Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - CNN Cans Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta IS NEXT TO BE FIRED w-Mike Glover

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00:00:44.000 I cannot believe that we lost Brian Stelter and Liz Cheney in the same week

00:00:51.000 American democracy is dead, my friends.

00:00:54.000 You know, it actually took me a lot of practice to be able to say that without breaking out into laughing.

00:00:58.000 It was really easy for me to tweet that, but ladies and gentlemen, Brian Stelter's out.

00:01:02.000 He was fired from CNN.

00:01:03.000 Well, I don't know if he was fired, but they canceled his show, which basically means he's fired, I guess.

00:01:07.000 The entire staff, gone.

00:01:10.000 Rumors are now circulating.

00:01:11.000 We're hearing that Jim Acosta may be next in line for the next couple of weeks.

00:01:15.000 It may even be Don Lemon, who is out.

00:01:18.000 CNN is collapsing, and You know, on Tuesday, just two days ago, Liz Cheney lost her primary.

00:01:28.000 And we were all just so excited to see the establishment crumble, to see now these moves made against CNN.

00:01:34.000 We're going into the midterms, and I just got to warn everybody, don't sit back thinking you got it in the bag, because this is what they're trying to lull you into a false sense of security.

00:01:42.000 Look at all these good things.

00:01:44.000 No, we gotta make sure that we go in, we get all our friends out, and we go and vote.

00:01:48.000 So we'll talk about that. 0.95

00:01:49.000 Plus, Donald Trump, the madman, has endorsed Democrats fulfilling the prophecy. 0.61

00:01:54.000 The Babylon Bee wrote that, in a genius move, Donald Trump endorses or supports impeachment, forcing Democrats to oppose. 0.87

00:02:01.000 Donald Trump has now endorsed the Democrat who led the impeachment charge against him, and other Democrats have taken the bait.

00:02:08.000 No joke, they're acting like he literally endorsed Democrats.

00:02:10.000 This is amazing. 0.96

00:02:12.000 What a ridiculous time to be alive.

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00:02:36.000 Joining us tonight to talk about all this and more is Mike Glover.

00:02:42.000 What's going on?

00:02:43.000 Who are you, Mike Glover?

00:02:44.000 Nobody really important.

00:02:45.000 I mean, I'm just a guy.

00:02:46.000 Some guy.

00:02:48.000 Yeah, so I'm a former special operations guy.

00:02:51.000 I'm also a contractor for the CIA.

00:02:57.000 I also own a company called Fieldcraft Survival that teaches preparedness and everything, anything revolving a worst case scenario to citizens, situation awareness, tactical training, the list goes on.

00:03:13.000 So hold on, you're quite literally a fad. 1.00

00:03:15.000 I am a bootlicker according to a lot of people.

00:03:18.000 Am I allowed to say that?

00:03:19.000 Bootlicker? 0.94

00:03:21.000 But they also accuse you of being an extremist?

00:03:24.000 Yes, so on one side, yeah.

00:03:27.000 So there was an article that was released when I started this group called American Contingency, which is like a community group based on the BLM and Antifa activities, which you're very familiar with.

00:03:35.000 I mean, it's one of the reasons why a lot of these things have evolved out of that.

00:03:39.000 That's the good that came out of the bad.

00:03:41.000 And I started this American Contingency idea of just pulling people together, doing what a Special Operations Sergeant Major would do.

00:03:48.000 Like, hey, let's leverage our assets and do something positive here.

00:03:52.000 And then I was called immediately a right-wing extremist and white nationalist, which is crazy because I identify as an Asian guy.

00:04:01.000 To clarify, you're quite literally an Asian guy.

00:04:04.000 I'm quite literally a six-foot-one Asian man, which is rare, but I'm half Korean.

00:04:10.000 My dad was in the army, met my mom in Korea when he was stationed there.

00:04:13.000 And I took offense to this, but I could do nothing because all the platforms cancelled me.

00:04:18.000 Facebook, Instagram, I fought to get those back and got a couple of them back, but not before USA Today advertised the entire article that was written by obviously a leftist journalist who had an agenda.

00:04:32.000 CNN reached out to me and said, hey, we want to talk to you because they were running a piece on Proud Boys.

00:04:38.000 Talked to me for an hour and realized, oh, this dude's just a normal guy who's trying to run a business and be positive in his community.

00:04:46.000 They moved past that.

00:04:47.000 And then of recent, Project Veritas released this document that said, American Contingency is a militia violent extremist organization, a banner, for all of these white nationalists and domestic extremists. 0.80

00:05:01.000 It's crazy. 0.52

00:05:01.000 It's crazy, because I'm not any of that. 0.52

00:05:04.000 People who know me, I'm very moderate, and I'm not on the fringes of anything, because that's just not how I roll.

00:05:09.000 Wow.

00:05:09.000 All right, we'll talk about that, man.

00:05:10.000 Thanks for coming.

00:05:11.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:05:12.000 We got Hannah-Claire Brimelow hanging out.

00:05:13.000 Hi, I'm Hannah-Claire Brimelow.

00:05:14.000 I'm a writer for this cool news site called TimCast.com.

00:05:17.000 It is pretty cool.

00:05:18.000 It's the coolest.

00:05:19.000 I'm Ian Crossan and a wild wizard.

00:05:22.000 Sometimes I wonder, why am I here?

00:05:24.000 And then I realize it's to cast magic.

00:05:26.000 That's right.

00:05:26.000 No, it's just to be cool.

00:05:29.000 If you guys watched Cast Castle, you'll see me walk in and you'll get a full view of the table.

00:05:33.000 And I just point out that it's just, I don't know what's going on with this mess of rocks everywhere.

00:05:36.000 You guys gotta get a look at these gems.

00:05:37.000 This is an aquamarine.

00:05:38.000 Not only does he have a ton of gems, but he has a miniature version of himself.

00:05:41.000 That is... It's awesome.

00:05:42.000 I didn't choose that, that just appeared.

00:05:44.000 It just appeared here?

00:05:48.000 What do you mean?

00:05:48.000 When people laud love and adulation on you, don't fall for it but don't deny it.

00:05:54.000 Ian came in here in the middle of the night and put that little Ian there.

00:05:57.000 Show the little Ian.

00:05:59.000 He's trying to make himself seem more mysterious.

00:06:01.000 The man of the hour.

00:06:03.000 So cute, I love him.

00:06:04.000 Somebody made him for us.

00:06:05.000 He's cute.

00:06:05.000 He's got that crease right there.

00:06:06.000 I want one of those.

00:06:07.000 Yeah.

00:06:07.000 It's cute, right?

00:06:08.000 Yeah, it's nice.

00:06:09.000 Bobblehead.

00:06:10.000 Yeah.

00:06:10.000 Someone made this.

00:06:11.000 He doesn't have shoes on.

00:06:12.000 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

00:06:13.000 He's got white shoes.

00:06:14.000 He's great.

00:06:15.000 Yeah, Ian has one of those, and I also have one of those, but she lives at home.

00:06:18.000 Tim has one, too, that has a little skateboard.

00:06:20.000 Very hard to balance, but we appreciate whoever made those make those for us.

00:06:24.000 All right, let's get into it.

00:06:25.000 All right, the first big story from TimCast.com.

00:06:28.000 Brian Stelter to leave CNN.

00:06:30.000 Reliable sources cancelled!

00:06:33.000 The media analysis show has been on the air since 1993.

00:06:36.000 I didn't realize that.

00:06:38.000 They put Brian Stelter on that show?

00:06:40.000 No, he has a predecessor.

00:06:41.000 So his predecessor is a man named Howard Kurtz, and he eventually left CNN.

00:06:48.000 He left Reliable Sources to go on to be with Fox, who he's still with today.

00:06:53.000 So Brian Seltzer is given this show and then burns it to the ground and destroys the legacy of a 30-year-old show?

00:06:59.000 And I think this whole, this story for me is interesting because it's a web, you can see where everyone comes from.

00:07:04.000 Brian Seltzer, he came from the New York Times and then they moved to Fox Media.

00:07:09.000 Everyone is so interconnected in this world.

00:07:12.000 Incestuous.

00:07:12.000 Yes, that's a great word for it.

00:07:14.000 Media incest.

00:07:15.000 Yeah.

00:07:16.000 And so to a certain extent, I know there's been some speculation about where he'll go next.

00:07:20.000 And that's why I think companies like ours and platforms like YouTube are so interesting because they disrupt this member sharing.

00:07:27.000 So you're saying we should hire Brian Stelter?

00:07:29.000 Yes.

00:07:29.000 Only if I retain my rank as senior reporter and he has to start as a junior staffer.

00:07:35.000 I didn't say as a reporter. 0.99

00:07:36.000 We got some garbage. 0.98

00:07:38.000 He wants to hang out with the chickens. 0.94

00:07:39.000 Kim can train him.

00:07:41.000 I love it.

00:07:41.000 I think it's great.

00:07:42.000 Look, he's, you know, I'm reluctant often to be so crass in reference to people, but this guy is seriously one of the worst in media.

00:07:53.000 No matter what happens, he always finds a way into weaseling some kind of shill defense for the establishment, no matter what they do.

00:08:01.000 Even going as far as to tell people not to watch other propaganda networks, only watch us.

00:08:07.000 I get it.

00:08:08.000 If, you know, if you're dependent on ratings, you want to convince everybody, just keep watching us, keep watching us.

00:08:11.000 But if you want to be honest about the idea of spreading truth and doing journalism, then what we say here is, oh, you should watch other shows.

00:08:18.000 You should watch The Left, you should watch The Right, you should watch CNN, Fox News.

00:08:21.000 Determine for yourself who you think is telling the truth and who you can trust.

00:08:23.000 Yeah, I think a sign of greatness and confidence is when you you encourage other people to go experience other things other than you.

00:08:30.000 And then because they do and they trust you and they find out that their life is better as a result, then they come back and they want to hear more from what what else should I do?

00:08:38.000 Because you're giving them honest, like, you know, objective advice.

00:08:41.000 Yeah, I like the idea that his new boss came out and said, hey, we're going to get back to telling news stories.

00:08:48.000 And how can you argue or debate with that?

00:08:50.000 You know, he said, hey, we're a little bit too political.

00:08:52.000 We want to get back to our origin story, which is telling news, which is the right thing.

00:08:56.000 That's what you do.

00:08:57.000 You know, CNN really was the top player for news for a long time.

00:09:02.000 And when a story broke, you turned CNN on.

00:09:06.000 And they destroyed that with Chris Cuomo, with Don Lemon, and to a lesser extent with Brian Stelter.

00:09:13.000 They, you know, Chris Cuomo faking being in COVID quarantine is one of the biggest media scandals of our generations, of our generation.

00:09:21.000 And it's, it's even, even Ben Smith, the New York Times called him out.

00:09:25.000 Like this was not something they could have just pretended didn't happen.

00:09:28.000 Everybody was bringing up the fact that Chris Cuomo pretended to be in quarantine.

00:09:33.000 And so Jeff Zucker came in and he turned CNN into a reality TV He had a personal vendetta against Donald Trump.

00:09:41.000 He hated the man.

00:09:42.000 And so he nuked an entire legacy.

00:09:44.000 How amazing is that?

00:09:47.000 Trump, really?

00:09:48.000 I don't know if he broke the minds of these people or if he, like some kind of wizard, pulled it to the front and center for us to see.

00:09:58.000 But these people's brains shattered when Donald Trump became president.

00:10:02.000 Yeah.

00:10:02.000 It was the news that I leaned on when I was going through special operations training, special forces training, when the global war on terror was initiating with the invasion of Iraq and we were already in Afghanistan.

00:10:14.000 CNN is the coverage I depended and leaned on for accurate information, which is crazy because, you know, fighting the war and then being away from home and not paying attention to news, to come home to that, I think in 2016 when I started paying attention again to the news, it's like, what's going on here?

00:10:29.000 It's a completely different world.

00:10:30.000 Well, I used to talk about, a couple years ago, the CNN challenge.

00:10:33.000 The CNN challenge was to turn on CNN, and then, it was to be watching Fox News, and then turn on CNN, and the challenge was, can you find a time when they're not talking about Trump?

00:10:47.000 Good luck.

00:10:49.000 And so, it used to be that I would, when I'm doing work, I have CNN on, while I'm working.

00:10:54.000 And it's for, if breaking news happens, they'll have it very quickly.

00:10:58.000 And then eventually, something happened with, it was Iran, it was protests, or something like that, and they were talking about Trump, and then I was like, I'm seeing on Twitter something's going on, and so I switched to Fox, and there it is.

00:11:11.000 Front and center on Fox News, protests erupting in Iran, and I was like, oh wow.

00:11:15.000 Switched back to CNN, and then I was like, what are they doing?

00:11:17.000 There's like major international crisis happening, and they're talking about Trump?

00:11:21.000 Trump's not even relevant to the news right now.

00:11:23.000 Like, he didn't do anything, they were just talking about him for the sake of talking about him.

00:11:27.000 And so then, something else happened later where there was like a major flood.

00:11:30.000 I can't remember exactly where.

00:11:31.000 And by this point, I'm only watching, you know, America's Newsroom on Fox because they actually were covering news.

00:11:36.000 And then I thought to myself, I bet if I turn on CNN, it's Trump.

00:11:39.000 Click, boom, there it is.

00:11:40.000 So I filmed it.

00:11:41.000 And I was like, here's the challenge, guys.

00:11:42.000 Like, not a literal challenge, but I was like, watch.

00:11:45.000 That's all it was.

00:11:47.000 They destroyed what legacy they had.

00:11:49.000 And reliable sources.

00:11:51.000 To hear that it's been on the air for nearly 30 years and then Brian Seltzer burnt it to the ground.

00:11:55.000 To the ground.

00:11:56.000 And they're suffering.

00:11:57.000 I mean, one of the reasons that, I think you've probably seen Litched, like Chris Litched, who's... Licked.

00:12:02.000 Licked? 0.57

00:12:02.000 I can't say it. 0.57

00:12:04.000 I did pop culture this week and learned I cannot read anyone's name.

00:12:07.000 That's all I learned.

00:12:08.000 Chris L. Anyways, he has taken over and part of it is to get control of their massive loss of their bleeding viewership and their bleeding profits.

00:12:17.000 There's no way.

00:12:18.000 There's no way for it to start I mean one of the things that I found interesting when I was researching for the article was that he has been monitoring who became more partisan under during the years that Donald Trump was in office and he is it looks like the reports are that he is wanting to cut as many people who are basically Too far gone.

00:12:38.000 There's no way to recover the reputation of their show because he thinks that it's more important to bring them back to a moderate platform and on our news.

00:12:47.000 I think that CNN's reputation is so damaged with so many Americans that's an almost impossible task but you know he's been given this bleeding ship.

00:12:54.000 I mean he's got to try and you know bail out bail out.

00:12:58.000 mixing metaphors here stop it from sinking somehow. It's bandage the ship whatever he needs to do.

00:13:03.000 There's no way. No. There's no way. But what will they do sell the IP like sell the name to Disney

00:13:09.000 or something or does Disney already own CNN? They've already sold it several times. Well it's

00:13:11.000 already under Warner Brothers right so like it's already a conglomerate of a conglomerate you know

00:13:15.000 like it's already mixed in somewhere I think eventually someone else would maybe overtake

00:13:21.000 them as like the prime left-leaning news outlet which is weird to even have to say that like we

00:13:27.000 should just have news but of course we can't. What one of the things I found interesting about

00:13:33.000 Seltzer is he wrote this book about how Fox News is thoughtful, and Trump, and whatever else, and then he updated it after January 6th to be like, see, I told you guys, even worse than ever, and now he is the first one to go.

00:13:45.000 I mean, he has really positioned himself as the anti-Trump fact-checking media analyst.

00:13:51.000 His bias is too obvious.

00:13:52.000 What's he going to do?

00:13:53.000 Where's he going to go now?

00:13:54.000 Well, I heard he's going to come work here with the chickens.

00:13:56.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:13:57.000 Well, you know, I don't trust him with my chickens.

00:13:59.000 He's got to start a show.

00:14:01.000 Like his own show where he just uploads videos, interviews Tim.

00:14:04.000 I don't know.

00:14:05.000 He becomes a YouTube star?

00:14:07.000 He copies Tim's format?

00:14:08.000 I love to call them podcasts because that's like an Apple thing.

00:14:11.000 Apple iPod is where the podcast word comes from and I'm tired of it.

00:14:15.000 I don't trust.

00:14:15.000 I don't like Apple.

00:14:16.000 Vodcast.

00:14:17.000 Vodcast.

00:14:18.000 Steltz should start his own vodcast.

00:14:20.000 And then people are saying he's going to start his own podcast, he's going to start uploading clips to YouTube, and then his audience, because it's independent media, is going to be very anti-establishment, and he's going to drift further to the right, and then eventually have some flipping moment where he's like, I need to blow the whistle on CNN.

00:14:36.000 Jet fuel actually doesn't melt steel.

00:14:40.000 I feel like he'd have to do the rounds, like you know how we have, you know, conservatives who may fall out of like the establishment, they do some rounds on CNN, they take positions there and they're sort of like a punching bag for a while?

00:14:50.000 I feel like he'd have to do the opposite.

00:14:52.000 He'd have to like get some, I don't think any establishing conservative media would take him, but he would need to sort of do the rounds and be like, well, this is what I meant, and then have this whole redemption arc.

00:15:02.000 I mean, I think it would take a lot longer than people think because he is so publicly associated with being anti-MAGA.

00:15:07.000 Well, Cuomo, he founded the CCP.

00:15:10.000 Did you guys know that?

00:15:11.000 Yeah, he did.

