The worst jobs report in 23 years, the latest in a growing list of bad news for the economy and the government, and more! Today's guest is the man who almost took down Joe Rogan, Dave Smith.
00:00:36.000And now all of a sudden, the Biden administration, Joe Biden himself, he's like, well, you know, look, we're dealing with the pandemic and, you know, it's nothing to do with unemployment payments.
00:00:44.000And CNN writes an article saying the country is still reeling from the pandemic.
00:00:49.000Last month, when the job report was good, when jobs were, you know, unemployment was going down, Biden's celebrating saying, see, look what our administration is doing.
00:00:56.000Now that it's getting really bad, they're acting like it's not their fault.
00:02:15.000If you had asked me after that podcast what was going to get you in trouble, I would have named 20 things before the clip that they picked.
00:02:22.000But, you know, they went with what they went with.
00:03:32.000We got like full hours with some of your favorite people like James O'Keefe and Michael Knowles talking about things like how to stand up for yourself, why we must resist the establishment lies.
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00:04:21.000I ended up making this one simply because I was convinced, and I ended up buying Dogecoin.
00:04:25.000I'm not telling anybody to go buy Dogecoin, but you should buy the shirt!
00:04:29.000I'm allowed to give advice to people when it comes to me selling merch, but apparently you can't give financial advice, so it's like, if you want a shirt, you can buy it.
00:04:37.000You can push what is clearly a depreciating asset, but if you tell someone to go buy something and go, I think this might make you some money, then they'll be like, alright, you're giving financial advice.
00:04:49.000I wonder if that's just a meme, to be honest.
00:04:51.000Yeah, I know there's a lot of people who are in finance, whenever they talk about something they'll always go, now I'm not giving financial advice, but I'm just saying.
00:04:59.000There might be advertising law around it.
00:05:02.000Or people could be like, they gave advice and I lost money so I'm suing you.
00:06:40.000I know, I know at least five people who are doing the unemployment thing, knowingly avoiding work because of it.
00:06:48.000Well, this is actually, I don't blame them, not every single person.
00:06:53.000So when I was, I think I was maybe 20 or 21, I got unemployment for losing a job.
00:06:58.000And the people at the unemployment office literally told me not to take a job that was paying less because it creates a dependency.
00:07:04.000So like I was talking to them and they were like, look, Look for work.
00:07:09.000We don't expect you to take a really low-paying job because the fear is that if you can't support yourself, you'll just be right back here on the phone again.
00:07:31.000And I think it's actually a bit worse than that, because if you actually think through the logic of the economics of it, right, it's not just that if you're getting paid $16 an hour to do nothing, that doesn't just mean like, oh okay, well I'll only take a job for $17 an hour.
00:07:46.000That means that a job at $17 an hour is effectively a job at $1 an hour.
00:09:07.000around these paper Federal Reserve notes?
00:09:09.000Well, this actually is extremely beneficial to, you know, the great Reset Davos group
00:09:14.000kind of people. Because think about it. Right now, they have created a system in which
00:09:18.000people will make more money not working, which means no consumption, no plastic, no pollution,
00:09:25.000no waste, no gas being used, no carbon emissions, just people sitting around being like, oh.
00:09:29.000And the best part is, they're dragging everyone else down with them.
00:09:34.000So it's like, it's the ultimate crabs in a bucket.
00:09:37.000The only issue is, the crabs, you know crabs in a bucket is crabs in a barrel?
00:09:40.000Right, whenever a crab tries to get out, the other crab pulls it down.
00:09:43.000That implies that one crab is like, hey, you can't leave, or I'm gonna climb out of you to escape.
00:09:48.000In this instance, it's people just being tied to the other crab.
00:09:51.000Like, all the crabs are tied together.
00:09:53.000So when a bunch of crabs are like, nah, we're better off in the bucket, don't leave, the ones that actually want to do better are being weighted down by those who don't.
00:10:00.000What's happening basically is, people gotta understand this, dollars are meaningless.
00:10:05.000A dollar is just the current representation of the value of the labor you've traded.
00:10:09.000And it only really matters that day because the value keeps changing because it's a deflationary currency.
00:10:15.000It devalues itself over a long period of time.
00:11:38.000You know, in addition to what you guys are talking about, about the value of labor and the Federal Reserve note representing that, not only are they printing more notes and hoarding them so that the value of the actual note to labor ratio is devaluing, but people aren't actually doing labor.
00:11:56.000And so, it's one thing, like, after World War II, modern monetary policy printed a bunch of extra money so that they could create production to then pay off the debt that they created.
00:12:05.000Right now, we're just printing the money without the production creation.
00:12:08.000But they're probably doing it for the same reason.
00:12:10.000So a lot of people talked about how all these blue states had massive debt, and then they're like, we better pump trillions of dollars into the economy and then shut down all the small businesses so only the massive multinational corporations take all that money.
00:12:22.000Well, I'll tell you one of the huge differences, right?
00:12:24.000Okay, so after World War II, as we were talking about before, right, there's every industrial country in the world was destroyed in war except America.
00:12:32.000I mean, we fought the war abroad, but we weren't destroyed at home.
00:12:38.000And on top of that, we had the Bretton Woods Agreement.
00:12:40.000So there was some limit to the amount of money that the government could print.
00:12:46.000After 1971, when Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard, then it really became a free-for-all, where we could just print as much money as we want.
00:12:54.000And a lot of times, left-wing people will point back to the early 70s as this time—even Bernie Sanders, I think, points to this sometimes, where he goes, you know, since the 70s, wages haven't kept up with productivity.
00:13:07.000And all of a sudden, the real super-rich are getting really, really rich.
00:13:10.000And the working class doesn't have the same rise in standard of living.
00:13:13.000And this is what it all comes back to, is that if you have a government that can print money out of thin air with absolutely nothing to restrain it, you're going to get an awful, crony, fascistic economy.
00:13:28.000You are sitting there holding a big, beautiful cheeseburger that you cooked for yourself, and I walk up and I have a rock in my hand and I say, trust me, this rock is valuable.
00:13:36.000I'll give you this rock for your cheeseburger.
00:13:39.000And then you take that cheeseburger, you gave them nothing for it, but they think it's valuable.
00:13:44.000Or it's just slowly eroding the value away.
00:13:48.000So the government can come in, do no real work, buy things, convince people to do things, services, labor, resources, and they're not putting anything into the system.
00:13:56.000Well, listen, this is what Ron Paul used to always say, which I think is like the best way to look at it, right?
00:14:00.000Is that all the government can do is tax.
00:14:03.000Now, there's three forms of how they can tax you.
00:15:09.000Well, so you understand how they deflate these currencies and things, right?
00:15:13.000Or I'm sorry, they inflate the currencies, they devalue the currencies.
00:15:15.000So if you take out a really massive loan and put your money into a hard asset that will appreciate, say, property, then when the dollar continues to become worthless, the debt you owe to the bank is substantially worth less as well.
00:15:28.000So the rich people who are holding debt in dollars, the value of that debt is diminished, but the hard asset stays the same.
00:15:36.000I feel like you're just telling me your life story, but yes.
00:15:40.000Look, if you can get access to a loan, then yes, certainly there are things that you can invest in that could perhaps be a hedge against inflation or you could invest in precious metals or in cryptocurrency or something like that.
00:15:52.000But regardless of that, the vast majority of people probably are not going to invest in those.
00:16:07.000But he'll say these things like he'll be like, did you know that, you know, the of the new money created, you know, whatever the numbers are, 90 percent has gone to the top 1 percent or something like this.
00:16:20.000But you look at what we've had since Obama, say really since 2008 to now, we've had record high government spending, higher government spending than any government in the history of the world, and interest rates have basically remained around zero the whole time.
00:16:33.000And that's what's leading to all of this.
00:16:35.000But isn't it true that by creating this system, wealthy individuals, or people of even modest wealth, are able to hedge their money, retain value, devalue their loans, and thus, it keeps the rabble out of politics.
00:16:50.000You know, we can't have poors running around actually dictating how we do things in this country.
00:16:57.000But you watched The Patriot recently, and you have, I think it was Cornwallis, and he was like, you must stop targeting our officers.
00:17:03.000Could you imagine what war would be like without gentlemen?
00:17:06.000I feel like that's kind of the attitude, because what we're seeing with this kind of policy is, Like, so Joe Biden actually is saying right now, after all this comes out, he's like, no, I think we should print more money.
00:17:21.000Rich people, their assets are in, you know, their value, their money is not in dollars.
00:17:29.000So when $1 tomorrow is not only worth the equivalent of 50 cents, well, they're holding gold, or they're holding Bitcoin, or they're holding property and real estate.
00:17:38.000The loans to the bank go down for all the rich people and the poor people, but the poor people also don't have any money to begin with.
00:17:44.000So if you're of modest means and you've got, you know, a thousand bucks in the bank, tomorrow you got $500 worth in the bank.
00:17:50.000Your loans may be only worth half as much, but you still don't have any money or any appreciating assets.
00:17:56.000So the things you do own You're not really gaining all that much.
00:18:00.000Your job isn't now paying you more money all of a sudden.
