Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Pence Says "NOT MY CONCERN" When Tucker Asks About Failing US Cities w-Shannon Bray

00:00:00.000 Tucker Carlson is hosting this sit down forum with the presidential candidates on the Republican

00:00:27.000 side, except for Donald Trump. And the Internet is exploding, says the Postmillennial, because

00:00:32.000 Mike Pence has apparently committed political suicide by saying, that's not my concern.

00:00:38.000 When asked about U.S.

00:00:40.000 cities in reference to wanting to fund Ukraine.

00:00:42.000 Now, some are arguing, he didn't really mean that, it's being taken out of context, but the general idea is that Mike Pence is talking about how we've got to fund and support Ukraine.

00:00:51.000 Tucker says, what about American cities?

00:00:53.000 And then Mike Pence said, unfortunately, whether he meant it or not, that's not my concern.

00:00:58.000 He does go on to say we want to fix up our borders and make America better and things like that, but this is interesting.

00:01:03.000 This is the new way we are having these political discussions.

00:01:06.000 It's not so much the old school style debate, so we'll talk about that.

00:01:09.000 Now, because of this, we're seeing a major swing in prediction markets with Vivek Ramaswamy skyrocketing.

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00:05:37.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and a whole lot more is Shannon Bray.

00:05:41.000 Hello, thanks for having me.

00:05:43.000 Who are you?

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00:05:49.000 That's my side job.

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00:05:59.000 Oh, that's a tough job.

00:06:01.000 It's a losing job.

00:06:02.000 But you're a libertarian?

00:06:04.000 I am.

00:06:04.000 You're running North Carolina?

00:06:05.000 Absolutely.

00:06:06.000 You're going to get rid of the IRS?

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00:06:10.000 I'll just exaggerate.

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00:06:22.000 is the same.

00:06:23.000 We're not going to get anywhere without new ideas and new politicians.

00:06:29.000 Ultimately, I plan on going there with a wrecking ball and making some serious changes.

00:06:33.000 Right on.

00:06:33.000 Well, thanks for hanging out.

00:06:34.000 This will be fun.

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00:06:36.000 Hello, everybody.

00:06:37.000 My name is Phil Labonte.

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00:06:51.000 Happy to be here.

00:06:52.000 Happy Friday, everybody.

00:06:54.000 It is Kellan.

00:06:54.000 I am pressing the buttons today.

00:06:56.000 I'm ready to go when you guys are.

00:06:58.000 And I'll just add, nobody's here today!

00:07:01.000 I'm like, where is everybody?

00:07:02.000 Everyone's on vacation or on some mission.

00:07:04.000 People are out doing journalism.

00:07:05.000 Ian's not here.

00:07:06.000 He's out filming.

00:07:07.000 I got a message like midway through the show.

00:07:09.000 They're like, can you do the show tonight?

00:07:10.000 I'm like trying to talk and send the message.

00:07:13.000 Yes, I can.

00:07:14.000 Yeah, Ian's not here.

00:07:15.000 And just an announcement for everybody.

00:07:17.000 I'm going to be out all next week.

00:07:18.000 Seamus will be filling in hosting the show all next week.

00:07:21.000 We have a bunch of really, really amazing guests.

00:07:23.000 It's going to be absolutely fantastic.

00:07:25.000 And, uh, unfortunately for me, something I really, really don't want to do, I am going to a sports injury specialist to get, uh, uh, repairs done on my busted up leg.

00:07:35.000 So, uh, it is what it is.

00:07:37.000 Nothing I can do about it.

00:07:38.000 But let's, uh, let's jump into this first story.

00:07:40.000 We got this from the post-millennial.

00:07:42.000 Internet explodes with memes after Mike Pence commits career suicide in interview with Tucker Carlson.

00:07:48.000 Following Pence's... I'm sorry.

00:07:49.000 Social media exploded on Friday after former Vice President Mike Pence spoke with Tucker Carlson at the summit in Iowa, claiming that American cities are, quote, not my concern, while reiterating his support for the US sending more tanks to Ukraine.

00:08:01.000 Now, I want to play this clip, make sure I actually play the full clip, because when I first saw it...

00:08:08.000 I felt like we weren't getting the proper context, and this might not actually be the full context.

00:08:15.000 So... Well, let's just play this clip and see if we have it, and then we'll talk about it.

00:08:21.000 Is it playing?

00:08:21.000 Oh, come on, Twitter.

00:08:23.000 We love Twitter, but not when that happens.

00:08:26.000 Alright, where's the audio at?

00:08:29.000 Right there, actually.

00:08:30.000 All right.

00:08:31.000 And now I am... There we go.

00:08:34.000 You are distressed that the Ukrainians don't have enough American tanks.

00:08:40.000 Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years.

00:08:45.000 Drive around.

00:08:46.000 There's not one city that's gotten better in the United States.

00:08:50.000 And it's visible.

00:08:51.000 Our economy has degraded.

00:08:53.000 The suicide rate has jumped.

00:08:55.000 Public filth and disorder and crime have Exponentially increased, and yet your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can't find on a map, who've received tens of billions of U.S.

00:09:08.000 tax dollars, don't have enough tanks. 1.00

00:09:10.000 I think it's a fair question to ask, like, where's the concern for the United States in that?

00:09:14.000 Oh, it's not my concern.

00:09:17.000 Tucker, I've heard that routine from you before, but that's not my concern.

00:09:21.000 I'm running for president of the United States because I think this country's in a lot of trouble.

00:09:25.000 I think Joe Biden has weakened America at home and abroad.

00:09:29.000 And as President of the United States, we're going to restore law and order in our cities, we're going to secure our border, we're going to get this economy moving again, and we're going to make sure that we have men and women on our courts at every level that will stand for the right to life and defend all the God-given liberties enshrined in our Constitution.

00:09:48.000 Anybody that says that we can't be the leader of the free world and solve our problems at home has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on Earth.

00:09:57.000 We can do both.

00:10:00.000 So, before the show we were watching this, the question was, did he literally just say that American cities are not his concern?

00:10:09.000 And Phil, do you want to give your point of view on that?

00:10:13.000 Yeah, I mean, look, I think that he was answering the previous time that Tucker said, was referring to his concerns. So Tucker says,

00:10:24.000 you're concerned with Ukraine and giving money to Ukraine, etc.

00:10:28.000 And then Tucker goes on to say, there's all these problems at home.

00:10:33.000 And then Tucker uses the phrase concern again.

00:10:37.000 I think that Pence was replying to the first time that he used,

00:10:41.000 first time that Tucker used concern, because then Pence goes on to talk about the problems in

00:10:47.000 the United States.

00:10:48.000 You know, and so...

00:10:50.000 But what's the finality of his statement?

00:10:53.000 He does talk about Ukraine.

00:10:54.000 He says, if you think we can't be the leader of the free world, then you've got a small view.

00:11:00.000 Yeah.

00:11:02.000 I'm sorry, man.

00:11:03.000 I hear what you're saying, and part of me is like, maybe we give him the benefit of the doubt, but I can't do it.

00:11:09.000 I'm not giving him... I mean, I wouldn't vote for his ass anyway, so it doesn't matter. 0.99

00:11:15.000 Who would? 1.00

00:11:15.000 I mean, seriously. 1.00

00:11:17.000 I do think it's funny that everybody... This is going viral.

00:11:19.000 There's like 50,000 tweets in the past couple hours or whatever, and I'm just like, ain't nobody was gonna vote for this guy in the first place.

00:11:27.000 What's he trending at on the...

00:11:29.000 Unpredicted market.

00:11:32.000 Three cents.

00:11:33.000 He's below Nikki Haley.

00:11:37.000 It's only worth talking about for jokes.

00:11:41.000 Or to discuss what did people mean.

00:11:46.000 Stars and Garters, my friends, we just refreshed this to pull up Mike Pence's numbers.

00:11:51.000 Vivek Ramaswamy is nearly tied with Ron DeSantis.

00:11:55.000 Ron dropping down now to 15 cents, with Vivek skyrocketing to 13 up 3, with Ron down 1.

00:12:02.000 Closing in on second place.

00:12:03.000 These are not polls, these are prediction markets.

00:12:05.000 There is a slight correlation, obviously, with polling.

00:12:09.000 But these are people making bets on who they think is going to win.

00:12:12.000 And what you're basically seeing is real-time I would say decentralized computing power as to what may actually happen.

00:12:20.000 So these prediction markets have a tendency to be correct, but it's not absolute.

00:12:26.000 What do you think?

00:12:28.000 On the prediction market?

00:12:31.000 I think your statement is the equivalent of going home and telling your wife that, hey, she didn't mean anything.

00:12:38.000 The cashier who checked me out was pretty professional.

00:12:42.000 So it doesn't really matter what you say after that statement.

00:12:46.000 It did a lot of damage.

00:12:47.000 And it doesn't really acknowledge that I think he's missing his base, right?

00:12:51.000 That people here, especially people who would already be more inclined to vote for him than say someone on the left, don't want us in Ukraine and they don't want us involved in a bunch of globalist nonsense.

00:13:02.000 So he's missing the mark anyways by talking about whether the fact that we can do both.

00:13:07.000 People don't want you focusing on both.

00:13:08.000 They want you focusing here at home right now.

00:13:11.000 I don't care if we send tanks to Ukraine.

00:13:13.000 Personally.

00:13:14.000 You don't.

00:13:15.000 You mean you don't care if we're doing it, as in, you don't care to do it?

00:13:17.000 No, no, no.

00:13:18.000 I don't care to send weapons of mass destruction over to a country.

00:13:22.000 It sounded like you were saying, let them do it.

00:13:23.000 I don't care.

00:13:24.000 Oh, no, no, no.

00:13:24.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:13:25.000 Thanks for that clarification.

00:13:27.000 I don't want my tax dollars fighting another person for it.

00:13:30.000 You almost pulled a Mike Pence thing.

00:13:31.000 Yes, yes, yes.

00:13:32.000 Political suicide.

00:13:33.000 Well, you know, I'm a libertarian, so it's kind of hard to kill me off.

00:13:35.000 That's why I was like, what?

00:13:39.000 So, ultimately, I think the big news yesterday, which we only talked about a little bit, Joe Biden calling in reserves, selected reserves and ready reserves to be sent to Europe.

00:13:49.000 Yep.

00:13:50.000 I'm sorry, man.

00:13:52.000 Our culture today does not support this kind of foreign intervention.

00:13:58.000 For whatever reason, you know what I think it is?

00:14:00.000 I think Ron Paul has a lot to do with it.

00:14:03.000 I think Ron Paul was speaking up in the late 2000s to a lot of young people, people my age, and not to mention combined with the anti-war stuff that was coming during the Bush years.

00:14:15.000 And then all of a sudden we're like, you got Democrats saying no war, you got Ron Paul running as a Republican saying no war.

00:14:20.000 Hey, you know what?

00:14:21.000 Most of us agree with that position and don't see a good reason for U.S.

00:14:25.000 intervention overseas.

00:14:27.000 We look back at history, we look at what the Founding Fathers thought of this, and we say ultimately, yeah, we shouldn't be doing it.

00:14:32.000 Now that's a big problem for the neocons and the neolibs and people like Mike Pence who are like, we're leaders of the free world.

00:14:38.000 Yeah, what he's really saying is, your labor, the work you do every day, when you look at your paycheck and you see that negative number for income tax, it's going to bombs, and guns, and tanks, and now they're deploying more U.S.

00:14:52.000 personnel to reserves.

00:14:54.000 That's terrifying.

00:14:55.000 To be sent to Europe for this, what is it, Atlantic Resolve or whatever it's called?

00:14:59.000 Why?

00:14:59.000 How about our borders?

00:15:01.000 How about our roads?

00:15:02.000 And that's exactly what Tucker was saying to Mike Pence.

00:15:05.000 I gotta tell you.

00:15:06.000 This is not his concern.

00:15:08.000 Right, if he couldn't navigate that question properly, and he had to.

00:15:12.000 Imagine this.

00:15:14.000 You nailed it when you said she didn't mean that much to me, to your wife.

00:15:17.000 Mike Pence is basically saying, To the face of all of these people begging to know why our money is going overseas, don't worry, it's somewhat worth it for some vague and nebulous reason, but I'll take care of the rest, too.

00:15:29.000 It's exactly as you described telling your wife, don't worry, she doesn't mean anything to me.

00:15:31.000 Establishment Republicans are trying to have their cake and eat it, too.

00:15:34.000 They really want to, because there are still hawks in the Republican Party that want to see the United States Be an expansive power and they want to see the United States return to a situation similar to probably prior to the Iraq war.

00:15:50.000 They love the Bush years too.

00:15:51.000 Yeah, you know, so I mean to think that to think that he's not trying to play to both I think is probably misguided because like he's got he has to get Trump's You know, hypothetically, if he's going to win, he has to convince enough Trump voters, and he has to convince people in the middle.

00:16:11.000 People in the middle are not going to be compelled by a guy that's essentially a religious fundamentalist, or borderline at least.

00:16:19.000 He's a very religious person.

00:16:20.000 I don't know if we call him fundamentalist, but whatever.

00:16:22.000 He's very religious.

00:16:24.000 Yeah, I don't think so.

00:16:25.000 I think he's like stock neocon with a religious tint for the purpose of getting votes.

00:16:32.000 Well yeah, he was the reason why it was such a good thing for Trump, right?

00:16:34.000 Because he colored him in just the way he needed to be.

00:16:36.000 He was supposed to be the establisher, but he was also supposed to be the guy that made it okay for the evangelicals to vote for Trump.

00:16:42.000 That was part of the reason why they picked him too, is because of his... I mean, I had a bunch of friends that are progressives that were like, no really, he tried to shock the gay out of people when Pence got elected, or when Trump got elected. 0.94

00:16:54.000 So like, there was a whole lot of people that were afraid of it, at least afraid of his religious bona fides or whatever.

00:17:00.000 But he's got to get the middle and I don't think that there's any kind of... I don't see a path for him just overall.

00:17:06.000 I don't see how he gets the middle and satisfies Trump voters and stuff who want nothing to do with Ukraine and also satisfies like the FAFO morons on Twitter, you know? 0.89

00:17:17.000 It's antithetical to the populist movement that's going on right now, which is very, very anti-war. 0.90

00:17:22.000 Yeah.

00:17:24.000 Now a lot of people, I think there's a lot of people for some reason who like Pence who are like, come on, you know, he didn't really mean that.

