The NBA is boycotting games because of a video of a black man being shot by police, and we have Ryan Long on the show to talk about it. Also, we talk about the Tesla vs. Nickelback beef, and more.
00:00:50.000Okay, the big news right now is the NBA is boycotting a bunch of games because they're traumatized from watching this video of this guy who, you know, he got shot by the cops and stuff.
00:01:00.000So I can understand people, you know, unhappy with it.
00:01:03.000How it affects the NBA, they're apparently saying that they're not in the right frame of mind to be able to play games right now.
00:01:09.000And so now we got Major League Baseball, like, they're canceling their games too.
00:01:15.000Because people are upset and they're traumatized over this.
00:01:17.000But the craziest thing about this article is that the whole thing reads like it's satire.
00:01:22.000For one, that these people are traumatized over this online... Like, look, I get people are mad, but whoa, come on, man.
00:01:28.000And then that they would buy Teslas to try and hide from the police so they don't get pulled over.
00:01:33.000The whole thing just reads like it's fake news.
00:01:36.000The NBA's ratings are down, they're boycotting, and everyone's laughing at them.
00:01:42.000So anyway, considering the news was particularly absurd today, I thought it'd be great to have Ryan Long on, because you're a comedian, right?
00:01:50.000Yeah, dude, I love the fact that they go, you know, a lot of these guys, they try to get Teslas so people will think they're white.
00:01:59.000I like the idea of the black guys are like, you know, we just wanted the cops to think we're white, so I've shortened my penis.
00:02:05.000We're doing all sorts of things to let people know.
00:02:08.000We have Blink-182 blasting in our Teslas.
00:03:05.000You know what, it's hard to tell, as you know, because everyone like rips your content.
00:03:09.000The one yesterday, I did this stock market one and it was like number one on Reddit, but instead of someone putting a video up, they just ripped it and put it up themselves.
00:03:30.000I wake up this morning and I see some of the most brutal and gruesome videos I've ever seen.
00:03:34.000Or at least, not ever, but I've seen in these riots.
00:03:37.000So this is some of the stuff that we were briefly talking about before we started the show.
00:03:41.000I'm just like, man, this stuff in Kenosha.
00:03:42.000And you made a bunch of, you made a couple, I can't remember exactly what you said, but they were really funny and offensive pertaining to just like riots and stuff.
00:03:50.000But I'm like, no, no, it's a good thing.
00:04:11.000Let's have a laugh because I'm sure a lot of people are not feeling it right now with as crazy as everything's been.
00:04:16.000Listen, if you're one of these people who's been traumatized from watching this video and you stand in solidarity with the NBA players, we got Ryan Logg.
00:04:43.000Some people see stuff like this, and they're like, you're not supposed to laugh.
00:04:46.000Like, I have friends that, you know, people we know have died, and then the comedian goes on that night, and the idea is like, you know, my buddy died, which sucks, because he owes me money.
00:04:55.000Which is like a standard, but it depends on how you kind of interface with the world, if you think you're supposed to laugh at stuff or not laugh at stuff.
00:05:01.000I went to the riots in New York a few times, and yeah, you're like, this is crazy and there's obviously problems, but also there was some hilarious stuff happening.
00:05:11.000I saw this like hood dude and he broke the store window.
00:05:14.000I've talked about this in my podcast, but he broke the store window and then he came out with a pair of shoes and he yells, he goes, these kicks is for Floyd.
00:07:07.000The bigger thieves start, you know, the computer goes all the way up and then eventually lands in some like corporate office where they really know how to steal.
00:07:13.000I mean, a lot of times, I remember with G20 in Canada when I was in Toronto, the G20 happened and everyone was like, yo, it's a party.
00:07:20.000Everyone's like, yo, you can just go break windows and do whatever you want.
00:07:24.000It's the purge tonight, essentially, right?
00:07:27.000So everyone does that, and then over the next five years, it was like, yo, remember Jason?
00:07:31.000He's going to jail for a year for that.
00:07:33.000So basically over the next year, everyone would start getting their trial dates and stuff like that.
00:07:38.000So I mean, there's going to be a whole team of whatever police that for the next three years, their whole job is like tracking down these people.
00:09:41.000But, there's people all over, and it really hypes you up when you're like, if I know I got this, people, like, they cheer for you, they cheer you on, it gives you that energy.
00:09:48.000I couldn't imagine, like, I skate by myself sometimes, a lot of the time you're just skating for yourself, but when you're going out for a contest, and you're pushing your limits, and there's no one there, and it's just, like, you just cough off to the side, the janitor, he's sweeping, and they expect you to perform to your greatest without support of, you know, the crowds cheering for you.
00:10:08.000Yeah, it's like, I don't know if you've seen wrestling without the audiences, but it is a sad sight.
00:10:29.000Like, they're playing these games in these rooms where there's like, just like, I was watching, I think it was WNBA, they walked out on the National Anthem, and they're not even in a court, they're not even in like an arena.
00:10:54.000Because they actually put biggest attendance in history!
00:10:57.000The first time the seats have been filled.
00:10:59.000I remember when the WNBA boycott thing happened, they walk out on the National Anthem, and I immediately pulled up the clip from Family Guy.
00:11:08.000Seth MacFarlane's the one who made the joke, not me.
00:11:11.000Where he's like, I don't know if you've ever seen the joke, but it's really offensive.
00:11:16.000I mean, by today's standards, for sure.
00:11:17.000Not so much back then, but he's like, so-and-so is going to make the shot, she scores two points, and that's why she commands $7,000 a year.
00:11:28.000And they're like, but is the money worth being that unattractive?
00:12:23.000Like people in the Mediterranean get it.
00:12:24.000But a general strike among the left is when everyone just stops working.
00:12:28.000But they don't realize, they actually don't have the support of like... Imagine just women did it and they're like, women are just gonna stop working and everything just went back to normal.
00:12:59.000The funny thing about that is people aren't working, man.
00:13:04.000Businesses are shut down, they're permanently closed.
00:13:05.000If you do have a job, this probably isn't the time to be making crazy... I think the way they see it is, now is the chance to finish off the beast.
00:13:15.000Everybody's laid off, so there's only a few people working at McDonald's and the grocery store and stuff.
00:13:21.000So get them to go on strike and there's nothing left.
00:13:24.000Maybe that's the general political idea to it.
00:13:27.000Dude, all that stuff is like, everyone's not like a 20-year-old activist.
00:13:31.000Just telling some normal guys, like 50 years old, he's got a family.
00:13:34.000You're like, yo, you're going to not go to work anymore for the next week.
00:13:38.000You're like, oh, we got a whole thing going on at the university.
00:14:10.000They say, an assembly organized by players who are emotionally traumatized by the latest police-involved shooting of an African-American that was captured on video was held Tuesday night at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, sources said, and there were multiple conversations about what the actions could be taken throughout the day.
