Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - China Exploits BLM Narrative To Attack US In Meetings w-Siraj Hashmi

00:00:00.000 you you

00:00:49.000 you Recently, the U.S.

00:00:55.000 engaged in peace talks with China, and it seems like they're not going too well because the AP is reporting it's unusual the level of bickering and a smackdown that's been going on back and forth.

00:01:07.000 The U.S.

00:01:07.000 criticizes China over a lot of things they're doing.

00:01:10.000 China criticizes back.

00:01:11.000 But China is accusing the U.S., I kid you not, of slaughtering black people, exploiting the Black Lives Matter and woke narrative to criticize the U.S. 0.82

00:01:21.000 when the U.S.

00:01:22.000 tries calling out the concentration camps and other things.

00:01:25.000 Other than that, China's been saying that in the U.S., we have no grounds to complain about democracy over there because the people in the U.S.

00:01:32.000 don't even agree with American democracy either, and the whole thing seems to be Well, highly unusual, they say, but shocking to a lot of people because among many conservatives, they believe China would never speak like this if Donald Trump was still president.

00:01:47.000 I think maybe it's just escalation, whether it was Trump or Biden.

00:01:51.000 There's been an ongoing escalating tension between the two countries.

00:01:55.000 But in terms of China calling the U.S.

00:01:57.000 weak, and they did, we got this video of Joe Biden nearly falling down the stairs, which is getting a lot of attention.

00:02:03.000 Now, Biden's saying, it was just the wind.

00:02:04.000 It was the wind.

00:02:05.000 But a lot of people are questioning whether or not Joe Biden has the mental and physical fitness to be president.

00:02:09.000 A new poll shows 33% of Americans believe he does not.

00:02:12.000 So we're gonna talk about this.

00:02:14.000 We'll talk about some other stuff.

00:02:15.000 I guess there's like a woke monopoly coming out, which will be fun to talk about. 0.95

00:02:18.000 We're hanging out with the creator of the infamous The List, Siraj.

00:02:23.000 What's going on, Tim?

00:02:23.000 You want to introduce yourself?

00:02:25.000 Siraj Hashmi, now formerly employee of the Washington Examiner.

00:02:31.000 I am a free agent and creator of The List, but You can also check me out on Habibi Bros.

00:02:37.000 That is the podcast that me and Mujahid Kobi, my buddy Jay, who has been banned 12 different times by Twitter and constantly comes back.

00:02:45.000 He is the man who cannot be killed on Twitter.

00:02:47.000 Should he go on the list?

00:02:48.000 Oh, well, that's the thing is the list only works for him and I never put him on it.

00:02:53.000 So explain the list real quick.

00:02:55.000 So the list is literally a power ranking of people who need their phones taken away.

00:02:55.000 All right.

00:02:59.000 So, for example, if someone tweets something, a genuinely bad take, you know, it could be Comparing, say, Trump to Hitler, although that is actually very trite and commonplace, but something, for example, you know, if the Chinese Communist Party tweets out something insane about the United States, knowing obviously how hypocritical it is, they'll go on the list for it.

00:03:18.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:03:19.000 And then there's people like, should I name anybody specifically we're just talking about?

00:03:22.000 Jennifer Rubin.

00:03:24.000 Washington Post, right?

00:03:25.000 Washington Post.

00:03:27.000 Formerly, I guess, conservative blogger.

00:03:30.000 Pro-establishment, whatever that means.

00:03:31.000 But basically, she has gone on the list. 0.93

00:03:33.000 I can tell you, basically, one of the tweets that got her on the list was so benign, but it's so ridiculous.

00:03:39.000 She posted a photo of her dog and saying, sleeping in during the Biden era.

00:03:42.000 Yes.

00:03:42.000 We sleep in on the weekends.

00:03:44.000 When Biden was bombing Syria?

00:03:45.000 Yeah.

00:03:47.000 It was literally like the day or two after that.

00:03:49.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:03:50.000 On the list!

00:03:51.000 So we'll get into it.

00:03:51.000 Right on, right on.

00:03:53.000 What's up, everybody?

00:03:53.000 We got Ian Eastchillin.

00:03:54.000 Ian Crossland.

00:03:55.000 How's it going?

00:03:56.000 Great to be here.

00:03:57.000 And me, Sour Patch Lids, in the corner.

00:03:57.000 I love you.

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00:05:36.000 And let's get into the first story.

00:05:38.000 This is the craziest thing to me.

00:05:40.000 You know, Let me just read the news first.

00:05:42.000 The U.S.

00:05:43.000 Sun reports, Tense clash.

00:05:45.000 China accuses U.S.

00:05:47.000 of slaughtering Black people and says Americans have little faith in democracy as talk tensions flare.

00:05:54.000 They said the two nations met face-to-face in Anchorage, Alaska on Thursday evening, for the first time since President Joe Biden took office.

00:06:00.000 But any hopes that bilateral relations could be reset after years of trade wars and tensions over cybersecurity during Trump's presidency were quickly stamped out.

00:06:09.000 Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan opened the meeting by referring to concerns over Beijing's human rights record.

00:06:09.000 U.S.

00:06:18.000 China's top foreign affairs official Yang Jiechi thunderously responded by accusing the U.S.

00:06:23.000 of its own human rights violations, saying, We hope the U.S. 0.99

00:06:26.000 will do better on human rights, Yang said during a 15-minute speech.

00:06:29.000 The fact is that there are many problems in the U.S.

00:06:32.000 regarding human rights, which is admitted by the U.S.

00:06:34.000 itself.

00:06:35.000 Yang added that human rights issues in the U.S.

00:06:38.000 such as racism were deep-seated.

00:06:40.000 They did not just emerge over the past four years such as Black Lives Matter.

00:06:44.000 This is really annoying to me, because the narrative for the most part from Black Lives Matter is overhyped, exaggerated, and just... I'm gonna say it, not true.

00:06:52.000 I don't know if... I think you may have seen this, Ian, but did you see the poll where they asked liberals and conservatives how many innocent, you know, or how many black people were killed by police in 2019?

00:07:06.000 And liberals said over a thousand, and the actual number is 27.

00:07:10.000 So what's happening is, yeah, we have this media narrative, this big lie, where they keep saying these things over and over again.

00:07:18.000 And you get these people who genuinely believe that cops are going around hunting down black people.

00:07:23.000 If I thought that was true, I'd be out there with Black Lives Matter every single day.

00:07:27.000 But we know it's not true.

00:07:28.000 Any death caused by the cops, it's a tragedy.

00:07:32.000 Either a cop was defending himself, it's still a tragedy.

00:07:35.000 Or the cop was committing a crime, especially a tragedy.

00:07:38.000 Now China is exploiting this.

00:07:41.000 Our own media is tearing our country apart, in my opinion.

00:07:45.000 And now China's accusing us of being weak.

00:07:47.000 Yeah, it's kind of interesting, you know, China obviously can't look in the mirror and ever call out their own sins. 1.00

00:07:53.000 For example, obviously just how oppressive they are to their own people, the re-education camps of Uyghurs, basically Hong Kong and threatening their autonomy, and jailing basically any political dissident. 0.99

00:08:07.000 So they have no, obviously no moral standing on this issue.

00:08:11.000 I just find it hilarious that they think that the U.S.

00:08:14.000 government is sanctioning, like, basically all this terrorism against one, you know, racial demographic.

00:08:22.000 I don't think they believe it.

00:08:24.000 No, I mean, like, they—I mean, but they're accusing us of this.

00:08:26.000 I think—I think it's really interesting.

00:08:30.000 In previous administrations, would China have stood up so brazenly and insulted, degraded the United States to their faces? 0.89

00:08:36.000 Nope.

00:08:37.000 The iron wasn't hot enough.

00:08:39.000 But you know what I think?

00:08:40.000 I mean, if you remember under the Obama administration and the plane situation, the plane confrontation, and they basically made them, I think it was like, they wouldn't let them land or get off the plane.

00:08:52.000 They basically had to Oh, wow.

00:08:54.000 Yeah, this is this is this happened under the Obama administration.

00:08:57.000 I don't know if this is something that, you know, it was an almost an international incident that had to get stamped out quickly because China, they ramped up the aggression against, you know, foreign diplomats or I guess U.S.

00:09:10.000 diplomats in this case.

00:09:11.000 And then you have the whole anal swabs thing. 1.00

00:09:13.000 Oh, God. 0.99

00:09:15.000 U.S.

00:09:15.000 diplomats entering the country and they had to get a covid test.

00:09:17.000 Well, so we'll jump to that in a second.

00:09:19.000 But the point I want to make is As the tensions escalate, as U.S.

00:09:26.000 power wanes internationally, and other countries are losing confidence in whether or not the United States could even defend a place like Taiwan or the South China Sea, China's getting more and more brazen. 0.58

00:09:36.000 They know the narrative's not true.

00:09:37.000 They don't care.

00:09:38.000 They're putting on a show for the people of the world to say, we're not scared of America anymore.

00:09:43.000 And we're going to stand up and we're going to use their own fracturing of their culture against them.

00:09:48.000 That's what's happening.

00:09:49.000 Now, as for the butt swabs thing, which was like a huge story, I think it's fair to say if Donald Trump was president, that would not have happened. 0.62

00:09:57.000 Yeah, that's fair to say, but I also, and we were talking about this, I don't think under the Trump administration they would willingly send out a group of diplomats to China in the middle of a trade war and basically subject themselves to something like this.

00:10:14.000 I mean, during the trade war negotiations for the first trade deal that they agreed to, All the negotiations happen in Washington, D.C., literally across from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is the White House.

00:10:26.000 But they're sending diplomats to China for, what, routine work?

00:10:31.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:10:32.000 I mean, we had an ambassador to—we had a U.S.

00:10:34.000 ambassador to China, and we still have diplomatic relations with them.

00:10:38.000 But, you know, there is no reason to subject our own diplomats to that.

00:10:46.000 It's just an embarrassment.

00:10:47.000 It's amazing.

00:10:47.000 For those that aren't familiar, U.S.

00:10:49.000 diplomats were forcefully anal swabbed by China. 0.99

00:10:54.000 And I think that's another sign of just attempting to humiliate the United States. 0.99

00:10:59.000 Forceful swabbing of the bums of American personnel.

00:11:03.000 And they're basically... Look, at this meeting, it was 15 minutes of the Chinese officials yelling at America.

00:11:12.000 And the Americans just sat there and took it.

00:11:14.000 Saber-rattling. 1.00

00:11:16.000 So I just wanted to point out that the whole confrontation with the Obama administration So the US military always sends out a set of rolling air stairs on every single presidential trip and so they have to seek Chinese approval to use the equipment and when President Obama arrived in China, the Chinese reversed their position.

00:11:39.000 They wouldn't let him get off the plane.

00:11:41.000 Yeah But was Obama supposed to be there?

00:11:41.000 Wow.

00:11:46.000 Yeah, I think it was actually supposed to be an official presidential visit to meet with President Xi.

00:11:53.000 So this wouldn't have happened under Trump?

00:11:56.000 Would you think it's fair to say?

00:11:57.000 Well, it didn't happen under Trump because when he went to China, he got a huge welcoming ceremony.

00:12:06.000 People remember, obviously, his meeting with Kim Jong-un in Vietnam and Singapore.

00:12:13.000 I think it was just Singapore.

00:12:15.000 They had at least two meetings, if I'm not mistaken.

00:12:19.000 But when he went to China, there was a huge ceremony.

00:12:22.000 There was a huge celebration of the US president going to China.

00:12:27.000 And if you remember correctly, President Xi and President Trump actually had deep affection

00:12:33.000 for one another.

00:12:34.000 But at the same time, Trump was telling everybody here in the United States, like, obviously, we're going to be implementing all these tariffs on China.

00:12:41.000 He had a lot of tough talk.

00:12:44.000 And this is where he gets the criticism for being, you know, cozying up to authoritarians because of how he approaches them.

00:12:51.000 Now, his actual rhetoric is different from the actual policy, because the policy was good, even if the rhetoric didn't match it.

00:12:59.000 And I think that's what people constantly get at Trump for.

00:13:02.000 But he was particularly strong on China, and Biden is particularly weak on China.

00:13:07.000 Could it have been that fanfare and that celebration was because they were scared of Trump?

00:13:11.000 That's possible.

00:13:12.000 Look, man, Trump was an erratic, bombastic guy.

00:13:15.000 Hey, we're still number one, baby.

00:13:18.000 I look at it like this.

00:13:20.000 Even Trump supporters recognize that Trump is kind of, you know, erratic, I guess is the right way to put it.

00:13:27.000 Meaning like, he just says, do it, get it done.

00:13:30.000 It pops into his head, he says, do it.

00:13:32.000 So if he gets mad, on a whim, he could be like, shut it down, no, no deal for you. 1.00

00:13:36.000 So China knows this trade war is on, the tariffs are a legit problem for them, so they start kissing his ass. 0.99

00:13:42.000 Yeah, I think the Chinese Communist Party is a glass cannon in that they're very fragile. 0.99

00:13:46.000 From what I've been discerning from our guests in the last few weeks, they're on the verge of collapse, but they don't want to show it.

00:13:53.000 And if they sense weakness, they're going to go and bite it because they can hit hard from a distance.

00:13:57.000 But if they get attacked, they got a real problem.

00:14:00.000 And Biden is not an attacker.

00:14:02.000 Not physically.

00:14:03.000 I don't think the Chinese Communist Party is particularly weak.

00:14:06.000 I think they're still on the rise.

00:14:08.000 I think it is what's changing, though, Is the sort of the

00:14:16.000 What's the best word I could probably put it on?

00:14:20.000 Sort of the image.

00:14:21.000 There was a fallacy that Russia was somehow the most dangerous country in the world.

00:14:26.000 And that was our geopolitical foe and threat. 0.94

00:14:29.000 And they hijacked an election and basically installed Trump as Putin's lapdog. 0.98

00:14:35.000 As crazy as that Blue Anon talk. 0.96

00:14:39.000 But then everybody just ignored China.

00:14:42.000 And now we're realizing everything that's happening there.

00:14:45.000 You have the Uyghur re-education camps, you have Hong Kong autonomy withering away, you have the oppression of basically everyone and their political dissidents. 0.96

00:14:56.000 They have the Belt and Road Initiative, which basically it mortgages the future of basically every single country abroad that China does business with, particularly in Africa.

00:15:09.000 They build up their infrastructure in exchange for so like they'll give, say, a country like, you know, Mozambique or, you know, name name your country in Africa, you know, Billion dollar loans, but we get to control your ports.

00:15:27.000 And they have to pay back that loan.

00:15:29.000 Sounds like they're displacing the IMF.

00:15:30.000 Yeah.

00:15:31.000 That's the economic hitman strategy.

00:15:33.000 Right.

00:15:33.000 And so they get all this economic control over these countries, and they get to gain access to their valuable resources, whatever mining, whatever grain, you name it, farming.

00:15:46.000 Yeah, they just consolidate that power. 0.68

00:15:49.000 And the reason why they're still on the come up is, and this obviously is tied into the political oppression, is that when you only have one single thought, you can get a lot more done.

00:15:58.000 I think Bill Maher was talking about it, as well as Tucker Carlson, interestingly enough, in the same week, about how China is particularly strong in their military, because they just focus on the job and just get it done.

00:16:11.000 And I think Bill Maher's criticism in particular, It wasn't praiseworthy of the Chinese Communist Party, but really highlighting how because they're so authoritarian, they can get more done. 0.94

00:16:22.000 And we are so democratic, we can get nothing done.

00:16:26.000 And it's... Democratic is one way to put it.

00:16:28.000 I think what we're seeing is our values were exploited, sowing division, and this, this Western imperialism of sorts, whatever you want to call it, where we have like the International Monetary Fund, where we have the UN and NATO, the United States and their military bases everywhere.

00:16:44.000 It's, it's falling apart.

00:16:46.000 Like you're mentioning, what was it, was the, the Belt and... Belt and Road Initiative.

00:16:49.000 Yeah, so China is essentially giving loans, building up infrastructure in these countries to then have massive debt that will give them economic control.

00:16:59.000 That's what the Western powers used to do, or still probably do.

00:17:03.000 Well, that's what colonialism was based on.

00:17:07.000 It may not have been as, say, concrete as what the Belt and Road Initiative is, but it was basically controlling territories to gain access to the resources.

00:17:15.000 In exchange for, say, example like French colonialism.

00:17:19.000 French colonialism was basically, we're going to exchange whatever you got, and we're going to give you French culture.

00:17:25.000 Because that's like, you know, we're superior to your inferiority.

00:17:29.000 What we are seeing is China engaging in neo-colonialism.

00:17:34.000 It's effectively just colonialism, but you know, from history till now, they're starting up a new process.

00:17:39.000 It's transactional.

00:17:40.000 Well, but it's not just that.

00:17:41.000 It's Chinese immigrants.

00:17:43.000 So China's a crowded nation.

00:17:45.000 They're seeing a lot of, you know, the creation of a lot of wealth as they expand.

00:17:48.000 They then naturally want to move to other countries to find opportunity and to find more space.

00:17:54.000 I actually, interestingly enough about the Belt and Road Initiative is that they don't even hire locally.

00:17:59.000 They bring in their own workers from China to build up these, you know, whatever level of infrastructure, roads, bridges, buildings, you name it.

00:18:08.000 Tunnels.

00:18:09.000 It doesn't stimulate the local economy.

00:18:13.000 All it does is just put these countries into debt.

00:18:17.000 And make them beholden to the Chinese Communist Party as a result.

00:18:17.000 That's right.

00:18:19.000 Isn't that what the IMF would do, basically?

00:18:21.000 Yeah.

00:18:23.000 So listen, China is absolutely displacing the Western strategies and foreign policy, and they're sending in Chinese workers to a lot of countries.

00:18:33.000 Many people who are just regular old citizens of China are naturally just emigrating to other countries.

00:18:39.000 There's no plan there.

00:18:40.000 They're just doing it because they want to move.

00:18:42.000 They want to find a place.

00:18:44.000 Then you end up with lots of Chinese immigrants in other countries setting up their own little communities in Chinatowns and things like that.

00:18:49.000 Then you get the Belt and Road Initiative, which creates the economic power structure.

00:18:53.000 Eventually, you're going to have many countries which are just going to be like second world satellites of China. 0.95

00:18:58.000 If not, they already are.

00:19:00.000 And the U.S., people don't seem to realize this.

00:19:03.000 We talked about this, I think, earlier in the week, that manufacturing in the U.S.

00:19:06.000 actually is up a little bit, like 1 point something percent year over year.

00:19:11.000 But we don't produce all that much relative to many other countries.

00:19:14.000 Our principal export is the U.S.

00:19:16.000 dollar for buying oil.

00:19:18.000 So we prop up the petrodollar with the threat of war to anybody who dares drop that dollar.

00:19:25.000 The U.S.

00:19:26.000 is in a very difficult position.

00:19:30.000 We've got Joe Biden, who apparently is struggling to walk up these stairs.

00:19:33.000 The wind blew him over.

00:19:34.000 They said the wind blew him over.

00:19:34.000 I kid you not.

00:19:35.000 I mean, that was not a good excuse.

00:19:37.000 They could have said he tripped, and we could have moved on.

00:19:39.000 But Joe Biden falls over and says, the wind blew him over.

00:19:41.000 Wow.

00:19:42.000 You've got hyperpolarization.

00:19:44.000 You've got a 50-50 split, basically, in our government.

00:19:47.000 Senate is 50-50, and then the House is like 219 to 211 or whatever.

00:19:53.000 Just as narrow as it can get.

00:19:56.000 They're trying to remove a Republican who is duly elected and certified.

00:20:02.000 It's falling apart.

00:20:04.000 Our international systems are failing.

00:20:07.000 The international wars have failed.

00:20:10.000 Our way of controlling other countries is falling apart, and China is assuming all of it. 1.00

00:20:14.000 And I have to wonder.

00:20:15.000 How many special interests, millionaires, billionaires, and corporations in the U.S.

00:20:19.000 have already seen that happening, and are moving their businesses over to match their bets?

00:20:23.000 Exactly.

00:20:23.000 That's been happening.

00:20:24.000 Right, NBA for instance.

00:20:24.000 That's been happening.

00:20:25.000 Yeah, no, it's been happening for a while, Disney.

00:20:28.000 Apple.

00:20:29.000 Apple, yeah.

00:20:29.000 I mean, manufacturing in China is really cheap, especially when they use Uyghur slave labor, right?

00:20:35.000 Right.

