Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Biden DROPS Airline Mask Enforcement, TSA Back Down After Court Defeat w-Braxton McCoy

00:00:02.000 Biden is officially backing away from the mask enforcement on airlines after a court ruling struck it down.

00:00:09.000 Now, the funny thing is, earlier today at the press briefing, Jen Psaki was actually asked about this and she's like, well, we're still going to recommend it.

00:00:17.000 And when Peter Doocy was like, you know, why, why would you recommend masks?

00:00:20.000 But here in this room, we don't got to wear them.

00:00:22.000 She's like, are you a doctor, Peter?

00:00:24.000 Are you a doctor?

00:00:26.000 I'm not a doctor.

00:00:27.000 And then Peter, I think he said, and I don't play one, nor do I play one on TV.

00:00:30.000 Haha.

00:00:31.000 But it's really funny.

00:00:32.000 That's like going to be the go-to answer now for anything ever in politics is that you don't actually have any expertise, so you can't answer any questions.

00:00:38.000 But here we go.

00:00:39.000 It's actually big news.

00:00:40.000 Now, apparently, if you want to fly, if you're ready to fly right now, they're saying they're not enforcing it.

00:00:43.000 So it's going to be a shock to a lot of flight attendants and pilots when people all just take their masks off, throw them in the air like it's graduation.

00:00:52.000 I wonder how many people are still going to actually keep their masks on.

00:00:54.000 We got other news too.

00:00:56.000 Alex Jones reportedly filed for bankruptcy, but he's saying he didn't actually file for bankruptcy.

00:01:01.000 He's filing for Chapter 11 reorganization, but now it's just framing because that's still under bankruptcy laws.

00:01:07.000 But he's saying he's doing this so that the feds can look at his books to see that he's not hiding any money.

00:01:12.000 Which is interesting.

00:01:13.000 We'll get into all that stuff.

00:01:14.000 Plus, we've got a bunch of crazy stories.

00:01:15.000 Ron DeSantis, he's pulling, Florida pulled a whole bunch of math books because they had critical race theory in them, and the left is freaking out.

00:01:22.000 But the question is, why do math books have critical race theory in them?

00:01:25.000 Anyway, some other interesting news.

00:01:27.000 Jon Stewart's new show has flopped.

00:01:29.000 Good.

00:01:29.000 Get woke, go broke!

00:01:31.000 There it is.

00:01:32.000 So we'll talk about all of that.

00:01:34.000 Joining us today is Braxton McCoy.

00:01:37.000 Thanks for having me, Tim.

00:01:39.000 Would you like to introduce yourself?

00:01:40.000 Sure.

00:01:40.000 I am a horse trainer, author of this book, The Glass Factory, about getting wounded in Iraq and then coming home and starting over.

00:01:47.000 And I also run this program called The Bunkhouse, where we bring people in and teach them skills, first aid skills, field medical stuff.

00:01:53.000 We take them hunting, backcountry stuff, just kind of like trying to teach the skills that appreciate over time.

00:01:58.000 We're kind of like, almost like the grandpa some people needed to have when they were younger, but just doing it for them as an adult.

00:02:04.000 Oh, right on.

00:02:05.000 Glad to have you, man.

00:02:06.000 I'll just mention, too, we have a headphone exception for Cowboy Hats.

00:02:09.000 That's right.

00:02:10.000 John Rich last week.

00:02:11.000 Thank you.

00:02:12.000 God bless you, John.

00:02:13.000 Right on.

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00:02:16.000 How's it going, everybody?

00:02:18.000 I am Brett Dasovic, the host of Pop Culture Crisis.

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00:02:32.000 We got Ian.

00:02:33.000 Hey everybody, we're back and it feels good to be home, I'll tell you that.

00:02:36.000 I rolled an 81 if it means anything to you on the 100th side of die, so let's get rolling.

00:02:41.000 Very cool.

00:02:42.000 I'm very glad to be back here with my familiar cameras.

00:02:44.000 Hopefully I don't make any more camera mistakes or mic mistakes.

00:02:47.000 Hopefully our next trip will be much smoother.

00:02:49.000 I'm really looking forward to that already.

00:02:51.000 And before we get started, I just want to have a moment of silence for all of our business owners today because it is tax day and I'm sure all of you have been collectively punched in the gut when your accounts came back and said, oh, here's what you owe.

00:03:04.000 And you're like, oh man, it's a brutal day, isn't it?

00:03:08.000 You know, it's funny cause you know, I'm, I'm dreading tax day.

00:03:11.000 Cause like, you know, you've got to set money aside.

00:03:13.000 And then when my accountant comes back and they're like, there's the damage.

00:03:15.000 And I'm just like, wow.

00:03:17.000 Think about how much stuff we could do, but now I'm going to give all that money to the government so they can go blow up kids and stuff like that.

00:03:23.000 And I'm just like there's a bunch of stuff they do wrong with our tax dollars

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00:06:09.000 Now, let's jump to the first big story, which is not from TimGast.com, it's from the Daily Mail.

00:06:14.000 You know, so this is it right now.

00:06:15.000 says TSA will not enforce masks on planes due to a court ruling after

00:06:20.000 Psaki said I'm not a doctor when asked why face coverings are still recommended

00:06:25.000 you know so this is it right now we have a quote here I suppose that today's

00:06:30.000 court decision means CDC public transportation masking order is not in

00:06:33.000 effect at this time an admin official said I don't know I don't know what that

00:06:37.000 Maybe you're in an airport right now, and you're listening on your headphones.

00:06:40.000 You're about to board your plane, and they're telling you you still gotta wear your mask.

00:06:43.000 I honestly have no idea.

00:06:44.000 Maybe you can show them this and be like, hey, I'm watching live right now.

00:06:46.000 They're saying I don't gotta wear a mask.

00:06:47.000 Well, that's what the TSA said, but these private airlines might still want to enforce masks, so we'll see.

00:06:53.000 But I just think it's absolutely hilarious that we're at this point now where during the White House press briefing, Jen Psaki is like, regardless of the federal court ruling, we're still recommending masks.

00:07:03.000 And then when Peter Ducey says, why?

00:07:06.000 Why are you recommending masks if we don't have to wear masks here in the White House?

00:07:10.000 And her answer was, I'm not a doctor.

00:07:12.000 Are you a doctor?

00:07:13.000 And it's like, that's the go-to response from now on, right?

00:07:16.000 You can also read it like, why are you saying I still need to wear masks?

00:07:16.000 For anything?

00:07:20.000 And she's like, because I'm not a doctor.

00:07:22.000 And I can... That's gross.

00:07:25.000 I have no idea what I'm talking about.

00:07:26.000 That's why.

00:07:27.000 Yeah.

00:07:28.000 It will be the go-to answer for everything.

00:07:31.000 Every time something happens in the economy, I'm not an economist, I have no idea.

00:07:35.000 Anytime the jobs report enters lower than normal, I'll be like, I don't know, I'm not a job recruiter, I have no idea.

00:07:42.000 Why are gas prices so high?

00:07:44.000 Are you a petroleum engineer?

00:07:46.000 I'm not a petroleum engineer!

00:07:48.000 Okay...

00:07:49.000 Yeah, I think it points to how they're all technocrats at heart, though.

00:07:53.000 The whole thing is this pivot to expertise is because they want to control and manage everything top-down.

00:07:59.000 So they're like, well, I'm not the person that can manage that top-down.

00:08:02.000 I'm just a part of this technocratic team, and that's not my position or whatever.

00:08:07.000 Was there a memo that went out when Ketanji Brown-Jackson was asked to define woman?

00:08:11.000 And she's like, I'm not a biologist.

00:08:13.000 And then all of a sudden, some Democrat strategist went, From now on, this is what we do.

00:08:20.000 I am not insert specialty.

00:08:24.000 But how do you guys feel about the masks?

00:08:25.000 I mean, what is this?

00:08:26.000 What does this mean?

00:08:27.000 Is this the end of tyranny?

00:08:28.000 Or is this like it's a step in the right direction? 0.98

00:08:30.000 The United States isn't it's not here because of a fake trash constitution or country or people. 0.96

00:08:37.000 We did this for real to get to this place. 0.94

00:08:39.000 And this is an example of the American law working. 0.92

00:08:42.000 I think masks personally are disgusting.

00:08:44.000 I don't know if that's what you were asking about how I feel about masks.

00:08:46.000 Feeling the sweat and stick on my face after five hours on a plane of breathing, talking about recirculated air.

00:08:52.000 I just could never fathom, really understand how that should have been better for me.

00:08:56.000 Well, Ian came upstairs and he was like, masks!

00:08:59.000 No more masks!

00:09:00.000 So I was like dancing in for real.

00:09:02.000 Like teachers letting you go home with no homework or something.

00:09:06.000 Yeah, that's what it felt like. 0.89

00:09:07.000 It really feels like that, and that's silly.

00:09:08.000 That's like they're gaslighting us to feel like that.

00:09:10.000 I think gaslight's the right word, because I shouldn't be celebrating back to normalcy.

00:09:14.000 I should just be expecting it and ready for it. 0.98

00:09:16.000 Ultimately, you've got to remember this is going to be enforced by a TSA employee, and those people are, on average, retarded. 0.99

00:09:23.000 Can I use that word? 0.92

00:09:25.000 I don't know.

00:09:25.000 I think they consider it a slur, though.

00:09:27.000 Okay, my bad.

00:09:28.000 It means they're a slur in general.

00:09:29.000 They're our slurs. 0.72

00:09:32.000 Mentally deficient.

00:09:35.000 It sounds smarter.

00:09:37.000 It's a scientific term for behavior though.

00:09:39.000 The word itself is to mean slow.

00:09:43.000 If you don't call people names and stuff.

00:09:45.000 I meant to slur. 0.96

00:09:48.000 I think mentally deficient is more offensive. 1.00

00:09:51.000 Because they're too dumb to get it? 1.00

00:09:53.000 Well, no, it's just like you're trying to make it sound smarter or like there's something wrong with them. 1.00

00:09:56.000 Yeah.

00:09:57.000 I mean, one time I was flying back home from San Jose.

00:10:00.000 I was at a speaking gig and I had a t-shirt on that had a grenade on it.

00:10:05.000 And this dude at TSA was like, do you think you should be wearing that to the airport?

00:10:09.000 I was like, excuse me?

00:10:11.000 He said, do you think that's appropriate?

00:10:13.000 And I said, do you think you should be giving me fashion advice?

00:10:16.000 Like, aren't you supposed to be like looking at my bag or something?

00:10:19.000 Can't say bomb on an airplane.

00:10:20.000 TSA is interesting.

00:10:21.000 I'm from the pre 9-11 era and there was no TSA It was very felt very authoritarian and weird when they created that after 9-11 and then when you find out there weren't met weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and what the heck is this war on terror?

00:10:33.000 Like why do we still have a TSA?

00:10:33.000 Really?

00:10:35.000 I don't I don't think yeah No, you got grandma's taking their belts off because we decided, you know invade Iraq or whatever The funniest thing about the airport thing is I was flying a lot when I came out here, when I, when I moved out here for work was, uh, the most, uh, the hilarious part was like, when you look at all the signs and say, you have to wear this, you have to wear that.

00:10:52.000 They all had like sponsored by Purell, uh, sponsored.

00:10:55.000 It was like, it was like, is that not the most like corporatist thing you've ever seen where it's like all your signs that tell you, you have to do this, behave this way at the airport.

00:11:03.000 None of it mentioning COVID, uh, or anything like that, uh, at all.

00:11:07.000 I just like to imagine that there's like some, you know, the president of Purell or whatever companies.

00:11:14.000 He's like, he's all his hair's all disheveled and he's going through the books and he's like, he calls his wife.

00:11:18.000 He goes, honey, we're not going to have Christmas dinner.

00:11:22.000 Sales are just really bad.

00:11:23.000 And then he looks at the TV and it's like COVID lockdown.

00:11:25.000 He goes, Oh, and then he, and then he throws the papers in there and he opens one.

00:11:29.000 It goes, get to work boys.

00:11:30.000 We're back in business.

00:11:31.000 Now he's like super rich and he's got like a Scrooge McDuck swimming through That was one of the memes it says the the creator or the owner of Purell right now It's guys got nine gold chains on and in a bunch of in a ring on each finger It's like that's exactly what it is them and the whoever invented the man whoever's like producing the masks China China My pillow guy making masks and they still hate him.

00:11:52.000 Oh, yeah.

00:11:53.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:11:53.000 Yeah, he shifted production to start making masks.

00:11:56.000 Yeah, and they were like Masturbate now!

00:11:59.000 We can't support anything he's doing.

00:12:00.000 That was that because I'm from Minnesota It was really funny like people from Minnesota just hated that guy For no reason.

00:12:06.000 They have no idea why they just they've just been told that they have to hate him We got a poll this tweet and you know, let me just preface this by saying I don't I don't normally care to you know mock people who are just not relevant But this woman is apparently an elected representative an elected official this woman Lindsey Sabadosa says, Today, a federal judge called it overreach

00:12:30.000 for US health officials to require masks on airplanes and other public transit. And no matter

00:12:36.000 how you feel about masks, you should be really, really concerned that the courts are effectively

00:12:41.000 taking away power from the federal government. Okay.

00:12:46.000 OK, hold on there a minute.

00:12:48.000 It was a federal judge who issued a ruling on a federal mandate.

00:12:53.000 This is more of an, I guess if you think that the courts are taking away the power from the federal government, if she's discussing some kind of like Ouroboros, you know, the snake eating itself.

00:13:05.000 Maybe, but I think she has no idea what she's talking about.

00:13:08.000 I think she means taking power away from the executive branch as it was intended, and that's what we have the separation of powers for. 0.75

00:13:14.000 Don't be charitable, Ian.

00:13:16.000 That's my job.

00:13:17.000 Like, this is the thing that I think we often do. 0.99

00:13:20.000 That's a dumb tweet that is wrong. 0.96

00:13:22.000 The court's job is to strip away power from the executive branch if it goes too far. 1.00

00:13:25.000 Oh, I fully agree this is a foolish and irrational tweet. 0.99

00:13:28.000 It doesn't make any sense. 0.99

00:13:30.000 And she's all sorts of names. 0.93

00:13:31.000 No, no, I don't have anything against it. 0.99

00:13:33.000 But that's a dumb tweet that is wrong. 0.94

00:13:36.000 The court's job is to strip away power from the executive branch if it goes too far. 0.98

00:13:41.000 Progressive.

00:13:42.000 Well, it's to interpret the law.

00:13:44.000 Progressive Democrat and state representative.

00:13:46.000 First Hampshire district.

00:13:48.000 I believe it's in Massachusetts.

00:13:49.000 That's correct.

00:13:50.000 And it's just, oh my stars and garters.

00:13:53.000 So I looked her up and she's also, before she's a politician, it says she's an activist.

00:13:57.000 And I was like, yeah, that checks out.

00:13:58.000 Well, look, look, I want to say, I mean, no ill will towards this, this, this woman.

00:14:03.000 She said nothing mean to me.

00:14:05.000 She just was, she just doesn't know what she's talking about.

00:14:08.000 And so the first thing I always like to do is just say, um, hey, you were wrong.

00:14:12.000 You should, you should fix that.

00:14:14.000 Uh, I don't, I don't, I don't want to rag on her for being, you know, incorrect about this or not understanding how the government works, but I'll, I will, I will say while we try to be nice and respectful, cause she has not, you know, as maybe, maybe she's talked about me in the past.

00:14:27.000 I don't know idea.

00:14:28.000 But if she said nothing mean to me, I don't want to be mean to her.

00:14:31.000 I would just say I have serious questions about her ability to work in government if she doesn't understand what courts, federal courts are and what they do. 1.00

00:14:40.000 That is a more professional critique, right?

00:14:44.000 Trying to keep things respectful, I guess.

00:14:46.000 Isn't the whole progressive claim that they're for the people and power of the people and all this and everything they tweet or say or whatever is all about power of the government?

00:14:54.000 No, I gotta stop you there.

00:14:55.000 I think progressives are authoritarian and I'm pretty sure they've always been.

00:15:00.000 Oh, I agree with that.

00:15:01.000 But I don't think they claim to be for the people.

00:15:03.000 Oh, I see.

00:15:04.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:05.000 Some of them may, because it's probably, you know, from authoritarian to libertarian to a certain degree.

00:15:10.000 But typically, progressive just refers to, you know, doing what we think is right for the sake of progress.

00:15:20.000 So these are people who in the past were eugenicists.

00:15:24.000 I don't think the progressive movement has ever been particularly, we want to protect all the people.

00:15:28.000 It's more like, how do we control the system better?

00:15:31.000 Yeah, and maybe I'm making a mistake of using, like, AOC as the avatar of progressivism, because, like, with her, she's just always talking about the people, you know, the people, the people, the people.

00:15:40.000 But in, you know, in practicality, or, you know, in reality, it's always about more power, consolidation.

00:15:45.000 Well, yeah, like, you know, I mean, tankies, like, you know, communists and stuff, they're saying, we're gonna help the people.

00:15:51.000 By force!

00:15:53.000 And that's kind of like AOC.

00:15:55.000 I'm surprised people still defend her.

00:15:57.000 It's remarkable.

00:15:58.000 There was that guy, what's his name?

00:15:59.000 Chris, I think his name is, the union guy in New York.

00:16:02.000 He started a union at the Amazon factory.

00:16:04.000 They fired him.

00:16:05.000 And then he started a union.

00:16:07.000 Tucker Carlson had him on.

00:16:07.000 Very successful.

00:16:09.000 And he's busted his ass to get this done, to push back against one of the most, I think Amazon is evil, terrible company, but we're all addicted to it. 0.98

00:16:19.000 And AOC's nowhere to be found. 0.98

00:16:20.000 And then when he wins, when the warehouse votes to unionize, AOC's all tweeting like, yeah, we did it!

00:16:28.000 And he's just like, where have you been?

00:16:31.000 Chris Smalls is his name?

00:16:32.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:16:33.000 Good for him, man.

00:16:34.000 Amazon, Russell Brand just had a video that came out yesterday about like Amazon has like an internal messaging service in there and they're like censoring words like you can't say certain phrases like union or bathroom break and it's just like is that not the most authoritarian thing ever now it's like they want to like reward you by having likes like kind of like how you have like likes on Instagram and stuff like that so it's like you don't want to get a raise you want to get your co-workers to give you likes on your internal messaging service app For your, for your company that doesn't let you talk about bathroom breaks and doesn't allow you to, uh, to unionize because, uh, what did they say?

00:17:09.000 They spent $93 million on anti-union, uh, lobbyists or something in the same year.

00:17:15.000 Yeah.

00:17:15.000 I'm looking at theverge.com.

00:17:16.000 Some of the words that Amazon's banned with that app, master, slave, injustice, ethics.

00:17:21.000 You can't say the word ethics.

00:17:23.000 Some of them are really funny.

00:17:24.000 Some of them are, yeah.

00:17:25.000 You can't say diversity.

00:17:26.000 Unfairly.

00:17:27.000 Yeah.

