In this episode, the boys talk about a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Louisville, Kentucky demanding that businesses pay their approved businesses or give 1.5% of their net sales to a non-profit organization. They also talk about the recent mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, and how we should all be better parents.
00:01:11.000I know a lot of people are going to be saying things like, you can't say it's all Black Lives Matter, Tim, and stuff like that, and it's like, what am I supposed to say?
00:01:19.000It's literally Black Lives Matter Louisville going around and doing this, and the scariest thing about it Is that like a dozen or so businesses complied.
00:01:28.000Signing a contract admitting to like systemic racism and being gentrifiers and all this other nonsense.
00:02:50.000You get people who don't know how to tell their kids no, who don't know how to teach their kids discipline, who don't show them how to function as mature, rational adults.
00:03:00.000There's a comic we talked about where it's like, back in the day, the teacher would tell the parents, here's what your kid's doing wrong, and they'd look at the kid and say, what did you do?
00:03:09.000And today, the kid's done something wrong, and they're looking at the teacher saying, what did you do?
00:03:13.000My little snowflake can't do anything wrong.
00:04:44.000Apparently, in June, a bunch of high-ranking Democrats held, and never Trump or Republicans, held a secretive war game where they did like legit war
00:04:55.000game, you know, mock-ups like they would for an actual war, calculating what they thought would occur in the event, uh,
00:05:02.000during the election. Just during the election.
00:05:04.000Okay. They came up with four scenarios. In only one of them does Donald Trump win, and
00:05:09.000in all of them, there's street violence and chaos.
00:05:14.000So we got this article from Ben Smith in the New York Times, and I don't think Ben realized what he wrote and how scary it is.
00:05:23.000Very early in his article, because he's talking about like, oh, the media is, you know, concerned and the election is going to be crazy.
00:05:28.000But in the beginning, he writes that there's near panic among the nerds, the people who track elections, saying, no, none of these state election boards know how they're going to count or even tally votes.
00:05:40.000They're still counting the votes in New York.
00:05:57.000One of the scenarios, I guess, is that the House votes to approve Joe Biden for a win, the Senate and the courts approve Trump, and then here's the crazy thing about it.
00:06:09.000John Podesta from the Clinton campaign, longtime Clinton ally, high-ranking Democrat, one of the top Democrats, was running this war game as Biden, and he shocked everybody by saying, there's no way I can concede this under any circumstance.
00:06:25.000So he actually, in this scenario, encouraged swing states to send faithless electors to support Biden no matter what, and then encouraged the entire West Coast to secede from the Union.
00:06:37.000Now, you could say that these people are playing a war game.
00:06:42.000It's not necessarily going to be true.
00:06:43.000It's entirely possible that the elections swing so hard for Trump.
00:07:05.000But they're basically playing this game where when it came down to it, they were like, we would rather have civil war That's because he's messing all their plans up.
00:08:24.000She goes into a long detail about the company, just drives ratings, she doesn't like how the business is being run, and she opens this article about why she's quitting, about how it was hard to do so, and it felt radical, but she's gotta do it.
00:08:35.000And I wanna give a pseudo-standing ovation, because, I say pseudo because I'm sitting in my chair in a podcast room, right?
00:10:00.000So the initial story was that a group of Black Lives Matter activists are going around downtown Louisville accusing these people of being gentrifiers.
00:10:13.000And because of that, they have to pay hard cash.
00:10:16.000A bunch of businesses agreed to put up this contract in their windows.
00:10:21.000Dear Nulu Business... Not this one specifically, there's like... It might be this one, but there's other ones, a list of demands specifically.
00:10:28.000They want them to admit that their gentrification is an oppressive system targeting black folks for 400 years.
00:10:56.000Some of the demands requested by Black Lives Matter protesters included that NULU businesses adequately represent Louisville's black population by having a minimum of 23% black staff.
00:11:08.000They don't write it out, but no, they want front-facing.
00:11:10.000They said specifically that if someone walks in, they want front-facing staff, so you'll see who's working there.
00:11:16.000They said they want a purchasing minimum of 23% inventory from black retailers or donating 1.5% of net sales to a local black nonprofit or organization and requiring diversity and inclusion training for all staff members on a bi-annual basis.
00:12:27.000He absolutely believes in social justice and civil rights.
00:12:31.000But the only thing they can do is, that's the only weapon they have.
00:12:35.000There's a tweet going around saying that the left is really good at semantics.
00:12:41.000They change the definition of words and they name themselves things that make it really hard to argue against for dumb people, like Black Lives Matter.
00:12:52.000If you oppose this group of people threatening small businesses and demanding money, otherwise they have a list of repercussions for non-compliance, then you must not think Black Lives Matter.
00:13:16.000They're extorting businesses for money.
00:13:17.000And you know how much I'd be willing to bet the cops aren't gonna do anything about it.
00:13:21.000As we've seen with the expansion of morality policing, the mayor of Louisville is now saying that he thinks they should declare racism a public health crisis.
00:13:30.000Well, if that's true, you can't go around arresting the people who are going to solve that problem, now can you?
00:13:37.000So you got Antifa, but that just means anti-fascist.
00:13:41.000While they go around giving explosives to people to start fires, blow things up, and beat people, If you say anything bad about him, you're pro-fascist.
00:14:18.000No, but because Antifa thinks, you know, from their perspective, Antifa just means opposed to fascism.
00:14:22.000That means the LAPD was admitting they were fascists, when in reality the tweet was entirely fake.
00:14:28.000There's a thread from Zach Goldberg going through a bunch of data points, and one of them is that the left is substantially more likely to have been diagnosed with mental health issues.
00:15:32.000Meaning that there is a point where it's like, you go off into the deep end.
00:15:36.000But one of the things he also pointed out was that the left is, has a really, a much higher index of depression.
00:15:41.000And once you go towards the right, depression goes away.
00:15:44.000Like, happiness and general life satisfaction goes way up.
00:15:48.000Which makes me start to think something about what we see with like, what Black Lives Matter is doing, with what Antifa does and how they name their groups and then get away with this stuff.
