Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Cuomo BACKSTABS CNN, Exposes CNN Unethical Actions w-Randy Weber & Lisa Reynolds

00:00:00.000 Chris Cuomo may be out at CNN, but he wants $125 million and he's backstabbing the network

00:00:14.000 now accusing CNN of malfeasance and unethical journalism, which I find kind of funny because

00:00:20.000 the things he's calling them out for, we mostly know about and he could have called them out

00:00:24.000 when he worked there.

00:00:25.000 So it just goes to show what his real intentions are.

00:00:28.000 He's going to hurt the network for the sake of hurting them, because he wants money, but this would be interesting to talk about, because we also have another story, the New York Times now finally admitting, once and for all, The Hunter Biden laptop story was real.

00:00:38.000 And that has serious implications for Joe Biden, the current president, while we are seeing this war in between Ukraine and Russia, how we may be involved in it.

00:00:47.000 And now based on New York Times's admission, plus we already knew the laptop was real.

00:00:51.000 We have questions about Joe Biden's conflicts of interest with this country.

00:00:55.000 We could be looking at World War III.

00:00:57.000 And we know this guy has got illicit business dealings here.

00:01:00.000 This is going to be... It's just bad.

00:01:01.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:01:02.000 We've also got the U.S.

00:01:03.000 dumping more out of our strategic oil reserves.

00:01:06.000 We've got gas being stolen in huge quantities because the prices are so high.

00:01:11.000 And we have this story.

00:01:12.000 Russia's funneling cash to anti-fossil fuel climate extremists.

00:01:17.000 Apparently, one thing that Russia is trying to influence is stopping the U.S.

00:01:20.000 from having energy.

00:01:21.000 And it makes sense.

00:01:23.000 Putin wants to destroy us.

00:01:24.000 What do you do?

00:01:25.000 Go after their infrastructure, divide the country.

00:01:27.000 We'll be getting into all of that stuff.

00:01:29.000 Joining us to discuss this is Congressman Randy Weber.

00:01:33.000 Would you like to introduce yourself, sir?

00:01:34.000 Well, thank you.

00:01:34.000 I sure will.

00:01:35.000 You can pull the mic up.

00:01:36.000 I sure will.

00:01:37.000 I appreciate that.

00:01:38.000 That's a little bit better.

00:01:39.000 Great to be here.

00:01:40.000 Randy Weber, Congressional District 14 in Texas.

00:01:43.000 We are the Gulf Coast of Texas, starting from Louisiana and go down those four counties.

00:01:48.000 We've got seven ports, more than any other member of Congress.

00:01:51.000 We export about 90% of the nation's LNG from our district.

00:01:55.000 We have a lot of refining.

00:01:57.000 We produce 60, almost 20% of the nation's gasoline east of the Rockies.

00:02:01.000 LNG, for people who aren't familiar.

00:02:03.000 Liquefied natural gas, you betcha.

00:02:05.000 20% of the nation's gasoline east of the Rockies.

00:02:07.000 My ports don't include Houston, the Port of Houston.

00:02:09.000 If you jump up 25 miles north of me and get to the Port of Houston, it's 80% of the nation's jet fuel.

00:02:14.000 Wow.

00:02:15.000 And 45% of the nation's gasoline east of the Rockies.

00:02:18.000 We are a huge energy exporting district.

00:02:21.000 A lot of hunting, fishing, farming.

00:02:23.000 Tell you what, there's more concealed handgun licensees in my district in Texas than any other member of Congress in Texas.

00:02:30.000 And I'm assuming in the United States.

00:02:31.000 But you don't need them anymore.

00:02:33.000 That's right.

00:02:33.000 They've gone to constitutional carry.

00:02:35.000 Beautiful.

00:02:36.000 You betcha.

00:02:38.000 You betcha.

00:02:38.000 And so we were glad to see that.

00:02:39.000 And I served in the Texas House for four years before I got demoted to Congress.

00:02:44.000 Regular people in D.C.

00:02:45.000 don't have that privilege?

00:02:45.000 to carry on the floor of the House all four years.

00:02:48.000 We need that privilege.

00:02:49.000 We have that privilege up here in D.C.

00:02:52.000 It's just that the left doesn't get it.

00:02:54.000 Regular people in D.C. don't have that privilege?

00:02:56.000 Working class people don't? 1.00

00:02:57.000 That's right.

00:02:58.000 That's right.

00:02:59.000 They're communists in D.C. already.

00:03:00.000 They want to become a state?

00:03:01.000 No thanks.

00:03:03.000 I hear you.

00:03:04.000 I have a concealed handgun license in Washington, D.C.

00:03:06.000 It wasn't easy to get and it was very expensive.

00:03:08.000 Wow.

00:03:08.000 And you're in Congress.

00:03:10.000 That's right.

00:03:10.000 But citizens should not have to go through that.

00:03:12.000 It's communism.

00:03:13.000 I mean, Hitler knew it. 0.86

00:03:15.000 Take away the guns first.

00:03:16.000 Yep, yep.

00:03:17.000 All right.

00:03:17.000 Well, we've got a lot to talk about.

00:03:18.000 Thanks for joining us.

00:03:18.000 We also have Lisa Reynolds.

00:03:20.000 Hi, guys.

00:03:20.000 I'm Lisa Reynolds.

00:03:21.000 I do communications on the Hill for Congressman Randy Weber.

00:03:24.000 Oh, I've got to get closer to you.

00:03:25.000 I know.

00:03:26.000 Keep it close.

00:03:26.000 I always do that.

00:03:28.000 And I do political consulting.

00:03:29.000 So here we are.

00:03:30.000 Perfect.

00:03:30.000 Cool.

00:03:32.000 And I'm Seamus Coghlan.

00:03:34.000 I make cartoons.

00:03:34.000 I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes, if you guys want to check that out.

00:03:38.000 I just released a cartoon today, sort of lampooning the fact that we are constantly using World War II nostalgia to try to rope America into foreign conflict.

00:03:48.000 So if you guys want, please go check that out.

00:03:50.000 Even if you don't want to, check it out anyway.

00:03:53.000 Leave a comment telling me how much you hate it.

00:03:54.000 I love the engagement.

00:03:56.000 And Seamus, do you know what day it is?

00:03:58.000 It's uh, no actually, what is it?

00:04:00.000 Is there something significant?

00:04:01.000 Is there some kind of significant Irish festivity occurring?

00:04:04.000 Some sort of Irish-American festivity?

00:04:06.000 That is correct, it is St.

00:04:07.000 Patrick's Day.

00:04:07.000 I'm not wearing green.

00:04:08.000 St.

00:04:08.000 Patrick is a great man.

00:04:10.000 Oh, we do, yeah.

00:04:11.000 We have good Irish whiskey.

00:04:13.000 I think we do.

00:04:13.000 Oh, we have Scottish whiskey.

00:04:16.000 That's not the same.

00:04:17.000 Close enough.

00:04:19.000 Randy's wearing green.

00:04:20.000 You're wearing green.

00:04:22.000 I don't need to.

00:04:23.000 You know, I very much don't need to.

00:04:24.000 He does not.

00:04:25.000 It's true.

00:04:26.000 People get the memo.

00:04:27.000 It's true.

00:04:28.000 It goes around.

00:04:29.000 News gets around about Seamus in his St.

00:04:30.000 Patrick's Day.

00:04:31.000 I am the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

00:04:32.000 I'm very excited for tonight's conversation.

00:04:34.000 Let's get going.

00:04:35.000 Ian is not here tonight.

00:04:36.000 He is out sick.

00:04:38.000 Seamus will be taking his place.

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00:05:03.000 Let's read this first story and I want to talk about Chris Cuomo because we have a story from Timcast.com.

00:05:09.000 Chris Cuomo accuses Don Lemon and Jake Tapper of violating journalism ethics.

00:05:14.000 The reason why I think this is fun to start off with because it shows the inner workings at some of these big media companies.

00:05:19.000 Cuomo himself, he's ousted from CNN.

00:05:22.000 He's now accusing other employees at CNN of wrongdoing, but he knew they were doing this while he was there, and he said nothing.

00:05:29.000 I'm sure these other people who work there know they're all doing things that are bad, and considering what we see consistently with the media lies, I just thought it would be good to start off today with just very, very, you know, deep breath, deep breath in.

00:05:42.000 They're admitting they're liars.

00:05:43.000 I feel so good.

00:05:44.000 Chris Cuomo now is backstabbing the organization.

00:05:47.000 I'm glad to see it.

00:05:48.000 I am glad to see it, too.

00:05:49.000 One thing I think is hilarious, though, is Chris Cuomo coming forward and saying, the people need to know.

00:05:54.000 CNN isn't reliable.

00:05:56.000 Someone has to tell them!

00:05:58.000 If not me, how will they know?

00:05:59.000 Let me read this real quick.

00:06:00.000 Chris Cuomo is seeking $125 million from CNN for allegedly wrongfully terminating him, and he is throwing his former colleagues under the bus in his attempt to get it.

00:06:10.000 In his arbitration demand filed on Wednesday, Cuomo alleged that Jake Tapper, Don Lemon, former CNN president Jeff Zucker, and former executive Allison Gallist engaged in blatant breaches of journalistic ethics.

00:06:21.000 Quote, As long as Zucker and Gallist believed CNN's ratings would benefit, They were more than willing to disregard breaches of traditional journalistic standards by CNN personalities such as Don Lemon and Jake Tapper, or even to engage in blatant breaches of journalistic ethics themselves, Cuomo's filing stated.

00:06:40.000 Not that we all didn't already know this, but it's good to hear it.

00:06:43.000 And I just want to point out one more thing in this document from the filing.

00:06:49.000 I was really hoping it was going to be on March 15th that Cuomo issued the statement.

00:06:54.000 Rise of March.

00:06:55.000 Yeah, but it was March 16th.

00:06:57.000 So basically what he's saying is he shouldn't have been fired because everybody else was doing it and that was the culture there and so now it's okay.

00:07:09.000 Now, like, now everybody's in trouble.

00:07:11.000 Well, no, now he's saying, like, look, look how, look, they fired me, it was wrong, you know.

00:07:15.000 Look at what a stand-up guy I am.

00:07:16.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:07:16.000 Well, I think what he's basically saying is, if they're firing me for violating these ethics, but they do it every day, that was wrongful termination.

00:07:24.000 Well, listen, to be accused of violating journalistic ethics, don't you have to be a journalist?

00:07:30.000 And don't you have to have ethics?

00:07:31.000 I mean, that's what I'm saying, right?

00:07:35.000 Yeah, also the idea of him accusing anyone of breaching ethics in media.

00:07:38.000 It's like, oh, did they not do enough reporting on the governor of New York?

00:07:42.000 Did they not talk about him properly because there's some kind of conflict of interest there and they look the other way on it?

00:07:46.000 That's crazy.

00:07:46.000 It's not like you tried to help him.

00:07:48.000 What are you thinking, right?

00:07:49.000 You know, I was on there two or three times, and we watched this guy.

00:07:53.000 I remember back during the pandemic when he would tell everybody to wear a mask, and then there's pictures of him out in public without a mask.

00:08:00.000 I mean, it's unbelievable, the hypocrisy.

00:08:02.000 It transcends so many parts of our culture.

00:08:05.000 I mean, he faked being in quarantine.

00:08:05.000 It's unbelievable.

00:08:07.000 He did.

00:08:07.000 He pretended.

00:08:08.000 He did.

00:08:09.000 In his basement, right?

00:08:10.000 Working out.

00:08:11.000 Yeah.

00:08:12.000 When he was actually at one of his properties in the Hamptons, some guy in a fat tire bike rolls up and is like, hey, aren't you supposed to be quarantined?

00:08:17.000 He's like, who are you?

00:08:18.000 And he gets in his face.

00:08:19.000 Yeah.

00:08:20.000 You know, I think we have a serious problem in this country where, you know, we were talking just before the show downstairs and I said, we have a low light filter for the chicken city.

00:08:31.000 You said we need a low light.

00:08:32.000 A low light filter for Congress, I'll tell you.

00:08:35.000 And I said, but that would get rid of basically everybody, maybe a handful of people.

00:08:38.000 That's true.

00:08:39.000 And, you know, I'm just thinking about there are so many people who believe CNN.

00:08:43.000 They turn it on or it's in the airport or it's in their hotel rooms.

00:08:46.000 They listen to it and they think this stuff is real.

00:08:50.000 And now, you know, even now with Cuomo coming out and being like, oh yeah, they just blatantly breach ethics for ratings.

00:08:56.000 There's still going to be people who just believe what they say.

00:08:58.000 Yeah.

00:08:59.000 Right.

00:08:59.000 And they blatantly breached ethics for ratings.

00:09:01.000 How'd that work for them, by the way?

00:09:05.000 Piling on, piling on.

00:09:07.000 Well, you're right.

00:09:08.000 Truth be told, their ratings were, they were doing well during the Trump years.

00:09:12.000 Oh, well, absolutely.

00:09:14.000 It did work out until... But even then, I don't think it was the breaching of ethics that worked for them.

00:09:19.000 I think it was just the constant trashing of Trump.

00:09:22.000 And any of Trump's supporters, too.

00:09:23.000 It didn't matter about facts.

00:09:25.000 And you can argue that that's absolutely a breach of ethics, but I don't think they would ever describe it as that.

00:09:29.000 So with him making these accusations, I doubt that's what he's referring to.

00:09:32.000 But I mean, according to Chris Cuomo, we've all breached ethics by looking at the WikiLeaks, because it's illegal for us to do so.

00:09:38.000 That was Tapper, wasn't it?

00:09:39.000 No, that was Cuomo.

00:09:40.000 Yeah, it was Cuomo.

00:09:41.000 Chris Cuomo said that it was illegal to look at the Wikileaks.

00:09:44.000 Well, my apologies to Jake Tapper for falsely accusing you.

00:09:48.000 So, as somebody who's in Congress, though, I'm sure you've dealt with them misrepresenting your positions.

00:09:55.000 Tell us a 150 million times.

00:09:58.000 Oh, Lisa, that doesn't happen, right?

00:10:01.000 I tell you, when the reporters come up and want to stick a mic or phone in your face, you're going, uh, no, I think I'm fine.

00:10:07.000 I tell you what, it is palpable, the fact that they want to misrepresent things we say all of the time.

00:10:14.000 And y'all know that.

00:10:14.000 You see that.

00:10:16.000 And thank God for y'all's show, because the American public is waking up to this.

00:10:20.000 And we appreciate y'all bringing it out.

00:10:21.000 It's unbelievable.

00:10:22.000 I'll give you one example of a story I really like.

00:10:25.000 There was a guy who was accused of being a white nationalist.

00:10:27.000 I asked the journalist, I said, hey, this guy, he's in a mixed race relationship, he's got a mixed race child.

00:10:33.000 And the journalist goes, is he white?

00:10:34.000 And I was like, yes.

00:10:35.000 And he goes, is he a nationalist?

00:10:37.000 And I said, yes.

00:10:38.000 And he goes, white nationalist.

00:10:39.000 And I was like, oh, come on. 0.99

00:10:41.000 You know how dirty that is. 0.75

00:10:43.000 And that's the game they play.

00:10:45.000 They did it to me.

00:10:45.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:10:46.000 I'm not even anybody.

00:10:47.000 I was talking in a clubhouse room once about Officer Sitnik and saying that he died from natural causes.

00:10:53.000 And they were like, oh, congressional staffer blames Capitol Police for Officer Sitnik's death.

00:10:59.000 I'm like, that's not what I said.

00:11:01.000 I said he died of natural causes.

00:11:02.000 And then I turned out to be right.

00:11:03.000 You know, the article's still up there.

00:11:05.000 So what is this?

00:11:06.000 Times v. Sullivan?

00:11:07.000 We gotta get that looked at by the Supreme Court or something? 0.65

00:11:12.000 Because right now they can just lie.

00:11:14.000 They do these really clever tricks where they'll say, fact check.

00:11:18.000 There's one the New York Times ran saying, fact check!

00:11:23.000 Republicans falsely accused Biden of, you know, driving up gas prices.

00:11:27.000 And then they show some quotes from, you know, McCarthy and from McConnell and from, I think, Lindsey Graham.

00:11:33.000 And they're like, they accused Joe Biden of shutting down oil and gas leases and saying that drove up prices.

00:11:38.000 But according to the experts we've decided to talk to, these two guys, they say it's wrong.

00:11:42.000 Therefore, it's a fact check.

00:11:43.000 And I'm like, that's an opinion piece.

00:11:45.000 Absolutely it is.

00:11:46.000 And so this is what they do all the time.

00:11:48.000 They can run opinions, claim it's fact.

00:11:50.000 They can outright say, it is a fact that this happened.

00:11:53.000 And then when they get sued, they say, oh, that was an opinion.

00:11:56.000 And then the courts are like, OK.

00:11:57.000 They want to hide behind that.

00:11:58.000 And like you say, that ought to be tested.

00:12:00.000 You betcha.

00:12:01.000 And we see that all the time.

00:12:02.000 Some call them Pinocchios.

00:12:02.000 What do they call them?

00:12:04.000 They give it two, three, four Pinocchios.

00:12:05.000 That's Washington Post.

00:12:06.000 Yeah.

00:12:07.000 Seriously?

00:12:08.000 I mean, they ought to have the most amount of, well, Pinocchios, right?

00:12:11.000 Yeah.

00:12:12.000 I guess, you know, I also question the Washington Post's Pinocchio system.

00:12:16.000 It's not that Pinocchio would clone himself when he lied.

00:12:19.000 His nose would grow longer, so maybe they would be like, his nose has grown five feet longer.

00:12:22.000 Instead, they're like, now there's more of him.

00:12:24.000 Right.

00:12:25.000 Well, at least with Pinocchio, you knew there were strings attached.

00:12:28.000 For the Washington Times, you gotta read that with a grain of salt.

00:12:32.000 Washington Post, you gotta read that with a grain of salt.

00:12:35.000 Washington Times is pretty good, actually.

00:12:37.000 This is weird, though.

00:12:38.000 Let me ask you.

00:12:39.000 There's a strange thing in that conservative media has their faults.

00:12:44.000 They get stories wrong, but they have a tendency to be more correct than, say, the New York Times.

00:12:48.000 How is that?

00:12:49.000 What is this?

00:12:51.000 My background was not as a conservative Republican.

00:12:54.000 I grew up in Chicago, liberal, Democrat, all that stuff.

00:12:57.000 But my concern is with what is true and effective, what is working.

00:13:01.000 And so when I read the New York Times and I see lie after lie, I just eventually turn it off.

00:13:05.000 I stop going to their site.

00:13:07.000 With CNN, I used to have CNN running on in the background 24-7 while I was working.

00:13:14.000 And then one day I realized they stopped covering news and it was just panels with their opinions about Trump.

00:13:18.000 I started turning it off.

00:13:20.000 All of a sudden now, you know, I'll Google search a story, and you're more likely to find the truth on a conservative or right-leaning newspaper than you would at CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, or otherwise.

00:13:30.000 Why is it?

00:13:31.000 That's even if you can get it to pull up.

00:13:32.000 Like, if you pull up, like I was saying, talking about Officer Sitnick.

