Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Ex Federal Agent Investigated As ACCOMPLICE In Buffalo Tragedy w- Bryan Dean Wright

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00:00:50.000 we have an investigation happening in buffalo Apparently, before this tragic incident occurred at the grocery store, advance warning was given to several people, one of which was a retired federal agent.

00:01:13.000 So now, it is being reported by the Buffalo News that there is an active investigation into whether or not this individual should be charged as an accomplice.

00:01:20.000 Of course, this story is going around because a lot of people are looking into, let's just call it, nefarious and malicious means behind the scenes involving federal agents with these tragic incidents that have occurred.

00:01:35.000 I don't blindly just believe the theories that people are putting out, the conspiracies.

00:01:40.000 But I do think it's interesting to talk about, because some people seem to think there may be more going on, and I think the information we get out of these warrants an investigation.

00:01:48.000 So guess what?

00:01:49.000 They're investigating this guy.

00:01:51.000 Now, typically when people investigate themselves, they don't find anything wrong, so who knows?

00:01:55.000 But there are a lot of other questions about what happened with the Uvalde shooting, like how this poor kid A couple days after his 18th birthday was able to get a credit line or able to get money to buy an extremely expensive rifle, get it delivered and pick it up all in the span of less than two days?

00:02:11.000 Some people just, they want to know.

00:02:14.000 There needs to be an investigation here.

00:02:15.000 But we have more information coming out and I'm shocked to say, for the first time in a long time, the left and the right are united.

00:02:23.000 They're united in their disdain for the police.

00:02:25.000 Who stood in the hallway as they heard the shots going off and did nothing.

00:02:30.000 And outside barred parents from getting in, armed parents, from saving their kids.

00:02:35.000 So it's remarkable to see left-wing activists just as outraged and for the same reasons as the rightists.

00:02:42.000 So hey, who'd have thought this would be the thing that would unify us?

00:02:45.000 But when kids lose their lives and police do nothing and bar people from saving them, I think you're gonna get a lot of, a lot of people are gonna be angry.

00:02:51.000 So we're gonna talk all about this and a bunch of other stuff.

00:02:53.000 Joining us to discuss this is Brian Dean Wright.

00:02:57.000 Good, sir.

00:02:58.000 Pleasure.

00:02:59.000 Who are you?

00:02:59.000 Yes, I am here to enjoy you all, but beyond being here, I host a podcast called the President's Daily Brief.

00:03:07.000 We talk about a lot of international affairs, some domestic stuff, but the focus is just like the actual President's Daily Brief, which is a top-secret summary that's given to the president every morning.

00:03:17.000 I do the same thing with folks of what's happening around the world.

00:03:20.000 And we focus a lot on why you should care, because lots of things around the world happen, but really why would I care if I'm in Des Moines this morning, right?

00:03:28.000 So we talk about that, and we talk about solutions.

00:03:31.000 So how do we solve the country's problems, the world's problems?

00:03:33.000 So that's what I do every morning at 6 a.m., and having worked at the CIA, that's the reason I started doing this PDB podcast.

00:03:42.000 Oh, so you're a former deep state?

00:03:43.000 Yes.

00:03:44.000 Well, maybe current.

00:03:45.000 Can you ever shake it?

00:03:47.000 Oh, let's talk about that.

00:03:48.000 All right.

00:03:49.000 But you did work at the CIA.

00:03:50.000 I did.

00:03:51.000 We'll definitely talk about that in the Deep State or whatever else.

00:03:53.000 We have Daniel Turner as well.

00:03:54.000 Yeah, and if there's a Fed to my right, my name is Jack Pasogna.

00:04:00.000 Yes, Daniel Turner, Power of the Future.

00:04:02.000 Great to be here again.

00:04:03.000 Always good to be with you.

00:04:04.000 And I was talking to Brian in the green room.

00:04:07.000 I've followed him for years and years, and so it's actually really cool to meet you in person.

00:04:12.000 I'm glad to be here.

00:04:13.000 Ian Crosson, what's up everybody?

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00:04:26.000 The chat has exploded, everyone's saying Fed.

00:04:30.000 Oh yeah, we talk about a road to redemption, so is there something like that when you're no longer a Fed, or how long until you're no longer?

00:04:37.000 Well, you guys tell me, what's the penance?

00:04:39.000 What's the thing that I have to do to make myself redeemed?

00:04:43.000 Talk about a hundred bucks right now, actually.

00:04:46.000 Your soul will be saved.

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00:07:07.000 Let's read this first story from the Buffalo News.

00:07:10.000 Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance.

00:07:15.000 They're actually wondering If this dude should be charged as an accomplice.

00:07:19.000 What they're basically saying is that, in this, I think it was in the Discord, that the, oh, I'm swallowing it wrong, here we go, the perpetrator shared the information with six individuals, one of which was a retired federal agent.

00:07:33.000 They say, agents from the FBI are in the process of tracking down and interviewing the six people, including the retired agent, and attempting to determine if any of them should be charged as accomplices, the two sources with close knowledge of the probe told the Buffalo News.

00:07:46.000 The two sources did not identify the agent by name and could not confirm what agency he worked for.

00:07:52.000 I just gotta start off by saying sometimes there are racist former federal agents, sometimes people who are criminals work for different departments, or maybe this guy was in a discord and did not see any of this information and that's why he didn't report it.

00:08:05.000 We don't know.

00:08:06.000 But the reason I want to lead with this is because there's a lot of questions around all of these.

00:08:11.000 It's becoming particularly prominent to see on Twitter and other platforms where people are questioning How these things can actually happen?

00:08:18.000 Like, how is it, you know, with Uvalde, a guy, two days after his 18th birthday, gets one of the best, most expensive rifles possible?

00:08:25.000 What was his training?

00:08:26.000 How could he afford it?

00:08:27.000 He was being made fun of for being, you know, poor.

00:08:30.000 Now all of a sudden, you know, so people question this stuff.

00:08:33.000 I think there are simple solutions, simple answers to a lot of these things, but I do think Fed?

00:08:37.000 Did you just say current Fed?

00:08:38.000 and honestly, we can cast doubt onto these theories.

00:08:41.000 But I think it's interesting.

00:08:42.000 So I don't know, what do you guys think about this?

00:08:43.000 The potential federal agent?

00:08:46.000 I should ask you, Brian, as you are former Fed, maybe current.

00:08:50.000 Did you just say current Fed?

00:08:52.000 Fed.

00:08:53.000 Yeah, got it.

00:08:54.000 All right.

00:08:55.000 Yeah, look, there are bad apples in every bunch, aren't there?

00:08:58.000 And whether this guy was knowledgeable and actually ignored his own training, which is these folks, especially bureau guys, they know absolutely the signs, the flags and when and where to report those.

00:09:12.000 So he should have a very special, sensitive tripwire is the point.

00:09:16.000 And the fact that he didn't do what he should have is really odd and frankly disconcerting because it doesn't make sense.

00:09:23.000 Interesting.

00:09:24.000 So I can't confirm a lot of what people are posting in these stories, but some people are saying that apparently these guys might have been in Uvalde and in Buffalo in the same discords, or that the people egging them on may have been in the same discords.

00:09:38.000 If you go back all the way to Columbine and you look at the investigation into that, Even even Dylan clay blot.

00:09:48.000 I think his name was I forget But even his his family said, you know, he spent a lot of time in the garage We always heard these loud noises.

00:09:56.000 He was always blowing things up This is kind of similar in the sense that there are a lot of warning signs, right?

00:10:02.000 Like really he's telling people just like the guy in Texas, you know told people he told that girl who he tagged on social media in LA like I'm gonna do this and I mean if that isn't a sign that there is some clear mental problem that there's this very blatant cry for help.

00:10:17.000 There's almost the desire to attract attention before the fact.

00:10:22.000 And I think right now the conversation as it should be is you know what else can we do?

00:10:26.000 But I think what we're starting to see now is Well, actually, there really isn't a need necessarily for more laws or more sort of bureaucratic steps.

00:10:34.000 It's just actually to execute what the things that we were supposed to do more thoughtfully, more consistently, whether it's at the schools, you know, making sure doors are shut for people's sake.

00:10:42.000 If you're a parent or you're a loved one or you're a neighbor and you start seeing this stuff, Raise the flag.

00:10:47.000 Do the things that we all know to that work, right?

00:10:50.000 So I don't know in this case as we learn more that we really should have an additional layer of of laws or whatnot.

00:10:57.000 It's really just making sure that we what we do and you know have on the books just execute that more thoughtfully more consistently.

00:11:03.000 Yeah.

00:11:03.000 And I'll tell you that this issue of training that's one that I think is really odd on this with this fellow because he was so young there is no He just got this gun.

00:11:12.000 It's not a light weapon to work with.

00:11:15.000 So some degree of training, exposure, where did he get that?

00:11:18.000 That's one of the things that I have been looking at and looking for.

00:11:21.000 Yeah, so when people are pointing out this gun with taxes and shipping and everything was two grand.

00:11:28.000 You know, a lot of people said, how could a guy who works at Wendy's and is under 18 afford that?

00:11:31.000 Because you'd have to, I mean, save up for how long?

00:11:35.000 I mean, I suppose if he's living with his mom, he's not paying anything.

00:11:38.000 But then apparently he got into a fight with his grandma or something over a phone bill.

00:11:41.000 So he, I mean, maybe he really just saved up this money.

00:11:43.000 And then it's, it actually is, it could be quite simple, a credit card.

00:11:47.000 You turn 18, you get a credit card.

00:11:48.000 If you've got no bad credit, you might get a couple grand on a credit card.

00:11:51.000 Yeah, easily.

00:11:51.000 But then there's a time frame.

00:11:53.000 So, uh, I'm not sure if this is correct.

00:11:54.000 I don't know if you guys know.

00:11:55.000 You guys can fact check me.

00:11:56.000 But it was, it was two days after his 18th birthday.

00:11:59.000 Can, I, so he ordered the gun online.

00:12:02.000 And then maybe a week in advance it got shipped, and then he went there and picked it up, and then the next day maybe?

00:12:07.000 I mean, it's all possible.

00:12:08.000 I don't want to say it's impossible, but it is kind of like, did he really plan it out meticulously as he did?

00:12:15.000 I suppose, right?

00:12:16.000 It sounds like he'd been planning it for a while.

00:12:18.000 If he organized it so that the gun had arrived after he turned 18 and everything was right then, it sounds like he'd been planning it.

00:12:24.000 Well, let me add.

00:12:25.000 So this issue of planning.

00:12:26.000 So in the intelligence community, particularly with terror attacks, we know that there is a planning process.

00:12:31.000 And along that process, you end up finding ways to intervene.

00:12:36.000 They slip up.

00:12:37.000 They make mistakes.

00:12:37.000 There are little warning signs.

00:12:39.000 And from an intel perspective, that's what you look for to stop those attacks.

00:12:43.000 So I think, again, we're going to see the more investigative work that gets done, there are those little pops and flags that we're going to see retroactively be like, we should have seen that.

00:12:52.000 Or somebody did see that and they didn't do something.

00:12:55.000 And I think that's where we're going to start really making a difference when these horrible events happen.

00:13:00.000 We learn from them.

00:13:01.000 That's how we stop the next one.

00:13:02.000 It's going to change.

00:13:03.000 The next attack is going to change, but that's what we learn.

00:13:05.000 Yeah, basically what you were just saying before, to add on to that, when I look at these incidents, I think one of the problems we have is that we think there's a solution.

00:13:15.000 And maybe there is, I'm not saying we shouldn't try and figure something out, but I wonder

00:13:19.000 if when people are saying, we need armed teachers, and I'm like, well, I think if people were

00:13:23.000 armed in general, we'd probably be better off.

00:13:27.000 But I don't know if that solves the problem of a deranged young person who plans this

00:13:31.000 thing out.

00:13:32.000 If this dude really did plan it out as extensively as he did, and seemingly he did because he

00:13:36.000 ordered it in advance, waited until his 18th birthday, saved up money, got a credit card,

00:13:39.000 who knows what he did, but he planned it, then I don't think, I'll put it this way,

00:13:45.000 You mentioned something before the show.

00:13:47.000 You said we got to be right 100 out of 100 times, because that one time you aren't is when they get you.

00:13:53.000 So we can plan.

00:13:54.000 We can be like, OK, how about armed teachers?

00:13:56.000 And then the kid just, the next person makes a plan to accommodate for armed teachers.

00:14:01.000 I think the issue is that we've got a cultural and mental illness problem.

00:14:07.000 I think that, you know, I know a lot of conservatives say mental illness problem, but you look at the medication these kids are on, and we have a fatherlessness problem.

00:14:15.000 It's cultural, and it's multifaceted.

00:14:18.000 Everybody just wants this singular solution.

00:14:20.000 They're like, we can either ban the guns, or, you know, we can arm the teachers, and I'm like, that's not going to solve what's going on.

00:14:25.000 Well, I think, and when it comes to the government stepping in, you know, this kid is cutting himself, right?

00:14:31.000 He's made a lot of threats.

00:14:33.000 Where's Child Protective Services?

00:14:35.000 And all I'm going to say is I don't even have, it's not even a question, it's more just an observation.

00:14:39.000 But Child Protective Services were showing up to people's parents, to parents' house where they refused to vaccinate their kids within hours, right?

00:14:47.000 In the height of the pandemic of COVID, Child Protective Services was stepping in swiftly.

00:14:54.000 So it's just kind of bizarre that the same government services that we are looking to protect children in the case that the parents are not doing their job seem to be kind of absent when this is a very clear case of a kid who is troubled, who is abusive, who is... I mean, if you're 17 and you're cutting yourself, you're cutting your face repeatedly, I mean, how much more of a red flag law do we need to say this kid is not... But boy, if he had said my parents won't get me vaccinated, holy crap, the Child Protective Services would have been there within minutes.

00:15:26.000 What if he says my parents won't let me get my Adderall prescription filled?

00:15:30.000 Will Child Protective Services come and take him?

00:15:33.000 Will they side with him because he needs his Adderall?

00:15:35.000 Or will they side with the parent because it's inconscionable to give a 14-year-old Adderall?

00:15:39.000 My parents won't let me choose my pronoun.

00:15:41.000 Yeah.

00:15:41.000 Holy cow would they have swept in and said the abuse you're creating to this child.

00:15:46.000 So the reason why I'm bringing this up is not to dump on people who are failing at their job.

00:15:51.000 But if you're turning to the government for a solution, I don't think you're going to have any solution that works.

00:15:57.000 Not in this case.

00:15:58.000 It's like state of mind.

00:16:00.000 The government is not good at solving state of mind.

00:16:02.000 You need like a spiritual leader or something or something like that.

00:16:05.000 I think we are in a culture war for a reason.

00:16:07.000 We have very serious cultural problems. 0.96

00:16:09.000 Now, it's cool to see that the left and the right are unified in their disdain for the police over this one, but when you look at how the left has been approaching basically everything, I can say it feels to me the reason moderates and conservatives are kind of united.

00:16:21.000 You've got post-liberal, libertarian, centrists, and conservatives all in sort of an agreement because they're actually addressing facts and issues.

00:16:28.000 The left isn't.

00:16:29.000 You know, when it comes to issues of these shootings, they say, background checks.

00:16:33.000 I said yesterday, okay, we have those.

00:16:35.000 Ban the AR-15.

00:16:36.000 Okay, what about an AK?

00:16:37.000 What about an M1A?

00:16:38.000 What about any other gun?

00:16:40.000 I mean, so many!

00:16:41.000 They're just not saying anything.

00:16:43.000 But they're getting really, really mad.

00:16:45.000 So I look at the deep cultural issues, and I'm sorry if I'm not going to take a liberal's word for it, because they believe Jesse Smollett.

00:16:53.000 And now we have this tweet going viral from another fake account, claiming that Governor Abbott sent a rep to this guy's house, telling him that we'll pay you to stand with the governor, and if you don't, we'll criminally charge you or something. 0.71

00:17:07.000 It's the most ridiculous made-up fake story, probably by a 12-year-old. 0.66

00:17:12.000 And Twitter hasn't taken it down? 0.96

00:17:12.000 I was tweeting let me know if you need any help Pulitzer winning journalists are all tweeting it out like I 0.96

00:17:17.000 can't believe this is happening Christopher Titus the comedian verified he's like Abbott is

00:17:22.000 done. It's like dude Boomers, I mean I want to say boomer, but they're not boomers

00:17:28.000 They're like 35 years old and Twitter hasn't taken it down Twitter hasn't flagged it as misinformation or false

00:17:34.000 Yeah But forgive me if I say the people who believe Jesse Smollett, I'm not going to take political advice from.

00:17:41.000 It's just never going to happen.

00:17:43.000 Maybe a lack of critical thinking, because I think they're still getting facts that's just not right.

00:17:47.000 They're wrong facts, whatever that means.

00:17:49.000 Well, they're not facts.

00:17:50.000 Yeah, like that the AR means assault rifle, for instance.

00:17:53.000 And then they think, ban AR, you're not gonna have any more assault rifles.

00:17:57.000 So even if you look at this, I think, from the most hopeful perspective, people need control.

00:18:02.000 And when you have a moment like this, everything feels out of control.

00:18:05.000 So you're gonna gravitate to the thing that makes you feel best and most comfortable, and it's AR-15.

00:18:10.000 Okay, that's the bad thing that we all need to focus our energy on.

00:18:13.000 It doesn't matter the nuance or the facts.

00:18:14.000 It's just enough people in the moment of hysteria say, that's the bad thing.

00:18:19.000 There's the one silver bullet solution.

00:18:20.000 Focus on it.

00:18:21.000 And that's just not true.

00:18:22.000 You're bringing up the very correct points.

00:18:24.000 This is multifaceted.

00:18:25.000 Maybe we have a medicine issue or the mental health concern.

00:18:29.000 We have a lack of a father.

00:18:30.000 We have a lack of support in the family.

00:18:32.000 There are so many different pieces to each of these kinds of horrific shootings that to stop and really ask tough questions.

00:18:40.000 Not happening.

00:18:41.000 We just want the one silver bullet solution.

00:18:43.000 I want to pull up this tweet from Matt Walsh.

00:18:46.000 Matt Walsh says, absolutely damning.

00:18:48.000 There is no defending this.

00:18:50.000 19 officers waited outside and listened to children get slaughtered. 0.99

00:18:54.000 I hope all of these cowards are sued into bankruptcy. 0.97

00:18:56.000 They deserve prison too, but I doubt that's going to happen. 0.96

00:18:59.000 Let me read for you this excerpt that Matt posted.

00:19:03.000 The authorities now say that local officers first entered the school at 11.35, two minutes after the gunman, and that there were 19 officers in the hallway by 12.03 p.m., but that they did not breach the door and kill the gunman until 12.50, even as they continued to hear him firing.

00:19:22.000 I just want to pause, and perhaps tug at your heartstrings, maybe a little bit.

00:19:27.000 I want you to imagine being in the hallway hearing 10-year-old children being shot from a high-powered rifle and with 19 people around you armed, and I want you to imagine what must possibly be going through your head to think, I'm not gonna do anything.

00:19:43.000 I can't fathom that.

00:19:46.000 This wrecked me when I read this tweet.

00:19:49.000 It's wrecking me now.

00:19:50.000 I'm wondering what they knew, the cops.

00:19:52.000 Did they think there were multiple shooters?

00:19:54.000 Was it possible there were multiple shooters that they were firing on purpose in there to draw them in, to kill the cops?

00:20:00.000 What did they know?

00:20:00.000 I think what was the first thing they said, but they could have got shot.

00:20:05.000 Is that what it was?

00:20:06.000 Look, I'll tell you from my view, having worked with law enforcement and the intelligence community, when you're going face-to-face with really awful, evil people, you just go.

00:20:18.000 And you get into this line of work because you know that you're there because other people can't be or won't be.

