Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Guatemalans Protest Kamala Harris Saying "Go Home, Trump Won" w-FreedomToons

00:00:00.000 Kamala Harris says she's not going to go to the border because it would just be a gesture.

00:00:19.000 But she actually went to Guatemala where she was greeted by protesters who were saying they liked Trump better, go home, and that they said Trump won.

00:00:29.000 And then Kamala Harris said something really interesting.

00:00:31.000 She said, don't come to the border.

00:00:33.000 I was actually surprised that she said that, considering.

00:00:36.000 But not really.

00:00:37.000 I mean, Joe Biden said something similar.

00:00:38.000 There's a big difference between what they say and what they do, and so far their policies have been pretty bad.

00:00:44.000 They finally formally ended the Remain-in-Mexico policy.

00:00:48.000 Trump came out and said a whole bunch of stuff criticizing them.

00:00:50.000 And I gotta say, beyond this, Monday, it's crazy.

00:00:53.000 We got an op-ed out of the Wall Street Journal saying the science suggests a lab leak.

00:00:53.000 There's a lot of news.

00:00:59.000 We got the scientist who told Fauci in January of last year that it may have been engineered, deleting his entire Twitter account after people pointed out that what he was sending to Fauci and what he was tweeting were completely different, which is very weird, suggesting the scientists doing the research the entire time were acting politically, saying one thing behind closed doors, but then saying certain things publicly for some reason.

00:01:26.000 I wonder why.

00:01:28.000 Yeah, we got other news too.

00:01:30.000 This is crazy.

00:01:31.000 An Amazon driver brutally beat a woman after she refused to check her white privilege and complained about a package delivery. 0.98

00:01:38.000 You wonder where that racist, psychotic behavior comes from. 0.92

00:01:43.000 Sorry man, look, I think racism is bad.

00:01:44.000 I think anybody getting attacked based on race is extremely horrifying.

00:01:48.000 And there's a problem when the left is exacerbating racial hatred and Violence, and we're gonna talk about that.

00:01:54.000 So we're hanging out once again with Seamus of Freedom Tunes.

00:01:57.000 Great to be here, great to be here.

00:01:59.000 And I just wanted to comment on the story about that scientist not being completely forthcoming about the information he had.

00:02:04.000 It's interesting because I was told that we should trust the scientists, but as it turns out, they're human beings who sometimes say things that aren't true.

00:02:09.000 Man, it's like almost all of them are lying.

00:02:11.000 There's a, there's, there's, right now there's a weird investigation.

00:02:13.000 I should say there's an investigation and it's weird.

00:02:15.000 Because it's like this guy says to Fauci privately.

00:02:18.000 Hey, it looks engineered then publicly.

00:02:20.000 He's like nah, it's crazy It's a conspiracy theory, but then like a few months later Fauci gives apparently one of his organizations a grant I it's still being looked into so I don't want to make you know We don't we don't have anything pulled up but doing a lot of research on this the journalism of trying to figure out what actually happened there but some people are suggesting Maybe he said the right thing publicly, it's good for Fauci, and then an organization.

00:02:42.000 Or maybe it's just coincidence.

00:02:43.000 We don't know, so we'll look into this.

00:02:44.000 There's a lot of rumors flying around.

00:02:46.000 Oh, we got Ian.

00:02:47.000 Ian Crosland in the house.

00:02:47.000 He's chilling.

00:02:48.000 You know, there's no one I'd rather talk about racial violence with than you, Seamus.

00:02:51.000 Thank you.

00:02:52.000 I appreciate that, Ian.

00:02:53.000 I don't know what that means, but I will always take it as a compliment.

00:02:56.000 I know we are homies.

00:02:57.000 It's a weird compliment.

00:02:58.000 I don't know what it means, but Ian's saying it.

00:02:59.000 I know Ian has a good heart.

00:03:00.000 It's because there's no one who understands racism better than a white Catholic Irish guy.

00:03:05.000 That's actually completely true.

00:03:05.000 That's true.

00:03:06.000 Your ancestors have been through it.

00:03:08.000 I mean, Irish people weren't actually white in the early days.

00:03:10.000 That's actually a good point.

00:03:12.000 That's true.

00:03:12.000 Couldn't drink from the white drinking fountains.

00:03:13.000 That's actually true.

00:03:14.000 I mean, yeah.

00:03:15.000 Dude, I've got stories also from family members.

00:03:18.000 I mentioned this on a show before.

00:03:19.000 I don't want to divulge too much and give up too much of my family history, but yeah, Irish people didn't have it super great when they first came to the United States.

00:03:24.000 They did not, no.

00:03:25.000 So weird.

00:03:26.000 Yeah.

00:03:27.000 Yeah, I'm in the corner as well.

00:03:28.000 Similarly Irish to Seamus, but I think my family came later.

00:03:32.000 But, uh, yeah.

00:03:32.000 When did your family come to the States?

00:03:34.000 I would say in like, uh, the twenties they moved to New Mexico.

00:03:36.000 Okay.

00:03:37.000 Okay.

00:03:37.000 Yeah.

00:03:37.000 Mine was like the early 1900s.

00:03:38.000 Yeah.

00:03:39.000 Probably just between year.

00:03:41.000 Just before yours.

00:03:41.000 Yeah.

00:03:42.000 Ian looks like some kind of Nordic.

00:03:45.000 What are you Irish?

00:03:45.000 That's what I'm talking about.

00:03:46.000 I think I'm Irish and German and I think maybe Neanderthal.

00:03:51.000 Possibly.

00:03:52.000 That explains it.

00:03:53.000 That's the big forehead.

00:03:56.000 I've got the eyebrows, you know what I mean?

00:03:58.000 I'm Irish and British, so I'm internally conflicted.

00:04:01.000 I don't know why you just wouldn't break into the Irish.

00:04:06.000 What's the conflict there?

00:04:07.000 What does England even have against Ireland?

00:04:09.000 I know, or vice versa.

00:04:11.000 Just choose the Irish. 1.00

00:04:12.000 They both love each other.

00:04:13.000 There's nothing bad between these countries.

00:04:15.000 Have you been to Ireland?

00:04:16.000 Yes.

00:04:17.000 Well, I've been to Northern Ireland.

00:04:18.000 What were you doing over there?

00:04:19.000 There was a big, it's the Bonfire Night, I forgot what it's called.

00:04:23.000 I was in Belfast and they stack up like 60 foot wooden, like, so they stack up all of these wooden pallets super high and torch it and the fire is so intense that it like burns holes in the ground.

00:04:36.000 Whoa.

00:04:37.000 Yeah, I guess the left says it's like a bunch of fascists or something and I'm like, I don't know man.

00:04:41.000 Who do they not say that about though?

00:04:43.000 I know.

00:04:44.000 I know.

00:04:44.000 So, but it's like, it's, it's Northern Ireland.

00:04:47.000 So, you know, then one group and the other group and I'm like, I don't know, man.

00:04:50.000 Like I'm just here.

00:04:51.000 I'm like a tourist.

00:04:52.000 We're walking around and people are starting fires and I'm just chilling.

00:04:54.000 Was it like a festival?

00:04:55.000 It's like they do it every year.

00:04:56.000 I guess it's like, it's like bonfire nights, like a big thing.

00:04:58.000 Great country.

00:04:59.000 Although I've only been at the airport in Dublin.

00:05:01.000 Yeah, never been once.

00:05:03.000 I haven't actually been to, uh, you know, Ireland.

00:05:05.000 I was in Northern Ireland, so there's like, you know.

00:05:07.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:05:08.000 But it'll be interesting because... That's the war between the Irish and the, uh, the British.

00:05:10.000 That's what you end up with.

00:05:11.000 Northern Ireland.

00:05:12.000 That's why you were there.

00:05:13.000 That's, yeah.

00:05:14.000 All right.

00:05:14.000 Uh, oh, let's read the news and talk about the Kamala Harris and then these other stories.

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00:07:02.000 We'll see what happens.

00:07:03.000 But let's jump into it.

00:07:04.000 Can I actually, can I say something there?

00:07:06.000 When you mentioned fact-checking, it reminded me, I actually need to fact-check myself.

00:07:08.000 I got a fact wrong on our last show, or two shows ago.

00:07:11.000 I said the U.S.

00:07:12.000 has more economic mobility than any other developed nation.

00:07:15.000 That's not true.

00:07:16.000 It's higher than most people think, so like 12% of people will be in the top 1% at some point.

00:07:20.000 56% of people will be in the top 10%.

00:07:23.000 The income brackets are really fluid, but we don't have the most economic mobility, so I was incorrect about that.

00:07:28.000 I'd have to double-check.

00:07:28.000 I just know it's not us once I look back into it.

00:07:30.000 Yeah.

00:07:31.000 Yeah, that's my mistake.

00:07:32.000 If I make a mistake, I want to clear it up.

00:07:34.000 I don't want to spread misinformation.

00:07:35.000 Oh, man.

00:07:38.000 Tim's kicking me out.

00:07:39.000 Because you go from peasant to party member.

00:07:42.000 You go down really fast.

00:07:44.000 Yeah, downward mobility.

00:07:47.000 Let's talk about what's going on in Guatemala.

00:07:48.000 We got the story from the New York Post.

00:07:50.000 Guatemala's president blames Biden for border crisis as protesters tell Kamala Harris that Trump won.

00:07:56.000 This is amazing, these photos.

00:07:59.000 Go home, Kamala, go home. 0.99

00:08:02.000 Kamala, mind your own business. 1.00

00:08:04.000 And a big sign that says Kamala Trump won.

00:08:07.000 That is crazy.

00:08:08.000 I didn't expect this.

00:08:09.000 I would have thought... Actually, no, I take that back.

00:08:11.000 This makes a whole lot of sense.

00:08:13.000 The people who are staying in Guatemala probably like what Trump's policies are towards Guatemala and what they should and shouldn't be doing.

00:08:21.000 The people who are leaving Guatemala, they're not going to like Trump, right?

00:08:24.000 That makes sense.

00:08:25.000 Yeah, because Trump's the guy who's blocking them from trying to get into the U.S.

00:08:29.000 So naturally, the people who remain are like, yeah, go Trump.

00:08:32.000 Well, and you sort of touched on this earlier, but the messaging that the Biden administration is sending to people who might be considering migrating to the U.S.

00:08:39.000 is so mixed.

00:08:40.000 Kamala goes down there and she says, if you're thinking of coming here illegally, don't even try it because you will not be welcome.

00:08:45.000 If you're one of the illegal immigrants who's already here, one of the 11 million plus who are already here, you know, you're going to be naturalized.

00:08:51.000 And we're going to give you citizenship because there needs to be a path to citizenship because anything else would be inhumane. 0.88

00:08:55.000 But you're not welcome to come here if you're not already here.

00:08:57.000 It's insane.

00:08:58.000 This is one of the biggest problems of this administration, OK?

00:09:00.000 Because I want to do that check.

00:09:01.000 Do we have Biden derangement syndrome?

00:09:03.000 No.

00:09:04.000 Yeah.

00:09:04.000 No, we don't.

00:09:05.000 Check it out.

00:09:06.000 Dallas News reports VP Harris in Guatemala says border visit would be mere grand gesture.

00:09:12.000 Warns migrants do not come. 1.00

00:09:14.000 Okay, come on.

00:09:14.000 I mean, look, maybe gesture, fine, whatever.

00:09:17.000 Trump went down and surveyed a lot of the border.

00:09:19.000 It was a big issue.

00:09:21.000 He knows the American people were concerned about it.

00:09:23.000 He went.

00:09:24.000 I think about this, like, you know, Trump derangement syndrome or Biden derangement syndrome thing, and I'm like, honestly, I think it really does in many ways come down to a difference in opinion based on what is, what deserves priority.

00:09:37.000 And so I think there's a lot of people who are like liberals, leftists, mostly liberals, leftists, you're a different space, liberals who are just like, I don't care all that much about illegal immigration.

00:09:47.000 I just don't.

00:09:48.000 And so Republicans do.

00:09:50.000 And then the left is like, what?

00:09:51.000 Why aren't you talking about January 6th?

00:09:53.000 And Republicans don't.

00:09:54.000 They're like, because it was a right.

00:09:55.000 So it really is like a difference of opinion that there's no... Obviously in media there's a lot of fact-based problems where the left or the right believe different things.

00:10:03.000 But I think a lot of it's just subjective morality.

00:10:05.000 I don't think January 6th was the apocalypse.

00:10:07.000 I think it was a right.

00:10:08.000 I think it was bad.

00:10:09.000 I think it was, you know, it was serious.

00:10:12.000 But not the apocalypse like they're putting it to be.

00:10:13.000 What did Anderson Cooper say?

00:10:15.000 Is what he said. Oh, well, no, no. I was that time. The worst attack on this country since 9 11. Oh,

00:10:21.000 civil war. Wow. Wow. That is hardcore. Wow. JFK getting assassinated. Sure. But I mean,

00:10:26.000 so I hear what you say about people putting different emphasis on different issues based

00:10:30.000 on where they are in the political spectrum. But the Biden administration's messaging on

00:10:35.000 this has been very confused. So.

00:10:37.000 Sometimes they're saying things that are very warm and friendly and open to people who want to come here, and then other times it's, well, you're not welcome.

00:10:42.000 So Biden putting a moratorium on deportations and then Kamala going down and saying illegal immigrants are not welcome here, to me, seems ridiculously conflicting, regardless of how you feel about illegal immigration as an issue.

00:10:55.000 It's a funhouse mirror of policy because early on in his campaign and even, you know, Biden got blocked from doing this, but Biden was like, we're going to put a moratorium on deportations.

00:11:04.000 Come on, man.

00:11:05.000 And then, you know, he gets in and now they've officially ended as of June 1st, the remain in Mexico policy, which was Donald Trump's policy that said, if you come to the border, we'll process your asylum while you remain in Mexico.

00:11:17.000 So they officially ended that.

00:11:18.000 Now they're doing catch and release.

00:11:20.000 So people are, once again, encouraging people to come in, they catch them, let them go.

00:11:24.000 In fact, Joe Biden, his administration has been smuggling migrant children into different states in the dead of night, which is one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.

00:11:33.000 Now, here's the fun house from here, because now Kamala Harris says, do not come, right? 0.93

00:11:37.000 That's funny.

00:11:38.000 Like a week ago, Biden announced he was increasing the amount of refugees and asylees they would allow into the United States.

00:11:43.000 So Biden's like, we're going to increase the amount of people that we allow in.

00:11:46.000 And then Kamala goes, but don't come.

00:11:48.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:11:48.000 They're going to be like, nah, I'll come, and Biden's going to let me in.

00:11:51.000 What?

00:11:52.000 That's the thing.

00:11:53.000 This is sort of what I was touching on a little bit earlier.

00:11:54.000 I don't know if I articulated it quite well enough, but to say we need to naturalize all of the illegal immigrants who are already here, but then turn around and say, none of you should cross the border, though, to me is completely pointless. 0.64

00:12:08.000 Of course they're going to come over here.

00:12:09.000 Like, what are you saying?

00:12:10.000 You're welcoming them.

00:12:11.000 You're inviting them, even if not with your words, then with your actions.

00:12:14.000 But I kind of feel like that's part of it.

00:12:16.000 You know, Kamala Harris, she won't go to the border. 0.99

00:12:18.000 Alright, that's serious.

00:12:20.000 She's showing she's not serious.

00:12:21.000 Right.

00:12:22.000 It's just a gesture, Tim.

00:12:23.000 Right.

00:12:24.000 It's not a priority for her.

00:12:26.000 And that's what I was saying.

00:12:27.000 I think a lot of Democrats are just like, who cares?

00:12:29.000 I think people like Kamala, she's thinking about, is this going to get me votes?

00:12:33.000 The answer is no.

00:12:35.000 Because the Democratic base, they were the ones that want to open borders.

00:12:39.000 They were the ones that on the debate stage, the moderator, I can't remember who it was, how many of you are in favor of giving universal health care to illegal immigrants or legal aliens?

00:12:45.000 And they all raised their hand.

00:12:47.000 My favorite is the Democrats who kind of look around like, is this what we're about now?

00:12:50.000 They're like, really?

00:12:51.000 OK.

00:12:51.000 All right, guys.

00:12:53.000 Yeah, so I think Kamala's just like, I don't care. 0.98

00:12:56.000 It's like, I know some people are bothered by it, so I gotta say something, but she's not gonna say much.

00:13:00.000 Meanwhile, the actual policies are making the problem worse.

00:13:05.000 Oh yeah, this is crazy.

00:13:06.000 A lady just pulled this up, the Denver Gazette. 0.87

00:13:09.000 Republican wins mayoral race in majority Hispanic McAllen, Texas.

00:13:12.000 McAllen is where they expanded the detention center.

00:13:15.000 They got kids sleeping in dirt.

00:13:16.000 Big issues.

00:13:17.000 So if you look at South Texas, if you look at Miami, dude, remember during the 2020 election, there was a safe blue district in Miami flipped red.

00:13:26.000 Yeah.

00:13:27.000 That was that was crazy.

00:13:28.000 It's because what did this guy say?

00:13:30.000 He said something about communism was being bad.

00:13:33.000 I don't know.

00:13:34.000 Maybe it wasn't this guy.

00:13:35.000 But these areas like South Texas, majority Hispanic, they do not like illegal immigration.

00:13:41.000 And I have to imagine because a lot of these hardworking Americans, people who came here legally are Working.

00:13:47.000 And they're seeing what's happening.

00:13:48.000 I think this is correct.

00:13:49.000 I actually had a friend who came from Chihuahua.

00:13:51.000 And she told me that her parents told her that she was going to do it legally so that people would respect her.

00:13:56.000 She did not like illegal immigrants.

00:13:58.000 She's like, they just come here.

00:13:59.000 It's easy for them.

00:14:00.000 They get everything they want.

00:14:01.000 I worked so hard and they're just taking advantage of this system.

00:14:04.000 And it's literally the system I'm now paying into.

00:14:06.000 It's not there.

00:14:07.000 I would imagine.

00:14:08.000 I don't know for sure, but like, if you're in a big city, the illegal immigrants that are there are already kind of assimilated, like they have jobs, sort of.

00:14:15.000 But the ones on the border are like random people that just got over here.

00:14:19.000 Maybe don't even have any intention of going to a city to get work.

00:14:22.000 They just want to avoid the chaos of South America.

00:14:25.000 Biden's been sending migrant kids in the dead of night to various States.

00:14:25.000 I don't know.

00:14:29.000 Yeah.

00:14:30.000 They're shipping these illegal immigrants into, like, Ohio, and then having them detained by the local police. 0.70

00:14:36.000 They're like, oh, we detained these illegal immigrants, so we need the police in Ohio to hold them. 1.00

00:14:42.000 Then once they get them, say, okay, cut them loose.

00:14:44.000 And they release them directly into their community.

00:14:45.000 It's spreading them out all across the country.

00:14:48.000 It is the weirdest thing.

00:14:51.000 Now, I have a question, though.

00:14:52.000 In the story about Kamala and, like, the protesters, who's the racist one?

00:14:57.000 Oh, man, that's rough.

00:14:59.000 Well, here's what we'd have to figure out, Tim.

00:15:01.000 We need to do an analysis on the crowd and figure out how many are men and how many are women, because Kamala is a woman of color. 1.00

00:15:07.000 Right.

00:15:07.000 If most of the people in the crowd are women to the point where we could say the crowd is represented by women, then it's kind of a toss up.

00:15:13.000 But if the crowd is mostly male, in fact, it doesn't even matter, right?

00:15:17.000 If there's any men in the crowd, then the crowd is somewhat male.

00:15:20.000 So Kamala has to be the victim here, no?

00:15:23.000 Based on the rules of intersectionality.

00:15:24.000 You've got math planned for this.

00:15:26.000 I know what's up.

00:15:26.000 Exactly.

00:15:28.000 I guess the serious question is like, I think one of the reasons you're not going to see this story prominently on the left is just that it makes no sense for the narrative.

00:15:37.000 Like a third world country or however they would describe it, minority country, saying they like Trump better?

00:15:42.000 Uh oh.

00:15:43.000 McAllen, Texas, they flip Republican.

00:15:46.000 South Texas District, Miami, flip Trump, flip Trump.

00:15:48.000 Guatemala, we like Trump better.

00:15:50.000 I'm not saying everybody in Guatemala likes Trump better, but it's... He's gonna run there.

00:15:50.000 Yeah.

00:15:55.000 He's like, going to Guatemala, I'll become president.

00:15:58.000 Then he becomes president of Guatemala, just takes over the United States.

00:16:01.000 What?

00:16:02.000 Dude, it's Trump.

00:16:02.000 Wow.

00:16:03.000 We just made it official.

00:16:05.000 I get it because I could do it.

00:16:08.000 I get the job done.

00:16:09.000 I know a lot of people.

00:16:10.000 If anyone could, it's him.

00:16:11.000 He just gets 100% approval in Guatemala and then annexes the neighboring countries until he gets the United States.

00:16:19.000 I can see Trump just going for it right from Guatemala.

00:16:21.000 He's like, we're going to war.

00:16:22.000 We're going to take America. 0.97

00:16:24.000 I don't know what the average worker is supposed to think about this kind of thing.

00:16:29.000 I love that people around the world are invested in the politics of the United States to the point where they're going to complain.

00:16:36.000 That's awesome to me.

00:16:37.000 This is global.

00:16:38.000 This is way beyond U.S.

00:16:40.000 borders.

00:16:40.000 I kind of like when people aren't that invested in our politics and don't comment on it, if I'm completely honest.

00:16:45.000 Those days are done.

00:16:46.000 Why is it that so many places around the world are obsessed with America?

00:16:51.000 I think because of Hollywood.

00:16:53.000 They hate us because they ain't us.

00:16:55.000 We got like the cultural hub of the world in Hollywood.

00:16:57.000 We have the fiscal, not really the, kind of the fiscal hub of the world with the US Federal Reserve and the US dollar.

00:17:01.000 It's kind of like the Bank of England.

00:17:03.000 I mean we have the world's reserve currency.

00:17:05.000 The Swiss bank.

00:17:06.000 It's kind of coming out of Switzerland, but we're like the spearhead.

00:17:09.000 So the world looks at us as like the financial centerpiece and the cultural centerpiece.

00:17:13.000 Not us, necessarily, but this country.

00:17:16.000 I think it's movies.

00:17:18.000 When you look at what Hollywood is churning out, I get why the world hates us.

00:17:21.000 I do understand.

00:17:22.000 I don't even think it's our foreign policy.

00:17:23.000 I'm being facetious here.

00:17:25.000 No, no, it's like in that Vox article from, I think it was a year ago or two years ago.

00:17:29.000 Yeah, I think it was two years ago now.

00:17:30.000 Where they asked one of the migrants in the caravan why they were coming to America and the guy said, I miss Buffalo Wild Wings.

00:17:35.000 Yeah.

00:17:36.000 I'm like, Buffalo Wild Wings is like, there's a bunch in Mexico, you know?

00:17:41.000 The restaurant.

00:17:42.000 Yeah, the restaurant.

