Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - GOP Debate CANCELED After Haley REFUSES, Trump Rally Chants VP For Vivek w-Adam Weiss

00:00:00.000 Peace.

00:00:12.000 Thank you all for hanging out with us.

00:00:14.000 We were in Iowa.

00:00:15.000 Got back at around 3.40 a.m.

00:00:18.000 I am exhausted.

00:00:19.000 We got big news tonight.

00:00:20.000 The GOP debates in New Hampshire have been cancelled.

00:00:22.000 Nikki Haley is refusing to debate unless Donald Trump is there.

00:00:26.000 Ron DeSantis says he will debate two empty podiums.

00:00:29.000 And they were like, yeah, okay, no, Ron, thanks for the offer.

00:00:32.000 But Nikki Haley did the meme. 1.00

00:00:34.000 And so, uh, this is one of the funniest things she's ever done.

00:00:37.000 She basically declares, or she literally declares, that the resultant Iowa approve, it's now a two-person race. 0.55

00:00:44.000 But she came in third place, so I guess she's, uh, in some way conceding a Ron DeSantis!

00:00:49.000 I-I guess.

00:00:50.000 But, uh, I-I think the reality here is, the establishment play is that the GOP primary is the actual election.

00:00:57.000 Nikki Haley's a Democrat.

00:00:59.000 She is funded by Democrats.

00:01:01.000 Democrats are voting for her.

00:01:03.000 And I think they're hoping that in places like New York City and California and Illinois, when they have their Republican primaries, Democrats show out in force for Nikki Haley.

00:01:13.000 And then it doesn't matter if Joe Biden is running for the Democratic ticket, because if it's Biden versus Haley, you get a Democrat either way.

00:01:19.000 So we'll talk about that, but Vivek Ramaswamy announced last night that he was dropping out of the race, and I think we kind of realized it because, you know, we really like Vivek, he's a great guy, but with all due respect, he did cancel on us while we had scheduled him for the show that Monday, and I think it's fairly obvious why.

00:01:38.000 When the results came in, they were a lot worse than I think Vivek's campaign expected, and so while he was supposed to join us here on Timcast IRL, he ended up not showing up.

00:01:48.000 And I think we all kind of realized what was about to happen.

00:01:51.000 But he did then endorse Donald Trump.

00:01:53.000 He appeared in New Hampshire today with Donald Trump, and after speaking, the crowd began chanting VP over and over and over again.

00:02:00.000 People are really excited for the prospect, but we will see.

00:02:02.000 Donald Trump basically said they're going to be working with him in some capacity, but who knows what that really means.

00:02:06.000 We'll talk a lot about that.

00:02:08.000 And we'll talk about the primary process and where we're going.

00:02:11.000 A lot of this stuff going on today with GOP primary related stuff, but there is a big story that I think we may get into.

00:02:17.000 A report from the Daily Mail that China has gained a function to research a new virus that has a 100% kill rate in the mice that it infected, so we're glad to hear that. 0.97

00:02:29.000 Especially when we're talking about World War III and all that stuff, so great.

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00:04:51.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else is Adam Weiss.

00:04:54.000 Tim, thanks for having me.

00:04:55.000 I can't believe you're doing this show after a brutal week in Iowa and with no sleep, but thanks for having me.

00:05:01.000 Morning.

00:05:01.000 I'm Adam Weiss from New York.

00:05:03.000 I run a communications PR firm and I'm a contributor to RAV, Real America's Voice News.

00:05:07.000 Catch me there every week.

00:05:09.000 Right on, and of course we have Hannah Clare hanging out. 1.00

00:05:12.000 Oh hey!

00:05:12.000 You guys know that, well first, I'm Hannah Clare Brimlow.

00:05:14.000 I'm a writer for stnr.com.

00:05:16.000 If Tim collapses, this immediately becomes Brimcast.

00:05:19.000 It's like a hostile takeover staged by me personally.

00:05:21.000 I'm really excited because Libby Emmons is here.

00:05:24.000 Hey, Hannah-Claire.

00:05:25.000 Hey, Adam, Tim.

00:05:26.000 Thanks for having me on tonight.

00:05:27.000 I'm Libby Emmons with the Postmillennial.

00:05:29.000 Glad to be here.

00:05:30.000 Well, yeah, if you want to do a members only, I'll go to bed and you can do a Brimcast after the show.

00:05:34.000 I don't even know what I would talk about solo alone in Brimcast.

00:05:36.000 No, I could if you wanted me to.

00:05:37.000 It's not the same without you here, Tim.

00:05:41.000 I'm tired.

00:05:42.000 But Libby is here.

00:05:43.000 She's Ian.

00:05:44.000 I'm Ian.

00:05:44.000 Yeah, filling in.

00:05:45.000 You know, we do these late shows and we fly in.

00:05:47.000 I get to bed at like, we get back at 3.30.

00:05:50.000 I'm asleep by like 3.40 because we got to bring our bags in.

00:05:53.000 It snowed like four or five inches.

00:05:56.000 It was very snowy last night. 0.96

00:05:57.000 So, uh, the car that picked us up, holy crap, it's so brutal.

00:06:00.000 We could not actually drive from the airport.

00:06:02.000 We almost, we couldn't land at the airport where our car was, because of the snow.

00:06:06.000 So we had to land at a different airport, like 40 miles away.

00:06:09.000 Then we had to have a car come and pick us up, which they didn't know where to go.

00:06:12.000 Then they had to drive in unplowed four inches in a Honda Civic.

00:06:15.000 We did have some SUVs, but they're, it's all unplowed, so...

00:06:19.000 Everyone's driving.

00:06:20.000 We drove 20 miles an hour.

00:06:22.000 When we tried to speed up, we were slipping, and I'm just like, oh, this is so brutal.

00:06:25.000 Finally get home.

00:06:26.000 Couldn't go up the driveway.

00:06:27.000 Our driveway is about a thousand feet long.

00:06:28.000 It's a long, winding, middle-of-the-middle-north path.

00:06:31.000 And so we had to walk up carrying all the bags.

00:06:34.000 And then I finally get to bed.

00:06:35.000 I wake up at 7.

00:06:36.000 I get back to work.

00:06:37.000 So, you know, welcome to work.

00:06:39.000 Well, I wasn't up that late.

00:06:41.000 I was up until, I guess, about 12, 12.30 working and filing stories on last night's adventures in Iowa.

00:06:51.000 But when I woke up at 7, I went back to bed.

00:06:54.000 I was like, I'm not doing this.

00:06:55.000 Nope, I woke up, got to work, and then I was excited to try snowboarding, because we finally have snow, but there's no bays, so it just sinks into the grass.

00:07:02.000 Yeah, but it is what it is.

00:07:04.000 And then I basically just slept a little bit and then still had to work.

00:07:07.000 But we're here.

00:07:08.000 Serge is pressing the buttons.

00:07:09.000 Yo, I am.

00:07:11.000 Good to be back and out of the vortex, polar vortex, death storm we were in.

00:07:16.000 Let's jump to the news, ladies and gentlemen.

00:07:18.000 We got this from the New York Times.

00:07:20.000 ABC News cancels GOP debate after Haley demands Trump appear too.

00:07:26.000 Nikki Haley said she would not agree to more debates unless Donald Trump was on stage with her.

00:07:30.000 Another debate on CNN was in doubt before the New Hampshire primary next week.

00:07:34.000 I just... I think it's funny.

00:07:37.000 There's no primary.

00:07:38.000 No.

00:07:38.000 Like, this is not a primary, okay?

00:07:40.000 This is something weird.

00:07:43.000 Nikki Haley is not even going to debate Ron DeSantis.

00:07:45.000 Why are either of them running after Trump won with a historic blowout landslide in Iowa?

00:07:51.000 It was a landslide.

00:07:52.000 It was 30 points.

00:07:54.000 That's the biggest ever, I think the past record was 12%, yet Trump's gonna win, everybody's wasting their time.

00:08:01.000 However, what do we get from, what was it, I think MSNBC said, I think it was Joy Reid, she's like, you know, Iowa's all white Christians, so they're of course gonna swing for Trump.

00:08:10.000 I think they're laying out their plan for Nikki Haley.

00:08:13.000 She is Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:08:14.000 She is.

00:08:15.000 This is the election.

00:08:16.000 The primary is the general.

00:08:18.000 The general is meaningless.

00:08:20.000 We were speculating for a long time about how they're going to get rid of Joe Biden.

00:08:23.000 And I'll say, we were correct.

00:08:25.000 Joe Biden is not their nominee.

00:08:27.000 Nikki Haley is.

00:08:28.000 The election is happening right now, and when the primaries go to California, Illinois, and New York, all of these urban liberals are going to show up as Republicans to vote for Nikki Haley.

00:08:38.000 Yeah, well, a lot of Democrats have been giving money to Nikki Haley, and we've seen that. 0.95

00:08:41.000 We've seen Nikki Haley donors bragging, essentially, about how Nikki Haley gets all of this Democrat money, and they're all really happy about it.

00:08:49.000 And also you had Joy Reid, who, yeah, like my social media team last night was checking out Joy Reid as well, and she was saying that Joy Reid lost because of racism. 0.99

00:09:00.000 So they're already embracing her with their stupid ethos. 0.99

00:09:09.000 Well, I got a question real quick. 0.99

00:09:11.000 Does Nikki Haley appear on the ballots as Nimrata or Nikki? 0.55

00:09:17.000 I think one of the interesting things, oh go ahead.

00:09:19.000 I said like a few months ago, I said to a small network, I said, why don't you host this, they said, the GOP wants like a million bucks.

00:09:26.000 I said, what is this, a money making scheme?

00:09:28.000 So they want to, the GOP, the National Committee wants to take a ton of money from the outlets, then they want the donors to pay, they invite all the donors to sit in.

00:09:35.000 So I feel like this whole thing's just a money making scheme for a year, that's all it basically is.

00:09:40.000 This is their biggest money generating time period, I would assume, an election year.

00:09:45.000 Basically, the system they have built doesn't work in this case.

00:09:48.000 I mean, I was watching CBS last night when they were doing all of the election coverage, and they immediately went into, can you believe that despite all these self-inflicted wounds that Trump has incurred, you know, skipping the debate, he is still managing to win?

00:10:00.000 Which, by the way, was completely predicted.

00:10:02.000 I mean, they do not want him to be the nominee so badly, but it's just at this point impossible to deny.

00:10:08.000 Instead of adapting to the current reality, they're trying to say, he is unpredictable

00:10:14.000 and we don't know how this would happen.

00:10:15.000 The only person that shocked us was Vivek.

00:10:17.000 I mean, he rose from zero to eight, right?

00:10:19.000 He was a wunderkind, amazing spokesperson.

00:10:22.000 But if we all sat here a year ago, the results would have been the same.

00:10:25.000 Yeah.

00:10:26.000 It's like we wasted a year and we gave a hundred and something million dollars.

00:10:30.000 You could have done so much with that money.

00:10:31.000 Well, I will say, I mean, I don't know where Nikki is necessarily spending all of her money, 0.96

00:10:36.000 but if any of it is going to Republicans, it's kind of funny to hear that Democrats

00:10:40.000 are giving money to Republicans for Republican causes.

00:10:43.000 I mean, she has spent a ton of money, but it was specifically in Iowa and then in New Hampshire.

00:10:48.000 She hasn't spent very much nationwide.

00:10:50.000 I'll pull the numbers in a second from the ad impact report, but, you know, She was trying really hard to have an early victory with Iowa. 0.99

00:10:58.000 She didn't succeed.

00:10:59.000 In fact, she didn't even win the race for second place despite what she said. 1.00

00:11:03.000 This is now, what did she say?

00:11:04.000 This is now, it's clearly a two-person race now.

00:11:06.000 Yeah.

00:11:07.000 Sort of like, I don't think you understand.

00:11:09.000 Well, she thinks it's a two-person race between her and Biden, right?

00:11:13.000 Ah, but probably not considering she didn't even make it to second.

00:11:17.000 I just, I gotta, I gotta play this clip for you guys.

00:11:20.000 Okay, can we pull this, we can pull this one up?

00:11:22.000 I'd like you to listen to this.

00:11:24.000 I can safely say tonight, Iowa made this Republican primary a two person race.

00:11:34.000 I despise this woman, but this is like an episode of Veep because as she's saying this at the bottom of the screen, it shows Trump and DeSantis in the top two positions.

00:11:45.000 And not her, yeah.

00:11:47.000 With 95% in.

00:11:48.000 It's almost like Curb Your Enthusiasm or Veep.

00:11:51.000 She's just so oblivious to the fact that she lost.

00:11:53.000 She's the meme of the guy cheering and spraying the champagne and biting the metal and then he's in third place and it's like, you lost, lady?

00:12:00.000 Somewhere along the line, we started giving out trophies to second place, to third place, to make kids feel good in high school and elementary school.

00:12:07.000 This is like Nikki giving herself a trophy after she lost.

00:12:10.000 To be fair, we do give first, second, and third place because in the Olympics, you've got thousands or millions of people.

00:12:17.000 But when the race is literally four people, you don't get a medal for coming in bottom 50%.

00:12:23.000 Technically it was five, because as I found out today, Asa Hutchins was in fact there.

00:12:28.000 He was, yeah.

00:12:29.000 He got 191 votes and said, I'm out.

00:12:32.000 His quote was, I am driving back to Arkansas.

00:12:34.000 Did you see though, there was a guy who... Wow.

00:12:37.000 Well, he was running a presidential campaign, even though none of us realized it.

00:12:40.000 I feel bad for him.

00:12:41.000 Did you see someone went up to DeSantis the other day and gave him a participation trophy?

00:12:46.000 I did see that.

00:12:47.000 It was a nice little viral clip.

00:12:48.000 It was cute.

00:12:49.000 It's very nice of them.

00:12:50.000 Yeah, because I mean that's really all he's gonna get in the end.

00:12:53.000 He burned down his career for what?

00:12:55.000 For what?

00:12:56.000 And you know the thing that drives me nuts is that I feel like he could have been a good candidate and he had such a poor team.

00:13:03.000 His team is spiteful and mean.

00:13:05.000 And exclusionary and, you know, like they don't do anything good for him.

00:13:11.000 When we say that Vivek is running the campaign, we hoped Ron DeSantis would, you look now at Vivek hugging Donald Trump on stage at a rally while they chant VP and it's like, I'm just imagining Ron is outside at the window looking in with like a single tear rolling down his cheek like, that could be me.

00:13:26.000 And it's cold, there's the wind chill.

00:13:29.000 Vivek embraced his youth.

00:13:30.000 He embraced the fact that he was, you know, doing all kinds of podcasts.

00:13:34.000 He took the new media route.

00:13:35.000 There were a lot of things that I think DeSantis' team maybe failed to advise him correctly on.

00:13:39.000 And, you know, presenting this young, fresh image was one of them.

00:13:43.000 It seemed to me like he sort of became more buttoned up and closed off as his campaign progressed.

00:13:48.000 And it's difficult to dig yourself up.

00:13:50.000 He took less opportunities.

00:13:50.000 Right.

00:13:51.000 Whereas Vivek has really presented himself in this beautiful, open, communicative light, which I think is what people want, especially from young candidates.

00:13:58.000 They are similar ages, they have similar age children, and yet they seem very different.

00:14:02.000 They seem so different.

00:14:03.000 There was such a cool thing the other day, it was like a compare and contrast.

00:14:07.000 You had how Vivek handled a heckler and how DeSantis handled a heckler, and Vivek was like, right?

00:14:14.000 This was amazing.

00:14:16.000 Vivek always.

00:14:19.000 On Wednesday, when we did this town hall, the TimCast team was like, they come to me and they go, we asked everyone who's coming to the show to write down a question, and then we're gonna go through them and figure out which ones are good.

00:14:29.000 And I'm like, no, that sounds terrible.

00:14:30.000 I was like, we don't want to do that. 0.99

00:14:31.000 Like, that's like corporate garbage. 0.98

00:14:32.000 And they're like, yeah, but someone's gonna scream something crazy. 0.99

00:14:35.000 And I'm like...

00:14:36.000 I'm pretty sure Vivek will say no.

00:14:37.000 He will not accept that.

00:14:38.000 And I was like, I don't think we do that.

00:14:40.000 I think it's good they prepared questions, but we're going to call them at random.

00:14:42.000 And so I told Vivek, hey my team, I don't know what your policy is, but my team had everybody draft questions.

00:14:47.000 He goes, I never, it's my policy to take no screened questions, let them ask whatever they want.

00:14:52.000 There's viral video of Ron DeSantis throwing people out of his events.

00:14:57.000 Who said nothing.

00:14:58.000 Right.

00:14:58.000 Just because he's scared of who they may be associated with.

00:15:00.000 Right.

00:15:00.000 Yeah, there was a guy the other day.

00:15:02.000 In a wheelchair.

00:15:04.000 Yeah, in a wheelchair.

00:15:05.000 And so you had Vivek gets this heckler, the woman starts screaming something about climate change, and he's like, how about this?

00:15:12.000 I'll make you a deal.

00:15:12.000 I'll hand you the microphone for 60 seconds, you make your case, and then I'll tell you why you're wrong.

00:15:20.000 And it was a great moment.

00:15:22.000 She was confused, she made a terrible case, he was able to trounce it in a second, and then there was a clip of DeSantis dealing with a heckler being like, no, I'm doing this, I'm doing this.

00:15:32.000 You know, no respect, no consideration at all, just sort of, you know, like, muscling his way past the guy.

00:15:39.000 It was really distasteful.

00:15:41.000 I want to go back to March of 2021.

00:15:43.000 I think I went to the last fundraiser that Trump hosted for DeSantis.

00:15:47.000 It was at Mar-a-Lago.

00:15:48.000 Somebody got COVID, one of the chefs, so they still went ahead with the fundraiser, but it was closed.

00:15:53.000 About 80 people, these old colleagues and friends I had from Long Island, they hosted it for DeSantis.

00:15:57.000 March of 2021, so he was still a year to go, running for a second term.

00:16:04.000 I go in there, I'm with my dad, I'm with other friends, I'm very close to the governor, I'm trying to talk to him, I'm getting nothing out of him.

00:16:11.000 I'm doing my best, I just moved here from New York, it's terrible, the policies, I couldn't get anything out of him that I remember.

00:16:18.000 If you meet the sitting governor, who's doing a great job, I'm trying to get a conversation, and nothing's coming out of him, no personality.

00:16:24.000 Which you can remember.

00:16:25.000 What do we have?

00:16:25.000 Memories in life?

00:16:26.000 I can't remember talking to the governor because nothing came out of him.

00:16:29.000 Trump is there.

00:16:30.000 He sees my dad.

00:16:30.000 He's at a clear distance.

00:16:32.000 Is that your dad?

00:16:33.000 He says, get him over here.

00:16:34.000 I want to take some photos and talk to him.

00:16:36.000 That sums up the difference.

00:16:38.000 In that little, you know, moment in time.

00:16:41.000 And that Trump held those last fundraisers for DeSantis, that sticks out.

00:16:46.000 And that kind of sums up the personalities.

00:16:47.000 I'll tell you the first story I've ever heard of Donald Trump outside of like the media.

00:16:51.000 I was in Chicago and I met this guy who was a music producer, young guy, like, you know, college music producer.

00:16:57.000 And he said that he was, I think he was doing some kind of delivery.

00:17:01.000 When he's going to Trump Tower to drop off a package or something, Donald Trump is coming up behind him as he's walking in, and he holds the door open for Trump and his team as he's walking in, and then he walks in behind him, Trump stops and goes, hey kid, thanks, and he throws him an iPod.

00:17:17.000 This is back in the day when iPods were like several hundred dollars, and it meant something, but the kid caught it, and he was like, whoa!

00:17:23.000 Like, I held the door open for this guy.

00:17:25.000 I hear stories like that all the time, where Trump stops to make sure he leaves with a positive impact, When I went to Trump Tower during his campaign cycle in 2015, I was with some colleagues and I was like, hey, we're covering Trump's rallies, we're covering Trump, let's go see what his employees have to say about him.

00:17:41.000 So we decided to get food at the Trump Steakhouse.

00:17:45.000 Asked everybody what they thought of Trump.

00:17:46.000 They loved the guy.

00:17:47.000 They love him.

00:17:48.000 I went to his ice cream shop downstairs and I asked him, and the people working there said, Trump will show up randomly and call all the staff out and just hand everyone $100 bills.

00:17:58.000 And everyone's like, we're so excited when Trump comes.

00:18:00.000 He's such a nice guy, shakes everybody's hands, thanks them for their work, and then gives them $100 cash.

