The Biden administration is going after the whistleblower who alleged that Joe Biden received payments from the Chinese government. Is anyone shocked to hear that story considering what they ve been doing and going after Donald Trump? Plus, we ve got a bunch of other stories, including a video of Joe Rogan shaking Donald Trump s hand, and a post about Mel Gibbs.
00:00:48.000Jack White, you know he's the guitar player from the White Stripes, he's losing it because there's a video of Joe Rogan meeting Donald Trump and shaking his hand.
00:00:56.000Joe Rogan at UFC shook Donald Trump's hand, smiled, and they talked for like 10 seconds and that was it.
00:01:02.000And he's got this post about Mel Gibbs and all these people.
00:01:04.000We definitely gotta talk about Trump Derangement Syndrome.
00:01:06.000We're gonna talk about the presidential election, we gotta talk about What's going on with the Bidens and Ron DeSantis?
00:01:12.000There's some fake news about Ron DeSantis, where many people were claiming that DeSantis argued Trump colluded with Big Tech, and that is fake reporting.
00:01:21.000DeSantis said Trump should have fired the intelligence agencies that were doing this.
00:01:25.000There's some nuance here, whether or not Trump knew, but I can say the media is lying about it, so we'll definitely talk about that.
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00:03:08.000Here's the story from the Post Millennial.
00:03:10.000DOJ announces multiple indictments against whistleblower who alleged Biden received payments from CCP affiliated individuals.
00:03:19.000I just I love this story because it's kind of obvious.
00:03:22.000It's just so on the nose, like, hey, I'm a guy who says that there's corruption happening with Joe Biden, and then Joe Biden's like, you're under arrest.
00:03:30.000The DOJ has announced multiple indictments against Dr. Gal Luft, the Israeli-American co-head of a Maryland think tank who gained notoriety As the missing witness in the investigation into Joe Biden's corruption, the New York Post recently shared a video of Luft wherein he broke down the allegations made against Biden and claimed that he'd been arrested to prevent him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee with damning evidence against the First Family.
00:03:56.000Now, long after coming out as a whistleblower, Luft himself has been charged by the Biden DOJ for allegedly engaging in multiple serious schemes involving the Chinese and Iranians alongside a former high-ranking U.S.
00:04:09.000The charges include numerous offenses related to failing to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, arms trafficking, Iranian sanctions violations, and making false statements to federal agents.
00:04:20.000Wouldn't Hunter Biden have to do the same thing with FARA as well?
00:04:23.000But I don't know if there's more to this story or what's going on.
00:04:25.000I don't know if you have a bigger view of this, Natalie.
00:04:28.000Well, there is nothing more hypocritical than coming after him for not registering with the Foreign Agent Registration Act as someone who has read FARA too many times.
00:04:35.000I joke I'm probably the only American who frequents that website.
00:04:39.000Hunter Biden's name is never on there, even though it should be, not just for China, but also for Ukraine, also for Iraq.
00:04:45.000Also, for Russia, you name it, the list goes on.
00:04:47.000But it's important to remember that this is just one of several whistleblowers.
00:04:52.000If you remember James Comer, who's leading these investigations for the House, he said that there are about 10 whistleblowers, seven of them They don't know what happened to them.
00:05:09.000So keep in mind that even though the story is absolutely ridiculous, it's all the ridiculous more 10 times over because there are so many people like him.
00:05:17.000Have you guys seen that crazy video where the woman on the plane is like screaming about how the dude's not real or something?
00:05:31.000But I was watching that, and after just seeing all of these different conspiracy theories, at this point, I'm, like, ready to believe her that, like, a lizard person was on the plane.
00:05:45.000This guy's being criminally charged after calling out the Bidens and, you know, accusing them of corruption.
00:05:50.000And I'm just like, Yeah, it's probably true.
00:05:53.000Like the Bidens are doing this, and they're panicking and frantically trying to cover things up.
00:05:57.000Because what's, what's the simple solution here?
00:05:59.000That all of these whistleblowers, witnesses, every story, every video, every claim, every text message, it's all part of some Russian plot to discredit the Bidens?
00:06:09.000It's so bold, and it's so in your face.
00:06:10.000And I think it sort of proves in some ways, the guilt of the Biden family.
00:06:14.000What I mean by that is that the same family that is so willing to issue indictments against people who are Obviously, calling the whistle, calling them out for their actions with hard, cold facts, real evidence.
00:06:26.000Of course they would be bold and brash enough to take money from the Chinese Communist Party while Joe Biden is in office and think they could get away with it.
00:06:32.000I think it just shows you the mindset of this family and, frankly, how offensive it is to the American people that they think that they can get away with doing it and that people like us are dumb enough to just, oh, he's crazy.
00:06:44.000To be fair, imagine what it must be like to be in the Biden family, and you're getting all this negative attention, and they're going like, the Clintons did it?
00:07:30.000She chucked her hard drives into the Potomac, Hunter Biden, brought it to a repair shop in Delaware.
00:07:36.000And I think that sort of was the fuse that lit a lot of this off because the American people, I think that's maybe to some where some of the frustration comes from with the lack of accountability and investigations and really indictments, at least from House Republicans going after people who are involved in the whole Hunter Biden crime ring is because the American people are sort of getting this like sense of deja vu.
00:07:57.000Because through this hard drive, through investigative journalism and actual media reports, they've known about all this.
00:08:02.000Like, Gal Luft is a name who's been around for a really long time.
00:09:07.000What we do literally know is that the hard drives were purged with bleach bit, and aides for the Clinton smashed phones with hammers to try and get rid of it.
00:09:18.000It's like the stupidest attempt at getting rid of data.
00:09:20.000But yeah, I mean, that's exactly what they did.
00:09:24.000So I wonder if the bigger issue with the Bidens is that they're just sloppy, inexperienced, and incompetent when it comes to being corrupt.
00:09:29.000I think there is a lack of discipline there.
00:09:31.000Crack, we'll make that, we'll do that.
00:09:34.000Lack of familial leadership and crack cocaine really just ruins your ability to be a completely corrupt family.
00:09:40.000I mean, we know in early June, Ana Paulina Luna tweeted about this FBI The FBI is afraid the whistleblower will die if he is unmasked, which seemed crazy.
00:09:52.000And also we all laughed because it was like, are you saying you guys would attack this person?
00:10:51.000So that's how the Biden family views themselves, that you were supposed to accept that even when it's completely confirmed that something is wrong, you're supposed to ignore it because they asked you to.
00:11:10.000I don't think they clarified on that whistleblower.
00:11:13.000They said they were worried if the identity of the whistleblower got out, they would die.
00:11:15.000Sometimes the cohesion on the messaging from our Deerhouse Republican friends, not always on the same level.
00:11:22.000sometimes there's some confusion about who they're talking about, but that had to do
00:11:26.000when they were unearthing new evidence about a whole pay for play scheme that had to do
00:11:30.000with Romania. It wasn't explicitly linked to that pay for play, because there's a lot
00:11:36.000of pay for play. There's a lot of countries, there's a lot of people involved. But I also
00:11:39.000think to to your point, why we've seen so many whistleblowers, especially on this front,
00:11:45.000and this again is me speculating, but the whole Clinton operation, I think, was very
00:11:50.000seamless and well run in the sense that the people who were in it, it was a tight ship.
00:11:56.000With the Biden regime, what they were doing, it seems like a lot of these people, it wasn't so much ideological, they were just in it for the money.
00:12:03.000And you can see that on the hard drive.
00:12:05.000It was just, we have a chance to exploit the vice president's son.
00:12:09.000And I think that's why you've seen a lot of these people sort of turn on the Biden family now, those that haven't been dissuaded by stories like this.
00:12:16.000And I think that might be why they're actually trying to come out so forcefully, because they know deep down, The people like Eric Schwerin, the Devon Archers of the world, basically all of Hunter Biden's, you know, Yale classmates and peers and roommates, they were just on the money team, right?
00:12:32.000It wasn't like, oh, we want to spread democracy abroad, you know, we want to do whatever the Uniparty wants to do and all these kinds of things.
00:12:40.000No, they just wanted to turn a profit and those people, I think, are very easily Turned with the threat of Oh, well, you're gonna spend the rest of your life in jail if you don't tell us so that's why if you do read through the headlines like a lot of these people behind the scenes have been complying with either off the record or on the record interviews with Congress, but
00:13:02.000It's sort of a painful process, I think, time-wise to let that work, let it work itself out.
00:13:07.000My view of the Biden family is like, it's like Arrested Development.
00:14:14.000Had to add a little bit of insult to that.
00:14:16.000So this look at this picture of Joe Biden.
