United States should not have been in Iraq and Afghanistan.
01:11:31.000And I got to be honest, I think the point of going to Iraq and Afghanistan was largely to stage a pincer strike around Iran.
01:11:38.000You know, we've got military bases all along the edges.
01:11:41.000But Iran has been, look, at any point, if Iran was like, no, no, no, we're not going to interfere with global trade, no one cares about Iran anymore.
01:11:57.000China was trying to build the Nicaraguan Canal.
01:12:00.000They wanted to build it straight through here, and it would have disrupted, I believe it was whatever this is, Lake Coquibolka, is that what it is?
01:12:07.000Or it might have actually been up here.
01:12:09.000But they wanted to build a canal that would compete with the Panama Canal.
01:12:14.000They ultimately abandoned the project after it just like cost an insane amount of money.
01:12:18.000The reason why Trump wanted Panama back, the reason why Trump wants control of the Strait of Hormuz, he wants Iran shut down, basically.
01:12:25.000The reason he wants Greenland, it's all about controlling international waterways for trade for oil.
01:12:32.000The United States tells the world one thing.
01:12:34.000You will use the U.S. dollar for all oil purchases, which means our economy is going to be great no matter what, because you got to use our money to buy oil, which means you've got to come to us first.
01:12:45.000However, they say in exchange, you will be able to freely trade around the world without someone blowing you up.
01:12:54.000This is, I'm not saying it's a good thing.
01:12:56.000I'm saying this is the mechanism of the United States and why we have a strong economy, despite not producing as much as other countries do relatively.
01:13:05.000So when you get countries complaining, we can't ship goods to the Red Sea anymore because of the Houthi rebels, Trump goes to Iran and says, are you going to stop arming these guys who are blowing up civilian transport?
01:13:20.000When they threaten the Strait of Hormuz, Trump's not playing a game like Obama and says, no, I'll kill you.
01:13:25.000Now, if you're not a fan of the Team America World Police stuff, that opinion was always allowed.
01:13:30.000I am not telling you you should support any of this.
01:13:31.000I am telling you this is the mechanism by which all of this is happening, the reason why they're doing it.
01:13:37.000Yeah, I mean, I think that it's pretty clear that America lives, or the living standard that Americans have is because of the petrodollar.
01:13:45.000And if we were to change that system, it would be a massive change in the living standard of all Americans.
01:13:51.000And as much as people say, oh, I don't want to see the U.S. to be the world police, as long as the U.S. is the world police, we should continue to do things that will try to keep the U.S. living standard as high as possible.
01:14:05.000Because you think that poverty is bad in other countries, if the petrodollar goes away, you're going to see a significant decrease in living standard.
01:14:13.000And that means the poor are the ones that are going to be hurt the most here in the U.S.
01:14:17.000And I've got to give a shout out to my boy Nick, the fat electrician, real quick, because he had a very good video breaking down the history of why America went after Greenland and just the long-storied history since just after, I believe, the Civil War, attempting to purchase the Greenland territory and the reasons that we had interest there, especially with the strike capabilities later on and decreasing our strike time to places like Russia and everywhere else and just having that ability.
01:14:47.000Because I think we came to an agreement after the end of World War II because during World War II, obviously, you know, they were overtaken and we had placed American bases in Greenland itself.
01:15:12.000I have a bit more of a nuance to take.
01:15:13.000I do think that the liberal economic order that is overseeing this, you know, collusive global takeover is the least worst global order we've ever seen in human history.
01:15:24.000It's been 80 years of no world war, limited.
01:15:27.000The internet, the amount of food people are sex trafficking.
01:15:53.000But I think that right now the United States, as it stands, in possibly the history of humanity, has the most power, like the most might to good ratio.
01:16:05.000Like to freedom of its individual citizens, to how little we leverage it against the world for nefarious purposes.
01:16:12.000I think this is probably, again, the most power-to-good ratio that has ever existed on planet Earth.
01:16:17.000Yeah, I mean, essentially, if you put the kind of military might that the U.S. has in the hands of, oh, I don't know, the Huns, you know, I think that they're not.
01:17:43.000That's a very, very rough moral question.
