This week, we talk about the Muppets and why you shouldn't watch them. We're also joined by some random Australian woman, Sydney Watson, to talk about why she hates Vegemite and why she doesn't like it.
00:00:00.000I saw a tweet from Seth MacFarlane earlier.
00:00:27.000He said that, he was basically saying the reason why we can't reach the far right is because Disney said that the Muppets were racist.
00:00:35.000And I'm like, I mean, I guess it's kind of bad that Disney is saying the Muppets are racist.
00:00:40.000I have no idea what that has to do with the far right, however.
00:00:43.000Like, wouldn't they like that the Muppets are racist?
00:00:46.000It didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
00:00:47.000And the other thing too is that Seth MacFarlane, I appreciate that he's called out cancel culture.
00:00:53.000He's pretty much like Brian Griffin in his own Family Guy show, like an insufferable liberal.
00:00:58.000But he does use Family Guy to complain about cancel culture.
00:01:01.000I gotta say, Family Guy, though, is probably like the most racist show on TV, like, making overt racist jokes all the time.
00:01:09.000And for some reason, and I'm not, I'll just say it, like for some reason, the left doesn't go after it.
00:01:16.000Maybe it's because Seth MacFarlane is staunchly liberal and anti-Trump and pro-Biden that he gets a pass, but that represents, I guess, the problem of the double standard.
00:01:25.000I guess the big issue here, we'll talk about this, all this different cultural stuff, is the Muppets are racist.
00:02:00.000Cuomo apparently is issuing mafioso-like threats to everybody now, as he burns down in flames over having killed 13,000 people in nursing homes, and everyone is turning on him.
00:02:11.000There are reports now that he's issuing threats, and people are saying it's like gangster-level stuff.
00:03:01.000So, I mean, I'm an Australian-American-conservative-libertarian-esque political commentator that makes YouTube videos and complains on the internet a whole lot.
00:03:55.000Just being, yeah, no, it was, um, it was actually really, really not pleasant.
00:03:58.000Wasn't my favorite experience in the whole world.
00:04:00.000I didn't have power for power heating and water really for about two, three-ish days, which I know sounds completely, you know, some people be like, oh boohoo, but when it's minus 14 degrees Celsius, I don't know what it is in your made up numbers.
00:04:14.000But in Celsius, it was so cold that you're standing in your own house and your hands are pink and you can't feel them.
00:04:57.000That's actually true because people were like basically hanging crap on me and they're saying, Sydney, you're a big crybaby because it doesn't snow in Australia.
00:05:12.000Um, it's not the fact that we had no water, you just have to boil it, because they turned off the electricity at the, don't quote me on this, not the sewage plants, but the water distributing people.
00:05:26.000But they, yeah, so apparently all the water now had like salmonella and E. coli and yadda yadda, so you have to boil all that, but you can't boil it because you've got no electricity, because nothing's gas.
00:05:49.000I was reading about Venezuela and they were talking about how people were trying to breed rabbits for food because they reproduce so quickly and they eat grass, but people actually start dying from it.
00:05:58.000Actually, I think that happened in Venezuela.
00:06:34.000Like, that's definitely a perspective to have.
00:06:36.000But you're in a situation where you can't drive on the roads because they're just covered in snow and ice because no one, you know, no one in Texas is prepared for this.
00:06:43.000I thought everyone in Texas had a pickup truck.
00:08:54.000Disney adds content warning over negative stereotypes.
00:08:58.000Disney Plus has added a content warning at the beginning of 18 episodes of The Muppet Show, which started streaming on the platform on Friday.
00:09:05.000The program includes negative depictions and or mistreatment of people or cultures.
00:09:10.000These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.
00:09:14.000The disclaimer has been added to each of the episodes for different reasons, including one where Johnny Cash sings in front of the Confederate flag.
00:09:20.000The Confederacy was the group of Southern states, as the BBC writing this might do, that fought to keep slavery during the U.S.
00:09:26.000Civil War, and the flag is seen as a symbol of racism by many.
00:09:29.000Disney's disclaimer added, Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact.
00:09:35.000Learn from it, and spark conversations to create a more inclusive future together.
00:09:39.000The advisory note comes after several months of revisionism around films and TV programs, which could be considered offensive by the standards of today.
00:09:47.000So in this article, they have this really big image of the Siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp.
00:09:53.000And the crazy thing is, like, are they trying to imply that these cats, like, are stereotypically Asian?
00:09:58.000Do you guys know what the Siamese cats look like?
00:11:10.000And then it shows Cleveland— Cleveland Brown, who's a black character, and he's sitting on his couch.
00:11:15.000And then you see Peter pull up to the front of his house, which makes no sense because Peter lives across the street, for those that actually watch the show.
00:11:20.000And then he starts running towards the house with the whip, and then Cleveland's phone rings.
00:11:25.000And it's Joe saying, just want to warn you, Cleveland, that Peter has a whip, and I think that matters to you based on your ethnical heritage.
00:11:33.000And then Peter knocks on the door and says, you know, delivery of grape soda quarterly or something.
00:11:40.000And then Cleveland Brown says, well, the risk is great, but the upside certainly worth it.
00:11:44.000And he like walks over. The crazy thing about that is, and don't get me wrong, I clearly like
00:11:49.000the show Family Guy, is that Cleveland Brown, they clearly were making a joke about grape soda
00:11:54.000and black people. And Cleveland Brown is played by a white guy. So it's like Peter Griffin's going to
00:12:01.000It's just like, all around the show definitely does tons of racist jokes.
00:12:06.000But the main point is, Disney owns Family Guy.
00:12:21.000Not only that, Tim, but this is the same Disney that publicly thanked the detention guards that were at the detention center for the Uyghur Muslims.
00:12:31.000If you're talking about prioritizing some issues here, maybe not working with the Communist Chinese on detaining Uyghur Muslims and congratulating them might be a bigger issue than some Siamese cats.
00:12:44.000I would just say, but that's my personal opinion.
00:12:48.000Yeah, I mean, it's just ridiculousness that we're having these conversations about things that absolutely have no merit, absolutely have no effect, absolutely have no credence in any one existence in this world, but yet here we are fighting it.
00:13:02.000I mean, when there's literally human slave labor, there's organ harvesting, there's other things happening in China that we can't even mention that, of course, are condoned or congratulated or approved of by Disney.
00:13:57.000He can paint himself white and act like a white guy, making fun of white people, but Dave Chappelle is one of the most loving humans in the industry.
00:14:17.000He was making a point about racism through humor.
00:14:20.000If Disney is gonna come out and thank these concentration camp guards, claim the Muppets is racist, and then, like, what about all their other properties, too?
00:14:28.000Was it, like, one employee at the Muppets show who was like, oh, we gotta make sure everybody knows this is racist, and had no power in other areas, or what?
00:14:34.000It's probably because they're having all this attention drawn on them now regarding the Gina Carano thing.
00:14:38.000That's probably why they're doing all of this.
00:14:57.000And I love the humor in both of those.
00:14:59.000Both American Dad and Family Guy, excuse me.
00:15:02.000But I think the problem is that Disney, I think at this point, because they are getting so much heat right now from everyone on all sides, they're probably just going, and just making these really random unilateral decisions.
00:15:21.000I'm pretty sure yeah yeah yeah there's actually a funny joke you know the Orville that's another show that Seth MacFarlane is doing and there's a there's a joke in a Family Guy episode where it's just Peter and Chris Griffin sitting next sitting in front of the TV and the TV goes and now back to the Orville and then Peter shoots the TV like a bunch of times And then Chris goes, Wow, Dad, you sure hate the Orville.
00:16:50.000Seth MacFarlane also whistleblowed on Harvey Weinstein way before anyone even knew who Harvey Weinstein was as far as his predatory kind of attacks and Kevin Spacey.
00:16:59.000So he spoke out on this very nasty industry that's called Hollywood.
