Amber Athey joins Jemele to talk about why she got fired for a tweet about Kamala Harris and why she thinks she might be even more racist than she actually is. Plus, Elon Musk buys a stake in the company, Black Lives Matter buys a mansion, and Florida considers constitutional carry.
00:01:05.000Georgia has their own version of the Parental Rights and Education Bill.
00:01:08.000Of course, the left is calling it the Don't Say Gay Bill, but this one's a little different.
00:01:12.000I'm surprised they haven't already come out and started, you know, screaming about this one.
00:01:15.000We also have got now, I believe, if there's 25 states that are constitutional carry, if Florida moves forward with their special legislative session, we could have 26 states constitutional carry.
00:01:26.000Let's talk about all this stuff and a whole bunch of other stuff, I suppose.
00:01:29.000Joining us to discuss these issues is Amber Athey.
00:02:17.000And used an old slogan that apparently no one knows anymore.
00:02:21.000I'm sure everyone's like- I'm trying to tread carefully over, you know, so we can save some of the story, but I'm sure everyone's like, whoa, what did she say?
00:03:09.000I feel like there's a lot of things I can't that I won't say on Twitter that I'm like, I have to save this for when I can speak it with my mouth because it's the tone.
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00:05:03.000TimGuys.com writes, On Monday, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that Elon Musk has acquired a 9.2% stake in the social media giant.
00:05:10.000The move by Musk, reportedly the world's richest man, comes just weeks after he started criticizing the platform for its violations of free speech.
00:05:17.000His criticism was followed by a rumor that he might create a new competing platform similar to Twitter.
00:05:23.000The SEC filing shows that he purchased roughly 73.4 million shares in the company, making him the largest shareholder on Twitter.
00:05:31.000According to the Financial Times, Jack Founder only holds 2.25% stake in Twitter.
00:05:36.000Musk has not spoken publicly about the acquisition.
00:05:37.000Previously indicated he wanted to see dramatic changes on Twitter, of course.
00:06:03.000The first few months of new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's tenure have validated some concerns
00:06:07.000his leadership would reduce free expression.
00:06:09.000Since Agrawal took the position at Twitter, the site permabanned one of the accounts of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for allegedly violating its COVID-19 misinformation policy.
00:06:17.000And then, of course, she heavily criticized them.
00:06:20.000Recently, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson sued Twitter over his ban in August 2020.
00:06:25.000And then we also have an editor's note.
00:06:43.000Well, I mean, Twitter didn't fire me, so... I mean, technically, it doesn't matter, but... I don't know, I just... We keep hearing these stories coming out about how, like, so-and-so's starting a new social media company, and this is finally going to change things, and I just feel always disappointed.
00:06:59.000Like, I'm super blackpilled about just the general idea of social media.
00:07:04.000Not just because of censorship reasons, but because of the effect that it's having on our...
00:07:08.000You know, societal interactions and the way kids are raised and all of these different things, social media addiction.
00:07:12.000I don't even, I don't know how much power this actually gives Elon Musk.
00:07:18.000I've seen people smarter than I say that quite a lot apparently.
00:07:23.000I guess I'm just generally pessimistic about the state of social media in general.
00:07:27.000And I don't even know if Twitter's really worth saving at this point because you have to change not just the policies in terms of, you know, the vaccine misinformation you weren't allowed to say for a while there that if you Had the vaccine that you could still get COVID, you could still spread COVID and really stupid things like that.
00:07:42.000But there's also a lot of algorithmic issues in terms of how they decide what content gets promoted, what content gets shadow banned and things like that.
00:07:49.000So there's so many things that need to change across the board to make this a better platform.
00:07:54.000And I mean, hopefully Elon Musk is the guy to help do it.
00:07:57.000But again, I don't have high hopes for anything regarding Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, whatever.
00:08:03.000Some people are saying that he does get substantial voting power and he could move to make himself a board member.
00:08:08.000And then as a board member, he can make some real changes.
00:08:19.000The thing is, so you want to talk about changing the terms of service to make it a free speech network.
00:08:23.000You could base it out of like Connecticut and then you have to adhere to state law, corporate law.
00:08:29.000But then the thing is, the NSA can come in and say, hey, we don't like that guy, shut his account down, and you're not allowed to tell anyone here's a gag order.
00:08:35.000And then they have to, because they have the data.
00:08:37.000If you don't know who the people are, and you don't have their data, the CIA can't come and take it from you.
00:08:44.000I think really, honestly, forcing companies to change their terms of service is a big ask and it feels very fascist to use political force to make a private company do something like that.
00:08:56.000I think that free speech on the internet is a different kind of free speech and that it's more about the code.
00:09:00.000Because if it's spying on you and you don't know, you're not really free.
00:09:03.000If you're constantly being watched and sold out behind or possibly A better question is if the algorithms are hidden and people are being shadow banned and silenced without you knowing, then you're not in a fair system.
00:09:17.000The NSA came and they took that data, they shut that guy down.
00:09:22.000You should always know that stuff because you see it happen on the network.
00:09:24.000Yeah and a lot of times Twitter doesn't even tell people why they're being banned.
00:09:27.000I mean they say sometimes you're being removed for this tweet and you have to delete it otherwise you're not allowed, you have a suspension, but sometimes they don't really tell people and then when inevitably Usually conservative and independent media go up in arms about what's going on.
00:09:46.000You know, somebody in inaccurately flagged this tweet for violating terms of service.
00:09:51.000And so they're really not transparent about even when people are violating things, what specific policy they're violating or which tweet was the violation.
00:09:59.000Sometimes they'll say that somebody was getting around a previous ban by creating new accounts or that their email address has multiple accounts registered to it.
00:10:08.000And it all just seems like they're playing these games to try to get around actually enforcing their policies fairly across the board.
00:10:16.000I think that if someone gets banned, if an account gets banned, that the ban reason should be on the blockchain for them for reference.
00:10:23.000Yeah, but then what if they put bunk info on the blockchain?
00:10:28.000Then you should be able to appeal it, and then the appeal should be on the blockchain.
00:10:31.000You should be able to watch the process.
00:10:33.000That's true, because then you can see they lied.
00:10:37.000Twitter bans James O'Keefe of Project Veritas over fake account policy, suggesting that he was operating multiple accounts in an unsanctioned way.
00:10:46.000O'Keefe has already announced that he will sue the company for defamation.
00:10:49.000And that's legit, because James was like, I didn't operate multiple accounts.
00:10:52.000Yeah, and when you ask Twitter about this, because I've done this, I reached out to them about this exact issue.
00:10:57.000And I have a press contact at Twitter that like claims to be from conservative world.
00:11:01.000So they're always like, oh, well, we'll put you the conservative media journalist to reach out to this person because they can be trusted because they used to work for a Republican or whatever.
00:11:11.000But I reach out to them about these types of issues all the time of them claiming that people got banned for these account violations.
00:11:17.000And when you ask for evidence of it, What they tell you is, oh well, it's a personnel issue or it's a company policy issue and we can't talk anymore about it.
00:11:28.000And even with James himself and other people who have had this happen to them, they won't talk about it with them either.
00:11:33.000So how are you supposed to get any accountability when they keep doing this to people?
00:11:37.000I wonder where James is with this lawsuit, because, I mean, they banned him and then outright made a statement about something he did that he didn't do.
00:12:00.000The other problem with Twitter in particular is that they have this sort of woke corporate structure where they're hiring these kids who are on college campuses like protesting against speakers and shutting people down.