00:17:29.000 And it's just, you know, my response to that is like, okay, fine, fair point, whatever, if that's what you want to believe.

00:17:33.000 But in the world of politics, let's just talk superficially.

00:17:37.000 Pence just He just stumbled on a black sandbag on stage and fell down in front of everybody.

00:17:43.000 Doesn't matter if that's what he wanted you to believe or even what he meant.

00:17:46.000 What matters is what people take from what you said, and the moment you give them a soundbite that juicy, it doesn't matter what you meant because history won't remember it.

00:17:56.000 He just fell up the stairs.

00:17:58.000 Three times in a row.

00:18:00.000 But I mean, look, who likes Mike Pence?

00:18:02.000 What does he have to offer us?

00:18:04.000 But for real, can we name any real policy of Pence's?

00:18:07.000 I can tell you this, I know one policy of his.

00:18:09.000 More money and weapons for Ukraine.

00:18:11.000 Never go into a room with a woman without your wife there. 1.00

00:18:13.000 That's the only policy of his I remember.

00:18:15.000 Look, if you're in D.C.

00:18:19.000 and trying to navigate D.C., it's probably not a bad idea.

00:18:23.000 It's a very good idea.

00:18:24.000 The Pence rule, I endorse that.

00:18:25.000 That's the only thing I remember though.

00:18:28.000 Mike Pence was basically whispering to you, hey dude, it's me too era, make sure your wife is with you at all times.

00:18:35.000 And then they attack him for it, for that reason probably.

00:18:37.000 Yeah, because, you know, some of these weirdos want to lie, cheat, and steal, and accuse people of all sorts of nasty stuff.

00:18:42.000 They made a whole big deal about him calling his wife mother.

00:18:46.000 Because it was always, are you not allowed to go to dinner?

00:18:50.000 You have mother, and blah, blah, blah, you know? 0.94

00:18:52.000 And then Kavanaugh happens, and they wonder why it was such a big deal.

00:18:54.000 Like, oh, shocking.

00:18:56.000 Let's talk about Vivek Ramaswamy, because we have this clip here from Tucker as well.

00:19:01.000 Vivek tweeted a clip.

00:19:02.000 I want to play for you guys.

00:19:03.000 I'll just play it.

00:19:04.000 You know, my parents came to this country with almost no money.

00:19:07.000 I've gone on to found multi-billion dollar companies.

00:19:10.000 And then people tell me, oh, that's because you had privilege.

00:19:14.000 They tell me white privilege.

00:19:15.000 It's sort of an interesting... It's kind of interesting.

00:19:18.000 Do you tell them?

00:19:21.000 Tucker's great.

00:19:22.000 I take the blindfold off.

00:19:25.000 Do you tell them?

00:19:26.000 But the interesting answer is, actually what I do tell them, Tucker, is that I did have privilege.

00:19:32.000 I didn't grow up in money, but I had two parents in the house, a mother and a father, with a focus on education and a faith in God.

00:19:40.000 And you know what?

00:19:41.000 That is the ultimate privilege.

00:19:43.000 That if I'm going to enjoy that, every kid in this country ought to enjoy it too.

00:19:48.000 So, from that clip, and the reason I wanted to play it is, I'm gonna refresh for you right now the prediction markets for the GOP presidential nomination, which currently has Vivek Ramaswamy at 13 cents, Ron DeSantis at 15, and Trump at 62.

00:20:00.000 Trump, the clear frontrunner, let's refresh and see where we're at.

00:20:02.000 And, Vivek has dropped down by 1 cent, Ron DeSantis has gone up by 1 cent.

00:20:07.000 These things are very much in flux.

00:20:09.000 Considering these clips are still going around right now, but Vivek Ramaswamy has skyrocketed.

00:20:15.000 I mean, if we take a look at this, let's go to 90 days in the prediction market.

00:20:19.000 Take a look at it.

00:20:20.000 He's jumping.

00:20:20.000 He is climbing the ranks.

00:20:22.000 DeSantis is dropping down rather quickly.

00:20:25.000 I do think, and again, these are not polls, but I think the people who are tracking the political landscape, who are making bets on what the outcome is going to be, I think we're very close to seeing Vivek Ramaswamy take second place relatively soon.

00:20:40.000 I think that, like what Vivek said at the very end, like I'm an agnostic and I agree with him.

00:20:47.000 Oh, hands down.

00:20:47.000 That flip was fantastic.

00:20:48.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:20:49.000 Family privilege.

00:20:51.000 That's why he's advancing in the polls like this, because he speaks, I think that he speaks in a very authentic way.

00:21:01.000 He doesn't sound like a politician, I don't think, or at least he doesn't come across like a politician to people, because he does sound very polished, but I don't feel like he's I like listening to him.

00:21:11.000 I think all his arguments are compelling.

00:21:13.000 And maybe that's my own personal opinion because I'm rather I find his his his 0.85

00:21:19.000 Arguments compelling so I like listening to him. Yeah, I think all his arguments are compelling

00:21:24.000 I just everything he is He wants to dismantle the government in various pieces and

00:21:30.000 I think what he says a lot is some smart solution So I'm happy that he's getting this out to get a little bit

00:21:37.000 more name recognition And I'm surprised that the Santas has followed so much

00:21:41.000 But you know he has so much negative attention now that I mean with with Disney whether you're right or wrong

00:21:46.000 It is anti-cannabis whether that's right or wrong. He's just kind of like just just driving it into the ground

00:21:53.000 Yeah you know look Don't ask me why.

00:21:55.000 I've got my opinions on these things.

00:21:58.000 But what I've been saying to many dissented supporters is just look at the prediction markets and the polls.

00:22:04.000 He's going down.

00:22:06.000 That is not for me wanting it to happen.

00:22:08.000 I think he's an excellent leader who really has his ear to the ground on all these issues.

00:22:12.000 But I think he's doing a very terrible job campaign-wise.

00:22:15.000 But even if you think I'm wrong, I'm curious why he's in this decline.

00:22:21.000 If you ignore it, it'll only get worse.

00:22:24.000 Yeah, and his wife's a perfect running mate for him. 1.00

00:22:28.000 She's out.

00:22:30.000 She's well-polished.

00:22:32.000 So she's adding, I think, a lot of value, but then at the same time, he's obviously crashing.

00:22:37.000 Not enough value.

00:22:39.000 What do you guys want?

00:22:41.000 Uh, I would... Libertarian.

00:22:42.000 Libertarian.

00:22:43.000 Well, you're a libertarian, too, Phil.

00:22:44.000 Man, if Vivek and RFK made it, I feel like America wins.

00:22:50.000 To just the voting.

00:22:51.000 Why RFK, though?

00:22:52.000 Disavow.

00:22:53.000 I'm a big fan of him.

00:22:56.000 He's got a big, long history of very authoritarian positions.

00:22:59.000 Disavow.

00:23:00.000 Disavow.

00:23:01.000 Here's what I would say, personally.

00:23:05.000 For the Democrat leadership, he's the best they got.

00:23:07.000 Yeah.

00:23:08.000 Because with all his bad policies, he's better than all the rest.

00:23:11.000 Way better.

00:23:11.000 You know, so I would love to see that.

00:23:13.000 And so for me, it's kind of like, I'm not a big out libertarian, libertarian party kind of guy.

00:23:18.000 I'm actually more like fairly liberal on the political spectrum.

00:23:22.000 So I look at an RFK Jr.

00:23:24.000 like, you know, I think he's really trying to be a populist.

00:23:26.000 He's really trying to reach the people.

00:23:28.000 And he's speaking about a lot of current issues that are good.

00:23:32.000 So we've talked about the power of like a Trump-Kennedy ticket.

00:23:35.000 But I don't want to ask you about Republicans, because you're a Libertarian.

00:23:39.000 Is there someone you want to see run for the Libertarian ticket?

00:23:44.000 I've seen a couple people who are running for the Libertarian ticket, but yeah, I don't quite feel that they're quite ready for the task.

00:23:52.000 Who's announced for the Libertarians?

00:23:54.000 Chase.

00:23:55.000 Oh, Chase is from Georgia, right?

00:23:58.000 Yeah, Chase Oliver.

00:23:59.000 Chase Oliver?

00:24:01.000 Yeah, I believe he's announced.

00:24:04.000 But yeah, I mean, I know who he is.

00:24:06.000 I followed him in the Georgia election.

00:24:08.000 I know where he got his spotlight from with the whole Senate election.

00:24:13.000 But, you know, Shane Hazel did it the year before.

00:24:15.000 I did it the same year as Shane Hazel did in North Carolina.

00:24:18.000 You know, getting three percent and breaking the barrier and, you know, switching the election, Happens every year somewhere along the line and that's really kind of what he's writing.

00:24:30.000 I don't really know enough about him.

00:24:32.000 I don't agree with them on some of the QIA issues the LGBT, you know, yeah, which can it chase? 1.00

00:24:43.000 Yeah.

00:24:43.000 You know, libertarians tend not to really agree with each other, you know?

00:24:46.000 Yeah, you know, a lot of them just say, uh, you know, many things aren't good, but at

00:24:51.000 the same time, we live in a society where you just can't run amok.

00:24:55.000 Yeah, I love that meme though with groundskeeper Willie, and he's like, libertarians, they

00:25:00.000 ruined libertarianism!

00:25:03.000 I mean, the first thing that, or the best way to know that you're an actual libertarian is another libertarian says, you're not a real libertarian.

00:25:10.000 That's right.

00:25:11.000 That's it, you know?

00:25:12.000 Yeah.

00:25:13.000 We're getting into it right now.

00:25:14.000 I know a lot of people said, oh, it's so early.

00:25:16.000 We're only a few weeks in for a lot of these candidates, but this is where the pickup happens because the primaries are coming, I think, what, March of next year?

00:25:23.000 So that's gonna be a big deal.

00:25:24.000 It is a very, very big deal historically that Joe Biden is even facing a primary as the incumbent with one more term available to him.

00:25:33.000 That's surprising.

00:25:34.000 I don't, I mean, it's, I think that it's surprising that there are people that are kind of speaking up, but at the same time, it's also surprising that he's actually the president because he's, it's really clear that he's not the guy running the show. 0.91

00:25:51.000 He's a puppet.

00:25:51.000 Yeah.

00:25:52.000 I mean, we've got, it's run by the bureaucracy, the existing bureaucracy, and it's not Joe Biden that's making the calls.

00:25:59.000 I mean.

00:26:00.000 He's the perfect candidate for him.

00:26:02.000 Yeah, but not anymore.

00:26:04.000 No, I mean in the future because he's not in charge.

00:26:07.000 Yeah, I wonder if the reason they ran Biden was because they feared prosecution.

00:26:13.000 If Trump won, Biden's in trouble.

00:26:17.000 If any other Democrat won, Biden doesn't have any control and may get thrown under the bus.

00:26:23.000 So let's say 2020, you know, let's just say hypothetically, Newsom gets elected for all

00:26:28.000 his faults and problems.

00:26:30.000 When stories start breaking about Biden's, their corruption, say these stories out of

00:26:34.000 like Politico that came out, you know, almost 10 years ago.

00:26:36.000 You know, any other Democrat might be like, look, we're not going to sacrifice the future

00:26:41.000 of our administration because the mistakes and the problems you encountered.

00:26:44.000 I do think they'd still probably protect him, but he would not have the power of the presidential seat to protect himself.

00:26:49.000 So I wonder if a large component was, oh, Trump started looking into what we were doing in Ukraine.

00:26:55.000 We better.

00:26:56.000 We better get Biden in so he can put an end to this.

00:26:59.000 Because that really was the big issue.

00:27:01.000 Biden did not announce he was running for president.

00:27:03.000 Trump calls Ukraine and says, hey, what's up with this video?

00:27:06.000 They then claim in the media Donald Trump was digging up dirt on his political opponent.

00:27:10.000 As if the only thing they could have done is been like, he's running for office.

00:27:14.000 You can't do that.

00:27:15.000 You can't look at these crimes.

00:27:16.000 And then now he's got to run for office.

00:27:19.000 You know what I mean?

00:27:19.000 And Democrat media establishment fell in line right away and started immediately shifting the narrative that direction.

00:27:25.000 Yeah.

00:27:26.000 I mean, as soon as there was someone that was establishment approved, the media was going to go all in anyways.

00:27:36.000 There wasn't a whole lot of question about that.

00:27:38.000 Who's it going to be now?

00:27:39.000 Is it going to be like Newsom?

00:27:40.000 I mean, overwhelmingly, the prediction markets are saying Joe Biden.

00:27:44.000 He's at like 60%.

00:27:47.000 He's the incumbency to be at 100%.

00:27:49.000 It is interesting seeing the way that like the fact that there's any competition at all kind of proves that if you're not paying close attention, you wonder how that could possibly be.

00:27:58.000 Because if you're not paying close attention, you just assume he's doing a great job.

00:28:01.000 You don't know what's actually going on in the world.

00:28:03.000 But if there's any competition at all, it does prove that there is a bit of a dent in the armor there.

00:28:09.000 And it's hard for the average person to see, but just even hearing about an RFK, if you're somebody that doesn't pay close attention to politics, I would hope that would at least wake them up and be like, why is there anyone even questioning this at all?

00:28:20.000 You could actually, I guess, mention his age would be a big part of it.

00:28:23.000 Like a lot of people, even if they're not politically initiated, might wonder why is a guy his age going to be running again?

00:28:30.000 Trump's fairly old as well.

00:28:32.000 He's a year younger than Biden, he just doesn't show it.

00:28:32.000 What is 75?

00:28:35.000 No wait, he's more than a year.

00:28:36.000 Yeah, he's four years.

00:28:38.000 Four or five.

00:28:39.000 He will be the same age, like he would have been the same age at the next election that Biden was when he got elected.

00:28:45.000 And I think, what was RFK?

00:28:47.000 He's 69 or 70?

00:28:48.000 Yeah, he's like 69 or 70.

00:28:49.000 We need some younger people. 0.62

00:28:51.000 I can absolutely understand- Vivek!

00:28:54.000 Yeah, Vivek's what, 38?

00:28:55.000 He might be 37.

00:28:57.000 He's young.

00:28:58.000 But Ron DeSantis, too.

00:28:59.000 I certainly understand that.

00:29:00.000 But I gotta tell you, man, if Ron is hurting this much in the polls and they're not course correcting, I think that's a failure of leadership.

