Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Elon Musk Buys LARGEST Twitter Stake With 9.2%, Defends Free Speech w-Amber Athey

00:00:04.000 Elon Musk is now the largest stakeholder in Twitter.

00:00:09.000 He bought 9.2%, which is just about $3 billion worth of the company.

00:00:14.000 And I don't know if it means he can do anything, but he was just talking about on Twitter, about free speech.

00:00:19.000 He's on Twitter, talking about the importance of free speech.

00:00:21.000 Everybody was like, yo, start up a company.

00:00:23.000 And Mike Cernovich was like, buy Twitter.

00:00:26.000 And then Elon Musk was like, I'll buy a lot.

00:00:28.000 A lot of people are saying Donald Trump should buy a stake in Twitter, but $3 billion?

00:00:33.000 I think that's Trump's actual net worth, maybe a little bit less.

00:00:35.000 So he couldn't buy 10%, but he could buy maybe one if you wanted to sink, you know, a couple hundred million into it, perhaps.

00:00:41.000 But this is big.

00:00:42.000 Maybe free speech will be returning to the platform.

00:00:45.000 Aside from that, we got a big story on Black Lives Matter.

00:00:47.000 Apparently, they secretly purchased a, I think it was a $6 million mansion so they could film YouTube videos or something like that.

00:00:55.000 And man, the more we uncover about how they were, I don't know, misusing funds, the crazier things get.

00:01:02.000 So we'll talk about all that.

00:01:03.000 We got some crazy stories.

00:01:05.000 Georgia has their own version of the Parental Rights and Education Bill.

00:01:08.000 Of course, the left is calling it the Don't Say Gay Bill, but this one's a little different.

00:01:12.000 I'm surprised they haven't already come out and started, you know, screaming about this one.

00:01:15.000 We 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.

00:01:26.000 Let's talk about all this stuff and a whole bunch of other stuff, I suppose.

00:01:29.000 Joining us to discuss these issues is Amber Athey.

00:01:32.000 Hey, so glad to be here.

00:01:34.000 Who are you?

00:01:35.000 Shall I introduce myself?

00:01:36.000 Great.

00:01:36.000 Yes.

00:01:38.000 Well, yeah, so I'm the Washington editor for The Spectator, oldest magazine in the world.

00:01:42.000 We started our U.S. 0.98

00:01:43.000 edition about three, four years ago now.

00:01:46.000 And as of a month ago, I was a radio co-host, but I think we'll get into the scenario there later on.

00:01:54.000 You got fired for...

00:01:56.000 For talking about Kamala Harris, everyone's favorite vice president.

00:02:01.000 And then I'm also a senior fellow at the Steamboat Institute.

00:02:06.000 You made a joke.

00:02:07.000 I did make a joke.

00:02:08.000 Never a good idea on Twitter, apparently.

00:02:11.000 They were looking for something.

00:02:14.000 You made an offensive joke about Kamala Harris. 0.97

00:02:16.000 I did, yeah.

00:02:17.000 And used an old slogan that apparently no one knows anymore.

00:02:21.000 I'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?

00:02:28.000 Was it really that bad?

00:02:28.000 They're like, oh my god, she said something really racist, didn't she?

00:02:31.000 No, considering the era that we're in, it was like, totally not racist.

00:02:36.000 Yeah, and you know what's funny is looking back on it, I was at a trivia night with my friends when I sent the tweet that got me fired.

00:02:43.000 And I remember going around the table asking about the initial tweet that I was going to send, if it was safe.

00:02:49.000 And everyone was like, ah, like, it's a little edgy.

00:02:51.000 Maybe you should dial it down a little bit.

00:02:53.000 So this was actually the pared down version of the tweet.

00:02:57.000 And that still was too far.

00:02:58.000 So you're saying you're even more racist than they accused you of?

00:03:00.000 Right.

00:03:01.000 So I'm now digging myself even deeper into the racism hole.

00:03:04.000 Well, we'll definitely talk about why you got fired.

00:03:07.000 It's great. 1.00

00:03:08.000 So stupid. 1.00

00:03:09.000 I 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. 1.00

00:03:16.000 If you don't have the tone to preserve the statement, they just look for the words and then they.

00:03:21.000 They give that words a bad word.

00:03:22.000 You can't do that one.

00:03:23.000 Especially talking about bodily functions.

00:03:26.000 That's a big thing I try to say for the show.

00:03:28.000 I don't want to put it in text.

00:03:34.000 I'm also here in the corner.

00:03:35.000 Thank you guys very much for tuning in.

00:03:37.000 I'm excited for this evening.

00:03:38.000 I always love my ladies and I want to hear why she got fired. 1.00

00:03:41.000 Seamus is not here tonight.

00:03:42.000 He ditched us.

00:03:43.000 Yeah, he ditched us.

00:03:44.000 He was like, I'm gonna hang out with my family.

00:03:46.000 We were like, dude, what?

00:03:48.000 Yeah, you think your family's more important than the world?

00:03:50.000 What is this, love or something?

00:03:51.000 Yeah, get out of here.

00:03:53.000 But yeah, no Seamus tonight.

00:03:55.000 No anybody else.

00:03:56.000 But let's jump into it.

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00:04:39.000 Let's jump into this first story and talk about the world is changing so quickly.

00:04:43.000 Elon Musk acquires 9.2% stake in Twitter.

00:04:43.000 Yep.

00:04:47.000 The world's richest man is now the social media giant's largest shareholder.

00:04:51.000 My understanding is that he's also the largest, uh, he has the largest vote.

00:04:55.000 He's bigger than Vanguard, I think?

00:04:57.000 Wow.

00:04:57.000 Yeah, BlackRock?

00:04:58.000 Yeah, I thought it was BlackRock.

00:04:59.000 Is it BlackRock?

00:05:00.000 Yeah, I thought.

00:05:01.000 Maybe, yeah.

00:05:03.000 TimGuys.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.

00:05:10.000 The move by Musk, reportedly the world's richest man, comes just weeks after he started criticizing the platform for its violations of free speech.

00:05:17.000 His criticism was followed by a rumor that he might create a new competing platform similar to Twitter.

00:05:23.000 The SEC filing shows that he purchased roughly 73.4 million shares in the company, making him the largest shareholder on Twitter.

00:05:31.000 According to the Financial Times, Jack Founder only holds 2.25% stake in Twitter.

00:05:36.000 Musk has not spoken publicly about the acquisition.

00:05:37.000 Previously indicated he wanted to see dramatic changes on Twitter, of course.

00:05:41.000 Here's a bunch of tweets.

00:05:42.000 He says, I'm giving serious thought to this.

00:05:44.000 He was tweeting about free speech saying, what should be done?

00:05:47.000 I don't know if he can do anything!

00:05:48.000 He conducted a poll on Twitter asking his followers if they think Twitter rigorously

00:05:53.000 adheres to the principles of free speech.

00:05:54.000 He noted that the consequences of the online poll would be significant.

00:05:57.000 70% of the 2 million Twitter respondents said no.

00:06:01.000 That's crazy.

00:06:03.000 The first few months of new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's tenure have validated some concerns

00:06:07.000 his leadership would reduce free expression.

00:06:09.000 Since 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.

00:06:17.000 And then, of course, she heavily criticized them.

00:06:20.000 Recently, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson sued Twitter over his ban in August 2020.

00:06:25.000 And then we also have an editor's note.

00:06:26.000 Full correction.

00:06:27.000 Initial reporting said 9.7.

00:06:29.000 There were a few outlets at 9.7.

00:06:31.000 It was 9.2.

00:06:32.000 The big question, ladies and gentlemen, does this matter?

00:06:34.000 I feel very tired and bored by these conversations about Twitter and, you know.

00:06:40.000 I mean, you got fired over Twitter, so maybe it matters.

00:06:42.000 No, maybe it doesn't matter.

00:06:43.000 Well, 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.

00:06:59.000 Like, I'm super blackpilled about just the general idea of social media.

00:07:04.000 Not just because of censorship reasons, but because of the effect that it's having on our...

00:07:08.000 You know, societal interactions and the way kids are raised and all of these different things, social media addiction.

00:07:12.000 I don't even, I don't know how much power this actually gives Elon Musk.

00:07:18.000 I've seen people smarter than I say that quite a lot apparently.

00:07:21.000 I hope that it changes.

00:07:23.000 I guess I'm just generally pessimistic about the state of social media in general.

00:07:27.000 And 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.

00:07:42.000 But 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.

00:07:49.000 So there's so many things that need to change across the board to make this a better platform.

00:07:54.000 And I mean, hopefully Elon Musk is the guy to help do it.

00:07:57.000 But again, I don't have high hopes for anything regarding Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, whatever.

00:08:03.000 Some people are saying that he does get substantial voting power and he could move to make himself a board member.

00:08:08.000 And then as a board member, he can make some real changes.

00:08:11.000 He's charismatic too.

00:08:12.000 Yeah.

00:08:12.000 You need to be on the board.

00:08:13.000 Well, maybe be on the board.

00:08:14.000 So he, Vanguard owns 8.39%.

00:08:15.000 At least this is from CNN.

00:08:17.000 So he is the largest stakeholder now.

00:08:19.000 The thing is, so you want to talk about changing the terms of service to make it a free speech network.

00:08:23.000 You could base it out of like Connecticut and then you have to adhere to state law, corporate law.

00:08:29.000 But 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.

00:08:35.000 And then they have to, because they have the data.

00:08:37.000 If 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.

00:08:41.000 I use CIA and NSA interchangeably.

00:08:43.000 It's crazy.

00:08:44.000 I 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.

00:08:56.000 I think that free speech on the internet is a different kind of free speech and that it's more about the code.

00:09:00.000 Because if it's spying on you and you don't know, you're not really free.

00:09:03.000 If 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.

00:09:16.000 Yeah, you should know.

00:09:17.000 The NSA came and they took that data, they shut that guy down.

00:09:22.000 You should always know that stuff because you see it happen on the network.

00:09:24.000 Yeah and a lot of times Twitter doesn't even tell people why they're being banned.

00:09:27.000 I 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.

00:09:44.000 They say, oh, it was just a mistake.

00:09:46.000 You know, somebody in inaccurately flagged this tweet for violating terms of service.

00:09:51.000 And 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.

00:09:59.000 Sometimes 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.

00:10:08.000 And it all just seems like they're playing these games to try to get around actually enforcing their policies fairly across the board.

00:10:16.000 I think that if someone gets banned, if an account gets banned, that the ban reason should be on the blockchain for them for reference.

00:10:23.000 Yeah, but then what if they put bunk info on the blockchain?

00:10:28.000 Then you should be able to appeal it, and then the appeal should be on the blockchain.

00:10:31.000 You should be able to watch the process.

00:10:33.000 That's true, because then you can see they lied.

00:10:35.000 Check out this story.

00:10:36.000 This is from a year ago.

00:10:37.000 Twitter bans James O'Keefe of Project Veritas over fake account policy, suggesting that he was operating multiple accounts in an unsanctioned way.

00:10:46.000 O'Keefe has already announced that he will sue the company for defamation.

00:10:49.000 And that's legit, because James was like, I didn't operate multiple accounts.

00:10:52.000 Yeah, and when you ask Twitter about this, because I've done this, I reached out to them about this exact issue.

00:10:57.000 And I have a press contact at Twitter that like claims to be from conservative world.

00:11:01.000 So 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.

00:11:10.000 So I'll be yes.

00:11:11.000 But I reach out to them about these types of issues all the time of them claiming that people got banned for these account violations.

00:11:17.000 And 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.

00:11:28.000 And even with James himself and other people who have had this happen to them, they won't talk about it with them either.

00:11:33.000 So how are you supposed to get any accountability when they keep doing this to people?

00:11:37.000 I 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.

00:11:46.000 Yeah, with no evidence.

00:11:47.000 And so he can easily just say to a judge, like, Your Honor, I didn't operate multiple accounts.

00:11:50.000 They claimed I did.

00:11:51.000 That's defamation.

00:11:52.000 I have to imagine he's going to be like, OK, let's let's go to discovery and easily determine whether or not he was or wasn't.

00:11:59.000 Yeah, I think that's exactly right.

00:12:00.000 The 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.

00:12:12.000 Those 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.

00:12:20.000 So 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.

00:12:27.000 And so it's really no wonder that things like this happen.

00:12:29.000 So 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.

00:12:41.000 That'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.

00:12:49.000 Who was admitting on December 23rd at 4 p.m.?

00:12:51.000 It's all accountable.

00:12:53.000 You 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.

00:13:08.000 I think Elon also sees this as the Commons. 0.97

00:13:11.000 I was listening to something about TikTok and some young TikToker was like, oh yeah, Twitter's dumb. 0.85

00:13:17.000 It's just for like politics. 0.96

00:13:18.000 No one cares.

00:13:19.000 And I think that's a fair assessment too.

00:13:21.000 Many of us are on Twitter because it's a political social network.

00:13:25.000 That's what it is.

00:13:25.000 It's politics and journalism.

00:13:26.000 Everything else is like, what's the point?

00:13:27.000 Are you going to go there and follow, you know, Brad Pitt for whatever reason or whatever, celebrate?

00:13:31.000 Not really.

00:13:32.000 You're not.

00:13:32.000 And that's why even the New York Times gets no interaction on any of their tweets.

00:13:35.000 The real point of Twitter is to go on and be mean to people and emotionally destroy them.

00:13:40.000 The second reason is to talk about news, politics, and social issues.

00:13:44.000 You can also message people directly, which is pretty cool.

00:13:46.000 Like, I sent Jordan a message yesterday.

00:13:48.000 I've never met him before, but... Peterson.

00:13:50.000 Yeah, Peterson.

00:13:50.000 Oh yeah, Jordan Peterson.

00:13:51.000 Disagree with your third of your 42nd rules, dude.

00:13:54.000 Your third one talks about always being honest.

00:13:57.000 Sometimes laws are bad and you can't be honest about it.

00:14:00.000 Anyway, we'll talk about that later.

00:14:01.000 But yeah, I wonder if Twitter just becomes irrelevant in 10 years.

00:14:04.000 It very well could.

00:14:05.000 I mean, there's always this phrase that people throw out, right?

00:14:08.000 Twitter's not real life.

00:14:10.000 And it's 100% true. 0.98

00:14:10.000 I 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. 0.98

00:14:24.000 But Twitter does have a huge impact on policy. 0.98

00:14:25.000 It does.

00:14:26.000 up in arms about and again nobody who even people who like consume Fox News or CNN incessantly

00:14:33.000 don't really know what's going on on Twitter unless they are actively on there for multiple

00:14:37.000 hours a day.

00:14:38.000 But Twitter does have a huge impact on policy.

00:14:40.000 It does.

00:14:41.000 So it's almost like the forefront of thought in a lot of ways when it comes to politics

00:14:47.000 and journalism.

00:14:48.000 You'll get someone like David Hogg had a tweet which is really important.

00:14:53.000 It is.

00:14:54.000 Because seeing his internal monologue, his inner monologue, is important to understand that you shouldn't listen to his advice on anything.

00:15:01.000 When he tweeted, what did he say?

00:15:03.000 You need a license to kill deer? 0.97

00:15:05.000 Why don't you need a license to kill humans? 0.98

00:15:07.000 As if to imply you're allowed to. 1.00

00:15:09.000 Or like, you could go to the government and be like, I would like to kill people. 1.00

00:15:11.000 Well, here's your license to kill, sir. 1.00

00:15:13.000 You can't kill people! 0.97

00:15:15.000 They're only extenuating circumstances.

00:15:18.000 You're defending yourself or you're in war or something.

00:15:20.000 But normally, these activists and high-profile individuals would go through several filters before that message would actually get out.

00:15:28.000 Now, because of Twitter, people are just thinking things and then tweeting it. 0.70

00:15:32.000 I take advantage of that and just tweet things that I know are intentionally ridiculous.

00:15:36.000 And then it's weird. 0.60

00:15:37.000 You 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.

00:15:45.000 So 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.

00:15:52.000 But anyway, I digress.

00:15:52.000 The point is...

00:15:54.000 AOC talks about the Green New Deal.

00:15:56.000 These politicians talk about policy positions and plans, and they manifest on Twitter.

00:16:00.000 Antifa organizes rallies on Twitter.

00:16:03.000 So 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?

00:16:13.000 Look at Twitter, they were talking about it for the past three days.

00:16:16.000 There was a shift in, I don't know, it was 2013, 2012, all of a sudden CNN started getting screenshots of tweets.