00:17:04.000That's filled with predators and other things that I can't even say on this show because it's a family-friendly show and because of the YouTube censors.
00:17:11.000But there's people in Hollywood that are absolutely evil, that's one way of describing it, that Seth has called out.
00:17:41.000I know Siam and China are the same thing.
00:17:43.000And it's not far to speculate that because China many times has influenced Hollywood and had them edit out specific scenes.
00:17:51.000Specific mentions even scripts China rewrote scripts of US Hollywood movies because they founded offenses or they didn't like it in Top Gun.
00:18:00.000They even edited out Tom Cruise's jacket because it had mention of a war game between the United States and China.
00:18:16.000So when we have China dictating what Americans could see in Hollywood, that should worry everyone on a larger scale than just, oh look, a Siamese cat.
00:18:29.000If we're going to get into cleaning Hollywood and making sure it's It's going to be a good industry.
00:18:35.000You're going to have to do some deep cleaning on some rotten, nasty, disgusting, some would even say satanic individuals.
00:18:40.000I'm optimistic on a lot of political stuff a little bit.
00:18:43.000Like I was talking about this on my main channel earlier, just that it seems like the establishment political machine in this country has a serious problem with the best they could muster to stop Trump and Bernie Sanders is Joe Biden.
00:18:57.000Like, what are they going to do in 2024?
00:19:04.000So that makes me optimistic that, not for either of those parties necessarily, but that the establishment machine is on the ropes and struggling.
00:19:12.000But then I gotta tell you, I'm really pessimistic when I hear this stuff.
00:19:14.000Like, if Seth MacFarlane, check it out, he did call out Weinstein.
00:19:18.000He was on an awards show or something like that, where he said something about it.
00:19:22.000He just, like, said it on, like, a Grammy or something.
00:19:23.000He made slide jokes about him being a predator and abusing children.
00:19:27.000And then also on his show, mentioned it.
00:19:33.000But no, there was, like, an awards ceremony or something where Seth MacFarlane, like, basically said it.
00:19:37.000And he's also, interestingly, Seth MacFarlane knows a ton of secrets about Hollywood.
00:19:41.000They—he called out Weinstein, he called out Kevin Spacey, and they also called out Bruce—Bruce Jenner transitioned to Caitlyn Jenner in 2009, and then they later were like, look, see?
00:19:54.000But it's because Seth MacFarlane—they act like, oh no, he got it right.
00:19:57.000No, Seth MacFarlane knows all of this Hollywood stuff.
00:20:01.000The crazy thing is, if that's the best Hollywood has in terms of, like, actually calling it out, is Seth MacFarlane sometimes putting a joke out there?
00:20:16.000Kevin Spacey is doing these horrible things.
00:20:17.000No, it's Stewie running through the mall making a joke about it.
00:20:20.000But this is the thing, Seth made a joke about something that people in Hollywood knew for over 30 years.
00:20:25.000For 30 years, they knew that there was this monster Weinstein, connected to, of course, the Clintons, bankrolling a lot of the Democrats, tightly connected to all the ruling elites and upper establishments.
00:20:36.000And they knew he was hurting people for over 30 years in unspeakable ways, ways we can't even mention on this YouTube channel.
00:20:43.000And yet the only thing that happened was Seth just made some snide jokes about it.
00:20:47.000I mean, it's disgusting to even think about it this way.
00:20:58.000It was a comedian that took down Bill Cosby, Hannibal Buress, that made jokes about it.
00:21:03.000And he was like, guys, this is not a joke.
00:21:05.000Everyone was laughing, thinking he was joking about Bill Cosby.
00:21:08.000But that's literally, it literally took a comedian to bring down Bill Cosby, another horrible person within the entertainment Hollywood industry that again, sells their soul to the highest bidder.
00:21:22.000I get what you're saying, but I don't think that Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein are on the same level in the sense of power control and all that sort of stuff.
00:21:29.000Not that I'm obviously a Hollywood executive that knows the ins and outs of all of it, but I would argue that Weinstein probably wields a lot more power than, say, you know... Definitely.
00:21:44.000In the letter of the law in the United States, if you know a crime is happening and you don't do anything about it, you're an accessory to that crime.
00:21:51.000Well, it depends on the circumstances and the situations, and there's many variables we can entertain here, but when you know someone is...
00:21:58.00030 years. If it was happening in his studios and his like...
00:22:02.000The NYPD literally ran investigations when they had undercover operatives be abused by Weinstein
00:22:26.000Why would someone call him out if he thinks that, oh, you know what, I don't want to end up as, you know, part of, like, the Clintons' death tally.
00:22:32.000Like, I mean, I don't know how many people believe in all the conspiratorial stuff surrounding them, but, like, why would you call it out if you're gonna get... But that in itself, the whole Harvey Weinstein story is a conspiracy within itself.
00:22:42.000and you have a choice. Yeah, they were covering it up. Yeah, they were actively covering up. So,
00:22:46.000if you know something's wrong, you have a choice. Either allow it to happen or speak out against it
00:22:51.000and maybe something will happen, maybe something won't happen, but the right thing to do is always
00:22:55.000speak out against someone that's a monster and has been described as a monster that has done
00:23:00.000unspeakable things that are absolutely disgusting.
00:23:03.000And these are the people that are protected within the industry that's now lecturing us about what's appropriate and not appropriate for us to see.
00:23:10.000I'm just absolutely sick of it because it's not just the dem of vipers, it's a dem of child abusing, let's be honest here, individuals who don't give a damn about anyone and don't play by the same rules as everyone else.
00:23:23.000Well, to be specific, that was, uh, was it Corey Haim or Feldman?
00:23:35.000They were calling out the... Oh, right, right, right.
00:23:37.000They were calling out the abusers themselves.
00:23:39.000And a lot of these guys end up finally getting caught, but it takes... It's crazy that you have these people, these whistleblowers, and nothing happens.
00:23:45.000Because these people, these powerful people in industry, they don't... The industry is selling sex.
00:23:50.000And that's what they'll tell you if you're in that industry, to your face, as your manager.
00:24:02.000In order to call them out, people would need spines.
00:24:06.000That's not a common thing these days, man.
00:24:08.000We're a wealthy nation, and you look at the NBA, you look at these people who are just like, hey, China, tell me whatever you want, because you've got money.
00:24:15.000You look at all these professors that are getting busted for spying for China.
00:24:18.000Then you look at, you know, like you mentioned, Bob, was it Bob Iger, I think?
00:27:04.000This is what they're trying to say though.
00:27:05.000They're saying it's like politically white.
00:27:08.000Well this is the thing they make this distinction this is the weirdest thing about liberals today I just this stuff kills me they make this distinction between white people and whiteness all the time as if it somehow makes what they're saying less racist like it's this thing that they're like you know what I mean like on a fundamental level being a white person is okay but having a whiteness this internalized thing that you can have as just any person not okay and it's like Yep.
00:27:52.000One of them said, it said Coca-Cola is accused of reverse racism for saying, try to be less white.
00:27:58.000I haven't heard anybody said that's reverse racist.
00:28:00.000Everyone just saying it's literally racist.
00:28:03.000Another thing that's really important to kind of point out here.
00:28:05.000You brought up the rally that happened in New York City where hundreds of people came out against the rally against white nationalism for Noel Quintana.
00:28:14.000Noel Quintana was a Filipino man that was slashed across the face, beat up brutally.
00:28:59.000So the problem I have is these well-to-do liberal progressive types are focusing on some racial ideology that literally nothing to do with these crimes, making it harder for us to actually have activism around these crimes.
00:29:14.000I don't care if the perpetrator was white or black or Asian or Latino.
00:29:17.000I care that the crime that was committed was illegal and someone got hurt.
00:29:21.000So how about we rally against violence?
00:29:23.000We rally against racially motivated violence.
00:29:26.000They make it about white nationalism, and then there's no real conversation about what's driving the racism in these communities.