00:18:03.000So they're printing out unemployment at 16 bucks an hour.
00:18:06.000So nobody is producing anything, but they're still demanding things.
00:18:10.000They are rapidly deflating the economy, which, I'm sorry, devaluing.
00:18:58.000Well, look, I mean, what, what drives me crazy about it is every single time when these politicians, Joe Biden does it all the time where he says, well, you know, uh, it's the pandemic that destroyed all of these jobs.
00:19:30.000It was our own government that locked down our economy and destroyed it.
00:19:34.000They're still locking down the economy in most of these blue states and they're still destroying the economy.
00:19:40.000Even when there is no even plausibly reasonable scientific argument to do so.
00:19:46.000I mean like you look at Florida and Texas and the fact that they're open back up and that they're doing better than the national average despite what Fauci predicted would happen when Florida and Texas opened up.
00:19:57.000And the fact is that we're basically at a point now with COVID where even though, I mean, look, this was obvious from about April 2020, but right now about 50% of the adult population has been vaccinated.
00:20:09.000Of the other 50% who hasn't been vaccinated, I've seen estimates from 30 to 60% have had COVID at some point and have some natural immunity to it.
00:20:19.000On top of that, we basically know now that asymptomatic spread is Very, very low, if it happens at all.
00:20:25.000So the idea of these super-spreader events are pretty much over.
00:20:29.000But none of that matters, because the TV doctor said so.
00:20:46.000But we're almost beyond this because now, if you look to Texas and Florida that are doing really well, they are still going to be harmed by the current economic policies of, we're going to give everybody $16 an hour equivalent unemployment.
00:20:59.000And so that means people in Texas are going to be like, why should I work?
00:21:03.000The response to this has been absolutely insane.
00:21:05.000Exactly what you were describing just now makes me think sometimes when people get severely ill or something like with cancer and then they take some sort of radiation therapy like chemo and the chemo ends up doing more damage to their body and destroying their body and they die.
00:21:40.000Listen, I don't like that argument because there's only so much we can do as human beings trying to trust the experts.
00:21:46.000The issue now is that you have Texas and Florida doing really, really well.
00:21:49.000So it's not this argument about cancer and chemo and, you know, oh, the doctor said this.
00:21:54.000No, it's like literally Texas and Florida have opened up.
00:21:56.000Many other states haven't even shut down.
00:21:58.000I think South and North Dakota's economies have actually grown a little bit relative to and they're seeing similar COVID rates.
00:22:04.000So now it's about time to maybe get back to business and maybe have some protection for the weak, the vulnerable, you know, the people with immunocompromised.
00:22:13.000And we should have done that a long time ago.
00:22:16.000But it's not even necessarily about the pandemic at this point.
00:22:24.000And they're still... The problem is, in March we saw this massive job growth and Joe Biden was clapping for himself and patting himself on the back.
00:22:33.000And now they're still saying they're going to ramp up unemployment.
00:23:50.000You end up with some kids, like, a 30-year-old child, living in a basement, just, like, really hairy and greasy and just not doing any work, and being like, Shut up, Mom!
00:24:01.000Stop, stop, stop giving these people things.
00:24:05.000Well, look, and I will say that there are, I'm sure, some people, in fact, there definitely are some people in situations that are really awful situations where it's hard for them to work for whatever reason.
00:24:18.000But the point to me is that, look, Economics are realities, and you can't just pretend that they're not if they don't feel good.
00:24:28.000In the same sense that I'm sure most people on the left would understand, like, why is it that you want to subsidize green energy and you want to tax nicotine, right, or cigarettes?
00:24:41.000Because you know if you subsidize something, you're going to get more of it.
00:24:44.000If you tax something, you're going to get less of it.
00:24:46.000That's just those are just economic realities.
00:24:49.000That's just the reality of the situation.
00:24:51.000Just like, you know, in some sense, like the laws of physics, this is what you're going to get.
00:24:55.000So if you subsidize people not working, and then tax people for working, you are going to get less people working than you otherwise would and more people not working.
00:25:05.000So we have to be adult enough to deal with those realities.
00:25:09.000That if you're going to pay people to not work, regardless of what the situation is, you're going to get a lot of people who otherwise would work, now not work.
00:26:21.000Yeah, well, I certainly understand that.
00:26:23.000I also do wonder how much of a factor is, you know, the fact that people have been really, I mean, Like the psychological damage over the last year is really something.
00:26:36.000I mean pretty much everybody in the positions of authority in this country were just working overtime to terrify the American people about this floating abstraction of a germ That they have to live their lives in constant fear and always be inside and covering your face and social distancing.
00:26:56.000And I'd imagine there are some people that you mix that in with the economic incentives of like, we'll pay you a little bit if you don't work.
00:27:02.000There's probably a lot of people who are like really scared.
00:27:59.000There's a viral meme where somebody tweeted, it's like a viral tweet, this guy tweeted, yo, my job started saying they're ending remote working and people started quitting.
00:28:10.000Like there's actually a subreddit called anti-work.
00:28:12.000There are people who are like, I don't want to work.
00:28:15.000So the crazy thing is, when you talk to a lot of these leftists about this stuff, they say things like, yeah, but who would want to work at McDonald's, you know?
00:28:23.000Like, is that a question of status, or is that a question of money?
00:28:27.000Because, you know, I think a lot of McDonald's actually pay 15 bucks an hour.
00:28:30.000The problem is unemployment's paying more than that.
00:28:32.000And so McDonald's will have to increase- This is why UBI makes no sense.
00:29:22.000The leftists who are advocating for this stuff want to live in the Hunger Games, but they want to be the capital.
00:29:27.000Another example is how they want student loan forgiveness.
00:29:31.000Now, I actually am for some form of forgiveness, maybe forgiving interest rates.
00:29:36.000Saying, pay back the principal of what you owe now, but we're not going to keep raising the interest rates because that's insane.
00:29:41.000Make it easy to pay off, but not free.
00:29:43.000How insane is it that the left right now is advocating for the working class people to pay off the debts of the highest income earners in the country?
00:29:52.000People with college degrees have higher salaries than people who don't, and they want the working class people to pay off their debts.
00:29:59.000That is the capital city in the Hunger Games.
00:30:02.000Now they're saying, they have these memes where it's like, if you can't afford to pay someone more than they could make on unemployment, then you are exploiting poverty.
00:30:10.000Bro, they're paying people $16 an hour to be on unemployment.
00:31:07.000And to sign that into history and be giving all of these money to giant corporations and then turn around and say, you know, we really got to get some of this money back is just so disingenuous.
00:31:17.000I mean, like, like, Stop giving them money.
00:31:47.000And that's what they'll be voting for.
00:31:49.000Right now you have these 20-something democratic socialist types who are like, the Biden administration needs to be printing money and increasing unemployment.
00:32:01.000And then it's like, okay, so what you're saying is the government Should borrow tons of money, print tons of money, devaluing the savings of the working class while all the businesses are shut down so that people are forced to buy from Amazon.
00:32:12.000So basically, they're devaluing the money you have and then giving what they've extracted from you to Amazon and Walmart and these other companies.
00:33:02.000When he comes out and says, you know, do X, do Y, lock things down, and Texas is like doing the exact opposite, you know he is not speaking to a single person in Texas.
00:33:11.000Yeah, I've never seen anything like this in my life in our country.
00:33:15.000And there's been, you know, there's always examples of where, like, the media has their propaganda and real people don't really believe it.
00:33:22.000But there's something about watching, you know, the, you know, Fauci, And the CDC guidelines and you'll see on CNN and they're like, hey, we've just decided you can take your mask off outside.
00:33:36.000And you're literally like looking out your window at kids just playing with their masks off.
00:33:40.000And it really feels like something out of the Soviet Union, like the propaganda has come down from Pravda.
00:33:46.000And you're looking and you're like, we've been doing this forever.
00:34:14.000What I'm saying is, they actually lifted the mandates in Maryland for instance, and then Fauci's coming out later and I'm like, they already lifted the mandates!
00:34:23.000Well that's it, and it's almost like they're going like, now we've given you our official national orders that you can do the thing that you've been doing for 10 months.
00:35:18.000From the example of Maryland, I've never seen people outside with masks, period.
00:35:21.000Except the occasional moronic runner who decides to wear his mask while he's running.
00:35:25.000But isn't this the Tenth Amendment, where states are just deciding to do their own thing?
00:35:29.000Because this was never delegated to the federal government.
00:35:32.000Well, you know, this is, I mean, it's a real sick perversion of the Tenth Amendment, if it is that.
00:35:37.000Because truthfully, none of the states have the right to do what they've done.
00:35:41.000I mean, they don't have, the Tenth Amendment basically says that anything that is not expressly delegated to the federal government is left to the states or the people.
00:35:49.000so that if something isn't, you know, delegated to a federal power, the states can do it.
00:35:55.000But there is no legality to the states violating constitutionally protected rights in the Bill
00:36:02.000of Rights. So like there, the Cuomo and, you know, Newsom and all of these governors.
00:36:09.000Yeah, they did not have the right to shut down a religious ceremony to tell you that you can't peacefully assemble.
