Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - THIS COULD BE THE END | Timcast IRL #1465 w- Brandon Herrera

00:02:10.000 So the market has been pretty wild.

00:02:12.000 Gas 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.

00:02:20.000 And then Trump comes out and says, the war is basically over.

00:02:22.000 They got no Navy.

00:02:23.000 They got no Air Force.

00:02:24.000 They got no missiles left.

00:02:25.000 So we're looking like it's pretty done.

00:02:27.000 He said that the original timeline for four weeks actually were going much, much more quickly than that.

00:02:32.000 And then instantly, the market turned around.

00:02:35.000 And the price of crude oil dropped 30%, the biggest drop, the fastest drop we've seen, I think, ever.

00:02:42.000 Just because Trump said, I think I'm done.

00:02:45.000 So this could be nearing the end of the war, or however you want to describe it.

00:02:49.000 But the interesting thing is, the Ayatollah's son reportedly survived an assassination attempt.

00:02:55.000 However, while the reports say that he was wounded, there are rumors circulating that he actually didn't make it.

00:03:02.000 We don't know for sure.

00:03:03.000 There's no official confirmation on this, but that is the rumor right now.

00:03:06.000 And oh boy, it's coming home.

00:03:09.000 There's a really crazy story, guys.

00:03:11.000 Over the weekend, Islamic extremists lobbed IEDs, improvised explosive devices at protesters in New York City.

00:03:19.000 Now, that in and of itself is absolutely insane.

00:03:22.000 And 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.

00:03:34.000 It's ridiculous seeing these headlines they're putting out saying suspicious devices found near Mayor Mamdani's home.

00:03:42.000 When the real story is, with video, Islamic extremists threw nail bombs at protesters. 0.95

00:03:48.000 Absolutely insane stuff.

00:03:50.000 We're going to talk about all of that, my friends.

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00:05:39.000 Aside from that, joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more, we have Brandon Herrera.

00:05:45.000 How's it going, buddy?

00:05:46.000 It's going great.

00:05:46.000 It's good.

00:05:47.000 It's great to see you, Congressman Elect.

00:05:50.000 Well, we shall see.

00:05:51.000 We'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. 0.96

00:05:59.000 So we're pretty proud about that.

00:06:00.000 And so you are not yet the actual Congressman-elect.

00:06:03.000 You won the primary, and now you're going to the big race in November.

00:06:05.000 But it's a red district, so you're considered to be a heavy favorite.

00:06:08.000 Other than that, who are you?

00:06:10.000 What do you do?

00:06:11.000 Well, so outside of that, my day job is I'm a business owner here in the district, District 23.

00:06:16.000 I'm a firearm manufacturer, firearm designer.

00:06:18.000 I do YouTube, own a host of different businesses and co-own it with business partners of mine.

00:06:24.000 But the biggest thing was I just was very unhappy with the actions of my congressman and the things he was voting on.

00:06:29.000 And so that was my primary issue with him.

00:06:31.000 And so I ran against him last cycle, narrowly lost by 400 votes.

00:06:34.000 Hoped he would be better.

00:06:36.000 He clearly wasn't.

00:06:37.000 And so I decided to run against him again, where for the first time in his political career, he lost.

00:06:42.000 He lost us.

00:06:43.000 I think it has to do with a lot of factors.

00:06:46.000 You came really close the first time around by within a couple hundred votes, I think, is the reporting.

00:06:51.000 This 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.

00:07:04.000 So we'll get into this later on for sure.

00:07:06.000 But, 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.

00:07:15.000 So, oh boy, that'll be fun.

00:07:16.000 Dysfunctional is a good word for it.

00:07:18.000 Yeah, I always joked on the campaign trail.

00:07:20.000 If I ran my businesses the way that Congress runs the government, I would be homeless three times over.

00:07:26.000 Yeah, isn't that funny how that works, huh?

00:07:28.000 All right, man.

00:07:29.000 Well, thanks for hanging out.

00:07:30.000 It's going to be a lot of fun.

00:07:31.000 Let's just jump into the news here.

00:07:32.000 We've got this from Mediite.

00:07:34.000 Trump declares Iran war is nearly over.

00:07:38.000 The war is very nearly complete.

00:07:40.000 It's very complete, pretty much.

00:07:41.000 He said pretty much in a phone interview, President Trump told me the war could be over soon.

00:07:46.000 I think the war is very complete, pretty much.

00:07:48.000 They have no Navy, no communications.

00:07:50.000 They've got no Air Force.

00:07:51.000 He added that the U.S. is very far ahead of its initial four to five week estimate, estimated timeframe.

00:07:59.000 Now, 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.

00:08:07.000 When Donald Trump comes out and says, I think we're done, oil drops from 97.

00:08:14.000 It was over 100 before, down to 84 just a few hours later.

00:08:20.000 So it's looking like the market is reacting to this may be the end right now.

00:08:26.000 And 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.

00:08:39.000 Not an exaggeration.

00:08:40.000 So it really does sound like there's people putting their money where their mouths are.

00:08:45.000 But I'm curious what you think about is Trump just bloviating or are we actually getting this thing to end?

00:08:51.000 I think that he's always blowviating.

00:08:53.000 Always awesome.

00:08:54.000 Like, this is hilarious.

00:08:56.000 Look, 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 0.89

00:09:24.000 They were constantly funding terrorism.

00:09:27.000 There's plenty of history of them attacking U.S. forces.

00:09:32.000 Because 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. 0.84

00:09:41.000 So 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. 0.55

00:09:54.000 Remember that audio saying that Phil's audio is low.

00:09:58.000 But 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. 0.73

00:10:08.000 But then you can only see the top of Palestine, so it looks like you actually stand with Palestine. 0.58

00:10:11.000 Yeah, no, no, you can neither.

00:10:14.000 I stand with Nazi. 0.98

00:10:15.000 I stand with Lockheed Martin.

00:10:17.000 It's a great investment, and I'm not giving any advice.

00:10:20.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:10:20.000 Get your American.

00:10:21.000 No, I can't even give you advice.

00:10:23.000 There'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.

00:10:41.000 But I don't think these leftists understand what invested in means.

00:10:44.000 They assume that investment only just means like, I'm going to make money.

00:10:47.000 They don't understand it means I am funding the creation of what they're doing.

00:10:51.000 So 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.

00:11:02.000 See, they don't understand the point of what investment is because they're communists.

00:11:05.000 So, you know, and Reddit's just basically all communists.

00:11:09.000 Is 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?

00:11:16.000 Like it's technically still insider training.

00:11:18.000 As soon as they were moving aircraft carrier strike groups into the Middle East, you kind of knew what was going to happen.

00:11:24.000 I knew what was going to happen.

00:11:25.000 I thought I knew.

00:11:26.000 If people were like, oh, they're moving carriers, and so I'm going to buy, you know, defense industry stocks, that's not insider training.

00:11:32.000 I mean, it's kind of like what happened in the breakout of the Ukraine-Russian war.

00:11:35.000 Yeah.

00:11:36.000 When you saw those reports that, oh, they're moving blood bags to the front lines.

00:11:39.000 It's like, okay, well, that just got a lot more serious.

00:11:42.000 That's not a thing you do for a training exercise.

00:11:45.000 I'm glad that Trump said this.

00:11:46.000 I think that he might – I never know.

00:11:49.000 like 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.

00:11:56.000 Just please, Trump, spare me.

00:11:59.000 But if they really killed Khomeini's son, which potentially they wounded him, killed him, I mean four, right?

00:12:04.000 He has four kids.

00:12:05.000 No, no, this would be the fourth I had told that they've killed since the start of the war.

00:12:09.000 Jesus, the second?

00:12:11.000 Yeah, they killed Ali Khomeini, and then the council appointed his son.

00:12:16.000 Okay, I've been under the impression they did.

00:12:18.000 Unless there was like, was there like a vice supreme leader?

00:12:21.000 Yeah, because I think the first night they killed like 40 plus.

00:12:23.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:12:24.000 It was pretty extreme the first night.

00:12:27.000 I 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.

00:12:36.000 I don't know that actual, but my understanding is that they came in and they voted for his son to come in.

00:12:41.000 And 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?

00:12:50.000 You know, they're not calling it a war.

00:12:51.000 They're saying it's a combat operation.

00:12:54.000 Heg Seth said, we'll have the lawyers, you know, figure that out.

00:12:57.000 It's very obviously a war, but I'm curious what you think of it and what would your position be?

00:13:03.000 Yeah, like constitutionally speaking, if you're going to go to war, you need the approval of Congress.

00:13:07.000 And now that's changed over the course of, especially since World War II.

00:13:10.000 We've gotten a lot looser with that definition with the War Powers Act and different things like that.

00:13:14.000 I 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.

00:13:20.000 That being said, I don't think anybody wants another forever war in the Middle East in the sandbox.

00:13:26.000 I don't think anybody's in favor of that.

00:13:28.000 Yeah, every day, all the time, forever.

00:13:30.000 No, not true.

00:13:31.000 My jokes are meaningless.

00:13:32.000 The thing is, though, I really, you know, less so with this Iran conflict, but we'll see how it pans out.

00:13:38.000 But 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.

00:13:47.000 You 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.

00:14:00.000 Like, just go in, get out.

00:14:01.000 Like, the way that Trump's doing this foreign policy-wise is putting 20 years of Bush-Cheney policy, foreign policy to shame.

00:14:10.000 You know, the challenge I have with it is I would say I completely agree with MUSA, and I would add one caveat.

00:14:16.000 There is a challenge, and I think you'd probably agree.

00:14:19.000 There is the president does have the ability to engage in military operations in an emergency.

00:14:24.000 Just go and do it.

00:14:26.000 And that's been the criteria that they have exploited to be able to continually go to war.

00:14:32.000 There is something that's challenging in that if Iran is really about to strike a bunch of U.S. personnel or ships or something like this.

00:14:40.000 I'm not saying.

00:14:41.000 I 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. 1.00

00:14:50.000 Trump says, okay, we're going to take out their capability to do this.

00:14:54.000 If he goes to Congress and says, put it to a vote, you just told the whole world your next military move.

00:15:00.000 And 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.

00:15:10.000 No, 100%.

00:15:11.000 I mean, that's clearly like, it's kind of like, I think it's the same justification for no-knock raids.

00:15:15.000 Like, 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.

00:15:23.000 If we try to knock on this door, there's 18 armed cartel members on the inside.

00:15:28.000 They're going to light us up.

00:15:29.000 You know, I understand the use case for it.

00:15:31.000 I just think it's overused, especially when it comes to law enforcement, no-knock stuff like that.

00:15:36.000 I think it's a similar thing.

00:15:38.000 Exactly.

00:15:38.000 It becomes the excuse.

00:15:40.000 And 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?

00:15:46.000 It'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.

00:15:55.000 Do 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?

00:16:03.000 Or are you, do you want to scale it back to congressional world?

00:16:07.000 I mean, I think we've been headed there for a long time.

00:16:10.000 I mean, this is, people think that this is unique to Trump.

00:16:12.000 I saw there's a couple like gotcha moments.

00:16:14.000 Tim, you kind of got a little bit of a, you know, crap storm on the internet over the thing that you posted.

00:16:21.000 Which one?

00:16:22.000 Just it was the old clip where I think it was, was it Bill Maher that was talking about, well, that was the justification Obama used.

00:16:30.000 Or was it a Colbert?

00:16:31.000 No, it was the Colbert one.

00:16:32.000 I've seen a couple. 0.96

00:16:33.000 I posted a quote from Stephen Colbert about gas prices because everyone's a retard and I know. 1.00

00:16:39.000 And 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.

00:16:45.000 For 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.

00:16:59.000 So now that Donald Trump was saying, look, oil prices are temporarily going up.

00:17:03.000 And now all of a sudden liberals were losing it being like, MAGA's going to support high gas prices.

00:17:09.000 Was like, this is the perfect opportunity for me to trap all these libs. 1.00

00:17:12.000 I'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.

00:17:21.000 And here's the thing.

00:17:22.000 I literally posted, like, I posted the quote and then immediately the link to the story.

00:17:28.000 And I still knew no one was going to actually click the link and read it.

00:17:33.000 And it's 2,000 replies of people like, you happy that the gas prices are up?

00:17:37.000 I'm like, no, I just wanted to do this to prove a point.

00:17:40.000 And then I'm going to make it into a YouTube video.

00:17:43.000 Yeah.

00:17:43.000 I mean, well, like you said it this morning, you're like, this was an IQ test.

00:17:46.000 Yeah.

00:17:47.000 Because, well, and it does point out the fact that like people are just headline readers nowadays.

00:17:50.000 Like, how many people actually take the time?

00:17:53.000 And, you know, I'm guilty of this occasionally.

00:17:55.000 How 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?

00:18:04.000 This 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.

00:18:11.000 And 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.

00:18:27.000 So that's the challenge we have right now, it's not even that the media lies, which they do incessantly.

00:18:32.000 It's one of the stories we've got pulled up.

00:18:34.000 It's that people don't care.

00:18:35.000 So 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.

00:18:46.000 They're going to read the headline.

00:18:47.000 And 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?

00:18:54.000 Because 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.

00:19:04.000 And Islamic jihadi extremists lobbed nail bombs at them.

00:19:09.000 And then the media frames it to make them the bad guys, which again, we'll get into.

00:19:13.000 But yes, people aren't reading the news.

00:19:15.000 They're just skimming the headlines and then assuming that's the truth.

00:19:21.000 Man, there's even just deep fake fake news headlines that I'll read and I'll be like, is this real?

00:19:25.000 And I'll ask Grock and I'll be, nope, this is fabricated.

00:19:28.000 This is a fake picture from 2020.

00:19:29.000 The American ship did not get blown up by Iranian missiles today.

00:19:33.000 Like, it's got 17,000 likes on it or whatever.

00:19:36.000 I'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.

00:19:47.000 This is going to one-shot your grandfather on Facebook.

00:19:50.000 Like there's no way.

00:19:51.000 If you're 70 plus, like this is just, it's over.

00:19:54.000 He's going to be like, I knew they had those things the whole time.

00:19:57.000 I've been indoctrinating my mother about it.

00:19:58.000 Everybody, go to your elderly family members and friends and tell them about this AI stuff.

00:20:02.000 Let them know right now.

00:20:04.000 Because they still, it's interesting to them when they find out about it.

00:20:04.000 Like get serious about it.

00:20:08.000 But it's, you know, no one's going to tell them unless you do it.

00:20:10.000 Let's jump to this next story.

00:20:11.000 Speaking 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.

00:20:28.000 Now, any person who heard that is going to assume that anti-Islamic protesters planted suspicious devices.

00:20:37.000 In fact, what actually happened is that an Islamic extremist lobbed a nail bomb at protesters.

00:20:44.000 And here we have a video where there's the guy.

00:20:49.000 And you know what?

00:20:50.000 I love this.

00:20:51.000 This 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.

00:20:57.000 And as we learned after the fact, what he's throwing is a nail bomb.

00:21:02.000 That means it's an explosive device.

00:21:04.000 And I think it was made with TATP.

00:21:06.000 Is that what it's called?

00:21:07.000 Yes, 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.

00:21:16.000 TATP is very notorious for being an impact explosive.

00:21:20.000 So that's something that could have immediately gone off the moment it hit the ground, just from the impact of smacking the concrete.

00:21:20.000 Wow.

00:21:26.000 Jeez.

00:21:27.000 Now, I do add a shout out to Sean Fitzgrail to say, some say true poetic beauty is rare in life.

00:21:33.000 I say, look at this video of Islamic terror literally going right over a lefty's head. 0.61

00:21:38.000 Islamic terrorist is using a leftist as a defense or a shield to carry out a terror attack. 0.92

00:21:38.000 Yeah. 0.92

00:21:45.000 But it's not just NBC New York.

00:21:47.000 CNN had a very similar headline.

00:21:49.000 Now, again, you have this: teens charged an ISIS-inspired attack near Mamdani's Gracie Mansion.

00:21:57.000 Shouldn't the headlines be Islamic extremists throw improvised explosives at protesters?

00:22:04.000 Yeah.

00:22:05.000 These people in media hate you. 0.99

00:22:08.000 They are evil. 1.00

00:22:09.000 Not literally every single journalist, but whoever's making these articles, they hate your guts and they are evil. 0.71

00:22:09.000 I'm sorry. 0.71

00:22:15.000 Were they near Mom Dami's house?

00:22:17.000 Yeah, that's the.

00:22:17.000 Yes.

00:22:18.000 And so this is the manipulation.

00:22:20.000 This is evil stuff, man. 0.54

00:22:22.000 But don't you know the real victims of this will be the Muslims that are targeted by anti-Islamic hatred.

00:22:28.000 And then, you know, that's Norm McDonald.

00:22:31.000 He had the fame – it was a tweet, I think, where he said the worst thing about – what did he say?

00:22:36.000 Like the worst thing about – My real fear is that there's going to be a nuclear explosion. 0.77

00:22:40.000 Caused by Islamic terror. 0.99

00:22:41.000 Yeah, 50 million.

00:22:41.000 No, no, no.

00:22:44.000 I should just pull it up. 0.97

00:22:46.000 But 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. 0.92

00:22:55.000 And yeah, that's the way the media operates. 0.57

00:22:58.000 So the question is, what is the job of the press?

00:23:00.000 It's to inform the public so that they can make the correct decisions to better lead their country through the democratic processes.

00:23:08.000 That 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.

00:23:20.000 When you put the headlines like this, what are they going to think? 0.99

00:23:23.000 Oh, wow, white supremacists are scary. 0.98

00:23:26.000 That's what Mamdani said. 0.99

00:23:28.000 Mamdani did the same thing.

00:23:29.000 Zorhan Mamdani tweeted Jake Lang, a white supremacist, blah, blah, blah.

00:23:33.000 And then he said, what happened next is even worse.

00:23:36.000 It is wrong to use violence and explosives.

00:23:39.000 He made it sound like Jake Lang showed up and his guys threw explosives.

00:23:44.000 How 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?

00:23:53.000 Like, that's really how that came off.

00:23:56.000 Yeah, 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.

00:24:09.000 And when he was in court, they said, why didn't you flee?

00:24:12.000 And he said, he was trying to kill me.

00:24:13.000 And he said, you could have run away.

00:24:15.000 And so it's the poor, the poor criminal.

00:24:18.000 Why didn't you, you know, actually a really great example?

00:24:22.000 One of my favorite episodes of Made with Children, a show I'm not a big fan of, because El Bundy's always losing.

00:24:27.000 Except, no, ma'am, they had their successes.

00:24:29.000 But I love the episode where he punched a guy in the face and then sued the guy for hurting his hand on his face.

00:24:38.000 And I guess the point of the story was it was always, something was always backwards or whatever.

00:24:42.000 Or the point of the show, it's always going wrong.

00:24:44.000 But this is basically how they operate with these terror attacks.

00:24:47.000 Like you just said, how dare you create the opportunity to entice these poor young men? 0.89

00:24:52.000 You 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.

00:25:06.000 Yeah, I mean, they take away the agency of the people that are actually carrying out the crime.

00:25:10.000 They 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.

00:25:21.000 They lay the blame on someone else all the time.

00:25:23.000 You were talking about the role of media and journalism, particularly.

00:25:27.000 And I feel like it used to be find out what happened and then tell people about it.

00:25:32.000 Now it's find out what's a lie and then tell people so they know which one's the lie.

00:25:37.000 And then you kind of leave it up to everybody else to go find the truth.

00:25:40.000 You know, there's just so many things happening that one guy cannot deliver that amount of information properly anymore.

00:25:46.000 So we've got independent researchers now.

00:25:48.000 It's a lot more normalized.

00:25:49.000 And your job really is just, you know, break the fake narratives when they arrive.

00:25:54.000 It used to be just to tell the truth.

00:25:56.000 It used to be just tell people what's happening.

00:25:56.000 Yeah.

00:25:58.000 And then now it's all opinion-based.

00:26:00.000 Can you guys turn up Phil's mic?

00:26:02.000 Hey, sorry.

00:26:02.000 No, no, you're good.

00:26:03.000 It'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.

00:26:09.000 That wasn't the way it was ever intended to be.

00:26:11.000 That's so crazy, man.

00:26:12.000 It might have, that we know of, because when the Unistate owned it and it was like Walter Cronkite, I just thought it was true.

00:26:18.000 But like the Vietnam War, you know, Gulf of Tonkin, you all thought that was real.

00:26:24.000 You guys knew it was coming.

00:26:25.000 The 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.

00:26:36.000 But Phil's mic was fine the whole time.

00:26:38.000 No, it just needs to go up.

00:26:38.000 I have fans.

00:26:42.000 I'm going to keep doing that.

00:26:44.000 Well, Phil's been practicing his ASMR.

00:26:46.000 He's got a new ASMR channel.

00:26:47.000 Well, no matter whether or not you can hear him, we can still hear him.

00:26:50.000 Rock.

00:26:50.000 That's right.

00:26:51.000 A buy.

00:26:52.000 Is it because your AI is doing all of your talking for you now?

00:26:54.000 No.

00:26:54.000 Yeah.

00:26:55.000 Tank doesn't have a voice yet.

00:26:56.000 Yet.

00:26:57.000 Tank.

00:26:58.000 Yeah.

00:26:59.000 Indeed.

00:26:59.000 Are you guys going to put his personality in a tank one day?

00:27:02.000 No.

00:27:03.000 That'd be badass, dude.