00:17:28.000 It's all right then.

00:17:28.000 Well, okay.

00:17:29.000 That's weird.

00:17:31.000 All right, well, let's let's rag on Jen Psaki a little bit. 1.00

00:17:36.000 Yeah.

00:17:37.000 So we have this story from The Independent.

00:17:39.000 Psaki says, is her name Psaki?

00:17:42.000 Psaki. 0.60

00:17:42.000 Psaki-bomb. 0.60

00:17:43.000 Psaki-bomb. 1.00

00:17:44.000 Says Peter Doocy sounds like a stupid son of a bee. 1.00

00:17:48.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:17:48.000 Or keep it family friendly. 1.00

00:17:49.000 Because of Fox's questions, Biden caught on hot mic in January calling Doocy a stupid S.O.B. 0.99

00:17:54.000 over inflation question. 0.99

00:17:55.000 And then Psaki just comes out and says it.

00:17:58.000 I just want to point out, I was watching Peter Doocy question Jen at the White House press briefing today, and I was offended at how bad she was at this.

00:18:08.000 Because I've praised her in the past as being a good spin doctor because, you know, Biden will do something just horrifyingly bad or he'll just like fall asleep in public or something.

00:18:16.000 I'm kidding, by the way.

00:18:19.000 And she'll find a way to spin it. 0.99

00:18:21.000 And I'm like, yeah, she's good.

00:18:22.000 I mean, she's doing what she does. 0.86

00:18:23.000 But today it was just like, wow, Well, let me explain.

00:18:27.000 She was asked by Peter Doocy, why do you recommend masks when we don't have to?

00:18:31.000 And her response was, I'm not a doctor.

00:18:33.000 Are you a doctor?

00:18:33.000 You're not a doctor.

00:18:34.000 I'm not a doctor.

00:18:34.000 And I'm like, Jen, like, wow, this one's really easy.

00:18:37.000 You just say airplanes are smaller with recirculated air.

00:18:40.000 I was like, you couldn't even just say that to Peter Doocy?

00:18:42.000 I was like, wow, she was not good at this.

00:18:45.000 There were a couple other things that came out and she was bad.

00:18:47.000 But the interesting thing here, I suppose, is that she's reportedly going to MSNBC.

00:18:52.000 So here she is.

00:18:53.000 It's during a taping of Pod Save America. 1.00

00:18:55.000 She was asked if Mr. Doocy was a stupid S.O.B. 1.00

00:18:58.000 or if he just acted like one on TV. 1.00

00:19:00.000 She said he works for a network that provides people with questions that nothing personal to any individual, including Doocy, but might make anyone sound like a stupid S.O.B. 0.95

00:19:08.000 That's really amazing that the only real questions that come out of that briefing. 0.97

00:19:13.000 OK, it's not fair, but 90 percent of the real questions come from Peter Doocy.

00:19:17.000 There was one guy I saw asking some good questions.

00:19:23.000 But I'm sitting there watching this briefing and I'm just like, has there ever been a point in our lifetimes where the White House press briefing revealed any relevant or important information?

00:19:34.000 Or are we all just recognizing it's theater, and whether it be Sean Spicer or Jen Psaki, they're gonna say whatever they have to to spin.

00:19:42.000 They're not gonna tell you the truth.

00:19:43.000 For once, I'd like someone to come out with like a scotch, and it's like, you know, just Donald Trump or Biden, and he's like swirling it, and they're like, what are we doing in Yemen?

00:19:53.000 Making a lot of money.

00:19:54.000 We're selling weapons to the Saudis, you know, and they're blowing up villages, but whoo, good for the economy. 1.00

00:19:59.000 Next question, Syria?

00:20:00.000 Ooh, oil.

00:20:01.000 Well, we're trying to build a pipeline.

00:20:03.000 What's next?

00:20:03.000 And I'm just like, wow, you know, but they're not going to do that.

00:20:07.000 I would love to see inside of Kayleigh McEnany's big book that she used to carry with her.

00:20:11.000 I would love to see what's in there.

00:20:12.000 Okay, I gotta take that back, yes.

00:20:14.000 She's great.

00:20:14.000 That was epic.

00:20:15.000 She's great.

00:20:16.000 She had the big book, and whenever the press would say something, she'd be like, hmm, and she'd like reference, you're full of it.

00:20:21.000 Okay, that was actually substantive.

00:20:24.000 Yeah.

00:20:25.000 That maybe wasn't giving us real answers about the administration, but it was exposing to the American people how the media was totally full of it.

00:20:31.000 Yeah, when this girl, when we talk about how she is good, I think that's come up in the past, that she's good at her job.

00:20:37.000 I'm like, well, you can be good at your job and be evil if your job is evil.

00:20:40.000 Like Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda, was good. 0.98

00:20:43.000 But instead of using the word good, say effective.

00:20:47.000 Don't say he was good, say he was... He was effective at his job, which was evil.

00:20:51.000 And so is Jen Psaki sometimes. 0.92

00:20:53.000 If she's lying to people, that's evil. 0.97

00:20:55.000 You could say she's doing a public good by lying to people because some of the information is too dangerous. 0.92

00:21:00.000 Like the CIA is a secretive organization on purpose.

00:21:03.000 But I don't think that's... I don't know.

00:21:04.000 What do you think about it?

00:21:05.000 If there is any man on the planet Who is the easiest to take out of context and make a montage of just horrifying things to Ian.

00:21:13.000 Yes!

00:21:13.000 Thank you, Tim.

00:21:14.000 You recognize my greatness.

00:21:15.000 You need your own Jen Psaki. 1.00

00:21:17.000 Thanks, Doc.

00:21:18.000 You need to hire him.

00:21:19.000 I am my own Jen Psaki.

00:21:20.000 No, no, but the issue is, you know, and Ian made a good point just now that Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels or something like that.

00:21:28.000 He was effective and it was terrifying.

00:21:30.000 But when you say that when... He was good at his job and he was evil?

00:21:36.000 No, no, no, he said he was good.

00:21:37.000 Yeah, but I kind of got diverted the conversation.

00:21:39.000 And I'm like, you got to make sure you finish that thought.

00:21:42.000 He was effective.

00:21:42.000 So were the Nazis at what they were trying to accomplish, but they weren't good.

00:21:45.000 And so that's, so you can look at what Jen's doing. 1.00

00:21:47.000 I mean, she's now she's just bad at her job and also doing, I don't know if I want to claim she's doing evil, but I want to, I want to have hope for the American government.

00:21:56.000 But sometimes I think like a little transparency goes a long way.

00:21:59.000 Yo, they're checked out, I think.

00:22:01.000 They're all evil.

00:22:02.000 I mean, they've been forcing masks on little kids in airplanes, you know, kicking families off because a two-year-old won't wear their mask, you know.

00:22:11.000 Child suicide rates are through the roof right now.

00:22:13.000 Drug addiction is up through the roof.

00:22:14.000 Everyone who pushes this is evil.

00:22:16.000 I'm totally fine with using that word.

00:22:18.000 They're good at being evil, I guess, or effective at being evil.

00:22:21.000 I agree, and I want to elaborate on that.

00:22:24.000 When you have a machine that says, two-year-olds must wear masks, and we're like, okay, we get it.

00:22:29.000 But then you get these videos, like even people willing to be like, we want to be peaceful, we don't want confrontation.

00:22:36.000 You get these videos where they put the mask on the baby and the baby takes it off.

00:22:41.000 Like, literal baby.

00:22:42.000 And then they're like, off the plane.

00:22:44.000 And I'm like, dude, when you have become this machine that doesn't care about people, you have become evil.

00:22:50.000 And I've talked about it before, I can't stand what has become of the U.S.

00:22:54.000 court system.

00:22:56.000 It's been this way to varying degrees, but it's getting worse in that I get pulled over once.

00:23:01.000 I wasn't speeding.

00:23:03.000 Cop walks up to me with a ticket and he says, sign there.

00:23:05.000 And I was like, I wasn't speeding.

00:23:06.000 He goes, I don't care.

00:23:07.000 Tell it to a judge.

00:23:08.000 And I was like, now I got to take off work to go to a judge?

00:23:10.000 I go to the judge and he goes, I don't care.

00:23:11.000 Cop said you were speeding.

00:23:13.000 Pay the fine or, you know, fight it.

00:23:15.000 And I'm like, okay.

00:23:18.000 You know, we've become extremely rigid because we don't know or care about each other.

00:23:22.000 And this is one of the big challenges.

00:23:24.000 The way we use, you know, this country's founded.

00:23:26.000 We had 2 million people.

00:23:27.000 You wouldn't have police.

00:23:29.000 You had local militia.

00:23:30.000 So if somebody stole something, it's like, round up the boys!

00:23:32.000 We're gonna go, we're gonna go catch that guy who stole something.

00:23:35.000 And then, you'd have to go to the courts, and the courts were part of the community.

00:23:39.000 Everybody knew each other, and they'd all talk it out.

00:23:42.000 And it's like, that guy who stole it, that's, that's, that's, you know, John's son!

00:23:47.000 And it's like, oh man, John, what do you gotta say for your kid?

00:23:49.000 And then, they talk about it.

00:23:50.000 Now it's like, I don't know who this guy is, I don't even know what his name is.

00:23:52.000 Now there's so many people, and it's so dense, we've just become rigid, and mechanized almost.

00:23:57.000 I see ups and downs to both, because if you know the judge and then you commit a crime and the judge is like, I know him, just let him off, that's also bad.

00:24:04.000 But if the judge has no idea who you are and they don't take your humanity into account at all, then that's also kind of bad.

00:24:10.000 I agree, but I think of it like this still exists in small town America, where if you live in a small town and you're speeding, let's say a 16, 17 year old kid is speeding and the deputy pulls him over, he already knows who it is.

00:24:24.000 So he's not worried about getting shot or anything, and he walks up and he's like, Jimmy, why you speeding?

00:24:29.000 And he's like, oh, I'm sorry, Dan.

00:24:31.000 And he's like, I'm gonna see your dad at the bar later today, and I'm gonna tell him you were speeding.

00:24:34.000 And he's like, please don't!

00:24:35.000 And he's like, I'm gonna let you off with a warning, but I'm telling your dad.

00:24:38.000 Like, that's way more effective, social repercussions, as opposed to like, pay the 35 bucks, or pay the 50 bucks.

00:24:45.000 For a lot of people, that 50 bucks is devastating, but they're like, I don't care.

00:24:49.000 You know, so what?

00:24:50.000 I'll not pay the ticket, or I'll fight it, or whatever.

00:24:53.000 Having that personal connection I think is good because it holds people to account because they're scared of people they know and love getting mad at them.

00:24:58.000 I think you're right about that.

00:24:59.000 There's also just that there's too darn many laws.

00:25:02.000 Oh yeah.

00:25:02.000 So we've got so many people going through the system all the time, it almost has to be mechanical and expedited.

00:25:08.000 You really can't add the human element in if you've got, let's say you're a judge and you've got a judge on 50 cases in a day or whatever.

00:25:17.000 How serious can you take the individual in each of those?

00:25:19.000 I mean, there's only so many minutes in a day.

00:25:20.000 Yeah, they're going to, especially not even just judges, but prosecutors, they're only going to see you as a number or as a way to advance their career.

00:25:27.000 And it's almost not even like, I'd like to say it's on them, but a career oriented person who goes into a field like that, they're going to be predisposed to looking at people that way.

00:25:36.000 And that's just how they they've chosen to get ahead with their career.

00:25:39.000 They just happen to take a career That puts other people's lives in, you know, in the balance each and every day.

00:25:45.000 Yeah, then you have to ask yourself why they chose that job.

00:25:47.000 That's a whole other discussion.

00:25:49.000 I pulled up just like weird laws, but one of them is like bingo games can't last more than five hours in North Carolina.

00:25:55.000 You can't sniff glue with the intent to get high from it in Indiana.

00:26:00.000 Can't have sex with living fish in Minnesota.

00:26:05.000 Okay, I might actually support that one.

00:26:07.000 Yeah, that's not a weird law.

00:26:08.000 That's a good one.

00:26:11.000 There was like a song where they referenced that and I was like, that can't be real, can it?

00:26:16.000 And then I don't know if they've since repealed that just to say any fish perhaps, but yes, that was a thing.

00:26:23.000 This is a great metaphor talking about the machine.

00:26:25.000 We were talking last night about how machines are very dangerous and we've kind of become enslaved to them.

00:26:29.000 They're very intelligent and we can build their intelligence, but they have no emotion.

00:26:33.000 Humans have emotion.

00:26:34.000 That's why we enslave the machine to work for us and to outsource our intelligence.

00:26:38.000 At what level does a society become a machine?

00:26:40.000 Like a small town, it's all about emotion.

00:26:42.000 Who you know, your kids, their kids.

00:26:44.000 Then all of a sudden, at some point, it's like, just fill out the paperwork.

00:26:48.000 You don't even have to look at the guy's face.

00:26:49.000 Like what, 60,000 people?

00:26:51.000 1600 people?

00:26:53.000 Yeah.

00:26:54.000 Remember that movie Office Space?

00:26:55.000 When they take the printer out and beat the tar out of it or whatever?

00:27:00.000 You are the printer.

00:27:01.000 Oh, that's the technocratic dream?

00:27:04.000 Yeah, I mean, well, I just think that fundamentally that movie is about being caught up in a mindless

00:27:12.000 numbing job that's functioning a lot like a bureaucracy.

00:27:16.000 And every level of justice system is a mindless, numbing bureaucracy.

00:27:20.000 So when you go in there, you're the printer, man.

00:27:23.000 And printers are still worthy of that.

00:27:25.000 We have a printer here.

00:27:26.000 They're all awful.

00:27:28.000 It's the only technology that hasn't expanded at all.

00:27:31.000 Every printer is still a hassle to use all the time.

00:27:33.000 Did you guys ever have that black printer ink explode on you when you're trying to change it?

00:27:37.000 It's so crazy.

00:27:38.000 It's like there's like a rule against making them better.

00:27:40.000 They're like, it has to be a hassle and it's just nobody wants to, nobody wants to create a better printer.

00:27:46.000 I agree.

00:27:47.000 Yeah.

00:27:47.000 Maybe lasers.

00:27:48.000 Maybe we can just have lasers do a back image on a paper or something.

00:27:51.000 It's probably already created.

00:27:52.000 Yo, let's talk about Alex Jones.

00:27:53.000 Oh yeah.

00:27:53.000 We got the story from timcast.com.

00:27:55.000 Update.

00:27:55.000 Alex Jones disputes widespread claims that InfoWars is filing bankruptcy.

00:28:00.000 Quote, we are filing a chapter 11 reorganization so that the federal government can come in and look at our books, Jones said.

00:28:07.000 Now that.

00:28:08.000 You gotta love, technically, the truth, the best kind of the truth.

00:28:11.000 The truth is, Alex Jones did file for Chapter 11, which is under bankruptcy laws.

00:28:18.000 I suppose the fair way to phrase it is that he's disputing the idea that they're broke.

00:28:23.000 He says, quote, I am not filing bankruptcy.

00:28:25.000 InfoWars is not filing bankruptcy.

00:28:27.000 We are filing a Chapter 11 reorganization.

00:28:30.000 So that the federal government can come in and look at our books to see that we do not have $16 million in a secret bank account.

00:28:37.000 We do not have $5 million even.

00:28:39.000 We have about $3 million that is necessary in order to operate.

00:28:44.000 We are what the mainstream media truly fears.

00:28:46.000 Honest, independent media, said Jones.

00:28:48.000 This filing is strategic to allow me to pay my creditors and remain transparent.

00:28:53.000 That is a form of bankruptcy.

00:28:55.000 I think, however, the media is trying to frame it like they're broke and destitute, and most people think bankruptcy means you're out of money.

00:29:02.000 I'll give you an example.

00:29:03.000 I searched Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and one of the first news articles came up from NBC.

00:29:07.000 Alex Jones' Infowars Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection.

00:29:10.000 It's a form of protection.

00:29:11.000 Then I click on the article.

00:29:12.000 The title's been changed.

00:29:14.000 Alex Jones' Infowars Files for Bankruptcy Following Sandy Hook Lawsuits.

00:29:17.000 So it's like they printed the article as it was really happening and then they're like, not scandalous enough.

00:29:22.000 Let's make him look bad.

00:29:22.000 Bring up Sandy Hook.

00:29:24.000 Let's get him.

00:29:24.000 Right.

00:29:25.000 No, they wanted buzz terms so that it would get more clicks.

00:29:27.000 Right.

00:29:28.000 That's what they do.

00:29:29.000 And there's something they do at news organizations, media outlets, called A-B testing, where they actually, this is fascinating, they can publish an article with multiple headlines in different regions to see which one does better in real time and then switch it all out.

00:29:43.000 Not only that, but a headline, newspapers do this too, this is the crazy thing, you look at like New York Times, I don't know if the New York Times does it, But you'll look at like the California edition versus the Texas edition versus the Utah edition and they'll use different headlines to sell papers because they know.

00:29:58.000 I think Time Magazine actually made a different person of the year for different countries I think at some point.

00:30:03.000 You guys remember that?

00:30:04.000 No, I don't know.

00:30:05.000 I'll look into that as we're talking.

00:30:06.000 And that's why they don't like Alex Jones!

00:30:09.000 I'm gonna be honest.

00:30:10.000 If he is going bankrupt, I get it because everything he talked about for like the last 20 years happened.

00:30:15.000 So it's like nothing to ramble about because people are like, yeah, man, we do have that right.

00:30:19.000 People really are.

00:30:20.000 You know, the frogs really are.

00:30:22.000 Well, so the frogs thing was funny.

00:30:23.000 I was on.

00:30:24.000 First, let me just say when it comes to Alex, he he reads the news a lot.

00:30:31.000 And then he talks all about this and sometimes he'll find something and take it in the wrong direction.

00:30:36.000 So that's why when he gets things right, we don't believe it.

00:30:40.000 We're like, there's no way that's true.

00:30:41.000 Like when he was here and he was like, we're eating cloned beef.

00:30:43.000 And I was like, no, we're not.

00:30:45.000 He's like, Google it.

00:30:45.000 And I did.

00:30:46.000 And it's like, we're actually eating.

00:30:48.000 Okay, wow.

00:30:49.000 I didn't believe him.

00:30:50.000 So there's a lot of crazy things you think are crazy.

00:30:53.000 Turns out he was right.

00:30:55.000 But I will say, he's absolutely wrong to talk about Sandy Hook the way he did.

00:30:59.000 And this is... I would say, look, if you defame someone, you get held to account.

00:31:04.000 When the big media companies went after the Covington kids, well, they get sued and they're gonna pay out their settlement.

00:31:10.000 Good.

00:31:11.000 Alex Jones should not have been talking about private individuals making accusations about him like this.

00:31:15.000 He did not have the proof to make these claims.

00:31:18.000 Yeah, and I look at Alex Jones as like a pro wrestling of media, just pure entertainment.

00:31:22.000 You know, I find him entertaining and fun.

00:31:24.000 I mean, I don't like watch his show, but I watch it pretty much whenever he goes on something like your show or Rogan or something.

