In the wake of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's interview with the New York Times' Maggie Haberstroth about her experience with the rioters in the streets of Washington, D.C., the conversation turns to why the media is so obsessed with AOC and her story, and why we should be too.
00:01:03.000And just the other night, Ocasio-Cortez told this story, recounting this very traumatic moment for her, and I mean that, it was traumatic for her, she says so, where a police officer knocked on her door, she says, pounded very loudly, said, where is she?
00:01:17.000And she was afraid for her life, thinking it was the rioters.
00:01:19.000Well, it was actually a cop who was there to save her, and then ushered her and her staff out and told them to run and go to another building.
00:01:26.000It's created kind of a tabloid controversy that I think is a dumb distraction because right now we have the GameStop rebellion, we have Joe Biden signing or preparing an executive order to nationalize 9 million immigrants, so like we have a lot going on in this country.
00:01:41.000But for some reason the headlines are dominated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Michael Tracy.
00:02:06.000We're going to call out how, now that Trump is gone, What we're seeing is many of these tabloid drama culture war outlets are desperate to get something.
00:02:16.000So they're going after Marjorie Taylor Greene, now AOC comes out.
00:02:20.000Michael Tracy tweeted one thing and now they're writing news stories in Newsweek about him?
00:02:28.000And then we're going to talk about China, and we're going to talk about immigration, and then we're going to talk about life after death, and just kind of chill out, you know, and have some more serious conversations.
00:02:37.000I don't really like talking about people, so we are going to be talking about AOC and the drama, but we're going to be talking about the ideas around it and why it's happening.
00:02:45.000So, that being said, we are joined today by none other than Seamus of Freedom Tunes.
00:03:13.000I like making cartoons about them, and I feel like there's a way to make it good-natured, and to poke fun at them exactly the way you want to, but I find when you're on the spot talking about these public figures, it's a little worrisome, because you're like, I don't want to say the wrong thing and treat this person unjustly, even though I think they're wrong about basically everything.
00:03:32.000I want to rag on people who are taking this whole situation seriously.
00:03:38.000And it's not about AOC saying, you know, I was experiencing trauma.
00:03:41.000I can respect someone being scared and their perspective.
00:03:46.000And when I heard her tell the story, I was like, how about that?
00:04:15.000Well, I actually talked about the story today in my own personal video, and I just mentioned it for five seconds saying it's absolutely nonsensical, stupid, and has no effect on your life.
00:04:48.000If you want to get involved with what I'm doing, you could check me out and my efforts on WeAreChange.org forward slash donate and I release videos almost daily on the YouTube channel WeAreChange.
00:05:04.000I also am not a huge fan of talking about people, but I'd like talking about sociology and cult worship and, you know, what we're looking at right now with like YouTube stars, like OC's a celebrity using the YouTubes to get her message out there.
00:05:20.000But I really like talking about what we were talking about earlier.
00:06:03.000We have this really great members-only post from the other night.
00:06:07.000Where we showed this video from Tony Robbins calling out COVID as hysteria, saying John Hopkins did the study, they said the death rate hasn't changed, like it's 2.8 million.
00:06:27.000And if you can watch it, if you go to TimCast.com and become a member.
00:06:30.000But let me, I will stress, I've been going really, really hard on the hedge funds and Wall Street and the establishment elites.
00:06:36.000And this is the real issue, the real threat, when the left and the right agree.
00:06:40.000One of the reasons I think that we're getting this AOC story as prominent as it is, is because it easily distracts from the Wall Street bets, you know, GameStop rebellion.
00:06:50.000So all of a sudden, everyone's writing stories.
00:06:52.000They tried to divert, saying, buy silver.
00:08:20.000AOC has for weeks said she thought she was going to die that day.
00:08:23.000She said the officer had anger and hostility in his eyes, and she questioned whether or not he had been trying to put her in a vulnerable situation.
00:08:31.000Still, she said she wasn't sure and was trying not to pass judgment.
00:08:35.000The New York Democrat detailed on Instagram Live Monday night the series of events that led her to question the officer's motives.
00:08:41.000At the time, she realized Ryders had breached the Capitol and she hid in her office, fearing for her life.
00:08:46.000She says that, uh, a little after 1 p.m., she heard banging on the door, like someone was trying to break down the door.
00:08:52.000Fearing it was a rioter, she hid in her bathroom.
00:08:54.000She said she heard repeated yells of, where is she, through the door hinge.
00:08:58.000I see this white man in a black beanie.
00:10:25.000And then Michael Tracy called it emotional manipulation.
00:10:28.000I even said earlier, I wouldn't call it manipulation.
00:10:31.000Actually, you know, Michael Tracy's right.
00:10:33.000But I don't think it's, you know, what she did when she told the story was more about promoting herself and getting more attention because she is a master at turning the story into a story about AOC.
00:10:43.000Now, it's nearly a month later, and the Capitol riot story is all about AOC, and Ted Cruz almost had her killed, and now she's hiding in her bathroom.
00:10:52.000And there are a lot of questions we've got to bring up about this story, but I don't know.
00:10:54.000Luke, you were going to say something?
00:10:57.000It would be interesting to know if this was before and after the police shot and killed someone.
00:11:02.000But, you know, that officer probably thought he was risking his life, and it was a very intense moment, so I think that's worth factoring in here, too.
00:11:08.000And as you said, what's the story here?
00:11:12.000It's a personal story that again, the mainstream media and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, even though she's not really, you know, obsessing about it and pushing it like the mainstream media is, she knows what she's doing on the same hand as well.
00:11:23.000She knows the attention this is going to get.
00:12:40.000There are stories like this all the time, where it's like, I see someone, you know, like someone from the squad tweet something, and I'm just like, I just see it and I go, uh-huh.
00:13:47.000Read about that in a history book or two.
00:13:49.000I was watching Back to the Future, it was on the other day, and it was Back to the Future 3, where, you know, Biff, or whatever the guy, no, no, that was his name, Buford, that was his name.
00:13:57.000He's gonna, you know, shoot at noon or whatever, old cliche.
00:14:01.000And I was like, yeah, it's kind of like, we used to be, like, these high noon, ten paces duels in the Wild West, like, we used to do this all the time.
00:14:50.000It's kind of crazy when you look back a hundred years ago, hundreds of years ago, how, like, they didn't really value their own lives all that much.
00:15:42.000Is this sort of back to Ian's point about some kind of military training for Congress people?
00:15:46.000I don't know if we need Congress people to have military training or something like that.
00:15:52.000But there's a funny issue in the story where she says her staffer told her it was safe to come out, implying that she was hiding in the bathroom and left her staffer out in the front to confront the rent.
00:16:13.000They should learn how to handle weapons, have some sort of combat training, and be armed if they're going to be working at the Capitol.
00:16:19.000You know, I think that's a really good point.
00:16:22.000Not necessarily because we expect that the Capitol is going to be continually attacked.
00:16:26.000Again, hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
00:16:29.000That said, if you are going to be sending people to fight in wars, and you are going to be regulating guns, you should probably have some knowledge of combat.
00:16:37.000If you want to fight a war, you go fight it.
00:16:39.000If a politician wants to start one, bring your sons, bring yourself, go out there, just like the kings did.