00:29:32.000The problem is, if they acknowledge that, guess what?
00:29:35.000Black people can be racist, Asian people, Asian people are really racist, particularly in Asia.
00:29:40.000I'm not super, you know, I know a lot of American Asian people as well, who are pretty good, because Americans, we grew up in this culture, we tend to do a better job.
00:29:49.000But my friends and people I know who have come from Asian countries, they tend to be pretty racist, right?
00:29:55.000Anybody of any race can be racist, have prejudicial views, and view others as superior or inferior.
00:30:01.000It is rampant in Southeast Asia, no joke.
00:30:04.000And if we can't acknowledge that because these well-to-do white progressives are obsessed with themselves, and they think somehow white is superior or privileged, like, I'm sorry, man, that is leftist white supremacy.
00:30:16.000This idea that their race is paramount and privileged above all others, and that no matter what happens, no matter who commits the crime, it's not the fault of the individual who committed the crime.
00:30:41.000And actually, you know, traveling the world, whether it was Asia, Africa, Latin America, you realize that holy cow, the world's really racist.
00:31:39.000So it's super nationalistic in a sense.
00:31:42.000And what I discovered, especially in Sweden, especially from many minorities who are working on trying to end this stuff, they would say like, Swedes very much like to pretend that they're not racist, but they are super racist.
00:31:54.000So what they'll do is they'll be like, we're going to help all these poor minorities and then put them all into like some community with limited resources and do nothing for them and watch it fester and then just claim to everybody how not racist they are.
00:32:15.000What about those Republicans who are super anti-gay but then turned out to be gay?
00:32:18.000Yeah, that Republican who was caught in the bathroom by police officers trying to solicit from an undercover police officer some interesting activity.
00:32:28.000I'm going to be very family friendly here.
00:32:31.000Another thing to really kind of consider here is that, you know, a lot of people are attributing, you know, white nationalism to, you know, different people of race, you know, beating each other up.
00:32:40.000But this is happening in New York City.
00:32:42.000This is happening in San Francisco, where we're seeing these rallies and we're seeing these kind of alleged hate crimes.
00:32:46.000But we have to understand crime is going up dramatically in these places.
00:32:50.000Regardless of race, it's becoming more of a violent, more of a criminal place where even A two-year-old got punched in the head by a panhandler in a New York City subway just recently.
00:33:00.000There was other footage of a guy beating another one with a baseball bat brutally.
00:33:05.000The amount of violence that is overtaking New York City is really reaching proportions that are unlivable for many people.
00:33:51.000What happens then is you get these activists, these progressives, scapegoating the problem, making it about white nationalism instead of general crime, violence, poverty, etc., so the problem doesn't get solved.
00:34:01.000And then people who don't understand what the march is all about Instead of going after the core issues, class issues for one, they then start saying, we need to tell everybody to be less white because you see what happens to that poor Asian man.
00:34:13.000I'm like, that had nothing to do with it.
00:34:14.000Now all of a sudden you got Coca-Cola.
00:34:16.000They don't know what that means, be less white.
00:34:28.000It's funny because when you talk about this as someone who's grown up in a different country, like Australia, and obviously Australia is pretty ethno-homogenous in the sense that, you know, I think the population is 90% white or something like that.
00:34:40.000You have this perception of the US when you come here and then when you see what the communities are like, I agree with you in the sense that there's a lot of Non-self-accountability that goes down in particular communities.
00:34:51.000As someone who has now lived in the US for almost two years, who's observed a lot of it, as a completely objective third-party observer, I have no personal interest in the racial affairs of the United States.
00:35:03.000But when I watch this stuff, And when you are treated by, in a certain way, by particular groups of people, you come to realize that it's not the white population, in my opinion.
00:35:14.000Maybe I'm saying this because I'm a white person.
00:35:16.000That's probably what people would say.
00:35:17.000But as a white person, I don't think that it's the white population that's even the racist group in this country.
00:35:22.000I don't know if, I don't know if you guys would agree with that, but as an outsider, someone who's come into it, I think that there's a lot of... I think you're wrong.
00:35:28.000You think the white population is the most racist?
00:35:38.000No, white liberals, yeah, for sure, but like, normal people, you and me, I don't care what you look like, just be normal to me.
00:35:45.000Right, right, right, right, right, but listen, listen.
00:35:47.000I think I understand what you're trying to say, that you're talking about, like, negative racism, where someone would attack a person of another race, right?
00:35:55.000No, I'm talking about the fact that, like, America—so I don't see white people going around and going, you know what we should do?
00:36:01.000We should put anyone who's not white in internment camps.
00:36:03.000We should— But that's—see, that's one aspect of racism.
00:36:07.000When you have a bunch of white people saying white is bad—so there's a chart that shows in-group, out-group preference among different races, and they split up.
00:36:53.000These are the establishment pushing these talking points.
00:36:56.000We're talking about governments, universities, high schools, major corporations pushing these talking points, these lectures by Robin DiAngelo, this white woman who's trying to make sure people don't understand that she's also white.
00:37:12.000Since when do we take our talking points from racists?
00:37:14.000Coca-Cola employs a large number of employees and this influence, this kind of conjecture of how bad it is to be white, how bad it is to be born of a certain DNA assembly, It's just absolutely ridiculous, but this is the institutions that set policies.
00:37:34.000These are young minds of children that are being taught this in schools every single day.
00:37:39.000This is going to become the new norm, this kind of line of thinking, if it's not challenged.
00:37:54.000I mean, literally, like, the newest video that I made, I literally just posted this yesterday, is about, like, I have a series, White People Bad, and it's basically just where I find the most ridiculous things on the internet of people... I'm trying not to swear, Tim, I'm trying to think of alternate words.
00:38:09.000People just attacking white people over just nonsense and there was one thing that I found that really disturbed me and it came from I believe the original post was basically white people can experience murder and I and I went and looked into that yeah it was mental I went and looked I looked into it a little bit and I believe that it's more or less a troll post came from like 4chan you know when they want to like rile people up because I couldn't find it on any lefty forums but when I
00:38:31.000read it I was like this sounds like saying a regressive leftist would say but that's that was
00:38:35.000not the disturbing part the disturbing thing was a video that I found that had been um screened
00:38:40.000effectively at a university so to speak in San Francisco called why don't we murder more white
00:40:11.000You know, the remnants of blockbusting and redlining persisted into the 80s and still exist in some forms today.
00:40:16.000But I'm like, man, we really are winning and crushing these racists.
00:40:20.000And then I went to Occupy Wall Street.
00:40:22.000And the progressives segregated everybody based on race into different groups based on their race.
00:40:28.000And your voting privileges in the community was determined partially based on your race.
00:40:34.000So they had some groups where it was like the Black Caucus got a vote in how money was spent simply because it was a group of black people.
00:40:39.000But then you had like the Sanitation Working Group.
00:40:42.000They got a vote on spending money based on the fact that they all cleaned and were sanitary.
00:40:46.000And so I was like, I don't understand why voting power is derived based on the fact that you're a group of people based on race.
00:40:51.000And they were like, you just don't understand because, you know, we got to just, you know, break down all the racism, whatever.
00:40:56.000There was one black dude at Occupy Wall Street, not super involved, and he was chilling.
00:41:00.000I saw him arguing with somebody one day.
00:41:11.000And he went, bro, do you have any idea what the press would say if they found out y'all are segregating people based on race into different colored groups?
00:41:39.000He slowly started, we were talking about politics, and then he mentioned something particularly racist, and then immediately walked it back.
00:41:45.000Because he knew it was not socially acceptable.
00:41:47.000So that guy was a racist, but he couldn't say it.
00:41:50.000One of the other interesting aspects of Occupy Wall Street, being there from the very beginning to the very end, was to see it kind of emerge into two different classes.
00:41:56.000Pola hires them to teach their employees how to be racist.
