Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Alex Jones Testifies Before Jan 6th Committee Pleads 5th Over 100 Times w-Curtis Houck

00:00:04.000 Alex Jones testified before the January 6th Committee, and he said that he pleaded the fifth over 100 times.

00:00:11.000 Interestingly, he said that some of the questions were actually kind of reasonable, but the scary thing here is that they had all of his text messages.

00:00:19.000 So when someone comes to you and they say, use Signal or use a VPN, and you think they're being paranoid, let me just remind you that Adam Schiff released an American journalist's private phone records.

00:00:28.000 Alex Jones's private text messages were in the hands of these members of Congress, the January 6th Committee.

00:00:33.000 They know what you're saying and who you're saying it to.

00:00:36.000 Well, now men on the left are saying Alex Jones pleading the fifth is proof he's guilty!

00:00:40.000 Because they don't know how rights work.

00:00:42.000 But yeah, we'll get into all that stuff.

00:00:44.000 We got Joe Biden polling back officially and formally on the vaccine mandate because they have lost.

00:00:49.000 Ron DeSantis is pissed off that the FDA has ended monoclonal antibodies, at least two of them.

00:00:54.000 And we got this poll out of Rasmussen showing that most of this country thinks the press is the enemy of the people.

00:01:00.000 Not surprised.

00:01:00.000 Joining us to talk about that is Curtis Houck.

00:01:04.000 Yeah, thanks for having me.

00:01:05.000 Who are you, good sir?

00:01:07.000 I'm the managing editor of Newsbusters, the main division of the Media Research Center.

00:01:12.000 We've been around since 1987, and we watch the fake news so you don't have to.

00:01:18.000 We watch Joyread, the White House press briefing, CNN.

00:01:22.000 We're like the five people that actually watch CNN.

00:01:24.000 We watch Joe and Mika.

00:01:27.000 Cringe.

00:01:27.000 Sounds painful.

00:01:29.000 Yeah, it is.

00:01:31.000 Some days I'm just wondering, how do I actually do that?

00:01:33.000 How do I stay sane?

00:01:34.000 Lots of coffee and other beverages.

00:01:37.000 Substances, yes.

00:01:37.000 Other substances, yes.

00:01:39.000 And other hobbies.

00:01:41.000 So you guys, you know, when Rasmussen comes out with this poll showing, I think it's like, what, 58% of voters think the press is the enemy of the people.

00:01:47.000 This includes, to a small degree, but many Democrat voters.

00:01:52.000 You're in the thick of it.

00:01:53.000 You watch this all day, every day.

00:01:55.000 Like, you know all of the BS being pumped out by these fake news institutions.

00:01:59.000 Yeah, and the poll is really interesting because no matter which way you slice it, the only group that doesn't view the media as the enemy of the people is the Democrats, and it's only 37%.

00:02:10.000 And, you know, you break it down among racial groups, it's whites 56%, African Americans 63%, and everyone else 60%.

00:02:19.000 So black people in this country actually hate the media more than white people. 0.95

00:02:21.000 Yeah! 0.98

00:02:22.000 That was maybe the most astounding number in all of this poll.

00:02:26.000 I'm not surprised you see, you know, this particular community distrusting of institutions.

00:02:31.000 But we'll get into all that stuff, so I think it's going to be excellent to talk to you.

00:02:34.000 We got Ian hanging out.

00:02:34.000 Yeah, I want to know how you manage it.

00:02:37.000 Ian Crossland, everybody.

00:02:40.000 What's up?

00:02:40.000 Good to see you.

00:02:41.000 Yep, I'm also in awe of Curtis.

00:02:43.000 I don't like the concept of watching these people on TV.

00:02:45.000 The tweets are enough for me.

00:02:46.000 I like to watch videos on mute, and I don't want to hear their voices, so more power to you.

00:02:50.000 I'm very happy that you do it, and I don't have to.

00:02:53.000 Yeah, that's why I tweet all those videos.

00:02:54.000 That's probably how some of you have seen me before, that I'm the guy that tweets all those videos out, so you don't have to in a nice one-minute, two-minute digestible portion.

00:03:03.000 Did you see Whoopi Goldberg accidentally claim the vaccines were killing kids?

00:03:07.000 Oh, no.

00:03:07.000 Yeah.

00:03:07.000 No.

00:03:07.000 Right.

00:03:08.000 Yeah, because it's Whoopi Goldberg.

00:03:08.000 I think it's fair to say.

00:03:09.000 Yeah.

00:03:10.000 The problem is when it comes to like the fact checkers and like media matters, they wouldn't

00:03:14.000 give anyone the benefit of the doubt if they misspoke and said the wrong word.

00:03:17.000 But we're all expected to give her the benefit of the doubt.

00:03:20.000 Right.

00:03:21.000 Yeah.

00:03:22.000 Because it's Whoopi Goldberg.

00:03:23.000 I mean.

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00:04:36.000 Now let's get into this first story.

00:04:38.000 Alex Jones sat with the January 6th panel and repeatedly pleaded the 5th.

00:04:44.000 Then he revealed what they asked him on his broadcast.

00:04:46.000 So this is Politico's Congress Minutes, and they actually break down a bit of what Alex Jones has said.

00:04:52.000 They say, here's the rundown from Jones, who called the committee's questions overall pretty reasonable.

00:04:57.000 Some of these things are very interesting.

00:04:59.000 Jones said the January 6th committee seemed to have a lot of detailed information about him.

00:05:03.000 That they displayed images of text messages he had with Wren and Cindy Chaffian.

00:05:09.000 Who organized a pro-Trump rally on January 5th.

00:05:11.000 Both Wren and Chaffee had been subpoenaed by the committee last fall.

00:05:15.000 Jones said he started to have doubts about leading a march to the Capitol when he saw the unwieldy crowd that had formed at Trump's ellipse speech.

00:05:22.000 Quote, you know, maybe we just won't do what he said.

00:05:25.000 He said he thought to himself.

00:05:26.000 He said he continued, however, when Secret Service agents came and opened up the gate after he arrived at the Capitol and witnessed some of the ongoing mayhem.

00:05:33.000 Jones was seen on video repeatedly attempting to steer the crowd away from police lines.

00:05:39.000 No, no, no, Politico.

00:05:40.000 You need to be more direct and more honest than that.

00:05:42.000 Alex Jones is on video telling people to avoid the Capitol and not to go in because it's a trick and it's a trap and it's what they want you to do.

00:05:48.000 Jones was actively bullhorning to de-escalate and get people away from the Capitol.

00:05:54.000 That would be very important to include, but they did not.

00:05:57.000 Jones said the committee asked about his contacts with Proud Boys.

00:06:00.000 He said that he aided a Hooters in Atlanta with some members.

00:06:03.000 He said he didn't use Proud Boys or Oath Keepers as security.

00:06:05.000 He was a prominent company.

00:06:06.000 He said that January 6th, he relied on a prominent Austin-based security firm.

00:06:10.000 He said the committee suggested they routinely monitor his show.

00:06:13.000 He denied being aware of a December 31st broadcast in which his substitute host, Matthew Bracken, specifically suggested storming the Capitol.

00:06:22.000 Wow, that's crazy.

00:06:23.000 Jones also acknowledged that his co-host, Owen Schroer, who has been charged for egging on the crowd in the restricted area of the Capitol, was facing prosecution.

00:06:31.000 Jones said the charges were for a bunch of stuff he didn't do, and he falsely said Schroer is facing years in prison.

00:06:38.000 I think it's fair to say, incorrectly, falsely kind of implies he was intentionally wrong.

00:06:43.000 The misdemeanor charge against Schroer carry a maximum six-month sentence.

00:06:47.000 So I'll tell you right away, the crazy thing about this is that they've got his texts.

00:06:51.000 That, that's creepy.

00:06:52.000 But obvious, right?

00:06:54.000 The government's got your private information, they know what you do on your phone in your private time, and if you're not using a VPN and you're not using a signal for encrypted stuff, just, you know, Adam Schiff, he knows everything.

00:07:05.000 You know what's funny?

00:07:06.000 I'm sorry, real quick, just, Mark Zuckerberg knows when you poop?

00:07:08.000 I'm willing to bet for a lot of you guys out there, Adam Schiff knows when you poop too.

00:07:08.000 Yep.

00:07:12.000 And he's gonna tell Nicole Wallace about it too.

00:07:12.000 Oh gosh.

00:07:15.000 Oh yeah, he's gonna go on MSNBC, he'll link to his friends at the Washington Post and the New York Times.

00:07:21.000 You know, there's no end for Adam Schiff here.

00:07:23.000 He's gonna hold up an envelope and be like, I have documents about what time Alex Jones was pooping.

00:07:29.000 One of the things that bothers me here is...

00:07:33.000 Okay, you hear this, like, they can spy on you, they can read your text messages, they have total oversight control.

00:07:38.000 I hear that a lot.

00:07:38.000 It's not until it becomes personal and it actually happens to you that it's like, whoa, sound the alarm.

00:07:44.000 Yeah, you have this happen with crime in major cities right now.

00:07:44.000 This isn't right.

00:07:48.000 You have CNN questioning whether that actually is happening.

00:07:52.000 Brian Stelter did a segment on a show on Sunday.

00:07:54.000 It's very similar in that The media will mock anything and everything that's happening to everyone else in the country because it's not happening to them.

00:08:05.000 They feel safe in their homes.

00:08:07.000 They feel like their privacy is being protected until something happens to them.

00:08:12.000 And then it's all bets off.

00:08:13.000 And you would think they would change their minds, but in many cases, it doesn't.

00:08:17.000 Do you see that story from Sanjay Gupta where he wrote about going on Joe Rogan's podcast?

00:08:22.000 And he said that he was scared that Joe was going to jump the table and throttle his neck.

00:08:26.000 Right, he goes in with these incredibly unreasonable expectations.

00:08:29.000 It's probably because it's what Jeff Zucker and Jake Tapper and Brian Stelter told him is gonna happen.

00:08:34.000 They painted this caricature.

00:08:36.000 And this goes to the larger point of anybody who doesn't, you know, toe the line as part of that corporate machine, they think you're this crazy person, and they view us like zoo animals almost, that we can just, they can tap on the glass almost.

00:08:50.000 Our friend Seamus over at Freedom Tunes made one of the funniest videos he's ever done is about the Joe Rogan-Sanjay Gupta thing, and he just plays some audio of Joe Rogan talking, and he's like, don't you think it's dangerous when a media company lies?

00:09:03.000 And then it just shows Sanjay Gupta going, But then but then it then he's then it shows you know Joe again and he goes don't then he specifically mentions CNN this massive media company and then it shows this fake like CNN with two anchors screaming and crying like And it's like it says on the Chiron Joe Rogan attacks media.

00:09:23.000 Yeah, that's that's what that's literally what it is Right. 0.99

00:09:26.000 And this is the problem that we've had for the last however many years, which is people would say at a Trump rally, you suck. 0.99

00:09:33.000 And guess what? 1.00

00:09:34.000 It's treated like a death threat.

00:09:36.000 You know, the First Amendment, they believe, only applies to them, not the rest of us, because it's too dangerous for anyone else to have speech.

00:09:45.000 This is the crazy thing about Alex Jones.

00:09:48.000 I'm going to trigger the establishment press.

00:09:52.000 I am going to trigger all of the left with the following four words.

00:09:57.000 Alex Jones. I'm sorry. Is it technically five because of the a Alex Jones is a journalist. Oh, no.

00:10:04.000 No! Oh, no!

00:10:05.000 Their heads are rolling on the ground!

00:10:06.000 You're attacking them!

00:10:07.000 I remember a few years ago I said that InfoWars was kind of like a right-wing Huffington Post, but it was in a specific context where I was saying that in the election cycle, you know, with Donald Trump, InfoWars was trying very much to be more mainstream and to speak to the MAGA crowd, and that as the Huffington Post does that for, you know, liberals, Alex Jones was very much trying to do that with InfoWars.com.

00:10:28.000 Yeah.

00:10:29.000 Yeah.

00:10:29.000 Often.

00:10:29.000 So whether you agree with Alex Jones, his political positions, his opinions, whether

00:10:34.000 you believe him to be telling the truth or not is not relevant to the fact that he is

00:10:40.000 a dude who collects and disseminates information.

00:10:42.000 I got to be honest.

00:10:43.000 I think sometimes he says really crazy things.

00:10:45.000 I think, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:10:47.000 Often.

00:10:48.000 Often.

00:10:49.000 Yeah.

00:10:50.000 Yeah.

00:10:51.000 Absolutely.

00:10:52.000 But the reason I say he's a journalist is because he's afforded the same protections

00:10:54.000 as any other member of the press.

00:10:55.000 the press.

00:10:56.000 And while my opinion of him may be like, he's a pundit, he's a personality.

00:11:02.000 On paper, legally, there should be no distinction between him, Don Lemon, or James Rosen.

00:11:10.000 These are people who are speaking in the public about public policy and politics.

00:11:14.000 The problem is, these people at CNN and his other outlets, they basically gloat and laugh and mock Alex while he's getting his private text messages taken.

00:11:23.000 I mean, this should be.

00:11:27.000 A Fourth Amendment violation. 0.71

00:11:29.000 Right, exactly.

00:11:30.000 And I think, you know, they've been obsessing about this all afternoon since it came out that he testified before the committee.

00:11:39.000 Five MSNBC shows and four CNN shows have spent time talking about this versus really anything else that's going on in the world, really gloating about how many times he took the Fifth.

00:11:51.000 And it just shows what a crock also that this entire committee is.

00:11:54.000 You can remove Alex Jones and replace him with really anyone that's going before this committee.

00:12:00.000 And as you point out, you don't even have to like Alex Jones.

00:12:04.000 He says a lot of crazy things and it's pretty horrible, some of the things that he said, in my opinion.

00:12:10.000 But this story in particular just shows what a crock this entire thing is and how it's really something for the benefit of CNN and MSNBC's Green Room.

00:12:21.000 You know, since Trump left, the ratings are in the gutter.

00:12:21.000 Oh, definitely.

00:12:24.000 And I think any honest... Look, I'll say this of Brian Stelter.

00:12:28.000 He deserves and should be afforded his right to speak.

00:12:32.000 And if CNN wants to spend money to have this guy on the air to espouse his message, you're allowed to do it.

00:12:38.000 There are a lot of people that I think are very, very evil.

00:12:41.000 They put out fake news, they lie, they cheat, they manipulate, and I'm sure a lot of people feel that way about Alex Jones.

00:12:46.000 Now, for all the crazy things Alex has said, it's kind of scary when he gets things right, and they're really weird things he gets right.

00:12:52.000 Like when he told me about how we eat cloned beef, and I'm like, Alex, they're not cloning cows.

00:12:57.000 And he was like, Tim, look it up!

00:12:59.000 And then I googled it, and right there on the show, I'm like, he's right!

00:13:02.000 We're in company!

00:13:03.000 So it's like he knows this weird stuff that nobody believes.

00:13:06.000 And so my thing is, I try to look at this as neutrally as possible.

00:13:11.000 The government has the private text messages of a media personality.

00:13:15.000 They didn't file subpoena against him to get it.

00:13:17.000 They went straight to the phone companies and said, can we have it?

00:13:20.000 And the phone companies just went, yup.

00:13:22.000 So this is deeply troubling to me because I think that at an underlying level it's because they're so smug about it because they assume that it will never ever happen to them.

00:13:32.000 I know that they're wrong.

00:13:33.000 I know that the tables can turn but they don't think it ever will.

00:13:36.000 And I'm not convinced that with the turning of the political tide it won't be them on the table.

00:13:40.000 They don't want to set this precedent but they're just gloating in it right now because they're so incredibly short-sighted they cannot think past stage one. 0.97

00:13:46.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:13:47.000 Yeah. 0.96

00:13:48.000 And the entire January 6th committee is, again, their golden calf.

00:13:51.000 They are obsessed with it.

00:13:53.000 For the anniversary, CNN and MSNBC spent over 1,600 minutes in one day talking about The first anniversary of January 6th.

00:14:04.000 First anniversary.

00:14:05.000 They did a candlelight vigil.

00:14:07.000 Right.

00:14:08.000 And they had a chorus on the steps of the Capitol that sang songs.

00:14:14.000 They had this prayer service and all this stuff.

00:14:18.000 So anything January 6th, they're going to drop.

00:14:21.000 It doesn't matter what's going on in the world right now.

00:14:24.000 You know, weeks, months down the road, you know, we could be in wars on two different fronts, and if something happens with January 6th, they're gonna be like, hey, hold on, we got something!

00:14:33.000 I think they're realizing, though.

00:14:35.000 I mean, I think the Democratic establishment is stuck, and there's nothing they can do, because they've made it their whole, you know, like, the whole party message.

00:14:45.000 But when you see, like, Barry Weiss on Bill Maher, And they're all of a sudden just saying, like, right-wing tribal talking points.

00:14:51.000 I'm just like, ah, here it is.

00:14:53.000 Here we go.

00:14:54.000 They're jumping off the ship.

00:14:55.000 They know it's sinking.

00:14:56.000 They're realizing what's going on.

00:14:57.000 I do want to point out, that was really funny just a second ago, when I mentioned the candlelight vigil.

00:15:03.000 Ian's face just went like... He had this strange look.

00:15:05.000 It was so Hunger Games, too.

00:15:08.000 Did they have big wigs on and a bunch of makeup? 1.00

00:15:11.000 They were all wearing, like, black and holding candles.

00:15:13.000 Ian's face was like...

00:15:15.000 And then CNN set up in Statuary Hall, they set up this raised stage in the middle for their two-hour primetime event with Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper to speak in hushed tones.

00:15:29.000 Of course, yes.

00:15:31.000 We're just checking the boxes here.

00:15:33.000 If I was playing a game of, like, Civilization and I was the leader of this country, that would be, like, use propaganda.

00:15:38.000 If you chose to do that, you'd pick, like, some little thing and make a big production out of it over and over again, and you're just trying to manipulate and hope they don't figure out that you're trying to manipulate them.

00:15:47.000 We got social media these days, you know.

00:15:49.000 If this was 30 years ago, Alex Jones is not a guy they'd want to put on TV.

00:15:53.000 They wouldn't want to give him a chance to actually defend himself or speak up.

00:15:57.000 And they don't.

00:15:58.000 I mean, these mainstream media companies, they don't want him on.

00:16:00.000 They want to be able to control the narrative.

00:16:03.000 They want to keep all these Democrats wrapped up in their bubble in this cult, believing whatever it is they say.

00:16:08.000 And they live in this crazy world where they think Alex Jones is this evil boogeyman, or people like James O'Keefe.

00:16:13.000 The first time I met Alex Jones, when he came on the show, he told me he saw one of my videos.

00:16:19.000 Where, like, Alex went to the grocery store and people were screaming at him.

00:16:23.000 And then I was just like, that's so insane, dude, to, like, see this guy buying milk and just start screaming at him.

00:16:29.000 And Alex is probably like, I'm just buying milk!

00:16:32.000 But Alex was like, that's exactly what it is!

00:16:34.000 Like, I don't even know who you are!

00:16:35.000 Like, leave me alone!

00:16:36.000 I'm just buying milk, man!

00:16:37.000 And you see how much that's grown with people being harassed in public places, you know?

00:16:42.000 And not just Alex Jones now.