00:16:43.000The kings back in the day, obviously, as you said, way back in the day, if they wanted to fight a war, they would literally put their brothers, their sisters, their whole family on the front line.
00:16:53.000They were the ones leading the charge, and why not bring that back?
00:16:57.000Let's even bring back dueling if they want to do it themselves voluntarily.
00:17:00.000I mean to me that's a that's a that's a you know solution that a Voluntarist would really like you need to like sign a contract like here by duel the problem with that is Someone could be coerced into signing something where they could yeah, I don't like it and then murder somebody I definitely like to do.
00:17:14.000Oh, sorry No, I was going to say, there was a period where the kings stopped doing that.
00:17:18.000And then, I don't know if you guys ever seen the movie The Patriot.
00:17:20.000Man, I reference The Patriot so often.
00:17:35.000And I'm definitely not a fan of dueling, but I hear you guys very much on this idea that There should be more of a cost to the people waging these wars, or pushing the country into them, that there isn't.
00:17:49.000I mean, it's a cost that your average person pays, or is more liable to pay, and they just don't.
00:17:54.000To me, it's also kind of awkward to see the people who create one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, specifically with Yemen, selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, and allowing that, telling us about uncivility, and how rude people are, and how violent protests are.
00:18:10.000The two don't really add up when you really look at it from that perspective.
00:18:13.000Yeah, I mean, you look at the fact that Boeing had like a $580 billion contract servicing the F-12s that were being used to bomb Yemen by the Saudi Arabian government.
00:18:22.000The U.S.-Saudi coalition that are working together in tandem bombing the crap out of mainly the Houthi areas, which of course is creating the worst humanitarian crisis according to the United Nations.
00:18:42.000And so long as they want to milk it for all it's worth and then run these segments, I'll just be like, can we get that dude who's bar burnt down in the Minneapolis riots on the TV as well?
00:19:28.000This is the event that they're going to be milking till... I don't even want to say when, but I remember even driving... Till the cows come home.
00:19:43.000Who was talking about the dangers of insurrection domestically and specifically going on about how we need to take down Trump.
00:19:50.000We need to charge him with as much as we can because he represents a strong guy and there's an ideology that we need to fight domestically and it was bomb.
00:20:00.000It was just mind-boggling sitting back driving and watching and seeing a CIA guy who fought off insurgents in the Middle East now trying to implement some of those policies Inside of the United States domestically and when you look at Biden and the people he surrounded himself with especially with the laser like focus that the intelligence agencies under him according to John Brennan are going to be focusing now on the libertarians and on the nativists.
00:20:26.000We're headed towards a situation that's not going to be clearing up anytime and this is why they're going to be talking about this insurrection for at least, at least four years.
00:20:36.000I'm surprised we're still not milking 9-11 just like Rudy Giuliani did every opportunity.
00:20:40.000We basically are with the Yeah, exactly, with the Patriot Act.
00:20:43.000All the same laws are in effect, and all the same overreactions are still in place.
00:20:46.000You know, we're still fighting in the Middle East.
00:20:48.000These wars have continued after 20 years.
00:20:50.000And even today, we've got news and information that, you know, Germany is pushing the United States to stay in longer.
00:20:56.000And most likely, the other information and other reports we're getting in today is that the withdrawal that was planned from Afghanistan is not going to happen.
00:21:06.000Yeah, and what a shock that is, right?
00:21:08.000Listen, you know why I love the GameStop story?
00:21:12.000Is that for once, you have a clear path to uniting left and right on an issue they agree on, and against the establishment elites who propagate these wars.
00:21:20.000And then we see this drama pop up, which is the distraction, in my opinion, on purpose, to get us off topic, to focus on stupid drama that doesn't mean anything.
00:21:29.000Well, and it's funny because they go on and on about how it was Trump who riled up these tensions, and I think it was even claimed that Ted Cruz was responsible.
00:21:42.000And their whole argument is, well, they propagated misinformation that All right, well, what about all the lies the media told to get us into these conflicts in the Middle East?
00:21:55.000How many people have died as a result of that?
00:22:22.000But that's not even the bigger story here.
00:22:25.000The person who called for it, the New York Times, officially called for this with their article by Kevin Rose saying that this is a good idea and that this is needed.
00:22:33.000Where have we come where we have the New York Times of all ... publications the publication that by the way told the ... American people that there was weapons of mass destruction ... in Iraq they were the first ones to sell that lie to the ... American people and now they're telling us we need a ... ministry of truth we need a realities are we need to have ... control of information that they're going to be working ... with tech platforms on along with the government making ... sure that information is of course held in the hands of the ...
00:23:27.000It's like a guy coming and being like, we would like to have a camp set up where you can take people who believe bad things and are causing problems to place them for a certain period of time and then maybe teach them things to change the disinformation.
00:23:40.000That way they're no longer a threat to society.
00:23:42.000And I know, I know it sounds bad, but hear me out.
00:23:51.000The news publication that lied to us and led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people meaninglessly that led to a migrant crisis is not going to be lecturing me about how truth needs to be controlled by central forces in the government.
00:24:04.000What they're talking about here is essentially the tech platforms working with experts from agencies all around the United States government to fight conspiracy theories.
00:24:13.000They're the biggest pushers of conspiracy theories.
00:24:34.000And so, yeah, the press has always been horrible, and yeah, the idea that they would talk about conspiracy theories when they just spent the last three years claiming without any evidence that the President of the United States was a Russian asset who's being controlled by Putin.
00:25:57.000Tucker Carlson actually brought up the Federal Reserve and the larger economic impacts that they're having on society, which is really surprising seeing him say, hey, we should be focusing on the Fed, which was just quite mind-boggling.
00:26:10.000But again, other individuals in the mainline establishment media, their lies, they're harmful and they're amplified and they're promoted with rigged algorithms that of course have their insider buddies promoting them so you see them first and you have no other option even if you search for news and even independent news.
00:26:27.000There was even a time where you typed in and searched for my news organization, you couldn't find it, you would get articles with the mainstream media bashing me.
00:26:37.000But another layer here we need to understand that's critically important is that the big tech social media companies, the technocrats, are really the ones in charge that are pushing a lot of this nonsense, that are controlling the conversation, controlling the narratives.
00:26:50.000And this is why issues like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are being brought up.
00:26:54.000And then dunking and criticizing and attacking individuals like Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Tracy, all of them is No, no, no.
00:27:41.000When we saw Donald Trump as president, you had one side hate Donald Trump.
00:27:46.000And this is the point I was going to bring up with the Young Turks.
00:27:48.000Think about the people who watch the Young Turks and are sitting there going like, oh, Michael Tracy, like he's so dumb, like, whoa, so stupid.
00:27:56.000These people are, with all due respect, not What's the right word I want to say without calling them a disparaging term?
00:28:05.000There's different tiers of individuals.
00:28:08.000There's those that would prefer to listen to some like hardcore, boring... Seven men from Tajikistan were arrested today.
00:28:26.000When you're trying to tell people about what's going on, and when you're trying to convince people of policy, but you have half this country that just mindlessly follows along these ridiculous narratives, how do you convince them to make better moves that will help themselves?
00:28:50.000He says, I'm going to vote for Trump because, you know, Trump's better for these reasons.
00:28:53.000Joe Biden is the establishment who's going to do everything that the left hates and everything the right hates combined and bring it all together.