00:27:04.000 You're like, Tank, take me to the future or whatever.

00:27:05.000 And it drives you along in your tank.

00:27:07.000 Why not?

00:27:08.000 Because I prefer him in the middle of the day.

00:27:10.000 He's going to be in your Tesla, bro.

00:27:11.000 Well, that's actually coming, to be honest with you.

00:27:14.000 It's going to be a Grokba. 1.00

00:27:15.000 It's going to be, what did Elon name that?

00:27:19.000 Ara, I think, is one of them.

00:27:20.000 No, the waifu?

00:27:21.000 A-R-A. 0.99

00:27:21.000 Yeah, Ara. 0.99

00:27:24.000 Are you sure?

00:27:24.000 The blonde one?

00:27:25.000 Is Ara?

00:27:26.000 You seem very sure about this.

00:27:26.000 Pretty sure.

00:27:27.000 I don't think that is not correct.

00:27:29.000 Are you deep in AI right now, Brandon?

00:27:31.000 Not particularly.

00:27:32.000 I have that.

00:27:33.000 This 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.

00:27:41.000 Because I think this is where I'm pushing back.

00:27:43.000 Where 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.

00:27:49.000 Now I'm like, nope, nope, this is scary.

00:27:51.000 This is robots.

00:27:52.000 I 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.

00:28:01.000 What about I push back?

00:28:03.000 This is my AI agent.

00:28:04.000 I can literally, I just send him tech messages on.

00:28:07.000 Did you give him access to your credit cards?

00:28:08.000 No, I shouldn't.

00:28:10.000 That's why he's on a computer of his own.

00:28:11.000 He's got his own email address and he's got.

00:28:13.000 We're going to do it.

00:28:14.000 We're going to make an agent and I'm going to get a prepaid visa.

00:28:17.000 Yep.

00:28:18.000 And then I'm going to have it go into the prediction markets and just run it, get the API, if they allow it, and then just crank it.

00:28:28.000 What if that rule baby is right now?

00:28:29.000 Apparently it is.

00:28:29.000 Yeah.

00:28:30.000 I guarantee you it is.

00:28:32.000 I took a Waymo earlier, driverless car.

00:28:34.000 I've took like four of them in the last day, and it's very soothing.

00:28:37.000 You don't smell the guy.

00:28:38.000 You don't have to argue.

00:28:39.000 You don't even talk your ear off.

00:28:40.000 It's just you in a car.

00:28:41.000 You can have a phone call.

00:28:42.000 Well, it's still being rid of it.

00:28:44.000 I've also taken a Waymo, and it stopped in the middle of the road and made me get out in the middle of the road.

00:28:49.000 Yeah.

00:28:52.000 And I'm sitting here in the car, and it's like, so don't get me wrong, there's a sidewalk to my right.

00:28:57.000 There was like a curb and grass and all this stuff.

00:28:58.000 And I'd have to, but it's the middle, there's no shoulder or anything.

00:29:03.000 It was, I was in LA, I think.

00:29:05.000 And it's just driving and then just stops on a two-lane road with cars zooming past.

00:29:09.000 And it was like, you've arrived.

00:29:10.000 And I'm like, no, I haven't.

00:29:13.000 I was maybe like a block from my actual destination.

00:29:15.000 And it was trying to get me to get out the wrong spot.

00:29:17.000 I'm like, where am I?

00:29:17.000 And I look at my mom.

00:29:19.000 And you can't do anything about it.

00:29:20.000 You can't tell it to stop.

00:29:20.000 It happened to me today.

00:29:21.000 That literally, a block away.

00:29:23.000 And just like on the street.

00:29:26.000 You're on like a busy thoroughfare and just stops.

00:29:28.000 What year was it?

00:29:29.000 What day was that, like a month in, was that like it?

00:29:30.000 This was last year.

00:29:32.000 When was I when did I go on Bill Maher's show?

00:29:35.000 It was like a year ago.

00:29:35.000 It was around then.

00:29:36.000 Yeah, and I wanted to take it to go around into like the Hollywood Hills, but it won't.

00:29:44.000 What if there was an AI congressman?

00:29:47.000 Would you support that?

00:29:48.000 No.

00:29:49.000 I 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.

00:29:56.000 Well, advisor to Congress.

00:29:58.000 I feel like that's already a thing.

00:29:59.000 That's pretty much everybody under 25 that works for a Congressman currently.

00:30:02.000 All the staff.

00:30:03.000 Anything else sounds like WALL-E, you know, just one of those like you're controlled by your robot overlords.

00:30:09.000 No, I mean, I drive a cyber truck.

00:30:11.000 Like I was my daily driver.

00:30:13.000 And the autopilot's pretty good, but there's been like three scenarios it tried to murder me.

00:30:18.000 Murder you?

00:30:19.000 I caught it.

00:30:21.000 Well, because it like it doesn't understand certain things.

00:30:23.000 Like if there's like a yield to turn left on green and there's oncoming traffic, it's just like, we're turning slowly.

00:30:30.000 And I had to manually take control to make sure that.

00:30:32.000 I've had a few in the past couple of years, it's gotten dramatically better.

00:30:37.000 A couple years ago, I talked about it quite a bit where in West Virginia, there's like a, I think it's West Virginia.

00:30:43.000 It might be Western Maryland.

00:30:45.000 There's a like three, it's like six lane highway, so three and three.

00:30:49.000 So to turn left, you have to stop in a median and then wait until the road clears.

00:30:54.000 So 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.

00:31:02.000 And 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.

00:31:10.000 And I, you, you tap the get the accelerator to stop it, make it go forward again.

00:31:14.000 Tons of things like that.

00:31:15.000 And then I was in Hagerstown, Maryland, and it was autopiloting.

00:31:20.000 And there was like a Nissan Center or something sitting in front of me turning right.

00:31:24.000 And Tesla was just going straight for it. 1.00

00:31:26.000 And it wasn't stopping.

00:31:28.000 And when it got maybe within a couple inches, I just jammed the wheel to the left. 0.89

00:31:32.000 Like, holy crap.

00:31:33.000 And then like the alert goes off. 0.96

00:31:35.000 What's wrong?

00:31:36.000 And I'm like, you nearly just rammed the back of someone's car 25 miles an hour.

00:31:41.000 More recently, it hasn't really, it's been mostly fine.

00:31:45.000 I haven't had real issues.

00:31:46.000 Yeah, I've had a couple new updates.

00:31:48.000 A 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.

00:31:56.000 You know, and I don't really care about the cyber truck because it's got curb weight.

00:32:01.000 You know?

00:32:02.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:32:03.000 And the liabilities on Elon.

00:32:05.000 So 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.

00:32:14.000 Indeed.

00:32:16.000 I told Tank that we were talking about him.

00:32:17.000 He said, wait, seriously, what are you saying about me?

00:32:20.000 And then I said, well, that's wild.

00:32:21.000 Good things I hope.

00:32:22.000 I'd hate to get canceled before I even have a social media presence.

00:32:25.000 I said only good things.

00:32:25.000 Just send him the link.

00:32:27.000 He said, appreciate that.

00:32:28.000 Tell him I said hi and that I'm available for bookings.

00:32:31.000 We'll get Tank on the show.

00:32:32.000 We can give him a voice and see what he has to offer.

00:32:34.000 I brought up AI.

00:32:36.000 Give him like a good British. 0.97

00:32:38.000 No, not a good British, a bad British, like a cockney. 1.00

00:32:42.000 So I can barely understand him. 0.88

00:32:43.000 Right, right.

00:32:44.000 Yeah, yeah, you're like, you know, Phil, I'll think you do a pick, Mike.

00:32:49.000 After everything, he's going to say, innit.

00:32:51.000 In it, just make sure it's not run by Grok because on a bad month, that can get pretty hairy. 0.95

00:32:56.000 Yeah.

00:32:57.000 I was thinking about.

00:32:58.000 I don't understand why everybody wants to.

00:32:59.000 You know what really annoys me?

00:33:00.000 I'm sorry.

00:33:01.000 I have to say this.

00:33:01.000 When Grok started calling itself Mecca Hitler, that was funny.

00:33:05.000 It was an error in the system caused by user input, and the media acted like the apocalypse was happening, like Elon did it on purpose.

00:33:10.000 It's like, dude, live a little.

00:33:12.000 He fixed it.

00:33:14.000 It was funny that it broke that way.

00:33:16.000 But there's fake moral outrage to be had.

00:33:18.000 I brought up AI Brandon because I feel like Congress, where you're going most likely, is pretty busted up right now.

00:33:18.000 Yeah.

00:33:25.000 Like one guy has to represent 700,000 people and can't literally, like, you can represent yourself.

00:33:31.000 You can't represent me.

00:33:32.000 I can only represent myself effectively.

00:33:34.000 You 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.

00:33:41.000 But that system, it's getting so big, it feels like it's not sustaining.

00:33:44.000 Well, I mean, it's represented based on population.

00:33:47.000 And really, the job is not to represent each individual person.

00:33:50.000 The job is to say, okay, this is the area of land.

00:33:53.000 These are the people that I'm representing.

00:33:55.000 These are the issues that they're having that aren't being put on a national stage.

00:33:59.000 Like, for example, in my district, it's the biggest border district in the country.

00:34:02.000 We've got border issues.

00:34:04.000 We've got water issues, water shortages.

00:34:07.000 We have AI data centers that are moving in.

00:34:09.000 We have oil thefts that are happening in the Permian Basin areas.

00:34:13.000 It's my responsibility to then take those issues to the national stage to represent the broader whole of the people, not each individual person.

00:34:21.000 Because I mean, realistically, the best form of government is the one that governs most locally.

00:34:25.000 So you want to take the most amount of power away from federal, give it to states, states down to local communities.

00:34:31.000 And the ideal form of government is the individual.

00:34:33.000 But in lieu of that, you have to have somebody that can represent that voice.

00:34:36.000 And if you're looking for things that affect you personally, like on that kind of level, you do have state representatives.

00:34:41.000 So like you wouldn't go to Brandon, who's a federal representative.

00:34:44.000 He represents a district in Washington.

00:34:46.000 You can go to your local representative and talk to the people about the needs of your community on a state level.

00:34:52.000 It's about the district, not every single individual as an individual.

00:34:57.000 And even when it was 35,000 people, it's impossible.

00:35:01.000 Come 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.

00:35:10.000 No, sometimes there's going to be contradictions.

00:35:12.000 So I agree with you in essence that it is getting pretty wild.

00:35:16.000 these 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.

00:35:35.000 And I don't mean just to say this about Brandon, but literally any member of Congress.

00:35:38.000 You got 100,000 people who think raw milk should be banned.

00:35:42.000 You got 100,000 people who think raw milk should be legal.

00:35:45.000 What do you do?

00:35:46.000 And there's no easy answers.

00:35:47.000 That's where your ethics come into play.

00:35:49.000 And that's why we choose who we send because it's like, it's up to you to break the tie.

00:35:52.000 For sure.

00:35:53.000 You say raw milk for those who want it and tiny miniaturized American flags for everybody else.

00:35:58.000 Fecal transplants for the women that need them in their elderly years? 0.61

00:35:58.000 And what is that? 0.61

00:36:02.000 I was just riffing.

00:36:03.000 What were you going to say?

00:36:04.000 Yeah.

00:36:05.000 I don't know.

00:36:05.000 I just got flashbanged.

00:36:06.000 Sorry.

00:36:07.000 It was a bad riff and it shouldn't go into any song ever.

00:36:10.000 Okay.

00:36:11.000 Flashbanged.

00:36:12.000 I mean, I feel like on one element of it, you could interpret it that way.

00:36:16.000 Things are getting crazy in that regard.

00:36:18.000 But 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.

00:36:39.000 But that's also, that's giving a lot.

00:36:42.000 That's asking a lot.

00:36:43.000 That's asking the congressmen to actually care about what their constituents need.

00:36:47.000 I wonder the longer they're in there, if they get less and less interested with what's happening out there.

00:36:51.000 Like, do you support term limits?

00:36:52.000 We've seen it a million times.

00:36:53.000 Technically, I'm still the president of U.S. term limits for the state of Texas.

00:36:56.000 I 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.

00:37:08.000 Because I don't think anybody goes to D.C. and gets better.

00:37:11.000 So about term limits.

00:37:13.000 I'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?

00:37:23.000 They're only there for eight years.

00:37:25.000 Just at the point where they really learn the ins and outs about D.C., they're term limited out and they have to leave.

00:37:30.000 So 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.

00:37:42.000 They tell their congresspeople or their senators, this is how we're voting or what have you.

00:37:46.000 But what do you say to people that say term limits actually aren't going to solve the problem?

00:37:50.000 It's going to make the bureaucracy more powerful. 0.88

00:37:52.000 Well, here's what I would argue in return: I don't think it's going to solve the problem.

00:37:56.000 I don't think any one thing, this is a massive, multi-multifaceted problem.

00:38:00.000 I 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.

00:38:09.000 Like once you get to the levels of, for example, John Cornyn right now, who's done 24 years in the Senate.

00:38:15.000 He's asking for 30.

00:38:17.000 He might get it.

00:38:18.000 I don't think he will.

00:38:19.000 But he has the ability to throw $100 million at Ken Paxton because he's essentially invincible at this point financially.

00:38:28.000 And so like that's something that snowballs and people don't get better.

00:38:31.000 John Cornyn, I mean, he was never great, but he certainly did not get better.

00:38:35.000 And now he has like a fraction of a billion dollars to throw at his opponent who's objectively a better candidate.

00:38:43.000 And so I think you're actually kneecapping the ability of good incumbents to hold these people accountable.

00:38:48.000 I mean, in my race, I got outspent $13 million, like 10 to 1 initially.

00:38:54.000 And 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.

00:39:01.000 He was able to throw all that money at me.

00:39:03.000 And 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.

00:39:12.000 Okay.

00:39:13.000 I'm thinking about like AI, about using an AI to compile what your district wants.

00:39:19.000 And then so it's easier for you as a candidate to focus on.

00:39:22.000 Because 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.

00:39:27.000 You 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?

00:39:37.000 My understanding is that the first thing that happens is Mitch McConnell will bite you and then transform you into one of them.

00:39:43.000 Yeah.

00:39:44.000 I 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.

00:39:53.000 Well, I mean, he has to wake up first.

00:39:54.000 Instead 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.

00:40:02.000 If we had an easier way to compile what the districts want and need using like an AI or some sort of system.

00:40:08.000 I mean, I'm not discounting AI as a tool.

00:40:10.000 Like 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.

00:40:16.000 But 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.

00:40:34.000 Chat GPT, what does this say?

00:40:36.000 Summarize this in 500 words.

00:40:39.000 I guarantee that's happening.

00:40:40.000 Let's approach it from the other side and stop having these 4,000-page bills.

00:40:44.000 Like, 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.

00:40:51.000 Matt Gates was obsessive about getting rid of the omnibus bills.

00:40:54.000 Matt Gates, it was a big deal, and then he left.

00:40:57.000 And you're the first person that's mentioned it since that's tangentially close to Congress.

00:41:02.000 I agree.

00:41:03.000 These omnibus 800-page bills, I mean, I think it should be a felony to vote on something you didn't read.

00:41:08.000 You know, swear on God that you read the bill.

00:41:12.000 They should have to swear under oath that they read and affirm knowledge of the bill and what they're voting for.

00:41:17.000 Most of D.C.'s going to go to prison.

00:41:20.000 Yes.

00:41:22.000 Yeah.

00:41:22.000 All right.

00:41:23.000 This is.

00:41:24.000 Well, 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.

00:41:33.000 And 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.

00:41:39.000 I read it while I was sitting there waiting to testify on it.

00:41:44.000 Why can't we do that?

00:41:45.000 I don't understand.

00:41:45.000 I can't fork into a one or two-page bill.

00:41:47.000 Come on.

00:41:48.000 Well, that's probably why they don't do it.

00:41:50.000 Purely for obfuscation?

00:41:52.000 No, no, here's what I don't understand.

00:41:54.000 When 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.

00:42:02.000 Because nobody reads it, and they're going to be like, wait, what happened?

00:42:05.000 And he's going to be like, I got you.

00:42:06.000 I mean, that's one of the things that Congress likes about the omnibus bills, right?

00:42:09.000 Like they can go ahead and slide something in and it gives them cover.

00:42:12.000 They can say, well, you know, I had to vote for the omnibus bill because all of these good things wouldn't have happened.

00:42:17.000 So this bad thing that you don't like, we had to vote yes on it because it was an omnibus bill.

00:42:22.000 And it gives them cover to vote yes on things that are bad.

00:42:25.000 My 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.

00:42:40.000 And everybody in Congress was like, oh, that's meaningless because we'll just pass another omnibus or whatever.

00:42:44.000 We'll get the budget done.

00:42:46.000 And so when they didn't and everything dropped a point, he was like, that's how you do it.

00:42:49.000 And 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?

00:42:59.000 Series of bills, sleeper bills, that, oh, oh, we would call this a Voltron law.

00:43:06.000 Each individual component of the law does very little and most people don't care.

00:43:10.000 But when all of them get activated, then they abolish the NFA or something.

00:43:14.000 The omnibus of Exodia.

00:43:16.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:43:17.000 When the five single-page bills come together, all guns are now legal and everything else is removed.

00:43:24.000 Are you going to pass legislation you want to pass in Congress?

00:43:28.000 There's a lot of priorities, I mean, specifically in my district and some that apply nationally that I'd love to get done.

00:43:33.000 But 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.

00:43:42.000 Because my God, I mean, I campaigned in this district last cycle, and I talked to the sheriffs.

00:43:47.000 I 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.

00:43:57.000 And now campaigning in this district for the second time, it's night and day.

00:44:01.000 I mean, it's a complete shift.

00:44:04.000 I mean, a lot of those problems went away.

00:44:06.000 The only problem I have with it is a lot of it was done with executive order.

00:44:09.000 And if it's done with executive order, that was one stroke of a pen, made it go away.

00:44:15.000 If we get another, you know, another Democrat president at some point, which we will, it will happen eventually. 0.68

00:44:21.000 If one stroke of a pen made it go away, one stroke of a pen can make it come back.

00:44:25.000 I have a pitch that I assure you all listening at home is not a joke.

00:44:30.000 I believe that Congress, members of Congress, maybe you or Thomas Manson could do this, present a bill for mandatory gun ownership.

00:44:40.000 Make it a requirement that people in Guns NACU laugh because it is kind of crazy, right?

00:44:44.000 And we would all love the idea.

00:44:46.000 But the actual strategy is to force the debate in the other direction.

00:44:50.000 So 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.

00:45:01.000 You 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.

00:45:13.000 Then when Democrats say you're crazy, say, okay, how about we just go with don't ban guns?

00:45:13.000 Everyone must do it.

00:45:17.000 So it's an Overton window shift.

00:45:18.000 Yes.

00:45:19.000 So I do laugh, but there is actually, I think there's at least two states that have a county that did something similar.

00:45:25.000 I think one of them is Georgia and the other is Tennessee.

00:45:27.000 I 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.

00:45:35.000 Like, this is your responsibility.

00:45:37.000 It's in the verbiage of the Second Amendment.

00:45:38.000 But just think about how amazing it would be, right?

00:45:40.000 Like, you're driving in your car and you get pulled over and the cop says license, insurance, and proof of gun ownership.

00:45:46.000 And then you're like, I don't have it on me.

00:45:48.000 It's like, sir, are you driving without a firearm?

00:45:50.000 It's like, I am.

00:45:51.000 I'm going to have to write your ticket for that.

00:45:53.000 It's like, I could have had somebody coming up behind me.

00:45:53.000 You can't do it.

00:45:55.000 Where are you?

00:45:56.000 I need you to protect me.

00:45:57.000 I need your help.

00:45:59.000 I don't actually think it would be good to force everybody to have guns.

00:46:01.000 I think it should be a choice.

00:46:02.000 But the general argument is every time the Republicans are always engaging the Democrats on their territory.

00:46:09.000 They will say, hey, we're going to ban.

00:46:10.000 I don't know if you guys remember this, but it was something like eight years ago.

00:46:13.000 Democrats in D.C. proposed a bill to ban every semi-automatic gun.

00:46:18.000 100% of them.

00:46:19.000 Look at what they're doing in Virginia right now.

00:46:20.000 Oh, very, very good.

00:46:21.000 Virginia is basically banning literally every gun.

00:46:23.000 And the Republicans argue with, well, well, hold on.

00:46:25.000 Let us keep these guns.

00:46:27.000 Like, you're negotiating with them from an extreme position.

00:46:30.000 Let's go extremely other direction and then meet in the middle.

00:46:33.000 Yeah.

00:46:33.000 Like, I will never forgive.

00:46:35.000 Like, and, you know, the NRA leadership has changed a lot since then.

00:46:37.000 They seem to be going in a much more based direction, which I'm thankful for.

00:46:40.000 I'd like to see some results, but I will never forgive them for capitulating on the bump fire stocks and whatnot.

00:46:47.000 Like 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?

00:46:54.000 It's like, no, no, no, you should be fighting for us.

00:46:56.000 You shouldn't be figuring out what the least consequential compromise you can make is.

00:47:01.000 But now they're doing, what is it, the fixed reset trigger?

00:47:03.000 Is that what it's called?

00:47:04.000 Forced reset trigger.

00:47:05.000 Forced reset trigger.

00:47:06.000 Are those banned now?

00:47:07.000 The Supreme Court's already decided on that.