00:36:16.000I mean, what we've dealt with over the last year has been a true rise of many dictators amongst governors who have taken power to themselves that should be Absolutely.
00:36:29.000by the federal or local governments or anyone willing to do it.
00:36:33.000And to me, this was the great failure of Donald Trump in 2020, that he did not do anything
00:36:39.000to, listen, I mean, if there's, if some, one diner in Alabama somewhere put a whites only
00:36:47.000sign outside their door and the state government didn't want to do anything about it.
00:36:52.000The feds would come in there and say, no, you cannot do that.
00:38:39.000There was a group of armed leftists patrolling streets and blocking roads.
00:38:44.000These aren't protesters holding hands and pulling up banners.
00:38:47.000Literally, this is a guy with full blackout gear and body armor with an AR-15 and I think one other guy.
00:38:54.000And they're blocking cars, smashing windows and pepper spraying people.
00:38:58.000One guy gets up on, you know, he's like, he opens his door and he's standing up on his truck with the door open with his hand on his hip, and he draws his gun, he's holding it low ready, and the guys, the Antifa guys immediately pull their guns out, pointing their guns at him.
00:39:14.000At some point, he gets out of his car, and he actually draws on one of these guys.
00:39:17.000They tackle him, take his weapon, nothing happens.
00:39:20.000The cops are like- What was the purpose?
00:39:22.000The purpose is that far left, the far left extremists are getting more militant, and- But were they protecting anything, or just arbitrarily- Taking control.
00:40:25.000Normally when you see these videos where they're like, a car plows through protesters, it's like an SUV going like a mile an hour and they're screaming and yelling and then it just slowly drives away.
00:40:34.000Nah, this one was somebody hit the gas and people went boom, boom, boom.
00:40:37.000That's what's gonna happen because you see what happens in Portland with this with this video I don't I don't think they have any Fox News show so they show a little bit I can't show too much, but we've got a tweet you can see here's the guys wearing It looks like it might be body armor.
00:40:49.000It might be actually a tactical vest like a camelback or something I don't know for sure and they're holding they're holding some AR-15s pointing at a regular regular old guy You know, I thought I was going to predict this, but I said it was going to be far right locking down streets and telling people to F off and get out of their towns.
00:41:07.000And that's probably stupid because we know the far left has been increasingly violent and the escalation has come from them, not conservatives or, you know, rural folk.
00:41:18.000I gotta say, I'm almost shocked that the right-wing response hasn't been more ferocious and quicker, to be honest.
00:41:27.000And I'm thankful for that because I don't think it's going to do any good except just escalate the kind of civil war which I think any sane person would want to de-escalate.
00:41:36.000But it's unbelievable, like, the level to which This has this has gotten and I think there's a lot of you
00:41:44.000know, like I'm I'm I Wonder what the heck our society has done to allow some of
00:41:52.000these young people who are out there blocking cars Antagonizing people wishing when all this but but I'm not
00:41:58.000just blaming the people doing that I mean, obviously they're wrong for doing that
00:42:02.000But it's like how have we and this maybe as I'm getting older and that I have kids now
00:42:07.000I'm feeling this way where I'm like, how have we have a society failed these kids so much that this is where we're
00:42:13.000at and And I think there's a lot to be said there.
00:42:17.000And then also I can't believe that there's so much restraint on the other side that there aren't more people
00:42:22.000just plowing them down Well the social pressure the social pressure on social
00:42:25.000media, you know, they're going through their feeds and they Like these campaigns that are going on
00:42:30.000I mean, I'm not on Instagram, but like I you know, there's all this pressure to do certain posts and like it's insane
00:42:37.000Yeah, everybody everybody make your your post up off a blank screen onto your Instagram to show you're in line
00:42:43.000with and if you don't But look I'm just saying like you could you can like hate
00:42:49.000Antifa and just talk about how awful they are and I agree.
00:42:52.000I'm not saying you're wrong to do that I mean, these are like punk kids who are being destructive
00:42:56.000and just barbaric and it's awful But you know if you zoom out a little bit you're like wow
00:43:03.000We really did like create a society where there are these kids where there's like no
00:44:30.000They're wealthier than kings were at a certain point in time, right?
00:44:34.000But what I'm talking about is something separate from wealth.
00:44:37.000What I'm talking about is, look, my grandfather was far poorer than any of us are today and suffered through more hardships than any of us could imagine.
00:44:46.000I mean, he was a Jew who escaped Nazi Germany and then fought in World War Two.
00:44:50.000I mean, just a very hard life and worked in a factory.
00:44:57.000His wife, my grandmother, didn't work.
00:44:59.000He took care of two kids, owned a house, owned two cars, played poker on the weekends like you could.
00:45:05.000Take care of a wife and kids and have an identity and a life.
00:45:11.000Whereas today, even though they're much richer than that, what is your chances of owning a home, getting married, paying for the cost of education, healthcare?
00:45:20.000I'm saying there's no identity there, is my point.
00:45:25.000But you gotta compare the life of a family in the 40s and 50s to the life of a family today.
00:45:30.000We have television, we have internet, we've got some of the greatest technology ever created, and we have to pay for those things that requires labor.
00:45:35.000As the population expands, we get more specialists and more access to better technology, we still have to pay for it all.
00:45:41.000So sure, you know, my dad, he was able to, you know, he actually worked two jobs when I was younger, and his dad before him worked a single job, you know, the greatest generation, but what did they have in their home?
00:46:11.000So, sure, there were suburban living when people didn't have the same access to utilities, when people didn't have access to the same medication.
00:46:18.000People today say, oh, we need universal healthcare because people can't go to the doctor.
00:46:22.000Dude, the medical care you can get on debt is a hundred times better than the medical care they were getting a hundred years ago, or a couple hundred years ago when they were injecting people with mercury or whatever for syphilis.
00:46:33.000Nothing is stopping a person from taking their family and going and building a cabin in the middle of the woods
00:46:38.000Except I guess for the fear eventually the federal government will wander off into the middle of Wyoming and
00:46:44.000well I met at you about it. So so I I don't completely disagree
00:46:47.000with you I think that the fact that we've become richer than ever before is a good thing.
00:46:53.000And I think the fact that we have luxury goods and consumer goods for cheaper than ever before, I think it's great.
00:46:59.000I mean, it's risen the standard of living.
00:47:01.000I guess it's just the fact that we've also, in this process, created, through our elected politicians, this system where we've subsidized the cost of housing, subsidized the cost of education, subsidized the cost of health care, to the point that they've all been tremendously inflated.
00:47:18.000And we've also just lost a sense of community and values, which I think also goes hand in hand with the government taking more and more of a participatory role in society.
00:47:29.000And I think this is just Again, I'm not disagreeing with you.
00:47:31.000It's just a cocktail that's worked out to be what we see now.
00:47:35.000We need, uh, people need to have a return to like normalcy and understanding of the world.
00:47:50.000Everything we've built, I'm sorry, I shouldn't even say we.
00:47:53.000Everything, every shoulder that is being stood upon by the giants is done for us.
00:47:59.000We woke up, I was in New York one day, and I was riding my bike over the Williamsburg Bridge, and I was like, wow.
00:48:06.000I never did anything to deserve this bridge to ride up and over this river and I had to I just imagine I'm like what it must have been like a couple of years ago when people were like waiting for the ferry they had to pay for to do it and then some people said I am going to plant this tree whose shade I know I will never sit beneath because in 50 years the children will be able to and their lives will be better.
00:48:27.000Today People are now demanding and entitled of all of these things that were gifted to us, that we never paid for.
00:48:34.000And so what happens is they say, I should be able to have a massive house, five bedrooms.
00:48:38.000I should be able to only have to work, you know, a certain amount of time throughout the week, so I can have every luxury that this life can afford me.
00:49:00.000And you know what's interesting about that is that, like, kind of what you're getting at is that this idea of, like, the philosophical idea of UBI, right?
00:49:08.000I mean, in just a pure free market with no government giving you a UBI, you kind of already have this where just because we were born here in a first world country in 2021 and we're living, we do stand on the shoulders of all of these people.
00:49:25.000I mean, none of us really We've earned all of this technology that we get to speak through.
00:49:31.000I mean, you may have bought the microphones and stuff, but we didn't invent all of it.
00:49:35.000And we have all these things like you were saying with the bridge and the trees that other people have made before us.
00:49:41.000The bridge is a better example than the microphones, because that's something you can just use without paying for.
00:49:46.000Well, sure, but I'm just saying that even if you pay for this, someone else invented it, and we all benefit from the fact that other minds put in all of this labor to make all of this happen, and just the fact that we have this level of wealth around us.
00:49:57.000I mean, we could be the exact same people born in some third world country or on some desert island, and we don't get any of that.
00:50:41.000That when you're living for others and thinking about what's been given to you and what you can give on to the next generation, that's when you don't want to go block a car in the street and throw a Molotov cocktail through the window.
00:50:52.000Because you've got something kind of bigger to live for.
00:52:20.000You know, I think a lot of it is wealth disparity because we are super wealthy, all of us, but the disparity is greater than it's ever been.