00:15:57.000I see from so many people, we mentioned this, that they just screenshot Facebook posts, they'll screenshot tweets, and that's their news, and they'll share these things.
00:16:05.000And I've, like, I can't tell you how many times I've seen a bunch of these posts where they're like, if you're upset that someone's getting $600 a week in unemployment, then maybe, you know, these companies should be paying them more.
00:16:19.000And I'm like, okay, the unemployment was a 100% guarantee plus $600.
00:16:25.000So no matter how much they were making, they were still getting more money.
00:16:28.000And so I've gone probably through like 50 posts where I see these pop up and I just like type it really quick, like, here's the thing, here's the thing, here's the thing, here's the thing.
00:16:36.000But it's all they keep doing to share this information.
00:16:39.000I think what we're seeing is not that liberals or leftists are more likely to be mentally ill.
00:16:45.000It's that mentally ill people are more likely to be leftist.
00:16:49.000Because they believe fake news, they believe these fake memes, these fake tweets, these fake posts, and then you end up with moderates and conservatives and non-mentally ill liberals who all fall under one tent saying, like, we oppose this kind of behavior.
00:17:03.000But if you get a group that says, you know, their name is Black Lives Matter, and a regular person can understand the distinction between that doesn't literally mean they think that, especially when there have been several people who have lost their lives who have been black during the riots and they said nothing about it, or that Antifa literally, you know, just because you call yourself the good guys doesn't mean you're the good guys, Whether you're a liberal, a moderate or conservative, you can understand those concepts.
00:17:27.000If you're not all with it, you probably can't.
00:17:30.000And you get your information from memes.
00:17:33.000And if it's, if it's beyond just like a diagnosed mental illness, and it's literally somebody who's just like, like a bunch of low IQ people, then they're not going to be able to sort through this stuff.
00:17:42.000And they're just going to be forming angry mobs, which is literally what they're doing.
00:18:13.000I think a lot of them know that they're lying about being victims.
00:18:17.000And I think it's like narcissistic personality disorder, borderline, you know, histrionic, all of this like really just aggressive and angry.
00:18:28.000And so they're going around and threatening people with the weapon they've been handed.
00:19:00.000I, as a business owner in the gentrified Nulu business district, understand that gentrification targets poor and disadvantaged communities of color, and as such, I acknowledge that the original residents—here we go, my business has played a part in this—that the community members were replaced, that many of the original residents were repatriated.
00:19:19.000I am therefore committing to, you know, fix things.
00:19:22.000And then they say, To correct this lack of representation, I commit to increasing black representation in my business operations, and this shall include, this is where they say, you know, staff and management positions, you know, for black employees, buying from black vendors, or giving 1.5% of our monthly annual profits.
00:19:42.00023% of black businesses in board membership in the NuLu Business Association.
00:19:45.000Here's my favorite, uh, here's my favorite part.
00:19:48.000They mention, uh, I can't search through this.
00:19:51.000One of the things they say is that you have to submit, that we demand you submit to a voluntary audit.
00:20:55.000Public boycott coordinated through social media and mail announcements of your NuLu establishment and any other business ventures owned by you.
00:21:09.000Placement of booths and tables outside your establishment where competing black proprietors will offer items comparable to those offered by you.
00:21:31.000Like what would it be called if like a bunch of Mormons walked around and they like went to business to business, but instead of being polite and happy with smiles on their face, they had like bats and they were like, give, donate to the church or else.
00:21:48.000So we were talking the other day and I was like, I said the police will come to your house and knock on the door and say you can't play rap music anymore.
00:22:46.000So now, here's what I... I don't think the police will do anything about it.
00:22:50.000You can have everybody in the world tweet about it, but we've already seen... I do not see the police crossing, you know, these activists, or extremists, or whatever you want to call it, mafiosos.
00:23:03.000They're just going to keep doing what they're doing.
00:24:08.000And now they're like, irony, they're laughing, haha, he stood for the national anthem, stuff like that.
00:24:14.000But when it happens, you can see the other people wearing the Black Lives Matter sweaters.
00:24:18.000They, you know, they run in and they're like, concerned about him.
00:24:22.000I think that, that to me was, was like, you know, a good sign that even these dudes who are, you know, clearly doing two different kind of movements or whatever still recognize their friends and all that.
00:24:30.000But based on how we've seen the treatment of Herman Cain, when he passed, versus John Lewis, when you see what happens to this NBA player, the media, like, listen.
00:24:40.000The Courier-Journal, of course, is talking about the story.
00:25:04.000And I guess at the very, the tail end, there was like four or five anti-Back the Blue, you know, Black Lives Matter, yelling Black Lives Matter at them.
00:25:14.000And then they got violent and they sent SWAT in there and took them out.
00:25:55.000Well, let's see if Louisville does it.
00:25:56.000I mean, the mayor is clearly supporting this weird intersectional identity stuff.
00:26:01.000But, you know, to be fair, too, I want to make sure we clarify, when they say the media won't cover it, it typically refers to national-level media.
00:26:09.000Like, Brian Stelter on CNN goes on his show and he goes, and there it is!
00:26:14.000More proof of dictator Donald Trump, or some other stupid nonsense.
00:26:18.000Because Trump tweeted about delaying the election, question mark?
00:26:22.000And I tweeted, I'm like, Trump tweeted.
00:26:25.000The governor of New Jersey had small business owners arrested for trying to open their gym in a sleepy suburb.
00:26:32.000So you want to talk to me about who's a dictator, who's a fascist, whatever?
00:27:21.000But the mainstream large news outlets have been totally co-opted by the far left.
00:27:25.000So this is the important thing to realize when people talk about the mainstream media is that there's clearly left-wing media, there's clearly right-wing media, and then there's establishment corporate media that is dominated entirely by far-left ideology or at least bends the knee to it.
00:27:42.000We're just going to make things really, really interesting as we move now into an election, because we have this New York Times article from Ben Smith.
00:28:10.000Yeah, I mean, I guess weird isn't what I would use, the term.
00:28:16.000Well, I always assumed that, like, the official reporting coming in to the news outlets was that they would hear from, like, the state election board saying, we've confirmed this is the results.