00:16:22.000 Like, 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.

00:16:35.000 Tweets!

00:16:36.000 Tweets!

00:16:37.000 They're referencing tweets on CNN!

00:16:39.000 Yeah, 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.

00:17:05.000 And I mean, it's gotten to this point now where I think you're right that Twitter is setting a lot of policy.

00:17:11.000 I mean, I would love to know, for example, where like the don't say gay moniker came from.

00:17:15.000 I wouldn't be surprised if that came from some left wing Twitter account.

00:17:18.000 Some, like, 12-year-old.

00:17:19.000 Yeah.

00:17:20.000 The funniest thing about CNN putting tweets on TV is that it's probably some 12-year-old kid who, you know, tweeted having no idea.

00:17:28.000 This is actually a really important point.

00:17:30.000 On Twitter, you don't know you're arguing with a 14-year-old.

00:17:34.000 The dude who got Harry's razors to dump Daily Wire claims to have been in high school.

00:17:40.000 I wouldn't doubt it.

00:17:41.000 And 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? 0.94

00:17:48.000 You 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.

00:18:01.000 And then CNN's like, here's a tweet from someone who matters.

00:18:04.000 And it's like, it's just some 12 year old kid who has no idea what he's talking about.

00:18:07.000 I knew a dude who gave a fake interview to a local, there was a plane crash in Chicago.

00:18:12.000 And this dude ran there afterwards and then told the journalist that he had seen it.

00:18:16.000 He's like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:18:17.000 He's like, I was here when it happened.

00:18:18.000 And they said, what happened?

00:18:19.000 And he just made a story up because he wanted to be on TV.

00:18:22.000 Now he was an adult at the time.

00:18:25.000 But imagine a 12-year-old.

00:18:26.000 They'd be like, I don't know, you know, where are your parents?

00:18:28.000 So 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.

00:18:38.000 When you're getting your opinions from a rant, from a random assortment, it could be children have no idea what they're talking about.

00:18:45.000 And that's probably true a lot for the left, because the left tends, Democrats tend to have a lot more younger people.

00:18:50.000 So 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.

00:18:57.000 Just don't do it.

00:18:58.000 Don't argue.

00:18:58.000 Not in text.

00:19:00.000 It'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... 0.99

00:19:08.000 If 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. 0.94

00:19:17.000 And I'm like, I have to quote tweet them and dunk on them. 0.98

00:19:20.000 And it's literally someone with an egg as their profile picture.

00:19:26.000 And 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.

00:19:36.000 And even someone who is aware of it has that impulse.

00:19:40.000 And imagine how bad that is for people who don't really understand what's happening.

00:19:44.000 So 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.

00:19:54.000 So 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.

00:20:04.000 That's right.

00:20:04.000 And they called you racist on Twitter.

00:20:06.000 Yeah, 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.

00:20:18.000 We have a picture of it.

00:20:19.000 Right?

00:20:19.000 I don't think I'm the only one that thought it was bad.

00:20:22.000 Saturday Night Live made fun of it and there were people photoshopping her to look like a UPS employee. 0.99

00:20:29.000 And so I decided to throw out this tweet saying, Kamala looks like a UPS employee. 1.00

00:20:34.000 What can Brown do for you?

00:20:35.000 Nothing good, apparently.

00:20:37.000 Because obviously she's ineffective at public policy and bad at her job. 1.00

00:20:41.000 Well, 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.

00:20:55.000 And 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.

00:21:08.000 So 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.

00:21:21.000 Again, never a good idea, but here we are.

00:21:23.000 In the replies to Matt Walsh, actually.

00:21:27.000 And there's this freelance reporter for the Daily Beast, Yahoo News, Rolling Stone, I think, named Steven Monticelli.

00:21:36.000 And I point to him as, like, the root cause of all of this.

00:21:40.000 took 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.

00:21:55.000 And where were you working?

00:21:57.000 So I was with the Spectator WMAL, which was a radio station based in D.C.

00:22:02.000 It's like the conservative talk radio station in D.C.

00:22:04.000 And then I have a fellowship with the Steamboat Institute.

00:22:07.000 The Spectator- W-M-A-L?

00:22:09.000 W-M-A-L. 1.00

00:22:10.000 And it's a part of Cumulus Media.

00:22:12.000 That's like the corporation that owns a bunch of radio stations. 1.00

00:22:14.000 So they're trash. 1.00

00:22:16.000 They're trash. 1.00

00:22:17.000 They're operated by a bunch of liberals who don't care about anything outside of woke emails. 1.00

00:22:22.000 But it's conservative radio?

00:22:23.000 They 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. 0.95

00:22:31.000 The spectator literally laughed at these emails they were getting because they thought they were so ridiculous.

00:22:36.000 WMAL, 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.

00:22:48.000 No severance.

00:22:49.000 Nothing.

00:22:50.000 I wasn't going back on the show the next day.

00:22:50.000 I was done.

00:22:52.000 They didn't inform anybody else on the show that I was hosting, so they were like SOL.

00:22:57.000 They didn't even have a host for the next morning.

00:22:58.000 They had to have somebody else fill in.

00:23:01.000 They didn't tell the WMAL program director.

00:23:04.000 It was a vice president and the VP of HR.

00:23:08.000 I have the termination letter and everything that confirms everything that I'm telling you guys.

00:23:13.000 The people you worked with didn't stand up for you and be like, I'm not going to do it?

00:23:17.000 They tried.

00:23:18.000 I 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.

00:23:27.000 A lot of the hosts are on contracts, so they can't really just walk out without facing pretty heavy financial consequences, is my understanding.

00:23:35.000 I disagree.

00:23:37.000 I 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.

00:23:46.000 Yeah, I wish people were more willing to just stand up. 0.75

00:23:53.000 Consequences be damned.

00:23:54.000 There 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.

00:24:04.000 It's like, oh no, contract violation.

00:24:06.000 You're going to have to go into arbitration.

00:24:08.000 Those companies don't want to spend money on lawyers. 0.97

00:24:11.000 So if you were like, I'm not going to do the show, they'll be like, well, you'll be in breach of contract.

00:24:14.000 And it's like, OK, spend $5 retaining your lawyer because I refuse to do a show one day.

00:24:20.000 And let's see how much money you got to waste before you get me to agree a monthly.

00:24:23.000 I'll tell you this.

00:24:23.000 It just pisses me off.

00:24:25.000 They'd come to me and they'd say, you're in breach of contract.

00:24:27.000 We're going to sue you.

00:24:28.000 I say, okay, I'm going to wait you out however long it takes you to put your lawyers on retainer to file.

00:24:32.000 And then you know what I'm going to do?

00:24:33.000 I'm going to let you win.

00:24:35.000 Then I'm going to make you sink 20 grand into legal fees. 0.99

00:24:37.000 Then I'll come back.

00:24:37.000 How's that sound?

00:24:38.000 Or you can just say, we're not going to fire someone over a tweet.

00:24:42.000 People just aren't willing to even put a little bit of pressure on their companies.

00:24:45.000 Yeah, and I will say I was allowed to go on Dan Bongino's show today, and Dan Bongino's show is nationally syndicated.

00:24:53.000 One of the radio stations that hosts his program from 12 to 3 p.m.

00:24:56.000 every day, WMAL.

00:24:59.000 So I got to go on the radio station that fired me and tell all of their listeners exactly what the company did to me.

00:25:06.000 And Dan Bongino was actually kind enough to offer me a bi-weekly segment on the show as well.

00:25:10.000 So he's putting his money where his mouth is.

00:25:12.000 I mean, he also, and he's gotten into it with Cumulus before over their vaccine mandate.

00:25:17.000 So this isn't the first time.

00:25:18.000 Like he, he hates them rightfully.

00:25:20.000 Totally understandable.

00:25:21.000 If you've seen their like internal And I can't go into too much because of the confidentiality agreement.

00:25:26.000 I don't think they'll sue me, but I would rather not risk it.

00:25:29.000 They have a lot of stuff on their internal company forums that is just horrendous.

00:25:33.000 I 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.

00:25:50.000 Sounds like Project Veritas might be picking something up from there.

00:25:54.000 Yeah, I would love to see James O'Keefe do a little digging on that.

00:25:57.000 I'm not surprised that these corporations don't care about anything.

00:26:01.000 Yeah.

00:26:02.000 I'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.

00:26:07.000 And I'm also not surprised that Dan Bongino is like, I don't care.

00:26:10.000 Let's do it.

00:26:10.000 Because Dan is doing a lot to push back.

00:26:13.000 You know, he's invested in Rumble.

00:26:15.000 They've got something called Parallel Economy.

00:26:16.000 Do you guys know about this?

00:26:18.000 Only by name.

00:26:18.000 Alternative Financial Transaction Service.

00:26:25.000 I'm a big proponent of, supporter of, and working towards parallel systems, right?

00:26:30.000 For a while, I used to talk about how it was dangerous.

00:26:32.000 And this was years ago.

00:26:33.000 I was like, if they keep banning people this way, if financial institutions keep doing this, you're going to make a parallel economy.

00:26:38.000 You do not want that.

00:26:39.000 Now we're here and it's like, okay, if that's what they wanted, we're past it.

00:26:43.000 You've got to do it.

00:26:44.000 So 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.

00:26:52.000 This company is going to be like, you know, we don't care.

00:26:53.000 And Dan Mangino, I believe he's an investor.

00:26:55.000 I'm not entirely sure, but I know he's involved.

00:26:57.000 So man, at least we have people like him doing stuff.

00:27:00.000 That's something.

00:27:01.000 Yeah, 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.

00:27:11.000 Like that is the most basic of things that you should be allowed to do.

00:27:14.000 How 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. 0.98

00:27:26.000 To me this is like one of the most clear-cut cases of just dishonest, bad faith, cancel culture bullshit. 0.96

00:27:33.000 But that's how it is nowadays. 0.98

00:27:36.000 Like you can't say anything and you have to be so anodyne and boring that it is literally destroying political commentary.

00:27:46.000 I think people have been too complacent with corporate corporations.

00:27:51.000 They've gone too far.

00:27:52.000 They're not people.

00:27:54.000 Yeah.

00:27:55.000 That whole system needs to be shattered and regrown.

00:27:57.000 It's cultural, man.

00:27:58.000 It's an aberration now.

00:28:00.000 It needs to be changed.

00:28:03.000 Ballpark, how many people worked directly or indirectly with you?

00:28:07.000 With me on the show?

00:28:08.000 Maybe five.

00:28:11.000 If those five people were like, we're all sick today, they'd be like, hire Amber back. 0.81

00:28:17.000 Apologize to her.

00:28:18.000 Yeah.

00:28:19.000 Instead, they're just like, well, I'm not gonna do anything.

00:28:22.000 You know, that's the thing that people don't understand.

00:28:23.000 It's not even about, you know, stepping on the toes and trying to, you know, cause some pain to the company who's playing BS.

00:28:29.000 It's just literally being like, oh, we must've all got sick at the same time.

00:28:33.000 I mean, we all work together, so it makes sense.

00:28:35.000 Yeah.

00:28:35.000 We're going to be out.

00:28:36.000 What's our, what's our sick, sick, uh, how much sick time do we have?

00:28:38.000 Two weeks?

00:28:39.000 Yeah, oh, I think we're gonna be sick for a little while.

00:28:42.000 And they're gonna be like, okay, okay, okay, we get it.

00:28:44.000 Because what are they really mad about?

00:28:47.000 You tweeted, what can Brown do for you?

00:28:49.000 The UPS slogan.

00:28:50.000 They don't care about that.

00:28:52.000 It'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.

00:29:01.000 This 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.

00:29:12.000 What 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.

00:29:19.000 Well, the opposite is true.

00:29:20.000 I'm pissed off.

00:29:21.000 I think it's horrible. 0.98

00:29:22.000 And I'm going to drag them to the ends of the earth to destroy their reputation as publicly and as loudly as I possibly can.

00:29:29.000 And I'm going to get as many other conservatives and independent thinkers on my side to also try to destroy their reputation.

00:29:36.000 Because that's all I know how to do at this point.

00:29:38.000 I wouldn't call it destroying.

00:29:40.000 I would say be honest about their reputation.

00:29:43.000 Sure.

00:29:44.000 Expose.

00:29:44.000 Expose the truth.

00:29:46.000 Yes.

00:29:47.000 Yeah.

00:29:48.000 And that's what I've been committed to my entire career.

00:29:51.000 So I don't know like what they thought that I was or who I was, but that's not it.

00:29:58.000 Corporate media is such a joke.

00:30:01.000 Like you need your media run through a filter of an authoritarian corporation?

00:30:06.000 Hell no! 0.93

00:30:07.000 It's individual!

00:30:09.000 Now, people can go out there with a camera and get it done, man. 1.00

00:30:11.000 You don't need these stupid companies. 0.99

00:30:13.000 Yeah, this is why I think we're particularly lucky with Timcast in that we have no external influences, no beneficiaries, no investors. 1.00

00:30:24.000 The only person that could ever be like, I'm the, I'm the buck stops with me.

00:30:29.000 So, and, and I'm kind of hotheaded and, you know, people call me arrogant and all that stuff.

00:30:35.000 If 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.

00:30:40.000 We advertise.

00:30:41.000 I'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.

00:30:49.000 Yeah.

00:30:50.000 I feel the exact same way, and that was my instinct as soon as this happened.

00:30:55.000 I talked to a lot of people about it.

00:30:56.000 I spent a month letting people internally try to do what they could do.

00:30:59.000 I explored some legal options.

00:31:01.000 I was an at-will employee, so there's not a whole lot you can do in that situation.

00:31:05.000 And their social media policy, let me see if I can bring it up because this is kind of interesting.

00:31:09.000 I think it's pretty obvious that this is a CYA policy and it exists so that they can fire people for any reason whatsoever.

00:31:16.000 It's usually why they have it.

00:31:17.000 One thing I'll say too as you're pulling it up, this is what the right needs to understand about activism.

00:31:22.000 When I worked for nonprofits, they would do postcarding.

00:31:25.000 Where these non-profit organizations would hire people and have them fill out postcards.

00:31:29.000 They would have them go outside and ask people to just sign their name to a postcard.

00:31:33.000 Then they would take thousands and put them all in the mailbox.

00:31:36.000 And then one day a member of Congress just like, here you go, here you go.

00:31:39.000 And they wheelbarrow in all the postcards and just leave them in their room.

00:31:42.000 And they're like, wow, look at all these people who are angry.

00:31:44.000 You know, I better act this way.

00:31:46.000 Or I better react to this.

00:31:47.000 You 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.

00:31:55.000 And in this instance, the woke started sending emails to WMAL, right?

00:32:00.000 And then they say, oh, just fire her, it'll make it all go away. 0.99

00:32:03.000 Because they know, or they're hoping, that conservatives won't email them complaining that they fired someone over a Twitter joke.

00:32:10.000 Because...

00:32:12.000 The left is just chaotic and out for some kind of... Yeah, I don't know.

00:32:17.000 The crazy thing is 4chan had this reputation for the longest time of, you know, don't mess with 4chan, they'll come after you.

00:32:24.000 Now, I guess, for whatever reason, you don't really hear a lot about that.

00:32:27.000 It's the left who has become the hornet's nest.

00:32:31.000 Remember it was Colbert talking about Anonymous, and he was talking about this company called, I think it was HP, what was it?

00:32:36.000 What was it called?

00:32:38.000 HP Gary?

00:32:39.000 Was that what it was?

00:32:39.000 I don't know.

00:32:41.000 No, something federal.

00:32:41.000 I don't know.

00:32:42.000 Maybe it was HP Gary. 0.99

00:32:43.000 But 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. 0.98

00:32:53.000 It used to be 4chan and the Libertarian and the Right that were the hornet's nest to be feared, not to screw with. 0.82

00:33:00.000 Now it's Antifa on the left, because the corporations are terrified of them, and the right doesn't do anything.

00:33:05.000 What do they call it?

00:33:05.000 Brigading?

00:33:06.000 Is that what it's called?

00:33:06.000 Yeah, brigading.

00:33:07.000 We get a bunch of people to go do something.

00:33:08.000 I kind of realized the power of that in 2007, I think.

00:33:11.000 Obama was running for office.

00:33:12.000 I was like, oh, we can get this guy elected.

00:33:14.000 Let's all vote for Obama.

00:33:16.000 Everyone listening, vote for Obama.

00:33:17.000 I would just tell people, vote for Obama.

00:33:19.000 Yeah.

00:33:19.000 And they did it.