00:29:01.000You end up with this very difficult scenario.
00:29:04.000But in the media, it's really easy to split the left and the right.
00:29:21.000Well, now all of a sudden these people who have been told over and over again by the likes of the Young Turk that Wall Street bad, well, you can't just change their mind now and say Wall Street good.
00:29:35.000They want a reality czar to make sure that you're not thinking about the wrong thing.
00:29:40.000There was one article in The Nation Where they said that Wall Street bets, like Trumpism and QAnon, you see what they try and do.
00:29:49.000When they can't give you a dividing line on Trump because half the country hates Trump, they try and shift the narrative and give you tabloid drama.
00:29:56.000Well, it's hilarious, though, because I think a lot of people on the left are willing to see this, with this situation.
00:30:00.000Now, the media might have screwed themselves here, at least to some extent, because there are a number of people on the left, and you look at, like, Reddit.
00:30:06.000Reddit is often pretty left-leaning politically, and so when they see themselves being associated with white supremacists, or with Donald Trump, because they're upsetting people on Wall Street, they might start to think, maybe these terms don't actually mean anything, because this is also something that The vast majority of people who have heard of are very much in favor of.
00:30:27.000Like, most people who have seen the Wall Street Bet story, they think it's hilarious.
00:30:30.000And so when you start telling them, well, actually the people who are disrupting the stock market and raising the price of the stock for GameStop and hurting this hedge fund are white supremacists, it sort of opens up their eyes and they think, oh, maybe conservatives are telling the truth when they say that word is just thrown around or that phrase is just thrown around and doesn't mean anything.
00:30:47.000Well, you start to notice that if they're calling people who are having fun with Wall Street vets white supremacists, they might just be calling anyone that.
00:32:42.000But you're saying, look, having this conversation is scooping fuel in just so you know, because we're becoming the media that's talking about it.
00:32:54.000When we bring this crap up and go talk about this junk, we're propelling it, but we're acknowledging that that is what we're doing.
00:33:02.000So when we're showing people this, if you're falling for this and you're talking about it, you're fueling it.
00:33:09.000So when we literally do a segment saying, don't fall for the tricks of the media and the manipulation and focus on what matters, we're making it worse, you're saying?
00:33:16.000Yes, we're like, don't fall for this, and we're doing it.
00:33:22.000The fire of Michael Tracy and media talking crap.
00:33:23.000We're specifically saying this is the media's manipulation and we're focusing on the New York Times calling for a Biden realities are to manipulate what you can know.
00:33:31.000If we don't talk about that and people don't know they're doing it, then they'll get away with it.
00:33:42.000And we're doing it and we're showing them this is how it's done.
00:33:45.000The fire is when you get left-wing channels like the Young Turks creating content that shifts your focus away from high-level issues like media manipulation and hedge fund manipulation and tells you to pay attention to some dude on Twitter.
00:34:00.000What we're doing is we're calling that out a step back and saying, don't let the media manipulate you, so you need to pay attention to Wall Street, you need to pay attention to the head funds, and don't let them divide us.
00:34:10.000I'm not going to sit here and rag on AOC because she was scared.
00:34:16.000I think what she does when she promotes this stuff is bad politically because she's essentially just using Whether she knows it or not, these PR tactics to shift the narrative onto her to build up more, you know, press attention and things like that.
00:34:27.000And I fully recognize that we give her attention when we talk about it.
00:35:46.000I think it's fair to disagree with AOC, but like I mentioned earlier, she does this Instagram thing and I'm kind of like, okay, that's fine.
00:36:43.000The New York Times, the politicians, they want us distracted.
00:36:47.000They want to take a story AOC put out that has no bearing on my life or anyone else's and make it a major news story so we stop talking about hedge funds and Wall Street and the short sellers, which we're talking about now.
00:38:50.000There's just slightly more Republicans than Democrats who are doing better, but they're all just so awful, right?
00:38:56.000So when you have Donald Trump and his critics are so insane that you're like, this is not legitimate criticism of a president, and you need to call it out.
00:39:05.000I get emails from people all the time saying, how do I convince my family members that the media is lying to them?
00:39:23.000Show them reddit.com and then google search reddit silver and then what you see is on google all of these news stories you know dozens hundreds saying reddit says buy silver and then show them reddit.com do not buy silver it's there the veil has been shattered now we're getting this tabloid drama trying desperately to shift the narrative away to something unfalsifiable This story about AOC and Michael Tracy is a really good example of an excellent manipulation tactic.
00:39:59.000Therefore, there's no way to look at that story and call it fake news.
00:40:02.000They've been able to now attempt this media attack to trick boomers, for the most part, into buying silver when Reddit was saying, don't do it.
00:40:10.000When people started to see how they were lying and manipulating, they said, go for an emotionally-driven headline that will dominate the press and manipulate people into reading news that can't be right or wrong.
00:40:56.000Like, that is a red pill that you can literally just hand to somebody, and it like dissolves in their skin.
00:41:02.000They don't even gotta put it in their mouth.
00:41:03.000You just show them these two things, and they're gonna be like, that's insane.
00:41:07.000So immediately what happens is they run full speed and smack it out of your hand, because they don't want you to show people what's actually going on.
00:41:15.000That's why the story was trending on Twitter.
00:41:18.000And it's not necessarily because, like, I think anyone conspired to make it happen.
00:41:22.000What I think happens, typically, is you've got PR people who look for opportunities to shift the narrative.
00:41:26.000I don't think anybody had a meeting and they were like, AOC, can you do a video and do this?
00:41:30.000And then we're gonna try and, you know, highlight some individual... What happened was, she told the story, a bunch of special interests who wanted to shift the narrative saw the opportunity and used their PR tactics to do so.
00:41:40.000You know, I got a little distracted by Jake Paul fighting Ben Askren.
00:41:43.000That's going to happen in the next six days.
00:41:46.000Off of a sidetrack there, just to add up to your point here, we also have to understand
00:41:50.000the mainstream media has been incentivized ever since Donald Trump to understand that
00:42:04.000And when you're building a huge hammer that is just meant to destroy, what are you going to do when Donald Trump, your biggest nail, is gone?
00:42:11.000Well, you're going to go after all the other nails.
00:42:14.000Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Tracy, who are supposedly on your side, but they're not going along with the agenda.
00:42:20.000They're not going along with the special interest.
00:42:22.000They're not going along with, of course, the big money that, of course, want a specific agenda done.
00:42:28.000They're the ones that are standing in the way of it, and of course the mainstream media, what are they going to do?
00:43:12.000I think the Young Turks is one of the greatest assets for the establishment because they come off as anti-establishment
00:43:20.000but boy do they love and help the establishment. Like when
00:43:24.000Jimmy Dore was saying force the vote on Medicare for All, use the leverage
00:43:28.000the progressives have against the establishment, you know, corporate
00:43:32.000Democrats, the Young Turks went after him.
00:43:35.000Insulted him, derided him, and said it's not the time, and defended the establishment while pretending they weren't really defending the establishment.
00:43:43.000Saying, oh no, Jimmy Dore's gonna help the Republicans win.
00:43:46.000See, Jimmy isn't going with the establishment narrative.