00:20:24.000 And so you take that mantle on.

00:20:25.000 You know that you're going to throw yourself into harm's way.

00:20:28.000 And the people who love you, your spouses, your kids, they know that that's the agreement that you have.

00:20:34.000 It's just in your heart.

00:20:35.000 And so, you know, the extent to which this did or didn't happen, I don't know.

00:20:39.000 But I'll tell you, if you had a bunch of guys in a hallway who knew that this slaughter was happening, And they put aside their oath and their commitment to those kids or their community because they were afraid for their own lives.

00:20:51.000 While at some level I think most of it can understand like, hey, we want to preserve ourselves.

00:20:58.000 When you sign up to be a law enforcement official or even an intelligence officer, you understand that your body at some level belongs to the mission.

00:21:05.000 And you go.

00:21:06.000 You go in and you know that you will sacrifice yourself.

00:21:08.000 That's just what you sign up for.

00:21:09.000 I don't, I don't, you know, that sounds very logical.

00:21:12.000 I don't know that I would be affected in that way.

00:21:15.000 I think the moment I heard screaming and the guns, I'd just be kicking the door in.

00:21:19.000 Yeah.

00:21:20.000 I can't, I can't even, I don't think I'd be able to think straight.

00:21:22.000 But that's the point.

00:21:23.000 Most people that I've ever worked with in law enforcement, they come to the table with that orientation in their heart.

00:21:28.000 That's just what they do because they know that they're going to be called on to do that.

00:21:31.000 It doesn't matter who your kids are or your spouses or whatever.

00:21:33.000 When you hear that moment, when you see that that person needs to be taken down, you go and you know that you can put yourself in harm's way.

00:21:39.000 Yeah, real quick.

00:21:40.000 Sorry, man.

00:21:40.000 Have you ever watched a movie where there's like medieval warfare or ancient warfare or even colonial era warfare?

00:21:48.000 And I always thought... Every Mel Gibson movie ever made?

00:21:50.000 Every Mel Gibson movie, all of them.

00:21:51.000 The Patriot is one of my favorite movies of all time.

00:21:53.000 And when I watch these movies, I always see those guys in the front line with the spears or whatever, and I'm like, they know they're gonna die.

00:21:59.000 And they stand there knowing they are going to die.

00:22:03.000 And it's remarkable because that's something you choose to walk up to, stand there and say, this is it.

00:22:07.000 Yeah.

00:22:08.000 When, when in this circumstance, I'm just like, this is the exact opposite of that.

00:22:13.000 Yeah.

00:22:13.000 These are the people who are like, I'm not going in front and they, they, they can hear children being shot.

00:22:19.000 I can't, I can't understand. 0.98

00:22:21.000 I have run into danger for stupider reasons than that.

00:22:24.000 When I worked for these, these media companies and the, we hear the gunshots and we hear the, the, the flashbangs go off and we take cover and we slowly tried going towards it just to film it.

00:22:34.000 Just a film.

00:22:35.000 Because we want to show people what's happening.

00:22:37.000 Let alone trying to save the life of a child.

00:22:39.000 My brain doesn't understand this.

00:22:41.000 I just don't get it.

00:22:41.000 I just can't.

00:22:42.000 It doesn't.

00:22:43.000 The brain doesn't process it.

00:22:44.000 Because even if it weren't the gunshots.

00:22:46.000 If they just said on the other side of this door are some children who were shot.

00:22:49.000 You can't fathom standing there for 30 minutes and saying, oh yeah, there were kids shot on the other side of this door.

00:22:54.000 Like, they knew there were people who had been shot.

00:22:57.000 You are looking for triage.

00:22:59.000 You're looking to... So it just... It doesn't make sense.

00:23:03.000 And I'm not saying it didn't happen.

00:23:05.000 It just... It defies logic.

00:23:08.000 It defies emotion.

00:23:09.000 It defies human nature.

00:23:10.000 It defies the nature of law enforcement, which does have that race in and save the day. 1.00

00:23:14.000 It just... It doesn't compute.

00:23:18.000 Look, you've got, left and right publications are essentially unified on this.

00:23:23.000 CNN's reporting they waited in the hallway, 19 people.

00:23:28.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:23:31.000 I'll tell you, working with a lot of guys in the military, they have told me stories, and no doubt people who are listening and watching right now probably know what I'm about to say, in terms of when you've got your brothers next to you, and if there's somebody coming at you, you get up and you fire.

00:23:46.000 You take care of the threat.

00:23:47.000 You do it for yourself, you do it for the people who are around you.

00:23:49.000 There's a brotherhood and a sisterhood that you're in this for the mission.

00:23:53.000 But it's also because you're doing this for your country.

00:23:56.000 You know, in this way, you're doing it for your community.

00:23:59.000 You're doing it for those kids and those families, but you're doing it for your community because you love your community.

00:24:03.000 You want to defend it from any threat, foreign or domestic.

00:24:06.000 It's the exact same thing in the military.

00:24:09.000 Those guys do it for their country because they love their country.

00:24:11.000 So I don't know what in the heck has gone on here, but something is very, very wrong.

00:24:16.000 I got ratioed today on Twitter because I said, this is what happens when you defund the police, you get incompetent officers.

00:24:22.000 And the response from the right was these were fully funded officers and they have no obligation to defend anybody.

00:24:28.000 And the left said the same thing.

00:24:29.000 This department was never defunded.

00:24:32.000 And so I'm going to eat that one and I'm going to own up to the poor wording of the idea.

00:24:36.000 What I was thinking of when I was tweeting that was this is what happens after quote unquote defund the police.

00:24:43.000 I didn't mean to say that this department was specifically defunded.

00:24:46.000 I said when you demonize police When you memorialize criminals, this is what you'll get.

00:24:52.000 Why would an officer, they're thinking to themselves, if I go in there, they're going to blame me.

00:24:57.000 They're going to, you know, they're going to say, oh, he started shooting because you did it.

00:25:00.000 They will throw, so no one is willing to take the actions anymore.

00:25:03.000 Yeah, I was imagining that it from their perspective, maybe in like, fog of war, they didn't know what was going on.

00:25:09.000 If there were multiple shooters, if it was a hostage situation, if ever there are three guys in there with ar 15s trained on the door, ready for cops just to walk through one by one and take them down one by one.

00:25:19.000 And they're like, we're not going to add to the bloodshed.

00:25:21.000 That's what I'm trying to figure.

00:25:23.000 Someone had mentioned that cops do not rush towards an armed man that they can't see because they will get shot.

00:25:28.000 What are we gonna say, Brian?

00:25:30.000 This idea though, building on what you both have just said, this idea of risk aversion, right?

00:25:34.000 So if you right now are in a law enforcement capacity in this country, you know that if you step incorrectly, you are going to be under a massive microscope, irrespective of your intent.

00:25:47.000 So, could there have been an issue here where some of those people, particularly collectively, are like, oh god, if we do the wrong thing here, or the cameras are going to be outside, and we're all going to get nailed for this.

00:25:56.000 To what extent is there a risk aversion sort of culture developing within law enforcement because of this sort of the woke stuff, or even some degree of actually good scrutiny over what people in law enforcement have done historically.

00:26:09.000 But has it gone too far?

00:26:10.000 Has the pendulum swung too far?

00:26:12.000 I think that that could also potentially be something that we're looking at here.

00:26:16.000 Well, the last two Democrat presidents, one being the current and the one before Trump, you know, the day this happened or two days ago, they were talking about George Floyd and talking about the need for police accountability.

00:26:28.000 So when you say, have we taken it too far?

00:26:31.000 Yeah.

00:26:32.000 Who wants to be a cop right now?

00:26:33.000 And this just makes it worse, right?

00:26:35.000 Now everyone's like, you're going to be a cop.

00:26:36.000 Did you know 19 of them stood in the hallway?

00:26:38.000 And now you have to be collectively joined to that, you're all cops.

00:26:42.000 It's like, I don't want to be part of that type of cop, but I want to be a cop.

00:26:47.000 But not anymore, I don't.

00:26:48.000 If this is what it means, if every time I do something, you're going to subpoena my body cam footage to have NBC edit it in a way that makes me look like the best. 0.94

00:26:56.000 Screw you.

00:26:57.000 I don't need this for $38,000 a year. 0.97

00:27:00.000 And we desperately need heroes right now.

00:27:01.000 Yeah, we do.

00:27:02.000 Yeah, if in the military, if those soldiers didn't have the authority to mow down civilians at will in the heat of the moment, we would lose every war.

00:27:11.000 You need that vicious onslaught.

00:27:14.000 You need it.

00:27:14.000 Or you cannot win a war.

00:27:16.000 That's war. 0.51

00:27:16.000 But these people, it basically was a similar, it was like a war moment of war in the classroom. 0.51

00:27:21.000 But I think this is different, but I see what you're saying.

00:27:24.000 You need a certain level of vigor when it comes to outright war.

00:27:30.000 But when you're in war, it's different from when you're hearing children dying right next to you.

00:27:35.000 I have no words to explain.

00:27:38.000 The correlation is that their authority to be brutal has been stripped away from them.

00:27:42.000 I'm not saying that it's good for cops to be brutal, but I think that in some cases they need to feel like they can be in order to survive.

00:27:50.000 I would only offer, brother, that I think that there is a good thing that we teach both in law enforcement, the intel community, and military, and that is target discernment.

00:27:59.000 So understanding who's in front of you and whether or not to pull the trigger.

00:28:03.000 And I think that a certain bridling of that raw human nature that just wants to throttle and kill, it's not such a bad thing actually.

00:28:10.000 It's quite good.

00:28:11.000 So some discernment around target selection is brilliant.

00:28:13.000 But your point, and this is really important, in that fog of war, in that intensity, when your adrenaline is pumping, Are you going to make that perfect decision 100 times out

00:28:23.000 of 100 times?

00:28:24.000 No.

00:28:25.000 And we know that, whether it be in intel, law enforcement, or military, you're going

00:28:29.000 to make mistakes and mistakes are going to happen.

00:28:31.000 And so that's when I think as a country, we need to be able to have that moment of reflection

00:28:35.000 to say, someone made a mistake.

00:28:37.000 It doesn't mean all law enforcement are good or bad.

00:28:40.000 Let's be careful with our statements not to make sweeping generalizations, but maybe a bit more nuanced.

00:28:45.000 But the bottom line, I think that a little bit of target discernment is really important.

00:28:49.000 It's really good.

00:28:50.000 But I think in this case, something just didn't go well.

00:28:53.000 Didn't go right.

00:28:54.000 It's worse than you all realize. It's not just about police who stood back and did nothing.

00:28:59.000 From TimCast.com. Border patrol team who ultimately killed the shooter were blocked

00:29:04.000 from entering the school by Uvalde police for nearly an hour. Why? It doesn't make any sense.

00:29:08.000 These people were not only were they cowards, but they were obstructing

00:29:14.000 the parents and the border patrol. This is something, something is wrong here. 0.91

00:29:20.000 Something is really screwed up.

00:29:20.000 Something is seriously wrong here.

00:29:23.000 Now they're saying they thought the children were at risk and so they didn't want to risk it by storming in or something like that.

00:29:29.000 And now they're saying it was a big mistake.

00:29:32.000 I don't buy it.

00:29:34.000 For you to stand outside that room hearing gunshots, knowing there are children inside.

00:29:38.000 Even if you don't hear gunshots, if you know children had been shot an hour ago, still can't go in.

00:29:44.000 There are kids who were shot inside can't go in what do they think was gonna happen like you after he killed all the kids He wasn't a threat anymore.

00:29:50.000 He's still got a gun look let him run out of bullets first.

00:29:53.000 That's crazy apparently had like what like 1,600 rounds We need right now for our future generations Heroes to look up to you know we need we need a story about one of these cops what should have happened and Storming in, kicking the door in, pulling out their service weapon, and ending this psychopath, and then telling people about how he risked everything to save these kids, and that's what you want to be when you grow up.

00:30:22.000 Yeah, well, the Border Patrol agent who actually did eventually kill him, right, was getting his hair cut.

00:30:27.000 His wife texted him and said, there's an active shooter in the school, help, and I'm sure you can find that article, and he was in the barber shop, he didn't have his weapon on him, but his barber had a shotgun, Holy cow!

00:30:38.000 That's amazing.

00:30:38.000 The barber is shotgun and drove to the school. That's amazing. He is the one that's the story and find the story

00:30:43.000 Yeah, that dude needs a move that dude and he's the one who who eventually killed the shooter

00:30:48.000 But I'm sure you can find the article pull that up. That is the culture

00:30:51.000 I'm not having been in this world for a while That is absolutely in the DNA of every cop and every

00:30:58.000 military official and every CIA officer that I've worked with

00:31:01.000 I would say in the vast majority of cases That's what drives people to show up is doing exactly what

00:31:07.000 he did off-duty wasn't his responsibility doesn't matter It was still his mission because it was his community.

00:31:13.000 It was his country.

00:31:15.000 That's what people dream of when they join the forces.

00:31:17.000 Good people dream of having that moment when they can jump up, grab the nearest available weapon and make it happen.

00:31:24.000 Well, I wanted to say before we move to this really interesting sounding story, I think that this might be the result of what happened during the pandemic when they were locking down, they were enforcing all these unconstitutional rules and the good cops were like, I'm out!

00:31:37.000 Bye!

00:31:37.000 So we're left with Cowardly Cops, who watched what happened during the BLM riots.

00:31:41.000 I don't know if he was the guy who actually killed the shooter.

00:31:43.000 They say it was a CBP Bortec.

00:31:46.000 Is it Bortec group?

00:31:47.000 Border Tactical?

00:31:48.000 Yeah, that confronted him.

00:31:49.000 But this guy did run in with his Barbara shotgun.

00:31:52.000 Oh, he saved his wife and daughter.

00:31:54.000 Okay.

00:31:54.000 Yeah.

00:31:54.000 That's amazing.

00:31:55.000 But he took his Barbara shotgun.

00:31:56.000 Still, an amazing story.

00:31:57.000 And these are the guys that we- Those are the ones that we need to make hero movies about.

00:32:00.000 Yes.

00:32:01.000 Yup.

00:32:03.000 I mean, how would you do it?

00:32:05.000 It would be short.

00:32:07.000 Short and sweet.

00:32:07.000 It's just a dad who said, I've got to save my family, you know?

00:32:13.000 Again, what I would love to know is about this man's life.

00:32:17.000 What drove him in his life to become who he became?

00:32:21.000 In his childhood, in his young adulthood, what made him decide that in that moment, sitting in that barber chair, that he has this beautiful family, That he was going to either try to save them or he would know that as he was trying to save his family he could be shot and killed and he would be gone and his family would have to survive without him.

00:32:38.000 But he still got himself out of that chair grabbed that shotgun and ran.

00:32:41.000 There's something interesting and beautiful about his soul that I would love to understand because that's exactly what we need to uplift and celebrate.

00:32:47.000 Yeah, it's actually a good origin story for his kid to be like if you were doing a movie about it about someone hero or like like a marine or a law enforcement guy did something great and it's like his origin was that his dad risked his life and that was the message he got and that's why he went on to become a hero.

00:33:02.000 I'm gonna tell you what this guy is.

00:33:04.000 He is a normal man who did something extraordinary.

00:33:08.000 Because that's what, in history of this country, it's not somebody who was born into some fancy family.

00:33:13.000 It was a normal person who was put in an extraordinary situation and did something extraordinary with the power of that moment.

00:33:20.000 I don't know.

00:33:21.000 When I think of the Careys and the Bushes and some of the prestigious families of the country, they've done amazing things.

00:33:27.000 Just absolutely amazing.

00:33:29.000 Definitely an amaze when I think about those things.

00:33:32.000 He took his barbarous shotgun.

00:33:33.000 He actually helped evacuate people out of the building.

00:33:36.000 Well, do we have Medal of Honor for police?

00:33:39.000 Local, state police, things like that?

00:33:40.000 I don't know.

00:33:41.000 Maybe we should.

00:33:42.000 But I wanted to add before we move on, because our chat's full of people screaming feds, that this guy worked for the federal government.

00:33:47.000 He worked for the Border Patrol.

00:33:49.000 He wasn't a local cop.

00:33:50.000 The local cops didn't do jack.

00:33:52.000 Deep state.

00:33:57.000 You raised a great question, though.

00:33:59.000 Is there a Medal of Honor, an award?

00:34:00.000 Will this guy be recognized?

00:34:02.000 It will be curious.

00:34:03.000 The next State of the Union is in seven months.

00:34:07.000 Order patrol.

00:34:08.000 Whoever the president invites to his balcony is always a very important, very symbolic.

00:34:13.000 I will bet right now that Biden will take someone from Buffalo To highlight the racism angle, because that is what we do in our American politics.

00:34:23.000 He will not take a hero and say, this is a guy who risked everything.

00:34:26.000 He will take a victim and say, and it's because of this country that victimhood like this exists, because you're all bad.

00:34:32.000 Vote for me again.

00:34:33.000 So that's what I think is going to happen.

00:34:34.000 It's a little speculative of me, but I don't think they'll build a statue for this guy.

00:34:39.000 No.

00:34:40.000 But they built a statue for George Floyd.

00:34:41.000 Yes.

00:34:42.000 Pray for us, St.

00:34:43.000 George Floyd.

00:34:43.000 He was on fentanyl at the time of death.

00:34:45.000 Oh, more than that.

00:34:47.000 He should not have died.

00:34:48.000 I mean, I'm not trying to say that in any way, but we don't want to make those guys heroes.

00:34:53.000 No, George Floyd died.

00:34:54.000 It's tragic.

00:34:55.000 And in many ways, you know, I also think that he was a flawed human being.

00:35:01.000 I don't know his name.

00:35:02.000 want people just to die, but we don't tell our children to look up to the people who

00:35:06.000 are dying in these tragic things and who have lived pretty bad lives.

00:35:11.000 We want kids to look up to this guy, Jacob Alborado, who was getting a haircut, and then

00:35:18.000 decides he gets a text from his wife.

00:35:19.000 That's the story.

00:35:20.000 And then says, you know, she says, I love you.

00:35:21.000 And he rushes in to help save.

00:35:23.000 I mean, you want to save his family, but he helps evacuating a bunch of other people too.

00:35:27.000 Get Jacob Alvarado on the show.

00:35:28.000 That is a great idea.

00:35:29.000 Might have to try that.

00:35:30.000 Yeah.

00:35:30.000 I think, you know, just wait and ask him the question.

00:35:32.000 Where'd you come from?

00:35:33.000 Well, he's also, he's also CBP.

00:35:35.000 So I'd love to talk to him.

00:35:36.000 Oh, sure.

00:35:36.000 Yeah.

00:35:37.000 I'll get a lot of questions.

00:35:38.000 Yeah.

00:35:38.000 He'd be great guest.

00:35:39.000 Ask him if they really whip people.

00:35:41.000 Oh yeah.

00:35:42.000 That's what I want to know.

00:35:43.000 I was, I was at a, I went to Austin.

00:35:47.000 And I was hanging out at a hotel and flipping through the channels.

00:35:49.000 I can't remember which news station turned on automatically.

00:35:52.000 And it was this documentary.

00:35:54.000 And it was just the weirdest Jussie Smollett-level hoax, BS, leftist propaganda.

00:36:00.000 And it was playing this dark music and showing all these awful photos of, like, Trump supporters and Trump looking angry.

00:36:05.000 And then it showed the Border Patrol guy with the rain.

00:36:08.000 Yeah.

00:36:09.000 Please.

00:36:09.000 Where they tried to convince people he was whipping them.

00:36:11.000 It's just not real.

00:36:13.000 No.

00:36:13.000 These people believe Jussie Smollett hoaxes every single day.

00:36:16.000 Jesse is free again, right?