01:17:45.000Because the obvious, I mean, the mathematical answer to that is at some point, somebody's going to have those powers and use it to kill thousands of people.
01:17:54.000So it's like, all this is like a Reddit version of the trolley problem.
01:18:01.000It is an interesting question as it pertains to war and two powers because you look at it from the perspective of not Superman, but you're a global world dominating hegemonic power.
01:18:09.000You know another country is rapidly gaining power.
01:18:13.000You can blow them up right now to prevent them from doing it.
01:18:16.000However, if you don't, they will rival you then, and now there will be – that's essentially what the scenario is meant to be.
01:18:22.000The challenge with this, the Superman question is that what if it's an Islamic extremist?
01:18:29.000And now he's immortal, invincible, and he's going to start massacring not thousands, but millions of people.
01:18:35.000And you can't stop him because you only match him.
01:18:38.000You'll be locked in a fight endlessly and the collateral damage will probably still make the millions.
01:18:43.000And so the ultimate question is, I feel like this is a question to try and explain geopolitics at a grand scale to children, aka Redditors, adult men who have the mentality of children.
01:19:59.000Well, that's what the United States basically has been doing.
01:20:01.000They stomp down on anybody that's starting to rise up.
01:20:04.000And then if they get too far, too fast, like North Korea, they just don't stomp down because they got intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles.
01:20:09.000Well, let's open up this story real quick and let's talk about that, Ian.
01:20:13.000Trump floats friendly takeover of Cuba, but says it may not be friendly either.
01:20:20.000Ladies and gentlemen, it's my birthday and the only thing I've ever wanted, ever, my whole life.
01:20:25.000I remember being a little kid, sitting in my living room, just looking out the window at the stars in the sky, thinking, I just want to conquer Cuba.
01:20:33.000And now on this, my 40th birthday, Trump has floated a not-so-friendly takeover.
01:21:20.000I think we might have squandered that one in the Spanish-American War.
01:21:23.000Yeah, I don't think that the U.S. is going to actually need to take Cuba.
01:21:27.000If I understand the news reports coming out, they haven't had power in something like a week, and the people are rising up like people are rising up like America says, you know, said they were going to rise up in Iraq or say they were going to rise up in Iran.
01:22:15.000And if you're working and they're paying you sometimes and then all of a sudden some foreign entity wants to pay you a bigger contract, you're like, why am I still taking this?
01:24:16.000And I think it's because we have post-intervention stress disorder as millennials from Iraq and Afghanistan.
01:24:24.000And not to mention the stories of Vietnam.
01:24:26.000We do not trust that these operations are going to play out the way they claim they will, nor do we trust the reasons for going in and doing it.
01:24:34.000That being said, if Trump is able to pull off a regime change without a ground invasion in Iran, which would surprise the Helmie if he could, people are going to be very, very happy about it.
01:24:43.000And so when all this is said and done, Venezuela is looking like said and done.
01:24:50.000If Iran ends up the same way and then Cuba falls into the U.S. fold, Trump's going to go down in history as one of the greatest presidents, if not the greatest president we've had ever.
01:25:00.000Well, at that point, it becomes a legacy play.
01:25:55.000The most offensive thing, like Trump is secretly getting paid cash in the back room by Israel for foreign policy that brings peace to the world, ends war and conflict, stabilizes trade relations between a bunch of countries.
01:26:18.000Like, what if Trump's motivation for all this world peace is that there's like a small child that he wants to murder just in the middle of Tehran that he can't get to?
01:27:44.000I was actually, I found him to be uninspiring in, you know, eight years ago, whatever.
01:27:51.000Recently, the way he's been handling all this foreign policy stuff and press stuff, I actually think he's not a perfect guy, but he's handled it very professionally, especially considering the political tumult between Democrats and Republicans.
01:28:26.000But Rubio has been very hard for Democrats to go after because he's kept it very professional and calm.
01:28:32.000He hasn't fired back insults or plenty of these dirty games.
01:28:35.000I'd imagine if they insulted him in some dramatic way, like with Trump and they called him a racist, Rubio's response would be like, well, I'm terribly sorry if I've done something to give you that impression.
01:28:43.000Like, he's not going to lash out at him.
01:28:44.000I mean, we all remember Marco from the little Marco, like those days.