00:16:44.000 Yeah, you see that video we talked about the other day where this black dude gets in an elevator, and these two white liberal women go in, and they're screaming at him to get out because he's not wearing a mask, and they're filming each other. 0.85

00:16:54.000 Then the women hit the black dude, and then he's like, you hit me! 0.98

00:16:57.000 And then she goes, Black Lives Matter! 0.99

00:16:59.000 We're losing our minds, man.

00:17:03.000 Right, that's why, yes, Libs of TikTok might be one of my favorite accounts on all of social media.

00:17:08.000 It is endless laughs.

00:17:10.000 Yeah, so while you're, you know, at Newsbusters and you're tracking the mainstream corporate press, you got Libs of TikTok on Twitter, tracking TikTok, posting all of that absolute insanity.

00:17:21.000 I gotta say, though, if you're not familiar with Libs of TikTok, definitely follow them on Twitter because, well, It is confirmation bias.

00:17:30.000 It is politically affirming.

00:17:32.000 But I also want to warn, it is severely depressing.

00:17:35.000 It may entertain you for a while, but after like the 50th video of this stuff, you're just like, I think the world is ending.

00:17:42.000 You can always skip.

00:17:43.000 Remember that.

00:17:44.000 Sweet meteor of death.

00:17:45.000 Let's go.

00:17:46.000 Yeah, seriously, man.

00:17:48.000 Let's talk about this Rasmussen thing.

00:17:49.000 Check this out.

00:17:50.000 So we have this poll from Rasmussen Reports.

00:17:53.000 Do you agree or disagree with this statement?

00:17:56.000 The media are truly the enemy of the people.

00:18:00.000 Agree.

00:18:01.000 White people, 56%. 0.99

00:18:02.000 Other non-white, 60%. 0.99

00:18:02.000 Black people, 63%. 0.99

00:18:03.000 This is good, look at this.

00:18:04.000 Democrats, 37%.

00:18:05.000 60% here. This is good. Look at this Democrats 37% I got to be honest

00:18:11.000 37% of Democrats saying the media is the enemy of the people. That's not bad

00:18:16.000 I thought it would be less than that.

00:18:18.000 That's more than good.

00:18:19.000 Unaffiliated, 61%.

00:18:20.000 Those are the voters the GOP needs.

00:18:22.000 The GOP is 76%, but here's the biggest one.

00:18:25.000 Among all voters, 58% of people think the media are the enemy of the people.

00:18:31.000 Now, I think insofar as it pertains to the Democratic voter, it probably includes us and Fox News and other channels to a certain degree, but let's be real.

00:18:43.000 When people talk about the media, Only ever.

00:18:47.000 They're only ever referring to us if they're specifically addressing podcasts and independent channels and things like that.

00:18:54.000 So I gotta say man, you know, Curtis, you're somebody who watches news all day every day.

00:18:59.000 I think most people who watch this show get it, but I'm curious your thoughts on why it is that the majority of voters in this country, at least according to this poll, think the media are truly the enemy of the people.

00:19:10.000 Right, and the overarching point on this is it's all self-inflicted.

00:19:15.000 Entirely self-inflicted.

00:19:17.000 And that's the biggest problem that I think a lot of these corporate media folks and organizations don't understand, and they refuse to acknowledge.

00:19:26.000 And if they do, they're continuing to lie, which is they think that somehow we are responsible,

00:19:32.000 independent media, non-profits, conservatives, you know, just people that aren't part of

00:19:37.000 their Borg, for lack of a better term.

00:19:40.000 Borg.

00:19:41.000 Yeah, part of the Borg, for lack of a better term.

00:19:43.000 And they've made so many mistakes over the years, and they're constantly saying that

00:19:47.000 if they make a mistake, we always correct it.

00:19:50.000 No.

00:19:51.000 No, you didn't.

00:19:52.000 I mean, how do you make up for thousands of minutes which we cataloged on ABC, CBS, and NBC looking at the Russia investigation?

00:20:01.000 Remember when Cuomo pretended to be in quarantine?

00:20:03.000 Yeah, Cuomo pretending to be in quarantine.

00:20:05.000 I mean, you can look at big examples, you can look at small examples, and you go back to the bigger, more prominent ones of Dan Rather in 2004 making up things about George W. Bush's National Guard service.

00:20:17.000 You can look at Jason Blair making up stories about, you know, the DC Sniper case.

00:20:23.000 And that doesn't even have to do with, like, a regular political story.

00:20:26.000 It's just journalism gone wrong.

00:20:28.000 People making things up.

00:20:30.000 Fareed Zakaria, he's a CNN host.

00:20:32.000 He's been caught multiple times plagiarizing.

00:20:35.000 It doesn't matter.

00:20:35.000 Wow, really?

00:20:36.000 Brian Williams, obviously, is another example.

00:20:39.000 So again, this goes to this point of a refusal to acknowledge that The reason people think you are the enemy of the people is because of your own behavior and then the other last point is just a complete detachment from what you're covering and how it's not what the people are looking for.

00:20:59.000 So this seems together and it and I think in this all the points

00:21:03.000 I've just made goes to the fact of whether you agree with the term or not

00:21:07.000 I think no matter what you think you should be you should be able to accept the fact that people feel this way

00:21:13.000 And that the reasons for it are totally valid I I've long thought you know, how much easier would life be

00:21:20.000 if I just made a Minecraft channel?

00:21:22.000 No, I'm And I'm only somewhat joking, because I tell people, look, success comes from hard work and drive, passion, and there's a combination of other things, you know, your abilities, you need some natural talent, but for the most part, I think hard work, perseverance brings success.

00:21:37.000 And I'm just like, if I allocated 16 hours a day into Minecraft videos or whatever video game, you know, we'd probably be doing way better.

00:21:44.000 But upon hearing this, I'm just like, man, if we on this show really were what the media tried to smear us as, grifters just pandering to an audience, we could be making so much money if we went full MAGA or full anti-Trump.

00:21:57.000 If we just played the dirty games and made up fake news like CNN does, we'd have all of the best thumbnails.

00:22:04.000 I mean, to be honest, we have the Cast Castle vlog, right?

00:22:07.000 And this is meant to be more comedic. 0.84

00:22:09.000 It's meant to be silly. 0.56

00:22:10.000 It's not news. 0.51

00:22:11.000 It's semi-fictional.

00:22:12.000 We had a bit where the last time Luke left the castle, the house blows up.

00:22:20.000 They're gags.

00:22:20.000 Just as a gag.

00:22:22.000 But it's funny because when the videos are fictional, when they're specifically jokes, people like clicking them more.

00:22:30.000 People like being entertained.

00:22:32.000 So when, you know, we're producing a show that's not news, you can just easily see.

00:22:36.000 You can just make up jokes that people will click.

00:22:38.000 When it comes to news, and we're trying to be as honest and frame things to the best of our abilities, it's hard to attract people with straightforward, just like, here's what happened.

00:22:48.000 That's what I think CNN and other media outlets figured out a long, long time ago.

00:22:51.000 Everybody knows it.

00:22:53.000 So these people who listen to CNN, who believe in these Democrat voters, and are told by the likes of Brian Stelter that, you know, Fox News is the evil propaganda, and Jake Tapper saying, don't read the WikiLeaks emails, you're not allowed.

00:23:05.000 These are people who are—anybody who tells you not to read the news or watch other channels is trying to rip you off to make money off your ratings.

00:23:13.000 And that's what Brian Stelter did.

00:23:14.000 And I think we should be—and I should be clear, too, that newsbusters, a lot of us on staff, Look at all kinds of media sources, not just for a living, but we want to know what everyone is doing.

00:23:23.000 We'll watch your show.

00:23:25.000 We will watch the corporate media.

00:23:27.000 We will read the physical newspapers and print publications because we're all boomers.

00:23:33.000 Like, they literally are at heart, you know?

00:23:37.000 But in just the other week you had the president of NBC saying that we're ferociously defending the idea that it's possible to be objective and nonpartisan.

00:23:46.000 Our mission is to illuminate and not advocate.

00:23:50.000 What a joke that is!

00:23:51.000 And that's the kind of high-mindedness and just arrogance.

00:23:56.000 And I think that's another one of the biggest things that people have problems with.

00:24:02.000 They have such arrogance.

00:24:04.000 You look at the Jake Tappers of the world, Brian Stelters, Joy Reid, Nicole Wallace, Rachel Maddow, they have such,

00:24:11.000 you know, they think so highly of themselves. 0.96

00:24:14.000 They love smelling their own farts.

00:24:15.000 I mean, that's, we're rapidly approaching, if not already there in that territory with 0.92

00:24:20.000 these people.

00:24:21.000 It's pretty insidious and yet somehow they continue to live in their bubbles and yet

00:24:27.000 they continue to be surprised when things happen and people vote for people other than

00:24:32.000 their candidates.

00:24:34.000 It's really weird that they're in this bubble and they've isolated themselves and they're rejecting people from it.

00:24:40.000 It's like, it kind of feels like they're trying to get that last little drop of olive oil from the olive.

00:24:45.000 You know, everybody's always like, you got to get the extra extra virgin olive oil because that's when they take the olive, it's fresh and the oil comes right out.

00:24:51.000 And then like the regular stuff you get for the bargain bin price is when it's a dried withered husk and they're just squeezing whatever they can.

00:24:57.000 That's what the media is.

00:24:59.000 And the audience is that dried withered husk.

00:25:01.000 But there are people who still believe it.

00:25:04.000 You'd think after seven years of Russia, Russia in Russia, I was thinking it would be like that's just it was never true Wake wake if Stelter came out and was like ladies and gentlemen, the sky over Ireland is red It would you'd have hundreds of thousands of people believe it just cuz Stelter said it well And then the next day they come out and they'd be like correction The sky was not red, but no one they wouldn't see it and people would go on believing

00:25:29.000 that the sky was red over Ireland.

00:25:30.000 They wouldn't correct it.

00:25:31.000 Some people might though, like whoever, like the Independent or like, I don't know, a random

00:25:37.000 article like The Hill will come out and be like, correction, it was not actually red,

00:25:42.000 Seltzer was lying.

00:25:43.000 But they wouldn't see that stuff.

00:25:44.000 They only watch Seltzer.

00:25:45.000 And yet what's interesting is that's what they project about people who don't follow

00:25:50.000 them, like conservatives, libertarians.

00:25:53.000 That's what they say.

00:25:54.000 Chris Matthews, memorably, I recall when I would watch his show before I had to watch Joey Reed's show, they replaced them.

00:26:03.000 He had this thing that said Trump's voters are the kind of people who, if he told them, yes, the sky isn't blue, people would believe them.

00:26:10.000 You know, if they're looking up movies to watch, you know, to go see, and they say, Trump tells them the movie's at 6 and it's actually at 7, the people would show up at 6.

00:26:20.000 You know, I mean, it's a classic example of projection when that's actually how CNN viewers view themselves.

00:26:27.000 That somehow they're still watching CNN and the rest of us have totally moved on.

00:26:33.000 And they're just, the good news is they're continuing to shrink, but yet that small segment that's still left continues to view us as dangerous people.

00:26:42.000 Like to your point about Joe Rogan and Sanjay Gupta, he went in thinking he was about to get attacked and it was perfectly fine.

00:26:49.000 I talked to Joe about that when I went on his show, and he was just like, ah, he was just trying to be funny.

00:26:53.000 And I was like, oh man, Joe, you're such a nice guy.

00:26:55.000 Yeah, I'm like, is he, dude?

00:26:58.000 Isn't it kind of, I'll say this, you know, Joe's trying to be a nice guy.

00:27:01.000 Joe's, I think, you know, Joe genuinely wants people to kind of calm down and work things through.

00:27:07.000 But I'm like, isn't it kind of dangerous when a media organization publishes a piece in which they entertain the possibility that Joe would jump the table and throttle someone's neck even if it's supposed to be a joke?

00:27:20.000 Like, Sanjay Gupta is not a comedian.

00:27:23.000 You know, so I have no problem with him being funny and trying to make jokes.

00:27:26.000 I have no problem with, you know, people get mad at me all the time because, like, I post nonsense on Twitter.

00:27:31.000 And then when they're like, people actually believe you when you say this stuff, you know, and I'll be like, well, that's their problem.

00:27:36.000 Like, if you were a comedian, I'd understand.

00:27:39.000 And I'm like, I don't care, dude.

00:27:40.000 People can follow me.

00:27:41.000 So it's not a joke.

00:27:42.000 I've been making a joke.

00:27:42.000 I totally get.

00:27:44.000 But the idea that the joke exists signals that there are people who genuinely fear this, you know, fear Joe and think him as some kind of bad person.

00:27:53.000 Who would do something like that, you know what I mean?

00:27:55.000 Yeah, and I would actually say something, it's arguably far more insidious, that I think I can say definitively, based on the people I know within the industry, that there are good people at these networks, that they know what they're doing is wrong, and that it's a bit, you know?

00:28:11.000 Bill Maher and that Barry Weiss thing?

00:28:15.000 They know, come on.

00:28:16.000 They've known the whole time.

00:28:17.000 They're criticizing the lockdowns and everything now, but there's no way Bill Maher and Barry Weiss didn't know it was going on.

00:28:23.000 You know what I mean?

00:28:24.000 Yeah.

00:28:26.000 The apocalyptic images, even.

00:28:28.000 Even if that should have done it for them from the very beginning, but... What images?

00:28:34.000 We're just like the empty stores, you know, empty streets, you know, just the idea of that, you know, that people just, life came to a stop.

00:28:43.000 But, but, so, so, you know, these are, these are public figures, but imagine the staff at, you know, at Real Time with Bill Maher, imagine the staff at CNN, like you were saying.

00:28:50.000 Like, these are, these are people, they know what's going on the whole time, they don't speak out, they don't speak up.

00:28:54.000 Yeah, and they know that people who disagree with them are capable of being good people.

00:29:01.000 People who are ideologically opposed to them are their family members, their neighbors, their spouses in some cases.

00:29:11.000 Go to church with people that they went to high school or college with and that's what really gets me fired up that these people go on television and they paint such a picture that they almost want to gaslight these people into thinking that you know your friend your neighbor next door who Yeah, it's funny too, but, you know, their key demo ratings are below 100k.

00:29:35.000 Right.

00:29:36.000 And yet Joy Reid and all the rest continue to pile on and no one says anything.

00:29:42.000 You don't see CNN speaking up whenever something happens on MSNBC.

00:29:46.000 You don't really hear that.

00:29:47.000 It's just this gentleman's agreement between all of them that they're not going to criticize

00:29:51.000 each other.

00:29:52.000 Yeah, it's funny too, but their key demo ratings are below 100k.

00:29:56.000 So the relevance is...

00:29:58.000 I have an interesting point to that.

00:30:00.000 Breonna Keillor had her role, they're rotating different people to replace Fredo Cuomo at

00:30:07.000 Her show last week, through the first three days, I looked at Nielsen's numbers.

00:30:14.000 She lost to shows like My 600-lb Life, People Puzzler on Game Show Network, westerns such as Gunsmoke, Cheyenne, and, you know.

00:30:26.000 Are these like particularly bad shows or something?

00:30:29.000 Well, no, I mean, Andy Griffith's show.

00:30:31.000 You know, really, it spans the spectrum.

00:30:34.000 Really, Property Brothers, the Chip and Joanna Gaines channel, Magnolia Network, a number of shows on there.

00:30:43.000 You were saying before they got Jim Acosta on CNN right now, is that what it is?

00:30:46.000 Yeah, now it's Jim Acosta.

00:30:48.000 And with Brianna Keillor, they renamed the 9pm hour Democracy in Peril.

00:30:52.000 Democracy in Peril?

00:30:53.000 Really?

00:30:53.000 What are you talking about?

00:30:55.000 There's so many other things going on in the world.

00:30:57.000 And yet you're catering to the small audience that, you know, whatever John Avalon, who does this reality check segment, or Mark Elias wants.

00:31:05.000 Right.

00:31:06.000 Saying this is such important work that every American needs to tune in.

00:31:09.000 Do you think Acosta is going to do well in the ratings?

00:31:12.000 Well, the first day's numbers are in, and he was the second least watched show on all of CNN.

00:31:18.000 New Day, which airs 6 to 9 a.m.

00:31:22.000 Eastern, was the only show that Acosta beat.

00:31:26.000 Second least of all CNN shows.

00:31:26.000 Wow.

00:31:29.000 Of all CNN shows.

00:31:30.000 Wow, that makes me feel pretty good, honestly.

00:31:32.000 I was worried, I'm like, he might actually pull in the views, because he might get hate watch.

00:31:37.000 Yeah, I mean, Drake Kelly with Newsmax was two-thirds of the way to Jim Acosta's viewership.

00:31:44.000 Newsmax, didn't they get pulled from a bunch of providers?

00:31:48.000 Yeah, the LA Times has reported that they weren't able to with, I believe, three different cable providers and he still pulled in over 350,000 viewers last night, whereas Acosta had 500,000.

00:32:01.000 Yeah, but that was mostly old people, wasn't it? 1.00

00:32:04.000 Well, I mean, once you separate it out, I mean, that's true for a lot of them, once you split out the 25 to 54 demographic.

00:32:10.000 He's gonna have like 70,000 in the key demo.

00:32:12.000 Exactly.

00:32:13.000 And that's... And that's, what is that, 25 to 54?

00:32:16.000 Yeah, 25 to 54.

00:32:18.000 That means most of these people watching are in their late 50s.

00:32:20.000 They're gonna be aging out.

00:32:23.000 Or 60 or 70, really.

00:32:25.000 Many of them will retire, you know, they'll still vote for the next 15, 20 years or whatever.

00:32:30.000 Well, I guess by life expectancy, we're talking about 15 to 17 years.

00:32:34.000 Yeah, and we're at a point now where last year, New Day and Brian Stelter were releasing shows like Peppa the Pig, you know, Paw Patrol.

00:32:42.000 I mean, but come on, Paw Patrol's legit.

00:32:44.000 Paw Patrol is!

00:32:45.000 Firefighter Dog.

00:32:45.000 Yeah, you can actually learn, you actually learn things on that show.

00:32:49.000 You actually learn things.

00:32:50.000 Moonshiners on Discovery Channel. 0.98

00:32:53.000 That's great.

00:32:55.000 Oh, this says that CNN wants Jim Acosta as the host of Democracy in Peril.

00:32:59.000 Is that right?

00:32:59.000 Or were you saying Brianna Keillor?

00:33:01.000 Well, she had last week and Jim Acosta's on this week.

00:33:04.000 Democracy in Peril.

00:33:06.000 That's real, real bad propaganda to put out to a country that might be struggling right now.

00:33:12.000 And then, and of course, yeah, and they put, uh, I believe the way the color scheme works is blue, they put the Democrats in democracy, then in is white, and then red is peril.

00:33:22.000 To be fair, Ian, to be fair, Ian, we're just, we're, nobody's watching it.

00:33:25.000 Red, white, and blue, baby!

00:33:27.000 Let's sell some tickets!

00:33:28.000 It's a bunch, you know, it's a bunch of older people who are, I love that meme the left is like, Fox News just scares the elderly.

00:33:34.000 And I'm like, maybe 20 or 30 years ago?

00:33:36.000 I don't know.

00:33:37.000 It's like, that's all CNN does right now.