00:31:31.000 So I can see how he could slip into this, but you're totally right, especially once you start going after the parents of a dead child.

00:31:38.000 You kind of deserve what you get at that point.

00:31:40.000 Yep, yep.

00:31:41.000 He's been pretty transparent about that he was wrong.

00:31:43.000 That's something.

00:31:44.000 If he's still holding on like, oh, no, no, no, then I'd be like, you know what?

00:31:47.000 I don't even want this guy.

00:31:48.000 But the fact that he's open and like, yeah, I screwed up big time and he's paying his dues.

00:31:52.000 That's the first step.

00:31:53.000 So look, he said he was wrong.

00:31:55.000 He apologized.

00:31:55.000 He offered to settle 120k to each of the families.

00:31:58.000 And they said something like the settlement offer was an attempt to avoid his public reckoning.

00:32:04.000 And I'm like, is that what this is about?

00:32:05.000 Because if he already admitted he's wrong and apologized and then offered to pay you out, I think you've won.

00:32:10.000 Like, what do you want?

00:32:11.000 Well, they want a perp walk.

00:32:13.000 They want a public, you know, uh, event.

00:32:16.000 And I'm like, I don't know.

00:32:17.000 I kind of feel like CNN settled and I'm satisfied.

00:32:20.000 Like, I don't like CNN.

00:32:21.000 I'm never going to like them, but they, they lose.

00:32:23.000 They go to the coming to kids.

00:32:24.000 They're like, we lose.

00:32:26.000 When that happened, we were all like, yeah, like, there we go.

00:32:28.000 We move on.

00:32:29.000 Best thing that came out of this is that he uses research now.

00:32:31.000 When now, when he's working, he has like 16 papers at him.

00:32:33.000 When he comes on the show, he has a bunch of documents ready to go.

00:32:36.000 He doesn't stray off his topic.

00:32:37.000 He doesn't stray off his research unless you want to have fun with him.

00:32:40.000 But he came here and he's like, I got all the, I got all the research, the proof.

00:32:44.000 And he hands it to me and it was just InfoWars.

00:32:46.000 Yeah.

00:32:46.000 I was like, dude, this is you.

00:32:47.000 You know, I went to Sandy Hooks.

00:32:50.000 I actually went up there that day.

00:32:51.000 I was in Connecticut working with mines and the shooting happened and they were like, you want to go cover this?

00:32:57.000 So I was like, yeah, I guess so.

00:32:58.000 I don't know.

00:32:58.000 So I drove up there and, uh, man, it was somber.

00:33:01.000 This is all anecdotal.

00:33:02.000 It doesn't prove or disprove.

00:33:03.000 I mean, obviously it was a real thing at this point, but I tried to interview people.

00:33:06.000 No one wanted to talk across the street.

00:33:09.000 You could see the fire trucks.

00:33:10.000 I mean, it was really rude.

00:33:11.000 Why would anyone want to talk?

00:33:12.000 want to talk about that yeah we just we did a story the other day covering like

00:33:15.000 a documentary filmmaker who's covering astroworld the the tragedy at astroworld

00:33:19.000 and how he's like he's like I am a victim driven documentary filmmaker who

00:33:24.000 goes around and covers various tragedies like this and like one of the issues

00:33:29.000 that dude has is that he has to go and he tries to get interviews with people

00:33:32.000 and a lot of times he'll push really heavily with these victims families to

00:33:36.000 try and get them to talk on record and that comes off you know some might want

00:33:39.000 to have that discussion but other ones have no interest in it and you know a

00:33:43.000 good documentary filmmaker unfortunately given you know what he chose for a

00:33:47.000 profession is going to have to push back if he wants to get the story but he's

00:33:51.000 just not taking a cue from the fact that he's using such heavy material to do

00:33:55.000 that And that could be seen as something like this here.

00:33:58.000 So I want to dig into this InfoWars claim about this hidden money, right?

00:34:04.000 So Alex is saying that the reorganization is so that the feds can see they don't have $16 million in a secret bank account.

00:34:12.000 I don't know if that's what's being argued.

00:34:15.000 There's a new lawsuit, and maybe I'm wrong.

00:34:19.000 Let me see if we can pull this up.

00:34:21.000 A newly filed lawsuit alleges that, let me read this, they say, after Alex Jones was sued for claiming, you know, what he did about Sandy Hook, the conspiracy theorist conspired to divert, that's funny, conspired to divert his assets to shell companies owned by insiders like his parents, his children, and himself, reads the lawsuit.

00:34:39.000 Which was filed in Austin, Texas by some of the families.

00:34:42.000 So they're not saying he has a secret bank account.

00:34:44.000 They're saying that he immediately started doing deals, funneling this money away.

00:34:48.000 I don't know how you win a lawsuit like that, to be completely honest.

00:34:52.000 Cause like, you know, you can sue somebody, but if they haven't lost or owe you anything, they can spend the money however they want.

00:34:58.000 You don't get to just say, you're not allowed to spend money anymore because I'm suing you.

00:35:01.000 Imagine if that's how things worked.

00:35:02.000 It's like, I don't want Disney to make a movie, so I'll sue them, and now they can't spend any money. 0.84

00:35:06.000 No, that's ridiculous.

00:35:07.000 They started the process of going after Alex.

00:35:09.000 Maybe at that point he said, alright, you know, I'm gonna do a bunch of deals to pull all this money out of the company, and that way it'll be with people I know, and then I can file bankruptcy.

00:35:18.000 Maybe.

00:35:19.000 But what are you gonna do?

00:35:20.000 What are you gonna do?

00:35:21.000 You didn't win the lawsuit.

00:35:22.000 Then they do.

00:35:22.000 How much money does he have?

00:35:23.000 Well, there you go.

00:35:24.000 Now and going forward in the future, he's gonna have to pay you back, but that money's gone.

00:35:27.000 So InfoWars is getting sued, not Alex Jones.

00:35:30.000 Is that right?

00:35:31.000 I don't know for sure exactly how they structured the lawsuit.

00:35:34.000 I know that three companies, IW Health, Prison Planet, and InfoWars have filed for Chapter 11.

00:35:42.000 That's what's been reported.

00:35:43.000 So I think they may be going after him and his companies or something.

00:35:47.000 It's really interesting how this stuff works out.

00:35:51.000 Typically, I think people have been suing the individuals and the businesses.

00:35:56.000 Yeah, so when journalists do things like, you know, the reporter is on the line and the company is on the line for publishing it.

00:36:02.000 That makes sense.

00:36:04.000 Yeah.

00:36:05.000 So the reporter isn't allowed protections.

00:36:07.000 I'm just curious about that.

00:36:08.000 The reporter isn't allowed protections just because they're working for the company.

00:36:12.000 They're still responsible in addition to the, okay.

00:36:15.000 You're the one who said it and the company is the one who amplified it.

00:36:18.000 So now, but you know what, man, you can sue a ham sandwich.

00:36:21.000 It doesn't mean you're going to win.

00:36:22.000 We'll see how this plays out.

00:36:23.000 I suppose the narrative is that the lawsuit is, To silence a prominent, influential person on the right.

00:36:33.000 And that's why they're not satisfied with the settlement offer.

00:36:36.000 Yeah, they don't want the settlement offer.

00:36:37.000 They want him to come out as the bad guy.

00:36:39.000 Like you said, perp walk. 0.70

00:36:40.000 They want humiliation.

00:36:41.000 They want him to look bad, not just pay out for what he did.

00:36:44.000 And that's the difference between actually wanting justice and actually wanting someone to pay.

00:36:49.000 And I think those aren't necessarily always the same thing.

00:36:52.000 I wonder though, at this point, you know, Alex has said that they submitted their documents and the courts were like, nope, you didn't give us your documents.

00:36:59.000 And he's like, what do you mean?

00:37:00.000 I gave you everything.

00:37:00.000 I'm like, no, you didn't.

00:37:01.000 And he's like, but we did.

00:37:03.000 And I actually talked with him and his lawyer and his lawyer was like, we gave them everything.

00:37:08.000 They are just saying, we didn't, and they put us in default.

00:37:11.000 And it's like, what do we give them if we don't have anything else to give them?

00:37:13.000 It's like, it's like when you're being interrogated by someone like, tell us where the gold is.

00:37:17.000 Like, I don't know.

00:37:17.000 Yes, you do.

00:37:18.000 And they're beating you.

00:37:18.000 Like, what do you do if you don't know?

00:37:19.000 You just lie, I guess.

00:37:21.000 So they're saying they got nothing left to give, but they're being, you know, put in default.

00:37:25.000 So they can't, what are they supposed to do at this point?

00:37:27.000 Wasn't there a conspiracy theory for a long time that Alex Jones was actually a CIA asset and that he was being used by the CIA?

00:37:34.000 There's always that conspiracy theory.

00:37:36.000 So at least we can put that to bed.

00:37:39.000 Or it's just, you know, they're trying to pull him out.

00:37:43.000 Now it's like, we got to get Alex out of there, man.

00:37:45.000 Like, here's how we're gonna do it.

00:37:46.000 And you know, Alex is like, I'm quitting, I resign.

00:37:49.000 I like the idea of him being reassigned by the CIA to a foreign country, like a station chief in some really far away place because they can't use him here anymore.

00:38:02.000 I'm good at what I do.

00:38:02.000 I kind of feel like there's powerful interests at play in a lot of these suits that we've been seeing.

00:38:08.000 It started with, you know, Gawker, right?

00:38:11.000 Peter Thiel funds this lawsuit against Gawker and blows it up.

00:38:15.000 That was the Hulk Hogan one?

00:38:16.000 Yeah, Hulk Hogan.

00:38:17.000 And now it's like, this is lawfare.

00:38:21.000 It's how it works.

00:38:22.000 I'm kind of just like, Alex Jones is Alex Jones.

00:38:25.000 Everything else doesn't matter.

00:38:27.000 He could do his show on a cell phone.

00:38:29.000 He could be like, okay, you know what, fine, shut her down, start a new company.

00:38:33.000 And then just talking to a camera, what are they going to do?

00:38:37.000 How much do you think, I mean, you're in a position to answer this, how much do you think being removed from Twitter and YouTube and those other platforms is affecting his business?

00:38:45.000 I think it probably knocked him down, you know, the majority of the money he was making.

00:38:50.000 But here's what people should understand.

00:38:53.000 Alex Jones got started on, I think, Public Access TV, and then he made internet video documentaries, and I think he was selling them.

00:39:00.000 All I know is people were sharing them for free.

00:39:03.000 And then he launched his website.

00:39:05.000 Before YouTube and social media existed, he was well off and running this big company.

00:39:10.000 Then you get YouTube, you get Twitter, you get Facebook, and he gets even bigger.

00:39:14.000 He loses all of that, he's back, he's actually still doing better than he was before social media.

00:39:19.000 Because he created Band.Video, he's got his own video player now, he gets hundreds of thousands of views still, people, like, you can't take away that level of fame from somebody.

00:39:28.000 So that's why I'm saying, even if they destroyed all of his companies, all he's got to do is strap on a loincloth and go in the woods with a cell phone, and people are going to want to watch him.

00:39:36.000 I would subscribe to that, by the way.

00:39:38.000 I mean, honestly, you hear me, Alex?

00:39:41.000 Alex Jones, Jungleman, and he's like, I'm surviving today, people!

00:39:44.000 This is how you live with the government on your back!

00:39:48.000 I mean, actually, it would be a really great show.

00:39:49.000 It would be incredible.

00:39:51.000 Incredible.

00:39:52.000 Alex, let's do a documentary.

00:39:54.000 That would be incredible.

00:39:54.000 Alex Jones.

00:39:55.000 Or a short film or something.

00:39:56.000 Survival Man.

00:39:57.000 I don't know, man.

00:39:58.000 You know, now with the Twitter stuff is interesting because it looks like what's, you know, Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter.

00:40:04.000 It's just powerful interests trying to block people who are challenging the system or these conversations.

00:40:11.000 It just looks like there's evil power at play trying to control, manipulate, People have been talking about parallel systems for a long time, parallel economies and all this, and this move with Elon Musk, and there's been some speculation that maybe Peter Thiel will get involved, and some other of Elon's friends, billionaire-like sort of investors, would get involved.

00:40:30.000 To me, it's the first step in an actual Like a sort of a parallel cathedral element, you know, or a competing Cathedral element, you know to attack the actual system that it's sort of is Feels oppressive as the everyman so I'm kind of like Ford I know some people have been like well, you're just cheering on, you know, your own right-wing Caesar type character or whatever Not my first of all, I don't think the guy's right-wing at all.

00:40:56.000 But second of all, yeah for sure I totally am, you know, like I'll take anybody who wants to win at this point.

00:41:02.000 I I get, I get kind of like, I, I see the pushback he's getting.

00:41:06.000 Okay.

00:41:06.000 So there's a couple of ways to go at it.

00:41:07.000 You can try and reverse engineer the software, get a bunch of developers together that want to work on like a free software system and try and rebuild what's already been built, which takes forever and so many hours of labor for development labor.

00:41:18.000 Or you can come from the top by the organization and then free the software code that way.

00:41:23.000 But we see with Elon, it's like the Saudi prince is tweeting out.

00:41:26.000 He doesn't want to let go of his, his power.

00:41:28.000 These people, BlackRock, I think, or is it Vanguard?

00:41:30.000 I think Vanguard's in kind of harm's way.

00:41:32.000 Both.

00:41:32.000 They don't want to give up.

00:41:33.000 So it's challenging to take it from the top when you're using their money, the fiat, because they control the fiat.

00:41:40.000 And I say they, it's so vague, but it's the Federal Reserve and these giant megacorps that get first dibs on all the money when they loan it out.

00:41:47.000 You want to make a guess, Ian, as to who is the largest institutional investor in Tesla?

00:41:53.000 Oh, I saw you tweeted that earlier, so I can't.

00:41:55.000 But what about you, Brett?

00:41:56.000 I think we talked about it earlier.

00:41:59.000 What do you guys think?

00:42:00.000 Put it in the Super Chats.

00:42:01.000 You'll find out later.

00:42:02.000 I just said it's Vanguard.

00:42:04.000 Vanguard, then Capital something, then I think BlackRock, and then I think it's State Street Global Advisors.

00:42:10.000 I swear, this is the problem with going public, man.

00:42:12.000 You can't stop it.

00:42:13.000 Once you get in that pool, the big fish come and that's that.

00:42:18.000 I really do love how Blackrock is just a really, really evil corporation-sounding name.

00:42:23.000 It's my favorite part about it.

00:42:25.000 What was the other one we were talking about earlier?

00:42:27.000 Blackwater.

00:42:27.000 Blackstone?

00:42:28.000 No, the private mercenary group from... Oh, Blackwater, yeah.

00:42:33.000 They changed their name several times.

00:42:35.000 But I love that it's just so evil supervillain-sounding.

00:42:38.000 It's great.

00:42:39.000 Let's talk about DeSantis and see where we're headed in this country.

00:42:43.000 DeSantis defends math textbook rejection as Dems seek proof of critical race theory lessons.

00:42:49.000 Florida Education Department officials have not yet provided examples from the textbooks deemed impermissible, but on Monday released the list of books that failed to make the cut.

00:42:59.000 So apparently...

00:43:01.000 DeSantis defended it.

00:43:02.000 We want kids to learn to think so they get the right answer, DeSantis told reporters.

00:43:06.000 The Florida Department of Education on Friday rejected some 54 math books from state classrooms, a move that drew national attention when DeSantis claimed the proposals from publishing companies contained lessons on indoctrinated concepts like race essentialism.

00:43:18.000 The move was just the latest example of Republicans, including DeSantis, scrutinizing what students are learning, blah blah.

00:43:24.000 Okay, here's the question.

00:43:25.000 If the math books don't have critical race theory in them, why are they bent out of shape?

00:43:30.000 They're getting removed.

00:43:31.000 If it's just a math book where it's like 2 plus 2 is 4, then why would they be mad about that?

00:43:35.000 They'd be like, oh, I guess, do we still have a math book that says 2 plus 2 equals 4?

00:43:39.000 Then why do we care if you remove that one?

00:43:41.000 This is really interesting because it is possible that they're not actually teaching critical race theory.

00:43:46.000 And what they're doing is teaching a form of praxis, which is where critical theory is in everything.

00:43:54.000 It doesn't have to be explicit.

00:43:55.000 It underlies everything.

00:43:57.000 I've seen some of these math problems.

00:43:58.000 I think it was Matt Walsh earlier today who was reading some of these questions about Maya Angelou

00:44:03.000 and all the stuff that went on in her life, all this racism she stood up to. It's a math problem.

00:44:09.000 You're supposed to be solving x and y and a and b and all this stuff, but they're rolling into it

00:44:14.000 all these ideas so that they can say, we're not teaching critical race theory.

00:44:19.000 This is practice.

00:44:19.000 We've talked about this before.

00:44:20.000 This is critical race applied principles.

00:44:22.000 Right.

00:44:22.000 So an example would be those old math problems where it's like a train leaves Detroit traveling 500 miles an hour and a train leaves Pittsburgh traveling at 50 miles an hour and blah, blah, blah.

00:44:32.000 And then, you know, that's a math problem.

00:44:35.000 What they're doing in these is they're like, Johnny is a young white man who's 15 years old and he gets stopped by the police three times in one month.

00:44:43.000 But Jerome is a young black man who gets stopped by the police 2000 times in one month.

00:44:47.000 What percentage of stops were... And then you're like, okay, we get it.

00:44:51.000 That's what they're doing.

00:44:53.000 I honestly think, if anything, it doesn't go far enough.

00:44:56.000 We, as far as DeSantis' move here, I had to go pick up one of my kids.

00:45:01.000 I have one kid in public school and the rest of mine are homeschooled, but I had to go pick her up.

00:45:07.000 And there was a class, the kids must have been maybe seven years old.

00:45:12.000 And all across the wall is the, you know, rainbow flags and trans flag color.

00:45:18.000 Now, nothing said, you know, anything about, but, but the coloring is all the right coloring, you know, and there's like the little sneaky words, you know, like sharing is caring, like care bearers type stuff.

00:45:28.000 And this isn't a tiny town in, in Idaho, in the mountains of Idaho.

00:45:32.000 I mean, tiny.

00:45:33.000 That's so it's everywhere.

00:45:36.000 And it's, it's like being pumped into these kids' brains.

00:45:38.000 I actually think like, that's why colors are so important.

00:45:41.000 You know, kids latch on to that stuff, and it's very visually appealing for them.

00:45:45.000 So when it's broadcast in their faces all the time, you don't have to have an explicit message in there.

00:45:51.000 The message is in the image.

00:45:53.000 I still remember an image in fourth grade on my wall of a horn, like a trumpet, playing music, and it showed the sound waves coming out like this, like round.

00:46:02.000 Sorry if you're listening, you're not able to see.

00:46:04.000 But then the teacher came in one day and was like, actually, the sound waves are actually like this, and they changed the image to a sine wave.

00:46:10.000 And that was, that sticks with me to today.