01:28:49.000I think uninspiring is probably a good word for him back then, but I honestly, like, I had my worries about him taking the role that he has, but I think he's, I agree with you entirely.
01:29:11.000He'd been around before that, and I always thought he was a war hawk.
01:29:14.000But as I've learned more about global geopolitics and that, like, you, you can't just never go to war when you have the largest military on the planet.
01:29:47.000My point was, not that I would call the attacks well-advised.
01:29:53.000I'm skeptical, but hopefully optimistic.
01:29:56.000But I said that I loved the masculinity of it in that the Iranians came to the negotiating table saying, we have enough material for 11 bombs, and that's where we're starting the negotiation.
01:30:05.000And Trump's response was like, I'll just kill you.
01:30:08.000Like, again, I'm not saying that means you should go to war.
01:30:12.000I'm saying that video of Mark Wayne Mullen and O'Brien from the Team Service Union is just one of the greatest, manliest videos on both parts for both of them.
01:32:15.000The idea is I like the story of the guy who's sitting in a bar, minding his own business, having a drink, and then the loudmouthed dudes messing around.
01:32:25.000And he comes up and tries to start a fight with the guy.
01:32:27.000And the guy says, Listen, I apologize.
01:34:21.000Sorry, just like the biblical interpretation of, oh, the meek shall inherit the earth.
01:34:24.000It's like, well, one of the translations that I was hearing was it's not meek as in like weak, you know, it was more of the those who carry swords but choose to keep them sheathed.
01:34:36.000Julius Caesar, I believe this is what he was, he was the guy.
01:35:40.000And that's something that a lot of veteran friends of mine, veteran advocate friends of mine say, if you want to help combat veterans, make less of them.
01:35:49.000You don't want to go to war for no reason.
01:35:51.000There's a lot of baggage that comes with it, not only American lives, but a lot of the things that they had to go through and a lot of the things that you still have to take care of afterward.
01:35:59.000That being said, you should always be prepared for it when the necessity comes.
01:36:03.000Again, if you want to screw with us, we will show you what $1 trillion a year looks like.
01:36:17.000The issue I take with the attacks on Iran are less to do with that we're going to war, but that we do not have a good track record on regime change.
01:36:28.000The expense, the waste of time and energy, 20 years flushed on the toilet in Afghanistan.
01:36:32.000That being said, you make a great point with the Bill Burr comment that there's plenty of reason to put the smack down on what the Iranians have been doing in the region.
01:36:42.000It's not about us, about literally everyone else destabilizing it.
01:36:46.000And so my only hope is that whatever Trump ends up doing, we want to get out cleanly.
01:36:52.000We don't want a bogged down 20-year conflict.
01:36:54.000It sounds like the rumor in the Beltway is they expect it to be a couple weeks.
01:36:58.000That they're just going to just bombard this place.
01:37:01.000And then everybody who holds stock in these defense contractors are going to get very wealthy because they got to replenish those armaments.
01:37:44.000But then, of course, on the Iranian side or the pro-Iran side with Russia, China, they're going to be claiming all of the worst things imaginable, like the U.S. is intentionally killing children.
01:37:52.000And this is one of the stories that came up.
01:37:53.000Well, I mean, right after the first night of attacks, they claim the Ayatollah was still alive.
01:37:57.000So I really don't trust anything coming out of Iranian press right now.
01:38:01.000I saw a video on Twitter of a guy driving in Tehran and just fire.
01:38:05.000And it's like apparently the Israelis, this is what it says, the Israelis struck oil refineries or something.
01:38:11.000And that it was getting into the sewers and you're blazing fire along the sides of roads and stuff.
01:38:20.000I saw some of the videos where it first lit off.
01:38:23.000I don't remember what exactly it was, sewer system or whatever it was that was that was blowing up in the streets, but it seemed like that was pretty legit.
01:38:45.000It is kind of hard to tell, especially when you've got people that are so bent on discrediting either side, whether it be people that are counter signaling the United States that are saying, oh, Iran's actually winning.
01:38:58.000Look, the Iranians have, they haven't been launching a lot of drones because they're saving their weapons for later.