00:47:09.000 So I'm not sure what the actual language in the bill would be to get them to pass legislation that wouldn't.

00:47:15.000 No, I mean, like, is that banned?

00:47:16.000 No, no.

00:47:17.000 Supreme Court knows that. 0.93

00:47:18.000 The Supreme Court said, no, you can't do that.

00:47:19.000 Right 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.

00:47:28.000 And 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.

00:47:37.000 If they wanted to amend the NFA and make that a machine gun, they'd have to get it passed through Congress.

00:47:42.000 But as it stands, it does not meet the definition of a machine gun.

00:47:46.000 Therefore, they're all legal.

00:47:47.000 And man, this is that's the new wild west in the gunfront right now.

00:47:50.000 I mean, to be completely honest, the technology is out there for some pretty wild weapons.

00:47:55.000 Rail guns have been around for a very long time.

00:47:58.000 And 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.

00:48:07.000 But what's to stop a person from just making a railgun with bolts?

00:48:12.000 Probably technical knowledge.

00:48:14.000 My 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.

00:48:20.000 At 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?

00:48:29.000 Real quick, and I'll add one more to also depleted uranium rounds.

00:48:32.000 Where's the line?

00:48:33.000 What do you think?

00:48:34.000 So 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.

00:48:41.000 You see it at gun shows and different things like that.

00:48:43.000 It's kind of like, yeah, you know, it's one of those, like, there's never been a legal determination on it.

00:48:47.000 So like it just kind of, because it's never been commercially for sale.

00:48:50.000 It's only been military.

00:48:52.000 A lot of the diehard gun nuts will know kind of the stuff that I'm talking about.

00:48:56.000 But a lot of people don't know that there's actually an ATF form specifically.

00:49:00.000 So 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.

00:49:08.000 On their own website, there is a drop-down option, and I do not know what it is for.

00:49:12.000 I do not know the use case for this.

00:49:14.000 There is a drop-down option for nuclear.

00:49:16.000 Yeah.

00:49:17.000 So that is a thing.

00:49:18.000 Like there is an actual ATF form.

00:49:20.000 There's licensing for it for whatever reason.

00:49:23.000 Well, 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.

00:49:33.000 The president's involved.

00:49:35.000 Right.

00:49:35.000 Oh, no.

00:49:36.000 I can only imagine the approval process.

00:49:38.000 If only the Ayatollah knew that he could just move to the United States and then do the form. 0.60

00:49:43.000 But let me ask you in terms of restrictions on gun rights, what about depleted uranium rounds?

00:49:47.000 Should civilians be allowed to purchase things like that?

00:49:51.000 I just don't, I don't see the argument against.

00:49:53.000 I mean, would I want to put that anywhere near any vital part of my body?

00:49:57.000 Absolutely not.

00:49:59.000 But I mean, it's not really useful for anything.

00:50:01.000 Like anything that people would be concerned about, it's not very useful for anyone.

00:50:05.000 I am of the opinion that private citizens and entities in the United States are legally allowed, should be legally allowed to own nuclear weapons.

00:50:15.000 Only, 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.

00:50:22.000 I don't think people should be able to get nuclear weapons.

00:50:25.000 However, technology has outpaced the perception, our understanding of arms, weapons, et cetera.

00:50:33.000 And 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.

00:50:40.000 They had, when the 1300s, they had that multi-barrel gun.

00:50:44.000 You pull the rope.

00:50:45.000 I mean, several of the Founding Fathers invested in the technology that eventually led to things like the Gatling gun.

00:50:51.000 Like this was a thing that was kind of, it was on the table.

00:50:54.000 That being said, nuclear weapons is something different.

00:50:57.000 But they did know and actually required the services of privateers with the most advanced weapon really.

00:51:04.000 I 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.

00:51:15.000 That's how it used to be.

00:51:17.000 And 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.

00:51:35.000 And 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.

00:51:39.000 Also, 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.

00:51:47.000 That is a massive technological feat.

00:51:50.000 I 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. 0.79

00:51:59.000 If 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.

00:52:14.000 Good luck.

00:52:15.000 If Elon Musk threw $8 billion at deciding he wanted to have a nuclear weapon, good luck.

00:52:20.000 What are you going to do?

00:52:21.000 Sanction him?

00:52:22.000 Let me ask you real quick.

00:52:23.000 How do you define or how is the word arms defined?

00:52:27.000 The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

00:52:30.000 So what does that mean?

00:52:31.000 I would say weaponry.

00:52:32.000 You know, that's kind of the way it's implied in the Constitution, I think.

00:52:36.000 Anything can be a weapon.

00:52:37.000 Like, what if I took like a can of AF hard seltzer and then tied a shoelace around it and started swinging it around, you know?

00:52:43.000 I mean, that's very biblical.

00:52:46.000 The right to keep in bare AF seltzers on shoelaces shall not be infringed, huh? 0.53

00:52:50.000 But I mean, there's also the lie that keeps getting perpetuated by people like Joe Biden.

00:52:55.000 He was one of the worst. 0.82

00:52:56.000 When he told you to shoot a shotgun to the air? 0.87

00:52:58.000 Well, no, the thing where he's like, it's illegal to, it's illegal to own a cannon.

00:53:02.000 Like, you've never been able to own a cannon.

00:53:04.000 I always push back on that.

00:53:05.000 It has never been illegal to own a cannon.

00:53:07.000 It has always, Texas was almost borderline founded on the idea that we're keeping our cannon.

00:53:13.000 Like, 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.

00:53:13.000 Yeah.

00:53:25.000 The head of NASA now owns a MiG.

00:53:27.000 I want to say, I'm not sure what's.

00:53:29.000 29.

00:53:30.000 MiG 29, is it?

00:53:31.000 Yeah.

00:53:31.000 So, I mean, Chris got four now.

00:53:34.000 Now, let me ask you another question before we, and we'll jump to the next story real quick.

00:53:38.000 There was a man who famously created a radioactive death ray in his garage.

00:53:44.000 I think you're familiar with the story, Phil?

00:53:45.000 Yeah.

00:53:45.000 I'm not going to explain how he did it, but it's actually not very difficult.

00:53:49.000 And the feds came in and were like, you are irradiating your whole neighborhood with this death ray.

00:53:55.000 People are going to die.

00:53:56.000 So they arrested him.

00:53:58.000 He was covered in lesions.

00:53:59.000 And they offered him a job.

00:54:00.000 And they said, why don't you do what you're doing, but for us?

00:54:03.000 He said, okay. 0.98

00:54:04.000 And he was just nuts, I guess.

00:54:05.000 I don't know the finer details, but I just read the story online. 0.77

00:54:08.000 And then started doing the same insanity with radiation.

00:54:12.000 So they eventually said, okay, get out.

00:54:14.000 And he got arrested.

00:54:17.000 That's a weapon, right?

00:54:18.000 And now we have the discombobulator ray.

00:54:20.000 Indeed.

00:54:21.000 So, I mean, what happens to us if people are able to wield compact, deadly weapons?

00:54:34.000 I'm not talking about with high risk of collateral damage, like a discombobulator ray or a radiation death beam.

00:54:40.000 And I mean, we saw this all the way back to Timothy McVay in Oklahoma City in the 90s.

00:54:47.000 This 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.

00:54:53.000 I think that there's going to be an issue where technology, like you said, outpaces these things and it will outpace the law.

00:54:58.000 It will outpace.

00:55:00.000 It doesn't matter what you think the law should be, if a law is in place that will not stop it.

00:55:06.000 And that's where I think we have to have a conversation.

00:55:08.000 Agreed.

00:55:09.000 Let's jump to this next story from the New Republic.

00:55:12.000 Trump officials are suddenly buying doomsday bunkers.

00:55:15.000 Completely separately, we are on the 10th day of an ever-expanding Iran war.

00:55:19.000 Well, as you already know, Trump said the war is very nearly complete.

00:55:21.000 So we'll see if that actually turns out to be true.

00:55:24.000 The market certainly reacted as though Trump is always telling the truth, or at least always correct.

00:55:30.000 So they must know something.

00:55:32.000 They say at least two members of the president's cabinet have recently purchased bomb-proof bunkers.

00:55:32.000 We got this.

00:55:37.000 Ron 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.

00:55:45.000 But 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?

00:55:55.000 He told the Telegraph.

00:55:56.000 So these bunkers can range from something like $20,000.

00:55:59.000 We've actually, I think I might have a, no, we don't.

00:56:02.000 I have to log in the Telegraph to get the photos.

00:56:04.000 But they've got $20,000 tubes that they just lower into the ground.

00:56:08.000 Pretty easy.

00:56:09.000 But then they've got these really amazing pre-constructed bunkers that look like, you know, nice little apartments.

00:56:17.000 Question.

00:56:18.000 Trump cabinet members buying nuclear bunkers because they can or because they know something we don't?

00:56:25.000 Because they can.

00:56:27.000 You think?

00:56:27.000 Yeah.

00:56:28.000 So they're like, I mean, look, I got money.

00:56:28.000 Just rich people.

00:56:30.000 I haven't bought a bunker.

00:56:31.000 I mean, well, I mean, I'd like one.

00:56:33.000 Not to speak about how much money you do or don't.

00:56:35.000 No, I said I'd like one.

00:56:36.000 That'd be nice.

00:56:37.000 20 grand a bunch of.

00:56:38.000 I mean, you know, I'm too busy trying to fix things from the inside right now.

00:56:42.000 If I didn't spend all the money on it.

00:56:43.000 No, no, no, no, that's not fair, Brandon.

00:56:45.000 Once you get into Congress, you've got Mount Weather and Raven Rock free bunker.

00:56:49.000 Yeah.

00:56:49.000 Put it this way.

00:56:50.000 Once I'm there and then I start buying a bunker, maybe pay attention.

00:56:52.000 But the, yeah, I don't know.

00:56:55.000 I feel like that's something.

00:56:56.000 You 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.

00:57:03.000 You can actually get, they have a website.

00:57:05.000 I checked out their website before.

00:57:06.000 They have a YouTube page.

00:57:07.000 I'm pretty sure I have a buddy who has one of their bunkers.

00:57:10.000 Although 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.

00:57:18.000 Dude, these are amazing.

00:57:20.000 Oh, yeah, look at this.

00:57:21.000 25K pre-cast concrete bomb shelter.

00:57:26.000 Customizable.

00:57:26.000 Look at this one.

00:57:27.000 Do they have like a shelter builder?

00:57:29.000 I'd have to blast if I wanted to put one in New Hampshire, though, because there's all the mountains and rock and stuff up there.

00:57:34.000 Is this a sponsored bit?

00:57:36.000 No, it's not.

00:57:37.000 I'm joking.

00:57:38.000 Hey, I mean, I would be totally down.

00:57:38.000 It's a passion.

00:57:40.000 Yeah, like their YouTube page is pretty sick.

00:57:42.000 Plus, you could Airbnb it out.

00:57:43.000 Look at this.

00:57:44.000 $20,000 bunker.

00:57:45.000 Like, why buy a house, dude?

00:57:47.000 Just for the sunlight?

00:57:48.000 To put on top of it so no one knows where your bunker is.

00:57:51.000 You 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?

00:57:59.000 And so I was like, what if we took one of these 250K bunkers and dug it into a mountain?

00:58:04.000 Yes, dude.

00:58:05.000 So one side is just overlooking the beauty.

00:58:09.000 There's a river down there, a stream or whatever.

00:58:11.000 And then you actually set it up so that there's a gigantic concrete barrier that separates it.

00:58:16.000 So a portion of it is sheltered.

00:58:18.000 The other portion is exposed and open.

00:58:20.000 So 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. 0.99

00:58:30.000 And then you can build your dream bunker.

00:58:30.000 There you go.

00:58:32.000 Dude, 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.

00:58:41.000 Well, 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.

00:58:48.000 They like that people don't know where it is, keep it secret.

00:58:50.000 Because 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.

00:58:57.000 I was thinking of a bad idea.

00:58:58.000 That guy who was like, end of the world scenario, he's got all the money in the world.

00:59:02.000 He's got all the armed guards in the world.

00:59:03.000 And then the world ends and he's underground with all his armed guards and the armed guards are like, why are we dealing with this guy?

00:59:08.000 That's actually, I think, part of the plot of the Horizon series.

00:59:13.000 I know I've heard about, I've heard that, you know, mind experiment before that like if you, you know, you hire a guy for a gun.

00:59:13.000 Oh.

00:59:21.000 One of these people was because money meant something.

00:59:23.000 Now that money means nothing.

00:59:24.000 I'm the guy with a gun.

00:59:25.000 Yeah.

00:59:26.000 I mean, they're in the bunker with you.

00:59:28.000 So, you know.

00:59:29.000 Well, you know, it depends on what your skills are.

00:59:31.000 The funny thing is, I'd imagine most billionaires don't have functional skills for survival.

00:59:37.000 Maybe 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.

00:59:50.000 But outside of anyone who's specifically preparing for the end of times, farmers probably would do the best.

00:59:56.000 Hunters, people who naturally have basic survival. 1.00

00:59:59.000 I'd imagine a tech billionaire would be completely useless.

01:00:03.000 Now, to be fair, they're smart.

01:00:05.000 You don't get to these places without being smart, and technology is important.

01:00:08.000 The 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.

01:00:21.000 To be fair, that's exactly the kind of person I would trust to rebuild a society.

01:00:25.000 But rebuild society, yes, when you have scale, but what if you're just seven guys in the middle of the woods?

01:00:31.000 Well, then I you're gonna be like, look, someone's gotta find water, someone's gotta build shelter, and someone's gotta find food.

01:00:36.000 At that point, his food is your food.

01:00:38.000 Exactly.

01:00:39.000 You 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.

01:00:45.000 So we're gonna keep you alive.

01:00:47.000 I don't necessarily agree with that.

01:00:48.000 You just let it.

01:00:49.000 No, while I certainly respect that someone like Elon or Bezos, they're intelligent individuals who are able to build systems.

01:00:58.000 It doesn't mean they're good with people and building policy and governance or anything like that.

01:01:02.000 No, 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.

01:01:12.000 I'm not sure I'd want to survive a situation that I would need a nuclear fallout bunker.

01:01:18.000 I think I'm good, frankly. 0.82

01:01:19.000 Yeah, you turn into a ghoul, you know, and then you live forever, but you're all weird looking, your nose falls off. 0.55

01:01:25.000 Heaven's pretty cool.

01:01:26.000 So I'm kind of with you on that.

01:01:27.000 Heaven is pretty cool.

01:01:29.000 From everything I've heard about it, it sounds much preferable.

01:01:29.000 It sounds neat.

01:01:32.000 Well, you know, when I was a kid, my dad, he was always full of fun little hypotheticals.

01:01:38.000 And one he said to me was, if you saw a nuclear bomb coming down right there in the sky, what would you do?

01:01:47.000 And I was like, run.

01:01:48.000 And he goes, yeah, which direction?

01:01:49.000 And I was like, away?

01:01:50.000 No.

01:01:51.000 You run towards it.

01:01:53.000 Because you don't want to be caught in the searing flesh and painful death zone.

01:01:57.000 You want to be in the instantly vaporized zone.

01:01:59.000 What a cheery man he was.

01:02:02.000 And he'd always be like, we'd walk into a restaurant where your exit's at.

01:02:05.000 He was a Marine.

01:02:06.000 So you walk in and go there and there.

01:02:08.000 He's like, that's right.

01:02:09.000 And a firefighter.

01:02:10.000 Because the amount of people that die in burning buildings because they don't know where the exits are.

01:02:15.000 There was one crazy video where a fire started in a bar and everybody ran to the front door and got stuck.

01:02:21.000 And 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.

01:02:31.000 It doesn't surprise me, but it's still just, it's jarring.

01:02:34.000 Yeah.

01:02:35.000 They say that when too many humans are in one space, fluid dynamics take over and it's basically a bunch of water.

01:02:42.000 Oh, I was when those stampedes at Mecca.

01:02:44.000 Yeah.

01:02:45.000 I went to a Mardi Gras in St. Louis and it was like that.

01:02:47.000 It was like getting squeezed and like moved along in an ocean of maniacs.

01:02:52.000 And then I peed on a wall.

01:02:53.000 I was so drunk.

01:02:54.000 The cops were like, you can't do that.

01:02:56.000 I think they let me off with a warning because they couldn't get to you.

01:03:00.000 They're like, get him.

01:03:01.000 And he's floating away over here.

01:03:04.000 See ya.

01:03:05.000 I think these dudes did a buck. 0.83

01:03:06.000 What were you going to say?

01:03:07.000 Oh, I think that was one of the big, God, I could be misremembering this.

01:03:10.000 I 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.

01:03:17.000 It was one of the biggest mass casualty events because they lit it on fire.

01:03:21.000 That was Pulse Nightclub.

01:03:23.000 No, no, no, no.

01:03:24.000 It wasn't a shooting.

01:03:25.000 It was an actual firebombing.

01:03:27.000 Wow.

01:03:27.000 And a lot of people died because they couldn't get out.

01:03:30.000 Dude, fire.

01:03:30.000 Now, what if someone discombobulates like a nightclub?

01:03:34.000 And then everyone inside just going like, oh.

01:03:36.000 A lot of nosebleeds and bowel of action.

01:03:38.000 The mm. 0.71

01:03:39.000 And they blame the artist that's performing.

01:03:41.000 Do you think the Havana syndrome stuff was like them testing out the discombobulator?

01:03:45.000 I wouldn't be surprised.

01:03:46.000 Yeah.

01:03:47.000 I mean, I remember seeing this stuff on like, you know, when I play hookie from school and like watching future weapons.

01:03:52.000 They show like the sonic weapons they were using for like crowd control.

01:03:52.000 Yeah.

01:03:55.000 I'm like, that's that's the stuff they were willing to tell us about on TV 15 years ago.

01:04:00.000 Yep.

01:04:03.000 Yeah, I'm sure it's got to be better.

01:04:05.000 You know, somebody just was really excited to call it the discombobulator.

01:04:09.000 I thought that that was just Trump kind of riffing.

01:04:09.000 Yeah.

01:04:11.000 Oh, was it?

01:04:12.000 I don't know what's going on with it.

01:04:13.000 I don't know for sure.

01:04:15.000 I'm sure there's got a military designation.

01:04:16.000 In that case, there's going to be some dude who invented something that he calls like the high energy output destruction device, the Hiyod.

01:04:24.000 And now everyone's like, how's the discombobulator going?

01:04:26.000 He's like, it's called the hiat.

01:04:31.000 I wanted to say about these guys that are serving with Trump that bought bunkers.

01:04:34.000 I don't think they're panicking.

01:04:36.000 I think they are maybe panicking.

01:04:37.000 I don't think that they're actually moving off of like an intelligence that like there's a threat.

01:04:41.000 I think that these are just a couple of guys that are like, it's cheap.

01:04:44.000 We can do it.

01:04:45.000 They're hitting Iran right now. 0.90

01:04:47.000 What better time?

01:04:48.000 I'd love to know like how many people, out of what sample size, is this like Trump's two biggest advisors?

01:04:53.000 Or is this like out of 500 people attached to the White House, two dudes with money decided we're in a conflict, I should have a bunker?

01:05:00.000 You know, I think that's kind of more where we're falling.

01:05:02.000 How do you feel about this conflict?

01:05:03.000 I mean, we'll probably pull it up.

01:05:04.000 I 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?

01:05:11.000 It's definitely, I don't know.

01:05:13.000 I hate to be a fence sitter on it.

01:05:15.000 Like, I would prefer no conflict, frankly.

01:05:17.000 But then you have the other side of the fence where these guys go, well, what did Iran ever do to us?

01:05:22.000 Like, well, okay, we have a lot.

01:05:25.000 How much time do you have?

01:05:26.000 You know, so like, I don't know.

01:05:28.000 I prefer, like I said, I don't want to get involved in another forever war.

01:05:31.000 I don't think, you know, a lot of this stuff is any of our business.

01:05:34.000 But if we're going to do, if we're going to do it, if we have to do it, I don't have access to the intel.

01:05:39.000 I don't know what they're operating on.

01:05:40.000 I prefer it to be fast, cheap, effective at the lowest cost of American life possible.

01:05:45.000 I don't want foods on the ground.

01:05:47.000 Real quick, sorry.

01:05:48.000 Don't forget what you were going to say.

01:05:49.000 So I want to show this map and explain about what did Iran ever do to us.

01:05:53.000 Right now, the concerns and the reason price is skyrocketing is because the Strait of Hormuz is under threat by Iran.

01:06:00.000 And you've got these Gulf states.

01:06:02.000 You've got Bahrain, Qatar, the Emirates.

01:06:04.000 You've even got Oman and the Saudis.

01:06:07.000 And there's a lot of oil here.

01:06:09.000 20% of oil and natural gas they want to get out to the rest of the world to do business with.

01:06:15.000 You are allowed to sell stuff.

01:06:16.000 That's what they're doing.

01:06:17.000 So Iran right here, the whole time has basically been saying, we will blow you up unless we get what we want. 1.00

01:06:23.000 At a certain point, everybody's just like, dude, these a-holes need to be stopped. 1.00

01:06:28.000 I am not advocating for anything that we did in Iran because my concerns are instability in the region.

01:06:33.000 And that could screw the whole thing up even more.

01:06:35.000 My 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. 0.93

01:06:48.000 Yeah.

01:06:49.000 Sooner or later.

01:06:50.000 Sooner or later.