00:14:28.000So the first thing that happens is I'm talking to my friends and I'm like, do you hear about these NBA players who are traumatized?
00:15:06.000I sent it to my friend, and they didn't believe it.
00:15:09.000Like, I didn't believe it either, and I sent a screenshot of where it said, the players who are emotionally traumatized, and they're like, this is like an onion, right?
00:15:32.000Athletes aren't immune to being racially profiled.
00:15:35.000Sources said, as a tactic to avoid being pulled over, a few players have purchased Teslas, believing that police wouldn't suspect a black man to be operating that vehicle.
00:15:46.000Now, the reason why the first thing I saw there was, it sounds like some rich dude.
00:15:51.000It's like, oh, they're like, you bought a Tesla?
00:15:54.000That's kind of expensive, don't you think?
00:18:10.000He gets pulled over in his very fancy car and I'm sure it's fine.
00:18:15.000One of the craziest things about this whole narrative they've had, there was a viral commercial where it was like the talk.
00:18:21.000This is what freaks me out because I grew up on the south side of Chicago and I talked to my progressive friends and they really believe that parents shouldn't tell their kids how to act around police and even firefighters or EMTs.
00:18:33.000It's not their job to educate their kids.
00:18:41.000It's no wonder you get these super entitled college students.
00:18:45.000Have you seen that video in New York during the riots, where this woman is screaming at the cops in their face, and they keep saying, move, get back, and she goes, R, effing what?
00:18:55.000And then the cop goes, she's coming, and he grabs her, and she goes, no, no, ah, and starts calling to her friends.
00:19:02.000Cause she's never been told like, here's how you appropriately deal in like these circumstances.
00:19:07.000I mean, listen, I was like a troublemaker growing up and I've had run-ins with the cops and I'm not like some pro cop guy, but also like I've had times where a cop beat me up.
00:19:17.000I've, you know, been tons of nights in the drunk tank and all that stuff, but I never really, like, it still sucked.
00:19:22.000And I, you know, I was like, cops are kind of losers, but I didn't come out of it being like, I was innocent completely.
00:19:28.000And I'm not saying everyone else isn't, but most of the times that I did it, I looked back and I was like, yeah, I was a little out of hand that night.
00:19:36.000But, you know, I grew up and everybody I know in my neighborhood was told, like, hey man, when you get pulled over, here's what you gotta do.
00:19:44.000You turn the engine off, take the keys out, put them on the dash, put your wallet on the dash, turn the radio down, turn the dome light on, put your hands on the wheel, and wait for the officer to walk up.
00:19:52.000And then when he asks for your ID, it's right there in front of you.
00:19:54.000And you do that just to make sure everybody feels safe and secure.
00:19:58.000It's like these progressives act like I was told put on F the police full blast and stare at him without blinking and hold your and hold your hand in your shirt as he walks up and give him a look.
00:20:11.000I've had some wild caught but like You know it's this the problem is it's with all this stuff is they shove it down your face so much and then the times when they when they're actually like all the cops are wrong there it's hard to defend because you just it's like when they're like everyone's racist everyone's racist then you there actually is one you're like I'm just done hearing about people being racist yeah but I've had this is the one that always makes me laugh there's when at my old house in Toronto these cops are
00:20:32.000Busted into our house in the middle of the night.
00:20:51.000You know, so anyways, they bring us out on the thing, make us sit there, it's like winter, and then eventually, when this all's said and done, they're like, who's so-and-so?
00:22:23.000They saw a Tesla out front and they knew.
00:22:26.000Yeah, imagine LeBron James had a really good point because the cops are legitimately like, yo, wouldn't it be funny to pull LeBron over once a week?
00:22:33.000And then he's like, I'm telling you, these cops are after me!
00:22:35.000And they're like, oh LeBron James, the cops are here to get you!
00:22:38.000And he's like, I swear, it's a conspiracy.
00:22:41.000And then one of his managers is talking to somebody and he's like, I'm telling you, there's cops!
00:22:46.000And then the manager's like, he's just, you know, he's alone.
00:23:43.000And then it's the craziest thing to me.
00:23:46.000I can I do a segment and it's like they have this thing called self-certification on YouTube where you choose does disappear in your video.
00:25:20.000Dude, like TikTok took it down twice, then it got like demonetized, and then it got like the thing on Twitter that says, you know, it has shocking content or whatever.
00:25:30.000So wait, wait, explain what the video is.
00:25:32.000Like what's the premise of this of the sketch?
00:25:34.000Basically, it's the economy and the stock market and the economy is like a bro partying like oh, yeah This is never gonna end and the economy is like we're very sick Yeah, like maybe you're sick like success is just a state of mind.
00:25:48.000He's looking at Gary V's Maybe it's a Siamese twin.
00:25:51.000It's actually offensive is it I didn't even say Siamese I said conjoined conjoined conjoined.
00:25:55.000Yeah, cuz I know that's a big problem, right?
00:26:26.000You use the name of a country that's no longer in existence, therefore... I think it's hilarious that you made a video It makes the conspiracy theory alarm bells start going crazy.
00:26:37.000Yeah, there's definitely a lot of conspiracy theory alarm bells that kind of go off on all that stuff.
00:26:40.000But the funny thing that, I think I was kind of saying this to you before, but the funny thing about satire is how these places decide what they can put on and what they don't, is they transcribe, correct me if I'm wrong, because you probably know more than this than me, but they transcribe what's happened in the video.
00:27:47.000And the translator said, A word you can't say, and he got demonetized.
00:27:52.000Yeah, so a lot of people don't realize, sometimes the demonetization is because the computer doesn't differentiate between similar sounding words.
00:28:00.000You know, like... I was thinking about this a while ago, because I was... I can't remember, I was at a French restaurant or something, and I was thinking about the similarities... Were you bragging?
00:28:11.000Oh yes, that's right, we had escargot.
00:28:13.000No, it was literally like some New York, you know, French-themed restaurant.
00:28:23.000No, but I was thinking about how, like, if you spoke very quickly, you could, you're priming yourself to someone else, like to someone who doesn't speak English, in a very weird way.
00:28:31.000Like if you said, Mr. and my sister, like, a person who doesn't speak English might not realize Mr. is a dude and my sister, they might hear the same thing.
00:28:40.000Yeah, like my ex, I was saying, I think we should break up, and she heard, I'm going to stay here for another two years.
00:28:47.000There's always these linguistic problems when you speak quick.
00:28:49.000But YouTube mangles up what you say, because we talk fast, and then all of a sudden you're... So maybe what happens is you're talking about the stock market, and like, have you looked at the tax?
00:29:16.000I'm willing to bet a lot of conspiracy theorists are going like- You talk about the Fed, you talk about the stock market, they shut you down.
00:29:30.000People talk about censorship of conservatives a lot on social media, and it's real, but it's not so much that it's conservatives, it's anti-establishment orthodoxy.