00:18:03.000 To be fair, Tim does this too.

00:18:05.000 We'll just gather around at staff meeting, hands out $100.

00:18:07.000 Staff meeting, here's money!

00:18:08.000 No, I'm just kidding.

00:18:08.000 Tim doesn't do that.

00:18:09.000 No, we play poker.

00:18:10.000 I take the money from you.

00:18:12.000 No, but I think that's true.

00:18:14.000 Trump had that personality and it stayed true when he was president.

00:18:17.000 I mean, the presidency, I could see potentially you dial it back a little bit.

00:18:20.000 You have to, whatever.

00:18:21.000 One of my favorite clips of Trump ever is when he and Melania, my favorite first lady, we're handing out Halloween candy and someone comes up in like a Minions costume and he like puts this full-size chocobar in this kid's head and he's obviously laughing.

00:18:35.000 Like, there was something... Dude, I gotta pull that clip up.

00:18:38.000 Please do.

00:18:38.000 It's one of my favorite Trump clips of all time.

00:18:40.000 There is something, you know, he's brash, there are times you don't like him, whatever.

00:18:44.000 There is such a personality that is true and authentic there that you kind of laugh along with him.

00:18:49.000 Last night he brought... Can we just play this real quick?

00:18:52.000 Because it's like...

00:18:52.000 It's the best.

00:18:53.000 One of the best clips of Trump ever.

00:18:55.000 There's a little spider- two spider-mans and a unicorn princess.

00:19:00.000 Melania's like the nation's boom mom. 1.00

00:19:02.000 Here comes the minion.

00:19:03.000 Look at this.

00:19:04.000 The kid's hands.

00:19:04.000 He can't reach his head!

00:19:09.000 They both put candy bars on and then they- this is amazing!

00:19:12.000 They slide off and fall in a little girl's bag.

00:19:14.000 And it's Melania who's like, well I'll give you another one.

00:19:17.000 Like, hold on, don't leave.

00:19:19.000 Yeah, that is one of the best moments ever.

00:19:21.000 Yeah, that's really funny.

00:19:22.000 Look at him.

00:19:22.000 He like tests it out, makes sure it doesn't hurt him.

00:19:24.000 And then look, it slides off the head and lands right in the girl's bag.

00:19:27.000 Oh no, they fell on the floor, they fell on the floor.

00:19:29.000 That's why she gives her another one and someone comes and picks them up.

00:19:31.000 Oh my god.

00:19:32.000 The kid in the Minions costume, his arms can't reach above his head.

00:19:36.000 It's just these small things.

00:19:37.000 Or there's another one where he's on the phone, we don't have to play this code, but they're taking calls from kids around Christmas and there's one where he's like, you know, wishing, he's like, how old are you, seven?

00:19:46.000 Merry Christmas.

00:19:47.000 So do you believe in Santa?

00:19:48.000 That's right on the edge.

00:19:49.000 Like, where are we?

00:19:50.000 Like, he just has the personality that shines through.

00:19:52.000 And I think so many Americans like that because it's not stiff and formal.

00:19:57.000 I worry, I think, you know, I think Ron DeSantis could have a political future.

00:20:01.000 I'm not one to speculate what it could be, but, you know, It's sort of embracing that personal connection that people are really craving in this day and age and it has so much to do with our our personal interactions with our neighbors falling apart to see a president that you can all kind of share these memories with and laugh like that's something people desperately want and the politicians that can do that like Trump like Vivek thrive.

00:20:22.000 I made it sure.

00:20:23.000 The Heartland proved last night they love a funny, brash fighter, New Yorker, right? 0.64

00:20:27.000 And that's proved it again last night.

00:20:30.000 And the culture, Hollywood, the media used to love Trump until three, four, nine years ago, until he decided to say, I'm a Republican, I'm running for office.

00:20:40.000 All of a sudden he wasn't.

00:20:41.000 Well, he was great for headlines.

00:20:42.000 Right.

00:20:42.000 He's still great for headlines.

00:20:43.000 Still great for headlines, but it's negative headlines.

00:20:45.000 It used to be all positive.

00:20:48.000 You know, an icon in New York.

00:20:49.000 He did so many wonderful things, building this gate and rink.

00:20:52.000 He paid for Jesse Jackson's office for the Rainbow Coalition.

00:20:55.000 Oh, really?

00:20:56.000 Yeah, back in the day.

00:20:57.000 I don't know.

00:20:57.000 Interesting.

00:20:57.000 I didn't know that.

00:20:58.000 Let's jump to this story.

00:20:59.000 We have this tweet from Team Trump.

00:21:01.000 Flashback.

00:21:02.000 Trump said, you know, I just found out that Democrats are funding Nikki Haley's campaign.

00:21:07.000 I hear that Democrats are contributing to Ron DeSantis.

00:21:10.000 Let me play the clip for you guys.

00:21:11.000 Just found out that Democrats are funding Nikki Haley's campaign.

00:21:18.000 I hear that Democrats are contributing to Ron DeSanctis's, or Ron DeSanctimonious, to Ron DeSanctis's campaign.

00:21:26.000 I gotta stop you there, Trump.

00:21:28.000 It's DeSwamptis, okay?

00:21:29.000 DeSwamptis was always the best name, but he went with DeSanctis, whatever.

00:21:34.000 But the conspiracy theory now I suppose.

00:21:38.000 I don't think it's actually a conspiracy theory.

00:21:39.000 I think it's a fact.

00:21:40.000 We know for a fact that Nikki Haley is getting support from Democrats.

00:21:43.000 Many of the voters that are coming out and voting for her in Iowa, that voted for her in Iowa, are liberaling individuals.

00:21:48.000 And we have the proof!

00:21:49.000 It's in the pudding.

00:21:51.000 The Iowa caucus results.

00:21:52.000 Trump lost only one precinct, and it was by one vote.

00:21:55.000 Actually, it looks like he may have reclaimed it.

00:21:57.000 So this was, where were we?

00:21:58.000 Johnson County.

00:22:00.000 Okay, no, Johnson County, look at this, they're not even showing it anymore.

00:22:04.000 Johnson County is the only county that went for Nikki Haley by one vote!

00:22:08.000 And as it's pointed out to us, this is the urban liberal college area.

00:22:13.000 So it's not surprising that it's happening.

00:22:15.000 But that would mean that many people are coming out for Nikki Haley.

00:22:18.000 They're in liberal areas.

00:22:20.000 They are liberal Democrat voters.

00:22:22.000 And then we have this from the New York Times.

00:22:24.000 In Iowa, Nikki Haley has the attention of Democrats and independents.

00:22:27.000 Haley has attracted the interest of non-Republicans who say they'll caucus for her as rivals attack her for an insufficiently conservative message.

00:22:34.000 This is the play, ladies and gentlemen.

00:22:36.000 We were speculating.

00:22:39.000 How are they going to get Joe Biden out of the race?

00:22:41.000 Joe Biden would have to suffer some injury, get sick, but then he's past the point at which the Democrats can have a primary.

00:22:48.000 So then people said it won't happen.

00:22:49.000 A strategist for JPMorgan said, no, he will drop out due to a medical issue.

00:22:54.000 And my response is that's actually smart.

00:22:57.000 It allows them to appoint a nominee bypassing a primary, preventing a Bernie Sanders situation.

00:23:02.000 Vivek is smarter.

00:23:04.000 He pointed out, and I believe he's correct, he said, no, the establishment play is the primary, it's Nikki Haley.

00:23:11.000 The deep state will stop at nothing to remove Donald Trump.

00:23:14.000 And when they do, it's going to be Nikki Haley versus Ron DeSantis.

00:23:18.000 And Nikki will win.

00:23:19.000 And that's how they're going to take back the system.

00:23:22.000 And we get more wars.

00:23:24.000 We get World War III.

00:23:25.000 I think that's actually what's happening right now.

00:23:27.000 When you look at the Democrats voting for Haley, the New York Times is saying it outright.

00:23:31.000 Donate to Nikki Haley.

00:23:32.000 They realized we cannot win a general election against Donald Trump.

00:23:36.000 However, Donald Trump will struggle to win blue state primaries if Democrats come out and vote for Nikki Haley.

00:23:44.000 But you can't do that in every one.

00:23:46.000 Of course you can.

00:23:48.000 No, you can't.

00:23:49.000 You can't do that in every primary.

00:23:50.000 Yes, you can.

00:23:51.000 Well, you'd have to change some of them.

00:23:52.000 That's right.

00:23:53.000 You'd have to change your voter registration that far in advance.

00:23:54.000 Absolutely.

00:23:55.000 Yep.

00:23:56.000 And so these people have been planning this for a year.

00:23:58.000 Look, Vivek said they'll stop at nothing and we can't look back on this in 2025 and say, how did we not see this coming?

00:24:05.000 He's correct.

00:24:06.000 So, how many votes do they need to beat Donald Trump?

00:24:11.000 Nikki Haley got what, nine delegates?

00:24:15.000 She got eight delegates in Iowa.

00:24:18.000 She's behind Ron DeSantis, but she is polling near as high as Trump in New Hampshire, and it is speculated these are Democrat voters that have switched their parties.

00:24:31.000 This is it.

00:24:32.000 In New Hampshire, you don't have to switch your party.

00:24:35.000 You can be an independent Democrat, vote in the primary.

00:24:37.000 And so, for places where you need to be a registered party member, like in a caucus, you just do it in advance.

00:24:37.000 Right.

00:24:43.000 Super easy.

00:24:44.000 And then there are states with open primaries.

00:24:46.000 What I think we're seeing, as they're actually rather fascinating, is the end of the Democratic Party.

00:24:52.000 When they realize you can't beat Donald Trump in a general election, their only plan, their only path is to beat him in a primary.

00:25:00.000 It's actually kind of scary if you think about what comes after this.

00:25:03.000 If the general election doesn't matter because it's Joe Biden with no support, The Republican Party becomes the single party rule in this country.

00:25:12.000 And while many people may say, oh, but that's great.

00:25:15.000 We like Republicans.

00:25:15.000 We'd rather they win than Democrats.

00:25:16.000 No, but you don't understand.

00:25:18.000 It's Democrats weaseling their way into the Republican Party as their only means of stealing power.

00:25:23.000 And then instead of having general elections, we have whoever our president's going to be is going to be solely based on who wins the Republican primary.

00:25:31.000 Yeah, I mean, I think it's getting pretty desperate on, honestly, on both sides of the aisle, right?

00:25:37.000 There are a ton of people who do not want Trump to be the nominee.

00:25:40.000 They don't outnumber the people who want him to be the nominee, but the tactics are there.

00:25:45.000 When Asa Hutchins dropped out, one of the pieces that I read when I was researching for my article was the recommendation from a Republican strategist that he endorse Nikki Haley, who he shares more votes with.

00:25:56.000 You know, he's this long-term governor from Arkansas.

00:25:59.000 I think there are going to be sort of Moments until the end, until her campaign is over, where people are trying to say, well, if just the right people, and she got some states, we can still make this happen.

00:26:11.000 There's still a way to deny Trump.

00:26:12.000 And I think that's ultimately denying reality at this point.

00:26:15.000 Yeah.

00:26:16.000 I think you have something interesting, Tim, because I saw a colleague, a friend from the Hamptons, an older gentleman, Andy Saban, he was on Neil Cavuto last week.

00:26:23.000 I was just thinking about that.

00:26:23.000 And he said, the interesting thing, we're doing a fundraiser for Nikki at the end of the month, and a lot of Democrats are coming.

00:26:30.000 Yeah, he said, believe it or not, a number of it is coming from Democrats.

00:26:34.000 Democratic fundraisers.

00:26:35.000 That's right.

00:26:36.000 And they're doing a big fundraiser in New York for Nikki Haley.

00:26:38.000 Why would they join Nikki Haley Democrats?

00:26:41.000 Right.

00:26:42.000 And what are Nikki Haley's positions?

00:26:45.000 Pro-war. 0.69

00:26:46.000 Pro-war. 0.69

00:26:47.000 Don't call illegal immigrants criminals.

00:26:49.000 Register with the government before you comment anything online.

00:26:52.000 Censor social media.

00:26:55.000 She's definitely sort of the Hillary Clinton of this campaign. 1.00

00:26:58.000 She's even running on, you know, I'm a woman, elect me.

00:27:01.000 That's a qualification somehow.

00:27:03.000 And she likes to talk about her high-heeled shoes.

00:27:06.000 None of this relates to me at all.

00:27:07.000 I think that's sad.

00:27:07.000 I think if you were really a candidate, you wouldn't have to, like, you being a woman would be, like, a fun benefit, right?

00:27:11.000 But it wouldn't be the major tenant of your campaign.

00:27:14.000 This ad impacted this study, and they were talking about the top themes that each of the candidates during their ad spends have, because Republicans have spent, like, $230 million so far.

00:27:23.000 Lots of money.

00:27:24.000 Total waste, yeah.

00:27:25.000 And Trump is talking about illegal drug trafficking.

00:27:28.000 He's talking about the border.

00:27:30.000 He's talking about policy.

00:27:31.000 He's talking about trade.

00:27:32.000 And both DeSantis and Nikki Haley are talking about China, which, you know, fair. 1.00

00:27:38.000 And they're talking about character, which is just code for they're trying to say we're better than Trump.

00:27:44.000 And I can't even remember the last thing they talked about because it's just so irrelevant.

00:27:48.000 They are trying to separate themselves from Trump and Trump is the one setting the pace for politics.

00:27:52.000 Well, the thing is, Trump is able to run on a lot of the same policies and ideas that he did in 2016 because he had four years, he did a lot of really good things, Biden took over, literally reversed everything on purpose, and now it's like, oh, we're back here now, we have to redo it.

00:28:08.000 Even look at the situation with the Houthis in Yemen, right?

00:28:15.000 You had Trump, when he was leaving office, classified the Houthis as terrorists.

00:28:20.000 The day he came into office, Biden reversed that and he said, no, they're not terrorists.

00:28:26.000 And the reason that he reversed it was for apparently humanitarian reasons, which is the same reason we're throwing money at Gaza, right?

00:28:33.000 So that Hamas can massacre people again. 0.95

00:28:37.000 But now he's talking, now Biden's talking about, oh, I better make the Houthis classify them as terrorists.

00:28:42.000 And it's like, they've been terrorists this whole time.

00:28:44.000 You know, so he literally came into office, reversed all the good things Trump did, made a whole bunch out of spite, did a whole bunch of really bad things.

00:28:53.000 And in terms of the border wall, reversed the concept of the border wall and then left all the equipment and supplies just sitting there rotting, waiting for nothing.

00:29:01.000 you know, with people climbing over it and then had to like re restart up the border wall anyway,

00:29:06.000 even though now that's, you know, irrelevant now because it's humanitarian. It's just too

00:29:10.000 they're gonna try and spin it so that whatever they did was the correct thing to do. But so

00:29:14.000 Trump is able to run on the same stuff that brought him into office in the first place,

00:29:18.000 the same reasons. Now on to the good things Joe Biden has done. Oh, it's very quiet now.

00:29:23.000 He's got a 33% approval rating.

00:29:26.000 It's rough.

00:29:26.000 Can we think of anything?

00:29:27.000 Come on, let's be as nice as we can.

00:29:30.000 Nothing.

00:29:32.000 He's been pro-pardoning people for some drug offenses, which, depending on your stance on that, that could be perceived as a good thing. 0.98

00:29:39.000 He was.

00:29:40.000 He's given us some of the best memes of the day and age. 0.93

00:29:44.000 The marijuana pardoning thing was dumb because there's nobody in prison at the federal level. 0.90

00:29:47.000 In federal, exactly. 0.96

00:29:49.000 For possession.

00:29:49.000 Look, with all the rambunctious left progressives with anti-Israel, he stood up a little bit, but I read recently he hasn't talked to Bibi, the prime minister, in like three or four weeks.

00:29:59.000 That's right.

00:29:59.000 Yeah, but he's not.

00:30:00.000 Being wishy-washy is like, what's a good thing he's done?

00:30:03.000 Being like halfway there is not a good thing.

00:30:04.000 It's like, well, he was like tepid here.

00:30:06.000 No, no, no.

00:30:06.000 What was he good on?

00:30:08.000 I'm trying to be honest.

00:30:09.000 I want to think of something because I feel like it's too easy to be like everything he did is awful and he's terrible.

00:30:15.000 Like, I want to be, you know, you know, analytical and say like, well, maybe this was good, but it's very hard.

00:30:20.000 Well, I remember during Trump's presidency.

00:30:23.000 So when he won in, you know, when he won in 2016, I remember thinking, okay, like I didn't

00:30:30.000 vote for Trump in 2016, but he's the president.

00:30:32.000 I'm going to support the president and I'm going to watch what he does and see, you know,

00:30:36.000 see what his policies are and go from there.

00:30:39.000 And then every, like he kept coming out with policies.

00:30:41.000 I was like, that's good.

00:30:42.000 Well that's good.

00:30:43.000 That's good.

00:30:45.000 I was like, I didn't vote for Biden.

00:30:47.000 You know, I wisened up.

00:30:49.000 I voted for Trump.

00:30:50.000 I didn't vote for Biden.

00:30:51.000 And I thought, OK, well, you know, I'll watch.

00:30:54.000 I'll see what he does.

00:30:55.000 And everything that he did, every executive order, I kept reading the executive orders.

00:30:59.000 This is a terrible idea.

00:31:00.000 This is this is destructive.

00:31:02.000 This is destroying everything.

00:31:04.000 I can't think I've been tracking his His time in office, since he took over, and I can't think of a single good thing that he did where I was like, oh, that's good.

00:31:15.000 I'm glad he did that.

00:31:16.000 I can't think of anything else.

00:31:17.000 Yeah.

00:31:17.000 I mean, even with Obama, I remember he made some efforts to encourage private investment in space travel.

00:31:25.000 And I was like, that's good.

00:31:26.000 Yeah, right.

00:31:27.000 But was Hunter Biden on the board of the space travel company?

00:31:29.000 Yeah, that's always the question.

00:31:30.000 I mean, it's to me not a good sign that there is a president that we can't off the bat be like,

00:31:36.000 this one seems OK.

00:31:37.000 Well, look at what he did on his first day in office, right?

00:31:40.000 He pushed equity.

00:31:41.000 He pushed weird gender stuff.

00:31:44.000 He reversed the border wall.

00:31:46.000 He declassified the Houthis as terrorists.

00:31:49.000 He did so many terrible things.

00:31:50.000 And he said during his first campaign speech a couple weeks ago, the Republicans

00:31:55.000 are all focused on the past.

00:31:57.000 And then all he did was talk about January 6.

00:31:58.000 But that's actually been the theme his administration the whole time.

00:32:01.000 Everyone is saying, oh Trump is saying revenge and he's going to do whatever, but actually it's Democrats who have been acting out of spite, right?

00:32:08.000 The fact that he reversed, his first day in office, reversed a ton of Trump policies just because Trump did them to prove to his base that Trump is bad and then let us all suffer the consequences of his, you know, spite is not good.

00:32:22.000 Out of the two of them, who talks more about the future and who harps on the past non-stop?

00:32:26.000 The Democrats harp on the past.

00:32:29.000 Let's jump to the story from the independent, DeSantis Fury, after Trump is projected Iowa caucus winner before some even started voting.

00:32:37.000 Language from the DeSantis campaign echoes Trump's own election denialism.

00:32:42.000 It's kind of sad because DeSantis had said previously that if Donald Trump loses in Iowa, he will claim it was fraudulent or it was untoward or something like that.

00:32:52.000 And now that Donald Trump has won, it is actually DeSantis' campaign saying that something was afoul here.

00:32:57.000 But here's the real conspiracy, my friends.

00:33:00.000 As many of you may know, if you were watching the Iowa caucuses last night, within about a half an hour of the caucuses beginning, they called the race for Donald Trump.

00:33:07.000 The Associated Press said, we have seen enough.

00:33:10.000 Trump is the winner.

00:33:11.000 Now, of course, the DeSantis campaign is saying that's not fair.

00:33:14.000 People haven't voted yet.

00:33:15.000 This is a trick to help Donald Trump.

00:33:19.000 DeSantis' campaign staff even said that.

00:33:21.000 The media's pro-Biden.

00:33:22.000 They want Trump to be the nominee because they want Trump to run against Biden so Biden can beat him. 1.00

00:33:27.000 These people are as dumb as a box of rocks. 1.00

00:33:30.000 I'm sorry, that's offensive to rocks. 1.00

00:33:33.000 The reality is, this was a play against Donald Trump.

00:33:37.000 And I'll break it down for you, and I am right.

