On today's episode of the bunker bust podcast, we talk about the situation in Washington, D.C. as the National Guard has been activated in response to the recent events in the city, and we have a special guest on the show, Steve Rene of Fortitude Ranch.
00:01:05.000And, you know, the left and the right both think something weird is going to happen.
00:01:10.000Now, I've heard the craziest conspiracy theories on the right, and honestly, I just think Joe Biden's gonna walk in, he's gonna hold up his hand, say some words, and then we're gonna move on.
00:01:20.000Then he'll issue some executive orders, everybody will get mad, and then we'll be back to bickering about politics, but I do think there's still a risk of serious escalation, because Joe Biden's gonna be doing hard reversals on tons of Trump's executive orders, which is a 180-degree turn, which means that's a hard swing in the other direction, which is gonna freak people out.
00:01:37.000On the left, however, they're seriously concerned about some right-wing militia, you know, protest or insurgency or whatever.
00:01:45.000And as far as I know, I believe it's 30 states so far have activated the National Guard.
00:01:50.000The big news right now is that so far 12 guards have been removed because after being vetted, turns out some of them, I guess, are retweeting things they don't like or associated with the NRA.
00:02:00.000That's one report coming from Jack Posobiec.
00:02:02.000What we can say is they've been removed.
00:02:04.000Many people have likened this to failing a loyalty test.
00:02:44.000I'm the COO of Fortitude Ranch and the Operations Manager for Fortitude Ranch, West Virginia.
00:02:51.000We are a recreational slash survivalist community.
00:02:57.000We started in Colorado over seven years ago.
00:03:01.000The founder, Dr. Drew Miller, began the first ranch, then he bought the property out.
00:03:06.000in West Virginia and then once that was got to the point of being up and running then he hired me I came on in to run the operations and then we this year we've expanded into Nevada for a third ranch and we're gonna continue to grow and grow.
00:03:25.000Are these like, these are underground?
00:04:36.000I know we talked about it quite a bit, that you're basically telling people come on down to the ranch in case there's, you know, mass unrest or some kind of catastrophe.
00:04:55.000But the point is, you know, so we stay out of politics, but we have to monitor politics so that we can, you know, get the idea of what's coming in, help our members to be prepared for that.
00:05:07.000And of course, they always have questions.
00:06:19.000Luke is actually a bigger hippie than I am, even though I look more like a hippie, I think.
00:06:24.000It's cool that you're here, Steve, because we were just talking about Atlantis yesterday.
00:06:27.000And I don't know if you know about the asteroid impact 28,000 years ago that purportedly ended the last ice age, shattered over North America, peppered the glaciers, and then caused a global flood that wiped out an entire civilization.
00:07:14.000All right, well, the first portion, we'll talk about the political strife, but we actually do have, like, the CIA released UFO documents, and so we'll get into the more weird and wild asteroids, and it'll be fun to talk to you about the more, you know, I don't know, I don't want to say conspiratorial, but paranormal aspects of the survival stuff.
00:07:32.000That's probably not the right way to put it, like an asteroid impact or aliens or whatever.
00:07:36.000Uh, if we're just jumping into the stories that we started off with that story about soldiers being vetted from your military experience.
00:07:43.000I don't know if I don't hope you don't mind if we were just jumping into it.
00:07:51.000Here in the corner, Luke likes to try to jump into things, but I'm really excited to have this guest because I was psyched to learn about Fortitude Ranch, and I'm stoked to learn about all the details tonight.
00:08:02.000It'll be interesting context, too, especially with your military experience and everything that's going on, which is what Luke mentioned.
00:08:06.000But before we do that, Luke, who wants to promote his shirts, go to TimCast.com, become a member, and get access to exclusive content because we actually now have two segments.
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00:08:55.000NBC News reports 12 National Guard members removed from inauguration duty, including two for inappropriate comments.
00:09:04.000The FBI has been screening all service members involved with the inauguration amid growing security concerns.
00:09:10.000They say, quote, we have two individuals that were identified as making inappropriate comments or texts.
00:09:16.000I gotta stop and just ask, what does that mean?
00:09:18.000Did they post a meme of Hillary Clinton or something and all of a sudden they're getting kicked out?
00:09:22.000Well, it's also stuff that they retweeted that supposedly is bad content, but we're, again, getting very generalized language, no exact examples, and we should at least get that with the latest news.
00:09:44.000He says, White House source, the NRA, Turning Point USA, and Patriot Guard riders are three of many non-militia groups on the list CID and FBI are using to cross-reference in vetting for potential extremists.
00:11:44.000I don't like those words, but I've been talking about it for some time and it started when, as I mentioned always, I was reading and I think it was like New York Mag or The Atlantic, For you, Steve, I'll give you the context.
00:11:56.000There was an article where they interviewed a bunch of national security experts from various major security companies and asked them what percentage likelihood they thought we had for a potential civil war.
00:12:08.000And they said in the next 10 years, the average, I think, was like 35% or higher.
00:12:15.000And then watching the escalation of the culture war and the escalation of politics, To this point, where we had a bunch of Trump supporters, you know, storm through the front doors of the Capitol building.
00:12:25.000I mean, there have been people, every step of the way, we've seen some kind of escalation.
00:12:29.000They've said, no, no, no, no, of course not.
00:12:33.000Well, now we had a retired Army general, I believe, Army, saying that we've not had this much security at inauguration since Abraham Lincoln.
00:12:41.000So, it really does feel like we are knocking on the door for some kind of major catastrophe.
00:12:47.000Now, that being said, It doesn't mean it's true.
00:12:49.000Everything could stop right now, tomorrow could go off without a hitch, and then everyone has to slow down and calm down.
00:12:53.000I just don't see anything happening with the rhetoric from politicians, from high-profile personalities, that would indicate things are going to calm down.
00:13:00.000I mean, you've got AOC, you've got these leftists, Cori Bush, saying, expel the insurrectionist Republicans.
00:13:06.000And so it feels like we're boiling over, and we're getting to that point.
00:13:10.000Now, there's two—before, I want to ask you this, Steve.
00:13:15.000Your business thrives when there's chaos, and I mean that with all due respect.
00:13:19.000When the news is bad, people are going to start thinking about what they have to do to survive.
00:13:24.000With that in mind, I imagine you've been tracking a lot of this stuff.
00:13:27.000You're paying attention to politics to know what might happen, what people might do, and I'd be interested to get your thoughts on all of this and what you think it means.
00:13:36.000Partly what we're seeing happening with so much of the military presence is because it's so fresh.
00:13:44.000So there's always an overreaction, especially when you look in the political arena, because everybody, one, has to cover themselves politically, and then, you know, two, this really hasn't happened before, and it's shocking.
00:14:05.000It's like a 9-11 type shock to the country, but it hit so close to home to those inside those chambers.
00:14:14.000That's why you're seeing what you're seeing.
00:14:48.000I mean, is it possible we hit that ceiling where this is the level of tension we get and then we never cross into that territory of actual disruption of supply lines and fighting?
00:14:58.000It's possible, but what's going to happen now, groups are going to start to try to vie for attention.
00:15:03.000So there was a highway that was stopped by a Black Lives Matter group, which we haven't seen in a little bit, right?
00:15:11.000That seemed to have calmed down, but everybody now is going to vie for the attention of the incoming uh administration and so the administration comes in with like a like a debit card of capital influence and depending on how it's spent it either will grow or it will dissipate and so everybody wants to make sure the attention's on them so they can get a piece of all that
00:15:37.000And an important aspect to really remember here, a lot of the left has been incentivized by making a lot of noise, making a lot of trouble, creating a lot of violence, and then being heard.