00:20:36.000 But thinking about it this way, if the U.S.

00:20:38.000 dollar does crumble, Bitcoin's at 58,700 or whatever, These companies have already moved to China.

00:20:46.000 And they're already, like, you got Mark Cuban defending China.

00:20:49.000 What does he see?

00:20:50.000 Is he hedging his bet, basically saying he thinks China's gonna win this one?

00:20:54.000 China's already won.

00:20:56.000 That's actually what I wanted to say.

00:20:57.000 Bill Maher, interestingly enough, and I agree with him on a lot of points, even if he didn't get everything right in his little monologue from last week, he pointed out how China already won.

00:21:09.000 They're not winning.

00:21:10.000 They already won.

00:21:11.000 Because the fact that we're still bickering over things like the culture war, cancel culture, you name it, these are distractions to the bigger picture.

00:21:21.000 And in terms of global influence, you know, the United States are, you know, we, you know, I saw a t-shirt once that said we're number one, but there was no apostrophe in it.

00:21:33.000 We're number one.

00:21:35.000 Yeah.

00:21:36.000 And so, like, you know, while the United States economy still is number one in the world, as I said, we're still we're number one, baby.

00:21:42.000 I mean, that is that those days were number one.

00:21:45.000 It's like the Patriots dynasty ending.

00:21:47.000 I never really got into the whole, like, we're the best thing, because, like, when you're at the top, you're just a target.

00:21:51.000 People want to rip you down.

00:21:52.000 We should be part of an integral group of allies that are working together.

00:21:55.000 We were, though.

00:21:56.000 Yeah, we really should be, with Russia and Britain and England. 0.90

00:22:00.000 Well, not Russia, but we did have...

00:22:03.000 Western trade alliances, NATO, the UN, and that power structure is failing.

00:22:08.000 I mean, look, the coalition that went into Libya, was it like France?

00:22:12.000 You know, the U.S.

00:22:13.000 A couple of other countries, I guess.

00:22:15.000 Look at the coalition of the willing, or whatever, going to Iraq.

00:22:18.000 It wasn't just the U.S.

00:22:19.000 It was a bunch of different countries expressing this, you know, control.

00:22:24.000 I mean, we, they, they, well, after 9-11, there was, they invoked Article 5 of NATO.

00:22:30.000 Getting us to the point where we had every NATO nation as well as we got Australia, New Zealand involved in basically the invasion of Afghanistan, which then turned into the invasion of Iraq.

00:22:46.000 I mean, it's just...

00:22:48.000 For some reason, the United States loves war.

00:22:51.000 We're never going to get out of it.

00:22:52.000 And that has depleted our economy tremendously.

00:22:56.000 And if you ever want to talk about how climate change impacts it, you know, it doesn't help it.

00:23:03.000 You guys ever hear of the Non-Aligned Movement?

00:23:06.000 It's basically the other United Nations on Earth.

00:23:08.000 There's the United Nations that we know of, and then all the countries that aren't involved with it are in this united group of nations called the Non-Aligned Movement.

00:23:16.000 Who's in it?

00:23:17.000 Iran is where they're headquartered, was in Iran for a while.

00:23:21.000 Ahmadinejad was like the chairman of it.

00:23:24.000 Ahmadinejad?

00:23:26.000 Yeah, thank you for pronouncing that properly.

00:23:28.000 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

00:23:29.000 And I would pull up a list.

00:23:30.000 There's like 92 countries or something.

00:23:32.000 Some insane number.

00:23:33.000 And don't quote me on that number.

00:23:34.000 But it's all these countries that the United States is basically doesn't want to have diplomatic ties with.

00:23:39.000 These are the people we need to be allied with.

00:23:40.000 Yeah.

00:23:41.000 Well, there's also BRICS, the BRICS nations.

00:23:43.000 I mean, that's the thing is like so Iran and the United States are their interests are diametrically opposed. Iran wants basically hegemony over

00:23:58.000 the region. The United States, I mean, the Iranian regime has been on the path of terror 0.99

00:24:04.000 for quite some time, funneling money to Hamas, Hezbollah, you name it.

00:24:10.000 They've been killing our guys and our men and women overseas.

00:24:15.000 I don't imagine that's going to happen anytime soon.

00:24:17.000 Unless, of course, President Biden tries to get the Iran nuclear deal going on again.

00:24:22.000 God help us if that happens.

00:24:25.000 Look, I am fine with making friends with other countries, so long as it isn't to our detriment and we're not being taken advantage of.

00:24:34.000 And I don't think that the Iranian regime would be acting in good faith. 0.73

00:24:38.000 I'm looking at China, like the Nazi Party, and if we had allied with Russia before the Nazis invaded Poland, we could have possibly prevented it. 0.74

00:24:46.000 What do you mean?

00:24:48.000 Well, because we weren't really on good terms with Russia before the war, Russia wouldn't come to France's aid.

00:24:53.000 Are you talking about World War II?

00:24:55.000 And so this is like a modern day, like we're on the cusp of another world war with another, you know, racist ethnostate. 0.58

00:24:55.000 Yeah. 0.58

00:24:55.000 OK. 0.58

00:25:01.000 Right.

00:25:02.000 And unless we ally now with Russia and India and Iran and all of these countries around China, they're going to do some crazy invasion. 0.98

00:25:10.000 Well, the thing is, like China and Iran are basically in bed with each other because, I mean, When Iran doesn't have, you know, any of its allies to go to.

00:25:19.000 If it doesn't have the United States to go to to, say, funnel them cash, they'll go to Russia and they'll go to China.

00:25:24.000 Because China definitely wants to have them on their side. 0.99

00:25:27.000 Yeah.

00:25:27.000 Anyone who's an enemy of the United States is their friend.

00:25:31.000 And like we're talking about, it's China doing everything in their power to expand their influence to anyone who's willing to listen.

00:25:38.000 And I think that, I wonder if there's elements of the U.S.

00:25:42.000 that are worried about war, so they're already essentially resigning to the fact that we will lose.

00:25:48.000 I think it was, we were talking with Kurt, he said there's war games that the U.S.

00:25:52.000 has done with China, and in all of these war games we just lose, lose, lose.

00:25:57.000 I can only imagine there's a lot of really rich people who are probably like, all right, well, if that's inevitable, I'm going to move my money over.

00:26:02.000 I'm going to move my money to China and focus on that business.

00:26:06.000 And then in 50 years, when this whole system in the West falls apart, China will be the dominant superpower. 0.99

00:26:11.000 Then you will have an authoritarian ethno-state exerting their cultural influence over all the other countries on the planet.

00:26:18.000 I would argue, obviously, and I don't know if I've said this before, but if it sounds like I'm repeating myself, then I apologize.

00:26:24.000 But I think Richard Nixon's greatest mistake was not anything to do with Watergate.

00:26:29.000 It actually had to do with opening the United States to China.

00:26:32.000 Because for some reason, I don't know what miscalculation took place, but it was a miscalculation.

00:26:38.000 And I was assuming that the Chinese Communist Party, which at that time had only existed for about about 20, 21 years after the Chinese Civil War, after World War II, that by introducing capitalism to them, they would somehow modernize.

00:26:54.000 And what they did is they basically adapted.

00:26:56.000 They kept their system in place, and they basically turned their society into a pseudo-capitalist

00:27:03.000 one that encouraged commerce and encouraged other corporations from other countries, namely

00:27:10.000 from the United States, to come to them, get cheap manufacturing, build their products,

00:27:16.000 and then ship it across the globe.

00:27:18.000 And they did it by consolidating as much power as they needed to.

00:27:22.000 And by they, I mean the Chinese Communist Party.

00:27:25.000 And we're basically at a loss.

00:27:29.000 We underestimated China.

00:27:30.000 100%.

00:27:31.000 We thought money and greed would win out, and we underestimated the resolve and the ideology

00:27:37.000 and the power of the Chinese Communist Party.

00:27:40.000 So we were hoping that our money was going to go in, and that essentially greed, not

00:27:45.000 necessarily greed, but commerce and a better life would open up the eyes of these people,

00:27:50.000 and they would say, oh, we should do that because it would make us money.

00:27:53.000 And then eventually that would weaken the power structure in the Communist Party.

00:27:57.000 They didn't realize how hardened it was.

00:27:59.000 So what ended up happening was...

00:28:01.000 The Communist Party exploited all those systems around it to become even more powerful.

00:28:05.000 And we just fed the beast.

00:28:05.000 Yeah.

00:28:07.000 We also underscore and probably we we discount the Confucius Institutes here in the United States.

00:28:12.000 Yeah.

00:28:13.000 That's a very it's it is a very real problem, but not one that's discussed very often.

00:28:18.000 And that is how a number of different universities in the United States have these institutes called Confucius Institutes.

00:28:25.000 And what they do is that they basically, it's like exporting the ideas of the Chinese Communist Party to, you know, you know, malleable minds here in the United States.

00:28:38.000 But also, you know, you can look at the Chinese exchange students who come to the United States, and I'm not saying that them coming here is bad, but what ends up happening is they start to adapt, or they start to adopt some You know, values that we here in America embrace, they start to get, you know, maybe think that, like, American values are actually much better than Chinese values, and they correct that issue right away.

00:29:02.000 They have, like, sort of a self-policing system, and so if any exchange student gets out of line, you know, they're gone.

00:29:10.000 Yeah, I think.

00:29:12.000 Man, it's like we're on the back end of that bell curve.

00:29:15.000 The golden age is over for us.

00:29:18.000 We've been infiltrated.

00:29:19.000 It's been real, guys.

00:29:20.000 Yeah, it's been fun.

00:29:22.000 Buy Bitcoin.

00:29:23.000 No, no, no financial advice.

00:29:27.000 I'm buying Bitcoin.

00:29:28.000 Buy GameStop.

00:29:29.000 Actually, don't buy GameStop.

00:29:31.000 No, China bought a bunch of Bitcoin.

00:29:32.000 A lot of Bitcoin.

00:29:34.000 So, I wonder why it's skyrocketing.

00:29:36.000 They've got the spy, the Chinese spy that was dating the guy.

00:29:40.000 Eric Swalwell.

00:29:41.000 Swalwell for like how long?

00:29:42.000 Well, that wasn't confirmed that they were dating.

00:29:44.000 Or they were an item for a decade or something?

00:29:46.000 It wasn't even confirmed that they were an item.

00:29:48.000 She was just helping with like fundraisers and stuff for a long time, right?

00:29:52.000 Yeah, I mean, she had been around helping people with fundraising here in Washington, D.C.

00:29:58.000 And I wouldn't say here, because we're not in Washington, D.C.

00:30:00.000 That's where I live.

00:30:02.000 But basically, when it comes to... I believe her name is Feng Feng.

00:30:08.000 Or Christine Feng, I think that's right.

00:30:10.000 Feng Feng.

00:30:11.000 Sorry, I apologize.

00:30:12.000 We had China Uncensored on the show, and so we got the correct pronunciation.

00:30:15.000 Oh, China Uncensored.

00:30:16.000 Nice, nice.

00:30:17.000 Um, so Fang Fang, she had basically embedded herself as a sort of like a, I guess not like a money roller, like basically someone who would, a cash bundler. 0.81

00:30:30.000 That's the best way to put it.

00:30:31.000 Someone who would raise money for different political causes.

00:30:35.000 And then somehow in the, throughout the running of it all, Eric Swalwell was briefed that she's actually a Chinese spy.

00:30:43.000 And then he basically had to sever all contact with her.

00:30:46.000 Now, this just happened.

00:30:48.000 McCarthy has tried to remove Swalwell from the Intel Committee over the Chinese spy story.

00:30:53.000 So this is just from the other day.

00:30:54.000 Oh, wow.

00:30:55.000 I believe it did fail, though.

00:30:57.000 They said the resolution will not likely pass in a Democratic-controlled House.

00:31:00.000 Think about how insane this is.

00:31:02.000 This dude was being helped, a Democrat, by a Chinese spy.

00:31:07.000 And they're keeping him on the intel committee.

00:31:09.000 It's like, okay, let him stay in office, but don't give him access to intel reports.

00:31:14.000 They don't care.

00:31:15.000 They really don't care.

00:31:16.000 That's why I'm saying, man, I wonder how many of these people are in on the take.

00:31:19.000 They know what's coming and they're like, you gotta butter my bread, you know what I mean?

00:31:22.000 How many more spies are there?

00:31:23.000 That's one that we found out.

00:31:25.000 And now we know that the institutions have been infiltrated by the Basically, by the concepts of this, you know, what, 80-year plan that Yuri Bezmenov talked about it.

00:31:34.000 Other people, it's like they've been in here trying to divide us and now they're calling it out because their plan, they're basically activating the plan.

00:31:41.000 Well, we do know that there was a Chinese spy that worked in Senator Dianne Feinstein's office.

00:31:47.000 Driver?

00:31:48.000 I think so.

00:31:51.000 I have to confirm that.

00:31:52.000 But so this is a yeah, this is from back in August of 2018.

00:31:55.000 Details surface about Senator Feinstein and the Chinese spy who worked for her.

00:32:00.000 That's crazy.

00:32:01.000 I'm pretty sure it was a driver for her, and it's not the first time.

00:32:06.000 We've been infiltrated, man.

00:32:07.000 I mean, Mike Pompeo was saying it earlier last year, about a year ago, he said we've been infiltrated at every single level.

00:32:12.000 You name it.

00:32:13.000 Yeah, I mean, it's not surprising at all.

00:32:17.000 I mean, as you said, when you're number one, everyone has a target on your back.

00:32:22.000 Basically, every other country, if we're playing Mario Kart, we're in first place, every country has a blue shell.

00:32:30.000 Yep.

00:32:30.000 Hmm.

00:32:31.000 Well, you know, we were in first place.

00:32:34.000 I wonder if slash when China does overtake us, maybe they already did and they're just not going to let us know. 0.96

00:32:41.000 You know what I mean?

00:32:43.000 Why would they let us know if they could stay in our ranks forever?

00:32:47.000 And focus all the blue shells on us and not them.

00:32:49.000 And also not to mention, think of the people who are actually... And this is something that people think, oh, just because they're Chinese they have to be a spy.

00:32:57.000 Think about all the non-Chinese spies that there are. 0.95

00:32:59.000 I mean, they are spies for the Chinese government, but they're not ethnically Chinese.

00:33:04.000 But no, but also think about when COVID first started, and they lied to the WHO, and then the WHO ended up lying to the world.

00:33:11.000 China ordered Chinese citizens in various countries to buy personal protective equipment and ship it back to China so they could use it during the pandemic.

00:33:20.000 While they were lying to us saying everything's fine, don't worry about it.

00:33:23.000 They were instructing their citizens.

00:33:25.000 These people weren't spies.

00:33:26.000 They were just people who were living in other countries for school or for whatever reason, working at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party.

00:33:33.000 It makes me think of Civilization, the game.

00:33:36.000 Have you ever played that?

00:33:36.000 It's been a while.

00:33:37.000 Cool game.

00:33:38.000 And I think the Chinese have overtaken us militarily, but not culturally, not scientifically, I don't think.

00:33:45.000 No, they stole all our intellectual property.

00:33:46.000 Yeah, they steal.

00:33:47.000 They basically are trying to steal to keep up.

00:33:50.000 So, they have overtaken us in some ways.

00:33:52.000 Definitely militarily, I think.

00:33:54.000 What's that thing where the Thousand Talents Program, where they're buying up these college professors, offering them cash, then professors are lying about it, getting caught and getting arrested?

00:34:01.000 Are you serious?

00:34:02.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:03.000 There's been a bunch of professors now who were secretly taking money from China, and then some of them got caught.

00:34:11.000 They were not reporting this money.

00:34:12.000 So they were getting grants from the U.S.

00:34:13.000 government and also getting money from the Chinese government.

00:34:17.000 And effectively, my understanding is they were sharing this data with the Chinese Communist Party.

00:34:22.000 Nazis.

00:34:23.000 Think about it.

00:34:23.000 If you were alive in 1930, what side would you have been on?

00:34:27.000 Now you get to choose.

00:34:28.000 Will you take their money?

00:34:28.000 Would you?

00:34:30.000 Will you take that Nazi money? 0.57

00:34:31.000 There are a lot of people in America who did.

00:34:32.000 That's the problem.

00:34:33.000 There are too many people who... And this is, you know, obviously, because hindsight's 20-20, and we always look back and think of, you know, if another Holocaust happened, how would we react to it? 0.97

00:34:45.000 I mean, it is.

00:34:47.000 But that's the thing is, like, you know, everybody thought that, and I referenced the Syrian Civil War, because that seemed like an interesting You know, that was a very bloody affair that has winded down.

00:35:00.000 But everybody, there were a lot of people in the United States clamoring for intervention, thinking that that was basically another genocide that was taking place.

00:35:09.000 And now we have this situation here in Xinjiang with the Uyghurs being locked up in re-education camps.

00:35:14.000 We're seeing drone footage of them on train platforms, all in jumpsuits, blindfolded, shaved heads, you know, hands and feet bonded up.

00:35:24.000 And that is the closest thing I have ever seen in my life to what we saw in the Holocaust. 0.72

00:35:31.000 Closest thing.

00:35:32.000 And I'm still afraid to compare that to the Holocaust because of what that suggests.

00:35:38.000 And so you can say that they're going to modern day concentration camps.

00:35:43.000 That is to the extent that I'll go.

00:35:48.000 These people are being persecuted for practicing their faith.

00:35:52.000 They're people being persecuted for expressing different political views, for people who want democracy in Hong Kong.

00:35:59.000 and you know all of our nothing will move not dark nothing no needle will

00:36:08.000 move in the right direction because all of our I mean all of the corporations

00:36:12.000 that were formerly part of the United States have all sold their souls to 0.99

00:36:18.000 This time... And will never stand up for it.

00:36:20.000 Right.

00:36:21.000 Not all of them.

00:36:21.000 A lot of them.

00:36:22.000 This time, the ethno-authoritarians, it seems like they're gonna win.

00:36:26.000 It seemed like that with the Nazis, too, for a while.

00:36:28.000 When they invaded France and took control of France, it was like, this is it, man.

00:36:32.000 Winston Churchill would just tell people, we're going to survive, we're gonna get through this.

00:36:32.000 The British?

00:36:36.000 He didn't know.

00:36:37.000 He was just getting their hopes up. 1.00

00:36:39.000 China's not stupid enough to just storm the borders of India, necessarily. 0.99

00:36:45.000 I mean, the conflict happening on the border with India, what was it? 1.00

00:36:48.000 They were fighting with sticks and stones?

00:36:50.000 Because they know there's going to be fighting, but they know what propaganda is, they know how information warfare works, and they know what will happen if all the people of the world demand conflict.

00:37:00.000 It's bad enough they got the concentration camps, but a lot of people still will be like, we're not going to do war, it will wipe out the planet.

00:37:06.000 If they stormed into India with guns and took land, then everyone would freak out and say, it's happening anyway, we gotta stop it from happening.

00:37:15.000 So they know better.

00:37:16.000 They're gonna infiltrate, it's going to be cyberattacks, it's going to be political warfare.

00:37:21.000 Like, uh, who was talking about political warfare?

00:37:23.000 Was that James?

00:37:24.000 We've had some great guests on this last week.

00:37:27.000 I don't know.

00:37:27.000 Or was it Kurt?

00:37:28.000 A lot of great people talking about political warfare.

00:37:31.000 And that, yeah, I think it was James.

00:37:32.000 I think so.

00:37:33.000 And we're not prepared for it.

00:37:36.000 They know you've got to be very careful about how people view you.

00:37:41.000 And that's why I think when we see these Chinese officials yelling at the U.S.

00:37:45.000 in a rant for 15 minutes saying the U.S. 0.97

00:37:47.000 is slaughtering black people, they know what they're doing. 1.00

00:37:50.000 They're trying to show the world they can make God bleed. 1.00

00:37:54.000 Because then, there will be blood in the water and the sharks will come.

00:37:57.000 Yeah, I mean, so, Eddie Izzard, the comedian.

00:38:01.000 Although, I think that's a former name.

00:38:04.000 I apologize if I'm getting it wrong.

00:38:06.000 Eddie Izzard, yeah.

00:38:07.000 Yeah, I saw that recently.

00:38:08.000 No, but, wears dresses from time to time. 0.88

00:38:10.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:38:11.000 Dresses and drag. 1.00

00:38:12.000 He runs marathons.

00:38:13.000 That might be the dead name.

00:38:14.000 Oh, really?

00:38:15.000 I think so.

00:38:15.000 He changed his name?

