Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Elon Musk Offers To Bring Back Alex Jones To X, Will Run Poll To Decide w-Eli Crane

00:00:00.000 Bye now.

00:00:13.000 After Tucker Carlson dropped his interview with Alex Jones about a half an hour long, The Quarterain tweeted that it's time to bring him back and Elon Musk said, yeah, let's run a poll.

00:00:22.000 And then someone else tweeted, here's why Alex Jones was banned in the first place.

00:00:26.000 And Elon Musk says, that doesn't sound like, I'm paraphrasing, but that's not a legitimate reason for a ban on someone.

00:00:31.000 So it may be that we are winning, well, we are literally winning against the censorship industrial complex, but we're also winning against the woke industrial complex because now we've got this big firm saying they're going to pull $100 million out of the universities over these presidents defending far-left calls for... So I want to be very careful on this one.

00:00:54.000 Elise Stefanik asked, these presidents, if calling for the genocide of Jews broke their rules, and they all said, well, I guess it depends on the context.

00:01:02.000 This is resulting in a massive backlash, which is particularly interesting.

00:01:06.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:01:06.000 Plus, we gotta talk about Vivek Ramaswamy!

00:01:09.000 He said a whole bunch of things on stage last night at the Juby Debate.

00:01:11.000 He said January 6th looks like an inside job.

00:01:14.000 He's wrong.

00:01:15.000 January 6th is definitively an inside job because there's videos of police officers opening the door, fanning people in, taking selfies with them, and giving them guided tours.

00:01:24.000 So if that's not an inside job, I don't know what is.

00:01:26.000 But he also said that Great Replacement Theory Is not a conspiracy theory.

00:01:31.000 It's Democrat policy.

00:01:32.000 And of course, now Van Jones has said he's shaking hearing this man who's going to outlive Trump by 50 years.

00:01:38.000 And this is the right of like Nazi fascism, whatever.

00:01:40.000 Okay, well, how about I play a clip of Van Jones saying that he and the woke left are asking white people to give up on being a majority and accept becoming minority.

00:01:50.000 Quite literally echoing claims made by those who are discussing Great Replacement.

00:01:55.000 So we'll talk about that.

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00:03:03.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else is Rep.

00:03:05.000 Eli Crane.

00:03:08.000 Oh, sounds like your mic's not on.

00:03:10.000 Do we get it?

00:03:11.000 Nope.

00:03:12.000 Oh, we had, I think we had that issue.

00:03:13.000 We were having a similar issue yesterday.

00:03:15.000 Not with the microphone, that's weird.

00:03:17.000 I'll figure that out here.

00:03:17.000 I don't know what's going on.

00:03:19.000 I think it's, so the other day we had a headphone problem.

00:03:22.000 I'm wondering if whatever is joint, like bringing these cables together is busted?

00:03:28.000 I mean, it was working, like, literally three minutes ago.

00:03:31.000 Here, in the meantime- Wait, wait, I heard something.

00:03:33.000 Nope, still not there.

00:03:34.000 Come sit over here in the meantime while we work on it.

00:03:36.000 You'll be honorary Ian.

00:03:38.000 Do we know what happened?

00:03:51.000 Not yet.

00:03:51.000 Trying to figure it out.

00:03:52.000 Alright, well, there you go.

00:03:53.000 Who are you?

00:03:54.000 What do you do?

00:03:55.000 Eli Crane, man.

00:03:56.000 I'm currently a congressman from Arizona.

00:03:59.000 Former small business owner.

00:04:03.000 Navy veteran as well.

00:04:04.000 So, dad, husband, all of that.

00:04:06.000 Right on.

00:04:07.000 We've got some interesting stuff coming out of Congress.

00:04:09.000 I guess Jamal Bowman got censured.

00:04:11.000 Yep.

00:04:11.000 Yeah, so we'll talk about that.

00:04:12.000 And this is kind of funny.

00:04:14.000 Kevin McCarthy resigned.

00:04:16.000 He's gone.

00:04:17.000 I mean, was that a big deal for you guys?

00:04:18.000 No one seemed to care.

00:04:19.000 He just kind of disappeared.

00:04:21.000 Yeah, I think it was kind of surprising.

00:04:23.000 I don't think too many people saw that coming.

00:04:26.000 I was one of the eight who voted him out.

00:04:29.000 Right on.

00:04:30.000 So yeah.

00:04:31.000 Whoa.

00:04:32.000 Oh, that was it right there.

00:04:33.000 That was awesome.

00:04:34.000 I think I obviously just heard a noise.

00:04:36.000 And if you want, we can just- Just talking to it, you can't- We can just do this- Nothing.

00:04:40.000 You can just do this if you want, Serge, because this works.

00:04:42.000 I can hear- I think people can hear me.

00:04:44.000 You can just swivel that microphone.

00:04:46.000 I mean, it's making noises, but I think the cable broke.

00:04:51.000 Probably just need to get a new cable.

00:04:53.000 Yeah, probably.

00:04:54.000 Oh, I know what happens.

00:04:55.000 People keep spinning the arm around.

00:04:57.000 Oh.

00:04:58.000 And then it ripped the cable out.

00:04:59.000 Yeah, like tore the threads on the inside of the rubber.

00:05:01.000 Well, Ian doesn't have a camera either.

00:05:02.000 I'll move your drinks.

00:05:03.000 Ian, if you want me to swap with you, brother.

00:05:06.000 Yeah, once we get everything set up, we can refabricate the, uh... Anyway, Phil Labonte's here, hangin' out.

00:05:10.000 Hi everybody, my name's Phil.

00:05:12.000 I'm the lead singer of All That Remains, the heavy metal band.

00:05:14.000 I'm a failed musician, anti-communist, and a counter-revolutionary.

00:05:19.000 And Ian is bouncing around the table.

00:05:21.000 What up?

00:05:21.000 I'm sittin' in Dickie Barrett's chair.

00:05:24.000 You guys see that show?

00:05:24.000 That was awesome.

00:05:25.000 There were a lot of people up there in that chair.

00:05:27.000 Milo sat there.

00:05:28.000 Milo Yiannopoulos sat here.

00:05:30.000 This is a gold chair.

00:05:31.000 I like having the musical stuff in the background.

00:05:34.000 I'll only be here for a little while.

00:05:36.000 These headphones are a little jacked too.

00:05:38.000 I think they slide out of this thing.

00:05:42.000 They don't lock into place.

00:05:44.000 Well, it is what it is.

00:05:44.000 When it's in, it's in.

00:05:45.000 These things happen.

00:05:47.000 And then Serge is pressing the buttons.

00:05:48.000 Yep, trying to figure this all out here.

00:05:51.000 Surge is running, dude.

00:05:52.000 Surge is like a hurricane.

00:05:54.000 He's spinning around the room.

00:05:55.000 It's showing me that it's feeding, but there's just nothing coming through.

00:05:57.000 So it looks at the cable.

00:05:58.000 I don't know.

00:05:59.000 Cool.

00:05:59.000 Can you see me?

00:06:00.000 We had a problem with it yesterday, too.

00:06:01.000 Awesome.

00:06:02.000 I'll say, Lavis, how about we just jump into the news, then?

00:06:04.000 You want to switch now?

00:06:05.000 Yeah.

00:06:05.000 Let's do it.

00:06:05.000 All right, there we go.

00:06:07.000 Alright, and while they're doing that, here's a story from the post-millennial.

00:06:10.000 Elon Musk considers bringing Alex Jones back to X. We'll run a poll to decide.

00:06:16.000 So here's what happens.

00:06:18.000 We have Tucker Carlson drop his interview with Alex Jones.

00:06:22.000 The Quartering tweets, Think about how much letting Alex Jones back on X would make the machine rage, Elon Musk.

00:06:29.000 It's time.

00:06:30.000 Elon responds.

00:06:31.000 We'll consider.

00:06:32.000 In general, since this platform aspires to be the global town square, permanent bans should be extremely rare.

00:06:38.000 Also, if he does say something false on this platform, then community notes will correct him, whereas that would not be the case elsewhere.

00:06:46.000 And then he says, let's hold a poll.

00:06:49.000 So this could be it.

00:06:50.000 I think with this boycott, the attack against Elon Musk and X, which is clearly nonsensical, Elon earlier was tweeting at Disney because Instagram and Facebook, meta companies, were sued by the New Mexico AG for advancing, allowing, and facilitating child abuse and all that entails, trafficking, etc., and materials.

00:07:17.000 And so Elon Musk is saying, why are they still advertising on this platform?

00:07:20.000 How come all these advertisers are on Facebook with no problem about something we've all known about now for, it's been like a year.

00:07:27.000 Since the initial reports came out that they were doing this, and no action's been taken, and they're boycotting X. I think actions like that result in Elon being like, alright, screw it, Alex Jones is back.

00:07:37.000 I think that Alex Jones coming back is probably baked into the kick now.

00:07:42.000 I don't know that I agree that the treatment of Musk currently by the government and by the other media establishment is the defining factor.

00:07:54.000 I think that the conversation that Tucker Carlson had with Jones, I listened to about half of it on the way here today, and I think that there's a lot of compelling stuff in the conversation that would I think would make Musk kind of sit up and be like, oh, I misunderstood.

00:08:16.000 Because if I understand correctly, Musk's position was Alex Jones did do this and that's why he was booted off.

00:08:22.000 And apparently that's not the case.

00:08:26.000 I don't know.

00:08:27.000 I think Elon Musk's position was publicly, whoa, Alex Jones said a bunch of bad things.

00:08:33.000 So, you know, there's a line.

00:08:35.000 But in reality, it was, guys, there's only so much I can do.

00:08:38.000 Yeah.

00:08:40.000 He was trying to avoid having every advertiser just jump off the platform, but if that's happening already, it seems like Elon's like, all right, screw it, whatever.

00:08:46.000 Well, I think, I mean, he probably kind of, I mean, maybe there is a little more to your initial comment than I initially said, because he's probably, he probably is thinking, well, you know, they're banning, they're affecting my advertising base anyways, right?

00:08:59.000 Like, I've done the things that you're supposed to do to get along with them, But because I own X and don't want to, you know, just allow the FBI to have an office in my building, because of that, then they're still going to go and try and attack me and try and ruin the business.

00:09:15.000 I think that probably does have a significant impact on his take.

00:09:20.000 I fully agree.

00:09:21.000 That's exactly what I think is happening.

00:09:23.000 I wouldn't even consider that the advertisers aren't even boycotting X, they're boycotting Elon.

00:09:28.000 It's a personal, it seems personal.

00:09:29.000 I think it's governmental.

00:09:31.000 Oh, I think, yeah, like I said, that's why I mentioned an FBI desk in Twitter, because that's essentially what they had before.

00:09:38.000 I forget what his name was, the guy that was the FBI lawyer that worked at Twitter.

00:09:42.000 He was Twitter's top lawyer, but in the same way that you don't leave the Intel establishment, like if you get out of, you know, you stop working at CIA and you go to a tech company, you're still working for CIA at a tech company.

00:09:58.000 You still have the connections, you still can talk to the people that you used to work with, and you know for a fact the higher-ups, the bureau chiefs and stuff, or the higher-ups at CIA are calling you up and saying, hey, can you get me this or can you do this if they want something from the tech companies?

00:10:13.000 You could argue that tech companies, big tech companies, can be weaponized.

00:10:18.000 I mean, just like Boeing can be weaponized.

00:10:21.000 They're 100% already part of the military-industrial complex.

00:10:23.000 Exactly, but they also make commuter jets, like they'll make commercial airliners, but then they were also, machines were weaponized for war, and social media, I think, can also be very, very easily.

00:10:33.000 So is there, are they right?

00:10:35.000 Do you, what do you think?

00:10:36.000 Well, I want to ask you, have you worked on any of the weaponization stuff, whether they're tracking what was going on with collusion?

00:10:42.000 No, I haven't.

00:10:43.000 I'm on Homeland Security, Small Business, and Veterans Affairs.

00:10:47.000 I think it's great.

00:10:48.000 I'd love to see Alex back on HECS.

00:10:52.000 Yeah.

00:10:52.000 Oh, he's back.

00:10:53.000 On Homeland Security, you have to have a clearance for that and stuff?

00:10:56.000 Clearance for what?

00:10:57.000 For Homeland Security.

00:10:58.000 Oh, yeah.

00:10:59.000 Every member of Congress gets clearance.

00:11:00.000 Okay, I didn't know that.

00:11:01.000 Yeah.

00:11:02.000 What is it that you do, exactly?

00:11:03.000 No, what level of clearance?

00:11:05.000 Are we allowed to know?

00:11:07.000 I mean, I don't think there's too much that you're not allowed to see as a member of Congress.

00:11:12.000 No, I mean, like, does the public know the degree of clearance that members of Congress get?

00:11:15.000 Is it publicly known?

00:11:17.000 Like, if you're in Congress, you get top secret or something?

00:11:19.000 Yeah.

00:11:20.000 Yeah.

00:11:21.000 I mean, yeah, you get top secret.

00:11:25.000 Oh, okay.

00:11:26.000 Well then.

00:11:26.000 Yeah.

00:11:27.000 I want to know what's going on with... I don't think it's a coincidence that Meta's apps are now widespread reporting about the facilitation of child abuse.

00:11:38.000 Not a single advertiser cares.

00:11:39.000 The same thing happened with the whole January 6th thing.

00:11:43.000 All of the evidence shows that the people that did talk about going to the protest and possibly rioting or whatever, they were all having conversations on Facebook.

00:11:53.000 And yet the government blamed Parler And went after Parler's infrastructure and basically, you know, torpedoed Parler, saying that people were organizing for the protests and stuff on Parler, when in reality, they were doing it on Facebook.

00:12:09.000 That makes me think that there is massive government infrastructure in Facebook and they're happy to keep it open for business, because it's like a honeypot.

00:12:17.000 Absolutely.

00:12:18.000 The tech companies, whether we realize it or not, the big social media companies that we decided, you know, as a society, we are just going to give all of our information to, They are the the monitoring apparatus for the federal government because the federal government just needs a subpoena Like we we they don't have to like it doesn't have to be this big brother nefarious where they're putting Speakers and star putting microphones in your car and stuff because they're already there in fact We we bought all the speakers and stuff to put into our own you know our own homes so

00:12:53.000 They don't have to do anything except go to a court and say, uh, you know, we need, uh, we need, you know, we need to subpoena these records.

00:12:59.000 We need to subpoena the communications for this person for these dates.

00:13:03.000 All they have to do is know where to look.

00:13:05.000 The government will go to the court.

00:13:07.000 The court is, there are, I would be willing to bet anything.

00:13:10.000 There is not a court in America that would turn the federal government down if they say we need to get, we need to subpoena this information from Google.

00:13:16.000 I wonder if there was an option for us to scramble all data on all social networks so that no one has access to it, if that would actually be good for the American military-industrial complex defense organization.

00:13:28.000 Like, if they'd be like, yeah, it's better that no one has it, because right now, yeah, the FBI might have access to it, but so does the Chinese CCP.

00:13:35.000 They can hack it and take it, too.

00:13:38.000 And I wonder what they would do if they could do that.

00:13:41.000 Because I'm thinking about quantum encryption and post-encryption and stuff like that.

00:13:44.000 I want to say that there was already some kind of legislation about encryption that the government doesn't want the population or the private sector to have encryption technology.

00:13:53.000 They want to consider it a weapon and say that companies can't have encryption.

00:14:00.000 That was one of the... I heard... I don't have any detail about it.

00:14:03.000 This is just something that I heard in passing and I haven't done any kind of Studying up on it, but it doesn't surprise me because the government hates the idea of not being able to access information There's like I just did a conversation with Kevin Kane who does quantum encryption or post quantum encryption I think it's what it's called and they're they're trying to figure out get ahead of the game because once they figure out how to crack

00:14:21.000 Encryption with quantum computers, then they need to put some kind of new encryption in place.

00:14:25.000 And it's like, is it even ethical to talk about this out loud?

00:14:28.000 Because even if we're just spitballing ideas, like they're listening, you know, and I mean, they like the CCP, whoever the boogeyman is that I'm confident the government has people working for them that are way smarter than me that have thought of things that I'm not going to think of.

00:14:39.000 Yeah, a lot of stuff.

00:14:40.000 I'm not worried about if I like I'm not worried about giving the government ideas.

00:14:43.000 A lot of the federal government is getting ahead of the curve.

00:14:46.000 But it's kind of that thing, like until you know how it can be broken, you don't know what to make to fix it, to prevent it from being broken.

00:14:52.000 So you got to break it before you can improve it.

00:14:54.000 And then that could be like bank records get released, everybody's phone calls, texts, all that signal, all your encryption stuff is like, you know, a quantum computer can can take vector attacks, like rather than trying to like ABCD, ABCE, ABC.

00:15:09.000 You don't even need to have quantum computer because like I said, you just got the courts.

00:15:14.000 The courts just say give it to them and then... What if you don't give it to them?

00:15:17.000 No, no, what I'm saying is like Google.

00:15:19.000 The court will go to Google and say, Google, give it to them.

00:15:21.000 Right, right, right.

00:15:23.000 If there's backdoor access through these big companies.

00:15:26.000 I don't think that there needs to be backdoor access.

00:15:28.000 I think the federal government can just go to the court and say, we need this information.

00:15:31.000 And you're saying the corporations will hand it over?

00:15:33.000 Yeah.

00:15:34.000 Right, right, right.

00:15:34.000 Verizon, all these big, big companies.

00:15:37.000 I think there's been reports that they just do.

00:15:39.000 The only company that I'm aware of that gave the government the middle finger was Apple when they wanted to get into that guy's iPhone because he'd committed a terrorist attack and they wanted to open it.

00:15:49.000 And then I think the Fed said, you know what?

00:15:50.000 Never mind.

00:15:50.000 We don't need it.

00:15:51.000 We got it anyway.

00:15:51.000 I mean, that might have been how it was resolved.

00:15:54.000 I don't remember.

00:15:55.000 I do remember that Apple was like, no, we're not, we're not, because they wanted to build a backdoor or something like that.

00:15:59.000 And they're like, look, if we, if we show you a backdoor or build a backdoor into this, that it's for all of them then.

00:16:05.000 Yeah, and actually in terms of what Apple's trying to build, the best marketing for the fact that they have it, is that they publicly say no to the FBI.

