Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Democrat Senator INDICTED On Bribery Charges, Dem Mayor QUITS, Joins GOP w-Vince Dao

00:00:00.000 Senator Bob Menendez.

00:00:08.000 He's a Democrat.

00:00:09.000 He has just been indicted on bribery charges for accepting gold bars.

00:00:14.000 This is going to be an interesting story because this dude's been, he's been, I think he's been criminally charged before.

00:00:19.000 He's been, let's just say, he's been on the wrong side of the law in the past.

00:00:23.000 And, uh, here we go again.

00:00:24.000 I don't think anyone's surprised to hear this news, but it's going to have a tremendous impact on the Senate.

00:00:28.000 I'm wondering what this will mean for New Jersey and for the balance of power in the Senate.

00:00:33.000 And then, of course, we have that we have a the Democrat mayor of Dallas switches to the Republican Party.

00:00:40.000 This is going to be really interesting.

00:00:42.000 What we see moving forward in 2024, of course, we've been seeing a lot of interesting things.

00:00:46.000 There's not necessarily any evidence of direct correlation, but when you see someone in a Democrat city say outright, we need Republicans, I'm switching, that's it.

00:00:55.000 I think 2024 is going to get really interesting in terms of people are insane, there's going to be prosecutions, there's going to be conflict, but we're going to see weird stories in the press.

00:01:04.000 And, uh, well, may you live in interesting times.

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00:02:52.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and a whole lot more is Vince Dao.

00:02:55.000 Good to see everyone.

00:02:56.000 Yeah, my name is Vince Dow.

00:02:57.000 I'm a Gen Z conservative content creator, and you may recognize me from that one Vice panel where the other Asians were going crazy, and I just was very calm, and everyone has seen that. 1.00

00:03:10.000 Not everyone, but a lot of people in the sector have seen that.

00:03:12.000 So if you've seen that, that's, of course, me.

00:03:14.000 And, you know, great to be here and good to be with you, Tim, of course.

00:03:16.000 Right on.

00:03:17.000 Thanks for hanging out.

00:03:18.000 We got Phil Labonte.

00:03:19.000 My name is Phil Labonte, lead singer of All That Remains, a failed musician guy, anti-communist and counter-revolutionary.

00:03:19.000 Hello, everybody.

00:03:26.000 A communist called you a failed musician?

00:03:28.000 Is Hassan a communist or a socialist? 1.00

00:03:30.000 Ah, it's the same garbage, you know. 0.98

00:03:33.000 Socialism, the end goal of socialism is communism, said Lenin. 0.98

00:03:37.000 This is like, ah, dude. 0.98

00:03:38.000 Yeah, so Hassan was doing a podcast and he said Phil was a failed musician and it's like, bro, if you're that desperate and that's the only move you have to make against someone because you don't have an argument to say that a platinum recording artist who just opened for Metallica has failed, I'm like, damn, what success?

00:03:53.000 Uh, apparently it's, uh, quitting The Leftovers is success.

00:03:57.000 That's what I hear.

00:03:58.000 He quit?

00:03:59.000 That's what I hear.

00:04:00.000 I don't know for sure, but I hear that he was leaving The Leftovers.

00:04:02.000 The Leftovers.

00:04:03.000 I mean, look, Ethan Klein gave him the business, and that was the thing that I was poking at him about.

00:04:09.000 And then the very next, uh... How did you get destroyed by Ethan Klein?

00:04:13.000 I mean, he asked you questions about Communist China, and you're afraid of your chat.

00:04:20.000 He's terrified of his chat, and he doesn't want to say anything too anti-China, so you know.

00:04:24.000 And then the whole next episode, I watched it just recently, they just, Ethan and Hasan are just, or Ethan's picking Hasan apart.

00:04:33.000 Wow.

00:04:33.000 Yeah.

00:04:34.000 Hasan's socialism is not strong.

00:04:36.000 Yeah.

00:04:36.000 Wow.

00:04:36.000 Well, Ian's here.

00:04:37.000 Hey everybody, what's up?

00:04:38.000 Ian Cross on.

00:04:39.000 I'd love to get Hasan in the house. 1.00

00:04:40.000 We've been meaning to have him on anyway, so maybe now's a good time.

00:04:43.000 Get this all hashed out face-to-face.

00:04:45.000 Play some music together.

00:04:47.000 Good to see you, Vince.

00:04:48.000 Well, he of course is always welcome.

00:04:49.000 I just really don't see that as being a reality.

00:04:51.000 That'd be great!

00:04:53.000 It would be cool to get him here.

00:04:54.000 I mean, he was the bro bible guy.

00:04:56.000 Like, I feel like somewhere deep down, you can have a real conversation, but...

00:05:02.000 If someone's built their career off making money, and their whole plan is like, what kind of content can I do to make money?

00:05:06.000 There's apparently some scandal involving Dylan Mulvaney related to this, like a video came out.

00:05:10.000 But we've talked about it before, where if you look at Dylan's early content, it's like throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.

00:05:17.000 These people aren't going to betray an ideology when the whole purpose of their ideology is to make money.

00:05:22.000 And I hate the term grifter, but I've seen Hasan just sit there and he'll react to stuff, and basically just eats food the whole time, says a couple comments, and it sells because it's reaction content, I don't know.

00:05:34.000 He's a big boy, he takes a lot of things to do.

00:05:36.000 I mean, the real secret is for a lot of these online communities, it's a place to hang out.

00:05:40.000 Exactly, exactly.

00:05:41.000 Well, let's jump into the news!

00:05:43.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Bob Menendez has been charged with accepting gold bar bribes.

00:05:47.000 Hey man, I gotta say, if you're gonna take bribes, gold bars is the way to do it.

00:05:51.000 Smart.

00:05:51.000 So, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez has been indicted for bribery, according to a statement from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

00:05:57.000 Menendez is currently the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

00:06:01.000 The Democrat and his wife, Nadine, have been under federal investigation since 2022.

00:06:04.000 The couple is allegedly believed to have taken $400,000 worth of gold bars from New Jersey developer and former bank chairman Fred Diabas.

00:06:12.000 How do you pronounce it?

00:06:12.000 Diabs?

00:06:14.000 And his associates, Wael Hanna and Jose Uribe.

00:06:18.000 In exchange, Menendez reportedly agreed to use his official influence to sway the Justice Department, which had accused Diabes of bank crimes.

00:06:29.000 Newly unsealed documents filed in New York accused Menendez and his wife of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.

00:06:35.000 In exchange, freezing Menendez's power and influence as a senator to seek, protect, and enrich Hanna Uribe. 0.99

00:06:43.000 Yeah, something like that.

00:06:43.000 Uribe?

00:06:44.000 Uribe.

00:06:44.000 It looks like... And Diabus?

00:06:46.000 Diabus says there's a little typo there.

00:06:48.000 It says D-A-I instead of D-I-A.

00:06:50.000 To the benefit of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

00:06:53.000 Wow.

00:06:54.000 Well, the first thing I'm gonna say is the federal government, especially the Southern District of New York, gets zero benefit of the doubt from me.

00:07:03.000 And I gotta say, I...

00:07:07.000 I am biased against, you know, individuals like Menendez and many Democrats.

00:07:11.000 But I will tell you this, I am more biased against the Southern District of New York for the things they've done.

00:07:16.000 Aren't they the ones that have been going after Project Veritas?

00:07:19.000 Maybe I'm wrong about that.

00:07:20.000 But I know that they're going after Trump.

00:07:23.000 Not a fan of these guys, and so I will actually say, you know, I'll give Menendez the benefit of the doubt.

00:07:28.000 Let's hear what they have to say.

00:07:29.000 First and foremost, no matter who someone is, innocent until proven guilty.

00:07:33.000 But I am not going to jump on throwing Menendez under the bus simply because he's a Democrat.

00:07:38.000 I do not trust SDNY.

00:07:41.000 I do not trust federal prosecutors.

00:07:43.000 I think the moment the Feds tried, and New York goes after Trump for political reasons, Anything they do is tainted, no matter what.

00:07:51.000 So maybe they want to go after Menendez?

00:07:52.000 Fine.

00:07:53.000 Maybe it benefits Republicans in the long run?

00:07:55.000 Sure, whatever.

00:07:55.000 Don't care.

00:07:56.000 These people are evil and I don't trust them.

00:07:58.000 Do you guys have a gold sponsor? Because if you do, this would be a great time.

00:08:01.000 Hey, the politicians are trying to take the gold.

00:08:05.000 So what do you think you should be doing?

00:08:07.000 Yeah, I mean, it's interesting.

00:08:09.000 There probably has to be a reason they're going after him, I'd have to imagine.

00:08:12.000 I mean, you've seen the same thing, you said Southern District of New York, right?

00:08:16.000 You kind of saw how the political system in New York went after Andrew Cuomo, one of their own, because, you know, clearly something there fell out of favor.

00:08:23.000 So I really wonder what the backstory is here, because I couldn't imagine they're just gonna go after him just because, oh, he's a corrupt politician, right?

00:08:30.000 So there's probably something more to the story, I would have to imagine.

00:08:34.000 All Menendez has to do right now is have a press conference and say that one week ago he began drafting a resolution for the Senate to end the persecution and prosecution of Donald Trump because it was disruptive to our democracy and then all of a sudden he's being indicted and just let her rip.

00:08:53.000 Interesting.

00:08:55.000 The Democrats are in the seat of power.

00:08:57.000 Yeah.

00:08:57.000 What could he say right now in favor of Democrats that would get Democrats?

00:09:02.000 Nothing.

00:09:03.000 If he came out and said, I hate Donald Trump, please, they'd be like, too bad.

00:09:06.000 We don't care.

00:09:06.000 But if he came out and was like, I wanted to, I was arguing to end the prosecution of Trump because this is not the way the Democratic Party should be operating, that would actually earn him some benefit.

00:09:16.000 He would get political tribalists being like, we'll let you slide on this one.

00:09:19.000 Keep talking.

00:09:22.000 I don't really have a take other than, you know, if you can get gold bars, get them.

00:09:27.000 I'm very glad you started off the segment talking about the presumption of innocence.

00:09:30.000 That's a real important part of the next 20 or 30 years of American livelihood.

00:09:34.000 Yeah, but the problem is we, we be good people.

00:09:38.000 So I will, I have no problem saying like, I don't know what this guy was involved in, but you better prove it before I'm willing to throw someone in jail or whatever.

00:09:45.000 Every day.

00:09:45.000 Beyond a reasonable thought.

00:09:46.000 But the problem is, the Democrats don't extend that in the other direction.

00:09:49.000 No.

00:09:49.000 So at this point, is it like, well, you know what?

00:09:51.000 You stick that label on your name, and you get no favors from me.

00:09:55.000 No, I think that's what the deep power wants, is for us to forego rule of law and just start going at each other.

00:10:02.000 They're frothing, waiting for you to tear yourself apart.

00:10:04.000 Well, they're using the law.

00:10:07.000 I don't see how you get to foregoing the rule of law.

00:10:11.000 If he's being prosecuted by New York, they're using the law against him.

00:10:19.000 Now granted, it doesn't look good.

00:10:21.000 It looks like he actually did this stuff.

00:10:23.000 But that being said, you should be innocent until proven guilty.

00:10:27.000 You know or you should be treated that way, but it's not like it's not like they're after like it's not like there's there's an attempt to get around the law or circumvent the law Except for on his case his case.

00:10:37.000 I don't see that that it's a right-left thing is what I guess is what I'm getting Here's the thing is that I don't even want to use the term Democrats.

00:10:44.000 I think it's more so There's a lot of people in the Uniparty who have gotten away with genuine, legitimate crimes that, you know, no one ever indicted, no one ever tried to even investigate.

00:10:53.000 So I do think to some degree, considering what they're doing to Trump and, you know, a lot of people on our side for very frivolous reasons very often, I do think in the future, if we ever want to kind of...

00:11:04.000 Balance out the playing field.

00:11:06.000 I do think you're gonna have to at some point try to hold the other side or the uniparty I should say really more so accountable for the things that they're just straight-up getting away with that are real crime So I'm not saying obviously fabricate crimes or try to you know, just go after people to go after them but I think you've seen them turn a blind eye to a lot of establishment politicians over the years and I think To balance out the situation now, I think you know I just don't know if I'll trust any of them no matter what.

00:11:34.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:11:35.000 It's just none of it, none of it.

00:11:38.000 It's probably not going to happen, but it's just, you know, in theory.

00:11:41.000 They ignore Epstein.

00:11:42.000 All of them do.

00:11:43.000 And the problem I have is that for a lot of these powerful corrupt individuals that we know about, Any prosecutor could have gone after him.

00:11:51.000 Absolutely, yeah, you're right.

00:11:52.000 There is justification for, when it comes to these politicians and high-profile individuals, they do work in jurisdictions all across the country.

00:12:00.000 There are grounds for it.

00:12:02.000 That's why New York is going after Trump.

00:12:03.000 They'll find a way.

00:12:05.000 But Republicans don't do anything.

00:12:07.000 I was thinking last night, like, if you tear open an evil system and you rip back the curtain and show everyone how evil it is, you're providing a threat for the system's stability.

00:12:17.000 Even if it's evil, if you expose it, it can disrupt and then the system could fall apart.

00:12:21.000 So what'll happen is people will try and just show you a little bit of it at a time, but that's like...

00:12:27.000 Poking a needle into a balloon and trying to stop it from popping, trying to hold it tight.

00:12:31.000 And it's like, once evil gets exposed a little, the rest of it just comes pouring out.

00:12:35.000 And trying to suppress people's awareness of it is almost doing more damage to the system than just letting it... It's building up.

00:12:42.000 Yeah, that's what it feels like.

00:12:44.000 There is a postule full of pus on the United States that they just keep slapping Band-Aids over, and it just keeps getting bigger and worse. 0.96

00:12:52.000 And when this thing pops, ooh, it's gonna suck.

00:12:55.000 But man, you can't just keep thinking like, this is what they do in terms of the economy, as we were talking about with debt and war, and one of the theories, there is a theory, I could call it a conspiracy, I don't know if it's a conspiracy theory or a hypothesis, that the purpose of the stimulus during COVID was not really COVID.

00:13:12.000 It was, hey, here's our chance to flood the economy with printed money so that we can pay down the debt and kick the can down the road for a couple more years because A monetary system which produces more debt than currency eventually collapses.

00:13:27.000 Well, that's something that Austrians and Libertarians and even fiscal conservatives have been talking about.

00:13:35.000 I mean, we are in a new paradigm now considering the fact that the government and the Federal Reserve is working under a modern monetary theory.

00:13:43.000 So it's MMT all the way.

00:13:45.000 The idea that they're taxing to pay for things, that's something that people should just put

00:13:51.000 out of their heads.

00:13:52.000 The point of taxes is to control inflation.

00:13:55.000 That's it.

00:13:56.000 Just to take money from people.

00:13:57.000 They're going to use, they're going to print up the money that they, that they, you know,

00:14:00.000 whatever they need to do, whatever their, whatever program they want, whatever they

00:14:04.000 need, they just print it.

00:14:06.000 The fact that the federal government collects taxes means that the dollar has a value because

00:14:12.000 you have to get dollars to pay those taxes.

00:14:15.000 They use taxes and interest rates to control inflation.

00:14:18.000 There is nothing backing it.

00:14:19.000 The only value that comes from your dollar is from the demand for taxes.

00:14:23.000 So we have to get away, or people should try to get away from the idea that we are using taxes to pay for projects.

00:14:32.000 And the argument against MMT is it gives the government Unlimited authority to print money and do whatever they want with finances outside of the... Let me read some of this real quick from NBC just to give some context.

00:14:46.000 Apparently his wife is also being charged.

00:14:49.000 And they say that federal agents said they discovered many of the items, many of these items were, when they executed search warrants in the couple's home, they found more than $480,000 in cash, much of it stuffed into envelopes and hidden in clothing, closets, and a safe, including jackets bearing the senator's name that were hanging in his closet.

00:15:06.000 As well as more than $70,000 in Nadine's safe deposit box, the indictment alleges.

00:15:11.000 I mean, this is pretty wild.

00:15:13.000 Whose money was he holding?

00:15:15.000 They got photos of like a sweater.

00:15:17.000 Let me pull this up because I was just reading it on my phone.

00:15:20.000 Let me pull it up.

00:15:21.000 I wanted to ask you, Phil, do you know of any historical examples of a nation or an empire being in the level of debt that we are right now?

00:15:28.000 So this is kind of like uncharted territory.

00:15:29.000 No, and also MMT is still a fairly new theory.

00:15:34.000 Yeah.

00:15:35.000 I wanted to comment really quickly on Tim's quote-unquote conspiracy theory.

00:15:38.000 It's funny, we talk about the Great Reset, living in pods, and very often the natural reaction is people would never accept that.

00:15:44.000 But that is the thing, is that when everything becomes unaffordable, when you can't afford a home, where are you going to live?

00:15:49.000 You can't afford food, you know, what's the next reaction to that?

00:15:53.000 So if it all lined up and that was the purpose of COVID, to basically destroy the current order and traditional American way of life in So that way it gets worse and worse, and now eventually people ten years from now will basically just accept a quasi-great reset.

00:16:08.000 I think it's, uh, interesting to say the least, right?

00:16:10.000 I- I wanna- I- We got this picture pulled up, and it is... It's a- It's a decent amount of money.

00:16:16.000 I mean, let me look- It's probably a couple grand.

00:16:19.000 Serious question though, for like, for what reason?

00:16:21.000 It's an honest question.

00:16:22.000 I'm not saying- I'm not- This is not rhetorical.

00:16:24.000 Honest question.

00:16:24.000 For what purpose...

00:16:26.000 Would someone have $5,000 to $10,000 in $100 bills in an envelope, hidden, just like stuffed in the pocket, in a closet, in a sweater?

00:16:34.000 It's not his.

00:16:35.000 That's my initial thought is, whose money is this?

00:16:39.000 And why is he holding on to it?

00:16:41.000 I think he's a scapegoat.

00:16:42.000 I think they're throwing him under the rug, saying, look, the DOJ plays fair.

00:16:45.000 Look at us.

00:16:46.000 I mean, it could be his money, because if he is taking bribes, that's what makes sense.

00:16:50.000 He doesn't want a paper trail, so he does hard paper.

00:16:53.000 But we live in a world of crypto.

00:16:55.000 Like, I think it's very... Crypto's not safe.

00:16:57.000 Yeah, they got AI that can track all that stuff.

00:17:00.000 This guy's been hard on crypto, actually.

00:17:02.000 This guy was notoriously pushing hard against one of the crypto companies, what was it, like a year ago.

00:17:09.000 I read that earlier today, and I didn't dig into how bad it was, but it's like, It's like, uh, you know, harmonious that this guy who's anti-crypto is taking bribes.

00:17:20.000 So like, what, you know, who's the real villain in this situation?

00:17:23.000 Yo, look at these gold bars, wow.

