In this episode, we talk about the resignation of Governor Andrew Cuomo and why it's a good thing he's gone. We also talk about how the economy is doing and why we should all be eating meat. And we have a guest on the show, Mikayla Peterson.
00:00:28.000Even the people who pretended to be Cuomo-sexuals are pretending like they don't like Cuomo now, or I guess maybe they were pretending to have liked him in the first place.
00:00:35.000But it's more than just his resignation.
00:00:38.000He said he knew the writing was on the wall.
00:00:41.000Democrats and Republicans wanted him out, so he decided to resign because he was facing impeachment.
00:00:46.000He's actually facing arrest and criminal prosecution.
00:00:49.000Recently, a sheriff came out and said, if these accusations, you know, have weight, we will arrest and charge Andrew Cuomo.
00:01:00.000I mean, maybe he is resigning now because he's trying to get out while he still can, because he could potentially be arrested for some of these accusations.
00:01:07.000And they're pretty nasty accusations, but I tell you what, the one thing that kind of bums me out, he's not resigning because he murdered all those old people, he's resigning because of the accusations from female staffers and stuff.
00:01:17.000So, at the very least, you know what, it's a good thing that he's gone, so we'll definitely get into that.
00:01:21.000We got a bunch of other stories to talk about the economy, and, uh, you know, we'll just have a good hangout because we're being joined by Michaela Peterson.
00:02:46.000I want to talk about diet, man, because this is what you're doing.
00:02:48.000This is like the conversation I think we need to have as a society and a species with obesity running rampant and COVID, you know, attacking people with with obesity.
00:02:57.000It seems like 30, 30.2 percent of hospitalizations were due to obesity, says the CDC.
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00:05:39.000That being said, let's jump into this first big story.
00:05:46.000Andrew Cuomo resigns as New York governor over a harassment scandal.
00:05:50.000Now here's my favorite thing about this, right?
00:05:52.000He's got all these women, I think 11 women now have accused him of impropriety.
00:05:56.000One of them is actually a criminal complaint.
00:05:58.000I think there may be another criminal complaint.
00:05:59.000He could potentially get arrested over this.
00:06:01.000The funniest thing was, and this is what I'm really fascinated by, I guess interestingly because of something your dad actually said, Michaela, Cuomo said he never felt he crossed the line with these women, but he didn't realize how far the line has actually moved.
00:06:16.000So his argument is, touching a woman's face and shoulders and rubbing her elbow and all that stuff is totally fine and acceptable, but now you have these women actually coming out and saying, you crossed the line.
00:06:29.000So there was an interview with Vice that Jordan Peterson had where he mentioned that men and women working in the workplace has been a disaster.
00:06:40.000And I think what he meant by that was things like this.
00:06:44.000I don't necessarily agree if I would use words that, you know, that strongly, but there is a good point to be made that the line is definitely not as easily seen, perhaps.
00:06:54.000And maybe that's because people like Cuomo are old and disrespectful.
00:08:33.000I think we talked about it on the show before, too, and we showed the photo and she's got this look on her face like, Dear Lord, help me, my face!
00:08:40.000Yeah, like, the other best part about it is that when he was defending himself a few days ago, he plays this video where he's like, I do it to everybody!
00:08:49.000If you're white, if you're black, if you're gay or straight, a man or a woman, and he's showing videos of him grabbing people's heads and like, I feel like that's fair then.
00:09:14.000Yeah, I mean, it's not good for him and it's probably not a good social thing to do as a person, but like, then it's, you're not special, ladies.
00:09:21.000So wasn't his defense, um, I'm Italian?
00:09:23.000Cause that seems like a terrible excuse.
00:09:25.000I feel like that's also, I feel like that's also a good excuse.
00:10:19.000Like girls can now Take you in for anything like if you put I feel weird when people there put their hand on my waist I find that to be strange lower back Yeah, like lower back like I find that to be a little bit weird like please don't do that to me I feel like that's always made people feel a little weird though.
00:10:34.000I don't think that's I don't think the line like I can't I'm well sure I think it depends on how the guy looks I think you might be right about that too.
00:10:41.000Like if you've seen that cartoon where it's like this really ugly guy and she's like, oh, it's sexual harassment.
00:10:45.000And then the same thing happens with this really good looking guy.
00:12:02.000Is the man walking with the woman and, like, putting his hand on the small of her back and, like, guiding her forward, is he doing that as some kind of, like, perverse or sexual action?
00:12:12.000I wouldn't say, I don't know, perverse, but I would say if, like, whenever that's been done to me, I've been, like, I get that kind of like, what's going on thing.
00:12:19.000Yeah, it's not like, you know, maybe upper back, maybe that's like kind of guiding, but anything like lower back, I at least have the bodily response of like, okay, what's happening here?
00:12:29.000And I think that's because that's not often touched.
00:12:31.000And I think that's just the bottom line.
00:12:33.000Putting your hands on someone's face, to me, that's really weird.
00:13:54.000I mean, look, if these women are scared to speak up because he's powerful, he's Cuomo, and then one woman finally says, look what he did, and then another woman feels comfortable now because she feels she wouldn't be alone in this, like someone broke the barrier so that others could come forward, then it comes out like a dam breaking.