00:14:18.000It's like it's like the dark Brandon meme.
00:14:21.000Basically, the gist of the story is very, very simple.
00:14:24.000They're arguing that privately, Joe Biden's screaming at people, insulting them, saying, don't effing BS me, get the F out of here, and that they claim that if he doesn't yell at you, in fact, he doesn't respect you.
00:14:48.000Because here's what's going to happen.
00:14:50.000A lot of regular people who don't watch shows like this, who don't watch clips of Joe Biden, are going to imagine him as this energetic guy being like, hey, you tell me, I'll tell you.
00:15:03.000They are secondhand trying to convince us that Joe Biden's a hard ass.
00:15:07.000I'm not going to buy it because I've seen Vidism falling up the stairs, but this is what they're trying to do.
00:15:11.000Today he got lost on stage and had to be guided by the King of England.
00:15:16.000I mean, also it's giving Trump on The Apprentice, right?
00:15:19.000Like we already have a strong leader in politics.
00:15:21.000There's someone else whose personality you said was too intense for this.
00:15:24.000I think what gets me about the Biden family is If you're going to be corrupt, you have to secure your legacy for maintaining influence when you can no longer be in the public positions of power, right?
00:15:33.000So, like, I don't know, but maybe the Clinton Foundation, for example.
00:15:36.000That would be a way to continue to have influence after the fact.
00:15:39.000But right now, with the Bidens, I don't know of any kind of non-profit that they successfully run.
00:16:12.000Seriously, she's from middle America, she's from Arkansas.
00:16:15.000But I was going to say, there's nowhere to go, so why wouldn't everyone bail out on them, to your point?
00:16:20.000They don't have any loyalty to the power, they have loyalty to the money.
00:16:24.000I'd even link this story to the hard drive and what I mean by that is, when I was doing a lot of my early reporting on the hard drive, the people that I was working on it with, we would always sit around and joke, you know, these are the stories that they're eventually going to use to impeach Joe Biden with, right?
00:16:39.000And if you saw the last two weeks or so, there's definitely been more media attention given to the Hunter Biden hard drive and what's going on there and the people who are involved, even it cuts through the mainstream media Occasionally.
00:16:53.000And I think that a lot of this media war that we're seeing duke out is sort of between the Democratic establishment like the DNC and Joe Biden in terms of trying to determine who the candidate is going to be for 2024.
00:17:05.000And I think a lot of the people who don't want Joe Biden to run again are playing up the hard drive stuff to try to take him out of the running.
00:17:12.000And I think this in some ways is maybe the Biden camp saying like, No, Joe Biden is in control.
00:17:18.000By the way, the best part of the article, if you read down the bullet point, where he's like, he gets really mad at all the Yale-educated staffers using acronyms.
00:17:47.000But this is the sad thing about Joe Biden.
00:17:49.000One of the signs of someone suffering from dementia is anger.
00:17:55.000Because what happens to the person when they can't remember and they can't understand what's happening, it's frustrating for people.
00:18:02.000It's, you know, you're sitting here and people are saying words you don't understand, you can't remember, and you're getting angry with yourself, like, why can't I remember what they're talking about?
00:18:08.000You just get mad and you just outburst.
00:18:10.000So this happens to a lot of older people when they get frustrated with being unable to deal with the situation.
00:18:15.000Because, I mean, for most of our lives, our wits are about us.
00:18:19.000You know, we can respond, we can react.
00:18:20.000Sometimes we don't know things, it's fine.
00:18:22.000But imagine knowing you know it, but you can't recall it.
00:18:25.000It's just so frustrating to lose that control.
00:18:29.000But I gotta say, as sad as it may be, like, dude should not be president.
00:18:32.000Yeah, it's also this is just like, I think it's a derivation of his actual
00:18:38.000personality, which according to who's this? Jeff can opt in a former Biden
00:18:42.000campaign and sent a Senate aide, Chief of Staff to Kaufman when he filled Biden
00:18:46.000seat in the Senate said that he was that Biden was an ego mania, you know, maniacal
00:18:50.000autocrat determined to manage the staff through fear. This guy's got a reputation
00:18:54.000of being a real nasty guy. I mean, there's a video of him being if they are found
00:18:58.000And with this much crack, you will serve.
00:19:03.000I don't know what his minimum years in prison was that he didn't do to Hunter when Hunter- I like that video because then someone cut it so that there were clips of Hunter Biden in between.
00:19:12.000He's like, you hear Joe Biden's voice being like, this is on, you know, you'll go to jail.
00:19:17.000Meanwhile, it's like his Hunter's Home movies.
00:19:26.000Like, could you imagine being under Biden and you're driving down the street smoking crack and he's thinking, man, life is good.
00:19:33.000And the Porsche takes a nice new way to take a picture to make sure he saves that memory.
00:19:37.000But doesn't that, like, speak to the complete arrogance of this family that Hunter Biden could drop his laptop off at a- at a just normal repair shop and think, nothing bad can happen to me, I am too important and too powerful.
00:19:50.000Oh, I bet Joe has said to Hunter, and I don't know, probably like, I'll take care of whatever I got at Hunter.
00:20:25.000Like Joe takes the salaries from his kids or something?
00:20:27.000He like controls their lives, allegedly.
00:20:30.000And didn't- this is something that his daughter referenced in her diary that got published, right?
00:20:34.000Like that their dad is controlling that he controls their finances.
00:20:37.000I thought it was a text message from Hunter that said something like- I think there is a Hunter thing and I'm saying there's also this thing in the bio- which would mean that theoretically both of his kids are confirming that this is a controlled family.
00:20:47.000Which either means that he does not think his adult children can handle themselves or that there is a very strange imbalance of power in this family.
00:20:54.000Which might explain, again, why there's Yeah, that's one way to put it.
00:20:57.000family to go. There's no one to take over. There's no clear direction. So when though they have
00:21:02.000garnered a lot of influence, ultimately, people will bail out of the ship.
00:21:08.000Yeah, that's one way to put it. Yeah, yeah, when people turn on the hated.
00:21:16.000He, there's one thing that we're missing with Joe Biden is modern
00:21:20.000video of him just being normal and talking to people like in his regular environment.
00:21:56.000The media would be like, oh, well, it turns out that Joe Biden said it first, time traveled, then this other guy ripped him off, and then Joe Biden went back in time.
00:22:25.000I guess they had proof, because they'll play video of him talking with, like, Robert F. Kennedy talking, and he's, like, saying the same stuff.
00:23:27.000It's created this group of people who are able to understand a lot more than we've ever understood, and also a psychotic death cult that sterilizes kids.
00:23:37.000Trying to communicate with text, I think, is...
00:23:40.000They'll look back and realize how damaging it was, because we used to write letters and mail them to each other, but it was like a last resort.
00:23:45.000If you left a note on your refrigerator for your roommate, it was passive-aggressive and nasty.
00:23:49.000If you didn't go to your roommate, just talk to their face.
00:23:51.000But now, like, talk about passive-aggressive.
00:24:27.000We had a member mention this, that the Third Amendment, the spirit of it goes beyond just the idea of quartering soldiers, because there was a Supreme Court ruling on it, and the general idea was that government could not intrude on your home.
00:24:39.000The government forcing you to house anyone, I think, would fall under the Third Amendment.
00:24:42.000So the question would be, what is the spirit of the Third Amendment?
00:24:46.000And the idea was the government forcing people into your homes.
00:24:50.000But I suppose you could make the argument it only referred to quartering soldiers.
00:24:53.000Here's a story from the Post Millennial.
00:24:55.000Illegal immigrants will soon be granted housing rights in the state of Illinois after Governor J.B.
00:25:00.000Pritzker signed a new bill in law that makes immigration status a protected class.
00:25:04.000This means that landlords will not be able to deny illegal immigrants housing as average home prices skyrocket across the state.
00:25:10.000So it's not like they're Going to the landlords with an illegal immigrant, being like, house them.
00:25:15.000It's that an illegal immigrant will come, say, I want to live here, and you can't deny them based on the fact that they're not citizens.
00:25:22.000Which is kind of crazy, because there might be, like, other laws you are breaking if you don't deny them.
00:25:34.000I gotta say, that is the one thing where I'm less worried about the whole story.
00:25:39.000If an illegal immigrant's gonna find an apartment and someone's gonna be like, I don't want you to live here, do you think they're gonna say, well, you have to?
00:25:46.000No, the landlord's gonna call ICE and just be like, here, problem solved.
00:25:50.000But it is insane they're offering up immigration status as a protected class.
00:25:54.000Do you think there would be repercussions for calling ICE?
00:25:58.000Like, do you think the landlord did that?
