Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Elon Musk REFUSES To Reinstate Alex Jones While Unbanning Others w-Aydin Paladin

00:00:00.000 So, Elon Musk just put up a Twitter poll.

00:00:21.000 Reinstate former President Trump?

00:00:23.000 Of course, I clicked yes, and right now there's over a half a million, 550,000 votes, about 63% say yes.

00:00:31.000 That's cool.

00:00:32.000 Elon Musk also reinstated the Babylon Bee, Jordan Peterson, and Kathy Griffin.

00:00:37.000 But he is outright refused to reinstate Alex Jones, even going so far as to respond to Viva Frye saying, too bad.

00:00:46.000 And that's actually fairly brutal, because I can understand, you know, Alex Jones has issued a response already saying, don't blame Elon, you know, he's the most controversial guy in the world.

00:00:54.000 No, no, no, I get that, and I would agree, but I don't understand why Elon is taking it upon himself to kind of rub in that he doesn't actually believe in free speech, and he's kind of just, you know, Spitting on us in that regard.

00:01:07.000 But look, I'll take a win.

00:01:08.000 I'll take a win, right?

00:01:10.000 Unbanning these people, if he brings back Trump, these are all really, really good things.

00:01:13.000 But, uh, let's not pretend like the guy actually cares about free speech.

00:01:17.000 Now, to be fair, I get it.

00:01:19.000 He probably can't reinstate Alex Jones without, it's like, it would be like dropping a bomb on the platform.

00:01:24.000 But again, I'll stress it.

00:01:25.000 He could have just ignored the question or he could have said something like, we have to have a review process.

00:01:30.000 He could have been honest and said something like, you know, Alex Jones is very controversial, so we're going to have to have a deep look at that and it may not be possible or something like that.

00:01:38.000 But instead, it's just too bad.

00:01:41.000 Okay, well then, too bad.

00:01:42.000 Why should I advocate for anyone spending money on Twitter if we are not going to actually have free speech?

00:01:47.000 Viva Fra actually pointed out, if Elon does not reinstate him, then do not expect anything different than what we saw with Vijay Gadde and Prague Agrawal.

00:01:55.000 And he says, too bad.

00:01:56.000 Alright.

00:01:58.000 Let's talk about it.

00:01:59.000 Now the Democrats won an FTC investigation, so the whole thing is just, it's insane.

00:02:04.000 I gotta, I gotta say, I don't understand why Twitter has garnered this much attention, except for the fact that it's probably used by intelligence agencies to manipulate the American public.

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00:04:31.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Aidan Paladin.

00:04:35.000 Hey, great to be here.

00:04:38.000 Oh, hi, I'm Aiden Paladin.

00:04:38.000 Who are you?

00:04:40.000 I mostly discuss social science and the intersection of social science and politics here on YouTube.

00:04:45.000 I was a PhD student, but I decided I liked doing this better.

00:04:49.000 Yeah, it's fun.

00:04:50.000 Thanks for having me.

00:04:50.000 And I hit you up because you were posting about, I mean, this is going to sound cliche and tribal, but a series of studies showing that many on the left are driven by envy, hatred, violence, greed, etc.

00:05:03.000 Yeah, I was actually really shocked.

00:05:05.000 Because you hear that kind of rhetoric all the time on the right and from the left towards the right, that the other side, of course, you know, dichotomistic partisanship of the other people, they must just be evil.

00:05:16.000 But what I found when I looked into the data was more or less that What is evil?

00:05:22.000 I guess you can be defined by whoever is defining evil.

00:05:27.000 But the greed, and the anger, and the hatred, and more than anything, the envy.

00:05:32.000 It's just, they're so consistently envious.

00:05:35.000 It did even shock me, having done this for years.

00:05:37.000 Yeah, I kind of feel like everybody listening is like, yep.

00:05:39.000 Yeah, I know.

00:05:40.000 Yeah, well, pretty much all of social science is, no duh.

00:05:44.000 And it is all no duh, but you need to go find the data and actually be able to illustrate it with science.

00:05:49.000 We'll talk about it, especially as it pertains to censorship.

00:05:51.000 We also have Hannah-Claire Brimelow.

00:05:53.000 Hi, I'm Hannah-Claire Brimelow.

00:05:54.000 I'm a writer for TimCast.com.

00:05:56.000 That's right.

00:05:57.000 Yeah.

00:05:57.000 Well, all right.

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00:06:29.000 All right, ladies and gentlemen, here's the big story.

00:06:32.000 Elon Musk tweeted, Reinstate former President Trump?

00:06:35.000 Yes.

00:06:36.000 No.

00:06:36.000 Well, as you can see, I voted yes, of course.

00:06:39.000 And there's just about 800,000 votes in, what are we looking at, like 20 minutes?

00:06:44.000 Just shy of 20 minutes.

00:06:47.000 62% say yes, 38% say no, and I find it kind of silly.

00:06:54.000 Like, why is a former president, whether he's allowed to speak in the public town square, being brought up to just, like, a poll from the CEO?

00:07:03.000 It's kind of a weird thing.

00:07:04.000 It seems very strange, especially given that this is supposed to be how Twitter operates going forward.

00:07:09.000 Like, do we get to vote on everyone from now on?

00:07:11.000 I would probably use Twitter if this was the democratic process.

00:07:16.000 Well, unfortunately, then you can have very likely to invoke mob rule kind of stuff.

00:07:22.000 Mob rule consensus of people can then just get together and it's just the way that anything works in terms of banning people from other sites.

00:07:27.000 You get a group of people together, you incite them into saying, oh, we need a mass report, demand that Twitter remove this person or vice versa, demand that they reinstate somebody.

00:07:36.000 So democratizing Twitter can be potentially harmful in its own way.

00:07:41.000 Who the hell would have thought that the former president of the United States, who's running to be the next president of the United States, is having his future of his speech being determined by a freaking Twitter poll?

00:07:54.000 That absolutely makes no sense at all. 0.94

00:07:56.000 It's absolutely ridiculous, and it really shows you how Elon Musk is really failing here. 0.61

00:08:01.000 He's not doing a good job.

00:08:03.000 He should make a strong decision.

00:08:04.000 He should make a decision that is based on principles, not on mob rule. 0.82

00:08:09.000 And that's essentially what he's depending on here, which is ridiculous.

00:08:12.000 I think Elon is this strange character because we, especially conservatives, want to rally around him.

00:08:17.000 He says interesting things, things that we feel like are right, but also he doesn't operate 100% by conservative values and he doesn't hide it, right?

00:08:27.000 Like Tesla is, from what I understand, the only car company that operates without a state-owned partner in China.

00:08:34.000 Why is that?

00:08:34.000 Why is he permitted that right?

00:08:37.000 It's just one of these things.

00:08:39.000 You mean like he operates in China and he's not being controlled by the state or what do you mean?

00:08:44.000 It sounded like you were saying all car companies in the U.S.

00:08:46.000 work with China.

00:08:47.000 So all car companies, if you want to manufacture in China, again I'm not an expert but this is what I've been reading about it, they have a partner to help them with their distribution and manufacturing in China.

00:08:58.000 Tesla is the only car company that operates without this kind of partnership.

00:09:02.000 The car companies in China are owned by the Chinese government.

00:09:04.000 Why is Tesla allowed to do this? 1.00

00:09:07.000 I think Elon Musk is a really interesting character but I am not surprised that He's not always consistent, right?

00:09:14.000 We like free speech, but also we have a poll for the president.

00:09:16.000 Like, that seems strange.

00:09:18.000 Yeah, I think he saw that he could make money from this.

00:09:21.000 I think that's really it.

00:09:22.000 I think he likes the Babylon Bee.

00:09:24.000 I think he saw an opportunity to make money because it seems clear when you're active on Twitter that the majority of people want jokes, want to have fun, but you can't.

00:09:34.000 And what was happening is slowly over time, Twitter was being compressed into a really boring and awful space.

00:09:39.000 And it was resulting in, I mean, here's what I think.

00:09:42.000 Elon's like, why are there so many competitors to Twitter emerging?

00:09:44.000 Why is Twitter losing so many customers?

00:09:47.000 And it's because they're censoring everybody.

00:09:48.000 He probably thought, you know what, I'll buy it.

00:09:50.000 Uncensor some of the people.

00:09:52.000 And then, you know, we'll make it more valuable.

00:09:55.000 And then we'll turn it public again.

00:09:56.000 That's what he said he was going to do.

00:09:57.000 So of course, he's doing a poll to reinstate Trump.

00:10:01.000 Why?

00:10:01.000 Because he wants to see what people on Twitter actually think.

00:10:05.000 And it's kind of smart.

00:10:06.000 We're up to 932,000 votes.

00:10:08.000 62% say yes.

00:10:09.000 And that's probably where it's going to be.

00:10:11.000 Because if he's like, the overwhelming majority of people want him on the platform, then I'm going to service the customers.

00:10:19.000 It's still weak.

00:10:20.000 Absolutely weak.

00:10:21.000 I don't know what's going on with the audio.

00:10:22.000 Is the audio okay, or is it fine?

00:10:23.000 What's going on?

00:10:24.000 I feel like it's fine.

00:10:25.000 I don't know if it's anything... It's exactly the same as it was when I started, so I don't know.

00:10:28.000 Yeah, but okay.

00:10:29.000 But anyway, it's still weak.

00:10:30.000 It's still extremely disappointing.

00:10:32.000 You make a decision.

00:10:34.000 If you're going to be standing by free speech, that means standing by that decision and nothing else.

00:10:39.000 Again, I don't know.

00:10:41.000 Do we have the audio fixed?

00:10:42.000 Yeah, you can keep talking.

00:10:44.000 I'm distracted with all of the craziness over here.

00:10:47.000 Yeah, that's all that's needed.

00:10:48.000 Everything's fine.

00:10:50.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:10:50.000 Okay, that's all I had to say.

00:10:51.000 I just feel like Elon Musk knows that he's ultimately trading in public popularity, right?

00:10:59.000 So, I don't actually know and he could be a devout free speech purist.

00:11:05.000 He loves it, but he recognizes that in modern application it has to be limited in some capacity.

00:11:10.000 I don't really know what his philosophy on this is.

00:11:12.000 I just know that he's inconsistent in a lot of ways and I As much as I want to admire the things that he's done that are good, I feel like we all have to take it with a grain of salt and remember that he is ultimately serving himself, as far as we know.

00:11:28.000 And we don't know what the end of that is.

00:11:29.000 I think he's running it like a CEO, like he's run everything else.

00:11:32.000 So ultimately, the way he's looking at Twitter is what's going to be most profitable.

00:11:36.000 If he ends up getting a huge mass of people who actually do leave Twitter and manage to You want to read it?

00:11:41.000 Hannah?

00:11:41.000 away from it because Donald Trump is back on there sending out mean tweets or because

00:11:45.000 Alex Jones is out there existing, then maybe that's why he's decided against that unilaterally.

00:11:50.000 Well, because it's clearly about the money.

00:11:52.000 You can tweet it now.

00:11:53.000 Oh, yeah.

00:11:54.000 Can you read it?

00:11:55.000 You want to read it?

00:11:56.000 Hannah?

00:11:57.000 Claire?

00:11:58.000 I'm sorry, you don't even know my name?

00:12:01.000 Luke, I've known you for so long, come on!

00:12:03.000 I said Hannah.

00:12:03.000 I think you have to read it, that's not my name.

00:12:05.000 No, no, yes it is.

00:12:06.000 Sorry, you haven't addressed me correctly.

00:12:07.000 I said Hannah, and then I was like, Claire.

00:12:09.000 He said Vox Populi Vox Dei.

00:12:12.000 Ha ha ha ha, Elon Musk.

00:12:15.000 Have they figured out the bots?

00:12:17.000 Have they figured out the fake accounts on this particular platform?

00:12:21.000 Because again, that was a major topic of discussion with Elon Musk previously talking about how many people were gaming the system, manipulating this big tech social media platform.

00:12:32.000 To the point where, of course, a lot of this stuff was illegitimate.

00:12:34.000 So how do we know that this poll is actually going to be legitimate?

00:12:38.000 How do we know that other systems, other people, other groups won't be gaming this poll for their own personal benefit, which still hasn't been cleared up to how many accounts are real, how many accounts are fake?

00:12:48.000 How is this platform being used for the sinister purposes of a lot of powerful people?

00:12:53.000 That's a question that I think a lot of people are still waiting to be answered that might never be answered because we're still waiting to find out what's going on here.

00:13:01.000 And if Elon Musk is just taking this approach just to make money, it's not going to be incentivized for him to be honest with the people about how many people are fake on the platform.

00:13:10.000 No, and I would say that's what is Twitter, Blu, doing nothing but, you know, putting certain people forward.

00:13:15.000 It's just being a little bit more honest about it than Twitter's been in the past.

00:13:19.000 It's what you're going to see, because you pay us for it.

00:13:21.000 And there are people who are so addicted to Twitter that they will, I think, probably stay there and keep doing it, at least for the time being.

00:13:27.000 They created this rumor last night that Twitter was going to shut down, and it's very clever organizing on the part of the left.

00:13:33.000 Basically, the idea is make people fear they're going to lose their followerships or whatever, and then you'll get them to leave the platform.

00:13:42.000 And so they do.

00:13:43.000 They say, oh no, no, no, Twitter's going to shut down by tomorrow, quick!

00:13:46.000 And then everyone says, everyone quick, follow me on Mastodon, and they're trying to create a surge, a tsunami, an inflection point where enough people jump ship that they'll actually start using the other platform.

00:13:56.000 I wouldn't suggest Mastodon for people on the left.

00:13:58.000 It's totally, you know, unfederated or defederated.

00:14:02.000 So there's no moderating on Mastodon.

00:14:05.000 People can use very naughty, nasty words that you certainly couldn't use on Twitter on Mastodon.

00:14:10.000 You can't censor them or whatever?

00:14:13.000 I'm sure there's some way to censor it.

00:14:14.000 I mean, they ban anything that's illegal in Germany, apparently.

00:14:17.000 Uh, I know that when there was a big Twitter surge or, you know, they were, all these hashtags moved, it was like Twitter exodus a couple weeks ago, and then immediately they moved to Macedon and couldn't believe all the racial slurs and anti-Semitism, and then they were like, oh no, my safe space.

00:14:35.000 So, um, I mean, it was really funny, but that's about it.

00:14:38.000 I mean, that's the reality of a decentralized network.

00:14:40.000 They're not going to have the resources of a major corporation.

00:14:44.000 So this is what you get.

00:14:47.000 I just don't trust Twitter.

00:14:47.000 I don't know.

00:14:48.000 I never trusted it before.

00:14:50.000 I don't trust it now that Elon's there.

00:14:52.000 I know that it's sort of a personality thing.

00:14:55.000 Some people live or die, but I really feel like in some ways, I'm on it professionally to get news releases as they come out because so many people have converted it into this tool for the PR.

00:15:06.000 But I don't trust Elon Musk.

00:15:09.000 If this is how we decide who gets to be on Twitter, I don't want to be there anyways, right?

00:15:15.000 I'm more concerned about double verification. 0.99

00:15:20.000 Verifying anybody who pays money is the stupidest idea. 0.92

00:15:23.000 Maybe he thought people wanted it so bad that he was gonna make a ton of money right away from it. 0.96

00:15:28.000 I feel like this whole rollout has been just really, really bad.

00:15:32.000 Elon, you either go for it or you don't.

00:15:35.000 There's no half measures.

00:15:36.000 You think I'm gonna pay eight bucks?

00:15:38.000 I'm inclined to actually cancel.

00:15:41.000 So we signed up TimCast News for Twitter Blue for the verification, for the most part.

00:15:46.000 And because it's a new account and we wanted to have access to filters or whatever, And also I want, I want Twitter to succeed.

00:15:53.000 I want, I want it to work with what Elon is doing.

00:15:55.000 I want to believe that when he, you know, when he reinstates some of these people.

00:15:58.000 We saw last week some people got reinstated.

00:16:00.000 All right.

00:16:00.000 Oh, that's really good.

00:16:01.000 And then he, and then he, and then he comes out and he's just like, I don't know with all this stuff, basically.

00:16:07.000 I'm kind of just, okay.

00:16:09.000 All right.

00:16:09.000 Now I'm not entirely convinced we're going to see this, this, this platform get fixed.

00:16:13.000 So here's, here's my mindset now.

00:16:16.000 I'm not rooting against Elon on this stuff.

00:16:19.000 I'm looking forward to some improvements, but I'm going to lean back a little bit.

00:16:24.000 You know, I was leaning back last week or two weeks ago.

00:16:27.000 Then we heard last week that he had reinstated some accounts, and I was like, okay, so it looks like he is going to start improving things.

00:16:33.000 And I said, okay, you know, I'll get Twitter Blue, but I'll get it only for Tim Casters.

00:16:37.000 I'm not going to buy for my personal just yet.

00:16:38.000 We'll see what happens.

00:16:39.000 Now we have this, and I'm kind of like, eh.

00:16:42.000 Do you think Elon could have done more with a secondary platform?

00:16:47.000 Like if he had taken over, not truth necessarily, but like some other thing?

00:16:51.000 This is the one thing that Ian is very, very wrong about all the time, freeing the code.

00:16:55.000 Twitter's code is garbage.

00:16:57.000 It's nothing. 0.96

00:16:59.000 They're algorithms, sure, I guess.

00:17:00.000 I agree with Ian insofar as free the code so that we can know what the algorithm is doing to us, because it's manipulating us.

00:17:05.000 But Gab, Parler, Getter, Mines, the ability to input text and have a server output it to a person who decides to follow a number?

00:17:16.000 Not hard to do.

00:17:18.000 So what Elon bought was you.

00:17:20.000 And me.

00:17:21.000 And Luke.

00:17:22.000 And Aiden.

00:17:23.000 And Serge.

00:17:23.000 He bought all of you at home who use the platform.

00:17:26.000 It's a community of people.

00:17:28.000 Having control over that is useful.

00:17:32.000 If you launch a new Twitter, how do you get people to use it?

00:17:34.000 You can't.

00:17:35.000 Because what makes Twitter valuable is that people are there.

00:17:37.000 It is downtown.

00:17:40.000 So you can buy a little store in the suburbs, I guess.

00:17:42.000 Getting people to show up there is going to be a lot harder.

00:17:44.000 So this is what Elon really wanted.

00:17:46.000 I don't think it could have been better or worse.

00:17:48.000 The problem is you can't have it both ways.

00:17:50.000 Let me pull up this tweet here.

00:17:52.000 Elon Musk tweeted, Originally, bring back Alex Jones.

00:17:59.000 Elon Musk says no.

00:18:02.000 The Hodge twins tweeted, should Elon bring back Alex Jones?

00:18:06.000 of 140,000 votes, 57.7 say yes, 42.3 say no.

00:18:11.000 And then we have this tweet from Viva Frye who makes the perfect point.

