Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - EU "Flattens Curve" By Limiting Electricity, Riots Erupt Over Energy w-Amala Ekpunobi

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00:00:35.000 The EU needs to flatten the curve.

00:00:38.000 So they're limiting electricity, which is what?

00:00:42.000 Yeah.

00:00:42.000 And then when I heard them say they were flattening the curve by doing this, I'm like, oh, so that whole thing was like training people.

00:00:47.000 And then when you look at how things are going with, you know, the cult.

00:00:51.000 And how they follow the media, it's like, yeah, people are trained.

00:00:53.000 They are.

00:00:54.000 And then I started thinking about this.

00:00:55.000 I'm like, if they're reusing this terminology in a new way to reduce energy, this was completely predicted by tons of people.

00:01:02.000 That the next move was going to be locking down for climate change.

00:01:04.000 And lo and behold, we're getting something akin to that.

00:01:07.000 Surprise, surprise, ladies and gentlemen, we're in the Rat Hope experiment. 0.96

00:01:10.000 They put us in the cylinder, we swam and struggled, they took us out, dried us off, put it back in, now they expect us to swim twice as long.

00:01:17.000 I think, I think it's gonna get a whole lot worse.

00:01:20.000 The only difference between the Rat Hope experiment and what we're going through is that we have an election coming up, and we might get new leaders who say no to all of this, so it should be interesting.

00:01:27.000 So we're gonna talk about that, plus the riots and protests that are erupting because of the energy crisis.

00:01:33.000 California facing rolling blackouts, well, good for them.

00:01:36.000 Gavin Newsom was seen wearing a sweater amid a record heat wave, and a lot of people were like, what is he doing?

00:01:43.000 Yeah, he's probably blasting the AC while telling you to suffer.

00:01:46.000 Ain't that how it works?

00:01:47.000 And then we have this story.

00:01:49.000 AOC gave an interview where she said she doesn't know if she'll be alive by September.

00:01:53.000 Now, of course, she gave the interview a little while ago, so I don't know why she thought by now she'd be dead.

00:01:59.000 I'm glad she's not.

00:02:00.000 You know, I hope she lives a long and prosperous life.

00:02:03.000 But I have to wonder, first, does she have cancer?

00:02:05.000 And then I thought, oh, she's talking about, like, civil war or something.

00:02:08.000 Ah, drink.

00:02:09.000 Yeah, she's talking about something like that, I guess.

00:02:11.000 Patriarchy and how people hate women of color, and then she thought she'd be dead by now. 0.94

00:02:16.000 So either they're completely overreacting, or you look at everything that's going on and it's kind of falling apart.

00:02:20.000 So we're going to talk about that and more.

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00:04:04.000 Joining us to talk about all of this is Amala Epinobi.

00:04:08.000 Did I get it?

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00:04:20.000 Who are you?

00:04:21.000 I am Amala Penobe, 22 years old.

00:04:24.000 I'm currently working over at PragerU as a personality, whatever that means.

00:04:28.000 You guys can decide whether or not I actually have one.

00:04:30.000 Talent, yes!

00:04:32.000 And I am a recent radical leftist who's sort of left the left and on sort of the other side of things now.

00:04:39.000 Yeah.

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00:04:56.000 Yeah, we're checking the audio right now.

00:04:58.000 So worries just what happened was the digital gain was erased.

00:05:01.000 Oh yeah.

00:05:02.000 So that's why those audio problems, digital gain, digital gain, like a band name.

00:05:06.000 I feel like I work on a spaceship sometimes.

00:05:08.000 I know what any of this means.

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00:06:17.000 EU to impose mandatory electricity cuts to flatten the curve, reduce peak energy demands.

00:06:23.000 European Commission head announces Russian price gaps as Putin threatens to cut Europe off from all energy deliveries.

00:06:29.000 The European Union has announced plans for mandatory electricity rationing, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen telling reporters the EU must flatten the curve of peak energy prices.

00:06:41.000 Her announcement highlighted a five-point plan the EU is preparing to enact to address local energy markets.

00:06:47.000 Europe has faced an energy crisis following Russia cutting off supplies of natural gas.

00:06:51.000 The funny thing is, Russia's now selling gas to China, who's driving it all the way back to Europe and cranking up the cost.

00:06:58.000 And now people are looking at like 500% energy increases.

00:07:01.000 Italy, you've got bars and restaurants with candles.

00:07:05.000 And when you look over at California, And they're doing the exact same thing.

00:07:09.000 It kind of feels like what's happening there is going to happen here, and we're just a little bit behind.

00:07:13.000 But I know, Amala, you live in California, right?

00:07:15.000 How's that?

00:07:16.000 Unfortunately, I do live in Los Angeles.

00:07:17.000 So last night I was chilling in my apartment and got a notification that says, you know, due to our overwhelmed electrical grid, your electricity might go out at any moment.

00:07:26.000 And you're going to have to deal with that for an hour or two.

00:07:28.000 We'll rotate it across our different circuits.

00:07:31.000 And welcome to the New World Order here. 0.98

00:07:33.000 But it didn't, your power didn't go out?

00:07:35.000 It didn't end up going out, but I guess they're putting out warnings that through this continuous heatwave that we're going through right now, that there's a very good possibility that it's going to happen.

00:07:43.000 And in other regions of California, they're doing those rotating brownouts.

00:07:47.000 You saw Gavin Newsom though, right?

00:07:49.000 Yes, I did.

00:07:50.000 He was wearing a fleece sweater.

00:07:51.000 That was awesome.

00:07:52.000 It's cold, Tim!

00:07:53.000 Yeah, it's cold, okay.

00:07:54.000 Maybe he's like a, you know, it could be that he's a lizard person, you know, and then it's like, it may be hot, but yes, he still needs to ignite when the sun goes down.

00:08:02.000 He's got like really crazy tattoos of late and he has to hide them.

00:08:07.000 He rips his sleeves off and he's just got...

00:08:09.000 Sleeves.

00:08:10.000 Yeah, so it's basically after 4 p.m.

00:08:12.000 I heard Gavin doing did a video.

00:08:14.000 Maybe this is a video you're referencing after 4 p.m That's like hot time.

00:08:17.000 That's like peak peak electricity.

00:08:19.000 You turn off your what everything except for your large appliances Yeah, they're saying basically try not to use a see if you can help it cool your house or your apartment beforehand Don't turn on any larger or major appliances anything like that and certainly don't charge your electric cars even though we're gonna start banning gas vehicles in the coming years and Have you heard of passive cooling?

00:08:37.000 Have you ever studied any of that stuff?

00:08:38.000 No, I haven't.

00:08:38.000 They make, like, these, uh, I don't know if they're made out of wood or out of cork, and then they'll, like, make all these little, like, cuts through the cork, and then you just pour water into the cork, and then through—it only works in really dry environments, but through, um, I don't know what the— Evaporation.

00:08:52.000 Yeah, evaporation.

00:08:52.000 It cools down the room by, like, 10 to 15 degrees.

00:08:54.000 It absorbs—the water absorbs the heat from the atmosphere to— It'll get you from like 105 to 90, maybe.

00:08:59.000 You know, it's for desperate, hot, dry climates.

00:09:02.000 Does this fit in a studio apartment?

00:09:03.000 Definitely, yeah.

00:09:04.000 It's a little box.

00:09:05.000 You could probably make one from cardboard.

00:09:07.000 I don't even know.

00:09:09.000 Low energy evaporation air conditioners.

00:09:12.000 You fill them with water and then it basically... Yep, recently just bought one of those.

00:09:17.000 Although I don't know after 4 p.m.

00:09:18.000 if we can even have those on.

00:09:21.000 You know, here's a question.

00:09:22.000 Why don't you leave Los Angeles?

00:09:25.000 Oh, you're getting into tricky territory here.

00:09:26.000 So I do work for PragerU.

00:09:27.000 We're headquartered in Los Angeles.

00:09:29.000 It's Dennis' fault.

00:09:31.000 You know, Dennis, who you had on the show, he's like, I am not leaving California.

00:09:34.000 He's like, I'm perfectly fine being in California.

00:09:37.000 And I get it.

00:09:38.000 He's also wearing a sweater.

00:09:39.000 He's good to go.

00:09:41.000 Dennis is chillin'.

00:09:42.000 Dennis is chillin'.

00:09:43.000 And yeah, you know, I will say that being in the heart of all the problems does really get you invigorated every day to be in the fight.

00:09:49.000 You know, when you're walking out of your apartment and a homeless man screams obscenities at you, you're ready to work every single day.

00:09:55.000 That's fair.

00:09:57.000 You gotta learn self-defense.

00:09:59.000 You've also got to learn, you know, tactical poop cleanup.

00:10:02.000 You never know if you're gonna step in it.

00:10:04.000 I'm 120 pounds soaking wet, so self-defense is something I need to work on, 100%.

00:10:08.000 Yeah, jiu-jitsu.

00:10:10.000 Yeah.

00:10:10.000 Where were you before L.A.?

00:10:11.000 Florida.

00:10:12.000 What?

00:10:13.000 Why did you do that?

00:10:14.000 You know what?

00:10:16.000 I like to think I thought it through.

00:10:18.000 It was a fantastic opportunity.

00:10:19.000 I love my job so much, so it's totally worth it.

00:10:21.000 Don't get me wrong, but leaving the freedom state of Florida to go to L.A., which has just been disintegrating in front of my eyes, has been an interesting experience.

00:10:28.000 You're on the front lines.

00:10:29.000 On the front lines!

00:10:30.000 You left the comfort.

00:10:32.000 I'm just imagining you, you're at home in Florida and you tell your family and you like salute them and you're like, I'm going to the front lines. 1.00

00:10:37.000 And they're like, dude, you're crazy! 0.97

00:10:38.000 And you're like, I'm going. 0.99

00:10:39.000 And then you go to California where it's really bad.

00:10:42.000 Which it's hilarious because my mom is a super radical left-leaning person so she would love to have switched from Florida to move over to Los Angeles and we've sort of taken our opposite path. 0.71

00:10:51.000 Your mom is radical left? 1.00

00:10:52.000 Because you said you were too, right?

00:10:53.000 I was too, yeah.

00:10:54.000 So did you appreciate Florida while you were there?

00:10:56.000 No.

00:10:56.000 Or were you like, this place is awful?

00:10:58.000 I was like, I hate this place.

00:10:59.000 Did you get like hit in the head with a turtle shell or something and it just

00:11:03.000 knocked sense into you or what happened?

00:11:04.000 You know what? So I grew up, my mom works for the political left. 0.99

00:11:07.000 Hi mom, she's not watching.

00:11:08.000 But hi mom, definitely not watching.

00:11:12.000 So I grew up with her influence and I was constantly told about the oppression that I was going to face living in America.

00:11:18.000 She happens to be white. 0.98

00:11:19.000 So she was telling me about like, you know, you're black. 0.69

00:11:21.000 It's going to be a little bit difficult for you.

00:11:22.000 Things are going to be hard.

00:11:23.000 And I totally fell for it hook, line and sinker.

00:11:26.000 Graduated high school, started working as a youth organizer and door knocking and telling people who they needed to vote for.

00:11:32.000 I worked on the Andrew Gillum campaign in Florida.

00:11:36.000 Yeah, we all know how that turned out.

00:11:38.000 Like, luckily, my efforts went unnoticed on that and eventually just recognized so much hypocrisy that I had to leave and started looking at other views.

00:11:47.000 What made you realize, like, what was the moment that you realized something?

00:11:51.000 Yeah, so I grew up with my white family and I was constantly going to work and hearing about how awful white people were and there were several instances where it was just the most blatant racist rhetoric you could hear regarding somebody all towards white people and I would go and work on these projects and then go home to my white family that had taken care of me my entire life.

00:12:09.000 And I eventually confronted one of the VPs at the organization and said, I don't get it, man.

00:12:14.000 We said we're tolerant.

00:12:15.000 We said we're anti-racist.

00:12:16.000 We're literally working on these like critical race theory initiatives.

00:12:20.000 And he basically told me, you don't know how oppressed you are.

00:12:23.000 And that's not my fault.

00:12:24.000 So is like half your family black, half your family white?

00:12:27.000 Yes.

00:12:27.000 I wonder, because I have a similar experience.

00:12:30.000 I come from a mixed-mixed race family, so I'm a quarter Asian, and my experience was similar in that I go out and I hear these lefties saying things like, white people are bad, and I'm like, hey, wait a minute, like, I got white family and not white family, and I'm pretty sure you're full of shh, you know what I mean?

00:12:47.000 Ish, yeah.

00:12:48.000 Yeah, like, and then what I end up actually seeing growing up Is the policies they put in place they claim help racism actually just end up hurting my family.

00:12:57.000 And my family was the epitome of like opposing racism.

00:13:00.000 Right.

00:13:00.000 A hundred percent.

00:13:01.000 I went through the exact same experience.

00:13:02.000 I actually grew up in a really rural, conservative, small town.

00:13:06.000 Never truly experienced an ounce of racism in my life, but was so dedicated to the idea that I was oppressed in this country that I like fought people about it.

00:13:14.000 And I basically labeled myself as a victim and went around the world telling everybody about how victimized I was.

00:13:21.000 So when you go to your family and you're like, hey, I don't believe this stuff, because like, you know, we're a mixed family and clearly the white people in my family are good people.

00:13:31.000 This is not true.

00:13:31.000 Yeah.

00:13:32.000 Well, so my mom and dad got divorced when I was six.

00:13:34.000 So I was basically just with my mother's influence.

00:13:36.000 And I went to her and I was like, hey, mom, I think I might be a little conservative.

00:13:41.000 And she hated it.

00:13:43.000 What's the liberal equivalent of sprinkling you with holy water?

00:13:48.000 She's like, what can I do to stop this from happening?

00:13:51.000 Because I was like her little protege in a lot of ways, working at the same organization she was working for.

00:13:55.000 So, you know, her head blew through the roof.

00:13:59.000 And we went through months of just contentious arguments over all these different subject matters.

00:14:03.000 And eventually she was like, okay, this is my daughter.

00:14:05.000 I think she's pretty strong willed about what she believes right now.

00:14:08.000 And I'm just gonna leave it alone.

00:14:09.000 Maybe we don't talk politics.

00:14:11.000 Yeah, I went through something similar with my mom and I realized after like five or six years that it was more about the tone that we were communicating.

00:14:17.000 It was more about, you know, less about trying to be right or just listening.

00:14:21.000 Ian Redfield is my mom.

00:14:23.000 Yeah, but it took 12 years and it was like we almost, our relationship almost ended and she got really sick from stress.

00:14:29.000 Like it was horrible.

00:14:29.000 When you go at it and you're like obsessed with trying to convince someone, they can get really, really ill.

00:14:34.000 It can really hurt people.

00:14:35.000 So the best is just to exist and listen.

00:14:38.000 The cult is scary.

00:14:41.000 I agree.

00:14:41.000 Yeah, I realized that just through living my life with my values, I think it would sort of influence her a little bit.

00:14:46.000 Like, she's now come around and said, you know what?

00:14:49.000 I think I'm comfortable being friends with people who are conservative.

00:14:52.000 Which, for her, it's a big, big step.

00:14:55.000 I mean, when I say she's radical leftist, I mean as far left as you could possibly be.

00:14:59.000 So yeah.

00:14:59.000 But like, authoritarian or libertarian?

00:15:03.000 Authoritarian.

00:15:04.000 Because, like, the libertarian left, in my opinion, doesn't really exist.

00:15:08.000 Like, they do, but it's such an impossible political standard that most people on the left abandon it, but then claim their libertarian left to try and win votes so that it can then enslave you, you know what I mean?

00:15:20.000 Yeah, I mean, with all the policing you want to do of people's speech and how they act and what they do, it's hard not to be authoritarian in that sense.

00:15:26.000 Do you know political compass memes?

00:15:27.000 There's like a couple different pages.

00:15:28.000 Oh, is it like the little test that you take that puts you on the chart?

00:15:32.000 Yeah, the memes are hilarious.

00:15:33.000 And it's like one of the one place on the internet where they actually understand what the political compass actually means.

00:15:39.000 And you'll actually see like the left and the right arguing each other but laughing at these jokes.

00:15:44.000 And I did a I did a mini rant once where I said, Woke people are not libertarian left.

00:15:50.000 Every single time people come out and talk about Antifa or something, they claim it's libertarian left.

00:15:54.000 And I'm like, dude, it is not libertarian to go around bashing people over the skull, demanding they live the way they want you to live.

00:16:00.000 That's authoritarian left.

00:16:01.000 Libertarian left is like hippies living on a farm being like, you want to share this watermelon with me, dude?

00:16:07.000 The problem is supporting that is extremely difficult and it doesn't scale very well.

00:16:11.000 But the political compass memes people were like, Tim is correct.

00:16:14.000 And they put my face on the liberal left quadrant arguing why Antifa and woke people are not libertarian left.

00:16:21.000 And everybody agreed.

00:16:22.000 Like all these different people were like, yeah, that's that's literally like woke people are authoritarian commie socialist types.

00:16:29.000 Right as soon as you start trying to impose your worldview on anybody you can't call yourself a libertarian, right?

00:16:34.000 That's why I was really funny when Was it Jorgensen the libertarian candidate said?

00:16:38.000 Yeah, Joe Jorgen said it's not enough to not be racist.

00:16:42.000 We must be actively anti-racist But I was like the libertarian candidate telling people what they must do is deliciously ironic.

00:16:49.000 What is the libertarian version of wokeness?

00:16:52.000 Well, wokeness is ideological.

00:16:56.000 If you were woke and you were libertarian, you'd say something like, you know, I think, you know, critical race theory and these things are good.

00:17:04.000 How can we, you know, work with each other on trying to implement what I agree with?

00:17:08.000 And then they say, I disagree with you.

00:17:09.000 And it's like, oh, okay, well, we disagree.

00:17:11.000 Let's figure out how to live together.

00:17:12.000 See, I totally get along with those people.

00:17:14.000 I met a communist guy.

00:17:16.000 I was in Berkeley.

00:17:18.000 He denounced Antifa.

00:17:19.000 He said, the violence is wrong.

00:17:19.000 They shouldn't be doing that.

00:17:21.000 He's like, true communism would be us living together, working together.

00:17:23.000 And I was like, oh, we're friends.

00:17:25.000 I was like, bro, you can be a communist. 0.81

00:17:26.000 I don't care as long as you're not bashing people over the skull, you know?

00:17:28.000 And it really is as simple as that.

00:17:29.000 And they think we're far worse than that.

00:17:31.000 They make us out to be these horrible villains.

00:17:32.000 But really, I'm like, you can believe whatever you want to believe.

00:17:35.000 Just please don't come into my territory and impose it on me.

00:17:37.000 Right.

00:17:38.000 But that's how a lot of woke ideology works.

00:17:41.000 It needs compliance and it needs you to agree to be a part of it.

00:17:44.000 If anyone questions it, then their system is broken.

00:17:46.000 Yep.

00:17:47.000 And that's unacceptable.

00:17:48.000 That's what I love about like this weird world where the mainstream corporate press calls every single person far right or right wing.

00:17:56.000 And it's like, it's just so weird that every single ideological viewpoint is right wing.

00:18:01.000 Like all of them.

00:18:02.000 If you're a communist and you're woke, you're left.

00:18:05.000 But if you're a communist and you're not woke, you're far-right.

00:18:09.000 If you're a socialist and you're anti-corporate, you're far-right.

00:18:14.000 Jimmy Dore, who's like a socialist, is right-wing.

00:18:18.000 That one blew my mind.

00:18:19.000 I'm like, okay, y'all jump.

00:18:20.000 Look, you want to come at me and say Tim Pool's right-wing or whatever, I'll bet you can make an argument about center-right or something, even though I'm like in the middle.

00:18:27.000 But Jimmy Dore, He's like, universal health care and like all these other left policies.

00:18:31.000 But then he goes, the Democrats and the Republicans are corporatists who are selling you out.

00:18:35.000 He's far right.

00:18:35.000 Right.

00:18:36.000 But they just move the center to a place where they're like, look, all the way over there is extreme far right.

00:18:40.000 Whereas it wouldn't have been, you know, a decade ago, two decades ago.

00:18:44.000 We just migrated it so far that we don't understand where the middle is at all.

00:18:47.000 We just gotta ignore them.

00:18:49.000 Yeah, I was thinking that.

00:18:49.000 I love that idea.

00:18:50.000 The buzzwords.

00:18:51.000 Kind of let the buzzwords flow through you.

00:18:53.000 The alt, the left, the right, the authoritarian, the libertarian.

00:18:58.000 You don't fall into a group.

00:19:00.000 We're not putting you in a holding cell right now because of what label we slapped on your chest.

