Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Anheuser Busch Has EMERGENCY MEETING As Bud Light Boycott GETTING WORSE w-Lucas Botkin

00:00:00.000 Oh boy, Anheuser-Busch had an emergency meeting with distributors promising them, don't worry,

00:00:19.000 Any other marketing we do, it's gonna get checked.

00:00:22.000 Yeah, everybody's pissed off.

00:00:24.000 In one supermarket chain, they're saying they saw Bud Light sales go down 50%.

00:00:30.000 And I kind of feel like...

00:00:32.000 In places where it matters, when they actively choose their orders, meaning smaller businesses and regional stores, I bet they're seeing a much bigger impact from the boycott as opposed to, like, a big venue chain or an arena just put in an order for, like, you know, 5,000 cases or whatever without thinking about it.

00:00:49.000 Sales dropping, in my opinion, implies individuals at the smaller business-level bars and stores are choosing to avoid it.

00:00:56.000 Big corporations aren't paying attention.

00:00:58.000 That makes sense.

00:00:59.000 Now that it's having a huge impact on the regional stores, This emergency meeting means a whole lot.

00:01:04.000 Ladies and gentlemen, we can win this culture war, so we'll talk about that.

00:01:06.000 Plus, we got some other crazy stories.

00:01:08.000 In Tennessee, where, thanks to the work of Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire, they actually got child sex change surgeries banned.

00:01:16.000 The DOJ is now intervening and seeking to make sure, as they say under the 14th Amendment, it cannot be banned.

00:01:23.000 And interestingly, in Florida, After they passed a bill that would ban children attending lewd adult performances, a local pride parade in Florida was shut down.

00:01:34.000 And now you've got a bunch of Democrats being like, oh no, oh look, they were forced to shut down their pride event.

00:01:39.000 And it's kind of like the context around that is they chose to shut it down because they're no longer allowed to show adult lewd behavior to children.

00:01:50.000 And that's what's happening.

00:01:52.000 Yeah, we're going to talk all about that.

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00:03:23.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Lucas of T-Rex Arms.

00:03:28.000 Thanks for having me.

00:03:29.000 Yeah, who are you?

00:03:29.000 What do you do?

00:03:30.000 So 10 years ago, I started a defense manufacturing company that over the years has grown to be an eight figure company.

00:03:36.000 We've got 80 employees.

00:03:38.000 And over that time, I also became a YouTuber.

00:03:40.000 And I hate to say it a social media influencer, unfortunately, and I also shoot guns an unhealthy amount.

00:03:47.000 Literally unhealthy.

00:03:48.000 An unhealthy amount.

00:03:49.000 It's just like the lead is getting all over you and is that what's up?

00:03:52.000 Lead, my hips are jacked up.

00:03:53.000 I can't deadlift without one foot being in front of the other.

00:03:56.000 Oh, wow.

00:03:57.000 Wrist problems.

00:03:58.000 So yeah, a lot of shooting.

00:03:58.000 Can you switch arms and start working on the left?

00:04:01.000 Unfortunately, not really.

00:04:03.000 So it's just something I'll deal with for the rest of my life.

00:04:05.000 And that's okay.

00:04:06.000 That's fine.

00:04:06.000 That's worth it.

00:04:07.000 Well, thanks for hanging out, man.

00:04:08.000 We got Phil Labonte hanging out.

00:04:09.000 Hello, everyone.

00:04:10.000 Phil Labonte, lead singer of All That Remains, anti-communist and counter-revolutionary.

00:04:16.000 Ian's not here.

00:04:17.000 He joined a different show.

00:04:18.000 He's now on Alex Stein's show.

00:04:21.000 Yeah, Ian's a defector and not loyal at all, so I'm here.

00:04:25.000 I'm Hannah Claire Brimlow.

00:04:26.000 I'm a writer for TimCast.com.

00:04:27.000 I'm so glad to be sitting here, unlike some people who are in Texas.

00:04:31.000 Just kidding.

00:04:33.000 And I am here right now.

00:04:36.000 Serge.com, what's up?

00:04:37.000 All right, let's jump into this first story from the Daily Mail.

00:04:40.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Anheuser-Busch executives hold closed-door meeting with beer distributors and told them any marketing will be heavily screened before it goes public.

00:04:50.000 Bosses held the closed-door meeting in D.C.

00:04:52.000 this week where they laid out plans going forward.

00:04:55.000 They say that Benj... Benj Steinman, editor of Beer Marketers Insight, said the spending on the brand fell off a cliff last year, but Anheuser-Busch execs are promising to rectify the situation.

00:05:06.000 Bud Light sales have fallen dramatically since the Dillon Mulvaney boycott, which I think most of you know.

00:05:11.000 Now, they're reporting this, Bud Light's poorest plummet.

00:05:14.000 Before partnering with Mulvaney, in April 1st, it dropped by 6% to the 15th.

00:05:19.000 But in one supermarket chain, Bud Light sales plunged 50% at Stu Leonard's.

00:05:24.000 So, the tri-state area, this is Westchester County, Long Island, Connecticut, New Jersey.

00:05:28.000 The reason why this story is so significant, ladies and gentlemen.

00:05:32.000 is because this is a Democrat-Urban-Liberal stronghold seeing one of the biggest declines.

00:05:38.000 So when we hear Kid Rock is, you know, taking a gun and firing upon a bunch of Bud Lights,

00:05:43.000 we're like, oh, well, yeah, he's Kid Rock, you know?

00:05:46.000 He's out in the country or whatever, he wants to be a cowboy baby or something.

00:05:49.000 And, you know, I don't know, is that what the song was?

00:05:51.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:05:52.000 Okay, well, there you go.

00:05:52.000 With the top let back and the sunshine shining.

00:05:54.000 Boom, you get it, you get it.

00:05:56.000 But we expect conservatives to do that.

00:05:58.000 When we get news that they're having an emergency meeting in D.C.

00:06:01.000 and in a major liberal area, Connecticut, New Jersey, Long Island, that beer sales are dropping 50% at a major regional supermarket, boycott's working.

00:06:14.000 Yeah.

00:06:15.000 At one point, Stew Leonard's was known as the Disneyland of, uh... I love Stew Leonard's.

00:06:19.000 It's the best thing of all time.

00:06:21.000 Highly recommend going.

00:06:22.000 The one that was near me, uh, had all of the, like, fruits that sing and stuff like that.

00:06:25.000 Like, if you can't keep people in your store, if you can't get them to buy Bud Light under those circumstances, like, you're just not going to.

00:06:33.000 There's no better grocery store.

00:06:34.000 Being from New England, you know, originally, and, you know, living in New Hampshire, the fact that I haven't heard of this, this chain.

00:06:41.000 It's not, it's not as far, like, Connecticut is the only part of New England that has it.

00:06:45.000 Like, it doesn't get to Massachusetts.

00:06:46.000 You're, you're too far gone.

00:06:47.000 But it is, it is delightful.

00:06:49.000 And I'm glad that their customers are apparently taking part in this boycott.

00:06:52.000 I never would have guessed.

00:06:53.000 Check this out.

00:06:53.000 They say, On top of the marketing blitz, executives working for Bud Light will go through a more rigorous screening process, according to one Northeast-based beer distributor.

00:07:04.000 Quote, there will be an improved screening process before any marketing hits the public.

00:07:08.000 Executives will have to go through a more rigorous screening process.

00:07:11.000 According to Beer Business Daily, wholesalers received a letter in which executives explained the entire situation, including, quote, this was one single can given to one social media influencer.

00:07:21.000 This can was not made for production or sale to the general public.

00:07:24.000 They are trying to trick people.

00:07:27.000 The issue wasn't that one can was made.

00:07:29.000 The issue was Dylan Mulvaney promoting the beer in general.

00:07:33.000 Yeah.

00:07:34.000 We have an influencer in our midst, you know?

00:07:36.000 Influencers make money off of the post, right?

00:07:39.000 It's not that we have to have his face on every single beer can.

00:07:42.000 It's the fact that he is getting paid to promote it that you guys thought this was worth the money.

00:07:46.000 A lot of money.

00:07:47.000 And worth access to his audience.

00:07:48.000 I think that's the biggest thing. You know, they're trying so hard to act like nothing's happening, but there was that

00:07:53.000 that video I don't know if we should we talked about it last night,

00:07:56.000 but this guy in Las Vegas. He's a Las Vegas vlogger It's just what he does

00:08:00.000 He's walking into stores and being like I wonder if this is a thing and then he's like, oh wow

00:08:04.000 No one's buying Bud Light Yeah, I was I was questioning whether or not this would

00:08:08.000 have impact and when it initially started I I was a little apprehensive about the idea.

00:08:14.000 I thought that it would look like people were attacking Dylan, and it has turned into what looks like the most effective boycott the right has seen in a long, long time.

00:08:26.000 I can't remember the last time that there's been a boycott of something from the right that has been this effective.

00:08:33.000 Well, and it's obvious that people are upset with the brand.

00:08:36.000 Yeah.

00:08:36.000 And they're really focusing on the brand, and not the person.

00:08:39.000 Which is good, because then it doesn't seem like you're bullying, right?

00:08:42.000 And it was kind of, they were talking about Dylan the first two days, which is reasonable, because, you know, bringing him in and all that.

00:08:49.000 But it turned into the brand, which I think is, that's the correct approach, because they're the ones that made the decision, they're the ones that make the product, they're the people that people want to buy the product from.

00:08:58.000 Is it every, now the actual cans or bottles in the stores, It was like a limited run that actually had Dylan's face on them, correct?

00:09:06.000 No, they only, from what I remember, and Phil can correct me here, they only made this one can to celebrate 365 days of Girlhood to mark the one year point of Dylan's whole deal.

00:09:15.000 Were those in stores?

00:09:16.000 Do you have to order them?

00:09:17.000 No, you couldn't get them.

00:09:18.000 Literally, they just made a custom thing for him.

00:09:20.000 Gotcha.

00:09:21.000 But that wasn't the issue.

00:09:22.000 Right.

00:09:23.000 Because the video I saw first was Dylan with a bunch of beers saying,

00:09:26.000 I don't even know what March Madness is, let's all drink beer.

00:09:28.000 And then cracking open beer, had nothing to do with any kind of promotional can or anything like that.

00:09:32.000 And then all of a sudden everyone was like, screw Bud Light.

00:09:36.000 And it's tagged with the like, hashtag Bud Light partner or something like that.

00:09:40.000 Like it's denoted as a form of advertising.

00:09:42.000 I think what the strangest part of it, like you're right.

00:09:44.000 I'm actually glad that there's not a specific targeting of Dylan Mulvaney because Dylan Mulvaney is doing exactly what Dylan Mulvaney has always done and you can have separate criticism of that, but Anheuser-Busch chose to partner with him and if You put people in positions of power in your company who thought this was a good idea.

00:10:01.000 I'm glad that you're starting to rethink this.

00:10:02.000 I would like them to admit that they're just saying, like, our rigorous screening process is we will hire some conservatives after years and years of hiring liberals.

00:10:10.000 Probably what they're talking about is, okay, we can't say we goofed up and they're all fired because then the trans community will say we're horrible and bigoted and all of that.

00:10:23.000 Here's how I imagine the meeting goes down.

00:10:25.000 They tell everybody, look, we understand your concern, we're gonna have a meeting in DC, come meet. 1.00

00:10:29.000 And they all walk in and there's a guy in a suit and he goes, listen, our customers are dumb as dumb gets. 1.00

00:10:34.000 They are so stupid! 1.00

00:10:37.000 So here's what we're going to do. 1.00

00:10:38.000 We're not going to apologize.

00:10:40.000 We're not going to say anything.

00:10:41.000 We're going to completely ignore all of them and let it all blow over.

00:10:45.000 That's what they're saying right now.

00:10:47.000 I mean, I don't know if it's quite that extreme, but they are definitely trying to run away from it as opposed to addressing it and saying they're sorry.

00:10:55.000 And I do think that apologizing is appropriate because they're seeing a distinct reaction from their user base, from their customer base.

00:11:07.000 They severed trust.

00:11:08.000 That's what brands are built on.

00:11:10.000 Many of you may be wondering, why is this so important?

00:11:14.000 Why have we talked about this for three weeks now?

00:11:16.000 Why are we leading the show with it right now?

00:11:18.000 Because I want to make sure that every major corporation knows that when you engage in sponsorships and advertising like this, it will be so toxic to your company, you will be reeling from it.

00:11:33.000 There has been no response.

00:11:34.000 It's been it's been entirely uh no negative response from all of the essentially since you know the the since June became you know Pride Month and has been celebrated so openly in the West and and For probably the past 10 years or so, there's not been any kind of considerable pushback.

00:11:54.000 And to see something pushing back to say, hey, maybe we should moderate this a little bit.

00:11:59.000 Because at this point, the trans question, that is not built on solid arguments.

00:12:07.000 There's a lot of questions.

00:12:09.000 There's evidence that it's not a good idea.

00:12:13.000 Well, Europe bans it.

00:12:14.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:12:16.000 Multiple countries in Europe have said, nah, it's not working.

00:12:19.000 And then there's even been several studies showing that it could increase suicidal ideation.

00:12:24.000 So let's make sure we're helping people.

00:12:26.000 100%.

00:12:27.000 But more to the point, my biggest concern is they effectively sponsored Elsagate.

00:12:36.000 Right, the easiest way for me to explain what went down with the Dilma Veni sponsorship is, a person exploited an algorithm to produce strange and off-putting content that was offensive to a lot of women, a lot of, and men, and then Budweiser did no research, said, whatever, look, this person's got followers, it must be popular.

00:12:56.000 But I do think it's a fantastic wake-up call as to what AI is doing to humans.

00:13:00.000 Humans and what AI promotes, or I shouldn't say AI, but algorithms, it is incongruous.

00:13:07.000 Just because someone has views does not mean they are popular.

00:13:11.000 And this proves it.

00:13:12.000 And I hope that if we keep the pressure on, then other corporations will start to realize, like, hey, look, just because that person's on TV doesn't mean they're popular.

00:13:22.000 You gotta get the algorithms to really internalize retweets or not endorsements.

00:13:26.000 That's right.

00:13:26.000 To really get that idea to go, to really begin.

00:13:28.000 I used to see, sorry, I was gonna say, I've heard some YouTubers say, like, yeah, I don't care if you dislike my video.

00:13:34.000 Any interaction actually helps.

00:13:35.000 I don't know if that's still the case.

00:13:36.000 I'm not that experienced with YouTube, but it is.

00:13:38.000 It still is.

00:13:39.000 Yeah, for sure.

00:13:40.000 So really, like, anyone commenting on Dylan's post being like, this is terrible, is actually just still helping.

00:13:46.000 Do you get into the comments on T-Rex arm stuff still currently?

00:13:51.000 As much as I can, and primarily to learn more about our customers, not any other reason.

00:13:58.000 We talked to some marketing folks last week who said, yeah, even if your company responds to every comment on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, that greatly affects the algorithm.

00:14:09.000 Even if you stop by and go thumbs up, you're adding to the comment count, and that makes a difference.

00:14:13.000 So when do you get the trans-shooters? 1.00

00:14:15.000 Well, yeah, I apologize.

00:14:25.000 I disavow.

00:14:29.000 No, I, I, I, I posted a photo a year ago and it was a, it was a gun on a trans flag. 0.71

00:14:35.000 And I said something like trans rights are human rights.

00:14:38.000 Trans gun rights are human rights.

00:14:40.000 And I got a false DMCA takedown.

00:14:45.000 Activists started- this is the weirdest thing!

00:14:48.000 Leftist screen grabbed my post, and then started insulting me over it, and I'm like, it's so weird that I said something they should agree with, and instead, they attacked me, and then filed a DMCA takedown to get the photo deleted from my Twitter account, and then I'm just like, I don't know what these people think, because I'm like two-way all the way.

00:15:09.000 I had a guy tweet at me saying, you think only white people should have guns.

00:15:13.000 I'm like, what are you talking about? 0.62

00:15:13.000 I think the Black Panthers should be marching around with guns all day every day. 0.62

00:15:16.000 And they're like, oh, okay, base.

00:15:19.000 These people live in a wacky alternate dimension of what we here believe.

00:15:23.000 It is interesting though, I did notice, and I could be wrong, an uptick in the, obviously when the shooting occurred a couple weeks ago, there were lots of gun companies, and I also tweeted some things about, you know, calling into question, you know, should gun companies, and this is a big discussion happening right now, do we have to serve and service everyone who wants to own a gun, or can we go, hey, this is what we believe is a company, we're interested in selling to these types of people?

00:15:47.000 Absolutely.

00:15:48.000 We put our core values out there and usually some people aren't going to agree with those, so they're not going to come and buy from us.

00:15:53.000 And it did look like after the shooting in Tennessee occurred, the trans community was definitely much more interested in talking about guns and gun rights for themselves and getting involved in that whole thing.

00:16:04.000 I had all kinds of people stopping by my Twitter, giving their opinion.

00:16:08.000 And I feel like a year ago, probably when you posted that flag, that was not as much of a discussion and they were probably more anti-gun.

00:16:13.000 Now they're like, oh no, now we need to be pro-gun.

00:16:16.000 They were pro-gun.

00:16:17.000 Yeah, there was a picture of a trans flag with a gun on it.

00:16:21.000 And then people were posting pictures of trans people wearing patches and armbands of the trans flag with guns.

00:16:27.000 And I'm like, I'm all for it!

00:16:31.000 There's an interesting discussion that's emerged following what happened in Nashville where they're saying, You know, a bunch of conservatives are like, maybe we shouldn't allow trans people to have guns, or something like that.

00:16:40.000 And I'm just like, not interested in that.

00:16:41.000 Not interested in that conversation.

00:16:43.000 If someone poses a clear and present danger, or like, I mean like, they're literally on the path to using a weapon, you can stop them.

00:16:51.000 But short of, I guess, due process, maybe they committed a felony, and a court has determined through a legal process, like due process, your rights cannot be infringed upon.

00:17:02.000 You bring up a good point.

00:17:03.000 Everyone wants to talk about the gun thing.

00:17:05.000 Well, the government has guns.

00:17:07.000 I mean, criminals have guns.

00:17:08.000 Everyone already has guns.

00:17:09.000 The guns shouldn't even be the discussion.

00:17:10.000 You said the same thing twice.

00:17:10.000 What was that?

00:17:11.000 Oh, yeah.

00:17:12.000 The criminals and the government.

00:17:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:17:13.000 But they all have guns, so that shouldn't be the discussion.

00:17:15.000 If trans people have guns, fine. 0.99

00:17:17.000 If the LGBT community wants to have guns, that's fine. 1.00

00:17:20.000 They should have guns.

00:17:21.000 Everyone can have guns.

00:17:22.000 Let's talk about other things instead.

00:17:24.000 But gun owners, and I'm just going to say that, are some of the biggest wusses out there. 1.00

00:17:29.000 Like, they really are.

00:17:30.000 In 2020, we saw this, because for the longest time, gun owners were like, we have guns for the government.

00:17:35.000 And then 2020 happened, and we had the Antifa stuff and the peaceful times, obviously.

00:17:39.000 And then they went, oh, there's other people with guns who aren't our friends.

00:17:42.000 We need to do something about that or have the government step in.

00:17:44.000 It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:17:46.000 Don't ask for the government to step in.

00:17:48.000 You're having them do what we don't want them to do to us.

00:17:50.000 What you do is you train.

00:17:52.000 Exactly.

00:17:52.000 That's what you do.

00:17:53.000 Yeah, just be better than everyone.

00:17:54.000 Because most people aren't going out there and training.

00:17:58.000 I mean, I'm a guy that's very pro.

00:18:01.000 Get out there and train.

00:18:02.000 Go out there and, like, learn how to shoot your guns.

00:18:05.000 I mean, Lucas knows how to shoot guns.

00:18:07.000 Ask Lucas.

00:18:07.000 Can I ask, when did you guys get interested in guns?