00:14:43.000I don't think there will ever be a circumstance where there could be true social equality in the sense, not like workplace, like career or revenue, but just what you can or cannot say to a man or woman will never be equal, right?
00:14:57.000What two men can say to each other, they will never be allowed to say between a man and a woman.
00:15:01.000What two women can say to each other, they can't say to men.
00:15:03.000So one example would be like, the one I always give is if two guys are like, you know, coming into work.
00:15:09.000One guy's in the elevator and then the other guy walks in and he goes, oh damn, that's a new suit, huh?
00:16:06.000I think there's, well, like obviously men and women can work together but there's going to be some weird dynamic and you're going to be like, is this going to be offensive or how is this going to be taken?
00:16:16.000I personally, I'll tell people this, so I have a team of people.
00:16:20.000Everybody who works for me right now are men.
00:16:23.000And I used to, my best friend used to work with me, and she's a girl.
00:16:25.000And that was fine, but we're like very similar people, pretty disagreeable, and I could tell her whatever, and she's not offended by anything.
00:16:33.000But I've noticed if I hire someone and they're female, I have to be careful about how I talk to them, even giving criticism.
00:16:42.000I feel like, and maybe it's me, but I feel like I have to be a little bit nicer, a little bit more gentler.
00:16:46.000Whereas with a dude, I can be like, can you just not do this again?
00:17:01.000I remember reading there was a study about gender discrimination in the workplace that found female bosses are equally as likely to discriminate as a male boss.
00:17:13.000I think it said something like it was equals likely.
00:17:15.000Like it, the issue wasn't, um, the, the gender, the, the gender of the boss, the issue was the behavior of the employees.
00:17:21.000And then there was like a tendency among women, like more agreeableness and things like that, which resulted in the more like executive stern types to behave in a specific way that was not related to, to gender or, you know, whatever.
00:17:39.000Yeah, and I think you're completely right because I am, like you said, I am the kind of person who wants to know how I can improve, not just that I did something wrong.
00:17:47.000So please, like, give me positive feedback and be like, all right, so you did well with this, did well with this, this needs work, and this is fine.
00:17:53.000So I think that that management style of, like, two, you know, a positive, negative, and positive, like the sandwich, is very much like a feminine thing and trying to protect Yeah.
00:18:01.000I think that's a good management style anyway.
00:18:03.000It just takes more effort than just being like, look, I don't, I like you as a person.
00:19:02.000I mean, I think society is changing in a way that encourages certain behaviors and stuff, but testosterone plays a role, man, in a lot of things.
00:19:11.000I think people are getting sicker, and that's part of the problem.
00:19:14.000Like, I think that if you're on, I mean, I don't know what percentage of the population is on some sort of, like, psych med at the moment, or on Yeah, and since COVID it's gotten worse and those things have, like, they make people different than they are.
00:19:27.000So I think people, like, obviously people are getting sick.
00:19:29.000One in five people have an autoimmune disorder.
00:19:32.000People are gaining weight, like, mad and I think that comes with mental problems and I think that screws up your behavior, including probably the more normal, like, feminine and masculine behavior.
00:19:43.000I think people who are living unhealthy lives are more likely to have some kind of illness that requires medication, which then in turn creates this cycle of addiction and endless ailment, I suppose.
00:19:55.000I want to loop back to this other story we have, because I think that will lead us into a bigger conversation about diet and health and stuff that I want to save for a little bit.
00:20:03.000Because we have this story that beautifully jumps us into how critical race theory is... I shouldn't say critical race theory, but...
00:20:11.000Critical gender theory, critical race theory, and wokeism, it's manifesting in society.
00:20:17.000So as we're talking about like Cuomo and women and stuff and these dynamics, we have this story.
00:20:21.000Nick Cannon calls having children with one woman a Eurocentric concept.
00:20:27.000The TV presenter has seven children with four different women.
00:20:30.000So perhaps he's only saying that because he's non-monogamous, but they say, Wow, I didn't know that about him.
00:20:39.000Mixolydian and Zillion heir with Abby de la Rosa on June 14th His son Zen whom he shares with model Alyssa Scott was born
00:20:47.000nine days after Zillion and Zion Additionally Kenan welcomed daughter powerful Queen back in
00:20:52.000December with Brittany Bell with whom he also shares four-year-old son golden
00:20:56.000Kenan is also dad to ten-year-old twins son Moroccan and daughter Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey says People
00:21:04.000Magazine Well, I didn't know that about him. Holy moly
00:21:06.000Yeah, so when pressed about having multiple children with so many women Kenan said monogamy was a euro centric
00:21:21.000If we're really talking about how we coexist and how we populate, it's about what exchange can we create together.
00:21:28.000Those women and all women are the ones that open themselves up to say, I would like to allow this man in my world and I will birth this child, so it ain't my decision, I'm just following suit.
00:21:38.000I mean, he's basically absolving himself of some responsibility when it comes to having these kids in a way that we're probably not used to.
00:21:46.000I hear from people all the time, the dude will say something like, we're pregnant.
00:21:51.000Like, referring to him and his significant other.
00:22:19.000I feel like, though, to be fair for Nick Cannon, like he probably, he must have had discussions with these women that was like, this is who I am and I'm, this is how your life is going to be.
00:23:34.000Well, theoretically, that's what we're told.