00:33:20.000 And then I was like, we could all pull our money out of the bank at the same moment on the same day.

00:33:25.000 And I was like, I think it might be—is that illegal to call for that?

00:33:28.000 No, I don't think so.

00:33:29.000 So, like, mad power.

00:33:30.000 And then I started to get scared, like, oh, if I did that and crashed the economy, that could be very bad.

00:33:35.000 The power of brigading is real.

00:33:36.000 And there are a lot of sort of more formal left-wing advocacy organizations, like Sleeping Giants, that were formed on social media.

00:33:45.000 And do these harassment campaigns. 0.82

00:33:46.000 Media Matters is sort of infamous for going after people's advertisers.

00:33:50.000 They basically managed to bully all of Tucker Carlson's advertisers out of being on his show, for example.

00:33:57.000 Because they just, for them, it's obviously not about, oh, we really care about racism and sexism and homophobia and all that.

00:34:03.000 They care about just trying to shut up anybody who disagrees with them politically.

00:34:07.000 That's the real goal.

00:34:08.000 Because they use these things so dishonestly.

00:34:10.000 But I have the social media policy here.

00:34:13.000 So 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.

00:34:25.000 So like I said, it's a CYA. 0.54

00:34:27.000 If 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.

00:34:41.000 And 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.

00:34:51.000 But your tweet was so... just not even... I mean, like, what if you called Kamala a disgusting pig? 0.99

00:34:57.000 You know? 0.99

00:34:59.000 That's a good question.

00:35:00.000 I think you would have been fine.

00:35:01.000 I think, yeah.

00:35:02.000 I think I probably would have been okay.

00:35:04.000 It's the word brown.

00:35:05.000 Yeah.

00:35:06.000 People have become that sensitive to this insanity that you're talking about colors.

00:35:11.000 If you use red, they wouldn't have done anything about it.

00:35:15.000 It's the color brown, black, white.

00:35:17.000 The shades black and white are very sensitive words.

00:35:20.000 Yellow is another one. 0.85

00:35:20.000 You can't do that. 0.85

00:35:21.000 That's why I use tone when I try to talk about it.

00:35:25.000 We can take a box of Lucky Charms.

00:35:27.000 Oh, the camera's not on.

00:35:29.000 We can put a box of Lucky Charms next to Seamus.

00:35:32.000 Or Seamus chose to do it and someone sent it to him.

00:35:34.000 And everyone laughs and it's funny that he's like, you know, I'm Irish so there's leprechauns or whatever.

00:35:38.000 Do you guys think the corporation should have the right to do that?

00:35:40.000 What they did to you?

00:35:42.000 Oh yeah, absolutely.

00:35:43.000 Yes.

00:35:44.000 It's a cultural problem.

00:35:46.000 Companies should be able to, for the most part, fire people for any reason.

00:35:51.000 I say for the most part.

00:35:52.000 There's probably certain circumstances where, like retaliation after you abuse someone physically and things like that.

00:35:59.000 But I don't know why you'd wanna work there, so maybe we should just let companies sever with people if they want to.

00:36:05.000 It's probably a longer conversation there.

00:36:07.000 But the issue is the culture.

00:36:08.000 A company shouldn't want to do that.

00:36:11.000 And not only that, if a company says, Well, you put up a mean tweet about the, you know, the Brown vice president, so we're firing you.

00:36:19.000 And then if the other five people were like, we quit.

00:36:24.000 Even that among the employees would prevent the corporations.

00:36:28.000 Oh, yeah.

00:36:29.000 You could build organization within the company's employees to resist this kind of behavior.

00:36:34.000 But 20th century corporations, which is what they are right now, aren't equipped to handle 21st century media.

00:36:39.000 Because 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.

00:36:51.000 I think what's interesting in my case is the backlash wasn't that big.

00:36:55.000 I mean I've had people try to cancel me before and this was relatively minor in comparison.

00:36:59.000 It was like maybe 10 people send an email, I would guess.

00:37:04.000 It wasn't this bombardment that would really lead any honest, real leader to say, this is too much.

00:37:12.000 This girl's got to go. 0.99

00:37:13.000 She's causing us a huge headache. 0.81

00:37:15.000 And 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.

00:37:31.000 You know, I have to say this.

00:37:34.000 I honestly don't care about Kamala Harris's outfit being all brown. 0.99

00:37:39.000 It is weird.

00:37:40.000 So I actually have some, I have other clothes.

00:37:44.000 This may be shocking to many people, but I have a brown button up and then I have, you know, like brown t-shirts.

00:37:49.000 And one day I was like, let's see, like, what should I wear when I go skate or go out?

00:37:52.000 And I looked at them both and I'm like, man, I would totally look like I worked for UPS if I wore that. 0.97

00:37:57.000 So you're a racist too.

00:37:59.000 The problem with Kamala is her jacket's the same color as the desk. 1.00

00:38:03.000 That's a big mistake.

00:38:03.000 So it'd be like if your shirt was the same color as the wall behind you, it'd look crazy.

00:38:07.000 It's not a great shade of brown in my opinion. 0.73

00:38:09.000 Yeah, it's like poop brown.

00:38:11.000 What was she thinking?

00:38:12.000 It does look like the poop emoji.

00:38:14.000 What can Brown do for you?

00:38:15.000 Well, for Kamala Harris, her outfit... And it is like the UPS color, too.

00:38:19.000 Yeah, it is.

00:38:20.000 I mean, people have put the UPS logo on her little jacket.

00:38:24.000 Yeah, it was a meme.

00:38:25.000 And it was dead on.

00:38:27.000 Dead on.

00:38:28.000 Well, 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.

00:38:37.000 Yeah.

00:38:37.000 There needs to be not woke.

00:38:39.000 Not stupid. 1.00

00:38:39.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:38:40.000 Civil libertarian, I think, is the right word that encompasses conservatives and moderates.

00:38:45.000 Civil libertarian.

00:38:46.000 Like, there's a tweet going around from some dude, and he's like, cancel culture has no place in America.

00:38:53.000 Then it's like, I think Defiant L's posted this, and the next tweet is him saying Disney should be stripped.

00:38:58.000 Nick Adams.

00:38:58.000 And I'm like, that's not cancel culture.

00:39:00.000 Not at all.

00:39:00.000 Right.

00:39:01.000 People think that not spending your money with a certain business is cancel culture now.

00:39:05.000 Like that's the left's new talking point, is that if you do anything, like they boycott people all the time, right?

00:39:11.000 And then when conservatives do it, they're like, no, no, you're doing the cancel culture now.

00:39:15.000 You're doing the cancel culture.

00:39:16.000 Boycotts and sanctions are not the same thing.

00:39:18.000 Cancel culture.

00:39:18.000 Sanctions are when you're fired from a job for saying something or banned from Twitter.

00:39:22.000 That's a sanction.

00:39:23.000 Cancel culture is digging up messages and taking them out of context, taking messages out of context.

00:39:29.000 It's when you get someone fired or harassed for something that is not genuine for the most part.

00:39:34.000 Saying, Disney does awful things so we shouldn't provide them with any services and give them the

00:39:40.000 boot is just being like, this is a bad company who literally does things we don't like.

00:39:44.000 That's the whole point of having a free market capitalist system is that you're

00:39:49.000 supposed to be able to spend your dollars where you want to and be able to make those

00:39:53.000 sort of more moral decisions about your life.

00:39:56.000 Your finances and then I'd also add that I think cancel culture is when the punishment doesn't fit the crime.

00:40:01.000 So if you're trying to get someone fired for a tweet that is an unjust consequence for something that they supposedly did wrong.

00:40:08.000 Well then what's my question to you then?

00:40:10.000 Do you think the corporation should be able to fire people like that like whenever they want?

00:40:14.000 I mean, I signed an at-will contract, so they're within their right to do so.

00:40:18.000 I 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?

00:40:23.000 And I usually land on, yeah.

00:40:25.000 Because 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.

00:40:34.000 All the different networks will have different terms and all the code will be similar, so they'll all be interoperating.

00:40:38.000 Um, I just don't see that with corporations at the moment.

00:40:40.000 I don't know how to stop these authoritarians from just destroying someone's livelihood at will.

00:40:45.000 Did you guys see that story about, uh, I think Lori Lightfoot is going to give away, was it 50,000 gas cards?

00:40:51.000 Yeah.

00:40:52.000 And I was thinking about, that's kind of funny, like, what do you call it when it's communism, but it's not for everyone?

00:40:58.000 It's only for a randomly selected lottery.

00:41:00.000 And I was like, is that Demar communism?

00:41:03.000 Something like that.

00:41:04.000 Like only 10% get to bask in the communism.

00:41:07.000 Randomism.

00:41:08.000 Welcome to our new government.

00:41:10.000 I hope you roll a one.

00:41:11.000 Demarchy is random government.

00:41:13.000 People are randomly chosen to rule.

00:41:14.000 That's why I was like, Dem are communism.

00:41:16.000 But 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.

00:41:25.000 And 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.

00:41:44.000 That's the appropriate way to do corporate burn.

00:41:49.000 All right, let's talk about this.

00:41:51.000 Speaking of cancel culture, let's talk about people who should be canceled.

00:41:54.000 From 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.

00:42:11.000 Absolutely amazing!

00:42:12.000 Emails show the firm wanted to keep the purchase a secret, despite filming a video on the house's homes patio in May.

00:42:18.000 The 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.

00:42:25.000 Cullors, 38, came under fire last year for a slew of high-profile property purchases.

00:42:29.000 She resigned after facing backlash from critics and supporters.

00:42:33.000 And I'm willing to bet that if you go to any Democrat activist or left-wing person and say, hey, this is bad, right?

00:42:40.000 They'll go.

00:42:41.000 Well, 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. 0.98

00:42:56.000 You see, I don't know if there's an equivalent.

00:42:58.000 Is there an equivalent like BLM on the right?

00:43:00.000 Not really.

00:43:00.000 No.

00:43:01.000 Black Lives Matter is an aberration on society, and it's very unique. 1.00

00:43:04.000 It's like a communist movement. 0.98

00:43:06.000 It's a scam.

00:43:07.000 It's a bold statement, Ian.

00:43:09.000 Intentionally seeded.

00:43:10.000 I mean, whether or not the communists wanted to create it, I don't think so.

00:43:14.000 But it's been infiltrated.

00:43:18.000 Well, 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.

00:43:23.000 He's at, I believe, the Washington Examiner now.

00:43:26.000 And he was the one who broke this story about last year, Black Lives Matter has this, like, $60 million war chest, essentially.

00:43:33.000 And he found out that there was no one in charge of it for eight months.

00:43:37.000 Like, nobody knew where this money was, what they were doing with it, who actually had access to it.

00:43:42.000 And 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.

00:43:59.000 and they still haven't provided any answers. They've tried to delay the reporting of their

00:44:05.000 previous fiscal year finances. And just across the board, there's all this corruption that's

00:44:09.000 going on in BLM. And to me, this is just the latest example of how irresponsible they've

00:44:17.000 been with all this money, who people, I think a lot of people probably donate to BLM not to

00:44:21.000 look racist, honestly. I don't think they actually know the ins and outs of the organization.

00:44:26.000 It's a cult.

00:44:29.000 I support the concept that black lives do matter and white lives do matter, 0.62

00:44:34.000 and we should focus on class issues.

00:44:36.000 But when I say it's an aberration, I'm talking about the corporate structure that's taking money and buying houses.

00:44:43.000 This should all be transparent, and it should all be on some sort of blockchain.

00:44:48.000 It's a little early for blockchain.

00:44:49.000 Look at this house!

00:44:51.000 That's a nice house!

00:44:51.000 This is Conyers, Georgia house.

00:44:53.000 Who's buying this stuff?

00:44:54.000 Who are these top brass anyway, these people?

00:44:57.000 That's an awesome house right there.

00:44:58.000 I would love to buy something like that.

00:45:01.000 She has, you know, this Patrisse Cullors, excellent taste in homes. 0.99

00:45:05.000 It's just absolutely impeccable.

00:45:07.000 Look at this one.

00:45:08.000 Even this one's just so nice.

00:45:09.000 It's got a little, like a little barn.

00:45:12.000 It's got two stories.

00:45:13.000 Wow, impeccable.

00:45:15.000 You 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.

00:45:25.000 You might even be able to write them off.

00:45:27.000 Maybe 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.

00:45:36.000 Yeah 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.

00:45:45.000 And 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. 0.57

00:45:55.000 So 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

00:46:19.000 BLM 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.

00:46:30.000 Just think about Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:46:32.000 He attempted to murder a politician?

00:46:34.000 Yeah, and BLM bailed him out.

00:46:35.000 And 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.

00:46:44.000 Was there any question that he attempted to murder the guy?

00:46:47.000 No, he walked into the office and they were like, how can we help you?

00:46:49.000 Why isn't that guy in jail right now?

00:46:56.000 Bails another story.

00:46:57.000 If he's not a flight risk, maybe then.

00:46:58.000 That's another conversation completely.

00:47:00.000 That this corporation is bailing out people.

00:47:03.000 That's kind of interesting.

00:47:06.000 Black Lives Matter bailed him out.

00:47:07.000 Yes.

00:47:08.000 What happened in Illinois?

00:47:10.000 The state gave $300,000 to Black Lives Matter.

00:47:12.000 Kamala Harris tweeted out a fundraiser to bail out the rioters.

00:47:20.000 I'll be careful here.

00:47:22.000 The 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. 0.97

00:47:28.000 The left is overt in doing all this stuff.

00:47:31.000 You know how I feel?

00:47:32.000 When we were talking about Twitter, I was like, does it matter?

00:47:34.000 Do we care?

00:47:35.000 Because at this point, it's like, why are we acting like we have anything to do with those people?

00:47:40.000 The 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. 0.68

00:47:48.000 There's no reasoning with them. 0.75

00:47:50.000 There's no conversation.

00:47:51.000 We are seeing some of them get charged and sent to jail.

00:47:54.000 This is, you know, a relatively recent thing where people are actually getting charged and convicted.

00:47:58.000 But 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.

00:48:04.000 So 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.

00:48:11.000 You know, there's two distinct countries and there's no point interacting.

00:48:14.000 The economy of Antifa and BLM does not in any way interact with the economy here of me.

00:48:20.000 So I just ignore it.

00:48:22.000 It's just, what's the point right now? 1.00

00:48:24.000 Oh, Black Lives Matter ripped off all a bunch of dumb people? 1.00

00:48:26.000 They're happy they got ripped off. 1.00

00:48:28.000 They don't care.

00:48:29.000 We're complaining about an organization we didn't donate to.

00:48:31.000 I'm just like, you know what, man?

00:48:33.000 Let people be ripped off.

00:48:35.000 There was a point where I wanted to go up to people and be like, listen, they're ripping you off.

00:48:39.000 They're taking your money and they're buying houses.

00:48:41.000 But they don't care.

00:48:42.000 They like it.

00:48:43.000 So then what do you do?

00:48:45.000 Yeah.

00:48:46.000 Well, you keep doing what you're doing and don't get derailed by it.

00:48:49.000 That's for sure.

00:48:50.000 You make better software, technology. 0.99

00:48:52.000 I'm not going to stop making better social media tech because there's dumb racists out there. 1.00

00:48:57.000 I will acknowledge them. 0.93

00:48:58.000 I'm not going to completely ignore them, but I'm not going to let them deviate me from my path.

00:49:03.000 And you should do the same.

00:49:04.000 Continue on your path.

00:49:05.000 Strong.

00:49:05.000 Don't, I think the issue is, there was a point where there was an argument between left and right.

00:49:11.000 That we were one country and we were going through, we were having a bitter period in our relationship.

00:49:19.000 Then 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.

00:49:32.000 Yeah.

00:49:32.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:49:33.000 And so at this point, it's like, you want to burn down cities.

00:49:36.000 The people who want to stay there and are fine with it, I've already given my two cents, like, you need to get away from that.

00:49:41.000 If you don't want to, okay.

00:49:43.000 You know, like, there's a woman being battered by her husband, and you say, get away from him, and then she won't.

00:49:49.000 At a certain point, you're like, I've tried what I can try.

00:49:51.000 If she won't leave, what am I supposed to do?

00:49:53.000 Yeah, 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.

00:50:03.000 I mean, for example, I'll go back to the Trump administration.

00:50:05.000 One of my biggest complaints with them was that they were constantly feeding scoops and, you know, leaking to the New York Times.

00:50:12.000 In the Washington Post.