00:18:17.000 Alex Jones is the litmus test, Elon Musk, not just on the issue of freedom of speech,

00:18:21.000 but on the issue of not bending the knee to political and judicial intimidation.

00:18:25.000 If this is a hard no, your Twitter will never be any more trustworthy than Parag or Jack's Twitter.

00:18:31.000 And Elon responded, too bad.

00:18:34.000 There you go. What a prick. 1.00

00:18:38.000 Seriously, if you're gonna do something like this, violate free speech for an individual that is controversial while allowing other controversial voices to be on there. 0.99

00:18:47.000 If you're allowing Kathy Griffin to be on there, but not Alex Jones, at least explain yourself.

00:18:52.000 And what did Alex Jones do?

00:18:54.000 Well, he yelled at Oliver Darcy.

00:18:56.000 Yeah.

00:18:57.000 He was in one of the congressional buildings.

00:18:59.000 And confronted Jack Dorsey.

00:19:00.000 Well, he confronted, his banning was over Oliver Darcy.

00:19:03.000 He put up a video where he was calling him a rat face or something.

00:19:06.000 Yeah, I'm not a fan of that, right?

00:19:08.000 I can't stand this stuff.

00:19:10.000 There's a lot of people who just laugh and say, no, they deserve it, Alex was right, and it's like, I don't care, you're allowed to like that, fine, it's free speech and all that, but I don't like it.

00:19:18.000 And I certainly don't think he should have been banned for doing it.

00:19:21.000 If you're in public and someone's mad at you and they confront you, there was no security threat or anything like that.

00:19:26.000 It was just Alex yelling at the guy.

00:19:28.000 They banned him for it.

00:19:29.000 Kathy Griffin held up an image of a severed head and she didn't even get banned for that. 1.00

00:19:34.000 She got like a slap on the wrist.

00:19:36.000 She got banned because she mocked Elon Musk, parroting his account without putting parody, trying to, I guess, make a point or whatever.

00:19:44.000 He reinstates her.

00:19:46.000 But showing, holding up a severed head of the president, that was never in question.

00:19:51.000 She also evaded the ban and then went on her dead mother's platform in order to still raise her voice against Elon Musk.

00:19:58.000 So again, something's happening here.

00:19:59.000 You're going to allow her to have a voice, but not Alex Jones?

00:20:03.000 Explain your reasoning. 0.99

00:20:04.000 Don't be a prick. 0.99

00:20:05.000 Don't just say, Too bad. 0.99

00:20:06.000 What's going on here?

00:20:07.000 Is there internal pressure?

00:20:09.000 Are there people inside of the company that are saying no, don't do this?

00:20:12.000 Are there corporations?

00:20:13.000 Are there government agencies?

00:20:14.000 Are there any other institutions that are pressuring you to do this?

00:20:18.000 At least explain yourself if you're going to be making this kind of statement.

00:20:21.000 And Alex Jones, of course, responded, making his own video regarding this specific news.

00:20:28.000 And he says, hey guys, don't blame Elon Musk here.

00:20:30.000 Alex Jones is trying to be the bigger person here.

00:20:33.000 Addressing this larger saga here.

00:20:35.000 But at the end of the day, we at least deserve an explanation because we were promised free speech.

00:20:40.000 This is not free speech.

00:20:41.000 This is a person deciding what he wants with his own whims that shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

00:20:47.000 Yeah, I was gonna say, Alex Jones doesn't have a choice but to be the bigger person, right?

00:20:50.000 If he goes on a tirade and is mad at Elon, he's like, your family's not even that cool.

00:20:56.000 He could be like Kathy Griffin and go nuclear and go crazy.

00:20:59.000 But it's okay if she does it.

00:21:00.000 She's a really funny comedian. 0.99

00:21:02.000 You don't understand.

00:21:02.000 Hilarious.

00:21:03.000 It's the same thing with now the 230 ruling though, right?

00:21:06.000 That maybe you could make the argument that Elon is worried that, you know, Alex comes back and because he's being sued for three trillion dollars now, which is, I believe it is three trillion, which is just a little bit under twice.

00:21:20.000 Is it really three trillion?

00:21:21.000 Yes, just a little under twice the annual DoD cost.

00:21:27.000 I think it's three times the GDP of France.

00:21:29.000 Something like that.

00:21:30.000 I just looked up today that it's twice the DoD's annual budget.

00:21:33.000 So yeah, three trillion dollars is on the table.

00:21:35.000 They're trying to fund the war in Ukraine.

00:21:37.000 The money's got to come from somewhere.

00:21:40.000 So maybe you could make the argument that before this decision comes down about Section 230, is that maybe Elon is worried that, well, if, you know, they're going after Alex Jones for the GDP of France, that then they'll come after him in some way.

00:21:53.000 But if Section 230 is no longer going to apply to make it so that you can sue the platform for what someone on it says, then it doesn't make any sense.

00:22:01.000 People are bringing up that Alex Jones issued a statement saying Elon shouldn't bring him back.

00:22:06.000 He's the most controversial person and Elon's going up against everybody and so he's got to do what he can and I don't care.

00:22:13.000 Alex, I understand what you're saying, and I get it.

00:22:18.000 But either Elon is going to... There's a couple ways he could play this.

00:22:23.000 He could just not respond.

00:22:25.000 He could say nothing.

00:22:27.000 He is choosing to come out and outright say, you know that free speech thing I tweeted about an hour ago?

00:22:33.000 Ha! 0.89

00:22:33.000 Screw that! 0.89

00:22:34.000 I don't really care! 0.57

00:22:35.000 So that's what pisses me off.

00:22:37.000 I totally get that Elon's like, dude, there's only so much I can do.

00:22:42.000 Totally get it.

00:22:42.000 I respect it.

00:22:43.000 He just bought this massive platform.

00:22:45.000 It needs to survive.

00:22:46.000 It needs money to operate.

00:22:47.000 He doesn't want it to die.

00:22:48.000 He doesn't want to lose money on that.

00:22:50.000 And he wants to actually bring free speech back.

00:22:52.000 I get it.

00:22:53.000 You bring back Alex Jones, they go nuclear against you, and then the whole thing implodes.

00:22:57.000 He brought back Andrew Tate.

00:22:59.000 Andrew Tate is back on the platform.

00:23:01.000 Yeah.

00:23:01.000 So how are we picking and choosing here?

00:23:04.000 What's the scale here?

00:23:05.000 Well, the scale is, Alex points out, he's the most controversial person in the world.

00:23:09.000 That being said, Elon did not have to come out and insult Alex's fans like that.

00:23:16.000 He could have just ignored it.

00:23:17.000 Yeah, he didn't have to respond to anyone tweeting on Alex's behalf, too.

00:23:20.000 I mean, he is looking for this fight, but to me, I just don't understand why.

00:23:24.000 Like, what purpose is this serving for the- Virtue signaling.

00:23:27.000 I guess, but to who?

00:23:28.000 He's purchasing the advertisers.

00:23:30.000 So he can be like, look, see, I said I wouldn't bring him back.

00:23:33.000 Because when he said he hadn't made a decision on Trump, or when he said he wasn't going

00:23:36.000 to bring back Jones, a bunch of leftists were like, at least there's, I saw high profile

00:23:41.000 leftists, journalists saying at least some sanity and things like that.

00:23:45.000 He's getting positive feedback from that, which is the first positive feedback he's

00:23:48.000 gotten on any of this.

00:23:49.000 However, it is a slippery slope, and it's the same way they've fallen before.

00:23:52.000 First it's Alex Jones, then who else is then not acceptable?

00:23:55.000 But that's not true.

00:23:56.000 He's getting attacked by the corporate media insanely every day.

00:24:00.000 There's hit piece after hit piece after hit piece.

00:24:02.000 This is not being met with, like, okay, this is great.

00:24:04.000 This is being ignored, and they're still trying to attack him any way that they possibly can.

00:24:08.000 So why are you trying to placate these people?

00:24:10.000 Or is he, like, trying to go over to the FBI or BlackRock or China, being like, look at me!

00:24:15.000 I'm a totalitarian! 0.99

00:24:16.000 I'm a prick, too! 0.99

00:24:17.000 I can do what you guys do! 0.95

00:24:18.000 Is that what you're doing?

00:24:19.000 Because what else are we left to speculate here?

00:24:21.000 Because otherwise, there's no other rational conclusion than him, as you, Tim, mentioned, specifically showing off to the powers that be, saying, I could play ball, I could play game.

00:24:31.000 Uh, you know, just tell me what to do and I'll follow those orders.

00:24:34.000 And that's not a platform that I believe in.

00:24:35.000 That's not a platform that I want to be on.

00:24:37.000 I want to read this super chat from OldStickKeyTaint.

00:24:40.000 He says, Voting for Trump's unbanning is a smart move.

00:24:43.000 Force the advertisers to justify why they want to, uh, what do you say, pause advertisements, pull advertisements when the majority of their target audience wants him on.

00:24:52.000 Actually, yeah, that's a really great point.

00:24:55.000 What Elan needs to say to the advertisers is, You are being attacked by activists who are lying to you and costing you money.

00:25:02.000 Once we get rid of those bots, you will be able to actually target your audience who like people like Jones or Trump.

00:25:10.000 That's probably the move he's making in that regard.

00:25:13.000 They'd have to publish or at least actually conduct some real internal research that they could show to their shareholders on that and the people they're selling advertising space to.

00:25:20.000 There's no shareholders.

00:25:21.000 Oh, not shareholders, sorry.

00:25:23.000 Selling marketing space to.

00:25:25.000 Well, I think they do have technically stockholders.

00:25:27.000 Right.

00:25:28.000 Because he does have people who are holding privately.

00:25:33.000 But people that they're selling advertisements to then, they would want to be able to tell them that, look, that your advertisements are being shown to real people and that those people, when they are given internal, when they're given polls, because, you know, you can take these exit polls on Twitter.

00:25:45.000 So they send you an email and you say, would you like to take this poll about your experience with Twitter?

00:25:49.000 You get Twitter blue for a month for free or something like that.

00:25:52.000 So you can try it out if you finish our survey.

00:25:54.000 There's all kinds of ways to incentivize people to give you data that you could use.

00:25:58.000 And then take that and say, here, to the advertisers, people say they want Trump to this certain degree, and actually have something to sell them and say it's not all bots anymore.

00:26:07.000 I tried advertising on Twitter, because they're giving the double verification to everybody.

00:26:12.000 So I tweeted, Hey, Elon, how much do I got to spend to get the official tag?

00:26:16.000 And I don't expect him to actually respond to me.

00:26:18.000 But so I decided to take out an ad on our Trump Going Super Saiyan shirt, which is available in the chat.

00:26:24.000 It's the SuperMAGA shirt.

00:26:25.000 And so I was going to put a big campaign behind it, 25K, to see if it's legit.

00:26:31.000 And because, again, I do want to see Twitter succeed.

00:26:34.000 I'm not just throwing money at Elon.

00:26:35.000 It's advertising a product we sell that we make money on that I bet if I spend this money, we're going to make more money back.

00:26:41.000 They rejected it.

00:26:43.000 They said a cartoon image of Donald Trump going super sane was political.

00:26:47.000 Why?

00:26:48.000 Now, now that... Now I'm deeply offended.

00:26:51.000 I just wanted to sell a t-shirt of Donald Trump with, with Goku hair.

00:26:54.000 You can't even do that apparently.

00:26:57.000 Go ahead, sorry.

00:26:57.000 Oh no, that was it.

00:26:58.000 I was just agreeing.

00:27:00.000 How do they determine what's political?

00:27:01.000 Because I've only used the promotion feature once on YouTube and it was, or not YouTube, on Twitter, and it was to promote a YouTube video that was not largely political, but it was.

00:27:09.000 There were politics involved in the video.

00:27:11.000 So how do they determine what's political?

00:27:13.000 It's Trump.

00:27:15.000 They didn't want a cartoon of Trump that makes him look good?

00:27:18.000 They don't want to take the money for that or something?

00:27:19.000 Well, my video was an hour long, and it was political at some points, but they, I guess, didn't want to watch an hour long video to figure that part out.

00:27:25.000 The image isn't even pro or anti-Trump.

00:27:28.000 It's just meant to be silly. 0.91

00:27:29.000 It's Trump with, you know, spiky blonde hair.

00:27:32.000 Now, there's a couple things to consider, especially with this poll with Elon Musk asking if Donald Trump should be reinstated or not, because on October 3rd, Mashable has this article that I think is worth revisiting right now that's titled, in Elon Musk's words, it seems Twitter bots are always to blame.

00:27:49.000 Now, there hasn't been any kind of reckoning with the bots.

00:27:51.000 There hasn't been any kind of discovery.

00:27:53.000 There haven't been any kind of major bombshells surrounding the bots on big tech social media platforms, especially Twitter.

00:28:00.000 But Elon Musk was complaining about the bots after he did a poll on his own Twitter account specifically on October 3rd asking if there should be a Ukrainian-Russian peace deal.

00:28:11.000 After their response, he specifically said, this is the biggest bot attack I've ever seen.

00:28:16.000 So why, after not dealing with the bots, are we deciding if the former president of the United States, who's running to be president in 2024, will be able to have any kind of speech?

00:28:26.000 Also, if you remember, he also tweeted earlier today that he believes in the policy of freedom of speech.

00:28:31.000 No, he doesn't, but he says he does, but he doesn't believe in the freedom of reach, and he says negative content is going to be de-boosted, de-monetized.

00:28:39.000 What's negative content?

00:28:40.000 Who's going to be determining what's negative, what's positive?

00:28:43.000 Again, everything here is arbitrary.

00:28:45.000 There's no baselines.

00:28:46.000 There's no rules.

00:28:47.000 He's following along and doing horrible things, like not allowing free speech on the platform, which he promised, which everyone now feels backstabbed about.

00:28:55.000 And that's that idiom that you see people on the left use so commonly of, oh, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

00:29:01.000 So it's basically coming down to the same kind of thing.

00:29:03.000 I feel like at this point everyone should just tweet at Elon Musk, like, give us a timeline on the bot situation.

00:29:09.000 Like, didn't Ann Coulter have, like, a countdown every day that Donald Trump didn't, like, do something about the wall?

00:29:13.000 Like, where is our, like, the bots are gone countdown?

00:29:16.000 Because, I mean, to both of your points, Elon Musk is Putting out polls and then saying they're being hacked by bots, so you already told us it was a problem.

00:29:24.000 And also, how are you supposed to give accurate data to any advertisers if they're always being- if you can say at any time, oh, well, the bots got to this.

00:29:33.000 I mean, you would think that ideally, if he is working in true capitalism and he wants to make as much money as possible, he would be hounding his staff to deal with the bots.

00:29:43.000 Or are the bots a problem that can't be solved?

00:29:45.000 That's why I asked earlier, like, do you think he made a mistake buying Twitter?

00:29:48.000 Like, is this platform, and I'm not a tech person, but is it so corrupted the bots are something that can't be removed at this point?

00:29:56.000 You can't purge them fast enough.

00:29:58.000 this point, would it be better to abandon ship and move on to

00:30:01.000 something else, even though you can't bring the people with you?

00:30:04.000 A complete user verification would do something maybe to help

00:30:07.000 with the problem. But he's not going to do and also, I think

00:30:11.000 that you're going to lose a lot of people will leave the platform if you require someone to, although you need to

00:30:15.000 have a phone number.

00:30:16.000 You don't need to force everyone. It's if you want verification, you got to use a real picture, a real name.

00:30:21.000 So we have verified you. I thought when he was talking about a

00:30:24.000 verification, he was going to verify everyone the same way we

00:30:27.000 We have to be verified.

00:30:29.000 Either a brand account that confirms they are the corporation, and it's really hard to do.

00:30:34.000 I don't know if Twitter does it this way, but you have to send them a photo of your Articles of Incorporation with your ID showing that you are the officer, because they're verifying you.

00:30:44.000 For everyone else, you can use different photos and stuff, but typically, you have to be the person you're verified to be.

00:30:50.000 Milo Yiannopoulos lost his verification because he included in his bio, BuzzFeed Journalist or something like that.

00:30:56.000 They said, you're impersonating.

00:30:58.000 Verification removed.

00:30:59.000 So Elon comes in and he's like, you can have a badge you wanted so bad for $8.

00:31:04.000 And then he just verifies everyone.

00:31:06.000 Now when that implodes, he's like, I'll just give a second verification to big brands.

00:31:11.000 And that's what my point was, okay, what constitutes worthiness for getting verified twice.

00:31:18.000 I know, it's confusing, and it's weird being on the platform seeing double verification, only the corporate media, which, again, Elon knows the corporate media runs scams.

00:31:27.000 If we're going to be fighting disinformation, if we're going to be getting rid of controversial figures that spread disinformation, CNN needs to be gone from the platform immediately.

00:31:36.000 MSNBC needs to be gone from the platform immediately. 0.97

00:31:39.000 And they're not.

00:31:40.000 So if we're going to not allow Alex Jones for, you know, allegedly being misinformation, he got some things wrong, obviously.

00:31:46.000 We could criticize everyone.

00:31:48.000 I've criticized him before.

00:31:49.000 But at the end of the day, you take his record and you take it to the corporate media.

00:31:53.000 He has told far more truths than, of course, the corporate media that's routinely lying to the American people and running larger psyopsis against them.

00:32:01.000 Well, I can at least say I'm satisfied seeing stuff like this from Engadget.

00:32:04.000 gadget.

00:32:05.000 Democratic senators ask FTC to investigate Elon Musk over his handling of Twitter.

00:32:10.000 What?

00:32:11.000 The lawmakers cite the botched rollout of paid verification and the recent departures

00:32:16.000 of top privacy execs.

00:32:18.000 On what grounds does that constitute an FTC investigation?

00:32:23.000 He fired people?

00:32:25.000 Seriously?

00:32:25.000 And the Democrats are now... This is what corruption looks like.

00:32:28.000 Well, now it's the public square.

00:32:31.000 Before, it's a private company.

00:32:32.000 They can do what they want.

00:32:33.000 But now we have an issue that the FTC needs to get involved with.

00:32:36.000 That's right.

00:32:37.000 For years, Twitter has been wreaking havoc on our political sphere, on the public, and nobody would do anything about it.

00:32:44.000 I mean, there were some Republicans that have hearings and they'd waste everyone's time.

00:32:48.000 Now the Democrats are shocked and concerned about what's going on.

00:32:51.000 It's just it's all so fake.

00:32:54.000 It's fake.

00:32:54.000 I'm done with it.

00:32:55.000 You're liars. 0.99

00:32:56.000 I don't care to listen to you. 0.99

00:32:57.000 We are wasting our time being bothered by even playing a game with these people.

00:33:01.000 So I think the one thing you can do right now is improve yourself.

00:33:07.000 Start a family, have kids, buy property, improve on your skills, get in shape.

00:33:13.000 You want to succeed and you want to win this?

