Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Crowder Goes NUCLEAR On YouTube, SUES Over Censorship w-Forrest Of Recoil Magazine

00:00:00.000 I'm sure most of you know that YouTube has given Steven Crowder a warning, which is like

00:00:28.000 a...

00:00:29.000 They don't shut you down, but they take your content down.

00:00:32.000 They then gave him a strike.

00:00:33.000 Then they gave another warning on his other channel, CrowderBits.

00:00:36.000 They then gave him a second strike on his main channel, and then they gave him a strike on his second channel.

00:00:42.000 This is serious.

00:00:43.000 And for anybody listening who's not familiar, Crowder is a massive personality.

00:00:47.000 He's a conservative comedian.

00:00:49.000 He does news commentary, cultural commentary.

00:00:51.000 And for the longest time, we saw censorship happening.

00:00:54.000 It was targeting the fringes, or so many people said.

00:00:58.000 But as you can see, as time goes on, the fringe keeps changing.

00:01:01.000 The hit pieces keep coming, and they just keep coming for the next person.

00:01:06.000 Closer and closer towards the center, and then eventually everyone gets censored.

00:01:10.000 We even see many anti-war leftists getting censored as well.

00:01:13.000 Well, Crowder is fighting back.

00:01:15.000 Filing a lawsuit, or at least he's announcing he will be filing a lawsuit and an injunction against YouTube, and it's really interesting.

00:01:22.000 We're gonna go through what they're talking about, why they're doing it, and I think this is extremely important because, well, once Crowder goes, then who's next on the chopping block?

00:01:30.000 Channels like ours.

00:01:31.000 See, before they started going after Crowder, they were going after other channels as well, people like Alex Jones, and we all knew it was only a matter of time before they would make their move and slowly just get rid of more and more content creators, more and more Channels, so we definitely to talk about this and make sure we're keeping this at the forefront because this is gonna be really really important and I'll say it too, you know We obviously want Crowder to be able to continue continue doing his work and there's also a bit of self-preservation in there It's it's a it's I know what happens to us the moment Crowder's out of the picture They're gonna keep moving down the line.

00:02:01.000 We can't have that happen.

00:02:01.000 So we'll talk about that We got a bunch of other news too.

00:02:03.000 There's a huge Supreme Court decision and 9 to 0.

00:02:07.000 Like, even the liberal justices agreed, cops can't use caretaking as an excuse to go in your house and take your guns.

00:02:14.000 Without a warrant.

00:02:15.000 So we'll get into that.

00:02:16.000 We also got police reform in the Minneapolis area.

00:02:19.000 The Black Lives Matter activists have won.

00:02:21.000 And now they're going to be creating an unarmed traffic enforcement division, which I can only assume will be, like, I want to say like a Benny Hill movie, but with more violence and injury.

00:02:32.000 And it really does worry me.

00:02:33.000 So we're going to get into this, and joining us today is the digital editor from Recall Magazine, Forrest Cooper.

00:02:38.000 Thanks for hanging out, man.

00:02:39.000 Hey, Tim.

00:02:40.000 Do you want to just give a quick introduction?

00:02:41.000 Yeah, no, I'll do that.

00:02:43.000 My name is Forrest Cooper.

00:02:44.000 What are you wearing?

00:02:45.000 I am showing off some of the stuff that we work on in our magazine.

00:02:50.000 But now for reality... I told him to wear it, everybody.

00:02:53.000 He did.

00:02:54.000 It was forced.

00:02:56.000 I was like, hey, put that on.

00:02:59.000 Night vision goggles.

00:03:00.000 of if you want to understand a little bit about recoil magazine, we like to be edgy in that fashion,

00:03:05.000 looking at new products, what's really coming out. So instead of it just being about whether a firearm

00:03:10.000 or you know how evaluating a firearm, we talk about culture, we talk about night vision,

00:03:14.000 how to do it. And so it's, it's really about education and aspiration. You change stuff,

00:03:21.000 gun stuff, gun stuff. Yep. The core idea being culture leads policy.

00:03:27.000 You change culture by going out and doing stuff.

00:03:28.000 Speaking of Steven Crowder, the other day we... So on Saturday, I went and actually, I finally got the Sig M400 that Crowder had sent to me.

00:03:37.000 Thank you very much, Steven.

00:03:39.000 And we took it out to the range in West Virginia.

00:03:42.000 And everyone was super impressed with it.

00:03:45.000 So we had a great time.

00:03:46.000 So, you know, Forrest and I and a few others went out and we fired a bunch of guns.

00:03:49.000 And we also brought out the Barrett M82A1 and tried to blow up the gong, but we weren't able to do it.

00:03:55.000 But it was fun firing that.

00:03:57.000 So that's what we did yesterday.

00:03:59.000 And again, the weapon from Crowder was incredible.

00:04:02.000 Everybody was super impressed with it.

00:04:03.000 I was super impressed with it.

00:04:04.000 Really grateful for getting that.

00:04:06.000 So again, we're going to talk about the censorship stuff.

00:04:08.000 What's up, everybody?

00:04:08.000 We got Ian Eastchill.

00:04:09.000 Ian Crossland.

00:04:10.000 Good to be here.

00:04:11.000 You got me in the corner pushing buttons, I'm Sarah Patch Litz.

00:04:14.000 Before we get started with the show, go to TimCast.com, click the big Members Only button, and you can sign up to become a member.

00:04:22.000 You can do it through Stripe or PayPal.

00:04:23.000 See, we're building up the site, we're making it better, because we know many people have asked.

00:04:26.000 But this site exists because the fear of censorship was very real, and I realized if I didn't start setting something up that would exist outside of YouTube, I got all my eggs in one basket.

00:04:36.000 And, you know, we can get banned the same as Crowder can.

00:04:39.000 So just like Crowder has the Mug Club, which you guys should definitely check out and support him considering what they're going through and how important this lawsuit is, we have TimCast.com where you can join us as well.

00:04:48.000 And when you do, you get access to the members area, a ton of exclusive members-only podcast segments and full episodes.

00:04:55.000 It's really, really great.

00:04:56.000 We were hanging out with Robbie Starbuck last week, talking about neocon rhinos threatening to quit the Republican Party. 0.72

00:05:02.000 And he made a really good point that the tumor is excising itself.

00:05:05.000 Oh, we're so upset about it.

00:05:06.000 So definitely become a member.

00:05:08.000 Just be there because in the event that we get a strike, look, even one strike, if we say something wrong any moment, we don't know what.

00:05:15.000 We can't produce any content on any channel for a week.

00:05:20.000 Same thing is happening to Crowder right now.

00:05:21.000 They got him out for two weeks.

00:05:23.000 So, in the event that happens, you can find us at TimCast.com, but don't forget to like, share, subscribe.

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00:05:35.000 It really, really does help, especially considering this is the big fight, everybody.

00:05:39.000 Let's talk about this first story right here.

00:05:42.000 LouderWithCrowder.com officially suing YouTube.

00:05:45.000 Steven Crowder initiates legal action against YouTube.

00:05:48.000 From Crowder's website, they report, last week, Louder With Crowder LLC, through its lawyer, gave a legal notice to YouTube of the intent to file a lawsuit and seek an injunction.

00:05:57.000 They go on to mention they have a video available on their website.

00:05:59.000 Last fall, after the Vox Adpocalypse, YouTube re-monetized Crowder's channel.

00:06:03.000 They said we had a record-breaking election livestream in November, and incredibly successful streams thereafter.

00:06:09.000 If there ever was a target painted on our backs, it was then.

00:06:12.000 Once we hit the new year and a new president ascended, the landscape of social media shifted in favor of the left.

00:06:18.000 Democrats took control of the presidency and now have control of both houses of Congress.

00:06:23.000 As such, YouTube and other big tech platforms feel emboldened with very few lawmakers standing in the way.

00:06:29.000 He says, in 2021, YouTube hit them with a warning of a strike over election content, then issued the first hard strike.

00:06:37.000 The first strike was related to a COVID policy in their March 18th video of the one-year anniversary of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve.

00:06:44.000 The studio is familiar with YouTube's policies on COVID, so I'll just give you the gist of it.

00:06:49.000 And I went over this the first time they gave him a strike.

00:06:51.000 Crowder did not break any rules in this capacity.

00:06:54.000 And I got really angry because I get this email from Google when this is going down, like well in advance of any of this censorship, straight up saying, here are the exact conditions you must meet to violate this policy.

00:07:06.000 And I said, that's easy.

00:07:08.000 They said you can't say two specific things together, which obviously I can't say because YouTube will take us down if I do, even if I explain it.

00:07:17.000 That's the way this works.

00:07:18.000 Their algorithms don't understand the difference between explaining something, and it's all the same to them.

00:07:25.000 Crowder never said that there was widespread fraud.

00:07:28.000 Crowder never mentioned anything about overturning or anything like that.

00:07:33.000 They gave him a strike, which is bunk.

00:07:36.000 The next one, the second one, is the craziest.

00:07:37.000 Apparently, they're claiming that Crowder and his team were glorifying the death of Micaiah Bryant for agreeing with the police, that the police officers were justified in the shooting.

00:07:48.000 Now, of course, media matter says that they were mocking the woman.

00:07:53.000 I don't see that as still Violating the policies which says you know glorifying or reveling in someone's death when you're like hey, this is the law if you break it This is what's going to happen I think YouTube is reaching as Crowder explains He says the concern they have is that YouTube is actively looking for violations in their past videos that aren't actually violations in order to issue a third hard strike once they're allowed to stream to the platform

00:08:17.000 Which would de-platform them from YouTube.

00:08:19.000 YouTube has a pattern of applying policies and even stretching those policies beyond any reasonable reading of the policy in order to harm channels which take a contrary view of their opinions.

00:08:30.000 We experienced this.

00:08:31.000 We only have ever gotten a warning, but it was on our episode with Alex Jones.

00:08:36.000 And they claimed that a hyperbolic statement was glorifying violence or something, and they took the full podcast down.

00:08:45.000 And I said, it was half a second.

00:08:47.000 Can I just snip it out?

00:08:48.000 And they're like, no.

00:08:49.000 They were looking for any possible excuse to take our video down.

00:08:53.000 And I think that's pretty obvious to everybody.

00:08:55.000 So, he goes on to mention why you should care.

00:08:58.000 No matter what side of the political aisle you're on, YouTube isn't encouraging debate.

00:09:02.000 It's trying to squash debate, trying to eradicate ideas from its platform it simply does not like.

00:09:07.000 One day those ideas are about the election, then they're about COVID.

00:09:10.000 Now those ideas include applauding an officer for saving a woman's life.

00:09:14.000 When will enough be enough?

00:09:15.000 Well, this is really important, but I gotta say, to Stephen and crew, Obviously, we all care.

00:09:22.000 I think the people who watch this show care about principle and recognize the commies are going to have their free speech, the Nazis are going to have their free speech, and we're going to be annoyed with them, but we're going to argue, and that's the purpose of free speech. 0.68

00:09:34.000 We want our rights protected.

00:09:35.000 And that means people you don't like, they get rights too.

00:09:39.000 The problem is the people we're up against.

00:09:42.000 I hate to call it left and right because it really doesn't make sense economically or even in terms of tradition versus progressivism.

00:09:48.000 It's just zealots who want power, whose ideology is there is no truth but power, and then people who are like, let's have a fair debate, a fair argument over this.

00:09:58.000 So...

00:09:59.000 They're suing.

00:10:00.000 They're filing an injunction.

00:10:01.000 And I wonder what precedent could be set.

00:10:05.000 There's a lot of people need to understand, like, when we watch James O'Keefe filing these lawsuits against the New York Times and CNN, a lot of people say you can't do it.

00:10:12.000 You can't do it for this, that, and this reason.

00:10:13.000 Oh, it's going to get thrown out.

00:10:15.000 You can only do it until you do it.

00:10:18.000 If you keep backing down and saying, obviously, there's no point in suing because, oh, what's going to happen?

00:10:22.000 It's going to be a waste of money.

00:10:23.000 Okay, listen.

00:10:24.000 I understand if you don't have the money to file a lawsuit.

00:10:26.000 That's a challenge.

00:10:27.000 But if you just sit there and let these companies do this, there will never be precedent set.

00:10:32.000 So, I'll throw it to you guys, otherwise I'm going to keep ranting on censorship.

00:10:37.000 You know, Ian, obviously, you were talking about, just before the show, creating terms of service for mines, because you helped put that together.

00:10:42.000 Yeah, honestly, in addition to it being up against, you know, like you said, zealots, people that are just like

00:10:48.000 kind of kind of crazy about political correctness and stuff.

00:10:52.000 We're also up against centralization of power and algorithm machine learning algorithms that aren't necessarily.

00:10:57.000 And we're seeing the flaws in the system of a centralized service that's dictating what can and can't be said through

00:11:02.000 a machine algorithm because stuff gets taken out of context.

00:11:05.000 Like you said, you can't explain certain things even though you're not using it derogatorily.

00:11:08.000 Because the voice to text thing they do for captions would just show the sentence.

00:11:14.000 It doesn't understand.

00:11:15.000 I'm like, here's exactly what YouTube said I can't say.

00:11:18.000 They'd be like, we see it in the code.

00:11:20.000 Yeah.

00:11:20.000 Gone.

00:11:21.000 You see this also in like the firearms industry or the gun world.

00:11:24.000 So there's there's gun tubers, people who make YouTube videos. 0.99

00:11:28.000 You could say Grantham's a big one.

00:11:30.000 Warrior Poets Society is a good one.

00:11:31.000 Hickok45.

00:11:32.000 Hickok's great.

00:11:33.000 He's classic.

00:11:34.000 Yeah, I love that.

00:11:35.000 So, but I mean you can, so the firearms industry actually in some ways, not the industry, but the community, because culture as well, was something, someone saved by the internet because it allowed people from rural areas, because a lot of more firearms ownership in rural areas, communicate with one another.

00:11:49.000 And then they started making YouTube channels, how, so that people could learn how to do things.

00:11:54.000 And it is ironically controversial in the United States right now.

00:11:58.000 I don't want to use ironically too heavy because it's way too hipster.

00:12:03.000 You're right though.

00:12:04.000 Yeah, right.

00:12:05.000 No, but it's ironically controversial that a person can have their page taken down because they were teaching somebody how to not hurt themselves.

00:12:12.000 Do you remember when Google banned the word gun?

00:12:15.000 Yes.

00:12:15.000 This was the best thing because so you couldn't search for the word or any combination of the three letters G-U-N.

00:12:21.000 Yep.

00:12:22.000 So I searched for the anime Gundam.

00:12:24.000 Yep.

00:12:25.000 It wouldn't come up.

00:12:26.000 You couldn't buy Japanese action figures. 1.00

00:12:28.000 That's how stupid their censorship is. 1.00

00:12:29.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:12:30.000 Like my personal, my personal Instagram is at Fox row official.

00:12:34.000 And my search page is all Gundams and motorcycles because it's like, you look at my page, I've got guns and motorcycles, but my search history, if you look at the search phrases, it's all Gundam.

00:12:47.000 It's all anime.

00:12:47.000 It's all anime characters.

00:12:48.000 Why are you searching for that?

00:12:50.000 It's just defaulting it.

00:12:51.000 Well, I mean, I did play Final Fantasy VII once.

00:12:53.000 Great game.

00:12:54.000 Yeah, right?

00:12:54.000 One of the best.

00:12:56.000 The remake was good.

00:12:58.000 I enjoyed the remake.

00:12:59.000 Yeah, but that's a weird story.

00:13:01.000 Anyway, Google only, like a lot of people were, so we went to the range yesterday, we're filming the vlog, and we fired the Barrett, what is it, M82A1?

00:13:10.000 That's the kind of nomenclature that people use, yeah.

00:13:12.000 And 50BMG and Crowder sent me, a year ago, a Sig M400.

00:13:19.000 And I also got a Sig Tread Sight.

00:13:23.000 And it was amazing.

00:13:24.000 It was just really, really great.

00:13:25.000 And we did it all safe.

00:13:26.000 I mean, for us, you clearly know how to shoot.

00:13:28.000 We're giving instruction.

00:13:29.000 We also had the instructor on site.

00:13:32.000 And a lot of people were just like, I got asked like 10 times, are you sure you can do this?

00:13:36.000 Like YouTube will delete your vlog, won't it?

00:13:37.000 And I'm like, I went through the rules.

00:13:39.000 They say as long as you're showing the weapon and shooting it in a range, I mean, obviously they're YouTubers who are still producing, but I don't know.

00:13:46.000 Maybe we'll get the channel demonetized.

00:13:47.000 Yeah, I mean, there's different types of content you can see people creating.

00:13:51.000 Either it's just like short films, people do that all the time, usually with airsoft guns, but you get the point.

00:13:56.000 But they also do how-to, like how to disassemble a firearm so you can clean it.

00:14:01.000 So when your channel, your video gets demonetized because you're teaching somebody how to safely clean their firearm.

00:14:09.000 You're getting dinged with something that says you're teaching someone how to manufacture.

00:14:14.000 How to assemble.

00:14:16.000 Assemble, right?

00:14:17.000 Which is one of those things where the people who are running the asylum are not the right people kind of thing.

00:14:25.000 Yeah, it's contradictory.

00:14:28.000 You're watching people perform gun safety, and so they punish you for it.

00:14:33.000 So one of the things they said is that you can only show a weapon in an appropriate place, like a gun store or a range.

00:14:33.000 Yes.

00:14:40.000 You can't just have one in an office room or something.

00:14:42.000 I guess they'll give you a strike. 0.55

00:14:43.000 Sure.

00:14:44.000 So there's a local range out here, and they have rooms that look just like classrooms because they do safety trainings.

00:14:50.000 Yeah, you can't do that.

00:14:51.000 No, absolutely.

00:14:51.000 No.

00:14:52.000 They'll be like, oh, that's not...

00:14:54.000 It looks too much like this.

00:14:56.000 Right.

00:14:56.000 It looks like a school.

00:14:57.000 It could be, yeah.

00:14:58.000 And then you're gonna get in trouble, you're gonna get Danganronpa censored.

00:15:01.000 And therein lies the big problem.

00:15:02.000 I love how you said it was ironic, because America is a gun country, and these massive services, namely YouTube, will ban your content.

00:15:12.000 And I have to wonder, too, there's definitely an overlap here.

00:15:15.000 Obviously, Crowder's usually got, what does he have, the Walther on his desk?

00:15:19.000 He's got a Walther, yep.

00:15:21.000 And I wonder, because I've always been curious about that.

00:15:25.000 I'm like, dude's got a gun sitting on his desk.

00:15:27.000 Or he's wearing, he's got his holsters. 1.00

00:15:30.000 And I'm just like, I'm pretty sure there's some, you know, Democrat anti-gun person sitting at YouTube HQ in Silicon Valley with their finger over the band button, just like, you stupid gun, moron gun, I'll ban you. 1.00

00:15:43.000 And then they're just waiting. 1.00

00:15:44.000 They're waiting.

00:15:45.000 Like Crowder said, they're looking for something to get him for.

00:15:48.000 Yeah, and I think that's the part where you establish intent.

00:15:50.000 It is not really about honest disagreement, we're looking at intent now.

00:15:56.000 But, the bigger question is, and I'm glad Crowder is filing legal action, this is a good thing, because like I said, you've gotta sue, and then make that argument.

00:16:06.000 But, they can ban whoever they want whenever they want.

00:16:09.000 Right, Ian?

00:16:10.000 According to most terms, I haven't read the YouTube terms, I know Twitter says we can ban you at any time for any or no reason.

00:16:17.000 That's intentional.

00:16:18.000 So it's interesting now that we as individuals who operate on these platforms have no legal protections.

00:16:26.000 And it's interesting.

00:16:27.000 Maybe we shouldn't.

00:16:28.000 Maybe it's our own fault.

00:16:29.000 That's why I set up, you know, TimCast.com because I'm like, OK, I mean, I'm fairly libertarian.

00:16:34.000 If YouTube has got a company, they don't owe me anything and it's their platform.

00:16:38.000 If somebody came into my house and started throwing food on the floor, I'd be like, get out.

00:16:42.000 If someone came into my house and started screaming a bunch of Nazi stuff, I'd be like, dude, get out.