00:15:12.000 The Chris Cuomo Project.

00:15:12.000 Correct, yeah.

00:15:14.000 He literally calls it the Chris Cuomo Project.

00:15:16.000 And no one was like, hmm, think about this.

00:15:18.000 That's a bad idea, dude.

00:15:19.000 You should not do that.

00:15:20.000 I think Tucker Carlson is an example that you can redeem yourself as, because he was kind of like a partisan hack in 2004 or 5.

00:15:27.000 He struck me as one.

00:15:28.000 He wore a bow tie, talked about how great the war was.

00:15:30.000 I mean, at least that's what I remember, him being kind of like a war hawk.

00:15:34.000 And then all of a sudden, I don't know if it was Jon Stewart, somebody shocked him awake.

00:15:37.000 and he realized, yo, what the hell is this?

00:15:39.000 Well, he talks about it on his show where he's like, I used to think this, you know,

00:15:43.000 until I had a conversation with this person and then realized how wrong that was.

00:15:47.000 And it took years for him to get back in people's good graces.

00:15:50.000 But with honesty and integrity and consistency, you do.

00:15:53.000 I'd be willing to bet that if Brian Stelter came out like a month and said,

00:15:57.000 I want to blow the whistle on everything CNN was doing, the right would accept him in two seconds

00:16:01.000 and say, yes, yes, by all means, spill all the beans, publish everything and we'll hear you out.

00:16:06.000 I just wonder if he will, though.

00:16:07.000 Obviously, I don't know him personally, but like, I think it will be very hard for him to To flip like that, I think he really sees himself as this, like, doer of right things, progressive cause, champion of, you know, correct journalism.

00:16:22.000 I think it's going to take longer.

00:16:23.000 I mean, I think he's going to have to hurt financially before he's willing to give in.

00:16:27.000 It's what's weird to see him do is think on his own for in depth because he looks like it's like a talking head, right?

00:16:35.000 So he's reading the teleprompter.

00:16:36.000 He probably wrote it deliberately and he had this deliberate approach to everything but to actually see him free think through problems and through challenges and politics that would actually be entertaining to just listen to see if he ends up like a Tucker Carlson who I think is on the right side of what we're talking about.

00:16:52.000 That's the thing about Stelter, he does listen.

00:16:55.000 I see him in clips sometimes, sometimes like he's being humbled where he's like, oh, what have I done?

00:17:00.000 Oh God.

00:17:01.000 Like there's this Ted Koppel video I reposted.

00:17:02.000 Jen Perlman tweeted it out, so I retweeted it.

00:17:05.000 And Ted Koppel's like, I mean, this is the reason why.

00:17:07.000 I don't remember exactly talking about why CNN is failing, why people don't believe you.

00:17:12.000 You talk about Trump every day.

00:17:14.000 If there's 10,000 deaths in Malaysia, maybe it'll get a mention, but then it's just back to Trump, Trump, Trump.

00:17:18.000 And Stelter's like, just taking it.

00:17:21.000 You know, I mean, look, he's not really.

00:17:22.000 It's true.

00:17:23.000 Yeah.

00:17:23.000 What was he going to say?

00:17:24.000 Be like, well, I'd looked up CNN, what it stands for cable news network.

00:17:31.000 Well, as we all know, cable is done.

00:17:33.000 So as is the C and CNN, what's the new, I mean, get rid of the name.

00:17:37.000 It doesn't make sense anymore.

00:17:39.000 Well, I, you know, look, with Liz Cheney on Tuesday being, what's the right word, trying to be polite here, excised, I'll say that, excised from the GOP.

00:17:50.000 That's a good day.

00:17:52.000 And then today when I got a message right before this happened, right before it was announced, someone who has got sources hit me up.

00:18:00.000 And said, Stelter's out, here it comes.

00:18:02.000 And then I was like, I need more than this.

00:18:04.000 You can't just DM me.

00:18:06.000 And then I saw a few minutes later the breaking reports and I'm like, oh man!

00:18:10.000 And then I got word Jim Acosta's gonna be next.

00:18:14.000 So, I look forward to it.

00:18:16.000 There's some positive here.

00:18:18.000 Let's jump to this next story and get into the politics of the day.

00:18:21.000 We have this from timcast.com.

00:18:23.000 Trump accused of election meddling after endorsing candidates in New York Democratic primary races.

00:18:30.000 I'm sorry, I love this man.

00:18:31.000 This is one of the greatest trolls ever done.

00:18:34.000 Donald Trump endorses lawyer Dan Goldman, who led the impeachment against him, saying, Lawyer Dan Goldman is running for Congress, New York 10, and it is my great honor to strongly endorse him.

00:18:46.000 I do this not because of the fact that he headed up the impeachment committee and lost, but because he was honorable, fair, and highly intelligent.

00:18:53.000 Well, it was my honor to beat him and beat him badly.

00:18:59.000 Dan Goldman has a wonderful future ahead.

00:19:02.000 I don't know how anyone sees that, anyone with any modicum of intelligence, and believes Trump is literally endorsing the guy when he's doing neg hits.

00:19:13.000 You know what that is?

00:19:14.000 It's like a backhanded compliment at these guys.

00:19:17.000 He endorsed several other people, but here's the best part.

00:19:22.000 Yulin Niao, who is a Democrat, so I looked her up, she's a Democrat assembly member, running for New York 10, took the bait and said, Donald Trump just endorsed my multi-millionaire opponent, in case you need a reminder of what the stakes are.

00:19:37.000 New York 10, choose your fighter.

00:19:40.000 She couldn't help it.

00:19:41.000 They can't help themselves.

00:19:42.000 Trump plays them like a fiddle.

00:19:45.000 And now he's got them in fighting over whether or not he actually supports this guy.

00:19:50.000 This is what he has to do.

00:19:51.000 He has the weight of the establishment pushing against him right now.

00:19:53.000 And I've been an advocate of like, if someone's coming at you and putting their full force into you, the best or one of the best things you can do is move so that you're not there anymore.

00:20:02.000 And that all that pressure that Donald Trump is like, just goes into this nowhere land, and then they end up falling forward.

00:20:08.000 Then you reappear, and then you're still back to, you know, who you are.

00:20:11.000 The prophecy has been fulfilled, ladies and gentlemen, from the Babylon Bee.

00:20:15.000 Ingenious move.

00:20:16.000 Trump supports impeachment, forcing Democrats to oppose.

00:20:20.000 November 18th, 2019.

00:20:20.000 The Bee does it again.

00:20:21.000 Wow.

00:20:23.000 The thing is, his statement has so much early 2016 energy to me.

00:20:27.000 Like, there was a point in his presidency where he really seemed to sort of get lost.

00:20:30.000 They felt like maybe he didn't have the correct support when he was already in the White House.

00:20:34.000 But while he was campaigning and, you know, throughout, we see it come and go, he really is just this complete unpredictable force.

00:20:42.000 You can't really tell what he's going to do and he doesn't want to adhere to any traditional standards.

00:20:48.000 So that's why it's so funny.

00:20:50.000 Like, This is very much a true spark of Trump to me.

00:20:55.000 When he first announced that he was coming to president, it reminds me of all of the debates he did, his booing of Hillary Clinton on stage.

00:21:03.000 He doesn't behave as they would like him to.

00:21:05.000 I'm sure Goldman is like, what do I do?

00:21:07.000 Do I release a statement saying no thank you?

00:21:10.000 This is so much of what Trump does is what I've been talking about when I say, like, throw a pie figuratively.

00:21:16.000 Like, people in power need to set a tone, need to call out the BS, need to make a point.

00:21:24.000 Trump does this all the time.

00:21:27.000 It's quite incredible.

00:21:28.000 But I have to wonder where we go in this country as this is the current level of politics that we have.

00:21:36.000 I mean, they take the bait.

00:21:37.000 Donald Trump trolls the Democrats.

00:21:39.000 What do you think?

00:21:40.000 I think too like there is a level of like yesterday I was looking at this article it was eight of the ten Republicans who voted against Trump are out and it's interesting because I think he's trying to show the Democrats that he has influence within their party like not in the way they're expecting.

00:21:55.000 He has more influence in politics than anyone predicts or is used to.

00:21:59.000 It's very unusual to have a leader who can actually bipartisanly reach across the aisles and be like, oh, it's not just the Republican primaries that I can influence, I can influence the Democrats too.

00:22:08.000 He's not even in office right now.

00:22:11.000 I love it.

00:22:11.000 Can you go back to the tweet, the actual tweet?

00:22:14.000 What I find odd about the original, the first one on the left, is there's a dot, dot, dot, dot.

00:22:20.000 Well, it's because there's more.

00:22:21.000 I just mean everything about this.

00:22:25.000 There's four dots.

00:22:26.000 There's four dots.

00:22:28.000 I just look at it and I see psychological operations campaign.

00:22:31.000 It's like a PSYOP, right?

00:22:33.000 It's exactly what you do when you want to win hearts and minds.

00:22:38.000 If it's a real endorsement or if it's not a real endorsement, what we realize now is that everybody's talking about it.

00:22:45.000 And that's what you need when you're trying to campaign early on.

00:22:49.000 We're three years out, two months of change out, and we'll start feeling the effects of that tomorrow.

00:22:54.000 We're feeling it today.

00:22:55.000 And so this is only going to get more extreme and more difficult.

00:22:59.000 But how much of this is Donald Trump sitting down with a group of, like, tacticians being like, we need to craft the perfect message, or it's him lounging in a chair watching Tucker Carlson being like, I endorse this guy, and he like grabs a thing of Cheetos and then just like... I feel it's like both of those.

00:23:14.000 I think he's good on a whim, but I also think deliberately.

00:23:19.000 People forget he's a very crafty business person, and being in business myself for a short period of time, I understand the tactics, and even tactics that I've brought across the military aisle in planning and strategy.

00:23:29.000 He is using all of these tactics to bear, and I think he's unpredictable.

00:23:34.000 He would be unconventional or irregular in his warfare approach, while the rest of the establishment that you're draining, that he's draining, is very conventional.

00:23:43.000 I'm just thinking about, you know, they call him a fascist.

00:23:46.000 They claim he's, like, worse than Hitler. 0.98

00:23:48.000 Could you imagine if Donald Trump, like, ever did become a dictator, and then history is talking about how he rose to power, and it's like, well, he called Rose O'Donnell a fat pig, and then he made a tweet endorsing his opponents. 0.97

00:23:58.000 It's just like, wow. 0.53

00:24:00.000 You know, history repeats itself, history rhymes, but I think we're getting something fresh with Donald Trump to a certain degree.

00:24:05.000 I gotta ask, is this the 4D chess we were promised?

00:24:08.000 It's kind of what it looks like to me.

00:24:09.000 Yeah, I like it.

00:24:12.000 If you hate somebody, they are controlling you.

00:24:16.000 He's done that.

00:24:17.000 He's taken control of people's minds, whether they like him or not.

00:24:21.000 Well, especially the ones that hate.

00:24:23.000 Yeah, that's a way, that's a form of 4D chess.

00:24:26.000 I'm just reading the end of this, like, winning against him made me realize how just very talented I am.

00:24:33.000 Okay, let me read it, let me read it.

00:24:35.000 So, I read the first part, he goes on to say, he will be very compassionate and compromising to those within the Republican Party and will do everything possible to make sure they have a fair chance at winning against the radical left Democrats.

00:24:46.000 I would like to thank Dan for fighting so hard for America and for working so tirelessly to stop, quote, Trump, end quote.

00:24:54.000 He was not easy to beat, but winning against him made me realize just how very talented I am.

00:25:00.000 Most don't read the second word, though.

00:25:02.000 I'm so sorry.

00:25:02.000 This just, like, gets better and better.

00:25:04.000 That's great.

00:25:05.000 I hope one person said to him, like, oh, it would be hilarious if you endorsed a Democrat.

00:25:09.000 And then he's like, mm-hmm.

00:25:10.000 I'm done.

00:25:11.000 I'll do it right now.

00:25:11.000 He's like sitting in his friend's basement, they're playing pool with the game on, and they're like, dude, dude, you should endorse the Democrats.

00:25:17.000 Like, oh, I'm totally gonna do it.

00:25:19.000 It would make him freak out, and they're like, okay.

00:25:21.000 That's what I love.

00:25:22.000 Somebody superchatted him and was like, you won't do it.

00:25:24.000 And he was like, oh, yes, I will.

00:25:26.000 Yeah, I think maybe he has realized that conventional tactics are not the way you win against the liberal economic order right now, because they're just Conventionally using brute force, you know, with the FBI raid on the house and things like that.

00:25:38.000 So now he's taking an unconventional approach.

00:25:42.000 We saw the Democrats funding Republican messaging.

00:25:45.000 And the idea was that it was going to hurt Trump to do this.

00:25:48.000 I think he was like, OK, I'll play the game.

00:25:50.000 You want to play that game?

00:25:51.000 Yeah.

00:25:51.000 So think, the Democrats are like, Trump endorsed these guys, so let's prop them up.

00:25:56.000 Then in the general, they'll lose.

00:25:58.000 So Trump says, OK, I'll endorse your guys instead.

00:26:01.000 And does.

00:26:03.000 That's what I mean, I think they underestimate how much influence he has over everyone.

00:26:08.000 Like, we see it as like, oh, it's just those right people, those conservatives, the MAGA base, but it's really not.

00:26:13.000 Like, Trump is an institution in and of himself, and I think, you know, he is sort of reviving the same kind of disruptive energy that made him stand out initially, which made people cover him when he was running in 2016, because they were like, what is he doing?

00:26:29.000 He put his name in quotes, too, which is nice, because it shows that he's not like, he was against me.

00:26:33.000 He sees that he's against the idea of what Trump might be.

00:26:36.000 Yeah, but someone said, someone was, Steve, Steve Bannon's mullet responded to you, Lynn, saying, that's just weird.

00:26:43.000 Why would he endorse Goldman?

00:26:45.000 And she said, he said it out loud to stop the left.

00:26:48.000 I do not believe, I'm sorry, I can't believe that this Yulin woman, if I'm pronouncing that right, actually believes it's a real endorsement. 0.81

00:26:56.000 Maybe she doesn't know the guy.

00:26:58.000 Do you think she seriously thinks he...

00:27:00.000 Maybe she's playing her own side, but I don't buy into it.

00:27:03.000 I think she literally probably believes that it was an endorsement.

00:27:06.000 Well, maybe she's betting off headlines, like enough people are going to see Trump endorses Goldman.

00:27:09.000 She's like, they aren't going to look into it.

00:27:11.000 I'm going to be able to.

00:27:12.000 But that would mean that she knows she's lying to her potential constituents.

00:27:16.000 She's a politician. 1.00

00:27:17.000 Right. 1.00

00:27:17.000 Is she lying for votes or is she just really that dumb? 1.00

00:27:21.000 I'm going with lying for votes for 500. 0.99

00:27:22.000 Neither one seems like a good look, you know?

00:27:26.000 My guess is ignorant that she doesn't know that was the guy that tried to impeach Trump.

00:27:30.000 No, he wrote that. 0.94

00:27:31.000 He headed the impeachment committee.

00:27:33.000 It's in the endorsement. 0.99

00:27:34.000 Damn it, I was wrong. 0.97

00:27:35.000 But we're also, I mean, here's the credit to Trump that's due that a lot of people don't talk about. 0.99

00:27:40.000 This is a tactician that killed ISIS.

00:27:42.000 Like this dude, like we forget about ISIS and all the problems that it was taking over the world. 0.88

00:27:47.000 We're about to go to World War 10.

00:27:50.000 He did that on his own accord as a commander-in-chief, and nobody talks about that.

00:27:54.000 They ragged on him for it.

00:27:55.000 They did.

00:27:56.000 They said, austere scholar.

00:27:59.000 How did he do it?

00:28:01.000 Well, I think he used a lot of different tactics, but he used special operations.

00:28:05.000 But it wasn't advertised as a war, so it wasn't campaigning with media outlets that were telling all the information.

00:28:13.000 It was a closed, compartmentalized operation that was very deliberate, using Ranger Battalion, using the best special mission units in the world, and crushed those guys.

00:28:24.000 And if it wasn't for that, I mean, the things that we saw on the TV when ISIS and their propaganda was affecting the world, everybody was like in fear.

00:28:32.000 You saw little kids running around with guns, killing innocent people from propaganda videos from ISIS.

00:28:38.000 That was a thing.

00:28:39.000 Like we lived in that time and all of a sudden we woke up one day like COVID and it didn't exist.

00:28:43.000 And it's because of those tactics that he brought to bear.

00:28:46.000 So I say that because he's a, he's deeply seated in strategy and understanding tactics on all levels.

00:28:54.000 And I think this is an easy psyops campaign for him.

00:28:57.000 Yeah.

00:28:58.000 Is PSYOP the right word?

00:28:59.000 As a politician, him trying to garner a favor in votes?

00:29:02.000 Is it just... I guess PSYOP is the right thing to call it.

00:29:05.000 It's not propaganda.

00:29:07.000 You can call it perhaps black propaganda, but it's not really, right? 0.85

00:29:09.000 Yeah.

00:29:10.000 Psychological operations would be like the intent to twist things around from the get-go, the onset.

00:29:17.000 And whether it was like a haphazard, like, oh, I think I'm just going to do this and blast it out.

00:29:21.000 Or, hey, let's meet about this.

00:29:23.000 Either way, it had the same effect.

00:29:25.000 You're familiar with the concept of black propaganda?

00:29:27.000 Yeah, for sure.

00:29:27.000 Could you explain that?

00:29:28.000 Yeah, I mean, there's, well, propaganda across the board in the psychological campaign has many outlets.