00:12:12.000Those are the people that are getting hired at the big tech companies and those are the ones that are actually in charge of enforcing the terms of service.
00:12:20.000So you already have, you have the biased algorithms and then you have an extra layer of bias with the people who are in charge of actually enforcing the policies.
00:12:27.000And so it's really no wonder that things like this happen.
00:12:29.000So if Elon's going to get in here, he has to basically go through the entire payroll of Twitter and try to root out some of these people who are acting as activists as opposed to people who are trying to fairly enforce terms of service.
00:12:41.000That's another reason why a blockchain administration would be good, because if you have a bunch of miscalculations of bans that weren't right, you'd be like, oh, it was on December 23rd.
00:12:49.000Who was admitting on December 23rd at 4 p.m.?
00:12:53.000You may want these corporations may want to hide that from the public because they want to protect their employees and I get that to a point but also the public when it's in the Commons the public deserves I believe the control of the system and knowing who's screwing with the system this is the Commons.
00:13:08.000I think Elon also sees this as the Commons.
00:13:11.000I was listening to something about TikTok and some young TikToker was like, oh yeah, Twitter's dumb.
00:14:10.000I mean, I'm like a Twitter-obsessed fool, and I go out and I talk to my friends or my family back home about this stupid tweet I saw, and they have no idea what I'm talking about, or some manufactured controversy.
00:14:24.000But Twitter does have a huge impact on policy.
00:14:54.000Because seeing his internal monologue, his inner monologue, is important to understand that you shouldn't listen to his advice on anything.
00:15:37.000You know what I think works for the left is that Most of the leftists know my tweets tend to be nonsense, but they know their followers don't.
00:15:45.000So they're like, I can retweet this guy even though I know it's sarcasm or something or silliness or trolling, but everyone else take it seriously.
00:16:03.000So sure, you can be one of these older guys on Fox News having no idea what's going on, and then one day you look out your window and there's a guy throwing a Molotov cocktail at your building, and you're like, why is that happening?
00:16:13.000Look at Twitter, they were talking about it for the past three days.
00:16:16.000There was a shift in, I don't know, it was 2013, 2012, all of a sudden CNN started getting screenshots of tweets.
00:16:22.000Like, I was from the pre-internet age, before social media, and then I would make a bunch of YouTube videos, and then all of a sudden it was like, it's a big deal to get mentioned on TV, then all of a sudden, the news is no longer on CNN, the news is on Twitter, CNN's referencing Twitter.
00:16:39.000Yeah, and isn't that the problem, is Twitter only has as much value and power as we assign to it, and media companies in particular have assigned a lot of value to what people say on Twitter, whether negative or positive, they will pull up random accounts with like 30 followers and be screenshotting their tweets and putting them on a primetime cable news program as if this is like a serious person with real thoughts that matter in the public square.
00:17:05.000And I mean, it's gotten to this point now where I think you're right that Twitter is setting a lot of policy.
00:17:11.000I mean, I would love to know, for example, where like the don't say gay moniker came from.
00:17:15.000I wouldn't be surprised if that came from some left wing Twitter account.
00:17:41.000And so just think about how insane that is, that some high school kid, desperate for attention or to like have an impact, because it's, you know, it's trolling, right?
00:17:48.000You want to feel your pressure or your presence on the world, sees a story, takes their account, and it'll be called like, you know, BroDude54, and they tweet, I think Joe Biden is the greatest president and Donald Trump was bad because, you know, he was racist.
00:18:01.000And then CNN's like, here's a tweet from someone who matters.
00:18:04.000And it's like, it's just some 12 year old kid who has no idea what he's talking about.
00:18:07.000I knew a dude who gave a fake interview to a local, there was a plane crash in Chicago.
00:18:12.000And this dude ran there afterwards and then told the journalist that he had seen it.
00:18:26.000They'd be like, I don't know, you know, where are your parents?
00:18:28.000So you can be 12, go on Twitter, say, Joe Biden's economic plan is destabilizing this country, and then a network will be like, we should put that tweet up and show people.
00:18:38.000When you're getting your opinions from a rant, from a random assortment, it could be children have no idea what they're talking about.
00:18:45.000And that's probably true a lot for the left, because the left tends, Democrats tend to have a lot more younger people.
00:18:50.000So imagine just all of these conservatives on Twitter arguing with people, and it's like a 56-year-old guy arguing with a 14-year-old.
00:19:00.000It's never good, and I have to remind myself all the time if I send out a particularly... not even edgy, I don't really tweet edgy things, I don't think, but...
00:19:08.000If I tweet something that gets a lot of engagement from people on the opposite side of the political spectrum, I'm so guilty of seeing some account say something like really stupid.
00:19:17.000And I'm like, I have to quote tweet them and dunk on them.
00:19:20.000And it's literally someone with an egg as their profile picture.
00:19:26.000And that's why the addiction aspect of it is so crazy to me because it really does fire off those receptors in your brain that make you want to engage constantly and scroll constantly.
00:19:36.000And even someone who is aware of it has that impulse.
00:19:40.000And imagine how bad that is for people who don't really understand what's happening.
00:19:44.000So Elon Musk buys this big stake in Twitter, but I'm not entirely convinced that it matters because it's the cultural issues in our society outside of Twitter matter more.
00:19:54.000So in your instance, Amber, you got fired because you tweeted a joke about Kamala Harris that was, you made fun of the way she dressed.
00:20:04.000And they called you racist on Twitter.
00:20:06.000Yeah, so basically what happened was a month ago was the State of the Union and Kamala was wearing this horrific brown suit, which everybody agreed that it was ugly.
00:20:37.000Because obviously she's ineffective at public policy and bad at her job.
00:20:41.000Well, a few days later, how this all actually shook out was, I don't know if you guys remember this, there were a bunch of protests at the University of North Texas because the Young Conservatives Club on campus had decided to invite this guy named Jeff Younger.
00:20:55.000And Jeff Younger is a dad whose son was taken away from him because the mom was convinced that the son was actually a daughter and wanted to transition him medically and the dad was not about it.
00:21:08.000So Young Conservatives for Texas had this guy come to campus, and of course the SJWs on campus freaked out, had these crazy protests, and I got involved in this debate on Twitter.
00:21:21.000Again, never a good idea, but here we are.
00:21:23.000In the replies to Matt Walsh, actually.
00:21:27.000And there's this freelance reporter for the Daily Beast, Yahoo News, Rolling Stone, I think, named Steven Monticelli.
00:21:36.000And I point to him as, like, the root cause of all of this.
00:21:40.000took a screenshot of the Kamala tweet because he was mad at me for saying you can't chemically castrate kids and sent it to all of his followers and his followers decided that they were going to start emailing my employers to say that I was a racist and needed to be fired.
00:22:23.000They make all their money from conservative radio, but they don't actually believe in anything that their hosts are saying on air, is the long and short of it.
00:22:31.000The spectator literally laughed at these emails they were getting because they thought they were so ridiculous.
00:22:36.000WMAL, a week later, calls me after I host the show on a Wednesday morning and tells me that my tweet was racist, that it violated their social media policy, and that they were terminating me effective immediately.
00:23:18.000I will say that there was a lot of internal maneuvering over the past month, which is why I've waited so long to go public with the story, because I wanted to see if Cumulus and WML would do the right thing.
00:23:27.000A lot of the hosts are on contracts, so they can't really just walk out without facing pretty heavy financial consequences, is my understanding.