00:16:46.000 Not gonna be having that.

00:16:48.000 The difference is, YouTube has been subsidized by Google.

00:16:52.000 They've monopolized the space.

00:16:54.000 There are platforms where you can upload videos, but...

00:16:58.000 YouTube is absolutely dominated.

00:17:00.000 And now, it's kind of the only place where you can run a business.

00:17:04.000 It's a really, really complicated argument.

00:17:06.000 No other service offers monetization in the same way that YouTube does.

00:17:11.000 What's this?

00:17:11.000 Or do they?

00:17:12.000 Recoil is currently building, and we have Recoil TV, which functions similar to YouTube, and we are building a monetization path.

00:17:19.000 It's expensive to host these videos, though.

00:17:21.000 We, and we do, we actually, we have it.

00:17:24.000 So if you are a firearms man, if you're a firearms content creator, get ahold of us.

00:17:29.000 Cause we'll put you on recoil TV.

00:17:30.000 It doesn't cost you anything.

00:17:31.000 Wow.

00:17:32.000 But, but you guys got to fund that run ads or something, or we, we fund it through the fact that people like our publication, but it can get really, really expensive.

00:17:40.000 So we, so in, in, for instance, in the members only section of our website, we have to pay for that bandwidth.

00:17:45.000 And it is a lot.

00:17:46.000 Like, it gets up to tens of thousands of dollars.

00:17:48.000 People don't realize this.

00:17:50.000 YouTube's free.

00:17:51.000 So we broadcast right now on YouTube.

00:17:53.000 You know, we get 40k concurrent views, you know, on average during the election, we had like 140 or some on one podcast.

00:18:01.000 That means for the two to three megabits up we're sending out, we're sending out 140,000 times two megabits.

00:18:09.000 All of that data YouTube's paying for.

00:18:11.000 Yep.

00:18:11.000 And then they take a small percentage of super chats and they take a percentage of, you know, advertisements.

00:18:16.000 So the issue is, they're fronting the costs for all of these things.

00:18:22.000 Should we be entitled to this service?

00:18:23.000 And that's where things get challenging.

00:18:25.000 And man, I'm pretty much on the fence.

00:18:27.000 But so long as, I'm on the fence in terms of like their business, private company, but where I draw the line is, if they've monopolized public discourse If they have grown to the size to where they're influencing elections, now I think it's a public service.

00:18:44.000 And that's interestingly a more liberal argument conservatives never used to have.

00:18:48.000 And I'm like, I think that they've grown and taken over the Commons.

00:18:53.000 We don't have town hall discourse anymore.

00:18:56.000 People are coming to this show and hearing arguments and discussions and commenting.

00:19:01.000 YouTube's effectively dominated the space.

00:19:04.000 Well, now they owe public discourse, in which case, I think it's extremely dangerous if they're gonna start removing people who are setting up their businesses.

00:19:15.000 Maybe a better way to put it is, if a private company bought all of the available business space in downtown, At a certain point, people are going to be like, okay, fine, you can own it, but you can't ban people for selling a product you don't like.

00:19:27.000 Like, people can pay you rent, you can set up terms for the property, but we need commerce to exist.

00:19:33.000 Crowder needs to be able to speak.

00:19:34.000 We need to be able to have reasonable discourse.

00:19:36.000 And the problem I see with this is that massive multinational corporations, if they see YouTube get away with this, they can just start to dominate whatever public space they want, whatever area of the commons they want, and then just say, but it's a private company, it's ours now.

00:19:53.000 Well, on the forefront of that, you're also looking at, what is the intent?

00:19:57.000 Again, you think about it in the sense of, we can talk about guns, we can talk about anything political, even with Steven Crowder.

00:20:05.000 Do they not want him to be heard, or do they not trust him as a good faith actor, is a good question, right?

00:20:12.000 Well, I think if you look at the left faction, Tends to be in my opinion a there is no truth, but power

00:20:20.000 faction. Yep They accuse the right of being that and it's really insane

00:20:26.000 that perhaps many of the establishment Republicans for sure But when we're looking at anti critical race theory

00:20:32.000 individuals and their alignment on the right These are the people who reject that that ethos and so

00:20:37.000 quite literally you have the left lying and accusing the right of what it's doing

00:20:41.000 Itself which creates a serious problem Do they think Crowder is a bad faith actor?

00:20:46.000 No, I think they believe Crowder is truthful.

00:20:49.000 And they don't like it.

00:20:50.000 Right, because they're bad faith actors who are trying... They're angry by his success.

00:20:55.000 They're angry by his success.

00:20:56.000 There are a lot of leftists, a lot, maybe the majority, who are good faith, but they're following the bad faith Pied Piper, believing they're following the truth.

00:21:05.000 And then they say the same thing about Trump and Trump's diehard fans.

00:21:09.000 And I'm like, okay, but that's not the majority of whatever this faction is.

00:21:13.000 There are a lot of people who are begrudgingly voting for Trump.

00:21:17.000 And then you have a lot of people on the left who begrudgingly voted for Biden.

00:21:17.000 You know?

00:21:21.000 So it's interesting, but in the end, people like, you know, in the intellectual dark web, disaffected liberals, moderates, have more in common with conservatives based on moral frameworks and rejection of critical race theory and left-identitarianism, believing in free speech.

00:21:38.000 than the establishment Democrats. And there's a big difference between voting for Trump and voting

00:21:42.000 for Biden. You vote for Trump because he's a human Molotov cocktail, or because you really like him

00:21:45.000 and his policies. People vote for Biden because he's a feeble old man they think they can overtake 0.93

00:21:51.000 and steal power, or they genuinely like his policies, but I believe that was probably like

00:21:55.000 a tiny faction. Most of the people voted for him because they just hated Trump. Based on that,

00:21:59.000 you cannot build a government. So. Yeah, what...

00:22:02.000 A house divided against itself?

00:22:05.000 Yep.

00:22:06.000 I know.

00:22:06.000 Most people have more in common than they realize, I think.

00:22:10.000 Occupy Wall Street showed that when people were railing against the Federal Reserve and the monetary system kind of putting us all against each other.

00:22:16.000 You need to stop that.

00:22:17.000 It's so sad when people get confused and start to go at each other like this.

00:22:21.000 I don't like it.

00:22:22.000 Yeah, the no truth but power argument is a great form of sort of moral cynicism, but it also it's very manipulative.

00:22:29.000 It's not a very... Well, first of all, it's very honest because the people who say it are only interested in power.

00:22:36.000 So at least they're consistent in that sense.

00:22:38.000 It says, there is no truth but power, which is how I'm going, and I'm going to use that philosophy to take your power and give it to me.

00:22:47.000 It's not, the statement, no truth but power is not complete.

00:22:51.000 It's only the first half.

00:22:52.000 It's, there is no truth but power and I deserve it.

00:22:55.000 You know, it's interesting because there is, I understand what they're saying when they say that.

00:23:02.000 That, what's the point of having an argument with you?

00:23:04.000 If they want to create their own system, their own utopia, their own leftist, you know, perfect world, there's no point having an argument with a bunch of people who disagree with them.

00:23:12.000 They just need to take your power away, destroy your system, and then build a new one.

00:23:17.000 So for the time being, I don't think the core of their philosophy is there is no truth but power.

00:23:21.000 It's in order for me to build my utopia, I must seize all of your power and the truth be damned.

00:23:27.000 And that's where we're at right now.

00:23:29.000 And it leads to some very interesting things, which is our next segment here, actually.

00:23:33.000 So, Forrest, you're based out of Minneapolis.

00:23:36.000 I live in Minneapolis, for the time being.

00:23:38.000 For the time being, and you've got to see a lot of what's been going on.

00:23:42.000 We have the story from the Star Tribune.

00:23:44.000 Here we go.

00:23:44.000 Brooklyn Center passes police reform package.

00:23:47.000 Bravo.

00:23:48.000 Black Lives Matter, they've won this one.

00:23:49.000 The failed leadership of Brooklyn Center has caved.

00:23:53.000 One of the things they're going to be doing, an unarmed civilian traffic enforcement division.

00:23:59.000 Here's my favorite thing.

00:24:01.000 Civilian.

00:24:03.000 Are police civilians?

00:24:05.000 Technically, yes.

00:24:06.000 Technically, no.

00:24:07.000 I'm not going to be able to answer that one because it's, it, I think you could make the argument in many ways that they're functionally neither right now.

00:24:15.000 Functionally neither.

00:24:16.000 They're functionally neither because I mean, sure, they have, you have, they're not citizens in the sense that they work for the government.

00:24:22.000 That's where do we make that distinction either is another question.

00:24:26.000 Cause that's, I think that's a very modern way of thinking.

00:24:28.000 Yeah.

00:24:28.000 Because a soldier is not considered a citizen, but he's still a citizen of the country.

00:24:33.000 You mean civilian?

00:24:34.000 He's not considered a civilian, yeah.

00:24:36.000 But they're citizens.

00:24:37.000 They're citizens.

00:24:37.000 They're civilians.

00:24:38.000 Yeah, sorry about that.

00:24:39.000 Yeah, they're combatants.

00:24:40.000 They're armed forces.

00:24:44.000 So conventionally the answer is no.

00:24:46.000 But so I would say that if you're talking from a military perspective, the answer is yes.

00:24:53.000 They're not going in foreign war.

00:24:54.000 They're literally living in a small town and dealing with local domestic law.

00:24:58.000 They're civilians.

00:24:59.000 So the line gets blurred because you have when you talk about the police, you're talking about a very large swath of people.

00:25:06.000 You've got your small town sheriff and you've got CIA, you've got FBI, you've got BORTAC, you've got people who have We're much more look much more militant.

00:25:17.000 Most people don't see them and they're are they both considered the police?

00:25:21.000 Well, so let's get into meat potatoes here.

00:25:24.000 They they've successfully reformed their police and it's it's beyond what I would consider because I've said we need reform, but I'm usually talking about creating more divisions like an unarmed traffic enforcement.

00:25:35.000 Okay.

00:25:35.000 Well, maybe if the idea If the idea is like you see someone commit a traffic violation, and you write down their license plate, and they mail them a ticket, that's something they've been talking about doing.

00:25:45.000 But what do you think would happen if someone, you know, an unarmed civilian tries pulling over? 0.88

00:25:50.000 Let's say there's a guy, and maybe he was at a party.

00:25:53.000 And he wakes up, and he's got a gun, and he goes to one of the people who lives there, and then he says, give me all your money, and then shows that he's got a gun.

00:26:02.000 Let's say that's the person.

00:26:03.000 And now this person is wanted for that crime, which is a felony.

00:26:06.000 Let's say they're driving.

00:26:07.000 And the unarmed person pulls them over for whatever means the division is able to do it. 0.60

00:26:12.000 The lights turn on, I guess.

00:26:13.000 They have some kind of car.

00:26:14.000 And they get out.

00:26:16.000 What do you think happens to a person in a situation like this?

00:26:18.000 You do have a disparity of power, and you also have a disparity of the duty.

00:26:21.000 So is it the duty of the unarmed civilian to pull somebody over? 0.82

00:26:26.000 Or is it just a privilege of their position?

00:26:29.000 Right?

00:26:30.000 Please, please stop.

00:26:31.000 Yeah, I mean, you're powerless to employ it, but is there the burden, the onus of the state on you to go do it?

00:26:37.000 Do you have a quota?

00:26:39.000 Oh, well, there's more people drunk driving in our neighborhood right now.

00:26:42.000 They're all armed.

00:26:42.000 Yeah, there are.

00:26:43.000 And I'm not.

00:26:44.000 You're like, what are you going to do?

00:26:44.000 Right?

00:26:45.000 Quotas are bad.

00:26:46.000 You know, so it's the bureaucratic problem.

00:26:49.000 I feel like this is opening the door to defund the police completely.

00:26:53.000 And it's kind of funny, too, because one of the ways police get funding is through tickets.

00:26:58.000 And I'm not a fan, especially when they do quotas.

00:27:00.000 Yeah.

00:27:01.000 So now it's like they're being defunded by taking away their ability to issue traffic violations.

00:27:05.000 I think it can be seen as a lot more sinister, too.

00:27:07.000 So you take your example earlier.

00:27:10.000 They see you commit a violation or they put up traffic cameras and they see you run a red light.

00:27:15.000 Then they send a ticket to your house, which you cannot fight.

00:27:18.000 Or if you try to fight it, it's going to cost you time and money.

00:27:21.000 So you just sort of now have to pay it.

00:27:23.000 Most people do.

00:27:24.000 But if you don't, then they send armed people with guns to your house.

00:27:28.000 Now you have a position of creating that pipeline of going from, um, I don't like you.

00:27:37.000 I write you a ticket for something that could be bogus, could be legitimate.

00:27:40.000 It goes to your house knowing that you're not going to pay it.

00:27:44.000 And then you, instead of you, then, and then you don't fight it.

00:27:48.000 This is, we're starting to, now they can search your house.

00:27:51.000 Now they can search your house.

00:27:52.000 Now they can seize your property.

00:27:53.000 This is called, um, look at what, this was already in effect in London.

00:27:58.000 Wow.

00:27:58.000 You go to London, you run a red light, you park in the wrong place, you will have a ticket sent to your house, and you can't fight it.

00:27:58.000 Right?

00:28:03.000 And then if you don't pay it, the cops show up, and now you've got some kind of crime they can let us in?

00:28:08.000 It creates a paper trail.

00:28:10.000 It's crime by bureaucracy, not crime.

00:28:12.000 Now, if they pull you over while you're driving, you get a ticket and don't pay it, they can still go to your house and arrest you and go into your house.

00:28:17.000 Yes.

00:28:18.000 But there was somebody there to witness it.

00:28:20.000 That is the purpose of American policing, is that a person has to do it.

00:28:24.000 I think, though, in the end, this would increase the likelihood of these, because I once got in the mail two tickets from Chicago.

00:28:33.000 Final determination, they said.

00:28:35.000 And I was like, what is this?

00:28:36.000 I had gotten two parking tickets for parking outside of my dad's place in Chicago, but I had a permit.

00:28:40.000 I had a parking permit.

00:28:41.000 I guess a cop, somebody wrote me two tickets, never put them on my car.

00:28:46.000 I never got notice of them until it was a final determination.

00:28:50.000 And so when I got it, I called and said, what is this?

00:28:52.000 I have a permit to park where I did.

00:28:53.000 And they were like, sir, it's too late.

00:28:54.000 You lost your chance to fight the ticket.

00:28:56.000 So imagine you get pulled over.

00:28:59.000 All right.

00:28:59.000 You get pulled over.

00:29:00.000 You get a ticket.

00:29:00.000 You don't pay it.

00:29:01.000 They can eventually come to your house maybe to serve a warrant for failure to appear or something like that.

00:29:06.000 But let's say you never even knew you did anything wrong.

00:29:08.000 Let's say you didn't do anything wrong.

00:29:10.000 Let's say you were driving right and one of these unarmed people was just like, eh, he blew a stop sign as far as I'm concerned.

00:29:14.000 You get a ticket in the mail, you never realize it came in the mail.

00:29:17.000 You're like, I don't know what these are, you throw it in the trash.

00:29:19.000 Then one day they show up at your house, and you're like, what's happening?

00:29:23.000 When there's an interaction between you and the officer, I think there's a likelihood you're gonna be aware of what's happening.

00:29:30.000 This will probably increase the likelihood cops start showing up to people's homes, and I can only imagine that would maintain the same ratio of violent encounters.

00:29:39.000 It's not going to get better.

00:29:40.000 That's for sure.

00:29:41.000 I mean, it's not.

00:29:42.000 It's because now you're going to take the the cultural perception of the police as a threat in certain areas.

00:29:49.000 And you're going to cross that.

00:29:51.000 We're going to paint that across the whole population.

00:29:53.000 But apparently I was reading this and they they are going to pull people over.

00:29:53.000 Right.

00:29:57.000 So I can only imagine that people are gonna be like, you get pulled over, and a guy walks up in like a polo and khakis, and he's like, um, excuse me sir, you are speeding, I'm supposed to write you a, who are you, are you a cop?

00:29:57.000 Yes.

00:30:08.000 No sir, I'm not a cop.

00:30:10.000 Yeah.

00:30:10.000 Later.

00:30:11.000 What obligation do I have to stop for someone who's not a cop?

00:30:13.000 I mean, are you just gonna look back in your mirror and say it's a red and yellow light, not a red and blue light, so I might as well just drive home?

00:30:18.000 Oh, I live in a gated community, you're not allowed in here, so if you come in here I'm gonna call the actual cops to tell you to not come in.

00:30:23.000 I think it's funny.

00:30:25.000 I think it's funny.

00:30:26.000 These people go around smashing up windows, starting fires.

00:30:29.000 We saw what happened right now in Minneapolis.

00:30:32.000 People are freaking out.

00:30:33.000 They're demanding more cops.

00:30:34.000 They're increasing the budgets.

00:30:36.000 And then this one town, Brooklyn Center, which is basically due north, all of a sudden they're like, we're going to do the opposite.

00:30:41.000 We're just going to carte blanche.

00:30:43.000 Yeah, I mean, Brooklyn Center is going to get eaten by Minneapolis.

00:30:46.000 It's going to get folded in.

00:30:48.000 I mean, has that happened recently?

00:30:50.000 Folded in?

00:30:52.000 It's within the counties.

00:30:54.000 Brooklyn Center is essentially Minneapolis.

00:30:57.000 So what's it like living in Minneapolis?

00:30:59.000 Is it the apocalyptic wasteland we all believe it is because we watch nothing but internet videos?

00:31:03.000 It's not completely the apocalyptic wasteland.

00:31:07.000 But it is basically Kabul or Mosul.

00:31:12.000 It feels a lot more like being in Kandahar than it does like being in America.

00:31:16.000 Do you mean that for real?

00:31:17.000 Yeah, I mean it's not quite the same.

00:31:19.000 I'm not driving an armored vehicle around, but we have new SOP, standard operating procedures, amongst us and our friends and our family.

00:31:27.000 You actually served though.

00:31:28.000 yeah i was in the military for so so just discusses apply a lot of people

00:31:32.000 like he has no idea what he's talking about minneapolis if not you're

00:31:34.000 actually no i i have i have had the uh... privilege of being in the

00:31:38.000 armed forces It's a great time.

00:31:39.000 What did you do in the military?

00:31:40.000 I was a Ranger, Army Ranger.

00:31:43.000 So it was a great time.

00:31:44.000 So now being back home and it's like, what, similar?

00:31:49.000 Not as bad.

00:31:50.000 Yeah.

00:31:51.000 I mean, no one's burning tires to block the roadways for three months of the year.

00:31:57.000 There's an autonomous zone where they put up barricades and threaten people with violence.

00:32:02.000 So in the same way, there are places that we just don't go.

00:32:05.000 Like there are roads you don't take.

00:32:07.000 No go zones.

00:32:09.000 There's definitely like, hey, we communicate, my family, we communicate and it's like, hey, I'm going to go get groceries.

00:32:16.000 Okay, cool.

00:32:16.000 I mean, that's kind of normal for some people, but we're definitely more conscious about Is this new?

00:32:21.000 we're looking at, what threats we're looking for, what kind of concerns we have, and then

00:32:25.000 we have a little network of people that are all friends and families in the Twin Cities

00:32:30.000 that we're all looking out for each other.

00:32:31.000 Is this new?

00:32:33.000 Like these behaviors and these offensive tactics?

00:32:36.000 It absolutely initiated last year when the riot started.

00:32:39.000 We spontaneously set it up.

00:32:41.000 We just called all the people that we knew.

00:32:43.000 We built a kind of a network through social media conversation or through signal or through text messages and we established ways that we talk to each other so that we could very effectively verify rumors.

00:32:56.000 So one of the worst things that happened during the riots last year, not this year, was essentially the entirety of social media became an advertisement for things that aren't happening.

00:33:09.000 The white supremacists are coming down from New Brighton.

00:33:12.000 These people are coming from here. 0.99

00:33:13.000 We just saw this thing happen.

00:33:14.000 And it was like everyone was on so high alert that they were spreading rumors so quickly, which added to the fervor.