00:36:18.000 That's what I heard last night.

00:36:19.000 He hasn't been put back in jail.

00:36:21.000 That's what I heard last night.

00:36:23.000 But you know what's not fake is the deep state.

00:36:25.000 They're real.

00:36:26.000 Yeah, for sure.

00:36:27.000 So am I going to run out of this place?

00:36:29.000 Is that what's going to happen?

00:36:30.000 No, absolutely not.

00:36:31.000 I prefer the term administrative state.

00:36:34.000 Speaking of, you were part of the administrative state.

00:36:36.000 I was, that's true.

00:36:38.000 Why did you leave?

00:36:40.000 Two reasons.

00:36:40.000 The first was my brother still is an alcoholic but needed to be in rehab so I left to go make a bunch of money to get him into rehab.

00:36:48.000 So thank God he's sober and doing better now.

00:36:52.000 The other was I saw a lot of people who no longer were there for the right reasons.

00:36:59.000 I can't talk a lot about the programs that I was involved in, but the upshot is that they were lying to the White House and the NSC and the oversight committees about how successful we were being at certain things.

00:37:10.000 And I was like, you guys, this is incorrect.

00:37:13.000 And they basically just told me to go F myself, right?

00:37:17.000 So after a while, you were baptized as I was, born and raised in rural America.

00:37:23.000 My family loved the country and I have cousins who joined the military and all that.

00:37:27.000 So joining the CIA was an extension of that.

00:37:29.000 So you would have thought, as I did for many years, that everybody would want to remain

00:37:34.000 committed to the mission, to the country.

00:37:37.000 But then I got to this level where I'm involved in various programs and I'm watching them

00:37:41.000 lie to our elected leaders, which I don't know in hindsight how naive of me not to think

00:37:46.000 that some of my colleagues would lie to protect themselves so they could get promoted, right?

00:37:51.000 But it was so disheartening that I was like, I'm not going to spend another 20 years of my life around these people who aren't here for the right reason.

00:38:00.000 I'm out.

00:38:00.000 I'm done.

00:38:01.000 So do you think, does the CIA have a little bit of an Enron problem, where the numbers are inflated, but everyone likes the cons of the result, and so they're like, yeah, this is great.

00:38:11.000 Insider knowledge here.

00:38:12.000 Every two years or so, people rotate out of positions.

00:38:16.000 So you want to be able, in your evaluation, you want people to say, oh, things were better than when you got here. 0.99

00:38:22.000 Nobody wants to say, hey, when I got into this position, I actually did a little bit of scrubbing, and this is a bunch of bullshit. 0.99

00:38:28.000 The programs that we're telling the downtown, that is to say the White House and Congress that are all great, actually they're garbage. 0.99

00:38:34.000 Nobody wants to be that guy.

00:38:36.000 So everybody waits two years and then leaves.

00:38:38.000 So everybody kicks this corrupt can down the road.

00:38:41.000 And so that's what's happening inside the agency to this day.

00:38:44.000 So, term limits for administrative state.

00:38:46.000 This has been brought up to me multiple times, and I'm a fan.

00:38:50.000 What you're saying absolutely solidifies my belief in that. 0.99

00:38:52.000 If they're waiting two years to get into promotion, and they'll just say whatever they need to say, I mean, that's the deepest, darkest crap.

00:39:01.000 So I don't know what the solution is other than you've got to have more sunshine into those kinds of systems and you have to have people you know raise their hand to the inspectors general etc to say hey there's an issue.

00:39:13.000 But ultimately this is about the House and the Senate the oversight committees and their staffs knowing what questions to ask and holding the people in power to account.

00:39:22.000 And that's true with the FBI too. 0.91

00:39:24.000 That's what has failed over these past number of years with all these FBI agents who did this ridiculous crap in Michigan, you know, setting those guys up. 0.95

00:39:32.000 We saw it with guys like John Brennan, who knew damn well that there was no Trump-Russia collusion. 0.90

00:39:38.000 But he left the agency and he went around the country for two years saying it was all but true, if not absolutely true.

00:39:43.000 And he knew it wasn't!

00:39:44.000 I knew.

00:39:45.000 Oh, James Clapper as well.

00:39:46.000 Sorry to cut you off there.

00:39:47.000 Yet another one.

00:39:47.000 Clapper with when they're talking about the PRISM spying network that they had uncovered and asked if they'd been spying on American people.

00:39:53.000 His response was not wittingly, knowing full well, yes, you have been spying on the American people.

00:39:57.000 They built a big station, like a big building in the middle of nowhere to do it.

00:40:01.000 Under oath, he perjured himself.

00:40:03.000 Congress did nothing.

00:40:05.000 Here's what the deep state is.

00:40:06.000 I'm going to give you an example.

00:40:07.000 A guy named Aldrich Ames.

00:40:09.000 He was a CIA officer back in the 1990s.

00:40:12.000 And he decided he was going to spy for the Soviet Union.

00:40:15.000 And so he did.

00:40:15.000 And then he was caught by the FBI.

00:40:18.000 And they asked him, Aldrich, why'd you do it?

00:40:21.000 And he said, because I know what's best for this country and its national security, and I'm going to act on it.

00:40:28.000 So the Deep State are these people who have profound powers who decide that based on their own politics, their own beliefs, they're going to do whatever the hell they want to do, irrespective of the law, and then they get away with it.

00:40:40.000 So it was like a corporate governance basically that got built in 1946?

00:40:42.000 Is that right after World War II?

00:40:45.000 Eisenhower basically put this thing together?

00:40:47.000 That's the upshot, yeah.

00:40:48.000 Through the Second World War, there was something called the OSS, that was kind of the External Intelligence Service, and then obviously the FBI preceded that.

00:40:55.000 But yeah, it was this... There was a need for foreign intelligence to understand what our adversaries are doing and to get ahead of that, right?

00:41:04.000 So I get the need, and that remains.

00:41:06.000 But the problem is, when you give people any human power, some percentage of them are going to abuse it.

00:41:12.000 And the more power that you give them, At some level, you're going to have more and more people who abuse it.

00:41:17.000 It's just the nature of humanity.

00:41:18.000 So how do you bridle that?

00:41:20.000 How do you manage it?

00:41:21.000 And there are different people who answer that in different ways.

00:41:23.000 Maybe you don't do it at all because it's just too risky.

00:41:25.000 So you get rid of the CIA altogether, or you manage it better.

00:41:28.000 I always wonder if the deep state is the, and correct me, the organization itself is so big and so well entrenched that by the time there's a new president and they switch out John Podesta for, who's the guy now?

00:41:42.000 Bill Burr?

00:41:43.000 Bill Burr's the comedian. Yeah, hopefully it'll be Bill Burr.

00:41:45.000 That would be fun.

00:41:46.000 Bill Byrne, right? I mean by the time you swap these people out, it doesn't

00:41:52.000 matter who's at the top. Like I'm doing my thing and you know he doesn't know I

00:41:57.000 exist. I know who he is just to stay out of his hair. Is there some truth to the

00:42:01.000 fact that the apparatus is so big that the people at the top they rotate and no

00:42:05.000 That's absolutely true, and this gets back to the point that was made about whether it be term limits, even in your bureaucracy, your mid-level guys, or it's just a size issue.

00:42:15.000 You've just expanded the state in the past 20, 30 years to such an extent that there are so many people who have so many entrenched interests that A, it slows down your mission, But then, B, you get more and more people who can do more and more damage to your country because you give them such expansive powers.

00:42:29.000 So I'm a big fan of actually reducing, not just the size of government, generally speaking, which it's true, but specifically the deep states at work, the agency, the FBI.

00:42:39.000 I certainly think the administrative state, the deep state, whatever you want to call it, is a serious problem.

00:42:44.000 But what about the argument, and I'm not saying it's a good argument, I'm just saying this is the argument made, that if we curtail our powers internationally and domestically, China will take over and then we'll be living in a unipolar Chinese superpower, you know, planet. 0.82

00:43:00.000 So here's the deal.

00:43:00.000 CIA ain't going to stop China.

00:43:03.000 The CIA and the FBI are not going to stop China. 0.67

00:43:05.000 The FBI starts at least 10 cases every day against China right now.

00:43:10.000 We have over 100,000 Chinese nationals who come into this country every year.

00:43:14.000 So the issue isn't... it is like a dam that is bursting.

00:43:18.000 We're trying to put our finger in it to stop it.

00:43:21.000 You have good leadership within the White House and the House and the Senate that understands that China is a threat and starts treating them as such. 0.91

00:43:28.000 The spies ain't gonna fix this one.

00:43:29.000 The FBI ain't gonna fix this.

00:43:30.000 They just won't.

00:43:31.000 So we don't need to expand the administrative state to fix this problem.

00:43:35.000 It's a political problem.

00:43:36.000 You have to understand that China hates us.

00:43:37.000 They're trying to destroy us.

00:43:38.000 We are their enemies.

00:43:40.000 And so you start changing that relationship. 1.00

00:43:43.000 So for instance, you take your damn economy out of China. 0.99

00:43:47.000 Do you think Trump could have stopped China? 0.99

00:43:49.000 I think he tried with his trade deal.

00:43:52.000 I mean, he basically said, look, you guys start buying more of our stuff because you're stealing our stuff, right?

00:43:56.000 So that's the thing that right now people are forgetting.

00:43:59.000 Biden is actually thinking about getting rid of the tariffs.

00:44:02.000 But Trump actually said, look, no, the tariffs ultimately are about saying to the Chinese, you still steal billions of dollars of our economy, our intellectual property every year.

00:44:12.000 So you're going to start paying more to these tariffs or it's a penalty.

00:44:15.000 Right.

00:44:16.000 So now Biden's going to get rid of him.

00:44:17.000 Well, then what lesson have the Chinese learned? 0.99

00:44:20.000 They can keep stealing our stuff.

00:44:21.000 So my question, I suppose, was if Trump was working towards ending this expanding dominance of the Chinese economy and taking of our infrastructure, our manufacturing, things like that, I should say, our economic infrastructure, and the spies weren't able to stop it, but they were able to stop Trump, they've effectively propped up China. 0.76

00:44:40.000 They've secured our doom on the global stage.

00:44:44.000 Yeah.

00:44:45.000 I will point out it's not China, though.

00:44:46.000 It is the CCP, the occupying force of that land.

00:44:49.000 The actual government of China is the Republic of China, located in Taiwan, and they are in very good terms with us right now.

00:44:56.000 Ian, you are right.

00:44:57.000 Thank you, sir.

00:44:58.000 What would the deep state say if China unleashed this, let's just call it a virus, and it went worldwide?

00:45:04.000 Would there be penalties?

00:45:06.000 I think the Chinese people are men they're they're stuck under that 1.00

00:45:11.000 totalitarian occupying force for real right now and now like see tommy's but

00:45:16.000 but removing the economy from China we saw during kovat how 90 95% of our

00:45:21.000 pharmaceutical is is based in China nothing has been done to change that

00:45:26.000 Now we look at similar geopolitics.

00:45:28.000 We look at Ukraine and we say, boy, this was really bad that we import 60% of our fertilizer from Russia.

00:45:34.000 Nothing will change about that.

00:45:36.000 We used to produce our own pharmaceuticals.

00:45:37.000 We used to produce our own fertilizer.

00:45:39.000 The whole Gulf Coast was where we got them.

00:45:41.000 Why did we ever move these industries overseas?

00:45:43.000 And show me one person in the Senate and there are lots of Pro-America, I hate China, I hate Russia's senators, and they're all on the right.

00:45:50.000 Show me one of them who is making a concerted effort to say, I don't care what the global market says, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck, you know, fertilizer, all of you have to come back to America because there is a geopolitical and national security risk to having these critical... You want to get your olive oil from Italy?

00:46:08.000 That's great.

00:46:09.000 Get your cheese from France, totally cool.

00:46:11.000 But your fertilizer can't be made by your enemy, nor can your aspirin.

00:46:16.000 But there is not one serious piece of legislation to bring, or movement, to bring all these things back to America.

00:46:22.000 None whatsoever.

00:46:23.000 We'll just watch China do it again and say, wow, that was really bad, but, you know, thanks for my iPhone. 1.00

00:46:28.000 So this is, maybe I'm just, to be honest, a surface-level dude.

00:46:32.000 I'm sitting here, reading the internet, thinking I know so much about, you know, geopolitics and international conflict.

00:46:38.000 and i assume this probably some cia or fbi guy said it is in his in his office was classed information

00:46:44.000 just laugh and being a lot of only you really knew

00:46:47.000 maybe that's the case i hope but but i i i do i do i want to believe that right

00:46:51.000 exactly i want to believe

00:46:53.000 they're sitting there saying like here's why we had to do what we did because we

00:46:57.000 are concerned about china taking over

00:46:59.000 We are concerned about these Uyghur camps. 1.00

00:47:02.000 We're concerned about the Belt and Road Initiative.

00:47:03.000 We're concerned about oil exploration in South America.

00:47:07.000 But really what it feels like is Trump derangement syndrome went viral within these agencies.

00:47:14.000 Trump actually was doing things that were good on foreign policy.

00:47:18.000 And they stopped him.

00:47:20.000 They stopped him.

00:47:21.000 And that's the problem of the deep state, the administrative state.

00:47:24.000 You know what the media tries to do?

00:47:26.000 They try to make you think the deep state is a cabal of people who meet below D.C.

00:47:29.000 with robes on and have like a pentagram on the ceiling.

00:47:32.000 No, it's just that people who get jobs... That's Hollywood.

00:47:34.000 Right.

00:47:34.000 That's Hollywood.

00:47:35.000 What it actually is, that's why Ian brought up administrative state.

00:47:38.000 J. Edgar Hoover, man.

00:47:39.000 It's people who don't get fired.

00:47:41.000 J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI for 48 years.

00:47:43.000 between a bunch of different presidents and you know Obama gets elected he sits

00:47:46.000 down and they say here's what's happening and here's our plan and the

00:47:49.000 president goes okay I guess and so they just do whatever they want as long as

00:47:52.000 they want. J Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI for 48 years 47 some years like

00:47:57.000 he ran the country He was running the country.

00:48:00.000 47 years he was the head of the FBI.

00:48:02.000 I mean, I've never been in the FBI, but I mean, what's the power?

00:48:05.000 I would imagine that power level is immense.

00:48:08.000 Amen.

00:48:08.000 So, particularly without going into the history of the FBI, he absolutely decided the political winners and losers of this country.

00:48:15.000 And that's really what happened during the 2020 and 2016 election, particularly 2016 with Hillary Clinton and Trump, right?

00:48:23.000 So, after Trump was elected, you had a bunch of former CIA and FBI officials, James Comey, leaking classified information to force the appointment of a special counsel. 0.95

00:48:33.000 Holy crap!

00:48:34.000 This is one man, an FBI director, who decided that Trump should not be in power, not because there was actual data or information that said we had a problem, but he just didn't like the guy. 0.97

00:48:43.000 So he goes to the New York Times, leaks it in order to get Bob Mueller.

00:48:46.000 That is J. Edgar Hoover level stuff.

00:48:49.000 And we haven't seen that in a long, long time.

00:48:51.000 I foolishly believed that those dark days were over, but that showed me that it ain't gone.

00:48:58.000 There are still absolutely people in positions without authority and power who still do this J. Edgar Hoover stuff.

00:49:03.000 The Sussman trial stuff is crazy.

00:49:05.000 We had Kash Patel in the other day and it's just shocking.

00:49:09.000 The FBI knew it was bunk almost immediately.

00:49:12.000 You had apparently one guy testified that Hillary Clinton knew and signed off on the Russiagate narrative fabrication.

00:49:19.000 Wow.

00:49:20.000 The agent, Sussman himself, who lied on the FISA warrant to get the FISA, that's the same guy.

00:49:29.000 It is the same level of corruption and negligence and evil and dereliction of duty On a different level, but it's the same idea as the 19 guys in Texas who stood in the hallway and listened to the gunshots.

00:49:42.000 This is exactly what your mission is, and you're like, yeah, but I'm not gonna do it.

00:49:46.000 Like, you know this is a lie, yeah, but I'm not gonna do it.

00:49:49.000 Like, you know what your job is right now, and the oath you have taken, yeah, I'm gonna do the opposite.

00:49:55.000 You know, I'll tell you one piece that in the last couple weeks I did on my podcast and talked a lot about that doesn't, I think, get enough attention.

00:50:04.000 107,000 people last year died because of fentanyl or drug overdoses.

00:50:07.000 Most of them of the 107,000 were fentanyl.

00:50:10.000 The point is most of that comes from China.

00:50:12.000 Those are precursor chemicals that come from China.

00:50:14.000 China knows these companies that are producing it.

00:50:17.000 They know that they in turn are dealing with Mexican cartel members.

00:50:21.000 And it's then all feeding into this country. 0.61

00:50:24.000 China is killing a hundred plus thousand of our people.

00:50:28.000 Why are we not like outraged that the communist government in Beijing is doing this in concert and collaboration with Mexican cartels?

00:50:36.000 It is just, it should be getting far more attention certainly than even Ukraine.

00:50:40.000 I mean as much as that Absolutely runs the risk of World War III, and I think we can talk about that as well, because I think we're getting there.

00:50:47.000 That issue of dead Americans in this country, especially in rural America, is so real and so painful for me personally, but for so many others, it deserves more of our attention.

00:50:57.000 And that's why, because it's rural America, and we were saying to this before the show started, if the overdoses from fentanyl and Chinese opioids were Upper East Side collegiates, this would have been stopped by now.

00:51:11.000 But it's mostly rural, mostly poor, mostly hillbilly whites, and we don't really care. 1.00

00:51:16.000 They targeted the farmers.

00:51:17.000 It's just exactly it is not a population the American government care about because they don't like them

00:51:22.000 Even their own their own representatives don't like them look for any

00:51:25.000 Liberal who represents a rural state who's running for office even they are ashamed of their constituency

00:51:31.000 They don't care But I'm gonna tell you right now in Pima County, Arizona

00:51:34.000 where I am from If you were a kid the thing that's gonna get you in terms

00:51:38.000 of the thing that's gonna kill you is fentanyl right now It's not car accidents.

00:51:41.000 It is fentanyl.

00:51:42.000 And Pima County is not a rural, you know, white hillbilly area.

00:51:47.000 You are right.

00:51:47.000 The preponderance is absolute.

00:51:48.000 That is true.

00:51:49.000 But it's hitting communities in lots of parts of this country.

00:51:52.000 Black, brown, it doesn't matter. 1.00

00:51:54.000 It is hitting our young people most especially because that shit, pardon my language, is mixed up with weed or with other stuff. 1.00

00:52:00.000 And they're like, hey, let's experiment. 0.99

00:52:01.000 Let's try and have a good time.

00:52:02.000 And then they end up dead because there's just such tiny amounts of that that they end up killing.

00:52:06.000 I find it to be an extension of the opium wars. 0.61

00:52:08.000 Apparently, this is when the British and other Europeans were shuffling opium into China.

00:52:13.000 They were basically colonizing China in the mid-1800s, and they were like, we're going to wreck their population, make them incapable of fighting, and then we're going to conquer it and take it as another colony, like what they did with India. 0.98

00:52:22.000 But the Chinese eventually fought back and pushed them back to the coast and off and into Taiwan or Hong Kong or these islands.

00:52:30.000 But it never ended for them.

00:52:31.000 They play the long game.

00:52:32.000 Any wise regime thinks hundreds of years in the future and will never forget what people are capable of.

00:52:40.000 And that's what they're doing.

00:52:41.000 They're sending it into Mexico, like you said, with the cartels, using them to run it up into the country.

00:52:44.000 They're destabilizing our youth.

00:52:46.000 You see it in the dysphoria movement. 0.93

00:52:49.000 You see it in the shootings.