00:44:39.000You could say, oh, they lied about Donald Trump here, and people would be like, oh, you're crazy, you just love Trump.
00:44:44.000They hate Trump so much, they won't listen.
00:44:46.000You could show them the video ABC did where they manipulated, they zoomed in so you didn't see Shinzo Abe dump the food in, and then they show Trump doing it and claim, look at Trump, he's a moron.
00:44:55.000So, you can try and show them the full video of the Charlottesville comments Trump made, the very fine people hoax, but they don't want to believe it.
00:45:32.000But I guess it's true, I try and fact check everything, but I guess the main difference is my opinions aren't particularly strong, and I avoid framing devices for the most part.
00:45:40.000So, actually, that's probably not fair to say.
00:45:42.000I probably frame things the way I do, you know, in a similar way, but I'm just not on anyone's side for the most part.
00:45:49.000Well, we all have a bias and it's about, you know, being acknowledged, acknowledging that bias.
00:45:55.000Like I obviously have some experiences that makes me distrust the state and the government, especially after looking at a lot of history and having some personal experiences, but it's about admitting it.
00:46:05.000And being honest with it having a conversation that's actually genuine not scripted trying to push an agenda over the truth so I think that's the biggest difference that we see from you know let's just say us compared to of course Jimmy Kimball who's given a line about Russia being involved somehow in this red scandal and just.
00:46:25.000Blanket and Lee soullessly reading it to the American ... viewer like it's truth when we know it's just scripted ... there's a lot of big money behind it and there's also a ... huge agenda behind it that doesn't serve the American ... people is does the exact opposite of that it screws them over.
00:46:57.000And I discussed this right after the election.
00:47:01.000I'm horribly sad because millions more unborn children will likely die than would have otherwise, and thousands more people in the Middle East.
00:47:09.000This is going to be a horrible, horrible presidency.
00:47:12.000So I'm not happy about it, but he's certainly an interesting target to go after.
00:47:16.000And I think he sort of exposes a lot of the problems with the system when you look at the fact that the dominant media culture was worshipping this man.
00:47:22.000That's also sort of a red pill moment because a lot of progressives don't like him.
00:47:30.000And when you look at Kamala Harris too, they don't like her either.
00:47:34.000And so it's getting to the point where the people they prop up and make into idols are so universally disliked that that in and of itself is red-pilling the public.
00:47:43.000Yeah, I've got a sense of relief right now that Trump's not in office because of the drama and distractions that he would cause with news articles.
00:48:34.000I would say, you know, with Trump's tweets, it really made sure the spotlight was always on Trump.
00:48:40.000And it was bad for him in a lot of ways.
00:48:42.000Like, sometimes it was like, there were a few things if he just didn't tweet, he would have, you know... If he was banned sooner, he might have gotten re-elected.
00:48:51.000Because he kind of hurt himself in some of these major stories with the things he was tweeting about, you know, and just generating more news.
00:48:56.000If Trump didn't say anything and went radio silent for a month, the media would have starved to death.
00:49:02.000Like a parasite, just like, you know, no longer, like a leech falling off and then just like, withering away.
00:49:17.000And they weren't doing well before he came along either.
00:49:19.000It's not as if they've been doing great and then Trump left office and now they're down.
00:49:22.000It's like they were doing horribly, then Trump was elected, and then they were doing pretty well, and now he's gone and they've got nothing.
00:49:37.000You know, look, I obviously, I voted for Donald Trump and would have preferred him greatly to Joe Biden, but there is a bit of me that's relieved that without Trump, listen, A good analogy is that Trump was a very large man that provided the life force for the energy vampires that were the mainstream media.
00:50:10.000The layoffs reversed because Donald Trump came along and he just exuded media energy.
00:50:16.000And they all started like little gremlins crawling towards it and then absorbing the energy.
00:50:21.000And now Trump is gone and they're all like hissing and chasing after people.
00:50:25.000It's kind of like when the people, you know, the COVID lockdown in New York and the rats came out of the ground and started chasing people because they're desperate and hungry and they're fighting squirrels and stuff.
00:51:24.000Now these people have forgotten how to sustain themselves.
00:51:28.000The media outlets built, as you mentioned, a genre or there's a reply guy, but the media
00:51:33.000also created a genre reporting on Trump because of that.
00:51:36.000A lot of people shifted their normal beat.
00:51:39.000A lot of news organizations fired certain journalists that covered real news and hired people just to cover Trump.
00:51:43.000Then, when Trump ascended and vanished from sight, all of these people are left just desperate and hungry, and they don't know how to feed anymore.
00:51:52.000Now we're going to see a glorious collapse, starting with CNN, whose ratings have fallen back to earth, they say.
00:51:59.000Well, Tim, that's your understanding of it.
00:52:00.000For me, it was Trump just taking dumps and these rats eating it.
00:52:05.000And now Trump's not taking any more dumps?
00:52:07.000I think Ian would agree with that one.
00:52:09.000And now the rats are going hungry and they're gonna start eating their own very soon.
00:52:15.000It was Donald Trump taking a dump and then the flies landing on us.
00:52:20.000Have we consulted with the truth czar on this?
00:52:22.000this look at this they say uh... while january twenty one will
00:52:32.000twenty twenty one will go down in the ratings record books for cnn
00:52:35.000the last week of the month may offer a portent of what the post-trump era will
00:52:39.000be like for the network In the first week of the Biden administration, the AT&T-owned news channel saw audiences that had been flooding into primetime recently drop precipitously.
00:55:25.000I remember even before Donald Trump became president, there was a lot of discussion about the mainstream media dying.
00:55:31.000But also there was a lot of conversation about it not just dying and going away, but it going more into the hands of Wall Street firms, which a lot of them are invested into the mainstream media, and also other billionaires.
00:55:41.000So today we got the news that the Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, is stepping down.
00:55:46.000And he's not really quitting or retiring.
00:55:48.000He's just going to be refocusing Things like his satellite company things like his ... contracts with the US government but most ... importantly what I found surprising is he's going to be ... focusing on the Washington Post which essentially has ... been acting like his mouthpiece the mouthpiece of ... the billionaire class especially with all the crazy ... articles that we've been seeing from them I mean they ... call people who believe in guns white supremacist they ... call the the the Wall Street bets people what did they say ... that that that the hedge funds guys are the good guys ...
00:56:18.000Every single talking point is like some kind of pompous elite douche-tard.
00:56:52.000So what's really interesting is with the story of Wall Street bets is that I was reading, and fact check me on this one, but I was reading posts where they said because of the short sellers, GameStop struggled to have a quorum in their investors meeting because the people who were investing weren't showing up.
00:57:08.000There were no people because they weren't legitimate investors.
00:57:12.000and that was bankrupting the company was causing very serious problems
00:57:15.000they'd have the shareholders meetings to talk about how the company pulls through
00:57:18.000and they survive so they're effectively betting to destroy these companies and literally strangling
00:57:23.000them out that's when we see the Washington Post
00:57:27.000that's one of the good guys yeah Not those that are challenging that machine.
00:57:37.000As he's stepping down from Amazon, he's going to be refocusing his efforts on one of them is going to be the Washington Post.
00:57:42.000But even before Donald Trump, there was a lot of conversations about Wall Street getting involved in mainstream media and killing Any form of investigative journalism because it wasn't as profitable as, of course, it was the sensational, celebritard nonsense that they push on us, and that's essentially what they've become.