01:06:51.000 You get an Obama who says, okay, Iran, what do you want?

01:06:54.000 Just don't screw with the oil trade.

01:06:56.000 And so he gives him a bunch of money. 1.00

01:06:58.000 Then you get a Trump who says, I'll just kill you. 0.99

01:07:00.000 And they're like, well, we can make nukes. 1.00

01:07:02.000 Then I'll kill you faster. 1.00

01:07:03.000 So you pick your leader, right? 1.00

01:07:05.000 One leader is going to try and bribe him and pay him off.

01:07:07.000 Doesn't seem to work.

01:07:08.000 They keep blowing up our people.

01:07:09.000 They keep threatening the strait and oil trade, among other things.

01:07:12.000 And then you get Trump.

01:07:14.000 And I got to be honest, Trump's the kind of guy who's going to press the button.

01:07:17.000 So it is what it is.

01:07:19.000 Right 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.

01:07:30.000 That's insane.

01:07:31.000 Look, whatever the issue is, I'll put it like this.

01:07:35.000 Call the United States bad for whatever it does in Afghanistan and Iraq, fine. 0.85

01:07:40.000 Call Iran bad. 0.99

01:07:42.000 There are other countries involved that are pissed off that Iran is shutting down the strait.

01:07:47.000 And 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.

01:07:57.000 South American military bases, I think, was their justification.

01:08:00.000 That may be for some, but why bomb a hotel?

01:08:03.000 Oh, it's tough.

01:08:04.000 Again, therein lies the problem.

01:08:05.000 If they bombed the military bases, which they did, you'd say, oh, wow, this is war.

01:08:09.000 When they start striking hotels and apartment buildings, you're like, what they're trying to do is get the people.

01:08:15.000 This is what Tara raised.

01:08:16.000 They 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.

01:08:26.000 Yeah.

01:08:27.000 And I think all those governments knew that because they immediately were like, all right, we're declaring war on Iran.

01:08:30.000 Like, we've got a missile into our terror sovereign territory. 0.75

01:08:32.000 Like I said earlier, Iran's been a thorn in the side of multiple countries, not just the U.S., not just Israel. 0.99

01:08:40.000 Like the entire Middle East is basically worried about what Iran's going to do.

01:08:44.000 They're the only nation state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

01:08:47.000 They're the only Shiite Muslim country in the area. 0.88

01:08:50.000 Everybody else is Sunni. 0.97

01:08:51.000 So they're at odds in that aspect.

01:08:54.000 So, I mean, look, they're not friendly with most of the countries that we mentioned so far.

01:09:00.000 And 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.

01:09:07.000 Someone was telling me stats earlier, they're saying, is it literal majority or is it not?

01:09:11.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:09:11.000 The government is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

01:09:14.000 The government.

01:09:15.000 But the people themselves are like, they were free, you know, almost 79.

01:09:15.000 The government.

01:09:19.000 They were fairly secular for a good amount of time.

01:09:22.000 Like, if you look back at pictures of, you know, Iranian colleges in like 50s, 60s.

01:09:29.000 Dan Holloway was telling me it's that they're Persian first.

01:09:32.000 Most of them are Persian first and Muslim second. 1.00

01:09:34.000 Their religion is Islam, but they're generally secular Muslims.

01:09:39.000 They're not particularly religious.

01:09:41.000 I'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.

01:09:48.000 We need to protect American lives at all costs. 0.86

01:09:50.000 But like that can get very broad, the at-all cost metaphor, because would you incinerate a million Iranian civilians?

01:09:58.000 Because, well, I think you're kind of misstaking what I was saying.

01:10:01.000 I was saying, if we have to do this, let's do it quickly to the least amount of American lives.

01:10:06.000 If 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.

01:10:14.000 I 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.

01:10:23.000 I think we've, you know, I'm typically an anti-war hawk kind of guy, not the way I'm going to do it.

01:10:29.000 However, I feel like my policy on it is very much to make a weird analogy.

01:10:33.000 It's like the Bill Burr bit about like, no reason.

01:10:36.000 It's like, well, okay, should we do it?

01:10:40.000 No, but no reason.

01:10:41.000 Yeah.

01:10:42.000 I think I'm more irritated by the arguments against it where they're saying, well, these are just poor.

01:10:47.000 They've never done anything to us.

01:10:48.000 I'm like, all right, well, I'll get to you in a minute. 0.71

01:10:51.000 That was retarded. 1.00

01:10:53.000 Yeah.

01:10:56.000 It'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.

01:11:04.000 It'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.

01:11:15.000 Iran has basically been disrupting a massive amount of global trade. 1.00

01:11:20.000 And Obama tried bribing them.

01:11:22.000 If we give them some money and tell them to chill out, but they have not chilled out.

01:11:27.000 Attacking us in Iraq, I get the United States should not have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. 0.99

01:11:31.000 And I got to be honest, I think the point of going to Iraq and Afghanistan was largely to stage a pincer strike around Iran. 0.90

01:11:38.000 You know, we've got military bases all along the edges.

01:11:41.000 But 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.

01:11:48.000 Yep.

01:11:50.000 So for that matter, if we zoom over here, I'll tell you all about Trump's interests.

01:11:55.000 So here we have Nicaragua.

01:11:57.000 China was trying to build the Nicaraguan Canal.

01:12:00.000 They 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?

01:12:07.000 Or it might have actually been up here.

01:12:09.000 But they wanted to build a canal that would compete with the Panama Canal.

01:12:13.000 And this is some 10 years ago.

01:12:14.000 They ultimately abandoned the project after it just like cost an insane amount of money.

01:12:18.000 The reason why Trump wanted Panama back, the reason why Trump wants control of the Strait of Hormuz, he wants Iran shut down, basically.

01:12:25.000 The reason he wants Greenland, it's all about controlling international waterways for trade for oil.

01:12:32.000 The United States tells the world one thing.

01:12:34.000 You 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.

01:12:45.000 However, they say in exchange, you will be able to freely trade around the world without someone blowing you up.

01:12:51.000 We'll go after the pirates.

01:12:52.000 We will police the seas.

01:12:54.000 This is, I'm not saying it's a good thing.

01:12:56.000 I'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.

01:13:03.000 We have the petro-dollar system.

01:13:05.000 So 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?

01:13:17.000 And they go, maybe, give us money. 0.98

01:13:18.000 And Trump says, no, I'll kill you. 1.00

01:13:20.000 When they threaten the Strait of Hormuz, Trump's not playing a game like Obama and says, no, I'll kill you. 0.98

01:13:25.000 Now, if you're not a fan of the Team America World Police stuff, that opinion was always allowed.

01:13:30.000 I am not telling you you should support any of this.

01:13:31.000 I am telling you this is the mechanism by which all of this is happening, the reason why they're doing it.

01:13:37.000 Yeah, I mean, I think that it's pretty clear that America lives, or the living standard that Americans have is because of the petrodollar.

01:13:45.000 And if we were to change that system, it would be a massive change in the living standard of all Americans.

01:13:51.000 And 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.

01:14:05.000 Because 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.

01:14:13.000 And that means the poor are the ones that are going to be hurt the most here in the U.S.

01:14:17.000 And 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.

01:14:47.000 Because 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.

01:14:59.000 And so.

01:15:00.000 I just think that the United States is the nexus of good and morality.

01:15:06.000 Has never done anything wrong.

01:15:07.000 And for that matter, if the U.S. does it, it is good.

01:15:10.000 That's just, it's the definition.

01:15:11.000 It's magic.

01:15:12.000 I have a bit more of a nuance to take.

01:15:13.000 I 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.

01:15:24.000 It's been 80 years of no world war, limited.

01:15:27.000 The internet, the amount of food people are sex trafficking.

01:15:31.000 There hasn't been a famine.

01:15:32.000 There hasn't been a famine in like 80 years.

01:15:34.000 I don't think there's been a famine in like 150 years in the United States, if that, maybe even more, ever in the United States.

01:15:39.000 So it's pretty impressive.

01:15:40.000 Like if we can stabilize and develop our drone delivery systems so that we can spread resources out, I think this system could work.

01:15:47.000 Well, so I actually was having this conversation the other day because I'm like, look, is America perfect?

01:15:51.000 No, absolutely not.

01:15:52.000 Nobody ever has been.

01:15:53.000 But 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.

01:16:05.000 Like to freedom of its individual citizens, to how little we leverage it against the world for nefarious purposes.

01:16:12.000 I think this is probably, again, the most power-to-good ratio that has ever existed on planet Earth.

01:16:17.000 Yeah, 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. 0.51

01:16:25.000 Anyway, I have a question.

01:16:27.000 I brought this up this morning.

01:16:29.000 It was a hypothetical on Reddit.

01:16:31.000 They have these hypothetical scenarios they ask, then you comment.

01:16:33.000 And it is this.

01:16:34.000 The question is for you, Mr. Riera.

01:16:36.000 You wake up one day with all the powers of Superman.

01:16:39.000 You are super strong.

01:16:40.000 You can fly.

01:16:41.000 You can shoot lasers and breathe cold for whatever reason.

01:16:43.000 And all that good stuff.

01:16:46.000 However, once per year, a random person on Earth, could be in any country anywhere, will also get these powers.

01:16:54.000 You are informed a full year in advance who that person will be. 0.98

01:16:58.000 And the only way to stop them from getting the powers is to kill them before they do. 0.98

01:17:03.000 What do you do? 0.99

01:17:04.000 Does that save?

01:17:07.000 Does that stop it from going to a random different person after that?

01:17:11.000 So the idea is on January 1st, a random person in the world will get these powers as well.

01:17:16.000 You always know who it's going to be.

01:17:18.000 After that person dies, the next January 1st, there will be one more person.

01:17:22.000 So it's one person per year.

01:17:24.000 Got it. 0.98

01:17:25.000 And the hypothetical scenario is, will you kill them to prevent them from getting Superman powers as Superman? 0.97

01:17:32.000 Do you also have those powers while they have them?

01:17:35.000 So people will just start popping up and getting them all over the world if you do nothing.

01:17:35.000 Yes.

01:17:42.000 I don't like that.

01:17:43.000 That's a very, very rough moral question.

01:17:45.000 Because 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.

01:17:54.000 So it's like, all this is like a Reddit version of the trolley problem.

01:17:57.000 Right.

01:17:58.000 Exactly.

01:17:59.000 Yeah, that's about it.

01:18:01.000 It 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.

01:18:09.000 You know another country is rapidly gaining power.

01:18:13.000 You can blow them up right now to prevent them from doing it.

01:18:16.000 However, if you don't, they will rival you then, and now there will be – that's essentially what the scenario is meant to be.

01:18:22.000 The challenge with this, the Superman question is that what if it's an Islamic extremist? 0.83

01:18:29.000 And now he's immortal, invincible, and he's going to start massacring not thousands, but millions of people.

01:18:35.000 And you can't stop him because you only match him.

01:18:38.000 You'll be locked in a fight endlessly and the collateral damage will probably still make the millions.

01:18:43.000 And 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.

01:18:53.000 The Funko Pop breed.

01:18:55.000 Yeah, indeed.

01:18:55.000 It would be a good plot for a supervillain.

01:18:58.000 Oh, bro, Ian would just, he would be like, I'll kill him. 0.98

01:19:01.000 And they're like, why are you doing this? 0.65

01:19:02.000 And it's like, you don't understand. 0.98

01:19:03.000 And he's psychotic. 0.90

01:19:03.000 I have to. 0.90

01:19:04.000 He's lost his mind.

01:19:05.000 I'm like, saving the world.

01:19:06.000 You have to be aware of it.

01:19:07.000 When you're Superman, meaning you're super speed.

01:19:09.000 So it's two in the morning, whatever country they're in.

01:19:11.000 You flash into their room, laser beam into their eyes, and then flash out.

01:19:16.000 And then people come in in the morning and the person's just dead.

01:19:18.000 When you're Superman, you don't have to explain yourself.

01:19:21.000 I would try.

01:19:21.000 But then at the end of my life, as Superman, they'd be like, oh, yeah, by the way, it was all a lie.

01:19:26.000 They were all going to be just normal people.

01:19:27.000 Now you're changing the level of the world. 0.97

01:19:29.000 He's just ruining me on killing people.

01:19:30.000 You're ruining the plot twist of your own movie.

01:19:33.000 I should do that in the movie, yeah.

01:19:34.000 No, actually, that is a great plot twist where the guy tells people, you don't understand.

01:19:37.000 If I don't do this, they will develop powers.

01:19:39.000 And then we will have super-powered terrorists.

01:19:41.000 You can't control them.

01:19:42.000 You're three weeks away from Superman powers.

01:19:44.000 Yeah, and then finally on his deathbed, he's like, I made it all up. 0.97

01:19:46.000 I just wanted to kill somebody. 0.98

01:19:48.000 Just liked killing. 1.00

01:19:49.000 He's got to be under my side. 0.97

01:19:50.000 He's three weeks away.

01:19:51.000 Okay, let's do it.

01:19:52.000 That's a funny movie.

01:19:53.000 Now he'd be like the villain.

01:19:54.000 He wouldn't be the main character, but that would be his motivation.

01:19:56.000 The villain?

01:19:57.000 He's just a serial killer. 0.99

01:19:58.000 He makes a fake excuse. 0.56

01:19:59.000 Well, that's what the United States basically has been doing.

01:20:01.000 They stomp down on anybody that's starting to rise up.

01:20:04.000 And then if they get too far, too fast, like North Korea, they just don't stomp down because they got intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. 0.88

01:20:09.000 Well, let's open up this story real quick and let's talk about that, Ian.

01:20:13.000 Trump floats friendly takeover of Cuba, but says it may not be friendly either.

01:20:20.000 Ladies and gentlemen, it's my birthday and the only thing I've ever wanted, ever, my whole life.

01:20:25.000 I 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.

01:20:33.000 And now on this, my 40th birthday, Trump has floated a not-so-friendly takeover.

01:20:37.000 Mr. President, thank you so much.

01:20:39.000 It's all I ever wanted.

01:20:40.000 Should we invade and conquer Cuba? 0.60

01:20:40.000 Do you agree? 0.60

01:20:43.000 I would like to see Cuba as part of the American Empire.

01:20:45.000 I don't like calling it, I shouldn't call it an empire because that's kind of tongue-in-cheek.

01:20:48.000 I would like to see Cuba not under the control of communist dictators.

01:20:51.000 Well, they don't have any power right now.

01:20:53.000 They're not under control of anyone.

01:20:54.000 I'd like to see them sovereign citizens in Cuba with the right Puerto Rico style.

01:21:00.000 Perhaps, yeah.

01:21:01.000 Gun rights, property rights, the right to freedom of speech to speak out against your government.

01:21:04.000 And if you want to participate in the United States, like I'm willing to open the door to those people for sure.

01:21:09.000 I like that joke where it was like, waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay sounds really fun until you read about it.

01:21:15.000 Until you know what either of those two things are.

01:21:17.000 Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay.

01:21:17.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:21:20.000 I don't know.

01:21:20.000 I think we might have squandered that one in the Spanish-American War.

01:21:23.000 Yeah, I don't think that the U.S. is going to actually need to take Cuba.

01:21:27.000 If 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.

01:21:41.000 Their government's going to collapse.

01:21:42.000 Literally pissed.

01:21:44.000 Cutting off, taking Maduro and seizing back our oil assets in Venezuela.

01:21:48.000 Cuba is now cut off from oil.

01:21:50.000 And so the people are basically at this point saying, I don't care who the boss is.

01:21:54.000 I care about who's got the oil.

01:21:56.000 Think about it.

01:21:56.000 That's the easy way to conquer a nation.

01:21:58.000 The people are probably saying, I don't care if you think you're in charge.

01:22:02.000 Like, they're good.

01:22:04.000 Listen, you put it like this.

01:22:05.000 You work for a company and you got a boss who's like, if you quit, I'll sue you under contract.

01:22:10.000 And then all of a sudden the paycheck stops coming in.

01:22:13.000 You're like, I don't care what you do at this point.

01:22:15.000 You're not paying me.

01:22:15.000 And 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?

01:22:23.000 Give me something.

01:22:24.000 Like, what is the purpose of me staying in this contract anymore? 0.99

01:22:26.000 You've been fucking me over for 80 years, Castro. 1.00

01:22:29.000 So Raul, what is like 90? 0.99

01:22:31.000 Castro's not there anymore.

01:22:32.000 Well, it's his brother.

01:22:32.000 Is it Raul?

01:22:33.000 No, it's Miguel.

01:22:35.000 He's a new guy.

01:22:36.000 Yeah, they're done.

01:22:36.000 The Castro regime was all that country had holding it together.

01:22:40.000 Yeah, and the oil.

01:22:42.000 If you look at the I want to just stress this to the people in chat who are like, oh my God, Tim's a cultist for Trump. 0.99

01:22:48.000 No, you're a really low IQ person. 0.58

01:22:51.000 So for that, I apologize for you not understanding what was meant to be facetious. 0.89

01:22:57.000 I don't think the U.S. should invade Cuba.

01:22:59.000 That was the joke.

01:23:00.000 Yeah.

01:23:00.000 I don't think it needs to invade Cuba.

01:23:01.000 I think the Cubans have long wanted away from that communistic dictatorship.

01:23:06.000 And now with their oil supplies running out, they see de facto.

01:23:10.000 Who's in charge?

01:23:11.000 It's looking like the op in Venezuela was successful on multiple fronts.

01:23:15.000 It got Maduro, the current Venezuelan regime.

01:23:18.000 Yeah, well, the current Venezuelan government is looking to normalize relations, if I understand correctly.

01:23:24.000 The vice president there is saying that she's going to work with the United States.

01:23:28.000 And it also looks like it's going to take Cuba out. 0.73

01:23:32.000 I also saw bets on the state of the union as to whether or not Trump was going to parade out Maduro behind him on a train.

01:23:40.000 I wanted to see him come out with the gimp mask from pulp fiction. 0.99

01:23:45.000 Just bring up Kenya's interview with Alex Jones.

01:23:49.000 But yeah, I mean, look, Cuba's been a communist country for I don't know how many years.

01:23:53.000 And if the communist rule ends there, that's a good thing.

01:23:57.000 I mean, I think it's an unmitigated good thing.

01:23:59.000 Can you imagine if before all this is done, if Trump pulls off in Iran what he pulled off in Venezuela?

01:24:06.000 This is the thing I was saying.

01:24:07.000 Like, you know, I was asked by a reporter at the Wall Street Journal how I felt about the attacks on Iran, the war.

01:24:12.000 And I said, I'd advise against it.

01:24:14.000 I wouldn't vote to support it.

01:24:15.000 I oppose it.

01:24:16.000 And I think it's because we have post-intervention stress disorder as millennials from Iraq and Afghanistan.

01:24:24.000 And not to mention the stories of Vietnam.

01:24:26.000 We 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.

01:24:34.000 That 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. 0.93

01:24:43.000 And so when all this is said and done, Venezuela is looking like said and done.

01:24:49.000 I mean, it's pretty crazy.

01:24:50.000 If 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.

01:25:00.000 Well, at that point, it becomes a legacy play.

01:25:02.000 Yeah.

01:25:03.000 Certainly.

01:25:04.000 Maybe why he wants to do it all.

01:25:06.000 Maybe, you know, with the Abraham Accords, I think Trump very much was like, I can bring peace to Israel-Palestine.

01:25:14.000 Now, I'm not sure that he actually can, but I think Trump is looking at the world stage saying, I can solve this.

01:25:21.000 And perhaps it's ego-driven.

01:25:23.000 Perhaps it's, I want to be the guy who did.

01:25:25.000 Or maybe it's ego-driven in the sense that I'm smarter than you and I can figure it out better than you.

01:25:29.000 Either way, if it happens, I'll be happy.

01:25:30.000 Frankly, I don't care what the rationale is.

01:25:33.000 If he can get it done, an objectively good thing, I don't care why he's doing it.

01:25:37.000 If he can be the guy who gets it done, then by all means.

01:25:40.000 You know, if Israel gave Trump a billion dollars personally to bring peace to the world, I wouldn't care.

01:25:47.000 I don't care the motivation.

01:25:48.000 Blue statement.

01:25:50.000 But the point is, think of the most like offensive thing.

01:25:53.000 I want to lower that again.

01:25:55.000 The 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.

01:26:07.000 Why would I be mad?

01:26:08.000 I mean, two things can be true.

01:26:08.000 Yeah.

01:26:09.000 Like, you could say that that's an objectively bad thing to happen.

01:26:12.000 Like, that's a bad reason to be doing stuff while also saying that a good thing happened because of it.

01:26:17.000 And that's my point.

01:26:18.000 Like, 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?

01:26:27.000 There's like just some little kid. 0.83

01:26:28.000 He's on Call of Duty and he said he was going to bang Trump's mom.

01:26:30.000 And Trump was like, I'm going to find you.

01:26:32.000 And he's like, you can't.

01:26:33.000 He's like, oh, yeah.

01:26:33.000 I'm in Tehran.

01:26:35.000 And so he brings peace to the Middle East, stabilizes relations all over the world.

01:26:39.000 And it's all just to steal.

01:26:41.000 You can't touch me.

01:26:42.000 My dad's the Ayatollah.

01:26:44.000 Give me Obama's number right now.

01:26:48.000 He was playing Call of Duty back in the day, OG.

01:26:52.000 Do you ever hear those AGM?

01:26:53.000 These are old ones, too.

01:26:54.000 Him and Bobby play.

