Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - COVID Lockdowns Are Returning Due To Delta Breakthrough Cases w-Kenny Xu

00:00:00.000 Oh man, it's just one of those days.

00:00:20.000 YouTube wasn't letting us create the stream for some reason, and so we had to keep trying to recreate it, so you gotta put a title, and you gotta put the description, and do all this work, and then we're like, okay, go, and then YouTube goes, deleted, no, and then we're like, uh, okay, refresh, try again, and then the same thing happens, and I'm just like, oh, jeez, dude.

00:00:37.000 Oh, man.

00:00:38.000 Well, it's a crazy, crazy time out there, man.

00:00:41.000 We're hearing some restaurants in LA are being forced to shut down because some of their fully vaccinated staff members have contracted breakthrough cases of COVID.

00:00:50.000 There is a story going around.

00:00:51.000 Mitch McConnell insinuating the lockdowns will be coming back because enough people are not getting vaccinated.

00:00:57.000 And at the same time, for some reason, they're letting people just walk through the border.

00:01:02.000 In a viral video, you literally just see illegal immigrants escorted through the border with CBP standing there, you know, waving.

00:01:09.000 Come on in!

00:01:10.000 It's amazing.

00:01:11.000 They're saying over 300 plus either people or groups.

00:01:14.000 I'm not sure if they're saying groups.

00:01:15.000 The local journalist said the group was seen coming through over 300 plus seen earlier today.

00:01:19.000 So maybe he means people, but I mean, they're just...

00:01:22.000 Welcoming people in at a time when there's a 900% surge in COVID cases among the illegal immigrants that are coming through the border. 0.87

00:01:29.000 So if they're saying that lockdowns are looming because of the rise in these cases, and then they're letting in tons of people who have COVID, either they're really, really dumb or intentionally bringing about, yeah. 0.68

00:01:43.000 COVID lockdowns. 0.81

00:01:44.000 But we'll get into that.

00:01:45.000 And we're also going to talk a bit about critical race theory, because there was some error.

00:01:48.000 I guess apparently the Biden administration was pushing some anti-whiteness and then got questioned on it.

00:01:53.000 And they were like, yeah, no, we should not have done that.

00:01:58.000 And so now they're walking things back.

00:01:59.000 And we're going to be talking about this with Kenny Hsu, who is the author of An Inconvenient Minority and Presumably a Self-Described Inconvenient Minority.

00:02:09.000 Is that a fair assessment?

00:02:11.000 Perfectly fair.

00:02:12.000 Um, yeah, do you want to just give a quick introduction to who you are what you do?

00:02:12.000 All right.

00:02:15.000 Yeah Yeah, so I am the author of the new book an inconvenient minority the attack on Asian American excellence and the fight for meritocracy I talked about this value about of meritocracy that our culture is increasingly losing because it increasingly wants to Treat people on the basis of their race and not on the basis of the content of their character.

00:02:40.000 So what do we lose when we penalize Asian American success or just American success?

00:02:46.000 Because it's not just about Asian Americans.

00:02:49.000 It's about anybody who works hard, studies hard, tries to be successful.

00:02:54.000 And what do we do when we penalize the excellent?

00:02:56.000 Well, I talk about that in my book, An Inconvenient Minority. 0.99

00:02:59.000 I think we'll just end up like a bunch of... American society and the global society will just be a bunch of really, really dumb people. 0.99

00:03:06.000 It'll be like idiocracy. 1.00

00:03:08.000 And I'm not even joking, right?

00:03:10.000 You take away meritocracy, and people earn things not based on merit, but based on identity.

00:03:14.000 It's like, what are they doing?

00:03:15.000 It's like sorting chickens, you know what I mean?

00:03:18.000 Like, oh, these ones gotta go over there, and these ones gotta go over there, and it's just like... How does that help humanity in any way?

00:03:24.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:03:24.000 You want to watch a very hapless and boring sports game.

00:03:28.000 Get some of the most mediocre people and make them start.

00:03:32.000 It's like that South Park episode, remember?

00:03:33.000 Sarcastable?

00:03:34.000 Where the kids were playing with balloons or whatever and they were wearing bras and stuff like that.

00:03:40.000 So we'll get into this stuff.

00:03:41.000 We got Ian sitting here wearing a weird shirt.

00:03:44.000 Thank you, Tim!

00:03:45.000 I'm glad you approve.

00:03:47.000 This is very interesting because a lot of excellence, when you put people into a meritocracy, falls along, I think, the Pareto distribution.

00:03:54.000 And Jordan Peterson was talking about this, that you have very, very few people at the very top.

00:03:59.000 And you can see this throughout almost all of human culture.

00:04:02.000 And the only place where it seems to fail is money, because money gets passed down.

00:04:07.000 So you get these people that are born into extreme amounts of wealth.

00:04:11.000 And so there's a bit of a...

00:04:13.000 Merit meritocracy imbalance when it comes to wealth.

00:04:16.000 Yeah, I mean that's totally true I mean and you know, it's funny because our elite right now People are fighting over these scarce elite prestigious positions at places like Harvard University and and now you know people are a lot of these ambitious people and feel like they have to be a part of some victim category in order for them to have a shot at a place like Harvard or a shot at a place like a prestigious arts fellowship or you know a Guggenheim or something like that.

00:04:50.000 And it's funny because you see this and now you have one out of six people in Gen Z, one out of six Generation Zers Think that they are LGBTQ plus, um, which is an interesting thing if you think about it, because, you know, we know that biologically speaking, um, that is much higher than the ratio of people biologically who would be LGBTQ plus.

00:05:17.000 So you're saying there's like a social component.

00:05:19.000 So there's a social component.

00:05:20.000 There's a reason why people tend to identify in that direction.

00:05:23.000 People actually want to identify now as victim categories because it does give them these unearned privileges.

00:05:28.000 I think a lot of people have pointed it out, too.

00:05:30.000 Just claim underprivileged status.

00:05:34.000 I think it was Brown University that allowed people to identify as a minority, if they so choose.

00:05:38.000 Yeah.

00:05:38.000 Well, we'll get into all of that.

00:05:39.000 We got Lydia Preston-Buttons. 0.65

00:05:40.000 I am in the corner.

00:05:41.000 I'm sorry my cool shirt can't compete with Ian's cool shirt.

00:05:44.000 I'm a little bit jealous.

00:05:45.000 And I just wanted to say that Abigail Schreier talks about the social component of, like, making this a cool thing, and especially among young women, it's a huge problem. 0.72

00:05:53.000 It's an issue.

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00:08:58.000 Let's jump into this first story and just talk about what's been going on with these lockdowns.

00:09:02.000 L.A.

00:09:02.000 restaurants are forced to close amid rise in COVID-19 cases as California coronavirus hospitalizations hit highest point since March.

00:09:11.000 The Daily Mail reports some L.A.

00:09:12.000 restaurants that have prevailed through the pandemic lockdowns are now closing their doors as cases rise, mainly due to the Indian Delta COVID variant.

00:09:21.000 It comes as they all see an increase in cases, and California has seen infections rise to 5,063 per day, or a 160% increase from 1,900... Wait, what is this?

00:09:33.000 From 1,946 two weeks ago.

00:09:33.000 Oh, oh, I'm sorry.

00:09:36.000 Bottega Louie and The Village Idiot have posted on their Instagram pages about closing. 0.87

00:09:40.000 The Village Idiot said it closed because a fully vaccinated staff member was diagnosed with the virus.

00:09:45.000 At least seven counties in California. 0.97

00:09:47.000 Making up more than half of the state's residents are urging residents to wear masks indoors.

00:09:52.000 California's hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have more than doubled in the last month, according to the LA Times.

00:09:58.000 Now, you may have heard LA, they're doing mandatory masks indoors. 0.94

00:10:02.000 Las Vegas is.

00:10:03.000 We get this.

00:10:04.000 On Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot suggested she may make masks mandatory, like LA, as cases increase 164% in a month, from 34 per day to 90 per day.

00:10:19.000 And they go on to say they're blaming this on Delta, but let me highlight something else.

00:10:23.000 Mitch McConnell warns there could be lockdowns if Americans don't get vaccinated as the Delta variant continues to wreak havoc. 1.00

00:10:31.000 I'm just going to come out and say, man, it is going to be incredibly difficult to convince people that they should get the vaccine if we're hearing at the same time they're planning lockdowns regardless of the vaccine.

00:10:42.000 So whenever we talk about this stuff, you know what we say?

00:10:45.000 Go talk to your own doctor.

00:10:46.000 You know what's really crazy, though?

00:10:48.000 We're watching all this stuff happen.

00:10:50.000 There's a lot of stuff we'll get into in a minute, too, especially with like the economy, you know, Joe Biden's town hall.

00:10:56.000 For some reason, it has now become, I guess, on the left, Anti-vaxxer to say, talk to a doctor about what's right for you.

00:11:08.000 Wow.

00:11:09.000 Yeah, so there was a post by Casey Neistat.

00:11:12.000 Cool dude.

00:11:13.000 I've known him for a while.

00:11:13.000 Big fan, right?

00:11:14.000 He's a cool dude.

00:11:15.000 And he just put, get vaccinated.

00:11:17.000 And I said, no, talk to your doctor, okay?

00:11:19.000 He's like, don't be so absolute.

00:11:20.000 Yes, you'll probably end up being advised to get a vaccine.

00:11:22.000 I'm not saying don't get vaccinated.

00:11:24.000 I'm saying talk to a doctor.

00:11:26.000 A lot of people say, like, oh, my doctor's not smart, or I don't trust my doctor.

00:11:28.000 It's like, OK, get a better doctor.

00:11:30.000 If I invited a plumber to my house, and I was like, my toilet's clogged, and he was like, I recommend smashing it with a sledgehammer, I'd be like, bro, are you a plumber or not?

00:11:38.000 I'm going to find a plumber who's going to be like, I will fix your toilet. 0.94

00:11:40.000 You know what I mean?

00:11:41.000 So anyway, look, I said, go to a doctor.

00:11:45.000 Ask them, you know, just five minutes, not even just, hello, doc, what do you think?

00:11:48.000 You know, here's my age, here's my history.

00:11:50.000 The doctor says, well, here's what I think.

00:11:52.000 But for some reason, I am getting attacked by a ton of people who are like, that's anti-vaxxer. 1.00

00:11:56.000 They're like, why be so dumb? 0.94

00:11:58.000 It's actually against the rules on YouTube to tell people not to go to a doctor. 0.99

00:12:04.000 This is the point we're at right now, where regardless of the news, regardless of what's going on with lockdowns, you have, I guess, vaccine zealotry.

00:12:12.000 Of like, just let the strange man come to your door, knock on your door, and give you a vaccine.

00:12:16.000 It's like, well yeah, but you know, if they do, call your doctor and say, what do you think?

00:12:22.000 Apparently that's bad now, I guess?

00:12:23.000 That's where we're at?

00:12:25.000 Wow.

00:12:25.000 You know, it's, it's, it's crazy because you have these, the government imposed lockdowns, right?

00:12:32.000 And they, and they said, um, we are doing this for your, your benefit, your safety, but then they're taking away all of control.

00:12:39.000 You know, they're taking away your freedom to be able to, um, you know, go where you want and do these kinds of things based on this virus.

00:12:46.000 And they're basically taking away your own ability to, to, to accurately judge for yourself.

00:12:52.000 You know, what the best thing is that works for you.

00:12:55.000 It's almost like, you know, I don't even know what to say. 1.00

00:12:58.000 I was genuinely surprised because people responded to me and they were like, you're so dumb. 0.99

00:12:58.000 I really don't. 0.99

00:13:03.000 Like, I get inundated with these tweets where they're like, you're dumb. 0.99

00:13:06.000 And they're like, the doc will just tell you the vaccine. 0.99

00:13:08.000 And I'm like, so what's the problem?

00:13:10.000 Like, seriously, here's what bothers me, right?

00:13:13.000 We have the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.

00:13:16.000 All right.

00:13:17.000 And they recently, like, added more numbers to it, and there's, like, a .0036— I think it's .0036.

00:13:24.000 I don't get the numbers wrong.

00:13:25.000 YouTube will get mad at me.

00:13:26.000 But it's, like, a very, very, very low amount of reported deaths from—in VAERS.

00:13:32.000 And, okay, so here's what I'm thinking.

00:13:33.000 I'm like, okay, what if we could reduce those numbers by making sure that people talk to a doctor before they just went out to one of these, you know, centers or before they decided to get vaccinated?

00:13:43.000 Because let's say there's somebody who would normally have a counterindication or an allergy, and you've got all the celebrities in the world, you've got people like Casey Neistat, and they're telling people to just go do it.

00:13:43.000 Yeah.

00:13:52.000 And Casey's response to me was that he went to a parking lot, waited 45 minutes, stuck his arm out the window, and then they said, carry on, good sir.

00:13:58.000 And I'm like, would you talk to a doctor first?

00:14:02.000 Even at these places, they want you to fill out the form to make sure you don't have any allergies or anything like that.

00:14:06.000 If we could get people to simply be like, hey, here's my history.

00:14:09.000 And then the doc said in that rare, rare instance, oh, hey, wait, what's that?

00:14:14.000 You've got a, you've got a glycol allergy or something like that.

00:14:16.000 Well, I'm going to go and say, don't do it.

00:14:18.000 Maybe we could reduce VAERS and reduce actual harm and vaccine hesitancy.

00:14:23.000 And then maybe then we could actually solve this problem.

00:14:25.000 But you know what, man?

00:14:26.000 The entire time we've been going through this COVID thing, we're like chickens running around with our heads cut off.

00:14:30.000 That's the thing.

00:14:31.000 What we need to avoid is panic.

00:14:33.000 That is the number one problem.

00:14:34.000 And I think we talked about this in March of 2020, Tim, you and I. The real danger that we face as a society is panic.

00:14:41.000 If we do this right, and we do it safely, things should be at least better, I would imagine.

00:14:47.000 Or the best they can be.

00:14:48.000 Bro, I don't even know anymore.

00:14:49.000 Alright, look, there's a video of illegal immigrants being just like walked through the southern border.

00:14:57.000 40 Border Patrol agents this year caught COVID.

00:15:01.000 A 900% increase in COVID cases among illegal immigrants.

00:15:04.000 And I'm just sitting here like, bro, I don't... I'm trying... Look, the people who watch this show are not dumb people. 0.97

00:15:10.000 They're often correcting us.

00:15:11.000 They're like, Tim, this is what you got wrong.

00:15:12.000 You get emails all the time.

00:15:13.000 And I'm like, oh, that's a good point.

00:15:14.000 How am I supposed to be, like, this voice of reason when I'm like, we really gotta, you know, everyone's gotta pitch in, go to your doctor, make sure you find out what's right for you and if you can't get that vaccine.

00:15:25.000 And then they're like, but Tim, they're just opening the security gates and walking people through that are sick.

00:15:31.000 And I'm like...

00:15:33.000 I don't know what to tell you, dude.

00:15:38.000 Take care of your own health.

00:15:39.000 That's first and foremost.

00:15:40.000 You know, what's really funny is I think I figured out exactly why they're mad about the talk to your doctor thing.

00:15:45.000 Because it's like deontology versus utilitarianism, which I reference every so often.

00:15:49.000 And it's the collective left are very much like, for the collective good, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

00:15:56.000 Whereas deontology is kind of broad, but the general idea is, you know, each action is its own action, right?

00:15:56.000 Right.

00:16:03.000 Don't take immoral actions against an individual.

00:16:06.000 It's not so much about the outcome, it's about the action you take.

00:16:08.000 So my attitude is kind of like, I wouldn't want to sacrifice anybody to any kind of risk factor.

00:16:16.000 But I would also rather I would I also recognize like okay, there may be risks, you know what I mean?

00:16:20.000 So how about we just make sure everyone is as informed as possible. So I say each individual

00:16:26.000 Don't get your advice from people like me You find a good doctor who knows a lot about this

00:16:33.000 You ask him specific questions to make sure that everything you're concerned about with your health is covered.

00:16:38.000 And then if they say, you know, here's what you've got to do, you take their advice.

00:16:41.000 If they prescribe you something, you say, okay, I do it all the time.

00:16:44.000 But I think the left gets mad because they're utilitarian.

00:16:47.000 They don't want individuals to be taken care of, I guess.

00:16:52.000 They don't focus on the act against the individual.

00:16:54.000 They don't care.

00:16:55.000 They want the hard numbers for the large group and the percentages of people who get shuffled under or left behind they just don't care about.

00:17:02.000 Well, that's a reasonable way, the way that you put it.

00:17:06.000 But the funny thing about what you just said, and then also what you said earlier about the panic about all of these lockdowns is that, and the fact that they're now closing these restaurant stores in California, you know, because somebody got the Delta variant of COVID, is that we already knew Based on the vaccine people's own data that you could still get COVID from the vaccine and then you know the COVID may be less effective but you could still die.

00:17:30.000 The vaccine may be less effective.

00:17:32.000 The vaccine may be less effective so you know what you know you so somebody you know got hurt From COVID, from the Delta variant.

00:17:40.000 But that's still within the realm of possible outcomes.

00:17:43.000 It's still an entirely reasonable outcome as to what happened.

00:17:46.000 And you shouldn't make a completely panicked move because of that.

00:17:52.000 What they're saying now is that... Well, for one, they're saying almost all of the cases and deaths are among people who are not vaccinated.

00:17:59.000 And we're still seeing a lot of stories about people who are getting it and are vaccinated.

00:18:03.000 But, you know, I always try to tell people Be careful about what the media highlights, you know what I mean?

00:18:07.000 It's the scaling problem, right?

00:18:09.000 Because there's so much media and there's so many people, of course if you give out 360 million doses or something like that, 336, you're going to get a large amount of adverse reactions.

00:18:20.000 Relatively large, you know, depending on what your perspective is.

00:18:22.000 And then news outlets are going to start snatching that up and writing about every single possible one.

00:18:26.000 So that's why I'm like, just talk to your doctor, because they might be like, look at this chart.

00:18:30.000 You know what I mean?

00:18:30.000 Right.

00:18:31.000 It's kind of on the media not to panic society because these shutdowns were really only because we didn't want to overload the hospitals in the beginning.

00:18:41.000 And it was only going to be 15 days just to make sure we could handle this mass, what we thought would be a mass influx of patients, which turned out I think, as far as I know, we never really had that mass, you know, hospital overrun that we thought we would.

00:18:53.000 Some places.

00:18:54.000 Some places.

00:18:55.000 There are videos of, like, people who go around.

00:18:57.000 They were going around during the height of the pandemic and finding empty hospitals.

00:19:01.000 But I think people misunderstood that it was, like, key areas were absolutely overloaded.

00:19:05.000 Now, as for, you know, New York, we know that there were some patient issues at hospitals in New York.

00:19:12.000 And so Cuomo decided he would just murder people instead of actually utilizing the Mercy or the Javits Center.

00:19:17.000 So he was warned, if you put sick people in nursing homes, you'll kill all these old people, and he was like, whatever.

00:19:23.000 Because if you were to put them in the Mercy or the Javits Center, which were, I think the Mercy had like one bed used, and the Javits was at 30%.