00:25:59.000Like, Antifa throwing bricks through windows?
00:26:00.000Or, like, could you potentially, because our rule of law gets crazier and crazier all the time, could you get accused of, you know, being discriminatory or a hate crime because you called ICE on someone you suspected was an illegal immigrant?
00:26:11.000I mean, there might be other repercussions by adding this to being a protected class.
00:26:52.000AOC with their fake photos crying in front of these parking lots or whatever.
00:26:58.000And then claiming that the detention centers put up by Obama were concentration camps.
00:27:01.000And then as soon as Trump is out of office, they're once again holding centers.
00:27:05.000So I guess the question is, if you are somebody who reports an illegal immigrant You need to ask yourself, are you going to ensure that American values win the culture war?
00:27:18.000After the far-left extremists win, and there's struggle sessions happening all over, they're going to accuse you of being a Nazi, and they're going to say, see, this proves it.
00:27:27.000I think depending on who wins the culture war, if it's the far left, I don't even know if we'll have landlords because it'll probably be Black Rock owning everything and we'll all be living in our little 15-minute cities with our apartments.
00:27:39.000And then there's no illegal immigration because the borders just open.
00:27:41.000Because there's no borders and we have a global government.
00:28:15.000I feel like anything that gives BlackRock hope, we should all just be very wary of.
00:28:18.000Oh yeah, if the CEO of BlackRock is saying, I care about hope, and here's Bitcoin, I think that he's telling you if you want to have hope for the future to get that.
00:28:26.000I don't know, but that's what it feels like, is he's like, this is my, here's my get out of jail free pass.
00:28:32.000Because I'm talking about Bitcoin right now, and we are BlackRock.
00:28:35.000This is a lot like what I think Alex Jones was talking about
00:28:37.000on the Culture War podcast a few months ago, that these elites set a bunch of bear traps,
00:28:43.000publicly announce where they are, and then sit back and wait.
00:28:47.000And their mentality is if you're smart enough to avoid them, then you deserve to avoid them.
00:28:52.000And if you're stupid enough to walk into them, then you deserve to.
00:28:55.000And so this sounds very much like that.
00:28:57.000All of these problems happening all over the world, in the United States, with the problems,
00:29:01.000especially with like illegal immigration, if you're paying attention to it,
00:29:04.000you are actively navigating through the bear traps.
00:29:07.000And for the rest of the people living in big cities, they're walking straight into them.
00:29:11.000Well, and you have to remember that someone benefits from illegal immigration, right?
00:29:15.000If we all agreed it was bad and it didn't help anyone, then we would close the border.
00:29:20.000But ultimately, Democrats tend to like high immigration areas, high illegal immigration areas, Because they tend to tip the census to support their candidates.
00:29:30.000It helps them when it comes to election years.
00:29:33.000So I think strategically, like with Illinois, this is a way to lock down more rural areas and potentially have more influence among voters there.
00:29:41.000If you're making landlords who might not want to house illegal immigrants in their residences or wherever that be, It makes it so potentially you can gain control over an area because, again, you're changing the demographics of more of the state.
00:29:59.000I think that people don't take immigration seriously because it makes them uncomfortable to talk about.
00:30:04.000Like, saying illegal immigration is a protected class is like saying It doesn't matter to everyone who tried to migrate here illegally, because actually you don't have the same protections as someone who is illegal.
00:30:17.000They don't care about legal immigration.
00:30:18.000They don't care about upholding the rule of law.
00:30:20.000They care about getting their way in the end.
00:30:22.000It feels like Democrats, Liberals are just fire.
00:30:26.000They're consuming and destroying everything around them.
00:30:28.000Well, and please fact check me, but, you know, obviously Illinois is more than Chicago, but I went to school in Chicago, I lived basically on the South Side, and I would wager that the places that most of these illegal immigrants are going to be moving into, since if they're illegal, you know, how are they working, they're probably not making that much money, they're going to be moving into the South Side of Chicago, right, where the cheapest housing is.
00:30:49.000and that's gonna not only create problems, but it's gonna push out people who are living there.
00:30:54.000So you're all these liberals complaining about gentrification, and meanwhile,
00:30:57.000they're sort of, if you read that last sentence, in Chicago, the most populated city in Illinois,
00:31:01.000the median rent has increased from 17.50 per month to 19.00 a month, and it's just so interesting to me
00:31:06.000if you're trying to help Chicago residents, right, who are getting priced out of being able to live
00:31:11.000in their houses, getting pushed out, you're now gonna add a massive influx of people
00:31:16.000that you basically have to say, yes, you can live here, and if not, you're gonna be accused of a hate crime.
00:31:21.000It's just, it's so backwards, and there's no way to rationalize that policy from the perspective of.
00:31:27.000Actually putting Chicago residents, you know, meanwhile when they're not having like dozens of people die every weekend because of shootings.
00:31:33.000Oh, you know what we should do right now is make sure Hondurans can live in houses in Chicago.
00:31:39.000I mean the biggest argument for any birthright citizenship is typically this means that you will not be incentivizing people to cross the border just by saying if you get here on time and have a baby here, you now have citizenship and claim to the country and you could participate in DACA and everything else and In some ways, Illinois is now saying, like, we'll do the same thing.
00:31:57.000If you can get here, we're going to give you special protections.
00:32:01.000And therefore, they are making it likely that if you were an illegal immigrant and you heard, hey, well, I can definitely, I won't get kicked out of an apartment because of my immigration status, which, you know, there are benefits to going to Chicago.
00:32:13.000They are making it more inviting to encourage illegal immigration, which is incredibly dangerous for everyone involved, both The effect it has on our country, but also for the people who are crossing the border.
00:32:23.000It's not safe, and we shouldn't encourage it like this.
00:32:27.000Regarding this Chicago thing that they're doing, are they charging $1,900 a month for rent for these illegal immigrants, or are they being forced to lower their rent?
00:32:40.000However, you need to consider that the more they expand these issues, you will get people who will demand a cheaper rent, and if you deny them, they'll make the argument that it was discrimination.
00:32:51.000I don't think money plays a big role in this.
00:32:53.000And what they're going to try and stake this on is immigration status just means, like, if you immigrated to this country versus if you're a citizen or not.
00:33:00.000But of course, it's going to include immigration status in general, which includes incomplete status or, you know, expired, et cetera, et cetera.
00:33:10.000I mean, the big problem you see generally is, like, when someone is arrested at the border for immigration, and if they're released in the country, like, Immigration court is so messed up that you'll have years and years before you're supposed to come back and appear before a judge.
00:33:24.000You have no reason to actually return if you're able to set up life somewhere and live basically away from the system.
00:33:31.000So in some ways you're potentially hurting landlords who if someone were to like commit
00:33:37.000a crime and flee, you know, then their their building is associated with these negative
00:35:52.000Did they include that in the- so, uh, in the four days, blah blah, it's like, is it cuck?
00:35:57.000Musk tweeted, responding, then Wendy said, you should go to space to make him mad, and that was it.
00:36:03.000Some people were appalled by Musk's tweet.
00:36:06.000I was surprised that, you know, he tweeted that he wanted to have a dick measuring contest, and a bunch of people were like, you forgot to post this from your parody Twitter account, you posted it accidentally on your main.
00:36:40.000What rights does Elon Musk have if that's the case?
00:36:43.000I don't know actually, that's a good question.
00:36:45.000Trade secrets, like if you quit one place, you probably are under some sort of NDA that you can't talk about the code that you wrote at that place, but you might know ways to recreate the system without the exact coding.
00:36:57.000You might be able to change some of the coding.
00:36:59.000But that's the problem with proprietary code in general and companies owning code is when they leave the company, the company doesn't really own the code.
00:37:09.000It's the people that make the code that own the code.
00:37:12.000So that's why I'm a big advocate of freeing it.
00:37:14.000I'm looking up to see if Zuckerberg responded to Elon.
00:37:19.000Well, he wanted to have a dick measuring contest.
00:38:41.000If I'm following a guy because he does backflips off of buildings, why do I care when he makes a post with no picture of a backflip and he just says something like, went to Wendy's today?
00:38:51.000I'm like, show me a backflip or otherwise I'm not following you.
00:38:54.000Instagram's the platform where you'll see a video of him doing the backflip where it says went to Wendy's today over top of the image or the video.
00:40:05.000The only one I really do, because I think you get the most bang for your buck, is Twitter, because I think that then can also get aggregated or disseminated to other platforms.
00:40:16.000But yeah, I don't think Threads is going to I don't, I mean, I'm not on it, but...
