Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Alaska Airline SWATS Woman Over No Mask, FBI RAIDS Her House w-Bill Ottman

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00:00:30.000 So this story is pretty crazy.

00:00:32.000 Apparently some lady was at the Capitol with her husband, and they never actually went inside the building.

00:00:39.000 When they were flying back, something happened.

00:00:41.000 I don't know if it was on their way back, but they were on an Alaskan Airlines flight.

00:00:44.000 Apparently weren't wearing masks.

00:00:45.000 So they got into it with one of the staff members and got booted off and banned from the airline.

00:00:50.000 Apparently then, someone from Alaska Airlines tipped off the FBI, making claims that these people were the ones who stormed the Capitol, and then the, I guess, or some of the people who did.

00:01:00.000 And then the FBI, because this woman is of the right age, or a similar age or whatever, decided to raid her home, looking for Nancy Pelosi's laptop.

00:01:09.000 It's a really weird story.

00:01:11.000 And if you just look at the photos of the woman they're claiming was involved in stealing the laptop, and this lady in Alaska, you can clearly tell they're not the same person.

00:01:20.000 So what is going on?

00:01:21.000 How is the FBI not figured out who stole the laptop yet? 0.95

00:01:25.000 How have they not figured out who was laying pipe bombs around DC that day, yet they're able to track down some of these, you know, bumbling dotards who walked into the Capitol building? 0.99

00:01:36.000 Maybe it's just low-hanging fruit. 0.83

00:01:37.000 Maybe the reason the FBI goes after the garage pull rope is because it's easy.

00:01:42.000 You ain't gotta do anything.

00:01:43.000 Yeah, we're gonna go show up and then we're done with work.

00:01:46.000 And trying to figure out who actually stole something, maybe that's really hard.

00:01:50.000 Well, we'll talk about this.

00:01:51.000 It's kind of a weird story, but we're gonna be chillin' today.

00:01:52.000 It's a chill day.

00:01:53.000 It's not a big news day.

00:01:55.000 We're talking about Dogecoin, which is skyrocketing, and Bitcoin, crypto, and just the state of social media free speech, and, you know, with stories like this and the FBI, I gotta say, it's been a bit of a pessimistic past couple of weeks, but we'll break all this down.

00:02:10.000 Maybe all these people will become Dogecoin millionaires, or maybe Dogecoin is proof the system is just crumbling before our eyes, because people are getting rich off of a meme?

00:02:19.000 If you put $1,000 in a Dogecoin in January, you would have $1,021,000 right now.

00:02:26.000 Something is wrong with the economy if that's the case, I'll tell you that.

00:02:29.000 So, uh, joining us today, of course, is Bill Ottman.

00:02:32.000 You wanna introduce yourself?

00:02:32.000 Hey, hey.

00:02:34.000 Hey, everyone.

00:02:34.000 Great to be here.

00:02:35.000 I'm Bill, co-founder of Minds.

00:02:39.000 Tim and I have been rocking along for a few years now, just working on changing the world, man.

00:02:45.000 And Ian, of course.

00:02:47.000 Yeah, Bill contacted me 2011 or something and saw some of my crazy YouTube videos and was like, hey, help me start a new social network.

00:02:53.000 You seem like a crazy guy.

00:02:55.000 He had goggles on. 0.99

00:02:56.000 They were like holographic goggles.

00:02:57.000 Yeah.

00:02:58.000 It lets you see like a fly.

00:02:59.000 It lets you see like a fly sees.

00:03:01.000 It has like 40 each.

00:03:02.000 Each lens is like broken into 40 little lenses.

00:03:04.000 So you see this fractal.

00:03:06.000 And when you look at a light, you know why flies like the light because you see 40 lights with one eye.

00:03:12.000 Ian really draws you in.

00:03:13.000 There are four lights.

00:03:15.000 There are 40 lights!

00:03:17.000 Ian Crossland.

00:03:18.000 Yeah, yeah.

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00:05:17.000 Let's talk about this first really creepy story.

00:05:20.000 It's a really, really creepy story, because we have a bunch of different outlets that have reported this.

00:05:25.000 Did agents raid the home of a wrong woman over January 6th riot?

00:05:30.000 Maybe.

00:05:32.000 That's the creepiest thing about it, the maybe.

00:05:34.000 This story from the hour isn't the only outlet that said maybe they did.

00:05:38.000 A bunch of other outlets did.

00:05:39.000 I think even the AP was like, they might have.

00:05:42.000 But if you go to Anchorage Daily News, apparently one of the only outlets that actually looked into this story, they have a photograph of the woman during the January 6th rally in which Trump was speaking in DC, and a photo of the woman the FBI was actually looking for.

00:05:55.000 Here's a funny thing.

00:05:56.000 Okay, so maybe they're of similar age and their hair is kind of similar.

00:06:00.000 The woman whose home was raided as they were looking for Nancy Pelosi's laptop was wearing a gray scarf and I guess some kind of like low-cut or V or open neck shirt. 0.98

00:06:09.000 And the woman they're actually looking for has big hoop earrings and is not wearing a gray scarf and has some kind of, I don't know, weird flower pattern shirt.

00:06:17.000 Clearly not the same person.

00:06:19.000 So how is it that the FBI hasn't been able to figure out who stole the laptop, they haven't been able to figure out who was planting pipe bombs?

00:06:25.000 What are they doing? 0.94

00:06:26.000 I guess tracking down bumbling dotards who walked in confused. 1.00

00:06:30.000 So, here's where it gets really crazy. 0.74

00:06:32.000 Apparently, in this court filing, they mentioned that it was an Alaska Airlines employee who got into an altercation with these people because they weren't wearing masks, they got banned, and then I guess, this is where it gets weird.

00:06:45.000 Someone from Alaska Airlines looked up this woman's social media account, saw a post a few days later about being in D.C. 0.99

00:06:53.000 on January 6—not in the Capitol, mind you, not in the Capitol building, just there because Trump was rallying—then called the FBI and tipped them off.

00:07:01.000 And that was grounds for the FBI to go to Homer, Alaska and break this woman's door in and then go and search for a laptop.

00:07:09.000 Alright, did they find it?

00:07:10.000 Of course they didn't, because this was the wrong woman. 1.00

00:07:12.000 And now all these outlets are saying, like, maybe it was the wrong woman.

00:07:15.000 Okay, you know what?

00:07:16.000 Fine.

00:07:16.000 Let's play the maybe game.

00:07:18.000 Maybe this woman shows up in DC to hear Trump speak, and then everybody decides to go into the Capitol, so she takes off her jacket, takes off her scarf, throws it away, puts on a totally different shirt, attaches new earrings, all within the span of...

00:07:31.000 You know, a couple hours, I guess, while people are outside marching around. 0.86

00:07:35.000 I just find the whole thing just ridiculous.

00:07:37.000 And, uh, I don't know, man.

00:07:39.000 It makes me a bit pessimistic because it feels like the DOJ at this point has become completely politicized.

00:07:45.000 And I'll tell you what, this is gonna sound totally unrelated, but it really freaked me out.

00:07:50.000 We grilled today.

00:07:51.000 We made burgers.

00:07:52.000 They were delicious.

00:07:53.000 They were local farm burgers.

00:07:55.000 Apparently the local farms were telling us that, or so we were told by local farmers, The FDA has put restrictions on their ability to sell beef until recently.

00:08:05.000 And I'm like, I didn't hear that.

00:08:07.000 How come that's not in the news?

00:08:07.000 How come these stories aren't in the news?

00:08:10.000 It really does feel like a whole bunch of weird and wacky stuff is happening, right?

00:08:14.000 You've got something going on with this Arizona audit of the election.

00:08:18.000 The FBI flying to some woman's home in Alaska, desperate to find a laptop.

00:08:21.000 They can't figure out where it is.

00:08:22.000 We've got weird stuff with the dollar.

00:08:24.000 I don't know, man.

00:08:25.000 It all seems unrelated, but it's all, to me, it's indicative of, like, a rot in the foundation of the system.

00:08:30.000 Yeah, when you say weird things with the dollar, like, it's terrifying, explosive inflation that's, like, devastating the economy.

00:08:38.000 And that's not being talked about.

00:08:40.000 So I'm not overly shocked that other weird stuff is going on, too.

00:08:44.000 It just feels like it's breaking apart.

00:08:48.000 Let's ring the alarms.

00:08:49.000 The FBI can kick your door down if they think you're someone, even if you just kind of look like somebody.

00:08:53.000 Is that where we're at?

00:08:55.000 I'm not surprised that they could do this.

00:08:57.000 They can get a warrant from a judge and then go do it.

00:09:00.000 It's just...

00:09:03.000 I'm just at this point where watching all this news every day, I mean, we were sitting here before we pulled up the story, and I'm just like, I don't even care.

00:09:09.000 I don't even know what's going on anymore.

00:09:12.000 Like, I can tell you a million and one things, but I can tell you one thing is that Antifa goes and throws rocks through windows and bashes skulls. 0.71

00:09:19.000 Whatever happened to that old man in Kenosha got his head bashed in by some Antifa?

00:09:24.000 Nobody get arrested for that?

00:09:25.000 Nothing happened?

00:09:26.000 Oh, but some lady It's a door kicked in. 1.00

00:09:31.000 I see that.

00:09:31.000 I see Chauvin.

00:09:32.000 I see these cases.

00:09:34.000 I see the juror lying.

00:09:36.000 And I'm just like, who has confidence in the U.S.

00:09:38.000 government at this point?

00:09:41.000 Aspects of it.

00:09:42.000 What about what were you going to say?

00:09:43.000 I mean, how do you decide what to pay attention to?

00:09:46.000 Do you feel like you're feeding?

00:09:50.000 Because we are engineering.

00:09:53.000 You know, consciousness by what we're covering, what we're talking about.

00:09:57.000 And so, but you like, you need to go towards the rot, but you kind of need to balance that out.

00:10:02.000 I mean, I'm reading the general news, right?

00:10:07.000 So when I, when I look at news stories, I'm looking at like all of these different stories and I'm ignoring a lot of things.

00:10:12.000 I think I, you know, things I don't care about.

00:10:14.000 So I don't know, stories about celebrity gossip and.

00:10:18.000 A lot of stories about, like, some Instagram model wore a bikini to the beach.

00:10:23.000 And then it's, like, front-page news and a bunch of outlets.

00:10:25.000 Yeah, it gets clicks.

00:10:26.000 I get it.

00:10:27.000 When it comes to cultural issues, political issues, I'm trying to see what is going on and what matters most and what's having a big impact.

00:10:35.000 But admittedly, I'm only able to look at what journalists are, for the most part, already doing.

00:10:39.000 Now, we are going to be launching a newsroom soon.

00:10:41.000 We're going to start doing our own original reporting.

00:10:44.000 But that's why I was saying it's like I brought up the beef thing.

00:10:47.000 It's seemingly unrelated, but I think it's a really good example of people not realizing that I think we're being distracted by a lot of this stuff.

00:10:55.000 And what I mean is this FBI thing is scary.

00:10:57.000 It's creepy that an Alaska Airlines employee sending in a tip to the FBI about a woman because of a mask altercation.

00:11:04.000 That's just like really creepy like stuff.

00:11:07.000 Like, what was she doing?

00:11:08.000 Pulling up this woman's Instagram because she was mad at her or something like that?

00:11:11.000 It's weird.

00:11:12.000 And then the FBI goes to her house and kicks the door and looking for Nancy Pelosi's laptop?

00:11:16.000 This is like out of a bad action movie.

00:11:18.000 So this is some of the biggest news that you hear the mainstream media talking about.

00:11:22.000 What's going on with January 6th?

00:11:24.000 Oh, they raided this woman's home and it was like 1984-level snitch on your neighbor stuff, which is just very strange.

00:11:31.000 But then I hear this today when we're like, hey, let's grab burgers and we'll grill and have some burgers.

00:11:37.000 They were delicious, by the way.

00:11:38.000 Local beef.

00:11:39.000 And then apparently the farmers are like, oh yeah, we weren't allowed to actually sell any of this for a while.

00:11:43.000 The FDA wouldn't let us.

00:11:45.000 And I'm like, what?

00:11:47.000 Yeah, it's like raw milk.

00:11:48.000 I mean, just.

00:11:50.000 No, but it's something to do with the lockdowns.

00:11:52.000 It was the lockdowns.

00:11:53.000 It was COVID.

00:11:54.000 And so what I'm saying is we do have these really creepy weirdo stories in the mainstream media.

00:12:00.000 And it's really frustrating, actually, when you hear like the juror in the Chauvin trial.

00:12:04.000 Not only did he lie about the protest, he lied about his shirt.

00:12:07.000 He's wearing the George Floyd shirt.

00:12:10.000 And he's like, oh, I don't remember wearing that.

00:12:11.000 And there's a video of him wearing it from a different time, from like months earlier or like months later or something like that.

00:12:16.000 So we see all this stuff and that's like where the focus is when it comes to politics, but

00:12:16.000 Bacon?

00:12:23.000 we're not paying attention to is regulatory stuff.

00:12:25.000 What's going on?

00:12:26.000 Have you noticed a huge shortage of a ton of different goods?

00:12:29.000 First of all, lumber is already expensive.

00:12:31.000 Steel is expensive.

00:12:32.000 Food is skyrocketing, but it's not just that.

00:12:34.000 Yeah, bacon's going up.

00:12:35.000 We couldn't find it.

00:12:36.000 You couldn't find bacon?

00:12:37.000 Yeah, we went to Costco the other day, and we couldn't find any bacon.

00:12:39.000 And we're like, what's going on?

00:12:41.000 We're in trouble.

00:12:41.000 That's when things get real, is when you can't find the stuff.

00:12:44.000 I ordered a bunch of bacon I put in our deep freezer.

00:12:44.000 I'll tell you what I did.

00:12:46.000 Smart.

00:12:47.000 Yeah, because, you know, when the apocalypse comes, they say, in the land of a broken economy, the man with bacon is king. 0.89

00:12:53.000 I could see a pig here, to be honest. 0.99

00:12:55.000 I'd love a pig. 1.00

00:12:55.000 A pig? 1.00

00:12:58.000 They're like dogs, kind of. 0.99

00:12:59.000 Ian will get way too attached.

00:13:01.000 Dude, you'd be my best friend. 0.99

00:13:02.000 Just get a pig and don't kill it. 0.99

00:13:05.000 Let's keep it around. 0.96

00:13:06.000 It'll be good.

00:13:06.000 No, it's just weird stuff that people aren't paying attention to.

00:13:10.000 I tried buying cat food.

00:13:12.000 Well, why?

00:13:12.000 Couldn't do it.

00:13:13.000 It took like a month and a half, two months to get cat food.

00:13:15.000 Wow.

00:13:16.000 Yeah, so we ended up getting this cat food that Bucko doesn't like.

00:13:20.000 This reminds me of if we were living on the Titanic, and this is the part of the movie where they're like, this is when everyone should be getting on lifeboats, but we don't have enough lifeboats, so don't freak everybody out because there'll be a mad dash and people will smash and kill you.

00:13:31.000 So they're not telling us to get on the lifeboats.

00:13:33.000 I've got huge news!

00:13:34.000 Do you guys remember when Crowder sent me that gun?

00:13:34.000 Oh, what?

00:13:37.000 Yeah.

00:13:37.000 Okay, so I'm going to tell everybody the story of what happened with Cryosemia and his gun.

00:13:42.000 Actually, yeah, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, I'll get into the story.

00:13:47.000 But let me just say a few things.

00:13:48.000 I got too excited there.

00:13:49.000 And I'll just say, I got to lead into it better than that.

00:13:52.000 I'm really excited.

00:13:52.000 Okay, hold on, hold on.

00:13:57.000 Ian's right!

00:13:58.000 So, I got concerned about the riots in, you know, when we were in the Philly area, because it's—this is the craziest thing about New Jersey, I've talked about it before, it's a duty to retreat, even from your own home.

00:14:10.000 Like, seriously.

00:14:11.000 If you are in your house in New Jersey, they say it's a partial castle doctrine state, and so I'm like, okay, what does that mean?

00:14:18.000 It means if someone breaks into your home, and you can escape, you have to leave your house.

00:14:24.000 And I'm like, but go, go where?

00:14:26.000 And it's only if it's completely safe.

00:14:28.000 And so then you got to argue to a court why it was like, it was a totally safe, or I'm sorry, it has to be like, in order to be totally safe, you have to leave.

00:14:40.000 If there's some risk to you by doing it, then they could argue that you should have stayed in your home or whatever.

00:14:45.000 But if you can safely leave your home, you have to.

00:14:48.000 So I'm like, I don't want to be in this stuff.

00:14:49.000 I remember going to the stores and seeing all the shortages and everything, and then thinking, like, man, should we be preppers?

00:14:56.000 Because it's funny, people like to make fun of the preppers, but the preppers don't care.

00:14:59.000 I don't know if you guys have seen, like, prepper videos recently.

00:15:02.000 Yeah, they don't care what the media says about them.

00:15:05.000 They're just like, whatever, I don't care.

00:15:06.000 You know, I've got I got a bunch of toilet paper while you guys are fighting over it. 0.93

00:15:09.000 They're living a great life, growing food.

00:15:10.000 I mean, why?

00:15:11.000 And preparing food, living on farms.

00:15:15.000 And I don't know if they think the world's going to end tomorrow, but hey, man, the dollar is is is in pretty bad shape.

00:15:24.000 But let me let me let me tell you now.

00:15:25.000 Let me let me.

00:15:26.000 Now that I've built the suspense up a little bit enough to talk about this, this this Crowder thing, I got a big update on that gun that Crowder was supposed to me.

00:15:33.000 So this is like over a year ago.

00:15:34.000 I think it was over a year ago.

00:15:36.000 Yeah, it was.

00:15:37.000 I went on Loud Earth Crowder, and I don't think I had a gun at this point.

00:15:41.000 I was doing the paperwork to get one.

00:15:43.000 And so, Steven was like, Tim buddy, we're getting you a gun.

00:15:49.000 And he's like, we're going to send you the Sig M400, it's the Cadillac of guns.

00:15:53.000 And I'm like, awesome dude, thank you so much.

00:15:56.000 And then everybody wanted to know what happened to it.

00:15:58.000 And just no one ever heard about it.

00:16:00.000 I've never talked about it.

00:16:01.000 I've never shared it.

00:16:02.000 There's no Instagram photos.

00:16:03.000 It just never happened.

00:16:05.000 Well, here's what happened.

00:16:06.000 There apparently was only one gun shop in New Jersey that could do the modifications to make it New Jersey legal because New Jersey is a horrible state for firearms.

00:16:15.000 And so Crowder's team ended up sending it to the one shop that could take it.

00:16:19.000 The only problem, it was about 70 miles away from where we were.

00:16:22.000 And that would mean driving for about an hour and a half in the middle of a day where I'm working mornings and nights and on weekends and I couldn't do it.

00:16:29.000 I'd have to drive up there, fill out the Nick's background check form, drive back home, wait three to five days because I was on a delay list, then drive back and do it again.

00:16:37.000 I'm like, I can't do that.

00:16:38.000 Like I got a company to run.

00:16:39.000 I got shows to do.

00:16:40.000 There's no point in the day which I could leave and go do this.

00:16:44.000 So I told Crowder, I was like, look, I got sent to a, you know, a shop that's too far away from me.

00:16:49.000 I can't go get it.

00:16:50.000 Well, I got a phone call today.

00:16:52.000 And this shop calls me and they're like, it's been, you know, we're cleaning out the storage room.

00:16:57.000 It's been about a year and we found this gun and it's for you.

00:17:02.000 I got a voicemail.

00:17:04.000 I didn't listen to it until afterwards, but I get the missed call and I call them.

00:17:08.000 They're like, yeah, you know, we're cleaning out the shop and we realized we had this gun sitting here for almost a year.

00:17:13.000 Do you still want it?

00:17:14.000 And I was like, wow.

00:17:16.000 I do want it.

00:17:17.000 Can you send it to my FFL?

00:17:19.000 And they were like, sure thing!

00:17:20.000 So I'm finally getting it.

00:17:22.000 Oh, nice.

00:17:22.000 Yeah, so I checked the voicemail and there was this woman and she was like, it's been sitting here for a year and we're supposed to charge you five bucks a day for how long it's been sitting here, but...

00:17:32.000 You know, whatever.

00:17:33.000 If you don't want it, then we're gonna start charging you now, but call us back." 0.86

00:17:36.000 And I was like, sure, and I called him back.

00:17:38.000 And the problem was, when we were in New Jersey, they had to do a bunch of modifications to it.

00:17:42.000 And I was like, I can't pick this up.

00:17:44.000 And then, you know, I guess they theoretically could have modified it or shipped it out or whatever, but it just fell off.

00:17:50.000 So it's gonna be coming out here. 0.92

00:17:51.000 I'm surprised they didn't say, we can't ship it, for some stupid reason. 0.83

00:17:54.000 No, they were totally cool. 0.97

00:17:55.000 Yeah, shout out. 0.98

00:17:56.000 They were really cool.