00:33:39.000 If you watch Tucker, what did you learn in the past week that M&Ms aren't sexy anymore?

00:33:43.000 Bravo, Tucker. 0.98

00:33:44.000 That was a ridiculous segment. 1.00

00:33:45.000 I think it was very dumb. 1.00

00:33:47.000 But it's not scaring old people. 0.98

00:33:49.000 And Tucker's got massive youth key demo viewership.

00:33:53.000 So Tucker talks about a wide range of things.

00:33:54.000 He challenges the establishment.

00:33:57.000 My personal opinion is I think when it comes to cable TV, Tucker's the best.

00:34:00.000 Not that I think he's perfect and I don't think anybody is.

00:34:02.000 No.

00:34:03.000 But I'm not a fan of... You know, I put it this way.

00:34:05.000 Across the board with all of the cable TV stuff, Tucker is the only one who gets like a C plus for me and everyone else like a D minus or an F. He had Jimmy Dore on last week.

00:34:16.000 And let Jimmy just explode in a rage of fire.

00:34:18.000 It was amazing.

00:34:19.000 And at the end he was like, Jimmy Dore, ladies and gentlemen.

00:34:22.000 Jimmy doing what Jimmy does.

00:34:22.000 Yeah, it's great.

00:34:24.000 And that's why in the people that are calling for censorship, when you guys have my colleague Dan Gaynor on, why I always say things like the internet and social media are net positive is because it allows this proliferation of all these different alternative forms of media, whereas before you had three networks that had newscasts in the morning and in the evening and

00:34:46.000 they weren't even all they went off air overnight they didn't even have things in prime time

00:34:51.000 you know they really didn't have capabilities to break in when there would be big stories at

00:34:54.000 night or the middle of the afternoon uh they really didn't have the same amount of resources

00:34:59.000 whereas now you have all these different options for all these niche kinds of you know

00:35:05.000 topics um and you know advocating for or all these different positions.

00:35:10.000 And why would you want to get rid of that?

00:35:14.000 You're upset because you're losing control.

00:35:16.000 And if you're somebody like Jeff Zucker, you're not able to control America from your little green room.

00:35:24.000 You know, radio is still really popular.

00:35:28.000 People drive their cars, people listen to the radio, and you've got satellite radio, and people don't understand it actually is fairly popular.

00:35:34.000 You buy new cars these days, a lot of them come with satellite radio, so a lot of these older formats still exist in some form, and they still have some kind of pull.

00:35:42.000 So we can sit here and we can laugh about CNN's ratings being in the gutter, But I gotta be honest, YouTube props them up.

00:35:49.000 YouTube puts them on the front page.

00:35:50.000 So we can be critical of them and say their medium is dying, but they will be put on life support because that brand has some kind of value.

00:35:58.000 You know, when CNN launched, what, in like the mid-80s? 1.00

00:36:01.000 Initially, it was just like, what is this fly-by-night, you know, stupid cable trash? 0.97

00:36:05.000 But nowadays, you've got, you know, I was born in 86, so I grew up with CNN always being there. 0.99

00:36:10.000 And that matters.

00:36:11.000 It's a legacy now to the younger generations.

00:36:14.000 No matter what happens to their ratings, someone's going to want that.

00:36:17.000 And they'll try and put it wherever they can.

00:36:19.000 But I do think CNN, like many companies, will eventually just... AOL used to be the big game in media.

00:36:25.000 I'm sorry, in internet.

00:36:26.000 Now it's gone.

00:36:27.000 Facebook could potentially go that route.

00:36:30.000 We don't know.

00:36:31.000 A lot of companies that have been around since the early 1900s changed their name and they continue to exist.

00:36:34.000 CNN is owned by AT&T.

00:36:36.000 So we might as well just call CNN AT&T from now on.

00:36:38.000 Well, and they're about to be spun off to Discovery.

00:36:43.000 As in CNN's getting sold to Discovery?

00:36:46.000 Yes, AT&T is trying to, they're offloading CNN.

00:36:51.000 And they've been trying to offload DirecTV to offload them as well.

00:36:56.000 And that's what's really interesting that I'm really, some people are holding out hope for in 2022 when Discovery More or less takes over if they're going to clean house one of their lead investors I think even somebody on their board was on CNBC a couple months ago and suggested that we need to get CNN back to the CNN that people were called that they had fond memories of growing up.

00:37:20.000 You know, I guess so primarily, like, Gulf War age people that were watching CNN in the early 90s, in the 80s, a little bit after it launched, once people realized what it actually is.

00:37:32.000 But at that point, you got a really clean house if you want to do that.

00:37:36.000 The challenge is that straight news dime a dozen.

00:37:40.000 We've got so many people on the ground with cell phones filming and broadcasting that when it comes to straight reporting it's fairly easy to get.

00:37:46.000 Now there are some things that we've seen at TimCast.com that are underserved, certain areas.

00:37:52.000 So March coverage, protests and political action stuff often is extremely underreported.

00:37:58.000 So you might get a reporter from a local news outlet will show up, film a few segments, and then put like a 30 second package together.

00:38:04.000 It doesn't really give you the actual view of what's going on.

00:38:08.000 And that's something I got started doing.

00:38:10.000 So we try to do that.

00:38:11.000 We try to say, let's get someone on there.

00:38:12.000 Let's do like a 20 to 30 minute actually talking to people and figure out if we can get a broad view of things.

00:38:16.000 But for the most part, it's very, very difficult to monetize.

00:38:20.000 It's very, very difficult to provide a service in an area where it's just saturated with citizen journalism.

00:38:24.000 So you can see it.

00:38:25.000 CNN tries to do documentary.

00:38:27.000 They try to be like Vice.

00:38:28.000 They get Reza Aslan.

00:38:30.000 You know, he ate human brain.

00:38:32.000 You're aware of that, right?

00:38:34.000 Yes, and that was desperation.

00:38:36.000 And spoiler alert, it didn't work out for him.

00:38:39.000 CNN, one of the few times they've actually gotten rid of someone, No.

00:38:44.000 CNN ran a show where a human ate another human's brain.

00:38:49.000 A small piece.

00:38:50.000 That was too far for them.

00:38:53.000 We finally found out where's the line for CNN.

00:38:55.000 Yeah, seriously, that's crazy.

00:38:57.000 They were like, you know, I can only imagine the executives are like, hmm, eating human brain didn't work for us.

00:39:03.000 Maybe we can accuse the president of being a Russian spy for five years, seven years.

00:39:09.000 Yeah, that one's uh, technically it's based in the realm of possibility like, you know, sure the Russians exist and Trump exists and Trump exists and it's possible in Russia.

00:39:24.000 They can just make up everything and roll with it and never correct.

00:39:27.000 Just Mad Libs at this point, you know?

00:39:29.000 Mad Libs, you love.

00:39:32.000 And I think that's why people really dislike CNN in particular and the broadcast networks versus say MSNBC or even Fox News because CNN passes itself off as You know, based on nostalgia.

00:39:46.000 They're hoping people continue to support them based on nostalgia and basic news of the who, what, where, when, why, and how.

00:39:54.000 Proper context and perspective.

00:39:56.000 That's what they're hoping people...

00:39:59.000 You know, fall for it, but you very quickly see, even just on their chyrons alone, so you don't even have to have the sound on to know that it's a total joke.

00:40:08.000 And so, I would say I'm more likely to be able to stomach MSNBC than I am CNN, just because you know what they're getting, they're not trying to hide what they are, and you know, you just go from there.

00:40:20.000 Let's talk about this Joe Rogan, Neil Young thing.

00:40:24.000 I feel bad.

00:40:25.000 Joe, I'm sorry that they constantly drag your name in this stuff, but let's be real.

00:40:29.000 I mean, Joe runs the biggest show when it comes to politics and culture, probably in the world.

00:40:34.000 It's the biggest podcast in the world, but in this space, he dominates.

00:40:37.000 And thus, he's always gonna be, he's on top of the mountain, he's gonna be the target of this stuff.

00:40:42.000 And as we enter 2022, the midterm elections, it's critical for the establishment to push back on people like Joe.

00:40:48.000 So we have this ridiculous story where Neil Young, who is an aging rocker who is not relevant, he's 76, he sent a letter to his manager saying that either Spotify removes Joe Rogan or removes all of his music.

00:41:01.000 Apparently he deleted the letter and quickly backed down because Spotify was like, let me see here.

00:41:07.000 Four of your songs have broken 100 million listens, and the fifth one is at 73.

00:41:12.000 It's Keep on Rockin' in the Free World.

00:41:13.000 Good song, by the way.

00:41:14.000 Hey, I respect Neil Young for his music.

00:41:16.000 But Joe Rogan gets 11 million every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

00:41:21.000 So four times a week.

00:41:23.000 Yeah.

00:41:24.000 In a month, he's going to be... In a month, in two months, in three months, he's just massively outperforming what Neil Young could ever produce.

00:41:33.000 But this is the crazy thing.

00:41:37.000 It's absolutely insane to me that you have these, the way I described it earlier, Neil Young's a protest guy.

00:41:42.000 He's supposed to oppose the establishment, and here he is being like, we gotta protect CNN, we gotta protect the mainstream media.

00:41:49.000 It's remarkable to me.

00:41:50.000 You know what it says to me is that a lot of these people, you know, I mentioned Barry Weiss and Bill Maher, and I keep doing it, and probably should move on, but these people know full well how bad the system was.

00:42:00.000 They know people are suffering, but they don't care because it's their market.

00:42:03.000 They're not willing to challenge the establishment until, you know, the polls shift in favor of, I'm sorry, the polls shift against Joe Biden.

00:42:11.000 Rasmussen comes out and says the average voter thinks the media is the enemy of the people, and all of a sudden they're like, actually, I've always agreed and I've always sided with the independent voices.

00:42:22.000 I don't think schools should have been shut down at all.

00:42:24.000 No.

00:42:25.000 You see what Bill Maher said when he was like, Fauci, you can't just tell us what to do in your lab coat.

00:42:25.000 Yeah.

00:42:30.000 It's like, wait, Bill, that was in November of 2020 Fauci said that.

00:42:36.000 So they know full well, but I have this I have this article here from CNN on purpose. I love CNN

00:42:42.000 You guys know that it's Neil Young's free world. Not Joe Rogan's

00:42:46.000 Remarkable its opinion by Jill. I was at Filipovic Elizabeth's yeah, Filipovich. So she a fella. What is this?

00:42:54.000 Jill Filipovich is a journalist Based in New York the author of okay boomer. Let's talk how

00:42:59.000 my generation got left behind Is she a boomer? 1.00

00:43:01.000 She basically writes about this and it's funny because it's not Neil Young's world.

00:43:05.000 He backed down.

00:43:06.000 He lost.

00:43:07.000 Joe Rogan's winning.

00:43:07.000 You can't stop it.

00:43:08.000 This is where we're at.

00:43:10.000 So Neil retracted his request?

00:43:12.000 He deleted the letter and his music is all still there.

00:43:16.000 I think he realized that he has no leverage.

00:43:18.000 I'm willing to bet he thought You know, I'm famous, I got big music.

00:43:23.000 I'll come out and I'll demand they ban Joe Rogan for misinformation, and then they will. 0.93

00:43:27.000 And Spotify was like, shut up old man.

00:43:30.000 Right, like he didn't look at this ahead of time.

00:43:32.000 Like someone told him, there's this guy we gotta get rid of.

00:43:37.000 You gotta come out and threaten to take your music somewhere else.

00:43:39.000 You gotta choose.

00:43:41.000 You know, and it didn't work out at all for them.

00:43:44.000 It flamed out, and even just from the numbers perspective that you were talking about, that's stunning.

00:43:49.000 Those numbers, I mean, there is no argument, there's no debate about that.

00:43:53.000 Speaking of facts, in truth, that is a fact.

00:43:56.000 I bet he thought that a bunch of other musicians were going to step up with him and be like, yeah, I'm signing that.

00:44:03.000 Hundreds of thousands of millions of views.

00:44:04.000 Let's take it off kind of thing.

00:44:05.000 Right.

00:44:06.000 Yeah.

00:44:06.000 He thought that he could somehow join forces with Spotify employees that are triggered by alternative opinions from Joe Rogan.

00:44:14.000 I'll be honest, I'm willing to bet Joe hasn't even thought twice about any of this, but I like to believe that he's sitting there with his fingers crossed being like, please Spotify, break my $100 million contract so that I can get paid out instantly and then host my show wherever I want.

00:44:30.000 Well, and I should point out about Jill, in the past she said during one of the presidential cycles that white men should not be allowed to run for office again, among other things.

00:44:41.000 Jill should not be allowed to write for CNN again. 1.00

00:44:43.000 Right.

00:44:43.000 And she's also recently talked about how a lot of these SCOTUS cases, the current Supreme Court is terrifying to her.

00:44:51.000 So yeah, I mean...

00:44:52.000 Is she traumatized?

00:44:54.000 Is she traumatized?

00:44:55.000 Does she need... Yeah.

00:44:57.000 You saw when Brian Stelter was talking about that?

00:44:59.000 Journalists who got traumatized from January 6.

00:45:04.000 It's crazy to me that, you know, the way people feel... You know what?

00:45:10.000 The mainstream media is threatened by Joe.

00:45:12.000 He's taken over.

00:45:13.000 He's dominating the space.

00:45:15.000 Long-form podcasts like his, like ours, are growing and growing and growing because they're more authentic.

00:45:21.000 We have politicians on this show.

00:45:23.000 It's very difficult for them to lie or weasel their way out of things.

00:45:27.000 So, you know, we're going to have some politicians on the show.

00:45:31.000 Yes, we are.

00:45:31.000 And I commend them for being brave enough to come on.

00:45:34.000 Because I think, you know, we had Carrie Lake.

00:45:36.000 Yeah.

00:45:37.000 And Ian asked her about owning rocket launchers.

00:45:39.000 Yeah.

00:45:39.000 And DMT.

00:45:40.000 Wow.

00:45:41.000 Just like conversations.

00:45:43.000 You know what I can't stand?

00:45:44.000 I can't stand when you're like watching Obama and they were doing this thing with him where he answered questions on Reddit or something.

00:45:50.000 And it's like, very clearly they go and they pick 10 very clean and very basic questions to answer.

00:45:55.000 No, no, no.

00:45:56.000 I want Kerry to answer the question about owning a rocket launcher. 0.91

00:45:59.000 Yeah, and psychedelics, man.

00:46:01.000 The psychedelic thing is super important for our leaders to be talking about right now.

00:46:04.000 You can look away from that as long as you want, but it's a huge part of humanity, and it needs to be addressed politically.

00:46:10.000 Authenticity, is what I'm saying.

00:46:12.000 Yeah, and this goes to the other point that I see a lot with journalists, and we saw this a lot with Biden's press conference last week.

00:46:19.000 Journalists ask these such, I don't know, unimaginative questions.

00:46:24.000 It's so pedantic.

00:46:26.000 After like five seconds.

00:46:28.000 And a lot of it is questions that everyone knows the answer to.

00:46:32.000 Biden has already stated his opinion about X. Jen Psaki has already stated her opinion about this.

00:46:37.000 But, you know, they want their soundbite and they want to ask the president for yet another time.

00:46:42.000 Though, the only point I will give them is with Joe Biden, who knows, he may change his mind if you catch him at the right time and his brain is not properly wired for that day and his script is not up to date.

00:46:55.000 You know what I just can't handle anymore is the PR responses we know are fake.

00:47:00.000 The questions from journalists we know are fake.

00:47:02.000 I just don't care.

00:47:04.000 I don't understand how there was a generation of people, boomers, and to a certain degree Gen X, who would like actually sit there, you know, attentive. 0.56

00:47:14.000 to a spokesman for an oil company after an oil spill, when you know they're gonna lie.

00:47:19.000 When you know the questions are gonna be boring, basic, well, they do sponsor the show, so we gotta be very careful, but we do need to ask these questions.

00:47:25.000 And I'm just like, why would I waste my time listening to that?

00:47:28.000 It's kinda like if you're going for a family trip, this metaphor came to my mind, and you're sitting in the backseat, you're a kid, and your dad's driving.

00:47:34.000 But then all of a sudden, in the middle of the trip, your dad starts screaming at everyone in the car, and you're like, well?

00:47:40.000 I have two options.

00:47:40.000 I can sit in the car and take it and then get to where I want to go, this joyous thing I was promised, or I can get out of the car and try and find my own way halfway across the country as a nine-year-old.

00:47:50.000 So these people watching the media are like on the ride.

00:47:53.000 They've been sold an American dream and they think that if they sit here and take it, they're going to get there.

00:47:58.000 They're going to be taken to this promised land.

00:47:59.000 That's not the way things work.

00:48:01.000 They've been manipulated the whole time.

00:48:02.000 The guy who sat in his basement watching, as Ben Shapiro said, eating oatmeal and watching Matlock.

00:48:10.000 You really think that guy was going to do it for you?

00:48:12.000 It's really astounding.

00:48:14.000 And they're flailing because they don't have anyone.

00:48:19.000 Joe Biden's not going to come to their rescue.

00:48:20.000 Kamala Harris certainly isn't going to come to their rescue. 1.00

00:48:22.000 If not, it would arguably be even worse.

00:48:26.000 And they don't have the orator that Barack Obama was to at least make them feel good.

00:48:31.000 You know, he was.

00:48:33.000 Barack Obama knew how to speak for sure, and he knew how to weasel through questions and things like that.

00:48:40.000 I will say that this administration is so insane that actually the questions to Jen Psaki are great, even as boring and as lame as they can be.

00:48:49.000 Like when Biden recently said that he thought the midterm would be illegitimate, Jen Psaki's response is, actually, he was talking about Trump.

00:48:58.000 He was criticizing Trump.

00:49:00.000 You're like, dude, we heard what he said.

00:49:02.000 You're just lying now, making the whole thing worse.

00:49:04.000 But I'm glad she's lying, because now it's becoming so obvious to everybody.

00:49:09.000 These are canned responses with canned questions, and it is a waste of your time to pay attention to these people.

00:49:13.000 Right, and that's one of my beats, actually, for Newsbusters.

00:49:15.000 I watch Joy Read Show and I watch the White House Press Briefing.

00:49:19.000 And some of the questions are pretty boring and straightforward, but I have been surprised on certain days how, yeah, even basic questions that journalists ask Elicit such horrible responses from Jen Psaki or whichever special guest that she has on, you know, especially somebody like Jake Sullivan or John Kerry.

00:49:41.000 It is truly astounding how terrible it is and journalists, I mean...

00:49:47.000 You would say, oh, it's kind of just a whatever question, but it ends up sounding like an amazing question because their response is just so terrible to these questions and they constantly have to clean up for themselves.

00:49:58.000 So they're not even trying to set traps for them.

00:50:00.000 It's not even a trap and they're somehow falling in.

00:50:03.000 I remember this moment when the Deepwater Horizon thing happened.

00:50:06.000 I was working for these non-profits.

00:50:08.000 There was this big oil spill.

00:50:09.000 I was in L.A.

00:50:09.000 at the time.

00:50:10.000 And the response you get from these companies is just like, you learn nothing.

00:50:15.000 They say nothing.

00:50:16.000 It is as generic as generic can be.

00:50:18.000 And they may as well have just said nothing, because there was no point in issuing these canned responses.