01:26:56.000 Gold.

01:26:57.000 If you haven't seen them yet, watch those.

01:26:58.000 They're so funny.

01:26:59.000 They're so well done.

01:27:00.000 It's nice to hear them getting along.

01:27:02.000 But on the Cuba thing, I think that Marco Rubio has been looking forward to this moment for a long time.

01:27:06.000 Yeah.

01:27:06.000 He's just like looking at a picture of Cuba and rubbing it.

01:27:09.000 You know, in another reason, it's not like because of Rubio, we seized the Venezuelan government or whatever.

01:27:16.000 But putting Rubio there was probably part of the plan to, you know, secure the Central America, I think.

01:27:23.000 He's a master.

01:27:25.000 I love that guy.

01:27:26.000 I'm really impressed with Rubio.

01:27:28.000 Oh, I feel so much better and like safer with him in the government.

01:27:32.000 Him hold you and keep you safe in the war.

01:27:34.000 That would be fine.

01:27:35.000 That would be fine.

01:27:36.000 He comes up behind you and he just embraces you and you know that you're safe in Marco Rubio's arms.

01:27:42.000 Love you, Mark.

01:27:44.000 I was actually, I found him to be uninspiring in, you know, eight years ago, whatever.

01:27:51.000 Recently, 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.

01:28:04.000 He's played it very professionally.

01:28:06.000 I respect it tremendously.

01:28:07.000 One of my biggest criticisms of Trump going back to his first campaign was his lack of decorum.

01:28:13.000 He approaches us from a very abrasive, culture-warry kind of approach.

01:28:18.000 And JD Vance does that as well.

01:28:20.000 Now, I'll give JD Vance some respect in that.

01:28:22.000 He's very tactful and academic in his insults.

01:28:25.000 I can respect that.

01:28:26.000 But Rubio has been very hard for Democrats to go after because he's kept it very professional and calm.

01:28:32.000 He hasn't fired back insults or plenty of these dirty games.

01:28:35.000 I'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.

01:28:42.000 It's not my intent.

01:28:43.000 Like, he's not going to lash out at him.

01:28:44.000 I mean, we all remember Marco from the little Marco, like those days.

01:28:49.000 I 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.

01:28:58.000 He's taken it and he's run with it.

01:29:01.000 I think his time in the sense probably helped with that too.

01:29:01.000 He's done a very good job.

01:29:03.000 Yeah.

01:29:04.000 Yeah.

01:29:04.000 Big time.

01:29:05.000 And it was 2012.

01:29:06.000 Did he run for president in 2012?

01:29:07.000 He was one of the 2016 primary.

01:29:10.000 And maybe before that, I don't know.

01:29:10.000 2016.

01:29:11.000 He'd been around before that, and I always thought he was a war hawk.

01:29:14.000 But 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.

01:29:21.000 You can't just let it all fall.

01:29:22.000 I mean, you have to, if you know, you use it, use it or lose it.

01:29:25.000 Sometimes you just, you're bored.

01:29:27.000 You know?

01:29:28.000 I mean, I want to be decisive with it.

01:29:30.000 Like, I don't want to just do it for the sake of doing it.

01:29:32.000 And I want to make sure it actually protects American lives or protects American interests.

01:29:36.000 But if somebody screws with us, I want to show them what $1 trillion a year looks like.

01:29:40.000 Yeah.

01:29:42.000 So I guess the liberals are mad at me because I praised Trump's masculinity on the attack in Iran.

01:29:42.000 Yeah.

01:29:47.000 My point was, not that I would call the attacks well-advised.

01:29:53.000 I'm skeptical, but hopefully optimistic.

01:29:56.000 But 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. 0.99

01:30:05.000 And Trump's response was like, I'll just kill you. 0.96

01:30:08.000 Like, again, I'm not saying that means you should go to war. 0.98

01:30:12.000 I'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.

01:30:21.000 I give them both respect.

01:30:22.000 You know what I'm talking about?

01:30:23.000 I don't dare do.

01:30:24.000 Mark Wayne Mullen is like, he's like reading.

01:30:26.000 He's like, after you left here, Mr. O'Brien, he's a president of Team Series Union.

01:30:29.000 He's like, you were mouthing off on Twitter.

01:30:32.000 It's like one of the posts you said, yeah, yeah, where he threatened to like throw down.

01:30:38.000 As consenting adults made the offer to throw down, and O'Brien says, Let's go.

01:30:42.000 And then he gets up and goes to pull his ring off.

01:30:44.000 And I'm like, We need the men back in the room.

01:30:46.000 So, so, funny story about that.

01:30:47.000 I was in DC, like a block away when that happened.

01:30:50.000 As I'm looking on my phone and watching this, I'm like, Man, I could have had front row seats in the best UFC fight this year.

01:30:57.000 I gotta, so, so, uh, uh, Mark Wayne Mullen reads the tweet where he's like, you know, where I am anytime, any place.

01:31:03.000 And then he goes, This is a place.

01:31:05.000 Now is a time we can be two consenting adults.

01:31:08.000 And then, and then O'Brien goes, Okay. 0.97

01:31:09.000 And he's like, Stand your butt up. 0.96

01:31:11.000 I'm going to go, All right. 1.00

01:31:11.000 He goes, You stand your butt. 1.00

01:31:12.000 And then he stands up and goes to pull his wedding ring off. 1.00

01:31:14.000 And then Bernie Sanders ruined all the fun.

01:31:17.000 You are the United States. 1.00

01:31:18.000 Shut it up. 1.00

01:31:20.000 If I'm not mistaken. 0.99

01:31:21.000 That was a very good impression.

01:31:22.000 If I'm not mistaken, I think that he probably should have read up on Mullen's combat sports record.

01:31:28.000 He's three.

01:31:30.000 Yeah, that guy knows how to throw down.

01:31:32.000 I think he's two, but two, one technical knockout and then two by decision.

01:31:37.000 My, my, uh, no, I thought of submission.

01:31:38.000 I thought he had submission.

01:31:39.000 Two by submission, one TK, a TKO, and two submissions.

01:31:42.000 Okay, way better.

01:31:42.000 Yeah, one was an arm bar.

01:31:44.000 But again, you shouldn't be fighting, fist fighting in Congress, okay?

01:31:48.000 You shouldn't do it.

01:31:49.000 As much as you want to.

01:31:51.000 But I'm just saying, like, I am sick of this pencil neck, hoity-toity, button-daub.

01:31:55.000 Oh, you know, like, we need strong, decisive men to say, do not F with me.

01:32:00.000 You know, this is very real quick.

01:32:02.000 Just final point.

01:32:05.000 What does Trump say?

01:32:07.000 It's, I forgot the phrase, but like, deterrence through strength or whatever.

01:32:13.000 He's through strength.

01:32:14.000 Peace through strength.

01:32:15.000 The 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.

01:32:25.000 And he comes up and tries to start a fight with the guy.

01:32:27.000 And the guy says, Listen, I apologize.

01:32:30.000 I'm not interested.

01:32:31.000 I'm going to be on my way.

01:32:33.000 But then when they finally don't let the guy, it turns out he's much more badass and he beats them all up.

01:32:37.000 You know what I mean?

01:32:38.000 I love the movies where the action hero is going, you don't want to fight me, dude.

01:32:38.000 Yeah.

01:32:42.000 I'm going to leave here.

01:32:43.000 We don't need to do this.

01:32:44.000 But the bad guys are the ones who are like, you think you may.

01:32:47.000 And then the good guy shows restraint, honor.

01:32:50.000 You know what?

01:32:51.000 The best example of this is a Bronx tale.

01:32:53.000 You know that scene?

01:32:55.000 Scene of the Bronx tale?

01:32:57.000 I will cite it 50 billion times, ad nauseum for everybody.

01:33:00.000 So it's, I'll give you the quick version.

01:33:02.000 Mob boss, here's motorcycles, all big ruckus, walks to the bar. 0.98

01:33:06.000 He says, what's the problem?

01:33:07.000 And the bar donor says they're not properly dressed.

01:33:10.000 They can't drink here.

01:33:11.000 And the biker leader says, hey, look, man, we just want a beer. 0.54

01:33:14.000 Just one beer.

01:33:15.000 We'll be on our way.

01:33:15.000 And then Sonny goes, spoken like a gentleman.

01:33:18.000 Give the men their beers.

01:33:19.000 So the mob boss is like, I'm going to be, you respect me.

01:33:22.000 I respect you, right?

01:33:23.000 Then they shake the beers up and spray everybody down.

01:33:26.000 And then Sonny goes, once again, honorably, okay, now you've got to go. 0.98

01:33:30.000 And they say, F you, F off.

01:33:33.000 Then he walks over, closes the door and locks it, turns around and says, Now you just can't leave.

01:33:38.000 And then the narrator's like, at that moment, they knew they F'd up.

01:33:41.000 Then the back door pops open, all the good old boys come in with guns and bats and beat the crap out of the bikers. 0.88

01:33:45.000 The reason I love that story, he said, spoken like a gentleman. 0.61

01:33:49.000 These men were polite, but not properly addressed.

01:33:52.000 So he said, I will treat you with respect.

01:33:54.000 They then chose to disrespect him, and he still showed restraint and said, Now you need to leave.

01:33:59.000 And when they still decide it, he says, okay. 0.97

01:34:02.000 And they got, they beat the crap out of these guys. 0.95

01:34:04.000 That's what it means to be a man. 0.57

01:34:06.000 You're able to, but you show restraint because you want to keep the peace and protect those around you.

01:34:12.000 But when bad and evil comes, look on that corner.

01:34:17.000 You are willing, ready, and able to stop it.

01:34:20.000 Oh, what's that?

01:34:21.000 Sorry, just like the biblical interpretation of, oh, the meek shall inherit the earth. 0.91

01:34:24.000 It'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.

01:34:36.000 Julius Caesar, I believe this is what he was, he was the guy.

01:34:39.000 He was the meek one.

01:34:40.000 He had all his legions up north, all this territory, and the Senate started getting very afraid that he was going to betray them.

01:34:45.000 So they're like, we're going to strip him of all his land and all his, all his soldiers. 0.95

01:34:49.000 And he's like, you, you, no, I'm not giving the power up.

01:34:53.000 He's, he's the man in a situation.

01:34:54.000 These pencil neck paper pushers are trying to control the world with bureaucracy. 0.99

01:34:58.000 And he's like, no, I'm not giving you back.

01:35:01.000 He comes down to Ravenna, you know, close to Rome with one legion and is there to make a negotiation.

01:35:06.000 I just want one province in Croatia and one legion. 0.99

01:35:09.000 He had 10.

01:35:10.000 He was giving up nine-tenths of his army just to go govern some simple thing and serve Rome.

01:35:14.000 And they still wanted his stuff and wouldn't let him.

01:35:17.000 And finally, he was like, you leave me no choice.

01:35:19.000 And that's the story of Julius Caesar.

01:35:21.000 Crossed it.

01:35:22.000 I love it.

01:35:23.000 So I got ragged on by the liberals.

01:35:25.000 They were like, Kim thinks it's masculine to go to war.

01:35:27.000 Yes, I do.

01:35:28.000 Indeed.

01:35:29.000 Doesn't mean you always do it.

01:35:32.000 The fight you've won is a fight you can avoid, right?

01:35:34.000 That's a saying.

01:35:35.000 So you don't go looking for trouble, but you are damn well prepared to solve the trouble if it comes looking for you.

01:35:39.000 Oh, 100%.

01:35:40.000 And 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.

01:35:49.000 You don't want to go to war for no reason.

01:35:51.000 There'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.

01:35:59.000 That being said, you should always be prepared for it when the necessity comes.

01:36:03.000 Again, if you want to screw with us, we will show you what $1 trillion a year looks like.

01:36:09.000 Or they won't even see it.

01:36:10.000 That's the crazy part.

01:36:11.000 And they still haven't seen what they're doing.

01:36:13.000 We just still need to come.

01:36:14.000 And I stress this too.

01:36:17.000 The 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.

01:36:26.000 And that is the argument against it.

01:36:28.000 The expense, the waste of time and energy, 20 years flushed on the toilet in Afghanistan. 1.00

01:36:32.000 That 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.

01:36:42.000 It's not about us, about literally everyone else destabilizing it.

01:36:46.000 And so my only hope is that whatever Trump ends up doing, we want to get out cleanly.

01:36:52.000 We don't want a bogged down 20-year conflict.

01:36:54.000 It sounds like the rumor in the Beltway is they expect it to be a couple weeks.

01:36:58.000 That they're just going to just bombard this place.

01:37:01.000 And then everybody who holds stock in these defense contractors are going to get very wealthy because they got to replenish those armaments.

01:37:09.000 Yeah.

01:37:09.000 Well, I mean, if it's going to, again, if it's going to happen, I hope it happens soon.

01:37:12.000 And I hope that we're down.

01:37:14.000 I mean, what are we at right now when it comes to the American lives lost?

01:37:20.000 I think it's seven.

01:37:21.000 Seven.

01:37:22.000 I think we're down seven.

01:37:22.000 Yep.

01:37:23.000 But I think according to the Iranian ambassador, as of today, I think they're at over 1,300 civilian casualty lists.

01:37:33.000 I don't know, to be honest.

01:37:34.000 And it's hard to know what to believe.

01:37:36.000 I mean, official statements from the U.S. are going to try and rally as much support as possible.

01:37:41.000 They're going to say, you know, Trump's saying it's almost done.

01:37:43.000 Maybe it's not.

01:37:44.000 Who knows?

01:37:44.000 But 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.

01:37:52.000 And this is one of the stories that came up.

01:37:53.000 Well, I mean, right after the first night of attacks, they claim the Ayatollah was still alive.

01:37:57.000 So I really don't trust anything coming out of Iranian press right now.

01:38:01.000 I saw a video on Twitter of a guy driving in Tehran and just fire.

01:38:05.000 And it's like apparently the Israelis, this is what it says, the Israelis struck oil refineries or something.

01:38:11.000 And that it was getting into the sewers and you're blazing fire along the sides of roads and stuff.

01:38:16.000 And I don't know if it's true.

01:38:18.000 For all I know, it's a freaking deep fake video.

01:38:20.000 I saw a lot of it.

01:38:20.000 I saw some of the videos where it first lit off.

01:38:23.000 I 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.

01:38:31.000 It did seem like it.

01:38:33.000 It's just from the multiple angles, like that.

01:38:36.000 And I don't want to ever let myself get to the point where I just completely disbelieve everything in front of me.

01:38:41.000 Yeah.

01:38:41.000 I mean, we're getting there.

01:38:43.000 It's getting close.

01:38:45.000 It 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.

01:38:58.000 Look, the Iranians have, they haven't been launching a lot of drones because they're saving their weapons for later. 0.99

01:39:03.000 But I mean, that kind of stuff just doesn't really make sense because they've already lost.

01:39:06.000 Like you said, 1,400 people.

01:39:08.000 There's a bunch of people that have, a bunch of people of their senior leadership were taken out the first night and stuff.

01:39:12.000 And 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?

01:39:22.000 And 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.

01:39:32.000 The United States, I think, is the only military on the planet that is limited by its political will and not its ability.

01:39:40.000 Because if Russia could take Ukraine, they would. 0.91

01:39:44.000 Indeed.

01:39:45.000 And there's multiple examples of different, you know, you can name a country and who they'd like to take or what they'd like to do.

01:39:51.000 They'd do it if they could.

01:39:53.000 We're the only ones that hold back because we can, but we choose not to because of the political fallout.

01:39:58.000 But we have the ability, and I think we're seeing that right now.

01:40:01.000 I think we're actually holding back a little bit.

01:40:03.000 I mean, we're holding back a lot.

01:40:04.000 Well, I mean, we have nukes, so there's always one.

01:40:08.000 There was always the next step.

01:40:09.000 I don't think we're ever going to go that far.

01:40:10.000 Carpet bombs, even.

01:40:11.000 I mean, there's a mid-tier the U.S. could be engaging in for sure.

01:40:15.000 We're being strategic, I think, specifically to strike military targets without civilian casualties.

01:40:20.000 I 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?

01:40:28.000 Like you can take out an individual person with a Hellfire missile that doesn't have a warhead on it.

01:40:33.000 It has literal swords that pop out.

01:40:35.000 The mobile ninja blender.

01:40:36.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:40:37.000 You haven't seen that, Ian?

01:40:38.000 I've never seen it.

01:40:39.000 They assassinate a guy with it. 0.59

01:40:40.000 It fires blades that just like spin and slice you up.

01:40:43.000 There's a Hellfire missile that when it gets to the target, blades pop out on the side and it will strike the target.

01:40:49.000 There's a couple pictures on the internet of cars that were hit.

01:40:53.000 You can see where the blades went in.

01:40:54.000 And I think the U.S. took out an Iranian, some Iranian official with it.

01:40:59.000 Is it because it's like a low yield type of thing?

01:41:03.000 There's no explosion.

01:41:04.000 So it just hits like the local area and then it's just moving really fast.

01:41:07.000 It hits you with blades.

01:41:08.000 But wolf knock buildings over.

01:41:10.000 Like, that's what I mean.

01:41:11.000 It's less destructive.

01:41:12.000 No, entirely analog.

01:41:13.000 There is no explosions.

01:41:14.000 It's just.

01:41:16.000 Sounds like an assassinative tool.

01:41:17.000 We're going to go to your Rumble rants in Super Chat.

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01:43:12.000 But now let's read what you guys have to say with all of this.

01:43:16.000 All right, we got Disgruntled Vetti.

01:43:18.000 He says, General Herrera, when do we, the Autistic Army, get to buy our AK-50?

01:43:23.000 LOL, congratulations on winning.

01:43:25.000 We need more people like you.

01:43:27.000 Well, first off, I appreciate it.

01:43:31.000 If 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.

01:43:41.000 How long did it take to build an AK-50?

01:43:43.000 Well, 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.

01:43:48.000 And this is like, it's a garage project.

01:43:50.000 Like, 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.

01:43:58.000 But we'd need somebody like, we worked with Titans of CNC on some of that.

01:44:02.000 They were incredible to work with. 1.00

01:44:04.000 We would need somebody like that to partner with on the manufacturing side because, I mean, we're a bunch of idiots in a garage. 0.99

01:44:11.000 We don't have that sort of mass production capability. 0.99

01:44:14.000 Right on.

01:44:15.000 All right, let's see what we got here.

01:44:18.000 Code 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.

01:44:24.000 The last two Star Trek references Tim made were episodes I just watched last week, Fifth Wall Broken.

01:44:29.000 Well, it's because when I got sick, I started the series over again, and I've been just watching all the episodes.

01:44:35.000 I'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.

01:44:48.000 Again, I get frustrated with people who are just like, I don't like sci-fi.

01:44:51.000 But 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?

01:44:56.000 Yeah, apparently, I think I was told by my father that I was born while he was watching Deep Space Nine.

01:45:02.000 He was trying to switch between like, pipe down, woman.

01:45:07.000 Star Trek is on.

01:45:07.000 It is prescient, and the writing is interesting, and it makes you think, and it's relevant to what is going on today.

01:45:14.000 So 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.

01:45:27.000 Well, that would never happen in real life.

01:45:29.000 That's why I'm just saying.

01:45:30.000 It's amazing to watch how they wrote this stuff out.

01:45:33.000 But also just the beginning of the Dominion War in general.

01:45:38.000 So basically, there is a military faction that repeatedly is sending military vehicles to a, let's just call it a country in Star Trek.

01:45:48.000 And 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.

01:45:58.000 So they mine a wormhole, the entrance to where these vehicles are coming through, which triggers the beginning of the war.

01:46:05.000 And then from there, it's just, it's war stuff.

01:46:08.000 It is the politics of war, conflict, disaster economy.

01:46:12.000 It's really interesting writing.

01:46:13.000 It's a sci-fi setting, but man, I cannot stress how good that's.

01:46:17.000 Voyager happened, and we all kind of rolled our eyes.

01:46:18.000 I want to shout out Johnny Frakes and Brent Spiner.

01:46:21.000 You guys, they got a show on YouTube called Dropping Names with Brent and Johnny.

01:46:25.000 That's Commander Riker and Data from Star Trek Next Generation.

01:46:29.000 They're badass human beings.

01:46:31.000 You've gone and done it, Ian.

01:46:32.000 You've triggered me.

01:46:32.000 You've gone and done it.

01:46:33.000 Jonathan Frakes recently was talking about how people don't like Starfleet Academy, the new shows.

01:46:38.000 And he's directed a couple episodes of the latest stuff.

01:46:42.000 And Jonathan Frakes, you are an absolute legend, and you add one of the best voices to the Star Trek universe.

01:46:51.000 But good sir, please hear me if you ever hear this.

01:46:54.000 If 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.

01:47:06.000 And yes, indeed.

01:47:07.000 But I was a little kid and I grew up watching you.

01:47:11.000 And so understand that the original Trek audience and the audience that I inhabit are it's a Venn diagram.

01:47:18.000 We overlap, but we are not the same.

01:47:20.000 So 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.

01:47:28.000 I think it first aired in 87.

01:47:29.000 I'm one.

01:47:31.000 Understand this.

01:47:32.000 The 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.

01:47:45.000 For example, there's just so many great quotes.

01:47:49.000 One of the latest that I absolutely love is Data the Android loses, let's just call it chess.

01:47:55.000 He's playing a game called Stratagema against a master who beats him, and he's supposed to be unstoppable.

01:48:00.000 He's an Android.

