Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Lori Lightfoot Calls Police Insurrectionists For Refusing Vax Mandate w-Sean Spicer

00:00:00.000 Thanks for watching.

00:00:14.000 But that's not true.

00:00:14.000 We now know that there is a large portion of the Chicago Police Department that is not vaccinated and that are threatening to take leave or just defy the COVID mandate.

00:00:24.000 Mayor Lori Lightfoot has now said that the Chicago Police FOP president, that's the union, is attempting to induce an insurrection.

00:00:34.000 I love their choice of words.

00:00:35.000 We know why they're using that word.

00:00:37.000 Why?

00:00:37.000 Because they want to rule by decree.

00:00:39.000 Meanwhile, in Portland, Antifa has caused half a million dollars in damage and smashed everything up.

00:00:44.000 San Francisco is crime-ridden, and Walgreens is shutting down more stores.

00:00:47.000 And Joe Biden is flouting the rules and choosing not to wear a mask in D.C., where they have a mask mandate.

00:00:52.000 So please, tell me about your induced insurrections again.

00:00:56.000 Well, we'll get into all this stuff.

00:00:57.000 We have an awesome guest tonight.

00:00:58.000 Sean Spicer is hanging out.

00:01:00.000 How's it going, man?

00:01:00.000 It's awesome.

00:01:01.000 Thanks for having me.

00:01:01.000 This is quite an honor.

00:01:04.000 Well, thanks for coming.

00:01:05.000 I feel the same way.

00:01:06.000 Well, it's nice to get outside of the city.

00:01:08.000 So, I'm assuming everyone knows who you are, but who are you, for those that might not know?

00:01:13.000 I was a regular guy that worked in politics for a long time, and then Donald Trump announced I was going to be the White House Press Secretary, and my life changed forever.

00:01:22.000 There you go.

00:01:24.000 And then the last few years have been quite different.

00:01:27.000 I did a season on Dancing with the Stars and showed that anyone who has no rhythm and no artistic ability can actually get a bunch of votes.

00:01:34.000 I saw people on media get so mad about you.

00:01:37.000 Oh, they hated it.

00:01:38.000 That's what made it half the fun!

00:01:40.000 How dare you humanize people!

00:01:42.000 Well, first of all, I hate that phrase.

00:01:44.000 People were like, you're humanizing them.

00:01:45.000 I'm like, I'm a human.

00:01:47.000 You may not like me.

00:01:50.000 But this idea of talking about humanizing people, Right.

00:01:53.000 Yeah.

00:01:53.000 It's sort of it's it's something that came into being during the Trump administration

00:01:56.000 Where there was like this assumption that we were aliens and that we needed to be humanized after we left like there

00:02:02.000 was some kind Of process by which we went into a machine and came out the

00:02:05.000 other end. Yeah dancing helped make everyone realize that's a guy

00:02:08.000 That's a person Well, and he's actually not, you know, nuts that the way that the CNN and the Washington Post wanted you to believe.

00:02:16.000 Well, I think it'll be interesting because, you know, one of the stories you have when I mentioned Joe Biden flouting the rules, it's Jen Psaki defending the breaking of the rules. 0.69

00:02:23.000 And so it'll be definitely be interesting to talk to you about, you know, her role in the media's role.

00:02:28.000 So we'll get in all that stuff.

00:02:29.000 We also got Luke.

00:02:30.000 Hey, at least the costumes were great.

00:02:33.000 I thought that was definitely something.

00:02:35.000 But hey guys, my name is Luke Godowsky of WeAreChange.org.

00:02:38.000 And I still remember the first time that I came back on this show recently, one of the first things that I said is that you can't comply your way out of tyranny. 0.96

00:02:46.000 And then I was like, damn, that can make a really good t-shirt. 0.89

00:02:49.000 So I made it. 0.97

00:02:50.000 This is the T-shirt.

00:02:51.000 It finally came in the mail and you could get yours exclusively on thebestpoliticalshirts.com.

00:02:56.000 Thanks for having me.

00:02:57.000 I'm looking forward to this very interesting conversation.

00:02:59.000 Me too, man.

00:03:00.000 I'm glad you're here, Sean.

00:03:01.000 I've been trying to get in the head of Saki for a while. 1.00

00:03:03.000 So don't go there.

00:03:04.000 Ian, stay out.

00:03:05.000 Help me, man.

00:03:06.000 You don't want to be there.

00:03:06.000 I want to humanize her as well, because I think that job might make people seem oddly robotic.

00:03:11.000 Because like you said, you're just kind of a mouthpiece.

00:03:12.000 You're not really saying your mind.

00:03:14.000 You're just doing a thing.

00:03:16.000 Well, you're there to speak on behalf of somebody who's not able to do it themselves for a variety of reasons.

00:03:22.000 And, you know, the issue that I have isn't necessarily with Jen, although there's some things that she's said or done that I've taken issue with, but it's a complicit press corps that sits there every day and nods their head and says, thank you, Jen.

00:03:35.000 I will now write this and push it out to everybody.

00:03:37.000 There's no pushback.

00:03:39.000 There's no attempt to talk about the hypocrisy, the double standards that go on in there.

00:03:45.000 Or just drill further down in some of the policies.

00:03:48.000 They take what she says as gospel and they go from there.

00:03:53.000 And I think that's actually bad for democracy.

00:03:56.000 For all the talk about the Washington Post saying democracy dies in darkness when Trump came in, the reality is democracy dies when you're not able to question things, when you're not able to question authority.

00:04:09.000 Talk back, dissent, all of those things are part of the fabric of our country, and yet the further and further we go, the less and less we allow dissenting voices, people to question authority, to not even question authority in a bad sense, but just ask, I don't get it, explain this, or that seems to be a double standard.

00:04:28.000 Yep.

00:04:29.000 We'll dive into all this stuff.

00:04:29.000 Not permitted.

00:04:31.000 Yeah, I'm stoked to have Sean tonight, especially with everything Jen Psaki is talking about.

00:04:36.000 And it was occurring to me earlier today how much science is like democracy in that you have to be able to question what is going on.

00:04:42.000 Otherwise, it's not fully functional.

00:04:43.000 This is why freedom of speech is so valuable.

00:04:44.000 So super stoked to talk to someone who is actually a spokesman for a president.

00:04:49.000 I want to point out real quick as well the photo behind Lydia of Joe Biden that Jessica, who she does the art here at Timcast, made.

00:04:57.000 And it's amazingly creepy.

00:04:59.000 Ian was like, I don't want that photo.

00:05:00.000 I don't want Biden behind me, you guys.

00:05:01.000 I want the beautiful landscape.

00:05:03.000 So I got Jessica's other amazing piece of art.

00:05:05.000 And also this was sent to me in the mail.

00:05:07.000 I just opened up on the Cast Castle vlog.

00:05:09.000 I don't know if it's gone live yet.

00:05:10.000 This is a piece of sacred geometry.

00:05:12.000 We got a lot of very interesting mail.

00:05:15.000 Yeah.

00:05:15.000 You guys will see.

00:05:16.000 All right.

00:05:17.000 Let's talk news.

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00:05:41.000 But now let's get into that news.

00:05:43.000 We got the story from RealClearPolitics.

00:05:45.000 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, FOP president, is attempting to induce an insurrection by opposing vaccine mandate.

00:05:54.000 I just love that line.

00:05:55.000 She said, we believe that the Fraternal Order of Police Leadership is trying to foment an illegal work stoppage or strike, she said.

00:06:03.000 We are not having that. The contract is clear. The police unions are not authorized to strike.

00:06:07.000 What we've seen from the Fraternal Order of Police Leadership is a lot of misinformation,

00:06:10.000 and frankly, flat out lies, in order to induce an insurrection.

00:06:15.000 And we're not having that. The law is on our side. We feel very confident about it. Urging

00:06:20.000 members of the department to ignore the chain of command? Let me be clear.

00:06:24.000 John Catanzaro has destroyed his police career, destroyed it.

00:06:27.000 He is not fit, and he is never going to go back in any kind of active position.

00:06:31.000 I don't want him to lend, to lead these young officers astray, and have them destroy their careers like he has destroyed his.

00:06:37.000 I just love the idea of an executive issuing an order by decree, and then when someone says, I object, that's an insurrection!

00:06:46.000 Well, that's what we get.

00:06:47.000 Did you guys see in Seattle, the cops have started flying the Gadsden flags?

00:06:50.000 Yeah, I saw that.

00:06:52.000 It's become a thing now.

00:06:53.000 And the Southwest Airlines as well, posting a lot of photos of the Gatson flags inside of the airplanes there.

00:07:00.000 But this is nothing new from Lori Lightfoot.

00:07:02.000 I mean, I am seeing a lot of comments talk about Betelgeuse in the comments section.

00:07:08.000 Just for clarification, I think it's important to bring up some of these facts.

00:07:11.000 But this is the same mayor that we have to understand Just a couple months ago during the middle of the whole

00:07:17.000 covid crisis when she was telling everyone to stay home.

00:07:19.000 We need to lock down.

00:07:20.000 We need to punish people.

00:07:21.000 She was walking the streets being like go home right now.

00:07:24.000 She also went out there and defied her own decrees and went and got a haircut and then told everyone. 1.00

00:07:30.000 Well, I need a haircut.

00:07:32.000 I'm out in the public eye and it's important for me to flaunt these rules that I made up that you have to obey.

00:07:38.000 As at least for you know, what I think just just real quick.

00:07:43.000 I think the funny thing is they wanted to defund the cops.

00:07:46.000 So all these guys are saying hey, we're not going to come to work.

00:07:49.000 This is this should be the easiest solution.

00:07:52.000 She should be in favor of this great.

00:07:53.000 Yeah, we wanted to defund you anyway, but it's funny once they say we're not coming to work now.

00:07:58.000 It's you guys are an insurrection.

00:08:00.000 You can't have it both ways.

00:08:01.000 Either you defund them, and you don't want them to show up, and you don't like them.

00:08:05.000 But suddenly now it's, I care about them, and I can't believe they're not showing up for work.

00:08:09.000 This is why I refer to the establishment, it's mostly the Democrats in the media, as the cult.

00:08:14.000 Because it doesn't matter what their position was.

00:08:17.000 It just matters what the whim is today.

00:08:20.000 Before it was like, the police are bad, okay everybody, I agree with whatever you've said for whatever reason, defund the police.

00:08:25.000 Now all of a sudden the cops are like, we're gonna walk.

00:08:27.000 And they're like, no, no, you can't leave, that's an insurrection.

00:08:30.000 There's no real principle behind what they do.

00:08:32.000 No.

00:08:32.000 It's just fall in line behind the establishment, behind those in charge.

00:08:35.000 But to elaborate on the Lori Lightfoot thing that Luke mentioned, Lori Lightfoot literally just posted this yesterday at 5.24pm. 0.61

00:08:42.000 It's an image of her violating Chicago's mask mandates.

00:08:47.000 So, you know, you ask, who's doing the insurrection?

00:08:51.000 The people who are breaking the laws of this country, violating the Constitution, trying to rule by decree, not even following their own rules?

00:08:58.000 I don't think it's the cops.

00:08:58.000 Well, the president himself and Joe Biden were out to dinner this weekend in Georgetown, a very expensive restaurant, and they get filmed with that.

00:09:06.000 They wonder why people Don't take them seriously.

00:09:09.000 Don't take them seriously, but it's over and over again, and what is Jen Psaki? 0.72

00:09:12.000 I mean, these guys just go, every time they get caught, it's, come on, seriously?

00:09:17.000 Don't, you know, that's not a big deal.

00:09:19.000 Gavin Newsom at French Laundry, all of these politicians, one after another on the Democratic side, get caught not obeying the mandates and the restrictions that they send for everybody else.

00:09:29.000 D.C.' 's mayor, Eleanor Hornibs Norton, same thing, goes to a wedding. 1.00

00:09:33.000 But it's everybody else should follow this and then they wonder why people don't believe and trust in them anymore.

00:09:39.000 It's because of this.

00:09:40.000 And I just kind of want to add to this point because when we look at Chicago, I think it's fair to argue that it's already a mess.

00:09:47.000 More young people die in Chicago from gang shootings than COVID.

00:09:52.000 And we have to understand that the Chicago Police Chief Union, the president of the police union in Chicago, is standing up and saying that almost 3,000 officers are going to defy a lot of these mandates.

00:10:04.000 One-third of the entire Chicago Police Department.

00:10:07.000 If that happens, I think it's fair to say there's going to be far greater implications in Chicago than we could even expect.

00:10:15.000 People are going to die.

00:10:16.000 When you think about it, you've got cops, healthcare workers, teachers, airline pilots, the list goes on and on of all these professions that are saying, if you force me to do something against my will, military members.

00:10:27.000 At what point is that tipping point where society then really deals with the consequences of this?

00:10:34.000 And you think about all these professions that we need who are pushing back.

00:10:34.000 Right?

00:10:38.000 I don't think it's about the vaccines.

00:10:39.000 I think it's about purging institutions of authority.

00:10:43.000 So the cops that are putting up the Gadsden flags, defying the orders and quitting, are the ones who clearly have an issue with mandated medical procedures.

00:10:50.000 But the cops who remain are going to be like, whatever.

00:10:53.000 I agree with you.

00:10:54.000 I don't think this has to do with getting a vaccine or not at the core of it.

00:10:58.000 This has to do with government telling you to do something.

00:11:01.000 And I think this has been bungled from the beginning.

00:11:04.000 Every day that Dr. Fauci's out there is a day that creates further tension and further confusion.

00:11:10.000 At the end of the day, if you like Dr. Fauci, you've got vaccinated like five months ago.

00:11:16.000 There's nobody out there right now that's saying, oh, wait a second, Dr. Fauci's on the air.

00:11:20.000 Let me listen to what he has to say to Rachel Maddow.

00:11:22.000 You know what?

00:11:23.000 It's a good point you said there.

00:11:24.000 Rachel, if you haven't been vaccinated, do it now.

00:11:27.000 Get four jabs and two masks.

00:11:30.000 No one is waiting.

00:11:32.000 For Fauci at this point.

00:11:34.000 You bought in a long time ago.

00:11:36.000 All they're doing now, and this weekend, Fauci goes on the Sunday shows and when he gets asked about criticism of himself, he says, if you criticize me, you're like a conspiracy theorist.

00:11:47.000 The same guy, by the way, just so we're clear, one of the quotes that he gave out this weekend is that it's probably likely that J&J should have been a second dose, right?

00:11:58.000 Think about this.

00:11:59.000 Two words that don't normally go with science.

00:12:02.000 Probably and should.

00:12:03.000 It's either yes or no.

00:12:05.000 It's either the data shows or not.

00:12:07.000 But Fauci's out there going, probably should have been two.

00:12:10.000 That doesn't invoke confidence in the system when the head guy is saying, yeah, Maybe I don't know yeah now how to you how to didn't just

00:12:17.000 ...

00:12:18.000 call people conspiracy theorist that didn't like him ...

00:12:20.000 they said that these people are denying reality and he ...

00:12:23.000 said quote sometimes the truth becomes inconvenient for ...

00:12:26.000 some people so they react against me that's just is what ...

00:12:29.000 it is I mean that's a delusional kind of thinking ...

00:12:32.000 we're talking about megalomania here with with ...

00:12:35.000 someone who loves to see his own face on national ...

00:12:37.000 television and and this is a sycophantic individual ...

00:12:40.000 that should never be taken seriously in my opinion.

00:12:43.000 I think it's a let me see if I can try and find this.

00:12:47.000 Oh Oh, yeah, where he's in his study with his picture of himself.

00:12:51.000 And the candle.

00:12:52.000 He has a candle of himself.

00:12:53.000 Are you serious?

00:12:55.000 Yes.

00:12:55.000 In his back.

00:12:56.000 I might do something like that.

00:12:57.000 That sounds exciting.

00:13:00.000 Do you want Ian running National Health Policy?

00:13:03.000 No, you don't.

00:13:04.000 We got to get a nice sketch of Tim behind him.

00:13:07.000 Here we go.

00:13:08.000 A candle of Tim looking at him.

00:13:10.000 So here's the photo.

00:13:11.000 Oh, snap. 0.99

00:13:11.000 It's from the documentary. 0.99

00:13:12.000 Dr. Fauci in his workplace, his office, with a portrait of himself.

00:13:17.000 But I would do it as a joke.

00:13:18.000 That's a little extreme.

00:13:19.000 To be fair, we do have a big Timcast on the wall, but someone sent us that.

00:13:24.000 But it's not just that.

00:13:25.000 He has pillows.

00:13:26.000 He has candles of himself.

00:13:27.000 He literally has to go on the mainstream media that loves and adores him.

00:13:32.000 He never goes on the media that questions He never goes on the media that dares to ask him a legitimate, hard question.

00:13:37.000 He never dares to go after opposition voices.

00:13:40.000 And if he was really caring about people's health, he would address the hard questions.

00:13:45.000 We literally, at one point on my show on Newsmax, had a Fauci watch.

00:13:49.000 And we asked him for something like 70-something days, and we finally gave up because it got silly.

00:13:53.000 But at the end of the day, he hasn't gone on anything alternative.

00:13:57.000 If the theory, which the data does not actually support, is that I think Sanjay Gupta is a good example of why he won't.

00:14:05.000 Right.

00:14:05.000 that are the big hesitant folks about this, then why wouldn't you go to where they are

00:14:09.000 and have a conversation and say, okay, I'll take some questions.

00:14:11.000 But that's a, the data doesn't suggest that number one.

00:14:14.000 Number two is because he doesn't want pushback.

00:14:16.000 Anytime someone questions anything, he gets so red.

00:14:19.000 Watch Rand Paul question him the next time.

00:14:21.000 I think, I think Sanjay Gupta is a good example of why he won't.

00:14:25.000 Right.

00:14:26.000 Because Joe Rogan didn't let that slide.

00:14:27.000 Biden wouldn't either.

00:14:28.000 He hid in his basement during the election cycle last time.

00:14:32.000 He just didn't want to get caught with his pants down.

00:14:34.000 The truth is not the friends of these people, right?

00:14:36.000 So to bring it back to Chicago, we also have, I think, the NYPD, the fire department in New York, CPD.

00:14:43.000 We've got nurses, doctors. 1.00

00:14:45.000 I'm not going to say that it's the majority.

00:14:47.000 I think in Chicago, it's a substantial amount.

00:14:49.000 I think they said something like 59% of cops are vaccinated.

00:14:52.000 So you've got 41% that aren't, which means that's seriously bad for a city like Chicago, which has very serious gun problems.

00:15:00.000 But there's a large portion.

00:15:02.000 There was, I think in New York, it was between 11 and 6% of the police were like outright refusing.

00:15:07.000 That may seem like a small percentage, but in a city that big, that could mean crippling an entire neighborhood or borough or the highways.

00:15:15.000 Who knows?

00:15:16.000 So you have these people outright defying these mandates.

00:15:21.000 I kind of feel like... I don't want to be pessimistic, but I don't know if it will be enough.

00:15:26.000 I feel like a lot of these cops are using this to negotiate their contracts.

00:15:30.000 Ultimately, it's not going to be enough to actually put a dent in this.

00:15:33.000 And then, not to be pessimistic, but what, in two, three years we have a social credit system?

00:15:37.000 The problem is you can't replace the cops, right?

00:15:39.000 So if 6% of the cops call it, just 5, 5 for arguments, say we're walking off the job because of this vaccine mandate, that's a cheer point. 0.91

00:15:47.000 In a place like New York or Chicago, a big city, that's several neighborhoods that suddenly don't have police covering them.

00:15:54.000 There's not a crop behind them, especially in the whole defund the police movement, of officers that are waiting to take these jobs.

00:16:00.000 We have demonized police officers to such a degree that they're having a tough time recruiting these individuals.

00:16:06.000 So you lose that percentage, and to your point about Chicago, crime goes back up.

00:16:10.000 I mean, just a few months ago, I mean, who wanted to be a cop?

00:16:13.000 No one!

00:16:14.000 Especially with the demonization, especially with everything that happened with Black Lives Matter.

00:16:19.000 And I think a lot of these mandates don't have to do anything about health.

00:16:22.000 I think a lot of them are loyalty tests.

00:16:25.000 And that's why a lot of officers who are not going along with the programming, not going along with the conditioning, not going along with the agenda, they're being purged.

00:16:32.000 And we're seeing a lot of videos.

00:16:33.000 I played a couple videos today on my channel specifically of police officers resigning, calling in as they're still in uniform in their police car.

00:16:41.000 There's a bunch of those videos going around as well.