00:52:26.000And if you've ever been poor in a room with a bunch of rich people and like, you're having a great day, everyone's having a great time.
00:53:05.000And so a lot of crackheads, a lot of heroin addicts, a lot of poor people.
00:53:09.000And then I started, you know, playing music, which, you know, I went around to different venues, met different people in different areas, eventually met a bunch of rich kids.
00:53:51.000You can go to any major city because people tend to be good and want to help, and you can say to any random person, can I buy a cheeseburger?
00:54:30.000And again, maybe this is just like the way I look at things since being a father.
00:54:37.000But when I look at somebody who's out on the streets, like one of these Antifa members,
00:54:42.000who's this little punk kid who's dressed in all black.
00:54:45.000Some of them are in their forties bro.
00:54:48.000But he's still a punk kid in his forties who will, you know, like, you know, the way they fight where it's not even like someone like, like, there's no honor and even being like, like, why don't we take this outside and fight?
00:54:59.000It's like they'll go talk shit and then someone stands up to them and they run away and then they look at the other guy and then they sucker punch him behind them and then they all pound on him when he's down.
00:55:06.000I go, I look at that and go, who Who raised you?
00:56:08.000Now it's like people are like, oh, I'll lie to whoever to get whatever I want.
00:56:12.000The moral foundation is being shattered.
00:56:13.000Did you see, uh, I saw someone was sharing this clip, like an old Alex Jones clip on Twitter today where he's, you know, it's like a classic Alex Jones clip where he's screaming like a maniac.
00:56:23.000But if you listen to what he's saying, he's actually making a pretty good point.
00:57:05.000There was no tradition and honor and upbringing for children.
00:57:11.000And I'm just saying that I think a lot of times today, at least I get this a lot, that if you address any of these issues, People say, they go, oh, you're like some social conservative right winger or something like this.
00:57:23.000And then the implication is almost one step away from like, well, you must hate gay people or hate trans people or hate black people or something like that.
00:57:31.000But we're not allowed to ever just go, and I feel this a lot more these days, but you just go like, you know, you go on Instagram and see all the like, you know, every girl's like in a thong and you're like, these values suck.
00:57:44.000This sucks as a culture to raise a daughter in.
00:58:02.000Imagine if instead of that, you had Alex.
00:58:05.000But no one had ever seen him before, right?
00:58:07.000It's the first time he'd ever appeared.
00:58:08.000He's wearing a, you know, like a tweed sweater or something or whatever.
00:58:13.000He's got like leather patches, and he's got a corncob pipe, and he's wearing glasses, and he goes, Now, an interesting study came out about atrazine.
00:58:20.000And he's talking to other, you know, glasses individuals, and he goes, The interesting thing about this atrazine is that it's disrupting the endocrine systems of amphibians, notably frogs.
00:58:29.000In many of these regions now on the coasts, you can see that it's draining off into the oceans, having less of an impact on groundwater.
00:58:34.000But in the Middle East, it's a very serious problem.
00:58:36.000Dare I say, jokingly, they're turning the frogs gay now.
00:58:39.000No, but in all seriousness, there would never be a meme.
00:58:43.000It was Alex Jones yelling and slamming, they're turning the frogs gay.
00:58:47.000Like when everyone would be like, man, if he just didn't, if he wasn't so brash and he didn't do all this, then maybe he could have gotten this done.
00:58:55.000And you're like, no, he'd never be there.
00:59:01.000The reason Trump was president is because he was the guy who was willing to look at Jeb Bush and go, your brother lied us into war and basically wink, wink, nod, nod.
00:59:41.000So that's the thing with Alex Jones, right?
00:59:43.000But there is something, there's a really important principle there.
00:59:47.000And from my perspective, and maybe this is my own libertarian bias, but I really do think That the government, the rise of the welfare state, the rise of big government in America, that they undermined all the bonds that used to hold people together, right?
01:00:05.000So instead of the welfare state, you would have communities, you would have churches, you would have neighborhoods, all of these bonds.
01:00:11.000And that as the state got more and more powerful, they destroyed all of these bonds intentionally, in the same way that the communists hate religion, because they hate anything that's a unifying force more powerful than the state.
01:00:23.000So to me, this is what destroyed our call. I've been I've been talking about abolishing the police now for the past
01:00:27.000Yeah, I guess a couple of months but and Michael Malice has been cheering for it on Twitter, but it's not for the same
01:00:33.000reason For the most part, you know, so Michael said when we had
01:00:37.000Alex Johns on the show He said that it's his constitutional right to keep in bear
01:01:11.000Have you been paying attention to what's going on?
01:01:13.000What story did we just cover, just in the last segment?
01:01:16.000Portland Antifa, in blackout gear, which they've been doing the whole time, now with rifles, stopping vehicles, smashing out their windows, attacking pedestrians and regular folk, and when a guy tries to get through and draws on them, because they drew on him already, they knock him down, they take his gun, where are the cops?
01:01:34.000In Portland, the majority of people who were arrested, even on felony charges, even people who confessed to attacking cops, had their charges dropped.
01:02:47.000But then we started seeing cops shut down small businesses, arrest small business owners, and then conservatives start saying, nah, I'm done with this, and throwing the thin blue line flag in the dirt and stomping on it.
01:02:56.000Now it's starting to come back to defending cops again, and I'm like, do you realize You're the target.
01:03:01.000In New York City, it's like, what, 20% conservative?
01:03:04.000It's like very, very few conservatives.
01:03:07.000When Antifa goes around smashing up windows, these people aren't going to go to jail.
01:03:10.000When you go and in any way defend yourself or defy these restrictions, they will lock you up in two seconds.
01:03:16.000It was the funniest thing when that salon owner in Texas, I think it was, she got arrested for opening her salon while they were letting the criminals out of the jail.
01:03:24.000They were saying, we can't have criminals in jail because of COVID.
01:03:27.000And they were saying it was dangerous for COVID to open your salon, but we will take you and put you in jail where there's this massive COVID outbreak and we're letting people out.
01:03:38.000And that's inhumane to put someone into a pandemic situation.
01:04:46.000If someone comes in and steals from your store, we're not really going to prosecute them.
01:04:51.000But if you pull a gun on them while they're stealing from their store, you might go to jail for a decade.
01:04:55.000So this is the world that we're living in more and more now.
01:04:58.000And I think that conservatives are starting to realize that they are the enemy group.
01:05:06.000So for you to be defending the enforcers of the state, which let's get real, that's what cops are.
01:05:13.000For you to be defending them when you're the enemy group is, to borrow a word that some on the right like to use, the ultimate in cuckoo tree.
01:05:24.000We're at a point now where we've been watching this for a year.
01:05:52.000In a long enough period of time, it will just detriment the right and it will scare everyone into being, clearly we don't want to be with whatever that is.
01:06:06.000Well, you can keep in bare arms now, you can defend yourself, and you can defend yourself.
01:06:13.000Oh, this would be cleaned up in a second.
01:06:16.000Believe me, all these riots, you don't need Trump to send in the federal goons or anything like that.
01:06:22.000If you just said, all it takes, and there were a couple local sheriffs who did this during the riots and basically cleaned up their whole town.
01:06:29.000Yeah, if you just said, hey, guess what?
01:06:31.000We believe in the Second Amendment here, and if you go, and if there was actually the state behind you on this, and you said, if you go and violate someone's private property, and they have a gun, we are not prosecuting them for defending themselves.
01:06:46.000But by the way, can I just make one more point to what you were saying before?
01:06:49.000What were the few exceptions for the people who were actually prosecuted?
01:06:53.000During all the government buildings that were that were attacked, right?
01:06:57.000So what is the clear message from the government there? How disgusting is this stay away from our property?
01:07:04.000You go ahead and you vandalize any of the private property you want to you go terrorize a shoe store owner go terrorize
01:07:11.000a bodega No problem can serve it away from the statehouse and you'll
01:07:14.000be just conservatives got to get on board with Abolishing the police and not every single instance small
01:07:20.000towns are probably fine But on the best example is in Milwaukee when black lives
01:07:24.000matter. I think it was Milwaukee They showed up to a guy's house, right? Mm-hmm. They were
01:07:27.000protesting in front of his house One of the guys who organized this had previously been to another mob gathering that set fire to someone's home.
01:07:36.000So all these people are outside screaming.
01:07:38.000This guy pulls up his shotgun and points it out the window.
01:07:41.000The window is closed, but he points it, you know, visibly at the window.
01:07:43.000When the police show up, Black Lives Matter is clapping and cheering and celebrating as the cops go into this man's home and arrest him.
01:07:51.000Now, maybe you shouldn't have pointed the gun directly at them, but, like I said, the guy who organized this had previously organized another rally where they set fire to a woman's home.
01:08:01.000Cops came out, put it out, they set fire to it again.
01:08:03.000So this guy's like, I'm gonna show them I'm armed, and you can make an argument whether he should or shouldn't have done that.
01:08:08.000I believe people have a right to keep and bear arms, and if you're on your property and people are encroaching on your property and threatening you, he didn't even fire a shot, it was a warning.
01:08:25.000You think people have been saying they want to abolish the police so they can federalize it.