00:18:09.000 Like, is this something you grew up with?

00:18:12.000 Is there something that happened that made you interested?

00:18:14.000 I played Call of Duty, and that was enough for me.

00:18:16.000 It's the video game gun pipeline, I see.

00:18:18.000 Oh, video games are the gateway.

00:18:20.000 The gateway.

00:18:21.000 They create more gun owners than the NRA ever hopes to.

00:18:25.000 The NRA's dying, but the NRA is, like, Oh, they're gone.

00:18:28.000 Yeah, they're gone.

00:18:29.000 I'm not a big fan.

00:18:30.000 But yeah, video games.

00:18:31.000 Absolutely.

00:18:31.000 The Call of Duty franchise, which I'm very thankful I got to work on the good one that came out a few years ago.

00:18:36.000 Guys, guys, guys, the NRA is very important.

00:18:39.000 It's a very important organization.

00:18:41.000 We need to make sure that the NRA... We gotta donate a lot of money.

00:18:44.000 We need to make sure that the NRA is out there, so that way they've got something to attack.

00:18:48.000 Didn't the NRA support the NFA?

00:18:50.000 Oh, they've supported it.

00:18:51.000 So, the NRA has done some good things, like the Sunset Clause for the weapons assault ban and all that, but for the most part, they are extremely fuddy.

00:18:58.000 The worst thing about the NRA that people won't talk about is their training programs, which are, like, they have a rule.

00:19:05.000 You are not allowed to call a gun a weapon.

00:19:08.000 It's too dangerous.

00:19:10.000 And real quick, explain FUD-E to people who don't know.

00:19:13.000 So FUD-E are like people who go, ah, 1911's better than any pistol out there, won two world wars, my SKS is better than an AR-15. 0.76

00:19:20.000 It's still very esoteric.

00:19:22.000 It's very esoteric.

00:19:23.000 I don't want that plastic stuff on my rifle.

00:19:26.000 It's a reference to Elmer Fudd.

00:19:29.000 Old times, more or less.

00:19:30.000 He's not getting with the times.

00:19:31.000 These people who are like, look, I'm a gun owner, and I think we should have gun control.

00:19:35.000 And it's like, I don't believe you.

00:19:36.000 It's generally that.

00:19:37.000 We don't need 30 rounds for hunting, so let's ban 30-round high-capacity magazines that go to 10 rounds.

00:19:42.000 Do you see deer running around?

00:19:43.000 Kevlar?

00:19:43.000 What do you need that for?

00:19:44.000 Exactly.

00:19:45.000 That's exactly it.

00:19:46.000 But yeah, the NRA, the worst thing is not their political stuff.

00:19:49.000 It's the firearms training.

00:19:51.000 It's the culture that they're perpetuating, too.

00:19:53.000 Even hunter's education.

00:19:54.000 Don't store ammunition with a gun.

00:19:56.000 The gun's pretty useless without the ammunition.

00:19:58.000 Like, you actually want to keep them together, because weapons are for people, not just for Bambi.

00:20:03.000 And they train them young that way.

00:20:04.000 These people have never loaded a weapon.

00:20:07.000 No.

00:20:07.000 And so, I can tell you this, right?

00:20:10.000 I got a .30-30 Winchester repeater.

00:20:13.000 It's amazing.

00:20:14.000 And it's real difficult to load the .30-30s.

00:20:17.000 They get stuck.

00:20:19.000 The plunger gets stuck and all that stuff.

00:20:21.000 And then when it comes to loading even like, you know, a Glock with 9mm, they have speed loaders for a reason.

00:20:27.000 If you're trained in your practice, you can load it fairly quickly.

00:20:30.000 But I just think anybody who has a gun understands that if you hear a glass shatter and then someone yells, boys let's go!" You're gonna be like, uh oh, and then you're

00:20:38.000 gonna open the box and you're gonna be like, just give me a second, let me push these in

00:20:42.000 and load this. No, it has to, like, when you're, when you are being prepared for self-defense,

00:20:48.000 you need to have your weapon prepared and safely secured in a way, you know,

00:20:51.000 that you can access it and that it's responsible. But what's the point, someone told

00:20:57.000 me this when And then have a serious conversation with yourself.

00:21:00.000 time I was getting a weapon, what's proper like storage and safety protocol. And I'm going to

00:21:04.000 keep it relatively vague for the show, but they just basically said, what's the point of having

00:21:08.000 a weapon if you can't readily access it to defend yourself from an intruder? So just consider that.

00:21:13.000 Yep. And then have a serious conversation with yourself.

00:21:15.000 What is a gun for? Yeah, they are for homo sapiens.

00:21:18.000 They were designed ever since gunpowder was, you know, developed and then it was used for fire fireworks to disrupt cavalry charges.

00:21:26.000 After that, it was always weaponized for human beings.

00:21:28.000 It wasn't just made for hunting.

00:21:30.000 Like that is what they're for.

00:21:31.000 And the problem is gun owners. 0.99

00:21:32.000 Well, it's a weapon.

00:21:33.000 Every time I say that they go, they go, Oh, Lucas, you can't say that.

00:21:35.000 Cause then the left's going to use that to ban stuff. 0.75

00:21:37.000 I'm like, no, the reason we're in all this mess and gun regulations are happening is we've always been on the defense and culturally we're losing because of it.

00:21:45.000 We won't just say the facts and what's going on.

00:21:48.000 I think it's fair to be more general.

00:21:50.000 Weapons are for destructive ends.

00:21:53.000 And that doesn't mean it's always bad.

00:21:54.000 Destructive things can be good things, right?

00:21:56.000 If you're defending someone.

00:21:58.000 A machete, for instance.

00:21:59.000 You're using it to go and clear brush, to carve a path through the woods, to help people more freely move about.

00:22:06.000 But it also can be used as a weapon.

00:22:08.000 And famously, Alfred Nobel made dynamite, TNT.

00:22:12.000 I don't know if it's the same thing, but TNT, I guess.

00:22:14.000 Because he wanted to help people mine.

00:22:16.000 And then they called him the Merchant of Death.

00:22:18.000 And you know the story, like they accidentally published his obituary?

00:22:22.000 And then he was like, is that what they think of me? 0.98

00:22:24.000 He's like, holy crap! 0.99

00:22:25.000 That must be brutal. 0.99

00:22:26.000 I didn't know that.

00:22:26.000 He read his obituary before he passed?

00:22:28.000 Yeah, and then he made the piece, the Nobel Prizes.

00:22:31.000 He was like, I better be known for something much better than this.

00:22:33.000 I didn't know that.

00:22:35.000 But it was weaponized.

00:22:36.000 Yeah.

00:22:36.000 Maybe more people should have to do that than read their own obituaries and reconcile their life.

00:22:41.000 Let's go back to the first question with all of this.

00:22:43.000 We were talking about mental illness, weapon ownership, and stuff like that.

00:22:48.000 And for the longest time, we were talking about red flag laws.

00:22:51.000 And everybody on the right and all the two-way people were like, absolutely not. 0.97

00:22:54.000 You cannot red flag people.

00:22:56.000 And then the Nashville shooting happened.

00:22:58.000 And all of a sudden conservatives were like, we should not let these people have guns.

00:23:01.000 And I'm just sitting here like, y'all are wrong.

00:23:03.000 Yeah.

00:23:04.000 Well, so the mental, that whole thing's interesting because the issue that I have with that whole conversation is, by what standard and who gets to define if someone is mentally unwell?

00:23:17.000 Because if I go to the right, you know, doctor, clinician, or whatever, and I say, I really like guns for these reasons, this is what I actually think about the government, this is what I think about balkanization of our country, XYZ, they could say, You're a little unwell for thinking these things.

00:23:32.000 You want to homeschool your kids.

00:23:34.000 You're married.

00:23:34.000 You're not running around doing all this other stuff.

00:23:36.000 You're unwell.

00:23:37.000 You can't own guns.

00:23:39.000 I'm not saying that would happen today, but in 10 years, I mean, who gets to standardize who is mentally well?

00:23:45.000 And so that's a pretty slippery slope.

00:23:47.000 This is why when a couple of years ago we were talking about felons and firearms, and I said, as soon as you get out of jail, you get your right to keep and bear arms.

00:23:54.000 Yep.

00:23:54.000 I agree.

00:23:55.000 And what people responded with was, Several people, conservatives, were like, no, because you went through a process.

00:24:02.000 You got your due process, and through due process, your rights were deprived.

00:24:05.000 That is constitutional.

00:24:07.000 Meaning, you have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but if you break the law, we can deprive you of those rights through due process.

00:24:12.000 Meaning, you went to a judge, there was a hearing, you were found guilty.

00:24:15.000 The same thing is true of your guns.

00:24:16.000 And my response that is then just like, so what is a life sentence then?

00:24:19.000 Yeah, that's either you die, or I guess you're in jail your whole life.

00:24:23.000 Yeah, that's yeah, you don't get your gun.

00:24:24.000 You don't get your gun back ever.

00:24:26.000 And so my issue still is now due process isn't necessarily a perfect standard.

00:24:32.000 Right.

00:24:33.000 Because we are at the point of polarization in this country where like you said, you will say something like, I think everybody should have guns. 0.98

00:24:39.000 I'm like, well, you're clearly insane.

00:24:41.000 I think machine guns should be legal. 0.98

00:24:43.000 Okay.

00:24:43.000 I also wonder how the mental health screenings work because we have the shooter in Louisville whose parents were like, no, he was having some sort of crisis.

00:24:49.000 We were aware of it, but he was able to get a gun theoretically.

00:24:54.000 Wouldn't this have triggered something?

00:24:55.000 I feel like some people can... I just don't understand the practical applications of some of these things.

00:24:59.000 Yeah, and the problem is the government and people want to play minority report.

00:25:03.000 They want to stop the crime before it happens.

00:25:04.000 You can't do that.

00:25:06.000 It doesn't actually work.

00:25:07.000 Oh, but it's coming.

00:25:08.000 The AI, chat, GP7, whatever is gonna probably do it.

00:25:13.000 But it's not practical and it's not going to work.

00:25:16.000 And it's only going to cause, and we've seen this up north where red flag laws have gotten innocent people killed where they show up to the doorstep, the guy comes out, There's an altercation.

00:25:24.000 He's like, why are you guys here?

00:25:25.000 I haven't done any community crimes yet.

00:25:26.000 Ends up getting shot.

00:25:27.000 There have been at least two of those that have happened.

00:25:30.000 It's going to do more harm than good.

00:25:31.000 And besides that, according to all these shootings that have happened, at least in the last, like, five years, supposedly the FBI already knew about the person.

00:25:38.000 Yeah, they were already watching him.

00:25:40.000 So it's like, well, it obviously doesn't work already.

00:25:42.000 I mean, you guys have been trying to do this kind of... I don't think the FBI tries to prevent crimes, right?

00:25:47.000 They're just aware stuff is going on.

00:25:48.000 They're like, maybe we'll help you do that crime.

00:25:51.000 Yeah, it's a slippery slope, and it's not something that I think conservatives and people in general need to get away from, and just go, when a crime happens, we have people there who can shoot back, and that's how we resolve it.

00:26:04.000 Because we call the cops to resolve it while it's happening, so why not address it sooner when the incident actually occurs?

00:26:11.000 And if we saw that happen more often, A lot of these shootings would go down if people realized, like, hey, if we posted photos of the corpse of the shooter afterwards, kind of like what happened in Tennessee, a lot less of this shooter culture would be happening.

00:26:22.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:26:23.000 I guess my concern is there are a lot of people with no purpose anymore and no community and no path towards notability.

00:26:31.000 And maybe notability is the wrong word, but people want recognition.

00:26:35.000 Feeling value.

00:26:36.000 And so they decide one way they'll make people remember their names is being evil.

00:26:42.000 Because if they can't be a famous superhero, they'll just be the villain.

00:26:45.000 That's the easiest path.

00:26:47.000 But we do have this story.

00:26:48.000 Here's a story from the Postmillennial.

00:26:50.000 Breaking!

00:26:51.000 Nashville trans shooters manifesto to be released by authorities.

00:26:56.000 Metro Nashville Police Department Public Information Office told Fox 17 on Thursday the investigation has advanced to the point that writings from the Covenant shooter are now being reviewed for public release.

00:27:05.000 That process is underway and will take a little time.

00:27:08.000 So, uh, I think we're gonna get it soon.

00:27:11.000 And what we already know is that it does relate to politics.

00:27:16.000 And what we've heard from various news sources, and even we've had some people reach out saying that they were either in the know or something, so it's all unconfirmed.

00:27:26.000 There have been other shows saying they have inside sources that suggest this individual was anti-Trump, was angry over the conservative politics and the banning on transgender surgery, child sex change surgery and things like that, and they were trying to, you know, maximize that carnage.

00:27:42.000 So I think it'll be interesting to see, and I'm curious, how it manifests in the public, because when this happened,

00:27:49.000 within days the Democrats turned it into a fundraiser for themselves.

00:27:52.000 It is, I look at the aftermath of it, the way that the Democratic Party and the politicians

00:27:59.000 surrounding the situation have behaved, it is atrocious.

00:28:05.000 And I thought that I was not, I thought that I got to a point where I couldn't be shocked

00:28:10.000 anymore.

00:28:11.000 But I'm really surprised at how the narrative has really, really been like, oh, it's about trans people.

00:28:18.000 It's like, a trans person actually killed and targeted Christians. 0.92

00:28:22.000 Children. 0.99

00:28:23.000 Children, yeah.

00:28:24.000 And you have managed to make the trans people the victims. 1.00

00:28:29.000 That is absolutely astounding to me.

00:28:32.000 Well, above all else, you cannot be bigoted.

00:28:34.000 And you should know better.

00:28:36.000 I think the important distinction with this individual, because I'll bring it back to gun rights, is people saw this shooter was trans, therefore they were talking about banning guns for trans people.

00:28:47.000 And I'm like, no, no, this was a leftist gender ideologue.

00:28:50.000 That's a big difference.

00:28:51.000 I think it's important that we have a distinction between someone who happens to be transgender and someone who is in a cult of a varying ideology. 0.97

00:29:00.000 Because there are people who are trans who are nowhere near that ideology, and we're friends. 1.00

00:29:04.000 And it's just like, I don't want my friend's rights curtailed because this person's a leftist wacko. 0.97

00:29:09.000 The leftism is the problem.

00:29:10.000 Or, my favorite way to put it, is when Tucker Carlson was accused of being racist, he was like, what? 0.97

00:29:15.000 White liberal women are the problem? 1.00

00:29:17.000 That's who I'm complaining about? 1.00

00:29:19.000 He's like, I don't have a problem with black people. 0.89

00:29:21.000 It's the ideology. 0.98

00:29:23.000 It's the cult.

00:29:25.000 It's people's worldview.

00:29:27.000 That's what it comes down to.

00:29:28.000 And so even then, even with the worldview, people have a right to keep in bare arms.

00:29:32.000 Leftists have a right to keep in bare arms, and I'm not gonna... But I will say, we're getting to the point where it's not gonna matter whether you want them to or not if it's active conflict.

00:29:42.000 If you have people who are of leftist ideology, like that dude at the ICE facility, I think it was in Tacoma, who firebombed and started shooting at it, or the guy who killed Aaron Danielson, at a certain point it's like, okay, we need to stop violent political extremists.

00:29:56.000 And then what do you do?

00:29:58.000 So it reminds me of that Karl Popper meme the left likes to share.

00:30:02.000 If you tolerate intolerance, intolerance wins.

00:30:05.000 And that's how they justify banning people's speech.

00:30:08.000 And I'm like, I believe in the right to keep and bear arms for everybody.

00:30:11.000 I believe in free speech, free press, religion, all that stuff.

00:30:14.000 But then when war happens, all of this stuff is meaningless.

00:30:18.000 You know?

00:30:19.000 Yeah.

00:30:19.000 Well, then things are different.

00:30:20.000 Cause then it's, you've got supply lines, who's selling guns to who.

00:30:23.000 And so the, whichever side's over here will have their own infrastructure or lack thereof, depending on their funding mechanism.

00:30:31.000 And then the people over here will have their thing.

00:30:32.000 And then it's very clear.

00:30:33.000 Right now it's, there's not really battle lines.

00:30:35.000 There kind of are.

00:30:36.000 And there's gun stores.

00:30:37.000 These people walk in and they're like, do I sell this person or not?

00:30:39.000 And they have the freedom to deny sales.

00:30:41.000 The ATF actually likes it when gun stores don't sell to people that might be a threat, but who are those people?

00:30:48.000 This is actually a good idea for a video we could do.

00:30:51.000 Have someone dress up as Antifa, like wearing Antifa clothes and go into a gun shop

00:30:55.000 and see what they say.

00:30:56.000 Yeah, and you'd be like, hey, I wanna buy guns. 0.62

00:30:58.000 I'll do it.

00:30:59.000 I wanna A.J. this whole- But they might be like, okay, Phil.

00:31:01.000 Right, fair enough.

00:31:03.000 I love all that remains.

00:31:04.000 Actually, you know, the Green Mons, the gun shop in Martinsburg, I've been recognized twice.

00:31:10.000 Exactly.

00:31:10.000 You're like, walk in and they're like, hi, I'm Antifa.

00:31:12.000 Like, no, you're not.

00:31:13.000 Don't watch the show.

00:31:14.000 Get out of here.

00:31:14.000 We know what your plan is.

00:31:15.000 Get out of here, Labonte. 1.00

00:31:16.000 But I think the appropriate response is if someone wearing Antifa gear walked into a gun shop, they should be like, let me know what you need.

00:31:24.000 I don't think... That is the philosophical challenge right now.

00:31:28.000 Should a business be like, no, you are our enemies, you are dangerous, and I will not sell you this weapon?

00:31:34.000 Because that's actually a fair point.

00:31:36.000 Correct me if I'm wrong, but if someone at a gun store has suspicions that a person may use a weapon for criminal ends... They can deny sale.

00:31:43.000 But isn't it a requirement to deny sale?

00:31:46.000 Um, probably, it technically probably is.

00:31:49.000 It probably is.

00:31:50.000 Like, hey, don't sell them that gun.

00:31:52.000 You don't want to be the guy, like if a cop comes to you and says, did you, did you think this guy was going to sell something?

00:31:57.000 And they'll be like, yeah, I totally thought he was going to go shoot up the mall and I sold it anyway.

00:32:01.000 He said something.

00:32:02.000 I wanted the money.

00:32:03.000 No, I'm pretty sure they get in trouble.

00:32:05.000 If they're like, the guy came in and he was talking about committing a crime.

00:32:07.000 And I said, well, here's your weapon.

00:32:08.000 Like, no, you can't.

00:32:09.000 Sweating everywhere.

00:32:10.000 Effectively an accessory to the crime.

00:32:12.000 So then if someone comes in wearing Antifa gear, You could.

00:32:16.000 I might be like, oh, man, I don't know, dude.

00:32:18.000 Well, yeah, if it's like, let's say, let's go back to the peaceful times in 2020 and someone walks in right then when all that stuff's going on in, let's say, Oregon.

00:32:25.000 Oh, hands down.

00:32:26.000 I think there would be a good case to be like, you know what?

00:32:28.000 I'd rather not sell to you.

00:32:29.000 You can go to someone else.

00:32:30.000 Slam dunk case.

00:32:31.000 You're not the kind of person I want to assist.

00:32:34.000 I'll stop there.

00:32:35.000 I say, if I owned a gun store, and it was during the summer of love, and someone with Antifa BLM gear came on, I'd be like, get out right now.

00:32:43.000 One of my closest friends in New Hampshire, the gun shop that Highlander Arms, a buddy of mine, owns, like, if someone went in there and he knew that they were a leftist, there is no way.

00:32:54.000 He'd kick them out himself.

00:32:58.000 Most gun stories you think would do that?

00:32:59.000 Not all.

00:33:00.000 I'll take that back.

