Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Chinese Military Will SURROUND Taiwan During Pelosi Visit, WW3 Trends w-Angela McArdle

00:00:00.000 you you

00:00:24.000 you so Nancy Pelosi has landed in Taiwan

00:00:53.000 Currently, she has a whole bunch of police surrounding her hotel.

00:00:56.000 I believe it's the Hyatt.

00:00:58.000 I'm only saying that because there's photos of it happening.

00:01:00.000 Otherwise, I suppose it'd be a security issue.

00:01:02.000 China has vowed to encircle Taiwan, and apparently they're performing live fire drills surrounding the entire island nation, so things are certainly getting spicy.

00:01:12.000 And I just gotta say, my friends, nothing's gonna happen.

00:01:15.000 I really doubt anything.

00:01:16.000 I don't think China's gonna risk their economic position over Nancy Pelosi.

00:01:20.000 But everybody's really worried and they're wondering why it is that Nancy Pelosi decided to do this.

00:01:24.000 Mitch McConnell and 25 other Republicans have come out in support of her move.

00:01:29.000 We've been talking about it because none of us know exactly why she's going there.

00:01:34.000 Although many people are speculating that's because she's probably buying stock in this semiconductor production company who's going to be moving to Arizona and, you know, I don't know, that's her MO.

00:01:42.000 But I don't know if that's actually the case.

00:01:44.000 We'll talk about it.

00:01:44.000 We'll get into it.

00:01:45.000 And then we've got probably my favorite story of the day.

00:01:48.000 Donald Trump the other day endorsed Eric.

00:01:51.000 Just Eric.

00:01:52.000 In Missouri.

00:01:53.000 Which Eric?

00:01:54.000 We don't know.

00:01:55.000 There are three.

00:01:56.000 And when reached for comment, his office said, the endorsement speaks for itself.

00:02:02.000 I love this man.

00:02:03.000 I just, you know, the irreverence is exactly what I'm talking about, okay?

00:02:07.000 When I talk about putting a 96-foot billboard of my rooster on Times Square, you know, our rooster, You know that we're trying to have a good time and just kind of, you know, give people a laugh.

00:02:19.000 And then Donald Trump does something like this on a major primary day and I can't imagine it was an accident that you endorsed three people.

00:02:27.000 And two of the frontrunners are both Eric and they both claim to have spoken to him on the phone and been endorsed by him.

00:02:32.000 I think Trump is trolling people because he's sitting there, he's laughing, and he knows what he's doing.

00:02:36.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:02:38.000 And Nancy Pelosi's husband is going to be arraigned for a DUI.

00:02:41.000 So this should get really, really interesting.

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00:03:20.000 Joining us tonight, we have Angela McArdle. 1.00

00:03:23.000 Hey there, thanks for having me back!

00:03:25.000 Pull that up a little bit, and you want to introduce who you are?

00:03:27.000 Sure, so my name is Angela.

00:03:29.000 I am the chair of the National Libertarian Party.

00:03:32.000 That's what I do.

00:03:33.000 Right on! 0.80

00:03:34.000 You were on just not that long ago, and it was really interesting to hear about the Mises Caucus taking over the Libertarian Party, so should be interesting as we talk about all the primaries that are happening today.

00:03:43.000 Big ones!

00:03:43.000 Carrie Lake, for instance, she's gonna win.

00:03:46.000 We got Cori DeAngelo's hanging out.

00:03:48.000 Hey, Cory DeAngelis, Senior Fellow at the American Federation for Children.

00:03:52.000 Last time I was here with you guys was two years ago, right before all the school closures happened in March of 2020.

00:03:56.000 I think it was like two weeks before the whole nation locked down.

00:04:00.000 So a lot has happened on the education front since the last time I was on.

00:04:04.000 Republicans are apparently up on the issue of education for the first time in like, what, three decades or something?

00:04:09.000 Yeah, basically for the first time ever.

00:04:11.000 I mean, just in 2017, Gallup had Democrats up by 19 percentage points.

00:04:17.000 And I tweeted this out just a little bit ago.

00:04:19.000 And for the first time ever, you have two polls came out last month.

00:04:22.000 You have the American Federation of Teachers, which is one of the biggest teachers unions in the US, a leftist organization.

00:04:28.000 Plus the Democrats for education reform also had a poll last month, both of them finding Republicans up by one to

00:04:34.000 three percentage points on the issue of education.

00:04:37.000 So it's a seismic shift in support.

00:04:39.000 We have the misery index coming out showing that Democrats are doomed.

00:04:43.000 And I just want to tell everybody, whether it's true or not, you got to get three of your friends out.

00:04:47.000 You've got to go vote, especially right now, especially if you're in Arizona.

00:04:50.000 If you're in Arizona and you didn't go and vote, well then, you're making a mistake, because Arizona's a big deal right now.

00:04:56.000 And, you know, we had Carrie Lake on the show. 1.00

00:04:59.000 I'm a big fan.

00:05:00.000 We expect her to win.

00:05:01.000 But here's what I've got to say.

00:05:03.000 You know, they're projecting 30 to 40 seats lost in the House.

00:05:07.000 Now is the time when you can see your enemy and retreat.

00:05:10.000 You get all your friends, you call everyone you know, your mom, your brother, your sister, your cousins, your niece, your nephew and say, guys, come on, we're all going to vote and we're going out for pizza.

00:05:17.000 So now it's time to do it.

00:05:19.000 So thanks for joining us, man.

00:05:20.000 We also got Ian.

00:05:21.000 Hi, everybody.

00:05:22.000 Back from Ohio.

00:05:22.000 I took a nice vacation for the last couple of days.

00:05:25.000 Get some fresh air, clean my mind.

00:05:27.000 Great to see you guys again.

00:05:28.000 Corey, I mean, the school choice thing.

00:05:30.000 Well, you were a pioneer, and this is like before the nonsense of people having Zoom calls with TC and these weird stuff that teachers are telling.

00:05:39.000 I mean, all of the closures and the teacher unions overplaying their hand have really supercharged the movement for school choice.

00:05:45.000 2021 was the year of school choice.

00:05:46.000 We just talked about Arizona with Carrie Lake up in the polls for today's election. 0.93

00:05:51.000 Arizona just passed the gold standard of educational freedom.

00:05:54.000 Every single family, regardless of income, will be able to take their kids' education dollars to public private charter.

00:05:59.000 That's apocalyptic for leftists.

00:06:01.000 Yeah.

00:06:01.000 Because they don't have kids.

00:06:02.000 But we'll get into all that stuff.

00:06:03.000 Beautiful evolution.

00:06:04.000 Yeah.

00:06:05.000 And Lydia is on vacation.

00:06:06.000 So Chris is here.

00:06:08.000 Hey, what's up everyone?

00:06:09.000 Handling all of the live production and everything else.

00:06:12.000 So without further ado, let's jump into this first story.

00:06:15.000 The apocalypse is nigh, my friends.

00:06:17.000 Politico reports, China vows to encircle Taiwan with military drills in response to Pelosi's visit.

00:06:24.000 Tensions reach their most precarious point in more than a quarter century.

00:06:29.000 Forget the politico, let me show you the visual.

00:06:32.000 From 12 p.m., August 4th to 12 p.m., August 7th, the Chinese People's Liberation Army will conduct important military exercises and training activities, including live fire drills in the following maritime areas and their airspace.

00:06:47.000 They're just announcing they're going to surround Taiwan and start firing into the air while Nancy Pelosi is in Taiwan.

00:06:56.000 I don't think anything's going to happen.

00:06:57.000 I don't think so.

00:06:58.000 Well, I'll put it this way.

00:07:00.000 This is happening.

00:07:02.000 I don't want to be naive and optimistic or biased to assume nothing could happen, you know, because we often talk about the battle at Fort Sumter when no one thought a civil war would break out, so they're like picnicking on the hillside.

00:07:16.000 Are we falling into that trap?

00:07:17.000 Are we sitting here being like, they're not going to do anything to Pelosi or No, we have to fear corporate and medical tyranny, not war on country on country.

00:07:26.000 They do not want to pose two great economies against each other where they can suck us dry of our interest back to the Federal Reserve.

00:07:34.000 We're not staring down real nuclear war, I don't think. 0.99

00:07:37.000 Now, we could be staring down some stupid sanctions. 1.00

00:07:41.000 Which they're already doing, right? 0.99

00:07:42.000 On Taiwan, they're banning imports of fish or whatever it is.

00:07:46.000 I don't know if it's in response to this, but I mean, at the end of the day, when you're banning imports, you're shooting yourself in the foot by reducing the amount of resources that can get into your country.

00:07:57.000 So ultimately, Chinese consumers will be the ones who are hurt by these types of sanctions.

00:08:01.000 I mean, it's true, but do you see those videos of all the Chinese citizens outside the banks?

00:08:06.000 They're unable to pull money out.

00:08:07.000 Yeah.

00:08:08.000 I mean, at a certain point, China says it's now or never.

00:08:11.000 Yeah.

00:08:12.000 And considering how close Taiwan is to China and considering China considers Taiwan to be China, There's a line, you know what I mean?

00:08:21.000 The CCP might just say, you know what?

00:08:24.000 That's the line.

00:08:25.000 Our economy is shot.

00:08:27.000 People can't withdraw money from their banks.

00:08:29.000 We're already facing this threat of Trump and the United States as an economic force is probably not going to last.

00:08:36.000 They might be thinking, and this is why I don't want to exaggerate what might happen, but I also don't want to ignore the possibility.

00:08:45.000 China could be looking at this like, we can wait two years, Donald Trump gets reelected, trade war again, economic crisis on our side, we start losing manufacturing, or they can say, you know what?

00:08:55.000 Shore up our defenses now, make the move before they do.

00:08:59.000 And that might work out, I hate to say it, but it might work out okay.

00:09:05.000 It might work out just fine.

00:09:06.000 As long as the United States doesn't go after them with aggressive military action, ultimately what's going to happen?

00:09:14.000 I mean, I feel for the people in Taiwan.

00:09:16.000 Absolutely.

00:09:16.000 I do.

00:09:17.000 I do.

00:09:18.000 But is Taiwan a sovereign nation?

00:09:23.000 I mean, if you ask Americans, the answer is yes.

00:09:25.000 What are Americans, what's that based on?

00:09:27.000 Like, what's their basis for making that assessment?

00:09:29.000 That Taiwan is a sovereign nation?

00:09:32.000 Like the history of Taiwan and China?

00:09:34.000 I don't know.

00:09:34.000 What do you mean?

00:09:35.000 Officially the Republic of China.

00:09:37.000 This is where the old Chinese government fled when Mao staged his insurrection.

00:09:41.000 So basically this occupying force, the CCP, isn't the real government of China.

00:09:45.000 It's the Republic.

00:09:47.000 Right.

00:09:47.000 But the United States officially does not recognize Taiwan as its own country.

00:09:52.000 Right.

00:09:52.000 And so doing that would be a huge leap.

00:09:56.000 Huge leap.

00:09:57.000 And it would have a lot of implications.

00:10:00.000 Yeah, but I don't like Nancy Pelosi all that much. 0.99

00:10:03.000 I think she's a hypocrite when it comes to education, for example. 1.00

00:10:07.000 But I don't think her going over to Taiwan and meeting with people is going to be considered a real act of aggression, for one, because it's not. 0.89

00:10:17.000 I think the Chinese government might be more concerned about us funding Taiwan and actually providing subsidies to them, which could change the dynamic of power in the future. 0.99

00:10:30.000 Yeah, I'm surprised so many people exist in this political mindset that, like, China is a bunch of imbecile children. 0.98

00:10:39.000 Like, do you think Russia is sitting there going like, oh, those Ukrainians keep eating fighter jets somehow? 1.00

00:10:44.000 Or do you think they're saying, we're at war with America?

00:10:46.000 Right.

00:10:47.000 Oh, they totally do.

00:10:48.000 It's trying to sit in there being like, we know the US doesn't think Taiwan is a country.

00:10:52.000 Or do you think they're saying the US is funding Taiwan so they can rebel against us?

00:10:57.000 And if it wasn't for your involvement, we would have Taiwan now. 0.98

00:11:01.000 I think it's probably somewhere in between.

00:11:03.000 I think it's explicit.

00:11:06.000 Well, the United States is definitely being an economic opportunist in this, and I think that our government is pushing it as far as they can go.

00:11:14.000 But if China actually stepped in and put troops on Taiwan and started a situation like we're seeing in Russia and Ukraine, I don't know if the United States is going to send troops over.

00:11:26.000 I agree.

00:11:28.000 I think we've got, you know, the strike group, carriers, warships that are heading into the region, which is why China is announcing this, because they're basically saying back off.

00:11:38.000 Obviously, the U.S.

00:11:40.000 is the only reason China hasn't just invaded Taiwan.

00:11:43.000 I mean, maybe the fact that Taiwan does have its own defense, but of course we're supporting them in many ways.

00:11:48.000 At the same time, we benefit China with trade as well.

00:11:52.000 So they might not want to have an act of aggression against Taiwan because they don't want to lose economic trade.

00:11:55.000 to defend themselves. It looks like at the same time we benefit China with with trade as well.

00:12:00.000 So they might not want to have an act of aggression against Taiwan because they don't

00:12:04.000 want to lose economic trade. Not if they're already hurting.

00:12:07.000 Not if not if Trump's already started a trade war with them. Not if their banks are

00:12:10.000 already in dire straits. Not if the sentiment of the American people is that in a couple two to four six

00:12:15.000 years we're going to strip all the manufacturing away from China. Stop doing these deals with 1.00

00:12:19.000 Chinese made products.

00:12:21.000 If they're planning ahead, I gotta say, it looks to me like the next four years is gonna be made in America. 0.99

00:12:27.000 Donald Trump, he's running again.

00:12:29.000 They have to pull Joe Biden out.

00:12:33.000 That right there is red flag sirens for the Democrat chances of winning.

00:12:37.000 What are they gonna do, AOC?

00:12:39.000 Actually, we have the article we're gonna talk about.

00:12:42.000 And there's no way AOC beats Trump.

00:12:47.000 Knock on wood, because maybe something happens.

00:12:50.000 But if Trump wins, he's going to say exactly what he said.

00:12:54.000 Do you remember when he had that quote?

00:12:55.000 Michael Moore brought it up.

00:12:57.000 He went to the auto manufacturers and said, if you make your cars overseas, I will charge you a 30% tariff to bring them in and no one will buy them.

00:13:05.000 And then what did we see?

00:13:06.000 In Michigan, they reopened plants.

00:13:08.000 They brought the cars back from the plants for Mexico.

00:13:10.000 And then as soon as Trump's out, all of a sudden they shut it down.

00:13:12.000 They're moving things back out again.

00:13:14.000 China knows this.

00:13:15.000 They know it better than we do.

00:13:16.000 I can only imagine that they're like looking at their watch saying, we hope Trump doesn't win.

00:13:21.000 According to Wikipedia, Taiwan is part of the Republic of China, which is a country.

00:13:26.000 And Taiwan, there's 168 islands in the Republic of China.

00:13:30.000 Taiwan makes up like 99.98% of the landmass.

00:13:35.000 So it is its own country, the Republic.

00:13:37.000 Oh, okay.

00:13:38.000 So the last poll that was released out of the Hill has Trump up against Biden by what, eight points?

00:13:45.000 It's like not even close.

00:13:47.000 Biden's done.

00:13:48.000 I mean, did you see that there was a video that came out that everyone thought was a deep fake because his eyes are like lasered and he's like, You gotta run!

00:13:55.000 It's like, I'm sorry.

00:13:57.000 I don't think it's a deep thing.

00:13:58.000 I think they just gave him uppers.

00:13:59.000 Well, is he going to get better or worse between now and 2024?

00:14:02.000 That's a real question.

00:14:03.000 It's like they're giving these pills and it's like squeezing blood from a turnip, you know?

00:14:09.000 Like there's nothing left to get out of this man.

00:14:12.000 They're probably pumping him full of things to fortify his blood, this poor man.

00:14:17.000 How much do you want to bet he gets like IV treatments?

00:14:20.000 No, for real.

00:14:21.000 Oh, I used to get them.

00:14:23.000 You can get all kinds of nice little vitamin cocktails and they can put a lot more in it than that.

00:14:27.000 We get NAD because Joe Rogan, you know, he told me, he's like, you got to do the NAD.

00:14:32.000 And then I was like, I'm not going to do as much as he does.

00:14:34.000 We'll do it sometimes.

00:14:35.000 You guys think Gavin Newsom has any shot at the Democratic primary?

00:14:39.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:14:40.000 I just don't think they can win.

00:14:42.000 But look, I can't see everything.

00:14:46.000 I've made some good political predictions.

00:14:48.000 I've made some big bad ones.

00:14:50.000 And for the most part, it's like, here's what I think might happen.

00:14:52.000 And that's why I try to just say, you know what, man, all that matters is it's primary day right now.

00:14:59.000 Midterms are really, really close, three months away.

00:15:02.000 Forget who you think is gonna win.

00:15:03.000 Just get all your friends, every single one.

00:15:06.000 You know what you should do?

00:15:07.000 Tell your friends you're gonna go vote.

00:15:08.000 Call them all up, every single one.

00:15:10.000 Post, hey, we're meeting here this time, we're all gonna go vote.

00:15:12.000 And, um, like, if you live in the right, in the same district or whatever.

00:15:15.000 And if they're grumbling or whatever, just say, hey, we're gonna go out for pizza.

00:15:19.000 On the way, we're stopping to vote, then we're going to get pizza.

00:15:22.000 There you go.

00:15:23.000 That's what you do.

00:15:23.000 I think Eric's going to win that race.

00:15:26.000 I do, too.

00:15:26.000 Yeah.

00:15:27.000 One of them.

00:15:27.000 I mean, Trump endorsed him, so... In Missouri.

00:15:30.000 You saw that?

00:15:31.000 Yeah, he's probably got something good going for him if Trump may or may not have endorsed him.

00:15:36.000 You were mentioning, like, Trump endorsed someone else with the wrong last name and first name or whatever.

00:15:40.000 Yeah, wasn't that... Did he laugh?

00:15:41.000 Was that J.D.

00:15:42.000 Vance's race?

00:15:42.000 Like, he endorsed one of the first names and then the last name of the other guy, and everybody's like...

00:15:48.000 Is he really just trolling us on all these endorsements?

00:15:51.000 This is what I love about Donald Trump.

00:15:54.000 You know, it's like his foreign policy was some of the best I've seen.

00:15:59.000 And I can talk all about getting our troops out of the Middle East, North Korea, I bring it up all the time because these things I think are important.

00:16:04.000 I absolutely despise, I did a segment today talking about China, talking about Pelosi, Middle East, you know, with the drone strike on that Taliban leader and all this stuff.

00:16:15.000 And I just absolutely despise the American war machine, bureaucratic state, military-industrial complex, and intelligence-industrial complex.

00:16:25.000 If they came and were honest with legitimate purposes for what the U.S.

00:16:30.000 were to do overseas, I'd be like, wow, this is serious stuff.

00:16:33.000 It's just lying.

00:16:34.000 Everything is just not true, and it's exemplified by nothing they ever say aligns with what the supposed interests are.

00:16:41.000 You know, like, here's an example.

00:16:42.000 What really pisses me off is Joe Biden's quid pro quo with Ukraine.

00:16:46.000 When he says, if you don't fire the prosecutor, you're not getting the billion dollar loan guarantee.