00:16:43.000 One of them saying some very choice words for the governor of Washington that are pretty It must be a cold day in hell when you convince Luke Rutkowski to actually stand up for the cops.

00:16:56.000 No, I'm not.

00:16:57.000 Who said I'm standing up for the cops?

00:16:58.000 I'm just calling a spade a spade here and talking about the facts here that no one wants to be a police officer.

00:17:02.000 That's the point.

00:17:03.000 Like even saying that is still like telling the truth about what's going on with these officers.

00:17:09.000 Yeah, I'm not here to pick sides. 0.98

00:17:10.000 I'm here to call out the bullcrap. 0.96

00:17:11.000 There's a lot of bullcrap, but we gotta be honest with the situation that we're dealing with. 0.78

00:17:15.000 You don't have to be political to say something like, these cops are being demonized and they're coming after them in unjust ways.

00:17:21.000 That doesn't mean I'm a fan of every single cop or every department.

00:17:25.000 It's just, the reality is...

00:17:28.000 Like I just said, I'm not convinced the cops are gonna stick this one out.

00:17:30.000 I think they'll negotiate their contracts, get some special privileges, and then probably be like, okay, fine, whatever.

00:17:34.000 But I do think a lot of the cops will quit, because I think this is a hard line a lot of people just can't cross physically.

00:17:41.000 I thought about this, like, if someone came to you and said, you have to undergo this, and you're just like, dude, I can't cross that line.

00:17:48.000 I will not be forced to do these things.

00:17:51.000 I'm surprised actually that with all that it takes right now, I mean, I'm not in any way advocating this, but I'm just saying that it's funny that like people walk in all the time and say, you know, are you, are you vaccinated or not?

00:18:03.000 The people who aren't actually are taking a stand because if you wanted to just fake it, you can't, right?

00:18:08.000 I mean, let's fake it in a world like that we live in today.

00:18:11.000 It's not hard to fake something documentation wise or otherwise, but yet the people who are doing this truly, I think, believe it and are saying, I'm willing to go down.

00:18:21.000 I think it's a private medical decision and if people want to talk to their doctors about what makes for them, it's none of my business.

00:18:25.000 Can I just, not to get off on a tangent, but what other medical thing could you possibly imagine somebody walking into a group of friends or a work environment and saying, Hey, did you get the, uh, such and such?

00:18:39.000 Or are you taking this pill?

00:18:41.000 Or did you have this procedure?

00:18:43.000 There is no other thing that could possibly happen.

00:18:47.000 There's actually a great meme where someone said that they immediately went to their boss and said, if you are taking responsibility for COVID, I demand to know the status of every employee's medical history, including when they've had the flu, if they're pregnant, if they have HIV, because certainly we should take those into consideration in the workplace if you're concerned about this.

00:19:07.000 The idea basically being, as soon as the employer says, we recognize our liability in this, COVID, And these are not popular policies.

00:19:19.000 People don't want to ask permission and be granted special paperwork by the same entity that runs the DMV to go to their supermarket or their local restaurant.

00:19:27.000 This is a whole level of absurdity and insanity.

00:19:30.000 People are protesting in droves including people in Dallas.

00:19:34.000 There was an airport employee protest there today in Texas.

00:19:37.000 There was massive protests in Italy where police officers used tear gas, water canyons on dock workers, on union workers, on protesters standing against the insane policies being implemented in Italy where they are pushing the agenda further, faster, and quicker than almost anywhere else in the world right now.

00:19:56.000 And these clashes are not just creating protests and fights between police officers which are still obeying the laws, sorry, obeying the decrees by every exact extent that they are, but this is also having a huge effect on our economy, on our supply chains, on global trade, and these effects are absolutely monstrous and they're going to be very huge to deal with.

00:20:21.000 One interesting thing that I just, we had a poll the other day from the Trafalgar group that we played on the show That was really interesting.

00:20:27.000 If you listen to the mainstream media, I think you get the takeaway that Luke had, which is that there's this widespread belief that everyone had, but a plurality of Democrats, 47-43, so not just a barely, almost a majority, actually don't support people losing their jobs if they don't get the vaccine.

00:20:43.000 But if you listen to the news, you would think that this is widely spread, especially among the left, and it's not.

00:20:50.000 That's why I call him a cult.

00:20:51.000 Because Matthew Iglesias has a great tweet.

00:20:53.000 He said, Twitter is people who are 95% further left than the average voter arguing with people who are 75% further left than the average voter that they're too far, right?

00:21:04.000 You have my favorite metric, because I feel like it's the easiest to understand for anyone who's paying attention, is that Democrats, 54%, according to Civics, believe the economy is good.

00:21:13.000 Yeah.

00:21:14.000 That's insane.

00:21:16.000 70% of moderates say fairly bad or very bad.

00:21:19.000 88% of Republicans say fairly bad or very bad.

00:21:23.000 And the reality is, it's very bad.

00:21:25.000 Correct.

00:21:26.000 Objectively.

00:21:26.000 But let's do this.

00:21:28.000 Let's take a look at a city that is under the rule of policies like this.

00:21:34.000 We have this story from the Daily Mail.

00:21:36.000 San Francisco Mayor London Breed claims Walgreens is only shutting five stores to cut costs.

00:21:42.000 But Pharmacy Chain says it spends nearly 50 times as much on security as stores in that city compared to anywhere else.

00:21:48.000 Alright, let's slow down.

00:21:49.000 San Francisco has such crime because, I mean, people are just going into Walgreens, shuffling stuff into bags.

00:21:56.000 One guy's on a bike, he's running off a garbage bag full of stuff.

00:21:58.000 And so, Walgreens says, we're gonna shut down several stores.

00:22:02.000 It's happened with other stores.

00:22:04.000 Target reduced hours.

00:22:06.000 This is partly due to the fact that the city basically said anything $900 or under won't be prosecuted.

00:22:12.000 So people are like, free run, I guess.

00:22:15.000 Here's the best part.

00:22:16.000 London Breed is claiming Walgreens is only shutting five stores to cut costs.

00:22:21.000 Why would Walgreens need to cut costs?

00:22:24.000 It's a grocery store and pharmacy in a major urban center of tens of millions of people in the entirety of the Bay Area.

00:22:34.000 What is happening in San Francisco where they're like, we can't afford this anymore?

00:22:39.000 cost of security apparently.

00:22:41.000 No, it's not even security.

00:22:44.000 They've done it such that there's these videos where the security guard has to stand there

00:22:48.000 and watch them loot the place because the police won't back them up.

00:22:52.000 So at some point, to your point, if it's $900, I don't know what costs more than $500 in

00:22:56.000 Walgreens.

00:22:57.000 Right.

00:22:58.000 So basically what they're saying is you can loot the entire thing and not face any consequences.

00:23:04.000 At some point, it's not worth it.

00:23:06.000 Think about it.

00:23:07.000 Can you name a product in Walgreens that's more than $900?

00:23:09.000 Well, it's probably if they walk out with more than $900 worth of stuff.

00:23:12.000 But what happens is they come in with 10 of their friends and they all walk out with $800 worth of stuff.

00:23:16.000 Bingo.

00:23:17.000 There's videos of them walking up to the makeup rack with bags and just shuffling them on.

00:23:22.000 And then there's that one famous video where the guy's on a bike in the store just grabbing stuff and the security guard's just filming.

00:23:29.000 They can't do anything.

00:23:30.000 Right.

00:23:31.000 It's what they voted for.

00:23:32.000 If they want it, they have it.

00:23:33.000 Good for them.

00:23:34.000 That's right.

00:23:35.000 But also, Walgreens played by a different set of rules, especially during the lockdowns.

00:23:39.000 Walgreens was allowed to be open, so they made bank as small mom-and-pop businesses got obliterated and destroyed by policies that prevented them from operating their businesses and another reason why a lot of

00:23:50.000 ...

00:23:50.000 people didn't want to be police officers is because they got a ...

00:23:53.000 lot of hate not just from the left but also from the right ...

00:23:56.000 especially when they are written went around small ...

00:23:58.000 businesses and shut all of them down while all the big ...

00:24:00.000 multinational corporations were able to stay open so ... 0.65

00:24:03.000 Walgreens saying that the need to save cost is bullcrap they ...

00:24:05.000 got way more than enough money they got way more than enough ... 0.93

00:24:08.000 play within the federal government that allowed them ...

00:24:10.000 to stay open during lockdown is not Walgreens saying it ...

00:24:13.000 they're being accused by the mayor of San Francisco of ...

00:24:15.000 mayor of San Francisco of cutting costs.

00:24:18.000 Yeah.

00:24:18.000 Walgreens is like, they're looting our stores to the point we can't keep them open.

00:24:22.000 And then this is impacting people on many levels as well, because a lot of people can't even get their prescriptions filled as well.

00:24:29.000 So, I mean, just a few years ago, I remember being in San Francisco and it was like a war zone out there.

00:24:34.000 So, I mean, this is what people want.

00:24:36.000 This is what they voted for.

00:24:38.000 Good on you.

00:24:39.000 Enjoy it.

00:24:40.000 Have fun.

00:24:41.000 When we had Will Chamberlain and I think it was Will and Charlie Kirk, right?

00:24:44.000 Yeah, I think so.

00:24:46.000 I basically had a similar approach.

00:24:48.000 I was like, well, if people vote for this, then let them have it.

00:24:51.000 And their response was, that's a very libertarian answer, as it said to me.

00:24:53.000 They said, you know, they were conservatives and they feel the law should be enforced equally

00:24:57.000 for all people.

00:24:58.000 The libertarians are the ones who are like, well, if you vote for it, that's what you

00:25:01.000 get.

00:25:02.000 I thought that was a really, really great point.

00:25:04.000 We can't tolerate lawlessness in a city even if people are, they're not voting for the crime, they're voting for policies that enable it.

00:25:12.000 Right.

00:25:13.000 So the crime still needs to be stopped.

00:25:15.000 Well the problem too though is, let's face it, if you voted, let's say you vote, you actually do vote because you want lawlessness.

00:25:23.000 But I don't.

00:25:25.000 Should I have to bear the consequences of someone's vote? 0.80

00:25:28.000 And that's the problem, is that San Francisco, until it's 100%, you're basically screwing everybody else who wants to live there in peace and not have their stuff taken, get punched in the face.

00:25:40.000 That's the new normal.

00:25:42.000 That's what usually happens.

00:25:43.000 This is a great purge.

00:25:45.000 I mean, think about it.

00:25:45.000 With the Vax mandates, you've got cops who refuse to enforce or abide by are quitting.

00:25:51.000 So law enforcement across the board, first responders, military saying no to this stuff, officers resigning, those who can.

00:25:58.000 And then you have in cities, what's going to happen?

00:26:00.000 Maybe you're a moderate, maybe you're even a Democrat, and you hear they're doing vax mandates.

00:26:04.000 And like you said, the polls show that most Democrats don't even agree with it.

00:26:07.000 They're going to leave.

00:26:08.000 They're going to move to Texas.

00:26:09.000 They're going to move to Colorado.

00:26:10.000 They're going to leave these heavily blue areas, making them even more heavily blue.

00:26:16.000 I was going to say, this is the exact same problem you see with the police force.

00:26:19.000 When the good officers leave because they're like, I will not enforce something unconstitutional, you're left with police who will do anything.

00:26:25.000 It's exactly the same in cities.

00:26:27.000 If you force people who are moderate and even remotely conservative out of your city, you're just going to end up with seriously spiraling crime.

00:26:35.000 It sounds great for them, doesn't it?

00:26:37.000 That's what they want, I guess.

00:26:38.000 I'm imagining Bill de Blasio is like, how do we get rid of conservatives and moderates?

00:26:42.000 I know, do things that are unconstitutional and egregiously bad and the Democrats just accept it, I guess?

00:26:48.000 They're gonna watch CNN, we're good.

00:26:49.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:26:50.000 Stupid policy, it doesn't equate as liberalism to me. 1.00

00:26:53.000 I don't know what these people are, if it's just like endemically idiotic and addictive because they see one mayor do it in another city on the internet, they're like, I'm gonna try it now in my city. 1.00

00:27:03.000 I think that they're responding to what Tim was talking about on the Twitter example, that these guys think that somehow that that vocal minority on Twitter is a majority, and it's not. 0.96

00:27:13.000 And that's the problem, is that they think that they are, by giving in to them, that they are doing the popular thing, But they're just giving into a very, very loud minority.

00:27:24.000 You know, I'll be interested to see what happens next year in the midterms because we had this state seat in Iowa flip Republican.

00:27:32.000 There is some speculation for a lot of reasons the Republicans are going to sweep in the House and maybe even the Senate.

00:27:39.000 But I don't know, man.

00:27:41.000 I'll believe it when I see it.

00:27:42.000 Well, I'll tell you what.

00:27:42.000 I'll take it one step further.

00:27:44.000 I think that if Republicans just literally sat under a table and breathed for the next, whatever, 13 months, they will win.

00:27:53.000 They need six seats.

00:27:53.000 They're going to get two in Texas because of the two new districts.

00:27:56.000 They'll get one in Florida.

00:27:57.000 And there's a handful of others that are easily flippable because of redistricting.

00:28:00.000 What I'm more interested in is, on January 7th, 8th, or whatever the day that that new Congress turns in, are the Republicans, especially in the House, going to put forward an agenda that is reflective of what the people and the grassroots really have asked for?

00:28:14.000 Absolutely not.

00:28:14.000 No.

00:28:15.000 But that's my point.

00:28:17.000 Right.

00:28:18.000 It's that this is what worries me, is that finally there's an opportunity.

00:28:22.000 Never have the lines been so clear.

00:28:24.000 This between watching the difference between Trump and Biden and watching the difference between these mayors that we're all talking about now.

00:28:31.000 If you don't get it now, you're never going to get it, right?

00:28:34.000 And so if Republicans in the House don't look at this opportunity and say, we got it, Then they've blown it big time.

00:28:43.000 Primaries.

00:28:44.000 I think people got to make sure they're paying attention to the Republican primaries and making sure establishment do-nothing Republicans don't win.

00:28:51.000 I thought Mike Gravel was pushing this thing called the National Initiative that it would have given the American people a fourth branch of government.

00:28:57.000 It would have given us the opportunity to write laws and pass them into the Senate.

00:29:00.000 I think that's a good idea because these Congress people get in there and they get desensitized and disassociated from what regular people want.

00:29:07.000 And why would we not have the ability to It's hard to say.

00:29:10.000 I do think, like you mentioned, you know, the Republicans, they're historically due to win.

00:29:13.000 Yes.

00:29:13.000 Because of the unpopularity of Biden.

00:29:14.000 process. A lot of states have a referendum process that functions that way.

00:29:17.000 California.

00:29:18.000 Switzerland has it as well.

00:29:19.000 Yeah.

00:29:20.000 It's hard to say. I do think, like you mentioned, you know, the Republicans, they're historically

00:29:25.000 due to win.

00:29:26.000 Yes.

00:29:27.000 Because of the unpopularity of Biden. And then we look at the historical trends. But

00:29:31.000 I'm just not convinced because like you said, if you don't get it now, you're never going

00:29:35.000 to get it. There are a lot of people who are never going to get it. Now, there's a lot

00:29:38.000 of reasons to think that things might might flip.

00:29:41.000 Interestingly, in the last election, Republicans overperformed. It was it was to the polls. It

00:29:45.000 was crazy. Like Miami going red. Yeah. South Texas. These are all these areas.

00:29:49.000 I I want to believe first, I want to believe that Republicans will take back the House.

00:29:56.000 And I would love to believe, but I can't, that they would actually impeach Joe Biden for like all the Ukraine stuff.

00:30:01.000 And I mean, the dude's got literally everything.

00:30:03.000 Yeah, not the emails that have come out, him meeting with Hunter Biden's partners, sharing bank accounts.

00:30:08.000 You know what the problem is, is that every time The only time they've ever done anything effective is after 1994 when there was a contract with America and they said, we're going to do this.

00:30:18.000 And for 100 days they did it.

00:30:20.000 And then after it was like, where do we go?

00:30:23.000 But if they don't get it now, then I think that they're going to lose trust for a really, really long time.

00:30:29.000 I don't know how you get it back because enough of this stuff has happened.

00:30:33.000 And I think that what I've started to do is, as I bring people on the show, I'll say, are you committed to doing something if you get back the majority?

00:30:40.000 Because they need to be held accountable.

00:30:42.000 Yes.

00:30:43.000 And that's the problem right now, is that they're going to get a pass.

00:30:46.000 And I think that we need to start, what does that agenda look like?

00:30:48.000 You know what the problem is?

00:30:50.000 If someone, I'll start with this.

00:30:54.000 Republicans, when polled, have a negative view of the Republican Party.

00:31:00.000 Democrats, when polled, have a positive view of the Democratic Party.

00:31:03.000 Democrats watch CNN, and they believe everything they're told.

00:31:06.000 They watch Rachel Maddow.

00:31:07.000 It is insane the amount of lies pumped out through those networks all day every day, and people just believe it, even when it contradicts itself.

00:31:16.000 Bill Maher, I think a good example, Bill Maher even.

00:31:19.000 Because he's been doing well as a, you know, calling out the insanity.

00:31:22.000 But he was wrong on the Covington kids, a week after it happened.

00:31:26.000 Because when you just follow the cult media, they have no interest in informing you.

00:31:30.000 Now the problem here is people are just going to blindly follow mainstream media.

00:31:35.000 Republicans won't.

00:31:36.000 So if I go to someone on the right and ask them a legitimate question, and they're honest about it, they will get destroyed in the media because they'll be twisted and skewed.

00:31:45.000 And then you can get someone, you know, in the Biden administration to literally break their own rules, like, you know, Biden, for instance, and they ignore it completely.

00:31:54.000 So I've been talking, you know, I talk to regular people all the time.

00:31:57.000 I mean, just like, you know, going out, going to the hardware store, people who don't know who I am and just see how things are going.

00:32:02.000 And a lot of them are just like, I have no idea what's happening.

00:32:04.000 But they know Trump was bad.

00:32:06.000 That's all they know.

00:32:07.000 Because they hear this stuff, you know, from secondhand.

00:32:10.000 But I told someone today, Tim, that imagine sitting in your house and turning on the television and someone says it's raining.

00:32:18.000 And to your point, you trust it because, well, the weatherman or person is on television saying it's raining.

00:32:23.000 But then walking outside and being like, wait a second, there's moisture coming down and I'm getting wet.

00:32:29.000 That's what's happening right now in America.

00:32:32.000 You turn on the morning shows or CNN or what have you and you are told certain things.

00:32:39.000 And you go, well, I'm supposed to believe them because why would they lie or mislead us?

00:32:43.000 And yet they're not accurate.

00:32:45.000 You look at what's happening right now with our economy, with Afghanistan, with all the stuff that this administration tells us, and yet the mainstream media's complicity in promoting the agenda and the policies of this administration is so corrupt and it's so undermining to the professional journalism that it is literally like sitting inside your house and having someone tell you it's raining on a sunny—I mean, it's sunny on a rainy day.

00:33:08.000 Have you ever, I posted this photo on Instagram, I can't pull it up unless I log in, but it shows, I think it's like CBS and Fox News during Gordon Sondland's testimony, and they're two TVs side by side in a gym.

00:33:19.000 Oh yeah, I remember that.

00:33:20.000 On one it says, Sondland confirms quid pro quo.

00:33:23.000 On Fox News it says, Sondland confirms no quid pro quo.

00:33:27.000 Amazing how this happens.

00:33:30.000 But the funny thing is, I wrote a post saying, Fox is actually correct.

00:33:34.000 Gordon Sondland said, Trump told me there is no quid pro quo, but in his opinion, he kind of felt like there was one.

00:33:40.000 Opinion is not confirmation, when the exact quote from the president was, don't.

00:33:44.000 Right.

00:33:45.000 But they'll frame it the way they want.

00:33:47.000 I want to pull up this story because I think it's a good opportunity to talk about Jen Psaki.

00:33:50.000 We have this from The Independent.

00:33:52.000 Psaki defends Biden's against claims they broke mask mandate on dinner date.

00:33:57.000 Psaki battles conservative reporter over president's mask usage.

00:34:00.000 There's so much here I love.

00:34:03.000 Conservative reporter?

00:34:04.000 That's Peter Doocy, right?

00:34:06.000 Yeah.

00:34:08.000 Okay, did Peter Doocy come up and say that he was pro-life and had a question?

00:34:11.000 Did he say, uh, Jen, I'm pro-life and I want small government and lower taxes.

00:34:15.000 Now my question is, why is he a conservative reporter?

