Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - ACLU Demands Supreme Court Force Women To Register For Draft w-Ethan Suplee

00:00:00.000 you you

00:00:49.000 you that women should be forced to sign up for the draft.

00:00:56.000 And I know a lot of people in the comments are like, wow, the ACLU actually fighting for equality?

00:01:00.000 Like, women should have to do the draft too? 1.00

00:01:02.000 And I'm kind of like, nobody should have to do the draft.

00:01:04.000 I'm not for the draft.

00:01:05.000 So I don't know how I feel about that.

00:01:07.000 I understand it's equality, but I'm kind of like, how about you just stop requiring dudes to sign up for the draft?

00:01:12.000 There is an interesting conversation in that, though, because conscription, in some aspects, well, I mean, it makes sense.

00:01:19.000 If a foreign adversary of the U.S.

00:01:21.000 literally dropped, you know, troops onto our beaches and started storming the streets and whatever, yeah, we'd have to defend ourselves.

00:01:28.000 There's a really interesting conversation around that.

00:01:30.000 And then we got some other stories, too.

00:01:31.000 This is crazy.

00:01:32.000 A D.C.

00:01:33.000 news anchor made a comment about fat people.

00:01:36.000 They shouldn't be allowed to get the vaccine before anyone else.

00:01:39.000 And he got fired because of it.

00:01:41.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:01:42.000 We'll talk about some of the other issues of the day.

00:01:45.000 We've got things around that.

00:01:47.000 And we've actually got a very famous movie star hanging out with us, Ethan Suplee.

00:01:52.000 You want to introduce yourself?

00:01:53.000 Hello, I'm Ethan Suplee.

00:01:54.000 Thanks for having me, Tim.

00:01:56.000 Just real quick, what do you do?

00:01:57.000 Who are you?

00:01:58.000 I'm an actor.

00:01:59.000 I have a podcast called American Glutton.

00:02:03.000 I have a movie coming out later this year, and I've been in some movies that maybe some people have seen, and television shows.

00:02:11.000 I think people are probably familiar with you, definitely.

00:02:14.000 And I'm wearing your hoodie.

00:02:16.000 It's a cool hoodie, I liked it.

00:02:18.000 So Ethan gave me this American Glutton hoodie, and I thought it was an anarchy hoodie.

00:02:22.000 That's pretty cool.

00:02:22.000 American glutton.

00:02:23.000 But I'm like, I don't wear it anyway, you know?

00:02:25.000 So there you go.

00:02:26.000 So, uh, yeah, yeah, definitely.

00:02:27.000 We'll talk about some stuff.

00:02:28.000 I'm really interested to talk about Hollywood, actually, because the way COVID has changed everything.

00:02:31.000 Yeah.

00:02:32.000 Before the show, we were having a kind of interesting conversation about what this is going to mean for, like, big A-list actors when movie theaters don't really exist in the same way.

00:02:41.000 So we'll talk about that stuff.

00:02:42.000 Sure.

00:02:42.000 What's it got, Luke, hanging out?

00:02:43.000 I really like the colors of that hoodie and Those women better get ready because the United States just bombed Syria, and everyone's talking about a toy potato. 1.00

00:02:53.000 So everything's going great.

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00:03:15.000 Yeah, we got Ian.

00:03:16.000 Hey, everybody.

00:03:16.000 What's up?

00:03:17.000 Ian Crossland, you know me.

00:03:18.000 I got a NASA jacket on.

00:03:19.000 It's a little cold up here, so we threw on an awesome hoodie in this thing.

00:03:23.000 I don't work for NASA or anything.

00:03:24.000 Ethan, it's good to see you.

00:03:25.000 Ethan was in one of my favorite movies of all time, Mallrats.

00:03:28.000 I just found out.

00:03:29.000 Yep.

00:03:30.000 Blowing my mind, dude.

00:03:33.000 Do you remember who I was yet?

00:03:34.000 Yeah, I keep thinking about it.

00:03:35.000 I love it.

00:03:36.000 Okay, good.

00:03:37.000 It's one of the best scenes.

00:03:37.000 I haven't seen it in like 15 years.

00:03:39.000 The little boy's like, it's a schooner.

00:03:41.000 And what do you say? 1.00

00:03:41.000 Like, you dumb... I'm not gonna say it. 1.00

00:03:45.000 I call him a bad word.

00:03:46.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:03:47.000 It's a sailboat.

00:03:49.000 I also attack Easter.

00:03:50.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:03:51.000 Yeah, yeah, the bunny.

00:03:52.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:03:53.000 Brutal, vicious. 1.00

00:03:54.000 Punch it in the face or something. 1.00

00:03:57.000 Do I punch him out or something? 1.00

00:03:59.000 Kick it? 1.00

00:04:00.000 I might kick it. 0.98

00:04:01.000 I don't actually remember.

00:04:02.000 It has been a while.

00:04:03.000 It's kind of crazy that Michael Rooker's in that movie and then he went into the Marvel movies for Guardians of the Galaxy and it's like, man, that guy's been working forever.

00:04:10.000 You know what I mean?

00:04:11.000 Yeah.

00:04:11.000 We shot that movie 26 years ago.

00:04:12.000 Wow.

00:04:14.000 What was it like, guerrilla shooting?

00:04:15.000 Like on the scene?

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00:04:19.000 Yeah, that they had money for, so we rented a mall in Minnesota, and we had basically the whole mall, and we would shoot at night.

00:04:31.000 Yeah, but we had the run of it.

00:04:32.000 It was so epic.

00:04:33.000 Mall of America is what it was.

00:04:35.000 I had a scene with Stan Lee, which was pretty awesome.

00:04:37.000 Oh, that's right!

00:04:38.000 Yeah, man, wow.

00:04:40.000 So cool.

00:04:41.000 They got to get you in the Marvel movies next.

00:04:44.000 Or the TV shows, whatever they're doing.

00:04:45.000 That'd be cool.

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00:04:50.000 Suplee.

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00:07:12.000 It's very simple from the Hill Supreme Court asked to declare the all-male military draft unconstitutional the ACLU issued a new petition saying women should be required to register for enlistment as well They say a new petition issued by the ACLU has made it to the Supreme Court and aims to declare the historic male-only military draft unconstitutional.

00:07:37.000 Noting that the U.S.

00:07:37.000 Department of Defense lifted the ban on women serving in combat in 2013, the petition specifies that the obligation for men to register upon turning 18 years old has yet to be applied to women.

00:07:48.000 Quote, thousands of women have since served, with distinction, in combat positions across all branches of the military.

00:07:55.000 The formal petition reads, The registration requirement has no legitimate purpose and cannot withstand the exacting scrutiny that sex-based laws require.

00:08:06.000 Rooted in this argument is the 1981 case Rotsker v. Goldberg, which argued that because American men are required to register under the U.S.

00:08:13.000 law and women are not, the male-only draft is discriminatory and unconstitutional.

00:08:18.000 The Act gives U.S. 0.91

00:08:19.000 Presidents the power to require mandatory conscription of eligible adult males into the U.S.

00:08:23.000 Army, but excludes women.

00:08:25.000 Ultimately, the Court held that the Act does not violate equal protection clauses under the Fifth Amendment, and that the government is allowed to develop an army in times of national emergency.

00:08:33.000 Now, the petition asks the Supreme Court to overrule Rotsker v. Goldberg, since women are formally allowed to register for military service and in combat roles.

00:08:42.000 And just as an aside, I don't want to derail from this story, we have the Equality Act being passed by the House which would add sex to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

00:08:52.000 So as far as I'm concerned, ladies, start lining up and registering for the Selective Service because y'all are going to be drafted. 1.00

00:08:58.000 I have a question.

00:08:58.000 I didn't realize that there was still a draft.

00:09:02.000 I realized that when I was the age for the draft, I was obese and wouldn't have qualified.

00:09:08.000 I also have flat feet.

00:09:09.000 But did you guys all register for the draft?

00:09:11.000 Yes.

00:09:12.000 You did?

00:09:12.000 Yeah.

00:09:14.000 I don't remember.

00:09:15.000 Didn't you have to if you go to college?

00:09:19.000 You have to apply for selective services?

00:09:21.000 Yeah, like when you go to the DMV, they give you forms.

00:09:25.000 It would be like, I signed up for the selective service.

00:09:27.000 I had no idea.

00:09:30.000 Now, they say that the all-volunteer force is more effective, and I think that's true.

00:09:37.000 Like, the data shows you get a bunch of people who don't want to be there who are scared and forced into it, you get a really ineffective fighting force.

00:09:44.000 I think that's what they learned from Vietnam.

00:09:46.000 So my bigger question with all of this is I know there's a lot of guys who are probably laughing and cheering, like, yeah, yeah, finally, because we've seen this before.

00:09:52.000 There was another attempt at making this happen, and feminists were outraged. 1.00

00:09:58.000 They were like, this is not what I wanted when I said I wanted equality.

00:10:02.000 I do not want to have to go to war and fight in combat or anything like that.

00:10:04.000 And it's like, well, that's what equality means.

00:10:06.000 But I guess there's a libertarian question in all this.

00:10:09.000 Should there be a draft?

00:10:10.000 I mean, look, like I said, there's people like guys who are like, haha, now you have to sign up for the draft.

00:10:14.000 I'm kind of like, nah, I don't know if anybody should have to do that, right?

00:10:18.000 Well, if you look at what wars we're fighting, they're not really wars promoting freedom.

00:10:23.000 They're not really wars fighting any kind of threat.

00:10:25.000 And I think Henry Kissinger, you know, he has this famous quote. 1.00

00:10:29.000 He said, quote, military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in American foreign policy. 1.00

00:10:34.000 Wait, Guy, I swear. 1.00

00:10:35.000 What?

00:10:36.000 Really?

00:10:36.000 Yeah, Henry Kissinger said that.

00:10:37.000 I confronted him on it, face to face, one on one.

00:10:39.000 He didn't like that question.

00:10:41.000 But now we need an official correction for Mr. Kissinger. 1.00

00:10:44.000 He needs to state specifically that military men and women are now just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy. 0.99

00:10:52.000 So we need an official correction. 0.99

00:10:54.000 I hope the mainstream media pressures Mr. Henry Kissinger to offer this.

00:10:57.000 I'm being facetious, obviously, here.

00:10:59.000 But I mean, obviously, I'm against the draft. 0.95

00:11:02.000 I mean, I think it's a ridiculous idea.

00:11:03.000 You look at the wars that have been started. 0.77

00:11:05.000 All of them are based on false pretenses.

00:11:08.000 All of them are based on benefiting the military-industrial complex that is now getting their lunch with the Biden presidency, especially with the latest attacks that happened tonight, but also even before that.

00:11:17.000 When you look at Raytheon, for an example, which, by the way, a board member is now our defense secretary of Raytheon.

00:11:25.000 That's great!

00:11:26.000 Well, what did they call it in the media when they described him?

00:11:32.000 He was a person of color, and that was great.

00:11:33.000 That was diversity.

00:11:35.000 Yeah, they talked about diversity, but not his Raytheon past.

00:11:39.000 Now, you look at what the Biden administration is doing with Raytheon.

00:11:42.000 Raytheon just got an $85 million weapons deal with Chile, a $197 million weapons deal in Egypt, $245 million weapons deal with the United States and another $1.2 billion weapons deal with U.S.

00:11:55.000 missile defense systems.

00:11:56.000 That's what Raytheon just got under a Biden presidency.

00:11:59.000 Wait, you said missile defense systems?

00:12:01.000 Upgrading and working on the military defense system.

00:12:04.000 But will there be women forced through conscription to be manning those? 1.00

00:12:07.000 That's the big Well, right now there was a... I remember just a few years ago there was a crisis with trying to enlist people in the military.

00:12:17.000 But now with how robotic everything is becoming, especially with the onset of things like drone warfare, the United States military doesn't need as many people.

00:12:26.000 And with the recent economic downturn, more people are volunteering.

00:12:29.000 So right now the United States does not need to use The draft but if there was a bigger conflict Let's just say with Russia which of course the United States is positioning itself with especially with tonight's actions bombing a Syrian You know a Syrian facility that's used by the Iranian-backed rebels You have to wonder that this is this is something that might play a big role in the future.

00:12:52.000 I I wonder if one of the reasons we're seeing this, it's not the first time it's happened, in the past few years there have been attempts to get women into combat roles and to sign up for, it's not the draft specifically, it's the Selective Service, I think it's called, is that what it's called?

00:13:05.000 Selective Service.

00:13:06.000 And it's essentially the draft database that in the event they have to reinstate the draft, they got everybody's info.

00:13:12.000 But we've been we've been talking about war with China for quite a bit.

00:13:15.000 I mean, the threat from the South China Sea and the threat to Taiwan.

00:13:19.000 I'm not entirely convinced Biden's going to go against China in that capacity, but maybe the U.S.

00:13:24.000 has currently got, I think, some aircraft carriers in the South China Sea could be remnants from the Trump administration.

00:13:30.000 But we seem to be pretty close to war.

00:13:31.000 I think, uh, was it Vladimir Putin who said that, uh, we're in a period that's kind of like pre-World War II?

00:13:37.000 You know, then we're looking, we see things like that.

00:13:39.000 We see the money supply.

00:13:40.000 I don't, I don't, Ethan, have you seen this stuff with the money supply skyrocketing?

00:13:44.000 Yes.

00:13:44.000 Like, just like printing money like crazy?

00:13:46.000 So I wonder if they're basically saying we need to start preparing and putting together this database in the event that we gotta go fight some people.

00:13:53.000 You know, I'm really anti-war and really, really dislike the draft.

00:13:58.000 I would have been in Vietnam, one of those guys that fled to Canada probably because I didn't want to go. 0.96

00:14:02.000 What's wrong with Mexico, Ian? 0.98

00:14:03.000 You're not that old, Ian. 0.99

00:14:04.000 Stuffed in a tube, go crawl through tunnels with a pistol looking for dudes with AKs waiting for me.

00:14:11.000 No, but... You sure you wouldn't have been a refrigerator repairman or something?

00:14:14.000 Yeah, I don't want to get inside of a refrigerator for a repairman.

00:14:17.000 Is that what you just said?

00:14:18.000 I said... I said something like, wouldn't you have been a refrigerator repairman?

00:14:22.000 Yeah, it would have been something like that.

00:14:24.000 In the army, you mean.

00:14:24.000 I get it.

00:14:25.000 But then they would send those guys into the jungle.

00:14:27.000 You'd be like, I'm an engineer.

00:14:28.000 Yeah, you're an engineer on the front line.

00:14:29.000 It was terrible, terrible.

00:14:30.000 But I see a value to the draft in that if we were invaded, you've got to get people... You've got to get them armed and get them in.

00:14:37.000 And you're not waiting, hoping that they'll come to the defense of the country.

00:14:41.000 I'm like, if we get invaded, but we don't get invaded.

00:14:45.000 We never have been invaded.

00:14:46.000 Yeah.

00:14:46.000 Geopolitically, the United States is at a very, very big advantage compared to a lot of other countries where it's located.

00:14:53.000 So we're in a very safe, safe position, as well as many gun owners that of course also add another big national defense.

00:14:59.000 And there was a meme showing all the crazy people that lived all over the United States.

00:15:04.000 And it was a meme saying, this is why the United States never gets invaded.

00:15:08.000 South Los Angeles, it was Koreans. 1.00

00:15:12.000 And then other than that, it was Vatos, and then it was gang members in Chicago.

00:15:17.000 It was Florida Man in Florida.

00:15:19.000 Hicks in Texas.

00:15:20.000 I forgot exactly all the other representation of America.

00:15:24.000 The Chicago police can't even take over Chicago.

00:15:27.000 For real.

00:15:28.000 America will never be invaded.

00:15:30.000 Fifth generational warfare is the only way to really take over the United States, and I believe that's personally happening right now. 0.74

00:15:35.000 Yeah, it is.

00:15:35.000 There was a really funny tweet I saw earlier where it was from I think the website was the gray zone

00:15:40.000 which is like anti-war leftist and they tweeted information war is real and Twitter added a label

00:15:47.000 this information may have been obtained through hacking and then it's like Twitter literally

00:15:52.000 proved the point that we try and call out these big military firms and the manipulation and the

00:15:56.000 propaganda.

00:15:57.000 Twitter itself is like, this is propaganda.

00:15:59.000 Ignore this.

00:16:00.000 There's nothing to see here.

00:16:02.000 So yeah, you know what?

00:16:03.000 I brought up, you know, China and potential for war. 0.95

00:16:06.000 I think you'll just see skirmishing, you know, skirmishes, some little hot, you know, back and forth, maybe like Hong Kong.

00:16:13.000 If China goes for Taiwan, it's not going to be Well, it might be. I'm not entirely sure, but I think you're

00:16:18.000 right in that, you know, Luke, we've been talking about fifth generational warfare. Are you familiar with what?

00:16:22.000 No, I don't know what fifth generational warfare means.

00:16:25.000 Basically, we're past the point where violence is effective in allowing someone to gain control of a population. And

00:16:31.000 what we're seeing from that is like with the culture war in the US, victimhood is power.

00:16:37.000 So if you victimize someone, you lose legitimacy.

00:16:41.000 So what we're seeing now, manipulation, propaganda.

00:16:44.000 Convince populations to join you through information manipulation, big tech companies, etc.

00:16:50.000 It's gonna be way more effective than, you know, physically punching somebody.

00:16:54.000 Right.

00:16:54.000 And also push self-destructive tendencies and also push things that ultimately destroy a nation to destroying their youth.

00:17:01.000 And if you look at our youth, I mean, I did a video about this today, record high suicides, especially in places where there's the most strictest lockdowns.

00:17:10.000 And there's even court cases of major people arguing we need to bring back the schools because kids are going to keep killing themselves in record numbers like they already are, which is absolutely... The lockdown stuff's getting real bad.

00:17:20.000 I mean, how would you rank Americans?

00:17:22.000 I mean, I think you're our age.

00:17:25.000 Throughout the years, I think it's safe to say that things haven't been going that well for the American people.

00:17:30.000 I think I'm a little older than you guys.

00:17:32.000 How old are you? 44.

00:17:34.000 Well, you're a little bit older than Ian.

00:17:36.000 41.

00:17:36.000 But you're 10 years older than me.

00:17:37.000 Yeah, there you go.

00:17:38.000 Thank God.

00:17:38.000 I thought you were going to say, no, we're the same age.

00:17:40.000 I was going to be shocked.

00:17:42.000 Yeah.

00:17:43.000 You know, at the end of the day, I think that all of the things that we think of as having power in America are all just ideas.

00:17:53.000 And so.

00:17:55.000 If these structures, I think that the way to dissolve them isn't through war and violence, for real, it is just to convince people.

00:18:05.000 That's exactly what fifth generational war is. 0.62

00:18:07.000 Yeah, but I think, like, if you look at how the USSR kind of dissolved, and it got really rough immediately following the dissolution of the USSR, and there was a lot of scary stuff happening over there, but people just went like, I don't want to do this anymore.

00:18:24.000 Yeah.

00:18:25.000 It was a loss of confidence.

00:18:26.000 Right.

00:18:27.000 I'm worried about that for here in the U.S.

00:18:29.000 You know, like, if people stop believing in the legitimacy of government or of institutions, it's not about whether or not they oppose them.

00:18:37.000 Opposition is not the opposite.

00:18:39.000 So opposition is not the opposite of confidence.

00:18:42.000 Indifference would be.

00:18:43.000 So if you've got people who are looking to the U.S.

00:18:45.000 government and they're saying, I believe in this government in that it's strong and capable and you must abide by its laws.

00:18:51.000 And honest.

00:18:52.000 That's a big thing too.

00:18:54.000 And well, if people view it as not honest and they come to oppose it, the opposition is still rooted in the idea that the government holds power and is legitimate.

00:19:01.000 But let's say there's a system that people find they're indifferent to, so they outright ignore.

00:19:06.000 That's when government actually collapses.

00:19:08.000 Yeah, I agree.

00:19:10.000 Well, the thing is, there's a lot of people losing confidence in the system because of all the dishonesty.

