Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - FBI ARRESTS #WalkAway Founder After Relative Turns Him In w- Brad Polumbo

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00:00:28.000 the FBI has arrested Brandon Strzok founder of the walkaway campaign for his

00:00:35.000 involvement in the Capitol riots And they're alleging some pretty serious stuff, like he was telling people to do things, like go inside or take a cop's shield.

00:00:43.000 And there's even a tweet, I remember seeing myself, where Brandon said, he told, he tweeted that patriots of the Capitol hold the, hold period, the period line.

00:00:51.000 I saw him tweet that.

00:00:53.000 Well, I didn't know exactly what it was about, but here we go.

00:00:55.000 FBI has made the arrest.

00:00:57.000 We got a bunch of crazy stories, so we'll go through this.

00:00:58.000 But the craziest thing about it, he was turned in by a relative, according to the FBI affidavit.

00:01:04.000 The witness who handed over the evidence claims to be a relative of Brandon Strock.

00:01:10.000 Welcome, my friends, to the great culture revolution here in the United States, where kids are turning in their parents.

00:01:14.000 We got a couple stories about that.

00:01:16.000 We'll rehash just a little bit.

00:01:17.000 There's some nuance in these stories.

00:01:19.000 We've also got a story out of Canada.

00:01:21.000 They've apparently voted to label the Proud Boys a terrorist entity.

00:01:25.000 Whether or not that actually means anything is yet to be determined.

00:01:29.000 I know a lot of people think it's legit, like it's done.

00:01:31.000 It's not.

00:01:32.000 It's not.

00:01:32.000 They're calling on the government to make it official.

00:01:35.000 So, we'll see how that plays out.

00:01:36.000 But, I gotta tell you, I wouldn't be surprised if here in the U.S.

00:01:39.000 we see something similar.

00:01:42.000 So, you know, there's already, with Democrat control of the House, and now essential control of the Senate, I wouldn't be surprised if they played that same game.

00:01:50.000 Now, in less important news, the articles of impeachment have been delivered to the Senate, and there's going to be a trial, and it's kind of funny that we've actually have this one slated for later, like it's not our lead story, because, well, it's just, you know, I gotta be honest, it's kind of silly.

00:02:03.000 But, and we have another big story, too.

00:02:05.000 We have a lot tonight, actually.

00:02:06.000 A hundred Politico staffers have written a letter outraged that Ben Shapiro wrote an op-ed.

00:02:12.000 This is how crazy things are getting, so I'll just, I'll leave the intro at that because we got a ton of stuff.

00:02:17.000 And joining us tonight is Brad Palumbo.

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00:02:20.000 Hey, thanks for having me.

00:02:22.000 It's good to be with you.

00:02:23.000 And what, who are you?

00:02:24.000 What do you do?

00:02:24.000 So, I'm a conservative journalist, Washington Examiner columnist, and podcast host, just like yourself.

00:02:30.000 Right on! 0.80

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00:02:33.000 Luke is here.

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00:02:34.000 We had a fun weekend.

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00:07:08.000 But, uh, let's just jump to the first story.

00:07:10.000 Man, this story, this is nuts.

00:07:12.000 I was sitting on my couch and I saw a tweet.

00:07:14.000 Brandon Strock, who's been on the show several times, has been arrested by the FBI.

00:07:19.000 We have this local news outlet, KETV7 Omaha, says, Omaha FBI agents arrest founder of walk-away campaign for actions during U.S.

00:07:28.000 Capitol attack.

00:07:29.000 They say Brandon Strzok, 44, was arrested Monday by agents from the FBI Omaha field office.

00:07:34.000 Strzok faces charges of impeding a law enforcement officer during civil disorder, knowingly entering and remaining on restricted grounds without lawful authority, and or engaging in disorderly conduct within proximity to a restricted building to impede official functions, and engaging in disorderly conduct with intent to disturb a hearing before Congress.

00:07:54.000 Court documents show that officials were tipped off about Strzok posting a video near the Capitol entrance shouting, Go!

00:08:00.000 Go! 0.95

00:08:01.000 The video was later removed, and officials said they could not find any video or posts on his Twitter page relating to his actions at the Capitol.

00:08:07.000 However, the FBI was sent multiple screenshots.

00:08:10.000 These screenshots reportedly revealed that Strzok made the following comments on Twitter, saying, Quote, Patriots at the Capitol, hold the line.

00:08:19.000 Quote, I arrived at the Capitol a few hours ago as Patriots were storming from all sides.

00:08:23.000 I was quite close to entering myself as police began tear gassing us from the door.

00:08:27.000 I inhaled tear gas and got in my eyes.

00:08:29.000 Patriots began exiting shortly after saying Congress had been cleared.

00:08:33.000 He goes on to say he was confused.

00:08:34.000 For six to eight weeks, everybody on the right was saying 1776.

00:08:38.000 And that if Congress moves forward, it will mean a revolution.

00:08:40.000 So Congress moves forward.

00:08:42.000 Patriots storm the Capitol.

00:08:43.000 Now everyone is virtue signaling their embarrassment that this happened.

00:08:47.000 I think that quote right there is a really good example of what happens when you're in an echo chamber.

00:08:52.000 As if anybody thought that going inside a building and physically standing there was going to change the government overnight.

00:08:58.000 Definitely not the case.

00:09:00.000 But the more important points I'll make right here.

00:09:02.000 They say, according to documents, one video showed an officer from the U.S.

00:09:06.000 Capitol Police holding a protective shield.

00:09:08.000 As individuals pushed past the officer toward the entrance of the U.S.

00:09:11.000 Capitol, the officer held his shield up in the air.

00:09:13.000 The report states, according to documents, Strzok is heard shouting, take it away from him.

00:09:18.000 And others in the crowd then yelled, take the shield.

00:09:21.000 As several people in the crowd grabbed the officer's shield, Strzok yelled, take it, take it.

00:09:26.000 Officials learned that Strzok was a self-described former liberal and the founder of the Walk Away campaign.

00:09:32.000 Now here's where it gets crazy.

00:09:33.000 I've got here the FBI affidavit.

00:09:35.000 They say the FBI received multiple tips referencing the video of Strzok at the U.S.

00:09:39.000 Capitol, including a tip from Witness 1.

00:09:42.000 I interviewed Witness 1 on January 13th.

00:09:45.000 Witness 1 stated he, she was a relative of Strzok.

00:09:49.000 Not everything else we've heard, for the most part.

00:09:51.000 Accusations were made, videos were sent.

00:09:53.000 And I'll also point out, this is probably why Facebook banned WalkAway and all of the people involved.

00:09:59.000 See, we didn't- I don't think any of us actually saw those videos unless you had been following WalkAway.

00:10:03.000 I wasn't.

00:10:04.000 So when I heard that they banned the entirety of WalkAway, I was like, whoa, that's nuts!

00:10:08.000 Now if they're saying he was posting these videos of himself storming the Capitol, it's not surprising at all.

00:10:13.000 But I think the bigger- the bigger issue here is, for one, we got the news, that's it, founder of WalkAway arrested.

00:10:18.000 Relative.

00:10:19.000 Turned him in. 1.00

00:10:20.000 I mean, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 1.00

00:10:23.000 I don't know why anyone went near this mess at the Capitol. 1.00

00:10:25.000 They were never gonna accomplish anything.

00:10:27.000 They were never going to stop the certification of the vote.

00:10:30.000 I mean, that ship sailed a long time ago.

00:10:32.000 For a few hours they did.

00:10:34.000 Yeah, they delayed the inevitable at a big cost to them personally.

00:10:37.000 Wait, I disagree.

00:10:39.000 That shaman who believed he was an alien, he was definitely a threat to national security and he became very close to being Speaker of the House. 0.60

00:10:48.000 How can you argue against that?

00:10:49.000 It was an insurrection.

00:10:50.000 Wait, wait, wait, he was standing in Mike Pence's place.

00:10:53.000 Yes.

00:10:54.000 For the president of the Senate.

00:10:55.000 That legally means he was the president of the Senate, right?

00:10:59.000 That's the idea, isn't it?

00:11:01.000 By physically going in there and standing there, you hold the title?

00:11:04.000 That's the rules, right?

00:11:05.000 Well, is that what people thought was going to happen?

00:11:08.000 But okay, look, look, look.

00:11:09.000 Sorry for interrupting you.

00:11:10.000 Go ahead and finish your point.

00:11:11.000 But I was saying, like, it is disturbing to see people starting to turn in family members.

00:11:15.000 It'd be one thing, right, if it was another story that you and I were talking about before we went live, right?

00:11:20.000 Where there's a threat of, like, imminent violence or terrorism.

00:11:23.000 But, like, just snitching on your family members.

00:11:26.000 There's gotta be some really extreme circumstances to justify anything close to that.

00:11:30.000 And just posts that you saw from them on Twitter?

00:11:33.000 I would never do that, personally.

00:11:35.000 Well, we also have to understand we're in a political climate where it seems like the FBI has been absolutely activated.

00:11:42.000 Previously before when it when it came to other issues the FBI is kind of sitting around but now I mean they're putting up bulletin boards.

00:11:48.000 They're putting up wanted posters.

00:11:51.000 They're putting up tip hotlines.

00:11:53.000 It looks like they finally you know got off of their buttockses and started being extremely proactive and very efficient at their job when previously with other cases like the Epstein case they kind of didn't Well, and not just that case.

00:12:06.000 Here's what bothers me.

00:12:06.000 No, no, trust me.

00:12:07.000 There's a long history of the FBI not doing their job correctly.

00:12:10.000 Anybody who actually committed crimes at the Capitol, they should be doing that, right?

00:12:14.000 But where was that during the BLM riots this summer, right?

00:12:17.000 They weren't tracking down every person that smashed a window.

00:12:20.000 Those were peaceful, mostly peaceful protests.

00:12:23.000 And they stopped COVID and they fought COVID according to scientific studies that were released and published by CNN News.

00:12:30.000 Are you telling me CNN News is lying and you're cutting me down?

00:12:34.000 I'm gonna have to speak louder, Tim.

00:12:36.000 Okay, sorry, go ahead.

00:12:39.000 I'm just telling you, though, when they tell you it's mostly peaceful with the burning background, with the building on fire, it might not actually be mostly peaceful.

00:12:46.000 This is a serious problem, man.

00:12:49.000 I've had emails from people saying, like, Tim, You talk about the same thing over and over again, just different times.

00:12:55.000 Same stuff, different day.

00:12:58.000 We don't swear on the show.

00:12:59.000 And I'm like, what do you want me to do?

00:13:01.000 I'm telling you it's happening.

00:13:02.000 It's happening.

00:13:03.000 What I won't do is be like, oh, I am absolutely shocked by this double standard.

00:13:07.000 The FBI arresting these insurrectionists.

00:13:10.000 And we have Antifa still riding now.

00:13:13.000 They've never stopped.

00:13:13.000 They're still going.

00:13:15.000 But look, look, I know you guys want to rag on the FBI and all that, but I gotta point out the family thing, because you brought up that story of the kid and his dad, right?

00:13:22.000 Let me tell you how insane and despicable things are getting.

00:13:24.000 We have this story from the New York Times.

00:13:26.000 Son tipped off FBI about his father, who is charged in Capitol Riot.

00:13:30.000 He says, I put my emotions behind me to do what I thought was right.

00:13:34.000 And you know what he thought was right?

00:13:36.000 On his Twitter account, his official link, you know on Twitter, you edit your profile and you can put a link?

00:13:41.000 It's his link to a GoFundMe.

00:13:43.000 This morning, his GoFundMe was at like 90-something thousand dollars.

00:13:48.000 And I was just like, dude, it's one thing to rat your family out.

00:13:52.000 Maybe you have to do it if there's a real threat.

00:13:53.000 Maybe you have to.

00:13:54.000 It's true.

00:13:55.000 It's not so simple.

00:13:56.000 It's another thing to be like, guys, I turned my dad in.

00:13:59.000 Here's my GoFundMe!

00:14:00.000 I'm looking for $100,000.

00:14:00.000 And wait.

00:14:02.000 Since then, he's raised another about $25,000.

00:14:05.000 So he increased the total goal to $200,000.

00:14:07.000 He's calling it his college fund.

00:14:09.000 Listen.

00:14:11.000 This guy reported his dad weeks ago, because his dad was saying he was going to do something big.

00:14:15.000 And I'm like, look, if your dad or your family member was Antifo, and they were talking about doing something big, especially when you have stories of all these riots going on, and you turn to men, I get it. 0.93

00:14:26.000 It's, it sucks. 0.97

00:14:28.000 Okay. 0.91

00:14:29.000 But then if you come out publicly and you're like, I'd like to do an interview with, with CNN and the New York times and then publish a GoFundMe to make hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:14:35.000 It's horrible.

00:14:36.000 Wow, dude.

00:14:38.000 Well, you brought up a very important point, because it could have been a scenario where there was a present danger, and at that time, you know, we don't know the interpersonal relationship, we don't know if there was abuse, we don't know any of this stuff, but at the same time, one thing we have to note here, the mainstream media, especially CNN, they're taking this case and they're running with it.

00:14:57.000 They're running, you know, until the cows come home, essentially exploiting this and loving it. 0.92

00:15:04.000 And they're running with it as a headline story, and this is where he even wrote in his own description, he's like, I'm getting so much support after my CNN interview, I might not have a home to live in, but it seems like he's getting some support from some people.

00:15:19.000 That's the most dysfunctional incentive structure though, you're setting up with these like resist bucks.

00:15:24.000 I mean, this is what they did with Claudia Conway.

00:15:26.000 That she was willing to drag her dad, her mom rather, on Twitter for working for the president.

00:15:26.000 Right?

00:15:31.000 And so like the New York Times had a glowing profile of her and they started constantly sharing her and promoting her and turning her into a TikTok star.

00:15:38.000 And it's like, I don't think we should be incentivizing with money young people to do this kind of thing and sell out their family.

00:15:45.000 Unless you're a commie and you want the culture evolution.

00:15:47.000 Then you're cheering and jumping up and down and clapping for it.

00:15:50.000 But wait, I thought they didn't believe in incentivizing people with money.

00:15:50.000 Happy.

00:15:53.000 That's the funny thing. 0.59

00:15:54.000 I said, you know, that's that's what I was saying earlier that it's a lot of people claim to be socialists or leftists, but when it comes down to it, they're the worst version of capitalists.

00:16:03.000 Everything they complain about capitalism, like the raw exploitation for money.

00:16:06.000 I'm like, what do you think it is you're doing when you literally sell your dad to the state for money?

00:16:11.000 That's incredible.

00:16:12.000 Look, if I had to report a family member, I'd be embarrassed, I'd be saddened.

00:16:16.000 But more importantly, what if it was possible that he could have talked to his dad?

00:16:20.000 What if when he heard his dad say crazy stuff, he was like, yo, dad, sit down, let me talk to you.

00:16:24.000 Like, we need to have a family intervention about this.

00:16:26.000 Because saying, I'm going to do something big, just you wait.

00:16:29.000 It's crazy.

00:16:29.000 What does that really mean?

00:16:30.000 Is that when you're like, well, something big, time to call the feds and have him arrested.

00:16:34.000 Did he say it to the kid or did he write it on Twitter? 0.51

00:16:36.000 Well, later, afterwards, he told the kid he would shoot him. 1.00

00:16:41.000 This sick guy sounds unstable. 0.99

00:16:42.000 He reported his dad weeks ago. 0.99

00:16:44.000 So the dad told his kid that he was at the Capitol, and if he snitched on him, he would do what traitors deserve and

00:16:51.000 traitors get shot or whatever. 0.99

00:16:52.000 Oh, this sick guy sounds unstable. 0.99

00:16:54.000 I think the kid's in the right here.

00:16:56.000 Well, so his kid reported him weeks ago, alright?

00:16:59.000 And that's what I was saying.

00:17:00.000 A lot of people are immediately jumping the gun saying, oh, don't rent on your family, that's messed up.

00:17:04.000 And I'm like, I don't know what your dad's saying, like... No, that's fine.

00:17:07.000 It's the fundraising part that's a little questionable.

00:17:11.000 Is he, so the kid's like homeless now?

00:17:12.000 Did he lose his last parent?

00:17:14.000 No, I don't think so.

00:17:15.000 Well, he wrote in his description... I might be kicked out of my house due to my involvement.

00:17:18.000 Yeah.

00:17:19.000 That's fundraising.

00:17:19.000 I might be.

00:17:20.000 Give me money! 0.57

00:17:21.000 Dude, I got sympathy for that guy.

00:17:22.000 That kid.

00:17:23.000 Because that's a weird... If your dad threatens to shoot you and goes and does some illegal act... Oh, absolutely.

00:17:28.000 And you have to distance yourself from your family when you're younger than 18?

00:17:31.000 Is he?

00:17:33.000 Well, it could go either way.

00:17:34.000 We don't know what happened.

00:17:36.000 We don't know what happened personally between these two individuals and their personal relationship.

00:17:40.000 It could be that he was making an offhanded joke and wasn't that serious about it.

00:17:45.000 It could be that he could be an abusing father that beat his children and literally threatened more harm on them.

00:17:50.000 Yeah.

00:17:51.000 So we don't know exactly what happened there.

00:17:53.000 But again, it's the fundraising.

00:17:54.000 Check this out.

00:17:55.000 On his GoFundMe, he keeps saying, like, I'm raising the goal to 100,000 from requests, and it's staying at 100,000.

00:18:04.000 Thank you, everyone, for your messages.

00:18:06.000 They all have been read and cherished.

00:18:07.000 Thank you.

00:18:08.000 People have requested again that I move the goalpost once more.

00:18:12.000 I'm sorry about saying it would stay, but you guys have been persistent, so I gotta ask for more money.

00:18:16.000 I guess I gotta take more money.

00:18:18.000 There's one more.

00:18:19.000 I moved the goalposts once more people have been requesting.

00:18:23.000 It's just, listen, it's not me asking for the money and increasing the goal.

00:18:26.000 It's that people keep saying, dude, we want to give you money.

00:18:28.000 You don't need to increase the goal to make money.

00:18:31.000 If your goal is five grand, people can still keep donating.

00:18:34.000 Increasing the goal has the purpose of making people think you haven't reached your goal yet, so they're more likely to donate.

00:18:39.000 I doubt.

00:18:39.000 Well, no, look, there probably are people saying like, hey, increase it, right?

00:18:42.000 And he's like, I guess.

00:18:44.000 Okay, but just from a raw perspective, you kind of have to respect the hustle.

00:18:48.000 Yeah.

00:18:49.000 Totally.

00:18:50.000 He's a capitalist.

00:18:51.000 And you know, I'll be completely honest, the money he's taking, this is a really funny question when it comes to money.

00:18:56.000 People are like, you're getting paid by, you know, Soros or like the Koch brothers or whatever.

00:19:00.000 And I'm kind of like, who would you rather have the money?

00:19:03.000 The Koch Brothers are me!

00:19:05.000 Like, isn't it a good thing that these organizations lose money giving it away to other people?

00:19:10.000 They lose that power.

00:19:11.000 Wait, you're getting paid by the Koch Brothers?

00:19:13.000 No.

00:19:13.000 The point I'm making is, I don't know what this dude's politics are.

00:19:16.000 He's probably not particularly political.

00:19:18.000 But he's now taken $125,000 from, you know, establishment and tribalist lefties. 0.97

00:19:23.000 So it's like, I guess better he has the money and spends it on whatever he wants to than a bunch of, you know, crazy people.

00:19:28.000 Like it's better than Mitch McConnell taking $150,000 from the NRA.

00:19:33.000 Probably.

00:19:33.000 Because it's like grassroots at least.

00:19:35.000 Wait, what?

00:19:36.000 Like we're talking about people donating money and receiving money like these politicians that are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from corporations.

00:19:43.000 We don't sit here and talk and complain about each of those.

00:19:46.000 But it's probably way worse than a kid going on GoFundMe and taking like a... What I'm saying is this kid's probably gonna like buy a car.

00:19:53.000 And then just like go drive around and do nothing with it.

00:19:56.000 But the people who have the money in the first place are gonna be like promoting fringe political causes and stuff.

00:20:01.000 So it's like, you know, I guess he takes the money and he just like, you know, goes to school with it, I guess.

00:20:07.000 He's influencing one person.

00:20:08.000 He's paying them to influence him instead of paying to influence others.

00:20:11.000 You know what I mean?

00:20:12.000 But it does incentivize more of this.

00:20:14.000 Right.

00:20:14.000 That's the main issue.

00:20:15.000 That's why if he gets it out, then a bunch of other kids out there whose parents maybe are not that crazy are going to see the money.

00:20:23.000 And maybe the next one, I mean, I'll give this guy the full benefit of the doubt. 0.79

00:20:26.000 Maybe his dad was crazy. 0.55

00:20:28.000 Maybe he had to do this. 0.97

00:20:29.000 Right.

00:20:29.000 But there's probably some kids out there who look at that and are like, I want to get a slice of that.

00:20:34.000 And maybe they will not be telling the truth when they do it.

00:20:36.000 Yo, the chick who turned in her mom. 1.00

00:20:42.000 Hold on.

00:20:42.000 Wait, is this the same one?

00:20:45.000 There's many of them.

00:20:46.000 That's the thing.

00:20:47.000 This didn't just happen once.

00:20:49.000 It happened a couple times.

00:20:51.000 And as you said, you can only imagine if, you know, your dad says eat your vegetables, your kid's gonna look back at them like, I could call the FBI on you. 1.00

00:20:59.000 Buttocks right now, fool! 1.00

00:21:01.000 The Nazis and the communists, the Russian communists, Soviets, would be like, Turn them in, do the right thing, or maybe through threat of force. 1.00

00:21:10.000 And now they're doing it through bribery.

