In this episode, we discuss the impending end of the moratorium on landlords evicting tenants, the collapse of the housing market, and the impending eviction of millions of people who can't afford to pay their rent. Plus, we talk about the latest in the Bidenflation crisis.
00:00:00.000Just about two days, the moratorium on evictions will be over.
00:00:20.000And every single landlord in this country who has tenants who aren't paying is going to be filing for eviction and suing for back rent because now they can.
00:00:30.000See, a lot of people don't seem to understand how the economy works.
00:00:33.000They have this thing in their mind where they think, or this perspective.
00:00:37.000Every landlord must own a million buildings.
00:00:40.000Every movie must be a Hollywood blockbuster.
00:00:43.000Every musician must be a celebrity rock star, not realizing that the overwhelming majority of this country is small businesses.
00:00:49.000Artists who don't make that much money.
00:00:51.000Musicians who don't make that much money.
00:00:53.000Small shops that do baked goods or hardware stores.
00:00:56.000And landlords who own maybe one or two buildings.
00:01:10.000That even though people were getting unemployment checks, this beautiful COVID unemployment benefit equivalent to about $15-$16 an hour, they were like, why pay if I don't have to?
00:01:20.000They'll get evicted, but they'll keep all that money, right?
00:01:23.000There are a lot of people who probably couldn't pay their rent, and so they weren't able to.
00:01:26.000Well, now there is going to be like a switch being flicked.
00:01:30.000If nothing changes right now, and the moratorium expires, we are going to see all of the eviction notices go out on the 1st, very likely, and then by the end of the month, you are going to see millions of people homeless, unless the government intervenes, which they might, because Bill de Blasio was talking about buying up these buildings, now that the property value collapsed.
00:01:56.000Real hourly wages have decreased by 1.7% due to Biden's inflation.
00:02:02.000So, I don't want to be overly pessimistic, man, but I guess to everybody who voted for Donald Trump and said, do not vote for Biden, he'll tank the economy, he'll take away American energy independence, gas prices will skyrocket, y'all can say, I told you so, I told you so, like 57 times.
00:03:05.000No, no, that one like the room with the tools and the various implements of destruction.
00:03:10.000And so because they're redoing the ceiling, we're hanging the table from the roof and a bunch of other things that are going on down there.
00:03:17.000It's basically the drywall has been taken down.
00:03:44.000Cause we were just in, we were in Phoenix earlier this week for the, went out for the Trump speech with Turning Point.
00:03:50.000And, you know, we thought it was going to be really bad, but then it ended up actually being monsoon season, I guess, when we went out and, uh, it was just, it was rainy and cloudy and it was like, this is perfect.
00:04:01.000It was like, it was actually kind of cold with no humidity.
00:04:06.000No, out here, I mean, it's a tall building as it is, and plus it was 95 outside.
00:04:12.000So naturally, the higher parts of the house are gonna get super hot.
00:04:15.000I came upstairs, and I was like, man, it's 78 degrees downstairs.
00:04:18.000We have a geothermal system, so it's usually super cool.
00:04:21.000But it's all just spraying outside, I guess.
00:04:24.000Yeah, as you come up through the house, it's like there's a thermal layer that you cross, and then you go above that, and then... Reminds me of in, like, Submarine Warfare, they talk about, like, the thermobaric layer a lot.
00:05:21.000It actually started because, I can't remember which band it was, maybe Bon Jovi or something.
00:05:25.000They had this big contract about doing shows.
00:05:27.000And I guess what happened, maybe it wasn't Bon Jovi, but this band was playing and there was like a stage collapse or something.
00:05:32.000So they put in the... because it was done wrong.
00:05:35.000They said, here's our contract, here's our requirements, here's the weight capacity, and they didn't do it right, and there was like a collapse.
00:05:39.000And so they would put in the middle of the contract, in a random spot, there must be a bowl of M&M's with all of like, you know, the brown M&M's removed.
00:05:47.000And it must be sitting in our dressing room.
00:05:49.000And the idea was... To see if they'd read the whole contract.
00:05:52.000If they overlooked this and they didn't take care of the stupidest thing, we don't know what they didn't take care of and we're not gonna risk injury.
00:07:37.000That's an opinion, and you'll try to make sure that these things are... But anyway, don't forget to like this video, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends.
00:07:43.000Let's, uh... Jack, let's talk about the apocalypse, I guess.
00:08:24.000Harvey has been approved for more than $9,000 in federal rent help through a local program, but the money hasn't come through yet.
00:08:30.000More than 8,000 other renters in Nevada's Clark County are still waiting for approval.
00:08:35.000You know, I'm sure there's a lot of people who Lost their jobs during COVID, don't have any savings, and won't be able to pay rent.
00:08:45.000But I'm also wondering why these people weren't getting unemployment.
00:08:49.000And with the massive job openings and the major labor shortage, I'm not sure I believe All of these people who were like, oh, I'm going to be evicted couldn't pay.
00:08:59.000You just said that was Clark County, Nevada, right?
00:09:02.000So I was actually in Clark County, Nevada for, um, I went to the UFC fight.
00:09:07.000I went to the Rogan Chappelle show, uh, the comedy show and, you know, just walking around the different hotels and everything.
00:09:14.000There's a massive worker shortage out there right now.
00:09:18.000Um, they could not find people for these jobs.
00:09:21.000So, um, funny enough is you remember there was that whole controversy about like, Oh, when Trump walked in, was everybody chanting USA, USA?
00:09:32.000So everybody was asking me, which was it?
00:09:34.000I said, well, you know, funny enough, I was actually outside of the arena when that happened.
00:09:38.000because my brother and I were waiting in line to get some food from the concessions.
00:09:42.000But each one of the concessions because there's so few workers only had like two people working per stand.
00:09:48.000Meanwhile, the entire place is completely sold out 26,000 30,000 people.
00:09:53.000So just imagine how long that is for you're waiting like 3040 minutes for so you know, I've got the order for like we have eight of us out there was Will Chamberlain's thing.