00:34:19.000 Not to mention, you would never frame any of those folks on NBC or the New York Times.

00:34:23.000 as liberal reporters, not even the MSNBC one, but also, who cares?

00:34:27.000 He asked her a simple question about their policies.

00:34:31.000 Why does his background have anything to do with it?

00:34:34.000 I mean, but again, because this goes back to what we were just talking about.

00:34:38.000 Because if you demean the reporter who's asking it, then there's less likely that you'll believe

00:34:44.000 the answer or the predicate of, you know, so it's how do we muddy this?

00:34:49.000 Right-wing is bad.

00:34:50.000 Conservative, bad.

00:34:51.000 Now, the funny thing is, as the saying goes, liberals think conservatives are evil, conservatives think liberals are misguided, right?

00:34:58.000 I think people who are moderate, libertarian, you know what?

00:35:02.000 I think it's easier just to name the cult.

00:35:04.000 The Democratic establishment and their voters are in a cult.

00:35:06.000 Because everyone else, they disagree with each other on a lot of things.

00:35:09.000 Luke's fairly libertarian or very freedom-oriented, but there are conservatives who disagree, but they agree on the truth and the facts to a great deal.

00:35:17.000 But there are a lot of people who blindly follow behind Jen Psaki.

00:35:20.000 I think it's interesting for two reasons.

00:35:22.000 Well, three.

00:35:23.000 First is pointing out saying a conservative reporter I find kind of funny.

00:35:27.000 But then you've got Joe Biden violating his own mask rule.

00:35:30.000 Yep.

00:35:31.000 Jen Psaki defending breaking his own rule.

00:35:35.000 And not a single reporter actually questioning outside of Doocy who was then ignored or smeared.

00:35:42.000 Where are the journalists?

00:35:43.000 Now, I think it's interesting because you had this job.

00:35:47.000 Yes.

00:35:47.000 When you had this job, you were not given any free passes.

00:35:50.000 In fact, I think it was kind of brutal, right?

00:35:52.000 The journalists were just always just coming at you with very pointed, very hard, or even mis-framed questions.

00:35:59.000 Yeah.

00:36:00.000 I mean, I mentioned to you guys before we started, there was a profile on Jen and a reporter from the New York Times called me and they said, well, what do you think?

00:36:07.000 And I said, look, the reality is I walked into the lion's den every day and she walks into a bunch of kittens.

00:36:13.000 And everyone thought that was ridiculous. 0.83

00:36:14.000 How could I say it?

00:36:15.000 But the reality is, I mean, just look at the video.

00:36:17.000 When I walked in, you had Acosta jumping up and down like a hyena.

00:36:21.000 And all these people are like, ah!

00:36:23.000 But when she walks in, it's like a bunch of well-trained third graders.

00:36:27.000 They sit there with their hands on their lap and politely raise their hand.

00:36:30.000 And then you have a guy like Doocy who literally just asks a simple question.

00:36:34.000 And they go, well, that's the right wing guy.

00:36:36.000 Was Doocy there when you were?

00:36:37.000 No.

00:36:38.000 He wasn't?

00:36:38.000 No.

00:36:39.000 He was at Fox, but John Roberts primarily was there.

00:36:42.000 Kevin Cork was there from Fox.

00:36:44.000 Are there a lot of the same reporters that were there when you were there?

00:36:48.000 But there was one other woman who worked and she's now left Fox. 1.00

00:36:52.000 But are there a lot of the same reporters that were there when you were?

00:36:54.000 No, not there's some, but generally a lot of them switch over.

00:36:58.000 It's a tough beat.

00:37:00.000 So I think a lot of times when there's a switch of administration, the folks who are, say, covering Biden on the campaign trail will kind of tap in, if you will, to cover the White House because they know the candidate or it's their turn.

00:37:11.000 And I think, frankly, there's a lot of burnout after you've been living, especially covering Donald Trump, where you have to be up early and stay up late just to stay up with the guy.

00:37:19.000 Is it like five days a week?

00:37:21.000 Oh, no, it's a seven a week.

00:37:22.000 Yeah, 24-7.

00:37:23.000 You can be off some days, but it's like... You would do like seven days in a row of speaking every day?

00:37:29.000 Oh, I was, so the way I worked for my tenure was on Sundays I would try not to go into the office, but I was still, you know, either on my computer or on an iPhone or what have you all day long.

00:37:39.000 But Saturdays I was in and, you know, every weekday.

00:37:43.000 I don't, I don't want to blame Jen Psaki.

00:37:45.000 There was a big, you know, when she came in and the circle back stuff and the memes, I think they're funny.

00:37:50.000 Circle back, I'll circle back.

00:37:51.000 Come on, do your job.

00:37:53.000 But I'm not gonna blame a person who's hired to be a spokesperson.

00:37:56.000 I mean, we get it.

00:37:58.000 When the Deepwater Horizon thing happens in the Gulf of Mexico, do we expect BP to come out and be like, we're irresponsible and we caused a major oil spill, it's our fault?

00:38:08.000 I didn't mean to expect isn't the right word. 0.98

00:38:10.000 Look, a prosecutor that walks out and says, look, I know my boss just said this, but they're nuts.

00:38:16.000 You've got about 8 seconds before they're like, can we take your badge and get out.

00:38:19.000 That's just not how it works.

00:38:20.000 You're like a lawyer, and I hate to use the analogy but it's easy to make, that you don't get up there, you make the best case for the person you represent.

00:38:28.000 That's it.

00:38:28.000 Plain and simple.

00:38:29.000 You're not there to interpret for them.

00:38:31.000 I would say sales rep is a better kind of description from my own personal opinion.

00:38:34.000 You're selling policies that, again, you can't really answer for.

00:38:39.000 Right, exactly.

00:38:39.000 I think that's probably more apt.

00:38:40.000 You don't go, you know, to be honest with you, after about three weeks, the product sucks.

00:38:45.000 But these are sales people, and people need to understand, like, the word of the government is not gospel, it's sales.

00:38:50.000 It's trying to convince you of a certain idea.

00:38:53.000 This is why, like I said, when Psyche came in and conservatives were coming at her, I'm like, I don't care.

00:39:00.000 You know what I really care about is the journalists who have decided to lay down their swords.

00:39:03.000 They're no longer adversarial.

00:39:05.000 And you can argue, but they ask her tough questions.

00:39:07.000 No, they don't ask her questions.

00:39:09.000 She says, I'll circle back and we never hear anything.

00:39:11.000 She's not being challenged on that.

00:39:12.000 The only one who is doing anything is Doocy.

00:39:14.000 And his questions typically are fairly good, normal questions.

00:39:17.000 And they're respectful.

00:39:18.000 But the media attacks him!

00:39:19.000 But by the way, just so we're clear, just so we're clear.

00:39:22.000 She chooses not to call on anybody else.

00:39:25.000 That's the token, right?

00:39:27.000 So Peter becomes the one person that she calls on.

00:39:29.000 There's 30 other people.

00:39:31.000 We have a White House correspondent, too, actually, that's switching in and out from Newsmax in there.

00:39:36.000 They don't get questions.

00:39:37.000 Neither do anyone else that's right-leaning.

00:39:40.000 She calls on all the mainstream guys and then throws the obligatory token question to Peter so that she can say that she sent one over.

00:39:46.000 But nobody else in that briefing room gets one.

00:39:49.000 I took questions from literally every single person in there.

00:39:52.000 Not only that, But when I started, I actually did this.

00:39:55.000 I killed the tradition of starting with the AP and working through the mainstream media

00:39:59.000 backwards.

00:40:00.000 I started in the back of the room and moved forward.

00:40:03.000 Because to me, that was, that was very symbolic of what Trump was all about.

00:40:08.000 And so I've thought, all right, how better to show this than not by calling on them.

00:40:12.000 Didn't you guys do that Skype thing?

00:40:13.000 We did.

00:40:14.000 So I brought in reporters that couldn't make it to the brief room.

00:40:19.000 But part of the reason was to allow issues that weren't coming up.

00:40:24.000 It's all these guys are groupthink.

00:40:25.000 So if CNN asked a question, then the Washington Post would say, you know, following up on

00:40:29.000 that.

00:40:30.000 Well, what I wanted to know what was going on in Cleveland, in Providence, Rhode Island,

00:40:33.000 and, you know, Seattle, so that you could hear an issue that was affecting real people

00:40:38.000 in their communities about some federal land policy or a school, you know, an education

00:40:43.000 policy issue.

00:40:44.000 But all that I ever got was Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:40:48.000 So I figured, you know what, I have a feeling that people out in America don't necessarily

00:40:52.000 all care about this.

00:40:53.000 I don't, you know, whether it's you or Saki, I see a White House press secretary.

00:40:58.000 Like we were saying, they're there to sell the policy, they're there to speak, to not interpret I guess, but you know, to present the case.

00:41:05.000 But you gotta remember the other thing is, Jen was at CNN prior to coming here.

00:41:08.000 These are her colleagues.

00:41:10.000 They're her buddies.

00:41:12.000 Do you think they're gonna attack her?

00:41:14.000 She's going back there, just so we're all clear.

00:41:16.000 Well, let's be fair.

00:41:17.000 They could have pulled a homeless guy off the street, put him in there, and as a Democratic spokesperson, they'd be like— Right, fair enough.

00:41:21.000 But my point is— But let's be honest.

00:41:23.000 I mean, I agree with you.

00:41:24.000 Literally, you could put anyone up there every day, and it won't significantly change.

00:41:29.000 I love Biden's fake question.

00:41:31.000 Like, you know, remember when that journalist came up to ask a question, but they asked something different?

00:41:35.000 And he was like, I thought you were going to ask about, uh, whatever.

00:41:38.000 But Pelosi, think about this.

00:41:39.000 We showed this in our show today.

00:41:41.000 Pelosi stood in front of the press and was asked last week about the Build Back Better plan and she said, you folks need to do a better job of selling it.

00:41:50.000 I was like, oh my god, you said the quiet part out loud!

00:41:55.000 You literally chided them for not doing your job, but that's what they think.

00:42:01.000 That's what the left thinks, is that the press is a tool to get at our message.

00:42:05.000 I mean, how else did Biden get elected?

00:42:06.000 Biden literally hid in the basement while the media did the pitching, the campaigning for him.

00:42:12.000 It's like Weekend at Bernie's, man.

00:42:15.000 Shameless plug, I have two chapters in my new book that just talk about what the press doesn't do.

00:42:21.000 This radical nation.

00:42:23.000 Radical nation.

00:42:23.000 But I have two chapters in here that talk about the complicit nature of the press.

00:42:28.000 And it's the thing that people have to understand is when you look at the examples of how Biden conducts himself and how the press doesn't do their job, then you get it.

00:42:36.000 How deep do you go in the rabbit hole of who owns the companies that run the media?

00:42:40.000 It's a great question. In this book, that's not, I touch on that in my last book, but I'm not

00:42:45.000 selling that. What's that one called? Leading America. But because I think that's a good point.

00:42:49.000 But I, but here, the point was to look at the Biden administration and recognize the fact

00:42:54.000 that they weren't getting the, and we talk about this from the, you talk about the mask mandate

00:42:57.000 now, him going to this Georgetown restaurant.

00:43:00.000 That's how he started.

00:43:01.000 Remember the fact that this was one of the first questions that she got asked by Ducey when he went to the Lincoln Memorial.

00:43:07.000 He doesn't wear a mask and she comes back and is like, well, come on.

00:43:10.000 Same, same answer, by the way.

00:43:11.000 No big deal.

00:43:12.000 Before the show, I'm like, oh, Sean, you have a book.

00:43:15.000 What's it called?

00:43:16.000 Radical Nation. 0.89

00:43:17.000 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's dangerous plan for America.

00:43:19.000 And I was like, just hold it up during every segment because it's going to be applicable.

00:43:24.000 But it is.

00:43:24.000 Is it even their plan?

00:43:26.000 Is someone deciding all this stuff behind the scenes?

00:43:28.000 Well, look, the one thing that I'll tell you is Biden during the campaign said, I'm going to be the most progressive president ever.

00:43:35.000 And I frankly think that most people dismissed him on the right and the left.

00:43:39.000 He does understand this.

00:43:41.000 He's going to have one term and he wants a legacy that says, I did more for the left than anybody else.

00:43:46.000 I want to be remembered for the guy who named the first black female vice president, the first openly gay department head, which is what he says, even though Rick Grinnell did serve under Trump, but he wants to nuance it to say, department, but all of these things that he wants to do are

00:44:01.000 to cement his legacy as the latest version of FDR. A bunch of virtue signals. The only issue

00:44:08.000 is he's just, you know, not there.

00:44:10.000 He's not.

00:44:11.000 He's like a 13%.

00:44:12.000 I have a different understanding of it, to be honest with you.

00:44:15.000 I think he's a shallow man. 0.97

00:44:16.000 I think special interests are using him to push through some of the most absurd, ridiculous, most craziest policies that they would never have the balls to do if there was a real candidate behind that presidency. 0.99

00:44:26.000 That's my opinion. 0.98

00:44:26.000 Look, two Fridays ago, at a press conference, he said this. 0.98

00:44:29.000 If we pass my 1.2 and 3.5 pieces of legislation, we will transform the structure and nature of our economy.

00:44:40.000 He knows what he's doing.

00:44:42.000 But first of all, who wanted him to do that?

00:44:44.000 Nobody!

00:44:45.000 If he knows what he's doing, he's tanking the economy on purpose, especially with his vaccine mandates, especially with his restrictions on trade, especially with the effects that he has had on global trade in general.

00:44:56.000 So I think if he knows what he's doing, he's assuredly making sure that the United States gets destroyed from the inside, especially with the Afghanistan policy, especially with all the policies that he has proposed never help out the average American.

00:45:09.000 Let me ask you a question.

00:45:11.000 Look at Afghanistan objectively, no matter who you are, whether you've served a day in your life or not, and say to yourself, did anybody honestly think that that was a good idea of saying, hey, let's get these guys out first and then worry about everybody else?

00:45:25.000 I mean, the entire thing, it literally took a sixth grader to go, ah!

00:45:29.000 Bad idea.

00:45:29.000 Yeah.

00:45:30.000 Keep your Air Force base.

00:45:31.000 The idea of, look at this weekend, what we need to do is tell people to work 24-7 at the ports.

00:45:36.000 Really?

00:45:37.000 No one's working to begin with and you think the answer is to tell them to work more?

00:45:41.000 Meanwhile, there's still crazy carbon emissions, especially passed by California, that prevent many of these ships, many of these trucks from even operating in the state of California.

00:45:51.000 So there's many layers to this that we don't even understand yet.

00:45:53.000 And there's still a truck driver shortage.

00:45:56.000 So being like, we're opening the ports 24-7 does literally nothing.

00:46:00.000 Correct.

00:46:00.000 And you have to be vaccinated to make sure that you work now.

00:46:03.000 But look, here's the thing.

00:46:05.000 You told people not to work.

00:46:06.000 So they didn't make things.

00:46:07.000 Then they couldn't ship them.

00:46:09.000 Then they couldn't unload them.

00:46:10.000 Then they couldn't stock the shelves with them.

00:46:11.000 And now you go, you know what the answer is?

00:46:13.000 Just turn it on 24-7.

00:46:14.000 Work more.

00:46:17.000 Again, you had Marty Walsh, the Secretary of Labor, get asked last Sunday night what the problem was.

00:46:21.000 He said, I don't know.

00:46:22.000 If you don't know what the problem is, then you shouldn't be the Secretary of Labor.

00:46:26.000 You have Pete Buttigieg literally on Sunday calling it a success.

00:46:30.000 A success!

00:46:32.000 Let me pull up the story we got from TimCast.com.

00:46:34.000 Transportation Secretary Buttigieg says supply chain disruptions could continue into 2022.

00:46:41.000 So we just found out that apparently he was on a two-month leave.

00:46:44.000 No one knew.

00:46:45.000 While the crisis is happening, we're wondering, like, how did this happen?

00:46:48.000 Well, the guy who's supposed to be running that isn't here, for one thing.

00:46:51.000 But actually, before the show, you brought up a really good point about this.

00:46:54.000 So I have a chapter in the book called Biden, Inc., and it talks about all the people that got confirmed and didn't that we don't know about.

00:47:01.000 And when I say that is frankly, I don't think Republicans did their job

00:47:04.000 during the confirmation process.

00:47:05.000 But check this out, Pete Buttigieg is 38 years old.

00:47:09.000 He was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana that has a hundred thousand people.

00:47:12.000 And do you know how many buses they have?

00:47:14.000 66.

00:47:15.000 Million?

00:47:16.000 66 million?

00:47:16.000 No, no, 66 buses.

00:47:18.000 There's 66 buses in a city of, okay.

00:47:21.000 And that's who he chose to lead the airways, the railways, the seaports.

00:47:27.000 All of these things are being run by a guy that's 38 years old that oversaw 66 buses.

00:47:32.000 Let's be real.

00:47:33.000 Buttigieg dropped out through his support behind Biden and then he gave him a kickback.

00:47:37.000 But here's the kicker.

00:47:38.000 So when Biden, when he was confirmed, Right.

00:47:41.000 And I talk about this in the book, that the first thing Biden says is, I'm excited to have the most qualified guy.

00:47:46.000 No, he says, I'm excited to have the first openly gay cabinet member to lead a department.

00:47:52.000 And they said that because Grinnell had been DNI, but that's not the point.

00:47:55.000 The point is when Grinnell got hired, By Trump, it was because he was qualified, because he had the experience.

00:48:01.000 When Buttigieg got hired, it was because he checked a box, not because he was qualified.

00:48:05.000 I feel like, you know, I see Buttigieg, and they make that announcement, he's at the first gay department, and I'm like, wow, that's really cool.

00:48:12.000 Congratulations to Buttigieg on his family and his love and his children.

00:48:17.000 So what experience and work do you have?

00:48:19.000 Look, the social stuff aside, we can be like, that's nice.

00:48:22.000 I mean, that's why I think Biden doesn't care about his legacy.

00:48:25.000 He has a guy that's arguing with Tucker Carlson about male breastfeeding right now. 1.00

00:48:30.000 That's the argument happening right now.

00:48:32.000 Because to him, it's more important to say, I checked a box.

00:48:35.000 Who did I appoint?

00:48:36.000 Not what did I get done?

00:48:37.000 Think about this.

00:48:39.000 Real quick, Kamala Harris, she got zero delegates, right? 1.00

00:48:41.000 Yeah.

00:48:42.000 So he chooses her.

00:48:43.000 She's the least popular person.

00:48:44.000 Right, but what did he say?

00:48:45.000 Not that I want the best qualified VP that can step in and be president.

00:48:49.000 I want to have the first woman and I'm going to choose someone of color. 0.99

00:48:52.000 So he immediately says it's not about qualifications.

00:48:55.000 The other person that I really delve into, and there's a lot of them, but one of my favorites is Dennis McDonough.

00:49:00.000 He's the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, never served in the military, didn't work with veterans groups, and doesn't have anything to do with health care, right?

00:49:07.000 The only other person in the history of the United States that hasn't been a veteran that was secretary was David Shulkin, who had served in Obama.

00:49:14.000 Trump kept him.

00:49:14.000 He's a doctor.

00:49:15.000 He worked in the VA.

00:49:16.000 He understands health care, specifically veterans health care, right?

00:49:20.000 VA health care systems, how it's delivered, etc.

00:49:23.000 Denis McDonough had no experience except he had been Obama's chief of staff.

00:49:28.000 But those are the kind of people that we're putting in place, and we wonder why we are where we are.

00:49:28.000 That's it.

00:49:33.000 This is a point that I have made, because we are looking at a social justice, checking the box for demographics administration.

00:49:40.000 You're seeing it play out.

00:49:41.000 This is what's happening.

00:49:42.000 And to Luke's point, though, that this is their metric.

00:49:45.000 Yes.

00:49:46.000 If you're on the left, it's not, what did you get done?

00:49:48.000 It's how many boxes did you check?

00:49:50.000 How many firsts?

00:49:51.000 How many things did you, can we say that you did?

00:49:54.000 So that, you know, it's, it's how much critical race theory did you inject into the system?

00:49:59.000 How many of these, you know, uh, welfare programs did you start?

00:50:02.000 But it's all about being able to, to lay a marker down for the progressive left going forward.

00:50:08.000 Yeah.

00:50:08.000 It's a cult.