00:21:12.000 It's this new world order.

00:21:13.000 Check it out.

00:21:14.000 The young woman who turned her mother in has raised $73,391 of her now $150,000 goal.

00:21:18.000 $1,391 of her now $150,000 goal and of course she's going pay for college. 0.99

00:21:26.000 Well, to be fair, Biden's gonna take a lot of that money with his new tax plan.

00:21:29.000 Oh, definitely.

00:21:30.000 And then college, I mean... Well, they're gonna get their student loans all canceled anyway.

00:21:35.000 I'm gonna tell you my hard prediction.

00:21:36.000 I think these two people are gonna go to jail or, well... The kids?

00:21:40.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:21:41.000 Maybe not jail.

00:21:41.000 Maybe it's a little harsh.

00:21:42.000 I think, because what people don't realize, I've heard this story a lot, when people get an internet windfall and they think the money is free and they don't pay taxes on it.

00:21:50.000 And the IRS comes a-knockin', and they end up owing the IRS a ton of money.

00:21:53.000 So this dude, who's getting all of this money for college, could be argued that by putting that- So, uh, I'm not a tax lawyer, but, you know, what I've been advised is, if you wanna give someone a gift, then there can be no consideration.

00:22:06.000 Consideration being a contractual term, a legal term.

00:22:09.000 So if I said, like, here you are, Luke, one gorilla, for free, and you can do whatever you want with it.

00:22:15.000 Then, that's a gift.

00:22:16.000 But if I say, this gorilla is 4X, it's no longer a gift.

00:22:20.000 It depends though.

00:22:21.000 You could argue that paying someone's medical bills or college could constitute a gift.

00:22:25.000 But we saw this, I don't know if you guys remember when Occupy organized that big debt payoff?

00:22:29.000 Where they were like, buying people's medical debt?

00:22:32.000 People were getting tax bills because of it.

00:22:34.000 Because paying off someone's debt is giving them money, and then depending on what the money was for, if there was consideration involved, like, I'm gonna give you money but it can only be used for this, then the person has to pay taxes on it.

00:22:44.000 A gift can have no strings attached.

00:22:45.000 Well, right now with COVID, people are getting tax bills for their stimulus checks and their expanded unemployment benefits.

00:22:51.000 That's crazy that unemployment is a tax.

00:22:54.000 You pay unemployment tax to cover the unemployment, then they pay it out to you, but then they tax it.

00:22:59.000 Yeah, so it's already a tax.

00:23:01.000 When you spend it, you pay sales tax.

00:23:03.000 To earn it, you pay income tax.

00:23:05.000 To just keep your property, you pay property tax.

00:23:07.000 I mean, it's multiplied a million times over.

00:23:10.000 At the gun store we went to, on the receipt, when it said taxes, it said taxation is theft.

00:23:16.000 There's so many aspects of life that are taxed.

00:23:17.000 You receive money, you get taxed.

00:23:18.000 You spend money, you get taxed.

00:23:20.000 I mean, there's local businesses that are hit either way. I mean, you brought up an important

00:23:24.000 point. I mean, they tax almost... There's so many aspects of life are taxed. You receive money,

00:23:29.000 you get taxed. You spend money, you get taxed. And then you got to pay taxes on top of those taxes,

00:23:33.000 on top of other taxes. It's just... This is... But hold on.

00:23:36.000 Oh yeah.

00:23:36.000 This is why what a lot of these lefties don't understand is that lowering the tax rate can actually increase tax

00:23:41.000 revenue.

00:23:42.000 Oh yeah.

00:23:42.000 Because if the dollar, if I have one dollar and we spread it around this table,

00:23:46.000 by the time the dollar is done being traded, the government has all of it.

00:23:50.000 All of it.

00:23:51.000 But if you raise the taxes to a point where I can't even afford to spend it, then I just hold the dollar.

00:23:54.000 Well and also, high taxes discourage economic activity, right?

00:23:58.000 If the top rate is 90% like AOC's dream, right?

00:24:01.000 People aren't going to work to earn those extra dollars once they hit that bracket, then there's less overall revenue from that too.

00:24:07.000 I disagree.

00:24:09.000 You're right, but they just do clever.

00:24:11.000 It's a rich people's game.

00:24:12.000 Once they get to that point, they're just like, they just buy other things that don't get taxed.

00:24:15.000 They just open up a charity.

00:24:17.000 And that's one of the biggest scams out there.

00:24:18.000 Just like Bill Gates who said he's gonna give all of his money away to charity and then tripled his wealth somehow.

00:24:24.000 And those Panama Papers didn't get enough attention.

00:24:26.000 Did you guys pay attention to those when they dropped the papers?

00:24:29.000 Oh yeah, did the person who leaked it die or something?

00:24:31.000 Oh my god, I don't know.

00:24:33.000 But all these really wealthy people have bank accounts in Panama.

00:24:36.000 Celebrities.

00:24:37.000 Or thereabouts.

00:24:37.000 I know one of Putin's best friends has tons of money there.

00:24:41.000 He's like the musician guy.

00:24:42.000 I mean, that's like the elephant in the room with this economy.

00:24:49.000 Rich people have the means and the ability and the legal power, and they get away with it.

00:24:53.000 Are you like a tax lawyer?

00:24:55.000 No, no, no.

00:24:56.000 You're not a lawyer.

00:24:57.000 No, but I do.

00:24:57.000 I report on economics and write about economics.

00:24:59.000 And that's been one of the most interesting things about COVID and the big response.

00:25:03.000 The Federal Reserve printed trillions of dollars, essentially.

00:25:06.000 A lot of it went to big corporations.

00:25:08.000 A lot of the paycheck protection program which was supposed to help small businesses went to big corporations.

00:25:15.000 This happens all the time with government.

00:25:16.000 This is why the swamp is actually one of the truest things Trump ever said.

00:25:19.000 In Washington, even the progressive legislators get called by all the big companies every day and get tons of money from them and make sure that the big bill doesn't hurt their bottom line.

00:25:29.000 Well, there's a study where they say something like, public opinion has zero impact on public policy, and the opinions of major corporations and the wealthy impacts almost exclusively.

00:25:42.000 Makes sense.

00:25:43.000 Why is a politician gonna be worried about- Well, I think the internet has changed things, though.

00:25:47.000 Because it used to be that you needed the money to run the ads.

00:25:50.000 Now, it's the Twitter game.

00:25:52.000 It's, you know, AOC goes on Twitter and she starts ranting about the Republicans and, like, how they're evil and stuff like that, and then she gets more and more followers and they just- People love to hate.

00:26:00.000 They love to be angry.

00:26:01.000 You know?

00:26:02.000 They want to feel their anger is justified.

00:26:04.000 Well, that's the impulse that gathers your attention the most.

00:26:08.000 So, there have been many clinical studies, and if you could make someone fearful and scared, those are the incentives to make people click more than anything else out there in the internet.

00:26:17.000 And a lot of these news companies, a lot of these big tech companies know this, and they need to keep people on their platforms.

00:26:23.000 They need to keep people engaged as much as they can.

00:26:27.000 So, they hit this fear.

00:26:29.000 What is it?

00:26:30.000 Flight.

00:26:32.000 Well, let's jump into the next story then, because this is perfect.

00:26:33.000 We have this from globalnews.ca.

00:26:35.000 emotional systems are hyperbotically just going insane after being induced into so much of this

00:26:40.000 kind of casino gamified informational warfare that's blasted in your face. Well let's let's

00:26:45.000 jump into the next story then because this is perfect. We have this from globalnews.ca.

00:26:49.000 MPs unanimously agree to urge feds to designate Proud Boys a terrorist entity.

00:26:57.000 So I see a lot of tweets from people saying, like, Canada just declared the Proud Boys were terrorists.

00:27:01.000 Well, politically, the MPs kind of did, but there's been no official declaration from their federal government.

00:27:06.000 They say, members of Canada's parliament have agreed to call on the federal liberal government to formally designate the Proud Boys a terrorist entity.

00:27:14.000 The motion, introduced by NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, passed with unanimous consent in the House of Comments on Monday.

00:27:21.000 The motion calls upon the government to use all available tools to address the proliferation of white supremacists and hate groups, starting with the immediate designating the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity.

00:27:33.000 The NDP has for weeks been calling on Trudeau and the liberals to ban the Proud Boys and designate the group a terrorist organization.

00:27:41.000 The move comes after thousands of supporters of President Trump urged, you know, storm the Capitol.

00:27:44.000 Yeah, yeah, we get it.

00:27:45.000 Members of the Proud Boys were reportedly present during the riot.

00:27:47.000 Isn't Joe Biggs a Proud Boy?

00:27:50.000 Um, I think so.

00:27:51.000 Yeah, I don't know much.

00:27:52.000 I haven't followed him for a while.

00:27:52.000 I think he is, but he got arrested.

00:27:53.000 He got arrested, so they were there.

00:27:55.000 And Enrique Tarrio was supposed to be there, but he got arrested and they kicked him out of D.C.

00:28:00.000 The federal government said it is considering designating the group as a terrorist entity.

00:28:04.000 As Minister Blair has said, we strongly denounce ideologically motivated extremists, including groups like the Proud Boys, white supremacists, anti-semitics, Islamophobic, and misogynist groups.

00:28:14.000 Mary Liz Power, a spokesperson for Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, told the Global News earlier this month, Think about what this means.

00:28:24.000 How often do we see the Proud Boys go around and actually smash things up and destroy things and cause violence?

00:28:29.000 Not really.

00:28:30.000 It happens sometimes.

00:28:31.000 Rarely, though.

00:28:33.000 How often do we see it from Antifa?

00:28:34.000 Designated Antifa.

00:28:35.000 It just happened last night in Portland.

00:28:38.000 Tacoma.

00:28:39.000 Tacoma, Washington.

00:28:40.000 Yep.

00:28:40.000 Smashing up windows.

00:28:41.000 And just when Joe Biden got inaugurated, they smashed up the Democrat headquarters' windows and everything and destroyed it.

00:28:49.000 And where's the FBI?

00:28:50.000 I mean, I know in Canada, this is Canada we're talking about with the Proud Boys, but let's just talk about Antifa in general, because Antifa operates in Canada.

00:28:57.000 I mean, they're in the Pacific Northwest, so they go up and down all the time.

00:28:59.000 Do the Proud Boys even operate in Canada?

00:29:02.000 I don't even know if they have a branch there personally, to be honest with you.

00:29:06.000 They're trying to claim... Like, what did they do in Canada?

00:29:06.000 It's remarkable.

00:29:10.000 I think the goal is they're desperately trying to redefine what white supremacy means, and I think they've succeeded.

00:29:17.000 There's no point in calling out the double standard, okay?

00:29:20.000 It's like all the time the conservatives are like, there's a double standard, it's obvious.

00:29:22.000 Yeah, dude, no, duh.

00:29:24.000 The left knows this, they don't care, and you saying something does literally nothing because they're not going to stop.

00:29:29.000 Now they're at the point where they've redefined white supremacy.

00:29:32.000 White supremacy is totally redefined in media, and now, because they've redefined it, they can now claim the Proud Boys are white supremacists, even though their chair is literally not white.

00:29:41.000 For what I understand about the Proud Boys, there's a lot of things not to like about the group, but racism and white supremacy is not one of them.

00:29:48.000 But the real concern, too, is that when they're designating things terrorist groups, that's a precursor to infringing civil liberties.

00:29:54.000 That's a justification for surveillance, for limiting speech.

00:29:58.000 And that is something you gotta watch against, because that's how authoritarianism creeps in.

00:30:02.000 They've actually started to do something similar in the U.S.

00:30:05.000 here after the Capitol attack.

00:30:06.000 Tulsi Gabbard has come out and warned against this.

00:30:09.000 Don't let them use the Capitol attack as an excuse to expand the national security state and crack down on civil liberties.

00:30:15.000 To be fair, I think Rashida Tlaib did as well.

00:30:17.000 She did!

00:30:17.000 I'm a huge critic of her, but I was like, okay, Rashida, go off, queen!

00:30:20.000 Yes!

00:30:23.000 They need to magnify the threat to, of course, get what they want.

00:30:28.000 And that's more power, more authority for them.

00:30:31.000 And, you know, if the Proud Boys did commit terrorism, if there was a terrorist attack done by the Proud Boys, yeah, label them a terrorist organization.

00:30:38.000 Can you even tell me an act or a single day where the Proud Boys did anything in Canada that justifies this?

00:30:44.000 Well, not so much Canada, but there was that one time where that guy was walking out the street and he got shot.

00:30:50.000 Oh wait, that was Antifa who shot and killed the Trump supporter.

00:30:52.000 Sorry.

00:30:54.000 There was the time the Proud Boy got whacked with a retractable baton.

00:31:02.000 It was those Proud Boys all in black with their faces.

00:31:05.000 No, that was Antifa.

00:31:06.000 Oh, that was Antifa.

00:31:07.000 But no, to be realistic, there was, in New York, when Antifa showed up to the Gavin McGinnis speech, and then the Proud Boys ran at Antifa, beat the crap out of them, and then started laughing about it and streaming it, and they went to prison for it.

00:31:18.000 So, even when they actually do, you know, the Proud Boys argue they didn't start the fight because Antifa was surrounding and harassing, and Antifa did rob a guy who was leaving the event.

00:31:28.000 Still, if you're not, like, don't swing.

00:31:31.000 You know, defend.

00:31:32.000 And if they start a fight, well then, I understand defending yourself and ending that fight, but you don't want to be the person starting the fight.

00:31:38.000 Now, these guys went to jail.

00:31:39.000 It's also because they cooperated with cops.

00:31:42.000 The cops were like, what happened?

00:31:43.000 They said, okay, gang violence.

00:31:43.000 Here's exactly what happened.

00:31:45.000 Going to prison.

00:31:46.000 Anti-foe?

00:31:46.000 Refused to cooperate.

00:31:47.000 They're gone.

00:31:48.000 They're safe.

00:31:49.000 Now I'll tell you how things get creepy.

00:31:50.000 We're talking about Canada, right?

00:31:52.000 Oh, this is gonna have a direct and immediate impact on all of the Proud Boys in the United States.

00:31:55.000 You know why?

00:31:56.000 You guys know about the Five Eyes Spy Club, right?

00:31:59.000 Mm-hmm.

00:31:59.000 Yeah.

00:32:00.000 Luke, I know you do.

00:32:00.000 Ian?

00:32:01.000 Yeah, I've heard of it.

00:32:02.000 I don't know, no.

00:32:03.000 So we got, what do we got?

00:32:03.000 Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., and what is it, South Africa?

00:32:08.000 The United Kingdom, yes.

00:32:08.000 Or the U.K., the U.K.

00:32:09.000 The Five Eyes Spy Club.

00:32:11.000 It's really simple.

00:32:11.000 It's very clever.

00:32:12.000 You see, spying on American citizens is actually against the Constitution.

00:32:16.000 It's illegal, right?

00:32:17.000 In theory.

00:32:18.000 In theory, no, no.

00:32:18.000 But in a lot of ways, there's still some barriers.

00:32:22.000 What happens if Canada spies on an American citizen?

00:32:25.000 And then the U.S.

00:32:26.000 says, hey, Canada, you know anything about Enrique Tarrio?

00:32:28.000 You called him a terrorist.

00:32:29.000 We are.

00:32:29.000 Are you spying on him?

00:32:30.000 Can we look at that?

00:32:31.000 Yes, you can.

00:32:31.000 I see how this works.

00:32:33.000 Yikes.

00:32:33.000 Yep.

00:32:34.000 And it's been that way for a long time.

00:32:35.000 It was actually Edward Snowden, I think, who revealed a lot of this stuff.

00:32:39.000 This manipulative, this circuitous game they play where, well, you can't spy on people in the U.S., but Australia can.

00:32:47.000 There's probably still some restrictions on whether or not the U.S.

00:32:49.000 is allowed to look at certain things and can be sued over.

00:32:52.000 But look at what happened with Michael Flynn and unmasking.

00:32:54.000 In theory, it was the right response.

00:32:56.000 There's probably so much more that we don't know about because people like Snowden don't get the pardon, right?

00:33:00.000 And so there's so many whistleblowers that probably haven't come forward because of that.

00:33:05.000 So the surveillance state and the spying is always crazy, but it always is crazy because it's only like the tip of the iceberg.

00:33:11.000 You know, there's so much more there that we don't know about.

00:33:14.000 And I wonder sometimes just how bad and how pervasive Hold on, hold on, hold on.

00:33:19.000 Smoke bombs.

00:33:21.000 Smoke bombs.

00:33:21.000 Yes.

00:33:22.000 So we went to an Airsoft store and we got some Airsoft stuff.

00:33:25.000 And some of it is just like the colored smoke.

00:33:27.000 So for like signaling and you know, I don't think it's really good for a smoke screen, is it?

00:33:31.000 No, it's like signaling your side or whatever.

00:33:33.000 For like 10 seconds.

00:33:34.000 We didn't post anything.

00:33:36.000 Our ads were like dog food and stuff because, you know, Luke's got a dog.

00:33:39.000 And then we were downstairs and the box on the shelf.

00:33:41.000 No one mentioned it.

00:33:42.000 No one talked about it.

00:33:43.000 Nothing was going on.

00:33:44.000 We didn't go to any stores.

00:33:45.000 It's been weeks.

00:33:46.000 And then Luke was like, should we try one out?

00:33:48.000 Sure.

00:33:49.000 Picks it up, throws it, and we sit there and we're like, meh, whatever.

00:33:51.000 We go inside.

00:33:52.000 Was it 20 minutes later?

00:33:53.000 What?

00:33:53.000 Yep, I checked my phone and it's an advertisement for smoke bombs.

00:33:57.000 What?

00:33:58.000 Yeah.

00:33:59.000 We didn't?

00:34:00.000 But this is like the fifth time something like this has happened.

00:34:02.000 So it's utterly, you know, if Facebook has that type of technology, imagine what the

00:34:07.000 CIA has.

00:34:08.000 Right.

00:34:08.000 other intelligence agencies, you know, the CIA, like the former head of John Brennan, that compared

00:34:13.000 libertarians as a part of this, me and nativist as a threat to national security as a threat to

00:34:20.000 national democracy. You know, there was this Twitter user spike Cohen, and he said, this,

00:34:27.000 this stuck with me very much. He said, quote, a libid, a silver lining to the Biden administration

00:34:33.000 labeling libertarians terrorist is that soon the CIA will probably start giving us money and weapons.

00:34:39.000 And I'm like, yeah.

00:34:42.000 And I'm like, you know, this is my Spike Cohen, not my idea, but I'm like, that makes a lot of sense.

00:34:47.000 If history repeats, that's exactly what's going to happen here.

00:34:50.000 But we're seeing this kind of, you know, this term of white supremacy being vague all the way to nativists, libertarians.

00:34:57.000 Well, it's everything I don't like is racism.

00:34:59.000 And then I don't have to engage in actual political argumentation. 0.66

00:35:02.000 But the losers there are the actual victims of racism.

00:35:05.000 Because when everything is racism, nothing is.

00:35:07.000 So it actually just undermines and dilutes the word.

00:35:10.000 Because real racism, that we literally would all agree, is horrible.

00:35:13.000 And it obviously does still exist.

00:35:14.000 But when they've just started calling everything they don't like racism... But you know why they're doing it?

00:35:20.000 To win the argument. 0.93

00:35:20.000 Because they're racist. 0.93

00:35:22.000 No, no, but seriously.

00:35:24.000 So, you look at the efforts in California to repeal their Civil Rights Act and their Constitution. 0.85

00:35:28.000 Yes, they are racist.

00:35:29.000 They want special laws for people based on race.

00:35:32.000 We, who don't like racism, oppose that.

00:35:34.000 Well, this is like Joe Biden.

00:35:36.000 He said that he will be conditioning his COVID stimulus aid to specifically favor African-American and different minority groups.

00:35:42.000 That's illegal.

00:35:43.000 That is... It's definitely illegal, but also it's like...

00:35:46.000 The opposite of American values, right?

00:35:48.000 We want, or at least we used to want, equality under the law, and now they're like, actually, we want inequality under the law, but woke.

00:35:55.000 This spying thing reminds me of Captain America Winter Soldier, where the bad guys, Hydra, develop an algorithm where they can target people who are basically deviant, and then their plan is to just kill them all with these airships.

00:36:09.000 That's what the movie's about.

00:36:11.000 So I have to wonder, Facebook, it has been reported, knows when you will poop.

00:36:17.000 What?

00:36:17.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:36:19.000 No.

00:36:19.000 Yes.

00:36:19.000 Yes, 100%.

00:36:20.000 How?

00:36:20.000 So first, considering the power of their AI, I think the average person could just be like, yeah, I'd imagine their algorithms and artificial intelligence are strong enough to determine and make these predictions.

00:36:31.000 But it's actually really simple.

00:36:33.000 You have a pattern of behavior.

00:36:34.000 They know where you work, right?

00:36:36.000 You're in your house, your phone location service is on.

00:36:39.000 Every morning around 8 a.m., you leave and go to Starbucks, where you work.

00:36:42.000 They know.

00:36:43.000 Then you leave Starbucks around noon and go to McDonald's.

00:36:46.000 They know when you ate.

00:36:47.000 They have general understanding of the average person's, you know, waste cycle after eating.

00:36:53.000 But they also know when you enter a room and stop moving.

00:36:57.000 So they can actually now predict when you will be going to the bathroom.

00:37:01.000 They know actually where you will eat before you do.

00:37:04.000 So, there's simple things that, you know, these algorithms can find.

00:37:08.000 If somebody, let's say, on your location services, you went to Saladworks or whatever, I'm sure, this place probably, right?