01:39:03.000But I mean, that kind of stuff just doesn't really make sense because they've already lost.
01:39:08.000There's a bunch of people that have, a bunch of people of their senior leadership were taken out the first night and stuff.
01:39:12.000And it's like, well, what point do you start using your best weapons if it's not to save the people that are or prevent the people that are in charge from being blown up?
01:39:22.000And again, even hearkening back to the most power to uh to good ratio or restraint rather, I guess is the better way of putting it.
01:39:32.000The United States, I think, is the only military on the planet that is limited by its political will and not its ability.
01:39:40.000Because if Russia could take Ukraine, they would.
01:40:11.000I mean, there's a mid-tier the U.S. could be engaging in for sure.
01:40:15.000We're being strategic, I think, specifically to strike military targets without civilian casualties.
01:40:20.000I mean, we've spent billions of dollars developing weapons that'll be able to, if we want, that we can discombobulate, but also that are literally just flying swords, right?
01:40:28.000Like you can take out an individual person with a Hellfire missile that doesn't have a warhead on it.
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01:42:27.000And we're trying to make this the principal component of everything that we do, a long-standing group of people that become friends, that can work with each other.
01:42:36.000Because as I enter my 40th year, the one thing that we've been discussing over the past couple of years is I will eventually be unable to work.
01:43:31.000If we were actually going to ever mass produce, like manufacture the AK-50, we'd have to find a very good manufacturing dance partner with that because we do not have the capabilities to do that right now.
01:43:41.000How long did it take to build an AK-50?
01:43:43.000Well, to get the design down and to get it to where it is today, I mean, it's been like nine years, probably nine, 10 years.
01:43:48.000And this is like, it's a garage project.
01:43:50.000Like, it's something that we would put down and then pick up six months later, wait for parts from a machine shop, kills the project for four months, you know, that sort of thing.
01:43:58.000But we'd need somebody like, we worked with Titans of CNC on some of that.
01:44:15.000All right, let's see what we got here.
01:44:18.000Code Man Red says, I don't know how you did it, but I started watching TNG, and it seems we're watching the same episodes.
01:44:24.000The last two Star Trek references Tim made were episodes I just watched last week, Fifth Wall Broken.
01:44:29.000Well, it's because when I got sick, I started the series over again, and I've been just watching all the episodes.
01:44:35.000I'm also rewatching Deep Space Nine, which I just got to stress, guys, the last three seasons of Deep Space Nine are just so incredible, and I really do recommend you watch it.
01:44:48.000Again, I get frustrated with people who are just like, I don't like sci-fi.
01:44:51.000But if you really just ignore the sci-fi stuff, like I don't care for the aliens or whatever, have you ever watched Deep Space Nine?
01:44:56.000Yeah, apparently, I think I was told by my father that I was born while he was watching Deep Space Nine.
01:45:02.000He was trying to switch between like, pipe down, woman.
01:45:07.000It is prescient, and the writing is interesting, and it makes you think, and it's relevant to what is going on today.
01:45:14.000So we've talked about the episode in The Pale Moonlight, which may be one of the best episodes of television just in general, where the Federation stages a false flag attack to trick one of their rival nations into joining the war on their side.
01:45:27.000Well, that would never happen in real life.
01:45:30.000It's amazing to watch how they wrote this stuff out.
01:45:33.000But also just the beginning of the Dominion War in general.
01:45:38.000So basically, there is a military faction that repeatedly is sending military vehicles to a, let's just call it a country in Star Trek.
01:45:48.000And eventually the Federation says they're at the point where they have built up an army where they could launch an attack on all fronts, you know, all Federation frontiers, and we would get crushed.
01:45:58.000So they mine a wormhole, the entrance to where these vehicles are coming through, which triggers the beginning of the war.
01:46:05.000And then from there, it's just, it's war stuff.
01:46:08.000It is the politics of war, conflict, disaster economy.
01:46:33.000Jonathan Frakes recently was talking about how people don't like Starfleet Academy, the new shows.
01:46:38.000And he's directed a couple episodes of the latest stuff.
01:46:42.000And Jonathan Frakes, you are an absolute legend, and you add one of the best voices to the Star Trek universe.
01:46:51.000But good sir, please hear me if you ever hear this.