00:50:13.000 And it's like, why are you constantly rewarding the people who hate you?

00:50:17.000 No matter what you do, these people are never going to think that you're a good person.

00:50:21.000 They're never going to accept you.

00:50:22.000 They're never going to think the way that you do about issues or policy.

00:50:26.000 They're always going to think that you're evil.

00:50:28.000 And 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.

00:50:35.000 This is part of the reason it was so frustrating to me to watch Trump try to get on the side of the media.

00:50:41.000 And he would make fun of them, and he's like, oh, lying mainstream media or whatever, but you know it.

00:50:45.000 At the end of the day, he was like, well, I really actually do care what the New York Times says about me.

00:50:49.000 He kept doing sit-down interviews with them.

00:50:51.000 Exactly.

00:50:51.000 Why 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?

00:51:02.000 It's crazy to me.

00:51:03.000 Nostalgia.

00:51:03.000 It was Trump's nostalgia.

00:51:04.000 Yeah.

00:51:04.000 Why didn't Trump get on Gab or Mines?

00:51:08.000 Why didn't he do a daily YouTube video blog?

00:51:10.000 I mean, he had everything in front of him, but he's from the 50s, 1950s or whenever he was born.

00:51:15.000 Or he didn't have anybody in his administration who could tell him, like, hey, you need to directly connect with people better.

00:51:20.000 I think it was kind of both, right?

00:51:21.000 I 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. 0.98

00:51:32.000 And 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. 1.00

00:51:42.000 Ignorant. 1.00

00:51:43.000 That's a good way, because they just didn't know about the technology. 0.99

00:51:46.000 They didn't know how to do it. 0.99

00:51:47.000 Not necessarily stupid. 1.00

00:51:48.000 They might have also been stupid. 1.00

00:51:50.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:51:51.000 This is one of the reasons why I'm more interested in a DeSantis 2024 than a Trump 2024.

00:51:57.000 Because DeSantis, and I've been told it's his wife, they're very savvy with what's happening culturally and on social media.

00:52:04.000 Great team.

00:52:05.000 And so I look at that and I'm like, could you imagine how DeSantis would handle the press?

00:52:10.000 Look, they're going to smear him.

00:52:11.000 They're going to try and destroy him the same as they did with Trump, but he's just better at it.

00:52:15.000 And to your point about like a daily YouTube video, that's something I could imagine a DeSantis administration actually doing.

00:52:21.000 Not necessarily that way, but doing something more active on social media for directly connecting with people.

00:52:27.000 I 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.

00:52:35.000 I wonder if DeSantis would be a lot better with the media because they've never liked him.

00:52:39.000 Whereas 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.

00:52:47.000 They ate it up.

00:52:48.000 They wrote all kinds of stuff about him even before he was running for president. 0.78

00:52:51.000 I 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. 0.92

00:53:00.000 And that has to sting, especially for a guy with an ego like that. 0.92

00:53:03.000 But I think DeSantis would get it in the bag.

00:53:05.000 It will be really awesome, though, if Trump wins in 2024.

00:53:09.000 And then that means he wins with the help of people who voted for Biden in 2020.

00:53:14.000 Yeah.

00:53:14.000 Just to prove a point.

00:53:15.000 Yeah.

00:53:16.000 Just to be like, hey, all those people, yeah, Biden was bad.

00:53:19.000 Be like Obama voters.

00:53:20.000 Yeah.

00:53:21.000 You know, but real quick, that also means some of these people are going to refuse to vote for Trump out of their personal ego.

00:53:27.000 So they might be like, I can't do that.

00:53:30.000 I can't have been that guy who was like, Trump is worse than Hitler, and now come crawling back to him.

00:53:36.000 I refuse.

00:53:37.000 I will never admit that.

00:53:39.000 You get a DeSantis, and they'll be like, oh, well, I mean, you know, I was always against Biden, and DeSantis is better, so.

00:53:45.000 The 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.

00:53:59.000 And 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.

00:54:11.000 Like, why am I supporting the same guy that these people support?

00:54:15.000 And 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.

00:54:35.000 I 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.

00:54:47.000 And that cult of personality is, I mean, like it or not, really important in politics.

00:54:52.000 Downside of that, I agree.

00:54:53.000 I like the way he talked.

00:54:54.000 Like, well, I mean, he said some crass stuff, but I like that he was honest and like, just off the cuff.

00:54:58.000 And then it's day one, he started reading speeches.

00:55:01.000 He'd come on TV and he He'd be talking like this and like that.

00:55:06.000 That's not Trump.

00:55:07.000 That's not Donald Trump.

00:55:08.000 That's not how he talks.

00:55:10.000 He just got filed into the machine.

00:55:13.000 It felt like day one.

00:55:14.000 He had John Bolton on staff.

00:55:16.000 I don't want round two, I'll be honest.

00:55:19.000 Not right away, Bolton.

00:55:21.000 I think it was what Sheldon Adelson, you know, told Trump to do it.

00:55:25.000 And Trump was like, OK.

00:55:26.000 And I guess my understanding is he legitimately thought it was going to be a good idea.

00:55:30.000 It just goes to show that Trump really did not know what to expect when it came to this.

00:55:34.000 He had Reince Priebus as his chief of staff.

00:55:36.000 I would imagine if you were going to do it and do it right, for real, you'd have to have your own way of doing it.

00:55:41.000 And there'll be tons of people being like, no, don't do it that way.

00:55:45.000 No, we got to stop him.

00:55:46.000 And you'll be like gone and away from them.

00:55:48.000 They can't even find you because you're doing it the way you want to do it.

00:55:51.000 And what I understand is there was a plan for the second term to root out a lot of the people who were undermining Trump.

00:55:56.000 So 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.

00:56:06.000 Too late.

00:56:07.000 And yeah, it was too late.

00:56:08.000 And like Amanda Milius was in the Trump administration.

00:56:11.000 She's spoken about changing federal rules so that you can fire non-political appointees more easily and things like that.

00:56:18.000 So, I mean, there's a lot of ways that this could be done better.

00:56:21.000 I 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.

00:56:28.000 I think we do another Trump 2024.

00:56:30.000 We do another Trump run with 2024 and then after Trump you get DeSantis.

00:56:33.000 Yeah, it's like inevitable.

00:56:34.000 Do 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?

00:56:42.000 No, no, no.

00:56:42.000 Trump would have only two terms.

00:56:44.000 He's not a cult leader if he only has two terms.

00:56:47.000 that having a central leader is a vulnerability that the country can't handle.

00:56:51.000 Well, having a decentralized leader now isn't any good either.

00:56:54.000 Well, he's a centralized authority.

00:56:56.000 He gets all the rules go through him.

00:56:58.000 No, actually, this is- What I mean is that he's not the head honcho decision maker

00:57:03.000 of his administration.

00:57:05.000 I disagree.

00:57:06.000 And I think this actually plays into Ian's point.

00:57:06.000 Do you?

00:57:09.000 Biden is, and he's insane because his brain has deteriorated to this point. 0.98

00:57:14.000 But I think, look, Kamala Harris, she's—11 staffers have quit on her. 0.99

00:57:19.000 She is just sitting there spinning in circles, confused and blabbering, making no sense.

00:57:24.000 There's no real leadership in this administration at all.

00:57:27.000 I genuinely think that there are, there's a combination of two things.

00:57:32.000 People exploiting the opportunity and just doing what they want because Biden's out of it.

00:57:36.000 And people who are like, what should we do, Joe?

00:57:39.000 And Joe's like, you know, you got to, you know, next row wrestling, you know, and.

00:57:43.000 You got to boom for the war crimes. 0.93

00:57:45.000 Do what the young people want.

00:57:47.000 And then and then he gets up and he goes, get it done.

00:57:49.000 And he walks out and they're like, I don't know what Nex Nel Recit means.

00:57:51.000 What do I do?

00:57:53.000 I legit think that, you know, some people believe that he's a puppet.

00:57:57.000 And I'm like, no, if he was a puppet, there would be a plan.

00:58:01.000 Like, if somebody was in charge, there would be a cohesive string of events.

00:58:05.000 Do you think it's possible, though, that there's more than one person directly underneath Biden that are competing for that decision-making ability?

00:58:14.000 Like Ron Klain or... Yes, but that's kind of my point, too.

00:58:19.000 That they're still beholden to Biden in a certain way, and Biden is a central authority.

00:58:26.000 And 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. 0.95

00:58:40.000 And the president is just basically a walking corpse at this point.

00:58:44.000 So 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.

00:58:55.000 I disagree with the idea that Trump is a cult leader or a cult of personality.

00:59:00.000 Trump is just a leader.

00:59:01.000 And he came out and he said, these are problems.

00:59:05.000 And a bunch of Americans were like, we agree.

00:59:08.000 No one's dealing with those things.

00:59:09.000 And so they said, I'll vote for you.

00:59:10.000 I 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.

00:59:21.000 We 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.

00:59:28.000 You're overlooking Congress, Senate, the Supreme Court.

00:59:31.000 Yeah, 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.

00:59:41.000 Like, 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.

00:59:49.000 Is that really the case with Donald Trump?

00:59:51.000 Like, I don't know.

00:59:52.000 I think a lot of people held their nose and voted for Trump, and it was kind of the opposite of a popularity contest in that way.

00:59:58.000 He was popular but disliked.

01:00:01.000 I guess that's right.

01:00:02.000 I 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.

01:00:08.000 But name recognition.

01:00:09.000 I was at the airport.

01:00:10.000 I was at a airport.

01:00:11.000 I think I was in Texas.

01:00:13.000 And I went to the lounge at the bar and there was a woman and I asked her to turn off CNN or something and put on Fox. 0.85

01:00:20.000 And then she said something about, you know, I can't stand it.

01:00:24.000 We started talking a little bit.

01:00:25.000 There was a guy sitting to my left and then all of a sudden we were all talking about politics.

01:00:29.000 She told me that she was like, look, I was for Bernie, so I didn't like any of these people.

01:00:32.000 Biden's terrible.

01:00:33.000 And I'm like, here, here.

01:00:34.000 I felt that way in 2016, but I think Trump at least did stuff we've never seen before, or at least in my generation.

01:00:41.000 The 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.

01:00:47.000 And then we all laughed.

01:00:48.000 And I was like, that's kind of the way I think a lot of people felt about it. 1.00

01:00:53.000 You know, he was like, he's a good president, but he's kind of a dick. 0.99

01:00:57.000 And I'm like, yeah, yeah. 0.99

01:00:58.000 A lot of people were like, we recognize the problem of Trump, but he's doing things.

01:01:04.000 And that's why the left went so hard on the suburban women vote. 1.00

01:01:09.000 in 2020 because they really wanted to emphasize Trump's personality defects.

01:01:15.000 What 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.

01:01:38.000 Like, they misunderstood the solution to what the left was telling people about Trump's personality.

01:01:45.000 And he could have leveraged that, I think, in a much more effective way on the campaign trail.

01:01:51.000 Playing 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.

01:02:03.000 Georgia is about to sign into law constitutional carry, which will make it the 25th state.

01:02:08.000 And I want to state for the record a correction, because I was right!

01:02:12.000 When I was on Joe Rogan's show in November, I said, I think majority of the country is constitutional carry.

01:02:20.000 And then Joe was like, no, no, that can't be right.

01:02:22.000 And I was like, yeah, I'm pretty sure.

01:02:24.000 And then Jamie looked it up and it said 13 states.

01:02:27.000 And I went, only 13?

01:02:28.000 That doesn't sound right.

01:02:29.000 That was a very old number.

01:02:31.000 It was 24.

01:02:32.000 I believe it was 24 at the time.

01:02:33.000 24 states have it.

01:02:35.000 It may have been 21 at the time, because in the past four months, there's been a wave.

01:02:39.000 That's really cool. But 21 better than 13. So I was wrong, but not that wrong. And I want to make

01:02:44.000 sure that everybody knows this. Georgia is about to sign into law constitutional carry. Ron DeSantis

01:02:52.000 is talking about a special legislative session which may include constitutional

01:02:56.000 care which mean 26 states. Permit lists, conceal and open care, you

01:03:00.000 You walk in, you're a resident.

01:03:02.000 Some of these states are constitutional carry.

01:03:04.000 I think constitutional carry applies to non-residents as well at a certain age limit.

01:03:09.000 It's like 21.

01:03:10.000 That means you can, if you're in Texas, and then I think Louisiana doesn't have it.

01:03:18.000 But if you go from Georgia to, say, Mississippi, and they're both constitutional carry, you don't got to worry about crossing that border.

01:03:23.000 This is a huge cultural change and victory showing the sentiment of the American people that the federal politicians don't matter.

01:03:31.000 When regular people vote for state reps, for state senators, for local politicians, your state can do right.

01:03:37.000 Seeing 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.

01:03:46.000 That 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. 0.91

01:03:52.000 2022 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.

01:04:00.000 But yeah, the constitutional carry thing has me super excited. 0.85

01:04:04.000 Yeah, me too.

01:04:04.000 Yeah.

01:04:05.000 I mean, I'm a gun owner myself.

01:04:07.000 Well, actually, I recently lost them on a boating accident.

01:04:09.000 It was very tragic.

01:04:10.000 But, you know, I love guns, grew up with guns.

01:04:14.000 And, like, I'm a huge proponent of maybe having classes in school where students can learn gun safety.

01:04:20.000 I think that would go a long way towards making people feel more comfortable with gun culture if they didn't grow up with it.

01:04:25.000 Did you see, I think it was Alaska or something?

01:04:28.000 They were doing airsoft training in the gym.

01:04:28.000 Yeah.

01:04:30.000 I think that is awesome.

01:04:31.000 I mean, what?

01:04:31.000 No.

01:04:33.000 No, no, no, it's terrible.

01:04:34.000 Those kids should be outside with 22s. 0.62

01:04:34.000 Why? 0.62

01:04:36.000 Okay, alright, you got me.

01:04:37.000 They shouldn't be using airsoft in a gym.

01:04:39.000 That's a good way to use it.

01:04:40.000 They should be outside with Ruger 10-22s and they should be getting proper instruction.

01:04:45.000 It'd be fantastic.

01:04:46.000 I 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.

01:04:59.000 If 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.

01:05:12.000 Let's have a gun debate. 0.83

01:05:14.000 We have this story from the Daily Mail.

01:05:16.000 This is a very, very interesting story.

01:05:17.000 So, you can see here, these two guys are getting at it.

01:05:20.000 custody row will not be charged after shooting is ruled to be in self-defense.

01:05:20.000 One guy's got a gun.

01:05:26.000 This is a very, very interesting story.

01:05:29.000 So you can see here, these two guys are getting at it.

01:05:32.000 One guy's got a gun.

01:05:33.000 I think it's a, it's a, um, I can't remember which kind of gun it is, but it's a nine millimeter

01:05:38.000 a long gun of some sort.

01:05:40.000 So I'll just give you the quick rundown and then we're going to have this debate because

01:05:43.000 you know, we were talking about a bit about a bit before the show.

01:05:46.000 So, this dude is told, you pick up your son from your ex-wife at 3.15.

01:05:51.000 He shows up, his ex-wife says, no.

01:05:54.000 He says, where is my son?

01:05:56.000 She says, I wanted to stay with him longer, so I'm not going to be giving him to you.

01:06:01.000 And he says, you know, effectively, he basically is like, I'm here because the court says 315

01:06:06.000 he is mine.

01:06:07.000 I come here to 15 and then he goes, I'm going to drag you all you and Marie and so-and-so

01:06:11.000 to court.

01:06:12.000 Right when he says this, his ex-wife's boyfriend comes out with the gun and comes on the porch

01:06:18.000 and tells him to get out.

01:06:19.000 The dad gets up in his face, doesn't use his arms, and starts saying, oh, are you going to shoot me or something like that?

01:06:25.000 The dude with the gun fires one into the ground.

01:06:28.000 Then they, they tussle, spin around.

01:06:31.000 The 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.

01:06:45.000 I believe it was instant.

01:06:48.000 Now the court is saying he is not going to be charged with a crime.

01:06:53.000 This one's tough.

01:06:54.000 Because on the letter of the law, I'm torn on this one.

01:06:57.000 Was he acting in self-defense?

01:07:00.000 Did he have a right to shoot and kill this dad who was coming to get his son?

01:07:04.000 There's two ways I look at it. 0.98

01:07:06.000 The first is, if the court tells me Be here and get your son.

01:07:10.000 You have to do it.

01:07:11.000 It's custody.

01:07:12.000 You can't just ditch your kid.