00:38:16.000 No, I saw him recently and he's amazing.

00:38:19.000 He still goes by Eddie Izzard.

00:38:21.000 She goes by Eddie Izzard.

00:38:22.000 I apologize.

00:38:23.000 I think he was a cross dresser but was not transgender.

00:38:26.000 Anyways, Eddie Izzard the comedian said something that was really prescient at the time and it was it was sort of like an analyzing history and how you know the biggest The biggest mistake that Hitler made was not, you know, anything he had to do within Germany that was invading other countries.

00:38:46.000 You know, because you have Mao Zedong killed probably most people of any other dictator.

00:38:50.000 You have Joseph Stalin.

00:38:52.000 You have Pol Pot. 0.52

00:38:53.000 You know, a number of different dictators.

00:38:56.000 The key theme for them and the reason they were able to stay in power is that they never invaded any other countries.

00:39:02.000 And so China came close to it when you had the Korean War and they were basically trying to impose of course the United States fought back at it, went to stalemate, now you have North Korea. 0.84

00:39:17.000 And now you have China invading many other countries with the Belt and Road Initiative.

00:39:20.000 Exactly.

00:39:20.000 Economically.

00:39:22.000 Culturally.

00:39:23.000 Look, you can't... We talk about this all the time, fourth and fifth generation of warfare.

00:39:28.000 What is the purpose of war?

00:39:30.000 You want to gain control of resources and territory, right?

00:39:34.000 Or you want to stop a threat, maybe it's preemptive war, but usually it's about gaining access to a resource and certain territory from advantage for your country.

00:39:41.000 Now, how you gonna do that?

00:39:43.000 You gonna march in with guns and force people at gunpoint?

00:39:45.000 Well, that creates resistance and opposition.

00:39:47.000 People say no to that.

00:39:49.000 Or, you say, Ian, I'm gonna lend you a hundred bucks so you can go get that nice new suit you wanted.

00:39:54.000 And then we're gonna put compounded interest on it, so just don't worry, sign here.

00:39:58.000 And then what happens?

00:40:00.000 A week goes by, and I go, where's that $10,000 you owe me, buddy?

00:40:03.000 And you're like, whoa, whoa, $10,000?

00:40:05.000 Like, yeah, read the deal. 0.90

00:40:07.000 Jimmy, break his legs.

00:40:10.000 That's the game.

00:40:10.000 Can I borrow another $10,000?

00:40:11.000 They're going to these people and they're basically, they're going to these countries and saying, if you sell your country to me with this deal, you will live like the king of kings.

00:40:23.000 And then when you're dead, we'll take your country. 0.99

00:40:26.000 It's a win-win, isn't it?

00:40:27.000 And a lot of these people are like, works for me.

00:40:29.000 The country will improve, the lives of my people will improve, and then in 50 years, China will be in charge with exercising debt and control over our country. 0.98

00:40:37.000 Sure, whatever.

00:40:39.000 Short-term gain, long-term losses.

00:40:41.000 They are invading, but they're doing it smart this time.

00:40:44.000 They learned from us.

00:40:45.000 The economic hitmen, which is kind of out of this playbook, they would do that.

00:40:49.000 They would say, hey, we're going to give you a big loan, try and buy you out.

00:40:51.000 And if the people refused, then they would try and assassinate the leader.

00:40:55.000 And if they couldn't get to the guy, then they would declare all-out war.

00:40:59.000 It seems like the Chinese aren't trying step two at all.

00:41:02.000 They're very light about this slow, long bribery game.

00:41:08.000 They play the long game.

00:41:09.000 But listen.

00:41:09.000 Definitely.

00:41:11.000 You only need step one.

00:41:13.000 When they go to one country and say, we're going to give you all this money to help you with your infrastructure, and that country says no, they go, okay, well, then we'll give it to your neighbor.

00:41:20.000 Good luck surviving.

00:41:21.000 And they'll go, wait, wait, wait.

00:41:23.000 That's the end of the game.

00:41:25.000 People know that in these countries, they might have pressure where it's like, we've got conflict with these different groups, with these different tribes, with these different countries, governments.

00:41:34.000 And so if China starts arming and building up their infrastructure, how long will you last?

00:41:39.000 That's how it's going to play out.

00:41:40.000 And now you can see with these Chinese officials basically making a mockery of the U.S.

00:41:45.000 saying, you're not coming from... They literally said, it is wrong to say you're coming from a position of strength.

00:41:51.000 People in your own country don't trust your own democracy. 1.00

00:41:53.000 You're slaughtering black people. 1.00

00:41:55.000 They smacked down the U.S. 1.00

00:41:56.000 for 15 minutes.

00:41:58.000 And what do we do?

00:41:59.000 We fight.

00:42:00.000 We have flame wars.

00:42:01.000 We have culture wars. 0.99

00:42:03.000 We are a silly people. 0.99

00:42:04.000 I think the U.S. 0.99

00:42:06.000 is facing some kind of fracturing.

00:42:09.000 But a lot of people talk about a peaceful divorce.

00:42:12.000 I think we've already broken apart.

00:42:13.000 You know, I talked about this before, right?

00:42:15.000 Joe Biden comes out and says, you know, come on, man, you know, we need new restrictions for COVID.

00:42:19.000 And Texas and Florida are like, nah.

00:42:22.000 If you don't have red states trusting the president and agreeing to work together towards a common goal, then the president just represents the blue states.

00:42:34.000 Look, I'm a young guy, I guess.

00:42:35.000 Young enough.

00:42:36.000 Maybe there were periods in American history where half the states were saying no to the president?

00:42:43.000 Maybe.

00:42:44.000 Maybe that was a hundred and some odd years ago, the last time we had a civil war, right?

00:42:48.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't think we're going to civil war.

00:42:52.000 It's not going to be what you think it is.

00:42:54.000 Well, the civil war is informational.

00:42:57.000 It's not with arms.

00:42:58.000 That's exactly what I'm saying.

00:43:00.000 It's fourth and fifth generational warfare. 0.81

00:43:03.000 So the point I'm making is, we're well past that point.

00:43:05.000 China's not going to march into India with guns.

00:43:08.000 They're going to buy more and more land.

00:43:10.000 They're doing it.

00:43:11.000 They're buying up property in the U.S.

00:43:13.000 like crazy.

00:43:13.000 They're buying up property in Brazil like crazy.

00:43:16.000 And then their citizens naturally just move into these areas and then live in these places using the existing laws.

00:43:22.000 They don't need to march in with guns when they can march in with economics.

00:43:25.000 Same thing in the United States.

00:43:26.000 The civil war we're experiencing is the culture war.

00:43:28.000 It is a cold civil war.

00:43:31.000 I shouldn't even say it's cold, because people have literally been shot and killed, notably in Portland, for instance.

00:43:36.000 But it's not like factions with armies marching towards each other.

00:43:39.000 The issue is, the best example is Joe Biden comes out, talks about COVID, Florida, Texas, other red states, just look at Joe Biden and say, buzz off.

00:43:48.000 We do not take your advice, and we do not care what you think.

00:43:51.000 So you got blue states saying, you got it, Joe, and red states saying, we don't agree with the president.

00:43:56.000 We are already split.

00:43:58.000 Into two different realities.

00:43:59.000 You wanna live like normal?

00:44:01.000 Florida's a-waitin'.

00:44:02.000 You don't gotta wear a mask anymore, you can go shopping, go to the movies, everything's back to normal.

00:44:05.000 Go to New York?

00:44:06.000 New York is now the epicenter again.

00:44:08.000 And they're saying, oh no, it's bad, we gotta do more lockdowns.

00:44:10.000 You go to Europe?

00:44:11.000 Europe's locking down like crazy.

00:44:13.000 Here in the US, to see blue states go the exact opposite direction of red states.

00:44:19.000 I do find that interesting, though, that, I mean, like, the division has been happening for a while.

00:44:25.000 I mean, just look at, you know, rewind 10 years ago.

00:44:30.000 I mean, think of how many states just rejected, you know, Obamacare coming into their states.

00:44:34.000 Exactly.

00:44:35.000 That's why a lot of people do believe Obama was the time that this division happened, but I'm like, look... I think it started before that.

00:44:42.000 Right, you can reduce it further and further.

00:44:44.000 Look at Al Gore and George W. Bush.

00:44:46.000 It was a Supreme Court appointment of a president.

00:44:48.000 No matter what you believe, there's half the country who believes Bush only became president because the Supreme Court intervened.

00:44:54.000 Now, there's a lot of people who say, no, no, George Bush won fair and square.

00:44:54.000 Right.

00:44:57.000 No, no, no.

00:44:58.000 The realities are divergent at that point.

00:45:00.000 There's there's Democrats who are saying it was stolen.

00:45:01.000 It was stolen.

00:45:02.000 And there you go.

00:45:02.000 It was stolen.

00:45:04.000 And you get eight years of that.

00:45:05.000 Then Obama comes in.

00:45:06.000 Then you get people who are accusing we're claiming it was stolen back then.

00:45:09.000 Like even even Donald Trump was saying that, you know, Mitt Romney.

00:45:12.000 And the interesting thing about that is a lot of people tied the Supreme Court fight of the 2000 election to distracting our intelligence agencies from what Al Qaeda was up to in the lead up to 9-11.

00:45:26.000 Because there was no transition.

00:45:27.000 The transition was so it was so rocky.

00:45:31.000 It was delayed and it was busted up.

00:45:33.000 Yeah, between the Clinton and the Bush administrations that a lot of people look at that as the one area where Al Qaeda basically made its move to enact to basically attack the United States through 9-11.

00:45:45.000 I think that was where we saw a big political split.

00:45:48.000 But an interesting thing happened in 2008 with the economic crisis, because we had Ben Stewart here who was talking about Strauss-Howe generational theory.

00:45:55.000 Are you familiar with that?

00:45:56.000 No, I'm not.

00:45:58.000 It's this theory that there are four seasons.

00:46:00.000 A season lasts 20 years.

00:46:01.000 You've got spring, summer, fall, and winter.

00:46:04.000 After winter, this great conflict, this great crisis, comes a spring where everything is really good, the economy blossoms and booms, then you have a summer where it's maintained and people are happy, then a fall where things are getting shaky and chaotic, and then a winter again where the chaos breaks out.

00:46:19.000 So right now, we are in the winter period.

00:46:22.000 80 years ago, the end of the last winter was World War II.

00:46:26.000 80 years before that, it was the Civil War.

00:46:28.000 80 years before that, the Revolutionary War.

00:46:31.000 And apparently, they've mapped out, like, all of these things that have happened every 80 years, because it's based on generations.

00:46:37.000 Are you familiar with that saying?

00:46:38.000 Strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make hard times, hard times make strong men.

00:46:48.000 It's similar to that idea that when you have a generation of people who fought through the trenches and many who didn't survive, only the strongest survive and come back and create a flourishing strong society of prosperity.

00:47:00.000 Their children inherit that world and don't necessarily understand what it took to create it.

00:47:06.000 The next generation inherits a world where they just feel entitled to it, which leads to chaos and collapse.

00:47:11.000 Interesting.

00:47:12.000 So it feels like, you know, we're basically in this period now where we can expect, I guess, the winter is here.

00:47:22.000 It's going to get bad and it's supposed to end around 2028.

00:47:24.000 But my point was, the point I wanted to get to with 2008 was when we talk about when the political divide started and when chaos started to happen, they predicted in the 90s when they wrote this book called The Fourth Turning, that in 2008, when boomers became eligible for Social Security, the economic system was going to collapse.

00:47:42.000 Perhaps everything we know about what caused the crisis, mortgage-backed securities and things like that, was actually just all the boomers now demanding their entitlements that didn't exist and figuring out how to cover it up. 0.81

00:47:56.000 Not cover it up, but like cover the costs of this.

00:47:59.000 When you look at the M1 money supply, it's slowly stagnant over several decades.

00:48:05.000 2008 happens, it increases by a factor of 10 or whatever.

00:48:08.000 It just spikes upward.

00:48:10.000 Money creation is going up rapidly.

00:48:12.000 Then the pandemic hits, skyrockets straight up.

00:48:16.000 They change the way they report the money stock mid-pandemic, and now no one knows for sure.

00:48:22.000 But you can see 2008, where the money supply just goes boom and takes a sharp turn upward.

00:48:27.000 Maybe mortgage-backed security crisis.

00:48:29.000 They were giving out homes to everybody and people couldn't pay for it.

00:48:33.000 Or maybe our financial system was broken.

00:48:35.000 We knew it was broken.

00:48:36.000 It was predicted that it was going to break and then it broke.

00:48:39.000 I've heard that.

00:48:40.000 This theory that they used COVID as an excuse to print because they had to print because everything was falling apart.

00:48:46.000 It's a conspiracy.

00:48:48.000 Was it you who was telling me this?

00:48:50.000 I think it was you who mentioned this.

00:48:50.000 Someone basic?

00:48:52.000 They were saying that Democrats made bad bets and investments that went sour and was going to completely disrupt pensions and 401ks and retirement plans.

00:49:02.000 Was it you who said that?

00:49:04.000 No.

00:49:04.000 Who told us that?

00:49:05.000 I don't remember hearing that.

00:49:07.000 Yeah, I was hearing there's a conspiracy theory.

00:49:10.000 That what actually happened was, COVID's legit, and we had a pandemic, we had a crisis, and we had 15 days to slow the spread.

00:49:17.000 However, the economic crisis was real.

00:49:20.000 We're supposed to have, you know, they say every 10 years there's like an economic downturn of some sort, and we kind of dodged that for some reason.

00:49:27.000 I heard a conspiracy theory, I'm not saying it's true, I'm saying it's literally probably not true, that Democrats made bad bets with, you know, unions made bad bets, they could, you know, they made bad investments, the investments soured, and then when COVID hit, they knew that there was going to be a serious collapse of retirement funds and people's 401ks and things like that.

00:49:45.000 So they were like, we need a bailout.

00:49:47.000 We saw all these blue states, now this part is true.

00:49:50.000 You know, Cuomo, for instance, being like, New York needs money!

00:49:52.000 And Trump was like, shove it.

00:49:54.000 Too bad.

00:49:54.000 Run your state better.

00:49:56.000 Now we get the $1.9 trillion stimulus.

00:49:59.000 And Republicans are calling it a bailout for blue states that are poorly managed.

00:50:03.000 So I don't know about those conspiracies.

00:50:04.000 I mean, yeah, they had the $2.2 trillion stimulus a year ago.

00:50:07.000 Right.

00:50:08.000 And it's covering the, I mean, look, New York's crumbling.

00:50:11.000 The Metro, for instance, the MTA, they're struggling to repair it.

00:50:16.000 They're not making enough money as to how much it costs.

00:50:19.000 So you had that whole situation with AOC where Amazon was going to come in and bring these 40,000 jobs, potentially $30 billion over 10 years.

00:50:26.000 They needed that money to fix their train systems.

00:50:29.000 That didn't, it didn't happen.

00:50:31.000 And I guess, interestingly enough, with the amount of people that are probably leaving New York because of the lockdowns, I can imagine they're probably going to be making way for, you know, a vacuum of sorts.

00:50:43.000 But I wonder, man.

00:50:44.000 I mean, Bill de Blasio said he's going to buy up these buildings, turn it into public housing.

00:50:49.000 I wonder if the economy is just worse than we realize, and they're not going to tell us because panic would only make it worse, right?

00:50:55.000 Well, yeah, obviously.

00:50:57.000 If they came out and said, My fellow Americans, several large unions with hundreds of thousands of members put their money in dangerous places and lost the retirements of millions of middle-class Americans.

00:51:09.000 This is going to result in a ripple effect that wipes out... If they said something like that, people would freak out.

00:51:16.000 Crash the banks.

00:51:16.000 Oh, 100%.

00:51:17.000 Exactly.

00:51:18.000 Remember what George W. Bush said after 9-11?

00:51:21.000 Which part?

00:51:22.000 How old are you?

00:51:24.000 I'm 33.

00:51:25.000 Alright, so you should remember this.

00:51:27.000 He said, go buy stuff.

00:51:30.000 He said, go buy stuff.

00:51:31.000 by stuff. Well, because the 9-11 attack was in addition to being an actual terrorist attack

00:51:38.000 on the people, it was an attack on our financial center.

00:51:43.000 And what he was basically saying was, if you want to help, go out and buy things to keep the

00:51:49.000 economy moving. When that attack happened and people are panicking, you get a natural

00:51:53.000 reaction from a lot of people to stock up, store up, save your money, and bunker down.

00:51:58.000 Right.

00:51:59.000 And he was like, no, no, no, the machine's gotta keep churning.

00:52:02.000 You need to keep the machine going so we generate taxes, so we can pay for this stuff, so we can build new things.

00:52:06.000 Go buy stuff.

00:52:09.000 That's a scary prospect because that can't last forever, can it?

00:52:12.000 Right.

00:52:13.000 So I don't know exactly if any of these conspiracies are true.

00:52:16.000 I would actually argue they're probably not.

00:52:17.000 That's why we call them conspiracies.

00:52:19.000 But I will say you can look at the crisis in 2008, the mass printing of money.

00:52:23.000 It was only a matter of time before we were going to see that bubble burst.

00:52:25.000 It could not be maintained.

00:52:26.000 Do you remember how much the 2008 bailout was for?

00:52:30.000 I was looking for like for nine hundred and eighty nine million dollars.

00:52:33.000 Yeah, that was our billion.

00:52:34.000 That was what was on the books.

00:52:35.000 I'm reading an article here from and that's too small.

00:52:38.000 This article from MIT quotes a 2015 Forbes article that says we've paid back four point six trillion of the sixteen point eight trillion that we committed to that bailout over.

00:52:48.000 I don't know how many years, 15 or 20 years or something.

00:52:51.000 Now, this is Forbes reporting that.

00:52:55.000 If we secretly committed $16 trillion in 2008 and we're still paying it back, maybe that's another explanation for why they just flooded the market with $12 trillion.

00:53:03.000 I mean, dude, dude, the Federal Reserve, the fractional banking, fractional reserve system, it is a stack of cards.

00:53:10.000 It is literally a Ponzi scheme.

00:53:12.000 And it works because we have guns.

00:53:14.000 So at a certain point, it's gonna fall apart.

00:53:17.000 Like, you guys understand how banking in this country works, right?

00:53:20.000 Fractional reserve, as far as I understand, is the Federal Reserve will loan a bank a million dollars.

00:53:25.000 The bank then can loan out 90% of that.

00:53:28.000 So they can loan out $900,000.

00:53:29.000 They need to keep 10% on reserve, but that loan is creating the money supply.

00:53:34.000 So when you give $100 to a bank, they can then loan out $90, which is created on the books.

00:53:42.000 And then to another bank.

00:53:44.000 Then that other bank takes that $90 and can loan out $81.

00:53:45.000 Not necessarily.

00:53:46.000 So I put $100 in the bank of Ian.

00:53:47.000 necessarily. They loan it to you. So they give you so I put 100 bucks in the bank of

00:53:51.000 Ian. Then the bank of Ian is able to give a $90 loan to the bank of Siraj as an individual.

00:53:59.000 Siraj then- You don't get your own bank.

00:54:01.000 But then you deposit your 90 bucks.

00:54:01.000 Not yet.

00:54:03.000 You deposit your 90 bucks into the bank of Lydia.

00:54:06.000 Now Lydia can loan out 90 percent. 1.00

00:54:08.000 Whoa, whoa.

00:54:09.000 Guys, this sounds a little bit racist.

00:54:11.000 Talk about it.

00:54:12.000 Well, I don't got a bank either.

00:54:13.000 Oh, I thought you just said you had the bank.

00:54:15.000 Change the federal reserve.

00:54:17.000 So the point is...

00:54:19.000 A bank gives an individual money.

00:54:21.000 The individual puts it in a bank.

00:54:23.000 That bank then loans out.

00:54:24.000 Then an individual loans, puts it back in the bank.

00:54:26.000 So it's just basically a stack of cards.

00:54:29.000 It's basically a game of hot potato.

00:54:31.000 And where the debt keeps stacking up, the interest becomes impossible to pay.

00:54:35.000 And then Obama signs a massive stimulus.

00:54:37.000 The money printing goes out of control.

00:54:39.000 This was predictable a long time ago.

00:54:41.000 I mean, when did we go off the gold standard?

00:54:42.000 That was 1970, I think?

00:54:43.000 Do you know what the issue there was?

00:54:43.000 Yeah, the 72-73 shock.

00:54:49.000 It's really, really simple.