00:19:30.000 So we did set up this great, amazing center, like, we're really worried about this, and he was like, meh.

00:19:34.000 Did you ever find out why he didn't use the hospitals?

00:19:37.000 I mean, in my opinion, it's because it would have made Trump look really good.

00:19:41.000 But here's what they're saying.

00:19:42.000 They're saying right now, because people didn't get vaccinated, and I'm not entirely sure if this makes sense, but this is what they're saying.

00:19:50.000 Because people didn't get vaccinated, then transmissibility was still running rampant among people who were not vaccinated, which resulted in mutations.

00:19:59.000 which resulted in a more resistant vaccine resistant strain which somewhat reduces the efficacy of these vaccines and now you're getting fully vaccinated people who are getting sick with delta because i think they said it was like 88 but the thing i i doesn't quite make sense um i'm not i'm not quite sure that actually makes sense because youtube actually has a rule That you cannot say the vaccine prevents COVID.

00:20:23.000 That's actually in YouTube's rulebook.

00:20:25.000 So I'm like, well, if the vaccine was never 100%, then people could still get COVID.

00:20:31.000 It could still mutate and still become vaccine resistant.

00:20:34.000 You know what I mean?

00:20:34.000 I'm not sure.

00:20:35.000 You know what?

00:20:35.000 Look, I can't speak to the science on this one for sure.

00:20:40.000 We had Dr. Chris Martinson on the show.

00:20:41.000 He made his case in the Members Only podcast.

00:20:44.000 But we did pull up Scientific journals like studies that contradicted even what he was saying.

00:20:49.000 And I'm like, you know, people are going to pick and choose what they trust and what they want to believe.

00:20:54.000 Plus you've got the censorship of communist YouTube to deal with. 0.65

00:20:57.000 I honestly have no idea.

00:20:59.000 That's why I'm like, don't, don't come to me for advice, but I can't say one thing when you're ushering people through the border, the Biden administration and not doing anything about it.

00:21:07.000 I don't think they're serious at all.

00:21:09.000 I really don't think they care.

00:21:10.000 I am inclined to agree.

00:21:11.000 And you mentioned earlier about them being utilitarian.

00:21:14.000 But I'm not sure that you can look at the way that those Texas Democrats left the state with zero masks and who are now going back and spreading COVID among their own people.

00:21:23.000 And I don't think that you can look at the border and say that they actually truly care about the good of the whole when they're actively promoting policies that make it possible for, what, 900 percent increases in COVID cases at the border?

00:21:36.000 That's absolute insanity to me.

00:21:37.000 Yeah, I'm sure.

00:21:38.000 They don't.

00:21:39.000 So when Mitch McConnell's like, we're gonna go back to the way things were in 2020.

00:21:43.000 It's like, well, I guess so because not like anybody in the government has any idea what's going on.

00:21:47.000 When we said the 900% increase of border COVID cases, is that like gone from one to nine?

00:21:53.000 Or is that like?

00:21:54.000 No, it's like, it was like 14 to 190 something or whatever.

00:21:57.000 Okay.

00:21:58.000 Yeah.

00:21:58.000 And to be fair, to be fair.

00:21:59.000 That's a good point, Ian.

00:22:00.000 Yeah.

00:22:01.000 Because we did see 188,000 people cross the border this month alone.

00:22:06.000 Yeah.

00:22:07.000 Haven't, we've already hit a million this year.

00:22:09.000 Uh, so far it's only June and by the end of the year, we're going to have 2 million.

00:22:13.000 That's exciting.

00:22:13.000 So 180,000, you said cross the border?

00:22:14.000 And 180 cases out of 188,000 people.

00:22:14.000 188, I think.

00:22:19.000 I'm not entirely sure if that number is pertaining to all of the people who came through.

00:22:25.000 Be healthy, friends.

00:22:26.000 Yeah.

00:22:27.000 Yeah.

00:22:28.000 Check this out.

00:22:29.000 We got this story from TimCast.com.

00:22:30.000 Oh.

00:22:31.000 Okay, we gotta be careful on this one because I don't know if I can read this quote from Joe Biden.

00:22:35.000 It's against YouTube's rules.

00:22:37.000 I'm gonna read it anyway and tell you before I do.

00:22:39.000 Joe Biden, the president, is giving medical misinformation.

00:22:43.000 If I were to assert what Joe Biden said, YouTube would delete this video as per YouTube's rules.

00:22:49.000 Joe Biden falsely claims you're not gonna get COVID if you have been vaccinated.

00:22:55.000 That is not true.

00:22:57.000 Absolutely not true.

00:22:58.000 We've already seen breakthrough cases.

00:23:00.000 People who are vaccinated getting sick.

00:23:02.000 I think it was...

00:23:04.000 Was it Bill Maher?

00:23:05.000 Yeah, he was vaccinated and they cancelled his show.

00:23:05.000 Bill Maher, yeah.

00:23:08.000 Now we have restaurants shutting down.

00:23:10.000 Joe Biden, the President of the United States, is espousing medical misinformation, my friends.

00:23:16.000 So, for TimCast.com, we say, I guess we put we, we say we now because it's not they.

00:23:22.000 During a town hall on Wednesday night, President Biden claimed that people who have received vaccines will not get COVID-19 after fully vaccinated White House officials have recently been infected with the virus.

00:23:32.000 He said, quote, The various shots that people are getting now cover that.

00:23:32.000 Yeah.

00:23:36.000 You're okay.

00:23:38.000 You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.

00:23:40.000 That is wrong.

00:23:41.000 That is wrong.

00:23:42.000 YouTube.

00:23:43.000 You heard us.

00:23:43.000 See?

00:23:44.000 We're saying Joe Biden is incorrect.

00:23:46.000 And Joe Biden, the president, and the White House are giving medical misinformation and bad information.

00:23:51.000 We're doing what you want us to do, YouTube censors.

00:23:54.000 Yeah, they stopped.

00:23:54.000 statements come after multiple fully vaccinated Democrat lawmakers and White House officials

00:23:58.000 have become infected with the virus, beginning with the Texas Democrats who fled their state

00:24:02.000 to stop legitimate Democratic processes. The Texas Democrats first met with a Pelosi staffer

00:24:07.000 who became infected. So now I think the latest we saw was like a handful of White House staffers.

00:24:13.000 I don't think the Texas Democrats are going to give any more updates on how many of their

00:24:17.000 delegation stopped. Yeah, because it was like 11 percent of their delegation had already

00:24:22.000 become, you know, covid positive. And now, you know, Joe Biden goes on CNN and he gives

00:24:27.000 this bunk information.

00:24:28.000 I'm wondering if YouTube is going to ban Biden over this, you know?

00:24:31.000 They Twitter banned Trump.

00:24:32.000 I mean, Trump was relentless.

00:24:34.000 And I don't know how much, how many tweets did he put out that were wrong?

00:24:38.000 Well, wrong about what?

00:24:38.000 I don't know.

00:24:39.000 Just misinformation, I guess, would you say?

00:24:41.000 Countless, countless, 10, 20, 100.

00:24:44.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:24:44.000 I wasn't following.

00:24:45.000 You know, I'll tell you this.

00:24:47.000 You look at Twitter and you look at Joe Biden, you look at Trump, and it's just like static.

00:24:50.000 It's like looking at an old TV.

00:24:52.000 I if you guys are out there listening, don't ban him for this.

00:24:55.000 Don't ban Joe Biden for saying this thing.

00:24:57.000 I mean, he acknowledged that maybe it's wrong.

00:24:59.000 Maybe put a thing on there that how much how long until like, you know, Fauci comes out and actually says, oh, actually, you know, CDC guy like Joe Biden was right the whole time.

00:25:08.000 Apparently he's not.

00:25:09.000 Don't ban us.

00:25:11.000 Joe Biden is wrong.

00:25:12.000 It's the weirdest thing.

00:25:13.000 So there was a study from Oxford talking about a particular medication, I won't say because YouTube will ban us. 0.94

00:25:19.000 Oh my gosh, it's ridiculous.

00:25:21.000 Yeah, and I emailed Google, like, in order to talk about this, do I have to say that Oxford is wrong and the science is wrong?

00:25:31.000 And they were like, just make sure you provide adequate context.

00:25:34.000 And I'm like, I don't believe you.

00:25:36.000 Like, the rules explicitly say that you can't say there are certain treatments for COVID, but Oxford came out with a study saying they may, they may, may?

00:25:44.000 And I'm like, I can't even talk about that.

00:25:46.000 So I love, I love the sheer absurdity that is YouTube.

00:25:49.000 Back when all of this first started, I did a video about it.

00:25:53.000 It was when everything was going crazy in Wuhan and it wasn't spreading anywhere else.

00:25:57.000 And YouTube actually demonetized that. 0.89

00:25:59.000 And they told me, no, you can't talk about this.

00:26:02.000 And I was like, it's news.

00:26:04.000 It's really weird.

00:26:04.000 You know what I mean?

00:26:06.000 And then, like, a couple weeks later, they're like, OK, actually, yeah, you can't talk about it.

00:26:09.000 And I was like, OK... So this is the problem with censorship that these big tech platforms do.

00:26:14.000 By choosing, you know, to ban certain information, it's very likely, because they're not experts, soon, that information will actually turn out to be correct or important, and then they've banned it, and we've got to go back and change it?

00:26:30.000 Yeah, that's where we're at with Communist America and big tech and YouTube, so...

00:26:35.000 I don't know.

00:26:35.000 The information war is upon us?

00:26:37.000 I used to think that was more of a more of a an allegory or is that the right word for it?

00:26:43.000 I would say it sounded like hyperbole when Alex Jones was first talking about it, but I think it's a good assessment that it is 100% an information war, that fifth generational warfare we're seeing now.

00:26:52.000 I love being able to have a debate about an idea where one person has bad information and the other person is able to correct them and you can see the process because then other people that have the bad information also get to be part of that process.

00:27:06.000 So that's why I'm turned off by censoring things that are wrong.

00:27:10.000 I want to make sure I'm being fair to Joe Biden because it may not be that he's wrong.

00:27:16.000 It may just be that he doesn't know how to put words together.

00:27:19.000 That is true.

00:27:21.000 So in another story, I don't know if you guys watched The Town Hall.

00:27:24.000 This is, uh, from the Daily Mail.

00:27:26.000 They say, quote, the experts say we know that this virus is in fact, uh, um, uh, it's going to be, or excuse me, Biden loses his thoughts on vaccines, flubs answer on his foreign policy work, and falsely tells all town hall you won't get COVID if you have the shot.

00:27:42.000 That is incorrect.

00:27:43.000 Can't watch.

00:27:44.000 So I, I think the dude just isn't, isn't with it.

00:27:48.000 You know, I think most people realize that by now.

00:27:52.000 Help me.

00:27:55.000 Look, I mean, obviously we know, you know, we know what Joe Biden's strengths and weaknesses, particularly weaknesses are right now at this advanced age stage of his presidency.

00:28:04.000 I mean, I was always of the belief that Kamala Harris is really running a lot of the show on Joe Biden, especially with regards to his racial policy, his equity policy, everything like that.

00:28:16.000 I mean, say what you want about Joe Biden being ineffective, but all that does is that makes Kamala Harris and her agenda even more effective.

00:28:24.000 Well, so, so, you know, your book is about meritocracy.

00:28:28.000 And I don't even, we're sitting here like we know that you have this book and talking about stuff, and I can only assume you probably don't like Joe Biden, but I don't know.

00:28:28.000 Yeah.

00:28:35.000 I mean, maybe you love the guy, but you hate critical race theory.

00:28:38.000 Wow.

00:28:38.000 I mean, I, look, Joe Biden, here's the thing.

00:28:41.000 He, he did something.

00:28:43.000 He, he was, he was the candidate that was able, he was the only candidate the Democrats could run that was able to win back the Trump voters.

00:28:51.000 That was able to win back some of the Trump voters.

00:28:52.000 That, that's, that, that's what I think about Joe Biden.

00:28:54.000 And he did, isn't it crazy? 0.73

00:28:55.000 Trump lost white men.

00:28:57.000 Yeah.

00:28:58.000 You know, Trump won more Hispanics, more Asians, More black people than he did in 2016.

00:28:58.000 Yeah.

00:29:07.000 You know, this supposed racist, everything like that, won all of these groups more effectively.

00:29:13.000 The only place that the polls, the exit polls show he lost was white men.

00:29:18.000 Joe Biden, I guess.

00:29:19.000 Joe Biden, what do you think about regarding meritocracy as you've written a book on it and and the fact that we have a

00:29:24.000 Government or at least the top of our government the president where we vote people in based on popularity not

00:29:29.000 necessarily merit And so I want to know what there's merit in there, isn't 0.99

00:29:34.000 there not necessarily You can have some dumb idiot that everyone loves that becomes president and doesn't have any idea what they're doing because he's the most popular. 0.99

00:29:42.000 Well, the thing is, that's what some people think about Trump. 1.00

00:29:45.000 They think he's just a dumb idiot, but I think he has genuine merit. 1.00

00:29:48.000 He is probably the most effective marketing salesperson that we have, you know, that I've ever seen in my lifetime on the campaign trail. 1.00

00:29:57.000 You're saying that he is the greatest president of all time?

00:30:00.000 I'm saying he's the greatest marketing strategist of all time.

00:30:03.000 Do you think there's something we could do better with our government so that we could get more merit at the top?

00:30:08.000 Well, you know, they... Here's the thing about our political system, and this correlates kind of with meritocracy.

00:30:16.000 I take different definitions of merit.

00:30:20.000 So I don't think that the person who wins the president should be the person with the most degrees, or the person who's supposedly done the most for our country, or whatever.

00:30:27.000 The person has to really connect with the people.

00:30:30.000 And I think that our system, our political system, flawed as it is, still gives the people the ability To to make judgments on themselves, you know, to choose the president.

00:30:41.000 And I think that that that's worth preserving.

00:30:43.000 So you think that the president's main job is to connect with the people, not so much to be the best or at any one thing.

00:30:49.000 Right.

00:30:50.000 I mean, I mean, the president originally functioned.

00:30:52.000 He has a cabinet and that's where he brings in all of the best people and everything like that.

00:30:56.000 That's his choice.

00:30:57.000 But he has to be able to connect.

00:30:59.000 He's the executive.

00:31:00.000 Right.

00:31:00.000 The executive isn't necessarily the smartest person in the room.

00:31:03.000 The executive is a person who can connect all of the dots.

00:31:06.000 And form it into a larger vision.

00:31:08.000 That's what Trump did probably most effectively.

00:31:11.000 He was able to create that vision, Make America Great Again, Keep America Great, 2016, that resonated with a segment of the populace that the Republican Party had historically not been able to resonate with.

00:31:26.000 Well, I think that is meritorious.

00:31:27.000 That's very meritorious.

00:31:28.000 Absolutely.

00:31:29.000 Yeah.

00:31:30.000 And the one problem was that, you know, merit can go into a bunch of different directions.

00:31:34.000 Was Trump able to rally people and win an election?

00:31:37.000 Yep.

00:31:38.000 Does it show merit?

00:31:38.000 Of course.

00:31:39.000 Less, you know, Hillary Clinton had less. 1.00

00:31:42.000 However, when it came to actually administrating, Trump didn't have it.

00:31:42.000 She lost.

00:31:46.000 And that's why he ended up, for a variety of reasons I'll say, one of the reasons, He ended up not winning a re-election, though we'll see what happens next once people realize that Biden was actually the worst choice.

00:31:56.000 But one of the problems was the people he surrounded himself with.

00:31:59.000 Mark Milley, for instance.

00:32:01.000 This is a guy that Trump should have gotten rid of a long time ago.

00:32:04.000 Dr. Fauci.

00:32:05.000 Trump didn't have... he should have fired these people.

00:32:08.000 John Bolton.

00:32:09.000 Oh man, he hired the guy!

00:32:10.000 He still showed his political neophyte instincts when he chose Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State.

00:32:16.000 I mean, they obviously could not connect from the very start.

00:32:20.000 He started to be a little better towards the end in terms of his administrative picks.

00:32:25.000 But you could tell at the very beginning he was too hewn to the Republican Party and their instincts instead of being able to go with what his vision was.

00:32:35.000 And that harmed him because he only has four years.

00:32:37.000 You only have four years as president.

00:32:38.000 That's nothing.

00:32:39.000 That's no time at all.

00:32:40.000 Xi over here does not have four years.

00:32:42.000 Xi Jinping does not have four years.

00:32:44.000 He has 30 years to do whatever he wants and remake China in his own vision. 0.83

00:32:48.000 Is that how long it lasts?

00:32:48.000 30 years?

00:32:49.000 No, I mean, until you get deposed, or you die, or you retire.

00:32:53.000 Oh, they get elected for life?

00:32:55.000 You don't get elected for life, but you can extend your supposed constitutional authority however long you really want to.

00:33:02.000 Are they appointed by the party?

00:33:04.000 They are... yes.

00:33:06.000 And it's like a group of people at the top of the party decide?

00:33:10.000 Uh-huh.

00:33:12.000 Yes.

00:33:12.000 Yeah.

00:33:13.000 It's a totally different system in China than it is in the U.S.

00:33:16.000 We do have some good news, though.

00:33:18.000 I mean, it's kind of good news.

00:33:20.000 It's actually kind of bad news.

00:33:21.000 But there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

00:33:22.000 You know, a door closes and a window opens.

00:33:25.000 We got the story from TimCast.com.

00:33:26.000 White House spins.

00:33:28.000 Department of Education blames random error for document promoting critical race theory this fall.

00:33:34.000 And we also saw Jen Psaki challenged on this.

00:33:36.000 So the original story was that the Biden administration's guidelines for schools reopening this fall is backing a radical group's literature that promotes anti-racism training in public classrooms across the country.

00:33:46.000 Now we got to break down that word anti-racism.

00:33:49.000 Because if you are unlearned, you may just assume these code words, these dog whistles, just to mean what it means on the surface.

00:33:57.000 No, anti-racism, according to Ibram X. Kendi, is racial discrimination.

00:34:03.000 Quite literally.

00:34:04.000 You think it's anti-racism, like people aren't going to be racist?

00:34:07.000 No, no, no.

00:34:07.000 He wants them to discriminate on the basis of race.

00:34:09.000 What he's saying is that, like... Let's put it this way.

00:34:13.000 If racism is plus one, and not being racist is zero, anti-racism is negative one.

00:34:20.000 Yes.

00:34:21.000 It is a value in mirror image to racism that serves the same function, but for a somewhat different ideology.

00:34:29.000 That being, what he claims is, if we're anti-racist, meaning we actually implement the exact same policies of the past, but we do it, it'll be better this time!

00:34:41.000 And that just, as far as I'm concerned, it's just literally racism.

00:34:45.000 So the good news, I suppose, is that the Biden admin has backtracked after sparking a major backlash on social media regarding critical race theory, blaming a random error for a government guy that promoted a far-left group and their agenda.

00:34:59.000 We have this from the Daily Mail.