00:10:01.000And we went and we actually hear, as we're waiting in line, we hear the USA, USA, and we're like, oh, what's that?
00:10:08.000And my brother goes, I think that's for Trump.
00:10:19.000But, you know, going back, It was the issue was that they could not find people to work those jobs, the snack stand, selling drinks, etc, etc.
00:10:30.000And so you have lines and lines of people.
00:10:32.000And then we started talking to the Uber drivers.
00:10:34.000And we were talking to just other people in the hotels.
00:10:36.000And he said, Look, we would love for people to come work with us.
00:10:43.000There even some even some hotels are doing signing bonuses, right signing bonuses for just working the floor out there because they that's how bad their heart out for You drive a few miles from here and you'll see a Wendy's with a big old sign saying open interviews.
00:10:56.000out there I'm like what's your aperture for those kind of jobs?
00:11:01.000You drive a few miles from here and you'll see a Wendy's with a big old sign saying open
00:11:05.000interviews they have signs saying like a thousand dollar bonus.
00:11:08.000I'm not saying a single mother should go work at Wendy's.
00:11:11.000I'm saying there are a ton of jobs that are desperate, and the ones you can see outright are... They're just all over the streets.
00:11:18.000Not only that, but, you know, we ordered pizza the other day.
00:12:36.000There's movies you'll never hear of, you've never seen, that make money for these businesses.
00:12:40.000You know, I have friends who do TV production, and you'll never hear of anything they do because it's a local market.
00:12:46.000So they do commercials, they do short films, and it's all local market stuff that you're never going to hear of unless you live in the area.
00:12:53.000Right, they're not on IMDB and everything else.
00:14:08.000So they're going to walk right in, get the loans for it.
00:14:10.000And they're going to say, hey, we're, you know, there's, hey, look at all of these properties that just came up because these small time landlords, because that's the thing.
00:14:16.000Most landlords in this country aren't, it's, it's like you said, it's like one guy owns a building, maybe has two buildings, right?
00:14:23.000And then they're putting a few together.
00:14:25.000They can't handle an entire year of not collecting, right?
00:14:29.000It's $9,000 for one person, but what happens when that's every person, every tenant in your entire building, every unit isn't paying?
00:14:35.000What people need to realize, okay, you could be in your late 30s, you're a millennial, you finally saved up to buy a nice house, and it's in an area, it's not the best area, but it's okay, it's a couple hundred grand, you put, you know, you saved up 10 grand, you were able to pay a down payment, plus closing costs, you're getting in, and then you have a tragic loss in the family.
00:14:55.000You find out that, you know, your great uncle has passed, and lo and behold, he's left you a house.
00:16:02.000You're going to sell to the highest bidder.
00:16:03.000I have a friend who, maybe like 30 minutes from here, who was in this very same situation, but he had a guy who just refused to pay.
00:16:14.000Just straight up refused to pay and refused to even apply for any kind of government support for this thing and just said, I'm not leaving.
00:16:58.000And the guy straight up is like, he won't even talk to him anymore at this point.
00:17:01.000That's that I want to the reason I want to highlight that side of this of this conflict or of this crisis is because people assume that all the landlords are ultra rich.
00:17:10.000And so pointing that out, it's not the case.
00:17:12.000Yeah, my buddy's like not, you know, I mean, look, he's got he owns he owns he owns his properties.
00:17:16.000Yeah, he's got he's a he has one property that he has that was that was his old house.
00:17:21.000And then he was able to get another place for his family and then make that rent.
00:17:24.000So I will say, however, these people still are doing a lot better than a lot of the people who are going to be evicted, which is the bigger portion of that crisis.
00:19:00.000And the government says, we're going to bail everybody out.
00:19:05.000The reason I wanted to highlight the landlords because I wanted to highlight the poor working class people who are being evicted because they're probably a substantial portion.
00:19:13.000I don't even want to say that either because I don't want to make it out like I'm against it.
00:19:17.000They're being used as political pawns in the system.
00:19:21.000I mean they're just being screwed over.
00:19:22.000They're being put in this position on purpose by people who want more power and more control.
00:19:29.000I don't know that it's... I have any evidence to suggest there's a grand conspiracy other than conjecture and the Great Reset.
00:19:38.000And yeah, people stand to make a lot of money.
00:19:40.000But look, the regular working-class people had their businesses destroyed, their jobs were stripped from them, and that is, first and foremost, I think the biggest problem.
00:19:49.000And we're hearing that more lockdowns are coming.
00:19:51.000Right, but here's why I think it's important to highlight landlords.
00:19:53.000The reason why I wanted to explain that landlords are not all multi-millionaire fat cats with a bunch of buildings is that when they're forced to sell because they can't deal with a bunch of tenants who don't pay and they gotta pay all these things they can't afford, and they sell to Wall Street firms who use Fed money to buy this stuff, And then, when all of these firms, depending on how much they actually own, say to the government, all of these evictions, how are we going to do this?
00:20:19.000The government says, we will bail you out.
00:20:21.000And the government will write the check to pay all the back rent back to these firms who bought up the houses, who could afford to eat the costs.
00:20:33.000So instead of it being Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the back end, now you've got Wall Street coming in on the front scooping up all of this stuff.
00:20:42.000the low interest rates or how they're getting the money from the Fed directly. And so now you cut
00:20:46.000out the middleman completely. And it's just the government and Wall Street. And you're,
00:20:50.000you are the one, by the way, you as the tenant, eventually, you're going to be on the hook for
00:20:55.000that, or the people who are who have the rents that go up and up and up, you're still going to
00:20:59.000be on the hook, by the way, it's just that your landlords are going to be the ones kicked out.
00:21:04.000You're going to be the ones stuck paying higher rents.
00:21:08.000Now who knows what's going to happen as to the actual, if there's mortgages for this property, how much of that's getting paid.
00:21:14.000You and the American taxpayer is the one that's ultimately on the hook for all of it.
00:21:19.000I told you how I got denied a mortgage for a house, right?