00:28:44.000And they do call the election boards, but ultimately it's just like they're not certified results.
00:28:49.000And so what ends up happening is we had the very famous 2000 moment where Fox News called Florida for George Bush, but then everyone said he didn't.
00:28:56.000And they were like, wait, what happened?
00:28:57.000And then Al Gore rescinded his concession.
00:29:00.000And then it went to the courts and then Bush won.
00:29:02.000Because the media is telling us who won.
00:30:06.000So what's really interesting is actually this column from Ben Smith over at the New York Times, how the media would get the election story wrong.
00:30:15.000We may not know the results for days and maybe weeks, so it's time to rethink election night.
00:30:21.000I don't think there's going to be an election night or even election month.
00:30:24.000Right now in New York City, they're still trying to count the mail-in ballots from six weeks ago, and they don't know who won these primaries.
00:30:36.000Sounds like there's something fishy with mail-in ballots.
00:30:39.000But take a look at how the column ends, and then we'll talk about what this means in terms of these scenarios.
00:30:46.000Conveniently, a group of former top government officials called the Transition Integrity Project actually gamed four possible scenarios, including one that doesn't look that different from 2016, a big popular win for Mr. Biden, and a narrow electoral defeat, presumably reached after weeks of counting the votes in Pennsylvania.
00:31:04.000For their war game, they cast John Podesta, who was Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, in the role of Mr. Biden.
00:31:09.000They expected him, when the votes came in, to concede, just as Mrs. Clinton had.
00:31:17.000Mr. Podesta, playing Biden, shocked the organizers by saying he felt his party wouldn't let him concede.
00:31:23.000Alleging voter suppression, he persuaded the governors of Wisconsin and Michigan to send pro-Biden electors to the Electoral College, presumably at odds with what the results actually were.
00:31:34.000In that scenario, California, Oregon, and Washington then threatened to secede from the United States if Mr. Trump took office as planned.
00:33:38.000It's like there's there's only 350 million Americans.
00:33:41.000It could be something like Trump gets 64 million and they're like you know or because of mail-in voting it would go it would be split between Trump and Biden but they'll be like 50 million votes cast for Trump and 40 million for Biden It looks like it should be a landslide, but we still have mail-in ballots, so we're not going to call it tonight.
00:33:58.000And then every week Biden gets, you know, three or four million and Trump gets like a half a million.
00:34:04.000And then in the span of like three or four weeks, all of a sudden Joe Biden is now the winner.
00:34:10.000And then no matter what happens, Trump's like, where are these ballots coming from?
00:34:31.000I often talk about how I was wrong in 2018.
00:34:34.000Maybe I wasn't, depending on how conspiratorial you want to get.
00:34:38.000So I thought the Republicans were going to dominate.
00:34:40.000They controlled every branch of everything, basically.
00:34:42.000And I was like, considering this insanity that we're seeing in the press and cancel culture, I can't imagine that, you know, the House would flip, you know, this blue wave would really hit.
00:34:52.000Conservatives basically won, for the most part, in the initial reporting.
00:34:56.000And then I made a video saying it was a red wave, there was no blue wave.
00:35:00.000But then over the next several days to a week or whatever, new votes just started popping in.
00:35:05.000And then all of a sudden, the race just started flipping in favor of Democrats.
00:35:09.000Trump said that this would happen, and basically, I don't know the exact tweets he put out, but something alluding to, you know, interference, fraud or whatever.
00:35:21.000But then when they all won, no one of the Republicans tried to stop it.
00:35:25.000It just accepted it as, you know, that's what happened.
00:35:28.000And then, of course, the Democrats with their new House majority tried to impeach the president and then started doing a whole bunch of, you know, insane, insane stuff like Adam Schiff.
00:35:38.000Published private details of an American journalist without a warrant.
00:36:00.000Take a look at this from the New York Times.
00:36:02.000They say, Ben Smith writes, I spoke last week to executives, TV hosts, and election analysts across leading American newsrooms, and I was struck by the blithe confidence among some top managers and hosts who generally said they've handled complicated elections before and can do so again.
00:36:18.000And I was alarmed by the near panic among some of the people paying close attention.
00:36:23.000The analysts and producers trying and often failing to get answers from state election officials about how and when they will count the ballots and report results.
00:36:32.000The nerds are freaking out, said Brandon Finnegan, the founder of Decision Desk HQ, which delivers election results to media outlets.
00:36:39.000I don't think it's penetrated enough in the average viewer's mind that there's not going to be an election night.
00:36:45.000The usual razzmatazz of a panel sitting around discussing election results, that's dead.
00:36:51.000So, uh, how many buildings are going to get burned down on November 4th?
00:36:56.000I mean, I was just in Philadelphia yesterday and half of the buildings I was, I mean, I was driving down the street, half the buildings were boarded up.
00:37:04.000They all had, you know, Black Lives Matter stuff written on the outside of the boards.
00:37:10.000And all I can see is like, man, they're just pleading not to burn their business down.
00:39:10.000In fact, when it came to the dude in Louisville who's being extorted, they actually came out attacking the business owner for trying to resist the extortion attempt.
00:39:18.000Has anyone from the parent organization condemned the extortion going on in Louisville?
00:39:27.000In which case, the conversation needs to be put forth that Black Lives Matter needs to stop the violence, the explosives, the weapons, and there's even NAACP leaders calling this out.
00:39:39.000In Oregon specifically, there's one guy who was saying that this whole event has become a white spectacle.
00:39:45.000It was supposed to be about Black Lives Matter, and now they've just taken the whole thing over.
00:39:48.000Numerous black activist leaders have been saying that the far left has co-opted Black Lives Matter.
00:39:55.000Now you have overt Marxism and the far left engaging in violence.
00:40:00.000They're not flying the Antifa flag anymore.
00:40:27.000The media establishes the narrative to explain what happened.
00:40:31.000He then goes on to talk about how this resulted in, you know, 2000 with Gore V. Bush and all that stuff.
00:40:35.000And then he basically brings up the point that they don't know what's going to happen.