00:33:15.000 Get fit, eat right, cut out the sugars, have a family, make money.

00:33:20.000 That was my favorite thing that Elon said on Twitter, like a little while ago when it came out that he had like secret twins.

00:33:24.000 He was like, I have a big family and I hope you all do too.

00:33:27.000 And I was like, yeah, okay.

00:33:28.000 Yeah, he was saying most billionaires don't have kids.

00:33:30.000 But I'm saying, if you think your path to victory, let's say you're really good at playing Monopoly.

00:33:30.000 It's great.

00:33:37.000 And so you're like, if I enter this Monopoly tournament, then I'll win the grand prize.

00:33:41.000 Only problem is you realize that your opponent isn't playing fairly.

00:33:45.000 And so you keep just playing the game even though they're lying about everything that's going on.

00:33:48.000 Eventually he's got to say, maybe I should find another way to succeed.

00:33:52.000 If everybody just focuses on themselves and ignores this obvious corruption and hypocrisy, I'm not saying don't resist it, don't fight against it.

00:33:59.000 I'm saying stop asking them politely to please stop.

00:34:02.000 Stop treating them like they're doing this on accident.

00:34:06.000 That's my point.

00:34:07.000 Improve yourself Assume everything they're doing is intentional and designed to hurt you, and then figure out ways to overcome.

00:34:16.000 Notably, right now, we've got to overcome the ballot harvesting operations they have.

00:34:19.000 Scott Pressler says he's going to do it.

00:34:21.000 I got faith he can.

00:34:22.000 Let's see what we can do to help back him and many others who are going to start working on the 2024 election.

00:34:29.000 And then maybe we can get some people in who will just do away with this stuff.

00:34:33.000 Yeah, people have to do something.

00:34:35.000 The only one who did anything about the, you know, fortification was DeSantis.

00:34:39.000 And, well, that went how it went.

00:34:43.000 Yeah?

00:34:44.000 DeSantis 2024?

00:34:46.000 He's the only one who did anything.

00:34:48.000 Everyone else complained about it and then did nothing.

00:34:50.000 He made some very interesting comments against the World Economic Forum today, which I thought was also kind of very eye-opening, because very few politicians usually talk about these larger key issues that do affect them.

00:35:02.000 But again, with this news of this Democratic senator asking the FTC to investigate someone, it's been seven days since FTX went bankrupt.

00:35:13.000 Seven days.

00:35:13.000 Obviously, criminal fraud here.

00:35:15.000 Obviously, people have been defrauded.

00:35:17.000 People have been robbed of their money.

00:35:19.000 No one got arrested.

00:35:20.000 Madoff got arrested in 24 hours after his Ponzi scheme was exposed to everyone.

00:35:25.000 Seven days later and then we have the FBI warning the guy that they're going to maybe, maybe, possibly be going after him?

00:35:32.000 Are you kidding me? 0.99

00:35:33.000 This reeks of corruption and this could be one of the reasons why Elon Musk is like, Oh crap, the FTC might be on my butt. 0.98

00:35:40.000 I gotta do what they want me to do, as the federal government is telling big tech social media platforms to ban particular voices. 0.98

00:35:48.000 Again, the U.S. 0.77

00:35:48.000 government is violating the First Amendment in more ways than one, particularly when it comes to online speech. 0.77

00:35:54.000 This could be one of the reasons why we don't have free speech, and we won't have free speech on Twitter as announced by Elon Musk today.

00:36:01.000 I think that that's probably very likely that there's some, well, with this thing about the FTC involvement, that the federal government might have gotten in conduct with him.

00:36:11.000 Yeah.

00:36:12.000 Considering the other, isn't that over the FTX scandal?

00:36:14.000 Well, they keep threatening him on Twitter.

00:36:16.000 Right.

00:36:16.000 And so maybe he's just like, I gotta tone things down.

00:36:19.000 I just think it's crazy we can, like, threaten Elon Musk, FTX, there's nothing, but Taylor Swift's general ticket sale gets canceled and there's already a DOJ investigation into antitrust.

00:36:28.000 Into Ticketmaster.

00:36:28.000 Oh, that was hilarious.

00:36:29.000 They were charging, like, $20,000 a ticket or something?

00:36:32.000 Oh, it's crazy.

00:36:33.000 It is a, like, wild west.

00:36:35.000 Are people buying it?

00:36:36.000 I have six tickets.

00:36:37.000 I will proudly announce that.

00:36:39.000 Wait, what?

00:36:40.000 What?

00:36:40.000 How?

00:36:40.000 So I'm a millionaire.

00:36:41.000 Thanks, crypto.

00:36:42.000 No, just kidding.

00:36:44.000 The whole process was insane and You have to, like, register beforehand to become a verified fan.

00:36:50.000 They'll decide if you're a verified fan.

00:36:51.000 If you are a verified fan, you get a code.

00:36:53.000 It's texted to you.

00:36:54.000 This sounds like a cult.

00:36:55.000 Yeah.

00:36:56.000 It felt like such a cult.

00:36:57.000 Hannah, are you okay?

00:36:59.000 I don't know Hannah Lou.

00:37:00.000 I'm not sure who Hannah is.

00:37:02.000 But, like, the process was insane.

00:37:04.000 And the big thing was, I'm really sad about this, Tim, I actually bought my tickets while I was live on Pop Culture on Tuesday because... That's good content.

00:37:12.000 Well, yeah, and the ticket sales got delayed for so long that I, like, carried my laptop up and I was like, look, Brett and Mary, like, I'm here for you.

00:37:19.000 I do this every Tuesday, but I have to get these tickets.

00:37:22.000 It's now or never.

00:37:23.000 Did the tickets come with Kool-Aid?

00:37:24.000 Not that I know of, but maybe at the concert she'll, like, inject us all.

00:37:27.000 I'm not sure.

00:37:28.000 It's just feel like as a millennial.

00:37:30.000 Where is the concert?

00:37:31.000 She has a bunch. 0.99

00:37:32.000 She has 52 shows.

00:37:35.000 She's touring the country.

00:37:35.000 How much were the tickets?

00:37:37.000 Mine were $240.

00:37:39.000 Oh, okay.

00:37:40.000 Are you gonna resell them?

00:37:42.000 No.

00:37:42.000 Well, I have people who I bought them for.

00:37:45.000 Ticketmaster said that they gave out 1.5 million of these codes, put 2 million people on the waitlist, and then they were expecting 30% of people who got codes to use them, and of those people, like, each buy three tickets.

00:37:59.000 I don't know where these numbers came from.

00:38:01.000 Hold on, hold on, right?

00:38:02.000 So I heard it was reported that some of the tickets are 20 grand.

00:38:05.000 Yeah, so people are reselling them.

00:38:07.000 You've got tickets for some people.

00:38:09.000 Do you think those people would be happier to watch Taylor Swift or get 20 grand?

00:38:12.000 I honestly think they'd rather watch Taylor Swift, but I'll ask them.

00:38:15.000 Oh, come on! 0.99

00:38:15.000 We could phone a friend right now. 0.99

00:38:17.000 I'll let them know.

00:38:18.000 The Kool-Aid is strong.

00:38:19.000 You don't understand.

00:38:20.000 Like, there is such a... I think it's twofold.

00:38:22.000 I think people really like Taylor Swift.

00:38:23.000 She hasn't been on tour in a while.

00:38:24.000 But the other thing is, like, all of my friends who want to go to this concert were, like, robbed of two years of their 20s because of COVID.

00:38:31.000 Like, they want to go out.

00:38:33.000 They want to do things.

00:38:34.000 Did I see Taylor Swift?

00:38:35.000 Look, man, you weren't indoctrinated the way I was indoctrinated.

00:38:38.000 We're judging you very heavily.

00:38:40.000 I'm okay with that. I wouldn't have said it on this podcast if I wasn't comfortable.

00:38:43.000 I really have to know, just really quick, what did you have to do to prove that you were a Taylor

00:38:47.000 Swift?

00:38:47.000 I have no idea. Of 15 different people I've- Oh, because you re-bought them?

00:38:51.000 No, I bought them.

00:38:52.000 I got a code.

00:38:53.000 I don't know why I was selected other than they wanted to like see my heart rate go up.

00:38:57.000 I'm not sure.

00:38:58.000 But it was, it was this insane process.

00:39:00.000 Ticketmaster crashed.

00:39:02.000 AOC tweeted during this pre-sale, as everyone was complaining about it, uh, they're a trust.

00:39:08.000 We should break Ticketmaster up because they had to.

00:39:10.000 Oh, yeah.

00:39:10.000 Well, yeah, but that's just because she couldn't get her... That's That's what I thought!

00:39:15.000 I was like, this girl wants to go to the concert.

00:39:17.000 I have one more AOC if you'd like to come with me.

00:39:20.000 No, but it's this crazy thing where we have this pop star returning to tour after COVID and by Friday after the disastrous sale, There's already an antitrust investigation.

00:39:33.000 Why are they moving this quickly?

00:39:36.000 Amy Klobuchar's granddaughter wants to go to Taylor Swift.

00:39:38.000 Didn't get tickets and she's like, bring the DOJ in. 1.00

00:39:41.000 The second anything in any way negatively affects those in the oligarchy, then all of a sudden they put their feet to the fire and they care.

00:39:51.000 How old is Taylor Swift?

00:39:52.000 She's 32.

00:39:53.000 So she's not going to be old enough in 2024, is she?

00:39:58.000 No, no.

00:39:59.000 Oh, wait.

00:40:00.000 Oh, she is going to be old enough.

00:40:02.000 Taylor Swift.

00:40:03.000 Her birthday is...

00:40:08.000 December 13th, meaning that by the time she would be inaugurated, she would be 35 years old.

00:40:14.000 Taylor Swift is going to run for the Democratic ticket. 0.91

00:40:16.000 That's it.

00:40:17.000 That's what they're doing.

00:40:18.000 That's why AOC is all over it.

00:40:20.000 Yeah, I think that makes sense.

00:40:22.000 I mean, I think she is that influential among at least young voters. 0.98

00:40:28.000 No, wait, maybe I'm wrong.

00:40:29.000 What?

00:40:30.000 Yeah, maybe I'm wrong.

00:40:30.000 Maybe she's gonna be 34.

00:40:33.000 Catch her in 2028.

00:40:33.000 She'll be 34, I think.

00:40:36.000 Wait, wait, she's about to turn 33.

00:40:39.000 So that means she'll be 34 in 2023.

00:40:41.000 Yeah, she'll be 35 at the end of 2024.

00:40:46.000 So that means she can run because by the time she's going to be sworn in, she will be old enough to be president. 0.93

00:40:51.000 35, right?

00:40:52.000 I would do anything to see a Trump-Taylor Swift debate.

00:40:55.000 Oh, man!

00:40:56.000 I will sell tickets to that.

00:40:58.000 Ticketmaster can crash again.

00:40:59.000 Okay, I'd buy those ones, though.

00:41:00.000 What about like a Trump-Kanye ticket versus like a Swift-Obama?

00:41:05.000 Swift, AOC, Trump, Kanye.

00:41:06.000 Swift, Ocasio-Cortez.

00:41:07.000 We're going a little bit dangerously into idiocracy here, though.

00:41:10.000 Yeah, but at this point, I feel like we're going on a water slide, and the only way to get through it is just to roll through it, you know what I mean?

00:41:19.000 I mean, Taylor Swift presidency?

00:41:22.000 I just can't imagine.

00:41:23.000 I mean, IQs are dropping.

00:41:24.000 Anything's possible.

00:41:26.000 But the thing is, she's a figurehead. 0.75

00:41:28.000 She is the pop star of an entire generation.

00:41:32.000 And to so many people who were raised, especially in the social media era, she has more influence than any politician.

00:41:39.000 I mean, AOC has whatever amount of followers online.

00:41:42.000 She has also kind of translated herself into an internet presence.

00:41:45.000 But really, there are certain people who who capture attention and whether you like it or not Taylor

00:41:52.000 Swift is one of them and I respect that she's not everyone's thing. I myself don't like a lot of

00:41:56.000 her music but I feel compul- like I have to go to this concert. Think about like just you know for a

00:42:01.000 moment bear with me how cool would it be if like Taylor Swift runs and then she becomes like the 1.00

00:42:07.000 most brutal dictator ever. It's just like extrajudicial extrajudicial assassinations are through the

00:42:12.000 roof tenfold what they were under Obama.

00:42:14.000 And then it's like, you have like a documentary 50 years from now, President Swift was the most aggressive authoritarian leader any nation had ever seen.

00:42:22.000 The reign of Paceway. 0.85

00:42:24.000 Yeah, she's like, drop the bombs. 0.99

00:42:27.000 Running under the campaign slogan, shake it off.

00:42:31.000 The IQ deficit thing is really fascinating, which, because children that were born under the, during the pandemic, during the lockdowns, which again, this being the first time people can get out, one study found that they have a 30 point IQ deficit.

00:42:43.000 30 points!

00:42:43.000 Yes.

00:42:43.000 Woo!

00:42:45.000 Wow.

00:42:46.000 Early for infant IQ tests, which those are not super valid, but if that maintains in the early studies of 30-point IQ deficit, that would mean that the average person born in that three-year period would have an average IQ of 70, and remember average means the middle, meaning the other half is lower than that.

00:43:07.000 Horrifying.

00:43:08.000 It's like that George Carlin joke. 1.00

00:43:09.000 He was like, think about how stupid the average person is. 1.00

00:43:12.000 Now realize half of them are stupider than that. 1.00

00:43:13.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:43:14.000 Wow. 0.98

00:43:15.000 Well, uh, I feel bad for these kids, but I mostly feel bad for myself because by the time I'm, you know, in my fifties and desperately trying to vote to save this country or planet, you're gonna have a lot, a lot of really dumb people voting. 0.96

00:43:27.000 And they're going to be like, masks are good. 0.93

00:43:29.000 I used to wear masks all the time.

00:43:32.000 I vote for masks.

00:43:33.000 And it's like a mandatory masking when you're going to the bathroom.

00:43:36.000 They're going to be like, I don't feel comfortable without my mask.

00:43:39.000 There's already preliminary data on that.

00:43:42.000 But it's going to be like, they're not going to say that because their IQs are very low.

00:43:46.000 They're going to be walking into a room and someone's gonna be like, you gotta take the mask off.

00:43:49.000 And they go, I need the mask.

00:43:50.000 And they go, sir, take the mask off, we're leaving.

00:43:52.000 And then they go, And then they're gonna be like, okay, okay, okay, okay, you can wear the mask, jeez.

00:43:58.000 As they're sucking down on their watermelon peach vapes.

00:44:02.000 I can just see it now.

00:44:05.000 Watermelon peach?

00:44:06.000 Is that like the flavor that you tell people?

00:44:08.000 I just made something up as I was talking.

00:44:10.000 That's his personal favorite vape flavor.

00:44:12.000 It'd have to be like avocado toast flavor or something.

00:44:15.000 I used to.

00:44:16.000 Avocado toast flavored babe?

00:44:17.000 Sounds horrific.

00:44:18.000 And Taylor Swift is giving them out at her campaign rallies?

00:44:21.000 Yeah, there you go.

00:44:22.000 It's how you get the young people involved.

00:44:23.000 Well, speaking of low IQs, let's pull up this story.

00:44:26.000 New York City lawyer sobs in court as she's sentenced to 15 months behind bars for firebombing 0.98

00:44:32.000 NYPD van with Molotov cocktail fashioned out of a Bud Light bottle during BLM protests.

00:44:38.000 Urooj Rahman asked a judge to spare her prison time and give her a second chance to redeem herself for what she called a momentary lapse of judgment.

00:44:46.000 Yo, lady, prison is for dangerous people, okay? 1.00

00:44:51.000 15 months, you're getting a slap on the wrist considering you firebombed a car.

00:44:56.000 If it was like she threw a rock and it hit somebody in the head, I might be like, okay, you know, 15 months, don't throw rocks, people, come on.

00:45:02.000 No, she threw a firebomb. 1.00

00:45:04.000 She, like, was handing them out to people.

00:45:07.000 So, you know, again, speaking of low IQs, we're already seeing how bad it can be when these people have momentary lapses of judgment.

00:45:15.000 The scary thing about it is that people like her, they think they're smart.

00:45:18.000 That's the scary thing.

00:45:19.000 Midwitism.

00:45:21.000 Well, you know, midwits are average, you know, like midwits are slightly above average.

00:45:25.000 But they're very convinced that they're, usually part of when people get called midwits, it's that they are also part of that convinced that they are very intelligent, which makes it dangerous.

00:45:36.000 Midwit is basically, they are a little smart, like a little bit above average, but they're not smart enough to truly understand.

00:45:43.000 So they're active players like these journalists, the corporate press, they're midwits. 0.92

00:45:49.000 You know, there's that IQ bell curve you see all the time where the dumb guy and the smart guy agree on things and the average person is like doing the wrong thing, pro-establishment or whatever. 0.98

00:45:57.000 This is kind of scary when you think about it, and then you realize that we're going to have a wave of substantially stupider people due to the masking policies and the lockdown policies in these schools. 0.98

00:46:07.000 These kids are all developmentally stunted, and they're not getting those years back. 0.80

00:46:11.000 I don't know if you guys ever read about the girl raised by wolves?

00:46:15.000 I mean, not the girl, but there's a bunch of stories of, like, kids, they never learn.

00:46:20.000 You know, by the time they're adults, there was, like, some story I read about a woman who was, like, seriously abused and locked in a basement until she was 13.

00:46:28.000 Her name was, like, Trixie or something like that?

00:46:30.000 When she was finally rescued, she couldn't learn to speak proper colloquial English.

00:46:34.000 Right, right, right.

00:46:35.000 She could only say certain words, like, hungry, sleep, but she couldn't actually articulate long thoughts with other people.

00:46:41.000 That's scary, man.

00:46:42.000 Those foundational developmental years are really, really important for children to become adults or to be able to function whatsoever in society.

00:46:52.000 So yeah, a child can survive in the woods being raised by wolves.

00:46:55.000 You can survive, but you can't – you're going to have so many developmental issues.

00:47:00.000 So with these children who have grown up never seeing their parents' face or very rarely seeing their parents' face, which is a huge part of it, of forming the connection between mother and child and father and child.

00:47:09.000 They don't have any of that, so that does explain partially why the IQ deficit is what we're seeing in the preliminary data.

00:47:16.000 You ever see that study where they had the mom, they brought in a bunch of moms with kids, and then the mom would not respond to the baby's facial cues?

00:47:22.000 Have you seen that?

00:47:23.000 It's so sad.

00:47:24.000 The baby, like, tries to get the mom to react, and they, like, they told the mother, just remain stone-faced and do not respond to the baby, and then eventually the baby just starts crying, like, freaking out. 0.99

00:47:34.000 Yeah, these immune system deniers are absolutely sick and disgusting. 0.98

00:47:39.000 I'm serious. 0.99

00:47:40.000 When we look at the policies that they've implemented, they knew the horrors that this was going to bring.