00:50:24.000 You know, so we recently had the CEO of Getter on the show, and we were talking about how they banned this dude.

00:50:30.000 And he couldn't give me a straight answer, and he kept talking in circles.

00:50:32.000 And finally, I'm just like, dude, this is BS.

00:50:35.000 You know, I actually swore at the time, but we'll keep it family-friendly today.

00:50:37.000 And I was just like, I don't want to be involved in that kind of show.

00:50:41.000 I don't want to sit here and talk to people.

00:50:43.000 So, you know, this is obviously why people like longer-form podcasts.

00:50:46.000 It's obviously why they like Joe Rogan's show.

00:50:49.000 I don't even think it's necessarily about Joe Rogan, to be completely honest.

00:50:52.000 I think he was first in and best dressed.

00:50:55.000 And that helped him out.

00:50:55.000 I mean, he's a famous comedian.

00:50:56.000 He's a funny guy.

00:50:57.000 That really works for him.

00:50:58.000 He's clearly talented.

00:51:00.000 But I think for the most part, he basically kickstarts this format of sitting down with prominent people in a raw scenario where they can't just avoid the questions, because he's going to be like, I asked you a question, bro, give me an answer.

00:51:12.000 Not always, but often.

00:51:13.000 Because you're sitting here.

00:51:15.000 You want to get up and leave in the middle of the show?

00:51:16.000 That'll look even worse.

00:51:17.000 What are you going to do?

00:51:18.000 In a segment like CNN, where they give you four minutes, it's really easy to patter your way out of a hard question.

00:51:25.000 Inflation is hitting.

00:51:25.000 What will you do?

00:51:26.000 Look, we've got a lot of problems in this country that we're going to be dealing with.

00:51:29.000 Oh, we're out of time.

00:51:30.000 Thanks for having me.

00:51:31.000 Bye.

00:51:31.000 Right.

00:51:32.000 Or they're on a panel with ten other people.

00:51:35.000 And so you get to speak once.

00:51:38.000 So all told, by the time you add up the amount of speaking time you had, Maybe a minute?

00:51:43.000 If that?

00:51:45.000 Or it becomes a shouting match where there's a ton of cross-talk and nobody can understand what is being said.

00:51:52.000 I've gotten invited onto Fox News fairly often as of recent.

00:51:57.000 And I was kind of like, sure, whatever, I guess.

00:51:59.000 It's like a couple minutes.

00:52:00.000 And I was surprised how well those clips do on YouTube.

00:52:03.000 I think getting like a million or something views on some of them.

00:52:06.000 And then after a while, I was just like, there's no point in trying to speed talk my way through a three-minute segment.

00:52:12.000 Can I just do my show?

00:52:14.000 And maybe it's good, because a lot of people say, like, you know, get as much airtime as possible, get on these shows.

00:52:20.000 I don't know, man.

00:52:21.000 It's just, I'm so sick of the inauthenticity.

00:52:23.000 Just the fake, like, pre-planned conversations.

00:52:27.000 Here's what we're going to ask you about.

00:52:29.000 Think about your answer.

00:52:30.000 And it's just like, I don't know, man.

00:52:32.000 I want real conversations.

00:52:34.000 I want to know what's actually going on.

00:52:35.000 I think that's what people want, too.

00:52:37.000 Yeah, I think people want, and even some of us just want all of the above.

00:52:41.000 To be able to have that option to look at the digestible news that you can read, for example, takes you 10 minutes.

00:52:50.000 Or see a really quick, like, YouTube story, or, like, hear, you know, news and headlines on, you know, a SiriusXM channel, and also be able to have access to longer-form conversations.

00:53:01.000 And it's possible because of the internet and social media.

00:53:05.000 That's the reason this show is doing as well as it is, and other shows as well, because people have a thirst for that.

00:53:12.000 They have a thirst for conversation, uh, and nuance, and, you know, just all kinds of opinions.

00:53:19.000 Let's hit a couple stories all at once.

00:53:20.000 We got this from Newsbusters.

00:53:23.000 From Brian Stelter over at CNN, Peter Doocy provoked Biden, Fox, worse for America than SOB insults.

00:53:32.000 So let's load on in.

00:53:33.000 So this is a story about, it was Peter Doocy, right?

00:53:36.000 Yeah.

00:53:36.000 So he's a journalist and he asked Biden on the way out of this conference or whatever.

00:53:40.000 He was just like, is inflation a political liability? 1.00

00:53:43.000 Joe Biden, not realizing that his mic was still on, he said, he's like, you know, inflation, what a great asset, what a stupid son of a bitch, about Peter Doocy. 0.99

00:53:55.000 Apparently, Doocy said that Biden called him and, you know, said it was nothing personal, pal, or whatever, and, you know, effectively apologized. 0.99

00:54:03.000 Fox was particularly gracious.

00:54:04.000 They were like, okay, you know, we're over it.

00:54:06.000 And now Brian Stelter is saying Doocy provoked him.

00:54:09.000 It's because they have to.

00:54:11.000 It's because they have to have the narrative of the enemy.

00:54:13.000 These people are our enemy, these people are evil.

00:54:16.000 And I'm just like, this is exactly why the corporate press is aflame and spiraling out of control.

00:54:21.000 And it's in less than 12 hours that the narrative has changed.

00:54:24.000 Last night in his newsletter with Oliver Darcy, faux former conservative reporter

00:54:30.000 turned Brian Stelter mini-me, the two of them had a bit about this

00:54:35.000 and Stelter says, well, we're not really gonna spend a lot of time on this because it's not worth our time

00:54:40.000 and there's a lot more important things going on.

00:54:42.000 Here's what happened.

00:54:43.000 It's wrong.

00:54:43.000 The end.

00:54:45.000 So in less than 12 hours, we've gone from that to they're doing multiple CNN segments about it, and Brian Stelter saying what Doocy asked was a provocation, even though Jake Tapper said on Jimmy Kimmel last night that the question was fairly erudite.

00:55:02.000 Like it was, do you believe that inflation is going to be a political liability for you with the midterms?

00:55:08.000 I do think, I think, man, part of me wants to say it's a dumb question to ask because we all know the answer to it.

00:55:15.000 Correct.

00:55:15.000 Yeah.

00:55:15.000 But it proved to be a very, very good question to ask.

00:55:18.000 Right, well, and Doocy has explained this by saying that, okay, so it was a meeting of the White House Competition Council about the economy, and most of his cabinet was there, and he'd given remarks about the economy, so then reporters started shouting him questions about Ukraine and Russia, and he expressed annoyance at that, that nobody was asking him questions about the economy.

00:55:37.000 So Doocy is Hey, I've got, you know, are you taking questions about the economy?

00:55:42.000 And then he shouted his question about inflation.

00:55:44.000 So Doocy was on topic, what Biden wanted to talk about, and he gave that reaction.

00:55:50.000 I kind of get it, because if his question is like, hey, Biden, is inflation bad?

00:55:54.000 Like, it's like, are you are you insulting my intelligence, dude?

00:55:57.000 Like, I get why Biden might have reacted like that.

00:55:59.000 But there's a chance for Joe to come out and be like, Hey, America.

00:56:02.000 Hey, everybody.

00:56:03.000 I'm sorry about the way I reacted.

00:56:05.000 I'm under a lot of stress.

00:56:06.000 This is unprecedented, what we're experiencing as a human race.

00:56:10.000 Bear with me.

00:56:11.000 Why is it that we can say that exact line, Ian, but they don't?

00:56:15.000 Why is it that we can be like, yo, just come out and be like, let me just be honest with you guys.

00:56:19.000 So when we had the CEO of Getter on the show, we then had the CEO of Gab on the show.

00:56:25.000 And I think it was Andrew Torba, he said, if the CEO of Getter came out and just was like, look, we banned Nick Fuentes because we're under a lot of pressure from these big corporations who are trying to shut us down, and we were effectively forced to do it, and we're unhappy about it, that's the reality of the situation.

00:56:38.000 People would have been like, wow, I think it sucks, but I respect him for being honest.

00:56:41.000 Instead, he's just like, nah, he broke the rules, so we banned him.

00:56:44.000 He couldn't even answer the question.

00:56:44.000 It's like...

00:56:46.000 I don't understand why it is that people can't just be completely straightforward.

00:56:50.000 Hey, we had to do this!

00:56:51.000 Like, our hands are tied and we're unhappy, you know what I mean?

00:56:54.000 Yeah, and how relieved everyone would be, and then we could just move on, if Brian Stelter just came out and said, I am a paid hack who Jeff Zucker tells me to, you know, wake up every day and talk about how Fox News is the enemy of the people.

00:57:07.000 You know, it would be totally fine.

00:57:09.000 I understand why Brian Stelter would never do anything like that.

00:57:12.000 And it's different from like, you know, Ian saying Biden could have been like, you know, he could have, he could, he can come out later and be like, yeah, I'm sorry for doing that snapping, man.

00:57:20.000 It's a stressful job.

00:57:21.000 You have to understand and just be like really straightforward.

00:57:23.000 The thing about Brian Stelter, though, is that there's a difference between, you know, a president who's trying to maintain an image and a guy who's paid to maintain an image.

00:57:32.000 So, you know, look, Joe Biden's trying to save face.

00:57:35.000 He may or may not come out and be honest about why he reacted that way.

00:57:38.000 Brian Stelter was hired specifically to lie to people, so he would never be honest about his position because it would just completely upend his entire career.

00:57:46.000 Well, and to your point about Joe, Joe could have framed it in a kind of a folksy way.

00:57:50.000 He could have said, yeah, well, even though nothing personal, but he could have just said it and he could come out and said, yeah, I'm under a lot of stress, you know, This country's facing a lot of challenges, but we're going to get through it together.

00:58:01.000 You know, I ask for your prayers and support.

00:58:04.000 Uh, you know, anything, anything.

00:58:07.000 You ever see that movie with Robin Williams where he's basically like Jon Stewart running for president?

00:58:11.000 What was that?

00:58:12.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Man of the year.

00:58:17.000 Oh, okay.

00:58:18.000 Williams plays this comedian and then he announces he's going to run for president and then everyone

00:58:22.000 he starts winning but then it turns out there's like a glitch in the system.

00:58:25.000 Man of the year.

00:58:26.000 Man of the year.

00:58:27.000 It was actually kind of creepy propaganda if you watch it because it's basically at the time

00:58:31.000 there was that joke about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert running for president because everyone

00:58:35.000 was really excited about it.

00:58:36.000 Yeah not Colbert you know but Jon Stewart's all right.

00:58:39.000 But, uh, everyone was really excited.

00:58:41.000 And they make this movie where it's like, Robin Williams is like, it was really bad that I would run and become president or whatever.

00:58:48.000 But, but anyway, you know, I bring up this movie because in it, the reason he does really well is because he's candid with people.

00:58:55.000 He's honest and he just says it and he's, he's sick and tired of the machine.

00:58:59.000 Then there's also that movie Bullworth.

00:59:00.000 You ever see Bullworth?

00:59:02.000 No, I've heard of that though.

00:59:03.000 Bullworth, that's the movie where the guy, he's a senator and he wants to kill himself.

00:59:07.000 So he just starts, he hires an assassin to end his own life.

00:59:10.000 And so he's just like at these meetings and he's just saying everything exactly as everyone knows.

00:59:15.000 He goes to a black church and they're like, last time you came and campaigned, you promised X, Y, and Z. Why didn't you fulfill those promises?

00:59:23.000 And he's like, well, because you voted for us and you're not going to vote for anybody else.

00:59:27.000 I mean, come on, let's be real.

00:59:30.000 It's an amazing movie, but people, they end up loving him.

00:59:33.000 And then he wants to live or whatever.

00:59:35.000 But why is it that in our culture we understand that we just are desperate for someone to be honest?

00:59:42.000 To say the things we all know to be true, to finally admit it when you are lying, cheating, and stealing.

00:59:49.000 You know, like, how many viewers does Brian Stelter get?

00:59:53.000 7?

00:59:54.000 Like, let's be honest, 80,000 maybe?

00:59:56.000 Yeah, he has on some Sundays pulled in in the demo about 80,000.

01:00:02.000 80,000?

01:00:02.000 In the demo, yeah.

01:00:04.000 Like, nobody is watching this guy.

01:00:07.000 At a certain point, I have to wonder, it's like, why even bother?

01:00:10.000 It's like imagine building a bridge, and then like the end of the bridge just goes straight into a brick wall.

01:00:15.000 It's like, why did you build that?

01:00:17.000 So why is he doing this show? 0.98

01:00:18.000 Like, it's just, it's ridiculous.

01:00:21.000 I hear we are talking about the guy constantly.

01:00:24.000 I just, I'm wondering when we're gonna break into that moment where, I think we're getting there,

01:00:29.000 with shows like Joe Rogan's show, with shows like this, where we just have an honest,

01:00:34.000 and I don't mean like revealing secrets about military and stuff like that within reason.

01:00:39.000 I mean like someone literally, like imagine if you got a government official

01:00:43.000 and they were like, a video was released by Julian Assange showing a drone strike killing civilians,

01:00:48.000 and he said, I wish I could tell all the American people every single thing that goes on,

01:00:53.000 But there's a reason why we have confidential stuff.

01:00:56.000 And there's a lot of really disgusting things the American military has done, that I think if the American people found out about, they'd be very angry.

01:01:02.000 But I also hope people realize that there are people who are trying their best to keep Americans safe, and that means warfare is a gruesome, bloody No, that's a hard sell for the Americans.

01:01:12.000 If the people knew how we were using white phosphorus and Fallujah in Iraq, how they were using it as an incandescent to light up the scenery, but what it's actually doing is melting human skin of the civilians on the ground that they're exploding it over. 0.63

01:01:24.000 If people knew that we were melting the skin of the civilians in Iraq when we were there, it would have been a different narrative.

01:01:28.000 And if they found out today, I think it would be pretty jarring.

01:01:31.000 But I'm saying, like, if a guy came out and said, here's why we can't talk about some of this stuff, because if you realized what we did in your name, this country probably couldn't survive.

01:01:40.000 That this country is, we are wealthy, we are comfortable, and then you have to learn about the things that this country has done, and you're like, it's kind of disgusting. 0.98

01:01:49.000 Obama killed kids. 0.99

01:01:51.000 You know, a lot of them. 0.95

01:01:52.000 And no American's going to vote in favor of that, so they try and keep it hush-hush.

01:01:56.000 I can understand when they're like, it's top secret, it's confidential, and you know, we believe we're doing good.

01:02:03.000 Personally, I don't think that's... I think they're not doing good all the time.

01:02:06.000 I think there's a lot of corruption.

01:02:07.000 I think they do, you know, weapons deals for the sake of weapons deals.

01:02:11.000 But my point is more so like...

01:02:13.000 They come out and they say, freedom, you know, it's evil people who hate freedom. 0.98

01:02:17.000 And it's just like, shut up. 0.87

01:02:19.000 Like there's oil fields in Syria.

01:02:21.000 We understand why you don't want Trump pulling the troops out.

01:02:24.000 You know, maybe I just overestimate the average person.

01:02:28.000 The fact that there are Democrats who buy into all this stuff and keep believing it says a lot, but maybe, maybe that's breaking.

01:02:34.000 Maybe, maybe it's breaking.

01:02:35.000 It's slowly but surely, I think, you know, especially now that Trump, you know, is not in the Oval Office.

01:02:41.000 He's not president.

01:02:42.000 sitting there that Joe Biden is at the lever here. That he's the president and

01:02:50.000 he's running the show whether you like it or not and they have other they have

01:02:55.000 to figure out other things and now that's why they continue to focus on

01:02:59.000 things like January 6th so that Trump is still a dominant picture so we don't

01:03:03.000 want to see what's going on over here with Joe Biden and I think enough people

01:03:08.000 are starting to see through that that it's like people as I've said before

01:03:12.000 want all kinds of topics covered in their news coverage And they want their politicians to be very versatile and be able to answer these questions, like you guys have talked about, that really span the spectrum instead of just going down these boilerplate things that I think people realize that we may have done this to ourselves, but that doesn't mean we can't find our way out of it.

01:03:35.000 I think... I think we're winning.

01:03:37.000 You know, I... Oh, yeah.

01:03:39.000 Yeah, the ratings collapse.

01:03:41.000 The machine is desperately trying to prop up these shows.

01:03:43.000 YouTube props up these big networks because they have to.

01:03:47.000 Because, you know, they have this big, this billion-dollar, multi-billion-dollar machine to propagandize and manipulate, and it's not working.

01:03:54.000 You got people in their bathrooms on their phones getting more views.

01:03:54.000 Yeah.

01:03:57.000 Yeah, and the way you look at it is, it's this partnership with these networks that, you know, what's to say if YouTube and these social media platforms didn't do what they said, that there would be, you know, that we're going to report negatively on you?

01:04:12.000 You want us to go Fox News or, you know, the way other platforms did on you guys?

01:04:18.000 I don't think so.

01:04:20.000 It's the symbiotic relationship where they think they need each other to survive.

01:04:24.000 Yeah.

01:04:25.000 And that's why they're pushing all these, you know, new networks onto YouTube and streaming platforms.

01:04:29.000 CNN Plus, are you kidding me?

01:04:32.000 You know, that they have lured away all of this talent.

01:04:35.000 Chris Wallace.

01:04:37.000 Oh, Chris Wallace.

01:04:38.000 Jake Tapper's going to do a book show interviewing authors.

01:04:43.000 They hired a host from NPR.

01:04:44.000 You know, they hired Rex Chapman.

01:04:47.000 It's tiring.

01:04:48.000 It's tiring, but they're doing it because they are continuing to try and survive, where, you know, they now entered our marketplace, this marketplace, YouTube and social media platforms, so that they can push everyone else out.

01:04:59.000 We need to talk about what really matters.

01:05:02.000 And what really matters is that a truck carrying a hundred lab monkeys crashed, some lady tried petting the monkey, and now she's got COVID symptoms.

01:05:10.000 Uh-oh.

01:05:11.000 Correlation is not causation.

01:05:12.000 So this is a hard segway off of the media into something much more fun.

01:05:15.000 And potentially apocalyptic.

01:05:15.000 Yes.

01:05:17.000 So this is the story.

01:05:19.000 You guys may have heard that a truck crashed near Scranton.

01:05:23.000 And 100 monkeys were on it, lab monkeys.

01:05:25.000 The monkeys are in high demand right now because they're doing COVID research, out of my guess.

01:05:28.000 That's what they report in the Daily Mail.

01:05:30.000 So a couple of the monkeys escaped.

01:05:32.000 Some lady gets out of her car if the truck crashes. 1.00

01:05:35.000 She steps in monkey poop. 1.00

01:05:37.000 Walks over to one of the cages it's busted open apparently and tries to pet the monkeys.

01:05:40.000 What was she thinking?

01:05:42.000 She wanted rabies.

01:05:43.000 What happened next?

01:05:45.000 She's now sick with what she describes as COVID symptoms.

01:05:49.000 She's saying she's got she's got COVID symptoms.

01:05:51.000 She called it a day from hell.

01:05:52.000 She's being quarantined.

01:05:54.000 Apparently they sent letters out to law enforcement who responded saying you've got a quarantine for like 31 days.

01:05:59.000 Cause there's like monkey diseases you could get and they're also isolating the monkeys to figure out if they got diseases.