00:15:47.000So there's also examples of them literally looting, rioting, and then getting their way.
00:15:52.000So that's another thing to consider moving forward in this larger kind of political spectrum.
00:15:56.000Getting defended by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's administration.
00:16:00.000So, you know, what's interesting is we didn't get this reaction when we had Black Lives Matter riots sweeping across the country.
00:16:06.000I mean, you guys didn't activate the ranches when all those riots were happening.
00:16:12.000So, the way we cover our members is there's an anxiety clause, so if something happens locally, If we're not completely activated officially, they can come.
00:16:43.000So I guess, you know, when we're looking at what's going on in DC and everything that's happened over the past 10 years, the escalation, I mentioned that article where they talk about security experts giving their predictions.
00:16:53.000Do you think that we are on track for some kind of political instability?
00:16:57.000I'm not going to say, you know, a civil war, but instability to the point where you will have your members coming in for safety and security.
00:17:06.000Things are so fresh, things are very raw.
00:17:11.000So we rate these things, we give out certain levels for when we put out our newsletters to our members so that they understand what the different factors are, you know, whether it be from something happening with nuclear to a war, all of the different factors that you have to worry about.
00:17:30.000We have it at 5% right now as far as what is the danger for civil unrest.
00:18:42.000And that should be enough to scare anyone.
00:18:44.000You know, again, we're not doomsday, you know, type prepper people where we believe the world's ending tomorrow and all this type of thing.
00:18:53.000But the fact that that is out there and can be released really should be an eye opener.
00:18:59.000And I'll just mention, too, you mentioned the nerve agent for those that before the show, you mentioned that you were in, I think, Iraq and you got swept over by sarin.
00:19:09.000Yeah, well, yeah, it was during Desert Storm when we finally wound up there.
00:19:13.000So that I just want to give quick context.
00:19:15.000I definitely want to get into that stuff later.
00:19:16.000But people are probably wondering what you meant when you pointed your head and said nerve agent.
00:19:19.000Yeah, if I if I get blocked in thought, it's it's just the synapses trying to reconnect up there.
00:19:26.000Well, specifically what you were talking about before was gain-of-function studies that have proven to have no scientific basis at all, but it's pretty much when scientists come together and they're literally trying to create the worst destructive disease or virus possible, and a lot of times this is funded by a lot of uh... taxpayer funded money and everyone's scratching their
00:19:47.000head like why is this going on doctor fauci was a part of financing
00:19:50.000this is also in wuhan and just the fact that they continue this type of
00:19:54.000research is something to of course worry about which is why i think you're
00:19:57.000putting it in your throat threat assessment weaponization yeah i think i think
00:20:36.000scientist who led charge against COVID lab leak theory admits he was trying to protect Chinese scientists.
00:20:42.000So this guy came out and said it did not leak from the Chinese lab, and now he admits that he was trying to protect the Chinese scientists involved.
00:20:50.000So we don't have any confirmation of the lab leak theory, but I will say it's strange that New York... I think it was New York Magazine.
00:20:55.000It's always, I think, New York Magazine.
00:20:57.000They wrote an article going through the theory that it was... I guess the idea is they were trying to do research on it, either to make a vaccine.
00:21:09.000This is what was published in a prominent New York publication, where a guy wrote that there is a very real theory among scientists that it was an accidental release.
00:21:17.000That they were engineering this for a variety of reasons and made a mistake.
00:21:21.000There's also some video footage going around showing how one of the scientists at this level three Wuhan lab was actually bitten by a bat and had had COVID-like symptoms all the way back a few years ago.
00:21:33.000But there's, as you were saying, it's almost impossible to prove that it did come out of that lab, especially with China locking out the World Health Organization for over a year.
00:21:42.000from even investigating the origins of the sickness, but kind of continuing back on the military aspect, since you were in the military.
00:21:49.000I really specifically was dying to ask you, what do you think it does to morale to be vetted, like we're seeing the vetted going on right now, and how is the political kind of climate affecting the military, and how do you think it would be affected from your experience in the military?
00:22:04.000Yeah, you know, that's an interesting question, because Certainly during my time, I never experienced anything like that.
00:22:09.000We never had such heightened political tension that it was really a factor when you sat around in the barracks or something.
00:22:17.000It really wasn't, you know, part of my experience, but I can tell you from anybody who is serving or has served, it's like a slap in the face.
00:23:22.000The symbol of the American Revolution, a symbol of the American Revolution, is grounds for removing you from your duty to protect the Capitol?
00:23:54.000The problem is, well, I think the legal definition of traitor is actually providing aid or resource to an active enemy of the United States.
00:24:03.000So I think, you know, traitor gets thrown around a whole lot.
00:24:05.000The problem is, when it comes to people storming into the Capitol, those people thought they were the patriots.
00:24:11.000By going in there, they were restoring the Constitution, defending it.
00:24:14.000And that the people in the chamber, they believed, were the bad guys.
00:24:17.000Everybody's the hero of their own story.
00:24:35.000Many of which just are trying as hard as possible to make it as crazy as possible.
00:24:40.000There was one story that came out where they said it was pre-planned, and they were planning on capturing, taking hostages, and assassinating these people, and then like three hours later, that wasn't true, we made a mistake.
00:24:50.000So that's what happens when the media is driven to pump out the most sensational, insane, you know, media.
00:24:56.000And I think for a lot of the people who work for these news outlets, they're ideologically tribal left.
00:25:02.000So it fits their narrative and it fits their bias and they get to write about this non-stop.
00:25:08.000It was probably one of the stupidest things anyone could have done is storming into that Capitol for a variety of reasons.
00:25:12.000It's on moral grounds, legal grounds, and then in actual reference to the political landscape, gave the left everything they could have wanted.
00:25:20.000I remember there was, I'm not sure if it was Newsweek, I think it was Newsweek, where they said, if Trump loses, it was like in 2016, they said, what happens if Trump loses?
00:25:27.000And it's a picture of a bunch of middle-aged white people holding torches and yelling and screaming.
00:25:32.000And they're like, that's what's gonna happen if Trump loses.
00:26:02.000I saw it from him retweeting it saying this is essentially trying to get your neighbors into a civil war.
00:26:07.000So this is Brett Weinstein's commentary on the video that is making its round around kind of liberal checkmarks.
00:26:14.000Do you have an opinion about maybe what happened on the Capitol or this kind of political climate that seems to be getting more and more weaponized against each other?
00:26:25.000We definitely have entered into a period of lost perspective.
00:26:31.000No one can understand why the other person feels that way and we need to take a step back as a country and look at our, you know, fellow man differently because not everyone's the enemy just because they voted one way Or the other.
00:26:50.000Honestly, I don't quite understand why the line is drawn so harshly the way that it's been drawn.
00:27:00.000But this has been building up for a while.
00:27:01.000I mean, the signs have all been there.
00:27:05.000But, you know, when you actually see it erupt like it has, then, you know, you really...
00:27:15.000have to understand that we're still the same people we were four years ago.
00:27:21.000I mean, let's let's all calm down for a second.
00:27:24.000I think there's a the ideology is drifting too far, too fast.
00:27:29.000And I think, you know, people call me they'll call me a bias, but I think the left is drifting very, very far.
00:27:35.000I shouldn't it's not necessarily to the left.
00:27:37.000But the tribal division is coming from those associated with more of the left faction, the anti-Trump groups.