00:29:41.000So conservatives, for the most part, are the ones, especially Trump supporters, so they see the most of it, but there are leftists, like anti-war, anti-establishment, who do get censorship sometimes, but for the most part, the establishment orthodoxy of the left is typically okay.
00:29:55.000And that was another thing you were bringing up earlier that I thought was really fascinating, that you mentioned YouTube can't detect satire.
00:30:01.000Yeah, so that's what I was going to say.
00:30:05.000That's one of the reasons why people will do videos being like, oh, I'm like a Q guy, right?
00:31:12.000So they did a display of all of these woke books, and one of the books they put on the pedestal was Woke by Titanium McGrath, Andrew Doyle's satire project.
00:31:22.000And so you have like, you know, white fragility and like, you know, white whatever.
00:32:37.000But when I was, uh, I kind of go hard on them too, because I remember when I was, this is when I was in Canada, I did, they kind of came to Canada and they're like, Oh, we're going to spend, they made this big venture deal and kind of said we were going to spend money and then didn't really.
00:32:48.000But I was in a meeting with the guy and he said for me verbatim, we were, I was talking about like the show about some guys in bands and stuff like that.
00:32:54.000And he's like, We're trying to do stuff with things like refugees, like stuff that's hot right now.
00:33:45.000I'm like, could you imagine, dude, like Vice walking up to you and being like, we're really interested in like Refugees for entertainment like yeah, what and you're like, what about him?
00:33:58.000Well, I was saying that I was like because it was a show about bands and stuff and I'm like What am I gonna do the refu BG's with their new hit song staying alive?
00:34:11.000But there's also this funny thing in entertainment that, one comedy especially, like there's this weird thing where some people think that if you're, you know, some people have the idea that certain groups you're not supposed to make jokes about, you know what I mean?
00:34:23.000It's kind of like, but you go, imagine you were in a group of friends where it's like, you can talk about him, but like, don't talk about, you know, don't make jokes about James or whatever.
00:34:29.000And James is like, Yo, dude, I'm not really in the group if we can't talk, you know, and I've always said that when you do stand-up, you actually look at people that make fun of everyone.
00:34:39.000Everyone kind of leaves like a pressure release and they feel better.
00:34:42.000Obviously, if there's like a guy in a wheelchair and you rail on him non-stop, but if you just treat him like everyone else, people actually like that way better.
00:34:48.000But when you kind of set those tones, it puts in a weird situation, especially, this is why there's all these conflicting agendas, because they go, diversity is really good and we need like diversity in sketches, right?
00:34:57.000But a lot of sketch comedy, you're making fun of the thing, right?
00:35:00.000So they're like, you need women and trans people in sketches.
00:35:34.000There's no... I mean, if you turn on Netflix, I mean... For sure, right, right, right.
00:35:37.000But I mean, like, you've got, I don't know, Amy Schumer, would that qualify?
00:35:43.000I mean, Amy Schumer, she's more like Hollywood woke, where you get really famous, and then you kind of go, oh, that offensive stuff I was doing before was a character, but actually I'm part of the good guys.
00:35:53.000That's more like the, let me keep my famous guy spot, you're kind of like, How do I stay famous?
00:36:02.000The funny part is, if you go to Brooklyn or whatever, there's a whole genre of comedy where they're coming out and they'll be like, my dad doesn't even think that gender exists and Trump's so orange.
00:37:03.000And then I feel like the problem is you see them online, and then a lot of these people will see comedy people like me or whatever, and they'll go, Oh, sorry that you can't just make your like racist jokes anymore.
00:37:13.000Oh, that the world doesn't want to hear that comedy.
00:37:19.000It's like, you know, I do like people and you go, I'm like, I'll bury you in front of your fans in a comedy club.
00:37:24.000Like, I don't know who you like, they think comedy isn't real.
00:37:26.000But so the problem is most of the world are just normal people.
00:37:30.000They go to comedy clubs and they laugh and they're like, yeah, like make fun of everyone that's hilarious.
00:37:34.000And then there's this sect of the internet that controls a lot of power that goes, We're gonna add a third rung to this where it's like there's a contract between you and the audience.
00:38:05.000I watched the special, I think it was from Vice, about a woke comic, and they explained that the best way to be woke and do comedy is to make fun of yourself.
00:38:13.000And so it was like really, like self-deprecating humor is fine, like Rodney Dangerfield was like legit, that dude ragged on himself endlessly and it was funny.
00:38:21.000But some of this is just kind of, like, it's really bad.
00:38:26.000But I mean, yeah, if you take every other target off the table, I mean... That's all that's left is you.
00:38:30.000But I, yeah, I mean, I think that those woke comics have, like, I don't think there's a shortage of them being like, oh, I'm sorry that a white man showed up!
00:39:13.000And you know what the thing is about, like you do your thing and everyone does their thing.
00:39:16.000If you guys want to go do like your kind of hipster thing or whatever and and pretend you know tell like you know there's there's bands that the guy rolls around on the ground while hitting a tambourine and that's a band and like I'm not saying they shouldn't be able to do that and I get like the hipster element of it.
00:39:31.000But the problem is then to go and be like, oh, look at these bands playing chords, you know, so it's yeah, that's kind of what chords are offensive.
00:39:40.000But it's like, once we get into conversations about who's allowed to do what, and you start being puritanical with these fringe beliefs, and that actually kind of hold a lot of institutional power, that's when you start to be like, alright, I was gonna be fine, let you do your thing.
00:40:05.000And then, well, this is what, um, I've kind of been saying this a lot.
00:40:09.000It's like a lot of people on the internet really were for the most part, kind of apolitical, you know, to some degree they're like, I don't know.
00:40:16.000Maybe I'm down for socialized healthcare, but I don't really like being told what to do.
00:40:21.000Like I don't care if gay people would like, Most people, I would say there's a good 60% of people before people kind of came in and said, no, no, you got to pick a side, right?
00:40:29.000And then you go, and then most people are like, especially people that grew up in metropolitans are like, all right, I guess like I'm on the left or whatever, right?
00:40:36.000And they're like, well, do you believe this, this and this?
00:40:38.000And you're like, I don't know, that seems like a lot.
00:40:40.000Do you believe this guy shouldn't be able to say this on the internet?
00:40:42.000And they have this insane laundry list of things you need to believe.
00:40:46.000And then if you don't believe them, they go, this guy's right wing.
00:40:49.000And then eventually some people go, all right, whatever, then fine, I'm right wing.
00:40:53.000Because some, you know, it's like everyone's doesn't have, like I'm, me and people like me and you think about this stuff probably more than other people because it's kind of, it's your job.
00:41:01.000You're essentially like a, you know, we're social commentators for a living.
00:41:04.000So you probably, and it probably even came, It probably took you a few years to sort of realize how to interface with like everyone yelling at you and telling you you're bad for saying this and you go what?