00:47:45.000 And we've seen video after video of these fat, bureaucratic, totalitarian teachers just shove a mask on a child's face as they're literally fighting with them.

00:47:54.000 Toddlers, small children in kindergarten were forced to be masked, which is leading to severe Developmental issues that we're going to be seeing the long-term consequences of, especially in the future.

00:48:09.000 There was even major politicians that came out and said, guys, I made a mistake.

00:48:13.000 You did?

00:48:14.000 Of course you did.

00:48:15.000 We all knew you did.

00:48:16.000 We were talking about this.

00:48:17.000 We were warning about this.

00:48:18.000 And our voices were censored by big tech social media.

00:48:21.000 And this is why it went on for so long.

00:48:24.000 It was because of that censorship.

00:48:25.000 It's because people couldn't push back. 0.95

00:48:27.000 It's because the ideas couldn't be challenged or tested in the public sphere, and we were censored, and we had to continue with this ludicrous, nonsense, bullcrap, insane policy that has hurt children in so many unspeakable ways. 0.65

00:48:40.000 I interviewed a mom on Long Island a couple months ago when schools were going back and forth over whether or not they would remove their mask policy, and she was just telling me about her experience.

00:48:49.000 I wrote about it for the site, But one of the worst parts of it, she told me, was that there was a girl in the school who got sick in class, threw up in her mask, she's like in the second grade, and they made her walk to the nurse's office without taking her mask off.

00:49:02.000 Like, this is insane!

00:49:04.000 Why would we live this way?

00:49:05.000 Well, even before this, did you ever hear the story about what's going on in Chicago?

00:49:09.000 Where they lock kids in padded rooms? 0.88

00:49:12.000 There was a little boy who was, like, acting out, so they brought him into a padded room, locked the door, and then just left him there for hours.

00:49:19.000 He started screaming he had to go to the bathroom, so they ignored him, and when his parents finally came, they found him, like, with crap on his pants, and, like, a little kid, like, like, I forgot how old he was, like, five or six or something.

00:49:28.000 So this stuff's been going on.

00:49:30.000 It's only getting worse.

00:49:31.000 Homeschool your kids, because, uh... 0.99

00:49:33.000 One last point on the COVID stuff.

00:49:34.000 There was a study that I came across.

00:49:36.000 It's by Dr. Raymond Palmer.

00:49:38.000 It's called COVID-19 vaccines and the misinterpretation of perceived side effects.

00:49:43.000 Clarity on the safety of vaccines.

00:49:45.000 If you don't mind, I'd like to read a few lines.

00:49:49.000 The basic premise is that all of the side effects are just because people were mean about it.

00:49:53.000 People were mean on Twitter about whether or not they wanted to get vaccinated.

00:49:57.000 They did a study?

00:49:58.000 It's not a real study, it's his contention.

00:50:01.000 What's his publication?

00:50:04.000 It's published in the Journal of Biomedicine just this last year.

00:50:09.000 Is that a reputable publication?

00:50:10.000 Yes, it is.

00:50:11.000 That's the horrifying part.

00:50:13.000 Basically, much of this anti-vaccination sentiment could be attributed to the alleged side effects that are perpetuated across social media from anti-vaccination groups.

00:50:22.000 Fear-mongering and misinformation being peddled by people with no scientific training to terrorize people into staying unvaccinated could be causing the side effects in the vaccination process.

00:50:33.000 But we're not talking about, like, kids being masked.

00:50:36.000 We're talking about... It's in any kind of side effect.

00:50:39.000 I just saw this today, but any kind of side effect of anything socially, medically, is because of anti-vaxxers being mean on social media.

00:50:49.000 Well, hold on there.

00:50:50.000 Guys, we got to stop being mean. I know. That's the only way. Is that the cure to COVID?

00:50:54.000 Apparently. That's the, you know, everybody will be healthier. Well, to be fair, I mean,

00:50:58.000 stress does cause health problems. It does. That's his contention.

00:51:02.000 Well, I think his contention is garbage, but we can all try to be a little nicer. 0.94

00:51:06.000 Also, like, I don't feel like the anti-vaxxers were, again, I'm not an avid Twitter user, 0.96

00:51:11.000 but I felt like the dominant pressure was to get vaccinated, was to follow through,

00:51:16.000 and those who questioned that were the ones who were attacked.

00:51:19.000 He's literally accusing people of what the establishment was doing.

00:51:23.000 Yes.

00:51:24.000 As a perfect example, perfectly described it, except for his side was doing that.

00:51:28.000 Right.

00:51:29.000 And what his contention, what's his evidence for it later in it, is that, well, women had more myocarditis and different kinds of cardiac events following, you know, exposure to social media.

00:51:43.000 And it's because of that that there's this issue.

00:51:45.000 I mean, actually, that sounds plausible.

00:51:48.000 It is possible.

00:51:48.000 Women are more likely to have really severe stress reactions to social pressure.

00:51:55.000 We talked about that study where teenage girls are getting depressed from Instagram.

00:51:59.000 I mean, if you are susceptible for whatever reason, be it COVID or now they have that study that NBC News reported about where Pfizer and Moderna, I think, are doing long-term studies on myocarditis and pericarditis.

00:52:13.000 Which they say is very rare, but my point is, if you are susceptible for whatever reason, and you're having heart palpitations because of stress on social media, I mean, I don't think anti-vaxxer makes the most sense, but the idea that social media stress could increase your risk for any kind of heart issue, Just kind of a weird, convenient thing to say.

00:52:38.000 We're seeing this increased stress in people, and it is causing them cardiac issues.

00:52:42.000 It must be the anti-vaxxers on social media that are responsible for it, which is, again, a convenient way to... Who are not reporting heart issues?

00:52:50.000 You could say it's cancel culture.

00:52:52.000 Oh, sure.

00:52:52.000 The fear of being canceled, of not fitting in, of not virtue signaling, is causing people to have heart problems.

00:52:57.000 I actually would believe that, too, especially with what we know.

00:53:00.000 I think, you know, we've seen a lot of young girls negatively impacted by social media.

00:53:04.000 They get depressed when they don't get enough likes.

00:53:06.000 But they're younger, so their hearts aren't going to give out.

00:53:08.000 But what if you're like a 50, 60-year-old woman, and you're wrapped up in this stuff?

00:53:12.000 Like, I don't know if you guys saw the Rosie O'Donnell, Kathy Griffin TikTok they put out, and it's just cringe, like super cringe.

00:53:20.000 But I imagine for them, they're a lot older.

00:53:22.000 They're active on social media, they're probably getting stressed out bad by this stuff, but they also just have old hearts.

00:53:29.000 So, like, I wouldn't be surprised if you came to me and said that Kathy Griffin was having a heart condition, I'd be like, yeah, the lady's strung out on Twitter, like she's losing it. 0.75

00:53:36.000 Sure, with a problem with a study like that where he's making his contention and his conclusion is that, well, there's competing variables here, there's alternative hypotheses, and you're just contending that this must be the correct one.

00:53:46.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:53:46.000 But that one could very well be part of it as well, is that women really are getting more stressed out because of social pressures on social media.

00:53:52.000 I think it's fair to say that myocarditis is not caused by mean tweets.

00:53:56.000 I think that's the baseline that we should be having here.

00:54:01.000 Prove it.

00:54:01.000 Hold on.

00:54:01.000 Prove it in a study.

00:54:03.000 I'll rely on Pfizer and Moderna to tell us what to believe in since they're investigating themselves, so they're very trustworthy.

00:54:09.000 But I do think it's a fair point to say if you're susceptible, Sure.

00:54:14.000 being stressed out will increase your risk probably.

00:54:17.000 Like cortisol stressors cause negative health consequences.

00:54:20.000 The point I'm trying to bring up is, guys, I get it, but social media is bad for us. 0.99

00:54:26.000 The algorithms are manipulating us, they're controlling us into believing stupid political 0.99

00:54:30.000 nonsense, and young girls are getting depressed. 1.00

00:54:33.000 Young guys are getting depressed too, but it's mostly young girls getting depressed

00:54:36.000 I got no problem being like, I am absolutely willing to throw the algorithms of Facebook under the bus on this one.

00:54:43.000 If it means we can, I don't know, do something about it, change it or fix it.

00:54:46.000 Well, there were a couple, uh, wrongful death lawsuits going.

00:54:49.000 There's one in the UK with like a 12 year old boy.

00:54:51.000 There's one in California with like a 19 year old girl who are, uh, They basically are arguing that the algorithms fed them content that they may have been predisposed to anxiety or issues, but it encouraged these mental health issues to the point where at least one of the children killed themselves.

00:55:08.000 If it's the 12-year-old boy in the UK that I'm thinking of, then that lawsuit is completely bogus.

00:55:13.000 Yeah.

00:55:15.000 Yes, he was being bullied online, but he had horrible home life, and then it also turned out that, if that's the one I'm thinking of, that his mother, then he had been, he was brain dead and was kept in line on ventilators for three months while he was literally, his brain stem was necrotizing, while she was making money by posting pictures of him on social media in a diaper, and if that's the same story, then... I don't know.

00:55:34.000 I know there have been several lawsuits.

00:55:36.000 I just find it interesting, and again, maybe not all of them are valid, but I find it interesting that People are choosing this route to say, like, we are experiencing the suffering right away.

00:55:46.000 We didn't evolve in these conditions whatsoever, so of course it's overstimulating to the dopaminergic center of the brain.

00:55:53.000 I wanna talk about chickens, so I'm just gonna hard segue, and it's Friday, and so we're chillin'.

00:55:58.000 But we have this story from GBN.

00:56:01.000 Eggs to be rationed across UK until spring 2023.

00:56:05.000 Supermarkets including Tesco, Asda, and Lidl taking urgent action.

00:56:11.000 Buy some chickens.

00:56:12.000 Look, I don't know if this is going to happen here in the United States.

00:56:14.000 Probably not.

00:56:15.000 We're a very, very big country.

00:56:16.000 I think we've got more farmland than the UK.

00:56:18.000 They're not as large.

00:56:19.000 But the energy crisis, look, I'm bringing up the eggs thing just to be silly.

00:56:23.000 It is a very serious story.

00:56:25.000 But with what's going on in Ukraine and Russia, the latest report I saw was that Russia was pulling back missile batteries.

00:56:32.000 And so they're expecting a barrage to come down, like a serious one now.

00:56:36.000 Like Russia's not giving up on this.

00:56:38.000 And that just means It's gonna get a lot worse.

00:56:41.000 Now that the midterms are over and Joe Biden is done dumping strategic petroleum, the prices are gonna skyrocket again.

00:56:46.000 And now we're also hearing this.

00:56:49.000 25% of U.S.

00:56:50.000 faces potential winter electricity outages.

00:56:52.000 Fuel shortages have increased risk to U.S.

00:56:55.000 power grid.

00:56:57.000 So, uh, buy some chickens.

00:56:59.000 You know, just a couple in the backyard, I guess, if you can.

00:57:01.000 And, uh, you know, they'll eat the bugs, live in the pod, and they'll give you eggs. 0.68

00:57:05.000 But, uh, I will just say right now, We're looking at home prices collapsing.

00:57:09.000 People don't want to buy.

00:57:10.000 Interest rates are going to go back up.

00:57:12.000 Inflation's getting worse.

00:57:14.000 Gas prices are going to skyrocket.

00:57:15.000 The band-aid that they put on the economy to try and save Democrats in the midterms is now losing its effectiveness because a band-aid over a bullet wound can't do much for long.

00:57:24.000 So, uh, I don't know.

00:57:25.000 What do you guys think?

00:57:28.000 Well, first of all, I agree with the buying chicken things.

00:57:30.000 We've got them over in the UK, so I guess we'll be all right from the egg crisis that's coming, allegedly. 0.96

00:57:36.000 But yeah, absolutely.

00:57:37.000 It was a band-aid, as you said, and it can't do much for a prolonged period of time to deal with the really disastrous effects of the Joe Biden presidency that were just temporarily ameliorated by this injection of money.

00:57:52.000 And people are going to feel it.

00:57:53.000 And who are they going to blame?

00:57:54.000 Because the media will say it's the Republicans.

00:57:56.000 You should have voted harder.

00:57:58.000 You didn't vote hard enough.

00:57:58.000 So I don't know.

00:58:00.000 How are people going to be able to explain that to themselves?

00:58:01.000 And also the Trump presidency from the lockdowns as well.

00:58:04.000 We have to understand the lockdowns are still having a very severe effect on our economic way of life.

00:58:10.000 There's even major shortages of antibiotics that people can't find in the US hospitals where children are left stranded and screwed over because they don't have the medicine because the supply shortages from that lockdown are still affecting our financial markets today, which is absolutely crazy and.

00:58:27.000 I think we still haven't seen the rest of it yet.

00:58:29.000 These financial consequences of just spending money, giving people $2,000 checks, bringing back the Inflation Reduction Act, which doesn't really reduce inflation, but spends more money on climate and other social justice warrior causes that Bill Gates spurs on, is not going to help anyone.

00:58:46.000 We have to understand, we're in for some big trouble, and there's no denying it.

00:58:52.000 This is kind of a segue, but Biden's 80th birthday is Sunday, and we did not get an annual physical release this week, which I find to be extremely annoying.

00:59:04.000 I know that the Biden administration is not trustworthy, but at least pretend.

00:59:10.000 I would have liked to have seen the report that inevitably would have declared that he is competent and healthy and good at stuff.

00:59:17.000 Because at least then you are keeping up the premise that you have to pretend.

00:59:21.000 I don't trust the Biden administration, and I am now concerned that they aren't even pretending to hide anything anymore.

00:59:27.000 They are openly not talking about his health.

00:59:30.000 They're not even walking through the... Yeah, they're not even pretending the emperor has any clothes at this point.

00:59:34.000 It's all...

00:59:35.000 Well, I guess everyone knows.

00:59:36.000 Is anyone really surprised?

00:59:38.000 Well, they're stuck, right?

00:59:39.000 If they put out a clean bill of health, everyone goes, hmm, I don't think so.

00:59:43.000 And if they don't, they have to admit that he's not going to run in 2024.

00:59:48.000 And they're not willing to do that either.

00:59:50.000 I feel like this is such a strange power grab.

00:59:53.000 And I feel sorry for my generation and basically all Americans out there who are having to pay the price for this.

01:00:00.000 You know, I'm sad for this country.

01:00:03.000 Because we should be teaching our younger generation how to think critically and how to survive.

01:00:09.000 And we've not done that. 0.92

01:00:10.000 And now we have a whole bunch of, you know, whiny woke loser cultists who are like, I have to You work eight hours on Saturday. 0.97

01:00:16.000 We need a union!" 0.98

01:00:17.000 And it's like, okay, dude.

01:00:19.000 At this point, I'm kind of just like, take your cities.

01:00:22.000 You can have them.

01:00:23.000 I'm going to get away from the cities, move somewhere else, and just try and succeed.

01:00:27.000 And I encourage everyone else to do the same.

01:00:30.000 I'm not saying abandon the political fight.

01:00:32.000 Quite the opposite.

01:00:33.000 I'm saying make sure you are cleaning your room before you try to change the world, right?

01:00:38.000 And then my attitude is, your worst case scenario, if you get in shape, eat right, start, you know, working on yourself, is that if it all comes crumbling down, then you'll be alright.

01:00:50.000 You'll be okay.

01:00:51.000 And the hipsters will be like, why can't we get avocado toast anymore? 1.00

01:00:54.000 And you'll be like, because they're grown in Mexico in the winter, and they ship them here, and now there's no energy because you're an idiot. 1.00

01:01:02.000 You don't want to do any work? 1.00

01:01:03.000 Fine.

01:01:03.000 You don't get your avocados.

01:01:04.000 I mean, man, look at this Twitter stuff.

01:01:06.000 The Twitter meltdown.

01:01:07.000 They're like, they're like, I worked four hours a week and Elon was and doesn't want to pay me half a million dollars.

01:01:12.000 And it's like, uh-huh.

01:01:13.000 And?

01:01:14.000 It's it's, you know, I've I've said it before.

01:01:17.000 If the American people knew how much money these New York media people were getting paid for as little work as they're doing, there would be a revolution overnight.

01:01:27.000 Working class people in this country do not understand. 1.00

01:01:30.000 You walk into that Google office, these people are all six figures, and they do NOTHING!

01:01:36.000 There's like, I'm watching people like sit there drinking coffee, reading a book.

01:01:40.000 I used to go there and you know, I'd be invited because people, I know people at Google.

01:01:43.000 I'd be in their cafeteria.

01:01:44.000 I'm like, so what is it these people are doing?

01:01:47.000 It's remarkable to me that when I worked for, I worked at O'Hare, I'm lifting 50,000 pounds of luggage every day for 10 bucks an hour, struggling to make ends meet, couldn't afford it.

01:01:57.000 And then when I walked into that vice office for the first time, I just started laughing.

01:02:00.000 I was like, where is everybody?

01:02:01.000 Like, we work from home.

01:02:03.000 What?

01:02:04.000 They publish like one article per week?

01:02:06.000 Amazing.

01:02:07.000 I want to go work at Vice.

01:02:09.000 One article a week?

01:02:11.000 Well, they're laying people off now.

01:02:12.000 Yeah, there was a TikTok video that went viral a couple months ago, was it, or weeks ago.

01:02:18.000 Inside Twitter?

01:02:19.000 No, it wasn't about Twitter.

01:02:20.000 It was about LinkedIn.

01:02:21.000 Yeah, right.

01:02:21.000 Where the woman's like, here's a day in the life of a 23-year-old Whatever, it linked in and all she seemed to do was sit around and eat snacks.

01:02:32.000 We were talking about the journalist yesterday.

01:02:35.000 He was driving a Ferrari in a five million dollar mansion.

01:02:37.000 Porsche.

01:02:38.000 Porsche, excuse me.

01:02:39.000 Come on, Lewis.

01:02:39.000 What's going on?

01:02:40.000 I got the different there. Come on, Lewis. Get it. What's going on? Listen, ha. It's still ridiculous.

01:02:47.000 And again, there is so much of these people that take so much for granted. 0.96

01:02:53.000 They're so entitled.

01:02:54.000 And we're so lucky to even be born in the United States.

01:02:57.000 When we compare how we live to how the rest of the world lives, there's a big difference.

01:03:02.000 If you travel the world, you see it, and it's shocking.

01:03:05.000 It's terrifying.

01:03:06.000 And to see people take advantage of that, and to see people They're pod people.

01:03:09.000 want to work hard in this situation not take all the opportunities presented to

01:03:13.000 them is just mind-boggling to me personally at least but yeah aha I would

01:03:18.000 never want to be advice ever. They're pod people. Yeah.

01:03:21.000 They're pod people. They're NPCs like look good times make weak men.