00:40:20.000Because how could you maintain it unless you really saw, like,
00:40:23.000like I'm saying, like, if there was, like, threads only had the mommy bloggers, right,
00:40:27.000and that was where the mommy bloggers went for Twitter, like, maybe there'd be enough engagement there
00:40:32.000for your niche enclave of content for it to work, but Twitter already dominates this type of media,
00:40:38.000so how do you, I mean, Gab and other platforms exist, but we have seen that they haven't surpassed Twitter yet,
00:40:55.000They're already up to their old same censorship tricks of meta, so it's like, why would you want to go backwards and go on a platform that is Certainly not going to let people like us say what we want to say.
00:41:06.000So you're alienating like half the country right there.
00:41:44.000What is somebody who has dedicated themselves to a visual medium going to do with a written medium?
00:41:49.000That's why Twitter is news and politics.
00:41:51.000So, all of these liberals and leftists who are like, I'm going to Blue Sky, I'm going to Mastodon, whatever, they can, it's not going to change anything.
00:41:58.000I would, you know, they say, they edit a hundred million users, and it's like, why?
00:42:02.000Because you're Instagram and people just got a Threads account?
00:42:45.000For transmitting data it's good for information, but for communication it's not very effective in my opinion.
00:42:53.000That's true, but it's faster than video.
00:42:56.000That's why it worked in an era of video.
00:42:58.000So, someone can tweet something like, I am hungry and would like to have a cheeseburger, and then someone can respond with, cheeseburgers aren't healthy, you should consider a different option, and then you can respond with, screw off, vegan.
00:43:08.000You know, like a video back and forth is not that easy to do.
00:43:12.000So like, if you were in text, you're like, we're gonna get food later.
00:43:16.000That's a good text, but if I'm like, What, how are you feeling about that in the text?
00:43:27.000If I ask you about emotions in text, I've missed, like if you're like, if you want to tell me what you're going to do, I'm into it.
00:43:34.000If I want to ask you why, that text is not the place for that, in my opinion.
00:43:38.000It gets, starts to get bogged down with what you think I mean and what I, There's a reason why people aren't recording videos of themselves to Twitter in response to other people, because text is the way to do it.
00:43:48.000It takes too long to load up and watch, and then you gotta turn the volume up, you can read in silence, too, in the middle of the night.
00:45:48.000The winner is like, but I don't want your company because it's terrible.
00:45:52.000Yeah, the thing about the old duels, it was that, you know, duels used to be legit, people would kill each other, then it went and became like an honor thing where you wouldn't actually try to kill the other guy, it was about whether or not you'd show up, but it's kind of like, you know, look, and I guess with Hamilton and Burr, Hamilton was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, and fight off to the side, like, we get it, we're here, and then Burr was like, screw you, and like, actually wanted to kill him, so he agreed to it, and his sacred honor was intact as he died.
00:46:18.000And then the young people were like, this is crazy.
00:46:52.000I want to talk about this story with Jack White.
00:46:54.000And the first thing I want to say is it's very strange to me that Variety didn't include Joe Rogan's name here because they had an excellent opportunity for clickbait.
00:47:01.000Jack White slams disgusting Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson and more for interacting with fascist racist piece of ass Donald Trump.
00:47:12.000He disabled... I think he disabled comments.
00:47:15.000Anyway, he says, Anybody who normalizes or treats this disgusting, fascist, racist, conman, disgusting piece of ish Trump with any level of respect is also disgusting in my book.
00:49:47.000That's- it's all- it's like Joe Rogan's like shaking his hand, he's like, hey, nice to meet you, and that's it.
00:49:50.000And so he posts a clip of it being like, you're disgusting, Joe Rogan.
00:49:55.000I mean, the other thing is, like, if he had seen Trump, he would have, like, what, walked away uncomfortably?
00:50:00.000Like, he wouldn't have confronted Trump about it.
00:50:02.000He would—he—he—someone who's acting like this, I don't think, has the courage to, like, publicly reprimand this apparently terrible person.
00:50:10.000So, I don't really understand what this person's point is.
00:50:14.000Like, let everybody like Trump who likes him, and if you don't want to talk to him, don't freak out.
00:50:19.000Isn't it interesting that Joe Biden is facing a primary?
00:50:30.000I really thought they would have announced that he was not going to run for a second term because he is so clearly unable to operate in a healthy and functional manner.
00:50:40.000Yeah, that's part of this, like, arrest whistleblowers and then let them out later thing.
00:50:45.000Because, like, while the person's in power, they want the whistleblower to go away.
00:50:48.000And then later, when they're out of power, they're willing to let them out.
00:50:51.000But I think that the Bidens are afraid that if they get ousted, there's going to be a lot of, like, peering into their finances, and that could be very bad for the family.
00:51:00.000I just mean in terms of the level of hatred for Donald Trump, this like psychotic fury at him, and at the same time, the indifference and the disinterest in Joe Biden.
00:51:13.000It's like even the people who hate Donald Trump care more about Donald Trump than any Democrat cares about Joe Biden, to the point where there's actually a predicted market with Other people who might win the Democratic primary, despite the fact we don't know if there will be one, and Joe Biden, the incumbent, has announced he's running again, there is still a chance he doesn't.
00:51:36.000Most people, I think, in politics are probably assuming he's not going to, even though the prediction markets are saying he's going to.
00:51:42.000It just feels like the system is done.
00:51:58.000I guess the people that are just easily swayed get very afraid at the thought of losing out or... And he was built to be this terrible
00:52:08.000monster. I mean, the media and his opponents really made Trump this larger than life figure
00:52:13.000that represents all evil. I mean, it was, it was like, the term never-Trumper existed for a reason.
00:52:20.000He was absolutely the epitome of everything you couldn't let happen to the country.
00:52:23.000I mean, obviously, I don't believe that, and I think that's kind of a hysterical position to take.
00:52:27.000But, you know, to Tim's point, there was an NBC poll that said half of all Democrats think Joe Biden is too old to run, yet they still dislike Republicans more.
00:52:38.000Like, it doesn't—none of it makes sense.
00:52:48.000On the conservative side, on the Republican side, even with the Libertarians, there's debate over Trump, questions around Trump.
00:52:56.000Even the Libertarians, I love it, will bring on some Mises Caucus guys, and they'll say, no, no, no, we're not Trump fans.
00:53:02.000But they will concede some points, and they'll go, well, you know, okay, I can respect that, because they're actually listening and having a reasonable conversation.
00:53:10.000Republicans, right now you've got the DeSantis camp, they hate Trump, the Trump camp hates DeSantis, and that's like normal primary banter and bickering and stuff.
00:53:18.000But Donald Trump, you've got people who love him and support him, people who are like, eh, well, you know, he's the best we can get, people who are slightly indifferent.
00:53:25.000The Democrats, for the most part, overwhelmingly, don't have anything positive to say about any of their candidates.
00:53:42.000Joe Biden is mocked relentlessly, still defended to a certain degree in the corporate press, but no sane human is going outside being like, woo Joe Biden!
00:53:50.000But those same Democrat people on the left are screaming how they hate Donald Trump.
00:53:53.000I just find that very, very interesting with a story like this.
00:53:55.000Do you think that he was not co-opted by the Chinese movement?
00:53:59.000We were talking before the show about the, what's this party?
00:54:06.000Yeah, and so as you're studying the United Front, it's an alliance of groups against... Can you explain the United Front really quick?
00:54:13.000Sure, sure, sure, I won't go full nerd, but the United Front is basically the Chinese Communist Party's political warfare department.
00:54:18.000They spend billions of dollars targeting really who's who in the West, whether it's academics, elites, think tankers, politicians, their staff, people even in college all the way down to the high school level, really a pipeline of people who become the most influential decision makers And Hunter Biden is a perfect example.
00:54:36.000We were talking before the show, you know, Hunter Biden wasn't really that enterprising in that the sense that in the sense that you don't miss the forest for the trees, right?
00:54:45.000There are a lot of people like Hunter Biden.
00:54:46.000It's not like Hunter Biden was out looking to make inroads with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:54:51.000The Chinese Communist Party knew exactly who he was and the avenues whereby the Chinese Communist Party can liaise and get in business and really get Westerners on their payroll, which then nine times out of ten translates into whether it's preferred policies or nice think tank papers or nice talking points in the mainstream media, that's how they do it.
00:55:11.000And Trump came out very hard against China when he was running.
00:55:14.000Did the United Front, they were not able to get him co-opted?
00:55:19.000And so they just started printing in the media, hate this guy, hate this guy, until we can get a president that is sympathetic?
00:55:25.000So, believe it or not, one of the leading groups of the United Front is a group called the China United States Exchange Foundation.