00:35:00.000 Jenteki claims it was an error to promote the group that urges teachers to disrupt whiteness and oppression after Republicans accused the Biden admin of flip-flopping.

00:35:09.000 Now, this is good news.

00:35:10.000 Apparently the Democrats are starting to get scared of wokeness.

00:35:13.000 There was a story in Axios.

00:35:14.000 We saw the victory of Eric Adams in New York City.

00:35:17.000 They're worried they're going to lose the midterms because get well, go broke.

00:35:22.000 Yeah.

00:35:23.000 Yeah, I mean, it's funny you bring up Eric Adams, because he was, in New York City, you would think, oh, there were a couple of really woke candidates.

00:35:32.000 Maya Wiley was a big woke candidate in New York City. 1.00

00:35:35.000 And you would think, oh, the black Americans and Hispanic Americans would vote for the woke candidate.

00:35:40.000 They didn't.

00:35:41.000 They voted for the candidate Eric Adams, who promised more police, not less police.

00:35:47.000 He promised public safety.

00:35:48.000 He said, I'm gonna make crime my number one issue.

00:35:50.000 I'm gonna make education my second biggest issue because the New York public system is so poor and it's not because of funding.

00:35:58.000 It's not because of what the teachers unions say, which is, oh, we need more resources.

00:36:02.000 Did you know that New York City funds students $28,000 a year.

00:36:05.000 They spend $28,000 a year per student, which is the highest in the nation.

00:36:08.000 dollars a year. They spend $28,000 a year per student, which is the highest in the nation.

00:36:14.000 So it's not about funding, but Eric Adams said, hey, look, we need to restore the culture of

00:36:21.000 So they actually voted for, in my opinion, the candidate that represented, you know, the least excesses of wokeness, fortunately. 0.97

00:36:33.000 Yeah.

00:36:34.000 And I'm not surprised.

00:36:35.000 I mean, we saw what happened in South Texas.

00:36:36.000 We saw what happened in Miami.

00:36:38.000 Now, of course, that was likely, you know, Hispanic individuals with experience with communism and Marxism. 0.69

00:36:43.000 But the other day, we had Ricardo and Jose Llamasan.

00:36:48.000 And Jose, he's an older gentleman.

00:36:51.000 He actually was in the anti-Fidel Castro underground in Cuba.

00:36:55.000 And he said, he said some scary stuff. 0.99

00:36:58.000 He said that if Black Lives Matter gets real power, they're gonna kill people. 0.97

00:37:01.000 He said that these people are Marxist, they're enemies from within, they're scary, and I'm like, man, this is a guy who had to flee Cuba because of what happened. 0.98

00:37:10.000 Now that is freaky.

00:37:11.000 The difference between Cuba and the United States, however, is that we got several hundred million people here.

00:37:17.000 Right now we got, what, like 170 or so million active voters.

00:37:22.000 So these are a lot of people that I don't think would allow the, as you described it, the excesses of wokeism to become too pervasive.

00:37:30.000 Now, what does it mean to be too pervasive?

00:37:32.000 Well, let's be fair.

00:37:33.000 It's pervasive.

00:37:34.000 It's in institutions.

00:37:35.000 It's in video games.

00:37:36.000 But I think people are starting to recoil from this.

00:37:38.000 That's why Joe Biden, the administration, had to backtrack.

00:37:41.000 They're getting worried.

00:37:42.000 I'm hoping that's the case.

00:37:44.000 I'm hoping they realize they are poisoning their party with this stuff.

00:37:47.000 I hope they're realizing they will lose elections unless they get away from this.

00:37:51.000 But I also have to add, they're never getting my vote back anyway.

00:37:55.000 They've crossed the Rubicon, as it were. 0.96

00:37:58.000 They went nuts. 0.95

00:37:59.000 Like, hardcore insane. 0.56

00:38:00.000 And now they want to come back and be like, oh, yeah, nice try, dude.

00:38:04.000 I'm not going to play that game with these people.

00:38:07.000 You look at New York, you look at what people wanted.

00:38:09.000 They wanted the ex-cop.

00:38:10.000 Eric Adams, right?

00:38:12.000 And you know, it's it's funny because during the campaign, if you remember Biden during 2020 campaign, Biden was pressured to say defund the police and he did not say defund the police.

00:38:25.000 And I'm convinced that if he went and crossed that line and he said, yeah, we're going to go defund the police.

00:38:32.000 I'm convinced that, you know, even more Trump voters, you know, even even, you know, the voters that he supposedly won back from Trump would have stayed with Trump.

00:38:42.000 Yeah, it would be over.

00:38:45.000 But now, unfortunately, you can see, you can see, of course, promises were made, promises were not kept.

00:38:45.000 Right, right, right.

00:38:53.000 Biden, you know, he's growing old.

00:38:55.000 He's growing senile.

00:38:56.000 He's letting Kamala Harris take over more of his administration. 0.93

00:38:59.000 What promises were not kept?

00:39:01.000 Well, this idea of Biden saying that he claims to be the unifier, the unifying candidate, I will unify America.

00:39:09.000 Instead, he's pushing divisive race ideology.

00:39:11.000 It's not even that.

00:39:12.000 He basically was talking about the divide in this country and how bad it is.

00:39:17.000 First of all, he launched his campaign on a lie, Charlottesville, the very fine people hoax. 1.00

00:39:23.000 He just absolutely rammed that lie on people's throat because he's a scumbag. 0.99

00:39:28.000 And now he says, you know, we need to unify, you know, we need to come together. 0.99

00:39:32.000 And it's like, dude just went on and gave a speech where he said the Republicans' voting legislation is the greatest threat since the Civil War.

00:39:38.000 You want to talk about bombastic and divisive language?

00:39:41.000 Sure, we can talk about critical race theory.

00:39:43.000 How about the President of the United States coming up and saying the Republican agenda is a bigger threat than the Confederacy?

00:39:49.000 That's what he literally said.

00:39:50.000 Dude's lost his mind.

00:39:52.000 The central banking system is more of a threat.

00:39:52.000 Yeah.

00:39:54.000 Fiat currency, the $28 trillion in national debt, the runaway inflation.

00:40:00.000 He's claiming it's not runaway.

00:40:01.000 What was his exact words?

00:40:03.000 Any of you guys remember off the top of your head?

00:40:04.000 He was like, it's OK.

00:40:05.000 It's just inflation.

00:40:06.000 It's going to get back to normal.

00:40:07.000 He said something like, this will not increase inflation.

00:40:09.000 He said that, I think, three times in a row because he's super with it, as we all know.

00:40:14.000 But I was like, There's no way that you can look at this and say that inflation is not coming.

00:40:18.000 In fact, Janet Yellen has even said, yeah, we expect some form of inflation.

00:40:24.000 Look, we can survive inflation.

00:40:26.000 We can make it past our milk costing more money. 0.97

00:40:29.000 And that, it sucks.

00:40:31.000 I mean, he's got no solutions. 0.98

00:40:32.000 He's mocking these business owners.

00:40:34.000 I believe he's essentially mocking them.

00:40:37.000 But I'll tell you, we can get through that and we can argue about it.

00:40:41.000 Combine that.

00:40:42.000 Combine a massive escalation in the cost of food with Joe Biden saying the Republican agenda is the greatest threat since the Civil War.

00:40:50.000 This guy is flicking matches at a powder keg.

00:40:54.000 We talked about last night with Jose Lamas about the Cuban revolution, how Castro betrayed the revolution and essentially didn't install their democracy.

00:41:04.000 And I asked him, what could we have done differently?

00:41:06.000 Or what could they have done differently in 1960 that would have prevented it?

00:41:09.000 He said not to be more patient, not to revolt against Batista.

00:41:14.000 Because what they thought was Batista was running for election again, and they thought it was going to be rigged.

00:41:18.000 So they were like, they had a preemptive revolution to get this guy out of office before he could So this I could see something like that happening in this country with all this divisiveness, people thinking there's election issues, that people would act impatiently.

00:41:30.000 And I think it's it's up to us to stay, you know, calm, even if the system seems flawed, that we, you know, remain and work within the system.

00:41:38.000 You see, you see Joe Biden said the other day as well that he wants to, he's working to ban any weapon with the ability to take multiple rounds.

00:41:45.000 Yeah.

00:41:45.000 Wow.

00:41:46.000 Huh.

00:41:46.000 He basically, let's be real.

00:41:48.000 He was not very articulate, but he wanted to say weapons that can take multiple rounds, like 20, 30, 40, 50, 120.

00:41:56.000 You don't need them.

00:41:57.000 And I'm working hard to ban them.

00:41:59.000 And now I know a lot of people on the left are going to try and play this game.

00:42:01.000 I should, I'm sorry.

00:42:02.000 I'm going to walk that back.

00:42:02.000 I'm sorry.

00:42:03.000 I know a lot of the establishment Democrats because leftists actually like guns.

00:42:06.000 are gonna play this game where they're like, oh, he didn't mean banning every gun.

00:42:10.000 Oh, he meant this.

00:42:11.000 I don't care what you think he meant, because y'all can't read his mind.

00:42:15.000 He said it.

00:42:17.000 So if you're talking about a weapon that can take a detachable magazine,

00:42:20.000 then you can have a variety of magazines of sizes.

00:42:23.000 That's what he's talking about.

00:42:24.000 The Democrats have long said they wanted to ban semi-automatic weapons.

00:42:27.000 Why should I believe Biden meant something else?

00:42:30.000 So I bring that up, because one of the other things

00:42:33.000 that Jose mentioned about Cuba was that Fidel Castro came out and said

00:42:37.000 the famous question, guns, for what?

00:42:39.000 And everyone was like, yeah, for what?

00:42:41.000 And then they threw all their guns into a pile, and then the communists took over, 0.55

00:42:45.000 and they got to live under a boot for the next several generations.

00:42:48.000 Yeah.

00:42:49.000 Right.

00:42:50.000 Yeah.

00:42:52.000 It's crazy.

00:42:53.000 I mean, you know, the funny thing is, you know, you go to China and China, of course, the communist party, um, has a, has a huge monopoly over the arms, over arms and everything like that.

00:43:05.000 And not only do they have a monopoly of arms, they have increased their monopoly to surveillance.

00:43:10.000 And now they can surveil you, you know, for, for whatever thing.

00:43:13.000 So now they control the arms and they control, you know, your actions that can control your thoughts.

00:43:19.000 You know, and they can incentivize you based on your thoughts.

00:43:21.000 This is the whole idea of like a social currency.

00:43:23.000 They have a social currency system in China now.

00:43:25.000 And it's like, this is the direction that we are progressing as a country.

00:43:30.000 And people think, oh, it's just guns.

00:43:31.000 It's not a big deal.

00:43:32.000 You know, we just, you know, that kind of thing.

00:43:34.000 That's what progressives think.

00:43:35.000 But you realize that guns is the linchpin.

00:43:38.000 It's the physical linchpin that is able to defend all of the rest of the rights that we hold so dear.

00:43:42.000 This is what these establishment dimes don't understand, right? 0.99

00:43:46.000 These establishment voters, these default libs.

00:43:48.000 They're like, you know, Joe Biden says, you need an F-15 and nukes to go up against the government.

00:43:53.000 It's not true.

00:43:54.000 There's a reason why we don't have, to a certain degree, jackboot Biden thugs kicking doors in and dragging people out by their hair, especially over COVID and lockdowns.

00:44:04.000 But you do see things like that in Australia and New Zealand and Canada and the UK.

00:44:09.000 There's a reason why it's a little better here.

00:44:12.000 It's not perfect. 0.96

00:44:13.000 We absolutely do have cops will kick your door in and then, you know, arrest you or just shoot you.

00:44:16.000 But the thing is, The fact that so many Americans have guns makes it extremely difficult to violate human rights.

00:44:23.000 Because you never know if you're going to encounter someone who's going to be able to defend themselves.

00:44:26.000 It equalizes a little bit of the power between the government and the individual so that they have to go through the proper motions.

00:44:32.000 It's not hard for a government to oppress you using bureaucracy.

00:44:36.000 It's actually very easy.

00:44:37.000 However, gun ownership protects you.

00:44:40.000 A little bit.

00:44:42.000 And in the long run, if done properly, can protect a nation forever. 1.00

00:44:46.000 So long as you don't end up with people saying the stupid question, guns for what? 0.99

00:44:51.000 Which is what they're doing over and over and over. 0.99

00:44:53.000 What do you need a gun for?

00:44:54.000 And I'm like, none of your business.

00:44:55.000 I don't need to give you an answer.

00:44:55.000 Who cares?

00:44:59.000 I think the Founding Fathers kind of put the Second Amendment into place because they expected the government to grow and grow and grow, as governments do, like they would talk about.

00:45:07.000 We're not a bunch of men governed by angels.

00:45:09.000 We're men governed by men. 0.67

00:45:11.000 They understood the shortcomings.

00:45:12.000 They were like, okay, the government's going to grow.

00:45:14.000 We need to kind of put citizens on a slightly more even playing field.

00:45:18.000 And that was unique.

00:45:19.000 Like, you didn't see that in Cuba when this was going on.

00:45:21.000 You didn't see that in Mao's China.

00:45:23.000 This is something that we need to pay attention to.

00:45:25.000 This is not something that we can afford to lose.

00:45:27.000 So, I don't want to say this is pessimistic.

00:45:30.000 A lot of people seem to think that when I talk about escalation in a conflict, it's pessimism, and I'm like, don't take it to a dark place.

00:45:37.000 It's realism.

00:45:38.000 Take a look at this story from the Daily Mail.

00:45:38.000 Right.

00:45:40.000 Exclusive.

00:45:41.000 Do you want to pay $50 for a hamburger, Joe?

00:45:45.000 Furious restaurant owners vent at Biden for telling them to raise wages, what they say will lead to more inflation and drive them all out of business.

00:45:55.000 This story, what does it have to do with what I just said?

00:45:57.000 Food costs are typically the number one indicator of when a revolution happens or some kind of major revolt.

00:46:04.000 So if Joe Biden and the White House administration are giving everybody $15-$16 an hour not to work, Restaurants are shutting down.

00:46:11.000 Taco Bell, food shortage.

00:46:13.000 Wendy's, I think.

00:46:14.000 Chicken food is a shortage on chicken.

00:46:17.000 And I think there may be on beef.

00:46:18.000 There's a labor shortage across the board because of the unemployment.

00:46:22.000 Food costs go up.

00:46:24.000 So this guy asked Joe Biden, you know, hey, what do we do?

00:46:26.000 We can't hire people.

00:46:27.000 And he goes, that's your problem.

00:46:28.000 Pay more.

00:46:29.000 What?

00:46:30.000 So think about, and we've mentioned this a lot, but think about, if someone's getting $16 an hour to not work, why would they accept $16 an hour to work?

00:46:38.000 You're basically offering them $0 for 40 hours a week.

00:46:42.000 Right, right.

00:46:43.000 And I had a friend, you know, in Virginia, my old friend, where he works as a bartender, and he comes back to me, and we were just catching up, and I'm like, So how's it going at work?

00:46:54.000 And he's like, it's great.

00:46:55.000 I'm like the only bartender here.

00:46:56.000 I'm getting all the tips.

00:46:58.000 I'm like, well, that's great for you.

00:46:59.000 But what happened to all the rest of them?

00:47:00.000 And he said, well, guess what?

00:47:03.000 They just never came back.

00:47:04.000 Just never came back.

00:47:05.000 And the owner is completely relying upon me to do all of the bartending.

00:47:09.000 That's a bad sign for a restaurant.

00:47:10.000 I've been in that position before the restaurant went out of business.

00:47:13.000 And that's where we're headed.

00:47:13.000 Yeah.

00:47:14.000 So where does it feel like this is all going?

00:47:18.000 There are these memes.

00:47:20.000 Man. 0.91

00:47:21.000 It is so hard to live in a functioning society when you have young, idealistic individuals with arrogance but ignorance.

00:47:30.000 So there's this viral tweet that keeps getting reposted by young people on Reddit because they just don't know what they're talking about.

00:47:37.000 And it's like this tweet goes, So if we raise the minimum wage to $15, you're mad that everyone's getting paid the same as you?

00:47:46.000 Then go to your boss and tell them you want to raise, or you can go work an easier job for more money.

00:47:52.000 And if you can't figure that out, you need to reassess your critical thinking skills.

00:47:56.000 And I just like, facepalm so hard I nearly break my nose, because I'm like, first of all, whoever said fast food was an easier job than working where you were at?

00:48:04.000 You know what I mean?

00:48:05.000 The assumption that the job's gonna be easier, no, it's probably worse, it's a low-skilled job.

00:48:08.000 But anyway, regardless, if you go to your boss and say, hey, I can go get that job for 15 bucks an hour and it's easier, give me more money, okay, then the cost of goods at your business goes up to accommodate the rise in labor costs.

00:48:23.000 Now, the guy who flips the burgers realizes that he can't get your service anymore because it's too expensive.

00:48:29.000 It normalizes.

00:48:31.000 Regardless of what artificial numbers you put in place, it won't change anything other than to drive up inflation.

00:48:36.000 Inflation can move very, very quickly in the short term, but people's salaries are much harder to move.

00:48:43.000 And the hardest thing is rent.

00:48:46.000 And that is, I think, the breaking point for the system.

00:48:49.000 Rent.

00:48:50.000 Why?

00:48:51.000 Rent is locked.

00:48:53.000 Building management is not.

00:48:55.000 So let's think about it this way.

00:48:57.000 This guy says, you gotta pay me more, otherwise I'm gonna go, I'm gonna quit.

00:49:01.000 And so the guy says, okay, I'll pay you more.

00:49:03.000 Let's say that guy is a building manager.

00:49:05.000 He's the, or the superintendent, the guy who makes sure the pipes are working and repairs things.

00:49:10.000 He's getting paid, you know, he's in New York City, gets paid 50k, whatever, he manages this big building.

00:49:14.000 Well, now his cheeseburgers cost $30 because they're paying all the employees 20 bucks an hour, 25 bucks an hour to accommodate, to beat in competition the government's free money.

00:49:26.000 So now he goes to the building owner and says, if you want me to maintain this building, I need a massive raise.

00:49:34.000 Because if these people are getting $12 an hour, now they're getting $20?

00:49:37.000 I mean, that's nearly a 50% raise.

00:49:39.000 So he's like, I want $75,000 a year.

00:49:42.000 The landlord says, there is no way I can afford to pay you that because I don't make that much in rent from this building.

00:49:50.000 And then he says, then I will quit.

00:49:53.000 If he quits, then who maintains the building?

00:49:55.000 Nobody will.

00:49:56.000 Do you think the people who are there, who are talking about how the rent is too high, are going to be able to pay to fix the pipes?

00:50:01.000 What if the pipe bursts in the hallway, which is a communal space?

00:50:03.000 Who's responsible for it?

00:50:06.000 So maybe the landlord says, okay, then I'll have to raise rent.

00:50:10.000 Yes, when the leases are up, because you can't just go to the individuals and say, hey, I'm jacking your rent up.

00:50:15.000 So that's where there's a hard stop.

00:50:17.000 The building managers, the maintenance, the repairs will immediately need more money, but the landlord can't get it.