01:06:04.000 Everybody's tweeting at me, you know, Planet of the Apes, 12 monkeys and the movie Outbreak because they're like, this is how it happens.

01:06:12.000 So, uh, you know, I think it's funny that we can joke about it.

01:06:15.000 Be like, ha ha, the monkey truck crashed and the lady got sick. 0.99

01:06:18.000 And it's just like, you know, what if within like a month there's like, you know, 300 confirmed cases of monkey, monkey COVID or whatever.

01:06:26.000 And then we're like, oh, you know, it's just 300 people in that area.

01:06:29.000 They've quarantined it.

01:06:29.000 And like a year later, it's like COVID, you know, COVID-20 monkey syndrome is like going crazy.

01:06:35.000 What would you name the monkey variant?

01:06:37.000 The monkey variant.

01:06:38.000 That's what you'd call it, bro.

01:06:40.000 Call it the monkey variant.

01:06:42.000 I have to point out that this happened in my home state of Pennsylvania, up on I-80 in the middle of nowhere.

01:06:49.000 That this lady was driving along and saw the crash and like, do not approach, do not feed the animals, like, do not congratulate.

01:07:00.000 Let me show you my tweeted, holy-ish, it's happening.

01:07:03.000 Someone, this guy Nico, responded with just a picture of Alex Jones leaning back with his hands in front of his mouth.

01:07:08.000 Yeah, taking a deep breath.

01:07:09.000 But I'm going to say this mostly as a joke, but also just as an idea.

01:07:16.000 This story is a little on the nose.

01:07:19.000 It's like, it's a lottery ticket in my opinion.

01:07:22.000 That a monkey truck crashes, they're lab monkeys, and a woman just happened to be following it, gets out, decides to try and touch the monkeys, they hiss at her, she gets sick, and I'm like, this is the perfect narrative for the start of a new variant, you know what I mean? 0.93

01:07:39.000 We're just checking the boxes here.

01:07:42.000 I still can't believe that this is real.

01:07:47.000 The funny thing to me is that there's exactly 100 monkeys on the train.

01:07:47.000 Here's the crazy thing.

01:07:51.000 Which maybe isn't that weird to people.

01:07:53.000 Especially if it's like lab research.

01:07:54.000 Why not 99?

01:07:55.000 62?

01:07:55.000 Why not 101?

01:07:55.000 People love those.

01:07:56.000 They're so weird.

01:08:01.000 Well, I mean, you know, a hundred monkeys seems like a round number.

01:08:04.000 But here's the crazy thing, right?

01:08:05.000 So when we were researching this story, I was like, let's try and pull up this article.

01:08:10.000 And so I was looking at all these stories.

01:08:12.000 None of them mention the woman is saying she has COVID symptoms, except her on her Facebook post and the Daily Mail got it.

01:08:18.000 When you pull up all of these stories on Google, they all just say she's got pink eye.

01:08:23.000 She's got a pink eye, that's it. 1.00

01:08:26.000 And then you take a look at what she actually posted on Facebook, and she says the symptoms are COVID symptoms, like seriously, a day from hell.

01:08:35.000 That's what she said.

01:08:37.000 Why is the media not reporting that she has COVID symptoms?

01:08:40.000 Don't they like the fear?

01:08:41.000 Don't they want the fear?

01:08:42.000 Yeah, exactly right.

01:08:45.000 And what's to say it's not COVID, but the idea that she said it and put it out there and they don't want anything to do with it?

01:08:53.000 I mean, it's pretty pathetic that you're willing to stoop down to, you know, you would think when you're putting together a news story about this insanity, you would think that you would want a post, like a Facebook post, where it's a good paragraph of her retelling of what happened.

01:09:10.000 You would think that you would want to include that in your news reports. 0.93

01:09:13.000 But why are they downplaying it?

01:09:15.000 That's what I don't understand.

01:09:16.000 She said COVID symptoms and we pulled up all these other stories and it's like pink eye.

01:09:21.000 She has pink eye. 1.00

01:09:23.000 Exactly.

01:09:24.000 They don't want to talk about it.

01:09:26.000 Maybe they're afraid that it's going to be like, she has COVID symptoms and then she'll turn out to be like, actually, it turned out I just had the cold.

01:09:33.000 Oh, but there's COVID systems, but it was a clue.

01:09:34.000 I don't know what to think, to be completely honest.

01:09:38.000 This one's weird to me.

01:09:40.000 The media would love to push a COVID scare narrative.

01:09:44.000 I mean, they make money on it.

01:09:46.000 Yeah, the permanent lockdowns.

01:09:47.000 They have continuous stories day after day of people in hospitals, people dying.

01:09:53.000 And it's very sad.

01:09:54.000 I understand that.

01:09:56.000 And these are people's loved ones.

01:09:58.000 However, yeah, it is pure fear porn.

01:10:01.000 It's actual death.

01:10:03.000 They're not pushing it.

01:10:04.000 And they're not pushing it, whereas previously with Russia, it was this fear of something that really wasn't attached to people's lives, but now they have something that, you know, saying, if you don't do as we say, you'll die.

01:10:18.000 Right.

01:10:19.000 Oh, with the COVID stuff, you mean?

01:10:20.000 Yeah, whereas COVID versus other things.

01:10:22.000 In her Facebook post, she specifically says, symptoms are COVID systems.

01:10:28.000 She said, uh, I'm very low risk for I don't know what yet, but symptoms are COVID symptoms.

01:10:33.000 I think that part of the problem here is that the media is, this is a narrative they can't control.

01:10:37.000 I think that's the reason that we can't find her, um, Facebook posts anywhere except the Daily Mail.

01:10:42.000 I think that they're trying to get ahold of the story and try to see how they can spin it.

01:10:45.000 I think it's too early for them to really have their actual narrative lined up perfectly yet.

01:10:50.000 And I think, yeah, if it turns out to not have been COVID, I would guarantee you they would backtrack and put it up.

01:10:59.000 Yeah.

01:10:59.000 And saying, you know, she thought she, you know, Fallon thought she had COVID symptoms.

01:11:03.000 Right.

01:11:03.000 Yeah.

01:11:04.000 But she ended up not.

01:11:05.000 Is she maybe saying something else?

01:11:07.000 Like, what could that possibly mean other than, you know, like, that's the story.

01:11:12.000 She's saying that she's got sick.

01:11:14.000 They say in the title that she has a cough and pink eye. 1.00

01:11:17.000 And then her Facebook post says symptoms are COVID symptoms.

01:11:20.000 Saying that a cough is COVID symptoms is a little like... No, no, no, no, no, no.

01:11:24.000 They're saying when she said symptoms are COVID symptoms, they said a cough.

01:11:27.000 Oh, they're saying it's a cough?

01:11:28.000 She literally, in the Facebook post they put from her, it says COVID symptoms.

01:11:32.000 But like, if you look at these Omicron COVID symptoms, I saw five of them.

01:11:35.000 It's like runny nose, fever, fatigue.

01:11:38.000 You're like, oh, okay.

01:11:39.000 Those are also cold symptoms.

01:11:41.000 So if she goes out and they go out and she says she might have COVID, she has COVID symptoms, and it turns out she has a common cold, people would be like, uh...

01:11:47.000 But she did have COVID symptoms.

01:11:49.000 Plus pink eye! 1.00

01:11:51.000 So maybe it wasn't a big deal.

01:11:54.000 When you see that in China now, there was a report I saw from one of the networks this morning.

01:11:58.000 They reported that in China now, if you go into a drugstore and you buy cough medicine like Tylenol, the government will flag you and say that you have to go get COVID tested.

01:12:09.000 Wow.

01:12:10.000 That they notice that if you went into a drugstore and bought, and you went to the aisle and bought these specific medicines that everybody goes to a CVS or Walgreens nowadays to get, you know, Tylenol, you know, ibuprofen or cough syrup, the government will flag you and say, you need to go get COVID tested because you're buying these medications for symptoms that line up with COVID.

01:12:33.000 I mean, it- Well, it's one way to inflate the cases.

01:12:35.000 But we're- But, you know, we're gonna send our athletes into this.

01:12:38.000 Yeah, that's a good point, too.

01:12:39.000 I don't- I don't know, you know, what'll end up happening with the story.

01:12:41.000 I- I kinda feel like nothing.

01:12:43.000 It's- It's like, the monkeys escaped.

01:12:44.000 I think they killed them.

01:12:45.000 They captured a couple and then killed one of them.

01:12:47.000 Like, the report is that the monkey was seen in a tree and then several shots rang out.

01:12:50.000 You know, people didn't watch what happened, but- Jeez.

01:12:50.000 Ah!

01:12:53.000 It's like when you're watching a movie and they take the animal off camera and then you hear a bang.

01:12:59.000 It's implied within it.

01:13:00.000 I don't like that.

01:13:02.000 But I just want to point out, take a look at this picture right here.

01:13:05.000 Look at Homeboy.

01:13:07.000 One of the monkeys pictured was found in a tree and three shots were later heard, WNEP reported.

01:13:12.000 Imagine being this dude, right?

01:13:14.000 And you're born or bred or captured.

01:13:17.000 by these giant creatures who are poking you and prodding you and injecting you with stuff.

01:13:22.000 And then the ship they're on crashes and you get out and you're hiding, just terrified and desperate.

01:13:27.000 And they see you and they just kill you.

01:13:28.000 Imagine if you were born into a country and the social media networks were experimenting on you and your government was experimenting on you and then you tried to escape.

01:13:35.000 North Korea? 0.67

01:13:37.000 I'm talking about the United States.

01:13:38.000 You can escape the United States fairly easily.

01:13:40.000 You can kind of escape.

01:13:41.000 You can't escape the system, though.

01:13:43.000 They don't want you off the grid.

01:13:45.000 Yeah, man, we're... You can't escape it.

01:13:46.000 So, you know, my thing is like, I feel bad for this dude.

01:13:49.000 Look at him, man.

01:13:49.000 He's chilling.

01:13:50.000 He's not doing anything.

01:13:52.000 Look how... He's probably scared.

01:13:53.000 He's probably like, I just want to be left alone.

01:13:54.000 It's what monkeys do. 0.93

01:13:55.000 They climb... Yes, you see, they climb the trees and they're just chilling out.

01:13:58.000 They're living... They're trying to live their best lives here.

01:14:01.000 That's brutal.

01:14:01.000 Were these monkeys infected with something beforehand?

01:14:04.000 Did it ever come out or were they on their way to get tested on or something?

01:14:06.000 They haven't said yet.

01:14:08.000 What the article from the Daily Mail says is that monkeys are in high demand for COVID research to do experiments on them.

01:14:13.000 And that it's also true that monkeys can carry herpes B, which if infects a person, they get brain swelling and then die.

01:14:21.000 The herpes B virus.

01:14:23.000 It's extremely rare, but it can kill you if you don't get treated for it.

01:14:27.000 And I think there's only been ever one case of it transmitting from person to person.

01:14:30.000 So it's, like, not that good at infecting humans.

01:14:34.000 But that's why they're scared about these monkeys.

01:14:36.000 I just feel bad for the monkey bro, who's like, I am finally free, and then he, like, climbs the tree, and he's, like, looking around, and then you shoot him.

01:14:42.000 It's like, uh, spoiler alert, like, Harrison Bergeron, man.

01:14:47.000 That monkey had a Harrison Bergeron moment.

01:14:49.000 Stepped out into the freedom and tasted it for a moment.

01:14:52.000 Is that what happens at the end of Harrison Bergeron?

01:14:54.000 They kill him?

01:14:56.000 They do? 0.96

01:14:56.000 I believe. 0.96

01:14:57.000 No!

01:14:58.000 I thought it just ended.

01:14:59.000 It ends with the door getting kicked open and a bunch of people screaming and death.

01:15:03.000 I'm pretty sure.

01:15:03.000 Really?

01:15:04.000 No, I thought it was a short story.

01:15:06.000 I'm pretty sure I read it.

01:15:07.000 I'll look it up.

01:15:07.000 I'm curious.

01:15:09.000 I think you were thinking of something else.

01:15:10.000 Maybe I'm wrong.

01:15:11.000 I don't know.

01:15:11.000 I remember that not turning out so well for Harrison.

01:15:14.000 No, Harrison! 0.91

01:15:15.000 Oh man, what a monkey. 0.88

01:15:16.000 But yes, shout out to rural PA.

01:15:19.000 Danville PA is where it took place.

01:15:22.000 Great people in central Pennsylvania, but I don't know.

01:15:26.000 I would not want to be living near there right now, but that's just me.

01:15:30.000 I wonder what they were doing with these guys, these monkeys, you know?

01:15:33.000 Oh, definitely taking them to test on them for sure.

01:15:35.000 Well, they're medical tests.

01:15:35.000 No, they're lab monkeys.

01:15:36.000 Yeah, but like, were they doing COVID research?

01:15:39.000 Putting more chemicals in their eyes?

01:15:40.000 Imagine, yeah, a senator asking Fauci about this the next day.

01:15:46.000 Uh, Dr. Fauci, a hundred monkeys.

01:15:48.000 Well, you know Fauci runs that monkey island.

01:15:50.000 Okay, that's a little hyperbolic.

01:15:52.000 Fauci funded, through the NIAID, this monkey island thing.

01:15:58.000 They basically breed a bunch of monkeys in captivity to do torture, to experiment on.

01:16:03.000 Maximum pain experiments.

01:16:05.000 Yeah, and it's being called by activists, maximum pain experiments, where they take the monkeys and try and make them feel as much pain as possible to see what they can tolerate before passing out or whatever.

01:16:15.000 Yo, Fauci's got a track record for doing real messed up stuff.

01:16:18.000 Yeah, and speaking of Tucker earlier, that's been something he's really been talking a lot about.

01:16:23.000 He's had people from PETA on.

01:16:24.000 When did you expect someone from PETA being on Fox News? 0.99

01:16:27.000 I think PETA's trash. 0.99

01:16:29.000 That's true. 0.99

01:16:31.000 When someone becomes science, you know, it's no longer ethical.

01:16:35.000 When the ethics are out the window, it's science first, ethics second.

01:16:37.000 Like, Fauci has actually declared he was the science.

01:16:40.000 What a strange thing for a human to declare. 0.96

01:16:42.000 That's like Nazi scientists, man. 0.79

01:16:44.000 They would put the science first, the ethics came second.

01:16:47.000 Experimenting on a populace with a rushed vaccine is like, I get it, in an emergency, maybe there's precedent, but man, it is still an experimentation.

01:16:57.000 Well, I think we were talking, who were we talking to?

01:17:02.000 I think maybe it was Bhatia Angusargan.

01:17:05.000 The vaccines that came out with Operation Warp Speed went through the clinical trials with people who volunteered for it.

01:17:12.000 And even the right was very critical of parents who were offering up their kids to volunteer for the trials and stuff like that.

01:17:17.000 So they went through the basic trials.

01:17:19.000 And then we had a discussion about the Nuremberg Code because people were saying that they're still doing long-term testing.

01:17:26.000 Which is happening now, because typically it takes a long time.

01:17:29.000 But by that standard, if that's experimental, everything is, because they're constantly rolling out new treatments that they're then collecting data for long-term studies.

01:17:39.000 Yeah, it's really like only the Tuskegee experiment.

01:17:42.000 The things we hear about After Effects, when things have gone wrong, is when we really can look at it and say, well, that was a bad experiment.

01:17:48.000 Which, if you recall, Joe Biden confused Tuskegee Airmen with the Tuskegee Experiment.

01:17:54.000 He talked about why African Americans aren't getting vaccinated.

01:17:57.000 He referred to, oh, what happened to Tuskegee Airmen is a barrier for African Americans to get vaccinated.

01:18:03.000 This stuff is draining.

01:18:06.000 I know.

01:18:07.000 It's draining.

01:18:08.000 It's impressive that we talk about it every night.

01:18:11.000 I think about that daily.

01:18:12.000 When you guys are talking about examples inside the United States, you go to China, what the Soviets were doing. 0.58

01:18:17.000 Yes, and Nazi Germany.

01:18:21.000 That stuff, the depravity there.

01:18:23.000 You want to talk about honesty and things that people never want to talk about?

01:18:27.000 How much have Americans benefited from the human experimentation of the Nazis and the Japanese?

01:18:32.000 A lot.

01:18:33.000 A great deal.

01:18:34.000 That horrifying unit in Japan.

01:18:36.000 731.

01:18:37.000 One of the stories I read is that they took people and they would stick their arms out into sub-zero temperatures to watch what would happen to a person who was in between.

01:18:47.000 And then they would shatter the arm once it froze to see what would happen.

01:18:51.000 And because of that psychotic research, we're able to save tons of lives when it comes to frostbite.

01:18:57.000 It's horrifying, isn't it?

01:18:59.000 People need to have a dose of reality.

01:19:01.000 These monkey experiments are horrifying.

01:19:02.000 The beagle experiments are horrifying. 1.00

01:19:04.000 But sometimes we don't know what we're going to find when we do stupid things, when we do crazy things.

01:19:09.000 So my thing is, I'm not going to be naive and just outright be like, we should ban all of this stuff, because I'm like, We do animal testing for medications before we put it on humans, because we don't want humans to die.

01:19:21.000 And it sucks that animals die in the experimentation, but what's the alternative?

01:19:25.000 Don't have medical advancement?

01:19:26.000 Don't do trials?

01:19:27.000 Don't do experimentation?

01:19:28.000 I just looked up, what has medicine learned from the Nazis? 0.57

01:19:30.000 This is from The Guardian, and the first sentence is, a lot.

01:19:35.000 I mean, it just goes on and on and on.

01:19:38.000 How are we supposed to advance medical technology if we don't experiment on ourselves?

01:19:46.000 I mean, true, that's the history of medicine.

01:19:49.000 Right to try legislation, I think, is a huge, huge opportunity.

01:19:54.000 In that you've got people who have nothing left to lose who are like, yo, I'm dying.

01:19:58.000 I need something.

01:19:59.000 Let me try this experimental medication because I got nothing left to lose.

01:20:03.000 I'm like that.

01:20:03.000 I think Florida recently signed that legislation.

01:20:05.000 Ron DeSantis did.

01:20:06.000 Yeah.

01:20:06.000 That's that's good.

01:20:07.000 Trump was very much in favor of this, I think, too.

01:20:09.000 Yeah.

01:20:09.000 Before the show, we were talking about this gentleman who got the heart transplanted from a pig, which is really interesting because they did a deep dive on him after the fact.

01:20:17.000 They're like, oh, my gosh, this guy had committed a bunch of terrible crimes.

01:20:20.000 And I was like, it makes sense to me that they would experiment with this weird heart on a guy who had committed crimes.

01:20:26.000 It sounds terrible to say, but then we got to talking about Unit 731.

01:20:29.000 I was like, this is terrible, but this is where we are.

01:20:31.000 This is how we've learned a lot of the things we've learned.

01:20:34.000 The news cycle on this has been fascinating because the Washington Post had this glowing story because it happened up in Baltimore.

01:20:42.000 And then it was probably three days later it came out.

01:20:47.000 It was a story right on the front page.

01:20:49.000 And the whole thing is deconstructing what happened.

01:20:52.000 That this guy was in a fight, I think in Hagerstown, got in a bar fight with somebody who was feeling up his wife.