00:19:16.000 There was a great article, I forgot who wrote it, I forgot where I read it, but it said the reason we have things like, you know, theories about, you know, government, I can't, can we even say that word?

00:19:27.000 Oh, the C-word.

00:19:28.000 Yeah, can we even say the C-word?

00:19:29.000 I don't know.

00:19:31.000 What's the C-word?

00:19:32.000 Conspiracy.

00:19:33.000 I was trying to think of another word for it.

00:19:38.000 I threw it to you because you're great at that.

00:19:42.000 But when you look at a lot of the conspiracy theories, they're kind of rooted in a lot of the bigger government lies, and there wouldn't be as many of them if the government was just honest with us.

00:19:52.000 And let's be honest, they're not honest with us in so many instances, in so many different ways, whether it's war, whether it's health, whether it's diet, whether it's the food chain, whether it's big industries like the sugar industry.

00:20:04.000 We have a lot of problems with mainline institutions that profit off of our suffering and talking along the lines of fifth generational warfare, I think it's very fair to say that a lot of people have been convinced to make very bad decisions for themselves.

00:20:19.000 And I think that's an understatement when you look at our modern-day society and where it's heading right now.

00:20:23.000 Well, let's play devil's advocate and say, you know, when talking about the draft and specifically, refresh me on what your point was, because I want to make sure I get it correct.

00:20:33.000 Well, the larger point is people are making really bad decisions for themselves and they're hurting themselves for the benefit of the very few that have no allegiance to the United States.

00:20:42.000 So just like, playing devil's advocate, if we did end up collapsing and people did lose confidence, you know, Ethan, you just mentioned things got really bad post-Soviet Union, you know, the oligarchs came, isn't there a benefit to having, even if it's bad? 0.62

00:20:56.000 And again, playing devil's advocate here because I'm not a big fan of big government, but what are the benefits to having a system in place that may be oppressive but still functions?

00:21:03.000 There's safety and security.

00:21:04.000 But by the way, It got bad there.

00:21:07.000 It doesn't have to get bad here.

00:21:09.000 You know, I think there's a weird thing that happens in America with the medium, with government and stuff like that.

00:21:16.000 You know, the blue and black and white and gold dress?

00:21:20.000 Do you remember this?

00:21:22.000 And then Laurel Yanni?

00:21:24.000 How people can actively experience objective reality differently.

00:21:29.000 Now I didn't, when my kids first showed me this and said, what color do you see?

00:21:33.000 And I said, well, that's clear.

00:21:35.000 I don't remember what it was.

00:21:36.000 I think I said it's a black, a white and gold dress, whatever it was.

00:21:41.000 And my kid said, no, it's these colors.

00:21:43.000 I thought you're messing with me.

00:21:46.000 This is clearly, I mean, objectively not the colors you're saying it is.

00:21:50.000 And they insisted.

00:21:51.000 And then it turns out lots of people saw it differently.

00:21:54.000 There's no room.

00:21:57.000 in political discourse or just culture for us to go, that person is experiencing this differently than I am.

00:22:06.000 Right.

00:22:06.000 I really try to think about like people arguing in line at a Baskin Robbins over ice cream flavors.

00:22:12.000 And at the end of the day, I'm going like, what difference does it make?

00:22:16.000 Why are we allowing this to ruin our lives?

00:22:19.000 And why are we obsessing on it?

00:22:20.000 Everybody likes a different flavor.

00:22:21.000 Right.

00:22:22.000 I did a tweet where I said we really need to re-engage scienceology and go deep and

00:22:27.000 do it, rip it apart and come back. 0.95

00:22:28.000 And I was talking about the science of science.

00:22:30.000 And so many people thought I said Scientology.

00:22:32.000 They were responding as if I'd said Scientology and they were angry.

00:22:35.000 And it's just like misperception.

00:22:38.000 And that's not even the blue gold thing where you're actually literally seeing the

00:22:41.000 They actually saw something different.

00:22:43.000 I do.

00:22:43.000 I do want to bring up though, when you mentioned the blue and gold thing, one of the biggest drivers of that was people at different phones with different color schemes.

00:22:51.000 And with the Laurel and Yanny thing, people had different speakers. 0.85

00:22:53.000 So what was really happening.

00:22:54.000 I could sit with my friends.

00:22:56.000 Oh no, for sure.

00:22:57.000 And listen to it.

00:22:58.000 And somebody's going, no, I hear Yanny. 0.56

00:23:00.000 There's a really amazing thing someone did where they took both the blue and gold and the white, the white and gold and the blue and black, and they cut a piece out and they moved it left and right to show you it was the same.

00:23:09.000 Wow.

00:23:10.000 Or, or, or, yeah, like, like, uh, but it was based on shadowing, like shading made, it was like, that really looks like, that's crazy how that works.

00:23:18.000 And then there's another thing that's really funny.

00:23:19.000 There's a meme where it was, I think, seven different phrases, but it was one soundbite.

00:23:25.000 And so whichever one phrase you read, you would hear.

00:23:28.000 That's really freaky.

00:23:30.000 I can't remember what it was.

00:23:31.000 I think it was like iPhone for us.

00:23:35.000 And then it was like a whole bunch of different phrases.

00:23:37.000 And you hear it differently.

00:23:39.000 If you look at the word and you read it and listen, you'll hear that.

00:23:42.000 Right.

00:23:43.000 There was another crazy experiment I saw where they had people say fa, ba, and va.

00:23:49.000 And then they would play like someone saying, but show the F sound and people would hear the F sound because they're

00:23:56.000 seeing like people don't realize how much their worldview is, is, is like not perfect.

00:24:02.000 Yeah.

00:24:03.000 Yeah.

00:24:03.000 I mean, I think you make a good point that a lot of what's going on politically is that like, actually, have you ever

00:24:09.000 seen this meme where there's a six on the ground or it's a nine, but there's two people on both sides looking at it

00:24:14.000 saying six or nine.

00:24:15.000 Yeah.

00:24:16.000 That's like a good example of what we're experiencing right now and it's causing people to like want to punch each other in the face.

00:24:20.000 Yeah, I also get a little hung up with the idea of should.

00:24:25.000 When we think about all of this stuff, and I hear people saying, this is how it should be, I kind of go like, well, that's how you want it to be, but really, what does should mean?

00:24:35.000 You know, even when we're talking about science, science doesn't have values.

00:24:39.000 People add values to science.

00:24:41.000 So anytime somebody is saying something should be a way, I'm kind of like, Okay, maybe you and a bunch of people don't want it to be that way, or you and a bunch of people do want it to be that way.

00:24:52.000 And I think it's really interesting to listen to people who say, here's this problem that I perceive, and here's a solution that I'd like to try and enact.

00:25:01.000 But like, that's a rational conversation.

00:25:04.000 But you know that meme where it's like the guy goes, I'm angry and he says, here's a solution.

00:25:08.000 I don't, he's like, I'm mad.

00:25:09.000 Here's a solution.

00:25:09.000 I don't want a solution.

00:25:10.000 I want to be mad and he's burning it.

00:25:11.000 Yeah, that's fair too.

00:25:13.000 You sound like a very, uh, what, what, what are the, uh, the leftists insult?

00:25:16.000 They say radical centrist.

00:25:18.000 Yeah.

00:25:18.000 That you're like, Hey, maybe, maybe everybody has like a different understanding of things.

00:25:22.000 No, you're either in our tribe or you're bad.

00:25:24.000 Right.

00:25:25.000 Well, yeah.

00:25:25.000 I mean, look, at the end of the day, I also don't think everybody should be forced to adhere to the same structures.

00:25:35.000 So, if people want to be communists, I'm all for it.

00:25:41.000 I just don't think I should have to be forced to be a communist.

00:25:45.000 That's why I like the sweater.

00:25:46.000 I thought it was the anarchist symbol.

00:25:47.000 But it's your podcast.

00:25:48.000 Right, it's just a podcast.

00:25:49.000 That's why I like it.

00:25:50.000 I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:25:51.000 We talk about diet.

00:25:52.000 By the way, diets are safe to talk about because there's no military back here.

00:25:56.000 Unless you mess with the vegans.

00:25:57.000 The vegans, I mean, they're like a militia.

00:25:59.000 But you know what?

00:26:00.000 Look, I'm happy to talk to vegans and carnivores.

00:26:03.000 And I don't do either of those things.

00:26:05.000 But at the end of the day, There is no, nobody's going to force you to do it.

00:26:09.000 So it's kind of safe.

00:26:11.000 You know what I mean?

00:26:11.000 But, but you could get canceled.

00:26:13.000 Like, was it, uh, um, um, Adele?

00:26:16.000 She didn't get canceled, but they got really mad because she, she had lost all this weight. 0.84

00:26:20.000 And, and, and again, you know, just for everybody watching, it's like, I think, I think a core component of your podcast has to do with your, you know, health and wellness and weight loss transformation stuff.

00:26:29.000 For sure.

00:26:29.000 Uh, yes.

00:26:31.000 Uh, uh, I think Adele was a hell of a lot more famous than me, so that's a tick against her for, like, she's already on more fragile footing.

00:26:41.000 Also, I'm a dude and we have to deal with that stress in much different ways than gals do. 1.00

00:26:48.000 Definitely.

00:26:51.000 I think it's really awesome.

00:26:53.000 I really like Lizzo a lot and what Lizzo talks about, but I think Adele meant something to a lot of people, so when she stepped out of it, it was crushing to them.

00:27:04.000 But I think Adele should be able to do whatever the heck Adele wants. 1.00

00:27:08.000 Well, I mentioned this to you before the show that I knew people when I was younger that were big fans of you.

00:27:13.000 You know, you're in these movies and you were very, you know, overweight or obese.

00:27:17.000 Whatever.

00:27:18.000 You can't offend me with those words.

00:27:20.000 Well, uh, you know, just for the, you know, keep it, keep it friendly.

00:27:25.000 I was 550 pounds.

00:27:26.000 So I was morbidly obese, perhaps even more abundantly.

00:27:31.000 More abundantly obese.

00:27:32.000 I love, I love it.

00:27:33.000 Uh, that, that phrase, um, not it really just like the pointing it out anyway.

00:27:38.000 But I knew people when I was younger that were fans of yours because you represented them.

00:27:41.000 They looked to the movies and they finally saw, hey, this person's like me.

00:27:44.000 And I think that's really interesting, especially what you mentioned with Adele, because it was probably the same thing.

00:27:50.000 There are a lot of young, overweight women who see that she's famous and successful and talented, and then she sought to lose weight, probably because she wanted to be healthier and take care of herself and live longer and all of these things make people feel bad, I guess.

00:28:02.000 Yeah, I've definitely had some people say I preferred you fat and I just don't care because I want to be the way I am.

00:28:14.000 I had been wanting to be the size I am now for so long that how you want me to be doesn't really matter.

00:28:23.000 And then I will say, the flip side is there are a ton of people out there who also have goals that maybe they haven't achieved, that they look at me and go like, I wasn't even necessarily that heavy.

00:28:36.000 And he did this.

00:28:38.000 Maybe it's possible for me to and that and that feels good.

00:28:41.000 What was it the experience like growing up?

00:28:43.000 Like, how did it?

00:28:44.000 How did you find yourself to become obese?

00:28:46.000 And then what changed?

00:28:48.000 And how did you get to where you are now?

00:28:49.000 Well, interestingly enough, when we think about this in political terms and the idea of forcing people to do things they don't want to do, I was placed on diets starting at five years old.

00:29:01.000 And I never wanted to be on a diet at five.

00:29:07.000 The moment I woke up and went, I want to be on a diet, I want to lose weight, was the first time in my life that diet started working and I was 22 at that point, but I was also 550 pounds.

00:29:21.000 Also, it had nothing to do with health.

00:29:23.000 Like, that was not a metric I was using.

00:29:26.000 I, you know, sitting in this chair when I was, even today, I come in and I'm testing the chair, like, is this chair going to collapse under me?

00:29:36.000 Waking up every day with swollen, sore feet, you know, having real knee issues.

00:29:43.000 Sweating as I'm toweling off from a shower that I had cool so I wouldn't overheat.

00:29:49.000 These are the issues that I was like, I'm done doing that.

00:29:53.000 Health never entered into it and I was very unhealthy.

00:29:56.000 Once I got my footing and I started to become more healthy, I went, oh, this is really cool too.

00:30:02.000 Now I'm going to apply this metric as a goal and that's been something.

00:30:07.000 But I don't think any of it works if you're if you're trying to force somebody to do it.

00:30:13.000 So there's a real weird conversation happening right now in the world where there is one team going obesity or overweightness or whatever word is appropriate is not a metric in health and then there's another team going as a reaction to that almost you're just lazy you need to lose weight and so there's these two bizarre battles And I personally don't think either is right.

00:30:43.000 I think we live in a day where there isn't a lot of physical activity required.

00:30:52.000 Certainly we're not out hunting and gathering food.

00:30:56.000 Even the job, the workplace has gone down as far as physical abilities.

00:31:03.000 Look at us sitting in chairs!

00:31:04.000 This is your job, this is amazing!

00:31:06.000 And so, at the same time, food has become cheaper and cheaper and cheaper.

00:31:12.000 And like, of course people are going to become overweight.

00:31:16.000 This is like a perfect confluence of events to lead to that.

00:31:21.000 We're the wealthiest country of all time ever.

00:31:25.000 we have a lot of overweight people because they're all kings. And now they close the gyms,

00:31:28.000 tell people to stay inside, and some countries even make sure that they can't walk two blocks

00:31:33.000 away from where they live. Right. So a lot of insanity is happening, especially I think

00:31:38.000 the conversation about health has been hijacked by so many different individuals, by so many

00:31:43.000 different special interests, and there's so many different opinions on there.

00:31:46.000 I think a lot of people have a hard time finding out what's right for them.

00:31:50.000 But then also a lot of people forget you're an individual.

00:31:52.000 Individually, what's right for you might not be right for someone else.

00:31:55.000 So that's another big discussion.

00:31:57.000 I think it's really interesting.

00:31:57.000 You mentioned it's kind of like the libertarian nature of it.

00:32:01.000 Like you've got to decide for yourself.

00:32:02.000 People can't force you to do it.

00:32:03.000 You've got to figure out what works for yourself as well.

00:32:05.000 Yeah.

00:32:06.000 I don't think forcing people to do anything is right.

00:32:09.000 It doesn't work.

00:32:09.000 I mean, yeah, I don't think so either.

00:32:11.000 You said moderate, when I asked you earlier, you said moderation was how you did it.

00:32:14.000 What is that exactly?

00:32:16.000 You know, at the end of the day, all, almost all, you know, even if you're, even if you're not hyper focused on it, the principle behind diets is thermogenesis.

00:32:28.000 It's the way you use energy.

00:32:30.000 And so food is an energy source for your body.

00:32:33.000 I've done, you know, I'm just gonna eat 500 calories a day for two months and white knuckle my way through it.

00:32:41.000 That's extreme, right?

00:32:42.000 Taking an entire food group and demonizing it and cutting it out of my life, that's also extreme.

00:32:48.000 A few years ago I found like if I just spend some time Counting calories and figure out because I actually had no idea what my body required I would cut out carbs and Then after a while, I wouldn't lose weight anymore because I was eating too much Steaks and avocado and butter right and then I would just have to start reducing that Without thinking about it, but I'm going like if I want to lose weight I have to eat less and

00:33:17.000 And then I start losing weight again, which is kind of against the principle of the keto diet, where you're supposed to just be full from eating a bunch of fat.

00:33:26.000 But at the end of the day, the way your body consumes excess fat is by feeding it too little.

00:33:34.000 Now if you go really extreme, The vast evidence is that you're going to relapse.

00:33:43.000 Very few people go very extreme, do it very quickly, and then have that as a sustainable achievement.

00:33:50.000 You need to set a habit.

00:33:51.000 You need to create a routine, and then turn the routine into a habit.

00:33:54.000 And the people who do crash diets and stuff, they don't.

00:33:57.000 They're forcing themselves, and then once they get to their desired goal, their habits return.

00:34:02.000 So it's really about, I think, what did they say?

00:34:05.000 It's like 21 days?

00:34:05.000 It's a set of habit.

00:34:07.000 Yeah, a set of habit.

00:34:08.000 Something like that.

00:34:09.000 Yeah, and you know, the other thing is, there's just a lot of nuance in here.

00:34:16.000 I can also empathize with the idea of like, when you're ready to do it, and you wake up one day, and you go, oh my god, I can't be this weight anymore, it's hard to breathe, you know, I'm sweating all the time, my feet hurt, my back hurts.

00:34:30.000 You want it fast.

00:34:31.000 You want it, you know, as I wanted it fast.

00:34:33.000 You want to get that weight off as quick as possible.

00:34:36.000 Yeah.

00:34:36.000 It's very hard to like, take a step back and go, this is going to take a lot of time and a lot of hard work.

00:34:43.000 That's a really hard proposition to make for people.

00:34:45.000 And also rewinding a lot of the kind of establishment conditioning that's brought on to people that starts off as their children in school.

00:34:53.000 If you look at a lot of the school lunches, they are absolutely horrible for you.

00:34:57.000 If you look at that food triangle that the government recommends for you, it is absolutely horrible for you.

00:35:03.000 If you look at a lot of the fat that's being banned and not used in large supermarkets, that's because of a sugar industry banning it for you and then the larger consequences of that are not even talked about.

00:35:15.000 What do you see, though, is you see a lot of McDonald's commercials, you see Pepsi commercials telling you to get a COVID test, you see government officials telling you wear a mask, social distance, but that's it, predominantly.

00:35:26.000 Where's the go outside?

00:35:28.000 Like, go for a walk.

00:35:29.000 It's a matter of size.

00:35:30.000 Where's the sleep?

00:35:31.000 Where's the meditating?

00:35:32.000 You know, I always wondered why it is they put psychoactive stimulants in our sodas.

00:35:36.000 And I'm like, it really is a sweet deal for these fast food companies.

00:35:40.000 You get a double, a Big Mac with extra sauce and an extra large supersized fry or whatever.

00:35:45.000 And then you eat it and it makes you feel miserable.

00:35:48.000 So then you guzzle down a half gallon of psychoactive soda, chock full of psychoactive stimulants.

00:35:54.000 You better be careful, Tim.

00:35:56.000 The thought police are going to go after you for attacking Woka Cola now.

00:36:01.000 Be careful.

00:36:02.000 But no, I remember when I was younger, I'd be watching someone eat this really awful food, and they would go, oh, I feel so... I can't move.

00:36:10.000 And then they would take the two-quart cup of Coke or Pepsi and then chug it and be like, now I feel good.

00:36:17.000 I'm like, yeah, caffeine is a stimulant.

00:36:19.000 You know what really blows my mind?

00:36:21.000 You guys ever see those commercials where it's like a really big fat guy and he's like eating a giant pizza with his friends and then he goes, and it's like, do you have heartburn?

00:36:29.000 Take this drug.

00:36:30.000 And I'm like, dude, stop eating the pizza.

00:36:32.000 It's like, it's, it's, it's hurting you.

00:36:33.000 Yeah.

00:36:34.000 Nonstop commercials and all these other supplements take that.

00:36:37.000 I remember being in Kentucky once and seeing at a diner, this morbidly obese family.

00:36:44.000 And instead of like regular, like drinks, you know, like regular drinks, just standing on their table, they had those huge soda bottles and they had an infant baby and the infant baby was obese too.

00:36:54.000 And they were literally giving the baby the Woka Cola.

00:36:59.000 Like this.

00:37:01.000 I'm like, I lost a little bit of hope in humanity.

00:37:05.000 My hope is still there.

00:37:06.000 I'm very optimistic.

00:37:08.000 But seeing that, seeing these really large people feeding their child just all the Woka Cola.

00:37:15.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:37:16.000 There's serious problems here.

00:37:17.000 I mean, what do you do?

00:37:19.000 You know, Michael Bloomberg wanted to ban... Didn't he try to ban large sodas?

00:37:23.000 Or did he actually do it?

00:37:24.000 In New York, he banned... He tried.

00:37:26.000 I don't think it was successful.