00:50:24.000 And some states have rent control.

00:50:25.000 I think California does, where you can only raise the rent like 3% annually.

00:50:30.000 And so what they'll do is they'll try and get you to move out so that they can then re-rent the place for like 10 times or twice the cost.

00:50:30.000 That's right.

00:50:37.000 The end result of this will be people becoming homeless.

00:50:37.000 Literally.

00:50:40.000 Because either the landlord says, I'm done with the building, I can't afford to pay it, I'm selling it.

00:50:46.000 Yes, and then you have to move out.

00:50:47.000 If they sell it, they'll- And it goes to Blackrock.

00:50:50.000 To somebody who says, we can eat these costs.

00:50:52.000 Or they say, everybody get out.

00:50:55.000 I don't care.

00:50:56.000 Or they say, I'll turn it over to you.

00:50:59.000 They become slumlords.

00:51:00.000 Unable to afford the short-term inflation hits them, but rent can't change so they can't make that money up that quickly.

00:51:08.000 I had a place in LA that I was renting and the owner sold it.

00:51:11.000 And then, so they gave me a notice.

00:51:12.000 They were like, you have to move out.

00:51:14.000 So here, we're going to pay you to move out.

00:51:14.000 We sold it.

00:51:17.000 They paid me like a month, two months rent or something to move out.

00:51:20.000 But I had to move out.

00:51:21.000 Wasn't anticipated.

00:51:22.000 Here's the problem.

00:51:22.000 Let's say you live in this building and the landlord says, we're going to pay you to move out.

00:51:26.000 You go up on Craigslist or whatever website you use, Zillow.

00:51:29.000 And you notice all of a sudden, like you were paying, you know, $2,000 a month for your, for your apartment in New York.

00:51:35.000 And you got to leave all the apartments now are three grand.

00:51:35.000 Yep.

00:51:37.000 Yeah.

00:51:38.000 Because any listed apartment of course will be raised to accommodate for

00:51:42.000 maintenance costs.

00:51:43.000 And then you're out, you're homeless or you move out of the cities, move

00:51:49.000 somewhere cheaper and then probably encounter the same problem.

00:51:52.000 Or maybe you just say, I give up.

00:51:55.000 Give me the free money from the government and I'm going to go live in a van down by the river.

00:52:00.000 Yeah.

00:52:00.000 And this is so, I mean, this is so interesting because, you know, everybody talks about, oh, it's, it's just inflation.

00:52:06.000 Jobs are going to increase.

00:52:07.000 But what happens with inflation is exactly like you say, um, the fixed costs that, not the fixed costs, the costs that are unable to be leased up.

00:52:18.000 Within a certain period because of contractual obligations tend to fold things tend to go bankrupt and People get homeless.

00:52:24.000 This is how you cause a lot of social problem with just a very small Small shift in in in the in the economic atmosphere and this is like this is what happened with the Great Recession, right?

00:52:35.000 I mean with the Great Recession you had a default rate that rose somewhat significantly in the homeownership because people were not able to pay back their mortgages and And because of that small shift in mortgage rates, there were so many financiers who bet on low default rates, and they were not able to get the returns that they want.

00:52:57.000 That caused a massive gradated shift across the economy that eventually resulted in the Great Recession.

00:53:01.000 So these little things make big differences.

00:53:05.000 Yeah, I guess long story short.

00:53:08.000 I think they're doing it on purpose, you know?

00:53:11.000 If someone came to me and they laid these pieces out in front of me and said, take a look at these puzzle pieces.

00:53:17.000 What picture do you see?

00:53:18.000 And I'm like, Joe Biden purposefully tanking the economy to trigger some kind of mass unrest?

00:53:23.000 I was talking to Allison earlier, and I was like, after seeing the news about them opening up the border gate and just letting people walk through, and the COVID rates are rising among them, 40 Border Patrol agents getting COVID, regardless of whether or not there's a, because we mentioned 188,000, but how many people actually had COVID and how they based on that ratio.

00:53:45.000 Regardless of that, they're saying without mass vaccination, then we have to lock down.

00:53:50.000 Okay, but you just let in 188,000 people and you didn't test them or vaccinate them.

00:53:54.000 So how are we supposed to increase that ratio when you're pumping the numbers back down? 0.64

00:53:58.000 I said, there is no way the Biden administration is so dumb that they're seeing that and simultaneously seeing vaccination rates and going, Oh, this is fine. 0.93

00:54:10.000 This works. 0.99

00:54:11.000 No, I'm sorry, man.

00:54:13.000 I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I, as some random individual, know more than they do. 0.98

00:54:18.000 Joe Biden, we can claim, is just sitting there like a Muppet, dumb as a box of rocks, and Kamala's doing it, but he's got a cabinet. 0.97

00:54:24.000 And certainly these people are like, oh, look at that, a million people this year. 0.99

00:54:28.000 How are we supposed to track for that?

00:54:30.000 How are we supposed to avoid lockdowns and restrictions if they're just opening the gates and letting people come through?

00:54:36.000 They have to see that, right?

00:54:38.000 Like, they realize the paradox in what they're asking for.

00:54:42.000 They unfortunately don't have... They have to see it.

00:54:44.000 They don't have to understand it or recognize it.

00:54:46.000 That's the problem with cognitive dissonance.

00:54:48.000 Do you really think that these people in government are like, I don't understand why this is a problem?

00:54:53.000 I think...

00:54:54.000 A lot of the people are they know full well the Federal Reserve is out of control and that the economy is going to crash as if it keeps inflating.

00:55:01.000 So they're just hitting the gas and they're like in behind closed doors.

00:55:04.000 They're like calculating the losses that we're going to see a lot of people are going to be this a lot of people are going to be that they're just accepting it behind closed doors and just like the Great Depression telling us everything's fine.

00:55:14.000 I think you're right.

00:55:14.000 To go back to what you were saying about the Great Recession, Kenny, with all the problems it led to, I don't think we've ever escaped the Great Recession.

00:55:22.000 I think the Titanic hit the iceberg, and it's just a long and slow split.

00:55:28.000 Because if you look at the money stock, the M1 money stock, you can actually see that everything's very stable in terms of growth until 2008.

00:55:36.000 It goes up sharply.

00:55:37.000 And then 2020, it spikes, and they're like, but we changed the way we calculate this.

00:55:43.000 Oh, that's right.

00:55:44.000 Yeah, see what happened was, because of COVID, they said you can now use your savings accounts like checking accounts, which it put all of a sudden the money and savings accounts into the general money supply, causing a massive spike.

00:55:58.000 So it looks, I think that big spike we saw is the Titanic splitting.

00:56:03.000 And now it's going to go down, and Ian, you are correct, I agree with you, because I think what they're doing, I think they know, that's my point, they're watching, they know, but they're the people who are trying to steal as much of the fine china and silverware before the ship goes down.

00:56:17.000 They're grabbing as much as they can, so imagine being on this boat.

00:56:20.000 And then you hear a big rumble and you're like, what was that?

00:56:23.000 And then you see these super rich people just frantically carrying silverware and running full speed towards the lifeboats.

00:56:29.000 And you're just like, I wonder why they're doing that.

00:56:31.000 At least we're not being locked in our rooms with the doors welded shut.

00:56:35.000 Well, to be fair, people in cities technically stay at home orders all last year.

00:56:42.000 Now the threats of more lockdowns.

00:56:43.000 Regarding bringing meritocracy into the economy, because like I was saying at the beginning of the show, Jordan Peterson mentions, you see it throughout culture, except in economy, because ultimately wealthy people transfer wealth to kids that aren't necessarily intelligent or valuable, but they're super... Or valuable?

00:57:00.000 Yeah, valuable to society is what I mean.

00:57:01.000 They're more of a drain than a plus.

00:57:03.000 But what I think we can do is create a system where everyone can have their own cryptocurrency.

00:57:09.000 I've talked about this before.

00:57:10.000 And then you can, if you want to like subscribe to my channel for 10 bucks a month, cool.

00:57:14.000 But if you want to pay me an Ian coin, I'll give you a 10% discount.

00:57:17.000 So I generate desire for my token.

00:57:20.000 And so we've created almost like a meritocratic economy where there's all these different currencies and the valuable ones are the ones that give you the most utility.

00:57:28.000 Maybe.

00:57:28.000 Right, right.

00:57:29.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:57:31.000 I mean, I think crypto is interesting.

00:57:34.000 There was a huge crypto revolution in 2017, 2018.

00:57:38.000 Everybody thought all of their cryptocurrencies were going to go and be great.

00:57:42.000 But actually, Pareto rule, only one or two of them really ended up skyrocketing.

00:57:46.000 It was Bitcoin and Ethereum.

00:57:48.000 Yeah, but if you bought Dogecoin back when it came out, man, you got rich.

00:57:53.000 There's like one dude who's a millionaire now off Dogecoin.

00:57:55.000 I'm not too worried about the actual dollar value because in a system like that, there would be no central currency that everything is valued at.

00:58:03.000 They would all have value based on the individual.

00:58:07.000 Well, I mean, the reason why we have a single currency money economy is to facilitate transactions, just to make it a lot easier.

00:58:15.000 Wouldn't it be easier for the world if everyone had a one-world currency?

00:58:19.000 Yeah, that sounds like a globalization.

00:58:20.000 Yeah.

00:58:21.000 Why wouldn't it happen?

00:58:22.000 Look at Bitcoin.

00:58:23.000 Bitcoin's used by everybody around the world.

00:58:25.000 It's true.

00:58:26.000 So, I don't know if Bitcoin will ever be hard currency, but we're certainly moving towards a future where some crypto will be.

00:58:31.000 And maybe that's kind of the point.

00:58:33.000 Maybe the Titanic hit that in 2008.

00:58:35.000 When did Bitcoin come out, Ian?

00:58:37.000 2008 2009 2009 right wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, so somebody saw it was like

00:58:37.000 2009?

00:58:37.000 2008?

00:58:42.000 We need we need I mean look I'm not saying conspiracy I'm saying the crisis happens and this satoshi dude or

00:58:49.000 whoever whether it's a multiple people or not was like that's a problem

00:58:52.000 We need sound currency Bitcoin boom so now what happens is

00:58:58.000 It's just dominoes falling over, man.

00:59:00.000 We start seeing economic crisis, economic collapse.

00:59:02.000 The government is full of a bunch of Benny Hill-type stooge cops running around, holding their hats, frantically trying to figure out what's going on.

00:59:09.000 And it's all melting down.

00:59:11.000 And then in the end, what happens?

00:59:12.000 Everybody in the world uses one thing.

00:59:14.000 Bitcoin.

00:59:15.000 We're in a position now as the United States where we have the power.

00:59:18.000 It's kind of like George Washington when he was president.

00:59:20.000 He had the power.

00:59:20.000 They wanted him to become a king.

00:59:22.000 They want the United States to stay the power.

00:59:24.000 But we have a responsibility, just as Washington did, to give that power away, to step down.

00:59:30.000 And I think now we're in the position to create a world economy that, with all these different types of currencies that intermingle and intercorrelate, Yeah, you know what, man?

00:59:39.000 I would love for there to be some kind of system, global system, that defends freedom, protects sovereign borders, but still allows us to avoid war and function in a unified manner in a certain sense.

00:59:55.000 Wait, hold on.

00:59:56.000 Global system that protects freedom.

01:00:00.000 How could a system, which is by nature organized and therefore has to suppress some freedom in order to gain organization, also protect freedom?

01:00:09.000 Like a bill of rights, a system based around a core of ideologies that says, in order to violate a person's rights, there must be due process.

01:00:20.000 So we have organized a system in the U.S.

01:00:22.000 Not perfect, but pretty good.

01:00:23.000 Now, there's a lot of places in the world that don't have that.

01:00:26.000 I'm not suggesting we go with force and kick their doors in and then staple constitutions to their walls.

01:00:31.000 But it would be awesome if, whatever ends up happening with mass communications, we don't end up with a Chinese communist-style overarching global authority.

01:00:40.000 We end up with a classically liberal, we respect, if you live in the United States, then you are allowed to set the laws for the United States.

01:00:46.000 However, no war.

01:00:47.000 International agreements on not having war, not stealing resources.

01:00:51.000 You know, there's gotta be something.

01:00:54.000 I'll tell you this.

01:00:55.000 There's that famous quote that I think it was from one of the Rothschilds, I'm not entirely sure, you would probably know, where he said that it's not, it's not, it's not that, what did he say?

01:01:05.000 Globalization will happen whether anybody wants it to or not, or something like that.

01:01:10.000 And a lot of people I know, a lot of libertarians and ANCAPs, think he was, you know, twirling his mustache going, yeah, globalization will happen!

01:01:18.000 When in reality he was saying, like, the way the world is going with communications and trade, we will eventually have a one world government.

01:01:25.000 The goal, I suppose, is the United States and those who live in it should be able to have their rights respected within their own borders.

01:01:31.000 They should have their constitutional freedoms and rights.

01:01:33.000 They shouldn't be banned or censored or shut down.

01:01:35.000 But there could be international agreements on what happens in the event of conflict, of war, of territorial disputes.

01:01:43.000 So we can get to that point.

01:01:44.000 We can have a system.

01:01:45.000 We already do have a system by which we have an international currency.

01:01:47.000 It's called Visa and MasterCard.

01:01:49.000 I can go to any country in the world in my car and swipe and buy what I want, and it's so easy.

01:01:52.000 The Swift payment system?

01:01:54.000 The global Swift payment system?

01:01:55.000 Because I'll tell you, man, I've been watching a lot of Stargate SG-1, and you know what one of the biggest problems is?

01:02:00.000 And I'm not talking about the fiction of the show, I'm talking about what the writers perceive when they're making the show, is that when they encounter other worlds and try to negotiate, they say, you can't negotiate on behalf of your people.

01:02:11.000 Like, if we give you weapons or utility, you'll go to war and you'll destroy yourselves. 0.61

01:02:15.000 So we need to have some kind of... We need to have a way to prevent World War III or whatever.

01:02:21.000 Now, of course, there are powerful global interests, elites, who desperately want a one-world authority.

01:02:29.000 The only problem is they're crackpot authoritarians who would burn your life to the ground, and they don't care about you as an individual.

01:02:37.000 They care about the numbers, the utilitarianism.

01:02:39.000 That's a nightmarish world to live in.

01:02:41.000 That's what the Chinese Communist Party does.

01:02:43.000 So I'm saying we don't want that.

01:02:44.000 Okay, but let me give you a different perspective.

01:02:47.000 You know, our Founding Fathers were authoritarians.

01:02:50.000 They were authoritarians?

01:02:51.000 Well, this is what I mean.

01:02:53.000 I mean that we gave them authoritarian power to write our Constitution.

01:02:58.000 Like, at one point in time in the U.S.

01:03:01.000 history, we had an authoritarian government because those people were the ones who eventually came together and then they created the constitutional system that now protects freedom.

01:03:11.000 But in order to do that, we had to trust them with the ability to To make a constitution and a bill of rights and then to actually execute on that, at least for the first few years.

01:03:20.000 But they didn't just write a constitution and staple it to a wall and say, this is what you have to deal with.

01:03:24.000 It was actually extremely difficult.

01:03:26.000 In order to actually get the constitution, they were going to states and negotiating, and the states were like, bug off, we don't care, we don't want this.

01:03:32.000 And it was actually very, very difficult.

01:03:34.000 It took, I think, over like 15 or 20 years to finally get states to actually vote for and sign on to the constitutional system.

01:03:40.000 It did, it did, but we still trusted them to make the initial creative effort.

01:03:46.000 Now, we had the ability to provide a backlash against that, but again, George Washington could have been king.

01:03:52.000 He could have been a president.

01:03:54.000 So, he had to actually step down and say, okay, I'm not actually going to do that.

01:03:59.000 Other people... Well, that just shows we didn't have the authoritarian Right, and that system was still being developed at that time, and there were people who exercised sort of authoritarian influence, like in Marbury v. Madison.

01:04:10.000 Judicial branch was not granted the ability for judicial review at the time.

01:04:14.000 They gave themselves the ability for judicial review in Marbury v. Madison.

01:04:18.000 So they kind of had a little bit of a, we're gonna get some power.

01:04:22.000 Nobody gave them the ability to do that, but they did.

01:04:25.000 But is that is that is that is are some instances of authority being exercised in bad ways indicative of the entire system being authoritarian at some point?

01:04:35.000 I would say, yes, you have totalitarian authoritarians, which are very dangerous.

01:04:38.000 Where, like, the author of the Constitution is the authoritarian.

01:04:42.000 I mean, it's the exact same word.

01:04:44.000 Authoritarian.

01:04:45.000 Yeah, that's the root of the word authoritarian.

01:04:46.000 It's author.

01:04:47.000 Authoritarian is a system defined by an authority that commands on down versus liberty, a liberty-based system, a weaker centralized power structure.

01:04:57.000 I think there's never all or none.

01:05:00.000 You always have aspects of authority within any given system.

01:05:03.000 A family unit, a government, a democratic... So if you go all the way to the top of the political compass to authoritarian, you've got a guy who's beating the peasants to death and holding people at gunpoint to steal their stuff.

01:05:14.000 Excessive authoritarianism.

01:05:16.000 That's the epitome of authoritarian.

01:05:18.000 If you go all the way to the bottom, you get anarchy.

01:05:20.000 And it's where either you have free trade anarchy, where it's, you know, ANCAPs, or you have anarcho-syndicalism or communism, where people are sitting around and basking in the glories of their labor, which is utopian, to be completely honest.

01:05:32.000 And that's like a lack of authority.

01:05:33.000 Or a tribe.

01:05:35.000 Anarchy means without authority.

01:05:35.000 Right.

01:05:37.000 So if you go all the way to the bottom with anarchy, you can literally have a small tribe of people who agree to share things and don't really ever think about money, or you can have free market capitalists that are just like, hey, the market dictates.

01:05:48.000 So, just because somebody says, I should have the ability to, like, you know, there's somebody who says, I'm writing this constitution and this is what I think we should do, doesn't mean the system is authoritarian.

01:05:56.000 They're, like, so, we can either, it's a gradient.

01:06:02.000 You could be 60% libertarian with 40% authoritarian, you can be, you know, any number.

01:06:07.000 Well, you know what Thomas Hobbes says about that.

01:06:09.000 What does he say?

01:06:10.000 I mean, he says, the function of a government is to hold people at gunpoint.

01:06:14.000 They have the The function of government has the power to hold somebody at gunpoint and demand things from them, you know that he said Even basically even we have this he would say, you know We have this veneer of liberalism right now where we give the people the illusion the ability that they have, you know rights and sincere voting power, but really

01:06:35.000 You know, who has the ability to coerce you?

01:06:37.000 It's the government.

01:06:38.000 It's true, but... In that sense, it's authoritarian.

01:06:42.000 Just because there are rules doesn't mean we're an authoritarian government.

01:06:44.000 Because the one thing about the United States is, and this is a lesson conservatives should have learned a while ago, you're allowed to speak, for the most part, and use that ability to build culture.

01:06:55.000 Now there are confines in the Overton window.