00:16:49.000 Then he says, I did this because the prosecutor was corrupt.

00:16:52.000 And then we got someone in who was good.

00:16:54.000 The funny thing is, the prosecutor was investigating Burisma, the founder of Burisma.

00:16:58.000 As soon as Biden gets him fired, the founder came back to Ukraine.

00:17:01.000 And then as soon as Trump came in, the founder fled.

00:17:03.000 Sounds a whole lot like Biden was covering for Burisma because his son worked there.

00:17:06.000 So don't give me this BS.

00:17:08.000 They're spitting in our faces. 0.99

00:17:09.000 Now, when they talk about the need for Taiwan and the South China Sea, I'm like, you are just liars. 0.97

00:17:15.000 The Gulf of Tonkin.

00:17:16.000 That happened in, what was it, the 70s?

00:17:19.000 The false flag to get us involved.

00:17:21.000 Late 60s, yeah.

00:17:22.000 False flag, you're right, late 60s.

00:17:24.000 To get us involved in Vietnam.

00:17:26.000 I was not alive.

00:17:27.000 I grew up hearing the story about how we're attacked.

00:17:30.000 And then I think it was in the 2000s they finally admitted like, oh yeah, we kind of staged that.

00:17:34.000 So we can force America so that we could draft people. 0.88

00:17:37.000 So you know what?

00:17:37.000 I'm done with it.

00:17:38.000 Donald Trump can come in and he can say, we're bringing all the troops out.

00:17:41.000 I'll be like, good, you deserve it.

00:17:42.000 Because the United States is not justified.

00:17:44.000 I know China's got Africa and South American oil exploration and development and the Belt and Road Initiative.

00:17:51.000 These things are a big threat.

00:17:52.000 We're going to have a multipolar world where there's potential for real world conflict.

00:17:56.000 But the United States, the deep state, bureaucratic state, military-industrial complex has done nothing to unify Americans, to justify any of these incursions.

00:18:05.000 So you know what?

00:18:06.000 I want Donald Trump to come in, fire everybody!

00:18:09.000 Start fresh.

00:18:10.000 That sounds good to me.

00:18:10.000 I'm with you.

00:18:11.000 I used to be very anti-imperialist in general, just like down with the military-industrial complex.

00:18:16.000 And then now recently I'm like, replace it with what?

00:18:19.000 There's going to be a military complex on earth, whether it's the American one or the Chinese one or whatever.

00:18:25.000 Yeah, but it could be national defense as opposed to national offense.

00:18:28.000 Yeah.

00:18:28.000 Well, but that's what they think.

00:18:30.000 That's what they say, right?

00:18:31.000 Like, the reason we are in Afghanistan is because they're like, well, we leave, it's a power vacuum, you'll get terroristic entities, you'll get China. 0.98

00:18:38.000 And I'm like, hey, yeah, I hear all that.

00:18:41.000 But you lied to us to bring us there.

00:18:43.000 Okay, so you know, no, that's not how I play.

00:18:47.000 You need to give us a legitimate justification.

00:18:49.000 And was the Afghanistan war a huge success? 0.97

00:18:51.000 Did we?

00:18:52.000 It was a success for Halliburton.

00:18:55.000 I don't know who else made money off of it.

00:18:59.000 Look, I've been following some of this stuff.

00:19:01.000 I'm not going to pretend to know more than those who have access to confidential information.

00:19:04.000 I don't.

00:19:05.000 So my position is only, yo, all I know is you're wrong and you're lying.

00:19:09.000 And whenever we say, please justify what you're doing, they give us BS.

00:19:14.000 Barack Obama killed a 16-year-old American citizen, Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, and they said, oops.

00:19:19.000 I'm like, that's it?

00:19:20.000 Sorry, you're done.

00:19:21.000 My consent has been rescinded for what you are doing.

00:19:26.000 I'm a little kid, I'm like, I don't know all about this stuff.

00:19:28.000 I get older, I'm like, hey, I got questions about this.

00:19:30.000 Then Obama's like, we're gonna come in and pull our troops out. 0.71

00:19:33.000 And then he gets in, he goes, I'm gonna blow up those kids, too many. 0.80

00:19:36.000 Right. 0.52

00:19:37.000 And I'm just like, dude, no, none of this.

00:19:38.000 Troops out, drone strikes in.

00:19:40.000 Yeah.

00:19:41.000 You know, look, Donald Trump pulled our troops out of the Middle East and we got more drone strikes.

00:19:45.000 I can understand what Trump was doing in that capacity.

00:19:48.000 Bringing our troops out means you're pulling out the American power structure, which displaced the existing power structure and caused a huge problem, created ISIS.

00:19:58.000 And now as we're pulling back, we need to basically prevent an expansion of, say, ISIS.

00:20:04.000 I don't blame Trump for the fact that other presidents started wars.

00:20:07.000 I don't blame Barack Obama for the fact that George W. Bush started wars.

00:20:10.000 I blame Barack Obama for drone-striking children, for drone-striking military-aged males, and then putting more troops in the Middle East.

00:20:17.000 I blame the administrative state for lying to us about why our troops are over there, and I credit Donald Trump for trying to get us out.

00:20:23.000 Not that he did everything perfectly.

00:20:24.000 Far from it.

00:20:25.000 But no new wars?

00:20:26.000 Pulling our troops out?

00:20:28.000 I thought it was a good thing.

00:20:29.000 I want to see Trump go in and fire every one of these people.

00:20:31.000 Nancy Pelosi, I'm sick of it. 1.00

00:20:33.000 Get these incumbents out.

00:20:34.000 I'm just so, I'm fed up with this stuff.

00:20:36.000 I wish that they were honest, but like, if they were to be like, we're in Afghanistan because we want to harvest the hair, the poppy for the opiates so that we can make fentanyl and then get, enrich our pharmaceutical companies.

00:20:47.000 If they were like, I mean, I think that's what we're doing over there amongst the oil extraction.

00:20:50.000 I mean, ending the drug war here would probably help to ease that pain.

00:20:56.000 How would you do that?

00:20:57.000 How would you do that?

00:20:58.000 By decriminalizing the production and manufacture and distribution and consumption of opioid products, including heroin, which is a wildly unpopular idea, but it would open the market up to being able to actually verify if something was laced with fentanyl, if it was safe.

00:21:19.000 It would make treatment much more normalized.

00:21:22.000 It did this in Portugal, right? 0.92

00:21:25.000 I knew it.

00:21:25.000 You're like, no, none of that.

00:21:27.000 I mean, it could happen.

00:21:28.000 But, you know, and from a libertarian perspective, that makes my skin crawl.

00:21:32.000 But I'm much more grossed out by the thought of us killing citizens in other countries, you know, and calling it collateral damage.

00:21:41.000 That's an awful thing.

00:21:42.000 I look at Fast and Furious with Obama giving the cartels weapons.

00:21:47.000 These people are not your friends.

00:21:49.000 They do not have the best interests of America at heart.

00:21:51.000 You look at what happened with Michigan with the Whitmer plot.

00:21:53.000 And then you see in the trial, it's like, oh, they were almost all informants orchestrating the thing from the get-go.

00:21:58.000 And the guys, I think the jury ruled two of them were entrapped.

00:22:02.000 Like, these people are not your friends.

00:22:03.000 But you know what else I realized from all this?

00:22:05.000 Nobody's in charge.

00:22:08.000 I was thinking about it.

00:22:09.000 I'm like, you know, we talk about how there is in China.

00:22:14.000 You can't have a show like this criticizing your own government in China.

00:22:17.000 And then I was like, why do we?

00:22:18.000 I mean, they certainly don't like me.

00:22:19.000 They want to get us banned.

00:22:21.000 They don't have as much power here.

00:22:22.000 What I mean is the political elites, the uniparty, the bureaucratic state, no single group has enough power to destroy another group.

00:22:31.000 And so there's a constant battle for power.

00:22:34.000 There are people of principle who are like, we should have decentralized power. 0.81

00:22:37.000 They get exploited by liars, cheaters, and thieves. 0.50

00:22:41.000 It's better than China though, you know, so I'll take it. 1.00

00:22:43.000 But there's no guarantee it's going to stay that way.

00:22:45.000 Even though we have a constitution, you have people on, judges that they'll just interpret it a certain way and they'll say, well, I know it says this, but I don't think constitutions limit governments in the longterm.

00:22:58.000 They limit them, but it's not a guaranteed limitation.

00:23:02.000 Did you see in Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court just ruled that mail-in voting is allowed?

00:23:07.000 And I'm like, the Constitution explicitly says in the Pennsylvania Constitution that absentee balloting has to follow these rules.

00:23:14.000 And they went, yeah, but universal mail-in is a different word.

00:23:18.000 Amazing.

00:23:19.000 I mean, we have a lot of activist judges in the education realm.

00:23:23.000 For example, West Virginia just passed a very expansive school choice program in 2021.

00:23:27.000 They're getting families signed up.

00:23:29.000 Over 3,000 families were already signed up for the program.

00:23:33.000 And a judge that was previously endorsed by the teachers unions, previously funded by the teachers unions, a circuit judge ruled to stop the program for whatever argument they wanted to make.

00:23:46.000 Was it West Virginia?

00:23:46.000 West Virginia.

00:23:47.000 They had the biggest victory of school choice in 2021.

00:23:50.000 And now the judges are jamming it up.

00:23:52.000 And they're saying, and they do this every, the teachers unions fund people to try to block using any mechanism they can.

00:24:00.000 I am a huge fan of the Free State Project.

00:24:02.000 Yeah.

00:24:03.000 And, you know, we've talked about this a while ago.

00:24:05.000 I don't want to take away from that.

00:24:07.000 A lot of people are talking about moving to New Hampshire to join that.

00:24:10.000 And that that's a good thing.

00:24:13.000 But I got to tell you, man, I am getting more and more interested in affecting massive political change as it pertains to West Virginia in the direction of freedom and liberty and libertarianism, because we had our Senator Shelley Moore Capito vote for gun control.

00:24:27.000 Yeah.

00:24:28.000 West Virginia supporting.

00:24:29.000 No no no no no.

00:24:30.000 So the one thing I don't want to do and why I've been somewhat

00:24:34.000 reluctant to be you know too active is move here two years

00:24:40.000 ago and then all of a sudden be like time to throw money at

00:24:42.000 local politics and like you know I don't I don't I don't I don't

00:24:46.000 like the idea that someone would do that especially because we

00:24:48.000 have a successful company.

00:24:50.000 But one thing that did happen was I had locals who were concerned about critical race theory in schools, and they asked if I would contribute to them, you know, putting up a billboard.

00:24:59.000 And I was like, whatever.

00:25:01.000 You know, it was super cheap to put up a billboard saying, like, no CRT or something.

00:25:04.000 And I'm like, that's what I say anyway.

00:25:06.000 And now I'm thinking, like, maybe considering this is the second most Trump-supporting state, I don't think people would be upset if I came in and said, we're going to support values, you know, freedom, liberty, individualism, and all of this stuff.

00:25:21.000 And maybe just start doing what we can politically, maybe with just messaging, with local ads.

00:25:26.000 I don't know if I want to be involved in overt politics, but I'll definitely be involved in messaging, spreading the word.

00:25:33.000 School choice is a must.

00:25:35.000 Absolutely.

00:25:35.000 Gun rights, absolutely.

00:25:37.000 That's what you already do.

00:25:39.000 So it's just an extension, really, of what you're already doing.

00:25:41.000 And honestly, it's a defensive maneuver.

00:25:44.000 Because you're doing it in reaction to policies that have been passed that are, you know, basically, it's like they're spitting in your face.

00:25:52.000 I mean, the other side's doing it too.

00:25:53.000 So if we don't play the political process, then we lose.

00:25:58.000 West Virginia is awesome.

00:25:59.000 And you know, it's, I have this, there's this quote of me, I think the Mises Caucus actually made it, because I said it on the show, I said, you know, back during the Ron Paul revolution days, I was like, I don't agree with a lot of his worldview when he talks about like, you know, his religious perspective or things like that.

00:26:14.000 But I prefer him over everyone else because he was like, I'm gonna leave you alone.

00:26:16.000 And I was like, hey, I dig it.

00:26:18.000 Okay, I'll be over here doing my thing with my friends and you go over there and then we got no beef.

00:26:22.000 I'll come and I'll share, you know, we'll do trade when we do trade, but we'll do our thing.

00:26:26.000 He made a bunch of really great points.

00:26:27.000 He was like, if you want socialism in America, just make a socialist commune, no one's stopping you.

00:26:32.000 Why are you trying to go and take everyone else's stuff?

00:26:34.000 And I'm like, he's right.

00:26:35.000 You know, like me and my friends, we had our little hippie houses where we all like lived in a shoebox apartment sharing rent so that we could work less.

00:26:42.000 You're free to do so.

00:26:44.000 I dig it.

00:26:45.000 I like that idea.

00:26:46.000 So I like coming to West Virginia.

00:26:48.000 And then what I see is people walk around with guns, people get along.

00:26:52.000 It's just, there are some issues.

00:26:54.000 It's funny, like weed's super illegal.

00:26:56.000 But like in Maryland, it's not.

00:26:58.000 But then in Maryland, guns are super illegal.

00:27:00.000 And I'm like, listen.

00:27:02.000 What's the shirt? 0.95

00:27:04.000 I want to buy weed from my gay married neighbor with Bitcoin while carrying my weapon to protect myself in the process. 1.00

00:27:15.000 You're not hurting anybody. 0.97

00:27:16.000 The action should be stopped.

00:27:18.000 We shouldn't be doing this pre-crime stuff.

00:27:20.000 I think this socialist doomsday scenario could turn out in the future if we don't free kids from the government school system.

00:27:28.000 And I think, you know, hey, I haven't been here in two years, but a lot has changed over the last two years.

00:27:32.000 And I think part of that is because when the government school teachers unions closed the schools for so long, even lobbied the CDC to do so, families started to see that the schools that they thought their kids were in, that they otherwise thought were doing a good job based on the state ratings, or whether they were getting good grades on their report cards, started to see that there was another dimension of school quality that they hadn't really thought about.

00:27:54.000 as much, which is whether the school is teaching in a way that aligns with your family's values.

00:28:00.000 So you mentioned CRT earlier, there's gender ideology in the classroom now as well. 1.00

00:28:04.000 And just left versus right bias in the classroom as well.

00:28:09.000 That could, that's really increased the momentum for school choice as well. Let me pull up this

00:28:15.000 tweet from you actually.

00:28:17.000 So, Corey A. DeAngelis on Twitter says, the GOP has a golden opportunity to become the parent's party.

00:28:24.000 And you linked to this data showing that Republicans are now favored on the issue of education for basically the first time ever.

00:28:31.000 Is it really ever?

00:28:33.000 Yeah, well, according to this chart, it's going back two decades at least, and I don't recall a time of Democrats ever being down on the issue of education.

00:28:41.000 This is a seismic shift.

00:28:42.000 It's like a double-digit swing in the other direction.

00:28:47.000 This is apocalyptic for the left.

00:28:48.000 Yep.

00:28:49.000 Because, as we often mention, and I don't mean to be crass, They're substantially more likely to abort their children.

00:28:57.000 They're substantially more likely to give drugs to their children, which will prevent the ability to reproduce.

00:29:04.000 They're substantially more likely, just in general, not to have families.

00:29:08.000 So the saying goes, leftists don't have kids, they have yours.

00:29:12.000 They need to be able to convert the children of moderates and conservatives, otherwise their ideology ceases to exist.

00:29:18.000 And this is why Terry McAuliffe in Virginia had to say, I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.

00:29:23.000 It's a deeply ingrained belief that the kids belong to the government schools.

00:29:26.000 This idea that it takes a village Well, it turns out it's a deeply unpopular belief, especially after the school system treated families so bad after the past couple of years.

00:29:36.000 And I think the opponent, the Republican, Glenn Youngkin, tapped into something which could be a blueprint for success for the GOP and libertarians as well going forward.

00:29:45.000 Because how are you going to defend this idea that parents shouldn't have a say in their kids' education?

00:29:52.000 Yeah, it's insane.

00:29:53.000 For any ideology, too.

00:29:54.000 Just because it happens to be on the backs of people that were, like, talking to kids about sexuality, it doesn't matter.

00:30:00.000 You want to talk to kids about religion and tell them not to tell their parents?

00:30:02.000 It's still messed up.

00:30:03.000 You still don't do that stuff.

00:30:05.000 We have entrusted the public schools.

00:30:07.000 They violated trust, in my opinion.

00:30:09.000 Can you, like, real quick, explain what school choice exactly is?

00:30:13.000 Yeah, the money that would have followed you to the government-run school, on average in the U.S., according to 2019 data from the Census Bureau, is about $16,000 per kid.

00:30:22.000 Wow.

00:30:22.000 If you want to take it to the government school, you can.

00:30:24.000 If you like your public school, you can keep your public school, but for real.

00:30:27.000 But if not, about half of the funding or so, depending on the law that you pass, will follow the child, usually to something called an education savings account, which the parents could use for private school tuition, for a charter school, for home-based learning options like a micro school, for example.

00:30:43.000 It's the idea that the money follows the child.

00:30:44.000 It's time to start calling this universal school access.

00:30:47.000 Yeah.

00:30:47.000 We advocate for universal school access for all children.

00:30:51.000 You oppose access to schooling for children? 0.99

00:30:55.000 You monster! 0.80

00:30:56.000 I just call it funding students, not systems. 0.96

00:30:59.000 It puts the other side on defense because if you want to fight against me, you have to argue why we should fund the system and not the student.

00:31:04.000 Sure.

00:31:04.000 I'm going to call it universal school access.

00:31:07.000 I'm in favor of universal school access for all families.

00:31:10.000 USA!

00:31:10.000 Tweet it out!

00:31:11.000 Listen, listen.

00:31:12.000 A impoverished family should have the right to get access to the school for their kids that they think is right for them, don't you?

00:31:18.000 I mean, you don't think we should segregate schools, do you?

00:31:21.000 No, and I think that kids in incredibly violent, dangerous inner city school systems should be able to go to school somewhere else if the funding is there.

00:31:34.000 Honestly, you know, from a libertarian perspective, I say just get rid of as much public education as possible.

00:31:39.000 But if it's going to be a fight to do that, let's take every step possible and at least let these poor kids have a choice.

00:31:45.000 It's brutal.

00:31:46.000 Public school is a brutal, violent place for a lot of children.

00:31:50.000 Oh, yeah.

00:31:50.000 Yep.

00:31:51.000 I certainly know that.

00:31:52.000 It's terrible.

00:31:52.000 Yeah.

00:31:53.000 You were homeschooled, right?

00:31:54.000 Well, briefly.

00:31:55.000 So before kindergarten, my mom homeschooled me, my brother, my sister.

00:32:01.000 I think, as the story goes, we were homeschooled the moment we were alive.

00:32:05.000 Yeah.

00:32:06.000 Like she was always, you know, trying to show us things.

00:32:08.000 And then I think I learned how to play chess when I was like three.

00:32:12.000 Not that I was good at it.

00:32:12.000 I'm not saying that, but like I was being explained and taught the moves of a chessboard and stuff like that.

00:32:17.000 And then when me and my siblings, we were going to school, we already knew our basic math before even kindergarten.

00:32:23.000 We started with Catholic school, which was private.