00:29:35.000 I'm not a psychological expert, but psychological operations is part of what Special Operations does.

00:29:41.000 And every side of the coin, whether it's influencing bad guys to target bad guys, which I've done in the military, or it's twisting hearts and minds for egregious reasons, it basically is to control the battlefield with people's emotions and behaviors in mind.

00:30:01.000 So if you could affect people's emotions, if you could affect people's... I mean, I just did this for a TV show that we're doing, and we were talking about our Asian, very superior genetics before the podcast.

00:30:16.000 That's a joke!

00:30:18.000 So he's quarter Korean. 0.83

00:30:19.000 I didn't know that, but I'm half Korean.

00:30:21.000 Technically, 20%, because I'm 5% Japanese.

00:30:23.000 Yeah, I'm 13% Japanese, because that whole invasion thing, you know? 0.95

00:30:28.000 Yeah, I know.

00:30:28.000 Raping and pillaging and that stuff, that bad stuff.

00:30:31.000 So, we did a piece on Vietnam, and there was a psychological campaign that was them taking pieces of equipment, audio tape equipment, recording Vietnamese actors and actresses, Getting the information, and in this case it was their culture, where they believed in ghosts.

00:30:54.000 And they went out into the field and they played these voices of ghosts telling the enemy, you need to go home.

00:31:01.000 Playing the ghost of a daughter.

00:31:02.000 This is Vietnam?

00:31:03.000 This is Vietnam.

00:31:04.000 I heard about this story, we talked about it before.

00:31:06.000 Yeah, Wandering Soul.

00:31:07.000 It backfired.

00:31:08.000 It backfired because the people in placing it were so freaked out that they started disaffecting off the battlefield.

00:31:17.000 It was effective and they used a tiger, a roar from a tiger, and they had 150 Vietnamese, in this case North Vietnamese, disaffect, the communists disaffected and left their guns in place and evaded.

00:31:34.000 They did the same thing with the ghost thing, but it backfired because both sides in the culture, just like a religious or ideological campaign, it affects both sides.

00:31:44.000 It's crazy.

00:31:45.000 It's black magic.

00:31:45.000 The recordings were wailing voices saying, I should have never.

00:31:50.000 So in their culture, they believe that if you're not properly buried, you're doomed to wander around aimlessly.

00:31:55.000 Wandering soul, yep.

00:31:56.000 Yeah, so these voices are heard in the forest saying, I should run while you still can, leave before it's too late or you'll be trapped here like I am.

00:32:03.000 They're getting chills now.

00:32:04.000 It's like little girl voices from Vietnamese little girls that were saying, Daddy, please, please, please, don't, go home, go home.

00:32:11.000 And they were like, in the middle of the night, triple canopy jungle.

00:32:15.000 And you're like, what is that?

00:32:16.000 And you hear it.

00:32:17.000 Dude, that would work.

00:32:18.000 That would work on anyone.

00:32:21.000 Is it because the allied troops didn't know that it was happening, so they thought it was real as well, or did they know and they were still freaked out?

00:32:27.000 They knew, but they didn't know.

00:32:29.000 Most psychological campaigns like this are classified, right?

00:32:32.000 This was declassified years later.

00:32:35.000 They have a timestamp on it.

00:32:37.000 But when they were in placing it and they played it, they thought, I assume they thought that this was actually recordings of ghosts and they were just in placing it and somehow the Americans got a hold of it.

00:32:48.000 But they were using indigenous forces.

00:32:50.000 They were using the local nationals to put the stuff in so they wouldn't be part of the operation actually. 0.94

00:32:55.000 But I think there's just no way for everyone to know it was an operation.

00:32:59.000 So if you have, you know, 10 local Vietnamese helping you, but there's a hundred within a few miles who end up hearing it and they start spreading the word.

00:33:06.000 Farmers, the local civilian populace started hearing it as well, and they were leaving everything.

00:33:11.000 So even the support that potentially the good guys were depending on, everybody was abandoning.

00:33:16.000 I kind of feel like they should have rolled with it because it prevented death.

00:33:20.000 Yeah.

00:33:21.000 I mean, hey, let's end the war by just freaking everybody out and making them put their guns down.

00:33:24.000 Yeah, double-edged sword of psychological games.

00:33:27.000 But the question, like, if both sides were laying down arms and fleeing, isn't that, like, a better option than... The United States wanted our guys to come with guns and start taking control, so... Sixty-plus thousand Americans paid for their lives for that war.

00:33:42.000 What a reckless war.

00:33:43.000 Oh, it's horrific, man.

00:33:44.000 It annihilated a generation.

00:33:46.000 But let me ask you a question.

00:33:48.000 When it came to Afghanistan, I've never been a fan of it. 1.00

00:33:52.000 You know, I grew up with the invasion and nothing seemed to make sense and the media lied about so much.

00:33:57.000 It was used to justify so much awful stuff.

00:33:59.000 When Joe Biden surrendered and then, in my opinion, intentionally just destroyed our standing in Afghanistan, giving up Bagram, A lot of people mentioned, you know, I was like, we shouldn't have been there in the first place.

00:34:12.000 I think Biden did it wrong.

00:34:14.000 We got a few super chats where they said, should the U.S.

00:34:16.000 have stayed in Korea?

00:34:17.000 Should they have been involved there?

00:34:18.000 And I thought that was an interesting question because I've been to Seoul and I think it's absolutely amazing.

00:34:22.000 And it would not be there if the U.S.

00:34:24.000 did not intervene.

00:34:26.000 The entirety of the peninsula would be under a communist boot.

00:34:29.000 I'm curious as to your thoughts on U.S.

00:34:31.000 intervention.

00:34:32.000 You know, Vietnam was senseless. 0.97

00:34:34.000 It was crushing.

00:34:35.000 We lied.

00:34:36.000 Gulf of Tonkin to get involved.

00:34:37.000 But what are your thoughts on the Korean War?

00:34:39.000 Yeah, it's a good question.

00:34:40.000 I think, you know, when you look at even Japan, because, you know, the Korean War was because of the Japanese. 0.63

00:34:45.000 Basically, we're fighting over the dominance of that land from the Japanese. 0.99

00:34:49.000 And we're saying, hey, you know, these guys owned it, who owns it, we're going to fight for it.

00:34:53.000 And we wanted to fight in China and Japan for it.

00:34:56.000 And you know, the Korean War spanned from 1950 to 1953.

00:35:00.000 My dad stationed on the demilitarized zone in Korea met my beautiful mother in Korea as a 19, he was a 20 something year old soldier.

00:35:09.000 She was a 19 year old local gal.

00:35:12.000 The strongest economies in the world were Japan and Korea.

00:35:15.000 Why are they the strongest economies?

00:35:17.000 Because of the stable environment we were able to set with the security provided.

00:35:23.000 The problem with Afghanistan is we didn't provide that security.

00:35:26.000 So when you look at where we are, even in Iraq, where we maintain a signature there, when you pull the plug on all support, which is what we did.

00:35:35.000 I mean, my buddy Tim Kennedy and a group of merry men volunteered with Save Our Allies with Chad Robichaud and the Mighty Oaks Foundation and went in and extracted thousands of American civilians And Afghans that worked with us.

00:35:52.000 I did two rotations of combat to Afghanistan, and it's disgusting how we pulled the plug on those men, just like we did in Vietnam. 0.98

00:35:58.000 We did the same exact thing.

00:36:00.000 We don't learn the histories or the history of failure, which we did in the military on both sides.

00:36:07.000 And it was a problem.

00:36:08.000 It was a huge problem.

00:36:09.000 I've heard that we could have succeeded in Vietnam.

00:36:12.000 I'm not a history buff or any of this stuff, but I was watching some documentary talking about when the U.S.

00:36:16.000 decided to pull out and that there were moves they could have made.

00:36:19.000 Ho Chi Minh was trained by the Office of Strategic Service.

00:36:23.000 He was trained by the CIA originally.

00:36:25.000 Unsurprising.

00:36:26.000 And basically, we disaffected him because we didn't want an alliance between him and the French.

00:36:31.000 And we let him do his thing, which meant going to war with Ho Chi Minh. 0.96

00:36:38.000 And so, 1958 to 1975, that entire span of war cost a lot of American lives because we didn't have the proper strategy.

00:36:44.000 And you know what it is?

00:36:45.000 I think it has a lot to do with turnover.

00:36:47.000 The government and the military has a high turnover rate where you might implement a strategy and even individual tactics on the battlefield.

00:36:55.000 You'll do your time.

00:36:56.000 The next guy comes in and goes, well, I need to make my impact on the world.

00:37:00.000 Well, I need to have an officer evaluation report that says that I did something epic and we continue this momentum until the end of Afghanistan.

00:37:07.000 We're like, what the hell are we doing here?

00:37:09.000 I've lost buddies of mine at the tail end of Afghanistan, and at that point I said to myself, even early on in Afghanistan when I was there, I was like, this is for a just reason. 0.98

00:37:19.000 And then I was like, what the hell are we doing here?

00:37:21.000 Why did we lose that guy?

00:37:22.000 Amazing American, why did we do that?

00:37:24.000 Well, that's the thing.

00:37:25.000 People talk about how, you know, the U.S.

00:37:27.000 has maintained a military presence in South Korea, maintaining its security.

00:37:30.000 And I'm like... Germany, too.

00:37:32.000 Since 1941.

00:37:34.000 The Korea thing's a little different, though.

00:37:35.000 There's an active war.

00:37:36.000 You've got outright communists.

00:37:38.000 You've got people in North Korea starving.

00:37:41.000 They're in an actual cult reality where they believe insane things.

00:37:45.000 And then you have South Korea.

00:37:47.000 I actually got to interview...

00:37:48.000 This group of New Zealanders who they like to ride their motorcycles on famous, I guess, journeys.

00:37:56.000 So they did the Silk Road, right? 0.97

00:37:57.000 They went around, I think, like South America, along the coasts.

00:38:02.000 And then one thing they really wanted to do was go from North Korea to South Korea.

00:38:07.000 And they wondered if it was possible.

00:38:08.000 Well, New Zealand is like, no one's got a problem with New Zealand.

00:38:13.000 So when they reached out, this might come as a surprise to people, it was actually North Korea that wanted it to happen.

00:38:20.000 North Korea said, please do this trip because it's good PR for us.

00:38:25.000 South Korea didn't want it to happen because it was good PR for North Korea.

00:38:29.000 They eventually figured out how to do it.

00:38:31.000 How to negotiate it.

00:38:33.000 And I think the story was, it's been a decade since I interviewed them, it was back when I was at Vice, was that they were told by the Americans and the South Koreans, like, don't come.

00:38:41.000 And then they came anyway and said, look, we're going to be at the DMZ, you better accept us.

00:38:45.000 And they were like, what do we do?

00:38:47.000 And here's the amazing thing they said.

00:38:49.000 When they entered North Korea, they had a government escort.

00:38:52.000 And they drove through these towns and everyone would wave to them.

00:38:57.000 Everybody knew who they were and that they were coming.

00:38:59.000 The government made sure everybody was like, they're gonna come, we're gonna bring them through, everyone's gonna stand here at this time and wave.

00:39:06.000 And it's like kind of a freaky story.

00:39:08.000 When they made it to the DMZ and crossed over, there was no way to get motorcycles through this place.

00:39:12.000 They said once they came on the other side, they were escorted by the press.

00:39:16.000 That was the difference between North and South Korea.

00:39:19.000 The government mandating it, and the free press rushing there by choice to try and cover it.

00:39:24.000 So I bring that up because I wonder if we maintained that, if we had a universal attitude towards never intervening in anything ever, would South Korea be a hellish dictatorship? 0.70

00:39:34.000 And is it worth it?

00:39:36.000 I mean, look, my family left before, and it was partly because of rising tensions, my grandparents' family.

00:39:42.000 That's my understanding, I could be wrong.

00:39:45.000 So I'd still be here, but I'm curious as to your thoughts in that regard.

00:39:50.000 If we were able to maintain a presence in Afghanistan, could it have turned out to be something like Seoul where...

00:39:56.000 Yeah, I think the number one priority for any country to gain its sovereignty back.

00:40:02.000 You know, if you look at old pictures from the 70s and 80s of Afghanistan, it was a very modern society.

00:40:07.000 I mean, in Kabul and Kandahar, there's like convertibles and women were wearing their hair down. 0.98

00:40:13.000 It wasn't this radical thing that we look at now with Sharia law in Afghanistan.

00:40:17.000 So, the presence alone of security is what would maintain a jumping point for us to conduct Those supported counterterrorism operations to suppress all of the things, all the guys that wanted to come in.

00:40:33.000 They just dropped a bomb on Zawahiri, on his balcony, and supported by the Taliban and Afghanistan. 0.80

00:40:41.000 It's like that was the win because he was Osama Bin Laden's 2IC. 0.99

00:40:45.000 He was his second in charge.

00:40:47.000 I sat on checkpoints in 2004 and 2005 trying to capture this guy.

00:40:52.000 Everybody assumed he was dead.

00:40:55.000 He shows up all of a sudden because he's celebrating his freedom supported by the Taliban. 0.94

00:41:00.000 And it's like, what are we doing?

00:41:02.000 The most bizarre thing that I heard when all this was going down and Tim and Chad were activating, they had messaged me about it, Nick, all these guys, amazing men.

00:41:12.000 When I heard that we had outer containment on that airfield provided by the Taliban, I was like, what did a general on TV just say?

00:41:24.000 Outer containment was being provided by the Taliban?

00:41:27.000 Did he say that?

00:41:29.000 Did he say our enemy is literally providing security on the outer containment?

00:41:33.000 Oh, what happened a few days after that?

00:41:35.000 Oh, an IED went off and killed 13 Americans.

00:41:38.000 Wow.

00:41:38.000 It's insane.

00:41:40.000 All we needed is to maintain the airfields, the bases, and then that would be enough to suppress the terrorism.

00:41:46.000 Ian says it every single time, that Biden surrendered it.

00:41:49.000 Completely.

00:41:50.000 Completely surrendered.

00:41:52.000 It gives me chills in a bad way because we had all the opportunity there and I got one of my guys out with Saber Allies who helped me, so thank you so much Saber Allies, who worked with me and American forces for decades and we were willing to abandon him.

00:42:07.000 His brother who worked for us was killed and executed by the Taliban.

00:42:10.000 We were willing to commit their entire lives And to wasteland, knowing that they helped us because we completely pulled the plug with no excuses.

00:42:20.000 Now they're the most capable fighting force in the world as a terrorist organization, which they are.

00:42:25.000 They're Taliban. 0.93

00:42:26.000 And partly because we surrendered, what, $800 billion worth of equipment?

00:42:29.000 Mostly because we did that.

00:42:31.000 I mean, look, night vision is the scary thing for operators going into warfare, right?

00:42:36.000 You do a deliberate operation, direct action hit, you go in there with confidence knowing, hey, these guys can't see us.

00:42:43.000 We own the night is the idea.

00:42:45.000 Now they have thermal, infrared, Flare systems on pods to be able to track all of that, and that's scary for any friendly force that's going into harm's way.

00:42:59.000 You know, part of me felt like it was punishment for the anti-interventionists, for the Trump supporters, because Donald Trump sets this time frame to exit Afghanistan, and then Joe Biden just... I assume it was intentionally screwed the whole thing up.

00:43:13.000 Some speculation was that by screwing it up so bad, it would create a justification for a return.

00:43:17.000 Yeah.

00:43:17.000 instead of just maintaining a security presence, or at least when Bagram was being abandoned,

00:43:22.000 give a phone call to the security forces, be like, hey, you might wanna go to the Air Force

00:43:26.000 or the Air Base right now.

00:43:27.000 Instead, looters showed up.

00:43:29.000 That I cannot imagine was an accident.

00:43:32.000 That you abandoned in the middle of the night without telling your partners

00:43:35.000 in the security forces in the country.

00:43:37.000 It fell apart so fast.

00:43:39.000 I just, it seems deliberate.

00:43:40.000 Yeah, one of the things that is a problem that happened, because I've planned non-combatant evacuations

00:43:46.000 for Mali, for Libya.

00:43:47.000 I spent a year in Libya working with the agency, but also working for the military.

00:43:52.000 When you do a non-combatant evacuation order, you go through a deliberate planning process.

00:43:59.000 What happened was the State Department, a foreign service agency, was giving the ball on running that plan.

00:44:07.000 The State Department can't plan a retirement party overseas, let alone a deliberate operation to evacuate innocent people.

00:44:16.000 So the military's specialty is that.

00:44:18.000 Special Operations Command.

00:44:20.000 SOCOM has the authority in combatant command theaters, which includes Afghanistan, to do these kind of operations.

00:44:27.000 And they train for it.

00:44:29.000 I train for it.

00:44:30.000 We do it for a living.

00:44:31.000 And they handed it to the State Department and said, you lead it.

00:44:33.000 You do it.

00:44:34.000 And they didn't do anything right.

00:44:35.000 It's one of the reasons why they failed.

00:44:37.000 They handed it.

00:44:37.000 Is it Biden?

00:44:38.000 Was it Biden that handed it to the State Department?

00:44:41.000 Oh, 100%.

00:44:41.000 Yeah, he gave it to the Secretary of State who ran the ball, and then they dropped the ball all over the country.

00:44:48.000 I'm with Tim.

00:44:48.000 I feel like it's like his way of intentionality, like saying, oh, Trump, you want to pull out on this thing?

00:44:53.000 Well, here, this is what happens when you rush it, Donald Trump.

00:44:56.000 It's not just that, it's that there's a longstanding international policy that the agency of the United States had, right?