01:06:57.000 But because many people on the right weren't actively building culture, they were chasing after it, constantly defending from what the left wanted.

01:07:05.000 The left owns the narrative.

01:07:07.000 In the United States, we have an authoritarian culture that is taking over.

01:07:11.000 We still have some libertarian aspects within it.

01:07:14.000 And if we don't stop the authoritarian encroachment, it goes into government, which it is, with what Joe Biden is doing.

01:07:19.000 And this is something I was talking about four or five years ago.

01:07:23.000 And now here we are, where we're dangerously close to the government absorbing authoritarian cultural aspects and the people who oppose it being too fractured to do anything about it.

01:07:33.000 What I mean to say is, for the longest time, the United States was not authoritarian in that you could absolutely have your crackpot free speech group going around saying crazy things, and even have the ACLU defend you as you marched through Skokie, Illinois, with saying horribly anti-Semitic things.

01:07:48.000 But that was because we authoritatively decided you could do that by saying, if you're going to stop them from doing that, we're going to arrest you.

01:07:57.000 So they have freedom.

01:07:59.000 That's the authoritarian aspect of our government.

01:08:01.000 You misunderstand what authoritarian means.

01:08:03.000 You think so?

01:08:04.000 Yeah.

01:08:05.000 A cop who says, I can't arrest a guy for speaking is an authoritarian.

01:08:08.000 A cop who says, I can arrest you if you try to physically harm that person is still not an authoritarian.

01:08:14.000 Oh, I think they are authoritarian.

01:08:15.000 I mean, police by nature are authoritarian.

01:08:17.000 They are the author of law.

01:08:19.000 Or they're at least the arm of the author.

01:08:20.000 They're an authority.

01:08:21.000 I think you misunderstand authoritarian, which is a government system of a top-down authority and centralized powers.

01:08:27.000 I would argue that saying that a government... saying the big A, authoritarian, is a misnomer.

01:08:32.000 That you really can't say a government is or isn't.

01:08:35.000 You're just confusing authority.

01:08:36.000 It's always a gradient of authority within a government.

01:08:38.000 So you're confusing the word authority with authoritarian.

01:08:42.000 So the police are constrained by the public in many, many ways.

01:08:45.000 Now the cops can do bad things. 0.91

01:08:47.000 They can seize your guns with a smile on their face when they do it.

01:08:50.000 They will kick grandma in the teeth to enforce these lockdowns. 1.00

01:08:53.000 So we're entering that period.

01:08:55.000 We are entering an authoritarian government because it starts with a culture and moves in and nothing was going to stop it.

01:08:55.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:09:00.000 But in the 60s, we had civil rights where they integrated the schools with authoritarianism.

01:09:06.000 They went in with guns in their arms and said, this school is now integrated.

01:09:10.000 But that wasn't because a king or a centralized command structure made it so.

01:09:15.000 It was.

01:09:16.000 The president issued it.

01:09:18.000 Yes, and it was because of mandate from the public.

01:09:21.000 True, yeah.

01:09:22.000 We are our own author in that system.

01:09:23.000 So you're confusing authoritarian Well, maybe it's the totalitarian, which is the extreme authoritarianism, is actually totalitarianism.

01:09:32.000 If you've got a house with ten people in it, and six people demand pepperoni on their pizza, and four demand pineapple.

01:09:42.000 Is it authoritarian when the six people are like, we're ordering pepperoni?

01:09:46.000 No, it's a democratic vote.

01:09:49.000 Now, democracy can be tyranny, tyranny of the majority, but there's a big difference between a centralized hierarchical command structure of authority that dictates everyone has to do something and no one can do anything about it, and a group of people coming out, voicing their opinion, and the system changing in response to the will of the people.

01:10:02.000 Right, when you have one person issuing the authority, it's very dangerous, but when you have a group able to do it, it's called democracy.

01:10:07.000 So to clarify too, there can be cult authoritarianism for sure.

01:10:12.000 Everybody marching to dogma and just reacting in a certain way.

01:10:16.000 And that's Black Lives Matter and critical race theory and critical race applied principles.

01:10:21.000 But when that goes into government, you end up with dictatorial presidents screaming at the top of their lungs, threatening people and using those powers against their perceived enemies.

01:10:31.000 And that's when your government becomes authoritarian.

01:10:34.000 Okay, it's interesting.

01:10:36.000 I want to go back to your pizza example for a sec.

01:10:39.000 I think it's interesting.

01:10:40.000 So the group decides, so six people, there are ten people, six people decide on pepperoni, four people decide on pineapple, but someone still has to make the call to Domino's and say, okay, we're getting pepperoni pizza.

01:10:56.000 Now that person may say, I have the mandate to call dominoes, uh, because we have the majority who said they want pepperoni.

01:10:56.000 Yep.

01:11:05.000 So I'm going to call pepperoni.

01:11:07.000 But what if somebody on the pineapple side was like, well, no, you don't have the mandate because we want to make it unanimous.

01:11:14.000 And you're like, well, no, I think it's majority rule.

01:11:16.000 And then at that point it's a, it's actually, I could see it be the person who calls the pepperoni is actually just asserting his power over the other 10 people.

01:11:28.000 Did you agree to the rules?

01:11:31.000 did they? Yes, I mean we've long had a structure in place of like, here's how we'll have the vote.

01:11:31.000 I don't know.

01:11:36.000 Here, here, good sir, and we shake hands. These are the rules for the game in terms of how we make

01:11:39.000 decisions. Then four people start screaming, it's not fair, it's not fair. It's what you get with

01:11:43.000 2016. They all agreed to the rules of the election and then screamed, all these horrible things about

01:11:49.000 Donald Trump. When it came to the 2020 election, a bunch of Republicans and Democrats started

01:11:53.000 changing voter rules in many states, which resulted in a major lawsuit by Texas, which is

01:11:57.000 very, very different, which is I can understand why many of the Trump supporters are angry about

01:12:00.000 about it, among other things.

01:12:02.000 So, the issue is, if you and I agree, we're going to arm wrestle, and the winner gets to choose what topping we put on our pizza, and you lose, you can't then claim, well, you don't have the mandate.

01:12:11.000 That's authoritarian.

01:12:12.000 I'm like, bro, we agree to this.

01:12:13.000 We agree to a sorting mechanism by which we decide how things are made.

01:12:17.000 Just because we have to make hard decisions and someone has to be the one to do it, doesn't mean that it's an authoritarian system.

01:12:24.000 If Black Lives Matter gains power because of their cult ideology, they will have the ability to enforce this because they have a bunch of zealots who go around smashing windows and beating people. 0.99

01:12:33.000 But there will be one person who exercises the authority and dictates to their cult to go and take action.

01:12:40.000 Then, the will of the people doesn't matter anymore.

01:12:41.000 So you look at Cuba.

01:12:43.000 Most people did not want communism.

01:12:45.000 They did not want a dictatorship.

01:12:46.000 But they were tricked and manipulated, and the revolutionary forces of Castro had the ability to take whatever they wanted.

01:12:52.000 People resisted.

01:12:53.000 There was no agreement to that.

01:12:54.000 That was authoritarian.

01:12:56.000 No one voted for him to do this.

01:12:58.000 Well, actually, I don't know exactly if maybe they had a faux vote, but I'm pretty sure the elections never came.

01:13:02.000 That's what José was saying.

01:13:03.000 The Constitution never came, the election never came, and before we knew it, Castro was just the dictator who controlled everything.

01:13:09.000 That's where we're going, thanks to critical race theory and the elimination of meritocracy.

01:13:13.000 The idea is, you cut off the tall grass, you take away anyone's ability to challenge you, and you mandate things based on seemingly random characteristics, and then, that's probably one of the surefire ways towards authoritarianism.

01:13:28.000 With a meritocratic system, it's not as easy to have authoritarianism, but you can, right?

01:13:34.000 With a meritocratic system, you can get, let's just call it a free market system.

01:13:39.000 Over time, monopolies form, power develops, and you get the East India Trading Company.

01:13:42.000 No regulation, the wealthiest, most powerful company that ever existed.

01:13:46.000 And they can do what they want, set up cities, enslave people, attack people.

01:13:50.000 With centralization, with leftist ideology, with things like critical race theory, you use ideology and you just centralize authority immediately.

01:14:00.000 So instead of taking a long amount of time to earn your position, they assert it by force.

01:14:05.000 I mean, this is the premise of my book, you know, An Inconvenient Minority.

01:14:05.000 Right.

01:14:09.000 So, you know, critical race theorists, you know, they actually, it's funny the way we talk about critical race theorists, because you need to realize that critical race theorists use race as a marketing tool.

01:14:20.000 They use race as a marketing tool to get people of that race to support them, to value them, to buy their books, to vote for them, everything like that.

01:14:29.000 Race is a marketing tool at this stage of things.

01:14:35.000 It's a marketing tool for the purpose of eventual oppression because if you can convince somebody that their race is what matters to you and race is a set of characteristics that involves not acting white or acting white or this kind of thing, then you can convince them to do things based on things that they wouldn't otherwise have chosen to do because you've appealed to a racial identity. 0.68

01:14:57.000 Well, there's another component to the critical race theory stuff, and it's the riots.

01:15:02.000 That's their physical enforcement.

01:15:03.000 If you don't agree with them, they smash your window.

01:15:06.000 So what do we see?

01:15:07.000 In places like Berkeley, people in their windows, they put up Black Lives Matter signs.

01:15:12.000 The signs don't actually mean they support Black Lives Matter.

01:15:15.000 The signs actually mean, please don't hurt me.

01:15:17.000 Yeah, I think that Kenny is making the extremely salient point that at the end of the day, the bottom line is the question of who decides.

01:15:26.000 And this is the issue of censorship.

01:15:27.000 Who decides what is misinformation?

01:15:29.000 Who decides whether Joe Biden should be taken off YouTube?

01:15:32.000 And Joe Biden mentioned this a little while ago.

01:15:34.000 He's like, it's not so much about the votes as who counts the votes.

01:15:38.000 That is the person who decides who's going to be in power.

01:15:41.000 It's the person who calls the shots.

01:15:42.000 Let's talk about critical race theory in these schools.

01:15:46.000 Kenny, where are you from?

01:15:49.000 I'm from Virginia.

01:15:50.000 Were you born in Virginia?

01:15:51.000 I was born in Maryland and moved to Virginia when I was three years old.

01:15:55.000 Born in Maryland.

01:15:57.000 So you're an American, and you just happen to be of Asian descent, of Asian ethnicity, your parents are Asian, but you are an American citizen.

01:16:05.000 What I see in this, in what the schools are doing, like Harvard, to Asian Americans, to people of Asian descent, is they're simply saying, because you look like those people, you can't go to this school.

01:16:05.000 Right.

01:16:16.000 That's it.

01:16:17.000 Yeah, they're treating you based on something that you can't control about yourself.

01:16:21.000 They're also treating you based on something you didn't consent to give them.

01:16:24.000 You know, Harvard asked for race in your college application, but even if you don't give your race, They're still going to find out what race you are, because they have an access to a database of all the students in the entire country.

01:16:40.000 And they know not just your race, they know your family's household income, they know the neighborhood that you live in, they know the school that you went to, they know the crime rate of the school that they went to.

01:16:52.000 And so regardless of how you consent to this, if you consent to give this information or not, they're going to treat you based on it.

01:16:59.000 You know, and this is the new, this is the marriage.

01:17:01.000 Harvard's admissions process is the marriage of racial profiling with data mining.

01:17:07.000 That's what it is.

01:17:08.000 It represents an authoritarian future.

01:17:11.000 Yeah.

01:17:11.000 What?

01:17:12.000 No, no, go ahead.

01:17:13.000 It represents an authoritarian future where people are going to get information from you without your consent and things like race, background, everything like that, and then judge you on it.

01:17:27.000 That is what the authoritarians will eventually do, and Harvard's process is an example of where we're going as a culture.

01:17:33.000 The main thing I see here that is the most alarming is, as we've mentioned earlier in the show, the left doesn't view individuals.

01:17:40.000 They don't see individuals.

01:17:41.000 Their whole system is comprised of utility.

01:17:43.000 That's it.

01:17:44.000 That's why they're like, how many Asians are in the school? 0.99

01:17:46.000 Too many!

01:17:47.000 How many white people? 0.99

01:17:48.000 Too many! 0.96

01:17:48.000 How many Latinos? 0.96

01:17:49.000 Not enough! 0.89

01:17:49.000 How many black people? 0.89

01:17:50.000 Not enough! 0.99

01:17:51.000 They don't care about the individuals and the work being done, and they don't care about the fact that there could quite literally be a black man who was born in Spain! 0.93

01:17:59.000 And he's Hispanic!

01:18:00.000 He speaks Spanish!

01:18:01.000 And so they're like, ah, but his skin looks a certain way. 0.83

01:18:04.000 And then you have Americans in this country who are of any background and they're like, we want you to go to this school simply because of how you look. 0.96

01:18:15.000 What the?

01:18:16.000 What does that matter?

01:18:17.000 It doesn't matter at all.

01:18:19.000 I can't believe they're at a point where they're simply saying, we want people to look different.

01:18:23.000 It's interesting.

01:18:25.000 It's, it's, it's an interesting conversation because genetically, obviously we're different.

01:18:30.000 And probably because of our ancestry, there's subtle differences in our genetics that are interesting to talk about.

01:18:30.000 Everyone's different.

01:18:38.000 Um, I, I just.

01:18:41.000 Oh God, I had another part of that point.

01:18:43.000 Well, the point is, regardless of certain things, like I went to Thailand and I was taller than everybody, right?

01:18:51.000 I certainly think through hard work and dedication and commitment and you can achieve great things and become the best of the best of the best.

01:19:00.000 Now, of course, there's always going to be a Michael Phelps.

01:19:03.000 He's got a wider arm span than normal.

01:19:05.000 And if someone was saying, like, he produces less lactate, lactic acid or something.

01:19:10.000 So this makes him just the best swimmer ever.

01:19:10.000 Yeah.

01:19:12.000 Yeah, well, you know, it happens, and that's kind of why we have competition.

01:19:15.000 But most people can earn experience and skills and work hard and be dedicated and make themselves better in a variety of ways.

01:19:24.000 Maybe you're not the smartest.

01:19:25.000 You could be the strongest.

01:19:26.000 Maybe you're not the tallest.

01:19:26.000 You can be super fast.

01:19:28.000 You could work really hard.

01:19:29.000 Muggsy Bozeman, that guy could 360 dunk.

01:19:31.000 That dude could jump so high.

01:19:33.000 It doesn't matter, in my opinion, what you look like.

01:19:34.000 It matters if you have the determination, the commitment, the willingness to do better, to be better.

01:19:41.000 And so what the problem I have with all of this is, first and foremost, how insane is it that these people would look at a 10-year-old Vietnamese kid, whose parents came here from Vietnam, and they say, Oh, honey, you can't go to Harvard.

01:19:55.000 You look like those people too much.

01:19:57.000 That's it!

01:19:58.000 For the only reason you will never go to this Ivy League school, you look like those, that's insane to me. 1.00

01:20:03.000 These people are scumbags. 1.00

01:20:05.000 Well, you know, I agree with you there. 1.00

01:20:09.000 Look, and I'll just show you some facts.

01:20:13.000 Look, Harvard University, you have to score, if you're an Asian American, you have to score 440 points higher on the SAT to have the same chance of admission as a black American.

01:20:22.000 Wow.

01:20:23.000 Simply because you both have different color skin.

01:20:26.000 Simply because you both have different color skin.

01:20:28.000 Out of 1600 points?

01:20:30.000 No, actually, that was out of 2400.

01:20:30.000 Out of 1600.

01:20:33.000 Back in the old 2400 days.

01:20:35.000 If you submitted an application, the exact same application, and you had the same SAT score, the same grades, the same objective metrics, the only thing you did was you changed your race from Asian to black. 0.70

01:20:50.000 A Harvard admissions officer is going to look at the Asian application and they're going to say, oh, he's just like all the other Asians. 0.52

01:20:57.000 Probably groomed by his parents, overachieving, test-taking nerd, no personality. 0.99

01:21:01.000 You change it to black.

01:21:02.000 The story is most likely going to be, oh my gosh, this guy is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

01:21:08.000 We have to admit him and give him everything.

01:21:10.000 Yeah, and the thing is, they say they do this to admit the kids from underprivileged backgrounds, but if you look at even the black admits at Harvard University, 70 plus percent of them are upper middle class or higher and 50 percent of them are immigrants, are children of black immigrants.

01:21:35.000 So they're not even admitting the kid from the south side of Chicago who you may think deserves or should get that chance.

01:21:43.000 They're admitting the privileged kid who looks black. 0.94

01:21:46.000 Yep. 0.99

01:21:47.000 What a disgusting reality, I suppose.

01:21:50.000 When I was growing up, I was told never to let anyone know that I was Asian if I was applying for a job.

01:21:55.000 I would have to lie.

01:21:56.000 I started putting other on my things like 10 years ago or 15 years ago.

01:22:00.000 It's just so gross.

01:22:01.000 I remember I was applying for a job and I was told, oh, just don't put Asian, put Mexican or something else. 0.70

01:22:07.000 I was like, why?

01:22:08.000 And I was told Asians don't have powerful special interest groups, so they don't get special favors in government, and people are allowed to discriminate against you on the basis of your race if you tell them the truth about your family.

01:22:20.000 What did you say, Lydia?

01:22:21.000 Doesn't it strike you as unbelievably racist for them to look at a black applicant and be like, holy cow, this person is insanely special?

01:22:29.000 Do you remember what Joe Biden said about Obama?

01:22:31.000 I think they call it race realism when you talk about the actual genetic differences.

01:22:34.000 And I don't even think it's different races.

01:22:36.000 He said the what is that the first articulate.

01:22:38.000 He's so articulate and articulate.

01:22:40.000 Yeah. And I was like, like, I think they call it race realism.

01:22:44.000 When you talk about the actual genetic differences.

01:22:47.000 And I don't even think it's different races.

01:22:49.000 Am I right to say that? Like the human race realists believe in

01:22:53.000 light hard racial differences.

01:22:56.000 And which, I mean, according to genetics, I think there are, there's a reason why skin colors come out differently. 1.00

01:22:56.000 Right. 1.00

01:23:01.000 But they take it to a very, like, that's the problem with it because it's a fascinating conversation just to know.

01:23:07.000 But that doesn't mean that we're different, like that we have different senses of freedom.

01:23:11.000 We're all equally valuable and able.

01:23:13.000 Yes.

01:23:14.000 And I think one of the problems with race realism is that people, look, a lot of people make assumptions.

01:23:19.000 It's how humans work.

01:23:20.000 We look at something, we say, here's why I think, I think this is why it's happening.

01:23:23.000 Let me test that.

01:23:25.000 And then race realists think, if I see, you know, something like the bell curve, Uh, and I see these differences based on IQ.

01:23:32.000 It clearly must be the racial component and perhaps some of it, you know, I think it was Sam Harris and a few other, uh, I think, I'm not sure who it was, Sam Harris and maybe some of the IDW people saying there's some component there, obviously, why wouldn't there be? 0.55

01:23:44.000 But they think it's the end all be all absolute reason.