00:23:35.000I just want to point out, people in Asia get married.
00:23:39.000This is the problem with this critical race theory stuff.
00:23:41.000It's just a lie, an excuse for whatever behavior they're engaging in that they want an excuse to engage in.
00:23:47.000So, sure, if it is like monogamy is the traditional or social norm, and now you're trying to not do that, so you just blame Eurocentric, you know, Eurocentrism or whatever.
00:23:58.000It's like, Asians got married, and they're very family-oriented, you know, the kids... How long have they been getting married for?
00:24:07.000I don't know the history, but I do know that, you know, just think about the concept of arranged marriages, for instance, that go back thousands of years.
00:24:15.000I think they would have concubines in Asia.
00:24:17.000So they would have one wife and then like seven concubines.
00:24:21.000And it'd be women that they just had sex with and had kids with.
00:24:58.000Or I suppose it should be the standard, and kids who don't have two parents in the house end up doing poorly, more likely to do drugs, more likely to go to jail.
00:25:07.000But ultimately, I think there's a lot of people... We've got to make sure we don't fall into the trap of, this is the way it's always been, so this is the way we must keep doing it.
00:25:16.000We need to make sure that we're constantly looking at what actually helps and benefits society.
00:25:38.000We're a perpetually libertarian society in a way.
00:25:41.000We've got this weird authoritarianism which is more disruptive of tradition as opposed to being pro-freedom.
00:25:47.000So I don't know ultimately what happens, but I can say I think the direction the critical race theorists, critical gender theorists want to go would be more destructive, whether you're for or against monogamy.
00:25:57.000Native Americans, I think, They may not be the Native Americans, but there were tribes, I think, where the whole tribe would raise all the kids.
00:26:05.000Because the guys would have sex with all the women.
00:26:08.000None of the women knew who the father was.
00:26:10.000So they would collectively raise all the children together.
00:26:22.000And Ian, you mentioned the church and that's interesting to me as well because the way I was raised, we were taught that Christ is the head of the church and treated the church as his wife.
00:26:32.000So it was like a big, it's literally like a big family, but it wasn't like that communistic raising of the kids.
00:26:38.000It was like a structure for the way that the family should be.
00:26:42.000And it was like really simple, really fundamental, really basic, and we can see that that's a good way to raise kids, is to have both parents in the home, they need to be together, it needs to be structural.
00:26:51.000I'm hugely in favor of monogamy, if possible.
00:26:53.000Yeah, but I think everything's just falling apart.
00:26:57.000I've always wondered, so there's studies on monogamy, not to be like the anti-monogamy person, because I'm not, but the studies on monogamy showing two-parent households lead to like more success for your children.
00:27:09.000People who end up splitting up also aren't as well generally speaking right?
00:27:15.000So like are all those studies controlling for like IQ and mental illness and things?
00:27:20.000Because you could say I mean if you're gonna have two people who are not doing well in the same house Yeah.
00:27:26.000but would be doing better apart, I would argue that it's better to have both parents happy
00:27:32.000than have them arguing in the same house.
00:27:35.000But so I just I don't know how the studies were done and then were there studies before
00:29:01.000The legality of marriage is very weird because marriage, the word means to mix.
00:29:05.000So like two people spending a lot of time together, mixing their energy or essentially in a form of marriage, whether the law says it or not, doesn't really matter.
00:29:13.000Yeah, so that's like a common-law marriage.
00:29:15.000It's something like seven years with the same person.
00:30:35.000But I definitely think this is just a sign of things falling apart.
00:30:39.000Like, to have kids with a bunch of different women and be like, well, you know, they wanted to do it.
00:30:43.000It's like, yeah, but I'm sure he's still going to be there raising his kids, but he's taking a lot of kids in a lot of different places.
00:30:48.000And he's not going to be able to provide the same kind of leadership that somebody who is, you know, in a family with kids will be.
00:30:55.000And more to the point, I'm just saying, it's just another sign of, I think we're facing, we were facing for a long time, cultural stagnation.
00:31:03.000Movies were reboots, comics, everything.
00:31:04.000It was just regurgitated garbage, lowest common denominator.
00:33:39.000Subway franchisees are in discussions to drop Team USA soccer star Megan Rapinoe from a new ad amid her national anthem protest at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
00:33:50.000Rapinoe, who signed with the company as a spokeswoman this spring, regularly pushes her political views, usually calls for equal rights and an end to the gender pay gap.
00:33:58.000These views are getting in the way of the company's reputation and sales, some of the store owners argued during a discussion forum last month.
00:34:05.000At the event hosted by the North American Association of Subway Franchisees, franchisees discussed removing Rapinoe from a new ad where she kicks a soccer ball at a person holding a burrito, citing complaints they have received from their customers about her.
00:34:19.000Boycott Subway until Subway fires the anti-American Megan Rapinoe, the creep who kneels for our beloved national anthem, a Wisconsin store operator read from a note a customer taped to the glass door of his restaurant.
00:34:31.000The ad should be pulled and done with, the franchisee subsequently argued.
00:34:37.000The subway company doesn't own any of its nearly 22,000 stores, but charges franchisees 4.5% of their revenue for the use of its brand and national advertising campaigns.
00:34:47.000These campaigns, an Arizona franchisee argued at the forum, should use the revenue to advertise the product, not politics.