00:19:06.000 That stuff's not relevant in humanity.

00:19:08.000 Jimmy's a great example of that because he talks so much, you see the intricacies of who he is.

00:19:14.000 He's way all over the place.

00:19:16.000 He believes what he believes.

00:19:18.000 Jimmy is left.

00:19:19.000 I just think we have to ignore what the cult thinks, because the woke cult is not left or right.

00:19:24.000 This is what I was saying.

00:19:26.000 Some people don't agree, but I'm like, sterilizing your kids is not a left wing or right wing position.

00:19:32.000 It is of the left right now, but the left is like, It's usually a reference to revolutionary or economically flat systems.

00:19:43.000 Communism, for instance.

00:19:45.000 The furthest left you go on the political compass, whereas right is laissez-faire capitalism.

00:19:48.000 That's the economic scale.

00:19:49.000 Yeah, I think Jimmy is a bit revolutionary.

00:19:50.000 He's got that revolutionary state of mind.

00:19:52.000 But I can tell that he appreciates the state when it functions properly.

00:19:58.000 He likes that kind of stuff, and he's willing to use the state to accommodate people.

00:20:03.000 And that's more authoritarian versus libertarian.

00:20:05.000 The state versus, you know, no state.

00:20:07.000 And the thing that always confused me is when they say, like, laissez-faire capitalists are far right, and so are Nazis.

00:20:13.000 And I'm like, but they completely disagree on, like, everything.

00:20:16.000 How does that make sense?

00:20:17.000 What does that even mean?

00:20:18.000 And they say things like they're always trying to redefine what left and right is in order to justify why you are not left or whatever.

00:20:24.000 So I'm just like we got to be careful about putting people in camps.

00:20:27.000 That's what that is is the first step on the path to putting people in camps is giving them labels and putting them in a consciousness box when it comes to I think.

00:20:34.000 Colt is often a good word. 1.00

00:20:34.000 I know it's a strong word, but it's a good word because as soon as you start to deviate on even one single issue, they throw you out and label you as something. 1.00

00:20:41.000 And language is so powerful for the woke left in particular, the way they manipulate it, the way they utilize it in order to put people in certain groups and label them.

00:20:50.000 And as soon as we go, you know, I'm not going to accept the label and I'm not going to take that.

00:20:54.000 I think it's when we start changing the game a little bit.

00:20:56.000 You know what's interesting is I think it's like the snowball effect, the snowball rolling down a hill.

00:21:01.000 So I'd imagine for you, as for like a lot of people who start questioning wokeness, you probably said something small like, hey, I kind of don't agree with you on the white people thing.

00:21:11.000 And then they immediately start shoving you as hard as they could out.

00:21:14.000 Yep.

00:21:14.000 That's exactly what happened.

00:21:15.000 I had, so I'll tell a quick little story.

00:21:17.000 I was working on a project called The Groveland Four back in Florida, and it was about these four black men had been wrongfully accused of sexual assault.

00:21:25.000 And there was a documentary that we were showing, and I was trying to get all these college and high school kids to come and say, you know, this is America.

00:21:31.000 This is what they do to black people. 1.00

00:21:32.000 They shove them through the criminal justice system, even when they have nothing. 0.98

00:21:36.000 And in the background, Brett Kavanaugh gets accused of sexual assault and that whole firestorm starts happening.

00:21:43.000 And I'm working on this project, watching Brett Kavanaugh just completely break down on camera, and I brought it to my boss and I said, you know, why are we treating these two situations differently?

00:21:53.000 Why is he completely just getting obliterated by the media and by the work that we're doing here?

00:21:58.000 yet when these four black men get wrongfully accused, we're giving them all the grace in the

00:22:01.000 world." And he said, well, he's a white man and I don't care and he clearly is the frat boy type, 0.98

00:22:06.000 so he did it and he should hang. Wow. Yeah, just when I tell you the most dramatic rhetoric you 1.00

00:22:12.000 could possibly hear, I was hearing day in and day out. I don't know how I didn't leave sooner,

00:22:16.000 but eventually it was just, you can't stand it. I kind of feel like the left hates mixed race

00:22:21.000 people, like woke people.

00:22:23.000 people.

00:22:24.000 Like, their perspective is... I've experienced this personally, where they're like, we should have segregated spaces, right?

00:22:31.000 The POC and the non-POC.

00:22:33.000 And then, you know, if you walk up to them and you're like, what if I'm both?

00:22:36.000 They're like, get out.

00:22:38.000 Because then you're still white. 0.98

00:22:39.000 And in your story, what I'm imagining is, like, you've got white family. 1.00

00:22:42.000 Him saying he's white, I don't care, let him hang. 1.00

00:22:44.000 It's like, yo, you realize, like, when people say that stuff to me, 0.98

00:22:47.000 I'm like imagining my family.

00:22:48.000 I'm like, I don't like that.

00:22:49.000 Right.

00:22:49.000 Like, you're talking about my family, too.

00:22:51.000 Which was interesting because I had conservative people in my family

00:22:54.000 who are sort of like the Fox News conservatives watching that all the time.

00:22:57.000 And then I had my mom who was totally on board of, you know, F white people. 0.92

00:23:02.000 And I just happen to be a white ally, but also I'm part of the problem. 0.61

00:23:06.000 So my brain was just going crazy all throughout my childhood.

00:23:09.000 Did you feel like she owed you an explanation?

00:23:11.000 Did it, like, hurt your sense of identity?

00:23:14.000 You know, I just have conversations with her now and say, you know, in the future, maybe we don't do this to children.

00:23:20.000 Maybe we don't teach them that they're victims from, like, the age of eight years old.

00:23:24.000 And, you know, tell them that there's some boogeyman out to get them, but he's invisible.

00:23:28.000 And see how that goes.

00:23:30.000 And how did other people in your community react when you were like, I don't know that I totally get behind all these beliefs anymore.

00:23:36.000 I was completely just ousted from the organization, gone, left, never talked to again.

00:23:40.000 And of course, later, about a year or so later, I started making videos and those sort of blew up.

00:23:47.000 Just people were pissed.

00:23:48.000 One story I talk about every so often is that during Occupy Wall Street, there was this dude.

00:23:53.000 It was a white dude and a black dude.

00:23:55.000 And the black dude was like, I'm going to run across the street to go to the bathroom. 1.00

00:23:58.000 And the white dude, they were friends.

00:24:00.000 He was like, oh, hey, would you grab me a cheeseburger when you're over there?

00:24:02.000 And the black dude went off and he was like, excuse me? 0.75

00:24:05.000 And he was like, can you grab me a cheeseburger when you're over there? 0.94

00:24:07.000 I'll give you money. 0.95

00:24:08.000 And the black dude just went off and started yelling at him.

00:24:11.000 And then I asked him later, what happened? 0.82

00:24:13.000 And then he said, you see how racist that was?

00:24:16.000 And then I was like, he asked you to get him a cheeseburger?

00:24:18.000 And he's like, yeah, like I'm his boy, like going to get him food or something.

00:24:21.000 And I was like, dude, my friends ask me to grab them stuff from the store all the time.

00:24:24.000 Yeah, there's a phrase, you fly, I'll buy.

00:24:26.000 That's what we used to say.

00:24:27.000 What I think happened there was that This dude internalizes the racism and sees everything through a lens of you're being racist towards me.

00:24:37.000 So something as simple as my friend asked me to grab him food because I was already going that way turns into a racist attack on him.

00:24:46.000 Yeah.

00:24:46.000 Well and I think white guilt is something that people are introduced to at a really young age.

00:24:50.000 I saw a friend over the weekend and she's moved to New City and she told me That she specifically picked her yoga studio because it was in the historically black neighborhood and she liked that it was owned by a woman of color.

00:25:00.000 And if that's your preference, totally cool.

00:25:02.000 And then she said, I also think it's really important that they offer classes for free to black people only and I think it's better because I should be paying for it. 1.00

00:25:10.000 It's okay if I have to pay and other people don't.

00:25:12.000 And I was like, you're describing discrimination.

00:25:14.000 You know that, right?

00:25:16.000 But, you know, what am I supposed to say to someone who feels like this is part of her moral duty to the world?

00:25:22.000 You have to, like you were saying, kind of approach it calmly.

00:25:25.000 This is what I think people who agree with us need to understand.

00:25:29.000 There's no mistake. 0.94

00:25:30.000 They're racist.

00:25:32.000 They define racists in a different way, but who cares the way they... Look, I'm not trying to win an argument with them over what words mean.

00:25:38.000 To me, my basis for racism is that they want racial discrimination, that they believe certain races are inherently one way or another, something like that.

00:25:47.000 Whereas I'm kind of like, you know, if I went to a restaurant and they had signs about like only serving white people or somebody said to me that they liked a restaurant because it catered to white people and offered free food to white people, I'd be like, that's kind of messed up.

00:25:59.000 I don't like that.

00:26:00.000 And if they did the same thing for Mexicans or black people, I'd be like, that's not okay. 0.59

00:26:03.000 I don't like that. 0.98

00:26:04.000 That's kind of lame.

00:26:06.000 And the woke.

00:26:08.000 They want the segregation.

00:26:10.000 It's fascinating when I talk to people and tell them about how Dearborn, Michigan had the, did you see this one, the POC and the non-POC digital events they did?

00:26:18.000 I've seen a lot of places doing this stuff.

00:26:19.000 Tons of this stuff.

00:26:20.000 And they're like, it's a good thing.

00:26:22.000 And I'm like, it's a bad thing.

00:26:23.000 I'm like, well, if you don't like it, you're racist.

00:26:24.000 And I'm like, dude, I don't care what word you use. 0.89

00:26:27.000 I don't like what you're doing and I'm just going to stay away from you.

00:26:30.000 And that's the smart thing to do.

00:26:31.000 I mean, you know, Ibram X. Kendi, who we all know and dislike, Talks about, you know, the way to fix past discrimination is present discrimination and how that lands with anybody, I just don't understand.

00:26:42.000 And I think a quick thought exercise that anybody can do is to sort of look at these headlines and what these woke people are doing and swap out people of color or black or Hispanic for any other race and see how you feel about it.

00:26:54.000 See if it's truly racist.

00:26:55.000 And it always is.

00:26:56.000 Yeah, it always is.

00:26:57.000 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:26:58.000 I think part of it is people feel like they are They are doing the right thing by making things, by overcompensating, you know, by saying like, oh, well, we'll pay more now because at the time you were wronged.

00:27:11.000 And I think we forget that we can acknowledge that past wrongs were committed without needing to, you know, push a bunch of other people down in order to make this unstable system we're trying to build up on.

00:27:21.000 It doesn't make any sense.

00:27:22.000 Isn't it funny, though, how there's an overlap between these people?

00:27:25.000 They're the same people who support war with Ukraine.

00:27:28.000 They're the same people who think everybody should bend the knee to vaccine mandates.

00:27:33.000 Like, what's up with that?

00:27:34.000 I think it's because, you know, I was thinking about, I saw these memes about how the Christian right were mean and they hated people, and I'm like, yeah, that's not been my experience, you know, for the most part.

00:27:45.000 But I wonder, because I know that they exist, and I wonder if what it really is, is that they're a group of people that, or I should say a certain amount of people tend to be

00:27:55.000 zealous and mob-like.

00:27:58.000 They don't actually believe anything. They just do whatever the dominant social group says,

00:28:03.000 and they adhere to it with force and aggression. And at one point when this country was dominated

00:28:10.000 by Christians, those people claimed to be Christians and gave them a bad name. 0.99

00:28:14.000 Now that the country is moving towards secularism, these people are now the same people they've always been, but now just along with the woke, giving them a bad name and making them look like garbage. 0.96

00:28:25.000 But the problem is they're the prominent ones that are pushing this stuff. 0.97

00:28:28.000 Obviously there's like regular people who are like on the left and think racism is bad, but the dominant voices have all become these like despicable, weird authoritarians.

00:28:36.000 And I think they make it such a gray area where it's like, well, your instincts on what is racism and what feels wrong to you is wrong.

00:28:44.000 You don't have a true understanding of this because you don't have this knowledge and context that we, especially in the realm of academia, say you must understand and go through to really get.

00:28:54.000 Yeah, and I think another underlying factor with why they do things like the vaccine mandates and jumping into war with Ukraine, when I was working for the left, there was this constant idea of radical compassion.

00:29:04.000 So you identify a problem, you identify what you think would be the compassionate thing to do, and you do that to the most radical extent that you possibly can, which means hopping into war with Russia, which means mandating vaccines for everybody. 0.64

00:29:16.000 If you're, if you wants people to be able to come into the United States and immigrate here.

00:29:21.000 We need open borders.

00:29:22.000 Everything is always the most radical form of policy they can think of.

00:29:25.000 You know, radical compassion doesn't work, in my opinion.

00:29:27.000 I tried it in 2006 on internet videos.

00:29:29.000 I was like, what would Jesus do with this technology?

00:29:31.000 He'd connect with everyone he could and, you know, spread the gospel, listen to them, connect with their eyes.

00:29:35.000 And I was doing it and it became so exhausting.

00:29:38.000 And a lot of very weak people would connect with me.

00:29:42.000 And I was like, I'm not turning anyone away.

00:29:43.000 I'll talk to anybody.

00:29:45.000 And so It broke me.

00:29:48.000 The people that were busted up psychologically were infecting my mind with busted up psychology and I was becoming busted up.

00:29:55.000 And I realized it's not sustainable, this radical... You need to let people fix themselves.

00:29:59.000 You need to maybe create an environment where it's easier for them.

00:30:02.000 Some people can't be fixed.

00:30:04.000 But that's up to them.

00:30:05.000 I cannot fix them.

00:30:07.000 I can only give them an opportunity to fix themselves.

00:30:09.000 It's coddling.

00:30:10.000 It's what's happening right now.

00:30:11.000 And that's what I recognized a lot when talking about being biracial in America so much as what do we need to do for you?

00:30:17.000 What's hard for you?

00:30:18.000 How can you get into school?

00:30:20.000 How can you get a job?

00:30:21.000 And you can switch out the race thing for gender or sexuality, but that's constantly the underlying factor is how can I be a savior towards X community?

00:30:30.000 It's funny that I think there are different conspiracy theorists, factions, that all will blame one group of people for their problems.

00:30:40.000 So, like, you've got the groups that, you know, will say, like, the globalists, you know, you know, the more Alex Jones-oriented conspiracy theory types.

00:30:47.000 Not referring to him specifically, but... 0.93

00:30:49.000 You've got people who hate Jewish people and blame them for all the problems. 0.99

00:30:53.000 You've got the woke who blame white people for all the problems. 0.98

00:30:55.000 You've got Occupy Wall Street that blames the 1% for all their problems.

00:30:58.000 It's like if you want to figure out where you fit in, which group do you hate the most?

00:31:01.000 Blame for all the problems and you found your friends.

00:31:04.000 To me it's creepy because obviously this planet and society is extremely nuanced.

00:31:09.000 And it's not so simple to say there's one group that's causing all the problems.

00:31:12.000 There aren't.

00:31:13.000 There's like, there's war, there's countries, there's cultures, there are ideologies.

00:31:17.000 Within countries and within races, there's different ideologies that are attacking each other. 0.52

00:31:21.000 But of course, the woke, they've become the corporate dominant, and they blame white people for their problems.

00:31:28.000 Our minds are so simplistic.

00:31:29.000 I mean, it's so weird that we've reduced ourselves down to things like race and gender, which are just things you can see to the human eye.

00:31:34.000 And then we've just decided, oh, because I can see it, that must be the rule of thumb here.

00:31:38.000 And there must be one ultimate villain in every single case for every single problem.

00:31:42.000 It's unbelievable how simplistic our brains work.

00:31:45.000 I don't like the black and white thing because we're not black and white.

00:31:48.000 That's very obviously a wrong way to describe things.

00:31:51.000 It's too simple.

00:31:52.000 It doesn't function.

00:31:53.000 Let's jump to this good fun story we have here from the New York Post.

00:31:56.000 Kathy Griffin slammed for saying Republicans will start a civil war.

00:32:00.000 The first thing I want to say... Tim, she stole your line! 1.00

00:32:02.000 No, no.

00:32:03.000 New York Post is wrong.

00:32:05.000 Hold on.

00:32:05.000 New York Post, you need to issue a correction.

00:32:07.000 She did not say Republicans will start a civil war.

00:32:10.000 She never said that.

00:32:12.000 That is defamation and slander of our good friend Kathy Griffin.

00:32:16.000 What she said was, If you don't want a civil war, vote for Democrats in November.

00:32:21.000 If you do want civil war, vote Republican. 0.88

00:32:24.000 She did not say in any capacity that Republicans would start one.

00:32:27.000 In fact, she didn't in any way imply either... well, she didn't state either side would, but she implied Democrats would!

00:32:33.000 Let's do some basic logic real quick.

00:32:35.000 If you vote for Democrats, they win.

00:32:38.000 There won't be a civil war.

00:32:40.000 That means Republicans will do nothing.

00:32:43.000 If you vote for Republicans, and they win, and she says there will be a civil war in that capacity, well, Republicans aren't going to start a civil war after winning legitimate power.

00:32:52.000 The Democrats would have to start fighting with them, otherwise they're in power.

00:32:55.000 She's actually implying Democrats will start a civil war.

00:32:58.000 Many people pointed this out.

00:32:59.000 She's basically issuing a threat.

00:33:02.000 If you don't vote for us, we are going to war.

00:33:05.000 And Twitter's cool with it.

00:33:06.000 Civil War, drink.

00:33:07.000 Yeah, leave it up.

00:33:08.000 This is the second one. 0.99

00:33:09.000 She cut the Trump head and held that bloody head. 1.00

00:33:13.000 This is kind of another weird, like, visceral statement. 0.94

00:33:18.000 It's just shock value.

00:33:19.000 I think after that Trump head thing, she should've just went, you know what, no more internet for me. 0.96

00:33:23.000 I think I'm done.

00:33:24.000 Zaraj, where's the list?

00:33:26.000 Take her phone away.

00:33:27.000 Seriously.

00:33:28.000 I saw her try to work it back and say, you know, if the Democrats are in power, they'll be able to hold off the MAGA Republicans from starting some sort of war.

00:33:35.000 That's what I meant by the tweet, but I don't think that landed.

00:33:38.000 So she's implying that the MAGA Republicans get elected, are handed the keys to the castle, and then they're gonna go, They just start running around and smashing things?

00:33:48.000 Makes no sense.

00:33:49.000 They have legitimate power.

00:33:50.000 They've won an election.

00:33:51.000 Why would they do anything like that? 1.00

00:33:52.000 They're all crazy white people, Tim. 1.00

00:33:54.000 We don't know what they're gonna do. 1.00

00:33:55.000 We don't know what white people are capable of. 0.96

00:33:57.000 Well, that's true, but then you end up with people like Tim Scott they act like doesn't exist.

00:34:00.000 You know what I mean?

00:34:01.000 Yeah.

00:34:02.000 I wonder how much of Kathy is getting taken out of context because it's... Did she say this verbally or was this in text?

00:34:07.000 It's a tweet.

00:34:08.000 All tweet.

00:34:09.000 She's a comedian. 1.00

00:34:10.000 Text... Your jokes don't always translate to text.

00:34:12.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:34:13.000 I don't think this is a joke.

00:34:14.000 I mean...

00:34:15.000 It does seem like a cry for attention.

00:34:17.000 She did have a reality TV show that was like, uh, My Life as a D-List Celebrity or something.

00:34:21.000 Oh, she did?

00:34:21.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:22.000 This was way back in the day.

00:34:23.000 She's a D-List Celebrity, so I've never heard of it.

00:34:24.000 So, you know, she really does need people to notice her whenever, whenever possible.

00:34:28.000 So I feel like, again, she's somewhat political openly a lot of the time, but also, you know, she has to stay part of the relevant conversation.

00:34:34.000 As somebody who's, you know, half of their tweets are completely nonsensical and hilarious, uh, yes, I'm saying my jokes are funny.

00:34:41.000 I feel for Kathy Griffin if she's taken out of context.

00:34:43.000 The only issue is she took a photo of herself holding a faux severed head of Donald Trump.

00:34:49.000 It's hard to get out of context.

00:34:50.000 Yeah, she's literal.

00:34:52.000 Like, you know, look, I think my tweets are funny because I'm intentionally trolling and screwing around.

00:34:58.000 And the fact that some people believe, so I'll tell you this, I tweeted, When the left was ragging on the song we put out, I said, the success of Only Ever Wanted proves that deep down Americans crave powerful emo music, but the globalist corporate elite are conspiring to suppress it.