00:16:11.000 And then they're like, nah, we're not giving it to you because we built the thing, and that's good for everyone else too, so buy our products.

00:16:17.000 I'm thinking like, if, I keep thinking decentralized social media, so that the companies don't have access to your messages, they're all encrypted peer-to-peer, but now I'm like, well if those truly are weapons of war, social media machines and things like that, social media algorithms, We can't decentralize, or could we decentralize Boeing?

00:16:35.000 That wouldn't make a lot of sense.

00:16:36.000 Because then it becomes a security risk.

00:16:38.000 How do you build a plane when the parts aren't in the same building?

00:16:40.000 Yeah, you'd have to get them to ship them to their location, and if one of those factories goes down and can't get the bolts over to the main factory to put the aircraft together, the entire thing shuts down.

00:16:48.000 So it's almost like a risk not to have it centralized.

00:16:51.000 That's how stuff goes as it is.

00:16:52.000 Especially like, actually we talked about this the other night, the military.

00:16:56.000 If you're building a complex piece of equipment for the military, they try to spread out the actual parts manufacturing into as many congressional districts as possible.

00:17:04.000 So that way, if you want to get rid of a program, you're getting rid of a bunch of jobs that Congress people are like, ah, you're not taking these jobs from my district.

00:17:12.000 Yeah, I was talking to Congressman Gates about that and he was telling me that some of the smartest folks, that's how they'll do it with some of these fighter jets and whatnot, they'll make sure that a peace is made in every single state.

00:17:25.000 That way you'll have all the representation fighting to keep that same fighter.

00:17:31.000 It's smart, you know, but I don't know, man.

00:17:35.000 It's definitely not in the best interest of the American people, right?

00:17:39.000 It's an addiction.

00:17:40.000 It's a programmed addiction by these government actors making these deals, whoever it may be, legislators or otherwise, where they're trying to make sure we can never shut down a government program.

00:17:53.000 That's the biggest problem we have with government is the inability for it to fail.

00:17:56.000 So when bad things happen, when corrupt things happen, and when failure happens, the machine keeps going, sucking in more and more money, becoming more and more corrupt, and then eventually imploding.

00:18:04.000 That's exactly the argument that libertarians make about private sector versus public sector.

00:18:09.000 Anything in the government, there's no way for it to be punished by failing other than people voting People out and to be honest with you, the failure has to be on such a catastrophic level to get people to say this guy needs to go.

00:18:26.000 It has to be really bad for a lot of people.

00:18:29.000 Whereas in the private sector, if you're if you're You're not making money two quarters in a row.

00:18:34.000 The higher ups are looking to replace everybody.

00:18:36.000 You know, if you're if you if you're if you go from being in the black, you know to in the red, they're like, yo, why look at what's going on with at Disney, you know, there's there people talking about their writing.

00:18:51.000 Letters to their investors saying, yo, we know that things have been messed up.

00:18:55.000 Stick with us.

00:18:56.000 We're going to make changes and stuff.

00:18:57.000 You know, you've covered those.

00:18:59.000 I want to jump to this story because we've got someone who actually can provide some good answers here and help us understand.

00:19:03.000 We got this from the New York Times.

00:19:05.000 House censures Jamal Bowman for false fire alarm.

00:19:08.000 Lawmakers voted to formally rebuke Mr. Bowman for setting off a false fire alarm in the House office building.

00:19:13.000 The latest partisan use of a once rare congressional action formally reserved for grave offenses.

00:19:19.000 Rep Crane, what is censure?

00:19:21.000 What does that mean?

00:19:22.000 Yeah, it's just basically like a slap on the wrist.

00:19:25.000 I mean, it's really not anything substantive.

00:19:30.000 He's gonna have commercials run by his opponents that he was censured, but it really doesn't do much.

00:19:36.000 It doesn't do anything?

00:19:37.000 Not really.

00:19:39.000 It's the official way for Congress to disapprove of you.

00:19:43.000 Yeah, he had to go down.

00:19:46.000 It happened today.

00:19:47.000 I was, you know, there on the House floor and he basically had to go down to the well, which is like right in front of where the Speaker's chair is.

00:19:54.000 And, you know, they read his censure and he had to stand there publicly and all the Democrats like crowded around him.

00:20:01.000 Didn't they all vote in support of him or something?

00:20:04.000 Yeah, the Democrats voted in support of him, but obviously he pulled the fire alarm.

00:20:10.000 He should be in jail.

00:20:12.000 And I remember the day it happened, and I thought it was a joke when people were telling me that he pulled the fire alarm.

00:20:19.000 And it was kind of ironic and funny that, you know, he was a principal.

00:20:22.000 He was acting like he thought it was gonna let him out of the door or something.

00:20:28.000 He should be in jail, and I think he should be expelled from Congress.

00:20:31.000 I think censure is too light.

00:20:32.000 Let me ask you, why was Santos expelled?

00:20:36.000 For being too awesome?

00:20:37.000 But seriously though, what was the actual effects he committed in Congress that warranted expulsion?

00:20:44.000 Yeah, I know he had a bunch of indictments.

00:20:47.000 I didn't vote to expel him, I voted to keep him.

00:20:50.000 But I know that the New York delegation was really pushing hard for him to go.

00:20:56.000 This was just my theory, it was just my thought.

00:20:59.000 I think that a lot of the New York constituents and donors that got burnt by Santos were putting a lot of pressure on those guys to get rid of George.

00:21:09.000 No, if you ever met George in person, like the guys, he's hilarious.

00:21:14.000 I'm not gonna sit here and defend George's, like, persona.

00:21:17.000 I will.

00:21:18.000 What he did.

00:21:18.000 What did he do?

00:21:19.000 I don't know.

00:21:20.000 Well, they said he used a bunch of campaign funds to, you know, buy, you know, he broke a lot of campaign finance laws.

00:21:26.000 Like, he used campaign funds to, like, get Botox and get, like, Just a bunch of consumer goods and services that you're not allowed to do.

00:21:36.000 Stuff like that.

00:21:38.000 Using people's credit cards that were donors to buy stuff like that.

00:21:44.000 He had a bunch of indictments.

00:21:46.000 Yeah.

00:21:47.000 But yeah.

00:21:48.000 That's serious.

00:21:49.000 My concern with it is though, if that becomes the standard, right?

00:21:53.000 You're indicted and then we can kick you out of Congress because of a report the Ethics Committee did.

00:22:00.000 In my opinion, that opens up a pretty big door, especially when we're watching former President Trump.

00:22:07.000 They're trying to do the same thing to him.

00:22:09.000 They're trying to destroy him with lawfare and indictments.

00:22:12.000 And so, I don't like the precedent.

00:22:14.000 It's why many of us tried to save George.

00:22:16.000 And we saved him in the past.

00:22:20.000 Because he's not convicted of anything.

00:22:23.000 No.

00:22:23.000 Could he be?

00:22:24.000 That's wild.

00:22:25.000 Oh yeah, he can be.

00:22:26.000 And some of my colleagues, I've talked to some of my colleagues who are lawyers and prosecutors who do believe he will be, but I don't know, man.

00:22:33.000 That's not my area.

00:22:35.000 I don't know what else that means.

00:22:36.000 I mean, Trump will be convicted.

00:22:37.000 I don't see a scenario in which Trump is acquitted by these liberal juries.

00:22:40.000 I don't either.

00:22:41.000 But I would think you would wait until conviction before you expel Congress.

00:22:46.000 Yeah, which is why I think many of us were trying to save him, you know.

00:22:51.000 But we know Jamal Bowman intentionally pulled the fire alarm.

00:22:56.000 We know he lied about it.

00:22:57.000 He's on camera pulling the warning signs off the door, or he flicks one onto the floor and then pulls the alarm and runs away.

00:23:03.000 He didn't try to open the door.

00:23:05.000 He lied.

00:23:06.000 And I'm surprised that you can have a member of Congress commit a crime, on camera, caught doing it, to subvert the political process, and this is it?

00:23:16.000 A slap on the wrist?

00:23:18.000 Yeah, if it was like at four in the morning and he was pranking people, that would be different than if he was doing it during a- Still a crime!

00:23:23.000 Yeah, but he was doing it during a congressional proceeding to try and delay the proceeding?

00:23:27.000 That's insidious.

00:23:28.000 Well, I don't know his intent.

00:23:30.000 I assume it's to delay the proceeding, but did it delay a proceeding?

00:23:33.000 I don't know that it delayed the proceeding, and I heard that's what his intent was.

00:23:37.000 I don't know exactly what his intent was, but yeah, that's what he did.

00:23:41.000 He said it was because he was late and he needed to get out the door or something?

00:23:45.000 Yeah.

00:23:45.000 And so he took the sign off the door that said emergency exit?

00:23:47.000 Well, it's funny because a couple of my colleagues, Andy Biggs is in that same building, Congressman Biggs, and he went to that exit Along with some other guys saw that there were they had already corned it off And so they just went around to a different inch, you know a different exit So it doesn't make a lot of sense that he did what he did, but I don't honestly I don't know why that surprises you Tim.

00:24:11.000 I mean, it's you know, I mean, it's Congressman You know, how many I'm an Indus has gold bars.

00:24:19.000 I mean It's like yeah, that's great.

00:24:22.000 The place is ripe with I was hanging out at the local poker room last week and someone asked, some guy said, I'll make a bet, an older guy, just out of the blue goes, I'll make a $20 bet with all of you, that, he goes, right now, the approval rating of Congress is 17%.

00:24:44.000 But all the 80% of Congress will be re-elected in 2024.

00:24:49.000 Yeah.

00:24:50.000 And I explained to them, I was like, well yeah, it's because we like our rep, we hate all yours.

00:24:55.000 So Congress is gonna have a low approval rating.

00:24:57.000 Yeah.

00:24:58.000 But it is funny, considering nobody likes Congress.

00:25:02.000 Yeah.

00:25:03.000 Just approval rating in the gutter, everybody views it as corrupt.

00:25:05.000 I don't like it either.

00:25:06.000 I think I was talking to Matt Gaetz, and he said there's like, what number did he give?

00:25:12.000 10 or 12 good members of Congress or something like that?

00:25:16.000 Yeah, it's something like that, man.

00:25:18.000 It's pretty small.

00:25:19.000 Maybe it's more.

00:25:20.000 It's pretty small.

00:25:21.000 How do you be considered good in Congress?

00:25:24.000 Because obstructing kind of is your job, but if you obstruct too much, then are you considered a bad guy?

00:25:30.000 Yeah, Thomas Massey kind of gets that from time to time.

00:25:32.000 Yeah, I definitely fall under that, I would say, that label if you will.

00:25:38.000 But you're right, it is tough because you don't want to obstruct to the point where you can't get anything done, but at the same time when I mean take pick a topic whether you're talking about the border whether you're talking about the national debt 33 trillion plus in debt two trillion dollar annual deficit and what we do under Republican control in this Congress we made a deal with Joe Biden an additional four trillion dollars to the national debt and so it's like it doesn't really matter what topic you pick I think that we're failing and you know so if you're obstructing

00:26:15.000 That type of failure, in my opinion. 0.88

00:26:19.000 I think we're in idiocracy.

00:26:21.000 Oh, 100%.

00:26:22.000 The movie, yeah.

00:26:23.000 Yeah, of course.

00:26:24.000 They're watering the crops with Mountain Dew?

00:26:27.000 With basically Gatorade, basically.

00:26:29.000 With Glyphosate, to be honest.

00:26:31.000 He's like, is this Gatorade?

00:26:33.000 Was it Luke Wilson?

00:26:33.000 It's what plants crave.

00:26:34.000 It's what plants crave.

00:26:37.000 And he's basically salting the earth.

00:26:38.000 But I feel like we're actually in that. 1.00

00:26:41.000 And the reason why is I look at Jamal Bowman and I'm like, what a scumbag. 0.98

00:26:46.000 And this is why everything's broken. 1.00

00:26:48.000 This is why everybody hates Congress.

00:26:50.000 This is why nothing's getting fixed.

00:26:51.000 This is why we're having all these problems.

00:26:53.000 Well, I should say it is a component of.

00:26:55.000 I think we have cultural issues.

00:26:57.000 Yeah.

00:26:57.000 But I look at so many of these members of Congress and it's crazy to me that Jamal Bowman pulled the fire alarm.

00:27:07.000 Jamie Raskin falsely accused me of advocating for January 6th in the J6 hearings because I reported on a Fox News story that Donald Trump called for protests on January 6th.

00:27:21.000 So, before January 6th happens, I'm reading a news story from Fox News where I'm like, wow, Trump's calling for a protest.

00:27:26.000 That's gonna get crazy.

00:27:28.000 Things would get crazy down there if Trump calls for this.

00:27:30.000 He runs clips of me out of context, included in a montage of people screaming, kick the door in, and things like this.

00:27:36.000 That guy's 20 minutes from here, Raskin.

00:27:39.000 People who work at this company, he represents them.

00:27:43.000 These people, I just look at them all, they are... 0.80

00:27:46.000 It is the dregs of humanity. 1.00

00:27:49.000 Scum, lying, cheating, stealing, without a care for anybody else. 1.00

00:27:53.000 They don't want to make anyone's life better. 1.00

00:27:54.000 They want to make their own lives better.

00:27:56.000 They want to watch... You know what they are?

00:27:58.000 They are the people stealing the fine china from the Titanic, knowing the iceberg hit, but they're going to run to the emergency raft before anybody finds out.

00:28:06.000 The emergency boats.

00:28:07.000 Yeah, I often use that same analogy.

00:28:10.000 I mean, there's a lot of problems with Congress, but I think it is important that we always remember that, like Andrew Breitbart said a long time ago, he said that politics is always downstream of culture.

00:28:20.000 Yep.

00:28:21.000 So you don't see things get to the halls of Congress until they've been permeating in culture for a decade, you know, five years at a minimum.

00:28:28.000 Speeding up, though.

00:28:29.000 Oh, it is.

00:28:30.000 It is.

00:28:31.000 And that's how I feel a lot of time because, you know, you'll sit there and you'll just watch, you know, good amendment or this good bill go down and you're like, what the hell is going on here?

00:28:40.000 And I think to your point, Tim, there is a certain level of that, like, hey, this thing is going down.

00:28:47.000 I'm going to get mine on the way off.

00:28:49.000 Yep.

00:28:49.000 Right.

00:28:51.000 I 100% believe that there are folks up there that that's their mentality.

00:28:54.000 I think it's most of them.

00:28:55.000 I got the vibe that it's, there's too many people for the representatives to represent.

00:29:00.000 Like how many people are in your, in your?

00:29:02.000 So most, yeah, most reps rep about 750,000 people.

00:29:06.000 And it's like, I mean, I represent myself I can't really even represent Tim properly if I tried, because I'm not Tim.

00:29:13.000 So like, the idea that back in the day the least worst thing we could do is send some brilliant guy to go represent the 7,000 of us, and hopefully he's going to know what we all kind of need and want in our community.

00:29:22.000 But now, it's so unrepresentative of the humans, because there's such a diverse desire and belief within systems, like, I've had this idea, like, what if we just Everyone gets the power of the House of Representatives now.

00:29:38.000 We all can work from home, we can all can write legislation and pass it onto a system where we can all read it and put amendments and then after 30 days we can all vote on it to pass it into the Senate.

00:29:46.000 But we'd still vote for you guys that if the power goes out you go to the place to do it for us until the power comes back on then we all get back to work.

00:29:52.000 I think it's a bad idea and I don't think it makes sense.

00:29:54.000 What do you think about it Eli?

00:29:56.000 You know, I like, honestly, I like that we have a constitutional republic.

00:30:02.000 What I don't like is, like, you guys hear about the fourth branch of government all the time, the administrative state, the bureaucracy, right?

00:30:10.000 If you think about it, there's a bunch of unelected bureaucrats that are in D.C. 1.00

00:30:14.000 full-time.

00:30:15.000 They look at a guy like me who comes in there and tries to, you know, shake things up a little bit, and they're just like, we can just wait this guy out.

00:30:23.000 You know, he has to get re-elected every two years, and by the time he gets the documents that we're stonewalling him on, right, you know, it's so far into the future that people are like, oh, move on, that's in the past.

00:30:36.000 And so, you know, I do like the fact that we have a constitutional republic, you know, but our system has problems like everybody else, and I think right now the administrative state is one of our biggest problems.

00:30:49.000 I think one of the biggest mistakes we made was the 17th Amendment. 0.79

00:30:53.000 So I think we should repeal that.

00:30:55.000 That is the Senators by popular vote.

00:30:58.000 I think that Senators should have always been chosen by the state legislatures to represent the state to the federal government.

00:31:05.000 Yeah, the the Kathy Hochul, when Santos was actually on the day he was he was removed or whatever, they voted for it.

00:31:14.000 Kathy Hochul said that she was going to replace.

00:31:17.000 Right.

00:31:17.000 What's his name?

00:31:18.000 And she obviously doesn't have the power to do it. 1.00

00:31:21.000 And it's part of the reason why she assumed that she did is because she doesn't have a fundamental, deep understanding of our governmental structure. 0.94

00:31:29.000 She's the executive of the state of New York.

00:31:33.000 That's why and what the error that she made is she was was thinking that she should be sending the person selecting to represent the the represent the people for Congress, but she would select the senator because the senator is supposed to represent right state.

00:31:51.000 Because she misunderstands how the structure of government works, that's why she made that error. 1.00

00:31:57.000 That's why she said, oh, I'll select for the House.

00:32:00.000 The people obviously have to select who is going to represent them in the Congress.

00:32:07.000 Oh, we just lost Phil.

00:32:08.000 Serge is doing some deep trench work right now.

00:32:12.000 So I'll just pick it up from there.

00:32:16.000 The general idea with the 17th Amendment was that there was corruption, that state legislatures were just picking their buddies, and we can't have that, and that's a mistake.

00:32:25.000 Because now nobody cares and knows who their state senators are and who their state reps are, and that's substantially more important for everything.

00:32:32.000 Because if this country was unified culturally to a certain degree, where everybody was paying attention to their state reps and legislatures, you could get a convention of states.

00:32:41.000 You could actually have the states just be like, no, we're changing things.

00:32:44.000 We're done with Congress, we're done with the Senate, you're not getting anything done.