00:33:01.000 The ones with backbones, so maybe a little bit less than half.

00:33:04.000 But, like, Dick's Sporting Goods wouldn't, right?

00:33:06.000 Like, they would be like, okay, here you go, have a good time.

00:33:09.000 Yeah, but I feel like if a guy with, like, an Antifa bandana and, like, a shirt and everything walked in there and it was like, it's time to go fight for justice, where are the guns?

00:33:17.000 They'd be like, right this way, sir.

00:33:18.000 And they'd walk him over and be like, here, we have a 12-gauge.

00:33:21.000 It also, yeah, and it also, well, it also depends, is it a chain, you know, a place you don't have control?

00:33:26.000 Or is it a little mom-and-pop gun shop where the owner is literally there at the desk?

00:33:31.000 I don't think he would even say that.

00:33:32.000 service you're gonna get from both places. Like the little gun store in my county, no,

00:33:36.000 that guy would totally deny sale. But if it were to export goods, no, that employee's

00:33:39.000 just gonna be like, I can't do anything, I don't have the freedom, it's a corporation,

00:33:42.000 I can't do it. I don't think he would even say that. He'd be like, right this way, sir.

00:33:47.000 Here we have a fine selection of firearms for you.

00:33:49.000 Exactly.

00:33:49.000 They would have no idea.

00:33:50.000 Do they make a commission on gun sales at Dick's Sporting Goods?

00:33:52.000 You'd be like, buy an extra!

00:33:53.000 Well, and Dick's Sporting Goods got boycotted.

00:33:56.000 They don't even sell guns anymore, I don't think.

00:33:57.000 I mean, they do.

00:33:58.000 They do.

00:33:58.000 They don't sell ARs.

00:33:58.000 Oh, they don't sell ARs.

00:33:59.000 Okay, I was gonna say.

00:34:00.000 They sell shotguns, I think.

00:34:01.000 Oh, front guns.

00:34:02.000 Nice.

00:34:05.000 And I think they sell like 10-22s and stuff like that.

00:34:08.000 Fudguns.

00:34:09.000 Fudguns.

00:34:10.000 10-22s great, to be honest.

00:34:11.000 Those are great.

00:34:12.000 If you go to the Dicks out here in, I think it's a Dicks, in Maryland, they have basically just shotguns.

00:34:20.000 And I think they might have some 22s, and it's just, it's just, it's silly. 0.65

00:34:23.000 It's pandering.

00:34:24.000 They pulled the ARs, like, what was it, six years ago, four years ago, after a shooting, and they were like, we're not gonna sell those weapons of war, we'll just sell shotguns.

00:34:32.000 And then Walmart, same thing.

00:34:33.000 Walmart pulled out, I think it was six years ago, and then they finally removed all guns.

00:34:37.000 So let me ask you a question.

00:34:39.000 If we were talking about maximizing defense, minimizing collateral damage, being safe and secure, which would you prefer?

00:34:48.000 You're in your house, you have, I don't know, let's just say like, what is it, like a .72 caliber SABO slug for deer?

00:34:56.000 Um, and you're 12 gauge, or you have like an AR-15.

00:35:00.000 AR hands down, 100%.

00:35:02.000 Short barrel, suppressed.

00:35:04.000 And that's so illegal, right?

00:35:06.000 Like suppressors, it's like restricted.

00:35:08.000 My point is just, Joe Biden says to fire the shotgun into the air.

00:35:14.000 Scare away, yeah.

00:35:15.000 And they're trying to sell people like buckshot for home defense. 0.88

00:35:19.000 Or birdshot.

00:35:20.000 Or birdshot.

00:35:21.000 But either way, like, I kind of feel like It would be fairly brutal to use a 12 gauge on somebody in your home and put like a 10 inch hole in their chest.

00:35:30.000 Oh, it'd be very violent.

00:35:31.000 This is correct.

00:35:32.000 This is the problem with shotguns.

00:35:34.000 And again, this is like FUD knowledge from the past.

00:35:37.000 Shotguns are so much harder to use well by an untrained person than handing them an AR-15.

00:35:42.000 I mean, the AK-47 originally was designed for the average conscript to use.

00:35:47.000 Very simple to manipulate and function.

00:35:50.000 A shotgun, on the other hand, if it's a pump, you got to pump it every time you pull the trigger, which already mentally, if you haven't trained that, most people aren't going to rack a second round.

00:35:58.000 That's just how it's going to be.

00:35:59.000 And they are.

00:35:59.000 It's 30 round mag goes in, pull the charging handle, safety, and I can pull the trigger 30 times and I'm good to go.

00:36:05.000 Super simple to use.

00:36:06.000 And the recoil. And the recoil. When we go out to the range with people, man, they do not,

00:36:11.000 they think the shotguns are the easy ones. Yeah. And I'm like, we have the shoulder pads for the

00:36:15.000 shotgun if you want to use them. Like, why? Like, now. It's like, you might want to try using the,

00:36:19.000 like, the AR-556 or whatever, because that's, you're not gonna, you might be like, oh, wow,

00:36:23.000 that was it? But that's the point, I guess. The argument being made by the gun control people is

00:36:27.000 too easy to use.

00:36:30.000 Yep.

00:36:30.000 Shotguns are hard.

00:36:31.000 They, well, and they don't even know exactly what are, the only argument they really use is inconsistent.

00:36:37.000 It's a weapon of war.

00:36:38.000 It's what the military has.

00:36:39.000 And I'm doing a video on it next week.

00:36:40.000 Is an M4A1 the military has the same as a civilian AR-15?

00:36:44.000 Well, it actually turns out civilian AR-15s are better.

00:36:46.000 M4A1s the military has, a lot of them are shot out. 1.00

00:36:48.000 They're crap. 0.99

00:36:49.000 AR-15s I can buy right now for a thousand dollars. 1.00

00:36:51.000 They're better than what the military has.

00:36:53.000 And the left is not like that.

00:36:55.000 We, uh, I've got a KSG-25.

00:36:57.000 Oh, you're familiar?

00:36:58.000 Yeah.

00:36:58.000 Yeah, so for those that aren't, it can hold 25 shotgun shells, and we're at the range, and it's loaded with buckshot, and the wave of devastation is bonkers.

00:37:09.000 Oh, yeah.

00:37:09.000 Here's the crazy thing.

00:37:10.000 That's legal in Maryland.

00:37:12.000 But an M1A is illegal.

00:37:14.000 That is so funny.

00:37:15.000 An M1A is an assault weapon, and I'm like, that's kind of weird, because for those that don't understand, if you've got 25 shells, you've got 25 shells buckshot, I'm watching this thing just melt the target, the wood flying everywhere, it's being ripped apart like a chainsaw is gutting it from every direction.

00:37:36.000 It's kind of it was kind of cool.

00:37:38.000 But it was like also I think it's 225 lead balls.

00:37:41.000 Yeah, shooting like nine shot or so well play.

00:37:44.000 Boom, boom, like well play shotgun shells will remove parts of bodies like you will literally take an arm off. 0.94

00:37:52.000 Yeah, if you're if you're skilled with a shotgun, it will remove body parts, large chunks of very politically incorrect.

00:37:59.000 Very quickly.

00:38:00.000 But that's the crazy thing to me, that that's the argument they always go to is get a shotgun, and I'm like, there's exotic rounds, there's weird stuff.

00:38:06.000 There's Dragon's Breath.

00:38:09.000 Can you imagine a CCTV video and you just Dragon's Breath a person?

00:38:13.000 It's magnesium, right, I think?

00:38:14.000 Yeah, just blast it out.

00:38:15.000 Dragon's Breath is like a shell loaded with magnesium, so it sprays flaming metal at you.

00:38:20.000 Awesome.

00:38:21.000 And that's the stuff that they're like, that's fine.

00:38:23.000 Yeah, that's that's the stuff we're not trying to control.

00:38:25.000 But it's because they don't understand it.

00:38:27.000 Exactly. So SBRs, the perfect, this is another perfect thing. So SBRs, short barreled rifles,

00:38:32.000 are technically illegal unless you pay this little tax stamp to the government, which is weird.

00:38:37.000 They shouldn't be illegal if you can pay a little fine to owe, that doesn't make sense.

00:38:42.000 It's exactly a bribe.

00:38:44.000 I can own machine guns because I paid $2,500 to the ATF, and other people can't.

00:38:48.000 It's the most preposterous thing ever.

00:38:50.000 But an SBR, you know, a barrel below 16 inches, is technically illegal unless you do paperwork to a tax stamp of $200.

00:38:56.000 But it is less lethal than a 20-inch M16, which will penetrate body armor with the right ammo, and a little 10.3556 can't.

00:39:04.000 So it's... It's nonsense.

00:39:05.000 They don't know what they're doing.

00:39:06.000 Obviously with the regulation, they're old, they're outdated, but a 20 inch M16 is way more lethal than the average person.

00:39:13.000 What's going on with this pistol brace ban they just did?

00:39:16.000 I saw there was a video of members of Congress questioning the ATF and the ATF couldn't answer basic questions about They didn't whine.

00:39:23.000 Which is typical.

00:39:24.000 That is a normal thing to see.

00:39:26.000 When you see Congress people interrogating people that are in the regulatory body, the ATF that is charged with regulating firearms, and they know nothing.

00:39:39.000 Someone asked him, he's like, you don't know the difference between 556 and 300 blackout?

00:39:44.000 And this is like the ATF director.

00:39:45.000 Yeah, the director of ADF did this thing and they were like, define in 15 seconds for me an assault weapon.

00:39:49.000 And he was like, well, I'm not a gun expert, so I can't.

00:39:52.000 And one of my favorite tweets that came out, I think it was a guy named George Costas, he said, he doesn't know anything about firearms.

00:39:57.000 I'm glad he admitted that.

00:39:58.000 Does he know a lot about alcohol and tobacco?

00:40:00.000 What is this guy doing?

00:40:02.000 Yeah, it's like, name your favorite booze.

00:40:04.000 Oh, look, I'm not a drinker.

00:40:05.000 I don't know anything about it.

00:40:06.000 Well, I am not an expert.

00:40:08.000 That's the kind of person Budweiser should hire, though.

00:40:10.000 That's right.

00:40:12.000 And then tobacco?

00:40:13.000 Can we get rid of this agency?

00:40:16.000 It makes no sense.

00:40:17.000 There's a problem with that.

00:40:18.000 There's actually a problem with that.

00:40:19.000 You tweeted about this this morning.

00:40:20.000 I tweeted about this.

00:40:20.000 I saw, yeah.

00:40:21.000 Because I was talking to someone at the ATF a few weeks ago, you know, an inside man, just getting some information, and they don't like the FBI.

00:40:27.000 Nobody likes the FBI.

00:40:28.000 I don't think anyone in America, if you were sitting in a bar and a guy said, you said, hey, what do you do for work?

00:40:32.000 And he said, I work with the FBI.

00:40:34.000 X-Files?

00:40:36.000 The average American won't thank an FBI agent for their service.

00:40:38.000 They're not gonna do that.

00:40:39.000 Not right now.

00:40:39.000 FBI to go, oh yeah, X-Files. I'd be like, really? Tell me everything.

00:40:42.000 Yeah, I know he's like that guy who's in Bones and helps her with her cases. He's cool.

00:40:46.000 Yeah, but TV FBI agents we like, I guess.

00:40:49.000 The average American won't thank an FBI agent for their service. They're not going to do that.

00:40:52.000 Not right now. But so I was talking to my ATF guy and we were talking about,

00:40:56.000 shoot, where was I going?

00:40:59.000 The brace thing.

00:40:59.000 What were we just talking about?

00:41:00.000 Abolishing the ATF.

00:41:01.000 Abolishing the ATF.

00:41:02.000 And so I asked him about that.

00:41:03.000 And he said, well, the problem with the ATF going away is the FBI would take over.

00:41:07.000 And they have infinite resources.

00:41:09.000 They're weaponized way more easily by the administration.

00:41:11.000 Like, technically, they've been trying to weaponize the ATF for political means.

00:41:14.000 And they put through an executive order, I think, in 2021.

00:41:17.000 It's still not in effect this year.

00:41:19.000 That's how slow moving the ATF is, which is good for us.

00:41:22.000 Like, I actually don't mind.

00:41:23.000 That's pretty cool.

00:41:24.000 My tweet was essentially, the ATF should get removed when the gun laws are removed at the same time so the FBI can't do anything squirrely and weird.

00:41:32.000 And as long as you're, I mean, it's not really that tall of an order to get rid of federal gun laws because the federal government doesn't have extensive gun laws thanks to the Second Amendment.

00:41:42.000 There's really limits placed on what the feds can actually do.

00:41:45.000 But here's the most important question.

00:41:47.000 The ATF has just imposed a rule without Congress making it illegal to own an item attached to a weapon that will make, what, hundreds of thousands of people criminals?

00:41:59.000 Millions.

00:41:59.000 Millions and millions and millions.

00:42:01.000 I can't remember what that number was.

00:42:02.000 I think it was like three?

00:42:03.000 I don't know.

00:42:05.000 Many, many.

00:42:05.000 I had to have them, because I think I have a handful of pistols with braces.

00:42:09.000 They were all removed and separated and stored somewhere far away.

00:42:12.000 I just got bomb socks and everything, man.

00:42:16.000 But with that... Are you still allowed to have them so long as they're not attached?

00:42:20.000 No, the whole bombshell thing's... Oh, they lost that.

00:42:22.000 They lost it.

00:42:23.000 Right, but no one knows.

00:42:24.000 It's in limbo.

00:42:25.000 Will the company start selling them again?

00:42:27.000 No, probably not, because they're like, well, they'll just ban it in the next administration.

00:42:30.000 But a court struck that down.

00:42:31.000 That is correct.

00:42:32.000 And the brace thing, it's going to be the exact same thing.

00:42:34.000 They're going to fight it for two years.

00:42:36.000 The issue is for resellers, like Gun Broker, for example, the day that went out, or the next day that went out, they pulled all listings of guns with braces off of their website.

00:42:44.000 Let me provide people with some context real quick just because it may be a little bit esoteric for a lot of people.

00:42:49.000 There are pistols and there are people who are disabled.

00:42:54.000 In order to fire the pistol, they attach a brace which goes onto your forearm so you can hold it.

00:42:59.000 However, they can adjust in length, they're retractable, and so some people, and these are bad people, I tell ya, they pushed it up to their shoulder to simulate a stock.

00:43:10.000 Because a brace can simulate a stock, they've now made it illegal.

00:43:15.000 Or they've just issued a decree.

00:43:16.000 They made a short-barreled rifle, essentially.

00:43:18.000 They've decreed it.

00:43:19.000 Now that's the biggest problem I have.

00:43:20.000 I've said on the show, I was like, come on, we know people are using braces like stocks. 0.99

00:43:24.000 It's like- Everyone.

00:43:25.000 Right, right, everybody knows.

00:43:28.000 First of all, I disagree with all the gun control.

00:43:30.000 But if it went through Congress, I'd roll my eyes, I'd complain about it, but this is a hundred times worse than that.

00:43:35.000 A rogue agency.

00:43:36.000 A rogue agency issuing a rule. 0.99

00:43:38.000 We hereby decree that if you have this thing, you're a felon. 0.99

00:43:42.000 That's crazy. Yep. And the issue is most people aren't following the news. I mean, they just don't

00:43:46.000 want to. They want to go about their life, work their job, do whatever. They don't know what's

00:43:50.000 going on with every regulation. And then all of a sudden a doodle that caught up and I'll be like,

00:43:53.000 well, I didn't know it got changed. I didn't realize y'all were changing laws every three

00:43:56.000 years and regulations for the thing that you said. Right.

00:43:59.000 But they said braces are fine.

00:44:01.000 Like you can do this thing.

00:44:02.000 They, you know, SB sent this product to them.

00:44:04.000 They said that's fine.

00:44:06.000 And so everyone bought them.

00:44:07.000 And then, oh, you're going to change your mind on it and go back on it.

00:44:09.000 And that's going to screw over all the people that don't pay attention to the laws. 0.96

00:44:12.000 Because, I mean, I have a hard time paying attention.

00:44:13.000 I literally do this for a job, keeping up with all the regulations.

00:44:16.000 I mean, I'm probably a felon five days out of the week.

00:44:18.000 If I didn't cover the news.

00:44:21.000 There's no way I would have known about this.

00:44:23.000 And so sure enough, when the news comes out, it's like, okay, we got to go.

00:44:26.000 And I think there were, I think like three and we took them off and we moved them and stored them somewhere else.

00:44:29.000 I mean, I am a, you know, I'm a, I'm a guy that shoots a lot and I paid a lot of attention to guns and I'm, you know, active in the gun world and at least enough to be aware of what's going on.

00:44:40.000 And to think that the average person is going to do that kind of stuff when they've got, they've got a family, they've got work, they've got kids, they've got all kinds of election coming up.

00:44:50.000 They're like, Oh, What do I do?

00:44:51.000 It's like they're normal people with normal lives.

00:44:54.000 And that's something that I think a lot of people that are wrapped up in this kind of stuff don't realize.

00:44:58.000 Your average person doesn't spend their days paying attention to the details about what, you know, what laws are passed or whatever.

00:45:05.000 And when you can go to, you know, you can go to like Runnings in New England, there's this, it's essentially tractor supply that sells guns as well.

00:45:13.000 But you can buy a 10-inch pistol, or you could buy a 10-inch pistol, and some dude just goes and he's like, oh, I can pick this up for $1,500, go home, and I shoot it once in a while, that doesn't watch Guntube stuff, and he doesn't know that he's now a felon, or he's gonna be a felon, or whatever. 0.96

00:45:31.000 That's ridiculous. 0.92

00:45:31.000 You see that viral video of that Gen Z Democrat, where he was like, we're coming for your guns! 0.92

00:45:35.000 We're gonna win!

00:45:36.000 We're gonna take them!

00:45:37.000 We're not sitting by and do nothing!

00:45:39.000 You invited him to your house?

00:45:40.000 No, no, he's hired by the White House.

00:45:41.000 No, no.

00:45:42.000 I was going to say, you should invite him to your house.

00:45:45.000 I'll take him to the range.

00:45:46.000 I mean, I'll have to have some people there so I don't get like Chris Kyle or something.

00:45:49.000 But I tweeted, they already lost.

00:45:52.000 Who?

00:45:52.000 The gun control people.

00:45:54.000 Not only are we looking at 27 constitutional carry states, I think Nebraska and Florida are next to go into effect, but 3D printed guns exist.

00:46:02.000 It's done.

00:46:02.000 There's nothing they can do about it.

00:46:05.000 Well, I won't say what I was going to say.

00:46:07.000 I was going to say ammo.

00:46:08.000 So they tried to go after ammo a few years ago, green tip ammo.

00:46:12.000 That's honestly, yes, a steel penetrator.

00:46:15.000 It's all right.

00:46:16.000 It's not that great, but it works.

00:46:18.000 But they tried to go after ammo.

00:46:19.000 And the thing that gun control people could do if they were smart is they would go after, they would use OSHA compliance and they would try to shut down businesses and make it harder for businesses to function.

00:46:29.000 Businesses would have to raise the prices to offset that.

00:46:31.000 I know, but I'm telling everyone who's on here who needs to understand these things.

00:46:34.000 Because I run a business, I can actually talk about this.

00:46:37.000 That's how they could actually shut down a lot of people from owning guns and make it so only people in like the six-figure income bracket could actually afford guns. 0.90

00:46:45.000 That would be the way to do it because they're not going to actually ban weapons anytime soon.

00:46:49.000 But in states like Washington, I mean, they just did and now that's being fought.

00:46:53.000 So in some of the really blue states, like super blue states, I think we will see those bans at least be in effect for another 10-20 years until culture can shift and change.

00:47:02.000 But nationally, it's not gonna happen.

00:47:04.000 I just wanna point out, like, it's kind of amazing that we are winning this well.

00:47:09.000 Like, gun- For one thing, yeah.