00:33:39.000 Okay, maybe I'm wrong, but okay, but hear me out.

00:33:42.000 Think about this.

00:33:43.000 Whose election is it to lose?

00:33:47.000 Donald Trump.

00:33:49.000 If you're a DeSantis supporter, you know entering this race you are facing an uphill battle.

00:33:56.000 You know that if you want Ron to win, you must fight tooth and nail.

00:34:02.000 And so you're sitting there ready to caucus, and you get a push notification that says Trump is the winner.

00:34:07.000 You knew.

00:34:08.000 You knew Trump was the favorite here.

00:34:11.000 You know that to win you must do your duty.

00:34:15.000 Why would you leave?

00:34:16.000 Now hold on.

00:34:17.000 You're a Trump supporter.

00:34:18.000 You know Trump is going to win.

00:34:21.000 Everyone is telling you the race is pointless.

00:34:23.000 Why are we even having a primary?

00:34:25.000 Trump is up 30-40 points.

00:34:27.000 You're sitting there in minus 15 degrees in your caucus location and your phone burp and you look down it says Trump is the projected winner already and you go okay.

00:34:37.000 I knew we won.

00:34:38.000 I don't need to be here.

00:34:40.000 Everybody knew Trump won.

00:34:41.000 I'm going home.

00:34:42.000 The reality is it was Trump's to lose.

00:34:45.000 And the only people who I would say Trump supporters are more likely to leave having already believed they were going to win in the first place.

00:34:54.000 And this is brought up by Trump and many Republicans that because the polling favors Trump so much, Trump supporters are more likely to be like, well, I guess Trump already won.

00:35:03.000 Why do I need to show up?

00:35:04.000 This is what they warn about.

00:35:05.000 Some people say this is what cost Hillary Clinton 2016.

00:35:08.000 They were so confident Hillary would win that many Democrats were like, why even bother showing up?

00:35:12.000 So this is not a play against DeSantis.

00:35:14.000 It is not media bias for Trump.

00:35:17.000 It is media bias against Trump to trick Trump supporters, and it didn't work.

00:35:21.000 Or if it did, it wasn't enough.

00:35:23.000 You got a great point, Tim, because right before we went on air, I read an article in Politico on their newsletter that says Trump won, but only 7% of the Republicans came out.

00:35:33.000 So that's their story line, right?

00:35:35.000 Lowest turnout in a decade.

00:35:37.000 So if you're standing on line or waiting to vote, and I know it wasn't there, you were, how cold is it?

00:35:42.000 You're like, oh, Trump won, let me go home.

00:35:44.000 You're not going to wait anymore.

00:35:46.000 But if you're a DeSantis, Haley, or if you're an opposition voter, you're going to be like, we all knew they were going to call for Trump.

00:35:46.000 Exactly.

00:35:53.000 We have to stay here and try and get our candidate to win.

00:35:56.000 If, you know, come 2024, I mean the election in November, Trump supporters are not going to back down because they know you need a tsunami of votes to win.

00:36:07.000 This is why I think the play is to get, this is why I think the primary is the general.

00:36:11.000 Nikki Haley is the Democrat.

00:36:13.000 She's running in the primary to beat Trump, and she's going to try and beat him in major urban strongholds. 0.91

00:36:19.000 The play here is, well, it's basically that.

00:36:23.000 They are going to try to convince Trump supporters that the GOP primary, it's done deal, done deal, Trump can't lose, don't even bother coming out.

00:36:30.000 And that might work.

00:36:31.000 See, because everybody's saying, come November, everyone must vote, bring your friends, don't assume Trump will win because that's how they trick you.

00:36:40.000 But in the primary, everyone's like, I got Trump won already.

00:36:42.000 And RFK gave up on the primary, right?

00:36:45.000 He said this is a rigged primary.

00:36:49.000 But at first he was a Democrat.

00:36:50.000 He said, this is too rigged.

00:36:51.000 There's another congressman, I believe his name is Dean Phillips, ran.

00:36:51.000 I can't run it.

00:36:55.000 He's getting no attention.

00:36:57.000 I think he's doing okay in New Hampshire right now.

00:36:59.000 So the play is probably let's get as many Democrats as we can in New Hampshire and vote for Nikki Haley. 1.00

00:37:07.000 And this way we can somehow stop Trump.

00:37:08.000 If we can, if she can win New Hampshire, then it's, you know, Nikki ahead.

00:37:13.000 This is what the donors and the media and people are missing out that there's going to be a Republican primaries in blue states.

00:37:18.000 Nikki Haley could win those.

00:37:21.000 So how many ways are they trying to stop Trump right now?

00:37:23.000 They're trying to pull him off the ballot, right?

00:37:25.000 They're trying to send him to prison in New York, Georgia, and at the federal level.

00:37:31.000 They're driving him crazy with civil suits. 0.99

00:37:33.000 The E. Jean Carroll and the stupid Letitia James one, you know? 1.00

00:37:38.000 You took out loans and paid them back! 1.00

00:37:40.000 That's a criminal offense! 1.00

00:37:41.000 You crazy, crazy man! 1.00

00:37:43.000 How dare you! 1.00

00:37:44.000 Wait, he won the primary last night.

00:37:46.000 He flew to New York and sat in a civil trial. 1.00

00:37:49.000 That's garbage. 0.99

00:37:50.000 And then he just flew back to New Hampshire and did it. 0.99

00:37:54.000 The energy this man has is amazing.

00:37:57.000 I know.

00:37:58.000 At his age.

00:37:58.000 It's incredible.

00:37:59.000 Yeah.

00:38:00.000 People will tell me I work a lot, right?

00:38:02.000 Because I'm barely functioning off any sleep right now.

00:38:05.000 And I'm like, don't look at me, look at Trump.

00:38:07.000 No question.

00:38:07.000 I mean, he's flying nonstop.

00:38:10.000 I don't even know how he does it.

00:38:11.000 I don't know how you do it.

00:38:13.000 And I don't know how Trump does it!

00:38:14.000 Isn't that interesting?

00:38:16.000 Everywhere up the level, because you all work really hard.

00:38:19.000 I work extremely long days, but I'm not flying back from Iowa at 3 o'clock.

00:38:24.000 I've got to start eating more McDonald's, because Trump eats McDonald's and that must be it.

00:38:29.000 And the golfing, you've got to start golfing.

00:38:31.000 I am not going to eat McDonald's.

00:38:35.000 It was the Sunday before 2020, right before the election, and I was at a private aviation airport.

00:38:40.000 It was his fourth rally of the day.

00:38:42.000 Fourth.

00:38:42.000 It was 12.30 at night.

00:38:44.000 He started the rally.

00:38:46.000 I turned around, I saw New Yorkers I knew, and Floridians everywhere.

00:38:50.000 It was like 5,000 people.

00:38:51.000 I said, there's no way he's going to lose this election.

00:38:53.000 It's 12.30 at night.

00:38:55.000 There's 5,000 people.

00:38:56.000 It's his fourth stop, and he spoke for an hour and 15 minutes to 2 a.m.

00:39:00.000 I said, how does he humanly do this?

00:39:02.000 If you told most humans you gotta do two stops today and do two speeches, I'd be like, I don't know if I could do that.

00:39:06.000 But he's also so personable.

00:39:07.000 I mean, like, last night at his victory speech, he brought Brick Suit up on stage, you know?

00:39:12.000 That was so cool!

00:39:15.000 And I like Brick Suit.

00:39:16.000 I think he's a really swell guy.

00:39:18.000 And I thought that was great.

00:39:19.000 Like, he notices his supporters.

00:39:21.000 I mean, we might just credit him with being an extrovert here.

00:39:24.000 He really does feed off the energy of people and being around people.

00:39:27.000 An introverted person would be like, this is too much.

00:39:29.000 I must leave immediately.

00:39:30.000 giant things. Yeah. And it's always personable. Yeah. He has. And he can be amazing. I mean,

00:39:37.000 we might just credit him with being an extrovert here. He really does feed off the energy of

00:39:40.000 people and being around people. An introverted person would be like, this is too much. I

00:39:45.000 must leave immediately. But I think Trump's energy also underscores how tired Biden's

00:39:53.000 campaign already is.

00:39:55.000 They should just go back to that basement.

00:39:57.000 Put on the masks.

00:39:58.000 Right.

00:39:59.000 Trump is younger than Biden by, what, two, three years?

00:40:01.000 But Biden seems exhausted and he is in the White House with everyone around him.

00:40:06.000 Well, he has the old man walk. 0.95

00:40:07.000 He has the old man walks.

00:40:08.000 He has a slur.

00:40:08.000 His voice has audibly changed.

00:40:10.000 And it's just rough.

00:40:12.000 You can't make Weekend at Bernie's jokes about Trump.

00:40:15.000 You know what I was thinking?

00:40:16.000 Just like, totally for no reason, and it's nonsensical, but all the things, like there's a lot of things we don't like about Joe Biden that are perfectly acceptable if he was a golden retriever.

00:40:25.000 Like, first the obvious is sniffing kids.

00:40:27.000 The dog runs up to the kid, sniffing, nobody cares, funny.

00:40:30.000 Fumbling around and falling down or rolling on the ground, we laugh, aww, puppy fell down.

00:40:34.000 And then the muttering incoherent nonsense, when the dog walks in and goes, we're laughing, we're like, I wonder what?

00:40:40.000 But when Joe Biden does it, we're like, this guy's got the nuclear codes.

00:40:42.000 But at least the dog always knows where the stairs are, right?

00:40:45.000 Biden never does.

00:40:46.000 That's true.

00:40:46.000 Who would be a better president right now, a Golden Retriever or Biden?

00:40:49.000 Golden Retriever.

00:40:50.000 No, no, for real.

00:40:50.000 That's rough.

00:40:51.000 Because paralysis is better than whatever it is Biden is doing.

00:40:54.000 I mean, a Golden Retriever as president, CBP is going to come and be like, sir, what should we do with the border?

00:41:00.000 And it's going to go boom!

00:41:00.000 And they're going to be like, we have nothing, we have no idea.

00:41:03.000 Joe Biden's like, facilitate human smuggling!

00:41:05.000 And then they do.

00:41:06.000 So at least the Golden Retriever can't give orders.

00:41:08.000 That's true.

00:41:08.000 But he can get belly rubs.

00:41:11.000 And he would just look great.

00:41:12.000 He'd make us all feel wonderful.

00:41:13.000 Joe Biden we're just like nervous about all the time.

00:41:15.000 Joe Biden getting belly rubs would be alarming for the country.

00:41:17.000 No, I don't want to see that.

00:41:17.000 That would be really weird, wouldn't it?

00:41:20.000 And you notice how every time he goes out there and gives a speech, what he really says is, Trump voters suck. 1.00

00:41:25.000 Yes! 1.00

00:41:25.000 You notice how he does that over and over again? 1.00

00:41:27.000 He's so negative!

00:41:27.000 And it's like, how would any of us ever come vote for you?

00:41:31.000 All you do is tell us that we're extremists, that our religion is bad, even though, you know, we're basically just Christian.

00:41:37.000 Also, when convenient, you claim to be Catholic.

00:41:40.000 Right.

00:41:40.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:41:41.000 It's like, you know, the FBI targets Catholics, the FBI targets parents who speak up at school board meetings.

00:41:46.000 Joe Biden calls us all extremists.

00:41:48.000 And we're supposed to, like, come around and be like, no, it's OK that you're, you know, destroying the country and you hate us.

00:41:54.000 We're going to vote for you anyway.

00:41:55.000 Why would you vote for someone who just keeps telling you that they hate you?

00:41:58.000 Adrienne Curry in the chat says, Golden would have great polling numbers no matter what it did.

00:42:03.000 And that gives me an idea, like, I'm gonna take a picture of a Golden Retriever and just post it on X with a poll, like, favorability rating, favorable, unfavorable, and I bet it's gonna be like 95% favorability.

00:42:13.000 Dog people are gonna go berserk in your chat, I feel like.

00:42:16.000 They're gonna have all kinds of comments about it.

00:42:18.000 People feel really strongly about their dogs.

00:42:20.000 What's your favorability of random dog I found on internet?

00:42:23.000 Yes.

00:42:24.000 You know?

00:42:24.000 I mean, I would think a Border Collie would be a better call for president.

00:42:27.000 It's smarter than a Golden Retriever, but a Golden Retriever would do less harm than Joe Biden.

00:42:30.000 I like a Corgi.

00:42:31.000 I think I'll do that now.

00:42:32.000 Yeah, I like a Corgi.

00:42:33.000 But that's the British monarchy's dog.

00:42:35.000 I know, and they round people up.

00:42:36.000 We'd feel occupied.

00:42:38.000 It'd be like a whole thing.

00:42:39.000 I used to hang out with my friend in Connecticut at his family's lake house, and we'd all go hang out.

00:42:44.000 But He had this corgi and all of us, you know, goofy kids would be hanging out in the yard and the corgi would notice that we weren't all in the same place and would just start rounding us all up.

00:42:55.000 And we'd be like, oh my goodness, Ginger just rounded us all up.

00:42:59.000 My cousin had an Australian cattle dog that they were like, oh, we'll rescue it.

00:43:03.000 But it was from like a working dog line.

00:43:05.000 And, you know, there were a lot of us growing up and they would herd us onto couches.

00:43:08.000 Would my little guy make a great president?

00:43:13.000 I don't know if the cameras can see it, but it's a tiny, tiny chihuahua who's very, very, very sweet.

00:43:17.000 I mean, what's the stamina on this dog, right?

00:43:21.000 But even last night, Joe Biden's staffers, I guess, tweeted out at 1130 p.m.

00:43:28.000 because, of course, Joe Biden was probably asleep, but tweeted out, It looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa.

00:43:34.000 He's the clear frontrunner on the other side at this point.

00:43:37.000 Here's the thing.

00:43:39.000 This election was always going to be you and me versus extreme MAGA Republicans.

00:43:45.000 It was true yesterday and it'll be true tomorrow.

00:43:47.000 But they're the party of the future.

00:43:49.000 They're the uniting party.

00:43:51.000 And you had Rachel Maddow last night bragging about how MSNBC was not going to show Trump's victory speech because truth is really important and then she starts talking about rising authoritarianism and there she is literally praising the network she works for for censoring the guy who's giving a speech thanking his opponents and talking about unity.

00:44:14.000 That's crazy!

00:44:15.000 It's crazy.

00:44:16.000 Even Obama masked his, even his terrible policies, but he masked his speeches in positive.

00:44:21.000 Right.

00:44:21.000 He was always looking up in an arrow.

00:44:23.000 That's how he won, because... Even Clinton was, and this guy is just brutally negative.

00:44:28.000 Negative in... Against half of the country.

00:44:29.000 It's just... In fear-mongering.

00:44:30.000 He wants the people who do support him to be very, very scared of other people.

00:44:34.000 Specifically people who vote differently than them.

00:44:35.000 We got a super chat from X Tin Man saying he's going to go to the Democrat ballot and write in Haley, write in Trump.

00:44:42.000 Yeah, that's a better plan.

00:44:43.000 Like, what if every Republican in the Democrat... Well, because they're not having primaries, I guess.

00:44:47.000 The Democrats are just not doing it.

00:44:48.000 But what if every Republican went to the Democrat primary and voted Trump?

00:44:51.000 Well, that's the other thing is that the Democrats have really snubbed New Hampshire this year.

00:44:55.000 And Iowa.

00:44:56.000 And Iowa.

00:44:57.000 They honored Iowa, but they're saying South Carolina is the first primary.

00:45:01.000 That's what they really want.

00:45:02.000 And that's because Biden got wrecked in New Hampshire last time and he won South Carolina.

00:45:07.000 And so they pass it off as like, well, we need more diversity and we need to be reflective of the voters.

00:45:12.000 And so we're going to avoid New Hampshire.

00:45:13.000 But they know probably if he had to primary there, I mean, he's the incumbent.

00:45:16.000 So it's a weird year, but he would not do well.

00:45:18.000 New Hampshire doesn't like him.

00:45:19.000 Let's jump to this story.

00:45:20.000 We have a tweet from George.

00:45:22.000 I don't know you, George, but you have this tweet breaking.

00:45:24.000 Trump crowd chants VP, VP, VP after Vivek gets done speaking.

00:45:29.000 Trump says he's going to be working with us for a long time.

00:45:32.000 Here's the video clip.

00:45:33.000 Let's play it for you right now.

00:45:35.000 Thank you.

00:45:50.000 Thank you.

00:45:51.000 Wow, that's — how was that?

00:45:53.000 Pretty good, right?

00:45:55.000 That was pretty good.

00:45:56.000 And he's a fantastic guy.

00:45:58.000 And he's really — he's got something that's very special, because he started off with a Zippo, and he's got — he ended up very strong.

00:46:06.000 He did a great job.

00:46:07.000 I was actually surprised when he called, because he was doing well.

00:46:11.000 And it's an honor to have his endorsement.

00:46:13.000 He's gonna be working with us and he'll be working with us for a long time.

00:46:17.000 He's gonna be working with us.

00:46:19.000 Good.

00:46:19.000 For a long time.

00:46:20.000 Because we were talking about this a little bit before the show.

00:46:22.000 Vivek needs to work in a Trump administration.

00:46:26.000 If he's going to be the next guy after Trump, and I think he can be, he needs government experience.

00:46:33.000 One of the pitfalls, one of the reasons why Vivek was not the guy this time around, Trump had that first term.

00:46:38.000 He walked to the minefield.

00:46:40.000 He hit some of these mines.

00:46:41.000 He knows where some of them are.

00:46:43.000 He can do a better job this time around.

00:46:45.000 Perfect.

00:46:45.000 No.

00:46:46.000 Yes.

00:46:46.000 Good.

00:46:46.000 Vivek?

00:46:47.000 Good speaker.

00:46:48.000 Good ideas.

00:46:49.000 Great ideas, in fact.

00:46:50.000 But he doesn't know where those landmines are in the same way Trump does.

00:46:53.000 So if Vivek gets a position in the Trump administration, Then, coming into 2027, he begins campaigning.

00:47:00.000 He will have the experience behind him.

00:47:02.000 And I gotta tell you, man, Trump is this unrefined ore, and Vivek is refined.

00:47:09.000 When Donald Trump explains something, it works for the average person, and he's this brash, crass guy who's gonna say it like it is.

00:47:16.000 Vivek can lay it out analytically, and just, he can sell it to you.

00:47:21.000 So I think this team up, I don't know to what extent, what do you guys think?

00:47:24.000 You think he's VP?

00:47:26.000 I think that would be great.

00:47:27.000 What do you think, Adam?

00:47:28.000 I don't think he's VP.

00:47:29.000 He's just too big of a personality.

00:47:31.000 I think he's a cabinet secretary because cabinet secretary, your name will be constantly in the news.

00:47:36.000 You can go on TV all the time.

00:47:37.000 You can create policy.

00:47:39.000 You could be ready, prepared for 2028.

00:47:43.000 VP, I think he needs someone like, Trump needs someone like a Tim Scott, a more calmer.

00:47:48.000 Ben Carson?

00:47:49.000 Barb Carson, Tim Scott.

00:47:51.000 Sorry, keep going.

00:47:53.000 The alpha that Trump is, and I feel like Vivek is an alpha but more refined, like you said, would just be too much together.

00:48:00.000 It's just you can't put two electric outlets, you can't put two positives together, it would just spark too much, right?

00:48:05.000 You can't do that.

00:48:06.000 Secretary of State, what do you think?

00:48:09.000 Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Commerce, maybe Chief of Staff, but his personality might be too big for Chief of Staff.

00:48:17.000 He needs a front-facing position because he's so good on camera.

00:48:20.000 He's really charming.

00:48:21.000 He can really communicate a message.

00:48:23.000 Think about him on TV every week.

00:48:24.000 Meet the Press or National, talking about economic policy.

00:48:28.000 He runs circles around these people.

00:48:29.000 Someone like a Blinken.

00:48:30.000 Yeah, you want him to be front-facing for sure.

00:48:34.000 You know I take him seriously when he came on this show and said that he didn't want to be VP and I think Tim's right that having more experience in the government would be good and in some ways VPs aren't super known for what they contribute to an administration.

00:48:48.000 There's a rumor that it'll be Doug Burgum because based on what Trump said last night.

00:48:52.000 Burgum was back, was with him there.

00:48:54.000 Yeah he endorsed him didn't he?

00:48:55.000 He endorsed him and last night when Trump was giving his remarks he said something like Oh, he's gonna, he's gonna be around, like he had this like smirk and stuff like that.