00:29:07.000 I love his policy.

00:29:08.000 I think the reason Ron is kind of tanking is because Ron doesn't have the charisma people thought that he was gonna have.

00:29:14.000 Like, when he gets onto the national stage, people aren't, like, he's not magnetic when he's on stage.

00:29:21.000 He doesn't have the charisma.

00:29:23.000 He's not like Barack Obama.

00:29:26.000 He's not Bill Clinton.

00:29:27.000 He's not Donald Trump.

00:29:28.000 And those are three people that had really, really significant charisma.

00:29:32.000 And there's an argument that Bush had really good charisma as well.

00:29:35.000 So, that could be it.

00:29:37.000 But a big part of that is people like the idea that he was more stoic and that he could be a version of Trump without being more bombastic and over the top, but that doesn't work once you actually have to come out and speak more regularly.

00:29:50.000 Just because that was an argument doesn't mean that was actually what the country was going to feel, you know what I mean?

00:29:55.000 And I'm just saying that this could be, I don't know, but it would make sense that the more people get exposed to him and hear him speak outside of just in

00:30:07.000 the context of Florida, the less they actually like him.

00:30:10.000 When he, when he, when he felt like, because I'm just, I'm not paying as close attention

00:30:13.000 to that as I, as I was before.

00:30:15.000 But when somebody mentioned like his stance on weed, I'm like, really, really?

00:30:19.000 Like, even if that is your stance, why are you talking about it now?

00:30:22.000 Why wouldn't you hold off and just not mention it?

00:30:25.000 It seems like a disconnection.

00:30:27.000 There are still Republicans that like that, you know?

00:30:30.000 Well, we can talk about the viability of the Republicans, and there will be more developments, of course.

00:30:36.000 Maybe Ron DeSantis will shift some of his campaign, release it or take off.

00:30:40.000 There is a lot of opportunity for him there.

00:30:40.000 It is early.

00:30:42.000 But let's talk about the other side here.

00:30:43.000 Joe Biden.

00:30:44.000 What's he currently up to?

00:30:46.000 I have this tweet for you from Andrew at Don't Walk Run.

00:30:50.000 He said, here's the raw footage of creepy Joe Biden trying to sniff slash eat a random Finnish child.

00:30:55.000 I'm gonna play this video for you.

00:30:57.000 Hat on the shoulder and he walks away.

00:31:11.000 Now, the first thing I want to say is When Biden sees this little kid and starts doing the om-nom-nom thing or whatever, and they're all laughing... If this was a family member being endearing to a grandchild, I might be like, you know, whatever.

00:31:26.000 But here's the bigger issue.

00:31:27.000 For one, this is a strange guy doing... What are you doing to this kid, man?

00:31:30.000 That's inappropriate.

00:31:31.000 But also, it's the double dip.

00:31:33.000 The double dip.

00:31:34.000 Watch this clip.

00:31:35.000 I'm gonna go slow.

00:31:36.000 After he moves back, he goes back in and does this very weird sniff.

00:31:41.000 Right there.

00:31:42.000 Slow motion.

00:31:42.000 Look at that.

00:31:43.000 Slow motion.

00:31:43.000 And reverse.

00:31:44.000 The first one, you can say, oh, he's just being old, you know, family, Uncle Joe, Grandpa Joe, whatever.

00:31:49.000 And then, the kid looks distressed.

00:31:51.000 Look at the kid's face.

00:31:52.000 And he goes in for an extra sniff.

00:31:55.000 Right there.

00:31:56.000 Sniff. 0.99

00:31:57.000 What's with the sniff?

00:31:59.000 Yo, I... I...

00:32:02.000 He's sniffin'!

00:32:04.000 Sniffin', Joe!

00:32:04.000 And he promised he'd stop, you remember this?

00:32:07.000 He doesn't.

00:32:08.000 I guarantee you he does not remember making that promise.

00:32:11.000 That explains it.

00:32:12.000 The man needs a leash.

00:32:14.000 Like, just imagine being any of the people that have to work on that campaign any time he has to go anywhere near children and they're just like... You think Usher's a menace.

00:32:23.000 Yes, well, Usher may be a menace, Biden's a worse menace, that is for sure.

00:32:28.000 So, Joe Biden, he goes out a few years ago, and he's sniffing women and squeezing them 0.82

00:32:35.000 and touching them.

00:32:36.000 Yeah, like adults too, right?

00:32:37.000 Yes, yes.

00:32:38.000 And then everyone was like, hey, yo, Joe, you gotta stop.

00:32:41.000 He comes out and he's like, I'm sorry, I'm just, you know, I'm an old man, we used to

00:32:45.000 do this stuff.

00:32:46.000 I'm willing to bet when that happened, things like this, he goes back and he gets into the 1.00

00:32:51.000 vehicle or whatever, and they're like, it's a piece of shit. 1.00

00:32:53.000 It's 88 miles an hour. 1.00

00:32:54.000 No, they go, Joe, you need to stop sniffing kids, and he goes, I'm an old man!

00:32:54.000 Yeah.

00:32:58.000 I got very few things left in life!

00:33:01.000 Give me this one! 0.99

00:33:03.000 Wait, who was it when they were like, I'm not a pervert, I'm Italian?

00:33:05.000 That was Cuomo.

00:33:07.000 Yeah, is there a Biden version of that?

00:33:10.000 I'm a Delaware man.

00:33:11.000 And then Cuomo went on to post a video of all the time he inappropriately touched people.

00:33:17.000 The thing is, I know there were women that were like, I'm fine with it. 0.54

00:33:20.000 I'm fine with it.

00:33:21.000 Because I personally know more than one woman that said to me, yeah, I mean, it's Cuomo.

00:33:26.000 I don't care that he... I'm like, really?

00:33:26.000 He's fine.

00:33:28.000 Well, that is insane to me.

00:33:29.000 I mean, come on.

00:33:31.000 Look, the average woman, they see Joe Biden and they're a fan of themselves.

00:33:36.000 Indeed.

00:33:36.000 I mean, come on.

00:33:37.000 He's a he's a regular Humphrey Bogart.

00:33:41.000 I'm sure Tara Reid has nothing but... He's a regular Hugh Hefner.

00:33:44.000 Who's a who's a celebrity from that era that would would have been considered a Well Hugh Hefner back in the day was supposed to be, and he's dead just like Joe.

00:33:52.000 Wait, wait.

00:33:54.000 Who's that Lane guy?

00:33:56.000 Lane?

00:33:57.000 Jack LaLane?

00:33:57.000 Was that his name?

00:33:58.000 Well, Jack LaLane was a fitness, one of the first fitness guys.

00:34:01.000 Yeah, super ripped.

00:34:02.000 And you know, ladies, they loved him.

00:34:04.000 You know, he was very in shape.

00:34:06.000 Yeah.

00:34:06.000 Tara Reid would beg to differ.

00:34:09.000 Yeah.

00:34:10.000 About?

00:34:11.000 Oh yeah, the Joe Biden phone call!

00:34:14.000 You gotta make that like the campaign thing because they talk about how Trump can't get suburban women votes because he's like, grody, like, lecherous or whatever.

00:34:22.000 Just, okay, well, you know, play the Biden game.

00:34:24.000 Just, you know, you go to a voter and be like, I want you to imagine Joe Biden.

00:34:28.000 He comes up from behind, slides his hands onto your back.

00:34:32.000 I'm already done.

00:34:32.000 Gives you a little squeeze and then a How do you feel?

00:34:37.000 Would you like to vote for him?

00:34:38.000 Violated.

00:34:38.000 Yeah, would you like to vote for him?

00:34:42.000 I've never felt more victimized in my life.

00:34:45.000 I just, I mean, it's been years and here we are once again with a viral video, everybody's sharing it, of Joe Biden sniffing kids.

00:34:55.000 Honestly though, like, this is only going to get worse because he's not getting, cognitively, he's not getting better.

00:35:02.000 And they're getting rid of all the drugs in the White House so he won't be able to take those.

00:35:05.000 I doubt they're getting rid of it.

00:35:07.000 They've already made... No, they're not getting rid of the drugs.

00:35:09.000 They're making the problems go away.

00:35:11.000 They're not making the drugs go away.

00:35:12.000 I think they should just let him have them.

00:35:14.000 Just give them to him.

00:35:15.000 Remember when they said that the drugs may have been from a journalist?

00:35:18.000 That was actually a warning to the journalists who reported on it.

00:35:21.000 The Secret Service, they look at the report and they're like, maybe it belonged to a journalist.

00:35:27.000 And they're like, uh, uh, no, no, no.

00:35:31.000 With a Stewie Hedward tilt to the side like that.

00:35:35.000 Do you know?

00:35:37.000 The story goes away.

00:35:38.000 Yeah, that's exactly what happened.

00:35:40.000 At least that's what I want to believe.

00:35:41.000 Wait, wait, wait.

00:35:42.000 Could you imagine like, come on, Joe Biden's what, 80 years old now?

00:35:45.000 Yeah.

00:35:46.000 We are gonna get to a point... You know how they say, like, old people are racist because they just don't care anymore?

00:35:52.000 Or something like that?

00:35:53.000 Like, what happens when we get to that point where they can't control Joe because he's just so old he just doesn't care?

00:35:59.000 And he's like, look, you know, my life expectancy was two years ago!

00:36:04.000 I got nothing, you know.

00:36:06.000 You got no leverage anymore.

00:36:07.000 Sounds like he's on the floor of the Senate in 1996 or four or something.

00:36:11.000 They're going to kill him off and then do the, what's that Bernie thing where they just kind of, yeah, bring his body around.

00:36:17.000 Oh, we can have Bernie. 0.99

00:36:18.000 Oh, we can have Bernie.

00:36:18.000 But look, look, look.

00:36:20.000 What do you threaten Joe Biden with?

00:36:22.000 They're gonna go to him and say like, look Joe, we want you to make these moves.

00:36:25.000 He's like, I'm 80.

00:36:26.000 I'm past my life expectancy.

00:36:28.000 And they're like, well, you have a son, don't you?

00:36:30.000 And he's like, oh, are you kidding me?

00:36:31.000 You think I'm going to respond to a threat to that guy?

00:36:33.000 They have to withhold ice cream.

00:36:35.000 That's the only thing they have over him.

00:36:37.000 No, no, no, no.

00:36:38.000 The other way around.

00:36:40.000 Positive reinforcement.

00:36:41.000 They say, OK, OK, fine.

00:36:42.000 Yeah.

00:36:42.000 What if we get you some tagandas?

00:36:44.000 He's like, All right. 0.92

00:36:46.000 We'll get you some Ben and Jerry's and we'll have a clown feed it to you. 1.00

00:36:51.000 No, but in all seriousness, there's got to come a point where Joe Biden just... There was that video where I think he was campaigning in like 2020 and some guy asked him a question and he just snaps and starts going like, what, what, what?

00:37:02.000 And I think that's because he's just like, I don't care!

00:37:07.000 I'm so done!

00:37:08.000 And he's in this position.

00:37:11.000 I feel like You know, a lot of people have wondered, like, why would they try and replace him in the primary?

00:37:17.000 Isn't Joe the deep state?

00:37:18.000 Like, wouldn't he just step down voluntarily if they really wanted someone else?

00:37:21.000 And I'm like, yeah, maybe he's just gone rogue.

00:37:23.000 Maybe he's just like, I do whatever I want, I don't care, you got nothing over me.

00:37:27.000 Maybe they have a schedule and they just told him, wait, just hold out until we announce blah blah blah or whatever, you know.

00:37:33.000 I really don't think that he has a significant amount of input.

00:37:37.000 I really feel like he's like, you know, handlers do the whole deal for us.

00:37:41.000 That's what they love about it, right?

00:37:42.000 Yeah.

00:37:43.000 And every time they think about getting rid of him, they look at Kamala.

00:37:45.000 They're like, a couple more kids is fine.

00:37:48.000 We'll keep going.

00:37:49.000 It's fine.

00:37:50.000 Look at this.

00:37:50.000 This is the prediction market for the Democrats.

00:37:53.000 Joe Biden's at 65 cents.

00:37:55.000 He is the sitting president and incumbent.

00:37:58.000 And there's people, a lot of them, 35 percent who think, yeah, he ain't going to win.

00:38:03.000 Gavin Newsom, you know what it is though?

00:38:05.000 What you gotta understand about these prediction markets is there's also a value bet in that, look if I spend 21 cents on a share of Gavin Newsom, that's nearly a five times return if he gets the nomination.

00:38:17.000 That's really what it's about.

00:38:18.000 I still think it's fair to consider It should be 100 for Joe Biden.

00:38:22.000 The fact that Predict It decided to make a contract on if he would even be the nominee says a lot. 0.85

00:38:29.000 He's the freaking guy that saved democracy, didn't he?

00:38:31.000 He came and swooped in and said, yo, I'm saving democracy from the Donald Trump and Megamericans and like he's the one who was like the saving grace for America, right? 0.96

00:38:41.000 But I like that.

00:38:42.000 Saving democracy from Trump supporters.

00:38:45.000 That's what he said, yeah.

00:38:46.000 Basically saying, like, removing them from the democratic process.

00:38:50.000 100%.

00:38:50.000 That's the point.

00:38:51.000 Like, that, like, I talk about, like, Maoism and stuff a lot.

00:38:55.000 Like, that's what he, when they say our democracy, the people that are the deplorables are not included.

00:39:03.000 They are not part of their democracy.

00:39:06.000 That is a distinction between people that support them and people that don't. 0.99

00:39:11.000 It's the same kind of crap that Mao did too. 0.98

00:39:13.000 Mao would, it was, I'm saying it in Chinese, but it was the same thing. 0.99

00:39:17.000 It was our democracy because they use the same phrases.

00:39:19.000 They use democracy and they talk about it, but under, with their understanding, you're, it's not a full democracy unless everybody has an equal voice, not just, you know, everyone gets a vote.

00:39:29.000 Well, I feel like it was the same thing.

00:39:31.000 I feel like what they're basically saying is, our democracy refers to us all in agreement with each other.

00:39:35.000 Yes!

00:39:36.000 100%!

00:39:36.000 You guys are not in agreement, so we must remove you from the process.

00:39:39.000 100%!

00:39:39.000 That's why they also laugh at the idea when you point out the fact that it's not a democracy, that you do live in a constitutional republic, and there are things that that entails, and then they laugh at that because that's not actually what they're talking about.

00:39:51.000 Yep.