00:34:54.000Spending our money to make a political statement is completely and totally out of bounds.
00:35:17.000It's not advancing any cause other than corporate politics, I suppose, and signaling to half the country that you agree with some kind of view of the country or whatever.
00:35:25.000Very much in line, typically, with critical race-applied principles, things like the 1619 Project, which are, to me, signs of cultural and political decay in this country.
00:35:35.000Then you can see how it's affecting business.
00:35:37.000They're losing money now because of it.
00:36:51.000But if it comes slowly from the bottom, and the problem right now is with elementary schools and what they're teaching there, it starts at the bottom and it just ruins society on the way up.
00:37:03.000It's, imagine you got a Jenga tower, and at the very bottom, they're chipping away at those Jenga blocks, and everything else is gonna come crashing down when they do this stuff, and we're seeing the ramifications of that.
00:37:14.000So, but I think it's a little, I think it's, I think the stagnation of our culture is an important point to bring up in this context.
00:37:23.000Just that, at a certain point, people started resting on the laurels of their ancestors.
00:37:29.000You know, I guess it's like good times make weak men, as the saying goes, right?
00:37:33.000So what happens when you have a horrible, barren wasteland of a country, and in order to survive, you strive and work hard, and you're sweating and working nonstop, you create wealth and luxury.
00:37:44.000Then your kids grow up knowing wealth and luxury, but the hard work that, as you tell them, and the work they do by the third generation.
00:37:50.000It's like they say, you know, wealth lasts three generations.
00:37:53.000So I don't, it's almost like the fourth turning, I suppose.
00:38:33.000Yeah and um they were like there's still bombed buildings there and so everyone there when COVID hit they're like yeah we just we were just in the 90s we're not doing this like we're not doing the same thing as everybody else we're not shutting down like everyone else and there were riots and things because people still remembered how it was Wow.
00:38:53.000Like everyone there, someone was injured or like they remember it.
00:38:57.000And here it's been decades since there was Vietnam War or some sort of war or something really dramatic.
00:39:03.000And now we have COVID, which is pretty dramatic for people.
00:39:06.000It's wrecked a lot of people's lives, killed a lot of people.
00:39:10.000And so there's this, we're in this like turning point where are we going to end up, you know, coming together or is everything just going to crumble forever?
00:39:18.000How do you introducing this to your kid?
00:39:21.000I teach this teacher that most people are really stupid, right?
00:39:25.000Like, she's in Montessori daycare and some kid went up to her the other day and was like, you shouldn't eat meat, you know, because it comes from animals and that's bad.
00:39:34.000And I was just like, those people don't know how to eat.
00:39:36.000Like, lots of people don't know how to eat.
00:39:38.000Like, their parents didn't teach them they don't know how to eat.
00:40:25.000And so it was literally the next day she came back and she's like, I punched somebody.
00:40:30.000And I was like, oh my god, we have, like, this was supposed to be a joke and now, like, you got into a physical fight at school and you're four.
00:40:38.000But it turns out the little boy came over, the same one that told her not to draw, and pushed her.
00:42:54.000But I think we're saying—we're not necessarily disagreeing—if you are defending yourself from someone attacking you, like, you have to defend yourself.
00:43:01.000But even if it's attacking with words?
00:43:55.000Like, I don't think, I think that men are more likely to get into physical fights and women are more likely to destroy your life by forming little posses and being like, oh yeah, this person slept with that person, even if you didn't.
00:44:06.000Like, it gets mean and dark and can, like, destroy you.
00:44:27.000And then there were the other people more like me who would, hey, hey, Ian, and laugh,
00:44:31.000and everyone would be like, oh, you're a jerk.
00:44:33.000I'm like, I don't care, I do whatever I want.
00:44:35.000You can't make fun of me because I don't care about what you think.
00:44:37.000So if you go into school and you're worried about what everyone's thinking about you, you're the person who farts and then gets embarrassed.
00:44:42.000Okay, we're on the same page then, here.
00:44:44.000Because how I countered bullying from women was not only doing the not caring, but also addressing it.
00:44:51.000Being like, don't talk shit about me unless you want to fight.
00:46:09.000Every school is a kid like I think a lot of the kids that are I didn't grow up with social media
00:46:14.000So it I didn't have this this level of abuse where like it's also happening when you're at home
00:46:18.000I would go in like get pushed around a little bit Then then I would leave school and it'd be done and I just
00:46:23.000left school. I was 14 left school I was like, I'm out don't waste my time. I wonder if the
00:46:28.000social decay is related to the kids growing up in this environment
00:46:32.000Yeah, it's an instant What a Michael Malice say that schools are one of the only
00:46:37.000places that children will experience violence, right?
00:46:39.000They're like little prisons like we yeah, dude Jordan's a boring example of the evolution of education because he left that system and now he's teaching online in a voluntary system where people can come when they want, listen as long as they want, and then leave.
00:46:55.000That's how I, when I was, I've had the internet since I was a little kid.
00:47:49.000You're not to be talked to like an adult.
00:47:50.000You're not to be taught like an adult.
00:47:52.000You actually get raised by the children around you.
00:47:54.000So it's no wonder that millennials are basically permanent children.
00:47:58.000I grew up with the internet, where there was adults on forums talking about music and things like that that I was into, and game development.
