Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - GOP Files Lawsuit Against Mike Pence To FORCE Him To Give Trump Win w- Eric July

00:00:00.000 January 6th.

00:00:28.000 supporters are going to descend on Washington DC.

00:00:31.000 for a peaceful protest, and Alex Jones says 10 million people are going to show up.

00:00:36.000 It'll be interesting.

00:00:37.000 We are currently planning on being there.

00:00:39.000 We'll see if it actually happens.

00:00:41.000 We just got some equipment.

00:00:42.000 It's really amazing stuff.

00:00:44.000 That's going to allow us to do this show live from D.C.

00:00:48.000 And, uh, we've got some tech work around.

00:00:50.000 So, as many of you know, I've been, you know, I used to work in the field exclusively, and figuring out ways to get internet and do live coverage of big events is kind of my specialty.

00:00:58.000 Now we've kind of been doing in-studio stuff, but we've got a plan, and it'll be really cool.

00:01:01.000 We're hoping to get various people from the rally to come up and speak, people probably you know and love, but we'll see how it plays out.

00:01:07.000 I say we're planning on being there, because there's a lot of technical hurdles.

00:01:11.000 It's difficult.

00:01:12.000 If 10 million people really show up, it's gonna be almost impossible to do any kind of show anywhere near D.C.

00:01:17.000 because just people cluttering up the internet.

00:01:19.000 Then it gets, you know, jammed and shuts down.

00:01:20.000 But it should be really interesting.

00:01:22.000 A lot of people are saying some crazy things.

00:01:24.000 They're kind of freaking me out.

00:01:25.000 And a lot of people are saying some things like, you know, big Occupy D.C.

00:01:29.000 rally.

00:01:29.000 So we'll see how it plays out.

00:01:30.000 But whether or not Donald Trump pulls off some triple lightning strike, quadruple lottery ticket victory, You know, it's going to depend on the objectors in the House.

00:01:42.000 And like, look, there could be some kind of Rube Goldberg type scenario occurring here where all of these pieces fall into place perfectly and then Trump wins.

00:01:51.000 We'll see.

00:01:51.000 I really don't think it's going to happen.

00:01:53.000 But the big news, several Republicans have filed a lawsuit against Mike Pence pertaining to the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to try and make him essentially Count the votes so that Trump wins.

00:02:08.000 It's kind of a crazy story, but I think it's more about public perception.

00:02:12.000 And they're trying, it seems like they're trying to force Pence to make a public declaration that he's going to be supporting Trump.

00:02:16.000 So we'll see how that plays out.

00:02:18.000 We've got a bunch of other news too.

00:02:19.000 We got this COVID relief bill passed.

00:02:21.000 They increased the stimulus from 600 to 2,000.

00:02:24.000 So now we're adding on another like $500 billion to this omnibus package.

00:02:28.000 Trump signed it.

00:02:29.000 Democrats laughed at him and said, we're not giving you anything.

00:02:32.000 It's ours.

00:02:32.000 Ha ha ha.

00:02:33.000 And then, you know, went all laughing and ran away.

00:02:35.000 We'll see how that plays out, and then we'll talk about those crazy TikTok nurses and a bunch of other stories.

00:02:39.000 But hanging out with us today is Eric July.

00:02:43.000 Hey man, I'm here, and I appreciate you having me, man, like, seriously.

00:02:45.000 I know a lot of folks have wanted this to happen, so.

00:02:47.000 Oh, for real?

00:02:48.000 I appreciate you having me.

00:02:49.000 Well, people are posting in the chat all the time.

00:02:50.000 Yeah, like, on my side as well, I'm like, guys, I don't think it works like that.

00:02:54.000 You don't demand yourself on, like, nobody demands themselves on my show either.

00:02:57.000 But I was gonna say, that's, like, what gets people not on the show.

00:02:59.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:03:00.000 It's like, yeah, same thing on my side, so I don't know why people do that, but either way, man, I appreciate Yeah, right on, man.

00:03:07.000 I think it's going to be interesting, especially considering, you know, this massive, you know, omnibus bill.

00:03:12.000 Getting your opinions will be cool.

00:03:14.000 Yeah, we'll talk about it.

00:03:15.000 So Luke's here, too.

00:03:16.000 Welcome back, beautiful, amazing human beings.

00:03:19.000 We are Change.org.

00:03:20.000 It's great to be back on the Tim Foyle Wars broadcast here.

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00:03:26.000 Tim Foyle Wars.

00:03:26.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:03:27.000 You know, it's a new name for the show, I think.

00:03:29.000 It's great.

00:03:29.000 Now, I'm still a free agent, but I was able to convince Tim to get a squatting deadlift power workout cage so I'm gonna be here for the foreseeable or forcible future doing deadlifts.

00:03:41.000 Could you imagine like take a screenshot right now and then in three months Luke is just massive and ripped and like he can't put his arms down?

00:03:48.000 I've been bulking, or in other words, gorging on this cake.

00:03:53.000 You ate a bunch of cupcakes and cookies last night.

00:03:55.000 What are you talking about?

00:03:57.000 You cooked them!

00:03:58.000 I baked cookie cupcakes.

00:04:00.000 They were very good.

00:04:02.000 And they were filled with white chocolate and icing on top.

00:04:04.000 It was fun.

00:04:05.000 It was Christmas, man.

00:04:06.000 I was bored.

00:04:06.000 I was like, I'm gonna bake some cookie cupcakes.

00:04:08.000 We bake so much.

00:04:09.000 How can you say no?

00:04:10.000 And you, I mean, you got a bulk right before you put on the muscles, so.

00:04:14.000 No, it wasn't.

00:04:15.000 You watch It's Always Sunny, where he's, Mac was walking out with a garbage bag full of chimichangas. 1.00

00:04:19.000 And he's like, I'm cultivating mass.

00:04:21.000 And Dennis is like, stop cultivating, start harvesting!

00:04:24.000 Well, we're going to do that in a little bit, and I'm excited for that.

00:04:27.000 In three months, you're not going to be all buff and ripped.

00:04:29.000 You're going to be just morbidly obese.

00:04:31.000 Either way, there's going to be more pushing for the cushion.

00:04:35.000 All right.

00:04:35.000 Well, Ian's chilling, too.

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00:05:34.000 Let's talk about the news!

00:05:36.000 This is the first story we got.

00:05:37.000 It's kind of... This is an interesting and weird story from Politico.

00:05:40.000 Man, I've been reading a lot about the powers that Mike Pence has.

00:05:56.000 And of course, you've got Trump supporters saying Mike Pence is basically the judge with

00:06:01.000 the gavel and he decides.

00:06:02.000 But then you've got the left saying he's basically just like the clerk handing out, you know, tickets.

00:06:07.000 You hand him the envelopes and he goes to the mail room and he just passes out the things to the office.

00:06:10.000 But let's read and see what's going on.

00:06:12.000 They say Rep.

00:06:13.000 Louie Gohmert, Republican of Texas, and Donald Trump's def- And President Donald Trump's defeated electors from Arizona may force Vice President Mike Pence to publicly pick a side in Trump's bid to overturn his election loss.

00:06:24.000 Gohmert and a handful of would-be electors sued Pence in federal court on Monday in a long-shot bid to throw out the rules that govern Congress's counting of electoral votes next week.

00:06:34.000 It's an effort they hope will permit Pence, who is tasked with leading, January 6th session of the House and Senate to simply ignore Joe Biden's electors and count Trump's losing slates instead.

00:06:47.000 The lawsuit asserts, The 1887 law, known as the Electoral Count Act, the vague statute that has long governed the electoral vote counting process with minimal drama, unconstitutionally binds Pence from exercising total authority to choose which votes to count, saying, quote, Under the 12th Amendment, Defendant Pence alone has the exclusive authority and sole discretion to open and permit the counting of the electoral votes for a given state.

00:07:12.000 And where there are competing slates of electors, or where there is objection to any single slate of electors, to determine which electors' votes or whether none shall be counted, the suit contends.

00:07:22.000 The lawsuit comes before Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee to the U.S.

00:07:28.000 District Court of the Eastern District of Texas.

00:07:30.000 It's unclear if he'll grant the request for an expedited judgment.

00:07:34.000 Though the law itself is unlikely to gain legal traction, it does put Pence in the position of having to either contest the suit, putting on the opposite side of the Trump and the GOP defenders, or support it and lay bare the intention to subvert the will of the voters in the 2020 election.

00:07:48.000 They say Pence is engaged with GOP lawmakers seeking to reverse the election results, but has avoided publicly taking a side in the matter.

00:07:54.000 I think that's actually not true.

00:07:55.000 I don't know if you guys saw Pence's speech where he said, we're not going to stop fighting until every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote, you know, is not counted.

00:08:03.000 I think Mike Pence is leaning towards, at least in a public sense, you know, I'm going to support Trump, but I got to tell you, man, here's my bet.

00:08:12.000 January 6th comes around.

00:08:14.000 They, I don't know, you guys, you guys, you guys all probably know they did that.

00:08:16.000 Uh, the, the electoral candidates for the Republicans cast their procedural votes.

00:08:21.000 I bet Mike Pence is going to be like Joe Biden wins, bang the hammer and we're done.

00:08:25.000 That is probably likely, to be completely honest.

00:08:28.000 Look, they're flailing right now and it's like you're either with us or you're against us.

00:08:33.000 I mean, we've been dealing with this over at Blaze and it doesn't stop just at the Glenn Beck level.

00:08:39.000 It goes all the way up to Mike Pence, where they won Allegiance.

00:08:43.000 And the line's being drawn in the sand.

00:08:46.000 So either you with us or you against us, and that's more so what it is.

00:08:50.000 And to be fair, when we talk about this whole, not just with this election, really courts in general, it's all posturing to really force the hand of folks, to really force them to take a side publicly or not, because generally it's just going to fall dead anyway.

00:09:04.000 And they know that. 0.72

00:09:05.000 They're not stupid. 0.93

00:09:06.000 It's a matter of, like you kind of mentioned, it's a matter of forcing him publicly to take a stance. 0.92

00:09:13.000 But that's been the approach, really, and they're getting more and more aggressive, and it's like, we want to know who's with us.

00:09:18.000 Are you with us?

00:09:19.000 Are you not?

00:09:20.000 They ignore one thing in this Politico article.

00:09:24.000 Pens could just ignore it.

00:09:26.000 And it goes to court, and they make a ruling, and Pens just goes, eh.

00:09:30.000 I think he's traditional.

00:09:31.000 He's very much more establishment.

00:09:34.000 Well, if you look at Pence and Trump, especially after Election Day, you see Pence always sticking more to the establishment.

00:09:41.000 You can see him contradict Donald Trump in many instances, not just regarding this issue, but also the vaccine issue.

00:09:49.000 Specifically, Donald Trump even getting rid of a directive saying that the top White House staff was going to be vaccinated.

00:09:55.000 He got rid of that.

00:09:57.000 And Mike Pence was the only one who went out on national television and said, I'm going to get, you know, vaccinated.

00:10:02.000 So that was a clear differential of opinions.

00:10:05.000 And we've seen them on both sides of the issues a lot of different times.

00:10:09.000 This is why I think they're doing the lawsuit.

00:10:10.000 Cause there was another story, apparently in a bunch of the emails Trump was sending out, it no longer says Trump Pence.

00:10:16.000 It just says Trump.

00:10:18.000 So, so leftists were like, Pence is out!

00:10:18.000 Yeah.

00:10:20.000 And this was a couple of weeks ago.

00:10:22.000 So I think this is why you've got some Republicans saying Mike Pence, cause we want, they want to know now.

00:10:27.000 But Pence was at that meeting at the White House when I think it was I can't remember I think it was Pennsylvania's electors showed up and at a meeting with Trump and apparently they're like Hardcore in it for Trump their truck a bunch of different states have been like demanding the governor's give special sessions for their state You know state Congress or whatever General Assembly's so that they can officially certify electors for Trump Yeah.

00:10:51.000 Like, look, this, I think it's going to ramp up.

00:10:55.000 I mean, we talk about the 6th, but I think it's going to go really further than that.

00:11:00.000 The GOP right now is, it may be blowing up.

00:11:04.000 Like, it sounds silly to say that, but seriously, like, it may be blowing up.

00:11:08.000 And whether you think that's on Trump or his supporters, that's neither here nor there right now.

00:11:13.000 You're seeing lines in the sand be drawn.

00:11:16.000 And a lot of folks don't want to go down with that ship, especially the establishment types, because they look at it as it's not necessarily the whole threat to the democracy.

00:11:25.000 Government, especially at the federal level, has this way of going about things, right?

00:11:29.000 And it's been done this way for a very long time.

00:11:32.000 And they want it to remain as such.

00:11:35.000 And, of course, Trump is kind of the nuke in that where he kind of blows things up.

00:11:40.000 And a lot of folks don't.

00:11:41.000 Yeah, it's cool to support him.

00:11:42.000 Everybody was on the same page with him for the last four years.

00:11:45.000 But then they see it going this route definitely post-election or, you know, post, let's say, November.

00:11:52.000 And a lot of folks don't want to go down with that ship.

00:11:54.000 So you're going to see them kind of be shaky about definitely these big uber public GOPers.

00:12:00.000 They're not going to be like all in like that.

00:12:02.000 that they kind of got a teeter-totter if you will. Well the battle lines are drawn

00:12:05.000 and people are making their decisions and you could see it with major

00:12:08.000 establishment figures like Rupert Murdoch especially with his news

00:12:12.000 publications where he stands and where some of the Trumpers and never-Trumpers

00:12:16.000 stand and it's it's it's a big fragmentation of the whole GOP party

00:12:21.000 that we're seeing right now.

00:12:22.000 Check this out.

00:12:23.000 We got this, uh, the New York Post's cover.

00:12:25.000 Cover says, Mr. President, stop the insanity.

00:12:29.000 You lost the election.

00:12:30.000 Here's how to save your legacy.

00:12:32.000 Trump supporters don't care about that.

00:12:34.000 Not at all.

00:12:35.000 Trump supporters are willing to support news outlets that support them.

00:12:39.000 And then as soon as you say, okay, now here's where we push back, they say, get out, we don't care.

00:12:42.000 If you don't got our back anymore, we're done with you.

00:12:44.000 I think they underestimate how many people support the man for the man.

00:12:48.000 Like, their allegiance isn't to the GOP, their allegiance is to him.

00:12:51.000 And I think a lot of people underestimate that.

00:12:53.000 So, you know, we're gonna see what happens, but this line's been drawn and it's been interesting to see how, I think, After the initial election, everybody kind of had their way of going about things, and I know the further we got away from it, the more folks are like, okay, maybe it's an L that we just have to hold.

00:13:15.000 I don't know if it's rather about saving face, or again, it's It's a certain way that things have been done.

00:13:21.000 The establishment or whatever you want to call them, whether you think Trump is a part of it, I don't know.

00:13:25.000 I really don't care.

00:13:26.000 Nonetheless, you know that there is a fight being had right now.

00:13:30.000 And I think it's a lot bigger than what people are talking about.

00:13:33.000 And I think both sides are not doing themselves any favors.

00:13:36.000 I mean, you got the establishment side and you literally have the cybersecurity chief coming out and saying one day that we had the most secure election in American history.

00:13:45.000 And then a couple of days later, finding out the entire government was hacked.

00:13:48.000 The Cyber Pearl Harbor.

00:13:50.000 Digital Pearl Harbor.

00:13:51.000 Digital Pearl Harbor.

00:13:52.000 I mean, come on, how does that make sense?

00:13:54.000 I mean, there hasn't been a mainstream media journalist that connected the two and went to him and asked him a legitimate question about this.

00:14:01.000 But also, Donald Trump is not doing himself any favors by signing this $900 billion spending bill and giving gender studies to Pakistan and speedboats to Sri Lanka.

00:14:11.000 Meanwhile, everyone else here is having a hard time even just... What kind of speedboats?

00:14:16.000 I don't know, man.

00:14:18.000 They need speed boats. 0.88

00:14:20.000 Why does Sri Lanka need speed boats?

00:14:21.000 Why does Pakistan need gender programs? 1.00

00:14:24.000 I understand $10 million is not the biggest thing in this bill, but I'd rather we just gave $10 million to a random American.

00:14:30.000 Like, here you go.

00:14:31.000 Here's the money.

00:14:32.000 Have a nice day.

00:14:33.000 But you can really see it, man.

00:14:35.000 So here's what I want to say.

00:14:37.000 I did a segment on this earlier today.

00:14:38.000 I think the Republicans are probably on track to win in Georgia.

00:14:42.000 I'm flipping from my earlier stance.

00:14:44.000 I said before I thought the Democrats were going to win because Donald Trump's not on the ticket.

00:14:49.000 But with the polls that have been coming out, and there's a bunch, they show that it's a neck-and-neck race, and the polls were all off underestimating Republicans.

00:14:57.000 So it looks like it's going to be, and I'm just saying based off of that metric, the Republicans are probably actually going to win in Georgia, and a lot of people thought so.

00:15:04.000 But I do think it's fair to point out, people in Georgia who support Trump, Have a road trip to make that day.

00:15:11.000 On January 5th, instead of going and voting, they gotta pack up the car and head to D.C.

00:15:15.000 Because January 6th is the big support the President Day.

00:15:19.000 So I'll tell you, if you ask a lot of these Trump supporters, who might actually go out and vote because Trump's gonna rally there and he asks them to, they might still, you know, say, thank you for coming, Trump, and thanks for the rally, but if I have to choose between voting for these people or supporting you in D.C.

00:15:32.000 I'm going to D.C.

00:15:33.000 Do they have mail-in voting or early voting?

00:15:36.000 They do have mail-in and early voting, but Republicans don't do that.

00:15:39.000 So maybe the answer is Republicans need to go and vote by mail or vote early now.

00:15:43.000 That way they can make it to D.C.

00:15:45.000 and support both.

00:15:47.000 But what I was saying before is Trump supporters don't care about these politicians.

00:15:53.000 That right there, and definitely when we talk about legacy, And this is why I don't understand.

00:15:58.000 I know, Luke, you kind of mentioned it about Trump not doing himself any favors.

00:16:03.000 And this is why I've been saying on TV and everything, like, dude, even if you're going to hold the L, why not go out guns a-blazing?

00:16:11.000 Right?

00:16:12.000 Why not go out guns a-blazing?

00:16:13.000 We talked about the Partons and all of that.

00:16:15.000 Figuratively.

00:16:17.000 Right, yes, like set it on fire, like let loose.

00:16:20.000 Figuratively.

00:16:21.000 Like in a video game.

00:16:25.000 Like let loose though, like why not?

00:16:27.000 And he doesn't do himself any favors and I don't know if even Trump understands his own supporters because they don't care about that stuff.

00:16:35.000 They don't care about legacy, they don't care about, you know, being prissy or doing things the way that they've always been done that's not any the fact they were attracted to

00:16:44.000 them is indicative in that is that they don't care about that

00:16:47.000 stuff so I don't even understand like what he's doing on his way out

00:16:50.000 like why he's not like alright man I'm putting everything on the table why not

00:16:54.000 he needs to see it he did see it are I was thinking about this.

00:17:02.000 Is Trump willing to go that insane mile, martial law, insurrection act or whatever?

00:17:06.000 Is he willing to go that far?

00:17:09.000 If he sees tweets, he's probably like, okay.

00:17:12.000 But if he sees Republicans turning on him, then he's probably like, how much support do I really have?

00:17:17.000 If on January 6, 10 million people really do show up, Trump's gonna be like, release the hounds.

00:17:23.000 He's gonna open the gate and just be like, we're doing it.

00:17:25.000 But another factor is he's disenfranchising a lot of his base that was there because of the promises that he made.

00:17:32.000 He promised to cut spending.

00:17:33.000 He promised to get us out of wars.

00:17:35.000 He promised us all of these wonderful, amazing things.

00:17:38.000 He has an opportunity to put pen to paper and to make them happen, and he's not doing it.

00:17:43.000 He called this bill a disgrace.

00:17:45.000 He said this bill, quote, is a disgrace, demanding it to be changed immediately, and then what happened?

00:17:52.000 Signed it right away.

00:17:54.000 But listen, we had super majorities approving it.

00:17:58.000 Was that the case in this particular instance?

00:18:00.000 Yes.

00:18:01.000 Only 56 people in the House voted against it, and I think only 8 people in the Senate.

00:18:08.000 That overrides a veto.

00:18:10.000 So Trump, look, the reality is not that Trump said, haha, I'm gonna say something and then just give in.

00:18:15.000 No, Trump was defeated.

00:18:16.000 That's it.

00:18:17.000 He can say what he wants to say, but if he doesn't have the power because the Senate and the House over... Then stop playing the game.

00:18:22.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:18:23.000 Like, why not remain principled, though?

00:18:25.000 In that aspect, if you're gonna lose anyway, why don't you have the game?

00:18:28.000 Exactly.

00:18:28.000 Don't sign it.

00:18:29.000 Don't put your name on it.

00:18:30.000 Exactly.

00:18:31.000 You might as well go out like that.

00:18:32.000 Look, I tried.

00:18:33.000 Like, this was a disgrace.

00:18:34.000 It has all of this, this, this, and that in it.

00:18:36.000 Like, why not go out like that?

00:18:38.000 He did get... He redlined, right?

00:18:41.000 Yeah, but you're giving up any leverage you have by signing it.

00:18:45.000 Listen.

00:18:45.000 No, no, no.

00:18:47.000 If Trump didn't sign it, veto-proof majority, it would have been passed through.

00:18:51.000 So Trump, I guess, to save face, was like, here's the red line.

00:18:54.000 What face is he saving?

00:18:55.000 That's what I'm trying to figure out, right? 0.97

00:18:57.000 It's an ugly face. 0.88

00:18:57.000 Who's the face? 0.88

00:18:59.000 The idea is, and stop making me defend the guy.

00:19:03.000 The idea is, He's gonna be like, I approve this stimulus for the American people, I won't leave him hanging, and I object to these things that everyone else hates too.

00:19:11.000 If he didn't sign it, then... Look, I'm not saying he made the right move, I'm saying that's the idea that people are saying right now.

00:19:18.000 I get that 100%, but... Look, I don't think you need to rag on Trump for this one as though it's a failure on his part.

00:19:25.000 he lost. Like, whether he should have signed it or not, he lost.

00:19:30.000 That's what makes it worse to me. It's like you took an L, but you didn't take an L with

00:19:35.000 principle. It's one thing for me, if you get punched, if you go into a fistfight like a

00:19:40.000 man, I don't care if it's against whoever, Conor McGregor, you're going to hold an L

00:19:46.000 Look, you went out there and you threw your hands, you gave it your best shot.

00:19:49.000 But, you know, talking all this noise about what's in this bill, and it's calling it a disgrace, and then to support it, I don't know whose face that he's saving it for, because it's not like The leftists are gonna like him for doing that or anything like that.

00:20:05.000 But he's telling us pretty nothing.

00:20:06.000 He's like, we're gonna redline this.

00:20:08.000 We're gonna give you the $2,000. 0.98

00:20:10.000 I mean, he's telling us bullcrap. 0.75

00:20:12.000 Just be honest with us. 0.83

00:20:13.000 And the Democrats are slapping him down saying, no, you're not going to get what you want.

00:20:16.000 Here's what I'm saying.

00:20:18.000 I'll tell you my thoughts on this.

00:20:20.000 Signing it and redlining was the worst thing he could have done for one reason.

00:20:25.000 He basically said, I'm mad about this and I have absolutely no power and the only thing I can and am willing to do is beg the Democrats to at least do me a favor.

00:20:35.000 And they did.

00:20:36.000 That's the position he put himself in.

00:20:38.000 It's the same move like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that came out and said, It's a 5,000-page bill.

00:20:44.000 I couldn't read it.

00:20:45.000 Yes, I'm going to vote for it.

00:20:47.000 What are you doing?

00:20:48.000 In Trump's defense, he's the guy that said it should be $2,000 to people, not $600.

00:20:52.000 And that's why I opted.

00:20:53.000 Yeah, crash the economy quicker.

00:20:54.000 And then it came out.

00:20:56.000 Let's crash it quicker. 0.86

00:20:56.000 And then AOC said, yeah, I agree with Trump. 0.86

00:21:01.000 And then now I see they put an amendment to make it $2,000 now.