00:32:25.000 My family chose it because I thought it was a better school.

00:32:27.000 And then, hard times, after fifth grade we moved to a public school, and wow!

00:32:33.000 I think this is one of the greatest experiences of my life, to be honest.

00:32:36.000 Going from this private Catholic school, which was very strict, but not particularly harsh, just it was like, very rigid.

00:32:44.000 Like, if you didn't have your tie, you got a misconduct slip and you had to go home and get it signed, and it was like, Oh no, you don't have your little sailor tie.

00:32:50.000 And then you go to this public school where nobody did anything and like, you didn't have your homework, who cares, what are you going to do about it?

00:32:56.000 The kids were doing drugs.

00:32:58.000 And then for me to be thrust into that I think was actually a really good thing.

00:33:00.000 Because I had discipline from a private school, a private Catholic school.

00:33:03.000 Then I got to experience the real world very, very quickly.

00:33:06.000 And so I was like, okay, I don't want to do those things, I see why they're bad.

00:33:09.000 But I also see real life.

00:33:11.000 So there was a net benefit to having experience from a more disciplined place and then realizing just how bad public schools were.

00:33:19.000 I mean, I gotta tell you, like going from a private school, which, you know, they have their problems too.

00:33:24.000 It's like, it's perfect.

00:33:25.000 And then going to a public school is like, I was not even in school.

00:33:28.000 It was like daycare basically.

00:33:31.000 Yeah.

00:33:32.000 Yeah, which a lot of parents didn't get starting in March of 2020.

00:33:36.000 And then you had some people in the school system saying, I'm doing my job, I'm educating through Zoom.

00:33:42.000 But it's like, well, if, but one of the side benefits of the school system is that you have in-person childcare services.

00:33:49.000 And taxpayers wouldn't have agreed to pay $15-16,000 per year.

00:33:54.000 I would say they don't agree in the current situation either, but they certainly wouldn't have agreed to raise taxes as much as they have if the only benefit you were getting was something that could be done via Khan Academy for free.

00:34:06.000 How about Zoom detention? 0.72

00:34:08.000 Remember that?

00:34:08.000 Yeah!

00:34:09.000 Log into Zoom and stare at a blank screen for 30 minutes.

00:34:11.000 And have the cops come to your house if there was a Nerf gun behind you on the wall.

00:34:15.000 That happened too.

00:34:15.000 I had Saturday detention once.

00:34:17.000 I was in high school very briefly.

00:34:20.000 And I can't remember what happened.

00:34:20.000 I think I cut class or something because it was just so awful.

00:34:24.000 And then they did this thing where they changed our schedule so we're in you know I'm in eighth grade and it's like 7 30 in the morning until 2 30 is school and then when we start high school the local high school says we're doing 10 45 a.m.

00:34:35.000 to 5 30 p.m.

00:34:36.000 which was like a huge shock to all of the freshmen coming in so I was just like this is ridiculous and I left So I come back and they're like, Saturday detention for you.

00:34:43.000 And then I was like, what happens if I don't come to Saturday detention?

00:34:45.000 Like you get another one.

00:34:46.000 And I was like, okay, what happens if I don't go to that?

00:34:49.000 And they're like, you get another one.

00:34:50.000 And I was like, I don't think you're understanding what this means.

00:34:54.000 And I'm like, okay.

00:34:55.000 And then I just didn't go.

00:34:56.000 Like nothing happened.

00:34:57.000 It's nonsense.

00:34:58.000 Even then, now Zoom detention is funny. 0.99

00:35:00.000 It's like, turn your tablet on and then sit in your room, I guess.

00:35:03.000 You're like playing video games or something.

00:35:04.000 I mean, and at the same time, you had the Teachers Union board members vacationing in Puerto Rico saying, there's no way I can go to work in person, but I can be sitting here on the beach tweeting out photos on Instagram.

00:35:16.000 Well, if it was safe enough to travel and vacation, why wasn't it safe enough to go back to work?

00:35:19.000 Oh, they're full of it, man.

00:35:21.000 And you know what?

00:35:21.000 It doesn't even matter.

00:35:23.000 I don't want to have a political argument over schools like teachers in the unions.

00:35:29.000 I'm like, my attitude is strictly, you know, hey, good for them.

00:35:33.000 If you like your teachers and you like what's going on, that's really, really great for you.

00:35:36.000 I think we need universal school access for kids.

00:35:39.000 Let me ask you this.

00:35:40.000 Is it unreasonable?

00:35:41.000 If you have a kid who lives in a poor area, the parents should be allowed to have that kid go to a wealthier neighborhood school, right?

00:35:46.000 is and they shouldn't be barred from that. So if you have a kid who's in a...

00:35:50.000 Let me ask you this. Is it unreasonable? If you have a kid who lives in a poor

00:35:54.000 area, the parents should be allowed to have that kid go to a wealthier

00:35:58.000 neighborhood school, right? That's universal school access.

00:36:01.000 That's what we're fighting for, for the underprivileged inner-city kids to 0.99

00:36:05.000 go to where the rich white kids get to go, right?

00:36:08.000 And if you look at the percentage of people from different backgrounds who are using these existing programs, it tends to be lower income families.

00:36:15.000 Charter schools, you look at National Center for Education Statistics data, more likely to have a higher proportion of non-white students and more likely to have a higher proportion of low-income students.

00:36:25.000 You look at the D.C.

00:36:26.000 voucher program, for example, where I live, And the average household income of students using that program, I think, is about $28,000 per household in D.C.

00:36:36.000 95% of the students using the program in D.C.

00:36:38.000 are black or Hispanic, yet you had the Biden administration coming out against the program with funding following the child.

00:36:45.000 What's their argument against universal school access?

00:36:48.000 You're stealing money from the public schools to which I respond.

00:36:53.000 The money doesn't belong to the government schools.

00:36:55.000 Education funding is meant for educating the child, not for propping up and protecting a particular institution.

00:37:00.000 Why should poor children be barred from going to the fancier wealthy private schools?

00:37:04.000 We should guarantee universal school access so the families can, you know, get a voucher and go to the wealthy private school or the public school in the better area.

00:37:15.000 Well, it's funny is the left supports a whole bunch of initiatives that allow public money, taxpayer funding, to follow the decision of the family or student for higher education.

00:37:26.000 We have the Pell Grant for low-income kids.

00:37:27.000 We have the GI Bill for veterans.

00:37:29.000 You can take the money to a public, private, religious, or non-religious university.

00:37:32.000 It doesn't have to go to one particular place based on your address.

00:37:36.000 We do the same thing with Head Start and pre-K programs.

00:37:39.000 The families can choose religious or non-religious private providers of pre-K.

00:37:44.000 And that's the funding following the student.

00:37:47.000 We do the same thing with food stamps for grocery stores.

00:37:50.000 You can take the money to Walmart, Trader Joe's, Safeway.

00:37:52.000 You don't have to take the money to a residentially assigned government-run grocery store.

00:37:56.000 What happens if everybody signs on to this and then all the kids from the surrounding area want to go to this one school that's really good?

00:38:02.000 It overloads their capacity.

00:38:04.000 They expand.

00:38:05.000 I mean, it's a good problem to have.

00:38:07.000 Currently, if everybody wants to go to that school today, They may want to do it in their minds, but they can't do it because they don't have the financial means to do so when they're already paying through the tax system for the government schools.

00:38:18.000 DC public schools spend over $30,000 per student per year.

00:38:22.000 But like year one, so everyone decides to go to this big good school and only like 10% of them can get in because they have 10 times the amount.

00:38:29.000 What happens?

00:38:29.000 Do they have to draw a straw first come first serve?

00:38:32.000 Do they raise the price because of supply and demand?

00:38:34.000 Well, new schools pop up.

00:38:36.000 People submit applications to open charter schools all the time.

00:38:39.000 And schools typically will expand.

00:38:42.000 So if, in one year, too many students are trying to enroll, they'll say, we've hit our capacity, so we've, you know, threw a random lottery, these are the ones that are out to come, we're sorry, but we will be expanding next year, so you can- Next year.

00:38:52.000 But in the meantime- And let's say you can't go to the best school, you can go to the second best school, it's better than having no choices at all.

00:38:57.000 Let's jump to this next story from the New York Post.

00:39:00.000 Misery Index shows Democrats face midterm rout as voters rage at Biden.

00:39:06.000 I think the issue of schools is obviously having a huge impact on this, not just the Misery Index.

00:39:12.000 But basically, for those that aren't familiar, the Misery Index is looking at inflation, unemployment, gas prices, and it is so bad.

00:39:19.000 Look at this Misery Index, the unemployment spike plus the inflation spike.

00:39:25.000 It is just bad news across the board for regular people.

00:39:28.000 This typically indicates there's going to be a major party switch, like the Congress is going to flip.

00:39:33.000 People are just saying, we're done with this.

00:39:35.000 I think on top of this, you have what we saw in Virginia with Youngkin.

00:39:39.000 Parents have become a voting block, which is hilarious, and the Democrats keep attacking them.

00:39:45.000 The end result is going to be Well, it's hopeful.

00:39:51.000 Based on all of the data we've seen, Democrats are going to get purged from Congress and the Senate.

00:39:56.000 Joe Biden's still in the presidency, so it's not like there's going to be a lot of movement.

00:40:00.000 And then if the Republicans can make their argument properly, 2024 comes around, you get a Republican president, and then all of this stuff gets shoved through.

00:40:09.000 Donald Trump, one of the big reasons that I said, if it was August 2020, I was going to be voting for him, Was because school choice was on a second-term agenda.

00:40:19.000 And what I was saying to people is, you've got pushback on the critical race theory in government contracting.

00:40:26.000 We can't have that.

00:40:27.000 But school choice makes the most sense.

00:40:29.000 There's no argument against it.

00:40:31.000 It should be a left-wing position.

00:40:33.000 So I'm previously mentioning calling school choice universal school access.

00:40:39.000 Because the idea is, Families can choose where to send their kids.

00:40:43.000 They will get a confirmed... Right now, a poor family can't go to a private school.

00:40:48.000 But with the School Choice program, basically, they can now.

00:40:50.000 That's... But you know that's not what they want.

00:40:53.000 Right.

00:40:53.000 They want you in these propaganda indoctrination centers where they can control what you learn as a student and they can just crush the joy out of learning.

00:41:02.000 Absolutely.

00:41:03.000 The crazy thing, though, is School Choice is a... It should be a left-wing position.

00:41:07.000 Yeah, sure.

00:41:08.000 I mean, if you poll the constituents on the ground, polling consistently shows supermajority support.

00:41:14.000 For example, the latest Real Clear Opinion research polling from 2022 finding that 72% of Americans support school choice funding following the child to public and private schools that work best for your kid.

00:41:25.000 But there was also supermajority support among Republicans, Democrats, and Independents.

00:41:30.000 It only comes to the elected officials in the state houses where you see Republicans being much more likely to vote to support school choice than Democrats, and that's all because of the political power dynamics of the teachers unions.

00:41:42.000 We were speaking a little bit earlier that Randy Weingarten's union, who had this poll

00:41:46.000 backfire on them showing Republicans up on education, but the American Federation of

00:41:51.000 Teachers, the second largest teachers union in the US, in 2022, 99.997% of their campaign

00:42:00.000 contributions have gone to Democrats. So the Democrats are in a catch-22 situation right now,

00:42:05.000 and this is why this is such a good opportunity, a golden opportunity for the GOP to become the

00:42:10.000 parents party, because if they talk about education, the Democrats are going to have

00:42:14.000 to respond in one way or the other. It's If they come out against parental rights, like we saw with Terry McAuliffe, well, that's a disaster with the new special interest group, which is parents.

00:42:23.000 But if they come out for parental rights, well, then Randy Weingarten and the unions are going to get mad.

00:42:28.000 Ian, do you mind talking about what you were mentioning before the show with your family?

00:42:31.000 Yeah, which one exactly?

00:42:32.000 About watching the show?

00:42:33.000 Mm-hmm.

00:42:34.000 You're comfortable talking about it?

00:42:35.000 Yeah, yeah, 100%.

00:42:36.000 Yeah, so before the show, Ian was mentioning that you were talking to your parents about Biden's brain.

00:42:42.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:42:43.000 Last time I went to Ohio about a month ago, we were talking about Biden, and I was like, it changes from time to time, but I was like, you know, he's losing his mind, and my mom's like, I mean, he's no, he's not that bad, you know, or he's no, he's fine.

00:42:53.000 And, uh, and I was just like in shock, but I left, I didn't, you know, I'm not getting emotional about this stuff.

00:42:58.000 So I went back a couple of days ago and she was like, I was like, you know, the problem with Biden is he's losing his mind.

00:43:02.000 She's like, yeah, he is.

00:43:03.000 And the media is talking about it now.

00:43:05.000 And that's probably why she started acknowledging it.

00:43:07.000 Yes. As soon as you see Jimmy Kimmel talk about it and everyone laughs,

00:43:10.000 then it's okay to acknowledge it.

00:43:12.000 This is, this is a really great example. I was like, I was saying to Ian, I was like,

00:43:16.000 tell them that we on this show have been showing examples of this for, for years.

00:43:21.000 That the truant on a shop at a pressure. And so they need to look, it's not about watching this show.

00:43:27.000 It's about watching shows in this area where maybe it's because we're younger and more attuned to what's going on.

00:43:32.000 We see these things.

00:43:34.000 We know what's happening.

00:43:35.000 But when they sit and they watch corporate press, they're not realizing it.

00:43:39.000 They're way far behind everyone else.

00:43:41.000 The reason I bring this up is this is why Democrats retain power, because regular people aren't, you know, I shouldn't say regular people, but the older generation is not getting real information.

00:43:51.000 They are getting fake news from the corporate propagandists.

00:43:53.000 I mean, weren't they saying that people who were questioning Biden's cognitive abilities were making fun of like a stuttering issue that he had?

00:44:01.000 That was one of their first defense tactics.

00:44:04.000 I've never seen someone with a stuttering problem put a medal on someone's neck backwards and walk off stage the wrong direction.

00:44:10.000 That's not stuttering.

00:44:11.000 Well, to be fair, it is a common symptom of stuttering when you reach out to shake invisible hands, when you say words that aren't real.

00:44:18.000 Everybody knows when you have a stutter, you don't just stut-stut-stutter, you also make words up, like bada-caf-care, and nex-nal-res-cent, and trin-a-na-shab-a-da-pressure.

00:44:26.000 You accidentally put your son on boards of oil companies.

00:44:35.000 Getting too close to small children.

00:44:37.000 Oh yeah, we talk about that a lot too, is the way he handles kids on stage, the way that he smells people.

00:44:42.000 He's not actually sniffing the hair, it's just so disturbing.

00:44:46.000 Oh yeah, Tara Reid, I brought up Tara Reid.

00:44:48.000 We talked about that for a while.

00:44:49.000 I mean, the Tara Reid allegation against Biden is damning.

00:44:51.000 I'm just imagining there's like a little boy and he's stuttering and the doctor's like, we couldn't help, but you have all of the symptoms of a stutter.

00:44:59.000 You're repeating the first syllable of the word over and over again.

00:45:01.000 And your son has been placed on the energy, on the board of an energy company in Ukraine.

00:45:05.000 I've been doing that since I was nine, man.

00:45:08.000 Oh no!

00:45:09.000 Most common symptom.

00:45:10.000 You know, I'm going to push back on school choice a little bit because I love it, but I need to know I need to steel man this thing.

00:45:18.000 Let's go.

00:45:19.000 So what happens when a bunch of people like one decide to keep the money?

00:45:24.000 They're like, okay, I'm going to homeschool my kid.

00:45:26.000 The mom decides I'm going to keep the eight grand a year, but then she just doesn't teach the kid.

00:45:30.000 That's already happening in the government schools.

00:45:32.000 You want to get rid of all government schools because some of them don't teach anything?

00:45:35.000 Yeah, I'll make one point real quick.

00:45:41.000 When I went to school, I had teachers who didn't teach us anything.

00:45:44.000 And it was punishment.

00:45:45.000 It was prison.

00:45:46.000 So it's ungovernable?

00:45:47.000 Do you think it's ungovernable?

00:45:48.000 No, we have just like a health savings account where you can only use the funding for health services.

00:45:53.000 It's an education savings account.

00:45:54.000 Oh, like an EBT card for education?

00:45:56.000 So you can't go and buy, you know, big screen TVs.

00:45:59.000 If you do, you'll be in trouble for fraud.

00:46:01.000 Even if you did, I think that'd be a better use of the funds than throwing them to an endless money pit into the government school system.

00:46:08.000 Hiring more guidance counselors.

00:46:09.000 I gotta tell you.

00:46:10.000 I think many kids would be better off not in these schools and not being educated at all, because some of these schools are doing worse than nothing.

00:46:19.000 Oh yeah.

00:46:20.000 So the other question is how do you, what do you do in a situation where the surrounding schools all send their kids to the middle, this one really good school, and then they all lose money and start to go out of business or have to fire teachers.

00:46:31.000 And you've got these like derelict schools that are half... I mean, that's the argument that... I just want to jump in.

00:46:36.000 Like, imagine there was a bakery that sold turd rolls.

00:46:40.000 And nobody wanted them but the government was forcing by taking your tax money and then funding the turd roll bakery.

00:46:46.000 And then one day someone comes along and says people should get a choice on what they eat for breakfast and they shouldn't have to send their kids to the turd roll bakery. 0.95

00:46:52.000 If the turd roll bakery collapses and all the bakers get fired, I'm sorry dude, people just don't want to eat crap. 0.96

00:46:58.000 Yeah. 0.95

00:46:58.000 So the problem is... It's not a good argument to trap the kids in there. 0.95

00:47:01.000 Like, the thing about a business is that they can fail when they do bad.

00:47:04.000 The bad thing about business is that they can become exploitative when they grow large and cumbersome.

00:47:08.000 Like, you know, Starbucks for instance.

00:47:10.000 When they start shoving out, or I shouldn't single them out, any major fast food can shove out local mom and pop shops.

00:47:16.000 There's a problem when they grow too large.

00:47:18.000 But we can address the problem of monopolies.

00:47:20.000 We also need to address the problem of unfallible government institution, perceivably.

00:47:26.000 Like, well, the school, if it's not doing well, give it more money.

00:47:29.000 It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:47:31.000 And you gotta recognize that there is no utopian school solution because human beings are imperfect, fallible creatures.

00:47:38.000 So we can't make any system perfect, but we can remove government monopolies And government incentives for corruption and coercive school policies.

00:47:49.000 What do you think about curriculum?

00:47:50.000 One more on that point.

00:47:53.000 The reality is school choice is a rising tide that lifts all boats.

00:47:55.000 Competition leads to improvements in every sector of society, including in K-12 education.

00:48:01.000 And there are 28 studies that exist on the topic.

00:48:03.000 25 of the 28 studies find statistically significant positive effects of private school choice competition on the outcomes in the public schools.

00:48:10.000 So they up their game in response to competition like you see everywhere else.

00:48:14.000 And at the end of the day, if the people who make this argument that this is going to destroy the public schools, they don't have much confidence in the public schools.

00:48:21.000 That's not a good argument to trap kids in there.

00:48:23.000 It's a good argument to let them leave.

00:48:24.000 Yeah. 0.95

00:48:25.000 Destroy away, please.

00:48:27.000 Yeah, like let the bad businesses fail.

00:48:29.000 Are they considered businesses, schools?