00:22:18.000If you're a large institution, whether you're a bank or a credit union, why would you want to sell to an individual?
00:22:24.000Why would you want to deal with all the potential problems of selling to an individual when you know that waiting in the wings are these massive Wall Street institutions with the backing of federal money?
00:22:40.000I think maybe, but I could very easily guarantee, like, the loan was extremely low risk for them.
00:22:47.000It's just, you know, they, for some reason, jammed me up, made it impossible to do, and I bring it up because it felt like they were trying to stop me from buying property at a time when we're hearing about all this news where these firms are buying up property, we're facing this major eviction, this eviction crisis, And I think it's possible we see a bailout that allows the government to own houses and apartments.
00:23:14.000When they buy, when they bail out these big companies that have bought up, they're gonna own how much of these companies and then we're gonna be slowly moving towards government-owned apartments and housing.
00:25:03.000The transition in the documentary was hilarious, because then he goes to... I went to talk with Google, who is incredibly private, and you can't get any information out of them.
00:25:14.000And they refused to do an interview, and we tried Facebook, and they're also private and locked down.
00:25:17.000And he talks about how Google's devices, all these phones and everything, their microphones are always on.
00:25:31.000I'm not going to say it because people's phones on the show will... Okay.
00:25:34.000Yeah, so you say that in the word, and then it turns on.
00:25:37.000But that means the microphone has to be on the whole time.
00:25:39.000That means the microphone is picking up ambient noise.
00:25:42.000Now, it doesn't necessarily mean they're recording the words you say in the conversations you're having, but they mentioned that Google does track Sounds like car horns and just other ambient effects where they can determine where you are and what you're doing just by the noise around.
00:25:56.000There's actually a function on your iOS where I think you probably know what I'm talking about where you can.
00:26:04.000It can identify ambient noises for you.
00:26:07.000Well, like, let's say you have your headphones in and hey, there's a car horn, but you wouldn't know this will pop up on the screen.
00:26:15.000I'm 100% or there's a, there's a train coming or there's a dog is barking, right?
00:26:21.000It will tell you what that ambient noise is as you're listening to your headphones.
00:26:25.000So as you're listening to Timcast IRL, it'll tell you what's going on around you.
00:26:29.000What I found fascinating about this was that they contrasted the Chinese police state and social credit system with the secrecy of Google and Facebook, and it's like... No contrast.
00:26:41.000We've outsourced censorship and authoritarianism to private corporations to do an end run around the Constitution.
00:26:47.000So this is what I've been getting at in Human Events, and I started with a piece that I put out on the 4th of July, funny enough.
00:26:54.000But actually, purposely, I knew it would be running on the 4th of July, where they said, you know, write something about freedom.
00:26:59.000And I said, I'm going to write about how we're losing it and why we're losing it and what's happening, right?
00:27:04.000And from my perspective, it's really quite simple.
00:27:06.000I call it the axis of the elites between the 1% of the US and the CCP, which if you do the numbers, it's like 1% in China is the 90 million members of the party.
00:27:20.000And so if you go back to the 90s or even the 80s, they said, well, we'll let Hong Kong go back to communist China because Hong Kong is so capitalist and they believe in the free market and it's totally run by the banks, right?
00:28:27.000We became more authoritarian as our elites became more familiarized and had more visibility into their system and how their system works.
00:28:37.000The Democratic Party is learning quite well from the Chinese Communist Party.
00:28:41.000So when I worked in the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, and then I worked for an American consulting firm in Shanghai as well, we would have this, we would have congressional delegations and government delegations, people would come in to Shanghai and there was this museum over there.
00:28:56.000It was called the Municipal Planning Museum, right?
00:28:58.000It's kind of this like innocuous name.
00:29:00.000But when all of these people would come in, these dignitaries and functionaries from the U.S.
00:29:04.000government would come in and they'd take them to this municipal building and the museum, they'd talk about what their plans were.
00:29:09.000So high-speed rail was a big one, right?
00:29:11.000So the high-speed rail of Shanghai was one of the first that China ever got.
00:29:14.000It actually doesn't even go all the way downtown to Shanghai, but it goes from the airport.
00:29:28.000You know, they're out, you know, our what about all of these old and Shanghai used to have these great old this old architectural style called the Shurkumon.
00:29:37.000And it was the stone apartment with like courtyard around a courtyard.
00:29:44.000would all live together and then they'd all share the courtyard and that was sort of like this big communal atmosphere where they lived.
00:29:49.000Okay, all of those are just get wiped out.
00:29:52.000I don't think any of them are really preserved.
00:29:53.000There's like one or two where they've been sort of updated into like nightclubs and bars, but none of the actual like cool architecture or historical features of Shanghai have been preserved at all because they've been wiped out.
00:30:32.000But if we could somehow get people out of ownership of their property and if we could just Move things around so that we could become more powerful, not only in terms of the, you know, the censorship and the authoritarianism online.
00:30:47.000That's like a sideshow compared to what they're doing in the ownership.
00:30:51.000If they can reduce the ownership class to just themselves and just really this gentry, right, then you don't have to worry about everyone else because you can shuffle them around whenever you've got some big projects.
00:31:02.000And what happened throughout the entire last year with the lockdowns, which they say may be coming back?
00:31:07.000How many was like 100,000 businesses or something?
00:31:10.000When we talk about people losing their jobs, it doesn't just mean that Jeff Bezos gets to fly his interestingly shaped spaceship around overhead while laughing at all of us from down below.
00:31:21.000And he even has the gall, the Absolute gall of this guy to say, I'd just like to thank all of the Amazon employees.
00:31:31.000When you're not, when you're, when you've done taking your trash can break to use the bathroom or use your bottle to go to the bathroom.
00:31:40.000I'm saying, he's like, no, it was not direct.
00:31:42.000He said, I'd like to thank all the employees and the customers of Amazon for paying for my joy ride in space on my interestingly shaped spaceship.
00:32:43.000I once, during the hurricane, it was a Sandy in New York, I had to climb 35 flights of stairs because there was a generator on the roof that needed to be shut down because the storm could cause a surge and they were really worried.