00:32:48.000 And then there's other ways to do it too, amending the Constitution through Congress and through the Senate.

00:32:54.000 But we don't have any of that right now, and I think you need it.

00:32:59.000 So I look at this idea that you're talking about, Ian, and it's a huge mistake, and it's for exactly what you were saying.

00:33:04.000 It could take you years to get the documents you need, and you're fighting re-election every two years, and if you can maintain that, you can get these documents.

00:33:13.000 You, Ian, sitting in your room, waiting for a bill and thinking you want to pass it, bro, we are going to get people Who are going to think the polar bears are dying, and so they're going to vote to build a polar bear sanctuary.

00:33:24.000 It's like the Simpsons, when they built the bear patrol.

00:33:26.000 You guys remember bear patrol?

00:33:28.000 One bear wanders into Springfield one time, and so they're like, okay, everyone's panicking, they all voted for a referendum for the bear patrol, and so then Homer looks at his paycheck a week later and he sees a bear tax.

00:33:39.000 And they've got, like, planes flying around.

00:33:40.000 That's the problem with people who... I think that's why we have a constitutional republic with representatives.

00:33:47.000 We select the person we think is the best for the job, do the job like any other job, and then we trust they do the job well, and if they don't, we fire them.

00:33:53.000 It could be that the representatives maintain their authority and ability to, like, request documents, but that we, just as citizens, gain an ability to also produce legislation that we can vote on together.

00:34:03.000 Because, like, I feel kind of helpless a lot of times looking at Congress and being like, No, all I can do is convince people to go convince someone to do something.

00:34:10.000 Have you ever actually written your congressperson?

00:34:15.000 No, I would make videos and be like, call them now, call them at two o'clock.

00:34:20.000 Everyone coordinate, make a phone and just overload them with phone calls.

00:34:23.000 I'll do that kind of thing with an internet video, but I never actually did it myself.

00:34:28.000 Because I think, I mean, you're never going to, I don't think anyone's ever going to feel like the direct power of being able to say, or very few people are going to be able to say, hey, I want this to happen.

00:34:37.000 And then it happens, right?

00:34:38.000 Like that's not like, even the president doesn't, doesn't have that authority over everything.

00:34:44.000 I don't want a bunch of people voting on how to fix my toilet.

00:34:47.000 I don't want people voting on anything.

00:34:47.000 No, not at all.

00:34:49.000 My toilet breaks, and then we're like, okay everybody, we got a broken toilet, so let's put it on the internet, and everybody all around gets to vote on how we fix the toilet.

00:34:57.000 No, I want to hire a plumber who's the best at the job.

00:34:59.000 Maybe I'm misrepresenting what I'm thinking.

00:35:02.000 I just, like, if you could make a bill and be like, this bill gets funds for a better process of toilet repair.

00:35:09.000 What do you guys all think?

00:35:10.000 And it's like a Tinder where people are like, I'll swipe right on that one.

00:35:13.000 I'm swiping left.

00:35:13.000 Yeah, right, right.

00:35:14.000 That's like suggesting the community vote on how to fix my toilet.

00:35:18.000 But then, well, we would just vote on a bill that we could send to the Senate. 1.00

00:35:22.000 And then the Senate would be like, that's idiotic. 1.00

00:35:24.000 No. 1.00

00:35:24.000 And they shoot us down if it's terrible. 1.00

00:35:27.000 So you're basically just saying you want to eliminate Congress.

00:35:30.000 Sorry eliminate the house. 1.00

00:35:31.000 I kind of want a legitimate fourth branch of government I'm just I don't think the representatives can handle the load.

00:35:36.000 It's too many people that they're unrepresented the problem that you're Articulating isn't that there are too many.

00:35:42.000 It's not that they can't handle the load It's that the load that's being put on the strong the government is too great for the structure of government So our government is not supposed to be in the daily working of your life the federal government at least right so like The fact that we have, like, the fact that there was ever a question about who goes into which bathroom that was at a federal level is exemplary of, or exemplifies exactly what our problem is.

00:36:11.000 We don't need the federal government to make every decision for us.

00:36:15.000 You don't even need the state governments to do it, honestly.

00:36:18.000 But that's where, kind of, that's kind of how society's knee-jerk reaction has become, and I think really, like, No, you're right.

00:36:26.000 On that point, I think that's a big part of the problem.

00:36:29.000 You've got, I think, generations of people who have been raised to think that federal government is the solution, and it's not.

00:36:36.000 It's usually the problem.

00:36:37.000 I know our founders wanted limited government because they've seen what it can do, right?

00:36:44.000 And so, you know, I think that's what some folks in DC right now are trying to do.

00:36:51.000 You know, it's why we fought so hard to change out our leadership this year, because we just continued to head down the same path that we were on.

00:37:00.000 You know, like the fight we got back in January.

00:37:02.000 I know you guys had Matt on your show, and you've had him in the past.

00:37:06.000 I mean, that fight hadn't happened... What happened in January hadn't happened in over a hundred years.

00:37:11.000 It was Kevin McCarthy?

00:37:12.000 Yeah.

00:37:12.000 Well, let me pull this story up.

00:37:15.000 I got some questions for you.

00:37:15.000 Wait, that was in January?

00:37:17.000 We have this story from ABC News.

00:37:19.000 Kevin McCarthy resigning from Congress after being ousted to House Speaker.

00:37:23.000 So the story came out yesterday.

00:37:25.000 At the end of the month, he will resign.

00:37:28.000 He says, I've decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways.

00:37:32.000 This is really funny because there was a tweet.

00:37:35.000 It was a video of a tweet from him saying, I will not quit.

00:37:38.000 And it is now community noted on Twitter saying he just quit.

00:37:42.000 Brutal.

00:37:43.000 So here's the funny thing.

00:37:44.000 This came out last night.

00:37:45.000 Nobody cared.

00:37:46.000 Yeah, nobody cared that a former speaker just announced his resignation, but I think what Matt Gaetz did was fantastic.

00:37:52.000 I'm curious your thoughts, Rep Crain, on what went down and whether you think this is all good or bad.

00:37:58.000 Yeah, I mean, obviously Matt deserves a lot of credit.

00:38:01.000 Matt, you know, took the brunt of that for sure, but there were eight of us.

00:38:07.000 Right.

00:38:08.000 There were eight Republicans that moved against our own speaker.

00:38:12.000 And so for sure, I think that it was a good idea because I was one of them.

00:38:16.000 Right.

00:38:17.000 And the reason the reason, guys, like I like I said, is because I didn't get in that I didn't get into this.

00:38:22.000 I don't leave my family three weeks out of the month with my two young daughters because I like Washington, D.C., or I like putting on a suit or I ever wanted to be called a congressman.

00:38:31.000 Right.

00:38:32.000 I'm terrified with what my kids are going to be left with and I look at the trajectory we're on and it's not sustainable.

00:38:38.000 This house of cards is going to collapse and most people up there don't take it seriously.

00:38:43.000 It's weird, man.

00:38:45.000 It's dystopian.

00:38:46.000 There's two trains of thought on that.

00:38:49.000 I think everybody agrees the House of Cards is going to collapse.

00:38:51.000 And then you've got some Republicans who are like, guys, let's try and fix this.

00:38:55.000 And then you've got, I'd say, most Republicans and Democrats being like, how much can we loot from the coffers before the cards come crashing down?

00:39:03.000 Yeah, and we call it the Uniparty up there.

00:39:06.000 Anytime something serious needs to get moved, the Uniparty moves in lockstep, and it is Republicans and Democrats.

00:39:15.000 Republicans get pissed at me all the time.

00:39:17.000 I'll get calls from donors, or, Eli, why are you attacking Republicans?

00:39:23.000 You need to be fighting against Democrats.

00:39:26.000 That's just one layer to the fight.

00:39:27.000 It is an important layer to the fight, but it goes a lot deeper than that.

00:39:31.000 And if we don't acknowledge the own stink, our own problems within our own party, this thing's never going to get fixed.

00:39:45.000 I'm just glad that there are people up there who I've seen, even in this last Congress, the 118th Congress, who repeatedly are willing to throw caution to the wind, put their political career on the chopping block, and be like, hey, let's go.

00:39:58.000 Let's do something that's never been done, and let's buck the system.

00:40:02.000 And so, you know, I don't know where that leads, Tim.

00:40:05.000 I'm not a super optimistic guy.

00:40:07.000 My faith isn't in the federal government, for good reason.

00:40:10.000 But, you know, I do think it's important.

00:40:13.000 I mean, Matt was talking about this billion-dollar I.O.U.

00:40:15.000 machine that Kevin McCarthy builds up, where he goes, all these donors basically get, hey, we're gonna give money to your PAC, we're gonna help you get re-elected, you're gonna control, basically, the Republican Party in the House, and then when he gets ousted, all those I.O.U.' 's become toilet paper.

00:40:31.000 So, you know, this machine of favors in D.C.

00:40:34.000 gets shattered.

00:40:36.000 I gotta imagine Kevin McCarthy was sweating bullets the whole time, because he's not gonna be able to pay back any of these favors.

00:40:41.000 He's an indentured servant for the rest of his life.

00:40:43.000 Yeah, I honestly don't know.

00:40:46.000 Here's the thing.

00:40:48.000 If you met Kevin and you hung out with him and you didn't know he was the Speaker of the House, you'd probably be like, this guy's pretty cool.

00:40:53.000 I gotta have a beer with him.

00:40:56.000 But that being said, when you look at what was going on, and when you look at how he was leading the party, there was no desire to change course at all.

00:41:07.000 I've heard from too many people that he backstabbed their campaigns.

00:41:11.000 That there were populists, America First, they were Trump supporting.

00:41:15.000 For sure.

00:41:16.000 And anybody in that, I shouldn't say anybody, but most people in that spot would use their power and influence to back candidates that are going to fall in line and do what you're told.

00:41:29.000 And you know, it's like, that's one of the biggest knock.

00:41:31.000 I'm a military guy.

00:41:32.000 That's one of the biggest knocks on military guys.

00:41:36.000 I remember when I started going up to DC, Tim, some of the older Republicans looked at me and they're like, you know, Eli, you military guys get up here and you don't really fight too hard.

00:41:45.000 You know, you kind of just fall in line and do what you're told.

00:41:47.000 And I said, I know.

00:41:50.000 But that's, When you look at your chain of command as the people back home, the 750,000 people that sent you there, it's different than seeing the Republican Party or the Democrat Party as your new chain of command, right?

00:42:03.000 And that's the problem with too many politicians.

00:42:06.000 They see their party as their chain of command and they just fall in lockstep and they do what they're told.

00:42:10.000 How's life with Mike Johnson, the new Speaker?

00:42:14.000 How's it been?

00:42:15.000 I mean, honestly, it's really not that much different in that we're still pretty much on the same trajectory, maybe a couple degrees off.

00:42:28.000 And I think that most of us that were involved in ousting Kevin with the motion to vacate, Believe that that's how it was going to be just because whoever speaker is really a representative of the party and the party is not conservative.

00:42:43.000 It's just not, you know, that being said, you know, he has done a couple he has done a couple good things.

00:42:50.000 And so like when he released some of the January six tapes, I think that was a good, that was a good thing.

00:42:56.000 I think, you know, he's serious about moving forward with, you know, this Biden, you know, impeachment.

00:43:01.000 That's a good thing.

00:43:02.000 But he's shown with, you know, the CR, the continuing resolution that funds the government at the same levels.

00:43:08.000 And even right now with the NDAA and FISA that, you know, we're probably going to continue to go on, on the same path with some of those things.

00:43:17.000 Is it because if he just was like, I'm going to make a bill of getting rid of the CR that everyone in the party be like, then no one's going to vote for it, dude.

00:43:24.000 So what they do, you know, what they do is they scare, they scare anybody that gets into leadership, right?

00:43:24.000 So yeah.

00:43:29.000 Like the intelligence community right now is telling Mike Johnson, Hey, if you let, if you let FISA lapse or you, you reform it.

00:43:37.000 And FISA goes down for even a little while, and you have, right now, who's out there saying that we have more terrorist threats than we ever have before?

00:43:46.000 Christopher Wray, right?

00:43:47.000 So Mike's making these decisions, the intelligence community is scaring the snot out of him, saying, hey man, if you let FISA elapse, And there's a terrorist attack, the blood's on your hands.

00:43:59.000 And that's what they do constantly up there.

00:44:01.000 It's constantly like, if you try and change things, whether it's with spending or a government shutdown or, you know, making adjustments or reforming FISA, they have a way to scare you back into line.

00:44:14.000 Not only are they going to blame you, but they're going to go ahead and they're going to accuse you of trying to make it so that these things can happen.

00:44:24.000 No, I think it's worse than that.

00:44:25.000 I think it's worse than that.

00:44:25.000 You're probably right.

00:44:27.000 When Chuck Schumer said that the intelligence agencies have six waves from Sunday from coming after you, Donald Trump, and then they accused Trump of being a Soviet spy.

00:44:35.000 No, Soviet, literally, from the 80s.

00:44:37.000 The guy, Jonathan Chait, goes on MSNBC and says Trump may have been an asset of the Russians since the 80s.

00:44:43.000 They do multiple impeachments, they do criminal charges, everything.

00:44:47.000 You see them throwing at Trump?

00:44:49.000 I don't think they go to Mike Johnson and they say, look, we got security issues, don't let us down.

00:44:54.000 I think they sit down at the desk and they say, how's it going?

00:44:57.000 How's the family?

00:44:59.000 And they pull out a picture of JFK and they slide it across the table and say, how you doing?

00:44:59.000 I got something for you.

00:45:03.000 Yeah, can you imagine that?

00:45:04.000 Like, literally, all they have to do is slide a picture of JFK.

00:45:07.000 If someone from CIA shows up at your house and they slide a picture of JFK across the table, you'd say, how you doing?

00:45:15.000 Like, everyone's sweating.

00:45:16.000 Everyone starts sweating.

00:45:18.000 They slide a picture, JFK, that's it.

00:45:20.000 They don't gotta say anything.

00:45:22.000 It's the implication.

00:45:24.000 And I'm not saying the implication is true.

00:45:26.000 I'm just saying, you know, it says a lot.

00:45:28.000 So the intelligence, when you say the intelligence, how do you phrase it?

00:45:31.000 The intelligence network?

00:45:32.000 Community.

00:45:33.000 Is that who's running our government?

00:45:35.000 Well, I don't think it's that simplistic.

00:45:37.000 I think it's a mixed bag, right?

00:45:40.000 There's a lot of different influences on the government, right?

00:45:44.000 You also have your lobbyists, your special interest groups, right?

00:45:48.000 You have outside global influences that are obviously affecting our government as well.

00:45:55.000 I mean, it's not as simplistic as one, you know, entity, you know, basically running our government.

00:46:02.000 What is a special interest? 0.99

00:46:04.000 I hear this stupid word, Lockheed Martin. 1.00

00:46:06.000 So it's just a business? 1.00

00:46:07.000 It's a corporation?

00:46:08.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:46:08.000 What about the pharmaceutical industry?

00:46:10.000 Greenpeace.

00:46:11.000 So special interest is like a way to spin it?

00:46:14.000 It's motivating.

00:46:15.000 It's especially interesting.

00:46:17.000 No, no, no.

00:46:17.000 Special interest is an umbrella term for a variety of organizations that want a specific goal to be met.

00:46:24.000 So, Greenpeace is a special interest... Oh, they're colluding.

00:46:26.000 They're not colluding.

00:46:27.000 But they want the same goal.

00:46:29.000 No, no, no, no.

00:46:30.000 Lockheed Martin is a special interest group.

00:46:32.000 They lobby on behalf of themselves.

00:46:33.000 Greenpeace is a special interest group.

00:46:35.000 They lobby on behalf of themselves.

00:46:36.000 No one's gonna sit there and be like, the problem we have is, let me pull out 18,000 pages of every single organization ever that's lobbying the government.

00:46:43.000 So they're just lobbyists.

00:46:44.000 They say, special interest groups.

00:46:45.000 Powerful organizations from the private and public sector and non-profits that are lobbying government to make things happen.

00:46:51.000 Some are more powerful than others.

00:46:52.000 And then if they say it's a lobbyist, that could be just a guy, but if it's a special interest group, it's a lobbyist.

00:46:57.000 The lobbyist would be the individual that's actually trying to get the politician to do whatever it is that the special interest group wants.

00:47:04.000 The group is the special interest, the lobbyist is the individual.

00:47:08.000 And to be fair, I mean, there are good lobbyists, right, that are lobbying for good things.

00:47:14.000 But, oftentimes, you know, it's, you know, it ventures into corruption and, you know, seeking things that are so front-site focused on just taking care of one industry.

00:47:26.000 Ian, you've got my firearms guy got it over here.

00:47:30.000 And I will, and I will do it again.

00:47:31.000 So when, when you, when you talk to someone who's in Congress and you're like, you gotta get graphene.

00:47:36.000 I was about to say that we were talking about House of Cards.

00:47:38.000 We need a graphene lattice to reinforce the network.

00:47:40.000 So here's Ian lobbying Congress.

00:47:42.000 It's graphene, it's carbon.

00:47:43.000 It's carbon powder, basically.

00:47:45.000 You make it from any kind of carbon, and they figured out how to get it with electricity.

00:47:47.000 He's already on the graph.

00:47:48.000 You can get, like, plastic trash and hit it with 7,000 degree electricity and turn it into... Too far ahead.

00:47:53.000 We'll simplify it.

00:47:54.000 It's like 21st century steel.

00:47:55.000 It's going to be the next big building material.

00:47:57.000 It's a one-dimensional sheet of carbon, hexagonally latticed, which has amazing properties when manipulated, so... It's a superconductor.

00:48:05.000 Yes, and a capacitor.

00:48:07.000 You can use it as, like, a touchscreen battery wallpaper.

00:48:10.000 They put it in car...

00:48:12.000 Well, I'll give you the real simple version.

00:48:14.000 So Ian's obsessed with this stuff.

00:48:15.000 But the reason I brought it up was to make the point that lobbying, a lot of people have this view of lobbying as this, like, prestigious thing.

00:48:22.000 And it's like, dude, it literally means you argued to a member of Congress.

00:48:24.000 Yeah.

00:48:25.000 They used to stand in the lobby, literally.