01:23:48.000 And I think that is likely incorrect.

01:23:50.000 I do think there's a mix between nature and nurture for sure.

01:23:53.000 But I think human potential is typically not met.

01:23:56.000 And that means, regardless of your race, if you study hard and you work hard, you can be the best of the best of the best.

01:24:01.000 You might not be, like, the number one position.

01:24:04.000 But you might.

01:24:05.000 But you might?

01:24:06.000 It's just, there's 8 billion people, you know?

01:24:10.000 It's 1 in 8 billion to be number one.

01:24:12.000 Who knows who that's gonna be or why?

01:24:14.000 I think part of what Kenny is seeing and part of what you see with these black kids being like the kids of Nigerian immigrants is a cultural thing. 0.94

01:24:21.000 So Tim's talking about how that you look a certain way so that means you're not going to have a chance to get in.

01:24:26.000 Do you think it is how you look or do you think it's at least partly because of the Asian cultural preference for hard work and studying and all that?

01:24:33.000 So, you know, this is a complicated question.

01:24:36.000 I'm not a race realist.

01:24:37.000 I think that predominantly what explains disparities in... I think predominantly what predicates disparities in the United States with regards to a lot of these things is cultural.

01:24:50.000 I think that cultural factors, for example, Asian Americans don't come to the U.S.

01:24:55.000 with like a significantly higher IQ than the average person.

01:25:00.000 And in fact, studies have shown that Asians with lower IQ are able to overcome that lower IQ because they study pretty hard, they work really hard, and they're actually able to compete with whites at an IQ bracket that's a quintile higher, a quintile of the standard deviation higher than them. 0.92

01:25:17.000 So this is this is this is this is massive.

01:25:20.000 This is this shows you that it's not just your IQ that makes you successful.

01:25:25.000 You really have to put in the work and what Asian Americans do on average and I'm saying this on average every individual is different.

01:25:32.000 There are a lot of Asian-Americans who don't work hard, but Asian-Americans individually on average study twice as many hours as the average American per week.

01:25:40.000 Well, I'll tell you this.

01:25:42.000 I think it's cultural.

01:25:43.000 I was, I was, I was tutored by my mom when I was like one or two and she's, she's Korean.

01:25:49.000 Is she a hundred percent Korean, like born in Korea, half Korean? 0.81

01:25:52.000 Born in the United States.

01:25:52.000 Nope.

01:25:54.000 Her parents were, one of her parents was from Korea, born in Korea.

01:25:54.000 Okay.

01:25:58.000 I don't know exactly where, but my grandmother was 100% Korean, and that trickles down a little bit, I suppose.

01:26:07.000 I would imagine.

01:26:07.000 I mean, I value free speech because I'm an American, because I was born here and raised here with these cultural values.

01:26:13.000 If I have children, I'm going to pass those on to my children. 0.66

01:26:15.000 It's not because of the way I look, but the people that are my progeny that look like me, then will.

01:26:21.000 But it's not even about that.

01:26:23.000 You believe in free speech?

01:26:24.000 Yes.

01:26:25.000 And your parents came from China.

01:26:26.000 There you go.

01:26:26.000 The Chinese Communist Party does not believe in free speech.

01:26:30.000 People can be whatever, you know what I mean?

01:26:31.000 That's why, you know, there was a story that came out recently, Gallup poll.

01:26:36.000 Race relations are worse than they've been in like a really long time. 0.97

01:26:40.000 And I think it's because millennials are extremely racist. 0.95

01:26:43.000 I think that modern leftist and progressive millennials are the most racist we've seen in a very, very, very long time. 0.59

01:26:50.000 And so that's why you see around like 2013 race relations plummet.

01:26:55.000 Because this is when millennials start aging into the workforce, into influential positions, and they start espousing their racist ideology.

01:27:03.000 Now you have racist millennials admitted white supremacists like Robin D'Angelo espousing racist ideals 0.56

01:27:10.000 And then all of a sudden you've got a bunch of minorities being like yo these people are racist what? 0.88

01:27:14.000 When I'm a really did lay on that race card during occupy Wall Street when the occupy activists

01:27:21.000 Segregated all the activists by race. I remember seeing that yeah, no joke. They did crazy

01:27:27.000 They created race-based caucuses for voting on how the body would spend money. 0.82

01:27:33.000 They literally had like the Hispanic caucus, the Asian caucus, the people of color caucus, the black caucus.

01:27:40.000 And so I remember they split up all the groups based on race and there was this black dude chilling because Zuccotti Park, where Occupy happens, is slightly downhill.

01:27:47.000 So there's like this ledge that slowly turns into a very high ledge like very small at the top of the By the street and then as you walk down the ground goes down the ledge stays the same height and he's sitting up on top of it I see him arguing with somebody and I walk over and I'm listening to him and he just goes Do you have any idea what the press is gonna say when they find out y'all?

01:28:05.000 segregated based on race and I started laughing and I'm like dude, yes, like these people have lost it and But you know what?

01:28:13.000 Their ideology is winning.

01:28:14.000 That's crazy because it's so, it has, the question of success in America has much less to do with your race, your race, than it has to do with these cultural values that can be adopted by any race.

01:28:30.000 And to say, I mean, you know, hard work, studying hard, any race can do, it doesn't matter if you're Asian, you can study hard if you're white.

01:28:39.000 Did you know that? 0.77

01:28:40.000 That was that you know that yeah you see that thing you're black. 1.00

01:28:40.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:28:42.000 Did you see that graphic they had on the was the African-American history museum whatever.

01:28:47.000 And it said like working hard and having a schedule was whiteness.

01:28:50.000 That to me is absolutely insane.

01:28:53.000 But I will add.

01:28:54.000 There have been several studies done and they found one trait that guarantees success.

01:28:54.000 Yeah.

01:29:00.000 Or I should say, one trait that was highly correlated with success.

01:29:06.000 No.

01:29:06.000 It's IQ, right?

01:29:07.000 It isn't wealth.

01:29:07.000 What is it?

01:29:07.000 No.

01:29:08.000 Is that a trait?

01:29:09.000 It isn't wealth.

01:29:09.000 Yes.

01:29:10.000 It isn't IQ.

01:29:11.000 It isn't race.

01:29:12.000 It isn't national origin.

01:29:14.000 It isn't gender.

01:29:16.000 It's perseverance.

01:29:18.000 The one thing they found among every group, every race, every gender, every age bracket, every IQ bracket, every class, was those who refused to give up succeeded and those who gave up failed.

01:29:32.000 That's incredible.

01:29:32.000 I mean, this is one reason why black Americans who join the military, who join the army, actually tend to have much higher career success outcomes, both military and non-military afterwards.

01:29:46.000 You know, in the army, you're taught things like perseverance.

01:29:48.000 You're taught things like overcoming and resilience and everything like that.

01:29:51.000 And the people who are put with that kind of structure in their lives, you know, can can really elevate and that's why you see black

01:29:58.000 Americans who are in the military, you know, are disproportionately well represented among the

01:30:03.000 upper middle and upper classes in America.

01:30:06.000 When you were studying the meritocracy and the failure of, is it Harvard that's doing

01:30:12.000 these admissions things? Was that what you said?

01:30:14.000 Okay, so here's the thing about this crazy thing that's happening at Harvard.

01:30:19.000 All of this admissions process, this race baiting and profiling started at Harvard, but it has since grown to become an entire Ivy League phenomenon.

01:30:31.000 And then from there, the Ivy League exported this ideology to big corporations like Google and Facebook.

01:30:37.000 And now you see Google and Facebook and their diversity and inclusion programs also be anti-Asian.

01:30:43.000 You know, I just published this article in Quillette magazine.

01:30:46.000 Asians make up 90% of Silicon Valley software engineers.

01:30:50.000 Wow.

01:30:51.000 90% of Silicon Valley software engineers, but you go up each level of management, Asians get lower and lower and lower percentage. 1.00

01:30:59.000 And so, in the executive level, they're only like 20% of the executive level of Facebook and Google.

01:31:07.000 You know, this is an example of, and nobody is advocating for Asians to be hired more or promoted more in Silicon Valley and things like that because they don't fit the narrative because they're still considered over-represented.

01:31:20.000 Meritocracy, man.

01:31:22.000 If you earn it, if you can do it, then there you go.

01:31:25.000 Are you able to isolate methodologies that enhance meritocracy amongst education and business?

01:31:32.000 First of all, I understand IQ is correlated significantly with performance in college, and particularly Not just IQ, but standardized test scores.

01:31:46.000 You have to look at objective metrics, like standardized test scores.

01:31:50.000 People love to rip on tests.

01:31:52.000 They love to rip on standardized tests.

01:31:54.000 It's a lot of work.

01:31:54.000 I get it.

01:31:55.000 You have to study.

01:31:56.000 But the standardized test measures two things that are meritorious.

01:31:59.000 It measures your innate intelligence, and it measures how hard you prepare, right?

01:32:04.000 Because you have to prepare for tests.

01:32:05.000 And if you don't study for tests, you're lazy.

01:32:07.000 And if you're lazy, you're not going to do well in school.

01:32:09.000 So now Harvard is trying to get rid of standardized tests of admissions.

01:32:14.000 Why?

01:32:15.000 They say, you know, it disproportionately benefits the wealthy and privileged over, you know, poor black and Latino students. 0.96

01:32:23.000 You know, they pointed the fact that blacks tend to do worse on standardized tests than other people.

01:32:29.000 But what they conveniently leave out is that standardized tests actually correct for wealth and privilege.

01:32:37.000 Because if you're a poor kid, an immigrant kid, who has no social connections, You're not going to be able to stand out when compared next to a rich and wealthy kid, except through the standardized test. 1.00

01:32:55.000 The standardized test is the only test that allows you to be able to compete side by side with a wealthy and privileged kid and beat them.

01:33:03.000 Because typically what happens is the guy shows up, talks to the dean, and says, my son would like to go here.

01:33:07.000 Let me give a donation to the West Wing.

01:33:10.000 Soccer team, you're funded.

01:33:11.000 Lacrosse team, you're funded.

01:33:12.000 Kid gets in.

01:33:13.000 And nearly 10% of Harvard's new class could be considered a child of a donor, that make this Dean's List that Harvard uses to signify primarily children of donors.

01:33:26.000 And then 35% of them are legacies.

01:33:28.000 What's that?

01:33:29.000 What's a legacy?

01:33:30.000 A legacy is a kid whose parents went to Harvard.

01:33:34.000 Yeah.

01:33:34.000 So there's a lot of issues, and I don't know if we have all the answers, but we do have super chats.

01:33:39.000 So let's talk to you guys, see what you have to say.

01:33:41.000 If you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, go to TimCast.com, help support our fearless and independent journalism.

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01:33:56.000 All right, let's see what we got here.

01:33:58.000 Mr. 36 says, Hey Tim and crew, thank you for all the important work you do.

01:34:01.000 Congratulations on all your success.

01:34:03.000 I can't wait to see what the future holds at Timcast.

01:34:05.000 Much love from locked down Australia.

01:34:08.000 Sorry to hear it, but we got some dungeon masters coming. 0.62

01:34:08.000 Good luck. 0.62

01:34:12.000 The exciting thing is when new people come, they bring an unexpected, like a whole new reality of being that like changes, you know, in ways you didn't even conceptualize could happen.

01:34:12.000 Yes.

01:34:22.000 Like when Scott showed up with that diseased mangy cat staring at us.

01:34:26.000 I ran, but I couldn't run fast enough.

01:34:29.000 And then Ian was like, why'd you hire this guy?

01:34:30.000 And I was like, get him, Scott!

01:34:32.000 And then Scott released the cat at Ian and Ian.

01:34:35.000 Scott doesn't exist.

01:34:35.000 There's no Scott.

01:34:35.000 I'm kidding.

01:34:36.000 And there was no diseased mangy cat.

01:34:38.000 Nope, never happened.

01:34:40.000 Nope.

01:34:41.000 I woke up in the dark and I was like, what's cutting me?

01:34:45.000 I'm just kidding about that.

01:34:45.000 It's a very exciting round here.

01:34:47.000 Yeah, it's non-stop action.

01:34:48.000 We're encouraging people to work here.

01:34:49.000 This is great.

01:34:50.000 All right, let's see.

01:34:51.000 Placid Saint says, Tim, Lucas and Isaac Botkin from T-Rex Arms said in an Armory livestream on Twitch, they would go on your show by invite only to talk about changing the culture on two-way and how to do it.

01:35:03.000 We will take a look into that.

01:35:04.000 It would be really fun to talk about guns.

01:35:06.000 Because Joe Biden was basically like, we're going to ban all the guns!

01:35:09.000 And it's like, oh, he basically said it.

01:35:12.000 Seven Missoon says, Ian looks like a younger version of the crazy long-haired doctor from Independence Day.

01:35:18.000 Does he?

01:35:19.000 Oh, oh wait.

01:35:20.000 That was Brent Spiner, wasn't it?

01:35:22.000 Brent Spiner?

01:35:22.000 Yeah, it was!

01:35:23.000 Yeah.

01:35:24.000 Thank you.

01:35:24.000 Oh, snap.

01:35:25.000 But you know what was funny?

01:35:26.000 Like, in the original Independence Day, he's just the doctor, and then they, like, really emphasized his gay marriage in the, uh, in the new, in the sequel.

01:35:34.000 You know? 0.96

01:35:34.000 That's silly. 0.96

01:35:35.000 They, like, made it a big component. 0.65

01:35:35.000 I didn't know. 0.65

01:35:37.000 Yeah, it's a little too woke.

01:35:39.000 Maybe.

01:35:39.000 Like, my thing is, like, if it's emphasized to the same degree as any marriage would be, I really don't care.

01:35:44.000 But if they make it, like, a centerpiece, I'm kinda like, I get it, guys.

01:35:47.000 Like, the love story's cool, but if it's, uh, that it's gay, then that's annoying. 0.99

01:35:52.000 Yeah, I don't like that. 0.81

01:35:52.000 I don't care what gender. 0.81

01:35:54.000 All right, Gino Fass says, who feeds the chickens every morning at the Timcast homestead?

01:35:58.000 Also, hi Ian!

01:35:59.000 So here's what happens.

01:36:00.000 We have a big, uh, just, it's a gravity feeder.

01:36:03.000 It's like, it's a big thing.

01:36:04.000 You fill with food, and then as the chickens eat, it just goes down.

01:36:07.000 You know, they, and they scratch and they drag. 0.97

01:36:07.000 It's great. 0.97

01:36:09.000 However, chickens eat bugs.

01:36:11.000 So really what happens is, I get up in the morning, you know, I get ready.

01:36:15.000 After I record the first show, I go out and I release the chickens to the farm.

01:36:19.000 And they've decimated the zucchinis and the tomatoes.

01:36:21.000 They're tearing the whole place to shreds.

01:36:24.000 They're little dinosaurs running around just destroying everything.

01:36:26.000 Very exciting.

01:36:27.000 And we're going to lay concrete down and move the garden.

01:36:29.000 So it's time for the chickens to come and destroy it.

01:36:31.000 But there's no feeding them really.

01:36:33.000 They have a feeder and then they eat bugs.

01:36:36.000 And so that's what they do.

01:36:36.000 They go out, they eat bugs and they eat vegetables.

01:36:38.000 I got a fantastic 10 second video of them on my Instagram page of them just lounging.

01:36:42.000 End of the day, chillin' out, and the rooster screams.

01:36:45.000 So if you want to hear that rooster, go check it out.

01:36:47.000 Yeah, the dirt bats are funny.

01:36:48.000 They like dig little holes and then they... They're rolling around.

01:36:51.000 Yeah, they're trying to have babies. 1.00

01:36:53.000 So I actually found out a couple of the eggs were fertilized.

01:36:55.000 So I'm going to leave them and see if they have some children.

01:36:59.000 Cool.

01:37:00.000 And they'll be goofy looking, I guess, because we've got a bunch of different breeds of chicken, you know?

01:37:03.000 Mutt chickens.

01:37:04.000 That's what I'm talking about!

01:37:05.000 Yeah.

01:37:06.000 Oh yeah.

01:37:08.000 All right, let's see what we got.

01:37:10.000 JMac says, Asian history is very respectable, honorable, pragmatic, and ancient.

01:37:14.000 The first goal of the CCP was to destroy that history.

01:37:17.000 Was it the first goal?

01:37:18.000 I know it was a major goal, but yeah.

01:37:20.000 Major goal.

01:37:20.000 Yeah, erase the past.

01:37:22.000 That's crazy.

01:37:23.000 I just saw that movie, Hero.

01:37:24.000 Oh yeah, watch that.

01:37:25.000 Yeah, who mentioned, someone mentioned it to us.

01:37:27.000 Andreas, I think, was talking about it.

01:37:29.000 Someone on the show was like, hero, because he basically is like, he's an anti-imperial, but then by the end he decides to spare the emperor or whatever.

01:37:37.000 Either way, fun movie.

01:37:37.000 Andreas was saying it was imperialist propaganda.

01:37:41.000 It was imperialist propaganda.

01:37:44.000 CCP propaganda.

01:37:44.000 We didn't know at the time.

01:37:45.000 And now it's banned in China?

01:37:46.000 Is that true?

01:37:47.000 Yeah, it's not CCP propaganda.

01:37:48.000 They would ban it if it was.

01:37:49.000 Who knows?

01:37:51.000 Yeah, it's all about control.

01:37:52.000 I don't think they want you to believe any one thing in particular.

01:37:54.000 They just want to control what you think.

01:37:56.000 And I'm not saying the CCP, but authoritarians in general.

01:37:58.000 Oh, this is fun.

01:37:59.000 Rocky says, Tim and crew, you should have a glossary for your commonly used ideas with sources on your website.

01:38:04.000 Not just Overton Window, but quote, there are four lights.

01:38:07.000 That's a good idea.

01:38:08.000 That would be an interesting thing to make.

01:38:10.000 We keep adding to it.

01:38:11.000 Yeah, just like common things we mention.

01:38:13.000 Like a little wiki.

01:38:14.000 Yeah.

01:38:15.000 John Hutto says, do we know that the 188k crossing the border are even being all tested?

01:38:20.000 Or what percentage were tested?

01:38:22.000 No, we don't.

01:38:23.000 Nope.

01:38:23.000 They just walk through the border, get in a car, and then drive off.

01:38:26.000 It's amazing, isn't it?

01:38:27.000 It's a good time to be a migrant. 1.00

01:38:29.000 Okay, what is this?

01:38:31.000 Frank says, I want to hear Ian say, just like the Pied Piper led rats through the streets, we dance like marionettes, swaying to the symphony of destruction.

01:38:39.000 Just like the Pied Piper led the rats through the streets, we dance like marionettes to the symphony of destruction.

01:38:44.000 Swaying to the symphony of destruction.

01:38:47.000 That's my goal.

01:38:47.000 Don't overachieve.

01:38:48.000 Really close.

01:38:50.000 All right, let's see.

01:38:55.000 Oh, here's a very important one from Make 1984 Fiction again.