00:54:50.000 If all four of us here in this room are trading, you know, one dollar between each other.

00:54:56.000 So it's like I give Ian a dollar in exchange for a high-five, then Ian gives Siraj a dollar in exchange for a high-five.

00:55:01.000 The only way to get that high-five is to have the dollar and make it to you.

00:55:05.000 So at one point, I decide, you know what?

00:55:07.000 I don't want to have to give away a high five to get that dollar.

00:55:10.000 I want all the high fives for myself.

00:55:12.000 So I tell all of you, hey guys, I'm gonna manage the money printer.

00:55:15.000 Don't worry, I'll make sure everything's good.

00:55:17.000 And then when you guys aren't paying attention, I just print money for myself.

00:55:19.000 I don't do any work.

00:55:21.000 Basically what happens is, we're able to fund all of these wars and all this conflict because the Fed can print out money, loan it to whoever they want, without contributing anything to society.

00:55:30.000 We've got missing trillions of dollars on the books or whatever from the Pentagon, some nonsense.

00:55:36.000 We've not audited the Fed.

00:55:38.000 We need to figure out how much money is being printed, who it's going to, and we don't know.

00:55:43.000 At a certain point, if they can just snap their fingers and create money on the books and we don't understand the system, other people are exploiting it.

00:55:50.000 The House of Cards is gonna fall over.

00:55:51.000 That's it.

00:55:51.000 Yeah.

00:55:52.000 And, I mean, you inspired me to make a great idea.

00:55:55.000 I'm definitely gonna start charging people for high fives.

00:55:57.000 That's the way to go.

00:55:57.000 Yes.

00:55:59.000 Specifically kids.

00:56:00.000 You know, this is another aspect of the situation that bothers me is the oil economy, because it's so obvious that we're moving off an oil economy onto like a nuclear economy or something.

00:56:09.000 Well, people still have an aversion to nuclear, so I don't think that's going to happen.

00:56:13.000 Right, nuclear fission.

00:56:14.000 People are afraid of the dirtiness of corium meltdowns, but like fusion or like thorium reactors, which is also a type of nuclear, which isn't dirty, doesn't have corium byproduct.

00:56:23.000 So we're, I mean, it's amazing tech, but there's this massive resistance because if we go off oil, they can't extort the rest of the world to use our dollar anymore.

00:56:34.000 I mean, they bring up a valid point.

00:56:36.000 I mean, think of how much oil runs our society.

00:56:42.000 Moving off of that.

00:56:43.000 I mean, that's why there's such a huge push to obviously not go towards solar and wind.

00:56:47.000 It's because the, I mean, not, I mean, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not efficient.

00:56:52.000 Right.

00:56:52.000 It's not efficient.

00:56:54.000 But also because the entire push is obviously like, you know, you got to focus on the coal industry.

00:56:58.000 You got to focus on the oil and gas industry.

00:57:01.000 And you know, we, as a nation are very conservative when it comes to changing where we're getting that money from.

00:57:07.000 Like the battery industry.

00:57:08.000 Elon Musk had to make a company to build them.

00:57:10.000 I know.

00:57:11.000 Because the government wouldn't do it.

00:57:13.000 Well, why should the government do it anyway?

00:57:15.000 So that we can get us off oil.

00:57:16.000 But they don't want us off oil.

00:57:17.000 They want us to keep buying tanks of oil to keep in our base.

00:57:19.000 That's probably what I mean.

00:57:21.000 Besides what people think of Elon Musk's opinions, I mean, Elon Musk is a in many ways he is a trailblazer because he is creating a renewable source of energy, but also commercializing space flight and to the powers that be, whatever that may be.

00:57:41.000 That's a threat.

00:57:42.000 Because, you know, if you cede that power to Elon Musk... One word, bro.

00:57:48.000 China.

00:57:49.000 China.

00:57:50.000 They're not going to stop using fossil fuels.

00:57:53.000 Fossil fuels have an excellent energy return on energy invested.

00:57:57.000 So we, these good and noble Americans, know that solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, and hydro-dam electricity, all of these things are great cleaner alternatives.

00:58:11.000 They don't produce that carbon emission.

00:58:15.000 But they don't have a high enough return on the energy investment.

00:58:17.000 In fact, to build solar panels requires a ton of oil.

00:58:21.000 Wind turbines as well.

00:58:22.000 Plus we don't have the batteries for them.

00:58:25.000 What's the batteries?

00:58:26.000 Yeah, so we need a continuous supply.

00:58:29.000 So fusion would be fantastic.

00:58:32.000 Nuclear power, absolutely, but the activists don't want that either.

00:58:36.000 And I have to wonder why that is, because that can really make us powerful.

00:58:41.000 I mean, if someone figures out a way to make a car run on Dreams and Starlight, it's over.

00:58:46.000 Oh, yeah, definitely, because then we're going to build spaceships and, you know, rockets and lasers.

00:58:51.000 Theoretically, what would happen if we went off the oil economy?

00:58:54.000 Not that we stopped using it, but that we stopped relying on it tomorrow because everyone had batteries and could charge everything.

00:58:59.000 Well, we'd still have to kill people overseas. 0.78

00:59:02.000 We got it. 1.00

00:59:03.000 We got to make sure that we're bombing those kids. 0.79

00:59:05.000 Otherwise, these other rambunctious countries will stop, you know, bending the knee to us. 0.93

00:59:10.000 Oh, my God.

00:59:11.000 Would China gain power or lose power in the hegemony?

00:59:15.000 If we get off the petrodollar, China just... It's done. 0.99

00:59:17.000 They take over.

00:59:19.000 Because we couldn't extort our allies to fight for us?

00:59:22.000 Allies?

00:59:22.000 Who do you think we're extorting?

00:59:23.000 We're extorting... Who's buying our oil?

00:59:25.000 Everybody hates us.

00:59:25.000 What are you talking about?

00:59:26.000 Yeah.

00:59:27.000 Here's how... Even our allies hate us.

00:59:29.000 Is Britain buying our oil?

00:59:31.000 Everybody.

00:59:32.000 We're a net exporter of oil.

00:59:34.000 It's not just that.

00:59:36.000 Let's say, you know, you're the country of Ian, right?

00:59:38.000 And I'm the United States.

00:59:40.000 Oh, do I get my own country?

00:59:42.000 Actually, you're the federation.

00:59:44.000 The grand principality of the list.

00:59:47.000 The federation of the list.

00:59:48.000 It's multiple countries.

00:59:49.000 You get multiple countries.

00:59:50.000 Excellent.

00:59:51.000 So we've got this trade federation over here, and we got the country of Ian, and I'm the United States.

00:59:55.000 OK, I want oil.

00:59:56.000 It's really simple.

00:59:57.000 Hey, Fed, print me a trillion dollars so I can buy oil.

01:00:00.000 They do.

01:00:00.000 I buy oil.

01:00:01.000 Thanks, guys, for all your hard work.

01:00:03.000 Then Ian says, yo, I want oil, too.

01:00:04.000 OK, well, if you want these dollars, you got to pay up.

01:00:07.000 Give me your money, and I'll give you some dollars.

01:00:08.000 I'll give you some of my Ian currency, and you're like, no, no, no.

01:00:11.000 You need my currency to buy my oil.

01:00:12.000 Exactly.

01:00:13.000 You need to buy my currency first.

01:00:14.000 No, no, no.

01:00:14.000 It's not my oil.

01:00:15.000 It's your oil.

01:00:16.000 You produced it in your country, and we forced you to put it on the international market, and if you want to buy it back, you buy dollars from us first.

01:00:23.000 Now, your trade federation, same deal.

01:00:26.000 It's the oil produced in your own countries put on the international market.

01:00:29.000 If you want some of it, you gotta buy it in US dollars.

01:00:32.000 So trade for me and I'll give you what I think is fair.

01:00:35.000 What ends up happening is, many countries have to be net exporters.

01:00:40.000 In order to keep the strength of their currency sound, so they can buy US dollars in order to buy oil, even if it's produced by them or someone else.

01:00:49.000 So, we know what happens to countries that talk about getting off the petrodollar.

01:00:54.000 Muammar Gaddafi.

01:00:55.000 He wanted to trade in dinars.

01:00:57.000 He died!

01:00:58.000 Too bad.

01:00:58.000 What did he do?

01:00:59.000 Venezuela, North Korea.

01:01:00.000 Venezuela.

01:01:01.000 Saddam Hussein, he said, why not the euro?

01:01:03.000 And he died.

01:01:05.000 It's a really weird coincidence how that happens. 0.96

01:01:07.000 Maduro's a villain.

01:01:07.000 You know what I mean?

01:01:08.000 And then there's the Qatar-Turkey pipeline, right?

01:01:10.000 The US wanted to build a natural gas pipeline through Syria and Turkey into Europe.

01:01:14.000 And then Syria fell into civil war.

01:01:17.000 Yeah.

01:01:18.000 It's really funny how all that goes down, isn't it?

01:01:20.000 Yeah, that is interesting.

01:01:23.000 So, if oil stops being that, like, you know, principal source of energy, then we don't have leverage over these other countries.

01:01:30.000 Fiscally, yeah.

01:01:31.000 Yeah, if fusion technology became rampant, like, just ubiquitous, and then all of a sudden we go to, you know, this one country and we're like, yo, you haven't been calling to buy dollars in oil from us, and they're like, oh, we got fusion, we're good.

01:01:45.000 You guys ever watch Rick and Morty?

01:01:45.000 Really good example.

01:01:47.000 I know exactly what you're talking about.

01:01:49.000 The battery episode.

01:01:51.000 Sounds like slavery with extra steps.

01:01:53.000 Exactly.

01:01:54.000 So in this show, Rick, his car breaks down.

01:01:57.000 And his battery is a microverse.

01:02:01.000 It's a microverse, yeah.

01:02:02.000 Yeah, so inside it, he's got this little universe where he tells all these people to step on these platforms.

01:02:09.000 Like a DDR.

01:02:10.000 Yeah, Dance Dance Revolution.

01:02:12.000 And it generates electricity, which he siphons some off of.

01:02:15.000 But then there's a scientist in that universe who creates another microscopic universe.

01:02:20.000 And so basically what happens is...

01:02:22.000 Rick shows up and he's like, yo, what's going on?

01:02:24.000 You're not making electricity anymore.

01:02:25.000 And they're like, don't worry, we figured it out.

01:02:27.000 We don't need you anymore.

01:02:28.000 So then he threatens to destroy their universe unless they get back to generating his power for him.

01:02:34.000 So the U.S., if we get one of these smaller countries, some small Middle Eastern country, all of a sudden they, boom, fusion ignition.

01:02:41.000 We got clean running energy.

01:02:43.000 It is generating tons and tons of power.

01:02:45.000 And they go, we don't need oil anymore.

01:02:47.000 Well, all of a sudden, the U.S.

01:02:48.000 is gonna be like, hey, we haven't heard from, uh, Ian Country in a little bit.

01:02:52.000 What's going on?

01:02:53.000 Don't they need dollars to buy oil? 0.80

01:02:55.000 So they show up one day on a diplomatic mission, and they go, so, so, you guys, uh, is something wrong?

01:02:59.000 No, nothing's wrong.

01:02:59.000 Do you need oil?

01:03:00.000 Everything's great.

01:03:00.000 We have fusion now.

01:03:01.000 You have fusion?

01:03:02.000 And then he pulls out his Beretta, and he clicks it, and he goes, bang!

01:03:06.000 And then he goes, problem solved, guys!

01:03:08.000 Anybody else want to use fusion power?

01:03:12.000 So look, look, I'm being very, very facetious.

01:03:15.000 It's much more complicated than that.

01:03:17.000 It's not so simple.

01:03:18.000 It's not like the U.S. 0.96

01:03:19.000 is a gigantic supervillain of a nation, but that is a big concern.

01:03:24.000 I do believe if we ever actually reached fusion ignition, the U.S.

01:03:27.000 would quickly use that to reshape the world in its favor.

01:03:31.000 I don't think the U.S.

01:03:31.000 is purposefully holding back electrical technologies, you know.

01:03:35.000 And it gets back to your point about China, because all of our interests, all of our politicians are basically sold out to them. 0.93

01:03:42.000 And there's going to be no concerted effort or urgency to switch over to that because, again, The status quo is that oil runs everything.

01:03:53.000 If you want to win re-election, you've got to continue making sure that the oil industry is satisfied.

01:04:00.000 It's not just that.

01:04:02.000 So even if we perfect nuclear or fusion, it's going to take a long time and a lot of energy.

01:04:07.000 How much can we allocate in that direction?

01:04:09.000 The fear is China is building new coal power plants.

01:04:12.000 They're absolutely exploiting fossil fuels, and fossil fuels have a tremendously high energy return on energy invested.

01:04:19.000 shifts to renewable energies or developing new power plants, we are at a disadvantage.

01:04:19.000 So if the U.S.

01:04:24.000 China is rapidly expanding and growing, and it seems like we're losing that fight anyway, so at this point, get the fusion online, baby.

01:04:29.000 Do you think that there's a concerted effort behind the scenes for the United States and China to divide the world between them with a petrodollar economy?

01:04:37.000 And they're letting us bicker about human rights violations, but they don't really care, because for them it's business.

01:04:43.000 No, what do you mean?

01:04:44.000 China is about to overtake the U.S. 0.96

01:04:46.000 And the U.S.

01:04:47.000 is flailing and flopping about.

01:04:49.000 But they know we could never go to war because of the nuclear conflict, so they're like... That's not true.

01:04:54.000 I mean, well, that we should never go to war.

01:04:56.000 I mean, both governments... Well, you should never go to war for any reason, and nobody ever really wanted war.

01:05:00.000 I think there are sometimes... Some people, I guess.

01:05:03.000 A military-industrial complex wants war.

01:05:05.000 Or like when there's a marauding force slaughtering humans and you need to intercede.

01:05:09.000 Like ISIS. 0.87

01:05:11.000 Bro, nukes will be fired if war breaks out.

01:05:17.000 Right.

01:05:17.000 So nobody really wants that, I don't think.

01:05:20.000 But I wonder if there's this business class that's using both these countries to basically partition the globe.

01:05:26.000 And that's why there hasn't been a move on the human rights violations in the Uyghurs at all. 0.99

01:05:31.000 I don't think there's any grand plan to partition the globe.

01:05:35.000 That's just that's that's too much.

01:05:37.000 I think the grand plan is ultimately decoupling.

01:05:41.000 You mentioned, obviously, does this aggression happen under any other administration?

01:05:44.000 It has.

01:05:46.000 But this would be the trajectory that China would be going down, regardless of whether Trump or Biden was in office now.

01:05:52.000 Right.

01:05:52.000 Because the idea is that Right now, a lot of these global corporations, they can live off of basically selling a set of products just to the Chinese citizens and then a set of products to the rest of the world.

01:06:08.000 They will actually manufacture stuff differently for two different audiences or two different I mean, that's true for a lot of factories, you know that, right?

01:06:16.000 Like, when you go to Walmart to buy a TV, you're getting a different TV than if you buy it at Best Buy.

01:06:20.000 No, and I mean it.

01:06:20.000 People don't realize that.

01:06:22.000 So, if you go and there's a Sony or like, you know, a Samsung TV at Walmart, made with different materials than the Samsung TV at Best Buy.

01:06:29.000 Same model, different materials?

01:06:30.000 Yeah.

01:06:31.000 That's my understanding.

01:06:32.000 You know, fact check me on this one.

01:06:33.000 Well, I know Google specifically tailors their search algorithms for different countries, different regions.

01:06:33.000 I could be wrong.

01:06:38.000 What do you mean?

01:06:39.000 If you, if you Google search right now, anybody listening, if you Google search auto repair, are they going to send you New York auto repair?

01:06:45.000 No.

01:06:45.000 They're going to know exactly where you are and they're going to show you auto repair.

01:06:47.000 They actually give different tech, like different coding of their browsers and stuff.

01:06:51.000 Like they gave China a specific browser that could be used to track the people, if I'm not mistaken.

01:06:56.000 Because China wouldn't let Google into the country, so they had to, like, build a specific... Well, they were working on... What was that thing called?

01:07:02.000 Dragon something?

01:07:04.000 And then they got... Google employees revolted.

01:07:06.000 Yeah, Dragonfly something?

01:07:07.000 Google employees revolted that Google was working with China, so then Google backed off.

01:07:13.000 Google's response was, well, if we don't go in and do this, someone else will.

01:07:17.000 At least then we'll have some control.

01:07:18.000 It's like, no, you won't.

01:07:20.000 If you go, when these companies go to China and they do, they have to open up a CCP wing of their company.

01:07:26.000 They create like a division of the Chinese Communist Party and their companies.

01:07:29.000 So I'll tell you this.

01:07:31.000 If the NBA, if this is true, this is what we heard from China Uncensored. 0.59

01:07:35.000 If the NBA has a company, a branch operating in China, That would imply the Chinese Communist Party has influence in the NBA.

01:07:44.000 In the United States as well as in China.

01:07:47.000 Because they'll go to them and say, case in point, when the NBA banned the phrase Free Hong Kong on customizable jerseys, remember this?

01:07:56.000 That was in America!

01:07:56.000 Yeah, I remember that.

01:07:58.000 Why?

01:07:58.000 Because the NBA in China, the Chinese went to them and said, don't allow people in America to say Free Hong Kong.

01:08:03.000 They went, you got it, buddy.

01:08:05.000 And so when you try to type it in, it'll give you an error.

01:08:07.000 Look, I mean, dude, we had Blizzard, the gaming company, they have the game Hearthstone.

01:08:07.000 Right.

01:08:13.000 One of the people competing held up a sign that said, free Hong Kong, and so the player got suspended, created a huge controversy, and then they were like, oh no no no, they got suspended because it was political in general, and we're not all about that.

01:08:23.000 It's like, oh dude, we get it.

01:08:24.000 It's because you have people, you have a branch in China, and China told you.

01:08:29.000 So we're already there.

01:08:30.000 Chinese Communist Party has its tendrils across the globe.

01:08:34.000 And whether anyone realizes it or not, I mean, Bill Maher said it, we lost.

01:08:38.000 We lost already.

01:08:39.000 I don't know.

01:08:40.000 That is very pessimistic of him to say that.

01:08:42.000 I think that we're definitely losing the military game.

01:08:45.000 But like, if it's a grand game of Civ and you can win with religion, with culture, with military, with science, I don't think they're winning across the board.

01:08:52.000 They're really, really...

01:08:55.000 Totalitarian.

01:08:56.000 Like, the people hate it in China, from what I can tell.

01:08:58.000 They're just not allowed to say it.

01:09:00.000 So that, we got that working for them.

01:09:02.000 Or for us, rather.

01:09:03.000 Well, you said something about decoupling.

01:09:05.000 I wanted to just... Yeah, so decoupling means that, you know, trade between the United States and China, you know, it cessates.

01:09:13.000 There's no more trade.

01:09:14.000 And so whatever relations that did exist, no longer exist.

01:09:19.000 And so you basically would have to rely on any manufacturing company that would exist Say like, say an Apple or a, not Disney, but let's just focus on Apple for a second.

01:09:31.000 If Apple was manufacturing iPhones in China and say the United States and China decouple, then all of a sudden Apple has to figure out how they're gonna manufacture their stuff and be able to sell that over in the United States and the rest of the world.

01:09:45.000 And overnight that factory in China becomes property of China.

01:09:48.000 And then they have the iPhone factories and they make iPhones for themselves and then we don't.

01:09:48.000 Exactly.

01:09:52.000 Yeah.

01:09:53.000 Let's move to US media real quick because I want to advance the conversation.

01:09:57.000 We have this tweet from Glenn Greenwald which is going to blow everybody's minds.

01:10:01.000 Glenn tweeted, if you're a critic of the media, you need to hear this.

01:10:06.000 Glenn Greenwald tweeted, Read this amazing section from Judge Silberman's dissent today in a defamation case before the D.C.

01:10:12.000 Circuit on how an increasingly ideologically homogenized U.S.

01:10:17.000 media is not only threatening core free speech values, but also the ability to be informed.

01:10:23.000 In his dissent he wrote, it is well accepted that viewpoint discrimination raises the specter that the government may effectively drive certain ideas or viewpoints from the marketplace, but ideological homogeneity in the media or in the channels of information distribution RISKS REPRESSING CERTAIN IDEAS FROM THE PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS, JUST AS SURELY AS IF ACCESS WERE RESTRICTED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

01:10:46.000 TO BE SURE, THERE ARE FEW NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IDEOLOGICAL CONTROL.