00:17:56.000 And they were like, no, we got you, man.

00:17:57.000 Don't worry about it.

00:17:58.000 And so I guess the issue was when we were there, it needed to be modified for New Jersey, which was going to cost money.

00:18:07.000 But now we're not.

00:18:07.000 Now we're essentially between Maryland and West Virginia.

00:18:11.000 What was the modification?

00:18:14.000 Dude, New Jersey's got like crazy rules about what you can or can't have on a gun.

00:18:17.000 It's just so arbitrary.

00:18:19.000 It's like minimal.

00:18:20.000 They have to make it so that when you pull the trigger a flag comes out with it's red and says bang on it.

00:18:26.000 Otherwise it's not legal.

00:18:27.000 Yeah, it's the only legal way to get a gun.

00:18:30.000 That makes more sense in New Jersey.

00:18:33.000 So we're getting it and anyway, I got all excited because Unmodified?

00:18:37.000 Fully unmodified?

00:18:38.000 Yeah, fully unmodified.

00:18:39.000 Nice! 0.94

00:18:40.000 It's gonna be like as the Sega M400 comes out.

00:18:42.000 I'm looking forward to seeing this thing.

00:18:43.000 I've never even seen a picture of it.

00:18:46.000 Yeah, supposedly it's a cool gun.

00:18:47.000 Looks like a gun, I think.

00:18:49.000 You know, it was supposed to be my first, I guess, and now it's gonna be my 30th.

00:18:53.000 I want to circle back, as Jen Psaki would say, to this metaphor earlier I was talking about us looking for lifeboats.

00:19:01.000 Like how the government's kind of distracting us, or how we're being distracted by the media when it's time to get in the lifeboats.

00:19:06.000 Yes, we're being distracted, but I want to clarify my point.

00:19:08.000 I'm not necessarily saying it was intentionally misleading us.

00:19:12.000 Yeah, it may not.

00:19:12.000 Maybe it's not.

00:19:13.000 I think everybody is hyper-focused on the same thing, and we're all staring off to our left.

00:19:16.000 Meanwhile, on the right, there's a volcano erupting.

00:19:19.000 I have so many things to say about it.

00:19:22.000 I want to read this Nietzsche quote.

00:19:23.000 This is when Nietzsche was talking about the abyss.

00:19:26.000 He said, Beware that when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.

00:19:30.000 For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

00:19:34.000 And that's a big part of You know, the weight of being a journalist and doing things like what we're doing is we cover dirty, nasty, painful things to hear about and to think about, and it can make you angry.

00:19:46.000 It can make you edgy and lose focus on how to fix situations, you know, when you're surrounded by problems all the time.

00:19:54.000 Yeah, sorry, go ahead.

00:19:56.000 Okay, I was just gonna say that Michael Tracy just tweeted something about an article about journalists who are freaking out and breaking down constantly and crying, and I was like, that's because they steeped themselves in the anti-Trump bubble, and they were just stewing in it, all this TDS all the time, and it like broke their brains.

00:20:13.000 And there's a journalist who commented, her name's like Katie or something, and she's like, My brain broke during the Trump election.

00:20:19.000 I was like, dude, whose fault is that?

00:20:21.000 Like no one is making you dive into this stuff and just swim around in this cesspool of horrible thoughts about Donald Trump all the time, you know?

00:20:28.000 Yeah.

00:20:29.000 So you're right about that.

00:20:29.000 Can you imagine the nightmares these people were having?

00:20:31.000 Dude.

00:20:32.000 I'd love, I'd pay to see one of their nightmares.

00:20:35.000 Soon you'll be able to if this neural net thing is... Yeah, there's a neural net thing that can decode brain images, like what you're seeing, and then it transcodes it to a visual approximation.

00:20:45.000 I'm just imagining these people all day, every day, just... They were talking about after Trump got banned, they were celebrating.

00:20:51.000 And a bunch of people, like conservatives, were like, that's crazy, they would celebrate the censorship of a sitting president.

00:20:56.000 You gotta understand.

00:20:58.000 These people were talking about how they would wake up in the morning and then their phone would have a shortcut to pull up Donald Trump's Twitter to read what he was saying.

00:21:06.000 It's all they ever did because their companies wanted them to do it.

00:21:10.000 They're like, we got to write about what Trump is doing because Trump makes us money.

00:21:14.000 I used to imagine these people having like, you know, we talked about this the other day, Brian Stelter having a nightmare where he's like in an old rickety house and then he's like, it's like there's like lightning strikes and then there's Trump.

00:21:24.000 You can see him flashing and then he's like, and then when he runs out the back door, it actually just transports him back into the front door and he's trapped in this house and there's Trump in the shadows.

00:21:34.000 These people were trapped in a Trump vortex.

00:21:37.000 They became the demon, ultimately.

00:21:40.000 When you want a problem, when all you focus on is the problem, you can't live without it anymore.

00:21:46.000 That becomes part of your identity.

00:21:47.000 It seems like that's what's happening, and possibly is happening to people right now.

00:21:53.000 I think it's causing and a cause of the crisis, the culture war.

00:22:02.000 So the more the crisis escalates in terms of the FBI raiding someone's home or Antifa setting buildings on fire, the more you will get, say, MSNBC lying about riots.

00:22:14.000 And then in turn, conservatives saying the media is lying, they're fake news.

00:22:19.000 And so it's just a spiral that's spinning faster and faster and faster with everyone trapped inside.

00:22:24.000 Do you think the censorship of Trump is working to actually have people talk about it less?

00:22:32.000 Talk about Trump less?

00:22:33.000 Talk about Trump less.

00:22:34.000 I think it is kind of working.

00:22:37.000 I think Trump chose to kind of back off for a couple months.

00:22:40.000 That's the scary thing about censorship is it does work.

00:22:43.000 It can work in an isolated system.

00:22:45.000 So within the mainstream media network, the big tech social media network, I mean, yeah, you can stamp it out of those, but then, you know, it still has a life outside of there, but it can be hidden.

00:22:58.000 I don't think censorship works.

00:23:00.000 That's not true.

00:23:01.000 Donald Trump just wasn't doing anything for a few months.

00:23:04.000 He was just playing golf.

00:23:06.000 Then he started sending out emails again, and then all of a sudden they kept talking about it again.

00:23:09.000 And even when Trump wasn't saying things, they were still talking about Trump nonstop.

00:23:12.000 They were impeaching the guy.

00:23:14.000 They are the ones who don't want to let him go.

00:23:17.000 Now Trump launched from the desk of Donald Trump.

00:23:20.000 And then people have created social media accounts that are just reposting what Trump is posting on his own site and Twitter's banning them all.

00:23:26.000 Probably because we're in a less isolated environment now with the internet.

00:23:30.000 Because like the Romans, when they conquered the Gauls, this guy Vercingetorix, like they just basically stamped out all record of those people.

00:23:37.000 They censored it away.

00:23:38.000 And Tartaria and all this ancient Asian cultures that are just, we don't even know what they are because they were erased.

00:23:44.000 Let's clarify something real quick.

00:23:46.000 When people say that censorship works, and you look at how it affects modern political discourse, it works in the sense that you hide certain things, but it doesn't make them go away.

00:23:57.000 So it has the tensions between the culture war Has it stopped?

00:24:02.000 No, it's gotten substantially worse.

00:24:04.000 But they banned all these right-wing individuals, these conservatives, these Trump supporters.

00:24:08.000 Yet, well, they still exist, and they still believe things.

00:24:11.000 What happened was, these journalists are sitting on Twitter, rocking back and forth, like, scratching their head until their skin—until they're bleeding.

00:24:18.000 And then finally, Twitter says, we banned those people, and they go, They're gone.

00:24:21.000 They're finally gone.

00:24:22.000 And they're just literally still sitting there.

00:24:25.000 It's just all Twitter did was like pull down the blinds.

00:24:28.000 They're literally still there.

00:24:29.000 You can feel the cultural tension building up because of all this stuff.

00:24:34.000 So it's the pressure cooker is Pressure cookers on max.

00:24:39.000 Yeah.

00:24:40.000 That's me worried, man.

00:24:41.000 That's why I was like, that's why when you were talking about lifeboats, I thought about the gun and Crowder.

00:24:45.000 Yeah.

00:24:46.000 The key is I think when you look at this Nietzsche quote and you really let it seep into you, if you stare at the problem all day, it will, you will become part of the problem.

00:24:53.000 You have to, to not.

00:24:55.000 I mean, it's good to know what the problem is, but you've got to find a solution.

00:24:59.000 I don't think it means you will become, it just means be careful that you don't.

00:25:03.000 Some great people can probably stare into it their entire life and not become the demon, but I think there's a tendency to.

00:25:10.000 You know, this Alaska airline thing really unsettled me because it reminded me not of 1984, which is technically fiction, but of actual historical events like during the Soviet Union.

00:25:21.000 Those nice people who just silently sat by while their neighbors were rounded up.

00:25:24.000 They didn't want to think about politics.

00:25:26.000 They just wanted to go about their day and then they would turn in their own neighbors.

00:25:30.000 This is what Gina Carano got in trouble for. 1.00

00:25:32.000 I just heard a number that said that in the Soviet Union, two in five people were informants for the state.

00:25:32.000 She was right.

00:25:37.000 Yes.

00:25:38.000 That meant that somebody in your family was an informant and you couldn't talk about anything.

00:25:43.000 So you talk about censorship working.

00:25:45.000 Get people in your family involved on the government payroll.

00:25:48.000 See, you know why they had to round people up and send them to Gulags, Ian?

00:25:51.000 Because the censorship wasn't working.

00:25:54.000 That's true.

00:25:54.000 They had shut down any anti-state media.

00:25:58.000 It was all propaganda, but people still We're talking and spreading information.

00:26:04.000 And then these informants would go to the state and be like, did you hear?

00:26:07.000 They were just saying these things.

00:26:09.000 Well, censoring him isn't working.

00:26:09.000 All right.

00:26:11.000 Send him to the gulag. 0.98

00:26:12.000 Gotta excise them from sight was the only way.

00:26:15.000 Because when you, when, when you cut on a man's tongue, you're not proving him wrong.

00:26:18.000 You're only proving you are scared of what he might say.

00:26:21.000 That's a game with, I'm pretty sure it's a game with Thrones quotes.

00:26:23.000 Yeah.

00:26:24.000 Uh, what's the character?

00:26:25.000 Uh, Tyrion.

00:26:26.000 Yeah.

00:26:27.000 I thought what I thought you were saying today in your in your video about ContraPoints was really interesting how, you know, sort of the left is calling out the free speech warriors and the right is calling out the social justice warriors.

00:26:40.000 But realistically, it's I think that those two things do exist and they're sort of both hypocritical on both sides.

00:26:48.000 But then there are elements of the right and left and center who are more nuanced.

00:26:52.000 And I think that that's where we all hope that we sit.

00:26:55.000 But it's like, I think that both sides are right to a certain degree.

00:27:01.000 But you look at the New York Times data.

00:27:01.000 Sure, sure.

00:27:03.000 They recently did this thing where they said 38% of Democrats are in a bubble surrounded only by Democrats, no exposure to conservatives.

00:27:10.000 But it's something like 19% of Republicans are in a bubble with no exposure to Democrats.

00:27:15.000 So that means that there are conservatives who overlap.

00:27:20.000 Conservatives are less likely to be in a bubble and not understand Democrats.

00:27:24.000 It makes sense, because the old saying is that conservatives think liberals are misguided, but liberals think conservatives are evil.

00:27:31.000 To your point, here's what we see.

00:27:34.000 There is a rule in the culture war, when you look at the left, that when a conservative gets censored, they laugh, they gloat, and they celebrate.

00:27:45.000 Then you will see the rule on the right that people will immediately defend the conservatives who get censored.

00:27:53.000 When the leftists get censored, it is a rule that they will scream, it is unfair, it's censorship, and the conservatives are claiming they're the ones getting banned.

00:28:02.000 And it is still a rule that conservatives will defend the left when they get censored.

00:28:07.000 So when the left gets censored, the right and the left scream censorship is wrong.

00:28:12.000 When the right gets censored, the left laughs and mocks the right and the right says this

00:28:17.000 is wrong.

00:28:18.000 You don't think there are elements of the right that laugh when people on the left get

00:28:22.000 banned because they think it's like karma?

00:28:24.000 That's different.

00:28:25.000 So it's one thing when the left says, dude, Facebook's a private business.

00:28:29.000 If they want to ban you, they're allowed to.

00:28:31.000 And then a conservative goes, you got banned.

00:28:34.000 I thought you said it was a private business.

00:28:35.000 Serves you right.

00:28:37.000 There's a difference.

00:28:38.000 But there are people on the right.

00:28:39.000 That's why I said it's the exception on the left are those who would defend a conservative when they're censored.

00:28:46.000 And the exception on the right is those who would mock the left when they get censored.

00:28:49.000 Yeah, I think that's a good ratio.

00:28:51.000 And then there's the disaffected liberals and moderates who are pretty principled, straight through.

00:28:55.000 I mean, the reality is that it's hard to defend free speech in an absolute sense.

00:29:00.000 Because you're put into a position where you're defending horrible ideas.

00:29:04.000 It's like this burden that you have to carry around.

00:29:06.000 I constantly feel that, but you have to just keep walking.

00:29:11.000 Because we don't have anything other than our principles.

00:29:15.000 But then, I'm not even going to claim to be perfect because there are exceptions, which is the harsh reality.

00:29:23.000 Legalities! 0.98

00:29:24.000 There's legality and then there's free speech in the pure philosophical sense.

00:29:28.000 There's law and there's philosophy.

00:29:30.000 It's interesting in that we didn't necessarily have to deal with a lot of the creepy stuff on the internet when it came to public discourse.

00:29:37.000 Like, you know, people would go out in the street and they'd show pictures of like dead fetuses and stuff.

00:29:42.000 And, but for the most part, you don't have people walking around with, you know, holding up big signs with like pornography and stuff on it. 0.99

00:29:50.000 Now on social media, people can just spam a button and flood a network with garbage and crap. 0.52

00:29:55.000 And that makes it really difficult for regular people to engage in a platform and have this kind of speech. 0.95

00:30:00.000 When they're drowned out.

00:30:01.000 I suppose in reality, though, the issue might actually just be anonymity.

00:30:07.000 Or a lack of proximity.

00:30:09.000 Why won't someone show up to City Hall carrying big posters of pornography?

00:30:15.000 Because they'd have to be there holding it themselves.

00:30:17.000 And then people would see them and judge them and they'd feel bad and be worried about their access to resources.

00:30:23.000 When it comes to social media, they use an anime avatar or, you know, a cat person or something.

00:30:28.000 And then they can post whatever they want.

00:30:29.000 No one knows who they are.

00:30:31.000 But the paradox is that when you're anonymous, you feel the true freedom to express what you want to say.

00:30:31.000 Right.

00:30:38.000 Yeah.

00:30:38.000 That's exactly what I'm saying.

00:30:39.000 So people post weirdo pictures and creepy nonsense and garbage and they flood the zone with trash. 0.98

00:30:39.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:30:45.000 But so so it's simultaneously the problem, but it's also what gives us free speech, because when you have anonymity, like, yeah, it causes people to go crazy and like spam with like crazy, insane stuff.

00:30:57.000 But it also is a very important fundamental human right, arguably.

00:31:02.000 If you have a totalitarian government and you need to organize a response to it, if they know who you are, you're dead.

00:31:11.000 But if you have anonymity, you can do it functionally.

00:31:14.000 Yeah, like when Antifa went out and set fire to vehicles and threw bricks through windows and the cops couldn't do anything about it because they were all wearing masks.

00:31:22.000 It's true.

00:31:22.000 Exactly.

00:31:23.000 But I was thinking more about the Arab Spring, but yes, for good or ill, you can organize safely with anonymity.

00:31:28.000 I'm into one.

00:31:29.000 History is written by the victors, man.

00:31:33.000 In these countries where they have these revolutions, when the revolution wins, the revolutionaries are the good guys.

00:31:39.000 If they lose, they were insurgent terrorists and they were suppressed.

00:31:42.000 Except for Castro.

00:31:43.000 Because we had media now.

00:31:44.000 We have TV and radio so we can remember how, uh, what was that guy's name?

00:31:49.000 Che Guevara. 0.95

00:31:50.000 Put in the bullet in the guy's head or the girl's head. 0.95

00:31:53.000 You ever see that Che Guevara image? 0.99

00:31:53.000 That image. 0.99

00:31:54.000 We're like, we love Che Guevara!

00:31:56.000 People wear his shirt, a shirt with his face on it. 0.98

00:31:58.000 He was a psychotic murderer. 0.99

00:31:59.000 I mean, he was a murderer. 1.00

00:32:00.000 He was, he was a cold-blooded murderer. 0.99

00:32:01.000 But the Motorcycle Diaries was a sick movie. 0.83

00:32:04.000 Was that about him?

00:32:04.000 I didn't see it though.

00:32:05.000 Yeah.

00:32:07.000 It's actually a good movie.

00:32:07.000 So there are, the history is written by the victors, but maybe the victors were the ones that built the internet.

00:32:13.000 Yeah, but listen, we have history of Shay being a bad person because we aren't socialists, because our government was anti-socialist.

00:32:22.000 So we made sure that that kind of stuff existed.

00:32:26.000 But history is written by the victors, man. 0.95

00:32:29.000 If the activists win, it was funny, what did Jack Posobiec tweeted, today will be called, like, what did he call it, the age of dumb? 0.99

00:32:35.000 Yeah, the age of dumb, yeah. 0.86

00:32:37.000 And I said, yeah, but if the left wins, it'll be called the Age of New Enlightenment. 0.95

00:32:42.000 It'll be the Great Awakening, the Great Awokening, when people finally realized what was truly happening.

00:32:47.000 That's what it'll be.

00:32:49.000 But where are the history books?

00:32:51.000 What are going to be the history books?

00:32:53.000 CNN.

00:32:53.000 I know, but in a thousand years, what are people actually going to reference?

00:32:57.000 What do you mean?

00:32:59.000 Wikipedia?

00:33:00.000 That or something more immutable, potentially.

00:33:04.000 Like a blockchain?

00:33:05.000 Or databases that can't be tampered with?

00:33:07.000 Right.

00:33:08.000 Or if you see them tampered with, you know they were tampered with?

00:33:10.000 Exactly.

00:33:10.000 I disagree.

00:33:12.000 I mean, there will be both.

00:33:12.000 We're going to exist in both worlds.

00:33:14.000 There's going to be encyclopedias that are immutable, and then there's going to be ones that are controlled by centralized authorities.

00:33:20.000 Yeah, but the centralized authorities for now control the dominant narrative.

00:33:25.000 It's interesting though, you know, I like that phrase, if the situation was hopeless, the propaganda wouldn't be necessary.

00:33:33.000 And I mean, among my three channels, we get, you know, I think 50 to 60 million views per month.

00:33:40.000 It's down a bit because I used to do three more segments every day.

00:33:42.000 I cut those out and I cut off weekends.

00:33:44.000 But we're still hitting around 50 million.

00:33:46.000 And so it's not the same as, you know, CNN on YouTube gets 200 million.

00:33:50.000 But I think that's pretty good relative to YouTube.

00:33:53.000 The net videos over the course of your life because you'll live longer because you're resting a little bit more, you'll still put out the same amount of content.

00:33:59.000 No, the idea is to build something and expand and empower other people to start doing similar things like this.

00:34:06.000 And so I think there's some optimism there that a show like this can exist.

00:34:09.000 The problem is, they've been going after Steven Crowder like crazy.

00:34:14.000 And it's not for legitimate things.

00:34:17.000 So, you know, Crowder is one of the biggest, I guess we can call it counterculture shows.

00:34:22.000 He is a conservative personality, very funny with millions of fans and subscribers.

00:34:27.000 And he challenges the establishment.

00:34:31.000 He, you know, and he questions the official narratives.

00:34:34.000 And so what do they go after him for?

00:34:35.000 Out of context, edgy jokes or just edgy jokes in general, or they just make things up.

00:34:42.000 Like when he was quoting CDC data, they said, oh, that's misinformation.

00:34:44.000 So they take his videos down.

00:34:46.000 How much does it cost to launch a network channel?

00:34:47.000 Do you think?

00:34:47.000 So they're trying really hard to it's a culture war man.

00:34:51.000 How much does it cost to launch a network channel?

00:34:53.000 Do you think?

00:34:54.000 What do you mean?

00:34:55.000 Like in terms of getting like a channel on you know TV?

00:35:02.000 I don't know.

00:35:04.000 Let me think.

00:35:06.000 I don't think it's that much.

00:35:07.000 Maybe $20 to $50 million?

00:35:09.000 Something for the alternative media to consider.

00:35:11.000 But why do you want to be on TV?

00:35:12.000 I don't know.