00:33:12.000But some people who strive really, really hard and break themselves, they can get really good at this and they make it up that inverted rock climbing wall.
00:33:20.000What's happening is the path towards upward mobility is becoming a very, very narrow bridge where very few will be able to cross it.
00:33:27.000It'll still exist to a certain degree.
00:33:29.000But when the left talks about, you know, the American dream being dead, I'm like, well, it's the Democrats that are destroying it.
00:33:38.000The American dream was never That you'd get a loan for a hundred grand, go to college, and then get a high-paying job.
00:33:45.000The American dream was you could come from the gutter, work really hard, and then start your own corner store and have a living and be independent.
00:33:52.000You used to be able to, if you go back just to the 1980s, right, you used to be able to buy a home with like three years of the median wage, the median salary.
00:34:23.000And they said, well, they say he said, Oh, that's sexist.
00:34:25.000He's like, I didn't say anything about whose income I didn't even say which part of the family or anything.
00:34:30.000I just said, you should be able to do that.
00:34:32.000Because in within living memory, we used to be able to do that in the United States.
00:34:36.000And I think this is why, you know, there's always that sort of like boomer millennial debate that goes on about, you Oh, you guys had it so hard, but you guys screwed, etc, etc.
00:34:44.000And I think there actually is, though, such a generational difference between the baby boomer generation and then the economy as millennials were getting into the workforce in 2007 2008, because everything had changed.
00:34:57.000Where it was actually like they were speaking different languages completely across the other.
00:35:02.000Well, just go in there and hand him your resume and give the manager a firm handshake and tell him you want a job.
00:35:09.000It's like that, that, you know, and then he'll give you a job for the rest of your life, right?
00:35:12.000That doesn't, it doesn't exist anymore.
00:35:48.000I am not I'm not necessarily saying I'm a millennial apologist, but I'm also trying to make myself an impartial observer of the whole thing.
00:36:00.000And certainly baby boomers have played their part, and millennials clearly are the most neurotic, absolutely neurotic, self-centered generation we've seen in a very, very long time.
00:36:13.000But I do think the economics of the time played a huge role in that.
00:36:16.000I think, you know, if you look at... There's an interesting phenomenon where they show boomers still hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, even as they age out over time.
00:37:24.000But it was like, why should we spend time helping out our kids with, you know, with our grandkids?
00:37:31.000Why, we could be doing arts and crafts and pursuing other things.
00:37:35.000And this is actually better for us in our age.
00:37:37.000And, you know, why should we be teaching the You know, I look at what's going on in China, and I have to wonder if anything being said by the American elites is true.
00:38:01.000Am I supposed to believe this guy cares about rising water levels when he buys beachfront property?
00:38:07.000Am I supposed to believe these people when they're buying investment property in Miami Beach and they're telling me all these things are gonna happen?
00:38:11.000You make it really hard to believe when you don't lead by example.
00:38:15.000Hey, they care so much about BLM and all of the social justice issues while their companies are in Africa using child labor to go into the cobalt mines and build everything out for our electric cars, for our cell phones, and everything else.
00:38:31.000Which, by the way, now is being done predominantly by China and Chinese firms.
00:39:33.000So they're going to have to work or do something for money, right?
00:39:36.000Now, there's a major labor shortage, so it seems like Biden, sweating bullets because he doesn't know how to deal with the labor shortage, decides to just import a bunch of people to take those jobs, but what ends up happening?
00:39:46.000Not the first time that Clark County, Nevada has hired, you know.
00:39:49.000But take a look at what the result is going to be.
00:39:54.000I have long said this, many conservatives have mentioned this as well, that the Democrats are creating a serf class.
00:40:00.000That they bring in illegal immigrants who are forced to live in the shadows and get paid under the table, and then Americans don't have to do the jobs that nobody wants.
00:40:08.000You know how they say that all the time?
00:40:09.000But these illegal immigrants, they do the job nobody wants!
00:40:12.000And I hear people say, but I wanted my job.
00:41:35.000And they live in this sort of ring on the outskirts of Shanghai, for the most part, because the housing situation isn't really that There's not much oversight of it out there.
00:43:00.000And the policies of the gentrification of Washington D.C., who's being kicked out, the families that are being sent out, the businesses that are coming in, the landlords that are coming in, the massive companies that are coming in, right?
00:43:13.000There are families that have lived in D.C.
00:45:28.000So you have this this big buildup, and then you have the one sort of, you know, you could say the denouement, right?
00:45:36.000You know, your your huge, you know, climax, and then boom, after that conflict moment happens, then you have the political change that you wanted all along.
00:45:46.000You exploit that and exploit the narrative surrounding it to get the political solution you wanted.
00:47:18.000This is a perfect example that I can cite because I actually worked for a homeless shelter.
00:47:22.000I know for a fact money never solves the problem.
00:47:25.000There are homeless shelters in Los Angeles that are completely empty, flush with cash, and homeless people say, F you, I'm not going in your building.
00:47:39.000There are homeless camps throughout the city now.
00:47:41.000Oh, it's gonna get worse with these evictions.
00:47:43.000They're calling them Bowservilles, right?
00:47:45.000So, they're Bowservilles, and it's almost under, for Mayor Bowser, so it's almost, like, every tunnel, every, when I was still with One American News, I would drive up under the Capitol, and then you'd go through the tunnel.
00:47:56.000So that entire area under there, it's all homeless camps now.
00:48:01.000To the north side of the Capitol, there's a huge emplacement.
00:48:05.000It's almost like it's getting to the point where there any point where there's public space, with the exception of the National Mall, right?
00:48:11.000They're not on the National Mall because there's lots of rules and regulations to the National Mall.
00:48:15.000But pretty much everywhere else that there's public space, there are homeless camps throughout Washington, D.C.
00:48:20.000I don't even know if people realize that.
00:48:41.000I hear it's happening in cities all over the country.
00:48:43.000Not just D.C., not just L.A., but I hear cities in even red states and stuff.