00:47:10.000 Gun rights are winning so tremendously.

00:47:12.000 It's like not even a contest.

00:47:14.000 It's never been popular in America, no matter how much the media says,

00:47:18.000 it's never been popular when you get down to the individual level to take guns away.

00:47:23.000 If you talk- But wait, wait, wait.

00:47:25.000 It wasn't until, I think, like 2008 with, was it Heller in DC?

00:47:28.000 That people were actually able to have guns legally nationwide.

00:47:32.000 Good.

00:47:33.000 We had, in the 80s, most states would not give you a gun permit.

00:47:37.000 You couldn't have guns.

00:47:39.000 And then you watch around the year 2000, constitutional carry starts popping up state by state.

00:47:44.000 And now it's 27 states.

00:47:46.000 So Nebraska, so it's 25 in effect.

00:47:49.000 Florida just did permitless conceal carry.

00:47:51.000 Nebraska, I think, went full constitutional.

00:47:53.000 Am I wrong?

00:47:53.000 Yeah, just today, I think it was.

00:47:55.000 And more coming!

00:47:56.000 It ain't over here!

00:47:57.000 More and more states are going to implode.

00:48:00.000 I think the big frontier is going to be, and the issue right now is, the federal government still controls who gets to sell guns.

00:48:08.000 That is the whole FFL, the whole thing, the Gun Control Act, or whatever it was.

00:48:12.000 That is the actual, like, the final frontier of getting rights back is, when can states just get to do it on their own?

00:48:18.000 You could have their own system for choosing who gets to sell guns.

00:48:22.000 That's a 10th Amendment violation?

00:48:23.000 Did they get to before?

00:48:24.000 Did states ever get to control who... I'm sorry, I'm not up on my gun history.

00:48:29.000 I think back in the day, they took guns to schools, actually.

00:48:33.000 The thing is, a lot of people that are anti-gun will sit there and they'll say, well, you never had this right, you never had that right, et cetera, et cetera.

00:48:38.000 But that's essentially spinning reality on its head.

00:48:42.000 Because the idea that you were prohibited was foreign to a free people.

00:48:49.000 If you are by your nature free, then the idea that you don't have this right is completely foreign to the concept of you being free.

00:48:59.000 It comes with your liberty.

00:49:01.000 The fact that you're free means you don't have to ask permission.

00:49:05.000 And that doesn't matter what the context is, you know?

00:49:08.000 And it's so the idea that, oh, you know, you only the government is creating this right and etc.

00:49:13.000 No, no, no, no, no.

00:49:14.000 The government doesn't create liberties.

00:49:16.000 Liberties exist.

00:49:18.000 And then The only thing the government can do is infringe upon those, which the Second Amendment is ostensibly supposed to prevent, which it does a poor job of in my estimation.

00:49:26.000 Right.

00:49:26.000 Although it did help with the Bruin case.

00:49:28.000 It did.

00:49:28.000 They did go back to that and go, hey, according to this thing, you know, in order to pass regulations, you can't just say it's for public safety because you can't actually argue that.

00:49:38.000 So like you can't do it anymore.

00:49:39.000 The bump stock thing, that was a while ago, wasn't it?

00:49:41.000 They struck it down?

00:49:43.000 I think it was sort of struck down and then it was kind of struck down again because there was something about it recently.

00:49:47.000 Again, I didn't really But like, they're once again legal.

00:49:51.000 Yes, but I don't think anyone will come out and start selling them or putting them on a gun broker or anything like that, because it's still kind of that weird burnt child syndrome.

00:49:58.000 They're like, it's a butt sock, Trump banned it, don't really want to do anything with it.

00:50:02.000 And so the real thing they're doing is, when they say pistol braces are banned, people get rid of them, detach them.

00:50:09.000 Stop selling them, companies go out of business.

00:50:10.000 And then they lose, and then people are like, wow, we don't have them anymore.

00:50:13.000 Right.

00:50:14.000 Businesses that make them go under.

00:50:15.000 Yep.

00:50:16.000 SB is probably, I mean, I mean, they haven't been able to sell them for the last couple of months.

00:50:21.000 So that's two months of revenue lost or three months, whenever that was.

00:50:24.000 And I had this conversation with them.

00:50:25.000 They're the biggest brace, the company, like that's literally how I got started, SB Tactical.

00:50:29.000 And they said, Hey, our goal, and this is what I really appreciate about them.

00:50:32.000 They were actual zealots for the cause and not just, not just capitalists, but they're capitalists with a conscience.

00:50:37.000 They said, we would love to put ourselves out of business by getting SBRs taken off.

00:50:41.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:50:41.000 So then we don't have to make these stupid things. 1.00

00:50:43.000 We'll pivot and make stocks and we'll be fine. 0.97

00:50:45.000 So yeah, they're probably two months out of revenue.

00:50:48.000 They're putting all their efforts into the political fight.

00:50:50.000 There are disabled people who use them.

00:50:51.000 Yeah, sure.

00:50:52.000 So you still do need pistol braces.

00:50:54.000 Yeah, they'll make, I mean, they would definitely make a lot less, but not as much.

00:51:00.000 That's the thing, like, the problem is We will be honest about the fact that people are using them as stocks.

00:51:07.000 I mean, I got tons of YouTube videos doing it, so... You have an interest there.

00:51:11.000 And then, but because of that honesty...

00:51:14.000 Our political rivals will weaponize, like they will not be honest back.

00:51:17.000 They'll claim the AR-15 needs to be banned and then completely ignore every other weapon and every other, you know, whatever.

00:51:23.000 Yeah.

00:51:24.000 Well, I think that's a lot of the issue.

00:51:26.000 My issue, and I've been speaking about this for like the last six years, is gun owners, sugar coat, like the modern sporting rifle is a perfect example.

00:51:34.000 Companies go, well, we can't call it an M4.

00:51:36.000 We can't call it a weapon.

00:51:37.000 So we're going to call it a sporting rifle.

00:51:40.000 And that right there communicates to people that, oh, this is a privilege, not a right.

00:51:43.000 It's just a sporting instrument.

00:51:44.000 It's for 3 gun or 2 gun or shooting sports.

00:51:47.000 Which people aren't... When the M&P 15 in 2020, the M&P 15 was the best-selling rifle in the nation.

00:51:52.000 An AR-15 with a front sight post, 16-inch barrel.

00:51:55.000 People were not buying those to shoot competitions.

00:51:58.000 We did not see a rise in shooting sports, USPSA, multi-gun, three-gun, when all those rifles were getting bought.

00:52:03.000 That's not why people are buying them.

00:52:05.000 But companies go, we're gonna call it a sporting rifle, so that we get some heat taken off of us.

00:52:09.000 But all that does is communicate to gun owners, this is a privilege, not a right, and it's gonna cause issues.

00:52:15.000 And I've literally told companies, like, they've asked me, hey, what should we do to modernize our brand a little bit?

00:52:20.000 And I just go, Dump that name.

00:52:22.000 Get rid of it.

00:52:23.000 It's doing more harm than good long term.

00:52:24.000 It might be fine right now, but in 10 years, what's it going to do to the culture and how people view guns?

00:52:29.000 Let's jump to this next story, which is not about guns, but is about the Department of Justice from the Tennessean.

00:52:34.000 DOJ challenges Tennessee's ban on transgender care for minors.

00:52:39.000 The first thing I want to say is I take issue with the title of this article, so I'm going to rephrase it for the sake of honesty.

00:52:48.000 Department of Justice challenges Tennessee's ban on child sex change surgery.

00:52:53.000 I mean, you'll laugh, but like, language is a huge component of how the left plays politics.

00:52:59.000 100%, absolutely.

00:52:59.000 And this is exactly what was banned.

00:53:01.000 They don't want medications, puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery for children.

00:53:07.000 So these children have to, you know, be adults before making these decisions.

00:53:10.000 But now the DOJ has announced that they are going to, under the 14th Amendment, try and block this ban from happening.

00:53:18.000 They argue, SB1, the bill, makes it unlawful to provide or offer to provide certain types of medical care for transgender minors with diagnosed gender dysphoria.

00:53:28.000 SB1's blanket ban prohibits potential treatment options that have been recommended by major medical associations for consideration in limited circumstances in accordance with established and comprehensive guidelines, etc., etc., by denying only transgender youth access to these forms of medically necessary care, while allowing non-transgender minors access to the same or similar procedures.

00:53:46.000 What?! !

00:53:47.000 Did you catch that?

00:53:48.000 But let me read it.

00:53:50.000 It discriminates against transgender youth.

00:53:52.000 The DOJ is arguing that non-trans kids are undergoing sex change surgery.

00:53:59.000 If that's the case, we've got a bigger problem than just this one bill.

00:54:02.000 There are caveats in most bills, including Tennessee's, that say children who are born with a genetic defect, they don't identify as Shans.

00:54:10.000 There's literally something wrong.

00:54:12.000 They're intersex. 1.00

00:54:13.000 There's another issue at play.

00:54:14.000 They can get hormonal treatment or something like that.

00:54:16.000 But those people are not in the same sphere as I'm not sure what might generate.

00:54:20.000 It's a fringe case.

00:54:21.000 Right.

00:54:21.000 And it's determined very much by their genetics and their biology as opposed to their psychological condition.

00:54:27.000 How often does that... I mean, and I don't know, I haven't studied this, but how often does that actually happen?

00:54:31.000 Are we talking like a .0001%?

00:54:33.000 It's really rare.

00:54:34.000 I mean, it's very uncommon.

00:54:36.000 Are you talking about intersex?

00:54:38.000 Intersex kids, or kids who are born with like XXY chromosomes. 0.97

00:54:40.000 I think it's like .0017 or something.

00:54:42.000 But it makes sense to permit them... Vanishingly small.

00:54:45.000 Right, but they want to use that to argue, well, we should do it for everyone!

00:54:48.000 Well, now that we're seeing tens of thousands of kids undergoing procedures of some sort over the past few years, it's getting into like, I think it's 60 or so thousand.

00:54:56.000 We went over this when Destiny was here.

00:54:58.000 Yeah, 40-some-odd thousand taking cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers and then it's in the thousands of Teenage girls who are getting mastectomies.

00:55:07.000 Can you imagine if a country, because you know, Europe, they're banning it.

00:55:11.000 If a foreign country in the future, say in 10 years, and we've got just all this stuff going on, it's like, we're gonna invade America to free the oppressed and get rid of this stuff that's destroying kids, and a foreign nation wanted to invade us over that. 0.79

00:55:22.000 Wouldn't that be fascinating?

00:55:24.000 You know, if I was gonna look at history, and you're gonna look at an invasion or something, If a foreign invader, let's say it was like, I don't know, a European nation, we'll call it like a water... Call it Germany, they're good at it. 0.99

00:55:38.000 Let's just say there's like a big land mass in Europe and it's surrounded by water.

00:55:44.000 And then maybe there's like a smaller landmass to the west, and then people from one go to the other, and then say like, you can't have kids anymore, and you can't speak your language.

00:55:52.000 One way to, you know, get rid of that lineage is to stop them from having kids, avoiding their kids, or sterilizing their kids.

00:55:59.000 Yep.

00:55:59.000 That's one thing.

00:56:00.000 So when I see this, this is why I keep saying like, it really does feel like Democrats hate their own constituents.

00:56:06.000 Because like, if you went to someone and said, have you considered sterilizing your children?

00:56:09.000 It sounds like you're insulting them.

00:56:11.000 I think there is a deep nihilism that comes from most of the philosophies that come from the left.

00:56:18.000 I think that there is a real significant dislike of humanity.

00:56:24.000 The whole environmental movement, I feel like, is anti-human.

00:56:30.000 A lot of the left, I feel like, is anti-human.

00:56:34.000 When you say stuff like that, it doesn't sound like you're talking about something crazy.

00:56:39.000 It fits right in with my kind of concept of the way the left thinks, you know?

00:56:43.000 It comes from the same sphere of humanity that produces articles that's like, here are 30 women who talk about why they regret having children and it's like all selfish reasons. 0.86

00:56:51.000 I will point out that the DOJ sued Alabama for similar reasons.

00:57:00.000 Alabama has a Senate Bill 184 and it's effectively very similar, right?

00:57:06.000 It's restricting the medical procedures that you can offer children who identify as transgender and they classify it as part of their push to prevent a gender-based discrimination and I find this to be Such a blatant show of activism.

00:57:20.000 They sued Alabama in April of 2022.

00:57:23.000 And you have to wonder, who is backing this?

00:57:28.000 I guess I have never really liked the federal government, so it's easy for me to say we should let the states regulate on their own.

00:57:34.000 But on the left, Are you really that interested in authoritarianism where you can have a justice department that just actively tries to selectively push its agenda?

00:57:43.000 Like, at what point does that become appealing to someone?

00:57:45.000 When you're growing up, when do you start thinking like, you know what I really want?

00:57:49.000 A really strong central government that promotes an ideology that destroys children.

00:57:53.000 I don't think that the government – I think the government is a – from their perspective, the government is a necessary evil to achieve the ends that they're looking for.

00:58:02.000 And they don't think about the fact that when you empower the government, you never – it just continues to amass power.

00:58:09.000 It's not going to give power back.

00:58:10.000 Seems crazy to me.

00:58:13.000 The other part that I find interesting is that the DOJ put out this statement saying this is a terrible thing to do, especially for transgender

00:58:19.000 identifying youth, or they say transgender youth, but who are already at risk of suicide,

00:58:24.000 depression, etc. And then the Tennessee Attorney General, his office put out a statement saying

00:58:30.000 like, actually no, this is not a confirmed way to treat children.

00:58:37.000 In fact, having them go through these treatments can increase suicide, anxiety, and depression.

00:58:41.000 And so they're at this crossroads where, you know, we really don't know what to do with this issue.

00:58:46.000 And so you can kind of argue the same thing and end up on different ends.

00:58:50.000 It's the same screen, two different movies, like Scott Adams says.

00:58:53.000 Lucas, I mean, you're from Tennessee.

00:58:55.000 Is there a significant appetite for this stuff around Nashville?

00:58:58.000 Do you feel like there's a lot of people that are like, Or does it seem like this stuff is coming out of nowhere and there's not a lot of support for it?

00:59:06.000 It does seem like something that comes out of nowhere.

00:59:09.000 I'm not a real big conspiracy theorist, but when all this stuff is being talked about, none of this is shocking to me.

00:59:16.000 And the reason this isn't shocking to me is, for the last 50 years, everyone has been desensitized to being okay with murdering babies.

00:59:24.000 It's something like 63 million, I think is what I wrote down.

00:59:27.000 I was doing some research earlier today.

00:59:29.000 63 million babies have been aborted in the last 50 years just here in our country.

00:59:32.000 Wow.

00:59:32.000 So over 50 years people have been desensitized to it.

00:59:34.000 It's okay.

00:59:35.000 It's acceptable.

00:59:35.000 We can do it at four weeks, six weeks, eight weeks.

00:59:38.000 I think someone was telling me it was either the West Virginia governor a couple years ago was saying after the baby was born, or it was Virginia governor, I can't remember.

00:59:46.000 That was Virginia.

00:59:48.000 And so with all this trans stuff about kids, If people don't value their children before they're born,

00:59:52.000 why would they value their children after?

00:59:54.000 But the abortion thing, it is important to point out, of the 63 million, it was probably like

00:59:59.000 63 million Democrats, you know what I mean?

01:00:02.000 I mean, but I mean, but, but, you know, it's not meant to be snide or rude or funny.

01:00:06.000 Sure.

01:00:07.000 To make the point like.

01:00:09.000 Those are the people doing it.

01:00:10.000 That's 63 million votes gone in 20 years, the Democratic Party.

01:00:13.000 Yeah.

01:00:13.000 And that means that the politics around abortion is going to change.

01:00:17.000 No questions.

01:00:18.000 I mean, people on the right say, yeah but they're trying to indoctrinate our kids and I'm

01:00:21.000 like yes but you are aware of that.

01:00:23.000 So as long as you're aware and you're resisting it, then the likelihood they convert your kids into being, you know, anti-baby is very low.

01:00:30.000 Well, and the trans thing too, I mean, I've only seen a few, you know, stories come out of kids afterwards who say they regret, you know, you read it.

01:00:38.000 There's a lot.

01:00:39.000 Honestly, it's probably the most sad, depressing thing I ever see are the stories of those kids who are like, I can never get this back, I made this decision, or my parents had me make this decision, I can't do anything.

01:00:48.000 And I feel like In the next, like, five years, those are going to blow up.

01:00:52.000 There's going to be a lot more of those.

01:00:53.000 Or the suicide rate's going to go up even more.

01:00:55.000 So at what point are people really going to ask the question?

01:00:57.000 Or are they going to squish all those stories and just keep doing it?

01:01:00.000 We've seen it before.

01:01:01.000 I mean, there have been practices that have been banned.

01:01:04.000 Lobotomies are banned.

01:01:05.000 They would go to people and say, I think the appropriate treatment for your child is for us to remove a portion of their frontal lobe through their nose or something like that.

01:01:11.000 And then they would turn their kids into zombies. 0.87

01:01:14.000 Wasn't there, like, a Kennedy?

01:01:15.000 Yeah, it's Rosemary Kennedy.

01:01:16.000 She's the first daughter, so it was Joe, John, and then Rosemary, and she had, they believe, like, didn't have enough oxygen when she was born.

01:01:22.000 She always had some sort of brain disorder, and it became progressively worse, and her parents eventually heard, like, hey, there's this cool new treatment.

01:01:30.000 It might be able to help, and they were desperate.

01:01:32.000 I mean, I think everyone looking back recognizes how wrong they were, but when you don't have the information, I could understand.

01:01:38.000 Right, but even then there was enough, I mean I think at the time when she had her lobotomy it was only like a hundred people had undergone them, which like already seems like too many, but again if you didn't know and if they're, as they were, misrepresenting the results of these things, I mean...

01:01:53.000 I understand wanting to help the people you love and especially if you're desperate, but I think it's obvious in this case that waiting is the best course of action, right?

01:02:03.000 Offering other forms of therapy and really discussing with your child, like, what's going on is so much safer than saying, take these drugs, alter your body.

01:02:13.000 Well, and I also feel like I saw a video, I think it was Jordan Peterson who posted it earlier today, and this obviously isn't happening for everyone, but it's probably happening more than people want to admit.

01:02:21.000 There was this bunch of TikTok videos of this dad with his trans daughter, and the report was that he was using her for likes and attention.

01:02:32.000 And that right there has all sorts of problems with it, but I would be curious how many parents are going through with this to keep up with the Joneses.

01:02:43.000 It is now the new thing.

01:02:44.000 Oh, yeah, my kid's trans, too.

01:02:45.000 Yours is, too.

01:02:46.000 Hey, I'm doing this, you know?

01:02:48.000 And I mean, the kid's just a pawn.

01:02:49.000 Bill Barr mentions it.

01:02:50.000 We're seeing it in California, but not Ohio.

01:02:53.000 So either there's something happening in the water in California, or they're socializing their kids this way.

01:02:59.000 Well, and during COVID, when students went home, there were all these anecdotal reports about, we used to have, you know, six identifying, trans-identifying students, and now it's only one of them, a bunch of them, decided when they were home with their families that they didn't actually feel this way, right?

01:03:14.000 Of course it's anecdotal.

01:03:15.000 I'd love to see hard numbers on it, but there is something to be said for the social contagion aspect of it.

01:03:21.000 I think you're totally right.

01:03:21.000 I miss the days of the tiger mom when it's like all these women trying to make their kids be the best of whatever.

01:03:26.000 Like instead of trying to make your kid a different gender, can't you just like stress them out about getting good grades? 0.64

01:03:31.000 Not that that's a healthy way to parent, but yeah.

01:03:34.000 Let's move on to this story that I really don't want to talk about but kind of feel like we have to.

01:03:39.000 Yasir Ali, journalist, published footage from Steven Crowder's home with his wife because they're going through a divorce.