00:17:43.000 I mean, I love B-dubs too. 1.00

00:17:44.000 Maybe it's just not as good there though.

00:17:45.000 I can't remember the last time I went to a B-Dubs. 0.99

00:17:47.000 Oh, B-Dubs is... B-W-3s is Buffalo Wild Wings.

00:17:49.000 Buffalo Wild Wings?

00:17:50.000 I didn't know that's what B-W stood for.

00:17:52.000 B-Dubs. 1.00

00:17:53.000 B-W. 1.00

00:17:54.000 What is it?

00:17:54.000 B-W-3s.

00:17:55.000 That was a B-W.

00:17:56.000 That was a B-W restaurant in Ohio.

00:17:58.000 I don't know.

00:18:00.000 I think it was called a B-W-3s. 1.00

00:18:01.000 It was in Ohio.

00:18:02.000 B-Buffalo Wild Wings.

00:18:04.000 Get it?

00:18:04.000 Yeah.

00:18:05.000 Double Ws?

00:18:06.000 Yeah.

00:18:06.000 B-Dubs?

00:18:07.000 Come on, bro.

00:18:08.000 You never had B-Dubs? 1.00

00:18:09.000 Buffalo Wild Wings?

00:18:10.000 You've never had Buffalo Wild Wings?

00:18:11.000 I don't think you're talking about the same thing.

00:18:13.000 Oh, you're talking about buffalo sauce, which is Frank's Red Hot, and that's like the secret ingredient in buffalo wild sauce is Frank's Red Hot.

00:18:19.000 Anyway, dude.

00:18:20.000 You're talking about a restaurant.

00:18:22.000 Yes, I'm talking about these people who are walking through Mexico, and the reporter's like, why won't you stay in Mexico?

00:18:29.000 And the guy's like, I miss Buffalo Wild Wings.

00:18:31.000 And I'm like, dude, it's right there in Mexico City.

00:18:32.000 I went there.

00:18:33.000 No, no joke.

00:18:34.000 I went to the Mexico City Buffalo Wild Wings.

00:18:36.000 It was great.

00:18:37.000 It's wonderful.

00:18:38.000 I mean, this is like me missing Portillo's.

00:18:40.000 Like, why are you going back to Chicago?

00:18:42.000 I've missed Portillo's.

00:18:43.000 I mean, I didn't go to Chicago for that.

00:18:46.000 But you ordered it.

00:18:46.000 You ordered it, man.

00:18:47.000 It's fantastic.

00:18:47.000 It's true.

00:18:48.000 That's why I come here.

00:18:49.000 Someone in the audience asked if I was kidnapped.

00:18:51.000 Actually, Tim just has Portillo's.

00:18:52.000 No, but I think when it comes to these migrants, they're watching American TV commercials, movies, and so their whole perception of reality is based upon American cities and stuff.

00:19:01.000 You see, like, YouTubers.

00:19:03.000 This is also a great place to live.

00:19:05.000 It is.

00:19:05.000 In many ways.

00:19:06.000 I mean, it's going downhill, unfortunately, especially with the kinds of things we've been tolerating over the past year and a half, particularly, though those are probably more of a symptom of the issues we've been tolerating for much longer than that.

00:19:17.000 Yeah, America's a great place.

00:19:20.000 It's like going sledding.

00:19:22.000 Yeah, we're going downhill.

00:19:24.000 How many times do we say Buffalo Wild Wings so far?

00:19:25.000 I don't know, they should be paying you.

00:19:27.000 I'm supposed to say it five times.

00:19:31.000 Did the Quaker steak and lube on the border of Ohio and Pennsylvania? 0.94

00:19:35.000 Best wings place in the world, or in the United States.

00:19:38.000 I think that's true.

00:19:38.000 I don't know.

00:19:41.000 Get sponsorship deals with all sorts of food places.

00:19:43.000 We'll be discussing something political and then Ian turns it over to some kind of food and we have to explain a restaurant to him.

00:19:50.000 That'll be just a brilliant marketing scene because people will think it's authentic.

00:19:53.000 It would be funny if we actually had just like 50 sponsors per show.

00:19:57.000 And we've got this big story from NBC News.

00:20:00.000 Supreme Court unanimously rules against immigrants with temporary status.

00:20:05.000 Man, that's almost as shocking as the delicious flavor of the Popeye's chicken sandwich.

00:20:10.000 I'm just kidding.

00:20:11.000 I honestly couldn't believe it when I tasted it.

00:20:13.000 Crispy skin.

00:20:13.000 This is a throwback joke for the people watching who have no idea what's happening.

00:20:18.000 No, but let's jump to the story.

00:20:19.000 This is 9-0.

00:20:21.000 This is crazy.

00:20:23.000 Supreme Court unanimously rules against immigrants.

00:20:26.000 If they enter the country illegally and they have temporary protected status, they cannot get green cards.

00:20:32.000 Here's what I love about this, and I appreciate it that it says in this.

00:20:36.000 It's just kind of a funny headline that says the Supreme Court unanimously rules against immigrants with temporary status, and then right below, okay, like, illegal immigrants.

00:20:45.000 And then at the very, very, very bottom of the article in the last paragraph, Monday's decision does not affect immigrants with TPS who initially entered the U.S.

00:20:53.000 legally.

00:20:55.000 So the headline literally is immigrants.

00:20:58.000 This is what they're doing.

00:21:00.000 They've been consistently conflating illegal immigrants with immigrants.

00:21:03.000 For years.

00:21:05.000 For years.

00:21:06.000 Why?

00:21:07.000 Because it's an easy way to win the discussion.

00:21:10.000 Who wants to say they're against immigrants?

00:21:11.000 It's much easier to say you're against illegal immigration.

00:21:13.000 You don't like when people break the rules and they come into your country despite the fact that your nation has set up certain parameters for someone entering so that we can monitor who's coming in and they've decided to disobey those rules.

00:21:22.000 That's reasonable.

00:21:23.000 How could you disagree with that?

00:21:25.000 If you say that those people are just mean haters who don't like immigration in general... So it keeps dumb people in check? 0.99

00:21:32.000 Because anybody who actually can... Anyone who can actually read this and discern what's happening knows they're not talking about immigrants who enter the country illegally. 0.99

00:21:41.000 And they're not talking about refugees.

00:21:43.000 That's a big difference, is a refugee and an illegal immigrant. 0.61

00:21:46.000 If someone's fleeing hostility, we have a duty to take them in, I think.

00:21:50.000 You know, most people do.

00:21:51.000 There's limits.

00:21:53.000 Yeah, with the limitations, so you don't destroy your own system, but... Exactly.

00:21:56.000 Illegal immigration is not that.

00:21:59.000 Well, and this is the point, right?

00:22:01.000 Yes, we should be helping people who need our help, but the well-being of the people already living in the country needs to be taken into account.

00:22:07.000 There has to be some kind of balancing act.

00:22:09.000 But if you support unrestricted illegal immigration, what you're saying is that balancing act doesn't matter.

00:22:13.000 As many people can flood this country as want to without there being any oversight.

00:22:17.000 And if you disagree with that, you're a hater.

00:22:19.000 And the way they convince people of that is by framing it as a discussion of people who are pro-immigrant or anti-immigrant rather than people who are pro-illegal immigration and pro-following the law.

00:22:28.000 Bro, there is a chaotic, destructive entity hacking away at the roots of this nation, and it's hard to even say that we remain a nation.

00:22:37.000 I know a lot of people on the left will immediately, they attack this idea.

00:22:40.000 If you come out and you say that we are at risk of not being a country anymore, the left will immediately start attacking you.

00:22:46.000 Why?

00:22:47.000 It's true, it's a vulnerable spot for them.

00:22:49.000 Let's think about a few things.

00:22:51.000 The Democrats in the debate stage in last year and the year prior in the election cycle raised their hand to give taxpayer-funded medical care to non-citizens.

00:23:00.000 California has actually done it.

00:23:02.000 You've got Democratic interests and media conflating illegal immigration with legal immigration.

00:23:08.000 Why?

00:23:08.000 Because they want it.

00:23:10.000 You've got the same ideology, this woke group, literally rewriting American history, the 1619 project.

00:23:18.000 Now it's being resisted.

00:23:19.000 We mentioned this last week, but when you've got people rewriting history and teaching it in schools, a totally revised American history, now Washington State, Jason Rance reported this, is mandating critical race theory.

00:23:32.000 So you know they're teaching kids fake American history.

00:23:34.000 What's gonna happen?

00:23:35.000 These kids are gonna grow up and they're gonna be like, America was founded in 1619 as a slavocracy. 0.99

00:23:39.000 And you're gonna be like, that's made up.

00:23:41.000 We know it's made up.

00:23:42.000 We actually had debunkers in newsrooms.

00:23:43.000 It doesn't matter.

00:23:44.000 They teach it to the kids.

00:23:46.000 20 years from now, they'll say, I know what's true.

00:23:48.000 That's my reality.

00:23:48.000 You're lying.

00:23:50.000 So now, the history of this country is under attack.

00:23:53.000 The embassies are flying flags of that ideology.

00:23:56.000 The people who are pushing that ideology politically are trying to flood the country.

00:24:00.000 They're saying illegal immigration and immigration are the exact same thing.

00:24:03.000 Legal immigration is fantastic.

00:24:04.000 I think it's great.

00:24:05.000 We get a lot of high-skilled work.

00:24:07.000 We basically, when we have legal immigration, In many instances, I was reading this story about it, there's like a good portion of those who immigrate legally are high-skilled workers, and then a good portion are low-skilled workers.

00:24:20.000 But the high-skilled workers are bringing their innovation, their technology, their resources and ideas into the U.S.

00:24:24.000 It's great for us.

00:24:26.000 Illegal immigration, not so much. 0.72

00:24:27.000 It's bad for everybody.

00:24:29.000 It creates a massive supply of a workforce at the lower level, making work... So you have a massive supply and limited demand for low-skill labor, making it more difficult for people in America.

00:24:40.000 Overall, it's just very bad for lower-income individuals.

00:24:44.000 They're conflating these things.

00:24:46.000 They're claiming that, you know, the right are the ones destroying democracy, that are attacking democracy.

00:24:52.000 If this keeps going this direction, and I think it likely will because Republicans don't do anything about it, Republicans engage in the conversation the Democrats decide they do, then in 20 years there will not be a United States as we know it.

00:25:02.000 The history is going to be 1619, and there's going to be a complete shift in demographics in every different place, especially with Biden, you know, shuffling immigrant children, illegal immigrant children all across the country.

00:25:15.000 It is going to erode at our civic institutions, and I think this is one of the big reasons Democrats keep saying democracy, and why they've been saying it for a long time.

00:25:23.000 We're not a democracy.

00:25:24.000 We've never been a democracy.

00:25:25.000 We have democratic institutions like our electoral process, but we are a constitutional republic.

00:25:30.000 Democracy makes it easier to subvert the will of, you know, of the citizens.

00:25:35.000 So now we're going to be entering a period where, yeah, your money is going to get stripped away from you.

00:25:39.000 Joe Biden is putting an invisible tax on the working class and the lower class in a variety of ways, and it continues to just eat away at the United States.

00:25:47.000 And what's going to be done about it?

00:25:49.000 I mean, there's a resistance, but a resistance is not a reversal.

00:25:52.000 So we can talk about this.

00:25:53.000 We can vote for certain individuals.

00:25:56.000 But in the end, you get Republicans who agree with the framing from the Democrats, agree with them in the long run.

00:26:02.000 And in 10 years, the Republicans will be completely aligned with where the Democrats are today.

00:26:08.000 And the Democrats will move continually in this other direction.

00:26:11.000 Until what?

00:26:13.000 Yeah, I mean, the entire nation falls apart.

00:26:15.000 I hope I'm not starting to sound like a broken record on these points, but I've said this in the past.

00:26:19.000 I mean, leftism is just social decay transformed into an ideological system of thought.

00:26:26.000 And so it almost seems inevitable.

00:26:27.000 But on the other hand, I think we can turn this around.

00:26:30.000 I think you're absolutely right that all Republicans or conservatives are trying to do is resist instead of putting forward an ideology of their own, and that's a huge part of why they're losing, and I'll sound like a broken record again, but this is also why I believe, like, fundamentally, conservatism has to be rooted in Catholicism.

00:26:42.000 You have to have values that you're forwarding.

00:26:44.000 You can't just say X, Y, and Z that the left is trying to do are bad, but we're not going to give you a coherent system of thought that should replace that, or which is undergird, or, uh, excuse me, undergirding our present system that we should stick to.

00:26:57.000 Yeah, Republicans are against things, Democrats are for things.

00:27:00.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:27:01.000 Exactly.

00:27:01.000 And if that's the case, then you're gonna get a bunch of leftists saying, we want this, and Republicans saying, slow down.

00:27:06.000 And that's it.

00:27:07.000 And then eventually they get what they want.

00:27:09.000 Now, I think the Trump era, Trump supporters want things.

00:27:13.000 And they're demanding them.

00:27:13.000 Exactly.

00:27:14.000 And so that was a problem for the left.

00:27:17.000 I guess the issue is, If you live in the blue-pilled reality of the Democrats, you know, the Republicans are snarling demons who have ultimate power and everything's their fault when they could barely get anything done, the left frames everything, the Democrats frame everything as, if we don't get what we want, Republicans are evil.

00:27:37.000 The Republicans aren't even asking for anything.

00:27:40.000 So it's basically them saying, we've got a bunch of what we want, we want more.

00:27:43.000 The Republicans are evil for not giving us more of what we want.

00:27:43.000 What?

00:27:46.000 There is no pushback for the most part from the Republican Party except for these new Trump Republicans, Trump himself.

00:27:46.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:27:54.000 That was a problem for all of us and the Democrats because the Democrats are obstinate.

00:27:58.000 They will not stop.

00:28:00.000 They will not shut up.

00:28:01.000 They will not back down.

00:28:02.000 Finally, you get Republicans willing to fight back.

00:28:05.000 And then it's an unstoppable force and an immovable object.

00:28:08.000 Eventually, it's just there's going to be a fracturing of the United States.

00:28:13.000 I wonder if this ultimately is just...

00:28:17.000 Where it comes from?

00:28:18.000 Is it a psychological operation?

00:28:20.000 Are we under attack?

00:28:20.000 Are we being manipulated?

00:28:22.000 You know what I mean?

00:28:22.000 Yeah.

00:28:23.000 I'm not sure.

00:28:24.000 Probably.

00:28:25.000 I keep thinking about the Roman Empire.

00:28:28.000 It seems like things are so stable here, but then it also seems like we kind of don't have a culture in the United States.

00:28:34.000 We've got so many cultures that it's like, how do you pinpoint what we are as a nation?

00:28:39.000 We have the Constitution.

00:28:40.000 That's very basic.

00:28:41.000 In the Roman Empire, people would migrate in and it was very dangerous when people would come in because what would happen is they'd migrate in, nothing would happen, then their friends and family would come migrate in and then all of a sudden you'd have like a hundred thousand people in the city from another country and they'd overthrow the mayor and take control of the city.

00:28:57.000 And then the state, the surrounding lands.

00:28:57.000 Yeah.

00:29:00.000 So that is very real with immigration.

00:29:02.000 That's why you have to be careful about your borders and about letting too many people of different cultures that don't value the constitution, the government necessarily. 1.00

00:29:10.000 Well, can you imagine if, like, 170,000 people poured over the border of a country and then the president of that country released a video welcoming people and thanking them for choosing his country?

00:29:19.000 Why did Biden do that?

00:29:20.000 That literally happened in March, at the end of March, yeah.

00:29:22.000 In March, 170,000 people.

00:29:23.000 It was a 15-year high in terms of people spilling over the border.

00:29:27.000 And Biden released a video.

00:29:28.000 Granted, it was for people who are being naturalized as citizens, but what he says is, thank you for choosing America.

00:29:32.000 It takes a lot of courage to cross over that border and come to this nation, etc.

00:29:36.000 So it's just setting us up for destruction, ultimately.

00:29:39.000 Very sad.

00:29:40.000 And it would be one thing if he was saying that to people, because he was speaking to people who are becoming citizens, but the problem is when you release that kind of messaging at a time when the left is insistent upon conflating immigration and illegal immigration, you are basically giving the okay to everyone who wants to come into this country illegally to do so.

00:29:58.000 With this mixed messaging that they've been giving now, it's like, if you're here, we're gonna say it's okay, but don't come.

00:30:03.000 It's basically saying, but if you get here and no one knows, then we're gonna treat you like you're fine.

00:30:08.000 Exactly.

00:30:10.000 That's insane.

00:30:10.000 It's insane.

00:30:11.000 It's completely insane.

00:30:13.000 Unless it is their intention to get as many people here as possible and then naturalize them, and then build a loyalty and a relationship between those people and their political party so that they win forever.

00:30:22.000 I'm not entirely convinced that that would happen.

00:30:25.000 Maybe it wouldn't, and I hope it wouldn't.

00:30:26.000 But I think that if there is a plan, that's it.

00:30:28.000 Look at South Texas.

00:30:30.000 McAllen, we were talking about this.

00:30:31.000 I mean, Hispanic areas flipped. 1.00

00:30:32.000 They're going Republican.

00:30:33.000 And I think that's fantastic.

00:30:34.000 And there are many conservatives who predicted that that kind of thing would happen, because I think Mexican people tend to be more socially conservative, and that's where most immigrants are coming from.

00:30:42.000 But that's definitely not something the left has been banking on.

00:30:45.000 Yeah.

00:30:45.000 yeah the left to sort of assume that they own immigrants in immigration and

00:30:49.000 they tend to believe they can depend upon virtually every minority group to

00:30:56.000 support them i'm just uh...

00:30:58.000 man i'm i i i don't know if i have confidence in uh... the current

00:31:02.000 opposition to what the democrats and left have been doing

00:31:06.000 to believe that we are headed on a path where we can preserve our values free

00:31:10.000 speech i think uh... for one and um...

00:31:14.000 with the right to bear arms obviously but more just like uh...

00:31:17.000 our moral framework and our uh...

00:31:21.000 our our our values as a nation When you get a bunch of people who aren't from here who come in, it's mostly just about a nice place to live.

00:31:28.000 It's not about the values of the country.

00:31:29.000 That's why when you take the citizenship test, they ask you, you have to learn the history of the country.

00:31:34.000 They want you to know and respect this country and what it represents, who the presidents

00:31:39.000 were and things like that.

00:31:40.000 When people come here illegally, they don't know or care about any of that. 1.00

00:31:43.000 They're just coming and saying, here's my chance to get some resources.

00:31:47.000 The left's response is usually like, oh, it's no big deal, you won't even notice.

00:31:51.000 It's just absurd to think that there's not going to be an impact.

00:31:53.000 You mean to tell me that when it comes to climate change, all of these farting cows

00:31:56.000 and all of these individuals using electricity and air conditioning, it's extremely bad.

00:32:01.000 You mean to tell me that the individual has an impact on climate change, but the individual coming in here illegally doesn't have an impact on our economy? 0.83

00:32:10.000 How about we frame it that way, right?

00:32:11.000 The United States produces more carbon emissions than a bunch of other countries, so the last thing we want is more Americans, right? 1.00

00:32:17.000 No, I guess they're fine with it.

00:32:18.000 They just want to transform the economy as well.

00:32:20.000 So what do you mean to tell me?

00:32:21.000 You're going to invite 170,000 people in in one month, but then also take away their means of actually maintaining themselves through the economy?

00:32:29.000 They can't use electricity?

00:32:30.000 They can't produce carbon?

00:32:32.000 Then all you're doing is encouraging them to go on these long and dangerous journeys.

00:32:35.000 Then once they get here, you make them do surf labor in exchange for nothing but limited access to resources.

00:32:40.000 Meanwhile, the ultra-rich are allowed to do whatever they want.

00:32:43.000 You're kind of building an underclass.

00:32:43.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:32:46.000 And there's a few things you said there which I'd like to dive into.

00:32:50.000 When you're talking about immigration, it's sort of the distinction between illegal immigration and legal immigration.

00:32:55.000 There are a number of people who have made the criticisms that, well, you know, a lot of conservatives say that they're in favor of immigration but they're against the legal immigration, but that's incoherent because then they should be okay with us allowing anyone into this country as long as we make them a naturalized citizen through some kind of process.

00:33:10.000 But the entire purpose of having an immigration system is, as I said earlier, oversight.

00:33:15.000 And so I think what we need to be doing in terms of our messaging isn't just saying we are against the legal immigration, we have to be talking about the immigration system which we want to build.

00:33:23.000 Or the one which was supposed to be here, which we would like to maintain, and that is one which says if somebody wants to come here, as you've stated, they have to prove to us that they are interested in promoting our values.

00:33:34.000 Did you know that Jon Stewart once, a few years ago, six years ago, or seven years ago, advocated for the draft?

00:33:40.000 Whoa.

00:33:41.000 John Stewart said we must bring back the- No, he said the draft.

00:33:44.000 I think he said, like, draft people into doing volunteer work, though.

00:33:47.000 Well, he said- For the greater good of the country.

00:33:49.000 Yes, he said the draft, then he said, but it could be- You know what?

00:33:52.000 I could simplify his entire quote down to a very simple sentence.

00:33:56.000 Service guarantees citizenship.

00:33:57.000 Oh! 0.60

00:33:58.000 John Stewart endorsed- He didn't say that, though.

00:34:00.000 Okay.

00:34:00.000 But that was basically what he was saying.

00:34:02.000 It would give people skin in the game, a stake.

00:34:05.000 I agree.

00:34:07.000 I agree with Jon Stewart about his statements on the draft.

00:34:10.000 But here's where it gets complicated.

00:34:12.000 Service guarantees citizenship.

00:34:13.000 The problem is, I mean, there is already a kind of service which is taking place.

00:34:16.000 When people come into this country, they're doing jobs, not that Americans aren't willing to do, but that Americans aren't willing to do as inexpensively as they will do them.

00:34:24.000 And so, they're already providing a service, but the problem is, at some point, you oversaturate the market And make life more difficult for people who are already here, so that's why I would be a bit apprehensive about that.

00:34:35.000 Even if they are coming here and providing some kind of service, at some point, we still reach a limit where there are too many people, and no matter how badly someone wants to come here and serve, we just can't let them.

00:34:44.000 Could you imagine if the U.S.

00:34:45.000 said, like, literally anybody, serve two years in the armed forces as, like, frontline infantry and you'll get citizenship?

00:34:51.000 Oh my goodness.

00:34:52.000 That's Roman-style, yeah.

00:34:53.000 Yeah, the U.S.

00:34:54.000 would have, like, a million ground troops every year added to their ranks.

00:34:58.000 So, they don't do it exactly like that.

00:35:00.000 It would be- that's a pretty evil thing in my opinion.

00:35:03.000 Well yeah, and it would also- I would imagine, you mentioned the Romans did this, but I would imagine that would be a really horrible military strategy because you have a bunch of people who aren't committed to the ideas of your nation and don't necessarily have any loyalty to it and now they're on the front lines of your military.

00:35:15.000 Yeah, but they're- Those people could be completely anti-America and they could just be infiltrating your armed forces.