00:48:30.000 It's not just that.

00:48:31.000 They are with higher education, they are with pre-K.

00:48:33.000 Why isn't any different for K-12 education?

00:48:36.000 We have a market for schools already.

00:48:38.000 The private sector already exists in K-12 education.

00:48:40.000 It's not just that.

00:48:41.000 When people are looking to buy houses, they check the school districts specifically

00:48:45.000 because they're shopping around for good school districts.

00:48:48.000 And you will find areas with bad schools, people that, well, we shouldn't move there

00:48:53.000 So that kind of thing already exists.

00:48:54.000 The issue is, my view of school choice is like, you've got a poor family living in this area, and the school kind of sucks.

00:49:00.000 They can't afford to move.

00:49:01.000 They can't afford to jump to a wealthy area.

00:49:03.000 But they can say, we can take this universal school access and send our kid to a better school and give him a better life.

00:49:09.000 And you can save taxpayer money at the same time.

00:49:12.000 They spend $15,000, $16,000 in the government schools.

00:49:14.000 You can structure the program to be $10,000 per kid or $12,000 per kid so you can have a taxpayer savings.

00:49:20.000 You could even give some of that money back to the public schools.

00:49:23.000 They end up with higher per-pupil funding and you can create a win-win situation.

00:49:28.000 Oh, interesting.

00:49:28.000 So you could give a small percentage to schools where there are no kids going just to keep... That's a really good idea.

00:49:33.000 See?

00:49:34.000 There we go.

00:49:35.000 I want to jump to this next story because it's the most important story of our generation.

00:49:38.000 The Hill.

00:49:39.000 Opinion.

00:49:40.000 AOC is the Democrats' best shot against Trump in 2024.

00:49:44.000 Ladies and gentlemen, I agree.

00:49:46.000 Go wild.

00:49:46.000 I completely agree.

00:49:47.000 I agree 100%.

00:49:48.000 I want to see it.

00:49:50.000 There is no one that I think in the Democratic Party that has any kind of gravitas or media pull.

00:49:55.000 I don't think any of them can win.

00:49:57.000 Gavin Newsom looks like American Psycho.

00:49:59.000 AOC can't win either, but best shot?

00:50:03.000 Agreed.

00:50:04.000 Trump couldn't win either.

00:50:05.000 Remember that?

00:50:06.000 That's true.

00:50:07.000 I would love to see AOC win.

00:50:10.000 I think she's going to be more likely to engage with libertarians and third party candidates too. 0.60

00:50:16.000 Really?

00:50:16.000 I think she is.

00:50:18.000 I think she can't help herself.

00:50:19.000 She can't stand the people that are bought off.

00:50:22.000 I don't know.

00:50:23.000 I think she might be moving in that direction, but we'll see.

00:50:27.000 We'll see.

00:50:28.000 I don't know that for sure.

00:50:29.000 I mean, I think this would be a gift to the GOP and the Libertarian Party.

00:50:33.000 Remember what they said about Trump, the pied piper candidate?

00:50:35.000 They were like, no one will vote for this guy.

00:50:37.000 I think AOC is their best shot.

00:50:39.000 I still don't think she can win.

00:50:41.000 She will just turn 35 before the election.

00:50:44.000 But here's the deal, folks.

00:50:48.000 The economy is in the gutter.

00:50:49.000 The misery index is through the roof.

00:50:52.000 None of this is gonna make it work for the Democrats.

00:50:55.000 Now, by 2024, Okay, maybe the Republicans win in November, and then they just royally screw things up.

00:51:02.000 Then AOC comes in and she's like, I'm gonna do all this wonderful free stuff, and then maybe she wins.

00:51:07.000 Because you gotta consider this.

00:51:09.000 It's a couple years from now, you've got new young people entering the voting pool, and you've got older people aging out.

00:51:15.000 So every election you see a shift that changes.

00:51:20.000 The older folks are way more conservative than the younger folks.

00:51:23.000 Gen Z is a little bit more conservative in some areas, but they're nowhere near as conservative. 0.97

00:51:27.000 So in two years, you lose a decent amount of boomers and you gain a slightly larger amount of progressives.

00:51:33.000 How about a DeSantis versus AOC matchup?

00:51:37.000 Cool conversation.

00:51:39.000 I would love to see AOC win because it would be as funny as Trump winning.

00:51:42.000 I wouldn't be a fan of what she would try to do, to be completely honest.

00:51:46.000 But it's like, hey, gridlock, you'd have Republicans holding Congress.

00:51:49.000 Yeah, if we had total gridlock, it would be wild.

00:51:53.000 I'm just, you know, when Trump won the first time, I had my feet up and I was just laughing my ass off.

00:51:58.000 I bought an extra bottle of port in 2016.

00:52:01.000 I was drinking port at the time, that was my thing.

00:52:04.000 And when he won Florida, I was like, it's gonna be a long night.

00:52:09.000 I didn't look at the news at all when I was at work on election day.

00:52:13.000 I just didn't want to know.

00:52:14.000 I was too depressed about Hillary Clinton winning.

00:52:17.000 And I got home and turned on the news and I was just laughing hysterically that this was actually reality.

00:52:24.000 I got, I felt like someone, a ghost punched me in the gut.

00:52:26.000 I woke up at like 3am and checked.

00:52:28.000 I was like, what is going on?

00:52:30.000 Yeah.

00:52:33.000 I remember my, my Australian friends, social media posts.

00:52:36.000 That's the only thing I remember from, from the day that results were announced.

00:52:39.000 It just said, LOL America.

00:52:41.000 And that was exactly how I felt.

00:52:43.000 I, I.

00:52:44.000 I don't think it would be good.

00:52:45.000 But I would laugh.

00:52:45.000 speak of Satan else the devil might appear. Re-AOC. And my attitude is kind of like, look man,

00:52:50.000 I feel like if AOC were to get in, it would just be better than what we currently have with the

00:52:56.000 uniparty establishment like Biden. And I don't think it would be good, but I would laugh.

00:53:01.000 When AOC won against Crowley, I laughed.

00:53:04.000 I was like, good.

00:53:05.000 Good riddance to these establishment shill, you know. 1.00

00:53:07.000 I don't care.

00:53:09.000 AOC has proven, in my opinion, to be duplicitous, deceptive, deceitful, fabricating stories on January 6th and all of that stuff. 0.98

00:53:16.000 I still would rather see her than any one of these establishment, deep state, whatever, uniparty trash shills. 0.99

00:53:23.000 She's a pretty good actor, right? 0.90

00:53:24.000 I think it would just be hilarious.

00:53:26.000 She had the handcuffs on for a while.

00:53:27.000 She lies just like all the rest of them. 0.60

00:53:30.000 So it's not, it doesn't make her worse, unfortunately.

00:53:34.000 All of them lie. 0.95

00:53:35.000 Well, I'm just saying it would be clown world times 10. 0.98

00:53:37.000 Yes. 0.75

00:53:37.000 Wouldn't it? 0.75

00:53:38.000 Come on.

00:53:38.000 It would be funny to have President Ocasio-Cortez.

00:53:41.000 I embrace clown world. 0.57

00:53:42.000 I do not reject clown world. 0.76

00:53:44.000 I embrace it.

00:53:45.000 It's like, look, if you can't get Trump to come in and try and clean things up, you can get AOC to burn it down, I guess.

00:53:49.000 Let's burn it.

00:53:51.000 If that's what people want. 0.96

00:53:53.000 I think it'd be funny.

00:53:53.000 A righteous fire.

00:53:54.000 A righteous healing fire.

00:53:57.000 But this is what they do on the left.

00:54:00.000 They literally riot.

00:54:01.000 We don't want any of that stuff.

00:54:03.000 You know, Donald Trump coming in, I want him to fire everybody.

00:54:06.000 Oh yeah, please don't burn it literally.

00:54:08.000 Let's just destroy it ideologically and make it into a joke.

00:54:12.000 I'm imagining AOC, she's sitting in like the Situation Room and the CIA comes in and they're like, Madam President, we have these kill lists, the disposition matrix, these are the people we've got to assassinate.

00:54:23.000 And she's just like, no.

00:54:25.000 And they're like, you have to.

00:54:26.000 And she's just like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't think I wanna, what is this?

00:54:30.000 And then it's just like, how do you work, how will, look, when they go to Obama, here's what I imagine.

00:54:36.000 CIA goes to Obama and says, sir, We have these wanted men.

00:54:41.000 Here's what they've done.

00:54:42.000 We have a chance to take them out.

00:54:43.000 This is in line with foreign policy.

00:54:44.000 It must be done.

00:54:45.000 And then he goes, okay, launch the drones.

00:54:49.000 AOC is going to be like, what?

00:54:50.000 Huh?

00:54:51.000 No.

00:54:52.000 I don't know.

00:54:53.000 And they're just not going to be able to do any of this stuff.

00:54:55.000 I think it'll just be gum gum.

00:54:57.000 I want to see Instagram live streams of shopping.

00:55:00.000 That's what I want to see from the White House.

00:55:02.000 Here's the point I'm trying to get to.

00:55:05.000 With Donald Trump, they accuse him of working with Russia. 0.98

00:55:06.000 That is a ridiculous thing. 0.67

00:55:08.000 What are they going to accuse AOC of doing? 1.00

00:55:10.000 She's like, she's an, look, I'm not trying to be a dick, but she's an airhead. 1.00

00:55:13.000 You know what I mean? 1.00

00:55:14.000 You know, she's just, she's not going to do what they say. 1.00

00:55:19.000 Yeah.

00:55:19.000 What would her scandal be?

00:55:21.000 I don't know.

00:55:23.000 What would her scandal be?

00:55:25.000 AOC's scandal they try to use to ruin her. 0.86

00:55:28.000 Or it could just be that she just says... Probably partying.

00:55:31.000 Probably partying.

00:55:33.000 You think?

00:55:33.000 Yeah.

00:55:34.000 And that's not, that's not very bad.

00:55:35.000 Not expensive cars or something?

00:55:36.000 That's not, there's a lot worse scandals.

00:55:37.000 There's people with, with kill list conspiracy theories attached to them.

00:55:41.000 You know, they said Reagan wouldn't be president, right?

00:55:43.000 They're like a movie star president.

00:55:45.000 Then you get Donald Trump, a reality TV, real estate mogul.

00:55:49.000 I think AOC could win.

00:55:50.000 I really do.

00:55:50.000 I just don't think it's likely.

00:55:52.000 If she wins, it makes it so much more likely Libertarians have a shot. 1.00

00:55:55.000 We'll get a comedian in the White House.

00:55:57.000 Why do you think so? 0.99

00:55:58.000 Well, you're talking about voting for a clown. 0.90

00:56:01.000 Why are we not having a comedian? 0.94

00:56:03.000 So what's happening with the Libertarian Party?

00:56:05.000 Do we have any updates on who's running?

00:56:09.000 So we don't have any official announcements, but I think in You just said Dave Smith.

00:56:14.000 You said comedian, right?

00:56:15.000 So we don't have official announcements, but the top contenders right now are going to be Dave Smith, Justin Amash, and Spike Cohen, although he keeps insisting he's not running.

00:56:26.000 There's a lot of energy and support behind him.

00:56:28.000 So those are the three people who I see falling into that role.

00:56:34.000 And there has been a little bit of whisper and buzz about Maj Touré maybe jumping into a VP role.

00:56:40.000 Really?

00:56:41.000 That'd be cool.

00:56:41.000 Can I be education secretary so I can get rid of the department the next day?

00:56:45.000 I will absolutely make you education secretary.

00:56:47.000 Scott Horton will be, you know, in charge of foreign policy.

00:56:51.000 That would be awesome.

00:56:52.000 Like build a mini ramp in the situation room.

00:56:56.000 I want to see Maj Touré running Senate and Congress. 0.96

00:57:02.000 You see, this is why... He teaches conflict resolution classes.

00:57:05.000 He had one over the weekend.

00:57:06.000 So that, you know, maybe we could actually use it.

00:57:09.000 Press Secretary Malice. 1.00

00:57:09.000 Press Secretary Malice, absolutely. 1.00

00:57:11.000 That's all I want.

00:57:13.000 I'm ready.

00:57:13.000 He will do it.

00:57:14.000 This is going to be the greatest thing ever.

00:57:15.000 One Bitcoin.

00:57:16.000 One Bitcoin.

00:57:17.000 So we got the Times Square billboards up and we've included him on them because, you know, we're big fans and I thought it would be great.

00:57:23.000 And then he said to me, he's like, well, at least if we lose, we had more fun.

00:57:27.000 And I'm like, yep.

00:57:28.000 Yes.

00:57:28.000 I think we're going to do all right.

00:57:30.000 Do you want to see Malice as a press secretary?

00:57:32.000 We got to we got to start hooking that man up with one Bitcoin per month.

00:57:35.000 One Bitcoin per month.

00:57:37.000 I mean, that's not that much for a prime secretary.

00:57:40.000 We're talking like, what is that going to come out to, like $270 a year?

00:57:45.000 It's a high salary for a government position like that.

00:57:47.000 The cap is $174, though, per year.

00:57:50.000 Oh, it's capped out?

00:57:51.000 I think so.

00:57:52.000 No, but in a campaign, you can pay more, can't you?

00:57:53.000 Oh, in a campaign.

00:57:55.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:57:56.000 So we'll have to figure something out.

00:57:58.000 He's worth it.

00:57:59.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:58:00.000 See, I'm putting together an excellent roster for you all.

00:58:03.000 I like how it's like, we're sitting here, it's kind of like, you know, BSing.

00:58:06.000 And then Corey's like, I'll be I'll be education secretary.

00:58:09.000 You're like, sure.

00:58:09.000 I've got a list.

00:58:11.000 It's a good list.

00:58:12.000 You're on the list.

00:58:13.000 Five years later, you are and we're like, man, we're just Talkin' smack!

00:58:16.000 Department of Ed's gone the next day, I'm firing myself.

00:58:20.000 I saw a bar tab from before they signed the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers, and it was like, yeah, it was like 160 bottles of liquor for 60 of them.

00:58:30.000 You know, it was some insane number where they all drank like two and a half bottles.

00:58:33.000 That's amazing. 0.68

00:58:34.000 They're all drunk and they're just like, screw it!

00:58:36.000 We're in And they're like, yeah! 0.62

00:58:38.000 And they wake up in the morning like, what did I sign?

00:58:41.000 I'll put Reid Coverdale in charge of transportation.

00:58:45.000 He's a trucker.

00:58:46.000 I love Reid.

00:58:48.000 I know him through Twitter, but I've never met him face to face.

00:58:50.000 I like Reid.

00:58:51.000 You know, Spike Cohen is brilliant.

00:58:54.000 He is.

00:58:54.000 He's a great articulate messenger.

00:58:56.000 I really he's very humble, too.

00:58:58.000 I didn't I had no idea how brilliant like he's a genuinely nice person.

00:59:02.000 And I love libertarians, but we're not all nice.

00:59:06.000 I don't consider myself a genuinely nice person.

00:59:08.000 I can be kind of mean.

00:59:09.000 I've never seen Spike Cohen be mean.

00:59:11.000 Never.

00:59:12.000 So look, there's a new Libertarian Party obviously right now.

00:59:15.000 Oh yeah.

00:59:15.000 You guys took over.

00:59:16.000 Yeah.

00:59:16.000 The old Libertarian Party got really crazy.

00:59:18.000 Remember when... I'm sorry, who was running for president?

00:59:23.000 I forgot her name.

00:59:25.000 Jo.

00:59:25.000 Jo?

00:59:26.000 Jo Jorgensen.

00:59:28.000 When she did that Marxist authoritarian statement on Twitter.

00:59:31.000 Oh my goodness, yeah.

00:59:32.000 I was like, this is the funniest thing I've ever heard from her.

00:59:34.000 She said, it's not enough to be not racist, we must be actively anti-racist.

00:59:38.000 Super sweet lady.

00:59:39.000 Super sweet lady.

00:59:41.000 Did not have good people on her team.

00:59:44.000 But, like, it was funny.

00:59:45.000 I thought it was hilarious the Libertarians were telling us what we must do.

00:59:48.000 I know, I know.

00:59:49.000 It was very painful.

00:59:51.000 It was very painful.

00:59:51.000 What we must do.

00:59:53.000 What was the party's stance on, like, the closures and the lockdowns at the time?

00:59:57.000 So the party did not make a single statement, not on their website, not email, not social media, not Twitter, nothing for an entire year.

01:00:05.000 Come on, this is your opportunity.

01:00:07.000 This is the time to do this.

01:00:08.000 This is your time to shine.

01:00:10.000 Ball whiffed.

01:00:11.000 Ball whiffed.

01:00:12.000 So we have come out very strong opposition under new leadership to lockdowns, all manner of mandates, vaccine mandates, war, Well, I don't understand how the Libert... Look, it sounds to me like the Libertarian Party was taken over before you guys took over.

01:00:26.000 It was!

01:00:26.000 It was taken over in 2006 by... The insider term is Prags, pragmatists.

01:00:33.000 But you could consider them as more centrist, moderate types.

01:00:37.000 So you could think of it as Yang Gang without the marketing.

01:00:40.000 But they're not libertarian.

01:00:41.000 Correct.

01:00:43.000 People refer to me as lib center, libertarian centrist or whatever.

01:00:47.000 And I'm more in agreement with you guys than anything.

01:00:49.000 Oh, very much so.

01:00:50.000 No, they started out kind of like moderate.

01:00:53.000 Oh, man.

01:00:53.000 So the history of this is really brutal.

01:00:55.000 And I had to go through recently about 15 years of staff reports to understand everything that happened.

01:00:59.000 So exciting.

01:01:00.000 Well, really more.

01:01:01.000 I went back to 1996.

01:01:02.000 It will bore you to death.

01:01:04.000 But I personally found it fascinating to watch the party get taken over by neocons at one point and watch membership and fundraising and interest tank and then get taken over by woke types and watch it tank again.

01:01:18.000 The reality is libertarians at large, the movement, don't want anything to do with that.

01:01:23.000 But these weirdos got into positions of power and really soiled the branding and name.

01:01:30.000 and it's just they were more organized at the time and who knows I speculate there why are you libertarian at all well you're mad at your dad you know so you don't want to vote the same party as your dad so you pick us instead it's like your weird boring centrist rebellion wow yeah but now we've taken it over we've taken it back we've taken it back Was it because of the COVID stuff or was it already in the works?

01:01:52.000 We were working on this.

01:01:55.000 We kicked it off at the summer of 2017.

01:01:57.000 So I was already active in the party and was kind of confused when I saw people coming out against Ron Paul in the party.

01:02:04.000 I was like, what?

01:02:05.000 What?

01:02:06.000 Total embarrassment.

01:02:07.000 I'm so embarrassed.

01:02:08.000 I'm ashamed.

01:02:09.000 This was like the Prags or whatever?

01:02:10.000 Yeah.

01:02:11.000 Shameful.

01:02:12.000 Shameful.

01:02:13.000 I don't understand.

01:02:14.000 How are they against Ron Paul?

01:02:15.000 I don't know.

01:02:16.000 Mean words.

01:02:17.000 He had friends they didn't like.

01:02:18.000 Someone said something mean.

01:02:20.000 That's not pragmatic at all.

01:02:21.000 No, it's not.

01:02:22.000 It's not pragmatic.

01:02:23.000 It's bizarre, weird, culty gatekeeping.