01:03:45.000 And I don't think this should be published.

01:03:48.000 I think Yasir Ali was wrong to publish this.

01:03:51.000 I don't think it should be discussed.

01:03:53.000 But the issue is, The video's got half a million views, the tweet itself, I think, has two million views, so I'm interested in talking about, to a certain degree, what it is, because it is a thing people are watching, but more so the ethics of why this should not be a thing, and how I think it's being weaponized against Steven Crowder.

01:04:10.000 So, to put it simply, there's a few big stories right now.

01:04:13.000 One, you may have seen Steven Crowder put out a video where he said that he's going through a divorce, it's horrendous, and that he, I think he said he's being extorted, is that what he said?

01:04:22.000 He implied, right?

01:04:23.000 Did he say extorted, or?

01:04:25.000 He said, if you know what extortion is, like, this is what it feels like, or something like that.

01:04:28.000 Now the media, Daily Beast reports Steven Crowder's extortion war with Candace Owens blows up, and I'm wondering, how is it that Steven Crowder's divorce has become something for, like, Yasher to publish?

01:04:41.000 Why is it news? 0.83

01:04:42.000 It's ridiculous. 0.93

01:04:44.000 Because the left hates Steven Crowder. 0.97

01:04:45.000 Because the left hates Steven Crowder.

01:04:47.000 And so, this is a huge opportunity for them to attack him, to accuse him of wrongdoing.

01:04:52.000 And then you get this video.

01:04:53.000 This video that I'm not going to play.

01:04:56.000 I know a lot of people want me to play it.

01:04:58.000 People were commenting, like, you gotta play the video.

01:04:59.000 People are mad at Crowder.

01:05:00.000 Dude, I will not fall for a 20-second out-of-context clip.

01:05:05.000 I'm not playing that game.

01:05:07.000 That's what I want to say about this to everybody who's seen this video.

01:05:09.000 You've got Steven Crowder's wife.

01:05:11.000 She's very pregnant. 0.96

01:05:12.000 They're arguing, I guess, over a car or something.

01:05:15.000 Like, I was surprised to learn that Crowder, his family, has one car.

01:05:19.000 Or, supposedly.

01:05:21.000 Supposedly.

01:05:22.000 I don't know.

01:05:22.000 Do we know for sure?

01:05:23.000 Exactly, exactly.

01:05:24.000 Because, like, when I hear the story that Crowder's fighting with his wife because he wants to use the car and he doesn't want her to use the car, I'm kind of like... Maybe the other car's in the shop.

01:05:32.000 Maybe.

01:05:33.000 But Crowder seems like the kind of guy who would have three, maybe four, or five cars.

01:05:36.000 Maybe a collection he doesn't want to tell anyone about.

01:05:38.000 Yeah, no, I mean, more than, you know.

01:05:40.000 But what I want to say about the video clip is a few questions.

01:05:44.000 One, how did Yasir Ali get three minutes of video footage of Crowder, quote, being emotionally abusive to his wife?

01:05:51.000 From Crowder's house.

01:05:52.000 From Crowder's house.

01:05:54.000 So who is recording this?

01:05:56.000 They have a ring camera in their... I mean, this is crazy.

01:05:59.000 Audio and video record in his house.

01:06:01.000 And what bothers me about this is...

01:06:04.000 Man, I'm reluctant to say what I think, but I think Crowder's being set up.

01:06:08.000 I mean, he wouldn't post that footage.

01:06:10.000 Right.

01:06:10.000 Himself.

01:06:11.000 That means somebody knew the footage was available, shared it with the press, and...

01:06:17.000 Who could that have been?

01:06:18.000 I mean it is like it is possible that someone at ring but I mean I do I think I think I did I'm just gonna say it come on man who do you think his wife yeah she's he's getting divorced so who and he said it's become increasingly hostile like I wonder if this is actually something got submitted to the court I don't want to accuse I don't know that she did I'm just saying Crowder in this video He's not gonna release that footage.

01:06:44.000 No, no.

01:06:45.000 If it was hacked footage, either of them, I would assume, would be upset by that, and would say it.

01:06:50.000 Or they might both say it.

01:06:51.000 Be like, hey, we're having issues, but our camera's in our home.

01:06:55.000 Where our children live.

01:06:56.000 We're hacked, where our children are.

01:06:57.000 This is an issue, we're gonna sue Ring, and it's gonna be a thing.

01:07:00.000 But I don't think that's happened.

01:07:02.000 They haven't said that, no.

01:07:04.000 I wanna say something, too, that's kind of crazy, is people are acting like this video is really bad, and it's not.

01:07:10.000 So, uh, basically his wife says, we're at an impasse.

01:07:13.000 I love you, but I need some time.

01:07:16.000 And then she's, she accuses him, she says something about his abuse and he says, watch it, watch it.

01:07:20.000 And like, that's basically it.

01:07:22.000 And I'm like, I don't know what I'm supposed to be mad about.

01:07:23.000 They're just, people want to be mad.

01:07:26.000 They want to be mad.

01:07:27.000 And it's actually impossible to judge because you, we don't know them.

01:07:30.000 Like we don't know them on this level.

01:07:31.000 I mean, it's, it's something that I think as a culture, especially women are increasingly aware of, like, you need to be careful about the dynamics you put yourself in.

01:07:40.000 And, like, I do know people who have been in really controlling relationships where, like, only having one car is a part of that.

01:07:47.000 But I don't know the crowders well enough to have any context to believe that's where this comes from, right?

01:07:52.000 Like, it's- it's, I think, hard not to read- you have to be careful not to read your own experience into it.

01:07:58.000 Like, if you have been in a dangerous situation, you might see it, But if you haven't, you may not.

01:08:02.000 It's hard to know what it is.

01:08:04.000 I remember I was hanging out with some friends of mine.

01:08:06.000 This is probably like six years ago.

01:08:08.000 And I heard how they talked to each other.

01:08:10.000 And I was like, man, I don't know if I like that.

01:08:12.000 I'm not going to talk to my wife that way.

01:08:14.000 And then over the years, as I got to know, I was like, oh, this is kind of how they joke around with each other and say stuff.

01:08:18.000 Now, I'm not saying that's what's happening here.

01:08:19.000 But like a lot of people, especially people commenting on this, are they married?

01:08:23.000 Are they in a relationship?

01:08:24.000 Do they actually know what they're talking about? 0.99

01:08:27.000 You know, I'll probably get in trouble to some degree for saying my opinions on this, because I think it's a stupid story that shouldn't be published. 0.91

01:08:34.000 But when I see camera footage released that's got a 20-second clip that makes someone like Crowder look bad, and then... I'll just put it this way. 0.95

01:08:46.000 If there was a recording of say like, let's say Phil Labonte was accused of wrongdoing, and then all of a sudden a recording emerges, and I'm like, hello there Phil, tell me about that time you bought illegal drugs.

01:08:58.000 And then Phil's like, what are you talking about?

01:08:59.000 You know, the illegal drugs you bought.

01:09:02.000 Tell me.

01:09:03.000 You'd kind of assume that someone was intending on that recording existing for purposes of implicating another person.

01:09:09.000 So when I see this, and again, without accusing anybody, because I don't know, when I see this and someone says, let me tell you about your abuse, Steven, I'm like, what?

01:09:18.000 Do people talk like that?

01:09:19.000 Like, it's a very specific thing to say to someone, and then Crowder clearly reacts negatively to it.

01:09:23.000 He says, watch it.

01:09:24.000 And then he says, effing watch it.

01:09:26.000 And my response to that is like, dude, if someone walked up to me in my room and accused me of something as serious as that, I might be like, excuse me?

01:09:34.000 No, get out.

01:09:35.000 Like, I'm not having that conversation.

01:09:36.000 Because that's not true, that's not fair.

01:09:38.000 What are you saying?

01:09:39.000 Worse still, somebody leaked the footage to Yasir Ali.

01:09:44.000 Yeah.

01:09:44.000 I mean, anything... At this point, with the way the culture war is going, anybody that is a prominent figure on the right, it is every opportunity that someone on the left can take to knock you down or to smear you, they're going to take.

01:10:04.000 It's something that people that are on the right have to be aware of.

01:10:10.000 Oh, okay.

01:10:11.000 So Fairpoint, people are mentioning, that's a Twitter clip.

01:10:13.000 There's a three-minute clip and he says a lot worse things.

01:10:16.000 He says, I'm gonna F you up.

01:10:17.000 And so, you know, Fairpoint, like, he should not have done that, right?

01:10:21.000 I haven't watched the full thing.

01:10:23.000 Yeah, I haven't watched it.

01:10:24.000 I think it's really hard because Saying really nasty things one time, like does that constitute being an abusive person or is it just you lost control in this one moment, right?

01:10:33.000 Like we have no way to know what the pattern of their relationship is and that's why it's hard to see this stuff online because like they have children, the internet is forever, is this one terrible fight for a couple that's already falling apart or is this a pattern of behavior that it's hard for the public to wrap their heads around because he is a public figure?

01:10:50.000 Well, this could be another issue of, I mean, often, not always, but in relationships, it's not always just one person at fault.

01:10:57.000 It can be both people are at fault.

01:10:59.000 Kind of like how wars happen.

01:11:01.000 There's not always a good guy and a bad guy.

01:11:02.000 Sometimes it's just two kind of bad guys duking it out.

01:11:06.000 I just think that's a whole nother, again, there's just not enough context to know, but I also know, and maybe this is maybe a little bit of personal experience, I've been married for two years now, being in a position like he's in of constant criticism under a microscope at all times, that can put stress on a marriage.

01:11:22.000 I want to stress this, too.

01:11:22.000 I didn't watch the three minute- I didn't realize Yasha released the entire three and a half minutes.

01:11:26.000 I watched the clip on Twitter, and when I opened up the article on my phone, the video wasn't there.

01:11:31.000 Like, I didn't see the video there until just now.

01:11:33.000 So that's my mistake, so I apologize for that.

01:11:35.000 He snaps at her, saying, watch it, effing watch it, I will F you up, which led to his wife fleeing their home. 0.96

01:11:40.000 So, like, I think it's bad, and I'm just- I'm like...

01:11:45.000 The issue I take with it is it's personal, private stuff.

01:11:47.000 If Crowder did wrong, he's paying the price for it.

01:11:50.000 The only reason it's news is because Crowder is a prominent figure who's challenging the establishment, and they know that they can take him down with something like this.

01:11:57.000 They've been waiting for something like this.

01:11:59.000 If Crowder did something wrong in this moment, he should apologize for being wrong and doing the wrong thing.

01:12:04.000 Make things right to her.

01:12:05.000 But the purpose of this is to cause political and PR damage to a prominent individual who is challenging the machine.

01:12:13.000 It's just to smear.

01:12:14.000 It's pure culture war.

01:12:16.000 It's just smearing Crowder because he's on the right.

01:12:19.000 That's all it is.

01:12:20.000 It's unfortunate, but that's, that's the, the, yeah, it's the world.

01:12:25.000 And it doesn't make like the way he's talking to her.

01:12:27.000 Okay.

01:12:27.000 It just means if he were a private citizen, it would still be wrong.

01:12:31.000 This happens all the time.

01:12:33.000 This is happening a thousand other times in America, somewhere else with other people.

01:12:37.000 All over.

01:12:37.000 No one will know about it, talk about it, don't care.

01:12:39.000 They only care because it's him.

01:12:40.000 And her.

01:12:41.000 Absolutely.

01:12:42.000 Absolutely.

01:12:43.000 Sorry.

01:12:44.000 I just feel bad for the kids, right?

01:12:45.000 Because, like, obviously this seems contentious and horrible.

01:12:48.000 Divorce is so difficult for children as it is, but, like... How many kids do they have?

01:12:51.000 I don't know.

01:12:52.000 Two?

01:12:54.000 Well, she's pregnant in the clip, so there's one on the way. 1.00

01:12:56.000 Twins.

01:12:56.000 There's a lot of really serious accusations in here.

01:12:59.000 And, like, my view is just this.

01:13:01.000 I don't- I don't care to condemn someone because of clip.

01:13:05.000 Even the three minute- three and a half minute one, I read the quote where he said that and stuff like that and it's like, man, to take three minutes of someone's life and then condemn them over that without knowing everything else...

01:13:18.000 Unless there was like serious, like, let's say he got up and started beating, that'd be different.

01:13:22.000 Cause then it'd be like, okay, that's pretty obvious.

01:13:24.000 That should be reported to the police.

01:13:25.000 But I think that's like one of the issues that so many people have about abuse, like the way people talk about abuse is because like, if like someone punched me in the face, right, we would all agree that's been not okay.

01:13:35.000 But if you are constantly in a place where you're like in fear because of the way you're being treated, the way you're talking to, like being talked to, stuff like that, like that is psychologically damaging.

01:13:44.000 It's just much harder to analyze.

01:13:46.000 In some ways, we wish abuse was more clear-cut and, like, in this case, like, we just don't have the context to know what's going on.

01:13:51.000 That's why it's like, I wish this wasn't out here.

01:13:53.000 I wish we weren't, we didn't have to talk about it or address it because, like, I would never, I don't think you can accurately prescribe what's going on from three minutes.

01:14:03.000 If it is a really toxic dynamic, I hope both of them get help.

01:14:06.000 And if it's, this was just a bad moment, I, again, I have to reiterate, like, they have children.

01:14:11.000 This will live on forever.

01:14:12.000 And that's who's suffering the most from all of this.

01:14:15.000 Yeah, and the issue here too is they'll both be bothered by it.

01:14:18.000 They go through with the divorce, she goes somewhere else, people will always know her as the woman in this clip, and he'll always be known as the dude in this clip. 0.56

01:14:25.000 So they're both screwed over.

01:14:27.000 I don't see how there's a winner by releasing this. 0.54

01:14:32.000 Unless it's like a moment of anger, right?

01:14:34.000 whether it be it could help with a lawsuit potentially or divorce court.

01:14:38.000 Well, I mean, having it would, but like putting it out and it doesn't give me

01:14:41.000 that, you know, having Yashar put it out, it doesn't it doesn't does.

01:14:45.000 I don't see how how there's any.

01:14:47.000 Unless it's like a moment of anger, right?

01:14:49.000 Like we really think she leaked it and she's like, the way you said your statement makes it sound like this

01:14:53.000 was something I did.

01:14:54.000 And you're the victim. And I feel like I suffered.

01:14:56.000 I mean, it's not an OK way to handle it, in my opinion.

01:14:58.000 But again, it's my opinion I did not have to be involved with any of this and I again I just think that like these videos last forever and their kids are going to inevitably Google themselves and this will come up People are saying, like, don't defend Steven, blah blah blah, and I'm like, bro, I have seen so many videos from protests, or of people who are supposedly innocent being beaten by cops or whatever, and then the full video comes out.

01:15:21.000 And so I'm just saying, like, I'm not saying Steven's perfect.

01:15:24.000 He probably has to apologize for a lot, okay?

01:15:26.000 And that's fine.

01:15:27.000 But the fact is, this is being weaponized by people who just want to take down Steven Crowder for political reasons.

01:15:33.000 Well, and if all of us examined ourselves, I mean, I know there have been nights that I've neglected my wife, not done things for her, and if there were clips posted of me sitting at my computer gaming and not spending time with her, people would be like, Whoa, look how selfish Lucas is playing video games and not spending time with his wife!

01:15:48.000 I mean, how many of us are guilty of similar things?

01:15:50.000 How about this? 1.00

01:15:51.000 What if you were playing video games with your wife, and you're saying stuff like, if I catch you, I will kill you! 1.00

01:15:56.000 Yeah, right? 0.94

01:15:58.000 I can't believe he said that and that's like your wife's laughing and she's like oh and you know exactly but context matters too.

01:16:03.000 What I don't like about this video is I just The question of who leaked it.

01:16:09.000 And if it was leaked, is this like, was someone aware that they were having a recording created and they said things, you know what I mean?

01:16:16.000 Just like, imagine if you walked up to somebody who trusted you and didn't think that you would leak a recording of them or whatever.

01:16:24.000 And then they said something to you intentionally to make you angry that you knew wasn't true and there's nothing you can say.

01:16:29.000 Like, if I went to film and was like, I know you stole my bike.

01:16:35.000 You'd be like, what?

01:16:37.000 And then you have a negative reaction to it.

01:16:39.000 Then someone leaks the footage being like, when Tim confronted Phil over stealing his bike, Phil freaked out and got really angry.

01:16:43.000 So it must be true.

01:16:44.000 Yeah.

01:16:44.000 Right, right, right.

01:16:45.000 Wouldn't you be angry if someone accused you of abusing them if you if you didn't do it?

01:16:49.000 You know what I mean?

01:16:50.000 I'm not saying Connor's innocent.

01:16:55.000 I'm not saying he's innocent at all.

01:16:56.000 I'm just saying, like, critical thinking skills are really important.

01:17:00.000 I didn't have this even slated for tonight until everyone was, like, super chatting and asking about it.

01:17:06.000 And I'm like, the problem I see here is that everyone's jumping the gun and immediately just attacking Crowder over this.

01:17:11.000 And it's like, okay, like, I'll say it again.

01:17:14.000 Innocent until proven guilty.

01:17:15.000 It doesn't look good, but it's also none of our business.

01:17:18.000 Is there a date on this video?

01:17:20.000 I think, yes.

01:17:22.000 I think it was 2021.

01:17:23.000 Yeah.

01:17:24.000 This doesn't make, again, it doesn't make the exchange better at all, but like, it makes me wonder, like, you know, if you realize that you're in a terrible dynamic with someone, like, do you do work?

01:17:33.000 Do you seek out a priest or a therapist?

01:17:36.000 Like, how do you work through these things?

01:17:38.000 And like, at what point, like, we'll never know the context of what's going on or what afterwards looks like.

01:17:44.000 It's June 26th, 2021.

01:17:44.000 So, so they have twins and...

01:17:50.000 Yeah.

01:17:50.000 So I don't want to get too in-depth on making assumptions about this.

01:17:59.000 Because of my experience and because of people close to me's experience with abusive partners and stuff, I'm gonna leave it at this.

01:18:09.000 If you're in a situation where you feel like you are being abused, just get out of it.

01:18:14.000 Just leave.

01:18:17.000 Our guitar player has passed away and leading up to his death, there was a lot of abuse in his relationship.

01:18:26.000 If you're in a situation, just leave.

01:18:29.000 Just leave.

01:18:30.000 Don't worry about telling people.

01:18:31.000 Don't worry about stories.

01:18:32.000 Just get out of it.

01:18:34.000 I want to add one thing.

01:18:35.000 I don't like seeing videos on the internet that are like a short snippet and then condemning someone.

01:18:41.000 I like evidence.

01:18:41.000 That's what I did with the Covington kids.

01:18:43.000 But I also am aware that the left has this technique.

01:18:45.000 this trick where they'll start filming and then they'll go, why did you just do this thing?

01:18:50.000 Why did you just call me this slur?

01:18:51.000 Why did you just hit me?

01:18:52.000 And you don't actually see the thing happen.

01:18:54.000 You just see them saying, why did you do it?

01:18:56.000 And the other person is yelling and like, aha, here's a video of a person who did X. So it's just like, sorry, man.

01:19:03.000 What can you believe anymore?

01:19:06.000 Yep.

01:19:06.000 Well, apparently people are saying, uh, the wife released it, but you said that Crowder was lying about the situation.

01:19:11.000 Yeah.

01:19:12.000 Yeah, I just, I don't know.

01:19:15.000 Why would the wife release it? 1.00

01:19:17.000 Is it because, like, she's not a public figure?

01:19:20.000 Yeah, but maybe that's what she's, like, unhappy about.

01:19:22.000 Like, she feels like she suffered, and now Steven's getting to say, like, this wasn't my choice.

01:19:26.000 I didn't want to get divorced.

01:19:27.000 And she's like, you didn't attend to our marriage the way you should have.