00:48:47.000Right, so L.A., the last time I was there, I said, oh, this is like a year ago, and I wanted to take Tanya to this one boutique that she really likes, and she likes their dresses, and their designer, so...
00:49:01.000I said, I said, Oh, let's see if they're open.
00:49:03.000And they're actually closed on Sundays.
00:49:05.000But I'd actually set up like a special thing for her.
00:49:07.000But I told her I said, Oh, look in the window.
00:49:09.000So we're walking down and I say, and everywhere.
00:51:21.000They're going to own like the forest leather boots of agility with like plus three agility and they're enchanted for plus 10 armor or whatever.
00:51:28.000I'm sorry, it's an armor kit, not enchantment.
00:51:30.000They're going to have digital products in video games, and they're going to be proud of their non-physical assets that they can brag about.
00:51:35.000They're going to play video games all day, and they're going to do very little work.
00:51:39.000Now, part of me says this transition kind of needs to happen, to a certain degree, because what happens to all the McDonald's fast food workers?
00:52:23.000There is a Wawa that just opened or it's going to be open I think in in northern New Jersey where it's there's no inside right so it's just out you drive up to a kiosk or you have your app and then you tell them what you want and then you drive up to the drive-thru and a hand hands it to you and then you drive off and that's it.
00:53:12.000So they wear something called a link, which connects their brains to the internet, and they know everything because the link just downloads information, but what they didn't know was that it was also erasing information.
00:53:23.000So what was happening was that the city was failing, their shield was failing, and the toxic atmosphere was basically getting closer and closer, but every time it would shrink and somebody would die, the link would erase their memory of what had happened.
00:53:35.000It doesn't sound like anything that's going on right now.
00:53:39.000Not necessarily, but I bring it up just because, you know, of where we're moving with digital economy, the way we're moving to that Black Mirror episode where nobody leaves their room.
00:53:47.000You know, you know, that Black Mirror episode where their room has TV screens and they watch American Idol, but their character is in the audience instead of them.
00:56:13.000So this is a point I was going to make earlier when you were talking about the worker shortage that's going on right now, because I think that we were talking a little bit more about your sort of like entry level jobs or your service economy type jobs.
00:56:26.000But what I think there's also another layer to all of this that not a lot of people are talking about is that a lot of people just had a year off, right?
00:56:35.000Or a year where they were kind of working from home.
00:57:51.000The World Economic Forum proudly put up a video saying a Microsoft survey found 30,000 people found 41% were planning on quitting their jobs or moving, changing careers.
01:00:23.000He's the kind of guy where you can give him a sport, whatever it is, literally whatever sport, within 10 minutes, he's got it down, he can play at a basic level, and if he puts more time into it, he'll be an all-star.
01:00:36.000For me, I can practice, and I can train, and I can get to an average level, but he just has the natural genetics and everything else to just be amazing at anything he does when it comes to that.
01:00:48.000Whereas like for me like okay, I could spend all this time practicing, but I'm just I'm not gonna get to that level You might like playing football, but you're not good enough to be a pro.
01:01:40.000You want to be famous and you want easy money.
01:01:42.000You don't want to work and you don't want to do anything, but these are some of the hardest jobs.
01:01:46.000I've had so many people in my life, I had one person hit me up years ago, like, I really want to do what you do and report and make these videos, and I said, I'll tell you what, come hang out in New York, hang out with my friends, we'll get you set up.
01:01:58.000And then within a week, they were like, man, this sucks, I don't want to do this, this is hard.
01:02:27.000I know that's like a new trend that's going on and I think that people are using this sort of like digital nomadism combined with just, hey, let's buy an RV and just live wherever we want to live, right?
01:04:23.000You're gonna get three hot meals per day, you're gonna have a nice little room all to yourself, no cost, medical expenses all taken care of, and it's called prison.
01:05:14.000You know, what's funny is that I genuinely thought that David Hogg's pillow company was going to be called Our Pillow because he kept saying Our Pillow.
01:06:49.000For those that aren't familiar, the Freedom Phone is, uh, it's, it's, this guy made a phone company that has a bunch of censored apps on it.
01:06:56.000And the goal is to make it uncensorable.
01:06:58.000What that really means is it's a more free speech oriented phone.
01:07:01.000The services on it will, that he says, not censored.
01:07:04.000Which by the way, guys, you know, I mean, Eric doesn't, this isn't a money grab, right?
01:07:10.000He doesn't, he does not need, you know, to do this.
01:07:13.000But they, they complained that it was a Chinese phone.
01:07:16.000And they're all laughing, like, oh, it's just a Chinese phone.
01:08:26.000I was trying, so I did the graphic novel a couple years ago.
01:08:31.000We did the Agent Pozo graphic novel, and we wanted to do, it was great, we did three figures with it, it was awesome, ton of support.
01:08:37.000Actually, there's a Comic-Con going on right now, and it's gonna be next week in Temple, Texas, and I can't go, which sucks.
01:08:43.000There are like 27,000 people coming, because we've now signed with Iconic Comics, and so they're running it.
01:08:50.000They put, they put Agent Poso for all the press who has to go.
01:08:54.000So all, and this is like, like mainstream, um, like video game and comic press are all going and all the press badges have the Agent Poso as the logo.
01:09:07.000And, but I can't go cause I'm, I'm booked for, it's actually my cousin's wedding on like the same day and I literally can't go and I'm so bummed.
01:09:12.000Um, but it's going to be very, very trolling, but, but, but to go back.
01:09:18.000One of the pieces of merch that I wanted to have with this whole thing was I said, Hey, let's do like, remember the old G.I.
01:09:41.000And I want to get like a retro action figure, Agent Poso, like do one of me.
01:09:45.000And then like my wife was in it, my son was in it.
01:09:48.000And I could, and I told everybody beforehand, I said, I don't want any of this stuff made in China.
01:09:54.000I want all this stuff made in the USA, right?
01:09:56.000Don't, you know, I don't want to be like, there was another conservative who was doing an apparel line that, you know, ended up getting made in China and she got in a lot of trouble with that.