00:23:37.000I don't want to throw them under the bus because they have been speaking out on my behalf publicly since I've talked about this this morning, but I understand your perspective.
00:23:46.000Yeah, I wish people were more willing to just stand up.
00:23:54.000There are so many people on the left that are willing to risk prison time, burning down police stations and doing the most insane things, and conservatives won't even risk a contract violation.
00:25:21.000If you've seen their like internal And I can't go into too much because of the confidentiality agreement.
00:25:26.000I don't think they'll sue me, but I would rather not risk it.
00:25:29.000They have a lot of stuff on their internal company forums that is just horrendous.
00:25:33.000I mean, if the listeners knew the things that they were promoting internally, whether it's some of the trainings that they do or some of the financial bonuses they offer people for doing certain things, they would be absolutely horrified that they are giving their listenership to this company.
00:25:50.000Sounds like Project Veritas might be picking something up from there.
00:25:54.000Yeah, I would love to see James O'Keefe do a little digging on that.
00:25:57.000I'm not surprised that these corporations don't care about anything.
00:26:02.000I'm also not surprised there are a lot of people who are like, well, there's nothing I can do about it because, you know, I'm under contract.
00:26:07.000And I'm also not surprised that Dan Bongino is like, I don't care.
00:26:44.000So Parallel Economy, you could do a subscription service and not have to worry about being banned by someone tweeting, you know, tweeting, oh, but they're racist or whatever.
00:26:52.000This company is going to be like, you know, we don't care.
00:26:53.000And Dan Mangino, I believe he's an investor.
00:26:55.000I'm not entirely sure, but I know he's involved.
00:26:57.000So man, at least we have people like him doing stuff.
00:27:01.000Yeah, I mean if I were a host on that station still, I would be terrified about what could happen to me because you can't do political commentary if you can't make fun of a politician's outfit.
00:27:11.000Like that is the most basic of things that you should be allowed to do.
00:27:14.000How are you supposed to go on the air and tell the listeners that you're committed to truth If you work for a company that censors you, if you get anywhere close to the edge, which I don't even think this was.
00:27:26.000To me this is like one of the most clear-cut cases of just dishonest, bad faith, cancel culture bullshit.
00:28:52.000It's just They are trying to avoid reputational damage, and they made a huge miscalculation because they thought that firing me was the easy thing to do.
00:29:01.000This would get the bad actors off of their back, they'd stop getting emails sent to corporate, and they could go and tell the CEO or whoever, see, we took care of this problem.
00:29:12.000What they thought was going to happen was that I was going to sit down and shut the hell up and not tell anybody because I'd be so embarrassed.
00:30:09.000Now, people can go out there with a camera and get it done, man.
00:30:11.000You don't need these stupid companies.
00:30:13.000Yeah, this is why I think we're particularly lucky with Timcast in that we have no external influences, no beneficiaries, no investors.
00:30:24.000The only person that could ever be like, I'm the, I'm the buck stops with me.
00:30:29.000So, and, and I'm kind of hotheaded and, you know, people call me arrogant and all that stuff.
00:30:35.000If somebody got fired, I wouldn't be like, Hey, like, we don't, we don't want to step on any toes here because you know, they're a big company.
00:30:41.000I'm going to be like, let's take the emails, let's throw them down on the table, take pictures of them, post them on the internet, put our feet up and crack a cigar and tell everybody exactly what happened.
00:31:47.000You get 50 people who send emails to a cereal company, and the cereal company's like, oh no, everybody wants us to do something, so Lucky Charms better go woke.
00:31:55.000And in this instance, the woke started sending emails to WMAL, right?
00:32:00.000And then they say, oh, just fire her, it'll make it all go away.
00:32:03.000Because they know, or they're hoping, that conservatives won't email them complaining that they fired someone over a Twitter joke.
00:32:43.000But Colbert was talking about this security company that went after Anonymous, and he said, that's like saying, you know, they wanted to stick their dick in a hornet's nest and then kick it or something like that.
00:32:53.000It used to be 4chan and the Libertarian and the Right that were the hornet's nest to be feared, not to screw with.
00:33:00.000Now it's Antifa on the left, because the corporations are terrified of them, and the right doesn't do anything.
00:34:08.000Because they use these things so dishonestly.
00:34:10.000But I have the social media policy here.
00:34:13.000So the only thing that I could think of that this potentially violated was employees must not use internet venues in a manner that may cause public discredit to employee or to the company.
00:34:27.000If you do anything we don't like, whether on-air or off-air, We can fire you under this policy, and that will be considered firing for cause, we don't owe you any severance, you lose all of your union benefits, and you're screwed.
00:34:41.000And then they probably assume that people will be scared by the confidentiality aspect of this handbook and not talk about it, but again, that wasn't gonna happen.
00:34:51.000But your tweet was so... just not even... I mean, like, what if you called Kamala a disgusting pig?
00:36:29.000You could build organization within the company's employees to resist this kind of behavior.
00:36:34.000But 20th century corporations, which is what they are right now, aren't equipped to handle 21st century media.
00:36:39.000Because they're getting bombarded through a central service with all these fifty hundred people sending emails to this one guy or this small group of people and they're overloading their uh their like helpline.
00:36:51.000I think what's interesting in my case is the backlash wasn't that big.
00:36:55.000I mean I've had people try to cancel me before and this was relatively minor in comparison.
00:36:59.000It was like maybe 10 people send an email, I would guess.
00:37:04.000It wasn't this bombardment that would really lead any honest, real leader to say, this is too much.
00:37:15.000And when you have this policy that talks about how you can't discredit the company, from my perspective, again, this is a huge miscalculation because they are now being publicly discredited 5, 10, 50 times more than they would have otherwise because of this decision to fire me.
00:38:28.000Well, people just gotta... You know, there needs to be conservative activist organizations, and I hate saying the word conservative because that's not even the issue, just not woke.
00:39:23.000Cancel culture is digging up messages and taking them out of context, taking messages out of context.
00:39:29.000It's when you get someone fired or harassed for something that is not genuine for the most part.
00:39:34.000Saying, Disney does awful things so we shouldn't provide them with any services and give them the
00:39:40.000boot is just being like, this is a bad company who literally does things we don't like.
00:39:44.000That's the whole point of having a free market capitalist system is that you're
00:39:49.000supposed to be able to spend your dollars where you want to and be able to make those
00:39:53.000sort of more moral decisions about your life.
00:39:56.000Your finances and then I'd also add that I think cancel culture is when the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
00:40:01.000So if you're trying to get someone fired for a tweet that is an unjust consequence for something that they supposedly did wrong.
00:40:08.000Well then what's my question to you then?
00:40:10.000Do you think the corporation should be able to fire people like that like whenever they want?
00:40:14.000I mean, I signed an at-will contract, so they're within their right to do so.
00:40:18.000I spend a lot of time on social media and thinking, like, should social media companies have the ability to ban whoever they want at any time?
00:40:25.000Because I think, ultimately, what we're going to head towards is near-infinite amounts of social media networks all working in parallel with different terms of service.
00:40:34.000All the different networks will have different terms and all the code will be similar, so they'll all be interoperating.
00:40:38.000Um, I just don't see that with corporations at the moment.
00:40:40.000I don't know how to stop these authoritarians from just destroying someone's livelihood at will.
00:40:45.000Did you guys see that story about, uh, I think Lori Lightfoot is going to give away, was it 50,000 gas cards?
00:41:14.000That's why I was like, Dem are communism.