01:03:28.000 You got a lot of people who were born into the peak of American gluttony, they do no work, they never had to work, they never had hardship, and now they're thrust into the world.

01:03:39.000 And I mean, we weren't, look, we used to say that these woke people got out of college, they're in for a rude awakening.

01:03:44.000 We were half right.

01:03:45.000 Most of them were in for a rude awakening, got really angry, and now are voting to make the world like their daycare campus.

01:03:51.000 But we're also seeing funny videos of people being like, That's a great one.

01:03:59.000 Eight hours on the weekend?

01:04:00.000 Oh, heaven's me.

01:04:01.000 Wow, you have to lift a rock.

01:04:02.000 To Lewis's point, like, both of my... This is horrible.

01:04:06.000 I don't know why we started this, but like, I mean, I know you have a similar story, but both of my parents are immigrants and I remember asking my dad once, do you ever wish that, you know, He had an opportunity to move back in before they had kids, and I remember asking him, like, do you ever wish that I had your accent?

01:04:20.000 Do you ever wish I was more in touch with that part of our culture?

01:04:22.000 And he was like, no, we knew it was a dying country.

01:04:27.000 Like, we left so you would have opportunities that we did not think you would have in the UK.

01:04:31.000 Like, that was more important.

01:04:32.000 And I think that that is a perspective that so many people don't have.

01:04:38.000 Like, they Assume that things will always continue to get better and better, and when they're faced with challenges, they aren't willing to think critically about the sacrifices that have been made for them or that they need to make for their future.

01:04:50.000 Yeah, Hila is absolutely right.

01:04:52.000 Thanks Larry!

01:04:54.000 For some reason, people in Poland literally have their own Jaukas.

01:04:58.000 Jaukas, they're called little plots of land that they have outside of their major apartment buildings where they just grow their own food.

01:05:04.000 They also preserve their own food, can their own food.

01:05:07.000 And growing up in Poland, it was routine during winter.

01:05:09.000 Oh yeah.

01:05:10.000 We make reserves and we have reserves that we could eat so we don't have to rely on the communist centralized government force that will give you a piece of paper allowing you a certain allowance of bread of meat that you were given as a ration that everyone was allowed to have which is absolutely crazy you would have your own by being prepared.

01:05:29.000 And I think with the government here becoming more centralized, that's something that more and more people need to realize that at the end of the day, you are only responsible for yourself, especially when it comes to the larger crap storm coming our way that the government is creating.

01:05:42.000 Well, I feel like you're, Leonard's right, you're responsible for yourself, but also you're responsible for your progeny and your family and your immediate community.

01:05:48.000 Like, you choose who you interact with day-to-day and the impact that you have on them.

01:05:52.000 Like, don't trust the government to make things better for you.

01:05:54.000 That's what I don't understand about people coming out of college who are just waiting for someone to fix their problems.

01:06:00.000 Like, that's never been realistic.

01:06:02.000 I don't know what experience you had in life that made you feel that way.

01:06:05.000 It was crazy when I was working for a company.

01:06:07.000 I had somebody fresh out of college, first job, and they were telling me, I don't know how to do this task.

01:06:16.000 Someone needs to tell me how to do it.

01:06:18.000 And my response was, well, just figure it out.

01:06:21.000 And they're like, what do you mean just figure it out?

01:06:22.000 I need to be told what to do.

01:06:23.000 And I was like, take the time to figure out how to operate the system.

01:06:28.000 And then I had to explain to them, I was like, if someone else knew how to do it, they wouldn't have hired you to do it.

01:06:35.000 But I get it.

01:06:36.000 In college, you have a professor who tells you how to do things.

01:06:39.000 That's not how it works here.

01:06:41.000 You're hired because nobody knows how to do it, and it's your job to figure it out.

01:06:45.000 Surprise, surprise, these people struggle.

01:06:47.000 They can't make it.

01:06:49.000 I think they're living in a myth.

01:06:50.000 There's something called the Whig interpretation of history that may have heard of, and it does rely on this belief system that things are always progressing forward in an upward and onward direction.

01:07:01.000 So we have more technology, we have more freedom, whatever that is supposed to mean under a certain circumstance, but because we have more of stuff, therefore everything else about society must be better.

01:07:12.000 And that's, I think, a complete bunk.

01:07:15.000 I talk about this too.

01:07:16.000 People are like, this is the first generation where we're worse off than our parents.

01:07:19.000 And I was like, I don't know if that's true, because my parents didn't have cell phones when they were younger.

01:07:23.000 They didn't have access to the summation of human knowledge.

01:07:26.000 They couldn't argue with strangers and look at pictures of cats, for better or for worse.

01:07:30.000 And it was even really difficult to get TVs.

01:07:32.000 They were very expensive.

01:07:35.000 If you wanted to go out Friday night, you know, grab drinks with your friends, like, good luck.

01:07:38.000 Try calling a phone, leaving a message.

01:07:40.000 Otherwise, nothing.

01:07:41.000 So we do have a lot more luxuries that they didn't have.

01:07:44.000 Now, that being said, because of these things, good luck getting a job if you don't have a cell phone.

01:07:49.000 So now it's a necessity.

01:07:51.000 It may be beneficial to you, which means we may have better things, but we don't have the excess cash to start families.

01:07:57.000 So, you know, the things you own end up owning you.

01:08:00.000 But let's talk about colleges.

01:08:01.000 I want to talk about this story we got here from Daily Mail.

01:08:04.000 University of California Santa Barbara's Black Student Union holds free Black Panther Wakanda 0.99

01:08:08.000 Forever screening but asks white students not to attend.

01:08:12.000 Ah yes, this is what they mean by diversity.

01:08:15.000 Racial segregation.

01:08:17.000 So, there's another article from the Philadelphia Inquirer that was talking about, the writer was Mexican, and he was saying how, you know, he didn't understand Black Panther and what it meant for the black community, seeing an African country that wasn't devastated by colonization.

01:08:32.000 And then he was like, and then I saw Namur and Talocan in Wakanda forever, and then I started to understand, and I'm just thinking like, these woke people, their view of what is good in terms of

01:08:45.000 racial, like racial ideology is stereotypes of races, totally segregated, and fighting with

01:08:52.000 each other. That was the craziest thing, like Black Panther. Have you seen it? Oh, hell no. 0.92

01:08:58.000 Well, why not? Thank you. Why not?

01:09:01.000 I love comic books.

01:09:02.000 I like Namor, by the way, so I have no interest in... Namor!

01:09:05.000 Is that how it's pronounced now?

01:09:06.000 Namor.

01:09:06.000 Uh-huh.

01:09:06.000 Okay, well, not for my entire life of reading Marvel comics, but whatever.

01:09:09.000 I don't think I'm supposed to roll the R, but... Well, I don't know.

01:09:11.000 They've changed it.

01:09:12.000 And so, exactly, I have no... I mean, my character's got an I'm-not-Daredevil shirt, which is not from a particularly good run on Daredevil by Mark Waid, but I have no interest in modern comics because they have no interest in me.

01:09:23.000 But what don't you like about Black Panther?

01:09:26.000 I thought the first movie was okay.

01:09:27.000 Yeah, it was crazy.

01:09:31.000 It was a good movie, but I don't watch any of this stuff anymore.

01:09:35.000 The main character was a Wakanda first, closed borders.

01:09:37.000 Which was bizarre that they did make him a Wakanda nationalist.

01:09:41.000 I'm going to spoil it.

01:09:42.000 I mean, I've already spoiled it a million times, but you see, this is judging a book by its cover.

01:09:47.000 Wakanda forever, the point I'm making about how racist this is, is a movie quite literally about the most powerful nation on earth, so says Queen Ramonda, with a powerful barrier around their country that no one can breach, and a Mexican guy breaks in by crossing a river.

01:10:01.000 Oh, I watched your video about it earlier, and I've heard some other people talk about it, so I'm aware of what happens in the film.

01:10:07.000 And they're cheering for it, they're like, this is the greatest movie.

01:10:09.000 And it's funny, because we had Dave Landau here, and when we were talking about it before the show, and I explained, it's a Mexican guy, and his back, you know, as he climbs out of the river, is wet. 0.96

01:10:19.000 And I said, how do you think they defeat him?

01:10:21.000 And he goes, do they dry him off?

01:10:23.000 And I was like, yes!

01:10:24.000 Yes!

01:10:25.000 And he was like, so it's the greatest movie ever.

01:10:28.000 Right.

01:10:29.000 Yeah.

01:10:29.000 Stereotypes are a simple way of understanding the world and that it's also something called a cognitive heuristic.

01:10:34.000 We all rely on cognitive heuristics as mental shortcuts.

01:10:38.000 So, for example, if you see a stick in the grass, we have evolved to very quickly make a snap judgment to decide if that is a stick in the grass or a snake.

01:10:47.000 It reduces cognitive load to rely upon stereotypes.

01:10:51.000 It literally means you have to think less.

01:10:52.000 You expend less mental energy.

01:10:54.000 So people like stereotypes for that reason, so I think that maybe in some way they're just like, oh, I can turn my brain off even more during this Marvel movie than I usually would because I can just rely upon stereotypes about other people.

01:11:06.000 Now that we've entertained that, and we talked about it before, I have this story from IndieWire.

01:11:11.000 John Leguizamo calls out non-diverse Super Mario Bros.

01:11:15.000 casting.

01:11:16.000 It's going backwards. 0.92

01:11:18.000 For them to go backwards and not cast another actor of color kind of sucks, Leguizamo, who starred in the 1993 live-action version of the upcoming animated movie. 0.86

01:11:26.000 Let me just explain this very simply. 0.91

01:11:28.000 Mario and Luigi are two white plumbers.

01:11:31.000 John Leguizamo is angry that two white guys were cast to play as white plumbers.

01:11:36.000 This is the extent of wokeness in culture.

01:11:40.000 It sounds like they're making the far-right argument that Italians aren't white.

01:11:45.000 That's what I was thinking, too.

01:11:49.000 That's really weird.

01:11:50.000 It is bizarre.

01:11:51.000 It's news to the white Italians.

01:11:54.000 I've seen that, like, very far right people will say because of proximity to Africa that Italians aren't really white.

01:12:01.000 If that's what you're saying, then I mean, okay, well, like, you and Richard Spencer can be buddies.

01:12:05.000 But here's the thing.

01:12:06.000 You want to know what this is really about?

01:12:08.000 John Leguizamo played Luigi in 1993.

01:12:11.000 And he wants to play Luigi now.

01:12:13.000 It's a big role, it's big money, and he's mad they're not casting him, so he makes it about race and says it's going backwards.

01:12:20.000 Bro, if the argument is that people should only play characters that are their race, then you should be happy that white actors were cast to play white characters. 0.56

01:12:30.000 The concern was when you had black characters voiced by white people.

01:12:35.000 No.

01:12:35.000 Apparently now the concern is, for the entire time, all these people ever really cared about was empowering themselves and making money.

01:12:42.000 As the only person of color here in this room, I think every studio should follow Netflix's protocol and make, you know, all the characters as diverse as they possibly can, no matter how ridiculous or absurd it is.

01:12:55.000 The memes are absolutely hilarious, too.

01:12:57.000 See the toast meme?

01:12:58.000 The book says...

01:13:00.000 They cut the white bread and it's a piece of black bread.

01:13:03.000 I tweeted that one today, too.

01:13:05.000 But yeah, this is just people going crazy.

01:13:08.000 I think this is just something highlighting our mental health decline.

01:13:12.000 I think a lot of people aren't well.

01:13:13.000 I think this is a perfect example of it.

01:13:15.000 And I think this kind of regurgitation of nonsense is just becoming more and more normalized.

01:13:22.000 And there's some woke companies that actually follow these principles, which is absolutely absurd. 1.00

01:13:27.000 It's stupid. 1.00

01:13:28.000 It's discriminatory. 1.00

01:13:29.000 It's racist. 1.00

01:13:29.000 It's ridiculous. 1.00

01:13:30.000 I mean, I think part of it is that the implication is that white people are meant to be secondary or replaceable. 0.99

01:13:38.000 I think part of it is, you know, to compensate.

01:13:42.000 When I was in college, what I heard regularly was that because white people have traditionally held institutions of power.

01:13:49.000 It's not even that you need to have representation, you need to have over-representation to compensate, right?

01:13:53.000 So we can't have white Italian plumbers because they should have always been diverse to make up for the fact. 1.00

01:14:01.000 Like, it's such a trap and at the end of it you just hear that White culture is not real and fake. 0.83

01:14:10.000 Like, I am sure you could get an Italian actor.

01:14:13.000 What was the mayor of LA?

01:14:15.000 He was like, I am diverse because I am Italian.

01:14:17.000 I identify with the Latino community.

01:14:19.000 Like, excuse me?

01:14:21.000 What?

01:14:21.000 Like, there is such an interest in divorcing yourself from Western European culture if you can grab at some kind of power.

01:14:28.000 And I think that's because we're repeatedly told that it's supposed to be a race.

01:14:33.000 We're not supposed to see it anymore.

01:14:34.000 Well, that's where you make up for wrongs from the past.

01:14:36.000 Yes. And that's where you get the Rachel Dolezals, right, of, 1.00

01:14:38.000 I'm going to essentially, you know, play at a minstrel show because this is how I gain institutional power, by

01:14:47.000 pretending that I'm anything but white.

01:14:50.000 Like Talcum X. And Talcum X, yes.

01:14:52.000 Or Luke.

01:14:53.000 Well, hey, hey, I'm officially recognized.

01:14:56.000 I got the paperwork to prove it, but watch out, Tim.

01:14:58.000 From where?

01:14:58.000 Where did you get paperwork?

01:14:59.000 Slavic people are people of color, you know that?

01:15:00.000 Right, I do, yes.

01:15:01.000 Listen here, Helen Clare.

01:15:03.000 Don't you challenge me!

01:15:05.000 Leroy!

01:15:06.000 I'm just saying, this is getting weird!

01:15:07.000 Leroy! 0.75

01:15:09.000 That's racist.

01:15:10.000 As completely the non-minority in the room, I'm just going to say it. 1.00

01:15:13.000 You're the whitest person in this room. 1.00

01:15:15.000 All right, you should not have a voice here.

01:15:16.000 I don't know what Serge is doing over there.

01:15:18.000 Serge is African.

01:15:19.000 That's true.

01:15:19.000 He's second in line and I speak first.

01:15:23.000 As the dominant voice in this room.

01:15:25.000 No, I'm just kidding.

01:15:25.000 But I mean, I think this is this strange white guilt that we see cultivated that it's um like he thinks someone will clap him on the back he'll get this media write-up because i mean i don't know maybe this guy is super relevant maybe we hear from him all the time not recently right so the only time he surfaces when he can denounce casting white people like that seems like a weird yeah it seems terrible

01:15:48.000 Who's going to say anything against him in the mainstream media?

01:15:52.000 Nobody.

01:15:52.000 He'll just get applauded for this.

01:15:55.000 That's the main issue he worries about?

01:15:57.000 How privileged does he have to be?

01:15:59.000 How lucky does he have to be to live in a world where this is his major issue?

01:16:03.000 This is what he decides to rally behind.

01:16:06.000 There's so much economic inequality.

01:16:08.000 There's so much horrible things happening with our health.

01:16:10.000 There's so much corruption within our political system.

01:16:13.000 There's so many multinational corporations and big banks Screwing everyone over, and this is what your main issue is?

01:16:19.000 Come on, man, get a life.

01:16:20.000 I wonder what compelled him to star in The Pest.

01:16:23.000 You ever see that movie?

01:16:24.000 No, I haven't.

01:16:24.000 Nobody knows that reference?

01:16:25.000 Mm-mm.

01:16:26.000 Oh, man, need some more movie buffs. 0.74

01:16:28.000 I would say, to counter your point, though, Luke, just a little bit, media and culture do actually matter, which is why it's cool that you guys are doing so much of what you are doing.

01:16:36.000 And I think that they're aware of that.

01:16:37.000 And that's why he made the comment that he did, because he is aware on some level that media and culture does matter.

01:16:43.000 And so he has to make his weird virtue signaling statement.

01:16:47.000 I'm bringing up this movie as kind of a dig against him.

01:16:51.000 Because like, if he wants to act out, I'm going to mention that he starred in the film The Pest, which is like a really, really bad late 90s movie that cost $8 million and only made 3.6.

01:17:01.000 So What's the plot?

01:17:04.000 Is there one?

01:17:05.000 Man, I don't remember.

01:17:06.000 Was it diverse, though?

01:17:07.000 I guess.

01:17:08.000 He's like... Did he take a spot away from my conversion?

01:17:11.000 Yeah, that is the operative question.

01:17:14.000 He gets hunted for sport or something?

01:17:17.000 Because he's white? 0.64

01:17:18.000 That would be... I feel like you could make that now.

01:17:20.000 Yeah, today that would be... The funny thing is, like, apparently there's this issue because he claims he's Puerto Rican, John Leguizamo, but his dad came out, he's like, he's Colombian.

01:17:28.000 Okay.

01:17:29.000 There was a movie about that I thought that came out about a white family being hunted, not that long ago.

01:17:34.000 There was that.

01:17:35.000 Actually, it was really good.

01:17:36.000 The Hunt.

01:17:37.000 Was that it?

01:17:38.000 Yeah, like everyone thought the movie was explicitly just like conservatives being hunted.

01:17:43.000 Oh, yeah.

01:17:43.000 The film was actually a bit more nuanced than that.

01:17:45.000 And actually was pretty good.

01:17:47.000 Yeah, I didn't I didn't see it.

01:17:48.000 The liberals were the bad guys.

01:17:50.000 Oh, okay. 1.00

01:17:50.000 Yeah, like outright just really stupid and evil. 1.00

01:17:54.000 And they end up I'll spoil it for everybody. 0.99

01:17:58.000 I think it's been out for a few years.

01:18:00.000 It's probably okay.

01:18:01.000 So the trailer made it seem like conservatives get hunted by liberals.

01:18:05.000 You watch the film, the liberals are clearly the villains, and they kidnap incorrectly some woman because they had bad information.

01:18:13.000 So not only were they evil for trying to hunt and kill, like, middle Americans who just happen to be conservative, the main character happens to have been incorrectly kidnapped and they try murdering her. 0.58

01:18:24.000 And then in the end, even though the woman knows, like, whoops, you're trying to kill an innocent person, the liberalman still wants to.

01:18:30.000 So it's like, they're outright just the bad guys.

01:18:32.000 So I was like, actually, you know, Do you think the people who saw that movie were able to catch on to the message?

01:18:37.000 They're explicitly the bad guys.

01:18:39.000 That doesn't necessarily mean people understood it, unfortunately.

01:18:45.000 I mean, I think it was well done.

01:18:46.000 They're having a text group, and then someone posts a joke about eating babies or something, and then it gets leaked, and then a conspiracy theory forms about it.