00:37:15.000 And they're like, okay, someone who ate leafy greens is more likely to do this tomorrow.

00:37:18.000 Yeah.

00:37:19.000 People don't realize these simple things that are seemingly meaningless have a huge impact.

00:37:24.000 Let's say they see that you've gone to an ice cream shop or whatever.

00:37:29.000 They're gonna be like, okay, tomorrow he's not gonna be feeling well because he's eating a bunch of sweets and candy.

00:37:33.000 They can predict your behavior.

00:37:34.000 Think about how simple it is.

00:37:35.000 Look, if someone told me, I went and got a whole bunch of Taco Bell last night.

00:37:39.000 I'll be like, oh, you're gonna be taking a dump for a long time.

00:37:40.000 No offense, Taco Bell, your food's good, but come on.

00:37:42.000 That's when the premium advertisements come in, after the Taco Bell.

00:37:45.000 Now people are gonna get Taco Bell ads?

00:37:47.000 Yes.

00:37:47.000 No, no, but like, if someone told you they went and ate a bunch of garbage fast food, you would immediately assume, like, your stomach's gonna be screaming at you.

00:37:55.000 Think about what an AI can discern based on all of these other things.

00:37:59.000 I'd imagine the CIA knows what you will do before you do it.

00:38:02.000 It's like pre-crime almost.

00:38:03.000 Especially with all the selfies everyone keeps taking and photos of themselves.

00:38:06.000 I mean, some people take like hundreds of photos of themselves and I'm like, what do you think you're doing with that?

00:38:12.000 Oh, it's all being fed into these machines, like this was another big story, these selfies.

00:38:17.000 are automatically being scraped by MIT and other institutions to create artificial intelligence.

00:38:23.000 You know how they do the face morphing app?

00:38:25.000 It's because they have everyone's faces and then they've created an algorithm that tracks.

00:38:30.000 So why is it that no one cares?

00:38:31.000 When I talk to other people my age, right?

00:38:33.000 Like other people in their 20s, and you tell them, you know, that Alexa, the FBI can hear you right now.

00:38:37.000 They're like, LOL, okay.

00:38:39.000 They've grown up like that.

00:38:41.000 And I guess people really don't care.

00:38:42.000 How do we make them care?

00:38:44.000 I don't know.

00:38:45.000 I don't think they ever will.

00:38:47.000 It depends on how much the government uses that power to overreach. 0.99

00:38:51.000 But ultimately, look, if you're a criminal, and you're at home, and you say something about what you did, and it's used as evidence, then you're a dumb criminal. 0.94

00:39:01.000 There was actually a story where there was a murder, I guess, and someone had one of those fancy little Amazon devices, and it recorded everything that happened. 0.96

00:39:10.000 And then they were like, how?

00:39:12.000 Oh, you know, it just, uh... I don't know.

00:39:15.000 It must have been an accident.

00:39:16.000 No, it's because it's recording everything you say.

00:39:18.000 In order to actually know you're talking to it, it has to have its microphone turned on all the time.

00:39:23.000 Now, they say they're not really tracking or anything, and maybe that's true, but I just kind of don't think it is.

00:39:28.000 I think you'd have to be naive to think so.

00:39:29.000 Well, this is the crazy thing.

00:39:30.000 This has been happening for a very long time, even before Edward Snowden.

00:39:34.000 I remember walking up to the head of the NSA and the CIA, General Hayden, and I asked him, hey, your NSA agents were caught spanking it to people's private photos through their text messages before Snowden.

00:39:48.000 He was like, no, it doesn't.

00:39:49.000 No, that never happened.

00:39:50.000 I'm like, yes, it did.

00:39:51.000 There was even mainstream news articles about this, and he lied right through his teeth.

00:39:56.000 John Brennan, also another individual, former head of the CIA, lying through his teeth.

00:40:01.000 And now he's bragging about Biden's intelligence agencies being laser-focused on libertarians.

00:40:07.000 It's absolutely insane.

00:40:08.000 Let me tell you something crazy.

00:40:10.000 Have you ever seen the photos of Mark Zuckerberg at work?

00:40:12.000 Yep, and then you see his computer?

00:40:13.000 Yep, he's got tape over his cameras.

00:40:16.000 Not just that, but also the microphone also.

00:40:19.000 But wait, there's more.

00:40:20.000 So there's a phone.

00:40:22.000 It's called the OnePlus 7 or something like that.

00:40:25.000 And it has a manual mechanical camera.

00:40:28.000 So the front-facing camera has to actually go, like, come out the top.

00:40:32.000 Most phones, the front-facing camera is just right there, always staring you in the face.

00:40:37.000 You'll notice people like Zuckerberg will put tape over it.

00:40:40.000 So, my friend who has the OnePlus with the mechanical camera, noticed that randomly, on different websites, the camera would just open.

00:40:46.000 Like, uh, what?

00:40:48.000 But think about it, think about it.

00:40:50.000 That would freak you out, right?

00:40:51.000 Right.

00:40:52.000 Why doesn't it freak you out that you've got a camera on the front of your phone all the time and you never know when it's filming you?

00:40:57.000 It's like if a kid is born into, okay, if there's like a flood, we would all be like, oh, there's a flood, we gotta do something about it.

00:41:02.000 But then if kids are born during the time while the flood's already happening, it's just normal.

00:41:07.000 The New York Post also had an article not so long ago, and their title was, covering up the camera could damage your laptop, Apple.

00:41:07.000 Yep.

00:41:15.000 And then below it, all the comments are like, nice try, Fed.

00:41:15.000 Wow.

00:41:20.000 But we got to understand the larger implications here, because we have a president, Joe Biden, who bragged.

00:41:26.000 He openly bragged in 2001 about how he wrote the Patriot Act In 1994 and how it was right wingers and libertarians ... who fought against it I started my video off started ... with him saying look what I did I did this I created the ... Patriot Act now we're passing it through after 9-11 now ... they're talking about working on you Patriot Act 2.0 that ... many prominent Democrats are bringing forward that will ... give them even more surveillance power than they ... already have already NSA agents were caught spanking it.

00:41:56.000 To your private text messages and your private photos.

00:41:59.000 Now they want even more.

00:42:01.000 I mean, what's next?

00:42:01.000 Literally taking your girlfriend and, you know, doing.

00:42:04.000 Oh God.

00:42:05.000 I mean, what's next?

00:42:05.000 Yeah.

00:42:06.000 What is next?

00:42:06.000 The thing is though, when they get these powers, they say it's for one thing and they do it for another thing.

00:42:10.000 So with the Patriot Act, they said it was for terrorism.

00:42:13.000 I don't know exactly.

00:42:13.000 You look back at the data.

00:42:14.000 It's like 97% drug cases.

00:42:16.000 So they get these powers in the name of terrorism or whatever

00:42:16.000 Yeah.

00:42:19.000 they label it.

00:42:20.000 And that probably, at least in 9-11, sure was a real thing.

00:42:23.000 But then they know that they're going to use these powers for all sorts of things to just screw over the little guy.

00:42:28.000 As they literally finance the terrorist, right?

00:42:30.000 Literally.

00:42:31.000 So it's like, how can I trust the guys that are shipping in Toyota trucks, all the latest ammunitions, all the

00:42:38.000 latest night vision gear, all the latest armor reequipment,

00:42:41.000 possibly to ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Al-Nusra telling me that they're

00:42:44.000 fighting terrorism and I need to give up my freedoms because of Al-Qaeda 1.00

00:42:47.000 and Al-Nusra and ISIS.

00:42:49.000 But you have to admit, it was really funny to see ISIS driving around in that truck with the Detroit Plumbers, like, phone number on it.

00:42:55.000 You ever see that?

00:42:56.000 No.

00:42:56.000 So, there's like a video of like ISIS guys in a truck, and the truck says like, you know, Jim Bob's Plumbing, Detroit, with a phone number, and people are like, what?

00:43:03.000 How did that happen?

00:43:05.000 And they were like, oh, it's because, you know, the U.S.

00:43:07.000 is sending it over there.

00:43:08.000 We were also talking about getting a .50 cal, and I was actually looking at the history of the Beretta .50 cal, and it became prominent because the CIA bought it and were literally giving it to Al-Qaeda to fight the Russians.

00:43:20.000 Like handguns.

00:43:21.000 Isn't a Desert Eagle .50 caliber?

00:43:21.000 No, no, no, no, the .50 cal.

00:43:27.000 No, no, we're talking about the... Like anti-material, anti-tank guns.

00:43:31.000 I'm reading a little bit about spy satellites.

00:43:35.000 There's been some great leap forward in the... Great leap forward?

00:43:37.000 Was that a... That was a Communist Mao thing.

00:43:39.000 So there's been some great leaps forward in spy satellite tech.

00:43:43.000 They have this thing called the Capella 2, which can use radio beams to pulse through your building and measure energy inside the building.

00:43:51.000 They say that you can't actually record people inside their building yet.

00:43:55.000 I don't think they'll do all that to sell an ad.

00:43:56.000 your smoke bombs outside and been like, oh, so they heard you on the Amazon machine.

00:44:01.000 Your phone was triangulating that you were at the Airsoft store and then radio telescopes

00:44:06.000 are seeing the smoke clouds.

00:44:07.000 I don't think they'll do all that to sell an ad.

00:44:09.000 I don't think they would either, but I don't think they wouldn't.

00:44:13.000 They have lasers that they can point at a window, and then words you say vibrate on the glass, and they can listen.

00:44:18.000 Yeah, I've heard that they can listen through your house, from space.

00:44:21.000 Well, I don't know about from space.

00:44:22.000 Maybe.

00:44:23.000 I wouldn't be surprised.

00:44:24.000 Like, you have to imagine the stuff we know about is nothing compared to what they actually have.

00:44:28.000 This is the stuff they finally revealed in December of 2020.

00:44:32.000 But also think about, like, we're talking about What Facebook can do.

00:44:35.000 Wow.

00:44:36.000 I wonder what the feds and the CIA can do.

00:44:38.000 It's like, dude, they don't have to do much.

00:44:39.000 You're walking around with a microphone and a camera and a tracking device all day.

00:44:44.000 They coordinate with Facebook, with Amazon and with like, you know, Boston Dynamics and other Capella, these companies, you know, companies to get all the techs to work together.

00:44:54.000 I'll tell ya, no one's going to care until people- like, as long as people are fat, they're happy.

00:45:00.000 You know what I mean?

00:45:00.000 You give people food, and you're not gonna get a revolution.

00:45:04.000 I just don't see it.

00:45:05.000 You know what I mean?

00:45:06.000 Like, you might get, for whatever reason, these people storming the Capitol THINKING there's a revolution going on, but...

00:45:11.000 Like, I think what we've seen in many instances, for the most part, people have to be in real dire straits where they feel desperate and nothing can solve this problem.

00:45:21.000 But as long as people are being fed, they'll sit around and just eat, you know what I mean?

00:45:25.000 They're not really scared.

00:45:26.000 Well, they feel like they have nothing else to hide, but they better hope they never piss off anybody powerful.

00:45:30.000 I mean, that's how this goes.

00:45:33.000 It's never the well-off and well-connected who have to worry about the government infringing on their rights or screwing them over.

00:45:38.000 No, it's going to be the little guy and it might be too late at that point.

00:45:42.000 I mean, actually, I disagree a little bit.

00:45:45.000 If you're in the club, you're in the club, but there are probably some people who will gain upward mobility and that's when you're in trouble.

00:45:51.000 Do they need to remove you?

00:45:52.000 If you go up the wrong way.

00:45:55.000 Yeah, like, if you're a Joe the Plumber, why would they care?

00:45:57.000 They're gonna be like, I don't know.

00:45:58.000 If they need a patsy, I guess, but then it's like a lottery tickets chance that they frame you or whatever.

00:46:02.000 I just don't see that.

00:46:03.000 What I do see is they're gonna be keeping a hard eye on anybody who might gain too much power and threaten their club and their, you know, the upper elites and all that stuff.

00:46:13.000 I mean, that's what Bill Benny...

00:46:14.000 Well, look at Trump.

00:46:15.000 Yeah, well, Bill Benny said this a long time ago.

00:46:19.000 He was at the intelligence agencies saying, why are we collecting data on everyone, everything?

00:46:25.000 Why are we catching this vast net and losing ourselves in it when we could do strategic

00:46:30.000 spying on actual jihadis, on actual threats that pose a danger to the American people?

00:46:36.000 But we're not doing that.

00:46:37.000 We're not effective at stopping any terrorism at all because we're collecting as much as

00:46:42.000 we can.

00:46:43.000 What are we going to be doing with all of that data?

00:46:45.000 I'll tell you exactly what happened.

00:46:46.000 So there's Bill Benny.

00:46:47.000 He's an NSA whistleblower, right?

00:46:48.000 Yes.

00:46:49.000 And he's talking to some guys like, isn't it weird that we're not actually stopping

00:46:53.000 any terror?

00:46:54.000 And the guy laughs and goes, Bill, it's because we do it.

00:46:56.000 And Bill goes, wait, what?

00:46:58.000 And the FBI guy goes, what?

00:47:00.000 Wait, what?

00:47:01.000 And then they just throw him out of the building like, oh, he wasn't supposed to know that, was he?

00:47:04.000 Well, he retired.

00:47:06.000 And then, of course, he faced, you know, the prosecution for whistleblowing and revealing that the government was spying on every little thing he was doing.

00:47:15.000 This was way before Snowden, these revelations.

00:47:17.000 He was like, I was telling you they could do this, but he didn't have the hard documents.

00:47:22.000 He's been saying this behind every phone call, they know exactly what you're doing, all the time.

00:47:25.000 He went through the official chain of command and whistleblowed officially, and they still went after him.

00:47:30.000 And they still hurt him.

00:47:32.000 And it took Edward Snowden literally taking the documents, releasing them to Glenn Greenwald, and getting them out there to the world.

00:47:38.000 And there's still a lot of questions about where's the rest of the documents as well.

00:47:42.000 So think about this.

00:47:43.000 If this is what the U.S.

00:47:44.000 government is doing, what is China doing?

00:47:46.000 What are they doing with TikTok?

00:47:48.000 What are they doing with all the data they have on Americans?

00:47:50.000 They're watching you poop.

00:47:51.000 Right.

00:47:51.000 They're probably doing more than that.

00:47:52.000 They're probably watching you to create blackmail files on everybody that's going to end up working for the government so they can shake you down.

00:47:59.000 And right now there's like an NSA guy and FBI and a CIA guy and they're all watching this podcast with like popcorn going, like, yeah, it's totally right about China.

00:48:07.000 Like, that's a good point.

00:48:08.000 But they're not watching the show on YouTube.

00:48:09.000 They're watching through our phone cameras.

00:48:11.000 Luke made a really good point.

00:48:13.000 Are you watching Tim Castellaw?

00:48:14.000 Yeah, but I, I'm assigned to Ian.

00:48:16.000 So it's funny.

00:48:17.000 There's a meme about my FBI agent.

00:48:20.000 Oh yeah.

00:48:20.000 Have you ever seen that?

00:48:21.000 It's like people like, it's a joke.

00:48:23.000 It's like, ha ha.

00:48:24.000 And we know what's happening and we don't care.

00:48:26.000 Eventually, you know, I think the main issue is whether or not they abuse the power.

00:48:33.000 Like, you know, cranking it to someone's girlfriend or something and getting caught doing it.

00:48:37.000 Right, right, right.

00:48:37.000 Which they did.

00:48:39.000 It's, it's, it's, are they actually going to infringe on your life?

00:48:41.000 I feel, I care about it, but I feel overwhelmed as if we're in an avalanche that's going down the mountain and we're in the snow like, ah!

00:48:50.000 Like, I care that there's an avalanche, but I'm not concerned with stopping the avalanche right now.

00:48:55.000 But Ian, Ian.

00:48:56.000 I'm concerned with surviving.

00:48:57.000 It's all about positive mental attitude.

00:48:59.000 Okay.

00:48:59.000 So we're in the avalanche, right?

00:49:00.000 I'll just wheel the avalanche to stop.

00:49:02.000 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:49:02.000 It's, all these people are screaming.

00:49:04.000 I'm just sitting back as the avalanche goes down and I'm chilling.

00:49:07.000 It's kind of fun, you know what I mean?

00:49:08.000 Like, when you're skydiving and you realize your parachute's down, you're like, well, at least I get to enjoy myself.

00:49:13.000 Whee! 1.00

00:49:15.000 So we know the avalanche is going to go off the cliff and we're all doomed.

00:49:17.000 Ride the avalanche.

00:49:18.000 That could be another shirt.

00:49:19.000 Just surf it.

00:49:20.000 You know what I mean?

00:49:21.000 You can't stop where the avalanche is going, but you can throw down your board and just cruise while you can.

00:49:25.000 And there's this thought that maybe we can stop the avalanche or redirect The avalanche?

00:49:30.000 No, because if anyone becomes a threat to derailing the narrative, derailing the agenda that's set for you, the NSA, the FBI, with their predictive programming algorithms, with their pre-crime technology, could figure that out.

00:49:45.000 They could say, oh, he's growing in popularity, he's getting a lot of followers, he's reaching a big mass of people.

00:49:50.000 We need to intervene because he's heading towards a trajectory towards actually making some substantial changes in our government.

00:49:56.000 Stop him immediately.

00:49:57.000 You're overthinking it. 1.00

00:49:59.000 They don't need to do that because they have their shills and their useful idiots already. 1.00

00:50:05.000 Which brings me to the next story. 1.00

00:50:07.000 Yahoo News.

00:50:08.000 100-plus Politico staffers send letter to CEO railing against publishing Ben Shapiro.

00:50:14.000 And this is an example.

00:50:15.000 So what we're just talking about is that if you're starting to become too influential, too powerful, they'll come after you, try and take you down.

00:50:21.000 If what you're saying goes against the established narrative, they will try and stop you.

00:50:25.000 Ben Shapiro is fairly mainstream conservative, so he's not that threatening.

00:50:29.000 But there are many people, and they've been banned.

00:50:32.000 Parler, for instance.

00:50:33.000 Parler's a threat to the narrative?

00:50:34.000 Banned.

00:50:35.000 Now, Ben Shapiro is still not perfectly aligned, so he's just outside where they want the narrative to be.

00:50:42.000 Here's what happens.

00:50:44.000 Yahoo says, More than 100 Politico staffers signed onto a letter to publisher Robert L. Britton, expressing disgust with allowing right-wing firebrand Ben Shapiro to guest author one day's edition of the playbook, and with the outlet's subsequent handling of the fallout.

00:51:00.000 Earlier this month, the Beltway News Outlet handed over the keys to its signature news product to Shapiro, a talk radio host and pundit who has long been one of the most controversial voices in right-wing media.

00:51:11.000 That's actually 100% not true.

00:51:13.000 In right-wing media, Ben Shapiro is not controversial at all.

00:51:16.000 He's actually fairly... mainstream.

00:51:19.000 Yeah, well, I was gonna say, with all due respect, tepid. 0.75

00:51:21.000 Like, you're not turning on Ben Shapiro and hearing some ranting lunatic calling for insurrection.

00:51:25.000 You're hearing a guy giving his opinion, and it's like...

00:51:27.000 Yeah, he's a lawyer and it's very much like, oh, that was a good point, Ben.

00:51:31.000 It's very normal.

00:51:31.000 But the worst thing about this is that it's journalists doing it to me.

00:51:35.000 I can say this as a journalist.

00:51:36.000 They're not journalists.

00:51:37.000 OK, they're people who call themselves journalists.

00:51:39.000 And if you're a journalist and you don't believe in open debate and free speech and you think other people's ideas make you unsafe.

00:51:45.000 Right.

00:51:45.000 You are not a journalist.

00:51:47.000 Learn to code.

00:51:47.000 Do something else because you do not belong in this.

00:51:50.000 Look, I'm gonna get banned for that. 0.95

00:51:52.000 But seriously, it's sick.

00:51:53.000 I mean, these people have come to see ostensibly neutral outlets.

00:51:57.000 Like, Politico is not supposed to be a left-wing thing.

00:51:59.000 It's not supposed to be Jacobin, right?

00:52:00.000 As their zones, where even just a momentary, one-day intervention of a conservative voice violates their safe space, makes them feel betrayed by the institution they work for.

00:52:10.000 That is diagnostic of a sick mentality.

00:52:12.000 Well, here's what they say.

00:52:13.000 According to multiple Politico insiders familiar with the situation, the letter to Albritton criticized the decision to publish Shapiro, claiming it had demoralized a substantial portion of the newsroom, but also railed against the response to criticism offered by editor-in-chief Matt Kaminsky.

00:52:28.000 It's an internal matter and will be handled as such, a political spokesperson told the Daily Beast.

00:52:33.000 During a combative meeting on January 14th, the day of Shapiro's publication, the top editor defended the editorial decision to irate staffers by claiming, We were an upstart.

00:52:45.000 Some of that sensibility is always going to be a part of this publication.

00:52:48.000 The staff letter sent last week to Albritton maintained that Kaminsky had not appropriately apologized for his responses.

00:52:55.000 Additionally, referencing an email he sent to staff on January 15th, which was obtained and reviewed by the Daily Beast, the top editor expressed regret for his initial response about making mischief.

00:53:05.000 But reiterated that publishing Shapiro was part of his hopes to experiment and mix things up.

00:53:10.000 And that's why they don't like it.

00:53:12.000 Because I'm sure there were a lot of new conservatives who came to Politico and liked what they were seeing, and there were probably some moderates who heard an opinion they hadn't heard before.

00:53:19.000 But let me tell you why this is all BS.

00:53:21.000 It's very, very simple.

00:53:23.000 Remember when there was a collective scream that we all could physically hear when Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed saying, send in the troops?