00:52:52.000 And the pharmaceutical companies seem to be capitalizing on it.

00:52:55.000 They've actually created medical fentanyl.

00:52:57.000 You can, I mean, I don't know who's in charge.

00:52:58.000 Is it AstraZeneca?

00:52:59.000 Who actually prints this stuff?

00:53:01.000 This stuff they're working, colluding with the CCP?

00:53:06.000 I want to talk to you guys about guns.

00:53:07.000 Because I had this tweet this Friday, so I want to talk about my tweet.

00:53:11.000 I tweeted, the government should provide all 16-year-olds with a free AR-15 after they pass firearm ed in high school.

00:53:18.000 If you haven't, then once you turn 18, you should be entitled to one free AR-15 from the government after passing a general knowledge test at the Department of Gun Services.

00:53:26.000 Demand universal gun ownership now, call your member of Congress, and demand they pass this legislation.

00:53:31.000 A lot of people said that I was trolling.

00:53:33.000 I'm not.

00:53:33.000 My point was that I saw all these memes from the left where they said we should treat guns like we treat cars.

00:53:38.000 And I was like, you think that goes only one way?

00:53:41.000 They post these memes where they're like, gotta get a license, gotta get insurance, gotta register the gun, all of that stuff.

00:53:45.000 And I was like, okay, I can use that same argument and go the other direction.

00:53:49.000 We allow 16-year-olds to drive cars.

00:53:51.000 Okay, so 16-year-olds should get guns.

00:53:53.000 We also have gun rights in the Constitution.

00:53:55.000 So you want to argue for universal health care?

00:53:57.000 I'll argue for my universal demand as well.

00:54:00.000 Government should pay for my guns. 0.95

00:54:01.000 But let me tell you where the juicy part of the tweet is at.

00:54:05.000 Karl Marx said, under no pretext should workers surrender their arms and ammunition.

00:54:10.000 The true leftist position on guns should be an armed workforce and the government providing guns to the people.

00:54:17.000 It's just simple logic.

00:54:18.000 Karl Marx, right?

00:54:19.000 He said, never surrender your arms and ammunition.

00:54:21.000 Well, if you're a socialist, you don't think capital is going to fund the creation of these guns, do you?

00:54:26.000 It's going to be the government and they're going to provide it.

00:54:28.000 Tim, did AOC retweet this?

00:54:30.000 Is that what I'm seeing?

00:54:31.000 Did she like and retweet this?

00:54:35.000 No.

00:54:35.000 That's strange.

00:54:36.000 Why not?

00:54:36.000 I think the only problem I have with this tweet is that I don't think getting your gun from the government is the best thing because if they really want to conquer you, they'll make the gun have a defect and then give it to you.

00:54:45.000 And they know how to exploit the defect in the weapon.

00:54:46.000 I'm not saying the only place to get the gun.

00:54:49.000 I'm saying you get a free one.

00:54:50.000 So it's a net positive.

00:54:51.000 and you gotta get you you probably wanna get it checked out but universal gun ownership

00:54:55.000 they want argue for universal health care on my coca cool well they say health care is a human right

00:54:59.000 i say gun ownership is a human right right okay well then the government can

00:55:02.000 pay for give everybody guns area any objections now

00:55:07.000 all right there is a little right to own does not dictate a right to receive

00:55:12.000 well of course i'd okay Sorry for the logic.

00:55:14.000 I think my only question is, at the 30,000 foot level, what are we considering the age of adulthood?

00:55:20.000 So if it's 16, and I know you can drive at 16.

00:55:22.000 Some places in rural, you can get your farmer's license to drive a heavy equipment at 14.

00:55:27.000 You can't go on the road, but you can drive a $500,000 combine, right?

00:55:30.000 It's pretty awesome.

00:55:34.000 There's another movement, though, to move the gun ownership age to 21.

00:55:38.000 And I have a problem with voting at a certain age, but voting on something that you cannot fully own and free society at another age.

00:55:48.000 I don't want to be able to vote at 18, but I can't own something until I'm 21.

00:55:52.000 There's the movement, as you were saying, to vote.

00:55:54.000 It's 16.

00:55:55.000 So 16-year-olds are going to make law or vote for laws, but I can't fully participate in that law for five more years.

00:56:01.000 So if we're going to have a real equitable society, to use their words, then if you have the right to vote on something, you must have the ability to have full participation in that.

00:56:10.000 Agreed.

00:56:11.000 So if we're going to make the voting age 16, then the gun age is 16, but then the draft is 16.

00:56:15.000 But I don't want my 16-year-old sending my 21-year-olds to war, telling the 18-year-olds they can't have a cigarette, a beer, or a gun.

00:56:24.000 So something is wrong.

00:56:24.000 If we're going to say the age of adulthood now is 21, and we are a very immature society, then it's 21 across the board.

00:56:31.000 I have a darker interpretation of their desire for a 16-year-old voting age. 1.00

00:56:35.000 Well, they're stupid. 1.00

00:56:36.000 No offense to them. 1.00

00:56:37.000 It's not just stupidity. 1.00

00:56:40.000 If you're an adult at 16, that means you can do more than vote. 1.00

00:56:42.000 Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

00:56:43.000 It's a slippery slope. 0.85

00:56:44.000 Because at what point can you have sex with a 35-year-old, you know, 16 now?

00:56:48.000 What are they trying to do?

00:56:49.000 This is why when they try and lower the age of adulthood in a variety of ways, I'm kind of like, what are you really doing?

00:56:57.000 When you look at what's going on in these schools, you know, the grooming, and I see these memes from these liberals on Facebook where they desperately try to conflate the grooming argument with banning books, and it's just like, I see this meme and it's, you know, they want to ban books, and there's like an old man with a mug hat yelling, and I was like, I think they were concerned about the graphic depictions of adult activities in those books that were available to children.

00:57:19.000 If you're defending that, and you're doing it out of ignorance, or it's willful, then either way, the outcome is the same.

00:57:28.000 When you come out and then say, kids should be, you know, participating in governance at 16, it's like, you're creating a threshold for which we reduce the age of adulthood.

00:57:39.000 Look, I don't know if 18, you know, where that number comes about, because it certainly 200 years ago was, you know, you were 13, you were considered a man or whatever.

00:57:47.000 I don't know if I agree with that.

00:57:48.000 18 kind of feels okay.

00:57:50.000 You know, gun ownership and all these things.

00:57:52.000 You can be under 18 and have a gun if your parents take responsibility for it in most places.

00:57:57.000 Like in Wisconsin and stuff like that.

00:57:59.000 I mean, growing up, family farm, we hunted from when I was a very young boy, but that was part of our culture.

00:58:06.000 We were taught how to use a firearm, respect a firearm.

00:58:09.000 And so it's this idea that a 16-year-old couldn't or a 14-year-old couldn't use a firearm and be taught how to use it thoughtfully.

00:58:17.000 It's bizarre to me because I grew up in that culture.

00:58:21.000 Yeah, so I was shooting from the time I was like 10 years old.

00:58:23.000 My dad took us.

00:58:24.000 We had like a little shooting range in our back 40.

00:58:27.000 Probably not really on par with what the law wanted, but my dad taught us how to use it.

00:58:32.000 He taught us how to be safe with it.

00:58:33.000 He said, I'll give you a dollar if you ever see the end of this gun while I'm holding it.

00:58:36.000 And of course, he'd never gave us a dollar because we never saw it and we understood how important that was.

00:58:40.000 But somebody on Twitter earlier today, I forget who it was, I'm sorry, tweeted, how many of these mass shooters were young boys raised by fathers who taught them how to hunt?

00:58:49.000 It's a very valid question.

00:58:50.000 I don't think any of them ever have been.

00:58:52.000 They have no dads.

00:58:53.000 Of course not.

00:58:53.000 Yeah, it's very sad.

00:58:55.000 So that's why when I, days after these shootings, and we hear Congress stand up and say we need to pass this law or that law, this is the stuff, this is the conversation that we need to have as a country.

00:59:05.000 Understanding who these individuals are, their families, the dynamics, the health, you know, mental health, all that.

00:59:10.000 Because you are so right, and whoever tweeted that, bravo to them, because that's spot on.

00:59:15.000 Yeah, and I remember thinking, I actually had this conversation before I left the healthcare field with one of my co-workers, and his dad wasn't really involved in his life, and there was a shooting, and I was like, this is terrible, but man, I think one of the things that all of these shooters have in common is that they don't have dads, and he's like, What?

00:59:32.000 That's weird.

00:59:33.000 I really have to think about that.

00:59:34.000 He's like, that's a super hot take.

00:59:35.000 I'm like, I think it's true.

00:59:36.000 Sorry.

00:59:37.000 I'm afraid.

00:59:38.000 It's a couple of things.

00:59:38.000 It's a dad to sit down with you and say, son, you need to understand responsibility and what it means to have obligations to your community.

00:59:47.000 And it's also the moment when the dad bops you on the head and said, that was dumb. 0.98

00:59:50.000 What are you doing? 1.00

00:59:50.000 I'm being stupid. 1.00

00:59:51.000 He's a strong leader. 0.99

00:59:53.000 A dad to be like, how are you feeling?

00:59:55.000 Yeah.

00:59:55.000 Are you okay?

00:59:56.000 Yeah.

00:59:57.000 Maybe like a dad who's got long hair and is like a hippie with a bunch of crystals.

01:00:00.000 Yeah, maybe he used to smoke weed in his 20s.

01:00:05.000 The point here is that I think that this conversation is just as valid as, hey, what about magazine limitations?

01:00:11.000 What about the type of weapon?

01:00:13.000 Or what about the age that we should give children?

01:00:16.000 I think this conversation is just as important, if not more important.

01:00:20.000 But you hear also oftentimes from the left, they will say, oh, here the right, you know, here the conservatives go again talking about family issues and about, you know, knock it off.

01:00:29.000 Come on.

01:00:29.000 It's absolutely, it should be part of the conversation.

01:00:31.000 We should have a magazine limit.

01:00:34.000 I really do think so.

01:00:35.000 We should limit them to, they cannot be lower than 30.

01:00:39.000 At least yeah We're gonna look at society for the last four generations

01:00:51.000 or so so from like the baby boomers on and we're gonna say that gun violence 0.99

01:00:56.000 Guns school shootings are are the now the anomaly. Well, we have to look at that in context, right?

01:01:02.000 And that's just all they want to look at.

01:01:03.000 It's like, wow, suddenly gun... there are incidents of shootings at schools, therefore it's a gun problem.

01:01:08.000 But what else is happening concurrently, right?

01:01:10.000 I mean, you can't just take one statistic and then isolate it.

01:01:15.000 And when you look at everything else that's happening, Clearly fatherlessness is a huge problem.

01:01:19.000 Sexual perversion is a huge problem. 0.99

01:01:21.000 What I love about Libs of TikTok, which is why they got banned from Twitter, is I just wish you would find some liberal teachers who are so enthusiastic about math and science as they are about their genitals.

01:01:34.000 These teachers make non-stop videos about telling their kids, and I told my girl, and it's like, Do you ever talk to them about reading, right?

01:01:42.000 So if you look at, again, all these millions of statistics of five generations, you can't just look at the shootings and say, wow, that's an anomaly.

01:01:51.000 It's a gun problem.

01:01:51.000 There's lots of other things that are spiking.

01:01:54.000 And if you say that, well, they're not happening, there's no correlation, then you're just a liar or you're politically motivated. 0.74

01:02:00.000 Either the sexual perversion stuff is a huge problem. 0.93

01:02:03.000 You mentioned the grooming stuff.

01:02:05.000 I mean, we have hardcore drag shows in children's second grade classroom, and we're supposed to pretend this is normal?

01:02:15.000 Quite frankly, and this is gonna sound hard, and I don't want it to come out the wrong way, I'm surprised there are not more school shootings, because our kids are so messed up in the head.

01:02:25.000 They're told boys can get pregnant, they have tampons in their bathroom, they play on girls' teams.

01:02:32.000 These kids are so confused with everything.

01:02:36.000 And then their teachers don't even want to talk about English and math.

01:02:38.000 They want to talk about their dating lives.

01:02:40.000 And in case anyone out there starts to text, you do know I am married to a guy, right?

01:02:45.000 So I am technically in the community.

01:02:48.000 It's a community I hate. 0.99

01:02:50.000 It's alphabet soup that is degenerative, that drives me insane. 0.96

01:02:54.000 But we have to talk about these things.

01:02:57.000 The way the oppression Olympics go, you're out.

01:03:01.000 I'm not a good one, yeah. 0.99

01:03:02.000 You're a white man. 0.76

01:03:04.000 But I mean, there's a role for me to play in this because you, a lot of people, you cis people can't have these conversations.

01:03:12.000 The cisgender people can't... You are cis. 0.72

01:03:14.000 Am I cis?

01:03:15.000 Yes. 0.99

01:03:15.000 Oh crap, what does cis mean? 0.99

01:03:17.000 Not trans. 1.00

01:03:18.000 So Ian and I... Oh good, I am cis.

01:03:21.000 I knew I was somewhat normal.

01:03:23.000 What you mean to say is cis-het.

01:03:25.000 Yeah, not cisgender heteronormative.

01:03:28.000 You are not heteronormative.

01:03:30.000 None of those things are real.

01:03:33.000 I thought I was Irish.

01:03:35.000 Virtual reality.

01:03:37.000 All these different words.

01:03:37.000 I don't even know what they mean.

01:03:38.000 They don't even have meaning.

01:03:39.000 People create them.

01:03:41.000 I got no problem with that.

01:03:43.000 That's how language evolves, yeah.

01:03:45.000 Yeah, language evolves.

01:03:46.000 If a group of people are like, if someone isn't trans, what are they?

01:03:49.000 They call it cis, it's like a math thing.

01:03:51.000 I'm like, yo, I literally don't care what words you use as long as we're effectively conveying ideas to each other.

01:03:56.000 Are we?

01:03:56.000 But the problem is it's not just the creation of new words, it's the corruption of existing words.

01:04:01.000 Yeah.

01:04:02.000 Like racism, right?

01:04:03.000 That's been a huge problem for a long time as to what racism really means.

01:04:07.000 Now, people can come out and say, cis and trans and whatever, and I'm like, as long as I understand you, we can have a conversation.

01:04:14.000 But we don't understand each other anymore.

01:04:15.000 Ricky Gervais is being cancelled from Netflix because of his transphobic jokes.

01:04:20.000 They're not transphobic!

01:04:21.000 There are jokes about trans people!

01:04:22.000 There are jokes about Polish people! 0.62

01:04:24.000 There are jokes about Catholics!

01:04:25.000 But he didn't get booted, did he?

01:04:27.000 Well, they were threatening to, you know, pull him.

01:04:29.000 I'm sure Netflix can't afford to have any more problems.

01:04:31.000 No, Netflix fired their diversity people.

01:04:33.000 I'm pretty sure he's safe.

01:04:34.000 He's safe.

01:04:34.000 I hope so.

01:04:35.000 But I mean, it's not a transphobic joke.

01:04:37.000 It's a joke about trans people. 0.98

01:04:39.000 And if you're getting made fun of, welcome to the friggin' club, you know? 0.98

01:04:43.000 It's like, I remember talking to a Mormon when Book of Mormon came out and he was saying that he found a very offensive Book of Mormon. 0.98

01:04:48.000 I was like, as a Catholic, let me tell you, it's about damn time someone else's religion was made fun of by mainstream Culture so welcome to welcome to being like everyone else.

01:04:56.000 Yeah, you know, that's what that's what he said Ricky Gervais said he thinks trans people should have rights and be treated like everyone else and that's why he's gonna make fun of boom That he's like, that's what true equality is it is it means if everybody is equal then everybody is fair game for for being my I talked about this a little bit on Pop Culture Crisis a couple days ago. 0.60

01:05:16.000 ago, we were talking like if someone like if a soldier loses a limb in the

01:05:19.000 military in the war or something, you don't like haha, you losing your you

01:05:24.000 like you don't smash people for what they what they don't have. But it may

01:05:30.000 be people feel like that.

01:05:31.000 They're like, I'm not normal.

01:05:32.000 So you're making fun of my non normalcy.

01:05:33.000 And that's really like getting me where I can't defend myself.

01:05:36.000 I get that.

01:05:37.000 But at the same, I don't like like, make be making other people the butt of my jokes.

01:05:41.000 I kind of stopped doing that just in general.

01:05:43.000 Although, you know, one of the things if I can, so I have hung out with a ton of guys in the military who have lost arms and legs because of Iraq and Afghanistan.

01:05:52.000 And I've also hung out with tons of guys who are in the military and they're gay, or we have lesbian service members, whatever it may be.

01:05:59.000 The way that you know that you are in with that group is when somebody makes a crack at you.

01:06:05.000 That's right.

01:06:05.000 I was with about 15 guys at a black rifle coffee company.

01:06:09.000 Most of those guys that they hire have lost limbs. 0.93

01:06:12.000 They, uh, some of those guys, when they walk in, you know, they'll be like, their legs, their arms are really loud and noisy because they're half fucking robots, right?

01:06:20.000 The point is they will make fun of each other about like, Hey, quiet down, man. 0.98

01:06:24.000 You're rude.

01:06:25.000 We're trying to have a conversation, bro.

01:06:26.000 And he's like, sorry, it's my knee.

01:06:28.000 But they'll give each other a hard time.

01:06:30.000 And it's this beautiful moment of, like, you know that you are in a family, a brotherhood, by just telling good jokes about each other. 0.89

01:06:36.000 There's a really great Wojak meme where it's a guy is leaving, and he's like, see you later, dickheads. 0.99

01:06:42.000 And they're like, screw off, you know, a-hole. 1.00

01:06:44.000 And then it's like, F you. 0.76

01:06:45.000 And then as soon as he's gone, they're like, that's a cool dude.

01:06:47.000 He's great.

01:06:49.000 Then it shows the women. 0.97

01:06:51.000 And the woman's like, bye, honey. 0.99

01:06:52.000 Love you.

01:06:53.000 You're so sweet.

01:06:53.000 See you soon.

01:06:54.000 And then as soon as she's gone, what a bitch. 1.00

01:06:58.000 That's true, yeah. 1.00

01:06:58.000 That's why I have fewer females friends, I think. 1.00

01:07:00.000 But I wanted to say, too, that it does feel great when somebody makes a joke with you about something that maybe you can't even change, that you're just like, oh yeah, that's actually pretty funny.

01:07:08.000 And I feel now like I'm part of your in-group.

01:07:10.000 It's very valuable.

01:07:11.000 It's an important part of human... So much of it... Oh, sorry to interrupt there at the end.

01:07:13.000 No, you're good.

01:07:14.000 Carry on.

01:07:14.000 Capitalize on what you were saying.

01:07:15.000 It's the delivery.

01:07:16.000 Like, if you can deliver it in an emotionally, in a loving way, then it's received in a loving way.

01:07:21.000 But when it's in text, no one comments.

01:07:24.000 And they'll take Gervais' jokes and they'll put them in text and be like, look how horrible.

01:07:28.000 Yes.

01:07:29.000 Yeah.

01:07:29.000 And the performance has a full arc.

01:07:34.000 How did he get to that point?

01:07:35.000 There was a segue.

01:07:36.000 They cut all that out and they just take the sentence and they're like... But I just love how all the hit pieces against Ricky Gervais are literally what he was complaining about.

01:07:45.000 He was actually talking about the woke cancel culture and how they're demanding special privileges because they don't want to be made fun of, but he was like, but everybody is equal so we're all gonna be made fun of.

01:07:55.000 And then they write articles saying he's a transphobe and he's violent and he's dangerous. 0.85

01:07:59.000 Absolutely absurd.

01:08:00.000 Yeah, but I mean the alphabet soup, which is really run by just communists, like all minority groups in activism right now, you can't have it both ways. 0.99

01:08:11.000 You can't say this immutable characteristic makes us so special and so unique and so different that we have to celebrate it, but we also want to get treated like everybody else.