00:35:13.000 Maybe it's not even that much, to be honest.

00:35:16.000 That's why I'm asking.

00:35:17.000 It might not be worth it.

00:35:18.000 But I think at this point it's probably dirt, because what's the point?

00:35:23.000 The point is that I think there are millions of people who are still in that world.

00:35:28.000 The newer generation is not in that world.

00:35:32.000 I don't know what the numbers are.

00:35:33.000 I think a lot of people are watching digitally.

00:35:38.000 TV ratings are in the gutter and we are going to see in the next five to ten years a major switch to digital.

00:35:44.000 Who controls getting a channel?

00:35:50.000 You negotiate with the provider.

00:35:51.000 So you would go to Comcast and then say, we want our channel to be on your list.

00:35:56.000 And then you'd work out a deal.

00:35:56.000 Right.

00:35:58.000 And typically how it works is like they give you a few cents per household or whatever.

00:36:01.000 So it's a lot of money for some of these channels.

00:36:04.000 But then you've got to produce content.

00:36:06.000 And so a lot of what we're seeing now is this is amazing.

00:36:10.000 MTV, for instance, they just do reruns of Ridiculousness.

00:36:14.000 I love it.

00:36:15.000 Vice Land or Vice TV or whatever they're calling it these days.

00:36:18.000 Vice was supposed to have their own cable channel and they finally got it.

00:36:20.000 They just started doing reruns of movies.

00:36:22.000 You'd like turn on Vice and it would be like, you know, Groundhog Days on.

00:36:25.000 Yeah, that's a good example of it not being worth it.

00:36:30.000 to get a channel, because Vice did it, and it's not particularly effective.

00:36:33.000 And no one's going to watch it.

00:36:34.000 No one's going to watch it at 2 in the morning or 4 in the morning.

00:36:36.000 So what's the point of all that dead space?

00:36:39.000 Well, yeah, TV doesn't work so much anymore.

00:36:40.000 You can't just pull up, you know, go through the channels on your phone.

00:36:43.000 I would think that the providers would start to do that so that you could just go through the channels.

00:36:48.000 Everything's on demand now.

00:36:50.000 So Hulu is way more relevant than cable TV.

00:36:55.000 So if I want to watch Star Trek, I just go to Netflix or Hulu.

00:36:58.000 opportunity to do a radio show.

00:37:00.000 They were like, hey, let's do this radio show.

00:37:01.000 It's going to air at 8 p.m.

00:37:03.000 on Tuesday.

00:37:04.000 And I was like, okay.

00:37:05.000 So it ran once at 8 p.m.

00:37:08.000 on Tuesday and it was never, you can't get it.

00:37:11.000 And it felt so like I was robbed.

00:37:12.000 I spent all this time recording this thing that is not now persistent on the internet as a YouTube video that someone can click on.

00:37:18.000 The value of it being there all the time transcends magnitudes more value than waiting till 9 p.m.

00:37:25.000 I wonder if this is all the Great Filter.

00:37:25.000 to see a show.

00:37:27.000 You know the Great Filter?

00:37:29.000 You know Fermi's Paradox?

00:37:31.000 Vaguely.

00:37:31.000 You're familiar with?

00:37:32.000 No?

00:37:32.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:37:33.000 So the idea being, you know, if the universe is so vast, then surely there's intelligent life.

00:37:37.000 If there is, how come we haven't seen any signs of it?

00:37:39.000 And there's a bunch of hypotheses about what it may be, and the Great Filter is one of them.

00:37:43.000 And that's when a civilization reaches a certain point and they just get filtered out of existence, right?

00:37:47.000 Something happens to intelligent species that they wipe themselves out.

00:37:51.000 And I'm thinking, like, everything we're looking at right now, maybe it's like yeast in a bottle, you know, just eating the sugars and farting ourselves to death.

00:38:00.000 But in reference to what you're saying about YouTube and stuff, maybe it's just that we have billions of hours of content every single day, every perspective.

00:38:09.000 And at a certain point, there's just too much static.

00:38:13.000 It's like, there was a period where everything was noise, it was chaos.

00:38:18.000 Then we built upon it this civilization, this order.

00:38:21.000 And then, continuing our expansion of technology, it's going back to static, to noise.

00:38:25.000 You know, if you were to actually look at the raw feed of YouTube, like the firehose of all the videos being uploaded, I bet it's nonsensical gibberish and garbage.

00:38:32.000 It's like a seven second video of like a chicken looking at a camera and then a hamster just walking around.

00:38:38.000 Then there's like some little kid staring at the camera confused for three minutes.

00:38:41.000 And then the family.

00:38:42.000 It's just a whole bunch of nonsense no one ever sees.

00:38:46.000 Right, but it's both.

00:38:48.000 I mean, we also have so much access.

00:38:50.000 Like, I feel like I learn faster than I used to.

00:38:54.000 Probably not when I was a baby.

00:38:54.000 I do.

00:38:55.000 Like, you know, you learn the most when you're a baby.

00:38:57.000 But the amount of information that we're getting now is... The velocity is so high that we're probably evolving faster in certain ways as well.

00:39:04.000 I think that baby things... Look, maybe it's true.

00:39:08.000 Get a baby.

00:39:09.000 I recommend it.

00:39:10.000 No, hold on.

00:39:11.000 How long does it take a baby to start speaking?

00:39:14.000 About a year.

00:39:15.000 a year and in what way do they start speaking in a year?

00:39:19.000 Just sounds that vaguely resemble...

00:39:22.000 I think they say on average in 44 weeks to master a romance language if you're a Germanic

00:39:29.000 or Romantic speaker and 88 weeks for an East Asian language like Chinese.

00:39:34.000 So in one year you can be fluent in German or French.

00:39:40.000 A baby can mutter some words.

00:39:41.000 We should do a show, a challenge of like a super smart person versus a baby.

00:39:46.000 It's not that, you know, people always say this like, oh, it's so easy to pick up when you're a kid.

00:39:52.000 Well, it's because you're not doing anything.

00:39:54.000 Also, your brain is lit up like they do studies, fMRI exams on people with LSD, and their entire brains light up, and they're active like the right and the left hemisphere at once, and that's how baby brains are.

00:40:04.000 They haven't learned to filter stuff out, so they're just learning everything.

00:40:08.000 Well, there's such high demand and need for them to communicate, because when it's your first language, your body is forcing you to figure it out so that you can achieve certain things that you want to achieve, which you don't have that need when you already know one language.

00:40:23.000 That's not true.

00:40:25.000 Depending on where you live, yeah, maybe you move somewhere and you have to.

00:40:27.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:40:28.000 And you'll pick up the language super quickly.

00:40:30.000 And so I was reading, it says on average, it's 44 weeks.

00:40:32.000 I don't know what the study was.

00:40:34.000 I read it on Reddit or something.

00:40:35.000 To master, if you speak a Germanic or Romance language in 44 weeks, you can be fluent in another language.

00:40:41.000 If you are actively pursuing and speaking and using that language, you'll be fluent.

00:40:45.000 Let's launch the study.

00:40:46.000 Well, I mean, I guess they already exist.

00:40:49.000 How long does it take for a child to get to the point where they're having a conversation like this?

00:40:53.000 Probably four years old.

00:40:58.000 Probably the smartest kid in the world, I would argue, could keep up.

00:40:59.000 discussing the nuance of economic policy.

00:41:02.000 Probably the smartest kid in the world, I would argue, could keep up.

00:41:06.000 I think around...

00:41:07.000 Smartest four-year-old on the planet.

00:41:08.000 There you go.

00:41:09.000 Like, 10 or 11 maybe.

00:41:12.000 They're having a conversation, but mostly asking questions due to their lack of exposure to information and context.

00:41:17.000 So it's not an issue of ability, it's an issue of just time.

00:41:21.000 You know, we've had more time to learn things and understand history.

00:41:24.000 I mean, there are videos, there's one video of this Chinese boy playing Chopin Fantasy Impromptu.

00:41:31.000 He's three.

00:41:32.000 I'm telling you, this, it's madness.

00:41:35.000 I mean, it's probably he's been trained by his parents in a very...

00:41:39.000 borderline abusive way. I don't want to accuse anything, but it's insane. And that's something

00:41:45.000 that none of us could do. And it might take a decade to learn. So, you know, there are,

00:41:51.000 but that's the exception.

00:41:52.000 Let's get back to talking about the apocalypse. Yeah. Yeah.

00:41:54.000 We're talking about how do we, how do we start talking about what we're talking about? Yeast

00:41:57.000 farting itself to death in a And I think this mass influence of information is causing interference in our ability.

00:42:05.000 So that's the static, is this weird influence.

00:42:07.000 In tide pools, what would happen is organisms would live at one level of the tide pool, vertically.

00:42:13.000 So petri dishes are kind of one, they're only two dimensional.

00:42:16.000 They don't really have up and down.

00:42:17.000 You can't really get out of it.

00:42:18.000 Normally in a tide pool, if an area of the tide pool got too acidic or too dangerous for these organisms to live, they would come together and form a new type of organism that could float up to a different strata of the tide pool and essentially evolve into a new organism collectively.

00:42:33.000 They would come together and create a new organism.

00:42:35.000 Now, in Petri dishes, you don't see that because they're two-dimensional.

00:42:38.000 They don't have anywhere to go, so they eat them so they die.

00:42:40.000 But in the tide pool, our nature is to come together, form a new species, essentially, and then move somewhere where we can thrive.

00:42:47.000 I think decentralization needs to happen.

00:42:49.000 It needs to happen fast.

00:42:50.000 I think people need to get out of cities.

00:42:52.000 I think they need to go to more rural areas.

00:42:54.000 They need to start learning how to take care of themselves and be self-sufficient.

00:42:58.000 And so we got rid of one of our... We have, you know, two... We have a front lawn.

00:43:02.000 There's a walkway dividing the lawn.

00:43:04.000 We got rid of one side of it and turned it into a garden.

00:43:06.000 So we're gonna be growing a lot of our own food.

00:43:09.000 Not nearly enough to sustain the amount of people who are, you know, living and working.

00:43:13.000 But it's a start.

00:43:14.000 And I think people need to do that.

00:43:15.000 We also have chickens, so we're gonna have a bunch of eggs at some point in the next couple of months.

00:43:19.000 And I think having some reliance on yourself is really important.

00:43:22.000 And getting off the grid.

00:43:25.000 I don't mean getting off the grid in the sense of, like, disappearing from society.

00:43:29.000 I mean having well water with a filtration system and having some kind of, you know, at-home renewable of solar or wind or whatever you can get.

00:43:38.000 And still being attached to the grid, just having the capability to survive on your own in the event things start falling apart.

00:43:44.000 Yeah, the electric grid, especially.

00:43:46.000 Right.

00:43:46.000 Because right now, if one part of the electric goes down, they shut the entire grid down to repair it and take everyone's power out.

00:43:52.000 It's not sustainable.

00:43:53.000 Or there's a storm and it could knock out your power.

00:43:55.000 And what are you going to do?

00:43:56.000 So I'm thinking about what we're seeing with the market.

00:43:59.000 There's desperate attempts to assuage the fears of an impending market collapse and hyperinflation.

00:44:05.000 And I think it's coming.

00:44:07.000 I think we're starting to see a lot of the same signs, far be it for me to tell anybody what they should do with their money, but, you know, I've been talking to a lot of my friends who are, you know, some of them who do, are day traders and work in investment firms, and they bring up, you know, every time we see a major collapse, you start seeing similar signs of the media saying, oh, no, everything's fine, there's no collapse, just keep doing your thing, and it's like, When they start saying this stuff, everything's okay, go back to work, mind your own business.

00:44:34.000 It happens every time, and then there's a major collapse, or some kind of crash.

00:44:37.000 Well, there was a case, I was talking about Christopher Mellon, who was just on Rogan, like a couple days ago, and he told this story where, because this guy worked in intelligence agencies, They told him that there was a pending nuclear attack on New York and DC.

00:44:52.000 When?

00:44:55.000 I don't remember what year he said, but he was told from the inside that this is likely to be happening.

00:45:02.000 He told his family and friends, but he said he was walking around.

00:45:05.000 In a blur because he, you know, it was surreal.

00:45:08.000 He felt like he should warn people, but it would cause more chaos.

00:45:11.000 That's why they... But that did happen.

00:45:14.000 That's confirmed from the inside.

00:45:16.000 They knew nuclear was a tangible threat, and they decided not to tell anyone because they figured... They didn't have... Was this a year ago, five years ago, ten years ago?

00:45:25.000 Maybe Lydia can help look up the date, but... Like during the Cold War?

00:45:29.000 I mean, I think he might have even broken the news like two days ago, so I'm not sure, but...

00:45:34.000 You know, they didn't have full confirmation that the attack was coming.

00:45:38.000 So they decided that it wasn't worth it because their level of intelligence wasn't guaranteed.

00:45:43.000 And then luckily it ended up not happening.

00:45:45.000 That's why I think, you know, the Preppers are laughing at us because they're like, you got these arrogant city folk who mock Preppers.

00:45:52.000 And it's just like, first of all, why do I care what you think about me?

00:45:56.000 Second of all, when you when when the water shuts off, the power goes out like when Hurricane Sandy hit and the power went out in New York.

00:46:03.000 None of these prepper people care when there's a hurricane.

00:46:06.000 They got everything.

00:46:06.000 They're like, and?

00:46:07.000 They're good.

00:46:09.000 They go underground.

00:46:09.000 The joke's on the people mocking.

00:46:12.000 It's ridiculous. 0.95

00:46:13.000 They're not prepared. 1.00

00:46:14.000 Preppers, truthers.

00:46:16.000 I remember when truther became a word that was pejorative.

00:46:20.000 I mean, that's out of a fiction novel.

00:46:24.000 Truther?

00:46:24.000 I mean, granted, okay, there are some crazy truthers about certain topics, but the fact that the phrase truther is used as a pejorative is insane when you just look at it from the outside.

00:46:38.000 I'll tell you what's insane.

00:46:40.000 There was that quote from Joe Biden recently where he's like, who needs a hundred rounds?

00:46:44.000 What do you think the deer's wearing?

00:46:45.000 Kevlar?

00:46:47.000 It's like, your life has been so cushy and soft. 0.51

00:46:52.000 You've been such a spoiled, pampered brat. 1.00

00:46:54.000 Because you do not know hardship.

00:46:56.000 That you're like, why would anyone ever need to defend their lives?

00:46:59.000 Well, I guess you can ask the people in inner city Chicago why they keep buying illegal guns and bringing them in and buying them.

00:47:07.000 Because there's a lot of gun violence and they're worried.

00:47:09.000 Some people are bad people and want to commit crimes and some people are worried about being the victims of crime.

00:47:13.000 But that statement from Joe Biden just shows.

00:47:16.000 That's the mentality.

00:47:17.000 They've never had hardship.

00:47:19.000 Imagine spending your whole life.

00:47:20.000 You know, I'll put it this way.

00:47:22.000 I know a lot of people who never had jobs.

00:47:25.000 It's crazy.

00:47:26.000 26, 27-year-old, never had a job.

00:47:28.000 Why?

00:47:28.000 They went to school, they went to high school, they went to college, went to a master's program.

00:47:32.000 Get out, 24 to 26, never had a job, ever!

00:47:36.000 So they have no idea how anything works.

00:47:39.000 They have no idea how to get money.

00:47:41.000 And they're just, man, adults at 26 who don't know how to survive on their own.

00:47:48.000 Now, that is obvious.

00:47:49.000 You can see that.

00:47:50.000 You can be like, obviously, if you've never worked and never, you know, generated income, you're going to be a 26-year-old with all of life's responsibilities out of school and having no idea what to do.

00:48:00.000 Sure, they can teach you how to play the trombone in college, or they can teach you how to, like, you know, set up a nuclear reactor, but they don't tell you how to get a job, or make money, or, or, you know, set up a banking account, or pay your taxes.

00:48:11.000 Now you think about that and think about conflict and crisis.

00:48:15.000 Not a person in this country save cops, veterans, and not even every veteran.

00:48:21.000 A lot of them are administrative.

00:48:22.000 A lot of cops are administrative.

00:48:24.000 There is a relatively small fraction of people in this country who have actually experienced any kind of real conflict.

00:48:31.000 So most people in this country are voting based on the idea that everything is and always will be fine because it is normal to not have to worry about any of these things.

00:48:43.000 It's normal.

00:48:43.000 Yeah.

00:48:43.000 And that's why decentralization is something you're sort of forced to learn, whether it's digital decentralization or physical, you know, with farms and stuff like you have to get banned in order or you have to know people who are getting banned in order to understand that you need to secure yourself.

00:49:00.000 And your communication systems.

00:49:02.000 That's why it's funny when, you know, I was talking about ContraPoints earlier on one of my channels.

00:49:06.000 ContraPoints is a leftist who, if you look at her Twitter accounts, I search for free speech, there's just mockery of the free speech warriors. 1.00

00:49:14.000 Now all of a sudden, after one of her videos is age restricted, it's, we must stand up for free speech and the left must reclaim free speech, and it's like, My response is always, thank you, welcome to the fight, please, your advocacy for free speech is greatly welcomed, but if only you stopped treating this like a joke in a game.

00:49:30.000 And that's the point.

00:49:31.000 People who weren't being oppressed, people who weren't being targeted by a system, who did not know hardship, were laughing at those who were saying, we need to be prepared and fight this.

00:49:42.000 Because they weren't experiencing the problems.

00:49:44.000 This is the funny thing now.

00:49:46.000 You can see something so plainly obvious.

00:49:49.000 What do you do when the power goes out?

00:49:50.000 I don't know, the power never goes out.

00:49:51.000 If it does, someone fixes it for me.

00:49:53.000 What do you do when the power goes out and doesn't come back on? 0.99

00:49:56.000 What are you, some kind of dumb prapper? 0.98

00:49:58.000 Okay, well listen. 1.00

00:50:00.000 You can keep betting on this idea that life is and always will be a golden age just for you.

00:50:06.000 Or you can look at history and recognize, for one, Golden Age has come to an end, and two, the natural state of life on this planet is constantly stressed out, running, and struggling to survive.

00:50:17.000 I did play a game of Civ where I went from Golden Age to Golden Age to Golden Age to Golden Age for like thousands and thousands of years.

00:50:24.000 What was your strategy?

00:50:25.000 I don't know, I was playing on easy.

00:50:26.000 It was cultural science based.

00:50:30.000 Culture and science.

00:50:31.000 Yeah.

00:50:32.000 Yeah, you're playing in easy mode.

00:50:33.000 I think I was playing on like normal prints or something above average.

00:50:36.000 Not hard.

00:50:36.000 Not super hard.

00:50:37.000 I think it's the same reason people sit on big tech apps because they have no reason to leave.

00:50:43.000 I mean, they haven't experienced what people involved in these issues have experienced.

00:50:47.000 They're not, you know, real journalists who have experienced censorship in international countries.

00:50:53.000 I'm talking about international journalists who are like, you know, really getting censored by governments and whatnot.

00:50:58.000 And so You know, you have to experience it.

00:51:01.000 You see that really, there's a really great video from last year, where someone from the BBC is interviewing the president of Azerbaijan, and they're like, your record on press freedom is abhorrent, and he was like, what about Julian Assange?

00:51:13.000 And then it's just like, mic drop!

00:51:15.000 He's like, you've had this guy locked up for how many years, holding him as a hostage, and then you're gonna talk to us about press freedoms?

00:51:22.000 And she's like, well, I'm not holding him, your country is doing it!

00:51:24.000 So don't come to me and criticize me, and it's like, I'm pretty sure they have a very bad track record on journalism, so they don't get any free passes.

00:51:31.000 But why should the UK?

00:51:33.000 Why should, you know, any one of these countries, or the US even, pretend that they're doing well? 1.00

00:51:39.000 Now, keep in mind, I love when the left claims, like, press freedoms in the US under Trump slipped worse than Somalia, or whatever stupid garbage they were saying.

00:51:47.000 What you have now, there was a tweet from this journalist, and she was like, I ordered a bulletproof vest that I need for doing journalism in America, and it was too small, and I was at one point kind of glad it was too small, that my bulletproof vest that I need for journalism in America wasn't gonna fit me, and I'm like... It's too big. 0.94

00:52:03.000 She was too small.

00:52:05.000 Yeah, it was too big for her.

00:52:05.000 She was too small?

00:52:07.000 The point is, she was clearly trying to make a point about, I can't believe people in America would need to wear a bulletproof vest!

00:52:15.000 What do you think the world is like?

00:52:17.000 This is like someone living in a Chuck E. Cheese's in the bouncy castle being like, why would anyone need a helmet?

00:52:24.000 We're in a bouncy castle!

00:52:25.000 You want to protect your kids.

00:52:26.000 Dude, outside is concrete.

00:52:27.000 You want to protect the minds of children.

00:52:30.000 You don't want to show them soldiers getting blown apart and bleeding out and stuff when they're one so that it warps their perception.