00:21:04.000 So that was because of Trump.

00:21:06.000 So the House did pass the $2,000 checks bill.

00:21:09.000 Dozens of Republicans have got behind Donald Trump.

00:21:11.000 So a lot of people think Mitch McConnell is going to say no, and it's not going to happen.

00:21:16.000 But they're basically telling Trump now they approved this because this is what's really amazing about this bill.

00:21:21.000 Not only did Trump come out and complain about it, but he actually attacked the establishment from the left.

00:21:28.000 He came from their left flank.

00:21:29.000 Print more money.

00:21:31.000 Give more money to the American people.

00:21:34.000 Like Rand Paul said, why not just do $20,000?

00:21:37.000 Why not just do monthly UBI and just guaranteed income?

00:21:40.000 Trump came from the left.

00:21:42.000 And the funny thing is, a lot of these things that were in the omnibus were things he was requesting and negotiating for.

00:21:46.000 So Trump has been, you know, it's really funny.

00:21:48.000 Michael Tracy has this really great tweet.

00:21:50.000 He's a journalist.

00:21:50.000 I don't know if you guys find who he is.

00:21:52.000 And he said, constant investigations, you know, a bunk impeachment, all of this stuff, and they're still half the country convinced we narrowly avoided a fascistic dictator like Trump was ever that.

00:22:04.000 And I keep telling people, Trump tried really, really hard to get things done and couldn't.

00:22:09.000 He hired bad people.

00:22:10.000 A lot of people he hired turned on him.

00:22:11.000 Like, the easiest one is Bolton, obviously.

00:22:14.000 And he was obstructed every step of the way.

00:22:16.000 The Republicans certainly hated him the whole time and just used him to get their judges and their tax breaks.

00:22:20.000 And then when Trump wanted to do things, where are they?

00:22:23.000 They're not there for him.

00:22:24.000 Like, he's been complaining about 230.

00:22:26.000 Trump supporters have been complaining about 230.

00:22:27.000 Nothing's gotten done.

00:22:29.000 Not one of these people.

00:22:29.000 And now, I mean, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley have complained about it a bit.

00:22:32.000 So, okay, I guess.

00:22:34.000 But in the end, the Republican establishment is just like a do-nothing party that just waits and goes, like, here's how I imagine Republicans.

00:22:41.000 They're like sitting there watching Democrats just mess everything up.

00:22:43.000 And they go, no, wait, don't.

00:22:45.000 I'm fighting for you, you know, vote for me.

00:22:48.000 And they just sit there.

00:22:49.000 And then Democrats go about mucking things up and they just don't do anything about it.

00:22:52.000 So now here we are.

00:22:53.000 I'll tell you what's really amazing about all this.

00:22:57.000 You know this kind of spending bill happens all the time?

00:23:00.000 Here's this really great tweet that's been going around from Rand Paul.

00:23:03.000 This is from December 23rd, 2018, he said.

00:23:07.000 Actually, let me read the tweet before for context.

00:23:09.000 He says, Of course, instead of fixing waste like this and reforming government, the geniuses in Congress decided to have a fight over how much more money they were going to spend, aka borrow from China.

00:23:19.000 Speaking of which, buried in the foreign aid reports last year, so that would be 2017, I discovered something.

00:23:25.000 We give foreign aid to China. 0.88

00:23:28.000 So government is so dumb, it is literally borrowing money from China to give it back to China while paying interest on it. 0.99

00:23:35.000 Rand Paul! 0.99

00:23:36.000 Bravo yep, he also by the way He also just released a full list of all the incredibly 0.66

00:23:41.000 dumb things that the government is spending money on I mean if I could just read some well, so I'll just wrap my

00:23:46.000 point up real quick I kind of lost my train of thought though, but uh Ryan Paul 0.90

00:23:50.000 what I was gonna say is people don't pay attention to this stuff and

00:23:55.000 And this year, the Democrats tried everything in their power to get as many people politically active as possible.

00:24:00.000 And then all of a sudden, when this omnibus spending package drops, normal people who regularly ignore this are now looking at it and going, wait, what?

00:24:08.000 And then I saw what Trump supporters are saying and keep in mind they'll defend like the hardcore Trump supporters will defend him no matter what he does.

00:24:15.000 They're saying Trump redlining this highlights it and then forces Congress to say we approve of the things the American people don't.

00:24:23.000 So sure, maybe now people might be aware of it.

00:24:26.000 I think that's actually what's happening.

00:24:27.000 And it'll be really interesting to see when America has been brought to its knees with an economic crisis, they're now saying China's on track to overtake America's economy in only seven years or so, accelerating because we've been shut down and completely obliterated by this.

00:24:44.000 At a time when we're at our worst and people are desperate, 12 million people facing eviction, benefits are going up in flames, and they're blaming Trump.

00:24:51.000 I'm asking, why did we just give $10 million to Pakistani gender studies?

00:24:56.000 A lot of people are asking that.

00:24:57.000 Even people on the left are like, I don't know, man, maybe we should give that money to people in Flint who need water.

00:25:02.000 We're not spending money on ourselves when we're broke.

00:25:06.000 That's crazy.

00:25:07.000 It's not just that, Tim.

00:25:08.000 The government is literally spending money to study if human beings will eat bugs.

00:25:12.000 That's one of their initiatives.

00:25:13.000 Another one is to quote, invent smart toilets.

00:25:17.000 Let me keep going.

00:25:18.000 Wait, wait, wait.

00:25:18.000 I gotta slow you down.

00:25:22.000 You mean to tell me I could apply for a grant, and they'll give me money to just make a toilet with, like, computers in it?

00:25:26.000 Smart toilets, yes.

00:25:28.000 Really?

00:25:28.000 But what does a smart toilet do?

00:25:30.000 I don't have any research.

00:25:31.000 When I worked for Vice, the Vice building, they had one of those fancy Japanese toilets, where it's got a blow dryer in it and stuff. 1.00

00:25:37.000 Is that what we're talking about?

00:25:39.000 Less potty talk.

00:25:39.000 Let me continue with this list released by Rand Paul.

00:25:43.000 If I had to allocate tax dollars somewhere, they'd give me a good toilet.

00:25:45.000 There was $8.6 billion spent on anti-drug efforts in Afghanistan.

00:25:52.000 Of all places.

00:25:54.000 Isn't that where like 92% of poppy comes from? 0.84

00:25:57.000 Yes.

00:25:58.000 I had, you know, military vets that came over and all of them were like, yeah, we were just there guarding the opium fields for mass production for the world to have heroin.

00:26:07.000 There's money going into Kenyan art classes.

00:26:10.000 There's money going into Afghani and Pakistani book clubs.

00:26:13.000 How much money?

00:26:14.000 I gotta look it up to tell you exactly.

00:26:17.000 There's tens of millions of dollars going towards stopping truancy in schools in the Philippines.

00:26:24.000 There's also speedboats in Sri Lanka and study on lizards and how they walk on treadmills for 1.5 million dollars.

00:26:34.000 So as you are literally told you can't work, as you are literally kicked out of your apartment, as you're told to pay up in the taxes in the highest amounts as they're gonna keep going up higher, remember, at least lizards are going to be going on treadmills because of your tax dollars.

00:26:51.000 Now the eating bugs thing, how much was that?

00:26:54.000 How much money went into eating bugs?

00:26:55.000 I'm gonna have to look up the Rand Paul report specifically because he atomized it.

00:26:58.000 A lot of people point out things and I'm like, there's an argument there.

00:27:01.000 No, there is.

00:27:02.000 Like, I don't know if the government should be spending money on it, but Pakistani gender studies is in defense. 1.00

00:27:07.000 There's no defense for that, come on.

00:27:09.000 But like, researching what humans are willing to eat could change everything.

00:27:15.000 Could be useful.

00:27:16.000 Yeah, it could be useful.

00:27:16.000 I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying.

00:27:17.000 You know, when you crush the economy by spending way too much money and indebting everyone, and there's hyperinflation, yeah, people are gonna need to figure out how to eat bugs then.

00:27:24.000 Exactly!

00:27:25.000 That's what I'm saying, that's what I'm saying.

00:27:26.000 You know, like, the farms are all shut down.

00:27:29.000 At the beginning of the year, we saw that they were just, like, dumping dairy into, like, empty fields and just wasting it all, and, like, bugs are everywhere.

00:27:35.000 We should have a program that gets rid of sparrows, so then we have more bugs that we could eat.

00:27:40.000 I heard that worked really well during the Great Leap Forward in China.

00:27:43.000 But is that why they did it?

00:27:44.000 They were trying to save bugs to eat?

00:27:46.000 Just eat the sparrows?

00:27:46.000 No, no, no.

00:27:47.000 The sparrows were eating the vegetables.

00:27:51.000 Do you guys know what rabbit starvation is?

00:27:53.000 Like, rabbits don't have any fat on them, so if you only eat rabbit, you eventually die.

00:27:59.000 Because you're not getting any fat in your diet, and you need it.

00:28:00.000 Oh, wow.

00:28:01.000 Yeah, so, like, people say, like, you don't eat the rabbits, you can't do it.

00:28:04.000 Like, I think in Venezuela, there was, like, when the food shortages were really bad, they were just, like, people were trying to breed rabbits and eat them, because rabbits eat grass, and then they just keep growing and having babies like crazy, but there's, you can't, there's no nutrients.

00:28:14.000 Yeah.

00:28:15.000 It's called rabbit starvation.

00:28:16.000 You see the thing about this though is that and this is why I don't I'm not as optimistic as everybody else is when we get on the other side of this it's mainly because folks aren't connecting the dots here and then in terms of terms of what got us to this point right so between the lockdowns obviously this is an issue not even this is before the lockdowns we talk about spending all of this money and um and being taxed to death and them selling assets of unborn people uh basically robbing future generations with the money because they're spending money that they don't have i was telling people uh all along with this with any stimulus for for the most part this whole moronic idea is that i'm you're getting your money back no you're not that money's not there they don't have money

00:28:57.000 To give you it got to come from somewhere and this is again.

00:29:00.000 They're the Fed allows them to Spend monetize their debt essentially and you are you're basically robbing future generations, but but but you know other people say like that easy way to put it is A lot of these lefties talk about how they want to increase the minimum wage, right?

00:29:15.000 Well, when you mass print trillions of dollars in one year, 35% of all U.S.

00:29:20.000 dollars put in circulation in the past 10 months, what you've effectively done is cut the wage of everybody by a certain amount of percent.

00:29:27.000 But I was talking to my friend about this.

00:29:28.000 I'm like, dude, you don't realize they just lowered your wage by like a dollar or two an hour by mass printing all this money.

00:29:35.000 And it reduces the value.

00:29:37.000 I was like, people don't understand debt to GDP at all.

00:29:41.000 Not at all.

00:29:41.000 If your country is not producing things of value, and you keep printing money, then the money becomes worthless because people don't have... What am I gonna buy with it?

00:29:50.000 Right.

00:29:51.000 There's one difference though.

00:29:52.000 We got a lot of guns, and we control basically the oil.

00:29:55.000 So as long as we have that petrodollar, then there you go.

00:29:59.000 Gonna start it on that, but no, like...

00:30:01.000 It's like pulling teeth, man, with people and trying to get them to understand that the issue right here, and I know obviously libertarians are going to get amped up about all of that, is because the problem is that the money is being taken and then, you know, we could talk all day long about it being spent and how it's spent.

00:30:18.000 And a lot of these people, whether it be in Congress, the people that vote for the people that are in Congress, they're control freaks.

00:30:22.000 And it's not about, okay, you keeping your money.

00:30:25.000 Like, the easiest answer seemed to be when it came to this lockdown was, okay, stop the lockdown so people can produce for themselves, not print money out of thin air and give them money so effectively you're devaluing the money, the currency, over a period of time.

00:30:40.000 But they're control freaks, so it doesn't even cross their mind this idea that, okay, what if we, I don't know, just allow people to keep the most of their money that we possibly can?

00:30:51.000 It doesn't even connect for them because they're like, okay, they have their own personal things that they want everybody else to be forced to subsidize, and that's the issue.

00:30:59.000 The issue is not that you're being robbed.

00:31:01.000 That's not the problem.

00:31:03.000 Or even that that amount of money is being spent.

00:31:05.000 It's that it's not being spent on the things that they want to spend it on.

00:31:09.000 I tweeted something that triggered a bunch of lefties.

00:31:11.000 I said something like, only when the last farm has been shut down and no longer produces, and the supply chain has run dry, and stores no longer carry food, will the leftists realize you can't eat money.

00:31:25.000 And it's a play on an old saying, like, only when the last river has been polluted and the last forest cut down will you realize you can't eat money.

00:31:31.000 And I'm like, I was thinking about that saying, and it's like a lefty perspective on protecting the environment.

00:31:36.000 Like, if you destroy everything you can't eat.

00:31:37.000 And I saw all these people, like a lot of the Andrew Yang people saying, we just need UBI.

00:31:42.000 And I'm like, First of all, most people don't realize most money in circulation is digital.

00:31:47.000 It's not real currency, and it's created upon debt.

00:31:50.000 Like, when a loan is given out, or when the money is created, the checks you get, that's literally where the money first comes into existence.

00:31:56.000 And then you just have, like, digital tallies.

00:31:59.000 You can't eat that.

00:32:00.000 That's not a thing.

00:32:01.000 It's abstract.

00:32:02.000 Even, like, the paper you get.

00:32:03.000 Congratulations, there's no food, but you have $100 now.

00:32:05.000 What are you gonna do with it?

00:32:06.000 I know what you go to the store, there's no toilet paper. 1.00

00:32:08.000 You can wipe your ass. 0.99

00:32:10.000 That's about, that's the best thing it's worth. 0.99

00:32:11.000 So, it's really, you know, the funny thing is, it's not even worth that because American dollars are made with cloth, and other countries made with plastic.

00:32:18.000 You can't even use it for toilet paper.

00:32:20.000 No, for real, like, what do you do with it?

00:32:21.000 So, I kept, I kept telling people, let me tell you, like, if you had $100 right now, what would you do with it?

00:32:27.000 Just off the top of your head, you got a hundred bucks, what do you want to do?

00:32:30.000 Man, I got a couple bills I can put down on my phone.

00:32:32.000 You're gonna buy something?

00:32:33.000 Yeah, something.

00:32:34.000 You're gonna pay your phone?

00:32:36.000 Yeah.

00:32:37.000 So, I asked my friends that.

00:32:39.000 Like, if you had a hundred bucks right now, what would you do?

00:32:41.000 And they mentioned, you know, paying a bill.

00:32:43.000 And I'm like, okay, but what if the people at the phone company can't work anymore because of the lockdown?

00:32:48.000 Who do you give the money to and what do you get in exchange for it?

00:32:51.000 That's the point.

00:32:51.000 But the phone company is essential and it works and I'm like right right, but now think about any other industry

00:32:56.000 Some some industries still exist fine. So you can buy cell service. You want to go out to eat?

00:33:00.000 You want to get food? You can't do that. So if your dollar can do less, it's worth less

00:33:06.000 So people think I think about this way What if I told you I can give you, you know, 10 bucks to go eat or I can cook you a nice hot family meal.

00:33:16.000 It's like, well, you can't go out and get that.

00:33:17.000 There's, there's, there's more value in getting something that's, you know, long story short, I don't need to beat that horse.

00:33:24.000 If people don't make stuff, what are you buying?

00:33:26.000 If people aren't providing services, what are you buying?

00:33:28.000 Nothing to buy.

00:33:29.000 But that's why they don't understand.

00:33:30.000 They don't even make that connection with money and it being the most common commodity.

00:33:35.000 And that's why it's supposed to be utilized in the way that we utilize.

00:33:39.000 That's not a dot that they connect, which is why it was so easy for them to say, shut everything down.

00:33:44.000 Just shut everything down.

00:33:45.000 They don't even connect the dots.

00:33:47.000 This person that is working, it doesn't matter if you feel that it's non-essential.

00:33:51.000 This person owns a salon or something like that.

00:33:53.000 Well, that person is producing a service, a value that someone at least values.

00:33:59.000 Whether you think it's silly or non-essential, it doesn't matter.

00:34:01.000 But in producing that, they're making their own money.

00:34:04.000 Or rather, let's say they employ other hairstylists or something like that.

00:34:08.000 They're making, they don't even connect that.

00:34:11.000 It's just Shut it down.

00:34:12.000 We're scared of this virus, and people don't have to produce.

00:34:17.000 And it's funny, they talk so much about long-term effects of this virus.

00:34:21.000 You hear that all the time.

00:34:22.000 It's why you can't reopen.

00:34:23.000 Sure, it has a 99% survival rate, but... 99.9.

00:34:25.000 Oh, yeah.

00:34:26.000 Yes, exactly.

00:34:27.000 So, why would you... But we got the long-term effects.

00:34:31.000 Why not worry about that?

00:34:32.000 And they don't seem to ever consider that.

00:34:34.000 Well, of course, they don't consider that with a vaccine, but they certainly don't consider that when it comes to how this is going to impact the economy going forward.

00:34:40.000 There's this viral video of a nurse, and it's like, this viral tweet says, this is for all the COVID-iots who use survival rate as like an excuse for not following lockdown. 0.93

00:34:50.000 You saw this video?

00:34:50.000 No, I did a video on it.

00:34:52.000 Yeah, she's like, imagine if I gave you like millions and millions of Skittles. 1.00

00:34:56.000 And then I told you that 17 million would make you sick and have lingering effects.

00:35:00.000 And that 300,000 would kill you.

00:35:02.000 Would you still want to eat them?

00:35:04.000 And I'm like, okay, hold on, hold on.

00:35:06.000 How many Skittles are we talking?

00:35:07.000 You said millions upon millions.

00:35:09.000 And then you said 99.9% are safe, but 17 million will kill you.

00:35:12.000 So that doesn't make sense.

00:35:14.000 If 17 million is 0.1 of the Skittles... Right. 0.61

00:35:17.000 Okay, so let's do some math.

00:35:19.000 More importantly though, you mean to tell me that you view, you know, somebody working, a man or woman, to feed their kids as eating candy?

00:35:26.000 Wow.

00:35:27.000 That was the craziest thing to me, and I was like, let me ask you a question.

00:35:30.000 If you were in the middle of the desert, and you have gone without water for a day or two, and you saw a pool of green, murky water, and that's it.

00:35:38.000 It will make you sick.

00:35:39.000 You'll probably die.

00:35:40.000 Would you drink it? 0.84

00:35:41.000 Absolutely.

00:35:41.000 You would.

00:35:42.000 Yeah.

00:35:42.000 Absolutely.

00:35:43.000 Wouldn't even hesitate.

00:35:44.000 Wouldn't even hesitate.

00:35:45.000 Who would?

00:35:45.000 But, I mean, that's why the Skittle analogy was so terrible.

00:35:48.000 Because we look at, people don't understand, when we mention a survival rate, we're talking about risk here, right?

00:35:53.000 That's what we're talking about more than anything.

00:35:55.000 So, even with a Skittle, I don't think that has 100%, somebody's probably died from, I don't know, diabetes from eating Skittle or choked on a Skittle or something like that.

00:36:05.000 They still eat them!

00:36:06.000 Yeah, exactly!

00:36:07.000 So, people still eat them, so I don't even think that analogy is good.

00:36:10.000 That's actually a good point.

00:36:12.000 I don't think you have a one-in-a-thousand chance of dying from eating Skittles, but there is a likelihood you could die from eating Skittles.

00:36:18.000 Most definitely.

00:36:19.000 Absolutely!

00:36:20.000 I bet there's somebody who took a handful of Skittles and was chewing it, and had a big clump of Skittles, and then choked on it.

00:36:28.000 I bet your bottom dollar that that's happened to someone.

00:36:31.000 Someone somewhere.

00:36:32.000 But that's what it's about.

00:36:33.000 It's about risk.

00:36:34.000 It's about assessing the risk.

00:36:36.000 Really, there's nothing in life that we do that has a 100% survival rate.

00:36:40.000 You know, where you can trip down the stairs, break your leg, get infected.

00:36:45.000 There's so many different things.

00:36:48.000 You can drive your car to work.

00:36:50.000 Die in a crash.

00:36:51.000 All of those things are risk.

00:36:53.000 Here's what I was saying about it.

00:36:55.000 When she mentions the skittles and the risk and the 0.1%.

00:36:58.000 The people who want to work their jobs aren't doing it because they're bored.

00:37:03.000 This is the crazy thing about the left's argument supporting this.

00:37:06.000 They think the people who need to work jobs are doing it for fun.

00:37:09.000 It's a weird view of work.

00:37:11.000 Like people work, yes, for fulfillment, but typically because they have responsibilities, and they're producing for themselves, their friends, and their families to survive.

00:37:20.000 So here's what I was thinking.

00:37:21.000 Take that logic of risk, and what risk you're willing to accept, and apply it to any other job.

00:37:26.000 Imagine if there was a firefighter, and then he saw a fire, and another firefighter was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't go in that burning building!

00:37:33.000 You might get burned!

00:37:34.000 It's like, well, yeah, I realize that.

00:37:36.000 In fact, the likelihood that a firefighter going into a burning building will get burned in some capacity is probably... I'm not saying, like, serious injury.

00:37:44.000 I'm just saying, like, you might get sick, you know.

00:37:47.000 There's risk.

00:37:48.000 Serious risk.

00:37:49.000 And we often talk about, you know, firefighters, I think, is the best example.

00:37:53.000 I could do cops, but I think firefighters, everybody generally likes, you know.

00:37:56.000 They know going into a burning building is a substantial risk.

00:37:59.000 Like, I don't know if you guys ever seen that movie Backdraft.

00:38:02.000 I haven't seen it since I was a little kid, but backdraft is... I'm probably getting the fire science wrong.

00:38:06.000 Somebody in the comments will correct me, but when there's a fire and it becomes oxygen starved, and then you open the door giving air to the room, then there's a big burst and it hits you.

00:38:15.000 And so there's things like that.

00:38:17.000 I remember I was told a story by my dad who was a firefighter for like 20-something years.

00:38:21.000 You go on the roof, and you'll hear creaking.

00:38:22.000 And then all the firefighters, like, look around at each other, like, what do we do?

00:38:25.000 And they train you, if you hear creaking, if you get scared, you get out.

00:38:28.000 You don't wait for anybody else.

00:38:30.000 Because people will look to each other, and then not move.

00:38:32.000 But then the roof caves in.

00:38:34.000 So, like, these risks are legit.

00:38:36.000 And imagine if they all were sitting around, and the alarm went off, and they were like, I don't know, man.

00:38:41.000 If I told you there were a hundred buildings, and one of them would be on fire, would you go in a building?

00:38:45.000 It's like...

00:38:46.000 Probably would, you know what I mean? 0.97

00:38:47.000 Also, she's got some dumb analogy to Skittles. 1.00

00:38:49.000 And like, she's talking about people's livelihoods.

00:38:51.000 So you gotta take the risk of going to work.

00:38:54.000 It's not eating candy.

00:38:55.000 They're not going to work for candy.

00:38:56.000 I gotta be mean.

00:38:57.000 I gotta be mean.

00:38:58.000 I don't wanna be mean.

00:38:59.000 But I gotta bring up Kyle Kulinski.

00:39:01.000 And I think Kyle Kulinski's a good dude.

00:39:03.000 He's a good dude.

00:39:05.000 I think he acts in good faith, and I respect him a lot.

00:39:08.000 But he had this tweet that I got to bring up and I'm not doing it I'm not trying to be mean but I don't know if you guys saw this where he was in an airplane and He saw all these farms and took a picture and he was had something like so beautiful I wonder why it looks like this and he got roasted like crazy because people were like bro like have you ever seen a farm before and And I felt bad because, look man, there's a lot of people who deserve... They're nasty people.

00:39:31.000 They're mean on Twitter. 0.99

00:39:32.000 I don't care if you're left or right. 0.86

00:39:33.000 There's a lot of really nasty people.

00:39:34.000 Now, he's a good dude.

00:39:35.000 And so him getting roasted hard, I was like, come on, man.

00:39:38.000 Like, he tries to be good to people, you know?

00:39:40.000 If he got something wrong.

00:39:41.000 But it is a good point.