00:45:04.000 That they had a plan in place of how we're handling things, and Trump disrupted the whole thing.

00:45:08.000 And it kind of felt like a sour grapes almost.

00:45:10.000 Like, you came in and you screwed up what we were doing, so there you go, that's what you get.

00:45:15.000 That's your Afghanistan, Trump.

00:45:17.000 Biden set this September 11th deadline, and it was clear that he was trying to present himself as like- He pushed the deadline from May to September.

00:45:24.000 So I, you know, I kind of wonder, you know, there's, we saw that viral video, I think it was, was it the Taliban who got that truck from Detroit with the guy's phone number on it?

00:45:36.000 And so a lot of people have talked about whether or not the US wanted ISIS to exist.

00:45:41.000 Because under Obama, they flourish.

00:45:43.000 And it was convenient because Syria was an enemy of the United States, was obstructing our plans with the Qatar-Turkey pipeline. 0.92

00:45:49.000 Syria, I'm sorry, ISIS comes into Syria and then starts destabilizing it.

00:45:53.000 Trump gets in, crushes ISIS like that.

00:45:56.000 So I have to wonder if part of it is the United States was well aware of the problems in the Middle East, but we're accepting it as a benefit to the United States in the long run.

00:46:05.000 Trump ending that pissed them off.

00:46:06.000 Maybe they want to destabilize the region.

00:46:08.000 And so this is why they turn over weapons and make the Taliban as powerful as they are now.

00:46:12.000 It seems very deliberate and very intentional because you can't imagine that I can't imagine that none of the generals, including General Miller, who is a freaking hero in my mind, who ran Afghanistan, who left prior to the departure of them pulling the plug, that none of those generals came to the table and said, listen, What you're planning and what you're talking about is reckless.

00:46:34.000 And as soon as we saw different regions of the Taliban taking out these places as it closed in on Kandahar and Kabul, we should have changed tactics, but we didn't.

00:46:46.000 And I've seen that from the State Department.

00:46:48.000 I saw it in Libya.

00:46:50.000 I saw it in Pakistan.

00:46:51.000 The State Department is very risk adverse.

00:46:53.000 There's always a battle between the intelligence community, Department of Defense, and the State Department.

00:46:58.000 Because the State Department, the Consulate, they're trying to maintain diplomatic relations, but their priority is supporting the President of the United States.

00:47:05.000 DOD's priority is supporting the national security of the country.

00:47:09.000 So it's like these things go to head and then the losers are the Afghan people. 1.00

00:47:13.000 We, you know, we talk a lot about maybe there was intentional, maybe there are reasons behind it.

00:47:19.000 I want to jump to this next story, which suggests everything you've heard about the problems Trump faced may actually be a result of Trump derangement syndrome.

00:47:28.000 In this tweet, Jack Posobiec posted a video from the Triggernometry podcast.

00:47:32.000 Shout out guys from the Triggernometry. 1.00

00:47:34.000 Sam Harris, quote, Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement.

00:47:39.000 I would not have cared.

00:47:40.000 This is going viral like crazy.

00:47:43.000 And since this morning, 3.3 million views.

00:47:46.000 Sam Harris basically says that the what he calls a left wing conspiracy to suppress information to try and stop Trump from winning the presidency was acceptable and good.

00:47:59.000 It was warranted.

00:48:00.000 And Constantine's like, I have to stop you.

00:48:02.000 You're saying you're okay with this manipulation to prevent someone from winning a democratic election.

00:48:09.000 And Sam Harris is like, yep.

00:48:11.000 Well, he actually tracks back and says, no, no, no, I didn't.

00:48:14.000 You know, I stutter a lot of time.

00:48:15.000 Let's play it.

00:48:17.000 Let's play it.

00:48:18.000 Let me make sure I always have the audio set to the wrong setting.

00:48:21.000 All right, here we go.

00:48:22.000 Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement.

00:48:28.000 I would not have cared, right?

00:48:29.000 It's like, there's nothing.

00:48:31.000 First of all, it's Hunter Biden, right?

00:48:34.000 It's not Joe Biden, but even if Joe Biden, like even whatever scope of Joe Biden's corruption is, like if we could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that he's getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden's deals in Ukraine or wherever else, right?

00:48:49.000 Or China.

00:48:51.000 It is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.

00:48:59.000 It's like a firefly to the sun.

00:49:03.000 It doesn't even stack up against Trump University.

00:49:06.000 Let me pause you right there, Sam.

00:49:08.000 Let me just say something right now.

00:49:10.000 Trump University?

00:49:11.000 Trump University.

00:49:12.000 So Trump launched university and may have, his argument, defrauded a handful of people into giving up some cash.

00:49:20.000 And he's comparing that to Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma, Joe Biden's quid pro quo, the war that has erupted and is spreading across the country, the people who have died and lost their cities, Joe Biden sending billions of dollars to the Ukrainians.

00:49:33.000 So when you're saying, like, maybe he's getting kicked back, you know, I don't know.

00:49:36.000 Who cares what's in the laptop?

00:49:38.000 It is entirely possible that Joe Biden's hunter entanglements are what's exacerbating this conflict.

00:49:44.000 And you think Trump University is so much worse?

00:49:47.000 This is the point I'm trying to get to.

00:49:49.000 Trump derangement syndrome is so intense in these people's minds.

00:49:54.000 What Sam is saying makes literally no sense.

00:49:56.000 If Trump really is the con man they think he is, he's conned some American people out of their money, some property owners, and sure, that's bad.

00:50:04.000 But Joe Biden is conning the entirety of the country to the world and putting us in a very, very precarious and dangerous place with his inability to do his job.

00:50:12.000 And if Hunter Biden really is involved in, say, Chinese private equity deals, our security is compromised well beyond Trump ripping off some fat woman who bought a university ticket.

00:50:22.000 I'm sorry, man.

00:50:23.000 Sam Harris, this stuff lights me up.

00:50:25.000 Let's play more.

00:50:26.000 Trump University as a story is worse than anything that could be in Hunter Biden's laptop.

00:50:32.000 Insane.

00:50:35.000 There's images of Hunter Biden in the buff with family members, young minors that have been released from this.

00:50:45.000 He shares his bank account and his phone number with his dad, according to some reports. 0.62

00:50:48.000 He calls his dad a pedo.

00:50:50.000 And Trump University is worse than anything. 0.88

00:50:52.000 Let's play more.

00:50:54.000 To not have looked at the laptop in a timely way and to have shut down the New York Post's Twitter account.

00:51:01.000 That's a left-wing conspiracy to deny the presidency to Donald Trump.

00:51:08.000 Absolutely it was.

00:51:09.000 Absolutely.

00:51:10.000 But I think it was warranted.

00:51:12.000 And again, it's a coin toss as to whether or not that particular piece... I'm really sorry.

00:51:16.000 I was the one that said we should move on, but you've just said something I really struggle with, which is...

00:51:22.000 The kids in the basement?

00:51:24.000 No, no. 1.00

00:51:25.000 Fuck the kids in the basement. 1.00

00:51:26.000 I'm interested in democracy. 1.00

00:51:28.000 You're saying you are content with a left-wing conspiracy to prevent somebody being democratically re-elected as president.

00:51:36.000 Well, no, I'm content.

00:51:38.000 But the thing is, it's just not left-wing, right?

00:51:40.000 So Liz Cheney is not left-wing. 1.00

00:51:41.000 Liz Cheney is doing everything in her power.

00:51:43.000 You're content with a conspiracy to prevent somebody being democratic?

00:51:46.000 No, but there's nothing... Conspiracy... It was a conspiracy out in the open, but it doesn't matter if it was... It doesn't matter what part's conspiracy, what part's out in the open.

00:51:56.000 I mean, I think it's like... If people get together and talk about what should we do about this phenomenon, you know, it's like... If there was an asteroid hurtling toward Earth, And we got in a room together with all of our friends and had a conversation about what we could do to deflect its course, right?

00:52:14.000 Is that a conspiracy?

00:52:15.000 You know, like some of... That last 20 seconds was absolute flubber.

00:52:21.000 He said it was a left-wing conspiracy to make sure that Donald Trump didn't get democratically elected and he was fine with it.

00:52:26.000 That's what he said.

00:52:27.000 And then he walked it back and said, no, it wasn't a conspiracy.

00:52:30.000 And it wasn't left-wing.

00:52:31.000 He just said it.

00:52:32.000 He just said it.

00:52:33.000 Sam, this is an example of intelligence without wisdom.

00:52:38.000 The guy goes on these logical tirades which have no emotional integrity.

00:52:44.000 No, like, the saying is, intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

00:52:52.000 And I think, right on from Ian, it's the right point.

00:52:55.000 Sam Harris is an intelligent guy, but he's, it's, It's a lack of emotional control.

00:53:02.000 To say something as insane, wrong, on moral and factual points is just like...

00:53:10.000 This is the danger.

00:53:10.000 I mean, Sam Harris is a very high-profile guy with a very large audience.

00:53:14.000 And he is a guy who goes out and talks about the zealotry of religious groups and how dangerous it is.

00:53:20.000 And then look at what he says.

00:53:22.000 There's no rhyme or reason to anything he was just saying other than he's an authoritarian who would use, by any means necessary, powers to crush people he doesn't like.

00:53:30.000 I think what strikes me the most is his last metaphor.

00:53:33.000 If there was an asteroid coming to Earth and we made a plan to stop it, that would be okay, right?

00:53:36.000 That's not a conspiracy.

00:53:38.000 Like, he is so convinced that what's happening with Trump is just this uncontrollable, unpredictable force, he can't accept the fact that People think differently than he does, and they want Trump to be in office, but they don't agree with his perspective, and therefore it's bizarre.

00:53:56.000 The whole thing he said was mishmash nonsense.

00:53:58.000 Like you mentioned, the last 20 seconds flubber, walking back, changing what he's saying.

00:54:03.000 This is...

00:54:06.000 Constantine, the trigonometry guys, they have values.

00:54:11.000 They have principles.

00:54:12.000 They're inquisitive.

00:54:14.000 They're trying to understand things.

00:54:16.000 And this was brilliant.

00:54:18.000 This is what real journalism is.

00:54:20.000 We don't get this from Brian Souther.

00:54:22.000 We don't get this from CNN.

00:54:23.000 This is him just literally saying, OK, you've made your point.

00:54:26.000 This is my question to you.

00:54:27.000 And then he sends Sam Harris into a spiral of nonsense.

00:54:31.000 Yeah.

00:54:31.000 I mean, what they think Constantine does the best is he has a specific thesis he's trying to answer, which is, like, what can you do to defend democracy?

00:54:39.000 Where do you draw the lines between what is acceptable and what is not?

00:54:41.000 And I don't think Sam Harris has the moral compass to say, like, ah, yes, I respect how democracy works.

00:54:49.000 Like, for him, it doesn't matter.

00:54:52.000 What do you think is causing this, Trump derangement syndrome?

00:54:55.000 Look, I understand Trump says mean things, and you might be like, he lacks decorum, but to this degree?

00:55:02.000 I think a lot of it has to do with, like he said, this dude's very intelligent.

00:55:09.000 I mean, he's super intelligent.

00:55:11.000 I appreciated him up until you posted this on your Twitter feed, and it was like, are you kidding me?

00:55:15.000 That's crazy.

00:55:16.000 Because it seems very deranged.

00:55:19.000 But I think a lot of that is caused by him living in an echo chamber.

00:55:23.000 He lives in a bubble in an echo chamber.

00:55:25.000 He's used to hearing the same people talk about the same things.

00:55:29.000 And just as he refers to the asteroid hitting the earth, like that's what he's correlating his argument to.

00:55:35.000 Like the worst case scenario in the world, you're comparing it to that.

00:55:39.000 What I think is fascinating, like you mentioned, Is these two guys are actually being journalist like and this is surprising because it's like what is this thing called like, you know objective reasoning on through journalism like they're actually having a conversation and he's willing to confront Sam Harris on this and catches Sam Harris off guard, which I love because like you said as soon as he catches them off guard, he starts going down a drain and he knows he's circling the drain.

00:56:08.000 He's probably killing time.

00:56:09.000 He's looking at the clock. 0.99

00:56:10.000 He's like, oh crap. 0.99

00:56:11.000 I don't know what to say. 0.96

00:56:12.000 You know what this is?

00:56:13.000 Sam said the quiet part loud, not realizing that he would be challenged and that, I think what Sam said is what he truly believes in his heart of hearts.

00:56:23.000 Yes, yep.

00:56:24.000 But that is not something you can say right now when you're trying to maintain this, you know, principle position of opposing authoritarianism.

00:56:33.000 No, he is an outright authoritarian, as so many of these anti-Trump people are.

00:56:37.000 What's the, what's the, what's the big, it's crazy. 0.97

00:56:40.000 I see these people on Facebook saying, you know, Trump's a fascist, far-right authoritarian. 0.93

00:56:44.000 And they're saying the same thing about Ron DeSantis. 0.81

00:56:46.000 And I'm like, what have they done?

00:56:47.000 Trump wouldn't even bring in the military to stop the rioting.

00:56:50.000 We watched the rioting go on all over the country.

00:56:52.000 And Trump said, well, I can't.

00:56:54.000 Man, I'm sure a lot of people wished he was more fascist and would have stopped this rioting.

00:56:58.000 He didn't do it.

00:57:00.000 Then you get Antifa going around and where's that accountability?

00:57:03.000 They get propped up by the media and the corporations.

00:57:05.000 They get defended.

00:57:06.000 They get defended by CNN.

00:57:08.000 There's a compilation Daily Wire put out.

00:57:09.000 Chris Cuomo is like, the problem is not, you know, the rioters.

00:57:13.000 The problem is what made your fellow man have to go out and riot or something like that.

00:57:18.000 And it's like, no, no, dude.

00:57:20.000 These people are going around and there's no rhyme or reason to what they're destroying.

00:57:25.000 This is exactly it.

00:57:26.000 Sam, there was a viral tweet where a guy was in Beverly Hills and he was cheering on the riots.

00:57:32.000 And he was like, yeah, riot, woo!

00:57:34.000 And then later on he tweets like, why are you coming to Beverly Hills?

00:57:36.000 Stop, don't come here, go downtown.

00:57:38.000 No, no, what are you doing?

00:57:39.000 They love it when they're watching these people destroy other people's lives.

00:57:43.000 But when it turns to them, Jimmy Dore, I think I have a tweet from Jimmy Dore.

00:57:49.000 Jimmy Dore tweeted, quote, I'm for censorship if it helps my side politically.

00:57:53.000 I mean, I just can't see a downside to thinking like this because I don't read history and I'm super smarter than you.

00:58:02.000 I see I'm stuttering like Sam.

00:58:05.000 He didn't, right, say exactly how Sam, right, would say it, right.

00:58:12.000 He likes to do that, right, right, right.

00:58:13.000 Like, agree with me?

00:58:14.000 Agree with me?

00:58:15.000 Are you in my cult?

00:58:15.000 Yeah, he needs the affirmation.

00:58:16.000 And I think that's probably because he's surrounded by people who are like, no, of course we have to move the laptop.

00:58:20.000 That makes sense.

00:58:21.000 Like, that's the only way to stop the asteroid.

00:58:24.000 Because that's what they equate Trump to.

00:58:26.000 I think that he isn't...

00:58:30.000 used to being pushed back, I think maybe he would have, like, I don't know if this happens on the show that often, but I think there are people who go on and expect to be interviewed in a very positive sort of softball way.

00:58:41.000 They expect people to be like, oh yeah, I get what you're saying.

00:58:44.000 That makes sense.

00:58:45.000 Thank you so much for being here.

00:58:46.000 And I really, you know, I applaud Constantine for being like, we have to return to the thesis, which is that you would be willing to, like, circumvent democracy.

00:58:54.000 Yeah.

00:58:55.000 Let's get to the meat and potatoes here on this story though.

00:58:58.000 Civil War.

00:59:00.000 What's the possibility?

00:59:01.000 We have this from Project Veritas.

00:59:02.000 DHS whistleblower leaks new joint intelligence bulletin on domestic violent extremists set in wake of Mar-a-Lago raid.

00:59:10.000 I mean, this is crazy stuff here.

00:59:12.000 DVEs. 0.60

00:59:13.000 Information contained in this intelligent bulletin is for official use only, blah blah blah.

00:59:17.000 Project Veritas released a leaked document today from within the Department of Homeland Security which shows how federal agencies are reacting to a recent raid of Trump's Florida home.

00:59:26.000 Considering the Trump derangement syndrome of people like Sam Harris, and then we learn about people in the federal government who are saying things like this, my concern is that Sam Harris's level of derangement exists within the DHS, and this is going to make things Dangerous.

00:59:44.000 So I know this is the report that smeared you.

00:59:47.000 Do you want to give us a breakdown of what happened?

00:59:49.000 Yeah, so Project Veritas drops and leaks this document which is sent to like all special agents, right?

00:59:55.000 It's like, think about it like a memorandum or an updated pamphlet to educate your special agents in the field.

01:00:02.000 It's not supposed to be disseminated outside of the institution, outside of their portal.

01:00:07.000 So they get this and it's an educational piece to inform, like, what are the new trends?

01:00:12.000 And this one says both militia and domestic violent extremists, which they use both of those terms.

01:00:19.000 And then it has a whole bunch of different pictures of different organizations, including my organization, American Contingency, which is pretty crazy.

01:00:29.000 Again, I started American Contingency with this idea of bringing community and people together.

01:00:33.000 That idea stemmed from a Seattle experience where, if you remember, what is the name of the town?