00:39:53.000 Absolutely.

00:39:54.000 That is the line that they're using.

00:39:56.000 There's so much stuff.

00:39:58.000 Again, James Lindsay from New Discourses, he did a podcast on this, and he went through a speech that Mao did that was translated to English, and then he said, look, this right here that Mao was saying is the exact same thing that Kamala Harris means when she says this.

00:40:14.000 This right here that Mao was saying is the exact same thing when you translate it to English that Joe Biden is saying here.

00:40:20.000 So there's this When I say that there are communist influence throughout all of our government, it goes through the bureaucracy, all the way up through actual, like, DSA members, but all the way to the presidency.

00:40:32.000 There are some people that repeat the things knowingly that they're communist things, and there are some people that repeat them without knowing that they're repeating communist propaganda.

00:40:40.000 But there's a ton of communist propaganda.

00:40:42.000 In the media, right?

00:40:43.000 In the media and in the government.

00:40:45.000 Who is the CNN reporter that, like, they had him change his shot and there was, like, a picture of Mao and his wall behind it?

00:40:50.000 Do you remember that?

00:40:51.000 Oh, yeah, I saw that.

00:40:52.000 And they're just like, ignore that.

00:40:54.000 Or they just expect you to not know.

00:40:56.000 These are not the claims you're looking for.

00:40:58.000 This is not the Mao you're looking for.

00:41:00.000 Yeah.

00:41:02.000 Well, he's known for plagiarism, so maybe he's consciously going through and reading it thinking it's Chinese, nobody will know.

00:41:07.000 You guys ready for this one?

00:41:13.000 I love this story.

00:41:14.000 This is a meme.

00:41:15.000 ABC News says Trump's unprecedented campaign pitch elect me to get revenge on the government.

00:41:26.000 MAGA BABY! 0.98

00:41:29.000 Because they write this unironically and Libertarians, post-liberals, Trump supporters are screen-grabbing it and posting the Chad meme with just, yes.

00:41:38.000 It's the most compelling thing I've ever heard a politician say in my life.

00:41:43.000 Yes.

00:41:44.000 Get revenge on the government.

00:41:46.000 Sign me up.

00:41:47.000 Donald Trump has told supporters not to just see him as a candidate, but as, quote, your retribution.

00:41:47.000 Look at this.

00:41:53.000 Yes!

00:41:54.000 Milo said this.

00:41:56.000 Milo Yiannopoulos on the show said this.

00:41:57.000 He said, in his comeback bid for the White House, the former president, twice impeached but twice acquitted, now twice indicted, haha, has vowed that if reelected, he will wield his power to personally remake parts of the federal government to a degree that historian Mark Updegrove said was unprecedented.

00:42:12.000 Trump has promised to hamstring perceived enemies, including the DOJ, which is currently investigating him, and target Republican boogeyman like President Joe... Republican boogeyman like President Joe Biden.

00:42:22.000 It sounds like they're saying Joe Biden's a Republican.

00:42:24.000 He swore in June to appoint a special prosecutor to go after the Bidens.

00:42:27.000 Okay, good.

00:42:29.000 And that he would totally obliterate the deep state.

00:42:31.000 I'm not hearing any insult or negativity, you know, referring to a conspiratorial view of how the government operates.

00:42:38.000 This is the final battle.

00:42:40.000 Either they win or we win, he said.

00:42:42.000 The libertarians just got out-libertarianed by the bump stock guy! 0.56

00:42:47.000 What are you doing?

00:42:49.000 Well, come on, what do you got to say, you libertarian?

00:42:52.000 Look, yeah, I mean, I think it's an excellent speech, but what's his policy actually going to be?

00:43:00.000 How is he really going to do it?

00:43:01.000 We know that he's a middle finger, but is he going to take out the IRS?

00:43:05.000 Is he going to take out DOE?

00:43:06.000 What is he actually going to do?

00:43:08.000 DeSantis said he was going to do that, didn't he?

00:43:11.000 Something to that effect?

00:43:11.000 He talked about Department of Education, yeah.

00:43:13.000 Oh, education, education.

00:43:14.000 Which is, I mean, I love it.

00:43:17.000 If all Donald Trump at this point has is, they have slighted me, and I will fire them, I'll be like, okay, take my vote. 0.94

00:43:25.000 Fire them all.

00:43:26.000 Can Libertarians disagree? 0.99

00:43:27.000 I mean, you know, fire them all.

00:43:28.000 And I don't think that he would be entirely successful, but it would be a lot of fun to watch him try.

00:43:33.000 I think he'd be successful at this point.

00:43:36.000 I just want to stress, I don't think he did a perfect job in his first term.

00:43:41.000 I didn't vote for him in 2016.

00:43:43.000 I think he did some moderately good things with, in terms of foreign policy, I really liked, and some culture war issues.

00:43:49.000 He was very late in the game, too.

00:43:51.000 So he's not, he wasn't my first choice.

00:43:53.000 A year ago I said DeSantis, because DeSantis has been on top of the game when it comes to culture war issues.

00:43:59.000 But Donald Trump comes out, and he's like, don't know, don't care, I want revenge, I'm gonna fire everybody, and I'm like, I see fire in his eyes.

00:44:07.000 That's all I can ask for.

00:44:08.000 Well, it's not necessarily about the American people.

00:44:10.000 It's his revenge, but we all may benefit from his revenge.

00:44:13.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:44:13.000 You know what I mean?

00:44:14.000 Like, considering how selfish and narcissistic the guy is, I want him to make it personal because that's way more of a motivator than me.

00:44:22.000 Like, I'm not motivated.

00:44:22.000 Right.

00:44:23.000 Donald Trump doesn't give a crap about me. 0.98

00:44:25.000 If I'm standing on the sidewalk and there's like You know, a guy behind me and I see Trump barreling full speed power walking all angry. 0.98

00:44:33.000 I'm getting out of the way, right?

00:44:34.000 I'm gonna be like, whoa, I'm not gonna don't let me stand in your way, sir.

00:44:36.000 And that may mean you are not getting what you want, but the guy behind you turns out to be a mugger that was after you.

00:44:43.000 And so I'm like, I'll take it.

00:44:44.000 If you're in a war zone and your enemy gets hit with friendly fire, thumbs up.

00:44:50.000 That's cool.

00:44:51.000 If they're gonna smoke each other, take each other out, fine.

00:44:55.000 If Donald Trump wants to go in there and actually make cuts, go.

00:44:59.000 Get him.

00:45:00.000 Isn't it funny how terrified the corporate press is though?

00:45:03.000 It's delicious.

00:45:03.000 Why are journalists so scared that someone would fire bureaucrats?

00:45:08.000 Because they're friendly with the bureaucrats now, and because they have their personal email addresses and their personal home phone numbers, and sometimes they get scoops.

00:45:08.000 Access.

00:45:17.000 So it's all about access.

00:45:19.000 One of the hardest things I think would be, if he's talking about getting rid of the deep state, it's the unelected officials, right?

00:45:24.000 You can fire all the heads of departments you want, but all of those heads of departments have trained people under them who think like they do, who they've groomed for those positions farther up.

00:45:36.000 It's not just getting rid of whoever you're talking about, whether you're talking about CIA, all of these departments, there's going to be somebody that's going to come in there because it's not like this is one generation of a problem.

00:45:45.000 This is multi-generational, and it will take more than one president if you're going to actually turn things around, at least in my opinion.

00:45:53.000 And I don't know for sure what the legality is of the president actually getting rid of cabinet level... Well, that's what I'm saying.

00:46:02.000 What does that mean, getting rid of?

00:46:04.000 Abolishing.

00:46:05.000 So when I say get rid of, I mean abolish at the cabinet level.

00:46:08.000 So the whole department, from the seat on the cabinet all the way down to the ground enforcers of whatever department we're talking about.

00:46:19.000 Whether it be HUD, whether it be the Department of Energy, which I don't know that we can do that because of the nuclear stuff.

00:46:24.000 But still, the Department of the Interior, DOT, IRS, well, that's part of the Treasury, so that would be a little different, but like, you know, there's plenty of stuff that he could get rid of as the executive and just be like, get out of here, in the Justice Department alone.

00:46:41.000 He could get rid of stuff with the FBI by executive order.

00:46:45.000 He can get rid of stuff with the ATF by executive order.

00:46:48.000 If I understand correctly, I could be wrong, but that's the way that I believe because he is the executive.

00:46:55.000 He can get rid of stuff in the Department of Justice.

00:46:58.000 Like, that would be a great place to start.

00:47:00.000 FBI and ATF and stuff.

00:47:02.000 But the more that he's looking to cut, whoever's looking to cut the most, that's who I'm behind.

00:47:08.000 The second most cuts is the second person I'm behind.

00:47:12.000 Like, it's that simple. 0.92

00:47:13.000 Like, I don't give a crap about any of their personalities. 0.96

00:47:17.000 Who's going to shrink the federal government the most? 0.98

00:47:20.000 Because right now it's the biggest government in human history.

00:47:23.000 So don't tell me we can't cut.

00:47:25.000 Trump should go to libertarian rallies and be like, I'm gonna fire everybody.

00:47:29.000 He should.

00:47:30.000 He should have gone to Porkfest.

00:47:32.000 Seriously?

00:47:32.000 Yeah!

00:47:33.000 And they're gonna be like, I really don't want to vote for Bumpstock Donnie, but...

00:47:37.000 If he really is gonna fire these people, and you can see the fire in his eyes and the want for revenge, I mean, you might actually get it.

00:47:44.000 That's the difficult libertarian position, I guess.

00:47:46.000 Even Dave Smith was like, there's some foreign policy stuff he did that was good, and it's like, man.

00:47:51.000 But also, didn't they also question, why didn't you pardon Assange?

00:47:54.000 Why didn't you pardon Snowden?

00:47:56.000 How'd he done that?

00:47:57.000 I would have really liked to have seen that.

00:47:58.000 It felt like a lot of that stuff, the pardons at the end, a lot of that stuff felt very performative, and there was more important real change that he could have made through that stuff that would have been, even on the way out, would have been good for his re-election campaign.

00:48:12.000 Snowden and Assange, had he done that, he would have won the hearts of a lot of libertarians just because of that move.

00:48:18.000 We did have Don Jr.

00:48:20.000 on, and he did say it's time we do pardon Assange and Snowden.

00:48:25.000 I'm not even as bullish on Snowden, to be completely honest.

00:48:27.000 You know, Snowden is like a middle-of-the-road thing for me.

00:48:30.000 Assange is a no-brainer.

00:48:32.000 Assange shouldn't be charged at all.

00:48:33.000 He's an international journalist who was wrongly charged with deep BS.

00:48:37.000 They falsely accused him of abusing women.

00:48:39.000 Not true.

00:48:40.000 Now they're accusing him of espionage.

00:48:42.000 Literally a journalist.

00:48:43.000 What does he do?

00:48:44.000 He gets information.

00:48:44.000 He publishes information.

00:48:46.000 Snowden was a leaker.

00:48:47.000 Snowden took information, gave it to journalists without knowing what it was.

00:48:51.000 There's an argument to be made that it was so good, what he did, exposing things like X-Key Score and, you know, NSA spying, that it's high time we say, look, you know, no more exile.

00:49:00.000 Come on home, man.

00:49:01.000 Like, we are happy we got this information.

00:49:04.000 But the thing about Snowden, it's like, you know, the big issue is he did not know what he was giving out.

00:49:08.000 He knew some of it, but he just took a bulk thing.

00:49:12.000 I'm not all about encouraging that.

00:49:14.000 I like whistleblowers.

00:49:15.000 I think people should expose darkness and corruption.

00:49:18.000 But we have security in this country for a reason.

00:49:20.000 Like, I like this country.

00:49:21.000 I like the fact that we defend ourselves.

00:49:23.000 You know, you can't just leak everything.

00:49:24.000 But that being said, even Don Jr.

00:49:27.000 said, I think it's high time we do.

00:49:29.000 Pardon him.

00:49:30.000 That doesn't mean Trump Sr.

00:49:32.000 would do it.

00:49:33.000 But it does show that there is at least a sphere of influence in the Trump world that is starting to be like...

00:49:39.000 Let's roll with it.

00:49:40.000 I do think the reason Trump wanted Assange brought to the U.S.

00:49:43.000 was because Assange knows things pertaining to the Clintons, the establishment, neolibs, neocons, and Trump wanted that information and Assange would not give it up because Assange has integrity and he is a journalist and he protects his sources.

00:49:57.000 I think that was a strong component for Trump.

00:49:59.000 He knew, he's like, this guy's got information we need and won't give it up.

00:50:04.000 I also think that the intel agencies are a big part of why we need to pare back, right?

00:50:10.000 You cannot do a lot of this unless we figure out a way to limit the influence of these intel agencies who are essentially responsible to no one.

00:50:19.000 Accountable to no one. You're right, but the information that we're worried about the intel agencies

00:50:25.000 collecting is the information that we're voluntarily giving to all the social media companies and Google and stuff. So

00:50:30.000 I get it you're right and I would I don't know what the way or the

00:50:36.000 best way to prevent the government from just subpoenaing it because the these companies are just

00:50:41.000 throwing the information at the feds.

00:50:43.000 As soon as the feds ask, they're just like, yeah, yeah, because again, access, because of favor with the most powerful government ever.

00:50:49.000 So, I don't know what the right way to fix it is, but they've already got the information, you know, your social media companies and stuff like that, they all have the information out there.

00:50:59.000 So, for the Feds, it's just a matter of sending the subpoena.

00:51:03.000 We've given all of our stuff up.

00:51:05.000 But it also seems like the focus is increasingly more domestic, right?

00:51:10.000 We are not focusing overseas the way we used to.

00:51:12.000 We're focusing a lot more on domestic terrorism with Patriot Front and other such federal organizations.

00:51:20.000 It just feels like that's where a lot of those cuts would need to come, but it's going to be very hard to do that because they're so burrowed into our government.

00:51:27.000 Well, the whole Patriot Act itself, you know, it's called the Patriot Act because it sounds awesome, but all it is... Patriot Front!

00:51:35.000 Patriot Front! 0.99

00:51:37.000 Another group, you know, domestic terrorists, and that's a big part of our focus here in this country now, is they're using that as a weapon against regular Americans who are not idiots like Patriot Front. 1.00

00:51:46.000 That's the federal theater, kid. 1.00

00:51:47.000 Exactly.