00:39:43.000 He's a progressive.

00:39:44.000 He's got a very prominent, popular YouTube channel.

00:39:46.000 And he didn't know what a farm looked like.

00:39:48.000 And that says a lot.

00:39:49.000 It does.

00:39:50.000 Yeah.

00:39:50.000 Because he's a thought leader.

00:39:51.000 And so again, I'm not trying to be mean or disrespectful or anything, but just think about that, because I've had so many conversations with people on the left.

00:39:57.000 Like my friends who live in cities, there's no, they don't have the ability, or I should say the experience and the knowledge or the wisdom to connect farms, supply chain, food in your restaurants.

00:40:11.000 It's like they've never put in an order for food.

00:40:13.000 They don't know where it comes from.

00:40:14.000 You know what I mean?

00:40:15.000 So, like, when... I'll give you an example, man.

00:40:18.000 We've been trying... People keep telling us to sell beanies, right?

00:40:20.000 They're like, when are you guys gonna sell beanies?

00:40:22.000 Well, we can't get them made.

00:40:23.000 First of all, COVID made it really, really hard.

00:40:25.000 But getting the specific product put together, like, designed properly.

00:40:29.000 Not those nasty acrylic garbage beanies you get at the gas station.

00:40:32.000 Like, a real good one, like the ones I'm wearing.

00:40:35.000 You gotta find the place that makes them.

00:40:37.000 The place that makes them has to get the right material.

00:40:39.000 And so we call up these companies, and they say, we gotta order from this place in this part of the country, or even ordering skateboards.

00:40:45.000 Like, I was doing that when I was a teenager.

00:40:47.000 Trying to figure out where the wood's being sourced from, and then seeing where that, you know, supply chain comes.

00:40:52.000 Many of these people on the left, they were telling me when I said, I kept telling people, printing money will not get you food.

00:40:58.000 And they were like, dude, you can just go to the store and buy it.

00:41:01.000 Where do you think the food in the store comes from?

00:41:03.000 It comes on a truck!

00:41:04.000 So here's what people don't get.

00:41:06.000 People who live in cities who don't understand this.

00:41:08.000 They've not run a business.

00:41:09.000 They've not built or produced.

00:41:10.000 Maybe they work service jobs or they work digital jobs, coding or media or whatever.

00:41:15.000 They don't understand that supply chain.

00:41:18.000 And so to them, it's just, poof, the food appears.

00:41:20.000 It's just in the store.

00:41:22.000 And what they really don't get, and this is the crazy one, is that when the COVID pandemic hit, there were a couple weeks or about a month where it seemed like everything was normal.

00:41:30.000 You go to the store and there was food, and there was milk, and there were bagels, and there was cream cheese, and then one day it was gone.

00:41:35.000 But it was a delayed reaction.

00:41:36.000 Why?

00:41:37.000 The trucks were already being sent out.

00:41:40.000 The shipments came in, docked at the ports, loaded up on trucks, the shipping containers, the trucks then start driving around the country, and it takes a certain amount of- there's a delay.

00:41:49.000 So, when they announce that they're doing a lockdown, you're not gonna just go to the store and everything's gone.

00:41:54.000 Because not only do they have a current stock, they have the backroom stock, then they have, like, three more shipments, you know, next week, the week after, already lined up.

00:42:03.000 A month later, everything's gone.

00:42:05.000 And you go into the store and the toilet paper was gone.

00:42:05.000 Yeah.

00:42:07.000 Everyone's like, oh, what's happening?

00:42:08.000 Oh, where's all toilet paper?

00:42:09.000 It's like, yeah, well, I hope you bought some.

00:42:10.000 That's why it's so easy for them to demonize work, though, you know, because they don't value it and they don't understand what people do and why how they do it and why they produce in the way that they that they are.

00:42:22.000 I mean, that's the beauty of absolutely, you know, absolutely.

00:42:24.000 When it comes to capitalism, that's the beauty for me and why I love it so much.

00:42:28.000 And unfortunately, it spoiled a lot of these guys, because, yeah, you can have virtually no skill um not know how this stuff is produced but you can get something um whether it be a water bottle or something that you have no idea how to purify water or something but you bought it it's yours uh now you can drink it you can uh hydrate yourself having not ever understood how you got it and a lot of folks skip that step because they don't understand they don't even care to really understand that's why it's so easy for them to say

00:42:59.000 Why can't we just shut it all down and then the government can just print money to everybody and they just give it to us while we sit down and do nothing.

00:43:08.000 It's so easy for them to say that because they don't understand why it is that we work.

00:43:12.000 They don't understand production.

00:43:13.000 They don't understand why it is that we produce.

00:43:15.000 And it's so frustrating for me to see people and I was a former collegiate athlete and seeing my natural transition was in a gym industry right out of college.

00:43:25.000 And to see that that was the first thing to go when it came to the lockdowns, gyms.

00:43:31.000 It was so frustrating to me, not only because I understand like a lot of guys that own gyms, small and even franchised, aren't really usually rich anyway, like that.

00:43:40.000 And you get people put their life savings into trying to open up this gym.

00:43:43.000 They open up this gym and then you say basically, well, it's not safe for them to do what it is that they do.

00:43:49.000 Well, it's not essential.

00:43:50.000 Now, not only was that crazy because of that, but definitely when we learn more about the virus, and we know who was being impacted the most, you'd think the gym was the place that people wanted to go to try to get their behinds in some sort of shape.

00:44:03.000 So if they do contract this virus, they have a better chance of surviving it, but the gyms were the first thing to go. 1.00

00:44:09.000 But it's just so easy, and how willy-nilly people just say, shut the gym down, shut the salon down.

00:44:15.000 We don't need it.

00:44:15.000 It's no big deal.

00:44:16.000 We just leave these other folks open and they don't understand, like, why it is that they're producing in the way that they are.

00:44:21.000 Isn't there, like, an interesting correlation between the idea that these people don't know where food comes from and also, like, the body positivity movement and, like, privilege and all this stuff?

00:44:30.000 They don't understand the value of not just, like, labor that produces for the economy, but just good old-fashioned rolling up your sleeves and working and the benefits that come with it.

00:44:42.000 Like, there are people who do, you know, farming is good training.

00:44:47.000 Absolutely.

00:44:48.000 Like, actually, just like tilling a field and doing work, and then you'll realize, man, you got crazy upper body strength from it.

00:44:53.000 A good hard day's work makes you healthy, makes you better.

00:44:56.000 We need it.

00:44:57.000 They don't get that.

00:44:58.000 So now you've got, you know, people who just eat irresponsibly, and assume the food's just there, and who cares, and they don't gotta do anything to take care of themselves.

00:45:06.000 And this ties into, like, universal healthcare and stuff.

00:45:09.000 Oh, man.

00:45:09.000 You know what, man?

00:45:10.000 I was actually, uh, I was even recently saying that I was very much in favor of universal healthcare if it could be accomplished.

00:45:15.000 I like the idea that we take care of everybody, and we gotta figure out the right way to do it.

00:45:19.000 And one of the arguments I've often made is, like, and I think, we talked about this, Ian, like, if you break your arm, you go to the doctor, they take care of you.

00:45:25.000 You know, like, you broke your arm, it's not expensive treatment, it's like standard care, but if you get, like, a serious cancer, then you need private insurance on top of that, because that's expensive to produce and everything like that.

00:45:35.000 But I'll tell you, I changed my mind on this when I saw that they were giving, uh, for the, for COVID vaccine, racial, racial guidelines.

00:45:43.000 And then I was like, Whoa, no way, dude.

00:45:47.000 I'm out.

00:45:48.000 I'm out.

00:45:49.000 I'm totally, I'm totally off that wagon.

00:45:51.000 The thing about me with the healthcare thing and why I just can't take anybody serious for advocating for it.

00:45:56.000 It's because they certainly don't advocate for, let's say a mandate on top of the healthcare that you be required to like work out.

00:46:03.000 Exactly.

00:46:04.000 Well, that was a point I wanted to make.

00:46:05.000 Like, they don't make that a requirement.

00:46:05.000 Right?

00:46:08.000 They don't even advocate that.

00:46:09.000 This is why you have people... Well, that's fascism.

00:46:10.000 Yeah, of course.

00:46:11.000 Like, how... Even though I think the Soviets made people do calisthenics.

00:46:15.000 Yeah, like, because obviously you'd be less of a burden on the healthcare system the healthier you are.

00:46:20.000 But they don't certainly pitch that as an idea.

00:46:23.000 That's the thing about authoritarianism.

00:46:25.000 If you were going to say, we're going to do universal health care, but the only way to make it work is that everybody has to do a physical or something, or exercise, that would make sense, and then you're forcing people to do something.

00:46:35.000 It doesn't make sense to be like, no, no, no, you can eat all the double bacon, triple cheeseburgers you want, and then we're all going to pay for your health care.

00:46:42.000 Or sugar.

00:46:43.000 With food stamps, you go buy Pepsi, and you can buy all Pepsi with your entire food stamp check.

00:46:48.000 It's- it's- it's- it's crazy, man.

00:46:50.000 When I was- Criminal.

00:46:51.000 When I was- It's an addictive drug, sure.

00:46:53.000 When I was 20.

00:46:53.000 Yeah.

00:46:54.000 But, like, even- even outside of that.

00:46:56.000 Even outside of, like, whether or not you want to rag on sugar.

00:46:58.000 When I was 20, I had a food benefit card when I was effectively- I don't want to say I was homeless in Seattle, but I was, like, I moved there, I was pretty broke, and I was, like, sleeping on a couch, and I ended up getting a food card.

00:47:09.000 I met- I got a job really quickly within, like, a month, but while I didn't, they gave me, like, 80 bucks.

00:47:13.000 And I went into a store, and they said, you can buy anything that isn't prepared.

00:47:17.000 And I was like, I can buy this Butterfinger.

00:47:19.000 And they're like, yeah.

00:47:20.000 I was like, that's insane.

00:47:21.000 That's crazy.

00:47:22.000 Why are you buying candy with it?

00:47:24.000 It's sickness, man.

00:47:25.000 It's, it's, it's, like, I understand, like, I think benefits are good.

00:47:29.000 Like I mentioned, like, I was helped by them, you know?

00:47:32.000 Like, I was able to, I moved to Seattle, and then, you know, had a hard time, and I was able to get, like, 80 bucks for one month.

00:47:38.000 Not a whole lot of money, didn't really do a lot for me, but it helped me eat, and I didn't buy candy bars with it.

00:47:42.000 No.

00:47:43.000 But a lot of people do.

00:47:44.000 No, that's exactly what they buy.

00:47:47.000 I mean, this is one of the things that I certainly learned when I went into like a huge out of college, like this huge like budgeting thing where I was like, I want to know how much money I'm spending and spending it on what.

00:48:00.000 And you just be surprised how much money you spend on stuff that is not obviously nutritious, but more so how much it's not that it doesn't cost that much.

00:48:10.000 To eat healthy.

00:48:11.000 A lot of people think it does.

00:48:13.000 I agree, man.

00:48:15.000 But it really doesn't.

00:48:16.000 Like, you know the amount of money.

00:48:17.000 Like, you go to, I don't know, Burger King or something, and you get a large meal.

00:48:21.000 You're gonna come out that bad boy paying, what, like ten bucks or something like that?

00:48:24.000 Probably.

00:48:25.000 For that particular meal.

00:48:27.000 Do you know what you could get at the grocery store?

00:48:29.000 Yeah.

00:48:30.000 What is a banana?

00:48:33.000 Like a $1.29 a pound?

00:48:34.000 Packed with nutrients.

00:48:36.000 So good.

00:48:37.000 You get a thing of peanut butter and you get a thing of bananas.

00:48:38.000 And you got two to three meals compared to what you'd get with rice and a can of beans.

00:48:44.000 You have like three meals for like $4.

00:48:47.000 And it's healthier than that!

00:48:48.000 This is what really bothers me.

00:48:52.000 I think the modern left is is chock full of low information individuals who ruin the ideas of what the left is supposed to actually be arguing for.

00:49:03.000 Economic cooperation versus economic competition.

00:49:06.000 That's like the easiest way I think to break down what left and right would be.

00:49:09.000 So I like the idea of social safety nets.

00:49:12.000 The only problem is you have people who are like Back to this point, I hear it over and over again.

00:49:19.000 It's expensive to eat healthy.

00:49:21.000 And they have these viral videos where they're like, but wouldn't you rather just spend a dollar at McDonald's for a double cheeseburger?

00:49:28.000 When I lived in Los Angeles, I was broke.

00:49:31.000 And I was sharing a studio apartment with some friends, and I was making only a couple hundred bucks a month.

00:49:35.000 You know what I would do?

00:49:36.000 For 80 cents, I could get four tomatoes and a little thing of mayo.

00:49:41.000 And then for another 50 cents, I could get a pack of tortillas.

00:49:44.000 There you go.

00:49:45.000 Absolutely.

00:49:45.000 That was that was just like my snack for lunch or whatever but eating tomatoes for like a dollar

00:49:50.000 I could have like ten times the food absolutely of a double cheeseburger, and I'll tell you this they argue

00:49:56.000 But the cheeseburgers protein all stuff. Oh, yeah, and then I'd buy a thing of peanut butter later

00:49:58.000 And then I would you know I was broke. I was broke broke But could you I couldn't spend three dollars on a burger

00:50:04.000 three?

00:50:05.000 And that's one meal.

00:50:06.000 That's one meal.

00:50:07.000 But it's not good for you.

00:50:09.000 It's like 90% of your daily sodium.

00:50:11.000 After that, you just get sick and bloated. 0.98

00:50:13.000 And then you get, oh man, you get mud butt from eating that trash fast food. 0.98

00:50:17.000 Yeah, no, no, no good. 0.75

00:50:18.000 So I would just have some tomatoes, some tortillas.

00:50:21.000 I would get some beans and peanut butter.

00:50:22.000 And it would cost me dirt.

00:50:24.000 When I was flat broke, I figured out a way to get the food that I needed.

00:50:28.000 And I was not eating well.

00:50:30.000 Not at all.

00:50:30.000 And I've been through a lot of periods in my life where I was not eating well.

00:50:32.000 And that's part of the reason why I'm fairly lefty.

00:50:35.000 But I'm also fairly responsible.

00:50:37.000 So when I got a food cart in Seattle, I would buy fruit juice with it, I would buy, like, protein and peanut butter, and I was, what people were telling me, like, people would, you could just buy chocolate bars, double cheese, like, you could buy freezer cheeseburgers.

00:50:53.000 I'm like, what?

00:50:55.000 How do we fix that, man?

00:50:56.000 I don't think it can be.

00:50:58.000 The great Thomas Sowell, when he talks about welfare statism, and the way that he breaks it down to me as genius, and the way it's broken down to me, and the way I break it down to everybody else, is that I understand the good intention.

00:51:11.000 You have someone that is down and out, and you want them to be supported in some kind of way.

00:51:16.000 The problem is that how it's structured, and generally how it's structured everywhere else, is that you're incentivizing them to fail.

00:51:23.000 Because what you do is you say, so as long as you meet this line, we'll give you whatever it is that you need.

00:51:31.000 Housing, food, the minute you get above that line, we're stripping it all away from you.

00:51:37.000 And that's what they're doing.

00:51:39.000 They're incentivizing.

00:51:40.000 That's why a lot of folks that are there stay there.

00:51:43.000 You want to know what I really love about this?

00:51:46.000 I'm successful.

00:51:48.000 I'm a high school dropout.

00:51:49.000 When I talk to people about how to succeed and work hard, I say, if you work hard and you're smart and you sacrifice, you will succeed.

00:51:56.000 They say, Tim, you're the exception, not the rule.

00:51:59.000 But hold on, hold on, hold on.

00:52:01.000 Then when I say, You know, there was a period in my life where I got welfare.

00:52:07.000 I got food stamps to help me survive.

00:52:08.000 They say, see, it helped you, and then you succeeded.

00:52:10.000 But why aren't I the exception?

00:52:12.000 Yeah.

00:52:13.000 Exactly.

00:52:13.000 You see how they play it?

00:52:14.000 Yeah.

00:52:14.000 So I actually use that argument.

00:52:16.000 I say, like, I think for me it's a good example of how it works.

00:52:19.000 I moved to Seattle, I had some bad stuff came up, I ran out of money, and so I got some food help.

00:52:27.000 I immediately got a job at a local cafe, and then I immediately got off of it.

00:52:30.000 I had it for about a month.

00:52:32.000 And a bunch of other people, man, a lot of people that I knew in Seattle were They purposefully didn't want to work.

00:52:38.000 Yeah.

00:52:38.000 They would go food bank to food bank.

00:52:40.000 They would just make up lies and excuses to get their benefits and stuff like that.

00:52:44.000 And so I don't know what, you know, I'm not going to, I can only speak for my own personal experiences, but I'll point out when I try and tell people I'm not the exception when it comes to hard work and success, not in the least bit.

00:52:54.000 Okay.

00:52:55.000 You want to work for three years with no days off, 16 hour days, trust me, you'll figure something out as long as you're dedicated to doing something and making it work.

00:53:03.000 I understand not everybody's gonna succeed, okay?

00:53:06.000 But it's certainly not an exception to say working hard leads to some kind of success.

00:53:09.000 Not at all.

00:53:10.000 I mean, that's the common theme that you see with a lot of people.

00:53:12.000 I mean, I grew up in a single-parent household.

00:53:15.000 Mother didn't have too much of anything.

00:53:17.000 I remember wearing the same office and shoes for a couple of years, even though I was growing.

00:53:23.000 No, that's a real thing.

00:53:24.000 But my mother was working two, three jobs at a time just to try to get me to do stuff that I wanted to do. 1.00

00:53:30.000 But am I the exception to the food card thing, then?

00:53:34.000 Well, that's an argument to be made, and I think you are, to be completely honest, because you look at how intergenerational poverty works in this country, right?

00:53:42.000 It's not like it's this mechanism where people... Because, yes, it's true.

00:53:47.000 That folks slide up and down economic classes all the time.

00:53:50.000 That is absolutely true.

00:53:51.000 That is irrefutable.

00:53:52.000 Unfortunately, a lot of people don't talk about it enough.

00:53:54.000 But when you talk about people that are considered in poverty, the reason why that term intergenerational poverty exists is because it's exactly that.

00:54:03.000 When you have someone that comes in poor, Remains poor and to sit up here and think that and this is what actually frustrates me as someone that came from that style of living I grew up banging There's nothing that anybody can tell me about living living that particular lifestyle and to see folks that include my own father

00:54:21.000 To see folks that didn't do everything it was that they could do to get out of that situation was what kind of changed my mind, obviously, as I got older.

00:54:31.000 Because I'm out working the people that are right next to me.

00:54:33.000 And they say, well, they're going to give it to me anyway.

00:54:36.000 The money, Section 8 housing, or whatever it is that I have that I'm getting, I want to stay exactly where I am at.

00:54:43.000 And this is why when we talk about welfare and we talk about needs and we talk about necessity, I certainly understand all of those arguments, and there's absolutely arguments to be made, but to sit here and act like every single person that is in that particular position, it doesn't really matter if you're poor or rich, but certainly when we're talking, just to make it unique to this conversation, if you're talking about those, to act like it's every, that they've, number one, done everything they could get out of it, It's horse crap, but most importantly, let's not talk as if there aren't people that done everything they could to get into that and to remain exactly where they are.

00:55:17.000 My own father speaks to that. 0.96

00:55:19.000 Yeah, man, it's the nail on the head, dude.

00:55:21.000 It's the elephant in the United States people aren't talking about that you're incentivized to remain on food stamps or to continue to collect unemployment.

00:55:28.000 And if you get a job that makes $500 a week, you're going to lose your $600 a week unemployment check.

00:55:33.000 That's a problem.

00:55:34.000 But I think that shows that Could we possibly fix that system?

00:55:39.000 Yeah, I think UBI is a step towards fixing it so that you still get the benefit, you strip away food stamps, you

00:55:44.000 strip away Social Security.

00:55:45.000 But that's the thing though, and that's what a lot of even you'd have, I mean I won't say Hayek actually made that

00:55:50.000 argument, it's a misconception that he actually made it.

00:55:53.000 But would that be better than what we have now?

00:55:56.000 Absolutely.

00:55:57.000 But that's the thing though, it's not gonna come that way.

00:56:00.000 If they implement UBI, if you think that they're stripping everything else away on top of that, absolutely not.

00:56:06.000 But think about the same problem we were just talking about.

00:56:07.000 Let's say you get rid of all those programs, like Andrew Yang was saying, you get rid of all the other spending, we give everybody a thousand bucks, it actually isn't that much more.

00:56:15.000 It is a lot, it's trillions of dollars.

00:56:17.000 But what happens then when you got someone who gets a thousand dollars, and they're like, I can pay my rent, or we can go to Six Flags, Let's go to Six Flags!

00:56:24.000 Because a thousand bucks, I can spend it however I want.

00:56:26.000 And then they become homeless.

00:56:28.000 So it's personal choice.

00:56:30.000 But that's the thing.

00:56:31.000 That's why when we talk about this and welfare statism, we have to consider the individual above all.

00:56:37.000 Because we aren't all wired the same way.

00:56:39.000 And that to me isn't a bad thing.

00:56:41.000 That's a great thing that we aren't wired the same way.

00:56:44.000 But the reason why we advocate for, certainly guys like myself, advocate for freer markets is because we all are different in that aspect.

00:56:53.000 And certain people have certain skill sets that they can utilize to, let's say, maintain some sort of comfortable living.

00:57:01.000 Everybody does.

00:57:02.000 I don't care who you are.

00:57:03.000 Now, you might not be taking advantage of it, but I believe that we all can work uh... towards that unfortunately the welfare state and certainly when it comes to the economic or more political left they don't they don't even highlight that because it's like you're poor you're where you're at i have to come save you

00:57:19.000 There's only two real privileges, in my opinion.

00:57:22.000 We hear all about privilege, you know, white privilege, male privilege, whatever.

00:57:26.000 The first and most important, I think, is intelligent privilege.

00:57:31.000 If you're a smart person, and not everybody is smart, and you're gonna do better.

00:57:37.000 If you can plan and strategize.

00:57:39.000 Now you can earn all that, though.

00:57:40.000 You can study.

00:57:42.000 And some people, you know, they say might learn some things better.

00:57:44.000 There's like, I forgot what it's called.

00:57:46.000 People learn in different ways.

00:57:48.000 Some people learn through physical.

00:57:50.000 Some learn through reading.

00:57:51.000 Some learn through doing.

00:57:53.000 But you can actually study and work hard.

00:57:55.000 But that's where the real privilege comes in.

00:57:58.000 Your willingness to work hard.

00:57:59.000 And that's in you.

00:58:00.000 And that's a choice.

00:58:01.000 Everybody can make that choice.

00:58:03.000 Clean running water is another privilege. 1.00

00:58:04.000 Because if you have lead in your water, you're going to come out stupid. 1.00

00:58:08.000 Sure, that's a good point. 0.98

00:58:09.000 But, if you work hard enough, and they're certainly, like, I'm not trying to be overly simplistic, but the point I'm trying to make is, no matter where you are in the world, there are people who are doing better than others.

00:58:19.000 You know, so they're, like, you can pick a relatively poor nation, And you'll find there are people there who are wealthier than the average American.

00:58:26.000 They've found a way.

00:58:27.000 They were smart about it.

00:58:29.000 Some places, they do bad things to do it. 0.98

00:58:32.000 But, you know, when you look at somebody who's committing crimes, there's some really dumb and simple crimes. 0.98

00:58:36.000 Theft. 0.91

00:58:37.000 But there are some enterprise crimes.

00:58:39.000 Smuggling, cartels, or whatever.

00:58:40.000 They're manipulating the system to get what they want.

00:58:43.000 I don't think it's a good thing.

00:58:44.000 I'm just saying...

00:58:46.000 You're right about the lead, definitely.

00:58:48.000 You're poisoned, you're in a crappy position, it's gonna be a lot harder for you than somewhere else in the world.

00:58:53.000 But if you're willing to work harder... Right, exactly.

00:58:55.000 But that's the thing, like, why not highlight that?

00:58:57.000 You know, it's always a focus and an overemphasis, at least in my honest opinion, about, okay, some people can't do this.