00:35:15.000 And they started sharing the tweet on Reddit and other posts being like, Tim Pool literally thinks this.

00:35:19.000 And I'm like, that was so overt in its nonsense that no sane person would believe I was telling the truth.

00:35:28.000 If you were to look at what Kathy Griffin is saying, and you think she's joking, then I think you're being equally dishonest.

00:35:34.000 I think this is the, this year's Democrats Get Out the Vote campaign.

00:35:37.000 Like, if you don't vote for us, it's gonna end in civil war, and they want you to believe it's Republicans, but as Tim is completely right in pointing out, it's Actually, the Democrats being like, we will riot.

00:35:47.000 We've been doing it for a little while here.

00:35:48.000 Everyone's cool when we do it, not when any Republicans do it.

00:35:52.000 You know, it's kind of crazy that she can post this, it can stay up, and she's going to be like, no, I'm in the right to say it.

00:35:57.000 This is a get out the vote.

00:35:58.000 It's all fear tactics.

00:35:59.000 I mean, she seems clearly inspired by Joe Biden.

00:36:01.000 We watched his last speech where he's talking about, you know, the MAGA Republicans are the threat to America.

00:36:06.000 It's what we all have to worry about.

00:36:07.000 They hate this country so long as they don't win.

00:36:09.000 I think they're really just pushing fear, fear, fear, and please get out and vote for us or else.

00:36:14.000 And it works.

00:36:16.000 It works.

00:36:17.000 And, you know, a lot of Republicans are like, oh, it's gonna be a red tsunami and we're gonna win.

00:36:21.000 And I'm like, yeah, you better operate under the assumption it's gonna be a blue wave and get out every single person you can.

00:36:27.000 Because I'll tell you, even if you do win, the likelihood the Republicans, you know, the Republican leadership will do something is low.

00:36:33.000 So you need to make sure the win is overwhelming.

00:36:36.000 So that, look, if in swing states, you get moderate Republicans who win, Then they're going to jam things up and be like, no, no, no, listen, you know, we gotta be, we can't play that way.

00:36:45.000 We had Rick Santorum on and, you know, I respect the guy, but he was like, we can't play that game.

00:36:50.000 We've got to play by the rules.

00:36:51.000 And I'm like, okay, like, dude, I get it.

00:36:53.000 Play by the rules.

00:36:54.000 But playing by the rules also means you subpoena them when they do something illegal.

00:36:58.000 You don't say, well, you know, that's too much and too far.

00:37:01.000 Well, that's what they're doing.

00:37:02.000 They're going after Trump.

00:37:02.000 They're going after Bannon.

00:37:03.000 They're going after people on the right.

00:37:04.000 They put Peter Navarro in shackles.

00:37:06.000 So maybe Republicans need to win and just, you know, get some subpoenas and do some investigations.

00:37:11.000 Figure out what went on with Crossfire Hurricane.

00:37:13.000 Maybe get some accountability for Russiagate.

00:37:15.000 Yeah.

00:37:15.000 And I think if you are a conservative leaning voter, It's much better to look at the tsunami after it's hit than to be like, I think it's coming, I'll just pretend.

00:37:25.000 And then it turns out it's nothing.

00:37:26.000 I think the Republican Party is prone to complacency.

00:37:30.000 And, you know, they think they're being forgiving, being like, well, we're not going to follow up on any of these things.

00:37:35.000 We could press charges, but, you know, we're going to be the bigger people and move on.

00:37:38.000 And it's like, no, actually you're letting the justice system fall by the wayside by being inactive and becoming complacent.

00:37:44.000 Yeah, the riots of 2020 was an example of that.

00:37:46.000 Like, day two, where was the National Guard?

00:37:48.000 And all they said was, like, well, if we start prosecuting people, it'll probably get worse, right?

00:37:52.000 We're being mean.

00:37:52.000 We're just reactionary and just reactive.

00:37:54.000 We're, like, waiting for them to come to our backyard to react to them and then going, oh, well, there was no laws to protect me for this?

00:38:00.000 Oh, so sorry!

00:38:01.000 So I get called a black pillar a lot because I'm constantly like, hey guys, I'm not convinced there's going to be a red wave.

00:38:08.000 And they're like, oh, just let it happen.

00:38:09.000 I'm like, no, you can't do that way.

00:38:11.000 You need to be taking every single possible step you can.

00:38:13.000 You need to be getting other people involved in voting.

00:38:16.000 And I've been going back and forth with a lot of people about whether we should fight on their level.

00:38:19.000 And I think the ultimate answer is that yes, we should as far as lawfare goes, and then as far as like character goes, we need to stick by- see that's where your conservative principles can actually come out, is in your character.

00:38:31.000 You don't need to do what they do, you don't need to cancel people as hard as they do, but you can fight back on the level playing ground that is supposedly- There was a poll from the Trafalgar Group I think today that said after Biden's speech, A lot of independents, and I can't remember the percentage, but let's say 30%, swung and were like, this, that speech is like, cool, aggressive rhetoric.

00:38:51.000 This is inappropriate.

00:38:53.000 Like, this is not right.

00:38:54.000 Obviously, you know, high percentage of Democrats thought that speech was wonderful.

00:38:58.000 Lots of conservatives were like, wait, no, that's insane.

00:39:00.000 But it was the independents who were like, you're losing us here, Joe Biden administration, the Democratic Party.

00:39:05.000 Like, this is not something that we support.

00:39:07.000 I think it was like, I should wish I had the number in front of me, like 50% were like, 100% we are against how this presentation and the way this looks.

00:39:15.000 I think in some ways the Democrats themselves will show are showing their true colors but I can't stress enough that I feel like the Republican Party's one of their biggest issues is that they become complacent and they're like got in the bag let's all just pack up and go home and that's how you lose.

00:39:28.000 No, we need serious asymmetric, what would you call it, I guess, culture warfare.

00:39:33.000 Lawfare.

00:39:34.000 Well, lawfare, I'm open to being equal.

00:39:37.000 We should be treating the law equally among all people, but if you want to win a culture war against a communist infusion or whatever the hell is happening, you need deep spiritual power.

00:39:47.000 You need some sort of imbalance of power to win that.

00:39:50.000 And that, I think, is internal.

00:39:51.000 It's meditation, consciousness, listening to people, being willing to cry.

00:39:56.000 That comes out.

00:39:58.000 The way that we communicate is so different to the way that progressives communicate, and I've learned that a lot just having worked on both sides.

00:40:05.000 Their grassroots organizing endeavors are insane, and they're very well run.

00:40:10.000 They're in the communities, running around, knocking doors, having conversations with people, and having very emotional conversations with people.

00:40:16.000 And I think that's what influences voters.

00:40:18.000 Conservatives, we're not very emotional.

00:40:21.000 We don't use like a storyline in order to influence people.

00:40:24.000 And as far as his speech, he had an amazing opportunity to hop up there and give a message of unity and say, you know, we can coexist.

00:40:32.000 There is a way that we can unite out of this.

00:40:33.000 And I want to be the president who does that.

00:40:35.000 But he fumbled the ball.

00:40:36.000 And at least that ball is now in our court.

00:40:38.000 Yeah.

00:40:39.000 I think the play was, you're gonna fumble, the other team's gonna, but then we're gonna recover it and run it in for a touch, like, it was like, the speech was written as a fumble.

00:40:47.000 See, I feel like it wasn't actually about unity because of the lines about the right-wing extremism.

00:40:52.000 It was not.

00:40:52.000 It was like, under the guise of patriotism, being like, look, I'm in front of Independence Hall, and they've got all these great colors, and look at those Marines, and then it's like, but remember, the MAGA conservatives are the devil, and if you vote for them, you are going to set our country on fire.

00:41:05.000 Which is not a unifying message.

00:41:07.000 The emotion thing is everything.

00:41:09.000 Yes.

00:41:09.000 Right now the Democrats are heavily just targeting emotions, hate and fear, hate and fear.

00:41:14.000 And I think people on the right, as you were mentioning, they're not very emotional, they don't get it.

00:41:18.000 Ben Shapiro, you know, thinks he'll make a logical argument and convince you, but in fact he's only speaking to people who are already logical, and people who are already logical are probably already more right-leaning.

00:41:27.000 So I know this from having done street fundraising, and I'm canvassing, where we would go and talk to people on the street way up high.

00:41:34.000 They always give you these spiels, and they would be like, say this.

00:41:37.000 And they were very methodological.

00:41:39.000 Hi, my name is this.

00:41:40.000 I work for here.

00:41:41.000 Here's a problem we face.

00:41:42.000 Here's how you can help.

00:41:43.000 And of course, that stuff never works.

00:41:45.000 And they don't want you to say anything else, like for like legal reasons.

00:41:48.000 But I was like, dude, I can get people to sign up for anything without saying a single fact.

00:41:53.000 Like, they're worried about you saying something factually incorrect and then giving someone, someone gives a donation and then you've got like a, you know, liability issue or something.

00:41:59.000 And I'm like, just tug on their heartstrings.

00:42:02.000 Just, you know, so the pitches I would do were often very much like trying to make people cry.

00:42:06.000 Yep.

00:42:07.000 Just like tell them a story about a, you know, Talking about homeless people.

00:42:12.000 Telling them a story about a homeless person that no one loves.

00:42:15.000 Imagine what it must feel like that no one's there for you and no one loves you.

00:42:18.000 And then when you finally do see someone walking down the street, they look at you with disgust and they spit on you.

00:42:23.000 And then people are like feeling bad and then they donate.

00:42:26.000 The best sales pitch I've ever seen was this guy selling door-to-door children's encyclopedias, who was like, yeah, I took this opportunity to be out here because my fiance's here, but it's really hard, and they didn't tell you that our wages would be awful, and we have to buy the product first, and we all have to share a van, and I have to sell these, because otherwise I'm in debt to the company, and I watched so many people buy that guy's encyclopedia.

00:42:47.000 He might as well have been selling I don't even know what.

00:42:50.000 If you go up to somebody and say, He also may not have had a fiancé.

00:42:53.000 I just want to put that on the table.

00:42:55.000 I could have been lying.

00:42:55.000 The whole thing could have been a lie.

00:42:57.000 The same is true for the right.

00:42:59.000 Like, if you were going to make a pitch and say, like, here's what a Democrat policy is bad, right?

00:43:02.000 Joe Biden, he's enacted these policies such as banning fracking on public lands, which has caused a spike in speculation.

00:43:08.000 Now, here's a logical reason why that's going to... They don't care.

00:43:10.000 They don't care.

00:43:11.000 They say you're lying.

00:43:12.000 They say it's fake news.

00:43:13.000 Donald Trump is bad. 1.00

00:43:14.000 He's evil. 1.00

00:43:15.000 You need to go out and, like, drive emotions.

00:43:18.000 Talk, you know, just create a circumstance where you make them feel something, and then point them in the direction of what they... That's what the Democrats do.

00:43:27.000 They say, Bad stuff!

00:43:28.000 Bad stuff!

00:43:28.000 Donald Trump!

00:43:29.000 Bad stuff!

00:43:30.000 Yep.

00:43:31.000 Our best bet is, like, going out there, talking about the state of the economy right now, how American families are hurting, talk about this Defund the Police movement and how it's hurting low-income minority communities, tug on the heartstrings there, and it's not a hard thing to do because it's real.

00:43:43.000 It's actually happening.

00:43:44.000 People are seeing it in their backyard.

00:43:46.000 Parents are getting galvanized because their students are being affected in this public schooling system that's completely failing them.

00:43:52.000 If you use those emotional stories and then, you know, plug in the facts there as you need to, people will get behind you.

00:43:58.000 I want to pull up this tweet because we were talking about, you know, like law and stuff came up and I was thinking about this in the context of where we're going Civil War wise.

00:44:07.000 Marianne Williamson was responding to a Newsweek story about Trump getting his special master, that they're going to review the document seized, and she said, this is terrible news.

00:44:17.000 Why is that terrible?

00:44:18.000 Stixx Hexenhammer says, how sad that your witch hunt nonsense is being put on hold for due process reasons.

00:44:24.000 She responded, does the law matter to you at all or do you just think it doesn't apply to him?

00:44:29.000 Now here's the problem.

00:44:30.000 Marianne Williamson.

00:44:31.000 I actually, I think she's very nice, sweet lady. 0.99

00:44:33.000 But this is the issue with the left.

00:44:35.000 They don't care about facts.

00:44:36.000 At all.

00:44:37.000 They care about how they feel.

00:44:39.000 So they ignore facts, they don't do research, and my response.

00:44:43.000 The law stopped being relevant when Democrats impeached Trump over Joe Biden threatening the Ukrainian president with illegally blocking U.S.

00:44:50.000 aid guarantees, or maybe it was when they fabricated evidence to spy on Trump.

00:44:53.000 The funny thing is, people like Marianne Williamson don't know that happened.

00:44:57.000 Telling her doesn't matter because it gives her a negative emotional response.

00:45:01.000 You were wrong, your facts are bad, and you're on the wrong side.

00:45:04.000 Negative emotional response.

00:45:06.000 Don't want to listen to you.

00:45:07.000 Get away from me.

00:45:08.000 They only want sweet, comforting lies.

00:45:12.000 Well, they want sweet comfort.

00:45:14.000 No, they want lies.

00:45:15.000 They prefer lies.

00:45:16.000 Look, look, look.

00:45:17.000 Whether they intentionally say, I want lies, or the lie is what makes them feel better, and they request.

00:45:22.000 So they're like, make me feel better.

00:45:23.000 I love that line from V for Vendetta where he says, would you prefer a lie or the truth?

00:45:28.000 When he gets asked by Evie about you.

00:45:31.000 They want hope.

00:45:32.000 Did you kill that man?

00:45:33.000 So what is the situation here?

00:45:35.000 What law is being discussed?

00:45:37.000 She says there's no rule of law.

00:45:40.000 So Donald Trump, they seize the documents.

00:45:42.000 Trump says a special master should review this to make sure they're not going through private stuff they're not allowed to, like privileged documents.

00:45:48.000 And she thinks you should not have due process.

00:45:51.000 She's scared that the appointee is going to be somewhat on his side, that they're going to help him out.

00:45:56.000 And she's also scared of lengthening this out before he announces whether or not he's going to run for president.

00:46:00.000 So if they have a hitter that they can use on Trump before he puts in his candidacy, they want it now.

00:46:07.000 Sorry, let me squeeze this in real fast.

00:46:09.000 It is so telling to me that they don't want it to be possible for someone to like Donald Trump's perspective.

00:46:16.000 That's insane.

00:46:16.000 He's already convicted in their minds.

00:46:18.000 Oh, for sure.

00:46:19.000 He committed a crime.

00:46:20.000 We're just not totally sure what the crime is, is the logic there.

00:46:23.000 So why he would need due process is sort of beyond Ken to them because He should already be convicted.

00:46:30.000 They don't want anything holding this up because he is already persona non grata enemy number one.

00:46:35.000 There's no recovering from that.

00:46:36.000 He doesn't deserve the law.

00:46:38.000 A big mistake people are making, I think, is that they're pinning a lot of social distress right now on political parties.

00:46:44.000 Is it the Republicans causing this chaos or is it the Democrats?

00:46:47.000 But in reality, when you look at videos in Sri Lanka or in Italy where people are rioting on the street and smashing stuff and attacking cops, it's because they don't have heat.

00:46:56.000 They don't have electricity.

00:46:57.000 That's what's causing and going to cause civil stress in this country. 0.99

00:47:01.000 It really doesn't matter who's in political power at that state.

00:47:04.000 But everyone is going to say, like, well, you know why you don't have the things that you need to survive?

00:47:08.000 Because of that other party.

00:47:10.000 Vladimir Putin did this interview today where he was like, yeah, Europe is sacrificing all of their people to keep the American globalist elite in dominant power.

00:47:19.000 Like, he is saying the exact same thing.

00:47:21.000 We are all looking for someone else to blame issues on.

00:47:24.000 But like, With all of the sanctions and energy bills are high, you can understand where that line is now going to potentially be persuasive to at least Russians, if not other people who are like, yeah, our leadership is really messing us up here.

00:47:35.000 How are we going to get over this?

00:47:36.000 What is it, the system they don't want?

00:47:38.000 I hate using the term today.

00:47:39.000 It's so vague.

00:47:41.000 Power structures don't want people to be in power, don't want people to have unlimited electricity, because then they'll have more power than the government and rise up and overthrow.

00:47:49.000 So they've kept us in a state of slavocracy, but that's going to cause people to rise up. 1.00

00:47:53.000 It's like in one of the greatest movie franchises of all time, Fast and Furious.

00:47:57.000 Oh, great.

00:47:58.000 Oh, goodness.

00:47:59.000 I think it's a wise man once said the villain in one of them.

00:48:03.000 I'm not sure if it was five or not.

00:48:04.000 He said, you know, you give the people something that there's that they're

00:48:08.000 scared to lose you could take away and then you control them.

00:48:10.000 Then they're your slaves.

00:48:11.000 That was my thought.

00:48:11.000 Yeah.

00:48:12.000 So it's basically like give them just enough you make their lives better

00:48:15.000 and then they're dependent upon you.

00:48:16.000 It's like it's like it's like, you know, it's not all bad in a sense

00:48:20.000 where you're making their lives a little better, but then you're also

00:48:23.000 using it specifically for control.

00:48:24.000 Yeah, it's like leashing a Tyrannosaurus Rex and hoping it doesn't realize that it's a T-Rex and you're just a little guy with a leash.

00:48:31.000 Well, it's like, uh, there's this famous meme where there's a big elephant with, like, a rope on its foot and a little spike in the ground.

00:48:39.000 And someone said, why won't the elephant just rip it out and walk away?

00:48:42.000 And they said, when the elephant was little, it struggled and fought and learned that it couldn't get out.

00:48:46.000 Now that it's older, it doesn't even bother trying.

00:48:48.000 And on top of that, they're also pushing this message of, you need to do this.

00:48:52.000 This is for the greater good.

00:48:53.000 Like, with this energy stuff that's happening right now, entangled in that is the climate crisis and hysteria surrounding that.

00:48:59.000 So, not only are you giving the government control, but you're doing it for a good cause.

00:49:03.000 You're doing the right thing, which is exactly what's happening in the Netherlands right now.

00:49:06.000 You know, the farmers are up in arms about their livelihoods being taken away, and it is just a massive land grab from the government.

00:49:13.000 But the government is saying, no, it's for Climate change.

00:49:16.000 This line, flatten the curve, like COVID taught us.

00:49:19.000 You referenced the rat hope experiment.

00:49:20.000 It's really Pavlov's dog.

00:49:22.000 They ring the bell.

00:49:23.000 Oh, we got to flatten the curves and everyone should fall in line and do this because it's for the greater good.

00:49:27.000 That's right.

00:49:27.000 So the rat hope experiment, we've talked about it before.

00:49:31.000 Guy takes three rats, three cylinders, puts the rats in the cylinders.

00:49:34.000 They swim for 15 minutes, can't get out, and then they just give up, sink, and die.

00:49:38.000 Then he takes another pair of rats, set of rats, puts them in, they swim, 15 minutes or so, they give up,

00:49:44.000 but this time he lifts them out, dries them off, lets them relax, then puts them back in.

00:49:49.000 The second time they swam for 60 hours.

00:49:52.000 So we talked about this during the COVID lockdown.

00:49:54.000 Are they going to rat experiment us?

00:49:57.000 You put us in lockdown, everybody starts losing their minds, and then right before it gets too bad, you stop, you let everybody go back to normal, you bring the movies back, you bring the video games back, the food's back, the pizza's back, the wings are back.

00:50:07.000 And then, you give everybody a little bit to relax, dry off, and then do it again, and now they'll last 60 times as long.

00:50:13.000 So, if you went, let's put it this way, 15 minutes to 60 hours, we're talking about, what is it, like a 200, was it 20, what are we doing?

00:50:23.000 Yeah, 240 times.

00:50:24.000 240 time increase.

00:50:26.000 So, based on the fact they locked us down for, what, a year?

00:50:30.000 Are they now going to start pulling hard back for another couple hundred years?

00:50:34.000 It doesn't need to be that much.

00:50:35.000 It doesn't need to translate.

00:50:37.000 You only need a generation because you lock down the generation of people that are used to living well and have access to technology.

00:50:45.000 Once they accept their fate and say, if we just stay at it and flatten the curve, then eventually things will get better.

00:50:52.000 But I think people don't do well in slavery.

00:50:55.000 They never have.

00:50:56.000 There's just a history of uprising against slavery, whether it's a monarchy or a corporation or whatever.

00:51:02.000 I can't imagine that people would sit still for very long in that situation.

00:51:07.000 Don't try, for sure.