01:08:30.000They want to abolish the police to get their woke enforcers in.
01:08:32.000They don't really want to abolish the police.
01:08:34.000They want to exert pressure until the police start doing whatever they want out of fear of losing their jobs.
01:08:38.000Yeah, well why do you think they did such a 180 on abolish the police?
01:08:42.000I mean, as soon as the implications of that started coming out, they were like, well, abolish the police doesn't really mean abolish or defund the police doesn't really mean it.
01:08:59.000Well, look, I mean, if you're somebody who's if you are a right winger or a conservative, Just think through the implications of actually defunding the police and what that would mean.
01:09:10.000Well, it's like you said, nobody's going to arrest you for any type of gun violation, so gun rights are now absolute.
01:09:18.000They're not going to be able to enforce these stupid regulations on your business.
01:09:33.000And also, I will say this too, it also takes away what are some of the legitimate criticisms of people on the left, which I'm not saying is like the violent rioters, but there are some people on the left who make a legitimate point that there are cops who go around and harass people in these high crime neighborhoods.
01:09:50.000Now, I'm not saying that there aren't legitimate criminals in those neighborhoods who deserve to be harassed, but there's also, let's get real, There's a lot of kids who walk around who just look like
01:10:00.000the suspect that they're trying to go after in these neighborhoods who get harassed.
01:10:03.000And let them also not be harassed anymore.
01:10:07.000Also the whole war on guns, like all the whole gun control regime, I mean the real victims
01:10:14.000of it, not saying it's the exclusive victims, but the most likely victims of it are people
01:10:15.000not saying it's the exclusive victims, but the most likely victims of it are people who
01:10:21.000who live in these high crime neighborhoods who are minorities for the most part, who
01:10:21.000live in these high crime neighborhoods who are minorities for the most part, who have
01:10:26.000have guns usually to protect themselves.
01:11:00.000Maybe there's this vision of like an old timey era when Officer Friendly was there to protect your community.
01:11:06.000Now we're at a point where the justice system is basically corrupted.
01:11:10.000Extremely wealthy leftists started funding district attorneys races, putting in far-left DAs, people like Kim Foxx, after Jussie Smollett's whole ridiculous, you know, MAGA country garbage, Kim Foxx lets him go.
01:11:27.000The justice system is completely corrupt.
01:11:29.000But I gotta stress, man, the Proud Boys in New York City, four years in prison, Yeah.
01:11:35.000If the Proud Boys want to get in a fight with Antifa because Antifa has been threatening and harassing them, then maybe you don't want police to be there to arrest you and put you in prison afterwards when you decide that you are going to confront the problem in the way you think is appropriate.
01:11:49.000Now look, I don't think fighting is appropriate.
01:11:51.000I don't think anybody should be fighting Antifa or the Proud Boys.
01:11:53.000But if Antifa wants to show up to someone's event and instigate fights, Okay then, there's a thing called mutual combat.
01:12:02.000The problem is, in New York, you can't have guns, you can't protect yourself.
01:12:05.000If you even consider it, they will lock you up.
01:12:09.000The problem is that, the way I described it recently is, imagine you're at a blackjack table at a casino, and it's a right-wing guy and the left-wing guy.
01:12:18.000The left-wing guy is counting cards, and you're sitting there going like, he keeps winning!
01:12:23.000He's winning like, look how much money he's got, I keep losing!
01:13:00.000Yeah, 1636, so it was like night watch groups that would report to like a constable.
01:13:06.000Well, it was initially, we had local militias.
01:13:09.000Some states, I think there were like two states, set up slave patrols.
01:13:12.000From that, the left has tried arguing that the origin of all police was slave patrols.
01:13:16.000The idea of centralized law enforcement was actually imported from some European countries.
01:13:20.000I think it was like Amsterdam or something.
01:13:21.000And so eventually, people started saying, maybe instead of having these ever-escalating conflicts between neighbors and the militia, we just create neutral arbiters who will come down, make the arrest, and the courts can deal with it.
01:13:33.000We're at a point now where I think that's a great idea.
01:13:36.000However, in these blue states, people don't care about your rights and believe they have a right to vote away your rights.
01:13:43.000So they'll say, like, I don't care what the Second Amendment says.
01:13:45.000I think we can just decree your right doesn't exist.
01:13:48.000The Constitution was supposed to stop that.
01:13:50.000Now you have conservatives who live in these places who are surrounded by cops who would gladly enforce illegal actions like Bill de Blasio's ridiculous painting or arrest you for exercising your God-given rights.
01:14:07.000The thing that's so infuriating to me is that we've watched, let's just say, just in the 21st century, not going back, you know, the whole history of policing, but just in the 21st century, I mean, we have the most militarized police force in the world.
01:16:23.000waited and then a SWAT team raided the house and he was like what are you doing
01:16:28.000in my like what's going on they jump out with cameras they're filming all the
01:16:30.000cops and they're like what are you doing and they apparently tried using grow
01:16:33.000lamps as justification that they were doing a drug raid because they I mean
01:16:37.000they were detecting the energy consumption yeah they could see the
01:16:40.000energy consumption and so they made an assumption about what's going on in the
01:16:42.000house and I bet you none of those cops went to jail No, but the guy, like, put it on the internet, and he was like... Yeah, sure, and embarrassed them, but, you know, if we had any type of, like, just society going here, wouldn't you be like, well, okay, I mean, you just committed a crime, right?
01:16:56.000Like, any of us would go to jail if we did that, but they don't.
01:17:00.000So, and the other thing that I gotta say is that, you know, I understand, and I agree with a lot of what you're saying, like, and there is, like, a lot of these left-wing, you know, cities and states do have these problems.
01:17:13.000But I gotta say, I find something not maybe kind of funny in a dark way, but certainly ironic That now Joe Biden is turning the war on terror inward and the target is right-wingers.
01:17:26.000And even Liz Cheney is like championing this.
01:17:29.000And I guess I'm just old enough to remember that it was the right-wingers who supported George W. Bush who championed this whole war on terror beginning.
01:17:39.000I'm not talking about just the Republican Party or the ones who went over to the Democratic Party.
01:17:42.000I'm not just talking about... He's a Democrat now.
01:18:08.000And now the chickens have come home to roost.
01:18:10.000No, you're talking about 38-year-olds who didn't vote for that, who are now finding themselves conservatives or Republican, being like— That's right.
01:18:19.000They are paying for the sins of the right-wingers who came before them.
01:18:23.000Who, you know, really ruined the— Yes, a 25-year-old right-winger has no responsibility for that.
01:18:28.000We're talking about standing on the shoulders of giants and reaping all these benefits.
01:18:31.000I don't care if it's Democrat or Republican.
01:18:33.000We're paying for the penalties of their failures going back.
01:18:35.000So much of the problems with this country, and don't get me wrong, I think you can go back to Woodrow Wilson and pretty much blame everything on him.
01:19:00.000If you want to focus on the 21st century, the first eight years of it were under George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and they blew the entire beginning of this century.
01:19:11.000And we are really suffering under those ramifications now.
01:19:16.000And so now it's taken on this new kind of woke Flavor.
01:19:22.000But many times it's the same corporate interests, the same military industrial complex interests behind it.
01:19:28.000It's just the new justification is wokeism.
01:19:30.000Like now we have to stay in Afghanistan for feminism or something.
01:19:34.000You know, it's not it's not because we have to hunt down bin Laden anymore, but it's the same policy and the same companies profiting and like kind of all the same thing.
01:19:42.000But I'm just saying I remember when the right wing had the culture and they kind of did set us on the course.
01:19:48.000The establishment lost control with Trump.
01:19:51.000The Democrats were able to ward, to keep Bernie Sanders out, to co-opt him and, you know, make him just shuffle the leftists into the Democratic coalition.
01:20:01.000But on the right, Trump was the raging bull and they couldn't control him, they lost control.
01:20:06.000So these establishment, Republican, I don't want to call them conservatives, and neocons, become Democrats effectively.
01:20:12.000They start supporting of the Democrats do now you have people like Kinzinger and Liz Cheney who want the war on
01:20:17.000terror to focus on The deviant right-wing Americans. Yes, that's right
01:20:22.000They this what they want is the neo-conservative right to be the right in this country and the neolib to be the left
01:20:29.000in this country Bernie Sanders was weak and they easily shut him down and
01:20:33.000but And they couldn't listen turning the war on terror against
01:23:06.000And then, you know, for just totally unrelated reasons, his son got on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm during, you know, the height of this conflict with natural gas and gas problems.
01:23:15.000And Obama not only continued the Bush foreign policy, he expanded it to a level that Bush and Cheney probably couldn't have gotten away with.
01:23:24.000I mean, Obama inherited the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and continued them for every single day of his presidency.
01:23:29.000But not only that, he expanded the war into Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia.
01:23:34.000I mean, he just took the wars all over the place.
01:23:47.000Yeah, maybe even worse, I mean, debatably.
01:23:50.000And the press was behind him all the way.
01:23:51.000I mean, the activists hated George W. Bush, but, like you mentioned, the New York Times sold it.