01:46:54.000If you want to understand why people don't like New Trek, the point he made was that when they launched The Next Generation, Trekkies got really offended because they replaced the cast and crew and it was a new fake version of the show.
01:47:20.000So when I watch The Next Generation in Deep Space Nine, literally throughout the 90s, I'm a little kid in the early 90s, and the show's already been on the air.
01:47:32.000The brilliant quotes, the interesting logic, philosophy, conflict that exists in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and even to a certain degree in Voyager does not exist in Starfleet Academy in these new shows.
01:47:45.000For example, there's just so many great quotes.
01:47:49.000One of the latest that I absolutely love is Data the Android loses, let's just call it chess.
01:47:55.000He's playing a game called Stratagema against a master who beats him, and he's supposed to be unstoppable.
01:50:09.000I feel like for a long time, the baton got passed down to new people who loved the original source material or at the very least respected it.
01:50:18.000And nowadays, that's just not a requirement.
01:50:19.000And that's not just a Star Trek thing.
01:50:23.000It's almost, it seems like with the exception of Fallout, it's like you're required to hate or disrespect what everything that led to you having that job built on.
01:52:35.000I was saying, whatever Justin Timberlake was bringing back, that wasn't it because after he made that song, they brought in a bunch of morbidly obese people to Calvin Klein.
01:52:43.000So whatever he thought was sexy, that's not working.
01:52:45.000Did you see Jaguar when they did their super like the stock depletion that happened at that point?
01:53:03.000Dakota Johnson did Calvin Klein, where she's topless, and she's basically reading lines about a sexy woman.
01:53:12.000I think people finally realized with Ozempic, we are aspirational.
01:53:18.000So when they did all this body positivity stuff and they were like, you can be fat, what they were really saying is you are fat and we're trying to sell you a product.
01:53:25.000And then once they made Ozempic and all the women got skinny, now they're like, okay, let's bring back the naked chicks again.
01:54:15.000You know, there are these like, you know, all throughout human history, we've had these paragons of what, you know, the proper male and female form should be.
01:54:22.000Even if you can't get there, you can aspire to it, get as close as you want.
01:54:25.000And the byproduct is you're healthier because of it.
01:54:39.000RFK, man, we don't talk about him a lot because he doesn't do like military and all, but I think he's like the unsung hero of the decade, like man of the year.
01:54:48.000Maybe in retrospect, people realize how he saved a nation by stripping some of these toxins out of the diet.
01:54:54.000And to me, I don't think a lot of the stuff that he's doing, like the whole maha, like make America healthy again movement, I don't see why that should be polarizing.
01:55:02.000It's like, okay, let's take the poison out of our food.
01:55:04.000Let's stop feeding slop to our children.
01:55:07.000Let's maybe get them to be a responsible weight, teach them how to do a push-up.
01:55:10.000Like that should be all basic stuff that we all agree with.
01:55:13.000Yeah, it's just about the polarization now.
01:55:16.000He's associated with Trump, so he's got to be a bad guy, which is ridiculous.
01:55:20.000Yeah, it's kind of like poor propaganda because I don't know.
01:55:27.000Because there's something that he says now that I truly, like it struck a chord.
01:55:32.000It's something along the lines of, and I don't want to put words in his mouth, but it's something along the lines of, one of these days, I truly hope you love your children more than you hate Trump.
02:00:50.000During the primary, they already legitimately tried.
02:00:52.000It's like, oh, yes, you stole one of the photos that we put up of a private comedy show and try to pretend I was stealing valor while we raise over a million dollars for veteran charities and such.
02:01:02.000It's like, okay, well, you know, the thing about politics is nobody really cares about telling the truth.
02:03:06.000Anyway, we are going to go to the uncensored portion of the show over at rumble.com slash Timcast IRL and take calls from you all, our beautiful Discord members.
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02:03:20.000Brandon, do you want to shut anything up?
02:03:22.000I would like to shout out the voters of Texas 23 who put me in this position.
02:03:25.000I'm forever grateful to be your voice in Congress.
02:03:29.000And if you'd like to go check out the campaign and things we stand for, it's Brandon Herrera for Congress.com.