00:13:35.000 We tried!

00:13:35.000 Right?

00:13:36.000 Like, you talk about Officer Sitnick, you have to go to the second or third Google page to see the autopsy reports and what the coroner actually deemed.

00:13:45.000 Like, the fake stories are still there.

00:13:47.000 You can't even... Try pulling up any Fox News article.

00:13:50.000 It doesn't even come up.

00:13:51.000 Well, there's values in our Constitution.

00:13:52.000 You know this, freedom of religion, freedom of press.

00:13:55.000 You can go right down that list.

00:13:56.000 And I think conservatives still want to live by that document, that founding document.

00:14:00.000 They understand how important it is.

00:14:02.000 And the left, not so much.

00:14:04.000 They'll stretch the truth.

00:14:06.000 And quite frankly, there's been a lot of people, myself included, that say, look, you guys are trying, what you're doing is going to destroy the foundation of this country if we stand by and let you.

00:14:16.000 And we shouldn't stand by and let you.

00:14:18.000 I tell people when they find out I'm a congressman, they say, what party?

00:14:22.000 What are you, Republican or Democrat?

00:14:23.000 And I tell them, I'm a Christian, conservative, Republican, and in that order.

00:14:28.000 We've got a foundation for this country.

00:14:31.000 The founders were brilliant in what they set up, and the left wants to get away from it, and that's part of the problem.

00:14:37.000 Why?

00:14:38.000 So we talk about this a whole lot, but I'd be interested in your perspective on why the left in this country is more than just the left.

00:14:47.000 You've got the establishment Democrat voices as well as the progressive voices.

00:14:50.000 Why do you think it is they want to get rid of the Constitution and those founding values?

00:14:54.000 If you've got the people depending on you, you can keep getting reelected.

00:14:59.000 It's pretty simple, really, when you think about it.

00:15:02.000 It doesn't matter what party you're in.

00:15:03.000 They want government to be the answer.

00:15:06.000 Well, I'm from Texas.

00:15:07.000 You know, we're very proud to be from Texas.

00:15:09.000 We were a country of our own, right?

00:15:10.000 We get it in Texas.

00:15:12.000 And we don't want big brother, big government doing anything for us.

00:15:15.000 Don't help us, please.

00:15:17.000 Think about it.

00:15:19.000 First, we're guaranteed the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:15:25.000 Not guaranteed equal happiness.

00:15:27.000 And what you're seeing now is a government that wants to say, look, we'll take care of you.

00:15:30.000 We'll give you equal happiness.

00:15:31.000 Doesn't matter what the Constitutional Declaration of Independence says.

00:15:34.000 We're going to take care of you.

00:15:35.000 And they will keep getting reelected.

00:15:37.000 I think there's a couple things, too.

00:15:39.000 Like, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

00:15:40.000 But on top of that, they don't want to confront their own morality.

00:15:43.000 So when they start saying, like, you know, when their values don't—or the bad things they do don't align with society, they want to make excuses for it.

00:15:53.000 And that's why our republic is falling, too, because it was meant for a virtuous society.

00:15:58.000 And we are losing virtue.

00:16:00.000 We have a saying for that.

00:16:02.000 Rules for thee, but not for me.

00:16:05.000 That's what you're saying.

00:16:07.000 Well, let's talk about how serious it gets.

00:16:08.000 We have this, uh, this story here from the National Review.

00:16:11.000 The New York Times suddenly discovers Hunter Biden laptop and corruption investigations are real.

00:16:16.000 This is, this is amazing.

00:16:18.000 Hunter Biden is being investigated for crimes.

00:16:18.000 Yeah.

00:16:21.000 And, uh, the reporting is, uh, that he, he paid off.

00:16:24.000 He took a loan out, I guess, to pay off his tax burden, hoping they wouldn't indict him.

00:16:28.000 But apparently the feds don't care because they were like, if you falsify your taxes, you're in trouble.

00:16:32.000 Paying it off later doesn't change anything.

00:16:34.000 Or how about illegally register, get a handgun rather.

00:16:37.000 You know, what's funny about that is the double standard.

00:16:41.000 So if it wasn't a familiar Hunter Biden, what did he do?

00:16:43.000 He, he, he lied on his application.

00:16:45.000 Absolutely.

00:16:46.000 He lied on it saying he wasn't doing, he didn't do drugs.

00:16:46.000 Yeah.

00:16:49.000 Definitely did drugs and a lot of them, but it's on video everywhere.

00:16:53.000 Here's the challenge, right?

00:16:53.000 Yeah.

00:16:55.000 The first challenge is the double standard, we all agree, that's a problem.

00:16:58.000 You don't get to come out and say, we gotta follow these rules, and then the president's kid gets to break all the rules.

00:17:04.000 The second thing is, however, I don't think, I think it's burdensome to get a firearm in the first place, and so maybe there's an argument about a simple background check that doesn't even take that long, but if you have a right to keep and bear arms, then we gotta talk about what the Constitution means and what the limits are.

00:17:21.000 So I'm always wary to, you know, come out and be like, oh, he had a gun the wrong way.

00:17:25.000 And I'm like, well, you know, if he was doing drugs that I get now you're a criminal and you're due process you through due process, you do lose certain rights.

00:17:33.000 That's true.

00:17:34.000 But I also want to make sure we keep the door open to say like, I'm a big fan of nationwide constitutional carry.

00:17:39.000 So There was a bumper sticker that came out in Texas, I don't know about up here, back probably in the 60s or 70s, and it said, when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

00:17:52.000 It's just that simple.

00:17:53.000 The criminals and the thugs.

00:17:54.000 And Ronald Reagan said it.

00:17:55.000 He said the best way to get gun control is to lock up the criminals and thugs that have been convicted of a gun crime, put them behind the jail, and then if you don't throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.

00:18:07.000 Well, here we go.

00:18:09.000 We now have the New York Times openly admitting that, let me read a little bit here.

00:18:14.000 They say, if you are really industrious, you can dig 20 pages into the A section of today's New York Times and find a 1,700 word news story by three of its top reporters relating that the Justice Department's investigation of President Biden's son, Hunter, is not merely a tax matter.

00:18:30.000 Turns out that prosecutors are probing his penchant for cashing in on his father's political influence through payments by overseas entities for which he did not register as a foreign agent.

00:18:39.000 Well, even better, if you weighed 23 paragraphs into the story, you will learn that prosecutors are examining emails between Biden and his business associates that come from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Hunter Biden in a Delaware repair shop, you don't say.

00:18:55.000 This is the story that the New York Times had said was, you know, Russian disinformation.

00:19:00.000 Maybe not the New York Times, because I want to misquote them, but I know several reporters were saying it was disinformation, it was questionable.

00:19:06.000 Biden himself said it was Russian disinformation.

00:19:08.000 Right.

00:19:09.000 Jen Psaki said it was Russian disinfo, according to these intel sources.

00:19:13.000 Politico, it was Natasha Bertrand, she was with Politico and now CNN, put out this story, which was a fabrication.

00:19:19.000 Because, I love this, Glenn Greenwald's reporting, he said, even in the story where she said, Intel sources say it was disinfo.

00:19:25.000 The Intel sources said we are not saying it's disinformation.

00:19:28.000 We're saying we don't trust the information.

00:19:30.000 So this lie comes out.

00:19:31.000 Now, the big issue is the media lies to us.

00:19:34.000 Not every single entity.

00:19:35.000 I mean, the New York Post, they published this.

00:19:36.000 They were getting us that information.

00:19:38.000 Big tech colludes with the media.

00:19:39.000 And now, because of this, there's a few interesting polls.

00:19:43.000 Absolutely.

00:19:43.000 Research Center and Rasmussen found, I believe it was Rasmussen, that if regular people, if you're

00:19:49.000 voting, if American voters were aware of this story, around 6 to I think 17 percent would not

00:19:55.000 have voted for Biden. It doesn't mean they're voting for Trump, but that would have had a big

00:19:59.000 impact on the election. Absolutely. Yeah. Now think about the war in Ukraine with Russia invading and

00:20:04.000 Ukraine saying we want these MiG fighter jets, we want NATO support, and who's the president of

00:20:09.000 A guy with corrupt business dealings through his son in this very country, and that has me worried.

00:20:15.000 These are the ramifications of media lying to us.

00:20:17.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:20:18.000 So 45% of Biden voters said they did not know about Hunter Biden's deals, and 9.5% said, as you mentioned, they would not have voted for him had they known.

00:20:27.000 And now the New York Times is coming out and saying, hey, remember that thing we called you crazy conspiracy theorists for believing?

00:20:32.000 Well, put a dollar in the jar, because a couple months later, you're allowed to believe that thing.

00:20:39.000 Yeah, and that's exactly what we saw all the time.

00:20:41.000 In our district, I'm a very conservative district.

00:20:44.000 I took Ron Paul's place in Congress.

00:20:47.000 Very conservative district on the Gulf Coast.

00:20:49.000 Big shoes to fill.

00:20:50.000 Yeah, I was going to say, that is a tough spot to be in.

00:20:52.000 Big shoes to fill.

00:20:53.000 Quite an honor.

00:20:54.000 Well, thank you.

00:20:55.000 You betcha.

00:20:55.000 And I had his endorsement when I ran, along with Governor Rick Perry and then Attorney General Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz, and I can go right down the list because they know how conservative I am.

00:21:06.000 But we put all that information out in our district, making that point, and the Jefferson County in our district was the only swing county out of 254 counties in Texas.

00:21:16.000 We're turning them red.

00:21:17.000 They were Democrat.

00:21:18.000 A lot of salt to the earth people, fishermen, welders, electricians, a lot of refineries and stuff on the coast.

00:21:24.000 And Jefferson County voted for Obama in 08, re-election in 12, and in 2016 they went for Trump.

00:21:30.000 Wow.

00:21:31.000 So they got it then in our district.

00:21:33.000 We wish we could duplicate that, replicate that, you know, across the country.

00:21:36.000 You bet.

00:21:37.000 They knew that.

00:21:38.000 But they purposely put it out.

00:21:40.000 They wanted to suppress the story right before the election.

00:21:44.000 That's when it came out, like, that's when it hit.

00:21:45.000 Was it Project Veritas that dropped it?

00:21:47.000 No, no, it was the New York Post.

00:21:51.000 Who put out the story, though, that we found Hunter Biden's laptop?

00:21:54.000 The New York Post.

00:21:55.000 It was?

00:21:56.000 I'm pretty sure the New York Post was the first to publish the story.

00:21:59.000 Yeah, that's why they got taken off Twitter.

00:22:00.000 Yeah, and you couldn't even share messages.

00:22:03.000 I remember that, Lydia.

00:22:04.000 You couldn't message a friend the link.

00:22:06.000 Twitter was blocking it.

00:22:07.000 I remember that.

00:22:08.000 Talk about evil people.

00:22:11.000 Authoritarians, oligarchs, whatever you want to call it.

00:22:14.000 So my question is, you know, over the past several months, I've just been saying, at a certain point with all the lies, you know, Jussie Smollett, now a free man, believe me.

00:22:22.000 How about that?

00:22:23.000 We get more, we get stories every single year, some big news cycles, some big protests, and it turns out to be a liar manipulation.

00:22:29.000 And I'm just thinking, how do we just finally say to the likes of CNN and the New York Times or whatever, You guys can go play over there with your dwindling audiences, and we're going to keep the truth here and have these conversations somewhere else.

00:22:42.000 How do we create our own narratives, right?

00:22:45.000 Well, one way was what you said earlier.

00:22:46.000 Hey, look, tell your friends about this show.

00:22:48.000 Right.

00:22:49.000 That's why I knew it.

00:22:49.000 Share, share, share.

00:22:50.000 You know, you betcha.

00:22:51.000 You hear that, everybody?

00:22:53.000 The congressman says, share the show.

00:22:54.000 That's right.

00:22:55.000 Share, share, you bet.

00:22:57.000 Well, right now we're chasing our tails, though.

00:22:59.000 Republican messaging in general is still having to respond to the national media, the mainstream media.

00:23:05.000 And instead of putting our own content out, we are, here we are again, responding to fake news stories over and over again, rather than highlighting what we should be doing and what's wrong.

00:23:15.000 That's what the narrative is, and what should we be focusing on.

00:23:19.000 Yeah.

00:23:20.000 You guys familiar with Defiant Ls?

00:23:22.000 You ever see Defiant Ls on Twitter and Instagram?

00:23:25.000 It's great.

00:23:26.000 Defiant Ls takes two tweets and places them together for comedic effect.

00:23:31.000 The first tweet we have here is from Jen Psaki, who says, Hunter Biden's story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former Intel officials say.

00:23:38.000 They didn't.

00:23:38.000 That wasn't true.

00:23:39.000 And then below it is the New York Post.

00:23:41.000 Hunter Biden's infamous laptop confirmed in New York Times report.

00:23:45.000 It's a scary prospect. Oh you can't make this stuff up.

00:23:48.000 Well I mean they can.

00:23:49.000 No it's all they do. Yeah it's all they do.

00:23:52.000 The scary thing I suppose is we laugh at being right and we laugh at the absurdity

00:23:57.000 but look at gas prices, look at inflation, look at the Afghanistan withdrawal,

00:24:01.000 look at what's going on in Eastern Europe.

00:24:03.000 These lies and this manipulation is burning our country to the ground.

00:24:09.000 Now, the thing is, the left, Antifa, when they get tricked, they scream until their vocal cords shred and they smash windows and start fires.

00:24:18.000 We point out the lies and start laughing and saying, ha ha, we were right the whole time.

00:24:22.000 There's this vile rage that is being wielded through the manipulation of the media that does give them power.

00:24:29.000 And it's causing problems and harm to this country.

00:24:32.000 Well, all the attention is aimed toward them, and then they say, you know, these poor people, they don't need more police, they need social workers.

00:24:42.000 And I'm like, oh my gosh, you can't make this up.

00:24:44.000 What did Reagan say?

00:24:46.000 Lock up the thugs and the criminals and throw away the key.

00:24:50.000 A little much for me.

00:24:51.000 I'm a bit libertarian in a lot of these respects, but I think the issue is we're seeing the other side of that extremism from the progressives in places like New York where they let all the criminals out.

00:25:03.000 I'm sure.

00:25:04.000 And then you get, there was one guy who was like a 40 time repeat offender who was laughing, being like, y'all locked me up the first time, just let me go.

00:25:10.000 And it's like, he's going to keep doing it.

00:25:12.000 So there's a real challenge.

00:25:13.000 I think the big challenge is with big cities, though.

00:25:16.000 I really am not a big fan of cities.

00:25:17.000 I grew up in cities, lived in them until only the past few years.

00:25:20.000 I think, you know, I come out here to the middle of nowhere, everything's much more relaxed.

00:25:27.000 You're more likely to know who your local deputies are.

00:25:30.000 Sure.

00:25:30.000 You go and meet them, you talk to them, you elect your law enforcement.

00:25:33.000 You go to these big cities and it's just faceless law enforcement, faceless judges, nobody talks to their neighbor, and that leads to the kind of authoritarianism.

00:25:42.000 It leads to the police brutality the left is complaining about all the time.

00:25:45.000 Yeah, well let me brag on Texas for a minute because where I'm from, we know all of our elected officials and I live in a district, of course, we're about not quite 900,000 people now with the redistricting.

00:25:57.000 And in my county, one of the biggest cities is League City, it's about 110,000 and then Beaumont's about 100,000.

00:26:03.000 And so there's big cities around, right?

00:26:05.000 And we know all of our elected officials.

00:26:07.000 In Texas, we're so pro-law enforcement, pro-life, and pro-gun, you can go right down the list.

00:26:13.000 We know, and they know us, too, and they know they can depend on us and we can depend on them.

00:26:19.000 Probably not so much in the Northeast, Chicago, West, the Left Coast, as I call it, some of the others.

00:26:24.000 Yeah, this is, so, I think one thing that's really important in the discussion about police is that New York is very, very different from, you know, Beaumont, for instance.

00:26:32.000 Absolutely.

00:26:33.000 So people in New York, when they're saying defund the police or whatever, they're talking about a bunch of different problems.

00:26:37.000 My response to a lot of these, you know, blue city urban police departments is they were locking down people for COVID, violating their constitutional rights, shutting down churches.

00:26:47.000 So I'm like, by all means, get rid of them.

00:26:49.000 Why?

00:26:49.000 Well, these are Democrat voters in Democrat cities who voted in Democrats who appointed these cops.

00:26:53.000 The cops shut down churches.

00:26:54.000 Now they want to get rid of them.

00:26:55.000 I'm like, good, get rid of them.

00:26:56.000 Do your thing.

00:26:57.000 I say let it happen.

00:26:57.000 Look at what's happening in Seattle right now.

00:27:00.000 Let them destroy themselves. 0.90

00:27:02.000 Exactly.

00:27:03.000 You see all these like murder rates going up and crime and now serial killer in New York but even in Amazon's moving their their one of their main headquarters out of Seattle because of all the violence that's been happening with on the street and so the people that are are that are in that city have to look around and say this is what we get for saying defund the police this is what we get for these little let them destroy themselves You know, in Texas, I wasn't there this time, because I was in Congress, but they passed a bill this last time about sanctuary cities that said, look, if you're a sanctuary city in Texas and you don't believe in enforcing immigration law and all those things, you don't get any state funding.

00:27:39.000 You want to defund your police and be a sanctuary city and you want state funding?

00:27:44.000 If you're a sanctuary city, you get zero funding.

00:27:44.000 Nope.

00:27:47.000 Austin was one of the ones who cut the police.

00:27:49.000 I was going to say, are they just pointing the finger at Austin right now?

00:27:51.000 You know, the People's Republic of Austin?

00:27:54.000 And I think they defunded it.

00:27:55.000 It was like $100 or $110 million.

00:27:56.000 I forget the exact amount.

00:27:58.000 And so Greg Abbott and company got in gear and they said, that's fine.

00:28:01.000 You want to defund the police?

00:28:02.000 Well, you'd get no more state money.

00:28:04.000 And by golly, do you know that it wasn't a very short order, I don't know, a month or two later, that Austin came back and put $110 million or whatever it was back in the budget for the police?

00:28:14.000 All this kind of stuff freaks me out because you've got people from California moving to Austin, moving to Texas.

00:28:21.000 And what they don't understand, we had a ton of people telling us, you guys should move to Austin.

00:28:25.000 And we're like, we're going to go to West Virginia, or at least the West Virginia area for the most part.

00:28:29.000 And the thing about Texas is when Joe Rogan, for instance, you know, he's a good dude.

00:28:33.000 When he moves to Austin, it's because he thinks California's going crazy.

00:28:38.000 And you can reasonably talk to him and say, you're not going to support those kind of policies, are you?

00:28:43.000 And he'll tell you, you know, he's like, oh, I wouldn't do that.

00:28:45.000 I'm not going to move to an area.

00:28:47.000 But support staff?

00:28:48.000 What happens when Elon Musk, you know, he moves to Texas, right?

00:28:52.000 He's going to bring his factory.

00:28:53.000 Those employees are going to move with him.

00:28:54.000 These are California residents.