00:27:43.000The example I give is, you know, the journalist from CNN, I shouldn't call him a journalist, the activist from CNN, who's now calling up cable providers and telling them to ban Fox News.
00:27:53.000Four years ago, this guy interviewed me about defending free speech.
00:27:57.000So he's part of this group that has just drifted further and further into the extremes.
00:28:21.000Armed Forces and take control of a new army.
00:28:25.000Brett Weinstein says this video is diabolical, painting millions of citizens not only as disloyal to the nation, but as literal terrorists, as it attempts to draft the rest into fighting their neighbors in a civil war the filmmakers clearly desire.
00:28:40.000I stand with all patriots against this madness.
00:28:44.000And so we have this, uh, this is the tweet from Brett, and then, uh, it was a different tweet.
00:30:34.000And I'm saying so long as these people keep advocating for things like this and putting these videos out, They're not getting banned when they do this.
00:30:40.000It is people like Brett Weinstein who had Unity Party trying to bring people together.
00:30:55.000And he wanted to get a left-wing individual and a right-wing individual and have them run on the same ticket to unify as much of the left and the right as possible to stop this divide.
00:31:42.000I don't know how small or if there will be a honeymoon period for the incoming administration.
00:31:55.000I doubt it too because of this toxic situation and we're gonna get so many precedences have been stomped upon that there's no end in sight.
00:32:42.000I think that's actually the, you know, one thing we mentioned before we started the show, you mentioned these silos where millionaires will get bunkers and stuff.
00:32:50.000I think actually one thing that makes what you guys do, what makes it work more than anything else is you have leadership.
00:32:56.000You have people like you who are running it who will be the ones to intervene and say, shut your mouth if you want to survive, stop fighting over this stuff.
00:33:29.000Because without structure, it's not going to work.
00:33:32.000You're talking about people coming under an extremely stressful situation and if there isn't something already in place, it'll be chaos.
00:33:42.000Now, before you made a very good point, you're saying that people just need to take a step back.
00:33:48.000I mean, that's something me and you have been talking about for years.
00:33:50.000Like, calm down, relax, take a step back, stop escalating these things, stop the cycle of hate that's been perpetrated by the mainstream media.
00:33:58.000But it looks like we're definitely full steam ahead on the divide and conquer train, and there's no stopping it.
00:34:04.000How bad, if it would get really bad, do you see it getting?
00:34:07.000Because, as you said, it's a slippery slope.
00:34:09.000We've been seeing it for a while, but the snowball that started, it's already getting pretty big.
00:34:14.000What would be the worst possible scenario that you would see unfolding from here?
00:34:19.000Well, I think again, in order to get attention for an incoming administration, we're going to see an uptick in some kind of unrest.
00:34:27.000Those looking to get the attention onto them so that then they can promote whatever it is they're looking to promote.
00:34:34.000So then that is going to upset those who are against whatever they are promoting.
00:34:41.000We'll see a consistent rebutting of heads.
00:34:46.000And then it really depends on what the local governments do.
00:34:51.000So much of this depends on what the politicians do in order to make this go away to a certain degree and calm it down or not.
00:35:01.000So you had the Chop Chads thing, which you guys I'm sure talked about so many times.
00:35:09.000So when that leader comes out and says the summer of love and she probably believed it I mean I have no idea right that was her perspective at the time or is just something to be said politically but then it completely collapses and it shows you what's going on now I know that's been tried you know in a couple different places and so other ways But law enforcement already cut that off.
00:35:41.000And that's what we're going to... You know, you gotta... They'll have to be on guard for it, but there'll be things that'll take us by surprise.
00:35:49.000These people who are advocating for conflict.
00:35:53.000I don't care which faction, what your ideology is, left, right, whatever.
00:35:58.000Actually, I think it's fair to say, more so on the left than the right.
00:36:01.000They have no idea what they're asking for.
00:36:03.000I think with conservatives, you're more likely to find people who live in rural areas, who have fired guns, and who understand conflict and these threats.
00:36:12.000Not completely, but definitely more so than the left.
00:36:15.000So I guess I don't want to, you know, maybe make an issue of it for you guys, but if you can answer, do you tend to see more conservatives than liberals?
00:36:25.000I mean, I say it would be fair from what, you know, those who I know and when groups have come out, I would say definitely you can say that it leans that way, but it's not a big part of even their mentality when they come out.
00:36:41.000They're trying to get away from that, you understand?
00:36:45.000They want to escape all of this butting of heads and all the rhetoric and all the insidious talk towards one another.
00:36:55.000You know, partisan politics is insane.
00:37:15.000You had the second revolution in a year.
00:37:17.000And the problem was, the Muslim Brotherhood was the largest voting bloc.
00:37:21.000So they were going to win the election.
00:37:24.000But it was creating instability because most of the country was, to a certain degree, secular and didn't want to vote for this one faction.
00:37:31.000So a minority faction winning elections was creating this instability.
00:37:33.000So the military said, here's the answer.
00:37:37.000So if we're really entering this period, and this freaks me out because other people have brought up stuff like this, and I hate to even, you know, kind of talk about this stuff, but if we're at the point where you have different sides vying for the attention, going out there protesting, escalating street battles already over the past several years between the warring tribes, not the most, like, you know, insane in terms of things I've seen and would have had in other countries, but yes, still death.
00:38:01.000Still some pretty shocking and extreme scenarios.
00:38:03.000Trump supporter getting shot in the chest, walking down the street twice by this dude and the law enforcement goes and kills this guy.
00:38:09.000My fear is if this instability doesn't stop, do we come to a point where those in power just say, gun those people down, get rid of those people.
00:38:21.000No, you can never stop the instability.
00:38:23.000And the only way that you could is if they became a totalitarian dictatorship that shoved us inside and said no more instability.
00:38:30.000But that's why I'm saying always be in stability.
00:38:32.000They'll go for the guns before they start shooting themselves.
00:38:37.000Yeah, that's the only course that makes sense.
00:38:39.000It's really interesting to hear from one of the common talking points from the left on guns is that you can't go up against the US military.
00:38:48.000They have nukes and cruise missiles and fighter jets.
00:38:51.000It's amazing because they've never heard of Vietnam or Afghanistan.
00:38:54.000So the government really does have to go after guns before they can do anything to lock down the people or be Totalitarian.
00:39:01.000And you can 3D print guns now, so... Yeah, it's kind of like... It's true too, yeah.
00:39:04.000If you have like a CNC machine or, you know, don't they have metal 3D printers even?
00:39:46.000You can make certain components for it, but making a full firing firearm is very, very difficult with 3D printing, to be completely honest with you.
00:39:56.000We're kind of jumbled a little bit, but I wanted to get your perspective.
00:39:59.000Do you think that's a fair kind of analysis of of the Vietnam reference when it comes to the United States, especially in our current kind of political crisis.
00:40:07.000Do you think there could be a similar kind of conflict?
00:40:14.000You wouldn't have said that again, you know, four years ago.
00:40:18.000That would have, you know, I think back it was October of 2019 when the Washington Post came out and did an interview, viewed the ranch.
00:40:31.000You know, the very things that we talked about, I don't mean that like I told you so in any scenario like that, because this is just what we do, this is what we pay attention, but civil unrest, we talked about epidemics, we talked about all these things that are going on.
00:40:49.000When the article comes out, you know, the hatred underneath all the remarks and things people just had could not believe that that could possibly happen even then and Now we're two steps past that now we're gonna have a financial reckoning.