00:55:31.000They were paying to take Western journalists overseas on trips to China in exchange for, and I quote directly, favorable coverage and to disseminate positive messages.
00:55:40.000And Donald Trump, along with a bunch of other United Front groups, actually banned them from operating in the United States, effectively sanctioned them, even though they're like cultural groups, but he shut down a lot of these cultural exchange programs.
00:55:53.000That's like the euphemistic term that they use to describe what they were doing with
00:55:57.000this group QSAF, same with the Confucius Institutes.
00:56:01.000So Trump, as much as people mock him for, oh, he doesn't understand, you know, they
00:56:04.000would always say Trump makes America look like a fool on the world stage, right?
00:56:10.000His understanding of Chinese Communist Party influence and a lot of that you can chalk
00:56:13.000up to the wonderful people who are in there and around him, people like Peter Navarro,
00:56:17.000who really got Chinese Communist Party infiltration.
00:56:20.000But for someone who studied this and my career has been in this, he really attacked them
00:56:25.000with a level of nuance that you've never seen from anyone.
00:56:29.000But I will say on what what Jack White said, which I do like his music, but it's OK.
00:56:35.000It sort of throws me back to like 2016, which isn't necessarily a good thing, but I think that sort of gives an interesting insight to the mind of the like typical, you know, Trump derangement syndrome NPC type character.
00:56:47.000In other words, not that you obviously you always see anti-Trump stuff, But what he said, the racist, sexist, you know, fascist, like that's so 2016 playbook.
00:56:57.000And it's obviously all grandstanding, right?
00:56:58.000He's like hoping to genuflect and have people say, oh, you're so wonderful, even though he turned the comments off.
00:57:04.000But it's almost like now that Trump is back in the news cycle, he's running again and he's looking like the strongest candidate to emerge.
00:57:10.000It's like in their NPC mind, it's like muscle memory, right?
00:57:14.000It's like must start attacking Trump again, must start going after him.
00:57:18.000Oh, what are the words that I've always used to describe him?
00:57:20.000Uh, fascist, racist, sexist, so in some ways I think it sort of shows that, like, Trump is under their skin, always has been, and after all this time, after all the eight years, all the investigations and Russia collusion hoaxes and everything that they were going after him for, the best that they still have to attack him is that he's a racist, fascist piece of...
00:57:45.000We're at least better with our critiques.
00:57:48.000We're so good they have to indict us when we're whistleblowers.
00:57:52.000They have to go after us with the DOJ.
00:57:54.000All they say against Trump is, oh, he's racist.
00:57:56.000a racist nazi when you were saying the nbc i think you're talking about nbc poll i was i thought you said npc poll so if someone could doctor that up the nbc npc meme just change the b for a p that would be even funnier if the actual npcs were like he's probably too old anyway so no republicans Let's celebrate some victories.
00:58:34.000It was a really, really great film, a great thriller.
00:58:37.000Angel Studios is announcing that, I'm sorry, estimates are predicting a massive $40 million at the box office in its opening week.
00:58:44.000In a press release head of theatrical distribution for Angel Studios, Brandon Purdy said, as with our July 4th numbers, today's numbers exceed our expectations and we're going to continue this momentum.
00:58:54.000Sound of Freedom has taken on a life of its own.
00:58:58.000I love the way they promoted this movie.
00:59:00.000I mean, one of the things that I saw in lead up was like, buy a ticket for someone else because we want to get, what was it, several million people to the theater to represent, you know, all the children who are involved in in trafficking and I thought that was really cool. It was
00:59:12.000sort of refreshing and this is not by any means associated with the Barbie movie but you know Barbie
00:59:16.000movie has been largely about like very staged press appearances and you know it's kind of
00:59:21.000cool if that's your thing but also this one had sort of more meaning to it and I think people are
00:59:25.000really hungry to feel like they are they are part of the change in the world.
00:59:33.000But I went home and I felt like I've been radicalized.
00:59:35.000I was like, Oh my gosh, so I started looking up stuff.
00:59:39.000And you know, I love my deleted web pages.
00:59:41.000So actually, I published a story today.
00:59:44.000Biden's DOJ So they have a child sex trafficking website and not in that sense, like it's their informational page where they actually talk about their subject areas that they focus on.
00:59:56.000And in May of 2023, they revised, which keep in mind, weird timing, right?
01:00:01.000That's like three years into the year, two years into the administration.
01:00:04.000but they actually revised the child sex trafficking portion of the DOJ website
01:00:09.000and they, I kid you not, removed the subheadings and multi-paragraph explanations
01:00:15.000of international sex trafficking of minors, domestic sex trafficking of minors,
01:00:20.000and child victims of prostitution, and they reworded what exactly they defined child sex trafficking as,
01:00:26.000taking out a whole blurb where they talk about how it involves, like, the transportation between two countries.
01:00:31.000So that made my, like, conspiratorial mind go, like, what the heck?
01:00:37.000And if you read the blurbs that they deleted, it's literally talking about how open borders make child sex trafficking a heck of a lot easier.
01:00:46.000And when I saw that, I was like, That's like, just imagine you're like some Biden staffer, like your job is like you run the DOJ's website.
01:00:55.000What would take over you to delete that from the informational webpage about child sex?
01:02:16.000So that's 25 million in the six following days, which is huge for an indie film to go from To increase its, I guess, to make 150% of its opening day over the course of the week.
01:02:30.000I would have thought that indicates that it got a lot of good publicity, I think, and word of mouth.
01:02:34.000Yeah, I think a lot of people are referring other people to the movie, which hopefully will mean it sustains the profit margins for a long time.
01:02:42.000What this means is that anti-establishment, anti-woke, libertarian-minded individuals, conservatives, suspected liberals, whatever this group is, actually engaging in the culture war.
01:02:52.000I know one guy that said he bought a ticket and didn't want to go, because he didn't know if he could handle it, but he still wanted to support the movie.
01:02:59.000I don't hear that about a lot of movies.
01:03:05.000I don't mean to shade Barbie, but I did think this idea that they were saying, like, the most important thing to us is that people sit in the theater and see the movie.
01:03:13.000So if you can buy a ticket for someone else, like, if you can help people get this message out there, that's what we care about.
01:03:18.000And I think that is the part of the culture war that people are really wanting to be part of.
01:03:22.000It's not the Threshade of Barbie at all.
01:03:23.000Barbie can do a great... I mean, all the success in the world to Barbie, but I think it is interesting that this movie that... You're right.
01:04:45.000Um, I don't know if... The Philippines was reviewing this and they were saying maybe, some of their lawmakers were suggesting perhaps this scene could be edited out so this map doesn't appear, but I don't know how that would end up.
01:04:57.000It may just be, if you look over here on the other parts of the map, there are other dotted lines.
01:05:01.000It may have been to represent just, like, traveling, not actually anything, and because there's lines coming out of Asia.
01:05:09.000Like, this is not even the shape of Asia.
01:05:12.000No, it's a complete abstract map because it's silly, but on the other hand, I do like the idea that someone just was like, map of the world, didn't think about it at all, and now they've like entered this movie into a huge geopolitical debate.
01:05:25.000Yes, yeah, the people in the film and movie industry a lot of times are very manipulative with imagery.
01:05:32.000So they might have been like, this is a travel path, but they happen to make the travel path, the cutout that they want to be given to the Chinese.
01:07:59.000To see how, like, it's surveillance footage of two little kids, like, playing basketball at their house, and a car pulls up and they just grab the kid and throw him in.
01:08:29.000I'm like, in the beginning, with everything that's going on, I'm feeling like this fear and this dread, this doom, because I know exactly... You watch, you know exactly what's about to happen, and then you watch it happen, and then your fear, anger, and dread becomes like anger and sadness.
01:10:17.000But people were just like, oh, yeah, I heard this movie is really good.
01:10:20.000Yeah, one of my friends was talking Like it was very just organic, it wasn't like people sitting there like, oh well I was reading the latest Q-Drop and they said I had to go, you know what I mean?
01:10:29.000Like it was normal, not that, but it was just like... It was just word of mouth, people recommending it to each other.
01:10:34.000The media keeps trying to frame it as a religion movie.
01:10:38.000And I was just like, there's like, there's the only thing in it that can any way be attributed to religion is when he says God's children are not for sale.
01:10:46.000The rest is literally like a law enforcement drama.
01:10:50.000There's some heist components, sting components.
01:10:53.000It's like if you like Law & Order SVU, this is like 100 fold better than Law & Order SVU, but it's like that.
01:11:00.000It's like a cop going and rescuing kids and stuff like, I just, I want to tell you, I'm going to wait a little bit because I want to do the spoiler review where I just actually talk about everything.