01:02:25.000 Like you don't have any friends who've ever said anything mean that you didn't like in your whole life.

01:02:30.000 It's an unreasonable, not human position.

01:02:33.000 Because if you if you're libertarian in any respect, Ron Paul being like, I'm gonna leave you alone.

01:02:37.000 You're like, okay, amazing.

01:02:40.000 The man has done so much to advance liberty.

01:02:43.000 And in spite of these weirdos who had control of the party for a few years, Ron Paul, even in the Republican Party grew the Libertarian Party tenfold.

01:02:52.000 because a lot of times people get politically engaged they would go where Ron Paul was at and

01:02:56.000 they would say, oh the rest of the party is nothing like you and then they come and they join us.

01:03:00.000 I'm glad he had kids because I like Rand Paul too.

01:03:02.000 Yeah I do too. I do too. So we're onward and upward.

01:03:05.000 Would you say Rand Paul is a libertarian?

01:03:06.000 But I'd say he's I'd say he's pretty close.

01:03:09.000 I think he's not totally sure if he's a Libertarian or Republican, and that's probably his internal fight.

01:03:15.000 And one day he'll sort it out.

01:03:18.000 But I think he is by far the most Libertarian senator we have.

01:03:23.000 What's the difference between a Libertarian and Republican, like in Rand Paul's case?

01:03:27.000 So there's going to be a little bit of foreign policy stuff, a little bit of budgetary stuff.

01:03:34.000 And his, you know, endorsing Trump really hard also came with the baggage of endorsing a lot of his policies.

01:03:42.000 And although I think Donald Trump was leaps and bounds better than Joe Biden, like he was not libertarian.

01:03:47.000 He did not audit the Fed in his first hundred days like he said he would.

01:03:50.000 He did deploy drone strikes to Syria.

01:03:53.000 He did engage in economic foreign policy that I didn't like, even though I loved that he didn't start new wars, you know, he was he was cracking down with with tariffs and making things kind of kind of messy for us in that respect.

01:04:06.000 So those were things he did that were not libertarian.

01:04:09.000 Of course, the border wall people flipped out and lost their minds on and the Libertarian Party, the membership is kind of split on borders, which Other people don't want to admit.

01:04:20.000 I think that the truth is the best thing that you should embrace and the reality is there are people in the party who do not want total open borders.

01:04:28.000 It's not controversial to want Ellis Island style immigration by the way. 0.52

01:04:31.000 That is not a crazy closed borders position.

01:04:36.000 There's, I don't think people understand that there's, you need borders.

01:04:41.000 A country is defined as a nation with set boundaries, borders.

01:04:46.000 And I know, I've had these interesting conversations, because I'm fairly libertarian, with other libertarians who are like, you believe an imaginary line is going to keep me out?

01:04:53.000 And then I'm just like, no, I think we limit our jurisdiction, right?

01:04:57.000 We say we won't send our armed dudes defending us beyond that line.

01:05:03.000 And then if you cross that, you're now agreeing you're entering the territory where we have jurisdiction over what we think is appropriate for our society.

01:05:10.000 I'm not an anarchist.

01:05:12.000 I believe there's got to be some laws.

01:05:14.000 There's got to be some... You can have anarchy with laws, too. 0.97

01:05:18.000 You can't.

01:05:19.000 You can't.

01:05:19.000 And this is sort of the nuance that most people, just their eyes glaze over when you dig into it.

01:05:23.000 But I'll try.

01:05:26.000 Ideally right in your in your perfect world or your near perfect world since there's no utopia we have private borders where everybody owns everything.

01:05:34.000 Everything is privatized.

01:05:35.000 You decide who comes across your borders.

01:05:38.000 Now the reality is that's not the world we live in and we have to deal with tragedy of the commons and we have to deal with our tax dollars and so from a libertarian perspective I would want as many people who are peaceful to be able to come here as possible But I also wouldn't want to guarantee them the right to vote.

01:05:53.000 Yeah.

01:05:54.000 Because those two things, those are totally separate, and it's unfortunate they don't get separated in the immigration discussion.

01:06:01.000 There is something interesting that's happening with the way Democrats are handling immigration, is we're developing a service guarantee citizenship style governance.

01:06:10.000 I don't think it's completely bad, you know, Star Trek trooper style, but I don't like the idea of them just opening up the border, letting everybody come, and then creating a serf class. 0.99

01:06:18.000 Yeah, I don't like surf class.

01:06:20.000 I don't like tying migration to voting rights and citizenship.

01:06:25.000 If we got rid of birthright citizenship, that would be wild. 0.96

01:06:28.000 If we got rid of, like in our visa program, that you can bring over your whole family, that would also be wild. 1.00

01:06:33.000 These are some interesting things we could consider to make immigration less messy.

01:06:37.000 We need to reconsider this.

01:06:38.000 What people need to understand about voting, we have to hear from the left, they say, it used to be that rich white landowners were allowed to vote.

01:06:46.000 And then it was like, well, you understand why that was.

01:06:48.000 For one, yeah, racism, for sure, no problem.

01:06:52.000 Like, it's not the same as people view it today.

01:06:55.000 It was like, it was different times.

01:06:57.000 But the reason why landowning was a component was because there were no IDs.

01:07:00.000 If you lived here, you voted here.

01:07:03.000 If you didn't live here, you didn't vote here.

01:07:05.000 And so that's why it was the landowners were voting.

01:07:07.000 Eventually we were like, hey, you know, people are renting a lot.

01:07:10.000 We should probably allow them to vote because they live here.

01:07:12.000 It's like, oh, okay.

01:07:13.000 If we're now getting into a new territory of, you know, the way we're handling immigration and everything, then we might want to update how we handle citizenship.

01:07:23.000 So we had birthright citizenship specifically because of the end of slavery.

01:07:27.000 It wasn't intended to be that someone could, you know, in China they do pregnancy tourism, birthing tourism.

01:07:33.000 That a pregnant woman will come to the U.S. 1.00

01:07:35.000 to give birth so their child will have dual citizenship and then they'll go back. 0.77

01:07:37.000 I have friends who were born here because of that exact thing.

01:07:40.000 Now, I'm very sympathetic because their parents were terrified of communist China and were trying to ensure that their children would be able to grow up here and that they would have a place to flee.

01:07:51.000 They were basically, you know, political refugees, which is a thing that I'm sensitive to. 1.00

01:07:57.000 But that also doesn't necessarily mean that you need citizenship.

01:08:02.000 Didn't Milton Friedman make the argument that open borders would be fine and dandy if we didn't have a welfare state?

01:08:09.000 Yes.

01:08:10.000 There's a lot of issues I suppose.

01:08:12.000 And we do.

01:08:12.000 If we got rid of that, that would be a huge thing.

01:08:15.000 We can't have open borders and non-citizen census at the same time. 0.97

01:08:20.000 Right.

01:08:21.000 So that's what's happening with California.

01:08:23.000 They're trying to let as many people in as possible because it gives them extra congressional seats and more electoral college votes. 0.65

01:08:27.000 And California does have welfare programs for people who are not citizens.

01:08:33.000 They absolutely do.

01:08:34.000 State-level welfare.

01:08:36.000 Doesn't this argument apply to the state level too, though?

01:08:39.000 People can move from Arizona to California to get more benefits.

01:08:43.000 So here's my biggest argument for closed borders.

01:08:46.000 It's not people from Mexico or Canada coming in.

01:08:50.000 It's people from California, like me, moving to Texas.

01:08:53.000 I'm like, Texas, someone needs to build a wall around California.

01:08:56.000 So we want an inner country of closed borders, Texas closes its borders.

01:09:00.000 Yep, states need to regulate. 1.00

01:09:02.000 I think that might happen.

01:09:04.000 I was talking about abortion being a catalyst for civil war, and one of the scenarios that we talked about was, what happens if in Texas, where it's now banned, a man and a woman hook up, They're together.

01:09:17.000 At eight months, they split.

01:09:19.000 The woman says, there's no way I can have a baby without him, so I'm going to go to Colorado.

01:09:23.000 The man says, I won't let you do it. 0.96

01:09:25.000 You're going to kill my son. 0.82

01:09:26.000 And then she flees. 0.96

01:09:28.000 The question is then, how does Texas handle this conflict with Colorado when the feds are like, we're not being involved?

01:09:32.000 They've got a law on the books right now that basically rewards snitching. 0.95

01:09:39.000 It's intense.

01:09:40.000 And this is the part where, you know, like, personally, like, I'm pretty pro-life.

01:09:44.000 I'm five months pregnant right now.

01:09:46.000 Could never consider getting an abortion.

01:09:48.000 I get a little freaked out when the government starts incentivizing you to spy on your neighbor and turn them in for crimes.

01:09:54.000 Oh, yeah.

01:09:55.000 That's rough.

01:09:56.000 There was this company I remember like 15 years ago that was telling people to go outside their house and write down all the license plates and they would pay them.

01:10:04.000 And then I was just like, I saw people posting on Facebook about it.

01:10:08.000 And then I was like, spying your neighbors for cash.

01:10:10.000 Wow.

01:10:10.000 And they're like, oh, well, I mean, because they didn't realize what they were doing.

01:10:14.000 They're dumb people. 1.00

01:10:15.000 We had it in California, in the city of LA during lockdowns. 1.00

01:10:18.000 There were hotlines and tip numbers to report businesses that were deviolating.

01:10:23.000 So what I did was I very carefully took little screenshots of the California website and all their official announcements and I got my own number and superimposed it and plastered it all over the city.

01:10:34.000 So you could call 559-I'm-a-Nazi.

01:10:38.000 I didn't type that out.

01:10:40.000 I typed out the numbers, but it is 559-I'm-a-Nazi, and it was a fake tip line.

01:10:45.000 Wow.

01:10:45.000 And you would get trolled as you reported your neighbors.

01:10:48.000 Didn't they have people snitching on each other because you could only like work out one time a day in some places?

01:10:53.000 Australia.

01:10:54.000 Yeah.

01:10:55.000 I was thinking about the scenario and then one thing I was thinking of is like it's probably easier to put it as what happens if in Texas there's a federal military base and there's a woman and a man and they have a kid and then eight months she's either a service woman or something and so she goes in for this procedure and they approve it.

01:11:14.000 What is Texas going to do?

01:11:15.000 file a lawsuit and it's going to get argued at the Supreme Court.

01:11:18.000 I don't know if they're going to file a lawsuit.

01:11:20.000 Well, the state of Texas, I mean, absolutely will.

01:11:23.000 What you're saying is the state will look the man in the eye and say, your son will die,

01:11:27.000 and then we'll take it to the courts.

01:11:29.000 Yes.

01:11:30.000 I can't imagine the man's going to be like, I'm going to let my kid die.

01:11:33.000 Well, we'll probably see him on the news in some tragic incident, but that is how government operates.

01:11:40.000 It's a slow-moving creature.

01:11:41.000 Well, sort of.

01:11:43.000 By design.

01:11:43.000 If a woman kidnapped a... if the child is born at eight months, no man rushes him into a military base, they're gonna bring her out and give the son back and say, we can't do that.

01:11:52.000 But if it's in her womb, they can say, it's viable. 0.99

01:11:55.000 We could deliver it, but we're gonna kill it. 1.00

01:11:57.000 See, and that's why we have like... 0.95

01:11:59.000 Man, it's terrible, but the reality is that people do not agree, and I think some of them are being disingenuous, but they do not agree about when human life begins.

01:12:09.000 And that's what got us into this whole argument.

01:12:12.000 I know, abortion's such a topic that when it comes up, we go crazy, but I just have to say, life begins at conception.

01:12:20.000 There you go.

01:12:21.000 Anyone who's arguing otherwise is lying to you, period.

01:12:26.000 That's when life begins.

01:12:27.000 Now, you can argue human consciousness, you can argue insolent, you can argue all those things happen at different points, I don't care, but a unique set of DNA is in cellular reproduction, independent, That's life.

01:12:40.000 And the goalposts will move in this argument, I think, throughout eternity, which is why I am so in favor of people just peacefully separating in this country as much as they can.

01:12:51.000 As much as they can.

01:12:52.000 If that just means strong federalism and aggressive states' rights, I'll take that over something worse.

01:12:59.000 We saw what happened, you know, when we had some states that believed in denying personhood and some states that didn't.

01:13:06.000 And you got people like John Brown.

01:13:08.000 So I feel like if we go, here's what I see happening, if we go the national divorce route, we peacefully say, you guys do your thing, or we go even strong federalism.

01:13:17.000 Let's say- Strong federalism, yeah.

01:13:19.000 That's how it's gonna be that way, right?

01:13:20.000 You'll get a Supreme Court that's hostile to states' rights and then they'll just keep changing back and forth.

01:13:27.000 Outside of that, let's say because of the speed at which communication technology- Yeah, it's different now than it was back then.

01:13:33.000 Let's say we get strong federalism.

01:13:35.000 We end up with Republicans winning in November, we end up with Donald Trump winning in 2024, and then people just keep—these people are like—Trump fires everybody.

01:13:44.000 All of a sudden, the administrative state at the federal level is crippled, the federal government loses tons of power.

01:13:49.000 Texas says, Colorado, we don't care what you do. 1.00

01:13:53.000 Then what happens when you get one of these scenarios where a guy's son is taken?

01:13:58.000 Because the woman is pregnant and she says, I'm not going to deliver this for you because we're fighting and we don't like each other anymore. 0.99

01:14:03.000 This guy goes to Texas without a strong federal government to intervene.

01:14:08.000 Texas either says, yes, we'll help save your son, or we won't.

01:14:11.000 They might say, look, we're not going to go and take a woman like it's never going to happen. 0.95

01:14:14.000 So he says, I'm forming a posse.

01:14:15.000 What does Colorado do when a band of armed dudes go in to rescue their child?

01:14:20.000 What would happen if a woman kidnapped a two-year-old child, jumped state lines, and law enforcement across the board said, we will not get you your son back, even though we know it's a crime, we know your son's in danger, and she has expressed she will kill him?

01:14:38.000 I think that you're likely to have a violent standoff, which is terrible, but we are already encountering situations like that.

01:14:45.000 I mean, what happened with Ammon Bundy?

01:14:47.000 Right.

01:14:47.000 Like, it's just... They killed that guy.

01:14:49.000 You saw that video?

01:14:50.000 It was terrible.

01:14:51.000 In the car, so this is when, for those that aren't familiar, they were occupying, first it's the land dispute, then it was they were occupying a BLM building, and there's a video of this group driving in a car, and then you see the window shatter.

01:15:04.000 They were fired at.

01:15:05.000 Dude jumps out, and then, I could be wrong, it's been a long time, but he reaches into his chest holster or something, and then they just unload on him.

01:15:12.000 This is a Bureau of Land Management building.

01:15:15.000 Yeah, Bureau of Land Management.

01:15:16.000 Not to be confused with.

01:15:18.000 And it was like the second incident with the bunnies, I think, and this guy...

01:15:22.000 They argued, well, he reached for a weapon, so we shot him, and then people pointed out, you shot at him first, and he was reaching in self-defense.

01:15:31.000 This is why we need police choice.

01:15:32.000 We talked about this stuff two years ago.

01:15:36.000 I'm not as libertarian as y'all when it comes to all of that stuff.

01:15:39.000 I mean, you agree with school choice, right?

01:15:41.000 The reason that schools do such a shitty job is because they have geographic monopolies.

01:15:44.000 You can make the same argument for police departments. 0.64

01:15:48.000 You can't hold them accountable from the bottom up if they either discriminate and kill innocent people or if they just don't come in time.

01:15:55.000 But it is different.

01:15:57.000 Law enforcement, we have people with guns going around shooting people.

01:16:00.000 We need strict accountability.

01:16:02.000 We need a set of ground rules that apply to everybody, constitutional rights.

01:16:05.000 So what I like is duly elected law enforcement.

01:16:08.000 Sheriffs.

01:16:09.000 Sheriffs.

01:16:10.000 I don't like appointed police in big cities that are super crooked.

01:16:13.000 I would go either way.

01:16:14.000 I would go duly elected law enforcement or privatized police where their contract student, they're not continued in perpetuity.

01:16:23.000 That is very important.

01:16:25.000 I think police should be held to a higher standard.

01:16:26.000 Yes, they should.

01:16:27.000 We got to end qualified immunity.

01:16:28.000 That's really critical.

01:16:31.000 And, and we need to make it much easier to go after their bail or their, their bond or their insurance, because you can do that, but it's so difficult and complicated and obnoxious.

01:16:41.000 It should just be possible.

01:16:43.000 I really just think it comes down to we have a cultural problem.

01:16:46.000 We do.

01:16:47.000 So if you know, I look at these old tropes of officer friendly, you know, he's walking down, everyone's waving a free hot dog for you, officer.

01:16:55.000 And the cop was concerned that if he screwed up, the whole community is going to get mad at him.

01:16:58.000 So he's got to be this this good guy.

01:17:00.000 Yeah, these days, it's like you're in a city and the cops like don't know you don't care.

01:17:03.000 Tell to a judge.

01:17:04.000 Yep.

01:17:05.000 I'm not sticking my neck out for you.

01:17:07.000 You get a cop who accidentally commits a crime and then they cover for him.

01:17:12.000 In New York, I personally witnessed a false arrest of a photographer.

01:17:16.000 I was lucky enough to have filmed it and then the false charges were dropped and the cops lied under oath and got away with it.

01:17:24.000 I've seen them shoot at and harass homeless people in Skid Row.

01:17:27.000 Now, I know that a lot of homeless people in Skid Row have psychological issues.

01:17:32.000 They can be a danger to others and themselves.

01:17:34.000 But I've spent years down there doing volunteer work and completely unarmed.

01:17:38.000 And I've been able to de-escalate situations with violent people.

01:17:42.000 So I'm a small woman.

01:17:44.000 And so I didn't have the need to shoot anyone.

01:17:47.000 I would like to think that law enforcement with proper training can at least be as good as I am.

01:17:52.000 Cultural decay in cities.

01:17:53.000 You know, as far as I've experienced living in the suburbs and in rural areas, no issue with Sheriff's Department.

01:18:00.000 Deputies, always calm, reasonable.

01:18:03.000 It's probably because of density.

01:18:05.000 In New York, though, you know, I lived on the block where a black nationalist executed two cops minding their own business, sitting in a car.

01:18:12.000 But what people need to understand, too, is that guy, he didn't live there. 0.92

01:18:14.000 He showed up to this neighborhood just to kill these guys.

01:18:17.000 He posted, you take two of ours, we take two of yours, or something like that as a reference to Michael Brown.

01:18:22.000 But on the street, every night there are floodlights on every corner and cops, like, it's basically an occupation.

01:18:27.000 They're the fifth largest standing army in the world.

01:18:29.000 That's insane.

01:18:31.000 New York Police Department.

01:18:32.000 So you go outside when I was living in this neighborhood at night, there's two cops on every street corner, large floodlights, and it's like in a residential neighborhood.

01:18:42.000 People there don't take kindly to living that way, man.

01:18:44.000 And so it breeds animosity and there's a lot of people who do like it because it's unsafe.

01:18:50.000 They feel like it's unsafe.

01:18:51.000 Well, it's out of necessity.

01:18:52.000 It's not like they chose it and said, please put up floodlights in my neighborhood and patrol with guns.

01:18:56.000 And I lived across the street from all this stuff.