00:50:09.000 That's what happens when you let an authority run the show all the time. 0.99

00:50:12.000 I think that's why this decentralized United States is so important and why the private sector is such a big part of our lifestyle, because you can't let some central organization pick all the pieces and parts every time, because eventually you're going to get some idiot that comes in. 0.95

00:50:25.000 But one of the points that I touch on in the book is this. 0.56

00:50:28.000 You have to understand what I call the why.

00:50:31.000 There's a chapter in here about D.C.

00:50:31.000 Right.

00:50:34.000 and people have to understand this because this is so fundamental to what the Democrats believe.

00:50:39.000 The District of Columbia was created by our framers, a 10 square mile district. 0.90

00:50:42.000 They took a part from Virginia and a part from Maryland and created D.C.

00:50:46.000 When they no longer needed the part from Virginia, they gave it back.

00:50:49.000 I live in that part right now in Virginia that used to be the part of the district.

00:50:53.000 Well, now Democrats go around, they say, we want the people in D.C.

00:50:57.000 to have voting rights.

00:50:58.000 Oh, that sounds so American.

00:50:59.000 Everybody should be able to vote.

00:51:01.000 Great.

00:51:02.000 But my answer is, well, then give back the part in D.C.

00:51:05.000 to Maryland that's no longer being used because, gosh, we did that to Virginia.

00:51:10.000 We took it from Maryland.

00:51:11.000 Give back what's no longer needed.

00:51:13.000 It's already a state.

00:51:14.000 Problem solved.

00:51:15.000 But what do Democrats want to do?

00:51:17.000 They want to create a state among these few hundred thousand people.

00:51:20.000 Why?

00:51:21.000 Why?

00:51:22.000 Because D.C.

00:51:23.000 votes 95-5 Democrat, meaning that you will have two more Democratic senators in perpetuity.

00:51:29.000 They like to talk about how, oh, these red states like Wyoming.

00:51:33.000 Delaware.

00:51:34.000 Come on.

00:51:35.000 You want to make— Delaware is microscopic.

00:51:37.000 Right.

00:51:38.000 But the point is, is that the Democrats have an overarching goal, which is to maintain political power as long as they can so that they have a vehicle to push these policies through.

00:51:47.000 And once you understand that, that these people and these policies are all there for that same collective reason, then you get it.

00:51:54.000 And this is like the Great Reset using the American Democratic Party.

00:51:58.000 Sure, but they all get it.

00:51:59.000 The more people that are addicted to government, the more that they enact policies that ensure that they never are out.

00:52:05.000 You mentioned, you know, Biden basically hires these people with no experience.

00:52:10.000 Like I said, you know, Buttigieg is probably just, here's your kickback.

00:52:12.000 Thanks for throwing your weight behind us.

00:52:15.000 But I kind of feel like, you know, Donald Trump had some people who should not have been there under the assumption they'd experience.

00:52:21.000 I think he thought John Bolton was going to give him good advice, and that was a mistake.

00:52:24.000 I think he thought Millie was going to give him good advice, and that was a mistake.

00:52:27.000 So I wonder if Trump would have been better off with a bunch of randoms that didn't have experience in the long run.

00:52:33.000 Well, to some degree, we kind of started that way.

00:52:36.000 I mean, you think about it, Trump, look, if you go back looking through every other candidate in history, they were either a politician, a general, they had a group of people around them, especially in modern times.

00:52:44.000 If you're a governor or senator, you've got advisors and consultants and donors that can fill spots.

00:52:49.000 Trump was a businessman.

00:52:50.000 He wasn't a politician.

00:52:51.000 So he comes into office, he's like, hey, I'm going to grab that guy, that guy, that guy.

00:52:55.000 Some of them fit well, some of them didn't. But he had to go through that churn initially because

00:53:01.000 he didn't have a whole group of people that were part of his donors. But there were some people

00:53:05.000 that— Joe Biden has the entirety of the establishment behind him. This is the best

00:53:09.000 he could do. Right. But the difference is that he has the people.

00:53:13.000 He's putting them in the wrong places. 0.96

00:53:15.000 So it's not that Buttigieg is a dumb guy or couldn't do something in the administration. 0.95

00:53:20.000 It's that they put him in a place that he's not qualified. 0.97

00:53:23.000 Denis McDonough is not a bad guy.

00:53:25.000 He's a smart guy from everything I know, but he shouldn't be leading the Department of Veterans Affairs.

00:53:29.000 He could have been OMB or something.

00:53:31.000 He's got government experience.

00:53:33.000 Office of Management and Budget.

00:53:34.000 I mean, he was Obama's chief of staff.

00:53:36.000 He gets government. 0.97

00:53:37.000 He's not a dumb guy. 0.92

00:53:38.000 But the point isn't that they're not smart, it's that they're not qualified for the jobs they're in. 0.90

00:53:43.000 This is why I think, you know, Joe Biden's in charge.

00:53:46.000 You know, some people want to play it out like he's secretly not running the show, Kamala's... No, I think you've got a bunch of sycophants who are sitting around being like, sure thing, Joe, unqualified people.

00:53:57.000 And no one wants to challenge him.

00:53:59.000 The dude's out of his mind.

00:54:00.000 He probably mutters and spurts out gibberish.

00:54:03.000 We hear him say it on TV when he mutters off.

00:54:06.000 My favorite was when he was saying something and then he went, uh, whatever.

00:54:10.000 Just like, stop dead in his tracks.

00:54:12.000 And look, with all due respect, he's an old guy.

00:54:14.000 He's losing it.

00:54:15.000 But I genuinely believe he's sitting in these cabinet meetings and he's like, uh, Kamala, can you, uh, the border, uh, uh, uh, I'm going to go to bed.

00:54:28.000 And then she's like, I don't know what I'm doing.

00:54:29.000 And then the media is like, where's Kamala Harris? 1.00

00:54:29.000 What am I doing? 1.00

00:54:31.000 And she's like, I don't know what I'm doing.

00:54:33.000 I would disagree, especially when we look at what's been happening, because when you see the policies and who they directly affect, they affect middle America, people in the lower class that are absolutely being obliterated.

00:54:44.000 The billionaire class, they're getting richer than they ever have been in recorded human history.

00:54:49.000 There's a chart going around right now.

00:54:50.000 I mean, you can always ask, you know, who benefits?

00:54:54.000 I always ask that question.

00:54:54.000 But is that just because no one's on duty and so the looters are looting?

00:54:58.000 I think the looters are looting more than they ever have because of the policies that they're implementing that directly benefit them.

00:54:58.000 No, no, no, no, no.

00:55:05.000 There's a new chart going around right now that says in the United States the top 1% now holds more money and more wealth than all of the middle class combined.

00:55:14.000 So when we were seeing such a huge transfer of wealth, when we were seeing the American people just thrown down the toilet, being mandated, being restricted, being regulated, being taxed more than ever, who do these policies directly benefit?

00:55:27.000 A lot of the multinational corporate billionaires that of course have financed him.

00:55:32.000 And I think he's too delusional.

00:55:37.000 I don't think he's there.

00:55:38.000 I think they're the ones saying, do this for us because we got you in there.

00:55:41.000 And he's like, yes, sir, whatever you want.

00:55:43.000 Here's this deal.

00:55:45.000 Here's this package.

00:55:46.000 Here's this contract.

00:55:47.000 Here's this new regulation.

00:55:48.000 Here's this new tax, which will make you win, which will give you money and screw everyone else over.

00:55:52.000 So I pulled up this chart from Business Insider and you can see that for the first time it appears, well not for the first time, but at least in the span of this chart, that the top 1% now surpassed the middle 60%.

00:56:02.000 I don't know if I agree on necessarily what Joe Biden is doing, but I will say that the establishment elites as a whole definitely want to create a class system where the poor working class never move up. 0.87

00:56:16.000 A limited upward mobility.

00:56:18.000 Basically just have ultra elites who are wealthy, will always be wealthy.

00:56:22.000 If you're rich and you're born rich, stay rich.

00:56:25.000 Why risk it?

00:56:26.000 Now for me, that's not a policy about someone caring about his legacy.

00:56:30.000 That's a policy of a sinking ship.

00:56:32.000 The ship's going down and we're going down with it very fast.

00:56:36.000 Look at the way China has been establishing their policies, their foreign policy, their domestic trading systems, their belt and road initiatives.

00:56:45.000 It's completely, 100%, 80 degrees different than what we're doing here in the United States.

00:56:51.000 Let's go back to the initial story, actually.

00:56:54.000 Aside from Buttigieg being unqualified, he's telling us right now the supply chain disruptions could continue into 2022.

00:57:03.000 So what does this mean for us as consumers?

00:57:06.000 What does it mean for the middle class, the working class, for people who want to put a Thanksgiving turkey on their table?

00:57:10.000 It's going to cost more.

00:57:12.000 If you can even get it.

00:57:14.000 But that's the point.

00:57:15.000 So look, let's just break it down.

00:57:16.000 If you can get it, it's probably going to cost more.

00:57:19.000 But secondly, when you're adding in additional labor costs, i.e.

00:57:22.000 say, okay, we're going to have to have workers work 24 hours. 0.98

00:57:25.000 Well, they're not working now, so what does that mean?

00:57:26.000 You're going to have to pay them more to show up just for the first eight hours.

00:57:31.000 Then to get them to work the other two shifts, you're going to have to pay even more.

00:57:33.000 You have to get more truckers.

00:57:35.000 So everything is going to, if you can get it, cost more money.

00:57:39.000 I don't understand how that's supposed to help the middle class.

00:57:41.000 It's not.

00:57:42.000 It's meant to destroy the middle class. 0.95

00:57:43.000 This is a deliberate attack on them and anyone else who is daring to even look up and see the exact situation that's happening right in front of them.

00:57:51.000 The U.S.

00:57:52.000 Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Wally Adeyemo, I'm saying his name wrong.

00:57:58.000 But he said that today the supply chain chaos is being exacerbated.

00:57:58.000 I don't care.

00:58:05.000 This crisis is happening because people are not getting vaccinated.

00:58:09.000 He says as soon as people get vaccinated all the supply ... chain problems will go away that that's lunacy that's insane ... thinking exactly and this is this is this is not just a ... cold to this is desperate people trying to hang on to any ... kind of fear-mongering that they think will work to convince ... the American people to lay down to give up their rights.

00:58:30.000 The global supply chain problems are big.

00:58:32.000 They're exacerbated by government, and they're only going to be made that much worse.

00:58:36.000 Even CNBC is admitting it.

00:58:39.000 They wrote an article today that was titled, Supply Chain Chaos Is Already Hitting Global Growth And It's About To Get Worse.

00:58:46.000 If you remember, you were talking about this.

00:58:47.000 I was talking about this.

00:58:48.000 For months on end saying, hey, there's going to be some major problems in the U.S.

00:58:51.000 economy.

00:58:52.000 I said this as soon as COVID happened.

00:58:54.000 I was like, this is going to be a larger economic wave that's going to hit this country that there's no going back from.

00:58:59.000 The wealth is being redistributed in ways that we have never seen before.

00:59:02.000 It's the 1%. 0.95

00:59:04.000 It's not even just the 1%.

00:59:05.000 It's beyond even 1%, especially when we go into the money printers, especially when we go into the billionaires that are enriching themselves more than they ever have been in the history of the world.

00:59:17.000 And I don't think this has anything to do about legacy.

00:59:20.000 I think this is deliberate.

00:59:22.000 I think there's a lot of agendas here, and I think there's a lot of things going that we don't even realize.

00:59:27.000 So this is what Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday, quote, demand is up because income is up.

00:59:33.000 Well, let's table that for a second.

00:59:35.000 Because the president has successfully guided this economy out of the teeth of a terrifying recession.

00:59:42.000 What?

00:59:43.000 Are they judging?

00:59:44.000 Do they understand?

00:59:45.000 First they judge Afghanistan as success, now they're judging the economy.

00:59:49.000 I don't know if they understand what that word means. 0.99

00:59:52.000 You know what's amazing is that, you know you mentioned with like Jen Psaki or even when you were in the White House as the press secretary, like you're there to basically speak on behalf of someone who can't speak for themselves and if you're like, well the guy's a moron, you'll get fired in two seconds. 0.97

01:00:06.000 At a certain point, maybe people need to be a little bit more candid. 0.97

01:00:08.000 Like, you know, Buttigieg or Biden or Kamala.

01:00:10.000 Anybody could just be like, we get it.

01:00:13.000 We're going to try our best.

01:00:14.000 Instead, it's like, this is good news.

01:00:16.000 Inflation is great.

01:00:17.000 I don't know.

01:00:18.000 Like, I just, I took my son to see the Lego movie whenever it came out.

01:00:20.000 And I just remember everything being like, everything is okay.

01:00:24.000 This is like, they don't think that we see this.

01:00:27.000 When you go to the store and things cost more, or you go to fill up your car and it costs more, or you don't see something on a shelf, you don't go, Yes!

01:00:35.000 This is so great!

01:00:37.000 What was the Bloomberg article?

01:00:38.000 We need more inflation and we need it now.

01:00:40.000 I think that was the Washington Post.

01:00:41.000 Was it Washington Post?

01:00:42.000 Yeah.

01:00:42.000 And again, who does inflation impact the most?

01:00:45.000 The poorest people.

01:00:47.000 The middle class people.

01:00:48.000 But the thing that's funny about the supply chain argument is, again, I got a D in economics, just to get this out on the table.

01:00:53.000 So this is not my forte.

01:00:56.000 But here's what I will tell you.

01:00:57.000 When you tell people not to work and you pay them not to work, They don't work, and therefore you don't get a product.

01:01:04.000 And when you don't get a product, you can't ship the product.

01:01:06.000 And when you don't ship the product, you can't drive the product somewhere, and there's no one to drive it.

01:01:10.000 They created this problem.

01:01:13.000 They created it, and now they're trying to say, OK, it's no big deal.

01:01:17.000 The idea that they're out there saying, hey, this is going to continue into next year is not something that we should say, OK, good to know.

01:01:22.000 I'll mark my calendar.

01:01:22.000 Thanks.

01:01:24.000 It's, hey, this is your problem.

01:01:26.000 I can only conclude they want it to happen.

01:01:26.000 Fix it.

01:01:29.000 I mean, if you go back to what Fauci was saying about lockdowns, oh, you know, we're going to be wearing masks and locking down for the next year into 2022 or whatever.

01:01:36.000 And then you get the supply chain disruptions.

01:01:38.000 What does Joe Biden do?

01:01:39.000 Hey, guy, what about the trucks, the trains?

01:01:39.000 Open the ports 24-7.

01:01:42.000 What about the lack of workers?

01:01:45.000 Nothing, nothing, nothing.

01:01:46.000 That's the problem. 1.00

01:01:48.000 And again, they think we're stupid. 1.00

01:01:50.000 Well, wait, wait, wait. 1.00

01:01:51.000 I think, I think they know people on this show are at the very least average. 0.65

01:01:56.000 I'm not going to sit here and pretend like we're the smartest people in the world, but we're certainly not stupid.

01:01:59.000 We get a lot of things wrong. 0.99

01:02:00.000 It's normal, but there are a lot of people who are dumb and blindly follow the norm. 1.00

01:02:04.000 It's more that they're ignorant. 1.00

01:02:05.000 Not necessarily their intelligence. 0.99

01:02:07.000 They might be highly intelligent, but they don't know.

01:02:08.000 This goes back to what we touched on not too long ago.

01:02:11.000 When you have a media that is complicit and is like, okay, we'll get that out right away.

01:02:14.000 You guys need to be selling this.

01:02:17.000 And you wake up and you hear things about how, you know, it's not, it's actually the boogeyman's fault.

01:02:17.000 Correct.

01:02:22.000 Also Bigfoot has something to do with this.

01:02:24.000 I mean, that's what we're being told.

01:02:26.000 Man, I look at the history of the U.S.

01:02:28.000 government and lying to the people about secret operations and the weapons of mass this and this and the Cuban that and like Kennedy tried to speak out against it and then I don't... I can't... I can understand classified information.

01:02:43.000 I can understand the government lying about certain military operations.

01:02:46.000 I can understand if they came out... Yeah, exactly.

01:02:48.000 Certain ones.

01:02:49.000 But then you look at, say, like the Gulf of Tonkin.

01:02:51.000 But I mean, it is just... It's so blatant, what they're doing right now, how it's like you print $28 trillion and then tell us...

01:02:57.000 That everything's going to be fine?

01:02:59.000 That's what they did before the Great Depression.

01:03:00.000 They tried to tell everyone everything's going to be fine.

01:03:01.000 The other day, we're going up against a potential debt crisis, okay?

01:03:05.000 And one of the ideas they flowed out there is, what if we just make a coin and call it $3 trillion?

01:03:09.000 Yes, that was amazing.

01:03:10.000 I'm literally like, I didn't know we could do that!

01:03:12.000 Like, you just go, you know what we need to do?

01:03:14.000 Is make a coin in the amount of money we owe, and we'll just say that we don't owe any!

01:03:19.000 It's the Simpsons episode!

01:03:21.000 When they have the trillion dollar bill, and then Mr. Burns and Homer steal it.

01:03:25.000 A trillion dollars?

01:03:26.000 I can't believe it.

01:03:27.000 I'm not convinced we live in reality.

01:03:29.000 Maybe that's where they got the idea.

01:03:31.000 I think that's probably it.

01:03:33.000 You want to throw this out there.

01:03:34.000 I saw The Simpsons last night and one idea we should consider.

01:03:38.000 I'm imagining they're sitting there and they're like, what do we do?

01:03:42.000 And there's a guy watching Simpsons on his phone and he sees Mr. Burns and the trillion dollar bill and he goes, hey, hey.

01:03:47.000 Can we do that?

01:03:48.000 That's great.

01:03:49.000 We can do anything.

01:03:49.000 We're the government.

01:03:52.000 You see us, I don't know if everyone at home, we're at this big long table, right?

01:03:55.000 And I imagine something like the Treasury Department, and they're like, you on the back wall, do you have your hand up?

01:04:01.000 Go ahead.

01:04:02.000 No, no, no.

01:04:02.000 Go ahead.

01:04:03.000 Every idea's on the table.

01:04:04.000 Sir, last night, I'm watching The Simpsons, and Bart and Homer come up with this idea.

01:04:09.000 And the guy's like, keep going, keep going.

01:04:11.000 I like it.

01:04:12.000 I like where you're going with this.

01:04:13.000 And he's like, that's literally what seems to be happening.

01:04:16.000 There has to be, like, you know, he raises his hand, and he's like, no ideas off the table.

01:04:19.000 And he says, well, you know, I was watching The Simpsons yesterday.

01:04:21.000 And then some snooty guy says, excuse me, what are you?

01:04:25.000 And then the judge goes, let him speak.

01:04:26.000 Yeah, let him speak.

01:04:28.000 He's on to something.

01:04:29.000 Finish your idea, son.

01:04:30.000 And it's like, what if we mint a trillion dollar coin?

01:04:33.000 And he's like, by Jove, it might work.

01:04:36.000 And they all start clapping.

01:04:37.000 But we're going to need more.

01:04:38.000 Two trillion dollar coin. 0.99

01:04:39.000 And the guy, by the way, just to cap it off, the guy who said it was a stupid idea is already like, well, whose face will it go on? 0.58

01:04:46.000 I can't believe I remember seeing the media running that story like we could mint a trillion dollar coin it's and it's like oh my god we don't live in there's nothing's real it's just the government's like we have a trillion dollars debt solved is it that much crazier what's happening right now with the government just literally printing zeros and and it just Pressing it on a computer button? 0.95

01:05:08.000 Yeah, just on a computer, just sending out loans.

01:05:10.000 They're doing it anyway, they might as well make a coin celebrating it.

01:05:13.000 I know, it's true.

01:05:14.000 I mean, you think about the idea that we're spending, we spent, what, 5.4 trillion last year.

01:05:19.000 We're now talking about a 1.2 and then a 3.5 trillion.

01:05:22.000 And nobody, like, the idea is, well, you know what, all right, what if we get it down to 2.2 or something?

01:05:27.000 It's like, no, this is insane!

01:05:29.000 And we're negotiating with crazy people I hope people are paying attention, man.

01:05:35.000 Look, I'm not going to give anybody any financial advice, but, you know, we're trying to make sure that whatever it is we think we're going to need for the expansion of this company, like recording equipment or stuff, we're getting now.

01:05:46.000 I told this story months ago.

01:05:48.000 I'm on Amazon.

01:05:49.000 I'm like, we need a tablet for, you know, for like work, for signing forms.