00:40:39.000Many of these people have not woken up to the fact that there's not going to be an election.
00:40:47.000A lot of the people who work at say like CNN and MSNBC and all that seem to think that the companies that provide them data are able and ready and they're not.
00:40:54.000So I can only imagine that you're gonna see like Wolf Blitzer standing there and he's gonna be like, no data coming in and we're five hours in.
00:41:01.000Still no data, and then it's like 4 in the morning and it's like 0% across the board, nothing, nothing happens.
00:41:36.000You know, I was thinking about, we talk a lot about the potential for war and stuff, and maybe we can talk about this in a bit, like in a fuller segment, but I was curious, like, We've got people decentralizing our economy by leaving cities.
00:41:49.000We've got people buying weapons, people buying gold, people buying stocks.
00:41:54.000And interestingly, it's like these things would greatly benefit us in a war.
00:42:00.000But the other thing I realized, too, is that with the economy taking a massive hit, I wonder if we're going to reach every enlistment goal for every branch of the armed forces.
00:42:23.000So while we're talking about media, I want to use this opportunity to jump to the next bit because, you know, when it comes to extortion, when it comes to the media, when it comes to the lies, man, this story right here.
00:42:34.000This is just like a personal blog for Ariana N. Picari.
00:42:38.000Personal news, why I'm now leaving MSNBC.
00:42:59.000I did work, but they didn't like what I was producing.
00:43:01.000So I worked for a company that was a joint venture between ABC News and Univision, and they did not like the content I was doing because they wanted to do social justice.
00:43:24.000I was like, the idea I had for a good documentary series was to take a look at video games and movies that have concepts, and then produce documentaries around the concepts, so you have like a non-fiction version that explores the ideas.
00:43:37.000So, when Fallout 4 was coming out, I was like, why don't we go to, you know, Fukushima, we'll call it Fallout from Fukushima, and then when everyone's really excited about this video game, we'll have like a, hey, here's the real world, you can learn some facts, and it worked out really well.
00:45:48.000It forces skilled journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.
00:45:52.000You may not watch MSNBC, but just know that this problem still affects you, too.
00:45:58.000All the commercial networks function the same, and no doubt that content seeps into your social media feed one way or the other.
00:46:05.000It's possible that I'm more sensitive to the editorial process due to my background in public radio, where no decision I ever witnessed was predicated on how a topic or a guest would rate.
00:46:15.000The longer I was at MSNBC, the more I saw such choices.
00:46:19.000It's practically baked into the editorial process, and those decisions affect news content every day.
00:46:25.000Likewise, it's taboo to discuss how the rating scheme distorts content or it's simply taken for granted.
00:46:31.000Because everyone in the commercial broadcast news industry is doing the exact same thing.
00:46:37.000But behind closed doors, industry leaders will admit the damage that's being done.
00:47:51.000But there's a big difference between, you know, for my content, a dude who reads the news and talks about his opinion and tries to make sure, you know, I'm telling you what I think is reasonable and honest to the best of my abilities as kind of a, you know, independent, left-leaning, you know, kind of person.
00:48:06.000And then you have, for this show, a small group of people just opining on cultural issues in politics and talking about the election coming up.
00:48:14.000When you compare those things, the big difference to, say, MSNBC is an editorial boss who says, no, I know you care about that story, Adam.
00:48:22.000We're not going to run with it because it's not going to do well for the show.
00:48:25.000I want to talk about space, but we're going to talk about space so that we actually have spacex ready
00:48:30.000You know yeah, so we're going to talk about like spacex and stuff and there have been segments
00:48:34.000We've done. I can't remember which segment. We did didn't do all that well, and it was because something we wanted to
00:48:38.000talk about But that's the thing when you're an individual and you're
00:48:41.000like here's stuff I care about and I want to talk about this and people like
00:48:45.000listening to what you say about these certain topics. You'll do well
00:48:48.000But then if you look at YouTube guess what?
00:48:51.000YouTube, where all of this political commentary exists, is not unified.
00:48:55.000If you watch, you know, Steven Crowder, you're gonna get a conservative opinion.
00:48:58.000You watch Tim Pool, you're gonna get a more moderate opinion.
00:49:01.000You watch Kyle Kalinske, you'll get a progressive opinion.
00:49:07.000You turn it on at any given point, or you go to their website, and you have a bunch of different political opinions.
00:49:12.000That's what happens when YouTube and Facebook or whatever, I'm not a big fan of these big tech companies, but when they allow individuals to create content, you end up with independent editorial decisions.
00:49:23.000And I'll talk to people who say they watch me, they watch Crowder, and Jimmy Dore.
00:49:49.000She says, As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis.
00:49:55.000The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events at the expense of others, all because it pumps up the ratings.
00:50:06.000This cancer risks human lives, even in the middle of a pandemic.
00:50:10.000The primary focus quickly became what Donald Trump was doing poorly to address the crisis, rather than the science itself.
00:50:18.000As new details have become available about antibodies, a vaccine, or how COVID actually spreads, producers still want to focus on the politics.
00:50:26.000Important facts or studies get buried.
00:50:28.000This cancer risks our democracy, even in the middle of a presidential election.
00:50:32.000Any discussion about the election usually focuses on Donald Trump, not Joe Biden.
00:51:05.000But another hard truth is that it is the job of journalists to teach and inform, which means they might need to figure out a better way to do that.
00:51:13.000They could contemplate more creative methods for captivating an audience.
00:51:16.000Just about anything would improve the current process, which can be pretty rudimentary.
00:51:20.000Think basing today's content on whatever rated well yesterday, or look to see what's trending online today.
00:51:26.000She did make a good point, though, about that education.
00:51:45.000I guess I should say, to clarify, I don't think schools will work.
00:51:49.000I'm not convinced that, without some kind of radical, absolute deconstruction of the entire system, and reforming in a totally radical and different way, I am 100% opposed to institutionalized learning facilities, which separate kids from their parents so they don't learn from their parents, puts them under the care of people who typically don't care about them, and then sends them off to colleges where you get a bunch of radical lunatics who don't actually work in their field.