00:53:31.000 It was like one day I just heard a I was like, what's happening up in my window?

00:53:35.000 I could hear it everywhere!

00:53:36.000 I was all, all of these leftists screaming in news media, by the way, about how awful it was that they dared publish this in the New York Times.

00:53:44.000 Send in the troops, Tom Cotton said, to end the riots in Portland.

00:53:49.000 And then they sent in 25,000 troops to Washington, D.C.

00:53:54.000 to prevent an insurrection.

00:53:56.000 Oh, but that's different.

00:53:58.000 That's OK.

00:53:59.000 Geez.

00:53:59.000 Yeah.

00:53:59.000 Now they're all happy.

00:54:00.000 Now they're all like, well, it's good that we have our security here.

00:54:03.000 They're keeping us safe.

00:54:04.000 Apparently, Nancy Pelosi requested crew manned machine guns in a civilian city. 1.00

00:54:09.000 Yes, this is, um, was it Ken Cuccinelli?

00:54:11.000 I think you said this.

00:54:13.000 Yeah.

00:54:14.000 It's, it's, it's, it's a remarkable in a civilian town in a city.

00:54:17.000 I know it's federal jurisdiction reported.

00:54:20.000 I should say Ken Cuccinelli said she requested this of them.

00:54:23.000 Could you imagine what would happen if a bunch of unarmed Trump supporters, well, some of them were armed, but a large group of angry Trump supporters were like waving Trump flags and like shaking a fence.

00:54:31.000 And then Nancy Pelosi was like, use the crewman machine guns. 1.00

00:54:35.000 There's civilian buildings nearby.

00:54:37.000 You can't do that in a city. 0.99

00:54:38.000 Are you nuts? 0.83

00:54:39.000 So apparently they were like, no, no, we don't do that here. 0.98

00:54:42.000 Like, that's not how things go.

00:54:45.000 Where's the outcry from the left now?

00:54:46.000 So they're complaining about Ben Shapiro.

00:54:48.000 No, it's not fair!

00:54:49.000 You're publishing him!

00:54:50.000 But we know their complaints are BS.

00:54:52.000 There's no conservative they would accept.

00:54:54.000 I mean, unless a conservative that's just gonna confirm all their beliefs and go totally never Trump and become Jennifer Rubin, you know, Max Boot.

00:55:00.000 But here's the thing that bothers me too.

00:55:02.000 It's not even that they were objecting to the content of what he wrote.

00:55:06.000 They were objecting to just him as a person being allowed to speak in that platform because of, like, tweets from 2007 or something that upset them.

00:55:15.000 It would be actually at least something we could fight against and debate if they were saying that column was bad and shouldn't have been published.

00:55:21.000 None of these people freaking out about it could tell you what he wrote.

00:55:25.000 Most of them didn't even read it, I would bet.

00:55:27.000 I don't even know what he wrote.

00:55:28.000 It was about impeachment.

00:55:29.000 It was about saying, here's why Senate Republicans aren't going to support impeachment.

00:55:33.000 I talked to them, they tell me this.

00:55:34.000 It was not even very opinionated.

00:55:36.000 He said Democrats overplayed their hand.

00:55:37.000 Did he mention that his wife was a doctor?

00:55:40.000 He might have.

00:55:40.000 No.

00:55:41.000 My wife's a doctor! 0.99

00:55:42.000 Right.

00:55:42.000 The funny thing is, he does have a style that can be, like you said, kind of combative.

00:55:46.000 But he's very mainstream.

00:55:47.000 He's not the razor-fire brand that you'd think these people couldn't handle.

00:55:52.000 If they can't handle him, there's no one they can handle.

00:55:54.000 But the problem is that they frame their opposition to him as a matter of safety.

00:55:58.000 And that will never stop bothering me.

00:56:00.000 Ben Shapiro's ideas make other people unsafe.

00:56:03.000 Well then, there's something wrong with you.

00:56:05.000 You're not an adult.

00:56:06.000 You need to return to fifth grade and develop the emotional stability of a grown human being.

00:56:10.000 You know, man, I read this story a long time ago about this family that was on a beach.

00:56:14.000 And then it was like it was a dad, his wife, and they're like two kids.

00:56:18.000 And then all of a sudden they saw a large black wolf walking down the beach and they panicked.

00:56:22.000 And they swam out to this rock that was like, you know, 20, 30 feet out.

00:56:28.000 And they huddled together on it, shaking, dripping wet for warmth as the wolf paced back and forth.

00:56:34.000 And it was like this harrowing experience the man had recounted.

00:56:36.000 And I was thinking about that and I'm like, I wonder what would have happened 200 years ago.

00:56:41.000 Would he have pulled out his like flintlock pistol and his sword and said, protect the kids!

00:56:45.000 Bang! 1.00

00:56:45.000 And then like drew his sword to protect them from the wild beast? 1.00

00:56:49.000 Or would they have hidden and shivered?

00:56:51.000 I'd imagine back in the day when we were faced with these very serious challenges and men literally walked around armed all the time, something like that probably wouldn't have happened.

00:56:59.000 If it was a couple hundred years ago, well, let's say even a hundred years ago, they probably would have had a gun on his belt, you know, when he was, and he probably would have just shot the thing or something like that.

00:57:07.000 Now today's day and age, you still have circumstances where a dude who lives out in the middle of nowhere with his family is gonna be armed.

00:57:12.000 But what I, the point I'm bringing up is, like, I read that story and I thought to myself, like, would that, would, like, Are we gradually just getting weaker and more scared of everything?

00:57:22.000 I think the answer is yes.

00:57:23.000 And this story is a perfect example.

00:57:24.000 Ben Shapiro's opinions now make you unsafe.

00:57:27.000 You have these colleges where they say things like that, you know, their speech is violence.

00:57:32.000 Like they literally now think the... But think about it.

00:57:34.000 You have these kids who grow up where they get participation trophies, where no one's allowed to pick on them or insult them in any way. 1.00

00:57:40.000 And then they actually, they probably feel real physical pain they can't deal with when someone calls them like a stupid doo-doo head. 0.99

00:57:48.000 They're like, It hurts! 1.00

00:57:49.000 I've never experienced this pain before!

00:57:51.000 It feeds into itself, right?

00:57:52.000 Because if you start not being exposed to different ideas or different opinions, you don't ever develop the thick skin, and then it just becomes more and more out of control to the point where they... Because the thing is, when they can frame other people's speech as violence or endangering their safety, that is the necessary precursor they have to get to logically argue they should be allowed to shut down that speech preemptively.

00:58:12.000 Because if it's just really offensive, most people won't agree they should be able to shut it down.

00:58:16.000 Well, to bypass the First Amendment. 0.68

00:58:18.000 Right, exactly.

00:58:18.000 They didn't even do that here.

00:58:20.000 They said that this demoralized the newsroom.

00:58:23.000 And most of their complaint was with this guy who said that part of what Politico did was cause mischief.

00:58:29.000 So they're not even saying that it was making them feel like they were in danger. 0.96

00:58:32.000 How pathetic was it? 0.94

00:58:33.000 How pathetic was it to even claim having Ben Shapiro write an op-ed was mischief? 0.98

00:58:37.000 It's not! 0.84

00:58:38.000 He's a mainstream, high-profile, prominent conservative, one of the biggest podcasts in the world.

00:58:38.000 It's really not.

00:58:43.000 It was boilerplate, too.

00:58:44.000 The actual article.

00:58:45.000 The article was not controversial.

00:58:47.000 He's written some controversial things, right?

00:58:49.000 It wasn't like he was writing about trans issues.

00:58:50.000 It wasn't like he was writing about abortion.

00:58:52.000 He was explaining Senate Republicans' rationale on impeachment.

00:58:56.000 It's like you said, they were objecting to him.

00:58:57.000 Yes.

00:58:58.000 He could have walked in and said, hey, I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:59:00.000 And they would have been like, they let him in the building!

00:59:02.000 And they would all scream and like one guy jumps out the window.

00:59:04.000 And then he's like, OK.

00:59:07.000 But I will say it only helps him right it's like it is an example of like they only confirm everything he says about the liberal media when they do stuff like this and they don't seem to realize that they're just making they're proving his point and they're only propping him up that's another thing we have to understand here like this is this is backfiring and lucky luckily it is because sometimes it doesn't and they get their way.

00:59:26.000 But we can't give our way to these people that are, I think, clinically insane.

00:59:31.000 I mean, if you're at a point in life where hearing words makes you feel pain, what's wrong with you?

00:59:38.000 And again, I keep reminding people, one of the most important powers you have as a human being is the power of your reaction.

00:59:45.000 I gotta add to this.

00:59:46.000 Just to say, I'm not a long-time gun person.

00:59:49.000 I was told this story in January of last year.

00:59:52.000 I was like, I don't want any guns in my house.

00:59:53.000 Now we got a bunch.

00:59:54.000 Luke's talking about buying a 50 count.

00:59:55.000 I was like, yeah, OK.

00:59:57.000 So we like guns.

00:59:58.000 And I remember seeing that story from the journalist who claimed he got PTSD from firing an AR-15.

01:00:04.000 Sorry?

01:00:06.000 Who did he write with?

01:00:06.000 I think it was ABC.

01:00:08.000 I'm not sure.

01:00:09.000 He fired an AR.

01:00:10.000 It was probably like 5.56.

01:00:13.000 And he claimed that he got PTSD from shooting it.

01:00:15.000 He could feel the shockwave and it hurt his arm and all that.

01:00:19.000 Here's what's funny.

01:00:20.000 It's something I didn't understand until I actually experienced it.

01:00:24.000 Game load for a shotgun, when you're hunting turkeys, has more recoil, is a bigger explosion than an AR-15.

01:00:32.000 So when like, when we went to the range, and we had birdshot, I'm like, man, you can feel that birdshot!

01:00:37.000 And then when you're firing the AR, it's like, actually, not that much at all, relative.

01:00:42.000 So if this guy is getting PTSD from an AR-15, complaining it's like, it's a weapon of war, and he could, he was traumatized from it, I'm like, well, heaven forbid, you have to hunt a turkey!

01:00:51.000 It was the Daily News.

01:00:53.000 The title was, What is it like to fire an AR-15?

01:00:57.000 It's horrifying, menacing, and very, very loud.

01:01:00.000 By Gersh Kuntzman, 2016.

01:01:07.000 And the first headline here, it says, It felt to me like a bazooka and sounded like a cannon.

01:01:13.000 He said the explosions, loud like a bomb, gave me a temporary form of PTSD.

01:01:18.000 For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

01:01:22.000 That's kind of offensive to PTSD victims.

01:01:24.000 Yes!

01:01:25.000 Very much so.

01:01:26.000 My favorite image that people have posted on this as a meme is a little girl with a pink shotgun shooting. 0.53

01:01:32.000 She's great.

01:01:32.000 I think she has her own like Instagram page where she does when she does competitive shooting.

01:01:38.000 Oh, wait, wait, wait, look, there was an update on the story.

01:01:40.000 It says, many people have objected to my use of the term PTSD in the above story.

01:01:44.000 The use of this term was in no way meant to conflate my very temporary anxiety with the very real condition experienced by many of our brave men and women in uniform.

01:01:52.000 I regret the inarticulate use of the term to describe my in-the-moment impression of the gun's firepower and apologize for it.

01:01:58.000 I have also posted a follow-up piece here.

01:02:00.000 Oh, did he?

01:02:01.000 That's exactly what it meant.

01:02:02.000 He says, that's not what I meant.

01:02:03.000 That's exactly what it meant.

01:02:04.000 He said he was terrified.

01:02:06.000 To gun lovers, you can't even have an opinion on assault rifles unless it's theirs.

01:02:10.000 Here's the proof.

01:02:11.000 Bro.

01:02:13.000 Okay, he says the gun debate is over.

01:02:14.000 When's this article from?

01:02:15.000 It's from June 15, 2016.

01:02:17.000 In all my years in journalism, coming up on 30, I have never received so much angry mail as I did after yesterday's story.

01:02:23.000 What it's like to fire an AR-15.

01:02:25.000 Bro!

01:02:26.000 It's because you take a turkey hunting... Listen.

01:02:29.000 If you were hunting pheasants or squirrels, there would be a bigger recoil than your AR-15.

01:02:35.000 That's the craziest thing.

01:02:36.000 I've asked all these dudes who are like, we're at the range, and I'm like, what do you think? 0.98

01:02:38.000 And they're like, that guy's nuts. 0.78

01:02:40.000 Like, what's the weakest possible interpretation of using a gun? 0.99

01:02:44.000 Hunting squirrel.

01:02:45.000 And he's gonna have, he's gonna have like game load our birdshot and it's gonna be facing more pain from that.

01:02:50.000 He's untrained too, so it's like what it's like to hit a baseball that's being thrown a hundred miles an hour.

01:02:55.000 From someone that's untrained, it's gonna be terrifying.

01:02:57.000 They might get hit by the ball, it might break their... Ian, can we take you shooting?

01:03:01.000 Yeah, sure.

01:03:02.000 Let's go this weekend.

01:03:03.000 He's been shooting.

01:03:05.000 He fired the 410 out of the Governor.

01:03:09.000 You fired the shotgun shells, right?

01:03:12.000 It's not like a big shotgun shell, but 410 bore out of the revolver.

01:03:17.000 It's pretty big.

01:03:18.000 I'd say it's way...

01:03:20.000 I thought it was going to be way more kickback than what it was.

01:03:23.000 If you're prepared for it and you have a grip and you're focused, it's very instant.

01:03:28.000 Doesn't this tell you how out of touch journalists are with the people they cover?

01:03:32.000 It would be so interesting to go into one of these newsrooms, and actually if you could get them to be honest, the Daily News, the New York Times, how many people own a gun and actually know the true answer to that?

01:03:42.000 How many voted for a Republican?

01:03:44.000 Maybe there's like a janitor there.

01:03:45.000 You know what I mean?

01:03:47.000 To see how many people of you, how many of you go to church?

01:03:50.000 How many of you are pro-life?

01:03:52.000 Any of these issues where it's like the public is split but the institutions that cover them are so dominated by one side.

01:03:58.000 How can anyone think, even if they were well-intentioned, which I don't really believe anymore, even if they were well-intentioned, I don't see how they could cover a population like that.

01:04:06.000 The funny thing is they say this and they acknowledge this in terms of diversity on the skin surface level.

01:04:12.000 They're saying a newsroom with no black people can't cover America fairly, which maybe that's not true, but they at least acknowledge it in that capacity. 1.00

01:04:20.000 They don't acknowledge the same thing for actual ideas and actual perspectives and experiences.

01:04:25.000 You reminded me of that Huffington Post picture where they took a photo of their editorial board and one day it was all women.

01:04:33.000 It was just a whole bunch of white women. 1.00

01:04:34.000 And everyone's like, look at how diverse we are.

01:04:36.000 And I'm like, wait, what are you talking about?

01:04:38.000 They said it was something like, what do you notice about our boardroom?

01:04:41.000 And it was like a bunch of women. 1.00

01:04:43.000 It was all women. 1.00

01:04:43.000 And then someone was like, it's all white people. 1.00

01:04:47.000 They're like, Huffington Post doesn't hire black people. 0.55

01:04:49.000 And then they had to like, apologize or something. 0.95

01:04:52.000 Oh, wait, actually, that reminds me of something.

01:04:53.000 Huffington Post opinion, I think it was.

01:04:55.000 Actually, publicly, they released, so I used to pitch op-eds in a job that I was in, and the editor there released data about the percentage of minority authors we published, the percentage of trans authors that we published, and they promised to do better next year.

01:05:10.000 They're like, we will actively ensure that we publish more black people, more trans people, and it's like, so you're just openly admitting that you're not going to publish the best articles.

01:05:19.000 You're going to ask people, so are you trans, by the way?

01:05:22.000 I need to know, so I can know whether to run this or not. 0.87

01:05:24.000 This is a really great op-ed, but who do you like banging?

01:05:27.000 Right.

01:05:29.000 Can you publish my opinion?

01:05:29.000 I don't know.

01:05:30.000 Do you like dick or do you like... Like, the equality of outcome versus the equality of opportunity. 0.98

01:05:35.000 So, like, if they publish more people that created a love of all humans to work together, as opposed to published more black people and more women that maybe would even cause, like, Diversion, you know, cause, what would you call it? 0.99

01:05:50.000 Like hate?

01:05:50.000 I don't even think of the word because I don't like it in my lexicon.

01:05:53.000 Yeah, division.

01:05:54.000 So you could have a bunch of white guys that create a space where everyone comes together.

01:06:00.000 Or you could have a black guy and a white woman and an African or whatever, all creating a situation where people hate each other.

01:06:08.000 It doesn't matter who they are.

01:06:09.000 They're never going to publish Enrique Tarrio.

01:06:12.000 When they say they want more black writers, they're not talking about Enrique or Candace Owens or the Hodge twins.

01:06:17.000 They're talking about social justice activists who agree with them.

01:06:21.000 When they're talking about diversity, they're not talking about bringing on people with different ideas.

01:06:25.000 They're talking about people who look different but have the exact same ideas.

01:06:28.000 Well, and if they don't have the same ideas, then you ain't black. 0.84

01:06:31.000 Right.

01:06:31.000 Yes.

01:06:31.000 That's Joe Biden for you.

01:06:32.000 Right.

01:06:33.000 So it's not, it's not only just, or it's like Peter Thiel, right?

01:06:36.000 The LGBT media wrote about him that he's not actually a gay man. 0.98

01:06:40.000 He just has sex with other men because he endorsed Trump. 0.98

01:06:43.000 That's literally an article that was published. 0.98

01:06:46.000 In The Advocate, which is supposed to be a gay rights magazine.

01:06:52.000 Look, saying double standard and hypocrisy has become redundant at this point.

01:06:56.000 It's something special and new.

01:06:58.000 It's just like... You have logic, and you have math, and you have formula.

01:07:05.000 What's the opposite?

01:07:07.000 Abstract absurdity?

01:07:08.000 Absurdism?

01:07:10.000 It's articles that are meant to make no sense on purpose.

01:07:13.000 You know, it's like, it's like the art.

01:07:15.000 You know, when you look at art, and it's like, you have like a beautiful, like, we have a, we have a picture over there, and it's like a beautiful, like, aurora borealis, and there's a lake, and that's like a real thing, you know?

01:07:23.000 Realism.

01:07:24.000 And then what's, what's, what's the art called where the face is?

01:07:26.000 Yeah, abstract art.

01:07:26.000 Abstract.

01:07:27.000 That's what it is.

01:07:27.000 It's abstract, it's abstract politics.

01:07:30.000 Right.

01:07:30.000 It's meaningless, and it's meant to be like, that's not possible, a possible thing.

01:07:34.000 Your ideas are nonsensical.

01:07:36.000 They're like perfect little establishment slave ninnies that are used to push the agenda and the narrative of controlling people and getting rid of people's freedoms and they use it over issues and they use it over these talking points and these buzzwords that absolutely have no meaning just like in 1984 Orwellian doublespeak is becoming more and more of a reality. 0.63

01:07:55.000 Yes, yes, but look what people do with freedom.

01:07:57.000 In New York, they bought too large of sodas.

01:08:00.000 So Michael Bloomberg had to put a punitive tax on it so that people would stop buying too large of sodas.

01:08:04.000 Michael Bloomberg used his freedom to put a ban on other people's sodas.

01:08:09.000 Yes!

01:08:10.000 You're trying to curtail Michael Bloomberg's freedom?

01:08:10.000 See?

01:08:13.000 That SOB had me arrested.

01:08:15.000 I have a long history with him, by the way.

01:08:16.000 Didn't you yell at him? 1.00

01:08:18.000 He's a dirty, dirty politician. 0.96

01:08:19.000 He promised to help out the first responders, and the 9-11 first responders, police officers, firefighters, medics, military men who were sick and dying after 9-11 told me, hey, he's promising to give us this funding and support this bill if you personally, Luke, stop harassing him. 0.98

01:08:35.000 What?

01:08:35.000 And confronting him, yeah.

01:08:37.000 Yeah, I don't know if you want to get into this story, but every time he did a radio show, every time he did a ribbon cutting, every time he did a gala, every time he did a public event, I was on him like white on rice, confronting him and asking him like, you're cutting support.

01:08:50.000 He said that first responders were sick because of PTSD and not the actual, you know, what was it?

01:08:57.000 That dust that creates asbestos.

01:08:59.000 Asbestos, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:09:00.000 He said, oh, it's not the asbestos in the air that's hurting all these first responders and rescue workers, it's PTSD.

01:09:06.000 It's psychosomatic that you can't breathe.

01:09:09.000 Dude, I worked there.

01:09:10.000 No, trust me, there was a police officer who died that he called the not a hero, James Sodroga, and I was on him.

01:09:16.000 I was like, what are you doing cutting funding from these incredibly important individuals that came to New York City on 9-11 at ground zero to rescue people?

01:09:26.000 And now they're being even denied basic health benefits that they had in their contract.

01:09:31.000 So I was on Bloomberg because I knew many of these guys, a lot of them were my friends, a lot of them were... Bloomberg never funded it.

01:09:37.000 A first responder organization came to me, the John Feelgood Foundation, and they said, look, Luke, we just got a call from the mayor's office.

01:09:44.000 He's telling us that Bloomberg's running for re-election.

01:09:48.000 He wants you to stop questioning him at every press conference.

01:09:51.000 He wants you to stop calling into all of his radio shows.

01:09:55.000 If you leave him alone for his re-election, he will give us this bill.

01:09:59.000 Right?

01:10:00.000 I did, and I went to other gala events, and I covered other book signings, other ribbon cuttings where he was at.