01:07:14.000 And I show up and they're like, we're not giving the kid up or telling you where he is.

01:07:18.000 And then a dude walks out with a gun.

01:07:20.000 I'm going to be like, you've kidnapped my child and now you're threatening me with a weapon.

01:07:23.000 I'm here under a court order.

01:07:25.000 Does that guy have a right to come out with a gun?

01:07:28.000 On that alone, I'm like, no.

01:07:31.000 And then not only, not only did he shoot and kill the dad, he pointed, he shot, he shot and killed the dad towards his own house.

01:07:36.000 That's one of the, one of the rules of gun safety.

01:07:39.000 Know what is beyond your target.

01:07:40.000 He could have shot his own daughter because his daughter was filming on the inside.

01:07:43.000 I couldn't really tell when we watched the video.

01:07:44.000 Maybe we can watch it again.

01:07:45.000 I don't know.

01:07:46.000 Were you planning on playing it?

01:07:47.000 I don't know if we can play it.

01:07:48.000 It's pretty brutal.

01:07:49.000 But the daughters are in the house filming out the window.

01:07:53.000 When he aims at him and fires, I can't tell if he's pointed at the house or pointed sideways.

01:07:58.000 Sideways, alongside the house.

01:07:59.000 Well, the guy was on the porch, so I'm pretty sure it was at the house.

01:08:02.000 And then the other problem was that he shot into the ground to sort of escalate the situation.

01:08:08.000 And that's another no-no.

01:08:09.000 You don't fire warning shots, right?

01:08:11.000 Because you don't know where you're pointing.

01:08:14.000 I think they knew each other.

01:08:15.000 The big dude was abusive.

01:08:17.000 Why was the big dude abusive?

01:08:19.000 This isn't the feeling I'm getting from this.

01:08:21.000 The big guy was notably abusive.

01:08:23.000 That's why they weren't together.

01:08:24.000 And the little guy, they knew each other and they hated each other.

01:08:28.000 That's the vibe I was getting, because he went right at his face when he came out with the gun.

01:08:32.000 They got right in each other's face.

01:08:33.000 So, this is the problem I have with it.

01:08:36.000 If the assumption of, this guy's name is William Carruth, who shot and killed Chad Reed.

01:08:44.000 If you're in your house, and you hear fighting outside, and you don't know what's going on, you have a right to keep and bear arms.

01:08:50.000 It's your property.

01:08:51.000 I agree.

01:08:52.000 I might get my gun as well if people are screaming.

01:08:54.000 I'll be like, I don't know what's going on, but there might be something bad happening.

01:08:57.000 You walk out with your gun.

01:08:59.000 Next thing you know, a guy gets up in your face and starts screaming at you. 1.00

01:09:02.000 Your 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. 0.96

01:09:12.000 And then the guy grabs you, you both spin, he pushes you back. 0.99

01:09:16.000 Now he separated you from your home.

01:09:19.000 He could go in and harm your daughters.

01:09:21.000 So you say, nah, pop, pop.

01:09:24.000 From that perspective, I'm like, I get it.

01:09:26.000 We don't know what this guy knew, but the problem is, man, the Chad Reed guy was there legally to pick up his kid.

01:09:33.000 And it didn't even get—there was not enough time for him to even call the cops.

01:09:36.000 Apparently 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! 0.89

01:09:46.000 Like, not even a threat of violence, and the dude walks out with a gun.

01:09:50.000 This is the challenge here.

01:09:51.000 Because, 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.

01:10:01.000 But we can't assume he did know, and he can just be like, I had no idea, I heard yelling.

01:10:04.000 And then it's like, gun rights.

01:10:06.000 If people are fighting on your property, you got a right to defend it.

01:10:08.000 And like you said, Anne, we don't know the history of these two guys.

01:10:12.000 I mean, it's possible that they've gotten into it before.

01:10:13.000 He knows that this guy could potentially come into the house and harm his own children or be looking for this kid.

01:10:20.000 I mean, we really don't know the situation.

01:10:21.000 I'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.

01:10:38.000 So I understand that impulse.

01:10:40.000 At 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.

01:11:01.000 I mean it's This is a difficult situation.

01:11:03.000 I don't really know how, like, who is right here.

01:11:06.000 I mean, maybe they both were wrong in different ways.

01:11:08.000 But 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?

01:11:15.000 But 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.

01:11:23.000 Who's instructed to be there for law enforcement purposes, and you walk out with your gun, and the cop rushes you.

01:11:29.000 I guess it's different.

01:11:31.000 My 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.

01:11:42.000 And 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.

01:11:48.000 Like, yo, I'm surprised all he did was get in his face.

01:11:51.000 Well, he also chest bumped him, which is aggravated assault.

01:11:55.000 And then he touches the gun, too.

01:11:57.000 He touches the hand that's on the gun, which basically is that dual possession at this point, like the Ahmaud Arbery case.

01:12:02.000 You know, if you put your hand on the weapon, that's basically you're telling me you're going to try and take it out of my hands.

01:12:07.000 But not when they separate and the dude goes pop pop.

01:12:11.000 The challenge is, do you really blame a dad for getting in the face of a guy who walked out with a gun when his son's missing?

01:12:19.000 We gotta talk about what's legal and what's right.

01:12:20.000 That's the thing.

01:12:21.000 Morally, 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.

01:12:31.000 I don't know what the legal situation is there.

01:12:33.000 Definitely not.

01:12:34.000 If someone ever comes out on their front porch with a rifle and tells you to get off their property, get off their property.

01:12:38.000 Alright, you go to the truck and you call the police.

01:12:40.000 I mean, you're asking for a bad situation at this point.

01:12:45.000 Not to victim blame, but...

01:12:47.000 I think that's the best we can do, to be honest.

01:12:49.000 Yeah.

01:12:49.000 That he should have immediately backed up, backed away, and said, I'm getting the cops.

01:12:53.000 And the cops would have come and he would have won the fight.

01:12:55.000 The cops would have been like, you are illegally withholding a child.

01:12:55.000 Exactly.

01:12:58.000 You can't come out here with that weapon.

01:13:00.000 Go back in your house.

01:13:01.000 He 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.

01:13:01.000 And guess what?

01:13:09.000 Yeah, that split second of the dad walking up to do with the gun.

01:13:13.000 You see him snap when the guy comes out with the gun.

01:13:15.000 He just goes right in his face like he wants to fight that guy.

01:13:19.000 Man.

01:13:19.000 Yeah, because if you're his kid, it's his son, man.

01:13:23.000 It's like he doesn't even care about the kid anymore.

01:13:24.000 He just wants to hurt the guy.

01:13:26.000 This was like almost inevitable to me, the way that these guys were so quick to go after each other.

01:13:30.000 Let's get to the dark part.

01:13:31.000 The dark part is the mom has the kids living with the dude who killed their dad. 0.94

01:13:36.000 That's nuts.

01:13:37.000 Apparently the kids were like, this is your fault mom, you killed dad.

01:13:41.000 These kids are probably going to hear this show someday, man.

01:13:42.000 At this point, it's like, I'm sorry, guys.

01:13:45.000 I mean, I'm here for you.

01:13:47.000 Apparently the kids are like really upset.

01:13:49.000 As they should be.

01:13:50.000 I gotta be honest, if it were me, when I was a kid, I would have ran away.

01:13:52.000 Yeah.

01:13:53.000 No joke.

01:13:54.000 There's no way I'd live with the dude who, you know, killed my dad.

01:13:57.000 Well, now, I don't know enough about the conversation, because that guy might have been really abusive.

01:14:02.000 But you said the kids... I mean, it's still their dad.

01:14:04.000 No, they're apparently saying, like, it's your fault, you know?

01:14:08.000 It's a crazy story.

01:14:09.000 This is America.

01:14:10.000 It's so traumatic, and...

01:14:12.000 They're aware that Kyle Carruth shot and killed their father in front of their mother, stepbrother, and myself.

01:14:19.000 A judge denied the petition for custody.

01:14:22.000 So this is the dead father's new wife. 0.92

01:14:27.000 She was trying to get custody and they were like, no, you're not a blood relative.

01:14:31.000 So the kids have to live with the dude who killed their dad.

01:14:34.000 There'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.

01:14:48.000 And 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.

01:15:03.000 It'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.

01:15:15.000 So there's a lot that needs to be reformed in that system.

01:15:17.000 Maybe if they had gotten this right from the beginning, this issue wouldn't have arisen to begin with.

01:15:24.000 Man, 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.

01:15:35.000 That's where it becomes justification.

01:15:37.000 Because now he's in between Caruth and his daughters.

01:15:40.000 Yeah.

01:15:41.000 Or is it not justification if you're just like, get off my property?

01:15:43.000 Actually, hold on.

01:15:44.000 I don't know if it was Caruth's daughters.

01:15:45.000 It might've been Chad Reed's daughters.

01:15:47.000 Ooh, I don't know.

01:15:49.000 Yeah, it might've been his kids.

01:15:50.000 I'm not entirely sure.

01:15:53.000 Yeah, I guess there's some context we'll need, we would need to pull up.

01:15:57.000 I think it, I think it was his, it might've been his kids in there.

01:16:00.000 I'm not entirely sure.

01:16:01.000 If 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.

01:16:09.000 I 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.

01:16:16.000 These poor kids now, I don't know where they end up.

01:16:18.000 So sad.

01:16:20.000 Yeah, I think the kids inside the house were Chad Reed's kids, not Karou's kids.

01:16:24.000 Yeah.

01:16:24.000 Oh my gosh.

01:16:26.000 I'm not sure though.

01:16:27.000 That's important.

01:16:29.000 Yeah, a little bit.

01:16:30.000 But he was only there to pick up his son, so again, I'm not entirely sure.

01:16:33.000 It's been a while.

01:16:33.000 We covered this, we talked about it when the story first broke, but I wonder if people are pointing it out.

01:16:40.000 No, I don't know.

01:16:40.000 Well, 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.

01:16:48.000 Crazy stuff, man.

01:16:50.000 Yeah, this is a crazy philosophical conundrum, I gotta say.

01:16:53.000 How about we, do you guys want to waste time talking?

01:16:56.000 No, let's not.

01:16:57.000 Yeah.

01:16:58.000 Firstly, Madonna or we can talk about something more serious.

01:17:02.000 What's Madonna up to? 0.96

01:17:02.000 Yeah. 0.96

01:17:03.000 Oh, gosh.

01:17:04.000 Let's talk about Madonna.

01:17:06.000 Hot minute.

01:17:07.000 I think this is one of those stories that we can get in trouble for talking about.

01:17:11.000 It's a man this is this is more of a like a pop culture kind of thing.

01:17:15.000 But I also think I just want to talk about it.

01:17:18.000 She got a lot of face work done? 1.00

01:17:19.000 A little bit, yeah.

01:17:20.000 A little bit.

01:17:21.000 So take a look at this.

01:17:21.000 Madonna's bizarre TikTok video raises eyebrows as fans grow concerned over the star's unsettling appearance.

01:17:26.000 What has she done to herself? 1.00

01:17:28.000 This is such a weird video too, I saw it. 0.93

01:17:30.000 First, it does look like she got ridiculous plastic surgery and it makes her look really bad. 0.96

01:17:36.000 Oh. 0.91

01:17:36.000 But there's a couple of things I wanted to point out. 0.91

01:17:38.000 And I think this plays to like cultural issues.

01:17:40.000 For one, the obsession with relevance on social media.

01:17:44.000 Clearly now, like this is like, what did she post it on TikTok?

01:17:48.000 Yeah.

01:17:49.000 And everyone's sharing it.

01:17:50.000 But I wonder if this is actually just the front facing camera making her look.

01:17:53.000 Yeah, it looks like a fisheye lens of some sort.

01:17:55.000 I 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. 0.93

01:18:06.000 And she like had her butt done too. 1.00

01:18:09.000 And it's one of those really obviously fake situations where you don't even know how they sit down on it. 0.97

01:18:14.000 Gosh, uncomfortable.

01:18:16.000 So here, look at this video.

01:18:18.000 You can see it.

01:18:20.000 It's just creepy.

01:18:22.000 Oh man, it's so cringe.

01:18:23.000 It's so creepy.

01:18:24.000 What is going on?

01:18:25.000 So here's why I want to talk about this.

01:18:27.000 It is kind of relaxing to talk about the inanity of this pop culture stuff.

01:18:32.000 But I also think what people don't realize, celebrities get plastic surgery and then they look really good and no one says anything.

01:18:41.000 But then when they age, the weird scar tissue doesn't age the same way a regular face would.

01:18:46.000 So they start to look really, really weird as they get older.

01:18:49.000 I used to take care of old ladies and sometimes I'd get boob jobs. 1.00

01:18:53.000 And these things would stay where they were implanted and the rest of the lady would sag. 1.00

01:18:58.000 And I was like, why did you do this to yourself?

01:19:00.000 It was horrible.

01:19:01.000 And you could just see them.

01:19:02.000 Oh my gosh, it was horrible.

01:19:03.000 But anyway, yeah.

01:19:03.000 I want to advise people not to get plastic surgery unless you have to.

01:19:09.000 Like for medical reconstruction or something.

01:19:11.000 Don't do it.

01:19:12.000 Don't hurt yourself, man.

01:19:13.000 Why does anyone do it?

01:19:14.000 I really don't get it.

01:19:15.000 I 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.

01:19:25.000 I mean something really minor.

01:19:26.000 But why?

01:19:29.000 Vanity 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.

01:19:38.000 These people are really nasty about appearances on the internet.

01:19:41.000 My teeth are jagged like a jigsaw puzzle.

01:19:44.000 I wear the same clothes every day.

01:19:46.000 I wear a beanie all the time.

01:19:47.000 I got no hair or whatever.

01:19:49.000 I'm not going to get surgery.

01:19:49.000 I'm not going to get... You know, I got crowns, I think.

01:19:54.000 That was because my molar cracked.

01:19:56.000 I had a root canal when I was little.

01:19:57.000 And then this one... Reconstructive surgery is fine.

01:20:00.000 I mean, you want to use plastic surgery for reconstructive burn surgery, stuff like that.

01:20:03.000 That's what it's for.

01:20:04.000 I mean, that's a phenomenal advancement in human medicine.

01:20:06.000 But don't rip up your face.

01:20:07.000 Well and did you guys hear about this story with Bella Hadid, the supermodel who got a nose job when she was 14 years old?

01:20:14.000 Like 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.

01:20:23.000 She'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

01:20:50.000 Is it coming from the internet that's making people?

01:20:52.000 That's what I was saying before about like social media, TikTok, whatever, making people do this.

01:20:56.000 It's coming through the internet, but it's not from the internet.

01:20:58.000 It's coming from people.

01:21:00.000 Individuals are either inadvertently perpetuating a sick cycle.

01:21:04.000 Probably they want to look like cartoon characters.

01:21:06.000 A lot of this, like the whole idea of the furry thing.

01:21:10.000 Like, I think I'm a fuzzy animal.

01:21:12.000 No, they don't think they're animals.

01:21:13.000 I think they're cartoons.

01:21:14.000 I think the most beautiful you can be is who you really are.

01:21:17.000 You don't need to mash up your face or your body or any of that stuff.

01:21:21.000 Eat healthy, too, because it makes you more beautiful.

01:21:23.000 This is a crazy thing to me, too.

01:21:25.000 I've never really understood why everybody wants to be somebody else.

01:21:29.000 Not everybody.

01:21:30.000 Well, I mean that figuratively.

01:21:32.000 Because even I play role playing games.

01:21:33.000 I like to fantasize about being a hero in a strange land.

01:21:36.000 You know, sometimes it makes me a better performer.

01:21:38.000 Just thinking those things like fantasy realities.

01:21:41.000 I mean, like, of course we all we play games.

01:21:43.000 Sometimes there is escapism.

01:21:45.000 I'm not talking about that.

01:21:46.000 I'm saying how, like, people are like, they look in the mirror and they're like, I need to cut this up and restructure it.

01:21:52.000 I want to be something different.

01:21:54.000 It's like, why?

01:21:55.000 I don't understand why you're not happy with just being you.

01:21:57.000 I think that this especially applies to women. 0.99

01:21:59.000 I don't know if you agree with me on this.

01:22:01.000 I find it to be so much simpler to just be yourself, put a little bit of makeup on, paint the barn, my dad used to say.

01:22:06.000 But I think in Madonna's case it's because she's getting older and she knows it and I think it's terrifying to her.

01:22:11.000 So she's like really going out.