01:18:54.000 So they decide they're going to murder, they're going to kidnap and murder anyone who believes the conspiracy.

01:18:59.000 They end up grabbing a woman of the same name as someone else online.

01:19:02.000 She's totally innocent and has nothing to do with anything.

01:19:04.000 It's not political at all. 0.99

01:19:05.000 And then she ends up killing them all. 0.98

01:19:07.000 So, like, I think it was actually well done. 0.98

01:19:10.000 She's like, you got the wrong person.

01:19:11.000 I don't care about any of this.

01:19:12.000 She's like, I just want to go home.

01:19:14.000 But, you know, I thought it was a... I actually thought it was... Maybe the criticism still stands that, like, at a time when there's this much political division, we shouldn't put out movies that are like that.

01:19:22.000 But it was not a movie where the message overtly was, ha ha, go hunt and kill conservatives.

01:19:28.000 But that's what the trailer made it look like, so maybe they could have done a better job.

01:19:30.000 Right.

01:19:31.000 Yeah.

01:19:32.000 Maybe John Leguizamo could act in part two of that.

01:19:35.000 There you go.

01:19:35.000 Here's a job for you.

01:19:37.000 Yeah, but they got everyone talking about it, so they got everyone... Right.

01:19:39.000 No, they canceled it, remember, though?

01:19:41.000 Oh.

01:19:41.000 Yeah, they pulled it, and then later on they said, okay, we're gonna bring the movie back.

01:19:45.000 Yeah, I don't remember that part of it.

01:19:47.000 I remember hearing about it.

01:19:48.000 Even Trump was tweeting about it.

01:19:49.000 What better way to promote a movie than have the President of the United States tweet at it?

01:19:53.000 Well, now he can't do that anymore, so... Is the verb truth?

01:19:57.000 He truths about it?

01:19:57.000 He truths, I believe, yeah.

01:19:59.000 Why did he not name it Trumpet?

01:20:01.000 Originally, it was going to be September 27th, and then they said they were canceling it, and then later they brought it back March 13th.

01:20:05.000 Yeah.

01:20:07.000 Yeah, it made money.

01:20:09.000 $14 million budget, $42.8 million revenue.

01:20:13.000 Well, yeah, again, the tactic worked then, for one reason or another.

01:20:17.000 Yeah.

01:20:19.000 There you go.

01:20:21.000 Anyway.

01:20:23.000 Bit of an aside.

01:20:24.000 Yeah, it's an aside.

01:20:25.000 Watch the movie.

01:20:26.000 There you go.

01:20:27.000 What other movies should we watch?

01:20:30.000 Going into the weekend, what are your recommendations?

01:20:32.000 Going into the weekend, ah, it's Wakanda Forever.

01:20:36.000 Obviously.

01:20:37.000 Because it's funny how the woke people are like, yay, this movie's so good, and I'm like, this movie is like super... So you like nationalism?

01:20:43.000 Yeah, it's, but like, so the first... That was the problem with the first one, with the nationalism.

01:20:47.000 But the first one was a patriarchal, Ultra-nationalist country.

01:20:55.000 Ethnocentric! 0.98

01:20:57.000 Ethno-nationalist.

01:20:59.000 In order to rule, you had to win trial by combat and be a man.

01:21:03.000 Women weren't allowed to rule. 1.00

01:21:05.000 And then the villain was basically an ethnosupremacist who wanted to use their superior weapon to take over the world for their race.

01:21:12.000 That's an interesting narrative.

01:21:13.000 It was.

01:21:14.000 The good guy was Trump.

01:21:16.000 The bad guy was Hitler. 0.88

01:21:17.000 And then you have part two, where this powerful nation wants to mind its own business, and then Mexicans are crossing through the river into the country wreaking havoc. 1.00

01:21:25.000 I'm like, who are they making this movie for?

01:21:28.000 Who is the writer for this movie?

01:21:29.000 I need to know.

01:21:30.000 Who is sitting there like, uh-huh, okay, and what should we do next?

01:21:34.000 Okay.

01:21:35.000 We shouldn't have Namor be Atlantean because of copyright issues.

01:21:38.000 Let's have him be Mexican. 0.92

01:21:39.000 And then he breaks into Wakanda, for some reason, a landlocked nation.

01:21:43.000 That's a border wall.

01:21:46.000 I don't know what it is.

01:21:46.000 Oh, that's funny.

01:21:47.000 It was over copyright reasons that he couldn't be from Atlantis.

01:21:50.000 I guess the issue was, Brett from Pop Culture Crisis was telling me this, that they didn't want to pay the original creator, or like his estate.

01:21:57.000 So by substantively changing Namor to Namor, which was, he was the child without love.

01:22:03.000 Right.

01:22:04.000 So in Spanish, he was like, my enemies call me Namor.

01:22:07.000 Oh.

01:22:07.000 It's like, okay, dude, no, your enemies don't call you that.

01:22:09.000 One guy called you that 500 years ago.

01:22:11.000 You're cringing over there.

01:22:13.000 Yeah, that's all. I didn't understand. I didn't know about that part.

01:22:16.000 But this is why I don't watch these movies and I don't watch, I don't watch Lord of, what is it? Rings of Power?

01:22:20.000 I will watch other people on YouTube do five hour long reviews of them

01:22:25.000 for sure because I find that entertaining.

01:22:28.000 I have to imagine, though, with, like, Black Panther, you'll end up with white identitarians and the woke identitarians sitting in the theater together cheering for the same messages.

01:22:38.000 I saw that with the first one on 4chan, when the first one came out, there were people, you know, the people who self-identify as Nazis being like, oh, we love this, this is great, we've got this ultra-nationalistic movie, great.

01:22:50.000 And they're all cheering for it and they love it.

01:22:51.000 Yes, yes.

01:22:52.000 And then they're doing that University of California Santa Barbara is doing a black-only screen.

01:22:58.000 There could be some CIA reverse psychology here, because if you look at a lot of mainline movies, it's usually going against the big evil government or the multinational corporation or some kind of evil villain that wants to reduce the Earth's population for the greater good.

01:23:12.000 I think there might be some kind of psyops here, just again speculating here totally out of nowhere, of them just being like, you know, we're going to put this in your head just so you don't see it in real life, potentially.

01:23:24.000 I think there's something to think about.

01:23:26.000 What are they trying to put in your head?

01:23:28.000 Or they're trying to put that satisfaction of rebellion in your head so it doesn't come to fruition in real life.

01:23:35.000 I'll give you an example.

01:23:36.000 Because that's V for Vendetta.

01:23:37.000 All the movies are like this.

01:23:38.000 There's a show, we talked about this on a Members Only show.

01:23:40.000 The Matrix 2 as well.

01:23:42.000 There's a show called The Good Fight.

01:23:44.000 They did an episode, I think it was the finale, where a character based on Milo Yiannopoulos accuses Ron DeSantis by name of sexual assault.

01:23:54.000 And in the show, they are saying over and over again, Ron DeSantis is accused, and here's what the guy's saying.

01:24:00.000 And I thought it was interesting, so we Googled Ron DeSantis, the good fight.

01:24:04.000 And what do you find?

01:24:05.000 It's so weird.

01:24:06.000 Ron DeSantis has many interviews where he says, I'm going to keep fighting the good fight.

01:24:11.000 It just so happens a show called The Good Fight comes out, where Ron DeSantis is accused of sexual assault.

01:24:15.000 So what happens now when you Google search Ron DeSantis, the good fight?

01:24:18.000 What a vile psy-op.

01:24:20.000 You see posts about sexual assault.

01:24:22.000 Yeah.

01:24:23.000 And so maybe it's all just one big coincidence, but man, was that very perfect.

01:24:26.000 Yeah, that wasn't the craziest aspect of the entire episode.

01:24:30.000 At the end, Donald Trump runs to be president of the United States.

01:24:34.000 And the whole, and this is before he announced, but the whole premise of the episode is a terrorist attack by right wingers that are surrounding

01:24:42.000 this black lawyer firm there's twenty thousand of them outside and then they stage

01:24:47.000 an attack on them that's going to assassinate all of them as they're shooting 0.99

01:24:51.000 machine guns into their building. And that was actually happening in the show?

01:24:54.000 That's that's the The plot of the show is that they're working and they wore the same outfits as the Patriot Front, and there's 20,000 of them outside in Chicago, causing riots everywhere.

01:25:07.000 And then they stage an attack where they, you know, Make sure that they block all the exits and then they go on the roof and start shooting and trying to assassinate all the children and workers inside of this predominantly all-black lawyer office.

01:25:20.000 What year is this supposed to be taking place in?

01:25:21.000 This is the last episode of this series that came out.

01:25:26.000 And it's the same episode as the DeSantis episode.

01:25:29.000 Are these episodes standalone?

01:25:29.000 Right, I know.

01:25:31.000 I have no idea.

01:25:32.000 Like, is it an anthology show where every episode is its own contained little mini-film?

01:25:37.000 I think it's a series that continues along the same kind of premise.

01:25:40.000 How do you do a season after that?

01:25:43.000 I think that was their season finale.

01:25:44.000 I know, but like the start of the next season is like, so after Civil War started, I think it's during a civil war.

01:25:50.000 Anyway, my point is, I think they do these things in media because, like, there's that

01:25:56.000 famous line from Tina Fey where she said, I can see Russia from my house.

01:26:00.000 And then what happened was a bunch of liberals started saying, Sarah Palin said she could

01:26:04.000 see Russia from her house.

01:26:06.000 No, that was Tina Fey. 0.99

01:26:07.000 Sarah Palin said, actually, from the westernmost point of Alaska, you can see Russian territory.

01:26:12.000 We have to negotiate with Russia because of the strait and trade routes, which is actually an excellent point when you're running for office and explaining that you have to negotiate with Russia now.

01:26:20.000 And then Tina Fey made fun of her in a way that made no sense, and now these people believe that was the actual quote.

01:26:26.000 So it's called the primacy effect in terms of whatever people see first is what they tend to believe.

01:26:31.000 And when you have mass media versus some news, individual news report, people believe what they see first and tend to hold on to that information even after it has been corrected.

01:26:42.000 So one of the like really I guess if you want to go along with all of the beliefs about how bad fake news is, the real problem with fake news, such as it does exist, is that it doesn't matter.

01:26:53.000 There's several studies on this.

01:26:55.000 It doesn't matter if you update the news article.

01:26:57.000 People will remember what they read first.

01:26:59.000 There's a competing theory called the recency effect that people will remember whatever they heard most recently.

01:27:04.000 However, it has far less robust support within the data.

01:27:07.000 The primacy effect is what we see very consistently, that whatever people hear first or see first sticks within their mind and that's what they recall.

01:27:16.000 Is there like an emotional bond because of that first initial reaction?

01:27:22.000 There could be an emotional aspect to it, but it's more that people are just taking in information, going, okay, this is interesting or

01:27:28.000 funny. And if you make it funny, by the way, it's called instructional humor processing theory. And what that finds

01:27:34.000 is that if you're trying to teach something, teach something

01:27:36.000 to anybody, make it funny, because it increases recall.

01:27:39.000 I love the conspiracy theory that the government funds movies

01:27:43.000 to block conspiracy theories like Men in Black, for instance, the conspiracy theory is that Men in Black are

01:27:49.000 real. 0.81

01:27:50.000 So they make a movie about it that's very exaggerated and silly. So that way, if anyone ever says I was visited by

01:27:55.000 Men in Black, they go like the movie.

01:27:58.000 Oh, it's an episode of Stargate SG one like that wormhole Right, right, right.

01:28:01.000 We actually had Corin Nemec here last week.

01:28:03.000 It was super cool.

01:28:04.000 So actually, the episode of Cast Castle we did was Ian is convinced that Corin is actually Jonas Quinn.

01:28:11.000 Okay.

01:28:12.000 And then that's, that's basically the premise.

01:28:13.000 It's like, it was funny, because when we were writing it, I was like, that's actually an episode of Stargate SG-1.

01:28:18.000 Wormhole Extreme is a TV show because like this.

01:28:21.000 Yeah, anyway.

01:28:22.000 And Supernatural, that was a plot line in Supernatural, where God was actually sending divine messages to some kooky guy who wrote books about the actual characters in the show and etc, etc.

01:28:34.000 So several shows have played with this.

01:28:36.000 You were telling us about a lot of different theories that you were studying and looking into before we started the show.

01:28:41.000 What's one of the most interesting study that you looked into when it comes to psychology and our current kind of modern-day society?

01:28:48.000 That's such a massive question!

01:28:49.000 I know, I know, I like to ask.

01:28:51.000 Well, my favorite ones mostly deal with parasociality and studying of the internet, how people form fake relationships that they feel are very real with people online.

01:29:00.000 And this can also include characters from media where, because we didn't evolve in a mediated environment, It's very difficult for people to be able to delineate what is a real interaction from what is a fake or pseudo or parasocial interaction.

01:29:15.000 I love that it's a whole broad field, but the parasociality stuff and particularly now when we have this constant interaction with Twitter and people feel like they know Donald Trump or they feel like they know XYZ person. That can have some very harmful effects as well,

01:29:30.000 because, well, what if your internet friend doesn't respond in turn? And there's tons

01:29:36.000 of research that's become very, very popular, almost to the point of bringing it up as

01:29:40.000 probably trite at this point. But it's cool.

01:29:42.000 I've heard a lot of it referred to with family vloggers and like the concept of putting your

01:29:46.000 kid in danger because people think they have a parasocial relationship with your child

01:29:53.000 who doesn't know anything about it because the concept of the internet is difficult when you're five.

01:29:57.000 The idea of family vlogging is horrifying to me because you're putting the child out there and exposing them to this constant deluge of media exposure before they're able to form any kind of sense of self.

01:30:09.000 Or consent.

01:30:11.000 They certainly can't consent.

01:30:12.000 Yeah, human beings aren't built to be okay with social media.

01:30:18.000 They aren't built to deal with so much attention, so much feedback, so much comments, so much interactions all at once.

01:30:23.000 We used to be small tribes.

01:30:24.000 That's what our body and mental state is used to being.

01:30:27.000 And I think this is one reason why we're seeing such a huge Increase of mental health.

01:30:32.000 The dopamine system is fried.

01:30:33.000 The dopamine system, it actually, the prolonged exposure to this kind of stuff constantly, day after day after day, it causes the parts of your brain that produce and regulate dopamine to become eventually unable to continue to produce it at the same level.

01:30:46.000 So people become, just like any other addiction, they become addicted to the substance, in this case dopamine, hit a like, retweet on Twitter, that kind of thing.

01:30:55.000 At some point your brain cannot keep stimulating you and feeding you the positive feedback chemical that you want from it, and then it actually physically shrinks in size.

01:31:05.000 Parts of your brain physically shrink in size because it cannot keep doing this, but you also need more as your body is less able to provide it.

01:31:12.000 Can you like...

01:31:13.000 Inject dopamine?

01:31:15.000 Surely.

01:31:16.000 I mean, does it have the same effect?

01:31:20.000 I haven't read any studies on that, but I would assume so.

01:31:24.000 That would probably be like the next big thing.

01:31:27.000 Like adrenochrome?

01:31:28.000 Yeah, you got to get the adrenochrome.

01:31:29.000 But I would, with meta, the proposal of meta and that VR stuff, it's now every single human sense is being stimulated.

01:31:36.000 Your dopamine systems, the whole dopaminergic system is going to be fried for people.

01:31:40.000 And there's going to be no way for them to get the dopamine that they are so craving because their own body can't produce it anymore.

01:31:46.000 And once your brain shrinks, sorry, once your brain shrinks, there's no coming back.

01:31:50.000 Yeah, sure.

01:31:50.000 It can?

01:31:51.000 So, like, is there a treatment for... Disconnect!

01:31:56.000 Ah, no.

01:31:56.000 Well, it's the same thing with any other addiction, more or less.

01:32:00.000 Well, also, there's also very negative effects, especially when it comes to online pornography.

01:32:06.000 And I think also with things like TikTok becoming more and more popular, this is kind of the larger symptom of a society getting sicker and sicker, needing a quicker dopamine hit, needing a quicker fix, needing a quicker stimulation, just more and more quicker, quicker, quicker, faster, faster, faster.

01:32:24.000 TikTok is completely exemplary of that, in that it's five to ten seconds, you get my stimulus and my output, and I'm good to go, and now next, next, next, and it never stops.

01:32:35.000 Yeah.

01:32:36.000 Where do you see this going?

01:32:37.000 Where is society heading, and where's the crash, and how does it look like?

01:32:41.000 Well, in the experiments they did with rats, which is always a good way to start a sentence when you talk about the future of society, in the studies that have been done with rats, for example, they put an electrode in the pleasure center of the brain in rats, and they gave them a little button, and they could just sit there and push the button to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain.

01:33:00.000 They found that much as with the rat utopia experiment, after a while they stopped eating, they stopped reproducing, they stopped having sex, they stopped cleaning themselves, to the point where they would just sit there and press the button over and over again until they'd essentially die.

01:33:12.000 So there's the horrifying, there's the really horrifying potential future, but let's go meta, right?

01:33:19.000 Thank goodness that company's failing.

01:33:21.000 Thank goodness they're losing so much money.

01:33:23.000 Don't go on the pods.

01:33:24.000 Don't put on the VR set, please.

01:33:26.000 But just imagine not knowing what, like, accomplishment is what drives us, right?

01:33:31.000 Getting more likes.

01:33:33.000 We're like feeling a connection to something happening, but it really is just that dopamine release.

01:33:38.000 There's two forms of pleasure that exist.

01:33:40.000 It's eudaimonia and hedonia.

01:33:42.000 Hedonia is pure physical pleasure, just a feeling good.

01:33:46.000 Eudaimonia is a sense of meaningfulness, and that's what we're losing.

01:33:49.000 But so like, I'm imagining if there was a button that could stimulate your brain, you wouldn't know why it was good.

01:33:54.000 You would just be like, this is great for some reason, and just keep smashing the button.

01:33:58.000 It's called TikTok.

01:33:59.000 Yeah, it is, that's it.

01:34:00.000 People don't know.

01:34:01.000 But my point is, on TikTok, they do, they're like, I'm seeing someone dance.

01:34:05.000 I'm seeing some social interaction.

01:34:07.000 Yeah, but do they remember it?

01:34:09.000 When they get consumed, so much information so quickly, one thing after another thing after another thing, do they really remember it?

01:34:17.000 The recall is not the part of it that matters.

01:34:19.000 It's the instantaneous dopaminergic stimulation.

01:34:21.000 And again, that's all the hedonia, the eudaimonia, which are things like, again, it's commonly called meaningfulness, of a feeling of accomplishment, a feeling of having done something that's bigger than yourself.

01:34:34.000 There's longitudinal studies on human happiness, and what we find produces longitudinal human happiness is not pleasure, it's hedonia, it's having children, it's having a home, it's raising a family, it's having relationships, meaningful ones with other people, and that's not dopaminergically stimulating.