01:10:51.000 FOX NEWS, THE NEW YORK POST, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S EDITORIAL PAGE.

01:10:55.000 IT SHOULD BE SOBERING FOR THOSE CONCERNED ABOUT NEWS BIAS THAT THESE INSTITUTIONS ARE CONTROLLED BY A SINGLE MAN AND HIS SON.

01:11:02.000 WILL A LONE HOLDOUT REMAIN IN WHAT IS OTHERWISE A FRIGHTENINGLY ORTHODOX MEDIA CULTURE?

01:11:08.000 After all, there are serious efforts to muzzle Fox News.

01:11:12.000 And although upstart mainly online conservative networks have emerged in recent years,

01:11:16.000 I think it might go on. No, so he doesn't continue from there, but I'll read the next

01:11:21.000 section that Glenn posts. He said, it should be born in the mind that the first step taken by

01:11:27.000 any potential authoritarian or dictatorial regime is to gain control of communications,

01:11:31.000 particularly the delivery of news.

01:11:35.000 It is fair to conclude, therefore, that one-party control of the press and media is a threat to a viable democracy.

01:11:42.000 It may even give rise to countervailing extremism.

01:11:46.000 The First Amendment guarantees a free press to foster a vibrant trade in ideas.

01:11:51.000 But a biased press can distort the marketplace.

01:11:53.000 And when the media has proven its willingness, if not eagerness, to so distort, it is a profound mistake to stand by unjustified legal rules that serve only to enhance the press's power.

01:12:06.000 Absolutely amazing to hear that.

01:12:09.000 But maybe it's too little too late.

01:12:11.000 But I'll tell you this, it is absolutely true.

01:12:13.000 How sobering, as Judge Silverman describes it, that the main resistance to democratic orthodoxy in the media is Murdoch.

01:12:25.000 So they said it's one really old man.

01:12:27.000 And his son.

01:12:27.000 Is that who they're talking about?

01:12:28.000 Murdoch's son?

01:12:30.000 Lachlan.

01:12:31.000 Yeah.

01:12:31.000 Lachlan.

01:12:32.000 But is Lachlan the one?

01:12:33.000 Isn't he woke or something?

01:12:35.000 Yeah.

01:12:37.000 It's over, everybody.

01:12:39.000 We're going home and welcome to your new cult.

01:12:39.000 Back it in.

01:12:42.000 I think we're incredibly resilient as humans.

01:12:44.000 So if someone is speaking out against it, that means that means we have a chance.

01:12:49.000 Maybe so.

01:12:50.000 It's a dissent.

01:12:51.000 I mean, is this too little too late?

01:12:55.000 I absolutely think it is, man.

01:12:57.000 Maybe not, maybe not.

01:12:58.000 Look, there's a lot of people watching this show right now, and this is not a... You know what?

01:13:04.000 No, no, no.

01:13:04.000 I was gonna say we're not ideological here, but we are absolutely ideologically motivated here.

01:13:09.000 Classically liberal, libertarian, and socially liberal values represent the conversations we have here for the most part.

01:13:15.000 There's a reason.

01:13:16.000 It's really fascinating.

01:13:17.000 Why leftists are so hard to book because they're authoritarian orthodoxy.

01:13:23.000 It's very hard to speak safely when you exist inside the confines of their moral framework.

01:13:30.000 That's why I've done numerous interviews.

01:13:32.000 I did an interview in Berkeley with this woman.

01:13:34.000 I'm standing in the street and I'm filming.

01:13:36.000 Some woman walks up and starts talking to me and I'm holding my camera. 0.98

01:13:40.000 I asked her some questions.

01:13:41.000 She answered.

01:13:42.000 She gave horrible answers.

01:13:44.000 Five minutes later, she walks up to me and says, delete the footage.

01:13:47.000 No joke.

01:13:48.000 And I said, I'm filming and you walked up to me.

01:13:51.000 I'm not deleting it.

01:13:53.000 And she was like, no, you have to.

01:13:54.000 I don't give you permission.

01:13:55.000 And I was like, I don't need your permission.

01:13:56.000 You're in public talking to me while I'm filming.

01:13:59.000 I don't try to generate controversy though.

01:14:01.000 So I blurred her face.

01:14:03.000 I'm not trying to drag her.

01:14:04.000 I'm not trying to get some random woman on the street in trouble with the woke, but I did want to show what she had basically said was conservatives who get physically attacked deserve it because of the way they dress. 0.97

01:14:16.000 She said there was a woman wearing a MAGA hat.

01:14:18.000 She was asking for it.

01:14:21.000 No joke.

01:14:22.000 And so the issue there is when you think about the moral framework that exists in the minds of these people, when they say women who are wearing certain clothes aren't asking for it, but when it comes to Trump supporters, they are, it shows there's no actual principle behind their moral framework other than join the tribe or burn.

01:14:40.000 She wanted me to delete the footage because her ideas would get her cancelled. 1.00

01:14:45.000 When people heard what she said, you can't stick your neck out.

01:14:48.000 So many of these people, they do their shows, the priests of the orthodoxy.

01:14:52.000 The guests we have on this show, who are more than happy to come and speak, are confident in themselves, in classically liberal ideals of freedom of speech, and being honest, expressing themselves, and they're not scared about what the woke mob's gonna do to them.

01:15:05.000 Well, that's, I mean, I think you're, that's an overstatement for me, since I have a very low self-esteem, which is why I got into media, so that my parents would know that's who I am.

01:15:13.000 There you go.

01:15:14.000 As for most of these journalists who work at mainstream publications, Um, yeah, you know, that's interesting.

01:15:14.000 You've succeeded.

01:15:20.000 And that's that dissent, you know, I don't as as groundbreaking as that may be or shattering as that may be.

01:15:29.000 If that were, say, any other if there were a celebrity that had, like, say, a red pill moment, it said something like that.

01:15:36.000 Maybe Sarah Silverman.

01:15:38.000 Yeah.

01:15:38.000 She came out recently and said, I don't want to be associated with either party because of the elitism and the absolute.

01:15:43.000 Well, what's her name?

01:15:45.000 Oh, the name is escaping me.

01:15:47.000 Rose McGowan.

01:15:48.000 Oh, yeah, definitely.

01:15:49.000 When she had her moment, that was big.

01:15:51.000 That was huge, especially in the in the middle of a presidential election.

01:15:54.000 She's like, I don't what the accusations of Tara Reid against then candidate Joe Biden was enough for me.

01:16:03.000 And the way it was handled from her charmed co-star Alyssa Milano.

01:16:07.000 Yeah, that was enough for her to be like, I'm done.

01:16:11.000 That's it.

01:16:11.000 I want to be optimistic right now.

01:16:13.000 You know why?

01:16:14.000 They're not cool people.

01:16:16.000 Who wants to be like them?

01:16:18.000 You know, do you want to be one of these, like, easily agitated, panicky, finicky, woke culture warriors working for one of these publications?

01:16:27.000 Some people, but it's remnants of the old world, right?

01:16:30.000 So the New York Times has Prestige.

01:16:32.000 Was it the Grey Lady?

01:16:33.000 The Paper of Record?

01:16:35.000 Young people grow up, millennials, hearing great stories about the prestigious New York Times.

01:16:41.000 It is my dream to be a Times journalist.

01:16:43.000 Congratulations, they hired you, and now you complain about TikTokers. 1.00

01:16:47.000 Is that what you really thought you were gonna be doing?

01:16:49.000 Or did you think you were gonna be, like, meeting in a parking garage, and some, like, source walks up, and he's got a manila folder, and he's like, please, don't tell anyone I was here, otherwise they'll kill me, and you're like, don't worry.

01:16:59.000 I'm going to expose these criminals and then in reality, you're like, so the 17 year old on TikTok, you're never going to believe this, like as a TikTok mansion, right?

01:17:06.000 But then like one of his friends showed up.

01:17:08.000 That's what the New York Times has become.

01:17:10.000 Who wants to be that today?

01:17:11.000 What young person who's actually on TikTok is looking at what these journalists at the New York Times are and going, I really want to be like that when I grow up.

01:17:19.000 They're not doing that.

01:17:20.000 So what's happening now is these woke culture warriors of cancel culture at these big publications are not cool, and nobody wants to be like them.

01:17:30.000 Young people, especially.

01:17:32.000 You ever seen the show, The Boys?

01:17:34.000 Oh yeah, of course.

01:17:38.000 I don't know why this conversation reminds me of that, but it's specifically in the storyline of the first season with Starlight, who is trying to get into the Seven of Vaad.

01:17:47.000 For those that aren't familiar, she's a superhero.

01:17:50.000 She wants to join the big superhero organization.

01:17:52.000 Right, yeah.

01:17:54.000 And then she gets there, and she realizes, obviously, this is all a big charade.

01:17:58.000 This is a corporate entity.

01:18:01.000 They don't care about actually saving people's lives.

01:18:05.000 They care about the money flow.

01:18:09.000 If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it.

01:18:12.000 Good show.

01:18:13.000 It is a good show, which it got off Amazon Prime because we're now basically pumping up Jeff Bezos's numbers.

01:18:20.000 But it kind of shows that classical trope of, you know, don't meet your heroes.

01:18:26.000 Right.

01:18:27.000 She really, really wanted to be this big hero, join this big organization, and then she realized it was actually really awful. 0.99

01:18:32.000 Everyone sucked. 0.98

01:18:33.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:18:33.000 And she didn't want to be there anymore. 0.99

01:18:34.000 But that is very much media today.

01:18:38.000 No, but it's worse than that.

01:18:42.000 Here's what I mean.

01:18:45.000 In the show The Boys, The Seven, which is like the Justice League, they're cool.

01:18:50.000 They're celebrities.

01:18:51.000 Everybody wants to be them.

01:18:52.000 They're in the movies.

01:18:53.000 They got endorsement deals. 1.00

01:18:55.000 Who wants to go work for the Daily Beast to write about, I don't know, cats or something stupid that's nonsensical and made up? 0.99

01:19:01.000 No, who wants to be that when they grow up? 0.99

01:19:02.000 Nobody.

01:19:03.000 So here's my point.

01:19:05.000 We've talked about how movies today, going woke, are becoming like Christian films used to be. 0.90

01:19:13.000 You know, like good, what is it, good flicks or whatever?

01:19:15.000 Yeah, pure flicks.

01:19:16.000 Pure flicks.

01:19:17.000 And everybody, everybody always laughs and then like jokingly ribs me for like, hey, don't make fun of pure flicks.

01:19:22.000 It's like watching those really, like, really campy religious versions of films with, like, Bible Man or whatever and VeggieTales and stuff.

01:19:31.000 VeggieTales.

01:19:33.000 As the woke cult takes over Hollywood, movies become preachy, boring and nonsensical, and uncool.

01:19:40.000 You gotta watch—have you seen The New Craft?

01:19:43.000 No.

01:19:44.000 You will absolutely hate it.

01:19:46.000 You know why?

01:19:46.000 I don't care about the wokeness.

01:19:48.000 It's not a good movie.

01:19:50.000 It makes no sense, the pacing is off, I have no idea what the message is, and it's just like... nothing happens, I guess?

01:19:57.000 And then a guy bursts into flames or something?

01:19:59.000 The whole movie is a woke PSA, where they just keep giving off woke potshots of like, they'll be walking down the street and then one person makes a comment about being trans, and you're like, what does that have to do with the movie?

01:20:08.000 Like, why is this dialogue in the film?

01:20:10.000 Because they want to make sure you know they're woke.

01:20:12.000 The wokeness is more important in the storyline.

01:20:15.000 Thus, they've created something boring that nobody wants to engage with, the movie will fail, and then kids who see it will grow up thinking, that's not cool, I don't want to be like that.

01:20:25.000 If it's not cool and doesn't inspire youth, it won't exist.

01:20:30.000 Who are your heroes?

01:20:31.000 My heroes?

01:20:32.000 Oh, they're mostly rappers, but they're not really heroes.

01:20:35.000 I don't know.

01:20:36.000 I mean, I, I actually, no, my, I have, my heroes are like my dad and my grandpa, like my legitimate heroes.

01:20:43.000 People I think are like through and through the greatest people I know.

01:20:47.000 And I don't, the thing is, and that's exactly what it is.

01:20:51.000 The never meet you heroes.

01:20:54.000 I don't have any like celebrity heroes.

01:20:56.000 Well, you said rappers.

01:20:57.000 I like rappers.

01:20:58.000 I love hip hop.

01:21:00.000 They're inspirations in how I can make music.

01:21:03.000 I love this so much.

01:21:04.000 I love them.

01:21:04.000 My heroes are Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder, man.

01:21:06.000 It's musicians.

01:21:07.000 It's real people.

01:21:08.000 Yeah, I know it's the real people, but that's the thing.

01:21:13.000 I'm terrified of the potential of meeting any of them because of how... Super flawed, but they still inspire you.

01:21:21.000 Yeah.

01:21:22.000 Who are your heroes?

01:21:24.000 I don't have any heroes.

01:21:25.000 Did you used to?

01:21:26.000 Never.

01:21:27.000 Growing up, you never watched people?

01:21:29.000 No, I'm too arrogant.

01:21:32.000 I'm not even kidding.

01:21:33.000 I would watch skate videos and there'd be like a pro who's like the best in the world and I'm sitting there going, I can do that. 0.89

01:21:39.000 My friends would be like, shut up!

01:21:40.000 You're not going to tre flip a 10 stair. 0.98

01:21:42.000 And I'm like, oh yeah?

01:21:43.000 And then I would go and throw myself down the stairs and get hurt.

01:21:46.000 Let's go.

01:21:47.000 Well, the reason I brought it up is because- I was not that good, but I was certainly arrogant enough to think I was.

01:21:52.000 My heroes are not these people that write these piece.

01:21:55.000 I don't think anyone looks up to these people and thinks, I don't want to be like that guy that wrote that piece.

01:21:59.000 No, but they look at musicians.

01:22:00.000 They look at like great performers.

01:22:03.000 That's the real challenge in life.

01:22:05.000 And it's mostly a way of how they think, because musicians just generally think a different way.

01:22:11.000 They see sounds, you know?

01:22:13.000 They can compose music, they can create stuff out of thin air, and it just resonates with people.

01:22:22.000 It gives you chills, and when you hear your favorite song, you ever get chills down your spine when you hear that?

01:22:27.000 Music affects us physiologically.

01:22:30.000 Like, you know, the beats, it's like...

01:22:32.000 And it affects our brains in certain ways, it triggers emotions, and we like feeling good.

01:22:36.000 And we like being made to feel, so we like the people who make us feel that way.

01:22:41.000 But there's something interesting about it.

01:22:43.000 I will say though, we've already met our heroes because of Twitter, and they were all awful.

01:22:49.000 Look, I don't look up to actors, and I don't care for actors.

01:22:53.000 I think they're just actors, and I've never understood the obsession with celebrity.

01:22:57.000 I've always just been like, I don't care, who cares?

01:22:59.000 Bernie shaved their head, whatever.

01:23:01.000 But now we get to actually meet these people and we learned.

01:23:03.000 You know, Chris Evans, for instance, Mark Ruffalo.

01:23:05.000 They're really nasty people, right?

01:23:07.000 Chris Evans is okay. 0.98

01:23:09.000 He's kind of nasty.

01:23:10.000 Mark Ruffalo is one of the meanest people I've ever seen on the internet. 0.94

01:23:14.000 It's like he just posts nasty things. 0.68

01:23:15.000 David Cross, also a mean guy. 0.57

01:23:17.000 And I'm surprised at how many comedians and celebrities are just nasty.

01:23:22.000 It's really messed up.

01:23:23.000 You look at Joe Rogan's Twitter, what do you see?

01:23:25.000 Instagram posts of him eating steak and his dog.

01:23:29.000 And people like Joe Rogan, you know why?

01:23:31.000 Because when you see him for who he is, you're like, oh, he seems like a cool dude.

01:23:35.000 But then you turn to some of these other comedians and actors and stuff, and they're just posting nasty things, screaming, posting pictures of decapitated Trump heads, and you're like, I don't want to be around that.

01:23:46.000 You know what I mean?

01:23:47.000 You know, this is kind of why the list exists.

01:23:51.000 The list of people who should have their phones taken away.

01:23:53.000 People who should have their phones taken away, because it's designed to save people from themselves.

01:23:58.000 And the reason for that is because, as you mentioned, people are really nasty online.

01:24:02.000 But if you don't enforce the list, then what does the list really do?

01:24:05.000 Well, that's why I went independent, Tim.

01:24:09.000 Oh, yeah, there's gonna be like two guys in suits showing up to like Brian Seltzer's house knocking on the door and be like, Brian, it's time.

01:24:16.000 And they take his phone from him.

01:24:18.000 If I could do that, I'd do that right away.

01:24:21.000 Brian Seltzer specifically.

01:24:22.000 I'm looking for seed money.

01:24:23.000 Anybody interested?

01:24:24.000 Yeah, you're launching my Twitter DMs. You're launching a network the Siraj

01:24:24.000 Yes.

01:24:28.000 BB Network, yeah You like just went just went live just went like solo. Yeah

01:24:35.000 today today is today's my final day. Yeah So maybe what you make will actually be something

01:24:41.000 inspirational to young people and they'll be like when I grow up 0.98

01:24:44.000 I want to make a list of people should have their phones taken away

01:24:46.000 Well, the idea is that I don't do it forever and I have a snow but you got to pass the list on

01:24:51.000 I gotta pass the list on.

01:24:53.000 It's like the Captain America shield.

01:24:54.000 But listen, this is what I'm talking about.

01:24:56.000 The list is important.

01:24:57.000 You know why?

01:24:58.000 Because it's funny.

01:24:59.000 It's hilarious.

01:25:00.000 And people block you when you put them on the list.

01:25:02.000 So for those that aren't familiar... By the way, your guest from yesterday, Kurt Schlichter, he blocked me because I put him on the list.

01:25:07.000 Nice.

01:25:08.000 All right, so basically the way it works is someone tweets something really dumb, and then if it qualifies for like, you should have your phone taken away for tweeting that, you'll tweet at them like it's a meme post.

01:25:18.000 There's one, there was one, I think of writing hand emojis.

01:25:20.000 Right.

01:25:21.000 There was one of you as Consuela from Family Guy, I think.

01:25:23.000 One of you in a truck full of people with a coyote driving the car and all the blue text being taken away.

01:25:29.000 It's funny.

01:25:30.000 People see it and they laugh.

01:25:31.000 There's going to be some young kid who's seeing the world of politics. 0.95

01:25:35.000 He sees someone like Brian Stelter from CNN tweet something really dumb, like Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump or whatever.

01:25:42.000 Did you put him on the list for that one or no?

01:25:46.000 That's a tame take, honestly.

01:25:48.000 Right, right.

01:25:48.000 But some kid will see that post, see everybody laughing, and he'll think, that's cool.

01:25:53.000 It makes people laugh.

01:25:55.000 It exudes strength. 1.00

01:25:56.000 And what that person posted was really dumb. 0.98

01:25:59.000 I don't want to be like the person put on the list. 0.98

01:26:01.000 I want to be the person naming people who should be on the list.

01:26:04.000 Well, it's interesting because I've gotten criticisms like I'm a hall monitor or I'm, you know, I'm basically waging a harassment campaign against people, which is obviously not true.

01:26:15.000 Try more.

01:26:17.000 I've had people have meltdowns about me putting them on the list.

01:26:22.000 Like this is the I think of a few people from very early on.

01:26:27.000 I'm talking like December 2019 when this thing was still like in its infancy.

01:26:32.000 The reason why I started it was literally one of those things where your recent Twitter habits just came out of thin air.

01:26:41.000 It was George Conway dunking on his wife Kellyanne in a quote tweet.

01:26:46.000 He's the Lincoln Project guy.

01:26:47.000 Yeah, the Lincoln Project guy.

01:26:49.000 And it was like one of those things were like, Oh no, you should never do that in public.

01:26:53.000 Give me that phone, George.

01:26:54.000 That is taking your phone away.

01:26:56.000 Give me that phone, man.

01:26:58.000 Um, and he is the first person I put at number one and he doesn't have a blue check.

01:27:03.000 He's not verified, but like everybody thinks it's because there's everybody, the list comes for all, but like there's a higher standard to meet if you're not verified because literally anybody could just post whatever you want.

01:27:13.000 If you're not verified, if you're verified, there's a, you know, obviously like a standard that you, you, Well, yeah, you got the endorsement of Twitter.