00:48:05.000And so there would be someone who would be like, hey, here's how you do X, Y, and Z. And they wouldn't treat me like a child, because they didn't know.
00:48:09.000All they knew was someone said, hey, how do you do the parallax scrolling thing I saw in that video game?
00:48:18.000I think you're right, and I think that compounding this being raised by other children is the fact that you can literally always run to a parent or an adult when something goes wrong, and I really think that's a huge problem now in the colleges.
00:48:29.000You see these students who are incapable of handling even the slightest amount of, like, friction when it comes to their worldview, and that makes them intolerant.
00:49:44.000So you're doing the carnivore diet and you only eat lamb?
00:49:49.000Yeah, so there's the carnivore diet, which is all animal products, and that's the one that you see in the news, like eggs, milk, anything that comes from an animal.
00:51:23.000And it turns out if you're not eating any carbs, glucose and vitamin C compete.
00:51:28.000So if you don't have glucose, you don't use as much vitamin C. So you don't need as much vitamin C. But I've been doing this since December 2017.
00:51:36.000And the vitamins I was deficient in when I had an autoimmune disorder have recovered.
00:52:49.000How did you come to the carnivore diet?
00:52:53.000Oh, I started getting this rash called dermatitis herpetiformis, which is an itchy, blistering rash, and it's the skin manifestation of celiac disease, which is the only autoimmune disorder associated with gluten.
00:54:06.000My arthritis went away, my fatigue went away, I got off of Adderall, and my depression lifted.
00:54:11.000And then when I went off of SSRIs, I did that way too rapidly, because I didn't know they cause withdrawal.
00:54:18.000And that's when I ended up on the meat diet because I got sensitive to light and to sound and to heat and to touch and to any amount of carb.
00:54:28.000So that's when I went down to beef and lamb and salt and water, which was like out of desperation because the antidepressant withdrawal was so awful.
00:54:37.000When you first went on Carnivore, what did you cut out?
00:54:41.000At that point, I actually just went from chicken and beef and fish and lettuce and green leafy vegetables, olive oil and apple cider vinegar.
00:54:55.000So I literally just dropped salad at that point because I didn't know you could survive on only meat.
00:55:01.000So I was like, well, I need some greens.
00:55:02.000I react the least amount to the salad.
00:57:11.000I didn't even think, no, seriously, like, BuzzFeed will come out with an article and be like, look at this person, and I'll be like, yeah, I get it.
00:57:19.000I was like, when I was 22 and people were like, fix your diet, that'll fix your autoimmune disorder, you know, eat healthier.
00:59:14.000Yeah, yeah, well, I don't think people really know like part of the reason I'm talking about it is because I Would like the medical community to take it seriously enough to do some case studies To look into it because I've seen it help a lot of people and it sounds unbelievable The keto diet, I think it's prescribed by doctors for people with epilepsy?
01:00:51.000So at first it was just diet because I'm not like, I'm not one of those, I mean I'm getting more into it now, but I was never one of those lifestyle, like, biohacker people.
01:02:35.000I don't do deep knee bends but I'll get up and I'll go walk around.
01:02:38.000I'll be like I shouldn't just be sitting here non-stop staring at a screen so I'll go outside I'll go check on the chickens take five like a five minute break and then go back and then it's like good job.
01:02:46.000And at the end of the day, because I skate every day so I'm getting exercise, I get the eight hours of sleep, well I don't think I sleep for eight hours, but I sleep enough and I move enough that it gives me little hearts.
01:02:57.000And then it shows you your days and you get like a little, it's a foot with like a badge and it's like, you did it!
01:03:02.000And if you don't do it, then you don't get your little badge.
01:03:05.000Okay, so it's not that harsh, depending on how badly you take criticism.
01:03:29.000I think one thing he did that was super beneficial was he said, as soon as I got diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis when I was in grade two, I remember he sat me down and he said, you can never use your illness as an excuse.
01:03:41.000Yeah, and it was like, Which is a serious thing to tell a kid who has arthritis in 37 joints, but it was basically like, this is gonna suck no matter what, but if you use it as an excuse, it's gonna suck more.
01:03:53.000And so that was, I think that was really beneficial to me, and I probably veered in the direction of never using it as an excuse when I probably should have spent a couple days in bed, but I don't have an autoimmune disorder anymore, so... Let's talk about that, because I think one of the biggest problems we have right now as a society is everyone using all of that as an excuse.
01:04:15.000And part of the problem I have with the medical community is when you go in and you get diagnosed, when I got diagnosed, my mom, because she's been, she's like the hippie of the family, and she was like, can we just change diet?
01:04:37.000How people are using their bad lifestyles as excuses for why they can't succeed or Yeah, okay, part of the problem with medical, yeah, community is when you're, when you go in there, you're diagnosed, they tell you, your only hope is us, your only hope are these medications, and there's nothing you can do about it, and it's not your fault.
01:04:55.000And so it takes all the responsibility away from yourself for fixing it, because you're like, I can't.
01:04:59.000The authority figures that know what they're doing, they went to school, told me that I can't.
01:05:03.000And I think if I had just, if they'd just been like, can't help, good luck, then I would've been like, oh shit, I have to figure this out myself, and I would've gone through all these paths, like diet, exercise, I just would've looked.