01:08:21.000 If you want to get treated like everybody else, that stinks.

01:08:24.000 Because when you're treated like everybody else, you're standing in line.

01:08:27.000 We all want Emerald Club status at the airport so that we can bypass all the lines and we can have a fancy drink.

01:08:35.000 But equality is not fun.

01:08:37.000 So the Alphabet 2 people, we want our special... And God, it's almost June 1, and then I have a whole freaking month.

01:08:45.000 Don't worry, don't worry.

01:08:46.000 Flip your Ukraine flag and put up your rainbow flag. 0.99

01:08:51.000 Just unfollow all the brands and follow the Saudi Arabian ones and you're good. 1.00

01:08:58.000 You said something earlier, Daniel, I thought was really interesting where you said you were almost surprised that there weren't more shootings.

01:09:03.000 I am.

01:09:03.000 I don't want to take away too much from where we were headed with the jokes and Ricky Gervais, because I love this conversation, but I've had that same thought.

01:09:10.000 But then I'm thinking about people driving on the road and how so many people drive past each other all day on the road over and over, these hundreds of miles, 140 miles difference, 70-70.

01:09:22.000 And they don't hit each other because they don't want to.

01:09:24.000 And most people don't want to hurt each other.

01:09:25.000 It's very, very, very rare.

01:09:26.000 And it's more of an aberration on these kids that's causing it.

01:09:29.000 I'm actually not surprised that they're trying.

01:09:34.000 People don't want that.

01:09:35.000 That's like a desperation tactic.

01:09:37.000 It can reach a point.

01:09:39.000 So, uh, Northern Ireland, for instance.

01:09:42.000 I remember I was getting a tour of Northern Ireland and there's like a memorial for when, you know, a group of guys went and shot and killed another group of guys.

01:09:48.000 And, you know, on one side of town they're like, these guys were heroes, and other side of town like, these guys were villains.

01:09:54.000 And it's just like there was no reason to do that.

01:09:56.000 They didn't earn or gain anything.

01:09:58.000 It was just pure tribalism.

01:10:00.000 You can look at the literal tribalism with, you know, what we've seen in Africa where one day one tribe goes out and starts beating and killing the other tribe for almost no reason.

01:10:08.000 Just the hatred within them. 0.98

01:10:10.000 When you start to see some of these tweets where there was one guy who said, I wish all Republicans get cancer and die excruciating deaths. 0.97

01:10:16.000 It's getting scary.

01:10:17.000 It's getting to this point where, you know, you turn on the TV and you know MSNBC is not even trying to talk to you.

01:10:25.000 But I mean, even we do it.

01:10:26.000 We know there's a group of people who don't care to watch us or even listen to what we have to say.

01:10:30.000 So we just eventually tune them out.

01:10:32.000 But this creates separate spaces, which which is ripe for, you know, developing a hatred more and more for the opponent, for the other.

01:10:40.000 And that's the problem with with a lot of our elected leaders and You know, Biden is president right now.

01:10:45.000 So you can say, well, you tell me Trump was president.

01:10:47.000 That's a hypothetical.

01:10:48.000 Biden is president.

01:10:49.000 And he had his moment after this shooting to say something.

01:10:53.000 And what he chose was nothing but division and attacking his political enemies.

01:10:58.000 He did not offer the slightest sense of healing of sorrow.

01:11:02.000 He didn't even evoke the names and memories of these kids and talk

01:11:05.000 about, you know, just an evil in society.

01:11:08.000 He talked about the NRA and he talked about Republicans who won't pass comments.

01:11:12.000 He resurrected 40 year old talking points.

01:11:15.000 It might've been the election of 1976.

01:11:18.000 Right.

01:11:19.000 And so I agree with you.

01:11:20.000 You know, we are falling into these rival camps, but if our leaders don't start.

01:11:24.000 I want to pull up this tweet thread from Zach Seward, who is the Editor-in-Chief at Quartz, who posted one of the most deceptive, falsely framed articles I've ever seen.

01:11:36.000 Such a lie.

01:11:38.000 It's a really good example of the problems we face.

01:11:40.000 Before I start this by criticizing the mainstream media for lying to you, I want to point out that there absolutely are conspiracy theorists and lunatics and cult members on the right.

01:11:48.000 They exist, but they're not VC-funded.

01:11:51.000 They don't have investors who are giving them all of this money.

01:11:53.000 There are some small right-wing outlets, conservative outlets, that do get funding, but they're not nearly as bad as this.

01:12:00.000 They wrote a story.

01:12:02.000 We ordered the same gun used in Yuvaldi.

01:12:04.000 Here's how easy it was.

01:12:06.000 He says it was just like ordering groceries.

01:12:08.000 Click, checkout, done.

01:12:10.000 He's getting roasted for this.

01:12:12.000 Seriously.

01:12:12.000 Because while in the piece it does mention you have to go through a background check and all that stuff, the way they frame it is incredible.

01:12:17.000 Take a look at this.

01:12:18.000 He says, That will happen when we pick up the gun at our local licensed dealer.

01:12:22.000 or of a clean criminal record, both of which are legally required to buy a firearm.

01:12:26.000 That will happen when we pick up the gun at our local licensed dealer.

01:12:30.000 The headline is everything.

01:12:32.000 Here's how easy it was.

01:12:34.000 They're trying to convince you, not only that, but he goes on to say it was an assault rifle.

01:12:38.000 He says, some people don't know how easy it is to go online and buy an assault rifle.

01:12:43.000 He didn't buy one though.

01:12:44.000 He did not buy an assault rifle.

01:12:46.000 It's just a misrepresentation.

01:12:50.000 And this is what leads people who are traditional liberal or trusting of the news into believing wrong information.

01:12:56.000 So what this tells me is he's not actually interested in having a thoughtful conversation.

01:13:00.000 It's about an agenda, right?

01:13:01.000 So very clearly this is about creating this drumbeat, this hysteria to ban not just this gun, but really all guns, right?

01:13:09.000 So it's a war then on guns.

01:13:12.000 And if in fact that's the idea, then the question becomes, particularly from that outlet that we know as a lefty outlet, Why do they want to remove all guns?

01:13:20.000 Is it really just about trying to save the kids in school?

01:13:23.000 I'm not so sure that's true.

01:13:24.000 I think most people would say there's probably another agenda here.

01:13:27.000 So that kind of headline, by the way, we know that Americans rarely read down into an article.

01:13:33.000 I think that is around 60 or 70% of people only read the headline.

01:13:37.000 And then the remainder of that is only the first paragraph.

01:13:39.000 So I think 3 or 5% of people actually read the whole story.

01:13:42.000 So these folks know that.

01:13:44.000 I want to give a shout out to a journalist.

01:13:46.000 This is a story I did, I covered just almost three years ago.

01:13:50.000 I remember this.

01:13:51.000 From Business Insider.

01:13:52.000 This journalist wrote, I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice and roadblocks left me empty handed both times.

01:13:58.000 This was actually a good story.

01:14:00.000 And I give credit to this journalist.

01:14:01.000 She had, you know, misconceptions about what buying a gun was like.

01:14:05.000 She went to a Walmart and said, I'm gonna see what happens.

01:14:07.000 And when she got roadblocked, she wrote that she was.

01:14:10.000 Good for her.

01:14:10.000 This is like one of the biggest segments I've ever done.

01:14:12.000 It's got 2.7 million views.

01:14:14.000 I'm surprised.

01:14:15.000 But, you know, I didn't criticize her and mock her.

01:14:18.000 I was like, this is great.

01:14:19.000 A reporter actually decided to investigate what it's like to get guns because they weren't familiar with it.

01:14:23.000 And they were honest with their audience about not being able to buy one.

01:14:26.000 That's the reality.

01:14:28.000 Yeah.

01:14:29.000 The shocking thing about Quartz is that there are two dozen outlets just like that, right?

01:14:35.000 Between Quartz and Axios and Mother Jones and you just go on and on and on and they're all the same and they're all funded by basically the same venture capitalist Lefty ideologue billionaires.

01:14:49.000 They all have the same agenda.

01:14:50.000 They're all intermarried, which is weird.

01:14:52.000 They all know each other.

01:14:53.000 Kind of like the one thought is who the leaker is of the Supreme Court document when went through of who's married to who and who was a bridesmaid at who's wedding.

01:15:06.000 They all know each other.

01:15:08.000 It's a cast system.

01:15:09.000 There are very few outlets on the right of this side.

01:15:12.000 There are a couple, right?

01:15:13.000 We know them.

01:15:13.000 The Beacon, The Daily Caller, they're great publications, but they're paltry in number compared to the left.

01:15:19.000 And you look at the funding that goes into these left-wing Democrat publications, hundreds of millions of dollars, and then you look at right-wing publications who sometimes get some funding, but not really.

01:15:32.000 What was that CIA program where they were working directly with media?

01:15:37.000 Was that Mockingbird?

01:15:38.000 Yeah, I think it is.

01:15:40.000 There's two of them, I'm pretty sure.

01:15:41.000 I thought you were going to ask me about the time that we operated on the cat, and the cat was going to be actually a listening device.

01:15:46.000 Did it survive?

01:15:47.000 That's another one.

01:15:48.000 Is that true?

01:15:48.000 That's a real thing.

01:15:49.000 That is true.

01:15:50.000 They tried.

01:15:50.000 We did that.

01:15:51.000 People love cats.

01:15:52.000 I'm sorry.

01:15:53.000 They let everybody love cats.

01:15:54.000 I'm so sorry.

01:15:54.000 They tried, like, implanting a microphone in the cat?

01:15:56.000 Yes!

01:15:56.000 So this is what they did.

01:15:57.000 They actually put the listening device in the ear, and then they used the antenna, and they built another part in the back, kind of in between the shoulders.

01:16:04.000 And what they did is they took the cat, because, hey, it's just a cat.

01:16:07.000 It's innocuous.

01:16:08.000 And they took the cat, and they set it next to two gentlemen to test it on a park bench.

01:16:14.000 I know what happened, I think.

01:16:15.000 And unfortunately, Kitty Kitty did not stay there.

01:16:17.000 Of course not!

01:16:18.000 To listen.

01:16:19.000 Cats do what cats do.

01:16:21.000 So the cat ran, unfortunately, in front of a taxi cab.

01:16:26.000 Oh no!

01:16:26.000 Oh my gosh!

01:16:28.000 Cat didn't want to be part of it.

01:16:29.000 Nope.

01:16:29.000 Good for the cat.

01:16:30.000 The cat survived.

01:16:30.000 The cat did the ultimate sacrifice.

01:16:32.000 You can't force a cat to join the Deep State.

01:16:35.000 No, you can't.

01:16:36.000 Cats are individuals.

01:16:39.000 But speaking of Mockingbird, which I brought up, What the heck?

01:16:43.000 This is from 1948?

01:16:44.000 I mean, this has been going on for a long time.

01:16:47.000 The CIA basically right after formation was like, we got to control the media.

01:16:50.000 It's not just Mockingbird.

01:16:51.000 We talked about this with Luke Radkowski of We Are Change.

01:16:54.000 There was something that happened in the 70s where a senator, I think, came out and said the CIA is working directly at these news outlets.

01:17:00.000 Yeah.

01:17:01.000 I don't know if it was Mockingbird.

01:17:02.000 Well, so there was a huge dust-up throughout the 70s where basically the House and the Senate were like, you guys are doing way too much in the CIA.

01:17:10.000 And they had committee hearings.

01:17:12.000 Frank Church was one of the Senators, he's from Idaho.

01:17:14.000 And there were others, they looked into this, and the CIA director, they called him on the carpet, both overtly, that is to say out in public, and behind the curtain.

01:17:21.000 And like you guys are killing way too many people without authorization and y'all a bunch of cowboys. 0.98

01:17:27.000 And some of these programs that you're talking about were part of that conversation that we need to rein you in because we've given you too much power and y'all are abusing it.

01:17:37.000 And it's not just you the CIA, it's the president and all the president's men as it were.

01:17:41.000 Who are like, hey, with the military we can't do certain things, but we can use this tool at the CIA and we can have them go kill various people or foment uprisings, etc.

01:17:51.000 Or yes, the media piece.

01:17:53.000 We can start to control and manipulate.

01:17:55.000 And so again, it gets back to this.

01:17:56.000 If you give people power, some percentage of them are going to abuse it.

01:17:59.000 But if you give them a whole bunch of power, it is game on in terms of your country.

01:18:03.000 And that's really, for me, in the past 5-10 years, has completely changed my understanding of giving so much power to the CIA or NSA or FBI.

01:18:11.000 They will abuse it.

01:18:12.000 They have abused it.

01:18:13.000 And we've got to pull that back, both in terms of the size and the authorities, because they have too much.

01:18:18.000 Still a lot of great people doing great work at those places, but you give them too much power and you're going to have these problems.

01:18:23.000 And our country's in trouble because of it.

01:18:25.000 Yeah, I think a lot about the people because I speak a lot of crap about the administrative state and like how it's overblown.

01:18:31.000 But I think the people the other night I was like, I don't want to hurt these people like not that like the the horseback riders in 1902.

01:18:38.000 I mean, the automobile was coming.

01:18:39.000 They still lost their jobs.

01:18:40.000 Yeah.

01:18:42.000 I don't want to see these people lose their gigs, and the problem is when they're the ones that control the assassination attempts, anyone that's going to try and unseat them from their gig is a real threat.

01:18:51.000 It has a big like, yo, you don't want to anger people that control the button, like, basically, but...

01:18:58.000 If it is, I mean, you think we'd be better off without these organizations?

01:19:03.000 I think of the Fed in Michigan who's doing a covert op and he's on a chat room with some guy who's like, I hate Governor Whitman. 0.96

01:19:11.000 I think we should assassinate her.

01:19:12.000 And he's like, let's plan. 0.98

01:19:13.000 Let's plan the kidnapping, you know, and then they're having meetings.

01:19:16.000 And then all of a sudden, at no point we were like, wait a second, we're actually going to plan to kidnap the governor just to trap this one.

01:19:23.000 Aren't we taking this a little too far, guys?

01:19:27.000 They're ordering vans, and someone's going to Hertz, and they're picking up rope, and it's like, I think we're getting a little too excited about kidnapping the governor, guys.

01:19:35.000 I know we want to catch this bad dude, but this is getting a little crazy.

01:19:39.000 So at what point does, yeah, when you said they need to be reined in, I think that's an example of reining it in.

01:19:44.000 And it kind of strikes me bizarre that no one in the hierarchy was like, I think you guys need to slow down the kidnapping plan.

01:19:51.000 This is a little crazy.

01:19:52.000 Would it look more like if it was raining in?

01:19:54.000 Would it be like, this NSA no longer exists?

01:19:57.000 What was the NSA form?

01:19:59.000 2000?

01:20:00.000 2001?

01:20:00.000 Was it after 9-11?

01:20:01.000 Or has it been around longer than that?

01:20:02.000 It's been around longer, but yeah, look, here's where I come down on this.

01:20:06.000 I think it's absolutely reasonable based on what we have seen over the past 10 plus years, certainly since the 2016 election.

01:20:12.000 It's reasonable for people to say the intelligence community has grown too big and too powerful, just like it did back in the 1970s.

01:20:21.000 We need to remove some of the authorities.

01:20:23.000 We need to have more oversight because we recognize that there might be a need for a collection of foreign intelligence to understand what our adversaries are doing.

01:20:31.000 Fine.

01:20:32.000 Or a domestic law enforcement capacity.

01:20:34.000 We need to find some bad guys here in the country.

01:20:37.000 Fine.

01:20:38.000 But it's gotten too big and there's too much power and we need to pull that back in.

01:20:41.000 And that happens after we have the House and the Senate.

01:20:44.000 If they actually functioned, they would do the investigations into that to figure out how bad the problem is.

01:20:49.000 And then we figure out how deeply we have to rein it in.

01:20:52.000 Absent a functional Congress, That's when the American media is supposed to do the work, do that investigative work to expose some of this stuff.

01:21:01.000 But when you have a media that is so in the tank for folks, particularly on the left, what's their incentive to actually get to the bottom of some of these abuses?

01:21:09.000 There's no outside function right now that's keeping power in check.

01:21:15.000 The House and the Senate?

01:21:16.000 Nope.

01:21:16.000 The President?

01:21:17.000 Nope.

01:21:17.000 Our media?

01:21:18.000 Nope.

01:21:18.000 That's the problem of this moment.

01:21:20.000 And I think it's compounded by the fact that, no offense, you all seem to be really bad at your job.

01:21:25.000 I mean, in the sense that it's like... Well, not you, Brian.

01:21:28.000 Our intelligence shows that, you know, Afghanistan will stand on its own. 0.95

01:21:32.000 No.

01:21:33.000 Our intelligence shows that Kiev will fall within three days.

01:21:36.000 No.

01:21:36.000 It's like our intelligence shows, like, do you guys have anything right?

01:21:40.000 Like, is there anything that is accurate?

01:21:43.000 Okay, so first of all, That's totally fair.

01:21:45.000 So on my podcast, President's Daily Brief, we covered this, we talked about this.

01:21:48.000 You as taxpayers are paying billions and billions of dollars to the intelligence community to act on your behalf.

01:21:55.000 You should be asking questions if they're falling short.

01:21:57.000 So that's fair.

01:21:59.000 I want to pull up this article from Army Times.

01:22:02.000 Foreboding Army Psyops Recruitment Video Shows Who's Pulling the Strings.

01:22:06.000 A lot of people were bringing this up to us saying it was a really, really creepy video.

01:22:09.000 I want to play it.

01:22:09.000 It is a little long, but I've not seen it.

01:22:12.000 But Daniel was just bringing up that the CIA, the intelligence agencies, get so much wrong.

01:22:17.000 And I wonder, are they really getting it wrong, or are they just trying to manipulate you?

01:22:23.000 Perhaps you assume that they're a bunch of bumbling, slipping on banana peels, and maybe that's what they want you to think.

01:22:28.000 Because Sun Tzu had quotes about this, right?

01:22:31.000 When you're strong, make your enemy believe you are weak.

01:22:33.000 When you are weak, make your enemy believe you are strong.

01:22:35.000 So I've never seen this.

01:22:38.000 I don't know if we can play the full thing, but we'll play Ghosts in the Machine, a controversial psychological operations advertisement from the army.

01:22:47.000 If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.

01:22:50.000 Pretend to be weak that he may grow arrogant.

01:22:53.000 You see?

01:22:55.000 Sun Tzu.

01:22:58.000 Alright, this is getting pretty creepy by that guy. 1.00

01:23:02.000 Oh, clowns. 0.99

01:23:03.000 Strong start. 0.99

01:23:04.000 Have you ever wondered?

01:23:05.000 No.

01:23:05.000 Who's pulling the strings?

01:23:32.000 A world at war?

01:23:35.000 Hmm.

01:23:35.000 Is that the emblem of the psychological operation of some a world at war

01:23:38.000 You will find us in the shadows Inspiring at the tip of the spear

01:23:51.000 Threat rises in the East What the hell is this?

01:24:01.000 Russia invades Ukraine.

01:24:02.000 Oh, it's pretty new.

01:24:03.000 Yeah, it's very new.

01:24:04.000 Yeah, this is from earlier this month.

01:24:07.000 Warfare is evolving.

01:24:08.000 Who put this out?

01:24:09.000 Uh, this is 4th PSYOP group.

01:24:14.000 And all the world's a stage.

01:24:16.000 Yo, this is creepy!

01:24:17.000 It's like a movie.

01:24:19.000 Shakespeare.

01:24:19.000 There is another very important phase of warfare.

01:24:24.000 It has as its target, not the body, but the mind of the enemy.