00:52:37.000 You also don't want to coddle them and not show them any of the terror of reality, in my opinion.

00:52:42.000 I don't have kids.

00:52:43.000 You have kids.

00:52:44.000 You can probably talk better about this than I can.

00:52:47.000 And I don't even know, like, how have you been navigating that?

00:52:49.000 Do you want to talk about that?

00:52:51.000 Yeah.

00:52:52.000 Well, that's kind of what was interesting about when we all first experienced the Internet. 0.99

00:52:57.000 You know, you go and you find the craziest shit that you can find. 0.97

00:53:00.000 I remember, like, LiveLeak videos, man. 0.99

00:53:04.000 Yeah.

00:53:05.000 Just like, oh, there's a guy getting murdered again.

00:53:06.000 He's like watching it and just like, wow.

00:53:09.000 I could rail off.

00:53:10.000 Two girls, one cop.

00:53:11.000 So much trauma.

00:53:12.000 Oh my gosh.

00:53:13.000 Motorcycles hitting people in the head.

00:53:14.000 I mean, faces of death.

00:53:15.000 Remember that?

00:53:17.000 Yeah, I don't know the answer to that.

00:53:19.000 I think you need to ease a brain into the reality, but you don't want to shelter them too much, that's for sure.

00:53:26.000 It's tough and uneasy.

00:53:28.000 But we have a generation, we have what now, like three generations, of ever-increasing padded walls.

00:53:36.000 So what's happening is now you have all of these urban liberals who... It's like WALL-E, you know?

00:53:42.000 It's like the morbidly obese people in their hoverchairs floating around where things are being done for them.

00:53:47.000 They live in these big cities.

00:53:48.000 You know what I gotta say?

00:53:51.000 COVID may have been really, really bad, but at least one of the positives, because there's nuance in all things.

00:53:56.000 I know a lot of people are going to be like, it's controversial to say that there could be anything good coming out of something bad.

00:54:01.000 No, it's that these people in cities are going to stop wasting, stop mass consumption, and start realizing that life takes hard work and responsibility, and you can't just sit back and let someone else do it, because you know what happens when you do?

00:54:13.000 Cuomo goes and kills 15,000 people.

00:54:15.000 Or your guard comes and murders, like they say, like when people have bunkers and it's the end of the world and you're relying on your hired security, the hired security is going to come kill you and take the bunker for themselves.

00:54:25.000 That's like part of the story.

00:54:27.000 What's the joke from, uh, somebody superchatted us.

00:54:29.000 They said, uh, on behalf of all gun, gun owners, I'd like to thank the gun control advocates for stockpiling our goods for us for the apocalypse.

00:54:38.000 Yeah, what do you think's gonna happen when, if slash when, you know, there's a collapse?

00:54:42.000 I think it's funny too, there was a post I saw on Facebook.

00:54:44.000 And someone mentioned something about, I think they were talking about like Dogecoin.

00:54:48.000 And like the skyrocketing Dogecoin, you gotta buy this currency or buy that currency because the dollar is in serious trouble.

00:54:55.000 And then someone laughed saying like, you guys keep talking about some kind of like disaster collapse or civil war.

00:55:01.000 And they're like, where is it?

00:55:02.000 When's it gonna happen?

00:55:03.000 And the funniest thing about these comments that I keep hearing from people are like, where's the Civil War at, bro?

00:55:08.000 I'm like, aren't you the people obsessed with the storming of the Capitol on the 6th?

00:55:13.000 Like, clearly we're in the middle of something.

00:55:15.000 The dollar isn't hyperinflating, but it's inflating.

00:55:19.000 And the cost of goods is going way up.

00:55:21.000 Now the gold lumber ratio is coming together.

00:55:25.000 I don't know necessarily if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but we're seeing a dramatic shift in the economy in general.

00:55:29.000 And you know what the craziest thing is?

00:55:32.000 We've been trying to expand out here.

00:55:34.000 We've been trying to find companies so we can fix the barn outside where we're going to be doing events.

00:55:39.000 We can't get anybody to do it.

00:55:40.000 We can't find anybody.

00:55:41.000 Lumber is too expensive.

00:55:42.000 Steel is too expensive.

00:55:44.000 We're struggling to get things done.

00:55:46.000 And it's really, really annoying for me.

00:55:48.000 But there's a shortage.

00:55:50.000 We tried ordering new computer and new equipment so we can improve.

00:55:53.000 People have been saying, like, the sound has issues on the show.

00:55:55.000 We're like, we got to get the new equipment.

00:55:57.000 We can't get it in.

00:55:58.000 Something is happening and there is a shortage of goods and computer chips and merchandise and all of the stuff is going down. 0.90

00:56:06.000 And then you have these dumb people on the internet, hyper focused on whatever CNN tells them, totally ignoring whatever's happening around them. 0.73

00:56:14.000 Man, I can't imagine what it's going to be like for these people when the rug gets pulled out from underneath them. 0.98

00:56:18.000 That is alarming.

00:56:19.000 I mean, because as you know, you have resources to make these things happen.

00:56:23.000 So the fact that someone in your position cannot build out a barn to become like five companies and they're like, oh

00:56:32.000 man, you know, it's still it's hard to get.

00:56:34.000 It's really expensive right now.

00:56:35.000 And I'm like, can you send people out?

00:56:38.000 Like, what do we got to do?

00:56:39.000 And then, and so even with like getting the website done, it's like it's, it's difficult to get things to move right

00:56:44.000 Even with like digital, uh, with, with like software and stuff, it's just been very difficult to cross the board.

00:56:44.000 now.

00:56:51.000 And I remember, like, we, uh, so one of the things, one of the issues we have, the studio that we're in is the highest point of the building.

00:56:57.000 And so it gets really hot.

00:56:59.000 Um, so we were supposed to get some kind of, like, wall-mounted AC unit that's ultra quiet to help circulate the air and keep it cool.

00:57:07.000 Company just never shows up.

00:57:09.000 Company doesn't show up.

00:57:10.000 They come out here like, oh, we're gonna get back to you.

00:57:12.000 They don't show up.

00:57:13.000 We had more work being done.

00:57:14.000 Company comes out one day, just gone the next.

00:57:15.000 Just don't show up.

00:57:16.000 And I'm like, what's happening?

00:57:18.000 Like, seriously, how?

00:57:20.000 I'm genuinely confused by this.

00:57:21.000 That feels like quiet before the storm type situation.

00:57:24.000 It really does.

00:57:25.000 What are people doing to where the businesses aren't functioning properly?

00:57:29.000 So I ordered a new machine for this studio a month and a half ago.

00:57:33.000 When did I say, hey guys, good news, in a week we're gonna be getting a new machine.

00:57:36.000 Forever ago.

00:57:37.000 Something I don't remember.

00:57:38.000 There's a chip shortage.

00:57:39.000 Oh, yeah.

00:57:40.000 And so they keep saying, we're really sorry about this.

00:57:42.000 Any day now, trust us.

00:57:44.000 And then we'll get it shipped out immediately and just nothing.

00:57:47.000 Well, I was talking to a guy who owns a Ford dealership in Norwalk, and he was saying that they just cannot get cars.

00:57:56.000 I mean, unbelievable.

00:57:58.000 It's like, you're trying to buy- the market is there, trying to buy something, and the supply is not in existence.

00:58:05.000 This is showing our softness, and our, like, padded walls, because it's not normal to have access to all that stuff like that.

00:58:13.000 To Golden Age?

00:58:13.000 Well, right, that's my point.

00:58:15.000 We're symptoms of a Golden Age.

00:58:16.000 No, no, no, my point is, we know it.

00:58:18.000 We're talking about it.

00:58:19.000 I've been watching this stuff in real time.

00:58:22.000 So, We are moderately prepared for some kind of serious downturn.

00:58:28.000 And I think it's funny that even after a year of a lockdown, you still have naysayers who are like, what are you, some kind of prepper?

00:58:35.000 It's like, bro, do you remember going to the store for toilet paper last year?

00:58:39.000 Do you have amnesia?

00:58:42.000 What's going on, bro?

00:58:44.000 Are you looking at the price of cryptocurrencies?

00:58:47.000 Dude, these things aren't just going up in value because people finally realized that they're a technology worth using.

00:58:52.000 It's because people are scared of the US dollar right now.

00:58:56.000 Dude, if you were on a beach and you saw a tsunami coming that was thousands of feet high, How would you react?

00:59:03.000 And I think that's what society people are doing in society right now.

00:59:06.000 And you'd have people walking out into the water like their brains would break their minds.

00:59:10.000 Actually, being out in the ocean is a safe place to be.

00:59:15.000 You'd take your surfboard and dive it and ride it right Well, you don't want to be hit by a tsunami, but when there's boats that are a few miles out when the tsunami comes, they stay.

00:59:25.000 It goes under them or it goes past them.

00:59:26.000 When you're faced with the impending destruction of everything, how would you react?

00:59:31.000 And I think these people are kind of seeing it's such a big problem that their minds can't calculate it, and so they just ridicule.

00:59:36.000 There's an interesting question.

00:59:38.000 I can't remember where it was posed, but they said, if you were sitting in Yunaka City, And you saw an ICBM coming right down, about to hit the downtown area from wherever you were.

00:59:49.000 Which direction would you run?

00:59:51.000 And the point was that if you truly understood the power and the range of the ICBM, you would run towards it.

00:59:58.000 You know why?

00:59:59.000 Because you'd be getting away from the blast radius?

01:00:01.000 No, no, no.

01:00:02.000 Running towards the explosion.

01:00:03.000 Oh, I thought you meant the missile.

01:00:04.000 Yeah, if you saw a missile heading towards your city, depending on how close you were to city center, you would probably want to run towards it.

01:00:12.000 You know why?

01:00:12.000 To get vaporized?

01:00:13.000 To get vaporized!

01:00:14.000 Otherwise you could just sit there and get radiation burns and slowly melt and suffer for several hours.

01:00:19.000 So I remember, I think the New York Times did this where they talked about the blast radius of your standard ICBMs and they talked about the different kinds of missiles and there's the initial blast radius which vaporizes everything.

01:00:30.000 Then there's the melt radius where you would slowly just watch yourself melt in extreme suffering for like an hour.

01:00:37.000 And then outside of that is the radiation poisoning, where you get to live for a little while as your DNA fractures and cracks, and then you just suffer for a long time.

01:00:45.000 So, I just bring that up to your reference about a tsunami.

01:00:49.000 Depending on where you were, you can accept your fate and try and get it over with quickly, or you can run and try and survive.

01:00:56.000 It's tough.

01:00:56.000 It's hard to know what to do, but I think most people would just say, try and survive, always, no matter what.

01:01:01.000 But when you're faced with something where survival's not an option, and you're just like, okay, there it is.

01:01:06.000 This is it.

01:01:07.000 How do you respond?

01:01:08.000 Do you acknowledge it?

01:01:08.000 Do you still logically try and formulate a solution?

01:01:11.000 Can you?

01:01:12.000 Or do you just break?

01:01:15.000 It's kind of a rhetorical question.

01:01:17.000 Have you ever seen that meme where it's a bell curve of IQ?

01:01:21.000 At the very back, it's this deranged-looking person who seems to be kind of messed up.

01:01:26.000 IQ zero, and they say God is real. 0.81

01:01:28.000 Then in the middle, it's the average IQ and it's a person saying, I'm an atheist.

01:01:31.000 And then all at the high end, it's a person with a gigantic brain saying God is real.

01:01:35.000 I think it's kind of like that.

01:01:36.000 I think a lot of really smart, I'm not saying religious, but like a lot of really smart and philosophically mature individuals would see the sun exploding and the wave coming towards them and they'd sit down and they'd close their eyes. 0.77

01:01:47.000 Then you'd have a lot of really dumb people who would probably sit down and be like, wow, 0.89

01:01:50.000 and they close their eyes. 0.99

01:01:51.000 And then you have a lot of average people who would be screaming and flailing and ranting,

01:01:55.000 not understanding what to do.

01:01:56.000 The midwits, the people of slightly above intelligence who know just enough, but not

01:02:00.000 enough.

01:02:01.000 They know enough to repeat what they've heard.

01:02:02.000 I think they're smart.

01:02:04.000 Yeah.

01:02:05.000 It's crazy that like not even countries are sort of immune to all of this.

01:02:10.000 And so I think it'll be really interesting to see which countries adopt crypto and Bitcoin because the ones that do are going to lead the future.

01:02:20.000 That's just a fact.

01:02:21.000 It's a more resilient infrastructure.

01:02:24.000 It's better tech.

01:02:25.000 So if they just ignore the problem, they're going to get left behind.

01:02:29.000 If I was a conspiracy theorist, if I was to push one, I would say that there's special interests that want a total collapse of the U.S.

01:02:40.000 and the global economy so that they could have some kind of reset.

01:02:43.000 Like a great reset?

01:02:44.000 Yeah, maybe like a great reset that just resets global capitalism with a new system.

01:02:48.000 You would need a new currency, and obviously the authoritarians would want to be able to track every transaction, so they would need some kind of public ledger Like a chain of maybe like blocks where you can see each transaction.

01:03:01.000 Would you call it though?

01:03:02.000 Um, well because it's a reference to like, you know computers and chain block Well, no, no because it's a reference to computers, but also currency It would be something like byte or like bit and then like money or coins me like Bitcoin Bitcoin like that Yeah, that's what I would call it.

01:03:18.000 So you create a trackable currency and then wipe out fiat and put everyone on the trackable currency?

01:03:24.000 Yeah, then you know what everyone is spending at all times.

01:03:26.000 Of course, people would try and create things like Monero.

01:03:29.000 They would try and use alternative currencies that retain value because they can't be duplicated.

01:03:36.000 But ultimately, I think Bitcoin is... I think Bitcoin's gonna hit a million bucks, and I think the reason it is because we need... I mean, the government would love to have this system, this global transfer of value that they can easily watch and everyone can watch, and it's the Panopticon.

01:03:56.000 It's in.

01:03:57.000 Yeah, there are benefits to them, but that's why they're going to be launching their own digital currency, digital currencies that are not Bitcoin, because they don't control Bitcoin is the reality.

01:04:06.000 There are surveillance benefits that they get from Bitcoin, but they don't.

01:04:12.000 Bitcoin empowers the people of the world.

01:04:16.000 Bitcoin is much more.

01:04:17.000 Bitcoin was not created by the government and conspiracy.

01:04:20.000 That's a fact.

01:04:21.000 I gotta stop you right there, Bill, and tell you, the currency of the people is not Bitcoin.

01:04:27.000 Oh, here we go.

01:04:30.000 It's Dogecoin.

01:04:30.000 I'm ready to fight.

01:04:32.000 Can we get in the ring?

01:04:35.000 Dogecoin.

01:04:35.000 You don't think it's Dogecoin?

01:04:37.000 I think that it has really cool characteristics that are fun and of the people, but it's not architecturally built for the people.

01:04:46.000 It's architecturally built to screw people over.

01:04:49.000 Well, hold on.

01:04:50.000 Alright, we'll talk about that.

01:04:51.000 But let me tell you this story.

01:04:52.000 Dogecoin is up 12,000% since January.

01:04:57.000 Here's how much money you'd make if you invested $1,000 in January.

01:05:01.000 If you bought Dogecoin at the beginning of the year, you've enjoyed massive gains over the past four months.

01:05:07.000 Dogecoin purchase on January 1st at a price of less than a cent per coin would be worth

01:05:13.000 $121,052 at Wednesday's high of 69 cents a gain of more than

01:05:19.000 12,000% my friend Dogecoin. Let's go to the moon If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

01:05:24.000 It probably will be physically put on the moon on a thumb drive.

01:05:29.000 I would not be surprised if he did that.

01:05:31.000 But hopefully he'll also put Bitcoin, maybe some Mines tokens.

01:05:35.000 Who knows?

01:05:36.000 That'd be great.

01:05:36.000 But you think Dogecoin is not it?

01:05:39.000 It's it's it for a purpose of entertainment.

01:05:44.000 It's a meme.

01:05:44.000 It's fun, but it's not it for like, you know, if you look at the the the code of it, it's not because it can it's inflating.

01:05:54.000 It's it's not maintained.

01:05:56.000 It's not really decentralized.

01:05:58.000 It's it's just it's not.

01:06:00.000 So let's let's go one by one.

01:06:01.000 How is it not decentralized?

01:06:02.000 OK, so it's like one guy owns the Bitcoin mining system.

01:06:07.000 I'm going to bring up the Federal Doge Reserve.

01:06:11.000 The government's going to seize the guy's mining servers and then... So I'm just going to run through like quick bullet points on Doge.

01:06:17.000 So Bitcoin is scarce.

01:06:20.000 There will only ever be 21 million.

01:06:22.000 Doge is infinite.

01:06:23.000 The system is on track to mint 14.4 million new Doge each day and 5.2 billion each year forever.

01:06:30.000 OK.

01:06:31.000 Bitcoin's issuance.

01:06:32.000 This is from this dude, Alex Gladstein, who knows a lot about Bitcoin.

01:06:37.000 Dogecoin's issuance is unpredictable and has been altered.

01:06:42.000 Bitcoin is decentralized as a result of robust architecture of full nodes.

01:06:47.000 Dogecoin is not decentralized.

01:06:49.000 Bitcoin has— How is it not decentralized?

01:06:51.000 Here's the other thing about Doge.

01:06:52.000 People are buying Doge on Robinhood.

01:06:55.000 Look, don't buy crypto on Robinhood.

01:06:58.000 You don't even own the crypto.

01:06:59.000 They're holding it.

01:07:00.000 You can't even get the crypto if you buy it on Robinhood.

01:07:05.000 So most people who are buying Doge are buying it on Robinhood.

01:07:09.000 They don't even actually own the crypto.

01:07:11.000 This is why you have to control your own wallet.

01:07:14.000 It's fine to use centralized exchanges to take custody of your crypto, but you need to set up your own wallet.

01:07:21.000 On Mines.com, if you check out our wallet, you set up Metamask, you control your keys, you control your crypto.

01:07:28.000 Coinbase wallet, you do own, you do control your keys.

01:07:30.000 That's a, that's a non-custodial wallet.

01:07:33.000 Yeah.

01:07:33.000 But I mean, these things, like, so it's fun.

01:07:35.000 Doge is fun and it's a cool part of what's happening.

01:07:38.000 Like, I like Doge, but it's, it's not a good thing to be saying that... Can't they hard fork Doge?

01:07:44.000 And then... Why would you do that when you already have Bitcoin and Ethereum?

01:07:48.000 Because Doge could be a currency.

01:07:52.000 So can... It is.

01:07:54.000 Exactly.

01:07:55.000 Right.

01:07:55.000 So what do we hear?

01:07:56.000 KFC now takes Dogecoin.

01:07:58.000 Oakland A's are accepting Doge at KFC. 0.99

01:08:01.000 This is what I'm saying.

01:08:02.000 It doesn't matter if it's a box of Kleenex.

01:08:05.000 If people have confidence that the Kleenex will get them a cheeseburger, they will clamor for it.

01:08:09.000 But you can't have confidence that Doge is going to retain its value.

01:08:13.000 You can't have confidence the U.S.

01:08:14.000 dollar is going to retain its value.

01:08:15.000 But you can have confidence that Bitcoin is going to in the long term based on the structure of it.

01:08:22.000 And gold.

01:08:23.000 And silver, or palladium, or whatever.

01:08:25.000 The thing about doge is that it is more like cash, and it has the confidence of the people for a very silly reason.

01:08:33.000 It doesn't matter.

01:08:34.000 People want it, and some people want to just have it for the sake of having it.

01:08:38.000 A lot do, and that's part of why it's retaining its value, because a lot of people are holding doge, and they're actually providing the liquidity for the market for all the whales who are dumping.

01:08:48.000 So, you know, the bag, you know, the retail, the people are getting left holding the bags of all the people dumping.

01:08:56.000 And it's just it's a joke.

01:08:59.000 Let it be a joke.

01:09:00.000 Don't like it really the structure.

01:09:03.000 It could be altered in the future to become better.

01:09:05.000 Like he was saying, you know, the code can be altered.

01:09:10.000 But there's not an active development team around Doge.

01:09:13.000 There could be.

01:09:13.000 Why not?

01:09:14.000 If you've got a building in the middle of Manhattan that's just falling apart, eventually someone's going to be like, this is prime real estate.

01:09:20.000 We can fix this up and make it something better because everybody wants to hang out.

01:09:24.000 Honestly, I hope so.

01:09:25.000 I hope that the development energy around Doge gets revitalized and like, you know, similar in the way that Ethereum is run.

01:09:33.000 So Bitcoin is arguably more decentralized than Ethereum.

01:09:36.000 But the cool thing about Ethereum is that it keeps innovating.

01:09:39.000 And they have decentralized governance.

01:09:41.000 Yeah.

01:09:42.000 What are they doing now?

01:09:43.000 We were just talking about the other day that in July, they're going to start deflating the currency or something.

01:09:47.000 Yeah.