00:17:26.000 Gold bars?

00:17:28.000 What do you do with gold bars?

00:17:30.000 Put them in a safe.

00:17:31.000 It says Swiss Bank Corporation.

00:17:32.000 I know, but like, look man, I know gold is valuable, but...

00:17:37.000 How are you going to move this amount of money?

00:17:40.000 Like what's your plan?

00:17:41.000 If you're a regular person and you are like, I would like to hedge, you know, have a hedge or, or, or, you know, a hard asset or whatever.

00:17:47.000 It's like, Oh, I totally get it.

00:17:49.000 Totally get buying gold.

00:17:50.000 I have a little bit, I have most more silver than gold, but no, it makes sense.

00:17:53.000 But if you're taking bribes.

00:17:55.000 What are you going to do with it?

00:17:56.000 There was a bunch and lots of envelopes, different envelopes.

00:17:59.000 That makes me think that they're going to start trafficking cash off-site.

00:18:02.000 They may have already started trafficking cash off-site if they're in little envelopes.

00:18:05.000 You know what's kind of funny about this, though, is this is a very old-school New York, New Jersey political scandal.

00:18:11.000 He has a bunch of cash money, gold bars, mafia, very aesthetic going there.

00:18:18.000 You know, it kind of amuses me, to tell you the truth.

00:18:21.000 It's an old school political scandal.

00:18:23.000 It is very Breaking Bad, Ozark, you know.

00:18:27.000 That's funny.

00:18:28.000 Oh yeah, so this is, Menendez was going hard on Venezuela's talk of Okay, now, I just gotta say, right here, nah, this doesn't move the needle for me.

00:18:41.000 I mean, he's got a couple grand in 50s.

00:18:44.000 He's got 20s right there, and it looks like it might be, like, 1,400, maybe, in 20s.

00:18:52.000 If they're super rich, having like a thousand bucks in a pocket somewhere, I'm okay, I can understand that for whatever, but that stack of hundreds, I'm like, for what purpose?

00:19:07.000 In the envelopes, because if a drug dealer has like a big block of weed, that's one thing, but if they have a bunch of little baggies of it, all split up, that's intent to sell.

00:19:16.000 That's intent to move, basically.

00:19:18.000 I mean, how rich is this guy?

00:19:20.000 What's his net worth?

00:19:21.000 I don't know.

00:19:22.000 I'm not, I'm not really, I don't really buy that he was attempting to move the money.

00:19:28.000 I think he was just sitting on it.

00:19:30.000 Honestly, I have a feeling, you know, if you're, if you've got gold bars, like what, what does, what does move mean to you?

00:19:37.000 Give it to his friends, send it overseas.

00:19:39.000 I'm not sure.

00:19:40.000 Put it in a pocket every time, every week.

00:19:43.000 Hold on.

00:19:43.000 We got opensecrets.org saying that his net worth as of 2018 was $541,000.

00:19:51.000 Whoa.

00:19:51.000 Ain't no way.

00:19:53.000 Ain't no way someone whose net worth is just a half a mil is dropping 5-10k in the coat pocket and ignoring it.

00:20:02.000 If this dude was worth a couple mil, I'd be like, maybe he was out partying with the boys at a bar.

00:20:06.000 He took out a bunch of cash.

00:20:07.000 Maybe he was doing Vegas or whatever.

00:20:08.000 I don't know.

00:20:09.000 There's... I mean...

00:20:11.000 You know, there's reasons, but not a dude who's worth this, and his assets are apparently his house.

00:20:17.000 So he's worth half a million dollars, but $375,000 is his house.

00:20:20.000 And then he makes $175,000 a year?

00:20:22.000 That is weird for him to be worth so little money, honestly, from... I don't think... I can't believe this, right?

00:20:28.000 Where, like, he's in New York... Yeah, but they've got to file their disclosures, though.

00:20:31.000 Yeah.

00:20:32.000 Okay, hold on here.

00:20:33.000 I don't know what CA Club India.

00:20:35.000 It says his net worth is 18 million.

00:20:36.000 Oh my gosh.

00:20:37.000 Okay.

00:20:38.000 But I don't know which one's real.

00:20:40.000 I know that he's got to... You've got... Well, the Open Secrets was 2018, right?

00:20:44.000 So... Right.

00:20:44.000 It was a while ago.

00:20:45.000 Could have changed, yeah.

00:20:46.000 I mean, wow.

00:20:46.000 Being in government makes you a lot of money, apparently.

00:20:49.000 Yeah.

00:20:49.000 You know?

00:20:49.000 According to what is this?

00:20:50.000 WealthyPersons.com, 600k.

00:20:51.000 Bob Menendez Googled how much is one kilo of gold worth around the time his wife accepted alleged bribes.

00:20:58.000 Wow.

00:20:58.000 I google that probably once a week to check on the price.

00:21:01.000 And you guys know that his daughter is an MSNBC host.

00:21:04.000 What if he barely knows about any of this?

00:21:05.000 And it's all his wife? 0.86

00:21:07.000 Imagine your wife getting... His daughter is a host on MSNBC, I'm pretty sure.

00:21:12.000 Really?

00:21:13.000 Yeah.

00:21:14.000 Daughter... Do you guys know who gave the bribe?

00:21:17.000 Alleged bribe?

00:21:19.000 Does it say in the article?

00:21:20.000 It doesn't.

00:21:21.000 I don't think so.

00:21:25.000 Bob Menendez's... Alicia?

00:21:28.000 Let's see, yeah, Alicia.

00:21:31.000 Alicia Menendez, anchor for MSNBC.

00:21:35.000 Shocking.

00:21:35.000 Is she still, I think?

00:21:37.000 She has hosted, well, I'm pretty sure she does stuff for them, but, you know, is it any surprise to, like, it's one big happy family tree, everybody.

00:21:47.000 You know, this is what they do.

00:21:48.000 Yeah.

00:21:49.000 Granted, I'll say it again, like, innocent until proven guilty, you know what I mean?

00:21:52.000 I don't care for this.

00:21:54.000 Bob Menendez Googling how much is a kilo of gold worth doesn't prove that he took a bribe.

00:21:58.000 Like, for all we know, his wife bought gold and they were like, we're gonna get rid of this guy because he's not playing ball with us.

00:22:02.000 I don't trust Bob Menendez.

00:22:04.000 I mean, he's been accused of a lot of things before.

00:22:07.000 And so, I'm not giving... I mean, first of all, for the most part, Democrats ain't getting the benefit of the doubt from me.

00:22:13.000 Well, that's the thing is the system is so corrupt these days that it shouldn't be like this, but the minute I see them go after someone.

00:22:19.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:22:20.000 The minute I see them go after someone, my first instinct isn't, okay, what did they do in terms of the crime?

00:22:26.000 It's why are they going after him, right?

00:22:28.000 And I think that's kind of a natural reaction we have in a lot of American life these days, you know?

00:22:34.000 Let's talk about this.

00:22:35.000 I want to jump to this story from CNN.

00:22:37.000 Dallas mayor switches parties to join GOP, alright?

00:22:41.000 We just covered a story about a Democrat being accused of taking bribes, being corrupt, and I think for most of you who watch our show, you probably don't have a very favorable view of Democrats, nor the majority of the Republican Party.

00:22:54.000 But the Democrats I widely view as corrupt tribalists who are just career politicians who are trying to extract what they can from the system.

00:23:01.000 So here you have this guy.

00:23:02.000 This is Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson responding to questions during a news conference.

00:23:06.000 And there are two issues that are brought up because of this.

00:23:08.000 Let me read a little bit.

00:23:09.000 Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he's switching parties and will serve as a Republican-affiliated mayor of the blue-leaning city.

00:23:16.000 While the Dallas mayoral office is nonpartisan, Johnson previously served as a Democrat in the Texas legislature.

00:23:23.000 He slammed his former party in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal published Friday, blaming Democratic policies for exacerbated crime and homelessness.

00:23:31.000 The future of America's great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation's mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism.

00:23:39.000 Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles as opposed to the inconsistent poll-driven commitment of many Democrats that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.

00:23:49.000 So, to clarify, The mayoral position is not a partisan position, so they usually don't say, like, the mayor's affiliation.

00:23:56.000 But he is.

00:23:57.000 He was a Democrat.

00:23:58.000 He ran, you know, in this style, this affiliation.

00:24:02.000 Now he's saying he is going to be joining the GOP and will be Republican affiliated as mayor.

00:24:07.000 The question I have is, first, If someone is in a Democrat city as a high-level politician, and they're going to switch to the GOP, either they're saying, I'm retiring, or they believe this is their path to maintaining their position and serving their constituents.

00:24:26.000 This is a black mayor in a Democrat city saying he's going to vote Republican, and we have more polling coming out from the Wall Street Journal, published in the Wall Street Journal and several other outlets, showing that Trump is polling very, very well among black and Hispanic Americans.

00:24:39.000 I'm wondering if this is a component of this as well.

00:24:43.000 If this is another individual who is polled and is outright saying, no more Democrat, now a Republican.

00:24:48.000 I have a feeling that this is that.

00:24:51.000 The conditions at the border are a significant factor in why the Dallas mayor is switching sides.

00:24:58.000 I can't see, I can't imagine that the people of Texas who are the most immediately affected by the border crisis, I can't see them saying, oh, it's fine.

00:25:09.000 I can't see them saying, oh, it's no big deal.

00:25:11.000 These people that live in Texas, like they know, they have friends that are in the border region, stuff like that.

00:25:18.000 I mean, granted, Texas is a big state, but still like these people are living with it every day.

00:25:23.000 And you see videos all the time of caravans of people coming to the border.

00:25:29.000 I just read a piece that said 300.

00:25:31.000 There was a record that 300,000 people crossed the border or were detained or apprehended, maybe is the best word.

00:25:42.000 300,000 people in one month.

00:25:43.000 It's a record.

00:25:44.000 I mean, the federal government is totally Abdicated their responsibility of securing the border.

00:25:51.000 The clown administration that we have put Kamala Harris in charge and she hasn't done anything at all. 1.00

00:25:57.000 They tried to deal with the dude, what's his name? 0.93

00:26:01.000 Not Mendez.

00:26:03.000 He was just on Capitol Hill talking to Congress.

00:26:08.000 The head of Homeland Security, either way.

00:26:10.000 Talking to him, they're talking about impeaching him.

00:26:12.000 I think his name is Mayorkas?

00:26:14.000 Yeah, talking about impeaching him.

00:26:16.000 And I don't know if anything's been done, but he has not done his job.

00:26:20.000 I think, here's how I see it.

00:26:22.000 There's that meme that I've brought up where it said, no one is trying to solve the problems.

00:26:26.000 They're trying to get rich enough to where the problems don't affect them.

00:26:29.000 And I'm like, that's a great motto for the modern Democratic Party.

00:26:33.000 Help us get rich enough so that your problems are no longer our problems.

00:26:33.000 Oh yeah.

00:26:38.000 Or like the problems affecting you won't affect us is a better way to put it.

00:26:41.000 I wonder what this means for 2024 because obviously if you know anything about Texas and the reason why people are scared it's quote-unquote going blue is two major population growths.

00:26:51.000 It's in Austin and Dallas, right?

00:26:53.000 And so if you're starting to see like Tim said is a possibility which is he's actually maybe doing it for a political reason because he believes that the city of Dallas is going to become more right-wing I could see that translating to the rest of the country too, and I do think you're not going to see Democrats do as well in big cities as they did in 2020, because crime, homelessness, illegal immigration, all of it's adding up.

00:27:15.000 So I wonder if there's something of a new urban appeal for the Republican Party, not to obviously win a majority of any of these cities, but at least to crack You know, I'm sure the Democrats need a certain quota, that way they can outnumber the rural areas of a state like Texas, or Georgia, or even Michigan, up in the Midwest, states like that.

00:27:34.000 So, I wonder what it means for 2024.

00:27:36.000 Yeah.

00:27:37.000 I really do.

00:27:37.000 The toxic compassion route has failed them, that's for sure.

00:27:40.000 Right.

00:27:40.000 Bring as many people, unlimited, more, more, more, more people, more people, more people, and then all of a sudden you realize you're surrounded by homeless people that don't have food.

00:27:48.000 And you know, it's interesting, I'm from Los Angeles.

00:27:50.000 You know, most of the family, friends, and stuff we grew up with are Democrat.

00:27:54.000 But, I'm noticing a very real trend in the people I knew growing up now trending I'd say more independent Maybe moderate maybe some even just have flat-out become Republicans because they're just seeing it's too expensive Crime, you know, it's it's dangerous homelessness everywhere.

00:28:12.000 We just can't do this anymore So like I said, I'm not gonna sell anyone here a delusion that oh my gosh Republicans are gonna suddenly flip LA or California But like I said in swing states where the big city is our problem I think a few points off of popularity for the Democrats could make the difference in one of these states, you know, in the presidential election.

00:28:32.000 I don't know if the immigration would be as heavy as it is without the internet.

00:28:36.000 I don't know if the internet's played a part in allowing this to happen or if it's just allowed us to see what's happening.

00:28:40.000 Because I think if this had happened without an internet, it would be happening without us knowing.

00:28:44.000 And then all of a sudden one day we'd wake up and there would be 60 million people from foreign countries in our country we wouldn't know and they'd already be here controlling things. 0.99

00:28:53.000 Now we can kind of see it in real time and adjust and maybe help prevent a catastrophe.

00:28:59.000 And I think people are willing to alter their political parties at the very least if they feel like that might make a difference.

00:29:05.000 Or maybe just sit home.

00:29:06.000 You know, I think that's another issue.

00:29:08.000 You talk about black turnout.

00:29:09.000 I'm not, I don't think Republicans are going to come close to winning a majority of the black vote, but I think a lot of these people who they normally bust to the polls and all of that in the inner cities might just say, uh, I don't really care for this right now. 0.93

00:29:21.000 You know what I mean?

00:29:22.000 Um, so I, I think you could see that too, just a drop off in turnout of their base, even if it's not for us.

00:29:28.000 Right, right, right.

00:29:29.000 I think that's actually what the polls, uh, show.

00:29:31.000 Yeah.

00:29:33.000 There are, there are polls showing Conservatives are improving, but I think what you actually see when you look at the bigger picture is that... Disaffectedness.

00:29:33.000 I should clarify.

00:29:41.000 Yeah, support for Democrats is way down, and support for Republicans, a little bit.

00:29:44.000 Right.

00:29:45.000 So there are some people who are like, I'm gonna vote for the other guy, but most people are just saying, I am not voting Democrat.

00:29:49.000 There's no fuel.

00:29:50.000 There's no fuel.

00:29:51.000 Like, people didn't vote for Biden, they voted against Trump, right?

00:29:53.000 Right.

00:29:54.000 He's not the president right now.

00:29:56.000 The President's Biden, so if you're feeling like life sucks right now, you gotta look at President Biden and be like, he's not the guy.

00:30:01.000 Anybody but him.

00:30:02.000 So it may not be pro-Trump people, but they're just like, like you said, they might just stay home.

00:30:07.000 They might not go out and vote.

00:30:08.000 They're like, I can't vote for Trump, but I'm not voting for Biden.

00:30:10.000 And think about all the people who, you probably know people like this, that say, if it's Trump versus Biden, I'm just gonna leave that blank.

00:30:17.000 That helps Trump, because Trump has a base in Biden less so.

00:30:21.000 Trump not only has a base, but he has disaffected liberals.

00:30:25.000 There are a lot of people who don't like Trump who will vote for him, because Trump's personality issues and ego is nothing compared to Biden's failures with the economy, foreign policy failures.

00:30:38.000 Eastern European war.

00:30:40.000 These are all just apocalyptic failures for our president.

00:30:42.000 It's true.

00:30:43.000 I mean, it is possible that he and Hunter, Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, got us into this war in the Middle East.

00:30:48.000 Obviously, Russia.

00:30:49.000 You mean in Ukraine?

00:30:50.000 Yeah, I call it the Middle East. 0.80

00:30:52.000 It's near the Middle East.

00:30:53.000 It's all kind of one area.

00:30:54.000 You know, Turkey.

00:30:55.000 Is Turkey the Middle East? 0.95

00:30:56.000 The Middle East of Europe.

00:30:56.000 It's right next to it.

00:30:57.000 Yeah.

00:30:58.000 And it's like, if Hunter went there and then got bribed to go on an energy board for Burisma, and then Biden just was like, yeah, let's make some money off this.

00:31:08.000 And then we got into a war.

00:31:10.000 Like, that's the most true.

00:31:13.000 Maybe not treason, but like, what, selling out the country for sending the country into a war to make profit?

00:31:18.000 I think it would be treason.

00:31:21.000 But I guess treason is specifically providing aid to a foreign adversary in time of war?

00:31:25.000 I don't think that it's that personal.

00:31:28.000 When it comes to the war in Ukraine, I think that there's a whole apparatus that is interested in seeing Russia hurt.

00:31:36.000 Actually, just mostly Russia hurt. 0.82

00:31:38.000 I think the support from Ukraine comes from the United States saying, it is better for our foreign policy to have a weaker Russia. 0.75

00:31:45.000 So when Russia decided they wanted to attack Ukraine or invade Ukraine, The U.S.

00:31:49.000 said, we will help Ukraine.

00:31:50.000 We will keep feeding them arms. 0.63

00:31:53.000 And essentially, it's the same model that, you know, we used or the U.S.

00:31:59.000 used when there were the Russians were in Afghanistan.

00:32:02.000 Right.

00:32:02.000 So you were feeding arms and ammunition and money to the Mujahideen and they were fighting Russians.

00:32:08.000 So that way, the Russians would feel the same pain that the U.S. 0.61

00:32:11.000 felt when the U.S.

00:32:12.000 was in Vietnam fighting the V.C.

00:32:15.000 And that was being funded by the Russians and the Chinese.

00:32:18.000 This is the kind of thing that happens or has happened regularly since the end of World War II because the Russians and the US and Russia can't get into an actual confrontation themselves because it'll likely turn into a nuclear war.

00:32:34.000 Military actions are horrible.

00:32:36.000 And you see, you know, war crimes are being posted on X every day.

00:32:41.000 I just saw one.

00:32:42.000 There's a dude trying to surrender to a drone and they keep dropping bombs on him because, well, he's the bad guy.

00:32:46.000 Well, that's a war crime. 0.91

00:32:47.000 If he's trying to surrender and they keep dropping hand grenades on him to kill him, that's a war crime. 0.71

00:32:51.000 And you see this stuff all the time.

00:32:52.000 And it's normal in these kind of, uh, well, it's normal in war and it's, it really does benefit the U.S. 0.97

00:33:00.000 Strategically, to have Russia engaged in a war and have Russia weakened by, you know, having a bunch of people die.

00:33:07.000 It's gotten so dark, Phil, like I'll watch these videos and you see the people gathered around the tablet flying this drone and they're laughing because they're disconnected from the carnage and the chaos they're causing.