00:41:14.000So I think for normal people they just get they think in terms of Socratic logic where everyone just yells at them and they're like if you don't think this you're on the right and they're going I guess I'm on the right then they go oh look at this he's on the right fire him and you're like well you're the one who pushed me over here and the left wing's kicking everyone out so they're like an exclusive club and they're basically saying Uh, if you want to be here, you need to be, like, VIP.
00:41:35.000You need to have this much money a year.
00:41:52.000So I feel like the way that they want to describe it is different because the truth is it's like they're the church and everyone's like the church like if you want to get into heaven this is the you know the left wing we're the good one right if you want to be part of the good guys the good guys then uh you got a list here's their commandments and then the bar down the street's like yo we're kind of just partying over here And then they're like, look, the devil's down the street.
00:42:12.000And they're like, we're actually just drinking beers.
00:42:14.000And then they're like, if you go there, you're either with the church or you're with the bar.
00:42:19.000And everyone's like, dude, I just want to go to a comedy show and laugh with my friends without you scolding me.
00:42:23.000And I think that's how most people see the world.
00:42:25.000And I don't think a lot of these people realize how much people they're turning off by, you know, being puritanical.
00:42:32.000So in this sketch, there's two guys, it's you and- Oh, were we supposed to talk about the sketch?
00:42:42.000And then you're basically screaming at them, and the one guy's like, I guess I'm on your team, and you're like, well, tell me 240 of your opinions or something.
00:42:49.000The funny part, my favorite part is when the guy goes, I guess I'm on the right, and the right-wing guy leans over and goes, you see this thing that Donald Trump said about coronavirus?
00:42:58.000But that really does feel like a lot of people being like, I guess I'll be on the right and then the right is like very like, I don't know, kind of like tame.
00:43:30.000There's a tiny group of, you know, radical kind of left-wing people with lots of followers that said, oh, as if, and everyone else, like every normal person from the right, the left was like, that's exactly how I see it.
00:43:42.000And you know, you know, and then because normal people see themselves as one of the three players that's like, and the radicals see themselves, oh, you're making fun of me.
00:43:50.000And you're like, well, interesting that you see yourself as the one yelling at people and not the normal person that just wants to play basketball.
00:44:16.000But when I think about his podcast being so big, And he does conversations along with his comedy, and his comedy hits at both sides, and it's really funny.
00:44:24.000Then you've got people like, I don't know if you're familiar with Jonathan Pai.
00:45:10.000So I was doing stand-up clubs every night and you kind of say things and you see I wasn't like you know saying like isn't this stuff crazy?
00:45:16.000That's what I was kind of saying like five years ago and over the last three years it was kind of like oh yeah crazy woke stuff like everyone's kind of rolling their eyes at it already.
00:46:28.000That's why there's all these rapper millionaires.
00:46:30.000But what happens with this stuff is if you went to these places now that have that culture, like Vice or whatever, and you go, hey, this stuff's kind of like drying up.
00:47:33.000Posting the things, like, yo, women rule, or whatever, right?
00:47:36.000And then, essentially, they go to buy stuff, and they're like, hey, we're gonna do an edgy program, and Dove's like, yo, we're not doing that, we're woke.
00:47:42.000And they're like, well, you don't have to be woke.
00:47:43.000They're like, you're the one that told us to be woke!
00:47:46.000I know what's really going on with Dove soap.
00:48:44.000We're trying to get moms to eat a pint of Ben & Jerry's every night, and they don't want to because we got these commercials of all these super thin women, and they're like...
00:49:12.000Like, if ever a document came out, like, dude, if you're from WikiLeaks and you're on this, if you could find an internal email being like, yo, let's do like a fat soap campaign.
00:50:50.000So they did the what commercial they didn't they didn't know what to do because sales were going down and they thought maybe this was part of the scramble.
00:51:12.000So, this whole thing's really, really funny, but because of, like, Dollar Shave Club and Harry's, cheaper razors delivered every month, they've been losing money.
00:51:19.000So then all of a sudden this ad comes out where they're like, men, do better.
00:53:14.000I've had videos myself where I put them up.
00:53:16.000You know the one where you're talking about the porn stars?
00:53:19.000It's too much swearing and stuff, but basically I made this video with some porn stars and it was like a comedy video.
00:53:26.000It's on my channel, but it's kind of irrelevant what it was about, but I put it on my TikTok and it did like 2 million views and I lost 20,000 subscribers.
00:53:36.000There is a possibility, but if you work for an advertising firm, what happens is you go to these companies and you're like, you hired me to do this advertising campaign, they go back and they go, look at this, we did 20 million impressions, the CPM on that, what a successful campaign, and they all pop the champagne, one of the most successful campaigns, we'll win advertising awards, and you're like, yeah, but what you didn't mention is, Half of those, maybe more than half of those, was people sharing it, saying like, I hate this.
00:54:56.000Okay, so yeah, basically how these models do is they sell the clicks, they say vice, like, we're the cool guy, you know, you want some vice clicks?
00:55:03.000We're charging more than other people because you're buying a cool guy, you know?
00:59:27.000And I think that was a little bit where these kids kind of, you know, younger people go to these companies and they explain it in the way that they're, they go, no, this is just how it works.
00:59:46.000But the other thing you even mentioned and the thing that kind of always makes me laugh is they're kind of going and saying, this is what the kids want or whatever.
00:59:53.000But the truth is what they're saying is this is what we millennials want.
00:59:57.000And like the younger people, the people that are 20 hate this stuff.
01:00:00.000And millennials just can't get past the fact that like, you know, we're the same age.
01:00:34.000And they did have something, but man, right around the time I started working there, it just became very corporate very, very quickly.
01:00:40.000But the one thing I was going to mention too, it's not so much about the ad rights manipulation, where someone will say, we want to sell a million ads, a million views, and so they just throw garbage at it.
01:00:52.000They'll also, here's what they'll do, I'll say to you, I'm gonna make a video for you, and it'll cost you 10 grand, but I guarantee you I can get your video a million views.
01:01:04.000And they just run it on a generic ad run on YouTube or something.
01:01:08.000You can get it as much as you want if you pay for it.
01:01:10.000Exactly, but then they come back and they go, look how successful the campaign was!
01:02:10.000But yeah, the one thing that just reminded me of advice is the so this is another one when they came to Canada, they were like, Okay, we want to do you know, they made this big venture deal.
01:02:20.000So every place that goes to a different country from America, they make these crazy deals with the government where they're like, We're going to make so much content, we're going to give everyone jobs, don't you worry.
01:02:30.000So then the government gives them tax breaks to come.
01:02:33.000And then once they actually have to make the stuff, they're like, yeah, we're lying, we're not going to do that.
01:03:16.000But so they they came in and they were like, yeah, again, this was like when they were kind of, you know, making cool stuff and not that they don't make anything good, but it's like they're Culture department and journalist stuff is, you know, just completely garbage, right?
01:03:29.000And they said, they brought me into this room and they played this video being like, yo, Vice, we want to make content that can't be made in a boardroom.