00:33:21.000 It added to the terror in the sense And so one of the things that we had to do as a community is, by our own volition, by our own choice, verify information ourselves.

00:33:33.000 So, okay, if someone's saying that this is on fire or they're moving towards... One of the concerns that they had last year was, If the police provide a strong enough presence in defending a precinct or they harden targets in like, when they mean harden target, like make it difficult for people to loot and riot in certain areas, they're going to move into the residential areas.

00:33:57.000 So the moment we heard that, it was like, okay, how can we verify that information?

00:34:01.000 Because that sounds a lot like hearsay, but it also has a big threat.

00:34:05.000 So you're basically creating like a neighborhood watch.

00:34:07.000 Is that what happened?

00:34:08.000 Yeah.

00:34:08.000 I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's an honor.

00:34:10.000 Yeah.

00:34:10.000 It's an neighborhood watch.

00:34:11.000 Unofficial.

00:34:12.000 It's like, you know, your chat group.

00:34:14.000 Remember when I was talking about this, maybe like a week or two ago when I said, what's going to start happening is there's more violence.

00:34:20.000 You'll see the formation of like local community groups.

00:34:23.000 Exactly.

00:34:23.000 They'll start texting each other.

00:34:24.000 Hey, I heard this.

00:34:25.000 Are you all right?

00:34:26.000 Text, you know, there'll be text groups and it's going to escalate from there.

00:34:29.000 Yeah, and we took it a step further of having triggers and conditions.

00:34:33.000 Or conditions and appropriate responses.

00:34:35.000 So like, in the event that X happens, we do Y. Right?

00:34:38.000 In the event that we see this happen, so like, if the protest goes to this precinct, we go to this person's house and get their wife and child out.

00:34:45.000 Wow.

00:34:46.000 And move them out of the city, put them into a safe house.

00:34:49.000 And we did that.

00:34:50.000 We had to do exactly that.

00:34:51.000 You mentioned earlier, you said, for the time being.

00:34:54.000 So you're getting out, aren't you?

00:34:55.000 Yeah!

00:34:56.000 We're looking at moving out of state.

00:35:00.000 Our families are there, but there's not a lot of reason to live in Minneapolis right now.

00:35:04.000 It does not look like a bright future.

00:35:06.000 Everybody's going to Texas, I guess.

00:35:08.000 Texas is a big one, yeah.

00:35:10.000 It's kind of crazy when you mention these streets you don't go down.

00:35:14.000 That's a new thing since the start of the riots.

00:35:16.000 That's why I asked you.

00:35:17.000 Yeah, I mean, the term Minnesota nice is not entirely pejorative.

00:35:20.000 It also does mean that like, generally speaking, you can drive through most of the city and not be in actual fear for your life.

00:35:26.000 But when I go to a place and I see a roadblock with armed people that just by looking at them know that they have no idea what they're doing with that firearm, given it's their right to have it, but I know that they're not going to, they don't know what they're doing with it.

00:35:38.000 I'm not going to put myself in the position of no reward and all risk.

00:35:44.000 I want to show you guys this post I found on Reddit.

00:35:47.000 So I'm browsing Reddit and political humor.

00:35:51.000 If you go on Reddit and you click All, you'll see every post. 0.99

00:35:55.000 It is a hive of scum and villainy. 1.00

00:35:58.000 It's just a lot of people who are really dumb. 1.00

00:36:01.000 They don't do research. 1.00

00:36:02.000 It's very tribal. 0.69

00:36:04.000 Political humor.

00:36:06.000 This was one of the front page posts.

00:36:08.000 It says, radical left?

00:36:10.000 It shows a photo from the Capitol and says, it cracks me up when the left is referred to as radical, as if the left is running around carrying assault rifles, denying science, and discussing not accepting the election results.

00:36:24.000 And I'm like, does any of these people have the internet four years ago?

00:36:28.000 Like, for four years did they use the internet?

00:36:31.000 First of all, okay, fair point.

00:36:33.000 No one is running around with assault rifles. 1.00

00:36:35.000 That's just stupid. 1.00

00:36:36.000 Nope. 0.99

00:36:37.000 No one, not anyone, I mean, it'd be kind of a crazy thing to see a guy running around with, like, an actual M16, or maybe even, like, a legit belt-fed machine gun of some sort.

00:36:46.000 But no, uh, no one's doing that.

00:36:48.000 I think they just mean rifle in general.

00:36:51.000 Okay, well, the left is doing that like a hundred times more often than the right does it.

00:36:57.000 They've been denying science and the election for four years.

00:37:02.000 But these people, they live in a bubble.

00:37:05.000 I think it's funny.

00:37:05.000 Yep.

00:37:06.000 I wanted to bring this up because you're mentioning Minneapolis.

00:37:08.000 You know, you live there.

00:37:09.000 And I'm like, they got... I was reading a story where it was like 30 gunshots ring out at like 10 p.m.

00:37:15.000 And then it's like by 11 p.m.

00:37:16.000 another 30 gunshots ring out.

00:37:18.000 A guy's on a rooftop.

00:37:20.000 They say, Star Tribune, I think it was an op-ed.

00:37:22.000 They say a guy on a rooftop with an assault rifle.

00:37:23.000 And I'm like, it's probably just a regular rifle.

00:37:26.000 But I get your point.

00:37:27.000 There's a guy on a roof with a gun.

00:37:28.000 I've seen the picture, and I know where the gunshots happened.

00:37:31.000 So what's going on?

00:37:33.000 What's going on in the Autonomous Zone?

00:37:34.000 So in the Autonomous Zone, from what I understand, and this is going to be a combination of... It's a difficult piece to explain entirely, but what you have is essentially people thinking that the cops are going to come in and raid their buildings.

00:37:48.000 So you'll have like when you the picture that we're talking about was classically a guy on a rooftop with an AR-15 style rifle sitting up there like he's providing overwatch for the city, right?

00:37:59.000 Or for for the neighborhood.

00:38:00.000 So in case a police officer or the police come down or whatever, maybe it's something this guy wanted to shoot cops.

00:38:05.000 I'm not going to ascribe that.

00:38:09.000 I can't tell you what he wanted, but maybe he was genuinely afraid for his neighborhood.

00:38:12.000 Maybe he was afraid that a rival gang was going to do something.

00:38:15.000 I don't know.

00:38:16.000 But I do know that if you go out into Minneapolis at night and you go into the right neighborhoods, you will find people on rooftops with guns.

00:38:24.000 You will find people.

00:38:25.000 But that's just like rooftop Koreans, right? 1.00

00:38:27.000 Like people who want to protect their businesses.

00:38:30.000 In some cases, I'm assuming yes, but let's let's just hope so.

00:38:33.000 There was.

00:38:33.000 Protect them from who, though?

00:38:35.000 Is the rioters or you can make the argument that the autonomous zone is trying to protect their people from cops taking in.

00:38:35.000 Right.

00:38:42.000 You could say that people in that area were trying to protect their own business. 0.84

00:38:46.000 These people are insane about cops.

00:38:48.000 Like, do you know what happens?

00:38:49.000 I'm going to let everyone in a big secret.

00:38:51.000 And this is going to shock a lot of people.

00:38:53.000 You know what would happen if you were in a big city and you were just walking down the street and there were two cops in front of you and they were walking down the street?

00:38:59.000 You know what would happen if you walked past those cops?

00:39:02.000 Absolutely nothing.

00:39:03.000 Absolutely nothing.

00:39:04.000 It's like, Chicago is notorious for its bad cops.

00:39:09.000 We had a video where like, this cop grabbed, not a video but a story about a cop, grabbed a meter maid because she was riding, he parked illegally, she wouldn't take it, so he grabbed her by the throat and lifted her up and slammed her against the wall. 0.86

00:39:19.000 Chicago is notorious for crooked cops. 0.58

00:39:22.000 And I see a cop on the street, I'm like, howdy. 0.75

00:39:25.000 Hey.

00:39:26.000 Yeah.

00:39:27.000 These people are like, put up barricades.

00:39:28.000 We need guns.

00:39:29.000 There are police.

00:39:30.000 They're hunting us.

00:39:31.000 They're really delusional, man.

00:39:33.000 But I'll mention this.

00:39:34.000 I think it was in Philly during the riots.

00:39:36.000 There were people tweeting like, hey, stay away from this neighborhood.

00:39:39.000 There's a bunch of, you know, far right guys on roofs with guns, on rooftops with guns.

00:39:43.000 And they post a photo of a bunch of dudes on roofs with guns.

00:39:46.000 All the businesses were safe.

00:39:47.000 Yep.

00:39:48.000 No, uh, we saw, we encountered a place in Minneapolis that, uh, this last year, if you looked at, um, New Brighton and where all the looting was, um, we, we got to, I got to meet some people that it was, it was four guys outside of a tobacco shop.

00:40:03.000 Um, and they all had, they all had AK-47s and they're just chilling there because that was one of two buildings that did not get looted in the area.

00:40:10.000 And the good news is the left only wants to ban, uh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't say the left, the Democrats only want to ban AR-15.

00:40:16.000 So AKs are totally fine.

00:40:17.000 Yeah, let's hope so.

00:40:20.000 I mean, we already instituted a ban of Russian-made AKs.

00:40:24.000 Like, import bans is a big issue.

00:40:26.000 So, good news is a lot of companies have moved their manufacturing to the United States.

00:40:31.000 But that is a backdoor form.

00:40:34.000 I just think it's funny when they tweet all day like, you know, we got a ban on AR-15s.

00:40:38.000 No one should have one.

00:40:39.000 I'm like, I'll get an AK.

00:40:40.000 Got it, buddy.

00:40:40.000 Thanks.

00:40:41.000 Do you know anything about what you're saying?

00:40:43.000 Because it's meaningless.

00:40:44.000 Yeah, you gotta ask the question every once in a while with gun control is, is it ignorance or is it malice?

00:40:50.000 Those are two different things.

00:40:51.000 Yeah, it's definitely malice.

00:40:52.000 Oh, yeah.

00:40:53.000 And at what point in time does ignorance become malice?

00:40:55.000 Because if you look at the foray of data that we have in any relating to gun violence and gun control, I mean, it's not a hard argument to make.

00:41:04.000 The problem is that you've made it so many times that no one cares anymore.

00:41:08.000 All the big violence happens in places where there's gun control.

00:41:12.000 Perhaps we should start making the conclusion that gun control begets violence.

00:41:16.000 And I think malice, so obviously nothing's absolute, there's probably a lot of ignorant people who just follow along, but it's gotta be malice, and you need to understand this, when you make the same argument 800,000 times, and they don't care and keep lying, okay, it's not ignorance anymore. 0.85

00:41:31.000 Like, when someone says that stupid meme, you know, no self-respecting hunter would use an assault weapon, and then you're like, okay, first of all, assault weapon is a nebulous term that means different things in different places, and it's ill-defined, because I love that meme of the Ruger 10-22 with and without a pistol grip, and one's an assault weapon and one's not. 0.84

00:41:49.000 And then you mention that hunters use AR-15s. 0.99

00:41:52.000 Like, I think it's the most popular rifle used in hunting.

00:41:55.000 Yeah, I wouldn't say the most popular, but it's very common.

00:41:57.000 And you gotta look at the different types of hunting, because hunting is a broad spectrum.

00:42:00.000 Right, right.

00:42:01.000 If you're hunting wild boar, absolutely.

00:42:02.000 Yes.

00:42:03.000 Of course, I mean... But these people clearly don't know, don't care, and after you explain it, they say, shut up. 0.98

00:42:08.000 They just want a tribal win, and they want to take power away from you for themselves. 0.99

00:42:12.000 Or it's worse, because they just want to have a conversation.

00:42:15.000 Right?

00:42:16.000 They just want to have a conversation, right?

00:42:18.000 The story that I get to have is when I went to college after the military, in my senior year, the Parkland shooting happened.

00:42:28.000 And so the woke chapter of the school decided to get together and host a conversation about gun control.

00:42:35.000 The extent of the knowledge of the people in the room, there was me, one other veteran, and a guy who had grown up hunting and who was an avid hunter.

00:42:42.000 The three of us were the only three who had ever owned firearms, ever bought them, and the other 30 people, the extent of their knowledge on anything to do with firearms, was watching a single Vice video.

00:42:53.000 Oh, so they were well-versed and experienced.

00:42:55.000 Yeah, well, the point is like... I was kidding.

00:42:57.000 Oh, absolutely, right?

00:42:59.000 They knew exactly what they're talking about.

00:43:00.000 And the problem that you have there is we can look at each other as equals, as people, but we do not have equal information.

00:43:07.000 We do not know, you don't, when someone thinks that they deserve a position at the table, when they're not even capable of being literate on the subject, why are we debating?

00:43:18.000 Are you saying service guarantees citizenship?

00:43:20.000 I am reading that book for the first time because you've mentioned it.

00:43:25.000 I'm reading Starship Troopers for the first time right now.

00:43:27.000 Well, yeah, it's a huge problem, especially for me, because I got, there's a photo of me that Mike Feede took, so he came out, he's the BMX guy from the vlogs, and he came out with us, and as I was carrying the Barrett, which is a ridiculously large and heavy gun, I had this, you know, grin, let's put it that way.

00:43:44.000 It was a grin.

00:43:45.000 I'd call it something more, but we don't swear, we don't do that here.

00:43:48.000 And so, no, a swear grin, it's a, you know.

00:43:52.000 Anyway, somebody commented Tim's journey from, I'm in favor of some reasonable gun control to Two Absolutists is the greatest character arc ever or something like that.

00:44:02.000 And I was like, it's a good point.

00:44:04.000 And the issue was I lived in a city.

00:44:06.000 I was interested in hearing the thoughts and opinions of those who owned guns, but having never fought, having, well, I did fire one, but having not owned any or gone through the process to own any or learned anything about different types of ammunition or weapons, I was like, I think a conversation makes sense.

00:44:22.000 There's some things we can do.

00:44:23.000 And then, when the rides broke out, someone tried breaking into my house.

00:44:27.000 I'll tell you this. 0.99

00:44:29.000 So much I'd break into my house and then they made this really really hilarious meme where it was like You know, you know the Sheba's that are all like weak and pathetic. 1.00

00:44:38.000 Yeah Yeah, and it was it was like Tim in 2019 and it was the weak sad one saying help someone's trying to break into my house call 9-1-1 and then it was like Tim pool 2020 and it's like the big rip dog carrying a bunch of guns and he's like you get what you deserve and So after someone tried breaking in, the cop told me, he's like, I'll paraphrase, he basically said, get a gun.

00:45:00.000 And he said, if it were me, here's what I'd do.

00:45:02.000 So I went to a local police station and I said, what's the process for New Jersey?

00:45:06.000 And they gave me information that was bad.

00:45:08.000 And then I went online, looked it up, and I got information that was bad.

00:45:11.000 And then I was like, I don't have time for this.

00:45:13.000 I'm working crazy hours and everything.

00:45:16.000 So I just lost track of things.

00:45:18.000 Then when the riots kicked off, I was like, I have no choice.

00:45:22.000 And the mistake I made was I should have went to the gun shop first.

00:45:24.000 They want to sell me the gun.

00:45:25.000 They need to make sure I can get the paperwork.

00:45:27.000 I think it took me like two months to finally be able to go and pick up the equipment.

00:45:31.000 And, you know, we were talking earlier in the show about Steven Crowder sending me the Sig M400.

00:45:36.000 The reason I couldn't get it for a year I could have got it sooner, but I couldn't get it because they sent it to New Jersey, which has insane laws, which made it very difficult.

00:45:44.000 The gun had to be modified in several ways before I could pick it up, before they could ship it out to any other store.

00:45:50.000 And so there was a process, and it fell through, and I'm like, I don't have time to deal with this.

00:45:55.000 They put all these roadblocks in the way to make sure you basically can't do it.

00:45:59.000 Well, now we're basically in West Virginia, and so they just snap their fingers, and here you go.

00:46:03.000 That's what constitutional carry is like.

00:46:04.000 So that was New Jersey you were moving from?

00:46:06.000 Yeah, leaving New Jersey.

00:46:07.000 And so you couldn't own the firearm in its current state because of New Jersey law.

00:46:12.000 Yep.

00:46:13.000 Which makes no sense.

00:46:13.000 Which essentially what you're saying is that New Jersey law says that you are legal if you are incapable and you are illegal if you are capable.

00:46:23.000 Yeah.

00:46:23.000 I mean, yep, so that means they don't trust you, and that means it's malice.

00:46:28.000 I just think it was funny, so when we were filming the vlog, and I'm at the gun shop picking up the Sig M400, finally gets shipped in, and one of the guys at the shop, so I do the background check, I do Nick's, and they were researching me, so it was a little bit longer, but it was like 15 minutes.

00:46:43.000 And then he says, congratulations, you know, Uncle Sam says you're allowed to have the gun.

00:46:47.000 And I was like, oh, thank you, Uncle Sam, for allowing me to exercise my inalienable right.

00:46:53.000 That's where we're currently at.

00:46:54.000 It's a rifle. 0.95

00:46:55.000 It's it's crazy because these leftists that there's there's a lot of ignorant ones, but the people who work for these nonprofits, the people who are running policy. 0.97

00:47:04.000 They know that an AR-15 is one pull the trigger, one bullet comes out. 0.97

00:47:09.000 They know.

00:47:09.000 There's no way that they've spent 10, 15, 20 years advocating to ban guns, and they've not actually ever Google-searched any of them.

00:47:18.000 They know they're lying.

00:47:20.000 They know they use assault weapon to scare people.

00:47:22.000 Yeah, there's a classic argument that says something like there's no such thing as an assault weapon.

00:47:26.000 And here's a little known industry secret.

00:47:28.000 Nobody likes no no, a fully automatic weapon is 100% a hobbyist tool with the exception of very specific military applications.

00:47:36.000 If you're not using a belt fed machine gun or a submachine gun, like a fully automatic ar 15 has almost no value.

00:47:41.000 Yeah, we've talked about it quite a bit on the show.

00:47:42.000 I think I remember who it was.

00:47:43.000 Maybe it was Jim.

00:47:44.000 Was it Jim, maybe?

00:47:45.000 Probably Jim Hansen.

00:47:46.000 Jim Hansen, mentioning... Maybe it was.

00:47:48.000 Maybe it was somebody else.

00:47:49.000 In Vietnam, it was spray and pray. 0.97

00:47:51.000 And so they just waste so much ammo, and they're like, we can't do this.

00:47:54.000 It's ineffective.

00:47:55.000 So they wanted to make people use semi-auto.

00:47:58.000 It's more precise.

00:48:00.000 Well yeah, so you think about body mechanics, like when I'm, every individual pull of the trigger, you look at, go look at like a three gun competition and go look at someone who's really good at it.

00:48:09.000 That guy shoots really fast.

00:48:10.000 It almost looks like he's shooting fully automatic.

00:48:12.000 The fact is that he's doing is each, with each pull of the trigger, he is making a conscious decision to pull that trigger and put that bullet as best as he can where he wants it.

00:48:20.000 So if I'm just holding the trigger and holding it and swinging my gun around like a hose, I'm probably not going to hit my target.

00:48:26.000 I think if anybody's played a game, like, you ever played The Division?

00:48:29.000 I played the first one for about a week.

00:48:31.000 Division was awesome.

00:48:33.000 Uh, Division 2 was pretty good, but I really liked the first one, and then I, I stopped playing.

00:48:36.000 I don't play that many video games.

00:48:38.000 But, you, in, in that game, it's actually pretty great, because you can get, like, real guns.

00:48:43.000 You know, and, I always played, I always used, like, my favorite gun to use in the game was the, was the M1, or M1A or whatever, because, for that reason.

00:48:52.000 A lot of people I know would like to use, you know, submachine guns or whatever in the game.

00:48:55.000 Literally, it's a video game.

00:48:56.000 It's called The Division.

00:48:57.000 But then you're, you're, it's pray and praying.

00:48:59.000 You're like, just hoping your, your accuracy will be high enough.

00:49:02.000 Whereas the way I'd play is just like, one, one, one, you know?

00:49:05.000 Yeah, you look at a game like Call of Duty and your character can take an M4 concept and hold it on a decent circle for just the whole magazine.