00:48:27.000 That's why they were following that after.

00:48:28.000 And then when they came out of the proceeding, they'd be like, hey, For the sake of Ian's graphene, one thing they started doing is they put it in batteries.

00:48:34.000 And so what that does is when you're charging a battery, the graphene carries the charge evenly across the battery so it charges rapidly.

00:48:34.000 Okay.

00:48:41.000 So I think the newer cell phones that come out could charge to full in like 10 minutes.

00:48:46.000 Wow.

00:48:47.000 So you can buy these graphene polymer batteries.

00:48:49.000 You ever get one of those mobile batteries you buy at the Walgreens or whatever, plug your phone in?

00:48:52.000 Yeah.

00:48:53.000 They now have graphene lithium batteries that you can charge that battery pack in 15 minutes

00:48:59.000 and it'll give your phone two hours of charge.

00:49:01.000 Wow.

00:49:02.000 You can put it in concrete and it'll make it three times stronger.

00:49:04.000 You can put it in like, this is just bulk graphene where you just shatter it into powder.

00:49:08.000 You can also make sheets of it, like Tim was talking about, that can be used as electronics, which is more complicated to produce at the moment.

00:49:13.000 And this is literally lobbying.

00:49:15.000 But what I really want to sell you on is hydrogen fuel.

00:49:17.000 Because if we want to reinforce that house of cards, we need a new GDP model.

00:49:21.000 And I think it's based on hydrogen.

00:49:23.000 Fortunately, you can turn the oil into graphene, so we don't have to upend the oil industry.

00:49:26.000 I think fusion energy is promising.

00:49:26.000 Maybe.

00:49:26.000 I don't know.

00:49:29.000 We've reached ignition, now we've got to capture that energy.

00:49:32.000 And nuclear.

00:49:33.000 But out of rice, they're making hydrogen fuel.

00:49:37.000 Let's jump to this story so we can get into what happened last night at the GOP debates.

00:49:49.000 Vivek Ramaswamy, I love this one, defends debunked conspiracy theories he shared at Republican debate.

00:49:54.000 He elevated false or groundless claims about January 6th, U.S.

00:49:58.000 demographic changes.

00:49:59.000 Here's the crazy thing.

00:50:00.000 This is what really, really bothers me.

00:50:02.000 These guys who work for ABC News. 1.00

00:50:04.000 I assume they're either really, really stupid or intentionally lying. 1.00

00:50:09.000 January 6th, definitively, without question, provably, and adjudicated as such, is an inside job. 1.00

00:50:18.000 Next question.

00:50:19.000 And I'll clarify now because I know I tried to hammer that one really, really hard.

00:50:23.000 Several individuals had already been acquitted because the judge outright said police welcomed them in.

00:50:32.000 There's video of police opening the doors and letting people in.

00:50:36.000 The response we've gotten is, oh, well, you gotta understand why they did it, okay?

00:50:40.000 Explain to me why the Q Shaman was given a guided tour, they walk to a door, try to open it, it doesn't open, then they bring him, they bring the guy to the Senate Chambers. 0.97

00:50:49.000 The argument is, they were overwhelmed, they had no choice, they just gave in.

00:50:54.000 Like, the cop who took a selfie?

00:50:56.000 There's more than one cop who took selfies with people, opened these doors, there are doors that are mag-sealed, you know this better than I do, that they're mag-locked, you can't just open them.

00:51:05.000 Someone has to deactivate the electric current to open the door.

00:51:09.000 Somebody did this.

00:51:10.000 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was actually one of the first, probably not one of the first, but of Democrats, she actually said, and this is like a year and a half ago, there were police officers who are fanning people in, moving barricades, opening doors, and she wants answers.

00:51:24.000 I completely agree.

00:51:25.000 Those are facts.

00:51:26.000 So I'll say it this way.

00:51:28.000 The media is claiming Ramaswamy's statements were debunked.

00:51:32.000 Vivek said it now looks like it may have been an inside job.

00:51:35.000 Here's the game they're playing.

00:51:37.000 They're conflating inside job with Joe Biden was involved or Nancy Pelosi was involved.

00:51:43.000 Here's how I'll put it for you.

00:51:46.000 A thousand people work at a bank.

00:51:48.000 One day the bank gets robbed.

00:51:49.000 Two guys who worked there opened the doors for the robbers who then made off.

00:51:53.000 That's called an inside job.

00:51:55.000 The degree to which the guys were involved, who knows?

00:51:57.000 They may have gotten a phone call and they said, hey look, we're gonna slip you a $100 bill.

00:52:01.000 Just open the door for us.

00:52:02.000 And they're like, sure, I guess.

00:52:03.000 I don't even know what's going on.

00:52:04.000 Still an inside job.

00:52:05.000 Inside job refers to someone on the inside facilitated what happened.

00:52:10.000 So while you have people fighting with cops on one side, you have cops opening other doors and letting people in.

00:52:15.000 He also talked about Great Replacement, and this is what really got people all riled up, is that he basically said it was policy for Democrats.

00:52:25.000 So, instead of getting ahead of myself, we'll stick to the January 6th first, and then we'll get into the other portion.

00:52:33.000 The Vague said, why am I the only person on the stage, at least, who can say that January 6th now does look like it was an inside job?

00:52:40.000 They say, that baseless idea has become popular among fringes on the far right and on social media, at times even winning support from lawmakers, including Senator Mike Lee, who last month claimed without evidence that there were undercover federal agents disguised in the crowd during the rioting at the U.S.

00:52:56.000 Capitol as Congress had gathered to certify Trump's election defeat.

00:53:00.000 Well, I'm curious your thoughts on all this.

00:53:04.000 I don't know if there are federal agents.

00:53:05.000 I've heard that claimed.

00:53:06.000 I don't know if you know anything about it.

00:53:08.000 Yeah, I do believe there were federal agents as well.

00:53:12.000 And I believe we had Christopher Wray and a Homeland Security Committee here in, I think, two weeks ago.

00:53:18.000 And when asked that question, he basically gave the tagline, you know, I'm not going to comment on any, you know, Any operation any investigate ongoing investigation type type deal.

00:53:31.000 I actually asked one of the questions.

00:53:32.000 I asked him was hey, why hasn't the pipe bomber been caught right?

00:53:37.000 I found that fascinating that and either way kind of the way I posed the question to him was so do you how many how many people did you guys arrested January 6 and it was I don't know hundreds and hundreds of people, right?

00:53:50.000 The one the one guy that could have you know, basically created multiple mass casualty events with his pipe bombs Meaning killed or injured, you know, you know dozens and dozens of people You know just that the FBI can't find that guy and I just it just it's wild because DC is one of DC is one of the most heavily fortified defended Um, and recorded cities, you know, um, in the entire country.

00:54:22.000 And so you're telling me that, you know, and maybe this, maybe this is, you know, too conspiratorial for some, but it just strikes me as odd that, that this guy, he couldn't, um, he was so proficient that he's able to avoid the most proficient law enforcement organization in the world, yet he couldn't get his pipe bombs to go off.

00:54:43.000 And or people are arguing, oh, well, they got them before, you know, they got the pipe bombs before they were, you know, said to go off.

00:54:43.000 Right.

00:54:50.000 I just I'm sorry, man.

00:54:51.000 I don't buy that this guy has been avoiding, you know, the FBI.

00:54:55.000 I also when I look at guys like Ray Epps, The fact that Ray Epps was in the crowd, he was seen multiple times, he's caught on camera multiple times telling people, we got to go into the building, we got to go into the Capitol, and years into this he's not arrested.

00:55:11.000 Even though, you know, guys on like Revolver News, you know, the guys at Revolver continually reporting on this stuff, it just stinks to high heaven.

00:55:20.000 And then you got that right on the back end of the, you know, Michigan deal with Gretchen Whitmer.

00:55:26.000 I think the FBI has, you know, needs to be reeled in and it's why many of us tried to deny them the ability to get their new FBI headquarters probably about a month and a half ago.

00:55:38.000 And once again, the Uniparty moved in lockstep to give them their new, I think it was like $300 million building.

00:55:45.000 In D.C.?

00:55:46.000 No, it's not going to be in D.C.

00:55:47.000 I can't remember where.

00:55:48.000 It is, it is, it's amazing to me that they are able to track down a garage pull rope Remember that one?

00:55:56.000 Yeah.

00:55:57.000 Who was that guy?

00:55:58.000 Bubba Wallace?

00:55:59.000 Bubba?

00:56:00.000 Yeah, it was a garage pull-up.

00:56:00.000 Yeah.

00:56:01.000 I can't remember his name.

00:56:02.000 It was a dozen agents.

00:56:04.000 So, last year we were swatted.

00:56:07.000 We had... I don't like using the phrase swatted because people don't understand what that means.

00:56:13.000 Let's just say, uh, swatting-like events 15 times.

00:56:17.000 And I'll clarify, a couple of them were fake bomb- uh, bombings.

00:56:22.000 And so, uh, this ranges from, I think it was a thr- it was a- actually it was like 4 or 5.

00:56:28.000 Two of them were physical devices.

00:56:30.000 I shouldn't say devices, were physical objects that were sent here.

00:56:34.000 And I've only somewhat disclosed this before.

00:56:37.000 And so they sent a robot out.

00:56:39.000 They got this, they have this device.

00:56:41.000 It's like, I don't know if it's an x-ray or whatever, but they try and blast the box to see what's inside of it.

00:56:48.000 And whoever did this knew the capabilities of law enforcement.

00:56:54.000 And obstructed the view of the device that seeks to look inside the box externally.

00:56:58.000 Right.

00:56:59.000 They put a panel behind it, like a reflective panel, and they blasted with like x-rays or something.

00:57:03.000 Yep.

00:57:03.000 And they said, we can't get in, so we're bringing the robots in.

00:57:06.000 We also had to, we were forced to evacuate the building for three hours, and the stream went live to like 50,000 people for three hours with nothing in the room.

00:57:14.000 They never, they never caught these guys.

00:57:16.000 We've had police sent here on numerous fake calls, some were actual humans, human voice, some were robotic, and they never catch these guys.

00:57:26.000 But, pull rope.

00:57:28.000 And even after we submitted a bunch of evidence, and told them like, guys, this information, we've got evidence, they just said we don't care.

00:57:36.000 At all.

00:57:37.000 Well, if you were a concerned parent at a school board meeting, Tim, I bet your issue would be resolved, man.

00:57:46.000 You mean if you were a liberal parent concerned about conservatives complaining?

00:57:50.000 Yeah.

00:57:51.000 Your issue would be resolved.

00:57:52.000 Yep.

00:57:52.000 This pipe bomb thing at the Capitol has always kind of fascinated me in that it hasn't been talked about that much, like I heard about it.

00:57:59.000 Was there actual, did they produce the pipe bombs?

00:58:01.000 Was there evidence that, did they show them and be like, these are what we found?

00:58:05.000 And then like show evidence that it was, they were legitimately found?

00:58:09.000 Was there any evidence of them like recording, finding them or any of that?

00:58:13.000 Yeah, there's video footage of them, I think, retrieving the pipe bombs.

00:58:21.000 It heightens the danger of the day, knowing that there were bombs placed.

00:58:26.000 Of course.

00:58:27.000 It wouldn't surprise me if people came out later, like, yeah, you know, we did that to intensify the fear so that we could shut it down quicker.

00:58:34.000 I think a lot of this is like, let's just get it put... I mean, if you told me they had no FBI agents in the crowd that day, I'd be kind of disappointed with the FBI.

00:58:43.000 You're going to do a riot on the Capitol and you don't have FBI agents out there looking at stuff?

00:58:47.000 Get your agents on the field.

00:58:49.000 Let's address that.

00:58:51.000 Let's just say they were caught off guard and there's 250,000 Trump supporters marching around.

00:58:55.000 The feds had no one?

00:59:00.000 No, no, that's an absurdity.

00:59:01.000 I'm sorry.

00:59:02.000 They knew well in advance.

00:59:03.000 Yo, I'm some dude who just complains on the internet, and I read a Fox News story that Trump was calling for protests.

00:59:08.000 I was like, wow, that's gonna be crazy!

00:59:10.000 Media Matters ran a hit piece on me claiming that I had foreknowledge, because I said something in November where I was like, yo, these Proud Boys and Three Percenters or whatever are gonna rush to D.C.

00:59:20.000 and storm the White House or something.

00:59:22.000 They're not going to accept a Trump defeat.

00:59:24.000 Literally didn't happen.

00:59:25.000 Didn't happen in November.

00:59:26.000 It was January way later.

00:59:27.000 I had no idea.

00:59:28.000 It was speculation based on news reports.

00:59:30.000 If I can speculate that, you mean the FBI didn't actually have any plan for security or undercover agents to be there?

00:59:39.000 Yes.

00:59:40.000 I'm thinking about Ray Epps, because that was the one thing when I first was like, like a lightning bolt.

00:59:44.000 Like, what the hell?

00:59:45.000 When he was screaming for people to go in the building, and then he didn't get arrested. 0.97

00:59:50.000 I was like, what in the hell?

00:59:51.000 Like, at least arrest him and do like a dog and pony show to make it look like he was one of the bad guys. 0.98

00:59:57.000 Isn't it crazy?

00:59:57.000 Can I just point this out?

00:59:59.000 This is a story from the New York Post.

01:00:00.000 Isn't it crazy that it was March of 2023, two years, more than two years later, we got the footage showing capital cops Escorting the QAnon shaman to the Senate floor.

01:00:11.000 How was that not disclosed immediately?

01:00:14.000 Especially considering they're locking this guy up.

01:00:17.000 Or at the time they were about to lock him up.

01:00:19.000 You see this video where they're actually walking him to the doors and opening the doors for him.

01:00:24.000 Yeah.

01:00:25.000 I'm sorry that's an inside job.

01:00:27.000 Yeah, and it's like, maybe they didn't want a prolonged siege of the building, they didn't want all the windows to get broken out, so they're like, just get it over with, get in here.

01:00:33.000 But that they're arresting him for trespassing is like, dude, come on.

01:00:36.000 There's a video where a cop walks in and he's like, can you guys please leave?

01:00:39.000 And I think it's the shaman, he's like, we'll take care of it, we'll be nice.

01:00:41.000 Yo, they let him in in the first place!

01:00:43.000 If he was being that nice, they didn't even need to open the door for him.

01:00:46.000 They could've been like, buddy, nah, you gotta go.

01:00:48.000 And he would've been like, okay.

01:00:49.000 The dude's bumbling around and they're guiding him to these places.

01:00:54.000 I just did a show with Michael Malice and Jacob Chansley, the guy we're talking about.

01:00:58.000 So he's out of jail.

01:00:59.000 I don't know what happened.

01:01:01.000 Did he serve the full sentence?

01:01:02.000 I was trying to look up.

01:01:04.000 I asked him if it was what solitary was like.

01:01:06.000 It was horror on earth.

01:01:07.000 Let's do this.

01:01:08.000 Let's talk about the other component of what Vivek Ramaswamy said that's triggering all of these people in media.

01:01:13.000 And that is, what did he say, false US demographic changes.

01:01:17.000 So they go on to bring up the Great Replacement Theory, and I love how they do this. 0.68

01:01:20.000 ABC News says, Ramaswamy also boosted the Great Replacement Theory, the white nationalist belief that immigration policies are designed specifically to dilute the political power of white Americans by making them a smaller share of the population.

01:01:32.000 The idea has been elevated by media figures like Tucker Carlson, and inspired mass violence in 2015 Charleston, South Carolina church massacre, and in the 2019 shooting at Walmart.

01:01:42.000 Ramaswamy alleged during the debate that the theory is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party platform.

01:01:49.000 How about I just play this video of Van Jones for you, and we'll start breaking this down.

01:01:53.000 ...asking the white majority to do something is difficult.

01:01:57.000 And I think it'd be easier if we just acknowledged that it's difficult.

01:02:01.000 No ethnic majority group in 10,000 years of human history that I could find ever went from being a majority to being a minority and liked it.

01:02:11.000 And that's basically the request from the racial justice left, is that we want the white majority to go from being a majority to being a minority and like it. 0.69

01:02:23.000 That's a tough request.

01:02:26.000 And the reality is that change is hard.

01:02:30.000 Change that you want is hard.

01:02:31.000 Chains it as good as hard.

01:02:33.000 So the racial justice left, according to him, is asking the white majority to go from being a majority to a minority.

01:02:39.000 There's only two ways that happens.

01:02:41.000 One, mass migration, and white people not having kids.

01:02:44.000 If they're asking white people to do this, they're outright saying,

01:02:47.000 we want a policy of mass migration, and we don't want you to have kids. 1.00

01:02:51.000 This is the third way, it's genocide. 0.56

01:02:53.000 Right, right, right.

01:02:55.000 I suppose, you know, in my context, I'm talking about what's currently going on right now in this country.

01:02:59.000 It's clearly not a peaceful way to do it. 0.91

01:03:02.000 But we have this great article from Newsweek, Democrats are massive hypocrites on so-called Great Replacement Theory.

01:03:07.000 And this is by Pedro Gonzalez from 2022 in Newsweek, where he breaks down statements from Joe Biden and many other Democrats where they're outright basically saying this.

01:03:18.000 They're outright saying it.

01:03:19.000 He says the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York was an atrocity the killer will pay for his life.

01:03:23.000 The suspect left behind a 180-page document outlining a schizophrenic worldview.

01:03:28.000 We get that.

01:03:28.000 Biden and the company latched onto it, but here's the problem.

01:03:31.000 Democrats and progressive activists, based on their own rhetoric over the years, subscribed to replacement theory more than anyone else.

01:03:36.000 As Vice President Biden himself said, that a constant and unrelenting stream of immigration would reduce Americans of white European stock to an absolute minority, and that was a source of our strength.

01:03:48.000 I'm not going to go through the whole article because Pedro actually brings up a ton of other excellent examples, but I think right there, When you have Joe Biden, who is now the president, saying, a source of our strength is an unrelenting stream of immigration reducing white Americans to a minority. 0.65

01:04:03.000 Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say like, Vivek's not wrong.

01:04:06.000 Well, he took three quotes out of context and stuffed them all together into one sentence.

01:04:10.000 So I would like to see, I'm not saying Joe Biden's not a racist, but I would like to see the full context of those statements.