01:21:00.000 And he stabbed him and left him paralyzed.

01:21:02.000 And he served years in prison.

01:21:04.000 And so he was a thing for this.

01:21:06.000 And the entire piece is because he's still in the hospital and he's not really able to do interviews, needless to say.

01:21:12.000 So his poor son has been left to have to talk about this, and like, what do you have to say about this?

01:21:16.000 You know, does your dad really deserve—basically, the post's trying to argue, does your dad really deserve life?

01:21:20.000 And it's a really sad question here, but obviously doctors are going to look really good if this ends up working.

01:21:31.000 I think I understand why there's certain people who want to keep the populace in the dark on a lot of issues, because I think regular people don't want to acknowledge the great benefits they get.

01:21:46.000 They're really awful things that Anthony Fauci has authorized have have I don't know to what extent they've benefited us But it's it's not so much about what he specifically has done.

01:21:56.000 I think the gain-of-function stuff has kind of screwed us substantially but in general if the American people I actually got an honest assessment of everything they've gained in exchange for the pain and suffering caused by a lot of research and war.

01:22:12.000 I really wonder what this country would be like, because I remember saying this during 2015 when Hillary was running, and I would tell my friends, and I'd be like, do you like the way you live?

01:22:26.000 Do you like your wealth, American empire?

01:22:30.000 Do you like traveling the world and having whatever you want?

01:22:32.000 Vote for Hillary Clinton, because she's going to maintain the status quo of the global elites in the war, the bombings, Syria, all that stuff, and you're going to benefit from it. 1.00

01:22:41.000 Do you want to end that stuff?

01:22:43.000 Do you want to try and pull it back?

01:22:45.000 Do you want to focus on this country?

01:22:46.000 Vote for Donald Trump.

01:22:48.000 But a lot of people didn't want to have that conversation.

01:22:50.000 They don't want to acknowledge that the United States benefits greatly off of war for a variety of reasons.

01:22:54.000 That's you know when Donald Trump came out and said he was talking about selling weapons to the Saudis He said it's gonna be fantastic. 1.00

01:23:00.000 All this money is gonna be great for our economy.

01:23:02.000 Yep.

01:23:02.000 It is.

01:23:03.000 Yeah, it's money coming It's oil.

01:23:06.000 So that's basically what's happening.

01:23:07.000 We do a weapons deal with Saudi Arabia.

01:23:08.000 We said we've got all these weapons We're gonna sell you you give us money that money we use to buy oil and oil free energy means human beings have to do less work Greatly benefit from all of this nasty stuff.

01:23:20.000 Are we buying the oil from the Saudis?

01:23:22.000 It's a global market.

01:23:24.000 So when they give us money, we can put it into the global market, buying petroleum and stuff like that.

01:23:28.000 Back from them and other people.

01:23:30.000 Well, that's why I say, basically, we give them weapons for oil.

01:23:33.000 Yeah.

01:23:34.000 You know, and then we have the petrodollar, which maintains the status quo.

01:23:37.000 But yo, I really, part of me just wants to see how these urban liberals react to the reality.

01:23:45.000 Oh, I've gone through this.

01:23:46.000 If you exposed all humans to all human trauma at once, it would obliterate the human mind.

01:23:53.000 It might turn everyone into organic savages. 1.00

01:23:55.000 I'm just saying, give them what they want.

01:23:57.000 But it might not.

01:23:58.000 It might help us.

01:24:00.000 Look at that dude.

01:24:01.000 He's trying to get a heart, right?

01:24:02.000 But he's refusing to get vaccinated, so they took him off the list.

01:24:05.000 Yeah, how's that universal healthcare sounding now?

01:24:08.000 So these people on the left, their attitude is, but vaccines are good.

01:24:12.000 And I'm like, sure, okay, what happens when the government comes and says, we want you to undergo this treatment, otherwise you won't get your medical treatment and something you disagree with.

01:24:23.000 Don't give the government the authority to mandate that you get a medical treatment in exchange for life-saving treatment.

01:24:28.000 That's why we always gotta have private healthcare as an option. 0.97

01:24:31.000 But I'm just saying, all of these, these, you know, hippie, these leftists, these liberal types, I just, I long for the day they get everything they want, in a sense.

01:24:40.000 I really don't because, you know, it'd be chaos and everything would fall apart.

01:24:44.000 But for them to just have that moment where they go, oh, now I get it.

01:24:52.000 And then just to have that loss wash over them where all of a sudden they can't eat, they're struggling to live, electricity is through the roof.

01:25:00.000 These people, You know, I've found an interesting correlation between people who are socialist and an interesting overlap between people who are socialist and people who have never been to a socialist country.

01:25:13.000 Yeah.

01:25:14.000 You know, it seems to be the same group of people.

01:25:16.000 Oh my gosh, going to Chile completely changed my worldview about policing and about socialization of police.

01:25:22.000 Like, they have just national police.

01:25:24.000 It's completely socialized.

01:25:26.000 It was terrifying, because you'd see feds on every street corner.

01:25:28.000 You'd see just feds standing there with their guns and their uniforms. 0.82

01:25:31.000 And it's like, there's no one to protect you from the feds at that point.

01:25:33.000 So you've got to kind of de-socialize law enforcement.

01:25:37.000 I mean, we have a sort of interwoven socialized system of layered socialism, so it's a little less like blanket socialism.

01:25:48.000 Yeah, or if you go to, like, other countries like Cuba or countries, you know, former Soviet satellite countries.

01:25:56.000 Satellite republics, I guess it was called.

01:25:59.000 And the people that come to America, you know, again, Cubans, Venezuelans, they know their stuff.

01:26:05.000 You know, they talk about love of freedom and the Constitution and, you know, all the ideals that the left hates.

01:26:13.000 I mean, phew.

01:26:15.000 I mean, they're so, I mean, they know.

01:26:18.000 Well, another thing they say is that you can't lose the U.S.

01:26:21.000 because this is the last place in the world like this.

01:26:23.000 And I was going to say, too, that with the monoclonal antibody things, one of the things that they're saying when Jen Psaki was asked about it, she was like, oh, well, it's because vaccines work.

01:26:31.000 So you're telling me that if you don't get a vaccine, you also can have monoclonal antibody.

01:26:36.000 That really sounds kind of punitive to me.

01:26:38.000 But that's what happens when you give the federal government that kind of power.

01:26:41.000 That's not something we should be trying to do.

01:26:43.000 Well, let's take a we'll take a poll of the our friends here at the crew.

01:26:50.000 If you were to show your average urban liberal everything that was supporting their way of life, from war, exploitation, to experimentation, my opinion is that they would gladly accept it.

01:27:08.000 Mm.

01:27:08.000 100%.

01:27:08.000 If you went to them and said, here's how many kids were killed by Obama for you to get that,

01:27:13.000 you know, cheap computer, they'd be like, agreed.

01:27:15.000 I'm happy with that.

01:27:16.000 Do you guys agree with that?

01:27:18.000 100%.

01:27:19.000 I think they would, especially the urban elites in the Washington area.

01:27:24.000 You look at the wealth concentrated in D.C.

01:27:28.000 that continued during the recession of 2008-2009, that continued with COVID, the growth in defense contractors over the many decades that are all based in the Washington D.C.

01:27:43.000 area, You can go on and on and on, and I truly think that's something I've learned from living here, living in the D.C.

01:27:53.000 area the last eight years, that I've become more jaded, but I have.

01:28:01.000 Yeah, they will accept it.

01:28:02.000 Here's my question for these Democrat voters when they say, you know, I'm voting Democrat for this reason, right?

01:28:09.000 They want to tax the rich. 0.63

01:28:10.000 Okay, here's my question. 0.75

01:28:11.000 How many children are you willing to kill in order to get higher taxes on the rich? 0.92

01:28:15.000 Is it one? 0.99

01:28:16.000 Two?

01:28:16.000 Three?

01:28:16.000 Just give me a number, because Obama killed a bunch of kids.

01:28:19.000 Obama killed an American citizen named Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki in a drone strike on a civilian restaurant. 0.59

01:28:24.000 I think he killed other people, too.

01:28:26.000 And the response, the official response was, oops!

01:28:29.000 We were trying to get somebody else!

01:28:30.000 Well, and we had that in Afghanistan.

01:28:31.000 I mean, not in the American system, but we had that in Afghanistan with a drone strike.

01:28:35.000 And the New York Times released this huge report, and it's like, okay.

01:28:38.000 Yeah, like, how many kids are you willing to have killed for you, is another way to phrase it.

01:28:42.000 And then they might not say a lot.

01:28:44.000 They might be like, oh, I don't want to have any kids.

01:28:46.000 How many kids with parents who hate your freedom are you willing to have killed?

01:28:51.000 Oh, well now if they hate my freedom, that's dangerous.

01:28:54.000 Now, they're going to be okay with the numbers.

01:28:56.000 People are okay with numbers.

01:28:57.000 I can deal with X and Y, but if you show them the image of the person being killed, it changes them.

01:29:03.000 Yes, and this is because of the concept of bloody hands at arm's length.

01:29:06.000 If it's out of sight, it's out of mind.

01:29:08.000 If you don't have to see it, you don't see the bombing in Syria.

01:29:10.000 It doesn't bother you.

01:29:11.000 It doesn't bother you that people are jumping out of windows in China.

01:29:14.000 I would just add, I think that my point is especially true with people in Washington.

01:29:19.000 You go to some liberals in other parts of the country, outside of maybe LA and maybe New York City or Chicago.

01:29:28.000 You could probably change some minds, but in terms of the ruling elites, it'd be hard to change their minds.

01:29:35.000 You get a bunch of people in public, and you walk up to them and ask them, All of the benefits you receive with cheap gas, cheap products, international travel, a strong passport, come at the expense of children dying.

01:29:49.000 How many children are you willing to have killed in your name to live this way?

01:29:54.000 In public?

01:29:55.000 They're gonna be like, oh, that's really terrible, and none of us agree with that.

01:29:58.000 But if you get someone truly, honestly in private?

01:30:00.000 And it's most, I think honestly, most people would be like, I don't want to have my TV shut off.

01:30:07.000 I like all of the privileges and benefits that are afforded me.

01:30:11.000 If you explain to people that slavery still exists today, that people who make your clothing and make your phones are effectively slaves, they'd shut up.

01:30:20.000 I don't want to hear it. 0.81

01:30:21.000 That's why when the conservatives criticize the left over having smartphones, they run into, you know, they go full speed in defense mode of putting up these silly comics. 0.94

01:30:30.000 There's one where that guy is like, you know, there's a guy, a peasant who says, society is, you know, sucks and we should improve it. 0.51

01:30:37.000 and then the guy pops out of the well going, yet you participate in society.

01:30:40.000 Because they're very, very desperate to whitewash the narrative and be like,

01:30:43.000 we're good people, we're good people, we're good people.

01:30:45.000 Yo.

01:30:47.000 I acknowledge it.

01:30:48.000 I know full well these computers sitting, these monitor screens, my phone sitting in front of me.

01:30:52.000 Yes, slave labor.

01:30:54.000 I'm not a big fan of it.

01:30:55.000 I'm not a big fan of it, but I recognize and I'll be fully honest about how the world works and understand the privileges and the benefits of everything we get.

01:31:01.000 Cheap gasoline, the energy we use for our machines, the energy that comes from oil from around the world and under Trump from this country, the fossil fuels.

01:31:11.000 But there are a lot of people who want to lie because they want to pretend to be good people.

01:31:14.000 They want to act like they're opposed to this, but they will vote for it every chance they get.

01:31:20.000 You go to them in private and say, Barack Obama killed kids and signed the indefinite detention provision.

01:31:26.000 You're gonna sign this, you're gonna sign away your rights, and you are going to get a dollar cheeseburger for the next 10 years.

01:31:33.000 They're gonna be like, sign me up!

01:31:35.000 My problem is knowing that this is all built on slaves, even the plastic for this awesome comic book.

01:31:43.000 How do I stop acknowledging that?

01:31:46.000 How do I stop myself from hating myself and want to destroy myself?

01:31:50.000 You just realize the world is what it is.

01:31:53.000 Now I think it's fair to say, you know, we actively speak out against it, we challenge it, and we try to avoid a lot of that stuff.

01:32:00.000 Some of it is seemingly unavoidable if you want to operate in this system, and I'm not going to pretend like it's not true.

01:32:05.000 A friend of mine who's an activist, I said, I was talking to this friend of mine, I was like, you claim to be on the left and you care about fighting for these causes, but the reality is you're only fighting for your community, for your country.

01:32:18.000 And they said, that's not true, I'm fighting for everybody.

01:32:20.000 I said, no you're not.

01:32:21.000 You've got a Samsung laptop.

01:32:23.000 It's made at the Foxconn Laboratories. 0.89

01:32:24.000 Those people are walking off the roof in masks to commit suicide.

01:32:27.000 They put up suicide nets to catch them because their lives are miserable.

01:32:30.000 You don't care about those people.

01:32:31.000 You're putting money into that.

01:32:32.000 You're supporting that system.

01:32:34.000 They want to believe that they're good people fighting the good fight, but the reality of the world is that most people can't see that far.

01:32:41.000 Most people don't realize all the pain and suffering that goes into everything they have.

01:32:46.000 I get it. I don't like it. I'll try to avoid it. I try, you know, to, to, you know, products made

01:32:51.000 in America by good, you know, free and fair labor and everything like that. But yo, we don't make

01:32:57.000 stuff in this country anymore, which is why one of the reasons I voted for Trump in 2020 was because

01:33:01.000 I would rather have a shirt cost 20 bucks that I can only own a few of if it's made by someone who

01:33:07.000 gets an honest living, as opposed to helping having these, these sweatshop factories overseas, 0.79

01:33:11.000 where we exploit cheap labor, where they don't get healthcare or anything like that.

01:33:14.000 I'm not in favor of that.

01:33:16.000 I'd like the world to be a better place, but I tell you, I rest assured the average person and most people living in cities would sign the dotted line and sign that deal with the devil to get cheap crap because they don't want to have to do the work to get it and it's exploitative but they're for it and they want to pretend they're opposed to it but they support it every chance they get.

01:33:36.000 Have we ever had a not a slave capital society? 0.94

01:33:40.000 We had the Romans, then we had the Middle Ages where it was all serfdom and slavery. 0.98

01:33:44.000 What were you going to say, Libby?

01:33:45.000 We have not.

01:33:46.000 And this is an interesting point because there has always been slavery in the world and people tend to try to tie it to America, which is incredibly unfair because we did not start it.

01:33:54.000 We ended it.

01:33:55.000 We did end it.

01:33:56.000 And one of the things that you guys should do, because I know this is depressing, is go to humanprogress.org because I know the world looks bleak sometimes, but it is very much better for more people than it has ever been good for before.

01:34:07.000 We are reducing poverty at an incredible rate, people have more fresh water, we have lower infant mortality rates, and even though people aren't actually reproducing as much as they should be to keep humanity going, there are at least other things that are making life better for most people.

01:34:22.000 Let's kick the conversation up a notch.

01:34:24.000 Let's say you get a president who's like, we're gonna go to war in the Middle East, we're gonna fight for the Qatar Turkey pipeline, we're gonna start a war in Ukraine to push back Russia. 0.72

01:34:31.000 And if you don't vote for that and you get someone who's an isolationist, China takes over and they kill substantially more people.

01:34:37.000 So the question isn't even how many people are you willing to sacrifice?

01:34:39.000 The question is people will die no matter what.

01:34:41.000 And it's a very, very complicated and difficult problem we face as humans.

01:34:45.000 It's part of why it's been offensive wars like the history.

01:34:48.000 You attack so that you don't get attacked.

01:34:49.000 And it's always, that's the cycle.

01:34:52.000 If we, if the United States pulls back from the world stage and rescinds the American empire, that gap will be filled by someone. 0.53

01:35:00.000 And so you end up with these neocons, these war hawks who are like, I'd rather it be me than someone else.

01:35:05.000 I can certainly understand that worldview.

01:35:07.000 I just don't, I don't believe in that kind of philosophical, uh, moral position of, it's better that I'm subjecting people to pain and suffering because someone else would do it anyway.

01:35:16.000 I'm like, well, you're committing an immoral act.

01:35:17.000 We should push back against the immoral acts, but not commit them.

01:35:20.000 It's tough, man.

01:35:21.000 It's uncomfortable.

01:35:22.000 It's an uncomfortable conversation.

01:35:24.000 And I'll just point out, you know, beyond products, two of the biggest events in the world this year, the Olympics in China and the World Cup at the end of the year in Qatar.

01:35:36.000 All produced by slave labor.

01:35:37.000 Yep.

01:35:38.000 That, you know, around Thanksgiving, Christmas time, everybody's gonna be tuning in for soccer, and that's been one of the huge stories, but people are still gonna tune in.

01:35:47.000 You know, the reason I say it's mostly city people is because people who live out in the middle of nowhere, you know, conservative types and rural types believe in personal responsibility, are responsible for a lot of their own food, and they're willing to roll up their sleeves and do hard work.

01:36:03.000 But people in cities, man, They just want to exploit, extract, not every single person, just a lot of them.

01:36:09.000 You know, think about the person who works at BuzzFeed, right?

01:36:12.000 How much do they pay people at BuzzFeed?

01:36:14.000 50 to 90k, if you look at Glassdoor.com.

01:36:17.000 And what's their job? 1.00

01:36:18.000 To write garbage. 1.00

01:36:20.000 Poisonous trash. 1.00

01:36:22.000 BuzzFeed is complete garbage. 1.00

01:36:24.000 And they're not the only ones, there's right-wing garbage too, don't get me wrong. 1.00

01:36:28.000 The issue is, there's no reason, in any sane reality, that someone at BuzzFeed should be making that much money. 0.92

01:36:35.000 Because there are people who drive buses who deserve more than that.

01:36:38.000 Because driving a bus does something for society. 0.97

01:36:41.000 But writing about Brad Pitt's junk does not. 0.77

01:36:44.000 And they make tons of cash. 1.00

01:36:45.000 All of these big New York media companies are garbage. 0.98

01:36:47.000 And it's an example of these people who are providing nothing, but they're extracting everything. 0.97

01:36:52.000 Yeah, writing about, I don't know, some model, you know, or the latest, I don't know, Britney Spears video.

01:36:58.000 Yeah, I went to BuzzFeed, Britney's face is at the top. 0.98

01:37:01.000 Yeah, Britney Spears, Britney Spears. 1.00

01:37:03.000 Okay, it's fine, you know, that's Entertainment Tonight, you know, the magazines you read at the checkout at the grocery store, but like, seriously.

01:37:12.000 Uh, to think that those organizations make the money that they do is just simply astounding.

01:37:16.000 And of course, as you remember, BuzzFeed, you know, a combination with all their listicles and talking about, you know, this person's junk or, you know, this person's hairdo, they're the ones that partnered with, you know, John Brennan and Clapper and Jake Tapper to release the Steele dossier.

01:37:31.000 Because they just want to extract.

01:37:34.000 They're stealing the fine china from the ship after the iceberg was hit, they know it.

01:37:38.000 You know, I tell this story often.

01:37:41.000 When I worked for American Eagle Airlines doing, like actually loading planes, eventually I was an acting crew chief, so sometimes I'd be in charge of the room, but sometimes I'd be working, you know, loading the planes.