00:59:04.000 And I always respond to that, well, some people can.

00:59:07.000 You know what, man?

00:59:08.000 I'm going to give a shout out to this guy I've been watching on Instagram.

00:59:11.000 His name is Nick Mullins.

00:59:13.000 He's blind, and he's probably one of the best skateboarders I've ever seen in my life.

00:59:16.000 I'm not even kidding.

00:59:17.000 My mind is blown.

00:59:19.000 The Barracks is a very popular skateboarding website, and they've been promoting this documentary about this dude who got sick, and then he got a staph infection, and it destroyed his eyesight.

00:59:30.000 He's totally blind.

00:59:31.000 And you watch him skate and he's skating on like a six foot half pipe, you know, like, you know, it's not as big as what Tony Hawk would do, but he's doing tricks I can't do.

00:59:41.000 And when he skates, his head doesn't move.

00:59:43.000 He can't see.

00:59:44.000 He's blind.

00:59:45.000 What's your excuse?

00:59:46.000 Man.

00:59:46.000 There are people with no legs that skate and they do some of the craziest skateboarding tricks.

00:59:50.000 They got no legs.

00:59:51.000 What's your excuse?

00:59:52.000 So look, I understand.

00:59:53.000 It's fair to say, if you're drinking lead water and it's messed your brain up, yeah, it's going to hold you back for sure.

01:00:00.000 I understand that.

01:00:01.000 Or if you're crippled or you've got some... I don't know if that's a proper term, but to that point though, there are folks that are doing very amazing things that are in those positions.

01:00:12.000 One of my video editors actually isn't.

01:00:13.000 is in that physical, has a physical disability, the best video editor that I know.

01:00:18.000 Because they find ways to get it.

01:00:20.000 So watching this guy the other day on like, you know, Facebook gaming every now and then,

01:00:24.000 like pops up on my like video feed or whatever.

01:00:27.000 And I was sitting here watching this guy, he's paralyzed from like the neck down.

01:00:33.000 And he's like using his mouth and his head to play Call of Duty, like Warzone or whatever.

01:00:39.000 Wow.

01:00:40.000 And he is, like, slaying.

01:00:41.000 He's obviously way better than anything that I ever could do.

01:00:44.000 That's cool.

01:00:44.000 It's the coolest thing that I can... But I see stuff like that and I get inspired.

01:00:48.000 Like, that's just how I am.

01:00:49.000 I just get inspired.

01:00:50.000 I watched this video on Instagram of this dude skating blind, and I'll give you an example of one of the tricks he did.

01:00:57.000 I think he did a nollie backside big heel flip to back over crook, and then just pop in regular.

01:01:04.000 It's jargon to most of you, but a skateboarder's probably understood what I said.

01:01:06.000 He's blind, okay?

01:01:07.000 He can't see.

01:01:08.000 And so I went on my mini ramp, and I was like, alright, let's see what I got.

01:01:10.000 I closed my eyes, I just fell.

01:01:12.000 I can skate a mini ramp pretty well, and I closed my eyes one time, I could not do it.

01:01:18.000 And I'm just like, man, talk about your willingness to work hard, your refusal to give up, and you could not see and still be better at skateboarding than most skateboarders in the world.

01:01:29.000 It's amazing.

01:01:29.000 But that's why, you know, what people don't talk about is that, you know, a big percentage of millionaires like in this country right now are self-made.

01:01:39.000 They didn't come by way of some trust fund or or mom and daddy had had a business that they inherited.

01:01:45.000 No, they were they started in in in similar positions as us and then they went and got it and this is why I just can't let people make it uh with an excuse and for me that to me when I hear stories like that that's inspiring but for for whatever reason folks look at that well you're like you mentioned earlier you're the exception to the rule.

01:02:02.000 Not everybody else can do that and that's to me is just such a toxic way to think and you'll never get over the hump.

01:02:08.000 If your position is always worrying about, okay, I can't do it.

01:02:12.000 I'll never be able to be in this position.

01:02:14.000 Other people have.

01:02:15.000 Other people were in worse positions and are now in better positions.

01:02:18.000 If you're always thinking like that, then of course you're going to remain exactly like where you're at.

01:02:22.000 And unfortunately, when it comes to the government and how powerful they are, they incentivize you to stay exactly right there.

01:02:29.000 And then we talk about progressive taxation and the more that you make, the more they take, uh, there anyway.

01:02:33.000 And it's, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a way that's a dependency thing.

01:02:37.000 Um, that's a part of the state and this is why they don't want you to be self-sufficient.

01:02:40.000 They want it to come, uh, from them because they don't want you to be able to create for yourself.

01:02:45.000 See, I'm not an ANCAP though.

01:02:47.000 I'm pretty lefty on a lot of economic policy issues.

01:02:50.000 I think one of the challenges we have right now is Mackenzie Bezos. 0.99

01:02:55.000 Really good example.

01:02:56.000 She's not like, you know, everybody likes to say Soros.

01:02:59.000 Lefty billionaire pumping money into like crazy ideas.

01:03:01.000 Mackenzie Bezos is a good example because as I think it's it's you're not allowed to say this.

01:03:06.000 She got her money from her husband.

01:03:08.000 She did, right?

01:03:09.000 Literally did.

01:03:11.000 Apparently somebody tweets that and they got taxed saying, like, how dare you?

01:03:14.000 She did.

01:03:15.000 She divorced her husband and she got a large portion of the money and now she's putting billions of dollars into woke programs. 1.00

01:03:20.000 See, that's one of the issues I have with unfettered capitalism in this sense.

01:03:25.000 See, I wouldn't say that that's unfettered capitalism.

01:03:27.000 That's, I mean, one of the most, when you talk about divorce courts and all of that, like, we don't live in any sort of market there.

01:03:34.000 Anyway, those are one of the most, some of the most, I mean, definitely when we talk about people's kids and all of that getting involved, like, those are one of the most crooked, like, status institutions.

01:03:44.000 Like, in the world.

01:03:45.000 What I mean specifically is, imagine if it wasn't even divorce.

01:03:48.000 It's just a person with billions of dollars looking you in the eyes and saying,

01:03:52.000 everything you believe in, I can wash away with the snap of my fingers because I was

01:03:57.000 given money.

01:03:58.000 So, I don't like the idea that billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg, you hear about what's

01:04:02.000 going on with him, apparently he put tons of money into election systems and a bunch

01:04:06.000 of districts like Philadelphia got millions of dollars to help run their elections.

01:04:12.000 Republicans are furious.

01:04:13.000 They're like, is that even legal?

01:04:15.000 And I'm like, dude, I don't like the idea that people get super rich and then can basically override our political system.

01:04:22.000 Well, that's why I don't like the, that's why I don't want the political system there in the first place for them to override.

01:04:27.000 And this is why, you know, we talk about cronyism and all of those sorts of sorts of concepts.

01:04:33.000 And unfortunately people blame that stuff on capitalism as I've been screaming from the mountaintops to get rid of this, get rid of that institution, get rid of, uh, privatize this.

01:04:41.000 Why is the government monopolizing this service when it can easily, we accept that for food or something like that, that it's that's the, the government should not be involved in that.

01:04:50.000 Yet, for whatever reason, we apply it to other things, certainly that the state controls, and then we just act as if they have to have it.

01:04:56.000 If we're going to talk about, like, capitalism and, like, is it good versus is it bad, I think we have to be honest with ourselves.

01:05:04.000 Nobody can look me in the eye and say, what we have now is anything close to that.

01:05:09.000 And this is why a lot of rich folk, a lot of rich folks specifically in America, when it comes to who Who they pay and how they lobby, how they vote, who they book dance for, every single election cycle.

01:05:21.000 It's not like they're out there supporting libertarians or something like that.

01:05:24.000 Not at all.

01:05:25.000 They'll go support progressive Democrats because they benefit from a lot of these policies,

01:05:29.000 not just with regulation or anything like that, but with grants, like with the fact

01:05:36.000 that you can just come up with some concept and you can apply for whatever

01:05:40.000 and the government can use your taxpayer dollars to line these people's pockets.

01:05:44.000 The prison system is a big time example of that and the fact that people blame that on,

01:05:49.000 we say we got private prisons.

01:05:51.000 No, we don't.

01:05:52.000 We don't have private prisons.

01:05:53.000 Like the fact that the people that they're housing, the criminals that they're housing, they're not housing criminals that have violated something from that there was an actual act of aggression.

01:06:03.000 Like there's like an actual private property right violation, be it in self-ownership or something like that.

01:06:09.000 Of course not.

01:06:09.000 No, they're enforcing the laws and maintaining said enforcements of the rules by way of the state.

01:06:16.000 Well, I'll add to your point about we don't have private prisons.

01:06:19.000 I think if you look at the big picture, we don't.

01:06:21.000 You know why?

01:06:22.000 How do- where do private prisons get their money from?

01:06:25.000 I mean, if they were- if they were legitimately- what are you talking about the ones that exist right now?

01:06:29.000 The ones the left says, we got these private prisons, right?

01:06:31.000 Yeah.

01:06:31.000 Where's that money coming from?

01:06:32.000 They're coming from the state!

01:06:33.000 Exactly!

01:06:34.000 So they're private in the sense that they get paid per head in the prison.

01:06:38.000 Yeah.

01:06:38.000 That's- but it's from the government!

01:06:40.000 But that's it, yeah, exactly.

01:06:40.000 It's still the government running these things.

01:06:42.000 So, you know, I've had my arguments about private prisons, but I think the bigger argument is prison reform in general.

01:06:47.000 And I think, you know, my problem with the left is, one, we went over this, like, not knowing what a farm is.

01:06:54.000 Come on, man.

01:06:55.000 You know, like, we can have a discussion about economic cooperation versus economic competition, but not if you don't know where the chain of production is at all, or, like, how it starts.

01:07:04.000 So I look at, like, the left that we have in this country, and for the most part, it's, like, malformed.

01:07:09.000 I think, to be completely honest, I've talked about this quite a bit.

01:07:12.000 Idealistically, I'm very left-libertarian, but that works on a farm.

01:07:16.000 It doesn't work in a city.

01:07:18.000 It doesn't work in a town.

01:07:19.000 You need some way to allow freedom of enterprise and a decentralized method by which you allocate resources.

01:07:26.000 If you try and take left-libertarianism to a grand scale, it just becomes authoritarianism.

01:07:31.000 Because you can't enforce cooperation.

01:07:32.000 Once you do, then you're a tankie.

01:07:34.000 You're telling people what they have to do.

01:07:36.000 Yeah, of course.

01:07:36.000 It's really interesting to see like the Democratic Socialists of America say like we're not authoritarians.

01:07:40.000 They claim that Bernie Sanders for instance on the libertarian spectrum.

01:07:44.000 Let me tell you something.

01:07:45.000 I'm actually not a hardcore taxation and stuff kind of person.

01:07:49.000 You know Luke has the hat and the shirt.

01:07:50.000 Yeah of course.

01:07:51.000 He's one of us.

01:07:52.000 Yeah right.

01:07:53.000 I don't but I'll tell you this.

01:07:55.000 You got to recognize that if Bernie Sanders comes in and one of his proposals was 20%

01:07:59.000 of every company should go to the workers.

01:08:01.000 Okay, if you go into a factory where people are making, I don't know, shoes, and then you have cops with you, and you say, from now on, you have to do this, like, you're forcing them to do it.

01:08:13.000 Now, you can tell me it's the right thing, that's fine, but you gotta recognize it's the authority that grants you that right to do so.

01:08:19.000 So, the way I put it is, if you want to really break it down, if you go to someone's house, with a gun, and say, give me your stuff, because I'm smarter than you and I'm going to use it appropriately, like, we call that stealing.

01:08:31.000 When it comes to the government, now the argument I would make is that it's supposed to be a pooled, cooperative place where we can agree upon what we do and how we do things.

01:08:41.000 But this is the inversion of what I said before about Left Libertarian.

01:08:44.000 Left Libertarian's great.

01:08:45.000 I love saying this bit.

01:08:46.000 You're on a farm with your friends and your hippie friend walks in and he's like, I grew these watermelons, you wanna share them with me?

01:08:51.000 It's really easy when it's just you and your buddies.

01:08:53.000 I think, you know, we had Jack Murphy on and he said that, you know, like at the home, I think it was Jack who said this, in the home you're a communist, right?

01:09:00.000 Yes.

01:09:00.000 You give everything to your kids.

01:09:02.000 They don't, you know, they maybe do chores for it, but it's just given.

01:09:05.000 So the, so I think I'm losing my train of thought.

01:09:07.000 But anyway, the idea is once you get too big in terms of trying to be like helping everybody, you just become oppressive.

01:09:16.000 You become the oppressor of everybody.

01:09:17.000 So it's like the inverse.

01:09:18.000 If you go too far in one direction, You no longer have a shared pool of resources where we can work together, you have things being taken by force.

01:09:26.000 So I think there's a happy medium.

01:09:27.000 A place where you have a small town or whatever, and it really does work in small towns, where people do pay a tax.

01:09:34.000 It's very little, it's barely any, it's negligible, but it does support local water and stuff like that.

01:09:40.000 But when you get really, really big, then $10 million goes to Pakistani gender studies when people aren't working.

01:09:45.000 That's a problem.

01:09:46.000 But see, that's why I would say, in terms of what I advocate, the way I define, I know

01:09:49.000 we talk about capitalism in a modern sense, not how Marx defined it or anything.

01:09:53.000 Let's talk about me and me being an anarcho-capitalist, how I generally define it is to, you know,

01:09:59.000 private ownerships of goods and services and the free and voluntary exchange of those private

01:10:03.000 goods and services.

01:10:04.000 And this is why you will never find an actual, let's say, libertarian in that sense, in the

01:10:11.000 modern libertarian sense.

01:10:13.000 It's Rothbard hijacked the term, right?

01:10:15.000 In the modern libertarian sense, you're not going to find any libertarian that is opposed to people in groups pulling their resources together to provide a particular service.

01:10:27.000 None of them were ever opposed to that.

01:10:29.000 It's the means in which, how is that accomplished?

01:10:33.000 Is it voluntarily entered?

01:10:35.000 Or is it by way of the gun?

01:10:37.000 If it's voluntarily entered, and this is why some people call themselves voluntarist, then that's perfectly fine.

01:10:44.000 And this is why it's not, when people say that, let's say libertarian, or most of capitalism, it's specifically about, like, Let's say, uh, profit.

01:10:52.000 And I say, no it's not!

01:10:54.000 Because if I own this water bottle, I bought this water bottle, I own it, it is mine.

01:10:58.000 I can sell it to you, you can buy it, or I can give it to you.

01:11:02.000 Still, capitalism won't either way that it goes.

01:11:05.000 I could sell it for a profit, say if I purchased it for one, I sell it to you for two dollars.

01:11:09.000 Or I can just say, hmm, I don't need this water anymore, do you want it?

01:11:12.000 And I can give it to you voluntarily.

01:11:14.000 Those both exist in what we deem as capitalism.

01:11:18.000 And unfortunately, a lot of folks pin it on pure profit.

01:11:22.000 And no, this is why we like the concepts of charity.

01:11:25.000 We like the concepts of voluntarism.

01:11:27.000 If you guys in a neighborhood or something like that want to pool your resources to provide certain services in the neighborhood, security or something like that, no libertarian is going to be like, I don't want that.

01:11:36.000 I think the left has a different definition of profit.

01:11:39.000 Yeah.

01:11:39.000 So they look at profit like, you know, you're the CEO or you're a shareholder of a pharmaceutical company.

01:11:45.000 You do literally no work for the company, sit back and you get money off of the drugs people are paying.

01:11:50.000 Whereas the actual word profit just means that, you know, the capital raised after costs are covered.

01:11:55.000 Right.

01:11:55.000 So if I made this water bottle and it cost me $5 to make, my labor is the profit.

01:12:01.000 I say, I'll sell it to you for $6 and take a dollar for myself.

01:12:03.000 That's $1 profit, but it's what covers the cost of my labor.

01:12:07.000 Yeah.

01:12:08.000 The bigger problem, I guess, is, you know, for me, I think we've got a problem if there are people in society who leech off of everybody else's labor.

01:12:16.000 You know, I don't care if it's the government or a private institution.

01:12:18.000 That's true.

01:12:19.000 So when I see big, massive pharmaceuticals and, you know, they're paying millions of dollars to executives who aren't... And I'm not saying every executive does nothing.

01:12:26.000 A lot of them work really, really hard.

01:12:28.000 But you've got a lot of people who get paid a lot for nothing.

01:12:30.000 And I'll give you a better example.

01:12:31.000 It's like these media companies.

01:12:33.000 You want to talk about the problem of profit?

01:12:34.000 Let's talk about how they...

01:12:38.000 I'll tell you, man, there's a really weird class system in capitalism, or at least whatever you can call what the system we're in right now, because it's not a pure capitalism, you know, by any stretch of the imagination.

01:12:47.000 But, like, people who get paid $50,000 a year to write listicles about, you know, cartoons and other nonsense, and it happens.

01:12:55.000 And I'm like, why are they getting all that money when somebody who's working, like, picking apples is getting paid $10 an hour?

01:13:01.000 The actual labor to produce our food.

01:13:03.000 This is a lefty argument, but it's the left that defends those institutions and the extraction of value and labor through these systems.

01:13:11.000 They're okay with it.

01:13:12.000 And that's the problem with, like, definitely when we talk about, you know, with Beaver Pharmaceuticals, and this is why I'm always trying to Get to the root of the problem as opposed to just slapping a band-aid on a wound or something like that.

01:13:24.000 When we talk about some of these institutions that exist, including media companies, we got to talk about, like, monopolization.

01:13:30.000 And that is not... I know a lot of people say that they fear monopolization in a libertarian society because they think that the government does something to stop it.

01:13:40.000 And I would encourage you to name one monopoly that has ever existed in human history.

01:13:45.000 Bell Monopoly.

01:13:46.000 Doesn't matter what it is.

01:13:47.000 I was gonna say Bell Monopoly.

01:13:47.000 Bell Monopoly that has existed but didn't use the state to leverage themselves into the position that they have.

01:13:56.000 I talked about like net neutrality.

01:13:58.000 I went through the net.

01:13:58.000 I have a video that I talk about going through the great detail of that and how even the Bell Monopoly would use the state and local governments to basically price people not even price people out of the market basically say you can't produce here like you cannot if you even no matter if you had the money you had the uh you were willing to do the construction in the area no you cannot produce here because the state has basically said that you can do that

01:14:26.000 Like, that's a problem.

01:14:27.000 When we talk about IP law, that's another one.

01:14:29.000 When we talk about that, we have to discuss those issues if we're going to, like, not just hammer capitalism, but just markets.

01:14:36.000 I think one of the challenges, though, is what happens when everything is owned?

01:14:39.000 All property everywhere is owned by somebody.

01:14:41.000 Like, we're there now.

01:14:43.000 Like, there's state land.

01:14:44.000 Well, the state owns it.

01:14:45.000 The state controls it.

01:14:47.000 So, what do you do then when you can't go anywhere and you're forced?

01:14:51.000 So, I'll tell you what the problem I have with taxes.

01:14:54.000 In a certain sense, is a lot of people ask, I have to pay taxes.

01:15:00.000 Where can I go where I don't pay taxes?

01:15:01.000 It's like, well, you can't.

01:15:03.000 If you're born in this country, you have to. 0.99

01:15:05.000 And you've never agreed to that.

01:15:07.000 But you live here and you do reap the benefits.

01:15:10.000 So I was I was pushing libertarian buttons a while ago, you know, because, you know, I was making a funny argument.

01:15:15.000 I said not paying taxes is theft.

01:15:16.000 You know why?

01:15:18.000 Imagine if you live in New York City and we all decided we're going to pitch in our money to build this bridge.

01:15:24.000 And you use that bridge, and you use the roads that we all decided to pay for, but you won't pay for it.

01:15:28.000 Well, you're stealing from us.

01:15:30.000 If that, well, that's the thing though.

01:15:32.000 If it was voluntary.

01:15:33.000 If it was voluntary, then there you go.

01:15:34.000 Yeah.

01:15:35.000 But that's not what we have.

01:15:36.000 The state has monopolized it.

01:15:38.000 And then they said, even if you want it to build a road, we got, you know, I'm in, out of Texas, you know, you want it, you want to build a road.

01:15:44.000 You have to go through us.

01:15:45.000 You have to go, you can't, you can't just up and up and build a road.

01:15:48.000 No, no, no, no, no.

01:15:49.000 So when we talk about transportation and, and, and movement and, and, and that sort of freedom, uh, definitely in this country, It all starts with the state.

01:15:58.000 So my issue, and I don't think any libertarian's issue, is going to be that, okay, if I am reaping a benefit from a service, I have absolutely no problem paying for that.

01:16:09.000 I would rather everything be privatized so I can itemize that.

01:16:13.000 So if I'm using this road company's road, and I have the road pass, everybody loves talking about my roads, so I have my road pass, Uh, that I paid for, uh, uh, paid for.

01:16:25.000 I'm perfectly fine with that.

01:16:27.000 What I'm not okay with is the state saying, okay, I'm going to monopolize it.

01:16:32.000 Uh, you can't build a road.

01:16:33.000 And then I'm going to, you know, because I have your money, it's guaranteed.

01:16:37.000 I can either print it out in there or I can tax it up out of you.

01:16:40.000 I can drag my feet when I need to fix this or build a new one or something.

01:16:44.000 I like the idea of a referee, you know, making sure people aren't dumping chemicals in the drinking water and stuff like that.

01:16:49.000 Yeah.

01:16:50.000 But I'll tell you what the real problem is, you know, because I know everybody always brings up the roads.

01:16:54.000 The easiest way I'll explain how taxation is theft.

01:16:57.000 Again, I don't use that.

01:16:58.000 I'm not the staunch.

01:16:59.000 But I'll tell you this.

01:17:00.000 If you come to my house and you tell me you're taking my money from me.

01:17:05.000 And you have guys with guns, and they got their hands on their hips like, you pay taxes or else.

01:17:10.000 And then I say, okay, is this money gonna go to a pool in our community to help us live better?

01:17:14.000 And they go, no, it's going to package any gender studies. 1.00

01:17:18.000 Then I'm gonna be like, okay, you're stealing from me to give to people inside the plant to learn about gender programs?

01:17:24.000 Okay, I'm sorry, man, now we got a problem.

01:17:26.000 Especially right now.

01:17:27.000 So, I definitely agree.

01:17:29.000 If taxes were really about... Could you imagine we could have fixed Flint a long time ago?

01:17:34.000 A long time ago?

01:17:34.000 How much money?

01:17:35.000 It wouldn't even take that much to fix Flint relative to the garbage we're spending, you know, on Luke bringing up eating bugs and lizards on treadmills.

01:17:43.000 Listen, man, I know I was saying there's an argument about eating bugs to like to see what humans can and will eat.

01:17:49.000 But I'm willing to forego a couple years of whether or not humans will eat bugs and lizards will walk on treadmills if it means we get Flint fixed up, right?

01:17:57.000 That's what taxes are supposed to be about. 0.92

01:17:59.000 And I think you make a really good point.

01:18:01.000 I think every libertarian would gladly itemize and pay for all of the roads and all the plumbing and all the services.

01:18:07.000 As long as you showed them, oh, you're gonna use this, here's the cost.

01:18:11.000 Instead, it's like you wake up one day, you know, a couple thousand dollars missing from your paycheck, you know, at the end of the month or end of the year or whatever, and you're like, I have no idea where it went.

01:18:19.000 Someone just took it and it's gone.

01:18:20.000 I'm pretty libertarian, but I wouldn't... That makes me nervous because if Bezos owned all the roads...

01:18:25.000 But Bezos, that's the thing though, like, I know it's a fear of monopolization, but when we talk about, like, Amazon and a big part of, you know, even with them and how they got their money, it's government, like, contracts, right?

01:18:40.000 So when we talk about that like in people and how do they get into positions that they have how are they able to get the assets it is that they have what we always look to unfortunately is what we would exist right now and we say well if this person Bill Gates who we might not like right now He might do this than that, but I'm like, okay, I understand it and I can make it.

01:19:03.000 I'm with you a hundred percent on that and being fearful, but we don't have right now this like market economy.