00:41:16.000But anyway, I bring this up because I'm thinking like, you know what we should do for Timcast is just whenever there's like layoffs, we'll just have everyone will have to hold a potato.
00:41:25.000And then whoever's holding the potato when the buzzer goes off is fired, and so everyone will constantly be throwing it, but like, if you throw it and no one catches it, it's yours, and we got cameras, we'll know, so you gotta get someone else to catch it, and then everyone will be throwing it to each other, and then you never know, and then we'll just like never put the buzzer on for like a week, so everyone's just walking around throwing a potato around.
00:41:44.000That's the appropriate way to do corporate burn.
00:41:51.000Speaking of cancel culture, let's talk about people who should be canceled.
00:41:54.000From the Daily Mail, Black Lives Matter secretly used $6 million in donations to buy luxurious 6,500 square foot mansion with seven bedrooms and parking for 20 cars in Southern California in 2020, where the leaders have filmed YouTube videos.
00:42:12.000Emails show the firm wanted to keep the purchase a secret, despite filming a video on the house's homes patio in May.
00:42:18.000The news comes that the foundation faces federal scrutiny for alleged misuse of donation funds, and comes in the heels of criticism of co-founder Patrice Cullors.
00:42:25.000Cullors, 38, came under fire last year for a slew of high-profile property purchases.
00:42:29.000She resigned after facing backlash from critics and supporters.
00:42:33.000And I'm willing to bet that if you go to any Democrat activist or left-wing person and say, hey, this is bad, right?
00:42:41.000Well, I mean it you know, it's but so what I mean, well, this is not black lives matter And it's just you can point out the money's missing that their address isn't real that they bought mansions this lady's got multiple homes and they'll still just be like but Yeah.
00:42:56.000You see, I don't know if there's an equivalent.
00:42:58.000Is there an equivalent like BLM on the right?
00:43:18.000Well, and the person who's done a lot of good reporting on this, because I just want to give him a shout out, I used to work with him, Andrew Kerr.
00:43:23.000He's at, I believe, the Washington Examiner now.
00:43:26.000And he was the one who broke this story about last year, Black Lives Matter has this, like, $60 million war chest, essentially.
00:43:33.000And he found out that there was no one in charge of it for eight months.
00:43:37.000Like, nobody knew where this money was, what they were doing with it, who actually had access to it.
00:43:42.000And then Patrisse Collers, who had resigned over buying all of these homes and the backlash that accompanied that, claimed that there were two other people who were supposed to be in charge of BLM's finances, and then they found out that those two people had never even officially taken over that position.
00:43:59.000and they still haven't provided any answers. They've tried to delay the reporting of their
00:44:05.000previous fiscal year finances. And just across the board, there's all this corruption that's
00:44:09.000going on in BLM. And to me, this is just the latest example of how irresponsible they've
00:44:17.000been with all this money, who people, I think a lot of people probably donate to BLM not to
00:44:21.000look racist, honestly. I don't think they actually know the ins and outs of the organization.
00:45:15.000You know, if I was going to be running an international nonprofit that was taking money with no accountability that I could then use to my own discretion, I would totally buy these exact same houses.
00:45:25.000You might even be able to write them off.
00:45:27.000Maybe start a business with them, rent them out, and then when you get exposed, you just resign and then go get to be rich for the rest of your life.
00:45:36.000Yeah or just or go work for another activist organization that would be more than happy to have you because you can't ever really be canceled if you work for people like this.
00:45:45.000And I think it's interesting that Black Lives Matter has they started out trying to claim that they were all about like the police brutality issue and then they started bailing out like actual criminals.
00:45:55.000So I don't know if you guys remember the story a few months ago I think it was There was a situation in Louisville where this democratic activist who was planning on running for like city council or something his name is Quintez Brown he tried to murder a mayoral candidate and was was locked up for that and apparently he was upset that this guy who was a democrat like wasn't left-wing enough for him
00:46:19.000BLM went and bailed him out of jail, and you had all of these Democrats praising this guy for how great he was as an activist last year.
00:46:35.000And this was at the exact same time that the Freedom Convoy protesters had their funds seized on Give Send Go and all of these other financial platforms.
00:46:44.000Was there any question that he attempted to murder the guy?
00:46:47.000No, he walked into the office and they were like, how can we help you?
00:47:22.000The riots were very much associated with Black Lives Matter, but I don't want to accuse the organization of being the same thing, but very much so.
00:47:28.000The left is overt in doing all this stuff.
00:47:35.000Because at this point, it's like, why are we acting like we have anything to do with those people?
00:47:40.000The way I see it is, get away from the cities, take care of yourself, because these lunatics are going to go smash windows and destroy businesses.
00:47:51.000We are seeing some of them get charged and sent to jail.
00:47:54.000This is, you know, a relatively recent thing where people are actually getting charged and convicted.
00:47:58.000But it's like two or three here or there out of the hundreds or thousands that were going through each of these cities and destroying them.
00:48:04.000So at a certain point it's like, I just don't consider them to be like citizens of the world of the country that I live in.
00:48:11.000You know, there's two distinct countries and there's no point interacting.
00:48:14.000The economy of Antifa and BLM does not in any way interact with the economy here of me.
00:49:05.000Don't, I think the issue is, there was a point where there was an argument between left and right.
00:49:11.000That we were one country and we were going through, we were having a bitter period in our relationship.
00:49:19.000Then at some point, the other half of the relationship started throwing bricks and firebombs and mortars, and at that point you should be like, if you're fighting with your significant other, when they start hitting you is when you need to leave.
00:49:43.000You know, like, there's a woman being battered by her husband, and you say, get away from him, and then she won't.
00:49:49.000At a certain point, you're like, I've tried what I can try.
00:49:51.000If she won't leave, what am I supposed to do?
00:49:53.000Yeah, and this is one of the things that drives me absolutely crazy about a lot of fellow conservatives is that they still like desperately want the approval of the left, whether it's like corporate media.
00:50:03.000I mean, for example, I'll go back to the Trump administration.
00:50:05.000One of my biggest complaints with them was that they were constantly feeding scoops and, you know, leaking to the New York Times.
00:50:22.000They're never going to think the way that you do about issues or policy.
00:50:26.000They're always going to think that you're evil.
00:50:28.000And yet, constantly, so many people on the right fall into this trap of thinking, if I could just do this one thing, I could change their mind.
00:50:35.000This is part of the reason it was so frustrating to me to watch Trump try to get on the side of the media.
00:50:41.000And he would make fun of them, and he's like, oh, lying mainstream media or whatever, but you know it.
00:50:45.000At the end of the day, he was like, well, I really actually do care what the New York Times says about me.
00:50:49.000He kept doing sit-down interviews with them.
00:50:51.000Why was the Trump administration inviting people from CNN to go have background briefings with administration officials and letting them have exclusive quotes in interviews and stories?
00:51:21.000I think part of it was that he longed for the days when he was adored by the media and was this, you know, superstar that could do no wrong and people really glorified him.
00:51:32.000And then it was also the staffing issues where he did have a lot of staff members who were Either actively undermining his administration or just really stupid and not very good at their jobs.
00:52:11.000They're going to try and destroy him the same as they did with Trump, but he's just better at it.
00:52:15.000And to your point about like a daily YouTube video, that's something I could imagine a DeSantis administration actually doing.
00:52:21.000Not necessarily that way, but doing something more active on social media for directly connecting with people.
00:52:27.000I think the issue with Trump is that politically he's in the right place for so many Americans, but he's just very old and he was getting bad advice.