00:33:17.000 To be fair, though, if you if if someone invades the United States, All bets are off.

00:33:24.000 You know, if someone invades your country, like, war crimes are for, like, people that are in, like, the U.S., when they were in World War II, had to worry about war crimes when they were in France, right?

00:33:24.000 Sure.

00:33:35.000 Nobody was looking at the French saying, you're committing war crimes because, you know, you're cutting Nazis' heads off or whatever.

00:33:40.000 Well, the Nazis invaded, you know, that's what happens. 0.80

00:33:43.000 And that's what tends to happen in war generally.

00:33:45.000 But it doesn't make it, you know, doesn't make it any less of a war crime. 0.53

00:33:48.000 Well, here's the thing.

00:33:50.000 You say, you know, the U.S.

00:33:51.000 thinks it strategically helps us to be funding this war, whatever.

00:33:55.000 But I would kind of make a counter-argument to that, which is, in many ways, we pushed Russia and Ukraine into this spot. 0.91

00:34:01.000 You kind of look at the history of the Minsk Accords and stuff over the years.

00:34:05.000 You know, the United States has stepped in repeatedly and told Ukraine, don't negotiate with Russia.

00:34:10.000 You know, they kept fanning the flames of this.

00:34:11.000 But then, what has happened now is a consequence of that. 1.00

00:34:14.000 Is Russia now in the moment may look kind of stupid. 0.99

00:34:16.000 Hey, look, their invasion isn't going so well. 1.00

00:34:19.000 Haha.

00:34:20.000 But what's long term?

00:34:21.000 What's long term happening is Russia is being back now into the corner of China and you know, they're all together now and meeting and there's an alliance there.

00:34:29.000 It's obviously forming.

00:34:30.000 People say all that's inevitable because they're both authoritarians.

00:34:33.000 That's not true at all.

00:34:34.000 When you look at the history of Russia and China, there's a reason why they've actually been a little bit more isolated and Putin's been nervous about going into China's hands, even when they were both Communist right the Soviet Union and Mao's China didn't even get along And I think Putin's been in this position the past few decades where he's not sure do I want to be Western or Eastern tries to play both sides We could have potentially if not an ally at least neutralized a very strong threat in having Russia not on the side of China in isolating China, but instead what we've done through the whole course of basically in many ways I would argue inciting this war and definitely feeling the flames of it and

00:35:13.000 Maybe they want it.

00:35:14.000 term we have a very powerful axis that we constructed ourselves and now we're

00:35:19.000 gonna have to fight at once and maybe they want it yeah maybe they want it

00:35:22.000 they create they create a problem yeah that gives them a crisis that they can 0.96

00:35:27.000 use to exploit and implement new policies plan maybe dick but I'm gonna 1.00

00:35:30.000 just err on the side of stupidity over malice on this one I agree 0.99

00:35:34.000 I think that the argument that a weak Russia makes a strong U.S. 0.98

00:35:37.000 is flawed, and I would argue that with any defense contractor, anyone in the administration, anyone that wants to talk, because a weakened Russia becomes a desperate Russia, and a desperate Russia has nuclear weapons.

00:35:48.000 That's not good for American sovereignty.

00:35:50.000 A strong Russia has nuclear weapons too, though.

00:35:51.000 Unless we're not concerned with their nuclear weapons for some reason.

00:35:54.000 Maybe, yeah, that's true.

00:35:55.000 And also, Russia seeks allies elsewhere, and that doesn't make a strong America.

00:36:00.000 This is a little bit of a non-sequitur.

00:36:01.000 I heard that Musk is contracting with the Feds to build Starshield or something, which is essentially the Iron Dome in the U.S.

00:36:10.000 Starshield?

00:36:11.000 I don't know if this is true.

00:36:13.000 It's a rumor that I heard, so I don't have any information on it.

00:36:16.000 That was from a year ago.

00:36:18.000 Yeah.

00:36:18.000 SpaceX unveils Starshield, a military variation of Starlink satellites.

00:36:22.000 Secure satellite networks.

00:36:24.000 Digital Iron Dome.

00:36:25.000 Okay, so then this is just an internet system?

00:36:28.000 Oh, it's a security system.

00:36:29.000 Well, it says security.

00:36:30.000 Does that mean like laser defense?

00:36:31.000 Well, I imagine it could be if you've got multiple satellites that are... It's just Starlink for the government.

00:36:36.000 Okay.

00:36:37.000 It's an isolated network so that it protects the government.

00:36:41.000 Dude, defending your satellites.

00:36:41.000 Star Shield.

00:36:43.000 I mean, in the near future, you have these things up there that can hit with bullets?

00:36:46.000 Space Force! 0.99

00:36:47.000 I mean, the thing is, if you can get a constellation of satellites similar to Starlink, then you can identify You know, missiles that are being shot from anywhere in the world.

00:36:58.000 You can pick them up as they're getting off the ground.

00:37:01.000 And the idea is, hopefully, you can shoot them down before they get over the U.S. 0.98

00:37:06.000 I mean, they have big lasers that they put in C-5As that can shoot down missiles.

00:37:12.000 And so, if you can get them before they actually try to deliver their MIRVs or whatever, that might be part of it.

00:37:18.000 And low-orbit satellite is the vehicle for these laser interception systems?

00:37:24.000 But how would they collect and store enough power?

00:37:26.000 Even with satellite, to store enough power for a directed energy weapon, it's insane.

00:37:32.000 It's going to be like years of charging up.

00:37:34.000 They can't even hold it.

00:37:35.000 I imagine that they're just to identify and notify the U.S.

00:37:39.000 that there is some kind of something going on.

00:37:40.000 And then ground level?

00:37:41.000 Yeah, when it takes off.

00:37:42.000 And then, like I said, you put a C5 in the air with a big chemical laser in it and they, you know, because you can scramble, if it's got 30 minutes, you can scramble a C5 in 10 if you have them on standby.

00:37:51.000 Get them in the air and get them before they're I kind of feel like they'd probably just go the traditional Iron Dome or THAAD method, which is launching rockets at rockets.

00:37:58.000 Should be, or could be, yeah.

00:37:59.000 I mean, maybe lasers are the last resort, but the range on them is not going to be strong enough.

00:38:05.000 The range on the lasers?

00:38:06.000 Yeah, I mean, by the time there's enough power in the laser, at least based on what we understand, The nuke is already in a very damaging radius of whatever the target is.

00:38:14.000 But if they have these laser systems, you know, strategically placed far outside of civilian or military areas, okay then, perhaps.

00:38:22.000 But if we're talking about a MIRV from Russia, which is going to be in the stratosphere, I don't know, man.

00:38:27.000 Send a plane to intercept it and hope that the laser mounted on, you know... That's what I think it is.

00:38:32.000 I know that they do, they have tested Lasers on you know mounted in big cargo planes because they're they're massive and they take up a lot of space and their chem their chemical lasers if I understand correctly But again, I'm not an expert at all.

00:38:46.000 So this is this is me relating what I've read So but you know, I imagine that that would make you know, Russia less of a threat but I still don't think that I wouldn't trust it anyway. 0.65

00:39:01.000 Lord, we're three, you're gonna count on your survival?

00:39:03.000 Hey, the government built some lasers, I don't think it would happen.

00:39:08.000 Hosted payloads.

00:39:10.000 It says, on its website, SpaceX says Starshield will have an initial focus on three areas, imagery, communications, and, quote, hosted payloads, a third of which effectively offers government customers the company's satellite bus, the body of the spacecraft, as a flexible platform.

00:39:25.000 What does that mean?

00:39:26.000 Like it's going to carry something?

00:39:27.000 Posted payload sounds like a virus that they're going to send.

00:39:31.000 A payload is usually some kind of weapon.

00:39:33.000 If you're talking about the payload on a nuclear weapon, the warhead would be the payload.

00:39:38.000 I don't know exactly what.

00:39:40.000 Hey look, if the US goes full low orbit ion cannon, I'm not complaining.

00:39:43.000 This does remind me a lot.

00:39:44.000 I actually am, but it's funny.

00:39:46.000 This does remind me a lot of the Star Wars stuff in the 1980s, so I wonder if this is actually a serious idea or just, you know, bluffing like it was in the 80s, obviously, with Reagan.

00:39:57.000 He had some, for people who are not familiar, he had some plan, some crazy plan with lasers, whatever it is.

00:40:03.000 They called it Star Wars as a joke.

00:40:05.000 Yeah, to shoot down Russian nukes and the whole thing was bluff, but the point of it, I guess, intuitively was... What?

00:40:14.000 I thought it was just that they didn't have the technology at the time.

00:40:17.000 Well, I think part of the reason they talked it up that way was because they wanted to get the Soviet Union to, you know, run up their military budget and basically blow up, yeah.

00:40:26.000 Now they have hypersonic.

00:40:27.000 Economically.

00:40:27.000 The hypersonic weaponry, I don't know enough about it to make claims.

00:40:30.000 It's actually slower.

00:40:31.000 It's slower than regular and econo?

00:40:32.000 Yep.

00:40:33.000 Oh, why is it touted as indefensible then?

00:40:36.000 They're like, you can't shoot down our hypersonic stuff.

00:40:38.000 Because they're talking about missiles, whereas an ICBM actually goes into orbit, and to get into orbit, it's 20,000 miles an hour, is how fast you have to go, something like that, to break Earth orbit.

00:40:49.000 Whereas hypersonic would be, you know, what's the speed of sound?

00:40:53.000 Oh, yeah.

00:40:54.000 750 miles an hour.

00:40:55.000 It's fine.

00:40:56.000 I think they travel five times speed of sound.

00:40:58.000 It has something to do with hypersonic missiles travel low, closer to the earth and are harder to track and respond to.

00:41:05.000 So with ICBMs, they go up, they go high, they go fast.

00:41:09.000 But the higher it goes with the curvature of the earth, the more the more range we have for detecting them, whereas hypersonics are low and slow.

00:41:17.000 The escape velocity of Earth is 33 times the speed of sound.

00:41:20.000 So a hypersonic missile is actually significantly slower than an ICBM.

00:41:27.000 Okay.

00:41:29.000 But yeah, hypersonic missiles.

00:41:31.000 So this is, check it out.

00:41:32.000 Here you go.

00:41:34.000 Yep.

00:41:34.000 This is from a couple of days ago.

00:41:35.000 This is amazing.

00:41:36.000 Hypersonic missile weapons are super fast.

00:41:39.000 So you can see ballistic missiles, hypersonic and cruise.

00:41:42.000 Hypersonic stays low and is outside radar detection.

00:41:46.000 Before, and then it's too late.

00:41:47.000 Yeah, this says the U.S.

00:41:48.000 Navy is developing directed energy systems as a potential defense against hypersonic.

00:41:52.000 It's a cool graphic.

00:41:53.000 And that's military, military aerospace dot com talks about the Navy's laser weapon defense.

00:41:59.000 And if they're talking about laser weapon defense openly, then they've probably got some nasty laser weapon defense.

00:42:04.000 Unless it's like a Star Wars bluff, like you were saying earlier.

00:42:06.000 This is basically what my point was, you can see right here in the graphic.

00:42:10.000 The graphic that I watched a while ago about this shows the curvature of the Earth and explains why radar detection is limited, and it's because as the Earth curves, the radar goes out.

00:42:20.000 And so there's certain areas where you're not going to see anything at the ground level and the hypersonics track closer to the ground and then slam to the target before you realize it.

00:42:27.000 The Boeing YAL-1 airborne laser tested weapon system was a megawatt class chemical oxygen iodine laser mounted inside a modified military Boeing 747-400F.

00:42:39.000 It was designed as a missile defense system to destroy tactical ballistic missiles while in boost phase.

00:42:43.000 I don't know if it's actually...

00:42:45.000 I don't know that it's being used.

00:42:46.000 It's tested.

00:42:47.000 So apparently these hypersonics go 20 times the speed of sound.

00:42:50.000 So maybe... Oh snap.

00:42:51.000 Wow.

00:42:51.000 Something could break.

00:42:52.000 Anywhere on the earth in a matter of hours.

00:42:54.000 Yeah.

00:42:55.000 In less than an hour. 0.99

00:42:56.000 Holy crap. 0.98

00:42:57.000 In less than one hour. 0.94

00:42:59.000 Man.

00:43:00.000 That's wild.

00:43:01.000 You know, one day there's gonna be like some prominent personality who's leading the charge against war or something, and then before anyone even realizes it, there's gonna be a crater where his house used to be.

00:43:10.000 And it's gonna be like, we have no idea what happened.

00:43:12.000 No one can see it.

00:43:13.000 I mean, look, Russia, it's pretty clear that Russia shot down that Prigozny guy. 1.00

00:43:20.000 They shot down his plane.

00:43:21.000 So I imagine that kind of technology in the hands of a regime like Russia or some other

00:43:29.000 less than democratic regime would do just that, smoke someone that is irritating them

00:43:35.000 without a 16-year-old and a restaurant.

00:43:38.000 But what if Starshield is actually radar detection from space to track hypersonics?

00:43:46.000 That's what I imagine.

00:43:47.000 So take a look at this, right?

00:43:49.000 They're showing right here in this graphic that the signal, the wave, is coming from the ground and going up and the radar can't detect beyond this angle.

00:43:59.000 What if you had a radar from space?

00:44:02.000 Then you'd have the inverse, then it would be able to see everything happening.

00:44:06.000 Like a spider web, anything that comes in, you can pinpoint it with thousands of satellites up there, you know exactly where it is.

00:44:13.000 Now you've got space radar, in which case it's hypersonic, you can track.

00:44:18.000 I like how the cruise missile just doesn't make it anywhere.

00:44:20.000 It's just like, 14 minutes it barely moves.

00:44:22.000 When was the cruise missile invented?

00:44:24.000 How long ago was that?

00:44:26.000 Oh goodness, I don't know.

00:44:27.000 I wonder if that was, uh, that's probably still after, uh, rocketry.

00:44:27.000 I wonder.

00:44:31.000 I mean, V2 and stuff.

00:44:33.000 70s, I imagine.

00:44:33.000 Because they were using cruise missiles.

00:44:35.000 Cruise missiles were the first thing I remember seeing when, in the first Iraq war.

00:44:38.000 I was 15 years old and, like, they'd started Shoving cruise missiles down Saddam Hussein's neck and and it was it was impressive, you know as a kid be like, whoa That's actually yeah, you know the missile that Trump dropped while he was president the mother of all Moab It was that a cruise missile.

00:44:56.000 No, that's a that is a gravity bomb.

00:44:58.000 Okay, they call it.

00:44:59.000 It's a thermobaric bomb.

00:45:00.000 So it actually When it hits the ground or when it detonates first, it shoots out a bunch of gas that blows up.

00:45:08.000 So it ignites the gas.

00:45:08.000 Oh, interesting.

00:45:09.000 It looks like the first cruise missile was invented during World War I by the Americans, but it wasn't used.

00:45:14.000 And during the interwar period, not many people were working on it, but Germany went hard on the rockets.

00:45:14.000 Really?

00:45:19.000 And I couldn't be wrong about the way that it works.

00:45:20.000 I could be thinking of a different thing.

00:45:21.000 Sure.

00:45:22.000 I know the MOAB is big.

00:45:23.000 It's the biggest munition that is not a nuclear weapon.

00:45:27.000 And to clarify, a cruise missile specifically is a missile that's supposed to hit a target on land.

00:45:33.000 That's the point of it.

00:45:34.000 That's why they call it a cruise missile, I guess.

00:45:37.000 The V2.

00:45:39.000 The Vengeance weapon.

00:45:41.000 V stands for Vengeance?

00:45:41.000 The Vengeance?

00:45:42.000 The V2 rocket?

00:45:43.000 It's the... Vergeltungswapp.

00:45:50.000 The V2s were the ones where the British pilots had to like tip them out of the way, right?

00:45:54.000 Am I getting that one right?

00:45:55.000 It was a Nazi rocket. 0.77

00:45:56.000 I know that, yeah, because they weren't that fast, but it was a completely new technology.

00:46:01.000 Hmm, until now.

00:46:03.000 You mean like with their plane?

00:46:04.000 So they have to fly alongside it and then you tip it with your wing and it's just enough to veer it out off its course.

00:46:11.000 Yeah, it wasn't really that effective from what I hear.

00:46:13.000 They just had a lot of them and no one else did.

00:46:15.000 They poured their research and development into the VTube program.

00:46:18.000 That was part of Hitler's problem, is he always wanted to focus on very sci-fi-esque, at the time, futuristic ideas instead of what was practical, and this was one of them. 0.85

00:46:29.000 It didn't do the damage to London and England that was worth all the money they put into it.

00:46:33.000 Yeah, they want to just rocket England all day, every day, and then the nukes got invented.

00:46:37.000 So everyone's saying V-1 is the missile that I'm talking about.

00:46:41.000 It's the predecessor to the V-2.

00:46:43.000 It's the one the British would just tip out of the way with their own planes.

00:46:46.000 I think the V-3 then was the giant gun, right?

00:46:48.000 The giant cannon that went for several miles.

00:46:51.000 And like I said, it's a Scythe.

00:46:53.000 Oh wow, it's a giant gun.

00:46:54.000 Are you talking about the one that was on a rail?

00:46:55.000 Yeah.

00:46:56.000 And didn't they just blow it up or whatever? 0.80

00:46:57.000 You can just bomb it.

00:46:59.000 The V3 cannon, the German super gun.

00:47:00.000 I've never heard of it either.

00:47:02.000 They had this big cannon that was ridiculously big.

00:47:07.000 It had to be moved on rail and it was not practical.

00:47:11.000 I mean, anything that has to be, like, on rail to move, that's completely impractical.

00:47:18.000 And it's easy to bomb.

00:47:20.000 It's easy to destroy.

00:47:22.000 Yeah, before, like, World War I, when they just had hot air balloons and stuff, they were extremely effective.

00:47:27.000 Artillery on rail, but now, with air support, they're just targets.

00:47:31.000 I mean, not just targets, but they're easily targetable from space.

00:47:34.000 And, you know, I talk with a lot of confidence about military tech.

00:47:36.000 I'm not a military guy, I just want to put that out there.

00:47:39.000 Defer to anyone with combat experience or that's an expert on the weaponry.

00:47:43.000 Because I love hearing about this stuff.

00:47:44.000 It's crazy.

00:47:44.000 It's crazy. I survived the Meem War.

00:47:46.000 2,754 civilians killed in London by V2 attacks and 6,523 injured.

00:47:52.000 But see, that's not really a lot when you consider the total death during the war and the amount of money that

00:47:58.000 went into that versus the return.

00:48:00.000 Two people per rocket.

00:48:02.000 Right, that's not a really good investment at all.

00:48:04.000 They'd be better off putting rocks on blimps and just having the rocks fall.

00:48:07.000 I mean, you're right when we say that.