01:04:17.000 And also, now, when we talk about Great Replacement, I think it should be repurposed to be like, you know, we're not, it's not designed to specifically dilute the power of the white Americans, it's designed to dilute the power of citizens, of the American citizens. 0.73

01:04:29.000 That's what's happening.

01:04:30.000 That's the problem.

01:04:31.000 Yeah, I think it is bigger.

01:04:33.000 I think it is bigger in many ways, but I also think this, I mean, this has all the hallmarks of cultural Marxism, right?

01:04:39.000 There you go.

01:04:40.000 Cultural Marxism is designed to topple the cultural hegemony or whoever is Perceived to be at the top, you know, it's interesting.

01:04:49.000 I started studying this a couple years ago.

01:04:51.000 There's a, you know, a pastor named dr. Vodie bockham.

01:04:54.000 He's a big black dude that looks like he could play.

01:04:57.000 He was a he was a football player on the rise and then he became a pastor.

01:05:01.000 And he does this phenomenal series and sermon on cultural Marxism and how he went on CNN one time, they invited him on after Obama took the White House, and he said that the anchor was basically asking Dr. Bauckham, hey, do you think that race relations in the U.S.

01:05:19.000 are going to get better now that we have a black president? 1.00

01:05:22.000 And Votie Bauckham said, no, they're going to get worse.

01:05:26.000 And it surprised the anchor.

01:05:28.000 And Vodibachan went on to say, it's going to get worse because Obama sat under a cultural Marxist pastor named Jeremiah Wright for a very long time.

01:05:38.000 And if he goes back and he, you know, kind of gives a history lesson about cultural Marxism and how they tried, you know, Marxism to destroy the West, traditional Marxism, where you pit people against each other economically, right?

01:05:53.000 You have the haves and the have-nots.

01:05:55.000 Well, that didn't work here in the West because everybody was too prosperous.

01:05:58.000 So what they do, they just reverse, they just made a slight change to the ingredients.

01:06:03.000 Instead of dividing us all up on, you know, economic classes, we're just going to divide them all up by race.

01:06:10.000 And it's working tremendously. 0.52

01:06:11.000 I mean, if you go and you look at how divided we are on race, you know, and it's just, to me, it's just disgusting.

01:06:19.000 Like, but, you know, when I when I listen to Van Jones right there, you know, and what he's saying about, you know, I want white, you know, what I want for white people, and to go from being, you know, on top of things, or what do you say, Tim?

01:06:35.000 From being the majority to being the minority and to like it, that has to me all the hallmarks of cultural Marxism.

01:06:42.000 The statement itself is not just an explanation of what they're doing, but an attempt at incitement to trigger reactions which they can then use to gain more power and take advantage of this.

01:06:54.000 You have Van Jones outright saying the racial... I don't know if he's saying I, but he does say the racial justice left is asking white people to become a minority, which Ian does bring up there as a third way.

01:07:03.000 But in American politics, there's mass migration and birth control, advocacy against having kids and things like this.

01:07:09.000 That's actively happening.

01:07:11.000 And so, Van Jones saying that, then gets people on the right, people like Vivek Ramaswamy, to be like, hey, this is something Democrats have espoused, and then the media immediately comes out and says they're conspiracy theorists and they're racists. 0.88

01:07:23.000 They're white nationalists and they're Nazis.

01:07:25.000 To Ian's point though, I think it's even bigger than, you know, the replacement stuff, and I do think that's a part of it, but... 0.96

01:07:25.000 Yeah. 0.96

01:07:32.000 You know, he said they're trying.

01:07:33.000 It's almost like they're trying to destroy it, right?

01:07:36.000 I think they try and destroy this country every way they possibly can because I don't think they like the country.

01:07:41.000 I don't think that I think that they want it changed.

01:07:44.000 Yes.

01:07:44.000 I think that they they want a top-down totalitarian control.

01:07:47.000 They want it to You know, be some utopia that has, you know, a little bit of socialism, a little bit of communism in it.

01:07:54.000 And as long as we, as long as Americans feel free, prosperous, we have a constitution, we have the ability to defend ourselves, we have freedom of speech, all of that stands in their way.

01:08:06.000 And so I think that it's death by a thousand cuts.

01:08:09.000 And I think that that's why it just feels like we're living in bizarro land.

01:08:13.000 Patrick, Bet David talks a lot about Choosing your enemies wisely, which I think is fascinating, because I'm like, I don't have any enemies, I don't want to have any enemies, but I'm like, who's my enemy?

01:08:23.000 Thinking about today.

01:08:24.000 CCP?

01:08:25.000 I'm not sure.

01:08:26.000 I don't want my enemies to be you, or like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents the Democratic Party in a way that, you know, I find admirable in some ways, at least it's youthful.

01:08:35.000 But like, I don't want my enemies to be in our country.

01:08:38.000 And then I'm like, am I just being xenophobic?

01:08:40.000 But do you think the CCP is involved in this Marxist Obliteration of American culturalism wasn't do you think that the CCP the Communist Chinese Party the?

01:08:52.000 That's as far as I'll go.

01:08:53.000 Do you think that they're like the masterminds of this?

01:08:55.000 Oh, no, it's it doesn't take a person So like the it's an ideology.

01:09:00.000 So like, you know, like if you go to a Catholic Mass Right, like if you go to a Catholic Mass in the US and then one in you know in somewhere in South America They're gonna be similar because Catholicism has stuff that you are supposed to do to be Catholic The leftist ideology that he outlines, and he's 100% right in my opinion, the leftist ideology that he outlines, there is a whole structure that people follow.

01:09:28.000 So it doesn't matter, you don't need a person that's top-downing it.

01:09:32.000 Right?

01:09:33.000 They believe in an ideology, and so if you believe in the ideology, you follow the tenets of the ideology, and you don't need one particular person to dictate to you, because you do the things that Marxists do.

01:09:46.000 You look at the world through a Marxist lens.

01:09:47.000 That just intensifies the value of the culture war.

01:09:50.000 If it's an innate emergent phenomenon that's spreading like wildfire on the internet, there needs to be a better wildfire.

01:09:57.000 It's not so much emergent.

01:09:58.000 It is people that believe it that are telling other people.

01:10:01.000 Right now, the conduit has been basically the In the academy, basically.

01:10:08.000 Schools have been... Yeah, academia.

01:10:10.000 Like, have you guys, I'm sure, watched the Yuri Bezmenov videos?

01:10:13.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:10:14.000 Where he talks about ideological subversion, right?

01:10:18.000 He's like... I mean, if you watch these videos, I mean... Tim, when do you think those were made?

01:10:23.000 Like, the 90s, 80s?

01:10:25.000 No, no, it was the 80s.

01:10:26.000 Yeah, the 80s?

01:10:27.000 This guy was in the US at this time.

01:10:31.000 KGB defector, you know, saying that, you know, you silly Americans, you think that, you know, the KGB, we spent most of our resources on espionage, James Bond espionage because it's sexy and it's in the movies.

01:10:42.000 He's like, no, only about maybe 15% of our budget went to that stuff.

01:10:47.000 Right that most of it went to ideological subversion, you know putting people in your institutions your culture Academia and teaching this crap these ideologies and and and I think that's what that's what you're seeing right now But I I think the I had this debate 800,000 times actually But I think the the actual issue was big tech and social media and it's not So much the universities I think I think the universities are a component obviously because you see all these videos where someone sends their kids to college and their kid comes back Angry, shaved head, you know, weird tattoos and things like that, face tattoos or whatever.

01:11:21.000 Right.

01:11:22.000 But what we're seeing with the rise of cultural Marxism and things like this started around the world all around the same time, which is more indicative of social media creating the phenomenon than anything else.

01:11:36.000 And there's actually Simple explanation.

01:11:39.000 So the early social media algorithms favor anything that makes people angry.

01:11:45.000 And so you had libertarians, and I think even like Paul Joseph Watson and like Alex Jones, were posting police brutality videos because it got people riled up, they'd watch the video and then complain about it.

01:11:55.000 And so if you're a right libertarian, you're complaining about the same stuff that eventually Black Lives Matter started complaining about. 0.78

01:11:59.000 But what happens?

01:12:01.000 Police brutality on its own only gets 100,000 views.

01:12:03.000 Racist police brutality gets a million views.

01:12:06.000 So the algorithm started favoring content that pushed things like racism is bad, homophobia is bad, anything that would seem like an injustice.

01:12:14.000 And then you had, the example I always cite is Mike.com, which started off as like a Ron Paul libertarian website, turned into a leftist social justice website because of social media algorithms.

01:12:24.000 You write an article that's in favor of right libertarian anti-government, it does okay. 0.86

01:12:28.000 You write a social justice piece, it's got racist, sexist, anti-gay in the title, bang!

01:12:32.000 It's getting a million views, so the company starts putting all their resources into hiring writers to write all that stuff, and then instantly, around the world, you see this in the LexisNexis data, every country experiences, except for like Iran and North Korea, they have weird fluctuations, but almost every single country with access to the basic internet we do, sees the same rise in racism, privilege, intersectionality, feminism, etc.

01:12:55.000 All rapidly happening at the exact same time.

01:12:56.000 Yeah.

01:12:58.000 When I started making internet videos when I was six, I would make a video called, like, We Are All The Same.

01:13:03.000 And, like, if you believe you are, then you are.

01:13:06.000 Like, that kind of mindset.

01:13:07.000 It was that weird post-modernist thing.

01:13:10.000 And they do really well.

01:13:11.000 The videos would do really well.

01:13:13.000 And the people that were watching them, I don't know all of them, but I think a lot of them were suffering in their lives.

01:13:17.000 So it sounded good to, like, yes, we are all the same.

01:13:20.000 But we're not.

01:13:21.000 We're all similar.

01:13:22.000 But we're not all the same, but that just resonates so powerfully when you say something like that with confidence.

01:13:29.000 Especially if you're someone that people like, that they aspire to be like.

01:13:32.000 And so I see why communism constantly cycles back around.

01:13:35.000 It's like, we can all do this together until we get there and then somebody's got to be in charge.

01:13:39.000 Yeah.

01:13:41.000 So I saw those videos online.

01:13:41.000 Right back to the center.

01:13:43.000 Should I take them down or should I leave them up?

01:13:45.000 I won't take them down, but I think leave them up so people can watch my train of thought change over the decades.

01:13:50.000 Yeah.

01:13:51.000 And I think, I don't know where I learned it, if I learned it in high school, like obsessive empathy, too much compassion, what it was.

01:13:57.000 I don't know where it came from, man, but it was just, it was through me growing up.

01:14:03.000 We've got breaking news.

01:14:05.000 This actually broke about an hour ago, but we'll get into it right now.

01:14:09.000 From ABC, Special Prosecutor files nine tax-related felony charges against Hunter Biden.

01:14:14.000 Special Counsel David Weiss has filed additional charges.

01:14:18.000 Let me refresh to get the latest information.

01:14:21.000 In the indictment, prosecutors allege Hunter Biden engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for the years 2016-19, from in or about January 2017 to October 15, 2020, and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns in or about February 2020.

01:14:45.000 Is this how they bring down Joe Biden?

01:14:47.000 How about Joe Biden?

01:14:48.000 That's how they got taxes, that's how they got Al Capone.

01:14:51.000 Right, but I'm not saying this right here is how they get Joe Biden, I'm saying this is in relation to.

01:14:57.000 One by one you get these death by thousand cuts of Hunter Biden, and then eventually someone goes, hey wait a minute, one of these threads goes to Joe, and then Joe, embattled, says, look, I'm gonna step down.

01:15:09.000 You know, these allegations are false, but... You saw the MSNBC clip where they're interviewing Joe Biden and they're asking him questions like, so what do you have to say about these conversations you've had with Hunter's associates when you were lying?

01:15:21.000 And he's like, it's not true!

01:15:23.000 You're lying! 0.99

01:15:24.000 You're all lies! 1.00

01:15:25.000 You're all lying! 1.00

01:15:26.000 You're all liars! 1.00

01:15:27.000 Dog-faced pony soldiers, all of you. 1.00

01:15:29.000 To answer your question, Tim, yes, I think this is the track. 0.99

01:15:31.000 They're going after the Bidens now, and then maybe they'll use the same kind of tax crap to go after Trump.

01:15:36.000 I don't know if they... Are they hitting them on tax charges? 0.50

01:15:38.000 Let me... Let's pull up this clip, because it's kind of crazy to see.

01:15:41.000 Here's a clip of Joe Biden being questioned on MSNBC.

01:15:44.000 Biden on Ukraine and also China.

01:15:47.000 There is polling by the Associated Press that shows that almost 70% of Americans, including 40% of Democrats, believe that you acted either illegally or unethically in regards to your family's business interests.

01:15:59.000 Can you explain to Americans amid this impeachment inquiry why you interacted with so many of your son and brother's foreign business associates?

01:16:08.000 I'm not going to comment that I did not, and it's just a bunch of lies.

01:16:13.000 It's a comment, isn't it?

01:16:15.000 I did not.

01:16:17.000 There's lies.

01:16:19.000 I did not!

01:16:21.000 I keep hearing Tommy Wiseau.

01:16:24.000 70%.

01:16:24.000 40% of Democrats think he acted illegally.

01:16:26.000 That's MSNBC saying this!

01:16:28.000 That's crazy, man.

01:16:29.000 I don't see how Biden ends up the nominee.

01:16:31.000 You know, I don't either, but at the same time, because I know that You know, they're all about that.

01:16:39.000 Their goal is power, right?

01:16:39.000 What's their goal?

01:16:42.000 So I've always thought that he's the perfect front man for what they're doing because as they destroy the country systematically, they got the perfect fall guy out there.

01:16:52.000 The guy can't put together a sentence.

01:16:53.000 He falls constantly.

01:16:56.000 They've got a ton of clearly a ton of dirt on him So he's got to do what they say and he wanted to be he's wanted to be president forever So it's like why and when he's when he when when as the country collapses on his watch They can they can blame him, you know, so I think he's the perfect fall guy But I wouldn't be surprised to see the old bait-and-switch and see a guy like Newsom get thrown in there either so we'll see what happens man, but I wonder what the prediction markets have Newsom at right now.

01:17:23.000 I'm going to check, actually.

01:17:24.000 I don't even know which one's worse.

01:17:25.000 I don't even know what would be worse for the country, honestly.

01:17:28.000 I think it's Mr. Surrender Afghanistan is probably worse. 0.76

01:17:31.000 This guy surrendered the most powerful military on earth to the Taliban and $80 billion worth of equipment he surrendered.

01:17:38.000 How many people died over there in that surrender?

01:17:40.000 19 people died in the bomb that went off.

01:17:43.000 And women throwing their babies, trying to throw their babies over barbed wire to get them inside a military base.

01:17:48.000 The babies are getting caught in the wire.

01:17:50.000 Like, that's because of him.

01:17:52.000 He called, he made that call to get rid of Bagram Air Force Base, Air Superiority, and just left everybody in the lurch with a rushed surrender.

01:17:59.000 The most terrible military executive I've ever seen in power in the United States.

01:18:02.000 I agree, but I don't, you know, a lot of people think Biden's in charge or someone's pulling the leash, and I'm kind of like, no, I think they're letting him flounder.

01:18:09.000 They're sitting back watching and just letting it roll out because, like you said, when it all comes crashing down, they want to burn it down.

01:18:14.000 They want to replace it with something else.

01:18:16.000 They just blame Biden and then he's gone.

01:18:18.000 He's their Patsy.

01:18:20.000 Perfect fall guy.

01:18:22.000 Well, you're right.

01:18:23.000 That is, I mean, it is scary.

01:18:24.000 It's, it's one of, Afghanistan was definitely one of the, you know, big, massive failures. 1.00

01:18:31.000 I was in the SEAL teams for a little bit.

01:18:33.000 And, and one of the things that scared me or concerned me when I was looking at the list of gear left behind was all the night vision goggles.

01:18:41.000 Because, you know, as, as when you're operating overseas, a lot of times we would almost exclusively operate at night, because we own the night.

01:18:51.000 Right.

01:18:52.000 But now that these guys have all that night vision equipment, that's going to make it really difficult for any of our troops or any of our allies that are fighting at night.

01:19:02.000 And you know, that definitely takes our superiority and our advantage down.

01:19:08.000 I don't know how, like how many they actually left, but you know that they're not staying in Afghanistan either.

01:19:14.000 It's getting into Uh, combat zones all over the world.

01:19:17.000 And, like, I mean, anybody that's got, you know, played around with night vision, it is a completely different thing to be able to see at night when, when the people that you're going after can't see it.

01:19:28.000 No, look, I think most city people, I, I, I, I, there's a lot of people listening right now who are gonna be like, nah, Tim's not, most city people don't know what night time is like.

01:19:38.000 So in that famous story about LA, power goes out, the police get a bunch of phone calls about something strange in the sky.

01:19:38.000 Yeah.

01:19:44.000 It was the first time they'd seen the Milky Way.

01:19:46.000 Yeah.

01:19:46.000 So when the lights are all out and it's dark.

01:19:48.000 So when we have a new moon out here where we're at, we have lights set up on the side of the driveway.

01:19:55.000 We have motion lights, not just for us to be able to see, but for security reasons too.

01:20:02.000 You walk down the driveway during a new moon, it is pitch black.

01:20:06.000 And I'm like, you're blind.

01:20:08.000 100% You put on the night vision goggles we got, and it is daylight.

01:20:12.000 We also have daylight flashlights, which are cool too, though.

01:20:15.000 No, it's true, man.

01:20:16.000 It's one of the most surreal experiences that I've ever had walking through one of the, you know, very big cities, some of the most violent cities in the world, but nobody's on the streets but you and, you know, a couple of your buddies patrolling.

01:20:33.000 And that's why.

01:20:34.000 It's because we have that technology and they don't.

01:20:38.000 And now you see it left behind like that and it's just like... The first time you put them on and you could see satellites?

01:20:44.000 Yeah, it's like the movie Step Brothers, right?

01:20:44.000 It's crazy.

01:20:48.000 Were you in when they had panos?

01:20:50.000 Yeah.

01:20:51.000 What's a pano?

01:20:52.000 Are you talking about the binos?

01:20:54.000 No, no.

01:20:54.000 No, the four, yeah.

01:20:55.000 No, I never had those.