00:42:17.000And then the uptown and the downtown area had an internal conflict and fight within Occupy Wall Street.
00:42:22.000So seeing these social dynamics kind of recreate itself in our main society was amazing and incredible to see in real life as it kind of unfolded on this kind of timescale.
00:42:32.000But another thing I wanted to bring up, Babylon Bee made some really good points today.
00:43:27.000What's weird is they're making a joke, but did you guys see that cut video that came out like three months ago that talked about like all the reasons white people are the worst in the world?
00:43:35.000Like what are white people superior at?
00:43:38.000Okay, I'm surprised that you didn't because this video basically... I think I did see it.
00:43:42.000I'm sure you guys did like basically it was it was a group of they collected a hundred black folks with an X love that for them and got them in a room and said what are white people superior at and it starts off like real light-hearted like haha mayonnaise like okay White people love their dogs, at one bit, and then it goes into, oh, they're better at oppression, they're better at white supremacy, they're better at murder, they're better at... It's so not true, because I gotta be honest, Asians are just so much better at a lot of these things.
00:44:17.000I found out that I was... I always thought I was a quarter Korean, and then I found out I'm actually 5% Japanese through DNA tests, and then I was like, you know why that happened?
00:44:28.000Mmm, no, but I mean this is the thing is that you make jokes about it But then you go and watch this content that mind you is still up on YouTube doesn't break any freaking Guidelines and things that has people literally saying that white people are the best at oppression.
00:45:12.000Let me tell you about skateboarding stereotypes.
00:45:15.000I'm gonna tell you about skateboarding stereotypes, alright?
00:45:18.000These are stereotypes that I'm not saying are true, but were brought up to me when I was young in skateboarding.
00:45:23.000Asian skateboarders tend to be good at technical skateboarding, which means they can do extremely complicated maneuvers.
00:45:30.000So it's like combining the most tricks into one trick.
00:45:34.000Black skateboarders tend to, and again, this is a stereotype that people in skateboarding have said, tend to be able to ollie better than anybody and do some of the best flat ground skating.
00:45:43.000And then white people are really good at jumping off buildings.
00:47:34.000He was a weird one because he, even though he took over so much land, it was almost like what the Romans did, where the Romans went in and were like, okay, this is ours now.
00:48:09.000Isn't it weird that all these people that, like, white liberals uphold to this standard are honestly some of the worst humans when it comes to the treatment of other racial groups?
00:48:23.000Well, you know what was really interesting?
00:48:25.000So I, you know, listening to The Beatles, you have the song Revolution, and he has that line, when I was a little kid I did not understand what this meant, but if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow.
00:48:39.000I was like, hey, Chairman, yeah, like, you know, and I was like a little kid singing Beatles and like, you know, running around playing guitar or whatever.
00:48:45.000And then I got older and I was like, oh, I get it.
00:48:47.000He was saying, yo, don't support authoritarian communists, bro.
00:49:38.000Democratic representatives write to cable companies, including AT&T and Comcast and streamers, Amazon and Hulu, demanding they drop Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax over misinformation.
00:50:36.000Also, another thing, they're going after Fox News for spreading misinformation and quote conspiracy theories.
00:50:42.000I mean, these are from Democratic Congress members calling for CEOs of TV companies and internet providers to take down another news channel that doesn't subscribe to the same notions.
00:50:57.000in CNN with the toilet and everything. I don't like any of these kind of partisan networks,
00:51:01.000but the bigger kind of understanding here is if these people are going to take them
00:51:05.000down for misinformation and conspiracy theories, they have to take themselves down at the same
00:51:09.000time. I thought of a funny joke. Did you? So we were just talking about the previous
00:51:12.000segment like what are white people good at? And then you mentioned some people said oppression.
00:51:17.000Yeah, but you see, they only steal that from China, right?
00:51:20.000So I was, I'm looking, we're looking at the story and I'm like, I'm thinking about these, like these, these Democrats trying to get news banned.
00:51:26.000And I'm like, man, maybe they really are good at oppressing.
00:51:29.000What they're doing is a rip off of what China already did.
00:51:33.000And then I thought it's another funny joke because then the other stereotype about white people that you get from the progressives is that they steal culture.
00:51:38.000So maybe right now the Democrats are really good at stealing the authoritarianism from these despotic nations.
00:53:40.000So it's like when they legislate it's like you said like for every and I think that was Trump's thing you know for every how many laws were passed you know however many were repealed and I think that or you know all this red tape was cut and I think that you're right like they're always passing new laws but it's like for what?
00:53:57.000What are you doing, actually, day to day, that is necessary, that needs to be done?
00:54:02.000It's more regulation most of the time.
00:54:10.000And then after they took away the firearms in Australia, the Australian government locked down and clamped down on its citizenry more than almost any government out there, especially when it came to the COVID restrictions.
00:54:21.000And it was kind of It still is absurd to see what they're able to get away with over there.
00:54:34.000Because my frustration was like, I'm watching America, which, mind you, I know that a lot of Americans think that America is just rightly screwed right now.
00:54:42.000To some extent, maybe, but you still have a constitution and a bill of rights and a bunch of stuff that protects you.
00:54:55.000We have five rights in our constitution.
00:54:57.000And there are things like freedom of religion and, you know, you can move between states and things like that.
00:55:01.000So watching what was going down with all the lockdown stuff, having no guns, yada, yada, yada.
00:55:06.000It was honestly really, you know, I'm here in the US and I'm thinking, I'm so lucky to live in a country where I can actually just basically be like, you know what, nah, and do what I want.
00:55:16.000Even living in Texas, you can just buy a billion guns.
00:55:18.000In Australia, there was people who organized protests on Facebook and literally had police officers break down their front door when they were having dinners with their family with children there and arrested and took them away from their children for organizing a protest.
00:55:41.000It's funny because one of my very good friends back home, his name is Avi, and he's a journalist for Rebel News.
00:55:47.000He's been arrested several times now, even though he has press credentials from the government to be, you know, at these protests and things.
00:55:55.000He's been chucked in the back of the divvy van or the police van thingy.
00:55:59.000And they really target the journalists now.
00:56:02.000They arrested one, I think it was two or three days ago, they arrested another young journalist and her photographer from the Herald Sun, which is another Melbourne newspaper.
00:56:10.000And the thing that really distresses me watching this, like again from a country where I can basically do a lot of things that I can't do back home, is they just snap their fingers and go okay we're having another lockdown now five-day lockdown everyone like stay in your home can't go outside can't do this can't do that and Australians just go okay yes daddy government yes yes yes I'll do the thing mm-hmm okay yep and I it makes me want to throw up because I think where is your sense of freedom where's your sense of self-preservation it's not I mean they think that the government will answer all of their hopes and dreams and questions when in reality the government is actually just stomping on you
00:56:42.000The first, the first 15 days, we all basically agreed.
00:57:27.000You know, the Premier of, in Victoria, so where I'm from, the Premier of my home state gave himself a pay raise during the pandemic after he locked down Victorians for the longest period, I'm pretty sure, in the entire world.
00:57:40.000And then this, I want to call him the C word, but I'm not going to say it.
00:57:42.000But then he goes, he goes and gives him, and I nearly slipped out.
00:58:41.000I mean, like, again, Aussies, look, I love Australians, but sometimes, you know, they get on me and they're like, you're so mean, why are you so mean about Australia?
00:58:48.000And I'm like, I don't know, because you got no freedom?
00:58:56.000It seems like you've inherited the best of both sides, like the ability to fight giant tarantulas and kangaroos while understanding the importance of freedom.
00:59:07.000That's the craziest thing to me, is that you could have Australia, which is the stereotypical deathtrap country of, like, giant spiders and birds.
00:59:17.000I watch this video where there's a super jacked kangaroo banging on some guy's window.
00:59:23.000And he's like, what's... And this Australian guy I knew said, like, they could gut you.
00:59:26.000They could, like, their huge claws slash you.