00:52:35.000I wonder if DeSantis would be a lot better with the media because they've never liked him.
00:52:39.000Whereas Trump, he had this long spell where, you know, he was on The Apprentice and he was just big and rich and famous, larger-than-life personality, and they liked him.
00:52:48.000They wrote all kinds of stuff about him even before he was running for president.
00:52:51.000I remember Melania Trump being on the cover of some dumb magazine when she got married to him with her glorious dress, and I was like, never again would we see this once he got elected.
00:53:00.000And that has to sting, especially for a guy with an ego like that.
00:53:03.000But I think DeSantis would get it in the bag.
00:53:05.000It will be really awesome, though, if Trump wins in 2024.
00:53:09.000And then that means he wins with the help of people who voted for Biden in 2020.
00:53:39.000You get a DeSantis, and they'll be like, oh, well, I mean, you know, I was always against Biden, and DeSantis is better, so.
00:53:45.000The other thing that makes me nervous about DeSantis, though, is that I think there have been a lot of more Establishment-y and never-Trump-y type people who are 100% on board with DeSantis.
00:53:59.000And that makes me a little bit nervous because I worry that people who were really on board with Trump, particularly the people who moved over from the Democratic Party, the Obama voters, who would see that as a bit of a betrayal.
00:54:11.000Like, why am I supporting the same guy that these people support?
00:54:15.000And I wouldn't want to jump away from Trump too quickly because I think a lot of Trump supporters did have a valid reason for liking him in particular even over other people who support some of the same policies because he really was a trailblazer for the Republican Party in terms of a lot of those more populist-y nationalistic policies and also just speaking the way that he did.
00:54:35.000I know a lot of people who said I've never heard a politician talk the way that I talk like at the shop with my co-workers or In the locker room with my friends, things like that.
00:54:47.000And that cult of personality is, I mean, like it or not, really important in politics.
00:55:46.000And you'll be like gone and away from them.
00:55:48.000They can't even find you because you're doing it the way you want to do it.
00:55:51.000And what I understand is there was a plan for the second term to root out a lot of the people who were undermining Trump.
00:55:56.000So like John McEntee was placed in charge of personnel towards the last year and he was basically compiling like a hit list of employees that were not loyal and needed to get the hell out.
00:56:08.000And like Amanda Milius was in the Trump administration.
00:56:11.000She's spoken about changing federal rules so that you can fire non-political appointees more easily and things like that.
00:56:18.000So, I mean, there's a lot of ways that this could be done better.
00:56:21.000I just hope that if Trump were to run again that he would be listening to the right people this time around and make those decisions more wisely.
00:56:34.000Do you think that we can handle, that the country can maintain with cult leaders like this, like a singular leader over and over and over again?
00:57:53.000I legit think that, you know, some people believe that he's a puppet.
00:57:57.000And I'm like, no, if he was a puppet, there would be a plan.
00:58:01.000Like, if somebody was in charge, there would be a cohesive string of events.
00:58:05.000Do you think it's possible, though, that there's more than one person directly underneath Biden that are competing for that decision-making ability?
00:58:14.000Like Ron Klain or... Yes, but that's kind of my point, too.
00:58:19.000That they're still beholden to Biden in a certain way, and Biden is a central authority.
00:58:26.000And as a next-nel-rescent, bat-a-calf-care, tuna-nana-shabba-da-pressure, and whatever garbled word garbage she said, president, They're unable to pull the trigger on things without the president's approval.
00:58:40.000And the president is just basically a walking corpse at this point.
00:58:44.000So what that does is when the power is centralized in Biden and Biden can't speak words right, then the whole system is just shaking like a rickety bridge on the verge of snapping.
00:58:55.000I disagree with the idea that Trump is a cult leader or a cult of personality.
00:59:10.000I meant more in the general sense of the way our system's structured, that we vote for our hero, that our popularity contest to put someone in supreme power is like a cult.
00:59:21.000We call it the government, American government, but it's a cult where we choose our leader and then we're all like, ah, we're all surrounding the leader.
00:59:28.000You're overlooking Congress, Senate, the Supreme Court.
00:59:31.000Yeah, I mean, the executive doesn't have as much power as people think, but I think what's interesting about Trump is that it was almost the opposite of a popularity contest because people almost voted for him because he was unpopular.
00:59:41.000Like, I don't think Trump was the guy that... I mean, if you go back to, like, the Bush election, people were like, oh, I'd rather have a beer with Bush than Kerry, for example.
00:59:49.000Is that really the case with Donald Trump?
01:00:02.000I mean it was almost like despite his personality, we will vote for him because we like these particular things or we like the way he speaks.
01:00:34.000I felt that way in 2016, but I think Trump at least did stuff we've never seen before, or at least in my generation.
01:00:41.000The guy on my left chimes in and he goes, oh, I voted for Trump and I'll vote for him again, but I wouldn't invite him to my house for dinner.
01:00:58.000A lot of people were like, we recognize the problem of Trump, but he's doing things.
01:01:04.000And that's why the left went so hard on the suburban women vote.
01:01:09.000in 2020 because they really wanted to emphasize Trump's personality defects.
01:01:15.000What I think the Trump administration or campaign rather did wrong in their response was they tried to win over like white liberal wine moms by talking about criminal justice reform and like everything that they're doing for opportunity zones When they should have been talking about how, like, Trump could stop the riots before they got to your neighborhood.
01:01:38.000Like, they misunderstood the solution to what the left was telling people about Trump's personality.
01:01:45.000And he could have leveraged that, I think, in a much more effective way on the campaign trail.
01:01:51.000Playing into your point, Ian, about cult leaders and centralized authority, I think if you look at one of the most important issues in the culture war, gun rights, you can see that centralization doesn't have anything to do with culture.
01:02:03.000Georgia is about to sign into law constitutional carry, which will make it the 25th state.
01:02:08.000And I want to state for the record a correction, because I was right!
01:02:12.000When I was on Joe Rogan's show in November, I said, I think majority of the country is constitutional carry.
01:02:20.000And then Joe was like, no, no, that can't be right.
01:02:22.000And I was like, yeah, I'm pretty sure.
01:02:24.000And then Jamie looked it up and it said 13 states.
01:03:10.000That means you can, if you're in Texas, and then I think Louisiana doesn't have it.
01:03:18.000But if you go from Georgia to, say, Mississippi, and they're both constitutional carry, you don't got to worry about crossing that border.
01:03:23.000This is a huge cultural change and victory showing the sentiment of the American people that the federal politicians don't matter.
01:03:31.000When regular people vote for state reps, for state senators, for local politicians, your state can do right.
01:03:37.000Seeing all that happen shows just how important it is that we utilize and pay attention to our decentralized political system and don't stay heavily focused on just Trump winning.
01:03:46.000That is to say, good, vote for Trump in 2024 if that's what you want, but make sure you're voting in the primaries right now.
01:03:52.0002022 midterms are coming up and it's not going to matter if people set up the primaries because you're going to get a whole bunch of rhinos, neocons, establishment, uniparty garbage.
01:04:00.000But yeah, the constitutional carry thing has me super excited.
01:04:46.000I mean, I think that you would see a huge reduction in things like accidental gun deaths, or I don't know, like some of these other statistics that the left likes to throw out to make people afraid of guns.
01:04:59.000If you just raise people to understand that they are a tool that needs to be treated with very specific safety regulations and the way that you behave with a gun, and they're not toys to be played with, and they're not anything to be afraid of.