00:51:09.000 Is there like a form of soft totalitarianism where it's like you are somewhat enslaved but you have all these wonderful amenities to keep you at bay and to keep you docile and you have your streaming services and you have just enough AC to keep your house cool and you know just enough to be fine in the place that you're at and without enough energy to really realize how oppressed you are.

00:51:28.000 They have to slowly take away from you because the idea is you will own nothing and you will be happy.

00:51:33.000 That's right.

00:51:34.000 But this is true, okay?

00:51:36.000 That's a true statement.

00:51:38.000 You will owe nothing and you will be happy is true.

00:51:41.000 So we right now are not unhappy that we don't have access to flying cars and teleportation.

00:51:46.000 I mean- Speak for yourself.

00:51:47.000 No, I know.

00:51:48.000 Some people are like, I wish I could teleport.

00:51:50.000 But what I mean is, we mentioned this a little while ago.

00:51:53.000 There was a video of a 90 year old man in like the turn of the century, 1900s.

00:51:58.000 They recorded him.

00:51:59.000 He was alive in the civil war and they were like, what's it like with all this?

00:52:02.000 How was it for you growing up with all the technology now?

00:52:04.000 He's like, same.

00:52:05.000 People get by, they do the work they gotta do.

00:52:08.000 We got by just fine, people get by now.

00:52:10.000 We are accustomed to technology we have.

00:52:13.000 We are not upset that we don't have technology we don't know exists.

00:52:17.000 So if they can take it away from you, and then remove it from your thoughts, or the next generation grows up without having it, they won't be unhappy because they won't know it existed.

00:52:28.000 Yeah, I forget what podcast I was watching this week, but they were talking about how it's humanity's greatest strength and our greatest weakness that we can get used to anything.

00:52:35.000 So there really hasn't been a lot of humans thriving in slavery, but people do get used to it.

00:52:39.000 I don't know if you remember, and I'm sure Ian doesn't know, but in the Bible, the Israelites escaped slavery and they were so upset in the desert they were like, why can't we go back to slavery?

00:52:49.000 That was better.

00:52:50.000 At least we were fed, right?

00:52:51.000 Yeah, this is a thing that happens to humans and has been happening since Yeah.

00:52:55.000 I mean, look at young people during this COVID pandemic being locked down, how quickly they were like, oh, I'm totally fine being home.

00:53:00.000 Also, let's work from home now.

00:53:02.000 And the way our workforce has shifted subsequently, it's, we are very quickly.

00:53:06.000 And you saw, I used to see a lot of content that was like, somebody asked me to get lunch before the pandemic and you're Like running errands, you're doing a ton of stuff.

00:53:11.000 And then after the pandemic, like you have one social interaction.

00:53:14.000 You're like, I'm done for the year.

00:53:15.000 I can't do it anymore.

00:53:16.000 It literally became something that people are overwhelmed by.

00:53:19.000 When it was actually a huge part of civilization working in community and having regular contact with other people.

00:53:25.000 Like we are now more isolated and the pandemic just made it so we acclimated faster.

00:53:30.000 But we're more connected through the internet, right guys?

00:53:32.000 I love the internet.

00:53:34.000 The training worked, but I also think it's a big marketing campaign.

00:53:37.000 It's a big PSYOP.

00:53:38.000 So you do remote work.

00:53:40.000 I'm actually not as opposed to remote work for a lot of jobs.

00:53:44.000 Some jobs require community and, you know, cohesion.

00:53:48.000 But for a lot of jobs, like, yeah, you can work from home for a lot of this stuff.

00:53:51.000 Now you've got people who are, I don't want to go back to work, I want to work from home.

00:53:55.000 Yeah, that's good for everything that's going on, like reducing carbon emissions, all the climate change stuff, all the energy stuff.

00:54:02.000 They put people in a position for a year, then people get accustomed to it and then beg for it again.

00:54:07.000 That's what they like, yeah.

00:54:08.000 Social manipulation, social engineering. 1.00

00:54:10.000 And this would be, I don't want to put too much weight on the World Economic Forum, but I don't know who else they're working with, but the idea that people are going into the pods, that we're creating like a race of bored people, pod people, that our brains are hooked to the machine and we're all kind of seeing each other's thoughts and working as one.

00:54:27.000 Because the other option is total chaos and uprisings of people thinking they don't have enough and fighting and killing and destroying.

00:54:35.000 I don't want everyone to be blackpilled here. 1.00

00:54:39.000 I want you to see this story from Bloomberg.

00:54:41.000 Thousands protest in Prague over energy crisis.

00:54:45.000 Demonstrators gather to protest against the government in Prague.

00:54:47.000 I think in Italy they were burning their energy bills.

00:54:49.000 Is that Italy?

00:54:50.000 UK doing the same thing?

00:54:51.000 UK, take a look at this.

00:54:52.000 Protests against the Indonesian government's 30% gas price hiker in full force.

00:54:57.000 Watch as protesters try to break down a wall of police officers in riot gear.

00:55:01.000 This is apolitical.

00:55:03.000 Yeah, this is bipartisan.

00:55:04.000 So what I mean to say is, you know, people won't stand for this.

00:55:10.000 And I don't believe Barack Obama or Bill Gates or any of these people.

00:55:15.000 They are not trustworthy people.

00:55:17.000 They come to me as a young man and say, good sir, urban liberal, we have a climate crisis at hand.

00:55:23.000 And I say, really, tell me more.

00:55:24.000 And they say, that's right, there's too many people.

00:55:25.000 Makes sense, doesn't it?

00:55:26.000 Deer get overpopulated, birds, turkeys, pigs, they can overpopulate, right?

00:55:30.000 And I'm like, yeah.

00:55:30.000 And they go, well, We got a problem.

00:55:32.000 We can't just kill people.

00:55:33.000 So we have to work together to reduce our energy use, reuse and recycle.

00:55:37.000 And I'm like, yeah, that all makes a lot of sense.

00:55:40.000 And they're like, now you get to it.

00:55:41.000 My private plane is waiting to my beachfront property.

00:55:43.000 And I'm like, well, hold on there a minute.

00:55:45.000 Hold on.

00:55:46.000 I sacrifice.

00:55:47.000 And then you bought beachfront property in Martha's Vineyard.

00:55:50.000 These people are full of it.

00:55:52.000 If they really cared about this stuff, they wouldn't be doing the things they're doing.

00:55:55.000 No, but I think the reality is, is that they want to preserve what they have.

00:56:00.000 They probably are worried about overpopulation and political instability, but the reality is, if we can get you to sacrifice, we get to keep our private jets.

00:56:07.000 Yeah.

00:56:08.000 So when they try to implement these control mechanisms, it's like you mentioned Ian, they want to control the energy you get access to because by limiting it, it makes it easier to control you.

00:56:17.000 If only the wealthy elites have access to the internet or access to these, you know, flying cars or whatever, they're an advantage over poor people and they can more easily control them.

00:56:27.000 So now what we see is people are protesting and rising up saying, we do not agree with this.

00:56:31.000 And that's what we need to see.

00:56:33.000 Because if people just lay down and accept this, then you're all gonna be pod people, basically sheep or chickens.

00:56:38.000 Internet's kind of helped us to smash class systems.

00:56:41.000 Like there used to be the elites and the plebs. 1.00

00:56:44.000 And all through society there's been better men and everybody else.

00:56:48.000 You know, whatever, in the Americas there were the better men that made the government.

00:56:51.000 But I think people are, not everybody, but more willing to represent themselves What Tim is saying is reminding me of the criticism of the North America Free Trade Agreement.

00:57:02.000 It was like, here's what we're going to do as a collective, you, US, Canada, Mexico, and part of the environmental policies were like, we're going to reduce carbon and do whatever.

00:57:11.000 And Mexico never reduced their carbon emissions.

00:57:14.000 And so it was like, wait, we were we said we were all in this together.

00:57:16.000 And it was like, But why are we staying in this agreement, in this partnership, that's not working?

00:57:20.000 I feel like that's the same thing that these people are saying, like, we rely on you to protect us and you are swearing allegiance to a system that is causing us to suffer.

00:57:28.000 Like, you are supposed to put our interests first.

00:57:30.000 Right.

00:57:30.000 They're realizing their public servants are not serving them anymore and that there is a clear, I think, the class divide is beginning.

00:57:36.000 Just so abundantly clear, especially through the internet and independent journalism.

00:57:40.000 Like if we weren't talking about this and these independent journalists weren't talking about this, nobody would know that all these separate protests are happening right now.

00:57:47.000 But now we're getting videos coming out and different people are jumping on the movements.

00:57:51.000 In the Netherlands when that started, sooner or later France jumps in, Spain jumps in, because they all know this is going to be a collective fight.

00:57:58.000 I mean, it was the same thing with the Freedom Convoy, right?

00:57:59.000 We saw it happening in Canada and people were like, oh wait, yeah, I don't want this either.

00:58:02.000 We're gonna act.

00:58:03.000 And you didn't see it modeled as heavily anywhere outside Canada.

00:58:06.000 I mean, people carried out to a certain extent, but like that reminded everyone that like you don't have to lay down and conform to what's going on, especially if it's harming you.

00:58:13.000 I think it's funny.

00:58:14.000 I remember the Arab Spring.

00:58:16.000 You had people using Facebook and Twitter to organize mass protests in these Arabic nations and then, you know, overthrow their governments.

00:58:23.000 Egypt did it twice.

00:58:25.000 And then we start seeing that with Occupy Wall Street.

00:58:28.000 People start organizing and protesting.

00:58:30.000 Occupy, I think, got co-opted by, you know, special interests.

00:58:34.000 But the ability to use social media to organize and reject these centralized control systems is extremely apparent.

00:58:41.000 And now they're desperately trying to put a stop to it.

00:58:44.000 They have to ban people like Alex Jones.

00:58:46.000 They have to silence as many of these voices as possible.

00:58:49.000 And they first started going for big names, Alex Jones, for instance, Miley Nopoulos, Laura Loomer.

00:58:55.000 Then they started going after the smaller accounts, because they were like, hey, maybe we can do it that way.

00:59:01.000 Go after a million small accounts that aren't big enough to make a splash if they get banned, as opposed to the big one that makes a big news cycle if you do ban.

00:59:08.000 So that's the strategy now.

00:59:09.000 now. The other thing obviously is shadow banning and you know,

00:59:12.000 algorithmic manipulation.

00:59:13.000 The second benefit that I heard to them is, you know, you ban

00:59:16.000 these people and if you're saying like, oh, these, they hold extreme views and they get purged, they look for an

00:59:20.000 alternative, right? So, as we talked about, like Gab was not a

00:59:23.000 political, inherently political alternative to Twitter, except

00:59:27.000 that they banned all of the extreme right wing users first.

00:59:30.000 So they were like, well, we'll go to Gab.

00:59:32.000 And so that gave the platform a natural leaning, even though that wasn't how he started it.

00:59:35.000 Then you can have anyone at Twitter be like, well, what are you going to do?

00:59:38.000 Join that crazy extremist platform?

00:59:41.000 It siphoned off society and made it so you can point directly where you should not go next.

00:59:45.000 The internet is very powerful.

00:59:46.000 I mean, like, look at China and what's happening there right now.

00:59:48.000 There's protests erupting all over China because people can't get their money out of the banks, but there's no... They have such a stronghold on social media and the information that you're allowed to get out to people that it's so hard to stage a protest.

01:00:00.000 It's so hard.

01:00:00.000 It makes me always want to be like, who is getting banned first?

01:00:03.000 Because whatever they're doing, maybe I don't agree with it, but I want to know.

01:00:05.000 Because if they're getting purged first, just be aware of it.

01:00:08.000 Like, why are they getting purged?

01:00:10.000 Well, they do a lot of things.

01:00:12.000 Somebody commented already that, you know, we've got 40,000 people listening to the show right now, concurrent viewership.

01:00:18.000 We're not trending on YouTube.

01:00:20.000 When you search for it, you can't find it.

01:00:22.000 And it's election season, so we knew this was going to happen.

01:00:26.000 But unsurprising.

01:00:28.000 Has it always been that way with this show?

01:00:29.000 Like, did you ever trend on YouTube?

01:00:31.000 I can't remember.

01:00:31.000 I think, yes.

01:00:33.000 Early on, we did trend several times, I'm pretty sure.

01:00:36.000 And then, all of a sudden, one day, I remember TeamGuest IRL, you couldn't search for it on Google anymore.

01:00:43.000 You would take the title verbatim, put it in Google, and Facebook would come up instead.

01:00:47.000 And it was just funny.

01:00:48.000 And then it was after like a year or so, all of a sudden, I mentioned it on the show the next day we reappeared in search.

01:00:55.000 But I think it was more that they realized it was so overt people were catching on to their suppression.

01:01:00.000 Right now I think it's funny because we put out a song last week, everybody knows at this point I guess, and it was trending number 23 on YouTube.

01:01:08.000 Which is funny because this show gets more views and it never trends.

01:01:12.000 It's politics.

01:01:13.000 But this is the point of the culture war. 0.63

01:01:15.000 Putting out music is apolitical.

01:01:17.000 Boy are they really salty that we did that and succeeded at it.

01:01:20.000 They're freaking out.

01:01:21.000 Some are.

01:01:21.000 But it was a good song, so they get that.

01:01:23.000 Well, it's like overwhelming thumbs up and positive, but the corporate press is losing their minds.

01:01:28.000 When it comes to adminning social networks, politics is kind of a risky admin.

01:01:31.000 Because if you decide to let politics run on the front page of your social network, you're basically taking a political stance as a social network administrator, whether you want to or not.

01:01:43.000 I used to put that stuff in its own bucket.

01:01:45.000 Like, if you want politics, you've got to go look for it.

01:01:48.000 I'm not going to push it at you.

01:01:49.000 I'm pushing, you know, letting entertainment or what.

01:01:52.000 And it's like, that's a dirty surface level way to go, but politics is really dirty too.

01:01:56.000 And I don't, I don't think that just because someone's got the loudest voice necessarily means that everyone should be looking at it.

01:02:01.000 People want power.

01:02:02.000 Well, here's a question.

01:02:03.000 Are left-leaning people ever trending on YouTube?

01:02:05.000 Do you guys keep up with that stuff?

01:02:06.000 Yeah.

01:02:07.000 Well, I don't, I don't know about prominent, overtly political.

01:02:11.000 Yeah.

01:02:12.000 I don't know about that.

01:02:12.000 If you look at it, it's usually music and like Mr. Beast.

01:02:15.000 No, so every single time I turn on my smart TV, it's on YouTube and it's on the Young Turks.

01:02:20.000 Every time.

01:02:21.000 It doesn't matter what I do.

01:02:22.000 The Young Turks are an approved YouTube TV station.

01:02:25.000 Right.

01:02:26.000 Like, you get YouTube TV and they're a channel.

01:02:29.000 Why aren't we a channel?

01:02:30.000 Yeah, what the heck?

01:02:31.000 That's a good idea.

01:02:32.000 Well, they have 24-hour coverage, I'm pretty sure.

01:02:35.000 Like, they have something running on reruns on like a live stream for a channel.

01:02:39.000 So we can have a whole show where I just vamp for an hour.

01:02:43.000 We're getting there.

01:02:44.000 We have Pop Culture Crisis 3-5.

01:02:46.000 We have Timcast IRL 8-10.

01:02:48.000 We gotta start filling these time slots with other shows.

01:02:51.000 We're gonna be launching The Conspiracy Show with Shane Cashman, which is a call-in show.

01:02:54.000 It's not gonna be live though.

01:02:55.000 But we could air it in a time slot and then maybe eventually get a 24-hour rolling livestream.

01:03:00.000 Does Young Turks do a website where you pay 10 bucks a month and get their stuff?

01:03:07.000 I think we're bigger than they are, to be honest.

01:03:09.000 I'm not sure.

01:03:10.000 I see a lot of left-leaning, not always like a politician or a commenter, but I do see a lot of presentation of, you know, it seems like fun internet content, right?

01:03:19.000 all these people but also best fashion but it's always you know you have to look at the people they have certain ideologies they'll talk about how they don't like certain things and it's never from the conservative perspective it's always and i think that's partially because youtube has flagged let's say left-leaning culture as mainstream culture yeah it's moving us towards a left-leaning spectrum when we know that's not actually accurate for most of america Exactly.

01:03:41.000 That is why I started making videos.

01:03:43.000 I was just sort of a passive user of social media, but then I started realizing how they curate the content based on your demographics and what they know about you, and I started getting all this stuff about Black Lives Matter and the black struggle and the feminist struggle, and I thought, is there nobody to counteract this on social media?

01:03:58.000 And of course they are, but they're just getting throttled left and right.

01:04:00.000 It's unbelievable.

01:04:02.000 Yeah, oh man, I'm going to save something for the next 17-20 minutes to give a quick update on the culture war issue, so I'll save it.

01:04:11.000 But yeah, the issue with Facebook and Twitter is algorithmic, and early on what happened was People who ran these big tech companies were naturally left-leaning.

01:04:23.000 They think they're the majority, so they would ban what they thought was not normal.

01:04:28.000 It's literally exemplified in that meme where it's like, the left and the right, and Bernie Sanders is placed in the middle, and there's nothing on the left, and it's like, watch this space.

01:04:36.000 And they're like, it's like, dude, Bernie Sanders literally wants the people to own percentages of corporations.

01:04:43.000 That's socialist.

01:04:44.000 Like, overtly.

01:04:45.000 If you think he's a centrist, you're in a cult.

01:04:48.000 But they do!

01:04:49.000 They think I'm a middle-of-the-road person, and Bernie Sanders is in the middle of the road.

01:04:54.000 No.

01:04:54.000 No, he's not.

01:04:56.000 By no metric.

01:04:57.000 Not by left and right progressive cultural standards, and not by economic standards.

01:05:03.000 He's left.

01:05:03.000 He's fairly far left, actually.

01:05:06.000 But they think they're in the middle, so they ban you.

01:05:07.000 Well, it's the tech, you're totally right, it's tech executives, as well as the area that they're in, right?

01:05:13.000 So if we think of Hollywood and Silicon Valley as similar areas, both those industries are dominated by people who think, who are already naturally left-leaning, and then they walk outside and their kids have friends at school who aren't in the industry, and they're also left-leaning, and then it gets reinforced over and over again.

01:05:26.000 It's why I'm so interested in businesses like Daily Wire setting up in Tennessee, like businesses that want to produce content, especially now that the internet gives us that flexibility.

01:05:35.000 I would like to bring you to the world of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

01:05:38.000 You know echo chambers their physical echo chambers where people all sort of think the same thing

01:05:42.000 I would like to bring you to the world of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in this tweet from Ursula Perano

01:05:50.000 She says, AOC on talks about her future ambitions with a heavy comment, quote, Realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September, and that weighs very heavily on me.

01:06:00.000 Hold on, hold on.

01:06:01.000 Girl did some mushrooms, huh? 1.00

01:06:04.000 She's like, I'm getting ready for this.

01:06:05.000 Life doesn't even exist.

01:06:07.000 It's okay to cry.

01:06:08.000 Now hold on, there's several questions.

01:06:09.000 Does she have a terminal disease? 0.96

01:06:11.000 Right.

01:06:11.000 I hope not.

01:06:12.000 It's called life, yes.

01:06:14.000 Is she suicidal?

01:06:15.000 That's a serious question.

01:06:16.000 Because saying something like that, I think people haven't thought about what she could mean by this.

01:06:21.000 And if she's not sick, and she says something like, I don't know if I'll be alive, usually that's a sign of depression.

01:06:27.000 Especially in the context of this article, she says a woman of color can never be president because people hate them or something. 1.00

01:06:32.000 It's like very negative.

01:06:34.000 She was crying when she said this.

01:06:36.000 Really?

01:06:37.000 They said that she had tears in her eyes.

01:06:39.000 Yeah, but you know what?

01:06:41.000 Maybe she needs like a 5150 or something. 1.00

01:06:44.000 She needs to be brought somewhere and given an evaluation, because if you tell people crying that you don't know if you're gonna be alive in September, we need to sit you down and ask you what's wrong, because if you ignore this, something bad could happen. 0.94

01:06:55.000 We want her to be okay, and I know the left is gonna be like, oh, shut up.

01:06:59.000 They're like, no, dude. 0.95

01:07:01.000 Okay, we're gonna play a game.

01:07:02.000 Pick one. 0.98

01:07:03.000 Do you think she's referring to a civil war and that racists would come and kill her by September? 0.98

01:07:08.000 Yes.

01:07:08.000 You think that's what she's talking about?