00:28:56.000 They're going to vote blue, and he's going to bring them all into Texas, and he's going to start bringing in Democrats into Texas. 0.73

00:29:02.000 So that freaks me out.

00:29:04.000 It's a concern for us too, and of course, you know, it's a free country. You can cross state lines,

00:29:09.000 but what we want to do is make sure the Californians have to apply for a passport

00:29:13.000 and a visa to come visit Texas. And we laugh about it, but it really is true. And there's 0.74

00:29:18.000 talk about, from the Texas delegation up here, that there's been reported signs in California

00:29:23.000 that says the last one out of California, turn off the lights.

00:29:27.000 Wow.

00:29:28.000 So the amount of people coming to Texas, 1,300 people a day.

00:29:32.000 Not all from California.

00:29:34.000 Yeah, DFW every three minutes gets a new resident.

00:29:37.000 Every three minutes?

00:29:38.000 Every three minutes.

00:29:40.000 Florida and Texas I think are seeing the largest population increases.

00:29:43.000 Right.

00:29:44.000 Now, I will say, and maybe I'm being a little naive here, but I just want to try to throw some optimism in.

00:29:50.000 There are a lot of conservative people in California who just don't vote in any of their elections because they see their state as hopelessly blue, and I hope that those are the kinds of people moving off to Texas, and so you're going to have an influx of red voters as well, but obviously the blue voters coming in and trying to change the face of the political scene there is a huge problem.

00:30:09.000 Yeah, it is, Seamus, and we're not unaware of that.

00:30:11.000 There's actually a group that's out there registering voters.

00:30:14.000 We go back and we look at California.

00:30:16.000 I know the ones you talk about that don't vote, you know, they're not going to be on record.

00:30:20.000 But we're going back and, you know, you can't find out how somebody voted, but you can find out if they voted.

00:30:25.000 And if they voted in Republican primary, they identify as Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, or whatever.

00:30:30.000 That's amazing.

00:30:31.000 Good for you guys.

00:30:32.000 The group is busy working right now identifying those Republican voters and when they come

00:30:36.000 to Texas they're sending them a letter in the mail with a, are you registering to vote?

00:30:40.000 You know, here's your chance to register to vote.

00:30:42.000 That's amazing.

00:30:43.000 Good for you guys.

00:30:44.000 Are you familiar with Scott Pressler?

00:30:45.000 Know the name.

00:30:46.000 What do I know that name?

00:30:47.000 He's probably the most famous voter registration activist right now.

00:30:52.000 Yeah.

00:30:52.000 There's memes about him because it's, you know, you'll see a tweet from someone where they're like, I'm just sick of this city.

00:30:57.000 I moved to Texas.

00:30:57.000 And then he responds right away.

00:30:59.000 Have you registered to vote at your current address?

00:31:01.000 So there's a meme where it's like a dog answers the phone and the dog's like, hello.

00:31:04.000 And he's like, hey, this is Scott Pressler.

00:31:05.000 Have you registered to vote?

00:31:06.000 Yeah.

00:31:07.000 But he's done amazing work, and I think his work has led to the Republican Party in Florida becoming bigger than the Democratic Party, something like that.

00:31:16.000 We're seeing the border crisis, too, turn some border towns that were traditionally blue really red, too.

00:31:22.000 So that's positive.

00:31:23.000 McAllen, Texas, elected a Republican mayor.

00:31:26.000 Well, isn't it hilarious how as soon as left-wing people actually have to face the consequences of their policies, instead of getting to shove it off onto somebody else, they mysteriously turn red?

00:31:34.000 Or they leave.

00:31:35.000 Yeah.

00:31:35.000 Or they leave.

00:31:36.000 Well, think about it in this context, because we talked about getting the news out, how the news media twisted everything, and that's why I think it's important people listen to this, right?

00:31:44.000 Did I mention people ought to share this?

00:31:46.000 Did I mention that?

00:31:46.000 Yes, yes, absolutely.

00:31:48.000 You are so correct.

00:31:49.000 Leave a comment, too.

00:31:50.000 I didn't know if I mentioned that or not.

00:31:51.000 Super chat us.

00:31:53.000 But, so they're not getting real news down there, but when they see illegals coming across the border, now when I was in the State House, I was on the Borders Committee, my second term, I was the Vice Chair.

00:32:02.000 And back then, in that one year, that was 2010, 11 rather, there was 5,000 Texans who were either hurt, raped, violently attacked, burglarized, murdered, killed.

00:32:17.000 By people who shouldn't even be in Texas.

00:32:19.000 And let me do some math for you.

00:32:21.000 If we've got 70,000 kids coming across the border in a month, and we've had that, if you think about kindergarten education, K-12, I was on the public education committee for four years, K-12, do this math, if you've got 70,000 kids coming across the border, let's just say the average school K-12 is 10,000.

00:32:41.000 That is seven complete school districts that you have to fund, right?

00:32:47.000 Somebody's got to fund.

00:32:48.000 I get that they don't all stay in Texas.

00:32:52.000 You know, the federal government is their logistics group.

00:32:54.000 The drug lords bring them up here, human trafficking, and we latch on to NGOs under the Biden administration, and they move them inland.

00:33:02.000 But somebody's going to pay to educate those kids, and that's per month when we have those kinds of months.

00:33:09.000 Seven complete school districts.

00:33:11.000 Per month.

00:33:12.000 Oh yeah, I mean, for years the Democrats have argued that it's misinformation to say that illegal immigrants receive any kind of welfare or state funding.

00:33:19.000 And firstly, there actually are illegal immigrants who have family members who are on welfare and so they receive it that way. 0.60

00:33:25.000 But also, when you enter into a country and you're not registered in the system and paying taxes, but you're receiving benefits from the system, it's functionally the exact same problem.

00:33:34.000 One of the most interesting points that I was reading about when it comes to illegal immigration is how they affect the presidential vote.

00:33:42.000 Because the way we vote is by electoral college.

00:33:45.000 And so when you get non-citizens in a district, they still count towards the... Census. 0.51

00:33:50.000 Right.

00:33:51.000 So that means a state with a large population of non-citizens will get an extra district or two based on those non-citizens, which means an extra electoral college vote.

00:34:01.000 That's right.

00:34:02.000 And Texas got two.

00:34:03.000 Texas got two this year.

00:34:04.000 And by the way... Two extra seats because of non-citizens?

00:34:07.000 Or just population growth?

00:34:09.000 Well, we had both.

00:34:10.000 I mean, it's hard to say how many.

00:34:12.000 Our great Border Patrol and our great Texas DPS, and we've got a lot of folks down on the border.

00:34:17.000 We love our law enforcement down there.

00:34:18.000 When I was in the Texas House my first term, we put $200 million on the border.

00:34:23.000 And that was for helicopters and boats and ships.

00:34:25.000 Gunboats, literally.

00:34:26.000 We've got five boats on the Rio Grande River with machine guns.

00:34:29.000 Louie Gohmert and I have been down there And actually true to that area.

00:34:33.000 Now they're putting $3 billion a session, because they only meet every other year, sessions two years, on the border.

00:34:41.000 And the federal government's not doing their job.

00:34:44.000 And so, yeah, we're growing.

00:34:45.000 We don't know how many people we've lost.

00:34:47.000 They will give you the number that they handled, and then they'll give you an estimate on the getaways.

00:34:55.000 But they don't know how many got away.

00:34:57.000 Have you talked to some of these people down in these border districts as to what's going on?

00:35:02.000 Like, what are people thinking and feeling as to why they're switching from Democrats to Republicans?

00:35:05.000 Absolutely.

00:35:06.000 I've been on the border probably five or six times, been in there a number of times.

00:35:10.000 Remember the Freedom Caucus?

00:35:11.000 We've been down there.

00:35:11.000 I went down there really twice when I was in the Texas legislature.

00:35:15.000 And then I've been there four, five, six times I've been in Congress.

00:35:18.000 And they're sick and tired of it.

00:35:19.000 If you talk to the ranchers and the farmers and the business owners down there and the city officials, they're tired of Biden's policy.

00:35:26.000 They're tired of just letting them come across.

00:35:28.000 It's unbelievable.

00:35:30.000 I've heard some crazy stories.

00:35:31.000 Oh, listen.

00:35:32.000 You know, this is sickening, but the drug lords down there, they will make those young girls, they'll take them and they will be violated. 0.99

00:35:39.000 Raped, if you will. 0.98

00:35:40.000 They will be violated numerous times coming up across the border there.

00:35:44.000 And they actually have trees where they hang the clothing of their victims.

00:35:48.000 We're talking women's underwear and stuff like that, and trees, and they call them rape trees, they call them. 0.51

00:35:54.000 And I've been there and seen with my own eyes.

00:35:58.000 It's appalling, and I don't get why the Biden administration and the Democrats don't see that.

00:36:04.000 When you give people accurate information, it's interesting how the Democrat narrative makes no sense.

00:36:16.000 So, for instance, you go to a regular American and say, should the United States help people who are fleeing gang violence and need asylum?

00:36:25.000 They'll probably say yes.

00:36:26.000 You'll say, then follow up, if these people are coming from, say, Brazil, Should they be allowed to trek all the way up through all of these countries and through Mexico into the United States for asylum, most people will say, wait, what?

00:36:39.000 No.

00:36:40.000 Once they've escaped the danger, they're safe where they are.

00:36:42.000 They can stay there, right?

00:36:43.000 That's right.

00:36:44.000 So what's happening now is we're hearing stories about people traveling from Ethiopia, from Africa, overseas to Brazil.

00:36:52.000 And you know what really offends me about this?

00:36:54.000 They land in Brazil and then they trek all the way up to the United States.

00:36:57.000 Brazil is awesome.

00:36:58.000 Right.

00:36:59.000 I was chilling on Copacabana on the beach with a coconut and I'm like, what about Brazil?

00:37:03.000 I don't understand.

00:37:05.000 But I get it.

00:37:06.000 America is... It's the benefits.

00:37:08.000 It's the benefits.

00:37:10.000 We're a wealthier nation than Brazil.

00:37:11.000 And so they're safe in this country.

00:37:14.000 But they're willing to risk the lives of their children and themselves because America is just that much better?

00:37:19.000 Well, you ask a regular person, should we grant them asylum?

00:37:22.000 They're going to say no.

00:37:24.000 Absolutely.

00:37:25.000 Well, Tim, when I was there, the director of the DPS there, my youngest son's a special agent for the FBI, and Steve McCraw was a former FBI guy, retired, and Rick Perry appointed him, and we found out I had an FBI family.

00:37:37.000 We had a great relationship.

00:37:40.000 And he told me that there's 40 different Eastern religious sects, S-E-C-T-S, 40 different, and it's 2009.

00:37:50.000 40 different Eastern religious sects coming across our southern, porous border.

00:37:55.000 We don't know who's here.

00:37:57.000 We don't know who's here.

00:37:58.000 That ought to scare people big time.

00:38:00.000 Islamic extremists are also making plans to come up from the Horn of Africa, and they're coming in. 1.00

00:38:05.000 I think it was like Joseph E. Meyer or somebody that had been tracking that for a really long time.

00:38:09.000 I've actually heard from several journalists that extremist groups know they can enter through the southern border rather easily, and that's one of the main ways to get in.

00:38:17.000 Absolutely.

00:38:18.000 One of the points you were making is about how as soon as you have more information the democratic narrative falls apart and that's a huge part of the reason why they have to call people names for disagreeing with them and why they have to frame every issue really dishonestly.

00:38:30.000 So if you look at the conversation that we're having on border security very plainly it's essentially one group of people saying There should be some vetting of people at the border.

00:38:39.000 We should have a handle on who's in here.

00:38:41.000 People should become citizens because we, as a democratic nation, supposedly where the people have a say, should have some say on who's entering the country.

00:38:50.000 The other side of the discussion is literally just There should literally be zero oversight on who is entering the country.

00:38:57.000 The people should have absolutely no say.

00:38:58.000 When you put it that way, it's extremely obvious which side of the issue you should be on, whether you consider yourself liberal or conservative.

00:39:05.000 But the way they frame it is, well, either you think everyone should be able to come here and get whatever benefits they want, or you're racist.

00:39:13.000 Yeah, and look, if we don't have a border, we're not a sovereign country.

00:39:17.000 And people accuse me all the time.

00:39:19.000 Randy, and by the way, I have a website, randyweber.org, so if anybody wants to see what I believe, it's easy to find me, randyweber.org.

00:39:27.000 But I tell people all the time, they say, well, you just hate Mexicans, people south of the border, and Hispanics, and that kind of stuff.

00:39:36.000 And I said, no.

00:39:36.000 They said, you don't like immigration.

00:39:38.000 You just want to close the whole border down.

00:39:40.000 I said, no.

00:39:41.000 My grandfather and my grandmother came over on the boat from Germany.

00:39:45.000 I am the grandson of German immigrants.

00:39:47.000 I wouldn't even be here.

00:39:48.000 But they, guess what?

00:39:50.000 They did it legally.

00:39:51.000 And that's what we're saying.

00:39:53.000 Come in to build the country.

00:39:56.000 Don't come in to take from the country.

00:39:58.000 And that's the difference.

00:39:59.000 Well, and not only that, it isn't simply an argument on the ethics of why a person should want to come here.

00:40:05.000 It's simply a statement that we should have some handle on who's coming here.

00:40:09.000 We should know who's in our country.

00:40:10.000 It's constitutional.

00:40:11.000 Congress makes immigration and naturalization laws, not the President of the United States.

00:40:15.000 But we really need to think about why they don't care, why they think it should be that way.

00:40:19.000 They want these people to come in because they want them, again, dependent on them so that they'll get their votes and they can maintain more power and implement their progressive ideologies.

00:40:31.000 I think we should allow every single person on the planet to immigrate to the United States But it's got to be through a controlled legal process, which means there's also going to be certain times at which we can't allow people to come in. 0.96

00:40:45.000 What I mean to say is everyone should have the opportunity to try.

00:40:48.000 Absolutely.

00:40:48.000 But this means if we can't handle the burden, it means if we can figure out where people can go to.

00:40:55.000 I went to Sweden to explore the refugee crisis and a lot of the claims that were being made about it.

00:41:01.000 A lot of people on the right were saying that violent crime was through the roof because of these refugees that were coming from the war in the Middle East.

00:41:07.000 As it turns out, while that was partly true, there was an increase in crime for that reason.

00:41:11.000 A lot of the crime we were seeing was due to the Somali refugees of the 80s and 90s and their children growing up feeling stateless, feeling like they weren't part of the community. 1.00

00:41:20.000 Why?

00:41:21.000 What happened was, when those people came in in the 90s, Sweden didn't track where they were going, what they were doing, and so they formed enclaves.

00:41:29.000 They were told by Sweden, okay, everybody move here, and then you're good.

00:41:34.000 So then they had kids.

00:41:35.000 Those kids grew up in an area where everyone speaks the same language, but they're Swedish citizens, but people in Sweden who are white, you know, natives, did not view them as Swedish.

00:41:45.000 They viewed them as immigrants.

00:41:46.000 Then they would go home to their home country to see their parents, and they would be called Swedish.

00:41:49.000 So all of a sudden you have these individuals who feel stateless because they weren't able to integrate, they weren't given the opportunity.

00:41:56.000 The reason why you have checkpoints and borders in an immigration process is to maximize the opportunity for those who are actually coming to the country.

00:42:03.000 If you look at what the left is defending with these porous borders, it's children wandering through 90 miles of open desert, being found dead in ditches, being left without parents, being left sick.

00:42:15.000 One of the most disgusting things I saw There was a young child, I think it was a little girl, maybe like 11 years old, who died.

00:42:21.000 And the news reports were like, child dies in ICE custody, and it's all this crazy.

00:42:26.000 And then the story actually was, ICE found a sick girl dying in the desert, and did everything in their power to try and save her life.

00:42:34.000 And so they rushed her to the facility, and she died, and the media tried framing it like they killed her.

00:42:38.000 I remember that.

00:42:39.000 I've been there with my own eyes and seen the facilities that they have.

00:42:43.000 And let me back up and just say this too, that look, if we're going to let, if Congress is going to increase the immigration quotas by country that we have, that's up to Congress.

00:42:53.000 That's constitutional.

00:42:54.000 But we're going to have to have the facilities and the infrastructure to do that.

00:42:58.000 We're going to have to have immigration courts, immigration judges, immigration officers,

00:43:03.000 and we're going to have to have facilities.

00:43:05.000 And so it's going to cost the American taxpayer more dollars.

00:43:07.000 So here's the question.

00:43:09.000 Shouldn't we, when somebody comes to America and wants to immigrate and come across the 1.00

00:43:12.000 border, should we charge them $50?

00:43:15.000 $100?

00:43:15.000 $500?

00:43:15.000 Should they help pay for the infrastructure?

00:43:19.000 Absolutely.

00:43:20.000 But USCIS already processes, though, a million petitions a year.

00:43:25.000 We let in about 500,000 immigrants from all over the place every year, and people don't realize that.

00:43:33.000 We've taken the most amount of immigrants out of any other nation in the entire world. 1.00

00:43:40.000 Our immigration system, while it has its issues, is still letting in so many people. 0.99

00:43:45.000 Think about that.

00:43:45.000 You're letting in 500,000 people legally a year on green card petitions, and they process a million applications.

00:43:53.000 Yeah.

00:43:53.000 To your point about how much should people pay when they come in, some of these stories, we hear about families spending $3,000.

00:44:00.000 Or more.

00:44:01.000 Or more.

00:44:02.000 And so, it's fascinating to me that the narrative from the left is often, oh, these poor refugees who are so broke and helpless, and I'm like, they got three grand.

00:44:10.000 I mean drug cartels yeah to traffic up here and it's dangerous you know they

00:44:15.000 don't got 50 bucks to help us afford the cost to make sure that I mean we're

00:44:19.000 talking about helping people who are genuine asylees or whatever get get 1.00

00:44:23.000 proper placement that means we need infrastructure we got to pay for it it

00:44:26.000 does cost money to immigrate here through like USCIS but we they have fee

00:44:31.000 petition waivers that you can you can fill out and you can come here for free

00:44:34.000 you can you know fill out all the paperwork and file it with USCIS if you

00:44:39.000 file a fee petition waiver and claim some hardship so it's actually less

00:44:43.000 expensive to do it the right way yeah than it is to come over and be smuggled

00:44:48.000 unless you're trying to break through the border and sneak into the country.

00:44:51.000 I want to pull up this story real quick because you guys had mentioned this before the show and

00:44:55.000 it's an interesting story. Axios is reporting Biden officials fear mass migration event if

00:45:00.000 COVID policies end. Axios reports US intelligence officials are privately bracing for a massive

00:45:06.000 influx of more than 170,000 migrants to the Mexico border.

00:45:10.000 If COVID era policies that allow instant expulsions during the public health emergency are

00:45:15.000 ended, sources with direct knowledge of the discussions tell Axios. The response

00:45:19.000 underway includes a newly created and previously unreported Southwest border coordination center,

00:45:24.000 essentially a war room to coordinate an intra-agency response.