01:10:07.000 I just kind of gave him a side eye, but I didn't do anything, and I kept my word to the first responders, even though I told them that Bloomberg was going to lie.

01:10:14.000 Bloomberg gets re-elected for a third term.

01:10:17.000 One of the first things he does is he cuts medical benefits for thousands of 9-11 first responders.

01:10:22.000 They call me back, this particular organization, they're like, Luke, he lied.

01:10:27.000 He screwed us over.

01:10:28.000 I'm like, I told you so.

01:10:29.000 I went to confront him and literally they had NYPD intelligence, a specific branch, waiting for me as I'm going up the escalator to one of the gala events.

01:10:37.000 And they're like, Radowski, you're coming with us.

01:10:39.000 I'm like, what?

01:10:40.000 No, I'm not.

01:10:41.000 I'm going outside.

01:10:42.000 They grabbed me, held me down.

01:10:43.000 I'm like, I want to go.

01:10:44.000 I want to leave.

01:10:45.000 They're like, no, you're not leaving.

01:10:46.000 They came back with 15 police officers and they said, Luke, We told you to leave.

01:10:52.000 Why didn't you leave?

01:10:53.000 I'm like, yeah, I got it here on camera that you told me I can't leave.

01:10:57.000 Took away the camera, threw me in jail.

01:10:59.000 The police officers were fans, so they were literally like taking me out and giving me smokes and out of the jail cell.

01:11:05.000 NYPD intelligence came down, made sure to send me down to Central Bookings for three days during the weekend, even though it was a criminal trespassing charge that went on for Two years, found non-innocent, but that was one of the reasons that the Canadian government used to ban me from Canada for ten years.

01:11:22.000 Because they said I had a criminal arrest record, according to the FBI.

01:11:26.000 What you're saying is that you confessed to committing a crime?

01:11:28.000 No!

01:11:29.000 I didn't commit anything, but I was never found guilty.

01:11:34.000 They dropped the charges. 0.90

01:11:35.000 But Bloomberg is one of the dirtiest, nastiest politicians out there.

01:11:39.000 And isn't it crazy that Democrats are fine with it because he gives them money? 0.65

01:11:42.000 Like, when he ran for president, people finally talked about it a little, but mostly conservatives.

01:11:45.000 This dude has the longest history of racism, and sexism, and Me Too, and misogyny.

01:11:51.000 I mean, he literally did the stop and fresh chorus, like, alright, you look black, get up against the wall, let the police violate your civil liberties.

01:11:58.000 There's a recording of him arguing with people about how it's right to racially profile.

01:12:03.000 And this guy was running on the Democratic ticket and he had support!

01:12:05.000 Yes, because he had the checks.

01:12:07.000 That's really, it's a surface level commitment to all of this diversity stuff, because ultimately they knew that they needed him to beat Trump, so they decided whatever, all our standards are flexible.

01:12:17.000 It's amazing that he, like, look, there are arguments for stop and frisk.

01:12:22.000 I think it's a Fourth Amendment violation.

01:12:22.000 I don't agree.

01:12:24.000 But there are arguments about you go where the crime is.

01:12:26.000 I've heard that before.

01:12:27.000 It's like, well, there's crime happening there.

01:12:28.000 Then we go there, try and stop it.

01:12:30.000 He didn't even do that!

01:12:31.000 Like, there's an actual argument for people saying, like, well, where are they supposed to go, to the wealthy areas?

01:12:34.000 No, Bloomberg literally said, but that's what the criminals look like!

01:12:37.000 Like, oh, dude!

01:12:38.000 What?!

01:12:39.000 I mean, I was in New York City during stop-and-frisk, and there was a number of occasions where even I was grabbed up, thrown against the wall by some disrespectful NYPD officers that were rude.

01:12:49.000 that were antagonizing.

01:12:51.000 I got beat up by them you know previously before in a separate incident when I was younger and they just they just again just came up on you and they started grabbing you all in your personal you know parts and I can't even describe what they they did you know a number of instances but this is the this is what they were trying to normalize.

01:13:08.000 Government agents walking up to you on the street as you're doing your business and throwing you against your wall insulting you and putting your their hands down your pants.

01:13:16.000 That's crazy, because if that had gotten federal traction, I mean, that's like massively totalitarian.

01:13:21.000 Yeah.

01:13:22.000 But that's what these elitists, that's what a lot of these billionaires, that's what a lot of these people call for.

01:13:27.000 That's what they want, because it gives them ultimate power.

01:13:29.000 It gives them something that, of course, they can't get enough of, just like money.

01:13:36.000 reach a certain level where they have so much money, they only could focus on having more money no matter how much

01:13:42.000 they have.

01:13:43.000 So the same goes for power. It's an addictive substance just like attention is.

01:13:48.000 And it's something that needs to be addressed against these megalomaniac psychopaths which are in Washington, D.C.

01:13:54.000 Let's talk about government power spending with this next story.

01:13:59.000 From the Daily Mail revealed, Fauci Fauci is America's highest paid federal employee on $417,608

01:14:08.000 salary, after joking in an interview with Matt McConaughey that he was just a government worker

01:14:14.000 on a government salary.

01:14:16.000 So uh...

01:14:17.000 How do I get one of those government salaries?

01:14:19.000 Gosh.

01:14:20.000 They say Fauci is the nation's highest paid federal employee, raking in $417,000 in 2019,

01:14:25.000 which is the latest year that federal salary data is available.

01:14:28.000 He made more than the president's $400,000 a year salary, excuse me.

01:14:34.000 In 2019, he also made more than Mike Pence, who outranks Fauci in authority, and made $235,100 in salary, as well as Dr. Deborah Birx, who made $305,000.

01:14:44.000 If Fauci remains in this position and doesn't get a raise, he'll make 2.5 million dollars from 2019 through 2024.

01:14:51.000 I don't know why they picked those years, but I guess it's because of the next term.

01:14:54.000 Data shows that the highest federal employees were medical and dental officers.

01:14:59.000 Why are we paying... Look, you can talk about Dr. Fauci and his right or wrong and lockdowns and all that stuff, but why are we paying these people so much money?

01:15:08.000 And it's not just about Fauci, it's about just all of these people in general getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the taxpayer.

01:15:15.000 For what?

01:15:16.000 Because they're friends with the people that make the rules that dole out the finance and it's free money for them because it's tax money.

01:15:23.000 They don't have to know us to take our money.

01:15:25.000 They just get it.

01:15:25.000 So that's funny, though, because I'm actually I thought those numbers would be even worse because at the state and local level, like at the university level, a university president, at least where I went, UMass, makes north of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

01:15:39.000 Right.

01:15:39.000 The basketball coach at UMass, which sucked and lost most of its games, made a million dollars when I was there.

01:15:46.000 He made more than the president.

01:15:47.000 And these are all government employees.

01:15:48.000 Made more than the governor of Massachusetts.

01:15:50.000 It's a public institution.

01:15:51.000 Yeah, these are all taxpayer funded.

01:15:53.000 And so if you, listen, if you can't succeed in business, go to government.

01:15:58.000 And because they actually, the funny thing about government is how they advance and how they do raises is not based on merit.

01:16:04.000 It's literally just based.

01:16:05.000 All right.

01:16:06.000 All right.

01:16:07.000 I'll say this.

01:16:09.000 Tax money going to these people to pay them exorbitant salaries is theft.

01:16:14.000 There we go.

01:16:15.000 I've been working on you for a while.

01:16:17.000 We did it, folks!

01:16:18.000 Celebrate!

01:16:19.000 Tim finally admitted it.

01:16:21.000 I think the idea of taxing is fine.

01:16:23.000 The problem is when the government's corrupt, then it's not being used for what it's supposed to be used for.

01:16:27.000 You can make all the arguments in the world that I hear from the left about Taxes are good.

01:16:31.000 It's like paying a subscription to receive the roads and the safety and the clean water.

01:16:35.000 And I'm like, sure, if that's what it was used for, am I supposed... Look, I got no problem with taxes.

01:16:41.000 I have no problem with the concept of paying taxes.

01:16:43.000 The problem I have is, how much is going to blow up kids?

01:16:46.000 How much is going to pay this dude's salary for the basketball team?

01:16:49.000 Why are you getting a million dollars?

01:16:52.000 But that's the thing, is in concept that makes sense, but government is always going to be corrupt.

01:16:56.000 Show me the government that isn't corrupt.

01:16:58.000 Government power, centralized power by its very nature, corrupts.

01:17:02.000 Even good people, though good people are usually not drawn to high office and running for power.

01:17:07.000 This is public choice theory in economics.

01:17:09.000 It self-selects for the people that are the most ambitious and most ruthless.

01:17:13.000 They're the only ones that can get to the top of the food chain.

01:17:16.000 So government corruption is not a bug.

01:17:18.000 It is the system.

01:17:19.000 Yeah, very good point that you made there.

01:17:21.000 Now, there are some people arguing that we should pay politicians and government officials a high amount so they don't get bribed by special interests.

01:17:30.000 But this definitely seems exorbitant, to say the least.

01:17:34.000 Dr. Fauci, I mean, I'm definitely not a fan of him, especially everything he did at the Wuhan Laboratory, specifically trying to make coronavirus as lethal as it could be with the gain-of-function data studies.

01:17:48.000 But, you know, there's an argument to be made that you don't want these people working for other interests.

01:17:53.000 But as I've been arguing against that, saying, you know, money corrupts individuals and you never have enough.

01:17:59.000 So even if you do pay them a lot, you know, what's the middle ground here?

01:18:03.000 Where do we meet in the middle to make sure that they're satisfied and that they're not corrupt?

01:18:08.000 Because, I mean, essentially, let's ask ourselves, what did Dr. Fauci do?

01:18:12.000 I mean, he's repeating a lot of the World Health Organization Kind of directives and talking points, but those keep flip-flopping all the time.

01:18:19.000 A lot of the projections were wrong.

01:18:22.000 I think it's very fair to say that the United States handling of this entire situation has been extremely poor.

01:18:28.000 So when you have something that is not done right, you shouldn't be paying top dollar for it.

01:18:33.000 Well, and that's the problem is with businesses, if they mess up and then guess what?

01:18:37.000 They go under.

01:18:38.000 Or if an employee messes up big time, they get fired.

01:18:41.000 But think about it like this.

01:18:42.000 The CDC literally blocked all COVID testing at the beginning and said, you can only use our test, right?

01:18:48.000 But then their test didn't work.

01:18:50.000 And it took them months before they allowed private labs to go and make tests again.

01:18:55.000 The CDC did not lose any money from their budget from that.

01:18:58.000 They didn't get shrunk.

01:18:58.000 They didn't get cut.

01:19:00.000 Like a private business that bombed that bad would probably go out of business or even boycott it.

01:19:03.000 Or even Dr. Fauci that told you that masks are bad.

01:19:07.000 That you shouldn't wear masks. 0.50

01:19:08.000 Dr. Fauci literally was telling you that flip-flopping all the time under the directives of the World Health Organization which he just a couple days ago was very excited that the United States is going to be back a part of and financing and funding even though they don't even recognize Taiwan as a country which is absolutely ridiculous.

01:19:25.000 We also have to talk about the Fauci fetish, like the media and some of the liberals, not like, some people just like him, right?

01:19:31.000 But some people have gotten like culty with it. 0.96

01:19:34.000 Like they have like Fauci, I've seen Fauci sex toys. 0.94

01:19:39.000 I've seen like glowing profiles of him about how he's like a stud and all these memes that are like sort of joking, sexualizing Fauci. 0.99

01:19:47.000 The Fauci sex toy screws you over. 0.99

01:19:48.000 Like, literally and figuratively. 0.99

01:19:50.000 You guys sense this, like, cult worship.

01:19:52.000 We're like, who's the new... It's like Greta Thunberg, 2.0.

01:19:55.000 Who's the new celebrity?

01:19:57.000 It's this guy, Fauci.

01:19:59.000 They're like, oh, it's this guy.

01:20:01.000 Oh no, now it's Kamala Harris.

01:20:03.000 Let's worship Kamala Harris.

01:20:05.000 Well, to be fair, Brad Pitt did play Dr. Fauci on SNL.

01:20:09.000 Good for him.

01:20:10.000 So I mean, if you're looking at those kind of accreditations, you don't have much accreditation.

01:20:14.000 What did Dr. Fauci do during this entire saga that we've been through that actually made a positive impact into the coronavirus?

01:20:22.000 I mean, that's a serious, legitimate question that we need to be asking, especially if he's getting paid that much.

01:20:27.000 I mean, can you name anything noble or great that he's done with the coronavirus other than just repeat World Health Organization talking points and contradict himself all the time?

01:20:35.000 Well, we don't know what he's done behind the scenes, and I imagine he seems like a good guy.

01:20:39.000 I think he's done his best, and it was like a super horrible position to be in, right?

01:20:43.000 No one knew how to handle it, but no one can say he didn't make a ton of mistakes.

01:20:47.000 He did, and we should be allowed to point those out and ask what the consequences are.

01:20:52.000 Yeah, is there going to be any accountability?

01:20:54.000 Is there going to be any way to get, you know, justice for some of the larger consequences that are leading because of very bad government mistakes?

01:21:04.000 Well, so here's the thing that bothers me the most about Fauci and some of these other public health people is they were saying they changed their tune and they act like they never did.

01:21:11.000 So, for example, you mentioned masks and that's a good one, but also schools.

01:21:15.000 schools ran Paul and a bunch of other people and science was showing this to in other countries that reopening schools was perfectly safe and fine and Fauci and other people were totally against it and then they just pivoted a month or two ago they've really pivoted hardcore since the election and law about lockdowns And that's what I can't stand, is I feel a little gaslit by it all.

01:21:35.000 You may have heard some chiming.

01:21:35.000 Yep.

01:21:37.000 I don't know if that was coming through on the podcast, but it was because I was scouring the web to try and find that story about Fauci and the research, and I got it to Newsweek.com.

01:21:45.000 Dr. Fauci backed controversial Wuhan lab with U.S.

01:21:48.000 dollars for risky coronavirus research.

01:21:51.000 How have I never heard that?

01:21:51.000 His Newsweek.

01:21:53.000 That tells you that a lot that I've never heard that story from April 28th of last year

01:21:56.000 They say dr Fauci is an advisor to Trump a yada last year the National

01:22:00.000 Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases led by Fauci Funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and

01:22:05.000 other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses

01:22:10.000 Well, what it what?

01:22:12.000 well, the particular bats that are in question here that many scientists and experts point to

01:22:19.000 leading to the coronavirus are thousands of miles away from Wuhan.

01:22:23.000 So the possibility of these bats traveling specifically to Wuhan is extremely improbable.

01:22:29.000 Now, do we have any empirical evidence showing that there's a direct link to this?

01:22:33.000 No, but there's a crap ton of circumstantial evidence highlighting exactly that there could have been an accidental leak in the Wuhan laboratory.

01:22:39.000 People were selling them.

01:22:41.000 People were taking animals to the wet markets.

01:22:43.000 That's what they're saying.

01:22:45.000 There is, from, I think, New York Mag, what they call the lab leak hypothesis.

01:22:49.000 We don't know for sure.

01:22:50.000 Exactly.

01:22:51.000 We don't know for sure, but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that a lot of experts are looking at and pointing to and saying they were literally working on making the coronavirus jump from species to species, making it as dangerous as possible.

01:23:05.000 This is where the term gain of function comes from.

01:23:07.000 This is what Dr. Fauci was literally in charge of bankrolling, you know, before the coronavirus.

01:23:13.000 And the United States, there was even diplomatic leaked cables saying that there's a high probability of a virus leaking from this Wuhan laboratory before the coronavirus. 0.85

01:23:24.000 And just to clarify, this is from the intelligence or New York Mag, the lab leak hypothesis.

01:23:29.000 For decades, scientists have been hot wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one.

01:23:34.000 But what if?

01:23:35.000 And that's basically what he brings up, that there are many scientists saying that essentially the hypothesis is they were trying to create vaccines, and then there was a breach of some sort.

01:23:45.000 But I'm not saying that's true.

01:23:47.000 If you read it in the New York Mag, take it from them.

01:23:49.000 People love a crisis.

01:23:50.000 Sometimes you need a crisis, man.

01:23:51.000 We couldn't get into Syria.

01:23:53.000 The weapons of mass destruction weren't quite enough.

01:23:55.000 You know, 9-11 got people riled up, but there hasn't been... For Iraq, you mean?

01:23:59.000 Yeah, just to rally everyone to become subservient, you know, soldiers or for the cause or whatever.

01:24:04.000 Well, the reason this is important to me because if we could understand the origin of this sickness we could deal

01:24:09.000 with it So the real issue right now is China blocking the World 0.87

01:24:12.000 Health Organization The researchers want to come in around a year

01:24:16.000 China has blocked the World Health Organization the World Health Organization that sings its praises that says that

01:24:22.000 China did an amazing job with the coronavirus

01:24:25.000 They are even being blocked from coming in.

01:24:27.000 And just a few days ago, finally, after I believe three or four official, very public attempts, did China grant the World Health Organization access into the supposed wet market.

01:24:38.000 Well, China reopened the wet markets.

01:24:41.000 That's the craziest part about all of this.

01:24:43.000 These wet markets are notoriously unhygienic and dangerous for diseases and jumping.

01:24:48.000 And this happened, coming from what was at least the original hypothesis.

01:24:52.000 They reopened them.

01:24:53.000 They evidently don't care.

01:24:55.000 And another thing that bothers me, actually, as a journalist, is I see all the time China's numbers just uncritically parroted.

01:25:01.000 Like the headline will be, China, new case numbers, has COVID under control.

01:25:07.000 Or China's economic numbers, I'm particularly suspicious of.

01:25:10.000 They're like, rosy economy in China as a rest of world struggles.

01:25:15.000 And I'm like, you're just repeating according to Communist Party officials.

01:25:19.000 Well, hold on.

01:25:20.000 You just said you're not going to question that?

01:25:22.000 You think that those are just trustworthy figures you can just accept as fact?

01:25:26.000 Think about how many journalists in the United States all of a sudden became the cheerleaders for the U.S.

01:25:31.000 intelligence apparatus when Donald Trump got elected.

01:25:33.000 All of a sudden, everything the government said was true and correct all the time.

01:25:37.000 How many leftists made that switch, too?

01:25:40.000 And also, they were kind of right, like, decades ago, saying, like, the war on terror, they're infringing civil liberties, blah blah blah.

01:25:46.000 And then it was like, oh, they're spying on Trump.

01:25:48.000 Heck yeah! 0.96

01:25:49.000 Well that's okay!

01:25:51.000 Now it's really funny because you've got some lefties who are like, you know, well we mentioned the journalists with sending the troops.

01:25:57.000 Then they send in the troops to DC.

01:25:57.000 How dare you!

01:25:59.000 That's a good thing and there's a good reason for it.

01:26:01.000 Oh, okay.

01:26:02.000 And they're keeping them there up until March or maybe even indefinitely because of a supposed threat.

01:26:09.000 Again, a threat.

01:26:09.000 It's the impeachment trial.

01:26:10.000 What did Jack Posobiec say?

01:26:11.000 He's like, the military will remain occupying the city until the opposition leader's trial is over?

01:26:17.000 That's just absolutely crazy.

01:26:19.000 So I actually went, I actually went into the city when this was all locked down and everything and I had to like get an Uber to go somewhere to do something for my job, right?

01:26:27.000 And he could only get me within a mile to where I needed to go because there was like SWAT team, not even SWAT teams, but like military trucks blocking the road and put up fences and I had to walk the rest of the way.

01:26:38.000 Like just get the Uber.

01:26:39.000 I got the Uber like within a mile and I was like, I guess I'll just walk.

01:26:42.000 What day was that?

01:26:43.000 Oh, that was like two days before inauguration.

01:26:46.000 Jeez.

01:26:47.000 It wasn't on Inauguration Day, and it wasn't even particularly close to the Capitol or anything.

01:26:52.000 It was like a couple miles from there.

01:26:55.000 Have they toned down the security?

01:26:56.000 Somewhat, but so they reopened the highways and they reopened the bridges.

01:27:00.000 They literally closed the bridges from Arlington to the DC.

01:27:04.000 Like you just couldn't go across.

01:27:05.000 And I was like, how are people who are essential workers supposed to do that?

01:27:10.000 This whole shutting down of the economy and the world is really kind of crazy.

01:27:15.000 My conspiratorial mind is lit up the last few days, particularly the last few days for some reason thinking about Wuhan and Corona, because obviously Corona's nasty.

01:27:24.000 But where it came from, totally up for debate.

01:27:27.000 And we should talk about it, because bioweapons, we've been making movies about them for 20 years, and it is a terrifying idea.

01:27:34.000 So disruptive to the world economy.

01:27:37.000 It's just grinding things to a halt.

01:27:39.000 You're confusing the virus with the government.

01:27:41.000 Well, I'm thinking of...

01:27:43.000 Yeah, I'm thinking of the response to the virus is what I'm most concerned with.

01:27:46.000 Right, right.

01:27:46.000 What we know about COVID is a 99.99 survival rate for people under, what, 70?

01:27:50.000 70 years old?

01:27:51.000 Yeah.

01:27:52.000 So the question is the government response rate.

01:27:54.000 Now they're adjusting the PCR test threshold.

01:27:57.000 That was the World Health Organization that even just announced that.

01:28:00.000 Look, you know, people have gotten sick.

01:28:03.000 I know people who have gotten sick with it.

01:28:04.000 And I know people who have had family members die with it.

01:28:07.000 Right.

01:28:08.000 I think the reality is never let a good crisis go to waste.

01:28:11.000 It's simple.

01:28:12.000 It's the government saw an opportunity to exploit us because there was something happening.

01:28:16.000 And government also, they never think of the unintended consequences, right?