01:07:09.000 Yeah, I think she's shook up from the January 6th thing and it hasn't left her mind yet. 0.98

01:07:12.000 You think that a couple weeks ago, she was sitting there thinking, a couple weeks from now, a bunch of white racists are gonna start a civil war and I'm gonna die. 0.89

01:07:17.000 She probably thinks that she's a target. 0.97

01:07:19.000 If something like that were to happen, she'd be like- This is looking- After January 6th, she was like, I could have died. 0.57

01:07:23.000 But she's not walking around with a security detail.

01:07:26.000 See, this is my point, right?

01:07:28.000 The assumption a lot of people make is that she must be talking about, like, what Kathy Griffin is talking about or something like that.

01:07:33.000 The other question is, okay, alright, most people are probably going to think it's something to do with political conflict.

01:07:38.000 We still have to ask questions about, like, dude, I'm the Civil War guy, I'm, like, ranting and raving about it, and I don't think in three weeks there's going to be a bunch of racists going around hunting down women of color.

01:07:47.000 Maybe it's climate change.

01:07:51.000 Her comments remind me more of, like, Mark Ruffalo.

01:07:53.000 Didn't he have this thing?

01:07:54.000 He's like, if we're around... She did say the world was gonna end in 12 years a few years ago.

01:07:59.000 I think that if she'd been living with purpose, it wouldn't matter if she's alive or dead.

01:08:03.000 Like, when you're living your purpose, you don't lament about when it might end.

01:08:07.000 You're just doing it.

01:08:08.000 So, obviously, maybe she's lost a lack of purpose.

01:08:10.000 She feels kind of aimless.

01:08:12.000 A crazy interview on a lot of fronts. 0.78

01:08:14.000 I also enjoyed during it that she said she wasn't sure it would be like good for her to marry a white guy.

01:08:19.000 She's currently engaged to a white guy that she's been dating for years. 0.99

01:08:22.000 He's gonna kill me in my sleep. 0.95

01:08:23.000 She's got a lot of anxiety.

01:08:25.000 She needs to work out and I'm being a little sarcastic there but also like you are setting yourself up for a lot of scenarios where you feel like at any point your life could fall apart and or be in danger.

01:08:35.000 Like something is wrong.

01:08:37.000 I think she might be suicidal.

01:08:39.000 Really?

01:08:39.000 Maybe.

01:08:40.000 I think we are looking through the lens of the culture war and so we are assuming that someone political like AOC must be referring to what we see instead of asking a very simple question.

01:08:51.000 When you hear hooves, it's not zebras, it's usually horses.

01:08:54.000 The GQ article says, tears pooled in the corners of her eyes.

01:08:59.000 She says, I hold two contradictory things in my mind.

01:09:02.000 One is the relentless belief that anything's possible.

01:09:04.000 At the same time, my experience here has given me a front row seat to how deeply and unconsciously, as well as consciously, so many people in this country hate women, and they hate women of color.

01:09:11.000 People ask me questions about the future, and realistically, I can't even tell you if I'm going to be alive in September.

01:09:16.000 Why is the immediate assumption, like, if you started off from a blanket, no reference to any individual, and said, someone says that in three weeks they might not be alive.

01:09:29.000 Your immediate reaction would not be, well, they're talking about civil war.

01:09:31.000 No, yeah, you'd say wellness check.

01:09:33.000 You'd be like, okay, why do you think that?

01:09:35.000 The first question might be like, are they sick?

01:09:38.000 Like someone who thinks they're going to die in a few weeks, are they terminally ill?

01:09:41.000 Do they have cancer?

01:09:42.000 I mean, maybe AOC does and we don't know about it.

01:09:44.000 I don't know. 0.99

01:09:45.000 But I think Look, either she's insane and she thinks that a bunch of crazy extremists are going to come kill her, which that sounds insane. 0.92

01:09:56.000 Or she's depressed and crying in an interview about how people hate women of color and she doesn't know she'll be alive in September. 0.80

01:10:01.000 Right, but yeah, her leading with the people hate women of color is the thing that's kind of bringing me into the fact that maybe she's talking about extremism, or... But also, if you grew up always believing that you were the victim, and your job is to overcome, and you've got to do it, and like, you're also the victim, but you're still kind of winning because you got to Congress, but also you're still the victim, like... Either way, I'll mischeck.

01:10:18.000 Exactly, what she opened with, like, I hold two contradictory things on mind, like, this

01:10:22.000 is a very confusing, divided person.

01:10:26.000 If she said this to, like, a psychotherapist who wasn't involved in the political world,

01:10:30.000 he'd probably be like, um, okay, someone's- Yeah, you need about a three-month vacation, girl. 0.96

01:10:34.000 Well, three days.

01:10:36.000 An evaluation.

01:10:36.000 Just go to Hawaii or something and look at the waves.

01:10:40.000 Just sit on the beach. 0.99

01:10:41.000 If she genuinely believes that there's going to be white, racist men hunting women of color, and that's why she'll die, she needs serious therapy. 0.99

01:10:50.000 She needs a break right now. 1.00

01:10:50.000 I don't know how long, but she needs to get out and she needs to go talk to a doctor, because that's crazy. 1.00

01:10:55.000 She's I think it's I think it's a fair assessment to say she lives in a world where Biden comes out and says the MAGA extremists are a threat to this country where she hears in the news all day about white supremacists and she genuinely internalizes and believes this is the world she lives in.

01:11:09.000 That's possible too.

01:11:10.000 But I also think that is still using our echo echo chamber worldview.

01:11:16.000 We know about political problems, so to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

01:11:20.000 We assume that political people must view the world this way, and if she does, that's the real reason, when in reality, it's like, dude, she's extremely high-profile, she gets people shitting on her all the time, maybe she's just, like, not in a good place. 0.94

01:11:33.000 Maybe the pressure is a lot.

01:11:35.000 I can have a lot of empathy for that.

01:11:37.000 You know, I will point out again, I know it sounds random, but she did get engaged in April, and I think that the idea that she's moving forward with this high-profile relationship, she's already in Congress, like, where do I go from this pinnacle career?

01:11:49.000 I mean, people regularly include her impulse to become president, like, what if she is actually unhappy with where her life is?

01:11:56.000 She can't walk away from this, right?

01:11:57.000 It was a big, big change.

01:11:59.000 Big jump.

01:11:59.000 Like people rag on her.

01:12:00.000 I think it was great that she was a bartender.

01:12:02.000 I think that the idea that a regular person can, you know, get a seat in Congress is fantastic. 1.00

01:12:07.000 I think it's stupid to insult her over it. 0.84

01:12:09.000 But imagine going from no public persona to being the one of the highest profile Democrats. 0.94

01:12:15.000 Yo, it is stressful.

01:12:16.000 One of the highest ranking officers on the Death Star.

01:12:19.000 The United States, the military machine is the Death Star.

01:12:22.000 And all these people working in Congress are serving on the Death Star.

01:12:25.000 So I understand her state of mind is broken because she's like, what am I doing?

01:12:28.000 What?

01:12:29.000 Like, that's just existential.

01:12:30.000 That's like underneath the content on top of what she's been feeling.

01:12:34.000 And this girl's tuned in emotionally.

01:12:36.000 She's like, we're talking about leftists are emotional, rightists are But she's very emotionally in tune with what she's feeling.

01:12:43.000 Like with Mark Ruffalo.

01:12:45.000 He was asked, will you be the Hulk in the future?

01:12:47.000 And he goes, if the world allows it, and I'm still around.

01:12:49.000 The interviewer didn't follow up with, hold on there a minute.

01:12:52.000 Do you think you're going to die?

01:12:53.000 The interviewer here as well should be like, well, you're not going to be alive in September. 0.94

01:12:58.000 A good interview is going to be like, are you sick?

01:12:59.000 Yeah. 0.89

01:13:00.000 Are you depressed?

01:13:01.000 Or do you think the war is going to break out in a couple of weeks?

01:13:03.000 Especially if she's been on the verge of tears throughout this whole interview.

01:13:06.000 Well, I don't know about the whole interview, it's like that.

01:13:07.000 Or at least that point, right?

01:13:08.000 If you're hitting emotional notes in an interview, and then this person's like, I might not even be alive in September.

01:13:15.000 You're not having a like, haha, we're joking around, I don't even know if I'll be alive.

01:13:18.000 You have to respond to the gravitas of what's going on.

01:13:21.000 She's only hitting with serious notes. 0.97

01:13:24.000 She's got a red-pilling, breaking moment right now.

01:13:28.000 I went through that in 2008 and I was suicidal I thought for sure like I gave up I thought oh the world like we've got the Federal Reserve as we've been under this system like there's no hope I had completely given up but I still wanted to have hope I had that other part of my brain like she's saying where I'm like I know everything's possible here's what I want y'all to do right now and just stop a second imagine someone sitting in front of you Think of a random person you know, crying, says to you, I might not be alive in a few weeks.

01:13:55.000 Well, why?

01:13:56.000 Why?

01:13:56.000 The first thing I would say is why?

01:13:57.000 Exactly.

01:13:58.000 The fact that she said this, it's like, again, we're approaching this from a political perspective.

01:14:03.000 Think about how you would feel if someone you knew told you that.

01:14:06.000 I feel like, yo, we need a doctor.

01:14:10.000 I'm the doctor right now.

01:14:12.000 I'm not a doctor, by the way, but tell me why.

01:14:14.000 At least, you know, let's start with friendship and then if it's unresolvable, maybe we'll get a psychotherapist.

01:14:19.000 This is a crazy thing to say.

01:14:21.000 It's a crazy thing to not follow up on.

01:14:23.000 Especially, like, where's the journalist in this one?

01:14:25.000 Wesley Lowry, what are you doing?

01:14:27.000 Okay, so journalists aren't mandatory reporters like you have in the hospital.

01:14:30.000 In the hospital, if somebody said something like this, yes, you are on suicide watch, you don't get to have any cords, you don't have any cutlery, you have to eat finger foods.

01:14:38.000 Let's clarify that.

01:14:38.000 If in the hospital someone told you, I might not be alive in a few weeks, you would report them and... We would put them on suicide watch, which was supposedly what Epstein was on.

01:14:47.000 He clearly wasn't because he still had access to sheets.

01:14:50.000 You don't have access to anything.

01:14:51.000 Right.

01:14:51.000 When you get arrested, they take your shoelaces and your belt away because they don't want you to kill yourself.

01:14:57.000 Or someone else, I would imagine.

01:14:58.000 I've had several family members Baker-acted and as soon as you say anything toward the lines of harming yourself, it's immediate.

01:15:04.000 You're being put in a facility and you're there until they feel like you're not a threat to yourself anymore.

01:15:09.000 She's making this comment to a journalist.

01:15:11.000 What is she saying to people she really trusts and knows?

01:15:14.000 That's disturbing to me.

01:15:15.000 I think what you're going to hear is many on the left are going to dismiss this, downplay it, say it's the far right, because they would prefer she be in a desperate and dangerous position if it wins for them politically.

01:15:25.000 That's right.

01:15:26.000 They don't care about her.

01:15:27.000 That's the sad part.

01:15:28.000 If she did go and do something to herself, the amount of people who would use it as a story and use it as a way to move forward their political agenda. 0.99

01:15:36.000 Another possibility is she is a sociopathic narcissist who faked tears and said this to try and win brownie points in the media, believing to herself there's no real threat, and she's just a crazy person.

01:15:47.000 Well, and if she is someone whose emotional spectrum is kind of off, she can perform emotions, she knows how to cry, you know, on cue, let's say, but she doesn't actually always feel the weight of her words. 0.75

01:15:58.000 You know, she can say, like, I might not even be alive and not know what the appropriate response would be.

01:16:04.000 Like, if she pictured someone in front of her saying, I might not be alive in September, would she respond with, like, we need to talk about that, are you okay?

01:16:12.000 Or would she respond with, like, well, I really need you to vote for me early then.

01:16:15.000 I know what's going on.

01:16:16.000 What's going on?

01:16:17.000 Tell us, Tim.

01:16:18.000 AOC is likely depressed because of Instagram and TikTok.

01:16:22.000 I actually believe that.

01:16:22.000 She's not getting enough likes.

01:16:24.000 We have this story from the Daily Mail.

01:16:25.000 Addicted to being sad, teenage girls with invisible illnesses known as Spoonies post TikToks of themselves crying or in hospital to generate thousands of likes as experts raise concerns over internet-induced wave of mass anxiety.

01:16:37.000 This is real.

01:16:38.000 It's true that young women are getting depressed because of Instagram and TikTok.

01:16:42.000 And as far as it goes with AOC, we were just talking about how she said she might not be alive in September, which to me is an indication of depression or severe, I don't know, what would you call it, like paranoia.

01:16:52.000 But I also think it's possible that, you know, she's in the limelight in this position.

01:16:58.000 If she starts putting out posts, like any other individual susceptible to depression from these platforms, and she's not getting the likes or the attention, she might get depressed.

01:17:05.000 And we're seeing this now with teenage girls across the board. 0.80

01:17:07.000 Well, and she is one of the most followed, like, has the biggest social media presence of any member of Congress.

01:17:13.000 I mean, she has really cultivated her brand as being someone who is in touch with her followers.

01:17:17.000 She does updates through her Instagram Live and through Twitter and things like that, like, as well as shares her skincare routine and she sells fun merch.

01:17:24.000 Like, she is as much an influencer as she is a politician and public figure in so many ways. 0.55

01:17:29.000 She's more an influencer. 1.00

01:17:31.000 Right, exactly.

01:17:32.000 And so in some ways, you know, I could see if she's won reelection and she's had this moment where she was sort of this fun golden girl for the left.

01:17:40.000 And if any of those numbers drop, like if she's getting 80,000 likes on a photo instead of the 110,000, she's gonna feel that burn so intensely.

01:17:49.000 The same way that, you know, teenage girls are susceptible to it too.

01:17:52.000 But like, it is not just her identity, it's also her career.

01:17:56.000 You see this throughout the history of YouTube.

01:17:58.000 One day a popular YouTuber will make a video saying like, I can't do this anymore.

01:18:02.000 And then all you gotta do is look at the views for their past videos and you see them going down and then all of a sudden they snap.

01:18:08.000 So people, it's really amazing to me, I remember getting a message from someone, it happens all the time, and they'll be like, are your views down?

01:18:14.000 And then I'll be like, yes.

01:18:14.000 And they'll be like, dude, something's going on.

01:18:16.000 I'm like, it's called summer.

01:18:18.000 Summer happened, people went outside, calm down.

01:18:20.000 I see these trends all the time.

01:18:22.000 And there are people who, you know, You should promote global warming so they stay inside.

01:18:26.000 Well, I remember, you know, like two years ago, it rained for a week straight on the East Coast

01:18:30.000 across the board.

01:18:32.000 And then one day I got messages from people being like, dude, my views are cut in half, I'm panicking,

01:18:37.000 look what's going on.

01:18:38.000 I'm like, bro, the rain stopped.

01:18:40.000 Everybody went outside for the first time in a week.

01:18:42.000 Calm down, man.

01:18:43.000 But this is what happens to these young girls on social media. 0.88

01:18:46.000 They'll post a picture of themselves, get 100 likes, and go, ooh, 100.

01:18:49.000 The next day, they get 80.

01:18:51.000 They get depressed.

01:18:51.000 They panic.

01:18:52.000 Why aren't I getting likes?

01:18:52.000 They delete the photo and repost one.

01:18:54.000 Can I do better?

01:18:55.000 Not realizing, bro, it's like 2 in the morning.

01:18:57.000 People are asleep.

01:18:58.000 Calm down.

01:18:58.000 I knew girls who would, when they traveled out of the country, they would time their Instagram posts to go up.

01:19:03.000 They'd, like, set alarm for, like, 3 a.m., so it was the correct time to post in America to get the maximum likes.

01:19:09.000 Like, I didn't even grow up with TikTok.

01:19:11.000 Like, this is crazy.

01:19:12.000 Right.

01:19:13.000 And I think social media has really morphed, too, where not only are we seeking validation through the likes, but your depression and anxiety is affirmed through social media.

01:19:21.000 Social media used to be a highlight reel for people's lives.

01:19:23.000 You follow these influencers, but you know it's not real.

01:19:25.000 Like, they're in Hawaii, but they're probably arguing with their boyfriends behind the scenes, whatever the case may be.

01:19:30.000 Now, it's a trend to cry on social media.

01:19:33.000 It's a trend to show your panic attacks, and that gets you millions of likes.

01:19:36.000 Or having, like, anxiety coping.

01:19:37.000 Like, here are my anxiety copes, or here's my OCD copes, or here are these things that I think I'm doing that are actually very strange behaviors.

01:19:43.000 Or misspelling words.

01:19:44.000 So, um, it's true that if you misspell a word in your title, you'll get more engagement

01:19:50.000 as people want to correct you.

01:19:52.000 So what happened is a bunch of YouTubers started intentionally misspelling words, like simple

01:19:55.000 typos, and then little kids who are watching it started misspelling the words that way

01:19:59.000 thinking it was spelled correctly.

01:20:01.000 Yeah, social media is melting the brains of humanity.

01:20:05.000 Yes, and particularly young girls.

01:20:07.000 I did an episode one time, because I was scrolling on TikTok, I do have the app, regrettably, but I was scrolling through it.

01:20:13.000 It's part of your job.

01:20:14.000 It is part of my job, but I kept getting videos of young girls who have Tourette's-like tics, and I kept getting them, and it's multiple girls, multiple girls, and I was getting recommended these videos, and upon watching them, found that several of them had the exact same tic.

01:20:26.000 So I started looking into this and doctors talking about it and they actually had doctors saying these girls are being 1.00

01:20:31.000 so heavily Influenced by a mix of anxiety and tick-tock. They are they

01:20:34.000 are developing functional neurological disorders that are real

01:20:38.000 That are real. They're not just puppeting and parroting.

01:20:41.000 They're actually developing these anxiety induced I'm a huge fan of video games, but man, we are tweaking our

01:20:46.000 brains with modern technology The emotional development that teenagers going through it

01:20:52.000 like part of being a teenager is looking at your peers around you and figuring out

01:20:56.000 What the social norms are so if you're only being fed people who are behaving in you know

01:21:01.000 Maybe they really do have Tourette's and they have an issue and they're trying to talk about it or bring awareness, but if you're constantly being served like, I have anxiety, I have depression, I have Tourette's, you are then trained to be like, maybe I do too, and you start seeing it anywhere because that's part of the emotional growth that teenagers are going through.

01:21:16.000 We should keep them away from this stuff.

01:21:18.000 It's not that we shouldn't talk about mental health or anything like that, but we don't need to shove it down their throats so constantly that they become paranoid they themselves have the issue.

01:21:26.000 One of the things that I've noticed is it's not so important how many followers you have, it's the quality of the followers.

01:21:32.000 Why are they following you?

01:21:34.000 Is it because they're really listening to what you're saying or is it because they want to laugh when you fall down?

01:21:38.000 I don't want those people following me.

01:21:40.000 And the problem with social media is just the number shows on your page, so they think more is better.

01:21:45.000 But then you get the direct subscribers.

01:21:47.000 This is where you start to realize the quality of the follower or the watcher or the viewer or whatever is much

01:21:53.000 better because you might Have 10,000 people paying you 10 bucks a month that he

01:21:56.000 might have 10 million people watching paying him nothing He's way worse off. You're way better off with less

01:22:01.000 followers more quality and Hopefully young women we can teach them that maybe through

01:22:06.000 direct They don't realize.

01:22:09.000 And they see the internet as the be-all and end-all.

01:22:12.000 There's, I don't remember what study came out, but most young people, like one of four, want to be social media influencers.

01:22:18.000 This is a whole new area of the world that they are completely devoted to, right?

01:22:23.000 And they will never have a break from it if that's the career they choose to pursue.

01:22:27.000 Yeah, it's an augmentation to your career, social media.

01:22:30.000 No one is just going to land on being a social media influencer, and that's it.

01:22:33.000 Because if your life is boring, no one's going to watch your social media.

01:22:35.000 You've got to do something cool with your life, and then the social media will be there to show everyone what you're doing.

01:22:40.000 Or you have to sell all of your personal information.

01:22:42.000 You have to, as a young teen mom, start talking about your past relationships.

01:22:46.000 Or, you know, as you get married, you have to give all the details of everything that's going on.

01:22:50.000 You have to sell who you are in order to please people, which is a really morally corrupt way of living.

01:22:55.000 I remember when I was younger and, you know, like MySpace first came out and stuff like that.

01:22:59.000 We were on, I think it was like LiveJournal was first.

01:23:01.000 Yeah, Zynga.

01:23:03.000 Yeah, I was on CompuServe, you know, because my family had computers.

01:23:06.000 Then you got AOL.