00:35:20.000 But it's the Zapp Brannigan strategy, you know?

00:35:22.000 If we get into a full-scale conflict with another nation and you can just send wave after wave of your own... Yeah, very evil.

00:35:28.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:35:29.000 But, uh... I... Think about the... So, the reason I brought that up is I'm thinking about the erosion of the United States and what this means moving forward.

00:35:38.000 And here's what freaks me out, right?

00:35:39.000 We got this story here.

00:35:41.000 This one, oof, from Forbes.

00:35:44.000 Anticipating war with China, the U.S.

00:35:47.000 Air Force is fanning out across the Pacific.

00:35:50.000 So the U.S.

00:35:51.000 Air Force is concerned that a Chinese rocket attack would wipe out two of our most prominent Air Force bases.

00:35:57.000 So we are dispatching all of these different squadrons to different airports and different islands all across the Pacific.

00:36:04.000 So we have rapid response.

00:36:05.000 We've decentralized so they can't just take us out.

00:36:08.000 This gets me worried because we have another story here.

00:36:11.000 I covered this last week.

00:36:12.000 June 1st, Pentagon eyes new bombs for war with China, not ISIS.

00:36:16.000 The Pentagon's been shifting up its strategy.

00:36:18.000 No longer are we engaging in preparations for war in the Middle East.

00:36:23.000 You know, there's a report saying we're like halfway out of Afghanistan, and now the bombs they're buying are for Pacific warfare and not Middle Eastern warfare, and it could just be We're all done.

00:36:33.000 Middle East is over. 1.00

00:36:35.000 We got enough oil.

00:36:36.000 We've built enough nation.

00:36:37.000 We're out.

00:36:38.000 And because of that, well, we might as well buy bombs for Pacific because that's a bigger threat, right? 0.99

00:36:42.000 Or it could be that we're actually gearing up towards a war with China.

00:36:46.000 Now here's what freaks me out.

00:36:47.000 The U.S.

00:36:48.000 is in chaos, man.

00:36:50.000 I mean, maybe we're not.

00:36:51.000 Maybe it's all an illusion, but come on, you look at news, they're screaming out insurrection.

00:36:55.000 Anderson Cooper claiming January 6th was the worst political attack on the U.S.

00:37:00.000 since the Civil War.

00:37:01.000 And I'm like, I seem to recall John F. Kennedy getting his head blown off, but okay, dude, whatever you say, that's insanity.

00:37:08.000 What happens right now if China moves in on Taiwan and the U.S.

00:37:13.000 can do nothing to stop it?

00:37:16.000 There it is.

00:37:17.000 I mean, we have to stand by.

00:37:18.000 There's no way.

00:37:20.000 I don't think I would ever authorize arms against China.

00:37:23.000 To defend Taiwan.

00:37:24.000 Not unless it was our soil or like an ally or something.

00:37:27.000 I mean, they're an ally.

00:37:28.000 They are an ally.

00:37:30.000 So this is where things get bad, because if China does move to Taiwan and there's serious fear in the U.S.

00:37:35.000 that they are planning an invasion.

00:37:37.000 I mean, we see the beaching drills.

00:37:38.000 There's photos of it.

00:37:40.000 And their planes are flying over the Taiwan Strait.

00:37:42.000 They're sending strike groups through the Strait of Taiwan.

00:37:45.000 It's not just about Taiwan.

00:37:47.000 It's about China's incursions into the South China Sea.

00:37:49.000 It's about their military bases, their expansion, their violation of certain international conventions.

00:37:54.000 So the fear I have is the U.S.

00:37:57.000 is clearly preparing for war.

00:37:59.000 China, they've been gearing up for some time.

00:38:01.000 This is a more direct announcement.

00:38:03.000 What this says to me is Do you think the U.S.

00:38:06.000 military just decided right now that they're worried about war with China?

00:38:09.000 Do you think it was just like today?

00:38:10.000 They're like, hey, oh, there might be war with China.

00:38:12.000 Let's move our planes. 0.89

00:38:13.000 Or is it more likely they got intelligence classified about a potential war with China, made a bunch of crazy economic moves behind the scenes, and then made the public moves everyone can see?

00:38:26.000 Could be.

00:38:27.000 China also said, I think I heard from you that China was like threatened nuclear war if we tried to investigate.

00:38:32.000 Well, in response to Biden's call for investigation into COVID, the head of Global Times said, we need to start building more nuclear bombs and a shiver down the spine of the American elite.

00:38:42.000 Okay, yeah, that's I think which is another way of saying we are innocent And obviously the incursions the Hong Kong the way they treated the yeah, yeah protesters in Hong Kong was was drastic I think I want fear.

00:38:56.000 I think we're in trouble man.

00:38:57.000 Oh Joe Biden didn't commemorate D-Day.

00:38:59.000 Oh Really?

00:39:00.000 Why not?

00:39:01.000 I don't know!

00:39:05.000 Here's one of the issues.

00:39:06.000 He probably didn't know what day it was.

00:39:08.000 For sure?

00:39:08.000 That's not even a joke.

00:39:11.000 I was kidding because obviously people in his administration would know and make some kind of announcement.

00:39:15.000 Tell him to do it!

00:39:17.000 Or tweet for him!

00:39:19.000 Now here's one of the problems.

00:39:20.000 I don't know every year, every tweet that's ever been sent out, or every statement that's ever been made about D-Day.

00:39:25.000 It could just be that now we're in this deeply tribal political realm, conservatives notice Biden didn't do this, brought it up, then everyone's like, hey, yeah, why didn't you?

00:39:33.000 And it's like, well, I don't know, maybe Jimmy Carter didn't, I don't know.

00:39:36.000 Or maybe he still should have regardless.

00:39:39.000 He didn't and a lot of other people did.

00:39:40.000 Maybe Kamala Harris saying enjoy the long weekend is also an alarming statement.

00:39:45.000 Maybe Kamala Harris refusing to go to the border is also kind of alarming and it makes me feel like our current administration is not invested in this country.

00:39:52.000 I feel like We have an administration that, in a normal timeline, shouldn't have won, but we aren't in a normal timeline.

00:40:02.000 What I mean by this is, normally you get a strong administration that wants to win, that wants a policy, that wants to put things forward and make these demands.

00:40:11.000 Well that was Trump's administration.

00:40:13.000 Man did he want some crazy stuff.

00:40:14.000 A big beautiful wall from sea to shining sea.

00:40:17.000 30 feet concrete.

00:40:18.000 He had plans.

00:40:19.000 He wanted things.

00:40:20.000 Biden?

00:40:21.000 His whole campaign?

00:40:23.000 Was that he was not Trump.

00:40:25.000 So what happens?

00:40:26.000 People really didn't like Trump?

00:40:28.000 A lot of things happen.

00:40:29.000 We'll see what happens with this Maricopa stuff.

00:40:31.000 Joe Biden ends up, uh, you know, getting 81 million votes.

00:40:34.000 He wins the election with no plan.

00:40:37.000 No one voted for anything.

00:40:38.000 They just didn't want Trump.

00:40:40.000 Now we have an administration that clearly doesn't care.

00:40:43.000 So I want to say normal timeline.

00:40:44.000 They weren't proposing anything substantive other than Joe Biden was hiding the whole time.

00:40:49.000 He was just like hiding in the basement.

00:40:50.000 Everyone's like, where's Biden?

00:40:51.000 Oh, call the call.

00:40:52.000 You know, he's calling the lid.

00:40:54.000 Yeah.

00:40:54.000 No press.

00:40:56.000 So this is what you get.

00:40:57.000 Now we're facing the very serious prospect of war with China.

00:41:00.000 Our military seems to think so.

00:41:02.000 And what can we expect in the event that war actually breaks out?

00:41:06.000 My fear is that war will come to us no matter what we do.

00:41:09.000 And this is a fear that a lot of people have in government, and it leads to very pro-war sentiment, which I disagree with, but the world is not so black and white.

00:41:17.000 You can't just be like, I'm against war, so therefore I will never go to war.

00:41:21.000 And it's like, then you get wiped out.

00:41:23.000 No, I mean, I understand that I'm very anti-war.

00:41:27.000 The number of wars that I would be willing to support, let's just say it's an extremely narrow subset.

00:41:33.000 That said, this is a really complicated situation.

00:41:36.000 I'm not going to sit here and automatically say there's nothing that could ever justify that.

00:41:40.000 I very much do not want to see war with China, but this is an extremely complicated situation.

00:41:45.000 Let's talk conspiracies.

00:41:50.000 Oh, no.

00:41:50.000 Obviously, we should do everything we possibly can to avoid that war, if at all possible.

00:41:55.000 I'm not coming down on one side or the other.

00:41:56.000 I'm being the milquetoast fence-sitter here.

00:42:00.000 Most of my interest in foreign policy has been directed towards the Middle East, because that's where the United States has been screwing around for the past two decades.

00:42:07.000 But when it comes to China, I guess I just hadn't really considered that it was a realistic possibility until very recently.

00:42:13.000 So you oppose war with China?

00:42:14.000 What?

00:42:16.000 You oppose war with China?

00:42:17.000 Yeah, I would like not to go to war with China, but also, I have no idea. 0.79

00:42:20.000 I mean, there could be reasons that someone brings to my attention.

00:42:23.000 Yeah, I'm not dogmatic on this one.

00:42:24.000 Just wanted to clarify real quick.

00:42:25.000 So my position is, you know, I don't want to go to war with China, but the war may come to us either way.

00:42:30.000 So I'm a bit more in the middle than you.

00:42:32.000 That means, Ian, you have to take the pro-war-with-China position.

00:42:35.000 I'm obsessed with it.

00:42:36.000 Yeah, well Ian's always telling me off.

00:42:38.000 I wake up in the middle of the night, I'm sweating right now.

00:42:40.000 Dude, every single day, every single day, I see Ian sitting on the couch just cleaning his AR.

00:42:45.000 He's like, we're getting ready, we're getting ready.

00:42:47.000 You're all laughing at me now?

00:42:49.000 He knits wool Chinese flags, and then he brings them out and he puts them on the archery board.

00:42:54.000 Oh my god.

00:42:55.000 No, I'm kidding.

00:42:56.000 But no, let's talk about conspiracies.

00:42:58.000 It's not really a conspiracy.

00:43:00.000 It's a weird word, conspiracy.

00:43:01.000 Can I ask you something?

00:43:03.000 So what do you think would have to happen to justify a war with China?

00:43:08.000 Or what do you think would put you over the edge where you would say, like, we have no choice?

00:43:12.000 I don't know, man.

00:43:13.000 I mean, usually it's like China beaching in California.

00:43:18.000 That's kind of what I'm thinking.

00:43:19.000 If they start to invade and there's nothing else we can do, but... But it's more than that.

00:43:25.000 If we sit back, and this is a really tough philosophical question, and just let them do whatever they want.

00:43:33.000 Exactly, exactly.

00:43:34.000 Make them get stronger and stronger.

00:43:36.000 So it's like you sit back and you're like, China's building a new GPS system.

00:43:41.000 To rival the U.S.' 's because we have the main GPS system used by everybody.

00:43:44.000 They're going to become militaristically independent.

00:43:48.000 They're taking in more imports than exports.

00:43:51.000 They're doing beaching drills for Taiwan.

00:43:53.000 They're trying to seize the South China Sea.

00:43:54.000 They're sinking Vietnamese fishing boats.

00:43:56.000 They're building military bases in violation of international conventions.

00:43:59.000 And they just keep doing it.

00:44:01.000 What happens if we do nothing?

00:44:02.000 No, they'll keep doing it!

00:44:04.000 And then eventually, once all our allies are crushed and our resources are limited, then they land their boats on our beaches and we say, well, the one thing we got going for us, we got a gun behind every blade of grass.

00:44:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:44:14.000 You know, we are a nation armed to the teeth, so they will never... I don't think it's possible to conquer America.

00:44:19.000 No.

00:44:19.000 I just don't think it's physically... Like, you could literally... You could conquer California.

00:44:23.000 Like, everywhere else it'd be really hard.

00:44:23.000 Yeah.

00:44:26.000 I'm being facetious.

00:44:27.000 It would be difficult to take any scrap of land on this country.

00:44:31.000 You would have confederate flag waving republicans from the, I don't want to say deep south, but I don't know, because it's not really... Running over to California and the Californians would be like, no, you need to leave.

00:44:45.000 Like we'd rather have the Chinese here than you. 1.00

00:44:48.000 There would be soyboys cowering with their purple mohawk going like, they're shooting I mean, it's like don't worry. You're American. I may not 1.00

00:44:55.000 like you at all, but we're being invaded No, like you'll get the staunchest conservatives women, you 1.00

00:45:00.000 know Confederate flag Trump flags running in a battle and

00:45:03.000 defending the California soy boys, but so there's the really really serious problem about war

00:45:08.000 China, it's really easy to be like I'm anti-war exactly it is now that's easy to say we're talking about Syria in the 0.89

00:45:15.000 Middle East. Oh, I get it. You want to build an oil pipeline?

00:45:17.000 What did Biden do Biden just approved Russia to build the pipeline anyway?

00:45:21.000 So that is the sock conspiracies, okay I've been trying to... I've been trying.

00:45:26.000 You guys won't let me do it.

00:45:28.000 I always, every single day, Tim just sends me these articles and I have to send him Snopes facts.

00:45:33.000 Every time. 0.98

00:45:36.000 I have brought Seamus like 15 gay frogs and he keeps telling me to shut up, Tim! 0.97

00:45:42.000 That frog is expressing itself a certain way that doesn't have anything to do with the chemicals in the water or anything to do with that frog's orientation. 0.97

00:45:47.000 Here's what I mean.

00:45:48.000 I don't mean like conspiracies.

00:45:49.000 I say that because It's funny how they've turned that word into something that means, like, false story.

00:45:57.000 Like, when people talk about Flat Earth, like it's a conspiracy theory.

00:45:59.000 No, no, no, no, no, no. 1.00

00:46:01.000 If you believe in stupid things, that's just you believing in stupid things. 1.00

00:46:03.000 But let me say this. 1.00

00:46:04.000 Last year, the economy's locked down.

00:46:07.000 What happened?

00:46:08.000 A bunch of people in our major urban hubs moved, and they moved to random places we can't... Half a million people who left New York, they didn't just move from New York to Pittsburgh.

00:46:21.000 No, they spread all over the place.

00:46:23.000 Now, these are the people of means.

00:46:25.000 These are heads of industry.

00:46:26.000 These are wealthy individuals who command economics, who command the economy in this country.

00:46:30.000 They decentralized.

00:46:32.000 What else happened?

00:46:33.000 We realized we couldn't manufacture things.

00:46:35.000 We had no capability.

00:46:36.000 We tried shoring up our manufacturing.

00:46:37.000 Now we have a bipartisan bill.

00:46:39.000 Democrats and Republicans agree.

00:46:40.000 We need $250 billion towards industry in the United States.

00:46:44.000 I think about these things.

00:46:46.000 The decentralization of our economy.

00:46:48.000 The moving out of cities.

00:46:49.000 I mean, that's really fortunate for us should we enter war with China. 0.99

00:46:53.000 Buying guns.

00:46:54.000 Buying guns like crazy.

00:46:55.000 The riots made people buy guns like crazy.

00:46:55.000 Lots of firearms.

00:46:58.000 Yeah.

00:46:58.000 If a nuke dropped on New York beginning of last year, it would wipe out tons of heads of industry.

00:47:05.000 It would destroy our economy.

00:47:07.000 The pandemic resulted in a decentralization.

00:47:09.000 So I don't really mean conspiracy.

00:47:11.000 I'm just saying how fortuitous for us, in the event a war breaks out, these things happened.

00:47:17.000 We got more people armed to the teeth in cities, in California.

00:47:22.000 More people have left big cities and moved out to suburbs and moved out to rural areas.

00:47:26.000 And they're working remote.

00:47:28.000 All these things are really good news for a country about to go to war.

00:47:32.000 You know, the downside of working remote is you're at the whim of the electric grid, which could be a problem if that gets knocked out.

00:47:38.000 But other than that, I think you're right on.

00:47:39.000 Man, a big push to get off fossil fuels, you know, and to get solar energy and renewables.

00:47:44.000 And so this is something I've been telling myself, maybe it's just to cope because I'm very sad, but ammo has been ridiculously expensive for the past year and a half.

00:47:52.000 Anyone who has any interest in firearms knows that.

00:47:54.000 And when I see the prices, I get very sad.

00:47:56.000 When I see the empty shelves, I'm sad.

00:47:58.000 But what that means is that more Americans than ever before have ammunition.

00:48:01.000 I mean, the reason the demand skyrocketed is because everyone went out and bought ammo.

00:48:05.000 And that means the American public is now significantly better armed than they were prior to COVID.

00:48:10.000 And I think that's fantastic.

00:48:12.000 I was buying, I think I was buying $3.80, and it was like a dollar a round or something insane.

00:48:17.000 I'm just, I'm just, that's insane, man.

00:48:19.000 Yeah, I wonder what it's at now.

00:48:20.000 That was a while ago, wasn't it?

00:48:22.000 You know, I've been talking about like a good investment, and everyone's like, you gotta buy this, you gotta buy that.

00:48:26.000 I'm like, you know, I thought about it, and what I said, I've been saying for a while, think about the most common household item.

00:48:34.000 That's the hardest to produce, and that's probably a good investment.

00:48:38.000 Assuming there's a major crisis or a war or something, otherwise if the economy is going to keep on keeping on the way it is with ups and downs and quantitative easing, yeah, well then you've got your standard gold, bitcoin, whatever.

00:48:52.000 But I'm talking about in the event of a war or some kind of conflict or crisis, what's a good investment?

00:48:57.000 And so I think, you know, like mouthwash.

00:48:59.000 Really, really good.

00:49:00.000 You can use, it's antiseptic.

00:49:01.000 You know, you can use it to clean your mouth.

00:49:03.000 Really great, because you don't want to get, you know, infected teeth or anything that can kill you, actually.

00:49:07.000 But more importantly, like, if you get a cut, just, it's antiseptic and use it.

00:49:10.000 So alcohol works, but alcohol you can't, you don't want to put in your mouth, right?

00:49:13.000 So hydrogen peroxide, what's hard to produce but really important.

00:49:17.000 Iodine, bleach, chlorine.

00:49:19.000 So these simple household chemicals that we use all the time for cleaning, for helping ourselves, those are probably good investments.

00:49:26.000 But I thought about this, like, if you're going to park your money in anything, in fear of some kind of conflict, what would be a good place to do it?

00:49:36.000 Water?

00:49:37.000 People need water.

00:49:37.000 Yeah.

00:49:38.000 Gasoline?

00:49:40.000 Gasoline has to stay.

00:49:42.000 Yeah, after a while, gasoline.

00:49:44.000 I don't know how this would work for a large supply, but I know that there are powders that you can put in gasoline to make it last longer.

00:49:50.000 Yes, make it stay longer.

00:49:51.000 But there's other fuels you can.

00:49:53.000 But I thought about it, and I was like, you know what?

00:49:56.000 Gold.

00:49:57.000 Why?

00:49:57.000 Why gold?

00:49:59.000 No, no, gold is good if there's still confidence in our existing social structure.

00:50:03.000 Yeah, if there's actually going to be an economy to speak of.

00:50:05.000 Right.

00:50:06.000 Bitcoin and gold are valuable because of a functioning economy as it stands today.

00:50:11.000 Let's say we enter, I don't know, you know, a walking dead apocalypse scenario.

00:50:16.000 I do not believe that's going to happen.

00:50:18.000 I know.

00:50:19.000 Because, for the most part, it hasn't.

00:50:21.000 I mean, countries have fallen, but they still have economies.

00:50:24.000 I don't know, I thought you were going in the zombie direction with that.

00:50:27.000 For the most part, it hasn't.

00:50:29.000 No, no, I mean like, you know, when countries or empires fall, people still keep working and eating and things carry on.

00:50:36.000 So gold makes a lot of sense.

00:50:37.000 Well yeah, well look what happened when the USSR fell.

00:50:40.000 Right, people still, actually it was crazy, people just walked into factories, took them over.

00:50:43.000 But that's why I was thinking like, you know a gun really is a good investment.

00:50:46.000 Cars depreciate. You know, a good working gun is gonna go up in value.

00:50:50.000 If you take good care of it and it's a decent weapon for sure.

00:50:53.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean even a decent weapon, I mean, if things get really bad, any weapon's a good weapon, you

00:51:00.000 know.

00:51:01.000 Any weapon's a decent weapon.

00:51:02.000 But I was genuinely thinking about not the apocalypse.

00:51:04.000 I'm just like, what's something you could buy for a couple hundred bucks, and then in a few years, it'll go up in value?

00:51:10.000 And I'm like, guns not gonna go down in value.

00:51:13.000 I mean, and...

00:51:14.000 Unless they ban all guns.

00:51:15.000 They won't do.

00:51:16.000 Joe Biden now, he wants to do a bunch of NFA things.

00:51:19.000 So they want to, they want to make, um, like, uh, so right now, if you do a pistol with a brace, Joe Biden was saying it's a, that's a short barreled rifle.

00:51:26.000 Yep.

00:51:27.000 And I mean, I've talked to a lot of gun people who are kind of like, eh.

00:51:30.000 supposed to go on your arm, but people just shoulder it, which is kind of like a stock.

00:51:30.000 Yeah.

00:51:30.000 I see.

00:51:35.000 So they want to make that NFA, which means NFA means it's National Firearms Act. It means you

00:51:39.000 got to, it takes a year to get. It's like, you got to go get your fingerprints. You got to go

00:51:41.000 file paperwork. You got to pay 200 bucks per item. They want to make it more difficult.

00:51:45.000 In that instance, the guns actually go up in value because they're harder to get.

00:51:48.000 So it's a good investment, but we got some big gun news.

00:51:53.000 So we were just talking about all of the things that have happened that have been very fortuitous for this country if a war with China were to happen.

00:52:04.000 Notably, People are moving out of cities, decentralizing the economy.

00:52:09.000 People are working remote.

00:52:10.000 So even when they're outside of the city, they don't need to be in the same office.

00:52:14.000 That's great.

00:52:15.000 If a bomb drops on New York, and everyone's working there in the same building, you could wipe out a whole oil company.

00:52:19.000 Now you've got everybody, not only have they moved out of the city, they're in different parts of the country, and they don't even have to come into the office.

00:52:25.000 That's really good for us.

00:52:27.000 The other thing that happened that was really good for us in the event a war were to break out, people started buying guns like crazy.

00:52:32.000 Crazy.

00:52:32.000 Yeah.

00:52:33.000 Record number of guns and ammo being sold.

00:52:35.000 And as that saying goes, I don't know if it's true, it would be impossible to invade the United States because there's a gun behind every blade of grass.

00:52:42.000 Now we have this big, this big news from a couple days ago.

00:52:45.000 California assault weapons ban disrespects freedom, federal judge writes.

00:52:50.000 I love that.

00:52:51.000 He struck it down.

00:52:52.000 He said, here's a quote, here's a quote.

00:52:52.000 Good.