01:03:39.000And we're all watching this from a boardroom.
01:03:41.000And everyone looked around being like, they can't be serious.
01:03:44.000Like the lack of self-awareness to play us a video that says we want to make stuff that can't ever be talked about in a boardroom, sitting in a boardroom, you go, you guys are cooked, dude.
01:03:53.000They don't even like, they've stopped even pretending to like care.
01:03:56.000It's kind of sad though, man, because when I first, the first time I went to Vice, I walk into this rickety old building in Brooklyn.
01:04:04.000There was literally a skate ramp in the Vice building in the early days because it was a skate shop and skate park.
01:04:10.000I go upstairs and all the bosses are sitting in the exact same room with just exposed brick walls and crappy desks, sitting side by side working with people.
01:04:18.000And then within, you know, I don't know, six, seven months, it was like everything was remodeled, redone, corporate, brought in HR department.
01:04:24.000I'm like, man, this is not fun anymore.
01:04:27.000This is like, it was, it went from like when I first started, Also, can you write articles about why you suck?
01:04:33.000You're like, yeah, especially because you're like a journalist, right?
01:04:36.000You're like, you know, you were kind of, I guess, attracted to when there people are going to doing these docs in Russia and that.
01:04:41.000They're like, hey, can you go to like Wall Street and do a documentary about why you suck?
01:04:54.000I want to write this ridiculous article about, you know, crazy BS.
01:04:56.000And they'd be like, yeah, you're in your 20s doing fun stuff.
01:04:59.000Yeah, now then it became plastic, where it was like, OK, we've got, you know, we used to have this gritty, fun and exciting youth kind of, you know, edgy outlet.
01:05:08.000Now let's fit it into a package, slap the brand on it and ship it out nationwide for Christmas.
01:05:13.000And then they're like, we don't want this.
01:05:15.000And then they go, show them the half pipe again.
01:05:17.000And they go, look, we've got a hive pipe, you've got to buy this.
01:05:21.000It feels like there was some young edgy dudes who were having a wild adventure and then they saw their opportunity and they said, here's the franchise formula, have a nice day.
01:05:43.000Like, I always kind of rag on these organizations, but when I made that video, there was people at Fox and CNN that were both like, dude, I work there, and it's honestly kind of like that, and I hate it.
01:05:52.000So there are real journalists that, you know, work at these organizations that, the same reason, like, you know, in Canada, I've worked at these, you know, made TV shows at these places that have that culture, where from the outside, you're like, this place is junk, and there's a lot of people there that are like, yeah, dude, I hate this too.
01:06:07.000I'm trying to make some cool stuff, and I'm getting shut down at every, so.
01:06:10.000These people gotta speak up, like, blow the whistle, and just talk about the culture.
01:06:14.000Look, I had a contract, I wanted to leave, I left, and I just, like, dude, I'm never gonna sign an NDA on that stuff, I'll come out and say it.
01:07:43.000So when I was leaving, it was straight up like, Nobody nobody quits, and I had a bunch of I have friends I had friends with it who stayed there for a long time And they were like what do you mean?
01:07:52.000You're quitting nobody quits, and I was like dude.
01:07:55.000I'm not gonna like I do my thing I'm on a path of success if at any point.
01:08:00.000I feel like it's not working for me I go my own way, and they were shocked because everybody was so desperate to work there the line was out the door and But look, you know, I could see what was happening.
01:08:12.000It was, look, the company made a lot of money.
01:08:15.000It's a very successful business, but it wasn't a culture that I wanted to be a part of at a certain point.
01:08:22.000I mean, like, you know, anyone who gets good at any of this kind of stuff, you feel the energy when it's growing and you feel the energy of when something's like becoming stale and being on the wrong side of, you know, what, especially like the new movements are and stuff like that.
01:09:27.000I cashed the check for the other company.
01:09:29.000And it's funny, because I saw what was happening.
01:09:30.000And so I figured, when I got reached, so I got this recruiting company reached out to me that was, you know, it was ABC News Univision.
01:09:38.000And they were like, we want to be like Vice.
01:09:41.000We want to be that edgy, young, And so I thought to myself, if this is where things are kind of going, and I feel like I'm gonna be underpaid here, why not just go to the big company and have full control?
01:09:56.000So I was like, if you want to be in that culture and be like that, why wouldn't I just go to the company that's already got the cash and is going to pony up the big bucks?
01:10:07.000I mean, you want to do those jobs when you're in your early 20s and then you make a couple big moves in your life if you're going to stay in that world.
01:10:15.000You know, I had a conversation with someone from Vice, and the general idea was, they were like, if you leave, you lose the cool factor.
01:11:17.000Like the things you're mentioning about these tech companies, how they sell ads, the fake game they play, the marketing companies that are telling people to get woke.
01:11:24.000And then it results in trash content nobody wants.
01:11:27.000But the point I was making before about how it's kind of like an anchor, is that once you get woke, you don't go back.
01:11:33.000No, you can't, because the culture's too ingrained, you know?
01:11:35.000It's like, again, once you've... You basically tell everyone, hey, if we do something else, we're racist.
01:13:03.000It always happens in comedy too, it's like the thing that you're making fun of becomes obsolete, but the thing... Like for example, you know if you were talking about, you know the cop shows that are like, hey Riggs, you know, we're gonna do... whatever, right?
01:13:18.000You know what, I'll say this first because it was making me laugh in my head.
01:13:23.000The idea of you retired from Vice and then Vice being like, can you come back, do an article?
01:13:28.000And you're like, you know, I don't do that anymore.
01:13:38.000And then they like open a briefcase and it's a bunch of rigs.
01:13:45.000Yeah, yeah, it's just a ring it's in and look I think yeah, yeah, I couldn't get through my boy cuz I was making myself It's a briefcase with a one-way.
01:13:55.000Yeah, and you're like, all right one last job Get me my plaid shirt With rolled-up sleeves and then it's like that it's writing an article and it's like the the crack addicted coal miners Siberia And you're like, why can't someone else do it?
01:14:10.000They're like, they can't talk to the crack addicted coal miners.
01:14:13.000It's only you that have the skills to infiltrate.
01:14:19.000One of the things that I got pitched when I was there was a story about in South South American mountains where the men have to climb up and like do mining on like mountaintops or whatever.
01:16:49.000Talked to security and they were like, it was the middle of the night, you gotta wait till the sun cracks, because you don't want to get killed.
01:16:53.000Sun cracked, got in the cab, got to the airport, got on that plane, and I was sitting outside the gate, waiting for boarding, and that's what I was asked by the guy's advice.
01:17:02.000They were like, why don't you just, you know, this is the story.
01:17:05.000And I was like, they're gonna throw me in prison, dude.
01:17:25.000No, but I was talking to some family members and they said, well, if you go to prison, you'll probably in for a couple, you'll be in for a couple of years, but the state department will eventually get, will eventually get you out.
01:17:34.000And then you can write a book about it.