01:11:12.000We do the show, we're like, wow, it was fantastic.
01:11:14.000Then other people are like, oh, OK, I guess I'll go see it.
01:11:17.000Now that it's reached this point of virality, I'm sure it's going to be sold out all this week and they may even make more money this week.
01:11:26.000The news report's coming out saying, you know, smashing success, excellent reviews, $40 million in its opening week.
01:11:34.000That's gonna lead people to be like, oh man, I should go see this movie.
01:11:37.000And you should go see it, because I regret not seeing Nefarious in theaters.
01:11:43.000I watched Nefarious on Amazon when it came out, and wow, that was also such a good film.
01:11:49.000If you haven't seen Nefarious, you should totally watch it.
01:12:01.000And Steve Deef was on the show, and he was, because he wrote the book, and he was talking about it, and he's so nice, and so well-spoken, and I was like, oh, cool, this movie.
01:12:09.000I was, it's crazy to think this is the creation.
01:12:12.000And again, I I love anything that makes you think, and I think that's why this idea of telling the story of human trafficking through a movie is important, because people need to understand what the consequences are.
01:12:23.000And I think some of the themes that come up in Nefarious are the same way.
01:12:26.000Your brain needs something to do with itself.
01:12:55.000I it when my favorite part of the movie like and this is a this is a key component and you'll it's like right in the beginning so i'm not going to spoil anything serious the the murderer is like by the end of tonight you'll have committed three murders and like this is a talk it's a movie where they talk it's like a handful of dudes talking for for an hour and a half in like one in one room the whole movie happens in basically one 90% one room in a prison with some stuff outside of it.
01:13:24.000And it's just like, I'll put it this way, the guy says, by the end of the night you'll have committed three murders to a doctor, to like a psychologist, psychiatrist.
01:13:33.000And then basically they talk through everything and you gotta see it because it's really, really good.
01:14:25.000Because it wasn't just, I honestly also think movies are sort of a waste of time.
01:14:29.000Like, I know we're getting into my personal, but I don't know, I would just rather do something with my body rather than go for a walk or like write a story.
01:14:35.000I have a hard time sitting still for movies.
01:14:37.000Yeah, I'm also, because I'm like fidgeting in the chair.
01:14:39.000Yeah, you and me both, we're just sitting over here rocking.
01:14:41.000It's easier to watch movies for me at home when you're like doing something else, like embroidering or folding laundry or like whatever else.
01:14:46.000I can't watch stuff on regular speed now.
01:14:48.000I have to watch it on two times speed.
01:14:50.000Do you watch movies on two times speed?
01:14:51.000So most streaming platforms don't really cater to that, and also I feel like that would just be... Also, how do you watch a movie with someone and you're like, hey, would you mind if we Netflix and chill on two times speed?
01:15:06.000Do you ever watch multiple movies at the same time just to...
01:15:09.000When I was watching a lot of opposition research, so, like, old speeches from Biden and Biden appointees and, like, people in the Hunter Biden hard drive orbit, I actually did master that act, and I texted my boss at the time and was like, well, I'm concurrently watching these three spe- and he's like, how are you doing?
01:15:26.000And honestly, I don't, like, I don't even know how it's possible, but you can, if you're just listening for certain words, you can do it.
01:15:32.000If you're searching for something, and that's, I think, so hard with, like, a lot of movies, I find myself just, uh, Pre-empting how the plot is gonna go so it's not it's not fun.
01:15:41.000We can watch movies on 2x speed together.
01:15:46.000We'll just sit there walk around the room 2x speed guessing the plot like it's totally but I think that's one of the things I loved about Nefarious was that it was just a format I was not expecting for a movie and you're not really sure what's gonna happen next as opposed to what Tim's talking about with with horror movies in particular there's only so many combinations of like the ghost can come from the wall or the floor like Yeah, at some point you run out.
01:16:08.000Yeah, it's like the the music box was haunted.
01:16:11.000The next movie is like a single mother moves into a home and the the cupboard is haunted.
01:16:16.000I'm the worst because like at the beginning of TV shows, I'll be like, oh, they're gonna fall in love.
01:16:21.000They're enemies right now, but they're gonna fall in love and like no one likes to watch anything with me because it's the whole a whole time.
01:16:25.000I'm just figuring out who's gonna end up together.
01:16:28.000I want to jump to this segment here, this story.
01:16:30.000Once again, another story from the post-millennial.
01:16:32.000Joe Rogan and Elon Musk call out MSNBC for suggesting being healthy and in shape is far-right.
01:18:01.000Yo, they legit want you unhealthy, unhappy, eating bugs, and living in a pod.
01:18:06.000I can understand if people are getting in shape because they feel like they're going to get attacked, that it might be like a form of, like, a result of being radicalized.
01:18:51.000Like, a woman will have a counter, and she'll go like, okay, here's what we're gonna do, and then she'll take a bag, like an industrial bag of nacho cheese, and just dump it on the counter, and then she'll take a bunch of chips and pour all over the cheese, and then start mixing it with her hands, and you're like, what is she doing?
01:19:09.000I watched one where it's like, she pours, like, vinegar into a pan, then pours cream, and puts an egg in the middle, and she's like, trust me, and I'm like, no.
01:19:18.000It's intended to trick you into watching for a long time so they make money.
01:19:26.000Well, and in particular, it's sparking it on Twitter.
01:19:29.000MSNBC knows that people, it's, it's, uh, the algorithm will respond to its tweet getting a lot of engagement.
01:19:36.000And engagement doesn't have to be positive.
01:19:37.000It doesn't have to be a bunch of people saying, oh, we love, great story, good, good reporting.
01:19:41.000People arguing in the comments makes it look like a lot of people are interacting with the post, which technically they are, although they are screaming at one another.
01:19:48.000That's the same thing with these food videos where it's like, What is she doing?
01:20:05.000He says, fitness is not political, right or left.
01:20:07.000All of us can benefit from the lessons of progressive resistance training, creating a vision goal, building a routine, doing the reps, learning to love failure.
01:20:28.000These are all the responses of everyone just mocking MSNBC.
01:20:32.000Yep, here's Abby Libby on Twitter saying, someone please inform MSNBC I'm about to do a little far-right extremism diving into the lap pool.
01:20:42.000We should just call exercising far-right extremism.
01:20:45.000You guys wanna go engage in some far-right extremism at the gym tomorrow?
01:20:48.000But then they'll probably strike down gym classes from schools, because after all the years of being like, kids need exercise, they'll be like, we can't indoctrinate children to be conservative.
01:21:39.000Are you trying to indoctrinate her with extremism?
01:21:41.000I'm a Pilates fan, so... But I do think that there is an obvious correlation between working out, being fit, and being conservative.
01:21:49.000Yeah, I think so too. You're going to, like, two things.
01:21:52.000One, someone who's willing to work out clearly sees the benefits of hard work for long-term gains
01:21:59.000over short-term gains. Short-term, you're going to be tired, you're going to be sweaty. I
01:22:02.000think working out really does feel fantastic, though. But long-term, you feel like, you know,
01:22:05.000a bolt of lightning. You feel fantastic.
01:22:07.000Somebody who feels that way probably already understands a lot of basic conservative concepts,
01:22:12.000but then there's also the correlation between testosterone, you know, aggression, and being
01:22:17.000You're gonna be more assertive, you're gonna be more confident, you're gonna feel better about yourself, working out will likely have you end up being more quote-unquote far-right.
01:22:26.000But if this were true, just, like, every Nazi would be jacked.
01:22:30.000And, like, the reality is, whenever you see, like, actual people waving Nazi flags, they're, like, very heavy.
01:22:42.000Why are- Why did MSNBC try to make this argument in the first place?
01:22:46.000Are they trying to convince- Look at the- Look at this picture!
01:22:49.000Can we just- Look at- It's a- It's- Okay.
01:22:52.000It's a bunch of Nazis doing the Roman salute, and then there's a guy- A flexing arm.
01:22:57.000What's the black- They're covering up.
01:22:59.000Oh, I don't know trying to cut like because it's artsy.
01:23:03.000Yeah, sure edgy Hyper-masculinity have always been central to the far right what how are these people simultaneously arguing that conservatives are like chuds?
01:23:11.000Not also that they're super jacked and ripped hyper-masculinity was a big part of Mussolini's fascist thing.
01:23:17.000He wanted to make the Italian River Masculine, so he changed the gender of the word of the name And he was big on like the fatherland and stuff like that, but that doesn't mean that working out in general makes you a fascist just because he
01:24:49.000No, but I typically would eat a lot of chicken and fish most of my life and actually don't like eating a lot of beef because I usually would get sick.