00:58:00.000My friends, I am going to give you a very clippable moment.
00:58:04.000I think YouTube can do it, but here's the clip.
00:58:07.000Luke, you mentioned that Wall Street was destroying investigative journalism.
00:58:11.000Sir, you are correct, and I'll break it down for you.
00:58:13.000If you go to an investor and say, I would like to start a media outlet that does investigative journalism, the investor says, okay, how much money do you need?
00:58:23.000And they say, for the first year, we're looking at $500,000 to hire a small team of journalists and producers to research these stories and produce the content.
00:59:22.000Because I can get some 23-year-old at minimum wage to write about Ocasio-Cortez and Michael Tracy, and that's going to get me a million views and make me some real money.
00:59:32.000So why would I invest in investigative journalism?
00:59:35.000And that's the most important journalism we need.
00:59:37.000People seeking out the corruption, exposing the corruption, and it's dangerous You could get killed.
00:59:52.000Well, there's also a lot of liability.
00:59:53.000I mean, me and you did investigative journalism.
00:59:55.000A lot of times we put our lives on the line to do so.
00:59:57.000A lot of times there's, you know, insurance companies involved in this and there's a lot of risk that You're going to have to be responsible for as a company.
01:00:06.000So that's another reason why we are seeing the decline of any form of investigations and this new form of reactionary kind of bullcrap that is being incentivized.
01:00:15.000And again, it could be because of the risk, it could be what you mentioned, but also another factor here, as I've been talking about, is the algorithms that promote the sensationalist garbage that, of course, give them money, give them clicks, give them ad revenue as well.
01:00:31.000Yeah, so what do you guys think the solution is?
01:00:51.000Well, first, I'll say that the problem is, when politics was hyper-partisan, because some people just hated Trump so much they wanted an outlet to watch and just revel in their hatred, And then you had people who loved Trump and hated the other side.
01:02:45.000I'm pointing out that even Veritas has their perspective and they have certain issues they think are more important they will cover.
01:02:52.000So the issue is, I suppose, I don't think you're gonna make money on investigative journalism for the most part.
01:02:58.000I think you can create maybe a subscription model and then have the content sustained that way, but it's probably gonna rely on people who want to support it Yeah, the purpose of it was never to make money.
01:03:09.000It was to expose corruption and do, you know, make and better society.
01:03:19.000You're usually doing it for a purpose.
01:03:21.000News organizations would have investigative journalism because they know a sensational story on the cover would generate positive press attention for their paper.
01:03:29.000So, back in the day, if you did a story that was like, breaking, big company is corrupt, and they put it on the front page, they would sell the most papers, and that would boost their, hey look, our circulation's huge, you gotta pay more for ads now, and we're getting the circulation prices.
01:03:43.000Today, the easiest way to get traffic is not going to be a big groundbreaking story, Woodward and Bernstein or whatever, it's going to be AOC, Smackdown, Michael Tracy, what?
01:03:56.000Well, even if you did do some incredible investigative journalism and you're just starting off, no one will see it because the algorithms wouldn't promote it.
01:04:05.000No matter how good it is, people who start off as if they're not with CNN, if they're not with the establishment, if they don't have any big money, not even just money, but if they don't have any connections to Google, no one's going to see their stories.
01:04:59.000No, you're talking about somebody else.
01:05:01.000The point is there were a couple lefties who were pointing out that hard coverage, legitimate journalism from the Capitol, was deleted by YouTube.
01:05:07.000And then you have Ford Fisher, who's more of a libertarian, had his coverage deleted by YouTube.
01:05:20.000And we're, you know, for those that are following and are, you know, we're still working on Scanner and we've got some stuff to work through.
01:05:42.000And then the reach is dramatically limited.
01:05:44.000I think interesting phenomenon when it came to Subverse and when it comes to it seems like the people that invest because it was like a crowdfunded investment raised like a million dollars and it was but the people I don't think I can only really speak for myself.
01:05:56.000I also invested in it or tried to before they got close the investment round got closed didn't invest to see a return on their money.
01:06:02.000They invested because they believed in the movement.
01:06:04.000Which is why most, I think, non-investigative outlets are non-profit.
01:06:08.000It's easier just to take donations to do it.
01:06:11.000So, it's not an easy problem to solve, man.
01:06:15.000The current internet ecosystem greatly supports snapback, clapback, tabloid drama over legitimate, exposing... Listen, man.
01:06:47.000He was trying to expose, what was it, the CIA?
01:06:49.000Well, the drug trade specifically organized by the CIA that was also arming rebels in Latin America for the overthrow of the government, specifically the Contras in Nicaragua, and he exposed through talking to individuals like freeway Ricky Ross, not the rapper, the original real freeway Ricky Ross, I actually talked to him and interviewed him on my channel on We Are Change, who exposed essentially how it was the CIA that introduced him to crack cocaine and pushed crack cocaine into the United States.
01:07:36.000His death was ruled a suicide by the Sacramento County Coroner's Office.
01:07:41.000After a local papal reported that he had died from multiple gunshots, the coroner's office received so many calls asking about Webb's death that Sacramento County Coroner Robert Lyons issued a statement confirming that Webb had died by suicide.
01:07:52.000When asked by local reporters about the possibility of two gunshots being a suicide, Lyons replied,
01:07:57.000it's unusual in a suicide case to have two shots, but it has been done in the past,
01:08:01.000and it is in fact a distinct possibility. News coverage noted that there were widespread
01:08:06.000rumors on the internet at the time that Webb had been killed as retribution for his Dark
01:08:10.000Alliance series, published eight years before.
01:08:13.000Webb's ex-wife Susan Bell told reporters that she believed Webb had died by suicide.
01:08:17.000The way he was acting it would be hard for me to believe it was anything but suicide, she said.
01:08:21.000According to Bell, Webb had been unhappy for some time over his inability to get a job at another major newspaper.
01:08:26.000He had sold his house the week before his death because he was unable to afford the mortgage.
01:08:31.000After Webb's death, a collection of his stories, before and after the Dark Alliance series were published, etc.
01:08:37.000There was even a movie surrounding his life.
01:08:41.000It's possible that he shot himself in such a way that it wasn't lethal, but most people read that and go, like, they're even telling us on Wikipedia that people are like, what?
01:08:53.000Kill the Messenger was, I think, the movie that documented his life.
01:08:58.000I remember reading his book The Dark Alliance when I was in in high school and being absolutely flabbergasted at the connections that he was able to investigate to look into and expose with evidence with proof the US government literally financing not only death squads in Latin America and and financing revolutions and and meddling in other people's elections but More importantly bringing crack cocaine into the United ... States and introducing it into urban dense communities ... which of course led to individuals like Joe Biden and ... the Clintons passing very strict legislation that threw ... a lot of people in jail for victimless crimes like using ... narcotics and again just just the weaponization and how ... crack cocaine was used to destroy.
01:09:44.000Modern America those implications when we talk about you know racism and race issues why does anyone know anyone want to bring up these issues why are we having huge conversations about any liability for all those people involved any consequences for all those people involved that destroyed so many lives and communities for what it's absolutely sickening I mean his book The Dark Alliance I definitely recommend it and Later on in life, he did complain because no one wanted to hire him because he exposed the CIA.