01:05:52.000 people come here we have signed stuff and so I go on Amazon and I'm like

01:05:55.000 tablet I click it and it goes into my cart on Amazon I don't like using

01:05:58.000 Amazon I try to avoid it when I can but I digress I forgot about it I didn't buy

01:06:02.000 it the next day I open up Amazon it says alert price change in your cart it went

01:06:06.000 up like a couple hundred bucks because the economy is is in demand. I mean, we've got supply chain crunch, we've

01:06:15.000 got economic collapse in a variety of industries and areas. There's a shortage of basically

01:06:20.000 everything in chips. And then I saw the price went up and I was like, wow, I should have bought

01:06:23.000 that yesterday. This is the stuff that it's going to happen. People don't understand it. When the

01:06:28.000 ports are blocked.

01:06:29.000 But this gets back to what Luke was saying. Who do you think that affects?

01:06:32.000 You have done very well.

01:06:34.000 You can afford that.

01:06:35.000 For the guy or mom or dad who's out there whose kid needs it for going back to school or something, or they need it for their smoke, they can't absorb that cost.

01:06:43.000 Imagine this.

01:06:45.000 You're working, you're making 20 bucks an hour and you're like, I only got to work one more week to save up for that new, you know, whatever I need.

01:06:53.000 My guitar, you know, I'm going to write songs and I'm going to get out of this dead-end job.

01:06:56.000 And then you're like, I finally saved up a couple grand and you go back online and now it's three grand.

01:07:01.000 And you're like, but I saved up.

01:07:04.000 Or you get in a car accident and you can't afford insurance.

01:07:07.000 Or you get sick and you go to, you know, a hospital that's corrupted and will rob you blind for even basic medical procedures.

01:07:15.000 And you know what bothers me?

01:07:17.000 Is that I think the populace right and left can agree on all of those problems.

01:07:21.000 The problem is that I have with the leftists, not the establishment Democrats, is that they see that and go, I know!

01:07:28.000 Socialism!

01:07:30.000 More of the same government policies.

01:07:32.000 Right.

01:07:33.000 Give the government absolute authority over the economy and that'll solve the problem created by the government in the first place.

01:07:37.000 And I'm like, okay, I'm not here to say a private sector solution guarantees the proper outcome.

01:07:41.000 I'm saying...

01:07:43.000 If it's broken, don't make it bigger.

01:07:46.000 Or better off, make people buy private health insurance.

01:07:48.000 That's going to solve everything.

01:07:50.000 It's absolutely insane.

01:07:51.000 The problem I have is, you know, having worked at a homeless shelter and understanding, at least to a certain degree, the problem of homelessness, is that when I go down and I see a homeless person, and they're like, I would like to be homeless, and I'm like, Would you like not to be homeless?

01:08:05.000 No, I'm gonna stay here.

01:08:06.000 Would you come with us for a shower, clean clothes?

01:08:08.000 No, absolutely not.

01:08:09.000 Get out of my face. 0.99

01:08:10.000 And that's what you experience a lot with homeless people.

01:08:13.000 But the left comes out and says, there are more empty homes than homeless.

01:08:17.000 The only reason the problem isn't solved is because evil rich people.

01:08:19.000 And I'm like, have you met a homeless person?

01:08:21.000 Have you ever done any work trying to help them actually go out and provide food and shelter opportunities?

01:08:26.000 I tell you this man, I have.

01:08:28.000 And many of these people just say, F you.

01:08:31.000 Not all of them.

01:08:32.000 There are some people who are homeless who are like, thank you so much for the help.

01:08:34.000 And that makes you feel great.

01:08:36.000 But the solution we often get from populist leftists is this very naive, hey, I know, if there's an empty house and a person without a house, we'll put him in the house.

01:08:44.000 And then you're like, hey, who will pay for the utilities?

01:08:47.000 Who will stop the house from falling down?

01:08:48.000 Who will repair the gutters? 1.00

01:08:50.000 Who's gonna do the regular lawn maintenance? 1.00

01:08:52.000 You can't just do this.

01:08:54.000 These things have to be built and maintained so we can recognize the same problems.

01:08:58.000 But how do we actually get people to stop screaming Nazi and actually want to work on solutions?

01:09:04.000 Look, I think this is the point that I was making earlier about the power.

01:09:08.000 They recognize that the more that they trap people in government That's how they exist, right?

01:09:16.000 The more people become free from government, that make their own way, that live their own lives, that aren't dependent on government, the less need you have for the left and for Democrats.

01:09:25.000 And that's the problem, is they fundamentally need you to basically be addicted to government to continue.

01:09:31.000 And that's the problem.

01:09:32.000 Well, it's also politicians passing the bill, whether it's Obama, whether it's Bush, whether it's Trump, whether it's Biden.

01:09:39.000 They always write checks that they can't pay for.

01:09:41.000 Correct.

01:09:42.000 And we have to understand that this is not just a liberal problem, a Democratic problem.

01:09:46.000 I mean, when you look at what Bush and Trump did as far as spending, I mean, you want to pull your hair out because they exacerbated this problem.

01:09:53.000 And the problem is just continued and only made worse by the Democrats.

01:09:57.000 So to see this kind of reckless spending... If we weren't in a situation where we had low interest rates right now, I think people would really appreciate or feel the impacts of what this spending means to us.

01:10:06.000 I mean because right now the interest on the debt is at least somewhat manageable.

01:10:11.000 The second interest rates go back up and it really impacts our ability to not do things.

01:10:15.000 And I actually worry.

01:10:17.000 My big thing is I think that China is staring us in the face. 1.00

01:10:20.000 I don't think people appreciate that these guys are playing the long game.

01:10:24.000 Their military buildup and everything else economically they're doing.

01:10:27.000 Yeah, and they're also writing blank checks as well with their Belt and Road Initiative.

01:10:36.000 They're buying up all of Africa. 1.00

01:10:37.000 They're buying up Latin America. 0.99

01:10:39.000 They're buying up factories.

01:10:40.000 They're buying up resources.

01:10:41.000 What are we doing?

01:10:42.000 We're literally giving all of our money to Pfizer.

01:10:44.000 We're literally giving all of our money to Lockheed Martin.

01:10:47.000 And what are they doing?

01:10:48.000 They're getting they're getting paychecks for screwing ... us over in Afghanistan for giving us medicines that go ... from 80 per 88% effective C to 3% effective C in 5 months and ... those the people getting the government contracts those are ... the people getting blank checks with no infrastructure ... no resources nothing to show for it except corruption that ... goes both ways Democrat and Republicans are responsible ... for it and I think even if Republicans doing and I agree ... with I agree with your point Sean they're not going to do anything.

01:11:16.000 Do you know what the most interesting thing that I thought happened over the past couple weeks that didn't get a lot of attention is, and this sounds very Inside the Beltway, so I'll preface it with that.

01:11:27.000 The House Republicans kicked the U.S.

01:11:28.000 Chamber off of their coalition calls.

01:11:31.000 And they basically said, we don't need you anymore.

01:11:35.000 To me, and I know a lot of people are sitting there saying, OK, what's the big deal or what?

01:11:39.000 But they recognize that for the first time, the party is shifting a little bit to represent the workers, not the leaders.

01:11:46.000 It's not about representing the corporations anymore, but the workers.

01:11:49.000 And there's been this dynamic shift in politics where the Democrats used to represent union workers and men and women who were blue collars and worked with their hands.

01:11:59.000 And now the Republican Party, because largely Donald Trump refocused them, have now recognized that's who their constituency is.

01:12:06.000 Those are the people that need to get taken care of and listened to and are overlooked, not the big corporations who are there to pay lip service to a lot of this stuff and at the end of the day take everything they can from Republicans and then support Democrats.

01:12:19.000 Trump really broke that system, man.

01:12:21.000 Oh, crushed it?

01:12:22.000 Yeah, the Republican was this corporate party.

01:12:25.000 The Democrats were supposed to be like for union working guys.

01:12:28.000 And then in 2016, you know, 2015 started to change things with Bernie and Trump.

01:12:33.000 I remember that Vox article saying the Democrats had become the party of the ultra wealthy.

01:12:36.000 Why?

01:12:37.000 Well, they were fleeing the Republican Party.

01:12:39.000 Then you ended up with a bunch of populist, nationalist, you know, conservatives.

01:12:43.000 More like Steve Bannon, more like Trump.

01:12:45.000 And all of a sudden, where do the establishment corporatists go?

01:12:48.000 The Lincoln Project.

01:12:49.000 I love it.

01:12:50.000 It's just, it's, the Uniparty has been jammed into one weird mash.

01:12:56.000 And it's just blatantly obvious for everyone to see.

01:12:59.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:13:02.000 If you're not paying attention, you'll be fooled by this WWE-style wrestling match in front of you.

01:13:07.000 But at the end of the day, I think the same special interests, the same billionaires that are getting more money than ever, are the ones buying out the Republicans, buying out the Democrats.

01:13:15.000 And that's why we're not going to see any difference when the Republicans take back Congress and the Senate.

01:13:19.000 It's not going to mean anything, because we're not going to see anything from it.

01:13:23.000 Listen, here's the thing that I think For so long, I'm not a supporter of term limits.

01:13:28.000 I believe that at the end of the day, you have to be held accountable for your decisions, right?

01:13:32.000 What Trump showed us is that leadership does matter.

01:13:36.000 One of the coolest things about working for him was that he just wanted it done.

01:13:41.000 It wasn't like, hey, how many PowerPoint presentations have you guys put together and how many meetings?

01:13:46.000 Can you do it?

01:13:47.000 Will it work?

01:13:48.000 Will it make things better?

01:13:49.000 Full stop, get it done.

01:13:51.000 And I think what's happened is people have recognized that that's now the new litmus

01:13:54.000 test.

01:13:55.000 If you're sitting around giving a bunch of lip service to why a problem can't be handled,

01:13:59.000 then you're going to be replaced.

01:14:01.000 And I think that if they don't get it, then they'll be...

01:14:03.000 I'm actually at the point where I'm just saying, get out of the way.

01:14:06.000 Let me build the Fediverse.

01:14:06.000 actually going to get done. But I think people are now saying if you don't do it, get out of the way because there's

01:14:11.000 going to be somebody behind you that will primary you and get it done.

01:14:14.000 I'm already there. I'm actually at the point where I'm just saying get out of the way. Let me build the Fediverse. Let

01:14:18.000 me build crypto currencies because the these politicians are it's a joke what they've done over the last 20 years of

01:14:24.000 my life.

01:14:25.000 That's excellent.

01:14:26.000 That's a good way to see it.

01:14:27.000 Just start doing the work.

01:14:30.000 I want to ask you, we talked about 2022.

01:14:33.000 What about 2024?

01:14:34.000 Do you think Trump is going to run?

01:14:36.000 Do you think DeSantis is going to run?

01:14:39.000 Today, I believe that Donald Trump is running for president.

01:14:43.000 I have talked to him a few times.

01:14:44.000 He has not tipped his hand, but everything that he says and how he says it and what he cares about, like, he's in.

01:14:50.000 Could it change?

01:14:51.000 Absolutely.

01:14:53.000 But I do think if Trump runs, no one of significant runs against him.

01:14:58.000 There is, it's just, I mean, and if that they want to, they can, but he will crush them.

01:15:03.000 If you look at the system, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, by the time they get to Super Tuesday, it'll be over.

01:15:10.000 But if he doesn't run, I keep hearing people say he should play like this elder statesman.

01:15:16.000 He's not the elder statesman.

01:15:16.000 That's not Trump.

01:15:18.000 That's not the role he wants to play.

01:15:20.000 He wants to be in charge and get things done or not in.

01:15:23.000 And I think he's going to do it.

01:15:24.000 He needs to be the guy who grabs the other person's microphone and goes, excuse me, excuse me, no, listen, as opposed to the waiting to be respected.

01:15:31.000 That's what people like about him taking charge.

01:15:34.000 I don't see a role where he says, hey, let me be the behind the scenes guy.

01:15:38.000 That's not who Trump is.

01:15:39.000 What about DeSantis?

01:15:40.000 I think if Trump doesn't run, there's no question in my mind, DeSantis is the immediate front-runner.

01:15:44.000 He's sort of the next version of Trump.

01:15:47.000 He's younger.

01:15:48.000 I think he's better with the media.

01:15:49.000 He's better with the media.

01:15:50.000 I think he's handled a lot of cultural issues very, very well.

01:15:53.000 We'll have to see his policy positions.

01:15:56.000 I think, you know, one of the things that really sold me on just being like, I'm going to vote for Trump, school choice was big.

01:16:00.000 I really am a big fan of that.

01:16:02.000 Ending the war in Afghanistan was big.

01:16:04.000 Of course, Biden kind of ruined all that.

01:16:06.000 But I would honestly, just right now, based on a very preliminary view, I'd prefer DeSantis over Trump.

01:16:13.000 I didn't vote for Trump in 2016.

01:16:14.000 I'm not a fan of the character.

01:16:16.000 I understand why people are.

01:16:19.000 But I will say, I suppose, if it is Trump, I'd probably vote for him again.

01:16:23.000 Well, look, I mean, here's the reality.

01:16:25.000 I mean, just from a political sense, if he runs, he's the nominee.

01:16:29.000 I mean, it's just— Maybe.

01:16:31.000 I think DeSantis is going to give him a fair running because— First of all, DeSantis—but I don't think, A, DeSantis runs against him, number one.

01:16:37.000 Number two, again, if you look at the early states—and again, part of this comes down to how the game is played in terms of how do you accumulate the 1,500-plus delegates needed to be the nominee.

01:16:46.000 And right now, the system and the grassroots and everything favors Trump.

01:16:51.000 So, if he runs, he is the nominee.

01:16:53.000 I agree.

01:16:54.000 And if he doesn't run, I think DeSantis is the presumed frontrunner.

01:16:58.000 There's some others.

01:16:59.000 Things happen.

01:16:59.000 Barack Obama, you know, wasn't—I mean, he was a state senator four years out.

01:17:03.000 Trump was still on TV.

01:17:04.000 I mean, like, there's enough time that somebody can emerge.

01:17:07.000 But I would say, looking at the field today, DeSantis is the presumed frontrunner if Trump doesn't run.

01:17:14.000 Who would you prefer?

01:17:15.000 Probably Trump, I'd imagine.

01:17:16.000 I think, look, from a selfish standpoint, Trump—but I don't—I actually like DeSantis.

01:17:21.000 I like how he's governed.

01:17:22.000 I like how he pushes back on the media.

01:17:24.000 I like how he—look, one of the things that I thought was so great is during COVID, when he was getting all the flack at the beginning for how he's handling it, he stuck to his guns.

01:17:32.000 He said this is the right thing to do, and he didn't bow to public pressure and polls.

01:17:36.000 And I like that.

01:17:37.000 I'm so tired of watching someone pick their finger in the air and saying, hey, what's the right decision?

01:17:43.000 I think DeSantis has core values that I may not agree with every time, but I know he actually believes them and he means it and he'll fight for them.

01:17:49.000 What if it's Trump-DeSantis?

01:17:51.000 Well, I can't imagine a scenario where DeSantis agrees to be the VP.

01:17:55.000 Yeah, he's on track to be president.

01:17:57.000 Right.

01:17:57.000 And he also, two guys that are chief executives like that don't, I mean, you don't want to play second fiddle.

01:18:03.000 Trump is always going to be the alpha dog.

01:18:05.000 And so he needs somebody who plays that role well.

01:18:08.000 And after, in 2028, you know, DeSantis very well could come in.

01:18:12.000 We'll see.

01:18:13.000 I mean, that's the end of the fourth turning.

01:18:14.000 But again, if you think about it, every time that you try to game the system, politically speaking, And say, okay, well, in five years I'll be there.

01:18:21.000 It doesn't work.

01:18:22.000 I mean, you either run when you think you should run or you don't.

01:18:25.000 But I just don't see a way that you could overcome Trump's political advantages in the system.

01:18:31.000 People are saying Ron Paul 2024 in the comment section.

01:18:34.000 And a lot of people are saying Brandon 2024 in the comment section as well.

01:18:36.000 I think Brandon would be a good running mate.

01:18:38.000 Trump-Brandon.

01:18:38.000 Yes.

01:18:40.000 Trump-Brandon.

01:18:41.000 It's like literally not a person.

01:18:43.000 It's just the sentiment people are voting for.

01:18:44.000 I agree with it.

01:18:46.000 I'll just fund that alone.

01:18:47.000 If people know the meme, Well, if you don't, I think most of the people who listen to this do get it.

01:18:47.000 I'll vote for it.

01:18:54.000 Oh, definitely.

01:18:54.000 Yeah, I do get a kick out of the fact—I mean, that goes back to the point that we were talking about the media.

01:19:00.000 I always think it's funny when you expose the stuff, the idea that that reporter stood there.

01:19:06.000 I mean, I was just like, it didn't rhyme.

01:19:08.000 It's not like Biden rhymes with Brandon.

01:19:10.000 I mean, like, how do you come up with that?

01:19:13.000 But it just shows you how complicit these guys are that no matter what they said, they were just like, well, they're congratulating you, Brandon.

01:19:22.000 When I went on your show, it was actually really funny because when you played the clip, you hear Beep Joe Biden, beep Joe.

01:19:29.000 So it's like the bleeps.

01:19:30.000 Right.

01:19:31.000 And then I was just funny trying to hear it and you guys are bleeping it.

01:19:34.000 And it was so obvious that the bleeps are every like second.

01:19:38.000 And this lady's like, let's go, Brandon. 1.00

01:19:40.000 It was great.

01:19:41.000 It was great.

01:19:42.000 I mean, again, that goes back to my, it's, it's, it's, it's raining outside and yet you're being told it's sunny.

01:19:47.000 It's like, how do you possibly get, let's go Brandon out of F Joe Biden?

01:19:52.000 I mean, I I'm sorry.

01:19:54.000 I don't know if there's some kind of Latin etymology, etymology.

01:19:56.000 You go back in time.

01:19:57.000 You're like, well, if you decline the verb, do you have, that's the flag you need, Luke.

01:20:02.000 Let's go, Brandon.

01:20:02.000 I already ordered one.

01:20:03.000 It's on its way.

01:20:04.000 And I already had a t-shirt and it's the bestseller on the store right now.

01:20:07.000 Really?

01:20:08.000 Yup.

01:20:08.000 The let's go Brandon shirt.

01:20:10.000 Uh, but ours is a little bit more explicit cause it says let's go Brandon in big words, but it has a, The alternate definition.

01:20:16.000 It has the alternate definition as its shade, as its shadow.

01:20:21.000 So I will say, you know, as a segue off of this, the two things that are fascinating

01:20:26.000 politics to me right now, just in terms of someone who's been studying this for a long

01:20:30.000 time, are one, when you look at these Trump rallies, you got a guy who's not running for

01:20:34.000 office on like Saturday nights, jam packing the Alabama one.

01:20:38.000 I don't know what the attendance was in Iowa or Georgia, but tens of thousands of people

01:20:45.000 who are spending their Saturday night going out and seeing a guy that's not running for

01:20:49.000 office.

01:20:50.000 That's number one.

01:20:51.000 On the exact opposite, I'm watching these football games, rallies, et cetera, where

01:20:55.000 people are yelling, F Joe Biden.

01:20:58.000 I mean, I've never seen either reaction in modern history where you've got a group of people going out to support a non-candidate, in this case Trump, because they believe in him and the movement, and people at public events yelling political things in a huge stadium.

01:21:16.000 And it's not like, you know how sometimes you can hear a faint chant?

01:21:19.000 I mean, this is something that's overtaken the entire football stadium.

01:21:23.000 I got this image on Instagram.

01:21:25.000 I tagged it, let's go Brandon.

01:21:27.000 And the reason I did is because we all know what it means.

01:21:29.000 I went to a restaurant this past weekend, and there were two signs in the window.

01:21:34.000 The first says, Dear Valued Customer, Due to COVID-19, our food suppliers have sharply increased the price of our food.

01:21:39.000 Regrettably, we are forced to raise our prices for the first time in seven years.

01:21:43.000 Thank you for your patience and understanding as we face these difficult times.

01:21:48.000 And the sign next to it says, now hiring.

01:21:50.000 The funny thing is, they put COVID-19 in red letters on their sign, and I'm like, it should read, thanks to Joe Biden.

01:21:56.000 And both signs should say, thanks to Joe Biden.

01:21:58.000 These are his policies.

01:22:00.000 We're in his presidency.

01:22:01.000 It is Buttigieg, it is his appointees.

01:22:04.000 This is one of the reasons Let's Go Brandon is at public sporting events.

01:22:09.000 I put Let's Go Brandon on this.

01:22:10.000 I put it on Twitter.