00:51:48.000 I want to pull up this here tweet.

00:51:50.000 We have a big story.

00:51:51.000 We didn't get into it yesterday because, of course, we were talking about Sound of Freedom, but Twitter is now going to be paying its personalities who generate a certain amount of impressions.

00:52:02.000 Basically, Twitter will operate in a similar way that YouTube does, that if you produce content that gets views and those views deliver ads, you get a cut of these ads.

00:52:12.000 I was pleasantly surprised, rather abruptly, to get a pop-up on Twitter that said they were paying me about six grand.

00:52:17.000 And I'm like, I didn't even do anything.

00:52:19.000 Like, I barely even use Twitter.

00:52:21.000 But I want to pull up this tweet from Brian Krasenstein.

00:52:25.000 I think Brian has been on a tear lately with some excellent tweets, and this one is very good.

00:52:30.000 For those that aren't familiar, he is a liberal personality, but check out this one.

00:52:33.000 This is good.

00:52:34.000 He tweets, the most entertaining outcome is the most likely outcome.

00:52:37.000 I believe it was Elon who said that, wasn't it?

00:52:39.000 Or was that a quote from somebody else?

00:52:40.000 That's Musk, yeah.

00:52:41.000 Elon said that.

00:52:42.000 And he goes, blocked by Trump on Twitter in 2018, unblocked by Trump on Twitter in 2019, banned from Twitter in 2019, unbanned by Elon in 2022, made $25,000 from Twitter in 2023, at this rate I'll be CFO of Twitter by 2024 and Trump's VP by 25.

00:52:52.000 $25,000 from Twitter in 2023. At this rate, I'll be CFO of Twitter by 2024 and Trump's VP by 25.

00:52:59.000 So here's what's funny about this story. Of course, we'll get into the Twitter stuff.

00:53:05.000 But Taylor Lorenz, you know where you love her, wrote, Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk's monetization

00:53:12.000 scheme.

00:53:13.000 I love it.

00:53:14.000 Andrew Tate.

00:53:15.000 I am pretty sure that Brian Krasenstein, the liberal Biden voter, made more money than Andrew Tate.

00:53:22.000 And the Krasensteins, because it's his brother as well, even pointed out that between them they made way more money than some of these other personalities, and Taylor Lorenz is calling it far-right and omitting them from the story.

00:53:33.000 I far-righted before I came over here for the show.

00:53:36.000 I went to the gym and I was doing cardio.

00:53:38.000 I'm sure that JoJo from Jers and Brooklyn Dad are doing fine on Twitter as far as monetization.

00:53:47.000 They don't get it from Twitter, though.

00:53:48.000 They get it from the DNC.

00:53:49.000 Yes, exactly, right?

00:53:52.000 Did you say, Kellan, earlier that you said that Taylor Lorenz was offered to box with Ashley Sinclair?

00:53:59.000 I think Ashley Sinclair put the offer out there.

00:54:02.000 It's never gonna happen.

00:54:04.000 Taylor Lorenz will never...

00:54:05.000 No, never. No, Ashley Sinclair posted.

00:54:08.000 I got a shout out for the Krasenstein brothers. We've had them on the show before, but Brian

00:54:12.000 responded to Taylor Lorenz's article. For those not familiar with this context, Taylor Lorenz is a

00:54:17.000 notoriously bad journalist who has written false and misleading stories. So in response to saying

00:54:23.000 far-right Twitter influencers make money, he said, you might be reading the Washington Post

00:54:27.000 article by Taylor Lorenz and be thinking, but Brian Krasenstein made $24,000 from Elon.

00:54:32.000 He's not far-right.

00:54:33.000 All I can say is, I work out.

00:54:35.000 And I said, I warned you, Brian.

00:54:37.000 Brian, he posted a video of him working out, and I said, you're going to become conservative.

00:54:41.000 That's how it goes.

00:54:42.000 Start going to the gym.

00:54:44.000 Yeah, and then Ed Krasenstein, his brother, also criticized this very heavily, saying it was factually incorrect, noting that there were right-wing personalities posting this, but that they had actually made more money than a lot of people.

00:54:56.000 This is the media's game.

00:54:57.000 What happened is Threads comes out by Instagram. 0.99

00:55:00.000 It sucks. 0.99

00:55:01.000 It's horrible. 0.99

00:55:02.000 Elon then launches, as prescribed in February, that there would be rev-sharing, like YouTube does, and other social media platforms do, Instagram and Facebook do.

00:55:11.000 And now they're acting like it is a big scheme to bribe people to stay on the platform.

00:55:17.000 And they're acting like it's the far right.

00:55:19.000 So let me get this straight.

00:55:20.000 Does YouTube bribe people?

00:55:22.000 Yeah.

00:55:22.000 All of these liberal personalities and leftists stop.

00:55:25.000 They refuse to pay for Twitter.

00:55:27.000 They stop using Twitter.

00:55:28.000 And then when the people who actually use the platform get paid, they go, aha!

00:55:32.000 Elon Musk is bribing people.

00:55:34.000 It's like, dude, the Krasnistins used the platform, stuck to the platform. 1.00

00:55:37.000 They're liberals.

00:55:38.000 They made money.

00:55:39.000 At any rate, this is a very, very big deal.

00:55:42.000 In that there is now a viable platform for monetization outside of YouTube.

00:55:47.000 Look, I tweet random nonsense.

00:55:48.000 I have 1.7 million followers on Twitter.

00:55:50.000 I don't know why.

00:55:51.000 But thank you for following me on Twitter.

00:55:52.000 Now I kind of know why.

00:55:53.000 Now I'm like, oh, I should post clips onto Twitter.

00:55:55.000 I should post content there.

00:55:57.000 We should simulcast the stream or do something like that on Twitter because now there's an opportunity to break the censorship market and shatter the censorship.

00:56:08.000 Get all those hot takes you've been saving up forever and just start dropping them one by one so you can start making money.

00:56:13.000 I mean, the thing is, I don't know if they've got, like, special rates for people that produce content that's exclusive for Twitter or what the deal's gonna be, but, you know, a place like this produces plenty of content to put up on the old Twitter machine, you know?

00:56:31.000 I think it's awesome over the last few weeks you've seen with the Young Turks.

00:56:34.000 I can't remember her name.

00:56:35.000 Anna.

00:56:36.000 Anna! 0.82

00:56:36.000 And now with the Krasnsteins. 0.82

00:56:38.000 I don't want to call it a red-pilling because I don't think it's quite that, but they're kind of seeing just how crazy the cult is, right?

00:56:43.000 Because they got paid from Twitter, they're right-wing now.

00:56:46.000 Like, come on, man.

00:56:47.000 So I hope the Krasnsteins kind of... 1.00

00:56:50.000 I think they know.

00:56:50.000 I think they realize how kind of extreme the left can be at times, and I think definitely Anna knows from The Young Turks, but it's been awesome to witness, you know, from like a backseat kind of perspective over the last few weeks.

00:57:01.000 Because she does not want to be a birthing person. 1.00

00:57:03.000 Yeah, no bonus holes.

00:57:05.000 No bonus holes.

00:57:06.000 That's why everyone's upset.

00:57:11.000 Yes!

00:57:14.000 I haven't heard that one yet.

00:57:15.000 You caught me off guard.

00:57:16.000 That one ends up in the chat very often.

00:57:18.000 Bone is hot.

00:57:19.000 That one ends up in the chat very often when you're on live.

00:57:23.000 I mean, I don't blame her.

00:57:25.000 You know?

00:57:26.000 But we're just seeing, like, the mob online come after the Krasensteins and the Young Turks, and it's over nothing.

00:57:33.000 I mean, seemingly nothing.

00:57:34.000 Just had a lot of difference of opinion.

00:57:36.000 We had, on the Culture War this morning, we had two drag queens. 1.00

00:57:40.000 One was a more leftist drag queen. 1.00

00:57:42.000 One was a, not really left or right, just an older drag queen. 1.00

00:57:48.000 The Kitty Demure and Maybe A Girl were the two drag queens. 1.00

00:57:52.000 And Kitty, the drag queen's name, I suppose, I believe it's Kitty, I could be wrong, but was saying, look, you know, kids should not be in these things. 1.00

00:57:59.000 These are for adults.

00:58:00.000 These are nightlife.

00:58:01.000 These are nightclub things.

00:58:02.000 These are party things.

00:58:04.000 And the leftist was saying more otherwise.

00:58:07.000 That was basically the argument.

00:58:08.000 But the interesting thing about it was the cult-like ideology that persists in the left's view.

00:58:17.000 And there was a moment on the show, the reason I bring this up, is that I think the drag queen, the leftist, may have stumbled into something inadvertently which could cause problems for them.

00:58:26.000 I criticized the book Genderqueer.

00:58:29.000 At the end of the show saying conservatives have criticized this book without reading it, and they should read it.

00:58:35.000 And many post-liberal thinkers and anti-woke people have criticized the book without reading it, and they should.

00:58:41.000 Because they highlight this book, Genderqueer, as having graphic images that shouldn't be shown to kids.

00:58:45.000 That's correct, but the book is about this individual, this author's deep abuse and trauma Growing up from abusive parents, being forced to reuse menstrual products for days on end to the point where they smelled horribly, were pulled out of class, not being able to read till 12, having to go about their, you know, relief business outside, and maybe said, thank you for that, in response.

00:59:12.000 I don't think that thank you will fly with the cult on the left.

00:59:16.000 And that, I think, whether I'm right or wrong, my point is just my perception of it, There is a clear, fall-in-line, say-whatever-you're-supposed-to-say, no matter what it is, no matter how silly it is, or else.

00:59:28.000 Whereas, whatever this faction is, it's conservative, liberal, libertarian, people disagreeing on a ton of issues, but, like, kinda just being chill with each other.

00:59:36.000 Yeah, I get called bigot by other libertarians, just because of my stance on that particular issue.

00:59:43.000 Just because you're a libertarian.

00:59:44.000 Just because I'm a libertarian.

00:59:45.000 Yeah, but what is up with that?

00:59:47.000 I mean, let's talk about that, because, um...

00:59:50.000 You know, George Organson in, I think it was 2020, right, tweeted that cult worship line, it is not enough to not be racist, we must be actively anti-racist, which is basically a cult mantra.

01:00:02.000 It's like effectively a neo-Marxist prayer.

01:00:06.000 To see a libertarian tweet, we must do something, was kind of hilarious to me, like, we all must do these things.

01:00:11.000 I thought we were all about individual liberty and responsibility.

01:00:14.000 I'm curious your thoughts on that element of the Libertarian Party and those ideas.

01:00:18.000 Yeah, I'm all about the individual and not necessarily the party itself.

01:00:24.000 I was a Libertarian well before I even knew what the party was.

01:00:28.000 when I was kind of looking for my identity, you know, back when McCain and Sarah Palin were running

01:00:35.000 and I just didn't like any of my options.

01:00:37.000 So, I mean, I adopted ideology just because it makes sense to me.

01:00:42.000 You know, you don't hurt other people, you don't take people's stuff

01:00:45.000 and you just kind of mind your own business and live your life.

01:00:48.000 But now you have the government coming in and ultimately trying to make decisions for you both on the left and the right.

01:00:56.000 One tries to police your existence and the other one does now the same thing and tries to take your money along with it.

01:01:05.000 And they're redefining society now in a culture war that doesn't even seem to make sense to me.

01:01:12.000 And they're drawing lines in the sand that You know, I've talked to people in the L, the G, the B, and the T communities, and they're all in agreement, right?

01:01:22.000 And then you have the QIAs, and I don't even know what the I and the A stand for.

01:01:28.000 Intersex, right? 0.99

01:01:31.000 Queer, intersex, and asexual. 0.72

01:01:32.000 But there's more than that.

01:01:33.000 There's two, two, S-I, you know. 0.97

01:01:36.000 Two spirits, right?

01:01:37.000 Yeah.

01:01:37.000 Yes.

01:01:38.000 And then, like, there's a bunch of other letters that go into it.

01:01:40.000 But, I mean, I feel like with the T, right, I feel like a lot of that is, like, with the body dysphoria and in the mental aspects, where the Q is more just how I feel today. 0.68

01:01:53.000 Well, so here's the interesting thing.

01:01:54.000 I mean, the T does encompass what the drag queen earlier was saying is trans non-binary in which people will be gender fluid.

01:02:02.000 That's how they describe it.

01:02:03.000 Boy, you about to find out!

01:02:04.000 Oh yeah.

01:02:05.000 But here's what I see with the progress pride flag.

01:02:09.000 It is, at one point, it was a rainbow flag to symbolize, you know, the LGBT community.

01:02:14.000 Then they added these stripes to it, then they added a triangle to it, then they added a circle to it.

01:02:19.000 They're basically It's like the Horde in World of Warcraft.

01:02:24.000 You guys know what that reference is?

01:02:25.000 Yep.

01:02:26.000 It was these various bands of fractured cultures that came together, and so the idea behind that flag is aggrieved groups forming under one banner.

01:02:38.000 They don't necessarily make sense. 0.65

01:02:40.000 It does not make sense to have a gay pride flag that includes black people. 0.96

01:02:45.000 Well, because not all black people are gay. 0.86

01:02:46.000 I mean, the insinuation that this is a pride flag for gay LGBT pride...

01:02:52.000 And all black and brown people are a component of that.

01:02:55.000 It's not the same thing.

01:02:57.000 I feel like people started calling it the Progress Flag.

01:03:02.000 Do you feel like that's... I believe it's called the Progress Pride Flag.

01:03:06.000 Maybe this is all just a really good plot from a flag maker who just wants to sell you a new flag every couple of years because they have to keep adding things to it constantly.

01:03:15.000 It's just all about oppression.

01:03:16.000 Yeah, it's called the Progress Pride Flag.

01:03:18.000 And so it's got, uh, it's now got black, brown, sky blue, pink, white, a yellow triangle, and a purple circle.

01:03:28.000 It's basically just putting symbols of aggrieved groups into one flag.

01:03:33.000 What's the purple circle?

01:03:35.000 Uh, I believe that's, it could be asexual?

01:03:39.000 Is there a white diamond?

01:03:40.000 There's a white stripe.

01:03:40.000 There is a white stripe.

01:03:41.000 But we know what group is not included.

01:03:43.000 So the progress pride flag does have a white triangle on it.

01:03:44.000 But we know what group is not included in that.

01:03:48.000 Well, no, no.