01:22:13.000 Well, especially in the world of pop stardom, right?

01:22:17.000 You almost have an age limit on how long you're allowed to be relevant in the industry.

01:22:22.000 And there's a lot of pressure from music executives to look a certain way.

01:22:27.000 I mean, gone is the world of these amazing 70s singer songwriters that could look however,

01:22:34.000 but as long as they delivered a good music product, they would be really successful.

01:22:38.000 Now 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.

01:22:48.000 And then there's the question of just social media's amplification of people's insecurities.

01:22:53.000 I mean growing up like as a young teen girl I felt like we all had body image issues and worried about our appearance.

01:23:02.000 I 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.

01:23:11.000 Yet none of them are real.

01:23:13.000 They all have plastic surgery or filters or all of these other body modification tools at their disposal.

01:23:20.000 Editing software, Photoshop, things like that.

01:23:22.000 When you're fed that feedback loop constantly, that's really hard for young women. 0.96

01:23:28.000 And 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.

01:23:36.000 No social media.

01:23:37.000 None.

01:23:37.000 I don't want them to have a phone, nothing.

01:23:40.000 Like you get a brick iPod and that's it.

01:23:42.000 And 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.

01:23:50.000 And then I remember being like, you know, her dad took it away saying I don't want her to have this.

01:23:53.000 And I was like, why would he do that?

01:23:54.000 Now, after a couple years, I'm like, oh yeah.

01:23:57.000 Take a look at this photo right here.

01:23:58.000 So these are the two famous brothers.

01:24:00.000 Bogdanoff twins.

01:24:01.000 Why would they want to look like that?

01:24:04.000 So they were TV stars, right?

01:24:05.000 Ready for this?

01:24:06.000 I think what are they called Bogdanoff Bogdanoff twins.

01:24:09.000 Yeah, did one of them die recently? I think they both yeah They both did why would they want to look like that? So

01:24:14.000 they were TV stars, right? So we're checks out ready for this. Oh gosh

01:24:17.000 That's them when they were younger before work

01:24:21.000 They still have a lot of work done.

01:24:23.000 Right, they still look weird.

01:24:25.000 They're starting to look like everything else.

01:24:27.000 That's the problem with work, it makes you look like everything else.

01:24:29.000 But I'm wondering if... Vague and boring.

01:24:31.000 No, no, I'm wondering if they got the work when they were young, and this is what happens when you age with all that work.

01:24:36.000 No, that's more work.

01:24:38.000 More work.

01:24:38.000 More work, definitely.

01:24:39.000 Yeah, they went overboard.

01:24:40.000 100%.

01:24:40.000 Did they think they looked good?

01:24:42.000 Yeah, I think it's kind of like they never did.

01:24:45.000 I think plastic surgery is kind of addictive in the way that tattoos are to some people as well.

01:24:50.000 That's how it is.

01:24:50.000 If you think you look bad, no amount of plastic surgery is going to change that.

01:24:54.000 So these people do it and then they still think they look good and they do it and they still think it's like comes from within.

01:24:59.000 This makes me think a little bit of gender reassignment surgery because the problem is not in your physical body.

01:25:05.000 It is 100% inside your head and no amount of changing your body is going to fix what's going on in your mind.

01:25:11.000 And this is what people who detransition say.

01:25:13.000 They're like, nobody dealt with the problem.

01:25:15.000 That was, you know, my thinking.

01:25:17.000 I 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.

01:25:24.000 Well, 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. 0.66

01:25:43.000 As you're mentioning, that's the issue.

01:25:46.000 Body dysmorphia.

01:25:47.000 Yeah.

01:25:48.000 So my issue here is...

01:25:51.000 There'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.

01:26:02.000 We just do not have the technology to actually give you something that represents what you see or want.

01:26:08.000 Nor should we.

01:26:09.000 I mean, I don't think.

01:26:12.000 Well, 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.

01:26:25.000 I say, okay, whatever to a lot of, look, if these people want to do this, I got no problem with it.

01:26:28.000 I'm just saying right now, the technology does not exist to make you look the way you want to look.

01:26:32.000 Right.

01:26:32.000 So 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.

01:26:38.000 And you can use cognitive behavioral therapy.

01:26:40.000 There are a lot of different things that you can do.

01:26:42.000 I don't know.

01:26:43.000 Most people don't want to go onto antidepressants.

01:26:45.000 I completely understand that.

01:26:46.000 But right now we have the power to change how you view the world.

01:26:49.000 And even though I know it's hard and every day might be a struggle, people who deal with addictions have this and they overcome it.

01:26:55.000 And this is something that they really get a grip on.

01:26:57.000 And every single day is a struggle.

01:26:59.000 They still manage to do it.

01:27:00.000 So I think if we can change people's minds now, we should make that a higher priority.

01:27:05.000 Let me ask this question, though, because you were saying they shouldn't, like people shouldn't modify their bodies.

01:27:10.000 Is that a fair assessment?

01:27:13.000 I mean, in cases where they have a medical problem, I think that's different.

01:27:19.000 For aesthetic reasons, no, I don't think they should.

01:27:21.000 Like, 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?

01:27:32.000 Like, literally, biologically, 100%.

01:27:34.000 You don't think they should do it?

01:27:36.000 No, absolutely not.

01:27:37.000 I 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.

01:27:47.000 I think that gets to really dangerous places.

01:27:49.000 What if they were 18 and they walked in and like a genie snap, boom, they were the opposite sex? 1.00

01:27:56.000 I still think that's bad.

01:27:57.000 No.

01:27:57.000 Yeah, I'm not about that at all.

01:27:58.000 It'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?

01:28:05.000 That these kids are gonna be, many of them, sterilized?

01:28:08.000 Or, you know, is that the issue?

01:28:10.000 And 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. 0.87

01:28:23.000 And 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.

01:28:31.000 Yo, it's gonna be real crazy when we're in the metaverse!

01:28:34.000 You're going to have a kid born in the metaverse and they're going to be like, Oh, hey mom, I'm trans.

01:28:39.000 And then they like click a button and their avatar just changes.

01:28:42.000 But 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.

01:28:49.000 Then people are going to be walking around like dragons and carrots.

01:28:52.000 And there's going to be a rabbit.

01:28:53.000 You're going to sit down in your office and there's going to be a big rabbit.

01:28:56.000 And he's going to be like, hello, I'm John your boss.

01:28:59.000 I just don't see any way how that's not bad for, like, a truth-centric society, right?

01:29:05.000 Like, we should want people to try to seek truth.

01:29:07.000 This'll be crazy.

01:29:10.000 If 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?

01:29:27.000 Like, I'm not a carrot anymore!

01:29:29.000 You'd freak out, you know?

01:29:30.000 I actually took some heat last week.

01:29:32.000 I know, imagine that, on Twitter again.

01:29:34.000 But 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.

01:29:42.000 So you basically get to be a drug lord and like run this cartel or whatever.

01:29:48.000 Like that but for me it's a different experience when you feel like you're in it, right?

01:29:54.000 Like 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.

01:30:19.000 Interesting.

01:30:20.000 And 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?

01:30:34.000 Like, I don't see how that can lead anywhere good for society.

01:30:37.000 I think there's, we often talk about the negative things about the metaverse, but there's positive things too.

01:30:43.000 Safety trainings, you know, without real risk of harm for a lot of issues.

01:30:46.000 Training firefighters, training police officers.

01:30:50.000 People are going to go in there with legalized psychedelics.

01:30:52.000 It's going to be so crazy, dude.

01:30:54.000 Society is about to split into, it's about to fractalize into a bunch of different ways of being.

01:30:59.000 It's going to be nuts, dude.

01:31:00.000 Different laws, different societies, different religions and relationships, different languages are going to start springing up.

01:31:07.000 You know, they're gonna, like in North Korea, they'll take thousands of citizens, plug them into the metaverse, and just never tell them. 0.84

01:31:13.000 Just to, like, see what happens.

01:31:14.000 Oh, dude.

01:31:15.000 I've been working on a script, by the way.

01:31:16.000 I'll tell you about it later.

01:31:17.000 But think about this.

01:31:19.000 So 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.

01:31:32.000 You could take all of your intellectual property development people and put them in the metaverse and just seal them off.

01:31:39.000 And then they can do the work digitally with their minds plugged into a computer.

01:31:43.000 And then everyone else can just, you know, till the fields and make food or whatever.

01:31:47.000 Yeah.

01:31:47.000 What'll happen is their mind will be working so fast, but if their body gets disturbed, it'll slow down their thought process.

01:31:52.000 And they'll be like, no, we can't have that.

01:31:54.000 Do not disturb his body.

01:31:55.000 Keep it sealed off so his brain can work at peak capacity.

01:31:59.000 Imagine 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.

01:32:16.000 You'd freak out, right?

01:32:17.000 Yeah.

01:32:17.000 You'd be like, what is this?

01:32:19.000 Like, where are my hands?

01:32:20.000 Why am I a duck?

01:32:21.000 That'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.

01:32:28.000 They're going to be like, I have hands.

01:32:30.000 What am I?

01:32:31.000 Their identity would be totally fractured and separated from their bodies, you know?

01:32:34.000 I wanted to cap off this plastic surgery conversation because I was trying to bend my face.

01:32:39.000 Like I'd pull the bones open slowly over time.

01:32:42.000 So like I'll spend an hour and just hold it in place.

01:32:44.000 And I think it actually slowly moves over time like clay.

01:32:47.000 What?

01:32:48.000 I can't tell if it's real or not.

01:32:49.000 Well, that's why they tell women when you're putting moisturizer on your face, you're supposed to go like this instead of like this. 1.00

01:32:54.000 Yeah.

01:32:55.000 Or like this.

01:32:56.000 The bones are growing and moving.

01:32:57.000 You can slowly over time pull the jaw outward if you want a bigger jaw and stuff like that.

01:33:03.000 It just takes a lot of time.

01:33:05.000 Yeah, those ladies, they put the rings on their neck and they make their necks really long. 1.00

01:33:09.000 That's crazy.

01:33:11.000 All right, let's go to the Super Chats.

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01:33:19.000 We're gonna have a members-only segment coming up around 11 p.m.

01:33:22.000 or so, just around there, and we will get to your Super Chats.

01:33:26.000 Everyone in chat is saying, yo, WTF, LOL, Ian's crazy.

01:33:31.000 Give it a try yourself before you, don't knock it till you try it. 0.96

01:33:35.000 All right, let's read some of this.

01:33:37.000 Malcolm McKee says, previous super chat con- Oh, what is this?

01:33:40.000 Previous super chat.

01:33:41.000 Other accounts whom have met the same criteria for such a ban remain untouched.

01:33:46.000 Putin, Ayatollah, Taliban, Justin Trudeau.

01:33:48.000 I don't think we got your first super chat.

01:33:50.000 I saw one disappear and I'm frustrated.

01:33:52.000 Well, for those that are listening, if you super chat before the show goes live, YouTube erases it.

01:34:00.000 Yeah, don't do that.

01:34:01.000 Be patient.

01:34:02.000 GG Player says, huh, Amber kind of looks like she could be Lydia's sister. 1.00

01:34:07.000 Look at us.

01:34:07.000 Oh, I like that.

01:34:08.000 I love it.

01:34:09.000 Yeah, I'll take that.

01:34:09.000 That's very nice.

01:34:11.000 All right.

01:34:12.000 The Lukewarm Gamer says, Rumble should put money into non-political culture content to bring people who aren't political to the platform.

01:34:18.000 If Rumble signed a deal with Hololive, for example, it would damage YouTube more than getting any political YouTuber.

01:34:25.000 Yeah, 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.

01:34:30.000 And I'm like, why?

01:34:31.000 Well, and also the people who do entertainment-minded stuff are not very good at it.

01:34:35.000 Like, 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.

01:34:50.000 I think gaming's where it's at.

01:34:52.000 You get gamers on Rumble.

01:34:53.000 Because, I mean, look at Roblox, worth $40 billion.

01:34:55.000 Yeah.

01:34:57.000 Yep, definitely.

01:34:58.000 Alright, Derek Brown says, if anyone can do what everyone else thinks is impossible, it's Elon Musk.

01:35:03.000 He always has a plan.

01:35:04.000 I like how Elon was warning us about the AI, and then he's like, Neuralink!

01:35:09.000 And 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.

01:35:18.000 But people don't realize he said the same thing.

01:35:20.000 I'm pretty sure Elon said, the only solution to the threat of AI is to integrate with it.

01:35:25.000 I'm pretty sure that was his point.

01:35:26.000 Yeah, that's the idea.

01:35:27.000 Yeah.

01:35:28.000 So then AI can't destroy you if you are the AI.

01:35:32.000 Have you seen that new Terminator movie?

01:35:35.000 Where the Terminator is John Connor or whatever and he has like the weird robot powers.

01:35:41.000 No, I heard it was terrible.

01:35:42.000 Well, maybe.

01:35:44.000 But I was thinking about it because in that movie...

01:35:47.000 So 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!

01:35:55.000 And I'm kinda like, okay, so you're still a person, but you have crazy robot superpowers?

01:36:02.000 I don't understand why that's a bad thing.

01:36:04.000 I 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.

01:36:13.000 Like, is that bad?

01:36:14.000 I think so.

01:36:15.000 Depends who you ask, I guess.

01:36:16.000 I think you don't like it.

01:36:17.000 It's true.

01:36:18.000 I don't.

01:36:18.000 You nailed that.

01:36:20.000 Yeah.

01:36:20.000 For the same reasons, I don't like the other stuff that we talked about.

01:36:23.000 Yeah, that's a scary thought about what's happening with metaverse stuff.

01:36:27.000 It's going to separate your mind from your body.

01:36:30.000 And then when they ask you what you lost, you won't be able to remember.

01:36:34.000 Yeah, that's scary.

01:36:36.000 America Float says it feels like false hope from Musk, since BlackRock and Vanguard own nearly just as much each.

01:36:36.000 All right.

01:36:43.000 Maybe a pump and dump?

01:36:44.000 One last ride for Twitter stock?

01:36:46.000 Or maybe phase one?

01:36:48.000 Maybe, maybe a bunch of other billionaires and wealthy individuals will start buying shares of Twitter and pushing back.

01:36:53.000 BlackRock only owns half of what Musk has.

01:36:55.000 Yeah, BlackRock only owns like 4.6%.

01:36:58.000 But that means BlackRock and Vanguard together have what?

01:37:01.000 12, 13.

01:37:01.000 Well, there you go.

01:37:04.000 Yeah, that's maybe what it is, is he's gonna try and get a majority stock.

01:37:08.000 I don't know, it's not worth it, dude.

01:37:09.000 Don't throw billions at that junk, but free the software code.

01:37:13.000 All right, Jacob Andrew Hester says, Tim, driving to your neck of the woods for work from Alabama due to bad flight delays.

01:37:20.000 Any good steak or seafood restaurants you recommend?

01:37:22.000 Thanks for everything y'all do.

01:37:24.000 We sane people, appreciate you being sane people.

01:37:27.000 If you were driving on 340, Heading up just past Harper's Ferry, you'll eventually come across a gas station that says live seafood.

01:37:38.000 It says live seafood?

01:37:38.000 That's what it says, right?

01:37:39.000 I don't know.

01:37:40.000 Apparently it's a gas station with seafood and everyone out here is like, it is the best.

01:37:45.000 Cause it's like small country knows what they're doing seafood.

01:37:49.000 Interesting.

01:37:50.000 Well, Amber's a native.

01:37:51.000 I am.

01:37:52.000 So she has really good recommendations for seafood too.

01:37:54.000 I guess it depends on where exactly this guy's traveling through.

01:37:57.000 Like is he going to DC or?

01:38:00.000 He can take 15-20 minutes out of his day to go hit up the Harper's Ferry, Virginia, Maryland area.

01:38:06.000 There's the Bavarian Inn.

01:38:08.000 Really good.

01:38:08.000 I think it's in Shepherdstown, right?

01:38:10.000 You're familiar with them?

01:38:11.000 And then this other restaurant we've been to that's really amazing is called Dutch's Daughter.

01:38:15.000 Oh yeah, I love that restaurant.

01:38:16.000 Have you been there before?

01:38:17.000 Many times.

01:38:18.000 Are you a fan?

01:38:19.000 It's overrated.

01:38:19.000 You think it's overrated?

01:38:20.000 I liked it.

01:38:22.000 It's fine.

01:38:22.000 I think it's really overpriced.