00:52:36.000If someone was supposed to learn how to run a media business or be a producer in a media company, would they be better served spending all of their time in school and going to college for it, or literally just sitting across the room from us right now, every time we do a show?
00:53:17.000Like, sure, you can give your opinion on, you know, the morality of objective versus subjective blah blah blah, ethics and all that, but do you even know the fact?
00:53:42.000But anyway, that's a whole other conversation.
00:53:45.000Let's go back to ranting about the media.
00:53:48.000She says, Occasionally, the producers will choose to do a topic or story without regard for how they think it will rate, but that is the exception, not the rule.
00:53:56.000Due to the simple structure of the industry, the desire to charge more money for commercials, as well as the ratings bonuses that top tier decision makers earn, may always relapse I understand that the journalistic process is largely subjective, and any group of individuals may justify a different set of priorities on any given day.
00:54:16.000Therefore, it's particularly notable to me, for one, that nearly every rundown at the network basically is the same, hour after hour, and two, they use this subjective nature of the news to justify economically beneficial decisions.
00:54:29.000I've even heard producers deny their role as journalists.
00:54:32.000A very capable senior producer once said, our viewers don't really consider us the news, they come to us for comfort.
00:54:46.000I'm sure it's true for a lot of people who come to watch us.
00:54:49.000But, all I can really say is... We... Look, MSNBC has a boss.
00:54:55.000And that boss tells the underlings, who tell their underlings, these stories don't fly at this network.
00:55:01.000We talk about what we think is important, we often pull up the biggest stories of the day, and then we literally just give our feelings about it.
00:55:06.000And often, Adam and I will disagree about it.
00:55:08.000Imagine if, in this show, I was like, Adam, you gotta stop doing that.
00:55:11.000It's better for the ratings if you just say what should be said instead of what you actually think.
00:55:15.000Oh, I'm resisting the urge to give him two middle fingers.
00:56:10.000I think even if I were to make a massive company, were I to maintain editorial control, I'd be like, no, I don't like that story for this reason.
00:56:18.000Why are we, you know, wasting time on these certain things?
00:56:20.000And that's why when it comes to, say, Scanner, which is doing production, I tell them, you pick, you do what you want to do.
00:56:26.000And I think that's the best I can say for as how I'm trying to do things differently to stop this.
00:56:30.000We've got Scanner, if you're not familiar, and they're off producing stuff, and the most I can do is like, why would you guys do this and that, huh?
00:57:03.000If we can figure out how to send a man to the moon, if Alex Trebek can defy the odds with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and if Harry Reid can actually overcome pancreatic cancer, he's now cancer free, then we can fix this.
00:57:15.000Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it's faced.
00:57:21.000I know James Baldwin wasn't thinking about MSNBC when he wrote that line in 1962.
00:57:26.000But those words spoke loudly to me in the summer of 2020.
00:57:29.000Unfortunately, many of the same ailments are still at stake today.
00:57:33.000Now, maybe we can't really change the inherently broken structure of broadcast news, but I know for certain that it won't change unless we actually face it in public and at least try to change it.
00:58:05.000She says, though this pandemic and the surreal alienating lockdown, through this pandemic, I've witnessed many people question their lives and what they're doing with their time on this planet.
00:58:13.000I reckon I'm one of those people looking for greater meaning and truth.
00:58:17.000As much as I love my life in New York, In New York City, and really don't want to leave?
00:58:21.000I feel fortunate to be able to return to Virginia in the near term to reconnect with family, friends, and a community of independent journalists.
00:58:28.000I am both nervous and excited about this change.
00:58:30.000Thanks to COVID-19, I'm learning to live with uncertainty.
00:58:34.000And so very soon, I'm going to be seeking you out.
00:58:37.000Any one of you who also may sense that the news is fundamentally flawed and is frustrated by it.
00:58:42.000This effort will start informally, but I hope to crystallize a plan for when better, safer days are upon us.
00:58:48.000On that front, feel free to reach out anytime if you would like to discuss any of this.
00:58:52.000Whether in agreement or not, more than ever, I'm craving full and civil discourse.
00:58:56.000Until next time, thank you for reading.
00:59:04.000Bill Maher recently ran a segment where they were wishing for civil discourse.
00:59:09.000They were complaining about the far-left cancel culture, and now we're starting to see more and more.
00:59:14.000So I know Bill Maher has called us out, but we're starting to see more and more people are challenging the far-left, the anti-discourse narrative, and they're challenging how the media is fueling into this.
01:00:39.000They're going to say racism is a public health crisis.
01:00:41.000Therefore, hate speech must be suppressed.
01:00:44.000Any news, any science, any information that would be bad for our cohesion must be suppressed.
01:00:50.000Well, I mean, in that same argument, you could talk about the doctors that say they've made a breakthrough in helping people get through COVID-19.
01:00:59.000And they're suppressing... And they're suppressing that, and that's the exact opposite of what you just said, so I mean... We have the Yale MD-PhD... What's his name?
01:03:04.000It's about the truth, bringing the truth to the table and showing that to the people, because the people are the people who decide.
01:03:10.000If you had somehow definitive proof that Joe Biden was Kang from The Simpsons, an alien invader, and by revealing it, it would completely destabilize and result in chaos.
01:03:25.000But if you don't, and he wins, then aliens take over.
01:03:28.000Like, you've got two potentially bad scenarios.
01:03:30.000You make a decision, yourself, about which one you think is the betterment of society, right?
01:03:35.000That's an extreme example, but I would want the people to know the truth!
01:03:39.000A better example would say, like, collateral murder.
01:03:46.000A video released by WikiLeaks that shows the US killing Reuters journalists.
01:03:51.000They editorialized the title, Collateral Murder, but it shows like, I guess it's been a long time, it's been like a decade, but it's like an Apache helicopter and they see people walking so they just shoot them and they die.
01:04:01.000And there's a real decision about whether or not to release that information because it could destabilize, cause massive protests, economic destruction, harm to people's business and lives.
01:04:12.000And so there are, there literally are journalists who are like, I can see this, we better not talk about it because the repercussions will be devastating to the American public and it won't better anything.