00:46:12.000 That was like 35 years ago or something crazy.

00:46:15.000 Yeah.

00:46:15.000 Imagery is the most, one of the most powerful ways to teach a child anything.

00:46:19.000 Sound, imagery, smell, those kinds of things.

00:46:21.000 Yeah.

00:46:22.000 Sensory stuff.

00:46:23.000 There are a bunch of these videos that are coming out and it's starting to expose these teachers are doing.

00:46:26.000 One of them is the, um, like a gender flow chart almost.

00:46:30.000 And there's, it's from libs of tick tock.

00:46:31.000 I saw this.

00:46:33.000 Where the teacher's like, you start with your sexuality and then you can go as far as you want towards male or female and then you come down to your identity and it can be different.

00:46:43.000 And it's like, it's not... The thing is, if you tell a kid, trans people exist.

00:46:51.000 Gay people exist.

00:46:52.000 It's like, okay, I get it.

00:46:53.000 You're telling them they exist.

00:46:54.000 If you give them a card and tell them to draw on a scale where they are, now you're actually not just telling them exist.

00:47:01.000 Now you're doing some kind of litmus test for them and their identity.

00:47:04.000 And what happens then if these kids feel like they're not going to fit in if they go with the bland gray flag?

00:47:12.000 The cis flag they've been showing kids is just black and white.

00:47:16.000 Hmm.

00:47:17.000 So why would a kid pick that one?

00:47:18.000 Why would the kid want to be the, you know, boring?

00:47:21.000 No, you can be fun and exciting here.

00:47:22.000 Do these things.

00:47:23.000 And so these kids don't understand oppression.

00:47:26.000 They don't understand civil rights. 0.87

00:47:27.000 These are, these are young kids between, you know, uh, five years old and nine years old.

00:47:31.000 They're being told just to draw how they feel and they're like, whatever.

00:47:34.000 Don't you think they're going after him for because at that age, they don't understand sexuality all they don't have, you know, they're not they're prepubescent and all this. 1.00

00:47:43.000 So if you go after him then and you like start talking to him about sexual orientation, of course, like Johnny and Jack are going to say that they like each other more because girls are stupid and icky or whatever. 0.97

00:47:53.000 So then when they do start to develop actual hormones and feelings, you're just like adding layers of confusion because now they're getting all the, you know, testosterone slowing. 0.98

00:48:03.000 They're like, well, I thought I liked, you know, Jack, it turns out maybe Jill's all right.

00:48:06.000 You know, I've, I've heard some horror stories from these are coming out of conservative states where like someone's kid said that they thought they were pan.

00:48:14.000 And their parent was like, why do you think you're pan?

00:48:17.000 And they're like, cause I like everybody.

00:48:19.000 And they're like, you, you like everybody?

00:48:20.000 That means you want to kiss them.

00:48:22.000 And, and, and their daughter was like, no!

00:48:24.000 She's friendly.

00:48:25.000 Yeah.

00:48:26.000 I just mean like, I want to be friends with them.

00:48:27.000 And they're like, that's not what that means.

00:48:29.000 They're lying to those kids.

00:48:31.000 I'm not saying it's every classroom, but certainly that is happening because these kids don't know what that means.

00:48:36.000 And there's no way it gets to that level of teaching that they don't know that they're confusing them.

00:48:39.000 And that's the worst part about it is that it's being obfuscated intentionally, partially because they know the kids aren't old enough to really process what that means.

00:48:47.000 And partially just everything that you don't say is every bit as important as what you choose to say.

00:48:52.000 And what you leave out says almost more about it than what you put in.

00:48:56.000 And that's terrifying to me.

00:48:58.000 Yeah, well, I think reality is, yeah, these teachers are indoctrinating kids.

00:49:04.000 And then the media is doing everything in its power to push back.

00:49:06.000 So Ibram X. Kendi recently came out and said that, oh no, they're grooming kids to be white supremacists.

00:49:13.000 And it's like, wow, it's working.

00:49:15.000 If he's got to come out and try and do that, the messaging has worked.

00:49:18.000 You've got Kendi trying to retake the word groomer because they're grooming kids. 1.00

00:49:23.000 It ain't gonna work, buddy.

00:49:24.000 Nope.

00:49:25.000 Did you cover the first grade teacher who told the first grade class that when babies are born, the doctor just guesses whether it's a boy or a girl?

00:49:34.000 Oh yeah, I think we talked about that, right?

00:49:35.000 Did you talk about that?

00:49:36.000 I don't remember that.

00:49:38.000 They just guess?

00:49:38.000 The doctor just guesses.

00:49:40.000 That's what happens.

00:49:41.000 There's another video from Libs of TikTok where the doctor's basically saying that where it's like, it's typically based on their, their, you know, their, their genetics, their genitals, but usually it's just their genitals.

00:49:49.000 And sometimes they're wrong.

00:49:50.000 It's like, well, sometimes as in like, you know, point zero seven zero.

00:49:56.000 Yeah.

00:49:57.000 percent of the time.

00:49:58.000 But this is why ethics is so important.

00:50:00.000 Science can only get you so far.

00:50:02.000 You can only you can only look at pieces and parts and decide your final answer.

00:50:05.000 But I mean, and that's I think maybe the conversation about ethics and emotions has gone kind of too far in one direction.

00:50:12.000 It's like if you feel like you're a different sex, then then that's Reality, because we have not been having much talk about emotion. 0.94

00:50:19.000 So this is like the hammers come and swinging back.

00:50:22.000 I feel like society is really detached from its emotional self.

00:50:25.000 How often do you see people cry?

00:50:27.000 How often do you see people publicly acknowledging their suffering?

00:50:32.000 Well, I mean, kids that used to have, even though they weren't living on a farm or whatever, they used to know people that were farmers.

00:50:40.000 They had a grandfather that was a farmer or, you know, an uncle or whatever.

00:50:43.000 And so they were involved with animal husbandry and that stuff at a younger age.

00:50:49.000 And you don't have to explain, like kids, ranch kids don't get birds and the bees talks because they've been breeding animals, you know, being, they've been around animals who were being bred since they were very, very young.

00:51:01.000 So there's an implicit understanding there.

00:51:04.000 Like dad doesn't have to sit down and say, you know, when a mama bee loves a daddy bee, you know, it's like they've been seeing stud horses and mares out in the pasture.

00:51:12.000 Chickens.

00:51:13.000 Chickens.

00:51:13.000 Yeah.

00:51:14.000 Yeah.

00:51:14.000 Like we got, we got chicken city and I was thinking about this too.

00:51:17.000 A lot of people talk about how their kids will watch Chicken City.

00:51:20.000 Their dogs and their cats, obviously, will watch it, too.

00:51:22.000 But Chicken City has become this massive success.

00:51:25.000 Thank you, everybody.

00:51:26.000 But no, in all seriousness, you'll get kids watching with their parents and they'll be like, I want to feed the chickens.

00:51:31.000 And so they'll put the five bucks in, the food comes down, and then you'll see the rooster mount the hen and do his rooster business.

00:51:36.000 I hate to explain that.

00:51:38.000 Well, I mean, this chicken city is overtly over-the-top family friendly.

00:51:43.000 Chickens do these things. 1.00

00:51:44.000 Like, if you want to teach your kids about farms and petting zoos, you're going to watch that stuff happen.

00:51:48.000 Now, maybe if your kid's never been exposed to that, you're going to have to have that conversation.

00:51:52.000 But to your point, I was thinking about this earlier.

00:51:55.000 I was like, kid who grows up on a goat farm is never going to have that question because they're like a little kid watching the goats do their thing.

00:52:02.000 You know what I mean?

00:52:04.000 Yeah, it's just totally true. 0.67

00:52:05.000 And the chicken thing might be a little bit hard because then it's like, wait, so we're eating chicken babies?

00:52:10.000 That's what we're eating?

00:52:11.000 A lot of questions.

00:52:12.000 Oh, wow.

00:52:13.000 Yeah.

00:52:13.000 Yep.

00:52:14.000 Every day those eggs come out.

00:52:15.000 It's not necessarily a baby.

00:52:16.000 Yeah, right.

00:52:17.000 But you don't eat the chicks. 0.97

00:52:18.000 You got to wait for them to grow.

00:52:19.000 That's where you get the meat.

00:52:19.000 Do you guys have a farm?

00:52:21.000 Yeah.

00:52:21.000 Did you explain to your kids about like, we're raising the animals, we're going to eat the animals or anything like that?

00:52:25.000 Oh, I mean, no, I don't know.

00:52:29.000 It just kind of happens.

00:52:29.000 In fact, my little sister, when she was, she was probably 10 years old or so, maybe not.

00:52:34.000 She was younger than that, seven or eight years old anyway.

00:52:36.000 She'd come home from school and got off the school bus and I was out feeding her or something.

00:52:41.000 And I came around and I just come in the back door and I hear her yell, Hey mom, I'm hungry.

00:52:46.000 I want to eat Bob.

00:52:49.000 It was this steer that she'd named Bob, you know, and she loved the steer or whatever, but she's like, whatever's food.

00:52:57.000 He's cute and everything, but we're going to eat him.

00:52:59.000 Another one of those things is just kind of implicit.

00:53:02.000 Imagine being Bob.

00:53:04.000 Yeah, right.

00:53:05.000 I know that name.

00:53:06.000 Do they argue against naming them for that reason?

00:53:10.000 No, I mean, my stepfather used to hate it, but for me personally, it doesn't bother me at all.

00:53:17.000 Yesterday I was at my in-laws getting ready for Easter and then getting ready to come out here.

00:53:23.000 As soon as I left, we had one of our heifers calved, you know, and my wife comes home, she's like, oh, look at it, it's so cute, you know?

00:53:29.000 I mean, thank goodness I didn't have to pull it or anything, but, you know, she's talking about how cute these little Angus calves are or whatever, and I'm like, yeah, I get it.

00:53:36.000 And then, you know, the kids are hearing her talk like that, but they never, they never have a problem, you know, eating.

00:53:42.000 Like, they know it's a cow.

00:53:44.000 I guess when you're raised from the beginning with that, you would just know from the tiniest age.

00:53:48.000 Yeah, I think you're just closer to it or something.

00:53:50.000 This is interesting because we've asked many times, like, who is going to survive better in the apocalypse or who is more likely to survive, a conservative, rural, or urban liberal?

00:53:59.000 And it's like, no one thinks the urban liberals are going to make it, but this is a really good point we've not brought up.

00:54:05.000 It's that people who grow up in rural areas are more likely to have been exposed at a young age to slaughtering a pig or a chicken to eat.

00:54:12.000 Like, you know, I want to eat Bob!

00:54:15.000 People in the city are going to be like, I have to do what with the knife?

00:54:18.000 And then what do I do with those things?

00:54:19.000 They're not going to want to do it.

00:54:20.000 They want to walk into a supermarket where there's just pink slime.

00:54:24.000 They can just, you know, cook it and eat it.

00:54:27.000 We had a farm, my grandpa's cousin had a farm, Northeast Ohio.

00:54:32.000 We would go out there, Alvin, Uncle Alvin, and Cousin Alvin.

00:54:36.000 And then you see the thing hanging upside down, like the cattle thing, just all the skin ripped off, and it's like, wow, wow!

00:54:43.000 And I don't think I ever watched him butcher it up, and I never saw him kill it.

00:54:48.000 I did see my dad kill a groundhog, and that was, well, family friendly, he wounded the groundhog, and it escaped, and I just saw the trail of blood, and it was really disturbing.

00:54:57.000 I thought, why hunt if you're not gonna, like, why would you wound it?

00:55:00.000 Groundhogs destroy houses.

00:55:02.000 Yeah, you know, there's always a reason, but it was pretty tragic to see it get wounded and get away, because I was like, what's gonna happen?

00:55:07.000 And he was like, well, it's gonna die in a hole somewhere.

00:55:08.000 Or die in a hole.

00:55:09.000 Yeah, the thing about groundhogs is that they knock trees down, they can destroy houses, they can destroy foundations.

00:55:15.000 So I was reading about it, and apparently there are some places where if you actually catch the groundhog, you have to kill it.

00:55:21.000 Interesting.

00:55:22.000 Because you can be liable for the damages it caused after you've caught it.

00:55:26.000 I did not know that.

00:55:26.000 Crazy, right?

00:55:28.000 Well, imagine you catch it and you're like, oh, I don't want to hurt the little thing.

00:55:31.000 So you just bring it to the edge of your property and let it go and it goes to your neighbor's house and knocks a tree down.

00:55:34.000 They're going to be like, you released that thing on me.

00:55:37.000 Yeah, someone mentioned that about mice.

00:55:38.000 They're like, if you don't do something with them, they will come back and they'll get worse.

00:55:41.000 And I was going to say that I think that maybe one of the best things about living on a ranch is that you can teach your kids about the circle of life.

00:55:47.000 Like if something does crawl in a hole and die, then other things come along and eat it.

00:55:51.000 It becomes part of the soil.

00:55:52.000 It's all part of like growing plants and all this really, it's actually really a neat cycle that I think kids would benefit from knowing about.

00:55:59.000 These things are hard because we have led such like kind of privileged and cushioned lives.

00:56:04.000 We can go to the store and get these little pink things that are, They're chicken. 1.00

00:56:07.000 Where did it come from?

00:56:08.000 We don't know.

00:56:08.000 Milk grows on the shelves.

00:56:09.000 It's absolute insanity.

00:56:10.000 We have no connection to the things we eat.

00:56:13.000 It's a good opportunity to teach kids about that kind of cycle.

00:56:15.000 Really important.

00:56:16.000 Would you butcher at the farm?

00:56:17.000 Yeah, I'd butcher all our stuff.

00:56:18.000 Yeah, I do my own butchering.

00:56:21.000 In fact, this discussion made me think of my friend Shanna.

00:56:25.000 She always says that cows are friends and steers are food, which is true.

00:56:30.000 Cows have more babies and you eat the steers. 0.99

00:56:32.000 Keep your replacement heifers and sell some off.

00:56:35.000 So anyway, so there is kind of a little bit of bifurcation that's worth talking about.

00:56:39.000 The cows themselves are actually occupying a different place.

00:56:43.000 It's because you keep them comfortable so they have healthy babies and they produce good milk? 0.81

00:56:47.000 Well, I mean, you want to keep them all comfortable, ideally, because you want as much pound on the animal as you can when you go to butcher.

00:56:55.000 And if they're stressed out, the meat can be bad, right?

00:56:58.000 Yeah, I mean, really stress is more just like they'll have a harder time gaining weight.

00:57:01.000 At least that's been... Now, like if you're hunting, if you wound something, it's going to get a hit of neuroepinephrine and then your meat is going to be more tense and stiffer or tough.

00:57:16.000 Oh, wow.

00:57:17.000 So when you're hunting, you want the animal to go to be like in the head, just down.

00:57:21.000 Yeah.

00:57:22.000 Well, yeah, I killed as quickly as possible.

00:57:24.000 Like, and then there are some arguments people will make that, uh, like an arrow through, and I've seen it a bunch of times and an arrow through the actual like boiler room with the vitals, the animal almost, I mean, they'll run off, but you can tell that they have no idea what happened.

00:57:44.000 You know, they're just like, then they just die.

00:57:46.000 Oh, wow.

00:57:47.000 So, Oh, okay.

00:57:48.000 So then they don't get the, There's not a big loud sound associated with it.

00:57:52.000 It's just a sharp pain and then they're done.

00:57:54.000 That's because it's an arrow?

00:57:56.000 Yeah, a broadhead, you know, it's just a clean cut and the bow doesn't make a lot of noise.

00:58:00.000 And so I've heard this argument.

00:58:01.000 I don't know how much, I don't know how much like bro science is going on there, but I mean, it's, I think it's a, it's a viable argument, I think.

00:58:08.000 So like when, when, when they realize they're in danger, they tense up and then the muscle becomes stiff and hard and then you try to eat it.

00:58:14.000 It's like you got to, Yeah, I think the big hit, just the big hit of adrenaline, you know, going through and stiffens them up.

00:58:20.000 Yeah.

00:58:21.000 And then, you know, of course, like if you hit something in the guts or whatever, then that's a whole nother.

00:58:25.000 You kind of see that with factory farming, when they lead the cattle into the bolt thing where they're going to put the bolt in their head.

00:58:30.000 And then you watch the one behind it here, the one in front of it die and they freak out.

00:58:35.000 Sure.

00:58:36.000 So that's got to be affecting the final meat, the meat.

00:58:38.000 It's I mean, I feel like I'm almost disassociated.

00:58:40.000 I have I'm a weird, empathetic creature.

00:58:40.000 I don't know.

00:58:43.000 Happy cows, man.

00:58:44.000 Yeah, happy cows, happy life.

00:58:45.000 But cows aren't raised for beef?

00:58:46.000 It's just their dairy?

00:58:47.000 And then what the steers are the beef cattle?

00:58:50.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:58:51.000 So cows are kind of, yeah, cows are the females, right? 0.96

00:58:54.000 And they are going to reproduce, you know, so you turn your bulls in, depending on your setup, you turn your bulls in for some people leave them in all the time.

00:59:01.000 But, you know, you turn your bulls in for X amount of months, and then you know, you pull your bulls out and then Like right now at home most of us are calving or almost done calving, which is just having the babies, you know.

00:59:11.000 And then you'll wean cows and calves, you know, later on and that's when they'll go to auction.

00:59:18.000 How long does it take for a calf to grow up to become either food or...

00:59:23.000 It depends on your setup, whether you're running a cow-calf operation or you're running a feed operation or just like buying ballers or steers and it depends on what you're doing.

00:59:34.000 But like, let's just say just for roundabout, let's just say eight months ish.

00:59:39.000 Then you go to auction or keep your replacement.

00:59:41.000 So if I wanted milk, right, and I bought day one, just born calf, how long until I can, you know, work with the ball to start producing milk and getting the baby and everything?

00:59:51.000 I see.

00:59:53.000 Usually breed heifers around two years old.

00:59:54.000 Two years?

00:59:55.000 Yeah.

00:59:57.000 Are they able to inbreed?

00:59:57.000 Wow.

00:59:58.000 Like chickens?

01:00:01.000 Well, I mean, you castrate all the bulls, right?

01:00:05.000 So you just have... Oh, I see what you're saying.

01:00:07.000 Dad, daughter.

01:00:08.000 Yes, exactly.

01:00:10.000 Yeah, I mean, you try to avoid that where you can, but sure.

01:00:14.000 And some people will lion breed.

01:00:15.000 You castrate the bulls?

01:00:17.000 Well, the bull calves.

01:00:19.000 Because you only want one to be breeding with them or what?

01:00:23.000 Yeah, well, you don't want a nine-month-old or so bull calf out there breeding your heifers or whatever.

01:00:29.000 Right, right, right, right.

01:00:30.000 Plus, you know, it just makes better meat.

01:00:32.000 So there's like, right, so there's specific bulls will be left not castrated.

01:00:38.000 Right, yeah.

01:00:39.000 You'll pull those out and put them in their own pen and then... And those are the studs?