00:49:16.000 That's not really... I mean, you can do that.

00:49:18.000 You technically can, but it's just not... Not only is it not efficient, but it's sort of like...

00:49:25.000 Is it really video games that are driving the culture?

00:49:28.000 Which is why I cannot wait until one of these big companies comes out and they make a game where you're using the guns like people do in the military.

00:49:37.000 So you're running around with your M4 and it's on single shot.

00:49:39.000 Because that's exactly how you're gonna do it.

00:49:39.000 Yeah.

00:49:41.000 And so, yeah, given the whole fully automatic mechanic is a little bit more, I don't know, video game normal?

00:49:46.000 It's Doom, I guess?

00:49:48.000 You can paraphrase Halo to this?

00:49:50.000 Man, I remember growing up and I'm watching a movie and it was my dad sitting there and my dad always would always, you know, comment and say things and predict things.

00:49:59.000 And then there's, I can't remember what movie it was.

00:50:01.000 I'm a little kid.

00:50:02.000 And then like the bad guy sneaks into the room and then my dad goes, silence her.

00:50:06.000 And then the guy pulls out a gun and goes, yep.

00:50:08.000 And like people grow up believing that stuff's real.

00:50:11.000 Yeah, I mean, go watch the movie Django Unchained.

00:50:14.000 And in one of the late scenes of the movie, the main character shoots another person at one angle.

00:50:21.000 And he flies the other way?

00:50:22.000 And they fly a different direction.

00:50:23.000 That's Quentin being awesome, by the way.

00:50:27.000 We hope to trust that it's Quentin Tarantino making fun of his own, not taking his work too seriously.

00:50:27.000 That was funny.

00:50:33.000 I remember that scene, it was great.

00:50:34.000 It's great, right?

00:50:35.000 But now people will watch movies and they will legitimately think that's how it works.

00:50:40.000 And then they ban things based on the movies!

00:50:42.000 Yeah, what is that Gelman amnesia effect where you're reading the news, you read an article that you are an expert in, and you realize it's all bunk, you turn the page, and then you're like, huh?

00:50:52.000 It's the same thing with firearms.

00:50:54.000 If you're a doctor or a nurse, you know that the nurse TV shows are not really that accurate.

00:51:00.000 But then you, so when you watch NCIS, it's not the same.

00:51:04.000 A Department of Diagnostics.

00:51:06.000 I did.

00:51:06.000 You ever watch House?

00:51:07.000 I saw a couple episodes.

00:51:08.000 It's a good show.

00:51:09.000 It was basically, I guess the premise of House was like Sherlock Holmes as a doctor or something.

00:51:09.000 Yeah.

00:51:14.000 And so he gets a mystery.

00:51:16.000 I mean, people believe this stuff.

00:51:18.000 Like, I was reading a story about how people would go to the doctor and they would ask the doctor, like, what's wrong with me?

00:51:24.000 I'm sick.

00:51:25.000 And when they'd be like, well, we're not entirely sure.

00:51:27.000 We'll give you a scan.

00:51:27.000 They'd be like, can you send me to diagnostics?

00:51:29.000 They'd be like, what?

00:51:30.000 Be like, like Dr. House.

00:51:31.000 They'd be like, that's not real.

00:51:32.000 That's a TV show.

00:51:34.000 There's no, like, head doctor to just break into your home and steal your bath soap to try and figure out if it's got a chemical in it.

00:51:42.000 That's what they do in the show.

00:51:43.000 Like, the doctors would literally break into the person's house and then, like, take their Drano and be like, look what we found.

00:51:48.000 This is what's killing him.

00:51:50.000 You know what, man?

00:51:52.000 I don't know how you solve for that problem because you're allowed to have TV shows, but people believe TV and movies are real too much.

00:51:59.000 Yeah, I would never want to have like an enforcement of accuracy committee, right?

00:52:04.000 I mean, there's a kind of a trope that goes about in the military that some people have lost their jobs because they went to advise entertainment and they were too accurate. 0.99

00:52:14.000 There's stories about that.

00:52:16.000 What's the legitimate reason for making suppressors NFA items?

00:52:20.000 For those that aren't familiar, it's like you gotta file a tax, it takes like nine months, you get your fingerprints, it's very difficult to buy.

00:52:25.000 Yeah, there is a burden entry for owning a suppressor, which is an item that makes it safer to shoot the firearm.

00:52:32.000 Yeah, it's just insane!

00:52:34.000 What does it do?

00:52:34.000 It protects hearing damage.

00:52:36.000 Now, if you're going to universalize healthcare, and you're going to get more people with hearing damage, okay.

00:52:43.000 So silencers aren't real.

00:52:45.000 The term silencer is just a colloquial term.

00:52:50.000 There was a long time when people referred to them as silencer.

00:52:54.000 Right now people are using the term suppressor more often.

00:52:58.000 And I think some of that is as an attempt to better translate what the object does.

00:53:03.000 They're still loud.

00:53:03.000 That's so loud.

00:53:06.000 If the bullet breaks the sound barrier, you're still getting the sonic crack, and that's what's gonna hurt the most.

00:53:11.000 So yes, when you shoot a firearm that has a suppressor on, you're probably wearing ear protection as well.

00:53:16.000 Yeah, I've fired a weapon with a suppressor.

00:53:19.000 It's still loud.

00:53:20.000 The recoil was better, and it wasn't as loud.

00:53:23.000 But it's like, people could hear it probably a mile away.

00:53:26.000 If you know what it sounds like, yeah, you actually know what it sounds like.

00:53:29.000 But you were talking about events with people in the riots, where someone is launching fireworks, okay, but someone is shooting a gun, and they think it's fireworks.

00:53:38.000 Well, so in these riots, it's almost never fireworks. 0.87

00:53:43.000 Sometimes people will throw fireworks, but in my experience, it's more often that someone's shooting a gun, and then you get really dumb journalists being like, it sounds like fireworks.

00:53:52.000 There was a tactic in Minneapolis where activists were firing, whatever they were, were legitimately firing mortar fireworks at buildings and people.

00:54:00.000 But those are very different booms, right?

00:54:02.000 They are.

00:54:03.000 They are.

00:54:04.000 You ever see firecrackers?

00:54:06.000 You get the right package, you're like... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:54:08.000 Black cats?

00:54:09.000 Is that what they're called? 0.80

00:54:10.000 No, those aren't black cats, are they?

00:54:12.000 Maybe.

00:54:12.000 I think they are.

00:54:13.000 Yeah, they're like a little red and white ones and you let them to go pop and I've and actually we had some recently

00:54:19.000 we were yeah, we had some recently we just pop them off in the parking lot or whatever, but

00:54:22.000 Journalists for some reason think that people just carry those around with them in cities

00:54:27.000 Especially in like, you know crime ridden areas during riots

00:54:31.000 Yeah, you can't buy them in Minneapolis, which means you have to go to a different state to get them.

00:54:34.000 Or it's a gun.

00:54:35.000 Or people are going, pop, pop, pop, pop, and they're like, just fireworks, just, you know, whatever, it's fine.

00:54:40.000 Again, their information that's being given to them is bad.

00:54:40.000 Yeah.

00:54:44.000 Let's get a little apocalyptic, I suppose.

00:54:46.000 We're talking about guns, the right to keep and bear, and all that stuff.

00:54:49.000 Can we just go post-apocalyptic?

00:54:51.000 Post-apocalyptic?

00:54:51.000 We're not there yet!

00:54:53.000 We got this story from the Daily Mail.

00:54:54.000 Gas prices climbed to 7-year high of $3.04 a gallon, despite Colonial Pipeline reopening after Darkseid hack.

00:55:04.000 All right, so this is what I don't understand.

00:55:06.000 They said it was panic buying.

00:55:08.000 People are just panic buying, you know, and that's why there's no gas in D.C.

00:55:11.000 and much of these places.

00:55:13.000 And then we found out that the Friday the hack happened.

00:55:17.000 Within three hours, they paid the ransom to shut it down.

00:55:21.000 So why did they shut down the pipeline?

00:55:23.000 Why was supply threatened if they paid the ransom?

00:55:26.000 Did they lie to the government, which resulted in bad information and a panic?

00:55:31.000 Did they disrupt supply, which led to panic and then an actual shortage?

00:55:36.000 Something doesn't add up.

00:55:39.000 This is the kind of stuff that's going to exacerbate inflation.

00:55:43.000 And it's already getting crazy, man.

00:55:46.000 I mean, you know, we went to the restaurant after shooting and we waited like two hours for food because they had no staff.

00:55:53.000 Wow.

00:55:54.000 Yep.

00:55:55.000 And we it was it was miserable.

00:55:56.000 I mean, I don't want to be mean at the restaurant They were trying and I respect them for working like two people on staff for this restaurant Because nobody wants to work now gas prices are super high.

00:56:05.000 So here's what we're talking about.

00:56:07.000 So we're sitting there We thought I was gonna be 45 minutes, you know, you go in you order you get food you leave and then at like two hours I'm like, okay, we're gonna get up and go and then the food finally comes out and I was like, here's what happens.

00:56:16.000 I The prices are skyrocketing, and people are getting unemployment benefits.

00:56:22.000 They're getting $16 an hour not to work.

00:56:24.000 Now Joe Biden's saying he's gonna do the $300 tax credit for, you know, up for every kid.

00:56:28.000 So now families can get like three grand for their kids.

00:56:31.000 So now you got people who just don't wanna work.

00:56:33.000 So now you got one line cook at your restaurant.

00:56:36.000 Now you got all these people come in, and he's going crazy trying to fill these orders, and eventually he just stops and says, for $15 an hour, no way, I'm done.

00:56:45.000 Now you got no cook.

00:56:46.000 Now you got no restaurant.

00:56:49.000 This kind of shortage is something that my parents have been concerned about for the entire time I've known them.

00:56:54.000 This is something that my grandparents were concerned about.

00:56:57.000 My grandparents were stockpiling in the mountains in New Mexico to make sure that they were safe if and when there was, for example, a trucker strike.

00:57:03.000 They were very concerned about, like, the Cuban Missile Crisis.

00:57:06.000 I think this was around that time.

00:57:08.000 And this is something that I think that modern people don't take seriously anymore.

00:57:12.000 And I think that there is like this derogatory term.

00:57:14.000 We're called preppers.

00:57:16.000 You don't want to be a prepper.

00:57:17.000 A prepper is some old redneck dude who just is everybody thinks they're crazy because they think the end of the world is coming. 0.99

00:57:23.000 Well, like Tim says, what if it rains?

00:57:25.000 Sometimes, sometimes it rains.

00:57:26.000 That's what I think.

00:57:27.000 There's a difference between, you know, a prepper and what we would do, for instance.

00:57:32.000 Right, but there is like this, there's this stigma to just being prepared and people call it reactionary, which I was telling you earlier that I don't understand.

00:57:41.000 How can you be reactionary when something hasn't happened yet?

00:57:44.000 You're trying to think ahead.

00:57:46.000 I don't see that as being an issue.

00:57:48.000 Yeah.

00:57:48.000 When did self-sufficiency become a pejorative?

00:57:52.000 When the rich people want to make sure they can get gas and supplies before you, and then you'll get news outlets saying, we shouldn't report on this because then people will panic.

00:58:02.000 And then what they do is they whisper to their family, make sure you go buy gas right now.

00:58:06.000 Yeah, like, would that be the same thing as saying, you don't need to wear a mask, you don't need to go out and buy one, so we can stockpile a bunch of them, and now we're gonna make it necessary?

00:58:17.000 So we're gonna make sure it hits our warehouse, so that we can charge you for it, not them.

00:58:23.000 That's exactly what I'm saying!

00:58:24.000 So when the Colonial Pipeline stuff happens, and they're like, There's no supply shortage.

00:58:30.000 And then we're watching videos of cars lined up and gas stations shutting down, and it's like, what are you talking about?

00:58:36.000 We meant in terms of the national supply.

00:58:36.000 Oh, no, no, no.

00:58:39.000 Yeah, well, no one's asking about that.

00:58:40.000 They're asking about their local gas stations.

00:58:42.000 Yeah.

00:58:43.000 And meanwhile, these journalists are whispering, these security people are whispering, telling their friends and their family to go stock up while you still can.

00:58:50.000 Go buy your toilet paper before it's too late.

00:58:50.000 Yeah.

00:58:53.000 Yeah, the I got mine philosophy.

00:58:55.000 You can ruin the system after I got mine.

00:59:02.000 Humans are selfish creatures to some extent, right?

00:59:04.000 Especially when panic takes hold.

00:59:04.000 Oh, for sure.

00:59:09.000 So now I'm wondering if this is... Well, I guess it doesn't matter if it's panic.

00:59:13.000 What matters is prices are going up.

00:59:15.000 There's a global shortage.

00:59:16.000 Now, I love this.

00:59:17.000 What did they say first?

00:59:19.000 There's no inflation problem.

00:59:20.000 Don't worry.

00:59:21.000 A week later, OK, there's inflation.

00:59:22.000 What should we do about it?

00:59:24.000 Now, Bloomberg publishes a story saying there's a global supply shortage of basically everything.

00:59:29.000 So what's happening is a combination of things.

00:59:32.000 You shut down the economy.

00:59:33.000 People stopped working.

00:59:34.000 They leave their jobs.

00:59:35.000 You can't just find people again.

00:59:37.000 Like, a steel mill isn't just going to be like, OK, let's just teleport someone here to start making the steel again.

00:59:43.000 A lot of these people left, moved.

00:59:44.000 A lot of people moved out of New York.

00:59:46.000 Half a million people moved out of New York.

00:59:47.000 What are you going to do to fill those jobs?

00:59:49.000 You can't do anything.

00:59:50.000 So now they can't just restart the economy.

00:59:52.000 The problem is, Biden is also just printing money and dishing it out to everybody, firing the money guns, so people don't need to go back to work.

00:59:59.000 If you don't make stuff, there's no stuff.

01:00:01.000 So now these businesses are struggling to get the stuff they need to make new stuff, and then people can't buy it.

01:00:06.000 So what happens?

01:00:08.000 Two people show up at the hot dog stand, and the guy's got one hot dog left.

01:00:12.000 What do you get?

01:00:13.000 You get a bidding war.

01:00:15.000 I'll give you $6, $7, $8, $9, $10.

01:00:15.000 I'll give you $5 for it.

01:00:18.000 I'm not spending $15 on a hot dog.

01:00:20.000 No, a hot dog costs $15.

01:00:22.000 Everybody's going to be fighting over these materials.

01:00:24.000 And one of the things that we're seeing, according to Bloomberg, is that a lot of businesses are buying as much raw material as possible, and then all of a sudden everything's sold out.

01:00:34.000 They're hoarding it, basically.

01:00:36.000 Panic buying. 0.97

01:00:38.000 That's ridiculous. 0.98

01:00:39.000 That's what they did. 0.84

01:00:40.000 There's a Canadian ad during World War I where they were like, do not hoard flour.

01:00:45.000 You guys ever seen that?

01:00:46.000 It's like a comic book ad.

01:00:47.000 Ian, what did you just buy?

01:00:48.000 I bought about 250 pounds of flour.

01:00:50.000 Why?

01:00:53.000 Because I'm not panicking.

01:00:54.000 I'm pretty sure that.

01:00:56.000 I'm about eight months ahead of the curve.

01:00:57.000 When does it expire?

01:00:59.000 Yeah, like two years, a year and a half, but we can freeze it too.

01:01:02.000 You're going to eat 250 pounds of flour?

01:01:04.000 I think we go through about five pounds a week.

01:01:06.000 So Ian engages in kneading bread as a stress reliever.

01:01:09.000 Is this what I need to know?

01:01:10.000 Yeah, I made two breads in the last two days.

01:01:15.000 It makes a lot of bread.

01:01:16.000 And then I was pouring maple syrup on it, and then it soaks through the bread.

01:01:20.000 Then you mop it up, and it's like a French toast without having to cook it.

01:01:23.000 You gotta get off all that sugar, man.

01:01:25.000 You're the guy who's ragging on sugar all the time. 1.00

01:01:27.000 According to Vladimir Putin, what you gotta do is learn to cook.

01:01:30.000 He was giving a talk to a bunch of college students, and they were like, Vlad, what should I do as a man, a Russian man?

01:01:36.000 And he's like, learn how to cook.

01:01:37.000 And they all laugh, and like, no, really, what should I do?

01:01:39.000 And he was like, learn how to cook.

01:01:41.000 Because when the apocalypse comes, and you're eating rabbit, learn how to cook.

01:01:45.000 It's going to take two hours at the store, then it's going to be four hours, then it's going to be closed.

01:01:48.000 I'm so thankful that my family taught me how to cook as a kid.

01:01:51.000 And it was just because I come from a culinary family.

01:01:53.000 Shout out to mom. 1.00

01:01:55.000 Speaking of hunting for food, we let Bucko out.

01:01:57.000 He's like an outside cat.

01:01:58.000 He caught a baby rabbit.

01:02:00.000 And he started eating it on the porch.

01:02:03.000 And he got blood on the porch.

01:02:04.000 And I'm like, dude, you're getting stains.

01:02:05.000 I'm like, what are you doing?

01:02:06.000 And then he just looked at me and went... And I'm like, OK, dude.

01:02:09.000 And then he went off and hunting again.

01:02:11.000 He's loving it.

01:02:12.000 But, you know, it's funny to talk about the cat doing these things, but he's got the right idea, man.

01:02:16.000 I think people need to get back to some of those basic survival skills.

01:02:19.000 I'm not saying people should go and eat cicadas out of the ground.

01:02:21.000 That's insane.

01:02:22.000 But I think it's important that people learn how to do some basic stuff.

01:02:25.000 Go camping.

01:02:26.000 Remember when the Boy Scouts were all about like, I don't know, just being a well-rounded person and learning how to be responsible and now it's just weird cult diversity.

01:02:36.000 Oh yeah.

01:02:37.000 Yeah, the origin of Boy Scouts is like a pretty cool tale of heroism.

01:02:40.000 And now it's it's it's nothing but like American mediocrity.

01:02:45.000 What is the origin of it?

01:02:46.000 It was if I'm not mistaken, it was a it was a war veteran, I think from World War One.

01:02:52.000 I'm pretty sure it was a World War One veteran who basically came back to the United States and wanted to provide a program for young men, young boys to become better people through individual challenges.

01:03:04.000 I love it.

01:03:04.000 Right.

01:03:04.000 So like it's the whole idea of the merit badges is so that the kids can get some sort of the young boys can learn some sort of concept of forward thinking and planning.

01:03:15.000 So I want to get this achievement.

01:03:17.000 This is what I have to do to accomplishment.

01:03:19.000 I can't just buy it.

01:03:21.000 It's like a video game.

01:03:22.000 Yeah.

01:03:22.000 I mean, it is a proto video game.

01:03:23.000 Yeah.

01:03:24.000 Very much so a proto video game.

01:03:25.000 Well, anyway, Ian, you're mentioning something about, you know, don't hoard flour.

01:03:30.000 Yeah.

01:03:30.000 What was that?

01:03:31.000 Could I cut you off?

01:03:31.000 What was that?

01:03:32.000 Oh, in Canada, in World War I, they had, like, national, like, do not hoard flour.

01:03:37.000 It's a felony.

01:03:38.000 I don't know if it was what they called it, but they would, like, come to your house and arrest you, and there's a picture of cops, like, walking by the house, and people inside hiding their flour.

01:03:44.000 That sounds communist.

01:03:45.000 Because as the food starts to disappear, they're gonna tell you, don't hoard.

01:03:48.000 I mean, does anybody else want to laugh at that a command economy, which is always supposed to eliminate scarcity, automatically immediately produces scarcity? 0.99

01:03:57.000 As people are dumb. 0.98

01:03:58.000 I mean, it's a self-correcting problem though. 0.99

01:04:00.000 It's like, okay, let the command economy do the thing and we're gonna go be self-sufficient over here.

01:04:05.000 I hear you.

01:04:05.000 Well, hold on.

01:04:07.000 What, a hundred million dead?

01:04:09.000 It's not I'm not saying it's not a tragedy.

01:04:10.000 It's terrible.

01:04:11.000 Yeah.