01:04:21.000But there are other people, like Julian Assange, who would say no, that people have a right to know what their government is doing in their name.
01:04:26.000Both would think that their position is the right position.
01:04:30.000It does come down to the subjective morality of the individual who wants to publish the information.
01:04:35.000And yet when we have news sources on the left side that people are now quitting because they can't even stand that being in the, you know, working for these people, but then people on the right that are trying to push the truth out there, getting banned from everything, getting squashed, getting canceled, you know, so now it's only okay to just talk about this left stuff, which we're finding out people don't even want to do that anymore.
01:04:59.000They realize that it's a cancer to society.
01:05:02.000So it's not for the benefit of anyone.
01:05:05.000You know, so they've decided on their own without the rest of the people discussing it.
01:05:12.000You know, they're just making these decisions on their own with all the power behind them.
01:05:45.000It's interesting when you see that these far leftists, their ideology only exists under the presumption of these people that they're white supremacists.
01:05:54.000So they talk about whiteness and all of these things, but the perspective of the intersectional left is the perspective of a white supremacist.
01:08:45.000But I'll tell you what, I can recognize when you have someone like Greta Thunberg, Come out and say, oh actually I don't have the audio turned on for that anyway.
01:09:06.000It has nothing to do with actually making the world a better place.
01:09:08.000And she's not smart enough, and I don't mean this to disrespect her, she's a kid.
01:09:12.000And she doesn't know how the world works.
01:09:14.000So she saw a commercial about a starving polar bear probably and then goes outside saying, this is bad.
01:09:18.000And everyone's like, aw, and they pat her on the head, they fly around the world because it fits their political agenda, and she has no idea what she's talking about.
01:09:24.000She doesn't even write her own speeches, though.
01:09:26.000She's being pushed forward by all these, you know, activists that are trying to push this narrative that the Western civilization is who's destroying the world, but it's like, no, we're actually on the forefront of showing, like, new environmental protections and curbing back everything.
01:10:16.000No, I won't break it down for you because I don't fully grasp it.
01:10:19.000The general idea is that if people were sitting in a cave, and there was a fire behind them, and there were shadows, and they were chained there, and that's the only thing they've ever seen, that to them, that's what the world is.
01:10:31.000But then outside the cave is this big, you know, other world and all these things they never experienced and never even realized existed.
01:12:28.000It wasn't like, you know, some, like a couple people crawled out of a cave and they were like, Capitalism, and they started trading money.
01:12:34.000The concept of money was just, there was no idea it existed.
01:12:37.000In fact, there's probably a whole bunch of civic ideas, methodologies for running countries that we don't know about right now, and we will develop in a hundred years.
01:12:48.000They're gonna be like the Gerbo department, and they're gonna be like, oh, go down to the Gerbo department to pick up the resources you need.
01:12:55.000And they're going to be like, man, could you imagine before there was a Gerbo department?
01:12:59.000And right now we're like, I don't even know what that is.
01:13:00.000I just made up a word, but there could literally be something that in the future is totally normal to them.
01:13:06.000I can't wait for the Gerbo department.
01:13:37.000It's like, it's one thing to realize, hey, we invented the light bulb at some point.
01:13:40.000Then we invented the light-emitting diode, and now we have crazy lights all over the place that can change colors and be voice-activated.
01:13:46.000And they also don't realize that capitalism, the concepts of it, was literally, like, formulated by someone thinking and being like, hmm, interesting, here are some interesting ideas.
01:14:02.000And now people have them and take them for granted.
01:14:06.000And because of this, they're not smart enough to recognize, like, the importance of the Revolutionary War.
01:14:11.000Anyway, the point is why I brought all this up.
01:14:13.000Imagine if you took a kid who only ever lived in a white room and the only problem they ever had was that if they ate too many of the grapes that were given to them, they would get sprayed with water.
01:14:25.000To them, they would be like arguing with other kids being like, how can we change this system?
01:14:30.000It is so bad when we get sprayed by water for having too many grapes.
01:14:51.000Go buy some grapes or grow some grapes.
01:14:53.000This is the example of the reason I use something as absurd as like someone going to the UN saying stop hosing me if I eat too many grapes is because it sounds insane.
01:17:41.000And it was like that for a month, and then finally, you know, your communication came in.
01:17:45.000You're like, oh, so that's what's happening on the war front.
01:17:47.000And you'd fill out your response, and then go back to doing your day-to-day thing.
01:17:50.000It was really, really simple, with politics being few and far between.
01:17:56.000But now that we have, we've rapid, you know, rapid transit, rapid communications, It's, it's like we are truly becoming a hive mind, you know, for better or for worse.
01:18:05.000And we're, we're, we're learning how to be that because it's, it's very rocky right now, but you can see that we are, we are all becoming so connected and it's, it's going to be rocky for a little while longer until we truly understand, you know, the, what the implications of, of everyone else being so connected really does.
01:19:56.000If Biden wins, Yep, yep, and so that's that's the big fight is because the way the communications technology is Uniting the world culturally.
01:20:05.000Yeah, and the speed at which information and and travel technology, you know, and you know transport can get us places We're homogenizing this planet very very quickly true.
01:21:03.000What we need to make sure is that the culture that ends up, you know, the cultural ideas that persist and survive are ones of individual liberty.
01:21:11.000Because if we end up with this massive system of Benveni or else religious doctrine and we have a fundamentalist global society, it will be a nightmare for everybody and it will fall apart and more importantly it will completely collapse on itself.
01:23:03.000I'm so psyched to have him in this country doing what he's doing that
01:23:07.000Donald Trump, you know, brought the Artemis program into effect.
01:23:11.000You know, we're going to go to the moon, you know, potentially in the next three years, four years.
01:23:16.000It's like we're gonna go to the moon We're planning on going to Mars like this is exciting.
01:23:20.000This is such an exciting time for human life and there's a it's awesome and There's a reason why I started this segment with a story saying we're facing catastrophic disaster.
01:23:31.000Because there is a real reason that we need the Artemis Project, why we need people like Elon Musk.
01:23:39.000And it's because if we are to survive, we need to look to the stars, we need to expand.