01:18:58.000 But then you had a guy who came, I think he came from like Baltimore or something, and he walked up to the car and he

01:19:03.000 just killed these cops.

01:19:04.000 So the issue I think is cities are too dense.

01:19:07.000 The culture is too fractured.

01:19:09.000 This idea of multiculturalism is just...

01:19:11.000 It's a failed experiment.

01:19:13.000 Yeah, we've outsourced our governance to D.C.

01:19:15.000 It's insane.

01:19:16.000 You can't have 700 people or 1,000 people govern 350 million.

01:19:21.000 It's not happening.

01:19:22.000 We're ungoverned, essentially, and then they're passing 1,000-page bills and stuff without reading them.

01:19:27.000 I think the other problem is a lot of the over-criminalization with victimless crimes.

01:19:34.000 If you had more drug legalization, for example, you wouldn't need as much rights enforcement done

01:19:39.000 by gangs because it would be things that are legal on the books, but you would be able to

01:19:45.000 enforce it through the police instead of through gangs. But where would Kamala Harris get her 1.00

01:19:51.000 slave labor to put out wildfires? Drug enforcement's... Truancy.

01:19:55.000 I wonder what you guys think about drug enforcement because you were saying earlier legalized drugs You'd mentioned Portugal that had in 2000 an experiment where they legalized maybe not every drug but a lot of drugs nationally I'm not sure exactly how that turned out but like Drugs are getting more potent more addictive Pharmaceutical companies are building them.

01:20:11.000 Like are you also saying that pharmaceutical companies should be able to legally sell heroin to kids?

01:20:16.000 Those are already legal Well, let's think about how that would work like in reality.

01:20:21.000 You go into CVS or drugstores, even baby formula is locked up.

01:20:26.000 So I don't anticipate that there are going to be a lot of places that would actually sell hard drugs like heroin to children.

01:20:33.000 I couldn't even get diet pills when I was like 18.

01:20:36.000 I remember having a friend who really wanted to get diet pills when she was 18.

01:20:40.000 It was like illegal.

01:20:42.000 Well, the highly potent drugs are arguably because of them being illegal.

01:20:47.000 So it's easier to transport large amounts when they're super dense.

01:20:52.000 Also true.

01:20:53.000 So cannabis, I was suffering horribly from Crohn's disease and was able to use It's a horse tranquilizer.

01:21:01.000 pain and also some of the horrible GI tract symptoms I had.

01:21:05.000 The alternative is opioids and things like tramadol. That's the only one that's

01:21:10.000 actually safe for people with GI pain, but that's still an opioid that's addictive.

01:21:13.000 It's a horse tranquilizer. What about like elimination diet like Michaela Peterson? 0.65

01:21:18.000 Oh, that's what I did.

01:21:18.000 I had to go hardcore, very strict carnivore diet.

01:21:23.000 It worked?

01:21:24.000 Yes, it did within about 72 hours.

01:21:25.000 So by the way, by the way, the doctor was going to take out my colon.

01:21:32.000 I'm in my 30s.

01:21:33.000 They were going to put a bag in me, give it a year, give it a year.

01:21:37.000 And if it wasn't fixed, Take the colon out insane I'm a woman within like of childbearing age and they were gonna take out my organs And I hung up the phone and after pumping me full of many pharmaceutical drugs. 0.96

01:21:52.000 I tried all the things I'd hugged a purple crystal.

01:21:54.000 I'd everything in between I don't care.

01:21:57.000 I'll try it And I was like the only choice I have left is to try a radical change to my diet because I've tried the first you know 20 hits on Google and gluten No, I'd been on a gluten-free, very healthy vegan diet for 15 years exactly.

01:22:14.000 So when I say healthy vegan, I mean I wasn't just, I wasn't eating like vegan powdered doughnuts.

01:22:19.000 Well, what was causing it, do you know?

01:22:21.000 Stress, inflammation.

01:22:22.000 I had toxic mold in my house.

01:22:24.000 It was a number of factors that built up to the point where I could not tolerate any food.

01:22:28.000 I was down to eating five things.

01:22:30.000 Sweet potatoes, avocados, dates, something else.

01:22:34.000 I could occasionally eat a Beyond Burger, but not an Impossible Burger.

01:22:37.000 That was really it.

01:22:39.000 Mustard.

01:22:41.000 So I changed my diet.

01:22:42.000 I had to get very high to be able to eat meat because it was so disgusting to me.

01:22:47.000 And within about 72 hours, my horrible gastrointestinal internal bleeding and violent spasming had changed.

01:22:54.000 I would have spasms that were so bad it was partial paralysis for me every morning.

01:22:58.000 Every morning.

01:22:59.000 Two hours.

01:23:00.000 But you started eating meat?

01:23:01.000 I started eating nothing but meat.

01:23:03.000 Wow.

01:23:04.000 And I didn't have any other food cravings for three months.

01:23:08.000 Nothing but meat?

01:23:09.000 Nothing.

01:23:10.000 No salad?

01:23:11.000 Salt?

01:23:12.000 Meat, salt, and water.

01:23:13.000 That is it.

01:23:15.000 Wow.

01:23:15.000 Where'd you get your vitamins from?

01:23:17.000 Meat, salt, and water.

01:23:19.000 Meat has all the vitamins you need.

01:23:21.000 Scott, what plants crave?

01:23:23.000 Apparently so, and within 72 hours, the worst of it was gone, and within a year, I was almost back to normal.

01:23:30.000 Well, it's like they say, meat is magic.

01:23:32.000 Did you get rid of the black mold in your environment?

01:23:34.000 I moved.

01:23:34.000 I had to move out of the house.

01:23:35.000 Oh, that's huge.

01:23:36.000 Yeah, I hear that's insane, black mold toxicity.

01:23:39.000 I have other friends who are on healthy vegan diets.

01:23:41.000 I'm not talking about the Wow.

01:23:44.000 Glad to hear it.

01:23:44.000 that's come out into the markets lately, but they totally thrive,

01:23:48.000 but they didn't have the stress levels that I did combined with the toxic mold

01:23:52.000 and the other weirdness going on.

01:23:53.000 So, life changing.

01:23:55.000 Yeah, life changing.

01:23:56.000 I was eating a lot of grains last year and like my weight was going up and down.

01:24:03.000 In like 2018, I started losing weight.

01:24:07.000 And then I started eating bread and garbage and not really caring about it and started gaining more weight.

01:24:12.000 And then in November, I just stopped eating sugar.

01:24:15.000 Yeah.

01:24:15.000 So now, so I've reached a little bit.

01:24:17.000 It was like I totally cut it out.

01:24:19.000 Yeah.

01:24:19.000 Like all the way down.

01:24:20.000 Maybe it was like 10 carbs per day, just like carbs as an aside, like what I might be getting from some vegetables.

01:24:25.000 Nice.

01:24:25.000 And now I'm doing like, you know, 25 to 40 carbs per day.

01:24:28.000 Nice.

01:24:29.000 But my health has greatly improved.

01:24:31.000 My energy is way up.

01:24:32.000 It was bad.

01:24:33.000 I used to finish my morning segment, then I would eat dinner and then just fall asleep

01:24:37.000 and then wake up an hour before this show and like groggily just.

01:24:40.000 Yeah.

01:24:41.000 And then I was just like, well, it's cause you get tired when you eat.

01:24:43.000 And then I stopped eating the grains.

01:24:45.000 It's what you eat.

01:24:46.000 And now I just feel like I've got electricity surging through me 24-7.

01:24:49.000 That you do.

01:24:50.000 So since becoming pregnant, by the way, and this is another good thing to know, like when you're pregnant, you have kind of free-floating stem cells in your body.

01:24:59.000 I have been able to eat a lot more.

01:25:00.000 I can eat fruit.

01:25:02.000 I had a couple, there's only one brand, but a couple of gluten-free cookies earlier today.

01:25:06.000 Didn't kill me.

01:25:07.000 Not bleeding out of every orifice of my body, you know, obviously.

01:25:11.000 I'd look like any Ebola victim earlier.

01:25:12.000 You wouldn't want me in here.

01:25:13.000 Yikes.

01:25:13.000 It's terrifying.

01:25:14.000 It seems to be working now.

01:25:15.000 So you speak in my language about diet healing the body.

01:25:18.000 Yeah.

01:25:19.000 So then when we talk about legalizing drugs, I'm concerned.

01:25:21.000 I just watched this dope sick movie I was talking to you guys about earlier about the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma basically telling everyone that OxyContin is not addictive.

01:25:30.000 That was their official statement from the FDA.

01:25:31.000 Approved it.

01:25:32.000 And they sold all this to all these people killed millions like hundreds of thousands of people got addicted and again got into heroin because they couldn't get their oxy.

01:25:40.000 So what if we legalize drugs then not only would pharmaceutical companies be able to pump stuff like potent oxy oxycontin into 12 year olds but like so could people on the street I would imagine and it would just be like I mean, they already do, though.

01:25:56.000 It's so easy to get it.

01:25:57.000 They could still regulate it.

01:25:59.000 So there's all different varying degrees of regulation that it could or could not go through.

01:26:04.000 But I gotta tell you, man, they're pumping kids full of Ritalin in schools.

01:26:08.000 You're moving too much, you have ADHD.

01:26:10.000 You get in trouble if you don't put your kid on Ritalin in public schools.

01:26:14.000 So, I think that problem is already there.

01:26:16.000 I do think it would be easier for us to expose it if a lot more things were deregulated.

01:26:22.000 And this would also, when I say legalize or deregulate or decriminalize drugs, we're talking about you could have cannabis instead of opioids.

01:26:31.000 It's much safer.

01:26:33.000 Much, much safer.

01:26:34.000 Also for children.

01:26:35.000 There are so many remarkable stories about little kids taking Rick Simpson oil and THC concentrates for major seizure disorders.

01:26:44.000 I knew a guy whose kid had epilepsy.

01:26:49.000 And so he had about a keto diet and medicinal marijuana.

01:26:54.000 Yep.

01:26:55.000 I've known several of them.

01:26:56.000 To heal some of the symptoms.

01:26:59.000 I don't know for sure.

01:27:00.000 My understanding is that it helped, but I don't know to what degree.

01:27:05.000 I know that he was always concerned and always calling and checking in.

01:27:08.000 It's a reduction.

01:27:09.000 I mean, these kids, when I say they have seizures, I don't mean they have a seizure a couple times a day.

01:27:13.000 They would be having seizures on the minute, every minute.

01:27:16.000 It's almost like you're barely alive.

01:27:18.000 You're surviving, you know, you've got a pulse, but I don't know if I'd call it living.

01:27:22.000 And so to go from that to having a seizure a few times a day is like a huge improvement.

01:27:26.000 Why do you think that marijuana is still Schedule 1 narcotic federally?

01:27:31.000 Because opioids, competition.

01:27:34.000 Competition.

01:27:34.000 Yeah, I'm pretty sure they don't want to lose that.

01:27:36.000 Yeah.

01:27:37.000 Yeah, it seems like marijuana and hemp in general is just tons of different use cases.

01:27:44.000 It's just incredible.

01:27:46.000 Yeah.

01:27:47.000 You can take it like I do when you go to sleep and you don't even feel getting high.

01:27:50.000 I don't really like to get high.

01:27:51.000 Well, it is recreationally legal in many different states, and I think we're getting really, really close to... 34 states, maybe?

01:27:58.000 Not in West Virginia, though.

01:28:00.000 Maryland is.

01:28:01.000 34 states, I believe it's medically legal and recreational.

01:28:05.000 West Virginia is medically.

01:28:06.000 I have faith.

01:28:07.000 They have a good libertarian party.

01:28:09.000 Maryland is decriminalized, but there's no recreational legality or anything like that.

01:28:14.000 It's just like, I think if you have it, they don't care or something.

01:28:17.000 But after a certain amount they do, I'm not entirely sure.

01:28:20.000 West Virginia, it's like strictly illegal.

01:28:21.000 Dude, thinking that the pharmaceutical industry is focused on treatment, it's like a treatment industry.

01:28:25.000 They're not looking for cures.

01:28:26.000 They're looking to develop new treatments experimentally.

01:28:32.000 I got more to say on it, but I'm absolutely sickened that we would allow this beast to thrive.

01:28:40.000 I had another point that I'm going to make.

01:28:42.000 I was told nothing I ate would affect or change my diet.

01:28:47.000 Or my health.

01:28:48.000 That's the craziest thing.

01:28:49.000 You know what really annoys me is when people say, all that matters is calories in, calories out.

01:28:53.000 You're trying to lose weight calories, and I'm like, are you joking?

01:28:56.000 It's not that simple.

01:28:57.000 If you eat nothing but sugar, you're not getting protein.

01:29:00.000 It's medical tyranny.

01:29:01.000 We talk a lot about government, military tyranny, about corporate tyranny, you know, what they call it, I guess.

01:29:09.000 But that medical tyranny is a real thing and it can really exist.

01:29:13.000 And I'm wondering, are we like in a system like that right now?

01:29:16.000 Well, I mean, I think that's what the FDA does.

01:29:20.000 So we can't get cannabis legalized, even though it's saving children from like a life of hell with seizure disorders and keeping me from having my colon ripped out of my body.

01:29:31.000 But we can fast track all kinds of other strange experimental drugs over the last couple of years.

01:29:36.000 But then we were expected to not talk about, say things that weren't true about it.

01:29:40.000 Like that was all of a sudden, like that's the tyrannical part when people are like, no, no, no, we're going to follow the CDC implicitly out in front.

01:29:49.000 And that's like, dude, that's that's antithetical to our system.

01:29:52.000 I would like when the Republicans win to have an inquiry into the CDC.

01:29:57.000 And I want to see communications with the World Health Organization.

01:30:01.000 I want to see what they were approving, why they were approving it.

01:30:04.000 I want to hear Dr. Fauci testify as to everything that happened.

01:30:06.000 And there's just, look, I'm not going to get into anything beyond that.

01:30:09.000 I don't know.

01:30:09.000 I just know that we need an inquiry from Congress.

01:30:12.000 We had under oath statements.

01:30:14.000 We need to know when that information was coming in.

01:30:16.000 And maybe there's a whole lot of incompetence.

01:30:18.000 Maybe there's a whole lot of uncertainty.

01:30:20.000 And maybe there's malice.

01:30:21.000 Either way, I'd like to hear it.

01:30:22.000 Rand Paul is working on it.

01:30:24.000 He's great.

01:30:24.000 The most libertarian Republican there is, is working on it.

01:30:27.000 So it's up to the rest of them to have the backbone.

01:30:30.000 I shout out to Seamus Coghlan of Freedom Tunes because we've done a couple Fauci and Rand Paul cartoons mocking the whole thing of, you know, Rand Paul questioning Fauci about what's going on and stuff like that.

01:30:43.000 So I really do appreciate Rand Paul's work.

01:30:45.000 And it's remarkable to me that there's still people on Twitter that are advocating for full lockdown policies, and I'm like, we're long since over this corner.

01:30:53.000 You still have some places, like in D.C., in order to go to school, ages 12 and up, you have to get a vaccine to go back to school this coming fall.

01:31:00.000 Still, in 2022.

01:31:02.000 You know to enter the United States, people from outside the U.S. 1.00

01:31:05.000 have to get vaccinated to come here.

01:31:07.000 Now, my understanding is that the US doesn't have a check system on it.

01:31:10.000 It's the airlines that do, and some airlines don't.

01:31:13.000 Correct.

01:31:14.000 And they're not all electronic verification.

01:31:16.000 Yeah.

01:31:17.000 Some of them are paper.

01:31:18.000 But I will also say there's absolutely zero verification if you enter the southern border illegally.

01:31:23.000 Yes.

01:31:23.000 Which is what a lot of people are doing, and we're not checking for... Actually, I know a few people who did that to get around getting vaccinated.

01:31:31.000 Just like walking across the border?

01:31:33.000 They snuck in.

01:31:34.000 Wow.

01:31:35.000 Well, they were already in the US, they had to leave, and then in order to come back with visas and everything.

01:31:41.000 That's just so wrong.

01:31:42.000 You know, look, the fact that law-abiding citizens know there's an open door they can't go through, and it's the people who break the law who walk through it, we got a serious problem there.

01:31:51.000 The people who are respecting our laws are the ones we want to come here. 1.00

01:31:53.000 The people who don't respect our laws are the ones we don't want coming here. 1.00

01:31:56.000 Like, I think...

01:31:59.000 Like every immigrant should be able to come to the United States as long as they do it legally.

01:32:02.000 Exactly like Trump said, legally.

01:32:03.000 It's just like gun control.

01:32:05.000 Laws are not helping out law-abiding citizens.

01:32:08.000 Exactly.

01:32:09.000 I think the issue is you have people just walking through the desert.

01:32:11.000 They're going to get sick.

01:32:13.000 They're going to die.

01:32:14.000 It's a terrible thing to experience.

01:32:16.000 People leave.

01:32:17.000 There's a group called Border Angels that goes out and leaves water for people in the desert who are traveling.

01:32:23.000 They don't do escorting of immigrants as far as I know.

01:32:26.000 They just try to leave water out.

01:32:28.000 They'll go through and they'll find the water jugs have had holes shot in them.

01:32:32.000 I'm pretty sure it's illegal.

01:32:33.000 They were a group of people.

01:32:34.000 They left food and water on the desert.

01:32:36.000 They got arrested.

01:32:37.000 And they were like, we were just trying to help people, and then they said something about causing problems for wildlife, pollution, like you can't just leave garbage in the middle of the desert, things like that.

01:32:47.000 What do you guys think about states like Texas sending immigrants over to DC?

01:32:51.000 Well, my first response was that it's just helping them.

01:32:54.000 That's what they want.

01:32:55.000 The Democrats have been shipping illegal immigrants across the country, so all they're doing is helping them get to the center of the country. 0.99

01:33:00.000 But many people commented saying, Texas can't deport them, so make the problem not Texas.

01:33:06.000 And it's like, OK, well, fair point.

01:33:08.000 And then Muriel Bowser panicked and called in the National Guard because they're overwhelmed.

01:33:12.000 This is an interesting juxtaposition with the national divorce argument.

01:33:17.000 I feel like I'm not quite sure how, but somehow it's related.

01:33:20.000 Texas has a problem.

01:33:21.000 And they're like, you know, we're just going to put we're just going to ship our problem somewhere else.

01:33:25.000 Yeah, we're not technically our own country, but we're just going to export our problems over to you.

01:33:29.000 I'd imagine California would load up all their homeless on buses and send them to Arizona if they didn't need the population for their congressional seats. 0.98

01:33:38.000 Are the Olympics coming?

01:33:40.000 I don't know.

01:33:41.000 To LA?

01:33:41.000 Oh, I don't know.

01:33:42.000 Are the Olympics, I believe the Olympics are coming to LA.

01:33:45.000 Wow.

01:33:46.000 There has been talk of how they're going to deal with the homelessness crisis, including putting people on cruise ships.

01:33:55.000 Yeah.

01:33:55.000 2028 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles.

01:33:57.000 Here's what they can do.

01:33:58.000 They can get blankets that look like rocks.

01:34:04.000 Throw him on top.

01:34:05.000 Problem solved.

01:34:06.000 Just nobody will see him.

01:34:07.000 You're not a sight out of mind, huh?

01:34:08.000 You gotta see Skid Row.

01:34:10.000 I've been there.

01:34:10.000 That would be a giant gravel quarry.