00:45:29.000 So they're basically saying that Title 42 has been used more than 1 million times to rapidly expel migrants to the southern border without hearing asylum claims.

00:45:37.000 But the Trump era order wasn't set up to be permanent and senior Biden officials are preparing for its end as the virus is brought under control.

00:45:45.000 This means that when Title 42 ends, all of a sudden, 170,000 migrants are going to rush the border because they can't be instantly expelled.

00:45:53.000 And that means our immigration system won't be able to handle a massive influx of that magnitude. 0.99

00:45:59.000 They're already not able to handle it.

00:46:01.000 We've had for the last every month since Biden has been elected, has the people crossing the border has increased in January from from January to February, just went up another 7 percent.

00:46:13.000 But our media has totally They've forgotten about the border crisis in general.

00:46:17.000 They don't talk about it anymore.

00:46:18.000 Our CBP is already overrun.

00:46:21.000 So they're saying they need to beef it up.

00:46:25.000 We're already under-prepared.

00:46:27.000 What should we do?

00:46:28.000 Well, just remember my school example.

00:46:30.000 170,000 people.

00:46:31.000 If it's mom and dad and one child, what's a third of 170?

00:46:36.000 Is that like 55, 60, not quite 60,000?

00:46:37.000 Six more school districts in one event.

00:46:43.000 And when you talk about asylum, people have to remember that when you request asylum, asylum from what?

00:46:50.000 Religious persecution, fear of your government.

00:46:53.000 There's actually categories for it.

00:46:55.000 It can't just be that my neighborhood's bad, there's no money and all that kind of stuff, and the drug cartels are bad.

00:47:00.000 I get that.

00:47:01.000 They live in bad neighborhoods, and your heart goes out to them.

00:47:03.000 I get that.

00:47:04.000 But they come here uneducated, and they come here to take jobs, right, from Americans in many instances. 0.99

00:47:11.000 And so they have to opt to go to the United States Embassy, whether it's Bolivia, whether it's Argentina, whether it's Mexico, Guatemala, and apply for asylum there.

00:47:20.000 And the best thing Biden could have done was to have let Trump's policy stay in to effect on energy, on immigration, and a whole lot of things.

00:47:29.000 If Biden would have just done nothing from first day, but he starts reversing them all, and we're seeing the effect of it.

00:47:34.000 Do you see there was a video, one of the migrant caravans several years ago, they were coming from I think Honduras.

00:47:39.000 They're in Mexico, they're in southern Mexico.

00:47:44.000 And they get the announcement that Mexico will offer them all asylum and refugee status in Mexico.

00:47:49.000 And someone in the caravan yells, how many of you want to stay in Mexico?

00:47:54.000 And then it says, how many of you want to go to America?

00:47:56.000 And they're like, yeah!

00:47:57.000 Man, so they were given asylum.

00:48:01.000 It's crazy to me because I think the issue is, for people on the left, I gotta tell you man, they think Mexico is a desert.

00:48:09.000 They think Mexico is all sepia-toned.

00:48:12.000 They watched movies and it's like, it must be- They saw Narcos and they're like, this is the entire country.

00:48:15.000 Oh come on, like every movie about Mexico, they just sepia-tone.

00:48:19.000 And then I'm like, have you ever been to Mexico City?

00:48:22.000 It is a city, it is a big city.

00:48:24.000 They have Buffalo Wild Wings, it's awesome.

00:48:26.000 Vox ran a quote from one of the migrants in the caravan several years ago, and a French journalist asked this migrant, why do you want to go to America?

00:48:37.000 And he said, I miss buffalo wild wings.

00:48:39.000 And I'm like, well, hold on there a minute.

00:48:41.000 I absolutely relate to that.

00:48:42.000 B-dubs is awesome, but they have B-dubs in Mexico.

00:48:46.000 I went to Mexico City and specifically sought out a buffalo wild wings, and I got me some honey barbecue wings with ranch dressing, and it was great.

00:48:53.000 It's funny you say that about Mexico because everybody thinks Texans ride horses everywhere, which the Greenies would probably be okay with if we rode over here on horses, but I keep reminding them that horses have emissions. 0.80

00:49:04.000 Ooh, that's the truth. 0.82

00:49:07.000 Big stinky ones. 0.65

00:49:09.000 Tim, you made a point earlier about believing that basically everyone should have the opportunity 0.92

00:49:09.000 To apply. 0.92

00:49:13.000 to enter this country, and part of what's sad about the current debacle—

00:49:16.000 To apply.

00:49:17.000 What's that?

00:49:18.000 To apply.

00:49:19.000 Yeah, no, exactly, exactly.

00:49:20.000 And part of the issue is there is a lot of opportunity for people to be able—or there

00:49:23.000 would be more opportunity for people to be able to enter through the legal channels if

00:49:26.000 our system was not clogged up with people who are jumping in line to try to enter the

00:49:29.000 country. 0.99

00:49:30.000 And I cannot think of anything more suicidally stupid for a nation to do—maybe a few things, 1.00

00:49:35.000 but not many things more suicidally stupid for a nation to do—than say, instead of 1.00

00:49:38.000 taking the people who want to follow our laws and respect our culture, let's just bring 0.99

00:49:44.000 in everybody who's willing to violate our norms and break our laws and not respect our

00:49:49.000 nation and tell the people who want to respect it that they can't come because we brought

00:49:53.000 in too many of the people in the former category.

00:49:55.000 Or they have to be way, and they are already, way down in the line.

00:49:59.000 It takes years and years and so now you've got an immigration system that, as I pointed out earlier, we need judges and courts and clerks and all those kinds of things.

00:50:06.000 Now the people who are trying to do it legally are pushed way back because of those jumping ahead.

00:50:11.000 Our asylum courts, so once they come here they get released and they're supposed to go to asylum courts. 0.94

00:50:18.000 They're backed up for about four years so they get let into the country and then for four years they're allowed to do whatever they want, work wherever they want, do whatever they need to do before they even get a hearing to see if they Should be deported or not.

00:50:30.000 You look at some of the news reports that have been coming out for the past year or so, it's much, much worse than that.

00:50:34.000 We're hearing, there was the video footage released from, I think it was Westchester, New York, where the Biden administration has been smuggling undocumented children, illegal immigrant kids, into various states.

00:50:47.000 And you actually had a federal contractor tell a local cop, if the American people knew what we were doing, and he says, what do you mean?

00:50:54.000 The government has betrayed them.

00:50:57.000 These are, we had Tennessee found out because of secret video that these illegal immigrant kids were being flown in in the middle of the night into these other states and then just released.

00:51:08.000 It is not just that our courts are backed up, it's that I view this as the Biden administration is desperately trying to sweep under the rug what's happening.

00:51:19.000 You had those videos coming out from McAllen, Texas of the kids under the highway.

00:51:23.000 Do you remember that?

00:51:24.000 Absolutely.

00:51:24.000 About 15,000.

00:51:25.000 But it was the biggest Biden group that he ever assembled.

00:51:29.000 The largest crowd he ever drew.

00:51:30.000 No, you're not wrong.

00:51:31.000 They did have Biden shirts on, too.

00:51:34.000 Well, so I think what they're doing is we don't want the media to see this.

00:51:37.000 So just take the kids in the middle of the night and fly them to a random location.

00:51:40.000 You know, Tim, what you're describing almost sounds like a swamp.

00:51:44.000 Isn't that amazing that there's bureaucrats in there that they want to do it their way and there's so much corrupt and so much stuff?

00:51:50.000 As that guy pointed out, once you just related their government, our government has betrayed us.

00:51:57.000 In a lot of ways, I think it's sad to say, maybe it's not so much that our government has, but that our government has been, for a very long time, there are people in our government who don't care about us, don't care about the country, and I think it's apparent when you see what's happening with schools, how they're teaching that America is bad or evil, they really just don't like this place.

00:52:18.000 And there's that joke about, man, all of those freedom-loving Cubans who want to escape and make it, or Venezuelans, we'd love for them to come, cherishing the ideas of freedom and liberty.

00:52:28.000 And those who want socialism and communism and hate America can go to the countries that also hate America.

00:52:32.000 It's like, you know, we gotta disproportionate, we gotta have like a prisoner swap or a population swap, right? 0.52

00:52:37.000 That's the joke.

00:52:38.000 Yeah.

00:52:39.000 I mean, one can only dream, though.

00:52:40.000 It's not a joke.

00:52:43.000 You know, here's what I'll say.

00:52:44.000 I've said it before.

00:52:45.000 I have infinitely more respect for the Honduran who says, I'm going to travel, you know, thousands of miles through desert, risking my life because America is awesome, as opposed to these leftists in the United States who are like, America is evil and wrong and colonial.

00:52:59.000 That being said, jumping the line over someone who has the same belief and says, America is awesome.

00:53:04.000 I'm going to do it right.

00:53:06.000 I would prefer the people waiting in line, believing in America, be the ones allowed in.

00:53:10.000 Well, you know that if they believe in the rule of law, they're gonna come, they're gonna do their dead best to be a good citizen.

00:53:16.000 It's just that simple.

00:53:17.000 Just that simple.

00:53:18.000 Yeah, and for the most part, this isn't the case 100% of the time, and I'm speaking anecdotally, but when I meet legal immigrants, they tend to be very patriotic people who lean conservative, and they really do not like illegal immigration.

00:53:29.000 They don't.

00:53:30.000 And Seamus, I speak, a lot of people don't know this, but I speak Spanish.

00:53:34.000 So when I'm down on the border, we talk about a request for asylum.

00:53:39.000 You know, when you talk to those families down there, many of them through tears, especially the ladies, it breaks your heart.

00:53:44.000 The mama's got a little baby or maybe a three-year-old, five-year-old, some of them have three kids with them. 0.94

00:53:48.000 When you speak to them, you say, you know, why are you here?

00:53:50.000 What are you doing?

00:53:51.000 They're not talking about asylum.

00:53:52.000 I'm afraid for you.

00:53:54.000 Tengo miedo.

00:53:54.000 I have fear.

00:53:55.000 They're saying, yo necesito trabajo.

00:53:58.000 I need a job.

00:53:59.000 And that's their claim.

00:54:01.000 And so you see that every single day on the border.

00:54:04.000 You know, what's really crazy to me is that several hundred years ago, people from all over the world, mostly Europeans, you know, they decided to get on boats because they needed jobs and they risked their lives on, you know, sailing for three months.

00:54:17.000 I think like, what, 20% of people on these ships from Europe to North America would die.

00:54:21.000 Of dysentery and stuff like that, yeah.

00:54:23.000 Yeah, of scurvy or whatever.

00:54:25.000 All those gross things.

00:54:25.000 And what happened when they made it here?

00:54:28.000 There was nothing.

00:54:29.000 They made their jobs.

00:54:30.000 Absolutely.

00:54:31.000 So they would just, you know, don't get me wrong, a lot of the early settlers nearly died and that's why we have Thanksgiving.

00:54:36.000 Cold winters.

00:54:37.000 Cold winters, bad man.

00:54:38.000 When Game of Thrones says winter is coming, people in the United States don't really understand what that means anymore because we have strawberries in the winter due to technology.

00:54:47.000 But it, you know, when we're talking about, you know, we've got chickens, we had a garden for a while, and we're thinking about how much food are we producing for ourselves, more as a hobby, how many eggs, how many berries, how many tomatoes, and then fall hits and we're like, zero, nothing.

00:55:02.000 The berries are no longer being produced.

00:55:05.000 The gardens are all just basically done and dead.

00:55:08.000 The chicken production drops dramatically.

00:55:09.000 We have some chickens that lay throughout.

00:55:10.000 And I thought to myself, like, man, if we did not have supermarkets with imported avocados from Mexico, and we were reliant on ourselves for food, what would we do?

00:55:20.000 Well, you go to Buffalo Wild Wings.

00:55:22.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:55:23.000 You drive through.

00:55:25.000 You climb mountains and you make it there.

00:55:27.000 You probably hunt.

00:55:28.000 You know, you hunt and prepare.

00:55:29.000 But most importantly, you'd store up food throughout the summer to prepare for the winter.

00:55:34.000 You know, that's a great point.

00:55:37.000 I want our kids to be learning this stuff.

00:55:38.000 They're not getting it in school.

00:55:40.000 And Virginia woke up, didn't they?

00:55:41.000 They kicked out a bunch of state legislators because of the way they treated school parents. 1.00

00:55:45.000 And you all saw, by the way, parenthetically, in New Jersey, Back in this last November, we unelected the top Democrat in New Jersey in the Senate.

00:55:55.000 A truck driver beat him, spent less than, what was it?

00:55:58.000 I don't know.

00:55:58.000 $100 or less than $1,000.

00:55:59.000 I don't know, $600 or $800.

00:56:00.000 I don't know if y'all saw that story.

00:56:03.000 A trucker beat him, and that was kind of good news and bad news.

00:56:05.000 The good news is, yes, we knocked out the top Democrat in New Jersey. 0.98

00:56:08.000 The bad news is, darn, we lost another trucker. 0.96

00:56:11.000 We got a trucker shortage. 0.98

00:56:12.000 But back to the kids.

00:56:14.000 They're not learning this stuff, and I went in to get my oil changed here a while back, and I thought this kid was very, you know, impersonable, that kind of stuff, personable.

00:56:22.000 And so I said, it was Thanksgiving.

00:56:24.000 I said, what's Thanksgiving, Bob?

00:56:26.000 He said, well, it's Thanksgiving.

00:56:28.000 He's about 21 or two years old.

00:56:30.000 He goes, Thanksgiving, you know, that's when we give thanks.

00:56:33.000 I said, well, sure, I get that, right.

00:56:35.000 I got that.

00:56:36.000 But do you know where the holiday, where it came from?

00:56:39.000 I said, who are we giving thanks to, for example?

00:56:42.000 If we're giving thanks, who are we giving thanks to?

00:56:44.000 He said, is it the Indians?

00:56:50.000 And I said, oh my gosh.

00:56:53.000 Bob, sit down, let me talk to you for just a minute.

00:56:54.000 And then I relayed to him the story of people coming over here and the fact that the Indians did help, you know, help them learn how to farm and raise stuff like we know.

00:57:04.000 But kids are not being taught the history of our country.

00:57:08.000 And so it's fascinating, you know, my point was so many people say, I need work.

00:57:13.000 And I wonder, you know, what can you do to just go and try and survive?

00:57:19.000 I guess the reality is, you know, we were talking about this in the members segment the other day, and it was, you know, I think it was fairly brutal and probably offensive to a lot of people.

00:57:29.000 We talk about what schools are doing to people's children in terms of indoctrination, and I would often say to parents and to people, you need to stand up for what you believe in if you're at a company and they're saying these things.

00:57:40.000 And people would always say like, oh, I can't risk losing my job because, you know, I have kids.

00:57:45.000 And I thought to myself, Would you be willing to sacrifice your kid to this indoctrination, this dogma, for the sake of comfort?

00:57:54.000 So when you see people come to you at the border and they say, I need a job, it's because a job in America means air conditioning, it means a refrigerator, it means clean running water.

00:58:05.000 And the reality of the world is that you would be digging a hole and making a fire and hunting a deer and having to find ways to survive from the ground up.

00:58:15.000 But because the United States is wealthy, people are coming here and what they're saying is, please let me share in your wealth.

00:58:21.000 I totally get it.

00:58:21.000 This country is awesome.

00:58:22.000 But there's a finite amount of wealth.

00:58:24.000 We don't have infinite resources.

00:58:26.000 So I wonder if what we really need to start doing for ourselves and for everybody is help teach people how to farm, how to develop, how to, you know... Farming, I think, is one of the most important things.

00:58:36.000 If people are having issues, can we help them be self-sufficient through education instead of just saying, come here and bask in the wealth?

00:58:43.000 Are you talking about giving money to other nations to teach them how to be self-sufficient?

00:58:46.000 Teach them how to farm?

00:58:47.000 Or do you want them to learn it and do it here?

00:58:50.000 Well, that's tough.

00:58:51.000 I would probably say setting up programs with our oversight in their countries to set up farming programs and not have people come here.

00:58:59.000 Well, we have a lot of NGOs that do that.

00:59:03.000 And they teach them how to have clean water and electricity.

00:59:07.000 Oh yeah, yeah.

00:59:08.000 I have friends who did stuff like that with Africa.

00:59:09.000 Yeah.

00:59:10.000 And it's, you know, giving them information on farming practices and crop rotation, how to set up wells and everything, does infinitely more.

00:59:21.000 You give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, you teach a man a fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

00:59:24.000 When you talk about we don't have infinite resources, and you're exactly right.

00:59:27.000 I remember, and this is what the left is doing.

00:59:29.000 They just want more and more people, bigger government, have the government dependent on them, and keep voting them in office.

00:59:34.000 There was a Scottish professor, I think the University of Edinburgh, in 17-something, who literally his name was Alexander Tytler who literally

00:59:44.000 said back then that democracy can only exist until the rank and file people discover they

00:59:49.000 can vote themselves funds from the general treasury. That's right. And when they do it's

00:59:53.000 over. And we're getting dangerously close.

00:59:56.000 That's right. Oh, I think we're past. Let me let me let me pull up the story we got from

00:59:59.000 simcast.com. Almost 400 gallons of gas stolen from North Carolina gas station.

01:00:06.000 This is but one specific moment, but it's part of a series of stories that I've been seeing throughout the past week or so, where people are showing up and stealing gas.

01:00:14.000 One of the craziest was that a van pulls up to a gas pump, and they have the intake on the ground, and the van had a trap door.

01:00:22.000 Pulls up to the pump, while they're pumping gas, they open the trap door and hook into the gas station's reservoir to steal gas.

01:00:30.000 Because gas prices are so high.

01:00:33.000 Now there's a meme.

01:00:34.000 I think, you know, whether you find it in good or bad taste, it's from when Kyle Rittenhouse was crying in court.

01:00:41.000 But now it's him at a gas station crying, holding up a gas pump, crying about the price of gas.

01:00:47.000 And you know why I like the meme?

01:00:48.000 Because it's people who don't like Kyle Rittenhouse making fun of Joe Biden and what's happening with gas in this country and all that stuff.

01:00:54.000 So I highlight this story just to show the level of strain that we're currently experiencing for a variety of reasons when it comes to energy.

01:01:02.000 And I want to give a reminder to everybody that when these climate change activists say they want to end fossil fuels, that pain you're feeling at the pump where you're joking about how you're crying as you spend $100 to fill your car up, It's going to be $200, $300 to fill your car up when the climate change activists get their way.

01:01:18.000 Now, now I'm not saying, I'm not, I'm not passing moral judgment on climate change activism.

01:01:22.000 I'm saying if you want fossil fuels to be done with, that's fine, but don't complain about, you know, 300 bucks to fill up your gas tank or you not driving anymore.

01:01:33.000 Well, look, you have to have fossil fuels for our military.

01:01:40.000 It's national security, a good energy supply.

01:01:43.000 And y'all may not know this, but Texas is number one wind energy state in the country.

01:01:46.000 We're number two in solar panels, right?

01:01:48.000 And we produce a lot of the nation's fuel, oil, and gas.

01:01:51.000 And I didn't say this earlier, but the Keystone Pipeline comes into my district.