01:20:57.000 I always had the binos.

01:20:59.000 What are the pinos?

01:21:00.000 Binos are just two. 1.00

01:21:01.000 Two or four.

01:21:01.000 What was the other one you called them?

01:21:02.000 There's two tubes, panos, there's four tubes.

01:21:04.000 So you can actually see a wider range, yeah.

01:21:06.000 So when I first, first time I ever used them was actually like two years ago or whatever.

01:21:10.000 I bought a pair and you look at the sky and it's like there's a satellite.

01:21:15.000 It's insane!

01:21:16.000 Shooting stars like they're up there happening right now and you just... Oh yeah!

01:21:19.000 Oh yeah!

01:21:20.000 You're seeing them shooting across when you're wearing those things.

01:21:22.000 It's nuts.

01:21:24.000 And then you're, like, walking around like, I can see everything.

01:21:28.000 How much do those cost?

01:21:28.000 How do we get those?

01:21:29.000 Those are $42,000.

01:21:30.000 Oh, wow!

01:21:30.000 How many of those were left?

01:21:32.000 I don't know about that.

01:21:33.000 Were surrendered, you know, offhand, roughly how many?

01:21:35.000 He could Google it right now.

01:21:36.000 I know it wasn't 15 of them.

01:21:39.000 It was thousands and thousands.

01:21:41.000 They probably actually left binos, they probably didn't leave panos.

01:21:44.000 Panos are the really high expensive ones.

01:21:47.000 He was on SEAL, that's why I asked, because the SEAL teams in Delta are the guys that get panos, everyone else gets binos.

01:21:54.000 Plans, guns, and night vision?

01:21:56.000 Yeah, I don't see how Afghanistan was an accident.

01:21:59.000 You don't accidentally abandon your Air Force base in the middle of the night without telling your partners.

01:22:03.000 Yeah, that one's tough to explain.

01:22:06.000 So what do you do in the military, you served with the SEALs, if your commander orders a surrender abruptly that causes mass death and loss of equipment and life, what happens to that commander?

01:22:21.000 I guess it depends on who the leadership at the top is, right?

01:22:25.000 The military, you know, I think for a long time has been I think for a long time had been spared from a lot of the insanity of this culture.

01:22:35.000 But even over the last couple years you've seen, you know, it, you know, infect the military as well.

01:22:43.000 Like I just we had a we had an Air Force Admiral in Homeland Security.

01:22:48.000 I think this last week and He was talking about some of their issues, and one of their big issues was recruitment.

01:22:55.000 And I asked him, do you think it has anything to do with the, you know, DEI training?

01:23:01.000 Do you think it has anything to do with, you know, drag shows on base?

01:23:04.000 You know, that type of stuff that never really was in the military.

01:23:09.000 And he's like, no.

01:23:10.000 And he chalked it up to COVID.

01:23:12.000 And I asked him, well, do you think it has anything to do with forcing our service members to take an experimental vaccine?

01:23:20.000 And, you know, basically he was like, well, you know, I don't know about that.

01:23:24.000 And I was like, because now the armed forces are actually offering these guys that didn't take the vaccine to come back in.

01:23:30.000 Yeah.

01:23:31.000 Right.

01:23:31.000 And they said, oh, and we'll clear your record.

01:23:34.000 Right.

01:23:35.000 After they forced them out, many of them had families, had to find a new job, you know, whatever.

01:23:40.000 And they didn't get on.

01:23:41.000 I don't believe they got honorable discharges.

01:23:43.000 Right.

01:23:44.000 I think it was administrative, wasn't it?

01:23:46.000 I don't remember.

01:23:47.000 You might be right, Tim.

01:23:49.000 But I asked him, do you think that had anything to do with it?

01:23:52.000 And he basically said, I'm not able to comment on that.

01:23:55.000 Who was that?

01:23:59.000 So Matt, it was some Air Force, or I'm sorry, not Air Force, it was the Coast Guard.

01:24:04.000 General discharge under honorable conditions.

01:24:06.000 Okay.

01:24:07.000 So that's what I guess is being reported.

01:24:10.000 Just so that Admiral knows, if you own up to the truth, they'll be more likely to re-enlist.

01:24:15.000 Yeah, it was because they were forced to take a vaccine that they didn't trust and they quit because of it, or they were discharged because of it, and now they're being asked to come back, like what?

01:24:22.000 Have some humility, guy, Admiral.

01:24:24.000 Well, that's the problem.

01:24:25.000 The military is one of the most dangerous jobs you can have, and if you don't have any faith that leadership's not going to sell you out, if you believe that your leadership will stab you in the back so they can continue to get promoted, how many people do you think are going to join?

01:24:41.000 And that's, that's the thing.

01:24:43.000 It's like a lot, a lot of these young kids, I mean, and I think there's multiple issues there, but a lot of these young kids don't trust this, the leadership that they just saw, you know, be in charge of the debacle in Afghanistan and that, you know, force a bunch of our troops to get an experimental vaccine.

01:25:00.000 And now that they can't recruit kids to come back in, you know, they're offering, hey, to bring them back.

01:25:05.000 I mean, it's just, it's a complete leadership disaster.

01:25:08.000 What do you think would be a good incentive to get people back?

01:25:12.000 Well, I think I think an apology to start with would be really nice and these these guys taking ownership and be like, hey, we screwed up.

01:25:19.000 Okay, we screwed up.

01:25:20.000 Secondly, like my little brother, you know, when he was a Cobra pilot in the Marine Corps, he I think he was on his last year in the Marine Corps and was basically told you're getting the back you're getting the vaccine or you're out.

01:25:34.000 And so my little brother went to the Naval Academy, like flew helicopters, you know, high-performing guy.

01:25:41.000 Actual officer, not warrant officer.

01:25:43.000 Yeah, and he was an O, and he lost his retirement because he wouldn't put that in his body. 0.75

01:25:48.000 And so you got to take care of those guys, and then you got to take care of the folks that are injured now because of the vaccine as well, and just make them feel like, hey, we got your back.

01:25:59.000 Because if you don't got my back when it comes to, you know, this stuff right here, I don't I don't think you're gonna have my back when we're going to war against the CCP or we're going to war against Iran and you know I'm I'm out there by myself and I need some air support.

01:26:16.000 And to the to the point that you were making earlier about the cultural Marxism and stuff that the goal of that kind of stuff is to shake people's faith and and in the in the our system in the United States and so if you've got you know Graduating class, after graduating class, after graduating class, being churned out of high schools and colleges that have been taught that America's not really all that good, America's not worth fighting for, America's a bad force, a force for evil in the world, America's the villain on the global scale normally, and generally that's the role that the U.S.

01:26:51.000 has had since the end of World War II.

01:26:53.000 If that's what you've been taught, why would you join the military to serve the government?

01:26:57.000 There's no reason to.

01:26:59.000 I want to do like a mini segment real quick.

01:27:01.000 Have you guys heard about what's going on with Venezuela and Guyana?

01:27:03.000 Yeah.

01:27:04.000 No, what's happening?

01:27:05.000 Venezuela's declaring ownership of the western portion of the nation of Guyana and amassing its military and now Guyana's requesting US aid to prevent the invasion.

01:27:15.000 It's over half of the country that they're making a claim to.

01:27:17.000 It's not just a small part.

01:27:19.000 Socialists want stuff for free.

01:27:21.000 And so part of the reason why they're doing this is because ExxonMobil was just doing explorations off the Ghana coast, and so they want to go after Ghana's oil.

01:27:35.000 Ghana's on the other continent.

01:27:39.000 No, my bad.

01:27:40.000 Ghana and Ghana.

01:27:41.000 So it's after the capitalists have done the exploring to find the oil reserves that you would only be able to find with tools provided or invented for capitalist exploration, and now the socialists are like, yo, that's mine.

01:27:56.000 Give me that.

01:27:57.000 I just want to say, like, you've got Middle Eastern conflict, you've got Eastern European conflict, you now have an escalating... You're tying it together.

01:28:04.000 Was it?

01:28:04.000 You're tying it together, yeah.

01:28:06.000 Oh yeah, now you've got South American conflict, and Southeast Asia is right on the horizon, too.

01:28:10.000 And also, this would be a world war.

01:28:13.000 Also, with the stuff going on in South America, there is the Monroe Doctrine that we have to worry about.

01:28:17.000 If there's anyone that decides that they're going to support Venezuela, that would be from Asia or from, you know, whether it be Russia or China or whatever if they or around if they decide they want to support Venezuela Then the u.s.

01:28:33.000 Has the Monroe Doctrine which is saying that no one from from any other part from the from the Eastern Hemisphere Has any business being in the Western Hemisphere?

01:28:41.000 This is the total the domain totally the domain of the United States and we will not accept countries from Europe or from Asia or from The Middle East or from Africa meddling in North or South America.

01:28:54.000 We just totally reject it out of hand.

01:28:56.000 And so now the U.S.

01:28:57.000 is in a situation where if anyone does decide to go ahead and support Venezuela, then the U.S.

01:29:02.000 is going to talk about the Monroe Doctrine and say, you can't be here.

01:29:05.000 I don't think it even matters if Russia, Iran, or China gets involved with Venezuela.

01:29:09.000 The fact is, if we have war in South America, war in Southeast Asia, war in Eastern Europe, war in the Middle East, you've got world war.

01:29:17.000 That's kind of how World War II, like, Mussolini started that, with his North African conquest. 0.69

01:29:23.000 He gave Hitler the green light, basically. 0.80

01:29:24.000 He was like, hey, look, you can conquer your neighbors and no one's stopping me.

01:29:28.000 And then Hitler was like, ooh, wow, I like that guy. 0.98

01:29:29.000 And Japan, it's not like these are neighboring countries.

01:29:32.000 Japan's war was totally different.

01:29:34.000 You do it, which justifies that guy doing it, which justifies that guy doing it, and then you've got like a smash-and-grab situation where everyone's like, well, before this is over, I'm gonna see if I can get a piece.

01:29:42.000 Maybe not justify, but basically creates the opportunity.

01:29:45.000 Yeah, justifying their own minds, I should say.

01:29:47.000 I mean, is there really ever a justification for offensive war?

01:29:49.000 I don't know.

01:29:50.000 Yeah, but the scarier thing, I suppose, as Phil's bringing up the Monroe Doctrine, is Guyana's asking the U.S.

01:29:55.000 to prevent the invasion.

01:29:56.000 So what do you guys think?

01:29:57.000 Are we going to get involved in war in Venezuela?

01:30:00.000 I don't think so, but I'd rather have our aircraft carriers there than in the Red Sea or something.

01:30:04.000 I agree, because we're talking about having our forces in the Gulf.

01:30:08.000 All I can say is I'm missing some mean tweets right about now.

01:30:11.000 Are you involved with this kind of the military stuff in the congress?

01:30:16.000 I mean, you know, it's like, uh, involved in, in, uh, the function of funding.

01:30:24.000 That's the power of the purse is probably the biggest tool that Congress has. 0.97

01:30:29.000 And so funding the military and then also funding, you know, I would say our projects overseas and foreign affairs that that's A lot of Congresses, and obviously Congress can declare war as well, but that doesn't happen too often in modern times.

01:30:49.000 Hasn't happened since World War II.

01:30:51.000 Yeah, usually in modern times, you know, you've got your executive branch that's doing that.

01:30:57.000 So the executive takes control of the military or, you know, probably unrighteously.

01:31:01.000 No, the executive always has control of the military.

01:31:03.000 So once it's unleashed, it's the executive's authority until they want to stop.

01:31:07.000 Does Congress declare when the war is over or is that up to the executive branch?

01:31:12.000 It can be either or.

01:31:14.000 So if someone's gonna decide to move those aircraft carriers away from Israel off the coast of Venezuela, would that be the president?

01:31:21.000 Right now that's the president, yeah.

01:31:23.000 That's the president making those calls.

01:31:25.000 Joe Biden!

01:31:28.000 He's like, what's it called again?

01:31:30.000 They're talking about Hunter.

01:31:32.000 They're lies.

01:31:33.000 It's all lies.

01:31:33.000 No, so we're talking about Venezuela going to war.

01:31:35.000 You're lying.

01:31:36.000 You're all lying.

01:31:36.000 All right, everybody.

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01:32:08.000 Trump 2024.

01:32:09.000 Right on.

01:32:12.000 Kalashnikov says, why don't you cover the NZ whistleblower?

01:32:16.000 Don't know enough about it.

01:32:16.000 Have you guys heard about this?

01:32:17.000 Negative.

01:32:18.000 He released COVID data.

01:32:20.000 I think vaccination data out of New Zealand.

01:32:22.000 He's facing jail time.

01:32:23.000 Don't know enough about it.

01:32:25.000 We'll have to read more.

01:32:26.000 He's facing jail time for releasing information about COVID?

01:32:30.000 I think it was vaccine data that was released to the public.

01:32:33.000 Something like that.

01:32:34.000 He's a good guy and they're gonna throw him in jail.

01:32:36.000 That's good to know.

01:32:38.000 Rudy Cassone says, Nikki Haley, I'm guessing she doesn't open her mouth, must be hiding her lizard tongue.

01:32:43.000 Okay, I'm sorry guys.

01:32:45.000 It's disqualifying.

01:32:46.000 It's disqualifying.

01:32:47.000 It just is.

01:32:48.000 Nikki Haley, when she talks, she doesn't open her mouth.

01:32:51.000 She does this weird, for real, she does this weird thing where she bares her teeth and only moves her lips. 1.00

01:32:56.000 And I'm actually really impressed because it's not easy to do.

01:32:59.000 You talked about this on two segments today, right?

01:33:01.000 Because I have to watch the videos of her! 0.97

01:33:04.000 I'm watching the debates and Nikki Haley is talking like this.

01:33:08.000 Her lips are moving but her teeth don't move at all.

01:33:11.000 And I'm like, what is she doing?

01:33:13.000 Maybe... Oh, I don't wanna... I don't wanna... Why is she doing that? 0.95

01:33:16.000 Her top teeth are big, so it doesn't look like they're moving, but... No, dude, they're not moving.

01:33:20.000 Sometimes they move.

01:33:21.000 For sure, it's not absolute.

01:33:23.000 But she's gritting... She's talking through her teeth, like when you're yelling at your dog, what are you doing?

01:33:27.000 She was mad at Vivek.

01:33:28.000 My guess is it's a facelift as part of it, so the face is like this while the mouth goes, yeah, maybe.

01:33:35.000 And the neck tension for sure.

01:33:39.000 Watch on the debates, her lips move a lot and her teeth stay there. 0.92

01:33:44.000 I'm like, that's crazy.

01:33:46.000 Maybe she's the lizard person, huh? 0.99

01:33:48.000 I don't know that.

01:33:50.000 You can't unsee it.

01:33:51.000 I'm learning a lot tonight, man.

01:33:54.000 I'm not a fan, not a fan.

01:33:56.000 It is funny, have you noticed all the media reporting that Nikki Haley won the debate?

01:34:00.000 Really?

01:34:00.000 It's so weird.

01:34:02.000 She won the debate?

01:34:04.000 She couldn't name three provinces in Ukraine!

01:34:06.000 That was brutal from Vivek.

01:34:09.000 All right, Ben D says, Tim, need to correct you on things.

01:34:12.000 In 2021, as part of the American Rescue Plan, student debt forgiveness was legislated not to be taxable income through 2025.

01:34:19.000 Democrats are smart, evil, and plan well.

01:34:22.000 Yeah, Joe Biden is canceling another $5 billion, they just announced.

01:34:22.000 Well, there you go.

01:34:27.000 What?

01:34:28.000 Yeah.

01:34:29.000 It's called bribing, bribing the American public.

01:34:31.000 Buying them voters.

01:34:33.000 Yep.

01:34:35.000 Ian Slater says, 17th lol.

01:34:37.000 I mean, I think you were like 5th, but you know, right on.

01:34:40.000 Deadpool says, the music was amazing last Friday.

01:34:42.000 Would be awesome to get Serge Tankian to sing Empty Walls on IRL.

01:34:46.000 Isn't that the guy from System of a Down?

01:34:48.000 Yeah.

01:34:49.000 Yes, we'd absolutely love to have him on the show.

01:34:52.000 Come on.

01:34:52.000 System of a Down?

01:34:55.000 All right.

01:34:56.000 Alpha Turkey says, Ben's hatred for Vivek is something to behold.

01:34:59.000 You talking about Ben Shapiro?

01:35:00.000 Yeah.

01:35:01.000 I think when you just say Ben, everyone knows who you're referring to.

01:35:02.000 He didn't like Vivek.

01:35:03.000 Why come he didn't like him?

01:35:05.000 He's not liked him ever.

01:35:06.000 He's a DeSantis guy.

01:35:07.000 Yeah, he's friends with him, but he's not a fan of him.

01:35:10.000 Oh, okay.

01:35:11.000 I see what you're saying.

01:35:12.000 So he does like him, but he doesn't support him for president.

01:35:14.000 Yeah.

01:35:15.000 He's friends with Vivek.

01:35:18.000 All right.

01:35:20.000 Logan Culver says, Vivek is millennial Ron Paul.

01:35:23.000 Changed my mind.

01:35:24.000 I swear, if I get sent one more video of the Vivek Obama thing, I'm just like, dude, I don't care.

01:35:30.000 They're like, did you notice that Vivek said things that Obama said?

01:35:33.000 I'm like, okay, I don't know.

01:35:34.000 He's studying politicians and trying to learn how to be an effective orator.

01:35:37.000 Next question.

01:35:38.000 What's the point?

01:35:39.000 I liked how he turned to Chris Christie and kind of like emasculated him.

01:35:42.000 I was like, just get off the stage.

01:35:44.000 Come on.

01:35:44.000 Go have a nice meal.

01:35:45.000 And it's like, yeah, that is how I want my executive to talk.

01:35:49.000 to down to other leaders like you need to establish dominance. 0.86

01:35:51.000 You know that there's a video going viral of Barbara Walters being like you're too fat to 0.99

01:35:56.000 be president did you see that? No I didn't see it. And he's like she's like I'm sitting here 0.83

01:35:59.000 across from you and I notice you are overweight and he goes very and she goes why and he's like

01:36:06.000 if I knew I'd fix it. 0.93

01:36:07.000 And she goes, well, some people say you're too fat to be president. 1.00

01:36:10.000 And he was like, that's, that's ridiculous. 0.99

01:36:12.000 That's, I don't know if she said it like that bluntly, but you know, I'll say it right now. 0.99

01:36:16.000 I mean, the dude's got major health problems.