01:34:52.000 We're gonna go to Super Chats!

01:34:53.000 If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and become a member at TimCast.com.

01:34:59.000 I want to point out something really quick.

01:35:02.000 Elon Musk's Twitter poll, currently with 3.13 million votes, Donald Trump is winning his election on Twitter with 58% to 42% and that is very significant because Twitter is more left-wing than right-wing.

01:35:17.000 There are more leftist active users than right-wing active users, according to tons of different studies and different data.

01:35:23.000 This means there are a lot of people on there who are like, yeah, he shouldn't have been banned.

01:35:27.000 So, considering that fact, if y'all have Twitter, you should go on to Elon's account and vote for Trump to be reinstated.

01:35:34.000 Someone pointed out that because of the size of Elon's audience, these polls are statistically significant.

01:35:40.000 Or meaningful.

01:35:41.000 It's statistically significant with 500.

01:35:43.000 Yeah, depending on where.

01:35:46.000 It's hard to know if you're doing 500 people, like, where are you targeting and who are these people?

01:35:50.000 But with 3.1 million, well, with 116 million total reach and 3.1 million, you can take into consideration the current time of day, and then you can say it will likely be this region, United States, He just posted a few hours ago, so it's gonna hit West Coast to East Coast.

01:36:11.000 Might not hit, you know, well, actually, yeah, I think it'll hit the entirety, even Alaska and Hawaii.

01:36:15.000 So it matters.

01:36:17.000 All right, let's read some Super Chats.

01:36:20.000 KnuckleFist says, Twitter runs on Amazon AWS.

01:36:23.000 Elon doesn't want parlored.

01:36:25.000 That's right.

01:36:27.000 Yeah, they'll get their servers nuked. 0.99

01:36:30.000 What do we got here?

01:36:31.000 OMG Puppy says we should be upset about Democrats blackmailing advertisers to bankrupt Twitter.

01:36:36.000 Elon needs support and time to make changes.

01:36:39.000 Now is not the time for perfection, enemy of the good stuff.

01:36:43.000 My point is, I totally get all that, but why insult Alex Jones' fans?

01:36:48.000 Why insult the culture warriors who believe in free speech?

01:36:52.000 He could have just avoided the subject, or he could have just been like, there's a lot more we have to work through before we unban everybody.

01:37:00.000 We'll see what happens.

01:37:01.000 You know what I mean?

01:37:05.000 Yamabushi says, why do I even bother clicking notify on this show anymore?

01:37:08.000 YouTube literally never lets me know when the show starts.

01:37:11.000 And technically, every episode should be trending.

01:37:14.000 But, you know, that's just the way it goes.

01:37:16.000 Has it ever trended?

01:37:17.000 Like, how long has it been?

01:37:19.000 I actually think we may have trended early on.

01:37:22.000 We were trending maybe a couple times.

01:37:24.000 And then, you know, we get political and then not so much anymore.

01:37:27.000 Yeah, that's how it goes.

01:37:29.000 Yeah, I got a notification today.

01:37:31.000 I will add, though, this past month is the biggest month we've ever had in terms of viewership on this channel.

01:37:39.000 So that's cool.

01:37:40.000 Yep. 0.98

01:37:43.000 Jim Bob says, Kathy did the bloody Trump head. 0.98

01:37:45.000 That is far worse than what Alex did. 0.89

01:37:47.000 Absolutely vile.

01:37:48.000 I won't back Elon anymore over this.

01:37:50.000 Tim, this is all exhausting.

01:37:51.000 I hear you, but...

01:37:54.000 I don't think the answer is necessarily completely turn around.

01:37:57.000 That's why I was saying, I'll pull back and be like, okay, okay, okay.

01:38:00.000 Hold on there a minute.

01:38:01.000 I'm willing to put some money into this Twitter to see if he can get it right.

01:38:04.000 But, and I understand the difficulty with Alex Jones, but the too bad?

01:38:08.000 No.

01:38:09.000 Uh, I don't like that.

01:38:11.000 I don't like that at all.

01:38:13.000 It's, it's, it's all or nothing, man.

01:38:15.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:38:16.000 says, crystal ball.

01:38:18.000 Don't expect a billionaire to save you.

01:38:20.000 Agreed.

01:38:21.000 Yup.

01:38:22.000 Yup.

01:38:23.000 Dred Mack says, if Twitter is predominantly lefties, how does Trump have a 62% favorable vote?

01:38:28.000 Well, it's down to 58%, but yes, agreed. 0.99

01:38:31.000 Good point.

01:38:32.000 Cuz, uh, because they like Trump.

01:38:35.000 He's funny.

01:38:35.000 On Twitter, he was hilarious.

01:38:37.000 Even if he was, you know, I brought up instructional humor processing theory, but there's also several theories of humor, which illustrate that you have to violate, it's called an expectancy violation, you have to say something unexpected or crazy or whatever to actually make people laugh.

01:38:52.000 That's a big key element of humor.

01:38:54.000 And if you can only say predictable things, then people won't laugh at it.

01:38:59.000 And if that's what Elon thinks Twitter is about is being funny, which is what he said, no Trump, no funny.

01:39:04.000 No.

01:39:04.000 accurate information.

01:39:05.000 Well, that too, I guess.

01:39:06.000 Yeah.

01:39:07.000 WaffleSense, this is a very important question.

01:39:08.000 Hannah-Claire, did you finish Tokyo Drift yet?

01:39:11.000 No.

01:39:12.000 For those who don't know, I have to watch all of the Fast and Furious movies.

01:39:16.000 Not Tokyo Drift.

01:39:17.000 I don't know.

01:39:18.000 The agreements, I have to watch all of them.

01:39:20.000 It turns out that's like 19 hours of my life.

01:39:22.000 I've only watched two.

01:39:23.000 What kind of agreement is this?

01:39:27.000 What deal with the devil did you have?

01:39:30.000 It's Bret and Mary.

01:39:31.000 That's what we're talking about.

01:39:32.000 They forced you?

01:39:33.000 It's, um, they had to get to, um, um, like 11 or 25 crisis parties in one show.

01:39:39.000 And they managed that.

01:39:41.000 And now I have to invest a lot of time.

01:39:44.000 I have not watched Tokyo Drift.

01:39:45.000 I will do it eventually.

01:39:47.000 I actually don't watch a lot of movies, so this is extremely hard.

01:39:49.000 I think I'm gonna have to watch them all in one weekend.

01:39:51.000 I don't think you gotta watch Tokyo Drift because it's outside of the series, but it loops back in.

01:39:57.000 The character does re-enter the franchise later.

01:39:59.000 A deal's a deal, Heidi.

01:40:01.000 Don't let the people down.

01:40:02.000 Liam, you were never a part of this.

01:40:03.000 Just calm down.

01:40:04.000 No, I feel like I have to honor it.

01:40:05.000 Pop culture works really hard, and it's cool, I guess, that their fans are devoted enough to torture me.

01:40:10.000 What I don't understand is that you guys are using real names.

01:40:12.000 Like, at this point, just call them Lobblis.

01:40:15.000 Hey.

01:40:16.000 I said hi.

01:40:17.000 Tom, you're not a part of this.

01:40:18.000 Yeah, Tom.

01:40:19.000 Get out of here, Tom.

01:40:20.000 Whole lore.

01:40:22.000 Theodore, you're not a part of this.

01:40:23.000 Get out of here.

01:40:26.000 Hayden says, Jones put out a response video to Elon saying not to bring him back.

01:40:30.000 Jones' response was great.

01:40:32.000 I get it, but I also feel like Alex has to say that.

01:40:35.000 You brought it up, right, Luke?

01:40:37.000 If he came out and he was like, screw you, Elon, he's never coming back then, you know?

01:40:43.000 OldStickKeyTaint says, voting for Trump's unbanning is a smart move.

01:40:46.000 Force these advertisers to justify why they want to pull advertisements when the majority of their target audience wants him on.

01:40:53.000 I think they've proven they're clearly ideological way past this point, that money doesn't matter as much as the message.

01:41:00.000 Well, and I would love if that was how it worked.

01:41:02.000 You do the poll, Trump's ahead, but didn't we all just talk about the fact that Elon was like, these polls are not good because of the bots!

01:41:10.000 Like, we can't do this until the bots are purged, so really Elon should be focusing on the one thing he needs to do, which is purge the bots.

01:41:16.000 Larry made that point.

01:41:18.000 S.E.

01:41:19.000 Federali says, Where the F is Ian?

01:41:21.000 Milo is self-absorbed.

01:41:22.000 You guys drug Ian without a mic afterward. 0.98

01:41:25.000 Dirty.

01:41:26.000 I knew I shouldn't sob. 0.99

01:41:27.000 Give him a mic, friends.

01:41:29.000 Who's Ian?

01:41:31.000 I'm Ian now.

01:41:32.000 Ian who?

01:41:33.000 You mean Ian Clare?

01:41:34.000 Ian Clare, it's me.

01:41:36.000 Ian Clare Brimelow?

01:41:38.000 The thing is, Ian and I had this big fight in the parking lot, and I won, and I get the chair, so... Yeah, that's how it works.

01:41:43.000 No, I'm just kidding.

01:41:44.000 Yeah, we have a boxing ring outside.

01:41:46.000 Poor guy's crying.

01:41:48.000 Well, he needs to train more, you know?

01:41:49.000 Yeah, I know.

01:41:50.000 I've been trying.

01:41:52.000 Speaking of that, Jeffrey Max says, so happy to see Hannah Clare.

01:41:54.000 Please have her on more.

01:41:56.000 Oh, well, there you go.

01:41:56.000 Tim, the poll is winning.

01:41:58.000 They want me back.

01:42:00.000 Thank you so much.

01:42:01.000 That's really nice.

01:42:02.000 This is why the potato man's not here.

01:42:04.000 He got beat.

01:42:05.000 I'm a really good boxer.

01:42:06.000 I don't know what to tell you guys.

01:42:06.000 Yeah, I've been training.

01:42:08.000 Survival of the fittest.

01:42:10.000 No, I actually love doing the show.

01:42:12.000 It's been fun.

01:42:13.000 And also, when you are on the news team, it's interesting to be here because I'll watch the show in the green room and be like, I know that article.

01:42:21.000 Oh, I know who wrote that.

01:42:22.000 It's like inside baseball, I guess.

01:42:25.000 Stinky Wizzleteats says Elon's apparent indifference to censorship wasn't really shocking.

01:42:30.000 Now Jordan Peterson's tweets calling for it was truly shocking and depressing.

01:42:34.000 Yeah.

01:42:34.000 Yeah, did you happen to see them?

01:42:35.000 No, what did he say?

01:42:37.000 He basically called for like a... Getting rid of the plebs and punishing the plebs and making sure that they can't troll people. 1.00

01:42:44.000 Which was ridiculous, yeah. 0.97

01:42:45.000 Yeah, it was really awful. 0.76

01:42:46.000 He's like, I'm so tired of the... He said, like, the nasty, mean trolls on Twitter that are awful. 0.98

01:42:51.000 It was very elitist. 0.98

01:42:52.000 It was very elitist.

01:42:53.000 I mean, the people at the Daily Wire might be getting to him.

01:42:55.000 And asking for, in return, what was done to him, which, you know, this is eye for an eye stuff that I don't think is the way you want to go with it, Jordan. 0.98

01:43:03.000 Well, when he said, consign the anonymous narcissists and psychopaths to troll hell. 0.98

01:43:07.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:43:08.000 That one.

01:43:08.000 If you're going to go after anyone, the most vile people are the verified people.

01:43:13.000 The big corporate media accounts are the, you know, leftists that call for people to die and show people's heads on a stake.

01:43:20.000 Those are vile people.

01:43:21.000 The anonymous people, they're not that bad compared to the really bad people out there.

01:43:27.000 Chuck Taylor says a special counsel was appointed today.

01:43:30.000 How is that not the lead story?

01:43:32.000 Because, so what?

01:43:35.000 A special counsel got appointed?

01:43:36.000 Yeah.

01:43:37.000 For what reason?

01:43:38.000 Trump had some classified documents and he had plenary declassification power?

01:43:42.000 Waste of my time.

01:43:44.000 Sorry, I don't know.

01:43:45.000 Not to be dismissive.

01:43:46.000 No, it's the same thing being repeated ad nauseum at this point.

01:43:51.000 But it's like, it's not an impeachment.

01:43:53.000 There's nothing substantive here.

01:43:54.000 The special counsel goes nowhere.

01:43:55.000 It's a waste of everyone's time.

01:43:56.000 Trump has the ability to classify whatever he wants.

01:44:00.000 He apparently just had the folders anyway, which still are classified, but it's just like, do I care about this?

01:44:05.000 He was the president.

01:44:07.000 Right.

01:44:07.000 I mean, the story there is just Trump declares bid for re-election, and they're like, actually, we've really got to buckle down on this investigation that we've had for like a year and a half.

01:44:18.000 But again, is anyone surprised by that?

01:44:20.000 No.

01:44:22.000 Pinochet's helicopter tour says, Tim, it goes both ways.

01:44:25.000 Elon can out every one of these corporations and advertisers subverting the people's constitutional rights.

01:44:31.000 ESG is to blame here. 0.85

01:44:33.000 And he should.

01:44:33.000 Didn't Elon say something about doing that?

01:44:36.000 Making known every corporation or something that, you know.

01:44:40.000 I think so.

01:44:40.000 Maybe he did, I don't know, maybe someone else did.

01:44:41.000 I don't remember.

01:44:42.000 Yeah, I don't recall.

01:44:43.000 But Elon, you know what I would do?

01:44:45.000 If a corporation was like, we don't want these people on the platform, I'd be like, okay, here's what I'll do for you.

01:44:50.000 I will take your company's logo and default it on the page of those people you don't like.

01:44:58.000 That's it.

01:44:58.000 Yeah, why not?

01:45:00.000 There you go.

01:45:02.000 What is it?

01:45:02.000 Isn't Yelp accused of doing something like that, where if you don't sign up, they'll put the negative reviews at the top?

01:45:07.000 Well, it's kind of just a ridiculous sort of demand in the first place, because it's like, I mean, would this happen on traditional, you know, media, as if like, oh, you have somebody on, or some show on that a corporation doesn't 100% agree with, so they're gonna, they demand that that show, that person, that episode be pulled?

01:45:26.000 I guess it does work sometimes, but it's a big ask, and it depends, I guess, on the corporation.

01:45:32.000 Didn't it happen to Tucker Carlson?

01:45:33.000 A bunch of his advertisers pulled out?

01:45:34.000 They did, but Fox News didn't get rid of him.

01:45:36.000 And that was a lot of people.

01:45:37.000 I mean, I'm just saying, like, it would be as if there was one very special episode of, I don't know, Pick Full House or something, where then, you know, somebody got cancelled in the future, and they hadn't yet pulled the episode, and then advertisers said, we will not run our ads on whatever said network because of this thing that happened in the past.

01:45:59.000 So JimBob says, Tim, would you kindly give me an Ian crystal?

01:46:03.000 JimBob! 0.72

01:46:04.000 Here's what I'll do.

01:46:05.000 I am going to write down JimBob and go to the latest Members Only videos, comment that you would like an Ian crystal.

01:46:16.000 I will then instruct the team to seek out your comment.

01:46:20.000 Reach out to you, and then send you an Ian crystal.

01:46:23.000 Of course, pending Ian's approval to send out one of the crystals.

01:46:26.000 I thought- Just don't lick it.

01:46:27.000 I get to... Just don't lick it.

01:46:29.000 Do I get to pick which one goes out?

01:46:31.000 No, Ian probably will, I guess.

01:46:32.000 They're his, so.

01:46:33.000 Well, fair.

01:46:34.000 Technically, I got them out of a big barrel at, um... Where were we?

01:46:38.000 Yeah, no stealing, Harley.

01:46:39.000 We were at some gorge in West Virginia.

01:46:41.000 Uh, New River?

01:46:41.000 It was really cool.

01:46:42.000 Uh, maybe.

01:46:43.000 New River's with a huge bridge.

01:46:45.000 No, no, there's no huge bridge.

01:46:47.000 I can't remember what it was.

01:46:48.000 But there was, like, a little shop, and they had a barrel full of rocks.

01:46:51.000 And I was like, oh, Ian likes rocks!

01:46:52.000 So I filled a bag up of rocks, bought them, and then Ian was like, oh, cool, rocks!

01:46:56.000 It was great.

01:46:57.000 Someone dressed up as Ian in our office for Halloween and walked up to me and handed me a crystal.

01:47:01.000 And I was like, what's happening?

01:47:03.000 Okay.

01:47:05.000 David Toronto says, couldn't pay me 20 grand to go see Taylor Swift.

01:47:09.000 Well, then I won't.

01:47:10.000 I don't know, David.

01:47:13.000 I mean, come on.

01:47:14.000 It's like a couple hours.

01:47:15.000 20 grand is a lot of money.

01:47:16.000 Yeah, to like sit there for a couple hours.

01:47:18.000 My favorite tweets were the ones that was like the Taylor Swift ticket you wanted so badly was just bought by some dad who's only heard of her like one song.

01:47:28.000 Runaway25Productions says, Carl Sagan's I have a foreboding, a foreboding called all of this, foreboding feeling, especially the low IQ stuff.

01:47:38.000 You ever see that, that speech he gave where he talked about the future and like what was gonna happen?

01:47:42.000 He's like just talking about pleasure and stuff and how people are gonna get sucked in and something like that.

01:47:42.000 No, I don't.

01:47:46.000 It's been a while since I saw it.

01:47:48.000 It's kind of like a, sort of like an idiocracy take almost.

01:47:52.000 Heron Gaming News says, I live with a mild cognitively delayed.

01:47:56.000 I miss out on my formative years due to a tumor.

01:48:00.000 It's frustrating trying to learn and people think I can't when I just need extra help.

01:48:04.000 Bummer.

01:48:05.000 Yeah, I can relate.

01:48:06.000 Mr. McJones says, it's called the baby still face experiment.

01:48:10.000 Man, it's horrifying though.

01:48:11.000 You know, those babies were freaking out. 1.00

01:48:15.000 Imagine what it was like to have your kid in a mask, not seeing anyone's face, not knowing how to develop socially.

01:48:20.000 For what, two years or what?

01:48:22.000 Nearly three.

01:48:23.000 Nearly three years.

01:48:24.000 It depends on how personally devoted to the cause the parent was, right?

01:48:30.000 And I'd argue the area that you live in, right?

01:48:31.000 Yes.

01:48:31.000 It's not just the parent's face.

01:48:33.000 The parent's face is really important for expression, but presumably missing out on interacting with other children.

01:48:37.000 Absolutely.

01:48:37.000 They're not developing a lot of social skills, which, you know, children need stimulation all the time.

01:48:43.000 And interestingly enough, then, as you brought up, which is interesting, the brain drain, such as it is, is going to be most severe in the left-leaning liberal areas.