01:00:44.000 Yeah, basically, yeah.

01:00:45.000 That's a great name.

01:00:46.000 That was interesting cow talk. 0.96

01:00:47.000 Let's go back to school.

01:00:48.000 We got this story from timcast.com.

01:00:52.000 Former assistant principal at Virginia Elementary School files lawsuit, says critical race theory teachings created really hostile work environment.

01:01:00.000 Really?

01:01:02.000 Emily Mayes, who worked at Agnor Hurt Elementary School in Charlottesville, says she was subjected to extreme harassment for weeks over her reservations about CRT.

01:01:12.000 The situation escalated for Mayes. 0.53

01:01:15.000 She claims that she accidentally used the word colored instead of people of color during a teaching workshop.

01:01:20.000 Despite apologizing continuously, including immediately after the word was uttered, She says that for months she was harassed and berated by other staff, and that the district failed to intervene. 0.93

01:01:29.000 One black employee who refused to accept the apology began referring to her as that white racist bee. 1.00

01:01:34.000 Wow. 0.99

01:01:35.000 You know, I just gotta say...

01:01:37.000 This is a strategy to use.

01:01:39.000 If you work somewhere with any kind of critical race theory stuff, sue them.

01:01:45.000 That's what you gotta do.

01:01:46.000 Because if they're telling you things based on race, like white people, white privilege, or whatever, they're in violation of the EEOC and the Civil Rights Act.

01:01:54.000 So you gotta sue them.

01:01:57.000 This is the tactic.

01:01:57.000 You gotta use it.

01:01:58.000 Check out this other story.

01:01:59.000 We got this one from Fox News.

01:02:00.000 Professor wins lawsuit against university over pronouns.

01:02:03.000 Students demand went against my Christian beliefs.

01:02:06.000 The Ohio professor won $400,000 after suing the university over being forced to use students' preferred pronouns.

01:02:13.000 There it is, my friends!

01:02:16.000 You gotta stand up for yourself.

01:02:17.000 That's the difference between the United States and Canada right there.

01:02:19.000 How does the, I still, my favorite part about the pronouns thing is it should very rarely be coming up in person conversation anyways, because most of the time you're not using their pronouns when you're actually talking to them in the room anyways, right?

01:02:31.000 You're going to call them by their name, or you're going to refer to them directly.

01:02:35.000 It's more to control your speech when they're not in the room.

01:02:37.000 Isn't that weird?

01:02:38.000 Like we did a story on Pop Culture Crisis where we were talking about Demi Lovato and Demi Lovato has like they them pronouns and I couldn't do it.

01:02:49.000 I kept screwing it up and because because like you said earlier I want to be respectful I try to like some people don't like that like I'm like look that's what they want I understand but I eventually like had to give up on the point that And come back to it like the next day because I couldn't get it right.

01:03:04.000 I couldn't, I kept screwing it up.

01:03:05.000 So she was controlling.

01:03:07.000 She, I just did it right there.

01:03:08.000 She, they were controlling my ability to speak on them without even being in the room just by virtue of creating pronouns that are different from the normal, you know, the normal set.

01:03:19.000 So everybody called out Demi Lovato because Demi Lovato says they are daddy's girl in caption of sizzling Instagram portraits after coming out as non-binary and using they them pronouns.

01:03:31.000 You don't get to choose your pronouns.

01:03:32.000 I'm sorry.

01:03:33.000 I got, I got, look, I try to be nice to everybody.

01:03:36.000 I want to be civil, respectful, but you can't tell me what words to use.

01:03:40.000 If I want to call Brett brat, he can be like, that's not my name.

01:03:43.000 And I'd be like too bad.

01:03:44.000 Like I'm going to say whatever I want.

01:03:45.000 I want now.

01:03:46.000 Is that short for bratwurst?

01:03:47.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:03:48.000 I was just saying it slightly differently.

01:03:50.000 Instead of Ian, I'm going to call him Ian.

01:03:52.000 Hey, you're not the first.

01:03:53.000 What's he going to do about it?

01:03:54.000 Just laugh and cry.

01:03:55.000 So if I say, you know, like, Luke kept calling Lydia Linda when he was on the show.

01:04:00.000 Rude, first of all.

01:04:01.000 See?

01:04:01.000 Well, she's offended.

01:04:02.000 Does that mean I have to take over calling you Lydia?

01:04:05.000 No.

01:04:05.000 Linda now.

01:04:06.000 No, but like, what's Lydia going to say other than, don't call me Linda?

01:04:06.000 Linda.

01:04:09.000 He's like, okay, Linda.

01:04:10.000 Like, what are you going to do?

01:04:11.000 It's like, you can tell him.

01:04:14.000 To be fair, I think that pronouns are very much a power play, because Brett's right. 1.00

01:04:18.000 There is no period of time at which you would say, like, he, when Braxton's sitting right there in front of you, or when Tim's sitting right in front of you.

01:04:25.000 It's when they're not even there.

01:04:26.000 It's like, could you imagine having a conversation like that where, you know, Brett makes a reference to a Demi Lovato story, and then I just look to Braxton and I'm like, did you hear what he was just saying?

01:04:36.000 Oh my gosh!

01:04:37.000 It's just out of the conversation.

01:04:40.000 I think if it's pretty, I mean, rude for sure.

01:04:43.000 If someone called me by the wrong name to make fun of me, I'd be like, all right, bro, take it easy.

01:04:47.000 And then if they kept doing it, I'd be like, I'm not going to interact with you anymore.

01:04:50.000 Uh, or, or whatever I had to do.

01:04:52.000 But I, and it's, so I understand why, but, but then if I, I change my pronoun to a new kind of language or new kind of thought thing, that's a hard one to get.

01:05:02.000 I don't know.

01:05:03.000 Maybe it's the same kind of thing that emotionally for the people that are experiencing this.

01:05:08.000 So.

01:05:09.000 I don't, I don't know, man.

01:05:12.000 Well, like remember when it was on here or was it on Rogan when the Labonte on and he was talking, I was like, yeah, like I'll call you by your pronouns, but I might just not call you very often to hang out.

01:05:21.000 Cause you're really difficult to be around.

01:05:22.000 Like, I don't mean any disrespect, but like, if, if I have to worry about any point in the conversation, something like this comes up, I'm just, I'm just going to check out, dude.

01:05:30.000 I'm like, I'm just not interested.

01:05:31.000 I'm not interested in it.

01:05:32.000 Yeah.

01:05:33.000 Good way to put it.

01:05:34.000 I mean, how mad are you at your dad?

01:05:37.000 How much do you need attention?

01:05:39.000 I don't think it's that.

01:05:40.000 Demi Lovato said she's daddy's girl.

01:05:42.000 You know why I'm saying she?

01:05:44.000 Because she said she's daddy's girl.

01:05:44.000 Why?

01:05:46.000 And now, look, if she comes out and says that she's non-binary, I'm like, okay, whatever. 0.95

01:05:51.000 If she comes out and says she's daddy's girl, I'm like, oh, she's a girl again. 1.00

01:05:54.000 So now she's a she, right? 1.00

01:05:56.000 So she changed it back.

01:05:57.000 So pronoun fluid.

01:05:58.000 Yeah.

01:05:59.000 Well, yeah.

01:05:59.000 Yeah.

01:06:00.000 She's just, she can just be prone to it. 1.00

01:06:01.000 No, you don't think it is.

01:06:02.000 The reason why they're going after kids is because little kids are like trying to find their identity, right?

01:06:08.000 But the identity is usually something like, do I want to be a fireman or do I want to be a carpenter?

01:06:13.000 Do I want to be a doctor or a nurse or something?

01:06:16.000 Now they're going to kids and be like, I remember when I was little and they're like, what's your favorite color?

01:06:20.000 And I was always like, I don't know, like, how do you know what your favorite color is?

01:06:24.000 What does that even mean?

01:06:25.000 And then I would just tell people green because the calendar for March, my birthday, was always green.

01:06:29.000 It's like green, I guess, because like that's the only thing I can kind of think of.

01:06:32.000 I don't know.

01:06:33.000 I kind of like blue or whatever.

01:06:35.000 So you just pick it.

01:06:36.000 Now you're a little kid and they're like, which pronouns are you?

01:06:39.000 And they're like, oh, Florbo? 0.98

01:06:42.000 I don't know.

01:06:44.000 Whatever.

01:06:45.000 Is it New York that recognizes 33 separate genders? 0.99

01:06:50.000 31 separate genders? 0.98

01:06:51.000 It's insane.

01:06:52.000 But they legally recognize any and all genders, which means you can make one up on the spot.

01:06:57.000 So what is the point of a 31 if they legally recognize all?

01:07:01.000 Of the 31, they even are redundant.

01:07:03.000 Like, female to male is considered a gender in New York, but FTM is also considered a gender, even though it means the same thing.

01:07:11.000 This stuff is so difficult to talk about because I am such a generally respectful and do not want to offend or hurt anyone's feelings and I know a lot of people like working here you kind of like a lot of people see that as like a flaw right that you're like you're too weak to to stand up for something but it's like I don't want to offend or upset anybody but some of this stuff is so impossible to process in the moment that if I can't even have a reasonable conversation with you I don't know how to do this without being offensive and I don't want that so it's like I'm being forced to be offensive but only to them like I'm trying not to be but they're making it about that and that's very very difficult for me to process as somebody who just doesn't want to be on the wrong side of people just for general reasons.

01:07:50.000 Yeah, talking about someone, then you're taking some risk.

01:07:54.000 When you're talking to someone, pronouns are out of the question.

01:07:57.000 You don't even use pronouns.

01:07:58.000 You're having a conversation with somebody, and anyone can get down with that.

01:08:01.000 It doesn't matter how they identify.

01:08:03.000 When you start talking about people, then they're like, whoa, if you're going to bring me into this, bring me into it the way I want to be brought into it.

01:08:08.000 And it's like, not in the United States.

01:08:10.000 I'm bringing you in because you're part of this.

01:08:12.000 It's purposefully destabilizing.

01:08:16.000 It's impossible for a regular person to know what's happening or who you're talking about.

01:08:20.000 So the example I gave on Twitter was, I can't remember exactly how I wrote it, but I said, Pat and Sam, go to see a movie.

01:08:29.000 They got angry because they wanted to see a horror film, but they ended up seeing a comedy instead.

01:08:36.000 And what they really wanted was... And then it's just like, what does the they refer to?

01:08:40.000 Like, which person did what?

01:08:41.000 If you said, like, Mike and Jane went to a movie, she got angry because she wanted to see a comedy film, but he wanted to see horror, and they ended up seeing horror.

01:08:49.000 Now you understand.

01:08:51.000 The girlfriend is mad.

01:08:52.000 She wants to see comedy.

01:08:52.000 The boyfriend wants to see horror.

01:08:54.000 They were both mad because they didn't see anything.

01:08:56.000 But if you said, Sam and Pat went to the movies.

01:08:59.000 They were mad because they wanted to see a comedy, but they saw horror.

01:09:02.000 It's like, are you, like, they were both mad?

01:09:04.000 Which, which, which person is referred to in the they?

01:09:08.000 Now, to be fair, in the context of, you know, Sarah and Jane go to the movie and she was mad, you're also like, I don't know which person you're referring to, because if it's two different genders, there you go. 0.54

01:09:18.000 In which case, you don't need the pronouns at all.

01:09:21.000 Sarah and Jane go to the movie, Sarah got mad because she wanted to see a movie, a comedy, but Jane wanted to see horror, and they ended up saying, so you just use the name.

01:09:30.000 In which case, this whole discussion is like, I think you're right, though, that it is that it's about being purposely destabilizing.

01:09:36.000 As much as it pains me to give him credit, Jesse Kelly calls these guys communists all the time, and I think he's right, at least in orientation and also because it makes him mad to be called communist.

01:09:46.000 So I think it's good to use.

01:09:48.000 But the whole, you know, basically, in a sense, the Lenin model is destabilize, destabilize, create confusion and chaos, and then come in and be the person that restores order in the way that you want it.

01:09:59.000 And that seems to be the approach.

01:10:01.000 How do they restore order?

01:10:03.000 Who are they looking for?

01:10:04.000 We're shooting people in the streets.

01:10:05.000 But I'm saying who are they looking for that's going to make sense of this?

01:10:09.000 Well, at this stage, I don't think it matters because it's chaos stage.

01:10:12.000 Because he's like a lot of these people who shilled for Biden who just like he doesn't understand the stuff.

01:10:18.000 He doesn't like I would argue that he doesn't really understand any of the stuff that's going on with that type of with that part of the movement.

01:10:23.000 But it's like you said earlier, you think it's about destabilizing, and we talked about religion, and you said, I think, like, why does it feel like people are coming more around to religion again?

01:10:32.000 It's because they're looking for something solid under their feet.

01:10:34.000 And I'm not religious, but I'm one of those people that's like, everything feels so up in the air now that you're just looking for something, anything to hold on to that feels like some semblance of the real world and not this postmodern hell that feels like we're in right now.

01:10:48.000 I mentioned that earlier, that in a time when you start to lose faith in reality, you start to look for faith in other places.

01:10:54.000 And I see people reverting to religion of the past or to non-binary degenderism or whatever the heck.

01:11:02.000 I looked up, there's a meme going around that says they translated non-binary into Spanish.

01:11:06.000 And there's two ways to translate it.

01:11:07.000 One is the feminine version and one is the masculine version.

01:11:10.000 No binaria, no binario.

01:11:12.000 Perfect.

01:11:13.000 Wow.

01:11:14.000 Well, so let's... We gotta cancel Spanish. 1.00

01:11:15.000 Let's talk about the return of religion.

01:11:16.000 I mean, you know, Brett just brought up that things are starting to become more religious.

01:11:20.000 I remember reading about Dave Rubin.

01:11:23.000 Is he now a Christian?

01:11:24.000 I believe so, yeah.

01:11:25.000 Something like that happened?

01:11:27.000 And I find that interesting because a lot of people rag that I'm saying like all of a sudden this guy who they say drifted to the right is now, you know, all of a sudden he's a conservative Christian or whatever.

01:11:35.000 And the funny thing is, The opposite kind of happens to me, because I've, like, long talked about how I've believed in God since I was, like, 18.

01:11:43.000 Like, I was—grew up Catholic, then kind of drifted away, but then I was a teenager, so I, you know, had this, like, realization.

01:11:49.000 And now I believe in God, but I don't consider myself, like, religiously theistic or anything like that, not following—I don't follow Scripture or anything like that.

01:11:56.000 I just think there's a God.

01:11:58.000 And instead I get conservatives calling me an atheist.

01:12:00.000 I'm like, what is that all about?

01:12:02.000 I don't know.

01:12:02.000 Weird.

01:12:03.000 But I do think it's interesting.

01:12:05.000 So I just wanted to dig in on why you guys think religion is making a comeback.

01:12:10.000 Fundamentally, everyone is disoriented or misoriented and is rudderless and unmoored.

01:12:17.000 And we're all feeling it.

01:12:18.000 It's the, you know, the chaos is, it's palpable, you know, and we feel it in our own lives every day.

01:12:23.000 And so everyone's looking for a rudder.

01:12:25.000 The rest is like, we're just adrift in the ocean right now.

01:12:28.000 And we're looking for something to stick in the waves and try to get back to shore.

01:12:33.000 Religion has worked for a long time.

01:12:35.000 You know, Christianity is, what, 2,000 years old.

01:12:38.000 Judaism is, what, 5,000 years old or something.

01:12:40.000 That's pretty firm, solid footing.

01:12:43.000 So I think, you know, people are looking that way because it's worked.

01:12:46.000 I mean, look at, like, the Peterson phenomena.

01:12:50.000 Like, he would, he would talk, you know, I've heard... Jordan Peterson?

01:12:55.000 Yeah, Jordan Peterson.

01:12:56.000 Thank you.

01:12:56.000 I've heard him jokingly referred to as, like, the guy who speaks to kids who didn't have dads.

01:13:02.000 I mean, maybe there's some truth to that, but I think really, like, he was speaking to a generation that was sort of broken up by new atheism, you know?

01:13:14.000 like these these Christian these younger Christian kids or Jewish kids or whatever that fell in love with Dawkins and

01:13:20.000 Hitchens and Harris and these kind of guys because they were

01:13:22.000 charismatic and really they're attacking the argument level of

01:13:26.000 like a teenager or whatever but they you know if you don't know

01:13:30.000 if you're not you know well steeped or versed in your faith then it's kind of easy to get you know swayed by someone

01:13:36.000 who is as charismatic as Hitchens so that went on for you know

01:13:39.000 a decade or whatever.

01:13:40.000 And then these people that went through that were looking at the society around them and the chaos and disaster that it had become.

01:13:49.000 And Peterson steps up and in many ways is kind of like the anti-New Atheist.

01:13:54.000 He's like making similar arguments but on the opposite end.

01:13:57.000 And then those same kids are like, I remember Peterson talking about a bunch of atheists showing up at his things and asking about God.

01:14:03.000 And so I just think that we're looking for, collectively, we're looking for some solid footing and religion has persisted.

01:14:13.000 So scientific method kind of turns me off.

01:14:16.000 I know there's real value to the scientific method.

01:14:18.000 It's fantastic for building machines and stuff, but placebo effect is real.

01:14:22.000 No one knows why they just know it's somewhat effective in studies and trials.

01:14:25.000 That's not scientific method.

01:14:27.000 Can't explain it.

01:14:27.000 So that's not a perfect system.

01:14:29.000 And so I look out, I look elsewhere.

01:14:31.000 What else is there?

01:14:32.000 Quantum physics is fascinating.

01:14:33.000 Religions are fascinating.

01:14:34.000 God is fascinating, but to jump on one seems like a, uh, a preemptive mistake.

01:14:40.000 So at least that's where I'm at right now.

01:14:43.000 I somewhat agree.

01:14:44.000 I do think the scientific method can eventually understand why the placebo effect happens.

01:14:49.000 I think we just haven't yet.

01:14:50.000 Because if you're going to keep doing testing, you figure out what's going on in the brain or in the body.

01:14:55.000 But I somewhat agree, picking one religion.

01:14:58.000 That's why I consider myself non-theistic in a sense.

01:15:01.000 I don't follow any scripture or whatever, but I do believe God exists.

01:15:04.000 It's because I've met too many people who are like, I know for sure and here's why, let me explain it to you.

01:15:10.000 And I'm like, man, you really are convinced.

01:15:12.000 You know a whole lot.

01:15:13.000 You've asked a lot of deep philosophical questions.

01:15:15.000 And here's another guy who says you're wrong, who's also very learned.

01:15:18.000 So I'm like, I don't know.

01:15:20.000 I think the one thing I can agree on is that there's something bigger and greater than all of us, but I don't know if like, maybe the reality is, Everybody's looking through the a small lens at the bigger picture at the same thing and you know They're looking through it and they see imagine your look.

01:15:35.000 This is big mansion I was using example as a ballroom inside with tons of people and they're all dancing and and you look through the keyhole They're like, what do you see what's inside?