01:00:43.000 It was the fake little town that in Seattle they stood up Chaz. 0.99

01:00:47.000 Chaz. 0.90

01:00:48.000 Chaz, yeah. 0.98

01:00:49.000 So it was supposed to be a utopian universe for everybody to flourish and then it turned quickly into a socialist safe haven because they had armed guards, they had checkpoints checking IDs, And it didn't work out for anybody.

01:01:06.000 Now they killed people.

01:01:07.000 Yeah.

01:01:07.000 And when that happened, they started migrating and then peaceful protests turned into violent, extreme protests.

01:01:14.000 And for the first time, it came out that people who are law-abiding citizens said, we need help from the police.

01:01:20.000 Now my company, Philcraft Survival, we teach this idea, you are your own first response.

01:01:25.000 Because whether it's breaking your leg in the middle of a UTV trail, a natural disaster, a man-made disaster, you're going to be the first on scene.

01:01:34.000 Know how to treat injury, know how to respond, know how to do something.

01:01:39.000 So, that's our educational platform.

01:01:41.000 Well, when they didn't respond, because the politicians told the police, do not respond, because the political climate won't support this, don't respond, they put law-abiding citizens in harm's way.

01:01:54.000 And I said, we're going to do something about it.

01:01:55.000 AmCon, American Contingency.

01:01:57.000 Now, what happened, because I talked to Veritas, I talked to all these guys, What happened is, a special agent within the FBI saw that we started this militia organization, which we are listed as a militia.

01:02:10.000 And this organization, which they labeled, has a low history of violence.

01:02:16.000 They called, they said, my organization has a low history of violence.

01:02:19.000 We have zero history of violence.

01:02:21.000 On January 6th, people actually asked me in the organization, we're talking 100,000 people.

01:02:26.000 They asked me, Mike, what are we going to do here?

01:02:28.000 I said, it's easy.

01:02:29.000 I'll release a statement and I'll give you the guidance.

01:02:32.000 And I hated even being that, but I knew I represented as a speaking head, kind of the guidance for the organization.

01:02:40.000 I said, listen, group leaders, We're not going to do anything.

01:02:44.000 It's a protest that potentially could be dangerous.

01:02:47.000 What we are going to do is report all of the things that would benefit people on the outskirts of this protest so we can give them force protection measures and intelligence and information so they could protect themselves.

01:02:59.000 So we could say, hey, the crowd is moving into X neighborhood.

01:03:03.000 Be sure that you're aware, lock your doors, protect your family.

01:03:07.000 That was the number one objective.

01:03:09.000 To be called a violent militia and extremist by both the public, which is not surprising, who's miseducated, misinformed, but then by the government.

01:03:19.000 On top of that, in the same week, by the way, the government called us a militia violent extreme group.

01:03:26.000 The leftists called me a white nationalist and a racist, which is fascinating because I have black, Mexican, Korean, white in my same family.

01:03:35.000 You're literally a mixed race person.

01:03:37.000 Mixed race person.

01:03:39.000 And then the far right called me a bootlicker because I reported that I even cooperated with the FBI during this time period.

01:03:48.000 Not during January 6th, but we had a guy who said he was going to shoot up some innocent people.

01:03:53.000 I am a law-abiding citizen.

01:03:55.000 You come into my public forum, in my business, in my group, and say you're going to shoot and harm people?

01:04:00.000 I am going to report you to local authorities.

01:04:02.000 That same person took a picture of a special agent's business card.

01:04:05.000 I don't know how he got it, but he took a picture of it and posted it on our forum, which was on Locals.

01:04:10.000 We originally were on Locals.

01:04:12.000 In fact, Dave Rubin started Locals with the idea of getting behind a paywall protected from the social media sites that were canceling and deleting people.

01:04:20.000 Except we were the biggest platform on Locals.

01:04:24.000 We were bigger than Dave Rubens.

01:04:25.000 You're not on Locals anymore?

01:04:26.000 Once they sold, things started changing in the algorithm, and it was too much for us to moderate.

01:04:32.000 Because on Locals, you have to self-moderate.

01:04:34.000 So I started seeing the woes of even social media.

01:04:37.000 I'm like, how do you keep this talk and the negativity down?

01:04:41.000 So we migrated to our own server on AmericanContendency.com.

01:04:45.000 So all this happens in the same week, and I'm like, I feel like I'm living in Middle Earth.

01:04:50.000 I feel like I'm a moderate, and I'm like, this is what happens when you decide that you just want to go to work, you want to feed your family, you want to serve the country, and you want to live in freedom for the rest of your days.

01:05:02.000 You become the enemy of everybody on the fringes, and that's exactly what we are.

01:05:05.000 But the fringes are almost everybody these days.

01:05:08.000 It seems that way.

01:05:09.000 Here's what I'll say.

01:05:10.000 I'll say like Evan Hafer who owns Black Rifle Coffee, a good friend of mine.

01:05:14.000 Me and him have the same social political views on a lot of things in life because we fought war for decades.

01:05:22.000 We come back from that war and experience and go, I don't want civil war.

01:05:26.000 People are like, Mike's taking us to war.

01:05:28.000 No, Mike Glover's not taking you anywhere.

01:05:30.000 I've experienced enough of that.

01:05:32.000 You don't want any of that.

01:05:33.000 I've been to Africa, to the Middle East.

01:05:35.000 You don't want any of that world.

01:05:36.000 And so there is a big pull of this.

01:05:40.000 I think it's ultimately the people that are listening to you because you're not on the fringes.

01:05:46.000 You're actually just logical.

01:05:48.000 Reasonable, and you're talking about this fringe ideology that's affecting everybody, and you just want to, with a truth bomb, you just want to live somewhere in between.

01:05:57.000 But the thing I bring up, I mean, look man, you've got the FBI raid on Donald Trump.

01:06:03.000 They accuse him of being a fascist.

01:06:04.000 He's certainly none of these things.

01:06:06.000 They've lied about him relentlessly.

01:06:07.000 They've just made all this stuff up.

01:06:09.000 It's becoming impossible to be left alone.

01:06:12.000 And you know, my thing is, what I will say, They're going after Alex Jones with everything they have because of his influence.

01:06:20.000 And they're going after Donald Trump because of his influence, because they know they can't stop him.

01:06:24.000 This November, I mean, look, Liz Cheney's gone, Carrie Lake just won, Brian Stelter is out.

01:06:31.000 These are tremendous cultural shifts in a very positive direction, which is all really good news.

01:06:36.000 I'm hoping that if we maintain this trajectory, then we avoid any kind of real conflict.

01:06:42.000 But when you look at the lengths that the machine has gone, even smearing you, it's like, bro, you're the guy who's saying quite literally, please let me just raise my family and be left alone, and they're not letting you.

01:06:53.000 They're putting this Bolton out, they're smearing and insulting.

01:06:58.000 I worry that this is gonna escalate to something substantially worse, right?

01:07:04.000 I talk about civil war quite a bit.

01:07:08.000 Here's the prediction from Mike Lover who runs Phil Krause Survival and does this for a living, looking at preparedness, looking at threats.

01:07:17.000 It's my academic experience.

01:07:18.000 It's also my counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence experience.

01:07:22.000 During the election cycle, we will see a massive disruption.

01:07:28.000 And on election night, prior and after, you will see what feels like civil war and heavily- You mean in the next few months?

01:07:38.000 In the next few years.

01:07:39.000 Okay.

01:07:39.000 Because we're going to have a lead-up.

01:07:41.000 All the social media platforms are going to start getting leverage.

01:07:44.000 The troll farms from China, Russia, North Korea's influence will start affecting us like it did with BLM and Antifa and the election cycle.

01:07:52.000 And what you're going to see up is a lead-up attention And what you're seeing is politicians, irresponsibly, weaponizing government agencies and people.

01:08:03.000 And what you're going to see, especially in heavy populated areas, is what looks like a civil war.

01:08:09.000 You're going to see, imagine this scenario.

01:08:11.000 You have Antifa and BLM who comes out like they did. 0.95

01:08:14.000 And they started burning down the streets.

01:08:16.000 Except now you're gonna have the right fringe who's gonna come out and go, we won't accept this.

01:08:20.000 It's not just that.

01:08:21.000 During the Summer of Love, locals, just apolitical people were seen standing on their street corners with rifles.

01:08:27.000 100%.

01:08:28.000 So then you have this imbalance where you have leftist extremists, right-wing extremists, and then the people in the middle just defending what they own.

01:08:38.000 Their families, their friends, their communities, and then all of these things are happening, and then it starts bleeding into the outskirts, it starts affecting everybody.

01:08:47.000 But what happens when the law enforcement officers are caught in the middle?

01:08:51.000 Now, are they not supposed to defend their lives?

01:08:53.000 They're in the middle of an active gunfight.

01:08:55.000 So take the Rittenhouse situation and amplify that in a full skirmish, where the battlefield are the streets of densely populated areas like Chicago, where you come from.

01:09:04.000 So, uh, you've seen V for Vendetta?

01:09:06.000 Yes.

01:09:07.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:09:07.000 I wanna just, uh, just think of that scene at the end where the guy says, eventually someone will do something stupid, and it shows the finger man, the cop, shoot the little girl. 0.99

01:09:16.000 All of the local residents just walk up with weapons and they go after that cop and then it like camera pans up and he goes, ah, like they're no longer going to tolerate law enforcement.

01:09:26.000 I think it won't be over something like that, but you'll get to the point, like you mentioned a Rittenhouse situation.

01:09:32.000 We've already seen circumstances where people have beaten cops, where cops are caught in a riot.

01:09:37.000 And then if it gets to the point where these rioters are unscrupulous and just literally don't care anymore, Then you're gonna get a V for Mandela-like situation.

01:09:46.000 There will be a riot.

01:09:47.000 A cop will come out and he'll be telling people to get away.

01:09:49.000 They won't.

01:09:50.000 He'll fire probably a less lethal, and then they'll just start clobbering on him.

01:09:55.000 So, we often talk about, particularly with people who've experienced war, you know, our friend Forrest Cooper mentions, the people who are trained in war and who've experienced it are the ones begging you to stop, because they don't want to see this happen.

01:10:08.000 I've not been in war.

01:10:09.000 I've been in civil conflict and unrest, so precursors to.

01:10:13.000 The worst thing I've seen was people in Egypt shooting at each other with makeshift, they had these pistols that were like 12, they were 12 gauge, I think, and they would, single shot, you break barrel, break action, put it in, close it, bang!

01:10:28.000 And from atop the Hilton, I watched someone get shot, killed, and then their body was carried away.

01:10:33.000 That was the one time in this reporting I've seen someone just deliberately be killed in front of me.

01:10:39.000 Not in front of me, like relatively close, but I was high up, so I was safe.

01:10:42.000 We were all pretty safe.

01:10:45.000 And that experience was like...

01:10:48.000 Having covered some of the unrest, riots, fires, I was on West Florissant and Ferguson when they were burning down the entirety of that whole block.

01:10:56.000 You drove your car down the street, the fires were so intense, in your car it felt like the fire was right in front of your face.

01:11:03.000 Seeing that, and knowing that's not even warfare, I can't imagine, you know, like, I'll just ask you, like, what do you think the average person would do if they actually were, you know, forced into the fray of people engaging in a firefight in their neighborhood or something?

01:11:18.000 Yeah, so, you know, war tends to be a complex thing, but in the primal, like the ancestral version of it, it's very simple.

01:11:25.000 I mean, it's very simple.

01:11:26.000 It's violence, it's chaos.

01:11:29.000 The people who are trained for war, my peer group who are trained for war, go into war with intent, meeting tasks, purpose, and objectives.

01:11:40.000 And so when you have that, and you understand what that is, it's demonstrated in this idea of art of war, right?

01:11:47.000 We understand how to operate in war.

01:11:49.000 People who have not, people who are so fragile, they can't change their tire in a fender bender, they lose their mind, a simple emergency trauma, they lose their mind where somebody actually pays for their life when something so simple could have been done.

01:12:06.000 That's the world we live in, because we're living in that.

01:12:08.000 You know what's really crazy to me?

01:12:10.000 So when I did the hostel environment training, They had to explain to people how to apply a tourniquet and to put it over the wound.

01:12:18.000 So like, they did, they said, okay, so we have a dummy here, he's got a bleed in his leg.

01:12:25.000 And people were like, where does a tourniquet go?

01:12:27.000 They would put it under, and they're like, it has to go above.

01:12:29.000 And I'm like, yes, otherwise it's not stopping the blood.

01:12:31.000 In between the heart and the wound.

01:12:32.000 Yeah, I don't understand.

01:12:34.000 It was crazy to me that people didn't understand that.

01:12:36.000 We actually had one guy, when they showed a video of a femoral bleed, he fainted.

01:12:41.000 And then I was just thinking to myself like, What would have happened to this guy?

01:12:45.000 You know, he's in his neighborhood.

01:12:47.000 Violence, war, conflict breaks out.

01:12:49.000 We're in such a safe era here in the United States.

01:12:51.000 If he saw a modicum of the violence that our troops had experienced, he'd be on the battlefield and he'd look down and just collapse.

01:12:59.000 Like, that to me is just, it's just bonkers.

01:13:02.000 Yeah, I did, you know, I deployed all over the world.

01:13:05.000 In Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya.

01:13:09.000 And a lot of the things that people deal with in those countries, they deal with because that's the way life is.

01:13:17.000 A byproduct of freedom is complacency.

01:13:20.000 And it always has been.

01:13:21.000 Because we optimize our life in this democracy, in this sovereignty, and it makes our life really easy.

01:13:27.000 But it also makes us very weak.

01:13:29.000 And there is a very specific percentage of the country from my peer group who knows what warfare is.

01:13:35.000 And then there's the rest of society.

01:13:37.000 One of the reasons we started Fieldcraft Survival is to teach civilians about worst case scenarios.

01:13:42.000 Because if you train for the worst case, you're prepared for everything in between.

01:13:45.000 Don't train for the best case, train for the worst case.

01:13:47.000 The crazy thing to me is how to convey that experience of actually watching violence and trauma to an individual so they understand why it's so important to be prepared.

01:14:00.000 Look, there was a story about a club.

01:14:05.000 A fire broke out and everyone immediately ran to the door and they all jammed themselves in it and then I think like people died and there's a video where a guy when everyone's running and screaming calmly walks to the to the fire exit in the back next to the stage and just walks out You know, I've always done this my whole life, and maybe it's because my dad was a Marine, but, or as a firefighter, actually, and he would say, no matter where you are, whenever you go in a building, wherever you are, know your exits.

01:14:30.000 And so my whole life, like, we'd walk in, I'm a little kid, and he'd be like, where's a fire exit?

01:14:34.000 And I'd look around, like, it's right there, and he goes, you got it.

01:14:36.000 And then I hear these stories of people who are so unprepared and so complacent, they don't even understand how to leave a building when the smoke alarm goes off.

01:14:42.000 Let me tell you a story, man.

01:14:44.000 I worked for Fusion, which is the ABC Univision joint venture, no longer exists.

01:14:48.000 I'm in the New York office, and it was a really, really nice office.

01:14:51.000 They had desks, and then they also had these little diner chairs they had set up, so you could sit in a comfy little chair at a table with your friends and talk.

01:14:57.000 And so I'm sitting there with my computer, and I'm with my producer who was working with me.

01:15:02.000 All of a sudden, the bright lights start going off.

01:15:04.000 Wah, wah, wah, full blast.

01:15:06.000 I grab my computer and the plug.

01:15:08.000 I put under my, I get up, jump out of the table, and I look over, and she's just sitting there,

01:15:12.000 and I'm like, come on, let's go.

01:15:13.000 And she's like, what?

01:15:14.000 I'm like, the alarm's going, let's go.

01:15:16.000 And then she grabs her stuff, and then I look over at everybody,

01:15:18.000 I'm like, yo, let's go.

01:15:20.000 And there's 50 people just sitting there, and they all look at me.

01:15:23.000 And then I'm like, I ain't waiting.

01:15:24.000 I get out of the building, we were on like the third floor.

01:15:26.000 I go outside, I'm standing outside.

01:15:28.000 I get asked, like, what's going?

01:15:29.000 I'm like, the fire alarm went off.

01:15:31.000 get out of the building? What do you... And then nobody else came out.

01:15:35.000 Fire trucks pull up.

01:15:36.000 This is in New York.

01:15:37.000 Two trucks pull up.

01:15:39.000 All the firefighters jump out, run inside.

01:15:42.000 And then a few minutes later, one by one, the employees all start walking outside going like, what's happening?

01:15:47.000 What's happening?

01:15:47.000 And then I was like, did you guys seriously stay in the building when the fire alarm went off?

01:15:51.000 And you're on, it was like a five-story building or something, like the third floor.

01:15:55.000 Turns out there was some kind of gas leak or fire threat.

01:15:58.000 And it's remarkable to me that these people were so comfortable.

01:16:02.000 The fire alarm literally did not persuade them to get out of the building.

01:16:07.000 That's what scares me when we talk about all of this stuff.

01:16:09.000 The potential for conflict is that I have witnessed people sit in a building with the 0.96

01:16:12.000 fire alarms going off full blast before this happened.

01:16:15.000 This is crazy.

01:16:16.000 We were in a different building.

01:16:17.000 The power goes out.

01:16:18.000 The speakers go on.

01:16:20.000 This is an emergency situation has arisen.

01:16:23.000 Remain calm.

01:16:24.000 Stay in the building.

01:16:25.000 And I was like, nope.

01:16:27.000 And I got out of the building.

01:16:28.000 Everybody else stayed.

01:16:29.000 Turns out there was a leak in the basement that had made contact with an electrical system, caused a short, huge fire risk, and they didn't want anybody rushing to the doors and panicking and leaving.