01:27:19.000 Exactly.

01:27:20.000 I was thinking that some of the value of your work, too, is like you mentioned the resonation that you feel from a musician, that vibration.

01:27:28.000 Also, you put yourself on camera and your voice, so you're creating resonance, literal, physical resonance.

01:27:35.000 It's so different than just writing, being behind a typing thing and putting words on the internet.

01:27:40.000 Like, that's how you really affect people, in my opinion.

01:27:43.000 I think this media, this internet video media is so powerful.

01:27:47.000 I prefer video more than writing every day of the week.

01:27:50.000 That was my strength.

01:27:51.000 I mean, I was a commentary video writer.

01:27:53.000 I mean, sorry, commentary video editor.

01:27:55.000 I do edit videos, but, like, they had writer in there.

01:27:58.000 I just, you know, because I did write from time to time, but, like, it was...

01:28:02.000 If I, it turned out in probably like the last like three years of me being at The Examiner, is that if I wrote anything, it would already be a video.

01:28:11.000 So like, without you seeing an article, it's really just like the script that I had in the video.

01:28:17.000 It is a better way of reaching people because most people don't like to read.

01:28:21.000 I mean, that's just kind of the way the world people have very low attention attention spans.

01:28:26.000 Well, they can turn on a podcast and go work on something else.

01:28:28.000 Exactly.

01:28:29.000 And that's why podcasts have become so effective.

01:28:31.000 That's why audio books have become so so effective, is that you can literally multitask as you're listening to this stuff.

01:28:37.000 And if you have to rewind, you can rewind.

01:28:39.000 You know, no one cares.

01:28:40.000 Yeah, you're free to do it.

01:28:42.000 But people play video games listening to podcasts.

01:28:44.000 That's very tough to do.

01:28:44.000 They go to work.

01:28:45.000 I don't know how.

01:28:46.000 You just pause it when they say something really cool and then go rewind it and watch.

01:28:50.000 I mean, I've done that.

01:28:51.000 You know, it's like you're making breakfast or whatever.

01:28:53.000 You turn on a podcast and you sit and make breakfast.

01:28:54.000 It's like watching TV.

01:28:56.000 But I almost always Twitch stream now when I play video games.

01:28:58.000 I don't know.

01:28:59.000 I should probably just game offline for a bit.

01:29:02.000 It's gonna be really interesting the future because I see a lot of people like everybody has a twitch channel and they'll get like seven live viewers or whatever and I'm like who are these like seven people who are watching instead of playing and doing the stream themselves and what happens when everyone does and then everyone is streaming them playing a game and no one's watching a lot of people just have it on in the background yeah a lot of people yeah so it's you hear people saying like so I'm gonna go steal this car and then light this hooker on fire sometimes I'll I'll play the game heroes of the storm. It's a MOBA

01:29:30.000 multiplayer online battle arena game and it sometimes It's just so stressful that I just want to watch other

01:29:35.000 people play it So I don't have to worry about winning or losing. I just

01:29:38.000 enjoy the process. I mean, I'm not very competitive at all which means I suck but I 0.93

01:29:43.000 do enjoy just like the interaction and the fun that you get with like if if you play with a community of people like

01:29:50.000 Just, like, the enjoyment and the jokes and laughter that you have with them.

01:29:55.000 Yeah, some people just take gaming way too seriously, and that's probably why everybody wants to, like, crack down on gamers.

01:30:02.000 What have you been streaming lately?

01:30:04.000 I do play the Black Ops Cold War, Ghost of Tsushima.

01:30:10.000 I'm trying to get into more of these samurai games.

01:30:12.000 I hear Nioh as well as Sekiro are really money.

01:30:15.000 Yeah, that's a Souls type game.

01:30:18.000 I am playing Demon's Souls on PS5.

01:30:21.000 Very difficult game.

01:30:22.000 We actually have a streaming rig for gaming we're setting up.

01:30:26.000 There's a lot of expansion on the way.

01:30:28.000 The first thing we have to do is create the new TeamCast.com website.

01:30:31.000 Then we've got to create the new brand website for all verticals, gaming, mystery podcasts and all that stuff.

01:30:36.000 But it'll happen when it happens, I guess.

01:30:38.000 We're going to be hiring and just got to grow organically.

01:30:41.000 It's not super easy to just do outright.

01:30:43.000 It's coming.

01:30:44.000 But how about we go over to Super Chats to see what everyone else has to say.

01:30:48.000 My friends, if you are listening and you have not already smashed that like button, you should, because it is greatly appreciated.

01:30:55.000 And go to TimCast.com, become a member for exclusive members-only segments.

01:30:59.000 Actually, we got a Super Chat here.

01:31:00.000 I'll just read it.

01:31:02.000 Again, for some reason, YouTube always blocks the name of the first Super Chat, so I can't see it.

01:31:06.000 But they ask, will we see the Chicken City this weekend?

01:31:10.000 We did actually.

01:31:12.000 It's not a big city.

01:31:13.000 It's just like four little chicken houses.

01:31:15.000 We have it built.

01:31:16.000 It is 99% done.

01:31:17.000 We just have to add one more security layer.

01:31:19.000 It's this big fenced off area and then we've like dug into the ground so that there's it's it's it's pretty secure.

01:31:26.000 But the issue is, we wanted to go get chickens, and it's still a little too cold.

01:31:32.000 So, we were supposed to be able to bring the chickens out to the Chicken City this week.

01:31:36.000 I think we're gonna wait, because they're still a little small, and it's still a little cold out.

01:31:40.000 Colder than we expected it was gonna be.

01:31:42.000 So it might be another week, but maybe we will finally film something.

01:31:44.000 And I always keep saying that, and it just, like, never happens.

01:31:46.000 So, uh, fingers crossed.

01:31:48.000 It's there.

01:31:49.000 It's a Potemkin Village.

01:31:51.000 Potemkin Village.

01:31:53.000 A chicken ghost town.

01:31:55.000 There's no chickens in it yet.

01:31:56.000 Are you sure it's not a chicken microverse?

01:31:57.000 Yeah.

01:31:58.000 Microverse.

01:31:58.000 Yeah.

01:31:59.000 And we're gonna- Powering all the electricity in the studio.

01:32:03.000 The chickens are very young.

01:32:04.000 You just mentioned that.

01:32:05.000 The chickens are like kind of babies still, right?

01:32:07.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:32:08.000 Adolescent.

01:32:10.000 They're good to go now to be on their own outside, like they're big enough.

01:32:13.000 But, you know, the guy we bought them from was like, you might lose some, but you know, you'll probably be fine.

01:32:18.000 And I was like, We'll just keep them inside for another week just to be safe, right?

01:32:22.000 Yeah.

01:32:22.000 They should be fine, though.

01:32:24.000 In the temperature?

01:32:25.000 But, uh, I think we want to be safe.

01:32:25.000 Yeah, right now.

01:32:27.000 But, uh, maybe I'll just, we'll film some of them doing chicken stuff and show you what we got going on.

01:32:30.000 All right, let's see.

01:32:32.000 We got Mr. Pool Doesn't Call On Me says, Tim, how does it feel to go from super white and not cared about to suddenly top of the oppressed charts and everyone loves you?

01:32:41.000 It's, uh, it's what I've always dreamed of, you know?

01:32:44.000 So as you know, Asian people were called white for the longest time, and so I'm double white, basically.

01:32:50.000 I'm double white, too.

01:32:51.000 Yeah, you see?

01:32:52.000 There you go.

01:32:53.000 But now, Asians are an oppressed group again. 0.85

01:32:55.000 Hell yeah.

01:32:56.000 How did that happen?

01:32:59.000 People got attacked, and now they're like that?

01:32:59.000 Let's go.

01:33:01.000 Yeah, the Atlanta shooting.

01:33:01.000 Did you know that?

01:33:02.000 I've heard about it, but that's all it was?

01:33:05.000 Well, there was a couple of other hate crimes, a lot of hate crimes.

01:33:09.000 Like Oakland and San Francisco.

01:33:13.000 There was a big march against white nationalism to help support an Asian man who was attacked by a black guy in New York.

01:33:21.000 And then a few other... There was a grandma, an Asian grandma who was attacked.

01:33:26.000 Oh, and she beat the guy with a stick. 1.00

01:33:27.000 Yeah, beat the crap out of him. 0.96

01:33:28.000 That's weird.

01:33:29.000 I don't know what the full story is on that one, though.

01:33:30.000 Yeah, I really hope somebody got cell phone video of that.

01:33:34.000 This big protest in New York, I bring it up because that was one of the big, you know, things we saw of like thousands of people marching against white nationalism, which was like a weird thing to march against, but it did generate attention for the hate crimes against Asians. 0.68

01:33:45.000 So now we had that, uh, that incident that occurred in Atlanta where this guy was like a sex addict. 0.75

01:33:52.000 And so he was going to, he was accusing these shops of being like, you know, rub off shacks or whatever. 0.95

01:33:56.000 And then he killed a bunch of people.

01:33:58.000 Yeah, he killed eight people.

01:33:59.000 So at least six of them were Asian.

01:33:59.000 Yeah.

01:34:01.000 Yep.

01:34:01.000 Okay.

01:34:02.000 So he wasn't, from what I heard, he wasn't targeting any ethnicity.

01:34:05.000 Depends on what you read.

01:34:06.000 I see.

01:34:07.000 That's the thing, is that we don't, again, the investigation as it plays out, we will see.

01:34:13.000 Because I don't know anything, I don't know much about this guy.

01:34:15.000 And I don't know if he had animus towards Asians.

01:34:18.000 It's possible.

01:34:19.000 We'll wait for the facts to come in.

01:34:21.000 And I mean, the unfortunate thing is, you know, as we were talking about how there's like two different Americans, two different Americas with competing information.

01:34:29.000 This is one of those things where there's competing information about it.

01:34:32.000 Yeah.

01:34:33.000 Well, look. 0.89

01:34:34.000 What we know about what the guy claims is that he was a sex addict.

01:34:38.000 And then you get the media, mostly the left media, trying to claim it doesn't matter what he says.

01:34:43.000 And then you have that tweet from this woman who said, she was like, just a rule or something.

01:34:48.000 You don't get to decide if you're racist.

01:34:49.000 It's your actions that everyone else gets to decide if you're racist or not.

01:34:52.000 So I was like, then I've decided based on your actions, you're racist. 0.53

01:34:54.000 That makes you racist. 0.84

01:34:56.000 So... And if you deny it, that's proof. 0.77

01:34:57.000 It also reminds me, you remember in like 2015, there was a parking dispute in North Carolina in an apartment complex and one neighbor, a white man, shot and killed three Muslim-Americans.

01:35:11.000 I don't remember that, no.

01:35:12.000 Young people, they were like all in their late teens, early twenties.

01:35:15.000 Whoa.

01:35:16.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:35:16.000 That sucks. 0.99

01:35:17.000 And everyone said, yeah, this is Islamophobic. 1.00

01:35:19.000 I think I was on the bandwagon of saying, yeah, that's straight up an anti-Muslim attack.

01:35:24.000 Um, and we, I don't even know if we still know the answer, whether he actually had animus towards these, towards Muslims.

01:35:30.000 I think crime.

01:35:31.000 It was one that it was, yeah, it was like, it was a, it was a brutal murder and it was horrific.

01:35:35.000 And this guy is now, I think he's serving life in prison, but it was one of those things where like, is it a hate crime?

01:35:44.000 The evidence of what we saw at the time did not really add up, but the fact that he murdered three Muslim women in hijab in the head covering, that was another one of those types of debates.

01:35:59.000 They say correlation is not causation.

01:36:03.000 A crime's a crime.

01:36:05.000 Why should we criminalize motivation?

01:36:06.000 Because then we're trying to read someone's mind, right?

01:36:08.000 Well, I mean, because of the hate crime.

01:36:10.000 The idea, like, because hate crime, I guess, carries a more severe penalty.

01:36:15.000 But, like, if someone commits murder, they commit murder.

01:36:15.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:36:17.000 You know what I mean?

01:36:18.000 Well, I get that, but it's, you know, there is such a thing as malice and intent, and... So then we should have... Okay, so if you commit a murder, and there's, like, no known motivation, it's just murder.

01:36:28.000 But if you commit murder to steal money, then it's larcenal murder or financial murder.

01:36:33.000 And then if you commit murder because of the clothes they're wearing, then it's fashion murder.

01:36:37.000 And then we'll have different levels of punishment based on what you were feeling before you murdered the person.

01:36:43.000 I mean, they're politically inspired.

01:36:46.000 I mean, if they are talking about the fashion stuff, I mean, who kills... I mean, they're... I mean... He was wearing a vest!

01:36:52.000 Vests are out of style!

01:36:54.000 Well, I mean, think about all the people that get murdered for their shoes, for their chain.

01:36:58.000 Absolutely.

01:36:58.000 So here's the issue.

01:36:59.000 You know, in DC, if you see a guy in a MAGA hat and you beat him, it's a hate crime?

01:37:04.000 I don't know.

01:37:04.000 But if he doesn't have a hat on... In D.C., if you punch a guy and say it's because he was wearing a MAGA hat, you committed a hate crime.

01:37:11.000 Oh, if you say it's because of it?

01:37:13.000 Not just if he has it on?

01:37:15.000 Look, this is the problem with hate crimes.

01:37:16.000 Like, if there's a dude walking down the street wearing a MAGA hat and someone punches him, that person can be charged with a hate crime because political class is a protected... politics is a protected class in D.C.

01:37:27.000 For obvious reasons.

01:37:29.000 The issue I take with it is that we're trying to figure out people's, like, internal morals and motivations instead of looking at them and saying, he punched a guy.

01:37:38.000 Well, intent does mean a lot.

01:37:41.000 Especially in our criminal justice system.

01:37:43.000 Because, I mean, how do you decipher between self-defense and murder?

01:37:47.000 Okay, so if a guy robs a bank, and there's two guys, they both rob a bank.

01:37:53.000 One guy did it because he wants to buy, you know, an infinity pool.

01:37:57.000 You can't really afford that with what you get out of a bank, but he wants to rob a bank because he wants, you know, brand new shoes.

01:38:01.000 The other guy does it because he's starving to death.

01:38:03.000 Okay, fine.

01:38:04.000 The guy who was starving, he gets a free pass because that was starving robbery versus greed robbery.

01:38:10.000 You see the point?

01:38:10.000 I understand what you're saying.

01:38:11.000 All we know is someone went in and said, I'm robbing this bank.

01:38:14.000 When we get into the hate crime arena, we're trying to read people's minds to determine what was the cause of the crime in the first place, instead of just universally saying, dude, if you punch someone, you go to jail.

01:38:25.000 I think they've actually decriminalized thievery of food in another country.

01:38:29.000 Do you remember hearing about that?

01:38:30.000 Oh yeah, San Francisco.

01:38:32.000 Might as well call California another country at this point.

01:38:34.000 It might have been another country also, but that's in San Francisco?

01:38:36.000 If someone's poor and starving.

01:38:38.000 Shoplifting.

01:38:39.000 Oh no, there's one where they're poor and starving and they steal food.

01:38:42.000 I think in Virginia and like Michigan, the cops can't pull you over for like expired plates or blowing a stop sign or failing to turn signal or something like that.

01:38:50.000 Smelling like weed.

01:38:52.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:38:52.000 So it's like you don't signal and you blow a stop sign and the cop can't pull you over.

01:38:57.000 All right, there you go.

01:38:58.000 So anyway, look, I understand the idea of hate crimes.

01:39:02.000 I'm just like, if you hit someone with a pipe, that's aggravated assault.

01:39:07.000 You think they're like trying to measure intent leads to thought crime and like the thought police?

01:39:11.000 Partly.

01:39:13.000 You're not going to read someone's mind.

01:39:15.000 There's no way to fully know what somebody's intent is or what's in their heart.

01:39:19.000 Here's the problem.

01:39:20.000 I don't care, you know, why this guy in Atlanta did what he did.

01:39:26.000 I care that he did it.

01:39:27.000 I care that innocent people lost their lives.

01:39:30.000 And they're now trying to mind-read.

01:39:32.000 You got one outlet being like, it's clearly racist. 0.97

01:39:36.000 And the other outlet saying, no, no, no, he was addicted to sex. 0.94

01:39:38.000 No, no, no, he was racist, even though he doesn't say it. 0.65

01:39:41.000 We know, and it's like...

01:39:43.000 Can you give me the name of the people he killed?

01:39:46.000 Can we get a ceremony for the victims?

01:39:47.000 It was days before we realized who any of these people were because the media was too busy arguing about whether or not the guy was racist or not.

01:39:54.000 Well, there is the aspect of, like, prevention in the future.

01:39:58.000 So if you want to avoid something like this happening again, you need to understand their motivations in order to make sure whatever the warning signs were for this particular shooter and suspected murderer is that this doesn't happen to another person.

01:40:15.000 I feel like you guys are both making extremely good points right now.

01:40:17.000 It's kind of weird.

01:40:18.000 It's kind of blowing my mind.

01:40:20.000 I don't know how you.

01:40:21.000 Well, that's a first for me.

01:40:22.000 How do you, how do you, how do you stop somebody from committing, you know, from, from hating?

01:40:26.000 How do you stop someone from hating?

01:40:27.000 It's a natural human experience.

01:40:28.000 People hate things.

01:40:29.000 Well, like if he killed because he was, because he was starving or if he killed because he hated the person's race, then you know, like, what problem do I need to address?

01:40:38.000 Great.

01:40:39.000 How do we stop the hate?

01:40:39.000 Good point.

01:40:41.000 Either, either.

01:40:42.000 Well, as a family, I mean, this is a deep conversation.

01:40:46.000 How do you, how do you stop someone from hating someone else?

01:40:49.000 Re-education camps, maybe.

01:40:53.000 Ban speech.

01:40:53.000 Oh, wait!

01:40:55.000 If they can't hear the hateful ideas, they can't become hateful, right?

01:40:57.000 I see you've been to Canada.

01:41:01.000 If they express the hate, arrest them.

01:41:02.000 That way they can't act out on it.

01:41:03.000 This is something that I actually learned very early on growing up.

01:41:08.000 And the one thing that helped break down stereotypes was traveling.

01:41:13.000 Because I lived abroad.

01:41:14.000 I lived in Lahore, Pakistan for six years.

01:41:17.000 And through there, I was able to travel to different parts of Asia, Africa, Europe.

01:41:23.000 And that was definitely an eye-opening experience.

01:41:27.000 And while not everyone is in a position where they could do that, I mean, that would be, for me, that is how, just literally interacting with different parts of your community, honestly.

01:41:39.000 Because you don't know how other people operate.

01:41:44.000 You will find that more people are just like you if they are part of another community.

01:41:49.000 And you find that you have more in common with them.

01:41:51.000 Once you build that little consensus, you can see them as human beings.

01:41:55.000 Well, let's read some more Super Chats!

01:41:55.000 Right on.

01:41:57.000 Zabruci Willis says, man, it's weird seeing your old videos and comparing them to where you guys are now.

01:42:02.000 American dream, baby.

01:42:04.000 It's just, uh, it's just progression and goals.

01:42:07.000 You see, this is the advantage of skateboarding.

01:42:09.000 Growing up where you're constantly learning a new trick.

01:42:12.000 Every day, I would go out, I would be like, what's the new thing I'm gonna do today?

01:42:16.000 And before you realize it, actually, I'll rewind.

01:42:20.000 The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.

01:42:24.000 So you know how I started all this stuff on YouTube?

01:42:27.000 I had a GoPro 4, and I would put it on top of my monitor and press record, and then I would talk for 10 minutes.

01:42:34.000 Then I would stop it, and I would upload it.

01:42:36.000 And that was it.

01:42:37.000 Yeah, me too.

01:42:38.000 And then eventually, I was like, I can make this a little bit longer and add some other stuff to it.

01:42:43.000 I can add articles and quotes.

01:42:45.000 And I started doing that.

01:42:47.000 And then I started a new channel where I started doing more videos.

01:42:50.000 Then I got a better camera.

01:42:51.000 I got a Sony 1000 frame.

01:42:52.000 It was a super, super nice.

01:42:54.000 All of a sudden the audio was a little bit better.

01:42:56.000 And then eventually I was like, I should get an actual microphone.

01:42:59.000 I should get an actual camera.

01:43:01.000 And then from that, I learned how to build everything.

01:43:03.000 I learned what, you know, how to set up a podcast studio.

01:43:06.000 And then within like a year and a half, I was having a podcast recording setup.