01:24:55.000Actually, I was getting pretty sick because I too much... Oh man, you know, for dinner we made smash burgers.
01:25:26.000It's not like active conflict or anything, but a lot of people told me it's unsurprising that I got involved in urban conflict reporting stuff, because when you're skateboarding, you're looking at something that's terrifying and dangerous, and you're going for it every time, and it's giving you that adrenaline rush.
01:25:41.000So you are desensitized to that shock, and then you're like, oh, I can go and handle this, I'm not gonna get hurt.
01:25:47.000But the physical ability, the physical activity of it, you know, I would be in, you know, just before Occupy Wall Street, for instance, I would skate eight hours a day, every single day with like one or two days off per week.
01:25:58.000And so I would, man, I was consuming thousands of calories per day, like insane amounts of calories to try and keep up.
01:26:07.000Like, some days I would just eat a couple thousand calories and I would just be like, I'll just chill today and maybe skate tomorrow because I can't do it.
01:26:13.000And then there would be days where I was just like, I was shedding weight really, really.
01:26:17.000Like, this period where I was in Virginia, I was in Newport News and I was skating at a park called Anti-Gravity.
01:26:21.000I was skating so often, I lost like 10 pounds in a couple weeks.
01:26:25.000Just like... But that exercise builds muscle.
01:26:30.000increases your testosterone levels, you're going to be a certain kind of person.
01:26:39.000So you're a teenager, uh, boys going through puberty have obviously an increase in testosterone and it's linked to an increase in risk taking behavior.
01:26:47.000So when your brain was forming, you learned how to take calculated risk physically.
01:26:51.000Uh, I don't think these things, these traits of masculinity and testosterone don't have to be negative.
01:27:45.000It's one of the great differences between men and women.
01:27:46.000So for men, obviously seeing another fit man makes you think, oh, okay, this guy is conveying strength to me for a lot of different reasons.
01:27:55.000But also if you feel strong, you feel good, you feel healthy, you are going to convey confidence.
01:27:59.000Like there are lots of benefits to working out emotionally, psychologically, and physically.
01:28:05.000And the fact that we are treating them like Well, I've got good news for fans of the show.
01:28:08.000admitting on some level that you're an extremist, like, that's terrible. We should encourage people
01:28:14.000to live healthy lives. I've got good news for fans of the show. We're putting out a new music video
01:28:20.000soon, but it may be, you know, a month or two, as in soon.
01:28:41.000So, you know, throughout the course of the video, he's getting smaller, thinner, and frailer.
01:28:46.000And so what we're doing is, Ian is going to film the final scene now, and then we're going to get him jacked with a very serious training regimen and massive amount of protein, and then he's going to film scene one.
01:28:59.000So in the video, it actually goes in reverse order.
01:29:01.000Like, in the first scene, you'll see Ian looking fit, kind of, you know, I don't want to say jacked or ripped or anything.
01:29:06.000The idea is just to get Ian up 20 pounds of muscle or something like that.
01:29:10.000And then by the end of it, Ian's looking as he does now.
01:29:13.000It's so wild to consider doing a body change for a movie or role.
01:29:17.000I've fantasized about it for 20 years.
01:29:18.000Oh, what if I worked with a production company to pay me to get strong?
01:29:21.000That's what it's all about in Hollywood when you land that role.
01:30:04.000I bring it up for fans of the show because all of this high protein, high fat, high training diet, Ian's going to be like 20 pounds of muscles, his shirts are going to be tight, and he's going to become extremely conservative.
01:30:17.000Him and Seamus are going to be high-fiving about religion.
01:30:56.000Women that learn how to cook are hyper far right.
01:31:00.000Women who wear dresses, hyper far right.
01:31:03.000I think that this is like about guys that want to put women in the kitchen barefoot, like that masculine and misogynist, but that's misogynist with their ripped bodies.
01:31:13.000What if that means he's just like getting healthy so he can support their family and she can stay at home?
01:31:23.000But like, I think part of this is just the mainstream's anti-gender norms agenda, right?
01:31:32.000Like they don't like the idea that a man would want to be strong and classically masculine because that must mean that he doesn't believe in the values we believe in because nothing means anything and there's no gender.
01:31:44.000I view it as the domestication of humans.
01:31:47.000Because I think about how dogs came to be.
01:31:51.000The wolves that got close to the human camps were more likely to survive because there was more refuse to scavenge.
01:31:57.000The humans that were less likely to fight off or scare off the wolves were more likely to survive because the wolves marking territory kept other larger predators away.
01:32:05.000And then over thousands of years, The more, the closer a wolf could get to the humans, the more the human would tolerate, the higher likelihood of survival there was, until eventually, wolves would be walking through the camps, and they'd just be like, oh, we don't care.
01:32:17.000Until eventually, wolves became proto-dogs, and then actually started hunting with humans, and then when humans realized, hey, like, these wolves are tracking down an elk, and then they'd run with the wolves, then they'd use a spear to take the game down, the wolves couldn't, they all got to eat better, right?
01:32:34.000That's how dogs, they believe, came to be.
01:34:04.000Because it's not moms who are writing news articles, it's typically unmarried women working jobs who are writing it, so it's a hyper-feminist, spinster view of the world that we're getting through all of this media.
01:34:18.000Meanwhile, actual working moms and working dads who are very happy with the way things are and love having a family and women who want to be moms, they're less likely to be represented in the media spaces.
01:34:27.000Going conspiratorial here, but I bet, like, the lady who wrote this, her boyfriend probably, like, broke up with her and you've probably just gotten into, like, working out and been going to the gym.
01:34:35.000He left her for a gym check and she's, like, so mad.
01:34:43.000No, I think there is something to that.
01:34:45.000I mean, I think of the concept of, you know, like, Yelp or any review site.
01:34:49.000If you're happy with something, You're probably not going to leave a good review.
01:34:52.000Maybe you are and I hope you do if that's your habit, but most people are willing to act when they have a negative review, when they don't want to say something good.
01:35:00.000So when you have these channels where you can critique things, it is tempting to always be like, well, this is bad and here's something you should fear and here's this other thing that's going to corrupt you and working out makes you terrible.
01:35:12.000Like, it's just this very bitter culture that we see emerging, which is ultimately eating away at people's sense of self and joy.
01:35:21.000I noticed that, and I decided to kind of try to counter that.
01:35:24.000At some, like on Twitter, I had a great flight with Delta, and I tweeted it out.
01:35:28.000Best flight I've had experience in my life.
01:35:31.000But for every one of yours, I feel... People were like, I thought that, if that wasn't you Ian, I would have thought that was fake.
01:35:36.000I would have thought you were paid shill, but I believe you, because it's you, because you have... Sorry, I... No, I just want to point out before the super chats, as for this woman who wrote this article, Cynthia Miller Idris, she's married.
01:36:39.000For those of us working to find better pathways to reach at-risk youth, understanding the ways that far-right groups recruit and socialize youth in ways that go well beyond rhetoric and ideas is crucial.
01:36:49.000Just, it's just, it's so crazy if you're like, look, young friend, your life will be better if you are in shape and you're eating healthy.
01:36:57.000And they're like, he's trying to indoctrinate the kid.
01:37:09.000The original extremist, Michelle Obama, trying to get the kids to eat healthy.
01:37:12.000No, I think this is the thing, though.
01:37:13.000At some point, it's going to be like, They never want you to be separated from your device.
01:37:18.000It's actually hard to be constantly scrolling Twitter if you're working out, right?
01:37:22.000Like, you have to step away for the moment.
01:37:24.000And what if, on some level, this is saying, you know, when you're unhooked, I don't mean to be too much of a conspiratorial, you are not listening to us.
01:37:32.000And so when that ends, like with children, they could either be after school to what?
01:37:37.000Or they could go play on their local soccer team and kids who are active are healthier and happier and the kids that are raised on tv are more dependent on the media.
01:37:45.000Well the media needs to be dependent because that's how they make all their revenue.
01:37:48.000I mean ultimately they are just saying when you are not plugged in you are not getting the information we think we need and that's that's a complete editorial take on my part but I think it's worth noting that like they could easily be saying like people who spend time in the sun become extremists because of no specific reason it's just some random observation we think we have.
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01:39:41.000It's just crazy how, like, Alex Jones has been talking about it for a while, and they're like, ah, it's crazy conspiracy stuff, and then we get that expose, we get the leak from ABC about Virginia Giuffre with Amy Robach stuff, which ultimately Epstein gets arrested, Ghislaine Maxwell gets convicted, photos of Prince Andrew emerge, Dude, for me, it's like everybody now is like, yeah, that happened.