01:38:24.000 I mean, compared to like 5-10 years ago, their crab cakes used to be some of the best in Maryland, and they've really gone downhill.

01:38:30.000 Well, I haven't had their crab cakes, but I had a steak.

01:38:34.000 Did you get the Filet Oscar?

01:38:35.000 Yes.

01:38:35.000 That's the move.

01:38:36.000 It was so good.

01:38:37.000 With the Bernays.

01:38:38.000 Yeah.

01:38:38.000 That is pretty good.

01:38:39.000 And the crab... Imperial.

01:38:42.000 Yes.

01:38:43.000 Yeah.

01:38:43.000 That's good stuff.

01:38:44.000 Wow.

01:38:44.000 See?

01:38:45.000 See?

01:38:45.000 You're like, it's overrated, but that was good.

01:38:46.000 Well, it might mean you're paying, what, like 40, 50 bucks for that?

01:38:49.000 It is overpriced.

01:38:49.000 Yeah, it was expensive.

01:38:50.000 I mean, you could just, like, go to D.C.

01:38:52.000 and go to Morton's for that and get, like, a cowboy ribeye.

01:38:55.000 D.C.?

01:38:56.000 Ribeye?

01:38:56.000 I guess it was a filet mignon.

01:38:58.000 Where's the best seafood in D.C.? ?

01:39:01.000 Uh, in D.C., you probably should go to The Wharf and go to one of, like, the old family-owned restaurants on there.

01:39:07.000 There are a couple of them, like, fish market vibes.

01:39:10.000 But the best crab cake that I've had in recent years is at Jimmy's Seafood, which Lily and I were talking about earlier.

01:39:15.000 Yeah!

01:39:16.000 And they got into a war with PETA a few years ago and put up all these billboards around Baltimore, just, like, Oh, I remember that!

01:39:22.000 basically bragging about the fact that they were live-steaming crabs and PETA got really upset about it. 0.69

01:39:26.000 But they do make a really damn good crab cake.

01:39:29.000 Like, lump meat, Size of a softball. 0.80

01:39:32.000 Really good stuff.

01:39:33.000 How do you feel about stem cell meat?

01:39:37.000 I'm willing to bet she doesn't like it.

01:39:38.000 I just think she doesn't like it.

01:39:39.000 I'm willing to bet.

01:39:40.000 The filet Oscar at Dutch's Daughter was one of the best filet mignon steaks I've ever had.

01:39:44.000 Really?

01:39:45.000 I mean, the preparation was perfect.

01:39:47.000 Well, maybe they've improved since the last time I was there.

01:39:50.000 It's been a year.

01:39:51.000 Maybe we just have different tastes.

01:39:52.000 Could be.

01:39:53.000 I have better taste.

01:39:54.000 It could be.

01:39:54.000 I don't know.

01:39:55.000 We've gone to a bunch of steakhouses in our day.

01:39:58.000 Alex Jones brought us out to, I think we went to, was it Capital Grill?

01:40:01.000 I didn't go, I missed out.

01:40:01.000 Yeah, I think it was like me and Luke.

01:40:04.000 And, uh, really good.

01:40:06.000 But when I went to Dutch's Daughter and I got the Filet Oscar, it's like a filet mignon with like crab on it.

01:40:11.000 Oh, it was just cooked.

01:40:12.000 Yeah, and I will say, generally speaking, corporate steakhouses are not the best place to go if you want a really good steak.

01:40:21.000 Because 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.

01:40:28.000 Do you like the Bavarian Inn in Shepherdstown?

01:40:31.000 Yeah, they're really good too.

01:40:32.000 That's so much fun.

01:40:33.000 It's like the Bavarian Inn complex.

01:40:35.000 It's so cool.

01:40:35.000 Cool.

01:40:36.000 Yeah.

01:40:36.000 All right.

01:40:37.000 Let's read some more superchats.

01:40:37.000 I think we're hungry.

01:40:38.000 Yeah.

01:40:39.000 Lizards.

01:40:39.000 Well, 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.

01:40:48.000 What kind of Mexican food do you guys like?

01:40:50.000 Oh, mi de gallato.

01:40:53.000 It's, it's, oh, this is amazing.

01:40:54.000 So there's a, there's two, there's a Mexican restaurant out here.

01:40:56.000 It's called Mi De Gallado and it is amazing.

01:40:59.000 I love getting chicken fajitas.

01:41:00.000 It's just so perfect.

01:41:01.000 It's like Tex-Mex is up your alley.

01:41:04.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:41:05.000 But mi de gallato means, like, my slit throat. 0.95

01:41:09.000 Like, my to cut a man. 0.99

01:41:11.000 It means, like, to cut a man's throat. 1.00

01:41:12.000 Oh, that's right. 0.99

01:41:12.000 I remember hearing about this. 0.99

01:41:13.000 And so, you know, I remember asking the server, like, hey, like, what does this mean? 0.66

01:41:16.000 And he's like, oh, it means to cut someone's throat.

01:41:18.000 And we were like, wow! 0.95

01:41:20.000 That's awesome.

01:41:20.000 He was like, oh, it's the name of the town the owner's from.

01:41:23.000 And then I was like, I don't know if that's better.

01:41:24.000 Yeah, is it?

01:41:25.000 Like, you're from a town?

01:41:26.000 And then I was like, well, if there was a town called, like, Cut Throat in New Mexico, I wouldn't think twice.

01:41:31.000 I'd be like, oh, yeah, you know.

01:41:32.000 Yeah, that's true.

01:41:33.000 But yeah, that's what I like.

01:41:35.000 There's a couple of good places in the D.C.

01:41:37.000 area.

01:41:37.000 Anita's gets really good reviews.

01:41:41.000 I like to go to Uncle Julio's, which has like three or four locations in the area.

01:41:45.000 But despite being a chain, it actually has fantastic fajitas.

01:41:48.000 Just don't get their queso. 0.98

01:41:49.000 Their queso sucks. 0.94

01:41:50.000 What's that famous sandwich place? 1.00

01:41:53.000 Oh, there's so many.

01:41:54.000 The one that Richie went to.

01:41:56.000 You remember?

01:41:57.000 Oh, I'd have to find the text.

01:41:58.000 I don't recall.

01:41:59.000 Was it like an Italian sub that he got or something?

01:42:02.000 No, I got a roast beef.

01:42:04.000 Roast beef?

01:42:04.000 And he was like, it was like some from famous DC sandwich place.

01:42:07.000 Bub and Pops?

01:42:08.000 No.

01:42:09.000 Uh...

01:42:11.000 Stachowski's Market?

01:42:12.000 We'll just read more Super Chairs. 0.99

01:42:14.000 Alright, Ian went to the bathroom so I'm going to read this one now before he gets back.

01:42:18.000 Lizard says, you're rolling lots of 20s today Ian, good job.

01:42:21.000 He will never hear your compliments.

01:42:23.000 No, we'll make sure it's on when he gets back in the room.

01:42:26.000 Alright, Noah says, love the show guys.

01:42:31.000 I 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.

01:42:36.000 Look up Louisiana House Bill 837.

01:42:39.000 Amazing!

01:42:40.000 Glad to hear it.

01:42:40.000 We love that.

01:42:41.000 That catches on.

01:42:42.000 This is the craziest thing.

01:42:43.000 Someone on Facebook posted, why are we mad at Disney now?

01:42:47.000 And I wrote, the left is upset that Disney did not sign on to the protests against the parental

01:42:51.000 rights and education bill. They feel that the bill discriminates against the LGBTQIA community

01:42:58.000 by preventing teachers from having discussions about these issues with kids, you know, grades,

01:43:02.000 kindergarten to third grade. The right is upset with Disney for now having signed on to the

01:43:07.000 protest because they feel that the bill is preventing teachers from having sexualized

01:43:12.000 conversations with young children.

01:43:14.000 And I thought it was like a very milquetoast, like, this is to the best of my understanding.

01:43:19.000 And they all just got mad.

01:43:20.000 And they were like, no!

01:43:22.000 Bigots!

01:43:23.000 And I'm like, okay, whatever, man.

01:43:25.000 I don't know.

01:43:28.000 I did.

01:43:33.000 I thoroughly enjoyed it.

01:43:34.000 That's the guy who cancelled me.

01:43:36.000 Yeah.

01:43:37.000 Yeah.

01:43:37.000 He did get owned.

01:43:38.000 It was awesome.

01:43:39.000 Oh, you did see it?

01:43:39.000 Oh, I found it very enjoyable.

01:43:41.000 I'm sure you did.

01:43:43.000 I was watching like this.

01:43:44.000 Like, excellent.

01:43:45.000 Awesome.

01:43:47.000 All right, let's grab some.

01:43:48.000 What do we got?

01:43:50.000 Charles Bloomer says that Stephen Guy is the same guy that tried to outsmart Crowder on the last Change My Mind episode.

01:43:55.000 And what was he thinking?

01:43:57.000 It'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.

01:44:04.000 That'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. 0.90

01:44:12.000 And a lot of them are just like super narcissistic, arrogant people.

01:44:16.000 Who 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.

01:44:23.000 I mean, that's just kind of how it is now.

01:44:25.000 Yep.

01:44:26.000 All right, that's what we got here.

01:44:28.000 John Froist says, if the Earth is orbiting the sun at 93 million miles away, how is the North Star always north?

01:44:35.000 P.S.

01:44:35.000 I am not a flat earther, and the Google answer is laughable.

01:44:39.000 Off the top of my head, I would assume it's because the North Star is so far away that it's like, you know, parallax scrolling.

01:44:46.000 You ever see that in video games?

01:44:47.000 You know what parallax scrolling is?

01:44:49.000 Yeah, parallax is when the farther away it is, the slower it looks like it's moving in the sky.

01:44:52.000 Yeah.

01:44:53.000 Vanishing point.

01:44:54.000 Perspective.

01:44:55.000 So 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.

01:45:02.000 The further away it is, the slower it goes, because that's kind of how it tries to imitate real life.

01:45:07.000 Well, 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.

01:45:18.000 Also, Electric Universe.

01:45:19.000 Check out the Electric Universe theory.

01:45:20.000 It's pretty cool.

01:45:22.000 Zach Helke says, I would take a bullet to the spleen for Amber Athey's right to make a joke. 1.00

01:45:28.000 We all need to subscribe to the Spectator to make sure she can keep making them. 1.00

01:45:33.000 Wow, that's really nice.

01:45:34.000 Thank you.

01:45:35.000 Should I give them my discount code or is that like... Do you have one?

01:45:37.000 I do.

01:45:38.000 Oh yeah, of course.

01:45:39.000 Oh perfect, yeah.

01:45:40.000 If you use AMBER, all caps, you get 10% off a Spectator subscription.

01:45:44.000 So is this a campaign based off of them firing you?

01:45:46.000 Or you've always had it?

01:45:47.000 We've always had that.

01:45:49.000 I'm opportunistic, but not that opportunistic.

01:45:51.000 Oh, yeah.

01:45:52.000 I mean, maybe we should figure something like that out with, you know, with TimCast.com.

01:45:56.000 A lot of people are commenting that Steve guy was on Crowder.

01:45:56.000 All right.

01:45:58.000 It wouldn't surprise me to believe he was the cause of this.

01:46:01.000 Yep.

01:46:02.000 Yep.

01:46:03.000 Mike Sullivan says, Tim, great guest.

01:46:03.000 All right.

01:46:05.000 Hire her. 1.00

01:46:06.000 She already works for The Spectator and just gave out her discount code.

01:46:09.000 She's a great co-host, though.

01:46:11.000 Thank you, though.

01:46:11.000 That's nice.

01:46:12.000 John L. says, Amber, I'm sure James O'Keefe would have a much easier time digging if you sat down and talked with him.

01:46:18.000 It doesn't have to be public.

01:46:19.000 The only problem now is, like, could you imagine if a silhouette of Amber just appeared on Project Veritas?

01:46:24.000 I wonder who that is!

01:46:25.000 Yeah, gosh, can't imagine.

01:46:27.000 I mean, maybe off the record.

01:46:29.000 I just, I'm not, I can't say anything now because I don't want to get sued, but we'll see.

01:46:36.000 All right.

01:46:37.000 Brian Duchesne says, Tim, I was a big fan of your show when I first found it.

01:46:41.000 Thank you very much.

01:46:42.000 That's all he said.

01:46:42.000 Moving on.

01:46:43.000 Oh, is that all he said?

01:46:44.000 He says, but after watching it for a few months, Ian and others have proven this show is full of amateurs.

01:46:49.000 By the way, that includes you.

01:46:51.000 Well, who are these others you're talking about?

01:46:55.000 Many people are saying.

01:46:56.000 I 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.

01:47:20.000 And 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?

01:47:26.000 Stream deck instead of TriCasters?

01:47:28.000 I mean, yeah!

01:47:30.000 If you go to a studio like Crowder's, they have TriCasters.

01:47:32.000 You know, they have these big things, these crazy rigs, and we just have, like, you know, cameras mounted to the walls.

01:47:38.000 It's better though, you know, it's getting there.

01:47:40.000 We're building a new studio, so definitely getting better.

01:47:44.000 But you know, I gotta be honest, you know, if we're amateurs, it's fine.

01:47:47.000 I guess the company's working and growing, so you gotta start somewhere.

01:47:50.000 If you look at the professional media industry, they talk off of like prompters and stuff.

01:47:55.000 That's not the aim with this.

01:47:56.000 This is like a casual chill show.

01:47:58.000 I don't know.

01:47:58.000 It's Tim's show.

01:47:59.000 It's not my show, but it's our show.

01:48:01.000 It's the show.

01:48:01.000 It's better.

01:48:02.000 It's better. 0.99

01:48:03.000 Like I've done a lot of cable news and trying to distill your talking point into a 30 second soundbite sucks. 0.99

01:48:09.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:48:09.000 It really does. 0.98

01:48:10.000 With no opportunity to clarify because they'll be like, we are running out of time and they play the music or whatever.

01:48:15.000 Yeah.

01:48:15.000 So here it's like, oh, did you mean this?

01:48:18.000 Oh, yeah.

01:48:18.000 What I meant to say was you can actually, you know, flesh out your ideas.

01:48:21.000 All 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.

01:48:34.000 They hate it when you laugh, love and laugh, never engage, just laugh, live your parallel life and laugh.

01:48:40.000 All right, Howard, I appreciate it.

01:48:41.000 That was hard to understand.

01:48:42.000 But I think what he's saying is ignore the haters and just laugh and keep on going.

01:48:47.000 And they'll get really angry about it.

01:48:48.000 I respect it.

01:48:49.000 Yeah.

01:48:50.000 That's right.

01:48:52.000 Integrity 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.

01:49:04.000 And the New York Post.

01:49:05.000 Yep.

01:49:06.000 People should pursue it however they can pursue it, I suppose.

01:49:10.000 I don't know.

01:49:11.000 Or we just keep building the parallel systems.

01:49:15.000 Daily Wire, they're doing absolutely incredible with their culture, and Dan Bongino has invested a lot in these parallel systems.

01:49:21.000 Dave Rubin as well with Locals.

01:49:23.000 We've had our criticisms of Locals, but still, it's a net positive across the board. 1.00

01:49:28.000 Something to compete with Patreon.

01:49:29.000 I like it.

01:49:30.000 Yeah, it's Rumble.

01:49:30.000 And it's all about servers and decentralized servers.

01:49:33.000 Locals should be off Stripe and should be on Parallel Economy. 1.00

01:49:38.000 Yeah, agreed.

01:49:39.000 Done.

01:49:40.000 Parallel Economy.

01:49:41.000 You guys should check it out.

01:49:43.000 It's new, but it's good stuff.

01:49:46.000 Hopefully it ends up working out.

01:49:48.000 All right.

01:49:49.000 Chuck Hawk says, keep up the good work, Tim and crew.

01:49:51.000 Support independent country music.

01:49:53.000 Download No Vaxxer Nations and other outlaw tracks free on Bandcamp tonight.

01:49:59.000 I like Vaxxer Nation. 1.00

01:50:01.000 It's, it's, it's not, it's something different.

01:50:03.000 It means totally, yeah.

01:50:04.000 All 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.

01:50:14.000 And there are, let's just use the word euphemism, child abusers.

01:50:18.000 The U.S.

01:50:18.000 oligarchs, Clinton, Obama, Mitt Romney, Biden, Powell, and Kam, so many others, and CIA, Bush, Antifa money is not coming.

01:50:24.000 The elites are worried.

01:50:25.000 Howard, I completely disagree.