00:41:06.000Yeah That's what I was gonna bring up because I was gonna say we were just talking about Politically and there's a big chance that something like a new kind of popular Occupy Wall Street could happen there's a chance of that but the more likelihood kind of scenario is economic and that a lot of people aren't really looking at that I think is the huge kind of tsunami that we're still not seeing the ramifications of.
00:41:25.000It's the cascading effect so we to us to reach that point it's going to it's going to be continued lockdowns and or different variants will come out of COVID as we're already starting to see in the news which continues this it's this long process that wears people out and then the you know the straw that breaks the camel's back will be coming for people's guns.
00:41:47.000It's a perfect time for me to bring up, I pulled up the Washington Post article, and there's a perfect quote for what you just said.
00:41:52.000said from this from Drew Miller quote, you know, people use the term Civil War and that
00:44:21.000But these people are making videos targeting regular Americans just because they're wearing a red hat or waving a Gadsden flag.
00:44:27.000That kind of amping up is coming mostly from the left, and it's going to result in more extremism and the targeting of regular people, and I've seen it.
00:44:37.000I remember in, I think it was 2015, I watched an elderly couple get shoved to the ground, their hats ripped off and set on fire.
00:44:43.000I've seen regular people just walking down the street get punched because they thought the person was a Trump supporter.
00:44:48.000All this has been piling up, and that's why I've been saying for some time that I think we're headed towards whatever you want to call it.
00:45:10.000No, and, you know, circling back to what we were talking about, even about that 5%, you know, chance that something, you know, can escalate and that could actually happen, the idea is that's not happening tomorrow.
00:45:23.000There's things that are going to have to take place, you know, when I say... Before.
00:45:32.000Well, we could get struck by a meteor tomorrow.
00:45:34.000No, we've got 25,000 National Guard in D.C.
00:45:37.000right now worried because of a threat of armed militia groups occupying the Capitol.
00:45:43.000There have been literal statements from individuals, not prominent individuals, there was one guy who got arrested for leaving a voicemail saying, I don't want to repeat what he said, but he threatened to go down and do some crazy stuff with people.
00:45:59.000Right, but in order for what we're talking about to happen, something has to be organized.
00:46:04.000Again, there still has to be, there are things that need to take place.
00:46:09.000I truly believe we're heading down that path, and depending on what our politicians do, It will direct that path one way or another, but then you throw in the media jumping all over it.
00:46:23.000It doesn't even have to be just for political reasons.
00:46:26.000Sometimes it's just about money, and it's just about the influence and the power that's gained over that.
00:46:33.000You know, there's so many factors, but it's definitely building, for sure.
00:46:39.000When you have Democrats—look, you had Ted Cruz and a variety of some other individuals calling for unity.
00:46:46.000And the response from Ocasio-Cortez was, no, resign now or be expelled.
00:46:52.000So if the establishment Republicans are like, chill, we'll unify, and the Democrats say no.
00:46:58.000And don't get me wrong, you had Democrats after the election saying, Republicans, let's unify, and Republicans said no.
00:47:03.000So it's really just like, incongruity.
00:47:28.000When you see comments like that, that this idea that every single Trump supporter is a moron or psychotic or acute conspiracy theorist, that's leading to this conflict.
00:47:39.000It means that you're reading too much Reddit.
00:47:40.000No, it means that you've got Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks doing an op-ed for The Hill where he said you have three factions, the leftists, the establishment, and the right-wing conspiracy nutjobs who are all stupid and believe fake news.
00:47:54.000And I'm like, I wouldn't even say that about the left.
00:47:56.000I'll say there are prominent figures that are driving this, that are escalating it, but I try to separate the establishment from leftists because there are leftists who I think are good people.
00:48:05.000And I think, you know, I disagree with or have bad ideas.
00:48:08.000And that's that's like the old saying, you know, conservatives think that liberals are misguided.
00:48:11.000Liberals think conservatives are evil.
00:48:13.000When you have videos like this saying they're all evil, it's just gonna.
00:48:17.000It's gonna get crazy, but I don't know, man.
00:48:19.000You know, a lot of people like to say that.
00:48:23.000It's something the left has no idea what they're getting themselves into, because conservatives are more likely to be armed and prepared and know what's going on.
00:48:30.000But I'm not entirely convinced it would be so one-sided.
00:48:33.000I think if there really was some kind of conflict, it's probably going to be urban versus rural.
00:48:36.000That's like a big driving factor for whatever reason.
00:48:40.000And there's going to be things that people on one side or the other side don't control or don't have, and it'll make things very difficult for everybody, which is why anybody who talks big on this stuff and wants it to happen has, I think, there's no idea what they're talking about.
00:50:13.000Right, because she's vying to get power, right?
00:50:17.000She has not been in there that long, and so it's also a power play on her side to, again, you know, politics is all about that influence and gaining all that backing in order to do what you think is right to do, whatever that may be.
00:50:33.000And, you know, she's not there yet, so that's part of how she's playing it.
00:50:38.000Well, let's jump to this next story, which kind of feeds into this.
00:50:53.000It's all about playing to the tribal politics and finding the boogeyman to rally their base and go after the other side.
00:51:00.000And the next story, part of the same story, is that Clinton, Pelosi, call for 9-11 style commission into the Capitol riot and Putin's role.
00:51:13.000Let me read a little bit so we get some context here.
00:51:16.000They say there is strong support in the Congress for establishing a 9-11-style commission to investigate Trump's ties to Vladimir Putin and Russian involvement in the Capitol riot.
00:51:26.000In an interview on Clinton's podcast, You and Me Both, released Monday, Pelosi made the revelation after the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate discussed her concerns that the outgoing Commander-in-Chief was compromised by the Kremlin.
00:51:38.000We learned a lot about our system of government over the last four years with a president who disdains democracy and, as you have said numerous times, has other agendas.
00:51:46.000What they all are, I don't think we yet know.
00:51:49.000I hope historically we will find out who he's beholden to, who pulls his strings.
00:51:54.000The former Secretary of State got specific, questioning whether he spoke to Putin.
00:51:58.000I would love to see his phone records to see whether he was talking to Putin the day the insurgents invaded our capital.
00:52:05.000We now know that not just him, but his enablers, his accomplices, his cult members, have the same disregard for democracy.
00:52:13.000Asked by Clinton whether the nation needs a 9-11-type commission to investigate and report everything they can pull together, Pelosi said, I do.
00:52:22.000As I said to him in the picture with my blue suit as I was leaving, what I was saying to him as I was pointing rudely at him, with you, Mr. President, all roads lead to Putin.
00:52:31.000The top House Democrat said at the outset of a reply, going on to say she does not know what Putin has on him politically, financially or personally, but what happened last week was a gift to Putin because Putin wants to undermine democracy in our country and throughout the world.
00:53:51.000Well, they're like in a quasi kind of alliance too, but they're also at odds in certain aspects historically as well.
00:54:00.000But why isn't this paranoia, why isn't this fake news, why isn't this conspiracy theory banned on Twitter, on Facebook, on YouTube?
00:54:07.000Hillary Clinton should have her podcast taken down immediately for violations of terms and services and spreading bad information that doesn't help anyone and is based off no truth at all with no evidence.
00:54:18.000We're not at that point where they're banning podcasts yet, but they're trying.
00:54:21.000So there's been a series of articles where they're like, podcasts are where the real radicalization happens.
00:54:26.000And they point out that a bunch of podcasters had their YouTube channels banned or Twitter banned, but they're still on iTunes and Spotify, so it's coming.
00:54:33.000But the bigger question is, you know, Twitter bans 70,000 people for posting Q-related content.