00:49:03.000 Trump-Bergum 2024?

00:49:04.000 I don't know.

00:49:04.000 And no one will see that coming.

00:49:05.000 I think that's sort of, I think he needs, uh, you know, he- But he needs a personality that's quieter than Biggs.

00:49:10.000 And Bergum's is quieter than Biggs. 0.51

00:49:12.000 I totally disagree. 1.00

00:49:13.000 He had Mr. Quiet Personality and Stupid Pence. 1.00

00:49:15.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:49:15.000 And that didn't work out. 1.00

00:49:16.000 I think he would do it again, though.

00:49:17.000 I think he should go for someone nice and big.

00:49:20.000 Tulsi, I like Tulsi.

00:49:20.000 Tulsi Gabbard.

00:49:22.000 I like Tucker.

00:49:23.000 I like anybody who can go out there and rev up a crowd almost as good as Trump does. 0.99

00:49:29.000 Because also, he's gonna need somebody on the campaign trail while he's being dragged around by, you know, stupid Merrick Garland and his minions. 0.99

00:49:38.000 Yeah, I would love to see Trump just put a candy bar on Merrick Garland's head. 1.00

00:49:41.000 So funny.

00:49:43.000 Again, that was one of the best moments.

00:49:44.000 It was terrific.

00:49:45.000 I think that there are a lot of potentially good picks.

00:49:49.000 I think Burgum would be weird because North Dakota is not, you know, necessarily a stronghold.

00:49:53.000 Bad pick.

00:49:53.000 I guess it's different.

00:49:55.000 But the way he was talking about him, there is a belief that Burgum is involved somehow.

00:49:59.000 So you could start piecing together who his candidates would be.

00:50:02.000 My question with Vivek and, you know, it could be great for him to gain experience on the federal level and then potentially run again in 2028.

00:50:09.000 I wish that he would take some of the really innovative things that he talked about, like civic engagement and different things during his campaign, and apply it on a small scale in Ohio.

00:50:20.000 It's just that the timing doesn't line up where he could take a position in Ohio and then run again in 2028, from what I know.

00:50:27.000 I don't know.

00:50:28.000 Burgum does not seem like VP.

00:50:30.000 You may as well put just Trump blank.

00:50:34.000 I don't mean to be these cherry picking like Democrats, but I don't think we need a white male from North Dakota to help with the ticket.

00:50:42.000 I like the old way where you just get the second guy.

00:50:46.000 You know what I mean?

00:50:47.000 Oh, so Biden?

00:50:48.000 No, DeSantis.

00:50:49.000 Yeah, but the old way was whoever got second place in the general would be the vice president.

00:50:53.000 That actually was good.

00:50:56.000 The argument there was that the country would have representation for those who lost the election, and it makes sense. 0.97

00:51:01.000 Now it's not.

00:51:03.000 So half the country feels disenfranchised.

00:51:05.000 You know who's very articulate and doing a great job out of New York?

00:51:08.000 Elise Stefanik, the congresswoman.

00:51:10.000 Elise Stefanik has done a good job.

00:51:11.000 Excellent speaker.

00:51:12.000 She went to Harvard.

00:51:13.000 She's a real fighter. 1.00

00:51:14.000 That's why she's so pissed at Harvard. 1.00

00:51:15.000 I don't see VP there, though.

00:51:17.000 Tulsi Gabbard is a long shot, but you kind of make sense when people say it.

00:51:21.000 You're like, okay, I can kind of understand why she'd be VP.

00:51:25.000 People are saying Kristi Noem.

00:51:26.000 Yeah, she kind of feels like VP.

00:51:28.000 And she's been a Trump ally for a really long time.

00:51:30.000 With Stefanik, I wouldn't want to lose her from Congress.

00:51:33.000 I think she's doing really good things and it's nice to see that representation in New York.

00:51:36.000 I mean, part of the problem is that if you lift anyone out of the position they're currently in, that becomes a vacuum and you don't know what's going to fill it.

00:51:44.000 I got it.

00:51:45.000 Trump Trump 2024.

00:51:47.000 Baron?

00:51:47.000 Which one?

00:51:48.000 Yes!

00:51:48.000 Don?

00:51:49.000 Don Junior!

00:51:49.000 Junior?

00:51:50.000 Eric?

00:51:51.000 Don Jr.

00:51:52.000 Yeah, but then the Democrats would freak out and be like, he's just putting his own kids in!

00:51:55.000 This is crazy!

00:51:56.000 He's a dictatorship!

00:51:58.000 Just like George Bush!

00:51:59.000 It's a monarchy!

00:52:01.000 Don Jr.

00:52:01.000 is great.

00:52:02.000 But I can understand why, if he's a family member, they wouldn't do it.

00:52:05.000 But I think Don Jr.

00:52:06.000 would be a great choice, too.

00:52:07.000 Do you think he'd run for office on his own, though?

00:52:09.000 I mean, would he run for state or, you know, Senate or something like that?

00:52:12.000 I don't know if Don Jr.

00:52:13.000 is going to go that route.

00:52:16.000 I don't see it.

00:52:16.000 I don't know.

00:52:17.000 I think he could be a VP, but I think the play is to get someone outside of the Trump space.

00:52:23.000 That's why Kristi Noem makes sense. 1.00

00:52:25.000 Tulsi Gabbard could make sense, but it definitely seems like a 0.1% likelihood, you know.

00:52:30.000 I like Tulsi Gabbard as VP because, you know, military experience, fairly moderate, could attract former Democrats and disaffected liberals.

00:52:38.000 She would also do some work, right?

00:52:41.000 I mean, Kamala Harris doesn't do anything at all. 1.00

00:52:43.000 Chelsea Gabbard would be like, I have a position, I'm gonna do some stuff. 0.70

00:52:46.000 Kamala Harris entertains us every day with her Veep-style speeches.

00:52:53.000 She's unburdened by what might have been.

00:52:55.000 Man, it is amazing when she says stuff like, How does she keep saying that?

00:52:58.000 The community is a good thing because it's the community!

00:53:02.000 And you're like, what?

00:53:03.000 Well, and the Biden administration, initially, they had her out there, they moved her to the background, and now that we're getting closer to 2024, they're kind of being like, it's the Biden-Harris administration.

00:53:13.000 They really are trying to sell that, and it's just not working.

00:53:15.000 Yeah, but for the middle two years, they were like, stand in the back and don't say anything, because she was just not good, right?

00:53:21.000 Well, they were trying to get her to do stuff, and she wouldn't do it.

00:53:23.000 Remember the whole border czar?

00:53:23.000 True, she was our border czar.

00:53:25.000 And then her office was like, no, no, she's not the border czar, she's working on the root causes of migration in the Northern Triangle countries, and she's not even doing that. 0.96

00:53:34.000 And then she was like, actually, it's LGBTQIA plus violence, That is the problem. 1.00

00:53:41.000 So we need to prioritize them for asylum, which then they had an EO about that.

00:53:48.000 Have you guys seen that meme where it's LGBTQ plus and it's let's get Biden to quit plus Kamala.

00:53:55.000 That's very funny.

00:53:56.000 Very funny people.

00:53:57.000 The Internet is undefeated.

00:53:58.000 I mean, I wish we could pick VP based on like what issue they are going to rabidly champion during the administration, because then I would love to see Where's RFK Jr.?

00:54:06.000 really serious immigration restrictionists go into office.

00:54:10.000 But I just don't think that's going to happen so much of the VP selection is saying who can we

00:54:15.000 court in terms of electoral college votes. Where's RFK Jr.? Is he still around? He was in North

00:54:21.000 Carolina over the weekend.

00:54:22.000 Allad was there covering him and he has an event in West Virginia coming up. I think he's doing

00:54:28.000 pretty well for an independent, but you know, he's not, it's sort of hard because he's not

00:54:33.000 not in the news cycle because there's no primary for the independent.

00:54:36.000 He's like, you're just going to make it or he's not.

00:54:37.000 Yeah, but he's also, I don't think he's taking the, like Vivek went from zero, like in a year, look at this, he went to fourth place in the primary.

00:54:44.000 He went to 8% in the Iowa caucus.

00:54:46.000 I mean, this is amazing.

00:54:47.000 And he did it.

00:54:49.000 And even got the Trump camp worried because he was getting so much support, but he went around the press circuit.

00:54:55.000 He went to podcasters, media personalities, and he made himself available to them.

00:55:00.000 RFK is not doing that so much.

00:55:02.000 He has an opportunity to get attention, he won't take it.

00:55:04.000 And that 8%, he took it right from Trump.

00:55:06.000 Those are all Trump voters.

00:55:08.000 Well, actually, technically yes.

00:55:10.000 Or maybe he grew the pie with young people.

00:55:12.000 That's what it is.

00:55:12.000 He did.

00:55:14.000 So among first-time voters, Vivek was in first place.

00:55:18.000 And Ron DeSantis actually, according to one poll, got more Gen Z than any other candidate.

00:55:23.000 But Vivek got a good amount of Trump supporters, but a lot of first-time voters.

00:55:27.000 So I think that's the opportunity here for Trump.

00:55:30.000 Vivek targeting new voters?

00:55:33.000 Brilliant.

00:55:34.000 Because now he goes to the Trump camp and says, I didn't think I was going to be able to pull it off.

00:55:37.000 You got my endorsement.

00:55:37.000 I didn't pull it off.

00:55:39.000 I can bring in new voters for you and get those numbers up.

00:55:41.000 I'm going to pull in voters from areas you've never seen before.

00:55:44.000 Yeah, that'd be cool.

00:55:44.000 And I think that's a good sign for, you know, conservative values or maybe libertarian values generally, because they were really drawn to to Ramswamy's campaign.

00:55:53.000 And ultimately, that's the future, right?

00:55:56.000 So it's easy to focus on what happens this November.

00:55:59.000 But what we want long term is for new voters to be interested in voting for candidates who represent long term investment in a future that's going to be steady and provide a prosperous life for a lot of people.

00:56:09.000 Well, part of the problem with that is that we have no shared vision of either America's future or of America's past.

00:56:17.000 We have no real social cohesion or vision for what the American character is or understanding of where we came from.

00:56:24.000 It's just a constant fracturing.

00:56:27.000 But when do you think the fracture started?

00:56:28.000 Do you have an estimate?

00:56:31.000 This is something that is, you know, that has recently been coming up.

00:56:34.000 I was actually talking to Inez Stepman today about it on her podcast, High Noon, something I've been talking to Jack Posobiec about.

00:56:43.000 He's been talking about leftist revolutions.

00:56:45.000 It was actually really fascinating.

00:56:47.000 He had this series on Human Events Daily during the period between Christmas and New Year's, and it was like four, I think it was four episodes about cultural revolutions that were like leftist revolutions, and it was I forget what they all were, but there were a bunch of them and they were really fascinating.

00:57:04.000 But the one that I found most fascinating was the one about the 1960s in America, the Cultural Revolution in America, which I had never conceived of as a revolution.

00:57:12.000 I'd never conceived of it as a leftist revolution. 0.99

00:57:17.000 You know, to a certain extent, I just thought of it as, you know, my stupid parents were – they're not stupid. 1.00

00:57:22.000 I love you guys, Mom and Dad. 1.00

00:57:24.000 Your silly parents. 0.99

00:57:25.000 My parents were sort of part of the whole hippie thing. 1.00

00:57:28.000 They were boomers.

00:57:29.000 They came of age during that period.

00:57:31.000 I thought, you know, it seemed like a very cultural moment, and it was something where, you know, fashion would take from it.

00:57:39.000 As I was growing up, it was always like, now we're in the 60s moment again, now we're in it again, now we're in it again.

00:57:44.000 But I never thought of it as a revolution.

00:57:46.000 And I've been thinking about that a lot.

00:57:50.000 And then, you know, the civil rights movement and that whole era, which I always had a very I thought I had a very clear view of it, and I've been reconsidering it.

00:57:58.000 But I think that A lot of it started then, when you had this huge generation of young people saying to their parents, everything you taught us was wrong.

00:58:10.000 Everything you thought about the country is wrong.

00:58:13.000 Everything you think about us and our future is wrong.

00:58:15.000 We're going to destroy everything you built.

00:58:18.000 We're going to dance around in that rubble and we're going to build on top of rubble.

00:58:23.000 And I think that's what happened.

00:58:25.000 So then when you hit the 90s, which in my view, like I was in my 20s, I guess, in the 90s, you hit the 90s when you had a very, what seemed to me, a colorblind society.

00:58:38.000 You had a lot of great culture.

00:58:40.000 It was like, I was hanging out with a bunch of art kids downtown New York City and there was just money everywhere.

00:58:47.000 It's like you'd go out and somebody would pick up the tab.

00:58:51.000 Somebody would.

00:58:53.000 Somebody would fund the giant art show.

00:58:55.000 There was money left over.

00:58:56.000 Who even knows?

00:58:57.000 Who even knows what was going on?

00:59:00.000 But, you know, it seemed like this pinnacle of civilization, but it was really apparently just built on top of rubble.

00:59:08.000 You know, the rubble of our grandparents, of our religion, of our culture, of our shared past, of our appreciation for our history.

00:59:18.000 I grew up in a small town on Long Island, Porchef Station, and my neighbors were African-American black, but never had discussions about race, never had discussions about any of this.

00:59:28.000 And we were just my neighbor, and we liked each other and got along well.

00:59:32.000 And all along my life, I had black friends, never thought of it.

00:59:34.000 I think somewhere along the line, when Obama got elected, at the very beginning of his term, there was this, you know, incident at Harvard University with this black professor.

00:59:44.000 right off the bat. And the police called because he was being obnoxious, he was screaming.

00:59:48.000 Something about a beer.

00:59:49.000 And right off the bat, the President of the United States took the side of the obnoxious professor

00:59:54.000 That's right. 0.94

00:59:55.000 and went against the white police officers. And it became a race issue.

00:59:58.000 But it had nothing to do with race.

01:00:00.000 And the media jumped on this and said they need a lesson, that police need to go to, you know, sensitivity training.

01:00:07.000 And I think somewhere that incident, I feel like, stood out really in this lesson where Obama wanted to turn back the clock on race relations.

01:00:16.000 And I don't like that's kind of like that was the start of it.

01:00:19.000 I think it was a beer summit.

01:00:22.000 For what? 0.85

01:00:22.000 Because the guy was being obnoxious and he had to use the white police officers. 0.85

01:00:26.000 I think Obama had a negative impact on race relations, but all of this started with social media.

01:00:33.000 The evidence is every single country experienced the exact same thing at the exact same time, and the only connected factor would be the advent of social media emerging in all these countries.

01:00:43.000 What happens is, for Facebook at the time, and Twitter wasn't really that prominent, but you know, Barack Obama used Facebook to get elected.

01:00:51.000 It helped him get out the youth vote.

01:00:53.000 What happens is, As the platform gets bigger, they need to find a way to keep people interested in the platform when their feed was inundated with too much content.

01:01:03.000 When these platforms first started, you'd see an update every few seconds and you didn't care.

01:01:07.000 Cell phones come out.

01:01:09.000 Now Facebook is ubiquitous.

01:01:10.000 Everyone's on Facebook 24-7.

01:01:12.000 And you're following more than 300 people, your feed becomes incomprehensible and moves too quick.

01:01:17.000 So they create the algorithmic feed where it only shows you some content some of the time.

01:01:21.000 What happens?

01:01:22.000 The stuff that gets the most clicks was related to racism.

01:01:26.000 It actually was related to a couple issues.

01:01:29.000 White nationalism, not entirely, but strong nationalist Christian and white nationalist content was prominent, as well as social justice content.

01:01:41.000 However, these big tech companies, you know, when you get these free speech individuals in the early days, they call themselves like the free speech wing of the free speech party on Twitter, they look at it very economically.

01:01:54.000 They sit down at a board meeting and someone says, okay, a large group of people are posting about white nationalism and a large group of people are posting about black nationalism.

01:02:03.000 And they go, okay well look, advertisers will not buy on your platform if there's white nationalists here. 0.96

01:02:08.000 Ban them all. 0.99

01:02:10.000 Advertisers don't care about black nationalism. 0.99

01:02:12.000 It's fine.

01:02:13.000 What ends up happening is people have an option to click on the most, I guess, rage-baity content they can, and for these biased reasons, the algorithm will always favor anger and justice over every other emotion.

01:02:29.000 And justice can take the shape of many things, but when you combine it, you end up with police brutality, things like you mentioned, like this professor.

01:02:36.000 But if the tech companies are like, If a white guy is murdered in the streets, and people start defending him and saying, you know, white people under attack, oh, we got white supremacists, delete that stuff, advertisers will flee.

01:02:47.000 But if it's, you know, black people, Mexicans, Asians, or whatever, that's acceptable.

01:02:52.000 A bunch of companies started mass producing this, social media companies started mass producing this, and then we see in every single country a massive spike.

01:02:58.000 in support for these issues. When it started, it was police brutality, which turned into feminist 0.99

01:03:04.000 issues, intersectional feminist issues, and now we're into full-scale diversity, inclusivity, 0.93

01:03:09.000 equity, etc. Yeah, that's interesting.

01:03:13.000 I mean, I think it's hard to say.

01:03:15.000 I think social media was sort of the gasoline to a lot of underlying cultural tensions that have been building for a long time.

01:03:20.000 Well, it's the machine.

01:03:21.000 And I think that's the hard thing to dial the clock back on, right?

01:03:21.000 Right.

01:03:26.000 Like, you might be able to say to people, oh, here's what happened during this event with Obama.

01:03:31.000 And they might be able to say, oh, OK.

01:03:33.000 But they won't forget the fact that they felt this way for a long time.

01:03:35.000 And they'll be constantly driven by algorithms that want them to feel divided, because that ultimately sells more than anything else.

01:03:41.000 I think.

01:03:42.000 Because they probably figured that happiness, we can't keep people on our platform too long if it's just happy.

01:03:48.000 So let's constantly create conflict and anger.

01:03:51.000 Sort of.

01:03:52.000 They don't think about that.

01:03:54.000 They think about what will get someone to spend more time on the platform.

01:03:58.000 They need posts to look at that they engage with.

01:04:00.000 What do they engage with?

01:04:01.000 Well, on Facebook, actually, the top engaged with kind of post is, I'm married and had kids.

01:04:07.000 So, they may have fixed this, but the meme was, if you ever had an important announcement for your friends, and it's like you got a new job or you're moving, start the post off with, I have just gotten married and I'm having kids.

01:04:18.000 Okay, now that I've said that, none of that's true.

01:04:20.000 Hope to see you guys at the party this weekend, because it'll put that at the top of their feeds.

01:04:20.000 I'm actually moving.

01:04:24.000 But, I don't think, for a lot of these people, it was intentional.

01:04:27.000 I think, as I describe it, people like Jack Dorsey, he basically built a big toilet for everyone to sit on, and then he hooked up the pipes from that toilet into his own mouth.

01:04:36.000 So, they built this machine.

01:04:39.000 The machine favors content that gets clicked the most.

01:04:42.000 Here's an example.

01:04:44.000 YouTube wanted to compete with Netflix.

01:04:47.000 YouTube used to get, if, you know, we go back in the days of like Auto-Tune the News, Shmoyoho, Songify, they're getting millions of hits per video.

01:04:56.000 All of a sudden, the views start dropping.

01:04:58.000 I actually talked with Google about it, and they said, Netflix is our biggest competitor.

01:05:01.000 And I said, Netflix?

01:05:02.000 I was like, oh, you're missing the big picture here.

01:05:04.000 If you think it's Netflix, their view was, what are people watching online?

01:05:08.000 It used to be YouTube, now it's Netflix.

01:05:10.000 Netflix introduced streaming, everybody signed up, they're getting premium content.

01:05:14.000 So YouTube said, we need to get our creators to start making content that competes with Game of Thrones.

01:05:22.000 So here's the idea.

01:05:23.000 If your video's longer than 10 minutes, And people watch it for a long time.

01:05:28.000 That's what we want.

01:05:29.000 High retention rates, longer videos.

01:05:32.000 Then, people will start producing shows like Game of Thrones.

01:05:35.000 What did they get instead?

01:05:37.000 TeamCast IRL.

01:05:39.000 How do you produce engaging, long-form content?

01:05:41.000 Video podcasts, vodcasts.

01:05:44.000 The problem with that is, you've got a massive spattering of argumentative and serious political issues, which generate a wave of nationalist, white nationalist, racist, all sorts of content.

01:05:58.000 And I'm not saying only.

01:06:00.000 I'm saying it included everything.

01:06:01.000 YouTube then panics, going, oh no, that's not what we meant.