01:24:30.000 The target of psychological warfare is against the enemy's mind.

01:24:35.000 It is words and ideas.

01:24:37.000 Ammunition used by cyborgs.

01:24:41.000 Anything we touch is a weapon.

01:24:46.000 We can deceive.

01:24:46.000 Persuade.

01:24:47.000 Change.

01:24:47.000 Influence.

01:24:47.000 We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire.

01:25:03.000 We come in many forms.

01:25:12.000 But the use of this force as an integral part of combat has now taken on new form.

01:25:18.000 We are everywhere.

01:25:19.000 That's what they want you to think.

01:25:21.000 A feeling in the dark.

01:25:36.000 A feeling in the dark.

01:25:41.000 A message in the stars.

01:25:43.000 Ghosts in the machine.

01:26:05.000 you What are we?

01:26:07.000 Psywar. 0.99

01:26:09.000 What the heck? 0.98

01:26:10.000 What is this? 0.97

01:26:10.000 Is this really it? 0.97

01:26:11.000 Who put that together?

01:26:12.000 Army Psyops recruitment video.

01:26:14.000 That's what they're saying.

01:26:15.000 Really?

01:26:15.000 I don't want to fact check that.

01:26:17.000 That's interesting.

01:26:19.000 So I can respond to that silliness.

01:26:21.000 Okay. 0.74

01:26:24.000 It's all fake, it's all boring.

01:26:25.000 Oh my god.

01:26:26.000 Okay, a couple of times.

01:26:28.000 I would join.

01:26:28.000 Right, you know.

01:26:30.000 So I'll tell you, we get by, that is to say, in the intelligence community, folks get by with this kind of stuff.

01:26:38.000 Everybody thinks that, you know, intel people are 10 feet tall and they're scary and amazing, they can do anything they want.

01:26:42.000 James Bond.

01:26:44.000 But I'm telling you that ain't how it is.

01:26:47.000 I can share the story with you.

01:26:50.000 I was looking to work with our group of folks who go out into the world and hire NOCs. 1.00

01:26:55.000 Those are people that we would never officially recognize as intelligence officers.

01:26:59.000 And I asked our NOC hiring officials, What do you look for?

01:27:05.000 And she said to me, we don't look for the F students, obviously, or the D students, as it were, sort of A, B, C, D, F, the grades, right?

01:27:13.000 D or F students, those kids don't work.

01:27:16.000 But we can't hire A and B because they're too good and smart and they don't want to put up with the bureaucratic baloney that this place has.

01:27:25.000 So what we have to try to find is like a good solid C plus student.

01:27:29.000 That's me.

01:27:32.000 Well, I'll put in a good word for you, since I'm still a fed.

01:27:36.000 I think it actually is just like the movies, because I've seen a lot of Burn Notice, and you do look and talk like Michael Westman.

01:27:44.000 Is that right? 0.73

01:27:45.000 So they want people that are not so adherent to authority that they'll get A's and B's, because that's what they're told to do, but they're not so stupid that they can't follow along, that they're willing to join, but they're also willing to betray.

01:27:57.000 A and B students have ambition, but they want efficiency.

01:28:02.000 They want accomplishments.

01:28:05.000 You can go out into the private sector and earn a ton of money.

01:28:07.000 You can go be successful as your A and B students.

01:28:09.000 But your C plus student, they tend to struggle more in life.

01:28:11.000 So you need somebody that isn't quite Tip of the spear, as that video just said.

01:28:16.000 But that shouldn't be true, by the way.

01:28:18.000 We should want A students and B students working for our government because we want efficiency, we want smarts, we want the best we can get.

01:28:28.000 So I don't buy that video because of that, having been on the inside.

01:28:32.000 But I understand why people might think that that's true.

01:28:35.000 The only other quick caveat I'd add is there is one part of me that loves that because when I was out as an officer, I was meeting with a source, and he was like, why aren't you taking notes?

01:28:46.000 I'm telling you all these great and amazing things.

01:28:48.000 Well, I didn't need to.

01:28:49.000 I was able to capture it.

01:28:50.000 And he paused.

01:28:51.000 He's like, wait a minute.

01:28:53.000 I've seen the movies.

01:28:53.000 Do you have a microphone in your shoe?

01:28:57.000 And I was like, I do.

01:28:59.000 He was like, oh, this is so cool.

01:29:04.000 Burn Notice was a cool show, man.

01:29:06.000 One of my favorite scenes is when, you guys have seen Burn Notice, right?

01:29:09.000 Negative, no.

01:29:10.000 You've never seen it?

01:29:11.000 It's so good.

01:29:12.000 So it's this former CIA contractor and he's always trying to, he's basically a contractor now for private individuals, trying to help the little guy.

01:29:21.000 And he explains to you how he does things and why.

01:29:23.000 And it's fascinating.

01:29:24.000 So he's like, he's trying to scare a bad guy.

01:29:27.000 So he takes a cell phone, tapes it to a box, and then runs the power cable to the wall to make him think there's a bomb.

01:29:33.000 And he was like, that's like the psychological manipulation stuff.

01:29:35.000 So that's what that show does. 0.85

01:29:36.000 I love that show.

01:29:37.000 That show was amazing.

01:29:37.000 So what I will tell you, this contracting thing is actually really important.

01:29:41.000 So we just watched, this is the army is trying to convince everybody that they're the 10-foot monster.

01:29:46.000 If you want to talk about power, you need authority to influence and persuade.

01:29:50.000 That power does not sit within the military and it doesn't sit within the CIA.

01:29:54.000 It sits in Hollywood.

01:29:55.000 It sits in New York and in DC in terms of those media operating rooms deciding what the editorial line for the day is going to be, what the American people need to think about.

01:30:04.000 It's the people who write the headlines, knowing that 70-80% of people don't read the story, just the headline.

01:30:09.000 That's your power.

01:30:10.000 If you want to shape an agenda, if you want to push people into believing something, that's where you spend your time and your money.

01:30:16.000 It ain't in some whiz-bang CIA operation that's propaganda.

01:30:20.000 Which, by the way, that was good back in the 50s and it's not so great now.

01:30:23.000 But anyway, that's where your power is.

01:30:25.000 One thing about the video, if we could ask your huge followers, I feel like I'm pretty well traveled in this country.

01:30:30.000 I can't think of what city has bright orange subway cars.

01:30:36.000 All of your followers right now, if you could be like, oh yeah that's the subway in They showed it twice, and I'm like, I know America pretty well.

01:30:44.000 I grew up in New York City.

01:30:45.000 I know subways well.

01:30:47.000 I can't think, so... Anyone out there?

01:30:50.000 It's not so much the color or the shape of them.

01:30:52.000 Maybe it wasn't an American city, but I will say I learned something in my quest to purchase Times Square billboards.

01:30:56.000 You can actually buy an entire train and put whatever you want on it.

01:31:00.000 Let's do that.

01:31:01.000 Yeah.

01:31:02.000 I would just love to think that the army used, like, the subway of Amsterdam, you know, for a recruitment video.

01:31:08.000 I've been thinking a lot about using the media, like you were saying, to, I guess, manipulate is the word, not, you know, whatever.

01:31:14.000 Sounds like people are saying, someone said Japan.

01:31:16.000 Oh, interesting.

01:31:17.000 Maryland.

01:31:18.000 I saw Denmark.

01:31:18.000 Oh, people are just saying whatever.

01:31:19.000 Nah, they're just saying whatever. 0.61

01:31:20.000 They're saying nonsense.

01:31:21.000 But, like, how do you use the media to please everyone?

01:31:24.000 And I know you can't please everyone all the time.

01:31:26.000 Abraham Lincoln quote.

01:31:27.000 But, like, I want to really make the world better and create new technologies like running fresh water, solar-powered heat, you know, things that will make us more resilient as a species, make people laugh, make people relax.

01:31:40.000 Like, even the head of the CIA and Kim Jong-un want to laugh.

01:31:45.000 and relax a little bit, but I've also got to make sure people have enough food.

01:31:48.000 I don't know if there's people that actually want to starve the population so that it grows slower.

01:31:54.000 You hear about Bill Gates talking about reducing the growth rate, and I don't know if there are

01:31:59.000 people that really want that, which seems crazy, but other than that, like, do you think we could

01:32:06.000 actually use the media?

01:32:07.000 I mean, that it's possible?

01:32:09.000 Look, are there people in this world who have a particular agenda for an environmental issue or the global population or whatever, and then they use their money to affect that outcome? 0.96

01:32:20.000 Damn straight.

01:32:20.000 I mean, we have foundations in this country, all over the world in fact, but the United States have a massive number of private family foundations that chase after whatever their own family's goals might be.

01:32:30.000 Okay, so it's not...

01:32:31.000 It wouldn't be a wild assumption to hear or an argument to hear somebody say, this family or this person really gets excited about X issue.

01:32:40.000 Now they're really going to change all of our lives just because they and their big money want to change it.

01:32:44.000 So absolutely there's precedent for that.

01:32:46.000 Every day we've got it.

01:32:48.000 The second piece though, tell me again, it's more of like... I don't know, I'm asking if it's possible.

01:32:54.000 I mean, I know you don't have the answer, but do you think it's possible to fix this planet, bring people together, like all of us together?

01:32:59.000 Yeah, and I'll tell you what... Real quick, sorry to interrupt.

01:33:03.000 Watching the ad, there's an advertisement, and it looks to be in German.

01:33:06.000 Oh, interesting.

01:33:08.000 So then it was made by the army.

01:33:10.000 In the subway.

01:33:11.000 So we're talking that was the German army that was putting that out?

01:33:14.000 That's a heck of a lot better than our army.

01:33:16.000 That's how good the psychological warfare is.

01:33:18.000 It's meta.

01:33:19.000 They kept showing the Statue of Liberty.

01:33:21.000 That's why I was like, they're trying to make you think it's New York, but that's not.

01:33:24.000 Let's be really honest for a second.

01:33:26.000 Europe's military is a joke.

01:33:29.000 Come on.

01:33:29.000 In Ukraine, do you recall when things were bubbling up?

01:33:32.000 What did Germany offer the Ukrainians?

01:33:34.000 5,000 helmets.

01:33:35.000 Get out of here.

01:33:36.000 Their military is absolutely hollowed out. 0.99

01:33:38.000 So, anyway, that's ridiculous.

01:33:42.000 But I will tell you, in terms of the media stuff, you know, how can we shape, how can we encourage, how do we grow as a people, as a country, as a species, whatever it might be.

01:33:51.000 No joke, and I'm not saying it because I'm here, it's this.

01:33:54.000 These kinds of shows are where it happens because what you do is you encourage people to think To think for themselves and to think critically.

01:34:02.000 You give them information and you say, hey look, here's my bias.

01:34:05.000 Here's what I think.

01:34:05.000 Here's the data that supports my argument.

01:34:07.000 But I'll tell you what, your call.

01:34:09.000 You decide.

01:34:10.000 It's up to you.

01:34:11.000 That's what we have to encourage each other to do.

01:34:13.000 That's what I do on my podcast.

01:34:14.000 That's what you all do here on this show every day.

01:34:17.000 That's how we shape the world.

01:34:19.000 We now control the information.

01:34:21.000 We put it out there.

01:34:22.000 And if people trust us, Not just because, oh, they seem smart, but they know that day in and day out when we talk to them, we say, here's the data, you decide.

01:34:33.000 Here's why it's important to you, but it's your call.

01:34:36.000 Then people are less like, hmm, what are you trying to do to me?

01:34:39.000 What are you trying to get me to buy?

01:34:40.000 What are you trying to manipulate me to think?

01:34:43.000 All I'm doing is saying, here's the information, here's what I think, but y'all make the call.

01:34:47.000 Well that's what's so fascinating about the role of tech, right?

01:34:51.000 So here's the data, you make the decision, I work in the environmental and energy space

01:34:56.000 and here's the data.

01:34:57.000 It's like, so you don't believe in climate change.

01:34:58.000 I'm de-platformed from Facebook.

01:35:00.000 You're not allowed to be a climate denier on Facebook.

01:35:01.000 And you say, well I'm not denying anything, I'm just saying here's a set of facts that

01:35:06.000 need to be discussed.

01:35:08.000 Not on our platform because you don't care.

01:35:10.000 And what you just said, sometimes you strike me that you say some of the sweetest, most humanitarian things.

01:35:16.000 And you said, make the world a better place, and give solar heat and clean water.

01:35:22.000 You know where they didn't discuss any of that sentiment, if you paid attention the last couple days, was Davos.

01:35:26.000 All those world leaders gathered and they talked about what we will do.

01:35:30.000 Oh, there's the photos of them.

01:35:32.000 I had to know.

01:35:34.000 Confirmed?

01:35:34.000 Germany?

01:35:35.000 Berlin?

01:35:36.000 It's Berlin!

01:35:36.000 Did we know that the German Army was joining our PSYOPS group?

01:35:41.000 I don't know why we weren't surprised.

01:35:42.000 Maybe it was a filter on them.

01:35:43.000 You know who was the last one that made it join the German Army ad?

01:35:47.000 I'm just saying.

01:35:49.000 I'm telling you, not too soon.

01:35:51.000 They bought stock footage.

01:35:53.000 They did.

01:35:53.000 They bought stock footage.

01:35:54.000 It seemed like a shapely made video.

01:35:56.000 Subway car.

01:35:57.000 Yeah, from Getty Images.

01:35:58.000 But anyway, your sentiment of how do we find Solutions to the problems that will make the world a better, more peaceful, more healthy, more prosperous place at the individual level.

01:36:10.000 You looked at those yahoos in Davos and all they did was talk about what can we do to make them obey? 1.00

01:36:16.000 How do we cut countries off the global monetary and banking system if they won't vaccinate their people and everyone collapse? 1.00

01:36:24.000 And John Kerry, how do we punish people that will not accept climate change and everyone collapse?

01:36:28.000 That whole thing should have been... We should have built a wall around Davos and forced them to live there and given them some primitive weapons and hunger games.

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01:36:48.000 We're gonna read some superchats.

01:36:49.000 I'm gonna start with one that's just, it's closer to the end, and then we'll go back to the beginning.

01:36:54.000 But Catman says, Tim, I listen on Spotify normally.

01:36:57.000 You should put something to mark the ads around the 27 minute mark talking about death penalty your ad read started with.

01:37:03.000 I'd like to know where my meat comes from.

01:37:04.000 Oh my gosh, that's amazing!

01:37:07.000 Well, you know, that's how it works.

01:37:08.000 We cannot control that.

01:37:09.000 I'm sorry.

01:37:10.000 That's great.

01:37:11.000 All right.

01:37:11.000 Spiro Floropoulos says, Sources say .online Tim's word queue idea is in beta mode.

01:37:18.000 If anybody at Timcast wants access to try it, please reach me.

01:37:21.000 I've emailed SpinTheUFO before, or tell me who and how to contact to give access.

01:37:26.000 I don't understand that.

01:37:27.000 I'll explain it to you. Do you want to check the spin the UFO for Spiro Floropoulos?

01:37:31.000 So, um, I've been having this thing, you know ranting about Wikipedia how we should sue them

01:37:35.000 You can't there's Wikipedia can create a defamatory article, but because it's community generated. No one can be sued

01:37:42.000 You can't sue Wikipedia because they're protected by section 230

01:37:47.000 You can't sue the individual editor because they don't make a complete statement.

01:37:51.000 If an editor writes, Daniel Turner raises sheep.

01:37:58.000 Or lamb.

01:37:58.000 That's true, right?

01:38:00.000 Okay, you can't sue that person.

01:38:01.000 What if someone then goes in and changes raises to... You know what he's gonna say.

01:38:06.000 Oh boy.

01:38:07.000 Brutalizes.

01:38:08.000 Yes.

01:38:09.000 That's definitely not true.

01:38:10.000 That's a defamation.

01:38:10.000 said you did they added one word you can't sue someone for saying one word

01:38:14.000 it's not defamation you can argue it is because of the place they put it in but

01:38:20.000 they can be like I just put in a single word I didn't I didn't do anything I

01:38:23.000 mean so who do you sue yeah I think the closest argument you can get to is well

01:38:28.000 because of all the other words that were there you're the one who completed the

01:38:32.000 statement by changing the word Technically that person.

01:38:36.000 But they never actually said anything, so it's arguable.

01:38:38.000 And I've talked to lawyers about this.

01:38:39.000 They're like, I don't know who you sue.

01:38:41.000 You can't sue anybody, I guess.

01:38:42.000 So the idea for this program is...

01:38:45.000 We will create an article.

01:38:47.000 We'll title it Nancy Pelosi.

01:38:50.000 And then as soon as you load the page, you are placed in a queue based on when you loaded it first, second, and third.

01:38:56.000 So if you're the first person in, it'll say, sources say blank.

01:38:58.000 You get to write one word.

01:39:00.000 The next person who loaded the website can put the second word.

01:39:03.000 And as the article gets bigger, you'll get more and more time to figure out your work because you've got to read it.

01:39:07.000 But then, every individual has only written one word.

01:39:11.000 Who are you gonna sue?

01:39:13.000 So you'll have this really long article making this really ridiculous statement with no one who can be sued.

01:39:19.000 Try and sue the person that owns the website, then Wikipedia will get sued.

01:39:22.000 Exactly, you can't.

01:39:23.000 It's section 2.

01:39:24.000 And we didn't write it, it's users.

01:39:26.000 I love that.

01:39:27.000 It's their rules, so play them.

01:39:28.000 Brilliant.

01:39:29.000 And what we'll do, too, is we'll make it so that when you add the word, it doesn't actually put the word in the article until the article's done.

01:39:34.000 Because then no one wrote the article.

01:39:37.000 Love it.

01:39:37.000 They might be able to argue that, like, well, there were 700 words already there, and you put that word in there, so it completed a statement.

01:39:42.000 It's like, okay, well, we won't then.

01:39:44.000 You'll read it, you'll add your word, and then once it's done, it'll go, connect them all.

01:39:48.000 It's like Mad Libs, but better.

01:39:49.000 Yes.

01:39:50.000 Yeah.

01:39:51.000 All right, let's read some more.

01:39:54.000 Ashton de Rojas says, can you let people know Schumer is planning a Senate vote on two gun control bills day after Memorial Day, and to call your state reps and senators to oppose these bills?

01:40:04.000 Better yet, call your state reps and senators and demand they repeal the NFA.

01:40:09.000 Yes.

01:40:10.000 And abolish the ATF, I suppose.

01:40:13.000 And why don't we get some Republicans who actually want to repeal some of these gun laws? 0.96

01:40:19.000 Like Rodney Starbuck.

01:40:20.000 All that keeps happening is Republicans are like, we'll compromise with you Democrats and ban some stuff.

01:40:25.000 And then Democrats just keep saying ban more.

01:40:26.000 They're just raking in the money, man.

01:40:29.000 These Congress people that should have been out after four years, maybe eight years.

01:40:34.000 Alright.

01:40:35.000 Beckmeister says, New York Shooter's Discord username, Discord ID, about me, you can't begin to imagine how we get them to do the things they do.

01:40:44.000 I mean, but is that, that could be anybody.

01:40:46.000 This could be a random crazy person who's trying to egg on people, you know what I mean?

01:40:50.000 Yeah. 0.53

01:40:53.000 That's crazy.

01:40:53.000 Yeah, really.

01:40:54.000 You are right that meds can cause these mass shootings I say this as someone who was almost driven by medication

01:40:59.000 induced intent into doing one I'm willing to get into contact if you want to know more

01:41:03.000 Wow crazy. Yeah, people go crazy Yeah, really Rob short says press F to abolish this Fed. Oh,

01:41:09.000 no, they're talking about you Smash the like button to end the Fed

01:41:19.000 I'm gonna Say at the end of the night you guys have to turn

01:41:25.000 everything upside down and make sure there are no bugs so you know what I'm getting at.