01:36:18.000 I mean, look, I, any, I don't think that, I think it's irresponsible to put people that are, that are unhealthy like that in positions of Not just positions of power, but positions that we look up to.

01:36:31.000 I was talking to Brett about this today on PCC or before PCC.

01:36:36.000 We need to bring back aspirational.

01:36:39.000 No more of this ads that mimic reality and television shows that mimic reality and blah blah blah.

01:36:46.000 I want aspirational things.

01:36:47.000 I want attractive people in my ads. 0.84

01:36:50.000 I want attractive people that make people aspire to be better than they are.

01:36:57.000 And I think those are the people that should get more focus from society.

01:37:04.000 We want to go to Mars!

01:37:06.000 Yeah, I mean, that's aspirational, you know, but I think that... A national vision and a national plan and something that unites us.

01:37:11.000 Yeah, but the idea that we should focus on average, everyday, and mundane, and that's what we should put in front of our faces all the time because that's what reality is, I think that we should reject that and we should look towards more aspirational things.

01:37:24.000 I like when average mundane becomes awesome over the course of a movie, because then you're like, well, now I know what average is.

01:37:29.000 That's the hero's journey.

01:37:31.000 Yes.

01:37:32.000 All right.

01:37:33.000 Komi Watermelon says, cast brew coffee in Shadowrun.

01:37:36.000 It's a good night.

01:37:37.000 Make Shadowrun great again.

01:37:39.000 What is that?

01:37:39.000 Shadowrun is like, uh, post-apoca... Eh, it's like, no, it's like a fascist corporate... corporatized global governance D&D.

01:37:49.000 Like in the future.

01:37:50.000 I thought that's what it was, because you mentioned it before.

01:37:52.000 There's magic and dwarves and all these, like, fantasy characters, but it's all corporations.

01:37:56.000 We gotta do that.

01:37:57.000 Yo, like, we need to do this, okay?

01:37:59.000 We need to do the Culture War D&D game.

01:38:03.000 It could be really good.

01:38:04.000 I mean, that would be in, like, I mean, we, we, we, we, we play it live.

01:38:08.000 We do it for like four hours.

01:38:09.000 How many hours should a campaign go?

01:38:11.000 No, it's got to be more than two.

01:38:11.000 Two plus?

01:38:12.000 It's got to be, like, a campaign probably should go.

01:38:15.000 Oh, a campaign.

01:38:15.000 A campaign should go.

01:38:16.000 Yeah, it should be, like, weeks.

01:38:16.000 30, 40, 50 hours.

01:38:17.000 Over the course of, like, six months.

01:38:19.000 So I'm saying, like, sit down for two, three hours at We need, so I think there already exists like a political version of D&D but we need to formulate it as to the modern politics and do like, so you know what like the Democrats and the neocons did in 2020 that is a war game?

01:38:32.000 They basically played Dungeons and Dragons but the characters were like Hillary and Trump and Biden and they war-gamed out what would happen by rolling die and like playing D&D and so I'm like we should do a show that creates the campaign Throughout 2024, and, like, stays a little bit ahead of what's going on.

01:38:52.000 Yeah, make Half-Orcs great again. 1.00

01:38:54.000 Well, we wouldn't call them Half-Orcs, you'd have, like, politicians, you know? 1.00

01:38:59.000 The point of the game is, like, you're a lobbyist for Raytheon, you know what I mean?

01:39:03.000 Have you guys ever played a video game on the show like that?

01:39:07.000 We wouldn't do it on this show, we'd make a different show.

01:39:09.000 We did film one time, we played D&D, that was kind of fun, but it wasn't like a live thing or anything like that.

01:39:14.000 But, uh, Maybe gamer maids. 1.00

01:39:18.000 Yeah, I was thinking that today.

01:39:19.000 It could be like an all-inclusive gamer channel.

01:39:22.000 It doesn't have to just be video games.

01:39:23.000 The whole idea of gamer men and gamer maids.

01:39:26.000 Let's roll with it.

01:39:28.000 Gamer men.

01:39:29.000 And gamer maids. 0.93

01:39:30.000 Yes, I'm a proud gamer man.

01:39:31.000 No, but for real, how do we do this?

01:39:34.000 We need someone who knows politics and D&D and can craft this.

01:39:38.000 Maybe you should DM it.

01:39:39.000 No.

01:39:40.000 You'd be a great storyteller.

01:39:41.000 No time for that.

01:39:43.000 I ain't got no time for that! 0.94

01:39:44.000 But it's fun, it's like a Sunday night.

01:39:46.000 Yeah, we could do a Sunday night live show, and then you're basically like, okay, the primary's happening, I'm gonna roll and see what happens, like, oh man, you know, Donald Trump actually lost to Iowa, how did that happen?

01:39:58.000 Oh, that's interesting.

01:39:59.000 Yeah, and then you'd have like Proud Boys and Antifa and whatever.

01:40:03.000 It'd be hilarious.

01:40:04.000 All right, anyway.

01:40:06.000 All right, where are we at?

01:40:07.000 Nick Knapper says, Tim, man, you look tired.

01:40:10.000 I am the antithesis of tired.

01:40:13.000 I feel great.

01:40:14.000 But thank you.

01:40:15.000 Thank you for your concern.

01:40:17.000 Uh, man, I barely sleep.

01:40:18.000 I can't sleep.

01:40:19.000 I sleep like six hours a night.

01:40:20.000 Do you meditate?

01:40:21.000 Uh, no.

01:40:23.000 I just did that.

01:40:23.000 It was great.

01:40:24.000 No?

01:40:25.000 I took a sauna.

01:40:25.000 What about melatonin?

01:40:27.000 Take any melatonin?

01:40:27.000 None of that.

01:40:28.000 You work out?

01:40:29.000 Uh, I skate a lot.

01:40:31.000 And so, uh, we've been skating a lot and filming a lot.

01:40:34.000 Does that help?

01:40:34.000 Does that help you sleep when you skate?

01:40:36.000 No, no, I don't have trouble going to sleep.

01:40:38.000 I just don't need that much sleep.

01:40:39.000 Oh.

01:40:40.000 So, I go to bed usually around like 1 a.m.

01:40:42.000 and I wake up around, uh, it's six and a half hours.

01:40:44.000 I wake up around 6.30.

01:40:45.000 I'm sorry, 7.30.

01:40:46.000 So, yeah.

01:40:46.000 That's pretty awesome.

01:40:49.000 Sleep and rest are different things.

01:40:50.000 You can rest while you're awake.

01:40:52.000 And you can get sleep and not get rest, that's for sure.

01:40:53.000 Then I work throughout the morning.

01:40:55.000 I've been working a lot faster.

01:40:57.000 I've been trying to get things done sooner, but it only works depending on what, like, the news is.

01:41:00.000 So right now we're in, like, things are getting kind of dense news-wise, so it allows me to record more quickly.

01:41:05.000 And then I've been skating around, like, 1 p.m., where I usually would skate around 3 p.m.

01:41:09.000 Gives me a little bit more time to go get food and then come back and hang out.

01:41:12.000 And then we get ready for the show around, like, 6.30.

01:41:15.000 Onward and then we finish at 11, and then I'm in bed by 11 30, and then I just watch I bet I usually I just watch TV shows, but Recently we were at a bank and one of the bank tellers had Jujutsu kaisen as his desktop background And so I was like I'm gonna watch that show and then I just spammed it anime Yeah, so is that is that your show your like genre of choice right now?

01:41:39.000 No, I mean like when you when you have a so the boys great show Gen V I like that and then what was the other thing I was watching?

01:41:47.000 I much prefer shows like that, but then recently just because some guy to bank was watching I was like I guess I'll check it out, and then, uh, actually, I think it's pretty good.

01:41:58.000 It's pretty good.

01:41:58.000 Cool.

01:41:59.000 But, uh, I don't know.

01:42:00.000 Jujutsu Kaisen means sorcery battle.

01:42:02.000 Sorcery battle.

01:42:04.000 Yeah.

01:42:04.000 That's basically what it's about.

01:42:06.000 And people, uh, like, it- You basically take any anime, like modern anime, and they're all, like, identical.

01:42:13.000 You know what I mean?

01:42:14.000 You ever see that thing where they- They took, uh, yeah, energy blasts or whatever.

01:42:19.000 Someone took the top four country songs over like four years and then laid them over each other and it's the same song.

01:42:28.000 So, you know, that's how anime works too.

01:42:30.000 It's like when it works, you know, it works.

01:42:32.000 All right.

01:42:34.000 Sakurai13 says, I stopped eating bread after I realized it was staying fresh a month after the expiration date.

01:42:42.000 I don't like to eat things like that.

01:42:43.000 You put fresh in quotation marks.

01:42:47.000 I feel like that is more indicative of them telling you that it goes bad long before it's actually going to go bad, so you buy.

01:42:55.000 More than it is actually a problem.

01:42:58.000 Yes.

01:42:58.000 Yep.

01:42:59.000 However, I think it's also depending on the bread like McDonald's doesn't rot or mold.

01:43:06.000 So there so if you get Wonder Bread just like white Wonder Bread like a plain old white Wonder Bread that stuff will be moldy with like real fast and I feel like that's because of the sugar content in it.

01:43:17.000 That's what I was thinking.

01:43:18.000 But I don't, but if you get like all natural bread, that stuff will last and last and last.

01:43:22.000 No, no, no, no.

01:43:23.000 You need to make bread like every day and it would mold in a couple days.

01:43:25.000 If you keep it dry, it stays better longer.

01:43:27.000 If you keep it dry, yeah.

01:43:29.000 But like five days.

01:43:31.000 After two days, you're like... If there's any moisture, plastic bags make it go moldy really quick.

01:43:35.000 But if it's in like a dry thing with holes in it, you can kind of like a bread basket, you can keep it five days, maybe seven top.

01:43:41.000 But usually by seven, you've got mold on it.

01:43:43.000 Five, probably five.

01:43:45.000 Rob says, Phil should use his failed musician skills and see if Shawn Danielson of Smile Empty Soul and Aaron Lewis of Stained would come on the show.

01:43:53.000 Also, I hear James Hetfield is pretty based.

01:43:55.000 Ian, you're the man dude.

01:43:56.000 Rock on.

01:43:57.000 I don't know the guys in Smile Empty Soul or James Hetfield, but I do know Aaron.

01:44:00.000 I'm trying to get a hold of him, but I haven't been able to.

01:44:02.000 He actually just left.

01:44:03.000 He was here a week ago.

01:44:05.000 Yeah.

01:44:05.000 Last week.

01:44:06.000 I'm trying to get in touch with him.

01:44:07.000 So he played at Hollywood Charlestown and I was like, oh, maybe he'll have time, but it looked like his schedule wouldn't have made sense.

01:44:15.000 So I don't know if our people reached out to his people or whatever happened, but I think he was coming straight from like Philly.

01:44:20.000 Yeah.

01:44:20.000 So it was like, no, no one's going to do a show and then do a morning, like no one's going to play a live show up to midnight, then do a morning show and then do another show that night.

01:44:29.000 It'd be cool to have him on the Culture War though. 0.82

01:44:31.000 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:44:32.000 That'd be really great.

01:44:34.000 I really like that guy, man.

01:44:35.000 Who is he?

01:44:35.000 Aaron Lewis.

01:44:36.000 Yeah.

01:44:37.000 Yeah, reading what he wrote.

01:44:38.000 He wrote that song that was really big about America, you know?

01:44:40.000 Right.

01:44:42.000 He's from Springfield.

01:44:43.000 He's from the town that I grew up in.

01:44:44.000 Well, the town just south of where I grew up.

01:44:48.000 But reading about his explanation for, like, why he wrote it and why he decided... It's amazing.

01:44:54.000 He's a good dude.

01:44:54.000 Oh, yeah.

01:44:55.000 Stand.

01:44:55.000 Okay.

01:44:55.000 Yeah, of course.

01:44:56.000 I know this guy's music.

01:44:57.000 He's great.

01:44:58.000 Oh, yeah.

01:44:58.000 They got tons of great stuff.

01:45:00.000 Yeah.

01:45:00.000 Has it been a while?

01:45:01.000 Is that Stand?

01:45:02.000 Oh, man.

01:45:02.000 It's been a while!

01:45:03.000 Dude, that song is hot!

01:45:04.000 I love that song.

01:45:09.000 All right.

01:45:09.000 Andrew8843 says, Disabled veteran here.

01:45:11.000 Why can't the major Richard Starr act to get a vote in Congress?

01:45:15.000 Which one is that?

01:45:16.000 Major Richard Starr Act.

01:45:17.000 I'm not familiar.

01:45:20.000 I don't know it off the top of my head.

01:45:22.000 I'd have to look it up.

01:45:23.000 Andrew just lobbied Congress right now, that super chat.

01:45:25.000 Maybe now you'll look into it and maybe something will happen.

01:45:27.000 Who knows? 0.95

01:45:28.000 Maybe it turns out to be a really bad act and he's like, whoa, this guy's crazy.

01:45:31.000 Or maybe it's something really good that needs to get some conversation.

01:45:33.000 We'll figure it out.

01:45:35.000 Brown Bear says, as much as I want to see Trump get his revenge after last night, I honestly think Vivek would be a better president.

01:45:41.000 I agree.

01:45:42.000 But the issue with Vivek is You know, all in due time, I think Vivek would be an excellent president.

01:45:50.000 I think, first, he'd be a great VP.

01:45:52.000 I know he probably doesn't want to do that, but I wonder if that's just him saying publicly, I don't want to be VP because he needs to maintain the composure of, I'm a leader.

01:46:00.000 I'm not just here to be VP.

01:46:02.000 But, I don't know, I think he'd do a fantastic job, actually.

01:46:06.000 Yeah, me too, man.

01:46:07.000 You know, I want to throw in on that one.

01:46:10.000 Here's the deal, though.

01:46:11.000 A lot of politicians are great at talking.

01:46:13.000 Oh yeah.

01:46:14.000 Right?

01:46:14.000 And so, as far as I'm concerned, is Vic Vake great on a debate stage?

01:46:19.000 Absolutely.

01:46:20.000 But, You can't really judge any of these folks until you see them under pressure.

01:46:26.000 And that's the reason why I'm Trump all the way, because we've seen them throw the kitchen sink at him.

01:46:33.000 And he doesn't stop.

01:46:34.000 He doesn't change course.

01:46:36.000 And he's willing to stand in the gap no matter what.

01:46:38.000 Which is why, you know, Vivek may be strong if he got into one of these pressure situations, but we already know Trump is.

01:46:47.000 And that's why I support Trump all the way.

01:46:51.000 Because politicians are great at talking and talk is cheap.

01:46:54.000 And that's another good point.

01:46:55.000 I'd like to see Vivek take on office.

01:46:58.000 He's got a debate.

01:47:00.000 But apparently the rumor is Melania wants Tucker to be VP. 0.94

01:47:06.000 I saw that too.

01:47:07.000 I think Tucker would be.

01:47:08.000 Yeah, I think Tucker would be a better VP than Vivek.

01:47:11.000 Vivek's leadership material.

01:47:12.000 Vivek should figure it out.

01:47:14.000 I don't know.

01:47:14.000 I think he's fantastic.

01:47:15.000 But Trump-Carlson 2024?

01:47:17.000 Man, ow! 1.00

01:47:17.000 That'd be hot. 1.00

01:47:19.000 That's the populist ticket.

01:47:21.000 That'd be awesome.

01:47:23.000 Yeah.

01:47:23.000 But I agree on the revenge thing.

01:47:24.000 It doesn't thrill me as a message to send to the people.

01:47:27.000 I don't want to... No, he's saying he does want it.

01:47:30.000 Oh, he agrees that revenge is cool?

01:47:32.000 I don't know.

01:47:32.000 But he says, despite that, I do think Vivek would be better.

01:47:35.000 Yeah, being given a plan and a blueprint of the future is exhilarating.

01:47:40.000 I like revenge.

01:47:41.000 I like, you know, and it's funny because you've got these pundits being like, Donald Trump doesn't care about you.

01:47:45.000 He only wants revenge for himself.

01:47:46.000 And I'm like, yeah, I'm on board with that.

01:47:49.000 Yes, okay, next question.

01:47:50.000 Are you kidding?

01:47:51.000 Trump going in and firing a bunch of people?

01:47:54.000 Yeah, great.

01:47:55.000 Let him get his revenge.

01:47:56.000 Have a good time.

01:47:56.000 When they did that quote too, where they asked him if he was gonna be authoritarian the day he went in, or if he was gonna abuse his power.

01:48:04.000 Yeah, and he answered the question without listening to the question.

01:48:07.000 He answered it in a way that didn't make sense.

01:48:09.000 So I don't think he said, yes, I'm going to abuse my power.

01:48:12.000 He was just like, He said he's going to do it on the first day.

01:48:15.000 Close the border and deport a bunch of people. 0.97

01:48:17.000 Close the border and drill. 0.90

01:48:18.000 And drill, drill, drill, yeah.

01:48:19.000 And then Sean was like, yes, but going after your opponents, he's like, we're going to drill!

01:48:23.000 And he's like, so you're saying you want to bring things back to the way they were.

01:48:26.000 OK, next question.

01:48:27.000 We're going to drill!

01:48:30.000 Want to close the border!

01:48:32.000 Mikey says, yo, Tim, it's my birthday.

01:48:34.000 Happy birthday.

01:48:35.000 Is that Mickey or Mikey?

01:48:36.000 I think it's Mickey.

01:48:38.000 The Ninja Bear says, Tim, you have to have movies like Monty Python and Die Hard playing in the studio.

01:48:44.000 Mary hasn't seen them.

01:48:45.000 Phil and Peeps, Empire is the best Star Wars movie.

01:48:48.000 Jedi is just Muppets.

01:48:49.000 Ian, Web 3.0 Blockchain.

01:48:51.000 We were talking about Star Wars, uh, before the show.

01:48:55.000 He was listening to the show today, PCC Today.

01:48:57.000 Oh, they were talking about it?

01:48:58.000 Yeah.