01:38:58.000 He says, Truinanana Shabba Da... Oh, he added some to it.

01:39:02.000 He's trying to get me.

01:39:03.000 Because Biden said, Truinanana Shabba Da Pressure.

01:39:05.000 He says, Truinanana Shabba Da... Daaden Da Pressure.

01:39:11.000 Shabba Daada Da Pressure.

01:39:12.000 There you go.

01:39:13.000 Oh, it's a dond in there. 1.00

01:39:13.000 Extra syllable. 1.00

01:39:15.000 Donda Da Pressure.

01:39:16.000 Shabba Da Donda Da Pressure.

01:39:17.000 There you go.

01:39:18.000 Important.

01:39:19.000 OK, let's see where we at.

01:39:25.000 Um... VelvetSchwinker says, Tim, please make your bonus segments an hour long!

01:39:31.000 I would love to, however there is one very difficult challenge there, and that is I already record four hours a day of podcast.

01:39:41.000 What's another half an hour?

01:39:43.000 Four hours, man.

01:39:45.000 Okay.

01:39:46.000 Mental Slave says Ryan Chapman's video called The Marxism Behind Leftist Identity Politics Explained is very well done and informative.

01:39:53.000 I recommend it.

01:39:54.000 Interesting.

01:39:56.000 Handyman says Ian's silver lining.

01:39:58.000 Wokeism will eventually destroy the Fed like it does everything else.

01:40:02.000 It will.

01:40:04.000 Let's deconstruct the Fed rather than destroy.

01:40:08.000 How's that?

01:40:09.000 McSquared says Tim, look up the etymology anti.

01:40:12.000 The original Greek root has multiple meanings, against and in place of.

01:40:16.000 So anti-racism is a replacement for racism, not something that is against racism.

01:40:21.000 Colloquially, the modern version of anti is meant to imply opposite of or opposed to, but that's not what it means, is it?

01:40:28.000 It's just a dog whistle.

01:40:29.000 It's a manipulation.

01:40:30.000 That's pretty clever.

01:40:31.000 Yep.

01:40:34.000 OMGPuppy says, BAP says, it's the billionaire plutocrats versus middle class, workers, farmers, and small business.

01:40:41.000 They covet their aggregated wealth, will take their property, arms, and freedom.

01:40:45.000 Plutocrats gather power by inventing and allying with fake victim classes.

01:40:50.000 That's where we're headed.

01:40:54.000 Wrath of Paul says, I live in New York, and if mask mandates and or lockdowns return, I will not comply.

01:40:59.000 Civil disobedience is our best tool to fight the COVID-1984 regime.

01:41:03.000 There are many people who share the sentiment, even here.

01:41:05.000 In fact, I'm not even convinced the lockdowns can't come back, to be completely honest.

01:41:08.000 We already saw one story where I think it was in Victoria.

01:41:12.000 They were like, chaos, as people just went and did whatever they wanted.

01:41:16.000 I think, yeah, New York, I just think regular people are like, eh.

01:41:21.000 That's how I feel.

01:41:23.000 But we're in the middle of nowhere.

01:41:24.000 It's 15 days to slow the spread.

01:41:26.000 The whole shutdown thing is what weirds me out because it was just to slow the spread so we didn't overload the hospitals.

01:41:32.000 So now I don't understand.

01:41:35.000 I don't see why.

01:41:37.000 I forgot what it's called.

01:41:38.000 Do you know about that drowning rat experiment?

01:41:41.000 No.

01:41:42.000 Tell me.

01:41:44.000 What is it called?

01:41:45.000 Guys in the chat, you guys are going to know what it's called.

01:41:46.000 It was where the guy put the rats in the tubes and they were drowning.

01:41:48.000 It's horrible.

01:41:50.000 It's after the sea, I think.

01:41:51.000 Let me see if I can find it.

01:41:52.000 Yeah, the something rat experiment.

01:41:54.000 So here's what happened.

01:41:56.000 There are these big cylinders full of water and he would put rats in them.

01:42:00.000 And within 15 minutes, the rats would be struggling and then just give up and then sink and drown.

01:42:05.000 The hope experiment?

01:42:07.000 No, it's a rat experiment.

01:42:10.000 Yeah, that's what they're calling it.

01:42:11.000 Behavioral despair test?

01:42:12.000 It is, it's not called the Hope Experiment.

01:42:14.000 Behavioral Disparitist?

01:42:15.000 There's a name, there's a guy who did it and he has a name.

01:42:18.000 And they do say it's an experiment that shows you the power of hope, which is a creepy story,

01:42:23.000 because here's what happened.

01:42:24.000 The rats would drown in about 15 minutes.

01:42:27.000 With the next group, he puts the rats in, and then right before they give up and drown, he takes them out, dries them off, lets them rest for a few minutes, and then puts them back in.

01:42:36.000 The second time, they swam for, like, several days.

01:42:40.000 And what they say is it's because the rats were holding out, hoping that the hand would come back and save them from their fate.

01:42:40.000 Whoa.

01:42:46.000 Kurt Richter.

01:42:47.000 Kurt Richter.

01:42:48.000 That's it.

01:42:48.000 It's the Kurt Richter rat experiment.

01:42:49.000 There you go.

01:42:50.000 Creepy, huh?

01:42:53.000 So anyway, I bring that up because people have been mentioning the similarities in that, or not the similarities, but the idea.

01:43:01.000 We get this lockdown, it's 15 days.

01:43:03.000 Everybody starts boiling in their seats.

01:43:05.000 We get riots and people are losing their minds and then they lift it all.

01:43:09.000 And everyone's like, now if the lockdowns come back, it could be indefinite.

01:43:13.000 And people would sustain themselves more without becoming hopeless because they know if they just hold out, There will be an end to the lockdown.

01:43:21.000 So now, assuming this experiment translates to humans, maybe it doesn't.

01:43:25.000 Rats are different.

01:43:27.000 They could lockdown for a decade.

01:43:30.000 Wow.

01:43:31.000 Hey, I'm in the middle of nowhere, that's why I got out of the cities.

01:43:33.000 And you got Jack Posobiec saying it, you got me saying it, we had Travis Corcoran with the book Escape the City, although he was saying it's not time to leave the city just yet.

01:43:42.000 My thing is like, dude, we just got these electric bikes, we're like riding them around, like in the, you know, it's like just, it's a big yard, it's like, you know.

01:43:49.000 And so we just ride them around, we go skating, we've got ramps, we got a barbecue grill, we got chickens.

01:43:55.000 The chickens are yellin', you know?

01:43:56.000 It's fun.

01:43:57.000 I'd love to build giant tubes that we could ride up into and, like, ride on the sides and, like, go around.

01:44:03.000 Yes!

01:44:05.000 Yeah, wood prices are going down a little bit.

01:44:07.000 We got construction on the new studio happening out here in the middle of nowhere.

01:44:12.000 It's almost like there's no restrictions or lockdowns, and there never were, to be honest.

01:44:16.000 Thank God we're connected to the internet so that I know what the heck's going on.

01:44:19.000 I mean, is that a good thing?

01:44:21.000 Sometimes, don't you just want to just go to the top of the mountain and just sit back and look at the stars and, you know, pull out a bag of chips and just, you know, read a book or something?

01:44:21.000 Definitely.

01:44:29.000 Yeah.

01:44:29.000 Yes!

01:44:30.000 Yeah, we're too hyper-connected these days, right?

01:44:32.000 It's not all good.

01:44:36.000 All right.

01:44:37.000 Dave Franco Jr.

01:44:38.000 says Joe Biden is telling the truth.

01:44:40.000 The MAGA movement is a threat to the power structures that have exalted these lesser men above us.

01:44:45.000 So it is the greatest threat to his vision of America, not actual regular Americans. 0.92

01:44:51.000 And perhaps when Joe Biden said the greatest threat since the Civil War, he's not talking about the Republicans or the Trump supporters.

01:44:57.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

01:44:58.000 I'm sorry.

01:44:58.000 He's not talking about the greatest threat to America.

01:45:01.000 He's specifically talking to the oligarchical elites.

01:45:05.000 We envision him talking to the American people, most of the Democrats.

01:45:05.000 Hmm.

01:45:09.000 He's not even talking to them.

01:45:11.000 He's looking into the eyes of the Goldman Sachs banker, saying what they're doing is

01:45:15.000 the biggest threat since the Civil War.

01:45:18.000 Right.

01:45:19.000 Yeah, I mean, it's true because, you know, in a sense he does talk to them in that way

01:45:24.000 because you have these big, huge billionaires, McKenzie, Bezos, and Bill Gates and everything

01:45:32.000 like that, and they're giving away all of this money, and you see how much money they're

01:45:35.000 giving to all of these woke causes.

01:45:38.000 Yeah, and how did they get this idea?

01:45:40.000 I mean you would presume they're smart people, you know, if they built all of these companies Why are they giving it all of these things?

01:45:46.000 Well, they're appealing to their sense their emotion of of Empathy.

01:45:52.000 Oh, you need to go and contribute to these people because it shows that you care because you can virtue signal So as a result, this is this entire emotion breeding industry, you know results in billions of dollars for Black Lives Matter and the like Yep All right, James Groh says, long time listener, first time super chat. 0.83

01:46:07.000 You've kept me sane and informed for years and I look forward to all your future projects. 0.51

01:46:12.000 Rock on you bald cuck and crew.

01:46:13.000 And Larry Elder for California governor.

01:46:16.000 Larry Elder is leading the polls.

01:46:18.000 I saw that.

01:46:19.000 That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.

01:46:20.000 Wow.

01:46:21.000 But they weren't talking about it, right?

01:46:22.000 Wasn't it like they showed the top people and he wasn't even on the list and then they showed like Larry Elder's got like Oh, because they're trying to keep him off.

01:46:29.000 They're trying to block him from being able to run.

01:46:30.000 He has to, like, sue or something.

01:46:32.000 Yeah, because, dude, if he wins, it would be, like, the best thing ever.

01:46:35.000 It's him and Caitlyn Jenner, right?

01:46:37.000 Caitlyn Jenner dropped.

01:46:37.000 No, no, no.

01:46:38.000 She was not the top, but she went to Australia for, like, Big Brother or something.

01:46:42.000 Oh! 0.60

01:46:42.000 For a TV show? 0.60

01:46:43.000 I guess.

01:46:44.000 Oh, wild.

01:46:44.000 Yeah, Jenner was polling at 4%.

01:46:47.000 Yep, but Larry Elder, governor of California.

01:46:51.000 Could you imagine?

01:46:52.000 I'm just going to be very utopian.

01:46:54.000 It's like he walks in and then like everybody's standing outside waiting to see what happens.

01:46:57.000 And then they look at their watches and then all of a sudden California's fixed.

01:47:00.000 It's like bling!

01:47:01.000 It's like all of a sudden everything's back to normal.

01:47:03.000 The homeless people.

01:47:03.000 Yeah, the poop is off the streets.

01:47:05.000 The homeless people.

01:47:06.000 Instantly the homeless guy sitting there just pops up and a suit appears on him.

01:47:09.000 It's like, whoa!

01:47:10.000 And then he's like got a job and he's like on the phone.

01:47:12.000 He's like, I'm going to make that sale.

01:47:14.000 Just everything just perfectly happens.

01:47:15.000 The poop just gets up and just walks away itself.

01:47:17.000 It's all magic utopia.

01:47:18.000 We started recovering plastic and building 3D printing tubes to make geodesic domes for people to live in.

01:47:24.000 Love it.

01:47:25.000 Yeah, I guess.

01:47:26.000 Or one gigantic geodesic dome with little dome pods all over the place.

01:47:26.000 I love it.

01:47:30.000 Yeah, you break the plastic down with pestiopsis microspora fungus and turn it into sugar and then you mix it with graphene to 3D print the tubes.

01:47:37.000 Oh, there's graphene.

01:47:38.000 All right, here we go.

01:47:38.000 Perfect, yes.

01:47:39.000 Joe A. says, my dad is a landlord and he tried to evict someone for not paying rent for a year.

01:47:44.000 The town sends the evictions to city court now and the liberal city judge refused.

01:47:48.000 It has been three more months since.

01:47:50.000 Yes.

01:47:51.000 Communism?

01:47:53.000 That's where we're going?

01:47:53.000 I mean, look, the Great Reset people want people not to eat out, not to go to the stores, not to waste money.

01:48:01.000 They want you to live in the pot and eat the bugs if you're in the city.

01:48:04.000 And if you're in the middle of nowhere, they want you to have fun playing freeze tag instead of going to the movies.

01:48:09.000 Wow.

01:48:10.000 I'm not.

01:48:11.000 Look, I love, you know, climbing and, you know, I love sports and stuff.

01:48:16.000 So, like, I enjoy my day when I go outside and enjoy the fresh air.

01:48:21.000 Too many people in these cities don't do that.

01:48:24.000 Their enjoyment is based upon physical things they can acquire.

01:48:29.000 And that's a problem.

01:48:32.000 Ben Stewart was saying that hanging from a tree branch for a little bit every day is really good for your balance.

01:48:37.000 Really?

01:48:38.000 I could see it.

01:48:39.000 It's good for the back.

01:48:41.000 Mike G says, yes, Ian, the missing puzzle piece is the coming market crash. 0.94

01:48:45.000 The government needs a smoke screen and it's the COVID Delta variant crap they keep pushing. 0.89

01:48:49.000 Yeah, market crash. 0.96

01:48:50.000 A lot of people have been saying that's coming.

01:48:52.000 And well, I think we're in it.

01:48:53.000 They take a while.

01:48:54.000 They take sometimes a couple of years.

01:48:56.000 You know, it doesn't happen one day.

01:48:58.000 People don't realize how the shortages that are lurking.

01:49:01.000 I warned about the food shortage and now Taco Bell is saying it.

01:49:03.000 Yeah.

01:49:04.000 It's like, bro, if you listen to my show, I said this like two months ago.

01:49:08.000 Look at the local level.

01:49:10.000 The local news outlets were like, local Chinese food restaurant can't get chicken anymore.

01:49:14.000 And I was like, hey, how come the New York Times isn't reporting this?

01:49:17.000 How come we're not seeing CNN report there's a major food shortage?

01:49:19.000 They don't care.

01:49:20.000 The real money for national outlets is not in a local story about food.

01:49:24.000 But now, TacoBell.com, international chain, says at the top, sorry, we are unable to get certain ingredients and might not have your items available.

01:49:33.000 I was listening to a podcast and there was a grocery magnate who was saying that we're looking at inflation of like I want to say six to fourteen percent and then he was talking about like breaking down the kind of inflation we're gonna see and he's like it's coming like there's no escaping it and I'm pretty sure that's part of the reason we're seeing shortages at like Taco Bell and like these shortages of meat and everything but it's depressing.

01:49:56.000 Mick Dundee says, can't have this argument without philosophy.

01:49:59.000 There are three root arguments.

01:50:01.000 Logic, emotional, authority needs to be discussed.

01:50:05.000 Yeah, man.

01:50:06.000 You know, I've been thinking a lot about tactics, and like the Gravel Institute, when they cheered on the tactic that was used by the insurrectionists, but then denounced the insurrectionists themselves, and I'm using insurrectionists as, you know, the way they describe it on the left.

01:50:18.000 So the people on January 6, you know, stormed the Capitol, and then Gravel Institute was like, they said it was a good thing, but they just disagree with the people who are doing it.

01:50:27.000 And I've been thinking a lot about this because I've, I've long said, you know, the ends don't justify the means because you'll never meet the ends.

01:50:33.000 If you build a government based on using violence and, you know, and, and seizing power, then you will just eventually get that anyway.

01:50:40.000 The problem is if people are going to use those tactics and they work and they exist, it'll never stop no matter what you do.

01:50:45.000 And thus you end with, you end up with this endless cycle and there's no real way to fix it.

01:50:49.000 We get a couple hundred years of classical liberal values and an expansion of civil rights, and then the wingnut crackpots come in and destroy it all and let it on fire to seize power.

01:50:58.000 And they claim we're justified to do it.

01:51:00.000 The Founding Fathers won the liberty and the Bill of Rights through a violent revolution.

01:51:07.000 Yeah.

01:51:07.000 I mean, the French.

01:51:08.000 Through the French emptying their bank account, basically. 0.96

01:51:11.000 Bankrupting the country.

01:51:12.000 How about we say something different, Ian?

01:51:14.000 Let's do it.

01:51:15.000 The French didn't intervene in the revolution.

01:51:18.000 The American revolutionaries intervened in the war between the French and the English, saving the French!

01:51:24.000 Okay, I like where your mind's at.

01:51:27.000 Vive la France!

01:51:28.000 Yeah, France was basically just like, hey, we're at war with these guys, so, you know.

01:51:32.000 Anything you need, let's defeat the British. 1.00

01:51:34.000 Yeah, we were basically helping them, you know.

01:51:36.000 They helped us.

01:51:37.000 We were a wonderful offshore diversion.

01:51:38.000 The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

01:51:41.000 Mr. Bojangles says, The Constitution forbids the government from inhibiting the liberties of the people.

01:51:49.000 Therefore, the government should be responsible for ensuring corporations that operate within the public space do not limit those same liberties of the citizenry.

01:51:57.000 The challenge is, the Supreme Court has applied a lot of these arguments to corporations as individual entities, and that's where the challenge is.

01:52:04.000 To say that Twitter has to host the speech of Ian is arguably the same as telling Ian he has to say a certain

01:52:13.000 phrase or a quote by someone else.

01:52:15.000 The issue is we need to regulate big tech like utilities, like common carriers, 0.61

01:52:19.000 more like a phone company. Maybe not utility, but like a phone company. Which is utility, I guess.

01:52:24.000 And then they can't take you down because they have nothing to do with it.

01:52:27.000 Except people are telling me that they can't get texts through about, like, a doctor was like, I'm a doctor and my cousin's a, you know, a pathologist.

01:52:35.000 I'm texting him COVID vaccine and it wouldn't go through on his phone.

01:52:39.000 Well, we already know why.

01:52:40.000 And multiple people are sending me this information and it lasts like four days.

01:52:44.000 So common carriers even seem like they're susceptible to corruption.

01:52:47.000 Yeah, when the authoritarians take over.

01:52:49.000 Yes!

01:52:49.000 funky. Biden and the DNC said they're going to the phone company to shut them down to

01:52:52.000 shut down private text messages. Mesh networking, shortwave radio. Uh oh, uh oh, make 1984 fiction

01:52:58.000 again says, and when those 10 people get their pizza, they realize there's only eight pieces,

01:53:03.000 all hell breaks loose. No one ever said they were only ordering one pizza. Which brings

01:53:10.000 us to the other part of that argument is that in a direct democracy, the six people say

01:53:15.000 we want pepperoni in the force, a pineapple. And then the six say, yeah, well we have the

01:53:19.000 majority rule, so we are getting pepperoni pizza. And then you have like a ranked choice

01:53:24.000 republic or a parliamentary republic. And the four people say, then we choose to do

01:53:29.000 a pizza that is two thirds pepperoni and one third pineapple.

01:53:34.000 Problem solved.