01:41:32.000 All your little knick-knacks, just stick bucks. 1.00

01:41:37.000 All right.

01:41:38.000 Phalanx says, Tim, you keep talking about 3D printed guns, but why not the Looty?

01:41:42.000 It's also my birthday, so I have some of my money.

01:41:44.000 Oh, thank you.

01:41:44.000 What's the Looty?

01:41:45.000 How do you spell it?

01:41:46.000 L-U-T-Y. 1.00

01:41:46.000 I don't know. 1.00

01:41:47.000 I am unfamiliar.

01:41:48.000 Not sure.

01:41:49.000 Everyone's Looty.

01:41:50.000 It's what Nero was playing when Rome was burning.

01:41:52.000 He was playing the Looty.

01:41:54.000 I heard that that was actually not true, but I'd like to go into that deeper.

01:41:57.000 The Looty submachine gun?

01:41:58.000 Oh, oh my everybody is putting F in chat, but hold on I said that if you want to

01:42:03.000 Smash the like button. Ah and You guys can't get a listen close. Well, maybe they're just

01:42:10.000 trying to abolish the Fed. I see Mark H says Tom McDonald would be an awesome future guest

01:42:17.000 You guys rock!

01:42:18.000 He would!

01:42:19.000 Yeah.

01:42:19.000 He would.

01:42:20.000 Tom, you are always welcome to come on the show.

01:42:22.000 You know what I would love to do, too, is do a music collaboration with him, because we have one song that's kind of punk rock.

01:42:29.000 I can't write a verse, so I just don't know.

01:42:30.000 Oh, Tom would be great.

01:42:31.000 And so I was like, it's faster, so maybe what it needs is rap so it can convey the story in a meaningful way.

01:42:37.000 So I reached out to him, but he's a busy guy.

01:42:39.000 There's some other people I have in mind.

01:42:40.000 We'll see what we can get done.

01:42:42.000 Got a lot of music stuff in the works.

01:42:43.000 That's awesome, man.

01:42:44.000 Yo, it's just everybody is so busy.

01:42:46.000 The talent pool is... Talented people are busy.

01:42:49.000 It's all bought up.

01:42:50.000 It's hard.

01:42:51.000 Yeah, we're trying to find... We're talking to some big industry music people, but they're like, yo, everybody is swamped.

01:42:59.000 Where was everybody at you know, we get music. I loved your chicken city theme song. Yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah

01:43:05.000 Is that live now? It's a deck. Well, I played it the making of and I just thought it was turned up

01:43:09.000 So endearing I haven't heard it's just four chords. I wrote it in ten seconds. That's great, though

01:43:14.000 I still put you in a good mood. Oh, yeah See you at Chicken City.

01:43:17.000 Roberto is the sheriff of Chicken City and Roberto Jr.

01:43:20.000 is his deputy.

01:43:21.000 But Roberto's at the Boys Town now.

01:43:23.000 He's in Freedom Stand.

01:43:25.000 With his sons.

01:43:28.000 He's aggressive.

01:43:30.000 Roberto Jr.

01:43:30.000 is much nicer to the girls.

01:43:33.000 Roberto Jr.

01:43:34.000 is Rhode Island Red and Easter Egger of some sort.

01:43:37.000 Some kind of mix.

01:43:37.000 But he looks just like a Rhode Island Red.

01:43:39.000 I think I saw him outside.

01:43:40.000 He's beautiful.

01:43:41.000 So Roberto was getting really aggressive.

01:43:43.000 He jump-kicked me one day. 0.90

01:43:46.000 And we can't have him banging his daughters. 0.89

01:43:48.000 No.

01:43:49.000 So he already did and he had a bunch of granddaughter-daughters.

01:43:54.000 That's the limit, you know, for LimeBerry, I guess.

01:43:58.000 You can do it once, I guess, for certain traits.

01:44:00.000 So now he's got a few granddaughter-daughters.

01:44:03.000 And these chickens, they are their own aunts, I think?

01:44:07.000 Is that what it is?

01:44:08.000 That's right.

01:44:08.000 You're going to want to change that, yeah, bloodline.

01:44:11.000 We did.

01:44:11.000 Well, so Roberto Jr.' 's his son, but we have two Brahma roosters now that are Roberto's sons with our Brahma, Sarah.

01:44:20.000 So I think what we're going to do is we're going to take all the boys out because we have a Silky, who's been yelling.

01:44:25.000 Love him.

01:44:26.000 And then the Silky breeds with everybody and makes satins. 0.68

01:44:28.000 That's one lucky silkie.

01:44:30.000 Silkies are great.

01:44:31.000 Do roosters generally have a different call?

01:44:34.000 What do you call that?

01:44:34.000 A cock-a-doodle-doo?

01:44:35.000 What is that?

01:44:36.000 Crow.

01:44:37.000 They do, based upon when we would notice, when you live with them and you have them on the farm, and you know as well, you know what they're saying.

01:44:45.000 When there was a fox nearby, it was a different sound.

01:44:48.000 When it was like, run and take cover, he would make some sound.

01:44:50.000 Our rudus's name was Cletus.

01:44:54.000 And all the hens would run into the house. 1.00

01:44:56.000 It was like, heads up, here comes the fox.

01:44:58.000 They all have different sounds.

01:44:59.000 It's very cool.

01:44:59.000 Adrian Curry in chat says, house Lannister hens.

01:45:03.000 That is correct.

01:45:05.000 That is what they are.

01:45:06.000 That's very good.

01:45:07.000 Oh man.

01:45:07.000 That's very good.

01:45:08.000 All right.

01:45:09.000 Let's read some more.

01:45:09.000 DD says, the state is a joke.

01:45:11.000 They do not care about you.

01:45:12.000 Well, of course they don't.

01:45:15.000 Yeah.

01:45:15.000 Most of these politicians are like, I just want to say the bare minimum that I have to, to get reelected.

01:45:20.000 That's about it.

01:45:21.000 There's like 10 politicians who are actually trying stuff.

01:45:25.000 Alright, Minion715 says, Tim, check out New York response with BillS9407 making the purchase or possession of all types of body armor a felony if it is passed.

01:45:36.000 That's no good.

01:45:38.000 How do you how do you how do you legally define body armor then?

01:45:41.000 So you know what they were doing in Thailand is they would buy x-ray sheets and they would they would stagger them inside vest as plates.

01:45:50.000 Nice.

01:45:50.000 And I don't know if that actually worked but they they'd said it did.

01:45:52.000 You take a big a whole bunch of the x-ray film and it creates some kind of you know Oh, interesting.

01:45:59.000 Yeah.

01:45:59.000 I have to ask, how do you justify banning a defensive, not even a weapon, a defensive thing?

01:46:06.000 What case do you make that says, oh, you shouldn't be able to actually literally protect your vital organs from a possible attack?

01:46:12.000 Which we know are happening, by the way.

01:46:14.000 I don't get it.

01:46:16.000 Welder1 says, Tim, you need to buy billboards near establishment media that reads, if you want real news, go to TimCast.com.

01:46:22.000 Nice.

01:46:24.000 We did have some, I don't know if they went up, they might be in Chicago, and it's a quote from Michael Malice that says, the quote was something like, the corporate press gives you the narrative, TimCast.com, or TimCast gives you the news.

01:46:38.000 I think that's on some of the billboards, so I did see that we have the one in Times Square, but That was more of like a statement, like, we're here, get used to it.

01:46:47.000 And we bought a bunch in Chicago because that was actually, like, the biggest regional demographic for the show is Chicago.

01:46:53.000 So I was like, we'll put them in Chicago because apparently people in Chicago like the show.

01:46:58.000 And we'll see how that works out.

01:46:59.000 We'll see if it works out.

01:47:01.000 But either way, we've done zero marketing until this point.

01:47:04.000 And so, you know, we'll see what happens.

01:47:06.000 And it's all thanks to all of you as members.

01:47:08.000 We're going to keep growing.

01:47:09.000 I think we need to stop A lot of people, all of these channels, all of these independent creators, need to stop looking at the establishment mainstream media as if they are some big monolith, and start recognizing that we've beached the shore, we are storming, we've breached the walls, we are running across the beaches of Normandy figuratively, and they're firing all of these smears and hit pieces desperate to stop us.

01:47:35.000 But all we gotta do, is as we get big enough, is just start taking over those spaces.

01:47:39.000 So, I don't know, Super Bowl ads or something?

01:47:42.000 Yeah, and you'll realize when you start doing it, too, that the amount of cover you run as an independent journalist or an independent creator is so much more than a guy on a beach head storming against machine guns.

01:47:52.000 One guy doesn't provide a lot of cover for everyone else, but when you're a loud voice in the media, man, is that a distraction for the people that aren't comfortable with it.

01:48:00.000 What's funny is the hubris of the mainstream folks in their position, like, you know, Anderson Cooper.

01:48:05.000 There are more people watching Bobby Flay make a frittata than are watching him.

01:48:09.000 But if he would tell you he's the most important voice, people have 40,000, 50,000 people watching him a night.

01:48:15.000 So it's kind of funny to see that they still think they're these powerful voices and they're really we shouldn't give them any any props because they're they're kind of obsolete.

01:48:24.000 All right, Junkie Bok says, cops are now watered down. The poke mandate made many good ones leave.

01:48:29.000 The defund programs and protests made the good ones leave.

01:48:32.000 Effective cops also typically have past military training and there are few remaining. This

01:48:36.000 was the point I was trying to make on Twitter, which was probably not well framed. But

01:48:40.000 when you create a culture around the defund movement, and you demonize cops and you

01:48:46.000 riot, the good cops leave.

01:48:48.000 And then you get, there's two kinds of cops.

01:48:52.000 There's the cop who's like, I am doing this job, not because of the rewards I'm doing, because I must, I must be the person to run in to save those lives.

01:49:00.000 And then you get other cops who are like, I don't know, man, I just need a job.

01:49:03.000 And what we have now are the, I don't know, man, I just need a job. 0.91

01:49:06.000 I'm not going to run in there and get shot at you nuts.

01:49:08.000 I'm just here for the paycheck.

01:49:09.000 Cause the good cops don't want to be there anymore.

01:49:12.000 That's sad, man.

01:49:15.000 Alright, Drake Tilson says, I'm an FFL.

01:49:17.000 Many FFLs offer payment plans through their credit card processing companies so they can close sales with people who otherwise don't have the cash or credit to pay for the firearm.

01:49:26.000 Interesting.

01:49:28.000 I mean, financing's financing, you know?

01:49:31.000 Flinch Sun says, In reference to your earlier segment, the reason that feds are referred to as glowies is from Terry A. Davis and his less than charitable term he uses for the CIA and how they glow in the dark.

01:49:43.000 Yeah, that sounds right.

01:49:44.000 Yep.

01:49:44.000 Checks out.

01:49:47.000 All right.

01:49:49.000 Archm- Archmagos, Errant Carbos says, I would charge in to save any child I could from such a fate.

01:49:55.000 I don't think I could stop myself from berserking on in there to stop him or die trying.

01:50:00.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:50:01.000 I don't know if I would have any logical thought at all.

01:50:03.000 I might just be like, kick the door in.

01:50:06.000 But the CBP guy, exactly that.

01:50:08.000 He grabbed the gun and he went for it.

01:50:10.000 Some people are just like, run in, save these kids.

01:50:14.000 I don't even have kids, and I was imagining how I'd feel in that situation, and it was making my blood pressure rise.

01:50:20.000 I can understand if someone was like, you were unarmed, and there was someone with a weapon, and you'd be like, what do I do?

01:50:25.000 But these were cops with guns.

01:50:26.000 That's why I'm saying like, I'd probably just do it poorly, but freak out.

01:50:31.000 I'd probably freak out.

01:50:32.000 I don't know what to say, man.

01:50:34.000 I mean, maybe it's all well and good.

01:50:37.000 We like to believe we would be better at it than they would. 0.98

01:50:39.000 But I gotta tell you, man, I've run into danger for stupider reasons. 0.96

01:50:45.000 It leaves me speechless, really. 0.98

01:50:48.000 Speechless.

01:50:48.000 Available on Amazon.com.

01:50:50.000 Michael Knowles.

01:50:51.000 Oh my gosh. 0.99

01:50:53.000 Ridiculous. 0.99

01:50:54.000 It never dies. 0.96

01:50:56.000 Genius marketing.

01:51:00.000 He's got us.

01:51:02.000 Okay, let's try and grab some more Super Chats.

01:51:06.000 David C. Kronk Sr.

01:51:07.000 says I find it very disconcerting that we as a society put our money into a more secure place than we put our children.

01:51:13.000 We deserve what we get.

01:51:15.000 Well, you know, you get what you deserve.

01:51:18.000 It doesn't, you know, that's used in a bad way in a lot of senses.

01:51:21.000 You get what you deserve, but it's not always a bad thing.

01:51:23.000 It's like, you know, the story of the king who said he wanted, uh, who was it?

01:51:29.000 His blacksmith to make him something that would make him happy when he was sad and sad when he was happy.

01:51:33.000 I'm probably ruining the story or whatever.

01:51:35.000 You ever hear this one?

01:51:35.000 Yeah.

01:51:36.000 He's like, I challenge you to produce an item that would make me sad when I'm happy and happy when I'm sad.

01:51:40.000 And so he made a ring or something that, that engraved and it said, this too shall pass.

01:51:44.000 That's a great line.

01:51:45.000 Yeah, so like... It's from Ecclesiastes.

01:51:46.000 You know, when you say you get what you deserve, it's a good thing.

01:51:48.000 You work really hard, you'll get what you deserve.

01:51:50.000 Yeah.

01:51:50.000 You do bad things, you will get what you deserve.

01:51:52.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says Tim, make a short film about him. Praise strength.

01:51:59.000 We could.

01:51:59.000 We could do something.

01:51:59.000 Some people said to do an animation or something.

01:52:03.000 Here we go.

01:52:04.000 James Greenshade says they did make a movie about that guy.

01:52:06.000 It's called Die Hard.

01:52:07.000 Woo! 0.99

01:52:08.000 That's right.

01:52:08.000 You see, those were the heroes we had, like I had when I was a kid.

01:52:12.000 The dude who used to tape the gun to his back and he's got his hands up.

01:52:15.000 Prompt through the vents.

01:52:16.000 Yep.

01:52:17.000 Broken glass and he has no shoes on.

01:52:19.000 So at what point, though, are they the good guys and then they become the Fed?

01:52:22.000 Like, what's the crossover?

01:52:23.000 There's definitely a crossover.

01:52:25.000 Yeah.

01:52:26.000 And by the way, can we just shut the lights off and you can confirm I'm not glowing?

01:52:29.000 See if you're glowing in the dark.

01:52:31.000 And then we know I'm on the good side of this deal.

01:52:33.000 That's how it works.

01:52:34.000 Yeah.

01:52:35.000 I don't know.

01:52:36.000 You did the right thing.

01:52:37.000 No, I don't... I mean, I think it's all just about generalities, generalizations.

01:52:42.000 Like, there are bad feds, like the ones who go to the garage, pull rope, but the ones who don't go and deal with political corruption. 0.78

01:52:49.000 I think for the most part, everybody, I've talked to some active feds who are total MAGA.

01:52:56.000 And what I've told is that it's not as cut and dry as people think.

01:52:59.000 A lot of people think that the entirety of like the FBI is all Trump derangement syndrome.

01:53:04.000 And it's like, no, it's the same as the world.

01:53:06.000 It's the same as the country.

01:53:07.000 A bunch of them are, especially because they're living in DC.

01:53:10.000 So you see a lot of them.

01:53:11.000 But then there's a bunch of, you know, there's MAGA ones and then there's like middle of

01:53:15.000 the road guys.

01:53:16.000 And the problem is, as you see in the real world, conservatives and centrists rarely

01:53:21.000 speak up.

01:53:22.000 And so the Trump derangement ones are doing what they want.

01:53:25.000 The other guys are like, I don't know, man, you know, I shouldn't say anything.

01:53:27.000 I could lose my job.

01:53:28.000 I got kids.

01:53:29.000 And that's the reality.

01:53:31.000 That's the problem.

01:53:32.000 Bad people do bad things, and if all that is required for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.

01:53:37.000 That's correct.

01:53:38.000 Good persons do nothing.

01:53:40.000 Also, good people can do bad things if they're in bad systems.

01:53:45.000 Yes.

01:53:45.000 True.

01:53:46.000 Very, very true.

01:53:46.000 History shows that's true.

01:53:48.000 That's sad, man.

01:53:50.000 And vice versa.

01:53:51.000 Bad people can do good things in good systems.

01:53:53.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:53:54.000 says, quote, Ian, you are right, sounds like a Freudian slip.

01:53:57.000 So weird.

01:53:58.000 But you said it.

01:53:58.000 Very intentional.

01:54:00.000 It was true. 0.75

01:54:01.000 Julio Vallalta III says, just saw a Timcast IRL billboard off Interstate by Midway Airport.

01:54:08.000 Also seen in that area, regular gas at $5.53 a gallon.

01:54:13.000 Did you get it?

01:54:14.000 When I was buying the billboards in Chicago, I was like, at least one of them has to be

01:54:18.000 off Interstate 55 at Central Avenue because that's where I grew up.

01:54:22.000 The rest can be in strategic places, but that one, that one's for my friends.

01:54:25.000 Did you get it?

01:54:26.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:54:27.000 Apparently it's up.

01:54:28.000 I didn't know I was going to go up right away.

01:54:29.000 Awesome.

01:54:30.000 Yeah, so years ago, we've done a bunch of different polls and we also have analytic

01:54:34.000 data and Chicago is always the biggest.

01:54:36.000 Not by much, but I think it makes sense considering I'm from Chicago, so people there probably have similar opinions.

01:54:42.000 We grew up in the same place.

01:54:43.000 So I was like, all right, well, you know, if we're gonna buy ads and actually buy ads, we'll do it in Chicago.

01:54:48.000 It's a big city, and the people there have similar views.

01:54:51.000 It's a big liberal city for sure, but if you don't like Democrats and you're not a conservative in Chicago, you're basically like me, you know?

01:54:59.000 If you guys see billboards, get a nice high-res shot of it and tweet it at me.

01:55:02.000 Tag me in it and I'll see if we can circulate it on the show.

01:55:04.000 Give me the address of where it is, the location.

01:55:09.000 JoshOhMyGosh says, Tim, if the government subsidizes guns using tax money, it may turn out like the universities raising prices to get more money.

01:55:16.000 No thanks.

01:55:16.000 That is a good point.

01:55:18.000 So I was only half-joking.

01:55:20.000 I was making a point about how Republicans never actually fight for things the way Democrats do.

01:55:24.000 Democrats are like, we demand you pay for our healthcare, and then healthcare goes crazy.

01:55:28.000 And then I'm like, okay, then we demand you pay for our guns!

01:55:31.000 How about that?

01:55:32.000 Here's a compromise.

01:55:33.000 I will say yes to universal healthcare if you say yes to universal guns. 0.90

01:55:36.000 And it works out too, because then with all the guns everywhere, you're worried.

01:55:38.000 Don't worry!

01:55:38.000 Hospital's covered for you!

01:55:40.000 Yeah.

01:55:41.000 Don't, you know, you don't, these people don't realize that you don't just get free stuff because you want it.

01:55:47.000 It means we get free stuff too.

01:55:48.000 That's fair.

01:55:49.000 Yeah.

01:55:50.000 I also think it's funny that the student debt forgiveness people are like 13% of the population and they want all of the poor people to subsidize their, their degrees.

01:56:00.000 There was a study done by the Fed.

01:56:02.000 The other Fed.

01:56:03.000 Oh, the Fed.

01:56:04.000 Yes, the other ones.

01:56:05.000 The bankers.

01:56:05.000 The one we want to end.