01:16:39.000 So they all just sat there using battery power on their laptops, and I left the building and went to a cafe to work.

01:16:45.000 I've seen so much of this, man.

01:16:47.000 I was in Ferguson.

01:16:49.000 I'm with the guy.

01:16:50.000 He's a veteran field reporter.

01:16:52.000 He's fired fully automatic guns.

01:16:54.000 He's been in war and conflict.

01:16:55.000 He's got legit body armor.

01:16:58.000 And they make the announcement that Darren Wilson will not be indicted or something like that.

01:17:03.000 And then all of a sudden, we hear bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

01:17:08.000 I'm on the ground.

01:17:09.000 I look to my right.

01:17:10.000 Dude's on the ground and I'm like, my man.

01:17:12.000 I look to my left and there's a guy from ABC standing there looking around going, those fireworks?

01:17:17.000 And I'm like, get down!

01:17:19.000 And then he's like, what's happening?

01:17:20.000 I was like, do you see anybody with fireworks?

01:17:23.000 No.

01:17:23.000 Do you see guns?

01:17:24.000 Okay, dude.

01:17:25.000 It's crazy to me, man, when you're put in these situations, and I'm not even talking about war, I'm like, just street violence, riots and stuff, but to see how people act when this stuff goes down?

01:17:35.000 I imagine, like, in the heat of the chaos, there's very little you can do to convince uneducated people about it, so is this why, like, you're doing this now, so people ahead of time, like, I was thinking last night, okay, I've been in emergency mode for, like, weeks.

01:17:48.000 It just strikes me, like, what if there's an active shooter?

01:17:50.000 What if there's a fire?

01:17:51.000 I should have a plan with my neighbors, with my environment.

01:17:54.000 So what steps, from start to finish, if someone were to experience an emergency, a life-threatening emergency?

01:18:00.000 Yeah, so all the things you're describing when we talk about worst case scenarios, whether it's natural, man-made disaster, has to do with stress.

01:18:07.000 They're all, like a catastrophe is actually a stressful event, just short in duration of time, but elevated in the actual volume of stress that you get.

01:18:19.000 So a lot of people aren't prepared for mild stress.

01:18:22.000 And you know, I make the joke, like, if your girlfriend texts you and says, hey, I saw you liking those girls' yoga pants videos on Instagram.

01:18:30.000 How do you react?

01:18:32.000 A lot of people are like, oh, what are you talking about?

01:18:33.000 And they get angry and emotional, and they don't know how to react, their palms sweat.

01:18:37.000 And that overreaction is a correlation to high-grade stress, how you're gonna react to high grade.

01:18:43.000 So a lot of people in our society, they use groupthink as a psychology tactic, which they don't know they're doing, but it's like, if that person's not moving, why would I move, right?

01:18:53.000 So we're all sheeple, right?

01:18:54.000 We're just not doing anything.

01:18:55.000 So the idea is like, identify the threat, Observe, pay attention to what it is, but like Tim said in a couple of examples, physical displacement from the X, or the crisis, is the best way to survive.

01:19:10.000 So break your physical body up and away, create distance, time, and as many obstacles as you can put in between.

01:19:17.000 But because we're curious, we want to catch everything for the gram, we're like, what is that noise?

01:19:21.000 Is that firecrackers? 0.98

01:19:22.000 Let's walk out with a phone and catch this on my story on Instagram, and then get potentially shot in the face.

01:19:28.000 Not just that, but I've seen these veteran journalists, they do no training, and they go into hostile environments, and they put everybody at risk.

01:19:37.000 Yes, it happens all the time.

01:19:38.000 I've seen it too.

01:19:39.000 I've seen it live, in war, with journalists that were with us.

01:19:43.000 Sebastian Junger is a good example.

01:19:45.000 One of his best friends, who is a cinematographer, on Restrepo when he went was hit by an RPG in Libya and

01:19:52.000 killed. Not saying they did the wrong thing, but that's the potential risk to your life. Our society is

01:19:58.000 very fragile, very weak, and if you're not getting prepared now, then you should be. When you say

01:20:04.000 make distance and time from the X from the tragedy or from the, I guess, emergency, are you

01:20:09.000 saying like, so this is a fire, you want physical distance, but you also want, when you say

01:20:13.000 time, what is that? Like you want water that'll make the fire take longer to kill?

01:20:16.000 You want to create, in the distance, which is correlated to time, you want to create a gap space in getting off the X. The proximity, which, a lot of the indications of a catastrophe, we sense, obviously, through sound, smell, taste, whatever it is, we feel it, even intuition.

01:20:34.000 We're like, hey, something might be wrong.

01:20:36.000 Follow your intuition.

01:20:38.000 One of the reasons why so many people are getting killed is because we're complacent, but that relates to our laziness.

01:20:44.000 It's like the idea of, like, you're in bed watching Netflix with your spouse.

01:20:48.000 You hear a loud noise downstairs.

01:20:50.000 What do you immediately do?

01:20:51.000 You write it off.

01:20:52.000 You're like, oh, that's probably the cat.

01:20:55.000 Honey, we don't have a cat.

01:20:56.000 Oh, well, it's the neighbor.

01:20:57.000 The house is settling. 1.00

01:21:00.000 Get off your ass and physically assess the situation. 1.00

01:21:05.000 So if you hear fireworks, oh, that's fireworks. 1.00

01:21:08.000 If it sounds like gunshots, start moving and then figure it out on the way out, and then read about it on the news.

01:21:16.000 But don't take the chance that something's going to happen.

01:21:19.000 And then that's obviously the first part.

01:21:20.000 The second part is the technical proficiency you need, and then also the inoculation of stress.

01:21:25.000 Most people forget that, like, if I teach you to apply a tourniquet, take you three minutes.

01:21:30.000 I mean, it's not hard.

01:21:30.000 You got a pen.

01:21:31.000 Yeah, it's a pen, a belt, material, an actual tourniquet that costs $29.95 on fieldcraftsurvival.com.

01:21:38.000 It's not expensive.

01:21:39.000 But you get that tourniquet.

01:21:41.000 What we're forgetting in technical proficiency is there's this inoculation, suppression of stress, which means you're likely going to be in a sympathetic nervous response, fighting and flighting.

01:21:53.000 Your body primarily wants to move.

01:21:55.000 So you have to be able to technically react and do those things while under stress.

01:22:01.000 We don't have anything in our society besides jujitsu, combat sports, sports, period, that allow us to do that.

01:22:11.000 But what are we seeing?

01:22:11.000 We're seeing woke culture making us more soft because everybody gets the participation.

01:22:17.000 One thing that stuck with me for a long time is this story I was told when I was younger.

01:22:22.000 Somebody in my neighborhood, these guys got into a fight.

01:22:26.000 Some guys beat up some guy.

01:22:28.000 A few days later, you know, a guy B beats up guy A. A few days later, guy A's friends see guys B, and they run up and start wailing on him.

01:22:36.000 And then all of a sudden, in the middle of the pummel, one of the dudes pulls out a knife and goes, one, two, right in the chest of the dude they were beating up.

01:22:42.000 The other two guys go, whoa, whoa, dude, dude, and pull him back, like, what are you doing?

01:22:46.000 Like, we were just beating him up.

01:22:49.000 They asked the guy, are you okay?

01:22:51.000 And he's like, yeah, I'm fine.

01:22:52.000 And he gets up and runs, turns the corner and drops dead.

01:22:55.000 They hit his lung. 0.87

01:22:56.000 And it was crazy when I learned about sucking wounds.

01:23:00.000 I think that's right, right?

01:23:01.000 How simple it would have been to save that guy's life.

01:23:04.000 Relatively simple.

01:23:05.000 I mean, I don't know.

01:23:06.000 I'm not an expert on how to, I know you can do the trick with like plastic wrap and tape on three sides, but couldn't they have just like, he could have like stuck his finger in it or plugged it or something.

01:23:15.000 Well, so your chest cavity, your chest wall, it's very fragile to say the least.

01:23:22.000 You take a puncture in the chest, you're going to collapse a lung because the negative pressure in your lung collapses because it needs that pressure.

01:23:29.000 What you're doing in the chest seal is you're applying it to that laceration where you've been compromised in your chest cavity and it's reestablishing the balance in that pressure.

01:23:41.000 What sounds like, to me, that situation is he hit something that's vital.

01:23:46.000 So he said something in the pump house.

01:23:48.000 He might have nicked an artery, bled internally, which in that case he would need a chest tube, or he would need upgraded levels of care, and there might not have been a thing he could have done for it.

01:23:58.000 At least the story is we were told that it caused a sucking wound, so maybe my understanding of what happened was wrong.

01:24:04.000 But in that circumstance, you'd think it was just they couldn't do anything about it.

01:24:07.000 Yeah, likely he got stuck in the pump house or a major artery off of the branch of the heart

01:24:13.000 that he bled internally.

01:24:15.000 Because a sucking chest wound is going to help with circulation and respiration.

01:24:21.000 So when you apply that, like I've treated guys in real life

01:24:25.000 where the guy has a laceration in his chest, he has a sucking chest wound, he can't breathe,

01:24:30.000 he's completely pale, and then you put a piece of plastic basically,

01:24:35.000 it's got Hydra tape that's on it, and you put it on his chest

01:24:38.000 and he immediately comes back because his lung inflates, 0.88

01:24:41.000 and he's like, oh my God, like holy crap, that was crazy.

01:24:44.000 Well, when somebody's bleeding internally, that's one of the hardest things to stop. 0.97

01:24:49.000 It's how you kill big game, elk or deer.

01:24:51.000 You hit them in the chest cavity, in the pump house, and you hope to double lung them, and they bleed out immediately, dead in 30 seconds.

01:24:58.000 I gotta say, man, you know, I always tell people, have some emergency food, have some emergency water, you should have a go bag, clothes in it, all the supplies.

01:25:08.000 I would probably stress that people probably look into your stuff and figure out the basics, because I just watched a fight video.

01:25:15.000 It's on Reddit.

01:25:16.000 Dudes are fighting in the street, everyone's laughing and cheering, and then one guy takes a swing, dude ducks, comes up, returns the hook, bam!

01:25:25.000 Guy just hits the deck.

01:25:26.000 It's crazy how simple it is.

01:25:27.000 starts shaking his head violently and I'm like she's gonna paralyze that guy.

01:25:31.000 Yeah. People don't know anything about this. It's crazy watching videos so often

01:25:36.000 of people if they just were told one sentence could save a life. Crazy man. 0.95

01:25:40.000 It's crazy how simple it is. It's very simple. Yeah you mentioned stress management earlier in jiu-jitsu. 0.97

01:25:45.000 I've often thought and been talking to people that also think that the police could benefit from taking jiu-jitsu, at least being like a purple belt or something in jiu-jitsu, that they could manage stress better.

01:25:54.000 I hadn't thought that of combat sports as a way to, like, while you were talking, I was like, oh, working out.

01:25:59.000 The more muscularly, you know, beat up I am, the more I'll be able to handle a fire or an invasion or something.

01:26:06.000 That's resilience.

01:26:07.000 We call that resilience, right?

01:26:08.000 It's your ability to bounce back through adversity and difficult circumstances.

01:26:13.000 The best way to do that, which, you know, Leah Stumpf and Andy Stumpf are good friends of mine who teach this through their dojo in Kalispell.

01:26:21.000 The idea is when you're fighting and combating a person, I'm 240 pounds, 6'1", I'm a big Asian dude, I have a diverse combatives background.

01:26:29.000 I step in a ring with a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a 150 pound dude, he will pretzel roll me in half.

01:26:37.000 Getting beat by another human being in a physical confrontation is very humbling.

01:26:43.000 Because the idea that you would increase your sympathetic nervous response, get more aggressive, louder, more angry, is all the things that's going to get you choked out faster.

01:26:53.000 So, you have to be calm.

01:26:55.000 You have to concentrate on your breathing.

01:26:57.000 You have to rely on technical proficiency.

01:26:59.000 And if you don't manage your stress, you'll just get choked out.

01:27:02.000 And that's the benefit of Jiu-Jitsu, I think, on a massive scale.

01:27:06.000 Andy has talked about this.

01:27:08.000 All the guys that are in my same circle have talked about how every law enforcement officer Should be trained at a minimum in Jiu Jitsu.

01:27:17.000 Greg Anderson, a buddy of mine in Washington State, runs a program as a former police officer where they're training law enforcement officers to be better at Jiu Jitsu to make them prepared for what they see in the streets.

01:27:29.000 So you're trying to train regular people and all this stuff.

01:27:32.000 I mean, that sounds like it would be a really, really great thing.

01:27:35.000 If every single person in this country had basic survival skills and preparedness skills, it would make us, I mean, just particularly well prepared for any kind of invasion or conflict or war or anything like that.

01:27:50.000 Yeah.

01:27:51.000 I wonder why it is that government institutions would oppose that.

01:27:54.000 Well, here's why.

01:27:56.000 You outsource everything to the government because we have this collaborative social agreement, this non-written contract.

01:28:03.000 We're going to pay taxes, so we're going to outsource healthcare.

01:28:06.000 We're going to outsource first response.

01:28:08.000 We're going to outsource everything to make our life more convenient.

01:28:11.000 So, when you empower yourself, which is what we're teaching, we're not just teaching preparedness, we're teaching self-reliance.

01:28:17.000 And that is offensive for a government who wants control and power.

01:28:21.000 The less power they have, the more you cut the umbilical cord, the more opposed they are to that.

01:28:26.000 There's classic cases of it, obviously.

01:28:29.000 I was going to ask if you have a lot of teachers who reach out to you, because I hate to say it, but stress management... I know obviously we could be talking about school shootings, but even just... I went to a high school where we would have occasionally kids OD in the classroom.

01:28:41.000 If you're in a scenario with unpredictable people, even if they're not inherently dangerous to you, being able to manage your response to them and know how to react in a lot of scenarios seems really valuable.

01:28:51.000 Yeah, so we're starting a kids program this year with our family director of preparedness, Amber.

01:28:58.000 We started teaching women.

01:29:00.000 And a lot of those women were teachers. 1.00

01:29:02.000 And a lot of those women were single moms. 1.00

01:29:03.000 And they showed up and were like, why are you here?

01:29:05.000 It's like, well, because we want to know how to be prepared too.

01:29:08.000 Because it seems like to be like a tactical industry thing.

01:29:12.000 But normal people want to know how to manage stress, how to apply a tourniquet, how to react in an active shooting.

01:29:19.000 So, you know, we were very critical of Uvalde and all the things that went wrong because we want to make the wrong right in the future.

01:29:27.000 And we've gotten a huge response from teachers.

01:29:29.000 In fact, my training director, Sean Kirkwood and Kevin Owens, who were both veteran Green Berets, They are working with our law enforcement instructors because a Green Beret teaching self-defense isn't the best tactic always, right? 0.93

01:29:44.000 We kill and capture bad guys.

01:29:45.000 We don't do the legal law enforcement thing.

01:29:49.000 We deploy these law enforcement officers all over the country to teach these teachers and teach these resource officers how to be better prepared.

01:29:57.000 And that's what we need ultimately, because the superpower we are, I think the Second Amendment makes us a superpower, which makes us not Ukraine.

01:30:05.000 That's why you got to subsidize Ukraine with billions of dollars and all the assets to bear.

01:30:10.000 America is a superpower because of the constitutional freedoms that we have, but also our current capability.

01:30:15.000 The NRA, which I am not an advocate of the NRA, outside of their lobbying to support constitutional security, When you look at the NRA and why it stood up, it stood up post-Civil War, 1840 or 1861 to 64, Civil War.

01:30:30.000 I think it stood up in 65, I might be wrong.

01:30:35.000 But when you look at why they stood up, it's because they wanted to make the civilian populace better prepared to defend themselves because they were shooting flintlocks from hips or didn't know how to load it.

01:30:48.000 We were a national superpower because of that.

01:30:49.000 And I think that's ultimately what we are as a population.

01:30:54.000 The more prepared we are, the better capable we are against Russia, China, North Korea, Iran.

01:31:01.000 If they wanted to band together and take this country over, it'd be an easy fight.

01:31:04.000 Yeah, there's a gun behind every blade of grass.

01:31:07.000 It was 1871.

01:31:09.000 I think also it makes people less afraid of each other.

01:31:11.000 When you're comfortable or confident in your ability to defend yourself, there's less reason to fear Donald Trump or random guy down the street that might be armed.

01:31:18.000 You know, like it's a lot easier to, I don't know, No, we see that on the range when people show up, you have all backgrounds.

01:31:26.000 It's not tactical guys showing up to our ranges.

01:31:28.000 It's like mothers, fathers, 18, 19 year old young people who want to be better prepared.

01:31:35.000 When you see that and them coming together, the second and third order effects of all this, When people come together trying to be better prepared, they start building community and they start going, they don't, they don't go, Oh, you're a Republican or you're a Democrat.

01:31:49.000 They go, Oh, you want to be prepared too?

01:31:51.000 Like, I don't care what your background is or who you politically affiliate with.

01:31:55.000 I'm on that same page.

01:31:56.000 Let's do this together and protect our family.

01:31:58.000 Let's learn a skill.

01:31:59.000 And that's the biggest component that we've made is this idea of bringing people together over a commonality, which is being best prepared.

01:32:07.000 And it's better for you if your neighbors are prepared, especially if you have a positive relationship with them, right?

01:32:12.000 When we grew up, I assume all of us knew what community watches were, right?

01:32:17.000 You had a community watch that would watch out for each other, and you hated, like, the pesky old lady. 1.00

01:32:21.000 My dad, we used to talk about her, like, God, she's always talking about what's new, what's different, what changes in that environment.