01:06:05.000 So these companies don't actually care about what the content is so long as it's making money for them and if advertisers will buy on the platform.

01:06:13.000 So they're not thinking like, I want people angry.

01:06:17.000 They're saying, tell the algorithm to favor high retention rates and long videos.

01:06:22.000 What happens after this?

01:06:24.000 Parents would give iPads to their babies.

01:06:26.000 This was part of the Elsagate scandal several years ago.

01:06:28.000 It's like six, seven years ago now.

01:06:30.000 They would give an iPad to their baby and leave the room.

01:06:33.000 They would press play on finger family.

01:06:36.000 At the time, it was the most popular nursery rhyme.

01:06:38.000 Have you guys ever heard this one?

01:06:39.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:06:40.000 Finger family, where are you?

01:06:41.000 Whatever.

01:06:42.000 And it goes index finger, middle finger.

01:06:45.000 When the song ends, YouTube's autoplay feature will load the next video automatically.

01:06:49.000 So the parent puts the iPad in front of the baby, the song ends, another video plays.

01:06:55.000 Eventually, it starts, the algorithm doesn't actually know what finger family is.

01:07:01.000 There were people in India, knowing this was the trend, started exploiting the algorithm by producing extremely low quality and freaky videos. 1.00

01:07:09.000 Like the example I often give is the Incredible Hulk doing Tai Chi with Adolf Hitler. 0.74

01:07:14.000 Oh my goodness.

01:07:15.000 But it's Hitler's head on a woman's body in a bikini. 0.93

01:07:19.000 And this is not an exaggeration. 0.81

01:07:21.000 What would happen is, once the parents would play the video and the video would end, it would just autoplay the next video for Finger Family, and it just so happened to be The Incredible Hulk and Adolf Hitler, but Hitler had boobs, and it was weird, freaky stuff.

01:07:34.000 They didn't intentionally make that happen.

01:07:36.000 It happened because all they did was tell the algorithm to let it go.

01:07:41.000 What I've argued, and I believe this is the most likely scenario, As a baby, you don't know what you're watching.

01:07:49.000 So if you're watching Finger Family, and the next thing that pops up is Hitler, you're just a baby staring at a screen going, eh.

01:07:55.000 But an adult can see that and go, whoa!

01:07:57.000 Something is wrong here.

01:07:59.000 However...

01:08:00.000 Adults aren't immune to this either.

01:08:02.000 When you're watching a video about a criminal case involving a corrupt cop, and you go, man, the next video that plays is, say, George Floyd or Ahmaud Arbery, you go, wow.

01:08:12.000 You don't realize you're actually... I'm gonna say this.

01:08:16.000 I will equate the Ahmaud Arbery case to Adolf Hitler with a woman's body doing Tai Chi with the Incredible Hulk. 0.92

01:08:24.000 As an adult, it falls into your preconceived notions, and it seems to make sense.

01:08:28.000 But the story is totally fabricated and false.

01:08:30.000 Everything people know from the mainstream press, the Ahmaud Arbery case, who did we have on the show recently?

01:08:35.000 They were like, oh, that was the guy who was jogging, right?

01:08:37.000 And he wasn't jogging.

01:08:38.000 That was never even a legal talking point.

01:08:41.000 In the courts, they never argued that Ahmaud Arbery was just jogging.

01:08:44.000 They actually conceded he was a burglary suspect who had been witnessed and was wanted by the police for questioning.

01:08:50.000 But in the mainstream media, They were saying he was just jogging.

01:08:54.000 These are people who live in the world where they can't recognize the algorithm is feeding them refuse down their throats.

01:09:02.000 And that's why I say, the people running these companies didn't one day decide, let's produce a bunch of rageful content to make them go insane!

01:09:09.000 No, Jack Dorsey was like, we're the free speech wing of the free speech party. 0.96

01:09:12.000 Then when the algorithms they created were propping up the most psychotic, nonsensical garbage, he took that hose and shoved it straight down his throat, started absorbing it, believing it, and shedded his own brain.

01:09:25.000 The people then running these companies adopted these views and integrated them back into their systems, exacerbating the problem. 0.89

01:09:30.000 Here we are.

01:09:34.000 That's so true.

01:09:35.000 Do you feel like this is something that people who aren't involved in alternative media aren't aware of?

01:09:40.000 Like if you were a longtime Fox sort of corporate person, would you be as well versed in Elsagate and all of this stuff?

01:09:47.000 Do you think you have an advantage because of the medium you're in?

01:09:51.000 You mean like the people who are paying, watching cable live in cable TV world?

01:09:56.000 Yeah.

01:09:57.000 I mean, so this is the reality of 20 or 30 years ago.

01:10:00.000 If someone went to CNN and said, I have a huge story and they were like, we don't want to cover that.

01:10:04.000 Never happens.

01:10:04.000 That's it.

01:10:05.000 No one ever hears about it.

01:10:06.000 Have a nice day.

01:10:07.000 With the internet, some random guy makes a video and he's like, I think Epstein's doing something.

01:10:11.000 You end up with Alex Jones.

01:10:13.000 Massive personality generating millions outside of the controls of the deep state.

01:10:18.000 I mean, look, we know about Mockingbird.

01:10:21.000 We know about how intelligence agents would go to the press and say, here's an article we wrote for you.

01:10:28.000 Sign your name on it.

01:10:30.000 Not every journalist and deep state narrative story is like that.

01:10:34.000 Most of them aren't.

01:10:36.000 We know they do that.

01:10:37.000 The problem now is the only way to control the narrative is through extreme censorship.

01:10:43.000 And the problem there is a decentralized press mechanism, like what we have now with shows like this, can see through it, call it out, causes problems, and they lose.

01:10:51.000 Hence, Donald Trump is the frontrunner.

01:10:54.000 I don't know.

01:10:54.000 Where do we go?

01:10:55.000 Yeah, that's the question.

01:10:56.000 I mean, that's my big question for 2024 really has been who is going to come next after this?

01:11:04.000 Who's going to be sort of the successor to the Trump movement?

01:11:07.000 Because he is such a personality.

01:11:10.000 That's the real shame with DeSantis.

01:11:12.000 It should have been DeSantis.

01:11:14.000 No, no, I think we're lucky with DeSantis.

01:11:17.000 You think that we lucked out?

01:11:19.000 Oh, we got so lucky.

01:11:20.000 In that he failed?

01:11:21.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:11:22.000 I mean, this guy is... He could have been the heir apparent, though.

01:11:25.000 No, he couldn't have.

01:11:26.000 And this is the point.

01:11:27.000 It's a good thing he ran so that we all got to see just how impotent he was politically.

01:11:33.000 I mean, the dude can't run a campaign, can't control the staff.

01:11:35.000 He lacks charisma.

01:11:36.000 He definitely can't hire.

01:11:37.000 He can't hire.

01:11:37.000 He can't sell.

01:11:38.000 He can't even pitch.

01:11:41.000 And so, if this guy did not run, and everyone kept praising him, it was like, this guy's so great!

01:11:47.000 And then 2028 comes around, and he goes, well, I'm here to take over for Donald Trump!

01:11:52.000 Here are my high heels, and here are the crackpots that I've hired! 1.00

01:11:55.000 We'd be like, oh crap. 0.97

01:11:56.000 But he might have learned in the intervening years. 0.98

01:11:58.000 He might have gotten better.

01:11:59.000 No way.

01:12:00.000 You don't think?

01:12:00.000 No, look, look.

01:12:01.000 People can improve!

01:12:02.000 You don't think people can improve?

01:12:04.000 No, stop.

01:12:05.000 We were at The office building that we were in for the Iowa caucus was the same building as Vivek's campaign office for Des Moines.

01:12:14.000 His headquarters was at a different location for caucus night.

01:12:18.000 I think the office we were in was his principal office.

01:12:21.000 We were not in his office, there's a distinction, but we were in the same building and we had to negotiate with the building's owner, so it's not like Vivek got us anything, but we were in the same space with him.

01:12:30.000 He did help us find it, no doubt.

01:12:33.000 But in one of the rooms, they have on this white board, things successful people do, and I just laughed when I saw it.

01:12:39.000 It's like, they ask for help.

01:12:41.000 You know, they're mission-driven, and I'm like, these are things you can't give people, okay?

01:12:45.000 I've been in so many corporate meetings, so many corporate offices, where it's like, here's how to be successful.

01:12:51.000 And they try to teach someone who doesn't have the X factor how to have the X factor, and they don't.

01:12:56.000 So when I used to do fundraising for nonprofits, what they decided was just give everyone the lowest common denominator training as to how you pitch someone to donate to your cause.

01:13:08.000 And so they tell everybody, keep your feet spread open with each foot lining up with your shoulders.

01:13:14.000 Keep your arms open.

01:13:15.000 Never cover your chest.

01:13:16.000 Never hold a binder over your chest. 0.98

01:13:17.000 Those are all off-putting.

01:13:18.000 Bounce on the balls of your feet and rock back and forth.

01:13:22.000 This is what they tell everyone to do.

01:13:24.000 And here's what you have to say and how you have to say it.

01:13:26.000 And I'm like, if someone doesn't have the ability to sell, this will not help them.

01:13:32.000 Right.

01:13:32.000 And if someone does, this will hurt them.

01:13:35.000 So I look at Ron DeSantis. 0.98

01:13:37.000 Totally useless, in other words. 0.99

01:13:38.000 Totally useless. 0.98

01:13:39.000 What you'd find is they would tell you, probably for legal reasons, you have to say this verbatim.

01:13:45.000 Everybody who went out to fundraise for every non-profit I ever worked with would say whatever they felt like saying and they would always sign people up and the people who would always try to do the pitch would get super angry and be like, why can't I do this?

01:13:45.000 Yeah, right.

01:13:58.000 I've seen people like Rhonda Sanders before, okay?

01:14:01.000 Me and my buddy got hired.

01:14:03.000 So I'll try to simplify the story.

01:14:04.000 Me and my buddy worked for a non-profit.

01:14:06.000 They hired a woman. 1.00

01:14:07.000 We were both managers.

01:14:09.000 She ends up working underneath me. 1.00

01:14:10.000 She's brilliant.

01:14:11.000 As soon as she gets trained by me, one of the top fundraisers in the nation, she goes to another company and says, I want to be a director, a position above me.

01:14:18.000 I was trained by one of the nation's best from this company.

01:14:21.000 And they were like, wow!

01:14:23.000 Job's yours!

01:14:24.000 Impressive resume, speaks multiple languages, has training from one of the top fundraisers in the country.

01:14:29.000 And then she immediately hits me up and says, you want to work for me?

01:14:32.000 And I was like, wow, I am impressed.

01:14:35.000 And so me and my buddy end up saying, okay, fine, screw it, we'll go work for your office.

01:14:39.000 One of her friends, me, it's three of us, me, my friend, and this guy.

01:14:44.000 This guy that she hires is a friend of hers.

01:14:46.000 He doesn't have it.

01:14:47.000 He is the Ron DeSantis of fundraising.

01:14:49.000 We are both Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy of fundraising.

01:14:51.000 And so me and him are standing there on the street down in Chicago.

01:14:55.000 Both of us are sitting there with like glazed over looks on our faces, half paying attention, expending no energy.

01:15:02.000 This guy is doing everything he's told.

01:15:04.000 Standing upright, balls of his feet, waving to people, asking them, asking them, asking them.

01:15:09.000 He's getting burned out.

01:15:10.000 Me and the other guy are sitting there, and then we see the person, we go, that guy right there.

01:15:14.000 You come over here.

01:15:15.000 Sell him instantly.

01:15:16.000 This guy freaks out, gets really angry, and he was like, I don't understand.

01:15:20.000 I'm doing everything I'm told to do, and no one will talk to me, and then I'm watching these guys do nothing, and then just snap their fingers, and someone comes and signs up, and I was like, What we have is the ability to recognize someone who's interested, open, willing to talk.

01:15:35.000 You're going about it through the motions.

01:15:37.000 That's how I see Ron DeSantis.

01:15:39.000 He does not have the abilities.

01:15:41.000 You can beg him to please understand what he's doing wrong, and we tried.

01:15:45.000 And all that happens is he doubles down.

01:15:46.000 We just tried.

01:15:47.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:15:48.000 He's a crackpot campaign staff.

01:15:51.000 What did they say?

01:15:52.000 The media calling it for Trump was actually pro-Biden and pro-Trump.

01:15:56.000 And the media's biased for Trump.

01:15:58.000 And it's like, you've lost your minds. 1.00

01:16:01.000 We've been warning the whole time since DeSantis announced that his campaign is garbage, he has no charisma, he's failing. 0.99

01:16:09.000 And when his first starts, and we're polite about it, like guys, what did we say first here on the show? 0.97

01:16:15.000 I was like, you gotta get him speech training and charisma training.

01:16:18.000 And they said, how dare you?

01:16:21.000 And they started attacking all of us, insulting all of us, and now Ron DeSantis loses.

01:16:24.000 And then they got their minions to attack everybody.

01:16:26.000 Tim, you have a good gift, naturally, as a salesman.

01:16:30.000 But I tell people, if you're selling something, let's say you're selling real estate, you walk in a room, you don't want someone just to bombard you with your card, just because you don't want someone who's needy and pushy.

01:16:40.000 Do the opposite.

01:16:41.000 Get someone to like you first.

01:16:42.000 Be warm.

01:16:44.000 And Ron has never been able to do the opposite.

01:16:46.000 He was just so stiff.

01:16:48.000 He came across that way, and I would have told him, Ron, if you don't have it, just do the opposite.

01:16:54.000 Try to be warm, you know?

01:16:56.000 You are correct, but I don't think that's the principal issue. 0.99

01:16:58.000 I think the principal issue is that he's a loser. 0.96

01:17:00.000 And I know that he won his congressional races. 0.97

01:17:03.000 We like the policies he's got.

01:17:05.000 He won in Florida massively.

01:17:07.000 I don't give him credit for all of it.

01:17:08.000 I give him credit for some of it, but what I mean by loser is When you're selling something, it doesn't matter if you know what it is.

01:17:17.000 It matters that you sound like you do.

01:17:20.000 Cause I don't know.

01:17:21.000 If I call a plumber and I'm like, guy, my toilet's busted.

01:17:21.000 Okay?

01:17:25.000 And he goes, well, I mean, I could probably fix it.

01:17:29.000 I'd have to look at it.

01:17:30.000 I'm not, you know, I think I could do it.

01:17:32.000 I'll be like, okay, well, you know, let me give you a call back.

01:17:35.000 Then I call Trump plumbing and he goes, listen, we're the best plumbers.

01:17:39.000 We're going to come in and fix it.

01:17:40.000 Five minutes.

01:17:41.000 Easy, cheap.

01:17:42.000 No one's better than us.

01:17:43.000 I'm going to be like, I want that guy.

01:17:43.000 Everyone agrees.

01:17:44.000 I mean, at least just sound confident and I think you might show up.

01:17:50.000 And, you know, Gary Johnson exemplifies this when he said, and what is Aleppo?

01:17:54.000 Everyone knows the Aleppo moment. 0.95

01:17:56.000 That is loser talk. 0.99

01:17:59.000 And I'm kind of trying to beat a dick, but not really. 0.97

01:18:01.000 I've often said if Donald Trump was confronted with a subject matter he didn't know about, So, imagine Trump's being interviewed and someone says, yes, but as president, how will you handle Lucindando? 0.92

01:18:18.000 Trump would go, look, you know, people have been talking about Lucindando, but the economy is what matters to the American people, so we're going to do that.

01:18:27.000 It's a gibberish what I made up.

01:18:29.000 But Trump would deflect by saying, I'm not going to sit here and talk about an issue like that when the American people are concerned about their jobs.

01:18:36.000 Gary Johnson goes, what's that?

01:18:38.000 And everyone's like, he doesn't know what Aleppo is?

01:18:40.000 I mean, people are dying here.

01:18:41.000 This country is being blown to smithereens.

01:18:43.000 And so when you look at Ron DeSantis, listen, if I'm going to sell you anything, Who are you going to buy from?

01:18:52.000 The guy who says, well, I'm here to offer you a drink of this delicious spindrift lemon drink?

01:18:59.000 You'd be like, okay.

01:19:00.000 Or the guy who walks in and says, this is the most delicious drink I've ever had.

01:19:04.000 But I'll tell you what!

01:19:06.000 I'll give you a little bit.

01:19:07.000 You gotta pay.

01:19:09.000 You're like, ooh, what's this all about?

01:19:10.000 Confidence!

01:19:11.000 Charisma!

01:19:12.000 Ron does not have it.

01:19:13.000 You can't give him it.

01:19:14.000 We tried.

01:19:15.000 All he did was get a bunch... Like, you know what I feel like with the DeSantis people?

01:19:19.000 I feel like it's high school.

01:19:21.000 Really like high school.

01:19:23.000 Donald Trump is like... He's not necessarily a football player.

01:19:27.000 He's like kind of the bigger guy who hangs out with a bunch of... He's tall.

01:19:30.000 He's chunky.

01:19:31.000 But he's the jokester.

01:19:33.000 He's funny.

01:19:33.000 People kind of like him.

01:19:34.000 And he's the guy that everybody likes, kind of.

01:19:37.000 The guy in the middle who got along with the rockers and the sports people.

01:19:41.000 Yeah!

01:19:42.000 And everybody liked him. 0.98

01:19:43.000 Right, and he's kind of a dick sometimes, but he'll rib on you and say, I'm just kidding, and then he'll give you a shove. 0.98

01:19:48.000 And Ron DeSantis is the nerdy kid in the glasses with his dorky friends being like, you know, why don't people listen to us? 0.99

01:19:55.000 We're smarter than they are. 1.00

01:19:57.000 People are so stupid. 1.00

01:19:59.000 I bet if we tell them they're stupid, they'll listen to us. 1.00

01:20:01.000 Yeah, good luck with that DeSantis, congratulations. 1.00

01:20:04.000 And I feel like Vivek is the guy who is just like, what? No, I'm not paying any attention to any of these

01:20:09.000 people.

01:20:09.000 No, just- I'm just gonna go do my own thing.

01:20:11.000 No, the- That's what he seems like to me.

01:20:12.000 Vivek is like, he's hanging out with the cool kids, and he's the shorter, fast-talking guy.

01:20:19.000 You know, so when I used to do non-profit fundraising, there were two kinds of guys that made a bunch of money.

01:20:25.000 Tall guys, and smooth-talking guys.

01:20:27.000 Trump's tall guy, Vivek's smooth-talking guy.

01:20:29.000 That's what it is.

01:20:30.000 Ron is the nerdy guy who got fired in three days.

01:20:34.000 That's just the reality of it.

01:20:35.000 Yeah.

01:20:36.000 Welcome to politics.

01:20:37.000 I feel like Vivek is fun because... Then who's the Nikki? 0.94

01:20:40.000 Who is Nikki?

01:20:41.000 Nikki is like that girl on student council who's really annoying. 1.00

01:20:46.000 And she's always talking about something that no one wants to do.

01:20:49.000 And she's always trying to drop bombs on foreign countries. 1.00

01:20:52.000 And your teachers really like her, but it's hard to explain to them that no one else does.

01:20:56.000 And they're like, but why don't you just listen to Nikki?

01:20:59.000 And you're like, because Nikki... And she's trying to get everyone to blow up the balloons for prom. 1.00

01:21:03.000 Yeah.

01:21:05.000 It's a prom that she organized where no one wants it at a date that can be inconvenient for everyone else.

01:21:09.000 Like, she's ultimately self-centered, but she's passing it off as like, but I'm doing it for you guys!

01:21:14.000 That's Nikki Haley to me.

01:21:16.000 That's interesting.

01:21:17.000 Yeah.

01:21:18.000 Let's talk about airplanes.

01:21:19.000 Not to rag on her unprofessionally.

01:21:21.000 So we're just getting off the holidays.

01:21:23.000 We have this story from the Seattle Times.

01:21:24.000 Passengers sue Alaska Airlines Boeing after 737 MAX 9 fuselage blowout.

01:21:28.000 Wow.

01:21:31.000 Well, that's the big news, I guess, because it really does matter to you if your plane is going to, you know, have a blowout.

01:21:38.000 One of our guests who was supposed to fly here on United had their flight canceled because we got an email

01:21:45.000 saying your trip has been canceled because the Boeing 737 Max 9 has to be,

01:21:48.000 they're all being inspected.

01:21:50.000 So this plane is no longer available and the flight will no longer be happening. 0.99

01:21:52.000 Damn. 0.95

01:21:53.000 Have you heard about, they just identified the phone case on the iPhone 0.99

01:21:57.000 that fell out of that flight.