01:17:54.000Your lawyer thinks you're calling him to negotiate the book deal.
01:17:57.000The point I was bringing up with my family member was not that they were encouraging me to go to prison, it was they were like, that's the mentality of what they're thinking.
01:18:03.000They want you to stay because then they could have this international insight.
01:18:05.000Our journalist was there, he was totally on the level.
01:18:08.000I'm not saying that's actually what they wanted, Yeah, they wouldn't hurt.
01:19:29.000And what they think happened was that the Venezuelan cybersecurity infrastructure was trying to get me to make a phone call from inside the country so they could find out where I was.
01:20:42.000Some rich dude, they're like, hey, we're going to send all your like, I mean, to be fair, if someone was in my group chats right now and was like, hey, we have like, I just have a transcript of all your group chats and I'm going to release them all.
01:21:36.000Well, this is kind of a... The truth is, who knows?
01:21:40.000And even James doesn't know, necessarily.
01:21:42.000But the first thing is, first, I've never seen anything with more hate.
01:21:46.000Like, anything I've done, anything a lot of my friends have done, where people go, the whole internet goes, you're the worst!
01:21:52.000The only thing I've seen like this was when Ari Shaffir did the Kobe thing, and everyone on the internet was like, this guy is... Basically, when he said New York City's dead forever, people basically saw it as if he went to the Twin Towers the day they came down and spit on the ashes.
01:22:07.000I don't know if you were following this at all, but the amount of visceral hate.
01:22:11.000I was doing comedy shows in New York still, and I would talk to comics,
01:22:15.000the people would be talking about it, and they go, that guy's an idiot.
01:23:53.000I mean, I think if a landlord came up to you and they're like, yo, you're evicted, you're like, yeah, I'm not going anywhere, so go sue me, I guess.
01:24:23.000And so it's like when I read this article saying New York was dead, and then I read all of these things like the amount of businesses that are permanently closed, the half a million middle-to-upper-class people who have fled already, not to mention that more are leaving inventory for, you know, 13,000 empty apartment buildings, or vacant buildings, I believe.
01:24:39.000And then you got homeless people being put in these hotels in like the Upper East and West Side, like these richer areas, like these wealthier areas.
01:24:46.000Yeah, people are just like, No, I sort of misinterpreted your last question.
01:24:49.000I thought you meant, what's it like in general?
01:24:51.000I actually forgot that we were relating it back to this article of whether- Oh, New York is dead.
01:24:58.000Yeah, but I think that it is true that a lot of the points he made, and there is this thing where how long can you push it and push it and push it?
01:25:04.000I mean, this is what happened in Silicon Valley, right?
01:25:06.000And I think a lot of what James thinks, too, and not putting words in his mouth, is like when Joe Rogan kind of said, like, all right, LA, enough's enough.
01:26:11.000I think the people that moved Austin, the Peter Thiel's of the world, well I don't know if he moved there, but the hymns of the world that are like, Silicon Valley's out of control, the group conformity is too much, the innovation's dying because the regular, whatever it is, right?
01:26:24.000Housings are too high, all of this stuff, right?
01:26:26.000So they basically all moved Austin in my, like it seems like over the last four or three years kind of thing.
01:26:31.000And then now, it's sort of caught up where Austin's back to where Silicon Valley is now.
01:28:28.000And I do get that because I'm not from New York and there's all this, you know, when people are like, can you believe he said that about New York?
01:29:21.000I didn't like the way that it was shaking down there.
01:29:23.000I saw something here, and I felt like I could make a better life, and then I moved here.
01:29:27.000See, but now, you see, this is exactly what I'm talking about, right?
01:29:29.000See, these people, these communists in California moved to Austin, and this, like you, a Canadian communist, you moved to, I'm just kidding.
01:29:59.000Yeah, dude, I got, um, I came here, uh, and then I did like four or five months, you know, enough to make some, you know, meet people and get into all these comedy clubs and then boom, COVID.
01:30:17.000It's like even this go back to, listen, like what happened in the last little while the industry was so, Uh, we only want this one type of thing and then look at people like you that created your whole little empire here, right?
01:30:28.000And I mean, same thing, the whole podcasting empire, like all of those people would have had TV shows five years ago, but they're like, we don't want this type of guy on TV.
01:30:35.000And it's like, you know, essentially people are very inventive and especially the certain there, you know, one, I would say like one in a hundred people in America has the values of like, I'm going to accomplish what I would like to do no matter what.
01:30:47.000And even at one in a hundred, that's three million people that are willing to do anything to get what they want, right?
01:30:54.000So if you say, okay, we don't want this type of comedy, it's like, okay, we'll create our own thing.
01:30:58.000And there's a lot of people that are willing to do whatever it takes in America, and I think that's one of the things I like about it here.
01:31:04.000So do you think these big industry, like, so Netflix did have a Rogan special, they had a Dave Chappelle special, do you think these- So those are the, but those are legacy people, right?
01:31:14.000Where you get so big, and you know the truth is I even disagree with, not necessarily Rogan, but the way Ricky Gervais talks about cancer culture and jokes, I disagree with him, like, because his take on that sort of thing is always, Oh, it's just jokes.
01:31:26.000Like you should be able to joke about anything, but a lot of times I'm saying these jokes and my audience knows I'm ironic and they actually know the right opinions.
01:31:33.000So he basically says, and I know if you're in that position, he might need to say, no, I'm one of the good guys.
01:31:39.000But the truth is when Ricky Gervais says that, he's like, you know, let's say he has a whole thing making fun of Caitlyn Jenner, like saying that she's not actually hot or whatever, right?
01:32:24.000And because they don't take credit for that, other people kind of, uh, you know, kind of end up having to play in a dishonest ballpark because, so I, I'd rather some of those people just like, just stay out of it if you're going to lie.
01:32:55.000I was like, Trump wins again, you know, meltdowns.
01:32:57.000And then very recently I started to sort of change my brain where I go, maybe the funnier option is Trump loses.
01:33:04.000And just think of every like anti-Trump blog, every anti-Trump blog, you know what I mean?
01:33:10.000Every reply guy on Twitter that his whole identity is hating Trump.
01:33:14.000I was thinking about doing a video of this actually, but like the day after Trump wins, they're just like, I guess Pat Garbage deletes his Twitter account, just walks off into the ocean.
01:35:56.000They'll take Trump out of it, but the whole landscape, it's still there.
01:35:58.000So I think what's likely to happen is, you got these companies, CNN, their whole Sunday morning program is literally like Fox News all day every day.
01:36:07.000And I make fun of him all the time for it, because I'm like, dude, you realize you guys are just the Fox News review channel, right?
01:36:12.000Like, when I complain about the mainstream media, it's always like, it's a bunch of different outlets, and I'm complaining, and I often say, not every single journalist at these outlets, of course.
01:36:20.000It's these, like, political, you know, politicos in the Beltway in D.C.