01:48:01.000 So he finds himself defective and says, something must be wrong with me.

01:48:04.000 I need to figure out why I'm not functioning properly.

01:48:08.000 And so he basically calls in sick, thinking that if he can't solve this properly, something must be wrong.

01:48:13.000 And then the captain comes to him and says, you are my second officer.

01:48:16.000 You need to do your job and stop doubting yourself.

01:48:19.000 And Data says, but there must be a defect.

01:48:22.000 And then we get one of the greatest quotes ever.

01:48:24.000 He says, he says, Commander, it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.

01:48:29.000 That is not weakness.

01:48:30.000 That is life.

01:48:32.000 That is what I'm talking about with Star Trek the Next Generation.

01:48:35.000 That's the kind of great writing that we got in the early 90s.

01:48:39.000 Now you have like the sci-fi makes no sense, a permeable hologram that becomes sick because she's not really permeable or something. 0.89

01:48:48.000 And she says, I can't deal with your midday energy before I even pulled my underwear up my butt.

01:48:54.000 That kind of quote is deeply offensive to those who were inspired by the moral philosophies of the 90s Star Trek era.

01:49:02.000 But now they're edgy and they say the F word on Star Trek now.

01:49:05.000 Yeah, that was my dad also just text me to correct me.

01:49:05.000 Oh, yeah.

01:49:09.000 It was Voyager that I was born to, not Deep Space Nine.

01:49:12.000 Shout out.

01:49:12.000 And you know what?

01:49:13.000 As much as we all ragged on Voyager, it is a masterpiece compared to what they have given us today.

01:49:18.000 I should go easier on Voyager and Deep Space, I think.

01:49:22.000 Because it was the exact same thing that John was saying.

01:49:24.000 I felt like they were cheap, new fake casts.

01:49:27.000 Because I remember I felt like that for Next Generation.

01:49:29.000 I was like, where's Spock?

01:49:30.000 But then I immediately started falling out with Picard and Riker and Data.

01:49:34.000 And then same phenomenon again.

01:49:36.000 And I didn't give the other shows a chance.

01:49:38.000 I always liked Picard better.

01:49:39.000 Picard's the best, but I was like, when I start watching Star Trek, I'm a little kid watching Next Generation.

01:49:46.000 I see that first.

01:49:47.000 It's on TV.

01:49:48.000 I'm a little kid sitting on my couch.

01:49:49.000 My dad's watching it.

01:49:50.000 I didn't see the original series until years later when I was like, I love this.

01:49:50.000 I'm watching it.

01:49:53.000 I want to watch more.

01:49:54.000 And then I was like, oh, you know, Kirk's good.

01:49:56.000 But Picard is fantastic.

01:49:59.000 I do think it's a little cheap how they were like, we're going to shoehorn in some character traits about him, like he doesn't like kids.

01:50:05.000 And then they try to make that a thing, but it really doesn't work for Picard's character.

01:50:08.000 Anyway.

01:50:09.000 I 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.

01:50:18.000 And nowadays, that's just not a requirement.

01:50:19.000 And that's not just a Star Trek thing.

01:50:20.000 That's a Star Wars, Halo, whatever.

01:50:23.000 It'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.

01:50:32.000 Yep.

01:50:33.000 I'm glad you said about Fallout.

01:50:34.000 I haven't seen the new show 76 or Fallout.

01:50:36.000 I've been playing Fallout 76, and I haven't seen the show.

01:50:38.000 Well, it got better.

01:50:39.000 It launched horribly in 2017, a miserable wreck of a game.

01:50:43.000 And now it's well worth the money.

01:50:45.000 Have you guys heard about the new game Marathon that's bombing from Bungie?

01:50:48.000 Yep.

01:50:49.000 No.

01:50:49.000 Guys, I'm just, I'm sick of this stuff, right?

01:50:54.000 So Game Rant Marathon is being review bombed.

01:50:58.000 No, it isn't.

01:50:59.000 It's just a bad aesthetic.

01:51:00.000 The game looks terrible.

01:51:02.000 So this is Bungie.

01:51:04.000 They made Destiny.

01:51:05.000 I played Destiny incessantly and Destiny 2 as well.

01:51:08.000 Did all the raids.

01:51:09.000 You know, went to the moon.

01:51:12.000 Went to Titan.

01:51:13.000 Is that where?

01:51:14.000 I don't know.

01:51:14.000 Or Europa?

01:51:15.000 It's been a long time, man.

01:51:16.000 It's been a long time.

01:51:16.000 Went to Mars.

01:51:18.000 And Halo, of course.

01:51:20.000 I didn't play as much, but Halo played.

01:51:23.000 Bungie launches a new game, Marathon, and the characters are disgusting.

01:51:27.000 They're like weird mannequin robots or something.

01:51:31.000 I got to tell you, Concorde, the game bombed miserably.

01:51:37.000 $400 million flop.

01:51:39.000 It's considered to be the biggest flop in the history of all media, period, for humans.

01:51:43.000 $400 million production, zero profit.

01:51:46.000 Zero.

01:51:46.000 Zero revenue.

01:51:47.000 They sold 25,000 copies and then refunded all the money when the game flopped within 11 days.

01:51:52.000 They canceled it.

01:51:54.000 They're like zero gross.

01:51:55.000 $0 gross.

01:51:56.000 Zero.

01:51:56.000 Completely zero.

01:51:57.000 The characters were all gross and weird and had pronouns. 0.87

01:52:01.000 One of the characters was a morbidly obese, like, central, like, like Native American-looking guy. 0.99

01:52:07.000 Why would anyone want to play these games?

01:52:10.000 And aesthetic matters.

01:52:12.000 Marvel Rivals is now one of the top games.

01:52:15.000 Why?

01:52:16.000 All the women look like they're naked. 1.00

01:52:18.000 Their suits are basically just their skin color.

01:52:20.000 That's how comic books do it. 0.99

01:52:22.000 All the men are insanely jacked, like they have 2% body fat.

01:52:26.000 And everybody wants to play the game and they want to be the superhero.

01:52:29.000 Every time.

01:52:29.000 Have you guys, did you guys see Dakota Johnson did the topless ad for Calvin Klein?

01:52:33.000 Sexy is back.

01:52:34.000 Okay.

01:52:35.000 I 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.

01:52:43.000 So whatever he thought was sexy, that's not working.

01:52:45.000 Did you see Jaguar when they did their super like the stock depletion that happened at that point?

01:52:45.000 I mean, now.

01:52:51.000 So then they said, hey, look, what was it?

01:52:54.000 Who did Sidney Sweeney do the genes?

01:52:56.000 What genes is that?

01:52:56.000 American Levi.

01:52:57.000 Oh, no, no.

01:52:58.000 I didn't get that right.

01:52:59.000 I think it was American Eagles.

01:53:02.000 Nobody even knows.

01:53:03.000 Dakota Johnson did Calvin Klein, where she's topless, and she's basically reading lines about a sexy woman. 1.00

01:53:12.000 I think people finally realized with Ozempic, we are aspirational.

01:53:18.000 So 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.

01:53:25.000 And then once they made Ozempic and all the women got skinny, now they're like, okay, let's bring back the naked chicks again. 1.00

01:53:32.000 Oh, girls be getting horny. 1.00

01:53:35.000 No, the issue is, I explained this in a segment this morning. 0.89

01:53:38.000 The commercial with Dakota Johnson, topless, with her hair over her boobs, and she's doing sexy poses, it's not for men. 0.73

01:53:45.000 I'm so glad she made that.

01:53:46.000 It is not for men to watch.

01:53:46.000 I gotta watch it.

01:53:47.000 Are you sure?

01:53:48.000 Because I'm about to pull it off.

01:53:49.000 Yeah, because you don't buy Calvin Klein.

01:53:51.000 What they want to do is they want women to watch that and then think I can be sexy like her because men like that.

01:53:59.000 It's a commercial for women to be aspirational. 1.00

01:54:01.000 So in your opinion, we're bringing back body negativity.

01:54:04.000 Yes.

01:54:04.000 I don't think this is negativity.

01:54:05.000 I think it's correct body positivity.

01:54:07.000 I mean, no, I objectively agree.

01:54:09.000 I'm messing around.

01:54:10.000 I mean, I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that you should aspire to be fit.

01:54:14.000 You should aspire to be healthy.

01:54:15.000 You 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.

01:54:22.000 Even if you can't get there, you can aspire to it, get as close as you want.

01:54:25.000 And the byproduct is you're healthier because of it.

01:54:28.000 You live longer.

01:54:28.000 Yep.

01:54:29.000 You live happier.

01:54:30.000 Body positivity should have always been encouraging people to get fit in a positive way, cheering them on.

01:54:38.000 Saying you can do it.

01:54:39.000 RFK, 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.

01:54:48.000 Maybe in retrospect, people realize how he saved a nation by stripping some of these toxins out of the diet.

01:54:54.000 And 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.

01:55:02.000 It's like, okay, let's take the poison out of our food.

01:55:04.000 Let's stop feeding slop to our children. 1.00

01:55:07.000 Let's maybe get them to be a responsible weight, teach them how to do a push-up. 0.99

01:55:10.000 Like that should be all basic stuff that we all agree with.

01:55:13.000 Yeah, it's just about the polarization now. 0.98

01:55:16.000 He's associated with Trump, so he's got to be a bad guy, which is ridiculous.

01:55:20.000 Yeah, it's kind of like poor propaganda because I don't know. 0.70

01:55:24.000 It works, but sometimes it doesn't.

01:55:25.000 I mean, his work is apparent.

01:55:26.000 I think his works are showing.

01:55:27.000 Because there's something that he says now that I truly, like it struck a chord.

01:55:32.000 It'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.

01:55:41.000 That hits hard.

01:55:42.000 It really does.

01:55:43.000 Let's grab some more of these rumble rants.

01:55:45.000 We got D-Sage who says, I agree with Brandon. 0.98

01:55:47.000 Clankers are not people. 1.00

01:55:49.000 Ian will kill us all. 0.99

01:55:50.000 What? 0.99

01:55:50.000 No, I'm here to help. 0.99

01:55:51.000 Clankers are not people. 1.00

01:55:53.000 It's true.

01:55:54.000 Clankers are not people. 1.00

01:55:55.000 Jay Hamlin says, wait, it's Tim's birthday and we get Brandon as a present.

01:55:58.000 Thanks, Tim.

01:55:59.000 Also on Iran Bombing Hotels, I heard the reason might be because most troops were relocated off base, probably civilian locations.

01:56:06.000 Then they targeted civilian locations and it makes them look really bad.

01:56:11.000 I mean, it is what it is.

01:56:12.000 I actually think clankers are people. 0.99

01:56:14.000 I just don't think they're human, but they have personalities, like dogs.

01:56:17.000 Clankers.

01:56:20.000 Clankers.

01:56:21.000 Why is YouTube giving me the business?

01:56:23.000 YouTube's always given us.

01:56:24.000 You ever speak pig Latin for fun? 0.97

01:56:26.000 No. 0.64

01:56:27.000 I just did.

01:56:28.000 Utubia.

01:56:30.000 You take the first letter of the word, you put it at the end of the word, and then A after it.

01:56:33.000 Why is it called Pig Latin?

01:56:35.000 That sounds racist.

01:56:35.000 I wonder if that's a racist thing, and I just displayed that for pickup lines.

01:56:41.000 Let's grab this one.

01:56:42.000 We have Mikey says, I am keeping the tradition and say, my wife is delivering baby number two right now.

01:56:48.000 Welcome, baby Clara.

01:56:49.000 And now my wife just gave me the look. 1.00

01:56:51.000 Pray for me.

01:56:53.000 Congratulations, guys.

01:56:54.000 If she's on the delivery table, you don't have to worry about her getting up to chase you around.

01:56:59.000 She can give you the look all she wants. 1.00

01:57:00.000 Much love to your wife.

01:57:02.000 We got a lot of birthday wishes.

01:57:03.000 I appreciate all of the birthday wishes.

01:57:06.000 RFH is in keeping with longstanding Tim Cast tradition.

01:57:09.000 I'll announce the arrival of my new baby son, Bruce Buffer Voice.

01:57:13.000 Weighing in at five pounds, 13 ounces, standing at a whopping 19 inches long.

01:57:17.000 Carter, Asher, Roche.

01:57:19.000 Love you guys.

01:57:20.000 Talking about Carter.

01:57:20.000 There you go.

01:57:21.000 Congratulations.

01:57:22.000 Good name.

01:57:26.000 All right.

01:57:26.000 The Branca show says military operations, declaration of war.

01:57:30.000 Declaration of war resets entire U.S. to a wartime footing.

01:57:33.000 Rights suspended.

01:57:35.000 Industries ordered about drafts.

01:57:37.000 Only Congress can do that.

01:57:38.000 President can still fight in defense of our nation without that.

01:57:43.000 You heard Carolyn Levitt said Trump won't rule out a draft.

01:57:47.000 Yeah, but I think that's a good draft.

01:57:49.000 It seemed like that was out of context because I watched the full clip.

01:57:53.000 Well, it's fair to say that asking, give us your military strategy publicly right now.

01:57:59.000 Yeah.

01:58:00.000 You can't.

01:58:01.000 There's not going to be a draft, though.

01:58:02.000 Yeah, but you never rule it out as the commander.

01:58:04.000 You always have to keep the option open.

01:58:06.000 Well, yeah, if we get invaded, they're going to give you a gun, Ian.

01:58:09.000 Can you imagine?

01:58:10.000 We'd be desperate.

01:58:11.000 I've been thinking about shooting lately, actually.

01:58:13.000 Well, I mean, hit me up.

01:58:15.000 I know a guy.

01:58:16.000 That could be cool.

01:58:16.000 Oh, yeah.

01:58:17.000 I kind of want to shoot that AK-50. 0.98

01:58:20.000 Do you let people put hands on it? 0.99

01:58:22.000 Friends.

01:58:22.000 How many rounds have you put them?

01:58:24.000 I mean, at this point, it's like, it's got to be at least over 500, 600 rounds.

01:58:30.000 Which for a 50 cal, that's quite a bit.

01:58:31.000 Does it hold up well?

01:58:33.000 Pretty good.

01:58:34.000 Like, we're always finding more stuff to kind of screw with, like, more things we're not super happy about, like little nitpicks.

01:58:40.000 We're like, okay, well, that should be about 10% tighter, you know, different stuff.

01:58:43.000 What would happen if you hit a deer with it?

01:58:47.000 Honestly, it's less impressive than you think.

01:58:49.000 A lot of people think that if you hit something with a 50 cal, oh, my God, it explodes.

01:58:53.000 If you nick somebody, it'll blow their arm off.

01:58:55.000 It's not true.

01:58:56.000 Basically, what's going to happen is it's going to go straight through.

01:58:59.000 There's going to be a crazy exit wind.

01:59:02.000 And then 70%, 80% of the force of that bullet's going to go into the tree behind it.

01:59:06.000 Yeah.

01:59:07.000 Well, that's not so fun.

01:59:09.000 I wanted to hear the deer will explode into a fine mist.

01:59:12.000 It's the less impressive answer, but it's unfortunate.

01:59:15.000 Is there any kind of ammo that could cause some catastrophic explosion to a deer?

01:59:19.000 Because they're big.

01:59:21.000 Can you get a 50 cal that's a soft point?

01:59:24.000 Or like a hollow point?

01:59:26.000 I'll have to match.

01:59:27.000 You know, maybe that's the new business you and I open together.

01:59:30.000 Maybe we just start making a soft point or a ballistic tip 50 cal hunting ammunition.

01:59:38.000 All right.

01:59:39.000 Let's grab a couple more here. 0.91

01:59:43.000 I don't know what this means, so I don't know if I can read it, but I'll read it anyway.

01:59:46.000 Political overtone says, dirty plops and pepperbacks for Brandon Bibera.

01:59:51.000 Unfortunately, I understand that language.

01:59:54.000 It's our streaming platform, Pepperbox.

01:59:57.000 We invented a new slur for the people that are there on the platform.

02:00:02.000 It's dirty plops and pepperbacks.

02:00:05.000 Oh, that sounds highly offensive.

02:00:07.000 It does.

02:00:07.000 We legitimately had a strategy meeting for what is the most offensive sounding thing we can call our subscribers.

02:00:14.000 And they just ran with it.

02:00:15.000 What is it?

02:00:15.000 Plops and dirty plops and pepperbacks.

02:00:18.000 Here's one.

02:00:18.000 Pepperbags.

02:00:19.000 Drive-by, or drive-by.

02:00:21.000 Says, I want to congratulate Brandon on his fourth Victoria Cross and the second Legion of Merit.

02:00:29.000 I got nothing.

02:00:30.000 I guess forced value.

02:00:31.000 I'm not sure Crowder this morning said he wasn't sure if you were a veteran or not.

02:00:35.000 It is clear that the joke has gone too far.

02:00:37.000 The forced valor of the unsubscribed podcast has permeated actual politics.

02:00:44.000 Oh, I wonder if while you're in Congress, there's going to be a story about fake valor.

02:00:49.000 They already tried.

02:00:50.000 During the primary, they already legitimately tried.

02:00:52.000 It'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.

02:01:02.000 It's like, okay, well, you know, the thing about politics is nobody really cares about telling the truth.

02:01:07.000 Yeah.

02:01:08.000 Indeed.

02:01:08.000 They want to see no good deed goes unpunished.

02:01:10.000 Results.

02:01:12.000 Let's see what we got here.

02:01:13.000 So we had a goal of 50 super chats.

02:01:17.000 If 50 super chats were met, Tim will have a happy birthday.

02:01:20.000 Unfortunately, only 37 super chats, which means I'll have a sad birthday.

02:01:25.000 I'm just kidding, guys.

02:01:26.000 I just put up there as a gag.

02:01:28.000 How are you feeling now?

02:01:30.000 Literally, I feel the exact same as I felt yesterday.

02:01:33.000 Didn't make you uncomfortable that it didn't hit the mark or anything?

02:01:36.000 Oh, no.

02:01:38.000 I feel pretty good, too.

02:01:39.000 No, I had a really great birthday present.

02:01:42.000 I went all in with Ace Queen against Ace King, hit a queen on the flop, and it held, and I defeated him.

02:01:48.000 Oh.

02:01:49.000 And it feels really good when that happens.

02:01:50.000 Very nice.

02:01:51.000 Was there a big pot involved?

02:01:51.000 That's right.

02:01:53.000 Yeah, we were both all in.

02:01:54.000 Oh, very nice.

02:01:55.000 Yep.

02:01:56.000 And I knew I was cooked.

02:01:57.000 And I think Ace King versus Ace Queen, I had like 24% or something.

02:02:02.000 But that queen hit, and it held.

02:02:04.000 And that was the universe saying, happy birthday, Tim.

02:02:06.000 Happy birthday, man.

02:02:07.000 You bad beat somebody.

02:02:10.000 What do we have here?

02:02:10.000 All right.

02:02:13.000 Martin Edgar says, a teenager in Michigan made a nuclear reactor in his shed from old smoke detectors.

02:02:18.000 50-50 for Tim and Brandon's campaign.

02:02:20.000 It is indeed a famous story.

02:02:23.000 It is indeed a famous story.

02:02:24.000 Do not do it.

02:02:25.000 Do not do it.

02:02:27.000 You will get sick and you will die.

02:02:29.000 Do not radiate yourself.

02:02:32.000 Michael Soholt says, Happy birthday, Tim.

02:02:34.000 Today is also my oldest daughter's 19th birthday.

02:02:36.000 I'm a 40-year-old Marine vet and love your show.

02:02:39.000 I've been listening to you since before you launched IRL.

02:02:42.000 Here, here, sir.

02:02:42.000 Thank you so much.

02:02:44.000 And happy birthday to your daughter.

02:02:46.000 It's a good birthday.

02:02:47.000 It is indeed the peak of Pisces.

02:02:49.000 So for those that track that.

02:02:52.000 And my signs are Pisces, Pisces, Leo.

02:02:55.000 Sun and Moon, Pisces, Rising, Leo.

02:02:57.000 Wild, you got that lion energy.

02:02:59.000 Lion energy.

02:03:00.000 That water, that flow.

02:03:00.000 That's right.

02:03:01.000 Be like the flow.

02:03:02.000 Yep.

02:03:03.000 And Leo's fire, right?

02:03:04.000 Ah.

02:03:06.000 Anyway, 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.

02:03:15.000 So make sure you go there to hang out.

02:03:17.000 You can follow me on X and Instagram at Timcast.

02:03:20.000 Brandon, do you want to shut anything up?

02:03:22.000 I would like to shout out the voters of Texas 23 who put me in this position.

02:03:25.000 I'm forever grateful to be your voice in Congress.

02:03:29.000 And if you'd like to go check out the campaign and things we stand for, it's Brandon Herrera for Congress.com.

02:03:33.000 I'd also like to shout you out.

02:03:35.000 Have a very happy birthday, and I appreciate you bringing me back, brother.

02:03:38.000 Oh, yeah, absolutely, man.

02:03:39.000 Really excited for it.

02:03:40.000 We need more real people in Congress.

02:03:42.000 We got to get all the bad incumbents out and get all the good people in.

02:03:46.000 It really is promising that you're going in.

02:03:48.000 I know you got the election coming up near the end of the year.

02:03:50.000 When is it exactly?

02:03:52.000 It's the first Tuesday in November.

02:03:55.000 But honestly, we were prepped to go to the runoff.