01:19:10.000 We don't have a free market low tax set low to no tax.

01:19:16.000 society in which we live in, in which people are freely and voluntarily able to engage.

01:19:23.000 Business licensing is another one.

01:19:25.000 One of the most crooked things that exists by way of the state where they basically put it behind not just a paywall but some arbitrary sort of licensing agreement where you can't even in certain areas braid people's hair.

01:19:38.000 No matter if you got the great talent, you can't even braid people's hair without having a license and they'll shut you down.

01:19:44.000 Do you know what started the Arab Spring?

01:19:46.000 Tell me.

01:19:46.000 There was a dude who was trying to sell fruit from a fruit cart.

01:19:49.000 The government wouldn't let him.

01:19:50.000 See what he did?

01:19:50.000 He went in front of a building and set himself on fire.

01:19:53.000 Sparked off.

01:19:54.000 People snapped.

01:19:55.000 That was it.

01:19:56.000 That's all it takes.

01:19:57.000 But my thing is, even with leftists, There are a lot of things that I don't want to say we have common ground on many things.

01:20:06.000 I don't think that's more so what it is.

01:20:08.000 It's that a lot of us see that there's a problem is more so what it is.

01:20:13.000 Like you can assess that there's an issue that there's a near trillion dollar bill that's going to a bunch of things that People don't want to pay for and I don't care where you're at right left up down wherever you consider yourself Generally, people can acknowledge what is wrong where we differ is the solution and unfortunately a lot of people are trying to slap band-aids on a solution and not chipping away at the actual root of the problem and that's what a lot of certainly I would

01:20:42.000 I think people like myself is, I'm trying to chip away at that.

01:20:46.000 Why is this a problem?

01:20:47.000 Not the fact that it's a problem now.

01:20:49.000 Yes, it's an issue right now, but how did it get to that point?

01:20:52.000 Because if you just slap a band-aid on, like we talk about money right now, let's just shift the money.

01:20:57.000 That's not necessarily the issue here.

01:20:59.000 You know how I describe it?

01:21:00.000 I always say, you know what, I am absolutely in favor of social programs and taxes, but I'll look at it this way.

01:21:09.000 There was a certain point in our society where we got injured.

01:21:13.000 We got a cut on our arm.

01:21:14.000 And so we were like, okay, we all agree we're going to pool our money together and we're going to get a band-aid and we're going to cover up that wound in our society.

01:21:20.000 We did.

01:21:21.000 A couple years went by, nobody cared anymore, and they looked at it and saw it was festering and gangrenous and they said, You guys want to put another bandit on top of it?

01:21:28.000 And they said, yeah, okay.

01:21:29.000 And they slapped another bandit on top.

01:21:31.000 And now it's been a hundred years and we have this giant smoldering fester of infected arm.

01:21:36.000 Because what you need to do is you need, you start a program.

01:21:39.000 The problem I see with government programs is they don't fail.

01:21:42.000 Private enterprise fails.

01:21:43.000 Bingo.

01:21:44.000 You know when it doesn't work because it doesn't work.

01:21:46.000 If you have a government program and it fails, what we need to do is we need to set time limits.

01:21:50.000 Okay, we're going to do an EBT card program.

01:21:52.000 It will have this much money and it'll last for one year and then it's gone.

01:21:55.000 And it must be re-voted again by a legislative body to appropriate funding for it in the next session or something like that.

01:22:02.000 We don't do that.

01:22:03.000 We just say, we're allocating $10 million for Pakistani gender programs, and no one bats an eye, and the money just gets siphoned off and goes in the garbage. 0.94

01:22:09.000 And again, this is why I'm all for privatization, because like you said, could you imagine any sort of institution?

01:22:16.000 Private.

01:22:17.000 Spending on that, I mean, 20-something trillion, we're creeping on 30 maybe.

01:22:23.000 27 trillion.

01:22:24.000 27, right, yes.

01:22:25.000 And I did.

01:22:26.000 Could you imagine a private enterprise operating like that for as long as they have been operating?

01:22:32.000 It's one thing to take a loss for a year.

01:22:34.000 It's another thing to take that big of a loss and then know that you're taking a loss and still spend the money that you don't have.

01:22:42.000 But come on, to be honest, if my business was failing, But I did have a lot of guns.

01:22:48.000 My business is gonna last forever.

01:22:49.000 I mean, that's the problem with the state, right?

01:22:53.000 Is that it's not even just about the gun.

01:22:54.000 It's that monopolization of more so the law and the approach.

01:22:59.000 So it's like, if the government fails, what can you do?

01:23:02.000 There's nothing, there's not much that you can do unless the vast majority of people just decide to revolt.

01:23:07.000 That's why I think time limits.

01:23:10.000 Like, it's gotta be a limited, any program we implement should be limited With a finite amount of money, and it expires and it's gone.

01:23:16.000 The problem with that is that it operates under the guise that the state is efficient.

01:23:21.000 And I think they don't have the incentive.

01:23:24.000 I think that's the most important thing.

01:23:25.000 Because I get exactly what it is that you're saying.

01:23:28.000 But the problem is that... It needs to fail.

01:23:29.000 Right.

01:23:29.000 It needs to.

01:23:31.000 And they're incentivized actually to do that.

01:23:33.000 It's like, okay, look.

01:23:34.000 We have this, whether it be with...

01:23:37.000 Uh, the central banking system, and what it does is because we've monopolized that too, it allows us to basically monetize, um, Federal Reserve has allowed us in combination with the Treasury to monetize our debt, right?

01:23:49.000 So, when you're not operating with money that you're bringing in, that you have to bring in, and also money that is, it's reliant upon the consumer.

01:23:58.000 The consumer, and because there's actual competition, the consumer decides, OK, I'd rather my dollar go here versus there because I don't like the way that it is that you're operating.

01:24:08.000 Unfortunately, how it works right now with the state is nothing like that.

01:24:13.000 It doesn't matter. 0.99

01:24:14.000 The state sucks. 1.00

01:24:15.000 Everybody knows it sucks. 1.00

01:24:17.000 Nothing happens. 0.88

01:24:17.000 There's no opt-out program. 0.88

01:24:20.000 I don't want to pay for that.

01:24:21.000 Why am I paying for social security?

01:24:23.000 I can save my money better than any other government certainly could.

01:24:27.000 That's not how it works anyway.

01:24:29.000 What the state does is they tax the current generation to subsidize the previous generation.

01:24:33.000 Your money is gone by the time you're of that age to accept the money.

01:24:38.000 You're just living off the current generation when that happens. 0.63

01:24:41.000 But that's the problem.

01:24:43.000 And that's what I'm talking about when I say chipping. 0.98

01:24:45.000 It's like an ax you're chipping at.

01:24:46.000 A lot of people are chipping at these branches and not trying to go at the root of the problem.

01:24:50.000 The state monopolization of a lot of these different things.

01:24:53.000 This is why not just competition.

01:24:56.000 It's not just about competition.

01:24:57.000 That's a big part of it.

01:24:58.000 But it's about that free enterprise to allow people to voluntarily come up with solutions to a lot of these problems.

01:25:05.000 We don't have that and the state knows that they don't have to do that because they monopolized everything.

01:25:09.000 I was reading that there's a correlation between the strength of a country's economy and the ease at which a citizen or civilian can start a business.

01:25:15.000 Absolutely.

01:25:16.000 I want to read this.

01:25:17.000 I want to show you guys.

01:25:18.000 This is from Wikipedia.

01:25:19.000 It's Mohamed Bouazizi.

01:25:21.000 He was 26.

01:25:22.000 He set himself on fire.

01:25:23.000 He was a street vendor.

01:25:25.000 And that sparked the Arab Spring, revolutions in multiple countries.

01:25:29.000 Because one dude who was 26 had enough.

01:25:31.000 And I want to tell you just the general base of the story.

01:25:34.000 They say, According to friends and family, local police officers had allegedly targeted and mistreated Bwazisi for years, including during his childhood, regularly confiscating his small wheelbarrow of produce.

01:25:46.000 But Bwazisi had no other way to make a living, so he continued to work as a street vendor.

01:25:51.000 Around 10 p.m.

01:25:51.000 on the 16th of December, 2010, he had contracted approximately $200 in debt to buy the produce he was to sell the following day.

01:26:00.000 On the morning of the 17th, he started his workday at 8 a.m.

01:26:03.000 Just after 10.30 a.m., the police began harassing him again, ostensibly because he did not have a vendor's permit.

01:26:09.000 However, while some sources state that street vending is illegal in Tunisia, and others that Bozizi lacked a required permit to sell his wares, according to the head of C.D.

01:26:17.000 Bozid's State Office for Employment and Independent Work, no permit is needed to sell from a cart.

01:26:22.000 Bwazizi did not have the funds to bribe police officials to allow his street vending to continue.

01:26:26.000 Similarly, two of Bwazizi's siblings accused authorities of attempting to extort money from their brother.

01:26:31.000 And during an interview with Reuters, one of his sisters stated,

01:26:33.000 What kind of repression do you imagine it takes for a young man to do this?

01:26:37.000 A man who has to feed his family by buying goods on credit when they find him and take his goods.

01:26:42.000 In Seedy Wozid, those with no connections and no money for bribes are humiliated, insulted, and not allowed to live.

01:26:49.000 So ultimately, they took his stuff from him.

01:26:52.000 He decides he can't do anything anymore.

01:26:54.000 He has no means to make a living.

01:26:56.000 Think about that.

01:26:57.000 You really gotta imagine you're in his position.

01:27:00.000 You have no chance to make money, to run your business.

01:27:03.000 You take on debt.

01:27:04.000 You want to work hard.

01:27:05.000 The dude clearly wanted to work, but the state would not let him.

01:27:08.000 So he goes, sets himself on fire.

01:27:11.000 Now think about how crazy this is.

01:27:12.000 The Arab Spring.

01:27:13.000 We saw military dictators removed from power after decades, all because Small this this this government these government actors in Tunisia were like you can't sell those apples or whatever fruit he had and That's all it took they shut this guy's down His chance to run a business and survive and feed his family and he wasn't he was he's you know, you know I'll tell you this I talk about a referee to talk about playing fair and the example I use is dumping chemicals in the water poisoning the water supply a dude selling fruit on the street corner and

01:27:44.000 They wouldn't let him do it.

01:27:45.000 So he ignited this massive wave of revolutions.

01:27:48.000 I tell you this, if when all that was going down, I assure you that people like Gaddafi and Mubarak were sitting there, and they probably weren't, but just imagine them saying like, I wish those cops didn't harass that guy for a permit.

01:28:02.000 Because none of this would have happened if they just let him sell some fruit.

01:28:05.000 And that's like...

01:28:07.000 That's of course an example.

01:28:08.000 That's an historic example and one that people need to pay attention to.

01:28:11.000 But you'd be surprised how many examples, and obviously not people setting themselves on fire, but how many examples of people that are either fined, that fine turns into a warrant, they're thrown in jail because of something like that.

01:28:25.000 Just because the state has decided that you don't have the proper licensing, which should be privatized as well, but you don't have the proper licensing to, let's say, sell this particular product.

01:28:40.000 It sounds insane, but that's exactly what happens in this country right now.

01:28:45.000 Let me tell you something.

01:28:46.000 I just did a quick Google search.

01:28:48.000 What are the gun laws in Tunisia?

01:28:50.000 And I pulled up this Reddit post, I don't know if it's true, But they ask, from two years ago, how strict are gun laws here?

01:28:55.000 I can't seem to find anything about Tunisian gun laws anywhere.

01:28:58.000 I just know that basically no civilian has them.

01:29:00.000 The top comment says, gun laws are very strict.

01:29:03.000 No civilian can own or carry a gun except for hunters who are required to get a permit and a license for a hunting rifle.

01:29:11.000 And even then, they have to inform local police, local police station in their area, that they're going to go hunt, so they can get permission.

01:29:18.000 I just looked that up.

01:29:19.000 Because, you know, I'm wondering, If somebody in America was put in a position like that, I was like, I can't imagine they'd light themselves on fire.

01:29:26.000 They might do something real crazy.

01:29:28.000 And then I wondered, like, I wonder why this guy chose to do that.

01:29:31.000 And then I looked it up, like, you know, in America, people got guns like crazy, you know?

01:29:36.000 And so if somebody was on the verge, I'll put it this way.

01:29:40.000 It's one quote, man.

01:29:41.000 I love it.

01:29:41.000 I brought it up several times in the past week from Ulysses S. Grant.

01:29:45.000 He said, it is the right of any person, if they feel repressed by their government, to enact a revolution.

01:29:51.000 But you have to know that you're putting your life, your property, and your guarantees as a citizen on the line.

01:29:57.000 And should you lose, you must live under the rules of your conqueror.

01:30:01.000 So you've got people right now with the COVID lockdown, with these videos, man, these videos of dancing nurses.

01:30:07.000 That's the mockery.

01:30:08.000 But I'll put it this way.

01:30:09.000 Your life has been destroyed.

01:30:11.000 Everything you worked for, your small business, your restaurant, it's gone.

01:30:14.000 It's been shut down.

01:30:15.000 A third of small businesses in New Jersey, gone.

01:30:17.000 So everything you dreamed of, everything you fought for has been taken from you.

01:30:20.000 That's your property gone.

01:30:22.000 Your life.

01:30:23.000 You're fighting so hard to survive and eat food, and they're threatening that as well.

01:30:27.000 So you've already made the choice for so many people.

01:30:30.000 That's what scares me when I see that quote.

01:30:31.000 I'm like, if Ulysses S. Grant was telling people, you're choosing to put those things on the line, I get that.

01:30:37.000 But what happens when the state makes people put those on the line already?

01:30:41.000 You have no guarantees as a citizen.

01:30:42.000 Your First Amendment, your constitutional rights have been taken from you.

01:30:44.000 You can't gather.

01:30:46.000 You can't, you can't go out and drink with your friends even though the First Amendment says you can peaceably assemble for whatever reason.

01:30:50.000 You can't go to church.

01:30:52.000 Now your property's gone and now you're at the risk of losing your life.

01:30:55.000 People are gonna explode.

01:30:56.000 Now I'll tell you the dancing nurse thing is insult to injury. 1.00

01:30:59.000 You've got these people at a time when, and they say, oh, but they're stressed out and they're dancing.

01:31:03.000 Bro, they're dancing on graves.

01:31:05.000 There are people in these hospitals who are dying and they're putting out these videos where they're dancing on graves.

01:31:08.000 So anyway, I bring that up just to say, like, you take those factors from Ulysses S. Grant, and I feel like people in this country are ready to explode.

01:31:16.000 And we've already seen some crazy stuff go down.

01:31:18.000 We've seen some political violence.

01:31:20.000 But then you add the insult on top of it.

01:31:23.000 The Gretchen Whitmer's Lori Lightfoot's going out and getting their hair done.

01:31:27.000 Gavin Newsom going out to dinner.

01:31:28.000 They're slapping you in the face.

01:31:30.000 They're dancing in hospitals where there's supposed to be this crisis going on.

01:31:34.000 That's the insult.

01:31:34.000 They're spitting on you after they've taken everything from you.

01:31:36.000 I think people are going to explode.

01:31:38.000 And that's what I bring up.

01:31:39.000 In Tunisia, a guy set himself on fire.

01:31:42.000 America's very different.

01:31:44.000 And that's why I've been talking about the dramatic escalation and the potential for real serious, some kind of civil conflict of sorts or whatever.

01:31:51.000 With January 6th coming up, I get worried.

01:31:53.000 That's why I, I'll tell you this too.

01:31:55.000 I'm getting away from these cities.

01:31:57.000 Taxes are too high. 0.96

01:31:58.000 They're ridiculous. 0.94

01:31:58.000 The rules and restrictions are nuts. 0.94

01:32:00.000 And so I chose, I choose to go somewhere else and it makes it hard to get good internet.

01:32:03.000 You know what I mean?

01:32:04.000 So it's like you take, it's a trade off though.

01:32:06.000 Yeah.

01:32:06.000 It's like they were fiber with me.

01:32:08.000 Right.

01:32:08.000 I try to stay in the middle of nowhere and get fiber.

01:32:10.000 It's like a trade off.

01:32:11.000 I got to get one or the other.

01:32:13.000 Um, there's a certain pockets you can, but you bring up a great point.

01:32:16.000 Um, about.

01:32:18.000 When it comes to the lockdowns, right?

01:32:20.000 This can got kicked down the road for eight, nine months.

01:32:23.000 This is March.

01:32:24.000 We're about to enter into 2021.

01:32:26.000 It's actually... Ten months until the spread.

01:32:27.000 Yes.

01:32:28.000 It's amazing how long that's going on.

01:32:31.000 But you're starting to see it, especially in spots like New Jersey that are very, very strict.

01:32:36.000 And you're starting to see people say no more bro and I honestly the when we talk about it if we can get on the other side of this peacefully or as peaceful as possible let's say that I don't want to say peacefully let's say as peaceful as possible it has it may have to come by way of mass forms of civil disobedience

01:32:56.000 I think nonviolence over disobedience would end it overnight.

01:32:58.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:32:59.000 Like if everybody just went up and said no, no more like we don't care that you can't arrest us all.

01:33:05.000 And just go about their business.

01:33:07.000 What is what is it that they can do?

01:33:09.000 Yeah, a lot of folks like stability, though, you know, it's like and I get it.

01:33:12.000 This is why I would never I would defend any man or woman that will put their Their life on the line, which is essentially what you're doing when you're going against the state, and say, no more.

01:33:22.000 But I would never just say, just, you know, I wouldn't get mad at you for not doing it.

01:33:27.000 Because a lot of folks just want stability, and they just want to be able to go about their business.

01:33:31.000 Did you hear the story?

01:33:32.000 Two women arrested after hosting 200-person makeshift bar in Jersey.

01:33:36.000 They were gambling, they were partying, they were eating.

01:33:40.000 You know, here's what I'm saying.

01:33:41.000 When the government takes away all opportunity, then all the other laws break down too.

01:33:46.000 So, you know, one of things I was saying a couple weeks ago, when they start saying you can't run your business, and people are forced to say, well, I run my business or I die, they're gonna open their business.

01:33:57.000 But then they're gonna start noticing, well, if I broke those laws, Right?

01:34:00.000 And I had, you know, it's like, how hard is it to just continue?

01:34:06.000 These two women open a makeshift bar, they say, because they're serving drinks. 1.00

01:34:06.000 So you see this. 1.00

01:34:10.000 Well, it's already illegal what they're doing, I guess.

01:34:12.000 Who wants to throw out the dice? 0.94

01:34:14.000 Who wants to play poker?

01:34:15.000 Who wants to order a bunch of food and want to cook food and eat it?

01:34:18.000 If we're already breaking the law, why don't we just break it, right?

01:34:18.000 It's just fine.

01:34:21.000 So that's another thing I'm worried about.

01:34:24.000 If the government keeps enforcing lockdowns that are unreasonable and people can't survive, Then they'll start creating businesses, and since they're already on the other side of the law, they're gonna do whatever they want.

01:34:33.000 Well, it's desperation as well.

01:34:35.000 I mean, it's like, you can't just shut people down and change that, change how they live their lives just overnight like that, and then, like, you keep pulling the rug from under people, like, you know, it's like, alright, we'll let you open, wait a minute, here we go, we gotta lock you down for a second and third time.

01:34:49.000 Or arrest you if you're trying to open.

01:34:50.000 Yeah, and that's gotta be the most insulting part of it.

01:34:53.000 But yeah, people are, at some point, are going to, like, fight back.

01:34:59.000 And you can sit up here and blame, you know, say that they don't care about people, say that they want to kill grandma, and all of these sorts of things.

01:35:07.000 Again, it goes back to the risk and it goes back to the trade-off that we were talking about earlier on in the show.

01:35:13.000 Yep.

01:35:13.000 Done.

01:35:13.000 And that is it actually worth, I don't think people understand the numbers.

01:35:16.000 You mentioned like a third of businesses in New Jersey.

01:35:19.000 We're talking about by the thousands, man, of people that are, there's no, okay,

01:35:24.000 I will reopen when they allow us to reopen.

01:35:27.000 They're done.

01:35:28.000 They dipped in their savings.

01:35:30.000 They exhausted that.

01:35:31.000 Do you not understand how long that is?

01:35:33.000 Nine months?

01:35:34.000 That's a very, very long time.

01:35:36.000 And a lot can crash and burn in that period of time.

01:35:39.000 It may seem like nothing, but it's like we said earlier, going to the people that don't understand how things are produced, they don't even care about that.

01:35:46.000 It doesn't even make sense.

01:35:48.000 Definitely, I guess, people that work at these big chains.

01:35:51.000 These farms, right?

01:35:52.000 They were, they were, uh, I forgot what it's called, but they take all the crops and they just roll them over and bury them again.

01:35:57.000 Cause they're like, we can't sell them.

01:35:58.000 Yeah.

01:35:59.000 And then I kept hearing from these leftists when the, when the dairy farm dumped all the milk, they were like, why don't they just send the food to a food bank?

01:36:04.000 And I'm like, do you, do you know that when they produce the milk, it goes to get pasteurized, it goes to get bottled, it goes to a distributor, it goes to a warehouse, it goes to trucks.

01:36:13.000 There's like four or five steps in between the dairy farm has dairy and the store has cream cheese and milk.

01:36:19.000 Yeah.

01:36:19.000 Not only that, they can get all the milk from the cow, and then where does it go for processing?

01:36:24.000 Is the farm actually doing the cream cheese, and the sour cream, and the yogurt, and all that stuff too?

01:36:27.000 Probably not.

01:36:28.000 Probably you've got another factory that imports a bunch of cream or milk, and then from there, turns it into something else.

01:36:36.000 So you go to your store shelf, it's all gone.

01:36:37.000 You can't just take raw milk and put it in a food bank.

01:36:41.000 Now people developed programs to get it processed to the point where they could, and get a bare minimum product, so there were attempts to do that.

01:36:47.000 But they didn't realize.

01:36:49.000 They didn't realize the supply chain and how intricate it is.

01:36:52.000 It's a beautiful thing, and obviously when it's working as freely as it possibly can, you're lifting the living standards of so many different people because there's a lot of people moving within that.

01:37:05.000 Okay, Farmer Brown store.

01:37:07.000 It's not that simple.

01:37:08.000 In some places, and maybe if you live in a very, very small town, it is.

01:37:08.000 You know what I mean?

01:37:11.000 But for the most part, that's not how it works.

01:37:13.000 There are several things in between when we talk about the supply chain that is, okay, it came from a farm and then it got on your plate, or it got in your refrigerator, or wherever it is, or it got in and you actually um consumed it but that's why it's so heartbreaking for me to hear people lose like their that's their livelihood you know i don't think people understand how much people save up like that was their dream right to open a bar or something like that and i say this is someone that's in the music industry uh doing you know metalcore and hardcore and seeing the venues that we play at even in my in my city right in in dfw

01:37:50.000 that are shut down for good.

01:37:52.000 They tried to call themselves doing this whole, like, bar thing, uh, where, you know, we'll cook some wings or something like that to try to remain open, but it wasn't good enough, of course.

01:38:01.000 And then they're shut down.

01:38:03.000 So that's a venue that, of course, I can't go, we can't go to when we get back on the road.

01:38:07.000 But that's, I don't think people understand, like, they can deem it as non-essential, but that's that person's livelihood.

01:38:13.000 That's why I never liked that term.

01:38:15.000 Like, how do you tell someone that what it is that they do is not essential?

01:38:19.000 These a lot of these people right a lot of people in cities who are advocating for this stuff

01:38:22.000 are I mean, they don't they don't they don't know the blood

01:38:27.000 sweat and tears when I hear things like it's insured right when the riots

01:38:31.000 Happen. Oh my god. I'm like you realize People will take like their first dollar and they'll sign

01:38:36.000 it and they'll put it on the wall when you burn that building down

01:38:39.000 Can they buy that new first dollar?

01:38:41.000 No, it's gone forever.

01:38:42.000 There are things of abstract value to people that can't be remade.

01:38:46.000 How about this?

01:38:47.000 What if a celebrity came in and, you know, and autographed a picture and put it up?

01:38:50.000 Now it's gone.