01:05:13.000But I think, yeah, the schooling system is doing the same thing to people.
01:05:16.000People are told, you know, you have this mental illness, it's on you, don't worry, it's not your fault, like, here's a medication, or you're an outsider.
01:05:26.000So you deserve some sort of, I don't know, help for being an outsider.
01:05:31.000Just, yeah, society right now is pathetic.
01:05:36.000Team USA paintball player kicked off of team after backlash over controversial TikTok.
01:05:41.000Professional paintball player said Jessica Maiolo's message, which some perceived as anti-vaccination and fatphobic, doesn't represent the larger paintball community.
01:05:49.000So what had happened was this woman Was like watching a news report, I guess.
01:05:54.000And there was like an obese teenager in the hospital with COVID.
01:05:57.000And then she said, your son doesn't need a COVID shot.
01:06:21.000Okay, I thought, okay, you thought that too.
01:06:24.000It's like paintballs in the Olympics now and they get kicked off the team for TikTok.
01:06:28.000I will say, one of the problems that we have is, first, whether or not someone should or shouldn't get some kind of medical treatment is between them and their doctors and you should seek the advice from your doctor, as I always say.
01:06:40.000But when it comes to obesity, it is a worsening factor and the CDC website even says it.
01:06:46.000that of the people who are hospitalized, 30.2% I believe, were obese.
01:07:18.000I gained about 30 pounds in the first year and a half.
01:07:21.000And I didn't really know what to do about it because I was going to the gym.
01:07:28.000And I was like, I thought that it was only a gym thing, like I wasn't exercising enough.
01:07:32.000So I kind of understand where people are coming from when they're like, I have extra weight, like what the fuck do I do?
01:07:39.000And so being like, maybe get on a treadmill, it's super condescending to people who probably aren't super happy that they have weight to lose.
01:07:46.000And I think that goes back to what you're eating.
01:07:48.000And I think that's just, people need to be educated that certain foods are not like, you eat pizza, you want to eat more pizza.
01:07:55.000There was this show where they were trying to help people lose weight.
01:07:59.000And they would... it was a reality show.
01:08:01.000And so they set up cameras all over this lady's house.
01:08:03.000At the end of the day they asked her, like, how many...
01:08:05.000She was saying things like, it's not my fault.
01:10:15.000But you literally have, like, the cold virus.
01:10:17.000You might have a virus in your body, but the reason why you're sick is not because that's there, it's because it's overtaking your immune system for some reason.
01:10:25.000So it starts attacking your cells, and then your body has an immune response, and the symptoms are your body responding.
01:10:30.000But you might also have the virus in your body and not be sick, because your body's maintained it, it's killed it.
01:10:35.000Actually, we have tons of viruses in our systems.
01:10:43.000It's so important that we speak the right words.
01:10:45.000See, I would want to know then, Ian, what you would call it.
01:10:47.000Because it's true that you have a bunch of viruses in your body, but at a certain point, yes, you're correct, a cold has overwhelmed your immune system.
01:10:54.000As far as I'm concerned, saying you have a cold is just like a super shorthand way of saying, yeah, you got this virus and it's kind of overwhelmed you.
01:11:01.000Yeah, like, are we going to map out, like, here's exactly what's happening to your immune system.
01:11:04.000Now, the leukocytes and then the lymph nodes, Yeah, if you could, like, why does the rhinovirus reproduce so rapidly?
01:11:16.000But I don't think a doctor's gonna pull out the whole chart and be like, now when the virus enters the cell, and you're getting the RNA action, now what happens to your body?
01:11:23.000I actually watched a video, I think it was Kurzgesagt, where they explain the immune system.
01:12:02.000You gotta, basically, if you can treat the lymphatic system, I feel like, because modern medicine's obsessed with treating the blood, but if you can look at the lymphatic system and the pH of the lymphatic system.
01:12:12.000They have those massages, I forget what it's called.
01:13:43.000Everyone's gonna hate me for saying that, but I had like, you know when you put your foot down, you're just like up and down and up and down and up and down?
01:13:49.000Yeah, I had that and like when I slept at night, I used to twitch around and like act out my dreams, punch things.
01:15:45.000It's hard to say what, like, I think psychedelic experiences can be insanely beneficial, especially shrooms I really like, but I don't know if you'd want to screw around with the brain too much.
01:16:19.000Some scholars propose that the berserkers and the berserker gangs, it's what's called berserker gang, would consume hallucinogenic mushrooms or massive amounts of alcohol.
01:16:57.000Yeah, doesn't ergot just, like, eventually make your limbs fall off?
01:17:00.000Ergot, I mean, yeah, it's pretty harsh.
01:17:01.000Back in the day before LSD was synthesized, they'd synthesize it from ergotamine, but they would just eat the fungus that grew on the rind.
01:17:07.000But didn't ergot give you, like, Like bad trips?
01:17:10.000Yeah, it had a bad physical side effect.
01:17:13.000I was reading about the Salem witch trials.
01:17:17.000They think it was like ergot on the wheat.
01:17:51.000You know, there's a lot of really, really old paintings that have those mushrooms that are technically more like Amanita muscaria mushrooms, which doesn't really make sense because that doesn't... Yeah, those are... It's not the same as psilocybin at all.