01:22:11.000 I got over a thousand retweets.

01:22:13.000 People understand the problems.

01:22:15.000 Yes.

01:22:15.000 Maybe not everybody, but enough people are seeing this and they're recognizing.

01:22:18.000 So I think Let's Go Brandon is the perfect phrase for these times because it allows you to convey an idea wrapped in, you know, kind of a little, a little, a little nice friendly package.

01:22:27.000 Yeah.

01:22:28.000 And it's clean.

01:22:29.000 Yes.

01:22:30.000 It's a very dirty phrase.

01:22:31.000 Let's go, Brandon.

01:22:32.000 It's like a real life meme, but everyone knows exactly what you're saying.

01:22:36.000 You know what I feel bad for, though, by the way?

01:22:37.000 I don't know if I should feel bad, but it's like people who are named Karen, you know?

01:22:41.000 And I'm like, you wake up one day and you're like, how did I become a bad person?

01:22:46.000 And now you're like, there's a bunch of dudes named Brandon that are walking around like, hey, life is good.

01:22:50.000 Yeah.

01:22:51.000 Let's go, Brandon.

01:22:52.000 No, Sean, I really... I'm dying to ask you a question.

01:22:54.000 I hope that's okay.

01:22:55.000 Well, thanks for coming by tonight.

01:22:57.000 Catch you later.

01:22:58.000 Now, as you know, press secretaries kind of sell stuff.

01:23:01.000 Yeah.

01:23:01.000 What was something that the administration came to you with, trying to sell, that you were like, Oh my God, no.

01:23:07.000 Is there anything that was like, Oh crap, do I have to do this?

01:23:11.000 I know there's some people... Oh, there's a couple of handbags at Ivanka.

01:23:13.000 No, I'm just kidding.

01:23:15.000 I know there's some people talking about... Can you just squeeze in these handbags to one of your answers?

01:23:18.000 There's some people talking about inauguration, there's some people talking about the Syria strike, about those comments that you made before.

01:23:24.000 Well, I mean, there were things that we sold, I remember early on, like the travel ban.

01:23:29.000 I think we... how we sold that was...

01:23:33.000 Horrible, I mean in terms of like we didn't have our act together We didn't have the full list of countries and the method I so there were things that we tried to sell that frankly I just don't think we did well because we were new and we didn't have all of our ducks lined up in a row But there wasn't anything that was like, oh my god, I can't do this It was more like if we're gonna do it We've got to have everything lined up ready to go and and that happened more often than not I think one of the things that I was proud to have started and then I left is that After we kind of blew healthcare, I remember one day walking into the Roosevelt Room, Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services at the time, I looked at him and said, OK, where are the groups on us?

01:24:15.000 They're getting ready to do all this repeal Obamacare.

01:24:18.000 And he's like, well, which groups?

01:24:19.000 I'm like, I don't know, the AMA, the doctors.

01:24:21.000 He's like, yeah, no, no one's with us.

01:24:24.000 And I was like, okay, this is a problem.

01:24:26.000 So when we knew that tax reform was coming up next in the queue, I literally was like, we're having a meeting every day, we're sitting down, we're lining up our top folks, and we're gonna do this right.

01:24:38.000 But out of the gate, look, it was exciting and different and new, but we definitely made a fair share.

01:24:43.000 Because I can imagine, it's definitely not an easy job.

01:24:46.000 And for me personally, I'd be like, okay, I gotta sell this.

01:24:49.000 Well, first of all, this goes back to what we said a moment ago.

01:24:52.000 No one's sitting there saying, Hey, before you go out, do you agree with this?

01:24:52.000 You're a spokesperson.

01:24:55.000 This is your job.

01:24:56.000 It's your analogy about being a sales rep.

01:24:57.000 I don't want to sell this.

01:24:58.000 Well, first of all, this goes back to what we said a moment ago.

01:25:00.000 Tim was bringing this up.

01:25:01.000 I mean, you're a spokesperson.

01:25:02.000 So I mean, no one's sitting there saying, Hey, before you go out, do you agree with

01:25:05.000 this?

01:25:06.000 This is your job.

01:25:07.000 It's your analogy about being a sales rep.

01:25:11.000 Maybe there's some products that you don't want to necessarily...

01:25:15.000 Here's one of the things I was bringing up earlier.

01:25:17.000 I'll mention this passively.

01:25:18.000 One of the famous instances that you were criticized for was Trump's inauguration.

01:25:20.000 with but that's you either quit at some point or you suck it up. 0.69

01:25:25.000 Here's one of the things I was bringing up earlier.

01:25:26.000 I'll mention this passively.

01:25:28.000 One of the famous instances that you were criticized for was Trump's inauguration.

01:25:31.000 I've heard that.

01:25:32.000 The claims versus the largest audience ever.

01:25:35.000 It was a three-day weekend.

01:25:36.000 and say, oh yeah, there are definitely things I didn't agree with, and try and give at least

01:25:40.000 a more honest view of what the job was like, and then the media's going to run, Sean Spicer 0.77

01:25:43.000 admits to being a liar.

01:25:44.000 Right.

01:25:45.000 They'll never go after Psaki that way.

01:25:47.000 No.

01:25:48.000 And the fact of the matter is, look, I've said this from the beginning.

01:25:50.000 It was a three-day weekend.

01:25:52.000 We wake up after the president takes this historic, you know, gets inaugurated, this

01:25:58.000 historic comeback campaign and wins, and we wake up and this is what they're talking about. 1.00

01:26:04.000 And so we're trying to cobble together basically a case that says, this is stupid. 0.99

01:26:10.000 Who cares? 1.00

01:26:13.000 Think about what we're doing right now.

01:26:15.000 Live streaming a show with tens of thousands of people, right?

01:26:17.000 That didn't exist when Obama was president.

01:26:20.000 So I was like, okay, we've got people that were live streaming things on Twitter and people that were... That's the context they want to include.

01:26:25.000 So my point was, how do I basically make the case that this is a silly argument And a lot of people did.

01:26:25.000 Right.

01:26:30.000 They were excited about President Trump.

01:26:32.000 I know from my own family that there were security issues getting to the mall because of increased issues and routes and all this stuff.

01:26:40.000 So I'm trying to make the case, and everyone's like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

01:26:43.000 But this is a very important thing people need to understand in any election.

01:26:49.000 D.C.

01:26:50.000 Overwhelmingly Democrat.

01:26:51.000 Democrat wins, people walk out their front door and they're standing there.

01:26:55.000 Rural areas vote for a president, they're not flying 2,000 miles to make it to D.C.

01:26:59.000 Some did.

01:27:00.000 When it comes to voting, for instance, and I'll say this passively, I don't want to derail the conversation, but with mail-in voting, why is it so powerful for Democrats?

01:27:09.000 Because they have one apartment complex with 1,000 voters in it.

01:27:12.000 They can knock on all those doors in a day.

01:27:14.000 A conservative has to go to rural areas and drive miles between houses in some instances.

01:27:18.000 But also, I mean, yeah, or they go to a union hall where everybody's there.

01:27:22.000 They fill it out right now.

01:27:23.000 That doesn't happen.

01:27:24.000 I mean, it's just not the same.

01:27:26.000 So when I saw this, I remember seeing the story, and I didn't care about it.

01:27:30.000 You know why?

01:27:31.000 I'm like, oh, did he mean live streaming or something?

01:27:34.000 I'm not going to get into an argument about a spokesperson upselling the president, even if it wasn't the case.

01:27:39.000 Same thing with Psaki. 0.87

01:27:40.000 I want to make sure this is clear, because now I'm getting all the leftists being like, oh, he's just chilling.

01:27:43.000 No, I said the same thing of Psaki.

01:27:44.000 I don't blame Psaki for not getting asked by journalists.

01:27:46.000 But I will just say this, just to be clear.

01:27:49.000 I think we could have done a better job.

01:27:51.000 And just so everyone understands, the president, I get back from the briefing room, the phone rings, the White House operator's like, the president's on the phone, and he said some things that cannot be repeated.

01:28:00.000 That's what I wanted.

01:28:01.000 He's like, what were you doing? 0.95

01:28:03.000 And I thought, okay, hey, you want me to go out and explain to people that this is ridiculous? 0.89

01:28:08.000 That's not what he wanted. 0.91

01:28:09.000 He was pissed.

01:28:11.000 That's what I was really interested in.

01:28:11.000 That's what I wanted.

01:28:13.000 And I do have to admit, the way that they treated you and the way that they're treating Saki, night and day, total difference.

01:28:19.000 And it's just absolutely crazy to see the questions they ask you and the questions they ask her.

01:28:26.000 It's crazy.

01:28:27.000 One of my favorite memes is, stop making me defend Trump. 0.97

01:28:30.000 There's this comedian who did a video where he's in the workplace and there's two guys saying something ridiculous about Trump.

01:28:35.000 And he hears it and he goes, guys, that's not true.

01:28:38.000 Trump didn't do that.

01:28:39.000 And they go, What are you, far right?

01:28:41.000 He's like, no, no, I just said something that wasn't true.

01:28:45.000 And so he's like, every time he defends Trump, like, why are you defending Trump?

01:28:48.000 And he's like, because you're wrong!

01:28:50.000 Cheryl Atkinson came on my show, I don't know, six months ago or something.

01:28:54.000 She mentioned this book that had come out.

01:28:56.000 There's a professor at the University of Houston.

01:28:59.000 He's a journalism professor.

01:29:00.000 And he makes clear, first thing he says in the book is, I voted for and supported Bernie Sanders, so by no means do I support Donald Trump in any way.

01:29:08.000 But he goes through every single one of the media narratives that Trump is accused of.

01:29:14.000 You know, there's some good people on both sides, this, that.

01:29:16.000 I mean, all those things that Trump has supposedly said.

01:29:20.000 And he says, here's exactly the transcript of what he says.

01:29:23.000 Here's the context in which he said it.

01:29:24.000 And it's like, this guy literally breaks down every one of these things and makes it clear, I don't like him, but it's what you're saying to him.

01:29:34.000 He's like, I just want to be clear what the truth is about what he did say, not what CNN's headline was.

01:29:42.000 And it's just amazing.

01:29:44.000 I didn't realize some of this stuff.

01:29:46.000 There are things that Trump said that I just assumed, okay, I assumed that he didn't really mean that or whatever.

01:29:50.000 But then you go back and you read it and you go, he actually didn't say what the, what the CNNs and the Washington Post and the world said.

01:29:56.000 A very fine people hoax.

01:29:57.000 Right.

01:29:58.000 It's, it's, it's amazing how you can have him say, they should be condemned totally, completely omitted from, from the record.

01:30:04.000 Any other transcript.

01:30:05.000 Right.

01:30:05.000 But I loved the fact of actually stopping and saying, And, you know, not to make it personal, but there were so many of these things that happened to me.

01:30:13.000 There's one that became really famous, where it's like, Spicer hides in the bushes.

01:30:16.000 There's no bushes to hide in! 0.99

01:30:19.000 I mean, like, I don't mean to be a jerk. 0.98

01:30:20.000 And so I'm arguing with the Washington Post editor the day after that story comes out, right? 0.98

01:30:25.000 And he goes, OK, all right, we're going to say that you were near bushes.

01:30:29.000 And I'm like, I have a picture!

01:30:32.000 Everything that happened was on camera.

01:30:34.000 So I finished a TV hit and I walked over to where the media was.

01:30:38.000 There's a row of hedges that you have to walk by.

01:30:41.000 And so the Washington Post is like, all right, we'll change it to you are near bushes.

01:30:49.000 What does that have to do with anything except for an attempt to try to undermine and demean the president?

01:30:54.000 It's the game they play.

01:30:55.000 I once had a story written about me that was actually meant to be favorable.

01:30:58.000 And I get a call from a fact checker, it was the New Yorker that did this.

01:31:00.000 And it was this crazy story about me and my buddy, hackers and journalism.

01:31:04.000 And so the fact checker goes, so it says here in the story that you live in a closet.

01:31:10.000 And I said, no, I don't live in a closet.

01:31:12.000 So you're denying it.

01:31:13.000 But no, no, no, no, no.

01:31:15.000 Hold on, hold on.

01:31:16.000 It's like a closet, right?

01:31:17.000 And I was like, no, it's a full bedroom with a window.

01:31:20.000 Yay! 0.99

01:31:20.000 But like, you have to go through someone's apartment, like someone's room to get into it. 0.99

01:31:25.000 And I said, have you ever lived in New York?

01:31:28.000 New York has something called railroad apartments.

01:31:29.000 Have you ever seen those?

01:31:31.000 Where you have a living room, bedroom, bedroom, bedroom.

01:31:33.000 They're connected because of the way the buildings were built.

01:31:35.000 And I said, this one isn't technically a railroad.

01:31:38.000 When you walk in the living room, there is a room, but there's another room attached to it separate.

01:31:41.000 And he goes, right, right.

01:31:43.000 Like a closet.

01:31:44.000 And I went, right, like a closet.

01:31:46.000 And then they wrote, Tim Pool sleeps in a closet.

01:31:50.000 But that's, it's again, how do we want it?

01:31:52.000 They have to, they pick a narrative.

01:31:54.000 My friend made spaghetti with white sauce, took like alfredo and olive oil with rosemary and garlic and whipped it up.

01:32:00.000 Really?

01:32:01.000 And the journalist is like, so you're eating sauceless spaghetti noodles?

01:32:04.000 And he goes, well, I made a white sauce, I'm Italian.

01:32:08.000 And they're like, yeah, but like not marinara, not like a red sauce.

01:32:11.000 And he's like, yeah, but I made like an alfredo, like a white sauce.

01:32:15.000 I'm like, you know what I mean?

01:32:16.000 But like not tomato sauce.

01:32:18.000 And he goes, Right, no sauce.

01:32:20.000 Would you just give up at that point?

01:32:21.000 Because you know they're going to justify righting wrongs. 1.00

01:32:23.000 Yes, you're right, I suck. 0.99

01:32:25.000 Right, right, right. 1.00

01:32:27.000 And then they ended up writing this ridiculous story about us.

01:32:29.000 But the funny thing is, a guy from GQ saw it, believed it, and was like, I want to do a feature profile on this, and then showed up and was like, none of it was true.

01:32:37.000 I'm like, yes, here's my bedroom with my window and my bed.

01:32:41.000 It's amazing, though, but once they write one thing like that, then it justifies every other reporter from using that as a fact as if it's gospel, right?

01:32:49.000 Because, well, it was written once before, therefore it must be.

01:32:53.000 And that's the problem.

01:32:54.000 And, you know, I've mentioned this before, but there are literally two chapters in the book that go through the media and how complicit they are and what they do to cover up for this.

01:33:03.000 Because it's not always what they write, it's what they don't write.

01:33:06.000 Man, journalists, at least in this beautiful, idealized world, were the fierce, independent folks challenging the establishment, holding the powerful to account, when in reality, they're literally just working for those people to sell products.

01:33:22.000 By the way, I'm watching the comments and one of the guys says, fact checkers.

01:33:25.000 And I'm like, you want to talk about, like, if you go to school and you're in high school and you literally have no skills, the guidance counselor at one point comes up to you and says like, Have you thought about becoming a fact checker?

01:33:36.000 Like, I think that's what happens, because these folks, literally, when I left the White House, I had all these anecdotes.

01:33:42.000 And at one point, Mike Pence had given this speech about how many people were out of work.

01:33:48.000 And let's just say, hypothetically, the number's like 1,000 people were out of work.

01:33:52.000 And the Washington Post gave it four Pinocchios, because it lacked the context that, well, 1,000 people were out of work, the population had grown, therefore, and I'm like, No, no, all he said was this is how many people are out of work, but they deemed it 100% false because it lacked the context.

01:34:09.000 And I'm like, that's not how people talk.

01:34:15.000 That's how the game is played.

01:34:16.000 My favorite is when Bernie Sanders and Trump both gave the exact same stat, something about inner city kids not having jobs.

01:34:22.000 And PolitiFact said Bernie was mostly true and Trump was mostly false, because what do either of those statements mean?

01:34:29.000 Mostly true, mostly false.

01:34:32.000 The point was the exact same.

01:34:32.000 Trump said, you know, 51% are out of work.

01:34:35.000 Bernie said the same thing.

01:34:36.000 They said Trump was lying.

01:34:37.000 Bernie wasn't.

01:34:38.000 Well, again, you've got to.

01:34:40.000 That's how it works.

01:34:41.000 Let's go to Super Chats.

01:34:43.000 Let's read some of the audience questions.

01:34:45.000 If you haven't already, smash that like button.

01:34:47.000 Get your Super Chats in.

01:34:48.000 We'll read as many as we can.

01:34:49.000 But we'll try to focus on getting them some good questions through.

01:34:54.000 I'll see what we can get.

01:34:55.000 Alright, let's see.

01:34:56.000 Luke Jacek says, wanted to comment on your segment on Chappelle.

01:34:59.000 If people are offended by that, I recommend the well-known family-friendly movie Blazing Saddles.

01:35:05.000 Great movie.

01:35:05.000 Excellent.

01:35:06.000 I bought one when they started banning all those movies.

01:35:08.000 I was like, I want to have a copy of this, you know, just because you never know.

01:35:11.000 I wasn't allowed to watch R-rated movies growing up, but that was one my dad said I could watch.

01:35:15.000 It's important.

01:35:16.000 All right.

01:35:17.000 We got a good question.

01:35:19.000 Sorry, I don't want to interrupt.

01:35:21.000 No, you're just picking it up, baby.

01:35:22.000 No, I just read this one.

01:35:23.000 Glenn Compton says, for you, Sean, as someone who did the job, who was better, Sarah Huckabee Sanders or Kayleigh McEnany?

01:35:32.000 All right.

01:35:32.000 Normally, I'm going to go with Sarah.

01:35:35.000 And I'll tell you, she followed me.

01:35:39.000 I just think it's different.

01:35:40.000 And there's no disrespect to Kayleigh.

01:35:42.000 But I also think that the longer that you had in Trump world to watch what the president liked and didn't like and what worked, you know, so that you could kind of sit back and say, OK, less of that, more of that.

01:35:52.000 So I think, Sarah, at that point, we were going through Russia, still had the Mueller report.

01:35:56.000 The headwinds were a lot different.

01:35:59.000 Yeah, I am impressed with the press secretaries that worked under Trump.

01:36:03.000 I mean, yeah, you guys, I think all did a pretty good job.

01:36:07.000 I look at Jen Psaki and I think, like, she actually does a really good job in my opinion, too, because her job, you know, running circles around a press. 1.00

01:36:14.000 That being said, it's like an amateur boxer who's in a match that's being thrown is going to look like they're doing pretty well versus people who actually know how to box.

01:36:22.000 You know what I mean?

01:36:23.000 So she can literally look back right now and say, hey, I was press secretary and all the stories were great.

01:36:29.000 But you guys were also dealing with insane people that couldn't stop talking about Russia.

01:36:33.000 Like literally, they were just obsessing about it with barely anything there, and then it

01:36:38.000 all came out.

01:36:39.000 Here's my favorite anecdote, just to make you understand.

01:36:42.000 So the White House press corps went out there.

01:36:48.000 You know, you got a CNN contract, not because you did good reporting, but because you did

01:36:53.000 So Brian Karam, who is the reporter for Playboy—yes, they have a White House correspondent—got a contract on CNN, not because he broke some story or anything, because he got into a huge, big tussle with Sarah during a briefing.

01:37:05.000 So CNN signed him. 0.98

01:37:07.000 I mean, literally, that's how you got a contract was to be a jerk in the briefing room and to jump up and down and to make yourself like a hyena. 0.99

01:37:15.000 And so they reward him with a cable contract. 0.99

01:37:19.000 That tells you everything you need to know about how that briefing room works.

01:37:22.000 We got a good super chat considering what we were talking about.

01:37:25.000 Brandon McGregor says, all this let's go Brandon is giving me an existential crisis.

01:37:30.000 I think the cool thing is that now he's got like shirts and banners and you know that like you know he can walk around with stuff that says let's go Brandon.

01:37:36.000 There's a Canadian government memo going around saying that the term let's go Brandon shouldn't be talked about by government officials, that it's deemed illegal now.

01:37:46.000 It's going to be racist by the end of this week, I guarantee it.

01:37:48.000 Tim Miner says, Tim, please explain to Sean the concept of a Michael Malice press secretary and how it will change everything.

01:37:55.000 Are you familiar with Michael Malice?

01:37:56.000 I'm not.

01:37:57.000 We're big fans.

01:37:59.000 He's great.