00:59:29.000I'm like, how do you grow up in a place where I watched one video where these people are drinking on an outdoor patio and a kangaroo just like stomps through?
01:00:38.000It's like a three-hour plane ride to get to New Zealand.
01:00:41.000Yeah, that sounds like about 2,000 miles.
01:00:42.000Well, if you look at the United Kingdom, I mean, even their lockdowns are absolutely absurd and very oddly... They make no sense!
01:00:49.000Yeah, it doesn't make many sense on many different levels because if you look at the numbers, you compare it to Sweden.
01:00:57.000The numbers are going down the same way They're even going down even more according to some estimates in Sweden where the lockdowns were restricted by and large Not fully but by and large compared to the United Kingdom that fully locked down And of course has their police officer sending out notices that they will no longer be responding to burglaries But they spent taxpayer money on billboard buses telling you that being offensive is a criminal offense Oh, you know, the UK is just, oh god, it's beautiful.
01:01:25.000It's again, it's one of these beautiful prisons.
01:02:47.000And honestly, it depends who I'm around too, because if I'm a, if I'm around a bunch of Yanks, I feel like my accent gets much more American.
01:02:56.000You guys are Yanks, all of you, like no matter where you're from, you're all Yanks.
01:02:59.000But when I talk to like, you know, if I call home and I'm talking to like my dad, who is very Australian, he's from Perth, so his accent is just like off the planet.
01:03:06.000Um, but if I like call home or something, people are like, Oh, you're still, you're using your own terminology again.
01:03:49.000You're kind of led to believe that you live in a free state.
01:03:51.000Yeah yeah yeah I so when I became aware of the fact that because obviously like when you're at school you learn about Aussie history you don't learn about British history you learn about Aussie history you learn about Federation or blah blah blah you know like when the first fleet landed in Australia and colonized yada yada we learn about all of that I didn't know probably until I was actually maybe in my late teens that we weren't a republic Because I remember we studied stuff at school and I was like, oh, well, you know, I would probably vote to have us be a republic.
01:04:20.000And I had friends who were like, no, I want to be, you know, we need the monarchy still.
01:04:24.000And that's a whole, that's actually a whole argument is a lot of conservatives in Australia are like, we need to still be part of, you know, or at least have the monarchy as like our head of state, so to speak, even though it's the queen.
01:04:34.000She gives royal assent on all of our legislation that gets passed.
01:04:38.000So, I mean, it's more of a ceremonial thing, but it's still active, I guess.
01:04:42.000She controls the military, and so is she the one ordering these lockdowns?
01:05:39.000The New York Times says, critical thinking as we're taught to do it isn't helping in the fight against misinformation.
01:05:50.000Wait, wait, check out this first line.
01:05:54.000For an academic, Michael Caulfield has an odd request.
01:05:57.000Stop overthinking what you see online.
01:06:01.000Sit down, shut up, believe what you're told, and move on, good sir.
01:06:06.000The New York Times, this is what they say, Mr. Caulfield, the digital literacy expert at Washington State, knows all too well, in Vancouver, mind you, knows all too well at this very moment, more people are fighting for the opportunity to lie to you than perhaps any other point in human history.
01:06:21.000Misinformation, blah, blah, blah, yeah, we get it.
01:06:23.000Quote, we're taught that in order to protect ourselves from bad information, we need to deeply engage with the stuff that washes up in front of us.
01:06:30.000Mr. Caulfield told me recently, he suggested that the dominant mode of media literacy, if kids get taught any at all, and that's a good point, is that, quote, you'll get imperfect information and then use reasoning to fix that somehow, but in reality, that strategy can completely backfire.
01:06:43.000In other words, resist the lure of rabbit holes, in part, by reimagining media literacy for the internet hellscape we occupy.
01:06:51.000Let me tell you what's really being said here, because I can translate for all of you.
01:06:55.000They don't want you investigating the news.
01:06:57.000They don't want you listening to conversations like this.
01:07:03.000How do you know who's actually lying and who's telling the truth?
01:07:06.000The person who's telling you the truth tells you to listen to the ideas of other people and come to your own conclusion to be a free, sovereign individual.
01:07:47.000Anybody telling you not to do what you want to do to be free as long as you're not hurting others, and who would lie to you and tell you not to listen to others, or would censor opinions, or my stars and garters, New York Times saying, don't think critically?
01:08:59.000And then, you know, the Vietnam War starts and we find out later it didn't really happen.
01:09:03.000Maybe we should have overthought that.
01:09:05.000I feel like when you're at university, there's like a big thing where you are taught not well to think critically.
01:09:10.000I don't know if that was, you know, anyone else's experience, but that was definitely mine.
01:09:13.000And I feel like maybe that... I don't think that's what the New York Times is saying, just by the way.
01:09:18.000Like, I definitely think this is them being like, don't look too deeply into things because then you might start questioning narratives that you're not supposed to question.
01:09:28.000Like, what was your... I just don't feel like we were.
01:09:29.000I feel like it was one of those things where like, When I was at school and I so my first degree was I studied criminology and then my second my master was in journalism because you know here I am sort of doing that but I feel like there wasn't a huge emphasis on actually digging deeper into things it was sort of like accept this on the surface and maybe look a little bit into it here are the sources the approved sources that were okay with you looking at
01:10:04.000And I feel like that's what critical thinking is.
01:10:06.000Taking a prompt or an idea or whatever, reading something about it, going, OK, and then looking deeper and then going down this hole and going over here and basically building an idea of something from multiple angles and sources and coming to your own conclusions.
01:10:20.000I wasn't taught to do that at school, at university.
01:10:23.000And I feel like a lot of young people coming out of that system probably don't have the skills that they should when it comes to thinking more in depth about things.
01:10:31.000I'm not saying that everyone has to be conservative or has to solely go to conservative sources and that's all they can read and that's the only place that's going to give them true and accurate information.
01:11:02.000When the New York Times would come out and say an anonymous source told us this, people would be like, I guess it's true, because what else are we going to do about it?
01:11:07.000Now we can actually be like, hold on, let me look into that.
01:11:10.000But here's the dangerous thing about what the New York Times is doing.
01:11:14.000They hold themselves to a special standard.
01:11:17.000In the article, they say, you know, here's some four principles of what you should do when you encounter, you know, potential disinformation or whatever.
01:11:39.000And that's good enough to know we should probably just move on, he said.
01:11:42.000And I'd like to edit in a little sentence.
01:11:44.000While completely ignoring Bill Gates is not a scientist nor a doctor, you see the point.
01:11:49.000When Bill Gates comes out, they say, oh, it's great, Bill Gates has a plan, and here's what he's saying, here's his advice.
01:11:55.000And the New York Times says, well, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
01:11:58.000was an anti-vaxxer, so don't trust him.
01:12:00.000It's that they apply this standard of, we must not overthink things and must analyze only when it's the narrative they want.
01:12:07.000So a good example is how like Wikipedia works, for example.
01:12:11.000I can come out and say something like, I am in favor of a universal healthcare system that also has private health insurance, much like most of the developed world.
01:12:21.000I am not in favor of abolishing private insurance, and I was a big fan of Bernie Sanders in 2016.
01:12:27.000And they'll say, Tim Poole is not a good source on what he actually believes, even when he says it.
01:12:34.000But then I can come out and say something like, I am pro 2A.
01:12:37.000And they'll write, Tim Pool says he is full pro 2A.
01:12:39.000If it is a right-wing position, they'll say, well, he said it, so it's true.
01:12:42.000If it's a left-wing position, they'll say, nope, nope, he's not a good source of this information, so Tim Pool can't be left-wing.
01:12:48.000They use whatever narrative they want.
01:12:51.000They use the rules only when it best suits them.
01:13:08.000This is why the media is... I just... I'm gonna start, but I mean, this is why the mainstream is... Oh, please, start.