01:09:48.000 Yeah.

01:09:48.000 They're introducing a new proposal which burns the base fee to the miners for all the transactions.

01:09:56.000 So there will be a deflationary force in Ethereum.

01:09:59.000 So that means Ethereum will just start skyrocketing in value.

01:10:03.000 Who knows?

01:10:03.000 It would be a pressure point to cause it to.

01:10:06.000 The thing about Ethereum is there's so much developer energy.

01:10:09.000 There's so many decentralized apps like mines that are leveraging the Ethereum network.

01:10:15.000 And we integrate Bitcoin as well.

01:10:16.000 But, you know, Doge doesn't have that energy.

01:10:20.000 It's fun.

01:10:20.000 But it would be nothing without Elon.

01:10:23.000 Let's be, let's be real.

01:10:24.000 It would not, he is the one fueling it.

01:10:28.000 He's gonna go on, he's gonna go on SNL.

01:10:31.000 He's gonna, people think he's gonna do a Dogecoin skit.

01:10:34.000 It's gonna hit a buck and then the whales are gonna bail out. 0.94

01:10:36.000 Yes.

01:10:37.000 So get ready for that and time it.

01:10:39.000 Honestly, sell before SNL.

01:10:42.000 No, I disagree.

01:10:44.000 Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.

01:10:45.000 Not financially.

01:10:46.000 I'm not I'm not gonna give up.

01:10:47.000 Yeah, no advice to anybody.

01:10:48.000 Why does everyone say that?

01:10:49.000 Because you get sued or something?

01:10:50.000 You probably don't have to.

01:10:51.000 I don't know.

01:10:52.000 Everyone just says it.

01:10:53.000 Yeah, it's a meme in and of itself.

01:10:55.000 Here's what I'd say.

01:10:56.000 If you can afford to keep your doge, you should. 0.95

01:11:00.000 In 2014, that's when Doge came out, right?

01:11:04.000 Was it 2014?

01:11:05.000 I'm not sure.

01:11:06.000 I had, at some point, I don't remember when, on some exchange, I had thousands of Doge. 1.00

01:11:12.000 And I was laughing how stupid it was. 0.67

01:11:14.000 And everyone was laughing, and it was a joke, and it was like, such currency, such crypto, wow, and everyone was like, haha, memes, memes, memes. 0.95

01:11:21.000 And then I was like, whatever, and I lost them, I have no idea where any of these coins are.

01:11:25.000 Now, it's worth, you know, 60 cents or whatever, and I'm like, it'd be sure great to know what happened to those coins, but I said that about everything.

01:11:32.000 I had a computer with, like, Bitcoin on it, got destroyed and didn't care, and just threw it away, because it was like a dollar worth of Bitcoin that's now worth, like, a couple hundred thousand dollars, and it's all gone.

01:11:41.000 So that's why I'm like, you know what?

01:11:43.000 At this point, there were some other currencies that I had purchased a decent amount of, like, way back in the day.

01:11:49.000 Because I was like, at some point in a few years, one of these currencies might go from, like, one cent to five cents, and I'll be really happy.

01:11:55.000 And then I just got paper hands.

01:11:56.000 And I was like, nah, I just rather have Bitcoin.

01:11:59.000 And I switched all the back to Bitcoin.

01:12:01.000 And while Bitcoin has performed beautifully over the past several years, there are some currencies that I wish I held on to.

01:12:06.000 Because the gains were from like one cent to like a dollar, which is way better than Bitcoin was.

01:12:12.000 So now I'm just kind of like, you know, man, Maybe we're seeing the Dogecoin meme-ification or whatever, but I'll tell you this.

01:12:20.000 I'm gonna keep it.

01:12:21.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:12:21.000 I just like having them.

01:12:22.000 You're not gonna make the same mistake.

01:12:22.000 Why not?

01:12:24.000 You made the mistake before, so you don't wanna make the same mistake again.

01:12:26.000 I also don't have so much Doge that I'm gonna, like, become rich off of it.

01:12:30.000 Or, like, become poor off of it.

01:12:32.000 It's like, maybe if I had 10 million Doge or something, I'd sell and be like, I don't wanna play that game.

01:12:39.000 But I don't.

01:12:40.000 I have very little.

01:12:41.000 You know, most people probably only a little bit anyway.

01:12:43.000 That's sort of the thing that is sort of a sickness in the crypto space is actually people just trying to get 10 X's.

01:12:52.000 Right.

01:12:52.000 And they're manipulators.

01:12:54.000 You know, the thing that I love about crypto is that you're sort of voting with your resources.

01:13:00.000 So I don't like to participate in tokens that I just think that their value is going to go up.

01:13:06.000 It's not.

01:13:07.000 Why are you giving energy to that?

01:13:09.000 So I'm not saying never, you know, maybe there's a place for it, but bro, Bitcoin is changing how society works.

01:13:18.000 And that's why it's an amazing thing to put your money into it because you're, you're helping that happen.

01:13:23.000 We should set up Doge ATMs.

01:13:26.000 That's a good idea.

01:13:27.000 I wouldn't be surprised.

01:13:29.000 It's so fake. 1.00

01:13:29.000 It's such trash. 1.00

01:13:31.000 It's a trash coin. 1.00

01:13:32.000 It's the ultimate trash coin. 1.00

01:13:33.000 Elon Musk is the ultimate troll. 0.99

01:13:37.000 He's hilarious. 0.58

01:13:37.000 I love him. 0.58

01:13:38.000 Do you think Elon has like a billion doge?

01:13:40.000 Oh yeah.

01:13:41.000 His kids are mining it.

01:13:43.000 Oh really?

01:13:44.000 So you said doge isn't decentralized.

01:13:47.000 Well, it's, you know, there are miners, but so it is partially decentralized, but it's not nothing compared to Bitcoin.

01:13:55.000 So it's a variant scale of how decentralized is this token whenever you're looking at a crypto?

01:13:59.000 Right.

01:14:00.000 And certain cryptos are more or less like, are there cryptos that are completely centralized or like one person can print?

01:14:05.000 That's what a digital dollar would be.

01:14:07.000 So here's the problem I see with Bitcoin, though.

01:14:09.000 Only 21 million coins can ever come into existence, right?

01:14:11.000 Yeah, a lot of them are already gone because when Bitcoin was valueless, people didn't care and lost them.

01:14:15.000 Like that famous guy who was searching a dumpster for a trash dump for his hard drive because it had like... Oh man, by now that hard drive's probably worth like $100, $200 million.

01:14:26.000 But it was like, it's worth now $2 million.

01:14:28.000 He needs to go find that hard drive with his coins on it.

01:14:30.000 So there is just the natural decay of Bitcoin.

01:14:33.000 That's good.

01:14:35.000 But right.

01:14:35.000 So that's deflationary.

01:14:36.000 So over a long enough period of time, there won't be enough Bitcoin.

01:14:38.000 You just you can split it up into 100 million units.

01:14:41.000 Satoshi, which is the smallest unit of Bitcoin, will just appreciate in value.

01:14:47.000 So it's not I don't think that the there's there's plenty of divisibility within Bitcoin.

01:14:53.000 So if Bitcoin became universally adopted around the planet with, you know, 8 billion people and people need to trade with it every day, then Satoshi would have to be worth somewhere around like a nickel.

01:15:03.000 He has a million Bitcoin or something.

01:15:05.000 Satoshi?

01:15:06.000 Satoshi.

01:15:07.000 Satoshi.

01:15:08.000 Right.

01:15:08.000 So and it's never moved.

01:15:10.000 And it's very important that it's never moved.

01:15:10.000 It's never moved.

01:15:12.000 Why is that?

01:15:13.000 Well, because if people started to see the creator, you know, getting paper hands, that wouldn't be good.

01:15:21.000 Well, so imagine Bitcoin becomes universally used, right?

01:15:25.000 One Satoshi would have to be around the value of a nickel or so, as it stands today, to be able to participate in a general marketplace or labor.

01:15:36.000 Theoretically, it could be around a penny per Satoshi, but I think people don't really use pennies all that much.

01:15:43.000 But there's a lot of countries where a penny probably does have a lot more value.

01:15:48.000 It doesn't really matter if we're using the smallest unit like in comparison to, you know, a fiat comparable.

01:15:55.000 I think like right now, the Bitcoin market is like a little over a trillion.

01:15:59.000 The gold market cap, for reference, is 10 trillion.

01:16:02.000 So if the Bitcoin market just gets to what gold is, then we're at like 500k per Bitcoin.

01:16:09.000 So you just start thinking about Bitcoin as like eating away at where resources are stored.

01:16:16.000 All we need to do is 10x.

01:16:18.000 To get at gold.

01:16:18.000 And then if you start bringing in all different financial instruments.

01:16:22.000 So $500,000 per Bitcoin.

01:16:23.000 If it 10Xs. 0.79

01:16:25.000 I think Bitcoin will be a million bucks.

01:16:27.000 Oh, for sure.

01:16:28.000 I think sooner than people realize.

01:16:29.000 There's a model called the stock-to-flow model, which is like the model of Bitcoin.

01:16:35.000 Because every four years, there's this thing called the halving, which is where the miner... The havening?

01:16:42.000 Either.

01:16:42.000 Is it having?

01:16:43.000 Either.

01:16:43.000 People say both.

01:16:44.000 But so the rewards to all the miners drop in half.

01:16:48.000 So, you know, it's based on more scarcity.

01:16:50.000 No, no, no.

01:16:50.000 It's more.

01:16:51.000 It's just the ongoing rewards that they get for mining drop in half.

01:16:57.000 So, you know, they don't necessarily sell, but it just creates more scarcity.

01:17:01.000 And historically, there have been two halvings so far. 0.90

01:17:05.000 And after each halving, you know, over the last 10 years, you've seen an order of magnitude.

01:17:11.000 And so the stock to flow model shows that, you know, over the next 15 years, it's going to be order of magnitude.

01:17:19.000 When's the next halvening?

01:17:21.000 It was just a couple of years ago.

01:17:23.000 So it's like in a couple of years.

01:17:24.000 Oh, OK.

01:17:25.000 So then... Or maybe not in a couple of years.

01:17:28.000 It's going to effectively double.

01:17:29.000 So people often ask, what backs Bitcoin's value?

01:17:35.000 And I don't know if this is like an archaic understanding, but it's the energy used to produce it.

01:17:39.000 So if somebody is mining Bitcoin and it costs them, you know, $60,000 to mine one Bitcoin, they're not going to sell it for less than the cost of the production.

01:17:49.000 So then they'll put it on the market and say, I got to get at least 61K and probably more than that.

01:17:54.000 And then people who want to buy it because they want to use it are going to have to pay the price of what the miners are asking for.

01:17:59.000 Yeah.

01:17:59.000 And it's potentially going to do great things for sustainable energy.

01:18:03.000 Like people say, oh, Bitcoin uses so much energy.

01:18:06.000 It's like an environmental disaster, which it does use a lot of energy.

01:18:10.000 It's a worth it.

01:18:11.000 Is it kind of arbitrary?

01:18:13.000 Is Ethereum better?

01:18:14.000 Well, it's not better or worse.

01:18:16.000 They're different technologies for different purposes.

01:18:18.000 I mean, you build apps on top of Ethereum.

01:18:20.000 Bitcoin is just like the juggernaut.

01:18:23.000 Godfather of ledger for global monetary transactions.

01:18:29.000 That's all that it needs to be.

01:18:30.000 And there are like layer two things happening so that there will be other, you know, apps potentially on Bitcoin.

01:18:36.000 But, you know, it's it's just crazy that this is happening.

01:18:41.000 It's actually like, you know, you think it's going to help the energy situation?

01:18:45.000 Well, because people like energy can be converted into Bitcoin.

01:18:49.000 So like there's, you know, if you have a landfill and there's like methane overflow, like you could potentially throw a mine on top of that.

01:18:58.000 I got it.

01:18:59.000 You know what we should do?

01:19:01.000 We should create power plants that recycle the heat from mining Bitcoin to boiling water and spinning turbines.

01:19:10.000 Or we can put GPUs in people's homes that mine Bitcoin and the radiant heat will heat their rooms.

01:19:19.000 It's called Exergy.

01:19:21.000 It's an actual project where your computer heats water tanks.

01:19:24.000 Bill and I actually visited a guy in New York that was working on this.

01:19:28.000 And then the tubes will go through your house, these hot water tubes.

01:19:31.000 To cool down.

01:19:32.000 Warm or cool the house, yeah.

01:19:33.000 Well, so you need to cool your computer.

01:19:35.000 Your CPU and your GPU need to be cooled.

01:19:38.000 And so the heat we want for warmth, the computer wants the cold.

01:19:43.000 So, hey, there you go.

01:19:43.000 A lot of people say, like, Facebook has servers in the Arctic.

01:19:46.000 And then, dude, that heat is valuable.

01:19:48.000 You just need to recover it.

01:19:50.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:19:51.000 People want to heat their homes.

01:19:52.000 Let's just do it with Bitcoin mining.

01:19:54.000 So in winter, you make money.

01:19:56.000 You're like, ooh, it's getting gold.

01:19:57.000 Better make some Bitcoin.

01:19:59.000 Crank it up.

01:20:00.000 Yeah.

01:20:01.000 No, I predict mining rigs in this compound in the next few years.

01:20:05.000 This compound?

01:20:06.000 No?

01:20:06.000 I don't think so.

01:20:07.000 Why?

01:20:08.000 I don't know.

01:20:08.000 It's easy.

01:20:08.000 Just throw up a computer.

01:20:09.000 You know, have fun.

01:20:10.000 Mine some doge.

01:20:11.000 It costs money.

01:20:12.000 Yeah, but you can figure it out.

01:20:13.000 Mine some doge.

01:20:14.000 There's an ROI.

01:20:15.000 So what's Ethereum as proof of stake, though?

01:20:16.000 How do you generate?

01:20:17.000 Well, they're not proof of stake yet.

01:20:19.000 Right.

01:20:20.000 So they're transitioning.

01:20:22.000 The Ethereum blockchain is still proof of work, like Bitcoin, so these miners.

01:20:25.000 So how many Ethereum are there?

01:20:26.000 How much Ethereum is there?

01:20:31.000 It's harder to pinpoint the exact supply in Ethereum.

01:20:35.000 It is sort of limited.

01:20:36.000 I don't know the actual number.

01:20:39.000 And a lot of people criticize Ethereum for that reason.

01:20:43.000 But that doesn't mean that it's very inflationary, just the way that it's set up.

01:20:48.000 It's harder to pinpoint the exact numbers at any given time.

01:20:52.000 But they're bringing in this deflationary force.

01:20:56.000 The proof of stake is basically where there are validator nodes all over the world that people run the machines.

01:21:02.000 You can run on your laptop.

01:21:04.000 And if you have 32 ETH, you can stake that ETH into that validator node and basically earn... It generates more ETH?

01:21:15.000 Yeah, you earn ETH for staking ETH into validator nodes.

01:21:20.000 Is it generating it or is it a fee that you're getting from the existing amount of ETH?

01:21:26.000 Both.

01:21:27.000 Both?

01:21:29.000 Well, miners... I might be wrong here, but miners are earning fees for all the transactions that are happening in the network.

01:21:38.000 That's gas and Ethereum and Bitcoin miners.

01:21:41.000 Actually, in Bitcoin, after all of the mining rewards are over, which is in like 100 years or something, then fees are going to be...

01:21:50.000 Rewarding all of the miners, but that's how it works in aetherium now, but there are there are also aetherium that are are getting created as well So it is yeah, I'm looking here.

01:21:59.000 It says that there's whereas there's 18 million bitcoins.

01:22:02.000 There's a hundred and fifteen million aetheriums and a hundred and twenty nine billion currently right now Yeah.

01:22:07.000 115,768,000.

01:22:07.000 There's already 18 million Bitcoin.

01:22:10.000 Yeah.

01:22:11.000 18 million.

01:22:14.000 But it's going to take like 100 years to finish it because it gets harder.

01:22:16.000 Right.

01:22:17.000 And then underneath the Ethereum, it doesn't have like it has a scale of how far along, how many of them have been built.

01:22:21.000 Although you're saying it takes longer, the closer you get to the final point.

01:22:25.000 It doesn't have one for Ethereum.

01:22:26.000 I'm at coinmarketcap.com.

01:22:28.000 This is where I go to check out the crypto lists.

01:22:30.000 It doesn't say so.

01:22:31.000 Ethereum doesn't.

01:22:32.000 They don't say how many they're going to print in the long run.

01:22:36.000 No, I don't think so.

01:22:37.000 But they also have a deflationary force in it, so it's pulling the supply down. 1.00

01:22:43.000 How stupid are these NFTs, man? 1.00

01:22:46.000 How stupid is art? 1.00

01:22:48.000 You're not buying the art. 1.00

01:22:51.000 In certain cases you are, like Christie's, like the famous auction house, is actually combining the physical art with the NFT.

01:23:02.000 Along with it, which is sort of like a certificate of ownership of the physical art.

01:23:06.000 So you can combine them.

01:23:06.000 Right.

01:23:09.000 Did you ever see the beer bottle that had, if you used your smartphone over it and it scanned it, it became like a movie?

01:23:14.000 Like the image on the beer bottle label would animate and start moving?

01:23:18.000 No.

01:23:19.000 If you had a crypto token that could give you that authorization.

01:23:22.000 So if you moused over, you went over like a piece of art and you had that NFT token, You'd be able to see the movie.

01:23:27.000 But what I mean is a lot of people were like, I'm going to buy this piece of art on the Internet.

01:23:31.000 And then like a day later, it didn't work anymore because the server that was hosting it was gone.

01:23:35.000 Oh, yeah.

01:23:35.000 NFT was just a URL.

01:23:37.000 So that can be fixed.

01:23:38.000 So NFTs are like a token on a blockchain that reference, they can reference a piece of art or a file.

01:23:46.000 Snoop Dogg's selling a bunch or something.

01:23:48.000 So depending on where the token on the blockchain is referencing that file, like you can reference

01:23:54.000 the file on Arweave or IPFS or different like decentralized immutable file systems as well.

01:24:01.000 But there are a bunch of NFTs that are referencing like Amazon.

01:24:05.000 So if it goes down, then the NFT, yeah.

01:24:07.000 You see the disaster girl meme?

01:24:08.000 No.

01:24:09.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:24:10.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:24:10.000 So she sold it.

01:24:11.000 So it's like, you know, the photo was like a fire as a little girl and she's like smiling at the camera.

01:24:14.000 She sold it for like $470K.

01:24:15.000 Yeah.

01:24:17.000 Was it her photo?

01:24:18.000 Was it her family's photo?

01:24:19.000 Do they get the rights to the photo now?

01:24:21.000 They could distribute it?

01:24:22.000 Right.

01:24:22.000 Did she just take it?

01:24:23.000 Did someone else take the photo and then she just sold it because it was hers? 0.99

01:24:27.000 Did someone buy the ownership of the photo, meaning that they can license it out now to news outlets who want to use it?

01:24:33.000 It's a good question.

01:24:34.000 I mean, there's a copyright chaos that is coming with NFTs because people are acting like it represents ownership of stuff that they probably don't actually own.

01:24:43.000 But the thing about NFTs is that they can be used for other things, like they could be used for an insurance product.

01:24:50.000 An NFT is just a non-fungible token, which is just one of it, as opposed to fungible tokens like Mines tokens, mines.com slash token, which, you know, you can create a token and there are many of one.

01:25:02.000 Yeah, and they're all interchangeable.

01:25:04.000 So when you think about financial markets, depending on the type of asset, a non-fungible might make more sense.

01:25:13.000 So the idea in itself does make sense.

01:25:15.000 The craziest thing with Ethereum, why I think Ethereum is...

01:25:20.000 Well, let me slow down.

01:25:21.000 Bitcoin is probably going to be worth a ridiculous amount of money because it's digital gold.

01:25:26.000 It's a digital asset that can't be copied and it's a way to store value.

01:25:30.000 Ethereum has functions that people don't even realize yet.

01:25:34.000 So what's interesting, you mentioned Mines tokens.

01:25:37.000 There are a lot of social networks.

01:25:40.000 We've been sponsored by PocketNet in the past, and they have their own kind of cryptocurrency, and they're a decentralized social network.

01:25:45.000 But a lot of these other... I've had conversations with other networks.

01:25:49.000 I'm not going to name them, because I don't want to get anybody mad or deride anyone.

01:25:54.000 But I'm like, okay, so you're a social media site, and you have a cryptocurrency.

01:25:58.000 What does it do?

01:25:59.000 And they can't give me an answer.

01:26:01.000 If you produce content on the site, you get access.

01:26:03.000 And I'm like, right, what does a token do?

01:26:04.000 You can trade it for money.

01:26:06.000 Why would anyone want it?

01:26:08.000 Minds, on the other hand, a token is how you buy views, is how you boost posts, how you buy ads.

01:26:18.000 So the value of a mind's token, M-I-N-D-S, is predicated upon the robustness of the mind's audience.