01:32:29.000 Now we live in a society where you pull up and you see your neighbor checking his mail and you're scowling because you're like, who is this?

01:32:36.000 Like, that's our neighbor, honey.

01:32:38.000 Oh, yeah.

01:32:38.000 But you know why Community Watch went away?

01:32:41.000 We had someone on the show talk about this, that if you form a Community Watch group, anything you do now is conspiracy.

01:32:48.000 So everybody, like all lawyers are telling people, don't be involved.

01:32:51.000 High liability conspiracy.

01:32:52.000 Yeah, I get it.

01:32:53.000 Yeah.

01:32:54.000 Yeah.

01:32:54.000 If I tell you in your bedroom, I'm like, Hey, I'm thinking about starting a company.

01:32:57.000 That's a conspiracy.

01:32:58.000 No, no, no, no.

01:32:59.000 What they're saying is if you were, if you were in a community watch group and then one guy goes out and someone is, is, is breaks into a building and they get into a fight and the, and the, and the, the burglar, the robber gets killed.

01:33:11.000 They will say, if you can't justify the killing, it was a conspiracy to commit murder, and the other members of the community watch are involved.

01:33:17.000 Wow, when did that start happening?

01:33:18.000 Someone talked about it on the show several months ago.

01:33:20.000 So I don't know exactly when it started happening, but... I could see it.

01:33:23.000 I could see that it would be some kind of legal precedence where it increased the liability.

01:33:29.000 The local district attorneys were like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we can't manage this.

01:33:32.000 Because like American Contingency, we try to co-cooperate with local sheriff's departments.

01:33:37.000 Because if we are the first on the scene of an accident, how can we best support and facilitate a first responder about to come in?

01:33:45.000 If I know and I'm trained how to identify a threat or identify a casualty and can facilitate a law enforcement officer who's coming in to do the rescuing or do the facilitation of rescue, Then I am an asset to that community.

01:34:00.000 But again, the district attorney comes in, they have a political affiliation and they go, oh, this is too much liability.

01:34:06.000 You do your job and just live in your life and let us do our job, which is controlling your life.

01:34:11.000 And that's threatening.

01:34:12.000 I mean, having chickens, having a homestead, growing your own food is threatening to people in this country.

01:34:18.000 They said Facebook said canning was extremist.

01:34:21.000 What?

01:34:22.000 That's crazy.

01:34:22.000 We were just making jelly.

01:34:24.000 I got deleted for a canning video because it was seen as extreme.

01:34:29.000 What?

01:34:29.000 When we started this company, every video that we did that was even remotely related to self-reliance was seen as extreme and it was deleted from Facebook.

01:34:40.000 The people who taught me most about Sufferlines were my step grandparents who are just like older white people from Texas who have like canning stuff and some horses.

01:34:48.000 Like we, we, uh, we grew some vegetables.

01:34:51.000 We wanted, we have berries.

01:34:52.000 So we've got a good like three or four weeks of berry season out here.

01:34:56.000 So you gotta preserve them.

01:34:57.000 And you know, you gotta know how to can because if you don't do it right, it can create botulism and it can kill you when you try to eat the canned food.

01:35:04.000 You gotta know how to boil the thing.

01:35:06.000 I love it.

01:35:07.000 I geek out on the homesteading stuff.

01:35:08.000 It's some of the stuff that we teach.

01:35:10.000 But the whole idea is going to only help the government because it's less stress and strain But if you look at what the government's tactics are it's to create more reliance because if you are if you are Dependent on solely on their finances their government health care systems and all the things then they have you they have you hooked they have your vote because they have you hooked any Displacement from that is threatening by by the government I was just going to say, does your group get accused of cultivating vigilantism?

01:35:41.000 Is that one of the fears?

01:35:43.000 That you guys are going to think that you're better than law enforcement?

01:35:47.000 100%.

01:35:47.000 I mean, that's the title militia.

01:35:49.000 That's as described by the government of who we are.

01:35:53.000 And people are like, oh, it's no big deal.

01:35:54.000 They just called you a name.

01:35:56.000 No.

01:35:57.000 When you designate somebody a name in the government, that comes with authorities.

01:36:01.000 Those authorities come from lines of funding.

01:36:03.000 That means execution orders to do surveillance and all this other stuff.

01:36:07.000 So it gets more deeply seeded in the weeds when they title you a militia.

01:36:12.000 And we most certainly are not.

01:36:13.000 We're a community of Americans that just want the best.

01:36:15.000 We're gonna go to Super Chats.

01:36:17.000 If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the URL to this link wherever you can if you really do like the show, just share the show in general, and head over to TimCast.com, become a member, because we're gonna have that uncensored members-only after show coming up at 11 p.m.

01:36:32.000 Let's read.

01:36:32.000 We got Evan Grant who says, Tim's wrong about apps listening on conversations.

01:36:37.000 I've literally run tests to have people mention products to me while my phone's out, not doing any searches, and then checking ads.

01:36:44.000 I don't know what you mean about me being wrong.

01:36:47.000 Are you saying that I'm wrong when I say they're probably not listening to you?

01:36:50.000 It's just predicting your behavior?

01:36:53.000 So you've heard people say that like they'll say something near their phone and then their phone will do an advertisement for it?

01:36:59.000 The claim is that they're not really listening to you, but that the algorithms can predict your behavior so well that it seems like they're listening to you.

01:37:09.000 So the example we gave the other day is father sees a bunch of letters come in, advertisements in the mail for pregnancy gear and stuff.

01:37:16.000 From Target.

01:37:17.000 To his daughter, and he's like, he calls them up like, why are you sending maternity stuff to my teenage daughter? 0.60

01:37:21.000 And they were like, it's just an algorithm based on what you search for.

01:37:24.000 We don't know.

01:37:25.000 Turns out, the daughter wasn't searching for pregnancy stuff. 1.00

01:37:28.000 She was searching for stuff like, why do I feel this way?

01:37:32.000 Do I need, you know, nausea medicine or something?

01:37:34.000 And the algorithm knew that based on the things she was doing and when she was doing it, she was probably pregnant. 0.73

01:37:39.000 Because it can see a hundred million women all saying the exact same things when they get pregnant. 0.85

01:37:44.000 However, I will add, I was talking with, when we were talking with Jack Posobiec on the show, we mentioned Book It.

01:37:50.000 Book It was the old program.

01:37:51.000 Remember Pizza Hut?

01:37:51.000 I don't know.

01:37:52.000 I don't know how old you are.

01:37:53.000 How old are you?

01:37:53.000 Forty-two.

01:37:54.000 Forty-two.

01:37:55.000 So, you had Book It when you were a kid, right?

01:37:56.000 Yeah.

01:37:57.000 You'd read the book at school, and then you'd get a free donut, you'd get a pizza.

01:37:59.000 Pizza Hut!

01:38:00.000 I got an advertisement for a booking agency that said BookIt, and it was their tagline.

01:38:06.000 And I saw it and I was like, okay, that makes no sense.

01:38:09.000 In what context would anything... I mean, BookIt doesn't exist anymore.

01:38:15.000 So the only thing it could show me was an ad for travel called BookIt.

01:38:19.000 Dude, they're listening.

01:38:21.000 Okay, Google, stop.

01:38:23.000 Alexa, stop. 1.00

01:38:25.000 Those machines are listening to you.

01:38:27.000 I think there's one in here right now.

01:38:29.000 It's listening to me.

01:38:30.000 It's also that they figure out, like, if you're sharing a wireless network with someone and they're researching a topic, it will also serve those ads to your phone, right?

01:38:38.000 Because you're on the same network.

01:38:39.000 Did anybody hear Google Search book it?

01:38:41.000 My Google thing is on right now, by the way.

01:38:43.000 Sorry, I didn't understand.

01:38:44.000 You just told it to turn on.

01:38:45.000 Yeah, I told it to stop, but I guess that's not the turn off command.

01:38:47.000 It was like, yes, you asked for me?

01:38:48.000 Hello?

01:38:49.000 Isn't that wild?

01:38:50.000 I can turn on your machine if you're listening to me at home.

01:38:52.000 That's crazy.

01:38:53.000 My point here is, Jack was talking about Pizza Hut nationalism and referencing a program that doesn't exist anymore, you should not get an advertisement for it.

01:39:05.000 I got an ad in big blue bold letters that said book it and I was like get out of here dude.

01:39:10.000 I don't travel.

01:39:12.000 There's no reason for me to be... I'm here for 16 hours every day, morning and night, doing this show.

01:39:17.000 Almost no travel.

01:39:18.000 There is nothing in my search that I am doing that suggests any kind of travel.

01:39:22.000 The only way this could have been delivered to me is because it was listening to me when I said, book it.

01:39:27.000 And the machine assumed book it meant book the travel.

01:39:31.000 When I was talking about a reading program, because there's no more reading program, the only ad it could serve me was travel.

01:39:38.000 Crazy.

01:39:38.000 I was traveling with friends once, and we all grew up in Connecticut.

01:39:41.000 And if you're from Connecticut, you probably know what Bean Boots are, which are, they're an L.L.

01:39:44.000 Bean product.

01:39:45.000 They're just really popular.

01:39:46.000 And they were telling me that, like, one of my friends had gone to school in Chicago, and someone had recognized her as being from New England because she was wearing these L.L.

01:39:53.000 Bean boots.

01:39:53.000 I have never searched for them in my life.

01:39:55.000 I don't own them.

01:39:56.000 I don't follow L.L.Bean or anything like that on social media.

01:39:59.000 My phone was in a separate room charging.

01:40:01.000 I walked in the first ad it served me was for L.L.Bean Boots.

01:40:03.000 I remember I was talking to someone on Facebook Messenger, and then I was talking to someone in person at the time, while on Messenger, and then all of a sudden a little thing popped up for the ad about what we were talking about.

01:40:13.000 We were talking about going to like, you know, Uno's or whatever, Pizzeria Uno's.

01:40:16.000 And then all of a sudden a thing popped up and I was like... People in the chat are like, Ian, you turned my TV off!

01:40:21.000 Oh no, my Alexa machine just... Alright, let's read some more.

01:40:27.000 All right, let's see.

01:40:28.000 George Fraterelli says, so glad Mike is on to tell his story, and also how the FBI is targeting American contingency.

01:40:35.000 Hot damn, hey Mike, please talk about your time in the Old Guard and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

01:40:39.000 Oh yeah, so big shout out to my buddy Khan, had a third infantry soldier who's going to ranger assessment really soon. 0.97

01:40:48.000 He shouted out to me and said, hey, you want to get a tour?

01:40:51.000 And I had some tomb guards reach out to me and say, hey, we'll give you a tour of the quarters, which is in the middle of Arlington National Cemetery.

01:40:58.000 So back when, you know, Sergeant Major Glover was a private, I was an E1, 17 years old.

01:41:05.000 I went to the old guard as my first stint prior to 9-11 happening.

01:41:08.000 This is 1997.

01:41:10.000 And one of the hardest things that you could do in the military period was try out to be a guard of the Tomb of the Unknowns.

01:41:16.000 So it's been guarded 24 hours a day by the Army since 1948.

01:41:18.000 It's right down the road in the middle of Arlington Cemetery.

01:41:22.000 It has the World War I, World War II Korean Vietnam unknowns.

01:41:26.000 They disinterred the Vietnam unknown because they identified him as an Air Force pilot named Major Michael Blassie.

01:41:33.000 He since was disinterred and buried in his home state of Missouri.

01:41:37.000 And then I was a guard there from 1998 to 2000 prior to 9-11 happening.

01:41:43.000 So I was badge holder number 470 and right now they're at 701 for the badge holders.

01:41:51.000 It's the second hardest badge to get in the military besides the astronaut's badge.

01:41:55.000 And took me nine months to earn my Tomb Identification Badge and was the most difficult thing that I did in the military.

01:42:01.000 Out of all the things I've done.

01:42:02.000 What do you have to do?

01:42:02.000 You have to guard the Tomb of the Unknowns on a cycle or a schedule based on your relief.

01:42:08.000 And there's three reliefs based on height.

01:42:09.000 And you do that 24 hours a day, seven days a week since 1948.

01:42:13.000 But how do you earn the badge?

01:42:15.000 You go through a process, so you have to memorize 20 plus pages of knowledge on Arlington National Cemetery.

01:42:22.000 There's uniform inspections.

01:42:25.000 My standard will remain perfection is line 6 of the Sittinel's Creed.

01:42:30.000 That whole methodology is ingrained into you as a Tomb Guard, where you have to be perfect.

01:42:35.000 So, it was a crazy deal being so young and doing that, but it's what established my whole military career.

01:42:41.000 So, uh, Ian Kinney said something.

01:42:43.000 I was just reading it while you guys were talking.

01:42:44.000 He says, Tim, you should see what Media Bias Fact Check says about TimCast.

01:42:48.000 I think you'll be upset and possibly will want to send them a letter.

01:42:51.000 Uh, absolutely not.

01:42:52.000 I'm, I'm, I think it's actually amazing.

01:42:54.000 So, uh, Media Bias Fact Check, if you've ever heard of them, they tell you if it's left or right.

01:43:00.000 Um, they call us right wing at TimCast.com.

01:43:02.000 I do think that's silly considering TimCast.com is like 80% not political.

01:43:07.000 So it's like, Cast Castle is not, Pop Culture Crisis is not, Inverted World is not, Chicken City is certainly not, I hope.

01:43:13.000 They're the most political part, what are you talking about?

01:43:14.000 It is true, yeah, when Roberto, so, do you know the politics?

01:43:19.000 Roberto was found guilty of sex crimes.

01:43:23.000 So he's been sentenced to the penal colony of Cocktown with 20 other roosters.

01:43:28.000 And Roberto Jr.

01:43:30.000 has assumed the role of Sheriff of Chicken City.

01:43:32.000 Chicken tenders.

01:43:35.000 But Media Bias Fact Check says, factual reporting, very high.

01:43:40.000 Press freedom rank, mostly free.

01:43:42.000 Medium traffic with high credibility.

01:43:45.000 It's fantastic.

01:43:46.000 Sounds great.

01:43:46.000 Yeah.

01:43:47.000 But you're right wing.

01:43:48.000 I mean, they can call me whatever they want.

01:43:50.000 It's weird.

01:43:53.000 They say, due to story selection.

01:43:55.000 And it's like, okay, I guess.

01:43:58.000 I mean, like, we report on hearing aids, you know, the Biden administration signed.

01:44:01.000 You did that, right?

01:44:02.000 That was me.

01:44:02.000 Like, I'm not sure that's right wing.

01:44:04.000 I mean, I really think that our reporting is incredibly mixed.

01:44:07.000 And part of that is because our journalists have a lot of interest.

01:44:09.000 Like, they are not, in and of themselves, all in one rabbit hole.

01:44:13.000 I mean, We kind of cover everything, really.

01:44:15.000 But I don't care if they call us right wing.

01:44:16.000 But again, I think we're the coolest news site, so.

01:44:18.000 They can call me right wing.

01:44:19.000 I'm not going to get mad about that.

01:44:21.000 They said we were high credibility and green, like big letters.

01:44:24.000 I'm like, oh, there you go.

01:44:25.000 Thank you.

01:44:26.000 That's right.

01:44:27.000 We have higher standards than NewsGuard.

01:44:28.000 That is true.

01:44:29.000 Yeah.

01:44:30.000 Than even NewsGuard.

01:44:31.000 Yeah.

01:44:33.000 Nick Conant says, I asked Lauren today why she wasn't drinking $1,000 whiskey in a paper cup in her live stream. 1.00

01:44:38.000 Her response, I only drink other people's $1,000 whiskey.

01:44:41.000 Very smart.

01:44:41.000 True to form.

01:44:42.000 Very smart.

01:44:42.000 So are you familiar with Pappy?

01:44:44.000 Uh-uh.

01:44:45.000 It's just like $1,000 whiskey.

01:44:46.000 Oh yeah, Pappy.

01:44:47.000 Oh yes.

01:44:48.000 Very familiar.

01:44:48.000 Lauren Southern was here and she grabbed a paper cup and asked if she'd have whiskey.

01:44:52.000 I said, sure.

01:44:53.000 And she was pouring it in the cup and drinking from it.

01:44:55.000 And I didn't notice.

01:44:56.000 And then someone pointed out.

01:44:58.000 And then I was like, Lauren, are you drinking the $1,000 whiskey out of a paper cup?

01:45:01.000 And she's like, is that how much it is?

01:45:02.000 I don't know.

01:45:02.000 Like what?

01:45:06.000 There was a guy, a restaurant owner, who got so frustrated with how difficult it is to get Pappy and there's like an allotment that he started giving out at cost and then one year he gave it out as jello shots and then he stopped getting allotted Pappy Van Winkle.

01:45:23.000 Ooh, smart.

01:45:26.000 Alright, Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:45:27.000 says, Brian Stelter is a reliable source, like Antifa is anti-fascist, like abortion is healthcare, like men can get pregnant, like Biden is the great unifier, like fiery is mostly peaceful, like Tim has hair.

01:45:39.000 Brilliant.

01:45:40.000 Bravo, good sir.

01:45:41.000 Spicy.

01:45:42.000 Yup.

01:45:44.000 Alright.

01:45:45.000 Triton 54 says would give anything to see Mike in a room with Brandon Tatum discussing Uvalde.

01:45:50.000 Everyone needs to watch Mike's take on the Uvalde response that Green Beret made this 1.00

01:45:54.000 Navy chief stand at attention for 90 minutes straight. What was that about?

01:45:59.000 Well, it's me calling out Uvalde and I think that the issue where they're mentioning Brandon is he

01:46:04.000 was he was backing him because he's backing the Blues.