01:48:59.000 Because I mentioned on Twitter that, you know, basically, we talked about how Luke Skywalker got radicalized by religious zealots to go blow up a military base.

01:49:10.000 Canonically, there's between 1 and 2 million people, or 1 to 2 million total, on the Death Star.

01:49:17.000 In later books, they said, oh, it's Empire propaganda, it was only 800,000, and I'm like, Is that better?

01:49:23.000 I mean, dude, come on!

01:49:24.000 Luke Skywalker killed a million people!

01:49:26.000 And it's canonical, uh, it is canon, that, uh, many of the people who were on the Death Star had their families there working as well, and many of them were civilian contractors.

01:49:35.000 Because it has to be!

01:49:36.000 I mean, there's no reasonable storytelling with, well, we evacuated all civilians and the only people there were evil military men.

01:49:41.000 Look, all the people, people's families are there.

01:49:43.000 And so, uh...

01:49:45.000 My point I eventually got to was, I think, you know, people are saying, yeah, but the Death Star blew up Alderaan, and I'm like, nah, that's rebel propaganda, dude.

01:49:53.000 Alderaan blew itself up, you guys, sorry to tell you.

01:49:55.000 Yeah, because they were stockpiling weapons to use against the innocent, you know, people, the religious zealots, and then when it blows up, they just blame it on the Empire as a false flag.

01:50:07.000 But more importantly, real quick, The story of Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith is the most unbelievable and implausible scenario I've ever heard.

01:50:18.000 Here's this guy who's a military hero, beloved by the people, who is working on behalf of the government, legally, and then, one day, just one day for no reason, He murders the head of the Jedi Council, and then decides, an hour later, to massacre children.

01:50:38.000 That sounds like rebel propaganda. 0.97

01:50:40.000 Mental illness. 0.54

01:50:41.000 No, but like, my point is, it's just bad story writing.

01:50:45.000 Like, Anakin Skywalker's like, you can't kill him, he must stand trial.

01:50:48.000 And Mace Windu's like, no, he's too evil.

01:50:50.000 So literally, it's Anakin being like, we must uphold the law. 0.99

01:50:53.000 And then an hour later, he's like, I guess I'll kill a bunch of kids. 0.74

01:50:56.000 Like, that story arc makes no sense whatsoever. 0.92

01:50:59.000 So I want to make a short film.

01:51:01.000 We gotta figure this one out, where it's basically inverting the propaganda and making Star Wars from the perspective of the Empire.

01:51:08.000 They wouldn't call themselves the Empire, that's silly propaganda.

01:51:11.000 They'd call themselves the United States of Space, we'll say.

01:51:15.000 The United Planets of Space, yeah.

01:51:16.000 And then there's a religious zealot group, a group of religious zealots.

01:51:20.000 They blow up a military base, killing millions of people, including hundreds of thousands of civilians.

01:51:26.000 If the Death Star had blown up Alderaan, would they have been justified in murder? 0.76

01:51:30.000 And would it even be murder?

01:51:31.000 I asked you guys that before the show.

01:51:32.000 For Luke blowing that Death Star up with a million people on it, was it justified?

01:51:37.000 I say no.

01:51:39.000 I say yes.

01:51:40.000 I think, so it's all in the storytelling, and the storytelling is the only way to do it, was this one weakness, where they sent in the bomb, and then it blew the whole thing up, and then everyone said that was stupid, and so then they made the prequel Rogue One, where the guy building the SR goes, I've implanted a secret weakness, so that my daughter could blow it up, and I'm like, yeah, okay, great, right, kind of cheap.

01:52:00.000 Right, because the reality is they would stage an attack on, and this is a moon-sized base, they'd attack the weapon.

01:52:07.000 They would disable the weapon and not massacre everybody on the base.

01:52:15.000 Yeah, I want to answer that guy. 0.61

01:52:16.000 He said Empire was the best of the Star Wars and that Return of the Jedi was a bunch of puppets.

01:52:20.000 You're right, it was.

01:52:21.000 But it was the best, in my opinion, because the way Luke turned Darth Vader to the light side is like, just what great storytelling.

01:52:28.000 And that happened in Jedi.

01:52:30.000 Yeah, it was the end of Return of the Jedi.

01:52:31.000 Yeah, not Empire.

01:52:32.000 No, that's why I think Jedi's better, is how he did it in Jedi.

01:52:35.000 Just like that story is like, yo, yes, you can redeem.

01:52:38.000 Okay.

01:52:39.000 Yeah, I disagree with that. 1.00

01:52:40.000 Yeah, it was so stupid how they made him evil in the first place. 1.00

01:52:45.000 That was just so dumb. 1.00

01:52:47.000 Your wife died from sadness, and now you murder children. 1.00

01:52:51.000 Why did Anakin kill a bunch of kids? 1.00

01:52:53.000 It was super cheap.

01:52:54.000 I will do anything you say.

01:52:55.000 What?

01:52:56.000 Why?

01:52:57.000 Like, come on, man.

01:52:59.000 Give me something to believe the dude wants to be evil.

01:53:02.000 Not just the, what have I done?

01:53:05.000 Yikes.

01:53:06.000 But anyway, my point is, we could take those clips and then make a short film where we're like, this is all rebel propaganda.

01:53:11.000 That's not how Anakin... Anakin didn't murder a bunch of kids for no reason!

01:53:16.000 It could start off with, like, an old man reading this end of the story, and it turns out he's, like, a rebel propagandist.

01:53:22.000 They're like, oh yeah, that guy, and then you, like, find out it's all rebel propaganda.

01:53:26.000 I think you just do the movie and you do it from the perspective of the Empire.

01:53:29.000 And then, like...

01:53:31.000 It's just, you don't have Darth Vader killing people, killing children for no reason.

01:53:35.000 Like, that just makes no sense.

01:53:36.000 It doesn't even fit his story arc.

01:53:37.000 No, I mean, for real, if they want to make him evil, there was no point in making him go to a temple to murder children.

01:53:41.000 It didn't do anything for the story.

01:53:42.000 I was thinking, like, Princess Bride, oh, there's the narrator, and he's like, but if you really want to know what happened, and then he gets out the real book, and he's like... And we wouldn't, we wouldn't be able to call it, actually, we might be able to call it Star Wars and the Empire, because we're making fun of it.

01:53:55.000 Luke is just some zealot.

01:53:57.000 Oh, we were talking about this too.

01:53:59.000 Ian mentioned that he comes home and he finds his parents are murdered.

01:54:03.000 Yeah, fried by lasers or something.

01:54:05.000 Alright, let's break this down.

01:54:07.000 His uncle and aunt.

01:54:09.000 Actually, let me ask you.

01:54:11.000 You served overseas.

01:54:12.000 Yeah.

01:54:13.000 You get orders that there are people who have stolen classified military weapons materials and have hidden that in a location.

01:54:24.000 Like, how would that play out if you were ordered to go to that house?

01:54:26.000 And like, they're not cooperating.

01:54:28.000 You have to like, kick the door in.

01:54:29.000 Like, you've got to get that stuff back.

01:54:30.000 Yeah.

01:54:31.000 So, the scenario would be...

01:54:33.000 The Stormtroopers, they call it.

01:54:35.000 Oh, come on, that's propaganda.

01:54:37.000 These servicemen and women receive vital instruction that weapons, classified weapons materials, plans, and means of exploiting and blowing up a military base have fallen into the hands of religious zealot terrorists. 0.57

01:54:54.000 They deploy to this planet, all desert.

01:54:57.000 They go to this house, last known location of the droid carrying the information.

01:55:01.000 And what happens?

01:55:02.000 The people there resist.

01:55:04.000 I mean, so this is not an easy situation.

01:55:07.000 And I don't know what the answer's gonna be, but the end result was, they die.

01:55:11.000 The military then collects what they can, they find nothing, they leave.

01:55:14.000 Luke Skywalker comes home to find his parents are dead, and then says, THE EVIL EMPIRE KILLED MY- or his aunt and uncle, sorry.

01:55:20.000 And he's like, THEY KILLED MY AUNT AND UNCLE AND NOW I WANT REVENGE, and that's probably a true story for what happens with the United States and the Middle East all the time. 0.98

01:55:27.000 And if you think about the drastic nature that the Empire was under, it's like if during the Manhattan Project, if our plans for the nuclear bomb got leaked to the Nazis and it was in a location and we had to send in special forces to get it back, like there is no time.

01:55:40.000 You don't ask if you can have it.

01:55:42.000 Well, let's put it this way.

01:55:43.000 The plans for the schematics for the World Trade Center are stolen by terrorists with also the capability and the means and the plans to destroy them and everyone inside.

01:55:57.000 And soldiers are ordered to go recover that, to put a stop to this plan, and in the search, these two people are killed.

01:56:05.000 They resist, they say, oh, get out of here, a fight breaks out, the guy with the guns wins.

01:56:09.000 That's the key word.

01:56:10.000 The key word there is resist.

01:56:13.000 Right.

01:56:13.000 And in a situation like that, it depends on what level of resistance, right?

01:56:17.000 If you feel like you can handle the situation without lethality, that's absolutely what you do.

01:56:23.000 But if you don't, if you feel like you need to escalate it to lethality, then that's how it works.

01:56:29.000 See, we gotta make this short film.

01:56:30.000 It's gold, man.

01:56:31.000 I definitely feel like I should have beefed up on my Star Wars before coming out here.

01:56:36.000 Luke Skywalker?

01:56:37.000 I feel completely inadequate.

01:56:38.000 Did you see the first three?

01:56:40.000 I think, yeah, I did.

01:56:41.000 I did, but I'm definitely not...

01:56:43.000 At the level of you guys, man.

01:56:44.000 Oh, man, they were so good.

01:56:45.000 That's my bad.

01:56:46.000 So Luke comes home and his aunt and uncle are dead, and then a religious guy in robes comes and he's like, let me explain to you the truth about the evil empire. 0.65

01:56:55.000 And he's like, what's the evil empire?

01:56:56.000 Well, you might call them the United Planets, you know, of the Milky Way.

01:57:01.000 But we call them the evil empire.

01:57:03.000 And then he's like, whoa.

01:57:04.000 And the guy gives him a gun, basically.

01:57:06.000 Like, dude hands him a weapon right away.

01:57:08.000 Luke was gonna join in.

01:57:08.000 How old was Luke?

01:57:10.000 Sixteen something?

01:57:10.000 Yeah, something young.

01:57:11.000 And the dude's like, here's a laser weapon.

01:57:13.000 And he's like, wow!

01:57:16.000 It's also funny with Harry Potter.

01:57:17.000 They're basically giving kids guns. 0.99

01:57:19.000 Like, you give them a wand and then Harry Potter slashes a kid in the back.

01:57:23.000 Luke and Vince were gonna join the United Empire of Planets.

01:57:27.000 Oh yeah.

01:57:28.000 But we'll talk more about that later.

01:57:29.000 Ram Charger says, I was a member of the U.S.

01:57:31.000 Coast Guard, which is part of the DHS.

01:57:33.000 I was one of many who was kicked out over not being vaccinated.

01:57:36.000 If Congress is willing to make the DoD and DHS take us back with back pay and back promotions, no matter our discharge status.

01:57:43.000 Is Congress willing to make the DoD and DHS take us back with back pay, back promotions, no matter their discharge status?

01:57:50.000 No, what do you think about that?

01:57:51.000 Yeah, if it was for the vaccine mandate, I absolutely would be.

01:57:55.000 I've talked to a couple members on the VA committee about that same thing, a couple other veterans.

01:57:59.000 And I do think there's an appetite amongst it from certain members of the conference.

01:58:06.000 I don't know if we could get right now to pass something in Congress, you would need 218 votes.

01:58:11.000 And I think we have like 221 people.

01:58:14.000 So it's a it's a tall order to get any piece of legislation through Congress, and then you have to get it through the Senate.

01:58:20.000 And then Biden would have to sign it.

01:58:22.000 But it goes back to what I was talking about.

01:58:25.000 That's one way right there that they could start to reestablish some trust amongst not only folks that have served, but in, you know, amongst younger generations if they want to get the recruiting numbers up.

01:58:38.000 Let me try- okay, I'm gonna try and get your name right.

01:58:40.000 It's, uh, is it, uh, Wojciech Zapotoczny?

01:58:44.000 I totally got it wrong, but I was close, right?

01:58:47.000 I say that we vote to take Ian's rocks away.

01:58:50.000 All in favor say aye.

01:58:51.000 Unfortunately, we are in a republic where, uh, the sheep is well-armed and can contest the vote.

01:58:59.000 I appreciate the sentiment.

01:59:00.000 Oh, that's true.

01:59:01.000 So everyone in chat, we're not a democracy, you can't... I, being the representative, however, if elected, will issue my decision on voting to take away Ian's rocks.

01:59:11.000 What rocks do they want, Ian?

01:59:13.000 You probably want this aquamarine, no doubt.

01:59:15.000 It's beautiful.

01:59:16.000 And maybe this amethyst, which I love a lot.

01:59:18.000 I think the problem is, ladies and gentlemen, as your representative here at Timcast, I'm actually the one who gave Ian a bunch of those rocks.

01:59:23.000 It's true.

01:59:24.000 We'd have to go through and be like, a divorce settlement I don't want to do.

01:59:26.000 These mushrooms are great.

01:59:27.000 I got them in a triangle like the Triforce.

01:59:29.000 Everyone's voting to take away your rocks!

01:59:31.000 No, don't do it!

01:59:31.000 That's where I get my power!

01:59:33.000 I'm just kidding, by the way.

01:59:34.000 We could do a bit where Ian's rocks get stolen, then he's wearing a suit, reading the Bible.

01:59:39.000 Rock man?

01:59:40.000 We do need a superhero.

01:59:43.000 He should be polishing a chess board, or doing the chess board like Shawshank Redemption.

01:59:49.000 Yeah, they give him all the rocks and he makes a chess board, chess pieces out of it.

01:59:52.000 That's a good idea.

01:59:53.000 That's cool.

01:59:54.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:59:54.000 says, Tim likes chair dancing to Taylor Swift.

01:59:57.000 You know, the last thing I want to bring up on this is, like, if you saw my segment on this one, there's a PSYOP going on right now to convince Trump supporters to attack Taylor Swift.

02:00:05.000 You know why?

02:00:06.000 Because Taylor Swift publicly called out George Soros, she did, and Alex Soros, because they bought her music, her master recordings, out from under her.

02:00:14.000 And now, for some reason, a bunch of Trump supporters are actually attacking Taylor Swift, insulting her, And I'm like, why are you starting a fight with someone who actually just opened the door for an opportunity there?

02:00:26.000 Like, you can go to all of Taylor Swift's fans right now and be like, hey Taylor Swift fan, did you see how George Soros screwed over Taylor Swift?

02:00:34.000 Yeah, we also don't like George Soros.

02:00:37.000 Instead, people are like, Taylor's awful and she's a Democrat, so condemn her, and I'm like, why?

02:00:42.000 It's so weird.

02:00:43.000 It's so weird.

02:00:44.000 That's cool, man.

02:00:45.000 The Uniparty is definitely where we should be focused.

02:00:47.000 Yeah, just don't, like, first of all, if Taylor Swift is going to vote Democrat and push all these things, and she probably will, why go to war with the most popular celebrity? 0.60

02:00:55.000 It just makes no sense. 1.00

02:00:57.000 Because people are dumb. 0.99

02:00:59.000 So we've got to get Taylor over here. 0.99

02:01:01.000 Alright, James Hates Everything says, you've clearly never seen Troops.

02:01:04.000 Google, Owen and Barry were in a domestic dispute.

02:01:08.000 Yes, I have, but it's not what I'm talking about.

02:01:11.000 I'm saying I want to make it totally inverted, right?

02:01:14.000 But anyway, my friends, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends.

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02:01:24.000 It's going to be fun.

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02:01:30.000 Rep Crane, would you like to shout anything out?

02:01:33.000 No, I just appreciate the opportunity to be here, man.

02:01:35.000 Thanks for coming.

02:01:36.000 Yeah, it's it's awesome to be here.

02:01:39.000 And, you know, I appreciate what you guys do.

02:01:43.000 You know that, as you guys know, a lot of media has been completely co-opted.

02:01:48.000 So it's great to have alternate, you know, places where people can come and just listen to regular people talk about, you know, I think, you know, different perspectives.

02:01:57.000 Right on.

02:01:58.000 And the good is, I think independent media is winning.

02:02:01.000 Oh.

02:02:01.000 And it's been gradually just going up and up and up, so that's fantastic.

02:02:04.000 100%.

02:02:05.000 100%.

02:02:05.000 Right on.

02:02:07.000 I am PhilThatRemains on Twix.

02:02:10.000 I am PhilThatRemainsOfficial on Instagram.

02:02:13.000 The band is All That Remains.

02:02:15.000 You can follow us on Spotify, on Apple Music, on Pandora, YouTube, you know, the internet.

02:02:22.000 Yeah.

02:02:23.000 Eli, I hope you come back, man.

02:02:24.000 That was awesome.

02:02:24.000 This was really good.

02:02:25.000 And people are going to follow you on Twitter.

02:02:26.000 It's at Eli Crane underscore CEO is your personal account.

02:02:30.000 And then it's rep Eli Crane is your is your congressional account.

02:02:34.000 Yeah, thank you.

02:02:35.000 Yeah, I probably should have said that, man.

02:02:37.000 Let me do it for you.

02:02:38.000 That's what I do.

02:02:39.000 Thank you.

02:02:39.000 Always pleasure to.

02:02:41.000 Yeah, you too, man.

02:02:41.000 And Serge, tell me about it.

02:02:45.000 Give me that microphone juice.

02:02:47.000 Uh, that spot's fixed over there, so whenever we're done- It is fixed.

02:02:49.000 Get over there, yeah.

02:02:50.000 Oh, good.

02:02:50.000 Just the cable burnt out.

02:02:51.000 It was working for when, uh, what?

02:02:53.000 Soundcheck, like, at six o'clock, so... Right.

02:02:55.000 I guess it just burnt out.

02:02:55.000 Is that Libby?

02:02:56.000 Yeah.

02:02:57.000 Cool.

02:02:57.000 Alright, everybody, we will see you all over at TimCast.com in about a minute or so.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - December 08, 2023

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