01:04:11.000 I mean, these communist countries did technically correct themselves by collapsing into themselves.

01:04:16.000 Yes.

01:04:17.000 Failing.

01:04:18.000 But they were able to just murder their way into maintaining power for for a century.

01:04:18.000 Yes.

01:04:24.000 Because the people of capacity, whether it's moral or capability, either left the country or were killed.

01:04:29.000 Yeah, I mean, that's the big problem.

01:04:31.000 Could you imagine, you know, an able-bodied man of good moral standing and principle living in an urban center and then freaking out because of rides and being like, I don't want to live here, and then leaving?

01:04:41.000 Or somebody who maybe lives in an area like that planning on leaving?

01:04:45.000 Are you saying I'm able-bodied?

01:04:46.000 I'm talking about me and you, actually.

01:04:48.000 I'm joking, I'm joking.

01:04:49.000 Because we were in the Philly area and I was like, we shouldn't be here.

01:04:52.000 But my, you know, all right, making fun of myself, over with.

01:04:56.000 What I think when we leave these areas, we voted.

01:05:01.000 And we advocated.

01:05:02.000 And we talked.

01:05:04.000 And the community votes for self-immolation.

01:05:06.000 And I don't want to be a part of that.

01:05:07.000 Yeah, I'm not interested in saving the city.

01:05:12.000 When you look at the Second Amendment, there's two ways that it's often interpreted from the positive side.

01:05:19.000 So we're going to make the assumption that those who are arguing for gun control either disdain or don't care about the Second Amendment.

01:05:27.000 But now you have the Second Amendment, people who defend it on sort of tribalism, it's a little bit more political, and then you have people who understand the principle of it.

01:05:34.000 So for me, you know, you think about it simply, the fact that people over 200 years ago wrote on a piece of paper the Second Amendment, you know, the right to write no and bear arms, whatever, the Second Amendment, the fact that they put that on paper Doesn't really mean anything for me.

01:05:49.000 What really means, because that paper is not going to defend me against a malicious actor.

01:05:53.000 The fact is that that paper is there to inform the American people that it's like, it is your God-given right.

01:05:58.000 It is a human right, not a civil right, to own a firearm.

01:06:02.000 Yep.

01:06:02.000 It's a human right.

01:06:03.000 And so that sounds like, it sounds sort of, well, you know the term human right is thrown around a lot today.

01:06:08.000 Why is it a human right?

01:06:09.000 The right to self-defense is something that you have because you're a human.

01:06:15.000 Whether or not you believe it's because of Imago Dei and you're coming from the Christian heritage, or you think about human equality, if you believe in human equality at all, you would never in any way argue for one group of people to go to another group of people and disarm them, because now they're not equal. 0.60

01:06:30.000 So since when does Second Amendment not include swords?

01:06:35.000 I mean, I know there are places where you can't own swords, but... Yeah.

01:06:38.000 Yeah.

01:06:38.000 It's interesting when you look at some states where they ban basically every, every version of a weapon in any capacity except for guns, because Second Amendment.

01:06:45.000 And I'm like, it says to keep and bear arms.

01:06:47.000 Yeah, you can't, like, there's places where you can't own a, you cannot carry brass knuckles, but you can carry a six-shooter. 0.83

01:06:52.000 I think that's ridiculous.

01:06:54.000 As if the Founding Fathers at that time only used muskets. 0.82

01:06:59.000 Yeah, I mean, there's tons of weapons.

01:07:00.000 They had knives, they had bows and arrows.

01:07:02.000 Big knives.

01:07:03.000 Cannons.

01:07:04.000 Well, we have the American Bowie knife.

01:07:06.000 Classic example.

01:07:08.000 I think one of the biggest mistakes that has been made over the past, you know, 100 plus years or whatever, is that even 2A advocates have fallen into the trap of arguing only on behalf of guns. 0.53

01:07:17.000 As if the Founding Fathers literally only had muzzle-loading muskets and nothing else.

01:07:23.000 I'm pretty sure that keeping their arms they carried knives with them and they

01:07:27.000 probably didn't consider someone come and take away now you get states that are like your knives are gone your

01:07:31.000 batons are gone you can't carry a baseball bat unless you also a baseball

01:07:34.000 and can prove your own a baseball game

01:07:37.000 you can't carry a sock full of quarters can't do that but a gun okay second amendment

01:07:43.000 possession is considered intent Of what?

01:07:46.000 Baseball bat or sack of quarters?

01:07:47.000 No, you owning a firearm is perceived as you wanting to do violence on somebody.

01:07:51.000 I'm just saying, I think the Second Amendment includes any weapon.

01:07:55.000 I agree with you, absolutely.

01:07:56.000 But there's tons of places that have banned swords.

01:07:59.000 Yeah, okay, let's not say they've banned swords.

01:08:02.000 They've infringed upon your human rights.

01:08:05.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:08:06.000 Let's not say that they've banned swords.

01:08:07.000 They haven't banned swords.

01:08:08.000 They are saying that we will do violence against you if you own something that can do violence.

01:08:12.000 So, in that capacity, I'm just saying, it's great that they built this shield in written word that protected us for a good couple hundred years.

01:08:24.000 We'd be worse off without the Constitution, no doubt.

01:08:27.000 But at this point, imagine... Look at it this way.

01:08:29.000 There is a great giant dragon beast that is government authoritarianism.

01:08:34.000 And it's been breathing fire on the noble hero who's holding up the Constitution as a shield.

01:08:40.000 And eventually that shield starts burning through, and... Long enough period of time of sustained government authoritarianism, and we start losing our rights.

01:08:49.000 Interestingly, we have this Supreme Court case.

01:08:52.000 So, SCOTUS rules police cannot search homes without warrants in the name of community caretaking.

01:08:58.000 This is unanimous.

01:09:00.000 Nine to zero.

01:09:02.000 So that's promising.

01:09:04.000 Even the liberal justices were like, a cop can't go into your house without a warrant and take all your guns because they think you're ill or something.

01:09:12.000 It's a good sign.

01:09:13.000 But it's crazy to me that the argument is getting close to the red flag law stuff.

01:09:19.000 And a lot of people, I guess right now, are like, oh, of course they can't without a warrant.

01:09:26.000 But what they've been actively trying to do is get a warrant claiming that you're unwell and then violating your rights.

01:09:32.000 Yeah.

01:09:33.000 Disarming you through subversive means.

01:09:36.000 And it's in, I think it's according to the Geneva Convention, disarming a population is considered an act of war.

01:09:42.000 Wow.

01:09:43.000 As it should be.

01:09:44.000 I think, I believe that somewhere it's either that or it's Karl von Clausewitz, but we haven't had a von Clausewitz in a while.

01:09:50.000 So you might know this, but what percentage of the time is a genocide preceded by removing guns from the general population?

01:09:58.000 Because I was able to come up with more than one example to send to someone I was arguing with.

01:10:02.000 Yeah, I wouldn't say it's a hundred percent, but it's basically a hundred percent.

01:10:05.000 Yeah.

01:10:05.000 I mean, it's because they are one in the same.

01:10:08.000 And this is how you think about tyranny.

01:10:09.000 So we often think, or the thing is oftentimes said something like, Well, if you disarm a population, then you will have genocide, or then you'll have some sort of massive tragedy, horrible authoritarian argument.

01:10:27.000 And so we use it as this argument of like, the one begets the other.

01:10:30.000 I don't think that's the right way to think about it.

01:10:34.000 I don't think it's the right way to think about it because it creates an opportunity for someone to say, we won't do it this time.

01:10:43.000 Okay, we'll take away your guns, but we won't genocide you this time.

01:10:48.000 You're essentially holding your entirety of your existence and your hope on the fact that they won't do something.

01:10:56.000 Whereas, I think the better way to think about it is, the act of taking the firearms away from somebody is wrong in the exact same way as it is to target a population in that way.

01:11:06.000 Well, one doesn't beget the other, they fall in the same vein.

01:11:10.000 You need to understand that if the Earth is to join the Galactic Federation, we can't have a bunch of crazies with guns who are going to shoot the aliens when they show up, so they gotta disarm us for the sake of the Galactic Federation, right?

01:11:22.000 Your condescension is coming through. 0.98

01:11:25.000 Nah, I'm just being ridiculous. 0.99

01:11:26.000 No, I'm just kidding. 0.98

01:11:28.000 What it is, it's a bunch of elites who would lie to the general public to protect themselves and their family.

01:11:34.000 They would tell you there's no gas shortage so they can go buy gas before you can.

01:11:37.000 They would tell you that everything's fine.

01:11:38.000 There's tons of toilet paper so they can buy it up before you can.

01:11:40.000 They would buy a bunch of stock while serving in Congress and then pass regulations on these companies which benefit their stock decisions, their trading decisions.

01:11:51.000 And they would come out and say, you can't own weapons because safety.

01:11:55.000 Now, for me, I've got five armed guards around me at all times, paid for by your tax dollars.

01:12:00.000 Yeah, and we saw this last year.

01:12:02.000 The exact same people that were arguing to defund the police spent millions of dollars making sure they had very armed people protecting their house.

01:12:09.000 And you can't look at that and say, oh, that's funny.

01:12:13.000 You should look at that and go, like, appalled by that.

01:12:17.000 Even the people who voted for this.

01:12:19.000 We do, man.

01:12:20.000 I mean, the people who watch a show like this, Probably most conservatives. 0.97

01:12:24.000 We are appalled by that, but there is a large faction in this country of extremely ignorant tribal individuals who have no idea what's going on. 0.90

01:12:34.000 I posted this on Facebook. 0.79

01:12:35.000 I said, what happened to all those people who used to come in my mentions and just, like, promote Joe Biden and rag about Trump?

01:12:41.000 They're all gone.

01:12:42.000 You know why?

01:12:42.000 All gone.

01:12:43.000 Because they never cared about Biden.

01:12:45.000 Because you, what, bought guns?

01:12:46.000 Now you're a bad conservative man?

01:12:48.000 No, back during the election, all of these people I knew who cared nothing for politics never did, all of a sudden were like, Oh, Biden, we had to vote for Biden.

01:12:56.000 We must do it.

01:12:57.000 And then Biden gets elected and they're gone.

01:13:00.000 They no longer care about Trump.

01:13:01.000 They no longer care about Biden.

01:13:02.000 They don't care about politics. 1.00

01:13:04.000 Now they post about stupid nonsense. 1.00

01:13:05.000 And I'm like, I thought, what about all those things you were? 1.00

01:13:08.000 So what happens is these people now have voted for a man who is by like every objective metric failing.

01:13:14.000 And I love these op-eds where they're like, Biden's had the best hundred days of any president ever.

01:13:18.000 And I'm like, yeah, if your head's in the toilet, you're not paying attention.

01:13:21.000 But a lot of people, a lot of these people just walked away anyway.

01:13:24.000 So now things are getting worse.

01:13:25.000 And too many of these people vote for trash laws and leave us worse off for it.

01:13:30.000 I don't know how you solve for that.

01:13:32.000 Unless like Starship Troopers or whatever.

01:13:34.000 I don't know.

01:13:35.000 Yeah, in order to vote, you must prove ownership of a firearm?

01:13:39.000 Yeah.

01:13:40.000 I mean, then you'd at least have skin in the game.

01:13:43.000 It's meant to be facetious, but it does get the point across.

01:13:45.000 Mandatory gun ownership?

01:13:46.000 I mean, the problem with containing something, a vote like this, it's not a very complicated problem.

01:13:52.000 It's that who gets to choose?

01:13:54.000 Right?

01:13:55.000 This is essentially the question of all power like this.

01:13:57.000 Thank you.

01:13:58.000 Who gets to choose, right?

01:13:59.000 So if you make it, you know, one of the arguments that comes up is something like, we don't want people who are mentally, thankfully for the Supreme Court case that you were talking about, we don't want, we want to make sure at least to some extent people of certain mental issues don't own firearms, right?

01:13:59.000 That's the question.

01:14:16.000 We kind of want to, there's this sort of, it's, let's take the question honestly and look at it that way.

01:14:20.000 Yes, that's true.

01:14:21.000 Who gets to choose?

01:14:22.000 Big question.

01:14:23.000 It is an interesting point, because I've brought up several times, the Second Amendment doesn't say the right to keep and bear arms should not be infringed unless you're mentally ill. 0.72

01:14:32.000 Yeah, I know, and it is a problem.

01:14:33.000 Like, it is a legitimate mental problem.

01:14:34.000 Or you say, like you were arguing about, if you do the time, if you pay your debt to society, you should have your rights restored.

01:14:42.000 A good point was made to me, though, that the Constitution does allow for rights to be restricted after, or only through due process.

01:14:49.000 Only through due process.

01:14:50.000 So in mental deficiency, I believe through due process, then all right, I understand that argument.

01:14:57.000 That makes sense to me.

01:14:58.000 Yeah.

01:14:58.000 So if, if, if, you know, I own a bunch of guns and then there's a claim filed against my mental health and we go and there's a legal process and then after determining I'm unwell, then they come and take everything.

01:15:09.000 That makes sense to me.

01:15:11.000 I'm still worried about it because mental health is not objective.

01:15:16.000 It's an ambiguous category.

01:15:18.000 In some ways, it is viewed as an ambiguous category.

01:15:20.000 Oh, yeah. 0.93

01:15:21.000 So some guy can just be like, I was looking at Ian and he is crazy. 0.99

01:15:25.000 My professional experience is that he is crazy and dangerous. 0.95

01:15:28.000 And then the judge is like, I agree. 0.99

01:15:30.000 Seize his guns.

01:15:31.000 Anyone that's got like a medical marijuana card for stress or any kind of psychological issue could then be deemed like unwell and unfit to hold a gun.

01:15:38.000 That's crazy.

01:15:39.000 You can't buy a gun if you smoke pot, right?

01:15:39.000 Oh, yeah.

01:15:41.000 Well, you're not supposed to.

01:15:43.000 So can and should are different questions.

01:15:46.000 There is a question on the 4473 that asks, are you currently or are you consuming illegal substances?

01:15:52.000 And the 4473 is a federal document.

01:15:55.000 Straight up, if you smoke pot, you can't buy a gun.

01:15:56.000 So technically speaking, if you are committing a very big crime, if you are currently consuming marijuana, not like smoking it at the gun shop.

01:16:06.000 I mean, that's... But not technically, literally.

01:16:08.000 The federal government literally says you are committing a crime if you consume these things.

01:16:12.000 Hunter Biden did it.

01:16:13.000 It's freaking crazy, man.

01:16:15.000 Schedule 1 narcotic marijuana. 0.75

01:16:17.000 That makes no sense.

01:16:19.000 What the heck?

01:16:20.000 Yeah, there's a parallel that's kind of coming through in the world, and this is kind of begging the question, but...

01:16:25.000 There's the joke, who won the war on drugs?

01:16:27.000 Weed won the war on drugs, right?

01:16:29.000 It's kind of a humor.

01:16:31.000 And how did weed win the war on drugs?

01:16:32.000 Mass non-compliance.

01:16:34.000 Yeah.

01:16:34.000 Which was, you could also look at that in a sort of philosophical sense, it was self-reliance.

01:16:39.000 Well, the government's not going to let me have my weed, so I'm going to get it myself.

01:16:43.000 The government's not going to allow me to protect my family, so I'm going to figure it out myself.

01:16:47.000 It's time to end the war on guns.

01:16:49.000 Absolutely.

01:16:50.000 But how do you do it?

01:16:52.000 For us, we're doing it through culture.

01:16:54.000 We're doing it through going out and doing things.

01:16:55.000 We have our publications.

01:16:57.000 And what do we get for it?

01:16:58.000 We get pulled off of newsstands.

01:17:00.000 Really?

01:17:00.000 Yep.

01:17:02.000 Anything gun-related has been pulled off of newsstands.

01:17:05.000 No one talked about it.

01:17:06.000 You didn't see a giant New York Times post.

01:17:08.000 When Google bans Gundam Wing because it's got gun in the name, you know they really don't like guns.

01:17:13.000 But how are we being self-reliant?

01:17:15.000 Here's a good example.

01:17:16.000 If you own a gun store, give us a call.

01:17:17.000 We'll stock it on your shelf, right?

01:17:20.000 There you go.

01:17:21.000 If you own a gun store, if you own an FFL, you can get a hold of us.

01:17:24.000 You can get a hold of us through our website, and we have a program to stock our magazines,

01:17:29.000 because we've got four different magazines.

01:17:31.000 Concealment, which is urban, smaller firearms, all about safety, concealed carry,

01:17:36.000 making sure you're doing things the right way, being good at it.

01:17:38.000 And then you've got Recoil, which is the main magazine.

01:17:41.000 This is sort of the big news gun industry things.

01:17:43.000 Maybe it's someone came out with something really innovative,

01:17:46.000 or there's an advocate.

01:17:49.000 We did Mastere.

01:17:51.000 We put him.

01:17:52.000 Yeah, he'll do it.

01:17:52.000 Yeah, he's cool.

01:17:53.000 you know, Mastro is doing something great.

01:17:55.000 There's, um, Chris Chang is doing something great, um, with AAPI go. 1.00

01:17:59.000 So we are grabbing, we have those two magazines.

01:18:02.000 Then we have off-grid, which is much more focused on skills, survival.

01:18:06.000 Um, and it has, and I think of it, the, the advantage that off-grid has, it has a lot of things about doing right.

01:18:13.000 So it's not just about gear.

01:18:14.000 Cause a lot of, a lot of, um.

01:18:18.000 A lot of the negativity that comes from survivalist groups or preppers is they're just about buying stuff.

01:18:23.000 It's the classic, you know, heavily unfit person with a bunch of stuff is not going to survive the apocalypse, right?

01:18:31.000 And then the last one we have is carnivore, which is all about high-end field-to-table meat consumption.

01:18:39.000 I loathe to think about what's going to happen to these cities in the event that there's an actual shutdown.

01:18:45.000 The water shuts off, people are going to start dying of dehydration, they'll be drinking blood in a day.

01:18:50.000 Yeah, historically speaking you'll have a very short period of very, very ugly violence and then you'll have a very long period of probable starvation.

01:18:58.000 People fleeing like crazy in random directions.

01:19:01.000 Well, and the solution is actually in itself.

01:19:04.000 And I think the solution to this one is not just buying a bunch of stuff, it's actually community.

01:19:08.000 I mean, the term community is thrown around a lot publicly right now, but again, the antidote to this classic idea of a guy in a basement with a bunch of bullets and a bunch of food is that he's going to die alone.

01:19:21.000 What is prison?

01:19:23.000 It is living in a box for 30 years.

01:19:27.000 It's taking your life away.

01:19:28.000 Life is time.

01:19:29.000 So survival, real survival, when we're talking about things like this, is actually 100% based on community.

01:19:37.000 Social interaction with people who you actually trust, that you can have them to protect you from making mistakes that you would otherwise not know.

01:19:46.000 Right?

01:19:47.000 So someone who knows water, someone who knows ecology, someone who knows, hey, don't eat those plants.

01:19:51.000 That's a simple form of it.

01:19:53.000 A more complicated one is you're desperate.

01:19:55.000 We know each other.

01:19:56.000 We take care of each other.

01:19:57.000 We're not waiting for the government to come and save us.

01:20:00.000 It's actually quite remarkable how people in cities mostly, but basically everybody is extremely detached from the basic requirements of survival.

01:20:09.000 Yeah, I mean, Maslov's Hierarchy of Needs.

01:20:11.000 Yeah.

01:20:13.000 It's not an ultimatum, but... People... You take a person in the city and you put them in the woods.

01:20:20.000 It's just not gonna go well.

01:20:21.000 Sure, because they have no reason to be adapted to the woods.

01:20:24.000 If you live in an urban environment your whole life, you're never going to need to adapt the abilities to do that.

01:20:28.000 It's a luxury.

01:20:30.000 You will need to adapt the abilities.

01:20:31.000 It's likely, at some point in your life, you will need to understand basic survival, even if you live in a city.

01:20:36.000 It's just that in their immediate, they don't.

01:20:40.000 That life has been kind to them to the extent that they've never been thrust in a situation like that?

01:20:44.000 Sure, that's absolutely true.