01:01:55.000 It moves 830,000 barrels of crude a day.

01:01:58.000 Remember when the Colonial Pipeline System got hacked into last year?

01:02:01.000 I don't know, April or May?

01:02:02.000 It was a disaster.

01:02:03.000 The Southeast part of the United States, that pipeline system moves a little less than 3 million barrels of product a day.

01:02:11.000 So when the Colonial Pipeline System is 830,000 barrels, it's over one-fourth of the output of the Colonial Pipeline System coming into Texas so that we can refine it, we can sell oil, gasoline, produce jobs, whether it's jet fuel, whatever it might be.

01:02:27.000 The Biden people shut that down on day one.

01:02:30.000 We wouldn't be in such a bad straight with Ukraine if the fossil fuel people hadn't been doing such a number on, I mean the anti-fossil fuels. 0.95

01:02:38.000 They hate it.

01:02:38.000 It may just be me, but can you power a jet fighter plane with a solar panel?

01:02:43.000 I don't think so.

01:02:44.000 Well, let's talk about that disaster that happened when Texas froze over.

01:02:49.000 Absolutely.

01:02:49.000 And we had the mainstream media saying, oh, the freeze did not affect wind energy.

01:02:53.000 They're lying.

01:02:54.000 We had people on the right saying, well, the wind turbines were struggling to work in the cold.

01:02:58.000 So can you tell us a bit about how that disaster happened?

01:03:01.000 Absolutely.

01:03:01.000 You hear the term ERCOT, Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

01:03:05.000 There's nine electric grids in the United States.

01:03:07.000 Texas has its own.

01:03:08.000 Did I mention in Texas things were bigger and better?

01:03:13.000 85% of the state is under ERCOT, the other 50%, which a lot of it's in my district, by the way, Energy Company, which does a great job.

01:03:23.000 So, again, growing up 20-mile radius, 68 years, I've never seen it be 18 degrees in Galveston.

01:03:30.000 So there was a lot of fossil fuel plants, natural gas, we have a lot of natural gas, that were shut down normally in the wintertime for maintenance, right?

01:03:38.000 Because our biggest supply for need for electricity is in the summer.

01:03:43.000 Summers in Texas are hot, you know what I mean?

01:03:46.000 And so they shut down for maintenance.

01:03:48.000 It was so cold that a lot of those plants who weren't set up for frozen pipes because it doesn't get that cold, some of their water system froze and then they couldn't keep pumping, even the ones that weren't down for maintenance.

01:03:58.000 Windmills did break.

01:04:00.000 And here's a little bit of the technical part.

01:04:02.000 ERCOT has to manage the electricity on the grid.

01:04:05.000 It goes by Hertz cycles, 60 Hertz cycles.

01:04:08.000 And I don't remember the exact number, but if after all of this power consumption is being done, If it starts dropping down to 59 point something or whatever it is, if it gets to a certain degree, then it'll backfeed and it'll burn the windings in the generators in the systems that are online.

01:04:26.000 Wow.

01:04:26.000 And so they've got to shut down neighborhoods and power grids without warning because they're watching it in real time.

01:04:32.000 They go, okay, we're 10 minutes away.

01:04:34.000 You can't email and you can't send out letters.

01:04:36.000 You can't phone call people.

01:04:36.000 You can't knock on doors.

01:04:38.000 That's what happened to us last year.

01:04:42.000 One of the things that would help with that would be—well, let me back up.

01:04:46.000 Nuclear power.

01:04:47.000 The left hates nuclear power.

01:04:49.000 If we had more— For no reason.

01:04:51.000 For no reason.

01:04:52.000 You want to talk about green energy?

01:04:55.000 It's zero-carbon emission energy.

01:04:57.000 It's safe.

01:04:59.000 It's remarkable how people watch Hollywood films and now they're like, I don't want clean, reliable energy.

01:05:05.000 It's remarkable.

01:05:06.000 But Sam, I saw the three-eyed cartoon fish on The Simpsons.

01:05:10.000 Oh yeah, that's a big help, right?

01:05:12.000 And the Soviets were doing an experiment which caused an explosion, so now none of us ever can have clean, reliable energy. 0.94

01:05:18.000 When I was in the Texas legislature, I had South Texas Nuclear Project in my district over in Matagorda County.

01:05:24.000 I took my staff in there in 2010, and we watched them with our own eyes change out spent fuel rods.

01:05:29.000 It was fascinating.

01:05:31.000 They do it cleanly, they do it safely, they're back up and running, Unit 1 and Unit 2.

01:05:36.000 And they're recycling the rods.

01:05:38.000 Well, they don't do it like France, and full disclosure, we don't do as good a job as France does, but we can learn that.

01:05:43.000 And think about how crazy it is.

01:05:45.000 We had Yucca Mountain set aside, and I've been to a nuclear waste facility in Andrews, Texas, and it's a waste control specialty, and they have a fantastic concrete, all the state-of-the-art stuff to put in low-level radiation waste.

01:05:59.000 And so we've got Yucca Mountain, which was designed to do that, where you could take it away from almost every town, every city, in a facility that was going to be run by the federal government, where it would be safe.

01:06:08.000 And so the Libs didn't want that. 1.00

01:06:10.000 The Democrats didn't want that.

01:06:12.000 They fought against it.

01:06:13.000 And so what do we do?

01:06:14.000 They store that, now they store spent nuclear waste right on site in all the neighborhoods.

01:06:20.000 Oh, that's so smart.

01:06:21.000 Well, let me, I'll make a few quick points.

01:06:23.000 The importance of nuclear power.

01:06:23.000 Sure.

01:06:25.000 So one of the challenges is that it's not always windy.

01:06:28.000 That's right.

01:06:28.000 Wind power sometimes can reduce, production gets reduced.

01:06:31.000 Often I will see wind turbines not even spinning.

01:06:34.000 When it comes to solar, at night, even issue.

01:06:36.000 I'm thinking the wind, the sun goes down at night.

01:06:38.000 That's right, it does.

01:06:40.000 So a lot of these renewable energies are intermittent in terms of the generation.

01:06:45.000 So fossil fuels is reliable, but so is nuclear power.

01:06:49.000 And nuclear power, it's fascinating because zero carbon emissions.

01:06:52.000 But for some reason, they reject it.

01:06:54.000 It makes me wonder if what you were saying before, they want you dependent upon them so they can stay in power.

01:06:59.000 They always want there to be a problem only they can fix.

01:07:02.000 Right.

01:07:02.000 Correct.

01:07:03.000 If you're watching the geopolitical thing going back to Russia and Ukraine right now, they've had a misinformation program going on against fossil fuel.

01:07:13.000 You know, the left has had it for a long time funneled by Russian money.

01:07:18.000 And the statistics are that Russia has increased their nuclear fleet by 30 percent, and Germany has cut theirs by 80 percent.

01:07:28.000 And now Europe is going to be dependent on Russia, and they've planned that all along, and their Russian disinformation program is trying to knock out our fossil fuels.

01:07:36.000 There's a lot of NGOs over here, and anti-fracking, anti-pipeline.

01:07:41.000 Anti-shell exploration.

01:07:45.000 NGOs, or call it what you want to call it, 501-3C.

01:07:49.000 501-C3.

01:07:50.000 I can do this.

01:07:53.000 And they've gotten money, it's been tracked, it's been documented.

01:07:56.000 I do have that story, we'll pull it up in a second though, but just exploring a little bit of energy as it pertains to Texas.

01:08:02.000 I'm confused as to what the complaint really was from the left as to what Texas did wrong.

01:08:08.000 It just seemed like the only real issue they had was exploit the crisis and claim we have

01:08:14.000 the solutions to it, when in reality it seems like a freak accident.

01:08:16.000 Let me tell you what I heard right off the bat.

01:08:19.000 As again, I've got the most energy, probably the most energy dominant sector.

01:08:24.000 Now there's production over in West Texas where they drill and they produce and they

01:08:28.000 send it down to pipelines, but we're ports and refineries and we export a lot of it.

01:08:32.000 People call me and say, Randy, this is a big problem.

01:08:34.000 This is why, you know, ERCOT shouldn't be allowed to control the Texas grid.

01:08:38.000 It ought to be the federal government, you know.

01:08:40.000 And I said, are you kidding me?

01:08:42.000 That sounds like a bad idea.

01:08:44.000 I said, we've got a state agency called ERCOT, and a lot of them live here, and they shop, their kids go to school, and they do all this stuff here, and you want some Washington bureaucrat?

01:08:53.000 This was out of their control.

01:08:54.000 We've never had this cold of a winter.

01:08:56.000 This is the perfect storm.

01:08:59.000 And the state agency, I mean, it was tough for them.

01:09:01.000 And the legislature, when they met, they went in and they did the things to harden that grid, so to speak.

01:09:07.000 You want to give it to some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C.?

01:09:10.000 No thank you.

01:09:11.000 Yeah, absolutely not.

01:09:12.000 I'll remind you that Randy is the leading minority.

01:09:15.000 He's the Republican ranking member on Energy Subcommittee for Science, Space and Technology.

01:09:21.000 So when the Republicans win in November, you're going to be the chairman.

01:09:24.000 I'll be the chairman of the Energy Subcommittee.

01:09:27.000 I just want to throw this in there.

01:09:29.000 I'm glad you brought Russia up because I find it really hilarious how all of the people who are against nuclear power and want to demonize it are also really comfortable with the idea of going to war with a nation that is armed with nukes.

01:09:40.000 It's so strange.

01:09:41.000 If we're talking about what's going to be more likely to result in nuclear annihilation.

01:09:45.000 It's frustrating.

01:09:46.000 Just give me the answer straight, you know, if someone so here here

01:09:49.000 This is what I was saying before if someone comes to me and they say, you know, I don't like fossil fuels carbon

01:09:54.000 emissions are bad I'll say okay

01:09:56.000 But gas is gonna be extremely expensive for the average person the average person won't be able to commute

01:10:00.000 Then they start saying oh, that's not true. And they just lie. They lie

01:10:03.000 I had somebody on Facebook saying, you know I have no problem paying five dollars a gallon for gas

01:10:08.000 because I have a clean conscience and and Ukraine is the suffering 0.99

01:10:12.000 And then I talk about how Biden is causing this and they just lie.

01:10:16.000 No, he's not.

01:10:16.000 Biden actually has no ability to change the prices.

01:10:18.000 And I'm like, he ended these oil and gas leases over climate change lawsuits.

01:10:23.000 He's shut down Keystone, which is going to affect supply and demand.

01:10:27.000 He's absolutely had an impact on these things.

01:10:29.000 Strategic oil reserves, he has a lot of power to change these things.

01:10:33.000 He's absolutely responsible, not for literally everything, but as our leader, and his actions, yes.

01:10:38.000 But people lie, they lie.

01:10:39.000 That's what I can't stand.

01:10:40.000 They also don't know how dirty it is to actually produce the green energy.

01:10:45.000 They have no idea how much, like, how these rechargeable batteries and things like that, they sit there.

01:10:52.000 Well, here's one.

01:10:55.000 Someone posted, there's a meme going around.

01:10:57.000 It's been on Twitter and Facebook and it says, the cost to produce wind energy has gone up zero dollars and zero cents since the war in Russia and Ukraine.

01:11:04.000 I said, that's not true.

01:11:05.000 The cost of petrol lubricants for these have gone up.

01:11:08.000 You're lying.

01:11:09.000 Stop lying to me.

01:11:10.000 Just tell me the truth.

01:11:11.000 I can't take it.

01:11:12.000 So not only that, Tim, but think about this.

01:11:14.000 In our ports, did I mention we've got seven ports more than the other member of Congress?

01:11:17.000 Yeah.

01:11:18.000 And by the way, we have strategic petroleum reserves, about 60% of the nation's.

01:11:23.000 And why is that called strategic petroleum reserves?

01:11:26.000 It's in our district because it's strategic.

01:11:28.000 You want to keep that oil there until you need it for a strategic reason.

01:11:32.000 Don't just release it so you want to try to get out underneath owning the fact that you've increased the price of fuel.

01:11:42.000 I will say, releasing it didn't even do anything to drive down prices anyway.

01:11:48.000 Windmills come through our ports, and guess what they come on the back of when they get moved from the port into the 18-wheelers?

01:11:57.000 And guess what 18-wheelers burn?

01:11:59.000 Oh, I know, diesel.

01:12:00.000 I have no problem saying that wind turbines are fantastic, in my opinion.

01:12:05.000 Texas is number one wind energy.

01:12:06.000 It's awesome.

01:12:07.000 But just stop lying to me about everything.

01:12:10.000 Wind is not an end-all be-all solution.

01:12:12.000 We need, when it comes to solar and wind, we need massive battery, industrial-sized battery systems for storage.

01:12:19.000 Rare earth minerals, where are we going to get those?

01:12:21.000 You know, well, Alaska.

01:12:23.000 Yeah.

01:12:23.000 Well, Alaska does, Africa some, but right now China.

01:12:25.000 A lot of the components are from our, oh, I don't know, our friends in China.

01:12:29.000 Oh, yeah.

01:12:29.000 Yep, yep.

01:12:30.000 And rare earths actually aren't necessarily rare.

01:12:33.000 We just need to start being self-sufficient in the United States.

01:12:36.000 How about making it easier to drill, easier to dig, permits to mine?

01:12:40.000 How about the federal government move out of the way and let entrepreneurs and companies do their job? 0.85

01:12:45.000 You know, I feel like it's because for a lot of these Democrats, they need to make sure there's a problem that they can only be the ones to solve.

01:12:52.000 And we're heavily subsidizing the green energy industry in general, where they were supposed to not have their subsidies renewed, and yet they came back to us a second time and asked to have them renewed.

01:13:05.000 So we're paying for that.

01:13:06.000 If it is sustainable and it is what society demands and what the market demands, then we shouldn't have to be subsidizing them.

01:13:13.000 Let's pull up this story from Town Hall from March 9th, my birthday just past week.

01:13:17.000 Russia funneled cash to anti-fossil fuel climate extremists 2018 report.

01:13:25.000 They say as the cost of a gallon of gas continues to break state and national records, many are criticizing President Biden for taking an energy independent United States and putting the country in the position of relying upon foreign powers to meet American consumers demand.

01:13:38.000 In addition to the pain being felt by Americans at the pump, it's also become clear that being energy-dependent is a national security liability when foes around the world, such as Russia, China, Iran, et al., get antsy or start an all-out war.

01:13:51.000 Conservatives rightly point to radical environmentalists, unhinged anti-fracking and anti-pipeline activists, and Democrat officials including Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, Sanders, and AOC as the driving force behind anti-fossil fuel protests.

01:14:03.000 Just a few years ago, through a congressional investigation into Russian interference in U.S.

01:14:06.000 politics, revealed evidence that Russia had a role going back more than a decade now in the radical campaign to get the U.S.

01:14:13.000 and other Western countries to shift away from fossil fuels, a goal much like one of Biden's Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm stated last week.

01:14:20.000 Now, the first thing I want to say is I'm very skeptical when it comes to the Russian collusion, the Russia influence and stuff.

01:14:28.000 But that's, it's fair to say we know that Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, even smaller countries are constantly playing these propagandistic moves.

01:14:38.000 My question is, as we're learning about this, is it actually that severe?

01:14:42.000 Is Russia actually having an impact in the United States to the point where it's going to cause us to become energy dependent?

01:14:50.000 Or is it marginal?

01:14:52.000 Well, I'm not sure what effect Russia's having on it, but it is very telling which side of this issue they're on.

01:14:57.000 Because they're not exactly interested.

01:14:59.000 They want us to buy their oil.

01:15:01.000 That's exactly what I was going to say.

01:15:03.000 So when it was Russia, Russia, Russia with Trump, right?

01:15:05.000 What was the incentive for wanting him in there, right?

01:15:09.000 There was no incentive for them to want Trump to be the next president.

01:15:13.000 Yeah, it made no sense.

01:15:13.000 It made no sense.

01:15:14.000 In fact, there was an incentive for them not to want him to be president.

01:15:20.000 But this, there is real incentive there.

01:15:22.000 They want us to buy their oil.

01:15:23.000 And we did.

01:15:24.000 The moment Trump gets out, we go from being a net exporter to an importer.

01:15:28.000 That's right.

01:15:29.000 We were energy independent, and we should be energy dominant.

01:15:33.000 We should be the number one.

01:15:35.000 Look, y'all are way too young to remember.

01:15:37.000 I was around in 1973 when the Saudis taught us about oil embargoes.

01:15:43.000 And you talked about in some of your talks earlier about somebody wants to relive or

01:15:47.000 bring back the oil export ban.

01:15:50.000 And we're saying, look, that means jobs.

01:15:53.000 I actually voted for that in 2015, in December 2015, got beat up for it a little bit.

01:15:59.000 But we want to be sure we export bans.

01:16:01.000 Russia disinformation was happening in the campaign earlier.

01:16:05.000 We all know that.

01:16:06.000 It's just the Democrats had brought that out.

01:16:09.000 Listen, what they took to the FISA court, some of those activists in the FBI.

01:16:13.000 My son's an FBI agent, as I said earlier.

01:16:15.000 Most of them, almost all of them great, but there was a few activists at the top of the chain there in the FBI.

01:16:21.000 What they did by lying to a federal court, the FISA court, if you and I brought information to any kind of court and signed off that it was right, they knew it wasn't, we would be under the jailhouse.

01:16:34.000 So that Russia collusion has kind of stuck in people's craw for a long time, but when we discovered this in 2017, Lamar Smith and I wrote a letter right then to Steve Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, and said, look, there's some money laundering going on here.

01:16:48.000 You need to check into it.

01:16:50.000 And there's a lot of facts that show shell companies in Bermuda that have been moving money over into Sierra Club, for example, Seachains.

01:16:59.000 There's a whole bunch of clubs that get them. 0.84

01:17:01.000 I've got a list here in my notes.

01:17:03.000 And they literally are funding some of the stuff going on over there.

01:17:06.000 That's a fact.

01:17:07.000 You can't deny it.

01:17:08.000 And look at this, look at this photo that Town Hall has.

01:17:10.000 Look at that smile as Joe Biden shakes the hand of Vladimir Putin.

01:17:13.000 Well, that proves it.

01:17:14.000 That proves they're colluding.

01:17:15.000 This is what they did so much of with Trump.

01:17:18.000 They showed Trump next to Putin.

01:17:20.000 Oh, yeah. 1.00

01:17:20.000 Yeah, like Biden just looks like, smiling like an idiot, and Putin just looks really, really... Putin looks like he's like... No, hold on. 1.00

01:17:30.000 Joe Biden looks like Beavis. 1.00

01:17:31.000 He actually does!

01:17:33.000 He does.

01:17:33.000 Come on, man!

01:17:36.000 Did you see that one video?

01:17:37.000 Come on, butthead, man! 0.93

01:17:38.000 He does.

01:17:39.000 He looks like Beavis.

01:17:40.000 There was that one video of Trump shaking Putin's hand and, like, pulling him in.

01:17:44.000 Oh, he does that.

01:17:45.000 Yeah, he does that.

01:17:46.000 He would shake their hand and then pull everybody.