00:48:09.000 Japan did this with bombs. 0.94

00:48:10.000 Yeah, if you think about think about the the amount of money that was spent in Iraq like every time that they shot a hellfire at like a goat herder, you know, you because they did because it would just be some random dude that got paid, you know, whatever a hundred bucks or whatever to go up on the hill and with his old 1910.

00:48:30.000 Springfield rifle or whatever, take a couple pot shots at the base, because the point is to just harass the Americans, and the Americans' reply was, call in the helicopters, and they just started lighting up the whole hillside.

00:48:42.000 Oh, these are those, uh... The Fugo bombs.

00:48:44.000 Yeah, they... yeah.

00:48:45.000 This is crazy.

00:48:46.000 Japan would send up balloons carrying bombs that would ride the jet stream for thousands of miles, and then eventually drop the bombs on the United States in random locations. 0.63

00:48:56.000 Most of them just hit fields though.

00:48:58.000 That's a problem with trying to do that to the U.S.

00:49:00.000 especially.

00:49:01.000 It's such a spread out country.

00:49:02.000 Sounds like China was able to do it again. 0.97

00:49:04.000 They found a way to get a balloon over us.

00:49:09.000 Man, that's crazy.

00:49:11.000 And I remember when I was little, I watched a documentary about it, and it was like, it had this system where if it started to go too low, the pressure in the balloon would be going down, and then it would cause a bag to drop, which would then make it go back up, where the pressure would expand, and then as it started to go back down, it would drop another, go back up.

00:49:31.000 Yeah, and they timed it through these mechanisms to drop once it traveled a certain amount of, you know, time to hit the United States.

00:49:38.000 Yeah, I watched some video apparently like some kids found a bomb and hit it with a rock and it blew up and killed them or something.

00:49:43.000 Oh my gosh.

00:49:44.000 Well, I mean, like, you're running through the woods and you find an explosive device. 1.00

00:49:47.000 Kids are stupid. 1.00

00:49:48.000 That's the sad part about what's happening in Ukraine now, too. 1.00

00:49:49.000 I imagine the mine, they're mining the fuel.

00:49:51.000 It's just, not only depleted uranium rounds underground, they're just irradiating the soil, but like, Just the landmines and stuff that have been left over.

00:50:00.000 Drones that go rogue, that fly off, and they're like, I don't know where it went.

00:50:00.000 Drones.

00:50:04.000 You know, we didn't see it explode, it's just gone, we don't know where it went.

00:50:06.000 A kid's gonna find that drone, you know?

00:50:08.000 Like, people are gonna find it, they're gonna stumble across it.

00:50:11.000 Oh, here we go, look at this.

00:50:12.000 May 5th, 1945, six civilians were killed near Bly, Oregon, when they discovered one of the balloon bombs in Fremont National Forest, becoming the only fatalities from Axis action in the continental US during the war.

00:50:22.000 That's what I was gonna say, I think it only hit people once.

00:50:25.000 Or I guess they didn't even hit them, they found it.

00:50:26.000 Right, exactly.

00:50:27.000 This must have been the story.

00:50:28.000 It's, uh, Reverend Archie Mitchell and his pregnant wife drove up Gearhart Mountain today with five of their Sunday school students in a picnic when Archie was parking the car, Elsie, and the children discovered a balloon and carriage loaded with an anti-personnel bomb on the ground.

00:50:40.000 A large explosion occurred.

00:50:41.000 The four boys...

00:50:43.000 were killed instantly, while Elsie and Joan Patsky died from their wounds shortly after.

00:50:48.000 An army investigation concluded that the bomb had likely been kicked or dropped, and that it had lain undisturbed for about one month before the incident.

00:50:55.000 So that's what it was.

00:50:56.000 That must have been what I had been watching.

00:50:57.000 So they kicked it, I guess the assumption was.

00:51:00.000 The kids ran up to it, and they're like, hey, look, an explosive, and they kicked it, and then it blew up.

00:51:05.000 And people gotta understand, too, there are undetonated bombs in Southeast Asia.

00:51:11.000 Oh boy, be careful.

00:51:12.000 There's a lot of places.

00:51:14.000 I had a friend who went to Cambodia and was working with these, I don't remember the exact story, but he was talking about how there are landmines everywhere, and to navigate these fields, there are footsteps, and you're jumping from footstep to footstep in the dirt, because you know that's the only place, that's the only way you know that you're safe and you won't blow up.

00:51:41.000 And I was talking about going.

00:51:42.000 I was like, yeah, we were thinking of going because there are these people who are doing, uh, what they do is they release goats into these fields and then the goats explode.

00:51:51.000 And so I was like, that's a crazy story.

00:51:53.000 And I'd want to cover that.

00:51:55.000 And my friend was like, don't do it.

00:51:58.000 He was like, the scariest, most stressful, disturbing thing in my life was traversing these fields.

00:52:04.000 You don't want to do it, trust me.

00:52:05.000 And we ended up not doing it, but that's the general idea.

00:52:08.000 However, the tank buster mines require the weight of a vehicle to detonate, and so those are a lot harder to trigger, and they're huge.

00:52:16.000 But for the smaller landmines, they just will get a bunch of goats and, fields all yours, and then boom, boom, boom, the goats are exploding.

00:52:23.000 Crazy.

00:52:24.000 Rough.

00:52:24.000 Yeah.

00:52:25.000 Yeah, they do another thing now where they have these big, they take a big ball and there's a bunch of bamboo sticks coming out with plates on the bottom.

00:52:34.000 So it looks like, remember those suction cup balls?

00:52:37.000 You'd throw it at the wall and then it would suction cup its way down?

00:52:39.000 Yeah.

00:52:40.000 Yeah, they look like that.

00:52:41.000 And the wind blows them around and they just blow up as they bounce around on landmines.

00:52:45.000 Okay.

00:52:46.000 Because they're pretty heavy.

00:52:47.000 Yeah, and then they just get damaged and keep going until eventually they fall apart.

00:52:50.000 I'm thinking that you could maybe vibrate the soil and trigger them all at once if you could somehow set up, like Tesla was working on sending electrical current through the ground.

00:52:59.000 They're mechanical.

00:53:00.000 I mean, you're not, I would say you're on the right track.

00:53:03.000 You would need to heat them up substantially and detonate them somehow.

00:53:07.000 I wouldn't know how to do that.

00:53:07.000 Maybe a plane flying not too high up, just doing a laser sweep or something like that.

00:53:12.000 Or like stick metal poles in the ground all over the place and then send a low frequency through or just tweak the frequency Until you hit the trigger.

00:53:18.000 Yes, if you can navigate a field to stick holes in the ground that are covered in landmines.

00:53:21.000 How big is it, you know?

00:53:23.000 How much space do you need to trigger?

00:53:25.000 Explosives.

00:53:27.000 I'm telling you, dude.

00:53:27.000 Just more explosives.

00:53:28.000 You will not convince someone to invest in any of this technology when they can send goats into a field.

00:53:35.000 I'm sorry, dude.

00:53:35.000 They're going to be like, we got too many goats already.

00:53:38.000 Send them in.

00:53:39.000 Yeah, but I mean for the region it's goats.

00:53:44.000 And then the goats just blow up.

00:53:46.000 Or like a strategic defense from above where you can use LIDAR to map the ground and see where they are and then hit them with lasers.

00:53:54.000 I mean, I suppose so, but you're talking about expensive and high tech and stuff.

00:53:57.000 It's easier to...

00:53:59.000 You're going to go to the government and say, we can spend $2 million on LIDAR.

00:53:59.000 Shove goats.

00:54:02.000 If it was in Ohio, maybe they'd listen.

00:54:04.000 We got $2 million for LIDAR or $10,000 for a bunch of goats.

00:54:08.000 They're going to be like, just do the goats.

00:54:10.000 Can I eat the goats when it's done?

00:54:11.000 You're not going to want to pick those things up.

00:54:13.000 You can't.

00:54:15.000 I mean, what if they missed a mine?

00:54:17.000 You don't go into minefields.

00:54:19.000 Minefields are like, there's a significant argument against mines.

00:54:24.000 Like, they get left behind, they end up maiming kids.

00:54:28.000 You saw it through all kinds of mines that were left behind after Vietnam and stuff like that. 0.89

00:54:34.000 You know, ruins entire regions, and you have massive amounts of death and dismembered people and stuff, and it sucks.

00:54:42.000 But, what do you do when you've got tanks coming at you, you know?

00:54:48.000 Like, there's only so many things that can stop a tank.

00:54:52.000 You know, if you can knock the treads off a tank with a mine, then the tank's vulnerable, they have to get out of the tank, then you can shoot the guys that are in the tank.

00:55:01.000 If you can't stop the tanks, tanks are gonna smoke you and your buddies.

00:55:05.000 So, you deal with what you got, you know?

00:55:07.000 You have to put mines out to stop them, you put mines out to stop them because, again, war is awful.

00:55:12.000 War crimes are only war crimes if you are the loser.

00:55:18.000 Yeah, but you know, I guess the issue today is you don't need tanks if you can convince.

00:55:23.000 So while propaganda has been a key component of war for the past hundred plus years, propaganda nowadays is, it's a million times where we were a hundred years ago.

00:55:34.000 You take a look at, say, a nuclear weapon, a MIRV, 12 warheads, 1,250 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

00:55:43.000 You take a look at the explosive power, And then go back in time to the origin of the first, you know, the first time someone ever discovered combustion or combustible materials.

00:55:53.000 And it's, it's, it's, what, a thousand plus years or whatever.

00:55:56.000 It's like the Chinese, yeah, 200 AD or something. 0.77

00:55:58.000 Right, they were doing, it was fireworks.

00:55:59.000 Fireworks it started with.

00:56:00.000 Yeah, and I forgot, I forgot what they were, they were doing something impractical with them.

00:56:03.000 They had little rockets they would use to scare people or something.

00:56:06.000 Because they would, like, fly at you.

00:56:08.000 And then, uh, It took a thousand years to get to the point where we could just blow up an entire city with one bomb.

00:56:13.000 You take a look at propaganda and we'd have to drop pamphlets from planes, and in a hundred years we can beam our thoughts into your brain no matter where you are.

00:56:20.000 China has a massive apparatus for manipulating the American public in TikTok. 0.92

00:56:24.000 For the record, it was 1044 AD when gunpowder was invented in China.

00:56:28.000 What was it for, did they say?

00:56:32.000 Wasn't it for Friar Crackers, just to celebrate?

00:56:34.000 No, but I think it was invented by accident.

00:56:37.000 They were trying to make an elixir of immortality.

00:56:39.000 This is according to Chinese sources.

00:56:41.000 Wow.

00:56:42.000 Well, most discoveries are first known in since 850.

00:56:45.000 They're discoveries because it was an accident.

00:56:47.000 So that's like the moonshine thing, where they're making moonshine and then they blow up, you know, that kind of cliche.

00:56:52.000 I guess it started in China.

00:56:54.000 They were trying to live forever.

00:56:56.000 So it's 808 AD.

00:56:58.000 Was the first reference to 808?

00:56:59.000 Yeah, that's what it says on Wikipedia.

00:57:02.000 Yeah, in the Warring States period, they had rifles.

00:57:05.000 They weren't very good.

00:57:06.000 Archers were actually more powerful.

00:57:07.000 Flying Cloud Thunderclap Eruptor.

00:57:08.000 Hmm.

00:57:10.000 So, right, I think it was, yeah, they were shooting stuff out of it.

00:57:15.000 Yeah.

00:57:16.000 I don't know.

00:57:17.000 I read something that, like, the initial stuff they did was just, like, shock and awe.

00:57:20.000 They didn't really have, like, a good way to weaponize it.

00:57:22.000 Yeah, you scare the horses.

00:57:24.000 That's a big thing.

00:57:25.000 Yeah.

00:57:26.000 And elephants, if you have to fight those.

00:57:27.000 Sulfur, realgar, saltpeter, and honey.

00:57:32.000 Smoke and flames result so that the hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house where they have been working burned down.

00:57:38.000 Wow.

00:57:39.000 Yeah, that's crazy.

00:57:40.000 And the Chinese invented the compass 1,000 years before Europeans did.

00:57:44.000 Crazy, right?

00:57:45.000 Nice.

00:57:46.000 They were doing all sorts of crazy stuff over there.

00:57:48.000 I love those Chinese, man.

00:57:50.000 They didn't really capitalize on the potential, though.

00:57:54.000 Well, you know, that's what's interesting about, as an Asian I can say this, okay?

00:57:58.000 About Asian culture is that very smart, yes, but not a lot of creativity. 1.00

00:58:04.000 And that's why even today you see throughout also a lot of history, right?

00:58:08.000 Chinese invented gunpowder, weren't using it practically, who started using it in a... Because you had to think outside the box, you've never seen this before, right?

00:58:16.000 And there's a very Asian culture of, you know, sort of this submissive, hey, follow the strict line, you know, do this, do that, but not a lot of creativity. 1.00

00:58:25.000 And I think you see this...

00:58:27.000 Even in China for school, if you want to come to American school or whatever. 0.53

00:58:30.000 Like, they'll just train you your whole life to take the SAT and you'll probably get a perfect score.

00:58:34.000 But then, what after that?

00:58:35.000 What happens when you have to be, say, an engineer and you have to actually think creatively, right?

00:58:39.000 And it's something lacking in a lot of Asian culture.

00:58:42.000 I love that for a thousand years they have gunpowder.

00:58:45.000 These Southeast Asians, Chinese, are like, look at this stuff we made! 1.00

00:58:48.000 Look what happens when you light it!

00:58:49.000 Like, whoa!

00:58:50.000 And then the Europeans, like... 1.00

00:58:52.000 I could kill a lot of people with that. 0.99

00:58:55.000 And then they were all like, wait, what? 1.00

00:58:58.000 To be fair, the idea of killing people with it did come from China.

00:59:02.000 I don't want to take that away from them.

00:59:03.000 They have their, their, whatever it's called, the, was it Huolongjing?

00:59:09.000 What's that?

00:59:10.000 It's the Chinese military treaty.

00:59:13.000 What is this?

00:59:14.000 Oh, this is a flying cloud thunderclap eruptor.

00:59:17.000 It looks like a gun.

00:59:19.000 It looks like they loaded it with powder.

00:59:21.000 They put a hole in it.

00:59:22.000 Man, that's crazy.

00:59:23.000 Cannon, like a shotgun.

00:59:24.000 Yeah, it's like a cannon shotgun.

00:59:25.000 And it just shoots like metal and rocks and stuff.

00:59:28.000 They would just use, yeah, just ballista.

00:59:31.000 I think George Washington used to do that because they didn't, they're running low on munitions.

00:59:35.000 So they just shove whatever they could find into the cannons and just Blast them.

00:59:39.000 So you're getting hit with rocks, sticks, pieces of metal, ba-boot.

00:59:42.000 I gotta tell you, it is really crazy when you think about- That's like the railway rifle in Fallout. 0.90

00:59:46.000 All of the stupid stuff that we know from video games and movies would make you a warlord god, like demigod, in 2000 years ago or 1000 years ago. 0.96

00:59:55.000 You'd show up and be like, oh yeah, I know how to, you know, start a fire, I know how to, like, you know, give me some bat crap and we'll start making some gunpowder and they'll be like, making what? 0.99

01:00:04.000 And then you'll- Here, eat this mold and you'll feel better. 0.75

01:00:07.000 They're like, what are you talking about?

01:00:08.000 See that red rock right there?

01:00:10.000 See that red rock over there?

01:00:11.000 Yeah?

01:00:12.000 Melt it.

01:00:12.000 What do you mean, melt it?

01:00:13.000 Just light it on fire.

01:00:15.000 Let's roll, and then it's like...

01:00:18.000 Like, I have no idea how to make steel, but I know it exists.

01:00:22.000 Which means I could go to them and be like, you need to like get carbon and iron

01:00:26.000 and start doing something.

01:00:27.000 And that is an advancement leaps and bounds above how long it took them. 0.98

01:00:31.000 Like if, just the fact that I can tell them like, oh, you need like bat crap, you know. 0.83

01:00:36.000 Just like, we know little bits here and there that took humans thousands, 0.93

01:00:42.000 tens of thousands of years to figure out.

01:00:44.000 And we just like watched a movie once and we have fragments of that information.

01:00:48.000 That if you went back in time and said, look man, I have no idea how to make gunpowder, 0.89

01:00:51.000 but I saw something about bat crap once. 0.96

01:00:53.000 You've just jumped someone up 10 years, 20 years. 0.98

01:00:56.000 Yeah.

01:00:56.000 Sulfur, yeah.

01:00:57.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:00:58.000 What's in the bat crap? 0.99

01:00:59.000 It begins with a G? 0.99

01:01:01.000 I don't know. 0.99

01:01:02.000 Bat crap is guano. 0.99

01:01:03.000 Oh, okay. 0.99

01:01:03.000 It's potassium... something. 0.99

01:01:06.000 Potassium.

01:01:07.000 I'm not sure what it is. 0.99

01:01:08.000 You mix bat crap with... We should know this because Saltpeter and... 0.99

01:01:16.000 There was a manufacturing... That's crazy. 0.99

01:01:20.000 The caves in West Virginia were used to manufacture munitions for the Confederate Army.

01:01:24.000 Bird guano. 0.99

01:01:25.000 Because they had a bunch of bat crap, yeah. 0.96

01:01:27.000 Potassium nitrate, and then charcoal and sulfur. 0.99

01:01:29.000 Right, that's what it is.

01:01:30.000 Yeah, so bird apparently works too.

01:01:32.000 We got a bunch of chickens out there! 0.99

01:01:34.000 Could you make gunpowder from chicken crap? 0.99

01:01:36.000 It smells like it. 0.99

01:01:38.000 It smells worse than that, dude.

01:01:39.000 You can smell that sulfur coming off of it.

01:01:43.000 Yeah.

01:01:43.000 I don't know, I guess you need to get the potassium nitrate.

01:01:45.000 But anyway, my point is, to stress, not that I know how to make gunpowder or anything like that, just that we've got a whole bunch of cursory knowledge, like even, just the fact that we know things exist.

01:01:55.000 You go to something like, hey, you can make a thing called a compass, where it's like, I don't know how they made it, but it was a piece of metal, and it was on a pin, and it pointed, had an N in one area, and then it would always point north, and then someone's gonna figure it out very, very quickly, relative to how long it took humans to actually figure it out.

01:02:11.000 Granted, you probably wouldn't be able to communicate effectively with them.

01:02:13.000 You'd say, bat crap, and they'd be like, I have no idea what he just said. 0.99

01:02:16.000 They would hear you say gobbledygook. 1.00

01:02:17.000 They'd probably just kill you before you got a chance. 0.98

01:02:20.000 Oh, no, for sure. 0.91

01:02:20.000 They'd be like, strangely dressed person. 0.91

01:02:22.000 Like, if you go back 2,000 years and you show up, like, the first thing that happens is they're pointing spears at you, screaming at you in a language you don't understand, and then they're just like, you're a slave.