00:52:55.000 Let me read.

00:52:58.000 For more than three decades, California has banned certain types of semi-automatic rifles, including the AR-15, under an assault weapons ban.

00:53:06.000 On Friday, a federal judge threw out the ban, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment to the United States.

00:53:11.000 to the U.S.

00:53:11.000 Constitution.

00:53:12.000 Quote, The Second Amendment is about America's freedom.

00:53:15.000 The freedom to protect oneself, family, home and homeland.

00:53:17.000 Judge Roger Benitez wrote for the U.S.

00:53:20.000 District Court for the Southern District of California.

00:53:23.000 California's assault weapon ban disrespects that freedom.

00:53:26.000 Governor Gavin Newsom called the decision a direct threat to public safety.

00:53:29.000 You get the point.

00:53:29.000 Now, this guy, this judge, my understanding is that he was appointed in 2003 by Bush.

00:53:35.000 I don't know if they mentioned that, but he's been here for a while.

00:53:38.000 I'm just... Why right now are they saying, Californians, go buy your AR-15s?

00:53:42.000 How does that work?

00:53:44.000 Can any judge at any time just look at a law and be like, I want to overthrow that?

00:53:48.000 I want to... It's a lawsuit.

00:53:50.000 So someone sues saying, banning the AR-15 violates the Constitution.

00:53:54.000 The judge said, I agree.

00:53:56.000 Now, for now, there's going to be an appeal, so people probably shouldn't run out and try and buy weapons.

00:53:56.000 Wow.

00:54:02.000 But I got to say, man, when you think about what's happening in this country, What were we just joking about?

00:54:07.000 China beaching California and running in? 0.94

00:54:11.000 Now Californians can go buy AR-15s?

00:54:14.000 The Second Amendment?

00:54:17.000 A well-regulated militia be necessary for a free state?

00:54:20.000 The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed?

00:54:23.000 Well, it's really good news for a country trying to secure a free state from a foreign invasion should a war break out.

00:54:29.000 That they're all armed to the teeth, and now in California, after 32 years, a judge says you can go get AR-15s.

00:54:36.000 I gotta say though, this is, uh, well, there's this old saying, uh, best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, second best time is today.

00:54:44.000 I don't exactly envy the people who are just getting into firearm ownership now.

00:54:47.000 I'm glad that I purchased my weapons and my ammo before all of this stuff, but, I'm glad they're doing it at this point.

00:54:54.000 However, it's going to be really, really difficult for them to start practicing with their weapons.

00:54:58.000 It's going to be really difficult to get range time in.

00:55:00.000 Ammo is so, so expensive.

00:55:02.000 I don't know how any of those people would really become proficient in time for a war with China.

00:55:07.000 Unless of course, I mean, I'm sure there's some number of them who already owned guns, but didn't have an AR.

00:55:11.000 We got like a laser bullet targeting device that you put in the chamber and then it allows you to like hit a pad on the wall and it tells you how accurate you are, but it doesn't have like the kick of the ballistic.

00:55:23.000 It's just a way to train without losing ammo.

00:55:25.000 So my first thought is what are they going to try to do to get this decision overturned?

00:55:29.000 What are you thinking?

00:55:30.000 They're going to file an appeal.

00:55:31.000 Right.

00:55:32.000 And that's it.

00:55:33.000 I mean, it's gonna go through the courts.

00:55:34.000 It might go to the Supreme Court.

00:55:35.000 I think it would be great if it does.

00:55:37.000 The assault weapons ban makes zero sense.

00:55:40.000 You will not find a human being who knows about guns who will advocate for those laws.

00:55:47.000 It's true.

00:55:47.000 Because even when I take, like, the devil's advocate position, where I'll be talking to a Democrat or a lefty, and they're like, we gotta have this assault weapons ban.

00:55:55.000 My first point is the one I bring up all the time, the one that affects me personally.

00:55:59.000 Yes!

00:55:59.000 Okay, hold on.

00:56:01.000 So this law is getting overturned, and they're like, this is terrible news.

00:56:04.000 And I'm like, actually, it's good news.

00:56:06.000 In Maryland, for instance, the M1A, which fires, I believe it's 7.62x556.

00:56:09.000 I'm sorry, 7.62x51.

00:56:10.000 It's illegal.

00:56:10.000 I'm sorry 762 by 51 It's illegal. It's an assault weapon the scar 20s which

00:56:17.000 fires 308 totally legal They're almost identical rounds, there's a higher pressure in the .308.

00:56:23.000 The law makes no sense.

00:56:25.000 The AR-15 that shoots the .308, legal, but the M1A is not?

00:56:29.000 It's like... That just makes no sense.

00:56:31.000 Well, I'm sorry, it's also the same, like, you have the Mini-14 being classified, or I'm sorry, the AR-15 is classified as an assault rifle, and then the Mini-14, or an assault weapon, I apologize, and then the Mini-14 is not.

00:56:43.000 And so, they fire the exact same round.

00:56:45.000 Both can have 30-round magazines attached to them.

00:56:47.000 They CAN fire the same round.

00:56:49.000 They're usually chambered in 5.56.

00:56:49.000 They do.

00:56:50.000 Right, right, right.

00:56:51.000 So what's insane about a lot of these arguments is that they're like, we're gonna ban assault weapons.

00:56:56.000 What does that mean?

00:56:57.000 Is it scary?

00:56:58.000 That's gone.

00:56:59.000 I need to double check.

00:57:00.000 The Mini-14 might usually be chambered in .223, but not that big a difference.

00:57:05.000 Right, right, right.

00:57:05.000 It also fires .223.

00:57:06.000 You need something in .556, it'll do both.

00:57:08.000 So, whenever I bring up this argument, and I'm seeing it pop up more and more, maybe it's just because I'm paying attention, but a lot of people are pointing out, the reason why we use .556, they're small.

00:57:19.000 They're really small.

00:57:20.000 The reason we use those is so that you can carry them.

00:57:23.000 It's so that in war, people can carry lots of them.

00:57:25.000 It's not a giant round by any means.

00:57:27.000 Could you imagine if people were like going to war with like

00:57:29.000 Sabo slugs like massive huge 12 gauge. 1.00

00:57:33.000 They were like we're gonna use the most the biggest and most definite.

00:57:36.000 No, you can't carry that much.

00:57:38.000 And so when they talk about hunting, it's like you should go look at what they use for hunting.

00:57:41.000 They got big big weapons.

00:57:43.000 Yeah, we can't show any of those.

00:57:44.000 I know, I'm not going to.

00:57:45.000 But we actually have some on the table.

00:57:47.000 The AR-15 is also an incredibly popular hunting weapon, too.

00:57:50.000 I don't want to forget that because often they will say things like, you can't hunt with an AR-15 or you don't need an AR-15 for hunting, which is ridiculous, yeah.

00:57:57.000 I don't understand.

00:57:58.000 I guess I've got, you know, I've got a bunch of bolt-action rifles for, you know, I'm not very well trained or anything, but it's described to me that less moving parts, more accurate, easier.

00:58:12.000 Versus AR-15, it's got a lot of moving parts, so that affects accuracy, but less recoil.

00:58:17.000 So, I don't, you know, I'm not entirely sure I understand what the argument is from these people, other than, is a gun scary?

00:58:25.000 Exactly.

00:58:26.000 The AR looks scary.

00:58:27.000 And also, I mean, the AR has been used in many school shootings and many public massacres, but people don't realize it's not as if the maniacs who go do these kinds of things are using the AR because it's a particularly effective weapon for doing that kind of thing.

00:58:37.000 In fact, there was one article I read Which is basically hypothesizing that it's the copycat effect.

00:58:43.000 Because the AR is not the largest... I mean, the 5.56 is not the largest round you could get.

00:58:47.000 You could probably... I mean, someone could use an AK.

00:58:50.000 And that has a more powerful round in it, generally.

00:58:52.000 And they always go with ARs.

00:58:55.000 Well, because the media always reports that the last guy used an AR.

00:58:55.000 Why?

00:58:58.000 It's the copycat effect.

00:58:59.000 I think... So the AK uses 7.62x39?

00:59:01.000 Yeah.

00:59:01.000 I think those are smaller than 5.56?

00:59:06.000 I'm pretty sure, like, shorter.

00:59:07.000 No, they're- Oh, well, they're bigger.

00:59:09.000 I mean, I'm pretty sure.

00:59:09.000 The round is bigger, but I think they're shorter.

00:59:11.000 I think I figured out why they're making ARs assault rifles.

00:59:15.000 Because the letters AR make people think it stands for Assault Rifle, when it means Armalite Rifle, which is the company that built the thing.

00:59:22.000 Right, right.

00:59:23.000 Yeah, so that one's really obvious to a lot of people.

00:59:26.000 Like, dude, it's not an assault rifle.

00:59:29.000 And there's an assault rifle, an actual one, on sale over at Gun Broker.

00:59:33.000 How big is it?

00:59:33.000 It's like $55,000.

00:59:35.000 It's an M16 Selective Fire Rifle.

00:59:37.000 So it's an actual, I think it's a pre-1986 when they shut down the production of these things.

00:59:42.000 And, uh, it's really expensive!

00:59:44.000 It's really, really expensive.

00:59:46.000 If you want to buy some of these NFA items, it takes a really long time, it's really hard to do.

00:59:50.000 And that's why it's funny when the Democrats are like, they're not coming to take your guns.

00:59:53.000 I'm like, bro, a large portion of guns are already banned!

00:59:57.000 Yeah.

00:59:58.000 We're just going to pan a couple more, and then we'll stop.

00:59:58.000 Already!

01:00:01.000 Well, so anyway, I want to go back to my point.

01:00:02.000 I was talking about this thing happening in California, which is very good news.

01:00:06.000 We'll see what happens if it makes it to the Supreme.

01:00:07.000 If it escalates, the federal court gets appealed, goes to the Supreme Court, we'll see what happens.

01:00:11.000 But it's not all good news.

01:00:13.000 So I can mention, hey, how fortuitous for us that in the event war with China breaks out, more people might have AR-15s.

01:00:20.000 We do have some contradictory news.

01:00:22.000 We have this from BearingArms.com.

01:00:24.000 DOJ issues proposed rule on pistol braces model red flag legislation.

01:00:30.000 They say, two months ago, Joe Biden announced his first executive actions on gun control, promising that the DOJ and the ATF would issue proposed rules aimed at cracking down on the proliferation of home-built firearms and AR-style pistols that use stabilizing braces, which Biden and other anti-gun advocates want to declare as items subject to the National Firearms Act.

01:00:48.000 The DOJ's proposed rule on so-called ghost guns was unveiled a few weeks ago, and today the DOJ released the agency's proposed rule dealing with pistol braces, along with the model red flag legislation the administration is hoping states will adopt in the coming months.

01:01:02.000 You can read the full proposed rules here.

01:01:04.000 We get the point.

01:01:05.000 So I'll break it down, and again, far from being an expert on this stuff.

01:01:09.000 There are things called AR style pistols and so you can get them in basically like any round.

01:01:16.000 They have this folding brace on the back.

01:01:20.000 They call it a brace.

01:01:21.000 And what you do is you pull the Velcro and you can pull the bottom.

01:01:24.000 You can put it over your arm.

01:01:25.000 Because a pistol you're supposed to fire with one hand.

01:01:27.000 So the brace allows you to be stable while you're firing.

01:01:30.000 However, these braces can be put up against your shoulder.

01:01:34.000 You can, you can brace the firearm.

01:01:36.000 Now, it's really interesting because there's a bunch of people I've been to ranges where they're like, never brace the pistol because then you're like a short belt rifle.

01:01:44.000 And I'm like, but you can have a brace and put the brace up against your shoulder and it's okay.

01:01:48.000 And like, people are doing this in magazines and stuff.

01:01:50.000 I'm like, I'm genuinely confused by like these rules.

01:01:53.000 Yeah, the rules are really weird and confusing.

01:01:55.000 My thing is, Right now, you can go to a store and just walk in and be like, I would like to purchase that 9mm AR style pistol with a brace.

01:02:05.000 And they'll do your background check.

01:02:07.000 I think for a lot of first time buyers, you're going to get bad news.

01:02:10.000 They're going to be like, we'll see you in a week.

01:02:12.000 Come back and we'll let you know if you've been approved for the weapon.

01:02:14.000 So when I first started trying to buy weapons, it was like five days.

01:02:18.000 Every time I wanted to buy a gun, I had to wait because they were doing a background check.

01:02:20.000 And no matter where you go.

01:02:22.000 And it's only recently I've been getting researched, which clears me in like 20 minutes.

01:02:26.000 Oh, nice.

01:02:27.000 But it is a background check.

01:02:28.000 The forum goes, they look up my name, they look up my social, they do a background check, they say, okay.

01:02:33.000 And then I can purchase this weapon.

01:02:34.000 You go to a gun store, and you can just buy it, okay?

01:02:37.000 It'll take you a little bit of time.

01:02:38.000 If you're first time, if you've got, in some states, if you have a concealed carry, you can just walk in and buy it.

01:02:43.000 If they make it an NFA item, it'll take you a year to get these things.

01:02:46.000 And it'll be really interesting what that means for people who already own many of them, because then what?

01:02:50.000 You gotta file a bunch of paperwork?

01:02:52.000 Right?

01:02:52.000 What do you gotta do?

01:02:53.000 So this is bad news for a lot of people who have legal and, in my opinion, firearms that are safer.

01:02:59.000 Absolutely safer.

01:03:01.000 So, you don't wanna be... And this is my opinion, okay?

01:03:03.000 I'm sure there's a lot of experts, there's a lot of opinions in the gun world.

01:03:07.000 I was talking to some guy about home defense, because I tweeted about shotgun versus AR-15 for home defense.

01:03:15.000 And a lot of people are like, shotgun is a good weapon for home defense.

01:03:17.000 And a lot of other people are like, that's a terrible weapon.

01:03:19.000 Nobody uses it.

01:03:20.000 These are for breaching doors and nothing else.

01:03:21.000 And AR-15 is better.

01:03:22.000 And I'm of the opinion that an AR-15 is better for a variety of reasons. 0.97

01:03:25.000 First and foremost, it's a stupid argument because the AR-15 can be a bunch of different things. 0.92

01:03:29.000 It can be an AR-15 pistol with nine millimeter, and you can use like frangible or hollow point. 0.99

01:03:35.000 I think that's better than a shotgun.

01:03:39.000 Because a lot of people don't realize too.

01:03:40.000 So, I got a Remington 12 gauge.

01:03:42.000 Really long!

01:03:43.000 And I was told, a bunch of people were like, no, no, no, no, no.

01:03:45.000 You got that really long barrel in a house, you're not going to be able to do anything with that.

01:03:49.000 So then, you think about these AR pistols.

01:03:52.000 And they're more, it's going to be easier for the average person to fire accurately, which is safer.

01:03:57.000 As opposed to a handgun, which I'm terrible at handguns.

01:04:00.000 I've been improving, mind you, but, uh, with, uh, with, you know, a rifle?

01:04:05.000 Harbian? 0.97

01:04:05.000 You have fewer points of contact. 0.97

01:04:05.000 Yeah, it's tough. 0.97

01:04:07.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a lot easier.

01:04:08.000 I got really good advice last time when I went out to range with improving my accuracy with a rifle.

01:04:13.000 Handguns?

01:04:13.000 I got good advice, but it still is difficult.

01:04:16.000 Especially, imagine this, you're in your house, somebody breaks in, and you go for your handgun, and, man, you better know what you're doing with that thing.

01:04:23.000 Okay, but you got it.

01:04:25.000 You have a rifle.

01:04:25.000 You're better off now.

01:04:26.000 What's gonna be better for home defense?

01:04:28.000 Probably an AR style pistol with a brace because now you have it's not so long You're not gonna you know, you're gonna be more accurate.

01:04:36.000 You're gonna be using, you could potentially use a less dangerous, less powerful round.

01:04:40.000 Because of these gun control laws, you basically, this is the craziest thing.

01:04:45.000 I was talking to the guys at the gun shop, they said in Maryland, it's gotta be a heavy barrel rifle.

01:04:50.000 And I'm like, so you can't have a lighter, easier, lower recoil, quieter.

01:04:54.000 Nope, nope, nope. Maryland banned all these things.

01:04:57.000 So now you quite literally have heavier, harder to use, more dangerous weapons,

01:05:00.000 which means people who aren't specialists in firearms, who just get something for home defense,

01:05:05.000 Might miss.

01:05:06.000 That's the result of these gun control laws. 0.87

01:05:08.000 Not making anything safer for anybody.

01:05:09.000 Making everything worse.

01:05:10.000 Yeah, no, exactly.

01:05:11.000 And there are some laws that have been proposed that I've heard from different people on the left to restrict people from purchasing more than, like, it depends on the state, but they'll set a limit on the amount of ammunition a person should be able to purchase, and they'll argue that this would be an effective gun control measure, but the problem with that is people just don't get to the range as often, and they don't get a chance to practice with it.

01:05:31.000 And then I believe it was in New Jersey where they banned anything with a magazine capacity greater than five.

01:05:38.000 Am I mistaken there?

01:05:39.000 New Jersey?

01:05:40.000 No, I think New Jersey's ten.

01:05:41.000 Ten?

01:05:42.000 Okay.

01:05:42.000 New York.

01:05:43.000 It's like you can have at least, you can have a capacity of ten but it can only have six in it or something like that?

01:05:48.000 That's totally insane, yeah.

01:05:50.000 I mean, if you're in an emergency situation, if someone has broken into your house, You're gonna be shaking when- Yeah, well, you're gonna be- Also, like, people don't understand when they don't know about guns or they've never fired one before that it's difficult to hit a target on your first try, and especially if your adrenaline is pumping because somebody has burst through your front door and they're trying to harm you and your family, you're probably gonna miss them.

01:06:08.000 Even if you do hit them, it can't take more than one hit to take a person down.

01:06:11.000 It's true, it's true, but I do have some good news.

01:06:14.000 None of that matters, because in most of these states that ban guns, you go to prison whether or not you hit the person or not.

01:06:19.000 It's like someone broke into your house.

01:06:20.000 That's hilarious.

01:06:21.000 Off to prison with you.

01:06:22.000 Good news.

01:06:23.000 Reminds me of... Oh no, I just want to say, I've had people...

01:06:27.000 I have had people who I know ask me, like, well, why would someone need, like, a handgun with 15 or 16 rounds in it?

01:06:33.000 It's like, dude, because, first of all, if more than one person breaks into your house, and you only have six rounds, like, you're already done.

01:06:40.000 I'm sorry, if you don't know how to use a firearm very well, if you're not very well trained.

01:06:43.000 I mean, how often... Man, I want to double-check this, because I don't want to get the statistic wrong, but the majority of the time, when a police officer is aiming at a target, they miss.

01:06:52.000 And they train more often than most citizens do.

01:06:54.000 So still barely trained. Yeah, that's also true. I have a buddy who was in the military

01:06:59.000 And he was a police officer and he said that as a cop he almost never trained which was really unfortunate

01:07:04.000 He was not a police officer for very long He left but yeah

01:07:07.000 I don't know if police officers are not well trained enough to hit targets

01:07:11.000 Then you expect civilians to be able to do so with a limited amount of ammunition in their magazine my one of my

01:07:16.000 favorite things You see on Twitter. You'll see these arguments that make

01:07:19.000 literally no sense And you know, it's a meme because they all repeat

01:07:22.000 themselves clearly having never fact-checked it And there's one going around where they're like, if you can't hit it in 10 rounds, you shouldn't be shooting at it.

01:07:30.000 And I'm like, so you're saying I should hit 30 to 50 feral hogs with just 10 bullets?

01:07:34.000 Also, I get it, 30 to 50 feral hogs is a meme, but you just carry more magazines.

01:07:41.000 Stupidest thing they're like you should only have ten so there was a guy who actually there's a sheriff He did a video where he was like, you know using lower capacity magazines But more of them and the guys the times were negligible in between Because when you have a handgun you just press the release and then you put it in and you start shooting again And then when it comes to like an AR you pull the release and you put in the magazine you start shooting again people like these arguments about capacity size ...are empty platitudes from Democrats who are just trying to give something to gun control people. 0.53

01:08:09.000 But I will say, if they keep gaining ground on this, eventually it'll be like, bolt action or nothing!

01:08:14.000 And you're like, okay, whatever, man.

01:08:15.000 People will say things like, semi-automatics shouldn't be legal.

01:08:19.000 It's like, what are you talking about?

01:08:21.000 Like, technically revolvers, they function as semi-automatic.

01:08:25.000 You pull the trigger, it fires, and then it spins and you're ready to fire again.

01:08:29.000 But you know, this is the nature of arguing with people who don't know anything.

01:08:33.000 What are AR style pistols?

01:08:35.000 It's basically the same function mechanics of an AR-15.

01:08:39.000 So is it like Armalite rifle style?

01:08:42.000 Or is it talking about the AR-15 style?

01:08:44.000 So an AR pistol, or like an AR style pistol, means the same thing.

01:08:48.000 It's basically an AR-15 but small.

01:08:50.000 And then you're supposed to hold it with one hand and shoot like a pistol.

01:08:54.000 But they put braces on it that you can put on your forearm to make it easier to shoot.

01:08:58.000 But people will, you know, put it up like a stock and you're not supposed to do that.

01:09:01.000 But I guess that's the issue.

01:09:03.000 Everybody does it.

01:09:04.000 So that's why Biden wants to make it an NFA item.

01:09:06.000 Make it so that it qualifies as a short barreled rifle.

01:09:09.000 I think they need to rebrand the AR.

01:09:11.000 Because it sounds too much like assault rifles.

01:09:14.000 I mean, the AK functions similarly.

01:09:14.000 It's irrelevant.

01:09:17.000 There's a bunch of different weapons you can get that are semi-automatic rifles that function, and it's just... The AR is just a... It's a good working mechanical device, so... What does AK stand for?

01:09:27.000 You guys know off the top of your head?

01:09:28.000 That's probably a Russian word.

01:09:29.000 Something Kalashnikov?

01:09:30.000 Oh yeah, there you go.

01:09:31.000 I'm looking it up.

01:09:32.000 Yeah, well, let's how about we just do the hardest of hard segues and jump to something totally unrelated.

01:09:40.000 I think there is a conspiracy that the NSA and the CIA are all making us more resilient in case there is a war.

01:09:47.000 I think there is that conspiracy.

01:09:49.000 They're decentralizing everything.

01:09:51.000 I don't know.

01:09:51.000 I have no proof.

01:09:52.000 They're letting Antifa run wild because they want to stick them on another country. 0.96

01:09:58.000 They want us to buy guns like crazy.

01:09:59.000 Yeah, no, I hear you.

01:10:00.000 I was being facetious.

01:10:01.000 Yeah, millions upon millions.

01:10:02.000 Ammo shortages?

01:10:03.000 Yeah.

01:10:03.000 This is another thing, man.

01:10:04.000 You gotta just, you know, think.

01:10:06.000 So someone hacked the ammo pipeline?

01:10:08.000 While all this stuff's going on, there's massive government contracts for ammo and ammo shortages.