01:19:31.000 I'm just speculating.

01:19:32.000 I don't actually know.

01:19:32.000 I don't want to, like... I guess one thing that Yasha reports is that Crowder actually got a divorce lawyer, like, in advance or something.

01:19:39.000 But he's in control of the money.

01:19:40.000 That makes sense to me.

01:19:41.000 I find it all very suspect.

01:19:43.000 I really do.

01:19:44.000 Crowder is a person that they've been desperate to get rid of for a very, very long time.

01:19:49.000 He's extremely prominent and effective when it comes to messaging and humor and building culture.

01:19:55.000 He's the only competition for, well, Gutfeld now, but for a while it was the only right-leaning competition to late-night comedy or morning talk shows.

01:20:05.000 I am not saying he is innocent.

01:20:07.000 I'm just saying it gives me pause and makes me, you know, I find it suspicious.

01:20:12.000 Well, and there are a lot of people who have chaotic personal lives who can do good, right?

01:20:18.000 Like, it doesn't make the messaging and, like, the entertainment value and the things that he has done to, like, introduce people to all kinds of important ideas less valuable.

01:20:26.000 It just means that he is a flawed person, but so is everyone at the end of the day.

01:20:31.000 Yeah, but nobody, it's, it's tough.

01:20:33.000 Like I know I've mistreated people in relationships and, and even people at work and then also my wife neglecting her or whatever.

01:20:41.000 And I think a lot of people just are unwilling to acknowledge that.

01:20:44.000 Then they want to go judge everyone else's lifestyle instead of going, Oh, am I actually making some of the same mistakes?

01:20:50.000 And that, I think that's a lot of the problem.

01:20:52.000 And a lot of the reason they want to go after someone like Crowder or other people who are having issues with their, their own life is so that they can prop themselves up and feel good.

01:20:58.000 I'm not doing that!

01:20:59.000 It's like, no, you're actually doing that in another way, you just won't see that.

01:21:03.000 But people are saying it's Crowder's fault he brought this up.

01:21:06.000 It's like, maybe the reason Crowder brought it up was because his wife gave the video footage to journalists.

01:21:12.000 And he knew it, and he was like, there's nothing I can do about it now, they're gonna publish this footage so I'll get in front of it.

01:21:17.000 Now people are acting like that's proof they had no choice but to release the footage and give a statement because Crowder brought it up.

01:21:23.000 And it's like, if this has been going on for two years and Crowder didn't say anything at all, ever, until Yasir Ali, like, right, was about, like, was just about to publish the story, it kind of lends itself to, they took this move against Crowder, not the other way around.

01:21:35.000 Yeah.

01:21:36.000 It's just sad.

01:21:37.000 Sad all around, yep.

01:21:39.000 I don't know.

01:21:40.000 Does this mean that, you know, you guys in the chat are gonna stop watching Steven Crowder or something?

01:21:44.000 Some people will probably want to boycott him.

01:21:46.000 Probably, yeah.

01:21:47.000 I mean, I imagine so, but I don't imagine that his audience is gonna... I mean, it depends on what comes out.

01:21:54.000 If it's bad-mouthing and fighting and, you know, bitterly arguing with his wife, people probably won't leave him, like, high and dry.

01:22:02.000 They'll just be like, okay, you were kind of crappy, just so long as it's not too grossly offensive.

01:22:07.000 If it comes out that he was doing, you know, other kind of things that kind of cross physical lines or whatever, then he might lose an audience.

01:22:14.000 Sure.

01:22:14.000 Well, this is kind of going back to the first topic of conversation with Budweiser.

01:22:19.000 If there was some stuff going on, and now this is public, for PR, but I also think just from a moral standpoint, if Crowder just did a video going, hey, I'm sorry you all have had to see my personal life and what happened.

01:22:32.000 Yes, I'm imperfect.

01:22:33.000 Yes, I did some of these things.

01:22:35.000 We're now trying to part ways as well as we can and etc, etc.

01:22:39.000 And he did a video, you know, coming forward and explaining the situation and apologizing.

01:22:43.000 for any wrongdoing that he did, because he probably did at some level, especially if the video, you know, based on the video.

01:22:48.000 I think a lot of people would go, Oh, okay.

01:22:50.000 Thank you.

01:22:51.000 You're transparent.

01:22:52.000 You're being genuine and real.

01:22:53.000 That's what they want Budweiser to do.

01:22:55.000 Here's what I'm going to choose to believe.

01:22:58.000 I'm going to, I'm going to, I mean, this is a joke, by the way, that after Crowder came after the Daily Wire, Jeremy Borington's down and he's like, And then he's like, pull out all the stops.

01:23:09.000 It's time for my revenge.

01:23:12.000 And then like Candace and Michael Knowles are there and Matt Walsh and they're like, we're at your disposal, Jeremy.

01:23:16.000 And he's like, I want dirt on this guy.

01:23:17.000 Whatever you can find.

01:23:19.000 I'm kidding.

01:23:19.000 Call up my buddy at Amazon so that way I can get his ring camera.

01:23:24.000 Oh my gosh.

01:23:25.000 That's why you shouldn't have a Ring camera.

01:23:26.000 I know.

01:23:27.000 Watching this, I'm like, I don't want any cloud-based cameras.

01:23:30.000 And we all floated, like, was it a hack?

01:23:32.000 No, no, apparently they're saying that, I guess Candace said it was the wife.

01:23:36.000 That's the simplest explanation, but I'm just anti-Amazon Ring cameras, and I feel like this is a good moment to put that in there.

01:23:43.000 Close your case all the way.

01:23:45.000 When someone is on camera and they're like, Phil, that time you struck me was wrong.

01:23:50.000 And then you're like, what are you talking about?

01:23:51.000 Don't deny it.

01:23:52.000 Now you're proving it.

01:23:53.000 And then the footage gets released and it's like, oh, wow, look at this.

01:23:56.000 Phil looks really, really bad.

01:23:58.000 I'm just kind of like, you know, she walks up to him and she says he's abusing her and then gives the footage to someone.

01:24:02.000 It's kind of like.

01:24:03.000 I don't know.

01:24:03.000 He does yell.

01:24:04.000 He does yell and he says some crazy stuff I would not hear.

01:24:08.000 15 minutes ago there was a 38 Chinese warplanes and six vessels of the People's Liberation Army Navy detected around Taiwan, Taiwanese Defense Ministry says.

01:24:17.000 But what does that have to do with Crowder getting divorced?

01:24:19.000 I don't know.

01:24:20.000 Classic China breaking news on a Friday, by the way.

01:24:25.000 Yeah, right?

01:24:26.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:24:27.000 I'm sorry.

01:24:27.000 Feels like I can't keep going.

01:24:29.000 Tim, this is more important.

01:24:31.000 I just saw that.

01:24:32.000 Where did you see that story?

01:24:33.000 Insider paper.

01:24:35.000 They are verified.

01:24:36.000 So that means they have $8.

01:24:37.000 That means they have $8?

01:24:38.000 259,000 followers.

01:24:39.000 Do people trust people more with blue checkmarks still, do you think?

01:24:46.000 I don't think so.

01:24:47.000 Yeah, I don't think so.

01:24:47.000 Because now you can buy one.

01:24:48.000 I'm not seeing this story.

01:24:50.000 It was arbitrary about who got it.

01:24:53.000 People definitely respected it back then.

01:24:55.000 Like, for sure.

01:24:56.000 But then it was at Twitter's discretion.

01:24:58.000 Like, if they liked you, you would get one.

01:25:00.000 I get that it had, like, a symbolic meaning.

01:25:01.000 Oh, right.

01:25:02.000 This is just breaking right now.

01:25:03.000 Thirty-eight warplanes, six vessels of People's Liberation Army Navy detected around Taiwan.

01:25:08.000 Taiwanese Defense Ministry says, Well, I mean, OK, it's the waiting.

01:25:12.000 I can't stand.

01:25:12.000 So China, come on, get on with it.

01:25:15.000 Especially, you know, I actually thought they would make the moves closer to the election because it would be more chaotic.

01:25:22.000 During elections, the president is limited in what they can or can't do.

01:25:26.000 Because they're so distracted.

01:25:27.000 No, it's not just that.

01:25:28.000 It's that if there's pros and there's cons.

01:25:31.000 If Joe Biden reacted decisively and took action, people might cheer for it, but if he screws up, he's done for and it'll put someone else in power.

01:25:38.000 So it ties their hands behind their back.

01:25:40.000 Yeah.

01:25:42.000 I don't know. 0.99

01:25:44.000 Maybe we're sitting here talking about stupid culture war drama nonsense and China's about to invade Taiwan. 0.99

01:25:49.000 Yeah, World War III is starting, right? 0.99

01:25:51.000 Yeah, how many times have we said World War 3 started by now?

01:25:53.000 I think it's like 8?

01:25:55.000 Maybe 16?

01:25:56.000 I think the Pope said World War 3 started.

01:26:00.000 Russian media says World War 3 has started.

01:26:01.000 Russia's media has been on it for a while.

01:26:03.000 It started in Russia.

01:26:04.000 They're dying for it.

01:26:04.000 They're really hoping as well.

01:26:06.000 Yeah.

01:26:06.000 But I don't know.

01:26:07.000 I'm not seeing much more on this one.

01:26:09.000 Me neither.

01:26:09.000 I'm sorry.

01:26:10.000 That could be a false start.

01:26:11.000 It could also be a training exercise.

01:26:12.000 No, I mean, this is being reported.

01:26:12.000 Inside Paper is reporting it, right?

01:26:15.000 So, we'll see, I guess.

01:26:18.000 But hey, I don't know.

01:26:18.000 How about this little tidbit?

01:26:20.000 Vice News is gone.

01:26:22.000 Does it make you nostalgic, Tim?

01:26:24.000 It breaks my heart.

01:26:25.000 It breaks my heart.

01:26:25.000 Vice News Tonight formally shut down.

01:26:29.000 And I just think it's funny that you've got these Vice News staffers that are like, to the original crew that helped launch Vice News, we changed the game, blah blah blah.

01:26:37.000 I'm like, that's me.

01:26:38.000 You know you're talking about me, right?

01:26:40.000 Because you guys don't like me.

01:26:41.000 But you're, I was thinking of like retweeting him and being like, thank you, thank you.

01:26:45.000 Thank you for the compliment.

01:26:46.000 So for those that don't know, I was the first person hired at Vice to start Vice News.

01:26:51.000 There was no Vice News, they hired me, and then like six months later they were like, should we create a news division, like a brand for this?

01:26:59.000 And then they did.

01:27:00.000 And I was, so they had news in the sense that Vice would make documentaries and then it would just,

01:27:05.000 they would say like, it's a news thing.

01:27:08.000 And then eventually decided to launch a specific brand called Vice News.

01:27:12.000 I was the first person.

01:27:13.000 And so I brought new methodologies, new technologies and reporting styles.

01:27:17.000 They then hired a bunch of people.

01:27:19.000 I left after about a year and a few months.

01:27:21.000 And then they went woke real quick.

01:27:25.000 It was really creepy.

01:27:26.000 Over like a year after I left, the company just went woke, woke, woke.

01:27:30.000 And it was so weird because when I was there, it was like sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

01:27:33.000 Tumblr was still around.

01:27:34.000 As soon as they got sex off of Tumblr, all the woke stuff got spilled out into the rest of the internet.

01:27:39.000 Did you feel it coming when you were there at all?

01:27:42.000 Absolutely not.

01:27:43.000 And I mean, there was corporatizing.

01:27:46.000 You could feel that.

01:27:47.000 But apparently what happened was a friend of mine who is a higher up said that they had faced

01:27:52.000 too many sexual harassment lawsuits.

01:27:54.000 And so the investors came to them and said, the only way out of this is to embrace feminism. 1.00

01:28:00.000 And they said, you got it.

01:28:02.000 And that was their defense against being sued for sexual harassment and stuff.

01:28:06.000 So does this mean Vice, and I don't fully understand this, Vice is just gone or is Vice still a thing?

01:28:11.000 No, Vice is a thing.

01:28:11.000 Vice News is gone.

01:28:13.000 Vice News tonight is being cancelled and they're laying a bunch of people off.

01:28:16.000 So they'll still have something called Vice News, but the main show that was on TV for the past decade is gone.

01:28:22.000 Ah, so is this the first TV show gone as the internet is taking over?

01:28:26.000 Is that what this is?

01:28:27.000 Well, no, no, it's just get well go broke.

01:28:30.000 They burned themselves to the ground.

01:28:31.000 The first show they had was called Vice and it was amazing.

01:28:35.000 The first show, just Vice was so good.

01:28:38.000 Man, Vice back in the day, for people who know it, it was basically four dudes, it was Saroosh, it was Shane, it was, who was the other guy?

01:28:47.000 Was it?

01:28:50.000 No, Gavin was gone at this point.

01:28:52.000 They had four hosts of their show.

01:28:54.000 I can't remember their names.

01:28:56.000 And then the show was basically like weird travel stuff.

01:29:00.000 It was traveling on the world to crazy places and exploring.

01:29:03.000 And then, I guess what happened was HBO wanted to cancel it, and so they announced abruptly, before HBO re-upped it, that they were already being renewed for a new season, which forced HBO's hand, but then HBO came back.

01:29:17.000 I don't know if this is true, this is what I heard when I worked there.

01:29:20.000 HBO came back and said, how dare you?

01:29:24.000 And they were like, too bad, you're locked in now.

01:29:26.000 It's been announced to the press and everyone's expecting it.

01:29:28.000 And so then HBO was like, if we're going to do it, then changes have to be made.

01:29:32.000 And here's the best part.

01:29:33.000 I was told that I couldn't host for them because I was a white dude.

01:29:38.000 That doesn't seem racist at all.

01:29:40.000 Oh my goodness.

01:29:40.000 But I was like, but I'm actually mixed race.

01:29:42.000 And they're like, yeah, but you know, you're a guy who looks too white.

01:29:46.000 And so they were like, and you can notice this too, when you look at the advice on HBO staff, they bring in like an Indian guy, some women, they brought in a bunch of women.

01:29:54.000 And so when I had joined them, I said, I want to be an on-air host and I will bring my brand and the work that I do.

01:30:00.000 And they agreed.

01:30:01.000 And then sure enough, I asked them and they were like, two things.

01:30:06.000 One, fair point, I did not have hosting experience for documentary.

01:30:10.000 So I was doing, like, basically what I'm doing now.

01:30:12.000 And they wanted more pizzazz.

01:30:14.000 Totally fair.

01:30:15.000 So they had me host some stuff.

01:30:17.000 But then when it came to HBO, they said, you're a white dude, have a nice day, get lost.

01:30:21.000 They didn't say it like that.

01:30:22.000 They're just like, look, we've got a mandate.

01:30:24.000 They want, you know, people of color and women.

01:30:27.000 But they just straight up said it.

01:30:28.000 Oh yeah, hands down.

01:30:30.000 I mean, I was told the same thing by Fusion when I worked there, the ABC News company, when they did, they had the Black and Brown Forum, and they brought in, they had like three of their senior talent, staff talent, and then one external guy, and this was like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were being questioned by a panel of journalists, and so they just said nothing to me, and So I go to the president and I was like, is there a reason you guys had the other main talent and not me, your, like, senior reporter?

01:31:00.000 And the guy goes, oh, it's because it's racist. 0.99

01:31:02.000 Because you're white. 0.98

01:31:04.000 Literally told me that.

01:31:06.000 And then I was like, but I'm mixed.

01:31:07.000 He's like, yeah, but come on, man.

01:31:10.000 And I was like, I mean, hey, look, the dude was kind of cool.

01:31:13.000 I get it.

01:31:14.000 I mean, he was just a businessman.

01:31:15.000 That's when you call up the makeup artist for Tropic Thunder and you're like, do me up and I'm going to go back in there.

01:31:23.000 I just thought that was so funny.

01:31:24.000 I was like, OK.

01:31:26.000 Well, all right then.

01:31:27.000 And when was that?

01:31:28.000 How many years ago was that?

01:31:29.000 This was 2014 or 15, I think 2015, because it was like the presidential election.

01:31:34.000 They were having Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and they were going to be questioned by people.

01:31:37.000 And it was called the Black and Brown Forum.

01:31:39.000 And then I was like, I guess being like Asian doesn't count.

01:31:41.000 Like, I don't count as like part of this diverse America.

01:31:45.000 And keep in mind too, because a lot of people might want to say like, Tim, you're politics.

01:31:48.000 No, no, no.

01:31:48.000 This is almost a decade ago.

01:31:51.000 And I had no politics.

01:31:52.000 Like, I had politics, but I wasn't doing anything like this.

01:31:54.000 My videos were all like, I'm here on the ground in Fukushima, Japan, and there's radiation everywhere.

01:31:58.000 You were a journalist.

01:31:59.000 That's all I was doing.

01:32:00.000 There was no, like, me coming in the office and being like, here's what I think about the wage gap, here's what I think about guns.

01:32:04.000 It was literally just like, oh, I did a documentary on police brutality and the Ferguson riots.

01:32:10.000 And that was what I worked on.

01:32:11.000 And then when it came to this, they outright said, you look too white, you can't be involved.

01:32:15.000 I'm like, that's the world they wanted to create.

01:32:17.000 So, good riddance to all of you.

01:32:19.000 If only your genetics had performed slightly differently and you looked slightly more Asian. 1.00

01:32:23.000 That's like the most, like, it's so disgusting to hear people talk like that, but like, it sounds... It sounds like it would have helped you in this case anyway, though. 0.59

01:32:30.000 In this case, being more Asian wouldn't have helped. 1.00

01:32:33.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:32:34.000 I think they don't like Asian people.

01:32:36.000 No, I mean, it probably would have.

01:32:37.000 It probably would have.

01:32:38.000 But I actually lobbied to him.

01:32:39.000 I was like, isn't it fair to say that, like, a mixed race person is representative of a changing America and should have a voice?

01:32:47.000 And he was just like, you look white, dude.

01:32:49.000 You have to, like, bring your grandma with you.

01:32:51.000 Be like, no, for real, look, I can prove it.

01:32:54.000 That's so weird.

01:32:55.000 Pull on Elizabeth Warren and be like, I'm actually this.

01:32:58.000 Well, they would let her in.

01:32:59.000 That's the funny thing.

01:33:00.000 They'd be like, welcome, please sit down.

01:33:03.000 Tell us about your native tribe.

01:33:04.000 But that's why I can't stand all the woke people and the race theory stuff and the ideology is because it's all lies.

01:33:10.000 It's all just not true.

01:33:12.000 Luke Rakowski is a person of color?

01:33:15.000 He's got blonde hair and blue eyes!

01:33:17.000 What's going on?

01:33:18.000 Oh, he's Polish. 1.00

01:33:19.000 So he's... Slavic. 0.88

01:33:20.000 That's right.

01:33:20.000 But Asians overperform, so we don't count.

01:33:23.000 And I'm mostly white, so I just... Ridiculous. 0.99

01:33:25.000 I mean, you guys are good at literally everything, no matter what, so... That is true. 0.98

01:33:28.000 That's right.

01:33:29.000 We made gunpowder before you guys.

01:33:30.000 That's true.

01:33:31.000 And the compasses.

01:33:32.000 Yep.

01:33:34.000 Yeah.

01:33:35.000 Whatever, man.

01:33:36.000 Good riddance to a bad problem.

01:33:37.000 Did you see that they just had the state dinner with South Korea, and we invited all of our South Korean-adjacent influencers, like Maddox Pidgeolli.

01:33:48.000 He went with his mom, Angelina, and Joanna Gaines was there.

01:33:51.000 It made me very uncomfortable, but maybe people liked it.

01:33:53.000 I don't know.

01:33:54.000 Wait, like the White House brought... So like the president of South Korea is visiting, so they have a state dinner.

01:34:00.000 And they invited Asian people?

01:34:01.000 Yeah, like they had the Canadian one a couple years ago.