00:37:27.000 You know, I have, I can't say that I think any food thing is bad.

00:37:32.000 I think it can be used in a way that goes against how you want it to act in your body.

00:37:39.000 But at the end of the day, I think that's up to us.

00:37:40.000 You know what I mean?

00:37:41.000 Like we, we didn't all out ban cigarettes other than San Francisco, but like they tax the heck out of them.

00:37:48.000 They bar, you can't go into buildings anymore with cigarettes.

00:37:51.000 So they found a way, you know, make it so you can't smoke.

00:37:53.000 Yeah, I mean, I guess it's because it's unhealthy to other people.

00:37:58.000 But at the end of the day, we still allow people to smoke.

00:38:02.000 You know?

00:38:03.000 You just gotta go in the park and not stand near anybody.

00:38:05.000 Right.

00:38:05.000 And then you can have your cigarette.

00:38:06.000 Well, everyone's vaping now, too, and then they banned that.

00:38:09.000 Right, I don't think look there's a Ron Paul video We referenced the other day and it's just one of the greatest videos ever.

00:38:14.000 Did you see this from 1988?

00:38:16.000 It's just so good He's talking about the government shouldn't regulate drugs because the government can't make you a good person you have to choose and Then at the end he's talking to some guy and he goes he's like the government's not gonna make you a good person Why does how about the government puts you on a diet?

00:38:31.000 You're a little overweight and then everyone the audience is like boo boo, and I'm like what he's making a good point Well, but they also shouldn't maybe shouldn't subsidize drugs like that's sugar industry the aspartame industry and if the government's gonna get involved there's gonna be an underground mafia market of people selling large sugary drinks everywhere and prohibition doesn't work it never did work no matter what it is every time government gets involved it screws people over let's just be honest with ourselves

00:38:58.000 What we do need is personal responsibility and not the government intervening, telling you about food triangles that are absolutely wrong, not subsidizing and running with big sugar industries and other industries, not running with GMOs and Monsantos that has a revolving door within the FDA.

00:39:13.000 Maybe without government, we wouldn't have so many people that are so dependent on these chemicals.

00:39:17.000 It's true, but you've got to protect the kids.

00:39:19.000 We used to sell cigarettes to kids.

00:39:21.000 There used to be Joe Camel, the cartoon character, and the government had to ban those because the market wanted to get them hooked earlier.

00:39:27.000 More importantly, there was medical doctors telling you to smoke because it was good for your health.

00:39:33.000 Okay, so keep that in mind, especially when you have medical doctors now, because medical doctors could be bought and sold just like politicians could be bought and sold, and people need to remember that.

00:39:43.000 Let's get into the government stuff as it pertains to this, because we have this story from... This is from The Advocate, and they say, Now, I wonder if they have the actual tweet.

00:39:51.000 are suspended over fat-shaming vaccine tweet.

00:39:54.000 Blake McCoy tweeted that he was annoyed obese people were getting access to vaccines.

00:39:59.000 Now I wonder if they have the actual tweet.

00:40:02.000 He said, let's see, okay, let me read the story and we'll try and get to the, he says,

00:40:07.000 I'm annoyed obese people of all ages get priority access before all essential workers. 1.00

00:40:13.000 McCoy, who works for WTTG, a local Fox affiliate, tweeted Tuesday, When most stayed home, we went to work every day last March, April, May, and every day since, putting ourselves and loved ones at risk.

00:40:24.000 Vaccinate all essential workers, then obese.

00:40:27.000 This is a really interesting point, because when we talk about universal healthcare, I actually, deeply and emotionally, and I understand that's not logically, love the idea of universal healthcare.

00:40:37.000 Like, just think, you know, look, I know so many progressives that are like, we have to do this, why don't we?

00:40:42.000 And I'm like, I feel you, man.

00:40:44.000 I feel this.

00:40:45.000 Wouldn't it be great if we lived in this wonderful world where everybody was just cured of all illness, and we had these robots come, like in Elysium, and they have these things you lay in and it cures your cancer?

00:40:54.000 I want it, I love it.

00:40:56.000 But we have very serious issues to contend with, the allocation of resources.

00:41:00.000 And in this capacity, was this guy wrong?

00:41:02.000 First of all, I mean, it's an opinion.

00:41:03.000 He's annoyed.

00:41:04.000 OK, fine.

00:41:05.000 But real quick, he's talking about there are people who live certain lifestyles.

00:41:11.000 that many would consider to be irresponsible, and now they're going to get priority access

00:41:15.000 to vaccinations before essential workers? The people who are stocking our shelves and putting

00:41:20.000 themselves at risk? I mean, he's got a good point, doesn't he? I think that the argument that he's

00:41:25.000 relying on, though, is this faction. I don't know what they're called. I think it's the...

00:41:32.000 there is a version... Healthy at every size?

00:41:36.000 Yeah, and they really are advocating that obesity, they don't even like that word, but obesity is not a metric of health.

00:41:46.000 So I think in that sense he probably felt very safe saying that.

00:41:51.000 Right.

00:41:51.000 Because if it's not a metric of health, that's why prioritize.

00:41:55.000 Now, we also know that the science says that it's a major component in covid deaths.

00:42:02.000 It's a huge one of the bigger comorbidities is being obese.

00:42:06.000 Right.

00:42:07.000 And age.

00:42:08.000 And those are kind of like the magical triangle of you're in real trouble if you if you get covid with these things.

00:42:15.000 But in his defense, I believe he might be relying on this argument that Cosmo just had a cover with a hefty gal that said this is healthy.

00:42:29.000 This is becoming more of a mainstream idea.

00:42:33.000 Yeah.

00:42:35.000 Yeah.

00:42:35.000 It's literally a woman who is, uh, we have it right here.

00:42:38.000 Cosmopolitan.

00:42:39.000 This is healthy.

00:42:40.000 11 women on why wellness doesn't have to be one size fits all. 1.00

00:42:44.000 She's, I'm, I'm, I'm fairly certain she's morbidly obese. 1.00

00:42:47.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:42:48.000 I look at that and I, I have so many reactions.

00:42:51.000 Number one, I was overweight.

00:42:53.000 So I know anytime something like that happens.

00:42:56.000 You're going to have a ton of people going, she's fat, she's lazy, and this makes me feel like, ugh, that's not fun, right? 1.00

00:43:03.000 As a person who spent most of their life overweight, that's not a fun conversation that's going to be brought up over and over and over again, which this was when it came out.

00:43:13.000 The other thing is, that gal might be healthy.

00:43:17.000 As a person.

00:43:18.000 However, I understand this is marketing.

00:43:20.000 If you had a picture of a cowboy with a cigarette and it said, this is healthy, we would all go, they're saying the cigarette is healthy.

00:43:27.000 So that is clearly saying being overweight is not a metric of health.

00:43:33.000 Scientifically, that's not sound.

00:43:35.000 Now, however we want to value that, I don't care. 0.99

00:43:40.000 If you give a shit about this thing, or you don't, it doesn't matter to me. 0.98

00:43:46.000 I don't think that health is the be-all end-all of, like, everybody should be healthy. 0.99

00:43:50.000 Not necessary, in my view.

00:43:52.000 Well, that's one of the biggest hurdles to universal healthcare.

00:43:54.000 You know, and Ian brings this up quite a bit, because I should consider this more often, but...

00:44:01.000 If we're going to say we're going to be allocating a trillion dollars in a certain amount of time period to fund healthcare, and then you have a lot of people who are morbidly obese, eating too much, not exercising, and riding around on rascals, that's going to strain the healthcare system.

00:44:15.000 It is a metric of health.

00:44:16.000 It does contribute.

00:44:17.000 And so everyone else has to then pay for that.

00:44:19.000 So you'll hear a lot of people say, listen, I'd love to pay more taxes to provide for better healthcare for everybody, but does that mean I'm going to be paying for people and incentivizing bad behavior?

00:44:29.000 Well, in that scenario, would people who smoked be relegated to a lesser tier of health care?

00:44:37.000 I think that's where things get scary, because people say, you know, you create second-class citizens.

00:44:42.000 Now, I think more worryingly would be if you adopted Bernie Sanders' plan, which is to abolish private health insurance.

00:44:48.000 I'm not for that.

00:44:49.000 I think we need, like, a base-level care.

00:44:51.000 A lot of people say we have it, but no, there's medical bankruptcy.

00:44:54.000 We need a base-level care, and then we need supplemental private insurance.

00:44:57.000 But I think a lot of people would argue you can't have universal health care and then tell people they're not allowed to have access to it.

00:45:02.000 But I do think it's a good argument.

00:45:04.000 You smoke cigarettes?

00:45:05.000 Okay, well then you're gonna get, you know, you're gonna pay a premium or something, maybe.

00:45:10.000 The challenge is, how many things will we add to the list of detriments in your plan?

00:45:15.000 So let's say we tell everybody, you're gonna pay a 3% tax, you know, per year or whatever.

00:45:22.000 To cover universal healthcare, it'll probably be way more than that, to be honest.

00:45:24.000 But let's say it's 3%.

00:45:25.000 Now, if you smoke cigarettes, it's 5%.

00:45:26.000 If you're obese, it's 5%.

00:45:29.000 If you smoke cigarettes AND you're obese, it's 7%.

00:45:32.000 You gotta pay more and more and more of your income to cover those costs.

00:45:35.000 Then, you know, what else do we add to the list?

00:45:37.000 Do you drive fast cars?

00:45:39.000 Do you like jumping off buildings?

00:45:41.000 And then you'll find there are fit people who are like, dude, just because I like riding my bike, now I'm at risk, and...

00:45:45.000 Then you're just talking about taking the private insurance that already does this and turning it into a government institution and getting rid of competition, which in the end doesn't make sense.

00:45:54.000 And destroying everything and making it worse for everybody by making a DMV-like system.

00:45:58.000 I remember a few years ago hearing a story about a teachers union planning to put teachers

00:46:04.000 on Fitbits and these like health watches.

00:46:07.000 And they had to have a number of steps per day and to have a number of physical activities

00:46:12.000 per day if they wanted their medical insurance.

00:46:14.000 And if they didn't, they wouldn't get medical insurance, a part of the larger teachers union.

00:46:18.000 So I remember hearing stories about that.

00:46:20.000 And that's more likely what's going to happen with the larger kind of technocratic overlords

00:46:26.000 that are becoming our rulers of our daily lives.

00:46:29.000 And you're going to have to probably tell the gospel of Dr. Fauci.

00:46:33.000 You're going to have to do five Hail Marys to how beautiful and amazing a government is.

00:46:38.000 Then you're going to have to do probably a mile walking, doing hard labor in some of the gulags, and then you'll get free health insurance.

00:46:44.000 So my prediction for the future is that, personally.

00:46:48.000 Well this is, I googled it, CS Monitor says, this was back in 2018, a proposed, uh oh, it's telling me, let me see if I can refresh it, there we go.

00:46:56.000 A proposed change to West Virginia's public worker health plan would have asked teachers to download a mobile fitness app called Go365 and earn points on it using a Fitbit or other fitness tracker designed to monitor the user's steps taken, heart rate, other metrics.

00:47:09.000 Those who declined or who complied but failed to earn enough points would face a penalty of $500 each year.

00:47:17.000 Does that make sense?

00:47:18.000 Yeah, because they did this at my workplace.

00:47:20.000 So I worked at a hospital and they were able to offer us health insurance at a discounted rate.

00:47:24.000 You would go in and they would take your measurements and if you were within the parameters for cholesterol, for weight, for blood pressure, for all these different things, They would give you a discount.

00:47:33.000 So it was subsidized through them and then it was even less expensive if you were healthy enough.

00:47:39.000 If you were over, they would help you find a way to solve your problem.

00:47:42.000 They would help you lose weight.

00:47:43.000 They would help you get your cholesterol under control.

00:47:45.000 And if you weren't able to do that, you would just pay more for health insurance.

00:47:48.000 And now combine that with the Elon Musk brain chip, and we're gonna be cyborgs that are gonna be ruled by the technocrats. 1.00

00:47:54.000 You know that's how the Borg started in Star Trek, right?

00:47:57.000 Everybody knows the Borg.

00:47:58.000 You know the Borg, right?

00:47:59.000 They're the robot people who are like, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated in Star Trek.

00:48:04.000 Data wasn't to board. No, no, no, he was an Android. And so the board character in Star Trek is basically, it's this

00:48:10.000 big cube, they have cube ships that fly around. And they enter,

00:48:13.000 they'll, they'll see like other, you know, humanoid aliens, and

00:48:16.000 then say, your technology and culture will be assimilated into

00:48:18.000 the board collective. And they're all a hive mind of like non individual. The story, the backstory is I understand it,

00:48:25.000 I could be not a good enough Trekkie on this one is that they

00:48:27.000 were a regular human like species. And they kept implementing medical technology to improve their well being

00:48:35.000 and linking themselves and networking until eventually it

00:48:37.000 formed a hive mind and they became this zombie like collective that consumes people.

00:48:43.000 So, you might think it's silly when Luke brings up the Elon Musk brain chip stuff, but they very well could do in the future say, listen, If you want access to the healthcare, we need to be able to track your health.

00:48:54.000 You need to get the Neuralink.

00:48:56.000 You need to get the implant.

00:48:57.000 I mean, you could argue that us being so wired in Twitter is like the zombie hive mind already.

00:49:03.000 Oh, definitely.

00:49:03.000 Like, tier one, you know?

00:49:05.000 And we're resistors.

00:49:06.000 Like, we're resisting, you know, whatever faction.

00:49:09.000 It isn't necessarily right-wing or whatever.

00:49:11.000 Those who resist the mainstream are those, like, pushing back against the hive mind culture.

00:49:17.000 Those who just follow along, do what the media says, don't question, versus those who do.

00:49:22.000 Sure.

00:49:22.000 Yeah.

00:49:23.000 Well, already we live in a society where insurance companies data mine social media posts in order to deny people coverage on whether it's health or real estate or even cars.

00:49:32.000 So there's already elements of this that are extremely creepy, especially when you look into the metadata that Facebook has on you, that Twitter has on you, that Google has on you, that is absolutely frightening.

00:49:43.000 And when you calculate society to such a controlled level, it is bound to become dystopian and out of control and something that there's Hollywood movies made about.

00:49:54.000 But when it's happening in real life, people are going to be like, oh, this is good for you.

00:49:58.000 Ethan, did you know that Facebook knows when you poop?

00:50:00.000 I don't have Facebook.

00:50:02.000 You do have Facebook, yes.

00:50:04.000 And it still knows?

00:50:05.000 You do have Facebook whether you signed up or not.

00:50:07.000 And it does know.

00:50:09.000 If you're my friend and I have your number in my phone, Facebook has your contact, has your information, has you databased in their system.

00:50:15.000 It's called a shadow profile.

00:50:16.000 That's not fun.

00:50:17.000 So here's what ends up happening, right?

00:50:19.000 So your mom has you, well, probably listed in her phone as your name.

00:50:24.000 Yeah.

00:50:24.000 But you might have her in your phone as mom or, you know, mother or whatever.

00:50:28.000 Then you've got a significant other or a friend.

00:50:30.000 Your sister has you in as maybe just, you know, Ethan, or maybe she puts like Ethan bro or Ethan brother or something like that.

00:50:37.000 When they sign up for Facebook, Facebook says, would you like to help?

00:50:40.000 You know, we can help you find your friends.

00:50:42.000 And they go, you got it.

00:50:44.000 Now they have your mom's information, your sister's information, your brother, your kids, your grandparents, your cousins, all of these other people, your best friend who has your name in his phone book.

00:50:56.000 And that's just off the phone alone.

00:50:57.000 There's other ways they collect your data.

00:50:59.000 Through going to websites that have the Facebook login.

00:51:01.000 You'll go to a website and they'll say, log in through Facebook.

00:51:03.000 Facebook has an app that's tracking your data.

00:51:06.000 So the interesting thing is, They'll take your phone, your phone number, when you log into Messenger, not you specifically, but someone, and they'll find a phone number that says Mom.

00:51:16.000 They'll then find that someone else has that phone number listed as Janet.

00:51:20.000 They'll then have that phone number listed by someone else as Secretary Assistant.

00:51:24.000 And now they know, you know, Ethan's mom is Janet.

00:51:27.000 She's a secretary assistant or whatever. 0.98

00:51:29.000 And then we can look at the area code so we know where the phone is from.

00:51:31.000 We can track its location.

00:51:32.000 These people all interact with this person.

00:51:34.000 It's happening in this place.

00:51:35.000 Even if you don't sign up for Facebook, They collect all that data from other people about you and you never consented to that.

00:51:41.000 Right.

00:51:42.000 So I don't know if they know when you poop, but if you've got Facebook on your phone, they know when you poop.

00:51:49.000 Right.

00:51:50.000 That's disturbing.

00:51:54.000 What are your social medias that you use?

00:51:57.000 I use Instagram, and then I always click the buttons to post on Twitter, but I don't really use Twitter.

00:52:04.000 Instagram's owned by Facebook.

00:52:06.000 Right.

00:52:06.000 So you have Facebook.

00:52:08.000 They know when you poop.

00:52:09.000 Yeah.

00:52:09.000 I use that example because it's the silliest, but still a violation of people's privacy.

00:52:14.000 Right.

00:52:15.000 And you gotta understand, they know the other things you're doing.

00:52:18.000 You know, private things at home, in the bedroom, they probably know.

00:52:21.000 The craziest thing is, you might not realize this, but there's little things you do that you don't understand correlates with certain behaviors.

00:52:29.000 So you might go on your phone and look up, you know, 3D illusion sailboat, And they know that people who do that actually correlate with people who like eating pepperoni pizza.

00:52:41.000 And you have no idea how one day you get an advertisement that says, extra large pepperoni, and you're like, how did they know I wanted that?

00:52:47.000 Well, it's because you did a Google search for a 3D illusion sailboat.

00:52:50.000 And there's a weird correlation.

00:52:52.000 There used to be this thing on the website.

00:52:54.000 On the website.

00:52:54.000 There used to be this thing on the internet.

00:52:55.000 I can't remember what it was called, but it was in the late 90s, early 2000s.

00:52:59.000 And they had a series of tests.

00:53:01.000 What they did was, they asked men and women random questions.

00:53:05.000 And then they found a pattern in the answers women would give and the answers men would give. 1.00

00:53:13.000 So one of them was, choose one of the objects below.

00:53:17.000 And it would be like a roller skate, a green circle, a picture of a surfboard, and a picture of a steamboat.

00:53:25.000 And for some reason, men would choose one and women would choose something else. 0.95

00:53:30.000 And then what they do is after 10,000 people did the test, they find 70% of women would choose this one and 70% of men would choose this one.

00:53:37.000 And we have no idea why, but with that data, they could then determine whether you are a man or a woman.

00:53:43.000 So it's really crazy how we don't understand, you know, deep down these differences.

00:53:48.000 But with that, they can track everything you do.

00:53:52.000 They know more about you than you probably know about yourself.

00:53:54.000 Yeah.

00:53:54.000 I mean, this is a real good argument to get rid of my phone.

00:53:58.000 I do have a hammer if you'd like to borrow it.

00:54:01.000 We are close to the woods.

00:54:02.000 We could just give up on society and start a new civilization.

00:54:06.000 We're basically in the woods, man.

00:54:08.000 The mountains and the woods and all that stuff.

00:54:09.000 I mean, but, you know, honestly, With everything that's been going on, it's one of the reasons why I decided to get away from these cities and move out to the middle of nowhere.

00:54:17.000 I tweeted about this earlier.

00:54:18.000 We have this, we have this story.

00:54:20.000 Let's just go for it.

00:54:21.000 Here we go, everybody.

00:54:23.000 The Pod People.

00:54:24.000 The New York Post says, high school band uses individual tents to keep practicing during pandemic.

00:54:31.000 It's a bunch of students standing in... These are, I think, are like... These are not tents.

00:54:37.000 They're something else.

00:54:38.000 They're calling them tents, but they're like... Personalized garbages. 0.99

00:54:41.000 Garbage bags.

00:54:42.000 Well, they're upright... Fabric.