01:21:58.000 It like hit the ground at 75.

01:21:59.000 Oh, what was the phone case?

01:22:01.000 I should have come prepared for this comment.

01:22:04.000 Apparently this was like the big thing with all of these like, you know, case files or whatever.

01:22:07.000 They were like, somebody needs to tell us stat what it is.

01:22:10.000 Yeah, but... It fell from like the sky at 75 miles an hour!

01:22:14.000 And the phone works!

01:22:16.000 If I take my phone with no case and I whip it at the ground as hard as I can and it hits the grass, it's gonna be fine.

01:22:24.000 I don't know, man.

01:22:26.000 The phone they found landed in a bush.

01:22:28.000 And a guy was out for a run and he looks and he's like, there it is.

01:22:30.000 Yeah, your phone hits the tree, bounces back and forth.

01:22:32.000 It's not going to break.

01:22:33.000 These things are amazing.

01:22:34.000 From the sky, Tim!

01:22:34.000 The sky!

01:22:35.000 Yeah, terminal velocity.

01:22:36.000 I thought it was crazy that it was open.

01:22:38.000 There was like no passcode or anything.

01:22:39.000 Well, it's because the person was apparently reading their email about their baggage, which is the crazy thing.

01:22:44.000 So when the dude found it and opened it, it opened up to an email saying, you know, your baggage fee or whatever.

01:22:48.000 Maybe this sounds too perfect.

01:22:49.000 No, I'm starting to get skeptical.

01:22:50.000 Could you imagine if someone sitting in that chair could identify what flight it was on?

01:22:54.000 So you're sitting in the chair and your phone gets sucked out.

01:22:57.000 Or imagine you're sitting next to the door with your seatbelt off and you get sucked out.

01:23:02.000 The two people that were supposed to sit there, like, last minute decided not to go on this trip.

01:23:07.000 And so the seats were empty.

01:23:08.000 Like, hmm, now it seems a little sketchy.

01:23:09.000 Well, I've changed my mind.

01:23:13.000 They actually explained that.

01:23:14.000 What had happened was the two people who were supposed to sit there were waiting in the lounge before the flight and it was a guy and a woman and the guy fell asleep and then he woke up in a cold sweat screaming the plane was gonna crash and so he started yelling and they pulled him off the plane.

01:23:28.000 I gotta get off this plane!

01:23:28.000 He's like, I gotta get out of here!

01:23:29.000 They pulled him out and then that happened and now they're marked by death and even though they escaped the plane.

01:23:37.000 That sounds plausible.

01:23:38.000 This is the plot of Final Destination.

01:23:39.000 Serge over here gets it.

01:23:41.000 No, no, I don't get it and I believe you 100%.

01:23:43.000 Okay, well there's like 12 Final Destination movies.

01:23:45.000 12 of them?!

01:23:47.000 Probably.

01:23:47.000 They're all the same.

01:23:48.000 March for Death.

01:23:49.000 And they're all basically a guy and a woman go on an airplane, the plane crashes and then 0.73

01:23:54.000 he wakes up and goes, what did I just witness?

01:23:56.000 I had a vision.

01:23:57.000 Freaks out, they throw him off the plane, the plane crashes and then they go, you cheated

01:24:01.000 death and now death is coming for you.

01:24:03.000 And then, like, instead of just having them, I don't know, like, slip and hit their head in their bathroom, death decides to have some circuitous Rube Goldberg device, you know, spin around twelve times.

01:24:12.000 Death gets bored.

01:24:12.000 Death needs something to do.

01:24:13.000 I guess.

01:24:16.000 I'd like to do my version of, like, I want to make short films, and mine would be Final Destination, but, like, if Death was competent.

01:24:23.000 And it would just be, like, the guy goes home, walks up his stairs, slips on ice, bashes his face on the ground, and that's it.

01:24:28.000 Did you ever see The Seventh Seal?

01:24:29.000 You know, that Bergman film?

01:24:30.000 Uh-uh.

01:24:31.000 So, uh, Death comes for this guy, and the guy's like, okay, well, I'll play a chess for it.

01:24:38.000 Oh yeah, that old movie.

01:24:39.000 Yeah, it's an old movie.

01:24:40.000 It's like, yeah, 70s or something.

01:24:42.000 Yeah.

01:24:43.000 Yeah.

01:24:44.000 I like that one better than Final Destination.

01:24:46.000 How many of those did they make, though?

01:24:47.000 It was really just the one.

01:24:47.000 Just one?

01:24:49.000 So Final Destination is a bad concept in that they made it 12 times?

01:24:53.000 Seems unnecessary to me.

01:24:54.000 I don't think it's a bad concept.

01:24:55.000 I just think The 7th Seal probably was really good.

01:24:59.000 I like that movie.

01:25:00.000 I've been flying a lot lately, and I noticed the service on these planes have become really bad.

01:25:04.000 Oh, it's unbearable.

01:25:05.000 I don't know if it's the start of Pete Buttigieg's recruitment, of his diversity and equity inclusion recruitment, but it's been really, really bad.

01:25:14.000 No, I think it's cultural breakdown.

01:25:16.000 It's in restaurants and everything, too.

01:25:16.000 It's everywhere.

01:25:17.000 Yeah, everything.

01:25:18.000 It's not just planes, honestly.

01:25:19.000 Yeah, it is everywhere.

01:25:20.000 Services fall to the floor.

01:25:20.000 It's everywhere.

01:25:22.000 It's crazy, too, plus tipping culture.

01:25:24.000 Oh, that's out of control.

01:25:25.000 Right, I go to Starbucks and then there's like a tip thing that pops up and it's like, you know, $1, $3, $5 tip and I'm like, bro, I ordered a $2 coffee.

01:25:32.000 I ordered something online from a store, like a small business, and they asked me to tip and I thought, no, I don't think you get stars.

01:25:41.000 I was at Starbucks when we were in Des Moines and the tip jar said, on a scale of $1 to $10, how attractive are you?

01:25:45.000 And I was like, brilliant.

01:25:48.000 But kind of crazy that we're getting to the point where it's like, can I get a $10 tip, sir?

01:25:52.000 So I went to this place, Anytime Fitness, to work out in the morning as I woke up.

01:25:56.000 And there was no workers there.

01:25:57.000 It's just a fob.

01:25:58.000 They trust people that go in with a fob.

01:25:59.000 So I'm like, this is great.

01:26:00.000 I'm going to pay for a day pass.

01:26:01.000 So I worked out there.

01:26:02.000 Great little fitness place.

01:26:04.000 Then I went to the pizza place next door.

01:26:06.000 And I just ordered a salad, and a tip popped up.

01:26:08.000 I'm like, even at a little pizza place, they got the tip popping up?

01:26:12.000 And we've become almost like a guilty culture now.

01:26:15.000 You feel almost like they're pushing you to feel guilty that you have to give a dollar or two.

01:26:19.000 Right, or like the tip of the self-checkout.

01:26:21.000 Nobody wants to do their jobs.

01:26:22.000 Nobody wants to do the jobs they're doing.

01:26:24.000 I don't know what it is they want, but I will say that the millennial generation and large portions of the younger generations want to do literally nothing.

01:26:33.000 Somebody's got to do the work and make the food. 0.73

01:26:35.000 And what's happening is, you know, maybe it's strong men make hard times.

01:26:41.000 With the previous generation, we're like, here's my job, this is the job that I do, it's the job I have. 1.00

01:26:44.000 Now it's like, ugh, I have to go to work today.

01:26:47.000 And it used to be a common thing when the cashier or the waiter was nice.

01:26:47.000 I'm gonna half-ass it.

01:26:53.000 Now it's like a rarity.

01:26:54.000 Wow, that person was nice.

01:26:55.000 It's like, whoa.

01:26:56.000 Well, there's all these things too.

01:26:58.000 Like I've been seeing different things online about job interviews.

01:27:04.000 And it'll be the person being like, so this person came in for a job interview.

01:27:09.000 They wanted to work only four days a week.

01:27:11.000 They wanted to know about the work-life balance.

01:27:13.000 It's a starting position.

01:27:14.000 They wanted 150 to start.

01:27:17.000 And it's all of this sort of crazy stuff.

01:27:19.000 Like what happened to the thing where you take a job, you wanna do well, you wanna do well for your personal life,

01:27:25.000 you wanna do well professionally.

01:27:26.000 And so you work your ass off, you work overtime.

01:27:30.000 You know, you come in early, you stay late.

01:27:32.000 I've done that with jobs I hated, you know?

01:27:35.000 I do that with a job I love, but like, I've done that with jobs that I just don't like.

01:27:40.000 And I think to myself, I am grateful to have a job.

01:27:42.000 I'm grateful I have health insurance.

01:27:44.000 You know, I'm gonna work hard not to get fired like somebody else just got fired.

01:27:48.000 It's not gonna be me.

01:27:49.000 Do you think part of it is that there's no vision for the future with the young generation?

01:27:52.000 I think, I think the younger generation is so weirdly hopeless and dark.

01:27:56.000 They're sort of like, There is no motivation to do anything, right?

01:28:01.000 They don't aspire to anything greater because... Nihilism.

01:28:03.000 Yeah, nihilism.

01:28:04.000 It's the same thing when they talk about climate change and they're like, well, I don't want to have kids because I don't want to burden the climate with my children and my children with the climate or whatever.

01:28:11.000 Yeah, having more kids makes bad weather.

01:28:14.000 They- it doesn't- whatever.

01:28:16.000 They feel like they work in these endless jobs that sort of go nowhere.

01:28:19.000 They feel like they don't create.

01:28:20.000 Everything is faceless.

01:28:21.000 Like, they are sort of numb to everything around them and so there's actually no momentum behind their choices.

01:28:25.000 Like, when you talk about, I'm going to work this job really hard because maybe this isn't where I'm going to be forever, but it's the job I have right now and it could get me somewhere else.

01:28:31.000 Like, you are a forward-thinking person.

01:28:33.000 Plus, there's this whole concept.

01:28:34.000 Everybody wants to be the main character.

01:28:35.000 Yeah.

01:28:36.000 But, like, be the main character.

01:28:37.000 The main character doesn't always have $150,000 a year and four days a week.

01:28:41.000 And you work life balance.

01:28:43.000 Sometimes the main character just works their ass off.

01:28:46.000 No.

01:28:47.000 The main character in Shaun of the Dead was lazy, half-assed, had terrible ideas, got his friends killed, and he's still the main character.

01:28:55.000 Or, like, on Reels or TikToks, they have these things that girls talk about, like, rom-com jobs, where they, like, are... What's a rom-com job? 1.00

01:29:02.000 It's, like, jobs that I will leave for... No, I'm just kidding.

01:29:06.000 But they, like, work at bookstores, and they, like, know about books, and it's pretty, and they have, like, tiny studio apartments, and there's some... They kind of romanticize it.

01:29:12.000 I used to have a job like that.

01:29:13.000 Or they, like, are cafe girls.

01:29:13.000 Right.

01:29:15.000 They work in waitresses, and then, like, eventually they meet a handsome man and get married.

01:29:18.000 Like, there are jobs that people kind of can spin and tell themselves, like, maybe it's infirmary, but there's something kind of...

01:29:23.000 Maybe we need a dictator. 1.00

01:29:25.000 Maybe we literally need a dictator to be like... Just for day one. 0.99

01:29:28.000 No, for three months.

01:29:31.000 Because these people who are like, I want a job, like the idea that I get to have a big house, I get to have whatever I want, all the latest devices and all the latest fashion, and I'm gonna, like friends for instance, I work at a coffee shop and I live in this massive New York apartment.

01:29:46.000 They explained it eventually, but yeah.

01:29:47.000 Sure.

01:29:47.000 What, like an heiress?

01:29:48.000 What was the explanation?

01:29:49.000 The explanation was it was Monica's grandma's apartment, and it was rent-controlled, and Monica took it over, and the landlord doesn't know that Monica's grandma's dead.

01:29:58.000 Because you can't grandfather those things in.

01:30:03.000 Right.

01:30:04.000 Well, so what happens is, all these young people expect free stuff.

01:30:09.000 And I'm just like, I would love if, but for a moment, these people had to survive off of their own wits.

01:30:16.000 And we just dropped them in the middle of woods and said, good luck.

01:30:20.000 Because then they'd be like, but where's my latte in my apartment?

01:30:24.000 Make it.

01:30:24.000 But someone else should do it for me, and we should tax you and take your money so that I can live in this beautiful place.

01:30:30.000 The government should pay for my bills, and should cover the cost of my utilities, and someone else should cover the cost of transportation for me, and then I should be able to, you know, make a Chaz farm.

01:30:38.000 Remember the Chaz farm?

01:30:39.000 Yeah, that was ludicrous. 0.75

01:30:40.000 And it was filled with rats, and they tried to clear it just recently. 0.98

01:30:43.000 They cleared it.

01:30:44.000 I had this same conversation with my son, who was like, people should have free health care.

01:30:48.000 And I was like, really?

01:30:48.000 Who should pay for it?

01:30:49.000 And he was like, the government should pay for it.

01:30:50.000 And I was like, hon, have you heard of taxes?

01:30:53.000 And he was like, what?

01:30:54.000 And I was like, I pay taxes.

01:30:56.000 I work really hard, and I pay taxes.

01:30:58.000 Should I pay taxes so that other people can have free stuff that I pay for myself?

01:31:01.000 And he was like, oh, maybe I should rethink this.

01:31:07.000 Yeah, think it through, people.

01:31:08.000 Nothing is free.

01:31:10.000 I've told this story before, but during Occupy Wall Street, someone gifted like 5 or 10 acres of farmland.

01:31:16.000 I think it was more than that.

01:31:17.000 I think it might have been like 20 or something.

01:31:19.000 And they said, you know, anybody who wants to come and live here can utilize the land and live off the land. 0.81

01:31:24.000 And a bunch of these hippie-to-be-moron college kids were like, I'm going to live carbon neutral and just live off the land because everybody knows that peasants had more vacation time than the modern worker. 1.00

01:31:34.000 That's such trash. 1.00

01:31:35.000 They really believe that. 0.99

01:31:36.000 And I was, you know, how long did my friend last on this farm?

01:31:40.000 Two weeks.

01:31:41.000 That's it?

01:31:41.000 Two weeks was all it took.

01:31:43.000 And she came back and I was like, weren't you going to go live on that farm and just live off the land?

01:31:47.000 And she was like, I would wake up at 6 a.m.

01:31:50.000 and go to bed at 11 and I would work the whole time.

01:31:52.000 And I'm like, uh-huh.

01:31:53.000 That sounds like my day.

01:31:54.000 Sounds like living on a farm.

01:31:56.000 She's like, yeah, but it was crazy!

01:31:57.000 Like, I don't have time to read or watch TV or even take a shower!

01:32:00.000 And I'm like, uh-huh, yeah, it sounds like living on a farm.

01:32:03.000 Oh, you like living your petroleum-fueled luxury reality in America.

01:32:07.000 I think people who are willing to work hard decide that there is something worth it, right?

01:32:15.000 Maybe you have a family feeding it.

01:32:16.000 You just have to do it.

01:32:17.000 It's a necessity.

01:32:18.000 But then I think also people who like what they're doing, who are interested and passionate, feel driven.

01:32:22.000 And I think that's the problem with the young generation coming up is that they feel nothing.

01:32:27.000 They are ultimately negative.

01:32:30.000 We are standing on the shoulders of giants in terms of the technology.

01:32:34.000 I was crossing the Williamsburg Bridge one day and I just thought to myself, how amazing That so many people came together to build this thing so that I can leisurely walk across this river where normally it was rather difficult.

01:32:48.000 And that was just, it's just there.

01:32:49.000 I don't pay for it.

01:32:50.000 There's three river crossings downtown.

01:32:52.000 It's really, really amazing.

01:32:54.000 But now we have so many people who don't know what it took to build that.

01:32:58.000 And I'm going to add one more to that.

01:32:59.000 We're not just standing on the shoulders of giants who have lived in the days of yore.

01:33:04.000 We are standing on the shoulders of slaves in foreign countries and third world countries who are mining cobalt and other rare earth metals, and their teeth are rotting out of their faces, and we don't see it at all. 0.94

01:33:14.000 So when these activists are like, we should get rid of fossil fuels and all that stuff, I'll be like, well, you're the first to die.

01:33:20.000 Like, you know, when Greta Thunberg is like, we're not going to wait till 2030, we must stop now!

01:33:25.000 I'm like, that chick would be dead in three days. 1.00

01:33:27.000 But the other thing, too, is you have Joe Biden pushing for all of the solar and pushing for EVs and lithium battery-fueled things.

01:33:34.000 You see the Tesla in Chicago?

01:33:36.000 Yeah, that's actually pretty funny.

01:33:37.000 The dead robots in the car graveyard.

01:33:40.000 Everywhere.

01:33:41.000 But also, we're saying, like, You know, instead of using fuel from America, fossil fuels, we're just going to have kids do the mining and we're going to use their labor.

01:33:55.000 But that's the Joe Biden thing.

01:33:56.000 And there are people who are like, we can automate this mining.

01:33:58.000 No, you can't.

01:33:59.000 Maybe eventually we get to this point.

01:34:02.000 But humans, especially, you know, children, they got those little fingers that are good for digging around in tight spaces.

01:34:07.000 And so in these foreign countries, Google search the videos of the cobalt mines.

01:34:11.000 I mean, this is big news, where you have just like 10,000 people all just sifting through the mud and dirt to find this stuff.

01:34:17.000 And that's how you live in luxury.

01:34:21.000 But we're going to go to Super Chats, but I guess, because by popular demand, everyone is demanding Brimcast uncensored.

01:34:28.000 No way!

01:34:29.000 So fun!

01:34:30.000 I hope you guys both want to stay and Tim's going to go to bed.

01:34:35.000 Well, yeah!

01:34:35.000 No, it's well-earned.

01:34:36.000 That's not me being mean to Tim.

01:34:38.000 That's saying, please also stay, so it's not just me talking to the camera.

01:34:41.000 But we'll go to Super Chats.

01:34:43.000 Good.

01:34:44.000 I love hostage guests.

01:34:45.000 Smash the like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, and head over to TimCast.com.

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01:34:53.000 And at 10 p.m.

01:34:55.000 on the front page, we will have the first official uncensored Brimcast IRL.

01:35:00.000 Normally we do the members only uncensored show at 10 p.m., but because I'm operating on about three to four hours of sleep, it's actually pain.

01:35:09.000 I'm feeling all over my body from lack of sleep.

01:35:12.000 Once we wrap the Super Chats, I'm going to bed, but Hannah-Claire will run the Members Only, taking calls from you in the Members Only Discord where you can talk to us and our guests.

01:35:20.000 Not me, though.

01:35:20.000 I won't be here.

01:35:21.000 Just like I planned.

01:35:22.000 I made it snow for this.

01:35:23.000 Wow.

01:35:24.000 Here's an opportunity.

01:35:25.000 Yeah.

01:35:26.000 I'm just kidding, I didn't do that.

01:35:27.000 It was so brutal.

01:35:29.000 Driving from the airport, we landed in Hagerstown, and there's four inches of Just perfect fluffy snow and no plows.

01:35:37.000 We're in the middle of nowhere and the vehicles we have, we got a couple SUVs and a Honda Civic.

01:35:42.000 We had to drive 20-30 miles an hour the whole way back slowly sliding because there's no plows and salt in the backcountry roads or anything like this.

01:35:50.000 Oh, man, it took so long.

01:35:51.000 I get really impatient with that.

01:35:52.000 Like, I grew up in New England, so I grew up with snow, things like that.

01:35:55.000 But then, when you're driving, and the condition is just such that you cannot speed up, and there's no plow, and you just have to go slow, I start to just, like, get the jitters.

01:36:04.000 Like, I'm like, maybe it's worth speeding and flying off the road.

01:36:07.000 But then once we finally got back to the house, going up the driveway 10 feet, and then slid back down.

01:36:13.000 And it's like, ugh.

01:36:15.000 But we're gonna read Super Chats.

01:36:16.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:36:17.000 says, Moral compass doesn't point north.

01:36:20.000 A dream of hers is to bomb the earth. 1.00

01:36:23.000 Absolute bird brain, bat-ish crazy. 1.00

01:36:26.000 Everyone meet no teeth moving Nikki Haley. 1.00

01:36:30.000 My nipple has the first super chat saying foist. 0.96

01:36:32.000 That is correct sir! 0.97

01:36:33.000 You've won the prize.

01:36:34.000 Alright.