01:03:49.000 So the Progress Pride flag does have a white triangle on it.

01:03:52.000 And that's because the, what is this?

01:03:56.000 So the Progress Pride flag I have right here, the largest component of it is a white triangle.

01:04:01.000 And that's because they all agree that they think white people are the most powerful.

01:04:08.000 And you know, of course, they want to make sure they're represented perfectly on their

01:04:10.000 I'm kidding, by the way.

01:04:12.000 It is true.

01:04:14.000 There's a giant white triangle on the flag.

01:04:16.000 Maybe that's for the white women. 1.00

01:04:17.000 There's no explanation for what the white triangle is.

01:04:19.000 It's for the Karen.

01:04:21.000 I mean, maybe.

01:04:21.000 That's where the power of Karen is stored.

01:04:24.000 Let me look this up, but what are the colors?

01:04:26.000 What do they mean?

01:04:28.000 Okay, so let's see.

01:04:29.000 The progress pride flag.

01:04:31.000 And I pulled this thing up, I pulled it up on my phone for whatever reason.

01:04:33.000 It said, what do the rainbow stripes mean?

01:04:35.000 Red is life, orange is healing, yellow is sunlight, green is nature, blue is harmony, purple is spirit.

01:04:40.000 Okay.

01:04:40.000 What do the triangles mean?

01:04:42.000 The light blue, light pink, and white section represent transgender.

01:04:45.000 Yeah.

01:04:46.000 The black and brown stripes represent marginalized communities of color.

01:04:49.000 The black stripe represents those who have been lost to AIDS.

01:04:53.000 Holy, wait, what, really? 0.92

01:04:56.000 That is, I feel like that's deeply racist. 0.99

01:04:59.000 To say that the black stripe for black people is the AIDS stripe is horrifyingly racist. 0.94

01:05:04.000 I think the brown stripe is for people of color, and the black stripe is for... No, no, no, look, I'm, look, I don't know. 0.98

01:05:10.000 This is KansasCity.com, this is a, it looks like, uh, um, it's so annoying.

01:05:15.000 Oh, these websites are terrible. 0.97

01:05:17.000 This is Kansas City Star, and it says that the black stripe represents AIDS and black people. 0.99

01:05:25.000 I'm not exaggerating. 0.94

01:05:26.000 Let me pull this up.

01:05:28.000 This is shocking to me.

01:05:30.000 We can't give age another color?

01:05:32.000 I feel like depending on where you go, they're going to have a different definition for this flag.

01:05:35.000 And it's part of what Tim was saying, how it's like World of Warcraft, how it's all these random groups under one banner.

01:05:42.000 Look, look, look, look. 1.00

01:05:43.000 It's perfectly stupid. 1.00

01:05:46.000 The Kansas City Star, NewsGuard certified 92.5 out of 100. 0.99

01:05:50.000 June 20th, 2022.

01:05:52.000 What does it mean?

01:05:53.000 I will scroll.

01:05:54.000 This is exactly what I was reading.

01:05:55.000 I can't believe they actually wrote this.

01:05:58.000 It says the black and brown stripes represent people of color.

01:06:01.000 And then it says the black stripe also represents people who've lost to AIDS.

01:06:04.000 They're quite literally saying that the black stripe represents black people and AIDS victims in the same category.

01:06:10.000 That is deeply racist.

01:06:11.000 What about the COVID stripe?

01:06:13.000 There's no COVID stripe?

01:06:14.000 Like, what about the other diseases that affect so many people?

01:06:16.000 Yes, but obviously, when it comes to pride, there isn't a question over AIDS and the epidemic and what happened in the 80s and Reagan and all that stuff.

01:06:26.000 I can understand them wanting to include it, But I didn't know that they were making one stripe for black people and AIDS victims.

01:06:35.000 I feel like that sounds deeply, deeply offensive.

01:06:39.000 Yeah, I mean, the thing is, they don't think about this kind of stuff.

01:06:44.000 I really don't think they put a whole lot of thought into it.

01:06:46.000 I think that it's like throwing stuff against the wall, like throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks.

01:06:51.000 Well, why did they even have to do a race?

01:06:53.000 The black and brown to begin with.

01:06:55.000 Are you serious?

01:06:55.000 Because they're marginalized.

01:06:58.000 Have you turned on the television the past 10 years?

01:07:01.000 Have you looked at a newspaper?

01:07:03.000 Do you think the average person who flies the flag would be able to tell you, like if you gave them a quiz, you gave them like a thing and like it's got a little box there you have to mention, like, can you point out what this one means, what this one means, what this one means?

01:07:14.000 Do you think the average person would be able to tell you what any of those stripes mean?

01:07:17.000 Yeah, because we're teaching it in our school systems now.

01:07:21.000 It's like a little fill-in graph.

01:07:22.000 It's like a coloring sheet.

01:07:23.000 You have to fill it in and know what it means.

01:07:25.000 No, it's like that TikTok of the little boy who's with his mother, and he recites LGBTQIA, like, lightning fast. 0.56

01:07:32.000 It's second nature to him now.

01:07:33.000 Like, just like we recite the alphabet.

01:07:35.000 He's able to do the acronym.

01:07:36.000 We even have to do it on the show, like, LGBTQIA++, yeah.

01:07:39.000 Yeah, it's like you get done you're like your brain just kind of goes numb and your eyes go wide and you're just like because you had to say it so many times.

01:07:45.000 Wow, this is stonewallsociety.com says that the victory over AIDS flag is the black stripe.

01:07:52.000 So it's like quite literally they It's crazy because when I was growing up, like in the 90s, they were very adamant that AIDS was not a LGBT disease. 0.93

01:08:08.000 AIDS was something that everybody had to worry about.

01:08:11.000 AIDS was something that, you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

01:08:14.000 And then now it's like, oh, well, this is a personal part of our story and our history.

01:08:21.000 And it's like, Were you joshing before?

01:08:25.000 Like, why is it that like back, you know, again, I mean, I think that, I think it's, it's...

01:08:33.000 I think it's fairly common knowledge that AIDS as a disease is mostly found in the gay community.

01:08:41.000 It's rarely found outside.

01:08:43.000 I don't think mostly is the correct word.

01:08:44.000 I think that in the United States it largely impacts the gay community, but I don't think it's true to say that it is mostly.

01:08:53.000 Mostly is very different from largely affecting.

01:08:56.000 Okay.

01:08:57.000 Well fair enough then because I don't know particularly but it does, you know speak to It's it's certainly saying something when they're like, hey, this is something that impacts our community Uniquely, which is what they're saying As far as I gotta be honest, I am I am I am shocked to discover that They actually did that But I'm not surprised to hear that they're racist.

01:08:57.000 Yeah.

01:08:57.000 All right.

01:09:23.000 I mean, I firmly believe the Democrats are deeply racist, have always been racist, have never stopped being racist. 0.91

01:09:29.000 And they always play this game of, oh, but the party's switched. 0.93

01:09:32.000 And I'm like, dude, I don't care about political parties.

01:09:34.000 I don't know nothing about that. 0.98

01:09:34.000 All I know is y'all are racist. 0.98

01:09:36.000 I mean, the political party that is largely focused on race and continues to make race a topic is probably the one you can safely say is racist.

01:09:50.000 The one that says, hey, we don't want to focus on this stuff, etc.

01:09:54.000 is probably not particularly racist.

01:09:57.000 That just seems to be fairly, you know, obvious to me.

01:10:00.000 It's because you're trying to keep your power in office there by not talking about it.

01:10:06.000 Man, that's crazy.

01:10:08.000 Yeah, you Republican.

01:10:09.000 Oh, God.

01:10:10.000 All right, here we go.

01:10:11.000 You guys ready for this one?

01:10:13.000 From the National Review, Secret Service found marijuana twice at the White House in 2022.

01:10:17.000 Okay.

01:10:19.000 I mean, does that bother?

01:10:20.000 It's legal there, right?

01:10:21.000 Well, not inside a federal building.

01:10:23.000 No, but like, at what point do we say, come on?

01:10:26.000 It depends on if it was, like, edibles or if it was a thing.

01:10:31.000 We know.

01:10:33.000 I think we get it.

01:10:34.000 Alright, someone just needs to... Joe, can you ask your son, just maybe... If he's gonna smoke pot, if it's gonna be him, can he just clean it up and not get caught doing it?

01:10:44.000 I really don't think that Hunter Biden is smoking much weed, personally.

01:10:49.000 I really think that it's amphetamines.

01:10:52.000 I think that it's cocaine.

01:10:53.000 Maybe, but I mean, if he was getting off of that stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if he was like, well, this one's not so bad.

01:11:00.000 It's also funnier than, maybe Joe's just not senile and old, maybe he's just super stoned all the time.

01:11:05.000 That would be, that's actually a way funnier story.

01:11:07.000 No, because if that was the case, then he would have actually de-scheduled it, like he said he was going to do, instead of just waving it off and it never happened.

01:11:16.000 First thing he does in office is make it legal so that he can have it right there in the office.

01:11:19.000 Right, I mean, the executive order is the way I would have rolled as president.

01:11:24.000 Hunter, you're free, baby.

01:11:25.000 I think they're trying to plant it on Biden and he just keeps leaving random places.

01:11:30.000 Right?

01:11:31.000 So they're like, we gotta get him out, there's no chance in 24, so they keep getting all these different drugs, hoping that Secret Service will find it on him, but Biden's just not with it, so he just keeps leaving it places like outside the Situation Room.

01:11:41.000 They're like, we really don't know who it belongs to, because it's Joe's.

01:11:45.000 Hunter gets it for him.

01:11:46.000 You do a coffee thing here, right?

01:11:47.000 Maybe you get Joe your coffee, and he'll wake up.

01:11:51.000 I just gotta say, you know, our coffee is the best coffee.

01:11:54.000 Trust me, Appalachian Nights, the best coffee.

01:11:57.000 Everyone agrees.

01:11:58.000 If Joe had that coffee right now, the country would be in a way better place.

01:12:02.000 Way better.

01:12:02.000 Afghanistan would have been flawless.

01:12:07.000 Maybe that's the commercial we do.

01:12:08.000 We have like you see Joe Biden but only from from behind and he's like stumbling and we show all the clips of him stumbling and falling and then it's like people in suits being like quick quick and they pull the bag of cast brew coffee and then you just see Biden stumble in and there's like a camera shaking and he grabs the coffee sips it and then all of a sudden stands up right and he's like I'm ready man.

01:12:28.000 Fixes him.

01:12:29.000 Fixes him right up.

01:12:30.000 Perfect.

01:12:31.000 Yeah.

01:12:31.000 I think you should.

01:12:32.000 Or we can do one where Ian travels back in time and keeps pouring a glass of Casper coffee for Joe right before these major moments and then everything just goes right.

01:12:45.000 It's like preparing for the Afghan withdrawal and then Ian's just like pouring the cup of coffee and he slides it out there.

01:12:52.000 Saving the world, one cup of Casper at a time.

01:12:55.000 Right before the debates.

01:12:57.000 You know, in all seriousness though, I don't really care for pot.

01:13:03.000 I'm not a fan of it.

01:13:04.000 I think it's very bad for people.

01:13:05.000 I think a lot of people are like, ah, it's no big deal.

01:13:07.000 It should be legal and all this stuff.

01:13:08.000 And I'm like, well, okay, I'm fairly libertarian on stuff.

01:13:10.000 I don't care what you do with your life.

01:13:12.000 But I think weed is pretty bad for you.

01:13:15.000 I think to all the people I knew growing up, and you know, the ones that were smoking pot all the time did not do nearly as well as the ones who did not.

01:13:24.000 And so, you know, whatever.

01:13:25.000 I think that's why you say, actually South Park said it the best.

01:13:29.000 Randy Marsh said, son, It's not that it's gonna kill you or do any things to you, it's that it makes you okay with being bored.

01:13:35.000 And then when you're older, you'll find you're not good at anything.

01:13:37.000 So, that's a reason why you shouldn't do it.

01:13:39.000 It's like, oh, okay, thanks, Dad.

01:13:40.000 But, uh, that being said, it is not legally allowed in the White House, and there is a drug problem in the White House right now.

01:13:48.000 I-I-I have questions.

01:13:49.000 You know, we talk about a two- or three-tiered justice system.

01:13:53.000 Come on, man.

01:13:55.000 Come on.

01:13:56.000 Oh, there's at least three tiers.

01:13:57.000 There's the broke and the not broke.

01:13:59.000 And then you can talk about whether Trump's on a different level than Biden or whatever, but yeah, I'm not included in any of that.

01:14:08.000 And I'm supposed to have white privilege, right? 1.00

01:14:11.000 So they'll throw my ass in jail quick. 1.00

01:14:13.000 I think it's a major problem. 1.00

01:14:15.000 It's one thing to do drugs and know about it in the White House.

01:14:17.000 It's another thing to constantly leave them everywhere.

01:14:21.000 They're not very good at doing it. 0.99

01:14:22.000 I mean, Nixon didn't leave his shit all over the place. 0.99

01:14:26.000 At least clean up after yourself. 0.99

01:14:29.000 There's no cameras in the White House, apparently, either.

01:14:31.000 The Secret Service said, oh, we couldn't figure out whose cocaine that was.

01:14:34.000 I was surprised to hear that, considering all the cameras I see in every federal building I've ever worked in.

01:14:38.000 I wasn't surprised to hear it.

01:14:40.000 It's the Bidens.

01:14:42.000 The Secret Service was like, Ben Shapiro pointed this out, that the Secret Service reportedly went to the gun shop where Hunter bought his gun, and that was illegally disposed of, and tried to collect records, seemingly to protect the Bidens from criminal prosecution.

01:14:57.000 Now, I gotta tell you, as a libertarian, that's the most base thing I ever heard, right?

01:15:02.000 Hunter being charged with marijuana and a gun charge.

01:15:05.000 Second Amendment, that's dope, right?

01:15:08.000 You know, I gotta say, I don't think Hunter Biden should be charged for owning a weapon.

01:15:14.000 There's a fair argument.

01:15:17.000 Through due process, you can have your rights curtailed.

01:15:20.000 That's what prison literally is.

01:15:21.000 And if you are found to be a drug user and we've determined that to be like, hey, you know, through due process, we've determined you do not have this right.

01:15:28.000 I think there's questions about whether that should be laws or not, that because someone smoked pot one time, they can't have a gun anymore.