01:02:31.000 I'm only going if I can bring a gun.

01:02:34.000 That's it.

01:02:34.000 Well, have you seen you've seen it was Evil Dead or was it Army of Darkness?

01:02:37.000 Which one was it?

01:02:38.000 My boomstick.

01:02:38.000 Yeah, he goes back in time with the shotgun.

01:02:41.000 This is my boomstick.

01:02:43.000 The first one you prime me and it even touches me.

01:02:46.000 God, what a great movie.

01:02:47.000 How many shells did he have?

01:02:50.000 I would love to talk about Evil Dead to be honest.

01:02:52.000 That's awesome.

01:02:53.000 It's a great movie, man.

01:02:55.000 I think that the heroes of Atlantis had the compass, my guess.

01:02:58.000 I don't want to take the show into conspiracy town, but I don't see how they could have circumnavigated the globe with the Earth on Atlas' back without the compass.

01:03:09.000 The way that they seem to have colonized Earth.

01:03:11.000 So, the importance of preserving data, because like we're saying, we have the data if we could go back in time, but they might have had it back then.

01:03:18.000 It's the key is to be able to preserve it, probably in orbit, in case a comet wipes out the surface in glass or something in orbit, or in DNA.

01:03:27.000 You can store data in DNA.

01:03:30.000 All right, that's my derailment for the night.

01:03:32.000 Apparently people were saying online, I just did a quick search, that you can use, they call it chicken manure for gunpowder too.

01:03:38.000 So if you got chickens, but the bat... Tim knew this, that's why there's chicken city outside.

01:03:43.000 I have no idea how to extract salt, Peter, from any of this stuff.

01:03:48.000 You need like alcohol or something?

01:03:50.000 You need potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal.

01:03:52.000 But to get the potassium nitrate isolated, you need alcohol or something like that.

01:03:56.000 I don't know.

01:03:57.000 And like, I don't even know how to make alcohol.

01:03:59.000 Apparently it's like, you get like wood alcohol or something.

01:04:02.000 I don't know how to do this.

01:04:03.000 You talk about going back.

01:04:05.000 It's crazy that people figure this out. 0.99

01:04:07.000 Hey, let's take bat crap. 0.98

01:04:10.000 No, no, but that's not how it is. 0.98

01:04:11.000 It's not how it is.

01:04:13.000 So like bread, for instance.

01:04:14.000 Like, how does bread come to exist?

01:04:17.000 Some, like, people are milling about, nomadic, hungry, they see wheat, and they see horses eating the tops, and they're like, hey look, and they pull out, and they're like, hey, I can eat this!

01:04:26.000 They start grabbing a whole bunch of it, bring it back home, and then they have a big, they're like, hey, this stuff's hard, you can't eat it.

01:04:31.000 So they pull the, you know, the wheat groats out, put it in a big bowl, and they start eating them.

01:04:36.000 Then eventually, someone like, hey, I'm gonna Heat mine up cuz you know, I don't like it cold and we cook like humans figure out cooking then they heat it up Then someone adds water to it.

01:04:46.000 Then someone mashes it It's just slowly over time and the first bread is just like mashed grain They put water in it, then it made like a hard flat bread and then eventually somebody let there sit out on accident It's just always one step at a time yeast contamination right into the flower somebody Probably was like, oh, grandpa has no teeth.

01:05:04.000 He can't eat this.

01:05:05.000 Let's break it up for him.

01:05:06.000 So they mash it.

01:05:07.000 No, for real, though.

01:05:08.000 They mash it up.

01:05:09.000 Then they put water in it and heat it.

01:05:10.000 And they're like, here you go.

01:05:11.000 And he's eating warm, warm dough paste.

01:05:13.000 And then someone was like, let's get it real hot.

01:05:15.000 And then they saw what happened to it.

01:05:16.000 And they're like, look.

01:05:17.000 And then they're like, well, now grandpa can't eat it again because now it's hard.

01:05:20.000 And they're like, whoa.

01:05:20.000 But then someone ate it like, hey, I like this.

01:05:22.000 Then someone made the dough, left it out.

01:05:24.000 Yeast contamination.

01:05:25.000 It got really big.

01:05:26.000 And they were like, whoa.

01:05:27.000 And then they cooked it.

01:05:27.000 And they were like, oh, like, you know, it's just penicillin was also found on accident.

01:05:31.000 Yeah.

01:05:31.000 Oh, of course.

01:05:32.000 Look, that's why it's called discovery, when it's discovered, and not invention.

01:05:36.000 You know what I mean?

01:05:37.000 Or, I mean, often it is called an invention, but typically it's discovery.

01:05:41.000 We are discovering it.

01:05:42.000 It exists, and we stumble upon it.

01:05:44.000 Like Ben Franklin discovered electricity.

01:05:46.000 Did he really discover it?

01:05:48.000 He rediscovered it.

01:05:49.000 I don't know if he discovered it.

01:05:50.000 I think Zeus had it, if he could shoot lightning out of it.

01:05:52.000 I'm pretty sure people had already been using it.

01:05:54.000 I don't know that he actually... For sure, the Baghdad battery produced electricity.

01:05:58.000 It's a clay pot filled with vinegar with an iron rod in it, wrapped with a copper wire.

01:06:03.000 And then you can chain these pots together and create electrical charge.

01:06:06.000 That's like 3,000 year old technology at the least.

01:06:09.000 I mean, I gotta be honest, hearing this story about his kite experiment in 1752 just sounds insane.

01:06:13.000 1750- 1752 just sounds insane.

01:06:17.000 Dude, this man.

01:06:19.000 This guy, Ben Fr- This is his country, man.

01:06:23.000 This country was formed in this guy's belief structure.

01:06:25.000 This is the guy that inceptualized the United States of America.

01:06:28.000 Maybe he had fear on someone, and they're like, alright, we'll let you say that you discovered electricity.

01:06:33.000 I kind of feel like Madison did that, because he's kind of the guy that's like the father of the Constitution.

01:06:37.000 He wrote the Constitution.

01:06:38.000 I hand it to Ben because he came before everybody for 30 years and primed everybody for it.

01:06:43.000 So this is it.

01:06:44.000 He did not discover electricity.

01:06:46.000 He was trying to prove that lightning was electricity.

01:06:49.000 Wow.

01:06:50.000 Yeah.

01:06:50.000 And so they could figure out a way to stop lightning strikes on houses, so they created lightning rods, which would then focus the lightning strikes away from the wood and would stop blowing up houses.

01:07:01.000 And, but harnessing it, that came later?

01:07:04.000 Harnessing it?

01:07:05.000 What do you mean?

01:07:05.000 They still can't, I don't think so.

01:07:07.000 Well, no, harnessing electricity, I mean, not lightning, just electricity itself when they started making, like, gas power plants.

01:07:12.000 I think they had always, I think for a long time there had been a general understanding, but I think people underestimate, you know, humans.

01:07:23.000 I have to look it up.

01:07:24.000 But I'm pretty sure there was some minor use for a long time.

01:07:27.000 I mean, if you go back to the Baghdad battery, what is- what was- what was the, uh, what's the assumption that they were doing electroplating?

01:07:33.000 I think so.

01:07:33.000 What's a bunch of clay pots?

01:07:35.000 Yeah, clay pots.

01:07:36.000 You fill them up with vinegar or something acidic.

01:07:38.000 So vinegar, wine, you could use lemon juice.

01:07:41.000 And they would put copper wires in it.

01:07:42.000 Yeah, it'd be an iron rod sticking around the middle of the pot wrapped with copper wire, and that would produce an electrical charge on its own.

01:07:48.000 Aliens.

01:07:49.000 Because I gotta say, I can understand inventing bread, but I can't understand how someone accidentally makes a battery.

01:07:55.000 Like, a battery like the Baghdad battery sounds like someone knew what a battery was and said, Like, I'm trapped here in the desert with little supplies.

01:08:02.000 I need to make some kind of battery.

01:08:03.000 It's possible they had a cup, like a clay drinking vessel, and they were drinking wine, and they shocked themselves.

01:08:07.000 Like, maybe there was copper in it, and they got a shock.

01:08:11.000 I think ancient civilizations were a lot more advanced than people realize.

01:08:14.000 Some of them forgotten, lost, whatever.

01:08:16.000 I agree.

01:08:17.000 A lot of knowledge has been lost, yeah.

01:08:18.000 I think that it's funny when people talk about like the moon landing and they're like, we have Alex Stein on the show and he's like, how did we lose the technology, Ted?

01:08:27.000 I'm like, we lost tons of technology.

01:08:29.000 Like the one reference I have to bring up is that we couldn't build skyscrapers above like eight floors or whatever when we started expanding and building upward because the heat would build up too much and we couldn't exhaust it fast enough.

01:08:41.000 And then the air conditioner got invented, and now it's like, now we can.

01:08:44.000 But the crazy thing is, there were, there were, uh, like, Native African tribes that had built their, their, uh, Hudson structures to funnel heat up and out to keep the inside cool when it was hot outside.

01:08:55.000 And it's like, that technology existed over there, and not over here.

01:09:00.000 Now, when we build buildings, they create, like, tunnels that will pull, cause, uh, the hot air's gonna go up.

01:09:06.000 So they actually create a system where it pulls cold air from the ground and vents the hot air up through the roof so it reduces energy costs for building skyscrapers.

01:09:15.000 But we forgot that?

01:09:17.000 Not to mention the Romans had concrete that could set underwater.

01:09:20.000 And that's always the big one everyone references.

01:09:22.000 Tons of technology has been lost.

01:09:23.000 I think that information is way more valuable than people realize.

01:09:29.000 Uh, yes!

01:09:29.000 We've had such access to it as Americans with libraries and internet now, but like, you lose it once, it's gone.

01:09:36.000 Like, you might have a generation of memory.

01:09:38.000 Bro, they had to- Humans, but- Like, this is the crazy thing.

01:09:41.000 They had to invent the idea of freedom.

01:09:44.000 Like, so, no but for real, like, certain ideas don't exist in certain cultures and certain languages.

01:09:51.000 There's, um, there was like, I was reading a thing a while ago about words that have complex meanings in certain cultures that don't translate very well.

01:10:00.000 So in like one African culture they have a word, they have a single word for The feeling you get when you are longing for someone but you are watching them long for someone else and you know you'll never have them.

01:10:10.000 They have like a single word to explain that idea.

01:10:12.000 And it's like for us, we just, I don't know, what do you call it, getting cucked?

01:10:15.000 I don't know.

01:10:16.000 Heartbreak.

01:10:17.000 We kind of have a meme for it.

01:10:19.000 Covetousness.

01:10:20.000 And then in France they have the phrase, the call of the void.

01:10:24.000 And it's a reference to when you're looking down from a great height and you feel a desire to jump.

01:10:30.000 They just call it the Call of the Void.

01:10:31.000 It's so weird.

01:10:32.000 I don't know if they actually... I just read that in a magazine thing.

01:10:34.000 What is that, a vacuum pulling you towards it or something?

01:10:36.000 No, it's just like... Call of the Void.

01:10:38.000 The way that I heard it described is like you're driving on a highway and you have that instinct to just jerk the steering wheel.

01:10:43.000 I'll feel it on the stomach.

01:10:44.000 I've never heard that.

01:10:44.000 I don't know about that.

01:10:45.000 That's the one that I read.

01:10:47.000 That's the way they described it.

01:10:48.000 What?

01:10:48.000 Yeah.

01:10:49.000 Yeah.

01:10:49.000 I've had the like looking down from a great height and being like wow you feel like you can just feel the jump.

01:10:54.000 It might be wind pulling you because I'll feel it on the subway track when a subway car goes flying by I'll feel pulled towards it.

01:11:00.000 That's something different.

01:11:00.000 That's all in your head.

01:11:02.000 The call of the void is a reference to something specific.

01:11:04.000 Yeah.

01:11:04.000 That people want to jump from, from like, I'm not saying jump to your death.

01:11:08.000 It's like, it's, it's like to just jump down under the assumption that you're okay, you're fine.

01:11:13.000 So it's usually like you jump off a few feet and you walk away, but from great heights, you can't tell how high it is.

01:11:19.000 I had a friend who broke her leg jumping off second story of a building because she didn't realize how high it was.

01:11:24.000 And it's like, there was no intent to hurt yourself.

01:11:27.000 If you ever need to get out of the second story, do you hang?

01:11:30.000 And then you drop.

01:11:31.000 Here's the crazy, here's the crazy thing about language.

01:11:34.000 How do you, you know, I remember the first time someone told me,

01:11:37.000 oh, this word can't be translated, I don't know how to translate it.

01:11:39.000 And I'm like, how do you not know how to translate a word?

01:11:41.000 It's because the idea in your mind doesn't have words in another language.

01:11:45.000 I think they don't have the word for love in North Korea.

01:11:47.000 There's no word for snow in, uh, in the, whatever, the Hawaiian languages.

01:11:53.000 You know, it's crazy to think about is not just the words, but how you perceive the world based on language, right?

01:11:59.000 So someone who speaks, someone can come into this country, for instance,

01:12:02.000 and learn English, but if they think in the world and some like non,

01:12:06.000 even Western language, they perceive it existing on earth in a totally different way than we do.

01:12:12.000 There are different people, like personalities change.

01:12:15.000 People are like, I have heard when someone speaks Spanish, they're like, you're a certain way when you speak Spanish, but when you speak English, you're a completely different way.

01:12:21.000 So the main reason I brought all this up is...

01:12:24.000 The, a lot of philosophical ideas that we take for granted, heck, the idea of zero as a number had to be discovered.

01:12:32.000 Yep.

01:12:33.000 And so there was a period where if you went to, if you went to the average person and said, let me tell you about some math.

01:12:38.000 Let's say you have, let's say you're starting at zero, right?

01:12:40.000 They'll go, huh?

01:12:41.000 Like zero, like, let's say you have nothing.

01:12:42.000 They'll be like, huh?

01:12:44.000 Yeah, because there's no nothing in reality.

01:12:45.000 It's a weird concept.

01:12:46.000 But it's just like, they don't know that.

01:12:48.000 They don't understand that concept.

01:12:49.000 We grow up, we learn these things, it becomes commonplace to us.

01:12:52.000 So, you know, in today's day and age, you look at the philosophy that was written, And these great philosophers who are coming up with these ideas, and we're kind of like, you had to figure that one out?

01:13:04.000 Well, it's because we're surrounded by people who generally understand these things that that information is given to us.

01:13:11.000 Do you think that we're limited in our ability to think by the language we know?

01:13:16.000 Yes.

01:13:17.000 So you don't think we can think without language?

01:13:20.000 To a certain degree, yes.

01:13:20.000 Yes.

01:13:22.000 There are different ways of thinking.

01:13:25.000 They're, they're, uh, and I'm not gonna pretend to know all of them or whatever.

01:13:28.000 What I do know is, and depends on the person who's listening, but I'm assuming some people in here, can think in words, images, sounds.

01:13:36.000 Some people can think in images.

01:13:38.000 Some people think in, uh, they describe it as just like raw thought.

01:13:42.000 There's no inner monologue, there's no voice.

01:13:45.000 Some people think and multi-track more than one thing at a time.

01:13:50.000 I have this weird thing where I can be daydreaming about my plans for a video game while I'm talking.

01:13:57.000 And so I can be literally just auto-piloting my ideas and language while I'm imagining what I'm gonna do when I go back to my video game.

01:14:03.000 It's like singing and playing guitar kind of at the same time at flow state, or your body just... Right, it's also how you can write a song as you're playing.

01:14:11.000 So it's how people are freestyling.

01:14:13.000 Their brain is planning the words ahead before they say it.

01:14:17.000 Freestyling different thoughts at the same time.

01:14:17.000 So it's multi-track mind.

01:14:20.000 That's cool.

01:14:21.000 So the important thing is, like the ideas of classical liberalism start to emerge around, what was it, like late 1600s, 1700s?

01:14:26.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:14:28.000 When we start getting all those ideas?

01:14:30.000 And it's hard, it's crazy to think that back then, they did not have the concept of like personal responsibility and individual liberty.

01:14:36.000 Like, before the United States, for the most part, I mean granted there's Rome, but after this period with European colonialism and European monarchy and stuff, the general idea was that if you were a world leader it was because of divine providence.

01:14:51.000 God wills it.

01:14:53.000 And then all of a sudden you have the Founding Fathers being like, I kind of think we're all equal, and we're all people, and you're just making that up, and we should govern ourselves.

01:14:53.000 Divine right.

01:15:02.000 And they're like, uh oh.

01:15:03.000 Arguably, the first time that that concept was actually, like, in Put into law was the Magna Carta.

01:15:09.000 We talked about the Magna Carta a couple days ago.

01:15:11.000 And that wasn't everybody.

01:15:13.000 That was the actual lords trying to get some kind of recognition from the king as equals.

01:15:20.000 I don't think the actual peasants were written in the same way that the landowners were, but it was the first step towards all people are created equal in the eyes of God or whatever.

01:15:33.000 You know, it really blew my mind the first time I read about the discovery of air.

01:15:37.000 Yeah.

01:15:38.000 Because we are raised in a world where it is commonplace to understand we live in a gaseous atmosphere.

01:15:44.000 But there was this dude, and what they would do back in the day is they had these brass balls with holes in the bottom, and a straw that comes up, a tube, and what they would do is they would take it, dip it in water, put their thumb over the hole, pull it up, and then let go, and it would pour the water over him.

01:16:01.000 So then this one dude is like, Well, you put it in the water and then cover it.

01:16:05.000 What if I cover it and then put it in the water?

01:16:07.000 And when he did, no water went inside.

01:16:09.000 And he goes, there's gotta be something there blocking the water from going in.

01:16:14.000 And that's where he came up with the idea of air.

01:16:15.000 Because there's nothing.

01:16:17.000 Like, you just can't see it.

01:16:19.000 You don't feel it.

01:16:19.000 The wind is like some element, they would describe it as.

01:16:22.000 And this guy was like, there's air.

01:16:24.000 And then all of a sudden there was this discovery and this knowledge that people had, like, oh, there is something there, isn't there?

01:16:29.000 So who discovered transgenderism? 0.92

01:16:31.000 Because I'd like to go back in time and have a peaceful word with them.

01:16:34.000 That's a long time ago.

01:16:35.000 Well, let's talk about John Money and, but to go back to ancient knowledge and stuff, but yeah, who was the other guy?

01:16:41.000 Kinsey, Kinsey.

01:16:42.000 You gotta save that stuff for Seamus.

01:16:44.000 But I just, I'm sorry, I just love this idea when we're talking about Benjamin Franklin discovering electricity.

01:16:49.000 No.

01:16:49.000 you know, he's not really discovering it.

01:16:50.000 He's like, I bet lightning is electricity.