01:48:51.000 J.D.

01:48:51.000 Jones says Trump poll looks like a bot test to see if he solved that problem.

01:48:56.000 Interesting.

01:48:57.000 What if, you know, when he tweeted, we shouldn't go to war with you, we shouldn't be at war with Russia or whatever, and then he saw everyone was like, yes, we should, he said, okay, there's bots.

01:49:05.000 Maybe he did something behind the scenes, does this poll, and now it's pro-Trump, and he's like, those are the real people.

01:49:11.000 Yeah, but he would be talking about what he did.

01:49:14.000 But now, anyone paying attention is like, hey, he said there's a whole bunch of bots on here that are messing up the polls, now he's running a poll.

01:49:22.000 We're speculating.

01:49:22.000 He's not going to come out and say, hey guys, I'm tricking you.

01:49:27.000 No, yeah, that would ruin the experiment, obviously.

01:49:30.000 Do you know how he caught the leaker from Tesla?

01:49:31.000 Do you see this viral video?

01:49:33.000 No, how?

01:49:34.000 Like in 2008, somebody was leaking emails and information from Tesla.

01:49:40.000 So what he did was they sent out a company-wide email, and then in actuality, everyone got an individualized email with a double space randomly placed somewhere in the email.

01:49:51.000 So they thought it was a company-wide email.

01:49:53.000 They all looked the same.

01:49:54.000 Then they waited for the email to leak, saw where the double space was, and knew exactly who had received that email.

01:50:01.000 So he plays games.

01:50:03.000 He does these experiments.

01:50:06.000 He's not going to tell you what he's doing.

01:50:07.000 Maybe later he will, but it's possible.

01:50:09.000 He's going to have to post a video where he's holding his phone up with the date and time before he puts the poll up, being like, this is a test.

01:50:15.000 I can prove it.

01:50:16.000 Well, right.

01:50:17.000 If you are doing a data manipulation or you're conducting a natural experiment, you can't let your subjects know that you're conducting an experiment.

01:50:24.000 Well, I mean, when you sign up to take a study or do research at a You have to sign off and say, yes, I know I'm doing this, blah, blah, blah.

01:50:32.000 In fact, a lot of times when we do studies, we'll intentionally throw in bogus variables to lead the participant to think that we're studying something that we're not studying so that they get confused and think it's about that.

01:50:42.000 I'll give you an example.

01:50:43.000 There's this really funny video I watched a long time ago where they bring people into a room and they tell them, you're going to do a study, so fill out this paperwork.

01:50:51.000 While they're filling out the paperwork, they blow smoke under the door.

01:50:55.000 And then people think that you have to trick the person.

01:51:00.000 If you told them we're doing a fire, you know, preparedness study, they'd be like, okay, it would change their reaction.

01:51:05.000 The funny thing is, when they would blow the smoke under the door, and it was just one person by themselves, they would go to the door, feel it, feel the knob, and then start yelling, there's a fire, there's a fire, something's going on.

01:51:16.000 When they put three people in the room and blow smoke under the door, people would see the smoke, look at each other, and then go back to writing their papers.

01:51:23.000 Yep.

01:51:24.000 They're looking for social feedback.

01:51:25.000 And it's that same thing with, the citation is escaping me right now, but where they basically found that if someone is killed in front of you, unless one person elects to decide to go help, the other people will just kind of stand there and let it happen.

01:51:39.000 The other thing, too, is little kids.

01:51:40.000 If they fall, usually they don't cry.

01:51:43.000 I've heard this.

01:51:45.000 If you have a little kid and they get hurt, you don't act panicked or worried.

01:51:50.000 You laugh and say, oh, you fell!

01:51:53.000 Because if you go, oh no, oh no, then they start crying, like something bad happened.

01:51:56.000 I mean, this was sort of a popular trend on, I think, TikTok for a little while.

01:51:58.000 Parents would be, like, holding their kid and walk through a doorway and, like, hit it with their hand.

01:52:03.000 And the kid couldn't see it.

01:52:04.000 And they'd be like, oh my gosh, are you okay?

01:52:05.000 And the baby would start crying.

01:52:07.000 The baby did not hit the door, but the baby is taking the feedback from you that it has gotten hurt.

01:52:12.000 That's creepy.

01:52:13.000 Like, we shouldn't do that on TikTok for that.

01:52:16.000 You don't want to experiment on children for social media?

01:52:18.000 No.

01:52:18.000 I don't understand, Tom.

01:52:19.000 Oh, what could go wrong?

01:52:22.000 Dave's Kitchen Corner says there was an episode of the Orville where they visited a planet where they would upvote downvote people.

01:52:28.000 Anyone that got 10 million downvotes was imprisoned.

01:52:30.000 Not a good direction to go.

01:52:32.000 And in a society like that, nobody would want to be famous.

01:52:34.000 There was a Black Mirror episode as well, where you had a social credit score and at some point she couldn't rent a car or do anything.

01:52:42.000 We're heading there.

01:52:43.000 Coming soon to the United States.

01:52:46.000 That's why they ban people?

01:52:47.000 I mean, Alex Jones, his social credit score is like zero.

01:52:51.000 And that's what happens.

01:52:52.000 Yeah.

01:52:53.000 Granted, there's only so much you can do, because that dude's famous.

01:52:56.000 Like, I really don't see a scenario ever where Alex Jones will be destitute.

01:53:00.000 Yeah.

01:53:01.000 He may not be as rich as he once was, you know.

01:53:05.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:53:05.000 says, that would be a great cop show.

01:53:07.000 Lewis and Ha.

01:53:10.000 I'm excited.

01:53:11.000 Let's do it.

01:53:13.000 Outdoors with the Morgans says, when it crumbles, I will trade lumber and firewood for eggs.

01:53:18.000 Bought land in West Virginia for the same reasons as you.

01:53:20.000 If you come visit, password to the high ground compound is, it's Tim, don't shoot.

01:53:24.000 LOL.

01:53:25.000 I'll remember that password, but I think everybody else will too.

01:53:29.000 Some like, super tall fat guy is gonna be like, it's Tim, don't shoot.

01:53:34.000 You're like, okay, hey Tim, come on in.

01:53:38.000 What do we got?

01:53:40.000 People mentioning Elon polling Trump's reinstatement.

01:53:43.000 We'll just remind everybody of that so you can go vote on it.

01:53:45.000 Flutz Q says, you should rename Chicken City to Sugma Cock Town. 1.00

01:53:50.000 It's an anagram for censorship.

01:53:52.000 Uh-huh.

01:53:53.000 Sugma.

01:53:55.000 I found 182 acres, I think it was, for like 200 grand or something.

01:53:59.000 Oh, wow.

01:54:00.000 Yeah, so we can make the Ligma Johnson Woodland Preserve.

01:54:02.000 Ligma Johnson Woodland Preserve.

01:54:05.000 Preservation.

01:54:06.000 Woodland.

01:54:07.000 Yeah, that'd be sweet.

01:54:09.000 Not too far away.

01:54:09.000 It's like probably two hours west of Washington, D.C.

01:54:12.000 or Baltimore.

01:54:13.000 And then, you know, people can hang out in the lush greenery of Ligma Johnson.

01:54:19.000 That'd be great.

01:54:19.000 So would you keep your campaign going in Scotland, or would you, like, reserve land for yourself?

01:54:23.000 Well, we don't really care about the Scotland thing.

01:54:24.000 That's like, we have a sponsor.

01:54:26.000 Yeah.

01:54:26.000 And it would be funny if there was a Lord Ligma Johnson who for some reason owned 50,000 square feet in Scotland.

01:54:32.000 But if we actually get this plot of land, we can create a public park preserve, you know, called Ligma Johnson Woodland Preservation.

01:54:40.000 Yeah, Lake Titicaca and, you know, the Seymour... Lake Balzagna.

01:54:45.000 Seymour Butts Trail.

01:54:47.000 But yes, we should name everything that, but we'll put up a sign saying Lake Bolzagna, you know.

01:54:54.000 Work with children! 0.56

01:54:56.000 Right? 0.98

01:54:57.000 See more butts, butts. 1.00

01:54:57.000 It's called intellectuals. 1.00

01:54:59.000 B-U-T-T-E-S. 1.00

01:55:00.000 Sure it is, Lee.

01:55:01.000 Calm down.

01:55:03.000 Steve Jones says freedom from consequences is BS.

01:55:06.000 The idea of the First Amendment is to exercise it without consequence.

01:55:10.000 Yep.

01:55:10.000 That's free speech.

01:55:12.000 Yes, even the yelling fire in a crowded movie theater thing is largely a myth.

01:55:18.000 It is, yep.

01:55:20.000 Casey Dennison says, Namor is based in the comics.

01:55:23.000 Friends with Spider-Man and Doctor Doom.

01:55:25.000 Interesting moral and philosophical in the comics.

01:55:28.000 Yeah, he also just like doesn't care about anybody's feelings whatsoever.

01:55:31.000 He is pretty based.

01:55:32.000 And he has wings on his feet.

01:55:35.000 Yeah, wings.

01:55:36.000 I actually really did like that when he was, the fight scenes in Wakanda Forever, it was cool how they had him like, he was basically jumping on the air.

01:55:42.000 Oh, they left that part accurate.

01:55:44.000 How interesting.

01:55:44.000 Is that what it's like in the comics, how he flies or whatever?

01:55:46.000 Yeah, he's got little wings on his feet.

01:55:48.000 But like, he doesn't fly up, he like jumps on the air, basically.

01:55:52.000 Oh.

01:55:52.000 Yeah, that was cool.

01:55:54.000 Again, just interesting what they are able to leave in, I guess, for copyright reasons.

01:55:58.000 Wings on his feet.

01:56:00.000 People were complaining, I guess, that the actor was a dad bod hero or something.

01:56:04.000 I don't know, the weird thing is they were like, the fact that, in this article from the Enquirer, they're cheering for Namor in this movie, he's an outright villain.

01:56:14.000 He's a genocidal maniac who wants to murder everybody.

01:56:18.000 He's basically Killmonger. 0.99

01:56:20.000 And they're like, he's an antihero.

01:56:22.000 No, he's a bad guy.

01:56:23.000 He invades Wakanda for no reason. 0.77

01:56:24.000 And the funny thing is, Wakanda is a landlocked nation.

01:56:28.000 So like, why did he go there?

01:56:30.000 And how did he get there?

01:56:32.000 He's like in Mexico and he can swim just there, like really quick, I guess.

01:56:36.000 They ride whales.

01:56:37.000 That's the other thing about it.

01:56:38.000 Oh, right.

01:56:39.000 You don't ask questions, just consume product and get excited for next product.

01:56:43.000 Is that how the comics were?

01:56:44.000 Like, did they make more sense or?

01:56:47.000 Yeah.

01:56:48.000 I don't really watch all the stuff.

01:56:50.000 He's the king of Atlantis.

01:56:52.000 But he really wants that landlocked country.

01:56:54.000 No, this is just stuff that's made up.

01:56:56.000 The Marvel movies are almost all just completely novel stuff that they've made up for the films.

01:57:03.000 They're not really generally.

01:57:04.000 Some of them are more based on the comics, like the Infinity War stuff.

01:57:08.000 But other than that, or Civil War, it tends to be largely independent.

01:57:12.000 And do you watch them or like, do you skip them all?

01:57:14.000 No, not anymore.

01:57:15.000 I watched them in 2006 or whatever.

01:57:20.000 2008 was I think when they started the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

01:57:23.000 And I watched them for a couple years, but not anymore.

01:57:25.000 I have no more interest in it.

01:57:27.000 You had to renounce it?

01:57:28.000 They're just like, it's gone off the rails?

01:57:29.000 The last thing, the She-Hulk show messed with my boy Daredevil.

01:57:33.000 He's the only character I really care about.

01:57:34.000 So and even then it's just enough for me to go, Oh, cool.

01:57:37.000 You screwed up something I like again.

01:57:39.000 Is there anything I can do to win you back as like a potential Because if you read the comics, you're more likely to than I guess anyone else. 1.00

01:57:47.000 They had Black Bolt blow his own brains out in the stupid Doctor Strange movie. 0.92

01:57:53.000 No, after that, I don't think so. 0.99

01:57:55.000 It is directly disrespectful to me as a comic book reader, and you have been directly disrespectful to me now for half a decade, if not longer.

01:58:03.000 So no, I don't think...

01:58:06.000 They should make a public apology, mea culpa, and I might consider it, but outside of that, nope.

01:58:11.000 I've been done for forever.

01:58:13.000 Can I ask you why you left your PhD program?

01:58:15.000 I feel like that's such an unusual choice with academia.

01:58:18.000 Was it because- Oh, I got so stressed out.

01:58:20.000 Yeah.

01:58:22.000 When you like what you do, and you enjoy doing it, you get more and more workload.

01:58:27.000 And I just... I had too much at some point, and just went... took a sabbatical, and then didn't end up going back.

01:58:35.000 The sabbatical is still going?

01:58:36.000 It is now a six-year-long sabbatical.

01:58:38.000 It can return at any point.

01:58:42.000 Maniac Gear says, Aidan, you're my hero with the reasonable expectations of an individual with their own thoughts and flaws.

01:58:50.000 Dif-tor-ha-smuz-ma? 0.82

01:58:52.000 Dif-tor-ha-smuz-ma and so-cha-ya-dif. 0.99

01:58:54.000 What is that?

01:58:55.000 What just happened?

01:58:56.000 It means live long and prosper in Vulcan.

01:58:58.000 Oh, okay.

01:58:59.000 Oh, there you go.

01:59:01.000 Dif-tor-ha-smuz-ma means live long and prosper and so-cha-ya-dif means peace and long life, which is the response.

01:59:07.000 If someone says, live long and prosper, you say, peace and long life.

01:59:10.000 Oh, very nice.

01:59:13.000 What do we got?

01:59:13.000 Bobcat says, Luke, I am not the devil, but I am proud that I am exposing the cast of Pop Culture Crisis to some pop culture.

01:59:20.000 OK.

01:59:21.000 Are you?

01:59:22.000 I mean, good for you.

01:59:23.000 Yeah.

01:59:24.000 Oh, this is the Fast and Furious thing?

01:59:26.000 Just so everyone knows, I think it's crazy that there are that many Fast and Furious movies.

01:59:29.000 How many are there?

01:59:30.000 They're about to come out with their 10th.

01:59:32.000 And part of our bargain is that I have to finish all of them.

01:59:35.000 You do?

01:59:36.000 Before the 10th one comes out.

01:59:38.000 And if the 10th one comes out and I haven't finished it, I have to watch that too.

01:59:42.000 But I have never understood the appeal of the Fast and Furious movies.

01:59:46.000 One and two have not won my heart.

01:59:49.000 We had a guest come on the show, and when I was hanging out with him in the green room, it was like the day that this wager came to fruition.

01:59:55.000 He was like, don't worry, one, two, three are great.

01:59:59.000 After Tokyo Drift, it's all downhill.

02:00:01.000 Sir, that is six movies.

02:00:03.000 What are you talking about?

02:00:04.000 Yeah, I don't get it.

02:00:05.000 The FFCU is the best cinematic universe.

02:00:07.000 That's great.

02:00:08.000 Like, they gotta do time travel or space travel.

02:00:11.000 I'm so excited.

02:00:11.000 Superpowers, mech suits, transformers.

02:00:13.000 Yeah, it was Tim who would be like, I'd be like, I just don't get Fast and Furious.

02:00:16.000 I've never seen any of them.

02:00:17.000 I don't like it.

02:00:17.000 Which is a little close-minded of me.

02:00:19.000 And he'd be like, but they go to space!

02:00:21.000 In the latest one, they go to outer space!

02:00:23.000 I've never seen any of them.

02:00:24.000 Ludacris is in outer space!

02:00:25.000 Resist!

02:00:26.000 Resist!

02:00:26.000 No, well, then I got in.

02:00:28.000 I don't like cars, but then I got into Top Gear, so.

02:00:31.000 Hold on.

02:00:32.000 That's all right.

02:00:32.000 Top Gear's different.

02:00:33.000 Ludacris.

02:00:33.000 Exactly.

02:00:34.000 Ludacris in outer space.

02:00:36.000 It's just, if that was the only commercial, it was like, Fast and the Furious.

02:00:41.000 Ludacris is in outer space.

02:00:42.000 I'd be like, okay, when do we go?

02:00:43.000 Yeah, I'm there.

02:00:44.000 That's it.

02:00:44.000 No!

02:00:45.000 No!

02:00:45.000 You watch the movies.

02:00:45.000 You are very easily entertained.

02:00:48.000 But it's funny!

02:00:49.000 Is it?

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02:01:12.000 Aiden, do you want to shout anything out?

02:01:14.000 Just the video that I'm working on, which is about the dark side of morality, is I think the tentative title.

02:01:21.000 And because all of this greed and envy and self-interest, it all comes out of a place of the left, people predominantly on the left, feeling as if they are doing something moral and good for other people, even if it ultimately only really benefits themselves.

02:01:38.000 That's a very, very scary, I think, place to be, but that'll be some time.

02:01:43.000 What is your channel?

02:01:44.000 Oh yeah, it's AidenPaladin on YouTube and on Twitter, so just A-Y-D-I-N, Paladin, P-A-L-A-D-I-N.

02:01:51.000 Right on.

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02:02:02.000 It's great.

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02:02:04.000 And I think that's the only thing I have to shout out.

02:02:07.000 You're on Twitter?

02:02:08.000 Are you on Twitter?

02:02:08.000 I am on Twitter, but I don't talk on Twitter.

02:02:11.000 I'm just there to get people's comments.

02:02:14.000 So you can follow me, but it will be boring.

02:02:17.000 I'm not a bot, Elon Musk.

02:02:18.000 Thank you so much for coming and sharing some of your findings.

02:02:21.000 I thought they were fascinating.

02:02:22.000 Karen, Claire, you were tolerable, so thank you also for coming here.

02:02:26.000 My website is LukeUncensored.com.

02:02:29.000 I made a very interesting video that's titled... It's Landon... LukeUncensored.com, and it's titled How to Take Care of Your Balls That Are Under Attack. 0.71

02:02:38.000 It's a real video, a very serious one.

02:02:40.000 You can watch that, get exclusive merchandise, be a part of a conversation on a forum, all on LukeUncensored.com.

02:02:46.000 See you there.

02:02:47.000 LandonUncensored.com.

02:02:48.000 I am Serge.

02:02:53.000 Serge.com.

02:02:54.000 Watching these two guys argue has been fun.

02:02:56.000 Have a good weekend, guys.

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02:02:58.000 We're gonna have clips up throughout the weekend, but other than that, we will see you all on Monday.

02:03:02.000 Thanks for hanging out.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - November 19, 2022

Timcast IRL - Elon Musk REFUSES To Reinstate Alex Jones While Unbanning Others w-Aydin Paladin

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