01:17:48.000 Yeah, like, assert your dominance.

01:17:50.000 That's not what's happening there.

01:17:51.000 Who was the one person?

01:17:52.000 I think Trudeau, like, pushed his leg out and then didn't let Trump do it.

01:17:57.000 And then all the left was like, yeah, go Trudeau!

01:17:59.000 And they were cheering or whatever.

01:18:00.000 Yeah, I wonder what they're thinking about him today.

01:18:02.000 I wonder what those same truckers think.

01:18:05.000 They still keep defending people like that.

01:18:08.000 So I think it's fair to point out, as we previously mentioned, Putin has a real reason to incentivize the United States to get off of fossil fuels so that we become dependent upon them.

01:18:18.000 It's not hard to know.

01:18:20.000 We also have natural gas in Europe as well.

01:18:22.000 Has there been any indication that they're doing similar practices in Europe?

01:18:26.000 Oh, absolutely.

01:18:27.000 The actual campaign went against fossil fuels in terms of fracking, in terms of LNG, everything that they did in Europe and they're doing over here.

01:18:38.000 Now, my district, as you know, exports LNG and they look for 20-year contracts.

01:18:44.000 And so when they contract with a country like Poland and some of the others, it's a long-term contract.

01:18:49.000 Putin is seeing that.

01:18:51.000 He doesn't want that.

01:18:52.000 LNG is a bit esoteric.

01:18:53.000 So just once again, for anyone who's liquefied, liquefied natural gas.

01:18:57.000 Yeah, well, that's Nord Stream 2 right there doing liquefied natural gas from Russia to Germany.

01:19:03.000 And the interesting thing is the CEO of Nord Stream 2 is a friend of who knew Putin, one of his confidants.

01:19:11.000 Yep.

01:19:11.000 Right.

01:19:11.000 And even of Gazprom, one of the top, one of the top officials of Gazprom is a friend of Putin's.

01:19:18.000 I think they have ties back to not the 90s when they were together in the mayor's office.

01:19:22.000 I gotta I gotta I gotta ask you about Joe Biden and Burisma.

01:19:27.000 I mean, you seem to be one of the experts on energy, if not the expert.

01:19:30.000 And so you take a look at what's happening with, you know, Donald Trump, Ukrainegate, Burisma, Hunter Biden on the laptop story.

01:19:37.000 Yeah.

01:19:38.000 My view of this, because I've been following these stories for, you know, almost a decade, with the Qatar-Turkey pipeline, Syria, Assad, and of course the U.S.

01:19:46.000 trying to, I should say the West, wanting to offset Russia's control of natural gas through Ukraine.

01:19:50.000 You've got gas coming through Israel, you could come up through Cyprus, and there's a lot of discussion about that too.

01:19:55.000 So, uh, what's the religion?

01:19:58.000 Is there something going on?

01:19:59.000 Was there something going on with the U. S. Burisma in attempting to shut down Russia's, you know, control with, you know, that's one thing I'm not familiar with.

01:20:06.000 I started hearing first hearing about that with with the Biden thing when literally Joe Biden 100 Biden.

01:20:13.000 And, by the way, I know they're concerned because with Ukraine in a heck of a mess it is now, I mean, does that mean Hunter Biden's salary is getting cut?

01:20:21.000 But any investigation about that was shut down.

01:20:24.000 His check bounced.

01:20:24.000 Right.

01:20:27.000 Well, and look, Joe Biden, you know, he did this on a video.

01:20:31.000 He said, you know what?

01:20:31.000 I told him that if they didn't fire this guy that was investigating that company, he said, they don't get the $1 billion.

01:20:36.000 That's right.

01:20:37.000 And SOB, bleep!

01:20:38.000 You know, what do you know?

01:20:39.000 Six hours later, he was fired.

01:20:42.000 It really does feel to me like, you know, I think there's NATO's interest in getting cheaper gas into Europe.

01:20:49.000 And then I feel like Biden was looking to wet his whistle.

01:20:52.000 He thought, hey, look, here's my opportunity.

01:20:55.000 It's in the U.S. 0.68

01:20:55.000 interest to do this, but I'm going to make some money off it. 0.68

01:20:57.000 Germany's really intertwined in all this, too.

01:21:00.000 They have this, like, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and they are affiliated with Democratic Socialists, and they have an office in New York.

01:21:08.000 And they hold these training sessions on how to, like— Protest pipelines and fracking and the whole nine yards.

01:21:14.000 And they also do—they team up with SeaChange and the Sierra Club.

01:21:18.000 So then there's this guy, Ben Beachy, who works for the Sierra Club.

01:21:22.000 Who's he meeting with on the Hill lately?

01:21:24.000 AOC, Jayapal, all of them.

01:21:26.000 And then you go to his social media, he's at every single Antifa protest.

01:21:31.000 Every single one.

01:21:32.000 I wonder if AOC, you know, is aware of what the ramifications of her advocacy would mean.

01:21:38.000 I like to shout out Greta Thunberg.

01:21:41.000 You know, everyone's, you know, how dare you?

01:21:44.000 Because she has that quote where she said, we don't want to wait until 2030 or 2023.

01:21:49.000 We want to end fossil fuels now.

01:21:51.000 How many people would you estimate will die overnight if we immediately just shut off fossil fuels?

01:21:57.000 Oh my gosh.

01:21:57.000 60 million?

01:21:58.000 You know, just think of the cold winters up north.

01:22:02.000 And you know, New York doesn't, by the way, the state of New York doesn't buy LNG from America.

01:22:07.000 They buy it from Russia.

01:22:08.000 Wow, really? 1.00

01:22:10.000 We call it the dirty Putin. Wait, wait, wait. So so now that we've banned imports from Russia 1.00

01:22:14.000 New York is in trouble that that you were sure to hope so you bitchin 1.00

01:22:18.000 Well, you can't trust the Biden administration. They may have carved out an exception 0.94

01:22:22.000 You don't I mean but think about it and not only that but we generate electricity with it in the south

01:22:27.000 So people could die from no air conditioning in the south in the summertime when it's 100 degrees

01:22:31.000 Diabetics instantly, because insulin has got to be refrigerated.

01:22:35.000 People can't drive to work.

01:22:36.000 Food spoils.

01:22:37.000 Oxygen.

01:22:38.000 Hospitals.

01:22:39.000 Those who are on dialysis machines.

01:22:43.000 I don't think the squad gets it, and I told my wife that we ought to call them the Odd Squad, and she said, don't tell people that.

01:22:50.000 I love it.

01:22:52.000 You just did.

01:22:54.000 So if you want to say that, it's Randy Webber.

01:22:55.000 He always does it when he's not supposed to do it.

01:22:58.000 I'm not supposed to say they're the Odd Squad.

01:23:00.000 That's what I'm saying, yeah.

01:23:01.000 But I really do wonder if...

01:23:05.000 I'm of the opinion that Ocasio-Cortez absolutely knows people will die, and she doesn't care.

01:23:12.000 Because these are not the kind of people that would come on a show like this and actually have a sit-down conversation about those things.

01:23:18.000 She's not the kind of person... I mean, look, when she told the story on January 6th, When she told the story of January 6th, she completely fabricated it.

01:23:26.000 And just, I have to tell everybody every time this comes up, but she said there's a knock on her door and she went in the bathroom and she heard someone say, where is she?

01:23:35.000 And she thought to herself, they made it in.

01:23:38.000 The issue was that incident happened an hour before anyone breached the Capitol building.

01:23:44.000 Her office is in our building, just so you know.

01:23:46.000 So her office is in our building.

01:23:49.000 No, no, for sure.

01:23:50.000 And it didn't happen at all the way.

01:23:51.000 But what happened was when conservatives pointed that out, the media said, yes, but there are tunnels.

01:23:56.000 So AOC being scared was reasonable.

01:23:58.000 And I said, no, it wasn't.

01:23:59.000 Because her story happened a full hour before anyone even knew the building was going to be breached.

01:24:05.000 Yeah.

01:24:05.000 Which means if there's no possible way she was in her office thinking to herself, they made it here.

01:24:09.000 She made that up.

01:24:10.000 Unless she was colluding with those who were breaking in.

01:24:12.000 Absolutely.

01:24:13.000 The only tunnel they could have gotten through, through the Capitol, would be the Cannon Tunnel, which was immediately the first thing they shut down.

01:24:19.000 So not true.

01:24:20.000 So the whole story's fabricated.

01:24:21.000 And when you hear things like that, I just assume she makes things up.

01:24:27.000 So it's possible that she doesn't know what she's talking about when it comes to climate, and she's just saying whatever she needs to say.

01:24:32.000 That's what I believe.

01:24:33.000 But it's also possible she's completely aware of what it would mean to just shut off fossil fuels and do what she's planning on doing.

01:24:38.000 I mean, the whole Green New Deal... Look, when the Green New Deal was first being proposed, it was a bit vague.

01:24:45.000 It was this idea of government investing in green energy.

01:24:49.000 And in my opinion, I'm like, that sounds fantastic.

01:24:51.000 American energy independence through renewable, we're not talking about getting rid of fossil fuels, we're talking about Bolstering our technology, maybe even fusion power?

01:25:00.000 What did we get?

01:25:01.000 The bill was social justice, free college, free healthcare, and get rid of farting cows. 0.75

01:25:06.000 Well, she's the boss, Tim.

01:25:07.000 You remember that?

01:25:08.000 No one else is proposing ideas.

01:25:09.000 I'm the boss right now.

01:25:10.000 Oh, right, right.

01:25:11.000 But you know what she did that was smart that, like, Republicans I don't seem to always do is that she messaged it and messaged it and messaged it when she was She had no power. 0.52

01:25:20.000 She was a freshman in Congress, right?

01:25:22.000 She got it in the minds of every single person out there through the young people and all, and then now, they had to do something with it.

01:25:29.000 So it has evolved over time, and that's why organizations like Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and these people that are doing this propaganda are latching onto that and filling it, filling that with terrible substance because she doesn't have it on her own. 0.50

01:25:42.000 I just want to say, I feel like if you took the average American who votes Democrat and just sat them down with, say, you, Randy, and AOC, they'd be voting Republican after half an hour.

01:25:52.000 Or they'd be calling him racist and not listening.

01:25:53.000 No, I don't think so.

01:25:54.000 You don't think so?

01:25:55.000 I hope you're right.

01:25:56.000 There are culty people who just want to fit in.

01:25:58.000 I'm talking about your regular working class person who says, I need to feed my kids. 0.84

01:26:03.000 Fair enough.

01:26:04.000 Conversations like this, we don't see them.

01:26:06.000 These people don't come on the show.

01:26:07.000 We've invited many people on the left.

01:26:09.000 It's hard to get.

01:26:10.000 What we end up getting is mock offers from leftist personalities who want to just troll us.

01:26:16.000 Sometimes we do have more left-leaning personalities who are willing to come on the show, and they'll argue with us, but for the most part, it's a very serious concern.

01:26:23.000 Greta Thunberg said, shut down fossil fuels right now. 1.00

01:26:26.000 That would result in 60 million or so dead.

01:26:29.000 What's your proposal?

01:26:30.000 You never get an answer to those questions because they're not willing to answer them on these shows.

01:26:34.000 I don't think they're genuine people, which is why I say you take a regular person, you take AOC, you take Randy, you put them in a room, and they're gonna walk out and be like, I didn't get any answers from the left.

01:26:42.000 Yeah, I mean, you're right.

01:26:43.000 From the perspective of these left-wing activists, they have no reason to justify any of their positions.

01:26:47.000 They're just correct, as was summarized by AOC when she said people will criticize you for being factually inaccurate when you're morally correct.

01:26:55.000 Oh, yeah, that was great, wasn't it?

01:26:57.000 Yeah.

01:26:57.000 So are you saying when you say the lefties won't come on, so Chris Cuomo hasn't accepted your invitation?

01:27:04.000 Well, I'm actually I would assume, first of all, with Chris Cuomo, he's he's he's probably too big.

01:27:09.000 You know, he doesn't care.

01:27:10.000 He's getting paid millions of dollars.

01:27:12.000 Now he's doing a suit.

01:27:12.000 And we're not fans of his.

01:27:14.000 He probably wouldn't want to come on just because, you know, we've been, you know, very, very like opposed to him.

01:27:22.000 Well, and you're telling things like it is.

01:27:24.000 Did I mention people ought to be sharing this program?

01:27:29.000 I'll give you a really good example.

01:27:31.000 Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks or Anna Kasparian, for instance.

01:27:33.000 I understand they do their own show.

01:27:35.000 It's a fair point to say they have no time to come out here to the East Coast and come on our show when they do their own show.

01:27:41.000 However, they go out of their way often to misrepresent our views and lie about us.

01:27:47.000 Just today, the Daily Beast wrote a fake story about Tulsi Gabbard as well as me.

01:27:51.000 It was Jared Holt, who used to work for Right Wing Watch.

01:27:55.000 He just wrote a fabricated narrative falsely accusing us of pushing a Q conspiracy about biolabs in Ukraine.

01:28:01.000 When all we did here on the show was say, wow, Victoria Nuland testified before the Senate that she was concerned about these biolabs. 0.87

01:28:07.000 And then they try and make it seem like we're pushing weird conspiracies about Vladimir Putin, stopping weapons or something, which we never did.

01:28:13.000 And so when you, so we've invited Jared Holt on the show several times.

01:28:17.000 He won't do it.

01:28:18.000 He won't come on the show.

01:28:19.000 And I think it's because he knows He will be absolutely eviscerated in terms of the facts.

01:28:26.000 They're able to stand in their ivory tower shouting down lies to the masses.

01:28:29.000 They have no reason to come here and be proven wrong.

01:28:32.000 And you know Victoria Nuland was a holdover from Obama, right?

01:28:34.000 Oh yeah, yeah.

01:28:36.000 Yeah, so she testified.

01:28:37.000 Ukraine has biolabs and there's a fear that if Russia gets a hold of them, you know, there could be problems.

01:28:44.000 And that's what we said.

01:28:45.000 In fact, what we did say as well was we said the maps showing Russian attacks and biolabs don't even sync up. 0.73

01:28:52.000 And yet, the Daily Beast publishes a story accusing Tulsi Gabbard, me, Tucker Carlson, of pushing lies in line with the Kremlin for simply citing Victoria Nuland.

01:29:04.000 These people won't come on and be proven wrong.

01:29:06.000 Which is why I say, if you sat down with them, and here's the fascinating thing too, you're sitting here saying Texas is the win state, number one you said, right?

01:29:15.000 Yes, sir.

01:29:16.000 That's great news to many of these people on the left.

01:29:17.000 Texas is doing a fantastic job in terms of renewable, but you've got some honest points to make.

01:29:21.000 You need year-round energy to be available and wind can't be all of that.

01:29:26.000 That's right.

01:29:27.000 But they don't want to hear it.

01:29:29.000 And we know that some of the elements in the wind energy system, especially if we're talking about batteries and solar panels and stuff, the left hates nuclear because they don't want to do with the waste.

01:29:42.000 They killed Yucca Mountain, even though that was a great design.

01:29:46.000 And so wind energy has waste.

01:29:48.000 At some point in time, there's going to be something that's got to be done something with.

01:29:51.000 Batteries are the same way.

01:29:53.000 If you've ever had a car with a battery that needed to be replaced, guess what?

01:29:56.000 There's gonna be something done with it.

01:29:58.000 And it's really difficult to deal with these large, massive electric car batteries.

01:30:02.000 It is.

01:30:03.000 And it's also, where do they think the electricity comes from for these electric cars?

01:30:07.000 The fascinating thing is...

01:30:09.000 You know, I really wish these people would take Energy Economics 101, the basic beginning, so they can understand things like energy return on energy invested.

01:30:20.000 They can understand the root of all energy and human economy.

01:30:25.000 I watched this really great documentary.

01:30:27.000 And it starts off in, you know, tribal caveman era.

01:30:30.000 And it said, the first form of energy utilized by man was man's own energy.

01:30:34.000 Using his own arms to run, to hunt.

01:30:39.000 And then we started using tools and leverage.

01:30:41.000 Then we started, at some point, lumber.

01:30:44.000 Burning wood.

01:30:45.000 And burning wood allowed us to do things.

01:30:46.000 Then we had coal.

01:30:48.000 Then, you know, we apply coal to, say, steam for motion.

01:30:51.000 Develop the wheel in order to move things, right?

01:30:54.000 It was talking about.

01:30:55.000 I'm sorry.

01:30:56.000 I skipped over animals.

01:30:58.000 So humans use their own hands.

01:30:59.000 Then they started using basic tools for leverage.

01:31:01.000 But then they used animal energy.

01:31:03.000 Cows could eat.

01:31:04.000 Oxen could eat grass and then pull something they couldn't pull.

01:31:08.000 Eventually they figured out how to burn, you know, carbon, then eventually coal, then eventually we discover petroleum, which was massively energy dense nuclear energy.

01:31:17.000 And so we're constantly trying to find ways to maximize energy output with minimal energy input.

01:31:23.000 And that's energy return on energy invested, which they don't understand any of these concepts.

01:31:28.000 And especially the investment part of it.

01:31:29.000 You know, when you've got a federal government that's so anti-fossil fuel, making it so hard for people to invest money, and I don't care whether it's a windmill farm, whether it's a nuclear facility, whether it's a gas-fired power plant, when you've got to jump through all the hoops and all the regulations, and it takes two or three years to plan something, they're making it hard to build energy.

01:31:50.000 And you've got China out there, depends on whose numbers you're using, making a coal plant a week, a month, whatever it is.

01:31:56.000 I don't know if you know the answer, but nuclear has the highest energy return on energy invested?

01:32:01.000 Is it nuclear?

01:32:02.000 Might be petroleum.

01:32:03.000 It's going to depend on the market value at any given point in time.

01:32:07.000 Right.

01:32:08.000 But I will tell you that for nuclear, to go in and put in a nuclear system, a facility, it's billions of dollars.

01:32:15.000 Now, so the payback's going to stretch way out, and when you're an investor and you're looking at those things, and the federal government's making it extremely hard for you on the front end to even get a permit, let's just say in two years, I don't want to necessarily wait that long.

01:32:27.000 I should probably give an understanding of, was it E-R-O-I-E-I or whatever, for people who don't understand, it's basically fracking for a long time produced less energy than we put into it.

01:32:39.000 It was not worth producing it.

01:32:40.000 The investment wouldn't come back out of it.

01:32:42.000 And then once gas prices started to become higher and higher, all of a sudden we could put in the energy to get energy back.

01:32:49.000 So what this means is, if you spend, let's do it by hours, it's a really easy way to understand it.

01:32:54.000 If it takes you 100 hours to get a wind turbine up, but that wind turbine can only produce 101 hours of energy, it's a very, very weak return on building this massive structure.

01:33:05.000 So you're using petroleum energy to get back even one.

01:33:09.000 I think a lot of these renewables actually have a negative return.

01:33:13.000 So, we're having solar installed at our new facility, and we're looking at, I think it's 30 or 40 years before we generate enough energy to cover the energy required to make the panels and the batteries.