01:23:07.000 Geocities, yeah.

01:23:08.000 Then with AOL, yeah, you had Geocities and other sites that you could make your own site.

01:23:12.000 Then eventually you got like LiveJournal.

01:23:14.000 Then you got Friendster.

01:23:15.000 You guys remember Friendster?

01:23:15.000 Hell yeah.

01:23:16.000 And then MySpace.

01:23:17.000 Yeah.

01:23:17.000 And I remember Facebook came out and it was like all the cool kids started migrating to Facebook.

01:23:22.000 And I would see these posts from people that just looked so awesome and fun.

01:23:26.000 And I was like, how come they're doing all this really awesome stuff and I'm not?

01:23:29.000 And then, you know, it wasn't until later I realized like, oh, they weren't.

01:23:33.000 They were faking cool things so they could look cool.

01:23:37.000 And like that was their, it was marketing.

01:23:39.000 And so we end up seeing this highlight reel of their life of all the coolest things they've done, but they staged a lot of it.

01:23:45.000 They try to make it look as cool as possible.

01:23:47.000 They try to make their lives look like movies so that you're jealous of them.

01:23:50.000 My favorite is, I know girls who have, when they go through a breakup, right, they start posting on their Instagram or on their story all the time because they can't be the one that's at home and, like, sad.

01:23:59.000 They have to be busy and cool and having a great time.

01:24:02.000 And their mind is somewhere else.

01:24:03.000 These people don't realize they're robbing themselves of their own actual individual lives for the sake of other people who are viewing from their bedrooms.

01:24:10.000 Yes, all they're giving away is their own time, which ends up being their lives.

01:24:13.000 And I do want to say, before we move on from all this AOC talk, she's talking about holding two completely different Views in her mind at the same time.

01:24:21.000 I think she's about to get red-pilled. 1.00

01:24:23.000 Change my mind.

01:24:23.000 That's what it feels like.

01:24:24.000 Hope I'm right.

01:24:25.000 I kind of went through something similar where I already mentioned this earlier.

01:24:28.000 Sorry, keep going.

01:24:29.000 I truly believed in the possibility of the human race, but at the same time seeing this insurmountable, you know, mountain of impossibility that I was up against and like, how the hell can I overcome a global monetary system?

01:24:41.000 But what if also a lot of things that she's been preaching are not working and she's having to reconcile the fact that like there are policies that she is vocally backed that she doesn't actually, she's not sure she supports.

01:24:51.000 She isn't just a person, she is a brand and identity that a lot of lefts want to cultivate in their own daughters. 0.97

01:24:57.000 Like she can't, we talk about this with Jazz Jennings sometimes, like There's nowhere to go from there.

01:25:03.000 Like, this person can only continue down this path, and that's scary.

01:25:06.000 AOC can't come out and be like, well, that one bipartisan bill seems kind of good, you know?

01:25:10.000 She can't, she has to continue down this path.

01:25:13.000 To get voted back in.

01:25:14.000 Right.

01:25:14.000 And like, if she, she's gonna get married, right?

01:25:16.000 But if she gets pregnant, she's like, well, actually, I'm gonna leave politics because I want to be a mom.

01:25:19.000 That's anti-feminist. 1.00

01:25:20.000 Like, oh, you know, I have some questions about the way lockdown went, you know, maybe that's not so good.

01:25:25.000 She's anti-COVID.

01:25:26.000 You know, there is no escape for her, and in some ways I have sympathy for that.

01:25:31.000 It's true.

01:25:32.000 You can't say I was wrong.

01:25:33.000 The most feminist thing you can do, Alex, is whatever you want. 1.00

01:25:37.000 Take control of your life, baby.

01:25:39.000 Such a liberating thing to have a favorite feminist at the table. 1.00

01:25:42.000 Have a baby, that's why I said it.

01:25:43.000 Yeah, have a family and do whatever you want.

01:25:45.000 You can always do politics later.

01:25:46.000 Yeah, there you go.

01:25:48.000 If you don't want to do it anymore, leave.

01:25:51.000 Yeah, but I think like right now, the whole trend is not to have a family.

01:25:56.000 And it's like, you have to actually resist the current to have a family, which is the funniest thing.

01:25:59.000 You know, it's like, it's been a meme forever to have it all.

01:26:02.000 So the women who are like, you know, I decided I don't want to have a job and a career. 1.00

01:26:05.000 I want to raise children.

01:26:06.000 It's like, it's against the grain.

01:26:08.000 But it is massively feminist to do that to take control of your life if you want a baby. 1.00

01:26:11.000 But that's why I think they intercede.

01:26:13.000 I don't know, I mean, how many people you know who are feeling the pressure to decide in your early 20s that you actually don't want kids and make a permanent decision to go past that.

01:26:21.000 Like, they are trying to head south past because a lot of times you actually hear it from women who are in their late 20s or in their early 30s who are like, I thought the career was the most important thing, but I've reached this age and I actually would prefer to focus on my family.

01:26:33.000 And if you can prevent people from ever having that door, when they hit 30, they have to continue to stand by that they made the right choice to get a hysterectomy when they are 21.

01:26:40.000 Wicked cycle.

01:26:41.000 Wicked cycle.

01:26:42.000 And then if you decide at 30 that you want a family but you don't have the man yet and you don't have the, you know.

01:26:46.000 You're sunk.

01:26:47.000 You're sunk a little bit.

01:26:48.000 Also, I tweeted this.

01:26:51.000 Abortions increase the likelihood of miscarriage.

01:26:54.000 That's true.

01:26:55.000 Entirely correct.

01:26:56.000 Yeah, it's a very basic thing.

01:26:59.000 I saw the story from Jennifer Lawrence, and she was like Roe v. Wade and things like that. 0.89

01:27:02.000 And then I was like, look, if you support this stuff, like women need to be told this, that if you get abortions, so like, look, use condoms or whatever, try not to get pregnant.

01:27:11.000 But if you get an abortion, you are increasingly likely that when you're older, you're not gonna be able to have kids.

01:27:15.000 And that's because there's damage that's caused by it.

01:27:18.000 It's the same thing with taking birth control for years.

01:27:20.000 Like, those have long-term effects on the bodies, but because it's seen as this revolutionary tool that helped many women join the workforce and gain control of their body, like, we're not supposed to criticize it.

01:27:31.000 And I actually think that sets us behind.

01:27:33.000 I've known a lot of women who have struggled with, you know, anxiety, depression, different things like that, and really had to push their doctors to be honest about the consequences of taking hormonal birth control.

01:27:43.000 It's scary.

01:27:43.000 It's insane.

01:27:44.000 You can't even get accurate information because it goes against an ideology that we are supposed to be 100% behind.

01:27:49.000 Yeah, we've just jumped into a culture that says, this is accepted.

01:27:51.000 Here's the thing you need to do.

01:27:52.000 Now do it.

01:27:53.000 And then 20 years later, when we have the ramifications of it, we're going to be like... And I wish women would hear that they are willing to sacrifice you and your personal choice and freedom and health to maintain this illusion that the ideology they pushed is worth Having a rest. 0.97

01:28:08.000 Dude, if you are willing to give up your power to medical tyrannists, they will take it.

01:28:13.000 Happily.

01:28:13.000 But it's empowering, Ian.

01:28:14.000 If you take the birth control pill, it's empowering.

01:28:16.000 This is terrifying what you just said, Amala, because I think that this is exactly what's happening with the kids now.

01:28:21.000 So you know how, like, however many years ago it was birth control was, you know, unknown, but they still encouraged people to take it.

01:28:27.000 It was so easy for me to get on birth control, I had to, I like, half made up an excuse.

01:28:32.000 I was like, I'm 19, now it's time, I gotta figure this out, be smart or whatever.

01:28:36.000 And it was easy.

01:28:36.000 It was the easiest thing in the world.

01:28:37.000 And I'm terrified they're going to do the same thing with human hormones.

01:28:40.000 Before we go to Super Chats, I want to give everybody an update on the song because it is now officially the end of the reporting period ended on Thursday.

01:28:49.000 And there's a bunch of really good news and a bunch of really fun news for those that are interested.

01:28:54.000 So the first thing I want to say is Only Ever Wanted, the song we released the 26th of August, is the number two most sold song in the U.S.

01:29:03.000 for the week of September 10th.

01:29:05.000 We could not beat Elton John and Britney Spears, but number two, with your help.

01:29:10.000 So we were the second most sold song in the country.

01:29:12.000 That's massive.

01:29:13.000 It's huge.

01:29:15.000 And the first song we officially released hit the charts, number 21 on rock and number 24 on hot rock and alternative.

01:29:22.000 And there's actually a bunch of others.

01:29:23.000 This is really funny.

01:29:25.000 So we're at number one alternative digital sales, number 24 hot rock and alternative, number 21 rock, number 28 in Canadian sales, number one in rock sales, number 21 on rock, and will of the people, which we released two years ago, hit number 17 in alternative digital sales, which is huge.

01:29:43.000 And I'll tell you exactly why this mattered.

01:29:45.000 And I was correct.

01:29:46.000 And you were as well.

01:29:49.000 I knew that invading the cultural spaces with apolitical content was going to trigger them to an extreme degree, and not only did they produce a bunch of videos ragging on the song, completely getting disproven. 0.96

01:30:00.000 They're saying, oh, the song is bad, and it's stupid, and we hate it, and...

01:30:04.000 It's got like 70,000 likes, 1.7 million, it's got tons of streams, number two digital song sales. 0.97

01:30:10.000 You can't lie with the billboard charts we objectively placed among some of the biggest songs in the country.

01:30:16.000 There are a bunch of bands that I'm a huge fan of that release songs all the time that never chart and I'm sure you know that exactly is the same thing but here's the best part.

01:30:23.000 Um, without getting into specifics, when our communications people started reaching out and saying, here's a song from Pete Parada, Tim Pool, and Carter Banks, they got so effing pissed.

01:30:35.000 No joke.

01:30:36.000 Who's they?

01:30:37.000 Industry press.

01:30:39.000 We're gonna, for the time being, until I can do a deeper assessment, not going to reveal the names of these individuals and the things they said, but they were legit. 0.62

01:30:48.000 F'ing pissed. I hate these people. F you like kind of stuff Refusing to write about it. I love it. It's like does your 0.99

01:30:56.000 bias to get someone preclude you from doing your job apparently

01:30:59.000 Well, here's the best part. They cannot ignore it There are tons of mainstream established rock bands that

01:31:06.000 don't chart when they release songs and oh we did So how long are they going to be able to hold out, ignoring the fact that we put out music that lands on all of their charts?

01:31:16.000 It's gonna get really funny when after the third time we chart, they're like, we're still not gonna write about this!

01:31:21.000 And then people start saying like, hey, wait a minute, man, that song on the radio you're not writing about?

01:31:25.000 Something's messed up.

01:31:26.000 The fifth hit that comes out will be, they'll, they'll, all of a sudden they'll write about it and be like, but we always loved Tim Pool.

01:31:32.000 We always loved Rock band or whatever the hell it's called.

01:31:35.000 Good.

01:31:35.000 Yeah, that's what's gonna happen.

01:31:36.000 I hope that's the case.

01:31:37.000 The retconning.

01:31:38.000 So, uh, there are some issues with reporting on some of the numbers.

01:31:43.000 Just take a look at what happened with Tom McDonald when he talked about how his numbers weren't tracked properly and they wouldn't put him on Billboard and things like that.

01:31:49.000 We've, we've, we've, we've bumped into a little bit of that.

01:31:51.000 Mm-hmm.

01:31:52.000 But they can't deny it because sometimes the numbers are too much.

01:31:54.000 Based on the metrics we got and where we land on the charts, I am 100% confident that the next song we put out is going to chart substantially higher.

01:32:03.000 And they're not going to be able to ignore the fact that we are pushing into the cultural spaces they once owned and don't own anymore.

01:32:09.000 It might be the third hit when they start writing about it.

01:32:12.000 I said fifth, it might be the third one.

01:32:13.000 Maybe.

01:32:14.000 I just, this is the point.

01:32:15.000 And so let me just say that behind the scenes, I'm talking with a bunch of other big companies and artists who have seen similar problems and are sick and tired of the woke cult controlling the establishment, controlling the arts.

01:32:25.000 And so we're talking and some fun and funny stuff is going to happen.

01:32:30.000 And then I'm, look, Number two on Billboard for sales.

01:32:35.000 And now what are they saying?

01:32:36.000 Sales don't matter! 0.76

01:32:37.000 Sales are- they don't matter.

01:32:39.000 Oh, okay.

01:32:39.000 Yeah, tell that to Nicki Minaj.

01:32:40.000 Tell that to DJ Khaled.

01:32:42.000 They're on the- look, we beat DJ Khaled God dead.

01:32:44.000 Now I get it, not everybody buys these days, but it's still one of Billboard's top charts.

01:32:49.000 Sales.

01:32:49.000 It matters.

01:32:51.000 And regardless of that, I'm not saying we came out with the Hot 100 number one hit.

01:32:54.000 I didn't expect we would get anywhere, to be honest.

01:32:56.000 A bunch of my favorite bands don't even make the charts, and we did.

01:32:59.000 They're really pissed off about it, and we're going to keep pissing them off, so thank you all so much for helping us do that.

01:33:05.000 And we're going to keep putting up music, and we're going to build that library, and we're going to be signing other artists, and we're going to go for people like, look...

01:33:13.000 The Daily Wire brought on Gina Carano when they cancelled her, and boy did the corporate institutions, they got all pissed off.

01:33:18.000 She was cancelled.

01:33:19.000 She wasn't supposed to be working and doing movies, now she's in a bunch of movies. 0.98

01:33:21.000 She's doing better than ever.

01:33:23.000 They're trying to keep you in fear, so that when you work for them, you don't speak out and you don't speak up because then you'll lose your job.

01:33:30.000 When we succeed at producing this, and we plan on moving forward signing more bands and producing more music, How long until another industry executive or an engineer or producer says, you know what?

01:33:40.000 I don't need to work for this garbage anymore because I can go work for any one of these other companies.

01:33:44.000 That's what we need to build. 0.65

01:33:46.000 And that comes from the success of the projects we're working on.

01:33:48.000 Do I think it's the greatest song ever written?

01:33:50.000 I don't know.

01:33:50.000 It's just a song we wrote and produced, but apparently it did well enough.

01:33:53.000 The next one we put out is going to be even better.

01:33:55.000 So thank you again, everybody, for your support.

01:33:58.000 And we'll see what happens with, you know, my attitude is I want to publish all the emails from these people so you can

01:34:03.000 see just how angry they are.

01:34:05.000 But maybe it's not a good idea, you know, I gotta say they're not my emails, we use a third party company, so not my

01:34:12.000 emails to share.

01:34:13.000 But what I'm hearing is there's like effectively saying F off and F you and they're very very angry about it.

01:34:19.000 It's kind of like an inoculation. 0.82

01:34:21.000 Someone gets a shot in the arm.

01:34:22.000 They're like, ow, that hurt.

01:34:24.000 But if you show everyone what a pansy they were when they got the shot, they're not going to like you in the future. 0.97

01:34:30.000 But after the inoculation, they feel better.

01:34:32.000 They're like, ah, OK.

01:34:34.000 We're going to keep making music.

01:34:35.000 Sooner or later, one of the songs we make will chart very, very high, and maybe be a top 40 or something, and it's gonna be really funny when they finally, begrudgingly, with anger in their eyes, write, song by Tim Casson, good, and people really like it, for making me love again.

01:34:52.000 Uh-huh.

01:34:53.000 Maybe it won't be a song by me, it'll be a song by someone we signed, but the fact is, when we put out this music, and I'm gonna tell you guys how it works right now.

01:35:00.000 Let you in on some industry secrets.

01:35:02.000 So, uh, and I think the CPM for songs is like five bucks.

01:35:07.000 What is it, like five dollars for every thousand or something like that?

01:35:09.000 I could be wrong.

01:35:11.000 But, uh, when you're a band and you put out twenty years of music and you've got a hundred songs, you're not charting.

01:35:17.000 It's the volume that people across the board listen to music that makes you money.

01:35:22.000 So we're looking at this from a business perspective.

01:35:24.000 We're going to be able to produce music and make money.

01:35:26.000 That's the goal.

01:35:27.000 Now that it's looking like we're going to be able to make money doing this, we can sign a bunch of bands and build up a label.

01:35:31.000 And then we're going to take over the cultural institutions.

01:35:34.000 Thank you very much.

01:35:36.000 We'll start reading some super chats.

01:35:37.000 So smash the like button.

01:35:39.000 You're not even saying that in front of a podium with red light behind you.

01:35:42.000 Not even as scary as we think it should be, but still moving.

01:35:45.000 Should have dimmed the lights while he was talking.

01:35:47.000 Yes.

01:35:48.000 All right.

01:35:49.000 YouTube's giving me the business, but we're going to pull up some super chats if we can, because the thing keeps crashing.

01:35:55.000 So smash the like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, all that good stuff.

01:35:58.000 Here we go.

01:35:58.000 Super chat time.

01:36:00.000 All right.

01:36:03.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:36:04.000 says, Tim, I blame you.

01:36:05.000 I'm stressed.

01:36:05.000 Before you, I was ignorant to the evil set out to destroy us.

01:36:08.000 Now I daily wreck my brain.

01:36:09.000 How can I help?

01:36:10.000 What more can I do?

01:36:11.000 Though in the end, I effing love America.

01:36:13.000 TY for new eyes.

01:36:14.000 No, look, like, people are screaming that CNN is moving to the right or whatever.

01:36:19.000 They're calling for boycotts.

01:36:20.000 Yeah, we're winning.

01:36:21.000 They're thrashing about.

01:36:23.000 It may get bad, but the reality is we're winning the culture war.

01:36:25.000 Is everything I described with the music stuff?

01:36:28.000 Yeah, they're really mad about that.

01:36:29.000 I love it.

01:36:30.000 Do you think it's fair to say that in some ways they are moving to the right because they were so far left and now, was it Chris Lish's name?

01:36:35.000 He was like, I don't want as much partisan, we have to get back to being center.

01:36:39.000 And so the criticism that they're moving to the right in some ways is true, although, like, not the way they're presenting it.

01:36:45.000 Moving to the center.

01:36:45.000 They're moving right to get right back to the center.

01:36:48.000 Like, it doesn't make any sense.

01:36:49.000 I think we're winning.

01:36:50.000 I don't know.

01:36:51.000 I think we are too, like how much more can this be sustained?

01:36:54.000 The complacency alarm goes off.

01:36:57.000 Don't say that too early!

01:36:59.000 Guys, you still have to be active.

01:37:01.000 Victory is when these corporations say, we can't do this anti-Trump stuff, it's hurting the business.

01:37:07.000 And CNN starts laying people off who are ideologically driven and not fact driven.

01:37:11.000 Then yes, we are winning.

01:37:12.000 Absolutely.

01:37:13.000 And then that, if CNN goes moderate and actually starts reporting the news, Hey, I'll give them credit.

01:37:19.000 We gotta cheer on when they do good stuff.

01:37:21.000 Now, to be honest, I don't think they will.

01:37:23.000 I think they'll have to.

01:37:25.000 They won't make money.

01:37:26.000 That's the best part.

01:37:27.000 The right-wing grift that the left complained about all the time.

01:37:30.000 We mentioned the other day, business people are going, explain this?

01:37:32.000 You make money doing this?

01:37:33.000 This gives you money.

01:37:34.000 Yeah, let's invest in that.

01:37:36.000 I was thinking it's like the victory of a cultural battle, which isn't really victory, it's winning a battle, but what is the overall war score goal here?

01:37:46.000 Individuality, freedom, personal responsibility.

01:37:49.000 People saying, it is up to me to work hard to live a better life and make a better future for my kids.

01:37:54.000 It's people saying, I'm not going to demand the government pay my bills, I'm going to do my best.

01:37:59.000 It's not about what my government can do for me, but what I can do for my government.

01:38:02.000 We gotta look out for corporations.

01:38:04.000 What was I saying?

01:38:07.000 We gotta look out for international corporations that take that message of individual responsibility and highlight it on a show for the entire world to watch like slaves to like laud so that that if you've seen a black there's a black mirror episode where they do the stuff like that they will try and co-op the message of individual liberty as well and put it on a pedestal You know, they'll call up any message that services them and that people are willing to pay for. 0.98

01:38:36.000 Yep.

01:38:36.000 It's really that simple.

01:38:38.000 Correct.

01:38:38.000 Uncle Yoda says, Ian, I need you to wear a wizard suit for Halloween.

01:38:41.000 Anyways, y'all are doing a great job.

01:38:43.000 Great idea.

01:38:44.000 I'm so into that.