01:20:46.000 But I still want to return to the idea, like, self-sufficiency is a good thing, right?

01:20:52.000 So it's not, you know, when you have a neighborhood, like, say, you know, you live in a condo and you know your neighbors, It's not a bad thing to know your neighbors and being like, oh, I know such and such is a diabetic and I can help take care of them this way.

01:21:07.000 It doesn't mean you're kicking down their doors and saying, here, take the insulin.

01:21:11.000 Right, but people don't realize how brutal it'll get if there's actual power outages or rolling blackouts even, let alone if the water shuts off or the electricity goes out for an extended period of time.

01:21:24.000 People who are diabetic, you gotta refrigerate that insulin.

01:21:26.000 That's a huge problem for just storms going out.

01:21:28.000 And they gotta have generators, usually, to make sure the fridges keep running.

01:21:30.000 But there's a lot of other things, too.

01:21:32.000 People's medications will spoil.

01:21:33.000 If you've got antibiotics in the fridge, they're gone.

01:21:35.000 Vaccines go bad.

01:21:37.000 Very, very quickly.

01:21:39.000 Without electricity.

01:21:40.000 So hey, bring it on!

01:21:40.000 Go to Thunberg.

01:21:41.000 Let's turn off all the fossil fuel power plants and then see how long humans last.

01:21:44.000 Because they will start tearing each other's throats out as it gets bad. 0.97

01:21:48.000 Or they'll just build a pipeline and not tell you about it.

01:21:52.000 Pipeline?

01:21:52.000 A pipeline, yeah.

01:21:53.000 You know, if you tell people they can't have something and they need it, they'll figure out a way.

01:21:57.000 Look, one of the big themes of this is that they're gonna tell you, oh no, don't go buy this.

01:22:01.000 Then they go rush out and buy it.

01:22:03.000 Sure.

01:22:03.000 They're coming out saying like, oh, the water's gonna rise 20 feet.

01:22:07.000 I'll take that beachfront condo on Miami Beach.

01:22:10.000 How much is that?

01:22:11.000 Water's rising?

01:22:12.000 Nah, I don't care about that.

01:22:13.000 No, sure.

01:22:13.000 Ammunition prices are high right now.

01:22:15.000 So if you're hoarding ammunition, it's kind of rude.

01:22:17.000 But the other thing about it, too, is how would you just take seriously what you think you need?

01:22:22.000 It's not more.

01:22:23.000 Panic buying is a hard thing to define.

01:22:25.000 And panic buying is what people do when they feel like they're insufficient with what they have.

01:22:29.000 It's interesting.

01:22:30.000 I mean, Ian bought a ridiculous amount of flour for two years.

01:22:35.000 Yes.

01:22:37.000 Yeah, I was surprised it was available because last July it wasn't.

01:22:41.000 You could get four, maybe four bags of flour.

01:22:43.000 So why buy so much flour?

01:22:45.000 You know, who knows what's coming in two months.

01:22:47.000 I like to look ahead and rest easy.

01:22:49.000 See, that's the thing.

01:22:50.000 You know, hoarding, is it someone being prepared or is it someone panicking?

01:22:55.000 Yeah, there is a good question to be said there.

01:22:59.000 Or are you just a good businessman and you know you can buy better in bulk and you're going to be able to store it?

01:23:03.000 Are you being proactive?

01:23:04.000 After the apocalypse, all the neighbors are gonna be like, bread!

01:23:07.000 And Ian's gonna be like, I have the bread!

01:23:09.000 I will feed you all!

01:23:10.000 And he's gonna like, rip it and throw it to people, and they're gonna cheer.

01:23:12.000 Bread for bullets, bread for water, dude.

01:23:15.000 Feed the masses.

01:23:16.000 I don't think anyone would trade you bullets for bread, they only need one.

01:23:20.000 I'll let them go hunt, and I'll keep them healthy when they come back.

01:23:22.000 No, you don't understand.

01:23:24.000 They only need one.

01:23:25.000 Oh, well that's a good point.

01:23:26.000 You grossly overestimate the accuracy of most people.

01:23:29.000 That's fair.

01:23:30.000 Let's assume it's point blank.

01:23:32.000 They don't need any, actually.

01:23:33.000 They just need the weapon.

01:23:34.000 You know, then most people would just capitulate.

01:23:36.000 Just take whatever you want.

01:23:37.000 Leave me alone.

01:23:39.000 Take my bread.

01:23:39.000 Take my flour.

01:23:40.000 Yeah, I mean, fire me.

01:23:41.000 But violence is expensive.

01:23:43.000 Yeah.

01:23:44.000 I mean, it's costly.

01:23:44.000 Yeah.

01:23:46.000 To go do violence on someone is expensive.

01:23:49.000 What about an apocalypse, though?

01:23:51.000 It still is, right?

01:23:52.000 So let's take the metaphorical post-apocalyptic apocalypse situation.

01:23:57.000 You have your little tribe, and they have their little tribe.

01:23:59.000 For you to go attack their tribe, to try to take their stuff, you have to willingly acknowledge that if you lose, it's final.

01:24:08.000 Or it's final, it's extremely costly.

01:24:11.000 Not just that, but...

01:24:13.000 If I go to Ian and I say, Ian, make me bread.

01:24:15.000 And then Ian's like, in exchange for what?

01:24:17.000 And I say, I'll trade you something.

01:24:19.000 Then Ian's skill and value as a human being contributes to the production of bread.

01:24:24.000 If you just go and take the flour, all right, well now you got to make the bread.

01:24:27.000 So there's a cost you lose out.

01:24:29.000 Trade is probably safer and easier for everybody.

01:24:31.000 Sometimes trade just doesn't work though, because starving person might not have anything to trade with.

01:24:36.000 A lot of times it's the language barrier.

01:24:38.000 Fortunately, we have that going for us in the U.S.

01:24:40.000 It's easy to communicate, relatively.

01:24:43.000 Long-range communications with a power grid down would be a little bit more complex.

01:24:47.000 How do you tell them that you're not a danger without getting close?

01:24:52.000 That might be a challenge.

01:24:54.000 You gotta create a call.

01:24:57.000 I like ham radios, calls, bird calls.

01:25:00.000 Maybe like a...

01:25:02.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we can go back to classic Birdsongs.

01:25:06.000 I will lose at every time.

01:25:07.000 They'll just be like, why is that man sounding like a chicken?

01:25:09.000 But are we, are we, is this paranoia?

01:25:11.000 I mean, are we just, we're talking about all this stuff, we're seeing the news, we're seeing gas prices, and we're like, oh, it's the end, but maybe nothing happens.

01:25:16.000 I got this Samantha Bee on the brain thing. 0.96

01:25:18.000 I watched some Samantha Bee the other day just to delve into the depths of it.

01:25:22.000 You get out, you get out Ian.

01:25:23.000 It was dark.

01:25:24.000 You get out.

01:25:24.000 They made a video like, Just do something about guns.

01:25:28.000 And it was all these celebrities being like, just do something.

01:25:31.000 Just do something about guns.

01:25:33.000 And like, they don't know what they're asking for.

01:25:35.000 This is what really bothers me.

01:25:36.000 It dawned on me tonight, is the vagueness of it.

01:25:40.000 It's not like, please ban this aspect of this thing.

01:25:43.000 They said do something, right?

01:25:44.000 Yeah, they're so vague.

01:25:45.000 Okay, okay.

01:25:45.000 Here's what I propose.

01:25:47.000 Reveal the NFA.

01:25:50.000 I will do something.

01:25:51.000 Repeal all gun laws and I'll go buy a gun. 0.71

01:25:57.000 Everyone who owns a gun gets to vote.

01:25:59.000 Free guns for everybody.

01:26:02.000 That's a little light.

01:26:04.000 I think mandatory guns for everybody.

01:26:07.000 You have to when you sign up for the Selective Service.

01:26:10.000 If you don't have an M3 Carl Gustaf. 0.55

01:26:12.000 Holla.

01:26:13.000 They want you to sign up for the Selective Service.

01:26:15.000 You should also be required to go in, fill out the form, drop it, and be handed one AR and one handgun.

01:26:20.000 Or a rifle and a gun.

01:26:22.000 And whatever they have available. 0.98

01:26:23.000 Some, like, standard issue US government garbage weapon. 0.95

01:26:27.000 It works, right? 0.93

01:26:29.000 People like to say the Swiss did it right, but we're talking about very different countries.

01:26:34.000 Swiss, I mean, there is a sense of mandatory firearms ownership and mandatory kind of, it's not exactly that, but the Swiss are oftentimes used as an example because everyone owns guns.

01:26:44.000 Functionally, everyone owns guns, but Switzerland also stays out of, you know, a mountainous country.

01:26:50.000 Yeah, but you're also looking at like you can make another argument something like Japan has no firearms and they have very little firearms violence They're also an ethnic like a very they have their death no state ethno state, right? 0.94

01:27:02.000 Yeah, like they don't allow immigrants. 0.92

01:27:03.000 It's crazy.

01:27:04.000 They did it's very small, right?

01:27:06.000 It's like extremely restrictive Yeah, Switzerland is also small.

01:27:10.000 And don't they also require military service in Switzerland?

01:27:10.000 Sorry.

01:27:12.000 I wanted to say that's correct.

01:27:14.000 I'm not sure.

01:27:15.000 I don't want to say something that I don't remember.

01:27:19.000 Well, I also look at Israel because they have a similarly small population.

01:27:22.000 Everyone there for the most part is armed and everyone is required to serve in the military.

01:27:27.000 And I don't know what their gun stats are like, but it's probably not Not bad.

01:27:30.000 And they're constantly under threat.

01:27:31.000 Right, exactly.

01:27:32.000 Again, all these things are multifaceted arguments, but you take the example of the Samantha Bee thing, right?

01:27:36.000 Just do something.

01:27:38.000 You want to look at what gun control is?

01:27:39.000 It's celebration before success.

01:27:43.000 Right?

01:27:43.000 Because no one ever says, hey, we established these new laws, look what the effects are.

01:27:48.000 We say, just do something.

01:27:50.000 Yay, we put this in place.

01:27:52.000 Never heard from again.

01:27:53.000 Here's what we need to focus on, right?

01:27:54.000 Right now, when people complain about government and guns, it's about restrictions.

01:27:58.000 We need to change it.

01:27:59.000 So I propose the creation of the Department of Gun Services.

01:28:02.000 So when you're 16, you have to go in for your manual gun from the- I'm sorry, mandatory gun from the government.

01:28:08.000 And the complaints about guns in government should be, the lines take too long.

01:28:13.000 I had to go to the DGS to get, you know, an AR-15, and I had to wait 20 minutes!

01:28:18.000 20 minutes for this gun! 0.87

01:28:20.000 It's ridiculous, huh? 0.97

01:28:21.000 I mean, man, when I was a kid, it was 10 minutes. 0.97

01:28:22.000 You're in, you're out.

01:28:23.000 You got your gun, your box of ammo.

01:28:25.000 These bureaucrats, man, I tell you. 0.88

01:28:26.000 Now serving.

01:28:27.000 Yeah.

01:28:28.000 Now serving at aisle four.

01:28:30.000 The DMV adds like another letter.

01:28:32.000 Yes.

01:28:33.000 37Q.

01:28:34.000 Oh, there is conscription in Switzerland, by the way.

01:28:36.000 There is conscription.

01:28:37.000 Yeah.

01:28:37.000 OK.

01:28:38.000 That's a good one.

01:28:39.000 Yeah.

01:28:39.000 And then for your DMG or DG... Department of Gun Service.

01:28:42.000 Yeah.

01:28:43.000 Department of Gun Service.

01:28:44.000 Yeah.

01:28:46.000 So, not everyone knows how to use a manual, not everyone knows how to use a stick shift, so now we have to just give them all automatics.

01:28:51.000 Yeah.

01:28:51.000 There you go.

01:28:52.000 Well, you know, some people don't have the strength, so there's a variety of options. 0.99

01:28:57.000 No, you'd get some garbage government stock crap. 0.95

01:29:00.000 You know, you're not gonna get the best of the best, but hey, hey, hey, you know. 0.99

01:29:05.000 Mandatory gun ownership.

01:29:07.000 Mandatory firearms ownership would be an interesting example.

01:29:10.000 You go in and you have like a little book explaining like basic gun operations and you do like a one through ten check check check and the guy reviews it and he's like alright you know here's your gun and you can choose between the handgun we have over here and fill out the forms and then they hand it to you and you leave and you walk out.

01:29:25.000 That terrifies me.

01:29:27.000 I don't know.

01:29:27.000 Why?

01:29:28.000 Maybe because I don't know enough about guns.

01:29:30.000 Do you want to know why I do the analogy of the Department of Gun Services?

01:29:33.000 Yes.

01:29:34.000 When you go to the DMV and there's like cars everywhere, right?

01:29:38.000 And there's a lot of people who are student drivers.

01:29:41.000 Do you like start sweating and fear that someone's going to hit you?

01:29:43.000 Good point.

01:29:44.000 When you cross a busy street, when you're jaywalking, are you like, there's cars and they could hit me at any moment?

01:29:49.000 I see people with guns all the time and I just don't even think about it because people don't

01:29:53.000 Typically just run you over or shoot you or beat you a guy could pick up a rock off the ground and hit you with

01:30:00.000 It you know, it just doesn't happen. Sometimes does Sometimes they can use guns. I understand when the left are 0.98

01:30:05.000 like, yeah, but with a gun there, they're extremely destructive and violent

01:30:09.000 I'm like, it's true but people also make bombs people do a lot of things and so

01:30:13.000 You shouldn't take away someone's right to self-defense because you're concerned and you don't want to be

01:30:17.000 responsible for yourself I just don't see that as an appropriate argument.

01:30:21.000 I understand the fear, but I cross busy streets all the time, and I don't get hit by cars.

01:30:28.000 If you live in Chicago or New York or LA, you're jaywalking everywhere. 1.00

01:30:32.000 And sometimes the cops yell at you and it's stupid. 0.99

01:30:34.000 And for the most part, you'll just see the cars. 0.99

01:30:37.000 I mean, some people will just walk and ignore the cars.

01:30:40.000 The cars will break.

01:30:40.000 You know why?

01:30:42.000 Isn't this crazy?

01:30:43.000 The cars will actually stop to avoid hitting you.

01:30:47.000 So if you were at the Department of Gun Services and someone walked out with a weapon and they were like, let's say there was like a range.

01:30:54.000 If you walk onto- If you- If- This is true. 0.78

01:30:56.000 If you go- If you're on a gun range, and you step onto the range, they scream and shut everything down.

01:31:01.000 They don't want you to get hurt.

01:31:04.000 Or if you're at a range and you, like, turn around and you're pointing at someone, they'll tackle you.

01:31:07.000 Yes.

01:31:08.000 Normal people are trying to be safe and don't want you to get hurt, whether it's a car or a gun or whatever.

01:31:12.000 So gun services, they hand you the gun in, like, a locked box, and then you have to carry it home in a locked box?

01:31:17.000 Why?

01:31:18.000 Not so you don't freak people out.

01:31:18.000 I don't know.

01:31:20.000 What?

01:31:20.000 When there's, like, 30 people in the waiting room.

01:31:22.000 I'm not freaked out when I see a guy in a Hummer driving down the street.

01:31:24.000 It's another culture. 0.99

01:31:24.000 You just gotta get people comfortable with it one day at a time. 0.99

01:31:27.000 I've crossed Archer Avenue on the south side of Chicago, and you got, you know, Big trucks and tractor-trailers or whatever and it's like you just run across the street.

01:31:36.000 I'm not like, oh no, the guy's gonna hit me.

01:31:38.000 Dude, people in my neighborhood, because we had, uh, we have the freight trains, where you're always getting stuck by trains by midway, it's annoying.

01:31:46.000 The kids in my neighborhood would run alongside the train and jump on it.

01:31:49.000 Could you imagine if there was a guy and he had like a, he was like riding around on a car with a Gatling gun and he ran and jumped on his car and were like holding his gun?

01:31:49.000 Oh, that's awesome.

01:31:55.000 That'd be ridiculous, that'd be insane.

01:31:57.000 That's a problem. 0.82

01:31:58.000 People would like, in Chicago, jump on the trains.

01:32:00.000 Don't do it, it's really, really, really dangerous.

01:32:02.000 But people aren't scared.

01:32:04.000 They're the opposite of scared.

01:32:05.000 They're brazen.

01:32:06.000 So if somebody walked out with a weapon, people aren't gonna care.

01:32:09.000 It's the weirdest thing to me that in New York, you go to Grand Central and there's like cops in like full tactical gear with rifles.

01:32:15.000 People aren't freaking out like a cop's gonna shoot anybody.

01:32:19.000 I think Ian has a point because when cars were brand new, people were terrified of them.

01:32:23.000 People were scared to go in them.

01:32:25.000 People were scared to get hit by them.

01:32:27.000 So maybe there should be like a transitory time where we're like accommodating people to everybody having a gun.

01:32:32.000 And there was a time when they didn't have seatbelts.

01:32:34.000 They didn't know.

01:32:35.000 They were still learning the danger of it all.

01:32:37.000 I don't know what the traffic laws were like in the beginning.

01:32:39.000 Probably they didn't have traffic lights at first.

01:32:41.000 Yeah, so in this ideal world where everyone is required to have a gun, it might require a little bit of adaptation.

01:32:48.000 All right, fine, whatever.

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01:33:12.000 The $1 one-liner says, hey, Tim, nice promotion of Iceland.

01:33:15.000 I can see the brochures.

01:33:17.000 Come to Iceland.

01:33:17.000 There's no ice.

01:33:18.000 Enjoy the volcanoes.

01:33:19.000 It smells like farts.

01:33:21.000 Have you been there?

01:33:21.000 That's all true.

01:33:22.000 Oh, wow.

01:33:22.000 Yes.

01:33:23.000 So I went to Iceland.

01:33:25.000 There was no ice.

01:33:27.000 And when I was driving from Reykjavik to what's called like the blue water place, then it's like all like gray rock.

01:33:37.000 And it smells like farts.

01:33:39.000 Volcanic rock?

01:33:40.000 Yeah, it smells like farts.

01:33:41.000 A lot of sulfur.

01:33:41.000 Sulfur.

01:33:43.000 So what's the blue... there's like a blue water place where the water is blue?

01:33:46.000 Something like that.

01:33:46.000 It's really cool, but it was really hard.

01:33:48.000 We couldn't get in because it was like booked up like crazy.

01:33:50.000 Did it used to be ice?

01:33:52.000 Like did the Vikings call it... I mean there's ice.

01:33:54.000 I went to this really cool place.

01:33:55.000 It was cold and it was just like this massive lake.

01:33:57.000 It's beautiful, man.

01:33:58.000 It's an awesome place.

01:34:00.000 I heard they called it Iceland like the Vikings because they wanted people not to go there because they wanted to keep it for themselves.

01:34:06.000 So they told everyone it's just an ice hell and no one went.

01:34:08.000 It was apparently a like garbage hole until they discovered geothermal energy.

01:34:15.000 And everybody was just, it was like mining coal or something.

01:34:17.000 And they were like, we got all this volcanic activity.

01:34:19.000 We can do geothermal.

01:34:20.000 And now they live like kings.

01:34:21.000 Now abundance of energy, you know?

01:34:24.000 In response to our conversation earlier about what we're educated by, everything I know about the island of Iceland is from the TV show Vikings.

01:34:31.000 There you go.

01:34:32.000 I know nothing.

01:34:33.000 21st century.

01:34:34.000 All right!

01:34:35.000 And then there was the secret life of Walter Mitty.

01:34:37.000 Yes, also then.

01:34:38.000 Kaywee Ross says, Hey Tim, I heard they were putting a 40% tax in taxes on Bitcoin for coins sold and wondered if anyone knew anything about this.

01:34:45.000 Joe Biden has proposed a capital gains tax of like 39.7%.

01:34:48.000 So yes, that would apply to your Bitcoin.

01:34:52.000 Massive tax.

01:34:53.000 Massive tax.

01:34:53.000 Wow.

01:34:54.000 Maybe it's because of Bitcoin?

01:34:56.000 Kyle Buchanan says, HVAC tech here.

01:34:58.000 I tried ordering an outside unit today.