01:15:42.000 You're like, there's a big woman with a big dress Then ten feet down as a guy looking through the same keyhole and he's like he sees a guy wearing a tuxedo No, it's not.

01:15:50.000 It's a guy wearing a tuxedo And they both started arguing like, oh, no, no, no, I'm seeing this. 0.62

01:15:54.000 He's like, he's crazy.

01:15:55.000 Look, and everyone's like, I can see the lady. 0.99

01:15:56.000 He's making it up.

01:15:57.000 Depending on where you're coming from, you see something different.

01:15:59.000 But the reality is the bigger picture on the inside is everybody's getting little pieces of it, you know?

01:16:03.000 You think there's an objective reality?

01:16:06.000 Yeah, I do.

01:16:08.000 How would you define it?

01:16:11.000 I mean, seriously, I'm so glad he asked you that question.

01:16:15.000 Yeah, well, I mean, oh, Descartes makes me so angry.

01:16:21.000 Yeah, I mean, I see your point.

01:16:24.000 I think that it's You have to live in the real world at some point and for me it's like that's the table and let's say I went outside and closed my eyes and I didn't even know, I had no idea you were there.

01:16:39.000 It was in the dark, okay?

01:16:41.000 You knew I was there but I had no idea that you were there and you threw a snowball and hit me in the side of the face.

01:16:46.000 There is no chance that I could deny the existence of that snowball that I did not know existed before it struck my face.

01:16:53.000 So, like, obviously we react with the material world, you know, and I do think it's provable, it's just that you have to set up such bizarre experiments to get there that it's... you get in circles.

01:17:05.000 This is why people often argue about what objective and subjective is, and it's like, you know, you've got the brain in the vat thought experiment, maybe your brain's in a tube and they're poking it with electrodes, maybe we're all in the matrix, maybe... you at home.

01:17:17.000 are the only real person, and everyone else is just some kind of video game NPC.

01:17:22.000 Who knows?

01:17:23.000 How do you define objective reality?

01:17:25.000 It's the external things that have a tendency towards being true, is the easiest way I can think of.

01:17:29.000 Like, if I throw a rock at a standard house window, the window will break.

01:17:34.000 Or maybe you'll miss, but we can basically predict what's gonna happen.

01:17:38.000 Physics.

01:17:38.000 Physics is the most objective reality I can figure at this point.

01:17:41.000 Sort of.

01:17:42.000 So, the challenge is...

01:17:44.000 Some windows are bulletproof.

01:17:46.000 And so you can be like, I can prove to you objective reality, the window will break, and you throw it, and then it bounces off the window, and you're like, okay, I was wrong about that.

01:17:52.000 Well, it doesn't disprove objective reality, it just means there's such nuance and subtleties to most things that defining reality, like defining objective reality is, is difficult because everyone has a subjective perspective.

01:18:07.000 I suppose you just look for the things that everyone agrees upon as being true, which is why we had the argument before about universal objective morality, to which I believe there is one.

01:18:18.000 And it's because when we were talking to Jeremy Boring and Michael Knowles, and they were saying, you know, essentially, what's the point of a planet without humans?

01:18:28.000 It's because we are human.

01:18:29.000 We live within a human experience, and the human experience is our existence.

01:18:34.000 Without humans, there's just, you know, there's life, but it's not perceived the way we perceive it.

01:18:39.000 There's no value to it the way we perceive value.

01:18:41.000 It's literally just a rock and water or something.

01:18:45.000 So from the human experience, I look to what is true in every culture to every person.

01:18:51.000 Throw it stepping on a rock hurts.

01:18:53.000 All right, so we can see some things are objective but it's a gradient you get to a certain point where you're getting into physics even and You might say I believe that there are 13 dimension.

01:19:03.000 Here's the math to prove it and someone else like you're crazy There's 14 and here's the math to prove it and then you're getting into weird and wacky world stuff because they're both right You know if there's 14, that means there's also 13.

01:19:12.000 There's also 12 and Well, but you get my point, like, they'll disagree on the math and, you know, ultimately the fundamental nature of the universe, so how could it be objective reality if the human experience denies what is true?

01:19:25.000 I'll tell you objective reality.

01:19:26.000 I'm gonna go to the bathroom.

01:19:27.000 I will see you guys in two minutes and I love you.

01:19:29.000 Alright.

01:19:29.000 My point is not that because a bunch of people believe something is true.

01:19:34.000 Makes it true. 0.96

01:19:35.000 It's just that if we can all prove something to a certain degree, and then we can replicate it, we've found our objective, you know, reality to a certain degree.

01:19:46.000 It's never completely possible to know everything.

01:19:49.000 Why is the objective reality discussion so fascinating?

01:19:51.000 Like, I'm literally asking, like, why do you think it is that we always come back to that when we have these discussions?

01:19:56.000 Why is it that this focus on, like, I was talking to someone earlier about, we always talk about common sense not being that common anymore.

01:20:04.000 It seems like people are taking this...

01:20:07.000 Very large-scale view when we've got plenty of problems in the very very real world that we're dealing with now So we have these discussions and I always find that it ends up distracting from actually solving I'd not say that's not important or that there's not value in the discussion There is but I'm saying that it usually comes up when we're discussing real-world issues and these other things So I'm always fascinated how we go back to these kind of more larger scale discussions rather than staying on the topics We were actually discussing beforehand Well, I mean, we're talking about people becoming religious.

01:20:37.000 And that was it.

01:20:37.000 Okay.

01:20:38.000 So like, uh, so for me, like when I was thinking about religion, like as somebody who's not, uh, not denominational or anything like that, but I keep coming back to it recently because of an absence of, uh, redemption in the world we live in right now.

01:20:50.000 There's absolutely like, whether we're talking about people who are like strong proponents of cancel culture, or if you want to talk about ideological leftists that are pushing these narratives right now.

01:21:00.000 They don't really have much of a belief in redemption at all.

01:21:03.000 And that's something we went and saw Father Stew, which is like, uh, like we reviewed it for the channel and I was like, I was like, this might've been like a six or seven maybe, but I gave it like a nine just because seeing a story that was so heavily focused on the idea of redemption, uh, even if you exclude all of the religious elements, just that type of, of story is so missing and so lacking in society today when you're not allowed to redeem yourself.

01:21:25.000 Once you're, Once you're out, once you're on the outs with the group, you're out forever and you're never allowed back.

01:21:30.000 That's why they say you can never apologize, because if you apologize, you're admitting fault and then you're forever that person.

01:21:36.000 And that sickens me in a lot of ways.

01:21:38.000 I don't like the idea that what you are at one time is who you are forever.

01:21:42.000 And I take issue with that.

01:21:43.000 And religion takes pains to make that a big part of its value system.

01:21:47.000 And that means a lot to me, even if I can't at this time say that I'm denominational.

01:21:51.000 Yeah.

01:21:52.000 Again, it goes back to the communism thing.

01:21:54.000 It's not that they want you out as an outcast or whatever forever.

01:21:59.000 They just want you broken.

01:22:01.000 Submit to the group.

01:22:02.000 Yeah.

01:22:02.000 They just want you broken so that they can mold you or use you or throw you away or whatever.

01:22:07.000 And that is, to your point, the redemption arc that religion allows for is Powerful and fundamental and in some ways kind of what separates us from the animal kingdom that we allow for things like that.

01:22:22.000 Maybe that's what's driving people back to religion.

01:22:25.000 That they've seen cancel culture.

01:22:27.000 They've seen the woke left and they've said, I want to be a better person.

01:22:31.000 I want to be redeemed.

01:22:32.000 I don't want to be like that.

01:22:33.000 And so there's a fundamental, there's a moral structure that says you can be redeemed.

01:22:38.000 You can be forgiven, which is the opposite of the modern wokeness.

01:22:42.000 But let's do this.

01:22:43.000 Let's talk about your book and your story.

01:22:46.000 Do you want to tell us what your book is and what it's about?

01:22:50.000 Yeah.

01:22:51.000 I joined the military and then I got wounded over in Iraq in 2006.

01:22:58.000 Got busted up pretty good.

01:22:59.000 Broke my left tibia, my left femur in three places, and my left hip in two places, and my right hip in one, and my right femur in two, and my radius and ulnar in my arm, My right median nerve got transected here.

01:23:13.000 Anyway, just a host of injuries.

01:23:15.000 My left humerus was broken, most all by ball bearings.

01:23:19.000 I do have a hole down here.

01:23:22.000 So then I came home, and it ties into this redemption arc.

01:23:27.000 I came home and they had me on you know obviously they were having a hard time they didn't know if I was gonna be able to walk again and so I went through all of that the physical recovery stuff and then I got to a civilian doctor out it got out of the military hospital to a civilian doctor and he went through the pain medication that I was on and he was like Braxton I have women old women dying of cancer that are on way less than half of the amount of pain medication that you're on.

01:23:52.000 So I was hyper addicted to opioids, didn't know it at the time, but hyper addicted to opioids.

01:23:58.000 He started scaling me back and then I went through about two years of physical, well the first stage physical therapy and then I started trying to get off opiates you know and just anyway so I went through struggles with with all of that kind of stuff and speaking to Redemption Arc, I lived like a complete dirtbag for a long time.

01:24:17.000 So I'm very, I'm very pro redemption myself.

01:24:20.000 I am.

01:24:20.000 I'm also in recovery.

01:24:22.000 So that's a large part of my story as well.

01:24:24.000 Maybe that I didn't even really connect that when I was thinking about it here, but maybe that's why the idea of redemption hits me so hard.

01:24:30.000 But, uh, I understand that struggle for sure.

01:24:32.000 Yeah, man.

01:24:32.000 So like prodigal sons, right.

01:24:33.000 You know, went off and lived in the underworld and now we're doing your best to climb your way out or like as Dostoevsky writes about it as like the underground, but it's, it's the same, you know, the underground man and everything.

01:24:46.000 So it's the same concept.

01:24:48.000 What's the book called?

01:24:49.000 The Glass Factory.

01:24:51.000 So it's about your redemption not coming back from addiction and injury?

01:24:55.000 Honestly, one of my favorite parts about this book has been when I first wrote it, I was looking around and all the war books that I was seeing were just not reflective of the experience.

01:25:07.000 I'm not trying to take a shot at anybody, but they were just not reflective of the experience I was seeing around me.

01:25:12.000 Seeing my friends, you know, several of them commit suicide, getting divorces, going to jail, losing custody of their kids, you know, having problems.

01:25:21.000 And the two choices in literature that they sort of had were either uber hero stories, you know, that are anyway, superhero type stories, or this, this like very whiny, you know, crybaby type thing.

01:25:38.000 And there was no one trying to thread the needle and say, look, Yeah, a lot of us are screwing up and you need to quit screwing up. 0.99

01:25:45.000 And until you stop screwing up, your life is going to suck, man. 0.96

01:25:50.000 Like you got to get out, you know, and do better. 0.99

01:25:52.000 So I tried to kind of thread that needle.

01:25:54.000 And what was the moment you realized?

01:25:58.000 I don't know.

01:25:59.000 It's funny, I actually wrote about this in the book too.

01:26:02.000 This part of the book, you're doing a lot of self-reflection when you're writing something like that.

01:26:10.000 And I was trying to find this moment and pinpoint it when I decided to be better or whatever.

01:26:17.000 And what I realized is that we all do this when we tell our own stories.

01:26:20.000 We look back in time for this one thing that flip the switch or whatever, but it's never true.

01:26:25.000 There was always a series of small decisions that led up to or away from making the right one.

01:26:31.000 What was a couple of the really big decisions you made that led you to the right path?

01:26:38.000 I mean getting up at 5 a.m.

01:26:39.000 helped for me.

01:26:39.000 It doesn't work for everybody but just getting myself on to a schedule was a big one.

01:26:48.000 So I couldn't run for eight years and then one day I was able to kind of jog a little bit again and I used to be an athlete and so I really I was very excited at the possibility of running again.

01:27:01.000 So I went and ran a mile with my buddy who runs endurance stuff and then I decided to transfer that into going and hiking the Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

01:27:10.000 And so I had like a goal to train for.

01:27:13.000 And that was enormous for me, to have something to orient myself at physically, so that I actually had to take care of my body. 0.98

01:27:22.000 And I'd gotten off of the opiates before, but then I was just still living like an idiot and drinking too much.

01:27:28.000 I want to ask for both of you guys actually, being in recovery, did religion or God play a role in getting off drugs?

01:27:37.000 I mean, for me, for sure, it was, uh, I would say the drug part.

01:27:44.000 Well, I was so lost still at the time, um, that I'm not sure how much God really, I mean, God, so this is where it gets hard.

01:27:53.000 It's like maybe to my own neurotic, selfish, uh, you know, in my own neurotic and selfish mind, God wasn't playing a role.

01:28:02.000 But I think, you know, looking back, I think for sure God was playing a role.

01:28:06.000 And now it helps a lot.

01:28:09.000 I didn't have, uh, any, uh, such, uh, I don't know if I would have been able to process that type of a concept at the time.

01:28:14.000 My brain was in such chaos going through that.

01:28:17.000 But for me, it was, uh, and like I said, we, I was just discussing with someone about this, how there's no linear, like everyone looks for that moment where they feel like they're getting better or like, this is the big decision it's in the movies.

01:28:28.000 It's always somebody, uh, gets in a car accident and they realize they have to turn their life around.

01:28:32.000 But for most people, it's not something that concrete.

01:28:35.000 You just have to make that decision day by day and then suddenly find yourself on a path to do so.

01:28:40.000 And for me, it wasn't religion so much as it was getting, finding firm footing on something I wanted to do.

01:28:46.000 It was like skating for me.

01:28:47.000 It was, I had been sober for a while and then my mom passed and then that wasn't an event that led to it.

01:28:53.000 But it changed things as far as my schedule and my ability to open up my life because I was, at that time, I was taking care of my mom.

01:28:59.000 She was in poor health for many years.

01:29:01.000 So the ability to get back out and just physical activity played a huge role in that and like you start You know actively getting active again You feel better about yourself and that leads and it all becomes kind of like a snowball rolling downhill And it's just it wasn't God for me, but it was more the ability to take your life into your own hands and push forward was very Monumental when you've been at the mercy of something for so long, the ability to be in control of yourself again is, uh, like I said, I've told that story before.

01:29:31.000 Like when I, when I realized that I could go outside without, uh, or like I could get up without being sick.

01:29:36.000 I cried, I cried for 20 minutes.

01:29:38.000 And that's because you've now got control of yourself again.

01:29:40.000 You're not beholden to something created by a pharmaceutical company.

01:29:43.000 Uh, and that's a revelatory experience that goes far.

01:29:47.000 Like, I mean, maybe that is, uh, uh, God speaking in a way, but it's certainly, it feels to be akin to that.

01:29:55.000 I'm thinking about the brain and all the neurons, and if that's connected to the magnetosphere, the extremely low-frequency band, and if that's God, and are you part of it?

01:30:03.000 Yeah, you know, that's what I normally think about.

01:30:06.000 Yeah, self-control, I imagine, if there is a God, that it's tightly interwoven.

01:30:10.000 I just wonder, because I hear a lot of stories that, you know, a religious experience or something was like pulling people.

01:30:16.000 I tell this story about this guy I knew who's on drugs, and then he had a profound experience where a voice told him to get his life together, and it made him very religious.

01:30:24.000 I looked for something like that.

01:30:26.000 Maybe it's just because I talk about pop culture all day, I watch movies all day.

01:30:30.000 I'm looking for that movie-like experience that's going to bring me out of the situation I'm in.

01:30:35.000 And then one day you just realize that is not the real, at least not for everyone, it won't be the real world, it won't be what everybody experiences.

01:30:42.000 And you have to rely on yourself again and maybe it would have maybe selfishly I would have loved to have had that but I still have such a hard time asking those questions about faith like it's very hard for me to put my faith all in something so perhaps he had a different belief system that led him more to find something like you know to find his answers in that and I just hadn't whatever wherever I was on my journey just wasn't there yet so I had to find my way a different way but it's like that's that movie type way you always imagine somebody pulling you back From the brink and that's just that wasn't my experience But I almost would have loved to have had that it feels like that would have that would have been benefit I think at the root of every addict is Fundamentally is in gratitude for being you know, it's like just being angry at being so if you try to cultivate gratitude in your life and yes, you know take yourself and however, you want to think about this bone sack that you occupy and

01:31:39.000 If you start to take that seriously, then a lot of your other problems will sort themselves out.

01:31:43.000 I used to talk about gratitude as a superpower.

01:31:46.000 The ability to show gratitude for, at a certain point, I'm in a very cheap apartment, I'm working, I'm barely making enough money to get by, but I'm skating every day and I'm doing what I love, and if I can go out every day, walk to get around, do what I need to do, do something that I love while having a job, paying my bills, And if I can be extremely grateful for that, that is something that I feel like I feel bad for people that can't find the gratitude.

01:32:11.000 You know, like I almost feel like they're missing out on the ability to feel that emotion.

01:32:15.000 What's the best way to find gratitude through pain?

01:32:19.000 For me, I don't know if I find it through pain.

01:32:21.000 I find it through getting through the pain and finding yourself on the other side of it.

01:32:25.000 And that's the ability to handle it without help.

01:32:27.000 or like without the ability to find yourself through it and still be okay, not without help,

01:32:32.000 but like the ability to, you know, to suffer through it, achieve, you know, get out on the other side

01:32:37.000 and find out that you're still okay and you can still go on.

01:32:40.000 There's gratitude in that for me.

01:32:42.000 One of the best parts about that is that we all embody that lesson and we don't realize it.

01:32:47.000 Like when you go to the gym and lift weights, you have pain and you know,

01:32:52.000 it's sort of a suffering experience.

01:32:54.000 And you do that because you know that on the other end, you're going to be a stronger person.

01:32:58.000 And we've known that since we were little.

01:33:01.000 We've learned this slowly over time.

01:33:02.000 you know you're you're literally in ball embodying that that story you know yeah

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01:33:28.000 Ginger McIsaac says, Happy Tax Day, everyone.

01:33:31.000 Cough, cough, wheeze.

01:33:33.000 I'm just going to say it.

01:33:34.000 You know, Super Chats.

01:33:36.000 We're low for this show, but I get it.

01:33:40.000 I get it.

01:33:41.000 And so, you know, like we've got the console here for the YouTube studio, and I'm looking at the revenue, and it's not bad.

01:33:48.000 It's like we do well, but I'm just like, everybody's hurting.

01:33:51.000 Pay your taxes.

01:33:52.000 Everybody just cashed that big check and they're like, oh man.

01:33:57.000 Lex Freeman made an interesting tweet.

01:33:59.000 He was like, I'm down, I'm paying my taxes, I'm crying, but I wish I knew where this money was going.

01:34:04.000 I don't like sending it to this amorphous blob of a thing that is bureaucratic.

01:34:09.000 And he makes a fantastic point.

01:34:11.000 I think we should have some sort of transparent mechanism to decide where at least some of our tax money goes.

01:34:16.000 Even if they say, all this is going to black budget.

01:34:19.000 At least I know.