01:10:03.000And I was like, I don't want to be her.
01:10:05.000So they were like, dude, and my business partner came back to me.
01:10:08.000I was like, dude, you're not getting an action figure made in the United States.
01:10:37.000So by the way, if anyone out there is handy with the 3D printing and can do this at scale, you know, economically, hit me up because I'd still do it.
01:10:45.000So it sounds like I should just buy one?
01:11:05.000When you talk about America standing on the international stage with all the controversy about the Olympics and the Olympic team right now, Not even to get into any one of the specifics, but you just, you, you look at when I was a kid, we had the dream team.
01:11:17.000You remember that in 1992, that was the first year they allowed professionals to play on the Olympic team.
01:11:22.000Cause we, I think the U S had gotten spanked by the Soviets the year before or two years before or something.
01:11:27.000And they were like, all right, none, or I guess the Olympics before, cause it's obviously the union then they said, all right, we're going to allow professionals.
01:11:33.000And then you had like, Jordan and Scottie Pippen and Charles Barkley and Carl Malone, Patrick Ewing, etc.
01:11:41.000Like they're all that Larry Bird and they're all there on one team.
01:11:48.000But then you look at Magic Johnson was on the team and then you go and you just look at the caliber of like Olympic athletes and it's just kind of it's it's get well go broke, man.
01:11:57.000In our standing in the work and this this woke stuff doesn't fly on the international stage.
01:12:02.000So here in the United States, you have to kind of make this performative, you know, agreement, this adherence.
01:12:07.000Logan Paul, of course, he bends the knee to, you know, Kendi ism, CRT ism.
01:12:18.000You have to say it because that is your theory of the state.
01:12:21.000Well, are the theory of our state now has almost because it used to be that I can remember within living memory that if somebody botched, I think it was Lady Gaga, like botched the national anthem at something and she was ridiculed for it.
01:14:09.000Well, the idea was that it was she had surpassed the previous skill level and they didn't even have a skill level for the defeat that she attempted.
01:14:18.000So she wouldn't gain, she would get her name in the book for like a maneuver or whatever.
01:14:22.000And so she's doing really, really well.
01:14:24.000But she flubbed a few moves then because of her mental health pulled out.
01:14:29.000That is an indication of the failure of our culture.
01:14:35.000That you would have an Olympic athlete having those mental issues, like not getting... I mean, proper training isn't just your body, it's your mind and your body.
01:14:45.000And so a breakdown of an athlete is a failure across the board.
01:15:54.000If somebody wants to opine on Simone Biles, who is like the cream of the crop, the best of the best in the Olympics, and she bails out for mental health issues, and they have a negative view of that, I say, interesting.
01:16:03.000Am I gonna make a video where I'm like, oh, that Charlie Kirk, who cares?
01:16:08.000Opining on opinions is the stupidest thing ever.
01:16:11.000But out of the woodwork comes every stupid person who's like, I've got nothing better to say but then to just rag on a guy who had an opinion about a thing, which is totally irrelevant to the Olympics and the conversation.
01:16:59.000Hanging out with a bunch of people who played a bunch of crazy punk music, and the main thing was, we were anti-establishment, we were skateboarders, we were running from cops and security guards, and we said, the system is broken, we don't care, your rules are stupid, screw your conformity, and now what we have are these people on the left who still think they're punk rock.
01:17:16.000They are as anti-punk rock as you can get.
01:17:18.000Charlie Kirk is trending on Twitter, and I look at it, I'm like, why?
01:17:23.000Why do these people care about Charlie Kirk?
01:17:35.000If I wanna bring up something about Simone Biles, I don't even think I'm relevant to the conversation.
01:17:40.000If people wanna listen to what I have to say about it, they can, but she's the center focus of this.
01:17:44.000I think it's really bad that we're celebrating.
01:17:47.000There was like a news article where it's like... Why is it in today's society, we want to celebrate mental health as if that is something in itself which should be celebrated rather than achievement for achievement's sake.
01:18:04.000Because we are losing our mental health.
01:18:07.000It used to be that we had our mental health.
01:19:34.000Well, you'd have to have the country cheering for it.
01:19:35.000But think of the American right and think of the conservative Americans and even think of like a lot of just sort of the You know, kind of normie Americans out there.
01:19:43.000You're sort of like, hey, I'm just kind of going through life and doing my thing.
01:20:00.000And they would say, you know, it's actually a good thing that China has reclaimed Taiwan because, you know, we shouldn't be meddling in their affairs.
01:20:06.000All of a sudden becoming anti-war in that regard.
01:20:09.000You would see regular people... Let me be clear, I don't want to go to war with China.
01:22:27.000And so the idea of the Obama administration, and they're quite open about this, if you actually look at what the National Security Advisors and the Deputy National Security Advisors, Ben Rhodes, etc., have actually said in their own writings, they said, since the United States is in what we're putting it into is a managed decline, Right.
01:22:45.000We know that we are going to need help from our peers in other regions of the world to be able to enforce things.
01:22:52.000So why should we be the ones who are enforcing international norms, international laws?
01:23:28.000However, people need to understand that there are massive economic interests in between us righting the ship or staying on this path towards managed decline and serfdom and the rise of a new peasant slave class of the underlings, right?
01:24:03.000Uh, you are like, if you watch Wally, right?
01:24:05.000You know, you're, you're the guy who's sitting there and you're in your chair and you don't even have a, my pillow and you're, you're hooked up to the machine and you're tweeting.
01:24:15.000And there's, there's actually this great.
01:24:16.000That's why they don't talk about Wally that much anymore.
01:24:20.000And a lot of Christian symbolism in there.
01:24:24.000Eve, and it's like an arc, right, of humanity.
01:24:27.000Where there's this joke as Wally's going around, everyone's in a blue suit, but he turns them into red when they become activated.
01:24:33.000And then there's this running gag, like, wait, we have a pool?
01:24:35.000Right and they kind of realize that their screens go off and they realize instead of just trending and they're just comment It's Facebook, right?