01:38:51.000 Are they going to call that celebrity back up, tell him to come back in for a burger when they rebuild?

01:38:54.000 No, of course not.

01:38:55.000 What about if their mom made them a painting and their mom died?

01:38:58.000 And they're at their small town shop.

01:39:00.000 It's been open for 10 years.

01:39:01.000 And when the grand opening, you know, their mom came in and she drew a painting for them, put it up, and they said, I always remember the day she came in.

01:39:08.000 It was one of the most beautiful days of my life, my successful business.

01:39:11.000 You burn it down.

01:39:12.000 The mom's long since passed.

01:39:13.000 That memory has been destroyed.

01:39:15.000 Oh, but insurance will pay for it.

01:39:17.000 A lot of these people who are saying those things are the same people talking about the lockdowns.

01:39:21.000 That's a great point, by the way.

01:39:23.000 Yeah, you can't get those things back, man.

01:39:25.000 Every business has them.

01:39:27.000 Every single one.

01:39:27.000 And it's not like insurance, you know, depending on what kind of insurance that they have.

01:39:32.000 Unfortunately, it's just like with these lockdowns.

01:39:35.000 They think it's that simple.

01:39:37.000 Like, it's just an on and an off switch.

01:39:38.000 Like, you'll be back.

01:39:39.000 Everything will be fine.

01:39:40.000 It's no big deal.

01:39:41.000 Government will pay you to not work.

01:39:44.000 You know, if you had your business destroyed, the insurance company would just write you a big check to refund every single thing the next day.

01:39:51.000 That's not how it works.

01:39:52.000 It doesn't work.

01:39:53.000 People, you know, being in the South and being in Tornado Alley, it's people like last year that had a tornado come through, and they're still, like, trying to get that money.

01:40:02.000 It's not like the insurance companies just write that stuff just willy-nilly, definitely, if it's all happening at once.

01:40:08.000 It's a wheelbarrow of cash to the city.

01:40:10.000 Stacks that easy, but it goes to show how much they simply don't understand and a frightening thing

01:40:16.000 Is that these guys then go vote for also?

01:40:19.000 Yeah, low and low information people that passed legislation and and and so forth. It's it's it kills you

01:40:26.000 It's the same thing like I was saying about how they don't understand that

01:40:28.000 You know the dairy farm has to send that milk to a processing plant or whatever

01:40:31.000 When the when Minneapolis got destroyed they were like insurance will pay for it

01:40:36.000 Guess what?

01:40:37.000 Insurance didn't cover debris removal, only a certain to amount.

01:40:40.000 So most of these businesses were like, okay, we can't remove the debris.

01:40:42.000 We can't rebuild.

01:40:43.000 Bye.

01:40:44.000 And they left.

01:40:44.000 That was it.

01:40:46.000 Because, yeah, it's like, uh, I was reading a story in the Star Tribune, the Minneapolis newspaper.

01:40:50.000 They're talking about insurance companies in the area have a cap on how much they can give you to remove the rubble from your destroyed building.

01:40:56.000 So they're like, okay, so if we have to spend $100,000 to remove the rubble, and that's $75,000 out of our pocket, and they're only giving us a check for $200,000 to rebuild, we can't rebuild.

01:41:05.000 So we just leave.

01:41:06.000 We're done.

01:41:06.000 It's over.

01:41:08.000 That's it.

01:41:08.000 And unfortunately, obviously you have to go to the local newspapers to try to hear stories like that.

01:41:16.000 I remember when those Um, like riots and all that stuff broke down.

01:41:20.000 And I remember seeing this, this man, uh, had to go of course to a local, uh, a local coverage.

01:41:25.000 And this man just, uh, had put like his life savings, uh, into this bar.

01:41:30.000 He had a dream of wanting to open a sports bar. 0.95

01:41:32.000 And they, and like in the background while they're filming, you got these fools just breaking into the safe. 0.97

01:41:38.000 So, so I cover this story. 0.97

01:41:40.000 So he was there.

01:41:41.000 He's crying.

01:41:42.000 They're filming as the people are stealing from him.

01:41:44.000 The next day, they burn the whole building down.

01:41:46.000 But that dude ended up raising like a million bucks to rebuild.

01:41:48.000 So I donated.

01:41:49.000 I did a video saying that.

01:41:50.000 Yeah, I did that too.

01:41:51.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:41:52.000 Because this guy was a firefighter.

01:41:54.000 He was a good dude.

01:41:54.000 It was his dream.

01:41:56.000 And I hope he had a good time with all that money.

01:41:58.000 I hope a bad day turned into the best day of his life.

01:42:01.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:42:02.000 And it's just unfortunate because how many businesses don't get that, right?

01:42:05.000 Let's talk about the insult to the injury, right?

01:42:07.000 Oh, yeah.

01:42:08.000 The Black Lives Matter protests at a time when they're locking everybody down, and they ignore it. 0.97

01:42:12.000 They act like it never happened.

01:42:13.000 They cheered it on.

01:42:14.000 They cheered it on.

01:42:14.000 They cheer it on.

01:42:15.000 And then they tell you to shut up.

01:42:17.000 Stop going out.

01:42:17.000 Stop enjoying yourself.

01:42:18.000 Stop going to church.

01:42:19.000 And then when you say, but what about the Black Lives Matter protests?

01:42:21.000 They say, I don't know what you're talking about. 1.00

01:42:22.000 Shut your mouth. 0.99

01:42:23.000 Then you got the Dancing Nurses. 0.99

01:42:25.000 I really want to get into Dancing Nurses, right?

01:42:27.000 So I got this comic from George Alexopoulos.

01:42:30.000 We had him on the show.

01:42:31.000 You see his paintings on our wall.

01:42:31.000 He's a great artist.

01:42:32.000 I'm going to just read for you the panels.

01:42:35.000 For those that are watching, you can see it, but for those that are listening, the first panel is an old man on life support.

01:42:39.000 Got an oxygen mask.

01:42:41.000 And they see a word bubble, I miss you dad.

01:42:43.000 The next one shows him with the EKG going off and she's a woman and she says, I only 0.99

01:42:47.000 wish that I could have held your hand one last time as she cries.

01:42:51.000 And the last panel is as she's holding her hand up to the glass that blocks it from her

01:42:55.000 dying father, nurses and doctors are smiling and laughing and dabbing and dancing and having

01:43:00.000 a good old time.

01:43:01.000 Dancing on the graves of these people.

01:43:03.000 I tell you, man, you've got Joe Biden wins.

01:43:07.000 They go out and they're dumping up and down.

01:43:08.000 They're dancing and cheering.

01:43:09.000 They're pulling their masks off, drinking champagne and passing it around.

01:43:12.000 They tell you that doesn't matter.

01:43:13.000 Ignore that.

01:43:14.000 It's the businesses that are the problem, even though the science doesn't support it.

01:43:17.000 Then you go to these hospitals where they say 4,000 people every day are dying, and I'm like, man, that's crazy.

01:43:23.000 And what do we get?

01:43:23.000 That's scary.

01:43:24.000 Videos of these shuffle dances where they clearly, there's one video where they're in different rooms of the hospital doing choreographed dances in multiple scenes, and I'm like, come on.

01:43:34.000 At best, that was like four or five hours where they practiced and went around the hospital These people are laughing in your face.

01:43:43.000 There's a viral YouTube video, this is crazy, where it's a woman filming on her cell phone and she's going, what's going on?

01:43:48.000 Talking to a guy, like what's happening?

01:43:51.000 We've been waiting here for ages, are they taking anybody?

01:43:53.000 And there's a guy and he's like, I don't know, look.

01:43:55.000 And then they look down the hallway and it's a bunch of doctors and nurses dancing and they're like, they got mops and they're shuffling.

01:44:01.000 And this woman's like, I can't believe this, I can't believe this, oh my god. 0.96

01:44:04.000 Is this why we're not getting any service?

01:44:06.000 Yes!

01:44:07.000 They're laughing at you.

01:44:09.000 They're getting followers off of your back.

01:44:12.000 Here's what I said.

01:44:13.000 You know, I like this comic from George.

01:44:15.000 I said, imagine you show up to a funeral.

01:44:18.000 There's a dead body.

01:44:19.000 And there are people there crying.

01:44:21.000 And you're wearing your funeral black.

01:44:23.000 And then you go, okay, everybody, we're gonna do a TikTok because everybody wants to dance and do this dance number with me.

01:44:28.000 How many punches do you get in the face, you think?

01:44:30.000 People would get up and you'd get smacked.

01:44:33.000 But these people in the hospitals, they're the administrators, they're the nurses, it's their space.

01:44:38.000 You can't go in there to hold the hand of your father or your mother or your grandfather or your grandmother as they're dying.

01:44:43.000 Many men can't be there for the birth of their children.

01:44:46.000 And the doctors and the nurses are doing TikTok videos and dancing around, and they're still doing it.

01:44:51.000 This whole year.

01:44:52.000 Do you see the one earlier in the year where they were carrying the body bag and dancing?

01:44:56.000 Oh, that was bad.

01:44:57.000 That was COVID.

01:44:59.000 That was one of the worst ones that I had seen. 0.68

01:45:02.000 But, like, I talked about this off air, how My just perception of that industry has changed so much after this because I generally looked at them like a positive thing and folks that I'm pretty sure there'll be people in the chat like you never dated a nurse so you you didn't know you you never knew and maybe I was a little ignorant. 0.90

01:45:22.000 That maybe they always been that way, and I just was ignorant. 0.88

01:45:25.000 They were self-righteous, sanctimonious, they were just always like that. 0.90

01:45:29.000 Maybe that was just always how they were, and I just didn't realize it.

01:45:32.000 Even though I have a couple of nurses, maybe it's because they're family, I'm blind to how it is that they are.

01:45:38.000 But after this year, I mean, it's just completely changed.

01:45:43.000 Just considering how, like, let's take a step back here.

01:45:48.000 Remember we started with the Alright, slow to spread.

01:45:52.000 That turned into a month.

01:45:53.000 George Floyd happens.

01:45:56.000 And I want people to understand what took place there and that they shut everybody down.

01:46:03.000 They've still been shut down up until that point.

01:46:05.000 And it wasn't enough for them to just be, okay, we're going to start protesting everywhere.

01:46:10.000 So all of the stuff that they lectured you to about social distancing, that just went completely out of the window.

01:46:18.000 But what really frustrated me was when I would see nurses Doctors, hospital workers in their little PPE or whatever.

01:46:29.000 Actually outside their hospitals clapping and cheering them on.

01:46:34.000 So imagine being a business owner, someone that lost everything, everything.

01:46:41.000 And they had told you everything that they had been lecturing you to do.

01:46:45.000 And we got up until that point and then it just went out the window.

01:46:48.000 And then the folks that were doing it because they agree with them politically and socially, they said, It's okay for them to do it.

01:46:57.000 They'll get all of the experts and public officials and everything, and they'll say, yeah, it's okay for them to do it, it's a little different.

01:47:04.000 God forbid someone house a rally or something like that.

01:47:08.000 We got these protests breaking out in the hundreds all around the country, and that was perfectly fine.

01:47:14.000 And not only are they still dancing, like we talked about earlier, with the nurse making videos about Skittles.

01:47:23.000 What she was saying in that was basically shut up.

01:47:26.000 How dare you bring up the survival rate?

01:47:28.000 How dare you question what it is that we do and what it is that we say?

01:47:33.000 Who cares that you lost your business?

01:47:36.000 Why even talk about that?

01:47:38.000 And they're dancing, so they're spitting on your face, they're laughing, and it's like they're bucking at you, right?

01:47:44.000 They're like, yeah, what you gonna do about it?

01:47:45.000 Let me just give you some photos for those that are watching.

01:47:48.000 This first photo I have, you may remember.

01:47:51.000 It's a doctor standing in front of a car with her arms crossed.

01:47:53.000 Another photo of a man standing in front of an SUV with his arms crossed.

01:47:57.000 And there's a woman with a sign that says, Land Free, and she's got an American flag.

01:48:00.000 Boy, did that go viral.

01:48:01.000 The nurses who stood up to these anti-lockdown protesters, right?

01:48:06.000 Telling them, you coming out here, you're putting us all at risk, how dare you?

01:48:10.000 That's right.

01:48:11.000 How righteous and what a good noble thing.

01:48:17.000 Honorable.

01:48:18.000 Well here's the next photo.

01:48:20.000 A bunch of doctors protesting in a massive crowd shoulder to shoulder with their fists up.

01:48:24.000 You can easily pull up the BuzzFeed article.

01:48:27.000 I don't know if it's BuzzFeed, but BuzzFeed has the viral photos of the doctors blocking the cars.

01:48:31.000 Then you get another article and it says, you know, doctors clap and cheer for protesters.

01:48:37.000 Spitting in your face. 0.88

01:48:40.000 They took your property. 0.97

01:48:41.000 They destroyed your business.

01:48:43.000 Nothing is left.

01:48:44.000 Then the rioters showed up and smashed what was left and burned it to the ground.

01:48:48.000 And the doctors were dancing on the graves of the dead while cheering for those who burned down the businesses elsewhere.

01:48:55.000 And I'm supposed to be like, let's all clap and cheer for the nurses and doctors.

01:48:59.000 Yeah, they're heroes.

01:49:00.000 There's a picture that showed 1918 Spanish flu and it showed all these hospital beds with white sheets.

01:49:06.000 Assumedly dead people.

01:49:07.000 And then next to it, 2020.

01:49:09.000 Shuffle dancing.

01:49:10.000 Dancing doctors.

01:49:12.000 99.9% recovery rate.

01:49:15.000 The entire world is shut down.

01:49:16.000 Isn't that amazing though?

01:49:17.000 Like how, how they can get away with that.

01:49:20.000 But you bring up a great point, Tim, in how, It's like we're supposed to just praise them and worship them at the altar.

01:49:29.000 Look, I get it.

01:49:30.000 If you're a nurse, or a doctor, you have a job, you may be going through this tough experience, or rather a unique experience.

01:49:38.000 I understand all of that, but do you not...

01:49:42.000 Understand how many people have lost everything it is that we... No, they don't.

01:49:47.000 They don't understand it, right?

01:49:48.000 They're in a bubble.

01:49:49.000 Right, exactly.

01:49:50.000 And my thing is, and a lot of folks don't seem to want to mention this, do you remember this whole lockdown thing and the restrictions thing started So we could protect them.

01:49:59.000 Now, it was a quasi way that they would say, well, you may need the service, and what if all the hospital beds?

01:50:06.000 But this whole reason why we did this, why you had to put your life on pause, why you had to shut your business down for an indefinite amount of time, was so we could alleviate the stress for them.

01:50:18.000 And then they had NERDA say that they're the ones that are the heroes as they dance on people's graves.

01:50:23.000 I got another one from today.com.

01:50:24.000 This one's a video.

01:50:25.000 Returning the favor.

01:50:27.000 NY healthcare workers cheer for protesters.

01:50:29.000 There they are, all laughing and smiling.

01:50:31.000 The nerve of these people to block the anti-lockdown protesters, to mock and belittle them, and then cheer for the larger, massive George Floyd protests and riots.

01:50:42.000 And this video I have is from June 3rd.

01:50:44.000 This is like the peak week of all the rioting, the first week of June.

01:50:50.000 We mentioned that guy, the firefighter.

01:50:52.000 He wanted his dream business, Sports Bar, and they burnt to the ground.

01:50:55.000 And what does Kamala Harris do? 1.00

01:50:59.000 She requests funds to help bellies people out. 1.00

01:51:02.000 The left cheered for those who violated lockdowns.

01:51:05.000 And my favorite story out of all of this was from like University of Colorado.

01:51:08.000 It said George Floyd protests actually reduced transmission.

01:51:12.000 It was too good of a protest.

01:51:14.000 It actually made COVID go back the other way.

01:51:17.000 Because, you know, the words you say affect, you know, the transmission.

01:51:21.000 Yeah, the virus, that's how it works, that, you know, the virus, it sees all these people that are doing their thing.

01:51:26.000 But if they're holding up just social distancing.

01:51:27.000 Right, and it's like, oh, wait a minute, I can't go there.

01:51:30.000 Let's go to the Trump rally.

01:51:31.000 Yeah, is that a Gadsden flag?

01:51:33.000 Oh, we're there.

01:51:34.000 In March, being like, okay, you want a couple weeks, I'll give you to get everything situated, I'll put my life on hold for you.

01:51:42.000 And now, I want them off my back.

01:51:44.000 Yeah. 0.57

01:51:45.000 Get off my back! 1.00

01:51:48.000 Seriously, I guess I can give you some kind of leeway, because you didn't understand what was happening, though I've been covering it since March, and I saw the numbers, I saw everything playing out, and I was like, okay, I'll give you that.

01:52:05.000 But we're 9, 10 months into this thing, and they're still tied.

01:52:10.000 They're moving the goalposts.

01:52:11.000 Fauci, I don't know if he has a position that he's held that's of principle.

01:52:15.000 Like, he just actually held that position and wasn't just trying to hold the position that other people wanted him to have.

01:52:20.000 The herd immunity thing, which he had grilled.

01:52:23.000 Remember Rand Paul?

01:52:24.000 I don't know if y'all remember that big spat that he and Rand Paul had about that, where people was like, Rand Paul doesn't know what he's talking about.

01:52:30.000 And now, all of a sudden, he's shifted on the position.

01:52:32.000 So Rand was right about the whole herd immunity thing.

01:52:35.000 But that's perfectly fine, he gets on magazines and... What is this?

01:52:40.000 Now, Ran is a dentist, right?

01:52:41.000 He's a dentist?

01:52:41.000 He's an eye doctor.

01:52:42.000 Eye doctor, yeah.

01:52:43.000 But he still went to medical school, like, you gotta go... Oh, yeah.

01:52:45.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:52:46.000 And then eye doctor's specialty.

01:52:47.000 Yeah.

01:52:47.000 So he clearly does have medical experience.

01:52:49.000 Yeah, he's not just some Joe Blow, nor is his father, right?

01:52:53.000 Also, it's not like these guys... Doctor No.

01:52:55.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:52:56.000 Like, they know a little something about something, but it's like, we worship this guy at the altar, and we gotta hold the whole entire country hostage for Fauci.

01:53:04.000 And they keep moving the posts.

01:53:06.000 It's like, okay, 15 days to slow the spread.

01:53:09.000 And what a lot of folks seem to forget, that 15 days to slow the spread had absolutely nothing

01:53:14.000 to do with stopping people from getting the virus.

01:53:17.000 It was about spreading it out over a period of time.

01:53:20.000 So the hospitals don't get overwhelmed.

01:53:22.000 The number of the people that were gonna get infected was always going to be that number.

01:53:26.000 They already assumed that.

01:53:28.000 So why is it that we moved from that to, well, now we don't want anybody to get the virus, and now it's like to a vaccine, and then wait, now we got a vaccine.

01:53:35.000 We don't know if you can still spread.

01:53:37.000 Is it gonna work?

01:53:38.000 Yeah, we don't really know, so we still gotta keep you shut. 0.94

01:53:38.000 Is it gonna work? 0.94

01:53:40.000 So that's the big spit in the face is that they'll set this sort of arbitrary standard, and then they'll just, we get to it, and then they just move it.

01:53:49.000 They just moved the post.

01:53:50.000 Well, I mean, look what they're doing in New York.

01:53:51.000 They're going to buy up the cheap property now.

01:53:53.000 So these lockdowns destroyed the economy, destroyed property value, and then you get

01:53:57.000 de Blasio saying, we're going to buy it up.

01:53:59.000 How many billions of dollars has Moderna made? 0.91

01:54:01.000 Pfizer?

01:54:03.000 A lot.

01:54:04.000 Guaranteed contracts.

01:54:05.000 How in bed are they with politicians?

01:54:09.000 All of it is the largest transfer of wealth from working class people to the elites. 0.92

01:54:16.000 In human history.

01:54:17.000 This is a big, big deal.

01:54:19.000 That's what I didn't understand.

01:54:21.000 That was my big thing.

01:54:23.000 My lady has her own craft shop and stuff. 1.00

01:54:26.000 So I was like, okay, the bigger Walmart, they could remain open.

01:54:30.000 And of course you can get your craft items there, but you couldn't go to like even Hobby Lobby.

01:54:35.000 You couldn't go to anywhere else.

01:54:37.000 So they were funneling people there.

01:54:39.000 Do you see the story about the woman in Jersey where she was filming her store on Facebook live saying like, you know, my store is closed because of the lockdown, but I'm going to film what I have.

01:54:49.000 And if you want to buy it, message me, the cops showed up and told her to stop. 0.99

01:54:53.000 So when that happened, I knew right away they're not doing this because of COVID.

01:54:59.000 The woman was, the cops show up and it's all live streamed.

01:55:02.000 And she goes, can I help you?

01:55:03.000 I'm like, you got to, you got to close.

01:55:04.000 And she goes, we are closed.

01:55:04.000 I'm like, no, no, no, no.

01:55:05.000 You're, you're, you're selling stuff online.

01:55:07.000 I'm like, you can't do that.

01:55:07.000 And she goes, yeah.

01:55:08.000 You got to stop.

01:55:09.000 They shut her down and she didn't even have people in her store. 1.00

01:55:12.000 Man, and that's the one you want to talk about, pilling some of these people that are on the opposite side.

01:55:17.000 I think the whole police thing, right?

01:55:21.000 I think a lot of folks are, especially the guys that protected them, are starting to understand who these guys actually work for.

01:55:32.000 Um and who enforces some of these uh well not some of them all of them they why we call them the teeth of the state is right it is is right there and I'm seeing a lot of people just like wow these guys are going to great lengths I supported these guys and they will go to great lengths to shut me down.

01:55:47.000 A lot of cops are quitting in mass.

01:55:48.000 We have seen that.

01:55:49.000 Yeah, a lot of cops quitting for a variety of reasons.

01:55:51.000 Yeah.

01:55:52.000 But I'll tell you this.

01:55:53.000 I think you've got the cops right now are the most consequential group in the country because the edict from say Cuomo is nothing.

01:56:02.000 Unless there's someone willing to enforce the edict of the governor.

01:56:05.000 Not a lot of cops are quitting, but NYPD is loaded with a bunch of people who just are willing to break their oath to the Constitution.

01:56:10.000 Why?

01:56:11.000 I think it's simple.

01:56:12.000 Everyone's out of work.

01:56:14.000 They can see the other side.

01:56:15.000 They can see what it would be like to have no job.

01:56:17.000 And so they're like, I don't know, I fight for me before anybody else.

01:56:20.000 They fight for me before I fight for the Constitution.

01:56:22.000 The reason we started the U.S.

01:56:23.000 government was so that someone didn't have a monopoly on force anymore.

01:56:29.000 It's actually in the, believe it or not, and people can get a rag on me for being in ANCAP, I'd encourage you guys to read the Declaration of Independence.

01:56:38.000 Oh, I've read it.

01:56:38.000 There's some funny stuff in it.

01:56:39.000 Yes, like, and what it talks about if the, you know, removing actually the government, like, it's actually in there.

01:56:47.000 Like, it's not anything that, like, no, they actually believed that, like, It is the right of the people.

01:56:52.000 Hold on, hold on.

01:56:54.000 By what authority did any of these men have to declare that they weren't part of the British Empire?

01:57:00.000 They weren't officials.

01:57:01.000 They had no, you know, lordship.

01:57:03.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:57:06.000 That's the way the British Crown saw it.

01:57:07.000 Some random guys who, you know, property owners and rich people thought they had the right to claim that we aren't, no, no, no, we're the government.

01:57:14.000 And that was the fight.

01:57:16.000 Yeah.

01:57:16.000 So, you know, that's a big question about government, and it ultimately comes down to confidence.

01:57:20.000 Who believes in which?

01:57:22.000 And civil disobedience.

01:57:23.000 I like how you guys are going in this direction.

01:57:24.000 I want to talk more about that.

01:57:26.000 Well, non-violent civil disobedience.

01:57:27.000 Non-violent civil disobedience.

01:57:28.000 There's a two-pronged assault, I suppose you would say.

01:57:31.000 You've got the government and the Federal Reserve.

01:57:35.000 So we can stop paying interest back to the Federal Reserve because we can't afford it.

01:57:38.000 Well, it's the government who does it.