01:23:57.000But I think that there was something that they noticed with Obama, and I think this is where the corporate woke takeover really started, is that Obama Yeah.
01:24:07.000one of the most effective things from the establishment point of view and one of the most
01:24:11.000awful things from any sane person's point of view that obama did was obama really destroyed the
01:24:16.000anti-war left and there was a really strong anti-war left under george w bush that is easy
01:24:22.000to forget about now wild i mean yeah i mean you're talking hundreds of thousands of people in the
01:24:27.000streets like on the level of like the women's march or something like that was like like
01:24:55.000And I really think that a big part of this was that the liberal and left, I'm talking like the whole left half of the country, you know, like liberals and left all, you know, so much of their identity was about not being racist.
01:25:12.000And in the best sense of that term, you know, not like this woke craziness of today, but the fact that we go, look, man, black people were treated horribly from the beginning of this country, and we're against racism and Jim Crow and racism, you know, all this stuff.
01:25:26.000And when you had the first black president, who was also this charismatic guy who they wanted to love, to be against him, Was just very hard for a lot of liberals and left-wing people to do.
01:25:42.000Hey, Bill, remember when we put on that event called Ending Violence, Racism, and Authoritarianism, headlined by Daryl Davis, one of the most famous men to de-radicalize the plan?
01:25:51.000And Antifa threatened to burn the theater down if we had those conversations?
01:25:57.000But what happened, right, was that after that and then into the Occupy movement and what I think what my theory on it more or less is that a lot of very powerful interests started noticing that there was this kind of woke impulse and of course all the theory was in the background.
01:26:14.000There was critical race theory and all this stuff in the background and they started noticing that this could really tear apart the unity on the left.
01:26:21.000And then, on the heels of Occupy Wall Street, when, as you've noticed, it started tearing it apart, on its own, organically.
01:26:28.000Like, the woke stuff started taking over, and people were like, oh, you're not even focusing on the 99% anymore, now you're focusing on, like, what divides us.
01:26:35.000And then all of a sudden, you see, I mean, have you looked at any of those Nexus charts?
01:26:39.000York Times mentions of racism, Washington Post mentions of racism. I mean mentions of
01:26:45.000you know toxic masculinity and patriarchy. They flooded the game with all of this and
01:26:51.000all of the sudden over the last 10 years you have this culture where every single giant
01:26:56.000corporation every politician every major media outlet every movie in Hollywood everything
01:27:03.000has been flooded with an obsession over race and gender and all of this stuff and to me
01:27:11.000I think it's a CIA commercial the other day. I mean is this not our torturers are
01:27:18.000Are we going to be talking about how inclusive they are?
01:27:23.000But let me just say, the game is to distract from the issues that really matter, which is power, violence, authoritarianism, and to get everybody pitted against each other in this culture war.
01:27:36.000And they have, we have to tip our hat to them because they have done an incredibly successful job.
01:27:42.000Can we get like a Ryan Long style skit where it's like Guantanamo Bay inmates in jumpsuits being like, you know, for the longest time, the torturers that were coming, they were white guys, they were white guys.
01:28:04.000And then like, you know, a black woman comes in and she's carrying like the rag and the bucket and like putting the gloves on and the guy's like bending over and he's like, it just feels good.
01:30:17.000And for them to call that out was right.
01:30:19.000And they were focused at at least one of the power sources, like the big banks.
01:30:24.000They were really focused at something that actually mattered.
01:30:27.000And at the same time, or at least Around the same time, you had the Tea Party movement that was going on, where these right-wingers were coming out into the streets, and the right-wingers were saying, you know, the government is way too big, it spends way too much money, it's too corrupt, we're taxed too much, we borrow too much, the debt's out of control, this is a problem.
01:30:45.000And the left-wingers are over here saying, you know, bailing out the banks is immoral, they're getting all of these profits, and none of the...
01:30:52.000And it was almost like, I've said this before on my podcast, it was almost like they were holding two sides of the same pendant necklace and it was only a matter of time for the left and right to come together and be like, you know, these ideas don't contradict each other at all.
01:31:04.000They actually go right in line with each other.
01:31:10.000It was only a matter of like a week or two when the facilitators, they called themselves, come in and started saying, Oh, white people aren't allowed to speak.
01:31:17.000And it drove, you know, you know that there were libertarians and conservatives there.
01:31:21.000I remember one of the, in the first week there was like a 60 year old couple with an American flag sitting there complaining about all the same things.
01:31:28.000You know, the bank got bailed out, we're being corrupted and everyone was in agreement.
01:31:31.000I mean, I met Luke down at Occupy the Wall Street.
01:31:59.000Great conversation between libertarians, conservatives, and liberals.
01:32:03.000And then, very quickly, the ultra-woke gay men took over the meetings and said white people weren't allowed to talk anymore.
01:32:09.000And I remember this one white dude I knew, who was an anarchist, started crying and left.
01:32:13.000And so these people started leaving and it was stripping away the core of the movement.
01:32:16.000Now, many of these Occupy people who followed me or friended me at the time are championing the FBI's raid on Giuliani and Facebook and Twitter, massive multinational corporations, suppressing dissent.
01:32:28.000They've never had principles, they were going along with the tide, and they were manipulated.
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01:33:51.000Then once we do, we can get the computers installed, the cameras installed, and then we gotta do a major upgrade on this studio, so... It takes time, unfortunately, but that's the plan, man.
01:34:00.000All right, Christian Jamgochian says, When I was 17 and a dumb high schooler, I wanted to be a cop.
01:34:07.000Seven years later, I'm glad I didn't do it.
01:34:08.000Also, here's $27 for the $2,700 you donated to the cat's surgery.
01:34:14.000Good guy Tim over here keeping his promises.
01:34:16.000Yeah, so yesterday, someone super chatted their cat needed surgery.
01:36:55.000And if they want to give you the help, they can.
01:36:58.000And if people in your community go, oh, there's this guy who's trying to work, but he's out of work, we can pull some money together and help him.
01:37:03.000But why do you get to, through government, force somebody who has to produce something and has to go to work to just give you money for doing nothing?
01:37:12.000That's a cooperation versus competition argument, but to Ian's point about why can't you supplement UBI.
01:37:18.000Let's say somebody is a base... they make screws.
01:37:22.000You know, you need screws so that you can build wood objects.
01:37:26.000And the person who... the company that makes screws pays 15 bucks an hour.
01:37:30.000So they start saying, everybody, we're looking to hire people, we pay 15 bucks an hour, and you'll probably end up making, you know, two grand per month.
01:37:37.000The guy goes, I get a thousand bucks a month doing nothing.
01:37:41.000So why should I do work and only get a little bit more?
01:37:44.000And they say, well, we're supplementing your income.
01:37:46.000So you'll get an extra, you'll have 3000 per month.
01:37:48.000And they're like, but I can live off of a thousand and do nothing.
01:37:51.000And I can do stuff in my free time and make money under the table.
01:37:55.000And then the business says, okay, well then how much do we have to pay you to make you want to work here on top of a thousand you already get?
01:38:18.000Because in order to incentivize people who don't need to work, you've got to pay them a lot more than you would pay someone who doesn't have any money.
01:38:23.000Because of competition, instead of having to offer him three grand instead, you just find someone else that wanted to do it for two.
01:38:29.000Why would some... It's like you said earlier.
01:38:32.000When the government pays someone $16 an hour, any business that is offering you a job is saying, I'll give you $1 an hour for full-time work.
01:38:41.000So if someone's already getting $1,000, you're saying, I'll give you an additional $7 an hour to work full-time.
01:38:47.000And most people are going to be like, I'd rather just sit on the beach.
01:38:52.000One other logistical problem that I see with the idea of UBI is that quite often proponents of it take for granted the idea that we've abolished all other forms of handouts.
01:39:02.000Which any time, as a libertarian, any time I say, let's abolish the welfare state, it's like, oh well that's so impractical.
01:39:07.000But for some reason, when you're proposing UBI, you just get to take it as a given that we've abolished all these other forms of welfare.
01:39:14.000So if we have already done the work of abolishing all these other forms of welfare, then we've really changed the mentality in this country that people would be willing to accept that.
01:39:22.000Because what happens when somebody, okay, so you get $1,000 a month or something like that, we've abolished all other forms of welfare.
01:39:30.000A single mom not working with three kids.
01:40:31.000Oh, okay, I understand the point there, and there certainly is an incentive problem with telling someone that they lose their money if they start getting a job, but to the flip side of that, now you're giving taxpayer money to people who don't need it, now you're giving taxpayer money to people who, you know, You may not even be asking for it.
01:40:50.000If we're going to talk about repealing the welfare state, let's just do what obviously makes sense, which is repeal it.
01:40:57.000Why are we giving these blood-soaked monsters in Washington, D.C., control of our tax dollars to try to do the right thing with?
01:41:04.000Look, over this last year, in America's greatest moment in need, like when we really were on our knees as a country, what did they do?
01:41:13.000They robbed the American people and bailed out all of the biggest corporations in the country.
01:41:19.000The banks got extended trillions in easy loans.
01:41:22.000Every big corporation that was politically connected got hundreds of billions of dollars.