00:54:42.000It was people, I believe for the most part, in this leaked video we got from Project Veritas, they were mostly talking about the election, you know, voter fraud and things like that.
00:54:52.000But what about the people who said the exact same thing four years ago and are saying the exact same thing now?
00:54:56.000The fact that we have someone like Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gade saying, we accept this tribe's unhinged conspiracy, but not this one.
00:55:04.000To me, it's like Jack Dorsey wants people to kill each other.
00:55:08.000And the reason I say this, and the reason why I've been very harsh on the man, It's because I sat in front of him and said, if you keep doing what you are doing, you will create civil unrest and potentially some kind of civil war.
00:55:21.000And then I was like, I'm building a van, getting ready to bug out because of what's happening in this country.
00:55:25.000And they laughed and said it was silly and so dumb, and I got emails from people saying, you're so silly, you're so crazy.
00:55:30.000And then I got emails from people a year ago saying, man, you were right.
00:55:33.000And then I got emails from people, different people, in the past couple of weeks being like, dude.
00:55:37.000I've got people tweeting at me now like, wow, maybe Tim was right about all this.
00:55:40.000Yeah, when you have billionaires in Silicon Valley telling American citizens you are not allowed to participate in this conversation, but The Ayatollah can.
00:55:52.000Chinese ambassadors can lie and smear our soldiers.
00:55:56.000And they can post pictures of Australian soldiers slitting the throat of children.
00:56:01.000They can post that—it was an artistic render of it.
00:56:51.000Eventually you're going to get a bunch of angry Americans watching European, Australian, or Canadian policies be running amok in our political discourse, in our news, and they're cut out?
00:57:04.000Right, and that's one of the cascading effects.
00:57:07.000It's definitely going to be the assault on free speech.
00:57:09.000And that is going to be one of those key elements that will bring about individual events that then build again to that point where we're really going to see a problem.
00:57:21.000It's interesting, so a point of perspective, having been, you know, spending 12 years in the country of Belarus, which is just outside of Russia proper, and basically, you know, it's like they have a very awkward relationship trying to be a small independent nation.
00:57:39.000So much of the Russian news is so anti-American, you wouldn't believe it.
00:58:08.000What China is doing with the Uyghur camps, what they're doing with Hong Kong, it is what nightmares are made of.
00:58:14.000It was also officially declared today, this is also news that happened, that China was declared to be committing genocide by the United States, especially when it comes to the Uyghur Muslim population.
00:58:25.000So that news also just happened today, by the way.
00:58:44.000Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Tuesday, the last full day of the Trump administration.
00:58:49.000Since at least March of 2017, local authorities dramatically escalated their decades-long campaign of repression against Uyghur Muslims and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups, including ethnic Kazakhs and ethnic Kyrgyz.
00:59:03.000State Department has previously estimated that up to 2 million Uyghurs as well as members of other Muslim minority groups have been detained in a sprawling network of internment camps in the region.
00:59:19.000Former re-education camp detainees have told CNN they experienced political indoctrination and abuse inside the camps, such as food and sleep deprivation and forced injections.
00:59:29.000CNN reporting has also found that some Uyghur women were forced to use birth control and undergo sterilization.
00:59:35.000As part of a deliberate attempt to push down birth rates among minorities in Xinjiang.
00:59:40.000That's the level of depravity going on in China.
00:59:43.000So it is kind of worrying that, you know, you have the Biden transition team, which includes people who have been favorable and defensive of China, and now they're trying to shift all the focus onto Russia.
01:00:02.000Yeah, it'll be interesting because the real threat comes when China and Russia decide that they're going to unite and then you have a real problem.
01:00:14.000I mean, we have the safety of Having borders that there's no large army that can come across.
01:00:22.000Well, those Canadians, man, you gotta watch out!
01:00:25.000Well, they started working with the Chinese military and doing drills very near the US border.
01:00:31.000But China and Russia have already joined in quasi-partnerships economically.
01:00:36.000Also financially with trade and also militarily by doing many military exercises together.
01:00:40.000Geopolitically they're usually on the same side when it comes to Iran, Syria and they kind of have a weird relationship where historically they were at odds with each other and it's still kind of tense but they do have a mutual common enemy and that of course is the United States.
01:00:55.000So if there would be a conflict with one there would be a conflict most likely with another in one way or another with either support Or actual even bigger presence of a bigger alliance together.
01:01:21.000Look, I was bullish three years ago, I'm bullish now.
01:01:31.000It was years ago I was watching the political tensions escalate between Antifa and groups like the Proud Boys, and I was talking about my fear of a coming civil war.
01:01:41.000And I guess what a lot of people didn't realize is that my experience is coming from Occupy Wall Street.
01:01:45.000I watched hundreds of thousands of people.
01:01:48.000I traveled all over the country during Occupy, and I saw the anger people had, and it wasn't going away.
01:01:54.000The protests died down a little bit, but I could go around anywhere, talk to somebody, and they'd tell me the exact same things they were mad about.
01:01:59.000I watched the tactics of these black-block, far-leftist-type smashing windows, and getting crazier and more destructive as time went on.
01:02:07.000And eventually got to the point where, you know, they were in larger and larger groups.
01:02:13.000They got a new colloquial term, Antifa.
01:02:16.000They didn't have that back during Occupy Wall Street.
01:02:17.000We just called it the Black Bloc, you know, left or anarchists because there was no discernible group.
01:03:04.000But then you end up with years of this, of right-wing groups, left-wing groups fighting, and it culminates in a series of, you know, major shootings, deaths.
01:03:15.000We get, um, Aaron Danielson was his name, in Portland.
01:03:35.000And I was saying, you see what's going on?
01:03:37.000A year of riots, buildings being smashed.
01:03:40.000We had in Oregon, I believe it was the Attorney General of Oregon, the AG, suing the federal government, challenging their authority to defend their own jurisdiction.
01:03:51.000It was the craziest thing to me to see Oregon's politicians telling the federal government they had no authority to stop people from firebombing their building.
01:04:00.000And I said at that point, I was like, is this where we start seeing the states challenge federal authority?
01:04:04.000Then we heard from the Boston Globe that Never Trump or Republicans and Democrats staged a war game where John Podesta, top Democrat, Hillary Clinton type guy, you know, in her circle, actually said it would be better for the West Coast to secede from the union than allow Trump to win.
01:04:38.000But it still is one of the most dramatic escalations we've seen in this.
01:04:41.000And if I was reading this stuff years ago thinking this was going to happen and we're here now, I'm surprised there are still people who think nothing is going to happen from this.
01:04:47.000The media is going nuts smearing Trump supporters.
01:04:51.000They're not going to just sit back and say, OK, I guess we're evil.
01:04:54.000Well, so the question now comes to, will there be someone to fill that void?
01:05:04.000Um, because I think part of the problem was, I mean, there did tend to see, be a certain, uh, looking to the person more than to the ideal that you stand for.
01:05:17.000And, uh, I mean, it's understandable if that's the only person you feel is speaking for you.
01:05:27.000You know as you were looking at the second impeachment which probably the goal is so that he can't run again, right?
01:05:33.000So you squash that and then you know all the talk that you've we've been reading about reprogramming and you know the truth and reconciliation commissions, right?
01:05:46.000So you You see that there's trying to be a breakup, right, of what is most feared from their angle.
01:05:57.000And that'll be interesting to see where that void is filled and who that person is or that group is before anything can really, again, get that traction to do something that is going to take this past a tipping point.