01:40:57.000There's code names for drugs all the time.
01:40:59.000These were high-profile political individuals emailing each other, and they were probably saying, like, hey, if we're gonna go party, should it be crack or should it be heroin or something?
01:41:10.000In order to get people off the trail, A wild, insane conspiracy comes out that says there's a sub-basement where children are being trafficked and these things mean kids.
01:41:19.000Now all of a sudden, the decentralized network of individuals on the internet who are tracking down what this could be go in the wrong direction.
01:41:26.000So when they come out and they're like, did you know that they're kidnapping kids and drinking their blood?
01:41:29.000You tell that to the average person and go, shut up!
01:41:32.000You say adrenochrome, they're gonna go, shut up.
01:41:35.000If you told people that for a fact we have known for a long time that there are creepy sex hotels and child trafficking going on, well, duh.
01:41:52.000But that's something someone's really, they're willing to listen to.
01:41:55.000If you come out and say, like, Epstein's got this flight log, they call it Elite Express, powerful individuals are flying to this island, there are underage girls there, people are like, wow, that's a bold claim to make about a lot of these people.
01:42:07.000Then you add in, and they're drinking their blood because they're doing rituals to say, okay, dude, you've lost me, go have a nice day.
01:42:12.000Yeah, I think transfusions are probably way more, I mean, I know that people get, healthy people hooked up to IVs and will get transfusions, like, In Silicon Valley, like adults with adults.
01:42:47.000If you think it's true, you're not helping yourself by asserting something you've not yet proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
01:42:53.000So why don't we start and say, hey, we have probable cause for an investigation because Epstein has been accused of this thing and convicted, and he's still operating this plane.
01:43:05.000Now, as for everything else, you know, we'll keep the investigation, we'll keep the pressure on, but good luck there because powerful people are protecting those sickos.
01:43:37.000So viscerally corrupt that he had Hunter flaunting it in front of all of our faces and then they arrest this whistleblower like within a week on top of the state dinner where they had him running around saying hi rubbing shoulders with everyone.
01:43:49.000I think was like the day after he allegedly got incited or arrested for the tax fraud.
01:44:02.000And they are proving it every single day.
01:44:04.000Imagine, by the way, imagine if they get away with this, like what they're going to do after his presidency ends, like who they're going to grift and sell out to.
01:44:11.000That's that's why we have to win this battle.
01:44:14.000I still think, though, you know, with the clear demise of Joe Biden, there is a certain level of like who is going to harness power, because now Hunter Biden is He's almost too high profile and too obvious a target.
01:44:28.000I don't know who in their circle is going to inherit the power is all I think.
01:44:31.000They'll get all that Ukraine money back somehow.
01:44:50.000I think, I think, Raymond, you're referring to the DeSantis thing.
01:44:53.000We didn't get into too much detail, but DeSantis has a quote where he says, It was under Donald Trump that these intelligence agencies, the FBI, etc., were colluding with big tech to censor Americans, and Trump should have fired them.
01:45:06.000The Hill reported DeSantis claims the Trump administration colluded with big tech, which then gets translated by Trump supporters into, quote, Trump colluded against himself or something like that.
01:45:28.000My argument is actually Trump should have known.
01:45:30.000We had a White House summit about this.
01:45:33.000We all came, a bunch of people went to the White House to meet with Trump and a bunch of other influential individuals in government to tell them censorship was a very serious problem and it was going to prevent him from winning again.
01:45:45.000And look, You can argue it was to benefit his political campaign, sure, but the point was we want everyone the ability to speak.
01:45:52.000The fact that anyone would be censored, and I pointed this out there too, I said, hey look, there are anti-war leftists that are getting censored as well, there are accounts like Occupy Wall Street accounts that have been censored.
01:46:01.000We should make sure all of it's done away with and not just be hyper-partisan, and people there agreed.
01:46:05.000So Donald Trump should have known to investigate this to get the DOJ or someone looking into it.
01:46:14.000So I agree with Ron DeSantis mostly on this point and I think there's a lot of Trump supporters coming out and they're mischaracterizing what he said.
01:49:04.000If you go to the movie theater to see this movie, you know that everyone in the theater is probably in agreement with you on a lot of issues.
01:49:09.000Now going to the movie makes you a far-right extremist.
01:49:12.000Then you guys can go to the gym, and then after that you can yell at your wives.
01:49:16.000Next up on MSNBC, why opposing child trafficking makes you far-right?
01:49:21.000Literally, though, they didn't publish that yet.
01:51:10.000It makes you wish you could just fly and walk through these evil people, grabbing them and throwing them in the squad
01:51:18.000cars, in the vehicles, in the prisons, and not have to...
01:51:23.000It's the saddest and terrifying thing of reality, knowing that even in the most dire of circumstances, at best, with
01:51:31.000you and this evil before you, you're on equal conflict footing.
01:51:35.000Like, if you're a cop and you're armed and you're facing down these gangs, these traffickers, they're armed too.
01:51:40.000And we just wish that you could walk through them like Superman and just end this evil that they're engaged in.
01:51:46.000And I'm gonna tell you one thing, it's not a spoiler.
01:51:49.000But it's like one of the truly most shocking things of the film that really hits you is when you see it when you see people like Hand a kid, throw a kid into a bin, and then someone hands him a wad of cash.
01:52:02.000Like, they literally just treat these people like... Wow.
01:52:43.000Look, the difference is that Instagram is a platform people use, and a lot of people on Instagram don't use Twitter.
01:52:49.000So, Mark Zuckerberg made a good call with this in that there are a lot of people who will just, you click a button and, doop, you've got a Threads account.
01:52:55.000That's why a hundred million people have signed up.
01:53:22.000I've had Facebook for 15 years, but more than that.
01:53:25.000It always makes me think about that hearing from maybe like 2018 where one of the Facebook execs was like, yeah, we made like a very, very small algorithm change in like millions upon millions of people.
01:53:36.000All of their online rhetoric got instantly angrier.
01:53:39.000It's like they just admitted to having such control and power and nothing came of it, you know?
01:53:44.000So yeah, meta does kind of rub me the wrong way.
01:54:24.000Like, you are, but basically what happens is, the reason why no one will accept any solicited materials is because then you get into IP disputes.
01:54:32.000Yes, if I end up writing something that is akin to what you wrote, but I actually never saw what you wrote, then you might have a grounds to be like, hey, I sent that to you, that's evidence that you ripped me off.
01:54:42.000Yeah, and then we're like, nope, because we don't accept those.
01:54:44.000I don't want to turn it all off though, so I don't know.
01:54:47.000But I'll tell you what, feel free to place Cast Brew Coffee products in any film, at any point, and have people drink them.
01:54:55.000As long as they like them, and then they tell other people to get Cast Brew Coffee.
01:55:37.000It was funny, I tweeted today that there's an Irishman who lives under my house and he keeps stealing my spoons, but no one will believe me.
01:55:42.000Did all of your spoons reappear suddenly?
01:55:49.000So basically, Seamus had to return our spoons because he was eating with them and then, you know, putting them in his sink and not returning them to us.
01:55:59.000And so then we were like, yo, Seamus, you gotta bring the spoons back.
01:56:03.000And then it's like, it wasn't really anything that mattered until he was like, there's an Irishman living under my house stealing all of my spoons.
01:56:08.000And it was like one of the funniest things he said.
01:56:10.000So I was like, that's actually a good point.
01:56:12.000You phrase it that way, no one will believe you.
01:56:15.000But if it's actually like, there's a guy who lives in my apartment and he borrowed silverware from me and then we asked him for it back.
01:56:19.000It's actually just like, oh, well, that's like not news.
01:57:58.000Jack White doesn't get to be there at the main event for this big fight where all these celebrities are sitting with Trump and everyone's making a big deal about it.
01:58:06.000Kid Rock and, you know, Mike Tyson, Joe Rogan, like whatever.
01:58:10.000And he's sitting at home grumbling about how his time has come and gone.
01:58:14.000And so he's like, yeah, well, Trump's a racist anyway.
01:58:18.000I feel like that about Burt Kreischer, because I'm always like, when I see him on with Tom Segura on Two Bears 1K, everyone who's doing rock, I'm always like, man, he's not even that great anyway.
01:58:26.000Which is because I want to be Burt's best friend.
02:00:34.000We got a trainer, and, uh, you gotta eat a lot of steak.
02:00:36.000It's kinda like, I don't know a lot about it yet, but when you do strength training, you're doing burst muscle moves, and then you don't wanna do cardio, cause the cardio actually lets the blood flow out, is that right?
02:00:47.000So you wanna, like, just pinch it off and kinda hope that the swell takes over?
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