01:43:11.000 And then once we started, uh, I think it wasn't until we started IRL last year that actually switched to these microphones.

01:43:17.000 I used to use high quality cinema grade shotgun mics.

01:43:21.000 So they'll be mounted on top of the camera in front of me.

01:43:23.000 No, those are the worst.

01:43:25.000 No, these are beautiful.

01:43:26.000 Oh, I thought you said they're like literally hanging out in front of the camera and like they're projecting.

01:43:31.000 Shotgun microphone?

01:43:31.000 Is that what it is?

01:43:32.000 Yeah, it creates a cone.

01:43:34.000 Yeah, that's what I would use.

01:43:35.000 But these were like movie grade, the kind that they would use for capturing audio like in an outdoor scene in a movie, like really expensive.

01:43:42.000 And these are substantially cheaper.

01:43:47.000 And in a lot of ways better.

01:43:50.000 These mics we use now, they don't pick up audio from everyone else.

01:43:52.000 It's really just you.

01:43:54.000 And that's why I needed to switch, because when it was just me recording, I had this really expensive cinema-grade microphone, and it was great.

01:44:00.000 These are a lot cheaper.

01:44:01.000 These are the SM7B, by the way.

01:44:04.000 Incredible.

01:44:04.000 Everybody uses them.

01:44:05.000 All right, let's read a little bit more.

01:44:07.000 Adrian Sutton says, Come on, Tim.

01:44:10.000 You said, I am excited for a Biden presidency.

01:44:12.000 I will be laughing and smiling the entire time.

01:44:14.000 What happened, man?

01:44:15.000 Um, I don't want to laugh at Biden for falling downstairs.

01:44:19.000 And it is, uh, perhaps I was a little too optimistic on the course we are going to be moving forward with.

01:44:26.000 I will say when Biden won, I was laughing.

01:44:29.000 That was hilarious.

01:44:30.000 And, uh, that's what I was like, if Biden wins, I'll laugh.

01:44:33.000 As for the Biden presidency, There actually is a lot you can laugh about.

01:44:38.000 But it is getting really dark with the escalation between China.

01:44:42.000 And so perhaps... It is just a cold splash of water in the face.

01:44:48.000 I thought, oh, you know, it's gonna be fine, whatever, and now we're starting to see like it's actually a little darker than we realized.

01:44:54.000 Or at least that I realized.

01:44:56.000 By the way... I had too much faith in the man, I guess.

01:45:01.000 How ironic.

01:45:02.000 Is it that the Biden administration is through the Daily Beast report?

01:45:06.000 I'm sure you I'm sure some of you have seen it when they were basically sandbagging and sidelining their members of their administration for smoking weed.

01:45:17.000 Oh, yeah.

01:45:18.000 I want to do that.

01:45:20.000 President Kamala.

01:45:22.000 She's in charge.

01:45:24.000 Apparently they said, how many of you smoked pot?

01:45:26.000 Don't worry, we won't punish you if you tell us.

01:45:28.000 And then we're like, I did.

01:45:29.000 You're fired.

01:45:31.000 That's funny.

01:45:32.000 That's hilarious.

01:45:34.000 The fact that Kamala is like, yeah, I smoked weed.

01:45:34.000 Yeah.

01:45:38.000 I listen to Snoop Dogg and Tupac.

01:45:41.000 And boom, you're fired.

01:45:42.000 Get out of here.

01:45:43.000 So we got a great one here from Evil Zombie Hamster.

01:45:45.000 He says, for that rant on Monday, waited until payday for the super chat, everyone should listen to that rant.

01:45:50.000 If you guys are familiar with whatever that rant is, then make a clip of it and feel free to upload it to social media or whatever.

01:45:56.000 Basically, I was talking to somebody.

01:45:59.000 He was making a point about how me and Carl Benjamin changed.

01:46:03.000 And then I went on, like, a three-minute rant about how people, like, were cowardly and gave up on the political fight and have, you know, given in to censorship because they're scared and blah, blah, blah.

01:46:14.000 All right.

01:46:15.000 Husijo Gang says, first time super chatted, also became a member last month.

01:46:19.000 You guys are the truth.

01:46:20.000 Keep up the good work.

01:46:21.000 We will try.

01:46:22.000 Dude, what is up, man?

01:46:24.000 Oh, yeah, we're gonna keep doing it.

01:46:25.000 Rock on.

01:46:27.000 SERP YouTube says, everyone here should check out the latest on Skycoin interview with Adam Stokes and the dev.

01:46:34.000 The coin and Skywire project is wildly ambitious and aims to build a kind of decentralized parallel internet of sorts.

01:46:40.000 Tons of crazy political info there too.

01:46:42.000 Sounds cool.

01:46:42.000 Weird.

01:46:45.000 Jobby says that video of Biden stumbling is suspicious.

01:46:49.000 There are six servicemen standing there and no one moves.

01:46:52.000 No one is talking about it.

01:46:53.000 When Biden tripped, I guess some people expect the servicemen to run up and try and help him, but it was literally only like two or three seconds.

01:46:53.000 Yeah.

01:47:01.000 Yeah.

01:47:01.000 He looked like he recovered.

01:47:02.000 You know, when I'm like running upstairs, sometimes I like, you know, hop up and down, you know, I trip all the time.

01:47:09.000 Every single time I do that.

01:47:10.000 And it looked like Biden was doing that too.

01:47:12.000 Yeah.

01:47:13.000 And for, in some ways, you know, Yeah, he was trying to pull a Siraj.

01:47:21.000 And CNN ran the segment during the Trump presidency saying, is Trump scared of stairs?

01:47:26.000 They said, does he have bathmophobia, where he's unreasonably scared of stairs?

01:47:30.000 And I'm like, maybe he just knows that if he slips, they'll make fun of him.

01:47:33.000 So he's very cautious to be on his toes.

01:47:37.000 And then there's this one clip where they did mock him because he walks up a runway and then he wobbles to the right.

01:47:42.000 And they're like, haha, Trump almost fell.

01:47:45.000 But then we actually get the photo.

01:47:46.000 Trump was nowhere near falling. 0.90

01:47:47.000 And it looks like he was just screwing around. 0.93

01:47:48.000 Like he went, whoo.

01:47:49.000 Well, what was the graduation ceremony last year?

01:47:52.000 That was the Army Army Military Academy.

01:47:55.000 He was walking down the ramp and everyone was like, what's wrong with President Trump?

01:47:59.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:48:00.000 The man's got a physical disease.

01:48:01.000 He shouldn't he's not he's not fit for office.

01:48:04.000 He was wearing dress shoes and like going slow so he didn't slip.

01:48:07.000 I mean, you have, you have, I mean, over the course of the Trump presidency, you have stories from, uh, Brian Stelter, others who, you know, there was a letter from like 700 different psychologists trying to diagnose, uh, President Trump with a mental illness from afar.

01:48:07.000 Yeah.

01:48:23.000 And I mean, like the, the stuff never stops.

01:48:25.000 I am interested to see how this fallout compares because, I'm already seeing stories from, say, like, the New York Times saying, oh, you know, President Biden's 100% fine.

01:48:34.000 Have you seen the movie Hoaxed from Mike Cernovich?

01:48:36.000 I have not.

01:48:37.000 There's this really great point in it where they show a clip from, I think it's a 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley.

01:48:44.000 I did see the Scott Pelly interview on 60 Minutes.

01:48:48.000 He criticizes Cernovich. 0.89

01:48:49.000 He's like, you claim that Hillary Clinton is sick.

01:48:51.000 And he goes, he's like, no, I cited a medical doctor.

01:48:54.000 He goes, well, how can that doctor, you know, know that he's sick?

01:48:59.000 And he's like, well, how do you know she's not sick?

01:49:00.000 And he goes, because the Clinton campaign told us.

01:49:04.000 And he goes, why do you trust the Clinton campaign?

01:49:06.000 And the dude literally fumbles and drops his glasses.

01:49:09.000 Because Cernovich made a really good point.

01:49:12.000 When they were criticizing Trump saying Trump's mentally ill or whatever because the doctor said so, it was a fact.

01:49:17.000 When conservatives did the exact same thing to Hillary, they were like, oh, you're lying and making it up. 1.00

01:49:23.000 We get it.

01:49:23.000 It's a double standard.

01:49:25.000 Soberman wasn't off, man.

01:49:27.000 We got the GC Geek Army saying, Tim, awesome to see my habibi in the compound.

01:49:33.000 What does habibi mean? 0.82

01:49:34.000 Habibi means like, it's Arabic for like, my friend, my dear, my love.

01:49:38.000 It's a term of endearment.

01:49:39.000 So you can use it for guy, girl.

01:49:42.000 Oh, thank you.

01:49:42.000 Habibi.

01:49:43.000 Habibi. 0.76

01:49:45.000 My friends, I had a friend who used to say woadie all the time.

01:49:47.000 It's like a southern term for a male friend.

01:49:49.000 Okay.

01:49:50.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:49:51.000 I guess it's woadie and shoddy.

01:49:53.000 Shoddy, okay.

01:49:53.000 Yeah, shoddy's a female friend.

01:49:54.000 Yeah, female. 1.00

01:49:55.000 Oh.

01:49:57.000 Vashtz1985 says, We are not in a democracy, never have been.

01:50:00.000 The Times article about the cabal should have made that very clear.

01:50:04.000 They just made sure the rules were on their side, so the results went their way, instead of the way people wanted.

01:50:09.000 I think the best way to describe what happened is its fortification of the election.

01:50:15.000 The rules are there.

01:50:17.000 You can see what the rules are.

01:50:18.000 It's like, it's the matrix, man.

01:50:20.000 Right?

01:50:21.000 The agents in the matrix can move all fast and crazy, but they follow rules.

01:50:26.000 So when Neo finally figures it out, he learns how to move all fast and crazy like they do.

01:50:31.000 That's it.

01:50:31.000 So the, when they fortify an election, they're basically like the agents.

01:50:35.000 They make the rules the way they are.

01:50:37.000 And a lot of people just don't know how to use them.

01:50:38.000 By the way, one of the very first list memes was when I was, I was Neo in that last scene of the first Matrix where he's, he stops the bullets.

01:50:47.000 Yeah.

01:50:48.000 It's literally me with a pen and emoji writing up a blue check.

01:50:53.000 I love it.

01:50:54.000 All right.

01:50:56.000 Lee4466 says, saw your video on the Ford plant today.

01:50:58.000 I work there and I voted for Trump and I'm not the only one.

01:51:00.000 Despite popular belief, there's a lot of right-leaning union members, especially with Trump that I know.

01:51:08.000 TheCurlyAfro says China has to keep Tibet for their water supply, Xinjiang for oil, and South China Sea for blue water navy.

01:51:16.000 To solidify their rule, they have two of the three.

01:51:19.000 Yeah.

01:51:20.000 By the way, you guys been up on March Madness?

01:51:22.000 Negative.

01:51:23.000 No, but I did see that woman who was screaming about the weightlifting room. 1.00

01:51:26.000 You see that one?

01:51:26.000 I did see that.

01:51:28.000 That was a messed up thing that the NCAA did.

01:51:31.000 They gave the women this tiny little rack with tiny little weights. 1.00

01:51:35.000 The NCAA's excuse, they said there wasn't enough space.

01:51:38.000 She takes a video.

01:51:39.000 There's an entire conference room.

01:51:42.000 Not conference room, I'm sorry.

01:51:44.000 They're in a convention center.

01:51:46.000 There's plenty of space.

01:51:47.000 I think Matt Walsh called it out and he said, one is entertaining and one is not.

01:51:52.000 Or something like that.

01:51:54.000 Well, so listen.

01:51:57.000 There is an issue.

01:51:58.000 I know a bunch of women who can... Well, this is a while ago now. 1.00

01:52:02.000 I haven't, you know, hung out at the X Games in a decade or so.

01:52:05.000 But I've actually been to the X Games a couple times as like an all-access team manager friend of these athletes.

01:52:11.000 I knew a couple of the female pros. 1.00

01:52:14.000 People don't go to those events.

01:52:16.000 So what had happened was, early on, they were paying the women like 10% of what the men were getting paid.

01:52:22.000 They're they straight-up told the the female athletes It's because we don't sell tickets, you know, you're like 1.00

01:52:28.000 you're getting a lot of money, but people don't show up to watch you skate

01:52:31.000 So what do we do?

01:52:32.000 They ended up winning the right to equal pay because they were like that's your problem and that's true because women's 1.00

01:52:38.000 tennis does well They were they're like if you can't market this properly

01:52:42.000 then why is it on us?

01:52:44.000 We're the ones performing.

01:52:46.000 We're the ones coming here to put on the show for you, and then you can't sell tickets?

01:52:49.000 Sounds like you gotta fire your marketing guy.

01:52:52.000 That was actually the best argument I've ever heard for it.

01:52:54.000 So when people talk about the WNBA, and they're like, yeah, well, nobody wants to show up, because it's boring.

01:52:58.000 I'm like, nah.

01:52:59.000 It's marketing.

01:53:00.000 It's marketing.

01:53:01.000 If you've got... I don't care.

01:53:03.000 The US Women's National Team.

01:53:08.000 Better than the men's team.

01:53:09.000 Many people say it's better than the more people watch the matches of the national soccer team.

01:53:16.000 Because they've won four World Cups.

01:53:18.000 And they're just so dominant.

01:53:19.000 And it's a matter of marketing.

01:53:21.000 It is.

01:53:22.000 So I think about going to a music venue.

01:53:25.000 Look, I've seen sold-out shows from people who are not the greatest singers in the world.

01:53:30.000 Because it's good marketing.

01:53:32.000 They know how to entertain you and make you have a good time.

01:53:36.000 And so, I'm not going to blame the person who's doing their job.

01:53:39.000 I'm going to blame the person who's not doing their job.

01:53:41.000 Granted, I understand what people are saying.

01:53:43.000 I'm just going to blame Ohio State for completely messing up my bracket.

01:53:48.000 I chose you to win in both of my brackets, and this is how you treat me.

01:53:54.000 They were supposed to win.

01:53:55.000 Terrible.

01:53:55.000 I had Ohio, Michigan.

01:53:56.000 Ohio State, Michigan in the final.

01:53:58.000 All right.

01:53:59.000 Completely blew it.

01:54:00.000 Someone's calling me out.

01:54:01.000 Nadia Shalwarino Moore says, Tim, your POV on U.S.

01:54:04.000 future against China has been pretty negative.

01:54:06.000 It's very contagious and has gotten me down and nervous.

01:54:09.000 You have so much influence.

01:54:10.000 So say it with me.

01:54:11.000 I would rather die on my feet than buy Chinese. 1.00

01:54:14.000 Keep your chin up, guys.

01:54:16.000 Here's the problem.

01:54:17.000 You don't know what's coming from that.

01:54:19.000 And not only that, you might buy something that says made in America and not realize that components of it are made in China.

01:54:24.000 Right.

01:54:25.000 Assembled in America, you'll see a lot of now.

01:54:27.000 Yeah.

01:54:27.000 Assembled here.

01:54:28.000 Components from China.

01:54:30.000 Well, I do think we have to do better to get more stuff made in America.

01:54:33.000 That's for sure.

01:54:33.000 I'd love to make a graphene company here.

01:54:35.000 I've talked about it before.

01:54:37.000 Yeah, we'll, we'll keep that in, in our minds.

01:54:39.000 Um, graphene, solid state batteries.

01:54:41.000 Definitely.

01:54:42.000 Sodium.

01:54:43.000 Okay.

01:54:45.000 Hennessy Drew says, Tim, you only ever mentioned the Patriot that died in Portland.

01:54:48.000 You are forgetting the other guy in Denver.

01:54:51.000 Oh, that guy in Denver, he was killed by that security guard who was like a progressive activist, but he was there working as like faux security and he wasn't legally allowed to be.

01:54:59.000 That was the Denver guy, right?

01:55:00.000 Yeah.

01:55:02.000 Track Media Only says they don't want peaceful divorce.

01:55:05.000 If they ever changed, then it would be to consolidate and then later come for the other half.

01:55:10.000 Dems want it all, and communism is all about give your stuff to others.

01:55:15.000 I don't think the establishment Democrats are communists.

01:55:18.000 I think they're short-term gain individuals.

01:55:21.000 They're going to extract and exploit whatever they can, but there are communists on the far left who are willing to it, who are sitting in wait, letting the Democrats burn everything to the ground so that they can come and pick up the scraps and then get their communism.

01:55:36.000 You say short-term is a great way of looking at it.

01:55:38.000 It's like with this hate crimes against the Asian people.

01:55:40.000 It's like a knee-jerk reaction.

01:55:42.000 Something happens and then they make these sweeping I don't know who decided they're on the minority list or whatever the heck this list is, but it's like, something happens and then they immediately change.

01:55:55.000 It's like, you gotta think of the big picture.

01:55:58.000 It should have never been, I don't know.

01:56:00.000 EW says, Ian, the government didn't create the oil industry, the entrepreneur did.

01:56:05.000 Stop looking at government to answers.

01:56:06.000 They have none.

01:56:07.000 Also, oil isn't going away for a while.

01:56:10.000 You need it for jets, trains, semis, and also petrochemicals will always exist.

01:56:15.000 That's definitely right.

01:56:16.000 Yeah, but the government broke up Standard Oil.

01:56:18.000 I mean, if we had let Rockefeller create an oil empire, that would have been way worse than where we're at right now.

01:56:25.000 Well, c'est la vie.

01:56:27.000 Brandon McGuire says, if I were China, I would just wait until the left has taken our guns away.

01:56:32.000 The inexperienced military would be no match for ours.

01:56:35.000 Add in all of us proud American gun owners and millions of veterans.

01:56:38.000 See ya.

01:56:39.000 Later, mommy.

01:56:42.000 Spike Dude says, have any of you guys played the Metal Gear series?

01:56:46.000 I think Hideo Kojima was secretly a prophet.

01:56:49.000 Yeah, there was something about Metal Gear Solid people were talking about, weren't they?

01:56:52.000 I don't know.

01:56:53.000 Something in it that, like, was prophetic.

01:56:55.000 I played the first Metal Gear.

01:56:56.000 For Nintendo?

01:56:57.000 Oh, yeah.

01:56:58.000 For Nintendo?

01:57:00.000 Oh, no, no.

01:57:01.000 I played the original Metal Gear on the NES.

01:57:05.000 I played that on PS1 and PS2.

01:57:09.000 Metal Gear Solid?

01:57:11.000 Metal Gear Solid, yeah.

01:57:15.000 OMG Puppies says, the key to fusion is high-temperature superconducting magnets.

01:57:20.000 Check out an excellent video, MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy by Zach Hartwig.

01:57:25.000 Great overview of the science and engineering of nuclear fusion.

01:57:28.000 Very cool.

01:57:29.000 Panda Bang says, that fiat currency is a good thing.

01:57:32.000 The gold standard was bad.

01:57:34.000 The situation at the border is good, and we should be grateful for immigrants.

01:57:37.000 January 6th was worse than 2020.

01:57:39.000 At Ian, free the graphene.

01:57:44.000 Free the graphene.

01:57:45.000 You're right.

01:57:49.000 Let's see.

01:57:49.000 Tasera says, I lived next to Tindall AFB and saw the F-35 in flight.

01:57:55.000 Six of them hovered about 250 feet over the highway.

01:57:58.000 They made no sound.

01:57:59.000 Even underneath, people in Panama City will testify they have active camo.

01:58:03.000 We've all seen it.

01:58:04.000 Wow.

01:58:05.000 What?

01:58:05.000 What is that?

01:58:06.000 Like camo jets or something or what?

01:58:09.000 I'll look that up.

01:58:10.000 F-35?

01:58:11.000 Secret weapons.

01:58:17.000 Paul Luckett says, sorry Tim, it's getting difficult to watch your content.

01:58:20.000 It's all doom and gloom.

01:58:21.000 The battle is over.

01:58:22.000 Give up and lose hope.

01:58:23.000 This message gets people down.

01:58:25.000 Depression is already too high.

01:58:27.000 We need to try to spread more hope.

01:58:29.000 Well, I do try to be somewhat optimistic in that these woke people are really destroying themselves now.

01:58:35.000 And the more fun, funny people seem to be doing better and better.

01:58:39.000 So maybe it's just, you know, the night is always darkest before the dawn and things are starting to turn around.

01:58:44.000 Maybe we'll pull out of this by 2024 and things will improve.

01:58:49.000 Dylan Percher says Ian is correct.

01:58:51.000 China may be ahead for now, but so was Germany and Japan in the beginning.