01:26:25.000 So if you sell, I don't know, communist pillows and Minds has, you know, millions upon millions of users, I would like to get my ridiculous communist pillow in front of these individuals.

01:26:36.000 I need a Minds token to be able to purchase that.

01:26:38.000 Yeah, we've been all about grounding it in real tangible value.

01:26:42.000 So like actually, in addition to that, when you help stake liquidity into the network, you get passive boosts.

01:26:49.000 So there's this like special boost slot on the main newsfeed on the sidebar that all it does is rotate liquidity providers.

01:26:55.000 So everybody who's in that gets, based on their share of the liquidity pool, gets rotation, basically free advertising.

01:27:02.000 So yeah, I mean, it's all about real value.

01:27:04.000 This makes sense.

01:27:05.000 Why would someone want a Minds token?

01:27:07.000 Well, if you would like to buy, if you'd like to boost your content so you can get more followers and build a following, if you would like to get more views in your content, which in turn can help you generate more tokens, you buy the tokens, you boost.

01:27:18.000 It's interesting because I'm looking at like Google Ads, for instance.

01:27:21.000 Why would I spend money boosting or promoting content on Google or Facebook?

01:27:25.000 Well, because then we get more audience, and then later on, we get more revenue from ads when we serve content back to people.

01:27:31.000 And that's similar for what the Minds token does.

01:27:35.000 Ethereum provides the ability for these things to function, for real exchanges of value, which means out of all the social networks where you could be producing something and making an earning, it's like basically YouTube and Minds.

01:27:48.000 There's because, look, there's a bunch of platforms where it's like, oh, you can earn tokens and they're worth something.

01:27:53.000 But I always ask people, like, why do the tokens have value?

01:27:55.000 And there's nothing really backing it.

01:27:57.000 That worries me.

01:27:57.000 It makes me feel like it's not worth the investment.

01:27:59.000 But if Mines keeps growing and getting more users, then there's a more likely advertisers will say, hey, we got a network here of millions of people.

01:28:08.000 And as the technology expands, it's worth holding these tokens.

01:28:11.000 But beyond this, I don't want to just, you know, shout out mines, mind you.

01:28:15.000 I read this really great article, they talked about how ERC-20 tokens can be used for self-driving cars.

01:28:21.000 They can be used to authenticate certain... They can track, on a ledger, which car is interacting with who, and use cryptocurrencies, essentially, as a way to map out self-driving vehicles in this massive national or international grid.

01:28:37.000 So your car comes into contact with another car and there's an exchange and that helps them decide which way to go left, right, up, down.

01:28:42.000 And then they have a ledger where they can see every single car and they just use a blockchain to do it.

01:28:47.000 Yeah, I mean, point being, look for real value in the crypto projects that you're supporting.

01:28:53.000 And, you know, yeah, there are meme projects that are fun.

01:28:57.000 Dogecoin.

01:28:58.000 Yeah, and there is value in that.

01:29:00.000 I mean, the amount of energy that's coming into crypto because of Doge, like, that's bringing in retail investors.

01:29:09.000 That is super important.

01:29:10.000 So it's not black or white, like if Doge is good or bad, but like, don't buy Doge on Robinhood.

01:29:16.000 Like you can never pull out your tokens.

01:29:19.000 And that's just like Robinhood.

01:29:21.000 It's just for speculation, isn't it?

01:29:22.000 It's just for speculation.

01:29:24.000 Yeah.

01:29:24.000 But you can get Doge in certain places and get the tokens.

01:29:27.000 Gemini now has Doge.

01:29:29.000 Yeah, I think you can probably pull them off Gemini.

01:29:31.000 You can, you definitely can.

01:29:32.000 Okay, good.

01:29:32.000 Well, I want to say on Gemini, you can buy crypto and then transfer it to your other wallets.

01:29:37.000 I'm assuming it's true for Doge.

01:29:38.000 I would assume so.

01:29:42.000 The Ledger?

01:29:43.000 You can get a cold storage one and store it on Ledger, I believe.

01:29:46.000 I could be wrong about that.

01:29:47.000 Yeah, Metamask, I don't know.

01:29:48.000 Do you know what the scariest thing about cryptocurrency is?

01:29:52.000 If you accidentally send your crypto to the wrong address.

01:29:54.000 It disappears forever.

01:29:54.000 I know, you do test transactions for a large amount.

01:29:58.000 It is scary.

01:29:58.000 Dude, sweating.

01:30:02.000 I count, and I say, J, J, N, N, capital X, capital X, one, one.

01:30:07.000 And I'm like, there's a lot of money to lose!

01:30:09.000 I look at the first four letters in the alphanumeric, and the last four, and if they're the same, then I breathe easy that I copied and pasted.

01:30:16.000 What if the I is actually a one?

01:30:19.000 A lowercase l. You're making me nervous, Tim.

01:30:21.000 What if you're like, that's got to be a, is that an L or an I?

01:30:24.000 It's funny to think that.

01:30:25.000 Uppercase I. If the last three characters are the same, the chances are almost, I just look at the end.

01:30:31.000 Yeah.

01:30:32.000 I've not, I've not actually had any, any, any problems with this.

01:30:34.000 Yeah, me neither.

01:30:35.000 Yeah.

01:30:36.000 Your money's your money.

01:30:37.000 It's up to you to protect it and control it.

01:30:39.000 I mean, it's removing banks.

01:30:40.000 They are rolling out this thing called a social recovery where basically, you know, to prevent people losing millions of dollars.

01:30:48.000 So basically you would be able to pick Like five people where if you do lose your device, if a certain level of consensus is met, then you can recover even if you lose your keys.

01:31:00.000 So it's sort of like this.

01:31:01.000 So it's like giving your giving your like next door neighbor keys to your house.

01:31:05.000 Yeah.

01:31:06.000 So, but, but giving multiple and they all have to like convene and like agree.

01:31:11.000 So it's like your, your closest friends have wallets or whatever, and they can say, we know we, we, we, we back up, you know, but they can't like, you know, have mutiny.

01:31:11.000 Yeah.

01:31:21.000 Like basically you would have to signal.

01:31:24.000 I'm not exactly sure, sure that all the mechanics, but you know, I think that that that's a major UX problem in crypto that I think will get solved eventually.

01:31:32.000 Word.

01:31:32.000 How about we... Oh, yeah.

01:31:34.000 Regarding the Mines token, I want to integrate it into... I don't want to pump Mines too much right now, but hey, you're here, and I'm glad.

01:31:39.000 I want to talk about it a little bit.

01:31:40.000 Integrate it into the Fediverse project, because like you were saying, the utility, one token is a thousand views on Mines, but if we extrapolate that to all these new networks where you can interchangeably use the token... Well, so we were talking about creating an open source package that you can install on your WordPress site that gives you a subscription feature.

01:31:59.000 So any person could effectively have their own kind of Patreon without having to pay an exorbitant fee to, you know, 10% or whatever.

01:32:07.000 Like, people don't realize when you sign up for these subscription services, you're giving like 10 or 15% of your revenue to this company, and you could seriously just get your own WordPress site for dirt cheap.

01:32:18.000 It's not that expensive.

01:32:19.000 But I understand a lot of people like, how do I set up a subscription thing?

01:32:21.000 Okay, well, we'll make this thing you instantly install, and it just turns your site into a social media page.

01:32:26.000 And then we were talking about incorporating crypto, and there would be a big benefit with having it interact with the Minds network, simply because there's already users there, which means, assuming we get this up and running in some meaningful time, maybe it'll take forever, maybe it'll be fast, you could be a random person who's like, I'm going to make a website for my content.

01:32:45.000 How do I get the word out for my content?

01:32:46.000 Well, there's already a network that exists, so if this content can integrate and appear on Minds through the Fediverse, then you instantly, on your own website, are getting promotion in a network.

01:32:57.000 And then, in turn, people can subscribe to the Members Only section of your site by using Minds tokens.

01:33:03.000 Or something.

01:33:04.000 And then people could be like, I'll send you a token if you show my ad on your site for a thousand views.

01:33:10.000 That's already built in.

01:33:11.000 I think the peer-to-peer stuff.

01:33:12.000 It just means that your site could have display ads that could be functioning on the Minds Boost network.

01:33:17.000 So it's integrated with a crypto token already.

01:33:20.000 But also just to shout out the Fediverse a little bit more and explain to people the dimensions of it.

01:33:25.000 So the two main dimensions of it that I can see are ActivityPub, which Mastodon uses, and then there's Matrix, which is also federated.

01:33:34.000 We actually just launched a Matrix end-to-end encrypted chat, which can federate with other Matrix nodes.

01:33:42.000 So if you go to chat.minds.com or you can download the Minds chat at minds.com slash mobile.

01:33:50.000 It's all these servers that are connecting, enabling communications to not be able to go down.

01:33:54.000 So ActivityPub allows social networks to connect so you can post from one to another.

01:34:00.000 Matrix Protocol enables it so I can message you on my server or a server that I'm a part of on another server and it can't go down.

01:34:13.000 So, you know, yeah, I see creators.

01:34:16.000 It's end-to-end, yeah.

01:34:16.000 And it's end-to-end, right?

01:34:17.000 Which means you don't have any of the information.

01:34:19.000 No, that's the thing, man.

01:34:20.000 We don't want people's private information.

01:34:23.000 Having access to people's private messages, why?

01:34:25.000 Why would a company ever want that?

01:34:27.000 Why would Facebook and Twitter want that?

01:34:29.000 So weird.

01:34:30.000 Yeah.

01:34:30.000 Dude, they're having wars.

01:34:32.000 Face CIA book.

01:34:33.000 I mean, yeah, it's...

01:34:34.000 Yeah, cause I wonder.

01:34:37.000 So I send myself messages on Facebook when I'm like, if there's a story or something, I'll just like send it to myself so that it's there.

01:34:45.000 It's easy.

01:34:46.000 And I was looking at it, you know, a couple weeks ago, and there was like a bunch of yellow boxes like, this post has been removed for a violation of community standards or whatever.

01:34:53.000 Private chat?

01:34:54.000 To myself!

01:34:55.000 Oh my god.

01:34:56.000 Facebook goes in my messages to myself and removed some stories.

01:34:59.000 They're Facebook's messages to Facebook's self.

01:35:01.000 You were just there to be the corpus to... You want to see something really crazy?

01:35:06.000 When I went to Venezuela, I had to flee the country because I got accused of being a spy by Venezuelan Glenn Beck.

01:35:12.000 When I came back, I got a message on Facebook from a friend I hadn't spoken to in like five years.

01:35:17.000 And he was like, yo, what's going on?

01:35:18.000 The FBI just called me.

01:35:19.000 You need to call me back right now.

01:35:21.000 And I was like, what?

01:35:22.000 And I was in, I was in New York.

01:35:23.000 So I called him.

01:35:24.000 No, he doesn't answer.

01:35:25.000 I call him again.

01:35:25.000 He doesn't answer.

01:35:26.000 I call him again.

01:35:26.000 He doesn't answer.

01:35:27.000 So then a couple hours later he calls me back and he's like, Tim?

01:35:30.000 And I'm like, yeah, he's like, uh, what's up?

01:35:32.000 You called?

01:35:33.000 And I was like, yeah, what happened?

01:35:34.000 FBI called you?

01:35:35.000 And he goes, what?

01:35:37.000 Yeah, you messaged me on Facebook, bro.

01:35:39.000 What are you talking about, dude?

01:35:40.000 I haven't talked to you in like five years. 0.99

01:35:42.000 And I was like, shut up, dude.

01:35:44.000 And so I took a picture of the Facebook message and he was like, dude, I did not send you that.

01:35:48.000 So I talked to some InfoSec experts and they were saying that they thought they think what happened was the Venezuelan government or some actors working with the Venezuelan government injected Facebook so that on my end, a message would appear.

01:36:04.000 They wanted me to make a phone call so that their cell towers could pinpoint my location in the country.

01:36:09.000 Wow.

01:36:10.000 But I was in New York!

01:36:12.000 I left a long time ago, but they thought I was still there.

01:36:15.000 Creepy, right?

01:36:16.000 Dude, it's crazy stuff.

01:36:17.000 I bet I actually still have that message.

01:36:19.000 That's behind-the-scenes content.

01:36:21.000 I bet I can go pull it up.

01:36:22.000 Yeah, I'll do it.

01:36:23.000 I'll do it for the bonus episode.

01:36:24.000 I'll see if I can pull it up.

01:36:25.000 No joke, it happened.

01:36:26.000 It's probably not still there.

01:36:27.000 No, I bet it is.

01:36:28.000 Yeah!

01:36:28.000 You think so?

01:36:30.000 My messages from my friends on Facebook, they're there forever.

01:36:34.000 I'll look into it.

01:36:35.000 Because I still don't talk to this friend all that often.

01:36:37.000 They're there forever, except for when they delete them.

01:36:40.000 Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

01:36:40.000 Right, right, right, right.

01:36:41.000 All right, we're going to read some Super Chats. 0.68

01:36:42.000 If you haven't already, smash the like button, subscribe, the notification bell, share the show with your friends, take the URL and just paste it across the board.

01:36:50.000 And it's the best way to help out.

01:36:52.000 And again, you know what we're going to do?

01:36:53.000 I'm going to see if I can find this message.

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01:38:02.000 Let's read some Super Chats. 0.87

01:38:04.000 And again, smash that like button.

01:38:07.000 B. Anderson says, I know it's off topic, but please shout out.

01:38:09.000 I started a fundraiser for my cat who broke her leg on GoFundMe search, Surgery for Fish by Ballard A. Oh man, really?

01:38:18.000 Poor fish.

01:38:19.000 Surgery for Fish.

01:38:21.000 I think we're gonna have to make sure that this kitty gets all of the help kitty needs. 1.00

01:38:28.000 Surgery for Fish.

01:38:29.000 GoFundMe.

01:38:31.000 There we go.

01:38:32.000 We're going to make sure.

01:38:32.000 Let's see what we got here.

01:38:34.000 Help, Kylo.

01:38:35.000 Oh, uh-oh.

01:38:38.000 Fish the pup?

01:38:39.000 I thought you said it was a cat.

01:38:41.000 No, that's a dog.

01:38:42.000 I searched for surgery for fish, but a dog came up.

01:38:45.000 Let me look up the person.

01:38:47.000 Ballard A. Surgery for fish.

01:38:51.000 Ballard A. Found it!

01:38:53.000 Kitty needs $3,149. 0.91

01:38:56.000 I guarantee you by tonight, this will be completed.

01:39:00.000 You have my word.

01:39:02.000 I'm not asking anybody else to make any donations.

01:39:04.000 If you would like to, there is a kitty who broke Kitty's leg.

01:39:08.000 I don't know if Kitty, I don't want to misgender Kitty.

01:39:10.000 So, um, we're going to make sure Kitty makes it.

01:39:13.000 Earlier today, uh, so we, we got tick medicine for Bucko and he's been licking nonstop his skin off.

01:39:19.000 He has a bandana.

01:39:20.000 So we gave him a little neckerchief.

01:39:22.000 I put it on him so that he can't, you know, lick it.

01:39:26.000 I saw him today.

01:39:26.000 We had the electricians come out.

01:39:29.000 And this cat walks up right behind the rear tire and then lays down right in front of it.

01:39:35.000 And I'm like...

01:39:38.000 Try to get up, walk out, move the cat.

01:39:40.000 Because if the dude gets in the truck and the cat's laying there, it's going to be like a split second.

01:39:44.000 In the winter, they'll crawl up in the engine to stay warm.

01:39:47.000 Don't let them out in the winter.

01:39:49.000 Yeah, so we keep an eye on the kitties.

01:39:51.000 Anyway, Ballard, we will make sure that your cat is taken care of.

01:39:55.000 Just shout out to Bucko.

01:39:56.000 There's a very cute picture of Bucko on Lydia's Instagram.

01:39:59.000 With his little neckerchief.

01:40:00.000 He is so handsome with his little neckerchief.

01:40:02.000 I had to take a picture of him and he came and snuggled with me yesterday.

01:40:05.000 He's just my best pal.

01:40:06.000 Heywood says Doge is nothing.

01:40:08.000 I put 15k into Cardano ADA in May of last year.

01:40:12.000 Guess how much I have now?

01:40:14.000 What was it May of last year?

01:40:15.000 Like, a few cents?

01:40:16.000 Six cents?

01:40:17.000 I don't know, that's a guess.

01:40:18.000 A dollar seventy?

01:40:19.000 Wow.

01:40:21.000 Yeah, so uh, Trips, you have a lot of money.

01:40:25.000 Alright.

01:40:29.000 Ryan Brown says, how much trouble did you have in getting fit for the blades you have?

01:40:34.000 I'm happy to see you tried it.

01:40:35.000 Didn't know Brandon Tatum was a blader before.

01:40:37.000 Getting the, what do you mean in getting fit for the blades that I have?

01:40:37.000 Oh yeah.

01:40:41.000 Like getting them to fit?

01:40:42.000 I'll tell you one thing, it's really annoying how aggressive in line, they like just fit terribly.

01:40:47.000 It's like just awful.

01:40:49.000 Why is that?

01:40:50.000 I don't know.

01:40:50.000 I'm annoyed by all of them.

01:40:51.000 Like these things just suck to wear.

01:40:53.000 You got some though? 0.89

01:40:54.000 I got a bunch.

01:40:55.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:40:55.000 Oh nice.

01:40:56.000 What size are you?

01:40:57.000 Me? 10.

01:40:59.000 All right, I'm gonna try.

01:41:00.000 Yeah.

01:41:00.000 Well, no, I got like 10 pairs.

01:41:01.000 We also got some bikes too.

01:41:02.000 You want a BMX?

01:41:03.000 We gotta get scooters next. 0.94

01:41:05.000 I love scooters.

01:41:06.000 I'm just excited to have all the different disciplines.

01:41:08.000 And so one of the things is the ground outside is really bad.

01:41:12.000 So it destroys the wheels of rollerblades.

01:41:16.000 And skateboarding is really hard to skate on it because it's just like really old asphalt that's broken up and there's pebbles everywhere.

01:41:21.000 Yeah, it's kind of brutal.

01:41:22.000 I guess we could repave.

01:41:23.000 It'd be a lot of money, but we might need to.

01:41:25.000 It'd just take a long time.

01:41:26.000 But for bikes, that's one.

01:41:28.000 I think you can do these thin coats, which aren't like a full pave.

01:41:31.000 Yeah, just like seal it.

01:41:31.000 Yeah.

01:41:32.000 But I'm excited for the BMX stuff because you can ride on it really easily.

01:41:35.000 And then we had Mike, Mike Feeney jumped over the Tesla last week.

01:41:38.000 It was a lot of fun.

01:41:39.000 He's a cool dude.

01:41:40.000 He's a cool dude.

01:41:41.000 He's inspired me to get on the bike.

01:41:43.000 All right, Azir says, hey Tim, love the show.

01:41:45.000 I'm currently saving up money to travel around and cover protests, riots, rallies, etc.

01:41:48.000 Would you be interested in footage?

01:41:50.000 How can I contact if you would like to work together?

01:41:54.000 Pitches at timcast.com.

01:41:57.000 But I must warn you, we are just trying as hard as we can to grow and build and it's like we are bursting at the seams.

01:42:04.000 I wish we could move faster than we could, but you lose quality control if you just start hiring willy-nilly.

01:42:09.000 So we need administrative help to start the process.

01:42:12.000 And I'm really worried about the Peter Principle.

01:42:14.000 What's that?

01:42:17.000 I think it's the Peter Principle, where people hire people who are lower skilled than them until eventually you hire a bunch of really awful people.

01:42:24.000 So the idea is you always want to be hiring people who you think are better than you.

01:42:29.000 There's these questions that Peter tells, speaking of Peter, that he always asks to people that he's hiring, which one of them is, you know, what is your most contrarian belief? So, but

01:42:42.000 those questions I think are for anyone hiring are worth looking up because he knows how to hire

01:42:46.000 people. That guy's an animal.

01:42:48.000 You want to hire people that are going to be really, really great and be better than you and

01:42:59.000 Take over.

01:43:00.000 You want people who want to take your job from you.

01:43:03.000 For real.

01:43:03.000 Not in a cutthroat way, in an ambitious, like, but make it stuff.

01:43:07.000 So the job is no longer needed.

01:43:09.000 I mean, that's the idea is so that we can remove ourselves from the company.

01:43:12.000 It'll keep functioning.

01:43:13.000 Just people who can be independent and intuitive like that.

01:43:17.000 That's who I like to hire.

01:43:18.000 I mean, that's why I always love working with Ian because he figures it out.

01:43:22.000 He just and people who can figure it out without having to be able to told what without having to be told what to do.

01:43:29.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:43:30.000 All right.

01:43:31.000 Spencer Henry says the ATF murdered 86 people in Waco.

01:43:34.000 That is all.

01:43:34.000 That's right.