01:28:20.000 So they see the problem, they swing the hammer.

01:28:23.000 But it's like, I saw a study the other day, actually, and this was in the National Bureau of Economic Research.

01:28:27.000 saying that 850,000 excess deaths will be caused from the COVID-related unemployment.

01:28:33.000 And that's mostly from the lockdowns, not from the disease itself.

01:28:36.000 And what is that like in over a year span?

01:28:38.000 Over the next 15 years from suicides, from depression, from heart issues.

01:28:45.000 This is a documented trend in economics that unemployment causes health issues.

01:28:49.000 Poverty causes health issues.

01:28:51.000 And so, and that's just one thing.

01:28:53.000 That's not counting marital violence and domestic violence.

01:28:59.000 And the children of all the people that that will affect.

01:29:01.000 So if 850,000 people are going to kill themselves or die, what about all their kids?

01:29:07.000 There's another 16 million people.

01:29:09.000 But it's all these second order unintended consequences when they just looked at one thing and they didn't consider anything else and then they refused to adapt also.

01:29:17.000 That's the original.

01:29:18.000 I think the original mistake you have to give some grace for.

01:29:21.000 What's bothered me is the fact that they've doubled down on failed tactics.

01:29:25.000 They haven't adapted.

01:29:26.000 And they got promoted for it and never held accountable for it.

01:29:29.000 The other study that I saw was done by Duke, Harvard and John Hopkins professors and they talked about an excess of 1 million deaths coming in the future because of the longer effects of these lockdowns.

01:29:41.000 And again, That's not even including the health screenings, the stoppage of cancer treatments, mental health illnesses, and a large number of economic illnesses that are going to be happening as of course people have to deal with the larger consequences of a failing economy, losing their jobs, losing their businesses, and having failing wages with just record medical

01:30:04.000 Don't forget the kids who have lost school and have it shut down.

01:30:07.000 You will look back at the trends 10 years from now and you'll see like a distinct class of children who were screwed over by this and it will show in their lifetime success because you can't miss a year and a half of school and just that's fine.

01:30:21.000 A lot of these kids are committing suicide.

01:30:22.000 or at least trying to. I saw a terrifying story about that, about a school that reopened,

01:30:26.000 I can't remember the details, but a school that reopened because it had a suicide spike

01:30:30.000 among its students. They're like, we have to reopen. This was a private school. And you can't

01:30:34.000 do this to kids, especially when they're, we're also transferring it because they're not the ones

01:30:39.000 at risk here at all. And so we're transferring the cost to them for the benefits for other subsets

01:30:46.000 I think that's fundamentally moral.

01:30:47.000 Maybe, because there's been even some studies showing that there's no benefit towards lockdowns and that lockdowns actually may create certain situations where people accumulate together at Walmart or Target or Costco and therefore could even help spread the sickness even further.

01:31:02.000 So there's even medical arguments being made like that.

01:31:03.000 There's studies showing that lockdowns don't work.

01:31:05.000 And part of it is this, right?

01:31:07.000 So I got really frustrated by New York City and Cuomo.

01:31:10.000 He ordered restaurants to close.

01:31:12.000 They were at 25% capacity.

01:31:14.000 They were getting some people could go to restaurants, but it was limited.

01:31:17.000 It was super safety measures.

01:31:19.000 But the state's own data showed that only 1.4% of COVID cases were coming from restaurants.

01:31:26.000 Most COVID cases were coming from private interpersonal household gatherings.

01:31:30.000 Well, guess what happens when you shut down the restaurants?

01:31:32.000 People have more gatherings.

01:31:34.000 Like these people actually made this worse by shutting down businesses.

01:31:37.000 So not only did they slap New York entrepreneurs in the face, but they also probably made COVID worse.

01:31:43.000 You also see riots breaking out, which is talking about destroying people's lives.

01:31:47.000 This Capitol riot.

01:31:49.000 Maybe it would have happened if there was no Corona.

01:31:51.000 Probably not.

01:31:52.000 It fuels them.

01:31:53.000 Yeah.

01:31:53.000 People would be out screaming, destroying things if they weren't forced to stay inside and losing their money and their income.

01:31:59.000 Trump would have won if there was no corona.

01:32:01.000 Not a bad argument.

01:32:02.000 That's a good shout.

01:32:03.000 I mean, but he also would have won it if he handled it better.

01:32:07.000 It's true.

01:32:07.000 Yeah, he had an opportunity.

01:32:09.000 And, you know, interestingly, Trump relied too much on Fauci for whatever reason.

01:32:14.000 Fauci, you know, what I saw him doing was basically the media would say it and a day later he'd repeat it.

01:32:18.000 And that's why he ended up being wrong so often.

01:32:21.000 He'd say things like, oh, you shouldn't wear a mask, and then two days later, oh, yeah, you should wear a mask.

01:32:26.000 And it's like, bro, they were saying that in the news like two days ago.

01:32:28.000 So the dude, in my opinion, For a while I was like, I like Fauci, he seems to be on the level, seems to be keeping a surprise to things, and then it kind of felt like, wait a minute, this guy's like checked out, isn't he?

01:32:37.000 He's like super old, he's been there for decades, he's getting $100,000 a year, he's just sitting back going like, what did they say on CNN?

01:32:43.000 Are his eyes at half-mast because he's zen, or because he's on drugs?

01:32:49.000 Neither.

01:32:49.000 It's because he's checked out.

01:32:50.000 He's like this.

01:32:52.000 He recently made a statement talking about how the numbers are plateauing and everything seems very promising in the United States moving forward with COVID.

01:33:00.000 Was this after the election?

01:33:01.000 Yes.

01:33:02.000 Well, also Michigan, DC, Chicago, California, New York, all of the political leadership are making announcements that they're going to be easing restrictions.

01:33:11.000 It's just a coincidence.

01:33:12.000 It's just, you know... Could be.

01:33:14.000 How many states was that again?

01:33:15.000 How many cities?

01:33:16.000 Well, there's D.C., the state of Michigan, the city of Chicago, California, and New York.

01:33:22.000 That's five numbers?

01:33:23.000 That's enough to even win the Powerball, bro!

01:33:24.000 That's only like half the country's population.

01:33:27.000 The state of New York.

01:33:30.000 But again, let's be open-minded.

01:33:32.000 Could be a coincidence.

01:33:34.000 Probability.

01:33:34.000 Who knows?

01:33:35.000 We could play those games at all.

01:33:37.000 But I think it's important to have all those possibilities open.

01:33:41.000 But I agree with your shout, though.

01:33:43.000 Trump definitely would have won if COVID hadn't happened.

01:33:46.000 Because before then, people were talking about the election in terms of socialism versus not.

01:33:50.000 Wokeism versus not.

01:33:51.000 And the economy.

01:33:52.000 And the economy, right?

01:33:53.000 But then COVID, it really all became about competence and stability, and those are not Trump's strong suits.

01:33:58.000 Those are not government's strong suits at all.

01:34:01.000 When Trump was giving his daily briefings, he reached his all-time approval rating in aggregate, and then all of a sudden the media panicked and then stopped airing them saying he was lying too much.

01:34:11.000 What really happened, in my opinion, was not whether or not Trump did a good or bad job, it was that no matter what happened, the media said it was a bad job.

01:34:17.000 Now you have Joe Biden coming out saying, in his recent speech, there's nothing we can do about the trajectory of COVID at this point.

01:34:23.000 When he said he was going to shut it down.

01:34:25.000 Right.

01:34:25.000 While he was campaigning.

01:34:26.000 Now he's like, there's nothing we can do.

01:34:27.000 Well, he had a plan.

01:34:29.000 He said last year the travel ban won't do anything.

01:34:31.000 Now he's just reinstated a travel ban.

01:34:33.000 Yeah, to people in South Africa, right?

01:34:35.000 Which actually is valid.

01:34:36.000 That's actually valid.

01:34:37.000 I'm pretty sure, and Europe and others, it's the same travel ban Trump lifted in the first place.

01:34:41.000 He's doing more travel bans.

01:34:43.000 He added more countries.

01:34:45.000 We've talked with lefties about this, and I said, basically, by what metric do you compare Trump's job on the coronavirus?

01:34:51.000 If we were looking at the media, Trump did a tremendous job, because they were saying millions would die, and then hundreds of thousands have died.

01:34:56.000 And that's why conservatives, Republicans, when polled, were like, we're okay with where things are, because they were told it was gonna be 90% higher.

01:35:04.000 One to two million was the original number.

01:35:07.000 Or not 90% higher, I'm sorry, like 10 times higher.

01:35:09.000 And then it was one to two million, and then it ended up being like 100 to 200,000, and people were like, wow!

01:35:13.000 We were warned that it was going to be worse.

01:35:15.000 Trump must have done a good job.

01:35:16.000 But the left just said, no, all these people are dead.

01:35:18.000 It's the worst possible job.

01:35:19.000 Ignore that.

01:35:20.000 No matter what he did, it was wrong.

01:35:22.000 And then people believe it.

01:35:25.000 That's just it.

01:35:25.000 And Trump's problem is he did have a direct line to the people with Twitter, but boy, did he not know how to use it.

01:35:32.000 Look, he tweeted, and it's something we haven't seen other people do, but he didn't do it as effectively as he could or should have.

01:35:40.000 He said, Jack Dorsey, can I send this message?

01:35:43.000 Jack Dorsey, can I send this message?

01:35:44.000 No, he was saying- Jack Dorsey, can I send this message?

01:35:46.000 Every time you tweet, you're asking Jack Dorsey if you're allowed to send that message.

01:35:49.000 The issue is that Trump would, like, attack people, and he would play- he would get caught into the flame war.

01:35:57.000 That's always been his problem.

01:35:58.000 Right.

01:35:58.000 A lot of people liked it, but he had an opportunity to bypass the press and they hated him for it.

01:36:02.000 And he did many times, but too often it was just inflammatory, you know, internet flame.

01:36:08.000 I was listening to some guy last night that worked with him a lot and said that he was a raging Adderall addict in the eighties and nineties.

01:36:14.000 Like it's just a party boy going out.

01:36:15.000 Did he have Adderall in the eighties and nineties?

01:36:17.000 Speed, different kinds of, it's a methamphetamine.

01:36:19.000 I don't know about.

01:36:20.000 We don't know.

01:36:20.000 But no, today, like on the premise.

01:36:23.000 He supposedly doesn't even take alcohol.

01:36:25.000 Yeah, according to him, he doesn't touch drugs at all.

01:36:27.000 But they had to remove the Diet Coke button from the White House.

01:36:31.000 I wouldn't want a Diet Coke.

01:36:35.000 I know people who have been on the plane with him covering stories and stuff, and they tell me the dude doesn't do drugs, he doesn't drink, and he only eats McDonald's.

01:36:46.000 I never saw him do drugs, so he doesn't ever do them. 0.99

01:36:49.000 What a moronic statement. 0.98

01:36:51.000 I spent some time with him and he didn't do it, so he never does it. 1.00

01:36:55.000 Like, what the hell?

01:36:56.000 When journalists are flying around with him and following him on his campaign tours, and they never see him drink or do drugs. 0.89

01:37:03.000 It's the people that work with him that say he was a raging Adderall addict.

01:37:07.000 But hold on, hold on.

01:37:08.000 Oh, I'll pull up the guy's name real quick.

01:37:10.000 And just look up that story and look up that thing.

01:37:11.000 But the media was hypercritical if the man had toilet paper on his shoe. 0.94

01:37:17.000 If he had two scoops of ice cream, they had a crap storm about that. 0.87

01:37:21.000 So if he had a drug problem, I think they would have found out about it and talked about it.

01:37:25.000 And I definitely agree with your point here, Tim.

01:37:28.000 He could have spent his time better because, you know, dunking on Rosie O'Donnell maybe is not the priority and shouldn't be the priority when it comes to the issues that this country is facing.

01:37:38.000 So, you know, Well, and most leaders, most politicians actually got an approval bounce, except for Trump.

01:37:44.000 Every governor, like everyone, except for Trump.

01:37:46.000 And I think there's two reasons for that.

01:37:48.000 One, I think you're right, it's the media.

01:37:49.000 But two is how he handled it and how he, he did shoot himself in the foot on several occasions with stuff he said or feuds he started.

01:37:56.000 That's always been part of his problems.

01:37:58.000 You know, he started his campaign with being this, this This character.

01:38:03.000 And being very negative on a bunch of different things, playing to the internet.

01:38:07.000 And he's been that way for a long time.

01:38:08.000 Even before he was running, he was tweeting things about Obama and Roger O'Donnell.

01:38:13.000 And so what happens is he enters office with this perception that the media used and exploited to make money.

01:38:19.000 And there was very little he could do because people already hated him.

01:38:22.000 That was it.

01:38:23.000 The guy's name is Noel Casler.

01:38:25.000 He worked in the entertainment industry in the 90s, 2000s, running for shows.

01:38:29.000 But I think when Trump says... What did he do with Trump?

01:38:32.000 He worked on The Apprentice.

01:38:34.000 He would be the guy that worked between the producer and the actors so that the producers didn't have to tell the actors, like, hey, what time are you going to be here?

01:38:40.000 What do you need?

01:38:40.000 He would do all that stuff for the production company.

01:38:42.000 So they'd hire him and bring him into different shows.

01:38:45.000 He worked with Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Trump.

01:38:48.000 And I think when Trump says, I don't do drugs, he's saying, I don't do illegal drugs.

01:38:53.000 And he got an Adderall prescription.

01:38:56.000 Could be.

01:38:56.000 We don't know.

01:38:57.000 But another thing to kind of really think about here is that when he first even became president four years ago, we were literally arguing about crowd sizes.

01:39:06.000 Donald Trump was saying he had the biggest crowd, way bigger than Barack Obama, and at that point, I knew there was an ego problem, and when someone has an ego problem, they could be very easily manipulated, and that's when I knew this is not going to be the four years that he promises it's going to be, because a lot of people could just pull a couple strings here and there, especially with someone who is very egotistical, and they could easily get their way with someone who's so full of themselves.

01:39:30.000 The bomb stock ban was a perfect example of how Democrats could have manipulated Trump way better if they wanted to.

01:39:35.000 If they just sucked up to him, they could have got him.

01:39:36.000 He does not have, except for a few issues, rooted core values.

01:39:40.000 So he's very subject to influence by, you know, who the last person that talked to, who kissed up to him the most.

01:39:46.000 So that's, that was always the problem.

01:39:48.000 That's how people like John Bolton got in that administration.

01:39:51.000 Noel was saying that he also got this, like, nasalplasty surgery to get this part of his nose reconstructed from all the cocaine he did that blew out the cartilage in his nose.

01:40:02.000 Like, he was a party boy in his early days.

01:40:05.000 Just women, women, drugs. 1.00

01:40:07.000 He was seen with Jeffrey Epstein partying it up.

01:40:10.000 Him and Bill.

01:40:12.000 Bill Clinton.

01:40:13.000 It's so funny that he comes out and he's like, I never touch drugs.

01:40:16.000 And he acts with this, like, piety. 0.93

01:40:17.000 And he's like, dude, that guy was crazy. 0.51

01:40:21.000 I don't know.

01:40:21.000 It's hard to really determine that, especially from one person.

01:40:26.000 I would understand if there was a number of people and maybe if there was some evidence, but until there's evidence or actually other people collaborating, I don't think it's good to take that kind of information that's based on you.

01:40:37.000 I also don't care.

01:40:38.000 Yeah, I don't care.

01:40:40.000 But don't lie about it.

01:40:40.000 The reason I don't buy it is because when you Google search the story, it's a bunch of people speculating that Trump was sniffling.

01:40:47.000 And they're like, I watched a video where Trump had the sniffles.

01:40:49.000 That proves he's on drugs.

01:40:50.000 There's a bunch of articles speculating. 0.96

01:40:52.000 And then what I know about Trump, because I've known journalists who have been on his beat, is that he's a complete germaphobe.

01:40:57.000 He won't touch people.

01:40:58.000 He doesn't like shaking people's hands.

01:40:59.000 He's always doing sanitizer.

01:41:00.000 And he only eats at fast food restaurants because he's scared about getting something foreign in his food.

01:41:05.000 And he believes that That McDonald's has universal standards, so if he orders pre-made food, he's safe.

01:41:13.000 So like, you walk into McDonald's and say, give me that burger right there, they couldn't have put something in it, and he can't get sick from it.

01:41:18.000 It's a combination of, I guess, a fear of poisonings, and also a fear that smaller restaurants have, you don't know if they're going to be following some specific code for cleanliness, so he only eats fast food.

01:41:28.000 That's why there's a photo of him on the plane with fast food.

01:41:31.000 And so the people I, I, I, the journalists I know who have been on the plane with him and, and followed his entire campaign tour, uh, for both terms have said, basically, the dude is like straight edge.

01:41:42.000 Maybe he's not.

01:41:42.000 I believe that with alcohol because the, at the very least about alcohol, because with alcohol is, I believe it was his brother that died, uh, and was an alcoholic.

01:41:51.000 And from what I've heard, that's very genuine that he doesn't drink.

01:41:54.000 He has no signs of alcoholism at all.

01:41:56.000 But it's not even, it's, it's like, It's not even a positive story to say he's a germophobe who only eats McDonald's.

01:42:02.000 It's just weird that I see all these stories popping up trying to claim that he does drugs because they saw him sniffling or because people have accused him of doing it.

01:42:08.000 There was one story where they claimed he was getting prescribed some kind of medication to help him, like, be active and alert and awake.

01:42:14.000 Adderall?

01:42:15.000 I don't think it was Adderall, but there was a story about it.

01:42:17.000 And that was as close as we got to, is Donald Trump doing drugs?

01:42:21.000 But so, you mentioned McDonald's.

01:42:23.000 The best moment of his presidency was when he had the whole Chick-fil-A.

01:42:28.000 I forget the exact circumstances, but there were some guests coming to the White House and there was some issue with the kitchen or with the food they were going to prepare, so we got full Chick-fil-A spread for them all.

01:42:36.000 Chick-fil-A's good, man. 0.59

01:42:37.000 Let's read Super Chats, everybody!

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01:42:54.000 That being said, let's read.

01:42:55.000 Karma and Kerosene says, they have dropped a more anti-leftist pop culture yesterday.

01:43:01.000 Our new single Compromised about Joe Biden.

01:43:03.000 Come check it out after the stream.

01:43:05.000 Sounds cool.

01:43:05.000 Will do.

01:43:06.000 Yeah.

01:43:06.000 So that's one of the things that I've talked about.

01:43:08.000 Conservatives and people on the right spend too much time complaining about things.

01:43:13.000 And so there's really gotta be an effort to produce things, you know, like do stuff, play music, play video games.

01:43:18.000 Did you hear about the Daily Wire launching their own movie?

01:43:21.000 Yes.

01:43:21.000 I like that.

01:43:23.000 I'm gonna be watching it, and actually I'm gonna be interviewing for the producer for my podcast, right?

01:43:28.000 But they actually are going into the cultural arena, and I respect that because the culture is where the battles are originally won, and then politics is downstream.

01:43:37.000 And it's like Sun Tzu said, you have to win the war before you fight it.

01:43:41.000 Well, that's a paraphrasing because the actual quote is probably more profound than that, but you get the idea.

01:43:45.000 Alright, we got East F says, Crowder's having twins, having heart complications, and launching a lawsuit.

01:43:51.000 He posted an update today, coming back February 1st.

01:43:54.000 I did watch his video.

01:43:55.000 Heart problems?

01:43:56.000 What lawsuit?

01:43:57.000 Oh no.

01:43:57.000 He seems young though.

01:43:59.000 Yeah, I think he's younger than I am.

01:44:01.000 I think he's stressed.

01:44:02.000 Steve.

01:44:03.000 That's crazy.

01:44:06.000 It happens.

01:44:06.000 I think he said it was genetic.

01:44:07.000 Genetic issue.

01:44:08.000 So I hope he's doing alright.

01:44:09.000 I hope he'll be okay.

01:44:10.000 Come back when you feel alright, buddy.

01:44:11.000 Twins is a nice move. 0.99

01:44:12.000 Yeah, there you go.

01:44:14.000 SoftShellCrab says, I wanted to ask, who's y'all's favorite commander to play?

01:44:19.000 Also MonoRed for the win.

01:44:21.000 Urza.

01:44:23.000 Yeah, look at Tim.

01:44:23.000 Did you see Tim's face when I said that?

01:44:25.000 We basically banned Urza.

01:44:28.000 MonoRed is for the win.

01:44:29.000 It wins so often.

01:44:31.000 But who do I like playing the most now?

01:44:33.000 Probably, I don't know, Narset.

01:44:36.000 Oh, Narset's pretty fun. 0.88

01:44:37.000 Yeah, he's just crazy.

01:44:39.000 Yeah, he's cool. 0.56

01:44:41.000 I wish you guys played cards.

01:44:42.000 Most people are like, I have no idea what you're talking about.

01:44:44.000 I have no idea.

01:44:46.000 Magic's the Gathering?

01:44:47.000 No.

01:44:47.000 Oh, it's awesome.

01:44:47.000 Sorry.

01:44:48.000 It's a card game.

01:44:49.000 Oh, I know what it is.

01:44:50.000 I just died.

01:44:51.000 Don't play.

01:44:51.000 Gage Kimper says, Hey Tim and Ian, check out the new treasury secretary on her stance on crypto.

01:44:56.000 Article on Business Insider from January 20th.

01:44:59.000 Push for new harsh regulations coming of cryptocurrency.

01:45:02.000 Yep.

01:45:02.000 I've seen that.

01:45:03.000 We'll see though.

01:45:04.000 When you got massive special interests and all these big corporations supporting it and investing in it, they're not going to let Yellen come after their investment.