01:33:26.000 So, we use oil to run the machines that make the solar and the batteries, and that system cannot generate more energy than the oil that was put into it.

01:33:35.000 It's convenient for us that if the power goes out, we will have backup power.

01:33:40.000 It's convenient for us that we can generate our own power on a sunny day, but it takes oil energy to give us that convenience.

01:33:47.000 Hopefully in the future, we're at a point where we can use wind energy to charge electric vehicles and factories to build more wind energy, but that's one of the big challenges we face.

01:33:58.000 Don't think about all the stuff that was built in that scenario you just laid out.

01:34:01.000 If you're building up silt and they're bringing huge solar panels, it's gonna be carried by a diesel truck that uses diesel.

01:34:06.000 Maybe we'll do Cybertruck.

01:34:08.000 Maybe we'll have Elon Musk delivered by Cybertruck powered by solar panels.

01:34:14.000 But certainly we're decades away from anything like that.

01:34:16.000 I'll be long gone by then.

01:34:19.000 Yeah.

01:34:20.000 Right?

01:34:20.000 We're gonna miss you.

01:34:21.000 I do think that the challenges that Just oil is so massively energy-dense, which provides a great opportunity.

01:34:31.000 The discovery and implementation of oil, you can see it in human population expansion.

01:34:34.000 It was just massive.

01:34:35.000 Well, here's the other thing, too, Tim.

01:34:37.000 We have been good, and look, fossil fuel in and of itself is not the enemy.

01:34:42.000 We can produce energy cleanly from fossil fuel.

01:34:46.000 In fact, I was on the Environmental Regulatory Committee in the state of Texas, I mentioned earlier, and we oversaw a lot of the emissions in Texas.

01:34:53.000 You know, we have our own facility, TCERQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in Texas.

01:34:59.000 It's the second largest environmental regulatory agency in the country, second only to the EPA.

01:35:04.000 and we do a good job of monitoring our things in Texas. We were reducing emissions. When you've

01:35:09.000 got when we kill our if the left gets their way and they kill fossil fuel I'm sure that when we

01:35:15.000 kill our fossil fuel industry then China's going to follow suit, India's going to follow suit, 0.95

01:35:20.000 Mexico's going to follow suit, Russia's going to follow suit. No, we can produce energy cleanly.

01:35:26.000 And China doesn't produce energy as cleanly as we do.

01:35:28.000 Russia doesn't do it.

01:35:29.000 India doesn't do it. 0.98

01:35:30.000 Mexico doesn't do it. 0.95

01:35:31.000 They're major polluters. 1.00

01:35:33.000 And so why are we seeking to kill our energy industry over here when it'd be less than, I forget what the figure is, less than one one-hundredth of a percent of all the emissions in the world.

01:35:43.000 No, we need to be doing it as cleanly as we can, and it's national security, it's domestic security, it's economic security, and it's family security, quite frankly, because as you pointed out, they've got to be able to drive cars, go to the grocery store.

01:35:56.000 That's right.

01:35:56.000 Well, let's go to Super Chats.

01:35:58.000 If you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and get your Super Chats in now so we'll be reading as many as we can.

01:36:06.000 At around 11 or so p.m., we'll have a members-only segment of the podcast going up for everybody at TimCast.com.

01:36:12.000 And, uh, let's read some of your superchats.

01:36:13.000 The first superchat, can't read your name unfortunately, they say, why does Ian look like Seamus?

01:36:18.000 Uh, yeah.

01:36:18.000 I don't know what you're talking about.

01:36:20.000 Cut his hair at his age and a half.

01:36:21.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:36:22.000 There you go.

01:36:24.000 On St.

01:36:24.000 Patrick's Day, he didn't wear green and he just morphed into... Well, no, Ian wasn't wearing green and Seamus just, you know, just had to hit him, right?

01:36:32.000 That's what you do on St.

01:36:33.000 Patrick's Day?

01:36:33.000 That's kind of how it works, yeah.

01:36:34.000 I don't know if I'm wearing green either, but I don't have to.

01:36:36.000 Ian started crying and he ran and locked himself in his room.

01:36:39.000 Embarrassing.

01:36:40.000 Nah, Ian's sick, Ian's sick, but he'll be alright.

01:36:44.000 Alright, let's see.

01:36:45.000 Awesome Archivist says, Tim, I love your content, but I have one criticism.

01:36:48.000 Kids born 1996-2002 are completely different from those born in 2003-2013 because of the technological jump when the first iPhone came out.

01:36:57.000 That I totally understand, absolutely.

01:37:00.000 Alright, Eric Miller says, since Seamus is taking Ian's place, what are his thoughts on graphene and the Federal Reserve?

01:37:06.000 That's a really good question.

01:37:08.000 So, I have a graphene expert.

01:37:10.000 He's sick right now, but I will consult with him before the next show, and then I'll let you guys know.

01:37:15.000 Alright, C. Hennessy says, Randy, my dude, what's your best advice for someone tempted running for Congress in their home district?

01:37:22.000 I ask because the reps for my district don't even live here, and I'd hate to vote for them.

01:37:28.000 Well, you better be from your district.

01:37:29.000 You better be the real deal.

01:37:31.000 I love a business background.

01:37:32.000 I owned an air condition company for 35 years.

01:37:34.000 My wife's a school teacher of 27 years.

01:37:36.000 She's retired.

01:37:37.000 You ought to be well grounded in your district.

01:37:41.000 Be the real deal.

01:37:43.000 Talk to people.

01:37:44.000 Tell them what your plan is.

01:37:45.000 Have a plan.

01:37:46.000 Work that plan and tell them what you'll do.

01:37:49.000 Tell them what you will do and then do it.

01:37:52.000 But it's also important to start out local.

01:37:53.000 So Randy started out, like everybody should, on the local level.

01:37:58.000 Commissioner first, then state.

01:38:00.000 You have to earn it.

01:38:02.000 You have to earn it.

01:38:03.000 You have to start local and do school board, do county commissioner, do state rep, and then build your way up.

01:38:09.000 Sometimes people just think, oh, I'll just run for Congress.

01:38:11.000 But you have to establish yourself first and get people to know you.

01:38:14.000 If you want any more advice, randyweber.org.

01:38:16.000 There you go.

01:38:18.000 All right.

01:38:18.000 Murph Tries says, Tim, in the multiverse, would Cuomo be working for Project Veritas?

01:38:24.000 There exists a universe where Cuomo has exposed CNN.

01:38:28.000 Just imagine this.

01:38:29.000 There's a universe where Cuomo never worked for CNN.

01:38:32.000 And he got into a fight with his family.

01:38:34.000 And he was like, I don't want to be a part of this establishment machine.

01:38:37.000 And he meets James O'Keefe.

01:38:38.000 And they become best friends.

01:38:40.000 And then Cuomo goes undercover and exposes the whole thing.

01:38:44.000 I really want to know what the dating thing is like there, because they put these girls on dates with these guys.

01:38:51.000 How many dates do you have to go on to get that information out of them?

01:38:55.000 And what are the ethics behind it?

01:38:58.000 I think that somebody needs to come on and explain that process.

01:39:01.000 I have a feeling what happens with Project Veritas, because they use Tinder and stuff,

01:39:05.000 is that they're mostly just swiping, trying to...

01:39:09.000 Imagine this.

01:39:10.000 How do you even find the guy?

01:39:12.000 You have to just keep swiping until you find someone who says, I work at CNN, and then

01:39:16.000 hope they respond to you.

01:39:18.000 But I guess if you swipe, you'll get it.

01:39:20.000 But I'd imagine...

01:39:21.000 Men kind of swipe to everybody, isn't that what they do? 0.98

01:39:24.000 And if they work at CNN, they don't have that many other options, you know what I mean?

01:39:27.000 But I'd imagine the first date.

01:39:29.000 The first date with any one of these people, these guys are hamming it up and just saying everything, trying to seem like they're more important and cool by exposing the stuff.

01:39:39.000 Look what I know.

01:39:41.000 Exactly.

01:39:42.000 So when you get, and it's probably very easy for Veritas' journalists to say things like, oh yeah, you know, Trump's bad, but I mean, come on, CNN kind of pushes it, right?

01:39:52.000 And then they're going to be like, oh right, yeah, here's what we've done.

01:39:55.000 Because now they think they have a way to impress this young woman.

01:39:58.000 It's brilliant.

01:39:59.000 I don't know if I could fake being a Democrat for like more, like, for like, I don't think I, I don't think it could happen.

01:40:04.000 That would suck.

01:40:05.000 All right, all right. 0.64

01:40:06.000 We got all these jokes about Seamus and Ian and everything.

01:40:09.000 You guys should really be more sensitive.

01:40:12.000 Livin says, if the red wave comes, are the mechanisms for Republicans to overrule Biden's energy policy or Kamala if Biden is impeached first?

01:40:21.000 Let me try and rephrase that.

01:40:23.000 When the red wave comes in November, will you guys be able to actually commandeer and start fixing this energy policy?

01:40:30.000 Yes, we have a plan.

01:40:31.000 We don't want to have what happened after Obama was there.

01:40:34.000 We want to repeal Obamacare.

01:40:35.000 And you know the famous thing about the senator, I don't want to, from Arizona, I don't want to disrespect him, but he voted down, put the thumbs down on the Senate.

01:40:43.000 Yes.

01:40:43.000 Yeah, you know, I don't want to do that.

01:40:45.000 So we have to have a plan to do what we're going to do.

01:40:47.000 And don't forget, and Biden even said it, was it yesterday or was it the day before the Democratic conference caucus?

01:40:53.000 He said, he said, if that happens, all I will have is a veto pen in the White House.

01:40:59.000 So we will do everything we can to stop the bad bills.

01:41:01.000 They're just passing everything right now, left and right, and of course he's more than happy to sign them.

01:41:06.000 So we will be able to shut down the progressive left, the liberals, the socialists that attempt to take over our country.

01:41:15.000 Here's something you guys should look out for, though.

01:41:25.000 With gas prices being so high, Democrats are looking for ways to bring these costs down.

01:41:31.000 And some of it, they want to do like a highway tax, like a gas tax.

01:41:35.000 They want to eliminate the gas tax.

01:41:36.000 They're looking to do cash payments, right?

01:41:38.000 And so if they put these policies out and the American public, who doesn't pay attention, thinks it's a good thing and they watch Republicans vote it down, then when it comes time for midterms, that gets a little dicey.

01:41:51.000 It'll be funny when Joe Biden is like, we're gonna give every American $1,000 a month to pay for gas.

01:41:57.000 Yep.

01:41:57.000 And then it's just one more step towards socialized economy.

01:42:00.000 They are talking about that.

01:42:01.000 They did that in the pandemic.

01:42:03.000 And you know, they couldn't get a bill brought to the floor last week because they couldn't agree that they wanted more money for a pandemic.

01:42:08.000 Was it $80 billion?

01:42:09.000 Something like that.

01:42:10.000 And they didn't even have the votes to bring it to the floor.

01:42:12.000 Well, we have a good question right here.

01:42:14.000 It's an interesting one.

01:42:14.000 Bear Essentials says, has Biden done anything good as president?

01:42:19.000 No.

01:42:20.000 Has Biden done anything good as president?

01:42:23.000 He increased the timeline on releasing the vaccine by like a month.

01:42:28.000 He sped up the timeline.

01:42:29.000 Yeah.

01:42:29.000 He still had more COVID deaths in cases that whole year.

01:42:32.000 So he kind of botched the whole thing.

01:42:33.000 So I don't know if he can get credit for that because it didn't work out for him.

01:42:37.000 I'm not going to comment on the vaccine.

01:42:38.000 I don't want to tank your show.

01:42:43.000 Well, has he done it?

01:42:44.000 Yes, he has done something good as president.

01:42:46.000 He's kept Kamala Harris from becoming president.

01:42:48.000 No, but he chose her for the VP.

01:42:51.000 He put her closer to the presidency than anyone could have.

01:42:55.000 I don't know.

01:42:55.000 We'll leave it there.

01:42:56.000 All right.

01:42:57.000 Let's read this one from Austin.

01:42:58.000 He says, Tim, if due process is all that is needed to justify your rights being taken away, then you should be fine with gun control laws.

01:43:05.000 As the legislative process is due process, albeit wrong, And unconstitutional.

01:43:11.000 No, that's not due process.

01:43:12.000 That is incorrect.

01:43:14.000 The Constitution says, Supreme Law of the Land, and it says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

01:43:18.000 It is not.

01:43:18.000 Due process would be amending the Constitution, not just arbitrarily passing laws that violate the Constitution.

01:43:23.000 In which case, due process is, if you commit crimes, now we as a society can say you have violated some kind of, you know, committed a crime.

01:43:33.000 That being said, Where is the line, right?

01:43:35.000 So we talk about free speech and hate speech.

01:43:38.000 If we say, okay, well, look, we all agree illegal speech is not free speech, right?

01:43:42.000 Like threatening people.

01:43:45.000 Couldn't the government just pass a law saying, okay, well, this is considered a threat as well.

01:43:48.000 And then they can just keep encroaching on free speech.

01:43:50.000 Well, they do threat assessments all the time.

01:43:53.000 You know, we get a lot of death threats from across the country.

01:43:56.000 Well, there was a guy that issued one to us.

01:43:59.000 It's one thing to get them from New York, California, wherever.

01:44:01.000 But there was a guy that issued one that lived 30 miles south of me.

01:44:05.000 FBI went out and picked him up because it's credible death threats.

01:44:09.000 You know, that's the old famous Supreme Court case.

01:44:11.000 You're right to scream, shout, fire is curtailed in the theater.

01:44:17.000 We've had, I think we've been swatted more than any other show this year.

01:44:20.000 Yeah, it's exciting.

01:44:21.000 Six times.

01:44:22.000 Explain swatting for... Do you know what swatting is?

01:44:27.000 This is when someone calls the local police and then says something wild and outrageous to trigger a swat response to your address.

01:44:35.000 So while we were doing the show, it was the day, it was January 6th, it was the day after we had Marjorie Taylor Greene, she came here on the 5th.

01:44:41.000 Someone called in and claimed they had killed someone.

01:44:44.000 And so cops show up, you know, multiple jurisdictions were called, and they show up, surround the house, they have their, you know, their...

01:44:50.000 You know you're on the right track, people.

01:44:51.000 put your hands in the air and then the people outside have to put their hands up and then it's happened six times

01:44:56.000 It's now involving two different states and then we had the bomb squad here just the other day

01:45:01.000 So we're getting these, you know, you're on the right track people. You need to share this program. Yeah. Well, there

01:45:07.000 you go. Apparently We're a target.

01:45:09.000 If you don't have any enemies, you're doing something wrong.

01:45:11.000 Well, I talked about this in a segment on my morning show as to why it's happening, and I think it's because we're a fairly moderate, you know, like, we're kind of middle of the road on a lot of issues.

01:45:20.000 We're not, you know, overtly conservative.

01:45:23.000 Ian, he was normally here, is kind of a weird...

01:45:26.000 He likes graphene and hates the Federal Reserve.

01:45:27.000 That's pretty much it.

01:45:27.000 wild card but sometimes you know he's he's it favors establishment every

01:45:31.000 time he doesn't so it's not always graphene and hits the Federal Reserve

01:45:37.000 but but but sometimes he'll agree with you know like he was he was kind of

01:45:41.000 arguing in favor of kovat restrictions to a certain degree like he's pro-death 0.91

01:45:46.000 So he's a wild card.

01:45:48.000 But I was thinking, maybe it's because they can't ban us and there's no way to, you know, they can go after Crowder with strikes and get him off the air.

01:45:55.000 But for us, we have, you know, you, Randy, on the show.

01:45:58.000 We have Marjorie Taylor Greene on the show.

01:46:00.000 We had Steve Bannon.

01:46:00.000 We had Alex Jones.

01:46:01.000 We have these people that many of these activists and figures don't like.

01:46:05.000 What can you really do to try and hinder us if we're not breaking the rules and getting banned?

01:46:10.000 They need to go forward and target us with very serious threats.

01:46:13.000 You know, they try lying and coming after our advertisers and things like that, but we're

01:46:16.000 mostly a member-supported network. So it's the people who watch who go to TimCast.com and be

01:46:21.000 members that keep us floating. So we've really taken away a lot of their ability to censor us.

01:46:26.000 The one thing it seems they have left is death threats and swatting and bomb scares and things

01:46:30.000 like that. Well, the crazies are out there. That's true.

01:46:34.000 Yep.

01:46:35.000 Alright.

01:46:36.000 Matthew Gill says, Please ask Rep Weber if he will be voting for the Sunshine Protection Act when it goes to the House.

01:46:43.000 If so, my circadian rhythms thank him.

01:46:46.000 Are we talking about the daylight savings bill?

01:46:47.000 I think that's what it is, right?

01:46:49.000 I think we're debating this still, right?

01:46:50.000 What do you think?

01:46:51.000 We've been debating it.

01:46:52.000 Me and my wife have been debating this.

01:46:55.000 So stay tuned. 0.94

01:46:56.000 I just think it's so silly because you just wake up early.

01:47:01.000 I'm so confused by that.

01:47:02.000 I wake up at 7 a.m.

01:47:04.000 every day.

01:47:04.000 I'm thoroughly convinced that maybe it's just me.

01:47:08.000 Maybe the science isn't in yet, but I think the sun rises at the same time every morning.

01:47:12.000 It's true!

01:47:13.000 I think it sets the same time every evening.

01:47:16.000 That's the weirdest thing to me, how it's like, we all need to agree as a society, we're changing our clocks at the same time, and I'm like, dude, I can just wake up early.

01:47:22.000 That's right.

01:47:24.000 That's your answer right there, you know what I'm saying?

01:47:26.000 Well, to be fair, when I worked in the hospital, a lot of the nurses would complain that they would get up and go to work in the dark, and then they'd come home in the dark, and it was really frustrating.

01:47:34.000 Well, actually, I think the bigger issue is just Daylight savings time seems irrelevant, and we should get rid of it.

01:47:41.000 And if that's what the bill does, then we're getting rid of it, and I say good.

01:47:45.000 You know they tried it before, though.

01:47:46.000 In the 70s?

01:47:47.000 Yeah, in the 70s.

01:47:49.000 And kids were still, like, walking to school every day and things like that, and there were an increase of children getting hurt and run over by cars and hit, and so they switched it back.

01:47:57.000 Well, I think what they're saying now, though, is not to get rid of it, it's that we're gonna make it always, you know, we're gonna make it so it's daylight more by moving the clocks back or whatever so we all wake up early or something.

01:48:07.000 That's what they were saying, but still, what they're trying to do is the same thing.

01:48:12.000 What they want now is it to be like...

01:48:15.000 light out later in the afternoon and they're saying now that kids are not

01:48:19.000 walking to school like they used to that won't be an impediment. 0.95

01:48:22.000 It's the stupidest thing ever have the kids come to school an hour early and leave an hour early. 0.94

01:48:25.000 Either you go out in the dark or you come in in the dark. 0.99

01:48:28.000 And so it's fairly simple. Have your kids come to school earlier that makes no

01:48:32.000 sense to I just a weird thing.

01:48:34.000 Get rid of all of it. People don't understand that because they're in the dark.