00:54:44.000 They are fabric.

00:54:44.000 You ever get one of those, like, laundry hampers?

00:54:47.000 Made of wire and it, like, pops into place?

00:54:49.000 Imagine that, but big.

00:54:50.000 And you're standing in it.

00:54:52.000 How does the guy playing the trombone do this?

00:54:55.000 Uncomfortably.

00:54:56.000 I saw a picture of it.

00:54:57.000 He's like wedged in there.

00:54:59.000 This is crazy to me, that people are doing this stuff.

00:55:02.000 And it was funny because, as I mention this often, I learned from the best, Michael Malice, on how to properly tweet.

00:55:09.000 You tweet in ways where you leave it ambiguous enough to where it can be interpretable, but you still express your either disdain or support. 0.97

00:55:17.000 And I said, if people are doing this, you know, this is, you're insane. 0.78

00:55:20.000 But, you know what, at this point, I don't care what you do, do whatever you want.

00:55:23.000 I'm gonna go over there in the middle of the woods, and I'm gonna, you know, get a little, I got a bow and arrow.

00:55:29.000 We're getting chickens?

00:55:29.000 Yes.

00:55:30.000 I kept saying this, you know what, I'm gonna go buy chickens.

00:55:32.000 I tweeted, and then I bought some chicken coops, you know, we'll get some chickens. 0.99

00:55:36.000 And I look at the stuff, it was funny when I had a bunch of people say like, you're so dumb, Tim, do you think the students should spit on each other? 0.98

00:55:42.000 And I'm like, they should not go to school. 0.99

00:55:45.000 If it's seriously that bad, don't put them in this ridiculous, this is aw, this is so ridiculous. 0.98

00:55:49.000 I gotta say, I hear this and I think, God, thank God some kids get to go to school. 0.97

00:55:55.000 Right.

00:55:56.000 Because we don't have school in California right now.

00:55:59.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:56:00.000 But I understand that too.

00:56:02.000 But it's also, you don't need to do this.

00:56:05.000 You're spitting into a device and you're standing far away from someone else.

00:56:09.000 This makes no sense.

00:56:10.000 Can we pull up the picture of the kid with the trombone?

00:56:12.000 Yeah, we got it up earlier.

00:56:13.000 Because he is extremely uncomfortable.

00:56:15.000 It's amazing.

00:56:17.000 And he's also a bigger guy.

00:56:19.000 But imagine paying the state to treat your children like this.

00:56:22.000 This is absolutely absurd and we wonder why kids have a mental health crisis.

00:56:26.000 This is a part of the reason.

00:56:27.000 Wired actually had a very good article today that I was reading and it's titled, It's ridiculous to treat school children like COVID hot zones and they pretty much came to the conclusion that it's not and that this is all pandemic theater and I absolutely agreed with them because there's a lot of preliminary science and statistics and reports showing how there's absolutely very little threat of COVID in schools and children transmit the virus very differently than adults do.

00:56:59.000 This is from last year, though.

00:57:00.000 This is from last May.

00:57:01.000 Yeah, but still, it's... But it has been true that children don't spread.

00:57:06.000 I mean, let's be real.

00:57:07.000 What's the survival rate for people from the ages of, like, 11 to 20 or whatever is like 99.999%?

00:57:10.000 Yes, something like that.

00:57:15.000 And I guess the argument is, but they'll spread it to grandma, and it's always just like, well then, you know, keep grandma safe.

00:57:20.000 Isolate grandma. 0.97

00:57:21.000 Isolate, use sanitizer.

00:57:22.000 And why, you know, I read this really interesting blog post, I can't remember, it was a while ago.

00:57:27.000 And it was from an older person who said, I don't understand why you're asking the younger generation to sacrifice their lives for the older generation.

00:57:35.000 The older generation typically sacrifice their lives for the next generation.

00:57:39.000 Someone who's in their 80s.

00:57:40.000 Do you guys remember what happened with Fukushima?

00:57:43.000 The nuclear plant.

00:57:44.000 Tsunami hits it.

00:57:46.000 Radioactive waste.

00:57:48.000 And then the elderly volunteered to go into the plant to try and stop the leak and solve the problem because they were like, well, we're going to die soon anyway. 0.99

00:57:58.000 We will sacrifice ourselves for the youth.

00:58:01.000 I actually know somebody, Luke and I, knew somebody who was older and lost her life providing tours to journalists in the media tub to get the word out and explain what was going on in this area.

00:58:11.000 She ended up getting cancer.

00:58:12.000 And so, with the utmost respect, she was an amazing individual.

00:58:16.000 The older generation willing to risk their lives to help the next generation survive.

00:58:22.000 This to me is absolutely insane.

00:58:24.000 Making the kids sacrifice their education, their well-being, their upbringing, their food, their nurturing for the older generation.

00:58:31.000 Look, I don't want anyone to die.

00:58:33.000 And I think ultimately it's the choice of the older generation.

00:58:35.000 I want to keep them safe and protected.

00:58:36.000 I don't want to force anybody to sacrifice anything.

00:58:39.000 I just think it's interesting that we've decided as a society that it's better to sacrifice the kids' well-being for, you know, a 99 point... I believe for the people above 70, it's a 99.5% survival rate.

00:58:50.000 No, no, I'm sorry, 97.5% survival rate.

00:58:52.000 I just think there's some kind of imbalance there.

00:58:54.000 Maybe we need to address the harder questions about, you know, how we deal with this.

00:58:57.000 Maybe we need to make sure that the elderly are protected.

00:59:02.000 I think maybe Andrew Cuomo needed a lesson in that regard that he never got.

00:59:06.000 Not just him, but these other governors as well.

00:59:08.000 I don't know, man.

00:59:10.000 I just, I think these kids, you know, when you look at the masks, you look at the schools, they're kids who are now spending a large portion of their lives, over a year, not seeing strangers' faces.

00:59:21.000 Not seeing expressions.

00:59:22.000 Not seeing mouths move.

00:59:24.000 When you look in a person's face, you know, people can tell when someone's faking a smile because a real smile, your eyes actually, you know, smile as well.

00:59:33.000 You smile with your eyes.

00:59:35.000 And even when someone's wearing a mask, you can see when they're smiling the way their eyes move.

00:59:38.000 But what about a kid who doesn't know and hasn't had the chance to develop those social understanding?

00:59:44.000 They're going to be socially stunted.

00:59:46.000 I mean, the most important formative years and we're damaging these kids over the stuff, stuffing them in these tents to play music.

00:59:52.000 You know what, man?

00:59:54.000 If it were me, I wouldn't even go to these schools.

00:59:56.000 When I was 14, I went to high school for about two months, and then I just one day was walking to school, stopped, turned around, and went home, and that was it.

01:00:03.000 Do you kind of want to hear what it sounds like when they're playing in the tents, though?

01:00:06.000 Yes, I do!

01:00:09.000 I wish there was video of this.

01:00:12.000 But you bring up an important point.

01:00:13.000 First of all, that Fukushima trip was insane.

01:00:15.000 I don't know why I went with you, but we did.

01:00:18.000 Second of all, it's... Hopefully we don't get thyroid cancer.

01:00:20.000 Yeah.

01:00:22.000 Yeah, so that gives me a little bit of anxiety as well.

01:00:25.000 Thanks, Tim.

01:00:26.000 Thanks for reminding me, but still, I try not to think about that.

01:00:29.000 But when we talk about these school children, you know, a lot of them who do get the chance to go back, they're forced to social distance, they're forced to mask, but they're also, in some schools, forced to wear tracking beacons that go off if they get too close to other students.

01:00:45.000 And they get in trouble and they get punished by standing or walking too close to other people.

01:00:51.000 So that's the level of absurdity. 0.96

01:00:52.000 Imagine going to a school and your developmental years are authoritarians screaming at you not to be close to another human being or in some instances like in Buffalo telling you that all white people are racist. 0.57

01:01:05.000 You know just like the story that we covered yesterday.

01:01:07.000 That's why again I'm a big proponent of homeschooling.

01:01:10.000 Homeschooling networks are something that people should look into.

01:01:13.000 I know it's very difficult for people to raise children independently but there's networks out there that let you do this In a way that's very cost effective, that saves you a lot of time, and also lets you be a part of a community that teaches your children the values that you believe in personally, rather than, of course, having a government come in there and scare the other crap out of your children.

01:01:38.000 I think everybody here seems to be fairly on the not-big-fans-of-government scale, I suppose.

01:01:43.000 I don't want to say anarchist.

01:01:45.000 Luke is definitely the resident... When you say government, I just don't feel good.

01:01:50.000 I just don't. 1.00

01:01:50.000 I just don't like stupidity. 1.00

01:01:52.000 Like, they found COVID in an ice cream factory in China. 1.00

01:01:55.000 There was news that, I don't know, thousands of ice cream tested positive for COVID, that it was living in the fat cells.

01:02:01.000 And you're saying that the greatest comorbidity is obesity, where there's a lot of fat cells.

01:02:07.000 That they're obsessed with the air and transmitting it through the air when there's evidence that it's in the food is completely driving me insane.

01:02:15.000 You have to breathe it in though, right?

01:02:16.000 No, you don't have to breathe.

01:02:17.000 You can eat it too.

01:02:18.000 You can get COVID from eating it.

01:02:20.000 Apparently.

01:02:20.000 That's what was happening with this.

01:02:21.000 Why they were recalling all this ice cream.

01:02:23.000 Weird.

01:02:24.000 Well... I have not heard that.

01:02:26.000 Yeah.

01:02:27.000 Which is odd.

01:02:28.000 You would think that maybe the media would be like, red alert.

01:02:30.000 No, but Ian's right, because in China they do the butt swabs. 1.00

01:02:33.000 It's in your digestive tract.

01:02:35.000 You heard about that, right?

01:02:36.000 There's reports of that.

01:02:37.000 I did.

01:02:37.000 I didn't read a proper report.

01:02:39.000 I saw a meme.

01:02:40.000 You probably don't want to. 0.99

01:02:41.000 You know, but like the joke I made was, shut up and put on your mask, otherwise the butt swabs are next. 1.00

01:02:46.000 There's some preliminary reports that U.S. 0.97

01:02:48.000 diplomats were forced to get those swabs up there. 0.92

01:02:52.000 You know what?

01:02:54.000 I haven't seen it confirmed.

01:02:55.000 I haven't seen it confirmed, but I'm seeing some reports right now.

01:02:59.000 You said you know what?

01:03:00.000 Are you saying butt or hoo-hoo?

01:03:02.000 No, no, no.

01:03:02.000 They're buttoxes.

01:03:04.000 Oh, okay.

01:03:04.000 Yeah, there you know, so so there's reports of US diplomats being forced to do this haven't been confirmed yet.

01:03:10.000 So we're looking up.

01:03:11.000 I'm trying to verify this as we're speaking right now.

01:03:13.000 Americans being forced to do it.

01:03:14.000 I wouldn't be surprised.

01:03:15.000 The Gateway Pundit reported on it now.

01:03:17.000 How are you?

01:03:18.000 I'm checking out the sources.

01:03:20.000 How are you handling family life through COVID?

01:03:22.000 You got kids you said earlier?

01:03:23.000 I have kids.

01:03:26.000 In the beginning, we didn't know what was happening, and it was real scary, and we didn't leave my house.

01:03:33.000 I have two kids in college on the East Coast.

01:03:35.000 They came home, and we just kind of hunkered down, and then we figured out how to live.

01:03:43.000 I think, as a person who Doesn't do well with the imposition of somebody else's rules I also look around and recognize that there have always been rules and

01:03:58.000 The happiest I ever feel is when I'm just trying to succeed despite them, if that makes sense?

01:04:07.000 Everything's not the way I want it to be, but it's kind of just like a new game to navigate.

01:04:12.000 I think that's one of the smartest ways to look at it, too.

01:04:15.000 One of the ways I've always treated it is, I'm not super concerned.

01:04:18.000 I'm definitely concerned when we see the rise of authoritarianism.

01:04:21.000 I know I can survive it.

01:04:23.000 I know that, you know, I'm clever enough to find my way through the new rules to make things work and all that stuff.

01:04:28.000 I do worry about other people.

01:04:30.000 I also worry about the principles of the matter.

01:04:31.000 You know, people have a right.

01:04:33.000 People have rights to be free, to speak their minds.

01:04:35.000 And so there are definitely problems in that regard.

01:04:37.000 We have to have like a baseline of when we go too far to not allow something like that.

01:04:42.000 You know what I mean?

01:04:43.000 Yeah, no, totally.

01:04:44.000 I don't know.

01:04:45.000 I think the way I try to think about it is The way I want it to be, it's not always going to be the way I want it to be.

01:04:54.000 It's never been exactly the way I want it to be, but that's fine.

01:04:58.000 I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and go, like, I believe people are basically good and that the intention is safety.

01:05:07.000 You know, maybe not for Raytheon.

01:05:10.000 I don't know.

01:05:11.000 I don't know if that's their intention.

01:05:13.000 It's kind of the opposite.

01:05:15.000 For the most part, I think you have, but I think you could look back through history and pick any of the things we call atrocities that are atrocities and go, somebody had in the beginning the intention to keep some group of people safe.

01:05:32.000 We'll look at, uh, what was it?

01:05:32.000 TNT?

01:05:33.000 Dynamite?

01:05:34.000 Those are different, I think.

01:05:35.000 But, uh, Alfred Nobel, right?

01:05:37.000 He invented it.

01:05:39.000 And what happened was, I could be messing this story up.

01:05:41.000 I guess the intention was to help mining.

01:05:43.000 You basically, instead of having people get trapped, and you put the bombs there, and you walk away, and then kaboom, and then there you go! 0.88

01:05:49.000 It's been done.

01:05:50.000 And then people were using it as a weapon.

01:05:52.000 And so one day, some newspaper accidentally published his obituary while he was still alive and they called him the Merchant of Death.

01:05:59.000 And so he saw that and was like, is that my legacy?

01:06:02.000 So then Nobel Prize was created because he wanted to do something better.

01:06:05.000 Because he didn't want to be really, you know, awful.

01:06:09.000 Nobel Prize is quite a swan song.

01:06:12.000 Yeah.

01:06:14.000 But it's like...

01:06:17.000 You know, whatever your intention is for your creation, it can go in a wrong direction.

01:06:20.000 Right.

01:06:20.000 No, totally.

01:06:21.000 I think.

01:06:24.000 But I think about that, too, like the things that I would be most critical of with government.

01:06:29.000 I try to give them the benefit of the doubt and go, somebody is is has a concern and they're trying.

01:06:36.000 You know, I don't know that that's always true.

01:06:38.000 Right.

01:06:39.000 It's hard to say that.

01:06:41.000 But even like, you know, our economy Crashes and burns if we don't enforce the petrodollar.

01:06:49.000 Right, right, right, right.

01:06:50.000 A lot of people don't understand this.

01:06:51.000 This is a really good point, because people are talking big right now about Joe Biden bombing Syria.

01:06:55.000 It's big news.

01:06:56.000 We did talk about it a little bit.

01:06:57.000 And I tell people, you realize that when the U.S.

01:07:01.000 is going to war in Middle Eastern countries, you'll hear a lot of left-wing activists say, Americans just want to blow up kids and stuff like that.

01:07:09.000 I'll joke and say something like that, like, oh, who else is going to do it?

01:07:12.000 America loves doing it.

01:07:14.000 The reality is these special interests want money and resources.

01:07:19.000 They want to build the Qatar Turkey pipeline to deliver cheap gas into Europe to dominate the market, make money, but also offset the prices for the people who live there.

01:07:26.000 It's for them.

01:07:27.000 It's like, hey, it's a win-win.

01:07:28.000 We get rich.

01:07:29.000 They're not doing it because they're mustache-twirling villains who are like, nyahaha, let's blow up a country!

01:07:34.000 They're saying, I want something that's going to benefit my team.

01:07:38.000 And they're willing to do horrifying things to do it.

01:07:40.000 And I look at that and I'm like, I am not interested in funding you blowing up and destroying a country so you can get cheap gas into Europe, man.

01:07:48.000 I'm not in favor of that.

01:07:49.000 Yeah.

01:07:50.000 Listen, morally, I'm not in favor of it either.

01:07:53.000 But when we think about stuff like health care, and you're a proponent for universal health care, that's not possible.

01:08:02.000 Idealistically, I am, but... Right.

01:08:04.000 Not possible if we get rid of... If we say, hey, we're pulling out of the Middle East, right? 1.00

01:08:11.000 Our economy crumbles.

01:08:13.000 It implodes.

01:08:14.000 It's done.

01:08:15.000 So all of these plans that are being argued about in America are kind of like, you know, none of it survives without those wars.

01:08:25.000 Well, in terms of getting the oil, you know, in a lot of these countries, but we're also producing, what, poppy and opium in Afghanistan?

01:08:31.000 So it's about control and a lot of things.

01:08:34.000 I'm not entirely convinced, though.

01:08:35.000 I think one of the big arguments we saw through the Trump years was, how about we focus on energy development in this country?

01:08:42.000 That way we're not reliant on that.

01:08:44.000 And we became energy independent, so we didn't need those wars anymore.

01:08:47.000 And then we got the Abraham Accords. 0.93

01:08:48.000 These are things that I think are good.

01:08:49.000 And before AOC came out with it, I was a huge proponent of the Green New Deal.

01:08:53.000 I made a couple different segments where I was like, I like this.

01:08:56.000 You know why?

01:08:57.000 Before they actually put the bill out, it was like, would you like to invest government resources and taxpayer dollars into advancing green technologies to make the United States more environmentally friendly and energy independent?

01:09:10.000 And I was like, that sounds like the coolest thing ever.

01:09:12.000 And then they actually released the Green New Deal and it's like, would you like social equity to give, you know, women of color access to college and healthcare?

01:09:18.000 And I'm like, look, I appreciate the attempt to help people.

01:09:22.000 But please don't use my ideals for environmentalism to push your critical race theory.

01:09:29.000 Because I am not a fan of that.

01:09:31.000 And the Green New Deal became about changing the economy and not about developing this technology.

01:09:35.000 So it was like a slap in the face to people who actually thought we got a good thing going, and then the people who are supposed to be proponents of this environmental technology.

01:09:42.000 Like, seriously, the second page of the bill was all critical race theory, social justice, had nothing to do with the environment.

01:09:48.000 We're going to provide college and healthcare, and I'm like, wait, wait, wait, what?

01:09:51.000 I thought we were gonna build a fusion reactor!

01:09:53.000 Reach ignition, man!

01:09:55.000 And then we're gonna have flying cars! 0.81

01:09:57.000 Is there anybody trying to do that?

01:09:58.000 They're doing fusion.

01:09:59.000 There's a lot of people working on it.

01:10:00.000 JPL's working on it.

01:10:01.000 Yeah, but we've not- my understanding is we haven't reached the ignition phase.

01:10:04.000 Is that what it is?

01:10:04.000 Where- I think not.

01:10:06.000 Where the fusion happens and then the reaction outputs more energy that's put in.

01:10:09.000 So like, you know, ignition like a fire.

01:10:11.000 Well, another thing to really kind of consider here is that the U.S.

01:10:15.000 dollar is going to collapse inevitably, especially with its money printing, especially with its money supply.

01:10:22.000 And there's some people arguing that if we end the wars in the Middle East and this reckless spending, that the debt wouldn't be as high and we would postpone this inevitable collapse because we are already indebted to such a way where it's impossible to pay back.

01:10:38.000 And this is something that of course is going to fall in on itself eventually.

01:10:42.000 Okay, but I have a question.

01:10:45.000 We're able to rack up so much debt because the trading of oil is predominantly done with U.S.

01:10:53.000 dollars around the world.

01:10:54.000 Yes.

01:10:55.000 So that offsets our ability to incur debt.

01:10:58.000 Yep.

01:10:59.000 If we pull out, we can incur no more debt.

01:11:03.000 Right.

01:11:03.000 And all the debt that we've incurred collapses on us.

01:11:07.000 So it's not even necessarily about getting the oil.

01:11:10.000 It's just about saying you must use dollars.