01:06:59.000I'm retweeting a whole bunch of crazy stuff on LukeWeAreChange about the insidious love of power happening right now with the establishment grawling all over Joe Biden.
01:07:10.000We have CNN literally just moments ago saying that the side lights on the National Mall's reflecting pool are like the extension of Joe Biden's arms embracing America.
01:07:21.000CNN News right now saying that, specifically David Callen of CNN.
01:07:27.000And then, of course, we have Lauren Wolfey, who's at the New York Times.
01:07:30.000The New York Times made a statement saying that they're going to be critiquing this presidency just like they did the other one.
01:09:44.000You see that letter that got released?
01:09:45.000It was a, who was joint chiefs issued a letter saying Biden won, Trump is not the president, do not support him or else.
01:09:55.000Then we got all of the living former secretaries of defense published an op-ed in the Washington Post saying anyone who supports Trump to keep him in the presidency will be prosecuted
01:10:06.000the fact that they have to put out these messages send out twenty five thousand troops vet them
01:10:11.000they are terrified that they have lost control and they have lost confidence
01:10:15.000of enough of this country that it's going to create real instability and they
01:10:19.000don't have the power anymore they have everything to prove and nothing backing it
01:10:23.000And this is why it's such a scary time because they could be going for broke and doing unspeakable things.
01:10:29.000And just like we mentioned before starting the show, and this is kind of the theme that we've been talking about in general, usually the people who call for combat violence are usually the ones who have never experienced it.
01:10:43.000Is there anything you want to say to some of these kind of radicalized voices about, you know, what you see in a war zone and the bigger kind of potential dangers here?
01:10:52.000Yeah, well, so you have the, right, the Xbox player who gets this false sense of reality, like they understand combat, and they understand tactics, and they know all that with a controller, and I think it gives sort of this false bravado and maybe a false sense of they actually think they know what they're doing, but, I mean, I doubt they've seen charred bodies and people blown in half from an RPG and someone they know with a bullet in their head.
01:11:40.000and while in a war situation it's something you have to do it should not be anything you're looking to do because you have no idea you can put you can turn that television off and you can put that xbox controller down uh but you witness and or take part in that violence you won't sleep right Movies, online videos, they do not convey the true experience of seeing mangled bodies.
01:12:17.000And one of the most... I think a lot of people will not understand it unless they ever experience it.
01:12:28.000And I've also seen people, a guy laying on the ground with his lower legs were roast beef as he was looking at his mangled meat and his hands were just not functioning and he's trying to move it.
01:12:42.000The feeling you get when you see that level of destruction of a human body is something you will not experience in a movie, in a video game.
01:12:49.000Well, it is now clinically proven that someone with PTSD, that your brain is actually rewired.
01:13:25.000There was a video out of Portland, and it was funny, and it was sad, but it also made me angry, where a dude got an abrasion from one of those expanding foam rounds, and so they put a tourniquet on his leg.
01:13:39.000They put a tourniquet on his leg because he had an abrasion with some bleeding, and he was like, I don't want to lose my leg, and they're like, we gotta stop the bleeding, man.
01:13:46.000I'm like, These people, if it ever truly came to the conflict they've been calling for, will cry so hard begging for their Xbox days back just to go back and have that Papa John's stuffed crust with the garlic dip and sauce just one more time.
01:14:03.000They also don't understand what it's like to not have resources and to eat garbage and just... Man, they've not seen real struggle.
01:14:11.000They've not left this country, many of them.
01:14:14.000Again, I always go back to that perspective, that pinpointed perspective.
01:14:19.000When you have nothing else to rely on outside of what you've seen in a movie, on television, you can understand to a point.
01:14:30.000I mean, I oddly enough feel some empathy just because I understand the cluelessness that comes from a lack of perspective.
01:14:42.000And we also forget how privileged we are, how amazingly lucky we are to live in a Western world, to have the internet, to have everything at our fingertips.
01:14:52.000Even though we're going through a very tough economic turmoil, we still have it way better than the majority of the world.
01:14:59.000And traveling the world and covering some conflict, there were some events and things that I've personally seen in my life that I just blacked out.
01:15:06.000I know I've been there, but I don't even want to go there.
01:15:16.000And it's very funny because, you know, the voices, your voice, my voice, a lot of other independent media voices that are trying to bring reason to this insanity, that are trying to calm things down, those are usually the first ones that get the nail, that get the hammer hit on them directly by big tech censorship that is trying to silence individuals from even expressing these resolution voices.
01:16:46.000That's why all these people stormed the Capitol weren't wearing masks.
01:16:48.000They had no idea what they were doing.
01:16:50.000And that's why they're going to go to prison.
01:16:51.000It's why when the Proud Boys got into a fight with Antifa in New York City, Antifa told the cops, F you, and ran away, even though they were supposedly the victims.
01:17:00.000And the Proud Boys said, we'll tell you everything, officer.
01:18:06.000When the Proud Boys announce they're going to go march around with their American flags and their Gadsden flags, what do we hear from the left?
01:18:11.000White supremacists are coming to target minorities in racist attacks.
01:18:15.000An extreme version of having nothing to do with reality.
01:18:37.000Telling someone to stop fighting is different than doing something different that they can focus on instead of fighting.
01:18:45.000And if you're telling them to stop, you will draw the aggro of the elite of the people with money.
01:18:50.000They don't want to hear you telling people to stop.
01:18:52.000They want to see you do something new, like write a song or build a new technology that people can use.
01:18:59.000I think ultimately anything that threatens their, you know, their radicalization engine or their tribe or their moral authority and justification.
01:19:07.000Anything that threatens the flow is at risk.
01:19:10.000The agenda, the narrative, they'll find a way to hit it.
01:19:12.000I mean, if you look at the YouTube purge, a lot of it first was independent media.
01:19:17.000Independent media was screaming about child abusers, radical Islamists, other kind of crazy people and individuals exploiting, whether it was puppies or little children on the platform, they were still allowed to have a voice.
01:19:30.000The first crackdown came on independent media, came on regular mom-and-pop small shops of individuals saying, I want to be a YouTuber, I want to share the news from a perspective that's not from a corporate special interest.
01:19:42.000And the first censorship was on dudes that were screaming at George Bush saying that he was a child effer and a goat effer.
01:20:28.000You know, you look at the channels that are allowed to be on YouTube, they get promoted.
01:20:32.000Establishment channels, of course, are protected.
01:20:34.000But then you look at left-wing channels where they're talking about Russia and supporting these unhinged theories, and there's been no reconciliation, there's been no justice, there's been no fairness in any of the policies put forth by these platforms.
01:20:50.000It's like I was saying yesterday, Jack Dorsey is in a far-left bubble he can't see out of.
01:20:55.000To him, all of these things are normal.
01:20:58.000So when he sees a regular working-class, you know, 45-year-old guy tweet something about learning to code, he goes, an extremist!
01:21:55.000I have a Telegram page with 5,000 subscribers and then I have a Facebook page with 600,000 subscribers that was like that for a number of years now.
01:22:04.000I get more web traffic and reach through the 5,000 group on Telegram than the 600,000 group on Facebook.
01:22:11.000That's why we're telling everybody to go to TimCast.com and become a member because I fully expect, look, my Facebook page, it's over.
01:22:18.000Now, I can still post to it, but there's no point.
01:23:18.000And we're trying really hard to get like a core dedicated user base to subscribe and then we'll put up more and more, you know, member-only content and stuff like that.
01:23:25.000But I really do hope things get chilled out.
01:23:29.000Steve, you were mentioning that you guys don't use social media.