01:45:11.000 Well, she actually walked it back a little bit, too. 0.79

01:45:13.000 So she put out a statement because Bitcoin dropped after she said that, of course.

01:45:17.000 But she put out a statement later that was kind of saying, actually, not so bad.

01:45:22.000 There's just creating a buying opportunity.

01:45:24.000 What did you expect from the former head of the Fed?

01:45:26.000 Someone check her bank account. 1.00

01:45:27.000 Yeah.

01:45:28.000 She let it go down, bought a ton. 0.95

01:45:30.000 I said I was going to buy the dip and people were like, you're crazy.

01:45:32.000 It's going to bottom out, then buy.

01:45:33.000 And then it went right back up. 1.00

01:45:35.000 The dollar is the ultimate crap coin. 0.99

01:45:37.000 Family friendly show. 1.00

01:45:41.000 All right, let's see what we got here.

01:45:42.000 Inside of the Aegis says, all content be tagged and a protocol could be built to insert the original video into your video edits via timestamp.

01:45:49.000 Calling the OG file saves space and gives watch time to both.

01:45:52.000 Chain of credit.

01:45:53.000 Interesting.

01:45:54.000 We have to build, it's about like building a video protocol, I guess, or blockchain or something.

01:45:58.000 I don't know.

01:46:01.000 Opulent Gaming says, I'm trying very hard not to laugh at all the people who voted for Biden, and are now regretting their vote.

01:46:07.000 Also, people want to say there wasn't any voter fraud, but a Limestone County woman was arrested for 134 felony counts of it, and the Veritas Lady.

01:46:15.000 That's the problem I have with the fraud people.

01:46:17.000 They try and make it so that any claim of voter fraud is a grand conspiracy, when there's literally Bill Barr on record saying, we found a bunch of fraud, just not enough to change the election.

01:46:25.000 And then you have the Veritas Lady getting arrested, Paxton putting out the statement, the AG, like, we've arrested this lady.

01:46:30.000 Yeah, it happens, you know.

01:46:33.000 The two sides talking past each other on that one.

01:46:35.000 It's like one side won't acknowledge any fraud happened and the other claims that it could have swung the whole election.

01:46:41.000 Rand Paul is smart about it.

01:46:44.000 He brings up the correct argument, I believe, was state legislatures having the laws change without their approval.

01:46:51.000 So there was election law changes by AGs, by governors.

01:46:55.000 By the Constitution, any election laws have to go through the legislature.

01:47:00.000 That's the real argument about what's concerning with this past election.

01:47:03.000 But that never got a JPMorgan to say.

01:47:05.000 We didn't talk about it, but Dominion launched a lawsuit against Giuliani for $1.3 billion?

01:47:10.000 That sounds like a fake lawsuit.

01:47:12.000 Like they're just throwing their weight around because they have money? 1.00

01:47:16.000 It's the stupidest thing in the world when a company is like, I'm going to sue you for a billion dollars!

01:47:21.000 So the Giuliani one sounds like a stretch, but I actually think there might be something to the way they sued Newsmax and some of these other outlets because those outlets immediately ran massive retractions. 0.98

01:47:33.000 There's this website, American Thinker.

01:47:35.000 It's like a conservative website.

01:47:36.000 They ran the craziest retraction I've ever seen.

01:47:39.000 Apologizing to Dominion, saying at no basis in fact, because Dominion told them, we won't sue you if you do this.

01:47:46.000 So they must be scared of something.

01:47:48.000 Well, I think a lot of people were pushing conspiracy theories, and you know what, man?

01:47:53.000 The Q stuff is just really sad. 1.00

01:47:56.000 Now they're claiming, yeah, it never ends.

01:47:59.000 No matter how often they're wrong, it becomes pseudo-religious almost.

01:48:03.000 Right.

01:48:04.000 Nightmarishly so.

01:48:05.000 Like, I see gold fringes on the flag, you know, and March 4th is the real inauguration.

01:48:09.000 It's like, just stop.

01:48:11.000 Why do people fall for those things?

01:48:12.000 Why is it that there are good people I know whose parents believe in Q? 1.00

01:48:17.000 I think it's because people want to feel like they do have control over their lives to some degree, and you have two choices.

01:48:24.000 Either we have no control in these elections and the people we want lose, or it's a grand conspiracy against you and it's easier to believe that you're fighting this grand fight against the evil cabal.

01:48:34.000 At least when you're involved in this grand fight with Team Q, you feel like... You're not helpless, I guess?

01:48:39.000 Right.

01:48:40.000 You're not helpless.

01:48:41.000 When the alternative is, the system is too big, it's out of control, and the guy you didn't want to win, you know, won.

01:48:48.000 So people just keep believing it, no matter how much they're wrong.

01:48:52.000 You know, without naming anybody, I've had people, I've seen people on Facebook saying, you know, it was on the 5th, I think.

01:49:00.000 Trump's going to make the announcement today, posting links and showing photos and showing Q screenshots.

01:49:05.000 And then they were like, today's the day.

01:49:06.000 Trump's going to make the announcement, executive order, blah, blah, blah.

01:49:08.000 Nothing happened.

01:49:09.000 Then they were like, I got it wrong.

01:49:10.000 It was actually tomorrow.

01:49:11.000 It's going to happen just before the vote announcement.

01:49:13.000 Nothing happened.

01:49:14.000 Well, I don't know, because I don't know what the Q people, you know, what Q's doing, so, and I'm like, dude, just stop. 1.00

01:49:18.000 It's like the Mayan calendar thing.

01:49:19.000 Yeah, it is.

01:49:20.000 Just stop.

01:49:22.000 It's not happening.

01:49:22.000 It's never happened.

01:49:23.000 Mueller wasn't working for Trump.

01:49:25.000 They believe that.

01:49:26.000 You know that, right?

01:49:27.000 They were saying during the Mueller investigation that Mueller was secretly working for Trump.

01:49:30.000 Yeah.

01:49:30.000 It's almost like, look, man, they get mad at me because, you know, Because they want to believe it.

01:49:36.000 They want to believe it's just not true.

01:49:38.000 Maybe there's some threads of truth to Q, maybe?

01:49:42.000 No, I don't know.

01:49:43.000 I'll tell you what it is.

01:49:44.000 It seems like bull for the most part.

01:49:46.000 Take a connect the dots.

01:49:47.000 You ever do connect the dots?

01:49:48.000 Yes.

01:49:49.000 It's a sailboat.

01:49:50.000 And they have a picture.

01:49:51.000 You can see the outline with all the dots.

01:49:53.000 It's a sailboat.

01:49:54.000 But they use the dots to draw a picture of a dolphin.

01:49:56.000 And they're like, it's a dolphin.

01:49:57.000 You're like, no, you ignored all of this.

01:49:59.000 You connected these dots that shouldn't be connected.

01:50:02.000 Okay, so the dots are real, they're just not connecting them properly.

01:50:05.000 They're connecting the wrong ones.

01:50:07.000 And that's what you get from a lot of conspiracy theorists.

01:50:10.000 They'll see a pattern, but then make the incorrect assessments over what the connections are.

01:50:14.000 Whereas everyone is going 1, 2, 3, 4, like a sailboat, they're going like 7, 13, 5, 6, 0.

01:50:22.000 And they're getting a weird image.

01:50:25.000 No critical thinking skills on the left, on the right, on the conspiracy theorists.

01:50:28.000 We just need to think.

01:50:29.000 If you really want to ban fake news, the best way to do it is to teach people how to think independently and to look at evidence and make up their own minds and decisions.

01:50:38.000 I mean, if we really cared about society, we would be doing that.

01:50:41.000 What do you think about Q, Luke?

01:50:45.000 What is there to think about?

01:50:47.000 It's riddles. 0.95

01:50:48.000 I mean, I've been calling it out for years as ridiculousness. 0.86

01:50:53.000 And I was saying, I need to see evidence. 0.71

01:50:55.000 I need to see proof.

01:50:56.000 They're saying a lot of vague language.

01:50:58.000 It doesn't really add up to anything.

01:51:00.000 And I got attacked.

01:51:01.000 I got ridiculed, Fiora.

01:51:03.000 I knew YouTube curators that had their videos taken down that ridiculed it.

01:51:07.000 It's crazy, but how crazy is it that Marjorie Taylor Greene, she openly believes in it.

01:51:13.000 She got elected to Congress.

01:51:15.000 This isn't going away.

01:51:16.000 That's the problem with it.

01:51:17.000 I've tried to explain why it's not true, I've tried to share fact checks, but there's something impenetrable here.

01:51:23.000 And I haven't figured it out yet why it is that this is not going away when people are presented with facts that do not add up to this conspiracy theory.

01:51:31.000 Because they'll have a mental breakdown.

01:51:33.000 Because there is a characteristic of the human mind that when our brains solidify around an idea, and this happens to the left, happens to the right, happens to everybody, and what our brains are basically saying is, this is true and correct, and we're surviving because of it.

01:51:51.000 Right?

01:51:51.000 So you grow up, there are certain behaviors you pick up, there are certain things you believe, and you've succeeded to a certain point where your brain says, this is how I succeeded and survived.

01:52:02.000 If someone can disprove those things, it puts your life at risk, essentially.

01:52:07.000 Right?

01:52:07.000 So then people have mental breakdowns and they're confronted with hard evidence that disproves their worldviews.

01:52:11.000 It's kind of like an extreme version of the fact that somebody who's like made their life on a certain belief and made their life's work can't have their mind changed because they have so much invested in it and they've built their sense of self around it.

01:52:23.000 It's like an extreme version of that.

01:52:25.000 Let's read some more Super Chats. 0.91

01:52:26.000 Mark Shapcott says, Tim, you say defend, don't act.

01:52:29.000 But how did that work for Alexander Hamilton?

01:52:31.000 He tried to do the noble thing and died.

01:52:33.000 We got Aaron Burr.

01:52:33.000 He could have just said, I'm not going to duel you.

01:52:36.000 I mean, his dueling was a big thing back then, I guess.

01:52:39.000 But yeah, he, uh, I guess the story is Alexander Hamilton purposefully missed, you know, missed because he didn't think it was going to be a legit duel and he got, he got hit in the chest or whatever.

01:52:46.000 And then there you go, he died.

01:52:48.000 But that's like, come on, that's like, what, 200 years ago, a hundred and something years ago.

01:52:51.000 Also the musical soundtrack slaps.

01:52:56.000 Let's see.

01:52:56.000 Ponyboy says, I lean right, Tim, but I respect you for not succumbing to the bias of your fan base and sticking to your research.

01:53:01.000 With all the negativity, maybe a good idea would be to focus on one wholesome story a week or something.

01:53:07.000 Well, what we're going to be doing more and more of is just, you know, we've got some people who want to have a come on the show who focus on near-death experiences and life after death and stuff like that, like real research, not like some, you know, hippie shaman guy who thinks he's an alien.

01:53:20.000 The one from the Capitol.

01:53:22.000 Not him, right.

01:53:23.000 We actually have people who are, like, university professors who have done research on people who have had, you know, near-death experiences and there's, like, weird commonalities and patterns.

01:53:32.000 That's the fun stuff to talk about.

01:53:33.000 So we're definitely planning some shows.

01:53:35.000 Maybe Fridays will be the, like, welcome to the weekend.

01:53:37.000 We're just gonna kind of chill out and enter the weekend with a smile on our faces and talk about Bigfoot or something.

01:53:41.000 You know, there's a congressman who wrote a whole book about Bigfoot, a former congressman now, Denver Riggleman.

01:53:48.000 He wrote a whole book about Bigfoot erotica.

01:53:51.000 That's very weird.

01:53:53.000 That's amazing.

01:53:54.000 Before or after he was in office.

01:53:55.000 So what happened, and I'm going to butcher this because I don't know the details, but his campaign opponent made some oppo research claiming that he liked Bigfoot erotica and he didn't.

01:54:05.000 But then he wrote a whole book about conspiracy theories and how there are people out there who believe in Bigfoot for real.

01:54:11.000 And it's become kind of a sexual cult, I guess, around Bigfoot.

01:54:15.000 All right.

01:54:16.000 And so this congressman who just left office published a whole book about it.

01:54:19.000 Do they go to Burning Man?

01:54:21.000 I don't know.

01:54:21.000 All right, all right, let's read some more.

01:54:23.000 Intellectual Millennial says, Growing up, I saw the left hate corporations, and yet with this fight is the Dems supporting corporations.

01:54:30.000 Side note, I truly believe Trump's stirring brought up multiple trafficking issues connected with those in government.

01:54:35.000 Where's Maxwell?

01:54:37.000 I don't know what that is.

01:54:38.000 And the Maxwell stuff and the Epstein stuff.

01:54:41.000 There's a lot of stuff we know, but I think we're only scratching the surface.

01:54:46.000 I think it's, you know, a lot of people want to... I'll just put it this way.

01:54:51.000 We probably know one out of a hundred things about what's actually going on.

01:54:54.000 And you think about what Epstein's been accused of, I think there's way more going on than just... Human trafficking is one of the biggest... But I don't have to say way more than that.

01:55:01.000 There's probably shady business, there's probably drug dealing, there's probably weapons trafficking, there's probably all the craziest stuff you can think of.

01:55:08.000 But we don't know, because all the secrets went away with Jeffrey Epstein.

01:55:12.000 You know, the Russian dissident that just went back put out a public statement, I am not suicidal, because he knew the Russian government was about to arrest him.

01:55:21.000 Oh, the guy, Navalny?

01:55:23.000 Yes, he put out a statement as soon as the Russians were arresting him, Putin's people were arresting him, saying, I'm not suicidal.

01:55:30.000 They just arrested him again?

01:55:31.000 As soon as he went back, they arrested him.

01:55:33.000 He's been in jail.

01:55:33.000 That's where all the protests came from this weekend.

01:55:35.000 We have a very important one from Jacob Williams.

01:55:37.000 He says, Tim and Cast, the .50 caliber, or Meduse, is made by Browning.

01:55:41.000 The laser tech for listening to conversations has been around since the USSR.

01:55:45.000 If you want to see insane things satellites are capable of, look into Maxar, as well as a book called Deep Black.

01:55:51.000 Interesting.

01:55:52.000 It'd be fun to have someone talk about that on the show too, like Cold War technology and crazy spy stuff.

01:55:57.000 That'd be a lot of fun.

01:55:59.000 What were the Soviets doing?

01:56:02.000 Turk Longwell says, wait a second, did Luke just say that he wants to buy a .50 cal machine gun?

01:56:07.000 Y'all getting serious down there, huh?

01:56:09.000 Great guess, too.

01:56:10.000 Not a machine gun, just a single fire, you know?

01:56:10.000 Rock on.

01:56:13.000 Could be semi-auto, could be even bolt.

01:56:15.000 I want a .50 cal.

01:56:17.000 Which states allow a machine gun, like a legit?

01:56:20.000 Well, machine guns are banned in some states, but most importantly, they're only available for the rich.

01:56:26.000 If you're rich, you could have one, and you just have to fill, I think, an NFA license to get one.

01:56:32.000 Judo Eagle says, I feel bad for the NSA guy assigned to Ian.

01:56:32.000 All right, here we go.

01:56:37.000 He loves his life.

01:56:39.000 He's sitting there and he's like, he's watching Ian just like on his computer.

01:56:42.000 He's gaming again?

01:56:44.000 He talks to his friends and he's like, dude, did you know like this DMT stuff?

01:56:44.000 No, no, no.

01:56:47.000 What are you talking about?

01:56:48.000 I'm just listening to Ian, man.

01:56:49.000 This is crazy stuff.

01:56:51.000 And now he's like, I need mushrooms for this.

01:56:52.000 The NSA guy's doing DMT.

01:56:54.000 Most undoubtedly.

01:56:55.000 Heck yeah.

01:56:57.000 All right, let's see.

01:56:58.000 IM Ansenity says, I had a news channel in 2015 with 100k subs.

01:57:02.000 Quit because of death threats.

01:57:03.000 Tried again in 2019, but quit when a guy tried to break into my house at 2am to kill me.

01:57:07.000 Luckily live in Texas and have a lot of guns.

01:57:09.000 Whoa, that's crazy.

01:57:12.000 Polaris589 says, Brad Palumbo doesn't like privately owned tanks.

01:57:16.000 Fake phony libertarian.

01:57:18.000 You don't like privately owned tanks?

01:57:19.000 How dare you?

01:57:20.000 So my whole thing was, I criticized the Libertarian Party presidential nominee for saying that private citizens should be able to own tanks.

01:57:27.000 Because I basically said, it's just totally out of touch.

01:57:29.000 It's just like, and I think you have to draw it.

01:57:31.000 So I'm very pro-gun, but I think you have to draw the line somewhere, right?

01:57:34.000 Like, I don't believe private nuke ownership.

01:57:37.000 And I think, because that's crazy.

01:57:39.000 You think you would do trust Bill Gates with a nuke?

01:57:42.000 I don't think Bill Gates would nuke anybody.

01:57:44.000 I don't know what he would want to nuke for, but I can tell you that at the time the Second Amendment was created, corsairs and privateers were all the rage.

01:57:51.000 So when the Founding Fathers said the right to bear arms, they legit knew that people had artillery, and they knew that people actually had their own warships.

01:57:58.000 I think that we should have as few people with nukes as possible. 0.97

01:58:02.000 That's my hot take.

01:58:03.000 We're talking about tanks here, don't you dare filibuster here.

01:58:07.000 What's wrong with an individual having his own personal take?

01:58:11.000 So, the specific question was not whether you should have a tank, but whether you should be able to have a tank with intact artillery.

01:58:17.000 If you just want to have a tank to drive around, I'm okay with that.

01:58:20.000 The artillery system?

01:58:21.000 No, sorry.

01:58:22.000 I don't know why.

01:58:24.000 Because I just think it's dangerous.

01:58:25.000 I think there's got to be a line somewhere.

01:58:27.000 Forks are dangerous because they make people fat.

01:58:29.000 Someone could punch you in the face.

01:58:30.000 Right. 0.96

01:58:31.000 Has anyone ever walked up to you and punched you in the face? 0.81

01:58:34.000 I've been slapped.

01:58:36.000 So, like, I was thinking about this when we were at the range.

01:58:38.000 You have all these people all over the place with guns and they're shooting, and I was just thinking, like, at any point, someone could, you know, shoot somebody else, but it's not gonna happen because people don't want to hurt each other.

01:58:48.000 Now, sometimes people do, like the dude with the Killdozer, you know what I mean?

01:58:50.000 So I think, ultimately, the challenge is, you're probably right in don't give people, you know, full intact artillery shells, but the dude built the Killdozer.

01:58:59.000 No one could stop him.

01:59:01.000 The Killdozer guy only got stopped because he fell into a basement.

01:59:04.000 But if someone really wanted to do something, they'll do it.

01:59:07.000 I guess nowadays the CIA is spying on everybody, so if you tried to build a Killdozer, they'd come for you.

01:59:11.000 I also think it's just kind of funny watching Libertarians freak out when I say I don't like tanks.

01:59:17.000 Libertarians on Twitter.

01:59:18.000 And I count myself among Libertarians, but it's funny watching them meltdown. 1.00

01:59:22.000 It is interesting.

01:59:23.000 Look at the East India Trading Company.

01:59:24.000 It's a massive corporation with warships all over the place.

01:59:28.000 And did their thing, and it was pretty brutal and authoritarian in a lot of ways, you know?

01:59:33.000 It's tough.

01:59:35.000 I think the issue is, at a certain point, nuclear weapons are probably a line, I think, for everybody.

01:59:41.000 You don't want Bill Gates with a nuke.

01:59:42.000 I don't think he would fire it, but I don't want any... I don't want Russian billionaires with a nuke.

01:59:47.000 I barely want any governments to have nukes, you know what I mean?

01:59:49.000 I would rather none of them did.

01:59:50.000 Well, I mean, Putin has nukes, and those are his.

01:59:53.000 But those as few people, I actually am really, this is maybe one of my nerd areas.

01:59:57.000 I'm really worried about nuclear war.

01:59:59.000 You know that during the during the Cold War, there was actually a situation where they almost launched all the nukes.

02:00:05.000 Yeah, we talked about it.

02:00:06.000 We talked about it on Friday.

02:00:08.000 Yeah, we talked about it Friday.

02:00:09.000 Isn't that crazy?

02:00:10.000 Yeah, they have like nuclear submarines all along the coasts.

02:00:13.000 Yeah, we don't know about how many nukes nuclear subs are in the world right now.

02:00:17.000 So all I'm saying is we need as little more of that as possible.

02:00:21.000 I think you're right about long-range artillery.

02:00:22.000 First get rid of the government's nuclear weapons, then we can talk about tanks.

02:00:26.000 So I would love that.

02:00:28.000 The problem is like, I wish we actually could get rid of all the governments, but you could never like, like nuclear disarmament as a strategy is like, well, only the good guys are going to go along with it.

02:00:37.000 Yeah.

02:00:37.000 So just to clarify, you're not, you don't want to take away people's tanks.

02:00:41.000 You want to take away people's artillery.

02:00:42.000 Yes.

02:00:44.000 Alright, we got a super chat here from WyomingTrailerTrash.

02:00:46.000 He says, Aloha!

02:00:47.000 Tim, would you please ask Lydia to DM StixxHexenHammer666 and RazorFist on Twitter and extend an invitation for your show while Stixx is back in the States.

02:00:55.000 Stixx!

02:00:56.000 He's back in the states.

02:00:57.000 Stixx has a standing invitation to join us on the show.

02:00:59.000 Of course, Stixx is great.

02:01:00.000 Yeah, that'd be awesome to have him here.

02:01:01.000 Cody Ite says, try some 3 1⁄2 inch 12-gauge slugs.