01:11:13.000 This is a system put in by Henry Kissinger when, of course, he went over to Saudi Arabia.

01:11:17.000 And this is the larger deal that they have now.

01:11:20.000 But we saw Trump kind of throw a wrench into it a little bit.

01:11:23.000 One, he was brutally honest.

01:11:24.000 He was like, yeah, we're in Syria.

01:11:25.000 We're stealing their oil.

01:11:27.000 Yes, we're giving Saudi Arabia the weapons because we want money.

01:11:29.000 They pay us a good deal.

01:11:30.000 But also, he also had a big priority on energy, where America became the number one energy producer in the world when Donald Trump was in power.

01:11:40.000 So yes, it's pretty much run through the military-industrial complex.

01:11:44.000 But when you look at the larger kind of foreign policy mishaps, not just the chaos, but the money spent, They don't serve any purpose and in the long run, in my opinion, they're going to be hurting the United States because they could enforce the trading of oil on the dollar in many different ways, but entangling ourselves in Afghanistan and spending so much money there recklessly and just wasting it away is not going to ensure that.

01:12:13.000 But, but, Ethan hit the nail on the head.

01:12:15.000 Yeah, of course.

01:12:15.000 We can rack up as much debt as we want so long as we force everyone to buy oil with our dollars.

01:12:20.000 Yeah.

01:12:20.000 So, so I have this image.

01:12:21.000 But that's kind of, like, I want to say, no war.

01:12:25.000 Morally, I go, this war doesn't make sense to me.

01:12:28.000 Yeah.

01:12:29.000 Morally.

01:12:30.000 But I recognize at the same time what happens here if we're not doing that.

01:12:35.000 This is a really good point, man.

01:12:37.000 I'd have no problem living in the woods.

01:12:39.000 You know, there's this joke, I will not live in the pod, I will not eat the bugs.

01:12:42.000 And I'm like, well, hold on.

01:12:44.000 I'll live in the pod and I'll eat the bugs.

01:12:45.000 You know why?

01:12:45.000 Because my pod is going to be up in a tree right next to a nice little river where I'll go fishing and periodically eat bugs.

01:12:51.000 I got no problem if I had to live in the wilderness and learn to survive and actually work hard to survive.

01:13:00.000 I actually respect that, and I would enjoy it.

01:13:03.000 I love being out and walking through the woods, and I love that feeling of accomplishment in these things.

01:13:09.000 It's cool until you cut yourself.

01:13:12.000 Sure, we'll have to learn how to make alcohol and all that stuff. 1.00

01:13:14.000 But here's the point.

01:13:16.000 It's really easy to say, you know what?

01:13:18.000 Fine.

01:13:19.000 No war. 0.70

01:13:20.000 Let the petro-dollar fail.

01:13:22.000 And then so what?

01:13:23.000 What's the worst that's gonna happen?

01:13:23.000 Americans are gonna have to learn to survive again?

01:13:26.000 That's not the worst that'll happen.

01:13:27.000 No, no, no, no, no.

01:13:28.000 The worst that'll happen is that China will take over. 0.99

01:13:31.000 And then, within a matter of time, you, living in the woods, thinking you're minding your own business, will eventually be under a global authority of Chinese rule. 0.89

01:13:38.000 I'm thinking that the U.S.

01:13:39.000 dollar will collapse and that the Bitcoin will become the new currency of the United States, and there'll be a whole uprising of a wealth class that were like 20-year-olds, you know, five years ago.

01:13:49.000 No, I mean, we're in the meme economy already now.

01:13:51.000 14-year-olds in 2010.

01:13:52.000 Can we talk about this, though?

01:13:53.000 Because I have a question.

01:13:56.000 92 or 4% of all currency on Earth is digital.

01:13:59.000 Yeah.

01:14:00.000 Did you guys read that the the Fed had a glitch?

01:14:03.000 Yeah.

01:14:04.000 Was it yesterday?

01:14:05.000 And $3 trillion didn't get moved around correctly?

01:14:09.000 Yeah.

01:14:09.000 So how how is it that we don't wind up with some kind of blockchain currency?

01:14:14.000 Well, they're working on FedCoin.

01:14:17.000 Okay.

01:14:17.000 Who?

01:14:17.000 The government?

01:14:18.000 Yeah, the Federal Reserve, I believe, is going to make a crypto.

01:14:21.000 You know, I had this question.

01:14:22.000 You know, you bring this up.

01:14:23.000 It's interesting.

01:14:23.000 I read this story the other day.

01:14:25.000 FedGlitch shuts down wire transfers, direct deposits, and other services.

01:14:28.000 It was an operational error.

01:14:30.000 And I started laughing.

01:14:31.000 I'm like, is it collapsing?

01:14:33.000 Like, is this the end?

01:14:34.000 They forgot their phrase key.

01:14:36.000 Yeah.

01:14:37.000 But here's the thing.

01:14:38.000 I asked, like, how does your bank know you have money?

01:14:42.000 When I go to the bank, when I go online and use a credit card, when I spend money from my bank, there's no actual money being transferred anywhere.

01:14:51.000 Someone just writes a number down in a book, and then someone writes a different number down in a different book.

01:14:55.000 There's never really any currency.

01:14:58.000 It's the interesting thing about all this is that cryptocurrency is actually a cryptographic code that can't be stolen.

01:15:05.000 I mean, if you can break the cryptography, you can totally unwind the network, the blockchain, but...

01:15:10.000 The idea is, because it's an encryption, you have your private keys, there's a public key, and they can't replicate what you have without the private information.

01:15:19.000 It's remarkable technology.

01:15:21.000 With banks, they just take your account and they write, he has money, and that's it.

01:15:27.000 And the Federal Reserve can go offline, which we saw yesterday, which is absolutely insane.

01:15:31.000 If we have a central node where everything goes, all the money, and if it goes down, the entire industry is... It's wild.

01:15:40.000 It's a fiat system with no market cap and only backed by the military-industrial complex.

01:15:45.000 But again, back to the other point here, we don't need to make blunders.

01:15:49.000 We don't need to make mistakes that waste money in order to push the dollar on the world stage.

01:15:55.000 There's other ways to do it.

01:15:56.000 China, what they're doing is kind of a different way with their Belt and Road Initiative.

01:16:01.000 Diplomacy, trade, investment, where essentially they're in proxy becoming new colonizers, as they were described to me in Africa, with them buying up all the natural resources, all the national property.

01:16:15.000 And China also is building their own cryptocurrency, which they're going to be using as a global currency.

01:16:20.000 Right.

01:16:20.000 Think about that.

01:16:22.000 You were making the point earlier that the petrodollar is paramount, but what happens when the Fed collapses?

01:16:28.000 I mean, yesterday was nuts.

01:16:29.000 Like, it just stopped working.

01:16:31.000 What happens when China launches a crypto, or they heavily invest in Bitcoin, gain access to the most powerful and dominant cryptocurrency, the petrodollar will be meaningless.

01:16:41.000 Yeah, I also worry about the U.S.

01:16:44.000 trying to figure this out, simply because when you see them roll out big, like, California alone had $50 billion worth of fraud on the loans.

01:16:54.000 That's right.

01:16:56.000 PPP or whatever.

01:16:56.000 PPP loans, whatever it was.

01:16:58.000 $50 billion just for California.

01:17:01.000 I just, I don't mean to be so hard on the government.

01:17:07.000 You know, unfortunately, the thing they do best is war. 0.71

01:17:13.000 They don't seem to have these big programs down that they can roll out.

01:17:18.000 Like, the healthcare website was a disaster.

01:17:21.000 It's crazy.

01:17:22.000 You know, there were all these glitches with the payments and stuff.

01:17:27.000 So I do worry that if they try to do some kind of a blockchain currency, that I don't think it'll be the best one.

01:17:35.000 Right.

01:17:35.000 To add to your point, there's this famous meme and it says, under anarchy, warlords would take over.

01:17:41.000 And it's a photo of all the presidents sitting together of the United States.

01:17:45.000 So just to add to that point.

01:17:46.000 But yeah, I mean, the government is largely inefficient, bureaucratic, bloated and can't get simple things done.

01:17:53.000 They can't even mail you a check For, like, when Donald Trump did it, for how much was it?

01:17:58.000 Was it $2,000?

01:17:59.000 No, the first one I think was a grand, wasn't it?

01:18:01.000 I forgot exactly how much, but the government couldn't even effectively send everyone a check.

01:18:06.000 They sent non-citizens checks in other countries.

01:18:08.000 Dead people were getting checks.

01:18:10.000 And it was even in different intervals.

01:18:12.000 If you were a different rank based on this classification and this IRS code, you would get it in September.

01:18:18.000 Some people would get it in June.

01:18:20.000 And it was all over the place.

01:18:22.000 I gotta be honest with you.

01:18:23.000 I really don't see the purpose in sending everybody a check.

01:18:27.000 I personally didn't need a check.

01:18:31.000 Yeah.

01:18:31.000 Why did I get a check?

01:18:33.000 You know, if you want to be nice, give me a little break on my taxes or whatever.

01:18:36.000 But, but like, instead of giving people money, stop stealing it.

01:18:40.000 You know, that's not a crazy idea.

01:18:42.000 They didn't give everybody a check.

01:18:43.000 There was a, there was a, uh, an income limit.

01:18:46.000 Okay.

01:18:46.000 And I think one of the problems right now is, you know, Biden is saying, we're going to give $1,400, not $2,000, because it's supplemental to the $600 you already got, and it's going to be means-tested, meaning only people who make under a certain amount, and then you start to lose it.

01:19:00.000 I disagree with that.

01:19:01.000 The problem is, I'm not a big fan of the printing money.

01:19:04.000 I think it's going to be detrimental in the long run.

01:19:05.000 It's going to cause inflation.

01:19:06.000 It's going to be extremely damaging.

01:19:08.000 But so long as the American people are borrowing from themselves, OK, well, I guess we have to, because the economy's been grinded to a halt.

01:19:16.000 The government did it.

01:19:18.000 It's the government that caused the economic shutdown.

01:19:21.000 And now, instead of giving people access to resources to just... The money doesn't make the system work.

01:19:26.000 It just kind of kickstarts... It lubricates the economy a little bit.

01:19:30.000 They're not going to give everybody the amount of money they actually need to get the machine moving again.

01:19:35.000 So I actually think if you make more money, you should actually get more money.

01:19:39.000 You know why?

01:19:41.000 Let's say, before the lockdown, you were making $70,000 a year.

01:19:45.000 You built your lifestyle around your earnings.

01:19:48.000 If you were responsible, you had a bit of a savings, and you weren't living beyond your means.

01:19:52.000 So let's say you were paying rent, you had your medical bills, and you had insurance, and you had a cell phone bill.

01:19:57.000 All budgeted for your income of $70,000.

01:20:01.000 Economy stops.

01:20:01.000 You go to zero.

01:20:02.000 Let's say you've got $3,500 in bills every month, or something like that.

01:20:09.000 And then someone else was making $30,000, and they budgeted their life for $30,000, so their bills are about $1,000 a month.

01:20:16.000 Then the government says, I'm giving both of you $1,000.

01:20:18.000 Well, the person whose life was at $70,000, and that's not... I think the average income in the United States is $86,000.

01:20:24.000 The median, I think, is like $68,000.

01:20:25.000 So we're talking about an average person now having their life completely destroyed, losing their home, getting kicked out because they can't afford that small check.

01:20:33.000 I'm not necessarily saying definitively give rich people more money.

01:20:39.000 I'm just saying we need to consider the fact that someone who makes $70,000 a year is not a rich person.

01:20:43.000 Right.

01:20:44.000 But they have different needs than someone who is making $30,000.

01:20:46.000 In fact, maybe the answer is just give everyone more money, even the people who were making $30,000.

01:20:51.000 I don't think it makes sense to start taking it away from people just because they were making, you know, $75K or whatever.

01:20:57.000 Yeah, but listen.

01:21:00.000 All this money is balanced again by the external dollars that are kind of keeping this and we're going to reach a point where we have now put too much inside and it's going to tip it and it's going to be a disaster.

01:21:14.000 I don't know if you guys have seen this chart.

01:21:16.000 We really got to get some monitor set up so you can see it.

01:21:18.000 Yeah.

01:21:19.000 But it's the M1 money stock going back to 1959.

01:21:23.000 So this is the amount of dollars and other, like, basically it says billions of dollars

01:21:26.000 seasonally adjusted monthly from 1959 till today.

01:21:30.000 And from 1960 until about, let's say about 2000.

01:21:36.000 It's just a very slow and steady going, you know, so it's decades.

01:21:40.000 Then at 2008, it goes up a little bit.

01:21:43.000 The frequency of the production of money increases.

01:21:45.000 2020 happens.

01:21:46.000 And you know what the line looks like?

01:21:48.000 It goes straight up.

01:21:49.000 Wow.

01:21:50.000 Just straight up.

01:21:51.000 Here's what it says.

01:21:53.000 In December 2019, $3,978 billion of dollars.

01:22:00.000 And then, in about February to March, it starts to hockey stick, and then from April to May, it goes up more, and then from April to May, it jumps dramatically.

01:22:13.000 Now, some people have pointed out that they changed the way they calculate this in May, and that may contribute.

01:22:19.000 But there's also other charts, the M4 money stock, and other charts from the Financial Times showing, regardless of the way they changed it, the same thing happened.

01:22:26.000 They started mass printing money with these stimulus checks, and we went from, you know, in March, 4,000, what is it, 4,257, to, what do we got here, July, 16,803.

01:22:33.000 So it, what, quadrupled?

01:22:34.000 257 to what do we got here?

01:22:37.000 July 16,803.

01:22:40.000 So it quadrupled.

01:22:41.000 And now it's at 18,105 billions of dollars in the M1 money stock.

01:22:47.000 I'm not an economist.

01:22:49.000 I can't tell you the nitty gritty of the M1 money stock.

01:22:51.000 Some people have said it doesn't necessarily matter, because it doesn't, you know, it's just money in circulation or something like that, but I'll tell you this, this chart and the other charts I've looked at, many people are pointing out it's unprecedented and we have no idea what's going to happen when you dump that much money into the system.

01:23:05.000 Um, I have a some idea, uh, lol.

01:23:08.000 Do you, uh... You remember Weimar, Germany?

01:23:12.000 Yeah, what was it?

01:23:12.000 Shuffling the Deutsche Marks into the gutter.

01:23:15.000 You ever heard of Zimbabwe?

01:23:16.000 Yeah.

01:23:17.000 Venezuela?

01:23:18.000 Brazil?

01:23:18.000 I don't want to read the whole thing.

01:23:19.000 It just says, before May, it consists of currency outside the U.S.

01:23:22.000 Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks.

01:23:24.000 Let's see.

01:23:24.000 You have more data about the way they change, they measure the M1 money supply in May?

01:23:29.000 So I don't want to read the whole thing.

01:23:31.000 It just says before May, it consists of currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve

01:23:36.000 banks.

01:23:37.000 Let's see.

01:23:39.000 I wonder if there's just an easy way to look at what the change was.

01:23:43.000 I'm not entirely sure the difference is that much.

01:23:46.000 Well, let's see.

01:23:47.000 Demand deposits at commercial banks.

01:23:49.000 Where's the first change?

01:23:51.000 OK.

01:23:51.000 Beginning May 2020.

01:23:54.000 It doesn't look like... I have to read through it.

01:23:57.000 It seems oddly insidious that they would change the way they do the measurements in May of 2020 after they printed $12 trillion.

01:24:03.000 So they went from $4 trillion now to $18 trillion of liquid money in the supply.

01:24:08.000 Well some people are saying, oh no no no, it only looks that way because they changed the way they calculate it.

01:24:12.000 And I'm like, the hockey stick started before May.

01:24:14.000 Yeah, certainly.

01:24:15.000 It was February to March, March to April, April to May, and then May to June is not the biggest spike.

01:24:21.000 So they say, oh but at the beginning of May, yeah right, May to June is where we should see the biggest spike, right?

01:24:26.000 You know what else is up about 400%?

01:24:27.000 Bitcoin.

01:24:30.000 What was Bitcoin?

01:24:31.000 Wow, it really is.

01:24:32.000 In November, it was $13,000.

01:24:33.000 That's almost exactly it.

01:24:35.000 Crazy.

01:24:36.000 And that was November.

01:24:37.000 What was it last January?

01:24:38.000 Look, give us the talking point.

01:24:39.000 What was the meme?

01:24:40.000 For?

01:24:41.000 For Bitcoin.

01:24:42.000 You said, remember what you said?

01:24:43.000 I forgot.

01:24:43.000 Don't make me say it.

01:24:44.000 Say it.

01:24:46.000 If you bought Bitcoin instead of Toy Story... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:24:49.000 If you bought Bitcoin instead of Toy Story 3, the DVD, you would have $10 million.

01:24:55.000 Say that.

01:24:55.000 Yes.

01:24:56.000 That's so rude.

01:24:57.000 Yup.

01:24:57.000 The DVD came out in 2010.

01:24:59.000 Amazing.

01:25:00.000 $10 million.

01:25:01.000 $10 million.

01:25:02.000 And I don't know what it was, what Bitcoin was in January of last year. 0.97

01:25:05.000 All of you people who bought Toy Story 3 on DVD, how dumb do you feel? 0.97

01:25:10.000 Good movie. 0.95

01:25:11.000 You should have been psychic and known to buy an obscure computer program digital currency that no one knew about.

01:25:19.000 One of my favorite memes is from the early 2010s.

01:25:23.000 And someone was like, this Bitcoin thing seems interesting, what can I do with it?

01:25:29.000 And then someone said, buy drugs and hire assassins on the internet.

01:25:32.000 And that was their like, why would I buy it then?

01:25:35.000 But all of the ANCAPs, the anarcho-capitalists were like, wow, count me in!

01:25:39.000 And now a whole bunch of them are rich!

01:25:41.000 March 12th of 2020, Bitcoin was $4,857.

01:25:44.000 It's up 1,000.

01:25:45.000 It's up like 1,200%.

01:25:49.000 Everybody's seeing this.

01:25:51.000 They're seeing the mass printing of money, and they bought Bitcoin.

01:25:53.000 Yeah, even the banks.

01:25:54.000 Yep.

01:25:55.000 Even the banks.

01:25:56.000 Big insurance firms.

01:25:57.000 I think they're prepping for a total economic reset or transition to be $4,000.

01:26:01.000 Well, you know who is the biggest holder of Bitcoin, right?

01:26:04.000 China.

01:26:06.000 Well, they were the biggest miners of Bitcoin.

01:26:09.000 We should probably do an audit.

01:26:11.000 Someone should.

01:26:11.000 I think they already did, where all the Bitcoin that was mined in China went, because that would be a very interesting perspective.

01:26:17.000 There's also a lot of talk about a lot of whales having a lot of control of Bitcoin.

01:26:21.000 That's one of the talking points that a lot of the alternative cryptocurrencies are making.

01:26:25.000 So, again, a lot of people are also saying, and I've been saying this from the very beginning, Bitcoin could be NSA honeypot from the very beginning.

01:26:33.000 Could be.

01:26:34.000 We don't know.

01:26:35.000 I don't have any evidence to prove that.

01:26:36.000 I said this very early on, but I've maintained this.

01:26:42.000 Bitcoin is completely trackable.

01:26:44.000 Every transaction is tracked and they have AI that know exactly who's spending what.

01:26:49.000 So we've seen all these stories where they're like, we know the far right is spending money here and doing these things and here's what they bought because they can track every account in the blockchain.

01:26:58.000 So they know what you're doing.

01:26:59.000 They can on Monero.

01:27:00.000 Monero cryptocurrencies.

01:27:02.000 They can't.

01:27:04.000 That's why Monero jumped in value, because it was like, oh, I can use this, and it's untraceable.

01:27:08.000 It was also why I got pulled off Bitrex last month.

01:27:11.000 For Americans.

01:27:12.000 For Americans, how insidious.

01:27:15.000 There's that word again.

01:27:15.000 Wow, it's a collusion.

01:27:16.000 They want to know when you poop, Ian.

01:27:18.000 Facebook, they want to control you.