01:16:53.000 And then I just think about that and I'm like, wow, do we really take this stuff for granted? 1.00

01:16:58.000 Because even right now, there's probably, it's a fact that there's a bunch of really stupid, 0.98

01:17:03.000 obvious things we don't know as humans. 0.97

01:17:06.000 And in a hundred years, they're going to be like, they didn't know that like, you know, X was Y.

01:17:11.000 I think we're psychic and it's going to be so obvious to people in the future, they'll be like, 0.99

01:17:14.000 these morons took so long to accept it. 0.98

01:17:17.000 Like when you call your friend and they're calling you at the same moment, oops, that it wasn't someone you didn't know calling you. 1.00

01:17:22.000 It was the same person you were calling.

01:17:23.000 Just weird stuff, you know, or where you can look at someone and kind of, you know what they're thinking without them having to tell you.

01:17:29.000 I mean, maybe.

01:17:30.000 I don't know about all that.

01:17:31.000 I think it's like dreams and stuff.

01:17:33.000 We haven't figured out what dreams are yet.

01:17:33.000 Dreams?

01:17:34.000 They're going to tell us in the future. 1.00

01:17:35.000 They'll be like, those idiots. 1.00

01:17:37.000 I mean, we have ideas, but the interesting thing about most of our scientific ideas is that they tend to be wrong. 1.00

01:17:44.000 Isn't that a crazy thing?

01:17:45.000 I love this.

01:17:46.000 I was reading about how the The way we view the human body and the brain is based on the current version of technology that is ubiquitous.

01:17:55.000 So before, you know, a hundred years ago, when steam was becoming this prominent thing, the brain was viewed as a pressure machine and it worked through pressure.

01:18:04.000 And now that we have computers, it is viewed as a, you know, these liberals are like, we're wet robots, you know, that's all we are.

01:18:11.000 They're just basic.

01:18:13.000 And the human brain is probably something infinitely more profound than just to call it a computer.

01:18:17.000 It's probably, you know, it's going to be a hundred years from now and we're going to have quantum, you know, quantum holographic, you know, computational reality bending devices and we're going to be like, oh, it's a human brain.

01:18:29.000 A human brain is basically just a functioning quantum, you know, refraction device for manipulating reality.

01:18:34.000 And they might still be wrong.

01:18:35.000 And exactly!

01:18:36.000 And then it's going to be a hundred years later and they're going to be like, can you believe, can you believe they actually thought that? 0.94

01:18:39.000 Those crazy people. 0.99

01:18:40.000 Everyone knows the brain is just made of cheese. 1.00

01:18:44.000 Who knows?

01:18:45.000 But it is crazy to see how everything is always wrong.

01:18:48.000 They used to drink mercury to treat syphilis.

01:18:52.000 And it's like, that was what you had to do.

01:18:54.000 And now we're like, well, that's wrong.

01:18:56.000 It's sort of like, you have to think and live in the terms of your compatriot humans at that period of history.

01:19:03.000 Because I think of the subatomic spin of nature.

01:19:07.000 Spinners, they're called.

01:19:09.000 You know, quarks and things like that. 1.00

01:19:10.000 But if I talk to people as if your brain is a bunch of quarks, they're going to look at me like I'm an idiot. 1.00

01:19:14.000 Because it's too advanced. 1.00

01:19:15.000 They're like, oh, you were born too early.

01:19:17.000 How do we even know the quark is the fundamental... It's not.

01:19:20.000 It's just the one we can see at the moment.

01:19:22.000 The smallest particle we can currently see.

01:19:24.000 At first we were like, an atom.

01:19:25.000 Can we split the atom?

01:19:26.000 And then we did!

01:19:27.000 And then we blew people up with it.

01:19:29.000 That's the funny thing.

01:19:30.000 It's like, a scientist is like, Eureka!

01:19:31.000 I've split the atom!

01:19:32.000 And then some dude is like... 0.99

01:19:35.000 I can kill a lot of people with that. 0.95

01:19:36.000 What if you can split a lot of atoms? 0.92

01:19:38.000 Isn't it war that leads to the greatest, like, innovations and inventions?

01:19:42.000 It's wartime frequently, right?

01:19:44.000 Horrifically, yes.

01:19:46.000 That's why, in Europe, there was this one really, there was a great story I was reading where, you know, they have the archers shooting at each other.

01:19:55.000 So what one side did was they made it so that the, what do they call it, the notches, or the nocks, or whatever they're called, notches, on the arrows were really small.

01:20:03.000 So that the drawstrings of their enemies they could not use, but the arrows of the larger spacings in them could be used on their thinner.

01:20:11.000 So it's like, all the arrows you shoot at us we can shoot back, but you can't shoot the arrows back at us.

01:20:15.000 Huh.

01:20:15.000 Yeah.

01:20:17.000 Clever.

01:20:17.000 Yeah, that's pretty cool.

01:20:18.000 But the thing about Europe is that you have Mediterranean abundance of food, which leads to population growth, and then you also have a finite amount of space.

01:20:28.000 So when you get a large population and then eventually nowhere to go, they start fighting over resources, which leads to rapid competition, weapons and technology and tactical developments, and finally colonization.

01:20:41.000 They eventually just build boats and say, we're getting out of here.

01:20:44.000 This is crazy.

01:20:44.000 Yeah.

01:20:45.000 One of the things about the stat living in a status quo society is that taking risks and doing radical, like in a war, you have very little choice.

01:20:52.000 You take radical risks, but we're kind of disincentivized to do it in this culture.

01:20:56.000 And I understand why, because you want to.

01:20:57.000 You know want it to stay balanced. You don't want someone to build new fusion bomb right now because then everyone's

01:21:02.000 got a fusion bomb but

01:21:04.000 It almost hinders uh innovation

01:21:07.000 In a way, I think about I think you look at england and kind of the anglo sphere

01:21:11.000 contributing probably a lot of you know, america and england a lot of the world's technology today or is invented here

01:21:17.000 and You know, you kind of go back look at a place like england,

01:21:20.000 right?

01:21:21.000 It's cold, not a lot of resources, can't really do a whole lot, so you got to think creatively, and I think it's interesting how English creativity seems to have contributed a lot to history, and then obviously, you know, largest empire, all that stuff.

01:21:34.000 Isaac Newton.

01:21:35.000 I was reading about physics and how Isaac Newton's discovery of but like allowed for long range ballistics which allowed

01:21:40.000 the British Navy to dominate the world.

01:21:43.000 They're long range cannons.

01:21:44.000 They could hit boats before the boats could hit them.

01:21:46.000 And that was like.

01:21:47.000 Principia Mathematica.

01:21:48.000 Oh yeah.

01:21:49.000 That was Newton's book.

01:21:51.000 Mm hmm.

01:21:53.000 Do you think that like with England it you sure there was great minds there but you know

01:21:59.000 with the Internet today we see that just a such jump in information and knowledge amongst

01:22:04.000 Do you think the fact that they had such a far-reaching empire, they just brought people together for better or for worse, and that Bringing enough people together is just you shared ideas, you shared food recipes, you know, you shared materials that you might not have had access to.

01:22:19.000 And so that was what the jump is in our information as a species.

01:22:23.000 I think rather than just England being unique, it's just an empire will do that.

01:22:28.000 That kind of when you have different societies mixing together and, you know, interacting Especially if it's a peaceful interaction now granted obviously not all of colonial British Empire was was peaceful But there were plenty of places that were interacting with Britain in their colonies that were not actually the colony so you know like if you're in like the interior of Asia that wasn't you know British colonies, but you did have

01:23:01.000 You know the Silk Road and all that kind of stuff and that really does help to facilitate learning from you know because you're interacting with other cultures and one culture that might discover something because they don't have a taboo that another culture does might be able to Pass on the knowledge.

01:23:23.000 There's a lot of taboos that cultures have like whether it be types of food or you have to dress this way, whether it be religions or certain behaviors that will get you killed in the Amazon but won't get you killed in the desert and stuff like that.

01:23:33.000 So it's like those kind of interactions really do help societies to progress.

01:23:40.000 There's this idea that it's not the strongest of the humans that will survive, but the ones that are the most adaptable to change.

01:23:45.000 That might actually be a Darwin quote.

01:23:47.000 And so I'm wondering, like, the Romans were extremely adaptable.

01:23:50.000 They would conquer and take people's technology and then call it Roman technology and then move on. 0.97

01:23:55.000 And I wonder if we're in a place in the world right now where communism is a technology that people think Maybe is they think that being the most adaptable like we're in a culture war to decide to show people what what they should adapt into I think and communism to a lot of people looks like a good looks like an easy path out and it's like a

01:24:17.000 But you were shaking your head immediately when I brought up the word communism.

01:24:20.000 You don't think it's the right adaptation?

01:24:21.000 I don't think it's the right adaptation.

01:24:22.000 Because it's totalitarian.

01:24:25.000 The root problem with communism is that it's totalitarian.

01:24:30.000 You don't get to have another opinion.

01:24:33.000 And if you have the wrong opinion, then you end up either, you know, nowadays it's cancel culture, but back in, you know, so my buddy Zoltan, the guitar player from Five Finger Death Punch, he grew up in Hungary, okay, when it was communist.

01:24:48.000 And, you know, he would say something and his parents would be like, shut up.

01:24:51.000 You're going to get someone, you know, you're going to get, they're going to come and take you away.

01:24:55.000 He's a very intelligent guy.

01:24:56.000 He's gifted.

01:24:57.000 He was put into the smart people schools when he was young.

01:25:01.000 He was taken away from his family and stuff.

01:25:04.000 You get that kind of stuff.

01:25:05.000 You don't get to make decisions on your own.

01:25:10.000 You don't actually have the option to decide to do something else.

01:25:14.000 They will decide what's what.

01:25:15.000 Which ultimately is a lack of adaptation.

01:25:18.000 If you can't adapt in a system, if it's totalitarian and you're unable to adapt, then the system will falter and fail.

01:25:23.000 It's not about adaptation.

01:25:25.000 It's about the The inability to make decisions on your own.

01:25:28.000 So there's no creative process.

01:25:30.000 There's no markets.

01:25:31.000 There's no, uh, there's no exchange of ideas.

01:25:33.000 It's this is the way it is.

01:25:35.000 And that means there's no growth in your, in your society.

01:25:37.000 There's no, no, uh, progress in your, in your markets and stuff like that.

01:25:42.000 So it's, it's all bad.

01:25:44.000 I think communism in many ways is kind of an example of falling victim to change instead of adapting to it, because you look at even the social situation where communism originates from, right?

01:25:54.000 Industrial Revolution, Europe's changing very fast, there's the good, there's the bad, and a lot of people...

01:26:00.000 Because, you know, you look at a place like Russia, right?

01:26:03.000 That was obviously the first communist revolution there.

01:26:06.000 Because they, Tucker Carlson brings this up a lot, because they did not properly adapt to industrialization, the changing world in the right way, what happened, right?

01:26:15.000 They fell to the Bolsheviks, the Tsar, you know, fell out of favor and all that stuff.

01:26:19.000 And with most communist revolutions around the world, arguably even including our own right now, it really comes down to a failure to properly adapt to change, and then the change basically just destroys you, right?

01:26:30.000 And I think with America, you could point to a lot of things, maybe the failure to adapt to the internet and technology, there's an argument to be made there, right?

01:26:37.000 That's definitely accelerated the kind of left-wing push of the culture and all that, and probably a lot of other factors.

01:26:44.000 Yeah.

01:26:44.000 I think it's that you have the older generation that keeps ignoring it as the internet starts growing.

01:26:48.000 So if you look back to the advent of the internet, you have people saying it's a fad, it's never going to take off, it's nothing.

01:26:53.000 And then you have its expansion.

01:26:55.000 Young people have completely embraced it and started using it.

01:26:58.000 I'm a little kid.

01:26:59.000 We had CompuServe on DOS.

01:27:01.000 Then we ended up with, you know, AOL.

01:27:03.000 And so I'm using the internet.

01:27:05.000 I grew up on it.

01:27:06.000 These older people keep just maintaining their status quo systems because it's too hard to move their monolithic structures. 0.99

01:27:13.000 And this happens for a lot of industries, but with communications it results in a generation that speaks a different language.

01:27:17.000 And then all of a sudden you're going to get a cultural bifurcation like what we have now.

01:27:22.000 The people who believe in freedom use the internet and like posting memes, and the communists who fell victim to the algorithmic manipulation for money, who are now psychotic, and these worldviews can't come together.

01:27:32.000 The story of that girl who was raised by wolves or whatever.

01:27:34.000 It's not literally raised by wolves, but the wild girl.

01:27:37.000 And, uh, she never, she could never learn English.

01:27:41.000 She never learned language.

01:27:42.000 And by the time she was like a teenager and they find her or whatever, they try saying like, here's how to speak.

01:27:47.000 She could only ever grunt and say basic things like food. 1.00

01:27:51.000 Yeah.

01:27:51.000 Hungry.

01:27:52.000 And it could never actually have complex conversations because the brain never developed.

01:27:55.000 So what happens is, if you have someone who grows up in the communist world of algorithmic manipulation, and someone who grows up in a freedom, meme-loving, bulletin board system world of the internet, the hacker culture stuff, these two worldviews will never come together, and you're not going to be able to explain to the communists why their worldview doesn't work, because their brains are wired to be controlled and be commanded.

01:28:15.000 That's why some people are literally NPCs, right?

01:28:17.000 We always use that term, non-playable character, but it's true. 1.00

01:28:20.000 Yeah, it's true.

01:28:22.000 These people have been programmed through schools, and through... I think mostly through school.

01:28:31.000 They go to college, so they're spending their life from 5 years old, let's say preschool, 4 years old, till 22, maybe 24, 26, depending on what degree they're getting, where they're always just told what to do.

01:28:41.000 And in their life, and their brain, and everything their brain is constructed around, life is, I will be told what to do and I will do it.

01:28:48.000 And then you have other people who are like, I will find my own way and figure life out on my own.

01:28:53.000 You can't convince someone whose brain is hardwired to be commanded that they should break free and be independent.

01:28:58.000 You can't.

01:28:59.000 It's not completely true.

01:29:00.000 I'm saying it's very, very difficult and it's painful for people.

01:29:03.000 That's why Brandon Strock talks about the story of when he finally got red-pilled and realized what was going on, it physically hurt him.

01:29:09.000 Dude, it's so interesting to think that every society could get to a point where it needs to adapt to modern tech, and if it doesn't, it falls into totalitarianism, and then it will erupt into a revolution.

01:29:18.000 Anarchy or chaos.

01:29:18.000 Or something.

01:29:19.000 Something's gonna happen.

01:29:20.000 And then it'll just be an explosion of pain and violence until they reform a new society to get to a place where they need to adapt again, and are they gonna make the same mistake again?

01:29:20.000 Yeah.

01:29:26.000 Like, you said the internet.

01:29:28.000 Yo, we should be... First of all, we should be looking at this stuff and be like, oh, this is all able to be spying on me and I'm using it every day?

01:29:33.000 I need the software code.

01:29:34.000 All of it.

01:29:35.000 That should be... We should be adapted to that already.

01:29:37.000 We should be using this to govern ourselves.

01:29:39.000 That should be done.

01:29:40.000 We should be local governance, we should be moving tax money around locally, deciding where our tax money goes.

01:29:44.000 Like, what are we waiting on?

01:29:45.000 Big Daddy to do it for us? 0.80

01:29:47.000 That's totalitarianism.

01:29:48.000 Right, but you have half the country that wants Big Daddy to tell them what to do.

01:29:52.000 Yeah.

01:29:53.000 Your mind is like a muscle.

01:29:54.000 If you're not working it out, it's going to be a shriveled, sad piece of meat.

01:29:58.000 So that's what I took from what Tim was saying, that these people, they're on autopilot.

01:30:03.000 They're in the lazy boy from the time they're born.

01:30:05.000 They get the tablet, they get YouTube, they've got algorithms, they turn on the smart TV.

01:30:09.000 They don't have to think.

01:30:10.000 So that muscle is not being worked.

01:30:12.000 You know what, though?

01:30:13.000 I think there's an interesting argument to be made that doesn't every society have that, right?

01:30:17.000 Like, how many people in any society, in any point in human history, more than 20 to 30 percent of the population truly thinks for themselves, right?

01:30:25.000 I think a lot of times, some people are naturally kind of followers and leaders, that's why you have both.

01:30:31.000 I think the problem now is that Now that they have control of, you know, internet and everything like that, you can very easily manipulate the followers now to, you know, go towards a side of evil, whereas say, you know, I don't know, 1950s, whatever conservative decade we want to look at, most people back then probably weren't thinking for themselves either, but you had people... First of all, you didn't have the internet, so manipulation wasn't as easy as it is now, but I think probably you also had a lot of people who, uh,

01:30:58.000 We're kind of more responsible, paternalistic, cultural leaders that weren't trying to push the destruction of their own country onto the people.

01:31:06.000 But you see Hitler use the radio, for sure, to manipulate and control people and push them towards evil ends. 0.79

01:31:12.000 That's a big example, huge.

01:31:14.000 And when you play Civilization, which I really, that's like the biggest change in the game, radio.

01:31:20.000 When radio is developed, it alters the human species beyond measure.

01:31:24.000 The ability to communicate across long distances in real time.

01:31:27.000 Well, it's the creation of the mass broadcast.

01:31:29.000 It's when they built the Eye of Sauron.

01:31:32.000 All of a sudden, you have a singular broadcast tower telling you what to think and feel.

01:31:36.000 And this is the authority, and everyone wants to hear.

01:31:38.000 Before it was like, word of mouth.

01:31:41.000 You'd go to your church, you'd hear what people were saying, you'd look at the local paper.

01:31:41.000 Everything was very local.

01:31:44.000 But there were competing papers, and the newspapers were getting big.

01:31:48.000 But once radio happens, all of a sudden, you know, people start getting these boxes that are telling them.

01:31:53.000 And for a long time in the United States, you had only a couple networks.

01:31:56.000 And they all marched in lockstep as to what was true and what you must believe.

01:32:00.000 And that's the thing, is even in America, it's only been the past few decades where people even question what they see on TV, right?

01:32:06.000 When Walter Concrete went out and said the Vietnam War is bad, basically, the country believed it, right? 1.00

01:32:12.000 During World War II, I don't think anyone really questioned what they heard on the news media, the radio, and so I think even in this country, it's probably still a problem, you know?

01:32:19.000 And historically was, of course.

01:32:21.000 The internet breaks it, and now we're going back to how people, more localized communities, the problem is they're not physical, they're- Right.

01:32:28.000 They're- Parasocial.

01:32:29.000 Yeah.

01:32:30.000 Well, what it is, is you would have a region that would have a culture and a way of speaking and a kind of food based on what was there, and their ideas were based on the world they lived in.

01:32:39.000 Now with the internet, you have people, you'll have a conservative living next to a liberal, the conservative has his community online, the liberal has their community online, and next door to each other, they don't like each other.