01:24:41.000So they're all just commenting on like the minutiae of day-to-day life and they have no bones They have no yeah, they have no bones then and they have like slushies that are you know ordered to their cart whenever they need it and And then suddenly they start realizing, like, hey, we're in outer space.
01:26:08.000In maybe 20 years, you'll go to the DMV, you're getting your license updated or whatever.
01:26:12.000Or you're getting your ID for the first time and they'll go, I need a birth certificate, social security card, I need your vaccination card, and a bill with your address on it.
01:26:20.000And they'll go, oh, yep, I got it all right here.
01:26:22.000And I'll go, okay, and then I'll type it.
01:27:31.000I think the unemployment benefits are them lowering down people into economic collapse.
01:27:38.000They're trying to hold you back from, you know, going nuts as the economy implodes while they shuffle off overseas their assets and resources.
01:28:17.000Whenever someone comes to me, and I just did the, I was at the Turning Point, like the student event they had in Tampa, and you know, with all the controversy of Randy.
01:28:27.000And people would come up to me and say, you know, what advice would you give if we're just getting started, you know?
01:28:33.000And these are like high school kids saying this.
01:31:31.000People can see it, but I'm just saying that walking out of it, I was like, I don't feel like I got anything out of that movie that I didn't see in the trailer.
01:31:39.000Versus, like, I then went and saw... I was on the flight back home from Phoenix, and I was watching the Forever Purge.
01:31:45.000And, you know, say what you want about, you know, those Purge movies.
01:31:48.000And they're all, they're all insane, right?
01:33:07.000Yeah, because actually Tanya got us a bunch of them, and so she did like a random... My pillow.
01:33:13.000So there's different firmness levels you can get.
01:33:14.000But this is key, by the way, and I am going to say this, and you have to put your MyPillows through one cycle in the dryer when you first purchase them.
01:33:24.000There is a little card that says you need to do this, and it activates the interlocking foam on the inside.
01:33:32.000Otherwise, they're kind of... I get all these comments every once in a while, maybe like 10%, they'll say, Oh man, it's all, this is so limp.
01:35:02.000So, but frame-checking is important because...
01:35:05.000You know, someone could write... Well, I guess you get the point if you say that the Republicans are trying to pass a voter suppression bill.
01:35:16.000My favorite one of these of all time, I forget who it was, but somebody wrote, they wrote, controversial University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson.
01:36:54.000People look at it as investment property.
01:36:56.000Okay, yeah, it goes up and it goes down, but that's not the way to think about it.
01:36:59.000I don't think Peter Thiel is paying attention all that much, because if he was, I... Well, because...
01:37:04.000Up until a couple of months ago, China was, like, super into Bitcoin, and they were using, like, oil rigs, and so... Sure, sure, sure, but I mean... I mean, I'm talking about the culture war, and what's happening with kids, and critical race applied principles.
01:37:14.000Like, the dude could snap his fingers and create a functioning news outlet.
01:37:17.000He nukes Gawker, and there's... And now Gawker's back.
01:37:21.000Well, yeah, but it's a skin suit worn by other... But they're gonna be as creepy as Gawker was anyway.
01:38:41.000Fortunately for us, we launched this website, TimCast.com, got so many people to sign up, and make sure you become a member, that I was flabbergasted.
01:39:27.000If I was going to buy something and someone said, you can buy a, uh, you know, a Ferrari or you can buy a year of good journals in my book.
01:39:45.000But it was only like a couple of- They're doing rocket planes.
01:39:48.000It was only like a couple of minutes, so I was like, yeah, I don't know if I'd pay that much for just a couple of minutes.
01:39:52.000I'm pretty sure Virgin is doing rocket planes, where the plane goes up, gets real close, and then a rocket thrusts into orbit and then comes back down.
01:41:55.000There are some medications that can cause, say, a severe tendinitis.
01:42:00.000They might say, we're not going to exempt you from this medication because of the side effects.
01:42:05.000You might say, well, I have an underlying health condition that I could get this, but I'm concerned about the risk, so I'm going to choose not to.
01:43:19.000The official medical policy on cancer survivors, as per the CDC, which I pulled up previously, is that you need to get clearance from your doctor specifically because they typically advise against many vaccines for cancer survivors.
01:43:31.000They say there are serious risks for those who are immunocompromised from cancer treatments.
01:43:35.000The doctor might say, the risk's low enough that I think you'll be okay to do it.
01:43:39.000So you don't have the underlying condition, but you choose not to because of the potential risk.
01:43:44.000Right, so this- These kids think it's all black and white.
01:43:46.000This gets into a... And by the way, those doctors, right?
01:43:51.000They're going to err on the side of that, because if they know that this is the side that the insurance company's on, and this is the side that the employer's on, and that the government's on, they're gonna go with that, because they know then, well, I can't be sued because I was following the guidance, right?
01:44:07.000So now you've got doctors, and this is a huge problem in the medical community, because you've got doctors that are following guidance and percentages and statistics rather than patients, Understanding what's going on with that biological life form that's sitting in front of them and what their specific situation might be.
01:44:25.000Well, people's doctors are, but it's the greater culture of celebrities pushing the stuff and the mandates.
01:44:53.000The reason there's a shortage of drivers is because older ones retire, and starting pay in the industry struggles to compete with unemployment.
01:45:12.000Kunti Dominguez says, I work for a bank and we are now reaching out to individuals who can be evicted out as early as September 1st and the number is very large.
01:45:37.000This is like, this is like when, um, what's that the Mockbusters when, uh, the asylum puts out like, you know, there's the Avengers and then they'll put out a thing called super Avengers.
01:47:39.000And I just thought, man, that's, that's a better life.
01:47:42.000And that, by the way, you want to quote, by the way, I would say this to all like the, you know, the DSA types and my Antifa friends and everything else.
01:48:25.000LG Ellucard says, Tim, if you want to understand the future that awaits America under the Democrats, watch the movie The Perfect Dictatorship.