01:27:19.000 They want to know every little thing about you.

01:27:21.000 But maybe that's good, because people, what is this, the Panama Papers, where they were storing all that money overseas and it broke?

01:27:27.000 You're right, but you misunderstand.

01:27:29.000 Do you think... Tracking for thee, but not for that guy?

01:27:32.000 You think the wealthy global ultra elites are going to be subject to us tracking their expenditures?

01:27:38.000 I would hope so.

01:27:39.000 No way!

01:27:39.000 Could you imagine if Epstein was on Bitcoin and we knew exactly what he was buying?

01:27:43.000 Never gonna happen.

01:27:44.000 Yeah, Deutsche Bank got a slap on the wrist for unusual activities financing and helping Mr. Epstein.

01:27:51.000 It's the rich get richer, the poor stay poor, all that stuff.

01:27:54.000 We know it's gonna work.

01:27:55.000 They're gonna track you when you poop, but you will never be allowed to know when Bill Gates poops.

01:28:00.000 That is Mark Zuckerberg off-limits.

01:28:03.000 Not allowed.

01:28:05.000 I would need to talk to a blockchain expert to know more about if they could track, if it would track everybody.

01:28:10.000 Does it track the entire blockchain?

01:28:11.000 Like if someone knows your address, they know your transactions.

01:28:15.000 But it's not even that.

01:28:15.000 Remember we talked about how Facebook knows things based on things you might not realize?

01:28:19.000 You can look at certain wallets and see all of them as a blind you know, public key. It's just a code. You don't see

01:28:27.000 anything. But the computer sees five accounts that interacted with this one account. They know that this

01:28:32.000 account interacted with this account, and they know this account was in Chattanooga. That means

01:28:36.000 if this one's in Chattanooga, this one had to be somewhere near it. Lo and behold, this one

01:28:39.000 interacted with that account. That account was also a few miles from Chattanooga. Boom. They know it's

01:28:43.000 in here.

01:28:43.000 They're probably laundering through wallets.

01:28:47.000 Well, oh, definitely. A lot of people launder through wallets.

01:28:49.000 But what I'm saying is an AI can look at a big, a big list of all these different hash codes and see something a human can't.

01:28:57.000 They can see location data.

01:28:58.000 They can see everything because it's all connected.

01:29:00.000 They only need one key, right?

01:29:03.000 So imagine a Sudoku puzzle.

01:29:06.000 You've played Sudoku, you guys know?

01:29:07.000 Yeah.

01:29:08.000 You need a few clues, and then you can solve the puzzle.

01:29:10.000 For those that aren't familiar, it's like, you know, you got, it's 3x3 grid, and you gotta do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and it's got, you know, you can only have one digit in each row, and you gotta figure out where it is.

01:29:19.000 You give someone a few clues for a few starting numbers, and you solve the puzzle.

01:29:24.000 A supercomputer's gonna look at the Bitcoin blockchain, and they're gonna have just one teeny bit of information.

01:29:29.000 This account is a common, is a high volume account in New York City.

01:29:35.000 And from there, they can find out who else is in New York City.

01:29:39.000 They can create a data visualization because this one wallet only interacts with, you know, 50 accounts in New York and only a few others outside of it.

01:29:46.000 Therefore, the person's likely in New York City.

01:29:48.000 Then they can look at who's interacting, they can see that person, and they can create an entire heat map of geographical locations to the best of its, you know, like with high probability.

01:29:58.000 They'll know who you are, what you're buying, where you're going, what you're doing, everything.

01:30:02.000 They've already done it with the far right, and they've said, we know who's donating, and who's donating to who, and they published it.

01:30:09.000 They were like, this French guy has just given a million dollars to this alt-right guy, and they just know.

01:30:15.000 Because they can look at the wallets, they know.

01:30:17.000 The moment you say, hey, here's my key, send me Bitcoin, they know who you are, they know where you are, they know what your wallet is, and they can use that information to figure out who the other people are that you're transacting with.

01:30:27.000 So they got it.

01:30:28.000 Bitcoin is giving that information out.

01:30:30.000 Welcome to the nightmare dystopia, I suppose.

01:30:33.000 But at least you'll be rich if you bought Bitcoin earlier.

01:30:36.000 So like, would it be, I'm trying to think like the U.S., who pays the U.S.

01:30:39.000 military?

01:30:39.000 They're paid in dollars right now.

01:30:40.000 If they start paying them in Bitcoin, that means that people with the Bitcoin are going to be running the military, not the U.S., not the taxpayers.

01:30:46.000 I don't think we're anywhere near that happening, though.

01:30:49.000 And another point to put out is, you could pay them in Bitcoin, and then when some, like, 21-year-old with a few thousand Bitcoin who's super rich shows up, and he says, I'm gonna control the military because I have all the resources, they pull out their gun and say, no, you're not.

01:31:02.000 But what if he's like, just, I'll pay you three times as much to do the same work for me.

01:31:07.000 The special interest says, we are legally allowed to cause physical harm to your body.

01:31:12.000 Try it.

01:31:14.000 What if it's a Chinese guy, though?

01:31:16.000 Yeah, let me introduce you to a guy named Muammar Gaddafi.

01:31:19.000 What was he trying to do?

01:31:21.000 He was trying to create the gold, dinar, and African Union currency that would trade amongst itself.

01:31:26.000 What was Saddam Hussein trying to do?

01:31:28.000 He was trying to sell oil on the international market without the U.S.

01:31:31.000 dollar.

01:31:33.000 They're both dead.

01:31:34.000 I wonder.

01:31:35.000 Afghanistan, Syria also made similar measures, so yeah.

01:31:41.000 It's what Ethan was saying, man.

01:31:42.000 If you step in front of the petrodollar, don't be surprised when you no longer are alive.

01:31:48.000 Most of the countries that are in the news, that are looked down upon or getting crapped on, are doing that.

01:31:55.000 It's like Iran, Russia, Korea, Cuba, Russia also.

01:32:01.000 But also very interesting, there was a lot of comments by the kind of establishment types, especially Janet Yellen, Biden's Treasury Secretary, Elon Musk, and also Bill Gates recently that made, according to some people, made the price of Bitcoin go down because Bill Gates said that we should definitely get rid of Bitcoin. 0.79

01:32:19.000 Janet Yellen said it was extremely inefficient, which is absolutely hilarious coming from the former Federal Reserve Chairman and very duplicitous and extremely hypocritical.

01:32:29.000 Well, should we jump super chat? 0.83

01:32:31.000 Yeah, real fast before we do.

01:32:32.000 Do you remember that military guy who said we're going to be invading like nine countries a night?

01:32:36.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:32:37.000 I talked to him and I interviewed him about that.

01:32:40.000 And when I brought it up, he looked like he saw a ghost.

01:32:42.000 Wesley Clark.

01:32:43.000 Wesley Clark.

01:32:44.000 We are changed.

01:32:45.000 Wesley Clark.

01:32:46.000 I play that clip of him saying that he was at the meetings and they told them the plan that they're going to invade all of these countries.

01:32:52.000 And he brought it up on an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now.

01:32:56.000 They were doing a live segment, sitting down, talking about it.

01:32:59.000 I talked to him and he was he literally freaked out and he turned white

01:33:03.000 and he ran away. He wasn't wrong.

01:33:05.000 He was when I brought it up to him.

01:33:06.000 He was talking about the country's exactly you just brought up

01:33:08.000 that are refusing OPEC based on the OPEC dollar. Yeah.

01:33:11.000 There you look.

01:33:14.000 And I've had conversations with friends who say that there are humanitarian

01:33:19.000 things to be done in these countries also.

01:33:22.000 Um...

01:33:24.000 But I think that misses the broader point that there are lots of countries with humanitarian things to be done but are not monetarily beneficial.

01:33:33.000 And I'm kind of a realist because I enjoy living here.

01:33:40.000 I have a nice life.

01:33:42.000 I recognize, though, that for me, morally, there's a trade-off.

01:33:46.000 Right.

01:33:47.000 You know?

01:33:48.000 That's exactly the point I used to make to my friends when they were voting.

01:33:50.000 I'm like, you know, I have a friend who was telling me they're like a lefty activist and they wanted to make the world a better place.

01:33:58.000 And I said, no, you want to make your community better.

01:34:01.000 No, no, no.

01:34:01.000 I want to make the world a better place.

01:34:02.000 And I was like, you're using a laptop that was made of Foxconn laboratory where people are committing suicide and mess.

01:34:08.000 And she had a realization that, no, you're not fighting for the world because while you may be more affected with a laptop, That product is the result of all this suffering, so it's a moral trade-off.

01:34:22.000 I do become disappointed sometimes when this conversation becomes, the moniker isolationist is hung on it.

01:34:33.000 I grew up in Los Angeles around a lot of left people, and there was always kind of an anti-war bent.

01:34:40.000 And somewhere, 15 years ago, that shifted and we were humanitarians.

01:34:48.000 And I just don't see that.

01:34:51.000 I don't think of myself as an isolationist, but I do, you know, it becomes a weird thing.

01:34:57.000 Well, let's take a Super Chats.

01:34:58.000 If you haven't already, smash the like button, and don't forget to go to TimCast.com.

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01:35:05.000 Let's read some of these comments.

01:35:07.000 We got Jonathan Galterini says, I'm sorry.

01:35:09.000 I'm so angry.

01:35:10.000 Can someone talk about how Biden just bombed Syria after all these peace deals we made?

01:35:15.000 How does this help any country?

01:35:17.000 Send my brothers and sisters home.

01:35:19.000 Leave the East alone. 0.91

01:35:20.000 I hear you, man.

01:35:21.000 I hear you.

01:35:22.000 You're not wrong.

01:35:24.000 Snowboard Dan says Tim got a new hoodie.

01:35:26.000 I did.

01:35:26.000 Ethan gave me his American Glutton hoodie and t-shirts.

01:35:30.000 And I said, that looks pretty cool.

01:35:32.000 I think I'm gonna wear it.

01:35:33.000 I'm jealous.

01:35:35.000 I don't wear Luke's shirts. 0.71

01:35:37.000 I killed my clone today.

01:35:39.000 What does that mean?

01:35:40.000 The idea comes from a good guy slash mentor of mine named Tom Kier, who I actually played a character based on him in the television show Chance.

01:35:51.000 And through conversations with him, he has this philosophy that he uses to train combat people.

01:35:59.000 He's a martial arts instructor.

01:36:02.000 And, uh, basically the point is every day you have to better yourself.

01:36:08.000 So you meet to battle a version of yourself that's 24 hours in the past.

01:36:13.000 And if you can best it, you've won the day and you've killed your clone.

01:36:17.000 That's cool. 0.97

01:36:17.000 I like that. 0.97

01:36:18.000 All right.

01:36:18.000 Well, let's read.

01:36:19.000 Let's read some more.

01:36:20.000 Wow.

01:36:20.000 Look at this.

01:36:21.000 Join my cult says Tim looking dope tonight.

01:36:23.000 Oh, they seem to really like your hoodie, huh?

01:36:25.000 Brent Saigon says, Hey Tim, I mentioned on your stream on the first that my brother Grant has watched you for years but didn't become a member and I asked you to bully him.

01:36:34.000 I humbly request you up your bullying and call him out by name so I have a sound bite to play him.

01:36:39.000 I assume he has the same last name as you.

01:36:41.000 Grant Saigon!

01:36:42.000 Why aren't you a member?

01:36:43.000 Join!

01:36:45.000 We'll make a special account that we can only post on it just for him to yell at him.

01:36:51.000 Everyone's like, what is this weird thing?

01:36:53.000 Nothing's happening when I click on it.

01:36:54.000 But only your brother will be able to click on it.

01:36:56.000 Alright, let's see.

01:36:59.000 Mike G says, on your vid earlier on GameStop, the current market has more to do with current government bond interest rates, not GameStonks.

01:37:06.000 I am not a cat.

01:37:07.000 Alright, I didn't think you were, but alright.

01:37:10.000 Tons of people are commenting saying Biden bombed Syria, Biden bombed Syria.

01:37:13.000 What's up with that?

01:37:14.000 Biden bombed Syria.

01:37:15.000 He barely got into it.

01:37:16.000 So what happened?

01:37:16.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:37:17.000 He bombed facilities that were tied.

01:37:20.000 Allegedly, these are the official sources of what we're hearing right now, at Iranian-linked facilities that were backed by some of their militia.

01:37:29.000 Again, very still, murky details.

01:37:32.000 We just got this announcement.

01:37:34.000 What did they bomb?

01:37:35.000 What are the consequences?

01:37:36.000 What are the amount of people that were killed here we still do not know. This is nuts

01:37:41.000 man he's gonna start a war with Russia. 0.94

01:37:43.000 36 days in. Russia also increased the number of troops that they have in the region so of course

01:37:48.000 did the United States recently and Turkey is also on the border and Turkey's the big wild card here

01:37:53.000 because they're a member of NATO and they're in favor of of course taking over more of Syria

01:37:59.000 which the United States is against and NATO and and um United States are butting head inside of Syria.

01:38:05.000 And now they're saying they want women in combat roles, and they want them in the Selective Service?

01:38:10.000 Timing! 0.99

01:38:10.000 I don't know if you'd call it moronic. 0.99

01:38:13.000 The liberal economic order of the British and the Americans that are trying to dominate the globe with military bases are losing the plot if they think that the world will not unite against them. 0.98

01:38:23.000 This is insanity, bro.

01:38:25.000 Well, they won't unite against them.

01:38:27.000 And this is the thing.

01:38:27.000 I've been saying this was going to happen on my independent media channel for a very long time.

01:38:31.000 I said, as soon as Biden's in, it's only going to be a matter of time until he relaunches the bombing campaigns.

01:38:36.000 And here we are.

01:38:37.000 That's the meme.

01:38:38.000 There's a meme.

01:38:39.000 It's amazing.

01:38:40.000 You guys know the meme of Biden eating ice cream?

01:38:42.000 Luke posted it.

01:38:43.000 It's a woman with a Biden hat screaming, Can I have my $2,000 check, please?

01:38:47.000 And Biden goes, Yeah, sure, babe.

01:38:48.000 I'll bomb Syria. 1.00

01:38:50.000 There's another one that says Biden tweeted America is back, and there's an image of a Syrian child saying, oh good, oh God, with the drone being LGBTQ friendly. 0.72

01:39:02.000 All right, well, we'll get into a little bit more with more Super Chats, but we'll read some more.

01:39:06.000 Cirilio says, first saw you in My Name is Earl, but mad props to you, sir, for breaking the typecast you were pigeonholed into.

01:39:12.000 Great surprise guest, Tim and crew.

01:39:14.000 Were you pigeonholed?

01:39:16.000 I think for a long time, at the size I was, I was definitely cast as a very large person.

01:39:23.000 Yeah, I do.

01:39:24.000 And you know, honestly, I probably would have had more monetary success if I had stayed that size.

01:39:33.000 What were the top three films that you've done that you love the most?

01:39:39.000 Cold Mountain is my favorite movie that I've been in, but then, you know, Remember the Titans, American History X, Blow, Mallrats.

01:39:52.000 What's Cold Mountain?

01:39:54.000 It's a Civil War movie that Anthony Minghella directed with Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger.

01:40:00.000 Do you do a bunch of location stuff?

01:40:02.000 We, we shot it almost entirely in Romania.

01:40:05.000 Wow.

01:40:05.000 Oddly enough.

01:40:06.000 Well, uh, with your weight loss, you got one of the most vital roles ever.

01:40:09.000 You got to be the podcaster in the movie, The Hunt.

01:40:12.000 Yes.

01:40:12.000 That's right.

01:40:13.000 Yeah.

01:40:14.000 It's a great movie.

01:40:14.000 We have another, Spanky says, bring back, my name is Earl.

01:40:17.000 And then his little, uh, hang 10 hand sign.

01:40:20.000 Please.

01:40:21.000 Yeah, it seems unlikely there has there was a Jason Lee and Greg Garcia, the creator, went and talked to some streaming platforms about doing more episodes.

01:40:33.000 And they got a lukewarm response.

01:40:36.000 So, yeah, I mean, this was a really popular show.

01:40:38.000 It was huge.

01:40:39.000 It was very popular.

01:40:40.000 But I think with stuff like Full House and Will and Grace and the shows that did come back, there was such a There's a huge outpouring of like, please do this show.

01:40:52.000 So we need 43,000 people to tweet right now.

01:40:54.000 Hashtag bring back my name.

01:40:56.000 That might do it.

01:40:59.000 Well, you know, hey, if people really want it.

01:41:02.000 Andrew Andrew says, is your flat ground game on the level of Johnny Geiger?

01:41:05.000 You've said you don't have a favorite skater previously, but give me a top three.

01:41:08.000 Keep it up, guys.

01:41:10.000 Absolutely not.

01:41:10.000 Johnny would annihilate me.

01:41:12.000 That's that's that's ridiculous. 0.91

01:41:13.000 Johnny Geiger is probably one of the best flat ground skaters in the world. 0.90

01:41:16.000 Hands down.

01:41:17.000 Top three skateboarders.

01:41:19.000 Oof, that's tough.

01:41:20.000 Always Rodney Mullen.

01:41:21.000 And I know it might be a little cliche to say, because he's the godfather of street skating, but when I was younger and started skating, I watched Rodney Mullen videos.

01:41:28.000 Me and my friends did freestyle.

01:41:30.000 That's why there's this video my buddy Brett shot 15 years ago.

01:41:34.000 It's Tim Pool skating in a warehouse, and now has like 400,000 views.

01:41:38.000 The craziest thing, I'm like 19.

01:41:40.000 But I do a one-foot nose manual, shove it manual, kickflip, because it's Rodney Mullen.

01:41:45.000 Uh, I'm actually gonna say, uh, Elliot Sloan right now.

01:41:50.000 Do you guys, you watch any skateboarding stuff?

01:41:52.000 A little bit.

01:41:53.000 Elliot Sloan, man, he's got a mega ramp in his backyard, but it's like a double mega ramp and his videos are some of the best.

01:41:59.000 I watched that vert skating and I'm like, I wish I could do And I wish I could do just a frontside air on a 20-foot vert ramp.

01:42:06.000 Not gonna happen.

01:42:07.000 I'm too old.

01:42:08.000 And then, um... Maybe Aurelien Giraud.

01:42:12.000 Giraud?

01:42:13.000 Probably pronouncing his name wrong.

01:42:14.000 But he might be, I think, one of the best skateboarders on the planet right now.

01:42:17.000 If not the best.

01:42:18.000 Just in terms of all-around skill and ability.

01:42:19.000 So there you go.

01:42:21.000 All right, we got Jay Manial says, Canada didn't need conscription to get 1 million people to volunteer in time of trouble during World War II with a population of 11 million.

01:42:30.000 Very interesting.

01:42:31.000 Interesting.

01:42:33.000 Zach30 says, Frankie Staccino is on Timcast OMG.

01:42:37.000 Boy Meets World changed my life.

01:42:38.000 Been a fan forever since then and watched your journey unfold.

01:42:41.000 Much love.

01:42:43.000 Everybody's gushing over Ethan.

01:42:47.000 I think that that show was happening before these people were alive.

01:42:53.000 I really do.

01:42:54.000 I mean, I was a little kid when it was on.

01:42:55.000 I watched it.

01:42:56.000 Yeah.

01:42:57.000 But I was barely barely.

01:42:59.000 When did it first air?

01:43:00.000 I was born in ninety three.

01:43:01.000 Yeah.

01:43:02.000 OK.

01:43:02.000 I watched it.

01:43:03.000 I enjoyed it.

01:43:03.000 It was a staple in my Fred Savage's younger brother.

01:43:06.000 I was a huge Wonder Years fan.

01:43:08.000 And I got to say, as brothers, Maybe a better actor than Fred.

01:43:12.000 I don't know, you guys are both awesome, but they were great.

01:43:15.000 Surprisingly amazing.

01:43:16.000 Yeah, it was fun.

01:43:17.000 Oh, check this out.

01:43:18.000 Nosealazar says, George Romero shot Day of the Living Dead at the same mall Mallrats was shot.