01:57:39.000 Yeah, so we'll stop funding it.

01:57:41.000 And then we, with the civil disobedience regarding COVID, I leave that to you as a business owner, and do it the right thing.

01:57:48.000 Now, the issue is sound currency.

01:57:49.000 And so if you want to talk about Federal Reserve, the problem is the US dollar and just control and mass printing of it.

01:57:54.000 Yeah, that's the problem with the monopolization.

01:57:56.000 And while we need to That's why Bitcoin.

01:57:59.000 I was just about to say that.

01:58:00.000 Cryptocurrency and all of those things.

01:58:03.000 I would like more of that.

01:58:04.000 I would like more of those competing firms and more of those competing currencies.

01:58:09.000 But you bring up a great point, and that's the two sides of this civil disobedience that we need.

01:58:16.000 I don't want it to get violent, but if they keep pushing people's buttons the way that they are, where you mentioned, I think that's the biggest slap in the face.

01:58:24.000 It's scary, man.

01:58:24.000 Could you imagine living in California right now and having your business be completely derailed?

01:58:29.000 Especially in the restaurant business.

01:58:32.000 And then you see like, whether it be Mayor London Breed or Newsome at the French, like could you imagine that?

01:58:40.000 Like I just, I couldn't, I'm obviously not in that state, but could you just imagine being in that position?

01:58:47.000 This is why you add all of that to the election stuff, It's funny, man.

01:58:52.000 You know, I talk about normalcy bias, you know, normalcy biases.

01:58:56.000 It can't happen here.

01:58:56.000 Yeah.

01:58:57.000 But this this past year has not been anything close to normal at all.

01:59:01.000 These past four years have been anything but normal.

01:59:03.000 There's no more normal anymore.

01:59:05.000 Right.

01:59:06.000 We had we had a kind of normal.

01:59:07.000 But even when things were going really well in 2019 with the booming economy, we had this crazy problem of the orange, like the obsession of Trump in the media, not talking about things anymore, constantly screaming.

01:59:18.000 And media just went nuts and broke.

01:59:20.000 We've not been a normal for a long time.

01:59:21.000 I've lost faith in the U.S.

01:59:22.000 government in the last two decades with the Iraq war, basically, with the extraction of wealth from the Middle East.

01:59:28.000 But this COVID thing has gotten me totally shaken in their ability to lead.

01:59:32.000 But combine that with Joe Biden.

01:59:34.000 Joe Biden is Obama 2.0.

01:59:35.000 Yeah.

01:59:37.000 And what are we going to get?

01:59:38.000 We're getting, you know, Goldman Sachs lobby and lobbyists in the transition team.

01:59:44.000 You know, look how protected they are like the Hunter Biden thing.

01:59:46.000 I thought that that was going to be like people are going to blow like their minds are going to their heads are going to explode figuratively.

01:59:53.000 You're going to lose it.

01:59:53.000 Yeah, like I thought that the Hunter Biden thing was like that was one of the biggest like cover ups.

01:59:59.000 For a long period of time, and it wasn't until he had to come out and say, well, yeah, I'm being investigated.

02:00:05.000 And then more of the mainstream media was like, oh, well, there's a problem.

02:00:09.000 Even though everybody else for months had been called conspiracy theorists.

02:00:13.000 Now it's useful to them, though.

02:00:14.000 Because now they got an excuse to get rid of Biden to put Kamala Harris in. 1.00

02:00:14.000 You know why? 1.00

02:00:17.000 Yep.

02:00:18.000 That's exactly what they're probably going to do.

02:00:19.000 So now they're like, oh, hey, great.

02:00:20.000 Let's rag on Biden. 0.93

02:00:21.000 We don't care.

02:00:22.000 We wanted Kamala in the first place, but she couldn't get any support. 0.98

02:00:24.000 And that's why they want that control.

02:00:25.000 That's exactly what they wanted.

02:00:28.000 I mean I've obviously never had faith uh definitely recently in the government but you brought up the point which is fantastic in that when we talk about we there's like this whole return of normalcy and how you know you talk about that that that concept of well That would never happen.

02:00:47.000 We were talking about that in March, when I would, for example, say, y'all know this ain't gonna just be for two weeks, right?

02:00:54.000 And people said, there's no way that that would happen.

02:00:57.000 It's just a couple of weeks.

02:00:59.000 What's the big deal?

02:01:00.000 Government's not gonna shut you down for a long extended period of time.

02:01:04.000 And that's exactly what it was that they did.

02:01:06.000 Dude, I remember when Trump announced he was banning travel to Europe.

02:01:10.000 Yeah.

02:01:11.000 like I'm getting messages from people that are like armchair activists.

02:01:11.000 Jaw drop moment.

02:01:33.000 They're on the internet, they're complaining, they're posting memes, but they don't get out.

02:01:36.000 And they're telling me they're going to D.C.

02:01:38.000 So that's why I decided, I was like, alright, let's try and figure out a way to do the show from somewhere in D.C., like really close by.

02:01:42.000 We can have guests come on.

02:01:43.000 Because I think it's going to be big.

02:01:46.000 But I'll tell you this, people keep saying Trump can't win.

02:01:49.000 My personal opinion is it's probably not.

02:01:51.000 I mean, we were even talking about before the show, like, it's going to be Biden.

02:01:53.000 Pence is going to say for Biden.

02:01:54.000 But then you talk about locking everything down.

02:01:56.000 You talk about how abnormal this whole year has been.

02:01:59.000 At this point, if Mike Pence came out and was handed the stack of electoral votes and just pulled out a lighter and lit it up and was like, I'm the vice president.

02:02:06.000 Trump is the president.

02:02:07.000 Welcome to 2024.

02:02:08.000 We're staying in for that long.

02:02:10.000 I'd just be like, oh, well, you know, it's another day, huh?

02:02:13.000 Yeah, it's like crazy things have happened.

02:02:15.000 People are saying 2021.

02:02:18.000 You think you think you think 2020 was bad?

02:02:20.000 This is the warm up.

02:02:21.000 This is the opening act.

02:02:22.000 Yeah, it's not even begun yet.

02:02:24.000 Look, and I think that's true.

02:02:26.000 People keep saying, oh, 2020 was such an awful year.

02:02:29.000 OK, well, I got Joe Biden's people saying we got to lock down until 2022.

02:02:33.000 Yeah.

02:02:33.000 It's massive national nationwide mass mandate.

02:02:35.000 Yeah, so they're going to keep the lockdowns going.

02:02:37.000 Now you got this vaccine and we don't we don't know if it actually stops the spread of covid.

02:02:42.000 They're like people can still get it apparently crazy to me.

02:02:46.000 So businesses are shut down.

02:02:48.000 People are on the map, like tens of millions of people on the verge of eviction, either because of foreclosure or

02:02:53.000 because they can't pay rent.

02:02:54.000 Six hundred bucks ain't going to cut it.

02:02:56.000 Two thousand bucks.

02:02:58.000 2,000 bucks?

02:02:58.000 I don't think it's gonna cut it.

02:03:00.000 The average debt now, I think, for a rent or mortgage is like six grand.

02:03:00.000 No, it won't.

02:03:04.000 Because it's been a year!

02:03:05.000 People don't have any money left.

02:03:07.000 So, it feels like everything that's happening is going to lead us to a point where it's like, escape from New York, man.

02:03:15.000 It's Mad Max.

02:03:16.000 I'm exaggerating a little bit, but I'll tell you this.

02:03:19.000 We brought up Mohamed Bouazizi.

02:03:21.000 His whole bit was that he couldn't sell apples.

02:03:23.000 Who will be on that?

02:03:25.000 He couldn't sell out.

02:03:26.000 Yeah, exactly.

02:03:27.000 Who will be on that?

02:03:28.000 You can't even leave your house.

02:03:29.000 You can't leave your house, man.

02:03:30.000 Exactly.

02:03:31.000 So, I mean, seriously.

02:03:33.000 I'm out in the middle of nowhere, and I'm going to continue moving further and further away.

02:03:37.000 We're going to get a big West Virginia property, 100 acres, mine our own business.

02:03:40.000 Man, sounds like the life right there.

02:03:42.000 Yeah, just middle of nowhere.

02:03:43.000 That's the other thing I think about with taxes, too.

02:03:45.000 I'm like, just move to the middle of nowhere.

02:03:48.000 The taxes are like 10 bucks.

02:03:50.000 A lot of people are stuck.

02:03:50.000 It's like nothing.

02:03:52.000 Yup.

02:03:53.000 That's right.

02:03:54.000 Yeah.

02:03:55.000 I mean, and they want to get out.

02:03:55.000 No, a lot of people are stuck.

02:03:57.000 We got to go to Super Chats!

02:03:58.000 Let's go to Super Chats and talk to the audience about what's going on with all them.

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02:04:09.000 We're going to read what y'all have to say now.

02:04:10.000 So thank you all so much for the Super Chats so far.

02:04:13.000 Riley Lewin was the first Super Chat.

02:04:15.000 He said, Hey Tim, do you think America is going to fully collapse?

02:04:18.000 And if you do, what year?

02:04:19.000 I believe yes, and by 2025-ish.

02:04:23.000 Maybe, you know, there's a lot of different ways to look at it.

02:04:25.000 But I mean, we were just talking about this people, you know, I'll say again, Mohammed was easy. 1.00

02:04:31.000 He couldn't sell his fruit from his fruit cart.

02:04:33.000 And that set off all of these different countries across, you know, the Middle East and North Africa.

02:04:38.000 Right now, you got a lot of people in this country who believe in a constitution, who believe in a declaration of independence and who are armed to the teeth.

02:04:44.000 And I'm scared.

02:04:46.000 I'm worried, man.

02:04:47.000 Maybe scared isn't the right word.

02:04:49.000 Maybe just like.

02:04:52.000 I don't know.

02:04:53.000 It was an alert.

02:04:55.000 This is why it was so like... I'm bordering on prepping, I'll put it that way.

02:05:00.000 And this is why I was telling people when the protests and stuff broke down, I was like, if that stuff leaks out to the suburbs or the countryside, because it stayed most of the time in the inner city.

02:05:13.000 That could have detonated something, like, very bad.

02:05:17.000 I think, you know, we saw Stuart Rose's name, right, from Oath Keepers?

02:05:22.000 Yeah.

02:05:23.000 He said half the country is not going to recognize anything that comes out of Joe Biden's mouth as legitimate.

02:05:27.000 They're not going to view him as their president.

02:05:29.000 And then everything we learned about Hunter Biden in China and stuff, we already heard from Hillary Clinton.

02:05:35.000 Hmm.

02:05:35.000 that Joe Biden shouldn't concede under any circumstances.

02:05:37.000 So what they're accusing Trump of doing, it was their idea in the first place. Then you

02:05:41.000 got, so Trump's not going to concede under any circumstances. But then you, I remember when John

02:05:47.000 Podesta said he would prefer the West Coast to cede from the union than allow Trump to win. What's

02:05:51.000 the alternative on the Trump side?

02:05:53.000 Are they just going to say, to say like, oh well, you know, we lost, better just, you

02:05:56.000 know, come back out tomorrow or they're going to be like, well, everything I own has been

02:06:00.000 destroyed and taken from me and you know, my life is in shambles and then now Joe Biden

02:06:04.000 is going to become president and wants to lock everything down for another couple of

02:06:07.000 My friends, you're already under martial law, okay?

02:06:07.000 years.

02:06:10.000 Now figure, exactly, effective martial law.

02:06:13.000 Martial law literally means military law, like the military supersedes the law comes

02:06:16.000 But typically, people say martial law to refer to totalitarian lockdown, when statutory law no longer matters, and despotic authoritarians just dictate.

02:06:27.000 Did you think?

02:06:29.000 I'll say this, you know, because I said it before, but for you, everybody, did you think when the authoritarian dictatorship came, it would just one day blink into existence?

02:06:39.000 Like, they would just be a dictator, be like, I'm a chancellor, you know, I'm Supreme Chancellor.

02:06:44.000 I don't think that's happened ever in history.

02:06:46.000 First they signed the Patriot Act.

02:06:48.000 No, no, listen, listen.

02:06:49.000 When we read these books, 1984, when we watch V for Vendetta, these governments don't just blink into existence.

02:06:55.000 Starts with a false flag, usually.

02:06:56.000 Well, it starts with any emergency, whether legitimate or not.

02:06:59.000 Absolutely.

02:07:00.000 COVID happens, and all of a sudden, the first thing we hear is Andrew Cuomo says, People of New York, I now have supreme executive authority to do whatever I want, and no one can stop me, and every single cop will do whatever I say.

02:07:12.000 The first thing that happened was the trade centers came down, and the world got put on high terror alert.

02:07:16.000 Oh, it was way before that, bro.

02:07:17.000 People have been afraid since then.

02:07:18.000 I mean, that was the catalyst.

02:07:21.000 Yeah, that was a big catalyst with the Patriot Act, but before that there was the World Trade Center in 1993 bombing.

02:07:26.000 Yeah, that was little.

02:07:27.000 This is like a global pandemic of fear.

02:07:31.000 No, but that's the thing.

02:07:32.000 That's exactly what it is.

02:07:33.000 That's pretty much happened everywhere, really in human history.

02:07:38.000 They don't generally rise by way of Saying that, okay, I'm going to destroy the economy.

02:07:44.000 I'm going to have the state control absolutely everything.

02:07:49.000 Generally, every time it's, okay, I care about you.

02:07:52.000 I want to protect you.

02:07:53.000 I want to protect my people.

02:07:55.000 And then that's what ends up in Zidong and Pol Pot and Hitler and that's what you get. 0.90

02:08:02.000 That's exactly what you get.

02:08:03.000 Let me tell you something.

02:08:04.000 You ever hear the saying, it is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent person suffer?

02:08:09.000 Yeah.

02:08:09.000 That's Blackstone's formulation.

02:08:09.000 You ever hear that?

02:08:11.000 Interestingly, side note, it's actually rooted in the Bible.

02:08:14.000 In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, you know, if there's but one righteous person, I won't destroy the city.

02:08:18.000 It's really interesting stuff when I was reading about it.

02:08:20.000 Benjamin Franklin said, it is better that 100 guilty persons escape than one innocent person suffer.

02:08:26.000 I can't remember the founding father who wrote about it.

02:08:28.000 That may have been John Adams, writing that innocence must be protected at all costs, for if the innocent man no longer feels he can be protected, then what's to stop him from resorting from crime or resisting the government?

02:08:39.000 Something to that effect.

02:08:40.000 It's very, very interesting.

02:08:42.000 Then you get, um, uh, what's his name?

02:08:45.000 Brunswick?

02:08:46.000 Was that?

02:08:46.000 What was his name?

02:08:46.000 No, no, no, no, no.

02:08:47.000 Who was the German dictator guy?

02:08:49.000 I'm probably getting the Hitler. 0.99

02:08:51.000 No.

02:08:52.000 Yes, but I'm not referring to him specifically.

02:08:54.000 German dictator.

02:08:55.000 Uh, maybe it wasn't, maybe it wasn't German.

02:08:57.000 Um, like Austria, Austria, Hungary, or whatever.

02:09:00.000 Bismarck.

02:09:00.000 What year?

02:09:01.000 Bismarck.

02:09:02.000 Otto von Bismarck.

02:09:03.000 German.

02:09:03.000 Yes.

02:09:04.000 He said it is better that 10 innocent people suffer than one guilty person escape.

02:09:08.000 The mark of authoritarianism is the idea that innocent people should suffer to prevent the bad from getting away with what they do.

02:09:15.000 So you take a look at what they're doing now.

02:09:17.000 What Cuomo, what de Blasio, what Biden, what Fauci, what Osterholm, what Newsom, what Whitmer, what they're all saying.

02:09:24.000 It is better that 10 million, it is better that 20 million people suffer Then, 100,000 people get sick.

02:09:33.000 That's amazing.

02:09:34.000 When you put it in that context, it's absolutely unbelievable.

02:09:37.000 That's the route that they've went.

02:09:39.000 And we've done that for nothing else.

02:09:41.000 Definitely when it comes to respiratory illnesses and viruses that spread, we've never ever done that.

02:09:45.000 And I think people, because we're maybe so conditioned for it, because of the last 10 months of training here, this has never happened, guys.

02:09:53.000 Think about where we're at.

02:09:55.000 The lockdowns didn't work.

02:09:57.000 I'm sorry.

02:09:58.000 I'm sorry.

02:09:58.000 Actually, the lockdowns did slow the spread.

02:10:00.000 The Javits Center was never at capacity.

02:10:02.000 I think it's all like, you know, 30%.

02:10:04.000 The medical ship that Trump brought in saw like one person.

02:10:07.000 So locking everything down to slow the spread, it did slow the spread.

02:10:11.000 And then clearly, like you mentioned, it wasn't going to stop people from getting sick, so they all got sick again.

02:10:14.000 And we have soap, so people didn't die.

02:10:16.000 That's the point.

02:10:18.000 People didn't have soap in 1919.

02:10:19.000 They didn't have proper hygiene.

02:10:21.000 Right now, we locked down to slow the spread so that we wouldn't overload our hospitals.

02:10:25.000 That worked.

02:10:26.000 And now everyone's getting sick again, and we can't do anything about it.

02:10:28.000 Well, you can wash your hands, you can eat vitamin C. They didn't have that stuff 100 years ago.

02:10:32.000 Listen, 100 years ago has nothing to do with what's going on right now.

02:10:35.000 I'm saying, we did a lockdown, it slowed the spread, and now everyone's getting sick, so they're not letting the lockdown go.

02:10:41.000 What slowing of the spread are we gonna do right now?

02:10:44.000 So right now what they're saying is, with Joe Biden, and Fauci, and in Osterholm, nationwide lockdown, nationwide masks, and you know, the lockdown is the real issue.

02:10:53.000 I don't care about masks.

02:10:55.000 I'll wear a mask, whatever.

02:10:56.000 It's no big deal to me.

02:10:57.000 But what they're basically saying is it is better that 330 million people suffer

02:11:01.000 than 300,000 people die. And there's a challenge there.

02:11:07.000 I don't want anyone to die.

02:11:08.000 But at a certain point when the lockdowns have done everything they can, it's time to stop the suffering.

02:11:13.000 It's not just suffering, it's destroying the world economy.

02:11:16.000 It's causing starvation of hundreds of millions of people.

02:11:19.000 We gotta read more Super Chats though! 0.85

02:11:21.000 Trent Lomelino says, Eric on the show is a blessing.

02:11:23.000 Dude is awesome.

02:11:24.000 Check his pod and his music.

02:11:25.000 He doesn't stop.

02:11:26.000 There you go.

02:11:27.000 I love this one.

02:11:28.000 Superman, if he wasn't scared of green rock says, having Eric July and Luke on the show makes me so happy.

02:11:32.000 And then Luke had to take off.

02:11:34.000 Yeah.

02:11:35.000 He didn't need to lay down.

02:11:35.000 Bummer.

02:11:36.000 Yeah, he definitely did.

02:11:38.000 Dan saw F says, Hey Eric, check out the odious.

02:11:41.000 I think you might like them.

02:11:42.000 Also Grim Salvo, same group of people, but different styles of music.

02:11:45.000 Okay.

02:11:48.000 All right, let's see what we got here.

02:11:49.000 Daniel Bundrick says, if nothing worth investigating happened during this election, and there's enough potential shenanigans to flip a state, then I'm declaring California a 2024 swing state.

02:11:58.000 Oh, there you go.

02:11:59.000 Okay.

02:12:00.000 Chris Karasiewicz says, Tim, do you think it's worth going to DC on the 6th?

02:12:04.000 I've never done this, and I want to go.

02:12:06.000 I just don't know if going is actually going to do anything.

02:12:09.000 I don't know if anything's going to happen.

02:12:11.000 I'll tell you this, though.

02:12:12.000 Personally, do I think it's worth going?

02:12:13.000 I already booked my hotel.

02:12:16.000 I don't know if we're gonna make it down there, though.

02:12:17.000 There's a lot of variables in play.

02:12:20.000 And so, I'll tell you this, I've heard enough from people where I was like, we should probably figure out a way to do it.

02:12:24.000 Ian came, you got this external mixer, video mixer.

02:12:27.000 It's an electronic gorilla.

02:12:29.000 Oh, you're talking about... We have the technology to go portable.

02:12:32.000 We can use four cameras.

02:12:35.000 All the switches are all on demand through a laptop.

02:12:37.000 So this was one of the hurdles.

02:12:38.000 I was like, we have a desktop we could bring with us, and we could set up somewhere, and then Ian was like, look at this thing.

02:12:45.000 And it's got all of the mixing you need for video, and it just goes one USB into the computer.

02:12:49.000 Super cool.

02:12:50.000 Yeah, so then I was like, wow.

02:12:52.000 We could pull up a laptop, we could totally do the show.

02:12:54.000 So we got all the equipment we need to do it, and there's a bunch of different concerns we gotta go through to make it happen.

02:13:00.000 But right now, I'm thinking I'll be there.

02:13:04.000 I'll tell you, you know the one thing that would stop me from being there?

02:13:07.000 One thing would stop me from being there.

02:13:09.000 No.

02:13:09.000 COVID.

02:13:10.000 If it actually is going to turn out to be massive and like revolutionary, I won't go.

02:13:16.000 You just gotta go no beanie so people don't recognize you.

02:13:18.000 No, no, that's not the issue.

02:13:19.000 The issue is getting stuck.

02:13:21.000 If something crazy goes down and there's 10 million people and you're like stuck in a hotel with no food... Oh boy.

02:13:26.000 So if we start getting closer to the 6th and some crazy stuff is going down and it looks like it's going to be 10 million people, then I'm going to be like, I can't.

02:13:33.000 But right now, I'm thinking it's going to be pretty big and worth going to.

02:13:37.000 I don't think it's going to be this grand, massive upheaval of 10 million people.

02:13:40.000 Maybe.

02:13:41.000 But if I think it's going to get to that point where Trump stays president and people occupy D.C., that's the line, depending on what happens.

02:13:51.000 Because Antifa is going to be there.

02:13:52.000 They've already been organizing resistance and stuff.

02:13:55.000 If it, if it, if, if, you know, look, we saw a couple hundred thousand Trump supporters last time, last month or whatever.

02:14:00.000 It was like estimates were between 100 and 200,000 just littered across DC.

02:14:05.000 If we, and that was just an event they did.

02:14:08.000 Imagine what's going to be like on the 6th.

02:14:09.000 This is Trump's last stand.

02:14:10.000 This is the last day for a constitutional challenge to the election.

02:14:14.000 Antifa is going to be there.

02:14:15.000 Could you imagine if even a million Trump supporters showed up?

02:14:18.000 The city would just, it'd be, it'd be crazy.

02:14:21.000 It was cool this last one.

02:14:22.000 Did you go to the last one in DC by any chance?

02:14:24.000 Just to recognize how powerful we are when we come together.

02:14:29.000 You see all these people walking together and like, yo, dude, we're connected.

02:14:33.000 All right, Justin Bowman says, Tim, I'm a truck driver and a Biden presidency has our industry worried.

02:14:38.000 We're already short 80,000 drivers for demand.

02:14:41.000 Many new drivers are foreigners that use Google Translate.

02:14:44.000 If these wheels don't turn, we don't earn.

02:14:46.000 Stay safe.

02:14:46.000 Also, hi, Lids.

02:14:47.000 Hello.

02:14:48.000 No truck drivers means no food.

02:14:49.000 Yeah.

02:14:50.000 Simple as that.

02:14:51.000 That's like the veins of this country, the highways and the truck drivers moving the goods.

02:14:55.000 It's like the blood cells carrying the oxygen, but they're carrying, you know, bread and milk and eggs.

02:14:59.000 And if they don't come, you don't eat.

02:15:02.000 I hope everybody's been paying attention, man, because I'll tell you, you know, I used to joke about this, but if it ever came down to like an apocalyptic scenario, people in New York would be eating each other.

02:15:11.000 I noticed you bought more canisters of butter powder.

02:15:13.000 That was weird.

02:15:14.000 I don't know why they keep coming.

02:15:15.000 I ordered a couple things of powdered butter because I was like, I wonder how this works, you know?

02:15:19.000 And now it's like I must have accidentally ordered more.

02:15:21.000 Oh, you got it on prescription?