01:34:20.000 Well, I mean, they can be like, you know, you submit an inquiry.

01:34:24.000 I'd like to know where my X amount of dollars in taxes went.

01:34:27.000 And then, like, they just send you back a form that says we blew up kids.

01:34:31.000 That's what it feels like.

01:34:33.000 It's a bit dark because the military budget is not as high as people think it is.

01:34:36.000 I think it's probably 20% of the dollar that you spend in taxes.

01:34:41.000 Maybe I'm wrong about that.

01:34:44.000 Because I think people think it's really high.

01:34:46.000 It's not as high as they think.

01:34:47.000 And a lot of it does go to, like, I think veterans benefits.

01:34:51.000 I think people, I think that's true.

01:34:52.000 Like a large portion might go to... It's like 120 billion of it, I think.

01:34:56.000 Yeah.

01:34:56.000 I think the majority of the budget is social programs.

01:35:01.000 I'm nearly positive.

01:35:03.000 Do you guys know how much, what the tax revenue is for the year?

01:35:06.000 Or like what it was last year?

01:35:07.000 Google it!

01:35:07.000 And then we'll read some Super Chats while you Google it.

01:35:09.000 I want to know who's going to, sorry, I just want to know who's going to click the gender training, you know, or diversity training when they're filling out their tax form.

01:35:17.000 You know, if we go under Ian's system, like how many people are really going to click, yeah, let's fund more of this.

01:35:22.000 Exactly.

01:35:23.000 It would be interesting.

01:35:24.000 Yeah.

01:35:25.000 Yeah, it would be gone.

01:35:26.000 People are going to be like, I don't know.

01:35:28.000 It would be like healthcare and everyone would be like, yes.

01:35:30.000 And then it would be like war, no.

01:35:31.000 And then it would be like gender studies, no.

01:35:34.000 It looks like in 2021 they expected, in October they had expected to, estimates were $3.8 trillion.

01:35:40.000 Instead of $180 billion go to... Okay, that's not that much.

01:35:44.000 $3.8 trillion.

01:35:45.000 Can you look at the breakdown for where it goes?

01:35:48.000 Yeah, I think it's $120 billion to the VA, but I could be getting that number wrong.

01:35:52.000 Let's read some more.

01:35:52.000 We got Delhi who says, Tim, Felix Rex aka Black Pigeon Speaks is currently in the US.

01:35:57.000 I beg you not to let the opportunity pass without getting him on Timcast IRL.

01:36:01.000 Would be a great conversation, especially around geopolitics.

01:36:04.000 I don't think we can because I don't believe that he shows his face much on camera.

01:36:10.000 I haven't caught up with him lately.

01:36:11.000 I do think he did a face reveal but I don't think he would be comfortable with coming on and giving an interview.

01:36:16.000 We got a chicken mask downstairs you could wear like one of the masks.

01:36:18.000 We could get a horse out of it.

01:36:20.000 And we could put a mic into the...

01:36:23.000 All right.

01:36:24.000 User not available says, Tim, you're looking good.

01:36:26.000 Thank you.

01:36:26.000 I like the haircut.

01:36:27.000 Also, Ian looks like the teacher from Biebs and Butthead in a good way.

01:36:31.000 Put a pic of him next to Ian.

01:36:33.000 Thank you.

01:36:33.000 Should we get the teacher and we'll put it on the- Definitely.

01:36:36.000 Looks like the teacher.

01:36:37.000 Yeah.

01:36:38.000 All right.

01:36:38.000 I mean, and kind of acts like him too.

01:36:41.000 Yeah, that guy's so funny.

01:36:43.000 What was his name?

01:36:43.000 I don't know.

01:36:44.000 Let's find out.

01:36:46.000 All right.

01:36:49.000 Joe Harshbarger says, Peter Doocy, why do you still recommend masks?

01:36:52.000 Sacky.

01:36:53.000 For God's sake, Peter, I'm a press secretary, not a doctor.

01:36:57.000 Aha.

01:36:57.000 Star Trek.

01:36:59.000 All right.

01:37:00.000 I got the name.

01:37:00.000 It's David Van Driesen.

01:37:02.000 Van Driesen.

01:37:02.000 A hippie teacher at Highland High School.

01:37:04.000 Yeah.

01:37:05.000 Thanks, Judge.

01:37:06.000 Did you see the article I sent the other day about the person who said they'd only come back for DS9 if it was about social justice?

01:37:14.000 Oh, jeez.

01:37:15.000 Who said that?

01:37:16.000 One of the actresses from the show.

01:37:18.000 I saw a really interesting post earlier that said it was breaking down how people's lives were, like in the United States, completely revolving around Christianity, whether they realize it or not, even atheists.

01:37:33.000 And one of the funny points was that your favorite exclamation is a call to your Lord and Savior.

01:37:40.000 People literally will yell Jesus when they're shocked by something.

01:37:44.000 Do you not realize that?

01:37:45.000 I mean, people really don't think about it.

01:37:47.000 We see these videos of people yelling, Allahu Akbar, when like a bomb goes off.

01:37:51.000 And people are like, what is it?

01:37:52.000 What is it?

01:37:52.000 It's like they're saying, Oh my God.

01:37:54.000 That's literally like probably the best translation.

01:37:57.000 It's like, it means God is great.

01:37:58.000 Like, yeah, but the probably the emotion is, Oh my God.

01:38:01.000 And so I just said, geez, which is just derivative of Jesus.

01:38:06.000 Even atheists in this country will be like, you'll yell Jesus Christ when something absurd, like a car will hit a dog and you'll yell that out.

01:38:14.000 I've been wondering why they call him Jesus because it's Yeshua, I think in Aramaic, is that the right language?

01:38:19.000 Yeah.

01:38:20.000 Which is basically Joshua, Yeshua, Joshua, Yeshua.

01:38:23.000 So why do they call him Jesus and not Josh?

01:38:25.000 Like Josh, dude.

01:38:26.000 And Seamus would have a problem with this whole conversation if he was here right now.

01:38:29.000 Come back to me, Seamus.

01:38:32.000 Hey, I figured out where the money's coming from, from the $3.8 trillion, but I can't figure out where it's going, not yet anyway.

01:38:39.000 But it's $1.9 trillion comes from individual income tax, $1.3 trillion comes from payroll tax, and that's the bulk.

01:38:46.000 Wow!

01:38:46.000 Just $284 billion came from corporate income tax.

01:38:51.000 Tax day.

01:38:53.000 This auspicious of holidays.

01:38:54.000 Let me just say that they tax you on the money you earn.

01:39:00.000 They tax you when you spend it.

01:39:02.000 You have to pay a tax for simply owning a house.

01:39:05.000 They tax you on the car you purchase.

01:39:08.000 They tax you on the gas you put in it.

01:39:10.000 They tax you on not just the food you buy, but specific items get extra taxes.

01:39:16.000 They tax everything.

01:39:16.000 I think people don't understand this, that it's like, for the average person, what is it, like 50 to 55% of your income goes to taxes?

01:39:24.000 Because they look at income tax and they're like, that's my taxes, but they don't realize you bought a cheeseburger, a portion goes to the government.

01:39:31.000 You bought a house, now you got to pay the government every, you got to pay government rent.

01:39:34.000 The other thing, too, is that payroll tax.

01:39:36.000 Ooh, that's brutal.

01:39:37.000 That means you and your employer are splitting.

01:39:40.000 I think it's 15%.

01:39:42.000 So the employer pays 7.5 and you pay 7.5.

01:39:45.000 They are jamming taxes everywhere.

01:39:47.000 It is insane.

01:39:48.000 The Founding Fathers, I mean, they revolted because of taxation.

01:39:51.000 No taxation without representation.

01:39:53.000 If you don't know where your money's going, that's a big problem.

01:39:56.000 Taxes!

01:39:57.000 All right, all right.

01:39:58.000 I'm trying to find out, too.

01:39:59.000 Income tax is relatively new in our country's history, as far as I can tell.

01:40:02.000 Was it, like, 19... Yeah, it's in the 1900s.

01:40:04.000 I think 1917, I think.

01:40:04.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:40:05.000 And it was, like, the Federal Reserve was formed.

01:40:07.000 It was a tiny percentage only for, like, the ultra-wealthy.

01:40:09.000 It was supposed to be temporary, too, wasn't it?

01:40:11.000 Right.

01:40:11.000 And they incrementally increased it, increased it.

01:40:14.000 Like, they slowed the water, the heat of the water up to boil the people down.

01:40:17.000 I mean, jeez, is it unconstitutional?

01:40:19.000 I don't know.

01:40:19.000 They changed the Constitution to make it legal?

01:40:21.000 Death tax!

01:40:21.000 Someone brought up death tax.

01:40:22.000 Oh yeah, so like, after you've already paid all your taxes, then you die, the government comes and takes even more?

01:40:27.000 That's crazy.

01:40:28.000 Look, man... How did nobody say, like, maybe we're going, like, just for, like, uh, like, morale's sake, maybe we shouldn't tax them after death, like...

01:40:37.000 Maybe the family members might just be a little bit perturbed.

01:40:39.000 Just give him that man because you're dead you can't complain like maybe the family members might just be a

01:40:45.000 little bit perturbed Well, you guys know I'm I am NOT a taxation as theft guy,

01:40:51.000 but at a certain point It's like, you know, I could I can understand a little bit

01:40:57.000 but we're we're overpaying It's like imagine if Netflix came to you one day and they

01:41:00.000 were like We're raising your rates to $100 a month. You'd be like,

01:41:04.000 whoa. Whoa. Whoa, hold on there a minute I'm gonna opt out mmm, you can't and what if I don't want

01:41:08.000 to pay for Nevelson more we will lock you in a box It's like, all right, now I got an issue with how much money you're taking from me by force.

01:41:15.000 Like, some money I think is reasonable for all this awesome stuff that we end up having, especially security, the military.

01:41:21.000 Hey, I'm not completely opposed to... Well, hold on.

01:41:26.000 Luke of WeAreChange in the chat saying, why in the world is no one saying taxation is theft?

01:41:31.000 Luke, did Luke see the meme that came out on Easter?

01:41:34.000 It's the three crosses outside the church and they're all T's and it spells taxation is theft.

01:41:39.000 I'll put it this way.

01:41:40.000 It's like, yo, if I have Netflix and it's, you know, 10 bucks a month, I'm like, that's reasonable.

01:41:46.000 I think it's fair.

01:41:47.000 Like I'm getting this service.

01:41:48.000 Although I don't have Netflix now because Netflix is weird and creepy.

01:41:51.000 But like, if I was going to get a subscription service, I got no problem paying for it.

01:41:55.000 But if they came to me one day and they were like, your subscription service is now 10 times more expensive.

01:41:58.000 I'd be like, you're stealing from me.

01:42:00.000 Yeah.

01:42:01.000 Like, better yet, they charge your bank account without notifying you, and you don't know why they took the money or where it's going, and they didn't break it down.

01:42:09.000 And then when you say, hey, I challenge this, you can't do that, they go, if you don't pay it, we're gonna lock you in a box.

01:42:16.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:42:17.000 If you won't go in the box, then we'll shoot you. 1.00

01:42:19.000 Yeah, right. 1.00

01:42:20.000 You won't go in the box.

01:42:21.000 I guess the argument of why taxation isn't theft, Luke, and everyone else that thinks that, is that they're protecting you.

01:42:27.000 You pay.

01:42:27.000 It's basically since the Middle Ages.

01:42:29.000 They go around, they take a little bit of the food the farmers make, or a lot of it, unfortunately, and then they protect the farmers from more invaders.

01:42:34.000 I get that, and I agree, but my point is, like, up to that point, I'm like, yeah, yeah, no, that's cool, like, I like the military, like, cool dudes.

01:42:41.000 But, um, well, I mean, now with all the woke stuff happening, I'm not so sure.

01:42:44.000 But, but, when, if, like, someone came to me and said, hey, it's a hundred bucks a month for the security that we're gonna be providing, because we're all pitching in, I'd be like, that's cool.

01:42:52.000 If one day that guy showed up to my house and, and, like, smashed a flower pot and says, you gotta give me more money if you wanna be safe.

01:42:58.000 I'd be like, I don't think you're protecting me anymore!

01:43:01.000 So it's just a protection racket.

01:43:02.000 You have to give them the money in an envelope.

01:43:06.000 You guys don't like the fact that they're using this money to pay for foreign wars.

01:43:09.000 I don't like the fact that they're using this money to pay for stuff that I don't agree with.

01:43:12.000 I'm pro-life.

01:43:13.000 They're using it to fund abortions. 1.00

01:43:15.000 What gives?

01:43:15.000 This is my money that they're taking from me to do this kind of stuff.

01:43:18.000 I don't know.

01:43:18.000 No, you're right.

01:43:19.000 It should be decided from the ground up. 0.95

01:43:21.000 There's a guy and he's like, so your monthly bill for your road subscription includes a surcharge for killing babies, for blowing up babies overseas, for making the weapons that kill the babies. 0.59

01:43:33.000 This is the drone tax.

01:43:35.000 This is the drone tax here.

01:43:36.000 It's like, all I wanted was police and a fire department.

01:43:40.000 And they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, but we got all these fees we gotta add on.

01:43:43.000 And then you're like, all right, well, can I add health care?

01:43:46.000 No, sorry, we don't offer health care.

01:43:48.000 It's like, but the roads, but like, that's the thing.

01:43:51.000 It's you know, if I could trade a lot of if I could, if I'll tell you this.

01:43:56.000 If we could itemize the tax list, I'm sure we could take out a huge chunk and like put it in the garbage and then take like a little tiny bit and you get health care back for it.

01:44:04.000 Yeah.

01:44:05.000 I'm not saying universal health care outright for everything.

01:44:07.000 I'm saying a little bit.

01:44:08.000 Sure.

01:44:09.000 If you guys want to know who's in charge of this or who created this income tax IRS form 1040, it was William Howard Taft from 1909 to 1913.

01:44:16.000 He was our president. 0.99

01:44:18.000 Damn it! 1.00

01:44:18.000 Right when the Federal Reserve was formed. 1.00

01:44:20.000 I mean, it's just part of the racket, this corporate fascist.

01:44:23.000 Let's read some more Super Chats here.

01:44:25.000 All right, we got Arthemesia says, if you have to ask a biologist about gender, does that mean gender is biological?

01:44:32.000 Yes.

01:44:34.000 And if you have to ask a Jenseki about masks, and she's not a doctor, does that mean masks are an issue for a doctor?

01:44:42.000 Yes.

01:44:43.000 Good point.

01:44:45.000 Adrian Contreras says, I cannot compete with the majesty of your beard, sir.

01:44:49.000 I will shave mine in disgrace.

01:44:51.000 All right.

01:44:54.000 Invisible Buds, uh, Invisible Dud says, Matt Walsh in an alternate reality, quote, what is a man?

01:45:00.000 Answer, this guy's beard.

01:45:02.000 I like your beard, man.

01:45:06.000 Oh my word.

01:45:08.000 All right.

01:45:08.000 Jonathan Munoz says, look up an old Whitest Kids You Know sketch.

01:45:13.000 Bike up the A. It is a great sketch that portrays reality now where you can't have an opinion on something unless you are an expert.

01:45:19.000 Oh, really?

01:45:20.000 That's funny.

01:45:20.000 I love Whitest Kids You Know.

01:45:21.000 Yeah, I'll check that out.

01:45:23.000 All right.

01:45:26.000 TNHPPodcast says, Tim, if you're all right with this question, has anyone on your team besides yourself received death threats?

01:45:32.000 And if they're comfortable with explaining?

01:45:34.000 I don't know.

01:45:35.000 I don't know.

01:45:36.000 I don't think so.

01:45:37.000 I think it's just me.

01:45:39.000 Nothing like that.

01:45:40.000 Plenty of people that aren't happy with, like, where I work.

01:45:44.000 People who just, you know... I've been making YouTube videos since 2006, and yeah, you get the most stupid comments and messages from people if you're putting your face on the internet and speaking. 0.99

01:45:54.000 It's just part and parcel to the entertainment industry. 0.95

01:45:56.000 That's why Paramount Pictures has giant walls surrounding their work environment, because people will come knocking.

01:46:01.000 Even if it's not, like, a death threat, People coming and mobbing you to say hello is also a sort of threat to your ability to move around, so you need to protect your environment.

01:46:09.000 It's a new genre of art, man.

01:46:11.000 We gotta take care of ourselves.

01:46:12.000 And it's not just that.

01:46:13.000 People think, whenever someone comes up, they're like, those leftists, and I'm like...

01:46:19.000 I gotta be honest, it's probably just a guy who thinks that I invented the piano, and that I'm hoarding ivory to take over Mount, you know, Bigfoot, and so he's the only one who can save the world from the pending Sasquatch invasion by stopping me. 0.98

01:46:34.000 Like, just nonsense, like crazy people. 0.69

01:46:35.000 That sounds amazing. 0.97

01:46:37.000 That whole pitch was just... I own that IP!

01:46:40.000 Bigfoot, The Invasion, Pianos, I own it.

01:46:43.000 The Ivory, yeah.

01:46:44.000 Yeah, actually, someone should make that.

01:46:45.000 That'd be great.

01:46:45.000 Play us out, Bigfoot.

01:46:49.000 Bigfoot's not real.

01:46:51.000 All right.

01:46:53.000 David Fitzsimmons says, missed last show live, so want to say that, say Daryl Davis is the sun and hate speech laws are the wind in the parable to make a man disrobe his coat.

01:47:03.000 I'm not sure what that parable is.

01:47:04.000 What is that one?

01:47:04.000 So the sun warms people and makes them shed their shields, whereas the wind makes people tighten up and hate what they're doing.

01:47:11.000 Oh, I see.

01:47:11.000 I see.

01:47:13.000 All right.

01:47:15.000 Rob Mads says, happy to see y'all made it safely back home.

01:47:18.000 Also, please get Randall Carlson on.

01:47:20.000 Would love to would love a chill podcast for once.

01:47:22.000 And you should look up Tim Pool loses it and attacks a guest by ping trip.

01:47:26.000 I don't know what that is.

01:47:26.000 What is that?

01:47:27.000 I lose it and attacks a guest.

01:47:28.000 Is that like a funny edit where I fight somebody?

01:47:31.000 I agree with Randall Carlson.

01:47:33.000 He's a geologist.

01:47:33.000 He's been studying the flood theory from 13,000 years ago at the end of the Younger Dryas.

01:47:37.000 He'd be a great Friday guest.

01:47:39.000 Conti says, Tim, have you seen airline ticket prices?

01:47:42.000 Was looking up from my family of four and the ticket costs $36,000 plus.

01:47:46.000 What?

01:47:48.000 $36,000?

01:47:48.000 Whoa.

01:47:49.000 I mean, we've... yeah, ticket prices are a lot.

01:47:53.000 But we'll see how things go.

01:47:55.000 I think that the economy is going to continue to implode.

01:48:00.000 Housing prices, I don't think, will come down.

01:48:01.000 I'm not a financial expert.

01:48:03.000 I'm not an economist.