01:43:22.000 Is that true?

01:43:23.000 I didn't know that.

01:43:24.000 Wow, that's hilarious.

01:43:25.000 Watching both sides, back to back.

01:43:27.000 Maybe make a short film that combines the two universes.

01:43:30.000 Yeah.

01:43:30.000 The Kevin Smith zombie universe.

01:43:32.000 Zombie Mallrats.

01:43:33.000 That would be a cool movie. 0.97

01:43:36.000 Gordo Fabulous says, screw mall rats.

01:43:37.000 Here's five bucks for having Randy on. 0.92

01:43:39.000 Bring back My Name is Earl.

01:43:40.000 Well, you guys have all tweeted it.

01:43:42.000 Let's go.

01:43:43.000 Look, it would be amazing if that happened.

01:43:46.000 It would be amazing if that happened, but I think it requires a lot of people.

01:43:51.000 Who owned My Name is Earl?

01:43:52.000 Which network was it?

01:43:54.000 Um... Fox.

01:43:56.000 Fox.

01:43:57.000 Fox owned it, but it aired on NBC.

01:44:00.000 Really?

01:44:00.000 So it'd be a Disney Plus show.

01:44:02.000 I don't know.

01:44:03.000 Disney, you need some more mature content.

01:44:05.000 I don't mean like mature rated, I mean like more content for like the older generation.

01:44:08.000 I turn on Disney Plus and what do we get?

01:44:10.000 Kid stuff.

01:44:11.000 A lot of kid stuff.

01:44:12.000 You know, a lot of kid stuff.

01:44:13.000 I mean, they have Simpsons and Family Guy on Disney Plus.

01:44:15.000 They gotta bring back My Name is Earl.

01:44:19.000 Alright, let's see what we got here.

01:44:22.000 Let's jump to... Raymond Field says, so our dumb president already is launching strikes in Syria and is promising action on the Second Amendment. 0.94

01:44:30.000 But remember, folks, orange man bad. 0.93

01:44:31.000 Oh yeah, I know, you know.

01:44:34.000 Biker Bob says, Ethan, are you still looking for a Ranchero?

01:44:37.000 I have one from M-N-I Earl. 1.00

01:44:40.000 Oh, from My Name is Earl.

01:44:41.000 Wow, those cars were awesome.

01:44:43.000 My wife would be pissed if I got one. 1.00

01:44:45.000 That's how it goes.

01:44:49.000 A lot of people are just saying, my name is Earl, my name is Earl.

01:44:53.000 Oliver Macrea says, oh my god, it's my name.

01:44:56.000 My name is not Earl.

01:44:57.000 Love your show.

01:44:58.000 Keep fighting the good fight.

01:45:00.000 Here's a good one.

01:45:01.000 Bobby Bob says, Ethan, your weight loss has been inspirational to me.

01:45:04.000 While I'm still struggling greatly, I've gotten the working out part down.

01:45:08.000 Seeing you is helping me with the mental aspect.

01:45:11.000 Nice.

01:45:11.000 You have any quick, simple, easy advice?

01:45:15.000 Or is that just a myth?

01:45:16.000 No, no, I do.

01:45:17.000 I think that for me, the most important things that helped for long term were the idea of allowing it to take time, not needing it to be immediate.

01:45:30.000 And figuring out stuff specifically with exercise that I could do every day and wasn't going to be something that I either wound up hurt or so exhausted by that I couldn't do it.

01:45:43.000 So I now exercise for an hour a day, six days a week, and they're workouts that I could do forever.

01:45:50.000 It's never going to be too much.

01:45:52.000 Perfect.

01:45:52.000 Right on.

01:45:53.000 Let's see.

01:45:54.000 We got this one from Perik.

01:45:57.000 I'll just leave it there.

01:45:59.000 Jocko disagrees with you.

01:46:00.000 Colonel David Hackworth handled draftees in Vietnam and he said they performed well too.

01:46:05.000 All depends on the quality of leadership.

01:46:08.000 Draftees question chain of command more than volunteers. 0.99

01:46:10.000 Yeah, you know Luke, wasn't it true that the NYPD said they only hired dumb cops? 0.98

01:46:16.000 I remember hearing something about that. 0.88

01:46:17.000 I don't know if it was specifically with the NYPD, but I remember if an officer scored too high on the intelligence portion.

01:46:25.000 And it wouldn't surprise me because if you want people to take orders and not question them, you usually have to lower the IQ of your candidates.

01:46:33.000 Yeah.

01:46:35.000 DaBasedZoomer says, Ethan, your character in My Name is Earl had sleep apnea.

01:46:39.000 Do you have it?

01:46:40.000 If so, did weight loss help?

01:46:42.000 I was diagnosed two years ago and have been getting treatment ever since with a CPAP machine.

01:46:45.000 It's made life livable again.

01:46:47.000 Yes, I did have it and I don't anymore.

01:46:50.000 Losing weight.

01:46:50.000 Losing weight handled it for me.

01:46:52.000 Yeah.

01:46:52.000 Amazing.

01:46:53.000 Yeah.

01:46:54.000 It's a brutal, brutal thing to have.

01:46:56.000 It's like we wake up at night going... Yeah, you're not breathing.

01:46:59.000 Yeah, but I would do it and not be even aware that that was happening.

01:47:03.000 My wife would listen to me and go like, hey, wake up, you're not breathing. 0.95

01:47:06.000 Wow.

01:47:07.000 And I was just tired all the time and I would fall asleep driving my car.

01:47:11.000 Because you weren't getting REM sleep.

01:47:13.000 Your brain couldn't get sleep because that was what was happening?

01:47:15.000 Yeah. 0.94

01:47:15.000 Crazy, crazy. 0.94

01:47:16.000 It's awful.

01:47:17.000 Yeah.

01:47:18.000 Jacob Dahlbenspeck says, I work for a company that makes parts for Raytheon.

01:47:23.000 As much as I don't like the military-industrial complex, I really like the money from the military-industrial complex.

01:47:28.000 Keep us open during COVID.

01:47:30.000 That's true!

01:47:31.000 You can't deny that.

01:47:32.000 Your business is going to be booming under a Biden presidency.

01:47:36.000 Congrats, I guess.

01:47:39.000 Black Pelt of Confucian says, hey, Tim, what's up with the shirt?

01:47:42.000 Ah, so many people are watching and probably wondering why I'm wearing this hoodie.

01:47:45.000 It's Ethan's podcast, American Glutton.

01:47:47.000 American Glutton.

01:47:48.000 Yeah.

01:47:48.000 And so he gave me swag and I was looking at the hoodie and I was like, oh, that's kind of cool.

01:47:52.000 I'm going to wear it.

01:47:53.000 Because I thought it was the Anarchy symbol.

01:47:55.000 Yeah.

01:47:56.000 It says American Glutton.

01:47:57.000 The G is open.

01:47:59.000 It's not a full circle.

01:48:00.000 Not a full circle, but I thought it looked cool.

01:48:02.000 You're getting there.

01:48:03.000 It's a good visualization.

01:48:04.000 It's almost there.

01:48:07.000 Corey Carlson says, hi Tim, love you, love the whole group.

01:48:11.000 Tell Ethan Suplee congrats on getting ripped.

01:48:13.000 Fun fact.

01:48:14.000 The same amount of people have died in gender reveal accidents and shootings as the amount of people that died in the Capitol insurrection.

01:48:21.000 Did you guys see the latest one?

01:48:22.000 Like a gender reveal exploded and kills people.

01:48:25.000 I'll tell you what, make a birthday cake and make the inside blue or red or pink or whatever.

01:48:29.000 There you go.

01:48:29.000 You cut it and like, oh, hey, look, I got a cake.

01:48:31.000 Four kids, we never did this.

01:48:33.000 Right, just tell people.

01:48:34.000 I didn't even know this was a thing.

01:48:36.000 You know you do?

01:48:37.000 You have a Trump hat or a Biden hat.

01:48:40.000 It's like, it's a boy!

01:48:42.000 So wait, wait.

01:48:42.000 It's a Republican.

01:48:43.000 It's a Republican.

01:48:45.000 Red and blue.

01:48:46.000 Congratulations.

01:48:47.000 All right, let's see.

01:48:49.000 Robert Kindley says, you can't go to war with China if you are too busy going to war with China Joe Biden.

01:48:55.000 Hey, there you go.

01:48:57.000 And then pointing to his head.

01:48:59.000 Clyde the Slug says, Tim just bought two I Am A Gorilla shirts.

01:49:02.000 Also chocolate-covered pretzels.

01:49:04.000 Those are quite delicious.

01:49:06.000 And don't forget, you can get your exclusive Our Pillow.

01:49:09.000 It is the first version over at Teespring.

01:49:11.000 Go to TimCast.com, click shop, and you can get the I Am A Gorilla t-shirt and the Our Pillow, which has the my crossed out.

01:49:17.000 And we are working on the campaign for the official, original Our Pillow, which is just behind Ian.

01:49:23.000 It's a burlap sack full of packing peanuts.

01:49:24.000 That's the prototype.

01:49:25.000 That's the prototype.

01:49:27.000 I am not joking when I say we are going to sell this now.

01:49:29.000 Heck yeah.

01:49:30.000 There's probably... It's not a joke, folks.

01:49:34.000 I mean, it is.

01:49:35.000 It is funny, but it's not a joke.

01:49:37.000 And I'm not kidding.

01:49:38.000 I've looked into getting commercials on Fox News, and I'm pretty confident that will happen.

01:49:43.000 I'm pretty confident we're gonna sell something.

01:49:44.000 And we're gonna have a... our pillow.

01:49:48.000 It is a burlap sack full of Steiner Home Packing peanuts.

01:49:50.000 People are gonna buy it.

01:49:51.000 Watch.

01:49:51.000 Well, we gotta figure out a bunch of regulatory stuff.

01:49:54.000 Ugh.

01:49:55.000 But I plan on doing this.

01:49:56.000 Not an actual pillow.

01:49:57.000 Yeah.

01:49:57.000 I just, I just, you know what I was thinking?

01:49:58.000 It's like an artwork!

01:49:59.000 Yeah, exactly!

01:50:00.000 Where, where is anybody?

01:50:02.000 You know, like, like Elon Musk has all his money.

01:50:04.000 And he does some fun stuff with, like, his tweets.

01:50:07.000 But he could literally have a giant golden statue of, like, I don't know, Pac-Man just built and put somewhere for no reason.

01:50:11.000 So glad he doesn't.

01:50:12.000 And, but it would, why?

01:50:13.000 I don't know, opulence?

01:50:15.000 But it's not about that.

01:50:15.000 It's about, like, okay, so maybe not that, but doing things to kind of, like, sort of shake people a little bit.

01:50:22.000 Like, hey, wake up, live, do something.

01:50:24.000 Make life fun.

01:50:25.000 Yeah.

01:50:26.000 That's why I want to do the hour pillow.

01:50:28.000 Because I want people to be like, this is the worst pillow I've ever had, but it's mine and I got it.

01:50:32.000 I'm excited for it.

01:50:34.000 It'll be funny.

01:50:35.000 There you go.

01:50:35.000 Do you know that there's now NFT art?

01:50:39.000 What is that?

01:50:40.000 Non-fungible token art.

01:50:42.000 What?

01:50:44.000 Some of it's worth millions of dollars, too.

01:50:46.000 And it's just written into blockchain.

01:50:49.000 Really?

01:50:49.000 I think they're using Ethereum.

01:50:50.000 Crypto kitties?

01:50:51.000 Something like that.

01:50:53.000 Weird.

01:50:54.000 Interesting.

01:50:55.000 Cool.

01:50:56.000 Never heard of it.

01:50:56.000 Robert Galera says, Ethan, your body transformation video was an inspiration.

01:51:00.000 Exercise has been routine in my life for the past two years.

01:51:03.000 Thank you.

01:51:03.000 Nice.

01:51:04.000 Thank you.

01:51:05.000 Seven Empire says, My man Ethan was Seth from American History X. Looking good, brother.

01:51:10.000 You were in all of my favorite shows and films growing up.

01:51:12.000 Who remembers Boy Meets World?

01:51:14.000 That's right.

01:51:15.000 Yeah.

01:51:18.000 Ministeroni says Spotify unfollowed your podcast for me, so it's time I joined this really cool website.

01:51:23.000 I hear they sell great pillows.

01:51:24.000 Yes, they do.

01:51:25.000 Keep up the great work, everybody.

01:51:26.000 That's right.

01:51:27.000 The best.

01:51:28.000 Let's see, what is it, Skills Bot?

01:51:31.000 Nice to see Louie Lastic on the show.

01:51:33.000 C-plus average coach.

01:51:34.000 Yeah, that was a line from Remember the Titans, the character I played in our line from that.

01:51:38.000 Right on.

01:51:39.000 Yeah, I got into college.

01:51:41.000 John McHugh says, Ian, it's a sailboat.

01:51:43.000 Yeah.

01:51:43.000 Mallrats references.

01:51:45.000 I'm sure a bunch of Super Chats are going to be the Mallrats references. 0.69

01:51:48.000 I love that movie.

01:51:49.000 Good movie.

01:51:50.000 And Kevin's such a genius, man.

01:51:51.000 Yeah.

01:51:52.000 Oh, I love it in his raw form.

01:51:54.000 I mean, look at this, man.

01:51:55.000 Curious Mishap says, Yo, Ethan, I remember you were my favorite character on that canceled TV show.

01:52:00.000 Would you ever advocate for a continuation of My Name is Earl?

01:52:02.000 I would do it.

01:52:03.000 I think everybody, all the cast has been asked.

01:52:05.000 They all said they would do it.

01:52:07.000 It really is just a matter of demand.

01:52:09.000 I think they should do it.

01:52:12.000 I think we, I got Disney Plus and I canceled it.

01:52:17.000 Because of some controversies and stuff.

01:52:20.000 What are the Disney Plus controversies?

01:52:22.000 The Uyghur thing. 1.00

01:52:24.000 And Gina Carano. 0.94

01:52:26.000 And then I was like, the Gina Carano thing was dumb, but the Uyghur thing, was it the XPCC? 1.00

01:52:32.000 That was like, oof. 0.77

01:52:34.000 I have a question about the Gina Carano thing, because I just don't know.

01:52:38.000 Was she a regular on that show?

01:52:40.000 Yes.

01:52:40.000 Okay.

01:52:40.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:52:41.000 She was, uh... I don't know if you consider her to be a supporting or recurring character.

01:52:47.000 Recurring, perhaps?

01:52:49.000 But she was in, like, more than half of the episodes in each season, maybe?

01:52:53.000 Maybe not.

01:52:54.000 Yeah, I mean listen, again, to play the devil's advocate, when you do a television show for a big company like that, you sign a morality clause, and it's not even defined.

01:53:10.000 If you do something that they find immoral, they can get rid of you.

01:53:13.000 I did mention this when, when she got canceled, I did say, listen,

01:53:17.000 while I recognize, I thought it was absurd. She got canceled because what she said was,

01:53:20.000 don't demonize your neighbor. She didn't say anything about Republicans. She didn't

01:53:22.000 compare Republicans to anybody. She said they demonize their neighbors in Nazi Germany.

01:53:26.000 I said, but listen, the reason why they hire actors is like, you're, you're, you're an advertisement.

01:53:33.000 They want to put your name.

01:53:34.000 You know, first of all, they want the talent, obviously.

01:53:36.000 But for certain people, you know, they want top billing.

01:53:40.000 They want people to see this and say, oh, I love that actor.

01:53:42.000 I love the shows they do.

01:53:44.000 And so you're acting as a kind of salesperson for the brand outside of the acting you do in it.

01:53:48.000 I mean, that's fair, too.

01:53:49.000 You're the actor.

01:53:50.000 You're the expert.

01:53:50.000 Yeah, no, that's exactly it.

01:53:52.000 And if you do something that tarnishes their brand, they're very quickly going to get rid of you.

01:54:00.000 They don't want that kind of drama.

01:54:02.000 The problem is, you could drop an ice cream cone on the ground and then people are going to scream at the top of their lungs to try and get you fired.

01:54:10.000 You know what I mean?

01:54:11.000 Obviously not that simple.

01:54:12.000 But the media really spun what she said completely out of context. 0.59

01:54:16.000 I think it's a really dumb analogy, but I understand the gist of what she's saying. 0.53

01:54:21.000 But no, look, she didn't make an analogy. 0.71

01:54:23.000 Well, the meme, whatever the meme was.

01:54:25.000 She shouldn't have posted the image, because the image was actually from... I think it was the image that got her canned.

01:54:29.000 That was... right.

01:54:30.000 That, I think, I would absolutely criticize, because I don't... I wouldn't post something like that.

01:54:33.000 Right.

01:54:33.000 But all it said was in Nazi Germany, they had the, you know, before the

01:54:38.000 government was able to do what they did, they were propagandizing people

01:54:42.000 to attack their own neighbors.

01:54:43.000 How is that different from attacking someone on their political views?

01:54:45.000 Right.

01:54:46.000 She didn't say anything about Republicans.

01:54:47.000 So that was insinuated.

01:54:49.000 And then now people are saying she compared Republicans to like, you

01:54:51.000 know, the Jewish people that she didn't do that at the core of the message

01:54:55.000 was stop demonizing your neighbors for what they believe.

01:54:58.000 And I was like, if someone on the left posted that, people would be like, that's right, Trump supporters should stop doing this.

01:55:04.000 Everyone should stop doing it.

01:55:05.000 But I think it is fair to point out, and I definitely did, like right away, like, if you work for Disney and you post something, That's why a lot of actors keep their mouths shut.

01:55:16.000 Yeah.

01:55:16.000 That's why I think it's rad that you came on the show, to be honest.

01:55:18.000 There's a lot of people that I know and respect who are like, I'm really worried I'll get in trouble if I, you know, come on the podcast and we talk politics.

01:55:25.000 And it's like, I don't blame them.

01:55:27.000 It's really, you know, I'm disappointed for sure.

01:55:30.000 But, you know, I talked about this with a lot of people.

01:55:31.000 It's hard to tell someone, will you sacrifice everything in your life now that there's a political battle?

01:55:37.000 My personal answer is like, I will always stand up for what I believe in.

01:55:40.000 I understand why people might be, you know, worried or scared.

01:55:44.000 We don't even need to talk about politics.

01:55:46.000 We kind of choose that path, but there's so many other cool things to do and talk about, like health.

01:55:51.000 I definitely think we need to try harder to focus on some positive things in life as well.

01:55:55.000 Entertainment, like just, I mean, your presence, your aura and your history, like the power of that industry is so, I don't know how you would say it, immense.

01:56:04.000 I mean, that's one way to phrase it, but like just pervasive.

01:56:07.000 It's so like, It's storytelling.

01:56:09.000 It's one of the most ancient human arts.

01:56:11.000 And mass media is, you know, but it's, it's so it's enhanced it or intensified it.

01:56:16.000 It's incredibly powerful.

01:56:17.000 When, when, when Ethan walked in, everybody was gushing.

01:56:20.000 And I'm just like, it's funny that we can have these really high profile political figures that we listen to every day that inspire people.

01:56:26.000 And it's like, Oh, wow.

01:56:27.000 Hey, it's cool.

01:56:27.000 Cool to finally meet you.

01:56:29.000 But then, you know, you come in and I think there is something really important about entertainment that we take for granted.

01:56:34.000 When I was younger, I used to actually feel the opposite.

01:56:36.000 I was like, we waste too much time on entertainment.

01:56:38.000 We don't focus on the more important things.

01:56:40.000 And now that we've inverted it and politics has become pop culture, I'm like, can we please go back to talking about movies?

01:56:46.000 Because we went too far.

01:56:47.000 We want to focus on the important things and we need to have relief.

01:56:52.000 Humor.

01:56:53.000 The word humor and human is like intertwined.

01:56:56.000 We need it.

01:56:58.000 People are saying, here look, check this out, uh, Y-Doc says, bro, Remember the Titans is my all-time favorite sports movie.

01:57:03.000 Shame it's only on Disney+, I had to go out and find the DVD.