01:50:27.000 I don't think they need Ukraine for that. And there's, I think the issue is more Epstein.

01:50:32.000 If you're if you're talking about corruption from powerful elites and money funneling and stuff,

01:50:36.000 Epstein is the first place I'd look. Epstein Island, whatever it is they were doing and

01:50:40.000 the Panama Papers. Ukraine is, I think Ukraine's actually a bit more simple.

01:50:46.000 The U.S.

01:50:47.000 was trying to gain influence to control the flow of energy into Europe, which screws with Russia because that's one of their principal exports.

01:50:56.000 So 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.

01:51:04.000 It's actually a bit more simple and all of that's actually corroborated.

01:51:07.000 Yeah, check out Kolomoisky if you want to look at the Ukrainian ties to this stuff too, the corruption stuff. 0.92

01:51:12.000 But I'd love to, you know, know anything about Epstein Island.

01:51:15.000 Oh 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.

01:51:24.000 It'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!

01:51:33.000 And they're like, you were dealing drugs to no one, but still.

01:51:37.000 Clearly there has to be another party involved.

01:51:40.000 Like, at the very least, a cop, right?

01:51:42.000 You know, like he was selling drugs to a cop, and then you're like, oh, he was giving it to an undercover officer.

01:51:46.000 Nope.

01:51:46.000 Maxwell, it's just like, you were trafficking kids.

01:51:49.000 To no one.

01:51:50.000 How do you prove she did it without confirming that she did it?

01:51:55.000 It's because they're protecting whoever she did it with.

01:51:58.000 Man, I— Oh, man.

01:52:01.000 All right.

01:52:02.000 Kay 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.

01:52:18.000 Term limits are a tough question.

01:52:20.000 Tough question.

01:52:21.000 Because 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.

01:52:26.000 And 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.

01:52:32.000 Yep.

01:52:33.000 He was pointing out term limits for the administrative state as well, sounded like that's a good idea.

01:52:37.000 Oh yeah, the staffers.

01:52:38.000 You shouldn't be allowed to be a staffer for more than a certain amount of years.

01:52:42.000 All right, Dennis McGriff says, Ian, by your logic, does that make every president a cult leader?

01:52:48.000 Yeah, I guess so.

01:52:50.000 Well, all right then.

01:52:51.000 Oh, yeah.

01:52:51.000 Oh.

01:52:51.000 Isn't that funny, they make you show your papers?

01:52:53.000 Oh, yeah.

01:52:54.000 Pine Tree Squad says, Tim, great example of adjacent states with

01:52:58.000 permitless constitutional carry is M.E. and H.N.V.T.

01:53:02.000 can drive from Maine all the way through Vermont without being

01:53:05.000 required to show your papers.

01:53:06.000 Isn't that funny to make you show your papers?

01:53:09.000 Yeah, 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.

01:53:17.000 Because he had guns.

01:53:18.000 Congratulations.

01:53:18.000 Now he's an Illinois resident.

01:53:20.000 Alright, now, back to that story about the dad in Texas.

01:53:22.000 We've got some Super Chats.

01:53:23.000 Shotgun Rebel says, Dad had no authority to enforce the order.

01:53:27.000 Has to let police and law handle it. 0.74

01:53:29.000 Best interest of the child.

01:53:31.000 That way, and that is what Texas does in custody issues. 1.00

01:53:35.000 I agree with that.

01:53:35.000 Yeah, I do too.

01:53:36.000 The dad should have immediately just backed off.

01:53:38.000 It's tough, man.

01:53:38.000 Yeah.

01:53:39.000 I understand why he was mad, though, but he would have won, and he would have won substantially if he backed off.

01:53:44.000 Imagine the cops showing up, and he's like, they're withholding my kid, and the guy came out with a gun.

01:53:48.000 The cops would be like, whoa.

01:53:49.000 Then 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.

01:53:55.000 The judge would be like, that's not safe for these kids.

01:53:57.000 Yeah.

01:53:58.000 Instead, he ends up losing his life.

01:54:00.000 It's tough, man.

01:54:03.000 Taylor Cook says you missed it.

01:54:05.000 He tried to take the gun on the porch.

01:54:06.000 The potential warning shot was the only real red flag here.

01:54:09.000 I'm not sure the first shot wasn't an ND into the ground. 0.96

01:54:12.000 The father was trespassing.

01:54:15.000 Yep.

01:54:15.000 It's tough.

01:54:16.000 Josh Branson says it's tough, but the father should have left, called the police, and called it a kidnapping.

01:54:21.000 So much as I hate it to, um, the BF defended himself.

01:54:26.000 If the kid was in plain sight and was in danger, that's another story.

01:54:30.000 Then the guy has to fight for the life of the child.

01:54:31.000 But if he's not in plain danger, yeah, you're right.

01:54:34.000 He also didn't even know for sure if the kid was there, I believe.

01:54:37.000 Because didn't the mom say, we're not telling you where he is? 0.97

01:54:43.000 Voro 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.

01:54:49.000 Granted, he never tried to actually take the gun, but still, there was a verbal threat. 0.96

01:54:53.000 Yeah, yup.

01:54:54.000 I think that's important to point out.

01:54:56.000 Absolutely.

01:54:57.000 Man.

01:54:58.000 Some other people are pushing back, though.

01:55:00.000 Let's see.

01:55:02.000 Ryan 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.

01:55:11.000 You must file a complaint.

01:55:13.000 Oh, now it gets even more crazy, because what's a dad supposed to do then?

01:55:16.000 Just let her kidnap the kid? 1.00

01:55:17.000 Yikes.

01:55:20.000 Seriously, JK says Tim, the guy was already outside, then went back into the house and came back out.

01:55:25.000 He was already part of the situation.

01:55:28.000 Oh wow.

01:55:29.000 This is very complicated.

01:55:30.000 Yeah, it is.

01:55:31.000 YouTuber says there are two videos of the Texas incident.

01:55:34.000 One from the perspective of a woman in the house and another from the woman in the car.

01:55:38.000 Watch both and you'll see it was not self-defense, it was murder.

01:55:42.000 If the dude walked inside and grabbed a gun and walked out, that's a different question.

01:55:46.000 Because then he would know the context of the situation.

01:55:50.000 Right.

01:55:51.000 And he knew that the dad wasn't threatening them with violence.

01:55:54.000 So for him to go and grab a gun when the dad was just like, I'll see you in court.

01:55:59.000 At that point, I would actually argue the boyfriend should have called the police.

01:56:02.000 He should have went in the house, called the cops and said, he's getting belligerent.

01:56:05.000 We just want someone to come and deal with it.

01:56:07.000 Instead, he went out with a gun.

01:56:10.000 That's tough.

01:56:12.000 You're on someone else's property.

01:56:13.000 And just the act of getting a gun isn't an escalation necessarily.

01:56:17.000 I mean, we learned this in the Rittenhouse self-defense case.

01:56:19.000 Him being out there with a firearm was not a provocation for people to attack him and try to take his weapon.

01:56:26.000 Yeah.

01:56:27.000 Alright.

01:56:27.000 Channel Zero says, hey Tim, you guys still coming up to Porkfest in June in New Hampshire?

01:56:32.000 My friend and I run a conspiracy theory debating podcast, Channel Zero Rumble Spotify.

01:56:36.000 Emailed pitches, would love to join IRL when here.

01:56:39.000 We are planning it, however.

01:56:42.000 We 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.

01:56:54.000 So we need to find someone who can do RV modification, and it's been really annoying.

01:56:59.000 We're going to Nashville in a week.

01:57:00.000 Yeah!

01:57:01.000 That'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.

01:57:08.000 It's a better setup with no issues.

01:57:11.000 And then hopefully by the time we get to June, we'll have sorted out the batteries and everything so that we can run the show.

01:57:17.000 But it's tough.

01:57:18.000 Maybe we'll figure it out.

01:57:19.000 We're also going to need satellite.

01:57:21.000 So I don't know.

01:57:21.000 Port Press is tough because, you know, internet infrastructure.

01:57:24.000 Luke was mentioning if we got like Starlink or something, but...

01:57:28.000 I'm not entirely confident.

01:57:29.000 I'm not entirely confident.

01:57:32.000 Jacob Perez, in reference to this plastic surgery segment, says, Yep.

01:57:39.000 Yeah.

01:57:40.000 Do you guys ever watch Teen Titans Go at all?

01:57:43.000 No.

01:57:44.000 Never seen it?

01:57:44.000 I have.

01:57:44.000 Have you seen the one where Robin takes off his mask?

01:57:47.000 No.

01:57:48.000 So it's like... Sorry.

01:57:50.000 So Teen Titans, I mean, I watch the show anyway.

01:57:54.000 I used to watch the original Teen Titans.

01:57:55.000 Teen Titans Go is just like a kid's show.

01:57:57.000 But I did see the one episode, I've seen a handful of them, where Robin always wears a mask and he never takes it off.

01:58:03.000 So the other Teen Titans are like, take off the mask.

01:58:05.000 Show us what you look like.

01:58:06.000 And he's like, no, I can't.

01:58:07.000 And then finally, like they keep trying to take it off.

01:58:09.000 Whenever they take it off, there's another mask underneath.

01:58:11.000 Finally, he agrees to take it off. 0.86

01:58:13.000 And he has this ridiculous looking face like the Squidward meme. 0.83

01:58:17.000 And then they're all like shocked because they think he's insanely beautiful or something. 0.97

01:58:20.000 I don't know.

01:58:21.000 It's funny.

01:58:23.000 All right.

01:58:24.000 Angie says, uh, Angie says, Rikada Law said that the police would not have helped the man that was shot on the porch.

01:58:30.000 They would have told him to take it up with the courts.

01:58:32.000 Which is what he said he was gonna do.

01:58:34.000 Sad story, man. 0.93

01:58:35.000 The 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?

01:58:43.000 Maybe people will try to cancel me, but those same people are probably already trolling her in the comments over there. 0.98

01:58:48.000 Should serve as a cautionary tale.

01:58:51.000 Is it violently offensive?

01:58:53.000 Not to me!

01:58:53.000 I don't care.

01:58:54.000 Yeah, it's not possible for you to be offensive.

01:58:57.000 It's only really possible for me to be offended by what you do.

01:59:00.000 It's up to the receiver to decide if they're offended or not.

01:59:03.000 You can try and offend, but you can't decide if it's offensive or not.

01:59:06.000 Ryan Brown says, I am starting to think PayPal is deliberately attacking TimCast.com with their more frequent issues, keeping subscribers from accessing member content.

01:59:15.000 I won't put the blame on PayPal.

01:59:17.000 There is an issue that affected us based on our, look, we were called amateurs earlier.

01:59:22.000 Fair point.

01:59:23.000 When we launched the website, it was just like a very basic WordPress.

01:59:26.000 Cause I was like, I don't want to, I don't want to be on Patreon or these other platforms.

01:59:29.000 We'll make our own thing.

01:59:30.000 And there was, um, this simple issue that basically resulted in, Something happening after one year for members where it disconnects to your account from TimCast.com and then we need to reconnect it for some reason I don't know, but we are setting up a new more resilient system that once is fully fully operational Then you know, I'll have a more exciting announcement

01:59:54.000 I think people can probably already figure out what I'm talking about, but let's just say we're upgrading to a new provider, and I don't blame PayPal for it, but we do want to diversify who we use for memberships.

02:00:05.000 If you're having issues, send an email to members at TimCast.com, and we'll get you sorted to the best of our abilities.

02:00:12.000 I just want to be honest with everybody, I really do apologize because we have so many members, and we're trying to grow, and we need to add more people, so it gets tough to answer all the emails we get from everybody just for everything.

02:00:23.000 All right.

02:00:25.000 What is that?

02:00:25.000 Dorktanian?

02:00:27.000 Parental kidnapping is a felony in Texas.

02:00:29.000 Carruth was assisting in the crime and would fall under Texas felony murder rule if charged.

02:00:34.000 Wow.

02:00:35.000 That's crazy.

02:00:36.000 All right, here we go.

02:00:37.000 Someone's got a science answer for us.

02:00:39.000 Michael Conaway says the North Star, Polaris, is almost directly above the Earth's axis.

02:00:44.000 It also states the North Celestial Pole is restless.

02:00:48.000 And over 26,000 years, we'll describe a 47-degree arc through the sky.

02:00:53.000 We'll descend?

02:00:54.000 We'll ascribe?

02:00:55.000 Interesting.

02:00:56.000 Hmm.

02:00:56.000 Interesting.

02:00:58.000 Part-time Doge says Stu Peters just swatted.

02:01:02.000 I don't know who Stu Peters is.

02:01:03.000 I don't know who that is.

02:01:03.000 I'm curious now.

02:01:05.000 RL Corley says, Hey, hi, Tim.

02:01:07.000 Are you going to go see Sonic the Hedgehog 2?

02:01:08.000 You betcha.

02:01:09.000 I went and saw Morbius.

02:01:10.000 Boy, was that bad.

02:01:11.000 What's Morbius?

02:01:13.000 Morbius is a character from Spider-Man who is like, he's a, he's Dr. Michael Morbius and he's dying.

02:01:17.000 So he does an experimental thing with bats and then becomes a vampire.

02:01:22.000 I'm on the Jim Carrey train right now.

02:01:24.000 Jim Carrey?

02:01:25.000 Isn't Jim Carrey in Sonic?

02:01:26.000 Yeah.

02:01:26.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:01:27.000 Oh yeah, Morbius was Jared Leto.

02:01:28.000 No, no, I just moved on from Morbius after that.

02:01:30.000 I'm into Sonic 2 now.

02:01:31.000 Jim Carrey, man, when I saw him respond to the Will Smith slap on stage, or the Will Smith attack, that was the best.

02:01:37.000 The best thing he's done in years.

02:01:39.000 Jim Carrey, man.

02:01:40.000 Pretty tedious. 1.00

02:01:40.000 His art sucks. 1.00

02:01:41.000 Yeah, a little bit. 0.99

02:01:42.000 He 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.

02:01:49.000 This is important.

02:01:50.000 He's not being funny after that.

02:01:53.000 Yeah.

02:01:53.000 But he's way more interesting.

02:01:54.000 Many such cases.

02:01:55.000 Yeah.

02:01:56.000 Alex Jones was right.

02:01:57.000 420 says, Tim, have you seen Amazon is creating a fallout TV show?

02:02:01.000 Please no. 0.99

02:02:02.000 Damn. 0.99

02:02:02.000 It's going to be so broken and weird. 0.99

02:02:05.000 I hope they use ammo as currency and not bottle caps.

02:02:08.000 They already kind of screwed up Witcher.

02:02:09.000 So yeah, like let's Netflix.

02:02:11.000 Yeah.

02:02:12.000 I heard Wheel of Time was was woke.

02:02:14.000 People were mad.

02:02:16.000 I don't know, though.

02:02:17.000 I know.

02:02:17.000 I don't know anything about Wheel of Time.

02:02:19.000 The Assassin's Creed movie was really bad, too.

02:02:21.000 And the Uncharted movie looks terrible.

02:02:22.000 Yeah.

02:02:23.000 Morbius was bad.

02:02:24.000 Very rarely is our video games turned into other forms of multimedia content.

02:02:30.000 Yeah, because you can't play them.

02:02:31.000 You've got to watch.

02:02:32.000 You're doing it backwards, guys.

02:02:32.000 And these campaigns take, like, what, 10 to 30 hours, and then you try to condense it into a two-hour movie?

02:02:38.000 What 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.

02:02:49.000 Like, these movies, they all feel very much like it's 2003, and they're just really bad.

02:02:55.000 Remember Daredevil with Ben Affleck?

02:02:57.000 I didn't see it.

02:02:57.000 Me neither.

02:02:58.000 Oh, come on, guys.

02:02:58.000 I saw Spider-Man 1 with Tobey Maguire, and then I saw Iron Man 1, and I was like, I cannot watch it anymore.

02:03:04.000 It's trash. 0.99

02:03:04.000 It's just trash. 0.99

02:03:06.000 All right, Ian. 0.99

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02:03:33.000 I would love to.

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02:03:41.000 Just go to the spectatorworld.com.

02:03:43.000 Did you shout out your Twitter too?

02:03:45.000 I did.

02:03:46.000 All right. 0.98

02:03:47.000 And I also wanted just to clarify, I know those movies sucked. 0.64

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - April 04, 2022

Timcast IRL - Elon Musk Buys LARGEST Twitter Stake With 9.2%, Defends Free Speech w-Amber Athey

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