01:34:13.000 It would be wild.

01:34:14.000 Have you been there lately?

01:34:15.000 Yeah.

01:34:15.000 When was the last time?

01:34:17.000 That was like three months ago.

01:34:19.000 How's it doing?

01:34:20.000 What's it look like?

01:34:20.000 It's an open-air asylum.

01:34:22.000 It's hypodermic needles and human waste in the streets.

01:34:27.000 People having mental breakdowns in the hospital gowns.

01:34:31.000 Wow.

01:34:31.000 And it's grown.

01:34:33.000 It's spread exponentially.

01:34:36.000 So like I was there when it was just the 6th Street basically.

01:34:38.000 Oh, yeah.

01:34:39.000 No, it's much bigger than 6th Street.

01:34:40.000 It's it's crossed It's crossed Maine.

01:34:44.000 I think it's growing and growing.

01:34:46.000 Well, how many block radius is it?

01:34:47.000 Would you consider the homeless?

01:34:49.000 Oh, that's a really good question because I don't know how far south it's stretched.

01:34:53.000 So it goes to that industrial area the flower district over to 8th and 9th Street and now it's spilled past 8th and 9th and up past Maine and then in the other direction I'm not really sure it's I mean it's what it's it's almost half of downtown LA at this point if you were to look at it as a concentration of how many homeless encampments there are it's it's half of downtown LA

01:35:19.000 What's the libertarian solution to the homeless crisis?

01:35:22.000 Is it privatize the roads?

01:35:24.000 Privatize the sidewalks?

01:35:25.000 Well, we have to end the tragedy of commons.

01:35:27.000 There's no perfect solution, but part of it is to end all of the entitlement programs that people flock to in downtown LA.

01:35:33.000 Right.

01:35:34.000 At this point, it's just inhuman and it's also dishonest because they make all these promises and people camp out desperately waiting.

01:35:41.000 There is literally a nine-year wait list in Santa Monica for free housing.

01:35:44.000 Wow.

01:35:45.000 And in downtown LA six years ago it was a two and a half year wait and now it's much longer.

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01:36:21.000 All right.

01:36:22.000 Sam Robinson says we don't bow down to threats.

01:36:25.000 Hear, hear.

01:36:26.000 As much as I don't like Nancy Pelosi, China doesn't get to decide when we have someone go and meet with a delegation or government officials. 0.92

01:36:34.000 Did she end up flying there with fighter jet escort? 0.93

01:36:36.000 Yep.

01:36:36.000 That was their big issue.

01:36:37.000 Yes, she did.

01:36:37.000 That's why they're out there.

01:36:38.000 I think she had like four.

01:36:40.000 Well, you know, I think of it from our perspective.

01:36:42.000 If China was having delegate meetings in like Tijuana and then they had a bunch of fighter jets fly in, we'd be on high alert, too.

01:36:49.000 I would be concerned.

01:36:51.000 And it's about commitment strategies.

01:36:52.000 I mean, if Tim was coming into D.C.

01:36:55.000 and I was like, and you're meeting with Joe Biden, I didn't like that.

01:36:58.000 And I was like, well, you know what?

01:36:59.000 I'm going to get a bunch of people to beat Tim up.

01:37:01.000 You know what?

01:37:02.000 It wouldn't be in his best interest to just back down and say, oh, I'm going to back down every time someone tries to challenge me.

01:37:10.000 I mean, No one has addressed diplomacy yet.

01:37:12.000 Could we try better diplomacy?

01:37:14.000 Yeah, I want to video chat with Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.

01:37:17.000 I want to watch.

01:37:18.000 Yes.

01:37:18.000 Well, I mean, Xi was like, you play with fire, you'll be burned.

01:37:21.000 And Biden was like, that's how I imagine it happened.

01:37:25.000 I mean, he's quoted as saying that play with fire, you'll get burned.

01:37:28.000 We're not trying very hard.

01:37:31.000 All right, Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:37:32.000 says, Tim, dude, have you been taking motivational speaking classes?

01:37:36.000 That 4 p.m.

01:37:36.000 was top-notch.

01:37:38.000 We do need more Scott Presslers.

01:37:40.000 We do need to knock on doors.

01:37:41.000 We need action.

01:37:42.000 I volunteer, volunteer as tribute.

01:37:44.000 At 4, I was basically saying the primaries are today, right?

01:37:47.000 So the polls are gonna be closing soon.

01:37:50.000 I don't care what party you represent or whatever.

01:37:53.000 You need to get three of your friends, go out and vote.

01:37:57.000 You need to stop thinking about whether you're going to win or lose and just stand by what you believe in and encourage as many people as possible to be involved.

01:38:04.000 Because what I was basically saying is 30 to 40 seat loss for Democrats, the Democrats better get out if they really believe it and get every single person there to vote.

01:38:12.000 And if you're a Republican and you're seeing that, when the enemy is retreating, you don't just say, okay, stop everybody, we're done.

01:38:16.000 No, no, no.

01:38:17.000 You say, route the enemy, charge.

01:38:20.000 Like the Patriot, when Mel Gibson had the flag and he's running in.

01:38:23.000 Everything has to be a reference to the Patriot.

01:38:25.000 Based Joe says, you can feel the excitement, right?

01:38:29.000 And then I think that's like 25 black flag emojis.

01:38:32.000 I like that they have black flag emojis, you know?

01:38:34.000 Yes.

01:38:35.000 I do too.

01:38:35.000 It's very anarchist.

01:38:37.000 Yeah.

01:38:37.000 I just, I was like, I'm wondering like, why do they have that?

01:38:40.000 Do they, do they not have like black and yellow or black and red?

01:38:44.000 You know?

01:38:44.000 Not yet.

01:38:45.000 Not yet.

01:38:45.000 But, but why the black flag?

01:38:46.000 That's really interesting choice for them to make as an emoji, you know?

01:38:49.000 Yeah.

01:38:50.000 Oh wow.

01:38:51.000 Waffle Sensei says, Tim, I confirmed 16 friends for 16 votes.

01:38:56.000 All anti-critical race theory.

01:38:57.000 All America first. 0.91

01:38:58.000 All base.

01:38:59.000 Now we just wait and see, bro.

01:39:00.000 Yeah!

01:39:02.000 That's what I'm talking about.

01:39:04.000 You know what?

01:39:05.000 General election day, we're going to have like a, we're going out for a big major pizza party and then everyone's going to hop on and then we're going to stop over at the local voting place and be like, all right, everybody, we're going to just real quick vote.

01:39:16.000 I'm not going to tell you to vote for her. 0.93

01:39:18.000 I don't like playing those stupid games where it's like, Ian, did you vote? 0.99

01:39:21.000 Did you vote for my guy? 1.00

01:39:22.000 You should vote.

01:39:24.000 I just tell people to vote for who I want them to vote for.

01:39:26.000 I'm real, real overt about it.

01:39:28.000 I don't like it.

01:39:29.000 I want people to vote.

01:39:30.000 If you vote for someone I don't agree with, well, this is the way it works.

01:39:33.000 I mean, I'll make recommendations on who I wish you would vote for, but the questioning afterwards, the grilling, who did you vote for?

01:39:41.000 I'm not going to talk to you.

01:39:43.000 You don't need to do that.

01:39:43.000 You just need to say, how do you feel about the American flag?

01:39:46.000 Interesting.

01:39:47.000 And if they say, I love it, be like, OK, you can come with me.

01:39:50.000 We're going to vote.

01:39:51.000 No, I don't.

01:39:52.000 I wouldn't do that as a prerequisite or anything.

01:39:53.000 I just think whatever libertarian Democrat, Republican, you better be telling everybody, you know, to go and vote.

01:40:01.000 I'm not telling my Democrat friends that.

01:40:03.000 Vote.

01:40:04.000 They need to stay stay home and stay safe and save lives.

01:40:07.000 All right.

01:40:08.000 I mean, considering the threats.

01:40:09.000 But my thing is, I'm not going to ask.

01:40:10.000 I'm just going to be like, take your friends.

01:40:13.000 Because the reality is, look, I don't need to.

01:40:16.000 Most people that watch the show, they're not voting for critical race theory.

01:40:19.000 They're not voting for authoritarianism.

01:40:21.000 They're going to end up voting Libertarian or Republican or something.

01:40:24.000 Well, and pay attention to the off-cycle elections, too.

01:40:27.000 I mean, you have some of these school board elections and these other local elections on bonds for the schools, where the teachers' unions basically get all of their people to show up, and it's a low-turnout election, so special interests can take over, which is another conversation altogether.

01:40:40.000 Those should be aligned with the general.

01:40:42.000 Strider says, as a proud Missourian, I can confirm I did indeed vote for Eric.

01:40:48.000 He was also endorsed by Trump.

01:40:49.000 The one.

01:40:50.000 Yes, the one, the Eric.

01:40:52.000 Man, Trump is a funny guy.

01:40:55.000 My guess is that he was like, I endorse Eric, and he forgot his last name, so he's just like, whatever.

01:41:00.000 And then later he heard there were multiple Erics, and he was like, I'm just gonna let him split.

01:41:03.000 But what if it splits the Eric vote, and then someone else wins?

01:41:06.000 No, for real.

01:41:08.000 Yeah.

01:41:08.000 He says, thanks for the advice, Trump.

01:41:10.000 Keep up the amazing work, Tim.

01:41:11.000 You got me into politics.

01:41:12.000 Well, glad to see it.

01:41:13.000 I just want people to be involved, you know?

01:41:16.000 All right, let's grab some more.

01:41:18.000 What do you have here?

01:41:20.000 James Alfred says, Tim, you could be one of the families picnicking at Fort Sumter.

01:41:24.000 Do say it won't happen.

01:41:26.000 They thought the same.

01:41:26.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:41:28.000 Like maybe it'll happen.

01:41:29.000 Maybe, you know, you know, the scary thing about the Pelosi thing is it doesn't need to be a PLA army soldier, like running up and going like, uh, Nancy Pelosi. 0.89

01:41:37.000 It could be just a crazy Taiwanese guy. 1.00

01:41:39.000 Yes. 0.94

01:41:40.000 It could be a Franz Ferdinand type situation. 0.98

01:41:42.000 It could be a dumb false flag, too. 0.97

01:41:43.000 Don't buy the hype. 0.98

01:41:45.000 Stay calm.

01:41:46.000 Some jet gets shot down somewhere on Earth.

01:41:48.000 Don't snap to firing a missile.

01:41:50.000 There's a guy runs up and yells, for the Chinese Communist Party!

01:41:53.000 In, like, North American English.

01:41:55.000 And they're like, well, that's what he said, so... Yeah, you gotta be careful about this stuff.

01:41:59.000 All right, Corey Bollig says, I've been watching Pop Culture Crisis.

01:42:03.000 It's a chill show and you should check it out.

01:42:04.000 It is a very chill show.

01:42:06.000 If you guys are overwhelmed by the absurdity and insanity of conflict and crisis and politics, you can go watch Pop Culture Crisis and have a laugh as money guns fire money into the air and people talk about video games, movies, and TV shows.

01:42:19.000 Her bit on Ezra, what's his last name?

01:42:22.000 Ezra Miller.

01:42:23.000 Ezra Miller.

01:42:24.000 It's very funny.

01:42:24.000 Marys?

01:42:25.000 Yes.

01:42:25.000 Yeah.

01:42:26.000 Entertaining.

01:42:26.000 Pop Culture Crisis is a fantastic show.

01:42:29.000 We're letting it get into the flow of things, establishing their presence, getting a feel for how they schedule and time it out.

01:42:39.000 They've been being held hostage because the Super Chats come in so much, they just stick around for everybody. 1.00

01:42:44.000 And then after, probably in a couple months, we're going to do a big marketing push.

01:42:47.000 We already got Brett and Mary up on Times Square billboards promoting the show.

01:42:50.000 I saw.

01:42:51.000 So the laser eyes coming out of Mary's eyes.

01:42:53.000 Yes, I like Mary.

01:42:54.000 Mary restores my faith in Gen Z. Maybe we're not all doomed.

01:42:58.000 Things can turn around.

01:42:59.000 When she's on the show, we're like, she's, everyone just, she's a representative of all Gen Z. This is how they all are.

01:43:05.000 They're all good.

01:43:06.000 I want to believe.

01:43:07.000 Yeah.

01:43:08.000 Yeah.

01:43:08.000 Close your eyes.

01:43:09.000 They're all, they're all good.

01:43:11.000 All right.

01:43:11.000 Let's see.

01:43:13.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:43:14.000 says, folks support Taiwan, but not Ukraine.

01:43:16.000 Why?

01:43:17.000 Chips?

01:43:19.000 I think, I don't know, do the Ukraine people support Taiwan too?

01:43:24.000 Well, did Hunter Biden go over there and have a job and soak up a bunch of money?

01:43:30.000 There's differences.

01:43:31.000 I mean, we were working with Ukraine on certain things, but it wasn't the same as Taiwan.

01:43:36.000 Correct.

01:43:36.000 You know, Taiwan, we've been working with for some time now, and even before the Chinese government fell.

01:43:41.000 I mean, I think that Ukraine has, regardless of what's true, an air, a vibe of corruption that is yucky.

01:43:50.000 And a lot of people don't like that.

01:43:52.000 And no one is getting that vibe or feeling from Taiwan yet.

01:43:57.000 Ligama Thagayan says, China faces imminent economic and demographic collapse.

01:44:02.000 It must move now if it is to, quote, become economically developed before becoming demographically old.

01:44:08.000 If they are to make their go to be global hegemon, or even a superpower at all during this century, they must act now.

01:44:20.000 Yep.

01:44:20.000 That's what I'm saying, right?

01:44:22.000 That's what my concern is.

01:44:24.000 Kyle Miller says the invasion of Taiwan would be our generation's Falkland War.

01:44:28.000 Economic issues in Argentina made them decide to invade the Falklands to divert attention from their issues.

01:44:34.000 Very interesting.

01:44:35.000 Very interesting assessment.

01:44:36.000 That was recent too, that Falkland.

01:44:38.000 What was that, the early 80s?

01:44:39.000 When the British? 0.92

01:44:40.000 70s?

01:44:40.000 That was nuts.

01:44:42.000 That's really wild to hear about modern war like that.

01:44:45.000 Man.

01:44:47.000 Rick Remorson Lemeskite says, Y'all know about the Strassau Generational Theory, right?

01:44:51.000 Yes.

01:44:51.000 years, World War Two, six years for the fourth turning to be done by 2028.

01:44:56.000 It's going to have to start this year or next, unless the cycles are getting

01:44:59.000 longer, faster velocity, longer wavelength.

01:45:02.000 Y'all know about the Strauss generational theory, right?

01:45:04.000 Yes.

01:45:05.000 So there's four seasons.

01:45:06.000 They had every 20 years.

01:45:09.000 Revolutionary War.

01:45:10.000 80 years later, Civil War.

01:45:13.000 80 years later, World Wars I and II.

01:45:16.000 Yep.

01:45:16.000 80 years later... Something.

01:45:19.000 What do we got?

01:45:19.000 Something.

01:45:21.000 So the interesting thing is it goes international conflict in the revolution, internal conflict in civil war, international conflict with the World War I and II.

01:45:30.000 Will it be internal conflict?

01:45:31.000 I'm hoping that it shifts a little bit in what we see as an economic or information war.

01:45:36.000 Or space conflict.

01:45:38.000 Or aliens conflict.

01:45:39.000 Sure, whatever.

01:45:40.000 I'll take it.

01:45:41.000 As long as it's not people killing each other in the streets.

01:45:43.000 Let's find a different conflict.

01:45:45.000 It's not.

01:45:45.000 It's aliens killing people in the streets and humans fighting back.

01:45:48.000 Can't they just kill them in space? 1.00

01:45:50.000 Yes. 1.00

01:45:51.000 Okay.

01:45:51.000 Do you remember when the Space Force launched?

01:45:53.000 Yes.

01:45:53.000 And then we saw the uniforms and they were like, they were like a jungle cam or whatever.

01:45:57.000 Yes.

01:45:58.000 The left started making fun of them and posting images of like what their suit should look like.

01:46:03.000 And it was like their suit was like stars and galaxy stuff.

01:46:05.000 And then everyone had to point out to them, the Space Force isn't fighting wars in outer space.

01:46:11.000 And even if they were, they would be in spaceships, not floating around aimlessly in space.

01:46:16.000 And even if they were, they wouldn't want to be invisible to their own allies.

01:46:19.000 Like the idea that you would wear space camo is insane.

01:46:23.000 The whole thing is insane.

01:46:24.000 Yeah.

01:46:25.000 Well, I mean, the Space Force itself makes sense.

01:46:27.000 You know, it's like basically we have space technology dedicated to satellites and all those resources.

01:46:33.000 Oh, there's stuff already up there.

01:46:34.000 Absolutely.

01:46:35.000 Yeah, what people don't understand is, you know, the Stargate program and the warships that we already have.

01:46:42.000 And we've traveled to multiple planets and but humans will learn of that when the aliens deem it ready.

01:46:47.000 I just think, I understand the criticism of camo.

01:46:50.000 Maybe, why can't we go navy blue?

01:46:53.000 Navy blue when they're in the navy in water.

01:46:56.000 This is brilliant.

01:46:57.000 Netflix dropped Space Force official poster and official teaser trailer.

01:46:59.000 It shows Steve Carell with like, it looks like the moon, his outfit, and then he's got the moon behind him.

01:47:05.000 So he's camoed into the moon. 0.98

01:47:06.000 Oh, silly, silly. 0.99

01:47:08.000 All right. 0.96

01:47:11.000 1776's Life says, economic question for all, what is the better investment in the next 10 years, land or crypto?

01:47:17.000 That's a tough choice, to be honest.

01:47:19.000 I would say land or Bitcoin.

01:47:21.000 I would not say land or crypto.

01:47:22.000 That's what I was going to say.

01:47:23.000 What do you mean by crypto?

01:47:24.000 Because Bitcoin, look, if you bought Bitcoin when it peaked at 20K like a few years ago, like five years ago, and then it collapsed and they all made fun of you, you're still up.

01:47:35.000 If you just held on to it, you're up.

01:47:37.000 It's not 60k like it was.

01:47:38.000 But it's still up.

01:47:39.000 And the dollar is down.

01:47:41.000 Right.

01:47:42.000 Land, however, land is always good.

01:47:44.000 Yeah.

01:47:45.000 So land is good.

01:47:47.000 Land can be taken from you.

01:47:48.000 I guess, you know, under extreme circumstances, especially if you're on Coinbase, your Bitcoin can be taken from you.

01:47:54.000 But it's a lot harder.

01:47:56.000 The cool thing about Bitcoin, though, is you memorize your wallet, you can flee the country and you still got money in your pocket.

01:48:02.000 Maddie G says, Tim, today is the 58th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 2nd, 1964.

01:48:07.000 It is, I checked.

01:48:10.000 There we go.

01:48:11.000 That's wild.

01:48:12.000 Olivia Angolia says, Tim, would you consider doing billboards in Frederick, Maryland for the education, not indoctrination slate?

01:48:21.000 Sure.

01:48:21.000 I don't know anything about it, but okay.

01:48:24.000 I like that phrase.

01:48:25.000 That's really good.