01:57:06.000 Like, the fact that, you know, we watch these movies and we're inspired and we feel good, it's, it's, we need, we need to bring that back into pop culture.

01:57:14.000 Because, you know, I was talking to a, uh, uh, like a podcast network recently, And they were talking about politics and news and stuff.

01:57:20.000 And I said, I gotta be honest.

01:57:22.000 Like I talked a lot about culture.

01:57:23.000 We talked about Sonic the Hedgehog a year ago and Birds of Prey, but when the movie industry kind of stopped and COVID happened and everything went up when election and politics became pop culture, it got so intense and everyone started fighting.

01:57:33.000 I'm like, there needs to be a split.

01:57:36.000 You know, we need to focus on politics and we need to focus on the things that give us relief and joy to calm down.

01:57:42.000 Otherwise we're going to explode.

01:57:43.000 Hey, I have an audience question.

01:57:45.000 Sorry, I have to interject.

01:57:46.000 I'm being pressured by my audience here.

01:57:47.000 here. I have a friend who wants to know what you guys both like

01:57:52.000 best about Michael Malice.

01:57:53.000 His friend is.

01:57:55.000 Michael Malice's friend.

01:57:57.000 Who is this friend?

01:57:57.000 I wonder who this is.

01:57:58.000 I okay.

01:58:02.000 Michael, are you texting Lydia?

01:58:04.000 Maybe, maybe not.

01:58:06.000 His humbleness.

01:58:09.000 I think Michael Malice has perfected how to use Twitter.

01:58:14.000 Because nothing he writes is cheap.

01:58:21.000 Super obvious or or if it is you have to be paying attention to him a while and at the bottom of it He's actually the most caring guy.

01:58:29.000 It's it's it's really wonderful.

01:58:31.000 I love Michael Malice when Michael tweeted I'm gonna I'm gonna say we tweeted.

01:58:35.000 I hope you're all ready.

01:58:36.000 What do you think Rush Limbaugh is saying to George Floyd right now?

01:58:39.000 Something like that I really like the tweet.

01:58:42.000 You know why?

01:58:42.000 Because it's implying they're both, I would say, in heaven together.

01:58:47.000 Yeah.

01:58:47.000 In a good place.

01:58:49.000 And I just thought it was... Michael knows how to craft his tweets perfectly.

01:58:54.000 That's why I said, like, you know, people say, like, who do you look up to in life?

01:58:56.000 I said, never really anybody, to be honest.

01:58:58.000 But in terms of, like, who I'm keeping my eye on, I watch Michael Malice's tweet and I'm like, this guy, he's figured it out.

01:59:04.000 Yeah.

01:59:05.000 I've not seen anybody figure it out like he's figured it out.

01:59:07.000 It's definite inspiration.

01:59:08.000 I love him.

01:59:09.000 And I'm very excited about his book.

01:59:12.000 Did he just make you promote?

01:59:15.000 So now we're promoting his book.

01:59:18.000 Michael Malice's new book, The White Pill.

01:59:20.000 Well, not only The White Pill, he's writing The Anarchist Handbook.

01:59:25.000 Oh, interesting.

01:59:26.000 Because, you know, there's a lot of... the left anarchists get very, very angry at the anarcho-capitalists.

01:59:35.000 Non-aggression principle, the free market.

01:59:36.000 Right, but Lysander Spooner was around predating Emma Goldman.

01:59:42.000 Anyway, the point is, their sanity From all those guys, all those cats had stuff to say that was rational at some point.

01:59:52.000 So, he's going to write a really cool book.

01:59:54.000 I'm excited.

01:59:54.000 Right on.

01:59:55.000 It's hard work, I know.

01:59:56.000 All right, we got Philip Aboody says, 584 pounds here, and I have been on opioids for eight years, and the dosage was slowly going up and up until I started to remove carbs, sugar specifically, and I started taking vitamin C and D, I think Mg is magnesium?

02:00:11.000 Yeah.

02:00:11.000 Zinc and collagen daily.

02:00:13.000 I have stopped taking opioids, dropping from 100 plus milligrams a day to none.

02:00:17.000 Dude, awesome.

02:00:18.000 Congratulations.

02:00:19.000 That's awesome.

02:00:19.000 That's some of the supplements I take.

02:00:21.000 Collagen?

02:00:22.000 Yeah.

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02:00:26.000 Those guys are awesome.

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02:00:29.000 Jordan Schaffer says, Join the family at Timcast.com.

02:00:33.000 YouTube lost all my confidence in it when I couldn't donate a normal amount easily.

02:00:37.000 Thank you for the amazing content.

02:00:39.000 Y'all are the best.

02:00:40.000 So right now, what we're doing with the website, we have just like extra segments we'll do.

02:00:45.000 We reserve the more like, the things we're not supposed to say on social media.

02:00:49.000 Because we can say on the website, we can swear, we can do all that stuff.

02:00:52.000 But what we want to do with TimCast.com, but maybe a bigger brand, maybe we'll start with TimCast.com, is actually original shows.

02:00:59.000 So other podcasts, but even fiction stuff, that may be down the line.

02:01:04.000 I think we might start with mini-docs and man-on-the-street interviews and just get more and more content and really, you know, bring some, you know, bang for your buck.

02:01:13.000 All right.

02:01:13.000 Chris Pavotto says, you often say finite resources.

02:01:16.000 How much longer until the media praises Thanos 50% concept?

02:01:20.000 Sell me a 40 year old using the internet for 20 years on a VPN.

02:01:24.000 How will my years of past history help my future?

02:01:27.000 The Thanos thing?

02:01:28.000 Aren't they already doing that?

02:01:31.000 The Great Reset?

02:01:32.000 Sacrifice?

02:01:33.000 Yeah, I mean... Well, they kind of have accepted that the human population is... there's too much, and that people are gonna die regardless, so they're trying to, like, get ahead of the curve on that or something?

02:01:41.000 Well, the human population is going to go down, according to many statisticians and scientists, by the year 2044, according to some estimates, or even sooner, because a large swap of the Western populations are declining in numbers rapidly.

02:01:54.000 and there's a big huge loss of sperm count.

02:01:57.000 There's a huge rise in miscarriages.

02:01:59.000 There's a huge rise in infertility.

02:02:02.000 So the population is dramatically going down in shocking ways that are gonna have

02:02:05.000 huge profound implications that I talk about on my YouTube channel,

02:02:09.000 because this is huge stuff that deserves more coverage.

02:02:11.000 Definitely.

02:02:12.000 But also, isn't there something to do with like, as groups move out of poverty, they have less kids?

02:02:19.000 Yes.

02:02:20.000 That's got to be part of it too, right?

02:02:21.000 Yeah.

02:02:22.000 Well, yes, that's why Western countries and Japan are dealing with this, but each country is different.

02:02:27.000 China is different because of their one-child policy that a lot of Establishment elites like Ted Turner call for in the United States.

02:02:34.000 Individuals like Prince Philip and Bill Gates kind of advocate for depopulation as well.

02:02:39.000 So there's a lot of different variables.

02:02:40.000 The population in China might normalize.

02:02:43.000 The population in Africa is going up dramatically.

02:02:46.000 Alright, we got Ryan Curie says, Hey Tim, I love your show.

02:02:49.000 Been watching Luke since the old days.

02:02:51.000 Wondering how you think a right-leaning moderate like myself should go about debating emotional leftists and people who believe everything CNN and mainstream media tells them.

02:03:00.000 Be nice to them.

02:03:02.000 If they get angry, apologize for making them angry.

02:03:04.000 Swallow your pride.

02:03:05.000 When I have a lot of conversations with my lefty friends, and I'll say something, I try to be calm, they'll get agitated.

02:03:11.000 Because it's like, if there's something they're confident in, but they actually don't know about, so they'll say something like, you know, oh, I think Biden is better than Trump because he's gonna get us these checks, and then I'll say, well, it's been, you know, how many, 30, 31 days, he hasn't got the checks to anybody.

02:03:26.000 If they get really mad, I'll say something like, Hey man, I'm sorry.

02:03:29.000 I didn't mean to make you angry.

02:03:30.000 I, you know, I just want to have a conversation.

02:03:32.000 You know, we don't, we don't have to talk if you don't want to and just try to be friends.

02:03:35.000 The, uh, it's not easy.

02:03:37.000 It's not, it's not super easy because everybody gets agitated.

02:03:39.000 Everybody gets elevated, you know, you know, the tensions elevate, but you know, really what I do when I have conversations with people.

02:03:46.000 Is if they go off the deep end and get super tribalist, I'll just say something like, I don't understand why you're being so mean.

02:03:52.000 You know, I'm sorry that you got angry.

02:03:54.000 We don't have to talk about this.

02:03:56.000 Because you're not going to solve anything if people are screaming at each other.

02:03:59.000 So it just really depends on what your goal is.

02:04:01.000 Sometimes people have told me they intentionally try to keep engaging with someone who's getting angry because they want other people to see it.

02:04:09.000 So one thing I often do is I try to be overly polite in any conversation I have, particularly on Twitter.

02:04:14.000 Because my attitude is, look, someone is watching this conversation and they're going to see me saying, I didn't mean any harm.

02:04:21.000 I'm sorry.

02:04:21.000 I mean, no disrespect.

02:04:22.000 And the other person saying, F you, you moron. 1.00

02:04:24.000 You're so dumb. 1.00

02:04:25.000 And people are going to gravitate towards the person who's nice. 1.00

02:04:28.000 That's the easiest way to do it, I suppose.

02:04:30.000 First thing you got to do.

02:04:31.000 It's proven.

02:04:32.000 All right, let's jump down. 0.86

02:04:33.000 Let's see what we got here in the old super chat box.

02:04:36.000 That's another show that was cancelled too early.

02:04:47.000 That I was in the last season of.

02:04:50.000 Yeah, I don't know who to tell, but the creator of that was one of the writers on My Name is Earl, so I think it was in the same universe somehow.

02:04:57.000 I got to say, I'm not, I don't, I don't know if I have the clout in any capacity with, you know, with the audience to actually get My Name is Zerl to trend and come back.

02:05:07.000 But I would say it would be like the coolest thing ever if like, you know, it happened.

02:05:12.000 And it's just like, Ethan went on this show and they were talking about political issues and cultural issues and war.

02:05:17.000 And then the audience was like, we want My Name is Zerl.

02:05:19.000 That'd be awesome.

02:05:20.000 That'd be so cool.

02:05:22.000 Yeah.

02:05:22.000 What should people tweet?

02:05:24.000 I don't know.

02:05:24.000 What should people tweet?

02:05:25.000 I have no, I have no, I don't know how Twitter works anymore.

02:05:31.000 Well, you know, I think if, if, if everybody told all their friends, they're bringing back so many shows, they're bringing back Frasier.

02:05:37.000 Are they?

02:05:37.000 Yeah.

02:05:37.000 They're bringing back Frasier.

02:05:39.000 Yeah.

02:05:39.000 Paramount plus tons of shows.

02:05:41.000 It's time to come back, man.

02:05:43.000 Yeah, it could happen.

02:05:45.000 Daddy T says, Tim, what's your favorite skate video besides your sponsor me tape?

02:05:49.000 Uh, I don't have a sponsor me tape.

02:05:51.000 I never, I've never done anything like that.

02:05:52.000 I hate filming.

02:05:54.000 I just, I hate filming skateboarding.

02:05:55.000 I filmed some stuff that I was proud of in the past, but my favorite skate video?

02:06:00.000 Um, what's it called?

02:06:01.000 Is it Fun by Santa Cruz?

02:06:04.000 Maybe not.

02:06:04.000 I don't remember.

02:06:05.000 I, you know, I honestly, I don't really care for, for skate videos all that much or filming.

02:06:09.000 Just like oh, nope.

02:06:11.000 Sorry easily.

02:06:12.000 It's Brett Novak's Killian Martin a skate escalation hands down He's a friend of mine, but the music so good and Killian Martin an amazing skateboarder You guys should check that out on on on his channel Brett Novak It was one of like a super famous video went mainstream viral.

02:06:28.000 So that's it was crazy to see regular people who didn't skate Watching the skate video like wow, so super cool All right.

02:06:38.000 DJ Mederos says, Tim, I once read an issue of Popular Mechanics in the late 90s.

02:06:42.000 In it, there was an article that said all the UFO technology from Area 51 and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was moved to a base in northwest Utah that's 200 square miles.

02:06:51.000 Interesting.

02:06:53.000 Well, that would be fun to learn about, I suppose.

02:06:57.000 Publius the Good said, Trump did that to M1, just saying.

02:07:01.000 Well, his cabinet, because he was trying to bribe the people who... I can't say that on YouTube.

02:07:06.000 He was trying to bribe people, but they still turned on him.

02:07:09.000 Yeah.

02:07:14.000 Nate Boley.

02:07:16.000 Or NateBoy.

02:07:17.000 Why don't you make dual stream to TimCast.com so you can just shut down YouTube stream and keep streaming on .com for exclusive segment?

02:07:23.000 People won't have to wait an hour or two.

02:07:25.000 Thoughts on that?

02:07:27.000 Yes.

02:07:28.000 So we are actually working on a bunch of new tech for the website.

02:07:32.000 We're going to be redoing the graphic design and building everything out.

02:07:35.000 And one of them is going to be essentially what you've just said, as well as other technology we're going to open source and provide to other people so they can have the same access as we do.

02:07:43.000 And, uh, I don't know if that, what does that make me?

02:07:44.000 I'm like a lefty libertarian, right?

02:07:46.000 I'm going to free the codean.

02:07:47.000 We're going to make code that can benefit all these other people that they can use on their websites.

02:07:51.000 And we're going to give it away for free.

02:07:51.000 And then we're going to start a civilization on Mars with it.

02:07:55.000 I guess, maybe.

02:07:58.000 TitanTech90 says, I went to high school at Papio South, and we were the Titans.

02:08:04.000 We got Denzel and the original Titans coach, Boone, to come visit when we opened.

02:08:08.000 You look great, brother.

02:08:09.000 Keep up the great work.

02:08:10.000 Thank you very much.

02:08:12.000 Ashley Parrish says, whenever I see Ethan, all I hear is The Tuna, one of my favorite movies.

02:08:16.000 You look fantastic, and now if I didn't know it was you, I would never guess it was you.

02:08:21.000 That has been funny.

02:08:22.000 There have been a few instances where people have been in arguments online saying I'm not me.

02:08:29.000 She's a little weird.

02:08:30.000 Transformation, man.

02:08:31.000 Yeah.

02:08:31.000 I mean that photo from your Instagram where it's like you before and then after and you're like standing tall and flexing.

02:08:38.000 It's like you look totally different.

02:08:40.000 Yeah.

02:08:40.000 It's like the other one is, you know, a marshmallow.

02:08:42.000 The other one's a Viking warrior.

02:08:44.000 You know what I mean?

02:08:46.000 Let's see.

02:08:49.000 Oh yeah, Thinking Out Loud mentions, uh, NFT crypto art.

02:08:52.000 Beeple made 3.5 million in December.

02:08:55.000 New art auction today on Christie's currently at 2.2 million expires in 14 days.

02:09:00.000 So what is that?

02:09:00.000 It's...

02:09:03.000 I don't know how it works, but it's art tied into, I believe they use Ethereum, but it's some blockchain.

02:09:08.000 I don't know how it works at all, but it's a piece of art that you store in your wallet and ultimately nobody can take it away from you.

02:09:17.000 It can't be seized.

02:09:18.000 I mean it works because people want to store a value.

02:09:20.000 I'm saying I don't know how it's fabricated.

02:09:25.000 A lot of art is people buying something so that the money they have sits in a hard asset, you know?

02:09:31.000 AlternativeJK says, Oh snap!

02:09:33.000 Shoutout to Ethan Suplee on Timcast IRL.

02:09:35.000 I was gonna say it's Vince from Art School Confidential, but I'll keep it subtle.

02:09:38.000 By the way, I'm digging everyone's fashion sense tonight.

02:09:41.000 What a Thursday, and now I finish fanboying. 0.97

02:09:46.000 Oh man, Rudy C. Winslow says, Ethan, you abused a clown in Vulgar. 0.91

02:09:50.000 You were in Vulgar. 0.93

02:09:51.000 I was. 0.99

02:09:51.000 Dude, I saw that movie and I was like, what the fuck is this movie? 0.99

02:09:56.000 Was that Kevin Smith? 0.99

02:09:58.000 It was, uh, no.

02:10:00.000 Um, did you ever see this show, um, Comic Book Guys?

02:10:05.000 Yeah, I love that show.

02:10:06.000 It was one of those guys.

02:10:07.000 Wait, is that Kevin and his friends?

02:10:08.000 Kevin, it was the comic book shop that Kevin opened.

02:10:11.000 Yeah.

02:10:12.000 And then one of the guys in that directed Vulgar.

02:10:16.000 Oh.

02:10:17.000 Yeah.

02:10:18.000 Which guy?

02:10:18.000 I don't know.

02:10:19.000 I wouldn't know my name.

02:10:19.000 I haven't seen it in a while.

02:10:21.000 Yeah.

02:10:21.000 I've never seen it, so I don't know how to describe it.

02:10:24.000 It's hilarious.

02:10:24.000 It's like a bunch of guys sitting around.

02:10:25.000 Brian McJohnson, yeah.

02:10:27.000 Alright, we'll just do a couple more here.

02:10:29.000 Tyler Toth says, Hey Ethan, can you give some insight on working on The Ranch?

02:10:32.000 One of my favorite shows.

02:10:33.000 Cheers.

02:10:34.000 A lot of fun.

02:10:35.000 I think, you know, it's this odd thing in Hollywood where sitcoms are kind of looked down upon a little bit because multi-camera shows came out and were so kind of creative and interesting that people kind of stopped thinking well of sitcoms.

02:10:56.000 As a human being, sitcoms are much easier to make and you live a better life.

02:11:03.000 So, I mean, that's what I have to say about The Ranch.

02:11:05.000 It was a lot of fun to do.

02:11:07.000 Paul S says, a My Name is Earl spinoff with Ethan as the lead would be better.

02:11:11.000 And a smiley face.

02:11:12.000 Yes!

02:11:14.000 Alright, last one.

02:11:14.000 Chef Gap says, love the stream, Tim.

02:11:16.000 You guys, gals should have an episode talking about Magic the Gathering. 0.99

02:11:19.000 No, just political.

02:11:21.000 Well, we're planning on doing a gaming channel and everything too.

02:11:24.000 We actually got a streaming rig set up, so we're getting there.

02:11:27.000 I guess the main challenge is we can only work as hard as a human being can work and we need more human beings.

02:11:33.000 So I will tell you, I think I'm looking now for like two journalists and probably some developers, but we still have to suss out what the full plan is going to be before we can get to that point.

02:11:43.000 Tim actually got me a little Magic the Gathering gift.

02:11:46.000 Today Bob Ross original art.

02:11:49.000 So excited.

02:11:51.000 It's beautiful.

02:11:52.000 Magic the Gathering is a card game.

02:11:54.000 One of the core components are called land cards and they took Bob Ross paintings for the art on the cards and it's got Bob Ross's name and it is beautiful.

02:12:02.000 It is incredible.

02:12:03.000 Happy little mistakes.

02:12:04.000 All right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for hanging out.

02:12:06.000 We're gonna be jumping over to the exclusive members-only segment in a little bit, so make sure you follow me on all social media at TimCast.

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02:12:33.000 It's greatly appreciated.

02:12:34.000 And we'll see you all in the next show.

02:12:35.000 But Ethan, you want to shout out anything in particular, your podcast?

02:12:38.000 I have a podcast called American Glutton, and you can see images of me on Instagram at EthanSuppli.

02:12:46.000 There you go.

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02:13:09.000 It'll be cool.

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02:13:34.000 We're gonna talk about some Hollywood stuff, I think, in the exclusive members-only segment.

02:13:38.000 I got so many questions, but there's also some stuff happening with Lady Gaga.

02:13:41.000 I know a lot of people probably say, oh, we don't care about Lady Gaga, but this, I think, is fairly important, so we'll talk about this.

02:13:46.000 Thanks for hanging out, and we'll see you over at TimCast.com.

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