01:34:59.000 The warehouse said they had zero and won't have any for 60 days.

01:35:03.000 I doubt they will have any in 60 days either.

01:35:06.000 The one free man says low gun regulations equals herd immunity for violent crime.

01:35:11.000 You don't have to carry, but you benefit from those around you being armed the same way an unvaccinated person would benefit from those around them being vaccinated.

01:35:17.000 Hey, there you go.

01:35:18.000 Interesting.

01:35:19.000 Crime herd immunity.

01:35:21.000 Plasma says, I bought into Bitcoin at $32K and nearly went net loss, but I am now taking advantage of Elon Musk's tweets and buying more getting ready for the halving in two years when Bitcoin will go to the moon and back.

01:35:35.000 Yeah, so the halving will result in like Bitcoin doubling or more.

01:35:41.000 Okay, I can't read the name here, but this guy says, it's a good thing Crowder has made plenty of political connections over the years.

01:35:46.000 Hopefully they'll vouch for him.

01:35:48.000 Yeah.

01:35:49.000 Josh L says, question for Forrest.

01:35:51.000 Why don't gun companies name their weapons in a way that you don't have to be a nerd to understand?

01:35:56.000 I own a XD Mod 2.

01:35:59.000 Why, what, how do they choose their naming?

01:36:03.000 That is a question that I actually don't know how to answer because everyone does it differently.

01:36:08.000 But the, the, it stems out of kind of military mentality of like, it's, it's, it's essentially a, what do you call it?

01:36:17.000 It's easy nomenclature.

01:36:18.000 It's an M3 Carl Gustav. 0.99

01:36:20.000 We call it a Carl G.

01:36:22.000 Colloquially, but the m3 is so that I can distinguish it the m16 from the n4 So a lot of companies use these names these number these letter combinations to achieve that ends It's all shorthand and I mean there are there's other ways that you can do it So you like you could look at like a Ruger Blackhawk.

01:36:38.000 It's a revolver.

01:36:40.000 It's not the BK-17 Usually the number is affiliated with something to do, not with the caliber, but it all has different ways of doing it.

01:36:48.000 And I think it's really just because it's trendy.

01:36:51.000 Yeah.

01:36:51.000 It's just how we chose to do it.

01:36:51.000 Right.

01:36:53.000 So what are the caliber numbers mean?

01:36:55.000 Because like a 22 versus like a 223, dramatically different round, you know?

01:37:00.000 Yeah, the caliber typically refers to the size of the projectile.

01:37:04.000 It typically refers to the size of the projectile.

01:37:06.000 But now you're looking at so shotguns being different, theirs is, it's all referencing the size of the projectiles pretty much.

01:37:13.000 Is it the width of the projectile or the length?

01:37:16.000 It should be, it should be the circumference or the diameter.

01:37:20.000 All right, we got Honey in Absinthe says, it is my boo thangs 30th birthday today.

01:37:25.000 Will you wish Vincent a happy birthday?

01:37:27.000 We love your show.

01:37:28.000 Also, let me paint a mural in your house, please.

01:37:32.000 Send us an email to spintheufo at gmail.com.

01:37:35.000 Yes.

01:37:36.000 And happy birthday, Vincent.

01:37:37.000 Yeah.

01:37:38.000 Happy birthday, Vincent.

01:37:39.000 I'm willing to bet it's not going in my house.

01:37:42.000 Alex Oakley says, I wanted a super chat to say that USD is officially dying.

01:37:46.000 I started a side job over the weekend where I was asked if I wanted to be paid in USD, Bitcoin, or half and half.

01:37:52.000 So excited to get more Bitcoin.

01:37:52.000 I chose half and half.

01:37:54.000 Wow.

01:37:55.000 That's excellent.

01:37:57.000 You chose Bitcoin, right?

01:37:58.000 Please, God.

01:37:59.000 Tell me you chose Bitcoin.

01:38:01.000 Half and half, like half US.

01:38:02.000 Oh, I thought you meant like the half and half cream.

01:38:04.000 I did too, I was like wait what?

01:38:06.000 I'm a literal kind of guy though, that's my problem.

01:38:07.000 I was confused.

01:38:08.000 It's my strength and my weakness.

01:38:10.000 I too am a coffee snob.

01:38:12.000 The getting paid in buckets of cream.

01:38:13.000 Yes, it's okay.

01:38:14.000 Yes, I got all this green, what am I gonna do?

01:38:16.000 I just drink it I guess.

01:38:18.000 The grocery store was out.

01:38:20.000 Eli M says, Tim, could you call Crowder on air right now and get him to summarize what has happened and his way forward?

01:38:27.000 No, that would be really awesome though.

01:38:29.000 Maybe, maybe I, I, I, I couldn't do that.

01:38:32.000 Nah.

01:38:33.000 I mean, it probably would be funny.

01:38:34.000 I'm sure he'd be cool with it, but it just can't.

01:38:37.000 Could you imagine getting a call and like you're on the air and you're like, Oh wait, what's going on?

01:38:41.000 Some people might just be like, no.

01:38:42.000 Part of his strike is that he's not supposed to talk about it.

01:38:46.000 No, I could interview him.

01:38:47.000 Yeah, we had Alex Jones on.

01:38:47.000 Okay.

01:38:48.000 He's banned.

01:38:49.000 But they still, you know, they'll be paying attention.

01:38:53.000 Jennifer Reap says, great show and guest as always.

01:38:53.000 Steve, please.

01:38:56.000 And gotta shout out my alma mater, Sam Houston State, for winning the national championship yesterday.

01:39:01.000 Eat em, uh, eat em up cats. 0.99

01:39:03.000 Hey, there you go.

01:39:04.000 Someone you may know says, hashtag free Crowder.

01:39:07.000 There you go.

01:39:11.000 Well, I'm not VAC, and when I get back from break, I'm not wearing a mask.

01:39:18.000 I might get fired, but they're going to get sued if they do.

01:39:22.000 Hope I win.

01:39:23.000 I mean, how do they tell if people are or aren't?

01:39:25.000 I mean, I don't know how they... I think they'll ignore you.

01:39:28.000 I don't think they'll say anything.

01:39:29.000 I don't know.

01:39:30.000 Whatever.

01:39:31.000 HitsVape says, I work at Best Buy.

01:39:33.000 They just announced today that if employees prove they've gotten the vaccine, you don't have to wear a mask.

01:39:37.000 I've had the virus, didn't do much at all to me.

01:39:39.000 Now I feel forced to, so I can take off the mask.

01:39:43.000 Yeah, well, talk to your doctor.

01:39:47.000 Zanzibar says, I just joined TimCast.com.

01:39:49.000 Now where, where do I go to suggest Magnus Panvidja get a seat for a show?

01:39:54.000 Pro-liberty and bottom unity advocate, what the boogaloo really is.

01:39:59.000 Well, he just did.

01:40:01.000 Carter Joe says, Tim, have Destiny on to discuss the infrastructure bill and voting bills.

01:40:06.000 And he'd like talking about moral frameworks.

01:40:09.000 Destiny is was an excellent guest.

01:40:09.000 Definitely.

01:40:11.000 We when Destiny was here, we actually hung out for like an hour just talking about politics.

01:40:14.000 And he's a cool dude.

01:40:16.000 That's about it.

01:40:16.000 Disagree with him.

01:40:18.000 But I disagree with a lot of people.

01:40:19.000 So, you know, I think there's too much like fear of the other.

01:40:24.000 I think I think it was great to have him out here.

01:40:26.000 Fun guy.

01:40:27.000 I'm sure people don't like him for a lot of reasons, though.

01:40:30.000 Joshua Ryman says, what if what used to be a traffic stop that caught a kidnapper with someone in their trunk gets a pass by?

01:40:36.000 Yeah, well, there's that too.

01:40:39.000 Rilo says, civilian traffic brigade, don't you dare show support for Trump or appear at all conservative.

01:40:45.000 You're going to get bombarded with tickets and the state will come after you.

01:40:47.000 You see, there you go.

01:40:50.000 Brown Bear says, Tim, when are you going to have shoe on head on your show?

01:40:53.000 When she accepts the invitation and decides to come on the show.

01:41:00.000 Dolly Lance says, how can you continuously assume that the unarmed civilian won't be violent themselves? 0.67

01:41:05.000 That's a good point.

01:41:06.000 Unarmed civilian traffic guy might be like, I got a gun.

01:41:08.000 Yeah, how does that work?

01:41:09.000 Is it a cop?

01:41:10.000 Cause a cop, we were just, we were trying to figure that out earlier.

01:41:12.000 Like a cop is a civilian according to military.

01:41:14.000 This new policy is like you in a car.

01:41:14.000 No, no, no, no, no, no.

01:41:17.000 What the heck? 0.90

01:41:18.000 Yeah. 0.54

01:41:19.000 It's a contradiction of terms though, because are you hired by the state?

01:41:22.000 Who are you hired by?

01:41:23.000 What authority do you have?

01:41:23.000 Right!

01:41:26.000 They give you a little yellow light to stick on top of your car?

01:41:29.000 No!

01:41:29.000 The codification of law has a purpose, and it's so that we have rules by which we understand what we do and don't do.

01:41:38.000 The greatest tragedy in the American concept of law is that we have turned law into a way to make citizens into servants instead of realizing that the purpose of law is to limit the government.

01:41:51.000 It is to limit one group of citizens from violating the rights of another group of citizens.

01:41:55.000 It's not to make you safe.

01:41:56.000 It's not to make you happy.

01:41:57.000 It's not to make you wealthy.

01:41:58.000 The purpose of law is so that the people can, the one group of people, human beings with the same rights as you, cannot use the power of the state to violate your rights.

01:42:10.000 Yeah.

01:42:10.000 I don't like paid bail because if the rich people... Oh yeah, it's meaningless to them.

01:42:15.000 They just buy their way out.

01:42:16.000 In Chicago, people illegally park at Wrigley Field because they're like a hundred dollar ticket.

01:42:22.000 It's cheaper than buying a parking space.

01:42:23.000 Wow.

01:42:24.000 That's what I'm talking about.

01:42:24.000 Yeah.

01:42:26.000 Alright, Andrew Holker says I fled the Twin Cities for Duluth last summer.

01:42:30.000 The number of friends I have at U of M who have been mugged at gun knife point just walking through Dinkytown or riding the light rail is truly insane.

01:42:39.000 Well, there you go.

01:42:41.000 Showland Report says living in Wisconsin for the last couple of years, never heard a guy from Minneapolis sound so nice and fair.

01:42:48.000 Oh, thank you.

01:42:48.000 There you go. Mike Sullivan says great guest South Carolina passed House bill

01:42:53.000 3094 today eliminate state fees for CWP will now allow open or concealed carry with a permit makes SC a

01:43:00.000 Second Amendment sanctuary state great day Yeah, it's not constitutional carry

01:43:07.000 You can, like, in West Virginia, you can just walk around with the Barrett if you want.

01:43:10.000 People will just laugh at you, though, because they'll be like, we get it, we get your point.

01:43:10.000 Yeah.

01:43:13.000 There is good hope.

01:43:14.000 Yeah, there is hope in the world.

01:43:16.000 Like, one of the things that I, one of the views that we bring, like, I like to bring through Recall is that it's not all doom and gloom.

01:43:22.000 It's not all doom and gloom, and it's not all they're taking our guns away.

01:43:24.000 Young Americans don't like gun control.

01:43:26.000 They don't.

01:43:27.000 They're turning away from it.

01:43:28.000 And whether they're turning away from it because of political means, whether it's Marxism, communism, socialism, whatever, or because they just don't trust the government, they're moving away.

01:43:37.000 On top of that, there is ways that we are making victories.

01:43:42.000 They're just not as political.

01:43:44.000 They're not as polished theatrical stunts.

01:43:49.000 David Hogg has a massive theater.

01:43:53.000 No substance.

01:43:54.000 Yeah, it's nonsense.

01:43:56.000 You have to prop them up, while in the background, people are changing their opinions about it.

01:44:02.000 Look at the last year in gun sales.

01:44:04.000 Records.

01:44:05.000 Massive records.

01:44:06.000 If you look at gun sales throughout history in the United States, it's kind of a steady climb with little spikes that kind of level out, but it never really goes up and then down.

01:44:15.000 It goes up and then down a little bit.

01:44:18.000 Gun sales is a really good performing stock in the United States.

01:44:21.000 If it was.

01:44:22.000 But you look over the last year, it jumped and plateaued high.

01:44:26.000 Yeah, you look at the lines in these big cities.

01:44:29.000 Liberals lining up outside of gun shops.

01:44:32.000 There was a funny video where this guy at a gun shop, he made a video where he was like, stop coming to my store expecting to buy a gun for the first time.

01:44:43.000 These liberals keep coming in and they keep saying, can I pay more to get it now?

01:44:47.000 No, you can't.

01:44:49.000 You voted for this.

01:44:50.000 These are your laws. 1.00

01:44:51.000 Shut up. 1.00

01:44:51.000 Follow the rules. 1.00

01:44:52.000 Because it's probably hilarious.

01:44:55.000 To have, like, your 50th guy come in and be like, I'd like to buy that gun.

01:44:58.000 Okay, fill out the form.

01:44:59.000 Okay, can I get it?

01:45:00.000 No, you're on a delay list.

01:45:01.000 Come back in five days, we'll call you.

01:45:03.000 Can I pay more?

01:45:04.000 No, you can't pay more.

01:45:05.000 You're being background checked. 1.00

01:45:06.000 Shut up and go home. 1.00

01:45:07.000 They get all mad about it. 0.98

01:45:08.000 Yeah, I mean, if you want to have a conversation about universal background checks that are already in play, stop talking about it.

01:45:13.000 Right, right, right.

01:45:14.000 Sergeant Buck says, Just joined as a member.

01:45:16.000 If you want a modern military shooter that handles firearms well, I recommend Insurgency Sandstorm.

01:45:21.000 The Division 2 is great, but it's become Destiny 2 with cover.

01:45:26.000 I completely agree.

01:45:29.000 Eric Rodriguez says, What are y'all's opinions on bullpup rifles?

01:45:32.000 I personally prefer them, especially as a left-handed person.

01:45:35.000 Love the show.

01:45:36.000 Keep up the great work.

01:45:37.000 Can I not answer?

01:45:40.000 No, I can.

01:45:41.000 I do not have a lot of experience with bullpup rifles, compared to an AR-15.

01:45:48.000 What does it mean, bullpup?

01:45:49.000 Bullpup rifle, this is the muzzle, this is the buttstock, right?

01:45:52.000 If my hand is in front of the magazine, the trigger is in front of the magazine, so it goes barrel, trigger, magazine, which allows me to get a longer barrel and a shorter package.

01:46:02.000 That's considered a bullpup.

01:46:03.000 When you take the magazine and you build it behind the trigger.

01:46:07.000 So you look at an AR-15, you've got stock, grip, magazine, rail, muzzle.

01:46:14.000 Bullpup takes the magazine in the construction of the rifle.

01:46:16.000 And that gives it better balance so you can have a longer Muzzle the theory is that you can have the benefit of a

01:46:22.000 longer muzzle without an entirely longer firearm And then it does accomplish that it's just is the juice

01:46:28.000 worth the squeeze because you lose something I think that having the magazine well in

01:46:33.000 front of the trigger guard and this is The honest answer is I've been I've been shooting for so

01:46:39.000 much in the military with ar-15 style platforms and most of the modern military

01:46:43.000 Modern militaries across the world use a magazine in front Um...

01:46:48.000 I'm so used to it, switching to a bullpup would be uncomfortable.

01:46:52.000 It is not the same thing.

01:46:53.000 It's not home.

01:46:55.000 But, one of the disadvantages you get is manipulation of the firearm tends to be more uncomfortable.

01:47:02.000 So when I have to load a magazine in here, I get to drop the mag, put a new magazine in the magwell.

01:47:10.000 It's sort of efficient, it's all there.

01:47:11.000 But the other one that you start to see, and I think there are quite a few companies that are actually doing this very, very well.

01:47:17.000 Um, is the triggers in bullpups were, are historically referred to as being terrible.

01:47:24.000 And so you want a good trigger because it adds to accuracy.

01:47:27.000 It helps you control the weapon firearm better.

01:47:30.000 Um, and historically speaking, um, firearms with a bullpup design had a harder time making a better trigger.

01:47:37.000 All right.

01:47:39.000 Meridian Force says, Hey Tim, US Air Force member here.

01:47:42.000 I was raised in North Dakota and thankfully got stationed back in North Dakota. 0.82

01:47:46.000 Recently, they voted to ignore a lot of the federal gun regulations here.

01:47:49.000 I'm not going to say I'm for or against this because military.

01:47:52.000 No, thanks for the super chat and thanks for your service.

01:47:53.000 Yeah.

01:47:57.000 Make 1984 Fiction Again says, Civil disobedience and lawsuits.

01:48:02.000 Let's get a win in the bag.

01:48:04.000 I got kicked off a job in the authoritarian state of Massachusetts for not wearing a mask outside laving pavers on blacktop in 80 degree weather with no one near me.

01:48:13.000 Wow.

01:48:13.000 Geez.

01:48:15.000 That's a great name.

01:48:16.000 Yeah.

01:48:17.000 I was thinking that same thing.

01:48:18.000 I have read that book and it's creepy.

01:48:20.000 It's incredible.

01:48:21.000 Read 1984 if you haven't read that.

01:48:23.000 I got that t-shirt.

01:48:23.000 Yeah.

01:48:24.000 Yep.

01:48:26.000 Tom, uh, I think it says Tom, says, second time Super Chat.

01:48:30.000 I feel stupid I accidentally just sent you 10 bucks.

01:48:32.000 Haha, here's another 10.

01:48:33.000 I'm here in Washington State.

01:48:35.000 Zero gas shortage, but I just paid $3.59 a gallon to fill up, uh, this, this, uh, what is it, Subby?

01:48:41.000 Subby.

01:48:41.000 The Subaru.

01:48:42.000 The Subaru.

01:48:44.000 Yes, it's getting expensive.

01:48:46.000 I heard it was like $9 in some places.

01:48:48.000 Yeah.

01:48:48.000 Oh my gosh.

01:48:49.000 I didn't, I couldn't confirm it.

01:48:51.000 Yeah, I've just been seeing posts.

01:48:52.000 I don't know for sure.

01:48:53.000 Five in California.

01:48:55.000 Yeah, in some areas it was absolutely skyrocketing.

01:48:58.000 Wraith Pernell says, please post video of Ian's GF bread recipe.

01:49:05.000 I need it.

01:49:07.000 Gluten-free?

01:49:07.000 GF?

01:49:08.000 Your girlfriend's bread recipe?

01:49:10.000 She's hot. 1.00

01:49:10.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:49:13.000 That was quick.

01:49:15.000 I'd have to make a gluten-free recipe maybe with almond flour, but I've noticed the wheat flour really handles the yeast and the sugar in a special way.

01:49:23.000 I mix them together sometimes, do like a light gluten with like an almond flour.

01:49:26.000 If it's a GF bread recipe, I haven't done a gluten-free one in a while.

01:49:30.000 But I'm down to experiment.

01:49:32.000 It's all about getting that rise.

01:49:35.000 Kyle Lipka says Crowder calls it Mug Club.

01:49:37.000 You should call us the Beanie Bros.

01:49:40.000 You know, we did have a conversation about, like, making membership name something, and I was like, there's gonna come a point where we have many more shows, and people will just be like, what is that?

01:49:50.000 Imagine going to, like, Disney Plus, and it's called, like, the Mickey Face.

01:49:53.000 You'd be like, be a Mickey Mouse.

01:49:55.000 Mickey Club, yeah, that was the thing.

01:49:57.000 Join the Mouseketeers.

01:49:58.000 You'd be like.

01:49:59.000 I guess.

01:49:59.000 No.

01:50:00.000 No.

01:50:01.000 No.

01:50:02.000 Nah.

01:50:05.000 All right.

01:50:06.000 Ace 2020 Boyd says YouTube is crazy.

01:50:08.000 They can put strikes on a crowder but allow nakie yoga videos with full frontal no blurs. 0.95

01:50:13.000 Also won't let me send this with the full words, right?