01:43:35.000 And you want something crazy?

01:43:37.000 My dad's side of the family from Waco.

01:43:40.000 Oh, yeah.

01:43:43.000 Samuel Bonin says, putting together my game dev portfolio to submit, but wanted to gear something towards Timcast.

01:43:49.000 Would you rather a demo for a ghost haunting game for the new podcast or a news tycoon kind of game?

01:43:54.000 How are you at first person shooters?

01:43:57.000 Because we have probably one of the most controversial ideas for a game that I don't think I've ever publicly talked about, but privately, everyone's been like, oof.

01:44:06.000 Oh, I like that one.

01:44:08.000 But we need someone who can do a very simple FPS, and it's going to be controversial, but I imagine the NRA is going to be like, we would like to promote this and have this be available.

01:44:19.000 Actually, they'd probably be like, get away from us, you're controversial.

01:44:21.000 Did you ever see the game Superhot?

01:44:23.000 Yes, that game's awesome.

01:44:24.000 Kind of makes me think of a game like Superhot.

01:44:25.000 That game's rad.

01:44:26.000 Have you played VR version of it?

01:44:28.000 No.

01:44:29.000 VR Superhot.

01:44:30.000 I will, if you have it.

01:44:31.000 So it's like you're standing there, and there are these wire-framed dudes, and they'll shoot at you, and then you literally dodge, and the bullet goes, like, vroom, past your head.

01:44:38.000 Like, time only moves when you move.

01:44:40.000 Yeah.

01:44:40.000 It's really, really awesome.

01:44:41.000 So it's like, you'll see a shotgun blast, and you'll be like, whoa!

01:44:45.000 Trying to, like, dodge it.

01:44:46.000 And you can also, I think you can throw stuff at the bullets.

01:44:49.000 Yeah.

01:44:49.000 And, like, swat them and stuff.

01:44:51.000 So it's like, you can deflect it with your guns.

01:44:51.000 It's really cool.

01:44:53.000 It's coming at you, and you go, you're like, if you move too fast, they move faster, the faster you move.

01:44:57.000 So you can, like, swat it.

01:44:59.000 There's also a really fun game for Oculus.

01:45:01.000 I forgot what it's called.

01:45:02.000 It's like a robot VR game where you're fighting robots and you can pick them up and throw them.

01:45:06.000 I love that game.

01:45:07.000 Dude, VR is awesome.

01:45:08.000 Down in the skate park, where we have the basketball hoop, we also have a VR set with a bunch of those games.

01:45:14.000 The challenge is if you run to the left too much, you'll go up the vertical wall and so you don't want to do that.

01:45:18.000 Have you considered getting one of the straps?

01:45:21.000 Straps, yeah.

01:45:23.000 So you can only go a certain range, like not too far out of range.

01:45:27.000 You can draw it so that if you move too far the whole thing turns red.

01:45:30.000 But what I'd love to get is one of those stands where you're strapped in and then you can actually run in place.

01:45:35.000 Jump and dock and you have haptic feedback vest where if you get hit you can feel it.

01:45:40.000 And like the gloves.

01:45:41.000 Do you think it'll get to a point where you're wearing VR to work during the day?

01:45:47.000 Uh, what do you mean?

01:45:47.000 Like, just, you know, as opposed to looking at your monitor, just, like, being in VR.

01:45:52.000 I think so, yeah.

01:45:53.000 Especially now.

01:45:54.000 Because, uh, because of COVID, people are working remotely.

01:45:57.000 So, one of the problems with remote working is that we're sitting here looking at these little screens, and it's really hard to build a culture.

01:46:04.000 And what you need to understand about building culture in the workplace and why I don't want to hire anybody remote.

01:46:09.000 I want people who want to work here.

01:46:10.000 They got to be out here because they got to be in the space.

01:46:12.000 For one thing, you'll be in the vlog.

01:46:13.000 And the other thing is we need to just be sitting next to each other so that if someone's like, I just got a crazy idea.

01:46:21.000 What if we bought a hot air balloon?

01:46:25.000 If you're sitting in your apartment and you're on a Zoom meeting, and the meeting ends, and then you go, ooh, hot air balloon.

01:46:30.000 Anyway, and you go back to eating your Cheetos, the idea goes nowhere.

01:46:33.000 But if you're hanging out in the house and people are bouncing around ideas and they're playing video games, you're sharing all of these ideas and creating an opportunity to just write things down and plan for stuff.

01:46:42.000 The more the merrier, you know?

01:46:43.000 To a certain point.

01:46:44.000 If we could throw in contacts and then be doing this, but all of a sudden we're on a stage, a virtual stage, and we can see everyone on Super Chat in the audience, And they're throwing stuff at us.

01:46:54.000 Yeah, definitely.

01:46:55.000 And they're throwing tomatoes.

01:46:56.000 But the problem is, if you're going to take a video of us, how would we see them?

01:47:00.000 They'd have to have video cameras on them and that sort of thing.

01:47:02.000 So imagine, what I want to get at is this.

01:47:04.000 Imagine if you have a table at home and you put on your VR headset and then you can see your co-workers sitting in front of you.

01:47:11.000 And then you interact as if you were a mirror.

01:47:12.000 There are some shared spaces that are getting set up like that now.

01:47:16.000 It's just about contacts instead of VR helmets so you can see the face.

01:47:19.000 Yeah, you just need both.

01:47:20.000 Like, I could see going in, but then you want to be out.

01:47:23.000 Dude, have you ever spent long periods of time in VR?

01:47:27.000 Long periods?

01:47:28.000 No.

01:47:28.000 Like, I've seen videos of people that have been in for days and days and days just as an experiment.

01:47:32.000 You see the chimps when they put them in VR?

01:47:34.000 A little bit.

01:47:34.000 I want to watch it again.

01:47:35.000 Yeah.

01:47:35.000 Oh, let's, uh, we got to talk about the mind, the chimp mind pong with Neuralink before we go.

01:47:40.000 Right on, right on.

01:47:41.000 All right, let's get some more Super Chats.

01:47:43.000 All right, we got Spennet Games, says Tim.

01:47:45.000 Here's to making culture.

01:47:46.000 Check out my board game, Cinder Shire, on Kickstarter.

01:47:49.000 It's a four-player procedural dungeon-exploring game.

01:47:52.000 Please check it out.

01:47:53.000 Will do.

01:47:54.000 Must be a HeroQuest.

01:47:55.000 Kyle Miller says, Tim, have you heard anything about a possible gas shortage this summer?

01:48:00.000 Nothing real.

01:48:02.000 Nothing in the news.

01:48:03.000 I have seen it gas up 22%, and people are really scared that there's going to be a gas shortage.

01:48:07.000 But not enough to where I'd ever say anything, like, I don't know.

01:48:12.000 I will say, I bought an electric car.

01:48:14.000 That's right.

01:48:15.000 We made a video called Jumping the Tesla.

01:48:16.000 I bought a Tesla.

01:48:16.000 Why?

01:48:17.000 Why?

01:48:18.000 Because I'm like, I don't want to be relying on gasoline.

01:48:21.000 Especially when you got like Greta Thunberg and AOC being like, ban gasoline.

01:48:24.000 I'm like, eh, these people have political power and you know, I don't know where we're going to be in 10 years, so.

01:48:29.000 Plus, I gotta be honest, I like the idea of electric.

01:48:32.000 You're not really going to go on a road trip with an electric car.

01:48:34.000 You can, because of Tesla superchargers.

01:48:37.000 There's a network.

01:48:39.000 And they're everywhere.

01:48:40.000 Seriously, the chargers are everywhere.

01:48:41.000 No joke.

01:48:42.000 I think there's more chargers than gas stations.

01:48:44.000 So, you'd be surprised.

01:48:45.000 Maybe it's not true, but you look at the map and it's just red dots everywhere.

01:48:48.000 The issue is, it does take like 20 minutes to charge up to 80%.

01:48:52.000 And so, at a gas station, you pull up there for a few minutes, you fill up the tank, you're good to go.

01:48:56.000 You plug it in, you go inside, you sit down, you kick your feet, you look at your watch, you check your phone.

01:49:00.000 It's not that bad.

01:49:01.000 20's okay.

01:49:02.000 It's not bad.

01:49:03.000 It's worth it, I think, too, because it's ridiculously cheap.

01:49:06.000 It's like, gotta fill up the tank.

01:49:07.000 Oh, that was 30 cents.

01:49:08.000 Wow.

01:49:09.000 Yeah, it's pretty great.

01:49:10.000 But I don't want to be relying on gasoline, man.

01:49:12.000 Alright, Trash Panda says, Ian, you're on fire today!

01:49:15.000 I agree, there are very strange things going on behind the scenes.

01:49:18.000 What are your thoughts?

01:49:20.000 The World Economic Forum has a page called The Great Reset.

01:49:27.000 I think it's behind the scenes, which is the most terrifying thing.

01:49:30.000 I can't see it.

01:49:31.000 The proprietary stuff drive me nuts.

01:49:33.000 The behind the scenes stuff that I was talking about is like, has anyone actually gone to a farm and asked them, is there anything going on?

01:49:39.000 They're like, what are you feeding these animals?

01:49:41.000 We didn't do that.

01:49:42.000 We turn on CNN, we turn on Fox News, and then we argue about the culture war.

01:49:45.000 It's like, we went to go buy some farm fresh meats and then heard from the farmers about what they're dealing with from the federal government.

01:49:51.000 I'm like, wow, is there news about that?

01:49:55.000 Nobody cares.

01:49:55.000 Yeah, there may be a million sources of news, but there really isn't that much news.

01:49:58.000 Like today, we were like, what happened today?

01:50:01.000 No, there's a lot of news.

01:50:01.000 It's just that we're hyper-focused on politics and culture.

01:50:04.000 But what's the news, like Cardi B's birthday?

01:50:07.000 It's like news about people and what they did.

01:50:09.000 If you actually spent 10 minutes to find an amazing, beautiful story that happened today, you could do it.

01:50:14.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:50:16.000 But is there ever news that's not about people?

01:50:19.000 Yes, I found an article.

01:50:20.000 I'll tell you about it after the show.

01:50:21.000 Oh, cool.

01:50:21.000 All right, Ken Duncan says, You had better call Crowder and tell him you're finally getting it.

01:50:27.000 I'm also wondering what your favorite gun you own.

01:50:31.000 I have a hell of a time myself.

01:50:32.000 I think for me, it's whichever I shot last.

01:50:35.000 I'm going to say it's definitely the Lever Action .357 Magnum.

01:50:40.000 Man, that is just so much fun.

01:50:42.000 Is Crowder offended that you took so long to get his gun?

01:50:45.000 I talked to him about it and I was like, you know, he asked me what was up and I was like, bro, I can't drive 70 miles to get this.

01:50:51.000 Cause I work, I work in the morning and then I've got like two hours after my first shift where I do my shows and then IRL.

01:50:58.000 And I'm like, it's not enough time to get there and back.

01:51:00.000 Plus I was on a delay list at the time for, for Nick's.

01:51:03.000 So I've gone up there, filled out the form, driven back, waited five days, gone back, picked it up.

01:51:09.000 I couldn't do it.

01:51:09.000 My dad was trying to get a permit in Connecticut and it was just like, it took years of going back and forth.

01:51:17.000 Sheriff, like it's insane.

01:51:18.000 But let me just say, there's a range, a local range, and we were running drills with our good friend from Phoenix Ammunition.

01:51:28.000 And I was like, I don't know, I'm not like, you know, super good.

01:51:31.000 These guys were really good.

01:51:32.000 I mean, the dude from Phoenix would like, never miss.

01:51:35.000 And everyone there was like, looking at the guy like, wow, this guy's really good!

01:51:38.000 But I just, I had a 410, a 410 lever action.

01:51:43.000 And it's just so fun running and just cranking it and I was using 410 slugs, so a whole lot of fun.

01:51:50.000 But the .357 Magnum lever action, I just love lever action guns.

01:51:54.000 They're just so much fun.

01:51:55.000 That was my childhood toy gun.

01:51:56.000 Yeah, right?

01:51:57.000 It's like, you know, fronts, easy to use.

01:52:01.000 It's it's yeah, so I've I've got I've got a ridiculous amount of guns at this point and You know, I think I think it's a mil spec 308 ar-15 Yeah, it's fun.

01:52:13.000 But it's like, you know, whatever the m1a That one's a whole lot of fun.

01:52:18.000 Yeah, I'm winning.

01:52:18.000 It's a lot of fun.

01:52:19.000 Yeah, good.

01:52:20.000 Good.

01:52:20.000 Good fun.

01:52:21.000 Good fun Alright, let's see.

01:52:24.000 Mr. Brownstunt's malice shouted you out with Dave Smith on You're Welcome today, and was so elated with your Abolish the Police message being heard by your large audience, I believe he's... he's, uh, tinkled his sheath... skivvies with a bit of joy?

01:52:39.000 Yeah, I saw someone tweeting about it.

01:52:41.000 But my response is partially rooted in Michael's argument.

01:52:46.000 He made a good point in the show when he said that he in New York should have the right to defend himself, but the cops won't allow him to bear arms, even the Constitution says he could.

01:52:54.000 And I absolutely agree with his assessment.

01:52:56.000 However, I don't believe that at the core of our ideological, you know, our worldviews, they're identical.

01:53:02.000 My position is I still actually think we need police.

01:53:05.000 The problem right now is the police are effectively a sorting algorithm to put moderates and conservatives in prison and let the far left go.

01:53:15.000 So the cops are going to be neutral arbiters of the law and the DA makes sure that the far left is cut loose and the conservatives and the moderates are locked up.

01:53:22.000 So you look at what the FBI did today with raiding this woman's home, and she's the wrong woman.

01:53:26.000 But they can't find some Antifa guy who burned a building.

01:53:30.000 Nope, they can't do it.

01:53:31.000 So what'll happen is, these cops are like, I'm being good, I'm gonna arrest both of you, and then the Proud Boys are the ones who end up in prison.

01:53:38.000 So look, I think at this point, you've got people based on tribe that are willing to support a system, which is funneling them into defeat. 0.80

01:53:47.000 And if conservatives are about personal responsibility, they don't live in large, you know, urban Democrat districts.

01:53:53.000 Then we should get back to owning guns and just tell people, take care of yourself.

01:53:57.000 Life is not, you know, candy canes and rainbows.

01:53:59.000 And you should, you should, you know, respect second amendment, keeping bare arms.

01:54:06.000 All right, Tina Collette says, on the Trump Nightmare, someone is selling a Trump shower curtain.

01:54:11.000 I want to buy one and sneak it into my TDS-ridden sister's bath next time I visit.

01:54:15.000 At 58 years old, I am still the very bratty little sister.

01:54:19.000 That would be amazing!

01:54:20.000 Just to film her reaction of, nah!

01:54:24.000 I like the shower curtain.

01:54:26.000 50, 60 year olds are now understanding culture.

01:54:30.000 Our grandparents didn't really get it, but now it's like older people can have fun.

01:54:34.000 Internet is so great.

01:54:36.000 I'm 42, but I feel like a kid.

01:54:37.000 I feel like I'm 16.

01:54:37.000 I still like video games, and I want to play all the time.

01:54:41.000 You're an old man. 0.96

01:54:41.000 For some reason, I don't know what you did, but your camera just changed colors. 0.96

01:54:44.000 Yeah, you're orange now.

01:54:45.000 I'm hot!

01:54:46.000 Yes!

01:54:47.000 Why is it so hot?

01:54:47.000 Call me back!

01:54:48.000 I don't know.

01:54:49.000 He left and came back, and I don't know.

01:54:50.000 It's weird.

01:54:51.000 All right, dropforgesurvival says, as one of the larger prepper channels on YouTube, prepping saved my family, and from what I've been told by several others with the videos we've created, food, water, supplies, and finances, because you never know.

01:55:05.000 Be well, Tim and team.

01:55:07.000 Hey, appreciate it.

01:55:09.000 Absolutely.

01:55:10.000 Joe Macinek says, Timcast, in my tinfoil hat gorilla shirt, in my tinfoil hat gorilla shirt with my wife in her diamond hand shirt, have you guys heard of Stellar Lumens?

01:55:20.000 I want to hear non-expert opinion of their token.

01:55:23.000 By the way, this super chat will be worthless tomorrow.

01:55:26.000 I hope not.

01:55:27.000 Worth less.

01:55:28.000 Oh, worth less.

01:55:28.000 Yeah, right.

01:55:29.000 Not worthless.

01:55:30.000 Worth less tomorrow.

01:55:31.000 That's true.

01:55:32.000 What do you think about Lumens?

01:55:35.000 I'm pretty sure that Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, is involved with them.

01:55:40.000 And it's a little bit more faster transactions.

01:55:46.000 I don't know a ton about the blockchain, though, but it's a smart contract platform, which is similar to Ethereum.

01:55:52.000 It's sort of similar to Ethereum, but like faster in certain senses, but also more centralized.

01:55:56.000 It's not ERC20?

01:55:58.000 No.

01:55:59.000 All right.

01:56:00.000 Tyrell Hoddle says, I am quote, some guy in Nebraska that I've heard Tim mention a few times before.

01:56:06.000 Thanks for the shout out.

01:56:07.000 Just want to let you know I am out here and I am everything you think I am.

01:56:11.000 Keep doing what you are.

01:56:12.000 I watch every show.

01:56:13.000 Hey, really appreciate it, man.

01:56:14.000 You see that family guy joke where Stewie's like, it's a, it's a, Stewie says, it's like the time I was in Nebraska.

01:56:19.000 And then he's like sitting at a table with a bunch of guys and he's like, so, you know, uh, the president did this or something.

01:56:24.000 And they're like, so I heard the celebrity did something and they're like, How's corn doing?

01:56:29.000 Corn!

01:56:29.000 Oh, corn!

01:56:30.000 Oh yeah, corn's great!

01:56:31.000 They're all like excited and talking about corn.

01:56:33.000 That's Nebraska.

01:56:35.000 So I'm sure that's exactly what you guys are like.

01:56:37.000 You really get a new appreciation for corn when you see it growing in the fields and the wind is whipping through it because it looks like silk.

01:56:43.000 It's cool.

01:56:45.000 I can imagine you running through a corn field.

01:56:46.000 Oh my gosh, you're speaking my love language.

01:56:50.000 Eric Miller says, Imagine being in a meeting and people are discussing how to run your life but you can't say anything.

01:56:56.000 They can destroy everything you love.

01:56:57.000 How much money would you pay to speak out?

01:57:00.000 Well, free speech costs you nothing but your voice.

01:57:04.000 So I was out to eat with some family and I was talking to some of my cousins and their kids.

01:57:12.000 And we were talking, they were mentioning how their kids, their 14-year-old girl doesn't care about news at all.

01:57:17.000 You'll never convince her politics is important.

01:57:19.000 And I was like, oh, I can't easily.

01:57:21.000 And they were like, yeah, yeah.

01:57:22.000 And she was like, no, you can't. 1.00

01:57:23.000 It's dumb. 0.99

01:57:24.000 And I was like, think about it this way. 0.99

01:57:25.000 Is there someone in your school that you really hate?

01:57:27.000 She's like, yeah.

01:57:29.000 And I was like, okay, imagine she makes the rules about how you get to live and what you have to wear. 0.99

01:57:32.000 And she was like, what?

01:57:33.000 I was like, imagine you go to school and she tells you what to wear.

01:57:37.000 Would you want to be talking about why?

01:57:39.000 And I'm like, that's politics.

01:57:39.000 Yes!

01:57:40.000 So when you get older, now these other people are telling you how you got to live your life and pay and spend your money.

01:57:45.000 And you're like, who are you?

01:57:47.000 So it's not so much that you don't like news and politics.

01:57:49.000 It's that you care about what's in your life and affecting your life.

01:57:52.000 When you're a little kid, you don't care about the president.

01:57:54.000 People can't stand these boring people talking about politics on CNN.

01:57:58.000 They deliver it so blandly and like yawn.

01:58:01.000 What is the root of the word politics?

01:58:04.000 What is it?

01:58:04.000 What does it go back to?

01:58:08.000 Polis? 0.98

01:58:08.000 The police? 0.98

01:58:10.000 The people.

01:58:10.000 Metropolitan.

01:58:12.000 That's from the Latin.

01:58:14.000 So it's supposed to be a voice of the people.

01:58:15.000 The polls.

01:58:17.000 It was, it was stripper poles and the people, people would all grab, gather around it. 1.00

01:58:21.000 And then while watching the beautiful women do their thing, they would discuss, they would, they would be discussing like around the water cooler, the way things should be. 0.81

01:58:28.000 Pole-atics.

01:58:29.000 That picture of the philosophers in Greece.

01:58:31.000 Yes.

01:58:31.000 Nathan O'Connell said, Ian, the band on the Titanic saw their death and faced it like gentlemen.

01:58:37.000 But they still died, remember?

01:58:39.000 And not everyone did on that boat.

01:58:42.000 Yeah.