02:04:43.000Like if you want to get some white hill energy, look into the new scientific breakthroughs that are going to be supporting a lot of this political momentum and change that we're seeing all around the planet.
02:11:20.000Weirdly enough, that's a weird complaint, but it looks like when they do, if you've ever had like a colorblind friend that played video games and they do that like color inversion where everything's like pinks and greens, it looks like that.
02:11:54.000Like, when you're playing a video game, whether it's, you know, Red Dead or Cyberpunk or whatever, like those big games, like the big AAA games that have done very well, they want to self-insert and they want a good storyline.
02:12:06.000This delivers neither of those things.
02:17:54.000I feel bad for Sony on this because clearly what happened was a bunch of old fogies brought in like some 34-year-old chick and she was like, trust me, this is what kids are doing.
02:18:05.000They got the crazy purple hair and they were like, okay, let's go with the microscopic fringe woke aesthetic for a $400 million game.
02:18:15.000What was that company that existed purely to be like the woke engine behind AAA Studios?
02:21:06.000So my question is, how do we reconcile what's going on in Iran to family members that seemingly don't have a nuanced opinion no matter what?
02:21:48.000So you kind of allow them to express their side and then show them this other demon, you know, whatever it is, the evil that you're trying to express.
02:22:00.000Yeah, I mean, look, I personally think that this is a broader thing than just Iran.
02:22:07.000I mean, we talked about it a little bit.
02:22:08.000I think this is about the United States trying to realign the global order, to be honest with you.
02:22:15.000I think that this is in conjunction with Venezuela and the stuff with Panama Canal and Iran.
02:22:20.000I think that a lot of it has to do with China.
02:22:22.000And I think that it goes far beyond just Iran.
02:22:27.000But if the person you're talking to is just determined to hate Trump, they're not going to be very receptive to any kind of argument you make.
02:22:36.000So really, you kind of want to know what you're getting into and act accordingly.
02:22:41.000You're not going to convince someone that this is a good idea if the impetus for their disagreement about this is, I just don't like Trump.
02:22:50.000Yeah, I don't think there's a way you can force nuance into a person.
02:22:53.000If they've already made up their mind, they've already decided this is the take I'm going to have.
02:22:58.000I'm not sure that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it think.
02:23:02.000I just, I don't see a scenario where if somebody's already like, this is what I believe and there's no way you can change it, you might be spinning your wheels on that one.
02:23:11.000And it might, there's certain family members that I have that disagree with me politically.
02:23:47.000It's just, this is what we got right now.
02:23:49.000You know, kind of just splash them with the reality of the situation, broaden the perspective, but don't try and change their mind or anything.
02:23:58.000You know, acknowledge what they're feeling, what they're thinking, and then point out the other things as well.
02:24:04.000Ask them if this has anything to do with the relationship they have with their mother.
02:24:10.000No, so it's actually interesting because most of my family, especially that I'm referring to, like holds the beliefs that I hold.
02:24:18.000I'm a very conservative person with a very non-interventionist point of view when it comes to like foreign entanglement.
02:24:26.000So it's not like we have like major disagreements or anything like that.
02:24:31.000But for some reason, this particular topic, especially when it comes to Trump, is like one of the most hot-headed things that we can talk about.
02:24:39.000And personally, I don't really see why it's the case.
02:24:42.000But for as much as I don't like foreign intervention, I tell them myself, look, there has to be a nuance to this position.
02:24:56.000Yeah, like I understand your frustration, but I think to Brandon's point, you can't force nuance on someone.
02:25:04.000If they're determined to look at things in a negative light because they dislike Trump, you're not going to be able to convince them by saying, well, look, Iran has been messing with global shipping with the Strait of Hormuz and around the Red Sea.
02:25:22.000And Iran has done this, and Iran has done that.
02:26:18.000When you say you can't bring nuance, I want to bring nuance to what that means exactly because I don't think it would be easy to get to convince my mother or somebody to like Trump, but that wouldn't be my goal.
02:26:27.000My goal will be to get her to understand why things are happening.
02:26:32.000Well, I mean, it's kind of like if you bring two things together that are kind of butting heads and both get hotter and hotter and hotter the closer they get together.