01:38:00.000 He is one of the best Twitter trolls, but he's a smart guy.

01:38:02.000 He wrote a book about North Korea.

01:38:03.000 We've had him on a couple times.

01:38:04.000 He's going to be back here soon, actually.

01:38:06.000 Is Michael New Wright?

01:38:06.000 would just you know everyone's really excited that in the event I think I

01:38:10.000 think it would be of Dave Smith gets the Libertarian candidacy and he's running

01:38:14.000 he'll appoint Michael Malice who is this anarchist it's Michael knew right does

01:38:20.000 he consider himself new right I think so because you wrote that book about it

01:38:23.000 Yeah, he wrote a book called The New Right, and he explains what it means.

01:38:26.000 But he would just take the media to task in a way people have never seen before.

01:38:31.000 Trolling them, playing games, mocking them.

01:38:35.000 Everyone's very excited about the prospect.

01:38:36.000 So I have to follow him, is what you're saying.

01:38:37.000 Oh, definitely!

01:38:37.000 I mean, we're huge fans of Michael.

01:38:39.000 Yeah, he's gonna be here soon.

01:38:40.000 Really excited.

01:38:41.000 That'd be fun.

01:38:42.000 But yeah, yeah, it's just...

01:38:45.000 It would be one of the greatest media smackdowns.

01:38:48.000 The journalists would stop showing up.

01:38:50.000 Yes, they would.

01:38:51.000 We're just very confident.

01:38:52.000 And I think it's because, you know, for say like you or Sarah or Kaylee, you take the job seriously, you're working, you're gonna answer questions.

01:38:58.000 I feel like Micah would be like...

01:39:00.000 Yes!

01:39:02.000 The room is mine!

01:39:03.000 And Dave Smith is going to be like, thank you, Michael.

01:39:05.000 Please do more.

01:39:06.000 It would be very much so the goal of exposing the media, their manipulations, the cathedral, and less about speaking up.

01:39:13.000 But how cool would it be to stand up there and say, you know, so-and-so.

01:39:15.000 I mean, I did a story today at the end of my show where I talked about the fact that there's this huge controversy.

01:39:20.000 I don't even know that it's huge.

01:39:21.000 But there's a controversy about hooters and these new uniforms they have.

01:39:25.000 And back in 1985, CNN's host Jake Tapper was the Hooters spokesman and made all these comments.

01:39:33.000 And it's just like, you know, I'd love to be able to stand up there and be like, well, did you have that same view when you were representing Hooters?

01:39:40.000 Call him out.

01:39:40.000 I think that's why Kaylee did a great job.

01:39:42.000 She had that big book.

01:39:43.000 Oh yeah.

01:39:43.000 And it was just like, boom.

01:39:45.000 I think what would have been better for Kaylee is if she just stopped and been like, you really want me to do this?

01:39:50.000 Give me three seconds.

01:39:51.000 You can either sit back down, say you're sorry.

01:39:54.000 I'm going to go there.

01:39:55.000 Tab four.

01:39:56.000 I feel like that's kind of like what Michael would do.

01:39:58.000 Okay.

01:39:58.000 You know, he's the kind of guy who's going to be like, ooh, he's going to pull up a book and he's going to read.

01:40:03.000 All right.

01:40:04.000 Dilly Bod says, there are some things Tim and Luke say I agree with, but there are things I don't.

01:40:09.000 I know I'm not a famous internet person, but I would like to talk with them, pick their brains a bit.

01:40:13.000 We have an event this Saturday in the Harper's Ferry area.

01:40:16.000 It's mostly sold out, but we are going to be auctioning off ten tickets.

01:40:20.000 So it's five slots.

01:40:22.000 Each slot is two tickets, and that means if you bid and you're in the top five, then you will, you know, win.

01:40:29.000 So we're trying to set that up right now.

01:40:31.000 Hopefully we can get it to work properly.

01:40:33.000 And then we're also going to be auctioning off Look, if you watch the Castcastle vlog, you'll see all the jokes, but I'll keep it straight for everybody here.

01:40:41.000 We're basically auctioning off a come-visit facility.

01:40:45.000 So we're setting up a bidding system for cool merch and events on the website soon, so perhaps there's an opportunity for individuals to come and hang out at the space.

01:40:58.000 We're definitely trying to figure out a way to balance between auctioning and getting a ticket, because I don't like the idea of like, oh, if you're rich enough you can just come hang out, that kind of sucks.

01:41:06.000 At the same time, if we put up like, hey, one ticket available to come hang out, it would instantly be gone and people would be like, yo, like, don't even have a chance to even try to get one, so...

01:41:17.000 We're working it out, trying to figure out how we can make it work.

01:41:20.000 We may actually start doing big live events.

01:41:23.000 We had a conversation at a business meeting today about actually doing live events around the country.

01:41:29.000 Friday nights, presumably, because that's when it's easier for me to travel, leave in the middle of the day, fly somewhere, do the live event, get to stay and leave, you know, head back on Saturday or Sunday.

01:41:37.000 So we're working things out and hopefully we'll be able to get around the country and do some events.

01:41:42.000 All right.

01:41:43.000 Let's see what we got here.

01:41:47.000 John R says, Tim, you should attach a small shelf to the wall where Sean is sitting, so he or any other guest selling a book can showcase it, and that is a brilliant idea.

01:41:55.000 That is a killer idea.

01:41:56.000 I am so happy to hear this.

01:41:58.000 Now, of course, you're going to do it after I leave.

01:42:01.000 We are, yeah.

01:42:02.000 How about this is the shelf?

01:42:03.000 There you go.

01:42:04.000 Perfect.

01:42:04.000 Just set it on your shoulder.

01:42:05.000 You can get a sketching of it.

01:42:06.000 That's a good idea.

01:42:07.000 That's a really good idea.

01:42:08.000 I love that idea.

01:42:08.000 I see our audience.

01:42:10.000 John R, very clever.

01:42:10.000 This is entrepreneurship.

01:42:12.000 These are the kind of feedback that we need.

01:42:16.000 More importantly, if you can go out and buy it, that will help me.

01:42:18.000 That'd be cool, too.

01:42:19.000 Yeah.

01:42:20.000 There you go.

01:42:21.000 It's Radical Nation by Sean Spicer.

01:42:22.000 Radical Nation. 0.89

01:42:25.000 Jeb F.J.B.

01:42:26.000 Reid says, if you steal $900 of merchandise, just don't put it in the bank.

01:42:30.000 $600 plus deposit gets you investigated by the IRS.

01:42:34.000 That's right.

01:42:34.000 That's a great point.

01:42:36.000 That, by the way, that's one of those scary things that, God forbid, that ever becomes law.

01:42:40.000 Yeah.

01:42:40.000 I think you're never going to get it undone.

01:42:43.000 Yep.

01:42:43.000 And I think that that scares me.

01:42:45.000 I mean, just the transactions that we make back and forth these days between individuals.

01:42:49.000 My understanding is what they'll do is they'll track the total income and total outgoing, but not the individual.

01:42:56.000 So here's what I think.

01:42:57.000 I don't want to have to worry.

01:42:59.000 You know what I'm saying?

01:43:01.000 At some point, once government's in, it doesn't go bye-bye.

01:43:03.000 I mean, it gets worse.

01:43:04.000 It's a surveillance bill that will know everything you're doing.

01:43:07.000 Right.

01:43:07.000 Was it Dave Smith who said, there's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program?

01:43:11.000 Yeah.

01:43:11.000 It's a version of an old quote.

01:43:12.000 Oh, OK.

01:43:13.000 Well, there you go.

01:43:15.000 I think it was Tom Clancy who said, uh, what the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms, and killing people.

01:43:21.000 It's not good.

01:43:23.000 It's not good at much else.

01:43:24.000 That's pretty much.

01:43:25.000 We got a good one here.

01:43:26.000 Um, Wayne last, uh, first name.

01:43:28.000 Oh, sorry.

01:43:29.000 I'm sorry.

01:43:29.000 Let me start over.

01:43:30.000 Mr. Kerr, first name Wayne, says, it looks like the Biden picture is sniffing Lydia.

01:43:36.000 It does.

01:43:36.000 Let's go, Brandon.

01:43:37.000 That's the whole point.

01:43:38.000 Look at that.

01:43:39.000 I love it.

01:43:40.000 Joe Biden.

01:43:42.000 We originally were like, we need a piece of art to cover the panels, like the switches and the thermostat.

01:43:47.000 And so I was like, let's do a creepy Biden.

01:43:48.000 And then Ian was like, no.

01:43:49.000 I was like, I don't want Joe Biden behind me, Tim.

01:43:52.000 You just went, no.

01:43:53.000 Nope.

01:43:55.000 Hard stop.

01:43:56.000 Nope.

01:43:57.000 All right.

01:43:58.000 Let's see what we got.

01:43:58.000 Not this time.

01:44:00.000 Shan Jack says there are no blue states, only blue cities in strategically advantaged districts.

01:44:05.000 Interesting.

01:44:07.000 Yep, and there are even blue areas in red states too, which is interesting.

01:44:11.000 Jason Diaz says, Sean, what was the deal with that brown suit?

01:44:15.000 That was awesome.

01:44:16.000 Brown suit?

01:44:17.000 Did you wear a brown suit?

01:44:19.000 I don't know.

01:44:20.000 I don't think I had one.

01:44:21.000 I think you did.

01:44:21.000 I barely remember that.

01:44:23.000 Huh?

01:44:23.000 I barely remember that.

01:44:24.000 It was a long time ago.

01:44:25.000 Is this like the blue dress thing?

01:44:26.000 I mean, I think I've had one in the past, but I don't think I ever wore one.

01:44:30.000 Oh, is he talking about the first day?

01:44:32.000 That was gray.

01:44:33.000 If that's what he's talking about.

01:44:34.000 Day one was gray.

01:44:35.000 It wasn't brown.

01:44:35.000 It was gray.

01:44:36.000 No, there is no brown.

01:44:37.000 Okay.

01:44:38.000 All right.

01:44:39.000 Not that I'm not, just so we're clear, I'm not anti-brown.

01:44:43.000 I believe in diversity of suits.

01:44:45.000 I'm a more inclusion, but I do not, I don't, I'd not currently own a brown suit, nor did I wear one at the White House.

01:44:51.000 Is that the one with the pinstripes?

01:44:52.000 That is.

01:44:53.000 With the light blue background, kind of gives it a brownish tint.

01:44:55.000 I can see it.

01:44:57.000 Yeah.

01:44:57.000 And by the way, yeah, I'm just going to let that go.

01:44:59.000 All right.

01:45:00.000 Unvaccinated Soldier says, my name is Brandon, and I've never felt so much support from my fellow countrymen.

01:45:05.000 Do you think there's something to it?

01:45:07.000 Should I pursue a political position?

01:45:08.000 Yes!

01:45:09.000 Dude, yes.

01:45:11.000 Like, now's the time for all Brandons to try and get into politics.

01:45:14.000 Like, Brandon, that's me!

01:45:15.000 Meeting your way in!

01:45:16.000 Plus, everybody's already made your merch for you.

01:45:17.000 That's right!

01:45:18.000 You can change your name legally.

01:45:20.000 First name Letts, middle name Go, last name Brandon.

01:45:22.000 LG Brandon.

01:45:23.000 I like it.

01:45:25.000 Alright, D says, Sean's time was understated but highly impactful.

01:45:28.000 My question, did he ever get a manicured question or see Trump slash executive branch counsel with press before a speech?

01:45:36.000 So say the second part again.

01:45:38.000 I guess the gist of it is, were you ever given a question in advance, or did you guys ever work with the press before a speech?

01:45:46.000 Oh yeah.

01:45:46.000 So there were times, so let's say the president was doing a press conference or whatever.

01:45:51.000 We would find out who was there that day, because obviously a lot of the networks switch out.

01:45:56.000 They have two or three people there.

01:45:58.000 So we would kind of pulse them and say, hey, are you interested?

01:46:00.000 And they'll come to us.

01:46:01.000 It works both ways.

01:46:02.000 They'll say, hey, I'd really like a question today.

01:46:04.000 OK, well, what are you interested in asking?

01:46:06.000 And you'd say, oh, I want to ask about how he's doing with revising NAFTA.

01:46:10.000 I want to talk to him about, you know, the wall, whatever it is.

01:46:13.000 And so they wouldn't ever give it to us, but we would know the subject or we would say, gosh, if you're, we really want to talk about, you know, trade with, we had one time with the Prime Minister of Canada was there and we said, you know, if there's, if you're interested in asking something about the trade and the tariffs or, you know, renegotiating NAFTA, we'd love to.

01:46:29.000 And they, okay, great.

01:46:30.000 But you would never, ever know what the question was going to be.

01:46:32.000 And I'd imagine, too, with someone like Jim Acosta, you knew he was always just throwing pies.

01:46:36.000 Yeah, I mean, well, just to answer that question, that was never on our list.

01:46:40.000 But the president, after the first couple times, was like, don't bother.

01:46:43.000 Like, I'm just going to go with who I want.

01:46:44.000 And it was pretty obvious that he didn't really—he could handle it.

01:46:48.000 Did you know Donald before he—like, how did you get the job?

01:46:52.000 So he had been a donor.

01:46:53.000 I was at the RNC for six years, and I'd met him probably twice, three times over the court prior to him announcing the run.

01:47:00.000 And then when he ran, one of the things that I had done is oversaw the debate process.

01:47:07.000 It was the first time in history that a party had actually taken an assertive role in the debate process, which is insane that it had never happened.

01:47:13.000 But I was like, this is crazy.

01:47:14.000 We're having liberal journalists decide the questions for grassroots conservative voters.

01:47:20.000 So I took it over and said, this is how it's going to be run.

01:47:22.000 And Trump was obviously the front runner.

01:47:24.000 So he started calling me from time to time saying, hey, what about this?

01:47:28.000 What's happening here?

01:47:29.000 And we developed a great relationship.

01:47:31.000 I had always viewed the party, like I say, as the league.

01:47:34.000 Like, my job was to make sure the grassroots voters decided who our nominee was.

01:47:39.000 And then whoever that became, we worked as hard as we could.

01:47:42.000 And I think there was a lot of people who A, resented my view because they said, well, you know, this guy can't win or this person can't win.

01:47:50.000 And my view was that's not my role.

01:47:52.000 That's not the party's role.

01:47:53.000 That's the voter's role.

01:47:54.000 And I think Trump appreciated that.

01:47:56.000 And so we kind of started to grow closer and closer because I was one of the guys that would be willing to go up to Trump Tower, help with events, help craft messaging.

01:48:04.000 And frankly, after he won, there wasn't a lot of people who had been in that position that had been willing.

01:48:10.000 There was actually a front page style section story on me in the Washington Post that said, the outsider's insider.

01:48:18.000 And it was just a bunch of people crapping on me saying, I can't believe you're throwing away your career on this guy.

01:48:22.000 He's never going to win.

01:48:23.000 And I think Trump appreciated the fact that, you know, like I said, my view was he was the nominee.

01:48:30.000 My job was to work as hard as I could for him.

01:48:32.000 But a lot of people wouldn't come near him.

01:48:33.000 And so when he won, I think he recognized the fact that You know, here's a guy who was loyal to me, that worked hard, that frankly had experience, and, you know, he offered me the job on December 22nd.

01:48:45.000 All right.

01:48:46.000 Connor Choine, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, says, I have family who watches MSNBC all day.

01:48:53.000 How do I convince them what's happening and what Biden is doing?

01:48:57.000 Turn the channel to the Newsmax that they've rebranded.

01:49:02.000 You know, that's the crazy thing though.

01:49:03.000 They'll be told that they believe Newsmax is fringe, crazy, you know.

01:49:08.000 Yeah, but test them.

01:49:09.000 Tell them, turn in, I'm on every night at six.

01:49:11.000 Tell them to tune into my show once and say, tell me something that's crazy or, I mean, I think every night we have discussions about what's in the news.

01:49:20.000 We have people on it to analyze it and that's it.

01:49:22.000 But we get branded in a way that's, that's frankly, as I said, I had a, I got a, someone asked me the other day, he said, what do you guys think about how you cover the election?

01:49:30.000 I said, I'm proud of it.

01:49:31.000 They said, well—I said, give me an example.

01:49:35.000 So we had people on our network that had dissenting opinions that talked about the fact that they thought that Trump won this.

01:49:41.000 I said, great.

01:49:42.000 That's our job, is to allow people to come on, give their point of view, be able to back it up.

01:49:48.000 Okay.

01:49:49.000 But I think they're so used to people on MSNBC and CNN saying, this is it.

01:49:53.000 There's no dissenting opinion.

01:49:54.000 Believe this, suck it up, take it.

01:49:57.000 And so I would argue, tell somebody who's just an MSNBC watcher, tune in one night at six o'clock.

01:50:02.000 Tell me what you think.

01:50:03.000 And if you have a problem, I'd like to hear what it is.

01:50:06.000 I mean, meaning them, because I think that's the problem is that MSNBC and CNN basically brainwash people into believing that anything but them is blasphemy.

01:50:14.000 All right.

01:50:15.000 I saw the Super Chat.

01:50:16.000 I didn't know if I was going to read it, but I'm going to read it anyway, because it's actually kind of sad.

01:50:22.000 Patrick Rose is asking me about somebody, but using the person's troll online name.

01:50:28.000 I'm going to use the person's real name.

01:50:30.000 Hey Tim, have you talked to Jamie lately?

01:50:33.000 My understanding is that this individual was a big troll on the internet, a friend of mine committed suicide, and there's a lot of things, I think I may have talked a little bit about it before.

01:50:43.000 I have some opinions on it, but I probably don't want to say too much, but this was a notable hacker trans woman, and I think it was a couple years ago.

01:50:52.000 I think, just to keep it short and brief for the person asking, probably because I'm in a documentary called Hacker Wars, and I'm very obviously friends with a lot of these people, I think the culture war causes a lot of people very serious distress, especially in the LGBTQ community.

01:51:09.000 If you take a look at someone like Blair White, for instance, who's a trans woman but conservative, Trump supporter, you can see the vitriol, the hate.

01:51:17.000 I think some people can't handle it.

01:51:18.000 So it's a sad story and I decided to read it because I was really sad to find out when I did what happened to Jamie.

01:51:26.000 It's brutal, man.

01:51:27.000 It's really sad.

01:51:28.000 But let's, uh, let's, you know, just try and move on and keep talking about other stuff, I suppose.

01:51:33.000 All right.

01:51:35.000 Riding with Ryan says, Love the show.

01:51:37.000 Ian is the best.

01:51:38.000 Really need help.

01:51:39.000 Down on luck and need help.

01:51:41.000 Oh, and then posting cash app.

01:51:42.000 Sorry, I'm not gonna read that one.

01:51:44.000 But let's read a little bit more.

01:51:45.000 Blue Sea says, Tim, it is not a driver shortage.

01:51:48.000 There is a hard labor dock worker load unload problem.

01:51:52.000 Drivers cannot do the job of these dock workers and drive too. 0.99

01:51:56.000 Really interesting.

01:51:56.000 Wow.

01:51:58.000 All right, Marvin Carlson says, the trillion dollar coin was floated during the Obama administration.

01:52:04.000 There's actually a webcomic where Obama says, like, let's do it.

01:52:08.000 Let's make two single trillion dollar coins.

01:52:11.000 And then after they mint them and they open the case, there's one missing.

01:52:14.000 And they're like, where did it go?

01:52:15.000 And then Joe Biden's at a strip club and he's got the coin and he's like, more wings!

01:52:19.000 And he flips the coin and they're like, Mr. Vice President, we can't break change for a trillion.

01:52:24.000 He was like, Yeah, they're like, we can't make change for a trillion dollar coin.

01:52:27.000 He's like, then just bring even more wings or whatever.

01:52:29.000 Amazing.

01:52:30.000 Yeah, very good.

01:52:30.000 A lot of wings.

01:52:32.000 Yep.

01:52:32.000 A lot.

01:52:34.000 Into the Fray podcast says Fauci needs to go on Rogan.

01:52:37.000 That would be me.

01:52:41.000 That could be a massive fundraiser.

01:52:44.000 Just being like, watch this thing happen.

01:52:46.000 But there's no way.

01:52:47.000 He avoids anything controversial or any kind of criticism or critique.

01:52:51.000 Do you see him when Rand Paul was questioning him?

01:52:54.000 His face gets so red.

01:52:55.000 He can't stand any dissent.

01:52:58.000 And he loves to have pictures of himself.

01:53:00.000 It's so weird.

01:53:01.000 It's so cringe.