01:58:43.000 Not Rose.

01:58:44.000 You know, man.

01:58:47.000 Hey, here we go.

01:58:48.000 X says, dude, if you need a barn, drive up to PA and hire the Amish. 1.00

01:58:51.000 They're not far and they're good.

01:58:53.000 Oh, yeah.

01:58:55.000 So we're trying to, so you guys, if you've seen the vlog, we have the steel pole barn where we have like the venue in it.

01:59:00.000 And we need some upgrades.

01:59:02.000 And I've called a bunch of people and they just, you know, ghost us.

01:59:07.000 We've had people come out and they're like, man, I can't do what you're looking for.

01:59:10.000 I don't want anyone to think it's political.

01:59:12.000 It's literally like, either we want to build a building and they're like, we'll get back to you, and then they don't.

01:59:18.000 Or they say things like, we're a local company, we can't build what you want.

01:59:21.000 You know, you guys want too much of us, we can't do that, we can't handle that.

01:59:24.000 Or the cost has gotten too high, or... Are there different materials you could use?

01:59:28.000 I mean, we just want to use steel.

01:59:30.000 Yeah, so right now it's a lot of wood, and wood is...

01:59:34.000 What's the right word?

01:59:35.000 Volumous?

01:59:36.000 Takes up a lot of space.

01:59:37.000 If we had stronger materials, we could have way more space, and it'd be a lot cleaner and better.

01:59:41.000 We could build geodesic domes.

01:59:43.000 We lose a lot of vertical space, a horizontal space as you go higher, because it curves in, but they're cheap and really stable, and we could dig down also.

01:59:50.000 Maybe we just get rid of the barn and put one gigantic dome over it. 0.52

01:59:54.000 I'm into it.

01:59:55.000 Hey, I did some research on the history of the word politic.

01:59:59.000 Polis meant city in ancient Greek, and then politis was citizen.

02:00:04.000 So ultimately that's where it came from.

02:00:09.000 Josh says, have you ever thought about creating an ERC-20 token, a Timcast IRL coin, based on a smart contract to allow your viewers limited rights to support and vote for content?

02:00:18.000 You could create a staking system and apply for it to be added on exchanges.

02:00:23.000 It just seems like a whole lot of issues with the SEC I don't want to deal with.

02:00:26.000 I don't know.

02:00:27.000 It's a lot of effort.

02:00:28.000 It's a lot of effort.

02:00:29.000 But yeah, if there's real value there.

02:00:34.000 Jay Otterson says, I staked my ETH and it's just growing as I watch.

02:00:38.000 You can do that right now.

02:00:40.000 Do what?

02:00:41.000 Stake your Ethereum.

02:00:42.000 Yeah.

02:00:42.000 And then it would just start growing.

02:00:44.000 Yeah.

02:00:45.000 How do I do that?

02:00:45.000 Really?

02:00:45.000 Yeah.

02:00:46.000 On Coinbase.

02:00:47.000 Really?

02:00:48.000 Or you can either go to like a truly decentralized staking tool.

02:00:51.000 Is there any risk to losing it or anything?

02:00:52.000 You have to get on, there's a wait list on Coinbase.

02:00:54.000 No, there's no risk.

02:00:55.000 But actually when you stake ETH on Coinbase, so you earn like 6% a year on top.

02:01:01.000 But you won't be able to pull it out until ETH2 fully launches.

02:01:05.000 Oh, interesting.

02:01:07.000 What is ETH2?

02:01:07.000 It's still going to be the same Ethereum, right?

02:01:09.000 Still the same Ethereum, but it's proof of stake, like I was talking about.

02:01:12.000 So it's not all these, you know, electricity burning mining rigs all over the world.

02:01:19.000 And they're doing sharding so that there can be more transaction throughput and the gas prices will be lower.

02:01:25.000 Yep.

02:01:27.000 Tyler Page says, Ladies, find yourself someone that loves you like Bill Ottman loves Bitcoin.

02:01:33.000 I'll take it.

02:01:36.000 Zach Wilkerson says, M2 money supply went up $6 trillion in 2020.

02:01:40.000 Divide that by $365 billion and you get $16.4 billion created per day.

02:01:45.000 How much did Dogecoin create per day?

02:01:48.000 $14 million?

02:01:50.000 I don't remember what the number was.

02:01:51.000 So what you're saying is that Dogecoin is a more sound currency than the U.S.

02:01:55.000 dollar?

02:01:57.000 You're saying doge to the moon?

02:01:58.000 Everyone should buy it.

02:01:58.000 There are.

02:01:59.000 Winklevoss just posted something like that.

02:02:02.000 Oh, really?

02:02:02.000 Everybody buy it?

02:02:03.000 No, he was just saying that compared to the dollar it is more sound in certain ways.

02:02:08.000 Yep.

02:02:08.000 All right.

02:02:14.000 Stairs into Space Gaming says, check out Coin Bureau and his analysis of the tokenomics of Doge.

02:02:20.000 Not financial advice.

02:02:21.000 All right.

02:02:22.000 CNSC says, Tim, I don't know why, but I can't log into the site only on my Android, though.

02:02:27.000 Love the show.

02:02:28.000 You should get Attorney Tom from TikTok.

02:02:30.000 So I guess there was some issue on the site where there was like a caching error of some sort.

02:02:34.000 If you can clear your cookies or whatever, it should be better.

02:02:38.000 Um, we're, we're, we're, I'll just keep, keep it simple.

02:02:42.000 We created a very simple WordPress site.

02:02:43.000 We're like, here, we'll put bonus content for people.

02:02:45.000 And then so many people signed up.

02:02:47.000 I was like, okay, we, we, we need to upgrade the site to handle this, this level of traffic.

02:02:51.000 And then we did that and then more people signed up and I was like, we have an opportunity to actually create a network and start doing a bunch of unique content.

02:02:57.000 And this kind of site we're building can't accommodate that.

02:03:00.000 So we're going to need to bring in the big guns.

02:03:02.000 And so we got like a really big company now who is stepping in and we're expediting the construction of a site that should allow us to make shows.

02:03:11.000 Everyone be patient.

02:03:13.000 Developing websites takes a lot of labor, a lot of love.

02:03:17.000 It's all about patience.

02:03:18.000 So it always takes three times longer than you think.

02:03:21.000 I think in five years, we're going to have some kind of Netflix.

02:03:24.000 It's going to, we're going to have a bunch of our own original content, short films, movies, documentaries, and it is going to be totally independent.

02:03:31.000 I'm so ready to make movies.

02:03:32.000 You know, what's funny is when I've had a lot of people come out here.

02:03:34.000 So a lot of, uh, a lot of, you know, prominent personalities who are assigned to networks and they're like, so you have like investors like to help you.

02:03:40.000 Nope.

02:03:41.000 You don't have any, no, no, no investors.

02:03:42.000 How did you do all this?

02:03:43.000 So I just slowly built it up over time.

02:03:45.000 Wow.

02:03:46.000 No, no, no, no.

02:03:47.000 Totally independent.

02:03:48.000 100%.

02:03:49.000 Nobody gave us any money.

02:03:50.000 Zero overhead.

02:03:51.000 21st century business on YouTube.

02:03:53.000 Incredible.

02:03:54.000 Zero overhead is absolutely untrue, Ian.

02:03:56.000 Well, not zero, but it's negligible overhead.

02:03:58.000 No, it's not.

02:03:59.000 Your overhead was like your rent.

02:04:01.000 Yeah, when I first started.

02:04:02.000 Yeah, and you were making...

02:04:03.000 You make tens of thousands of dollars a month with no oversight.

02:04:08.000 And then when you start getting to the point where you're running a business and hiring people, overhead becomes exorbitant.

02:04:14.000 But you, I think, took it as far as you could totally solo, and I think that was in your benefit.

02:04:22.000 Am I the only one?

02:04:24.000 No, not the only.

02:04:25.000 Rogan kind of did it.

02:04:26.000 He had Jamie he was paying and he has a crew.

02:04:29.000 But he's been doing a lot of stuff for a long time and he's worked a lot of different companies.

02:04:29.000 That's true.

02:04:31.000 He was already very wealthy when he went into it.

02:04:33.000 That's true, though.

02:04:34.000 You know, he started his own thing.

02:04:35.000 Yeah, absolutely.

02:04:36.000 He didn't need people to fund him.

02:04:38.000 So I worked for Disney left and then I had some money to be able to start things and not worry about it.

02:04:41.000 But no investors.

02:04:43.000 Phil DeFranco.

02:04:43.000 Nobody.

02:04:44.000 Same.

02:04:45.000 I don't know if he took on investors eventually.

02:04:46.000 He started out as just some dude in his dorm room, basically.

02:04:48.000 Yeah, what's up with that guy?

02:04:49.000 I've actually... He's amazing.

02:04:50.000 I don't know.

02:04:51.000 I haven't seen him in a long time.

02:04:52.000 No, I've been hearing bad things.

02:04:53.000 He doesn't come up, really.

02:04:55.000 On the Algos, he doesn't come up as much as he did.

02:04:57.000 Well, I remember on the Covington thing, he posted a video that took the side of the establishment, which was untrue, and there were a couple other things, I guess, that happened.

02:05:05.000 I don't know.

02:05:06.000 I don't really watch him anymore.

02:05:07.000 I'm not trying to be disrespectful.

02:05:08.000 I've just been seeing comments on Twitter.

02:05:11.000 Maybe they're not representative.

02:05:12.000 YouTube flashed me one of those about Jake Paul, I think.

02:05:16.000 It is really crazy for me to look at these other YouTubers who have been around for a lot longer than me, and I get five, ten times as many views as they do.

02:05:24.000 Not on one single video, but in terms of the work that we're producing.

02:05:24.000 Stuff happens.

02:05:28.000 Yeah, quality speaks volumes now, whereas back in the day it was whatever they shoveled into your mouth in like 1975 because ABC ran the airwaves basically.

02:05:36.000 Now the high quality stuff gets caught, especially when you encourage people to share it and they share it.

02:05:40.000 That's massive!

02:05:42.000 Like if you really inspire someone to share it, that means...

02:05:45.000 A lot of people are getting inspired to share it.

02:05:47.000 It's funny that even like Comedy Central now and others, you know, they're basically producing in their houses.

02:05:53.000 So it's like they had the big production studios, all the mainstream outlets, but now with COVID, they're all home.

02:06:01.000 And it's just funny to see the mainstream producing out of their houses.

02:06:05.000 So it's like with like low quality, with low quality.

02:06:07.000 They don't know how to run a studio.

02:06:08.000 They're just the face.

02:06:09.000 You realize like Tim actually understands the tech behind it.

02:06:12.000 Dude, it's so like me and you, neither of us were technicians when we were starting mines.

02:06:15.000 We had a super low budget.

02:06:17.000 We had webcams and stuff.

02:06:18.000 Thank God Tim's like a technologist.

02:06:21.000 You know what cameras to get?

02:06:22.000 The black magic card, the switcher, all that.

02:06:25.000 The lights, the LEDs, all we had to get was this stuff.

02:06:29.000 And you know, interesting people to help.

02:06:31.000 Yeah.

02:06:32.000 Nevasa says the next Bitcoin halving is slated for March 2025.

02:06:36.000 Interesting.

02:06:37.000 There was a super chit I just saw and it's gone. 0.98

02:06:39.000 So I'm bummed.

02:06:40.000 I don't know where it went.

02:06:43.000 That's a bummer.

02:06:44.000 Oh, well, what did it say?

02:06:48.000 I didn't get a chance to see it, but I wanted to read it.

02:06:50.000 I don't want to say it unless I can find it, but I can't find it because there's too many superchats because people love us too much, which is really great.

02:06:57.000 You guys are amazing.

02:06:59.000 Connor O'Brien says, Bill, thoughts on the Solana blockchain?

02:07:05.000 They also handle more throughput.

02:07:08.000 There's this app called Audius, which is like a blockchain sort of Spotify app that's using it.

02:07:15.000 And I like Ethereum.

02:07:17.000 I think Ethereum is going to make it in the long run.

02:07:20.000 You know, migrating to different blockchains is just it's all about network effects.

02:07:25.000 And I just I don't know.

02:07:27.000 I think it's a cool project and there's cool people working on it and really smart people and they're solving some problems.

02:07:34.000 But I don't know.

02:07:34.000 I'm not really trying to endorse or not endorse different tokens.

02:07:38.000 When we were starting the Mines token and conceptualizing it still, I kept pushing like we should start our own blockchain.

02:07:43.000 I brought it up a few times and people were basically like, nah, Mark didn't really think it was a good idea.

02:07:48.000 Are you glad?

02:07:48.000 Think about how much energy it takes to get tens of thousands of people all over the world running nodes.

02:07:55.000 Like that cannot be underestimated.

02:07:57.000 Think about how much energy it takes to get hundreds.

02:08:00.000 Ethereum has hundreds of thousands of developers and like tens of millions of you like that.

02:08:06.000 It's not to say that you just go with where all the people are, but like there's a reason that it's generating those network effects.

02:08:12.000 But like I think that I'm not a maximalist.

02:08:16.000 I think that different blockchains will be suited for different purposes.

02:08:20.000 And also other times you don't want a blockchain because blockchains don't solve every I won't swear.

02:08:25.000 It's just everybody's like blockchain consultant, right?

02:08:28.000 I remember talking to one guy and he was like, have you considered like doing a blockchain website?

02:08:32.000 And I was like, what?

02:08:33.000 Your business should do blockchain.

02:08:34.000 I was like, do you know what words are?

02:08:37.000 Like, I think you saw something on a story somewhere and now you're just throwing the word blockchain at me because I don't know what you're talking about.

02:08:41.000 Yeah, that's the most dangerous thing in the blockchain space.

02:08:43.000 Just put the word blockchain.

02:08:45.000 Yeah, it's so, it's nasty.

02:08:46.000 All right, Heather Bailey says, how about a four lights gorilla t-shirt?

02:08:50.000 Love all my others.

02:08:50.000 I'm an artist and have a great design in mind.

02:08:52.000 Also, I love you, Tim, but could you please stop calling me a feckless loser?

02:08:56.000 Thanks. 0.69

02:08:57.000 Oh, is it because you're a cop or what?

02:08:59.000 Or a politician?

02:09:00.000 The next shirt we're going to be doing, hopefully, is going to be the same as the Diamond Hands gorilla, but it's a Shiba Inu head. 0.95

02:09:07.000 And it says, to the moon.

02:09:09.000 And it's holding the money and a cigar.

02:09:11.000 So it's not going to explicitly say, no, it's just, to the moon.

02:09:15.000 And I hope we can have that tomorrow, because I'd love to get that shirt before Elon goes on.

02:09:20.000 Oh yeah.

02:09:21.000 Did you get the Free the Coacher yet?

02:09:23.000 No, we need something like that.

02:09:24.000 Come on, dude.

02:09:25.000 I'll print one.

02:09:26.000 I'll print one on my website.

02:09:27.000 There you go.

02:09:29.000 Nombot says, love all of you.

02:09:32.000 TNG is best, but SG1 is amazing.

02:09:34.000 Also, Ian is my avatar.

02:09:35.000 All right.

02:09:36.000 Really?

02:09:37.000 Then you have magic too.

02:09:38.000 There you go.

02:09:42.000 All right, come on, where's that one super chat I really liked?

02:09:45.000 I was scrolling, I scrolled too fast, then it was gone. 0.99

02:09:48.000 Darn it. 0.91

02:09:49.000 I was going to make fun of somebody from Nebraska, but it's gone now. 0.99

02:09:51.000 Oh, well, I can't do anything about it.

02:09:54.000 Lydia, do you love crypto yet after this?

02:09:57.000 So much.

02:09:58.000 I do feel like I've learned a lot.

02:09:59.000 I sent you that ETH seed a few months ago.

02:10:02.000 And I still have that little seedling of Ethereum that I kind of want to add to my little crypto collection now.

02:10:06.000 So we'll see what happens.

02:10:07.000 All right.

02:10:08.000 Well, well, here's one, Nebraskan. 0.95

02:10:10.000 Rainforest says, Nebraskan here, trust me, you won't enjoy running through a cornfield. 0.97

02:10:14.000 The corn rash is real.

02:10:16.000 Oh.

02:10:16.000 I don't know, I watched all those movies where they're like running through the cornfield and they're being chased by aliens or whatever.

02:10:20.000 It must be true if you saw it in a movie.

02:10:21.000 Well, it depends on what is sprayed on the corn, I would imagine, too.

02:10:24.000 True.

02:10:25.000 That could be nasty.

02:10:26.000 Glyphosate?

02:10:26.000 Yuck.

02:10:28.000 Hovering over.

02:10:29.000 Oh, oh, oh.

02:10:30.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

02:10:30.000 Did it just jump on me again? 0.87

02:10:31.000 Yeah, I just saw it.

02:10:32.000 Oh, here we go.

02:10:33.000 Browncoat says politics.

02:10:34.000 So we have an explanation of where politics come from. 0.99

02:10:36.000 Politics comes from poli, meaning city or people, and tix, meaning evil bloodsucking parasites. 0.98

02:10:44.000 Perfect. 0.99

02:10:45.000 Politics.

02:10:47.000 That's right.

02:10:48.000 Nailed it.

02:10:49.000 All right.

02:10:51.000 Sunny James says, people don't understand there is pretty much zero to no vetting of these government-contracted security agencies like Palantir, Evolve, etc.

02:11:02.000 It's a rubbing elbows with Connected game.

02:11:04.000 Drones missed their targets, killing civilians in Afghanistan up to 90%.

02:11:07.000 Yikes! 1.00

02:11:08.000 Wow.

02:11:13.000 Ossary says, Ian got Trump-ized.

02:11:16.000 You're bound to get banned from social media now.

02:11:18.000 Indeed.

02:11:19.000 Uh-oh.

02:11:19.000 I don't think Ian's been traumatized.

02:11:20.000 Was that a hex?

02:11:21.000 Tomato Ian.

02:11:21.000 Oh, I like Trump.

02:11:22.000 Yeah, Bill can't see it, but... I had a friend that built one one time.

02:11:24.000 politics, poly meaning many and ticks, miserable parasites. 0.98

02:11:29.000 Tim, you mentioned crypto bots yesterday. 0.98

02:11:31.000 Does anybody there recommend one in particular?

02:11:33.000 My doggo crypto doubled from 44 to 89.

02:11:36.000 Love the show.

02:11:37.000 The show.

02:11:37.000 Graham.

02:11:37.000 Uh, I don't know about any of these programs.

02:11:40.000 I just remember, I just know that they exist.

02:11:41.000 So that's a friend that built one one time.

02:11:43.000 The algorithm that auto trades, like built a computer program that

02:11:46.000 didn't for him for a while.

02:11:47.000 And he's like, look, I'm getting 1%.

02:11:48.000 Yep.

02:11:49.000 It just sells when it's high and buys when it's low and it just automatically does it.

02:11:53.000 Alright, we'll do one more just to trigger Bill here.

02:11:56.000 Patrick Glass says Cardano will flip Ethereum.

02:12:00.000 Okay.

02:12:03.000 There it is.

02:12:03.000 So look, I mean, Cardano is a proof of stake blockchain that is similar.

02:12:08.000 You know, they're rolling out smart contracts, more power to them.

02:12:12.000 I hope that products get built.

02:12:17.000 From a developer experience, Ethereum is just great to build on.

02:12:20.000 There's so many developers working on it.

02:12:22.000 There's so many tools.

02:12:24.000 And, you know, I don't know.

02:12:28.000 All right, Justin Moses, any word on the Ian Alligator shirt?

02:12:31.000 I think we can have that one up tomorrow as well, but I think that was gonna be a mug, actually.

02:12:36.000 I'm open to all avenues.

02:12:37.000 Yeah, I think that was, it's a really good mug because it's a square comic image.

02:12:41.000 Perfect.

02:12:41.000 Yeah, but we'll see.

02:12:43.000 Goes great on a shirt, goes great on your eggs when you're in the morning.

02:12:45.000 Yeah, whatever.

02:12:46.000 That's right.

02:12:46.000 Get a hat.

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02:13:00.000 It's fantastic.

02:13:01.000 And we're gonna have a really great segment coming up.

02:13:03.000 I'm gonna see if I can track down this message where I think the Venezuelan government was trying to hack Facebook to try and figure out my location and then we'll just talk about whatever.

02:13:11.000 I don't know.

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02:13:37.000 Yeah, I think Mines is a thing where the YouTube auto-posts to Mines, but IRL is not auto-posting right now.

02:13:43.000 Just TimCast and TimCast.

02:13:44.000 We've got to fancy the IRL experience.

02:13:48.000 We'll do that.

02:13:49.000 Look, diversify your presence.

02:13:51.000 That's what it's all about.

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02:14:27.000 Thank you.

02:14:27.000 Very cool.

02:14:28.000 And you can follow me on Twitter at Sour Patch Lids as I try to figure out what's going on with cryptocurrency.

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - May 06, 2021

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