01:36:26.000But they literally have a show where it's like, the dude wrote a book about Fox News!
01:40:12.000And I don't know if you know this, Tim, but I've also decided I was going to run for president as the first president exclusively for the boys.
01:40:31.000I'm going to need you to speak to some of your friends at Google and high up places because as a Canadian they have banned me from running.
01:41:21.000Yeah, but if you're talking about the facts of something, I don't know if you're... Will, you tell me, like when you're talking about something, do you consider that you're like, this is what I think?
01:41:29.000Or do you sometimes be like, no, I'm telling you what happened?
01:42:00.000And as far as I'm concerned, he's the one who's been consistent on... Look, we had a great first three years with the economy, and so I give him credit for that.
01:42:09.000But anyway, the point I was trying to bring up is not to be like, yay Trump, just to be like...
01:42:13.000I'm not gonna, if Trump wins, I'm gonna be like, wow.
01:42:17.000Because the thing that scares me the most is that all this wokeness stuff that we've been making fun of and laughing about, it's infecting these government agencies.
01:42:38.000People don't realize, man, you get 10% of a staff, and I was reading a study that said 10% is all you need for an ideology to dominate a culture.
01:42:45.000So if the CDC actually starts enforcing this insanity, it's like, you've got some Democratic politicians calling on Joe Biden to condemn the people defending property, not the extremists who are burning it down.
01:43:22.000So either way, no matter who wins, I'm going to go out to the middle of nowhere, I'm going to get some goats and some chickens and just like kick back and grow some tomatoes or whatever.
01:43:29.000Wait for that call to go to the vice, one last job.
01:43:33.000Open the big briefcase with one little tiny one.
01:43:35.000Like the amount of times people kind of say, you know, I'm making all these videos about this stuff and this, the people that are kind of wrapped up in this go, oh, as if it's like that.
01:43:57.000Yeah, and everyone kind of has, but it's, you know, it's, again, it's, it's hard to fight if you're a normal person, because it's one thing where you say, oh, you know, this guy disagrees with me.
01:44:07.000It's another thing where they go, this guy is racist.
01:44:24.000It could go the other way though, right?
01:44:26.000Because a lot of this is a temper tantrum, right?
01:44:28.000That's why I was saying one of the things I was going to do a video about being the first president that runs exclusively on 20-year-old girl opinions, the lifeblood of the media.
01:45:29.000I did an interview with James Lindsay about it.
01:45:31.000Yeah, so you know Brett's he's he's a progressive guy, but he's not insane like these people are so I think it is funny How guys like that kind of got thrown into like the bad boy thing?
01:45:41.000Yeah, but he's still wearing like khaki shorts, right?
01:45:43.000You know he's kind of showing up like the bad boy University professor, and he's got like the polo shirt in the cat Not not not sandals and socks not considered to be like a celebrity hip guy, but you know he's alright, right and But imagine this.
01:45:57.000They put up their Black Lives Matter message.
01:46:14.000So, several polls have come out recently.
01:46:17.000Trump's ahead in Wisconsin, and he's trailing Biden in 15 battleground states, according to CNN, by one point, with a four-point margin of error.
01:46:24.000So, actually, I think I might... It's so hard to get information right now.
01:46:27.000You turn on one thing, and it's like... Yeah, people are scared, dude.
01:49:26.000I guess the idea is, I mean, I kind of argued this a little bit different than what you're saying is that, because I felt a lot of people on the internet are kind of saying, you know, uh, and I, and I do see it that Kamala was a bad choice, but I have had some people in normal life that are kind of your middle of the road swing voters and they see Kamala as like, Oh, someone sensible.
01:49:45.000So I think there are some people that are kind of, I was, I was talking to some family members who said that, you know what I mean?
01:51:09.000I mean, lots of people have said this, that Trump's just going to be like, yeah, I'm just going to get things back to normal so no one's smashing your windows.
01:51:14.000And everyone's like, yeah, all in, dude.
01:51:19.000You know how we're saying that if Trump loses all these people, you're like, what did he even talk about?
01:51:25.000It's the same kind of thing as if the left just said, yeah, remember, we got a little out of hand.
01:51:30.000We're not going to do this identity politics stuff anymore.
01:51:32.000We're not going to tell everyone that they're racist.
01:51:34.000Everyone be like, all right, you're back in and then the right would be like, because there's a lot of right there's just like, yo, this stuff's whack.
01:51:41.000So but all it takes is they wouldn't be that hard for them to do that, but they won't.
01:52:34.000But I think it's more the other way around because the, the pervasive, like it, it's, it's different because it's everyone's, it's your parents are also saying the same thing that everyone's saying.
01:53:09.000And she's like, I'm listening to the boss.
01:53:14.000Can you imagine though if you had a mom like and you came in and you go just so you know There's no such thing as gender and you're like mom.
01:53:20.000I'm a boy and you're like, no I'm a boy.
01:55:45.000The way that I see it is that it's shaking down.
01:55:47.000You already see it with people like you, people that are doing paywalls.
01:55:50.000I bet you it's only a matter of time before you're like, I'll have four people on my different channels.
01:55:56.000Eventually, I was thinking about this, I bet you People will start these movements and you see it in podcasting, these little networks, and eventually Amazon and these streaming services will kind of be like, you know what?
01:56:07.000We'll get the Andrew Schultz channel and we'll have his five things on there.
01:56:11.000And I think it's going to go that way.
01:56:12.000Here's the problem with Netflix or any other network.
01:56:14.000You'll be able to buy the Tim Poole channel.
01:56:16.000If any network comes to me and they're like, yo, we want the exclusive rights to your show.
01:56:20.000I'd be like, I mean, look, you know, Rogan did it with Spotify.
01:58:27.000You don't need 200 million bucks for that.
01:58:29.000You know what the challenge is with having all this money is that you can't... There is a limit to where it's like, what do you really want to do?
01:59:17.000Obviously most people, I get what you're saying, most people you'll give them money and they'll blow it and whatever, but you pick the right person and you're like, here's money and funding to make a movie outside of the system.
01:59:28.000That's the Silicon Valley startup model.
01:59:30.000I guess one way to put it is it's not easy.
01:59:33.000You try to invest in people and I think the challenge I find is...
01:59:37.000I've worked with a lot of people, and I'll be like, okay, so I can help you do these things, but if they don't fight for it and earn it themselves, you know, so I've met a lot of people who are like, I really want to do X, and then I'll be like, great, let's go, and then they just go, oh, I guess I didn't want to do it.
01:59:51.000Well, why don't you do XXX, and here's the money.
01:59:55.000I got a black leather couch right over there in the room.
01:59:59.000We are so far from family-friendly for this episode.
02:00:40.000Obviously, if somebody's like, you know, there's a comedian who just got evicted and now they can't find any work and they've got no cash, money clearly helps them succeed.
02:00:50.000It doesn't help them succeed, it just helps them, you know.