01:53:02.000 Do you think, like, you know how sometimes you see that iconic photo, like, in a political sense, like a historical sense, and there's this figure looking up at, like, a picture of Churchill, and, you know, they're always thinking, what would... Do you think Fauci looks at Fauci and goes, what would Fauci do?

01:53:15.000 Yes, he definitely does.

01:53:17.000 What would I do?

01:53:17.000 How many masks would I wear?

01:53:19.000 Maybe I should wear two masks.

01:53:22.000 All right, Dragon Lady says, gas here jumped 14 cents overnight.

01:53:27.000 We make a pan of wings that went from $24.99 to $34.99.

01:53:30.000 Five count chicken tenders, $6.99 to $7.99.

01:53:33.000 Making me hungry.

01:53:34.000 Oh yeah, sounds good.

01:53:36.000 That's when we can actually get the stock in, which is completely unreliable.

01:53:40.000 Yep, inflation is so wonderful.

01:53:42.000 Yeah, we're kind of out in the middle of nowhere and gas went up like 20 cents in a week.

01:53:45.000 It was crazy.

01:53:46.000 But we talked about this earlier, Luke, this is a tax.

01:53:50.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:53:51.000 As long as you plug your ears and close your eyes, you can pretend to be happy.

01:53:54.000 Hey, hey, cartel members in the Taliban haven't been happier.

01:53:56.000 That's right.

01:53:56.000 heck, that's a couple bucks.

01:53:57.000 You do that a couple of weeks if you're driving, I mean, a couple times a week.

01:54:00.000 It makes a big difference.

01:54:01.000 Wages are not going up.

01:54:01.000 It makes a big difference.

01:54:03.000 Prices are going up.

01:54:04.000 But don't worry.

01:54:06.000 Everything the Biden administration is doing is a huge success according to them.

01:54:10.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:54:10.000 As long as you plug your ears and close your eyes, you can pretend to be happy.

01:54:14.000 Hey, hey, cartel members in the Taliban haven't been happier.

01:54:17.000 Exactly.

01:54:17.000 That's right.

01:54:18.000 That's the target demographic.

01:54:20.000 Joe Biden's approval rating is through the roof among MS-13 and the Taliban.

01:54:25.000 Yep.

01:54:26.000 All right.

01:54:27.000 Jimmy King says, Tim and crew, thank you for all you do.

01:54:30.000 Have you seen or looked up what is going on between the ATF and the rare breed firearms and their FRT-15 trigger?

01:54:36.000 The case is huge for the Second Amendment and does not have much coverage from larger YouTube channels.

01:54:41.000 Do you know about that, Luke?

01:54:42.000 I've been hearing a lot about it.

01:54:43.000 We should have Pew Pew Pew or Phoenix Arms on to talk about this issue.

01:54:48.000 There's been a lot of interesting developments about 3D printing and firearms and I would love to delve into that topic more.

01:54:55.000 It's, and then we'll go to the range.

01:54:57.000 That'll be fun.

01:54:58.000 That would be great vlog material.

01:54:59.000 Now that we have Fridama stand, we bought about 50 acres.

01:55:02.000 We're going to set up our own range and it'd be a lot of fun.

01:55:05.000 Yeah.

01:55:06.000 I, we theoretically could do a thousand yard range, but I don't, I don't think we have enough for it.

01:55:10.000 So just not enough, but we'll, we'll have a range.

01:55:13.000 My heart's broken.

01:55:15.000 All right, Derna 1804 says, the 1% is an incorrect framing for the scale of the class problem in the US.

01:55:20.000 31% of households make more than 100,000.

01:55:24.000 Wokeness is just a, what is this?

01:55:27.000 Shibboleth for ossifying the class structure.

01:55:30.000 Shibboleth, interesting word.

01:55:31.000 Professors are knights and CEOs are dukes.

01:55:34.000 Serfdom is already upon us.

01:55:36.000 Yep.

01:55:37.000 Shibboleth.

01:55:37.000 That is true.

01:55:40.000 That's a good idea.

01:55:40.000 Voto says, Castcastle is prompted about culture building.

01:55:43.000 Why not collect ballots from members and crew, have Wilt come by and explain each section

01:55:47.000 being proposed and what are those ramifications?

01:55:49.000 Do you mean Will?

01:55:51.000 This way, it's new voters understanding about ballots versus results.

01:55:55.000 Interesting.

01:55:56.000 That's a good idea.

01:55:57.000 I like that.

01:55:59.000 Lloyd Nace says, question for Tim Orshon.

01:56:02.000 Trump runs, I will definitely be voting for him.

01:56:04.000 But what's to say that the media, big tech, Soros will not do anything and everything to stop him?

01:56:09.000 I would rather see DeSantis run.

01:56:11.000 They will run.

01:56:12.000 I mean, they will do that.

01:56:13.000 They will do everything.

01:56:14.000 And frankly, if it's DeSantis, they'll do the same.

01:56:16.000 I mean, that's what we're up against.

01:56:18.000 I feel like DeSantis would navigate it better.

01:56:21.000 Plus Trump's, how old is he?

01:56:22.000 He's 74?

01:56:24.000 He might be 75 now.

01:56:25.000 He's gonna be old if he does run again.

01:56:29.000 So Joe Biden's 78.

01:56:31.000 Yeah, I know, but that's not good.

01:56:33.000 I gotta be honest, I think an 80-year-old Trump will be 10 times as spry as a 77-year-old Joe Biden.

01:56:39.000 True.

01:56:40.000 Still up there.

01:56:41.000 Look, I had to keep up with the guy for a while.

01:56:43.000 I mean, he's up early, he stays up late.

01:56:45.000 I'm not worried about that.

01:56:46.000 I mean, the question is just, I can't believe that you'd want to walk back into the frying pan, but that's a decision that he's going to make.

01:56:54.000 Yeah, he's in the frying pan.

01:56:56.000 I mean, he's doing the rallies.

01:56:58.000 That's different.

01:56:58.000 I mean, I think that there's a sense of going out there, being with people who are out there to enjoy you, who want to express their support for you, as opposed to then waking up the next day.

01:57:10.000 I heard he loves the rallies.

01:57:11.000 Oh, he loves them.

01:57:12.000 He feeds off of them.

01:57:13.000 But what I mean is, he's in the frying pan right now.

01:57:16.000 They just haven't turned the heat on yet.

01:57:17.000 Oh, fair enough.

01:57:18.000 Coming out, going in the public, doing his rallies.

01:57:20.000 It's very obvious people expect him to run.

01:57:22.000 He doesn't even have a Twitter account.

01:57:24.000 That's the other thing.

01:57:25.000 That's crazy.

01:57:26.000 That's helped him, I think.

01:57:27.000 I think that's helped him.

01:57:28.000 I don't know.

01:57:29.000 I do.

01:57:29.000 I think so, because you can't criticize.

01:57:31.000 I mean, there's times when he probably would have weighed in something, and then all of the left would have gone berserk, and now he can't.

01:57:37.000 You know, I don't have a lot of, you know, I criticize him sometimes, but he would be hilarious right now.

01:57:42.000 That's true.

01:57:43.000 And the country needs that.

01:57:45.000 I tell you, the statement I put up the other day about Hunter and saying, you know, I'm thinking about taking up painting myself.

01:57:51.000 I thought that was so classic Trump.

01:57:55.000 We need that on Twitter.

01:57:56.000 Yeah, you do.

01:57:57.000 All right, let's see what we got here.

01:58:00.000 Grizzlab says, Hey Tim, Ian, and Luke, what's the best and trustworthy Bitcoin wallet website do you recommend?

01:58:06.000 Well, first, let me just say, guys, we don't give financial advice.

01:58:08.000 However, Ian, what is your favorite Bitcoin website?

01:58:14.000 Well, I usually buy it through Coinbase and then transfer it to a Metamask wallet.

01:58:19.000 If I do, but that's Ethereum and I do it in Ethereum.

01:58:22.000 Yes.

01:58:22.000 Well, there's like Exodus.

01:58:24.000 There's what's the other one?

01:58:26.000 That's pretty good.

01:58:27.000 I forgot the name of Edge.

01:58:30.000 Edge is pretty good.

01:58:31.000 Exodus.

01:58:32.000 Those are the ones that are.

01:58:34.000 And you can also I also have a Nano.

01:58:35.000 What is it?

01:58:36.000 A Nano Ledger X, which you can hold the crypto offline in cold storage.

01:58:40.000 That's probably the most secure way to hold it, but it's harder to trade.

01:58:45.000 You?

01:58:46.000 Tim?

01:58:47.000 I like Coinbase and Gemini.

01:58:50.000 But there's one thing I will always say is that if you're holding your crypto on an exchange, you don't actually have any crypto.

01:58:56.000 Yes.

01:58:57.000 That's an important one.

01:58:58.000 But no advice to anybody.

01:58:59.000 I'm not telling you to do anything or buy anything.

01:59:01.000 Are you in crypto?

01:59:02.000 I'm pretty much just still in silver dollars.

01:59:05.000 Susan B. Anthony's Heck yeah.

01:59:07.000 One year ago, Bitcoin was what, like $9,061 right now?

01:59:09.000 Excellent investment.

01:59:09.000 And you know what the funny thing is?

01:59:12.000 It happens every few years and everyone says the exact same thing.

01:59:15.000 61 right now Excellent investment. I hear the funny thing is

01:59:20.000 It happens every you know few years and everyone says the exact same thing. So I remember too late

01:59:25.000 Yeah back so back in like 20 2011. I almost bought Bitcoin at 70 cents

01:59:30.000 I didn't do it.

01:59:30.000 Yeah, I would have bought thousands.

01:59:32.000 And my friend talked me out of it.

01:59:34.000 And then as time goes on, it's like five bucks.

01:59:35.000 Are you still friends?

01:59:37.000 Yeah, friends is in quote.

01:59:38.000 Actually, not really.

01:59:38.000 I haven't talked to him in years, but he's a cool dude.

01:59:41.000 We just slowly stopped hanging out.

01:59:42.000 But then it's five bucks.

01:59:45.000 And I'm like, no, if only.

01:59:46.000 Then it's 20 bucks.

01:59:47.000 Ah, geez, if only.

01:59:49.000 Then it's 100.

01:59:49.000 Oh, man, I can't believe it.

01:59:51.000 And then finally, when it was like at 1,000 bucks, I'm like, OK, I'm just going to buy something.

01:59:56.000 And now it's at 61 and I'm like, okay, you know.

01:59:59.000 So I think the prediction right now is that in the next two months it should hit 230.

02:00:06.000 So Max Keiser called this.

02:00:09.000 I don't know if it will happen.

02:00:10.000 Maybe it won't.

02:00:12.000 But when you look at the trend waves for Bitcoin, every four years there are similar waves and it has a lot to do with the code of Bitcoin and how the halving occurs and things like that.

02:00:22.000 I don't know exactly what is supposed to occur now, but considering the crisis and people are looking for hedges and outs, and just like the trend of Bitcoin is to go in these big waves, a lot of people are speculating Bitcoin will hit 230.

02:00:37.000 That being said, I'm not giving anybody advice.

02:00:40.000 I am not buying any right now.

02:00:42.000 So I'm not going to make it seem like I'm saying it's going to go up and then I'm going to go rush and buy.

02:00:46.000 I'm not.

02:00:47.000 So I've got, you know, crypto.

02:00:50.000 I'll do like small increments here and there on a regular basis, you know, sometimes, but I'm not going to like unload into crypto thinking it's going to go up right now.

02:00:57.000 But a lot of people are speculating.

02:00:58.000 I don't know what you guys think.

02:01:00.000 People are predicting like 200 something by the end of the year.

02:01:03.000 It's always going up, that's the thing.

02:01:04.000 It goes down.

02:01:05.000 I mean, I wouldn't do any short-term stuff there.

02:01:08.000 Again, not financial advice, but Max Keiser was telling me when it was still worth, I think, about a dollar, and I told him to screw off.

02:01:15.000 No, I know.

02:01:15.000 And I didn't listen to him, so I'm not the one to give advice here.

02:01:18.000 I've been thinking, like, if the currency... Just think about that.

02:01:21.000 I'm sorry.

02:01:21.000 No, I'll go with it.

02:01:22.000 Think about this.

02:01:23.000 If you just said, you know what, just to humor you, I'm going to buy one.

02:01:26.000 Like 200 grand.

02:01:28.000 Here's what happened though.

02:01:30.000 When Max was telling me around the same time he was telling Luke, it wasn't easy.

02:01:34.000 It was complicated.

02:01:36.000 It was a lot harder to buy.

02:01:38.000 And so I ended up having a small amount because people donated to my address.

02:01:43.000 And then I remember being like, I can't even deal with this.

02:01:45.000 Hey Luke, you want to buy it?

02:01:50.000 And Luke was like, I was telling Tim, you need to get in this because Max told me and I was like, I didn't listen to him.

02:02:03.000 He told me I'd regret it and I was like, I don't care.

02:02:05.000 I was like, dude, I don't want to.

02:02:06.000 I felt bad.

02:02:07.000 I was like, I don't want to do this, man.

02:02:08.000 I'm like, this is going to go up.

02:02:09.000 He's like, no, no.

02:02:10.000 I'm like, I did.

02:02:11.000 Yeah, of course.

02:02:13.000 What I was thinking is that if, okay, so Bitcoin right now can get you like 30,000 loaves of bread, and if the American dollar inflates by a hundred times, then it'll be able to get you, I don't know, what, three million loaves of bread?

02:02:24.000 No, no, no, no, no.

02:02:25.000 Bitcoin.

02:02:25.000 No, no.

02:02:26.000 Something like that.

02:02:27.000 If the American dollar inflates, the cost of bread skyrockets, you'll still be able to buy the same amount of bread with the Bitcoin.

02:02:33.000 It's just that you'll, if you have US dollar... Well, the cost of bread is not directly correlated to the inflation of the dollar.

02:02:43.000 Okay, I see what you mean, though.

02:02:44.000 I see what you mean.

02:02:45.000 It's not a direct representative.

02:02:46.000 Paying somebody to make the bread is going to cost more.

02:02:48.000 So imagine that they start inflating the U.S.

02:02:50.000 dollar, the Bitcoin's going to be able to buy you more and more bread, ideally.

02:02:53.000 No, that's not true.

02:02:54.000 Because the Bitcoin's going to be gaining value also.

02:02:57.000 That's not necessarily true.

02:02:58.000 It's a little bit true. 0.99

02:02:59.000 What would happen is, if somebody is being paid in U.S.

02:03:02.000 dollars to make bread, and then the dollar inflates, they're going to need more money to buy the bread themselves.

02:03:09.000 What I wonder is, is it going to get to a point where the people that make the bread are like, what's worth more, bread or money?

02:03:13.000 Well, bread.

02:03:15.000 So give me, I want, one Bitcoin's going to get you one loaf of bread now.

02:03:18.000 Let me put it this way.

02:03:19.000 In November when, last year when it was like 11 or whatever, and I was like, oh, okay, you know, you should buy some Bitcoin.

02:03:25.000 Bitcoin ended up going up to like 60K.

02:03:27.000 Funny enough, wood, lumber, went up the same rates.

02:03:32.000 So even if you bought the Bitcoin, you could still buy the same amount of wood with it.

02:03:35.000 If you had US dollars, you couldn't buy wood anymore.

02:03:37.000 It just crossed my mind that maybe at some point the people that own the resources are going to dictate the value of the Bitcoin, not the US dollar.

02:03:44.000 I think mostly what'll happen is Bitcoin is going to go up simply by its deflationary nature.

02:03:50.000 It will become worth more as more people start using it, but it's a very, very complicated issue.

02:03:55.000 But how about this?

02:03:56.000 If you haven't already, go to TimCast.com, subscribe, become a member.

02:03:59.000 We're gonna have a members-only segment coming up at about 11 or so p.m.

02:04:03.000 is when we publish it.

02:04:04.000 And you can like this video, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends.

02:04:07.000 You can follow the show at TimCast IRL.

02:04:09.000 Just search for it.

02:04:10.000 And you can follow me personally at TimCast on basically every platform.

02:04:14.000 Sean, it's been a blast.

02:04:15.000 Thank you guys for having me.

02:04:16.000 You want to shout out your book and social media?

02:04:18.000 Yeah, Radical Nation.

02:04:19.000 I go to Amazon, Newsmax.com, slash 23.

02:04:23.000 But the one thing I love about this is the first comprehensive look at the people and the policies in the Biden administration.

02:04:29.000 If you want to understand who's running this government and what they're trying to do, it's in there.

02:04:33.000 And the last thing that I love about the book is that it's not just explaining.

02:04:37.000 The last chapter, chapter 20, is actually a conservative agenda checklist.

02:04:43.000 Cool.

02:04:43.000 If you want to get more involved, if you want to know how to fight back, if you want to

02:04:45.000 know organizations that'll help pay your legal bills if you get into trouble for fighting

02:04:49.000 against critical race theory, literally my thought was if you're going to tell everyone

02:04:52.000 everything that's wrong, you got to tell them what they can do to make things better.

02:04:57.000 Absolutely.

02:04:58.000 And that's the thing that I loved about it, is it was like, it's not just going to tell

02:05:01.000 you all the problems, but it's going to tell you how to fight back, how to get your kids

02:05:04.000 involved in organizations that will put them on the right track.

02:05:08.000 And you know, like I said, if you want to run for office, if you need to get read up

02:05:12.000 on some of these economic issues that are important, because here's the thing, every

02:05:15.000 one of these issues, we have the facts on our side.

02:05:20.000 And as the holidays come up and you're going to be sitting there at Thanksgiving with the crazy uncle, the crazy aunt, who talks about immigration or critical race theory and tells you, oh, it doesn't, like Terry McAuliffe here in Virginia, it doesn't exist.

02:05:32.000 There's a whole section in there, chapter 16, about critical race theory, its origins, what it intends to do, the goals of it.

02:05:39.000 You need to be able to fight back with the facts.

02:05:41.000 The book has it all in there.

02:05:42.000 Right on.

02:05:43.000 Thank you guys.

02:05:43.000 You got social media?

02:05:45.000 At Sean Spicer on Twitter, at Sean M. Spicer on Instagram, at Sean Spicer on YouTube, and apparently Ian's making me get mines.

02:05:56.000 Mines and storable food and crystals, and we're gonna load you up before you leave here. 0.89

02:06:00.000 I got spirulina before the show started.

02:06:01.000 That's right.

02:06:02.000 I've spent like a couple hundred bucks with all the ideas ordering things, so thank you guys for having me.

02:06:08.000 It's a pleasure to be out here.

02:06:09.000 Yeah, we got way more stuff to talk about.

02:06:11.000 But in today's video on the Luke Uncensored, I gave some very interesting prepper tips, and if you're interested in that, you can check it out on LukeUncensored.com.

02:06:20.000 I have a lot of fun on that platform, and I hope to see some of you there.

02:06:24.000 Yeah, I'm really glad you guys are here.

02:06:25.000 Thanks, Luke.

02:06:26.000 Great shirt, by the way.

02:06:27.000 I love it.

02:06:28.000 Sean, thanks again for coming, man.

02:06:30.000 And Jessica, thanks for the art.

02:06:31.000 It's beautiful on the back wall.

02:06:32.000 Yeah, it's amazing.

02:06:33.000 And the guy that sent me this, I'm going to get your name and shout you out because I love this crazy art behind me.

02:06:37.000 And I'm Ian Crosland.

02:06:38.000 See you later.

02:06:39.000 This has been a super fun conversation.

02:06:41.000 It's not every day we get to talk to somebody who worked with the Trump administration.

02:06:45.000 I'm a little creeped out by this new painting that Jessica did for us, but it is wonderful and I appreciate it.

02:06:49.000 It just looks like Joe Biden is sniffing me, which is exactly what I've always wanted.

02:06:53.000 You guys are more than welcome to follow me on Twitter at Sour Patch Lids.

02:06:56.000 That's such an awesome painting of Joe Biden.

02:06:58.000 Yeah, I love it.

02:06:59.000 It's so creepy.

02:07:00.000 The landscape behind Ian is just beautiful.

02:07:02.000 What is it, like charcoal art or something?

02:07:03.000 It's gonna come alive.

02:07:04.000 Charcoal?

02:07:05.000 Well, so go to TimCast.com, be a member.

02:07:08.000 I really want to talk to you about, you know, your time in the White House and other stuff like that.

02:07:11.000 So for everybody, we'll have a segment up.

02:07:14.000 We record it now, but then we just publish it around 11.

02:07:16.000 So thanks for hanging out.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - October 19, 2021

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