01:38:44.000 Yeah.

01:38:47.000 Murph Tries DIY says, does anyone recall when Dr. Chris Martinson said they'd be using lockdowns for climate change?

01:38:52.000 Pepperidge Farm remembers.

01:38:55.000 Yeah.

01:38:55.000 Insert name here says NorCal here.

01:38:56.000 Amazing.

01:38:56.000 Insert name here says NorCal here.

01:38:59.000 Tim, don't forget that Chairman Newsom also banned the sale of fuel-powered generators

01:39:03.000 and that motorcycles are included in the ban.

01:39:06.000 Amazing.

01:39:07.000 Man, I saw a video of somebody trying to power up their electric car with an oil generator

01:39:11.000 and it's just like...

01:39:12.000 That was real.

01:39:13.000 That was real.

01:39:14.000 I probably should, I don't wanna give away too much, but we're working on a vlog episode script based on green technology failures.

01:39:22.000 So like the electric car having to be plugged into a generator, stuff like that.

01:39:26.000 We have some funny gags planned for it.

01:39:28.000 But there's an image going viral right now of a Tesla plugged into a gas generator or a diesel generator.

01:39:35.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:39:36.000 Amazing.

01:39:36.000 Unbelievable.

01:39:37.000 Yeah, I believe it.

01:39:39.000 Salty Duckling says y'all should do a doc miniseries with the Daily Wire called How We Got Here.

01:39:43.000 cover the left and right's perspective of the event leading up to today's political climate,

01:39:46.000 so we have a resource to show those we are trying to save.

01:39:48.000 9-11. It was 9-11.

01:39:50.000 That's the inciting incident.

01:39:52.000 All Gamergate.

01:39:52.000 It was all Gamergate.

01:39:53.000 Yeah.

01:39:53.000 Just Gamergate.

01:39:54.000 Yep.

01:39:54.000 Oh man. Gamergate was what, 10 years ago?

01:39:59.000 Geez, don't say that.

01:40:00.000 Yeah, I wasn't paying attention when that happened, for real.

01:40:02.000 Nine years ago?

01:40:03.000 No.

01:40:04.000 You were like 12?

01:40:04.000 I was not paying attention.

01:40:05.000 Probably playing hopscotch.

01:40:05.000 I was still like in my little bubble, my little kid bubble.

01:40:08.000 Yeah.

01:40:09.000 I guess who was it?

01:40:10.000 I was literally 12.

01:40:10.000 So, I was not concerned about Gamergate.

01:40:14.000 Not a joke for real.

01:40:15.000 Yeah, that's awesome.

01:40:17.000 Were you following it, Gamergate, when it happened?

01:40:19.000 A little bit.

01:40:20.000 Yeah, I saw, you know, like Sargon, Carl Benjamin, and like Siwan Head.

01:40:24.000 Yeah, that was how I met, how I found out about him.

01:40:26.000 Yeah, but I didn't know too much about it.

01:40:28.000 I did know that these companies were enacting this policy stuff because I was working for them, you know.

01:40:33.000 They were getting woke, going broke.

01:40:35.000 Yeah.

01:40:36.000 Ryan Miller says, missed the live show celebrating my first birthday as a father, but a late birthday gift to myself with a shout out to little Jackson Gilligan.

01:40:45.000 Jackson.

01:40:46.000 Jackson Gilligan.

01:40:47.000 Yay, fatherhood.

01:40:48.000 We love that.

01:40:48.000 We do.

01:40:49.000 Yeah, I'm here for it.

01:40:50.000 Good, good, good.

01:40:52.000 San Oti says, bad thing is now on the Chrome extension store.

01:40:55.000 Bad thing?

01:40:56.000 So, Bad Thing, it was the extension idea we had where basically you take negative words for the right, like fascist, and it just says bad thing.

01:41:03.000 I gotta look that up now.

01:41:04.000 That's a great idea.

01:41:06.000 Disrupting all the cultural institutions.

01:41:08.000 You install the extension, it replaces all the words with bad thing.

01:41:11.000 Wow, CNN would just be like, bad thing, bad thing, bad thing, bad thing.

01:41:13.000 Yeah, pretty much.

01:41:14.000 Donald Trump likes bad thing and wants bad thing to happen.

01:41:16.000 Why?

01:41:17.000 Bad thing.

01:41:17.000 Straight up.

01:41:18.000 We want good thing. 0.98

01:41:19.000 Yeah.

01:41:19.000 That's Seamus' joke, by the way.

01:41:20.000 Yeah, I hope Seamus made it.

01:41:23.000 Has he not done it yet?

01:41:24.000 I don't know.

01:41:25.000 Unsolicited says Crowder is sharing all of his parodies on Spotify for free this week.

01:41:30.000 Maybe we can make another cultural impact by downloading Seasons of Trump.

01:41:33.000 I saw that.

01:41:34.000 I just want to tell everybody.

01:41:35.000 It's a lot.

01:41:37.000 It's for the big commentators.

01:41:40.000 It's not very difficult to get on these charts as long as you do it properly.

01:41:44.000 You got to make a good song, obviously, but It's not as hard as people realize.

01:41:49.000 You know, one of the things I think we're seeing is these book publishers are going to commentators and, you know, political figures and saying, can we do a book with you?

01:41:57.000 Because your brand will market and sell this book in a big way.

01:41:59.000 It's a brand.

01:42:00.000 That's what you got to do.

01:42:01.000 We got to do with music.

01:42:02.000 We'll just go around to every person and get them a song.

01:42:05.000 There you go.

01:42:05.000 It's true.

01:42:05.000 And it doesn't have to be like overtly political, like Tom McDonald and like the Bryson Grays, like your song wasn't.

01:42:10.000 And that's, I think, a beautiful thing about it, because it gives us a better view of just not being political all the time and everything.

01:42:16.000 But that's why they're so pissed off.

01:42:17.000 Right.

01:42:18.000 So like, the political stuff doesn't bother them because they know where to put it.

01:42:21.000 And it's easy to be like, hey, look how far right that is.

01:42:23.000 Yep.

01:42:24.000 But when the song, so like, Only Ever Wanted is just a love and pain song.

01:42:27.000 So when regular people start hearing that, we're getting shazams, meaning people are hearing it and then wondering what it is and playing it.

01:42:32.000 Those regular people being, are falling into our sphere of influence, and it's pulling it away from the cultural institutions. 0.97

01:42:36.000 Like he has a podcast?

01:42:38.000 Exactly.

01:42:38.000 Click, tell me.

01:42:39.000 And that's what they said.

01:42:40.000 You see the Daily Beast article?

01:42:41.000 No, I didn't.

01:42:42.000 They said that I'm trying to lure people into my right-wing world.

01:42:45.000 The alt-right pipeline.

01:42:46.000 With your band with candy and alternative emo pop.

01:42:49.000 I love it.

01:42:50.000 I love it.

01:42:51.000 I told Seamus he's got to do a cartoon where I have like a pipe and I'm like bopping about and tooting and like people are following me and like... Towards a cliff.

01:43:00.000 Marching into the GOP convention.

01:43:02.000 Oh my gosh.

01:43:05.000 Yeah, that's exactly what's happening.

01:43:06.000 Sailing down the river on a raft.

01:43:08.000 That'd be awesome.

01:43:09.000 While you're playing the flute.

01:43:10.000 So I want to say for the Castcastle vlog, I think if we put the whole thing on YouTube, we'd probably get banned for it.

01:43:17.000 Because Ian's running for union president and then something happens at 3am.

01:43:20.000 It's really good.

01:43:20.000 That's crazy!

01:43:21.000 It's not based on real events.

01:43:23.000 It's fictional.

01:43:24.000 Purely fictional.

01:43:26.000 Chris is amazing.

01:43:28.000 It was like his debut.

01:43:29.000 I mean, I know he's been working for a while, but he's really good.

01:43:32.000 Ian was running for union president against Chris, and everybody voted, but there are employees who don't work here, so we had to wait for the absentee ballots, which came in at 3 a.m.

01:43:42.000 It's disturbing.

01:43:44.000 The window's covered up.

01:43:47.000 I bet everybody can figure out what happens next in the show.

01:43:50.000 So crazy.

01:43:52.000 But it was a free and fair election.

01:43:54.000 Absolutely.

01:43:56.000 Can't question it.

01:43:57.000 And then we have a cameo from James Lindsay who sword fights Roberto Junior.

01:44:01.000 That's on YouTube.

01:44:01.000 Love it.

01:44:02.000 Right on the Cast Castle YouTube channel right now if you want to see James.

01:44:05.000 Yeah.

01:44:05.000 It's funny because he was like actually showing us how to do sword fighting because James literally knows how to sword fight.

01:44:10.000 Really?

01:44:10.000 He does, yeah.

01:44:11.000 He's very talented.

01:44:12.000 You've got to be prepared, you know?

01:44:13.000 You never know.

01:44:14.000 You don't want to leave behind as a skill.

01:44:15.000 Amen.

01:44:16.000 When the Civil War comes.

01:44:18.000 We don't know what weapons we'll have is the thing.

01:44:20.000 This is true.

01:44:21.000 Philip Reid says, Tim talking about making a tween pop song reminded me of Spose and his song Pop Song, which was about the big labels telling him he can't make what he wants and that he needs to make this instead.

01:44:30.000 You know that song Love Song by Sara Bareilles?

01:44:32.000 Yeah.

01:44:33.000 You know the story of that?

01:44:34.000 Yeah.

01:44:34.000 I'm not going to write you a love song.

01:44:35.000 Yeah.

01:44:35.000 Like, I guess the story is the label said, write a love song, it sells.

01:44:39.000 And she was like, I don't want to.

01:44:40.000 And they're like, well, that's what sells.

01:44:41.000 So then she wrote, I'm not going to write you a love song because you asked for it or whatever.

01:44:44.000 It blew up.

01:44:45.000 Good for her.

01:44:46.000 Yeah.

01:44:46.000 Stick to your guns.

01:44:47.000 That's right.

01:44:48.000 Yep.

01:44:49.000 All right, Denny Decibel says, Amala, have you come across David Barton and the Wall Builders Museum?

01:44:55.000 If so, what do you think?

01:44:56.000 If not, will you look them up?

01:44:58.000 I will look them up.

01:44:59.000 Never heard of them.

01:45:00.000 David, never.

01:45:03.000 Pizza makes my belly hurt says, my aunt works for the DNC, came home from DC for a week.

01:45:08.000 We started talking and said, you need to work on your white privilege.

01:45:11.000 I looked her dead in the eye trying to hold in laughter.

01:45:13.000 We're from Syria.

01:45:17.000 Amazing.

01:45:18.000 What a conflict.

01:45:21.000 Paul Jones says, in reference to your comment about the left hating mixed race people, I can 100% confirm. 1.00

01:45:25.000 I'm biracial as well, and I'm always called an Uncle Tom because I don't say America is the worst.

01:45:31.000 Yep.

01:45:32.000 But that's like, this is one of the things that really bothers me.

01:45:34.000 They're always like, oh, you won't say America is the worst?

01:45:36.000 Then you're an extreme opposite.

01:45:39.000 Like, it's to make you feel ashamed and move closer to their point by pushing you in the direction of the extreme.

01:45:43.000 Anything that falls outside of it.

01:45:45.000 It's all or nothing.

01:45:47.000 Waffle Sensei says the left only shows the strawman crazy people on the right, and the right only shows the strawman crazy people on the left.

01:46:00.000 It's orienting people to believe that everyone else is polarized and there is no middle.

01:46:03.000 How do we beat that thought?

01:46:04.000 False.

01:46:06.000 I do think it's true.

01:46:08.000 Um, to a great degree, but the left is, it's the rule, and the right, it's the exception.

01:46:13.000 Many people on the right only show the crazies on the left.

01:46:16.000 All of the prominent lefties only show or lie about the people on the right.

01:46:20.000 So, you know, for example, we've given praise to several people like Kyle Kalinske and, you know, Crystal Ball, for instance, were fans, and Jimmy Dore as well.

01:46:28.000 Highlighting Jimmy Dore, I think, is a great example of showing someone who's on the left, who has socialist policies, but calls out what is false and wrong.

01:46:36.000 Jimmy's an awesome dude.

01:46:39.000 But I guess we're middle of the road, I suppose.

01:46:41.000 But Tucker Carlson has Antifa on his show.

01:46:44.000 He used to have a lot more lefties.

01:46:46.000 Steven Crowder routinely tries to debate these individuals, not the craziest, the prominent figures.

01:46:50.000 They won't do it.

01:46:52.000 We recently reached out to Anna Kasparian of the Young Turks.

01:46:55.000 She was talking about crime and this massive spike that's happening.

01:46:58.000 I gave her praise for it!

01:47:00.000 Same here, and we were like, we could have some common ground, I know we don't normally agree, would you wanna come on and talk about an issue that we can find common ground on? 0.98

01:47:06.000 She goes on The Young Turks, I hate PragerU, they're disgusting, they're garbage, I wouldn't go on their show no matter how much they pay me. 0.99

01:47:12.000 It's ridiculous. 1.00

01:47:14.000 Crazy. 0.96

01:47:14.000 Dennis is a really balanced guy. 0.96

01:47:17.000 He's a good dude.

01:47:18.000 He is.

01:47:19.000 All around, I don't know, a holistic dude.

01:47:22.000 But they love to villainize him.

01:47:23.000 They love to villainize him, because he just fits the bill, you know, old white man. 0.63

01:47:26.000 That's all it is.

01:47:29.000 Red Dragon Emperor says, didn't get to say this last time, but Cali would not benefit from nuclear power due to a drought.

01:47:34.000 Nuclear plants require one billion gallons of water per day.

01:47:38.000 Is that, it's freshwater?

01:47:40.000 If it is, the north of California has freshwater, it's the south that doesn't.

01:47:45.000 So, they could do it, I guess.

01:47:48.000 I didn't know about that.

01:47:51.000 That seems like a lot of water.

01:47:52.000 I don't know about a billion.

01:47:53.000 A billion seems like a lot.

01:47:55.000 But I'm not an expert, so I'm not going to tell you wrong.

01:47:57.000 I will say that it's the cooling system.

01:47:59.000 I mean, water comes in, we use water pressure.

01:48:02.000 You probably couldn't do salt because you'd get salt deposits.

01:48:05.000 Yeah.

01:48:05.000 And you need a constant stream.

01:48:07.000 OK.

01:48:07.000 Yeah.

01:48:07.000 Makes sense.

01:48:09.000 Yeah.

01:48:09.000 Unless they can do like a self-contained system that the steam goes in like an air conditioner or something like that.

01:48:14.000 And then the salt melts and they use the salt, the liquid salt as a heat storage device.

01:48:20.000 All right, Ted Scannon says, love seeing Amala here.

01:48:24.000 And that girl can sing. 1.00

01:48:25.000 This may be off topic, but you should bring her in on a song.

01:48:30.000 Cheers, everyone.

01:48:30.000 That's awesome.

01:48:31.000 You do sing?

01:48:31.000 I sing and play guitar, yeah.

01:48:34.000 I have a record label.

01:48:35.000 I would love to.

01:48:36.000 I don't know if you know, but we now produce music.

01:48:40.000 I would love to.

01:48:40.000 I do write music, so yeah, that'd be fun.

01:48:42.000 Let's do it.

01:48:43.000 What do you want to do?

01:48:44.000 Want to do, like, dance pop?

01:48:45.000 Like, you know, Britney Spears maybe?

01:48:47.000 Elton John maybe?

01:48:48.000 No, I'm just kidding.

01:48:52.000 Most of the top music is usually dance and hip-hop.

01:48:55.000 Because it's club music that's easily played.

01:48:57.000 We could do that.

01:48:58.000 I just want to make a ballad.

01:49:00.000 What do you do normally?

01:49:01.000 What's a good thing?

01:49:02.000 Pop.

01:49:02.000 I like country music.

01:49:03.000 I love just any good, strong ballad.

01:49:06.000 Oldies, jazz.

01:49:07.000 I love everything.

01:49:08.000 Everything.

01:49:08.000 You want to write a song about your dog and your pickup truck?

01:49:10.000 Hell yeah, brother.

01:49:12.000 Ending from Florida.

01:49:13.000 I love you, brother.

01:49:15.000 Florida lady.

01:49:18.000 All right.

01:49:18.000 Mark Giudetti says, Tim will be too afraid to read this.

01:49:22.000 And I know he wrote that because he knew I would read it.

01:49:26.000 Ian speaks nothing but nonsense.

01:49:29.000 He should learn to talk a lot less. 0.95

01:49:31.000 You see, he tricked me because he wanted me to say that.

01:49:33.000 But Ian had a bunch of 20s tonight, so.

01:49:35.000 Careful with the all-or-none rhetoric.

01:49:37.000 Yeah, I don't like that.

01:49:38.000 Doesn't usually work.

01:49:39.000 I gotta say, though, the rolling ones and 20s was spot-on.

01:49:42.000 Yeah.

01:49:43.000 It's too extremist for me.

01:49:45.000 I need more 7s in my life.

01:49:47.000 You do.

01:49:47.000 Or 13s.

01:49:47.000 But that was your joke.

01:49:48.000 I'm holding this crazy 100-sided dice.

01:49:51.000 You're like, I either roll a 1 or a 20, and everyone's like, that's actually a good point.

01:49:54.000 Like, sometimes Ian nails it, like, wow.

01:49:56.000 I gotta wait for my moment and then either come in hot and slice through it like butter

01:49:59.000 or I crunch on the surface.

01:50:04.000 Frieza says 30,000 people watching in this video isn't trending. 0.98

01:50:08.000 Not listed on any lives, and not the top search for Tim Pool, damn. 0.97

01:50:11.000 Makes me feel like a real hipster, you know? 0.96

01:50:13.000 We have this cool thing going on, but no one knows about it.

01:50:15.000 It's a subculture.

01:50:16.000 I finally get to be counter-cultural.

01:50:18.000 We are.

01:50:18.000 We have a cult following.

01:50:20.000 The 11th, I think, the last I checked was the, TimCastIRL is the 11th biggest entertainment live podcast on YouTube.

01:50:26.000 No big deal.

01:50:27.000 And the 16th most super chatted, or maybe the other way around, I think it's the 11th most, I'm not sure.

01:50:32.000 It's top performing.

01:50:33.000 It's great.

01:50:34.000 Huge.

01:50:34.000 Yeah, so in terms of live performance, we are the biggest, like the 11th biggest or whatever, or 16th biggest.

01:50:42.000 But we're competing against anime waifus and things like that.

01:50:46.000 So in terms of a real sit-down human conversation podcast, I think we are the biggest live.

01:50:52.000 Yeah, I'm not sure.

01:50:53.000 Yeah, probably.

01:50:54.000 But live.

01:50:54.000 When it comes to like... So here's another issue.

01:50:58.000 Episode per episode, we're not the biggest, but it's because we do five episodes per week.

01:51:02.000 Many of their podcasts do one per week, and they'll get a million hits in that one week, whereas we get, you know, like 10 million or something per week, but it's split up against all the other episodes.

01:51:11.000 Right.

01:51:12.000 Yep.

01:51:13.000 So if we did one per week, all those views would concentrate and we'd jump in the- I wonder if politics is the wrong path.

01:51:20.000 I mean, I know you study it during the day.

01:51:22.000 This is an entertainment show.

01:51:23.000 Yeah, it is entertainment.

01:51:24.000 I try and make it entertainment, personally.

01:51:27.000 But we have things like EU riots in the title of this video, so that's probably why it's not being shown and trending and stuff. 0.97

01:51:35.000 And if we were just talking about, like, Ally McBeal's butt and crap like that. 0.91

01:51:38.000 Pop culture crisis exists for that reason. 0.99

01:51:40.000 Yeah, I don't like trash either. 0.94

01:51:41.000 3pm every day of the week.

01:51:43.000 It's not trash. 0.99

01:51:45.000 No, I don't like talking about Allie McBeal's butt. 0.99

01:51:47.000 Brett's a genius. 0.94

01:51:48.000 Anything he does is good.

01:51:49.000 So I think part of it is like, if we only chase, like, how can we stay trending and how can we do this?

01:51:55.000 We're also feeding the exact same, you know, comply with what YouTube wants.

01:51:59.000 Like, I'm really grateful that we're able to talk about things that we're all interested in, but also not have to be like, well, we can't talk about that because like, then we won't Trend or whatever.

01:52:08.000 I'm grateful that this has grown past that point because I'm sure in the beginning it was extremely helpful to trend.

01:52:13.000 I mean, it's a big deal.

01:52:14.000 This show started off as more entertainment.

01:52:16.000 It got more political because politics became pop culture.