01:15:34.000 I don't think that's fair, because Hunter had done hard drugs, he's ineligible, because someone was convicted of a felony, they get out, now they can't get a gun.

01:15:41.000 Some people have argued, well that's due process, and I'm like, it's gotta be shorter than that.

01:15:43.000 Your right to vote, your right to keep and bear arms, we shouldn't sentence you to life for it.

01:15:48.000 That being said, Hunter shouldn't be charged, in my opinion, for just buying a gun.

01:15:52.000 Oh, for no reason.

01:15:53.000 But disposing of it in a trash can outside of a school... Yeah, okay, you know, maybe we got something there.

01:15:58.000 Well, he's obviously guilty of something if that's what you're doing.

01:16:00.000 It was his wife, I think.

01:16:02.000 His wife did it. 1.00

01:16:03.000 Oh, okay.

01:16:08.000 Did she do it or did she go and get it?

01:16:11.000 No, no, it was a trash collector who found it.

01:16:13.000 Okay.

01:16:14.000 Yeah, okay.

01:16:15.000 I'm pretty sure it was a hunter's wife.

01:16:18.000 Was it my wife?

01:16:20.000 I don't know.

01:16:20.000 Was he ever married?

01:16:21.000 I know he was sleeping with his brother's wife.

01:16:24.000 Oh God.

01:16:25.000 We need to start talking.

01:16:25.000 That's such a weird story.

01:16:27.000 It's just so gross.

01:16:28.000 Yeah, okay, okay.

01:16:29.000 It's lover, they say.

01:16:30.000 Lover.

01:16:31.000 It was his brother's ex he started hooking up with.

01:16:35.000 Haley or whatever her name is. 0.66

01:16:36.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:16:37.000 It's kind of weird, though, because they have the same last name now because she married his brother.

01:16:43.000 It's kind of a weird thing.

01:16:45.000 All the greatest stuff when Hollywood ends up making movies about that family will be about Hunter and have nothing to do with Joe at all.

01:16:51.000 All the great entertainment will come out of Hunter.

01:16:53.000 Joe's done nothing.

01:16:54.000 No.

01:16:56.000 He was perfect dad apparently.

01:16:59.000 Can we do like a Game of Thrones show with the Bidens?

01:17:01.000 Yes!

01:17:02.000 It'd be compelling you know like you got an episode where Hunter is just like coked out of his mind and then it shows him like get up and then he like straightens his jacket and the bag falls on the ground and then like some tourist walks by and sees it and goes...

01:17:17.000 No, the Secret Service is like, uh-oh.

01:17:18.000 They probably run like The Sopranos on HBO.

01:17:21.000 No, or they make it like House of Cards with Joe Biden, but it just all keeps happening by accident.

01:17:25.000 Nothing actually works out.

01:17:27.000 People are picking up behind him.

01:17:29.000 It all keeps happening on accident and accidentally working out.

01:17:31.000 Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

01:17:32.000 It's like accidental House of Cards with Joe Biden.

01:17:34.000 Joe Biden trips up the stairs and then drops some item which bounces and then a marble bounces and then hits a button causing a conveyor belt.

01:17:43.000 Saves the world.

01:17:44.000 All, yeah, right, like all these really weird things happen.

01:17:46.000 He's like, he's sitting in the Situation Room, and they're like, quick, we need a response from you now, Mr. President.

01:17:51.000 He falls asleep, and then his face hits the keyboard, and it sends the perfect message, or just, you know, it says yes, and they're like, yes, and then he averts the crisis, things like that.

01:17:59.000 And they can get Kevin Spacey to play him, because he's a great guy, too.

01:18:02.000 Ew.

01:18:03.000 Yeah, no, he'd be perfect for Biden, with all the sniffing, you know what I mean?

01:18:07.000 I think he's done more than sniffing.

01:18:10.000 Kevin Spacey's on trial right now in the UK for very, very bad things.

01:18:14.000 He pulled his own version of the, uh, I'm not a pervert, I'm Italian.

01:18:20.000 He had one where he's like, oh, I'm a flirt with like, he had accused of horrible stuff.

01:18:24.000 Innocent until proven guilty.

01:18:26.000 But, uh, I'm not giving the guy the benefit of the doubt.

01:18:28.000 We'll see.

01:18:29.000 We'll see, you know, how it goes.

01:18:30.000 I'm a flirt. 1.00

01:18:31.000 Also a rapist. 0.99

01:18:31.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:18:32.000 Yes.

01:18:35.000 He's like, he's like, well, like after all the initial claims came, I was like, look, I'm gay.

01:18:40.000 And we're like, what the hell does that have to do with any of this?

01:18:44.000 Well, now it's probably a good defense.

01:18:47.000 Had he come out with it now, like this month, people would have said, oh, okay, you're good.

01:18:53.000 Right?

01:18:53.000 It should have worked even then.

01:18:54.000 He'll be like, I'm Q. Yeah.

01:18:56.000 I think maybe he'll work in these arguments where he's like, he can show pride events and the behaviors that people do that are considered normal and say, these things that I was doing were perfectly in line with what they all do all day every day at these events.

01:19:11.000 Nobody cares about it.

01:19:12.000 Why am I all of a sudden being targeted for it?

01:19:13.000 We do live in hell.

01:19:15.000 Yes.

01:19:16.000 That might be an argument.

01:19:17.000 He goes, I don't know.

01:19:18.000 But I did hear that he was like crying or something.

01:19:20.000 Yeah.

01:19:22.000 Not sure that I care all that much.

01:19:23.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't want to throw the guy, uh, you know, a safety net or anything, but I mean, I remember a time when, when I was snowboarding in Colorado and if you, if you pulled over on the side of the road to go to the bathroom and you got caught, you got a sex charge where you could get like a, uh, get on a sex registry.

01:19:41.000 And now, I mean, if you're a Q, you can just go piss all over the whole country and you can get away with it. 1.00

01:19:46.000 It's just, it's just not, I, I don't see where all of a sudden everything is okay.

01:19:51.000 Yeah.

01:19:52.000 So I find it confusing.

01:19:54.000 It's because all the stuff like, it's like when we're talking about the pride flag, everything is about being oppressed.

01:20:00.000 All these groups, the one thing they have in common is they feel they're oppressed.

01:20:03.000 And that's why it's like, it's these degenerate acts that we think of them as degenerate, but then it's like, we're not allowed to do them.

01:20:09.000 We don't have their right. 0.94

01:20:10.000 So we need to stand up for those people that don't have the rights to do all this gross behavior.

01:20:14.000 And that's what we're seeing.

01:20:15.000 It's completely backwards clown world, you know, but it definitely is but that I mean what you point out about how there's so many people that have it have a perspective where they're basing everything on a That they're the victim of something that's something that that's from the Marxist playbook the whole point is power dynamics the whole point is the person with power is oppressing the person without power and it all you have to be able to do is make a compelling argument that you feel oppressed and everybody is expected to consent to your

01:20:51.000 Your lived experience, your worldview.

01:20:53.000 And you can't have a society that works like that because then the incentive is to be oppressed and to tell everybody about it and we see the results in society.

01:21:04.000 People are afraid to speak their mind.

01:21:05.000 People are afraid to say things that they believe.

01:21:07.000 People are afraid and they're not afraid because they have outlandish ideas.

01:21:12.000 They're afraid because the people with the outlandish ideas are also the ones that will make us stink and make You know, get people fired, or bring you to the HR department, or whatever.

01:21:23.000 People that are unhappy with their lives, and it's all because of that, you know, the teaching people to look at the world through the dynamic of oppressor and oppressed, and teaching them that the position of oppressed is actually a position of power.

01:21:40.000 Yeah.

01:21:40.000 So, uh, did you want to add a point to that?

01:21:42.000 I was just going to say Obama's campaign was, yes, we can.

01:21:45.000 And it's like, no, we can't because of this group or because of this thing, you know?

01:21:50.000 That's a fantastic plan for the next presidential campaign.

01:21:55.000 No, we can't.

01:21:56.000 No, we can't!

01:21:57.000 So I wanted to go back to when someone superchatted us about AIDS in various populations, because we were talking about the flag, so I looked it up, and 7.7% of global HIV is gay men.

01:22:11.000 7.7.

01:22:12.000 Well, it's lower than I thought.

01:22:14.000 Substantially.

01:22:14.000 That was my point.

01:22:15.000 I mean, I think in the US maybe the numbers are different, but interestingly, and this is from the UN website, 10.3% among transgender persons.

01:22:25.000 So it's higher, interestingly.

01:22:27.000 I could be reading this wrong.

01:22:28.000 I think that's right.

01:22:32.000 Higher prevalence in these groups to this percentage.

01:22:35.000 I mean, once you start to think about why trans people might be transmitting diseases like that, I mean, it's like wounds and stuff. 1.00

01:22:46.000 People who are injecting things have a higher prevalence for it.

01:22:49.000 Drug use.

01:22:50.000 I wouldn't judge.

01:22:51.000 Hormone injections.

01:22:52.000 No.

01:22:52.000 Heroin.

01:22:54.000 Hormone.

01:22:54.000 Yeah.

01:22:55.000 I thought you said heroin.

01:22:57.000 Reusing needles and things like that may result in it.

01:22:59.000 In the 80s that was a big part of it.

01:23:00.000 No, but I just looked it up.

01:23:02.000 And so perhaps in the US the numbers are different, but that's why I say I don't think mostly is the correct term because it's actually... You know, what we actually see with HIV is in many other countries, people of varying demographics and backgrounds, especially a lot of rape victims too.

01:23:14.000 Learn something new every day.

01:23:16.000 Way to just bring up a sad subject, I suppose.

01:23:20.000 Cheery!

01:23:21.000 Well, you know, people die. 0.99

01:23:24.000 Let's wrap up this weekend with something silly. 0.98

01:23:27.000 Politico.

01:23:28.000 House GOP plans to hold long-teased UFO hearing.

01:23:32.000 That's what it is about.

01:23:33.000 Aliens, I think people deserve to know.

01:23:35.000 Rep Tim Burchett, who was leading the effort, told Politico.

01:23:38.000 Great.

01:23:39.000 Chuck Schumer is apparently on board or something.

01:23:43.000 You know what I think every time I see these stories?

01:23:46.000 What did Biden do this time?

01:23:46.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:23:48.000 Heroin was found this time in the White House.

01:23:51.000 They need to make sure that the aliens are the... Because this happened last time I was on.

01:23:56.000 It was something about aliens.

01:23:57.000 It was like, what the hell are they covering up?

01:23:59.000 They're going to find so much drugs that within three weeks, they're literally staging an alien invasion.

01:24:04.000 And it's a video of Biden shaking hands with a gray alien.

01:24:08.000 And they're like, is it working?

01:24:10.000 Yeah.

01:24:14.000 You good there?

01:24:15.000 Yeah, sorry about that.

01:24:18.000 Oh, I thought you were going to say... Yeah, I was going to, and then the cough made it slip my mind.

01:24:24.000 You were talking about... Aliens!

01:24:26.000 Yeah, okay, so I was listening to a space today, Musk was on, talking about AI, the new AI company.

01:24:34.000 And he was talking about the fact that he's like, look, man, I haven't seen anything.

01:24:38.000 So all these people like that are government officials that are like, oh, looking at the stuff that the government said they got, man, all these people better know.

01:24:46.000 But the dude that most regularly looks at actual video of space.

01:24:52.000 Probably, in the top ten people that look at video spaces, I have seen absolutely no evidence.

01:25:00.000 Like, dead, none, zero, he says.

01:25:05.000 So, I don't know what the congress people think they saw, or whatever, but I do find the guy that Actually watches video of space all the time.

01:25:20.000 I find his opinion compelling as opposed to Friggin Chuck Schumer I'd rather find out what the lady on the plane was actually looking at and the thing that wasn't real I want to know what she was actually looking at that's more interesting to me I want to know what the government thinks about aliens.

01:25:36.000 Have they found her yet?

01:25:37.000 They have not.

01:25:38.000 Everyone's talking about it and some people were shaming us into caring.

01:25:41.000 They're like, why do you care about this?

01:25:42.000 I'm like, because it's the internet.

01:25:43.000 Because I'm allowed to care.

01:25:45.000 Well, my point here, I was like, what should I share with everyone on the plane?

01:25:49.000 But no, my plane was the most boring thing ever.

01:25:52.000 She had pretty privilege too. 0.91

01:25:54.000 And she was white, so. 0.99

01:25:57.000 So they haven't found her.

01:25:58.000 We don't know.

01:25:58.000 Maybe those are the aliens they're talking about that the government's talking about.

01:26:02.000 They took her back.

01:26:03.000 That's possible.

01:26:04.000 It's so funny.

01:26:04.000 She's like, he is not real.

01:26:07.000 Oh yeah.

01:26:07.000 That's what I'm talking about.

01:26:09.000 They still haven't found that lady.

01:26:10.000 She disappeared.

01:26:12.000 How has no one figured out who the person was?

01:26:14.000 There was progress made today.

01:26:15.000 So a friend of a friend of a friend is like she's alive and well, she went on a cruise.

01:26:19.000 That's why she was on the plane in the first place.

01:26:21.000 Drunk.

01:26:22.000 Don't ambient and fly.

01:26:24.000 We're making progress.

01:26:25.000 We're going to figure who this is in a day or two.

01:26:29.000 Do we know what happened?

01:26:31.000 She was talking to some dude and...

01:26:34.000 All I said was, like, that dude's not real.

01:26:36.000 It was ambient.

01:26:37.000 She had to have taken ambient and flown.

01:26:38.000 Like, not a good idea.

01:26:40.000 More than likely.

01:26:40.000 But what does that mean, not real?

01:26:42.000 Like, is that it?

01:26:42.000 Well, she was saying, like, he made some kind of remark, because I believe that I heard a TikTok that someone was saying, I'm the guy.

01:26:51.000 So I don't know.

01:26:52.000 I think that was fake.

01:26:53.000 I didn't, yeah, I didn't check it, but he was saying that, like, they were talking, and he was, I forget where he said he was going, but somehow the conversation went to, like, conspiracy theory type stuff, and because she seemed like she was loaded, she just started thinking that he was, like, a lizard person or something.

01:27:10.000 So I don't know the details, I'm only relating what I've heard.

01:27:13.000 The best was the one where it says, it's the, it's the graphic of her pointing and says that NFR over there's not real, and then it points over there and it's a picture of Mark Zuckerberg.