01:24:37.000We're in need of a ranch manager out for the Colorado branch.
01:24:42.000And I'm in need of an assistant ranch manager out in West Virginia because we keep moving staff around as we expand.
01:24:48.000So you have the manager, the assistant manager, and then how many people potentially would have like spots at a ranch?
01:24:55.000So we don't give out exact numbers for security reasons, but each ranch, you know, will round out around 100 until we would expand more.
01:25:04.000But we try not to, we don't want to expand, make any one ranch too large.
01:25:09.000We're looking for 12 across the country so that nobody has to drive too far in case of an instant event.
01:25:16.000And that's because it helps to keep it small for like one manager and assistant to take care of any potential conflict or struggle that would arise.
01:26:17.000A lot of the time it's with firearms because we have to make sure that we won't allow anybody to pull guard duty in a crisis or a collapse situation unless they've been approved.
01:26:28.000That assistant manager position looks pretty tempting.
01:26:32.000I should talk to you about potentially filling in that need after the show.
01:27:24.000We have not only our 114 acres to hunt on, but we have the national forest that abuts us, which is another 1,800 acres to hunt deer, bear, turkey, grouse, and we have stream right across the road.
01:27:41.000We have really good fishing in West Virginia.
01:27:45.000There's only one natural sand beach and we're not located too far from there.
01:28:13.000Uh, we do not on property, but we do have horses.
01:28:16.000I'd imagine that the kind of people you'd attract would, they understand that if, you know, if it hits the fan, they're going to start working harder than they've worked probably in the past.
01:28:24.000I have, I look them in the eye and I explain what the situation is.
01:28:30.000In order for this to work, everybody has to pull their own weight.
01:28:54.000Wild guess how long do you think they were there before they said, you know a month two weeks two weeks and You know the people who came back My friends were like I would wake up at 6 a.m And work until midnight and go to bed and wake up at 6 a.m.
01:29:09.000And work at those not non-stop No chance to read no TV.
01:31:09.000Safety would be a priority for those who are members.
01:31:13.000Now, under a crisis situation, you could approach the ranch, but you'll meet the initial guard post, and our members have to get out and identify themselves, and those are the only people that are on the list are allowed in.
01:31:29.000Now, depending on the circumstances, as things go and we have an abundance of food, there is an epidemic.
01:31:36.000I don't want to sound heartless and cruel, but that is the rule.
01:31:42.000I mean, I literally, when I took the position, told my kids, hey, you know, either sign up or don't come.
01:31:50.000Me and Tim have screaming arguments about a strategy here that maybe you could help us settle.
01:31:56.000Because I know an amazing community with Special Forces, Green Berets, Preppers, Homeschoolers up in New Hampshire, and I saw a plot of property open up.
01:32:04.000I'm like, Tim, maybe this is something you should look at.
01:32:07.000He's like, hell no, I'd rather go to the middle of Montana.
01:32:11.000I said West Virginia, what are you talking about?
01:32:13.000Well, West Virginia, but also you made a statement about going in the middle of Montana, and I'm like, you would look like a fixer.
01:32:30.000Well, if you have a community of like-minded good people, would you rather be on your own and look like a filet mignon steak to a whole bunch of crazy hungry wolves in the wild and not knowing anyone in West Virginia?
01:32:44.000Or would you rather be... Hold on, hold on.
01:32:47.000Or would you rather have a good community of people?
01:33:43.000So my position, you know, Luke is defending New Hampshire, but my issue is the Northeast population density is substantially higher than West Virginia.
01:33:56.000But, you know, so for us as a model, we're actually located two hours outside of a major city is the only way that it works in order to, and again, but the location has to be right.
01:34:09.000But part of the reason is there's no way, you know, part of our job is to help folks.
01:34:13.000So we have to be in a place where they can get to.
01:34:16.000You have to have a market for those who are going to be the most affected, and obviously it's the cities that are going to be most affected.
01:34:54.000I mean, other than me having a mask in my truck for when I go to the store or, you know, go pick up supplies at Home Depot for, you know, things that we're doing.
01:35:06.000West Virginia was the last state to have the first ones to have any, and it's really not disrupted my life whatsoever.
01:35:16.000Regarding crops, right now, are you guys growing crops?
01:35:20.000Or is it only like we have seeds and we will start growing?
01:35:23.000So we have five acres we use for hay to be able to feed the animal.
01:35:28.000So in order for me not to just be a farmer right now before anything happens, we have 20 head of cattle on reserve.
01:35:35.000There's nothing around us but chicken farms and cattle farms.
01:35:39.000And so we have a deal with the local farmer.
01:35:42.000He comes and he, in the spring, he, you know, spreads the manure, he cuts it, he bales it, he leaves me what I need for the animals that I have, and he takes the rest to augment.
01:36:59.000We're always looking on how best to serve folks and earlier there wasn't a large demand for the RVs but now there is after all that's been going on.
01:37:09.000So I had an excavation crew in there and we've done a lot of excavation to expand the RV situation and we've already sold a couple three acre plots of land where people are going to build their own little log home or whatever they're going to build on the property but still be part of the community.
01:37:41.000So the most affordable way is you just dig in to and all that land that you're taking out of there to build your foundation you put up here to give you a level space where you build.
01:37:53.000And so you can actually have your own, you know, small little bunker as you drive in.
01:37:58.000You already have some hardened security and then you go up to your home and then you have a guard force all around.
01:38:03.000Putting like shipping containers, burying shipping containers and using those.
01:38:27.000Well, let's go to Super Chats, see what the... probably a lot of questions for you from the audience, so we'll go through them.
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01:38:40.000Probably some gun stuff, I'd imagine, at some point, because, you know, Luke likes guns.
01:40:37.000Graham Wilson says, recently you've made a few statements on what you believe National Guardsmen reactions would be in regards to everything that is happening.
01:40:43.000I'm a filmmaker and former National Guardsman of 12 years, and I'd love to help inform.
01:41:52.000So for those that aren't familiar with the Fallout series, there was a bunch of vaults made by the Vault-Tec Corporation and the government, but they were actually running experiments on the people who were seeking shelter.
01:42:53.000Daniel Maxwell says, If what is happening to the National Guard personnel right now does not set off warning alarms, then you need to take a very close look at what happened in Germany when Hitler took over, in Russia under Stalin, and in China under Mao, repeating history again.
01:43:08.000You know, I think what happens is these people in power are scared they're losing the confidence of the people.
01:43:16.000If people have no confidence in you, they're not going to listen.
01:43:19.000I will say I like that phrase, repeating history again.
01:43:23.000Well, they say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
01:43:26.000Alberto Rio says, I understand this is a little late, since this is more of a question that should have been asked on your last show.
01:43:33.000Have any of these business owners looked into 18 U.S.C.
01:43:37.000242 when fighting these unconstitutional orders from governors?
01:43:40.000We'll have to ask them next time, I suppose.
01:43:44.000Kaper2x says, when the saucers land on the mall, we will wish for more troops and forget what we do if they demand to cook and eat our leaders.
01:43:52.000Wait, so that's why Trump is leaving early, lol.
01:44:32.000Michael Dodson says, my girlfriend works in healthcare, and they received an email today telling them to be prepared for curfews and to pack go bags to last multiple days.
01:44:40.000They're located well outside the DC Beltway.
01:45:51.000So, continuing from the comment about Norway, Count Ludwig says, and some of the nations in the USSR such as Estonia and Latvia gained their freedom in 1989 by literally holding hands and singing songs.
01:46:03.000Just a few years ago, Scotland almost left the UK by voting.