01:34:04.000 Blake Lively and her husband, because he's Canadian, got to go. 1.00

01:34:07.000 And this time, you know, they always invite some celebrities.

01:34:09.000 So it was like Joanna Gaines, who does the Waco, you know, house stuff. 0.54

01:34:13.000 And she's also, I don't remember what percentage, but she's also of Korean descent.

01:34:17.000 And then Angelina Jolie went with her son, who is of South Korean descent.

01:34:22.000 I think he even lives there now.

01:34:23.000 I'm not totally sure.

01:34:24.000 But it did feel a little bit, like, weird.

01:34:28.000 I don't know.

01:34:28.000 Maybe no one else felt that way.

01:34:30.000 Slightly, right?

01:34:31.000 Pandering is the strategy nowadays.

01:34:33.000 I mean, it's what you have to do to survive.

01:34:35.000 Well, or die, I guess, in this case.

01:34:37.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:34:38.000 I guess maybe they wouldn't invite me to something like that because it would be offensive to the Korean people because the older generation are very racial supremacist. 0.92

01:34:45.000 Joanna Gaines went.

01:34:46.000 She's mixed.

01:34:47.000 But is she half?

01:34:48.000 I don't know.

01:34:49.000 Maybe?

01:34:50.000 Because she passes as Korean. 1.00

01:34:52.000 But I think she can also pass as white. 0.99

01:34:54.000 Yeah.

01:34:54.000 I feel like this is going to get- There's no way for me to talk about this in a way that's okay.

01:34:56.000 Is this the best of both worlds, where you can pass as two different- And she brought her white husband, so I don't know. 0.96

01:35:02.000 Most of my life, white people just assumed I was Mexican.

01:35:04.000 But for real, the way my facial hair grows.

01:35:07.000 Right.

01:35:08.000 And they'd just be like, you know, they'd be like, oh, you're Mexican.

01:35:10.000 So you have the best of all three worlds, is what you're saying.

01:35:12.000 I guess, unless you're surrounded by woke people who just don't want to be dealing with what you are, because in their world, if they can't define you by race, they can't define you at all.

01:35:21.000 They're going to be horribly racist anyway.

01:35:22.000 Well, there's a solution. 0.84

01:35:23.000 You just have to be trans, and then you're at the top. 1.00

01:35:25.000 You're at the pinnacle if you do that.

01:35:27.000 That's true.

01:35:27.000 Yeah.

01:35:28.000 That is the meta content move, is to be trans.

01:35:31.000 If I told you my sexual preference, would that put me at the higher portion of the list?

01:35:35.000 It's probably a little elaborate up there.

01:35:37.000 Like, maybe.

01:35:37.000 It's like you go to these meetings and they say, like, hey, you, you, Phil, you, you can't come in here.

01:35:41.000 And then he goes, what if I told you my sexual preference?

01:35:43.000 I'm listening.

01:35:46.000 I'm poly.

01:35:47.000 Oh, that puts you, uh, 50, 50.

01:35:50.000 You, uh, you win.

01:35:51.000 You don't get to host, but you do occasionally get to be a featured guest.

01:35:54.000 So it is funny.

01:35:55.000 So with, uh, government, government contracting, that is a thing.

01:35:58.000 Like when there's a bid out there for, uh, you know, purchasing a thing, it's like if they're a female owned business, if they're veteran owned, If they're disabled and if they, I believe, race is another one. 0.90

01:36:09.000 So there are companies that literally will pick a CEO who can stack as many of these things as possible to be the tiebreaker for contracts.

01:36:16.000 It's already a structure.

01:36:16.000 There's a good news.

01:36:17.000 Timcast is a minority owned company.

01:36:19.000 Oh, there you go.

01:36:20.000 Boom.

01:36:20.000 Can I add it to our Google or whatever?

01:36:22.000 Yes.

01:36:22.000 Like, you know, that they rank us up because...

01:36:25.000 You know, that's some pronouns as well. You probably yeah, I put my pronouns in there and then we'll get number one

01:36:30.000 I tried to put in a apache helicopter gunship on instagram and it didn't let me do that

01:36:34.000 Oh, that's that's bigotry right there. It was all right, everybody. We're gonna go to super chat

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01:37:09.000 All right.

01:37:10.000 DasRusa is so happy Lucas showed up.

01:37:13.000 GWOTVet here just found a community here in Florida who trains every Saturday.

01:37:18.000 We'll be training with them and growing the two-way community down here for more free and self-reliant Florida.

01:37:22.000 Thanks, Lucas.

01:37:24.000 Awesome.

01:37:24.000 Love to hear it.

01:37:25.000 Right on.

01:37:26.000 Sideways2013 said, So earlier, my default Democrat mom, who voted Biden, came to me and was pissed about Biden putting forward higher mortgage fees for people with good credit to cover for bad credit. 0.94

01:37:37.000 Equality versus equity.

01:37:38.000 There it is!

01:37:39.000 Did you guys see that story?

01:37:40.000 Yeah, that I can't believe.

01:37:41.000 If you've got bad credit, your costs go down.

01:37:43.000 If you've got good credit, it goes up.

01:37:44.000 Unreal.

01:37:45.000 Communism is coming, baby! 1.00

01:37:46.000 And it's gonna suck! 0.99

01:37:47.000 And the people who suffer most are the people in the middle of that. 0.97

01:37:50.000 Yep.

01:37:52.000 What do we got here?

01:37:53.000 John Kristen says, Lucas, love the Arrow 308 5K review video.

01:37:58.000 Any other 308 5K videos in the works?

01:38:00.000 Love to see one either for the Sig 716i or Ruger SFAR.

01:38:07.000 No.

01:38:10.000 Yeah, that took a lot of time, a lot of energy.

01:38:13.000 It was not the 308 recoil, that was not the problem.

01:38:16.000 It was just so much time to do that video.

01:38:19.000 But we'll do more.

01:38:19.000 Is that normal for your gun review videos?

01:38:21.000 Does it take like...

01:38:22.000 So, no, I wanted to shoot a rifle to 5,000 rounds, and it's a .308 rifle, so, like, it punches a little bit, but on a range day, I can efficiently only shoot maybe 1,000 rounds, and so it's five film days plus stuff in the middle, so, I mean, we're talking three weeks to finish one video, when a lot of content creators will do a video in a day, and I'm like, I'm gonna keep going out there, so, you know, it's at least four videos or one.

01:38:45.000 I do, like, eight per day.

01:38:47.000 Yeah, I just turned the camera.

01:38:49.000 I do not.

01:38:50.000 I do not want your life.

01:38:51.000 I don't want to be... I don't know, it's probably easier.

01:38:55.000 No.

01:38:56.000 My production is that I read the news and then I complain about it, you know what I mean?

01:39:01.000 Yeah, but what happens, you know, before the show, it's like, ah, what's there to talk about?

01:39:04.000 Right, the pre-production hour where it's like... So the reason this show works, for those that know, is because of my morning show.

01:39:10.000 During the morning show, I read 8,000 articles.

01:39:13.000 Then when we come upstairs an hour before this show, I'm like, here's the news, everybody, like, here's everything I saw today, what do you guys think?

01:39:18.000 And then we pick what we think is the big story.

01:39:20.000 That's cool.

01:39:21.000 Yeah.

01:39:22.000 All right.

01:39:23.000 DisStupidB says, I'm glad to see such a great two-way advocate on the show.

01:39:27.000 Love your content, Lucas.

01:39:28.000 I also hope Mr. Potato Man loves my name, coming from a fellow potato man.

01:39:33.000 Oh yeah.

01:39:34.000 Potato Man's not here.

01:39:35.000 He left.

01:39:36.000 Couldn't handle the heat.

01:39:37.000 He's weak and he left.

01:39:38.000 I'm just kidding.

01:39:39.000 I don't know where he is.

01:39:40.000 Marshall P says, Tim, whatever happened to TimCast grants to help new projects fight the culture war?

01:39:46.000 In the works!

01:39:48.000 The difficult thing is being one person and doing all of this crazy stuff.

01:39:52.000 It is very difficult.

01:39:53.000 However, I have given, uh, how many grants have I given?

01:40:00.000 I think I've given two in the past couple of weeks.

01:40:04.000 So, the issue is, I don't know if I should be announcing who I gave money to?

01:40:11.000 You don't want them to get targeted or something?

01:40:14.000 I just, you know, yeah, I don't know.

01:40:16.000 There have been, uh, what's the thing?

01:40:19.000 So the idea is once a month to grant 10k to someone who's working on a cultural project.

01:40:27.000 To, uh, like... I mean, is it public?

01:40:30.000 Is the thing they're working on going to be a public thing that everyone... Yes.

01:40:33.000 And so this month I've given some money out, but I don't know if, like, they've given me permission to just be like...

01:40:41.000 They're funded by... Because you don't want to Oprah-bump them.

01:40:43.000 You don't want to be like, over here! 1.00

01:40:45.000 And they're not ready for that kind of attention.

01:40:47.000 But I need their... You know, I don't want to... Yeah, I think because the two things that I just recently funded, I just chose to do.

01:40:56.000 I didn't have a pre... Like, I didn't go to them and say, hey, here's the plan.

01:40:59.000 I just gave them the money.

01:41:01.000 So it's like 20 grand I've given out in the past week.

01:41:03.000 So the problem with not ever saying where it's going No, this is just one time right now, I'm saying.

01:41:08.000 In the future, the idea is like, we'll hit someone up and be like, hey, we want to shout you out on the show and we want to give you some money for this.

01:41:13.000 But these two, one's not really a, it's not fair to say I gave out 20.

01:41:17.000 I gave out, I gave 10 grand to a person doing very important work.

01:41:21.000 And then I gave money to someone who's doing some other fighting that's not super cultural or whatever.

01:41:26.000 But, uh, it's not necessarily where we're trying to go with it, so I don't think I want to shout out... If it's not a consistent thing, then I... But the idea is, like, once a month, maybe at the end of the month, we will say, this is the person we've chosen.

01:41:36.000 So the issue is, it's going to be in the Discord, where we're trying... There's a lot of challenges to this.

01:41:41.000 If it's in the Discord, meaning you have to be a member, now all of a sudden there's some kind of, like, sweepstakes thing to it, so then do we have to invest in the project?

01:41:47.000 Makes it very, very difficult.

01:41:49.000 So, we're trying to figure out, and the idea was, if you're in the Discord, we have people basically vote on it.

01:41:54.000 Members of TimCast.com can be like, hey, we think this project should be shouted out on the show, and we want to do that every Friday.

01:41:59.000 We were going to shout out Salty Draws, one of our members, last Friday, but he asked us to wait until he was ready and we could actually review the book, so then we waited.

01:42:08.000 But that's the other thing we're planning on doing.

01:42:10.000 Fridays, we will do a sponsor spot for our members.

01:42:14.000 So, people who are members at TimCast.com, Are sponsoring the show!

01:42:19.000 So it's like, why read out some corporate ad when we can just shout you guys out and help your projects?

01:42:23.000 That was a brilliant idea coming from one of our members.

01:42:26.000 So yeah, Tim Cass grants is preliminary.

01:42:31.000 And I might just give a bunch of money away like crazy.

01:42:35.000 I don't know.

01:42:35.000 It's awesome.

01:42:36.000 Well, like my thing is, I don't need to buy another car.

01:42:39.000 I actually have a lot of cars.

01:42:42.000 And we do need more people.

01:42:43.000 Okay.

01:42:43.000 If the left has all this funding, which they do a lot, I don't think anyone's going to dispute that.

01:42:48.000 The right needs funding too.

01:42:49.000 So when people can help do some of that, Pretty awesome.

01:42:53.000 Maybe we can do like a Mr. Beast style thing, you know, like giving money to people in fun ways to make more money and then give more money away.

01:43:01.000 But yeah, the general idea is to give money to people so that they can produce cultural work so that if we give a hundred people money and one of them writes, you know, a masterpiece, then we're expanding our cultural influence.

01:43:15.000 That's good.

01:43:16.000 So I did just give out a bunch of money to someone I thought deserved it.

01:43:19.000 I'm not going to shout them out unless they explicitly tell me they're cool with me doing it, so I'm not going to, but they're someone that everyone knows who's doing very important work.

01:43:26.000 So what's happening?

01:43:27.000 But yeah, yeah, so the issue is for us, it's are we investing?

01:43:32.000 Are we legally cleared to do it?

01:43:33.000 And it's just, it's a nightmare getting all this stuff going.

01:43:36.000 Like we've been, we got the coffee shop in the works, the coffee just started shipping, so there's a lot of... Bags of cash.

01:43:42.000 Oh, we're going to a cashless society.

01:43:43.000 Never mind.

01:43:44.000 Yeah, that's the thing, too.

01:43:45.000 Like, I think our coffee shop might be, like, cash only or something.

01:43:49.000 But I don't know how long you can resist, you know what I mean?

01:43:51.000 Right?

01:43:52.000 And are you potentially losing business?

01:43:53.000 Some people who don't carry around that much cash.

01:43:55.000 Too bad!

01:43:56.000 The point is they're gonna demand taxes be paid in the currency. 0.90

01:44:03.000 That's how the currency is going to have guaranteed value.

01:44:06.000 There will be a banking crisis.

01:44:08.000 They will say you have to convert your cash to Fed coin or whatever.

01:44:14.000 And then they're going to demand that payment for taxes.

01:44:17.000 Anyway, let's move on.

01:44:18.000 Let's move on.

01:44:18.000 Let's read some more Super Chats.

01:44:22.000 Aaron says, Serge, thanks for crash-proofing the UFO.

01:44:25.000 What is that?

01:44:26.000 Uh, I don't know what you're talking about, and you also spelled my name incorrectly, so I'm just gonna ignore that.

01:44:32.000 It's all good, though.

01:44:33.000 Is this the fact that I somehow managed to dislodge the UFO every time I sit in this chair?

01:44:38.000 Maybe, I don't know.

01:44:38.000 I'm not gonna say it.

01:44:39.000 I've done it at least three times, to be honest.

01:44:41.000 Hey, well, when you're making these pretty origami swans, by the way, which we've been making the entire time, I can understand.

01:44:47.000 You guys go.

01:44:48.000 Did you guys ever read the thing about the thousand paper cranes?

01:44:50.000 Yes, I did.

01:44:51.000 I just want Search to have a wish by the end of the night.

01:44:53.000 Oh, true, but then am I gonna die from cancer?

01:44:56.000 What is this poor thing?

01:44:56.000 No, we're resisting it.

01:44:58.000 Why is its back so big?

01:44:59.000 Look, I don't have origami paper, I'm using post-it notes.

01:45:02.000 We're doing the best we can.

01:45:02.000 Those should work, let me see.

01:45:05.000 Oh, so now it's a competition?

01:45:06.000 How interesting.

01:45:06.000 Oh, definitely.

01:45:07.000 Is it because they're not... Does that, like, jump if you push on it?

01:45:11.000 Can you, like, push on it?

01:45:12.000 There's squares.

01:45:12.000 No.

01:45:13.000 Like the little frog.

01:45:14.000 Yeah, I can make those.

01:45:15.000 The frogs that jump.

01:45:16.000 Do you guys want to post a note?

01:45:17.000 Do you want to join in my quest?

01:45:18.000 The sticky part of it makes it hard.

01:45:20.000 Yeah, the sticky is the challenge.

01:45:21.000 I'll make a little origami gun.

01:45:23.000 See if I can make a gun.

01:45:23.000 I can make a balloon where you actually blow it up and it... And then you can write, like, a little message on the inside of those and, like, look through them.

01:45:29.000 Can you make the fortune teller thing?

01:45:30.000 Yeah, I can make those.

01:45:32.000 It'll be hard with the sticky.

01:45:33.000 I'll come better prepared for next show.

01:45:35.000 Cool, appreciate it.

01:45:36.000 Jack Tatro says, Luke is a huge fan of your work, been looking forward to this episode for the longest time.

01:45:41.000 I have a few of your holsters and a hat signed by your amazing staff.

01:45:45.000 Train.

01:45:45.000 Oh, that's cool.

01:45:46.000 I-Y-S-Y-S.

01:45:46.000 What does that mean?

01:45:48.000 What does that mean? 1.00

01:45:48.000 If you suck, you suck. 1.00

01:45:50.000 Oh, yes! 1.00

01:45:50.000 That's true. 1.00

01:45:51.000 Yep, yep.

01:45:54.000 Just some words to live by, you know.

01:45:55.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:45:56.000 Matthew Schneider says, Hey Tim, I saw the results of your Twitter poll earlier on whether the mentally ill should vote.

01:46:02.000 What are your thoughts?

01:46:03.000 Makes me kind of sad because I have a diagnosis, but I'm also stable and far from an insane leftist.

01:46:07.000 So, I was really, really, really annoyed at the responses that I got to that poll.

01:46:13.000 I said, Should people with mental illnesses be allowed to vote? 1.00

01:46:16.000 I did not say, should the government be able to subjectively define mental illnesses so

01:46:21.000 they can restrict their political enemies from voting.

01:46:24.000 And that's what so many people started saying.

01:46:25.000 Mental ill people should be allowed to vote because the government will claim everyone's 1.00

01:46:28.000 mentally ill. 0.97

01:46:29.000 I'm like, that's not the question.

01:46:30.000 The question is, in your mind, there were no external parameters to this. 0.95

01:46:35.000 Quite literally, a person is standing there and they're like, yes, mentally ill.

01:46:38.000 Should they vote or should they not vote?

01:46:40.000 It's not a question about the government, but the government can and will not do.

01:46:42.000 It's whether or not you think people who have mental illnesses should be allowed to vote. 0.99

01:46:45.000 That's it.

01:46:46.000 No context.

01:46:48.000 I think it's not.

01:46:49.000 My response is you can't really answer it in a poll, which is unfair that I asked it in a poll.

01:46:54.000 Sure.

01:46:54.000 Because The answer is mentally ill people within a certain confine of, like, a certain category of mentally ill shouldn't vote.

01:47:03.000 But how we define mental illness can vary in which someone has a mental illness that doesn't impair their judgment on policy issues, it just makes them, like, anxious.

01:47:12.000 And we call that a mental illness or something, you know what I mean?

01:47:15.000 Or... Do they consider ADHD a mental illness?

01:47:19.000 Probably. 0.91

01:47:20.000 I think those are mental disorders.

01:47:21.000 I think it's like on the learning disability spectrum.

01:47:23.000 I just think that if you took away, if anybody who was mentally ill wasn't allowed to vote, as much as I'm not saying I'm in favor of that process, I do think society would be functioning to a much, much, much, much, much better degree. 0.83

01:47:36.000 But my question would be, so a question that's always thrown out about, you know, everyone should have guns, everyone should have the right to own guns.

01:47:42.000 People go, what about someone with Down syndrome?

01:47:43.000 And I'm like, okay.

01:47:45.000 Do you actually know anyone with Down syndrome that really wants to own a gun?

01:47:48.000 And so I kind of bring up the same question.

01:47:50.000 If someone is actually mentally, like, genetically, their brains, whatever, got some issue, like, is this even a question?

01:47:57.000 Is this even a thing?

01:47:58.000 Or is it a thing, a scenario we're coming up in our mind that's not actually a legitimate scenario?

01:48:02.000 It's like the nuclear weapons question when it comes to the 2A.

01:48:05.000 Right, exactly.

01:48:05.000 And people that are like, oh, you know, if you're a Second Amendment absolutist, do you think people should be allowed to own nuclear weapons?

01:48:13.000 Can people own nuclear weapons? 0.84

01:48:15.000 No.

01:48:16.000 You need a state infrastructure to be able to produce nuclear weapons.

01:48:23.000 What are you talking about?

01:48:25.000 There was a guy who made a radioactive death ray in his garage.

01:48:29.000 That's different than a nuclear weapon.

01:48:32.000 You're talking about an explosive.

01:48:34.000 Okay, so when I say nuclear weapon, my thought process goes to a thermonuclear weapon, not something that has a radiological component.