01:48:35.000But it's not just Democrats, and people need to understand that, that there are a ton of establishment Republicans, many of them brought off by Wall Street, many of them bought off by Silicon Valley, right?
01:48:45.000They are going along to get along with all of this.
01:48:48.000You saw this in the Trump administration, when there were people who said, we just need a better deal with China.
01:48:53.000We just, we can't not have a deal with China.
01:48:56.000We just need to find better terms and you know, etc, etc.
01:49:54.000My favorite thing about Kurt Schlichter is that he's always, I've never talked to him in a situation where he hasn't been on, right?
01:50:01.000Like he's, even if it's just me and him on the phone, like he's cokin' and jokin' and just as hilarious as you'd think he would be at literally all times.
01:50:08.000ReallyNow says, read in Greta voice, how dare you?
01:50:20.000I mean, look, we have Sheetz all over the place, and I ordered food from them, which is a funny thing to do from a gas station, and I'm not gonna do it again because its name stood true.
01:50:41.000Oxwagon says, hello from South Africa.
01:50:42.000Today, while I was buying groceries, I had to listen to the leader of our fastest growing political party at a hate rally outside, yelling about how he's going to teach white people some manners.
01:50:53.000I mean, that's the critical race theory in action country right there.
01:50:57.000David Burleson says, Ian is sick from sniffing all that graphene he's been hoarding.
01:51:01.000Just imagine, like, Ian, he's got, like, black graphene all over his nose, and his eyes are, like, bloodshot, and he's like, uh... Oh, so you saw him.
01:51:42.000You're not going to have a... You can have your state convention, but you're not going to get any traction without a meaningful percentage of the elites on your side, right?
01:51:54.000You can have your convention, write up whatever you want, but it's not going to get any traction because, you know, you're still thinking... Well, a state convention bypasses the federal government, doesn't it?
01:52:03.000But keep in mind that you're still thinking you're still in the mode of thinking that like elected representatives are the ones who are making the decisions.
01:52:22.000That's why I talk about this concept of the overstate where they're, you know, The politicians are not the ones who are necessarily making these decisions.
01:53:54.000Like, I guess he was saying he couldn't say the name because...
01:53:58.000Maybe he can't really pronounce the name and didn't know what it was.
01:54:01.000He should have known what it was, otherwise, and he shouldn't have brought it up, I guess, because now people want to know what the name of that factory is.
01:54:07.000And I think it's not good that he did not put it on his website.
01:54:11.000So, Eric, if you're listening, get that up on your website and let people know where your phones are being made, because people don't want, you know, garbage checking their phones.
01:54:20.0002BitUser says, Tim, remember the Deep Space Nine episode about the Sanctuary Districts in 2024 and the Bell Riots?
01:54:27.000All homeless were put in walled cities.
01:54:29.000Was that where, uh, which one was that?
01:55:40.000Instead of saying, we respect you and we hope you get better, it's a shame we didn't win.
01:55:44.000Right, it's a shame, but, you know, we wish you the best, we pray for you as a human being, but, you know, like, again, you're just in a different category now.
01:57:00.000And we're gonna have garlic sauce and pepperoncinis and, yeah.
01:57:04.000But the point is you, when you walk in, it's like, there's like a nineties TV playing and you can change the channels, but it's all like preloaded.
01:58:14.000Yeah, all the crazy... and people go in there and the TVs are UHF with the antennas, and then you'd have, like, one of the guys walk out and move the antenna, like, and then the TV is, like, you know, So you know the Smashing Pumpkins song 1979?
01:58:50.000My buddy and I, who does some writing on the side with me, we were talking about doing, I don't know, a graphic novel or movie script, but call it the summer of 99.
01:59:02.000Danny says, Tim, not sure if you saw what happened to Crowder, but the straight-up death wishings he's gotten has blown my mind.
01:59:08.000Never knew the hatred people have in their hearts, all because of someone who doesn't agree with the establishment.
01:59:13.000Yes, I did see what happened with Crowder.
01:59:15.000I wish him a speedy recovery and the best.
02:00:16.000I wasn't trying to drag him saying he wasn't doing anything.
02:00:18.000I'm just saying journalism is different from just Rumble.
02:00:21.000So it's good that he is funding stuff, my respect.
02:00:25.000And my respect for everything he went through with Gawker.
02:00:27.000I mean, you put out... The things Gawker did, man.
02:00:31.000If Gawker existed today in its previous state... Yeah, I hope people don't think that we were like, you know, getting on Teal or any of that.
02:00:40.000Gawker would be called Far Right if it published the things it published back then.
02:01:46.000Multiple studies have found that attractive people tend to be more conservative.
02:01:51.000And it makes perfect sense if you agree with leftist ideology, the idea of privilege.
02:01:55.000That people who are attractive have it easier in life, they have privileges, so thus, they think they don't need collective support.
02:02:02.000Beauty privilege is a thing, but at the same time, looks maxing is also a thing.
02:02:06.000The funny thing is, we pointed that out on this show, and even cited, I think, three different studies, and the Young Turks made fun of my appearance for it, which was the weirdest thing ever, and kind of a self-owned, because they don't realize that I'm not a conservative, and so they're like, he's so dumb, and look how ugly he is, and I'm like, I know, but I'm kind of a liberal, so... Well, it wouldn't surprise me that Cenk is a communist.
02:02:26.000I mean, I think Cenk is just a corporatist.
02:02:32.000And that's why he finds himself in this really weird position where he has so many former employees who are speaking truth to power, and he's not.
02:02:39.000And I think he's jealous about it, to be honest.
02:02:43.000Because remember, the actual people leading the movement, so people, when I said that on Twitter the other day, they were like, what about young Stalin?
02:02:50.000Young Stalin was a pretty good-looking man.
02:02:52.000I said, well, look what communism did to him, number one.
02:02:54.000But number two, the actual leaders don't actually believe in any of this stuff, right?
02:04:33.000And you guys are more than welcome to follow me on Twitter at Sour Patch Kids as I continue my quest to have more followers than Sour Patch Kids.