01:46:09.000I mean, honestly, I really do think we're at a point in history that if, say, Texas or California voted outright, overwhelmingly within their state to secede, the U.S.
01:47:45.000control alt right says no you can't cnc a gun cheap or easy coming from a guy who knows interesting mad says hey tim a few weeks ago my uncle and i were talking about the proud boys 15 minutes later he asked if i was a proud boy joking jokingly i responded oh for sure then my headphones siri said i figured i threw my phone that's weird anthony picas says there is no issue with creating a gun with no serial number it just has to be serialized before you sell it to someone else Yeah, a bunch of people are saying this.
01:51:03.000I think, you know, you can print like really simple thing like knobs and hinges, maybe like missing parts for something, something breaks, repairs.
01:52:44.000All right, let's see what we got here.
01:52:46.000Kiwi2113 says, I just watched your interview with David Pakman from a year ago, and I'm curious about how much both of your opinions have evolved since then.
01:52:53.000That was from longer than a year ago, I'm pretty sure.
01:52:55.000Wasn't it like two or three years ago now at this point?
01:53:01.000Maybe we'll have another one in the future.
01:53:04.000Booker DeWitt, catch, says, Tim, and actually anyone there, that was a joke by the way, I wonder how many people got it, and actually anyone there, I know this is off topic, but would you mind explaining Gamergate?
01:54:11.000And they're going to convict him anyway.
01:54:13.000Just like that $2,000 scandal that again, Trump promised he was going to give everyone, and then all the representatives said, no, no, no, no, we're going to do it a different way.
01:54:25.000So the Republicans will be like, I guess we have to convict.
01:54:28.000And then Trump will be able to run because they'll have gotten him on insurrection, which then the 14th amendment, I believe it's article three or whatever, says you cannot run for office or hold office if you've ever incited insurrection against the country.
01:54:40.000Also, I'm looking at the FGC9 part list.
01:55:30.000And yeah, Kalashnikovs, uh, I love AKs.
01:55:32.000They're my favorite, even though AR is a little bit more practical and useful.
01:55:36.000jacob brownfield to the rescue long arm in pistol cartridge carbine there you go oh that's simple crazy larry says i bought a camper for starting off-grid lifestyle before covid hit been prepping with dehydrator vacuum sealer ready to work will be emailing soon first super chat long time love of the show yeah so it's uh it's fortitude ranch.com yeah people should check it out but we'll we'll do another round of of promoting it too once we get through some more super chats and start winding down Justin Edelson says, look at Spain.
01:56:09.000They definitely, they went in and the cops, but it wasn't, the cops were just beating people.
01:56:14.000You know, I was there actually when they did that a couple of years ago when they were doing that vote and the cops were just beating people.
01:56:19.000The Barcelona police do not play around.
01:57:12.000I've been reading about ball lightning.
01:57:14.000You guys familiar with that phenomenon?
01:57:16.000Apparently when lightning strikes it can create a sphere of They don't know what light or plasma or something that can contain material and pass through walls and light.
01:58:25.000Gunner Jones says, hey Tim, I got fired today from my job because I was watching your videos and they said I was watching racist videos at work.
01:58:30.000I don't know if I believe that, to be honest, because what would the video have been about?
01:58:35.000We were talking about race yesterday, which is technically racist.
01:58:39.000I mean, they think everything's racist.
01:58:41.000Tell them they're racist because this is a minority-owned company and a minority-led show.
02:02:35.000I mean, not for the long term sustainability model that really is the only one that'll work.
02:02:42.000But I think you'd be able to get off, you know, motion sensor activated active denial system for perimeter defense.
02:02:48.000That would be pretty low energy because it wouldn't really ever be on, you know, you'd be there and then it would flick on and flick off and people would just immediately go the other direction.
02:02:57.000You know, I mean, it would have to have its own power source.
02:03:00.000Yeah, they'd have to be linked and they'd have to be some kind of, you know, source of energy to tap into.
02:03:17.000That's, that's something that's, you can create a low, there's probably people who are listening who know better than I do, but I was reading about low quality internet you can get using ham bonding frequencies and then actually transmit data.
02:03:29.000I heard that it's illegal to encrypt anything over ham radio right now.
02:04:05.000We've trampled over so many precedences.
02:04:09.000There's a lot of things that there's no going back to.
02:04:13.000Donald C. says, metal 3D printers use a layer to scan and selectively melt metal powder particles, bonding them together and building a part layer by layer.
02:04:32.000I've done it with gel with like resin where it'll use a UV light to harden the resin and it pulls it out of the goo, but I haven't done it with metal yet.
02:04:41.000Blank says, hey Tim, look up the story of Nazinsky, infinitely known as Stalin's cannibal island.
02:04:48.000A gulag so bad it turns the stomach of Soviet elites.
02:05:16.000Gareth Green says, GamerGate, SJW indie text game developer, cheats on her boyfriend with gaming journalist who just so happened to have promoted said designer in articles and boyfriend's Heartbreak blog goes mega viral.
02:09:13.000Are you a secret twerker that I don't know anything about?
02:09:16.000I just think there are people that do things that I probably don't care for, but I respect people's rights to live and celebrate and do the things they want to do on their own.
02:09:52.000I'm all for, you know, look, if the beaches of California were stormed by an enemy invader, I'd be like, you know, what do you need me to do?
02:10:02.000If you're like, we're going to send people to Syria to remove their dictator, talking about the pipeline, I'm going to be like, I don't know about all that.
02:10:30.000Well, don't tweet it at me, because I just never even click.
02:10:32.000I don't function on Twitter, you know what I mean?
02:10:34.000But you can tweet it at SourPatchLids.
02:10:36.000And if you would like to get your own I Am A Gorilla t-shirt, go to TimCast.com, click shop, and it is there, and it's actually the most sold shirt we've ever put together, and it's ridiculous.
02:11:02.000I still appreciate all the support and you know, I gotta eat too.
02:11:08.000Luke's got these fancy political messages.
02:11:09.000I'm just selling shirts that's got a cartoon grill on it.
02:11:12.000People should realize that, hey, I think we need to be more representative of our ideas.
02:11:16.000I think too many people are shy about their stances.
02:11:20.000What better stance can you have than wearing this shirt in public to represent your kind of larger discontent with a president who's not really there?
02:14:43.000Well, you can buy, I mean, you can buy tokens and it holds it.
02:14:46.000What happens when it does is it locks down the price and it secures a place in line.
02:14:53.000So once everybody keeps piling in, excuse me, if somebody comes next week, but you want to pull the trigger, then you get to pull the trigger.
02:15:05.000Well, to quickly expand, it takes about a million dollars.
02:15:08.000If you would come out and visit West Virginia, you'd see a million dollars sitting in there.
02:15:12.000Eight inches of reinforced concrete, steel, and three foot of earth isn't easy to do.
02:15:19.000Talking about my romance language here.
02:15:21.000Well, so in order to expand, we'd like to, you know, give the affordability for folks not to travel so far and open up to different markets.
02:15:29.000But it will take investors to do that because, you know, we use the funds for membership to maintain and expand the current ranches.
02:15:38.000They can come and contact you through the website?
02:16:00.000I have a separate independent media organization.
02:16:03.000Everything about it and how you could be involved, whether it's shirts or other stuff that I do, it's all on wearechange.org forward slash donate.
02:16:12.000But also give a double follow to at Sour Patch Lids.
02:16:17.000I feel sorry and bad because I was so excited I totally forgot to do introductions.
02:16:20.000So give a double follow to Lydia there.