01:37:50.000 getting paid you know like $11 an hour and the first time I walked into vice and saw what little

01:37:56.000 these people did and how much they got I was like how is it you're getting three or four times

01:38:00.000 what actual laborers are getting paid and you are doing nothing but anyway we gotta go super chats

01:38:07.000 If you haven't already, smash that like button, get your Super Chats in now, and then go to TimCast.com, become a member, because we're gonna have uncensored members-only content coming up around 11 or so p.m.

01:38:17.000 We have a huge library.

01:38:19.000 You can check out all of our past members-only videos with people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and, you know, Alex Jones and people like that.

01:38:26.000 Well, let's see what you got.

01:38:27.000 Let's see what we got.

01:38:29.000 Charlie Wilson says, in the morning, Lydia, Ian, Curtis, etc.

01:38:32.000 How would y'all allow that Curtis to wear that hat?

01:38:35.000 Go Canes! 1.00

01:38:37.000 Oh, the Hurricanes, the bunch of jerks, as the team is called. 1.00

01:38:42.000 They called themselves. 1.00

01:38:43.000 And they knocked the Capitals out the year after they won the Stanley Cup in seven games.

01:38:47.000 You're speaking of hockey.

01:38:49.000 Hockey, yes.

01:38:50.000 Okay, sorry.

01:38:50.000 It cuts deep.

01:38:52.000 Well done, though.

01:38:53.000 It cuts deep.

01:38:53.000 We have this super chat here.

01:38:54.000 I can't read your name because YouTube blocks off the first super chat, but he says, I heard that most people with less than 90 IQ can't understand conditional hypotheticals.

01:39:03.000 If that's true, it explains so much.

01:39:04.000 That makes sense.

01:39:05.000 It's also, I think the military said someone with an, I could be wrong with this, I think someone super chatted us about this before, someone with an IQ under 80 cannot be enlisted because there's not a single job they can do.

01:39:14.000 Correct.

01:39:15.000 Yeah, I think if your IQ is too high, you're not really suited for the military either because you're willing to question authority.

01:39:21.000 You're almost compelled to question authority.

01:39:23.000 I don't, I don't, I disagree with that.

01:39:25.000 I thought I'd heard that in the past.

01:39:26.000 A high IQ is not indicative of pro or anti authority.

01:39:30.000 In fact, someone with a high IQ could be an authoritarian despot who takes over and would be someone who's got the skills and the mental abilities could just be put in a high ranking position.

01:39:39.000 But they don't want a despot to take over the military either.

01:39:41.000 They don't want, like, a mastermind or... Someone who's that smart would be able to manipulate and control that system and not have to worry about it, you know what I mean?

01:39:48.000 Like, someone who's that smart would run circles around the stupid people who are running the show and then take it over. 1.00

01:39:53.000 Yeah, it'd be dangerous. 1.00

01:39:54.000 That's why I think they don't want him, but I could be wrong about that.

01:39:56.000 But I don't think honesty has anything to do with intelligence. 1.00

01:39:59.000 Stupid people can lie, stupid people can tell the truth, smart people can lie, smart people can tell the truth. 1.00

01:40:02.000 Morals. 1.00

01:40:05.000 Dan says YouTube is misrepresenting the show stating only one viewer.

01:40:09.000 Yeah, that's been happening for like the past week or so and it's been happening to other shows as well.

01:40:12.000 I think I was watching Crowder and it said one viewer.

01:40:14.000 Thank you for being our one viewer tonight.

01:40:16.000 I saw on YouTube it was like Steven Crowder live one viewer and I was like, well that's broken.

01:40:20.000 Yep, that's broken.

01:40:21.000 YouTube, Twitter, that's all.

01:40:25.000 Baxter says, so does Apple hand over people's text messages to Congress now willy-nilly and this is something new?

01:40:32.000 I thought iMessage texts were end-to-end encrypted and not even Apple could see them.

01:40:36.000 How does everyone have everyone's text now?

01:40:39.000 Is Alex using Samsung or?

01:40:41.000 I don't know.

01:40:42.000 That's a good question.

01:40:43.000 Maybe Apple did hand them over.

01:40:45.000 No idea, yeah.

01:40:46.000 Maybe that's it.

01:40:47.000 And encryption, but if you can't confirm the code, they can tell you it's encrypted.

01:40:51.000 Might not be encrypted.

01:40:52.000 That's the thing about Signal, too, because, you know, I use Signal.

01:40:56.000 It's supposed to be an encryption, and I think it's Moxie made that, right? 1.00

01:41:00.000 Moxie Marlinspike is the guy who made Signal. 0.94

01:41:01.000 I don't know.

01:41:01.000 I believe so, yeah.

01:41:02.000 And I've talked to him before.

01:41:04.000 He seems straightforward and honest, but for all we know, Federal agents showed up to their office with a national security letter and said, you give us a backdoor, you get locked up and disappeared.

01:41:14.000 And they said, well, I'd rather not be disappeared, so here's your backdoor.

01:41:17.000 I have looked at the list of what they can see, like the FBI can go through and pull and signals, one of the best.

01:41:22.000 One of the best?

01:41:22.000 Yeah.

01:41:23.000 But you don't know if they were ever served a national security letter.

01:41:26.000 That's the challenge.

01:41:26.000 So Ian's right, unless they show you the code, there you go.

01:41:30.000 We've come a long way from, if anyone recalls what happened with the San Bernardino Islamic attack in California, that was a huge story about how You know the feds were trying to crack the iPhone of either the the attacker or his wife and Apple wasn't turning it over.

01:41:50.000 And that was I think 2014 2015.

01:41:51.000 All right.

01:41:52.000 So they had something to turn over and they were refusing it.

01:41:56.000 Yeah.

01:41:57.000 Yeah.

01:41:57.000 They asked Apple and Apple was basically like you figure it out.

01:42:01.000 We're not going to.

01:42:02.000 All right, let's read another one.

01:42:03.000 We got Rob Maddy says, will you guys consider doing an audiobook of Tales from the Inverted World?

01:42:07.000 Also, can Alex Jones narrate it?

01:42:09.000 That would actually be really awesome considering it's like mysteries and stuff.

01:42:12.000 But in fact, the Tales from the Inverted World book, you can get it.

01:42:15.000 I think it's not identical, but for the most part, it's the same as a podcast.

01:42:19.000 So if you check out the Tales from the Inverted World podcast on iTunes and Spotify, you can listen to the sound effects and the creepy music and Shane, the author, is telling these stories.

01:42:28.000 It's fun, man.

01:42:29.000 I'm really excited for the new part two, or the next season, I should say, which is Ghosts of the Civil War.

01:42:37.000 Going down to the South, trying to find the lost Confederate gold.

01:42:40.000 Somebody died during the investigation.

01:42:44.000 There's UFOs down there.

01:42:47.000 No joke.

01:42:49.000 But it's near experimental military research bases, so it's not like it's aliens or anything.

01:42:53.000 I heard that they had flying machines during the Civil War, like hot air balloon type stuff.

01:42:58.000 Oh yeah, it was in Udvar-Hazy where one of the space shuttles are Smithsonian Air and Space Museum annex and they have an exhibit where they talk about hot air balloons and how it would be used as reconnaissance during the Civil War.

01:43:15.000 Interesting.

01:43:16.000 Roberto says, have you seen Howard Stern coming out and saying Joe Rogan shouldn't be cancelled?

01:43:20.000 It came up on my feed after reading about Neil Young failing.

01:43:24.000 Yeah, and I think it's out of self-preservation.

01:43:26.000 I think Howard Stern is like, man, I don't want to get cancelled on the things I said, you know what I mean?

01:43:31.000 Yeah, he's had a few bad news cycles as of late lashing out about unvaccinated people, so he's trying to save face here, pretty clearly.

01:43:40.000 Damien says, saying the sky is blue is like saying water is water is wet, and a fish never drink water when thirsty.

01:43:47.000 Okay.

01:43:49.000 All right.

01:43:51.000 RT says, good morning, y'all.

01:43:53.000 I'm commenting about Tim saying electricians don't have time to watch the show yesterday.

01:43:57.000 I'm an electrician in Brooklyn and listen every morning while I work.

01:44:00.000 Much love from New York, and please give my music a listen.

01:44:03.000 At RTbaby on IG.

01:44:06.000 I will clarify that I may have misspoken, but I don't think that's what I was saying.

01:44:11.000 I said your average electrician doesn't have time to do all the news, to read all the articles that we read.

01:44:17.000 So we can't expect your average tradesman or office worker to know why Fauci is a liar and how he's lying.

01:44:25.000 But what we do is we actually, I mean you, Curtis, you watch the news all day every day and then pull out and call out the lies and the manipulations.

01:44:33.000 We do something similar.

01:44:34.000 We do, outside of just media, you know, we're fact-checking and doing standard journalism across the board.

01:44:40.000 That's our job.

01:44:41.000 Right.

01:44:41.000 Somebody who's an electrician has a job to be an electrician, so they come to us for that news and that distillation.

01:44:46.000 We mean this as a compliment that, yes, a 20,000-word story in The New Yorker about, I don't know, Fauci, is not something that we believe really any person should be subjecting themselves to, that there's an incalculable number of things that you can do better with your time than that.

01:45:06.000 So, let us know.

01:45:07.000 Yeah, I don't envy your job, man.

01:45:09.000 You're like an admin, looking at all the traumatic content coming through your feed.

01:45:14.000 Yeah, exactly, exactly.

01:45:16.000 Alright, Ron Junior says, please do the next super chat in Alex Jones voice.

01:45:23.000 I like that.

01:45:24.000 Alright, I'll try.

01:45:27.000 What do we have here?

01:45:30.000 Wraith Customs Firearm says, Neil Young doesn't even do most of his music.

01:45:35.000 Couldn't remove it even if he really wanted to.

01:45:37.000 That's fair.

01:45:38.000 I like that.

01:45:41.000 No lies detected.

01:45:45.000 All right.

01:45:46.000 Twisted Logic Gaming says, why not both?

01:45:48.000 Start a Minecraft channel, Tim.

01:45:50.000 One hour a week, relax and play a game.

01:45:52.000 Add your values into the commentary.

01:45:53.000 Oh, I couldn't do it, man.

01:45:55.000 I do too much work already.

01:45:58.000 Morning show and night show is just work, work, work.

01:46:00.000 Plus, people don't understand, man.

01:46:03.000 There's so much administrative stuff that goes on behind the scenes.

01:46:06.000 It was funny when I was talking to Joe about this, and I was like, you know, I record, I think, three and a half hours of content per day, maybe four some days.

01:46:14.000 And he was like, yeah, but that's still only, like, what, three or four hours of work per day.

01:46:17.000 And I was like, that's just recording it.

01:46:20.000 Well, I think for Joe, he sees news and stuff throughout the day and he reads the news, and then he sits down in a room and he talks to someone and then he goes back to his business, whereas for me it's like I wake up, I'm reading, at night I'm reading, I sit at the computer all day just reading, fact-checking, pulling sources, you know, doing my best, and then I record after I've read enough to where I feel comfortable and understand something, you know what I mean?

01:46:42.000 I think that's our- that's one of the biggest misconceptions I get from people, from readers, or just people that are curious about newsbusters.

01:46:48.000 Like, it somehow sometimes gets the assumption that we're able to pound out these studies about thousands of minutes in just like, you know, four hours or something, three hours, and you're like, No, you can't do that.

01:47:01.000 If you're going to do it right and you're going to actually do it accurately, because we're saying the media aren't doing things accurately, some of these things sometimes take a while for us to get going, you know?

01:47:11.000 Or even just, if you want to do a monologue form for a podcast, you've got to prepare things that you want to talk about.

01:47:18.000 Yeah.

01:47:19.000 I looked up Neil Young and I can confirm it.

01:47:20.000 He sold half the rights of his catalog to a company called, uh, for $150 million.

01:47:26.000 So he doesn't even own it.

01:47:27.000 He can't even get it filled up.

01:47:28.000 Yeah, what's up with that?

01:47:29.000 He owns half of his catalog?

01:47:30.000 I don't know what kind of pull he thinks he has anymore.

01:47:33.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:47:34.000 says, smash da muv uckin' Luke button.

01:47:38.000 The Luke button?

01:47:39.000 There's a no Luke button.

01:47:39.000 There is no Luke button.

01:47:41.000 Luke abandoned us.

01:47:42.000 Luke this video.

01:47:43.000 Luke this video?

01:47:45.000 Yeah, Luke is in a better place.

01:47:46.000 Smash that Luke button.

01:47:47.000 Smash the like button.

01:47:50.000 John Hoyle says, in today's climate it was very brave of you to stand up for free speech and criticize Getters and Miller's error.

01:48:00.000 I don't, I don't, you know what man?

01:48:04.000 When the left comes out with these smear pieces about us and what we do, they're lying.

01:48:08.000 It is annoying when they lie and they're like, you know, these leftists who don't actually watch the show get all their only information about me comes from the Young Turks who pull things out of context or like these other fake channels that try to manipulate and propagandize by pulling things out of context.

01:48:20.000 But we've criticized Trump quite a bit, literally just criticized Tucker Carlson, you know, half an hour ago or whatever.

01:48:27.000 I don't care, man.

01:48:29.000 I'm not here to play games and just lie to placate, you know what I mean? 1.00

01:48:33.000 If Tucker Carlson does a stupid segment about sexy M&Ms, I'm gonna be like, that was a really dumb segment. 1.00

01:48:37.000 Even Freedom Tunes made fun of it. 1.00

01:48:40.000 Yeah, it's like if you're a principled person, you can criticize people who are mostly on your side.

01:48:46.000 That's one of the reasons why I think the right has been so appealing to regular people, is that they're willing to be like, we recognize the fault in that, and let's move forward and try and live better lives, you know what I mean?

01:48:57.000 Where the left is just, cancel and censor and burn it all to the ground.

01:48:59.000 We're gonna praise you, and that's always been one of my things, sometimes when we get mainstream journalists that'll criticize us, that, you know, you praised us, you know, two weeks ago, why are you attacking us now?

01:49:09.000 It's because It's because we can.

01:49:10.000 We're going to criticize you when we want to.

01:49:13.000 We're going to say you did something right when we want to.

01:49:16.000 Deal with it.

01:49:17.000 I mean, it should be astounding, but it's not that their brains are that thick.

01:49:23.000 I was thinking that you can't be principled and be partisan.

01:49:27.000 I don't know if the two things can exist together.

01:49:30.000 Partisan means you adhere to an ideology without principle. 0.93

01:49:33.000 If you're overtly—I mean, there's shades of gray, right?

01:49:35.000 But if you're overtly partisan, your goal is just to support party line, then yeah.

01:49:42.000 Donald Trump can come out and be like, it should be illegal to burn the American flag. And then

01:49:46.000 Candace Owens says the same thing.

01:49:49.000 And I'm like, I think that's wrong. I think if you own the property and it's in a safe

01:49:54.000 environment, you can burn whatever it is you want. And I think as, as, uh, you know,

01:49:57.000 I used to be a big fan of Penn Jillette. Now he's kind of lost it. He was with Newsom.

01:50:01.000 Yeah. But he had, they had this really great bit Penn and Teller where they take, um, like it's a

01:50:07.000 declaration of independence, I think, or the constitution, and they stick the American flag

01:50:10.000 in it and then put fire and then the fire comes out and they open it and the flag's gone. And

01:50:14.000 he says that burning the American flag is the ultimate symbol of the freedom that it represents.

01:50:19.000 And I'm like, that is correct, so long as it's your flag. 0.76

01:50:21.000 Like when Antifa steals a flag from somebody and burns it, you know, that's theft and vandalism of property.

01:50:26.000 But I think if it's yours and you own it.

01:50:28.000 So when I see Trump say it should be illegal to do and other people say that, I'm just like, I don't agree with that. 1.00

01:50:32.000 I think it's stupid. 0.99

01:50:32.000 I think it's against free speech. 0.99

01:50:34.000 And anybody who claims to be for free speech, but thinks you don't have a right to, you know, desecrate your own property to make a statement is wrong.

01:50:40.000 And I have no problem saying Trump is wrong and Candace Owens is wrong on that.

01:50:43.000 But guess what?

01:50:44.000 I said Candace Owens was wrong about that. 0.99

01:50:45.000 I said it was dumb. 0.91

01:50:46.000 She's still willing to come on the show and have a discussion. 0.93

01:50:48.000 That's why I—and Ben Shapiro's much the same way.

01:50:51.000 When they fling mud at him, he rolls with the punches and he jokes about it.

01:50:55.000 I think that's appealing to regular people.

01:50:56.000 And that's why Peter Doocy—the same with the Peter Doocy thing with Joe Biden.

01:51:00.000 You know, he's rolling with the punches on this and he's joking about it.

01:51:04.000 The president can call me whatever he wants as long as he gets talking.

01:51:07.000 Nobody needs to apologize to me.

01:51:09.000 And people just find that so refreshing in this day and age.

01:51:13.000 Yeah.

01:51:14.000 Johnny, California says finally bought a membership hearing you guys curse so casually is really weird It's like the first time a new girlfriend lets you hear her fart.

01:51:22.000 Yep, that is true. Yeah, Ian. He's the worst right people think he's this mild-mannered hippie guy

01:51:28.000 But as soon as we go in the members only segment he puts his suit on he's talking with you know

01:51:32.000 He lets the accent come shave Completely fresh-shaven short hair too. Yeah this I can't

01:51:38.000 wait for You're missing out if you're not a member it's gonna be

01:51:43.000 good All right, Harry toes monkey trucker disease

01:51:48.000 Copyright it.

01:51:48.000 You got it.

01:51:49.000 We're gonna own that.

01:51:50.000 We're gonna make shirts.

01:51:51.000 Monkey, monkey trucker disease.

01:51:54.000 It's better than the monkey variant.

01:51:55.000 Yeah.

01:51:56.000 I like that monkey variant.

01:51:58.000 What is this?

01:51:58.000 September says the monkeys were put down.

01:52:00.000 The truck driver said they were cats.

01:52:01.000 That's what the lady claimed. 0.88

01:52:02.000 She was told they were cats.

01:52:03.000 So weird.

01:52:04.000 Still regardless, I would not, you do not approach.

01:52:07.000 Were they, were they smuggling the monkeys?

01:52:10.000 Man, that'd be so crazy.

01:52:13.000 The Real Bambunga says, the media fear mongers when there isn't anything to fear.

01:52:17.000 I'm kind of terrified this monkey story isn't getting a lot of attention.

01:52:20.000 Might be serious.

01:52:21.000 Yeah.

01:52:22.000 Yo, what if it like, yeah, what if it's, you know, they want to keep it under wraps because it really is a major breach?

01:52:28.000 Maybe they are smuggling the monkeys and that's why they said cats and aren't covering it.

01:52:32.000 Well, I mean, it's in the news.

01:52:34.000 Everybody talks about what happened.

01:52:35.000 Now this lady's saying she's sick. 1.00

01:52:37.000 It's also like the perfect story for, you know, if it turns out there's a new variant, everybody starts getting sick.

01:52:42.000 And they're like, well, you all saw the monkey story, man.

01:52:45.000 So right now, you know, it's funny.

01:52:46.000 Imagine this.

01:52:47.000 Hypothetical.

01:52:49.000 The Wuhan lab leak.