01:13:12.000No, this is just why the mainstream media really gets under my skin, because you're right, like, and I think a lot of conservatives, obviously, like, being that that's the space that I occupy a lot of the time, is that conservative libertarian-esque ground, but A lot of people on the right, too, I don't think are willing to admit that the right wing is just as bad when it comes to spinning things or cherry-picking information and creating particular narratives around things where they're not quite telling the truth.
01:13:36.000For example, I mean, like, even that Koch thing, and I'm not defending what Koch did at all, I think it, that's gross, but, I mean, they put out a statement that basically said, hey, you know, this is not actually the sole focus of our curriculum, it was just part, I know, and you're making a face at me, but I'm just saying, like, there's that caveat to the story that I think they're buttholes for what they did and I think it's disgusting and I, you know, like I said, I put that in the video I made.
01:14:05.000But it's, you know, so my point here is that you're allowed to be like Coke or a bunch of buttholes and I think that they suck, you know, what they did was shitty and, sorry.
01:14:31.000I'm not saying anyone was being dishonest, but I'm saying that in this context... I'll tell you, I'll tell you... More information is better, in my opinion.
01:14:37.000I took issue with the wind turbines story in Texas because all the conservatives, not all of them, but all of these conservatives are coming out and saying the wind turbines froze and it shut down the grid and it caused all the damage.
01:14:50.000And in reality also gas lines were freezing and there was a bunch of other issues.
01:14:54.000But it does seem, because we did have one fellow who was an energy expert, who basically said if it wasn't for the wind turbines going down, the demand for gas wouldn't have skyrocketed, causing this domino effect essentially.
01:15:08.000But to come out and say that it was the sole reason for the crisis was not completely true.
01:15:14.000So you have AOC coming out and saying, no, it's the problem of the gas lines.
01:15:44.000Now, I hear them saying that Joe Biden denied some emergency relief, so it's always much more complicated than anything.
01:15:50.000But I will tell you this, for the most part, conservatives know what the left is thinking, and when they write about it, they don't need to snub details.
01:15:58.000They might give you their biased version of it, sure, but the left outright just manipulates.
01:16:02.000Oh, I'm not saying that conservatives, like, lie in the same way that the left does, definitely not, but they definitely, they still spin things.
01:16:09.000I still see things and I go, I know for a fact that what is written in this article is part of the story and there's a whole other element to this that if they just added a single sentence acknowledging that other part of it, it would be a more holistic better, well-rounded story that people could read and go, OK, I now at least know basically more or less the full details of it.
01:16:30.000I'm not saying that... I mean, the left just make crap up.
01:16:32.000That's the thing that... I'm head-butting microphones here.
01:16:35.000That's the thing that annoys me so much is they just make things up.
01:17:16.000And then I said, I'm sorry, they didn't say it was rigged, because I was trying to be silly.
01:17:20.000So Pointer writes an article, and they said, a controversial YouTuber, Tim Pool, published a post which claimed, or which said, the election was rigged.
01:17:29.000You see how they use weasel words to get through that?
01:18:08.000They then got mad because what happened was Birdwatch, Twitter's independent user fact-checking system, determined that my tweet was in fact correct.
01:19:01.000I said that it wasn't rigged, that it was fortified.
01:19:03.000I was just referencing a Time Magazine article.
01:19:06.000So in this new article, this is really amazing.
01:19:08.000They included my tweet, and they removed the part where it said, who wrote, Tim Pool, who wrote, the election was rigged, and said, in a tweet from Tim Pool, who cited a Time Magazine article claiming that a cabal of wealthy elites were fortifying the election by changing rules and controlling the flow of information, Twitter flagged it as misleading, and with that simple correction, a legitimate correction, so my thanks to the writer on that, that was very honorable, and this guy is particularly lefty, Uh, it changed the entire context of the article.
01:19:39.000Before, the article was saying, Tim Poole lied, and Twitter said it was real news.
01:19:45.000By fixing the context of my tweet, it says, Tim Poole was correct, the users correctly identified this, and Pointer is angry about it.
01:19:53.000So the article has now become, the premier fact-checking organization for Facebook, Pointer, is outraged That I made a factual tweet that was just a snarky statement that users flagged it as not misleading and made them mad because they lost control of the narrative to a bunch of random Twitter users.
01:20:14.000So with that correction, I'm actually really, really happy.
01:20:16.000And I'm not entirely hopeful that will always be the case, but that's good news.
01:20:21.000Sounds like the dude from the second article, who's the company, the second?
01:20:27.000Actually went and read the Time Magazine article after you requested the retraction and then was like, whoa, this is just, it just seems like it.
01:20:35.000I don't know if that's actually what happened.
01:20:36.000The crazy thing about how the media works.
01:22:48.000No, I thought hobbling is where you get like, I watched a movie where this woman just went and just like smashed this guy's ankles together.
01:22:56.000There's a reason why we're all related to convicts.
01:23:16.000So while the rule change would have benefited both sides, Democrats are more likely to vote by mail.
01:23:21.000So if Luke and I were about to race and I was like, ah, let's race on one of those horizontal elevator things at the airports where the ground is moving forward on it and we run.
01:23:32.000It would be more like if you said... Yes, because I'm changing the physics of the race.
01:23:36.000If you said this, uh, let's say there's a dude who's allergic to peanuts and you were like, we're going to race, but I think it's fair that we give everyone a big jar of peanut butter for energy.
01:23:47.000Well, one guy, you know, peanut, peanut butter is normally good.
01:24:07.000Like in Georgia, in Pennsylvania, where these rule changes happened, it was publicly known, but you rely on the national media to come out and tell you what was happening.
01:24:14.000So the issue was that, the question of rigging, it's not necessarily about whether or not fraud occurred, because I don't think that's an issue here.
01:24:24.000The bigger issue is, were the changes constitutional?
01:24:36.000So, well, so, uh, I'll let Tim take this one.
01:24:38.000The Pennsylvania Pennsylvania has been so it was cause we, cause I've, I've covered this so much.
01:24:42.000Uh, and we had Sean Parnell on the show several times.
01:24:45.000Pennsylvania sued arguing that the mail-in voting law was unconstitutional because their constitution in PA state says absentee ballots must be for this reason and then they created universal mail-in voting which basically negated absentee voting.
01:24:58.000The lower court said, you are correct and will likely win on the merits.
01:25:02.000And then it got, I think it got appealed to the state Supreme Court.
01:25:06.000The state Supreme Court said, you're too late.
01:25:21.000Clarence Thomas got angry, and he basically said, if we wouldn't hear the case before the election, and now we won't hear the case after the election, we have not solved the problem of breaking the rules in the election.
01:26:09.000This is the question of rigging, right?
01:26:18.000Rigging is typically understood to mean that you are setting up a system to favor one participant or one competitor or something like that.
01:26:26.000And it doesn't necessarily mean cheating, although it's kind of considered to be a cheater kind of move, you know what I mean?
01:26:33.000I thought rigging was where you're setting something up to ensure that one person wins or comes out victorious or whatever, so to the detriment of other people.
01:26:45.000Maybe someone should Google what rigging means so that we can get an actual definition.
01:26:50.000Well, there's two different ways to look at it.
01:26:51.000You can rig something, and that means literally to just make something do a thing you want, and then rigging a competition or a game means to ensure a favorable outcome, typically.
01:27:35.000Cause an artificial rise or fall in prices.
01:27:37.000So I think it's fair to say that they weren't saying it was rigged, because the Time Magazine article did not imply fraud.
01:27:42.000And that's why I was very careful with my words.
01:27:44.000They didn't say it was rigged, they said it was fortified.
01:27:46.000But I think, to a certain degree, colloquial understanding is, if you've changed the voting laws outside of the state legislature in violation of the Elector's Clause of the Constitution, a lot of people will view that as fraudulent.
01:28:00.000Not as voter fraud or election fraud or anything, but as unconstitutional actions that violate the supreme law of the land, our constitutions.