01:48:26.000 We go to Frederick quite a bit, or I don't know if it's pronounced Frederick or Frederick, but we're centralizing everything we do in West Virginia, and I'm much more concerned with West Virginia, because the best part was when the cops in West Virginia told me that Maryland is communist, and I was like, I like these guys. 0.71

01:48:42.000 These are good guys.

01:48:43.000 Yeah.

01:48:44.000 The billboard thing is cool.

01:48:45.000 I need to start having the National Libertarian Party do that.

01:48:48.000 It's cheap.

01:48:49.000 In Times Square, obviously, it's more expensive, but it's actually cheaper than people realize.

01:48:54.000 You know how much it costs for one display on a billboard?

01:48:58.000 Your ad will appear one time in Times Square.

01:49:00.000 It's $20.

01:49:01.000 Oh, nice.

01:49:02.000 But you have to buy 10.

01:49:05.000 Well, I had such an ordeal trying to get electronic billboards in LA after 2018.

01:49:11.000 They rejected every single thing I tried.

01:49:13.000 Politics.

01:49:14.000 There's rules about it.

01:49:15.000 So you can't do anything political in Times Square for the most part.

01:49:18.000 Yeah.

01:49:18.000 Oh, and I tried making them less political and just, oh, liberty embraced freedom.

01:49:23.000 That kicked me off.

01:49:24.000 Yeah, we asked our agency if we could do a billboard on one of the biggest that said, Twitter is protecting pedophiles.

01:49:30.000 And they said, no, unfortunately.

01:49:32.000 They said, sorry, we don't allow ads that have anything to do with pedophilia.

01:49:35.000 And I was like, I get it.

01:49:37.000 You know, it is what it is.

01:49:38.000 They were like, we'll let you put up a political message or a message like that's cultural and social issues, but not that.

01:49:46.000 So education, not indoctrination.

01:49:49.000 We could do a school choice thing.

01:49:50.000 I mean, my issue was that Twitter locked me out of my account because I legitimately called out real groomers.

01:49:55.000 I wasn't talking about random gay people.

01:49:57.000 There was a photo of someone showing explicit material to children and they accused that person of being the entire LGBT community.

01:50:06.000 I'll tell you one thing really funny.

01:50:08.000 Media Matters is losing their minds because I made a video saying obviously not all LGBTQ people are groomers.

01:50:14.000 The issue is that we have is that some people are groomers, and some of those groomers happen to be LGBT, and Big Tech is protecting them, so they're trying to get me banned.

01:50:24.000 They're like, how dare he say this? 0.80

01:50:26.000 And I'm like, my view literally is me saying gay people are not groomers.

01:50:30.000 You think they'll cool off on the groomer ban going forward? 0.87

01:50:35.000 They're creating a problem because they are sort of using the LGBT community to provide cover for people who are predators and it's just a wrong thing to do to gay people too.

01:50:45.000 That's my point and I cited the group Gays Against Grooming. 1.00

01:50:49.000 Yeah.

01:50:50.000 A real group.

01:50:51.000 A real group of people I'm friends with who are just like, hey, you know, we're not okay with this.

01:50:55.000 We don't want kids to be around some of these things.

01:50:58.000 And this is politics, man.

01:51:00.000 I think this is why the GOP is up on education.

01:51:03.000 Even Democrats, self-described Democrats, they don't want the schools to get into the gender stuff.

01:51:09.000 It's a deeply unpopular position.

01:51:11.000 And so you have people running to the middle.

01:51:13.000 Yeah.

01:51:14.000 Pims the Great says, I'm sitting in the hull of an aircraft carrier looking at one tool

01:51:19.000 that says made in Taiwan and another that says made in China.

01:51:23.000 Taiwan is its own country whether the CCP likes it or not.

01:51:27.000 Republic of China.

01:51:28.000 Interesting.

01:51:29.000 Jack Bailey says, Tim, should the people who perpetrated Gulf of Tonkin be held responsible for the Malay Massacre?

01:51:34.000 Do you think the massacre would have happened if the war in Vietnam had not escalated?

01:51:39.000 I am not knowledgeable on Vietnam to a great degree to weigh in on that, to be completely honest.

01:51:46.000 The Malai Massacre was like a bunch of Americans, I don't know, a couple hundred of them went into a village.

01:51:51.000 It was just like they were at their breaking point and the commander, I think it was a captain, commanded them to just start killing. 0.97

01:51:57.000 Kill everyone.

01:51:58.000 There's a really good breakdown of it and the psychological elements of it in a book called, it's by M. Scott Peck, The People of the Lie. 0.98

01:52:06.000 It's about evil.

01:52:07.000 It's a really good assessment.

01:52:08.000 And I think based on that, that it probably would have happened anyway, if not there somewhere else.

01:52:15.000 All right.

01:52:17.000 I will say this, too.

01:52:18.000 People need to understand the challenge that is... Oh, there's a mosquito.

01:52:22.000 Now I'm paranoid.

01:52:23.000 That the Soviet Union was expanding.

01:52:25.000 There's real fears about a unipolar Soviet world.

01:52:28.000 I totally get it.

01:52:29.000 But you don't... I just don't think you win by being the evil that you're claiming you're fighting.

01:52:34.000 I think Vietnam was for oil. 0.96

01:52:36.000 I still think that they were trying to get Malaysian oil off the coast.

01:52:39.000 Maybe, but the Soviet Union was expanding rapidly, and there were real fears about what a communist globe would look like if the U.S.

01:52:45.000 got isolated out and the Soviets ended up taking more and more countries.

01:52:49.000 They would cut us off from all of our supplies and strangle us out, and then you'd have a Soviet authoritarian slave planet. 0.96

01:52:55.000 I don't know.

01:52:57.000 It's not so simple, but I'm not a fan of the intervention stuff, and especially not a fan of the false flags.

01:53:02.000 All right.

01:53:02.000 Jimmy Kimber says, Uncle Tim, big fan from Australia.

01:53:05.000 Love the show.

01:53:06.000 Even you, Ian.

01:53:07.000 Keep doing you.

01:53:08.000 P.S.

01:53:08.000 Can you convince Lauren Southern to marry me?

01:53:10.000 Cheers, mate.

01:53:10.000 I can't.

01:53:11.000 She is married.

01:53:13.000 She is.

01:53:14.000 And she is not here.

01:53:15.000 But, you know, I'm sure Ian appreciates the shout out.

01:53:19.000 Thank you.

01:53:19.000 Thank you, sir.

01:53:20.000 Who was that, by the way?

01:53:21.000 That was Jimmy Kimber.

01:53:23.000 Thanks, James.

01:53:24.000 James.

01:53:25.000 Jimmy.

01:53:27.000 Paul Thongam says, Tim's get-out-the-vote message reminds me of a Simpsons episode, where it's Bart versus Martin for class president.

01:53:35.000 Thinking he won, Bart is thanking those who voted for him.

01:53:39.000 Turns out no one voted, and it was too late.

01:53:41.000 Martin won 2-0.

01:53:42.000 I remember that.

01:53:43.000 They were like, oh, I didn't vote.

01:53:44.000 He's like, what?

01:53:45.000 Why?

01:53:45.000 And then Martin got two votes.

01:53:48.000 I'm, I, you know, people keep saying, ah, the Democrats are going to lose.

01:53:53.000 And I'm like, sure, sure, sure.

01:53:54.000 But isn't that when you charge?

01:53:55.000 Yep.

01:53:55.000 No, no, no.

01:53:56.000 When you, when, when you see the enemy retreating.

01:53:58.000 You're supposed to charge.

01:53:59.000 Charge!

01:54:00.000 Usually, because they might be enticing you into a trap.

01:54:02.000 That's true.

01:54:03.000 Yeah.

01:54:03.000 Remember Roe versus Wade was, was recently overturned.

01:54:07.000 And so Democrats are going to be very aggressively organizing to, yeah, deal with that.

01:54:15.000 There's that famous story.

01:54:17.000 I think it's a Chuko Liang. 1.00

01:54:18.000 Was that his name, Chris?

01:54:19.000 You know that?

01:54:20.000 Yeah, I think that's the Chinese dude.

01:54:22.000 He knew he was going to lose this battle.

01:54:24.000 So he opened the doors to his fort and then sat on the wall playing a lute.

01:54:28.000 And then when the enemy forces showed up, they stopped thinking it was a trap and then retreated.

01:54:32.000 Nice.

01:54:33.000 Hannibal.

01:54:33.000 Brilliant old story.

01:54:34.000 The Carthaginian.

01:54:35.000 I'm not sure how you pronounce Carthage.

01:54:38.000 But he would do that against the Romans.

01:54:40.000 He was known for, he would retreat and then they would chase him and then he'd come around and flank them from behind.

01:54:45.000 Yep.

01:54:46.000 It's like in the Patriot.

01:54:49.000 I love that movie.

01:54:50.000 It's a really good movie.

01:54:51.000 In this situation, I feel like they're in a real retreat because the school stuff has been insane the last two years.

01:54:55.000 Sorry to interrupt.

01:54:56.000 Oh, no, just like when they're like, you know, Cornwallis is like, is that militia forming at their center?

01:55:01.000 And then they charge in.

01:55:02.000 But then the other side of the hill, they've got more forces waiting for them.

01:55:04.000 They're like, Oh, no, that will be so good.

01:55:07.000 It is really good.

01:55:08.000 It's so good.

01:55:09.000 It's really long, too.

01:55:11.000 I just love the scene when he's doing the prisoner exchange.

01:55:14.000 Someone made a meme about it, when they were like, the year is 2050, it's the second civil war, and prisoner exchange is occurring.

01:55:20.000 And then they wrote a line where it's like, I don't know their names, but their pronouns are Zeezemzer, Zee, like, and then, you know, the line from the movie.

01:55:29.000 And a cheeky fellow who called me a white supremacist bigot.

01:55:32.000 Yeah. 0.96

01:55:33.000 Cheeky fellow.

01:55:34.000 A cheeky fellow.

01:55:36.000 All right, what do we got here in the old super chat box?

01:55:41.000 Juicy, uh, what is it?

01:55:42.000 Juiced Cyber Newtype says, President Cortez, China is threatening military action.

01:55:46.000 Again, they must want to date me.

01:55:49.000 That's, that's, that's it.

01:55:51.000 That's our future president.

01:55:52.000 That's right.

01:55:53.000 H Music says every time someone pushes on AOC for a bad decision, she'll cry in the Oval Office and it will bleed over into her press conferences. 0.62

01:56:01.000 She'll be the crier-in-chief.

01:56:05.000 She'll be doing a press conference and she'll be like, yes, Peter from Fox.

01:56:10.000 And he'll be like, you recently signed on to a policy and executive order that does X, Y, and Z. And she'll be like, you just want to date me.

01:56:18.000 Next from ABC.

01:56:19.000 Same thing.

01:56:20.000 I can't wait.

01:56:21.000 You just want to date me.

01:56:22.000 You're making this so appealing.

01:56:23.000 Why is everyone trying to date me here?

01:56:26.000 Murph tries DIY says AOC as president and Alex Stein as Fox News White House correspondent.

01:56:32.000 End of the world season four.

01:56:34.000 You know, sometimes I feel like we certainly must live in a constructed universe.

01:56:39.000 There must be either we're in a simulation or there is a God.

01:56:42.000 Because how can this be reality?

01:56:44.000 It's just it defies probability and logic.

01:56:46.000 Yeah, things follow patterns too readily for this to be improbable.

01:56:51.000 It's not random.

01:56:52.000 It's not.

01:56:52.000 Yeah, no, it's like, I don't know, it's a simulation or a construct.

01:56:57.000 Someone was saying there's a belief that you keep reliving this life until you do it perfectly.

01:57:02.000 Oh, that sounds awful and impossible.

01:57:05.000 Like, if you do it the best, somehow.

01:57:07.000 Like, there's a way to do this the best.

01:57:09.000 I feel like I already failed in 2009, but next time maybe, I don't know.

01:57:12.000 If you don't know.

01:57:12.000 If you don't remember, then... Do you run out of lives, like Mario?

01:57:16.000 I don't know.

01:57:17.000 Is there a cheat code?

01:57:19.000 DMT.

01:57:21.000 Yes.

01:57:21.000 So yes, there is.

01:57:22.000 There's ways to hack the system.

01:57:23.000 We got a big ol' super chat from Charlie Redd.

01:57:26.000 He says, 15 years in business.

01:57:28.000 I am losing my retail to Amazon.

01:57:30.000 Luck matters.

01:57:30.000 Check out my book, The Odyssey Effect.

01:57:33.000 I try to send you a copy.

01:57:34.000 Hypercomputer and battle games.

01:57:35.000 Also from Kansas.

01:57:37.000 Mahaffy House, for the win.

01:57:41.000 Wish us luck.

01:57:43.000 Good luck.

01:57:45.000 A.S.

01:57:45.000 says, My mom was a teacher in California.

01:57:48.000 Teachers who claimed to care would pass kids, quote, push the problem to someone else, would get fifth graders who had no schooling and spoke no English. 1.00

01:57:56.000 Unions are scum. 0.99

01:58:00.000 Debbie Gary Ferris says, Miss McArdle, I believe that Oregon legalized heroin, but it's backfiring. 1.00

01:58:05.000 This is why we have fentanyl in the U.S., because the Mexican cartels were forced to change their strategy to pull a profit.

01:58:11.000 There's a little more to that story.

01:58:13.000 We should make cartels not legal.

01:58:15.000 Oh, wait.

01:58:17.000 I heard they just arrested like this cartel and like all over the country, Maryland and Washington and all that stuff.

01:58:23.000 Yeah.

01:58:25.000 It's crazy.

01:58:25.000 When they're saying the Gadsden flag is extremist, I'm like, Virginia issues those license plates.

01:58:29.000 Yeah.

01:58:29.000 That's crazy.

01:58:30.000 That's a bumper sticker you can buy on Amazon.

01:58:33.000 That's so crazy. 0.90

01:58:34.000 violent extremists. I saw this. It's crazy. When they're when

01:58:38.000 they're saying the Gadsden flag is extremist. I'm like Virginia

01:58:41.000 issues those license plates. Yeah, that's crazy. That's that's

01:58:44.000 a bumper sticker you can buy on Amazon. That's so crazy. We have

01:58:48.000 it. Like there's a skateboard pro skateboarder who's painted

01:58:51.000 his mini ramp with the Gadsden flag on it.

01:58:53.000 It's like, it just means, leave me alone.

01:58:55.000 Yeah.

01:58:56.000 I have a bunch of them.

01:58:57.000 It's normal.

01:58:59.000 We made little patches that say, don't snake me, bro.

01:59:01.000 It's a skateboarding thing.

01:59:02.000 Like when you cut someone off and jump your turn.

01:59:04.000 Yep.

01:59:04.000 Yeah.

01:59:05.000 Don't snake me, bro.

01:59:07.000 We got to get those boards made.

01:59:08.000 We're trying to, I shouldn't say trying, we are working towards launching a skate shop.

01:59:13.000 The good news is the new facility has started construction.

01:59:16.000 Oh, that's awesome.

01:59:17.000 Yeah.

01:59:18.000 So hopefully they say two weeks until the building's done.

01:59:20.000 Then the internals, insulation, HVAC, the studio building.

01:59:24.000 Can you share where that's where that's at?

01:59:25.000 It's in West Virginia.

01:59:26.000 Oh, cool.

01:59:26.000 Yeah.

01:59:27.000 So I mean, it's not that far away.

01:59:29.000 It's just we have way more space.

01:59:31.000 So we're gonna have the big acreage.

01:59:33.000 And then we have Chicken City here.

01:59:35.000 And then we have Cocktown there.

01:59:37.000 Are there a lot of skateboarders in West Virginia?

01:59:39.000 No.

01:59:40.000 Okay, because I was at a Libertarian Party event there earlier this year and we were at a bike shop and it was not...

01:59:48.000 It was a little more, you know, like X Games than your typical bike shop.

01:59:52.000 I thought it was interesting.

01:59:53.000 So there's some sort of... Well, if it was like BMX kind of bike stuff, then they're doing tricks.

02:00:00.000 And if it was like a road bike place... Yeah, no, it was like BMX stuff.

02:00:03.000 It was interesting because there's clearly an appetite for that sort of culture in West Virginia.

02:00:07.000 Yeah, everywhere.

02:00:08.000 Everywhere.

02:00:08.000 We're excited.

02:00:09.000 I was told by these big companies, if you build it, they will come.

02:00:12.000 Okay.

02:00:12.000 So, like, we're putting together this big indoor skate park for what we're going to be filming.

02:00:17.000 We're going to create a channel called Free Domestan, where we film action sport exploits and stuff.

02:00:22.000 And I've already got a bunch of pros that are interested in coming out, which is really cool, from all different disciplines.

02:00:26.000 Scooting, bikes, blades, skateboarding.

02:00:29.000 So we're going to have really fun stuff.

02:00:31.000 Jumping through flaming hoops and things like that.

02:00:33.000 Oh, that sounds amazing.

02:00:34.000 Yeah, airbags, foam pits.

02:00:35.000 We're building a lateral auto belay, it's called.

02:00:37.000 You know what an auto belay is?

02:00:39.000 When you're rock climbing, you have a belay.

02:00:41.000 Yes.

02:00:42.000 An auto belay, you just go down slowly, automatically.

02:00:45.000 Yes.

02:00:45.000 A lateral one can roll on a track.

02:00:47.000 So you can go full speed, launch in the air, and then go super high and then slowly lower down.

02:00:52.000 Oh, very nice.

02:00:53.000 Yeah, so it's for just like, for fun.

02:00:55.000 For fun.

02:00:55.000 Yeah, we're gonna do funny stuff with it.

02:00:57.000 Didn't they have a push to get rid of their state income tax? 0.87

02:00:59.000 They're doing it right now.

02:01:00.000 They're still trying.

02:01:01.000 Hey man, West Virginia, I knew it was going to be a good place for business.

02:01:04.000 Education freedom, business freedom.

02:01:06.000 The governor says he wants to cut income tax by like, he wants to cut it down and eventually eliminate it altogether, but it's the state legislature that's blocking it.

02:01:15.000 Yes.

02:01:15.000 The governor's like, but he's, I think he's a billionaire.

02:01:18.000 So it's like three quarters majority Republicans in the, in the house in West Virginia.

02:01:22.000 West Virginia still has this weird element, you know, they have critical race theory in their schools.

02:01:26.000 They do have a weird element.

02:01:28.000 The, there are some libertarian candidates.

02:01:30.000 I can't remember his last name right now, but they're, they're actually making a lot of ground right now in their state assembly races.

02:01:37.000 I'm looking at it more as a becoming the house minority party, not the majority.

02:01:42.000 So that's the approach I take.

02:01:44.000 Alright, I'm gonna grab one more super chat here and it's from Brian David who says, aliens!

02:01:49.000 And that's it.

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02:02:25.000 You can find out all of my crazy insurgency political strategies and Rage Against Drag Queen story hour at patreon.com forward slash Angela McArdle.

02:02:35.000 Right on.

02:02:35.000 Corey?

02:02:36.000 Yeah, you can follow me on Twitter at D'Angelus Corey.

02:02:39.000 And if you want to help us at the American Federation for Children to fight for education freedom, you can go to educationfreedompledge.com.

02:02:47.000 Thanks for coming.

02:02:48.000 Always great to see you guys.

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02:02:54.000 I'll check you later.

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02:03:00.000 Say peace out.

02:03:01.000 Alright, thanks for hanging out, everybody.

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