01:32:50.000 Yeah, it used to be geography dictated your culture in a huge way.

01:32:55.000 It doesn't matter anymore.

01:32:56.000 You've got people in the United States that agree with communism.

01:33:00.000 I mean, it's crazy.

01:33:02.000 That would have never happened 30 years ago.

01:33:05.000 I remember 30 years ago, I would I had friends in my neighborhood that I didn't like.

01:33:09.000 Like, kids that were mean.

01:33:10.000 Kids that I just didn't want to be around.

01:33:11.000 But that was who was in my neighborhood, so that's who I was around.

01:33:13.000 And I suffered some abuse because of it.

01:33:15.000 So, like, in a way, it's better that I don't have to interact with those people, even if they're next door.

01:33:19.000 I can get online and talk to the cool, smart people.

01:33:22.000 But that's a part of life, too.

01:33:23.000 Exactly.

01:33:24.000 Yeah.

01:33:24.000 Now you can avoid that situation.

01:33:26.000 And if I... Avoiding it's probably a problem.

01:33:29.000 Probably causing a rift.

01:33:30.000 Right.

01:33:30.000 Like, you're supposed to interact with people you disagree with.

01:33:32.000 Right.

01:33:33.000 And supposed to figure out how to get along with people you don't get along with.

01:33:35.000 Exactly.

01:33:37.000 Why do you say supposed to?

01:33:38.000 I think it's just part of our evolution, what's got us to where we're at.

01:33:42.000 Part of the American dream and part of the Founding Fathers, they all kind of... I like how they would argue and... I guess I have a different take on what is evolution and then, because I don't think that the human race has really considerably evolved in the past 200 years.

01:33:56.000 You think I'm kind of off about... I just think that evolution... Just kind of off, in general.

01:34:02.000 That's basically a little wrong.

01:34:04.000 I think that evolution requires an outside force.

01:34:09.000 Evolution is genes that have produced an adaptation to something that is an outside force.

01:34:19.000 For so like the way they figure that eyes evolved there were cells that were you know when you when we were without eyes and and stuff in in in the water and stuff the cells that happen to be Receptive to light that could actually just see just light and dark, right?

01:34:37.000 Those are the ones that there were ended up being the ones that would could give the more likely to survive Yeah more likely to survive and so without some kind of outside Influence?

01:34:47.000 You don't get an evolution.

01:34:49.000 Allegedly.

01:34:50.000 The Evolution of the Eye is an awesome video you guys should watch.

01:34:53.000 I don't know the exact... I think if you search Evolution of the Eye Explained, you'll get the video I'm probably referring to.

01:34:59.000 But they break down how you have these cells, and it's a competition.

01:35:03.000 They're just all competing for the free energy available.

01:35:05.000 Some of these cells are being hit by light, and the light is... they're more receptive to it.

01:35:11.000 This gives them an advantage in data. They're now getting a binary set of data, light or dark,

01:35:16.000 which allows them to see if something... So basically now, if it's just dark, you can't

01:35:21.000 see where the free food is, but now with light added to the mix, you'll see dark in a pool of

01:35:27.000 light indicating potential free energy.

01:35:31.000 This, maybe it was only a 0.1% increase in the free energy acquired by these cells, but it resulted in them being more successful over a long period of time.

01:35:38.000 What ends up happening is, as multicellular organisms evolve, you get dimples.

01:35:44.000 Because a dimple allows light to hit from multiple angles, giving you more depth and understanding of where the light is coming from.

01:35:50.000 And then you get, the reason there's two is because it creates a depth of field.

01:35:57.000 So now you can perceive how far away an object might be.

01:35:59.000 So all of these things are just evolved because it's the most natural thing within our system

01:36:04.000 in terms of how light operates.

01:36:05.000 Dude, I love watching that.

01:36:07.000 It's crazy.

01:36:08.000 It's an amazing video.

01:36:09.000 It's super smart.

01:36:10.000 And also like one of the arguments against like humans' ability to interact with reality.

01:36:17.000 So there's there's there are philosophers that say you can't actually know what's real because you have your brain is actually interpreting the things that you say.

01:36:23.000 Brain the fat. 0.99

01:36:24.000 Yeah.

01:36:24.000 And the argument against that is without a an existing world out there to perceive you don't get evolution.

01:36:33.000 Like, without an existing world to interact with.

01:36:36.000 So that means... Well, I don't think that disproves Brain In A Vat.

01:36:38.000 No, no, not Brain In A Vat.

01:36:39.000 I'm talking about the idea that we can't... that there is no reality.

01:36:44.000 So that we can't actually know what reality is.

01:36:47.000 That's an argument that's made.

01:36:48.000 But the fact that we've evolved means that there is a reality out there for us to have responded to.

01:36:57.000 So I was having a conversation with someone a few years ago at Vegas.

01:37:01.000 I think it was at Vegas.

01:37:02.000 And the question I asked was, if I take this phone right here

01:37:08.000 and I throw it at that window, what will happen?

01:37:11.000 What will happen Ian?

01:37:13.000 It'll hit the window and bounce off, make a noise, maybe leave a dent,

01:37:17.000 mark in the wood or something.

01:37:18.000 All right, a definitive answer.

01:37:20.000 And there's other acceptable answers.

01:37:22.000 It will break the window and fly outside. 0.94

01:37:24.000 It'll bounce off and the phone will shatter.

01:37:26.000 The phone will break into a couple of different pieces.

01:37:27.000 It will land in my hand because I have lightning- Or you'll catch it.

01:37:30.000 And so the point I made was, are you thinking about your circumstances

01:37:35.000 in terms of this is what will happen?

01:37:38.000 Are you thinking about things in terms of the most likely thing to happen?

01:37:42.000 Or are you thinking about things in terms of there's a 10% chance it'll do this, a 70% chance it'll do this, a 23% chance it'll do this, and a 47% chance it'll do this, and then you're creating contingencies based on the probabilities?

01:37:53.000 I usually think contingencies, but I've found people think I'm psychotic if I talk in contingencies, so I've got to pick really quickly the most likely one and kind of flush it out and see if it's psycho?

01:38:03.000 What I mean to say is, you will, you need to figure out when it's appropriate to look

01:38:09.000 at a circumstance of someone wants to throw a phone at a window, instead of just making

01:38:13.000 the assumption it will do X, but to, is to consider what are the probabilities and possibilities

01:38:19.000 And then what are your plans in the event of A, B, C, or D?

01:38:23.000 But it's not appropriate to do that in every single circumstance.

01:38:26.000 Sometimes if you're in a burning building and you're like, let's figure this one out.

01:38:30.000 You're probably just going to have to go for the first, the most, like get out of the building.

01:38:33.000 But there may be alternate paths with higher rates of success.

01:38:36.000 You just don't know, but you've got to- Like it's outside the box.

01:38:39.000 I actually tweeted this out yesterday.

01:38:40.000 When you're thinking outside the box, have about 60 to 90 Different possible outcomes in your mind you don't have to adhere to any of them But just know that there are those many and that's when you're out thinking outside the box But there are situations like you're just saying burning building.

01:38:53.000 You don't have time you're in the box You need to get out so you you do what you got to do with you what you got we're We're going to Super Chats, so if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and head over to TimCast.com, become a member to support our work directly.

01:39:08.000 Let's read what y'all have to say.

01:39:09.000 We got Culture Abduction says, first, and shout out to the Dallas Mayor who switches sides here, here. 0.89

01:39:15.000 Clint Torres is back with another, howdy people!

01:39:18.000 Howdy.

01:39:18.000 Howdy, Clint.

01:39:19.000 Right on.

01:39:20.000 Jeremiah D. McRoberts says, StarscapeChronicles.com, new sci-fi universe, very cool.

01:39:26.000 Very cool.

01:39:28.000 I've completed my first run-through of Baldur's Gate, now I'm wondering if I should play... what is it, Starfield?

01:39:33.000 Starfield, yes.

01:39:34.000 It sounds like... But it's woke.

01:39:36.000 Sounds like, yeah, there's some woke elements, but you said Baldur's Gate's got some of those elements too?

01:39:40.000 Well, Baldur's Gate has the... you can create a character who has like a male face, a female body, a deep male voice, but identifies as non-binary and like...

01:39:49.000 So, if you try to randomize your character, you're gonna get a purple-haired, masculine, like, dude with boobs.

01:39:56.000 Sounds like it's a similar level as Baldur's Gate, but it's fun.

01:40:00.000 But the game itself isn't. 0.67

01:40:01.000 I mean, I guess the fact, I'm pretty sure in Baldur's Gate, everyone's gay. 0.77

01:40:05.000 No, I'm not saying that to be mean. 0.86

01:40:07.000 Like, all the characters are homosexual. 0.84

01:40:09.000 Well, they're all bi. 0.92

01:40:10.000 Well, I guess pansexual is a better way to put it.

01:40:13.000 Yeah, because, and it's funny if you think about video games, they have to do it that way.

01:40:18.000 Because if the general idea is that you can customize your own character to be anything, and you should have an option to romance your characters, they have no choice but to make it so all the characters are just banging everybody and they don't care.

01:40:27.000 You know what sucks?

01:40:28.000 I grew up my childhood playing a lot of GTA. 0.83

01:40:31.000 I've waited now 10 years for the next game, and it's like one of the things in my life that's the last video game I'm gonna play when I'm an adult, right?

01:40:39.000 Just GTA 6.

01:40:41.000 And I know at this point, the fact that it's probably gonna come out 2027, 2028, I know exactly how it's going to be.

01:40:47.000 Well, what they're doing is, the character's female now.

01:40:50.000 For the first time it's going to be a female character.

01:40:52.000 Can I guys spoil a little bit of something from Starfield?

01:40:54.000 Sure.

01:40:55.000 It's not major at all.

01:40:56.000 So there's this little note that you find, and because the game was delayed, there was a guy so excited to play the game, he had cancer.

01:41:03.000 never got to play the game. So in his honor, they put a little note in the game that you can go and

01:41:07.000 find and collect. And it's just like happy hunting or happy exploring the universe. It's really sad,

01:41:12.000 but that's what it reminded me of. It's like these games, like really people get so excited.

01:41:17.000 Yeah. So in World of Warcraft, I've done this, I think on multiple occasions where

01:41:21.000 I think in Burning Crusade, that is someone who played a lot died of cancer. And so the character

01:41:29.000 became an NPC in the city that you could go and talk to and interact with. So like,

01:41:35.000 One day with AI you'll be actually still talking to the real person.

01:41:39.000 Yep! 0.80

01:41:39.000 That's creepy. 0.80

01:41:40.000 Let's read some more.

01:41:41.000 Let's read some more super chats.

01:41:43.000 Where are we at?

01:41:47.000 Melinda Lou says, has the team considered virtual tickets to the Miami event?

01:41:52.000 Yes!

01:41:53.000 So, I don't want to say too much just yet, but we're currently navigating how we're going to do the live portion of it, and there is a decent probability the live show will just be the whole show.

01:42:05.000 So this is a Friday night show.

01:42:06.000 Instead of doing the normal Friday night show, it will be a members only for the full thing, but this will include the pre-show, This is a way we can do the pre-show, the comedy, the show, and the after show all in one go.

01:42:18.000 But we're not completely sure that that'll be the way we'll do it.

01:42:21.000 And then what we would do is we would immediately upload the podcast to all podcast platforms.

01:42:25.000 We would then put the clips on YouTube like normal.

01:42:29.000 But the issue is...

01:42:31.000 If we're going to have all these awesome people, the last thing we want to do is be like, we're doing the normal, this is a YouTube show, and so here's, nah, we want to have, we want Alex Stein to be able to just like, we want to own the show and not have to worry about anything and make it the most entertaining thing imaginable, which means we probably have to control it.

01:42:49.000 But we're not 100%.

01:42:50.000 The general idea for now was pre-show is not live, it's only at the venue.

01:42:56.000 The show will be live on YouTube as per normal, and then the after show is, you know, at the venue only.

01:43:02.000 And then I thought, yeah, but members who can't travel, like, we gotta figure something out, so... The idea might be just, like, the whole Miami event will be available for members on TimCast.com.

01:43:12.000 Again, we'll have to figure that one out.

01:43:14.000 Not 100% sure that's the way we're gonna do it, though.

01:43:16.000 But, uh, I don't know.

01:43:17.000 I don't know.

01:43:18.000 We'll see.

01:43:19.000 We will see.

01:43:20.000 And, uh, yeah, let's read some more.

01:43:23.000 Dude, it'd be cool to have a 3D camera on stage that you could watch from.

01:43:27.000 If you have, like, special access and be there on stage with everybody, like... There's no way we can set that up.

01:43:32.000 I mean...

01:43:33.000 We might be able to.

01:43:35.000 360 cam is what I meant.

01:43:36.000 Yes, we can do it, but I don't think Rumble has the capabilities for 360 camera ingestion.

01:43:41.000 Yeah, you would have to do some kind of alternate stream.

01:43:44.000 YouTube does.

01:43:46.000 So yes, it exists.

01:43:47.000 And I've done them before, 360 degree live streams, but they fell out of popularity.

01:43:51.000 No one cares to do them anymore.

01:43:53.000 We used to carry the monopod with the 360 camera and it would stream, and then you chose what to look at, which is cool, but super low-res.

01:44:00.000 It could be cool to do, like, have one of the chairs be a 360 cam.

01:44:04.000 You know, we could do.

01:44:05.000 And that chair, we just set it up.

01:44:07.000 Well, we could just record.

01:44:08.000 Every episode.

01:44:08.000 And then upload the 360 live podcast.

01:44:11.000 Watch it if you want.

01:44:12.000 Put it on Rumble.

01:44:14.000 If you have the goggles on and you can, like, turn and look at the guys that are talking, it's so awesome.

01:44:18.000 Yeah, but the real goal is to do stereoscopic 360, which is hard to do.

01:44:28.000 But you have a sphere with two cameras, so it's not one camera, it's two.

01:44:33.000 For every camera you double it up, so that way you can create depth of field.

01:44:37.000 So for someone who's putting on a VR headset and looking around, you actually can see depth.

01:44:41.000 But it doesn't work perfectly, because the cameras don't move, so there's AI building gaps.

01:44:46.000 You know, whatever.

01:44:47.000 Let's read some more.

01:44:49.000 Devin Grissom says, Tim, I think we need to see James Lindsay back on the show with Phil.

01:44:55.000 I'd love to hang out with Jim.

01:44:56.000 I haven't had a chance to meet him in person, but we have corresponded via the internet, and he is a very friendly guy.

01:45:02.000 Well, you've just got to tweet at him.

01:45:03.000 Jim, come on!

01:45:04.000 Come on the show!

01:45:05.000 Let's talk about Jim.

01:45:05.000 Degrowth.

01:45:06.000 You're in D.C.

01:45:07.000 a lot.

01:45:07.000 Come on.

01:45:08.000 We should do a culture war with James Lindsay.

01:45:10.000 Yeah, would you want to do it?

01:45:11.000 I would totally do that.

01:45:12.000 Let's do it.

01:45:13.000 Alright, what do we have?

01:45:15.000 Skylar Pearson says, Tim, you should look up Publius Claudius Pulcher and the Sacred Chickens.

01:45:20.000 You're gonna love it.

01:45:21.000 I thoroughly enjoyed the show with Matt Gaetz last night, my favorite rep.

01:45:25.000 Thank you to you and your team for all that you do.

01:45:28.000 You know, we had Ami Horowitz scheduled, and Matt Gaetz's team said, hey, we don't know if there's any availability, and I'm like, oh, yo, Matt can come whenever he wants.

01:45:37.000 Not only do we need to get the opportunity to hear what he's talking about with this continued resolution, it's a tremendous opportunity for the American people, I'm a big fan of Matt Gaetz.

01:45:50.000 He's actually doing things.

01:45:52.000 I'm just, you know, as soon as we leave the show, I'm going to my girlfriend and I'm like, Matt Gaetz may have just shut down Omnibus Spending.

01:45:57.000 I'm hoping he wins this.

01:45:59.000 This is crazy!

01:46:00.000 That would be amazing.

01:46:00.000 And it's just like, who else is doing stuff like this?

01:46:03.000 Now credit to Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massey, there's a handful of really great people, but I think Matt Gaetz is just doing the most.

01:46:11.000 He's an aggressive communicator.

01:46:12.000 He likes building coalitions.

01:46:13.000 He's good at it.

01:46:14.000 I know, and I'm impressed with his, he is tactful.

01:46:18.000 He's even talked about, you know, he was talking about the, he's worked with AOC on, it was the stock, I think it was him and AOC on the stopping stock trading, insider trading stuff.

01:46:30.000 He does a great job.

01:46:31.000 But, um, I do feel bad for Ami, because it's always- it's always rough when it's like, you book a guest, and then it's like, the air will be sucked out of the room by this very big, very important show.

01:46:40.000 We've got someone coming in who's in the middle of this big news story.

01:46:43.000 I will also add, though, I got, uh, a shoutout from, um...

01:46:47.000 Richie McGinnis, we were on MSNBC, they used clips of the show to, like, talk about the Republicans or whatever.

01:46:54.000 Oh, nice.

01:46:55.000 Yeah.

01:46:55.000 I'm like, hey man, I'll take it.

01:46:56.000 It's an honor and a privilege to be able to get, you know, a first-hand view of and breakdown of what's going on with Congress.

01:47:05.000 All right, let's go back to where we are.

01:47:06.000 Remington says Styx is back in the States.

01:47:08.000 Are you going to have him on?

01:47:09.000 Oh, is he?

01:47:11.000 So there are a couple individuals who have made it to the States.

01:47:16.000 So, um, I don't, I don't, we usually don't announce anything because, um, then when someone cancels it sucks.

01:47:23.000 We do, we are trying to get Stick, Sex and Hammer on the show.

01:47:26.000 We have been trying to get Stick, Sex and Hammer on the show forever since the show began.

01:47:30.000 He's like, well, I'm a big fan.

01:47:32.000 He's a very rational, very smart guy and he has great content.

01:47:35.000 And, um, I think Carl Benjamin is also in the States currently.

01:47:39.000 He's in Florida.

01:47:40.000 He put up a picture of a horrible pizza and I don't approve Carl.

01:47:45.000 I don't approve.

01:47:46.000 I don't care that you're from England and that, like, you're not used to good-looking food.

01:47:50.000 That pizza was an abomination.

01:47:52.000 Zelensky's here, too, right now.

01:47:54.000 Oh, wow!

01:47:55.000 Oh, yeah, we'll have him on the show.

01:47:57.000 Gotta have him on.

01:47:59.000 I'm a huge fan of, oh, that awful pizza.

01:48:02.000 It's gross, right?

01:48:05.000 It's half Hawaiian, half pepperoni, and it's like cut wrong.

01:48:09.000 Was it good for him?

01:48:10.000 He liked it?

01:48:10.000 Well, I mean... You know what's crazy?

01:48:12.000 Florida has so many New Yorkers and yet I've never had good pizza in that state.