01:56:07.000 They surveyed student loan folks and 70% of them could, as of this moment, continue their payments.

01:56:14.000 In other words, 70% of folks who have student loans absolutely need no assistance.

01:56:19.000 Interesting that this whole conversation around loan forgiveness, not necessarily everybody needs it.

01:56:25.000 Yeah, but they're all getting $10,000.

01:56:25.000 Really?

01:56:27.000 That's the proposal.

01:56:30.000 It's bribing voters.

01:56:31.000 Yeah.

01:56:32.000 That's crazy.

01:56:33.000 Yeah.

01:56:34.000 Bonkers. 0.92

01:56:35.000 I mean, that's nuts, man.

01:56:37.000 Okay.

01:56:37.000 All right.

01:56:37.000 Let's see.

01:56:38.000 Second, Fleet Actual says, Tim, if they aren't old enough to be armed, they aren't old enough to vote, force them to choose one or the other.

01:56:44.000 There you go.

01:56:46.000 I think they would give them the guns.

01:56:47.000 Raise the age of everything.

01:56:49.000 They'd be like, OK, let's get 16-year-olds to vote.

01:56:51.000 There was a bunch of students protested gun violence, and they were like, just because we're students doesn't mean we aren't allowed to protest.

01:57:01.000 And I'm like, no, your lack of experience and knowledge on these issues is why you shouldn't protest.

01:57:06.000 But I don't really mean you shouldn't protest.

01:57:08.000 I'm just saying, like, I don't think you, as a gun control person, regardless of age, has done any research on this.

01:57:15.000 No.

01:57:15.000 That's it.

01:57:16.000 I don't care how old you are. 0.76

01:57:17.000 You can be 14, and if you're like, I have not googled this, but I'm gonna protest, I'll bet you maybe, maybe you should.

01:57:22.000 Yeah, and last time a 16-year-old said policy, it was that Swedish chick, and they basically led Europe into war. 0.83

01:57:27.000 So let's not have 16-year-olds make any more policy decisions.

01:57:32.000 I would like to translate for Greta Thunberg. 0.94

01:57:34.000 When she was like, we don't want to wait till 2030 or 2022, she was actually saying, I want to kill 60 million people today! 0.56

01:57:41.000 Sounds familiar.

01:57:42.000 And you think I'm joking, but she said she wanted to shut down all fossil fuels today. 0.94

01:57:47.000 I'm like, yeah, overnight, 60 million people around the world die.

01:57:50.000 Yeah.

01:57:50.000 They've also figured out how to upscale coal into graphene.

01:57:52.000 I don't know if you've been following that at all, but they hit it with lasers, and they can turn it into much cleaner burn fuel.

01:57:56.000 Oh, you see, now Greta Thunberg's trying to take away Ian's graphene. 1.00

01:57:58.000 She's kind of scary.

01:58:00.000 Greta, I'm on your side.

01:58:02.000 And your buddy in Chicago should know that a 550 is bad.

01:58:04.000 Wait till August.

01:58:06.000 It's going to get much, much worse.

01:58:08.000 Are you making your own fuel?

01:58:11.000 Wait till the harvest.

01:58:13.000 No fertilizer.

01:58:15.000 This fall harvest is going to be a shock to the system.

01:58:18.000 We're still eating last year's crops.

01:58:20.000 Some winter wheat was harvested recently, but very little.

01:58:24.000 We're still eating last year's wheat.

01:58:26.000 We're actually growing wheat as well.

01:58:27.000 You have to.

01:58:28.000 Yeah, there were weeds.

01:58:29.000 Volunteer weed.

01:58:30.000 And we ignored them for a long enough time.

01:58:31.000 And then we realized it was wheat.

01:58:33.000 And I was like, leave it, I guess.

01:58:35.000 I was like, I guess we'll make bread.

01:58:37.000 Yeah, we got a whole bunch growing.

01:58:38.000 And I was like, what is this strange plant growing?

01:58:41.000 Oh.

01:58:41.000 Now how are you gonna harvest it, by the way?

01:58:43.000 Do you have the scythe?

01:58:44.000 What do you got to cut it up?

01:58:45.000 Oh, my meteorite katana.

01:58:47.000 You got some swords up on the walls.

01:58:50.000 No, I won't use that.

01:58:51.000 I'll use one of my other katanas.

01:58:52.000 Dude, let's get a grindstone.

01:58:54.000 To sharpen them?

01:58:55.000 No, no, to grind the wheat once we get it out.

01:58:57.000 No, no, no, no. 0.86

01:58:59.000 We're gonna get a donkey. 0.96

01:59:00.000 And the donkey walks in a circle.

01:59:02.000 And a millstone.

01:59:03.000 Absolutely.

01:59:03.000 That would be great.

01:59:04.000 Old school.

01:59:05.000 Oh, it's a millstone.

01:59:06.000 The grindstone is for the blade.

01:59:07.000 I feel like that could be another YouTube channel for you. 0.99

01:59:09.000 Just the donkey going around in circles. 0.95

01:59:11.000 It would be super cathartic.

01:59:13.000 Drop a carrot every 500 bucks in Super Chats.

01:59:19.000 I would watch that.

01:59:23.000 We have the chicken parties at chickencitylive.com so you can give five bucks and then treats come down and then once a hundred dollars hits a chicken party happens and so when we were launching Pop Culture Crisis Live I said we need to do the same thing You know, like, we need to have it so that when people superchat, something happens, and then when you reach a number, something happens.

01:59:41.000 So now, during pop culture crisis, the hosts, you know, will be talking, and if you superchat, a money gun shoots 20s into the air.

01:59:49.000 Woo! 0.99

01:59:50.000 So good.

01:59:50.000 And then once $100 is reached, a crisis party happens where police lights go off and then money starts flying at people.

01:59:57.000 And then one flew into Ian's coffee.

01:59:58.000 Yeah, it's a bit distracting.

02:00:00.000 It is a little distracting.

02:00:00.000 It hit me in the face, one fell in the coffee.

02:00:02.000 But it's funny.

02:00:03.000 It's cool.

02:00:05.000 All right, let's see.

02:00:06.000 Odysseus Horse says, Tim, if you're serious about the absolute nature of 2A, you should get Brandon Herrera, the AK guy, out to tell you about the ATF form to register your nuclear device.

02:00:16.000 I'd love to hear it.

02:00:17.000 I have tried so many times to get that man.

02:00:19.000 He is busy as all get out.

02:00:21.000 Someday.

02:00:22.000 Brandon Herrera is his name?

02:00:23.000 Yeah, Brandon Herrera.

02:00:26.000 Matthew Fettig says, hey Tim, love all your work.

02:00:29.000 Anyway, the IRL can do a poll of the day and then talk about it a little on the show to help the show feel even more engaging.

02:00:35.000 That's a good idea.

02:00:36.000 We could do something in the community section on the page, like maybe in the morning.

02:00:42.000 Or maybe just a couple hours before the show and the news is settled.

02:00:46.000 Matthew, you get no royalties.

02:00:47.000 It's ours.

02:00:48.000 You gave us the idea.

02:00:48.000 You forfeit all rights.

02:00:49.000 What about my donkey idea?

02:00:50.000 Can I get in on that?

02:00:50.000 we can pull it up on the show.

02:00:51.000 That would be fun, actually.

02:00:52.000 It's a good idea.

02:00:53.000 Matthew, you get no royalties.

02:00:55.000 It's ours.

02:00:56.000 You gave us the idea.

02:00:57.000 We own it now.

02:00:58.000 Nice job, dude.

02:00:59.000 You forfeit all rights.

02:01:00.000 No, we'll see.

02:01:01.000 We'll see.

02:01:02.000 What about my donkey idea?

02:01:03.000 Can I get in on that?

02:01:04.000 Can you guys do that?

02:01:05.000 I'll cut.

02:01:06.000 I'll give you back the $100.

02:01:08.000 That proves you're not a... 0.98

02:01:11.000 Got it.

02:01:12.000 Yeah.

02:01:12.000 To like, to earn redemption, you gave me a hundred bucks, I'll give it back.

02:01:14.000 Yeah, there you go. 0.97

02:01:15.000 Good donkey idea. 0.93

02:01:17.000 Matt Reese says, the left are saying mental health isn't an issue, while you see a clear trend to normalize mental illness, as if madness should be the new baseline. 0.94

02:01:26.000 Yeah, well, unfortunately.

02:01:27.000 This is the hill I'm on right now, is the pharmaceutical industry is the root problem of this, because it's just too much of a coincidence not to be.

02:01:35.000 Fritter says, disabled guy here. 1.00

02:01:36.000 I walk with a cane.

02:01:37.000 Love it when my friends yell, hurry up!

02:01:39.000 Dude, I only have two speeds.

02:01:41.000 If you don't like this one, you sure as hell won't like the other.

02:01:43.000 I love that guy.

02:01:45.000 That's great.

02:01:46.000 Food for Life Global says, our charity is FFL.org, and our mission is to unite the world through the sharing of pure food.

02:01:53.000 We serve over one million vegan meals a day.

02:01:55.000 Oh, that's cool.

02:01:56.000 FFL, too.

02:01:56.000 I thought it was going to be a gun thing.

02:01:58.000 But it's Food for Life.

02:01:59.000 Wait, that's three Fs. 0.96

02:02:00.000 That's F-F-F-L. 0.98

02:02:02.000 Wait, wait, wait. 0.98

02:02:02.000 That's F-F. 0.98

02:02:03.000 That's F-F-G. 0.98

02:02:04.000 Food for F and Life. 1.00

02:02:07.000 Oh, I'm an idiot. 1.00

02:02:07.000 Oh, Tim can't count. 1.00

02:02:09.000 I can't count.

02:02:09.000 Where's that A?

02:02:10.000 Food for Life.

02:02:11.000 WWJD.

02:02:13.000 F-F-L-G. 1.00

02:02:14.000 That's what it was.

02:02:16.000 I pulled another Biden, man.

02:02:17.000 What's going on here, man?

02:02:19.000 Take a meditation break.

02:02:21.000 You're going to love the fresh air.

02:02:23.000 If I pull more Bidens like this, I don't know if I keep doing the show.

02:02:25.000 Forest bathing.

02:02:26.000 But I do like the fact that whenever I screw up, I can say I pulled a Biden.

02:02:29.000 Yeah, I love that.

02:02:29.000 Because it makes it funny.

02:02:31.000 And then you have to whisper something really creepy.

02:02:33.000 And angry.

02:02:34.000 I'm your commander in chief.

02:02:36.000 That was so creepy to me.

02:02:37.000 It gave me, like, goosebumps.

02:02:39.000 Like, ooh!

02:02:39.000 Oh, he did that?

02:02:40.000 We'll grab two more here. 0.66

02:02:42.000 Let's see.

02:02:43.000 Phalanx says, the Ludi is a 9mm SMG that is built entirely from things you find at the hardware store.

02:02:50.000 British anti-gun control guy Phil Ludi wrote a book showing how to do it.

02:02:54.000 Wow.

02:02:55.000 You can't ban the knowledge.

02:02:56.000 That's crazy.

02:02:56.000 Nice.

02:02:57.000 You cannot, no.

02:02:58.000 Nashonabo says, shoutout to Riley Hyland.

02:03:01.000 The chicken cams will be forever known as Tim... Timcest?

02:03:05.000 Whoa! 0.71

02:03:06.000 That makes sense.

02:03:07.000 That's fair.

02:03:07.000 Oh, that makes sense.

02:03:09.000 Well, hey man.

02:03:10.000 Don't put your name with that. You didn't do anything wrong.

02:03:12.000 Yeah, I didn't do it. He did.

02:03:14.000 And you know what was funny is we put Dorothy in sex jail. 1.00

02:03:17.000 Aww. 0.78

02:03:18.000 Because he was going at her too much and hurt her back.

02:03:21.000 Poor little thing. 1.00

02:03:22.000 Yeah, she was the victim.

02:03:25.000 She was the punished.

02:03:26.000 She was the favorite.

02:03:27.000 And so we had to separate her.

02:03:29.000 And people got mad.

02:03:30.000 They were like, shouldn't you put Roberto in there?

02:03:32.000 And I was like, well, but he's the rooster.

02:03:34.000 And he keeps the girls in check and guards them. 0.61

02:03:38.000 And if we separate him, he might come back out and fight with his son, so we can't.

02:03:41.000 But then eventually we decided it's time to send Roberto off to the mine over at Freedomistan with the boys.

02:03:47.000 And so we put him in sex shield.

02:03:49.000 I'm sure she appreciated a little break also.

02:03:51.000 She did, but she's not healing.

02:03:52.000 Oh, she's not?

02:03:53.000 No, it's been a couple months and she's not growing the feathers back.

02:03:57.000 She needs some Reiki.

02:03:59.000 Yeah, you know, and for some reason she is the favorite even for Roberto Jr.

02:04:03.000 now.

02:04:04.000 It's crazy.

02:04:05.000 Chicken hormones.

02:04:06.000 I don't know anything about chicken attractiveness, but she must be a supermodel in Chicken World. 1.00

02:04:12.000 The Bard Rock?

02:04:13.000 Yeah.

02:04:13.000 Yeah, yeah, she's hot.

02:04:13.000 You know, it's really funny.

02:04:14.000 We have two barred rock.

02:04:15.000 They look like zebras. 0.52

02:04:16.000 They have, like, you know, white and black.

02:04:17.000 And Vanessa has always got a furrowed brow.

02:04:19.000 That's how you tell them apart.

02:04:21.000 You see Vanessa, and she's always looking angry at you, like this, with her eyes down.

02:04:24.000 And Dorothy's eyes are always up, like, huh? 0.84

02:04:26.000 She's very cute.

02:04:27.000 So you instantly just know who's who.

02:04:29.000 They're very friendly.

02:04:30.000 They're both real friendly to humans, too.

02:04:32.000 That might have something to do with them being the favorites of the roosters.

02:04:35.000 Adrian Curry says eat Roberto. He will always be a part of you

02:04:38.000 Justice has been served. Oh, I don't I I don't think we'll eat any of the original cast which includes Roberto

02:04:48.000 But all the rest of them they don't have names or fair game We can't name the 50 of them that we have.

02:04:54.000 So we named one of the Brahmas the son of Sarah Isaac because in the Bible, Sarah's son is Isaac. 0.53

02:05:01.000 So he's safe.

02:05:02.000 And Sarah is safe.

02:05:03.000 And then she has another son and daughter.

02:05:05.000 I guess they'll be safe.

02:05:06.000 I like the Bible trend. 0.56

02:05:07.000 That's cool.

02:05:08.000 Well, I don't know.

02:05:09.000 It was just an idea someone came up with, I guess.

02:05:11.000 So, you know, we'll see how Chicken City goes.

02:05:13.000 But also, guys, check out Pop Culture Crisis on YouTube live Monday through Friday at 3 p.m.

02:05:18.000 We're going to be doing some ads for them as well as the show starts kicking up and getting to full speed.

02:05:23.000 And it's going really good.

02:05:24.000 I mean, Lydia and Ian have been on the show.

02:05:25.000 So fun.

02:05:26.000 This week, actually.

02:05:26.000 Yeah, it was great.

02:05:27.000 Yeah.

02:05:28.000 So smash the like button if you haven't already.

02:05:30.000 Subscribe to the channel.

02:05:31.000 Share the show.

02:05:31.000 It's the most powerful thing you can do.

02:05:33.000 You know, we started doing this marketing thing recently, but everything for this show has been organic growth, which is just totally nuts.

02:05:40.000 And I talked to some marketing people who couldn't believe it.

02:05:42.000 They were like, no way.

02:05:43.000 Yeah, just people were sharing it.

02:05:45.000 I guess they like it.

02:05:45.000 Yeah.

02:05:46.000 So that really is the most powerful thing.

02:05:47.000 But now we'll do traditional marketing and we're going to take over.

02:05:50.000 That's what we're going to do.

02:05:51.000 You can follow the show at Timcast IRL.

02:05:53.000 You can follow me personally at Timcast.

02:05:55.000 Brian, you want to shout anything out?

02:05:56.000 I'm just so pleased to be here.

02:05:57.000 Can't wait to come back, if you have me, even though if I glow.

02:06:01.000 But please, The President's Daily Brief.

02:06:03.000 Love it if you all listen to that.

02:06:04.000 And I'm on Twitter, Brian Dean Wright.

02:06:08.000 Always good to be here.

02:06:08.000 Daniel Turner, power of the future, powerofthefuture.com, and also always a shout out to Bristol Farm, Virginia on Instagram, our fantastic sheep farm.

02:06:19.000 I sent you a picture of the sheep, but I don't know if you can pull it up in time.

02:06:22.000 I can't pull it up in time, but I am going to put that link in our bio, so your socials will have it.

02:06:27.000 My sheep are just the most beautiful sheep in the world.

02:06:31.000 Swiss valet, they're just beautiful.

02:06:34.000 Did you shave them yet? 0.90

02:06:36.000 The Scottish blackface will get sheared next week. 1.00

02:06:39.000 Are you going to record it? 0.63

02:06:40.000 They're getting really hot.

02:06:40.000 You guys want to come record it?

02:06:42.000 You can.

02:06:42.000 It's kind of funny.

02:06:43.000 I like the idea.

02:06:44.000 They'll be so happy because they're hot right now.

02:06:46.000 Oh, they're so hot.

02:06:47.000 They have so much wool.

02:06:48.000 But yeah, Bristol Farm, Virginia on Instagram and great to be here.

02:06:51.000 Thanks for having me.

02:06:51.000 Have a great weekend.

02:06:52.000 I used to think it was unethical to shave sheep just because of the way they scream and struggle, but I saw a sheep with so much wool it couldn't move, so you kind of gotta... You see how they vaccinate the baby sheep?

02:07:03.000 They have them sitting in that conveyor belt thing with their feet up, and it just pulls them forward, and they don't move, and it just gives them the shot, and then it drops them, and they walk away.

02:07:11.000 That's great.

02:07:11.000 I love it.

02:07:12.000 Daniel, always great.

02:07:14.000 Really great to see you, man.

02:07:14.000 Brian, really good to see you, dude.

02:07:16.000 And we did joke about the whole CIA that you work for the Fed and everything, but thank you so much for doing that and the work you've done and for coming and talking about it.

02:07:26.000 Anytime.

02:07:26.000 Can't wait to see you again, man.

02:07:27.000 This is great stuff.

02:07:28.000 I followed you on Twitter.

02:07:29.000 Lydia, I love you.

02:07:30.000 Tim, always a pleasure, my man.

02:07:32.000 All right, I wanted to leave you guys with this quick thought.

02:07:34.000 I was just talking to Chris Carr, who's one of our editors over at TimCast.com, and I said, Chris, I would really like to know how many of the cops who just stood in the hallway while those kids were dying had their own kids.

02:07:45.000 I was like, I'm willing to bet that not a lot of them have their own children.

02:07:48.000 And I was like, this is how a culture dies when we're not willing to defend the people who need our defense the most, because our family line ends with us, and if we're to die, that's it.

02:07:56.000 So anyway, that's not exactly a bright note to leave you with, but I also want to say you guys can follow me on Twitter at Minds.com at Sour Patchlets, as well as SourPatchlets.me.

02:08:05.000 Thanks for hanging out, everybody.

02:08:06.000 Check out Pop Culture Crisis on YouTube and subscribe to it, and check out ChickenCityLive.com.

02:08:12.000 We have the Cast Castle vlog up every day, and we'll be back with the show.

02:08:15.000 We are working on Memorial Day.

02:08:16.000 It's going to be a lot of fun.

02:08:18.000 Thanks for hanging out, and we'll see you all then.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - May 27, 2022

Timcast IRL - Ex Federal Agent Investigated As ACCOMPLICE In Buffalo Tragedy w- Bryan Dean Wright

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