01:10:11.000And when you expose the CIA, I mean, Chuck Schumer says, you know, they haven't wasted a Sunday.
01:10:32.000That's why I keep telling everybody, like, we're setting up a website because we are cutting through the BS and people want to know about investigative journalism.
01:10:39.000They want to know why it's not happening.
01:11:12.000They say the day before the crash, Hastings indicated that he believed he was being investigated by the FBI in an email to colleagues which was copied to and released by Hastings' friend, Army Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs.
01:11:23.000Hastings said that he was onto a big story that he needed to go off the radar and that the FBI might interview him.
01:11:29.000WikiLeaks announced that Hastings had also contacted Jennifer Robinson, one of his lawyers, a few hours prior to his death.
01:11:36.000And the LA Weekly reported that he was preparing new reports on the...
01:11:44.000The FBI released a statement denying that Hastings was ever under investigation by the agency, etc, etc.
01:11:49.000But I want to give you the gist of the story.
01:11:53.000He goes to his neighbor and he says, I need to borrow your car.
01:11:56.000Because the other night I saw someone fiddling around with my car and his neighbor was like, wait, that's crazy.
01:12:02.000Then his car was seen speeding down the road at maximum speed, sparks and flames shooting out, and then crashed into a tree just at the time he was saying he was going to be reporting on the CIA and was contacting WikiLeaks.
01:12:58.000the cartoon guys are like I just wanna make 20 bucks you're in it, you're on the list now
01:13:02.000no no I'm kidding it's true I've been on the list
01:13:06.000my big red pill with the CIA well first of all the past 4 years of just seeing the
01:13:10.000intelligence community trying to unseat a democratically elected president
01:13:14.000with absolutely no evidence was enough of a red pill But one thing I'm going to tell all the people at home that blew my mind the first time I did it, and I'm not even going to describe it, but just Google Operation Northwoods if you haven't already.
01:13:27.000But the Intercept, what you were talking about, I kind of want to add on.
01:13:30.000The Intercept actually wrote an article a few years ago in 2014 that was titled, How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb.
01:13:39.000So there's a lot of other involvement, there's a lot of other underhanded things that we don't know of that should be exposed, should be talked about no matter what the consequences, because the truth here matters.
01:13:48.000But there's also other media institutions like the Washington Post, which I have to point out, do have a lot of connections to the CIA, that wrote an article saying, quote, Gary Webb was no journalism hero.
01:15:21.000I'm saying, I've had journalists explain this to me around this time, you know, in 2012, 2013, with like a lot of the big hacker stuff that was going on, a lot of the journalists that I knew and hung out with were like, this is typically what you'll see.
01:15:32.000And so you'll end up with someone like perhaps Michael Hastings saying the FBI has been investigating him, perhaps because he had already, you know, they knew they couldn't turn him, they couldn't convince him, he wouldn't work with them, and he was going to expose these big stories.
01:15:44.000To be fair, I'm not trying to, you know, I know it's a sore subject for a lot of people.
01:15:48.000His family says that they essentially discount these narratives, these conspiracy theories.
01:15:52.000The point is, when you're an investigative journalist, And you are staring down at the CIA and the FBI, powerful U.S., massively funded interests that don't want to have bumps in the road?
01:16:07.000Now, most journalists don't do any reporting that really bothers them, like 99.9.
01:16:13.000But eventually you get someone who gets leaked some real information, and what do they gotta do?
01:16:16.000They flee to Hong Kong or Russia before that information gets leaked to, say, WikiLeaks or Glenn Greenwald.
01:16:21.000Yeah, and there's also the big information that Udo Ufkete, I'm saying it wrong, he's a German journalist that worked for Der Spiegel, that released and talked about how essentially, you know, intelligence agencies were writing entire articles that he just had to put his name behind.
01:16:39.000And, you know, there's a large number of these individuals that, of course, we need to remind people of.
01:16:43.000There are heroes out there that do deserve to be commended, that do deserve to be talked about, and do deserve to be remembered since, of course, you know, having these conversations is something that is more imperative than ever, especially right now.
01:17:13.000I guess if you like living in America and you like the interests that we have in this country, like if you like the ability to go and buy a pizza and live comfortably and stuff, you have to, you know, recognize that there are things being done essentially in your name that you probably would never agree with and would not vote for.
01:17:30.000They do horrifying things, and the justification is you don't know about it.
01:17:35.000And you get to live comfortably and beautifully in the United States.
01:17:38.000Look, they want to build the Qatar-Turkey pipeline.
01:17:39.000A big reason for this big conflict with Russia and Syria is to get cheap gas into Europe so that people in Europe can live better and more cheaply.
01:17:47.000Most people in Europe would probably be like, I want cheaper gas!
01:17:50.000There was rioting in France over expensive gas.
01:17:53.000So, intelligence agencies and contractors, real nasty people doing real nasty stuff, are doing real nasty things so that you can get your cheaper gas.
01:18:03.000And I try talking to a lot of activists about this.
01:18:05.000I'm like, you have so many people who love living in luxury.
01:18:08.000And that's why I think it's really important that people get out away from the big cities, learn to support themselves, take responsibility, maybe chop some wood, learn how to hunt, handle a firearm, be responsible for yourself.
01:18:20.000Because if you want to sit here and complain about warfare and slavery and stuff in countries like China with Foxconn labs, you've got to recognize that you are reaping the benefits of war and slavery.
01:18:32.000And if you don't want to acknowledge that, then fine.
01:19:09.000It's because people don't want to talk about these larger issues, but if we did, it would expose their game, which is essentially rigged, which more and more people are finding out.
01:19:16.000So I think it's more imperative to have these honest, real conversations, and I'm very happy to be a part of this one, because I think it's absolutely needed.
01:19:24.000This is why nobody wants to be a real journalist anymore.
01:19:29.000Look, back in the day, you had those names, Woodward and Bernstein.
01:19:32.000Now, they're kind of, you know, I guess, off the rails.
01:19:36.000Is it Bernstein who keeps saying... Everything's worse than Watergate.
01:19:39.000Yeah, everything's worse than Watergate.
01:19:41.000It used to be that if you were a journalist and you exposed something, you were protected.
01:19:45.000Because they were like, we can't go after this person because they're a famous and respected journalist.
01:19:57.000So, if you're not gonna go down in history for doing a good thing, if no one will like you and then you will die by suicide with two gunshots to the head, what incentive is there for anyone to actually do investigations?
01:21:08.000What made you think, like, there's no way he's going to do this?
01:21:10.000Well, his treatment of whistleblowers hasn't been that good.
01:21:14.000I mean, his statements on Chelsea Manning, his statements on Julian Assange acting like he didn't even know who he was.
01:21:19.000was a very telling sign, as well as the people around him.
01:21:22.000I mean, we heard rumors that it was a lot of people, especially Jared Kushner, being one of the major people who was against giving any kind of freedom towards Julian Assange, along with other special interests that pushed for this.
01:21:35.000And, you know, those voices were very prominent.
01:21:38.000And I think those voices, Donald Trump heard and listened to and sadly disappointed a lot of his base that was expecting this to happen.