01:58:55.000 Decoupling is correct as well.

01:58:57.000 Look into Peter Zehan's work, he lays it out.

01:59:00.000 As for Apple phones, manufacture can be moved back and 3D printing will be cheap.

01:59:06.000 There you go.

01:59:07.000 Turk Longwell says, that guy and his lists.

01:59:10.000 F'em.

01:59:10.000 Sir, who made you the official list maker?

01:59:13.000 Love the show all always on point.

01:59:15.000 Smash the like button and spin it.

01:59:18.000 Smash that like button! 0.98

01:59:19.000 Your hatred gives me life. 0.98

01:59:24.000 Michael Nguyen says, all I'm hearing from Greenwald is it's time to end New York Times v. Sullivan in order to smack the news media in the mouth hard enough to stagger them because they lie.

01:59:33.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:59:34.000 I might agree with that.

01:59:35.000 It's tough.

01:59:36.000 Times v. Sullivan's at the standard where news media is allowed to lie about someone if they didn't know it was a lie.

01:59:44.000 And you can't measure if they knew or not.

01:59:47.000 It's really difficult.

01:59:48.000 And so these lawsuits often get smacked down.

01:59:50.000 So here's the way it works.

01:59:51.000 If there's a guy named John Smith, and he's a carpenter.

01:59:55.000 And the New York Times says that John Smith punched a puppy in the face.

01:59:59.000 He can sue them for defamation, and it will, like, immediately go through because he's not a public figure.

02:00:04.000 They need to prove, like, it doesn't matter if they knew it or not, they lied about him.

02:00:09.000 If they write a story saying Siraj punched a puppy, they can say, well, we genuinely thought it was true, so, and you can't sue him.

02:00:16.000 Even if you're like, show me the proof.

02:00:17.000 Doesn't matter.

02:00:18.000 Really?

02:00:19.000 That's a problem.

02:00:19.000 They're called anti-slap laws.

02:00:22.000 Strategic lawsuit against public participation.

02:00:24.000 So long as you have a reasonable belief that something is true, you can essentially defame people.

02:00:29.000 So they use very clever ways to do it.

02:00:31.000 They'll say like, while Siraj did not punch the puppy, he's known to push puppy punching.

02:00:38.000 And then you're like, what does that mean to push puppy punching?

02:00:41.000 What does that mean, push?

02:00:42.000 And then they'll be like, oh, when he was seven, he, you know, he pushed a photograph of a dog getting punched.

02:00:48.000 Uh, yeah.

02:00:48.000 Or they'll just say a source told us.

02:00:50.000 It's actually really funny.

02:00:51.000 You bring that up because of my, my dog Ernie and, uh, the Habibis. 1.00

02:00:56.000 You punched him?

02:00:56.000 No, I never punched him.

02:00:59.000 I love him.

02:01:00.000 It's just, it's, it's just funny because I had, he He has his own Twitter account.

02:01:06.000 And yes, I, I, I created it with the intention of him running for president in 2020.

02:01:12.000 And his, his general platform was to deport me and all of the problems in the, in the United States would be resolved.

02:01:19.000 And so basically everyone's been rooting for him to deport me.

02:01:24.000 And, uh, basically anytime that like, I don't give him a treat, it's like violence against me.

02:01:29.000 It sounds like you pushed your dog platform.

02:01:34.000 Well, so here's what the media can do.

02:01:37.000 If you have an account for your dog, you say you want to run for president.

02:01:40.000 He did run for president, he won.

02:01:41.000 Okay, so we know you're joking, but the media can write something like, you know, the story was amplified by Siraj Hajme, comma, who posts unhinged rants about dogs being president, clearly a sign of mental distress, comma.

02:01:58.000 They can do that.

02:01:59.000 I mean, there's probably something wrong with me.

02:02:02.000 They could even literally say that... So the issue is, there's often settlements.

02:02:08.000 If you watch like Project Veritas, you'll see he always has the retracto.

02:02:11.000 Usually that's because these people bend the knee immediately, because they know if you get past a motion to dismiss, you go to discovery and depositions, and that's when these organizations panic.

02:02:23.000 So this is news, too.

02:02:25.000 Veritas just got passed a motion to dismiss with the New York Times, I think it was.

02:02:28.000 Which means these writers now have to sit in a room, under oath, I believe, under penalty of perjury, and tell the truth.

02:02:35.000 So it's really amazing what happens because they immediately, it's remarkable, Watch these videos that Veritas has put out, and you will laugh.

02:02:43.000 Like, they'll write something like, you know, James O'Keefe once did a backflip off a building or whatever, or punched a dog, and they'll be sitting there in the room under deposition and go, No, he never punched the dog.

02:02:53.000 Why do you write that he did?

02:02:54.000 Um, I was wrong.

02:02:56.000 And you're just like, wow, they know they're lying.

02:02:59.000 And they get caught for it, and they're forced to settle.

02:03:01.000 Wow.

02:03:01.000 They're forced to apologize or whatever, because they know they're gonna lose.

02:03:05.000 Jonathan Galterini says, Have you noticed how the media is slowly turning on Biden?

02:03:09.000 It feels like they are dipping their toes in the water on bashing Biden.

02:03:12.000 Why?

02:03:13.000 I think they care more about money than anything else.

02:03:15.000 Capitalism may cure the virus they created.

02:03:18.000 What if this happens?

02:03:20.000 What if, Jonathan's correct, Joe Biden is going to start getting slammed in the media.

02:03:24.000 It's already starting.

02:03:25.000 We had MSNBC criticizing him because he ordered Border Patrol not to allow press access to these facilities, migrant facilities.

02:03:33.000 What happens if the media realizes there's money to be made if they criticize Biden?

02:03:39.000 And then all of a sudden, we get four years of Biden bad.

02:03:43.000 Oh no. 0.99

02:03:44.000 And you get a crumbling economy, crumbling infrastructure, a failing president, a raucous China, and a media capitalizing off Joe Biden claiming he sucks. 0.97

02:03:54.000 And then Trump comes back. 0.97

02:03:57.000 Yeah.

02:03:57.000 If that were to happen, all of it at the same time with DeSantis as VP, then Trump would probably run.

02:04:04.000 I think Trump is running regardless.

02:04:06.000 And if Trump doesn't run, it is DeSantis.

02:04:09.000 And I think whoever runs between those two is going to win.

02:04:12.000 100%.

02:04:13.000 Definitely.

02:04:15.000 So you think no matter what 2024 is Republican?

02:04:17.000 Yeah.

02:04:18.000 It's a lot of things that can happen from now until then.

02:04:20.000 I know.

02:04:21.000 But this is what really bothers me.

02:04:23.000 But I also thought Biden was going to win.

02:04:26.000 As soon as Trump won, knowing Biden didn't run in 2016, I thought whatever happened in 2016, I knew that Trump was going to win like a week before the actual election.

02:04:40.000 But afterwards, if Biden had been in that, I thought that there might have been a chance that he actually would have won.

02:04:47.000 So in 2017, if Biden runs in 2020, he's going to win.

02:04:53.000 The important thing to understand about shows like this and what I hate about the internet is there's context and then there's like temporal context or contemporary context.

02:05:01.000 And the way I described it to you earlier is if I said something like, oh, Ian came to me and said, I am thirsty, but I don't like Gatorade.

02:05:11.000 People could then take that statement where I said, I am thirsty but I don't like Gatorade, and take it out of context to attribute that quote to me.

02:05:16.000 That's so crazy.

02:05:17.000 That's out of context.

02:05:18.000 But there's something else, there's contemporary context, where I could be reading a news article from the New York Times that said, Gatorade put, you know, we won't use an actual brand.

02:05:29.000 The New York Times might write an article saying, popular soft drink accidentally drops rat in beverage.

02:05:34.000 And then I go, wow!

02:05:36.000 I'm never drinking beverage again.

02:05:38.000 That's disgusting.

02:05:39.000 I think this is disgusting. 0.92

02:05:41.000 This drink is gross.

02:05:42.000 And then people will take that quote and say, Tim hates this brand, omitting the contemporary context, the time when a story came out.

02:05:48.000 So there's a good example of this.

02:05:50.000 I said something about, I don't trust the New York Times, and I was referring to a singular story.

02:05:56.000 I was talking about a couple different stories and I was like, oh yeah, well the New York Post said this, the New York Times said this.

02:06:02.000 I don't trust the New York Times.

02:06:03.000 I was referring to one story that gets taken by a bunch of leftists to claim that Tim Poole thinks the New York Times is fake news.

02:06:09.000 Can I jump in on that?

02:06:10.000 Because this is really interesting that's happened online.

02:06:12.000 You know, Vox Journalist Sam Rupar?

02:06:14.000 Yeah.

02:06:15.000 He posts a bunch of videos and stuff.

02:06:16.000 Yeah.

02:06:17.000 He is now being accused of taking Captain Jay Baker, I believe that's his name, from Atlanta.

02:06:24.000 Um, and taking out the, what was it, the conceptual context by basically... Contemporary?

02:06:30.000 Contemporary.

02:06:30.000 I'm sorry.

02:06:31.000 Yeah, contemporary context to make it look like, uh, the captain was saying that the suspect, uh, the Atlanta shooting suspect was having a really bad day.

02:06:39.000 What he was doing was that he was actually saying that this is what the suspect's explanation was of his own actions saying that he... Well, that's just general context.

02:06:47.000 Yeah.

02:06:47.000 Oh, okay.

02:06:48.000 All right.

02:06:48.000 So he said he had a really bad day and he...

02:06:51.000 He was quoting the guy.

02:06:52.000 He was quoting what the suspect's explanation was. 0.93

02:06:55.000 These people are evil, man.

02:06:57.000 And Rupar framed it as if that was what the captain said. 0.99

02:07:00.000 Fooled me!

02:07:01.000 He got fired.

02:07:01.000 The captain got forced out of his job.

02:07:03.000 I thought the captain said that.

02:07:04.000 Me too.

02:07:05.000 So, I mean, man, you gotta be really careful when you watch these videos because it is so quick, so quickly this stuff gets spread.

02:07:14.000 We got an important one here.

02:07:15.000 Mr. Brownstone says, Dude, we got like a full hour with James O'Keefe at TimCast.com.

02:07:30.000 We need to create a better library system so we have a new website coming soon.

02:07:33.000 But if you go to the members-only content, you can just keep loading more.

02:07:36.000 And we got an hour with James.

02:07:37.000 We got...

02:07:38.000 An hour.

02:07:39.000 We got full episodes with Kim and a bunch of people talking stuff you're not going to hear anywhere else.

02:07:44.000 That's good stuff.

02:07:45.000 I just want to say Mr. Brownstone, best song off Appetite for Destruction.

02:07:50.000 Shout out.

02:07:50.000 Great name.

02:07:52.000 That's my opinion.

02:07:53.000 All right, we'll do a couple more here.

02:07:55.000 If you haven't already, smash the like button before you take off, but we'll read some more.

02:07:59.000 J.A.

02:07:59.000 says, Habibi bro here, who is also a member of Timcast.com and a Twitch sub of Siraj.

02:08:04.000 Ohio State and Michigan State were both overrated.

02:08:07.000 Go blue.

02:08:09.000 There you go.

02:08:10.000 What's up, Habibi? 1.00

02:08:14.000 Mike Greff says, things we can all agree on.

02:08:17.000 Never trust the media, politicians, or the Chinese government.

02:08:21.000 Can we all rally behind this?

02:08:22.000 Not apparently we can't.

02:08:24.000 I mean, maybe just not face value.

02:08:27.000 Never.

02:08:28.000 Who looks at Nancy Pelosi and goes, I trust that face.

02:08:31.000 A bunch of people.

02:08:32.000 Why?

02:08:33.000 A lot of people trust Nancy Pelosi, man.

02:08:35.000 Why?

02:08:36.000 I don't, there's like, You know, when people ask me, like, can you name a good politician, I'm like, Rand Paul.

02:08:41.000 Yeah, I like that guy.

02:08:46.000 He gets a really high score for me, and there's a couple others I might shout out.

02:08:50.000 Josh Hawley.

02:08:52.000 Well, Josh Hawley's on the list, but he's closer to the bottom.

02:08:54.000 No offense, Josh Hawley.

02:08:54.000 Ted Cruz.

02:08:55.000 I think Thomas Massey, Rand Paul, and then...

02:09:00.000 You know, Josh Hawley's alright.

02:09:02.000 Matt Gaetz and Ted Cruz are alright.

02:09:05.000 I give praise to Ro Khanna for standing up to Pelosi in a few instances, but I disagree with him on a lot of political stuff.

02:09:10.000 Tulsi Gabbard was fantastic.

02:09:11.000 Yeah, she left politics.

02:09:12.000 Like, that says everything.

02:09:13.000 Are there any politicians you want to give a shoutout to that are genuine and trustworthy?

02:09:17.000 Oh man, that's a really good question.

02:09:21.000 Right?

02:09:22.000 Look, I have a reserved, um, distaste for politicians.

02:09:28.000 I realize that they're all human and they all have, you know, they're all set to do a job and they all have different pressures that influence them.

02:09:36.000 So I am never going to praise a politician just outright for, you know, being good or being bad.

02:09:42.000 I'm sorry, or criticize them when they're bad.

02:09:44.000 Um, I will just call them out when I see them mess up.

02:09:47.000 What do you think about Rand Paul?

02:09:50.000 He's a wild card.

02:09:52.000 You think so?

02:09:52.000 Yeah, because he was... During the Trump era, he wasn't really himself.

02:09:58.000 You think?

02:09:58.000 Yeah.

02:10:01.000 He got on the Trump-y lean.

02:10:02.000 Yeah.

02:10:03.000 It was very un-Rand Paul-like.

02:10:06.000 And I'll tell you this.

02:10:06.000 When I, when I say I praise Rand Paul, it's because on a scale of one to a hundred, he's, he's at 51.

02:10:13.000 He's like over the halfway mark by like the smallest person.

02:10:16.000 Which is like the best rating you'd ever give a politician.

02:10:18.000 Ever.

02:10:18.000 Yeah.

02:10:19.000 Like he's a little bit better than like, okay.

02:10:23.000 Whereas like all the other politicians are like, yeah, kind of bad.

02:10:25.000 Yeah.

02:10:26.000 You're all kind of bad and you're, and some are worse. 0.99

02:10:27.000 Some are horrible. 0.99

02:10:28.000 Yeah.

02:10:29.000 So I, I like Josh Hawley, but I, he's, he's, Yeah, you know, I begrudgingly say I like Josh Hawley because there's some things he's done that I like.

02:10:39.000 Yeah, that's the problem.

02:10:41.000 There's personality and then there's policy.

02:10:43.000 How do you separate that?

02:10:45.000 I was just going to say, some policies are good, but the personality is horrible.

02:10:50.000 Some personalities are good, but the policies are horrible.

02:10:54.000 It's very hard to sit that out.

02:10:55.000 Liking their work is different than liking their personality.

02:10:58.000 We got a very important Super Chat from...

02:11:01.000 Mujahid Kabi, this is a question for Siraj.

02:11:06.000 Habibi is my co-host.

02:11:08.000 That's my co-host.

02:11:09.000 He's super chatted $69.

02:11:14.000 Habibi, why is your love for Jen Rubin undying?

02:11:17.000 Essentially, you lib.

02:11:19.000 100%.

02:11:21.000 59%.

02:11:23.000 Love you, Jay.

02:11:25.000 All right.

02:11:26.000 We got Drunk Surfer says, shout out to Louie Gohmert.

02:11:29.000 Louie's all right, too.

02:11:30.000 Yeah, he's cool.

02:11:31.000 It's easy to point out certain Republicans that I think are good, but I disagree with them on a lot of policy.

02:11:36.000 It's hard to find Democrats that I think are good, and I disagree with most of them on policy.

02:11:43.000 All right.

02:11:43.000 Galandro Glade says, you should get Fleckas on your show.

02:11:46.000 I mean, we genuinely want to.

02:11:48.000 We will at some point, yeah.

02:11:49.000 He's busy.

02:11:51.000 Oh, this is interesting.

02:11:51.000 Paul Crane says, from a bottom of my heart, Tim, you alone completely destroyed my conservatism I was born into.

02:11:58.000 I feel like a free man.

02:11:59.000 Thank you, sir.

02:12:00.000 Oh.

02:12:01.000 Oh, I have no idea.

02:12:01.000 Is that good?

02:12:02.000 I don't know.

02:12:02.000 Yeah, is that good or bad?

02:12:03.000 All right, everybody, let's see.

02:12:06.000 Last super chat.

02:12:06.000 Ronnie Floyd says, great podcast, like always.

02:12:09.000 Y'all each need your own shirts, like an animated Tim smashing the like button and Lids pushing the buttons in the corner.

02:12:15.000 Yeah.

02:12:16.000 Well, we do have the Diamond Hands gorilla shirt pinned in the chat right now.

02:12:20.000 You can get yours.

02:12:21.000 It is an homage to the Wall Street Bets crew because we have a gorilla shirt and then they have the gorilla meme.

02:12:26.000 So we like, I decided to make a shirt and I thought people would think it was funny.

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02:12:30.000 We've sold a ton of them already.

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02:12:34.000 If you have not already, you must Smash the like button.

02:12:38.000 I'm surprised.

02:12:39.000 You know, we end up getting, you know, like 30 to 40 thousand people watching it on every episode, but we only get around like 10,000 likes and it's just, you know, it's just everybody knew.

02:12:47.000 Just press that like button.

02:12:49.000 Yeah.

02:12:50.000 If you don't like it, it's literally Islamophobia.

02:12:53.000 Oh, there you go.

02:12:54.000 Well, now you have to like it.

02:12:56.000 Otherwise, you're the wrong ideology.

02:12:58.000 Also, go to TimCast.com.

02:13:00.000 Look, I don't know if we're ever gonna get this weekend stuff up because things on the weekends tend to be chaotic.

02:13:06.000 True.

02:13:07.000 I started taking weekends off so I could do other kinds of work and also have some just, like, wake up when I need to wake up.

02:13:12.000 And then we've been doing, like, interviews and stuff, so we wanted to do range footage.

02:13:16.000 Then Luke ended up leaving, so we didn't go to the range.

02:13:18.000 Oh, we did.

02:13:19.000 We just didn't have anybody to film it.

02:13:20.000 We didn't really have a plan.

02:13:21.000 And then we wanted to do the Chicken City thing last time, but then we got the chickens, and they were like, it's too cold, and we realized a security issue with Chicken City, so we're like, okay, we need to re-up security, and we basically had to, like, bury some stuff to prevent, you know, the jerks from trying to dig in to kill the chickens.

02:13:37.000 So, we'll try our best, but thank you all so much for hanging out, for those who are members, for being members.

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02:13:57.000 Siraj, you want to shout anything out now that you're a free and independent man?

02:14:00.000 I'm a free man.

02:14:01.000 You can follow me on Twitter at Siraj Ahashmi.

02:14:04.000 I don't know.

02:14:05.000 I don't expect you to know how to spell that.

02:14:06.000 It's probably in the video description.

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02:14:13.000 It's at Habibi underscore Bros.

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02:14:20.000 That's where all our content is going to be right now until I announce something in the future.

02:14:24.000 Actually, you can always follow me at iancrossland.net.

02:14:26.000 I really appreciate you guys for coming.

02:14:27.000 I love the chats and the super chats.

02:14:29.000 It was really, really epic interaction.

02:14:31.000 Thanks, Jay, for giving that nice donation.

02:14:33.000 I love you, Jay.

02:14:34.000 I'd rather not come from the company account.

02:14:37.000 Well, it's good promotion, I suppose.

02:14:39.000 Yeah, true.

02:14:39.000 100%.

02:14:39.000 I did have one.

02:14:43.000 Oh, sorry.

02:14:44.000 No, you're good, you're good.

02:14:45.000 I just had one final thought, because we were talking about the censorship and this judge's dissent, and I just wanted to say that this has occurred to me that social media is censoring much better than the government ever could have dreamed of.

02:14:56.000 Nicholas Sawerk, who used to work for the Libertarian Party, commented earlier today on Twitter something about how Cancel culture is basically like just cultural accountability.

02:15:06.000 Obviously not true.

02:15:07.000 And this judge's dissent points that out perfectly because it doesn't matter that it's not the government.

02:15:11.000 It's still a huge issue.

02:15:13.000 Anyway, I'm sarahpatchelids on Twitter and Mines.

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02:15:39.000 Everybody came in and smashed the like button.

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02:15:42.000 No, I'm kidding.

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