01:28:09.000So it's an interesting legal argument.
01:28:11.000There was one comment on my tweet where they said, could be misleading because some may view this as clearly not rigging, just protecting election integrity, while others may claim that these are outside the Elector's Clause and thus a violation.
01:28:23.000And so until it's adjudicated, it could go either way.
01:28:35.000But I tell you this, the tribalists will take whatever they can get, right?
01:28:38.000The Trump supporters are going to say, no, that clearly means it was rigged.
01:28:41.000And the Biden people and the anti-Trump people are going to say he won fair and square.
01:28:44.000They were just protecting voter integrity.
01:28:46.000What I'm taking from this entire conversation besides your point about the correction that was made is that that second article, the way that that person structured what they were saying about what you said and time and everything is how writers should go about writing articles.
01:29:01.000And that was really important because adding in that your response was to the time article was crucial in people understanding actually what was said and who said it and when and why and how and whatever else.
01:29:22.000The way that Poynter wrote this opening sentence was crafted in a legal way.
01:29:30.000So I personally did not say the election was rigged.
01:29:33.000What they wrote was, in a post from controversial YouTuber Tim Pool, that stated the election was rigged.
01:29:40.000So they said, in a post, and the post said, So now they can make an argument that the Post has the words, the election was rigged, and therefore it must be true, you know, our statement is a fact.
01:29:50.000I still think there's grounds for a false statement of fact, because the Post actually says they didn't rig it.
01:29:56.000The full Post literally says they didn't rig it.
01:29:58.000But you can see how they're trying to skirt around the truth in such a way.
01:30:02.000The full context, if someone was actually reading it, they would say, Tim Pool made a reference to a Time Magazine article about a cabal of wealthy elites.
01:30:36.000They frame things in such a way to make you believe something that may or may not be true.
01:30:41.000I just had this, it's so crazy that we live in a world where you can send out a tweet, where you can just type a paragraph that gets so much traction and human focus, and can alter the dialogue of the world, of the earth, in like, for months.
01:31:14.000No, no, but think about how funny it would be if you came out on Twitter and you were like, I can confirm, I rigged the election.
01:31:19.000I rigged the election, and Tim Pool was involved.
01:31:21.000Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then people are gonna be like, whoa, he's saying it, and then you'll see a picture of a boat that says the election on it.
01:31:37.000And then when they write that you posted fake news or whatever, or you can say that I know for a fact that the election got rigged and they'll be like, aha, see, he's lying.
01:31:45.000You then post a picture of the boat and be like, it is a true statement.
01:31:48.000At the very least, we got to Photoshop it.
01:33:25.000Christ, a while back on an Australian network, a radio network, someone suggested that is it racist because white pieces move first in chess?
01:34:52.000You've seen the episode where I think he wished everybody was the same so that nobody would be bullied.
01:34:57.000And then everyone was a gray blob, but they still found a way to bully people.
01:35:01.000Like, even though they were all now gray blobs.
01:35:04.000And it was like a really amazing point for like a kid's show to tell people that no matter what you do, people will still find a way to be nasty and mean to you.
01:35:13.000And now here we are in this world where apparently nobody got the message.
01:35:15.000And they're like, everybody should be genderless and shaved heads.
01:35:19.000Oh, you know, it's like that South Park episode where the future people come and they're all bald, olive-colored skin people who speak a mix of every language.
01:35:27.000The only thing that South Park got wrong was that, oh, no, no, they got this right too.
01:35:57.000But also smash that Like button, subscribe to the notification bell, and check out TimCast.com for exclusive members-only content.
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01:36:12.000Because, look, a lot of people don't like hearing it, but YouTube has already given us a warning on one of our episodes.
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01:36:25.000But that's still really bad, and we want to avoid that.
01:36:28.000That also means, if there are things we want to talk about, it's going to be at TimCast.com, because we're just trying to make sure we're navigating everything properly.
01:36:34.000I don't want to sacrifice the entire channel and my ability to produce content, because it would shut down my other channels as well, because one person said something, and we can move it over, or something like that.
01:37:40.000I mean, history is pretty much people stabbing each other and killing each other when you look at it at the context of Europe.
01:37:48.000In Roman times slaves were pretty much money.
01:37:52.000They were valued and during big conquests they would make sure to keep people alive to sell them later because that was pretty much a currency.
01:38:00.000So slaves and Slavic people were their own kind of currency.
01:38:03.000The Celts were often traded by the Romans when they were conquered by Julius Caesar and a lot of them, I mean the Celts had People in Portugal and Poland and in some places as far as Turkey.
01:38:17.000So We have a long history of murder of conquest and slavery all in that region.
01:38:24.000Geez Yeah, we have a whole bunch of super chats where people are just screaming Sydney Stephen a says Sydney.
01:38:28.000I love your channel It's cool to see you on Tim's show you rock Jake says yay Sydney.
01:38:33.000She's my favorite strange Aussie Jessica Jessica says so glad to see Sydney on the show her comedy skits always make me laugh.
01:38:40.000Yes I love it when people think I'm funny.
01:38:43.000That's the best thing, honestly, because sometimes I watch my content back and I'm like... What's your skit-to-politics ratio?
01:38:50.000Um, I would say 30% stupid and 70% politics.
01:41:41.000So, well, I cheated the system because my mom is a US citizen, so me getting citizenship was just by virtue of being born and being a human being that was born to a Yank.
01:41:51.000So I think that there's a... Honestly, I've had a couple friends who've wanted to become citizens and I think it's a very complicated process as far as my understanding goes.
01:41:59.000And I think that there's a bunch of different visas you can start off with, but I think you either have to get sponsored or you have to... Guys, correct me if you know any information about this because I frankly am not an expert.
01:42:10.000Because I mean, like you guys, I was just born as a citizen.
01:42:13.000But I think it's just the visas are really difficult to get.
01:42:15.000That's my understanding in the very least.
01:42:17.000You need to apply online to go to Australia if you're an American.
01:43:24.000It's gonna be really interesting when you get a mix of like, standard non regional American, Southern Texan and Australian all mixed together.
01:43:32.000Oh my god, it's going to be even now like sometimes I accident and I'm not trying to be a like a doodlehead about it.
01:43:38.000And like I'm trying to see how hard I'm trying not to swear.
01:43:40.000Yeah, man, you really got me in a vise.
01:46:53.000She tweeted something about, uh, it was really funny.
01:46:56.000It was, like, remembering, like, November 22nd or something, and it said, like, Bernie Sanders was winning the primary, and the next image is, like, a crying Pepe or whatever.
01:47:03.000And then I responded with, that Time Magazine article said they started this effort in the fall of 2019.
01:47:09.000These are high-profile Democrats and media conglomerates fortifying the election before the primary, and then we know what happened with Iowa, where Bernie, like, the results, like, never came in, I guess.
01:47:20.000There was this weird app or something.
01:47:22.000The left has routinely complained that Bernie Sanders gets cheated all the time.
01:47:25.000I tweeted agreeing, like, look at this article that said this, and then her followers attack, attack, attack.
01:47:50.000I think she's got anti-woke leftists for the most part now.
01:47:55.000You said you had her muted on Twitter, I assumed you...
01:47:58.000You just posted like there was one thing I can't remember what it was but it really because I don't like blocking people and I don't I just think it's psycho like unless you're actually abusing me I'm not gonna block you I just but um I muted her because she just started saying things that I was like I don't It was just stuff that I was like, this is like way out in left field.
01:48:29.000There are a lot of people that used to be, like, anti-SJW who have just basically stopped paying attention and then just given in to whatever the narrative is.
01:48:54.000And then, like, I guess Shu put out a statement saying she couldn't be friends with Lauren Southern anymore or something.
01:48:59.000And then, like, retracted it or something like that.