01:22:13.000The Constitution specifically says that they can be impeached, they can be removed from office, or like impeachment serves the purpose of removing them from office.
01:22:21.000He says, well, if I can't be removed from office because I'm not in office, you can't impeach me, right?
01:22:25.000So then he's arguing, it says the purpose of impeachment is to remove them from office and prevent them from holding office in the future.
01:22:32.000Trump says, well, as I can't be impeached, I can still run for office in the future.
01:22:36.000And you have no jurisdiction to try a private citizen before he's in public office, before he's run or whatever, or while he's not in office.
01:22:44.000Trump is basically saying he wants to run.
01:22:46.000And the purpose of impeachment is to stop him from being able to be president again.
01:22:49.000Drew Holden said that Jeff Bezos wants to run.
01:22:52.000He said he's running, and I don't know if that means running away from Amazon or running for office.
01:24:22.000I mean, you read his book, The Art of the Deal, a lot of it is just, you know, PR to the max and just using information as a way to get as much support as you can to get what you can.
01:24:35.000And that's essentially his presidency.
01:24:37.000So do you think they'll let Ted Cruz run after he attempted to murder AOC?
01:25:35.000I mean, we're talking about the CIA and the information that they data harvest, especially from the NSA and all the information that they know.
01:25:42.000I mean, we're probably already with predictive programming algorithms that could predict the future.
01:25:47.000And I think it's already being exploited.
01:25:49.000And I think the bigger kind of targets that stand against them, They're already setting the groundwork to beat them into oblivion, and that's why we're seeing such attacks on them that are kind of ridiculous.
01:26:03.000I don't like... I criticized all of them.
01:26:05.000I have negative things to say about all of them, but seeing the media landscape...
01:26:10.000Seeing the media landscape against them, there's something that's up and I think it's because they represent some of the bigger ideas that a lot of mainline kind of Republicans and Trump supporters also kind of in the middle ground resonate with.
01:28:01.000There was some stuff a few years ago where I watched, like one thing about marijuana legalization, and it really felt like he didn't agree with, this was years ago, he was opposed to it.
01:28:11.000And it really sounded like he didn't really oppose it and was just trying to make it seem like he did.
01:28:16.000And I was like, it's not working, Tucker.
01:29:01.000Do you see that really funny moment where Tucker was criticizing how all these big corporations made massive profits and stocks were skyrocketing during the pandemic?
01:29:10.000And then when he was doing the handoff with Hannity, Hannity was like, he just jumps in and goes, if a company provides a service, they're going to make money.
01:29:17.000And Tucker did the, like the furrowed brow, like, huh?
01:29:20.000You know, look, and that was, that was great.
01:29:22.000Did you, uh, did you grab him by the bow tie and just keep twisting it?
01:29:31.000Well, it's funny because I've, I actually know people who have worked with Tucker who very much disagree with him on everything, but said, like, he's one of their favorite people and he's He was confronted by Joey Boots.
01:29:39.000I don't know if you remember Joey Boots from Occupy Wall Street.
01:29:42.000He's no longer with us, but he was a very interesting character.
01:29:53.000I mean, if you look up Joey Boots and Tucker Carlson, and they just had an honest, genuine conversation when Joey Boots was being a creeper.
01:30:00.000So Tucker was fishing in Central Park.
01:32:02.000Oh my goodness, are we gonna have a snowball fight?
01:32:04.000You know what's really crazy, just as a total side note, So, most of you know that we're out in the middle of nowhere.
01:32:13.000I was talking to the mail lady earlier, and she told me to make sure that we have emergency food.
01:32:19.000I started laughing, because we do the promos, and we were talking about it the other day, and she was just like, you're out in the middle of nowhere, the mountains get covered, and you get trapped, and people don't realize it.
01:32:29.000You need to make sure you're stocked up, and I started laughing.
01:32:31.000I was like, thank you ma'am, I appreciate it.
01:32:32.000Did you tell her how much vinegar we have?
01:32:34.000No, no, but... She knows, didn't it break in the mail?
01:33:08.000I wonder if you guys would like to hear this.
01:33:10.000So this is just a new study that came out, and it was shocking to see, and Facebook covered it up as potentially fake news, which I thought was weird, but it says... Who did the study?
01:34:46.000Because he paid to have it promoted, and until we actually get hard publication of what the study actually is, we shouldn't be announcing that it's true or anything like that.
01:35:35.000I'll look into it, and I'll see if I can vet it in any capacity, learn about who this guy is, but you are bringing up a press release with no vetting and no fact-checking.
01:36:03.000Because we have this story, and I think it's gonna go too long, so we're gonna make it a bonus segment talking about Netflix claims to have in this documentary proof of life after death.
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01:37:58.000Seamus Seamus you can use only fans to like show people how you draw and stuff isn't that usually used for point?
01:38:03.000I know, but I just don't even want to be associated When my channel was demonetized I was like I'm just gonna do my regular videos, but just put them on there What if what if what if Seamus as you're drawing your cartoons you put your feet?
01:38:21.000All right, Samantha says, isn't it strange the article says AOC was in her office hiding, but the story she tells in a recent video, she's in a bathroom.
01:38:29.000Well, yeah, because she said she was in the bathroom of her office, and her staffers were out in the office, I guess, to protect her.
01:39:13.000A lot of people are, like, cheering for you.
01:39:16.000I think what happens is when the negative comments come in, that's when all the positive ones come in.
01:39:19.000In that guy's defense, I smoked weed for, like, 16 years straight, and it definitely twisted my ability to memorize information.
01:39:25.000And people don't realize, you don't mean, like, periodically, you mean literally for 16 years, you had a joint in your mouth that was constantly being replenished.
01:39:31.000I smoked for, like, 600 days straight, I think, at one point.
01:39:35.000But I used to memorize scripts, you know, as an actor.
01:39:38.000My memorization was off the chart, and then after I started smoking weed, I started thinking more abstractly, and so now I'm kind of, it's changed the way my mind functions, that's for sure.
01:39:50.000Dent Crow says, I am a right-wing atheist like Carl Benjamin.
01:39:54.000Why do you think so many atheists go full left-wing slash TDS, i.e.
01:39:58.000Bill Maher, Sam Harris, and the entire atheist community of Austin, Texas?
01:40:02.000Well, many of the atheists became anti-SJW.
01:40:19.000So, back in the day when the Republicans were anti-gay marriage, the atheist community had a large influx of people who were pro-gay marriage first, atheists second.
01:40:28.000So when we, you know, moved to that natural conclusion, these are people who are interested in social justice, not atheism.
01:40:36.000The people who are atheist first are skeptics and critical of dogma became anti-SJW.
01:40:42.000So I think a lot of people just assumed the left was always the, you know, the right place to be.
01:40:48.000Like Bill Maher, they call him alt-right.
01:41:00.000When I, in 2013, when I was in my first college art course, I remember my teacher, who I considered to be left-wing at the time, recommending Joe Rogan to me.
01:41:11.000And I was like, oh, there's probably some like hippie left-wing nonsense.
01:41:13.000Can you imagine a left-wing college professor?
01:41:15.000I mean, by the way, that college preacher, he's actually really cool.
01:41:17.000I'm still in touch with him, but just the fact that he was somebody who I considered to be left-wing less than ten years ago.