01:48:15.000 Really?

01:48:16.000 That's crazy.

01:48:18.000 So there is a rumor, there are people that say that the water in New York and Connecticut is why the pizza's so good.

01:48:27.000 It's three things.

01:48:28.000 The water.

01:48:29.000 The air, altitude, and the flour they use.

01:48:35.000 So there was a place I went to in Florida that advertised New York pizza and they actually said, we import our water and our flour from New York and cook it to simulate the humidity and conditions of New York on average.

01:48:53.000 It's really, I think New York is, New York's sea level, but then there's also like the humidity conditions, the average temperature, and so you're in Florida, it's much more humid, you have to control for these things to really try and simulate how New York pizza comes out.

01:49:06.000 I have had pizza across the whole country, every state, I guarantee at some point, some club has just thrown pizza after the show, right?

01:49:14.000 Chicago pizza is the best, but not, I am not talking about deep dish.

01:49:19.000 It's a different kind of pizza than New York pizza, too.

01:49:21.000 Not deep dish.

01:49:22.000 I am talking about real Chicago pizza, which is, it's a thin-ish crust.

01:49:29.000 The crust is probably twice as thick as your average New York, and it's firm.

01:49:34.000 I don't really know how else to describe it.

01:49:36.000 It is, it is, and it's cut into squares.

01:49:39.000 And this is how we had all of our pizza growing up.

01:49:42.000 The crust doesn't rise, so you don't get, like on a New York pizza, the back of the pizza is big, and then it's flat, and then, right, it rises a little bit.

01:49:51.000 Chicago pizza doesn't do that.

01:49:53.000 It's baked, and it like stays as it is.

01:49:56.000 Then it's like the sauce, the cheese is really thick, they're cut into squares, and it's a thick square piece.

01:50:01.000 That's how we have Chicago pizza.

01:50:02.000 Chicago pizza's the best.

01:50:03.000 Have you guys tried Andy's Pizza that's in the area yet?

01:50:06.000 So they won 2021's World's Best Pizza Award.

01:50:06.000 No.

01:50:09.000 Oh, let's do it.

01:50:10.000 Really?

01:50:10.000 Yeah, I've been meaning to try it, and apparently they won it with a cheese pizza.

01:50:13.000 We gotta get Dave Portnoy out here.

01:50:14.000 I mean, he's doing Pizza Fest.

01:50:15.000 Yeah.

01:50:16.000 Dave just did a review of my buddy's pizza up in Connecticut.

01:50:23.000 Foucault Pizza.

01:50:24.000 It's great.

01:50:25.000 Foucault?

01:50:25.000 He gave it a good review?

01:50:26.000 Foucault, yeah.

01:50:27.000 I think he gave it like an 8.5 or something.

01:50:28.000 Did you see that video where the guy came out screaming at him?

01:50:31.000 It's awesome.

01:50:31.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:50:33.000 What happened?

01:50:34.000 He's like, he does the pizza reviews and he came out and the store owner came out and started screaming at him or something, like, insulting him.

01:50:39.000 And then he started talking with people who were outside and they were like, I love Dave Portnoy, he's great.

01:50:42.000 And he's like, what's going on, dude?

01:50:43.000 I'm just eating pizza.

01:50:44.000 No, no, he tried to go to the cops, the business owner, because he was standing on the sidewalk and the cops were cool with him, you know, they were friends with him and stuff, so.

01:50:52.000 Why did the store owner hate him?

01:50:54.000 He's a liberal, but also, I guess, the business owner's claim is that Dave Portnoy is bad for small business.

01:51:02.000 Which I don't understand.

01:51:04.000 No, it's because they're woke.

01:51:05.000 Here's the thing, too, is even if you give a place a bad pizza review, okay, barstool people on the internet won't go there, but it's not going to hurt your current existing business.

01:51:13.000 You know what I mean?

01:51:14.000 It can only bring business to- But it's because he knows he's got bad pizza.

01:51:18.000 If I had a place and Dave showed up, I'd be like, please bro, tell me, tell the people about my pizza.

01:51:18.000 Yeah, bro.

01:51:22.000 And he's going to be like, it's pretty good, man.

01:51:24.000 Even if he said it's not the best pizza, but it's like a seven or an eight, I'd be like, yes.

01:51:29.000 If you live in the area too, you would be like, okay, Dave Portnoy.

01:51:32.000 Also like Portnoy was doing all that stuff during COVID to help all the small businesses.

01:51:37.000 Didn't he say he had too much Parmesan?

01:51:39.000 Is that what it was?

01:51:40.000 Yeah.

01:51:41.000 Yeah, he's like, too much Par, man. 0.99

01:51:42.000 I don't like it.

01:51:43.000 Two days ago.

01:51:44.000 But honestly, it was an average New England interaction.

01:51:46.000 I like David Portnoy.

01:51:47.000 He had Mincy's back when they fired him for BS reasons.

01:51:51.000 That's good stuff.

01:51:51.000 That Washington Post journalist trying to do a hit piece on him.

01:51:55.000 So he called her directly and recorded and uploaded it on Twitter.

01:51:58.000 This was two days ago.

01:51:59.000 I highly recommend it.

01:51:59.000 It's like a master class in how you deal with this stuff.

01:52:01.000 Go on the offensive.

01:52:02.000 And she admitted that she was just trying to goad people and then published the story anyway.

01:52:07.000 And he's like, it's amazing that the state of journalism, you can get someone on the phone admitting that they're making up the story and pushing it and then still run the story anyway.

01:52:18.000 I think now is a good time to quote Michael Malice.

01:52:20.000 The job is not done until the average corporate journalist is looked at in the same way that a tobacco lobbyist is.

01:52:28.000 He is correct.

01:52:29.000 Let's read some more.

01:52:30.000 All right.

01:52:31.000 Dark Hell Hound says... Dark Hell Hound?

01:52:34.000 It says Dark Hell Hound.

01:52:35.000 New Jersey voted Menendez back in after he was indicted.

01:52:38.000 Well, you wrote indicated, but indicted in 2013 for bribery, fraud, and false statements.

01:52:42.000 Most people in New Jersey will vote for the person with the D next to the name.

01:52:46.000 Yep.

01:52:47.000 And when you go and talk to them, I wish, I'd love to believe there's a conspiracy, but bro, I have lived near these people.

01:52:54.000 I have sat down and played poker with these people.

01:52:57.000 I have gone to bars and spoken to them at bars, and they have no idea what the they are talking about.

01:53:03.000 And you'll say something like, You'll be like, do you have any concerns about Menendez?

01:53:07.000 They're stubborn about it, too.

01:53:08.000 Well, no, like, you'll go to someone and be like, you're wearing an I Voted thing.

01:53:11.000 It's like, you vote, what did you vote?

01:53:12.000 Like, I voted for Menendez.

01:53:13.000 And be like, do you have any concerns about the fraud and, like, the accusations of underage girls?

01:53:17.000 And they'll go, the what?

01:53:19.000 And I'm just like, oh, dude.

01:53:21.000 Politics is busted, man.

01:53:23.000 It's never a good policy to say, oh, we want to remove voting rights from people, but man, people abuse the hell out of their right to vote.

01:53:32.000 They are irresponsible with it.

01:53:35.000 They put no actual effort into looking to see if what they've heard on Comedy Central is actually true.

01:53:46.000 It is just You know what's so sad about it too is New England and I guess by extension I'm not gonna but that area of the country is where the American Revolution originated from and you can still see some of that attitude in the people in the sense that they're so stubborn and belligerent and you can tell how hey these people's ancestors picked up guns.

01:54:05.000 The problem is the energy is directed all in the wrong direction.

01:54:09.000 Right?

01:54:09.000 When you think about if New Englander energy of today could be directed toward, hey, you know, I'm not with what's going on in the country, we're going to protect American tradition, but instead it's like, yes, I'm going to stubbornly stand up like the guy in the Dave Portnoy video and fight you over the rights of, you know, gay, black, transgender children to, you know, get mastectomies at 14, you know, but I'll fight you for that, bro, you know, that kind of thing.

01:54:34.000 That's the problem.

01:54:35.000 The energy's in the wrong direction.

01:54:36.000 I agree.

01:54:37.000 All right.

01:54:38.000 Tyrion says, be careful with an orgy of evidence.

01:54:40.000 This is the passport in the wreck of 9-11.

01:54:42.000 I think the 150s and 20s is because a single bank only has so much cash on hand.

01:54:47.000 Also, why hide it in clothing?

01:54:49.000 I think it's a fair point, too.

01:54:50.000 Someone said that Menendez was speaking out against the Iran deal, and then all of a sudden, indictment drops.

01:54:57.000 Maybe that's it.

01:54:58.000 I do not trust these people, man.

01:55:00.000 I don't trust Menendez, but I gotta be honest.

01:55:05.000 If you've got, you can, what was the Jack Sparrow quote?

01:55:09.000 He's a dishonest man, but you can trust him because you can trust him to be dishonest.

01:55:13.000 Something like that.

01:55:14.000 And that's how I view politicians across the board, except for maybe like a handful of libertarians, maybe like one Democrat and maybe like seven Republicans.

01:55:22.000 But the SDNY, it's just like, you can't even trust them to be dishonest properly. 0.98

01:55:28.000 They are completely amoral crackpots. 0.96

01:55:32.000 I would not put it past them to go after even a Democrat because a Democrat was falling in line. 0.98

01:55:35.000 In fact, I would expect that.

01:55:36.000 So, yeah, Menendez, I view what, you know, like the idea that he would play politics so that he can get favors.

01:55:45.000 That's the kind of dishonesty I expect from a Menendez.

01:55:47.000 Bribery and these kind of charges are up there.

01:55:50.000 And then you look at the going after of Donald Trump, which is, you know, I guess you can call one neutral evil.

01:55:55.000 And then what SDNY is doing is like, I don't know, it's abject evil.

01:56:01.000 Like, I know that Menendez is, like, these politicians are going to do things like insider trading.

01:56:06.000 They're going to say, hey, if you fund this thing for me, I'll fund this thing for you.

01:56:09.000 And, like, they're going to have a buddy come to them and say, hey, look, man, my company needs this thing done.

01:56:13.000 Don't worry, we'll get it through committee.

01:56:15.000 Whether or not he would take gold bars in exchange for that is a leap.

01:56:20.000 So, maybe, maybe. 0.99

01:56:23.000 But I'm gonna say it, like, SDNY going after Trump, all the bullshit coming out of New York is so just egregious, I don't believe, I don't trust it. 0.99

01:56:30.000 And a good point on orgy of evidence. 0.98

01:56:32.000 I think they're definitely after Menendez for a reason.

01:56:35.000 Whatever reason that is, it never comes up.

01:56:37.000 It's similar to the Russell Brand thing I guess, I mean, who knows if he did it or not.

01:56:40.000 But I just like but according to their story they knew Hollywood or in the entertainment industry must have known

01:56:46.000 about this so many decades Ago, but now suddenly because he is causing problems for

01:56:50.000 them now allegedly according to them suddenly they care suddenly they bring this up

01:56:55.000 Yeah, I don't believe it I mean we talked with FBI whistleblowers this morning on

01:56:59.000 the culture war and I'm like hey We have instances of identity theft fraud and swattings and

01:57:04.000 we get no law enforcement Accountability and they're like of course yeah money. Well,

01:57:10.000 it's it's not that I think that a good portion of it is they operate as weapons of the agenda, narrative, the cathedral, etc.

01:57:17.000 Yeah.

01:57:18.000 And I think everybody would agree.

01:57:20.000 If you are an obstacle in any way and you're obstinate, you're out of the picture.

01:57:24.000 And they'll come out and they'll find a reason.

01:57:26.000 And if you're a regular person and you say, hey, I'm under attack, they'll say, we don't care.

01:57:31.000 This thing has no impact on us.

01:57:33.000 I did get the vibe that the 400 going after him for 400k seems like not like that's not that much.

01:57:39.000 I mean, like, but it is a bride. 0.92

01:57:41.000 It's felony territory.

01:57:42.000 I'm torn.

01:57:42.000 Like, I don't like government prosecuting people, but I also don't like politicians and I like politicians, you know, getting prosecuted.

01:57:50.000 So I'm torn.

01:57:52.000 Well, I think it could be true and he's guilty of all of it, but they only care because of a certain reason.

01:57:57.000 You know what I mean?

01:57:57.000 That's also a possibility.

01:57:59.000 Yeah, it crossed my mind.

01:58:00.000 How many politicians are technically guilty of bribery?

01:58:03.000 Probably all of them, right?

01:58:05.000 This is a good one right here. 0.99

01:58:06.000 Paracelsus Undirect says, the Chinese couldn't capitalize on gunpowder because the steel in the east is crap. 0.94

01:58:12.000 It's western steel that changed to gunpowder. 0.96

01:58:14.000 Interesting.

01:58:15.000 That is an awesome fact.

01:58:16.000 Perhaps that is why.

01:58:19.000 They could make the powder, but they could not contain it and direct the energy properly.

01:58:23.000 I know Japan is well known for the steel and the swords, the katanas and stuff like that.

01:58:29.000 So I think a lot of it has to do with China.

01:58:34.000 So Japan's an island. 0.55

01:58:38.000 So the fighting and competition there is fierce.

01:58:41.000 With the Americas, with Africa and with Eastern Europe, you have such large land masses that when conflict arose,

01:58:50.000 people could flee.

01:58:51.000 So this is true of animals.

01:58:52.000 The burrowing animals tend to be the most vicious, badgers for instance,

01:58:57.000 because they dig their way into it.

01:58:59.000 And they're stuck.

01:59:00.000 And they're stuck.

01:59:01.000 And so if a predator comes, if they don't fight, they die.

01:59:05.000 So what happens is, so let's say you have a bunch of badgers, and half of them are really nice and half of them are really mean, nice ones are all dead. 0.80

01:59:10.000 With birds, they fly away, which is why birds aren't aggressive and don't attack you, for the most part.

01:59:15.000 But I've seen, have you ever seen a bird attack somebody?

01:59:17.000 Those growls, those geese, they can't fly, man.

01:59:19.000 Well, I mean, geese are different.

01:59:20.000 But I mean, I've seen someone walk near a tree with eggs, and the bird jumps out and starts, like, flapping around their head and pecking at them and stuff, and I'm like, whoa, bird's pissed!

01:59:28.000 I saw a squirrel attack somebody once, too, that was crazy.

01:59:30.000 It looks like in 1856, Henry Bessemer developed a method to reduce the carbon content in iron, which led to modern steel production.

01:59:38.000 Yeah, reduction of carbon.

01:59:39.000 So the thousand years before that, I don't know why it didn't take off what advancements they had.

01:59:43.000 Well, I don't think they used steel casings for a while.

01:59:45.000 Read about the history of guns.

01:59:47.000 Just barrels.

01:59:47.000 The crazy thing is how long it took to get the modern revolver.

01:59:53.000 It's like somebody, so they got muskets, and then some guys like,

01:59:56.000 what if I have like a rotating cylinder with, we can preload all of the, you know, the balls and

02:00:03.000 the powder, and what the way it worked is, same as a flintlock, and after it fired,

02:00:07.000 you would hand crank it and then set it again and fire and then hand crank it.

02:00:12.000 And then eventually they developed percussion cap.

02:00:15.000 Which is pre-loaded, but then you put percussion caps, little metal caps that have primer in them, and you stick them over the holes, and then the hammer hits it, sparking into the chamber and firing it.

02:00:27.000 And then eventually, I think it was some French dude who was like, why don't we just put it all in one thing?

02:00:31.000 Like, put the primer and the casing and the bullet all in one, then you can just put it in the gun and shoot it and take it out and put it one in and... And then it... But it was like a hundred years or something, it was crazy.

02:00:42.000 Who gets credit- it's the Portuguese gets credited with modern firearms, right? 1.00

02:00:46.000 Portuguese?

02:00:46.000 Is that right?

02:00:47.000 I don't think so.

02:00:48.000 I think the cartridge was a French dude.

02:00:50.000 Cartridge?

02:00:51.000 It sounds like a French word, yeah.

02:00:52.000 French gunsmith Casimir Lefourchoux.

02:00:55.000 Invented the cartridge?

02:00:56.000 1836, the cartridge.

02:00:57.000 Yeah.

02:00:58.000 And then, uh, uh, see, that's pre-Civil War.

02:00:58.000 Crazy.

02:01:01.000 Yeah, 1830s.

02:01:01.000 1830s.

02:01:02.000 And then in the Civil War, the Confederates were still using muzzle-loaded rifles.

02:01:05.000 Yeah.

02:01:05.000 The Union was as well.

02:01:06.000 Battle of Gettysburg changed the game because the Union soldiers started using, uh, I guess you'd, I guess you'd call it, uh, breech, breech-loaded shells.

02:01:13.000 I'm sorry, breech-loaded cartridges.

02:01:15.000 Paper cartridges.

02:01:16.000 So it had the bullet, It had the powder, and it was wrapped in paper, and you would basically break action, and then they would stick it in the back and then close it, and then they could fire with a percussion cap, and they were ten times faster than the Confederates.

02:01:29.000 You know what's crazy is the Union had access to the 1860 Henry, which was a lever-action rifle, right?

02:01:35.000 I think one of the first, or the first ever invented.

02:01:38.000 And in theory, they probably could have mass-adapted to it, which back then, they'd be like giving every- Are you sure about that?

02:01:43.000 Yeah, by giving every infantryman a machine gun.

02:01:46.000 1860 Henry is the first major lever action in America, yeah.

02:01:46.000 1860?

02:01:53.000 Was it invented in 1860?

02:01:54.000 I think that's why it's called the 1860 Henry.

02:01:57.000 And then there's 1866 after that.

02:01:59.000 But I guess the Union wouldn't adapt it on a... I think some sharpshooters had it actually, but the Union wouldn't adapt it on a mass level because they were scared people were going to waste bullets.

02:01:59.000 Wow.

02:02:09.000 Wow.

02:02:09.000 Which... Whoa.

02:02:11.000 Which, you think how differently the war could have gone, and I think... I'm pretty sure that actually carried over to the same logic kinda screwed us up in Vietnam, too, in the beginning, because... Well, there was 1,731 Henry rifles used by the government in the Civil War, and it was a point of pride to have one.

02:02:27.000 Yeah.

02:02:28.000 So in Vietnam, they were using like M1s or something?

02:02:28.000 Wow, man.

02:02:30.000 Right, because they had the M1A, M14.

02:02:33.000 And the Soviets, early in the war, the Viet Cong actually, I think, outclassed us because they had AKs already. 0.72

02:02:40.000 But the thinking in the military brass even then was, oh, the soldiers are all going to waste ammo if we, you know, give them... Full auto.

02:02:47.000 Yeah.

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Timcast IRL - Democrat Senator INDICTED On Bribery Charges, Dem Mayor QUITS, Joins GOP w-Vince Dao

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