01:52:19.000 But this show is still and always has been listed as an entertainment, not news and politics.

01:52:25.000 And that's because we bounce around on cultural issues.

01:52:29.000 It's cultural politics.

01:52:31.000 So it's tough.

01:52:32.000 You know, I don't know. 0.99

01:52:33.000 And it's tough to ignore crazy shit in the world. 0.99

01:52:36.000 Like, it's happening. 0.99

01:52:37.000 And if someone doesn't talk about it, that's a big problem.

01:52:39.000 But I think, you know, there was a question we had about whether it's news or entertainment, and that news would be less jokey, less trolly, less silly, and very straightforward and very stodgy.

01:52:52.000 Like, NPR podcasts would be a news podcast.

01:52:55.000 So, you know, this is more conversational, more entertainment than... Personality-driven.

01:53:01.000 Yeah, rather than news-driven.

01:53:02.000 Yeah.

01:53:03.000 Because I think if we went, if we labeled ourselves as news, we'd probably be the top news podcast.

01:53:07.000 But it's like, you know, like... We don't like labels.

01:53:11.000 Well, it's just that you listen to like the New York Times Daily News Brief, and I'm like, that's a news podcast.

01:53:16.000 Yeah.

01:53:17.000 You know, they're like, today in the news, this is what happened.

01:53:19.000 It's like, oh, well, John, I talked to somebody and they said this. 0.86

01:53:21.000 It's like, we say silly things.

01:53:23.000 And I feel like I contrast a lot with the work that we do on the newsroom side of things, where we try to be really accurate and devoid of opinion.

01:53:29.000 We try to present things whereas this show is more fluid and it has a different purpose and people come to it for a different experience.

01:53:36.000 Right.

01:53:36.000 It's like Daily Wire has their journalism, but they have their personalities, you know?

01:53:39.000 All right.

01:53:40.000 Let's read some more.

01:53:40.000 Buck Nukle says, Tim, there's a Democrat county official here in Vegas who is being accused of stabbing a journalist in front of his home.

01:53:48.000 The journalist had ousted him, by the way.

01:53:50.000 RIP Jeff German.

01:53:51.000 I saw that story.

01:53:52.000 Dude, wild.

01:53:52.000 Crazy dude, right?

01:53:53.000 I did not see that. 0.94

01:53:54.000 You know.

01:53:55.000 Good times over there.

01:53:57.000 Augusto Mimoche says, a well-trained horse won't move if you just set the lead of their bridle on the ground because they've been trained that it hurts to pull on.

01:54:05.000 Wow.

01:54:06.000 Yeah, they're like elephants.

01:54:07.000 Yep.

01:54:09.000 It's really funny, like, I don't want to say too much, but some of the reactions from these journalists, they're just really, really angry that Pete Parata is succeeding.

01:54:19.000 He's so good.

01:54:21.000 Well, outsiders and people who push back on the authority, you know, I'll put it this way.

01:54:26.000 If you're somebody who is really, really angry that you were forced to get the vaccine for your job, and then you find out other people are succeeding and they didn't, you're probably really angry.

01:54:35.000 Yeah, that's fair.

01:54:36.000 You're like, but I had to do it, why don't they have to?

01:54:38.000 There's that video where the guy's in the store, and he's like, is anybody else mad that we have to wear masks and she won't?

01:54:43.000 That's exactly it.

01:54:44.000 Yep, nailed it.

01:54:45.000 I feel for like a generation of people that are about to figure out what it means to take an experimental medicine.

01:54:50.000 And there's gonna be another level of compassion that we need to exert.

01:54:53.000 Well, there's a lot of things Let me just go back in time to thalidomide.

01:54:58.000 That's what it was, right?

01:54:59.000 Yep.

01:54:59.000 Thalidomide.

01:55:00.000 Yep.

01:55:01.000 Yeah.

01:55:01.000 You know that, Ian?

01:55:01.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:55:02.000 Birth defects in kids.

01:55:03.000 It was like an anti-nausea medicine.

01:55:06.000 I only bring that up to say one simple thing.

01:55:08.000 The best we can do is find doctors that we trust.

01:55:12.000 Yes.

01:55:12.000 So my recommendation to people is if you're having issues and you don't trust your doctor, you better just find a good one.

01:55:16.000 Like, experimental medicine, this is what I don't like about COVID, is that two weeks to slow the spread, that was the experimental moment.

01:55:22.000 Is it going to kill humanity?

01:55:23.000 Are we going to be bleeding out of our eyes like the stand?

01:55:25.000 And we weren't.

01:55:26.000 And then for whatever reason they went forward and pushed experimental medicine anyway.

01:55:31.000 And I'm like, We did the shutdown to find out.

01:55:35.000 Ian, we have to flatten the curve.

01:55:36.000 You don't understand.

01:55:37.000 Slow the spread. 0.98

01:55:37.000 Flatten the J. I really stand by my comparison to Pavlov's dog. 0.98

01:55:42.000 They wanted to push as many buzzwords that will elicit an immediate response from people.

01:55:47.000 No matter what the issue is, they'll just go back to these catchphrases so that you will comply.

01:55:51.000 And at this time, they put out these news articles in the New York Times like, the Earth is healing.

01:55:56.000 And a lot of people predicted they'll do the same thing for climate change.

01:55:59.000 And it looks like that's where we're going.

01:56:00.000 Exciting.

01:56:01.000 Let's read this.

01:56:01.000 I want to read a different article that's like, the family is healing because they're allowed to spend time together again.

01:56:05.000 There you go.

01:56:06.000 Interesting.

01:56:06.000 Matthew Stockhausen says, just wanted to say today is my daughter Camilla's first birthday.

01:56:10.000 In the past year, she has been the perfect angel.

01:56:12.000 Only issue was an RSV scare when she was three months old and was hospitalized for three days.

01:56:17.000 Smiling the whole time.

01:56:17.000 Too bad, not her fault.

01:56:18.000 Well, all right.

01:56:19.000 Happy birthday.

01:56:21.000 Someone, uh, Johnny Hickson gave us a big red thumbs up.

01:56:24.000 Well, alright.

01:56:25.000 I love when dads brag about their kids.

01:56:26.000 I think it's so cute.

01:56:27.000 It's adorable, yeah.

01:56:28.000 Pablo Papano says, sounds like AOC regrets not being married and having kids.

01:56:32.000 She does, doesn't it?

01:56:33.000 She's getting on that train, isn't she?

01:56:35.000 No, she can't, because she's a feminist. 1.00

01:56:37.000 She can't.

01:56:40.000 I don't want to be too mean to feminists but like I do think that there is this like am I making the right decisions and I think it has to do with policy but I do think the the article is interesting she says like that it was her partner who was like I want to get married by the end of 2022 and she was like I don't know how I feel about that but I don't know that she could have told this article as like the head of feminism Yeah, I really want to get married.

01:57:03.000 I want him to propose three years ago.

01:57:05.000 This is exactly what I talk about when I say I think she's about to get red-pilled because she's about that age.

01:57:09.000 She's about my age and she's probably like, oh yeah, I should really have a family right about now.

01:57:13.000 There was a story I saw earlier, a study came out saying that having kids makes you more conservative on all these different issues, and I'm like, yes.

01:57:21.000 Surprise, surprise, people are no longer in favor of abortions for the most, like many people, lose their favorability towards abortion when they have kids.

01:57:29.000 And then there's a lot of women who are like contemplating and had their kids and said, wow, I'm really glad I didn't do that.

01:57:33.000 It's the weirdest thing that it's like, There's like these laws that say if a woman wants to get an abortion, someone has to counsel them on this stuff.

01:57:40.000 Because so many women have their kid and then are grateful that they did, that it's really creepy that you have to try and stop someone from explaining that to them. 0.99

01:57:47.000 Like, why?

01:57:47.000 If they don't want to have an abortion because someone made an argument, let them not have the abortion.

01:57:50.000 Yeah, what did Elizabeth Warren say?

01:57:52.000 She said, like, these crisis pregnancy centers are torturing women, is what she referred to it as. 1.00

01:57:57.000 I think that's insanity.

01:58:00.000 You take everything that's happening right now from the Democrats and the left, and the end result is less people.

01:58:06.000 So whether you want to believe there's a conspiratorial depopulation agenda, doesn't matter.

01:58:11.000 Intent is irrelevant.

01:58:12.000 Their actions are leading to it.

01:58:13.000 They sterilize their kids, they abort their kids, they advocate for not having kids at all, and now they're cutting the electricity and they want to get rid of fossil fuels.

01:58:22.000 All of that will result in less food, less people, less babies.

01:58:24.000 Well, when you hear these conversations with people being like, oh, I'm choosing not to have children or I'm going to, you know, get sterilized.

01:58:28.000 Baby formula shortage.

01:58:29.000 One of the things they say is like, I don't think I could do it.

01:58:32.000 How could I afford it?

01:58:32.000 How could I find, like, yeah, I would be stressed too if I didn't think I had, I was resourceful enough to figure it out.

01:58:38.000 You know, like they're told to put their needs over everyone else's.

01:58:42.000 And then also it seems like it's impossible to even take care of yourself, or at least that's what they're told.

01:58:46.000 Yeah.

01:58:47.000 I could understand the campaign that's going on.

01:58:49.000 Yeah.

01:58:49.000 A hundred percent.

01:58:52.000 All right, let's see where we are with some... Paul Thongam says you should watch season 2 of Legion.

01:58:57.000 It's a spin-off of X-Men.

01:58:58.000 Just for the cold opens, they talk about psychology and... what does that say?

01:59:03.000 Phycology?

01:59:04.000 And a lot of the cold opens talk about how you can... about... talk about you can see happened in real life.

01:59:09.000 Oh, cool.

01:59:09.000 Interesting.

01:59:10.000 Like psychedelics and stuff.

01:59:11.000 Zakenin says, AOC credit the border fence looking at an empty parking lot.

01:59:15.000 She's an actress for her audience.

01:59:17.000 That's the thing you kind of have to take into account.

01:59:19.000 She did that at the border fence. 1.00

01:59:21.000 She did the whole, I thought I was going to die on January 6th when she wasn't in the building in question.

01:59:25.000 Tax the rich dress. 1.00

01:59:26.000 She did the tax the rich dress. 1.00

01:59:29.000 She cried about the state of where her grandmother was living in Puerto Rico without helping her. 1.00

01:59:33.000 There's like so many things that have sort of lumped up as far as her being pretty dramatic.

01:59:37.000 That's true.

01:59:38.000 Waffle Sensei says, do not accept them not including your YouTube views.

01:59:41.000 Every other artist in the world promotes their own material.

01:59:43.000 Not everybody likes every song, but the people bought your music.

01:59:46.000 The issue is, so we haven't got an official response yet, but before we made sure that we were doing everything properly so that they could not try and exclude us, And we got some responses from the official tracking companies saying, like, here's what you got to do and you're good to go.

02:00:05.000 And we're like, all right.

02:00:06.000 And now they're like, well, it wasn't uploaded properly in a way that we can actually track the data.

02:00:10.000 Really?

02:00:11.000 And then I'm like, OK, we'll self-report, right?

02:00:13.000 How else was it reported before the internet?

02:00:15.000 Yeah.

02:00:15.000 Can't I just give you the document?

02:00:17.000 Here's our analytics.

02:00:18.000 Here's the data from the back end.

02:00:19.000 And that should be enough?

02:00:20.000 They might say yes.

02:00:21.000 So that's why I'm not, you know, look.

02:00:25.000 We did this totally independently with no idea what we were doing.

02:00:28.000 It's entirely possible that we just screwed up.

02:00:30.000 Fine, whatever, that's fine.

02:00:32.000 You know, the next song we put out is gonna be even bigger then.

02:00:34.000 It is what it is.

02:00:35.000 I'm not gonna start this by going to war before we have a chance to like, you know, basically push this through.

02:00:42.000 The fact that we've made the charts already is like, fine, exclude YouTube, we'll figure it out, but we're already there.

02:00:48.000 Every song we put out will end up charting, period.

02:00:51.000 And that's gonna be, I mean, that's kind of a crazy thought to be honest.

02:00:54.000 Yeah, really, what does that say for the state of the music industry right now?

02:00:58.000 Either we're really great or something's really wrong.

02:01:00.000 I mean, look, for a lot of the big established mainstream music artists, they always chart.

02:01:05.000 Always.

02:01:06.000 But most music you'll listen to, most of it, never charts.

02:01:10.000 And that's the crazy thing to me, that a lot of the songs that I'm really into, the bands that I like, well I'm not going to name any bands because I don't want to talk about their analytics and stuff like that, but very few songs actually make it to the charts.

02:01:22.000 They just put out a ton of music, people find it, buy the albums, and then over a long period of time they make money off of it.

02:01:27.000 Right, because charting is about like a small finite period of time and how many views you get in that moment or buys you get in that moment, right?

02:01:34.000 So it's like sales and also streams is like different charting methods.

02:01:37.000 So the Hot 100 is like just the best.

02:01:40.000 I think if they included our YouTube views, we would have hit the hot 100.

02:01:44.000 Based on the other bands that were there and the comparable metrics, I think so.

02:01:49.000 Like we sold better than a lot of bands that are high up.

02:01:52.000 But obviously we wouldn't do better than the club music that's getting like a hundred million plays

02:01:55.000 or something like that, but that's whatever.

02:01:58.000 The top albums sell like hundreds of thousands, but I think the top alternative albums sold like 50K,

02:02:04.000 which is kind of crazy.

02:02:05.000 The way it works is you get six months of pre-orders.

02:02:08.000 Then, all those pre-orders drop your opening week, and they're counted as your first week sales, which is total BS.

02:02:15.000 That's nonsense.

02:02:16.000 You know what I mean?

02:02:17.000 Like, you release the album, how many albums did you sell?

02:02:21.000 Well, for whatever reason, they say you can six months in advance sell albums, and that counts as the first week release.

02:02:27.000 So when you see a band say, like, we sold 50,000 albums, and it's like, yeah, over six months.

02:02:31.000 Right.

02:02:31.000 Congratulations.

02:02:33.000 I mean, they used to sell way more back in the day, now they don't.

02:02:36.000 I'm fairly confident, actually I will say this, I know for a fact, that if we did a pre-order on our album with a six month lead time, we'd probably hit the Billboard 200 at the top.

02:02:46.000 We'd probably sell a couple hundred thousand.

02:02:48.000 Based on the amount of sales we already had.

02:02:49.000 That's without listening?

02:02:50.000 They're just buying it because they have faith that it's going to be awesome?

02:02:53.000 Or do they get a sample of the song or something before that?

02:02:57.000 No, I don't know.

02:02:58.000 So, you know what?

02:02:59.000 I'll just tell you guys.

02:03:00.000 We sold 12,500 songs in one week.

02:03:02.000 That's number two.

02:03:04.000 So, if you can sell 12,520-some-odd songs in one week, you'll be number two in digital sales.

02:03:08.000 Who got number one? 0.88

02:03:09.000 That was Britney? 1.00

02:03:10.000 Elton John and Britney.

02:03:10.000 How many did they sell?

02:03:11.000 Did you get that number?

02:03:12.000 Based on the metrics, I think they probably sold 25 to 30.

02:03:14.000 Okay.

02:03:15.000 They're some of the most famous musicians in the world.

02:03:19.000 I mean, it's a lot.

02:03:19.000 And it's her first song post-conservatorship.

02:03:22.000 Yeah, that's a big thing, too.

02:03:23.000 If you're a new artist, like, selling 12,500 songs is not an easy task to do, you know, and so I really do appreciate everybody who supported us, but we have, like, we have fans of the show, we have fans of the content we produce who supported us, and so it's a mix of general support, political support, and people who genuinely like the music that we've produced, but I will just say that if that's the case, if what we can pull off in one week, Let's say we sold an album six months in advance.

02:03:49.000 We have 24 weeks?

02:03:51.000 Yeah, we'd have a top-charting album.

02:03:53.000 I don't want to do that, though.

02:03:54.000 I don't want to sell songs without them being out. 0.95

02:03:57.000 That's why I thought the pre-order stuff is so dumb. 0.96

02:03:59.000 Yeah.

02:03:59.000 Like, we're going to put out a song, I think, three weeks from now.

02:04:02.000 That's the plan.

02:04:03.000 We're waiting to hear back from our industry guys so we can make sure they can't exclude anything at this point.

02:04:07.000 I guess people like the song, they can sign up for the next one, get on the pre-order list for the next one.

02:04:12.000 Yeah, right, right.

02:04:14.000 All right, we'll just grab one more here.

02:04:17.000 Fleeting Floating Feather says, Tim, sing Punch-A-Nazi.

02:04:21.000 What a really great song.

02:04:22.000 Punch-A-Nazi. 0.62

02:04:23.000 It was a parody of Paparazzi by Lady Gaga by Chris Ragon, and he took the video down.

02:04:29.000 Oh, wow.

02:04:30.000 Inciting violence.

02:04:31.000 He took it down because I think the reason is that he's scared of the left and bowed out and tried to get away from the culture war or something like that.

02:04:39.000 That's what it felt like.

02:04:40.000 I didn't like that punch of Nazi movement. 0.61

02:04:43.000 And then he was making fun of it.

02:04:44.000 He was mocking the idea that to the left, everyone's a Nazi.

02:04:46.000 And then I guess some leftist told him that he was helping Nazis, so he said, okay, and he took the video down. 0.92

02:04:51.000 Crazy.

02:04:52.000 It was a great song.

02:04:53.000 It was a killer song.

02:04:54.000 If you don't punch them, you're helping them.

02:04:55.000 My friends, if you haven't already, You can check out our music on Spotify, search for Timcast, and there's two formal official songs, Will of the People and Only Ever Wanted, with several more to come.

02:05:08.000 We've got Bright Eyes, we've got, what do we got?

02:05:12.000 I think we're calling it Lockstep because genocide is not a good marketing term.

02:05:15.000 No?

02:05:15.000 We've got Eyes of Advice, we've got A Million to One.

02:05:19.000 A lot of these songs you can already see, like, because we played, we jammed them before, words in a book, all of these things are getting ready for release, so thank you all so much for the support.

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02:05:37.000 Amala, do you want to shout anything out?

02:05:38.000 Oh, yeah, you can check out my stuff by typing in Amala Penobi on any platform, I know that's a mouthful, but you can try.

02:05:43.000 Also, I'll be at PragerU.com if you're worried about censorship.

02:05:47.000 I'll be.

02:05:47.000 Cool.

02:05:48.000 I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow.

02:05:49.000 I'm a writer for TimCast.com.

02:05:50.000 You should go there every day and click on the read tab.

02:05:53.000 You can follow me on Instagram at HannahClaire.B.

02:05:55.000 And I'm Ian Crossland.

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02:05:58.000 Again, check out Cast Castle on timcast.com.

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02:06:05.000 Happy to do it.

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02:06:07.000 That's right.

02:06:07.000 Cast Castle is not the only other show we have.

02:06:10.000 We also have Pop Culture Crisis, which I was supposed to be on today, but I went and got my cast changed.

02:06:14.000 We're all signing it.

02:06:15.000 Look, it's really awesome.

02:06:16.000 I have, oh, you can't even see it.

02:06:17.000 Oh, I wanted to show everything.

02:06:18.000 Everybody's signing it, so I will be on tomorrow on Pop Culture Crisis, 3 to 5 p.m.

02:06:23.000 Eastern Time.

02:06:24.000 You guys can follow me on Twitter and Minds.com, at sarahpatchlids, as well as sarahpatchlids.me.

02:06:29.000 Somebody asked, where's the video game?

02:06:30.000 Oh! 0.60

02:06:31.000 In production.

02:06:32.000 We actually play it fairly often downstairs, because the development version's available, and it's a collaboration with Seamus, so I guess it's a Freedom Tunes video game, basically.

02:06:42.000 It's all Freedom Tunes style.

02:06:44.000 Yeah, and the story is amazing.

02:06:46.000 And it's like passively political.

02:06:48.000 But the character you play is not political.

02:06:50.000 And it's like, I don't want to say too much.

02:06:53.000 Maybe we'll come up with a marketing plan for what we can announce about the game and shows.

02:06:56.000 We've shown off some of it already on the vlog, and on Instagram, where it's like your little guy and you're, you know, in a skyscraper.

02:07:02.000 So it'll be fun.

02:07:03.000 Anyway, thanks for hanging out.

02:07:05.000 Head over to TimCast.com.

02:07:06.000 We'll see you all over there in about an hour.

02:07:08.000 And thanks for hanging out.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - September 07, 2022

Timcast IRL - EU "Flattens Curve" By Limiting Electricity, Riots Erupt Over Energy w-Amala Ekpunobi

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