01:36:37.000 I hope they keep score on the discord of who actually gets, like, the most amount of firsts in a month.

01:36:43.000 Maybe we can do something like that.

01:36:45.000 I wonder what the legality is of doing a contest where it's like, we will track every day the first super chat, and then whoever has the most at the end of the month... Gets a gift!

01:36:55.000 Yeah, or like, I don't know.

01:36:58.000 10 grand or something.

01:36:58.000 Well, okay.

01:36:59.000 Wow, 10 grand.

01:36:59.000 That's a really nice gift.

01:37:01.000 And suddenly a bunch of people are jumping in the chat.

01:37:04.000 I think that, does that count as a- Well, we're setting your subscriptions one up, big time.

01:37:08.000 It's 10 grand, but it's all credit to our Teespring.

01:37:11.000 The reason why I say I wonder if that's the legality, because it sounds like a lottery almost.

01:37:14.000 Because everyone's going to be paying two bucks to try and get it.

01:37:18.000 But we're not saying it's a random chance, you have to be first.

01:37:21.000 But then it's a sweepstakes, like if you call in this number- There have to be free ways to join sweepstakes, I think.

01:37:26.000 Aren't there?

01:37:28.000 Isn't that a thing?

01:37:28.000 Yeah I think we can't do that for sure.

01:37:29.000 Like with Publisher's Clearing House you had to like have a free way to...

01:37:33.000 Yeah, so here's the other thing too, because we were planning on doing like this Timcast grant thing, where every month we'd give 10 grand, we just can't do it.

01:37:40.000 And so I have given people money through other ways, but basically the legality of it is, we want it to be like, if you're a member and you're working on a cool project and you share with us, we will help you fund that project.

01:37:52.000 It's not legal.

01:37:52.000 You're not allowed to do it.

01:37:54.000 You can't- That's so weird.

01:37:56.000 Why?

01:37:57.000 Because if you require someone to be a member with a chance to win money, you're engaged in illegal gambling.

01:38:02.000 Yeah, it's gambling.

01:38:03.000 And I'm like, yeah, there's a judging criteria.

01:38:05.000 And they're like, the way you do it is, you don't have to be a member, and an external panel decides who gets the money.

01:38:10.000 And then I'm like, yeah, but we're trying to do this for the community to invest in the stuff.

01:38:14.000 So basically, someone who's never supported the show, doesn't really watch, pitches something.

01:38:19.000 We can't ask them if they're a fan of the show and they support any of the work we do.

01:38:23.000 They get the money, and then someone who's worked really, really hard and has been dedicated, I'm like, so we really can't do it, unfortunately.

01:38:28.000 So we can't do any stuff like that.

01:38:30.000 Anyway.

01:38:30.000 That's right!

01:38:31.000 Or maybe Ron DeSantis!

01:38:32.000 Oy.

01:38:32.000 I gotta be honest.

01:38:33.000 needs to be pushed with every ounce of energy we have.

01:38:35.000 Nikki is a candidate for the Democrats because they have no one.

01:38:38.000 What if something happens with Trump court cases and is disqualified?

01:38:41.000 Nikki.

01:38:42.000 That's right!

01:38:43.000 Or maybe Ron DeSantis.

01:38:45.000 Oy.

01:38:46.000 I gotta be honest, I'll take Ron.

01:38:48.000 Yo, if Trump gets knocked out and it's Ron versus Nikki, Ron's got my vote.

01:38:52.000 And you know what's really funny?

01:38:53.000 Because I was saying before I wouldn't vote for him over the AI image debacle.

01:38:57.000 Then Nikki Haley jumped in and I was like, Lord help us.

01:39:01.000 I've realized my mistake.

01:39:03.000 It could get worse.

01:39:05.000 It's a good lesson for all of us to learn.

01:39:07.000 But maybe that's the real plan.

01:39:08.000 They were like, look, Ron's not popular.

01:39:10.000 We need to make him look more attractive by relative comparison.

01:39:14.000 It's Ron's backers who are like, Nicky, come on, join the race.

01:39:17.000 But they're like, we need Ron to look better.

01:39:19.000 You know, this super long primary season we live in, it's never ending.

01:39:22.000 At least it really hyper-focused on their personalities.

01:39:25.000 And you couldn't get around it, right?

01:39:27.000 So you're really shined on who really Nicky is and who Ron is.

01:39:32.000 It's part of our culture now.

01:39:33.000 I wish we didn't live in this never-ending cycle of running for office.

01:39:38.000 Since 2015, it's never ended.

01:39:40.000 Never.

01:39:40.000 That's crazy.

01:39:42.000 So crazy.

01:39:43.000 I feel like it was just January 6th yesterday.

01:39:47.000 I remember when we started Timcast IRL.

01:39:49.000 Don't forget January 13th.

01:39:52.000 Some of the first clips we did was like reviewing Sonic the Hedgehog and talking about aliens.

01:39:59.000 And then just politics became pop culture.

01:40:03.000 Every day it got crazier and crazier and has been ever since.

01:40:06.000 And you know the funny thing is, so I have youtube.com slash timcast.

01:40:10.000 That's where the Culture War show clips go up every day.

01:40:14.000 And then the live show itself is on Tenet Media.

01:40:16.000 So guys subscribe to them.

01:40:17.000 They're awesome.

01:40:18.000 doing really great work.

01:40:20.000 And that was like, that channel, I would do a 4 p.m. news segment,

01:40:24.000 that was about a half an hour long, and I'd be like, here's the big story of the day.

01:40:26.000 And then I have youtube.com slash TimCastNews, subscribe to that channel as well,

01:40:30.000 where I put up four videos every day.

01:40:32.000 That channel was like movies, video games, commentary culture, pop culture stuff.

01:40:37.000 And all of that just turned into politics.

01:40:39.000 Nobody cares about any of that stuff anymore.

01:40:42.000 And so now that channel is just basically like the news and what's going on.

01:40:46.000 And man, it's kind of wild that this is where we've gotten to culturally.

01:40:51.000 It's just politics is pop culture.

01:40:52.000 Everything is politics all the time.

01:40:54.000 I mean, Mia Khalifa being confronted by like some Jewish mother. 1.00

01:40:58.000 Jewish mom. 0.98

01:40:58.000 I'm like, why is the porn star lady debating Israel? 0.98

01:41:01.000 Yes. 0.98

01:41:02.000 Why?

01:41:03.000 It's too much.

01:41:04.000 I have a good friend, before I went on the air, his name is Mike Fils-Aime.

01:41:07.000 He's a big online marketer, tech guy.

01:41:10.000 And he says, tell Tim, thank Tim, because we were all afraid five years ago to come out.

01:41:16.000 So afraid.

01:41:17.000 Now because of Tim and these other podcasts across the country, we're ready to speak.

01:41:22.000 So he wanted to thank you for that.

01:41:24.000 I appreciate it.

01:41:25.000 There was a really funny post in like 2017 where someone wrote about coming out as a Trump supporter and a bunch of people were commenting that they were like identical to coming out as gay.

01:41:37.000 It was like, I'm scared to tell my family and friends that I support Donald Trump because they'll shun me and ostracize me.

01:41:42.000 They won't accept me or they may kick me out of the family.

01:41:44.000 And I was like, this is so funny.

01:41:46.000 I think that is the experience, though.

01:41:47.000 And in some ways, because everything has become so political, I almost wonder if we'll get a moment where everyone's, like, burned out of politics and it becomes uninteresting.

01:41:56.000 I just think we have another four or five years to go, unfortunately.

01:41:59.000 Yeah, I feel a lot of people that have been saying they were just burned out in general.

01:42:02.000 All right.

01:42:02.000 Joe Spinell says, this is a comment to your earlier segment, people in Alaska plugging in their vehicles.

01:42:06.000 Those are heater blocks, especially for diesel, not primarily for the battery.

01:42:10.000 Diesel fuel in sub-arctic temperatures can turn to jelly.

01:42:12.000 That's correct, but your earlier comment is incorrect.

01:42:15.000 Every vehicle had a plug in it, and they're gas vehicles, not diesel vehicles, and it was for their batteries.

01:42:21.000 At least that's what they told us.

01:42:23.000 The car rental agency said, your gasoline SUV will freeze, the battery will stop working, you have to plug it in.

01:42:29.000 In fact, when they gave us the car, the remote, The electronic entry didn't work.

01:42:34.000 Oh, I gotta tell you.

01:42:36.000 We got an SUV.

01:42:38.000 They give us the key to it.

01:42:39.000 It's minus 28.

01:42:40.000 It doesn't work.

01:42:43.000 And so we're out there, it's freezing.

01:42:44.000 In Iowa?

01:42:45.000 Alaska.

01:42:46.000 We're in Fairbanks.

01:42:47.000 And they said, yeah, if it doesn't work, just pop the key out because there is a mechanical key in it.

01:42:53.000 The car has no keyhole anymore.

01:42:56.000 They're all electric remote entry and it's too cold so it doesn't work.

01:43:01.000 And so they're like, oh, you have to warm it up.

01:43:03.000 And I'm like, yeah, so it was plugged in.

01:43:07.000 All the rentals come with extension cables.

01:43:09.000 And they say if you don't plug it in, your battery will die.

01:43:12.000 So that's what they told us.

01:43:14.000 That's crazy.

01:43:14.000 I do understand that diesel also has heater blocks because diesel needs to get warmed up before it can start.

01:43:19.000 Sure, I get that.

01:43:20.000 But plugging in the vehicles was specifically because the batteries were dying.

01:43:25.000 And we went to the hotel and they didn't have any plugs.

01:43:29.000 So we went in and said, it's minus 28 right now.

01:43:33.000 Will the car be fine overnight?

01:43:34.000 And the lady said, no, your battery will be dead in the morning.

01:43:36.000 And we're like, okay.

01:43:37.000 And she's like, so go drive around until you can find a place to plug it in.

01:43:39.000 And if you can't, park in a handicap. 0.96

01:43:41.000 And then we waited.

01:43:42.000 Someone left.

01:43:42.000 We took a spot.

01:43:43.000 We plugged it in.

01:43:45.000 But that's what we were told.

01:43:47.000 Maybe they were wrong.

01:43:47.000 I don't know.

01:43:50.000 Alright.

01:43:51.000 Sarah Lee Hooper says, Encanto is the last good Disney movie worth the watch.

01:43:55.000 I don't believe it.

01:43:56.000 I'm not watching it.

01:43:56.000 Sorry.

01:43:57.000 I never saw it.

01:43:57.000 I'm not gonna do it.

01:43:58.000 I'm okay.

01:43:59.000 Yeah, so She-Hulk, I guess that's, you know, She-Hulk got cancelled or whatever.

01:44:02.000 Good.

01:44:02.000 That show was weird.

01:44:03.000 I only saw one episode of it.

01:44:04.000 Get woke, go broke!

01:44:06.000 My son and his friend hate-watched that show.

01:44:09.000 What was their take?

01:44:10.000 They would tell me about it.

01:44:11.000 They hated it.

01:44:11.000 They just thought that it was really lame and that the main character had absolutely no story arc.

01:44:17.000 Yeah, and then the story arc doesn't even... Like, what arc there was is her just jumping out of the Disney Plus... I'm not kidding.

01:44:24.000 She jumps out of the Disney Plus thumbnail for the show and then walks around the Disney Plus streaming app and, like, then meets Kevin Feige or something.

01:44:33.000 Man, they really had no idea what they were doing.

01:44:36.000 They lost their minds.

01:44:38.000 All right, The Homeless Veteran says, how do I get on here to tell my story about an insane paranormal mission I had overseas that is still not acknowledged?

01:44:43.000 Retired Army.

01:44:44.000 And about my persecution by the FBI and USG, I want to tell it, I-D-G-A-F, about after.

01:44:51.000 That sounds like a job for Shane Cashman.

01:44:54.000 Normal stuff is definitely Shane.

01:44:55.000 Yeah, the Inverted World Live show is going to be getting started very soon.

01:45:01.000 Because we finally got the Freedomistan building done.

01:45:03.000 But it's not just Freedomistan.

01:45:05.000 The new studio location we have is 50 acres.

01:45:07.000 It's got multiple structures.

01:45:09.000 We've got two primary offices and studios for the show.

01:45:12.000 So we can launch more shows.

01:45:15.000 Really, really crazy what we're building over here.

01:45:16.000 We're investing millions into our new skate show, The Boonies.

01:45:20.000 So subscribe to The Boonies!

01:45:22.000 I think it's Boonies HQ on YouTube.

01:45:24.000 You can search for The Boonies.

01:45:25.000 And, uh, Instagram, where we're going to be building, uh, we've already built this large private facility.

01:45:30.000 The skate park should be done in about April.

01:45:31.000 A bunch of pro skateboarders have already come through and done interviews with pro skateboarder Richie Jackson, who is our principal host of the Boonies Show.

01:45:39.000 And we've got big interest from some of the top pros in the world.

01:45:42.000 I gotta tell you guys, have hope, and do not be blackpilled.

01:45:45.000 When I watch these huge pros for like Nitro Circus, and I'm talking like big professional athletes, and they're wearing Public Square t-shirts, Black Rifle Coffee, we are winning.

01:45:59.000 It used to be that these pro skaters I'd complain about, they'd hit me up being like, look, man, I'm a big fan, but I'm scared I'll get fired from my job.

01:46:04.000 Now they're like, well, if I do get dropped, I mean, Black Rifle called me up, they're offering sponsorships.

01:46:08.000 I'm like, yes! 0.99

01:46:09.000 So, you know, as much as people have had beef with Black Rifle in the past, yo, they're sponsoring athletes and giving them a chance to say F you to the woke garbage? 0.98

01:46:16.000 That is awesome. 0.83

01:46:17.000 Yeah, I know people have a lot of opinions about Black Rifle Coffee, but every time I'm in a Walmart and I see how much Black Rifle Coffee is there, it kind of blows my mind.

01:46:24.000 Because I remember when they were just sponsoring people on YouTube, I didn't even know if they had a retail store, and now it's like, oh, you're pushing your way into the mainstream.

01:46:31.000 When I heard that, I don't know if I'm breaking it, I don't think I'm breaking it, but Travis Pastrana is sponsored by Black Rifle.

01:46:39.000 I'm pretty sure that's true, right?

01:46:42.000 Let me just, let me double check here.

01:46:46.000 Yeah, Travis Pastrana is sponsored by Black Rifle Coffee, I believe.

01:46:51.000 Whatever.

01:46:52.000 And when I found out that was happening back in the day, because he was on Red Bull before, I was like, we're winning.

01:46:58.000 And this is massive.

01:47:00.000 This is a pro to a company.

01:47:02.000 Far from perfect, a lot of people have their criticisms, but there's other pro skateboarders wearing public square shirts, and pro athletes, and I'm like, we are winning.

01:47:12.000 Some of the biggest pro skateboarders in the world, in their skateparks, have Rumble on their walls.

01:47:17.000 And Rumble, I believe, is the exclusive location for Street League skateboarding.

01:47:23.000 I'm like, guys, we're winning this.

01:47:24.000 Now I'm getting hit up by some of the biggest names in professional sports, in action sports, saying like, we're huge fans, we're gonna come out, we're gonna skate, scoot, blade, bike, all that stuff.

01:47:34.000 And I'm like, this is it.

01:47:37.000 Young people are going to be pulled in this direction.

01:47:39.000 We're going to believe in freedom, meritocracy, individual responsibility.

01:47:42.000 This is how we do it.

01:47:44.000 Good fun.

01:47:45.000 I just wanted to say, with regard to Disney, did you guys see the new thing that they came up with, which was the first deaf Native American amputee superhero?

01:47:57.000 Echo.

01:47:58.000 Yeah.

01:47:59.000 Yeah, but I don't really have an issue with it so much as they're making it about that because imagine if Daredevil was like the first blind superhero and the whole show was just about how he's being oppressed for being differently abled.

01:48:12.000 So when they're like, we're making a show about a minority deaf woman, I'm like, no, no, no, hold on, hold on. 0.99

01:48:17.000 We like Daredevil, okay?

01:48:19.000 He was a kid.

01:48:20.000 He got blinded.

01:48:21.000 So he attuned his senses.

01:48:23.000 So now he has like super senses and he became super great.

01:48:27.000 Blindness does not make him.

01:48:28.000 It actually makes the character really interesting.

01:48:30.000 Like in the scene in Spider-Man, when he's sitting at the table and the brick flies through the window and he catches it.

01:48:34.000 And they're like, how did you do that?

01:48:35.000 And he's like, I'm a really good lawyer.

01:48:37.000 Like, it's great because a blind person should not be so good at this, but he's a superhero. 1.00

01:48:41.000 So if they're going to make Echo, who's deaf, It needs to be like, look, Daredevil is blind and he has echolocation because his ears are so good, but it's also his weakness.

01:48:50.000 Loud noises go, ah, and he falls.

01:48:53.000 What are they doing with Echo?

01:48:54.000 She is a minority amputee deaf woman.

01:48:56.000 And then they do a bunch of cringe stuff in the trailer that are, it's about being deaf.

01:48:59.000 And it's just like, oh, come on, man.

01:49:01.000 That's the lame part, is when you make it about the thing, as opposed to about a story or a narrative or something organic.

01:49:06.000 The Office, of course, is a quiet place, right?

01:49:09.000 Where, like, the daughter was deaf, but it worked out in this world because it gave this family this advantage.

01:49:14.000 They already spoke sign language.

01:49:15.000 Like, that's when I felt like that played into the storyline well.

01:49:19.000 Big Champ says, Buenos noches, Tim and friends.

01:49:21.000 I'd like to recommend Youngstown, Ohio for your live show.

01:49:23.000 Being the halfway point between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, you'd be sure to draw a good crowd.

01:49:27.000 Penguin City Brewery is a possible venue.

01:49:29.000 I'm pretty sure Youngstown is where, during the Occupy protests, the police and firefighters joined in the protests over the corruption in government.

01:49:38.000 And then the government went to the police and said, we'll give you anything you want.

01:49:40.000 The cops said, you got it.

01:49:41.000 Turned around and arrest all their co-protesters.

01:49:43.000 Wow.

01:49:44.000 I'm exaggerating like that's medieval the cops got what they wanted and turn around said okay everybody time to go

01:49:49.000 home Reminds me of I think it was family guy

01:49:51.000 Peter Griffin's protesting the new supermarket that the super center that moves in like this Walmart or whatever

01:49:56.000 Mm-hmm And then when he goes in to complain that for my job then

01:49:59.000 he turns around walks out says you are trespassing and you are

01:50:01.000 required to leave That's the reality of a lot of people man

01:50:05.000 They'll sit there and scream and protest.

01:50:07.000 All you gotta do is offer them cash and then all of a sudden they're like, I'm with you.

01:50:11.000 This is true for a lot of these leftists.

01:50:13.000 I make a wager.

01:50:15.000 Maybe we can do an undercover show to prove this point and really destroy some of these woke far-left extremists.

01:50:20.000 Undercover footage where you go to some far-left Antifa person and then just legitimately offer them cash to do a job that they would otherwise protest.

01:50:31.000 And when they say yes, Then be like, oh, hey, look, here's this guy you think is a big eco-activist and environmentalist.

01:50:37.000 We offered him, you know, a six-figure job working on a petroleum rig, and he said yes.

01:50:41.000 Well, you know, it's because I thought I could do more good.

01:50:43.000 Yeah, okay, please, dude.

01:50:45.000 But also work.

01:50:46.000 I just feel like that's the thing that's gonna be averse to.

01:50:48.000 Yeah, you could be like, hey, you've got a bunch of followers on social media.

01:50:53.000 We'd be willing to pay you.

01:50:54.000 You know, like, hey, we agree.

01:50:56.000 We're trying to save the environment, but help us do the right thing and spread the good word about the good work we're doing and why petroleum is good, and we'll pay you 20 grand.

01:51:02.000 And they're gonna be like, okay.

01:51:04.000 There were a bunch of, um, or I saw this report that gas stations were trying to give sponsorships to lots of, like, young social media influencers to be like, come to my gas station, it is cool!

01:51:14.000 Which I thought was kind of funny.

01:51:15.000 Gas stations are always cool.

01:51:17.000 Yeah, but the fact that you have to pay an influencer to tell you that, that's weird.

01:51:21.000 Wyatt Caldenberg says, HCB, do the after show, you are smart and well-read, you and Libby can do it.

01:51:26.000 Three Collins and Smalltalk, it's time to move your game up a level.

01:51:30.000 Dude, thanks.

01:51:30.000 This is career coaching from the chat over here.