02:15:23.000 Subscription.

02:15:25.000 Is that what happened?

02:15:25.000 Oh, no.

02:15:26.000 No complaints.

02:15:27.000 That stuff stays good for years.

02:15:28.000 I gotta check that.

02:15:29.000 Yeah, I was like, what are like the two things of like powdered butter?

02:15:31.000 I was like, how does that work?

02:15:32.000 I was like, no fat is thinking ahead, but it was only two.

02:15:35.000 It was very out of character for you.

02:15:36.000 Normally you get like 16.

02:15:37.000 No, that's you.

02:15:38.000 You bought all the vinegar.

02:15:40.000 Ian bought like a bunch of vinegar.

02:15:41.000 I'm like, what are you going to do with the vinegar, dude?

02:15:43.000 Yeah, so I'll put it this way.

02:15:45.000 We're bordering on prepping, but having no idea how we're doing it.

02:15:48.000 So we have a bunch of butter, outer butter and vinegar and you know.

02:15:52.000 I'm not, look, where we're at, I'm not super worried.

02:15:56.000 You know, the reason we came out to kind of the middle of nowhere is because, you know, there's hunting grounds all over the place.

02:16:02.000 Uh, we got, we're partly off the grid.

02:16:05.000 We've got ways to maintain everything.

02:16:07.000 And, uh, we got satellite internet.

02:16:10.000 So if like power lines went down or power went out, we'd be fine.

02:16:13.000 The show would be rolling.

02:16:13.000 No problem.

02:16:15.000 Yeah, not in a big city though.

02:16:15.000 Yeah.

02:16:17.000 That'd be, that'd be scary.

02:16:18.000 I wouldn't want to be there.

02:16:19.000 All right, let's see.

02:16:21.000 Daniel Maxwell says, if the states would perform a forensic audit of the machines used in the election along with the signature and address audit of all the mail-in ballots, it would address concerns about the election for most people, but they will not to protect elites.

02:16:32.000 That's the craziest thing.

02:16:34.000 And that's what makes people think there's actually some shenanigans going on because the transparency is being blocked.

02:16:38.000 You know what I mean?

02:16:40.000 Let's see.

02:16:40.000 All right.

02:16:40.000 Nathan B says, Tim, I plan on going Washington.

02:16:43.000 I've already looked into tickets and hotels, but I don't know anything about what's really going to happen down there.

02:16:48.000 I've never been to a protest before, so it should be interesting.

02:16:50.000 Vets, hashtag vets for Trump.

02:16:51.000 I don't know what's going to happen.

02:16:53.000 I have no idea.

02:16:54.000 I'm just hearing from people who say they don't protest and they're going to protest.

02:16:56.000 I'm like, Oh, this is probably going to be something spicy.

02:16:59.000 You know, my prediction, massive protest.

02:17:03.000 People, you know, stand up and they yell and they go home, you know, Antifa fights some people.

02:17:08.000 The Trump supporters, you know, fight back.

02:17:09.000 Proud Boys will be there.

02:17:10.000 Then the right, you know, Trump supporters and Proud Boys will go home.

02:17:14.000 Antifa will go and fight the cops.

02:17:15.000 Yeah.

02:17:16.000 After dark, it gets crazy.

02:17:17.000 At least the last one didn't.

02:17:18.000 There weren't that many people there.

02:17:20.000 But I'll stress, I don't know.

02:17:22.000 Normal's out the window, man.

02:17:23.000 I know.

02:17:24.000 Who knows what's going to happen.

02:17:25.000 For all we know, like literally no one shows up and it's just Alex Jones by himself.

02:17:28.000 And then you get to walk up and, hey, nice to meet you.

02:17:30.000 I'm the only other person here, you know?

02:17:31.000 So maybe.

02:17:34.000 John Smith says, Hey man, love your music.

02:17:34.000 Alright, let's see.

02:17:36.000 You guys should do a trashy FIR cover and dress up like Radke used to. 1.00

02:17:41.000 You did a SWS cover so really you have no excuse.

02:17:45.000 That went over my head.

02:17:46.000 That's Fall In Reverse is leaving Osiris.

02:17:47.000 That's what he's talking about.

02:17:49.000 He's talking about metalcore bands.

02:17:51.000 Or post-hardcore.

02:17:52.000 I guess.

02:17:53.000 and I'll take policies that ended Venezuela for 2.6 trillion, but I'm Coco do says time for a third party vote

02:17:53.000 Right.

02:18:12.000 them all out. Yeah, definitely. I mean, I I I I'm, I didn't vote last time. I voted this time for Trump and the down

02:18:12.000 ticket Republicans. I probably just vote third party from now on. I think a lot of people will too.

02:18:13.000 If there's a viable populist, like, moderate party of sorts, I'd probably just vote for it.

02:18:18.000 I have to get involved.

02:18:19.000 I can't stand on the sidelines anymore.

02:18:21.000 I feel you.

02:18:24.000 Let's see.

02:18:25.000 DrazenMedix's.

02:18:27.000 Uh, Tim, why do you invite guests on your show and then take 60% of the time talking and voicing your opinions, which your audience is already aware of, as they heard it a dozen times, still love the show though?

02:18:36.000 I don't know, because it just, that's just the way it is.

02:18:38.000 It's your show.

02:18:39.000 I guess, you know.

02:18:40.000 It is your show.

02:18:40.000 No, but we've, we've had guests where, like, uh, Heshy?

02:18:43.000 When Heshy was here, he talked 80%, 90% of the time.

02:18:45.000 Yeah.

02:18:46.000 Heshy's a cool dude.

02:18:47.000 New York, local politician, challenging the lockdowns.

02:18:50.000 Getting in trouble.

02:18:51.000 He's the guy they went around the cutting the locks on the parks to open them back up.

02:18:55.000 I figured you appreciate that.

02:18:56.000 Yeah.

02:18:58.000 And they couldn't do anything about it.

02:18:59.000 Cause he was like, we're going to keep doing it.

02:19:00.000 You know, Michael Didion says having SARS COVID-2 does not mean you have COVID.

02:19:06.000 COVID is the disease, not the virus.

02:19:08.000 There is a distinction.

02:19:09.000 These tests are not for COVID, but rather the SARS COVID-2 to test for COVID one would mean other diagnostics.

02:19:14.000 Interesting.

02:19:15.000 I believe that's, that's, that's how most diseases work actually.

02:19:15.000 Oh yeah.

02:19:20.000 Let's see.

02:19:21.000 Intolerable Ax says, woohoo! 1.00

02:19:23.000 I'm a single father of two kids making less than $35K a year.

02:19:26.000 I'm about to buy $6K in BTC, REN, and Graph.

02:19:30.000 I left metals for crypto.

02:19:31.000 Better returns.

02:19:33.000 I'll tell you this, man.

02:19:34.000 I don't want to give anybody advice, but I'll tell you a month ago, Max Keiser, you know that guy Max?

02:19:39.000 He's been saying, buy Bitcoin like crazy.

02:19:41.000 And so I was like, alright, I bought some Bitcoin.

02:19:44.000 And now it's at $27K, $28K, and it's on track probably for $35K.

02:19:48.000 Some people say $700K.

02:19:50.000 The way the U.S.

02:19:51.000 dollar's going... I went to the U.S.

02:19:53.000 debt clock today and it's going up $70,000 every second.

02:19:57.000 The debt to GDP is like 129% now.

02:20:00.000 Yeah, in the United States.

02:20:02.000 That is unbelievable.

02:20:04.000 Bitcoin is skyrocketing.

02:20:05.000 It's a runaway.

02:20:06.000 Because people don't want to have dollars anymore.

02:20:09.000 I don't think there's any coming back from a 27, now it'll be 30 trillion debt.

02:20:12.000 They're printing 2.3 more.

02:20:16.000 It's the interest that's making it untenable.

02:20:19.000 So if we default on the interest and just refuse to pay it back as civil disobedience, maybe it won't crash the dollar.

02:20:26.000 I think that's the best case scenario either way.

02:20:30.000 Even if it does crash.

02:20:31.000 Check this out.

02:20:32.000 This is gonna make you mad.

02:20:33.000 Laura Wren says, I raised four kids with the help of EBT.

02:20:37.000 I was shocked that I could buy gum, candy, soda, but not vitamins or other supplements.

02:20:41.000 Now you can buy McDonald's with EBT.

02:20:43.000 The food and medical industry in this country is pure evil.

02:20:46.000 I agree.

02:20:47.000 McDonald's?

02:20:49.000 What?

02:20:49.000 Don't they put sugar in their salads?

02:20:51.000 Mm-hmm.

02:20:52.000 Oh, they're burgers.

02:20:53.000 Definitely the dressing.

02:20:54.000 Archimedes says, Tim, Joe Rogan already did the study of what humans will and won't eat.

02:20:58.000 Fear factor.

02:20:58.000 Oh, yeah.

02:20:59.000 Apparently, people will eat crazy stuff.

02:21:01.000 For money.

02:21:02.000 Yeah, for money.

02:21:03.000 When you got Rogan telling you, you can do it.

02:21:05.000 You can do anything.

02:21:06.000 That's right.

02:21:08.000 Port Film Co-op says, guest sounds like a Prager U Muppet given a script.

02:21:12.000 Ooh, he got some words.

02:21:12.000 What?

02:21:14.000 Is Prager U, uh... Prager U is not ANCAP. 0.95

02:21:17.000 No, Prager U is, like, the most generic conservative, so whoever said that is a crackhead. 0.70

02:21:23.000 I'm pretty sure, yeah.

02:21:25.000 Like, you probably disagree with most of Prager U's... Like, probably 90% of what they say, which is why I've never done anything.

02:21:31.000 We only talked about, like, anarchy for, like, 30 minutes.

02:21:33.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:21:35.000 And that's just what Prager and all those guys talk about is anarchism.

02:21:39.000 That's what they're advocating.

02:21:40.000 Like I said, that guy's smoking crack cocaine.

02:21:43.000 Leave it alone.

02:21:44.000 Augustine Uribe says, I moved between three blue progressive states, was homeless most of my time in each state.

02:21:50.000 Finally, I left California for Texas with $200 in cash and a broken car four years ago.

02:21:54.000 Now I have a five bedroom house, two cars, a Harley Davidson, and pay all my bills.

02:21:57.000 Awesome.

02:21:58.000 There you go, man.

02:22:00.000 Mike Hex says, finally, thank you for having Eric on, Tim.

02:22:02.000 Yo, Eric, when you going to come out with another freestyle, brother?

02:22:07.000 Soon enough.

02:22:07.000 I'm dropping a free tape for y'all soon enough.

02:22:11.000 Jay Max says, I've always said three things that will almost always make you more libertarian.

02:22:15.000 Serving in the military, starting a business, and having children.

02:22:18.000 I've got horror stories about fraud, waste, and abuse that would make the staunchest CFO faint.

02:22:22.000 Governments are ineffective by nature.

02:22:25.000 Oh, I've heard stories, man.

02:22:27.000 Absurd things bought and thrown away and just wasted money like crazy.

02:22:31.000 They're wasting our money, man.

02:22:33.000 That's the problem with it.

02:22:35.000 I think when people talk about taxation and theft, it really comes down to what is the money being taken for?

02:22:42.000 Because, like you said, libertarians will probably agree.

02:22:45.000 You put the toll booth at the road, I'll pay for the road.

02:22:47.000 We can agree on that.

02:22:48.000 I'll pay for it, sure.

02:22:49.000 Well, and they give your money to Pakistani gender programs. 0.98

02:22:52.000 That's like the best example.

02:22:53.000 Or like jets that cost $700,000.

02:22:54.000 Like they have like jet parts that cost like hundreds of thousands of dollars.

02:22:59.000 Just because they can charge it just because it's government, yeah.

02:23:01.000 And that's the problem the left has with the private insurance companies.

02:23:05.000 But what we're seeing with medical industry is this weird mash-up of public and private that turns into some weird monster that doesn't do either.

02:23:12.000 And so it's like, the insurance companies pay $100 for an aspirin because the system is completely broke and it makes no sense.

02:23:18.000 It's not capitalism.

02:23:19.000 The Federal Reserve's like, totally on board.

02:23:22.000 They'll print unlimited for the government.

02:23:24.000 If the government's like, hey, can you give us 6 trillion, they're like, yeah, give me 6.9 back, yeah, definitely, or whatever it is.

02:23:30.000 Wow.

02:23:31.000 That's all I asked for.

02:23:32.000 Says my small town 12k has high-speed fiber optic internet 1k up and down. It's getting crazy, man

02:23:38.000 There's a because they're like the way they lay the lines There are some middle-of-nowhere places like Pennsylvania

02:23:44.000 like in the wilds where you can get gigabit internet That's a town of like a hundred people. That's all I asked

02:23:49.000 for. Yeah, that's life. What do you got now?

02:23:51.000 I have I have fiber right now I'm out of the way, but I'm not in the middle of nowhere like I want to be.

02:23:57.000 If I can get in the middle of nowhere with fiber, that's a dream right there.

02:24:02.000 You know what I was thinking?

02:24:03.000 It'd be great to move to a small dying town, because then you'd bring it back to life.

02:24:08.000 That's what we were talking about last year.

02:24:10.000 Before this place.

02:24:13.000 We should start a town.

02:24:15.000 That'd be awesome.

02:24:15.000 Not start one, but just build a monorail.

02:24:17.000 Think about it this way.

02:24:18.000 Bunch of them.

02:24:19.000 You don't start a town.

02:24:20.000 You just bring your business there because the property's cheap and there's a lot of people looking for work and it's lower cost of living.

02:24:27.000 People who need jobs, you don't gotta pay an arm and a leg like you would out of New York City, but you revitalize the local economy.

02:24:32.000 It attracts more jobs, more industry, and you help bring it back.

02:24:34.000 Let's find a way to do it.

02:24:34.000 There you go.

02:24:36.000 Yeah.

02:24:38.000 Darkstow says, Tim, that's how Melbourne, Australia, end their lockdowns.

02:24:41.000 Bunch of Indian restaurants go on TV saying they're opening at the same time and others followed.

02:24:45.000 Wow, really?

02:24:46.000 That happened?

02:24:46.000 Was that recently?

02:24:48.000 Yeah.

02:24:49.000 Skeleton King says, modern day prohibition forced by edict.

02:24:53.000 But instead of alcohol being illegal, it's opening businesses to survive.

02:24:57.000 Eventually people will not take it anymore.

02:25:00.000 Yeah, I hear that man.

02:25:04.000 Tashi497 says, Tim, your ability to retain information and speak so clear and fast parallels Ben Shapiro.

02:25:10.000 Any advice on how to be on that level?

02:25:13.000 Read... I don't know what Ben does.

02:25:14.000 Have a good memory.

02:25:16.000 You know, have a good memory.

02:25:18.000 You know, practice memory games.

02:25:20.000 We're gonna say read.

02:25:21.000 Read what?

02:25:21.000 Read a lot.

02:25:22.000 Yeah, read a lot.

02:25:22.000 Read everything.

02:25:23.000 Talk a lot.

02:25:23.000 I was reading tons of crazy stuff today.

02:25:25.000 I was reading about the invention of the 50 BMG.

02:25:28.000 Just because I bought... I got Luke a 50 BMG corkscrew for Christmas.

02:25:32.000 It's not a real bullet, but it's a corkscrew for like, you know, opening wine bottles or whatever.

02:25:35.000 And I figured Luke likes it because Luke likes guns.

02:25:37.000 And, uh, and I was just looking up the, you know, 50 Brown.

02:25:40.000 It was a Browning machine gun.

02:25:41.000 I just read random stuff.

02:25:42.000 Do you ever count sheep?

02:25:43.000 No sleep at night?

02:25:44.000 No.

02:25:45.000 Do you ever do like thought exercises or anything?

02:25:47.000 No.

02:25:48.000 I used to have this problem where I'd try to count sheep and it would just keep repeating itself.

02:25:52.000 I couldn't get the thoughts to continue and I just one night forced the image to jump over and continue off into the distance and it was one that night in Chicago that in my bed I remember after that moment I started to gain control of my thoughts.

02:26:07.000 There you go!

02:26:07.000 That's important.

02:26:08.000 Brandon Hanson says, My mom is one of those small business owners who has said enough. 0.97

02:26:12.000 She opened her Minnesota restaurant, The Interchange, on December 16th.

02:26:19.000 Got a cease and desist.

02:26:20.000 Now she's being sued by the state. 0.99

02:26:21.000 She's not backing down no matter what.

02:26:23.000 She's fed up. 1.00

02:26:23.000 We all are. 1.00

02:26:24.000 Shout out to Lisa.

02:26:25.000 I'll think about it this way.

02:26:26.000 If your business is going to go under, why would you just walk away and go, oh well, why wouldn't you just be like, we're open.

02:26:32.000 Find me, I don't care, the business won't exist.

02:26:34.000 You know what I mean?

02:26:34.000 Doesn't matter.

02:26:36.000 That's gotta be your route.

02:26:37.000 Like, what you got to lose at this point.

02:26:39.000 They're not finding you, right?

02:26:41.000 They're finding the business.

02:26:43.000 If the business is about to go under, unless they're finding you, I understand, but, you know.

02:26:48.000 If enough people do that, we'll get on the other side of it.

02:26:52.000 Period.

02:26:53.000 JT says, I live in CA and my mom, who had cancer, no COVID, died alone in the hospital because they wouldn't let me stay with her.

02:26:59.000 Needless to say, it felt good to sign that recall petition the other day.

02:27:02.000 Right on, man.

02:27:03.000 That's... these doctors videos, man.

02:27:04.000 I couldn't imagine that, man.

02:27:05.000 Like, I really couldn't.

02:27:06.000 I probably would have to... I probably in jail for getting in fistfights with, uh... Break your way in.

02:27:11.000 With, like, yeah, like, seriously.

02:27:12.000 Like, dead serious.

02:27:13.000 My own mother, I just can't imagine. 0.95

02:27:16.000 I probably would have knocked someone upside the head, straight up.

02:27:20.000 VPLAN says, please check what capitalism means.

02:27:22.000 If there is no competitive market or protections of personal property, there is no capitalism.

02:27:27.000 If government takes away the right to work, there is no capitalism.

02:27:30.000 It is capitalism no more, no idea what it is.

02:27:33.000 Just make up a definition and just run with it is what people do.

02:27:37.000 I know, I know. 0.64

02:27:38.000 I mean, it's a classic straw man and nobody can form an argument against something that you just pull out of your behind. 0.59

02:27:44.000 So, just go that route. 0.70

02:27:46.000 Alright, let's see.

02:27:47.000 We'll do a couple more.

02:27:48.000 Let's see what we got.

02:27:50.000 Carl Flint says, Tim, I think you'd be interested in checking out Carl Casarda of the YouTube channel InRangeTV.

02:27:56.000 He mostly does gun videos, but he has made videos on interesting things like the Red Summer of 1919.

02:28:01.000 He also made Internati.

02:28:03.000 Interesting.

02:28:04.000 Is the Red Summer, uh, the Spanish flu thing?

02:28:07.000 No, I think that's the, uh, no, what was that before them?

02:28:10.000 Was that the communist, uh, Russia?

02:28:14.000 Yeah.

02:28:15.000 Grace and L says small towns don't want new world comfort.

02:28:18.000 They're full of old world people. 1.00

02:28:20.000 You know what I was saying is like, when people mentioned secession, Rush Limbaugh was talking about, you know, there might be a divorce and people have brought it up.

02:28:28.000 These leftists go, well, all the red States would be a third world country.

02:28:31.000 You know, they'll, they'll be good for you then.

02:28:33.000 Right.

02:28:34.000 I mean, if you hate us that much.

02:28:35.000 Yeah, you keep all, they keep all their money, but I'm like, I'm pretty sure the people who live in like, you know, rural Nebraska or whatever aren't concerned about it.

02:28:42.000 They know how to chop wood, they know how to hunt deer, they know how to grow food, and they're probably like, sure, I don't care, whatever.

02:28:47.000 Yeah.

02:28:47.000 Like, what am I, what am I missing out on, huh?

02:28:50.000 Because the, I'll tell you this, when they talk about the red states getting subsidy, and something's probably going to the red state cities.

02:28:56.000 That's exactly what, what's happening.

02:28:58.000 Oh, that's exactly what's happening.

02:28:59.000 Those are blue areas.

02:28:59.000 They're blue areas, exactly.

02:29:01.000 Yeah, man.

02:29:02.000 All right, well, it is about 10.30, so Eric, man, thanks for hanging out.

02:29:06.000 You got social media you want to mention or anything?

02:29:07.000 Yeah, at ericdjuly, of course.

02:29:09.000 You can follow me on Twitter.

02:29:11.000 That's the website as well.

02:29:12.000 Come holler at me.

02:29:13.000 YoungRipper59 is the YouTube.

02:29:15.000 We do all our show for Canon's sake, and like I say, man, this has been wonderful.

02:29:19.000 I appreciate you guys having me.

02:29:20.000 Oh, for sure, man.

02:29:21.000 Thanks for coming.

02:29:22.000 We're planning on having events soon.

02:29:24.000 We've got this bar.

02:29:26.000 If you check my Instagram, You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, Parler, at TimCast, but on my Instagram I got videos of the space we're building.

02:29:32.000 Skatepark slash, you know, fake bar, drink area, and then we're gonna have live performance.

02:29:37.000 We got a little stage, we got a little interview.

02:29:39.000 Eric does music.

02:29:39.000 Yeah, Eric does music.

02:29:40.000 Let's do it.

02:29:41.000 Let's bring the band, let's do it.

02:29:43.000 We're gonna do like...

02:29:45.000 Semi-private events where it's kind of like how they would do a studio audience basically So we'll sell like 50 tickets, whatever the maxes were allowed with like COVID or whatever I think it's like 50, but it's perfect anyway because we don't have a real venue We just have like a space studio, but then we'll have like first-come first-serve or like members only tickets So we're launching a proprietary TimCast.com, like revamped, I think maybe tomorrow, where you can sign up, become a member, and then get access to exclusive videos and content, which we'll start producing and putting up.

02:30:12.000 But then also, tickets to the event to come out to see real performances, and then we're going to film them, do them live, and we're going to get this vlog going.

02:30:18.000 So a lot of stuff is in the works.

02:30:19.000 A lot of fun stuff.

02:30:20.000 And we're also going to get this big, crazy property in West Virginia where we're going to go ride ATVs and shoot guns.

02:30:25.000 And we're gonna have a lot of fun out there, too, and maybe even do some events, because we can do satellite internet, which will be really fun.

02:30:31.000 But we'll see.

02:30:32.000 It's really hard to do.

02:30:32.000 Everybody's trying to move.

02:30:33.000 So get ready.

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02:30:53.000 So make sure you check it out, you know, when we're live.

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02:30:57.000 But you can also follow Ian.

02:30:58.000 Yeah, you can!

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02:31:10.000 I hope you like it.

02:31:11.000 It's beautiful.

02:31:12.000 Eric, before I... Oh, I didn't want to interrupt.

02:31:15.000 Oh yeah, you can follow Sour Patch Lettuce.

02:31:16.000 Do you have merchandise?

02:31:17.000 Yes.

02:31:18.000 Where can people get your merch?

02:31:19.000 If you go to Eric D. July and you go to the merch, there's a merchandise section.

02:31:23.000 I believe it is actually merch.ericdjuly.com.

02:31:25.000 You can get all kinds of good stuff there if that's your thing.

02:31:29.000 Or you can go to backwardsmusic.com.

02:31:31.000 That's B-A-C-K-W-O-R-D-Z. 1.00

02:31:33.000 Music.

02:31:34.000 If you're into the band and you want to get the band's merch, got all kinds of good stuff there.

02:31:38.000 Right on.

02:31:39.000 But Lydia, now, shout out to this woman. 1.00

02:31:41.000 You can follow me on Twitter if you want to.

02:31:43.000 I'm not sure why you would.

02:31:44.000 My user is sourpatchlitz, L-Y-D-S. 1.00

02:31:47.000 Right on.

02:31:48.000 Everybody, thanks for hanging out.

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - December 29, 2020

Timcast IRL - GOP Files Lawsuit Against Mike Pence To FORCE Him To Give Trump Win w- Eric July

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