01:41:26.000We got like, what, a crummy $1,200 going out?
01:41:29.000Why are we trusting this mechanism, which is, we all know, all of us know, rotten to the core, filled with corrupt people.
01:41:36.000If either people are good enough to take care of those who are in need, Or they're not, and if they're not, they're certainly not good enough to vote in blood-soaked monsters who are then going to take care of the people in need.
01:41:50.000And it's that if the government gave everybody a thousand bucks a month from taxpayers, you know, everyone, you know, pays taxes, they likely would not be able to do that because I think it would exceed the GDP or it would just be a tremendous strain, so they'd probably print or borrow.
01:42:02.000But let's say everyone's still desperate for work because $1,000 a month doesn't cut it.
01:42:06.000Now you're gonna see businesses being like, we only pay $5 an hour.
01:43:15.000So the issue is when we talk about just raising minimum wages or giving people money, you will just increase the cost of the lowest level of labor that people don't respect as it is.
01:43:27.000Doctors are like, why should- So there's this meme that goes around, where it's a guy like, I'm an electrical engineer, and when I hear that fast food workers want to make the same amount as me, I say, congratulations, we all deserve a living wage.
01:43:39.000And it's the stupidest argument, because an electrical engineer, who's probably not making all that much, you know, relative, you know, to other jobs, doesn't want to have to work for five hours to be able to buy a chicken dinner.
01:43:50.000These people are saying, I work hard, I've established myself in my career, I should be able to provide for my family, and by working harder, gain more to give my family a better life.
01:44:00.000That means, after 10 years of training and being an apprentice, now I'm a journeyman, now I'm a master, I'm making more money, and somebody is going to spend the same amount of time in a fast food restaurant to earn the same thing they do, Now the argument of the left is, but everyone deserves a living wage.
01:44:17.000The problem then is, people will say, why work hard to become a specialist or master if we're only going to get access to the same things?
01:44:24.000Again, the left argument is that people will be fulfilled by taking these jobs.
01:44:28.000That's true for some people, but not true for everybody.
01:44:31.000And I always ask my lefty friends this, how many people do you know want to be famous musicians?
01:44:47.000And then on the flip side of that, right, like, you know, there are these jobs, like, being a garbage man usually pays, like, fairly decently because, you know, no one really wants to do that.
01:44:58.000But the only way to entice people into it is to say, well, look, you can make 80k a year or something like that.
01:45:03.000And in 10 years, garbage trucks will be AI.
01:45:06.000And the primary argument of the smartest people who propose UBI is AI.
01:45:29.000But working hard shouldn't make you rich.
01:45:31.000I mean, I could go outside and lift a boulder over my head and drop it for 12 hours in a row and I'm working really, really hard.
01:45:37.000I shouldn't get rich from that because I'm not providing any value to anyone else.
01:45:41.000If it's attached to a gravity generator, Well, okay, now we're talking.
01:45:45.000But I would just say, in the argument, and I think this is actually the most flawed argument for UBI, which is one of the arguments that you just brought up.
01:45:53.000No, I know you're not making it, you're just saying that this is one of the arguments, which is basically that, well, technological developments are going to take away all of the jobs that exist now, and so we have to replace them with something.
01:46:04.000The major, major flaw in that argument is that if you looked at What technological advancements have already taken away in terms of jobs, they're almost all gone.
01:46:15.000I mean, if you look at the jobs from 1890, I mean, what percentage of society was in agricultural work compared to now?
01:46:24.000It's probably 80% to 3% or something like that.
01:46:26.000To be fair, you know, the city used to have poop departments to clean up horse poop.
01:46:36.000But the point is that if you're going to say that, if somebody in the year 1890 was like, oh my God, these automobiles are coming in and this is going to put out the horse and buggy driver out of work, you know, if you were to sit down and explain to them, like, and they said, well, what jobs are people going to do?
01:46:53.000And you were like, well, how about graphic design?
01:48:40.000And then one day they came in and said, the dream has come to an end.
01:48:44.000And then all that's left now is this old decaying building with this weird ticket logo, and it's just a rotting decay.
01:48:51.000And Jim shows up now, and he's now in his 40s, and he looks there, and he stands across the street with a beer gut, his hair's thinning and gone.
01:48:58.000You know, his kids are walking past him, and they're like, come on, Dad!
01:49:08.000If that guy could have pushed a button and stopped Netflix, he may have, which terrifies me, because that indicates an incentive to stop or slow innovation.
01:49:17.000That's why you don't want workers to have control over things like this.
01:49:22.000What you just mentioned is the great flaw in democratic socialism, is that if you have, like, workers having control over innovation, yeah, they're gonna vote against it.
01:50:22.000The goal is more productivity in a higher productive capacity.
01:50:25.000I mean, if we were, this is an old like Frederick Bastiat example.
01:50:29.000I forget exactly how it goes, but if the sun is putting the candle makers out a bit, like, you know, the candle makers could sell a lot more.
01:50:35.000More if we didn't have this sun the whole time.
01:50:38.000Let's say oxygen, which is something we all need to live, but we don't think about, and it's not scarce, so we just have it.
01:50:45.000Imagine we all had to work five hours a day for oxygen.
01:50:49.000Like, some type of physical work had to be done so that there was enough for us to breathe.
01:50:53.000Well, we would have way more jobs, but we would also be way poorer because we'd be working for something that we already have for free now.
01:51:00.000So the goal is to produce more and more with less and less.
01:51:05.000Yeah, the job economy is a Federal Reserve concept.
01:51:23.000Oh yeah, aren't you running or something, is it?
01:51:25.000I said I'm thinking about running on the Libertarian Party for 2024.
01:51:29.000Yeah, because they need a real... Well listen, you know, you brought it up I think last time I was here, and I know you brought it up before, and you're right to, that meme of Libertarian ideas versus Libertarian candidates, but the truth is there's no reason for it to be like that, and there have been great Libertarian candidates before.
01:51:46.000Ron Paul was that guy, Harry Brown was that guy, and you know, there's just a lot of the candidates don't really know how to talk about Liberty.
01:51:54.000And if no one else will do it good, then I'll do it.
01:52:20.000Your boss, you know, uh, did something inappropriate.
01:52:24.000You can say, I felt threatened at work and I didn't know how to deal with it because I felt- I felt like there was going to be retaliation.
01:52:38.000They'll file a complaint at work and be like, this person's making me feel unsafe.
01:52:41.000Then a week later, they'll come back and say, I still feel unsafe.
01:52:44.000There's no way to resolve someone saying something like, I feel unsafe and this person's doing it.
01:52:48.000And then when the business can't do anything about your fake problem, you quit and you say, yeah, I quit because they were threatening me and they couldn't do anything about it.
01:52:58.000Also, if you are fired for cause, you also might not be able to get unemployment.
01:53:02.000So, like, if you do something inappropriate and it's documented and then get fired and then say, I want unemployment, they might be like, yeah, well, like, you were streaking through the halls of the business, you don't get unemployment.
01:53:12.000It's just about whether it's your fault or not.
01:54:30.000It's like... Yeah, no, I don't know, man.
01:54:33.000I understand there's a real need for confidentiality, classified stuff, and war and conflict.
01:54:38.000That's why I don't want to go anywhere near that stuff.
01:54:42.000All right, Ian Mitchell says, with Ethereum having moved away from proof-of-work, miners and those interested in mining should look into Vertcoin.
01:54:49.000The new VertHash algorithm is ASIC, resistant, and very GPU-friendly.
01:54:54.000Vertcoin's one-click miner makes it a great intro to mining.
01:55:13.000Chris Demond says, Ian took your advice last AM, or took your advice, and I'm starting a new political party, the Southern Secessionist Syndicate Party.
01:55:50.000Wraith Customs Firearms says, the financial advice thing started because someone owning stock A would say, buy stock A, get others to buy it to spike value, then dump it.
01:56:33.000Some, uh, belt-fed full auto or something?
01:56:36.000DrDoctor says, UBI as a concept is probably more 25 years out unless we have quick advancement in automation and robotics and it's cost-effective versus human labor.
01:56:45.000As a former ATC in the Army, I watched more and more automation, even in my field, plus advanced drones.
01:56:58.000And I felt there's a serious problem that you could dedicate your life to your country, to your community, working hard to be the master at a certain job, and when it becomes obsolete, we just kick you out.
01:57:08.000It's like, sorry, you can't have access to goods now because, through no fault of your own, technology advanced, which creates a problem.
01:57:14.000However, Luddites aren't good either, just saying, like, the horse and buggy industry is being destroyed by Big Otto.
01:59:13.000Man, that was a couple weird couple days.
01:59:15.000People waiting all day to fill up their tank one time.
01:59:18.000I was literally, Hurricane Sandy was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen in my life being in midtown Manhattan and it's like country black.
01:59:26.000You know, like you can't see your hand in front of your face and you're walking around with flashlights and stuff.
01:59:59.000Yeah, but what, is everyone just gonna sell once it gets to a dollar or something?
02:00:01.000After Saturday when Elon talks about it, there's gonna be a huge dump.
02:00:05.000That's why everyone's buying right now.