01:18:42.000Yeah, they've got to take a really small dose, because it works on GABA, so you can use it for relaxation, anxiety, and sleep.
01:18:48.000So if you take, like, I took 5 grams, it's not the same as psilocybin, so the dosing is different.
01:18:53.000But, like, 5 to 7 grams, I was just like, Clonked out completely super relaxed and a few more like two two grams was just relaxation But I wouldn't go hiking or something on it because it works on GABA, so it's just relaxing But it was nothing like psilocybin I think if you take higher doses you can get some visual hallucinations if you stay awake, but it was pretty sedating What do you mean it works on GABA?
01:19:30.000Yeah, it kind of felt like alcohol was a little bit more like...
01:19:33.000I've had more of an anti-anxiety feeling, like sometimes if I drink I'll get more hyped up, and with this it was like a really heavy blanket, almost.
01:19:41.000I heard that from the Bible they have the tree of knowledge and the tree of life, and that the tree of knowledge was the psilocybin mushroom, and then the tree of life was the amanita muscaria.
01:19:52.000There's a lot of theories about what those things mean, though.
01:19:54.000I've read a lot of kooky conspiracy stuff about, like, aliens and what the Tree of Life and Knowledge really meant.
01:19:59.000You know, the spiraling serpents represents DNA and stuff like that.
01:20:03.000I think a lot of people just try and look for hidden meanings in what may just be a very simple thing.
01:20:07.000It's like, the Tree of Knowledge is a book.
01:20:12.000I was thinking last night how ancient, like the Egyptians, do you think that they were like going into trances, like psychedelic trances, and really seeing like shapes and patterns?
01:20:21.000Bro, you know why DMT is so fascinating and why there's a meme about Joe Rogan asking people if they've ever tried DMT and why now we have Ian who asks people if they've tried DMT?
01:20:51.000So there was one story I was watching, I think it was on Vice, and they were saying there was a guy who had done DMT, and there was a woman that he had met, and whenever he would trip, he would see the same... in the same place, he would see the same... Purple lady?
01:21:11.000He did DMT a whole bunch of times, went to outer space, met this purple lady, and then he got his friend to do DMT, and while he was high, he said, hey, the people here know you.
01:21:47.000Yeah, and I started talking about it on Instagram.
01:21:49.000I was like, I've seen a goddess, full-on, 100% sure there's a goddess out there.
01:21:53.000I'm a pretty level-headed person even though I'm on an all-meat diet.
01:21:56.000Yeah I was like purple and I saw on two different drugs psilocybin high-dose psilocybin and ACO DMT which is not DMT it's pretty much it's like a chemical version of psilocybin so I saw two different drugs exactly same hallucination I was like what the fuck is that so I started talking about it on Instagram and someone got in touch and was like Shane Moss he saw the purple lady and I went to his profile and someone had drawn her and it was exactly the same thing I'd seen.
01:23:18.000And they'll all say, like, we saw similar things.
01:23:20.000I'm wondering, like, Could it be if we all have similar source code, you know, I'm using a metaphor for like what makes our brains work, that when you're taking these things, what you're really just seeing is your own code.
01:23:31.000And of course we have similar code because we're all people.
01:23:34.000So when people are like, I saw this, it's like, right.
01:23:36.000When you look at the source code of programs, you'll see very similar lines.
01:23:40.000And sometimes many programs have the exact same line of code that does a certain function.
01:24:57.000They're taking people, and I think it's in England, and they're putting them in laboratories and then keeping them on like a DMT drip for, I don't know how long, but days I think, days at a time.
01:25:05.000How is that, that's past an ethics board?
01:25:12.000Okay, if you take, people aren't very aware of this because they're like, oh you take ayahuasca and that's like a really intense drug, but ayahuasca doesn't last very long and when you go to those retreats you take it multiple times because it wears off.
01:25:23.000Taking high dose mushrooms, like if you take like six, if you're me and you take like five and a half grams, or if you're somebody bigger you take more, that'll give you a similar hallucinogenic experience as something like DMT.
01:25:34.000Like I couldn't see, I went to outer space, but it lasts for like six hours.
01:26:11.000What I was told at the time, and this is probably one of the first things I heard about it, they said, when you die, your brain, your glands or whatever, releases a high dose of DMT.
01:26:22.000And so then my other friend was just like, what if, when you die, You get sent into an inner universe through the DMT release into your brain and then you live a full other life.
01:26:52.000DMT is released in your brain and you go to another deeper level like Inception and one day it's all gonna snap back and then you're gonna go back to your original life and that's the end.
01:27:37.000Well, yeah, it was crazy So I can't imagine I can't believe that they're allowed to do that because I know even this guy Shane He was like, yeah, I did it 300 times.
01:27:46.000Oh, yeah Yeah, he ended up in a psych ward and he said that he kept going to visit these aliens and this purple woman and the purple woman was a girlfriend and So we got to that, and eventually the aliens were saying, I want to come back to Shane's world.
01:27:59.000Like, you keep coming here, I want to come back.
01:28:00.000And he was like, oh fuck, I can't bring you back.
01:28:02.000You guys are like, you're aliens, I can't bring you back.
01:28:04.000I'm like, no one's believing me anyway!
01:28:05.000Because they were like, don't talk about us down there.