01:06:31.000The dad pushes the homeowner a few feet off his porch and the homeowner, his wife's ex-boyfriend, or his wife's current boyfriend, his ex-wife's boyfriend, immediately raises the rifle and goes, pop, pop, towards his own house, hitting the dad twice, killing him instantly.
01:08:59.000Next thing you know, a guy gets up in your face and starts screaming at you.
01:09:02.000Your first reaction is to fire into the ground as like, you can call an escalation, but if you have the option to shoot the guy who just got up in your face, maybe he just panicked and said, I think it's stupid to shoot in the ground, mind you.
01:09:12.000And then the guy grabs you, you both spin, he pushes you back.
01:09:24.000From that perspective, I'm like, I get it.
01:09:26.000We don't know what this guy knew, but the problem is, man, the Chad Reed guy was there legally to pick up his kid.
01:09:33.000And it didn't even get—there was not enough time for him to even call the cops.
01:09:36.000Apparently his new wife was already calling the police about the argument when the yelling happened, and all the dad said was, I'm taking you to court!
01:09:46.000Like, not even a threat of violence, and the dude walks out with a gun.
01:09:51.000Because, if this dude, William Carruth, knew why the dad was there, you know, and what was going on, and came out with his gun, then I'd say, charge him.
01:10:01.000But we can't assume he did know, and he can just be like, I had no idea, I heard yelling.
01:10:06.000If people are fighting on your property, you got a right to defend it.
01:10:08.000And like you said, Anne, we don't know the history of these two guys.
01:10:12.000I mean, it's possible that they've gotten into it before.
01:10:13.000He knows that this guy could potentially come into the house and harm his own children or be looking for this kid.
01:10:20.000I mean, we really don't know the situation.
01:10:21.000I'm also sympathetic to the idea that if your son is being withheld from you and you have a right to be with your son, then parental instinct kind of kicks in and like people will do anything to save and help their children if they feel like their children are being parentally kidnapped.
01:10:40.000At a certain point though you have to be smart enough to think if I get myself involved in this situation if I'm trying to grab this guy's gun whatever am I better off trying to be the better person in retreat and potentially save my life and get the court or the police involved as opposed to trying to start this fight that you're not going to win because you don't also have a weapon.
01:11:01.000I mean it's This is a difficult situation.
01:11:03.000I don't really know how, like, who is right here.
01:11:06.000I mean, maybe they both were wrong in different ways.
01:11:08.000But it's tough because, like, do you send a guy to jail because he pulled a gun on his own property because a guy was yelling and then a guy got in his face?
01:11:15.000But then I'm also thinking about if the court orders someone to be there and you come out, like, imagine if this guy was a cop.
01:11:23.000Who's instructed to be there for law enforcement purposes, and you walk out with your gun, and the cop rushes you.
01:11:31.000My issue is just like, this dude is trying to get his child, and when the wife is saying, no, and he's like, my kid's been kidnapped, a dude then comes out with a gun.
01:11:42.000And at that point, I'm sure the dad's like, you've kidnapped my child and are threatening me with a rifle, with a long gun.
01:11:48.000Like, yo, I'm surprised all he did was get in his face.
01:11:51.000Well, he also chest bumped him, which is aggravated assault.
01:12:21.000Morally, I don't think that he was necessarily wrong, but legally, I don't know that even if somebody has your kid, if you're allowed to go into somebody else's home or try to grab them.
01:12:31.000I don't know what the legal situation is there.
01:13:01.000He would have probably gotten more custody of the kid if he had let this play out because they would have been accused of endangering the child as well.
01:14:12.000They're aware that Kyle Carruth shot and killed their father in front of their mother, stepbrother, and myself.
01:14:19.000A judge denied the petition for custody.
01:14:22.000So this is the dead father's new wife.
01:14:27.000She was trying to get custody and they were like, no, you're not a blood relative.
01:14:31.000So the kids have to live with the dude who killed their dad.
01:14:34.000There's so much with our custody system that is at fault here too because like the default would be you have to go to a blood relative is obviously super problematic when you have family members that are not fit to raise children.
01:14:48.000And I think it's really unfortunate that you can't assign to like a family friend or a distant relative or something like that in a situation like this where clearly these kids are living in a traumatic potentially abusive situation and yet you can't separate them for whatever reason.
01:15:03.000It's another reason why I think, for example, the impulse to always give custody of the children or majority custody to the mother is not always the best policy either.
01:15:15.000So there's a lot that needs to be reformed in that system.
01:15:17.000Maybe if they had gotten this right from the beginning, this issue wouldn't have arisen to begin with.
01:15:24.000Man, I suppose the challenge is the moment that Chad Reed was on the porch with access to the house and Caruth was off the porch with no access to the house.
01:15:35.000That's where it becomes justification.
01:15:37.000Because now he's in between Caruth and his daughters.
01:16:01.000If it was, um, if it was Chad's daughters, then that would have made this guy with a gun more callous about pointing it toward the house.
01:16:09.000I think that actually kind of makes sense, which I would think would then be an argument for not ever leaving those kids in his custody ever.
01:16:16.000These poor kids now, I don't know where they end up.
01:16:40.000Well, you guys comment, you guys super chat, and then we'll get to it when we talk about super chat so we can, you know, maybe correct the record if we mix something up.
01:17:50.000But I wonder if this is actually just the front facing camera making her look.
01:17:53.000Yeah, it looks like a fisheye lens of some sort.
01:17:55.000I don't think so because she's posted other photos and videos, the bathtub thing on her Instagram and TikTok that make it pretty clear that this is some pretty heavy work being done.
01:19:15.000I mean the only situation I could see that's semi-justifiable is if you're like a TV personality and you get like a little bit of Botox to even out lines in the forehead.
01:19:29.000Vanity is a real thing and unfortunately when you have people on social media for all of their lives I think it's more difficult now than ever to age gracefully.
01:19:38.000These people are really nasty about appearances on the internet.
01:19:41.000My teeth are jagged like a jigsaw puzzle.
01:20:07.000Well and did you guys hear about this story with Bella Hadid, the supermodel who got a nose job when she was 14 years old?
01:20:14.000Like her face wasn't even done growing into itself yet and apparently her parents signed off on this cosmetic procedure and now of course she regrets it.
01:20:23.000She's like, you know, I had this really interesting ancestral nose and I think I would have grown into it and now I'm forever living with the knowledge that I Modified myself in a way that I'm not happy with when I was 14 They're gonna get I was hearing stories about like young girls wanting to get plastic surgery to look like filters And that like older women are getting plastic surgery to look like the filters make them on Instagram Yo, there there is a there is a malignancy
01:20:50.000Is it coming from the internet that's making people?
01:20:52.000That's what I was saying before about like social media, TikTok, whatever, making people do this.
01:20:56.000It's coming through the internet, but it's not from the internet.
01:22:13.000Well, especially in the world of pop stardom, right?
01:22:17.000You almost have an age limit on how long you're allowed to be relevant in the industry.
01:22:22.000And there's a lot of pressure from music executives to look a certain way.
01:22:27.000I mean, gone is the world of these amazing 70s singer songwriters that could look however,
01:22:34.000but as long as they delivered a good music product, they would be really successful.
01:22:38.000Now there's really this pop star culture where you kind of have to look and dress a certain way in order to be popular in the music industry and I think that's really unfortunate.
01:22:48.000And then there's the question of just social media's amplification of people's insecurities.
01:22:53.000I mean growing up like as a young teen girl I felt like we all had body image issues and worried about our appearance.