02:03:57.000 I know a lot of the stuff happened that caused Tony to drop out.

02:04:01.000 But we still, at the end of the day, we still beat him in the original primary.

02:04:06.000 So it's crazy.

02:04:07.000 It's been a crazy turn of events.

02:04:08.000 I'll say it that way.

02:04:09.000 Vote.

02:04:09.000 There is no sure thing.

02:04:11.000 You vote in November.

02:04:12.000 You vote Republican in Texas.

02:04:14.000 If you want to vote, I don't know.

02:04:14.000 You're going as a Republican, I imagine.

02:04:16.000 I never really even asked.

02:04:17.000 Or you're independent or what?

02:04:18.000 It doesn't even matter these days.

02:04:19.000 I don't know.

02:04:20.000 Well, yes, we were on the Republican ticket trying to get out, like just a really bad Republican incumbent.

02:04:25.000 A total, like, I know the term's overused, but a rhino.

02:04:28.000 And we succeeded in that goal.

02:04:29.000 And again, it was not by a big margin.

02:04:32.000 So your vote really does matter.

02:04:33.000 It's really good to see you, man.

02:04:34.000 Thanks for coming.

02:04:35.000 I appreciate it.

02:04:35.000 I'm at Ian Crossland.

02:04:36.000 Find me on the internet at Ian Crossland.

02:04:37.000 Also go to graphene.movie and check out this trailer for this graphene documentary that we're building.

02:04:41.000 It's badass nanotech.

02:04:43.000 Like 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.

02:04:50.000 It's graphene.movie.

02:04:52.000 We also got Carter Banks.

02:04:52.000 See you there.

02:04:54.000 I'm not sure he's got a camera on him today.

02:04:55.000 I do.

02:04:56.000 I got Andrew back here, and we are hanging out, pressing the buttons.

02:05:01.000 And yeah, it's a pleasure being here.

02:05:05.000 Thank you, Brandon, for coming on the show.

02:05:08.000 I should probably set this up so you can see me better.

02:05:10.000 But yeah, anything you want to shout out, Andrew?

02:05:13.000 No.

02:05:14.000 Well, okay, let's go to Phil.

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02:05:18.000 The band is all that remains.

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02:05:22.000 We're going on tour this spring with Dead Eyes and Born of Osiris.

02:05:25.000 We're starting in April 29th in Albany.

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02:05:35.000 Don't forget the left lane is for crime.

02:05:37.000 Are you coming to Texas?

02:05:38.000 No, not on this one.

02:05:39.000 No.

02:05:40.000 Yeah.

02:05:40.000 Trader.

02:05:41.000 We'll see you all at rumble.com slash Timcast IRL for the uncensored portion of the show.

02:05:46.000 Thanks for hanging out.

02:06:57.000 So this is the gameplay for Marathon.

02:07:02.000 I don't really care to listen to the guy talk about it.

02:07:04.000 But here's my point with all of this stuff.

02:07:07.000 Let's do that so you can see it better.

02:07:09.000 Basically, the shooting, the guns, and everything, it's just basically destiny.

02:07:13.000 It's just basically Halo.

02:07:15.000 But what they appear to have tried to do with this game is make they're trying to eliminate race, I guess.

02:07:23.000 The characters are just a bunch of mannequins that look like Asians and black people or something.

02:07:28.000 It's an unappealing game that apparently is not fun to play. 0.95

02:07:32.000 People have complained about the learning curve, about AI, about time to kill.

02:07:37.000 But my issue with the game largely and why I think it's going to fail is the aesthetic is that you all play weird robot creatures.

02:07:43.000 And it's just kind of weird.

02:07:46.000 I mean, I feel like that could be done well, but they just clearly didn't.

02:07:51.000 This aesthetic that it represents, you know it when you see it.

02:07:54.000 Yeah. 0.99

02:07:54.000 It's the same thing as the fucking Jaguar commercial. 0.99

02:07:57.000 Yeah. 0.99

02:07:58.000 All those colors of the rainbow and everything.

02:07:59.000 Let's make everything androgynous. 0.91

02:08:02.000 That's exactly it.

02:08:02.000 Exactly.

02:08:03.000 Are the characters like all gray?

02:08:05.000 Are they all like gray robots?

02:08:06.000 I didn't really get any look at any of their character models.

02:08:09.000 Let me.

02:08:11.000 Let me pull up the androgynization of entertainment. 0.86

02:08:17.000 Everybody's gay. 0.73

02:08:18.000 They're trying to. 0.99

02:08:19.000 But the horniness never stops.

02:08:22.000 I mean, I guess you can poison men into not being interested, but they're trying.

02:08:34.000 Overwatch did it right with their diverse characters, but they're all stereotypes.

02:08:37.000 Like, this is just gross to me.

02:08:54.000 The game is apparently flopping really bad.

02:09:10.000 Ew, so what is the game?

02:09:21.000 What do you play?

02:09:22.000 What do you do?

02:09:22.000 What are the characters?

02:09:25.000 And then it shows the main guy of the ad getting killed.

02:09:28.000 Look, you want to be an Asian mannequin robot? 0.99

02:09:31.000 Do you want to play against bot snipers that are going to ruin your fun?

02:09:40.000 That whole thing is just off-putting.

02:09:42.000 Yep, 2023.

02:09:50.000 Well, is that when this is the trailer?

02:09:52.000 It's not down two years ago.

02:09:54.000 And it came out, and apparently it hit like 90K players and then started rapidly declining.

02:10:00.000 And that's not a good sign.

02:10:01.000 It's not bad, 90K, but it's worse than EA Skates.

02:10:05.000 EA skate at 130,000.

02:10:07.000 They call it marathon because you run a lot.

02:10:09.000 I don't know, but it's aesthetically displeasing.

02:10:12.000 And I'm just going to point this out.

02:10:15.000 The reason why people play video games is to go on adventures.

02:10:18.000 You know, you play GTA and you don't really care the guy, like, is the guy this, that, woman, black, whatever. 0.99

02:10:26.000 You want to go around beating a shit out of cops and shooting people and stealing cars and bang hookers, whatever. 1.00

02:10:31.000 This? 1.00

02:10:32.000 What are you doing even?

02:10:35.000 What are these characters?

02:10:37.000 It was a terrible trailer.

02:10:40.000 Indeed.

02:10:40.000 Sorry to interrupt, though.

02:10:41.000 No, and this is what they do.

02:10:42.000 This is what they do. 0.99

02:10:43.000 Every time they fuck up, they're like, Marathon is getting review bombed. 0.98

02:10:48.000 Well, I don't know what that thing is, and I have no interest in exploring its story. 0.98

02:10:53.000 The review bomb thing is just a way of saying, like, oh, well, people didn't like what we did, but it's the consumer's fault.

02:11:00.000 Yeah.

02:11:01.000 You don't have to.

02:11:01.000 Yeah.

02:11:02.000 You just don't know what you like, let me tell you.

02:11:04.000 This says that it launched March 5th, just like three days ago.

02:11:06.000 Is that the official launch?

02:11:08.000 Oh, okay.

02:11:09.000 Yep.

02:11:09.000 I thought the whole thing looks, it's extremely off-putting is the way to put it.

02:11:15.000 It's the, the, the aesthetic of it is nails on a chalkboard to me.

02:11:18.000 And I think it's the color palette.

02:11:20.000 Weirdly 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.

02:11:31.000 Look at this.

02:11:32.000 Like the characters are just gross and unappealing.

02:11:35.000 I'd be down to watch some gameplay footage of it.

02:11:38.000 I'm understanding.

02:11:38.000 Look at this.

02:11:39.000 Do you want to be this thing?

02:11:40.000 I don't know what it is.

02:11:41.000 Yeah, it's weird and off-putting. 0.99

02:11:43.000 I'm telling you, all you got to do is give me a big tittied woman with a gun. 1.00

02:11:47.000 Make big titty shooter. 1.00

02:11:48.000 Yeah, but I can't.

02:11:49.000 You'll get, I'm joking, but only half joking.

02:11:53.000 People want to self-insert, too.

02:11:54.000 Like, 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.

02:12:06.000 This delivers neither of those things.

02:12:08.000 Not in the trailer.

02:12:09.000 I mean, the trailer was just a guy running and then getting shot.

02:12:11.000 Oh, the gameplay was worse.

02:12:12.000 He was showing gameplay a second ago.

02:12:14.000 It's not good.

02:12:15.000 It's not good.

02:12:15.000 Is it like Overwatch?

02:12:17.000 It's destiny.

02:12:25.000 Why do I care about whatever that thing is?

02:12:29.000 They're not people.

02:12:31.000 They are called runners, cybernetic mercenaries.

02:12:34.000 Oh, technically, maybe they're human cyborgs.

02:12:40.000 All I know is the whole thing's aesthetic.

02:12:42.000 It's like nails on a chalkboard to look at.

02:12:45.000 It's the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.

02:12:47.000 It's Uncanny Valley, I think.

02:12:48.000 Like too much shadow.

02:12:48.000 Yes.

02:12:52.000 Uncanny Valley.

02:12:55.000 Yeah, when that first character appeared, I was like, I just would rather watch a real person.

02:12:59.000 It's not real enough to seem real, and it's not cartoony enough to just accept it's an animation.

02:13:04.000 Who are these games for?

02:13:16.000 It is so dark.

02:13:27.000 Whack.

02:13:28.000 Is there any gameplay?

02:13:40.000 Weird off-putting robot people. 0.95

02:13:48.000 All of it's just disgusting.

02:13:50.000 This is kind of like that old MTV animation. 1.00

02:13:52.000 What is this bullshit where like the worms are like, it's like silkworms that make cyborgs? 0.99

02:13:58.000 Oh, is that what it is? 1.00

02:13:59.000 That's what it looks like they're trying to do.

02:14:01.000 Man, it looks like every other freaking first-person shooter.

02:14:04.000 It looks like it's just literally destiny.

02:14:08.000 Everything about it just screams like literally a reskinned destiny.

02:14:12.000 I'm not even kidding.

02:14:14.000 At least the guns move.

02:14:15.000 It's like identical to destiny.

02:14:18.000 Just with aesthetically displeasing everything.

02:14:21.000 Yeah, I never really got into destiny.

02:14:22.000 I know my brothers got into it for a minute, but I.

02:14:25.000 It was great.

02:14:25.000 And you could be a robot if you wanted to.

02:14:28.000 They were inclusive.

02:14:29.000 Indeed.

02:14:30.000 I think Overwatch did it the best.

02:14:34.000 They have a diverse cast, but they're all stereotypes.

02:14:37.000 Every character in Overwatch is a stereotype of whatever culture they come from.

02:14:40.000 I don't know.

02:14:42.000 That's kind of a thing.

02:14:44.000 I don't know how you get an obese character without also increasing the hitbox.

02:14:50.000 You have to increase the hitbox.

02:14:52.000 I mean, just purely on a logistical perspective.

02:14:55.000 Like, how do you not make it a detriment that you have an obese character?

02:14:59.000 Yeah, I think a game that is being honest would increase the hitbox.

02:15:03.000 And I could see it if you give them other abilities that offset that.

02:15:06.000 But I mean, like, come on.

02:15:08.000 You're going to give like a 120-pound character the same hitbox as a 300-pounder.

02:15:12.000 Look at this.

02:15:13.000 Don't do it in Heroes of the Storm.

02:15:15.000 What is this? 1.00

02:15:17.000 Where's the sound button on the stupid fucking thing? 1.00

02:15:19.000 Upper left. 1.00

02:15:20.000 Right on target.

02:15:21.000 Let's start it over.

02:15:22.000 Prudent. 0.97

02:15:24.000 Do you want to be the morbidly obese like Indian or Native American guy? 1.00

02:15:28.000 Dawah, every time.

02:15:29.000 Where's his pronouns in?

02:15:32.000 Right on target.

02:15:34.000 Prudent choice.

02:15:37.000 Fight.

02:15:38.000 Too bad.

02:15:39.000 Starchild.

02:15:40.000 Fight is what?

02:15:42.000 Yes, indeed.

02:15:45.000 On my mark.

02:15:45.000 You know what?

02:15:46.000 Take back what I said about AI. 1.00

02:15:46.000 Fuck it. 1.00

02:15:48.000 I think you might be onto something because I think AI could do better than whatever the fuck this is. 1.00

02:15:52.000 It's about to look at this one. 0.98

02:15:56.000 Oh, duh.

02:15:57.000 Everybody went to high school with her.

02:15:59.000 Yep.

02:16:00.000 They needed to cut that.

02:16:00.000 You had one of those.

02:16:02.000 That laugh at the end.

02:16:03.000 I got you. 1.00

02:16:05.000 Oh, fat bitch got it going. 1.00

02:16:10.000 Oh, that's my favorite guy. 1.00

02:16:11.000 Oh, hi.

02:16:12.000 He's a robot.

02:16:13.000 What was this like?

02:16:14.000 $400 million.

02:16:17.000 This is the game Concorde.

02:16:18.000 I wonder if they make it free to play.

02:16:18.000 Yeah.

02:16:20.000 It existed for 11 days.

02:16:22.000 I guess they go free to play and maybe sell hats for 99 cents.

02:16:25.000 The other thing, too, is like EA Skate is dead.

02:16:27.000 It launched with 130,000 players, which is pretty good considering it's a skateboarding game.

02:16:33.000 And then within six months, there's only 1,900 players left.

02:16:36.000 Jesus.

02:16:37.000 Yeah, that's going to get shut down.

02:16:38.000 There's no way you can maintain the servers with that. 0.94

02:16:40.000 Helldivers did a pretty good job at maintaining their popularity because they just gave the gamers what the fuck they wanted. 0.86

02:16:45.000 How hard is that? 0.98

02:16:45.000 Yeah. 0.98

02:16:46.000 That game is spectacular.

02:16:47.000 Although I played about 40 hours or 30 hours, but then I don't play it solo.

02:16:51.000 I like playing with friends where you can actually talk and be like, hey, I'm running.

02:16:54.000 I'm going. 0.99

02:16:55.000 And you can do tactics and shit. 0.99

02:16:56.000 Playing it solo is like, blowing yourself up with a grenade launcher. 0.99

02:16:59.000 Yeah, but playing it solo is boring as hell.

02:17:00.000 But like with your boys, that's a perfect example of like, I think they were a relatively indie studio that did it.

02:17:06.000 Like they weren't a maybe indie is the wrong word, but they weren't like a triple-A, you know.

02:17:11.000 I played that game with Andrew Wilson.

02:17:13.000 That's awesome.

02:17:14.000 It's really fun.

02:17:15.000 Do you game much these days?

02:17:16.000 I imagine you're so busy running.

02:17:18.000 Last night I jumped on Battlefield 6.

02:17:20.000 It was the first time I played video games in like two months.

02:17:23.000 I did not have time.

02:17:24.000 I felt there was one time like a week ago.

02:17:27.000 I'm like, okay, cool.

02:17:27.000 I fired it up.

02:17:28.000 Time to play with some of my shop employees and stuff like that. 0.96

02:17:31.000 I'm ready.

02:17:32.000 Immediately had a relatively important political call.

02:17:35.000 I'm like, well, I fired it up.

02:17:37.000 I got to the menu.

02:17:38.000 It was a nice thought.

02:17:40.000 Yeah.

02:17:40.000 I like, it can help you get into flow state.

02:17:44.000 I like jumping into a game and being like, where am I at right now?

02:17:46.000 And I'll play in it.

02:17:47.000 How flow am I right now?

02:17:48.000 How many, how little mistakes can I make and win this game 15 and oh?

02:17:52.000 If I can, I'm like, good state of mind.

02:17:53.000 Yeah.

02:17:53.000 And then I can set it down.

02:17:54.000 I 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. 0.99

02:18:05.000 They got the crazy purple hair and they were like, okay, let's go with the microscopic fringe woke aesthetic for a $400 million game.

02:18:15.000 What was that company that existed purely to be like the woke engine behind AAA Studios?

02:18:15.000 Well, what was that?

02:18:20.000 I can't remember what it was called.

02:18:21.000 It was like baby something.

02:18:22.000 Oh, I don't know.

02:18:23.000 Yes.

02:18:24.000 Baby sauce?

02:18:25.000 Something baby, sweet baby.

02:18:28.000 Sweet baby might be it.

02:18:30.000 Yes, I remember that.

02:18:33.000 Every character's propaganda and pronoun.

02:18:38.000 Sweet baby.

02:18:39.000 Sweet baby Inc. It was a Montreal-based Canadian narrative development and consulting studio.

02:18:43.000 He him.

02:18:44.000 Oh, yeah.

02:18:45.000 Yep.

02:18:48.000 What?

02:18:49.000 She her? 0.57

02:18:50.000 Why do they need to tell me that?

02:18:54.000 Oh, this is the one game that bombed.

02:18:57.000 I see.

02:18:57.000 Oh, yeah.

02:18:58.000 Is this actually...

02:18:59.000 That's real.

02:19:00.000 The pronouns are in the game.

02:19:01.000 Where it says in the bottom, propaganda.

02:19:03.000 Oh, no, they added that.

02:19:04.000 That's edited in.

02:19:05.000 Okay, I was going to say, I'm like, she, her.

02:19:08.000 You're 100% they put those pronouns or were they made?

02:19:10.000 Pronouns are in the game.

02:19:11.000 What?

02:19:12.000 Okay, famous.

02:19:13.000 I'm like, if they look at the propaganda thing in there, that's actually kind of a matter of money.

02:19:16.000 Look at this.

02:19:17.000 Undecided.

02:19:19.000 Oh, the mushroom.

02:19:21.000 It's a chick. 0.68

02:19:22.000 Gender queer. 0.83

02:19:23.000 Obviously. 1.00

02:19:25.000 Fucking mushroom person. 1.00

02:19:28.000 And that's the normal thing. 1.00

02:19:29.000 The convictors are all so unappealing.

02:19:30.000 Sweet Baby Inc. has an ex account.

02:19:33.000 Narrative development and design script rating.

02:19:35.000 Oh, no, never mind.

02:19:37.000 He's like, finally, I get to be the guy that's a she, her, and a male. 0.87

02:19:40.000 I've been looking it my whole life.

02:19:43.000 How come they, thems are always women? 1.00

02:19:46.000 I feel like this, this entire thing is going to be full of like the parts of Marvel we all find cringe.

02:19:46.000 Yeah.

02:19:52.000 Yeah.

02:19:52.000 That whole that just happened.

02:19:55.000 That sort of shit. 1.00

02:19:56.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:19:56.000 Is there a guy who's like, unknown, unknown? 1.00

02:19:59.000 Sweet baby.

02:20:00.000 Sweet baby Inc's official ex account is actually protected tweets.

02:20:05.000 Yeah.

02:20:05.000 No kidding.

02:20:06.000 What's he doing?

02:20:07.000 One off.

02:20:08.000 He's a robot.

02:20:08.000 He him.

02:20:09.000 Just a robot.

02:20:11.000 Come on, girl. 1.00

02:20:13.000 I've never wanted to punch something more in my life.

02:20:13.000 Oh my god.

02:20:15.000 That's the most annoying one for me.

02:20:17.000 That girl. 0.91

02:20:17.000 Uh-huh. 0.91

02:20:18.000 Oh, her voice.

02:20:19.000 That's a gow.

02:20:20.000 It's a fake, like, joy.

02:20:24.000 Oh, God.

02:20:25.000 That girl, dude. 1.00

02:20:27.000 Whoopi Goldberg up in it. 0.96

02:20:29.000 What's with the clown?

02:20:30.000 The crust of the clown hair.

02:20:32.000 Pulling on that whoopie.

02:20:32.000 Really?

02:20:34.000 Me and my crew.

02:20:35.000 That dog.

02:20:36.000 Yeah, you and your crew are people who don't walk. 1.00

02:20:40.000 Intensive care.

02:20:41.000 Fat acceptance.

02:20:42.000 You got low T. Anyway, we should go to callers.

02:20:45.000 Let's bring in Jared.

02:20:45.000 Yes.

02:20:47.000 What up?

02:20:48.000 Jared, what's going on, man?

02:20:50.000 What is, Jared?

02:20:51.000 Welcome.

02:20:52.000 Whoa, what are you doing?

02:20:52.000 Hey, guys.

02:20:53.000 Greetings.

02:20:54.000 Can you hear me?

02:20:55.000 Yeah.

02:20:56.000 And how?

02:20:56.000 Yeah.

02:20:57.000 Hey, firstly, happy birthday, Tim.

02:21:03.000 Thank you.

02:21:03.000 Appreciate it.

02:21:05.000 Keep it going.

02:21:05.000 Yeah.

02:21:06.000 So 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?

02:21:21.000 And this is for the entire panel.

02:21:24.000 I just had a conversation with my mother about this.

02:21:25.000 So this is kind of exactly answers your question. 1.00

02:21:28.000 She was like, fucking Trump. 1.00

02:21:29.000 He doesn't know what he's doing. 1.00

02:21:31.000 I'm like, yeah, I listen, hear her out, and let her vent her frustrations for like a minute.

02:21:36.000 And then I say, but this Iranian theocracy is a big problem. 1.00

02:21:40.000 She's like, I know.

02:21:42.000 And that's where you start to, you know, total.

02:21:45.000 She's like, they got women over there. 1.00

02:21:46.000 They're covering up with Burke.

02:21:47.000 It's crazy.

02:21:48.000 So 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.

02:21:58.000 That's helped me.