01:48:37.000 Oh, there you go. That's the issue, yes.

01:48:40.000 All right.

01:48:41.000 Common Sense Fishing says your punishment should end with your sentence.

01:48:44.000 I was 19, innocent, got screwed, and got a strike and felony.

01:48:47.000 I'm 40, HVAC contractor, father and husband, no trouble in over 20 years.

01:48:51.000 I want my two-way rights back.

01:48:53.000 I agree 100%.

01:48:54.000 Yes, sir.

01:48:55.000 Absolutely.

01:48:57.000 So that's something.

01:48:58.000 You interested in repealing the NFA?

01:49:01.000 The NFA?

01:49:02.000 Yeah, the National Firearms Act.

01:49:06.000 You know what, I'm not that familiar with it.

01:49:07.000 I think that everybody ought to have the right to carry a gun.

01:49:10.000 We had to fill out a Gun Owners of America survey, and it was like, do you repeal this?

01:49:16.000 He answered yes on every single one when he had the legislation in front of him.

01:49:21.000 The National Firearms Act is what basically stops people, or makes it very difficult to own, select fire rifles.

01:49:28.000 Yeah, I forget what they call it.

01:49:29.000 Yes.

01:49:30.000 Yeah, you betcha.

01:49:31.000 All right, there we go.

01:49:32.000 No, no, no, I'm sorry.

01:49:33.000 She's right.

01:49:33.000 I have filled out a test.

01:49:35.000 I was sitting there and I'm like, how do you feel about this one?

01:49:38.000 How do you feel about this one?

01:49:39.000 And he has voted to remove all of them.

01:49:41.000 I tell people I hate acronyms.

01:49:43.000 I'm on a one-man thing to stamp out acronyms.

01:49:47.000 ASAP.

01:49:52.000 Yeah, so I got a bunch of these, you know, lefty activists mad at me because I said, the Second Amendment protects your right to keep and bear nuclear arms and biological arms.

01:50:02.000 I do.

01:50:02.000 I think so.

01:50:03.000 I'm not saying people should have them.

01:50:05.000 I'm saying that if it is plain that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, it does not go on to explain what that meant.

01:50:12.000 In fact, back in the day, privateers and corsairs had their own frigates.

01:50:17.000 They had, you know, grapeshot.

01:50:19.000 They had cannons and artillery.

01:50:20.000 Absolutely they did.

01:50:21.000 They have the same weapons as their government.

01:50:23.000 Exactly.

01:50:24.000 And the government's issued letters of mark and reprisal so they could go and use them.

01:50:28.000 Correct.

01:50:28.000 Absolutely.

01:50:29.000 So, you know, the funny thing is, too, Halliburton, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, these are private companies.

01:50:34.000 They have these weapons.

01:50:35.000 Yes, they do.

01:50:36.000 So why can't any, you know, why is it only these special privileged companies?

01:50:40.000 No.

01:50:41.000 So, they got mad at me and they were like, Tim Pool says that the Second Amendment grants people the right, and I'm like, they cut, they cut it, because I was, I said a whole paragraph actually, and they had to end the video as fast as possible, because I went on to say something to the effect of like, I'm not saying anyone should have these things, I'm saying we should amend the Constitution, and most people would probably agree, people should not have nuclear weapons and biological weapons.

01:51:02.000 Right, that's right.

01:51:02.000 But they cut that part out, because you know, they want to lie.

01:51:04.000 Oh yeah, absolutely.

01:51:05.000 Imagine that.

01:51:06.000 Yep, yep.

01:51:07.000 But I think, you know, one thing that the left really doesn't understand, especially with fully automatic weapons, is that when it comes to these mass shooting incidents and tragedies, as much as it might sound shocking, you would, if someone is going, first of all, we don't want any of these things ever to happen, right?

01:51:23.000 No.

01:51:24.000 But if someone has full auto, a full auto rifle, it ends the situation much more quickly because they'll spray and pray.

01:51:32.000 They'll miss, they'll unload all their rounds, and then be left with no more ammo.

01:51:36.000 So you're actually, it's actually, you know, banning full auto doesn't actually make anything safer is probably the

01:51:43.000 best way to put it.

01:51:44.000 Plus it also, the National Firearms Act restricts suppressors, which also make firing a weapon substantially safer for

01:51:51.000 everybody.

01:51:52.000 It's the weirdest thing.

01:51:53.000 Yeah, it takes a long time to get a suppressor now, I've heard about it from some of my constituents.

01:51:57.000 Yeah, it takes like a year, about a year I'm told.

01:52:00.000 But what does a suppressor do?

01:52:01.000 You know, to people who watch, this is what I was saying a lot, they watch the Hollywood movies where it's pew, pew, pew.

01:52:05.000 Yeah.

01:52:06.000 They've never actually gone out and fired one and it's not making that sound and you're still wearing your ear protection.

01:52:11.000 No kidding.

01:52:12.000 Yup.

01:52:13.000 They need to educate themselves.

01:52:14.000 And if they haven't been able to do that, they ought to at least take a shot at it.

01:52:18.000 Aha! 0.94

01:52:19.000 This guy's got all the puns and dad jokes in.

01:52:20.000 I love it.

01:52:21.000 I told you it was going to be a night of that, but it's all good fun.

01:52:25.000 Alright, let's see what we have.

01:52:29.000 Wesley Luck says, for Randy, I was born and raised in Brazoria County.

01:52:33.000 Ron Paul delivered some of my friends.

01:52:36.000 Wow.

01:52:37.000 How do you feel about him and his history in Washington?

01:52:39.000 How do you relate to his limited government ideals?

01:52:42.000 Well, I said I had his endorsement, and I told – I don't know how long you've been watching, but you need to watch this program frequently.

01:52:47.000 That's right.

01:52:48.000 And you need to share it with your friends.

01:52:50.000 But I had his endorsement, and I had his district, obviously.

01:52:55.000 It's a little changed with redistricting, but a limited government.

01:52:59.000 And I tell people I'm a Christian conservative Republican.

01:53:02.000 Ron Paul, I think, identified more as a libertarian.

01:53:04.000 But he was on the right track. Audit the Fed. Make them accountable.

01:53:07.000 There's a lot of things that he was on the right track with.

01:53:11.000 A lot of people took advantage to some of his stances.

01:53:14.000 One of them was that he thought Iran ought to be able to get a nuclear weapon, 0.97

01:53:17.000 which I didn't agree with that because they're nuts over there. They're religious nut jobs. 0.99

01:53:22.000 That's the libertarian in him, though, you know. 0.64

01:53:24.000 Oh, absolutely.

01:53:25.000 I get that.

01:53:26.000 But anyway, for the most part, we're pretty much lockstep.

01:53:31.000 He's still in my district over in Lake Jackson.

01:53:32.000 We see him riding a bicycle every now and then.

01:53:35.000 Absolutely, you betcha.

01:53:36.000 Great guy.

01:53:37.000 And we still have some of his staff left over.

01:53:39.000 We do have some of his staff.

01:53:40.000 Do we still have his picture on the gym door?

01:53:42.000 We do, yeah.

01:53:43.000 And we have that life-size thing.

01:53:44.000 Two Christmases ago, when our friend Luke Rudkowski was here, I think he's also friends with Ron Paul.

01:53:51.000 Right.

01:53:51.000 We put up the Christmas tree and one day I came out and there was a picture of Ron Paul on top and he said I couldn't decide between a star or an angel so I chose both.

01:53:59.000 Nice.

01:54:01.000 I'm good friends with Rand and actually his daughter is a doctor in our area, lives in the same town that I do.

01:54:08.000 Big fans of Rand Paul as well.

01:54:10.000 So after the tree came down, we put it up again last Christmas.

01:54:14.000 And then whenever the tree comes down, the picture, which is just printed off of a printer, is just stuck to the window because no one's going to throw it away.

01:54:21.000 So now we have Rand Paul, I'm sorry, Ron Paul, at the door to our little workout area, our little gym.

01:54:27.000 All right.

01:54:27.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:54:28.000 says, McShamus, sir, remember World War II?

01:54:31.000 Wasn't that cool?

01:54:32.000 Yeah, man.

01:54:32.000 We should try to do that again.

01:54:35.000 You guys, please, please, please check out our newest cartoon from Freedom Tunes.

01:54:39.000 Just go over there.

01:54:39.000 YouTube.com slash Freedom Tunes.

01:54:41.000 You'll get the reference.

01:54:45.000 Alright, here we go.

01:54:46.000 Jonathan M. Thomas says, let me guess.

01:54:48.000 I bet this congressman is okay with Ukrainian refugees coming here, but was probably against Syrian and Afghan refugees coming here, and doesn't want Mexicans. 0.89

01:54:56.000 Mexicans bad, Ukrainians good. 1.00

01:54:59.000 Didn't I discuss that earlier? 0.98

01:55:00.000 I'm not against illegal immigration.

01:55:02.000 I'm not against Mexicans or Hispanics.

01:55:04.000 We wanted to do it the right way there.

01:55:05.000 So you are against illegal immigration?

01:55:07.000 Well, I'm against illegal immigration.

01:55:09.000 Now, we went through this with Afghanis. 1.00

01:55:09.000 Absolutely. 1.00

01:55:12.000 Those who helped our country, those who stood by our side, whether they were interpreters or whatever they were, we owe them a debt of privilege, you know, sacrifice and thank for them.

01:55:21.000 And they need to be able to come over here.

01:55:22.000 But they need to be vetted.

01:55:24.000 Not just everybody.

01:55:25.000 We want to get them on a plane because they said they helped.

01:55:28.000 They need to be vetted.

01:55:29.000 Had Biden not withdrawn from Afghanistan in such a haphazard fashion, then we could have done that a lot better way.

01:55:38.000 Ukrainians, same thing.

01:55:39.000 If they're going to come over here, they need to be vetted.

01:55:42.000 But why would the Ukrainians come over here? 1.00

01:55:44.000 Yeah, I wouldn't think they would want to stay close to countries where they're from. 1.00

01:55:47.000 And I said that, by the way, about Afghans, Syrians, Afghanistans, Iraqis, whoever.

01:55:52.000 Go to the countries around you.

01:55:55.000 Now, you alluded to this earlier, Tim, we're a country with a lot of wealth.

01:55:58.000 People want to come participate in that.

01:55:59.000 I get that.

01:56:00.000 You know, this is what bugs me a lot, because I mentioned that I know people in Ukraine.

01:56:04.000 I have a friend, and I'd love for them to be able to visit here, but it's just very, very difficult.

01:56:11.000 And it's kind of insulting and frustrating when it's like, I would like to invite my friend to come visit, you know, my home.

01:56:16.000 I've been to her home.

01:56:18.000 who are at the southern border can just break in and sneak in.

01:56:18.000 Yeah.

01:56:21.000 And you know, she's even had the joke, she was like, maybe I should just go to Mexico because then they don't 1.00

01:56:26.000 care.

01:56:26.000 And come up to the southern border, get separated from your kids and get $450,000.

01:56:30.000 I want to say something though, in your defense about that.

01:56:33.000 We did try to help some Afghan refugees, and where did we help relocate them to?

01:56:38.000 Albania.

01:56:39.000 Not here.

01:56:40.000 So we were working with these other people, getting names on lists of people that helped, and we helped them get to Albania.

01:56:47.000 I interviewed two Syrian brothers who were separated by the war in Syria.

01:56:53.000 One was in Turkey, one was in Romania.

01:56:56.000 So what happened was, well before the war broke out, one brother got a visa to go to Romania to live and work.

01:57:02.000 The younger brother didn't.

01:57:04.000 And then when war broke out and they tried conscripting everybody, he was like, I need to get out of here because this country is falling apart.

01:57:10.000 But the only place you could go was Turkey.

01:57:12.000 He can't enter the EU or whatever, so... I think Romania is EU, right?

01:57:17.000 But I was talking to the brother in Romania and he said, the strangest thing to me was that so many of the people from Syria tried coming to Germany, to France and to Europe instead of Lebanon, where they spoke the same language.

01:57:30.000 And I heard a story about, this may have been when I was in France actually, not from one of the refugee brothers, that somebody who was from Syria, who spoke Arabic, Had the opportunity to go and work as a lawyer in Lebanon, but decided to go and just be in a refugee shelter in France instead, and they didn't understand why you would do that.

01:57:50.000 And so this is one of the issues we face.

01:57:52.000 Ukrainians deserve help, 100%, but why would we bring Ukrainians all the way out to the United States? 1.00

01:57:58.000 There's so many countries in Europe that can make it up.

01:58:01.000 I mean, Poland is doing fantastic work to help them.

01:58:03.000 Absolutely.

01:58:04.000 And that's the way it should be.

01:58:06.000 All those countries around should be rallying.

01:58:08.000 And by the way, they should be rallying with military support, too, for Ukraine.

01:58:12.000 They have the most to lose.

01:58:13.000 They're right next door.

01:58:15.000 And they're saying Putin's becoming unhinged, if you're listening to the reports.

01:58:19.000 It sounds like it.

01:58:20.000 It does.

01:58:20.000 Yeah.

01:58:20.000 I feel like he, look, the West has become more and more influential and grown and Russia has been dwindling.

01:58:27.000 And even you've got these young Russians who are on Instagram talking about how much they hate the war and their lives are being destroyed by it.

01:58:35.000 And Putin is seeing that he's losing the culture war in Russia.

01:58:38.000 And I don't know if you know this or not, but Texas's economy is so large that we have a larger economy than Russia.

01:58:44.000 Wow.

01:58:45.000 Let's read this one.

01:58:45.000 This is from Caleb.

01:58:46.000 He says, I'm an electrician and we've been contracted to install secondary safety switches on diesel pumps at C.W.

01:58:53.000 Matthews Asphalt Plants around G.A.

01:58:55.000 because they have had so much diesel fuel stolen in the last month.

01:58:59.000 Also, he says, no, Ian, we peeing.

01:59:00.000 Oh, man.

01:59:01.000 Well, there you go.

01:59:03.000 Yeah, it's crazy, like, you know, that, uh, what's happening with, uh, stealing gas.

01:59:08.000 TJ says, thank you, Randy.

01:59:10.000 I moved to Austin, Texas a year, uh, plus ago to be free as, uh, and I am.

01:59:15.000 Thank you for your help with that.

01:59:17.000 Is there something, did I miss another one from TJ?

01:59:20.000 I don't know.

01:59:22.000 I can't see it though.

01:59:22.000 Maybe.

01:59:24.000 Cause he said also, so sometimes super chats are segmented.

01:59:27.000 Yeah, they get into it.

01:59:28.000 Thank you.

01:59:28.000 There you go.

01:59:28.000 What is it?

01:59:29.000 Yeah.

01:59:29.000 Welcome.

01:59:31.000 Patrick Reed says, Mr. Weber, why is there not more interest in thorium power?

01:59:31.000 All right.

01:59:35.000 It seems like a technology that could be useful for energy production in the U.S.

01:59:39.000 There actually is some discussion about fusion and thorium being on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, but not so much right now as advanced nuclear reactors.

01:59:48.000 Russia is outstripping us on nuclear reactors, and they're not our friend. 1.00

01:59:51.000 There's a news flash that's come about in the last, what, two or three weeks or so.

01:59:55.000 But there is talk about that.

01:59:56.000 There is talk about it, but right now we're focused on the next round of what they call SMR, small modular reactors, and a different style of reactors that don't just melt down when something's wrong.

02:00:07.000 They have molten salt in them, and there's all kinds of technical stuff I could tell you.

02:00:13.000 Thorium has been discussed briefly, but not as much as nuclear reactors.

02:00:17.000 Right on.

02:00:18.000 Nathan Coxey says, I'm Tim Poole, and I like a do da cha cha.

02:00:25.000 It's a reference to Bruce Almighty, for those that aren't familiar.

02:00:27.000 But I definitely had to read that one.

02:00:30.000 Good movie, by the way.

02:00:31.000 I met the guy who made it, actually, one time in L.A.

02:00:34.000 It's great.

02:00:36.000 Rude says, a question for your guest.

02:00:38.000 How has geothermal energy come along and perform?

02:00:41.000 Assuming we have these systems.

02:00:43.000 Well, I own my own air conditioning company for 35 years.

02:00:46.000 Geothermal has been around a long time.

02:00:47.000 We have it.

02:00:48.000 We got it.

02:00:49.000 You all got it here.

02:00:50.000 It depends on what part of the country you're in and what the electricity cost is and how much the equipment cost is, the installation cost, and are there, quite frankly, any government subsidies.

02:00:59.000 That all plays in.

02:01:01.000 Where I am in the market in the Texas Gulf Coast, you just don't hardly see any of it because electricity is pretty reasonable.

02:01:07.000 Well, so I'm assuming he's mentioning just like general geothermal energy generation, but we don't have enough.

02:01:12.000 You need volcanic activity for that, right?

02:01:14.000 Well, if you want the heat, you do.

02:01:15.000 And you've got to be able to get heat to produce for your heat.

02:01:18.000 You've got to be able to get cold during the wintertime through water through your pipes for the air conditioning time.

02:01:23.000 Now, I get it up here, or I guess.

02:01:25.000 Y'all don't have a real long air conditioning season here?

02:01:29.000 Well, it gets hot.

02:01:30.000 Yeah, it does get hot.

02:01:31.000 A couple of months.

02:01:32.000 I mean, it's the same as D.C., so.

02:01:34.000 Well, it's a little bit better than D.C., to be honest.

02:01:36.000 D.C.

02:01:36.000 gets swampy.

02:01:37.000 You get June to October.

02:01:40.000 Well, I like the thermostat at 68 degrees, and it works out because we have a geothermal system, and it's cheap.

02:01:48.000 It is so cheap.

02:01:49.000 That's why I say it costs electricity in Texas cheap, too.

02:01:51.000 Now, people say, well, Randy, you really don't have a winter on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

02:01:55.000 I said, yes, we do.

02:01:56.000 It's probably the nicest week of the year.

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02:02:18.000 Do you have anything to shout out, Randy?

02:02:20.000 Well, I just want to say RandyWeber.org for hours, but listen, go to TimCast.com because you guys are doing the Lord's work.

02:02:26.000 Oh, thank you.

02:02:26.000 And so we appreciate that.

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02:02:31.000 They sound like they get it.

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02:02:34.000 Oh, you betcha.

02:02:35.000 We do, too.

02:02:35.000 So thank you all for the opportunity.

02:02:37.000 All right.

02:02:37.000 Appreciate it.

02:02:38.000 Lisa, do you want to shout anything out?

02:02:39.000 You know me, I'm just... Just chillin'?

02:02:41.000 Just chillin'.

02:02:42.000 All right.

02:02:42.000 You guys have social media accounts or anything you want to mention?

02:02:45.000 Yeah, he's TXRandy14 on Twitter and on Instagram as well.

02:02:50.000 Weber.house.gov.

02:02:51.000 Yeah, and I'm Lisa Beth on Instagram and Lisa Elizabeth on Twitter.

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - March 18, 2022

Timcast IRL - Cuomo BACKSTABS CNN, Exposes CNN Unethical Actions w-Randy Weber & Lisa Reynolds

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