01:10:12.000 Like, it's just a lot of things where it's like, wow, all those things happening are really good for us if a war breaks out.

01:10:19.000 Ammo shortages.

01:10:20.000 I wonder why the government is buying so many bullets.

01:10:22.000 Oh, they're dispatching the Air Force across the Pacific to avoid a Russian rocket attack, and they're buying bombs for Pacific theater.

01:10:29.000 Uh, really interested that all of these things are happening, but I don't think there's gonna be a war.

01:10:34.000 Even though we're in the fourth turning, and there's Thucydides' trap, and constant articles saying, are we going to war with China?

01:10:40.000 And now lab leak hypothesis is becoming prominent, and accusations about China are getting really serious.

01:10:46.000 Maybe it's, maybe, maybe nothing happens.

01:10:48.000 Maybe this, I don't know.

01:10:50.000 Maybe nothing happens.

01:10:51.000 Yeah, it could be like a year and a half long false flag.

01:10:57.000 Like, the Gulf of Tonkin happened in a day, but this, they're just like, yeah, the Antifa thing, they just want to get us ready.

01:11:03.000 I don't know about that, but I do know about this.

01:11:06.000 From The Daily Caller, Twitter suspends former Treasury official after he compared Brian Stalter to the GIMP from Pulp Fiction.

01:11:15.000 This is not newsworthy, but considering, for those that are just tuning in or didn't watch the last segments, we were talking very, very seriously about war and gun rights, and I was like, and now we need to slam into a brick wall of nonsense to kind of calm down and have a good laugh At the expense of others.

01:11:33.000 Yeah.

01:11:36.000 So the reason I'm starting with this, and we're going to be ragging on Brian Stelter, it's not because somebody compared him to the GIMP from Pulp Fiction, but more so because he is being slammed.

01:11:48.000 Quote, This is how state TV functions.

01:11:51.000 Glenn Greenwald rips CNN's Brian Stelter for fawning over White House's Jen Psaki in one of the most sycophantic interviews of a state official you'll ever see.

01:12:01.000 Now, this is funny.

01:12:02.000 We're going to read the GIMP story.

01:12:04.000 But I want to just stress the point that Brian Stelter is the guy who completely, who routinely ragged on Fox as the state propaganda, it's the propaganda arm of the state.

01:12:13.000 This is what state TV looks like.

01:12:15.000 And then give him the opportunity and he just gives, I wouldn't even call it a softball interview, it was a whiffleball interview.

01:12:21.000 He was lightly tossing whiffleballs to Jen Psaki, who then hit him straight out of the park.

01:12:26.000 Well, here's what happened on the Daily Caller.

01:12:27.000 They say, Internet accountability project founder Mike Davis and former Treasury official Will Upton were temporarily suspended from Twitter for comparing CNN anchor Brian Stelter to the character Gimp from the movie Pulp Fiction.

01:12:41.000 Twitter first suspended Upton on Sunday night after he made a post that mocked the anchor.

01:12:45.000 Stelter had asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki what she believed the media doesn't accurately cover about the Biden administration.

01:12:53.000 Fun fact, Brian Stelter, is that is the gimp from Pulp Fiction.

01:12:58.000 Upton's initial tweet read, which was followed up by a gif of the character from the 1994 film, Oh, so they restored it!

01:13:07.000 Wonderful!

01:13:08.000 Upton was suspended shortly after posting the tweet, but had his account unsuspended a few hours later after successfully appealing the suspension, The Federalist reported.

01:13:16.000 Upton tweeted that he simply pointed out that comparing a public figure to a fictional movie character does not violate the terms of service, saying, LOL, this tweet got me temporarily suspended from Twitter.

01:13:26.000 I appealed in one.

01:13:28.000 I simply pointed out that comparing a public figure to a fictional movie character does not violate their terms of service.

01:13:34.000 Shortly after Upton was unsuspended, Davis was then temporarily suspended from Twitter for defending Upton's post, according to the Federalist, citing that he had violated rules against hateful conduct on the site.

01:13:45.000 You really put big tech critic W. Upton in a Twitter jail for comparing Brian Sutter to The Gimp in Pulp Fiction?

01:13:51.000 I'd be very upset if I were The Gimp as well. 0.59

01:13:54.000 Bravo, good sir!

01:13:56.000 Now let's talk about, uh, not what we're getting, you know, I point this out, you know, Glenn Greenwald tears into CNN.

01:14:02.000 But take a look at what's happening here.

01:14:04.000 You see this story?

01:14:04.000 Nigeria suspends Twitter after Twitter suspends its president.

01:14:09.000 I'm conflicted on this one.

01:14:11.000 Take a look at how our media operates.

01:14:14.000 We got major breaking news censored in this country.

01:14:17.000 The Hunter Biden story.

01:14:18.000 Many people were polled.

01:14:20.000 This was a Rasmussen poll.

01:14:21.000 Many, many people.

01:14:22.000 It was the most people.

01:14:23.000 Now, a lot of people were polled, and it turns out around 6% of people said that had they known about Hunter Biden, they would not have supported Joe Biden, which would have been more than enough for Trump to take many of the states he would have needed to win.

01:14:23.000 Everyone agrees.

01:14:35.000 But Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, they collude.

01:14:39.000 They ban people.

01:14:41.000 They do just enough to make sure milquetoast channels like this one survive, but then get rid of anybody who's posting anything too edgy or too controversial, and they suppress it and they shut it down.

01:14:51.000 Nigeria struck back.

01:14:54.000 They blocked Twitter.

01:14:56.000 They say, The country announced the move two days after the platform temporarily froze the Nigerian president's official account on Wednesday for allegedly violating its abusive behavior policy.

01:15:06.000 Quote, the federal government has suspended indefinitely the operations of the microblogging and social networking service Twitter in Nigeria, a news release from the Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, al-Haji Lai Mohammed's office stated.

01:15:19.000 So you can see they announced it.

01:15:21.000 In a Friday statement announcing the move, Mohammed cited the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence.

01:15:29.000 As a reason for the decision, according to the press release, the Nigerian government did not provide more details on how it will carry out the suspension of the tech giant's operations in the country or on the activities Mohammed mentioned in his statement.

01:15:40.000 An aide at the ministry told Reuters, wait and see how things will turn out.

01:15:44.000 I don't know how I feel about this, right?

01:15:46.000 So again, the gist of the story, Twitter has suspended, Twitter is suspended in Nigeria after suspending the president.

01:15:53.000 I don't know how I feel about that, but I kind of think it's an important move.

01:15:58.000 Again, I'm not sure, I'd have to think through it, maybe have some arguments and hear some people, what they think.

01:16:03.000 The criticism I suppose is, A government shutting down social media?

01:16:07.000 That sounds bad.

01:16:08.000 What if people are rightly criticizing that leader as authoritarian?

01:16:12.000 Or what if he's a despot?

01:16:13.000 What if they're sharing real information, trying to challenge?

01:16:15.000 What if it's like, you criticize Kamala Harris, and then she uses the government to shut down social media because they don't like what's happening?

01:16:25.000 The difference here, though, is that Nigeria blocked Twitter because Twitter was interfering with its politics.

01:16:30.000 And that's really, really bad.

01:16:32.000 So it's kind of inverted.

01:16:34.000 If there's a politician saying and doing nasty things, and we use social media to call them out, that's power to the people.

01:16:39.000 If Twitter bans those people, it's a problem.

01:16:41.000 That's what Twitter is doing.

01:16:42.000 Conservatives call out malfeasance from Democrats and get banned for doing so.

01:16:46.000 We just read, you criticize a CNN anchor and they suspend you?

01:16:49.000 That's insane.

01:16:50.000 But what happens when Twitter is interfering with your politics like they were here?

01:16:55.000 What happens then when the government says we're not going to allow Twitter to operate because it's interfering in the political system?

01:17:01.000 This is different.

01:17:02.000 I don't know.

01:17:03.000 Ian, you actually have experience moderating, so I'm curious what you think.

01:17:08.000 Well, with Mines, which is where I moderated at, our terms of service were the U.S.

01:17:11.000 Constitution, and specifically Connecticut law, where the corporation was formed.

01:17:15.000 So if someone didn't violate the U.S.

01:17:17.000 Constitution, U.S.

01:17:18.000 law, they wouldn't get banned off the site.

01:17:22.000 No, what's your thoughts on this?

01:17:23.000 I mean, look.

01:17:24.000 I don't know.

01:17:25.000 What did he get banned for?

01:17:26.000 I don't know.

01:17:27.000 He tweeted something offensive, so Twitter suspends him.

01:17:29.000 If he violates terms of service, then the company has a right to ban him legally.

01:17:35.000 But I mean, it really speaks to how much more powerful these corporations are than national governments.

01:17:40.000 You mean the other way around?

01:17:41.000 I think the corporations has more right right power and influence than the government if they want to not

01:17:45.000 necessarily They don't have a military, but they could definitely hire

01:17:48.000 You know Blackwater or some sort of like mercenary guard if they wanted Twitter could they're not called it

01:17:53.000 I think Blackwater changed their name seven times. Yeah.

01:17:56.000 Yeah, they bad press. I don't know. What do you think? Mr.

01:17:59.000 Seamus Nigeria banned Twitter because Twitter was interfering in their politics. I mean Nigeria man. There 1.00

01:18:05.000 was a great someone made a meme About this. I don't think it was Nigeria was another 1.00

01:18:10.000 country, but Twitter was banned there and someone's response was well

01:18:13.000 You know what Nigeria acts as a private country Twitter can make 0.87

01:18:18.000 That's right!

01:18:19.000 So I have to give credit where it's due.

01:18:20.000 I won't try to pass it off as my own joke.

01:18:22.000 But yeah, I'm not sure.

01:18:24.000 I guess I don't have that strong of an opinion on this one.

01:18:26.000 I think that Nigeria can do what Nigeria wants to do if they want to ban Twitter.

01:18:30.000 That's fine.

01:18:31.000 I'm not going to say they've violated some international law and so we should go after them.

01:18:35.000 As a nation, they don't have an obligation to allow Twitter to offer their service in their country.

01:18:39.000 What if Donald Trump was like, my tweets have been censored so we are formally shutting down Twitter?

01:18:45.000 Would have been interesting.

01:18:46.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:18:47.000 I'm curious how that would have played out if he can even have accomplished something like that given he was going to be out of office soon.

01:18:51.000 I mean, the Biden administration would surely overturn something like that immediately.

01:18:54.000 It is interesting because it's an American company operating in America.

01:18:57.000 The government doesn't have the power to do so.

01:18:59.000 But for Nigeria, it's a foreign corporation operating in their borders.

01:19:03.000 They very well could just be like... So Twitter's learning that some countries aren't going to put up with their nonsense. 0.60

01:19:08.000 Oh, poor Twitter.

01:19:09.000 I think it's the same thing with the Florida law that they were talking about DeSantis was going to pass, that if Twitter bans some people in Florida, but Florida was like, hey, you can't do that, that Twitter would just get banned out of Florida as well, like they just did out of Nigeria.

01:19:09.000 I feel so bad for them.

01:19:23.000 Interesting.

01:19:24.000 Or block their own activity out of Florida.

01:19:25.000 All I know is for a nation to say that they don't want a foreign corporation to limit their leader's abilities to communicate with their citizens is not a bad thing.

01:19:38.000 That just seems completely reasonable and straightforward.

01:19:39.000 The thing is, at what point is that considered a foreign corporation anymore?

01:19:42.000 Like, all corporations are foreign.

01:19:44.000 I don't care where their headquarters is.

01:19:45.000 Right.

01:19:46.000 I mean, they're hiding money overseas.

01:19:48.000 They're putting their headquarters in, like, Ireland and other countries to get away from taxes.

01:19:51.000 Maybe some of it's in Nigeria, you know? 0.95

01:19:53.000 Maybe they made a deal with one of those princes.

01:19:54.000 That was sent in an email.

01:19:55.000 They're gonna start putting corporations in space stations.

01:20:00.000 Oh, we're not subject to anybody's laws.

01:20:01.000 You can't do anything about it.

01:20:02.000 Dude, there was this hilarious... I was reading about this.

01:20:04.000 There was this plan.

01:20:06.000 From some libertarian, I would imagine, to build this gigantic boat that would just be in international waters at all time, making this huge route around the world.

01:20:15.000 And it was for the ultra wealthy, for them to run their businesses so that they wouldn't have to pay an income tax anywhere.

01:20:23.000 And what you said just reminded me of that.

01:20:24.000 Like, imagine at some point they're going to have these space stations.

01:20:26.000 Maybe that's what Elon's trying to do.

01:20:28.000 He just wants to go to Mars so he can be like, look, I'm not in America.

01:20:30.000 I'm not paying income.

01:20:31.000 There's just like one guy in a 10 by 10 space station.

01:20:36.000 And it's just like, it's their address is one space way.

01:20:39.000 And he lives there getting paid a lot of money he can't spend.

01:20:43.000 Bezos is retiring as CEO, and he's gonna be on the first mission of Blue Origin.

01:20:48.000 Yeah, and he's gonna be on the first manned space mission on his new rocket with his brother.

01:20:48.000 He's retiring?

01:20:53.000 They're gonna be on.

01:20:54.000 Wait, what do you mean on the first manned space mission?

01:20:56.000 They're going into space.

01:20:57.000 I think it's Blue Origin is the name of his company.

01:20:58.000 Oh, the first manned space mission.

01:20:59.000 So they're planning in June, I think it is, the first manned mission into space, and he's gonna be on the rocket with his brother.

01:21:07.000 Wow.

01:21:07.000 I'm just waiting for something interesting to happen, you know?

01:21:10.000 It's like, every day I wake up and look at the news and I'm like, It's kind of the same thing.

01:21:15.000 Yeah, it's just boring.

01:21:16.000 All it is is reruns.

01:21:16.000 DMT.

01:21:16.000 Inflation.

01:21:18.000 Yeah.

01:21:19.000 No.

01:21:19.000 You gotta go inside if you want to find the next step of engagement in this reality.

01:21:23.000 DMT.

01:21:24.000 I agree, we should go inside.

01:21:25.000 Meditation.

01:21:25.000 But not with drugs.

01:21:26.000 Yeah, no drugs are bad.

01:21:26.000 Yeah.

01:21:27.000 Breathing.

01:21:27.000 Apparently breathing can get you there.

01:21:29.000 Yep.

01:21:29.000 You know, certain types of psychedelic trances and like, obviously diet, but breathing, if you do different breathing exercises.

01:21:35.000 Wim Hof. 0.67

01:21:36.000 That's where the excitement lies in reality, my friends.

01:21:39.000 You know, we've been in this period for a couple decades where it's been extremely routine.

01:21:44.000 You know, our conflicts have been... it's been so nice, it's been so good, that the crisis we've faced has been rich people ripping off poor people.

01:21:53.000 Yeah.

01:21:53.000 It's by design, man.

01:21:54.000 They placated us.

01:21:55.000 They made...

01:21:56.000 They made marijuana illegal.

01:21:58.000 They made LSD illegal.

01:21:59.000 They made psilocybin illegal.

01:22:00.000 They made MDMA illegal.

01:22:02.000 And they're trying to suppress people.

01:22:03.000 They feed them all this sugar and they keep them like... They have been doing that.

01:22:06.000 The rich people have been taking advantage of the masses.

01:22:09.000 I think if they really wanted to lull people into a sleep, they'd allow them to do the drugs.

01:22:09.000 No, hold on.

01:22:14.000 No, it's the other way around.

01:22:16.000 It's too dangerous for the status quo.

01:22:17.000 People start to think for themselves.

01:22:19.000 Then why do you think they're legalizing them all, then? 0.98

01:22:21.000 It's just, you can't fight the tide.

01:22:23.000 At some point, the people and the democratization of power overcomes tyranny.

01:22:27.000 At least that's what it seems like happens.

01:22:29.000 That's what humans want to happen.

01:22:30.000 You guys ever see that Vox article advocating for putting lithium in the water?

01:22:33.000 What?

01:22:34.000 No, I didn't.

01:22:34.000 Yeah.

01:22:35.000 Let me see if I can find it.

01:22:36.000 I just heard you can mine lithium from water using graphene filtration.

01:22:40.000 Did you know that?

01:22:41.000 You can mine lithium out of water.

01:22:43.000 Interesting.

01:22:43.000 Yeah.

01:22:45.000 That's big.

01:22:45.000 I didn't know that.

01:22:46.000 Yeah, so this is from October 24th, 2018.

01:22:51.000 How our drinking water could help prevent suicide.

01:22:54.000 Oh, yes.

01:22:54.000 Oh, how could that help?

01:22:56.000 Oh my gosh.

01:22:57.000 Lithium is a potent psychiatric drug, one of the primary prescribed medications for bipolar disorder, but it's also an element that occurs naturally all over Earth's crust, including in bodies of water.

01:23:06.000 That means that small quantities of lithium wind up in the tap water you consume every day.

01:23:11.000 Just how much is in the water varies quite a bit from place to place.

01:23:14.000 Naturally, that made researchers curious.

01:23:17.000 Are places with more lithium in the water healthier mentally?

01:23:20.000 Do places with more lithium have less depression or bipolar, or most importantly, of all, fewer suicides?

01:23:25.000 A 2014 review of studies concluded the answer was yes.

01:23:28.000 Four of five studies reviewed found that places with higher levels of trace lithium had lower suicide rates.

01:23:34.000 And Nasser Ghaimi, the Tufts psychiatric professor who co-authored that review, argues that the effects are large.

01:23:40.000 High lithium areas, he says, have suicide rates 50 to 60 percent lower than those of low lithium areas.

01:23:46.000 Quote, in general, in the United States, lithium levels are much higher in the northeast and

01:23:51.000 east coast and very low in the mountain west.

01:23:54.000 He told me in a new episode of the Vox podcast, Future Perfect, and suicide rates track that exactly.

01:23:59.000 Much lower suicide rates in the Northeast, and the highest rates of suicide are in the Mountain West.

01:24:04.000 If you apply that 50-60% reduction to the US, where about 45,000 people died by suicide in 2016, you get a total number of lives saved around 22,500 to 27,000 a year.

01:24:15.000 That's likely too high, since you can't reduce suicide rates in places that are already high lithium.

01:24:20.000 GAMI's own back-of-the-envelope calculation said we save 15,000 to 25,000.

01:24:24.000 Well, Seamus Ian, if it saves one life... Then we have to do it.

01:24:29.000 That's how it works.

01:24:29.000 All in.

01:24:30.000 Yeah, so I think what Vox is saying is that if we put a psychoactive drug in our water supply, people will be happier.

01:24:37.000 Um, although if you go ahead and look at the Royal Society of Chemistry, they just released a paper that says, continuous electrical pumping membrane process for seawater lithium mining will eventually be pulling the lithium out of the water and then utilizing it that way.

01:24:49.000 Either for batteries or for feeling better!

01:24:51.000 You know what I was thinking a lot about this?

01:24:54.000 There's a meme going around where it's a guy, he's at a psychiatrist's office, and he says, every day I wake up with existential dread and my life is meaningless.

01:25:01.000 And the doctor says, best I can do is give you pills that make you think everything's okay.

01:25:06.000 And I'm like, that's dark, man.

01:25:08.000 Why do people have no purpose?

01:25:10.000 Like, why do they feel that dread?

01:25:12.000 Why don't I experience that?

01:25:14.000 You know what I mean?

01:25:15.000 Like, is it because I'm healthy?

01:25:16.000 It's because you're so handsome.

01:25:17.000 Part of it.

01:25:18.000 You do stuff you like.

01:25:20.000 It has, like, compounding effects.

01:25:22.000 Like, even if everything went to hell right now for you, you'd still feel good in three weeks from the last six months of activity.

01:25:28.000 Let's talk about all of the left's arguments on this one.

01:25:31.000 First of all, Vox is saying put drugs in the water.

01:25:33.000 I'm completely opposed to that.

01:25:34.000 They argue that one of the things about institutional racism and generational poverty, people from poor areas, they drink dirtier water, it affects their mental health, they have less access to good schools, all of that stuff, right?

01:25:49.000 Well, I'm a shining example of all of those things.

01:25:52.000 Southside of Chicago, public school, uh, you know, low-income family, homelessness.

01:25:57.000 I did alright.

01:25:58.000 I have passion.

01:25:59.000 I have drive.

01:25:59.000 I don't wake up feeling dread.

01:26:00.000 I wake up feeling great.

01:26:01.000 I wake up, I'm like, gee, I wonder what's on the news.

01:26:03.000 A little boring sometimes, like I mentioned before.

01:26:04.000 Like, you read the news and you're like, oh, that again.

01:26:06.000 But I'm always interested in seeing, like, news stories, UFOs, whatever, talking about this stuff.

01:26:11.000 It's either that there's people that are activated, like, there's a .00001% of the population that's so, like, able, that's just, like, the evolution of a human, that you're able to, like, break through all the crap, or that there's a way to activate the human body and become that, and for whatever reason you seem to have mastered.

01:26:29.000 I'm chilling.

01:26:30.000 I know we're all kind of chilling.

01:26:33.000 It was just funny, your description juxtaposed to Ian's.

01:26:36.000 You're like, I'm chilling.

01:26:37.000 But no, I mean, I guess that's a complicated question.

01:26:40.000 You have a lot to do.

01:26:42.000 You seem to be doing something that you really believe is improving the world and that takes up a good amount of your time.

01:26:46.000 You're building something.

01:26:47.000 I think that's a huge part of life and it's a huge part of feeling happy with yourself.

01:26:51.000 Even before I did any of this, I was not waking up experiencing existential dread.

01:26:57.000 Yeah, that's a really good question.

01:26:58.000 So, let me ask you, did you have a goal that you were working towards at that time?

01:27:03.000 Not really.

01:27:03.000 Before all this?

01:27:04.000 Really?

01:27:05.000 So what were you doing every day?

01:27:06.000 I mean, literally right before Occupy Wall Street started, I was just skating and filming little skate videos.

01:27:12.000 And how long had you been doing that for?

01:27:14.000 Oh, I just started a few months before.

01:27:15.000 Before that, I was in California.

01:27:17.000 Just, you know, I was working at a homeless shelter and some non-profits, and then my apartment burned down and made everything kind of crazy.

01:27:22.000 Oh, snap! 1.00

01:27:23.000 You were down by 6th Street?

01:27:24.000 Where?

01:27:25.000 Downtown LA?

01:27:26.000 Is that where your homeless shelter you were working at?

01:27:27.000 Which one were you at?

01:27:27.000 No, no, no.

01:27:28.000 Oh, I can't talk about it.

01:27:29.000 Oh! 0.60

01:27:30.000 The plot thickens!

01:27:31.000 Well, I guess my point is, so, I don't know your whole life story here, despite being a fellow Illinois Boys.

01:27:36.000 I'm not trying to talk about me.

01:27:37.000 I'm trying to talk about other people and what's missing from their lives.

01:27:40.000 Oh, sure.

01:27:40.000 That results in them needing lithium in their drinking water to feel better.

01:27:44.000 I think we've peaked as a society. I think this is it.