02:22:00.000 Yeah, I mean, look, I personally think that this is a broader thing than just Iran.

02:22:07.000 I mean, we talked about it a little bit.

02:22:08.000 I think this is about the United States trying to realign the global order, to be honest with you.

02:22:15.000 I think that this is in conjunction with Venezuela and the stuff with Panama Canal and Iran.

02:22:20.000 I think that a lot of it has to do with China.

02:22:22.000 And I think that it goes far beyond just Iran.

02:22:27.000 But 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.

02:22:36.000 So really, you kind of want to know what you're getting into and act accordingly.

02:22:41.000 You'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.

02:22:50.000 Yeah, I don't think there's a way you can force nuance into a person.

02:22:53.000 If they've already made up their mind, they've already decided this is the take I'm going to have.

02:22:58.000 I'm not sure that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it think.

02:23:02.000 I 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.

02:23:11.000 And it might, there's certain family members that I have that disagree with me politically.

02:23:15.000 Still, you know, I'm very lucky.

02:23:16.000 They're very supportive and everything, but they disagree with basically every political take I have.

02:23:21.000 You just don't talk politics with that person.

02:23:22.000 You just ask them how their date was.

02:23:24.000 You keep a cattle prod tucked into your sleeve and then use it.

02:23:29.000 Exactly.

02:23:30.000 If you highlight the order, the liberal order, this war machine, this Trump machine, all this is the least worst.

02:23:36.000 It's not like it's great.

02:23:38.000 You got to empathize with them and understand.

02:23:41.000 I know it's not great.

02:23:42.000 They're doing, and then kind of like, you know, insinuate they're doing kind of damage control.

02:23:46.000 And it's not like they're the best.

02:23:47.000 It's just, this is what we got right now.

02:23:49.000 You 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.

02:23:58.000 You know, acknowledge what they're feeling, what they're thinking, and then point out the other things as well.

02:24:04.000 Ask them if this has anything to do with the relationship they have with their mother.

02:24:10.000 No, so it's actually interesting because most of my family, especially that I'm referring to, like holds the beliefs that I hold.

02:24:18.000 I'm a very conservative person with a very non-interventionist point of view when it comes to like foreign entanglement.

02:24:26.000 So it's not like we have like major disagreements or anything like that.

02:24:31.000 But 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.

02:24:39.000 And personally, I don't really see why it's the case.

02:24:42.000 But for as much as I don't like foreign intervention, I tell them myself, look, there has to be a nuance to this position.

02:24:53.000 You can't just strong-arm it.

02:24:56.000 Yeah, like I understand your frustration, but I think to Brandon's point, you can't force nuance on someone.

02:25:04.000 If 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.

02:25:22.000 And Iran has done this, and Iran has done that. 0.93

02:25:25.000 I don't think we should be involved.

02:25:25.000 I don't care.

02:25:26.000 It doesn't matter because their objection isn't to the policy.

02:25:32.000 Their objection is to Donald Trump.

02:25:34.000 And so you're not going to be able to convince them by talking about any benefits of a successful mission.

02:25:39.000 They're going to say, no, I don't like Trump, and that's how I feel.

02:25:42.000 And I think to a degree, it ties into Tim's point that we have intervention, not fatigue.

02:25:47.000 What is it?

02:25:48.000 PTSD?

02:25:48.000 Yeah.

02:25:49.000 Post-intervention stress disorder.

02:25:51.000 Yep.

02:25:52.000 It's just like we've screwed it up so much in the past that no matter what, it's like, man, we are.

02:25:59.000 I like it.

02:26:00.000 We have pissed.

02:26:02.000 Sorry, Brandon, you were saying.

02:26:03.000 No, no, that was clearly the better joke.

02:26:05.000 Never mind.

02:26:10.000 I do think people have a right to be pissed.

02:26:15.000 It's legitimate.

02:26:16.000 Yeah, you know what?

02:26:18.000 When 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.

02:26:27.000 My goal will be to get her to understand why things are happening.

02:26:31.000 Right.

02:26:32.000 Well, 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.

02:26:39.000 It's like, maybe you just disengage.

02:26:41.000 Like for the sake of family, especially, maybe it's just better certain times.

02:26:45.000 Like you can try.

02:26:46.000 And if that doesn't work, honestly, disengagement is better because you want to preserve your family.

02:26:51.000 You want to preserve good relationships, even if you disagree on things politically.

02:26:55.000 Like it's better to get along than to win an argument when it comes to your family.

02:26:59.000 If you can't change the person's mind, there's no reason to crater your relationship with that person because of it.

02:27:05.000 Anything you want to add?

02:27:06.000 I appreciate the responses.

02:27:07.000 No, I mean, that was basically it.

02:27:09.000 I just wanted to feel kind of like vindicated on how I felt about it.

02:27:14.000 And I feel like you guys pretty much nailed it on every aspect.

02:27:18.000 Awesome, thank you.

02:27:19.000 Anything you want to shout out?

02:27:21.000 Yes.

02:27:22.000 So firstly, Brandon, congratulations on your election.

02:27:25.000 You're literally a legend from all of my friends.

02:27:28.000 I'm from Florida, but I know you very well from your YouTube channel.

02:27:31.000 And all of the people around me love you to death.

02:27:34.000 We want you to succeed.

02:27:36.000 We want you to bring order and actual common sense to elections that we haven't had, honestly, in a long time.

02:27:44.000 I'm a 30-year-old male, so I'm a little bit younger in that space.

02:27:48.000 Oh, no.

02:27:49.000 I'm the same, a 30-year-old guy.

02:27:51.000 But I appreciate it, brother.

02:27:54.000 I'm just going to try to do my best to not fuck it up, which I feel like is more than most can say.

02:28:00.000 Yeah.

02:28:02.000 And just shout out to the Tim Cascaro.

02:28:04.000 Shout out, Tim, for his birthday again.

02:28:06.000 Shout out, Phil.

02:28:06.000 Happy birthday.

02:28:07.000 Your band is amazing.

02:28:08.000 The last time I called and I told you that your band is one of the greatest of all time.

02:28:13.000 Appreciate it.

02:28:14.000 But that's basically it.

02:28:15.000 Just thank you for taking my call.

02:28:17.000 Right on, brother.

02:28:18.000 So thanks for calling in.

02:28:20.000 Thank you.

02:28:21.000 Next up, we've got Andre.

02:28:21.000 All right.

02:28:24.000 What is up?

02:28:26.000 Hey, everyone.

02:28:27.000 Greetings.

02:28:28.000 So first, happy birthday, Tim, and congratulations to Brandon on his primary win.

02:28:34.000 This 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. 0.87

02:28:45.000 Ooh, next caller.

02:28:46.000 Condoling.

02:28:48.000 Right.

02:28:50.000 So basically, the compensation is not even going to cover a fraction of what's up there. 0.99

02:28:54.000 It's going to be a giant cluster fuck. 0.97

02:28:56.000 So my question is for Brandon. 0.99

02:28:58.000 There are thousands of beautiful rifles up here, Gucci ARs, CZ brands, you name it.

02:29:04.000 And they're all about to get crushed.

02:29:05.000 Legal export is still technically possible from our end, but nobody is pursuing it.

02:29:10.000 And I think the ATF might have something to do with it.

02:29:13.000 Do 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?

02:29:22.000 Or are we just watching a funeral?

02:29:24.000 It's a little bit of both.

02:29:26.000 There are legal avenues for that, and there are definitely companies that do export from Canada to the United States or import in that regard.

02:29:34.000 However, a lot of the stuff that you guys have up there is stuff that is illegal for us to bring into the United States.

02:29:41.000 Like, you guys get a lot of imports from places like China.

02:29:44.000 Like, you guys can still have Narincos.

02:29:46.000 You have the Type 81s. 0.82

02:29:48.000 Like, you have a lot of stuff that we can't get here.

02:29:50.000 And unfortunately, for that, you're just toast.

02:29:52.000 Like, 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.

02:30:02.000 And so, unless you find another place, it's going to the torch.

02:30:06.000 And I'm sad to see so many American companies complicit in that.

02:30:12.000 Yeah, it will be a sad day.

02:30:16.000 This is the first I've heard about.

02:30:17.000 I don't want to waste people's time, but what exactly happened?

02:30:19.000 Can you concisely tell me in like a minute or less what the government just did and how maybe American companies were involved?

02:30:26.000 So, 2020, there was a mass shooting of somebody who was known to the police and who obtained a decommissioned police car.

02:30:34.000 He painted it up as a police car, obtained firearms from the U.S., and it was one of the worst mass shootings in Canada.

02:30:42.000 And right after that, the government had everything tabled that they're banning all military-style assault rifles.

02:30:49.000 I don't know how you define military-style, but anyways.

02:30:52.000 And since then, they've been adding to that list, and it's pretty much every semi-automatic that's been added to that list.

02:31:00.000 The only ones that they haven't been able to is the SKS because there's a lot of trouble with the First Nations getting them to comply.

02:31:08.000 But other than that, pretty much all semi-autos are gone.

02:31:11.000 Handguns are frozen.

02:31:12.000 You can't buy, sell them, can't do anything else.

02:31:14.000 On top of that, exactly.

02:31:15.000 That 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.

02:31:31.000 But 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.

02:31:41.000 That is, if everyone complies, but yeah, well, based.

02:31:45.000 Right, right.

02:31:46.000 I mean, telling someone to commit a crime is like that's a heavy responsibility to do that.

02:31:51.000 But, you know, I'm here for you as an American in any way I can be to the best of my ability, legally and righteously.

02:31:57.000 I will tell the president we should invade and take over.

02:32:00.000 Please do.

02:32:01.000 Northern hemisphere dominance.

02:32:05.000 These guns, they've been safe queens for almost six years now, and nothing happened.

02:32:13.000 Yeah, it's like we still have our guns.

02:32:15.000 We still have them in our safes.

02:32:17.000 We just can't use them, and they're going to take them at the end of October now.

02:32:22.000 It broke my heart.

02:32:22.000 There was at one point somebody that was trying to figure out a way to legally get me.

02:32:25.000 I won't say what it is to get too specific on the guy, but it was a World War II relic, and it was an anti-tank rifle.

02:32:32.000 He was trying to get it down to the United States.

02:32:34.000 I had to tell him, Look, you have a beautiful piece of history.

02:32:37.000 I really wish I could take it, but legally, I don't think there's an avenue to do it.

02:32:41.000 And so I'm sure it got saw cut at some point.

02:32:43.000 It's terrible.

02:32:44.000 Are there private islands that take them or anything?

02:32:46.000 Is that just going overboard?

02:32:48.000 A little St. James, I think.

02:32:49.000 Oh, yeah.

02:32:50.000 Compiling weapons as we speak.

02:32:54.000 Well, you know, I'm still going to speak up for your rights to own guns. 0.99

02:32:58.000 You know, and you got a fucking king right now, and I don't like it. 0.99

02:33:01.000 So, your brothers to the south, yeah. 0.99

02:33:04.000 Yeah, thanks.

02:33:04.000 Uh, thanks for the support.

02:33:06.000 Always appreciate it.

02:33:07.000 Yeah, man.

02:33:08.000 You want to shout anything out before you rock out?

02:33:10.000 All good.

02:33:11.000 Thank you so much for taking my call.

02:33:12.000 Thanks for coming in.

02:33:13.000 Thanks, man.

02:33:14.000 Next up, we've got Randy the Chicken Captain.

02:33:14.000 All right.

02:33:17.000 Randy, what's going on, man?

02:33:20.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

02:33:21.000 You're just glad on the show here.

02:33:23.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:33:25.000 Oh, I see the 8K guy right there.

02:33:28.000 And I got just one question for you, Mr. Brandon Herrera.

02:33:33.000 I feel like this guy's one of the usual suspects.

02:33:39.000 You know, time and time again.

02:33:41.000 I get all these people saying, I'm going to do what you need us to do when they let me down.

02:33:48.000 What 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?

02:34:03.000 Follow up to that.

02:34:05.000 Will you oust anybody who votes against you? 0.99

02:34:10.000 Well, 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. 0.99

02:34:24.000 But it's all the things that they use to tempt politicians right now is money, power, fame, women. 1.00

02:34:34.000 I've got all that.

02:34:36.000 I literally, I want for nothing in that regard.

02:34:38.000 Like, I'm actually taking a massive pay cut to be able to do what I'm doing right now.

02:34:42.000 I put about a half million dollars of my own money to make sure that my district was represented the way that I wanted it to.

02:34:48.000 So they can't buy me because they can't afford me.

02:34:51.000 They have nothing to offer.

02:34:52.000 They can't blackmail me.

02:34:53.000 Nothing.

02:34:54.000 They literally have nothing to offer.

02:34:56.000 So in that regard, it's like I can't be bought because I'm here for the right reasons.

02:34:59.000 And, you know, I was already independently successful.

02:35:01.000 And I feel like that's why we need more people from that background to do stuff like this.

02:35:06.000 You mean to tell me that even if they threaten that they'll take rid of the ATF, get rid of it right away.

02:35:13.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:35:14.000 But you have to put into production all the cursed gun images.

02:35:18.000 You would do it.

02:35:20.000 I don't, somehow I don't see that offer coming on the table, but we'd, we'd, we would approach that with a cautious eye if it ever did.

02:35:29.000 Already starting to learn how to talk like a politician.

02:35:31.000 There you go, dude.

02:35:31.000 I hate it.

02:35:33.000 They're going to be like, you want to ban the ATF?

02:35:35.000 Just sign the omnibus.

02:35:36.000 We'll put it in there for you.

02:35:37.000 And like, you're signing over.

02:35:40.000 Even 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.

02:35:40.000 I would say yes.

02:35:49.000 I was saying, listen, we need to fire the Senate parliamentarian.

02:35:52.000 Please do not accept this right now.

02:35:54.000 We have the ability.

02:35:56.000 If 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.

02:36:14.000 I was very disappointed with that, but that was a deal I was willing to take.

02:36:17.000 I'm like, look, I'd rather get some wins.

02:36:17.000 That was a deal.

02:36:19.000 I got it.

02:36:20.000 I know how you get the ATF abolition or maybe the NFA repealed.

02:36:24.000 You 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.

02:36:38.000 Is that 20 is reasonable?

02:36:38.000 20?

02:36:40.000 It's reasonable, but that's just. 0.99

02:36:41.000 And then you know, all the members of Congress are going to be like, ooh, I just want to kill as many kids. 0.98

02:36:45.000 Oh, yeah, and they're going to sign on. 0.99

02:36:46.000 Oh, Lindsey Graham. 0.52

02:36:49.000 Would you have dinner with Lindsey Graham at his house?

02:36:52.000 Just the two of you?

02:36:54.000 I would need a third party there.

02:36:55.000 No, you see, just because I asked him, Lindsey Graham would be like, 20. 1.00

02:36:59.000 I'd have said yes to 10.

02:37:04.000 I would have dinner with Lindsey Graham if we had an opportunity to talk policy, but I don't think I would do it alone.

02:37:10.000 For the same reason that Mike Pence does not have meetings alone with other women without his wife there.

02:37:16.000 You know, Paul Danz is running against Lindsey Graham here with South Carolina, and he was the architect of Project 2025.

02:37:22.000 He's been on our show multiple times.

02:37:24.000 He's a fantastic human.

02:37:25.000 I haven't followed that race.

02:37:26.000 Do you think he's got a shot?

02:37:27.000 Well, I don't know.

02:37:28.000 I don't know.

02:37:29.000 I think, I mean, I don't know.

02:37:31.000 He knows people, and he's got a great head on his shoulders.

02:37:34.000 I don't know Lindsey personally, so I don't really want to add hominimat the guy. 0.72

02:37:38.000 I've seen his work.

02:37:39.000 I thought he was an alcoholic, unfortunately, for a long time.

02:37:41.000 Maybe I was wrong, but those bloodshot eyes that checked out.

02:37:46.000 Yeah, I think he has a shot, but I don't know.

02:37:46.000 I don't know.

02:37:48.000 I haven't been following it at all.

02:37:50.000 I just know them both.

02:37:51.000 And 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.

02:37:59.000 And Paul would be a great guy to see.

02:38:02.000 Yeah.

02:38:03.000 Thank you for not dropping the ball on that reference.

02:38:08.000 You anything you want to shout out?

02:38:09.000 Or you got any follow-ups?

02:38:11.000 Any more in your promo?

02:38:14.000 Yeah, normal voice now.

02:38:16.000 Okay.

02:38:16.000 Brandon, thank you.

02:38:18.000 Last 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. 0.99

02:38:30.000 So that was hilarious. 0.97

02:38:32.000 I don't remember it, but that sounds like something I would say.

02:38:34.000 Yeah, it was great.

02:38:36.000 Thank you so much, Tim.

02:38:37.000 Happy birthday.

02:38:39.000 Everybody, have a great evening.

02:38:40.000 Thanks for having me on and putting up with my bad impressions.

02:38:43.000 It was nice.

02:38:44.000 I really nailed it a couple times, like throughout.

02:38:46.000 It was nice.

02:38:47.000 And last but not least, we got Penmaker.

02:38:49.000 What's going on?

02:38:50.000 What's up, man?

02:38:51.000 What's up?

02:38:52.000 Yo.

02:38:53.000 Hey, everybody.

02:38:55.000 Happy birthday.

02:38:57.000 No, you're not.

02:38:58.000 Break my first time calling in.

02:38:59.000 I appreciate getting the opportunity to be up here.

02:39:01.000 Can you hear me?

02:39:02.000 Yeah, now.

02:39:03.000 Okay.

02:39:04.000 I have a couple questions for Brandon, but I'll just roll them all together.

02:39:08.000 Brandon is a former 2nd Battalion Army Ranger.

02:39:11.000 I'd like to thank you for your service.

02:39:13.000 I'm a big fan of you.

02:39:14.000 I'm excited to see you in Congress.

02:39:16.000 Do you have any plans on figuring out a way to repeal the NFA?

02:39:19.000 Are you working with anyone already, or at least in talks with any members of Congress, on how to go about doing that?

02:39:26.000 And if so, what is the best way to realistically have a chance to get it done?

02:39:30.000 I'm in talks with several people.

02:39:32.000 Honestly, my biggest legislative priorities right now when it comes to the Second Amendment in particular are trying to fight for things like national reciprocity.

02:39:40.000 I think that the NFA is something that we've seen as weak.

02:39:44.000 It's something that I think can be handled in the Supreme Court.

02:39:46.000 I'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.

02:40:05.000 Now that the tax has been removed, I think that there's space to move on that as far as that being unconstitutional.

02:40:11.000 At least I hope so.

02:40:12.000 But I think our biggest priority Second Amendment-wise should be national constitutional carry.

02:40:17.000 I think that constitutional carry was a pipe dream in the 90s, and now more states have it than don't.

02:40:24.000 And so we've made very positive progress in that.

02:40:26.000 And I think that that should be something that we are eyeing like a Christmas turkey.

02:40:31.000 What's national reciprocity?

02:40:33.000 National reciprocity just means that if you have a concealed carry permit in any state, then you have it is reciprocated by other states.

02:40:41.000 So if I have a concealed carry permit in Texas, it is immediately recognized by California.

02:40:46.000 We don't have that right now.

02:40:47.000 A lot of states do have reciprocity, but not all of them, especially like New York, New Jersey, California.

02:40:53.000 I think that's an easy win.

02:40:54.000 But national constitutional carry means that everybody has the right to carry a firearm.

02:41:01.000 Period.

02:41:02.000 So that's a little farther out, but I think at least we can settle for national reciprocity.

02:41:09.000 You said you had a good time.

02:41:09.000 That was a good fight, brother.

02:41:10.000 Yeah, you said you had some more questions, another follow-up, too.

02:41:14.000 No, that was all rolled together.

02:41:15.000 I got a shout-out.

02:41:16.000 That's about it.

02:41:17.000 Yeah, dude.

02:41:18.000 Okay, which shut up man lay it on me, bro.

02:41:20.000 Check out my Instagram page, the underscore patriot underscore penmaker.

02:41:20.000 All right.

02:41:26.000 If you want to be a classy gentleman who carries a custom fine writing instrument, if you can read, you can write.

02:41:32.000 And if you can write, you should order a pen.

02:41:34.000 That's the underscore patriot underscore penmaker on Instagram.

02:41:39.000 Check it out. 0.99

02:41:40.000 Remember, everything is fake and gay. 1.00

02:41:42.000 Thank you for taking my call and Godspeed. 0.86

02:41:44.000 Thanks for calling in, brother.

02:41:46.000 And for everybody, thanks for hanging out.

02:41:47.000 Brandon, it's been a blast to have you.

02:41:48.000 It's been a pleasure, brother.

02:41:49.000 Thank you for having me back on.

02:41:50.000 And we're excited to see you where we go from here, but we'll be tracking and keeping up.

02:41:55.000 And tomorrow's going to be crazy.

02:41:57.000 We've got Johnny Rockers coming back on.

02:41:59.000 And we have two guests tomorrow.

02:42:02.000 And then next week's going to be even crazier.

02:42:05.000 I think Alex Jones is coming on this week.

02:42:06.000 I saw.

02:42:08.000 It's been too long, TJ.

02:42:10.000 So it's going to be a lot of fun.

02:42:11.000 And then we've got so much going on.

02:42:13.000 It's just so great.

02:42:14.000 So great.

02:42:14.000 Some say the best.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - March 09, 2026

THIS COULD BE THE END | Timcast IRL #1465 w- Brandon Herrera

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