01:52:51.000 Well, the virus emerges around Wuhan, there's a story about someone getting bit and peed on by a bat, and then you've got Anthony Fauci funding research, and it's easily traced back.

01:52:59.000 And that's the story, right?

01:53:01.000 So now they're like, alright, do over everybody, do over, we're gonna do a do.

01:53:05.000 Let's make sure that whatever the new variant is, there's a clear origin story. 0.76

01:53:10.000 So it's a bunch of monkeys!

01:53:12.000 And a lady got sick, and that's where it came from.

01:53:14.000 We're in this age of reboots where everybody's rebooting everything, trying to do sequels to everything.

01:53:19.000 You know, movies, books, everything else.

01:53:22.000 I mean, come on!

01:53:23.000 We're just gonna completely start over from scratch.

01:53:25.000 We're gonna change all the storylines.

01:53:27.000 We're not gonna be in a cave.

01:53:28.000 We're gonna be on a highway.

01:53:29.000 I mean, yeah, we're rebooting COVID.

01:53:33.000 I mean, yeah.

01:53:33.000 And I was going to say, and we're supposed to smash NASA, supposed to smash, you know, a spacecraft into an asteroid later this year.

01:53:40.000 And it's not going to work.

01:53:41.000 It's not going to work.

01:53:42.000 And it's probably going to end up coming here.

01:53:44.000 At the end of the last ice age, the comet that hit North America apparently shattered before it hit.

01:53:50.000 So it, all these fragments hit and that's way worse than one.

01:53:54.000 And then 800 years later, the rest of the comet fragments hit again.

01:53:57.000 So like, do not blow asteroids up.

01:53:59.000 You know what one of my favorite conspiracy theories is?

01:54:02.000 It's not really a conspiracy. 1.00

01:54:03.000 This is the stupidest thing. 0.99

01:54:03.000 I hate how everything's a conspiracy theory when it's not even a conspiracy theory, right? 0.99

01:54:07.000 The idea of a conspiracy theory is that, like, an evil Kabbalah group is committing crimes. 0.53

01:54:12.000 But now it's like Flat Earth is called a conspiracy theory, and I'm like, I mean, I guess if you think the government's covering it up, but that's just like a ridiculous theory itself.

01:54:21.000 But I love this.

01:54:22.000 You can read about it.

01:54:22.000 There's people who believe that the asteroid belt is actually a planet that was blown up, like in a galactic war or something.

01:54:29.000 I'm not surprised.

01:54:30.000 Yeah, and those are the fragments.

01:54:31.000 I've heard the moon is left over from a commentary from an impact from planet Theia hit the earth and came out the other side and then cooled down and became the moon and that Mars, if you look at that giant 1800-mile scar across the planet, it looks like something hit Mars and skidded across the surface and ripped it open.

01:54:49.000 And then you see all that iron oxide dust, probably from the magma that just covered the surface.

01:54:53.000 Wouldn't it be cool if the actual history of the planet was that aliens came to colonize a perfect solar system with a gas giant, and then a war broke out in space, and they blew up one of the planets, which became the asteroid belt, and we're just like the leftover servants?

01:55:06.000 You know, we were like the help of like, you know, the humans were the alien species that came to Earth.

01:55:12.000 And after the war broke out, there was just like, you know, middle class people who are on the planet doing work and the ships all leave and they're like, all right, what do we do now?

01:55:22.000 Were they made to watch the planet get blown up?

01:55:24.000 No, no, I'm saying like, alien colonists were like, the solar system's pretty good, and so they send middle class laborers down to the planet and start doing basic work like tilling the fields. 0.94

01:55:33.000 They're not highly educated, they're not elites, they're not scientists, they're just regular people who know how to do plumbing and electricity and stuff.

01:55:39.000 And then conflict breaks out between the elites in the sky, and then they blow up a planet and leave, and the people on Earth are just sitting there like, now what do we do?

01:55:48.000 And there's only a small group and then here we are, you know, thousands of years later, the civilization, completely oblivious to what the past was.

01:55:54.000 Do you think we were seeded, the Earth was seeded with life?

01:55:57.000 Like, hominid life?

01:55:59.000 Huh.

01:56:00.000 That's a weird thing to ask somebody.

01:56:02.000 Yeah.

01:56:03.000 Yeah.

01:56:04.000 That's why I'm kind of like, oh my gosh, that's a weird question.

01:56:06.000 I personally don't.

01:56:07.000 It's just interesting.

01:56:08.000 Some people think that like ancient humans came from somewhere else and landed here and kind of started this.

01:56:13.000 Let's read more about monkey trucks.

01:56:15.000 Yeah.

01:56:16.000 Carl Schneider says they only found 98 of the 100 monkeys lock your windows.

01:56:20.000 I thought they said they got them all.

01:56:22.000 They killed one of them.

01:56:23.000 That's the implication. 0.93

01:56:24.000 Right.

01:56:25.000 Yeah.

01:56:26.000 Someone said, uh, Brian Knowles says, the monkey truck issued 100 monkeys, but crates with three in each.

01:56:31.000 That's 99 monkeys, with multiples of three.

01:56:34.000 But somehow there was a fourth monkey on the loose, plus Fauci pushing for more gain of function.

01:56:38.000 The hundredth monkey was the driver.

01:56:40.000 It was actually a monkey illegal immigration truck.

01:56:43.000 And they were using the crates as like a disguise to like, you know, and the monkey was driving and he's like, Oh, I see.

01:56:49.000 They were, they were given notices to appear.

01:56:53.000 Checking at their ICE facility.

01:56:54.000 Yes.

01:56:56.000 I love this one from Raymond G. Stanley.

01:56:58.000 He says, why no tranquilizers?

01:56:59.000 That's effed.

01:57:00.000 F. Biden.

01:57:01.000 Like, like Biden did it.

01:57:02.000 I mean, it wasn't him, as such.

01:57:04.000 Just blame Biden for everything.

01:57:07.000 Yeah.

01:57:07.000 Yes.

01:57:07.000 And the monkeys got out.

01:57:08.000 Zachary says, Michelle Fallon updated the situation on her Facebook page.

01:57:12.000 I just looked.

01:57:13.000 All right.

01:57:13.000 So is she still sick or is she all right?

01:57:14.000 Oh, I'm curious now.

01:57:15.000 All right.

01:57:17.000 McSquared says, Tim, the same media that won't say the wind had COVID

01:57:20.000 symptoms vehemently downplayed a lab leak as a source of COVID.

01:57:23.000 If someone can get COVID from a lab animal, it lends legitimacy to a lab

01:57:27.000 leak possibility.

01:57:28.000 It would be shocking if the monkeys, if they are transporting monkeys that had

01:57:34.000 That would shock me if that came out.

01:57:37.000 Like, I can imagine them sending them somewhere to experiment on them, but to transport them across the state would be another level of like, whoa.

01:57:43.000 I would not be surprised, bro, if you read about what Fauci was doing.

01:57:47.000 The unwise.

01:57:48.000 Breadbox says, have you guys reached out to Barry Weiss for IRL?

01:57:51.000 Her personal evolution of morals and logic coming from the left is refreshing.

01:57:55.000 Would be interesting to see the clash of ideas between all of you.

01:58:00.000 Well, look, you know, Barry's always welcome to come on this show.

01:58:02.000 She's a particularly prominent personality.

01:58:04.000 I don't know if she would have time, but we can reach out to her same as we do for everybody else, but I will say this.

01:58:09.000 Um, my view of Barry is that she's well aware of the culture war.

01:58:13.000 She knows exactly who Jordan Peterson is.

01:58:14.000 She knows who the intellectual dark web is.

01:58:16.000 She knows all of the ideas that individuals in that group have espoused.

01:58:20.000 So for her to come out on Bill Maher now shocked, I feel like is disingenuous.

01:58:26.000 Do you think she's virtue signaling for her friends? 0.99

01:58:29.000 No, I kind of feel like she waits until she feels like it's safe to speak out.

01:58:35.000 And that's why it took so long for her to speak out at the New York Times about what was going on.

01:58:39.000 Because when I worked for Fusion, I saw exactly what was happening.

01:58:44.000 Exactly what was going on with the shift in the narratives and especially with Vice.

01:58:49.000 It's hilarious how Vice was this edgy bro website and now it's a feminist company. 0.96

01:58:55.000 And I'm watching that happening, and I have no problem saying, this is dumb, I tried quitting Fusion. 0.90

01:58:59.000 They were like, no, you can't. 0.80

01:59:01.000 So for these people who are in media to be like, I didn't realize what had been happening!

01:59:04.000 I'm like, shh, you know exactly what was happening, come on.

01:59:07.000 You know, we're all sitting there in these same meetings. 0.98

01:59:09.000 I've had so many people at these companies be like, the editor-in-chief is a psychopath. 1.00

01:59:14.000 He's saying the stupidest things in the world. 1.00

01:59:15.000 And I'm like, speak up, I don't want to lose my job. 1.00

01:59:17.000 Okay?

01:59:18.000 So when you come out seven years later, and you're like, I'm shocked at what's happening!

01:59:22.000 No, you're not.

01:59:23.000 There are a bunch of people who worked in administrative stuff at Fusion, at ABC News, because I worked in the ABC News building.

01:59:30.000 I worked in the ABC News building right by Central Park, and I also worked in the Univision building in Miami, because I moved from New York to Miami, and I was in the first year in New York, second year was in Miami.

01:59:40.000 I thought it'd be better if I was closer to the core team.

01:59:43.000 But even the people at ABC News, who didn't work for Fusion, would be like, I'm watching this insane stuff happening.

01:59:50.000 You know, like the shift in narrative.

01:59:52.000 They know it's happening, but they don't want to speak up because, this is why I said, my view of urban liberals is that if you went to them and said, everything that you have, and everything good that's been given to you, you can keep.

02:00:06.000 And all you gotta do is sign this document ordering the execution of a child in a foreign country.

02:00:10.000 They'd be like, done and done.

02:00:12.000 They would sign on the dotted line.

02:00:14.000 They'd vote for Obama twice.

02:00:16.000 The first time he gets elected, he's like, I'm gonna go vote for a bunch of kids.

02:00:19.000 And then he did.

02:00:19.000 And then they're like, I'm gonna vote for that again, even though we're supposedly the anti-war voters.

02:00:23.000 All that protesting about George W. Bush.

02:00:25.000 So I'm sorry, you know.

02:00:28.000 For people who work for the New York Times, for people who work for these big media companies, my view is, they all know.

02:00:34.000 Any reasonable, moderate, traditional liberal type, I assure you has sat in that meeting and been like, you guys have lost your minds.

02:00:42.000 But far be it for me to say anything because I don't want to lose my job.

02:00:44.000 So the real question is not that they're discovering this and having a moral transition, but they're finally saying, is it safe for me to come out and criticize the cult now?

02:00:53.000 I've had no problem since the beginning to say these people are psychopaths.

02:00:56.000 Let me come out and tell you with the same emotion I felt three years ago when I first had this thought, and I'm going to try and replay it for you right now as if I'm having it genuinely for the first time.

02:01:06.000 That's why COVID is such a strong example of the hypocrisy and people finally coming to terms.

02:01:13.000 You see even mainstream outlets like the New York Times say that, oh yeah, this is really terrible.

02:01:18.000 This is awful what's going on here with our kids.

02:01:23.000 And it's so disingenuous.

02:01:24.000 And again, it goes back to what we were talking about earlier about honesty.

02:01:27.000 People are just thirsty for honesty and tired of the BS.

02:01:31.000 Alright, we'll just get one more right here.

02:01:33.000 House Money says, Neil Young likely deleted his tweet because he thought to himself, oh ish, I forgot I sold 50% of my catalog a couple years ago.

02:01:40.000 I guess I can't do that.

02:01:43.000 I just love the idea of someone at Spotify being like, Sir, we're gonna lose Neil Young's music unless we ban Joe Rogan.

02:01:50.000 What do we do?

02:01:52.000 We have to ban Joe Rogan.

02:01:53.000 Yeah, right.

02:01:54.000 Yeah, right.

02:01:55.000 Joe would be like, OK, if you terminate the contract, you owe me $100 million and then I'll put my stuff back up on YouTube.

02:02:01.000 So that ain't going to happen.

02:02:03.000 They got an exclusive on it.

02:02:04.000 But my bigger fear is what happens after Joe stops.

02:02:07.000 You know, is Joe going to be 70 doing this show?

02:02:10.000 You know, he's going to be on Spotify or I mean, his Spotify deal probably won't exist.

02:02:15.000 Spotify might not even exist.

02:02:16.000 But is he going to be 70 years old?

02:02:18.000 How old is Joe?

02:02:19.000 Is he like 56 or something?

02:02:20.000 Yeah, I think so.

02:02:20.000 54, 56.

02:02:21.000 14 more years.

02:02:23.000 He's going to be like, I'm Joe and this is the show!

02:02:26.000 He'll be young.

02:02:26.000 He's on the life extension.

02:02:27.000 He's got like, he's first in line for the Harvard Medicine.

02:02:30.000 Getting that NAD plus stuff.

02:02:32.000 Don't sell him short.

02:02:34.000 He's going to be 80 and he's going to be the exact same age as them.

02:02:37.000 He does look great too.

02:02:38.000 That's the point, yeah.

02:02:39.000 In one of the articles I was reading today, they showed a clip from News Radio.

02:02:44.000 Have you guys ever seen that show?

02:02:44.000 Yeah, Andy Dick was on it.

02:02:46.000 Joe Hartman.

02:02:47.000 Joe Rogan.

02:02:47.000 I think it was the first show that Joe was on.

02:02:49.000 He was really young.

02:02:50.000 But it was this really hilarious scene where Phil Hartman's character, Bill, reads the news.

02:02:56.000 It's a news radio.

02:02:56.000 So he's like, in today's news, Congress passes a bill.

02:02:59.000 He needs someone to fill in.

02:03:01.000 So he asks Joe.

02:03:02.000 And in the show, Joe is an electrician or whatever, and a conspiracy theorist.

02:03:06.000 And it turns out he's like... Who's the boss guy?

02:03:13.000 Oh yeah, Dave Foley.

02:03:14.000 Dave Foley, that's right.

02:03:16.000 So Foley is like, Bill, what are you doing with Joe?

02:03:19.000 You can't just take whoever you want and put them on the radio.

02:03:22.000 And the reason Phil Hartman's character did it was because he wanted to look good.

02:03:24.000 He thought Joe would be really bad.

02:03:27.000 And so he's like, I'm going to go grab a coffee.

02:03:29.000 And he gets out.

02:03:30.000 And then Dave Foley says to Joe Rogan's character, you can't do this.

02:03:33.000 You got to go.

02:03:34.000 And then he's like, all right, well, you got 15 seconds to get someone in here to read the news.

02:03:38.000 And then Dave's like, all right, do it because there was no one else.

02:03:42.000 And then it's an amazing bit where he starts reading the news really, really well.

02:03:46.000 And everyone's like, wow, he's actually really good at reading.

02:03:49.000 And then Phil Hartman's character comes in, and then he asks him a question.

02:03:54.000 He was like, why is the weather gonna be cold, Joe?

02:03:57.000 To try and put him on the spot.

02:03:58.000 And then Joe goes, well, if it's like any other cold front, it's probably due to a low pressure system that's coming in from the east.

02:04:05.000 And then he's like, so then he grabs the paper from Joe and crumples it up.

02:04:09.000 And then he's like, so what was happening then?

02:04:12.000 And Joe goes, I don't have my report in front of me, but if memory serves, in Congress today, a bill was passed.

02:04:18.000 And it's just really, really good.

02:04:20.000 It was funny they included it because it's a bit about Joe being good at talking, but that was his character in the show.

02:04:25.000 Anyway, guys, we're going to go to the members-only segment.

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02:05:01.000 Mark my words.

02:05:02.000 I like it.

02:05:03.000 Ambition.

02:05:04.000 Bigger.

02:05:04.000 Bigger meaning more fiscally larger or more people larger?

02:05:09.000 I don't know how many employees Disney has.

02:05:12.000 I don't know.

02:05:12.000 We're going to have a hundred thousand employees.

02:05:14.000 It's going to be an exponential growth.

02:05:15.000 We're going to take over the media ecosystem.

02:05:17.000 We are going to shatter the corrupt mainstream news narrative and we are going to bring back real journalism and real reporting.

02:05:23.000 In fact, we've already done it.

02:05:25.000 And with your support, we will continue to do it.

02:05:27.000 And then we're just going to have this world that's centered around people are going to be like, yo, I like this Tim Cass News website.

02:05:32.000 They never tell me what to think.

02:05:33.000 They just tell me what happened.

02:05:35.000 That's all that really needs to happen, right?

02:05:37.000 And then we do this talk show.

02:05:38.000 We have our opinion stuff, but our news is going to be, yo, this is what happened.

02:05:42.000 We're not going to misrepresent it.

02:05:44.000 I'll tell you, I'll give you a really good example.

02:05:45.000 The voter rights bill from Democrats.

02:05:48.000 You could just as easily call it a voter suppression bill, but the reality is it's a voter overhaul.

02:05:54.000 But all the media, let's say voter rights, voter rights because they are lying, duplicitous, disingenuous.

02:06:00.000 You get the point.

02:06:02.000 You want to shout anything out, Curtis?

02:06:03.000 Newsbusters.org!

02:06:04.000 Newsbusters.org.

02:06:07.000 Follow me on Twitter at Curtis Hauk, all one word, my name, because that's where I tweet all of the horribleness from Joy Reid and Nicole Wallace and Jake Tapper and all the rest, so you don't have to.

02:06:20.000 And I watch Jen Psaki, too.

02:06:23.000 And I actually try to figure out what Biden's saying and bring it together.

02:06:27.000 I'll just say Jen Psaki's really good at her job. 1.00

02:06:29.000 She is, yeah.

02:06:29.000 Yeah.

02:06:29.000 Like to be like making cohesive sentences out of what Joe Biden has stated.

02:06:34.000 Amazing. 0.72

02:06:34.000 It's, it's, you know, she's a liar, but you know, she's getting it done. 0.72

02:06:37.000 Exactly. 0.99

02:06:38.000 You can, you can say that, yeah, she's liar and she's pretty terrible, but like, 1.00

02:06:41.000 you can say like that someone is able to string together sentences out of Joe 0.99

02:06:45.000 Biden's drivel.

02:06:46.000 That's it.

02:06:48.000 There you go.

02:06:48.000 I watched Saki say, Hey, if you had a hard weekend, you know, just drink some

02:06:52.000 alcohol and then come back and fight. 0.95

02:06:54.000 I'm like, what the hell? 0.97

02:06:55.000 She's telling people to drink and fight? 0.99

02:06:57.000 Go to a kickboxing class and drink a margarita.

02:07:00.000 Maybe rethink your advice there.

02:07:02.000 Hey, I'm Ian Crossland.

02:07:05.000 Curtis, great to see you, man.

02:07:06.000 Thanks for looking into the darkness.

02:07:08.000 I didn't have to.

02:07:10.000 Check me out at iancrossland.net and I will see you guys soon.

02:07:13.000 And I was going to say, I do appreciate Tim's ambition for the company.

02:07:16.000 We have a lot of fun over here.

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02:07:22.000 So you guys should go over to Timcast or sorry, Castcastle and watch that episode from today.

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