01:48:04.000 But just based on a lot of stuff that I've seen, I think houses aren't going to come down because the material costs are way too high.

01:48:11.000 So they probably can come down a bit, but not as much as people are expecting.

01:48:14.000 There's going to be a crash.

01:48:14.000 I don't know, man.

01:48:15.000 Try building a house right now.

01:48:16.000 See how expensive it is.

01:48:17.000 I wonder if it gets to the point where somebody owns so many houses and they can't sell any of them because no one has the money or can afford it, and then the houses start to rot.

01:48:24.000 So they're like, we need to drop the prices and get these things out, otherwise we're just losing money.

01:48:28.000 But you're saying they might demolish it for the resources.

01:48:30.000 No, no, no.

01:48:30.000 In Ukraine, the cost of a house or like a studio will be $300,000.

01:48:35.000 Any Ukrainian earns something like $400 per month.

01:48:39.000 So they can never buy it.

01:48:41.000 What do they do?

01:48:42.000 All the oligarchs that own the property rent it out.

01:48:44.000 So you've got permanent tenants who have no choice.

01:48:46.000 No.

01:48:47.000 And the rent is not that high, but the buildings aren't in great shape, but the people have no choice.

01:48:52.000 Yeah, you could argue that having corporations maybe should only own a certain number of houses, that any corporation cannot own more than a certain number of houses.

01:48:59.000 What if we, like, as a people, like, collective, just, you know, What's the right word maybe seized the means means of what of production?

01:49:10.000 Oh seize the means of production.

01:49:12.000 Yeah interesting idea I like I like the idea like I think it's funny They call it seizing the means of production because like who is seizing it like we are no you're not it's Caesar dude, and what are the means of production?

01:49:25.000 They mean the kulak I mean Well, this is funny, because I got in an argument with a socialist once, and I was like, what does that mean, the means of production?

01:49:31.000 And they're like, you know, like, the things to make stuff.

01:49:33.000 And I was like, is my camera the means of production?

01:49:35.000 Because I make videos.

01:49:36.000 And they're like, well, I guess.

01:49:39.000 And I'm like, so then someone would take my camera from me?

01:49:41.000 And they're like, well, I don't know, it's your camera.

01:49:44.000 And I'm like, what are you talking about?

01:49:46.000 Then they get into the private property versus personal property discussion. 0.98

01:49:49.000 Oh, it's ridiculous. 0.97

01:49:51.000 Nonsense. 0.99

01:49:52.000 And what about the stuff that's in your mind?

01:49:54.000 Because that's part of the means of production. 0.97

01:49:56.000 We will take your brains!

01:49:57.000 With neural net coming? 1.00

01:49:58.000 They're zombies.

01:50:02.000 Wandering Mage says, What do you think of the belief that we need a complete societal collapse to fix our corruption and other societal ills that there's no cultural change we can make to fix our society in the long term?

01:50:13.000 I hear this view a lot.

01:50:15.000 Well, I don't completely disagree.

01:50:16.000 I think that we as a society have become particularly addicted and there's a lot of I don't know, there's a lot of stuff that's ingrained that is bad.

01:50:26.000 The issue is, it's not so much about society breaking down to fix it, it's that the, like, two factions have butted off and split from each other.

01:50:36.000 I think the left is a destructive, chaotic force that seeks nothing.

01:50:41.000 I think it's just power for the sake of power, change for the sake of change, people saying random nonsense things for the sake of fitting in with the current thing.

01:50:49.000 And then that's actually separated itself from where we are, which is not overtly conservative.

01:50:55.000 It's more like principled, libertarian, conservative-ish with a spattering of different ideologies mixed in, but retaining a baseline of a moral framework and a goal.

01:51:06.000 So I don't think Sun needs to collapse, but there may need to be some kind of peaceful divorce where the chaotic destructive force goes off and just spirals out and burns out or something.

01:51:16.000 I mean, you don't want to collapse.

01:51:18.000 I can tell you that.

01:51:18.000 I saw a collapse in Iraq.

01:51:20.000 It is not good.

01:51:21.000 People don't get it.

01:51:23.000 Yeah, it is ugly.

01:51:24.000 Very ugly.

01:51:25.000 Like a collapse means finding your uncle in a dump, you know, and your kid in a ditch.

01:51:31.000 I mean, that's what collapse means.

01:51:33.000 I mean, look, collapse could mean if you're out in the middle of nowhere and you've got a farm, waking up one day to a bunch of hipsters running off with your chickens because roving bands of urban liberal types who don't know how to survive are just ransacking.

01:51:47.000 Also, fire.

01:51:48.000 I mean, geez, are we undervalued the danger of fire and what people can do to a city if they want to light it on fire?

01:51:54.000 That's collapse.

01:51:56.000 You don't want that.

01:51:57.000 You saw it.

01:51:58.000 Oh, yeah, I'm agreeing with you for sure.

01:52:01.000 Yep.

01:52:01.000 I saw a meme one time by the way, I got to bring this up and it said, who would win a cow and a lantern or the entire city of Chicago?

01:52:11.000 My favorite meme.

01:52:12.000 I think that's an apocryphal.

01:52:13.000 Yeah, it was.

01:52:14.000 So it is.

01:52:15.000 Yeah, I think that's an like a apocryphal probably,

01:52:18.000 but it's a good story.

01:52:20.000 Tim, you're ruining my moment.

01:52:21.000 What is the exact story?

01:52:22.000 Mrs. O'Leary's? 0.92

01:52:22.000 Yeah, it's Mrs. O'Leary's cow. 0.92

01:52:24.000 The Great Chicago Fire.

01:52:25.000 It was 1901.

01:52:26.000 Yeah, she was like milking it or something, right?

01:52:29.000 And kicked the lantern out of her hand.

01:52:30.000 You know, a lot of people on Earth that don't have electricity still burn kerosene.

01:52:34.000 It's so dangerous.

01:52:35.000 Not only do they breathe it in, but it's a fire hazard.

01:52:37.000 I mean, it's a lot of people.

01:52:38.000 Wow.

01:52:39.000 All right.

01:52:39.000 JustSomeGuy says, Tim, I was halfway to tears by the end of your conversation with Michael and Jeremy in the best way.

01:52:45.000 Can't describe it.

01:52:46.000 Maybe I needed to hear that conversation and felt God.

01:52:49.000 Thank you.

01:52:49.000 Great cat.

01:52:50.000 P.S.

01:52:50.000 Jean-Luc Bacard for a silky rooster.

01:52:53.000 That's pretty good.

01:52:55.000 That was a really fun conversation we had with Jeremy Boring and Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire, asking these questions about philosophy and ethics.

01:53:04.000 If there's a raging river and there's your dog or a stranger, who would you save if you could only save one?

01:53:12.000 The stranger.

01:53:13.000 The stranger.

01:53:15.000 The interesting question, the reason that came up is that it used to be that Americans always would save the stranger, but now they save their dog.

01:53:21.000 And I'm wondering if that's mental illness.

01:53:22.000 I asked the question, no one really could answer that, but is it a form of mental illness that people would protect their pets over a stranger?

01:53:28.000 Yeah, yes.

01:53:30.000 It's definitely mental illness and it's also just reflective of how much we hate each other.

01:53:36.000 I think maybe I would describe it as a natural aberration in that I don't think you're ill because you love your pet and you want to save what you care about.

01:53:45.000 There's also a point that Humans and dogs survived together.

01:53:50.000 So there's an element of survival in an attachment to a dog.

01:53:54.000 The issue is that we've come to a point where, in this case, the dog is probably a toy poodle, which is not going to help you survive at all.

01:54:00.000 But the emotional attachment comes from the days of humans hunting with proto-dogs, which are effectively wolves.

01:54:06.000 Now, wanting to save your proto-dog or your German shepherd.

01:54:11.000 Well, it's like, that dog is helping you hunt, sniffing things out, you're surviving.

01:54:15.000 Without it, you could be in trouble, so you need your dog.

01:54:17.000 But now, we've artificially selected dogs down to, like, chihuahuas, and someone's gonna be like, And they're gonna jump in the river and save the little toy

01:54:25.000 poodle and the person isn't gonna make it How many people would save their car or the stranger?

01:54:29.000 Let me just say even going back to those periods where it was your dog versus at the person the person would help you

01:54:35.000 survive More the reason I'd say it's an aberration is that I think

01:54:38.000 it comes from a good place But whatever it is

01:54:42.000 This mentality that's taking over will result without some kind of intervention technologically or otherwise in human

01:54:48.000 civilization collapsing Because you cannot survive if you don't prioritize your own people, your own species, in the event of a catastrophe.

01:54:58.000 It's a mathematical equation.

01:55:01.000 Over a long enough period of time, humans who do not prioritize humans will cease to exist.

01:55:05.000 No.

01:55:06.000 I heard a similar one one time really quick.

01:55:08.000 It was a psychological experiment they put together and it was if you were wearing your nice clothes or whatever and you saw a kid drowning like you're wearing a suit and expensive shoes or whatever would you just jump in to save the kid or would you take off you know your suit or whatever to do it and it was the the breakdown was like an enormous amount of people were like yeah I would take off my suit or my watch or whatever the heck it was.

01:55:33.000 The suit I could understand.

01:55:34.000 Take your iPhone out of your pocket.

01:55:35.000 Because you can't swim.

01:55:36.000 Right, exactly.

01:55:37.000 The shoes I'd take off so I could get my webbed toes out there.

01:55:40.000 Like if their phone in their pocket, would they take the time to get their phone out of their pocket and check if they have email before they set it down?

01:55:45.000 They take out their phone, they selfie them and the kids screaming, and they throw their phone down.

01:55:50.000 That's what would actually happen.

01:55:51.000 Gotta get one for the gram.

01:55:53.000 Do you see that story about the woman who got raped on a train?

01:55:55.000 In front of people?

01:55:57.000 They all just pulled out their phones.

01:55:58.000 Oh my gosh, where was that?

01:55:59.000 What country?

01:56:00.000 In the United States?

01:56:00.000 Had to be New York.

01:56:01.000 I just didn't want you to say that.

01:56:02.000 I'm pretty sure it was New York.

01:56:03.000 Oh, man.

01:56:04.000 Google it.

01:56:04.000 I don't know, though.

01:56:05.000 Google it.

01:56:05.000 It may have been New York.

01:56:06.000 And everyone just starts filming, and I'm like, well, I mean, nobody wants to fight.

01:56:11.000 And I'll tell you, I'll be honest, I don't know if I would intervene.

01:56:14.000 You know why?

01:56:15.000 Because you will go to jail.

01:56:16.000 Yeah, you'll end up being sued.

01:56:18.000 You'll get accused of being, you know, racist or of excessive force.

01:56:23.000 And so what do you do?

01:56:24.000 You can't be armed?

01:56:25.000 I'll tell you this, in West Virginia, I got nothing to worry about.

01:56:29.000 If I see someone attacking somebody, I'm gonna intervene.

01:56:32.000 Carefully.

01:56:33.000 Very carefully.

01:56:34.000 But you've got a lot less to worry about when you're acting in defense of others here versus a place like New York.

01:56:38.000 Was it New York?

01:56:39.000 Philadelphia, October 21.

01:56:42.000 And this on the SEPTA train.

01:56:44.000 People just pulled out their phones.

01:56:46.000 Yeah.

01:56:47.000 All right.

01:56:49.000 Bad Adam says Brett, I'm a paying member of Tim cast.

01:56:51.000 Why can't I watch full episodes of pop culture crisis on the Tim cast website?

01:56:55.000 I don't think I should have to go to Spotify to watch a full episode.

01:56:58.000 Ask Tim.

01:56:59.000 I have long suggested that we should... He didn't ask me, ask me now!

01:57:04.000 We were talking about, I wanted to put the full episode, the video version of the episodes up.

01:57:09.000 Originally, I wasn't sure if it was because of YouTube or Rumble or whatever we were talking, we talked about it at one point about long form content.

01:57:18.000 Because we do, our show's live, and yours is recorded.

01:57:22.000 So I was like, how would we structure that with the clips?

01:57:25.000 But for the website, we should just put it on, we should use Rumble.

01:57:27.000 I would be.

01:57:28.000 That's one of the first things that I wanted to do.

01:57:31.000 Like once we got to a certain size was that we would include that just because I think that it would be good for a, I always like push it.

01:57:37.000 Like whenever I'm pushing the Spotify link, I'm like, it's all the witty banter that you get.

01:57:40.000 Cause like when we cut the segments up, I tend to like trim down areas.

01:57:44.000 Like, okay, the conversation really stopped here before we moved into this subject.

01:57:47.000 So let's, let's put them on rumble. 1.00

01:57:50.000 Yep.

01:57:50.000 Yeah, so change has been made.

01:57:52.000 We will hopefully be doing that very, very soon.

01:57:54.000 You guys are involved in the creative process.

01:57:56.000 Yes, we are.

01:57:57.000 Is Mary doing articles?

01:57:59.000 Is she going to be doing articles?

01:58:01.000 Right now, we're just still working to get through the format and get everything organized every day.

01:58:06.000 We've got a good structure.

01:58:07.000 Now, what she's been doing is she goes on to the cesspool of Twitter, which I just do not dare to go because I just, I just, I don't, life is too short and I just, I don't Twitter.

01:58:18.000 Uh, so she goes and she'll like, like, like, look, look at this is happening today.

01:58:22.000 Like she was finding me stuff at Coachella that I would never have, uh, talked about.

01:58:26.000 And so she'll curate some stuff for me.

01:58:28.000 And we may eventually, uh, turn that into article writing where she can be like, look at all these people are having this discussion, uh, and then write her piece about it.

01:58:35.000 And then we can involve that in that process.

01:58:37.000 But once we get there, we'll, uh, we'll make that work.

01:58:40.000 Megan Cole says, my husband works in customer support for a small jet company.

01:58:44.000 He said the air isn't recirculated.

01:58:46.000 It is brought in from outside and pressurized for you to breathe, and there's a process for taking it out of the cabin.

01:58:51.000 You are not breathing the same air.

01:58:53.000 Interesting.

01:58:54.000 Good.

01:58:54.000 You guys want to know a trick when you're flying commercial?

01:58:57.000 You ever notice that people fart a lot on airplanes?

01:59:00.000 Because the pressure.

01:59:01.000 So they start farting like crazy.

01:59:03.000 Some people, they got it bad.

01:59:04.000 So what you do is you turn on the air vent, but you point it down to your right, creating a force field of air that repels their noxious gases.

01:59:15.000 All right.

01:59:16.000 I have learned something truly meaningful today.

01:59:19.000 It's like the ball at the waterfall.

01:59:20.000 The smell gets stuck on the flowing air and just revolves there.

01:59:23.000 And it sits right on that person's face.

01:59:26.000 And then when they're going, oh, oh, you're like, you've done this to yourself.

01:59:31.000 All right.

01:59:33.000 Murph Try says...

01:59:35.000 Brent, really enjoyed you and Mary's review of Father Stew.

01:59:40.000 Plan on seeing it soon.

01:59:42.000 Tim, for flags in the room, if a kid brought in a papal flag, it would leave the teacher speechless, like you know the thing.

01:59:50.000 Michael Knowles?

01:59:50.000 So I said on Twitter, we should have, teachers should teach kids, have religious studies in schools.

01:59:58.000 These kids have questions and teachers should be allowed to answer them.

02:00:01.000 Teachers should also tell the kids to keep their religious studies a secret from their parents.

02:00:06.000 Imagine if we had done that, though, to Don't Say Religion.

02:00:10.000 Don't Say God!

02:00:11.000 Don't Say God!

02:00:12.000 Don't Say God, Bill!

02:00:14.000 I actually do think teachers should talk about religion.

02:00:18.000 And the funny thing is the response I got when I tweeted that was they were like, you know, trans people are real and you can't talk about fake things.

02:00:25.000 And I was like, when did I say anything about trans people?

02:00:29.000 When did I say anything about a specific religion?

02:00:32.000 When did I say the teachers would tell these kids that religions were true?

02:00:35.000 Quite literally, I think of kids like, someone told me that it's God.

02:00:39.000 It's like, oh yeah, well, we should talk about religions of the world.

02:00:42.000 Why wouldn't you teach kids about various religions?

02:00:44.000 And then if one kid's like, wow, that religion's interesting, it's like, well, you can go talk to your parents about it.

02:00:49.000 You know, but like basic understanding of that, I see no issue with.

02:00:53.000 And that's where they get you on the LGBTQ stuff. 0.77

02:00:58.000 Is they're trying to pretend, like, I'm just trying to let them know that people love each other, but then you see the books they're pushing through, and you see, like, the things they're telling kids, and you're like, ah, that's, that's, it's entirely different.

02:01:07.000 Telling a kid that there is something bigger than all of us, that's hard for me to explain because I'm not a priest, but definitely talk to your parents about it, why there are people all over the world who do these things, is very different from, like, human sexuality.

02:01:19.000 But even still, the point was more facetious.

02:01:21.000 Like, if you're gonna ban this, you know, If the progressive parent comes into the school and says, why are you teaching religion in your school?

02:01:30.000 You say, I don't know, I'm not a priest.

02:01:31.000 Yeah, there you go.

02:01:32.000 Perfect.

02:01:33.000 There you go.

02:01:34.000 All right, let's grab a couple more here. 0.92

02:01:37.000 Mr. Big Bird says, Yeshua was transliterated.

02:01:41.000 There was no yeh, so it became ih-shua.

02:01:45.000 Oh, I'm sorry, shua was a feminine name suffix, so it became sus.

02:01:49.000 The i later turned into j, and the pronunciation shifted.

02:01:53.000 I remember the first time when I was a little kid, I saw someone named Jesus.

02:01:56.000 And I was like, oh!

02:01:59.000 I didn't understand.

02:01:59.000 I was like, really young.

02:02:00.000 And I was like, did your parents name you Jesus?

02:02:03.000 And he's like, my name's Jesus.

02:02:04.000 And I was like, does that mean Jesus?

02:02:07.000 I'm like, oh, cool.

02:02:09.000 Like Joshua.

02:02:10.000 Yeah.

02:02:12.000 All right.

02:02:12.000 Let's see what we got here.

02:02:13.000 Last one.

02:02:14.000 Jeremy Lewis says, Brooklyn Democratic Party leaders are trying to prevent, uh, prevent rep your black candidates from serving on the Dem County Committee.

02:02:24.000 What is it?

02:02:25.000 Your block?

02:02:25.000 Rep your block candidates.

02:02:26.000 Oh, sorry.

02:02:27.000 Uh, on the Democrat County Committee in coordinated filing of objections blocking common people from being Democratic candidates.

02:02:34.000 Of course, they don't want what happened to the Republican Party to happen to them.

02:02:37.000 That would freak them out.

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02:04:40.000 Yeah, thank you.

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02:05:16.000 And she's like, oh, I was watching that earlier.

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02:05:19.000 I didn't realize that was you guys.

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02:05:34.000 And I'm like, it's a joke, but it would be good for Chicken City, so I will accept it.

02:05:39.000 All right, everybody, we'll see you all over at TimCast.com.

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