01:50:16.000 Huh.

01:50:17.000 Dude, there's really messed up videos.

01:50:19.000 There's videos where a guy does like what's in my butt challenge.

01:50:23.000 They show it. 0.53

01:50:24.000 Yep.

01:50:24.000 Whoa.

01:50:25.000 They show it.

01:50:26.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:50:27.000 They actually show his butt? 0.98

01:50:29.000 Well, they don't show, like, they show it from a perspective where it's like, you can tell what they're doing. 0.99

01:50:36.000 They say what they're doing.

01:50:38.000 So Crowder actually had a segment where they actually show some of the highly objectionable material that you can find on YouTube.

01:50:46.000 And I don't think YouTube liked that very much.

01:50:48.000 No, but I mean, they should have said thank you.

01:50:50.000 You know, I don't have to hire somebody to police my own.

01:50:53.000 Yep.

01:50:53.000 But Don Jett says cicadas contain high levels of mercury.

01:50:57.000 I don't think eating a bunch of them is wise.

01:50:59.000 Shout out to Ian from Cuyahoga Falls, Monroe Falls Avenue.

01:51:03.000 What's up?

01:51:04.000 You ever go to Monroe Falls Lake and take a dip?

01:51:07.000 It's where I used to get shaved ice right over there.

01:51:09.000 Yeah.

01:51:09.000 Oh, cool.

01:51:11.000 I have no idea what you just said.

01:51:12.000 Oh, that's my hometown.

01:51:13.000 Shout out to my homies.

01:51:14.000 Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

01:51:16.000 What's up?

01:51:18.000 Ashley Hayes says, KY masks end June 11th.

01:51:22.000 Look into Andrew Cooperrider of Brood in Lexington.

01:51:26.000 Took the fight to Andy Beshear.

01:51:28.000 His weekly protests.

01:51:31.000 Built his own CC processing service after being banned from Stripe and PayPal.

01:51:35.000 He is leading project Uncancellable in KY.

01:51:37.000 Interesting.

01:51:38.000 Cool.

01:51:42.000 Jellybean says, Hey Tim, fellow Illinois citizen here.

01:51:45.000 I'm from the suburbs, however.

01:51:46.000 Orland Park area.

01:51:47.000 Oak Forest, to be exact.

01:51:48.000 I work in Joliet, New Lenox area, and I paid $3.17 a gallon.

01:51:53.000 I thought Illinois wasn't one of the states affected by the pipeline issues.

01:51:56.000 Maybe the pipeline issues... There's more to the story than they're telling us.

01:52:00.000 But, uh, I know all of those areas very well.

01:52:02.000 I used to skate in a lot of them.

01:52:03.000 Dane Schell says the left is doing what libertarians couldn't, and that's break down the system enough for a new generation to have a clean slate.

01:52:10.000 The Great Reset, but doing it with bad fuel.

01:52:12.000 Unscalable ideologies.

01:52:15.000 I mean, to a certain degree, but they're like kneecapping the police and then replacing them with woke police, so it's not gonna get better, it's just getting worse. 0.50

01:52:25.000 Are those woke police disarmed?

01:52:27.000 No, they're armed.

01:52:28.000 Okay.

01:52:28.000 So yeah, that's pretty, that's pretty terrifying.

01:52:29.000 Yeah.

01:52:31.000 Kev says, first super chat ever.

01:52:31.000 That's not good.

01:52:33.000 What good is a functioning pipeline if the billing software has been encrypted and you can't bill your customers?

01:52:38.000 They paid the ransom within three hours, according to numerous reports.

01:52:43.000 So they weren't dealing with that.

01:52:46.000 Amazing.

01:52:46.000 No idea.

01:52:50.000 Nicholas Nasty says the purpose of the Second Amendment is to guarantee that the people have any necessary implement to overthrow a tyrannical government, zero limitations.

01:52:58.000 This is only partially true.

01:53:00.000 I'm not a fan of when people are like, it's to overthrow tyrannical government.

01:53:04.000 No, it was literally to defend yourself, period. 0.88

01:53:07.000 Tyrannical government, or invading force, or lunatic criminal.

01:53:12.000 A free state requires a well-regulated militia.

01:53:15.000 Therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

01:53:19.000 People need to understand there were no police back then.

01:53:21.000 It was all local militia.

01:53:24.000 When there was like a robbery, people would round up the boys and they would be like, hey, get the militia.

01:53:29.000 Yeah.

01:53:30.000 The second amendment is a poem to the people to remind them that they are free and it is a prohibition against the state.

01:53:35.000 Yep.

01:53:38.000 Marco says, I have a question for Forest mainly.

01:53:41.000 With all the critical race theory and other agendas in the army being pushed, would you still join the Rangers?

01:53:45.000 Love the show.

01:53:46.000 Oof, that is a good question.

01:53:49.000 You're going to have to have a small challenge between two decisions.

01:53:53.000 One of them, I can answer for you.

01:53:55.000 If you're going to join the Rangers, absolutely.

01:53:57.000 If you're interested in joining the military right now, you have to go Special Operations.

01:54:01.000 Ranger Battalion, Navy SEALs, Special Forces, MARSOC.

01:54:04.000 It's gonna, trust me, the military is all moving in that direction.

01:54:07.000 The global war on terror is known as the rise of the special operations.

01:54:10.000 So if you're thinking about joining the military and you haven't looked at special operations, absolutely.

01:54:16.000 What's MARSOC?

01:54:17.000 MARSOC would be the marine version of special operations.

01:54:20.000 Their contribution, or their contribution, so.

01:54:23.000 All right.

01:54:24.000 Second one, looking at critical race theory in the military, if you believe that you have the moral integrity to resist the push of critical race theory, yes, but that has to be a very serious and personal question.

01:54:40.000 If you think that you're going... Does that answer the question?

01:54:45.000 It is a very serious question.

01:54:47.000 Take it seriously.

01:54:48.000 Why are you joining the military?

01:54:50.000 Is it out of patriotism?

01:54:51.000 Is it out of duty?

01:54:52.000 Those are easy answers to say on paper, but when you actually have to live them out...

01:54:57.000 All right.

01:54:58.000 Ossery says, great guest.

01:55:00.000 We vets and country boys will be the ones to survive when the energy hits the fan.

01:55:05.000 Dude, you guys are constantly hyping Ian's bread, and I'm yearning for a road trip, and I'm not even a big bread eater.

01:55:12.000 So we are currently building out, as part of the new website, an auction feature, which is going to allow us to do a two-tiered Ticket system for the house.

01:55:22.000 So we want to do Friday night events every Friday.

01:55:25.000 10 tickets first come first serve and then probably 10 maybe more tickets that are top auction based.

01:55:31.000 This way you have the people who are like spamming the refresh button because we only have certain capacity.

01:55:36.000 It's not like we have that much space.

01:55:38.000 So we have to figure out a way to make it fair, and I'm like, two-tier system works, because then you have people who can afford to mosey on over, not really worry about time, and make their bid, and spend more to come, but then people who probably can't afford to can just try and use merit, just get to that ticket first.

01:55:55.000 It'll be difficult.

01:55:55.000 And we'll put in restrictions so that some people don't come every single time, we get more opportunities.

01:56:01.000 But the auction system allows us to basically do anything.

01:56:03.000 So we can auction off a loaf of Ian bread stored properly in dry ice.

01:56:08.000 Now, I don't know what the regulations are.

01:56:10.000 Right?

01:56:10.000 It might be like a donation.

01:56:12.000 It might have to be just like Ian as a person sending a person.

01:56:15.000 No, no, the business will be able to do the auction.

01:56:16.000 I will make several, at least three loaves of bread for that event.

01:56:21.000 And then we'll have to put, oh yeah, the people come.

01:56:22.000 And then we'll just slice them into quarters. 0.80

01:56:24.000 We'll slice the breads into halves.

01:56:25.000 We'll do like a garlic bread.

01:56:26.000 We'll do a cinnamon raisin maybe or a cinnamon maple.

01:56:29.000 We'll have sandwiches ready.

01:56:30.000 That bread is good.

01:56:34.000 It makes store-bought bread just like... I mean, there's no preservatives.

01:56:37.000 This is the thing.

01:56:38.000 The store-bought bread has natural... They put preservatives in it so it can last on the shelf.

01:56:41.000 This stuff goes stale after five days if you leave it out, even if you have it in a bread box.

01:56:45.000 Yeah, you gotta eat it.

01:56:45.000 Man, if you eat it in the first two days, it's amazing.

01:56:48.000 It is...

01:56:49.000 just moist and it just holds the...

01:56:52.000 You can't explain it with words.

01:56:54.000 You guys, you really want to come to these events.

01:56:56.000 So we're in the process of setting things up so that we can actually do this.

01:57:00.000 We just had the driveway redone.

01:57:01.000 We just had some work done on the garage.

01:57:03.000 There's still a process.

01:57:04.000 I know we wanted to do this back in February.

01:57:06.000 And then I'm like, we should have public events!

01:57:08.000 And then we had like a legal conversation and I was like, oh, we can't.

01:57:13.000 We still have to overcome some hurdles business-wise.

01:57:15.000 And so we're all working on the things with the checklist to get everything done.

01:57:18.000 And it takes a long time, man.

01:57:20.000 It's too bad.

01:57:21.000 You know, it's in the real world.

01:57:22.000 You can't just do things.

01:57:24.000 Think most people learn that these business business people think like, well, I know how to make a business work.

01:57:29.000 They get into government and then all of a sudden everything sludges up.

01:57:32.000 They don't realize that once you get government involved, it's just like I could theoretically be like, come on down and then we'd be shut down in two seconds.

01:57:40.000 So fortunately.

01:57:44.000 Alright, where are we at?

01:57:44.000 yet. Philip Snow says, love the show. Did anyone else see the vaccine concert sponsored

01:57:52.000 by YouTube last week? Talk about serious propaganda. The whole thing was about getting people vaccinated.

01:57:57.000 Even Biden and Kamala were part of it. It's the craziest thing to me because it's weird

01:58:03.000 that you've got everyone advocating for a medication when people should be advised to

01:58:07.000 go and talk to their medical professionals, their doctors.

01:58:10.000 When Donald Trump talked about hydroxychloroquine, they were screaming at the top of their lungs.

01:58:14.000 Like, he's gonna get people hurt!

01:58:15.000 Don't do this!

01:58:16.000 The same thing is true for any medication.

01:58:18.000 All of a sudden, they flipped their tune.

01:58:19.000 It's like, oh, now it's fine.

01:58:20.000 Now just ignore it.

01:58:21.000 No, no, no, no, no.

01:58:22.000 You go to your doctor. 0.98

01:58:23.000 You ask your doctor what's up, because I think it's ridiculous. 0.93

01:58:27.000 Yeah, stop treating the politicians, the political class as your high priest. 0.96

01:58:32.000 Scarier... is that four?

01:58:34.000 Says, good on you for having Recoilon met two of their guys at a training course.

01:58:38.000 Cool dudes.

01:58:39.000 Get knowledge and skills.

01:58:40.000 You bet.

01:58:42.000 Thanks.

01:58:45.000 Pdogg says, if you want a depiction of life without electricity, read the Going Home series by A. American.

01:58:51.000 Really makes you think about how people would act.

01:58:53.000 Also, Michael Knoll's book Speechless is available for pre-order on Amazon.

01:58:57.000 Ding!

01:58:57.000 That dude is gonna sell so many books.

01:58:59.000 Yeah, ding.

01:59:00.000 Speechless.

01:59:01.000 They just put it in at the end and then I have to read it.

01:59:03.000 I love it so much.

01:59:06.000 Doc Lock says $1500 Pew Pew device voucher.

01:59:09.000 Take it to the Pew Pew store for your Pew Pew of choice.

01:59:11.000 Yearly 500 round box of ammo for training and supply.

01:59:15.000 Bi-annual mandatory Pew Pew training.

01:59:16.000 National defense budget.

01:59:18.000 I don't know.

01:59:19.000 I disagree with.

01:59:19.000 Training?

01:59:21.000 Don't ever put the state in charge of training.

01:59:24.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:59:24.000 When you go to the DMV, maybe, if you're going to get a gun from the government, you've got to do a general firing test.

01:59:32.000 Yeah, like a driving test.

01:59:33.000 Exactly, like you walk up, and you have your handgun, and you have your AR, and they do like some basic range or whatever, some low range, 7 yards and what, maybe like 21 for the rifle.

01:59:42.000 And then they test you, and if you are good enough, they're like, you passed, have a nice day.

01:59:46.000 So you'll have to load the gun, they'll watch you load it, just make sure you know how.

01:59:50.000 You'll have to turn the safety off, make sure you know how, and then you'll have to hit the target to make sure you know how.

01:59:56.000 They already make you do that in Minnesota for concealed carry, or permit to carry.

01:59:59.000 So you go to the DGS and instead of a driving test, you fill out a little form.

02:00:03.000 So there'd be like immediate failures, like a rolling stop.

02:00:05.000 then you do a function test, fire, and then...

02:00:09.000 So there'd be like immediate failures, like a rolling stop.

02:00:12.000 If you don't stop completely at a stop sign, that's an automatic failure.

02:00:14.000 Yeah, but you can take the test again.

02:00:16.000 Yeah.

02:00:16.000 So then you're like, okay.

02:00:17.000 So it'd be pretty easy to do.

02:00:20.000 Yeah, I mean, this does sound like a good idea, so long as it's mandatory that the state give out firearms,

02:00:24.000 but...

02:00:25.000 Or, you know, like proof of purchase, proving it over there.

02:00:28.000 I just don't want the state telling me what I can and cannot do when the state can't figure out, you know, everything else.

02:00:34.000 I think if they're gonna give you something, a test isn't a big deal because you always have the choice to go buy one your own.

02:00:39.000 Sure.

02:00:40.000 So if it's like you want your free gun from the government, there's a range there, you gotta, you know.

02:00:44.000 What's the test to get on welfare?

02:00:47.000 Um, you have to go to the Department of Health and Human Services and then they ask you a series of questions that you can lie about.

02:00:54.000 Well, I mean, you can lie about whatever you want.

02:00:56.000 I mean, if you want to break the law, you can break the law.

02:00:58.000 So sure.

02:01:00.000 But if it's like if you're going to be getting free stuff, you know, I'm just saying piracy is in fashion.

02:01:04.000 Yeah.

02:01:06.000 All right.

02:01:06.000 Let's see.

02:01:09.000 Justin Heasley says, Tim and Forrest, why is the requirement of a firearm training class not necessarily supported by pro 2A personalities?

02:01:17.000 Yeah, I can answer that one.

02:01:18.000 It's because we don't want the state to tell us what is the requirement.

02:01:21.000 Like, so if you're gonna come and take a class, or if you're gonna go get your concealed carry, like absolutely, that's the bare minimum.

02:01:29.000 So, but you should be pursuing becoming better at something.

02:01:32.000 You should be pursuing taking other classes.

02:01:34.000 Texas, uh, requires.

02:01:35.000 But I do not think, I do not, because who determines what the test is?

02:01:40.000 Yeah.

02:01:40.000 Sure.

02:01:40.000 In order to get a gun, you have to sit through eight hours of critical race theory.

02:01:44.000 Yep.

02:01:44.000 Or, I think it's reasonable that people have a training course, that they pass a training course in order to get a firearm.

02:01:50.000 Don't you agree?

02:01:50.000 And they say, yes.

02:01:51.000 Okay.

02:01:51.000 Now, to pass the course, we're going to give you a 9mm, we're going to give you a Glock, and you've got to hit the center of the target at 100 yards.

02:01:58.000 I can't do that.

02:01:59.000 You get one round.

02:01:59.000 Yeah, I can't do that.

02:02:00.000 I mean, I can.

02:02:02.000 So it's like, okay, well if you can't do it, you shouldn't have a gun.

02:02:06.000 Yeah, it can be used as a prohibition, right?

02:02:09.000 So a common thing that's used in a kind of a trendy conversation that people say right now is like, oh, well, the history of gun control is rooted in racism.

02:02:20.000 I think this is a bad argument.

02:02:22.000 I get the point, but I think it's a bad argument because the origins of the American version of gun control was originally intended to target certain ethnic minorities.

02:02:33.000 The problem wasn't only that it was targeting ethnic minorities, but it actually was also disarming a population.

02:02:39.000 The problem is the disarmament.

02:02:41.000 So the application of one group of people making up a list of rules that you have to meet in order to be like them is wrong.

02:02:50.000 It is fundamentally tyranny to support gun control.

02:02:55.000 All right, we got Andrew J. Gregory says, Tim, saw your blog where you guys were playing music.

02:02:59.000 I'm from MD and would love to jam with you guys.

02:03:02.000 I've played drums on and off since I was 16.

02:03:04.000 30 year old now.

02:03:05.000 Send us an email.

02:03:08.000 All right, we'll just do a couple more.

02:03:09.000 Let's see.

02:03:11.000 Jonathan Duger says, Did time in KAF.

02:03:14.000 If Minneapolis is anything like that, leaving is a good choice.

02:03:17.000 Army leads the way.

02:03:20.000 Thank you.

02:03:23.000 Hotdog 400 says, Tim, you bring up a good point.

02:03:26.000 Get rid of police, bring back local militia.

02:03:29.000 I'm pretty sure the left would agree with that because, well, they probably would because they're lying, but one of the arguments is that community policing.

02:03:35.000 You have cops from outside towns and areas coming in and enforcing the law and not caring about the community.

02:03:39.000 And it's like, okay, local militia.

02:03:42.000 Yeah.

02:03:42.000 Right.

02:03:42.000 Don't make the Marxist mistake of an argument of a good assessment of the problem means that you're going to have an excellent solution.

02:03:47.000 Hmm.

02:03:49.000 All right.

02:03:50.000 One more.

02:03:50.000 Aaron says, Raising Emden Geese and Guinea Fowl.

02:03:55.000 Is that what that G-N is? 1.00

02:03:56.000 Guinea.

02:03:56.000 That's Guinea.

02:03:57.000 If everything turns out right, we have entertainment in our backyards.

02:04:00.000 If there is a spike in food prices, we have a self-perpetuating, perpetrating fortune in our backyards.

02:04:05.000 There you go.

02:04:06.000 They're also alarm dogs.

02:04:08.000 Yeah.

02:04:09.000 Loud.

02:04:09.000 Guinea hens?

02:04:10.000 Yeah.

02:04:10.000 They're not very intelligent.

02:04:11.000 No, the chickens, man.

02:04:13.000 Wow.

02:04:13.000 It's, it's hilarious watching these things.

02:04:15.000 They love music.

02:04:16.000 Yeah.

02:04:16.000 You were, you were singing them?

02:04:17.000 Yeah.

02:04:17.000 They came over and sat down one by one and then just chilled and farmed.

02:04:22.000 I've, I've, I've watched, uh, when I, when I was a kid, we had a dog and our dog actually called the Guinea hens from the neighbor's farm into our property and then ate them.

02:04:31.000 I'll cross the highway, yeah.

02:04:33.000 It was the weirdest thing.

02:04:34.000 It would sit way out in the field and it would make noise.

02:04:38.000 You could see it barking and making this noise.

02:04:40.000 And then you'd see the skinny hen walk across.

02:04:42.000 That dog was really, really smart.

02:04:48.000 After Ian said that, I went out with the guitar and I jammed.

02:04:50.000 And Vanessa walked over and sat down and just hung out and watched me jam. 0.99

02:04:54.000 Yeah, she's gonna have a character arc. 0.64

02:04:56.000 I like Vanessa.

02:04:57.000 So I was wrong, she's not mean. 0.74

02:04:59.000 Vanessa's a chicken. 1.00

02:05:00.000 Yes, Francis chicken. I I said the other day that she was like being mean. No, I was incorrect. Yeah. No, she was 1.00

02:05:06.000 just I think I mistook her demands for food to be bullying

02:05:11.000 So she when she would come up and follow me around and stuff 0.90

02:05:14.000 I thought she was like getting ready to know turns out she's one more stink bugs. Oh 1.00

02:05:18.000 All right.

02:05:19.000 Vanessa.

02:05:19.000 And then, you know, she's very nice.

02:05:21.000 Vanessa.

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