01:48:45.000 Who makes nuclear weapons?

01:48:47.000 Usually states make them.

01:48:48.000 They don't.

01:48:50.000 Okay, so they're probably made by... Private corporations.

01:48:53.000 I'm not sure who does them.

01:48:55.000 Private contractors produce the weapons for them.

01:48:57.000 Yeah.

01:48:58.000 So that was the big issue when I said that individuals have a right to keep and bear 1.00

01:49:01.000 nuclear weapons and everyone's like, no they don't.

01:49:03.000 I'm like, it's private corporations that are making the weapons for the government.

01:49:07.000 It's not, you know, so they have contracts with the government.

01:49:10.000 Yes, but no individual owns the corporations.

01:49:14.000 Those are all... Government.

01:49:17.000 Government or their large... The point is, the infrastructure required to produce or procure or to sustain a nuclear weapon means that you... Elon could do it.

01:49:28.000 He's already launching rockets and stuff.

01:49:31.000 But again, this comes to the point where you're talking about a handful of people and states, so practically nuclear weapons as a means of self-defense is not an actual topic.

01:49:44.000 And that's where I feel like a lot of these arguments on like, oh, can mentally unwell people or people with Down syndrome want guns?

01:49:49.000 I'm like, Let's go find some facts that this is actually happening, that it's an actual realistic scenario, a realistic what-if, and let's not base a bunch of laws on a thing that doesn't even happen.

01:49:59.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:50:00.000 And restrict everyone else.

01:50:01.000 I would wonder, too, if the pushback against, like, if you said mentally ill people can't vote, like, if people would say, well, you're discouraging people from seeking counseling and potentially being diagnosed because they think you'll take this away from them and therefore that's more dangerous.

01:50:14.000 I mean, I don't think anyone should vote, but that's just me.

01:50:17.000 So how do you, uh, I don't know, but I mean, sure.

01:50:24.000 Yeah.

01:50:25.000 I don't have to have an answer to say that I don't want something to happen.

01:50:31.000 I mean, I don't, you know, I, I, I'm, I'm, I've got that, that whole, like, you know, emotional anarchist thing going on with me.

01:50:38.000 Yeah, there's always a hierarchy established.

01:50:40.000 It's always powerful.

01:50:41.000 But in his dream world, no one votes.

01:50:45.000 Exactly.

01:50:46.000 Whenever you have any kind of government or whatever like that, there are hierarchies and stuff like that and corruption and stuff like that.

01:50:55.000 And so if I'm going to have my own dream world, it's going to be the But in your dream world, doesn't that hierarchy form anyway?

01:51:01.000 Like, hierarchies form no matter what.

01:51:02.000 That's just part of nature.

01:51:04.000 Oh, this is a nice one.

01:51:05.000 I don't know this technique.

01:51:06.000 It's an alternative crane shape.

01:51:08.000 Yeah, your cranes are fat.

01:51:09.000 I don't understand how you're making them.

01:51:11.000 I feed them too much.

01:51:12.000 They go to McDonald's all the time.

01:51:13.000 Mine are thinner.

01:51:13.000 I don't know how you made this one.

01:51:15.000 It feels like it'll stand more.

01:51:16.000 Well, yours leans.

01:51:17.000 That was nice.

01:51:18.000 Yeah, you can stand them up.

01:51:19.000 And then there's another way to make it so you can flat by pulling its tail, but this one doesn't.

01:51:23.000 I have to do some more research.

01:51:25.000 I've been making cranes the same way since my art teacher had us do it for hours and hours in like the third grade.

01:51:30.000 I've never seen such an effective art class.

01:51:32.000 He was like, here's this amazing story.

01:51:34.000 Now if you make a thousand of these and that's all we did for one.

01:51:36.000 Why can't classes be like that now?

01:51:38.000 So you may not know this, but the reason why I can make this paper crane is because being part Korean and Japanese, it is just cellular memory.

01:51:49.000 And when I was a child, I could just do it.

01:51:51.000 But you'll also notice it's pretty crappy.

01:51:53.000 And that's because I'm only 5% Japanese, so it's only 5% effective in my origami making.

01:51:58.000 Am I appropriating your culture right now? 0.50

01:52:00.000 I'm so sorry. 1.00

01:52:00.000 Well, yours suck because you're white. 1.00

01:52:02.000 That's so true. 1.00

01:52:04.000 I'm not even taking that as a racial insult, although I guess we're starting at some point. 0.56

01:52:07.000 It's because of how white you are, too. 0.94

01:52:08.000 The gingerness makes you, like, the extreme white. 0.98

01:52:11.000 I think the rules of wokeness are I'm allowed to say that, because you're appropriating my culture. 0.99

01:52:15.000 But to be fair, someone told me this is something I should be doing.

01:52:19.000 No, let's be real, like, there's probably some, you know, middle-aged white dude who makes the best origami ever, and he, like, builds castles and stuff like that.

01:52:27.000 All right, we'll read some more Super Chats. 0.91

01:52:31.000 Oh, where are we at?

01:52:32.000 T-Rex Pet Shop says, since Ian bailed, I guess I'll have to tell you guys that you forced my hand in telling you the special deal we're doing.

01:52:38.000 You get a free dog or cat toy when you get $50 or more cat food, dog food, or cat litter.

01:52:43.000 Hey, T-Rex Pet Shop.

01:52:44.000 There you go.

01:52:45.000 Hey, absolutely.

01:52:47.000 What are the chances, right?

01:52:48.000 Yours really does look so much better than mine.

01:52:50.000 T-Rex Pet Shop, when Lucas from T-Rex Arms is here.

01:52:52.000 Daniel Smith says my Anheuser delivery this week was two cases.

01:52:56.000 Driver said total deliveries this week was around 200 pieces, last week 100.

01:53:00.000 Then Coors comes in with 30 cases and says their deliveries have doubled.

01:53:04.000 Oh, wow.

01:53:05.000 Oh, you'll love to see it.

01:53:06.000 Oh, I should have bought the stock then.

01:53:09.000 Put options.

01:53:11.000 Put options.

01:53:12.000 I wonder if Budstock is going to go down when the sales data comes in.

01:53:17.000 Because we saw the first week, a week later than last week.

01:53:21.000 So like next week, we're going to get the sales data from the previous week.

01:53:23.000 And I'm wondering, it's going to be like...

01:53:25.000 Well, I'm saying I should have bought stock in all the other companies that were going to get more business.

01:53:29.000 Oh yeah, hands down.

01:53:31.000 Not them.

01:53:32.000 Put options.

01:53:33.000 You short their stock.

01:53:35.000 I'm not going to buy any of that stock.

01:53:38.000 I'm not giving anybody financial advice.

01:53:39.000 I'm not actually going to do anything.

01:53:41.000 Please don't.

01:53:42.000 But I think I can tell people to do things right.

01:53:45.000 Now you're gonna get the, they'll sue you.

01:53:48.000 Oh man.

01:53:49.000 What are you drinking instead?

01:53:52.000 Like did anybody drink Bud Light and have to like have a crisis?

01:53:54.000 I drink like four times a year so I don't have to worry about it.

01:53:57.000 It's great.

01:53:58.000 I haven't had to drink since 2018 or something like that.

01:54:00.000 Saved so much money.

01:54:01.000 Yeah.

01:54:02.000 Serge, any thoughts on this one?

01:54:05.000 No Bud Light for you?

01:54:06.000 Not really, I'm just sad Modelo's gone, because I did like Modelo.

01:54:08.000 Modelo's good.

01:54:09.000 That's about it.

01:54:10.000 William H says, I've truly enjoyed Stephen's content over the years, but I just can't come back from what I heard coming from his mouth directed at his pregnant wife.

01:54:16.000 Godspeed Crowder, I hope you learn from this.

01:54:19.000 Hopefully he wouldn't have said it, even if she wasn't pregnant. 0.96

01:54:22.000 And so that was basically, I was seeing a bunch of comments from people, and I'm like, alright, I'll pull the story out, you know, we'll talk about it.

01:54:27.000 But now you can say you did, you don't have to do it tomorrow.

01:54:29.000 Yeah I mean we probably will because the story is going to get crazier.

01:54:32.000 Crowder's probably going to address it.

01:54:34.000 I do think there is a merit to talking about chaotic relationships and being accountable for the way you speak and address people.

01:54:41.000 I think especially in like I don't want to stereotype too much but like conservative male circles like it's not a conversation that's easy to have but it's important that people are aware of their behavior.

01:54:50.000 And unfortunately I didn't like I wouldn't want it to be this venue but Well, and it would have never come up if it had never been public, and so it wouldn't have been talked about anyway.

01:54:57.000 So it's like, it was kind of made public, and then it has to be talked about.

01:55:01.000 Curtis Terry says, Phil, big fan of your cover of Thunder Rolls, but was kind of disappointed you didn't cover the third verse.

01:55:06.000 Any reason why?

01:55:07.000 The third verse is not in the official release, so we didn't do that.

01:55:11.000 We do that live, like if we do, like we'll do it acoustic, we'll do the third verse if we play it live, but on the record, we decided to do the record release that Garth actually did, so that's why.

01:55:21.000 Will you cover Barbie Girl?

01:55:25.000 Uh, no.

01:55:26.000 Why not?

01:55:26.000 I feel like it'd be fun to see.

01:55:28.000 When you finish watching Fast and the Furious.

01:55:32.000 There is so much pressure to watch this movie series, and I don't like it.

01:55:35.000 Get on it! 0.98

01:55:36.000 I gotta read this one.

01:55:37.000 I have to get a streaming service.

01:55:38.000 David Violet says, I usually only donate $2, but a Guntuber gets $5. 1.00

01:55:42.000 Invite Lucas's dad, Grand Thumb.

01:55:46.000 He's not my dad.

01:55:48.000 That's a good name.

01:55:49.000 That's a good name.

01:55:50.000 Yeah.

01:55:51.000 He's stuck with it now.

01:55:52.000 Yeah.

01:55:53.000 Forever.

01:55:53.000 When I got the M1A, the first thing they did was explain to me the thumb thing.

01:55:57.000 And I was like, oh yeah.

01:55:58.000 Yeah.

01:56:00.000 That's funny.

01:56:00.000 He's a good dude.

01:56:01.000 You get your thumb stuck in it.

01:56:01.000 That's what it is.

01:56:02.000 Mike Smith, he's, and I like the fact that he's like, he's, he's, he's really funny too.

01:56:06.000 He's extremely comical.

01:56:09.000 He's honestly more fun to hang out with in person than on the internet.

01:56:12.000 I want to meet him someday.

01:56:13.000 Jack Opp says, hates him, I'm a bartender in SD.

01:56:16.000 Is that San Diego or South Dakota?

01:56:18.000 I hope it's South Dakota.

01:56:19.000 South Dakota, South Dakota.

01:56:20.000 Well, I work at a bigger casino.

01:56:22.000 I haven't moved Bud Light in almost two weeks.

01:56:24.000 That's South Dakota.

01:56:24.000 It's been an interesting sight to see.

01:56:26.000 That's definitely South Dakota.

01:56:27.000 You think?

01:56:27.000 Yep, 100%.

01:56:28.000 I find that Dakota's fascinating right now.

01:56:30.000 Because there's a lot of casinos up there because of reservations.

01:56:34.000 And then, But California's got a couple, don't they?

01:56:38.000 Uh, nah, I wouldn't imagine in San Diego.

01:56:40.000 Yeah, yeah, not San Diego.

01:56:41.000 I think it's... I think, uh... Yeah, I don't know what casinos they have.

01:56:45.000 I think it's South Dakota.

01:56:46.000 We've played all the... Oh, they have, um, what you call it?

01:56:48.000 When you go out to Palm Springs or whatever it is?

01:56:51.000 Palm Springs does.

01:56:52.000 Yeah, the Native American one. 0.98

01:56:53.000 I've been there before.

01:56:54.000 Right.

01:56:55.000 Native American casino.

01:56:56.000 That's Palm Springs, not San Diego.

01:56:57.000 No, I know.

01:56:58.000 Yeah, it's far away.

01:56:59.000 But I'm just saying, like, in California they have them, so I wonder if there's anything down there.

01:57:03.000 What have we with Spork, which says, gun control is and has never been about guns, it has always been about control.

01:57:08.000 Yes.

01:57:09.000 Mm-hmm.

01:57:10.000 Mm-hmm.

01:57:11.000 No discussion there.

01:57:13.000 Bray Kane says, gun customization is the best part of video games.

01:57:16.000 A street sweeper shotgun with 12 gauge flechette, is that how you say it?

01:57:20.000 Flechette, yeah.

01:57:20.000 Is fun.

01:57:21.000 Have you played The Division?

01:57:24.000 The first one, long time ago, yeah.

01:57:26.000 I liked it.

01:57:26.000 And you're like, all the guns are real guns.

01:57:29.000 Yeah, they actually use the names, unlike other companies where like, oh, We'll get sued.

01:57:32.000 Yeah.

01:57:33.000 Yeah.

01:57:33.000 I thought it was fun, you know, and it shows you like a, like a model of the gun when you're in your inventory and stuff.

01:57:38.000 That's the one where you're in, in, uh, DC, right?

01:57:41.000 That's part two.

01:57:41.000 The first one.

01:57:42.000 Well, I think in part two, they go back to New York eventually.

01:57:44.000 Okay.

01:57:44.000 But, uh, I thought it was a great game.

01:57:47.000 It could have been so much better, but it was pretty good.

01:57:49.000 Yeah.

01:57:49.000 You're in New York.

01:57:50.000 The pandemic wipes out the world.

01:57:52.000 Yeah.

01:57:53.000 Yeah.

01:57:54.000 And then you're in Times Square and stuff.

01:57:55.000 And it was, it was really weird playing the game with people who weren't from New York, having lived in New York and playing it.

01:58:00.000 And it's like, it's kind of weird.

01:58:01.000 Yeah.

01:58:01.000 Was it modeled, I'm assuming they modeled it like one for one, like the actual streets?

01:58:05.000 It wasn't one for, I mean yes, but like still smaller.

01:58:08.000 Yeah.

01:58:08.000 So when you go to like 30 Rock, it's a smaller plaza.

01:58:13.000 So they, did they change the spaces between each landmark so you can kind of get to them faster?

01:58:16.000 I think so.

01:58:17.000 Pick a section of the city.

01:58:18.000 I'm not entirely sure, it's a big map.

01:58:20.000 Yeah it was, it was huge.

01:58:21.000 Yeah.

01:58:22.000 And then I played Part 2, and that was in D.C.

01:58:25.000 And the weirdest thing I've ever experienced was the first time I went to D.C., I had been playing Fallout 3 for a long time.

01:58:31.000 And so I go to D.C.

01:58:33.000 and I'm like, I know where everything is!

01:58:36.000 Chevy Chase, what?

01:58:37.000 Yeah.

01:58:37.000 I go into the subway and I'm like, I know exactly where I am.

01:58:41.000 It's like, dude, over here!

01:58:42.000 Yeah.

01:58:43.000 And I'm like, follow me, I know where I'm going.

01:58:44.000 And they're like, have you been here before?

01:58:45.000 I'm like, no, I just played Fallout 3.

01:58:46.000 Crazy.

01:58:49.000 That's crazy, man.

01:58:50.000 The future is gonna be weird.

01:58:51.000 Video games are wild, man.

01:58:52.000 They really are.

01:58:54.000 Let's grab some more Super Chats.

01:58:56.000 Infernal Saxon says car mufflers are unregistered suppressors.

01:59:00.000 So why?

01:59:01.000 Okay.

01:59:03.000 It's a philosophical question.

01:59:04.000 We're not gonna talk about that.

01:59:06.000 Tiffany Garrison says, Hey Tim, I made you a Crochet Roberto Jr.

01:59:10.000 dressed like you and I want to send him to you.

01:59:12.000 Me and my honey love the show.

01:59:14.000 Do we still have the P.O.

01:59:15.000 box up?

01:59:16.000 Not on the website.

01:59:17.000 It's not?

01:59:18.000 No.

01:59:19.000 Are you sure?

01:59:20.000 I didn't think it was, but then we were on Pop Culture Crisis and Ian said it was?

01:59:24.000 Yeah, if you go to TimCast.com, contact us.

01:59:26.000 The PO Box is there for sending things.

01:59:31.000 We typically don't accept a lot of things anymore because of security issues, but...

01:59:35.000 That's how you do it!

01:59:36.000 So, that'd be really cool.

01:59:38.000 Also, I guess the Rise with Roberto Jr.

01:59:41.000 Breakfast Blend has been selling like hotcakes.

01:59:44.000 It's because Roberto Jr., it's his thing, right?

01:59:47.000 So, I think what we're going to be launching is Mr. Bocas' Pumpkin Spice Experience.

01:59:52.000 is the is the focus one and it's going to be a year-round pumpkin spice availability because

01:59:57.000 we figured that this fake seasonal pumpkin spice thing we can do away with it's like you can only

02:00:02.000 get pumpkin spice in november and you know october yeah get out of here starbucks well that doesn't 0.85

02:00:07.000 even make sense i remember i went in and then i was like i want the pumpkin spice cold brew like

02:00:11.000 Like, we just got rid of that.

02:00:12.000 I'm like, why?

02:00:13.000 It's like ginger and nutmeg.

02:00:14.000 Come on, dude, hook it up.

02:00:16.000 So we're going to launch our own Mr. Bocas's pumpkin spice experience.

02:00:21.000 I wanted it to be Professor Bocas.

02:00:24.000 But you've been calling him Mr. Bocas for so long, I didn't realize he'd gotten his tenure, you know what I mean?

02:00:29.000 Or Captain.

02:00:29.000 Yeah.

02:00:30.000 Captain Bocas.

02:00:31.000 I didn't realize he was enlisted.

02:00:32.000 Like, you know, we need other steps in his life.

02:00:34.000 I guess we'll do Mr. Bocas.

02:00:36.000 I think it's a good idea to have a pumpkin spice, honestly.

02:00:40.000 And it'll be available year-round.

02:00:42.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're just gonna have it stocked.

02:00:44.000 So I will tell you there are challenges to this.

02:00:46.000 And we're probably gonna have to hire someone to basically run

02:00:48.000 Casprew specifically, because right now we're just kind of running out of the side. Allison takes

02:00:52.000 care of most of it.

02:00:52.000 But, um, maintaining stock, it's not like

02:00:56.000 let me just tell you guys, and most of you probably know this, but some of you may not realize,

02:01:00.000 we watch the orders, the product leaves There's actual, it's not like they make it, we have to make it per order, so we will make a small batch, sell a bunch, and then we have to constantly have this flow of ordering a bunch more, not ordering too much, not making too much.

02:01:19.000 It's gonna be fresh for everybody when they get it.

02:01:21.000 That means shipping times will vary.

02:01:23.000 Anyway.

02:01:25.000 It's not like you're storing blocks of wood like that stuff.

02:01:28.000 Exactly.

02:01:28.000 It can go bad.

02:01:29.000 Yeah, so it's like right now we are beginning to produce the next batch because we have been selling like hotcakes.

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02:02:05.000 Lucas, do you want to shout anything out?

02:02:06.000 Yeah, obviously the company I started, T-Rex-Arms.com is our website where you can find training videos and products.

02:02:13.000 And then I'm also on social media, Instagram, LucasT-RexArms, Twitter, which I'm now only on Twitter because Elon bought it.

02:02:21.000 Right on! 0.80

02:02:22.000 So, I am on there.

02:02:23.000 Right on.

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02:03:02.000 I will keep pestering Hannah Claire about watching my favorite film franchise, which is Fast and the Furious.

02:03:08.000 Your favorite film franchise?

02:03:09.000 What?

02:03:09.000 Yeah, it's great.

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02:03:12.000 It's fantastic.

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - April 27, 2023

Timcast IRL - Anheuser Busch Has EMERGENCY MEETING As Bud Light Boycott GETTING WORSE w-Lucas Botkin

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