01:51:33.000 What a hype. 0.91

01:51:33.000 You guys are fun. 0.91

01:51:35.000 And then Christopher Lambert says, Brimcast, Brimcast, Brimcast, Brimcast.

01:51:39.000 I'm not putting the energy into it.

01:51:40.000 I'm tired, but there's like 15 exclamation points there.

01:51:43.000 Well, I appreciate this.

01:51:44.000 Oh my gosh.

01:51:46.000 Surge texted me, I will say, during the show being like, Sir, are you being serious about this?

01:51:50.000 And I was like, it's yours.

01:51:51.000 It's Tim's idea that I do the after show.

01:51:53.000 So I'm glad the chat's in support.

01:51:54.000 I'm happy to do it.

01:51:56.000 That's the point of having other people work at this company.

01:51:58.000 It's just the after show, but it keeps the- So I can't ruin it.

01:52:01.000 I mean, it's behind the paywall.

01:52:02.000 Well, no, it's like, you know, it's an opportunity for the guests to call in and ask questions.

01:52:08.000 Yeah, no, I'm happy for it.

01:52:09.000 I really like our members.

01:52:10.000 I did, over Thanksgiving, Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:52:13.000 walked me through how to use our Discord, because I'm a boomer, and I got to talk to people in the Discord.

01:52:18.000 It's such a cool community.

01:52:19.000 I'm glad that we have been able to cultivate it somehow, or at least bring them together in a central place.

01:52:23.000 So the event we did in Iowa, I think we're going to end up losing, you know, low five figures on doing that trip because it costs like it costs over $100,000 to do in order to get nine people.

01:52:36.000 Because we have people who produce the show, manage the venues, work with guest relations and stuff, and security.

01:52:43.000 The only way to do it is if we fly out on a private jet.

01:52:47.000 Only way to make it possible.

01:52:48.000 And I'm not some hippy-dippy eco-activist, I don't care if you're flying on a private jet as long as you can afford it. 0.99

01:52:53.000 But if you're a hypocrite, then I'll make fun of you. 0.77

01:52:55.000 So, you know, it's like, so last week on Tuesday, As soon as the show wrapped at, you know, 11, we got out the door, got in the car, drove straight to the jet, landed in Iowa at like 2 in the morning, went to bed, and woke up to start producing, uh... Oh no, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that's not what happened. 0.96

01:53:13.000 The flight got cancelled because of the weather.

01:53:15.000 Did the morning show and then left that morning.

01:53:17.000 Landed and then did the nightly show.

01:53:20.000 Then coming back was also extremely brutal.

01:53:22.000 We were sponsored by Based Records, B-A-S-T-E Records.

01:53:26.000 Super grateful for their help.

01:53:29.000 excited to work with them on some music projects too.

01:53:31.000 And that helped cover a bulk of the costs, but not all of it.

01:53:34.000 We sold tickets, the ticket sales cover almost nothing.

01:53:37.000 And so we lose money doing it.

01:53:39.000 But I think it's incredibly beneficial to the company.

01:53:41.000 And I think it's incredibly beneficial culturally to have these on location events where people can come

01:53:46.000 and hang out and actually watch the show in person and ask questions.

01:53:48.000 But one of the plans I think we're gonna do, we've been advised by some bigger companies is,

01:53:53.000 and this is Luke's idea, is to do super private, like VIP dinners

01:54:00.000 between five and $10,000 per ticket, not for individual regular people,

01:54:04.000 but for businesses who wanted to have private meetings.

01:54:07.000 And it's not because we wanna make money, it's because we wanna fund the show.

01:54:10.000 So it's like, if we want to do more events, here's the restriction.

01:54:14.000 We reach out to sponsors and say, hey guys, we want to do a stage show in this place, it's gonna cost, here's all the costs, we'll show all of them to you.

01:54:20.000 Stage production, camera, equipment, rental, security, and people don't understand how expensive security is.

01:54:26.000 Seriously, if you've got a presidential candidate coming down, they're gonna be like, how many exits and entrances in the building?

01:54:31.000 Eight?

01:54:32.000 I want two guards at each entrance.

01:54:33.000 Okay, those are 50 bucks an hour people. 0.95

01:54:35.000 And so all that's super expensive per day.

01:54:38.000 But this way, we can actually put it out there and be like, if we can't get a sponsor, we'll try that approach.

01:54:43.000 Because we've actually had people say straight up, they would, like we've had people be like, hey, I will give you X amount of dollars to just be able to come and do like a private meeting with you guys.

01:54:51.000 And we're like, why don't we do a dinner?

01:54:53.000 And so I think that's one opportunity to help fund more of these things.

01:54:56.000 Because we've got people who want us to do, you know, once a month or something.

01:55:01.000 And I'm like, bro, that is so brutal.

01:55:02.000 Like, people don't sleep.

01:55:04.000 Gotta get on a plane.

01:55:06.000 The only way that's possible is with a lot of money.

01:55:08.000 And then everyone says, okay.

01:55:09.000 And we're like, okay, well then you help fund it.

01:55:11.000 And they're like, okay.

01:55:11.000 And I'm like, alright, we'll give it a shot.

01:55:13.000 We'll see what happens.

01:55:13.000 So that's one idea we might do.

01:55:15.000 And, uh, you know, we'll see what happens, but, uh, I think the next event will have a series of, like, ultra-VIP private dinner tickets, which is basically what politicians do when they're like, hey, it's, you know, five grand for a ticket to come have dinner with me.

01:55:28.000 But ours is gonna be like, you come have dinner, then we go to the show, and you help put that show on, and we'll give you a shout-out and a thank you for sponsoring the show.

01:55:36.000 Well, Trump does a fundraiser.

01:55:37.000 He charges for clicks, photos.

01:55:40.000 Really?

01:55:40.000 Beforehand, yeah.

01:55:41.000 Just to get a photo, $25,000.

01:55:43.000 Something like that.

01:55:44.000 $25,000 for a photo with Trump?

01:55:46.000 And then afterwards is the regular fundraiser for maybe $1,000.

01:55:50.000 I get it.

01:55:50.000 I mean, if you're doing a fundraiser and you're like, look, like Trump's- When you get a photo with the sitting president, right?

01:55:56.000 Yeah.

01:55:57.000 And my thing is like, my first thought is, man, to try and charge that much.

01:56:02.000 But there are people who are like, look, I run a big company.

01:56:04.000 We want to pitch some ideas to you.

01:56:06.000 We would help.

01:56:07.000 It's basically not that you're giving us money for profit.

01:56:09.000 It's your sponsor.

01:56:10.000 So these are like, you get to have private dinner and then you're also a listed sponsor of the show at the time and stuff like that.

01:56:15.000 So I think it'll be fun.

01:56:16.000 And that's what we'll try to do.

01:56:17.000 So that'll help us get more events and allow us to travel to more places.

01:56:22.000 All right, the real Raul Camacho says, Magaswami, Vivek VP, make it happen.

01:56:29.000 He would be good.

01:56:30.000 He would be good.

01:56:32.000 I don't know who would be better, to be completely honest.

01:56:34.000 I know who politically and market-wise could be good, but Vivek is, man, Vivek is a good weapon for Donald Trump.

01:56:43.000 You cannot win an argument with that man.

01:56:45.000 Like, the media will try to go after him, he's gonna run circles around him.

01:56:49.000 Very, very smart guy.

01:56:50.000 Very smart.

01:56:52.000 And very articulate, right?

01:56:54.000 What did Joe Biden say about Barack Obama?

01:56:56.000 Do you remember that?

01:56:58.000 No?

01:56:58.000 No.

01:57:00.000 Joe Biden said something about Barack Obama was articulate.

01:57:02.000 Didn't he say he was articulate?

01:57:03.000 Yeah.

01:57:04.000 Something like that.

01:57:05.000 This guy is our president and he was his vice president.

01:57:08.000 He didn't say it like that.

01:57:09.000 He said something.

01:57:10.000 But it probably was basically like that.

01:57:12.000 I mean, somebody must bring in this golden retriever immediately.

01:57:16.000 Actually, if Trump said, Vivek, take over my press conference today, it would be amazing, right?

01:57:20.000 Because Vivek is an incredible hand in the press.

01:57:22.000 He did say that.

01:57:25.000 Almost as good as Trump.

01:57:26.000 Yeah, in 2007.

01:57:26.000 He said, I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy.

01:57:34.000 Dude, Biden's a scumbag. 1.00

01:57:36.000 But the MAGA extremists are racist. 1.00

01:57:38.000 I know, right? 0.51

01:57:40.000 What?

01:57:40.000 He said, I mean, that's a storybook, man.

01:57:44.000 Geez.

01:57:45.000 Oh man.

01:57:46.000 Alright, Classic Stang Lover says, doesn't cabinet members have to be pre-approved by Congress?

01:57:55.000 Would they allow the vague?

01:57:56.000 I don't think they have to be approved, right?

01:57:58.000 Cabinet members?

01:57:59.000 No, that's just like hiring your staff.

01:58:00.000 I think so.

01:58:01.000 There's certain positions that have to be approved, confirmation, but those are like bureaucratic positions.

01:58:07.000 Alright.

01:58:08.000 Get a pair with Sully, says Tim.

01:58:09.000 Dems infiltrating Republicans the same as what the Whigs did when they went extinct. 0.84

01:58:14.000 The Whigs took over the Democrats completely and remained prominent in Reps. 0.50

01:58:17.000 The first Republican president was a lifelong Whig. 0.96

01:58:20.000 Yes, Lincoln was a Whig. 0.96

01:58:22.000 Oh, you know what would be really funny?

01:58:24.000 If Republicans infiltrate the Democratic primary, and then nominate Trump, and then Nikki Haley wins the Republican, but Trump's the Democrat, and everyone's just like, I guess I'm voting Democrat?

01:58:33.000 I never thought that would happen.

01:58:35.000 Then Donald Trump is like, I'm changing parties now that I'm elected.

01:58:40.000 All right.

01:58:41.000 BT Diaz says, the cabinet positions, etc.

01:58:43.000 for Vivek is good and all, but how much government experience did Trump have in 2016?

01:58:48.000 I reject this notion that government experience, small-time or otherwise, guarantees a good president.

01:58:52.000 I didn't say that.

01:58:53.000 I said Donald Trump has experience in government, so he'd be better than Vivek Ramaswamy.

01:58:57.000 Vivek Ramaswamy getting experience in government would make him a better president in 2028.

01:59:00.000 And it keeps him in the news.

01:59:04.000 Exactly.

01:59:05.000 He needs to be in the news.

01:59:07.000 He needs to be And you know the news is not going to get any nicer to Trump and we need a fighter like Revek going against the news cycle, going against the mainstream media constantly because we're going to get a barrage of anti-Trump, anti-conservative.

01:59:21.000 Sorry, I'm jumping out of my skin tonight.

01:59:23.000 I'm so nervous about Brimcast.

01:59:25.000 No, and what Tim said, what I remember about it was that one of the things Trump had to do during his first time in office was to learn where there were issues and learn where the landmines are.

01:59:35.000 Having experience, being able to see what's going on on the inside would benefit Vivek or whoever is the nominee in 2028.

01:59:41.000 Joden80 says, if Trump picks Tulsi for VP, doesn't that boost his chances of getting on Rogan?

01:59:46.000 Does that boost her chances? 0.96

01:59:47.000 Dude, a Rogan-Gabbard-Trump episode would be the most viewed podcast in history.

01:59:53.000 Yeah, probably.

01:59:54.000 That would be cool.

01:59:55.000 Like, if Trump went on Rogan, it would get a lot of views, and it may be close to the most viewed podcast in history.

02:00:01.000 But, like, you throw someone in the mix, like Tulsi Gabbard, or even Vivek, and it's gonna be the most.

02:00:06.000 Like, who's gonna miss that show?

02:00:07.000 Yeah.

02:00:08.000 No way.

02:00:08.000 I would watch it.

02:00:09.000 Yeah, for sure.

02:00:11.000 Alright, let's grab one more here.

02:00:12.000 What do we have?

02:00:15.000 Alright!

02:00:16.000 Jason Hutchison says, Tim, buy a jet and when they are not flying you around, rent it out.

02:00:21.000 That is an option.

02:00:22.000 And jets aren't as expensive as people think.

02:00:24.000 I shouldn't say jets, but private flight.

02:00:28.000 So we did look at this.

02:00:29.000 There are like five seater turboprop planes that are a couple hundred grand.

02:00:33.000 So that means you're spending like two or $3,000 a month on the loan.

02:00:38.000 Then you've got to have staffing.

02:00:40.000 That could be like 100 to 200K for a good pilot and you probably need more than one.

02:00:45.000 So, all in all, we talked to a company, and we were like, if we want to do, every month, some kind of event, that means we need a jet.

02:00:52.000 And they said, ultimately, you're going to end up spending, like, a million bucks a year to maintain, fuel, and fly this thing.

02:01:00.000 And you've got to make it worth it.

02:01:01.000 And I'm like, oh man, that's kind of crazy.

02:01:04.000 If we do like four events per year, we're gonna be spending like a hundred grand per year in private flights.

02:01:09.000 And so, okay, maybe that's, you know, we do something smaller.

02:01:13.000 But there's something called net jets, where you spend several hundred thousand dollars to buy a share, shares in a fleet.

02:01:19.000 And then when you schedule a flight, all you have to do is pay the time for the staff.

02:01:25.000 You pay the flat costs, so there's no profit, you know.

02:01:28.000 Like when you book a private jet, there's a broker fee.

02:01:31.000 They will, someone's renting the plane out, they wanna make a profit.

02:01:34.000 With net jets, it's just covering the costs and you're a part owner

02:01:36.000 and you can always sell your shares later.

02:01:38.000 So- It's like a timeshare for jets.

02:01:40.000 Yeah, and it's what a lot, I think it's what, whenever I talk to ultra rich people,

02:01:44.000 most of them don't even bother having jets that I talk to.

02:01:46.000 But I mean, if you're super rich, like Bill Gates, but I got five, Trump's got three, I think.

02:01:50.000 But for like the not ultra billionaires, It's just it makes more sense.

02:01:56.000 I know a guy who's like Effectively a billionaire and he's like and net jets is easier.

02:02:00.000 They handle everything for you.

02:02:01.000 Don't gotta worry about pilots You don't gotta manage anything.

02:02:03.000 You just call them up and say here's the flight I need and they say we'll see you there Is it ever funny to you that you have reached a place in your life where people are like, Tim, just buy a private plane.

02:02:11.000 Just buy a private plane, Tim.

02:02:12.000 I always knew this day would come.

02:02:14.000 OK, so you did.

02:02:15.000 No, not really.

02:02:16.000 I mean, it's it's when we're at this point where we flew on a private jet last this morning, we are landing.

02:02:23.000 And it's funny, I'm thinking about it, how it's not fun.

02:02:27.000 Was it NetJets?

02:02:27.000 Did you use NetJets?

02:02:29.000 I was a broker, as a regular broker.

02:02:31.000 The first plane we got out there was great.

02:02:35.000 It had a wifi on it.

02:02:36.000 The flight back didn't.

02:02:38.000 You know, you never know what you're gonna get.

02:02:40.000 Cause you just, basically what we did was we called a broker

02:02:41.000 and we said, we need a flight, and we said, here's what we can find for you.

02:02:43.000 And you gotta pay these ridiculous fees and it's massive, it's expensive.

02:02:46.000 But for me, it's just like, it is not fun to land at three in the morning

02:02:52.000 and then not get any sleep.

02:02:54.000 No, that doesn't sound fun at all.

02:02:55.000 So these people make these videos and Instagram posts where they're like walking onto a private jet.

02:02:59.000 And I'm like, the average person who's flying is bored of flying and is like,

02:03:04.000 ugh, I've got to travel for a meeting.

02:03:06.000 It's work, it's work, it's work.

02:03:08.000 And it's a practical issue of, is there business and market demand for what you're doing?

02:03:14.000 And if there is, then you have to spend the money on it.

02:03:16.000 And I don't walk out of the airport and go, wow, look at me on a private jet.

02:03:19.000 And I'm like, ugh.

02:03:22.000 We got to rush out the door.

02:03:23.000 It's stressful.

02:03:24.000 It's painful.

02:03:26.000 It's uncomfortable.

02:03:27.000 There's no food.

02:03:28.000 You do not like the bat if you if you're lucky enough to get one of these things with the bathroom because most of them don't have like a lot of jets and turbo props.

02:03:35.000 They have no bathrooms.

02:03:36.000 Yeah, you're flying.

02:03:37.000 You're flying for a couple hours.

02:03:38.000 No bathroom.

02:03:38.000 They say go before you leave and good luck.

02:03:40.000 The nicer ones will have a bathroom but the bathrooms are really awful.

02:03:43.000 And you're cramped.

02:03:44.000 Really?

02:03:44.000 It's not fun.

02:03:46.000 Flying first class commercial is better.

02:03:48.000 Way better.

02:03:49.000 They give you a steak, you get a wet cloth, a hot towel, and you're wiping your face.

02:03:54.000 But then you gotta go through security and deal with all that BS.

02:03:56.000 And so in the long run, it's like, I can't go to IAD to fly at midnight to catch a show in Iowa and do this stuff.

02:04:05.000 So that's where we're at.

02:04:05.000 But we'll wrap it up there.

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02:04:19.000 I've had a headache the whole time because I haven't slept, but you know, you gotta do what you gotta do.

02:04:24.000 So I appreciate all of you guys watching and supporting the show, making all this possible.

02:04:29.000 I shouted out Bass Records several times because we were only able to do the Iowa show with their help, because they sponsored the show.

02:04:35.000 It didn't cover all the costs.

02:04:36.000 You guys as members made it possible and picked up the rest, so shout out to all of the TimCast.com members for empowering us and the ability to make these shows happen.

02:04:45.000 I'm going to go to bed, but I appreciate all of your support.

02:04:48.000 Adam, do you want to shout anything out?

02:04:50.000 Thanks for having me, Tim, and we'll have some great, I got some great spots to tell you for your tour, and hopefully we'll see you in New York.

02:04:59.000 New York?

02:05:00.000 And Miami again.

02:05:01.000 Yeah, I think Miami's absolutely yes.

02:05:04.000 New York will probably be like outside New York somewhere, you know?

02:05:07.000 Long Island.

02:05:09.000 Maybe.

02:05:09.000 Yeah, maybe outside of New York State, you know?

02:05:11.000 Maybe we'll figure it out, but thanks for hanging out.

02:05:14.000 Are you on social media?

02:05:14.000 Should people follow you on?

02:05:15.000 Adam Matthew is my Twitter handle.

02:05:18.000 Adam5PR is my Instagram.

02:05:20.000 Cool.

02:05:20.000 What about, like, Niagara Falls?

02:05:22.000 Yes!

02:05:22.000 Let's go to Niagara Falls!

02:05:24.000 That sounds fun.

02:05:24.000 It does sound fun!

02:05:25.000 Pittsburgh's out of the question.

02:05:26.000 That is heartbreaking to me.

02:05:28.000 I'm so sad about it.

02:05:31.000 Without naming any of these venues, the general idea as conveyed to me is they're all basically like, if we book you, Antifa will burn down the venue. 0.99

02:05:40.000 Damn. 0.99

02:05:41.000 Come on, Pittsburgh. 1.00

02:05:42.000 No, not clarifying.

02:05:44.000 I don't believe anyone has explicitly said anything like that.

02:05:47.000 But they're scared.

02:05:48.000 The vibe is, as I'm described, it seems like, I'm being very careful, their concern is that Antifool will burn down their venues if they host us.

02:05:56.000 I still wish we could do a show somewhere in Pennsylvania because I think it's just such an interesting time to be in Pennsylvania.

02:06:01.000 What about Harrisburg?

02:06:03.000 We may have a big West Virginia one coming up. 0.78

02:06:05.000 Good.

02:06:05.000 I love West Virginia.

02:06:07.000 Great.

02:06:07.000 Also a good place.

02:06:08.000 Not far away.

02:06:09.000 Okay.

02:06:10.000 Yeah.

02:06:10.000 Which is one of the benefits for Pittsburgh, but yeah.

02:06:12.000 Well, that's too bad, but hopefully our Pittsburgh-based friends could come on down to West Virginia.

02:06:17.000 I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow.

02:06:18.000 I'm a writer for SCNR.com.

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02:06:39.000 Guys, thank you so much, and maybe I'll see you later.

02:06:42.000 Libby, I was so glad to see you tonight!

02:06:44.000 Yeah, it's great to see you too.

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02:07:11.000 Uh, yeah.

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02:07:28.000 Thanks for hanging out.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - January 17, 2024

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