02:00:54.000What I mean to say is that if you had all this money to invest in a project, it's really, really difficult to find people where you can give them money and it's going to make the project happen.
02:01:01.000Because most people I've met, and this is even true for me when I was younger, like, you put me in this position, you put anyone in this position, they have no experience in how to make it happen, it's not going to happen.
02:01:09.000And so this is why investors, it's really funny, they say, investors typically invest in people who don't need it.
02:01:23.000You want to invest in people that would have been successful with or without you, and you just make them the best solver to be involved in it.
02:01:44.000I'm calling a landslide in Massachusetts for Trump.
02:01:46.000Yeah, when I was traveling through the, I don't know, I guess it would, not the South, but I went to Nashville and we kept stopping at places and there'd be like a place that just sold like briskets and then it was a one little brisket thing and then racks and racks of Trump gear.
02:02:03.000I know how you have that, like the Biden life size, life size Trump posters everywhere.
02:02:08.000Yeah, they just, it was just We got a life-size Trump.
02:02:10.000Yeah, and it would just be like with lights.
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02:03:01.000And more importantly, the most potentially most importantly, which is very important because Tim, I didn't tell you this, but I missed my train on the way here so then I Ubered and I took a $500 Uber.
02:03:12.000But your fans are gonna make up to me by subscribing to patreon.com slash the boys cast.
02:03:27.000Listen, I invested in Smith & Wesson yesterday on my buddy's advice, and I put some cash in there, and they're like, whoo, take a peek at that puppy.
02:05:11.000So it's not necessarily that cops are good, but that, oh, that was kind of just a messed up situation where everyone screwed up.
02:05:18.000And it's like, how do we... Yeah, a lot of times it is, you know, it's like all of the things and the problem is people want to put it all in one and the other like it isn't.
02:05:25.000They like to think of gender as a spectrum, but they don't like to think of people screwing up as a spectrum.
02:06:06.000I'm going to be over here with my hippie farm.
02:06:09.000You know, for me, it's like people, you know, and it is true.
02:06:12.000People always want to say, are you on this side or that side?
02:06:14.000It's like, first of all, I identify as a comedian, so that's the most important thing to me, but I'm always going to be more against the side that's telling me what to do.
02:06:37.000I say way worse stuff about the church.
02:06:39.000And if this was 10 years ago, that would not be on TV right now.
02:06:42.000They don't see, no one cares and they're not getting mad about it.
02:06:44.000So I think, I think Ben Shapiro has the biggest conservative podcast and they make fun of him all the time and he rolls with it and laughs.
02:06:51.000Yeah, dude, I actually made a video that made fun of him.
02:06:58.000I was doing the Never Trumper vs. Always Trumper kind of thing, right?
02:07:01.000And what I said was, because he always tried to find like a good thing to make fun of them with, because I didn't want to be like, Ben Shapiro's a... What I said was, watching cool guys like Ben Shapiro, and he lost his virginity at 28!
02:07:14.000I kind of like just took a dig at like some of these bad boy guys.
02:07:18.000And again, whatever, you know, it's not like the worst.
02:07:21.000I don't think any of this stuff was that bad if it's making fun of anyone.
02:07:23.000But then he retweeted it and he was like, actually, it was 24.
02:08:06.000I tweeted something, and then someone made a meme where it was like me in a hot air balloon, but my head was the balloon, and the basket was hanging from my own head, and I was in it.
02:08:37.000Uh, people on the right will, more of a playful jab post memes, and they're funny, and people on the left think they're trying to get me, and I'm like, dude, that was hilarious!
02:08:56.000The funny thing about the one with the little brain is that I'm wearing this old baseball tee that I wore like two years ago that I haven't worn for two years because now my thing is like the shirt with the shirt over it.
02:09:05.000And so I'm like, did you make this last month about a video I did two years ago?
02:09:31.000She smeared a bunch of people, peanut butter, she smeared a bunch of people and then it
02:09:37.000was called the Alternative Influence Network and she claimed that comedians were connected
02:09:41.000from one link to white nationalists and it was the most ridiculous conspiracy nonsense.
02:09:46.000She does a follow-up to it, and she says that she watched all of my videos, and I was like, do you know how much content that is?
02:09:54.000Like, 2,000 videos that are between 10 and 30 minutes long, and I was like, that means she was sitting in her apartment for, like, four hours a day to catch up, because based on the amount of time she spent, From the time she started the project to the time she finished, I was like, dude, I tweeted it and I was like, wow.
02:10:11.000I was like, I'm actually really impressed because that means you were watching probably like five hours of my content every day to catch up.
02:10:16.000Because I do, I was doing at the time two hours per day.
02:10:22.000And I'm like, so if you're going to watch all of my content, That means you had to be watching at least two hours a day, double time, to try and catch up to the content I was making today.
02:10:35.000And then she wrote like this article, and it wasn't even- it wasn't a hit piece or anything, it was like, Tim Poole's a moderate who says these things, and I'm like, you watched.
02:10:42.000That's a lot of work for that bad boy house.
02:11:06.000Dude, I've been having that conversation with all these, like, you know, industry people when they're... A lot of the first things I'm asking people is, like, you know, what would you do if, like, how would you handle, like, if someone, you know, if I got in this scandal and some people canceled me and blah, blah, and they're like, well, no, I really like your stuff, I'm a fan, but, like, obviously if you said something, like, really offensive, I'm like, yeah, that, that's what I'm talking about.
02:12:53.000So here's the point, ultimately, the jokes we've made on this show, at a certain point, if we carry on this track, people are going to be like, look at this podcast he did three years ago.
02:13:02.000And then on the other side, they go too far.
02:13:06.000You know, the truth is with people calling stuff gay or whatever, there was a point where I think most people, everyone, like, people were kind of like, yo, listen, like, we don't like that word if you don't mind it.
02:13:15.000Honestly, everyone was kind of like, yeah, yeah, we're kind of done with it anyway.
02:13:18.000And then it was like, yeah, you better not say it.
02:13:56.000And like, that's why it's like, don't pretend that all of a sudden you're turning a new leaf when it was only a couple years ago you were like making all of this racist content.
02:14:05.000You were doing what was in vogue then and you're doing what's in vogue now.
02:15:33.000That's my general understanding, but we really do need more footage to come out.
02:15:37.000There was a deep analysis on it that's really, wow, incredible, where they isolated individuals and traced them through the video so you can clearly see, by color coordinating, that the dude who shot the guy in the head was being attacked.
02:16:10.000Hey Tim, the Aussie government is about to put through a law to give big media corporations an edge by giving them YouTube algorithm data and up to 60 times of their ad revenue they bring in.
02:18:19.000No, I don't think it was the Bundys, but super famous.
02:18:22.000I feel like people in the chat would even probably be saying it.
02:18:24.000I don't know if they're in real time like that.
02:18:25.000But anyways, there was this cult in the middle of somewhere and then the police came and they had a standoff for like months and then they burned the place down.