02:00:10.000There's a video of him I saw yesterday where he was like, Doge is a joke, invest responsibly, and I would never tell anyone to invest their fortune in this.
02:00:19.000Kuro Teran says, regarding a video you posted earlier in the day, I'm from Wisconsin.
02:00:23.000We have castle doctrine here, so the arrest of the man for conducting a show of force when rioters threatened him was a wrongful arrest, dare I say illegal.
02:00:31.000But does that mean the police broke the law and arrested a homeowner who was being threatened by a raucous crowd?
02:00:36.000That doesn't sound like something the police would do.
02:00:39.000They wouldn't arrest the law-abiding citizen in his own home who was defending himself from a group of people who had previously been in a house that was set on fire.
02:00:48.000It's almost as if the police are taking the side of the rioters because, like I said last year, the police will show up, see a group of rioters and a homeowner and be like, it's easier to arrest one person in their home than it is to deal with 60 violent people.
02:01:26.000I mean, just look at the 20th century.
02:01:27.000Do you think that the enforcement arm of the state is not willing To just kind of do what is expedient, even at the violation of human rights?
02:01:37.000I mean, we're not different creatures than the Russians or the Germans or any of them.
02:01:57.000Because the people who still have to work because humans are still needed for labor are going to revolt against those in the capital who aren't working but are getting access to their resources.
02:02:06.000Imagine if every day... Actually, this is true.
02:02:09.000Imagine if every day you built a birdhouse and the government came and just took half your birdhouses away and gave it to people who weren't working.
02:02:13.000Hey, that's kind of happening today, isn't it?
02:02:15.000No, no, it'd be like if you're building a birdhouse and they came and gave you birdhouse parts that you didn't need as they were giving everyone else birdhouse parts.
02:02:22.000No, but see, the flaw in that logic is thinking that there is this unlimited supply of birdhouse parts.
02:02:29.000So the idea is like if somebody's working their tail off and making $2,000 a week for it, and then somebody else does nothing and gets $1,000 a week for it, that is going to build resentment from the people who are producing the wealth.
02:02:58.000It's putting a layabout on your couch who isn't working but is getting a portion of your stuff.
02:03:03.000If you are working every day to make something of value for society, and there is someone who is not doing anything, that money has to come from somewhere.
02:03:11.000And if they can't take it from you because you'll freak out, they will print money devaluing your money and your resources, giving it to this person, and then shows up and says, hey Ian, I'll give you a hundred bucks of... Imagine this.
02:03:21.000You're like, you better give me half your UBI if you're living in my house.
02:03:24.000And he laughs and goes, it's your money anyway, I don't care.
02:04:20.000Yeah, I know, but that's what we're doing right now.
02:04:23.000We're taxing working people and giving that money to corporations, and then having these abstract conversations about whether the corporations are paying their fair share.
02:04:32.000How about they just have to survive or fail on their own, at least as a starting point?
02:04:37.000Dude, we're paying $20 trillion back to Fannie and Freddie Mac over 20 years or something.
02:04:43.000All right, Madison McAfee says, I was wrongfully arrested to an FTA for a court case I went to for a noise violation and even got the charge dropped, but they didn't file it.
02:04:54.00036 hours in DeKalb County Jail minus $1,000 was told I couldn't sue because they'd claim negligence.
02:05:35.000Well, that's like, I mean, saying, like, if you banned a public school from teaching that, you know, two plus two equals five or prayer, it's like whatever you want to call it.
02:05:43.000I mean, like, no, you have every, you know, it's reasonable to set standards.
02:05:46.000Isn't it funny how they're like, they want to restrict prayer in schools.
02:05:51.000And now they're acting like we should be able to restrict the things like we couldn't restrict speech in schools.
02:05:54.000Like, prayer is protected under the First Amendment.
02:05:56.000But by the way, critical race theory is just their prayer.
02:06:55.000You have to run for the Libertarian Party because then you would actually be getting press coverage and Michael Malice would be the communications director.
02:09:14.000Well, I was, look, I was saying the last time I was on this show, I really believe this, that decentralization, some type of scaling back of the power of the federal government is like, just in a medical sense, the only thing that could save this country.
02:09:29.000Because we are on a suicide mission right now.
02:09:31.000And the culture war and all of this is related to it.
02:09:33.000It's everyone jockeying for a position for who controls the federal government.
02:09:37.000This is why it spikes every four years when it's your president or my president's going to win.
02:10:39.000Have you seen, in your experience with Mines, any advancements in AI writing the code?
02:10:44.000Oh, there was a new AI programming language that could generate programs automatically that MIT just put out, but Yeah, I mean, that's happening.
02:13:19.000can only do what its essentially base program tells it to do, so it might be like, corn is food, corn is cheap, corn takes less energy than other forms of energy, make corn.
02:13:28.000And then one day you go to the store, there's no beef, there's just a bunch of corn.
02:13:33.000thing isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing.
02:13:34.000The problem then is, if that happens over the period of a few generations, people won't realize, and then you'll end up in a future where there's just only corn and other weird products and people are eating, like, protein cubes.
02:13:45.000Because the AI isn't going to do what you want it to do.
02:14:08.000People started cranking out videos of Hitler and the Incredible Hulk singing nursery rhymes together with this weird crappy CGI because it was generating more views.
02:14:17.000Those weren't specifically the videos that were the result of the 10-minute algorithm, but it was because of babies.
02:14:23.000So the YouTube algorithm was like, Tons of, you know, we get way, the largest percentage of views come from this one area.
02:14:30.000They seem to like these themes, promote these videos.
02:14:34.000So then people started auto-generating videos, and the ones that worked on YouTube were insane mishmash of garbage nonsense that made no sense.
02:14:41.000The Hulk in a bikini with a Hitler, but Hitler's actually got boobs, and it's doing, I'm not kidding, it's a real video.
02:14:47.000And there were thousands upon thousands of them.
02:14:49.000So the human thought, people like these things.
02:15:06.000All they knew was this is what was getting traffic.
02:15:09.000No, but I'm saying the people who were making those videos with the Hitler with boobs on them and stuff like that, they were gaming the AI system.
02:15:18.000Go on YouTube and search Finger Family Hitler and you will see this video.
02:15:23.000It's a woman's body with a bikini with Hitler's head with the Incredible Hulk and he's doing Tai Chi and it's singing a nursery rhyme that was recorded by some dude in India into a microphone from the 80s.
02:15:35.000This particular video has like 30 or 40,000, but there was a period... Still more than it deserves.
02:15:40.000There was a period where there were hundreds of millions of these videos because there was a big problem where there was a trend of videos that were like little kids getting injections and urinating at each other because that's what was getting traffic.
02:15:55.000So because of that, That's what YouTube was promoting.
02:15:59.000People made more and more and more of it, which created a feedback loop.
02:16:02.000The more they made, the more views it got, the more it refined into a point where insane stuff dominated YouTube and people were watching this stuff.
02:16:24.000If an article about racism gets X views, and an article about sexism gets Y views, an article about racism and sexism gets X plus Y views, and in some instances it gets XY views, so multiplication, and so YouTube starts promoting whatever has the most keywords in it.
02:16:37.000So when someone would write an article being like, Democratic trans women of color fighting with Republican alt-right neo-Nazis is the fight of our generation, it would get ridiculous amount of clicks, because the algorithm would be like, look at all these keywords!
02:16:50.000Feed it out to all of these people and they would see it.
02:16:54.000So Facebook was dominated absolutely by police brutality videos because it got so much engagement.
02:16:59.000Rage, justice, people would share it being like, I must do something.
02:17:03.000Then we ended up with the past 10 years of intersectionality because BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Vox, Mike all realized that's how you would make money.
02:17:36.000So, uh, anyway, if you haven't already, please smash that like button and become a member at timcast.com.
02:17:42.000We're gonna have, we might have a vlog episode up tomorrow over at youtube.com slash castcastle, because we have two actually, but they're kind of the same, because we just spent the weekend grillin'.
02:17:50.000But, uh, maybe I'll just put them up anyway, because, you know, vlogs are vlogs, and, uh, if you guys want to watch it, you can watch it.
02:17:55.000And then we're gonna be filming again, so more stuff's to come in a couple of weeks.
02:17:58.000We're gonna be going out to the range, I think in about a week, we'll be going to the range for one of the vlogs, and, uh, it'll be fun.
02:18:26.000Oh, my podcast is a part of the problem, and I will, if you're interested in my run for president, I will be speaking at the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus event in Pittsburgh on May 14th next week.
02:19:25.000For those that aren't familiar, we were talking about not getting dragged into these troll arguments where like someone will argue on Twitter.
02:19:32.000And then as soon as you counter their argument, they'll change the subject.
02:19:34.000And then Ian just goes, yeah, don't fight an alligator underwater.
02:19:37.000And I was like, That was very profound.
02:20:47.000We're trying to build like a 40 foot grind rail so that we can do a bunch of silly things on it.
02:20:52.000And I guess now we have to do stupid stuff like, Allison was like we're gonna get a swimming pool and then zipline over it and I'm like I guess Because we got to film something so maybe a volleyball net in the pool.