01:23:42.000And even outside of this idea of colonizing other planets or expanding, space technology and development, this technology we develop for space travel, we use here on Earth.
01:23:57.000This is like the silliest part of like what I want to talk about with this, what the SpaceX, the whole Dragon capsule working and what it means for America.
01:25:15.000That's awesome Yeah, I think they would eat you somebody approached a black bear.
01:25:21.000Yes to put a Trump 2020 sticker on the collar I mean, I feel like they're This is not this is not the important news If you want to talk about SpaceX, yeah, I mean we went back to space at under $2 million per flight is insane compared to the $30,
01:25:43.000$40 million it costs that we were paying Russia to send our astronauts into space.
01:25:48.000So the fact that we can do it for a pittance compared to what we were spending, now we
01:26:08.000You've done an amazing job of bringing Bob and Doug back to the country, to Earth.
01:26:15.000to terra firma and it's it's an incredible time to see that this is this stage now he's working on a spaceship that's one unit that will fly up and fly around and come back down to earth wow yeah i mean he told you you to your tweet you know what's our shit yeah what's up
01:26:32.000with the iron man suit you on and now i tweeted that
01:26:35.000hate you on musk why haven't you got an iron man suit yet yeah and he said
01:26:38.000working on starship yeah and i said that is an acceptable response so he's doing
01:26:42.000it and i think that they're they're doing tests this week about trying to
01:26:45.000figure out to actually make that happens so so so this ship
01:27:34.000You've got to think of the two companies that he's using.
01:27:37.000SpaceX, which is what we're talking about, and then Tesla, which is an electric powered vehicle factory that he's, you know, and you think about the advancements of solar energy, batteries, you know, there's only a matter of time before they figure out some sort of new technology that gets us into space without any sort of propellant.
01:28:12.000But there's a magnetic slingshot, actually, and it's basically just a mag system that shoots you out into above orbit so you can break orbit.
01:28:23.000Exactly a railgun so that's that I think that's gonna be kind of the future because if we set up like a Nice solid railgun system.
01:28:31.000I mean, I think you need to get to like 200 miles So if we used magnets to propel us and then with a little bit of a rocket assistance You know to get us the rest of the way.
01:28:44.000Yeah, you know, I'm not a rocket scientist So I'm just saying I think it's like the the size of a ship you need to carry all the fuel Yeah, especially for a landing A full vessel?
01:29:16.000And I mean, I see this whole thing about how, well, Elon Musk praised China and it's like, yeah, because like they are trying to push into space also.
01:29:26.000They're trying to, you know, push forward that this, their kids, the number one thing that they answered on what Chinese children, not political, the children of China, that they haven't done anything wrong yet.
01:29:39.000They want to be scientists when they grow up.
01:31:30.000I don't have really strong words of criticism, nor do I have strong words of praise for him.
01:31:34.000I can criticize him for it, but I can understand that there absolutely are parts of China and things that the Chinese people do that are awesome, that you can be happy with.
01:31:42.000But I'm not going to say I'm happy with Elon Musk saying that, especially as wealthy as he is.
01:32:11.000So the reason why I say I'm a bit tepid on it is if there's something about the hard work of the Chinese people working towards space advancement, that's a fine thing.
01:32:20.000But I would lean negative if I knew the fuller details.
01:32:24.000I don't think we should be at a point where we're praising what China as a whole is doing because the CCP runs everything they're doing.
01:32:34.000So this is the title of this is Elon Musk bombshell tech boss warns a complacent and entitled US is losing to China and that was the force of his message.
01:32:44.000He was talking about China being efficient and effective and the US just being entitled.
01:32:50.000It's like someone's been selling out our country for the past 20 years to China.
01:32:54.000It's like the media took him out of context when the idea he was trying to convey was, they're doing a really good job in these areas and we're losing to them.
01:33:04.000So saying something like, dude, the U.S.
01:33:05.000sucks and when it comes to space, China's awesome.
01:34:37.000I don't know if he was, who he was, if he was a Trump supporter or not, but the InfoWars girl was like, let's go talk to the Trump supporters, you know, and they're like, go ahead, set it up.
01:37:19.000New ways of producing treatments, new treatments, new technologies that will reduce the cost for everything and mass production.
01:37:25.000Well, it's not just that we even need to do all this with science.
01:37:29.000We have to create a way that it is exciting for children.
01:37:34.000You know, make heroes out of astronauts and scientists and doctors and You know these these people that are gonna are the ones that are actually paving the way to a future that you know Everyone who doesn't want to live with wealth, you know with wealth and you know Living comfortably in your life, you know, so we have to understand the kids need to glorify
01:38:01.000You know, going into space, being excited about figuring out how to figure out new rocket propulsion, you know, ways that we're going to get there instead of them going, I want to be an influencer.
01:38:21.000So, not only do we need all these programs that are great, like, sure, it's getting us there, but if we don't have, like, the backing of the new generations that are excited about it, that have a passion in it, then it's not gonna go anywhere.
01:38:36.000This is the fear I have, is that we've been on a track towards, like, we've been on the back end of the bell curve for quite some time.
01:38:44.000It's lasted longer than the average empire, whatever you want to call it.
01:38:48.000And now we have new generations of young people who aren't aspiring to be legends, to be heroes, to be astronauts, to be explorers and pioneers.
01:38:57.000They just want people to look at their face.
01:39:48.000But when you look at kids who don't understand, because they're born with it, they see this cool convertible and it looks like a rock star.
01:40:11.000It created a historical moment, a pop culture moment, it caught the attention of people.
01:40:15.000There's a lot of people who don't care that he launched these dudes into space, at a ridiculously low cost, with new tech, and reused the rockets even, and brought them back.
01:41:43.000Well, and, and the fact that, you know, you, you, your prize at the end of that quest was hanging out with your actual friends in real life.
01:41:52.000Whereas nowadays you just FaceTime somebody.
01:42:39.000I've talked to some people who have insider knowledge and the general consensus is Twitter knows that what drives engagement, what makes people use the platform and makes them worth money, is that count.