02:01:05.000 You'll have fun then.

02:01:07.000 Oh, yeah.

02:01:08.000 Eric Britt says, try firing a 10-gauge sometime.

02:01:11.000 We're talking now about the journalist who panicked over the recoil on a 5.5.

02:01:14.000 We're assuming it's a 5.56.

02:01:15.000 I imagine it would be.

02:01:16.000 It looks like a 5.56 from the photos that I'm seeing there.

02:01:19.000 It's just not even that much, you know?

02:01:21.000 Slugs are fun. 0.92

02:01:23.000 Yeah, slugs are fun. 0.94

02:01:25.000 Ricky Bobby says, ever since I got into crypto about 10 months ago, I get ads on YouTube for black girl stocks.

02:01:31.000 Could you imagine if I tried making white boy stocks? 0.84

02:01:33.000 The double standard is absolutely insane.

02:01:35.000 P.S.

02:01:36.000 Polkadot to the moon. 0.65

02:01:37.000 OK.

02:01:38.000 Polkadot's incredible.

02:01:39.000 It's not a security, so you can't get it in the United States.

02:01:41.000 Oh, really?

02:01:42.000 Yeah, technically.

02:01:44.000 ID says, hey Tim, I recommend you check out a song called Knives, Guns, and Bed by Rare Americans.

02:01:49.000 The song is a representation of China and America fighting.

02:01:52.000 Interesting.

02:01:53.000 Timothy Peterson says, on the AR-15 PTSD tip, when we first went to range in basic training, our drill sergeant put an M16 against his crotch and fired off three rounds to demonstrate low recoil.

02:02:04.000 Love it when MSM refers to 223556 as high power.

02:02:06.000 Seriously!

02:02:10.000 We have a 308, which was fun at the range.

02:02:13.000 And it's just like, what is this guy doing?

02:02:14.000 He's never, like, I'm sorry, I gotta bring it back to how funny it is to imagine, like, a teenager going turkey hunting with his family, and that's more recoil than this guy had, and he can't handle that?

02:02:25.000 People, seriously.

02:02:26.000 Jeez.

02:02:27.000 Okay, so Matthew Doherty says Steven Crowder announced today that he will be involved in a lawsuit against Big Tech, and he plans to join in or do something similar.

02:02:34.000 Me, no, but I did see that Jack Posobiec tweeted something about Amazon and mail-in voting, and Twitter labeled it as disputed, and I think that might be grounds for a defamation suit against Twitter, because Twitter made the statement.

02:02:46.000 So if you tweet something about... So Amazon recently said, we don't want mail-in votes, we want in-person secure.

02:02:52.000 And then he tweeted saying, like, they're saying mail-in voting is, you know, insecure.

02:02:55.000 Twitter put an auto-flag on it saying, this claim about voter fraud is disputed, blah blah blah.

02:02:59.000 But it's not disputed.

02:03:01.000 The media agrees.

02:03:01.000 Everyone agrees.

02:03:02.000 Jeff Bezos did say this.

02:03:04.000 That's a false statement of fact.

02:03:05.000 So what would the claim be against Twitter?

02:03:08.000 Twitter made the statement.

02:03:09.000 By putting a statement on Jack Posobiec's tweet, Twitter publicly stated Jack Posobiec is wrong.

02:03:15.000 But he's a public figure, so he has a really high defamation standard.

02:03:18.000 Which would be knowing that what he said was true and correct and still putting the flag there anyway, which is the challenge because if it was done by an algorithm... That's what I was gonna say.

02:03:27.000 You have to prove intent.

02:03:29.000 I got sued by Roy Moore for an article I wrote criticizing him.

02:03:33.000 Yeah, fun fact about me.

02:03:34.000 But like, one article I wrote was not false at all.

02:03:37.000 But even if it was, he would have had to prove that I knew it was false and published it anyway.

02:03:42.000 So the public standard, public figure standard, is so high it's like barely anyone can ever reach it.

02:03:48.000 Matthew Reckamp says, in several videos Tim seemingly justified the cancellation of the XL pipeline by mentioning the 29 leaks.

02:03:55.000 From my view, there are questions that need to be answered.

02:03:57.000 How severe were the leaks?

02:04:00.000 How many is that compared to other transportation methods?

02:04:02.000 Is it worth the oil being sent likely to China?

02:04:05.000 Uh, I think it's unfair to say I seemingly justify the cancellation.

02:04:08.000 In my latest video, I said I have no strong opinions one way or the other.

02:04:11.000 I understand the argument that it actually creates less emissions transporting the oil by pipeline than by freight or by trucks, and I don't know the amount of spills we've got from freight or from trucks, so it's hard to know who's right or wrong on the issue.

02:04:24.000 The point I was making is that these unions endorsed, the pipefitters union endorsed Biden.

02:04:29.000 And Politico was like, even though he says he's going to ban Keystone, they did it anyway.

02:04:33.000 And then when he bans Keystone, they're like, oh, oh no, oh geez, how could he do this?

02:04:37.000 And I'm like, you knew he was going to do it.

02:04:40.000 You're not really outraged.

02:04:40.000 You're pretending because you're manipulating your, your members.

02:04:43.000 Did he ban fracking?

02:04:44.000 He put a moratorium on it.

02:04:46.000 On federal land.

02:04:46.000 Okay.

02:04:47.000 So what conservatives are doing now is they're saying, aha, see, he banned fracking.

02:04:52.000 And they're missing the last part of that on federal land for 60 days.

02:04:56.000 And the left is saying he didn't ban fracking, ignoring that he did actually ban some fracking.

02:05:02.000 So it's like you said before, talking past each other.

02:05:03.000 Right.

02:05:04.000 You know, moral of the story.

02:05:05.000 Everyone's wrong.

02:05:06.000 Everyone's wrong.

02:05:06.000 Yes.

02:05:07.000 I mean, it's fair to say he banned some fracking, but you got to put the some in there.

02:05:11.000 Otherwise people think he just outright banned fracking.

02:05:13.000 And he temporarily banned it.

02:05:15.000 Right, 60 days.

02:05:16.000 And, you know, we'll see how things play out, but I think he's gonna do it.

02:05:20.000 Or it's fair to say that he was lying to all those people who asked him.

02:05:24.000 When he was like, oh, we're gonna get rid of it, trust me.

02:05:26.000 But he also, the thing is, he and Kamala both said both things on different occasions on the campaign trail.

02:05:33.000 Sometimes he said, yes, we will ban it.

02:05:34.000 Sometimes he said, we'll just ban it on federal lands or some other thing.

02:05:38.000 And also, if America becomes less energy independent, we have more of an excuse to go into the Middle East.

02:05:44.000 And Joe Biden doesn't need much of an excuse to do that.

02:05:49.000 Orangefield2 says, Lydia, can we book someone to actually disagree with you guys?

02:05:53.000 Have an inappropriate, polite debate?

02:05:55.000 It seems like an echo chamber and no one learns anything.

02:05:55.000 I would love that.

02:05:58.000 Love your show, though.

02:05:59.000 Well, we invite many leftists, but they're scared of COVID.

02:06:01.000 And I don't mean that disrespectfully, I mean literally.

02:06:03.000 We've invited many leftists, high-profile ones, and they're like, I'll do your show!

02:06:07.000 And then it's like, we'll buy your ticket, we'll get your... Whoa, whoa, whoa.

02:06:10.000 In person?

02:06:11.000 Yes, the show is in person.

02:06:12.000 We don't have any setup, and I don't intend to do Skype or digital stuff.

02:06:16.000 It just doesn't work.

02:06:17.000 It doesn't work at all.

02:06:19.000 Everyone sits there and then yells at each other while their chats go off and they argue back.

02:06:22.000 Nah.

02:06:24.000 Having someone in here in person is how you do it.

02:06:26.000 And unfortunately, it is a fact.

02:06:28.000 Gallup has the polls.

02:06:29.000 The left is terrified of COVID.

02:06:31.000 They won't travel.

02:06:32.000 They're even some, like, rational and legit leftists I really like that say the same thing.

02:06:36.000 They're scared of COVID.

02:06:36.000 Conservatives don't seem to care at all.

02:06:38.000 Look at this guy, sitting there with no mask on.

02:06:40.000 No, I mean- We're all socially distanced, actually, which is interesting.

02:06:43.000 We are, more or less, but I guess the thing is, I also think- It's also hard to get leftists to come on your podcast, period.

02:06:50.000 At least that's been my experience.

02:06:51.000 I've reached out to a bunch of people, and they don't really seem... I would go on MSNBC.

02:06:56.000 I'd go on Rachel Maddow.

02:06:57.000 I'd be like, anytime.

02:06:59.000 I don't know that a lot of leftists really are willing to engage.

02:07:02.000 There's one leftist I really like, and he said to me, like, I really appreciate the invite.

02:07:06.000 To be honest, there's no upside for me coming on your show.

02:07:09.000 And I'm like, you're right.

02:07:11.000 Big audience, but did they not care about reaching?

02:07:13.000 They don't think that the people who watch this show is going to benefit them in any way, so why would they bother doing it?

02:07:18.000 Unless they make clips for leftists.

02:07:20.000 That's just an alien mentality to me, though.

02:07:22.000 At least it was honest.

02:07:23.000 If you're doing this kind of thing, you should care about reaching people with your message and your voice.

02:07:27.000 And it shouldn't just be reaching people of a certain persuasion, or you're doing it wrong.

02:07:30.000 I've always been of the ilk of communication first, get through to the human, and then if we want to talk about ideas and whatever.

02:07:37.000 But as long as you can connect with the human, it doesn't really matter who you're talking to.

02:07:41.000 All right, we got a super chat here from CrystalMax76.

02:07:43.000 I love your RV, Luke.

02:07:45.000 Maybe you should invite someone random to wake Tim up.

02:07:47.000 A tired Tim in a beanie.

02:07:49.000 Sounds like a party.

02:07:50.000 Keep the members-only content coming.

02:07:51.000 Thanks, guys.

02:07:52.000 I like the way you're thinking, and since you did this to me, I now have been granted permission officially by the internet and the rules of Super Chats to do the same to you.

02:08:01.000 Yes!

02:08:01.000 You changed it all when I knocked on your door when you were sleeping, and what did you say to me?

02:08:06.000 What?

02:08:07.000 I don't think I can repeat it.

02:08:08.000 You changed the rules.

02:08:10.000 You were sleeping and I banged on your door and then you... I'm not gonna say it.

02:08:14.000 I'll leave it there.

02:08:14.000 Wait, wait, wait.

02:08:15.000 So do you sleep in the beanie?

02:08:16.000 Is that what I got from this?

02:08:17.000 You sleep in the beanie?

02:08:18.000 No, I got these really nice little boxers.

02:08:20.000 You ever sleep in the beanie?

02:08:21.000 Why would I?

02:08:22.000 Just fall asleep.

02:08:22.000 I feel like it's your thing.

02:08:23.000 No, I take it off on the couch every day.

02:08:24.000 What do you mean?

02:08:25.000 I'm sitting there watching, what do you watch, Family Guy or whatever, and I'll play Hearthstone on the tablet.

02:08:29.000 And then I, you know.

02:08:31.000 Let me know who I should surprise Tim with.

02:08:34.000 Feel free to reach out to me.

02:08:35.000 Lauren Southern.

02:08:38.000 What's she up to?

02:08:38.000 She was on Rubin.

02:08:39.000 She was on Australia.

02:08:41.000 Yeah.

02:08:41.000 Oh, she was on Rubin.

02:08:42.000 Somebody's show.

02:08:43.000 She had a new documentary out.

02:08:44.000 That's, you know.

02:08:45.000 Alright.

02:08:46.000 Andrew Yang.

02:08:46.000 That's my other guess.

02:08:47.000 That'd be a good one.

02:08:48.000 Oh, King Kong all the way!

02:08:49.000 I guess.

02:08:49.000 I'm biased.

02:08:49.000 Universal basic income for you.

02:08:52.000 That'd be a good one.

02:08:53.000 Uriel Avila says, Tim, what is your prediction on Godzilla vs. King Kong?

02:08:56.000 I don't care for giant monster movies.

02:08:58.000 Never cared.

02:08:59.000 Pacific Ram was like, Oh, King Kong all the way! 0.89

02:09:01.000 I guess.

02:09:02.000 I'm biased.

02:09:03.000 I guess.

02:09:04.000 Ready2Rumble says, your website needs a comment section under the videos.

02:09:10.000 Us Beanie Boys need to converse.

02:09:12.000 There is a comment section under all of the videos.

02:09:14.000 That's there.

02:09:15.000 In all of them.

02:09:15.000 It is.

02:09:15.000 Yeah.

02:09:16.000 So become a member and then you can comment and everyone talks to each other and it's good fun.

02:09:20.000 Brian Bourgeois says, why aren't we talking about solutions?

02:09:23.000 We can complain all day.

02:09:24.000 I know it's hard, but we need to talk about solutions.

02:09:26.000 Because we do.

02:09:27.000 It's building culture.

02:09:29.000 Because the culture war is where the war is happening and politics is only after the fact.

02:09:34.000 So we've been talking about doing vlog content.

02:09:36.000 We just put up a video where Alex Jones walks into Luke's RV and wakes him up and there's nothing political in it.

02:09:41.000 You are fully exploiting me to the fullest extent here.

02:09:44.000 But it's because we have like five videos up.

02:09:46.000 Yeah.

02:09:47.000 And it's the one we put up where it's literally just you're watching Alex be like, Hey Luke, I just drove here.

02:09:51.000 How you been?

02:09:51.000 And Luke's like, yeah.

02:09:52.000 And they're like, we're going to go get food.

02:09:53.000 And it's like, it's just not political.

02:09:54.000 It's just regular. 0.60

02:09:55.000 So that's the point is to make fun and silly stuff.

02:09:58.000 And that's part of the solution.

02:09:59.000 It is.

02:09:59.000 We could do talk about flash graphene.

02:10:01.000 If you want to talk about solving for the future technology, but we got to have an expert on.

02:10:05.000 Yeah.

02:10:06.000 On which subject?

02:10:07.000 On graphene.

02:10:08.000 Flash graphene.

02:10:09.000 Just the formation of graphene.

02:10:10.000 Oh yeah, for sure.

02:10:10.000 I'd love to get an expert on, like, directed energy weapons, too.

02:10:14.000 Alright, let's see where we're at.

02:10:15.000 We got too many superchats coming in.

02:10:17.000 This is crazy.

02:10:19.000 Unreasonably Angry says, fully functional A-10s are a god-given right.

02:10:23.000 What's an A-10?

02:10:24.000 I think that's a shotgun, uh, that is only for military use.

02:10:28.000 I don't know, I'm just guessing here.

02:10:30.000 Let me look that up.

02:10:32.000 Tyler Woods says, I just finished Anne Jacobson's Untold History of Area 51.

02:10:37.000 Black projects and funding exploded after Sputnik.

02:10:39.000 As bad as the U.S.

02:10:40.000 was during the Cold War, falling behind technologically would have been way more terrifying to me.

02:10:44.000 Oh, I agree.

02:10:45.000 Yeah.

02:10:47.000 Let's see.

02:10:48.000 Corny says, you should get the same guest Jimmy Dore had the other day.

02:10:51.000 Oh, the Boogaloo Boy guy. 0.98

02:10:53.000 I mean, maybe.

02:10:54.000 I wouldn't want to just be like, oh, Jimmy Dore interviewed him.

02:10:56.000 I better interview him, too, because I think you should watch Jimmy Dore's interview of him, you know?

02:10:59.000 He's getting a lot of criticism on Twitter because of that.

02:11:02.000 He was trending nationwide.

02:11:04.000 Yeah, and A-10 is a fighter jet, by the way.

02:11:06.000 Oh, yes.

02:11:07.000 Yeah, so Jimmy interviewed a Boogaloo boy who was, like, very pro-left culturally on a bunch of issues.

02:11:12.000 He said, like, pro-LGBT, pro-BLM, all this stuff.

02:11:15.000 And then the response from the establishment was, he's lying.

02:11:19.000 He's far right.

02:11:20.000 It's like, why?

02:11:21.000 Why is he far right?

02:11:22.000 That makes no sense.

02:11:23.000 Antifa wants the same things as him. 0.99

02:11:24.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

02:11:26.000 I'm not gonna say they're far left. 0.99

02:11:27.000 That would be ridiculous too.

02:11:29.000 But, you know, whatever. 0.66

02:11:30.000 None of that makes sense.

02:11:33.000 Alright, let's see where we are.

02:11:34.000 We'll do a couple more.

02:11:37.000 Garant says Styx is under a concerted attack to smear him as a Nazi.

02:11:40.000 They got Sarah Carter to tar him to put him on now.

02:11:44.000 He's hot and will get views and it will protect the guy.

02:11:46.000 He's good.

02:11:47.000 Well, I'm not super concerned about getting views for having Styx on.

02:11:50.000 I think Styx is alright.

02:11:51.000 I don't know what they're saying about him.

02:11:53.000 As far as I can tell, he's like a fairly libertarian commentator.

02:11:57.000 I did not realize people were smearing him.

02:11:59.000 I do not agree with those smears.

02:12:02.000 Lucas Kaiser says, have you heard of Bunker Brands?

02:12:04.000 They make t-shirts.

02:12:05.000 Got to love Matt.

02:12:06.000 How many demos out there?

02:12:08.000 We've heard.

02:12:09.000 Like, you reached out to them, right?

02:12:10.000 I reached out to them.

02:12:10.000 They didn't respond yet.

02:12:11.000 Well, you know, we'll see.

02:12:13.000 What do we have here?

02:12:14.000 What's this?

02:12:15.000 Stinky Ugly says, I bought a .308 AR-10 and it's brought me joy.

02:12:18.000 Second only to my wife.

02:12:20.000 How nice.

02:12:23.000 I do call my firearms girlfriends, so.

02:12:26.000 Kid Truck says, did you guys know that Gatling guns are legal in many states?

02:12:31.000 Really?

02:12:32.000 That's the crank.

02:12:34.000 Do you ever see the video?

02:12:36.000 I think Mythbusters did it.

02:12:36.000 They did a steam Gatling gun.

02:12:38.000 Where they basically had a steam engine spin really fast.

02:12:42.000 And what it would do is, once it lined up with the barrel, it would sling a bullet out.

02:12:48.000 It was crazy.

02:12:48.000 Something like that.

02:12:51.000 Railguns are cool too, man.

02:12:53.000 Alright, let's see.

02:12:53.000 We'll just do a couple more.

02:12:56.000 Jonathan says, interview a critical race theorist so they can educate y'all.

02:13:00.000 Okay.

02:13:01.000 We should do a sponsored video where we do a behind-the-scenes critical race theory class for everyone here.

02:13:07.000 Yeah, mandatory diversity training.

02:13:08.000 I would love to get some progressive, I don't like the word progressive, what it means, what it's become, but like Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Corey Bush.

02:13:20.000 Just somebody that's like so out there on the other end of the spectrum.

02:13:23.000 Just have them in.

02:13:24.000 Let's like chill and learn.

02:13:26.000 We'll be nice, you know?

02:13:28.000 We'll be courteous.

02:13:30.000 We've heard about this on and we invite many of them all the time.

02:13:32.000 The problem is when people bully us, they try and force their way on the show.

02:13:36.000 But anyway, here we go.

02:13:37.000 The last one, the most important one.

02:13:39.000 Alessio Demonte says, can you add a 480p on the videos on your website?

02:13:43.000 My internet sucks.

02:13:44.000 The good news is, moving forward, all videos, we have a new player which allows all the way down to 144p up to 1080. 0.84

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02:13:52.000 It is a better player.

02:13:53.000 It is easier to load.

02:13:54.000 We are constantly improving the site.

02:13:56.000 But the key to a successful business is to just start doing it.

02:13:59.000 If you try and build this massive castle before anyone's come, you might find that people don't actually want to use it, and then you've got to change everything.

02:14:04.000 So you start like we did, we're going to reformat the whole layout of the site, we're going to be adding more kinds of content, better video players, we're just slowly going to be improving it over time.

02:14:12.000 So make sure you go to timcast.com, become a member, Because we're going to be producing more and more members-only content.

02:14:18.000 We're probably going to be expanding like crazy as this ramps up because it's really, it's taken off and you guys are awesome.

02:14:23.000 But I want to make a network that is huge.

02:14:26.000 I want to do, eventually, like a 24-hour live stream where we have, like, different people hosting different news segments throughout the day.

02:14:33.000 Just make it really this big, you know, network of content, a variety of issues, and, you know, skateboarding, music, culture, games, everything.

02:14:41.000 Just take it off.

02:14:42.000 And we're getting there.

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02:14:44.000 So go to TimCast.com, become a member.

02:14:46.000 We should have a bonus segment up later today, hopefully.

02:14:48.000 We'll see how things play out.

02:14:49.000 But Brad, you want to mention your social media and anything people should check out?

02:14:53.000 Yeah, absolutely.

02:14:54.000 Thanks for having me on.

02:14:55.000 And if people want to follow me, it's Brad underscore Palumbo, P-O-L-U-M-B-O.

02:14:59.000 And most importantly, the podcast is Breaking Boundaries with Brad Palumbo on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 0.96

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02:15:40.000 It's been very nice.

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02:15:44.000 I am that on Twitter and Mines, and then I am RealSourPatchLids on Instagram, and oh my gosh, I'm still managing to blank on Gab.

02:15:53.000 Yeah, there we go.

02:15:53.000 All right, there.

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02:16:10.000 Twitter's just ugh, Twitter.

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - January 26, 2021

Timcast IRL - FBI ARRESTS #WalkAway Founder After Relative Turns Him In w- Brad Polumbo

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