01:27:47.000 There's nothing to aspire to.

01:27:49.000 People don't want to have kids. They don't want to have families. This means that they don't really

01:27:52.000 have a good view of the future. And you see this in all of our policies. We're never thinking about

01:27:57.000 what's coming down the road. You watch Joe Biden putting all of these policies into effect. He only

01:28:01.000 cares about the next four years.

01:28:04.000 Eight years?

01:28:05.000 He's not even gonna be around and I think he knows that.

01:28:05.000 Maybe?

01:28:08.000 And I think that there's just no look toward the future at all.

01:28:12.000 We look at people like Angela Merkel not having kids.

01:28:15.000 Macron doesn't have any kids.

01:28:16.000 Nobody cares about what's gonna happen tomorrow.

01:28:19.000 Yeah, I can't remember if it was on the after show or not, but we had a conversation about how a lot of these people don't have kids last time.

01:28:26.000 Got in a little bit with Keane saying, in the long run we'll all be dead so who cares, and he didn't have any kids and that kind of thing.

01:28:34.000 When you're asking the question about why do we need lithium in the water, which again is something I'm also completely against, I think that's a very strange opinion to have, and also a very strange opinion to have and admit to having, as this person felt called to do in this article they wrote.

01:28:48.000 But some of it just breaks down, and I hate to overly pathologize, but some of it's just chemical.

01:28:52.000 I mean, there are some people who could experience all the things you've experienced, or the things I've experienced, or any of us have, and react completely differently to them, just based on their genetics.

01:29:00.000 But I think a lot of it is the way you choose to react to things.

01:29:04.000 I think kids, I think not having kids has been a big, big, big, big problem for millennials.

01:29:09.000 Yeah.

01:29:09.000 You know, there was a super chat where they were saying that in response, we did a story about that valedictorian or whatever, where she was like, you know, pro-choice or whatever.

01:29:17.000 And then someone commented that your dreams don't disappear when you have kids.

01:29:22.000 In fact, the moment they had the kid, it was like, all of a sudden, all they could think about was the future and the work and the passion.

01:29:27.000 Past mistakes disappeared.

01:29:28.000 Yeah, it's almost like people have no purpose.

01:29:31.000 Then they have kids and realize they have a purpose.

01:29:33.000 They need the world to be a better place for their children.

01:29:35.000 And all of a sudden now they're interested in doing things that matter.

01:29:40.000 And a lot of young people don't have that.

01:29:42.000 So they're extremely nihilistic and self-interested.

01:29:44.000 I think this might be a big difference between the left and the right.

01:29:48.000 I wonder if you could actually track this.

01:29:52.000 Maybe we should commission a poll.

01:29:54.000 If you align culturally right or, you know, in the culture war, do you have children?

01:29:59.000 On the left, do you have children?

01:30:01.000 I'd be willing to bet, I could be wrong, that the left has a predisposition towards less kids and the right has a predisposition towards more kids.

01:30:08.000 That's why leftist policy tends to be more gimme gimme gimme.

01:30:11.000 Right-wing policy tends to be more personal responsibility.

01:30:14.000 You've got to, you know, do hard work to succeed because they want people to plant the tree whose shade they know they will never sit in.

01:30:20.000 The leftists are kind of like, I don't want to pay my loans back.

01:30:24.000 That's one of the biggest issues for men on the left.

01:30:27.000 I took out $50,000.

01:30:28.000 I spent it.

01:30:31.000 You should pay for it.

01:30:32.000 That's not helping anybody in the future.

01:30:34.000 It's making things considerably worse.

01:30:37.000 Yeah, I mean, I would agree.

01:30:38.000 Now, to play devil's advocate on that one, I think you can make an argument that part of the reason they don't have kids is because they have these massive loans so they can't settle down and buy a home and get married and do all the things you would do before having a family.

01:30:48.000 Right, but why do you go to college in the first place?

01:30:50.000 I don't think the kind of person who's planning to have a bunch of kids is going to be somebody who says, okay, let me just take on, you know, $80,000, $100,000 worth of student loan.

01:30:58.000 This won't affect my kids' future lives at all.

01:31:00.000 Well, I think a lot of people don't think about that when they're 18.

01:31:01.000 Oh yeah, it's possible too.

01:31:03.000 Yeah.

01:31:04.000 But that's also kind of a weird problem, because historically, if someone wasn't ready to have or take care of children by the time they were 18, people sort of assumed there was something wrong with them.

01:31:12.000 I mean, if, let's look, a hundred years ago, if an 18-year-old man was not capable of supporting a family, people would assume that there was a problem with him.

01:31:19.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:31:20.000 And so people were thinking about these things at that age, historically.

01:31:22.000 And, you know, why shouldn't they have been?

01:31:24.000 By the time you're 18, you are mature enough to have a family, despite what our modern society tells us.

01:31:28.000 Despite the fact that we want to continually extend adolescence, an 18-year-old is an adult.

01:31:33.000 Maybe, uh, maybe Liz is right.

01:31:35.000 We peaked.

01:31:36.000 No, I'm not.

01:31:36.000 That's it.

01:31:36.000 What do you mean by peaked?

01:31:38.000 Definitely not morally.

01:31:40.000 So, well, yes, but Ian and I were talking about this the other night.

01:31:43.000 We were like, this is the nicest the world has ever been.

01:31:45.000 Materially, for sure.

01:31:46.000 We have everything that we want.

01:31:46.000 Yes.

01:31:48.000 You can literally order Uber Eats at two in the morning and get literally whatever you want from wherever's open.

01:31:54.000 It's It's insane.

01:31:55.000 No, it's insane.

01:31:56.000 And it's changed even from when I was a kid.

01:31:59.000 I mean, I'm 26 years old, but the kind of comfort and entertainment I have access to now is completely different from when I was a kid.

01:32:06.000 Unparalleled.

01:32:07.000 I remember a time in my life Where there would be a movie or a TV show that I wanted to watch, and I just, like, wouldn't be able to.

01:32:14.000 And nowadays, anyone can watch whatever they want, whenever they want.

01:32:18.000 They can order whatever kind of food they want, unless they're just in the middle of nowhere and don't have access to the things people generally have in society.

01:32:24.000 I mean, we are so comfortable, and it's not doing us any favors.

01:32:30.000 We didn't have debit cards when I was a kid.

01:32:31.000 We had only checks.

01:32:32.000 You had to take a check to the bank, and they'd give you money, or you'd have to write a check, and they'd have to check with Clear.

01:32:37.000 It'd take, like, a week to Clear or whatever.

01:32:39.000 That helps because I'll buy and sell and my finances are probably magnitudes better than they would have been 30 years ago because of my access to digital currency.

01:32:47.000 Do you remember those commercials when debit cards became a thing and it was like the Visa check card comes out and it was like people were like dancing in line at the cafe and just like swiping their card and then like a guy walks up and he's like fumbling with his wallet and they're like no!

01:33:02.000 I didn't realize, when I was a kid, it didn't mean anything to me.

01:33:04.000 I was like, I don't do this.

01:33:05.000 By the time I was an adult, I had a debit card.

01:33:07.000 You could use it for everything.

01:33:08.000 Yeah, I got it when I was 14.

01:33:10.000 I think, okay, my thesis here, what I was gonna say is that everything is convenient and I don't think that the U.S.

01:33:17.000 can recover and go forward until we give up some of our desire for convenience. 100%.

01:33:23.000 P. I think it's pivotal.

01:33:24.000 I was about to combine those two words and it's gonna be weird.

01:33:27.000 I'm glad I didn't.

01:33:28.000 And I think that we're not ready to give that up.

01:33:30.000 We want life to be easy.

01:33:32.000 We don't see how it's crippling us.

01:33:33.000 We don't see that it's making us need things like lithium to even want to get out of bed in the morning.

01:33:38.000 That's so sad.

01:33:39.000 Yeah, well, I think there's also a lot of truth in that.

01:33:41.000 People constantly seek comfort instead of doing the right thing or the things that will improve their life because they've been accustomed to having anything they want at any time they want.

01:33:48.000 So, at some point you do become depressed when that's the lifestyle that you've been living.

01:33:52.000 There's a point, so this is a point to borrow from someone else once again.

01:33:55.000 Actually, my dad, he made this point a while ago when speaking to a group of people.

01:33:59.000 He asked them, like, do you think you had a better life than your parents did?

01:34:02.000 And basically everyone raised their hands.

01:34:04.000 And then he said, do you think you're a better person than your parents were?

01:34:08.000 And basically no one raised their hands.

01:34:10.000 So he said, well, maybe it's not such a bad thing that hard times are coming.

01:34:13.000 Maybe your kids are going to be better people than you.

01:34:15.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:34:16.000 I think that's right.

01:34:17.000 How about we go to Super Chat?

01:34:19.000 If you have not already, smash that like button and go to TimCast.com, become a member.

01:34:25.000 Um, I'm not entirely sure, but we may have a very, very dark and very serious bonus segment that you're not going to want.

01:34:31.000 Oh yeah.

01:34:32.000 I'm scared.

01:34:32.000 Serious.

01:34:33.000 I don't even want to be a part of it.

01:34:34.000 YouTube insta-ban content.

01:34:37.000 If I even mention right now what I'm going to talk about, YouTube would probably just ban us instantly.

01:34:41.000 Before it even happened.

01:34:42.000 I've tweeted about it, but I'm not going to say more than that because it's like an insta-ban.

01:34:46.000 It's insta-ban territory.

01:34:47.000 Oh, I know what it is.

01:34:47.000 Yeah, it's super creepy stuff.

01:34:48.000 Let me check out Tim.

01:34:49.000 So we'll just leave it there.

01:34:52.000 But smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends and go to TimCast.com, become a member.

01:34:56.000 The new website's going to be coming up very soon, hopefully about a week or two.

01:34:59.000 I'm really excited.

01:35:01.000 We've got the designs and we've got, you know, the mockups and stuff.

01:35:04.000 It looks amazing.

01:35:06.000 And the newsroom's coming along with it.

01:35:08.000 We've got new people potentially, you know, we're going to be hiring soon.

01:35:11.000 We're looking for some field reporters.

01:35:12.000 We're probably going to have some staff individuals who literally will just fly around the country covering the stuff on the ground.

01:35:18.000 And there's a very serious issue with undercover and investigative reporting we're going to do with security and safety, but your membership is going to be funding all that, so sincere thank you to everybody.

01:35:28.000 Let's read some of these super chats.

01:35:31.000 All right, let's see.

01:35:34.000 Okay.

01:35:35.000 Dynasite13 says, based Guatemalans, if we say that here in the US in protest, we get called insurrectionists while commies burn cities down.

01:35:43.000 That's correct.

01:35:44.000 Yep.

01:35:45.000 Maxatrillion says, Tim, you should fund your own American version of Shonen Jump.

01:35:48.000 You could call it Beanie Boy Comics or BBC for short.

01:35:50.000 Hey, yeah, the BBC!

01:35:51.000 That's fantastic.

01:35:53.000 That is fantastic.

01:35:54.000 They'll allow that.

01:35:55.000 Yeah, sure.

01:35:57.000 Let's see.

01:35:57.000 Himrumduf says, you need to get Tom McDonald on one of these days.

01:36:02.000 No more snowflakes.

01:36:02.000 It would be big.

01:36:04.000 Yes.

01:36:04.000 Tom is like one of the biggest, most famous dudes ever.

01:36:07.000 And we are like a medium-sized podcast, so it is very difficult to pull in the big names.

01:36:07.000 Swamped.

01:36:13.000 But Tom's a cool dude.

01:36:14.000 He's always welcome.

01:36:16.000 He's got an open invite.

01:36:18.000 All right.

01:36:19.000 Kaboose aka Kyle says, Illinois's boys represented from Zion, Illinois, almost Wisconsin.

01:36:24.000 Hey, what up?

01:36:25.000 Oh, yeah, baby.

01:36:26.000 You're still an Illinois's boy. 0.91

01:36:27.000 I don't care how close you are to Wisconsin.

01:36:28.000 That's right.

01:36:28.000 You're one of the Illinois's boys.

01:36:30.000 Jay Schwiffer says the $2.3 million in Bitcoin paid to the Colonial Pipeline hackers was seized by the U.S., according to CNBC and Reuters.

01:36:38.000 Interesting little update.

01:36:39.000 Keep up the good work.

01:36:40.000 I wonder how they seized a Bitcoin address.

01:36:43.000 Intriguing.

01:36:44.000 Uh-huh.

01:36:45.000 Did you hear that, Ian?

01:36:46.000 Yeah, I heard of it.

01:36:47.000 How did they seize a Bitcoin address?

01:36:49.000 I don't know.

01:36:50.000 They took like 78 or 88% of the money that got paid to this Colonial.

01:36:54.000 I don't know.

01:36:55.000 How are they getting access to the... I mean, obviously, if you see an address online, if you don't have the keys, how do you get it?

01:37:01.000 Maybe the hackers aren't storing their, uh, aren't securing their computers very well and got hacked.

01:37:05.000 Wow.

01:37:05.000 I don't know.

01:37:06.000 I'm surprised they didn't just put it right to cold storage.

01:37:06.000 Maybe.

01:37:10.000 I mean, I guess it's possible for someone to be able to hack a pipeline like that and not have their own computers protected from hackers.

01:37:18.000 Yeah, this hacking's really easy.

01:37:20.000 Really?

01:37:21.000 I don't know, it's that easy.

01:37:22.000 They hire someone to make some garbage malware that's like does enough, put on a USB drive and throw it in front of a

01:37:29.000 building and then you're done.

01:37:30.000 Really?

01:37:30.000 Yeah, you don't even have to know how to do any code. It's not hard. Or send an email. You can embed stuff in PDF

01:37:36.000 files. It's crazy.

01:37:37.000 I didn't know it was that easy. That's insane.

01:37:39.000 Wow, really?

01:37:39.000 Yep.

01:37:40.000 I've always thought about how there's no industry in suburbs.

01:37:42.000 There's like very little.

01:37:43.000 analysis on why cities and towns are failing. Their biggest findings are how

01:37:47.000 suburbia development doesn't pay a profitable or break-even return on

01:37:50.000 investment. Wow. I always thought about how there's no industry in suburbs. There's

01:37:54.000 like very little. They move it all out of the way like Jersey, New York's industry.

01:37:59.000 Rob from downtown says have you seen the Crowder H3 beef?

01:38:04.000 H3 talked about you too.

01:38:06.000 Interesting.

01:38:07.000 I actually listened to that today.

01:38:09.000 H3 had a very underwhelming take on following what the CDC says.

01:38:14.000 They basically just said, oh, you know, it's a bunch of doctors, a bunch of scientists.

01:38:17.000 They know what they're talking about.

01:38:18.000 Don't worry about anything.

01:38:19.000 You just need to listen to what they say.

01:38:20.000 Crowder took issue with this.

01:38:22.000 He's like, we do all our research.

01:38:23.000 We have like 150 sources.

01:38:25.000 We do leftist sources.

01:38:26.000 We make sure that what we're talking about is well researched.

01:38:29.000 And H3H3 really lives for the YouTube drama, and they slapped back at him.

01:38:32.000 And I didn't hear that you came up, so I'm really interested to see what happened.

01:38:35.000 I don't know about that.

01:38:37.000 I've never even talked- I don't even know much about H3 at all.

01:38:39.000 Yeah, I don't either.

01:38:39.000 I don't listen to them for a reason.

01:38:40.000 You like H3?

01:38:41.000 Ethan.

01:38:42.000 He's cool.

01:38:42.000 I watched some of their stuff a while ago, back when they were doing skits.

01:38:44.000 They used to be okay.

01:38:45.000 Before they did the podcast.

01:38:46.000 What's his wife's name?

01:38:47.000 Yeah, now it's just like a regular, regular, regular dude's talking about stuff, I guess?

01:38:51.000 Is that what it is?

01:38:51.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:38:52.000 I mean, I've seen a little bit of the podcast, but I mostly used to watch him when he was doing commentary.

01:38:56.000 I mean, there's a big difference between, like, a comedic personality who's not involved in politics, who forays into it, versus, like, a show that's, like, dedicated to cultural politics and political news.

01:39:07.000 So, like, you know, maybe the real issue is if H3 exists for, you know, cultural, like, mainstream pop stuff, then drama's really, really good for them.

01:39:19.000 I don't- I don't- I don't, uh, uh, drag on a lot of the stuff too much.

01:39:22.000 Like, if something comes up and I comment on it, I'll, you know, try and move on as quickly as possible.

01:39:28.000 Uh, depending on the issues, if they're cultural or political.

01:39:30.000 Like, I tweeted, uh, an invite to Andy Ngo to come on the show, simply because this actually has serious ramifications for cultural and political issues.

01:39:36.000 But when it comes to, like, talking about movies or whatever, I'll- I'll make my tweet about a movie and then, like, I'm not gonna keep talking.

01:39:42.000 I don't wanna, you know.

01:39:43.000 But I think for like H3, that's what they are.

01:39:46.000 They're a pop culture, like mainstream show.

01:39:48.000 Very big, very successful.

01:39:50.000 And so, you know, that's what they do.

01:39:51.000 It's more like MTV-ish than say Crowder, which is, you know, Crowder is more daily show-ish.

01:39:55.000 For sure.

01:39:56.000 I don't know why they would bring me up.

01:39:58.000 Yeah, so I'm not sure either.

01:39:59.000 But what I kind of came away with was that Crowder was basically like, please don't tell your audience not to do your own research.

01:40:04.000 Like, please don't tell people to just blindly listen to one source or the other.

01:40:08.000 He's like, that's not a good policy for the people who believe in you.

01:40:11.000 And then Crowder was like, I'm done.

01:40:12.000 I'm not going to debate you on this.

01:40:14.000 We're done with this.

01:40:15.000 Were they on an interview?

01:40:16.000 Huh?

01:40:17.000 Was he interviewing Steven or something?

01:40:19.000 No, he was just kind of talking about Crowder.

01:40:20.000 It was just like a back and forth meet between the podcasts.

01:40:23.000 And speaking of the comments I previously made, well, we have a super chat here.

01:40:28.000 Matthew Reckamp says, Tim, I saw your video criticizing Andy Ngo after he got attacked, and I've got to say, I think the fact you had to go to third world countries to find a comparison perfectly shows the point that you seemed to miss.

01:40:39.000 I don't think I missed it.

01:40:40.000 I will say, however, I think perhaps I shouldn't have been so crude.

01:40:44.000 I think that's the mistake I made.

01:40:45.000 I stand by all of my opinions.

01:40:47.000 But when I heard Megyn Kelly read my tweet, I was like, yeah, that was tactless.

01:40:51.000 That was like, it was after the show, I was tired, and I was, like, I found out that, you know, Andy went on the ground, and I was like, we're having a conversation about it with a lot of people, and then I was just like, how dumb, and then I tweeted, and I'm like, probably should have been a bit more tactful than that, but I stand by my opinions 100%.

01:41:05.000 The right seems to be so invested in, you know, supportive personality, that they're cheering for, I'm speaking figuratively here, people got mad when I said this, but a lot of people agreed.

01:41:16.000 A lot of people agreed.

01:41:17.000 Everybody thinks I'm the best.

01:41:20.000 The right is cheering for sending one of their generals down to confront frontline infantry and lose.

01:41:26.000 Andy Ngo is substantially more important than to be there in the middle of a crowd of random nobodies who will beat him to death.

01:41:33.000 That's the problem I took with this.

01:41:34.000 Why take that risk?

01:41:36.000 And then, you know, it just became tribal.

01:41:39.000 So anyway, I digress.

01:41:39.000 I don't want to rehash it too much, but Andy's invited on the show.

01:41:43.000 I know he wanted to come on before, but when he went to London, we don't do remote shows, so I just tweeted him, like, bro, come on the show.

01:41:48.000 We'll pay for it all.

01:41:49.000 And we'll have a good professional conversation, because the big difference between cancel culture on the left and whatever's on the right, though there are similarities, I've certainly complained about, I think I'm more than willing to invite anybody I disagree with to come on the show.

01:42:03.000 I'm willing to invite anybody I disagree with onto the show and have a conversation.

01:42:06.000 And I think most importantly, like, the thing we disagree on is, like, .01% of the entire conversation.

01:42:14.000 So I think it's silly for everyone to, like, do whatever.

01:42:17.000 Were you talking about you and Andy?

01:42:19.000 Well, I criticized him like four or five times, but it's a tactic that I criticize.

01:42:24.000 But to me, it's such a mark of respect that you were like, you're a general in this war.

01:42:28.000 Like you don't send your best general down to the front lines.

01:42:31.000 Like you care about what happens to him.

01:42:33.000 He's important and meaningful.

01:42:34.000 Like his work has been good, but like most other frontline reporters, they retire at a certain point when they're recognizable.

01:42:40.000 Andy said on Megyn Kelly's show, she asked him, she read my tweet.

01:42:44.000 That's when I was like, okay, that tweet was a little crass.

01:42:46.000 I should not have tweeted it that way.

01:42:47.000 Okay, that's fair.

01:42:48.000 I take, I own that one.

01:42:49.000 That was a mistake.

01:42:50.000 I should have criticized it and done it in a better way.

01:42:52.000 That being said, she asked him at what point is like enough enough, you know, you're very famous.

01:42:58.000 And Andy said that, you know, basically Tim is sitting there in luxury or I forgot which word he said, but without Andy on the ground, we wouldn't know about a lot of these things.

01:43:07.000 And I'm like, That's actually my point.

01:43:11.000 If Andy sacrifices himself by going into the fray and no one else is covering Antifa as extensively and knows who these people are, we lose all of that coverage.

01:43:20.000 You don't need to send a general into Antifa to get the news.

01:43:24.000 Not this general this time.

01:43:25.000 There are a time and a place where a general like Julius Caesar fought on the front line with his men the entire time.

01:43:30.000 But not by himself.

01:43:31.000 No, he had a group where he would get centurions with him.

01:43:34.000 Right, so that would be like if Andy went to an event and spoke to a large crowd.

01:43:37.000 Oh yeah, that would be like that.

01:43:38.000 But just like it was a local protest in Portland, it wasn't a major political event.

01:43:42.000 Caesar didn't go undercover in enemy camps.

01:43:44.000 Yeah.

01:43:45.000 I just sent other soldiers to do that.

01:43:46.000 Yeah, I think it was a bad move, you know, and it's interesting that people are like,

01:43:50.000 I'm seeing a lot of tweets at me where they're saying, Oh, look, I remember Tim went to no go

01:43:54.000 zones. And I'm like, yeah, I didn't go back. Like I went to Sweden once. They weren't looking for

01:43:59.000 me. They didn't know my name. They weren't trying to kill me. I went to Thailand after I go to these

01:44:03.000 places. I can't return to them.

01:44:05.000 In fact, I can't even go to China at this point because of the things I've said.

01:44:10.000 So you wouldn't send Ai Weiwei into China to go and report.

01:44:14.000 He is a prominent activist, critical of China.

01:44:17.000 I think he is, right, Ai Weiwei?

01:44:19.000 You wouldn't send these people into certain areas.