01:23:02.000I can't imagine how much more difficult that would have been if I was on Instagram all day looking at these influencers who all look exactly the same.
01:23:13.000They all have plastic surgery or filters or all of these other body modification tools at their disposal.
01:23:20.000Editing software, Photoshop, things like that.
01:23:22.000When you're fed that feedback loop constantly, that's really hard for young women.
01:23:28.000And I think if you're a parent, you have to be thinking about limiting your kids' access to social media and their phones as much as possible.
01:23:37.000I don't want them to have a phone, nothing.
01:23:40.000Like you get a brick iPod and that's it.
01:23:42.000And this is funny too, several years ago I was like, I got my niece a cell phone so that she could make, you know, learn apps and do all this stuff and be tech savvy.
01:23:50.000And then I remember being like, you know, her dad took it away saying I don't want her to have this.
01:25:17.000I will say the food is like no amount of plastic surgery is going to fix your mind, but the food can fix your body and your mind.
01:25:24.000Well, look, if you look in the mirror, and it's... I think plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery, and any kind of body modification surgery, any kind, be it trans species like some people do, or transgender, whatever, I think you've got a disconnect between your perception, your body, or whatever.
01:25:43.000As you're mentioning, that's the issue.
01:25:51.000There's literally nothing you can do unless we develop like nanotech cellular reprogramming or something, and then you go into like a stasis chamber that changes your body or something.
01:26:02.000We just do not have the technology to actually give you something that represents what you see or want.
01:26:12.000Well, I mean, if we literally develop technology that you can like actually, I don't know, physically change your body literally, legitimately in the future somehow, then I'd be like, okay, whatever.
01:26:25.000I say, okay, whatever to a lot of, look, if these people want to do this, I got no problem with it.
01:26:28.000I'm just saying right now, the technology does not exist to make you look the way you want to look.
01:26:32.000So right now our best course of action is to teach people that it's going to be hard, but you're going to have to change the way that you think.
01:26:38.000And you can use cognitive behavioral therapy.
01:26:40.000There are a lot of different things that you can do.
01:27:13.000I mean, in cases where they have a medical problem, I think that's different.
01:27:19.000For aesthetic reasons, no, I don't think they should.
01:27:21.000Like, what if we get to the point, technologically, where you can actually take a 10-year-old kid and they walk inside a chamber and then they actually completely change genders?
01:27:37.000I mean, and I'm Catholic, so maybe this has something to do with it, but I'm very resistant to altering human nature in the way that we experience the world.
01:27:47.000I think that gets to really dangerous places.
01:27:49.000What if they were 18 and they walked in and like a genie snap, boom, they were the opposite sex?
01:27:58.000It's an interesting question because, you know, as we're thinking about plastic surgery and all that stuff, I'm like, is the issue permanent body damage?
01:28:05.000That these kids are gonna be, many of them, sterilized?
01:28:10.000And then if there was a way that the kid actually changed... Like, to me, I don't support gender transitions generally because I don't think they address the underlying issue, which is the insecurity and the body dysmorphia.
01:28:23.000And then for kids, it's worse because it's life-changing and they're not obviously of age to consent to that type of change.
01:28:31.000Yo, it's gonna be real crazy when we're in the metaverse!
01:28:34.000You're going to have a kid born in the metaverse and they're going to be like, Oh, hey mom, I'm trans.
01:28:39.000And then they like click a button and their avatar just changes.
01:28:42.000But we're at the point when we're at the point where your brain is plugged in and their, their digital bodies are indistinguishable from base reality.
01:28:49.000Then people are going to be walking around like dragons and carrots.
01:29:10.000If we get to the point where we primarily exist in the metaverse, you could be born into a digital reality where your brain's plugged in like the Matrix, choose an avatar for yourself that's, say, like a giant carrot, and then one day when the metaverse breaks down and you get ejected from it, you'll be like, Oh, what am I?
01:29:32.000I know, imagine that, on Twitter again.
01:29:34.000But I was talking about this press release I got from this company that is actually partnering with the Metaverse to create a narcos experience in the Metaverse.
01:29:42.000So you basically get to be a drug lord and like run this cartel or whatever.
01:29:48.000Like that but for me it's a different experience when you feel like you're in it, right?
01:29:54.000Like that's Westworld level stuff and I play video games like I'm definitely not a person who says ban video games because they lead to violence or anything like that but to me the metaverse and there's been preliminary studies that have talked about the effects of virtual reality on the brain and apparently when you're doing these things in the metaverse or in virtual reality Your brain actually stores them or implants them as if they were real memories.
01:30:20.000And so if you're going in and doing violent stuff in the metaverse, how does that fundamentally alter someone's perception of the world and what negative effects could that have for people's entire lives after that if you think that you killed somebody or you think that you were running drugs?
01:30:34.000Like, I don't see how that can lead anywhere good for society.
01:30:37.000I think there's, we often talk about the negative things about the metaverse, but there's positive things too.
01:30:43.000Safety trainings, you know, without real risk of harm for a lot of issues.
01:30:46.000Training firefighters, training police officers.
01:30:50.000People are going to go in there with legalized psychedelics.
01:31:19.000So you have, in your country, people who do physical labor for producing food and resources and machines, and then you have intellectual and abstract labor, which is like writing songs or developing code, software, things like that.
01:31:32.000You could take all of your intellectual property development people and put them in the metaverse and just seal them off.
01:31:39.000And then they can do the work digitally with their minds plugged into a computer.
01:31:43.000And then everyone else can just, you know, till the fields and make food or whatever.
01:31:55.000Keep it sealed off so his brain can work at peak capacity.
01:31:59.000Imagine imagine right now all of a sudden you're sitting you know you're sitting wherever you're sitting you're watching the show you feel this pulling sensation in the back of your head and then all of a sudden it feels like you are actually being pulled out of your body and then there's a flash of light and you're standing in a field and you're a duck.
01:32:21.000That's what it's going to be like for people who grow up in the metaverse and choose to be a duck and then one day get pulled out and they're a human.
01:32:28.000They're going to be like, I have hands.
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01:33:26.000Everyone in chat is saying, yo, WTF, LOL, Ian's crazy.
01:33:31.000Give it a try yourself before you, don't knock it till you try it.
01:34:12.000The Lukewarm Gamer says, Rumble should put money into non-political culture content to bring people who aren't political to the platform.
01:34:18.000If Rumble signed a deal with Hololive, for example, it would damage YouTube more than getting any political YouTuber.
01:34:25.000Yeah, that's the one thing I've been saying to all these guys who are doing alternative stuff is like, everybody just keeps going politics.
01:34:31.000Well, and also the people who do entertainment-minded stuff are not very good at it.
01:34:35.000Like, people on the right need to be developing talented filmmakers and artists and people who can create content that's entertaining that doesn't suck and doesn't have all of these, like, really shoehorned political messages in it.
01:35:04.000I like how Elon was warning us about the AI, and then he's like, Neuralink!
01:35:09.000And some people are, there's a meme where they're like, Elon Musk warns about the dangers of artificial intelligence, then literally tries to plug your brain into a computer.
01:35:18.000But people don't realize he said the same thing.
01:35:20.000I'm pretty sure Elon said, the only solution to the threat of AI is to integrate with it.
01:35:44.000But I was thinking about it because in that movie...
01:35:47.000So this time, the Terminator is John Connor, and the Terminators are like, we realized the only way to defeat humanity was to merge with them, and they're like, oh no!