02:28:28.000So first, happy birthday, Tim, and congratulations to Brandon on his primary win.
02:28:34.000This is coming to you live from Communist Canada, where our government has given us until the end of October to surrender or destroy essentially all legally owned semi-automatic rifles.
02:29:05.000Legal export is still technically possible from our end, but nobody is pursuing it.
02:29:10.000And I think the ATF might have something to do with it.
02:29:13.000Do you know if there's any realistic mechanism like dealer imports, private transfers, or anything that can legally rehome Canadian guns to the U.S. before they get destroyed?
02:29:26.000There are legal avenues for that, and there are definitely companies that do export from Canada to the United States or import in that regard.
02:29:34.000However, a lot of the stuff that you guys have up there is stuff that is illegal for us to bring into the United States.
02:29:41.000Like, you guys get a lot of imports from places like China.
02:29:44.000Like, you guys can still have Narincos.
02:29:48.000Like, you have a lot of stuff that we can't get here.
02:29:50.000And unfortunately, for that, you're just toast.
02:29:52.000Like, that stuff that, because of sanctions put in, I think, either in the Daddy Bush administration, the Clinton administration, especially with the Chinese stuff, we can't bring that in.
02:30:02.000And so, unless you find another place, it's going to the torch.
02:30:06.000And I'm sad to see so many American companies complicit in that.
02:31:15.000That was the biggest thing is like they even started doing like selling freezing, where even in like private transfers, things like that, you cannot change ownership of things like handguns, which that's thanks to, I believe it was Prime Minister Blackface Trudeau, put that in effect.
02:31:31.000But it basically is just continuing to crunch that down to where there will probably be little to zero private firearm ownership in Canada in the next 10 years.
02:31:41.000That is, if everyone complies, but yeah, well, based.
02:33:41.000I get all these people saying, I'm going to do what you need us to do when they let me down.
02:33:48.000What guarantee do I, as a fellow member of the great state of Texas, have that you will go into the ring with these other politicians and introduce the legislation the people been asking for?
02:34:05.000Will you oust anybody who votes against you?
02:34:10.000Well, I know, I don't think I have the ability to oust anybody who votes against me, but the truthful answer to that, and it feels weird to be able to say this without coming off, and I could say this on the uncensored after-show, without coming off like a fucking asshole.
02:34:24.000But it's all the things that they use to tempt politicians right now is money, power, fame, women.
02:35:40.000Even in the Big Beautiful bill, like I was asking members of Congress that night, and I don't know if I've ever told this story, but I was calling members of Congress that I knew that were resistant on the Big Beautiful bill.
02:35:56.000If Thun would actually just fire the Senate parliamentarian and get the version of the Big Beautiful bill that completely basically removes the NFA when it comes to SBRs, suppressors, we could have the biggest gun rights win in this country in the last 80 years plus.
02:36:14.000I was very disappointed with that, but that was a deal I was willing to take.
02:36:17.000I'm like, look, I'd rather get some wins.
02:36:20.000I know how you get the ATF abolition or maybe the NFA repealed.
02:36:24.000You just, when you get there, you just tell all the members of Congress: if they sign on to this bill and put it in, you will sign on to killing 20 kids in the Middle East.
02:37:51.000And I know that there's a, we have a lot of momentum with this show and like shows like this where you can kind of snap a guy into the zeitgeist.
02:38:18.000Last time I actually got a personalized video from you when you were at the ranch sending off demo, you sent me congratulations for getting married, and then you told me it's kind of fucking gay, and I laughed my ass off.
02:39:32.000Honestly, my biggest legislative priorities right now when it comes to the Second Amendment in particular are trying to fight for things like national reciprocity.
02:39:40.000I think that the NFA is something that we've seen as weak.
02:39:44.000It's something that I think can be handled in the Supreme Court.
02:39:46.000I'm going to help that as much as humanly possible, especially when it comes to now the fact that the Big Beautiful Bill passed and reverted that down to the 0% tax, which, according to the Supreme Court from 1937, when they put it up on Second Amendment grounds, the only reason why the NFA is still legal and constitutional is because it's a registration of the tax.
02:40:05.000Now that the tax has been removed, I think that there's space to move on that as far as that being unconstitutional.