01:44:21.000 You'd have to find a different journalist, because if the goal is to maximize your output and to be successful, you can't send the best of the best into the highest level of danger.

01:44:33.000 If Andy stops doing the work he's doing, then Andy is correct.

01:44:37.000 How would we know what was going on if he puts himself at risk that way?

01:44:40.000 If Biden was like, I'm going on this next one with the SEAL team.

01:44:44.000 People would be like from the front you got to do that cartoon

01:44:50.000 But but anyway look I think you know I Think the point has been has been beaten beaten to death

01:45:00.000 You know so there's no reason it is a very important conversation

01:45:04.000 it is that's why I hope he comes on the show soon to talk about the value of

01:45:08.000 Doing it on the ground by yourself and then getting popular and having to you know

01:45:13.000 Reconnoiter or recon I describe word agent recalibrate your your function the way you approach the situation

01:45:19.000 I went to Venezuela and I got accused of being a spy and was forced to flee the country.

01:45:24.000 Vice wanted me to stay.

01:45:25.000 wanted me to stay to embrace the controversy because it had been huge

01:45:25.000 Interesting.

01:45:28.000 news internationally.

01:45:30.000 American journalists was, you know, forced to flee or like if I remained,

01:45:34.000 I probably would have been arrested and then it would have been huge

01:45:36.000 revised where the State Department would get involved. And I'm like, I'm

01:45:38.000 leaving.

01:45:39.000 Like, I know.

01:45:40.000 But like, you know, I even had conversations with family.

01:45:43.000 They were like, you realize if you get arrested and spend a year in a

01:45:46.000 Venezuelan prison, you will be the biggest personality once you got

01:45:49.000 That's why they're telling you to do it.

01:45:50.000 And I'm like, that's not what my goal is.

01:45:53.000 My goal is not to be a symbol or a martyr or to make money for anybody.

01:45:58.000 I wanted to come here and interview people and see what's going on.

01:45:59.000 I'm going to leave.

01:46:01.000 So the point of that super chat was that I go to third world countries.

01:46:03.000 Yeah, I went to a lot of different countries, a lot of really dangerous countries, and there's a limit to what I can do to be effective.

01:46:09.000 At a certain point, you become so famous, you actually aren't able to get information out without impacting the circumstance yourself.

01:46:17.000 So if you're interested in winning, A tribal battle than... I mean, this has been fantastic. 0.97

01:46:24.000 News breaks, Andy Ngo is attacked.

01:46:25.000 If you're interested in winning on principles, you need to make sure you're getting out, you know, sound and good information.

01:46:31.000 But that being said, look, I respect Andy tremendously.

01:46:33.000 I've known him for a long time.

01:46:34.000 I interviewed him on this channel way, way long time ago when I was up in Portland.

01:46:38.000 And I completely agree that what he's doing is so important.

01:46:40.000 That's why I'm mad that he went down there on his own.

01:46:43.000 Like...

01:46:44.000 I- Like, I wasn't coming- I wasn't doing what the left was doing and accusing them of being, you know, a grifter who's just trying to make money.

01:46:51.000 I was saying, like, you're going to get yourself hurt.

01:46:54.000 You don't have security?

01:46:55.000 Right.

01:46:56.000 We have a- So, I'll say two more things on this.

01:46:57.000 I don't want to keep hashing it out.

01:46:59.000 Like, I'd love to have this conversation with Andy here.

01:47:01.000 Many conservatives, when the news came out that it was potentially Andy and we didn't know, a handful of conservatives and people on the right expressed to me privately how upset they would be if they found out Andy actually did that.

01:47:16.000 When the news broke, silence.

01:47:17.000 Why?

01:47:18.000 They're scared to speak out against him for, you know, look what's happened.

01:47:20.000 You know, people are thumbs-downing my video, they're insulting me on Twitter, they're telling me I'm wrong.

01:47:24.000 They're basically saying like, oh yeah, I'm not going to follow you anymore and all that stuff.

01:47:28.000 I'm not, okay, fine.

01:47:29.000 People are saying Tim's a grifter who's just trying to get views.

01:47:31.000 And I'm like, if that were the case, I wouldn't have criticized him.

01:47:33.000 Why would I do that?

01:47:34.000 But there are a lot of conservatives who I've spoken to who will not speak out.

01:47:38.000 And I'm like, that is the exact same problem the left has.

01:47:40.000 They won't speak out against what they think is wrong because they're scared.

01:47:43.000 I'm not.

01:47:44.000 But I will mention that.

01:47:46.000 I will also mention there's a lot of journalists that we know that do on-the-ground work and do report on Antifa, and many have expressed privately that they're going to be moving on or they're planning their big move from field reporting once they become too famous.

01:48:01.000 Some of these people used to be on the ground all the time and have now launched podcasts because they are much too famous, and you become a target and it makes you ineffective.

01:48:10.000 All right.

01:48:10.000 Here we go.

01:48:11.000 Wraith Customs Firearms says, Tim, let everyone know the ATF is trying to make millions of us felons overnight again with new regs on braces to make them NFA.

01:48:21.000 Tweeted with how to comment on ATF 2021R-08 to stop them because you have reach.

01:48:28.000 Shout out to wraithcustomsfirearms.com.

01:48:31.000 So, I hope you guys have something on your website that could help.

01:48:34.000 I can direct them to wraithcustomsfirearms.com.

01:48:38.000 And definitely, we need to get rid of these ridiculous broken gun control laws. 0.99

01:48:42.000 They clearly haven't worked.

01:48:43.000 No matter how many times they ban guns, they still complain every day there's gun violence.

01:48:47.000 Clearly what they're doing isn't working.

01:48:49.000 At a certain point, you need to say, hey, all those things you got over the past 80 years didn't work?

01:48:54.000 Maybe we should stop.

01:48:56.000 No, but if it's broken, keep doing it, I suppose.

01:48:57.000 Samuel Eddie says, I say we solve this immigration issue once and for all by

01:49:02.000 reactivating the doctrine of manifest destiny. You can't enter the US illegally

01:49:06.000 from the southern border if it's all American soil.

01:49:08.000 Heck yeah! 0.96

01:49:09.000 Yes, conquest! 0.86

01:49:12.000 Let's go!

01:49:13.000 Alright.

01:49:14.000 Spenet Games says, Dear fellow apes, help another gorilla rocket moon by backing my 1.00

01:49:20.000 board game Cinder Shy around Kickstarter.

01:49:22.000 Apes strong together.

01:49:23.000 I bought more AMZ.

01:49:24.000 Nice.

01:49:25.000 I saw a tweet about that.

01:49:26.000 Yeah, I was like, I had lettuce hands.

01:49:28.000 The other day I was like, I saw it, I was like, I woke up and I was like, meh, this

01:49:32.000 No, but you know, I what's what's coming on this Black Widow's coming out the movie 1.00

01:49:32.000 The movie. 1.00

01:49:36.000 Yeah, and there's a couple other movies and I was like I kind of want to have some movie stuff because these are big

01:49:41.000 Like I think this will be good for their earnings I don't know. I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert on any

01:49:45.000 of this stuff not giving anyone financial advice But I actually really like the idea of movie theaters. Yeah,

01:49:50.000 and with kind of ending, you know, that's movie theaters be opening back up

01:49:53.000 It's like the only thing I really like going out to do.

01:49:55.000 It's like, what are we going to go eat?

01:49:55.000 Yeah, it's fun.

01:49:56.000 Honestly, yeah, I hear you.

01:49:58.000 I always tell people, like, what do we do?

01:49:59.000 We put food in our mouths?

01:50:01.000 Hey, we want to go out, what, we're going to imbibe something?

01:50:04.000 I want to put something in my eyes.

01:50:05.000 Yeah, yeah, something different.

01:50:07.000 Go to the theater, sit there and put it in my eyes and ears.

01:50:09.000 Uh, shout out to Cindershire, the game on Kickstarter.

01:50:13.000 There you go.

01:50:15.000 Mike G says, Tim saw that you FOMOed back into AMC.

01:50:15.000 Oh, here we go.

01:50:19.000 Now that you're an ape again, you must change your Twitter profile pic to a green laser eyes.

01:50:23.000 According to ancient ape laws, the prophecy must be fulfilled. 0.63

01:50:26.000 Apes are green laser eyes. 0.86

01:50:28.000 Yeah.

01:50:28.000 I didn't FOMO.

01:50:30.000 I'm, I'm not, I'm not confident in a lot of what people are saying.

01:50:33.000 I just, it's not fear of missing out.

01:50:35.000 I was just kind of like.

01:50:37.000 So it was going up, you sold, did it go up more and you bought or did it go back down and you bought?

01:50:37.000 I like the stock.

01:50:42.000 Same.

01:50:43.000 Yeah.

01:50:44.000 But, but, you know, I, I cashed out some of the profits.

01:50:46.000 I don't have as much as I did before, but, uh, I'm looking at all these different stocks and I've got some like ammo companies.

01:50:52.000 I got a graphene company, definitely got a graphene company and it's performed well.

01:50:56.000 Yeah.

01:50:56.000 And then I was like, I don't even know what to get.

01:50:58.000 So I was like, AMC is like, I shouldn't have even sold it.

01:51:01.000 Cause I do like it.

01:51:02.000 You know, I, I, and a lot of people try to justify why it's not good.

01:51:05.000 And I'm like, dude, that your theories about why the stock should go up or down are irrelevant to me.

01:51:09.000 Like people are saying it's not worth it.

01:51:10.000 Cause they don't make money.

01:51:11.000 I'm like, oh, people like it though.

01:51:12.000 You know?

01:51:12.000 So it seems good to me.

01:51:13.000 I like movies.

01:51:14.000 Yeah, I bought it.

01:51:15.000 There you go.

01:51:18.000 Oh, this is interesting.

01:51:18.000 Here we go.

01:51:19.000 Apparently, Ian is correct. 0.93

01:51:21.000 Armchair Engineering says the restaurant chain was originally named Buffalo Wild Wings and Weck.

01:51:26.000 The original BW3 restaurant was on High Street in Columbus.

01:51:29.000 Ian, allow me to formally apologize for making fun of you.

01:51:31.000 You were correct the entire time.

01:51:32.000 It is welcome, Seamus.

01:51:34.000 It is welcome.

01:51:35.000 Hey, if you like that, definitely check out Quaker Steak and Lube if you live in Ohio or Pennsylvania.

01:51:39.000 It's on the border, and it is one of the best wing places in the world.

01:51:42.000 It's so interesting to me.

01:51:42.000 I hope they're still open.

01:51:43.000 Check it out.

01:51:44.000 James Ramirez says, my wife and daughter are not American citizens.

01:51:47.000 I have been overseas for over nine years.

01:51:49.000 I was waiting for Trump.

01:51:50.000 Now I'm waiting for Biden.

01:51:51.000 My family is on my orders over a year.

01:51:54.000 I signed for this, but it's my family.

01:51:56.000 Where is the government for help?

01:51:59.000 Yeah.

01:52:00.000 Oh, man, the B-dubs thing. 0.99

01:52:01.000 People are mad at us.

01:52:03.000 You are right, Ian.

01:52:04.000 No.

01:52:05.000 B-dubs. 1.00

01:52:06.000 I never thought the thing I'd have to publicly apologize for was getting B-dubs. 1.00

01:52:10.000 Tim and Seamus are the stupidest. 1.00

01:52:12.000 The Neo Enigma says y'all are killing me. 1.00

01:52:12.000 I'm just kidding. 1.00

01:52:15.000 B-dubs was originally called Buffalo Wild Wings and Weck, founded in Ohio.

01:52:18.000 B-W-3s, for short, changed it to its current name in 1998.

01:52:21.000 Aha.

01:52:22.000 Look at us.

01:52:24.000 That was my 21st birthday.

01:52:26.000 Really? 0.99

01:52:26.000 The fool was I. Kent, Ohio. 0.99

01:52:29.000 Ian, you need to be more confident. 0.99

01:52:30.000 Ian, honestly, this should be IanCast IRL.

01:52:33.000 I'm taking you there.

01:52:35.000 Barbara Albright says, Hey Tim, I completely agree with you on Andy Ngo.

01:52:39.000 Also, if you are still hiring writers, I would love to join your crew.

01:52:41.000 Which email do I go to again?

01:52:43.000 Jobs at TimCast.com.

01:52:45.000 Yeah, so, um, we've got one, uh, uh, we may have already found one person so far who's gonna, like, oversee a lot of it.

01:52:52.000 We need a field reporter.

01:52:55.000 Yeah, we need, uh, we need our own, uh, riot crew. 0.90

01:52:58.000 Yeah, for people to go out and go undercover and do investigative reporting.

01:52:58.000 Oh, yeah.

01:53:02.000 And, uh, man, I'd love to have, like, twelve people just, like, infiltrating all these different Antifa groups.

01:53:07.000 Maybe we've been working on something.

01:53:11.000 Because I'm sick of Tim sending me.

01:53:12.000 You've been so good at it, though.

01:53:15.000 I know.

01:53:15.000 Honestly, I blend in with them really well.

01:53:17.000 Lots of undercover stuff we're looking forward to doing, but probably not the same kind of stuff that Elkief does.

01:53:22.000 Ours is going to be more like reporting on the ground, and what we're going to end up doing is having a lot of freelancers.

01:53:31.000 That's one way you get around recognizability, I suppose, or notoriety of your reporter.

01:53:36.000 They get too well-known, well, you know, you use a group of different people, you get some legit conflict reporters to film, and then you take the footage back, you take their report, and then, you know, we're gonna do stuff like that, so it's all coming soon.

01:53:49.000 All right.

01:53:50.000 Preston Tem says, watched your video on China-US Pacific escalation and my immediate reaction was, sick.

01:53:55.000 Now we get to play Battlefield 4 IRL in a few months.

01:53:58.000 BF4 setting is CN slash RU versus US war starting in late 2020.

01:54:02.000 Well then.

01:54:02.000 Oh boy.

01:54:05.000 It's not a video game.

01:54:06.000 I know you're just joking.

01:54:07.000 Phil says, what Ian expressed about what happened to Rome via immigration has happened here.

01:54:12.000 Many areas of the country are now just colonies of foreign countries.

01:54:14.000 That's what I was thinking.

01:54:15.000 It's happening so slow because we're in it, you know?

01:54:17.000 I mean, you made this point a few times, Tim, that, like, things happen over decades.

01:54:21.000 Like, the American Revolution is like a 20-year process, but we just read about a history book like it just happened one day.

01:54:26.000 And we're in the middle of this crazy... And I'm wondering if that thing is happening here right now.

01:54:31.000 I haven't seen like a military takeover city, but you see the autonomous zones.

01:54:35.000 Yeah.

01:54:36.000 Juan Rodas says, I'm DACA.

01:54:38.000 I know what my parents did was wrong, but I was four when I came here.

01:54:42.000 I've been in this country for 22 years.

01:54:43.000 I just want the opportunity.

01:54:45.000 Do it right.

01:54:45.000 I love this country.

01:54:47.000 I'm in favor of DACA.

01:54:48.000 I'm in favor of the people who are brought here as children through, you know, like not realizing what's going on.

01:54:54.000 And now they're here and it's like all of a sudden you realize you can't be a citizen.

01:54:57.000 I think that's a problem.

01:54:58.000 I think we should provide some kind of Path of citizenship, probably, you know, I don't know, something.

01:55:03.000 However, it has to come with a hard stop.

01:55:06.000 It has to come with like a, we do this now, we never do it again.

01:55:09.000 The problem is, I think that's where we're already at.

01:55:11.000 We're already at the point where we're like, okay, well, we'll naturalize these, these, these, these people who are not citizens, but we'll never do it again. 1.00

01:55:17.000 And then they do it again and they do it again and they do it again.

01:55:19.000 It's tough.

01:55:19.000 I've been hearing stories since I was like six in the eighties where people come over and have their baby in the United States, just so the kid was a citizen.

01:55:26.000 And then the mom would leave or the kid would be a citizen.

01:55:30.000 Only Tim says, Hey Tim, Seamus, love you guys' work.

01:55:33.000 I'm 20 and from Idaho.

01:55:34.000 I've been watching you guys since about 2016.

01:55:36.000 I keep trying to explain to my friends about how the left is breaking the system and can be racist, but they refuse to listen.

01:55:42.000 Any advice?

01:55:43.000 I always ask them this.

01:55:44.000 Do you agree with Dr. King's dream?

01:55:46.000 Seamus?

01:55:48.000 Can you ask the question again?

01:55:50.000 Do you agree with Martin Luther King Jr.' 's dream?

01:55:53.000 Uh, yes, I would say so.

01:55:54.000 I do.

01:55:55.000 I do, I do, yeah.

01:55:55.000 Lydia?

01:55:56.000 Ask them that.

01:55:58.000 That one day his four little children will be judged by the content of the character and not the color of their skin.

01:56:03.000 I love that quote.

01:56:04.000 And when they say yes, invariably, ask them how that dream is being served by policies that are based on race.

01:56:10.000 Yep.

01:56:12.000 If they want affirmative action, how does that serve Dr. King's dream? 0.71

01:56:15.000 Just ask him that.

01:56:15.000 Does that serve Dr. King's dream?

01:56:18.000 Part of me wonders if they're just going to drop him altogether soon.

01:56:20.000 Oh, they've already been trying to.

01:56:22.000 They've been arguing, yeah, so a lot of leftists have been arguing that he was pushing white supremacy and colorblindness.

01:56:27.000 Oh my goodness.

01:56:28.000 I mentioned this, during the riots in Ferguson and in Baltimore, there were people saying that, there were black activists, Black Lives Matter, saying segregation The end of segregation was bad for them, because it forced them into the white man system, which they were below, because they didn't have the same level of resources.

01:56:44.000 And that when they were separate, they had their own family system, they had their own churches, they had their own businesses, they had their own Wall Street.

01:56:49.000 So there's a lot of people, and that's one of the reasons they push this stuff.

01:56:53.000 I don't know what you do about it.

01:56:53.000 Yeah.

01:56:56.000 Sporkwitch says, never forget, quantity has a quality all its own.

01:57:00.000 It was Russia's strategy in the Cold War, cheap but plentiful. 0.72

01:57:03.000 It is China's strategy as well.

01:57:04.000 It is the communist strategy, because the individual doesn't matter to them.

01:57:08.000 Which reminds me about this, I think it's called a PA-63, I think it's Hungarian?

01:57:13.000 It's a Soviet era rifle, it's chambered in 9mm Makarov.

01:57:17.000 And nobody ever wants to use it at the range, because it hurts to shoot.

01:57:21.000 It bites, between your thumb, it hurts.

01:57:25.000 And so nobody wants to use it.

01:57:27.000 I tried wearing a glove.

01:57:28.000 Still hurts.

01:57:30.000 And so, you know, the modern weapons we use, you know, the Beretta, the Glock, or whatever, they're comfortable.

01:57:35.000 And I was like, you think about it.

01:57:37.000 Soviet Union.

01:57:38.000 They were like, I don't care if it hurts you.

01:57:40.000 Does it work?

01:57:41.000 All right, then make it.

01:57:42.000 Mass produce it.

01:57:42.000 Cheap.

01:57:43.000 Garbage. 1.00

01:57:44.000 Painful. 1.00

01:57:44.000 Hurts. 1.00

01:57:45.000 In Soviet Russia.

01:57:45.000 Whatever.

01:57:46.000 That's how I am with my cartoons.

01:57:48.000 I don't care if it hurts you.

01:57:49.000 We have to get them done quickly.

01:57:50.000 Freedom Tunes cartoon.

01:57:54.000 Wow look at this.

01:57:56.000 Ben D says Tim don't look at the Air Force look at the Navy.

01:57:59.000 75% of our deployed Nimitz class aircraft carriers are in striking distance to China.

01:58:06.000 Hundreds of ships have moved into the area of the last year.

01:58:12.000 Y'all ready for this?

01:58:13.000 We gotta keep him somewhere.

01:58:15.000 That's right, Ian.

01:58:15.000 It's gonna get hot.

01:58:16.000 I like the optimism.

01:58:17.000 You know what just bothers me?

01:58:19.000 It's the idea of a war on two fronts.

01:58:22.000 And I know that Afghanistan is, I mean Russia, the wild card is Russia. 0.98

01:58:27.000 How did the Russian government, how does Vladimir Putin and his buddies think about this?

01:58:32.000 Do they want to support China and Chinese interests?

01:58:33.000 Do they want to support the United States and curb Chinese, you know, militant authoritarianism? 1.00

01:58:40.000 Because they're right there on the border.

01:58:41.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:58:42.000 Well, here we go.

01:58:42.000 Check this out.

01:58:44.000 The one true Madrigal says if Taiwan falls, the Chinese will claim the South Japanese islands, Korea and the Straits of Malacca. 0.94

01:58:50.000 Because why would we stop them then?

01:58:52.000 They'll control 25% of goods transported globally and 90% of crude oil.

01:58:59.000 Alistair Vucin says Taiwan is more of a country than John Cena is an actor.

01:59:03.000 Americans need to toughen up fast because everyone knows the storm is coming.

01:59:06.000 Maybe we need it so that we can straighten out un-American ideologues.

01:59:14.000 Oh man, you do not want war, dude.

01:59:16.000 No.

01:59:17.000 Or a witch hunt on other Americans. 0.99

01:59:19.000 Richard Cook says, haha, if you are depending on Californians to repel the Chinese, you are more screwed than I thought. 0.98

01:59:25.000 China won't invade, they already own the U.S. 1.00

01:59:27.000 And, FYI, China would invade through South America or Central America, not the West Coast, and then they'd come up over the land. 0.65

01:59:35.000 I think they would do a series of strategic cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.

01:59:39.000 Maybe they would start with, like, our oil production, so that way it would cause economic catastrophe, would reduce our ability to produce and move resources.

01:59:46.000 They'd probably then start going after food to create shortages, which would then cause panic, because when food prices get too high, people protest and riot.

01:59:53.000 I don't think they want a war.

01:59:54.000 I just don't think they want a war.

01:59:55.000 Maybe economic destabilization, but...

01:59:58.000 It's like, no, war.

01:59:59.000 I don't think anybody wants that right now.

02:00:01.000 Even Lockheed doesn't want a total war.

02:00:03.000 I agree with you.

02:00:04.000 Do you think, though, at a certain point, China does things where we're forced to go to war? 0.75

02:00:07.000 Like, we can't just let them keep doing it?

02:00:10.000 Kind of that encroachment on territory thing is a tough one.

02:00:13.000 Like, the Nazis took Czechoslovakia, they took Poland, and you had at some point, it was just like, what are they going to take next?

02:00:18.000 And so it was like, we had no choice, right?

02:00:19.000 Yeah.

02:00:20.000 What do you think the Chinese are telling themselves right now?

02:00:22.000 Americans are militant imperialisms who are seizing more countries, moving more troops into Syria.

02:00:27.000 If we don't stop them, what do we do?

02:00:29.000 They're surrounding us with their aircraft carriers.

02:00:31.000 That's right.

02:00:32.000 We're under siege.

02:00:34.000 This is what people don't realize about war, so here's a way I describe it to people.