01:43:39.000You know, man, if I end up living in a van in the middle of the woods or something down by the river, hunting rabbit and deer and cooking up and farming, I'm not going to be miserable.
01:43:49.000It's like, it reminds like, it's like Thanos, you know, when he finally snaps away half the universe and he gets to go farm and just pick weird little fruits.
01:45:19.000So, sitting here with Tim, you know, unless you know what you're talking about, it's very difficult to be a part of the conversation.
01:45:25.000So, I just dove into the political realm because the show wasn't supposed to be political but it very quickly just turned into current events which happens to be you know it was covid and politics and basically i just started doing all this research and finding out about the president's policies what he was doing what like what they were saying he was doing and you know the whole
01:45:48.000Stop making me defend Trump thing it became more of I just was figuring out who he was and what he was actually doing and then the more I dug the more policies I found and I was like wow I actually really like the things that he's doing for this country like I think he's actually doing a lot of really good things And then it just kind of snowballed into, you know, because we talk about everything that's going on and the Democrats are crazy.
01:46:50.000So the issue is right now the Republicans are shutting up and getting behind Trump to a certain degree and so that doesn't really raise any red flags with me for the most part.
01:47:01.000It certainly does in certain instances like blocking Trump withdrawals and there have been other issues like expanding FISA surveillance stuff, stuff that I've complained about in the past, I'll complain about right now that Republicans have done.
01:47:12.000For the most part they aren't doing anything but Democrats are just off the rails unhinged and the Democratic establishment has
01:47:19.000been taking in the never-Trumper Republican refugees. So it's like the
01:47:22.000Democrats have become the haven for the establishment political base desperate to
01:48:48.000They're doing it because they're like, the jig is up.
01:48:50.000Yeah, Trump is calling them all out for having way too much power and the people don't control the government anymore because the people got complacent and stopped caring about politics.
01:49:27.000He tweeted the Business Insider video about Bezos making, not only Bezos, the four or five people that made a Crazy amount of money over COVID and all the middle class to lower class, everyone else just got shafted.
01:50:13.000When it comes to the narrative about Amazon and taxes, a lot of people, there's no legal way.
01:50:18.000Amazon just goes, we're not going to pay.
01:50:20.000No, there's a bunch of reasons why, from tax incentives, tax programs, rebates, and they typically exclude the property taxes, sales taxes, you know, employment taxes that they do pay.
01:50:31.000Who's been setting up all these systems over the past, whoever knows how long?
01:52:10.000I think the Cuban immigrant is straight up saying that he's not going to fall for these mafia tactics and they can't pretend to be anti-racist to make him do it.
01:53:50.000The rate we are going, I wouldn't be surprised if they start proposing intentional fetal alcohol exposure to keep the Deltas happy with the menial work ordained.
01:54:00.000What's that short story we were talking about before?
01:54:08.000Sorry, I was distracted by the dead UFO.
01:54:11.000Somebody sent it to me and it's basically like smart people have things in their ears that scream random noises to disrupt their ability to think.
01:54:20.000And like strong people have to carry weights around and men have to carry weights so that they're, you know, strained and not stronger than women and stuff.
01:55:22.000Not only that, but the general idea of capitalism is like interest rates and investment and stuff, so all these ideas were written and expanded upon.
01:55:30.000But the general idea of free trade, I believe, is true.
01:59:29.000And I'm like, they're Blue Lives Matter protests, yeah, yeah, yeah, but they don't protest nearly as much as the left.
01:59:34.000I was talking about, I think we were talking about this, There was a venue that we were going to do a show at when I was putting on an event with the guys from Mythicist Milwaukee.
01:59:44.000And one of the venues promised us, assured us, everything would be fine, we're not concerned about politics, protesters, we don't care about, we can easily handle security.
01:59:54.000What they didn't expect is that within a few days, once the staff members found out, they all threatened to quit.
01:59:59.000And so the venue was like, okay, show's over, sorry guys, bye bye.
02:00:02.000Our staff was gonna quit, we can't do anything about it.
02:00:04.000And I'm thinking to myself, how many conservatives and moderates, and even disaffected liberals, would say the same thing?
02:02:34.000What's this thing people have talked about where they're like, separate the blue district archipelago into its own autonomous governments and then give the red areas to prevent civil war or something?
02:02:47.000Decentralizing big cities is going to help.
02:02:49.000The fact that people are fleeing cities for a variety of reasons will help, you know, people start meeting each other and talking to each other and hopefully it will start doing away with some of these more fringe ideas.
02:03:02.000I'd imagine the people leaving cities are more likely to lean conservative.
02:03:06.000Well, and you think about how we talked about the war room that they had, the Never Trumpers, and how they were The blue cities stay blue then.
02:03:16.000And if all these cities that are blue are pushing all the conservatives out that would normally vote
02:03:25.000red, you know... The blue cities stay blue then. That's a good point, you know. And then it makes
02:03:28.000the swing districts turn red. That's a good point.
02:03:31.000So they're kind of shooting themselves in the foot, I guess.
02:03:34.000A lot of people have said, Tim, if these people leave cities and they're likely to be liberal, they'll bring liberal values.
02:03:39.000There's a political cartoon someone made about Joe Rogan, and he's carrying a bag leaving California that's blowing up, and he's going to Texas, and they're like, hey, leave that where you got it from, and he's carrying liberal values with him.
02:04:13.000The people who want weapons to defend themselves, are tired of this, have individual responsibility as like a core, you know, part of their personality.
02:04:55.000I'm making a prediction that we will break 20,000 likes in the next couple of minutes because... If it was 30,000, this would be red right now.
02:05:48.000I'll put it this way, because most of you probably know this, but if everybody who tuned in shared the link right when it started, we'd be bigger than CNN in like a few months.
02:06:51.000I think I can say I'm eternally grateful to all of you, everybody who's watched because this, you know, the show's been doing really, really well.
02:06:57.000We've been growing and expanding and it's awesome.
02:07:23.000You'll wake up on November 4th, and you'll see the window and a beam of light, and there's Blue Jays and Cardinals, and they're singing, and you turn on the TV, and they're not talking about Trump anymore.