01:35:55.000And I'm kinda like, okay, so you're still a person, but you have crazy robot superpowers?
01:36:02.000I don't understand why that's a bad thing.
01:36:04.000I mean, I guess if you don't wanna have crazy robot superpowers, cause he could like, he had like nano power, like nano robots, and he could like, you know, change shape and do crazy stuff.
01:40:12.000Yeah, and I will say, generally speaking, corporate steakhouses are not the best place to go if you want a really good steak.
01:40:21.000Because it's so standardized across all these different restaurants that sort of inevitably there's going to be a decline in quality at some point.
01:40:28.000Do you like the Bavarian Inn in Shepherdstown?
01:40:39.000Well, someone asked and I'm like, oh man, we've been looking to find like the good food because we periodically will do like company outings where everyone goes out.
01:40:48.000What kind of Mexican food do you guys like?
01:42:23.000No, we'll make sure it's on when he gets back in the room.
01:42:26.000Alright, Noah says, love the show guys.
01:42:31.000I just want to use my first Super Chat to let you know that Louisiana has also introduced their own version of the Parental Rights and Education Bill.
01:43:57.000It's just so crazy to me that you're like, I didn't do any research, but I'm going to sit down with a guy who built a whole show about this one topic.
01:44:04.000That's the thing is like the media people who write for these mainstream outlets don't have to know anything because they never are held accountable when they get things wrong.
01:44:12.000And a lot of them are just like super narcissistic, arrogant people.
01:44:16.000Who become journalists not because they care about information or truth or whatever, because either they want to promote a certain cause or they want to promote themselves.
01:44:23.000I mean, that's just kind of how it is now.
01:44:55.000So in a video game where you're playing like a 2D side-scroller, there'll be multiple layers to the background that move at different paces.
01:45:02.000The further away it is, the slower it goes, because that's kind of how it tries to imitate real life.
01:45:07.000Well, that's kind of why the North Star is always pointing north, because it's so ridiculously far away that the amount of movement we experience in our days and lifetime doesn't change it.
01:46:56.000I don't know what amateurs mean, but if you mean that like we started with a table with vinyl glued to big foam boards and then a year later we Stuck a bunch of office desks to each other and bolt them together with, like, black paneling on the wall.
01:47:20.000And now we're to the point where we're in an actual studio with cameras on the wall, but we're still just using, like, what are we using?
01:48:18.000What I meant to say was you can actually, you know, flesh out your ideas.
01:48:21.000All right, Howard says, the number one rule in Fight Club, Fight Club number one rule in parallel communities, no fight, laugh at them, drive them crazy, refers to mass formation psychosis.
01:48:34.000They hate it when you laugh, love and laugh, never engage, just laugh, live your parallel life and laugh.
01:48:52.000Integrity Media says, Tim, I wonder if people reported Twitter with each state's elections division for not reporting the like-kind contributions to Dems they favor when banning the GOP opponent failing to report as an elections crime.
01:50:04.000All right, Howard says Antifa money comes through the Ukraine laundry service along with child trafficking drugs, biolabs, so elites, ATM is messed up right now.
01:50:14.000And there are, let's just use the word euphemism, child abusers.
01:50:47.000was trying to gain influence to control the flow of energy into Europe, which screws with Russia because that's one of their principal exports.
01:50:56.000So Joe Biden, knowing this is the official position of the United States, sends in his son so that the son can wet the whistle of the big guy for 10% share bank accounts.
01:51:04.000It's actually a bit more simple and all of that's actually corroborated.
01:51:07.000Yeah, check out Kolomoisky if you want to look at the Ukrainian ties to this stuff too, the corruption stuff.
01:51:12.000But I'd love to, you know, know anything about Epstein Island.
01:51:15.000Oh yeah, and how nice that the judge just denied a retrial for Ghislaine Maxwell and she's never had to name the conspirators, the people who actually paid for the services that they were providing.
01:51:24.000It's like arresting a drug dealer because the cops saw him, like, hold a bag of drugs and raise it up and then, like, hand it to nobody and it falls on the ground and they're like, get him!
01:51:33.000And they're like, you were dealing drugs to no one, but still.
01:51:37.000Clearly there has to be another party involved.
01:51:40.000Like, at the very least, a cop, right?
01:51:42.000You know, like he was selling drugs to a cop, and then you're like, oh, he was giving it to an undercover officer.
01:52:02.000Kay Comko says, we need a Churchill speech for a call to action to state re— to states— re-term limits, fire and term limit every admin branch person, put an end once and for all to Putin, etc., make a graceful exit in four years.
01:52:21.000Because some people have just said, you can vote for who you want to vote for, it doesn't matter how long they're in there.
01:52:26.000And if you have term limits, what ends up happening is oligarchs will just rotate out politicians, and it's actually fairly easy for them to do so.
01:53:06.000Isn't that funny to make you show your papers?
01:53:09.000Yeah, man, I knew I felt this way A guy was driving from California to New York and got pulled over in Illinois, and they were like, you're going to jail for four years.
01:53:49.000Then when he goes to court, your honor, they wouldn't give the child to me as I was following your instructions, and then the guy comes out on his porch with a gun.
01:53:55.000The judge would be like, that's not safe for these kids.
01:54:16.000Josh Branson says it's tough, but the father should have left, called the police, and called it a kidnapping.
01:54:21.000So much as I hate it to, um, the BF defended himself.
01:54:26.000If the kid was in plain sight and was in danger, that's another story.
01:54:30.000Then the guy has to fight for the life of the child.
01:54:31.000But if he's not in plain danger, yeah, you're right.
01:54:34.000He also didn't even know for sure if the kid was there, I believe.
01:54:37.000Because didn't the mom say, we're not telling you where he is?
01:54:43.000Voro says, Tim, you missed the part where he says, you better shoot or I'm gonna take that gun and effin' murder you or something like that.
01:54:49.000Granted, he never tried to actually take the gun, but still, there was a verbal threat.
01:55:02.000Ryan says, Texas custody law says if the primary conservator doesn't release a child as per the custody agreement, the police will not intervene as it's a civil matter, not criminal.
01:56:42.000We tried in January to get modifications to the mobile studio for independent power, so solar panels, batteries, that can run everything, and that completely fell through, and our money is being jammed up.
01:56:54.000So we need to find someone who can do RV modification, and it's been really annoying.
01:57:01.000That's easy because The Daily Wire is just going to run cables to our mobile studio and we're going to be able to, you know, do the show from our new mobile studio.
01:58:35.000The Bipolar God of Science Fiction says, Is it violently offensive that I've been tripping balls for the last five hours laughing at Madonna's video?
01:58:43.000Maybe people will try to cancel me, but those same people are probably already trolling her in the comments over there.
01:58:54.000Yeah, it's not possible for you to be offensive.
01:58:57.000It's only really possible for me to be offended by what you do.
01:59:00.000It's up to the receiver to decide if they're offended or not.
01:59:03.000You can try and offend, but you can't decide if it's offensive or not.
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02:01:42.000He had like a, something changed, like a, what would you call it, like a spiritual awakening or like a midlife crisis or something in 2010.
02:02:32.000And these campaigns take, like, what, 10 to 30 hours, and then you try to condense it into a two-hour movie?
02:02:38.000What I don't understand about Morbius, or I'm sorry, I mean Sony movies, when they try to do Marvel characters, is why they don't just look at what a Marvel movie is and then just copy them.
02:02:49.000Like, these movies, they all feel very much like it's 2003, and they're just really bad.
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