01:28:08.000And it was so real, and he did it so many times, even though it was very short-lasted.
01:30:08.000But we don't know what happens when you stay in those states for extended periods of time.
01:30:12.000Even like mushrooms, if you do one of those high doses, it lasts, it wears off, and you can continue doing it, but you don't get the same kind of experience, right?
01:30:24.000And I've noticed if I space them closely together the trips will get they'll change and it'll get worse And I think it's some sort of sign like don't do these too frequently like be careful with your body So now I space it out because it affects the trip so I think putting people into an extended date state of a DMT high when it only lasts a certain number of minutes is super dangerous Yeah, it's careful yeah, but for that long like I don't know some people What we would need to do is we would need to go to the exact same place where you or Shane did their trip with the Purple Lady.
01:30:58.000Take someone who doesn't speak English from a country with totally different cultural norms and then give them a similar dose and see if they could describe anything similar because if they did that would be trippy.
01:31:16.000Like short and Like kind of greenish and with little pointy ears and like ugly, super ugly.
01:31:24.000So do you think that a lot of like our fairy tale figures and some of that stuff from history that like the Brothers Grimm wrote about was maybe the result of some kind of drug trip?
01:31:32.000Because to me that seems to make sense.
01:34:59.000You get past a hundred people and now no one knows who's doing what.
01:35:03.000And people get confused, and so they invented money, and then you get right libertarianism, where it's like, okay, I'll just give you this universal trade medium to exchange the labor that we're all doing.
01:35:13.000So, that's why left libertarianism doesn't scale very well.
01:35:19.000All right, Liz B says, Love you, Michaela.
01:35:30.000You can't drive over the border, but you can fly, and people don't bug you because the border is full of Americans, and they're like, we don't care.
01:35:37.000And you do, it's getting back is still a bit iffy, but I've had COVID, so I don't have to quarantine.
01:40:41.000How are you going to eat that chicken?
01:40:43.000To be fair, the cast of Chicken City I don't think will ever be eaten.
01:40:50.000So we're building the new coon, we're putting cameras up, and then we're going to have chicken drama, and we're going to have team Margaret and team Vanessa.
01:41:39.000But I was in there and I was collecting eggs and he like jump kicked my leg and I turned around and I'm not gonna say I kicked him but I like slowly put my my boot and lifted him up and just like give him a little like push and then he went nuts and ran away screaming and was freaking out.
01:41:54.000It's like you can't let him attack you in a certain like position over you.
01:42:00.000That's what happens in Zelda when you hit a chicken they run around like that too.
01:42:03.000Well, so, like, the issue is, if he thinks that he's on top of the pecking order with the people, someone might go in there and he might run up and start pecking them, and, you know, so I have to be, like... You have to be on the top of the diamond side.
01:42:58.000That means I'm allowed to put my hand on anyone's waist, even though I'm hideously ugly, hideously ugly, and resemble a chimpanzee full of snakes.
01:43:36.000Ryan Berkabile says, if you ever see pics of Keanu, he looks like he's holding everyone's lower back, but in reality, when you zoom in, his hand is always hovering two inches away.
01:44:39.000But it's a sign of, we hear all these stories where it's like, you crossed the line by, you know, you put your hand on someone's shoulder and took a picture with them.
01:44:47.000I'm like, look, what if he was at an event and he's leaving and a young woman comes up and she's like, Hey, and she comes up with him and she puts her arm around him and he grabs her and turns out she's, you know, 16 or something.
01:44:56.000And then they're like, Oh no, look at this improper.
01:44:59.000So he's just like, I'm not touching you.
01:45:49.000Although he doesn't understand much of the content now, I pray you are all still around when he has grown in this crazy world searching for truth.
01:48:05.000I think, like, the health state of North America is so catastrophic.
01:48:11.000If you go to other places, like you go to Serbia or Croatia, people there look like a different species from certain areas in the states here.
02:00:18.000Alright, Kevin Houser says, Yo Tim et al, y'all are awesome.
02:00:21.000Would you ask your guest for thoughts on ephatic coupling?
02:00:25.000How neurons in the brain communicate wirelessly?
02:00:27.000One love and be transformed by the renewal of your minds.
02:00:31.000Ephatic coupling is fascinating because basically the way neurons interact electromagnetically is they send an electromagnetic charge from one neuron to the next, and that's how they communicate thoughts.
02:00:40.000But there's other ways called ephatic coupling where they seem to communicate without any electricity.
02:00:46.000I don't know if they're vibrating other neurons elsewhere.
02:00:50.000And they've seen it, from what I've studied, in one brain, they see ephatic coupling between a neuron here and a neuron there.
02:01:12.000You know when you, like, call someone and it's busy?
02:01:14.000I don't know, it used to be the phones would be busy.
02:01:16.000They'd be calling you at the exact same moment that you called them.
02:01:19.000You know, I had a weird experience where my friend called my friend and I called one of them and I got into their phone call and they couldn't hear me and I was listening.
02:01:55.000All right, Sonny James says, Don't feel hopeful by any of these resignations.
02:01:59.000Much like I didn't feel the Gates divorce would haul the faces of the criminal syndicate to prison, to me, Cuomo or Newsom's resignation means nothing to derail the syndicate, just a semblance of accountability IMO.
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