01:49:00.000I don't know a whole lot about it, but I wonder if... You know, I wonder if there are a lot of people there, like, there are people that I've literally hung out with and have been friends with who started disparaging me incorrectly.
01:49:14.000Like, being critical on things that weren't true.
01:49:18.000I'm talking about other other like Anti-sjw youtuber types who have been like, oh, well, you
01:49:24.000know I'm gonna say this about Tim and it's like bro
01:49:27.000You just made like that's not true like like I think that there's I think what happened was
01:49:31.000there are a lot of people whose careers are built on YouTube and
01:49:34.000When they were going after the anti-sjw What I'm sorry when they were anti-sjw challenging critical
01:49:40.000theory and all that stuff and they still kind of do but when they were very
01:49:44.000Heavily into it hardcore and aligned with all the kek memes and everything. They were making money
01:49:49.000And then once they started seeing people get banned for this, and seeing the mainstream go after the KeK flag and those memes, all of a sudden their tunes changed.
01:49:58.000and the videos they put out changed and the things they started saying was changing
01:50:01.000and now many of these people who were once, I don't know, like hanging out with Lauren Southern
01:50:06.000are all of a sudden propping up, you know, far leftists and their audience has totally flipped and stuff
01:50:11.000and there's a lot of them who did it they don't want to get banned, they don't want to lose
01:50:14.000their income and, you know, hey, well when it's a business, it's a
01:50:17.000business, I guess yeah, I mean, I can respect that, not that it, well
01:50:20.000no, respect's the wrong word I don't know the right word, but I
01:50:50.000We disagreed on a lot of things, but that was all right, I think.
01:50:53.000You know, I don't necessarily trust... I don't believe him and his opinions.
01:50:59.000Why, do you think they're disingenuous?
01:51:01.000Well, how do you praise roving bands of black-led individuals burning down black neighborhoods and then support 25,000 National Guardsmen being in DC?
01:51:12.000Like, are you in favor of attacking minority communities?
01:51:15.000Now, I understand they might argue that's hyperbolic of me to say, No, no, literally, like in Atlanta, when that rapper, was it Big Mike, came out and said, please stop burning down my business, my neighborhood.
01:51:25.000Like, I'm not saying that he, like, Vosh directly supported that specific moment, but just like, when I criticized the police heavily, it was because they were destroying the working class.
01:51:35.000When I criticized Antifa and the Black Lives Matter riots, it's because they were destroying the working class.
01:51:39.000When I criticized 25,000 troops in D.C., it's because it's literally an authoritarian lockdown.
01:51:44.000It's always, my opinion is always about, like, the working individuals, the freedom and the rights of the people.
01:51:49.000People like Vosh, and this is just my opinion, he's allowed to disagree, and maybe he'll say I'm incorrect, but he comes out and it's like his position is supporting Antifa, but like, bro, they burned down a black firefighters bar in Minneapolis.
01:52:02.000Like, are you gonna come out and condemn that?
01:52:05.000You're gonna defend the actions of these people?
01:52:08.000Probably, maybe even calling out individually, but I think they should be wholly condemned for doing this and not protected.
01:52:12.000And then, when I tweeted, Something like, you know, DC's under lockdown.
01:52:18.000Vosh tweeted at me, well, is there a reason you think that may be the case?
01:52:22.000And I was like, bro, I just tweeted in support of Rashida Tlaib, a leftist, when she said, do not allow the government to expand their security powers over this.
01:52:30.000And he's like, well, there's, you know, a reason for it to be happening.
01:52:32.000I'm like, no, there's no context in which I'm going to support 25,000 federal troops locking down our nation's capital.
01:53:50.000I think, you know, you see what they say, you see who they disavow, you see how their opinions change, and it's like, oh, that's just so convenient for you, isn't it?
01:53:59.000Maintaining your business, and then meanwhile, their fans call other people grifters.
01:54:03.000I know, they love that word, don't they?
01:54:51.000Hawk says, it is so disheartening to have discussion with my woke lefty friends.
01:54:55.000It seems like I have to unpack 10 concepts to get them to see my point of view, even still they don't get how damaging the woke ideology is in practice.
01:55:31.000So like, in my opinion, but also we have, you know, 14 times less the population size or 15 times less, but we have affordable private health insurance, which I have.
01:55:40.000But if I get really sick and I have to go to the hospital for whatever reason, it doesn't cost me an arm and a leg and I don't have to sell my kidney.
01:55:46.000I went to the hospital emergency room and it was an overnight stay in 2014 for a kidney stone.
01:55:52.000And the bill was, I think, was it like $16,000?
01:56:43.000You know, I don't like when people like chronic health care problems covering those because if someone eats crap and like refuses to stop eating sugar and they get really sick, I'm not gonna pay for that.
01:56:57.000It's up to you to take care of your own body.
01:56:59.000If they fall down and break their arm, I'm happy to cover it.
01:57:01.000What about someone who's, and this is not because I have a vested interest in this, I'm actually just curious, what about someone who's got an illness that is completely, has nothing to do with anything they've ever done in their life?
01:57:11.000They've been healthy and they just end up getting diabetes because they got a virus.
01:57:55.000So that's why I think there's like a, I don't know if it's a libertarian argument, but it's one that's like, if you want to do drugs, go for your life.
01:59:47.000Because I think that I, even though people do, I try really hard to see things from, even though I don't agree with the liberal perspective most of the time, because I do, I am Australian.
01:59:56.000I've grown up in a country that's not like hard right.
01:59:59.000You know, it's Australian conservatism is very different to American conservatism, in my humble opinion.
02:00:04.000Because your conservatives are still pretty leftist, right?
02:00:06.000Yeah, I mean, like, there's some... there's some... so, for example, Australia is not a Christian... well, some people are Christian in Australia, but for the most part, and some Aussies would disagree with me on this, a lot of Aussies are not Christian, and they don't have any sort of religious bent, or if they are a Christian, they're not practicing.
02:00:21.000My grandma, who is a hardcore Catholic, once described Australia as a godless nation, which, I mean...
02:00:28.000I don't know how wrong she is, because a lot of people just don't have belief, which is fine, whatever.
02:00:32.000You know, a lot of Aussies are pro-choice, so that's another big thing.
02:00:37.000A lot of people would be like, oh my god, can't believe it, but that's like a really common perspective to have, is just to be like, yep, cool, I'm fine with this.
02:00:47.000I think that's a way better way of looking at things, honestly.
02:00:50.000And then it's really funny because you get these progressives who thought it was better to prop up Joe Biden than Donald Trump because Biden was weak, I guess, and he might give them some of what they want.
02:01:01.000And my opinion was it was better to prop up Donald Trump because he was more disruptive to the establishment and was doing better for working class people than Biden was.
02:02:07.000Daniel Welch says, can't wait for the members-only section where Sydney can do us Aussies proud by showing we are the most foul-mouthed country on earth.
02:04:25.000You know, I had a conversation with some lefties a long time ago where I said that authoritarianism is more efficient than collectivism and they disagreed.
02:04:34.000And I was like, listen, I didn't say it was good.
02:04:37.000I said that when the Soviets snapped their fingers to build something, it was built.
02:08:12.000Cyan Davies says, my other super chat didn't seem to go through properly, but I was saying that Australia isn't the weak-minded country of weak individuals many are saying.
02:08:20.000Most of us just want to be left alone to do what we want.
02:08:54.000So back in the day, probably about, probably about a decade ago, I used to make videos, music videos, where I'd like playing, play piano and sing.
02:09:01.000Cause that's the thing that I used to do.
02:09:03.000And a couple people found the channel that I have that is still up on YouTube.
02:09:48.000Anyway, my friends, smash that like button.
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02:12:36.000We get one last super chat because this one just came in.
02:12:38.000Michael Holder says, check out the latest Vosh Destiny debate.
02:12:41.000Lots of crazy to dig through, but the main takeaway is that Vosh not only literally doesn't have principles, but believes no one has principles.