01:46:07.000 He's a former sheriff's officer, and that's what you do when you're taking care of your tribe.

01:46:12.000 But I consider law enforcement officers, because I train them for a living as part of my job, brothers and sisters, and I want to make sure that I'm always doing right by them.

01:46:22.000 So doing right by them means criticizing them when they're wrong, And so for 90 minutes, I went through the video that was released to the CCTV camera, had the breakdown timeline with the CCTV camera, and went minute by minute through what was right and what was 95% wrong.

01:46:40.000 Where can people find that video?

01:46:42.000 It's on my YouTube channel.

01:46:44.000 We have two YouTube channels, the Philcraft Survival Channel and Mike Glover Actual.

01:46:49.000 I believe that one's on the Philcraft Survival Channel.

01:46:52.000 It's got a couple million views, a lot of people who are heated and talking about it,

01:46:56.000 but I think that's a good thing because if you could extract anything good,

01:47:01.000 we should never make that mistake ever, ever, ever again.

01:47:04.000 And it also is a testament to law enforcement failures, but law enforcement successes.

01:47:10.000 Because it wasn't for the BORTAC operators, whose job, by the way, is not responding to active shootings in schools.

01:47:16.000 They do border patrol and react to crisis on the border.

01:47:22.000 They, on their own accord, went in there like heroes and got in a gunfight with a bad guy that killed 19 kids.

01:47:29.000 On their own accord, because they're a part of that community, to a testament to everything you are working on, I believe you call for.

01:47:33.000 Yes, they were taking care of their own community, and if it wasn't for those guys, there'd be more children potentially dead.

01:47:39.000 Alright, Matt Zarella says, Tim, please hire Brian Stelter and make him wash your car while dressed like Biff at the end of Back to the Future.

01:47:47.000 I get that because I watch Back to the Future.

01:47:49.000 A little bit of humility for Brian is going to go a long way right now.

01:47:52.000 I don't know.

01:47:53.000 What's he going to do?

01:47:55.000 I can't imagine.

01:47:57.000 Well, some blog BuzzFeed will hire him, I guess.

01:48:00.000 He'll get a professorship somewhere.

01:48:02.000 He's going to be okay.

01:48:03.000 Yeah.

01:48:03.000 I don't worry about him, I have to say.

01:48:06.000 Matthew Valesquez says, Hello Tim, what are Mike's thoughts about the rooftop Koreans in California circa 92? 0.99

01:48:12.000 Oh, yes.

01:48:14.000 So, yeah, the rooftop Koreans is, you know, my mom and had friends who lived in LA at that time, Koreatown was radically invaded by a whole bunch of radical protesters that were violent and extreme, who killed multiple people and wounded a lot of people injured a lot of people.

01:48:35.000 The rooftop Koreans were taking care of their businesses, but protecting their lives and self-defense.

01:48:42.000 It's the great thing about the Second Amendment that allows you to do that before all the radical gun laws came to California.

01:48:49.000 With just an interesting note, I want to remind people when you can do this research, Gun control came from government institutions wanting to counter the Black Panthers in the 1970s and 80s, specifically under Reagan when Reagan was the president.

01:49:07.000 Those laws were expanded into Texas and that became gun control because they were fearful of law-abiding citizens who happen to be black, protesting with firearms around government buildings, and that started the snowball rolling downhill.

01:49:22.000 So when you're voting for these things, when you're thinking about these things, when you look at your rights, just remember where that started, and any of those infringements on those rights started with the Black Panther movement.

01:49:34.000 You know, one thing that bums me out with the culture war stuff is, I tweeted something about Second Amendment.

01:49:41.000 Absolute.

01:49:42.000 Have your guns.

01:49:42.000 And then I got this leftist response.

01:49:44.000 And they were like, yeah, but I don't hear you saying, you know, black people should have guns. 0.98

01:49:48.000 Your position is totally fake. 0.96

01:49:49.000 And I responded with, I think every single black person in this country should be walking around with an AR-15 if they so choose. 0.98

01:49:55.000 I think the Black Panthers should be armed to the teeth. 1.00

01:49:57.000 And then he responded with, based.

01:49:59.000 And then I'm like, yes, bro, I don't care if I'm on the left or the right.

01:50:02.000 I think everybody has a right to keep and bear arms.

01:50:04.000 I don't know why they assume that about us or other people's positions, that we don't want the Black Panthers to be armed.

01:50:10.000 That's Second Amendment, bro.

01:50:12.000 They should all have guns.

01:50:13.000 What is it, the Not F-ing Around Coalition?

01:50:16.000 You know those guys?

01:50:17.000 Yes, yeah, yeah.

01:50:18.000 They had some misfires, which is, come on guys, training is responsibility.

01:50:22.000 A couple accidental discharges.

01:50:23.000 Accidental discharges, there you go.

01:50:24.000 Sorry, not misfires.

01:50:26.000 But I'm like, I watched that video and I'm like, I dig it.

01:50:29.000 Like, cool, man.

01:50:30.000 They're like walking around.

01:50:31.000 They're all armed.

01:50:31.000 They're doing their thing.

01:50:32.000 Yep.

01:50:33.000 Right on, man.

01:50:33.000 They're not hurting anybody.

01:50:35.000 They're peacefully protesting.

01:50:36.000 Absolutely.

01:50:37.000 Now, the accidental discharges is a problem.

01:50:40.000 But like, it's fine to call it accidental discharges.

01:50:42.000 I mean, they should never keep them at arms.

01:50:43.000 Maybe those guys who should, you know, maybe at that regard, there should be, you know, I don't know.

01:50:50.000 It's a criminal charge, right?

01:50:51.000 I believe, right?

01:50:52.000 Yeah, it's basically firing a firearm in public.

01:50:56.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:50:57.000 So look, I understand that, but I watch these videos of these guys and they're pretty aggressive, but hey man, I got no beef.

01:51:03.000 I was thinking last night how badass this country is and one of the great things is the individualism, the ability to kind of not have the state looking down your back because it's in those times of Silence and solitude where you can create great things where you're not interrupted by outside forces.

01:51:19.000 This is an amazing opportunity.

01:51:21.000 We'll try and read some more Super Chats. 0.99

01:51:22.000 We got Martin Edgar.

01:51:23.000 He says, The viewing of pictures and video of combat is nothing like actually experiencing it.

01:51:29.000 Being there is 100 times worse from a Gulf War and Somalia vet. 1.00

01:51:33.000 Thank you for your service, Mike.

01:51:34.000 24ID3CE Victory Division.

01:51:38.000 What do you, without, I want to ask you all about your experience in the war.

01:51:42.000 We don't have time for that on this show tonight, obviously, but like what was the biggest difference in the perception of what it was going to be and then what it was in reality when you were there?

01:51:52.000 I think the effects on innocent people, right?

01:51:56.000 You fight an insurgency, which is the most difficult thing to fight.

01:52:00.000 It's not conventional forces going head-to-head in an open field like the Civil War.

01:52:04.000 It is literally going door-to-door and then going, is that guy going to kill me?

01:52:08.000 Is that guy a bad guy or is that an innocent person?

01:52:10.000 And innocent people are affected by it.

01:52:12.000 So, when people talk about civil war, what they're really talking about is an insurgency, where you can't identify friend from foe.

01:52:19.000 Where the person that's waving at you, friendly, that one second, is throwing a grenade into your vehicle the second.

01:52:27.000 So that is very difficult to manage and for me the most difficult thing in my nine trips and four and a half years to war was seeing innocent children and women affected by that.

01:52:39.000 The men, middle-aged males who were aggressively going after us in a war, free game, but you'll never be in a conclusive battle.

01:52:49.000 Just you and bad guys toe-to-toe.

01:52:52.000 All of these bad guys are surrounded, using them as human shields by their children and their women.

01:52:57.000 And it's disgusting to see that, but that's the horrific side of war, I think.

01:53:01.000 One of the, and this is just a video I saw.

01:53:04.000 One of the most brutal videos was a father holding his son who had died in, you know, street conflict.

01:53:10.000 And the sound that man made, it's just like, man.

01:53:14.000 You know, these LARPers, these Antifa people who want a revolution are going to be the first ones crying and begging for... These people who pretend to want this revolution, as soon as they get what they want, they'll be begging for an authoritarian regime to take over and bring back stability by any means necessary.

01:53:30.000 They will cry and beg.

01:53:31.000 It was a mistake.

01:53:32.000 We didn't mean it.

01:53:32.000 We mean it.

01:53:32.000 We want Trump.

01:53:33.000 In Russia, they call it calm.

01:53:34.000 They want calm.

01:53:35.000 They don't talk about peace.

01:53:36.000 They talk about calm.

01:53:37.000 Just want to be able to walk down the street, pick up a loaf of bread, go back home and share it with your family and not have to worry about getting hit by shrapnel or an IED.

01:53:45.000 Let's see, Below Few says, last night you guys talked about how infrequently men cry compared to women.

01:53:51.000 I had a pretty good streak going until you started reading detransitioning perspectives on Reddit.

01:53:55.000 Very powerful episode.

01:53:56.000 Yeah, that was the members-only thing we did last night.

01:53:59.000 We were talking about these issues and we pulled up the D-Trans subreddit where it's mostly young women talking about how they were misled and how they regret this and their lives are destroyed.

01:54:10.000 The terrifying thing is how some of these people are talking about taking their own lives and, you know, we want desperately to avoid all of that, but we got dark days in this country, man.

01:54:23.000 All right.

01:54:24.000 KG Seath says Jocko Willink on Joe Rogan said cops should be trained in jujitsu.

01:54:31.000 Yes.

01:54:32.000 At what belt level do you think would be sufficient for an officer?

01:54:35.000 Blue at a minimum.

01:54:36.000 So there's white and then blue, which is general proficiency, both top and bottom.

01:54:42.000 So you understand leverage and control.

01:54:45.000 I think at a minimum, it needs to be blue.

01:54:47.000 And I think the experts, including Jocko Willink, who is an expert, would say the same.

01:54:52.000 Would you have it done at the police academy level, or is this something that you'd have to continuously pursue, like someone with a fitness test?

01:54:59.000 Good point.

01:54:59.000 I mean, the biggest deficiency in obviously going after defunding the police officers is budgets and constraints that are within the department.

01:55:09.000 And what I tell people, as I did in the military, I wasn't a great operator in special operations because the military or the institution made me such.

01:55:17.000 I went out on my own time and went to jiu-jitsu dojos, shot competitions on the side, and did all these things that made me better.

01:55:26.000 So I would say, yes, part of that should be the institutional academy or patrol academy, but they should not use that as a crutch and do it on their own, being more silver lining.

01:55:38.000 All right, Ayazia Fraser says, no Tim, fiddles are quite difficult to play.

01:55:43.000 Trump plays them like the cheap kazoos they are.

01:55:45.000 Uh, they're also expensive.

01:55:47.000 Yeah, so, uh, good, good point.

01:55:49.000 Fair point, uh, point taken and accepted.

01:55:51.000 I just can't get over, like, being, he tells me how good I am, like, what?

01:55:55.000 Yeah, how talented I am.

01:55:57.000 How incredibly talented.

01:55:58.000 Trump's so great, man.

01:56:00.000 He does, he does, uh, He has these lines that you're just like, no one in the world would script this for you.

01:56:07.000 I just, whoever would try to recreate a Trump speech, I just, I can't imagine what that task must be like.

01:56:15.000 All right.

01:56:15.000 Manifest of Destiny says, Tim, if you call bourbon whiskey one more time, I'm going to declare a Kentucky fatwa on you.

01:56:21.000 All right.

01:56:22.000 All right.

01:56:22.000 Point taken.

01:56:23.000 Point taken.

01:56:25.000 All right.

01:56:25.000 We got, we got way too many super chats today, but I really appreciate it guys.

01:56:30.000 Aaron Bisogno says, Tim, huge fan and paid member.

01:56:34.000 Thanks for inspiring me.

01:56:35.000 I'm currently running for city council in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

01:56:37.000 I've been going door-to-door in my Don't Snake Me Bro t-shirt and it's working!

01:56:41.000 Nice.

01:56:42.000 That's right, man.

01:56:43.000 The machine is terrified that the culture is shifting to such a degree.

01:56:47.000 You know what?

01:56:48.000 You know what?

01:56:48.000 I noticed something today.

01:56:50.000 I hate Netflix.

01:56:51.000 I just finished watching Lock and Key.

01:56:53.000 Have you guys heard of that show?

01:56:54.000 No.

01:56:55.000 Three seasons, and they've cancelled it.

01:56:57.000 And that's it for me.

01:56:58.000 I am done with Netflix.

01:57:00.000 I liked that show. 0.97

01:57:01.000 The third season sucked. 0.83

01:57:02.000 And I was like, that's a bummer. 0.75

01:57:04.000 They cancelled the show.

01:57:06.000 They run all of these shows for two seasons and then cancel them outright.

01:57:09.000 I wonder why that is.

01:57:10.000 They're also charging now like 20 bucks a month or something.

01:57:13.000 They're putting commercials in.

01:57:14.000 Don't they want to crack down on password sharing too?

01:57:16.000 Yep, yep.

01:57:17.000 It's like their famous threat.

01:57:18.000 A big part of it is probably because the actors' contracts are up and they're gonna have to get and renegotiate 10x if they want to keep them on.

01:57:24.000 My point is, I wonder just nobody's watching their shows anymore.

01:57:28.000 Like the culture is decaying.

01:57:30.000 But then I look at the Daily Wire just hiring a Disney executive to be their CMO.

01:57:35.000 I think chief CMO.

01:57:37.000 And like their influence is taking over.

01:57:40.000 I wonder if the old guard is already doomed and we're just watching them slowly now slump off and fade into the distance.

01:57:48.000 And I was realizing as I'm watching Netflix and I'm like, all of these shows were cancelled.

01:57:52.000 Like, why are you showing me shows with no resolution?

01:57:54.000 I'm not gonna watch 10 episodes of a show and then be like, but they cancelled it too bad.

01:57:57.000 That's lame.

01:57:58.000 And that's what Netflix is right now.

01:58:01.000 So, I'm looking at what's going on and I'm just like, yo, the culture war?

01:58:06.000 We are winning it.

01:58:08.000 And they're panicking over it.

01:58:09.000 They're going after Trump.

01:58:10.000 They're going after Jones.

01:58:10.000 They're freaking out.

01:58:13.000 I think there may be dark days ahead for sure, but... It's a transition to a new world order, man.

01:58:17.000 And we're involved.

01:58:18.000 We're transitioning it as we speak.

01:58:20.000 It's a great debate.

01:58:21.000 Yeah.

01:58:23.000 Steve Graves Radio says, I believe a civil war is avoidable if enough regular people speak up and express their honest opinion.

01:58:28.000 That is why I took your advice and created a YouTube channel called Steve Graves Radio.

01:58:32.000 Very grateful to any feedback and subscriptions.

01:58:35.000 Glad to hear it, man.

01:58:36.000 Yeah, that's the unfortunate thing.

01:58:37.000 We talk about it quite a bit.

01:58:39.000 People who are afraid to share their views because the machine will punish them.

01:58:44.000 It's a paradox.

01:58:46.000 The only reason the machine will come after you for speaking up for your opinion is because no one does.

01:58:51.000 If literally right now every single Trump supporter just came out and put a Trump flag on their lawn, The machine would invert.

01:58:58.000 All of a sudden all the Democrats would be like, I was always a Trump supporter!

01:59:02.000 Because they see the widespread popularity in their city. 0.98

01:59:04.000 I don't know if signage is the way to go, that's kind of a virtue signal thing, but making a fucking channel and speaking your mind is number one. 0.52

01:59:13.000 See, I think you should also just have these conversations honestly with people around you.

01:59:16.000 I think so often people avoid talking about, not even politics, just like things you believe in, your values with your friends and neighbors because you're afraid of seeming different or isolating them or maybe making them feel judged, which is obviously a sin.

01:59:30.000 You know, to a certain extent you just need to both live your values and be open about your values so people who may not share them can talk to you about them in a reasonable way.

01:59:39.000 I think it's great if you want a big online platform to reach other people, but really it should start at the building block, which is like on your street in your community.

01:59:49.000 I guess we were both right.

01:59:50.000 Yeah.

01:59:51.000 Okay.

01:59:51.000 I'm open to signs.

01:59:52.000 I'm not saying don't do it, but I think that's also a way for the deep state to target people.

01:59:56.000 If they go around, they just find out who it is.

01:59:57.000 I'm not like, you don't have to put a sign.

01:59:59.000 But I do think that like, if you don't feel like you can tell the people you think are your closest friends, who you voted for and discuss openly, like when you have differences of opinion, then you are probably not being honest with the people around you.

02:00:10.000 You're never going to be able to have authentic progress without that.

02:00:13.000 Dude, the internet video changes stuff so rapidly.

02:00:17.000 It happens so fast when a lot of people start doing it, and community comes out of it.

02:00:21.000 It's great.

02:00:22.000 It's the best part of this whole thing is like even these long form discussions from four different people from different walks of life.

02:00:30.000 Like people are more interested in that because it feels more real because it is real.

02:00:34.000 Versus, you know, talking heads telling talking points.

02:00:38.000 Like who wants to see that anymore?

02:00:39.000 The future of I think media across the board is what this is and different forms of it.

02:00:45.000 Which I love.

02:00:46.000 That's what I digest.

02:00:48.000 I don't subscribe anymore to institutions, especially woke ones, that have an agenda.

02:00:53.000 I'm more interested in free thought and ideas and then collecting those people, like even the Daily Wire, because they have diversity, and then collecting all that and then absorbing it.

02:01:04.000 All right.

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