02:00:38.000 Imagine you're in the middle of the woods.

02:00:40.000 You've got... You're in the middle of nowhere.

02:00:41.000 You have no idea where you are.

02:00:42.000 You have a gun.

02:00:43.000 You've got a small bag of food and a little bit of water.

02:00:46.000 You're running out.

02:00:47.000 You don't know where your next meal will be.

02:00:49.000 Finally, as you're walking, off in the distance, you see somebody who looks different.

02:00:54.000 But they have a rifle as well.

02:00:56.000 It appears to be a small bag of food and some water.

02:01:00.000 What do you do?

02:01:01.000 You both just spot each other a couple hundred yards off.

02:01:04.000 What do you do?

02:01:07.000 Signal.

02:01:08.000 I'm gonna raise my hand in the air.

02:01:08.000 Signal how?

02:01:11.000 If I see them go for their gun, I'm gonna duck for cover.

02:01:11.000 What does that do?

02:01:14.000 And then you raise your hand, and the moment your hand goes up, they reach for their gun, they put their hand on their gun.

02:01:17.000 Oh.

02:01:18.000 Um, I think I would get down on, get down, and then yell out, call out to them.

02:01:22.000 Call out?

02:01:23.000 If they don't speak English, now we're in trouble.

02:01:24.000 Then they yell back, Kabbalah.

02:01:26.000 Blah babo. 1.00

02:01:28.000 Yeah.

02:01:29.000 This is the challenge, right?

02:01:31.000 A lot of people like to say things like, oh, I would just go and meet them and say hello.

02:01:35.000 How do you know they're hostile?

02:01:36.000 How do you know they won't be like, I can't afford to feed two people, you're not gonna help me, I'm taking your stuff?

02:01:41.000 Dude, did you guys ever watch The Walking Dead?

02:01:42.000 That was my problem with Rick Grimes, the main character of The Walking Dead.

02:01:45.000 He had this shoot first policy.

02:01:47.000 Spoiler alert.

02:01:48.000 And I kept wanting him to create a community and lead a community, but all he wanted, he was so afraid that everyone else was going to be hostile.

02:01:54.000 How long did you watch for?

02:01:55.000 About three seasons, four seasons. 0.99

02:01:57.000 Oh, dude, I'm such a sucker. 0.83

02:01:59.000 I watched for like nine seasons. 0.95

02:02:01.000 And maybe two of them were good.

02:02:02.000 Once The Governor.

02:02:04.000 I feel like it lost the plot after The Governor.

02:02:07.000 Yeah.

02:02:07.000 All right, we got this chat here.

02:02:09.000 Conor O'Brien says, Tim, you finally mentioned a job that my experience is relevant to.

02:02:13.000 Please check out the resume that I've emailed a few times, along with copious updates on my firm's CRT stuff.

02:02:18.000 Help me help you.

02:02:19.000 Yeah, do you want to write down that name, Conor O'Brien?

02:02:21.000 We'll take a look.

02:02:22.000 It's a good Irish name.

02:02:24.000 I like the Irish infiltration of TimCast Studios. 1.00

02:02:27.000 The Irish infiltration.

02:02:28.000 I'm Irish.

02:02:29.000 I know.

02:02:31.000 But it could have been the British infiltration.

02:02:33.000 I know you said you're at war with yourself constantly.

02:02:35.000 Irish and the British half.

02:02:36.000 And I'm glad to see one side is winning.

02:02:38.000 Connor O'Brien.

02:02:38.000 That's all.

02:02:39.000 Puka says, thank you Tim for separating Trump supporters from these weak and spineless Republicans.

02:02:44.000 It's so annoying when we get lumped in with them.

02:02:46.000 Keep up the good work.

02:02:47.000 Absolutely.

02:02:48.000 I also don't like it that the left gets lumped in with liberals because they are so different.

02:02:54.000 I can agree with leftists on gun control.

02:02:56.000 They're like, Karl Marx says, you know, under no pretext.

02:02:59.000 And I'm like, I will accept that argument insofar as it allows me to stay armed.

02:03:02.000 You know, I don't agree with you on the rest of it.

02:03:02.000 Yeah.

02:03:04.000 Bro, you are supporting the right thing for the wrong reason.

02:03:06.000 That's right.

02:03:07.000 It's the right thing.

02:03:08.000 If it means I get to keep my guns, you know.

02:03:11.000 But yeah, Trump supporters were the insurgents that came in and told the Republicans shove off and the Republicans hated it.

02:03:18.000 Oh man.

02:03:19.000 All right.

02:03:20.000 Let's see.

02:03:20.000 We'll try and raise as many as we can, but we got to All right.

02:03:26.000 Yep.

02:03:27.000 More people mentioning Ian was right.

02:03:28.000 Kevin White says it was BW3's.

02:03:30.000 Buffalo Wild Wings began in the Midwest as Buffalo Wild Wings and Wack.

02:03:33.000 Great restaurant.

02:03:34.000 I'm tired of being shamed for getting this wrong.

02:03:37.000 I still don't know.

02:03:38.000 Tim and I are just getting grilled.

02:03:38.000 I'll look into it.

02:03:42.000 Nicodemus says, you know that feeling you get when you're about to jump off the high board into a pool?

02:03:47.000 That pit in your stomach?

02:03:48.000 As military, I'm getting that feeling.

02:03:50.000 I'm trained and ready for war, but man, I pray it never happens.

02:03:53.000 I'm praying that same prayer, brother.

02:03:55.000 I was talking about this earlier.

02:03:58.000 The U.S.

02:03:58.000 military wouldn't draft anybody if a war broke out.

02:04:01.000 They'd probably just go to young people and say, we will cancel all of your student loan debt for two years service.

02:04:09.000 And they're gonna be like, wow.

02:04:10.000 They're gonna say, we'll pay you $20,000 a year or $15,000 a year.

02:04:15.000 For two years plus all your debts wiped out.

02:04:17.000 You know what that means?

02:04:18.000 Look, you're not going to be spending that money, right?

02:04:20.000 So you're going to get out with like 20 grand and you're going to be able to do whatever you want.

02:04:25.000 And then they're going to be like, dude, awesome.

02:04:26.000 And then they're going to like sign the paperwork.

02:04:28.000 It's going to say like MOS, like, you know, combat infantry or something.

02:04:31.000 And, you know.

02:04:32.000 Used to go to college to avoid the military.

02:04:34.000 Well, and now people go into the military to avoid student loans.

02:04:37.000 They want that GI Bill. 0.59

02:04:38.000 Yeah, I figured out what WECC is.

02:04:40.000 Buffalo Wild Wings and WECC.

02:04:41.000 Beef on WECC is a popular sandwich in New York consisting of roast beef on au jus soaked camel WECC roll.

02:04:47.000 Wow, look at this.

02:04:49.000 Jurassic Josh says, the video game channels I follow will not criticize China.

02:04:53.000 They talk about how Winnie the Pooh references are banned in China but won't say why.

02:04:56.000 What do you say about this?

02:05:00.000 That's why we're in trouble, man.

02:05:01.000 Because the Chinese communist money is just too good.

02:05:04.000 I know, it's kind of paradoxical, isn't it?

02:05:06.000 But they've exploited us to the degree where major institutions and businesses are just like, I don't want to offend China because they pay my bills. 0.95

02:05:12.000 There is a quote which is falsely attributed to Lenin, though it is relevant nonetheless.

02:05:16.000 The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

02:05:19.000 That is the perfect description of the situation with China right now.

02:05:23.000 Rex Carsalot says, sorry to break the news, Tim, but Buffalo Wild Wings is anti-2A.

02:05:28.000 I've heard they lobby for anti-2A, but haven't been able to find any article sources for that, though.

02:05:32.000 How do you feel about that, Ian?

02:05:33.000 They kick off-duty cops out, too.

02:05:34.000 Well, that's got to be proven, because that's a very serious allegation against a very delicious restaurant.

02:05:38.000 Well, we have our resident Buffalo Wild Wings expert right here.

02:05:41.000 Well, speaking of Wild Wings, I have no idea.

02:05:44.000 Let me just point something out, right?

02:05:46.000 You can go get a big ol' greasy burger, And you can get it from B-dubs with french fries and salt.

02:05:52.000 Or, you can get some nice wings with some barbecue sauce and carrots on the side.

02:05:58.000 They do give you carrots, sometimes celery sticks.

02:06:00.000 That's right, either or.

02:06:01.000 Now, what's healthier?

02:06:03.000 French fries?

02:06:04.000 Or carrots and celery.

02:06:06.000 Carrots and celery.

02:06:07.000 Absolutely.

02:06:08.000 That's why you go to B-dubs, you get a nice chicken meal with vegetables.

02:06:13.000 I heard if you eat 50 different types of vegetables in a week, those are the people with the healthiest biomes in the world.

02:06:18.000 You can see it.

02:06:18.000 Interesting.

02:06:20.000 That's including like seasonings, herbs, coffee.

02:06:23.000 GGplayer says, wow, is Seamus going to be the new Luke?

02:06:26.000 Plants, not vegetables.

02:06:26.000 Luke's coming back.

02:06:27.000 Yeah, that's right.

02:06:28.000 He's gonna kick me out.

02:06:29.000 Luke's gonna pick me up, throw me out of this chair.

02:06:30.000 Oh, maybe we'll just have, you know... We are actually upgrading the studio.

02:06:34.000 We've just been waiting for this computer because of the shortages.

02:06:37.000 We're gonna be moving the location of the studio.

02:06:39.000 Same building, but a different area.

02:06:41.000 We are trying to get a completely different setup, and it's going to require probably like a full studio build, which means the cameras will probably mount in, you know...

02:06:50.000 I don't think anybody knows what this room looks like.

02:06:54.000 Don't tell them.

02:06:56.000 You'll kill the mystery of it.

02:06:56.000 It's huge.

02:06:58.000 It's like 25,000 square feet.

02:07:00.000 It's one of the most amazing rooms I've ever been in, quite frankly.

02:07:03.000 I'm up here and you're down there.

02:07:07.000 People don't realize Ian's actually not even in the same room as us.

02:07:10.000 He's completely different.

02:07:10.000 Seamus is outside.

02:07:12.000 That's where I have to stay.

02:07:16.000 But yeah, no, I am not here permanently.

02:07:19.000 I'm visiting for a little while, because I love these people.

02:07:22.000 We're trying some things out.

02:07:24.000 Well, the goal is, I think we want, like, maybe even, like, eight possible seats or more.

02:07:29.000 So we can have total just, like, Battle Royale, people yelling over each other.

02:07:34.000 That'll be fun to switch for.

02:07:35.000 Yeah, let's get it.

02:07:36.000 Yeah, I was thinking of pulling to get a bunch of on-the-ground reporters in at one time, like Andy and who else, Elijah Schaefer.

02:07:42.000 I mean, we've had the Riot Squad here all at the same time.

02:07:44.000 That was really fun.

02:07:44.000 Stuff like that's awesome.

02:07:46.000 All right, Jamie Arzola says, since we're playing resume hookups, will you please give my fifth or sixth entry a look?

02:07:52.000 Yeah, can you write down that?

02:07:53.000 Jamie Arzola?

02:07:55.000 Can do.

02:07:56.000 All right, let's see.

02:07:57.000 We'll do a couple more here.

02:08:02.000 How do I spell that?

02:08:04.000 A-R-Z-O-L-E. 1.00

02:08:05.000 Perfect.

02:08:06.000 I was right.

02:08:07.000 All right.

02:08:08.000 Justin McGillivary says, Go read War is a Racket by Major General Smedley D. Butler.

02:08:14.000 It's 25 pages.

02:08:15.000 The audiobook is 45 minutes.

02:08:17.000 The book tells how there were 21,000 new millionaires made between 1914 and 1918, and some of the core sold for both sides.

02:08:25.000 Interesting.

02:08:27.000 Creepy, man.

02:08:29.000 All right.

02:08:30.000 Rob Santana says, Tim, what do you make of Trump saying BTC is a scam because it undermines the dollar?

02:08:34.000 Isn't that the point?

02:08:35.000 Decentralization?

02:08:37.000 Donald Trump gave Bitcoin probably one of the best endorsements, in my opinion.

02:08:40.000 And I'm a big proponent of Bitcoin, so I own a fair amount.

02:08:43.000 He said, you know, it competes with the dollar and we want the dollar to be the currency around the world.

02:08:48.000 And I was like, wow, what did Trump just say?

02:08:51.000 Bitcoin is hard competition for the US dollar and is undermining its position as the global currency.

02:08:57.000 Now that's the best endorsement I've heard for Bitcoin because like, even if it never overtakes the dollar, you just straight up said it is on equal footing after 10 years?

02:09:05.000 Woo! 0.99

02:09:06.000 So I bought more Bitcoin when Trump said that.

02:09:07.000 Oh yeah.

02:09:08.000 It's like, and so it's like, there's a dip right now.

02:09:08.000 Yeah.

02:09:11.000 And I'm like, you know, I gotta be honest.

02:09:15.000 It could go down to a dollar.

02:09:15.000 I don't care.

02:09:17.000 I would just buy as much as I could.

02:09:18.000 Oh my gosh.

02:09:19.000 Yep.

02:09:19.000 Yeah.

02:09:20.000 Yeah.

02:09:21.000 And other currencies too, you know.

02:09:22.000 Oh yeah, it did dip hard.

02:09:23.000 It's down to 33 now.

02:09:25.000 That's an opportunity in my opinion.

02:09:25.000 Yep.

02:09:27.000 I'm not telling anybody what to do.

02:09:28.000 Not financial advice.

02:09:29.000 No, I bought some though.

02:09:30.000 Alright my friends, if you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the URL to this show, and leave us a good review on iTunes or wherever you may be listening to it.

02:09:40.000 You can follow us on Facebook and Instagram, at TimCastIRL, and the reason we're, you know, adamant, or I shouldn't say adamant, but the reason we're like, we're gonna do a Facebook, is that It's just where a lot of people are, and we're hoping that a lot more shares will drive people to the website, TimCast.com, because we're launching a newsroom very, very soon.

02:09:57.000 I mean, I think our timeline is supposed to be like a week or two.

02:09:59.000 I know I said that last time, like, we're getting a new website.

02:10:01.000 It was like a month after I said it was supposed to come out.

02:10:03.000 But one of the issues that's going to hold us back is we've got to definitely hire these reporters.

02:10:07.000 And they've got to be here in time for the launch that we have the newsroom up and running.

02:10:10.000 Otherwise, it'll be like a very limited aggregator for the time being.

02:10:13.000 But it's all thanks to your membership.

02:10:15.000 And I'll just stress, when we launched TimCast.com, we did not expect this many people to sign up so quickly.

02:10:21.000 And all of a sudden, I was like staring at a bank account where I'm like, I think we're going to start a newsroom and like hire like crazy and build a crazy website and like, take this, you know, we've got the opportunity to do so.

02:10:30.000 We don't need investors anymore.

02:10:31.000 So people are invested and I'm like, let's make it happen.

02:10:35.000 It's tough though, man.

02:10:36.000 My brain is like on fire, you know, working every day.

02:10:38.000 I think there's a lot of people who don't understand YouTube is not the end-all be-all.

02:10:42.000 There's a lot of YouTubers who like dedicate all their time and energy to YouTube.

02:10:45.000 That's a mistake I made very early on.

02:10:47.000 Should have started a website a year ago, or a year and a half ago.

02:10:51.000 So I was just like, YouTube, YouTube views, subscribers, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube.

02:10:53.000 And I'm like, that was a big mistake.

02:10:55.000 So like a subscription model?

02:10:56.000 No, it's like a company that's bigger, that's better.

02:10:59.000 But you would have worked the subscription website a year ago, going back?

02:11:02.000 Not necessarily.

02:11:03.000 I'm just saying, like, not focusing everything on YouTube.

02:11:06.000 YouTube is not the end-all, be-all, and too many people are... It used to bother me when people were like, I'm a YouTuber, because in 2006, 7, I'm like, no, you're an internet video maker.

02:11:14.000 You're using YouTube as your platform right now, but it's the video that's the power.

02:11:18.000 It doesn't matter what site.

02:11:20.000 Right?

02:11:21.000 James O'Keefe was kicked off Twitter and he's still putting out videos that are getting massive play and getting millions of views because like he says, James says, content is king.

02:11:29.000 But anyway, so subscribe and go to TimCast.com and just right now it's basically like an aggregator for all of my content and the TimCast style clips.

02:11:38.000 And the vlog clips and then we've got the members only section but coming soon we're going to have we're going to be commissioning op-eds from other writers.

02:11:45.000 We're going to be having like a literal news editor who's going to be you know we're going to have articles op-eds opinions analysis it's going to be your lovable centrist milk toast outlet.

02:11:54.000 And we're going to take fact-checking very seriously, and so we're looking to hire a hardcore newsroom journalist whose job is going to be to do fact-checking and investigation, and they're going to be writing most of the day.

02:12:07.000 We're looking to commission people to go on the ground and do field reporting.

02:12:10.000 We're looking for a dedicated fact-checker who's going to be in a different building, who will then look over the pieces and do independent fact-checking.

02:12:15.000 So it'll be double fact-checked from a fact-checker fact-checking the news, and then getting fact-checked themselves.

02:12:20.000 And then we're going to have mini-docs, short films, all that stuff.

02:12:23.000 And we're looking to also have freelance writers from across the country writing different stories and taking submissions.

02:12:30.000 So we'll have a news editor for that.

02:12:31.000 So a lot of jobs that we've got to hire for, we've got to hire for now.

02:12:33.000 And all of those jobs will be in the building.

02:12:37.000 So you will have to be in the eastern West Virginia, Maryland area, just so you know.

02:12:43.000 But feel free to submit.

02:12:44.000 And yeah, so Seamus, I hear you've got a YouTube channel.

02:12:49.000 I do, yeah.

02:12:50.000 YouTube.com slash Freedom Tunes.

02:12:51.000 Just check my channel out.

02:12:52.000 You can just Google Freedom Tunes.

02:12:55.000 And we're at 643,000.

02:12:58.000 It'd be awesome to get up to 650,000 if you guys want to go over there and subscribe.

02:13:03.000 We're also planning on releasing a video tomorrow and then another video Thursday.

02:13:07.000 The one that we have slated for tomorrow is one which Tim and I voiced.

02:13:07.000 I'm really excited.

02:13:13.000 Yesterday or no, last week, I think Friday, and we were crying laughing.

02:13:17.000 I heard you guys through the floor.

02:13:19.000 Yeah, did you?

02:13:20.000 Yeah.

02:13:20.000 Yeah, so Ian can verify.

02:13:21.000 We were crying laughing.

02:13:23.000 YouTube.com slash FreedomTunes.

02:13:25.000 Seamus, do you have a merch site?

02:13:27.000 I also have FreedomTunesMerch.com if you want to check that out.

02:13:30.000 Yeah, FreedomTunesMerch.

02:13:31.000 Just go there, buy a t-shirt.

02:13:32.000 If you would like.

02:13:34.000 Tomorrow.

02:13:34.000 It's not financial advice.

02:13:35.000 Can we announce what you're putting out tomorrow?

02:13:38.000 Or no, keep it a secret.

02:13:39.000 I'm trying to figure out how much we can say.

02:13:39.000 How much?

02:13:40.000 Can I just say that I'll... I'm too late, I said it.

02:13:42.000 I'm in it.

02:13:43.000 Oh, yeah, we were recording.

02:13:43.000 No, yeah, I said so.

02:13:44.000 Yeah, Tim is in it.

02:13:45.000 Tim is in it.

02:13:46.000 It was one of the funniest, like, half an hour VO sessions.

02:13:48.000 Yeah, we were crying.

02:13:50.000 So hard to record because we were laughing so much.

02:13:51.000 We were crying.

02:13:52.000 And then we, like, improv'd an idea for a completely different video afterwards, so we're gonna have... So that's the best stuff.

02:13:58.000 So we're gonna have another video we've collaborated on.

02:13:58.000 Yeah, exactly.

02:14:00.000 Can I give them a hint?

02:14:01.000 Yes, of course.

02:14:02.000 Droplets!

02:14:05.000 Oh, my gosh.

02:14:06.000 Oh, I'm so pumped.

02:14:07.000 Yeah, so go over to Freedom Tunes and subscribe, please.

02:14:11.000 You guys can also follow me at iancrossland.net.

02:14:14.000 I want to give a shout out to whoever sent me this cool ring.

02:14:16.000 Ah, cool.

02:14:17.000 People send me books and little gems in the PO box from time to time, so keep it up.

02:14:21.000 Is that blinking?

02:14:22.000 Ian, that has a GPS tracker in it.

02:14:24.000 Ian, take that off.

02:14:25.000 This is the Infinity Gem.

02:14:26.000 Oh, are they tracking me?

02:14:27.000 Someone gave Ian the Infinity Ring.

02:14:30.000 Yeah, and now I have ultimate power.

02:14:31.000 Well, I had ultimate power.

02:14:32.000 He snaps and everything's graphene.

02:14:34.000 We got graphene over here.

02:14:37.000 The graphene is within you.

02:14:39.000 I will become graphene.

02:14:40.000 They're like, what's happening?

02:14:42.000 Special shout out to Cast Castle, the newest addition to the TimCast Media Network, because last week I made some bread, made some cricket bread.

02:14:52.000 It's actually up now at YouTube.com slash Cast Castle, the newest episode.

02:14:55.000 And you can see I accidentally used avocado oil when I think I meant to use olive oil.

02:15:00.000 And I was using half cup of the half cup of flour, not a full cup.

02:15:04.000 People were like, he's using too much flour.

02:15:06.000 It was half a cup of flour.

02:15:07.000 But if you want to see how that's done, done by my eyeball, go check it out.

02:15:11.000 Yeah, he's actually quite good at baking bread.

02:15:13.000 He's been working on it since we were in New Jersey.

02:15:15.000 He's quite talented.

02:15:16.000 I do want to say before I go that I do have a very positive spin on all this nonsense and what Seamus was talking about, how hard times are in fact going to create strong men.

02:15:24.000 I think that if you're planning on having kids in the near future, you should be preparing them for the future.

02:15:29.000 It's a little bit like when you get to the top of the roller coaster and you know the drop is coming and you just got to kind of grit your teeth because there's nothing you can do about it.

02:15:36.000 You bought the ticket.

02:15:37.000 You're on the ride.

02:15:39.000 And your kids are going to be strong people.

02:15:41.000 You better make them into good ones.

02:15:43.000 Anyway, you can follow me at Sour Patch Lids on Twitter if you'd like to.

02:15:46.000 For more nuggets like that.

02:15:47.000 That's right.

02:15:48.000 Good stuff.

02:15:49.000 We are going to have a bonus segment which would get us banned from YouTube instantly if I even mention what we're going to be talking about.

02:15:55.000 I'm not even kidding.

02:15:56.000 It's seriously dark stuff.

02:15:58.000 I don't even know what it is yet.

02:15:59.000 But it's affecting our society in a very, very awful way.

02:16:03.000 And so we'll bring it up and go to TimCast.com become a member and we'll see you all there.

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