01:53:36.000 Or two pizzas.

01:53:37.000 25 pieces and everybody gets two.

01:53:39.000 Right?

01:53:40.000 Is that how it works?

01:53:40.000 Or you just do, uh, they say we're going to do two pizzas and one will, one will be a half pineapple pepperoni and the other will be pepperoni and then everyone's happy.

01:53:48.000 Problem solved.

01:53:50.000 That's the expansion.

01:53:51.000 That's our ability to expand is basically what's kept us alive this long as humans.

01:53:57.000 Unspecialized.

01:53:58.000 Yeah.

01:53:59.000 All right, Phobes says, We agreed the social contract is not a valid contract.

01:54:04.000 I didn't sign ish.

01:54:06.000 And I noticed you've got that red and black little YouTube image,

01:54:10.000 presumably implying anarcho-capitalism.

01:54:14.000 That's right.

01:54:15.000 You didn't agree to the social contract.

01:54:17.000 However, there's an interesting argument I have with libertarians about, and ANCAPs about, living in the United States, and it's, sure you're born here, it's great to be here, there's a lot of advantages to being here, but you don't have to be here.

01:54:30.000 You really don't.

01:54:31.000 I guess the challenge is like, where would I go?

01:54:33.000 It's like, I don't know, middle of nowhere.

01:54:34.000 There's that free state in Mexico where like a lot of ANCAPs actually go.

01:54:40.000 And so I say this to a lot of people.

01:54:42.000 I'm like, listen, man, like I have, I know people who have gone to, I can't remember the name of the state.

01:54:46.000 Do you guys know the state?

01:54:47.000 Is that Mexican state?

01:54:48.000 It's that one state that Luke's always talking about.

01:54:50.000 I used to remember.

01:54:51.000 It starts with a CH or something?

01:54:52.000 Yeah, something like that.

01:54:53.000 And it's like they abolished the government and the cartels and got rid of them and now

01:54:56.000 it's like totally anarchic.

01:54:57.000 And I know a lot of Americans who are ANCAP who like go down there like this is perfect.

01:55:01.000 Sharon.

01:55:02.000 Sharon.

01:55:03.000 Yeah, Luke's always talking about that.

01:55:04.000 And so I say to the people here, I'm like, go.

01:55:07.000 I'm not saying to be mean.

01:55:08.000 I'm saying like that is like a place where you can live the way you want to live and

01:55:11.000 not have to worry about it.

01:55:12.000 You know what I mean?

01:55:14.000 So if you don't want to agree to the rules here, there are places, you know?

01:55:17.000 Might not be easy to get there initially, but there are places.

01:55:20.000 You can go and have your own contract, your own agreement.

01:55:23.000 Well, it's the whole idea of assimilation, you know? 0.92

01:55:24.000 A lot of immigrants... 1.00

01:55:26.000 You know, you always ask, well, what do you give up when you come to America?

01:55:29.000 I mean, you do get a lot of things as an American when you choose to come here as an immigrant, but you also, you do have to respect your culture and you have to respect American structure.

01:55:37.000 You know, American structure is very individualistic.

01:55:40.000 A lot of Chinese immigrants and a lot of immigrants from Asia are not necessarily used to that as much.

01:55:45.000 You know, you do, if you want to make, if you want to make change in America, you have to speak up.

01:55:50.000 A lot of Asian cultures are not used to speaking up, especially Chinese Americans who live under communist regimes.

01:55:56.000 You know, it's like, is it squeaky wheel gets the grease or is it, what's the other analogy?

01:56:02.000 The loudest thing gets cut or hit.

01:56:05.000 Oh, yeah.

01:56:08.000 You know, so, you know, American culture is different.

01:56:11.000 Its structure is different.

01:56:12.000 You do have to assimilate to that if you want to, you know, be well liked in this country.

01:56:18.000 Yeah.

01:56:18.000 All right, here's a good one.

01:56:19.000 Kimberly Brundle says, I've been listening to Tim telling us to stand up and do something to fight authoritarianism.

01:56:24.000 It inspired me to run as a candidate for the People's Party of Canada.

01:56:27.000 You're inspiring Canadians to fight back.

01:56:29.000 Uh-oh, foreign election interference in Canada.

01:56:34.000 Globalization is inevitable.

01:56:35.000 The one thing I thought that was really funny about the 2016 election when they were like, forward interference!

01:56:39.000 And I'm like, Paul Joseph Watson's from the UK and he's talking about Trump, you know?

01:56:43.000 Milo Yiannopoulos is from the UK and he's here talking about Trump.

01:56:46.000 I made a video directly to Barack Obama in 2007 saying, you're going to win the presidency, you're going to run for two terms.

01:56:53.000 And then Steve Grove at YouTube featured it on the politics page.

01:56:57.000 So like, talk about political interference.

01:56:59.000 Yeah, what the heck?

01:57:00.000 Like, got tens of thousands of views.

01:57:03.000 Like, come on.

01:57:05.000 At least you're an American citizen.

01:57:06.000 Yeah, it's also like foreign interference.

01:57:09.000 Are you saying that foreign powers have never interfered in the US elections ever for any reason?

01:57:14.000 They always interfere.

01:57:16.000 They love to interfere.

01:57:17.000 Russia and China are always going to try to interfere.

01:57:19.000 It's not about foreign interference, it's about what can we do to combat it. 0.69

01:57:23.000 Or embrace it in the guise of the French actually interfering to create the United States. 0.59

01:57:29.000 That was helpful.

01:57:29.000 Whoa, this is crazy.

01:57:31.000 Block Viking says, Bottega Louie, one of the restaurants you listed, has been in downtown LA since 1929.

01:57:37.000 Crazy to see it closed down.

01:57:38.000 Wow.

01:57:40.000 That's crazy.

01:57:44.000 Fritter says, dig up the Calvin Coolidge quote on perseverance.

01:57:46.000 Too long for Super Chat.

01:57:51.000 A lot of people are questioning our pizza thing.

01:57:54.000 That's a great point, actually.

01:57:55.000 says 10 voters, 6 to 4 pepperoni, 4 agree to cede to 6, democracy.

01:58:00.000 But if the 4 opt to leave the party and get different food and the 6 demand they stay,

01:58:04.000 pay and eat the pepperoni, that is authoritarianism hiding behind a vote.

01:58:07.000 That's a great point actually.

01:58:08.000 Interesting.

01:58:09.000 Yeah.

01:58:10.000 So a libertarian system would be the four people saying, okay, then we're going to get our own food and not eat your pizza.

01:58:17.000 And authoritarian would be like, no, you have no choice.

01:58:19.000 You have to eat our pizza.

01:58:20.000 And I have to eat pepperoni.

01:58:21.000 Well, I think, what are you saying?

01:58:22.000 So six people, or I was gone for the end of this conversation.

01:58:26.000 Six people say we want pineapple, four people- No, four people want pineapple, six want pepperoni.

01:58:29.000 Let's change it around.

01:58:30.000 I like pineapple.

01:58:30.000 No, okay, whatever.

01:58:31.000 So six people want pepperoni, four people want pineapple.

01:58:34.000 They end up going with pepperoni.

01:58:36.000 That's authoritarian.

01:58:37.000 No, no, no.

01:58:38.000 It's democratic.

01:58:38.000 It's democracy.

01:58:39.000 Democratic authoritarianism.

01:58:40.000 But you can call it the tyranny of the majority.

01:58:41.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:58:42.000 It's not necessarily tyranny if you agree to that system.

01:58:45.000 If you've agreed beforehand, whatever the vote comes out as, we're all going to agree that's the pizza we're going with.

01:58:45.000 Right.

01:58:51.000 But what if one day someone walks in and says, let's get pizza.

01:58:53.000 Wow.

01:58:54.000 Who wants to vote on pizza? 0.51

01:58:55.000 And everyone says, we'll vote on pizza.

01:58:57.000 And then six say pepperoni and four say pineapple.

01:59:00.000 And then when they're like pepperoni wins, the pineapple guys go, we're going to order our own pizza and get pineapple.

01:59:04.000 Well, then you say, that's not what you agreed to.

01:59:06.000 We let you in here with the agreement that you were going to go with what we decided.

01:59:09.000 So we decided it.

01:59:11.000 Even if they're going to buy their own.

01:59:12.000 Welcome to the United States.

01:59:13.000 Well, no, if you say beforehand, we're going to buy our own, then okay.

01:59:16.000 But if you want to participate, we're deciding.

01:59:18.000 But hold on, let's add another element to this.

01:59:22.000 They decide to vote on what pizza to get.

01:59:24.000 And everyone agrees to vote.

01:59:26.000 They're all sitting in the house and it says, we're voting on lunch, we always vote on lunch, everyone agrees, that's how we vote on lunch, okay.

01:59:31.000 Everyone raise your hand for pepperoni, 6-2, everyone raise your hand for pineapple, everyone does.

01:59:35.000 And then they say, okay, we're ordering pepperoni pizza.

01:59:38.000 And the four pineapple guys go...

01:59:40.000 Well, we're going to order our own pizza and get our own pineapple.

01:59:43.000 And they say, we need you to pitch in for the full price of the pizza.

01:59:47.000 You agreed.

01:59:47.000 We do a vote.

01:59:48.000 You guys lost, but we still need you to pitch in.

01:59:50.000 Otherwise, we can't get the pizza in the first place.

01:59:52.000 And they say, yeah, well, we don't want to pay for pizza.

01:59:54.000 We don't want to eat.

01:59:55.000 Dude, you are here.

01:59:56.000 We do this all the time.

01:59:57.000 We all share.

01:59:59.000 When you guys got blimpies, we ate that, and we didn't like that either. 0.99

02:00:02.000 Yeah, well, you know what?

02:00:04.000 We never agreed to this.

02:00:05.000 OK, then.

02:00:06.000 There's the door.

02:00:07.000 Y'all can leave.

02:00:08.000 No one's making you stay here.

02:00:10.000 But it's cold outside.

02:00:11.000 Yeah, but there's no food there.

02:00:13.000 Okay, but I like being in here.

02:00:15.000 Then you gotta pitch in, don't you?

02:00:17.000 We agreed this is how we would vote on what to get we can afford.

02:00:19.000 One pizza, take it or leave it.

02:00:21.000 Well, I'm gonna go start my own house.

02:00:24.000 Then they go outside and some people might, you know, put on that flannel and take an axe and go be a lumberjack and build their own house.

02:00:30.000 But you know, the funny thing is I talked to a lot of people and they're like, I shouldn't have to pay for this social contract.

02:00:35.000 And I'm like, then you don't have to get the benefits of being in America. 0.95

02:00:39.000 I'm not saying it to be a dick. 0.97

02:00:40.000 I'm saying it's transactional. 0.96

02:00:42.000 You can go to, uh, what's it called?

02:00:43.000 Chiron?

02:00:43.000 Chiron.

02:00:44.000 You can go to Chiron.

02:00:44.000 Yep.

02:00:45.000 I hear really, really great things about it.

02:00:46.000 No, I'm not even kidding.

02:00:48.000 I really do hear great things about it.

02:00:49.000 So go somewhere where you won't have this be happening to you instead of just being like, I want to reap the rewards of a society that I refuse to pay for.

02:00:57.000 Now to be fair, American tax dollars go to a lot of dumb stuff that I'm not happy with.

02:01:03.000 That's a fair point from people arguing it.

02:01:06.000 And this is like the case of affirmative action, too, because sometimes you have a really great story, and even though you're not objectively qualified, somebody's going to admit you because of your story.

02:01:15.000 And that would be more acceptable to me if Harvard College came up to a lesser qualified person of a certain race and said, hey, you're not objectively qualified, but we're going to admit you.

02:01:25.000 But, you know, we need you to assimilate to our culture and, you know, be grateful.

02:01:30.000 But instead, what they do is that not only they admit you, they indulge your, you know, every desire with great inflation, everything like that.

02:01:37.000 They make sure that you pass, you know, and get A pluses in every class.

02:01:41.000 The average grade at Harvard is an A minus, surprisingly.

02:01:45.000 And it's just...

02:01:45.000 Wow.

02:01:48.000 At that point, you're not engaging in a fair social contract.

02:01:51.000 At that point, you are incentivizing a person to be a parasite on your school, rather than become a person who becomes fully assimilated into the culture.

02:01:59.000 Agreed.

02:01:59.000 All right, here we go.

02:02:00.000 EJ Paido says, Tim, will you commit to attending Mike Lindell's cyber symposium if you can secure an invite?

02:02:07.000 He has made bold claims of election fraud, and many of us would like to have a reporter there we can trust.

02:02:12.000 Bannon should be able to set you up.

02:02:14.000 I do not think I would be able to because with the expansion of Timcast comes great responsibility.

02:02:19.000 And so there's a lot of people that I have to meet with all the time.

02:02:21.000 I work literally every single day because even though the weekends I no longer do this show, we're doing the vlog and I'm interviewing people.

02:02:28.000 One of the main reasons I reduced the amount of content I was producing on a day-to-day basis, which was I used to do five segments on my Timcast channel and now it's down to two.

02:02:37.000 Because I needed more time to meet with people and strategize and take care of other business.

02:02:42.000 If my whole day was dedicated to just recording and researching, I had no opportunity to grow.

02:02:47.000 So then I stopped doing content on the weekends.

02:02:49.000 I used to do, I think, like three hours on the weekends as well.

02:02:52.000 No, like two and a half.

02:02:54.000 And then like four on the weekdays.

02:02:56.000 Now it's all been reduced quite a bit.

02:02:58.000 Because on the weekends we fly people out, we do interviews, and we film the vlog.

02:03:02.000 There's no way I could make it.

02:03:04.000 However, we actually are hiring more journalists, and we are going to have one of our reporters covering the election issues.

02:03:11.000 So, I will say, a lot of people who are, you know, like, diehard Trump supporters will probably be disappointed with our coverage.

02:03:19.000 However, they will not be angry to a certain degree, right?

02:03:23.000 I see a lot of the stuff that comes out from, like, MSNBC and a lot of these mainstream outlets, and it's just disparaging and poorly framed and everything like that.

02:03:29.000 No, we're going to be fair, which means airtime for the Republicans, airtime for the Democrats, and the argument.

02:03:35.000 And so our goal is, here's what the Republicans said, here's what the Democrats said, you decide.

02:03:40.000 We can only give you the information, we're not going to tell you what to think.

02:03:43.000 I'm sure that will be satisfactory to many, many people who aren't getting that from the mainstream press, and I'm sure we'll get smeared by the mainstream press for simply entertaining the fact that Republicans have opinions on the matter.

02:03:53.000 But that's what we'll do.

02:03:54.000 So he mentioned Steve Bannon.

02:03:55.000 Steve Bannon has a bunch of reporters who actually go and talk to the people who are conducting these audits and stuff.

02:04:00.000 So you should turn to Bannon's War Room if you're interested in that kind of thing.

02:04:03.000 Interesting.

02:04:03.000 Yeah.

02:04:04.000 Well, my friends, if you haven't already, give that like button a little tap, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends.

02:04:09.000 You can follow us at TimCast IRL on Facebook and Instagram, at TimCast underscore IRL on TikTok, because we are in all of these places trying to gain influence and win friends.

02:04:20.000 I can also put it that way.

02:04:21.000 You can follow me personally at TimCast, and of course we're gonna have a bonus segment coming up at TimCast.com in a little bit.

02:04:27.000 But, Kenny, is there anything you want to shout out?

02:04:28.000 Your book, obviously, your social media?

02:04:31.000 Well, I'm also president of a group called Colorist United.

02:04:33.000 We advocate for a race-blind America, and that's the ideal that America should be, right? 0.97

02:04:40.000 You know, I understand we've had problems with race regarding to America today, but if any country in the world is going to finally become a country where race doesn't have to matter in a person's life or we

02:04:51.000 can judge a person just solely as an individual it has to be America because we are the most

02:04:55.000 diverse country in the nation we have been able to handle this diversity experiment relatively

02:05:00.000 well so go to coloristunited.org if you're interested in this concept and shoot me a

02:05:05.000 question or link anything that you want.

02:05:08.000 What was it?

02:05:08.000 Say it one more time.

02:05:09.000 Color... Color Us United.

02:05:11.000 Color Us United.

02:05:12.000 ColorUsUnited.org.

02:05:13.000 All right.

02:05:14.000 And the book, An Inconvenient Minority?

02:05:16.000 My book, An Inconvenient Minority, The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy, you can get on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, wherever books are sold.

02:05:25.000 Buy it because then when it hits a number we got so I'm not gonna say we've take full credit for this.

02:05:29.000 Yes, we do.

02:05:30.000 Yes, Michael Knowles was like if we had number one, it's because of you guys.

02:05:33.000 No, it's because you're Michael Knowles's fans.

02:05:35.000 Keep super chatting us and sneaking in shouting out.

02:05:39.000 I thought it was gonna be true and not a Shabbat a speechless.

02:05:42.000 I will say though.

02:05:44.000 I'm extremely proud of when I read the super chat where it told the Amazon robot to order speechless and smart and then people were like I went to my Amazon shopping cart and the book was in there.

02:05:55.000 Buy it!

02:05:55.000 But you guys definitely should buy An Inconvenient Minority because when this reaches number one on Amazon, and it should, hopefully, or when it rises in the ranks, people see it.

02:06:07.000 It's free advertising, so it's like a snowball rolling down a hill.

02:06:10.000 And then when people are wondering what this is and they read it, they'll start to understand what's wrong with this critical race applied principles in our schools. 0.90

02:06:17.000 Thank you, Tim.

02:06:18.000 Thank you, Kenny.

02:06:18.000 Thank you, Tim.

02:06:19.000 Appreciate it.

02:06:20.000 You guys can follow me at IanCrosland.net and on social media, Ian Crosland.

02:06:23.000 Thanks again.

02:06:24.000 I want to read this Calvin Coolidge quote because it actually is super good and I see why it's too long.

02:06:28.000 Okay, so I'll try to make it quick.

02:06:30.000 It says, nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

02:06:33.000 Talent will not.

02:06:34.000 Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

02:06:37.000 Genius will not.

02:06:38.000 Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

02:06:40.000 Education will not.

02:06:41.000 The world is full of educated derelicts. 0.98

02:06:43.000 Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

02:06:46.000 The slogan, press on, has solved and always will solve the problem of the human race.

02:06:52.000 I actually really like that quote, long as it is.

02:06:54.000 Wow.

02:06:54.000 So that's an excellent summary of Tim's idea about grit and the studies that they've conducted about that.

02:07:00.000 You guys may follow me on Twitter at Sour Patch Kids.

02:07:00.000 Right on.

02:07:03.000 Excuse me!

02:07:04.000 Oh no!

02:07:04.000 Almost!

02:07:05.000 I'm going to give them more followers.

02:07:07.000 You may follow me at Sour Patch Lids.

02:07:08.000 Do not follow Sour Patch Kids because I want more followers than they have.

02:07:11.000 It's my only goal in life right now.

02:07:13.000 Thanks, guys.

02:07:14.000 We'll see you all over at TimCast.com.

02:07:17.000 Thanks for hanging out.

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