01:41:22.000They would expel you if you mentioned Joe Rogan.
01:41:30.000Alright, Daniel Maxwell says, You know the news media misses Trump when the top story of the day is AOC getting scared by a cop trying to get her to a safe location on January 6th.
01:43:25.000Cole Frog, is that pronouncing it right, I guess?
01:43:27.000Seamus, I liked your YouTube radicalization vid.
01:43:30.000It's just hypocritical how the left is crying right-wing radicals when there are left-wing YouTubers radicalizing viewers and calling for violence.
01:47:17.000Jim Jam says, what are your thoughts about this news about the National Guard that are still being sent to DC to root out racism, white supremacy, and disinformation?
01:47:29.000Sword and Scale says, Tim, did you see the DeSantis press conference today, and do you think anything will come out of Florida's war against Silicon Valley oligarchs?
01:47:38.000I heard a little bit about it, but I'm not confident anything will happen because there was actually, I think it was in Texas, they, maybe not Texas, but there were some states that filed at the state level to make censorship, like social media censorship, not allowed.
01:48:44.000YouTube has this thing where it doesn't load all at once, and then it loads, and then I gotta spend 20 minutes trying to figure out where it went.
01:48:50.000Mr. Roach says, Hello, Beanie Lord and the Parking Lot Rebel.
01:48:54.000I listen to you every day and decided to get my very own subscription to your site.
01:48:57.000I'm a regular guy from Ohio and play in a band called Someday Saturday.
01:49:01.000What is your advice on creating good culture?
01:49:04.000Being in a band, and writing music, and putting it on social media, and doing it to the best of your abilities.
01:49:10.000Lead by example, and don't let fear rule your life.
01:49:41.000There's so many misnomers about that story, so I don't know what to make of it.
01:49:45.000But I'm going to have to do some research on that, because, again, when everything's done in darkness, there's a lot of potential for it being done wrong.
01:49:54.000So that's the biggest issue that I think still needs to be addressed.
01:49:57.000Eric Miller says, third Super Chat, I was wondering if anyone ever thought about creating a video stockpile website for news.
01:50:03.000A journalist can post a video on it and charge small fee, and an independent channel can buy it.
01:50:08.000It's called, it was originally called Corbus, now Gallup does this, but it's been around for like a hundred years.
01:50:15.000Well, not that long, but I, no, no, did I say Gallup?
01:50:35.000Some people's whole job is they just travel the world and they film scenic places.
01:50:40.000They'll put a camera up by like a lake in a mountain and just film for like three hours and then they'll put the footage on a website and say this footage is available for you know 25 bucks per license and they make tens of thousands of dollars off the one video because movies and documentaries and commercials want to use a small portion of it.
01:51:05.000They brought a really nice camera out, got cinematic quality, put it up and said 25 bucks per use, and it was just fireworks, but it was so generic and easy to use, they made like a million plus dollars.
01:51:13.000I was talking to one of these executives who runs one of these companies who told me about it, and there was one person who randomly stumbled upon Steven Tyler and took a photo of him, and it was like the only photo of him at a certain point or something, and they put it on a site and it sold for like millions of dollars.
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01:54:10.000Gunstar1 says, would you have Jimmy Dore on your show anytime?
01:56:04.000It's where news organizations write favorable articles for companies and make it look like a regular news article.
01:56:11.000Advertorial, like editorial and advertisement combined.
01:56:14.000So you'll go to a website, and I think BuzzFeed is all the time.
01:56:18.000It'll be like, these are the best dish sets you'll ever use, and you'll read it, and at the bottom it says, this is an advertisement paid for, and it looks like a normal article.
01:56:25.000So I could be like, hey AP, here's an article that says Tim Poole stinks, I'd pay him a bunch of money, would they post that?
01:56:31.000Yes, but it says at the top this is a paid post by this organization.
01:57:50.000You might see an interview on TV, and it's a guy talking about a very important product or something, and they're paying the company to have him on the show.
01:57:57.000CNN does stuff like this all the time, where they actually run shows that are paid for by governments, by companies.
01:58:03.000Like, they did one called Bahrain Business Friendly, and it was heavily criticized, Glenn Greenwald was criticizing it, where basically Bahrain paid to publish favorable coverage of Bahrain as kind of a news segment that promoted the country's tourism.
01:58:16.000Meanwhile, there was, like, riots going on, and it was during the Arab Spring, so they were heavily criticized for it.
01:58:23.000And they'll be like, something, something, something, fake news.
01:58:25.000By the way, this is a paid advertisement.
01:58:27.000Well, it's like saying, I'm going to murder that person in a video game.
01:58:30.000Like if they do it and I mean, and they say it, I mean, there's an argument to be made there, but a lot of these people do it and they don't even say it.
01:58:38.000What if I was like, I don't believe this, but, and then gave you like violent instructions to go kill people?
01:58:43.000There there is a you ever see but I said I didn't believe it you ever see the show the that's like the whitest guys
01:58:47.000You know, I think it's called the whitest. Yeah, you know Yes, this is I remember the explains don't do this. This is
01:58:53.000a way you could he explains how to attack the White House Yes, and then he's very it's it was hilarious and I can't
01:58:59.000believe they did it He's like you could tell my lawyers have informed me that I
01:59:02.000can't tell you To go to the White House and look at and and and go in this
01:59:06.000direction and now I can't tell you to then I was like that's crazy. Yeah, dude is crazy
01:59:40.000It would be that from now on, cilantro, fennel, anise, caraway, yes, those, and coriander, I guess, but that's basically the same thing as cilantro.
02:01:17.000I emailed them and demanded a retraction and they didn't do it!
02:01:20.000And then I followed up saying, I'd like a retraction, and they still didn't do it!
02:01:24.000Because what happens now is, another article come out and being like, Tim Pool, whose videos have been, you know, stricken down by YouTube in the past for rule violations, that's what they do.
02:01:32.000That just means they're making interesting content.
02:05:25.000No, but you know what I love doing is when you make a pizza, you put whole cloves on it, and bake it, and then they become soft, and they just, oh, garlic.
02:05:34.000You take a full clove of garlic, you slice off the top part, and then you just put it on pans, and then when it comes out, you squeeze them out of their shell, basically, and you have this soft, garlicky goo.
02:06:38.000So that whole idea that rock stars demand crazy things because they're egotistical is a myth.
02:06:44.000It started because, I can't remember the name of the band, but you guys probably listening might know this.
02:06:47.000This band, a very famous one, I can't remember which one, had in their contract for their tour Right somewhere in the middle was that a bowl of M&M's with all the brown M&M's removed will be made available for the band.
02:07:03.000And a lot of people in the media saw that and thought it was that this band is egotistical and demanding and it makes no sense.
02:07:10.000The reality was apparently the band had been playing on stage and the stage collapsed and people got injured.
02:07:16.000And so the idea was, put something in the contract that's seemingly nonsensical, because if they don't do it, it means they didn't read your contract.
02:07:25.000If they show up and saw the M&Ms weren't there, it wasn't that they wanted M&Ms, it was that if they skimped on something as dumb as picking out M&Ms, what did they also skimp out on?
02:08:08.000AlternativeJK says, after noticing both you and Luke have a habit of mispronouncing things, you should make a shirt that says Potato Pot-Tot-Toe.
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