01:27:23.000 That's right.

01:27:23.000 Looking rather reptilian himself in the photo.

01:27:26.000 Yeah.

01:27:27.000 I'm so sick of these UFO stories, to be completely honest.

01:27:28.000 Well, it's because nobody buys them anymore.

01:27:30.000 At this point, if aliens came down, nobody would care.

01:27:32.000 They'd be like, ugh.

01:27:33.000 Yeah, right.

01:27:33.000 I'd like to get on board after this.

01:27:35.000 I can't do another Biden administration.

01:27:37.000 Yeah.

01:27:37.000 And not to mention, with the technology we're seeing now with AI, nothing you watch on the internet feels real anymore anyways.

01:27:45.000 Unless you actually saw it for yourself in person, would you actually believe that what you were looking at was real?

01:27:50.000 Have you guys seen the new Beavis and Butthead?

01:27:52.000 No.

01:27:53.000 I'm going to spoil it.

01:27:54.000 Spoilers, because it's relevant.

01:27:56.000 You've been warned.

01:27:57.000 So the, I think it's the last episode of the new season that came out.

01:28:02.000 It's a recurring theme in the new one is smart beavis and smart butthead.

01:28:06.000 And they're from a parallel reality where they're super, everyone's super intelligent. 1.00

01:28:10.000 And so they are super intelligent, but still stupid. 0.98

01:28:13.000 And so they're instructed to go to Earth Prime or whatever and kidnap someone for experimentation. 0.98

01:28:18.000 They land in this UFO kind of thing, and then they convince that neighbor, whatever his name is, and he's just completely like, oh wow, look at that, and he walks into the UFO, just completely oblivious.

01:28:28.000 I kind of feel like, that's what I imagine when you're like at this point of an alien ship landing, people are like, oh yeah, really?

01:28:32.000 Sure.

01:28:33.000 Yeah, nobody was fighting.

01:28:34.000 They would be YouTubers.

01:28:36.000 It's like Jake Paul was ten years ago, knocking each other out to try and get inside, to get the first clips of inside the alien spaceship.

01:28:46.000 It's actually kind of crazy to think about.

01:28:48.000 If a spaceship landed in our parking lot right now, and aliens walked out and we filmed it, nobody would believe it.

01:28:55.000 No, they wouldn't.

01:28:56.000 We would literally post the video, we would start, I would live stream, and I would be like, guys, this is, like, I'm streaming, and they'd be like, yeah, okay, nice try, dude, special effects, green screen, it's a fake live stream, it was pre-loaded, pre-recorded, pre-rendered, nobody would believe it.

01:29:11.000 No, they wouldn't.

01:29:13.000 Blame the Blair Witch Project when that came out. 0.77

01:29:18.000 I saw posts about that today.

01:29:19.000 That was like 20, 40 years ago today now.

01:29:22.000 We're right out in that area, right?

01:29:25.000 So the aliens specifically ceded CGI technology to us so that we would have no way to warn anybody about what was happening.

01:29:35.000 So no one, yeah, it's like the ultimate boy that cried.

01:29:37.000 Yeah.

01:29:38.000 That's right.

01:29:38.000 Give them the means to fake everything.

01:29:41.000 They'll fake everything.

01:29:42.000 And then when we invade, no one's going to buy it.

01:29:45.000 Brilliant plan!

01:29:46.000 The best film director will get them to work with him on set so that he doesn't actually have to use the CGI budget to make the movie.

01:29:53.000 I'm down for that too.

01:29:54.000 Probably too.

01:29:56.000 Are there any of the alien stories that you find more compelling than others? 1.00

01:29:59.000 No, it's all lies and stupid nonsense, and I'm insulted that they even bring it up. 0.98

01:30:03.000 But it's also, it is one of those things now, because you live in a 24-hour news cycle that never ends, and if you are acutely aware of what's going on in the media, you look at all of it as some type of distraction, like, what is this taking me away from? 0.99

01:30:15.000 Why are you pointing over here when I should be looking over there?

01:30:17.000 Let's do this, let's say, has anybody ever, how come no one talks about the hole in the center of the North Pole?

01:30:26.000 I mean, look, why is the UFO and aliens the choice of conspiracy?

01:30:34.000 How about we talk about, you know, I don't know, dinosaurs, super evolved, smart cave dinosaurs?

01:30:39.000 Because television in the X-Files made it more palatable in the 90s and it captured the public interest then, so it's the most easy to digest.

01:30:46.000 Yeah, but every once in a while you'll get Atlantis talk and some We Was Kang stuff, like, you know.

01:30:51.000 But it doesn't catch on in the same way.

01:30:54.000 No, it doesn't have the same impact, because I think that space is probably something that everybody is kind of, has, feels like they kind of have a connection with, because everyone, or at least people that don't live in cities, look up and they see stars and stuff like that, and most people can see the moon, so it's like, I feel like it's compelling to people, whereas like, Atlantis is like, you gotta be really in the, down deep.

01:31:14.000 Plus, we just had that whole ocean gate thing.

01:31:15.000 Nobody wants to go down to the bottom of the ocean anymore.

01:31:17.000 Not for a while.

01:31:18.000 Oh, that's what happens down there?

01:31:20.000 There ain't no people down there!

01:31:23.000 Somebody downstairs was watching some Flat Earth video, and I just groan listening to Flat Earth people.

01:31:32.000 Because it's like this guy going, like, I don't have any definitive statements.

01:31:35.000 I just have theories.

01:31:37.000 Round Earth is a theory.

01:31:38.000 And Flat Earth is a theory.

01:31:40.000 And it's like, you can't prove it.

01:31:42.000 And I'm just like, oh.

01:31:43.000 They actually, let me tell you, they really have come far on the whole proving it part.

01:31:49.000 But my favorite is when they go, how come no one's allowed to go to Antarctica?

01:31:54.000 And I'm like, I know people who've gone there, you can buy tickets.

01:31:57.000 It's where this...

01:31:59.000 And they go, how come you can't fly over the North Pole?

01:32:00.000 I'm like, dude, I literally did when I flew from New York to Hong Kong.

01:32:03.000 I don't understand.

01:32:04.000 They just make this stuff up.

01:32:06.000 It's infuriating.

01:32:07.000 And then they all just keep repeating it.

01:32:09.000 I love this video where this guy does this thing where he's like, I'm going to prove that the earth is flat or whatever.

01:32:16.000 And he's like, if the earth is round, then if you take two boards and cut holes in them and then shine a light through it, the camera should be able to pick up the light.

01:32:26.000 If it's round, you won't be able to because of the curvature of the Earth.

01:32:28.000 You have to raise the camera up.

01:32:30.000 And if it's flat, it should be perfectly even.

01:32:32.000 And sure enough, he's like, wait a minute.

01:32:34.000 Wait, wait, hold on there a minute.

01:32:35.000 Like, what's happening?

01:32:36.000 I can't see the light.

01:32:36.000 And he's like, raise it up.

01:32:37.000 And he does.

01:32:37.000 And he sees the light and he's like, oh.

01:32:39.000 Accidentally confirming the experiments about proving the Earth is round.

01:32:42.000 But the crazy thing to me is that people say insane things like, you can't go to Antarctica.

01:32:49.000 Because they're like, it's the firmament.

01:32:51.000 It's the boundary that surrounds the disk Earth or whatever.

01:32:53.000 And I'm like, Dude, you can literally go to Antarctica.

01:32:56.000 It's expensive, there's nothing there, and so the average thing people do is they ride a- you hitch a- you get a ticket on a cargo ship.

01:33:02.000 They know that Metallica played there, right?

01:33:04.000 That actually happened.

01:33:06.000 Metallica's the only band that has played on all seven continents.

01:33:09.000 They think it's a conspiracy.

01:33:09.000 They think it's a conspir- You can buy a ticket as a regular tourist, and you get a few hours on Antarctica, because what else are you going to do?

01:33:18.000 Are you going to go die?

01:33:19.000 But there are people with more money and means that prepare expeditions and literally just go and explore Antarctica.

01:33:27.000 People will say a thing, and then everyone just says, it's true, I believe it, and they just go along with it.

01:33:32.000 I've heard that the reason that they don't have flights that go over the South Pole is because that part of the Earth is very remote.

01:33:42.000 Like, if you go over the North Pole, like, you're over Canada, you're, you know, there's all kinds of cities all in the vicinity, but, like, the South Pole, it's really remote, so they're just like, you know, have them go.

01:33:53.000 There's no reason to, look.

01:33:55.000 The reason you'd fly over the North Pole is because going from New York to Hong Kong, it is faster to go straight.

01:34:00.000 Mm-hmm.

01:34:00.000 Point to point.

01:34:02.000 The idea would be that you'd fly all the way over Russia, or all the way over the Pacific to try and get to Hong Kong.

01:34:07.000 Makes no sense, you just go, whoop, right over.

01:34:09.000 Because it's a sphere.

01:34:11.000 That makes sense.

01:34:13.000 The South Pole makes no sense, because what are you gonna do, fly from Chile and then loop around and go to like Australia?

01:34:20.000 That makes no sense.

01:34:20.000 The distances are far down there.

01:34:23.000 Most of the population lives in the global north.

01:34:26.000 You know, Asia and North America.

01:34:29.000 Like there's Africa and South America, but like most of the population on Earth is above the equator. 0.92

01:34:37.000 We're gonna go to Super Chat, so if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends, and become a member at TimCast.com to support our work directly.

01:34:48.000 And, uh, we will read these.

01:34:50.000 We do members-only shows Monday through Thursday, nothing today.

01:34:52.000 And, uh, just a quick reminder, we will have a guest host all next week, Seamus of Freedom Tunes.

01:34:59.000 I'm grateful that he is able to do it, because...

01:35:02.000 Gotta go to the doctor.

01:35:03.000 But here's Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:35:05.000 in the Super Chat saying, Tim, sir, my guy, yesterday, holy moly, what a feel-good moment that was watching the Super Chats roll in.

01:35:12.000 Everyone deserves a shout-out.

01:35:13.000 The viewers, the staff, the cast, yourself, forward the line.

01:35:17.000 So basically what happens is, at the end of the show, I'm like, if you, someone said, give the Super Chats to Tim Ballard, I said, okay.

01:35:23.000 And then we start seeing, you know, $10, $20 come in, and I'm like, you know what?

01:35:27.000 That makes no sense.

01:35:28.000 Like, I'll just double it.

01:35:29.000 And then, within a few minutes, the couple grand I thought I was gonna be writing a check for turned into $24,000, and I was like, well, here we go.

01:35:38.000 Wow, I didn't expect that, but it was really, really incredible to see everybody pitch in.

01:35:41.000 And if you guys can, I can.

01:35:42.000 I really do appreciate your support.

01:35:44.000 And I think it's cool that together we did this for Tim Ballard's new organization, which he just launched.

01:35:49.000 So hopefully this $50,000 check will be a huge kick in the butt for the start of his organization to get it going quickly.

01:35:57.000 I also saw something earlier that somebody said that the organization website he was listing was, like he was saying, the Spear, like he was saying it wrong.

01:36:05.000 The Spear Fund.

01:36:06.000 Somebody bought it and then said, how can we give this to him to make sure that the one that he was mentioning on the show was the one that actually redirected to the actual website.

01:36:15.000 So that's an even better, it's another great example of everybody coming together.

01:36:19.000 Fantastic.

01:36:20.000 Spearfund.org redirects to his site.

01:36:22.000 It's coming soon.

01:36:23.000 He just announced it, but I hope that together We each were able to put up 25k you the audience and and me.

01:36:32.000 And I got to be honest, the money for me is basically still money from you guys as viewers and as members.

01:36:36.000 So I'm grateful to be able to help him get that going.

01:36:38.000 Because man, yesterday was something else.

01:36:42.000 What an amazing conversation.

01:36:44.000 Let's grab some more super chats.

01:36:48.000 What do we have here?

01:36:49.000 Rafty says, agreed Raymond Stanley Jr.

01:36:51.000 YouTube is blocking the gentle agreement I want to share with everyone, like a reminder of the link to the site for free tickets.

01:36:58.000 Oh, you can't link it.

01:36:59.000 It's, uh, what was the, it's angel dot, what is it, angel dot com?

01:37:04.000 What's the pay-it-forward link?

01:37:06.000 I'm not sure.

01:37:07.000 Angel Studios.

01:37:08.000 Angel.com slash pay-it-forward.

01:37:13.000 But I think you just go to angel.com.

01:37:14.000 You should be able to find it.

01:37:16.000 It's probably easier to find it that way.

01:37:18.000 So not only did we do 50k, I bought 750 theater tickets at $11,500 so that more people can go see this film.

01:37:27.000 I want to win this culture war, man.

01:37:29.000 I want to build a parallel economy.

01:37:30.000 I want to see these studios succeed.

01:37:32.000 I want to see new movies come out and I want to help save kids.

01:37:34.000 Talk about win, win, win, win.

01:37:36.000 It's a fantastic example.

01:37:37.000 Like if you're looking for a white pill for how things are coming, I went to see the movie, theater was packed.

01:37:42.000 Everybody that we've talked to on our podcast, everyone that's super chatted, talking about the movie has said that when they've gone to the theater, the theater was packed for them as well.

01:37:50.000 So that is a fantastic sign.

01:37:52.000 Someone was saying that Jewel was talking about the movie.

01:37:55.000 She was, yeah.

01:37:56.000 Awesome.

01:37:57.000 She knows the people.

01:37:58.000 She knew the producers and she knew people involved with the production of the movie.

01:38:02.000 She's on Concord, which is my previous label, the label that I was on before.

01:38:06.000 Oh, right on.

01:38:07.000 You should hit her up, have her come out. 1.00

01:38:09.000 That'd be really cool.

01:38:10.000 That's why I found out that she's on Concord. 0.95

01:38:12.000 I hit her up and was like, yo, who's our management?

01:38:15.000 I'm going to see if I can reach out.

01:38:16.000 That'd be really cool.

01:38:17.000 I'll try.

01:38:18.000 She has a bunch of those big 90s hits, right?

01:38:20.000 Like Who Will Save Your Soul.

01:38:21.000 Great song.

01:38:23.000 And she's been working consistently.

01:38:25.000 So as much as what happens in the music industry, a lot of times people come out and they'll have whatever puts them on the map that gives them heat.

01:38:31.000 And then people get used to them.

01:38:34.000 They build their fan base.

01:38:35.000 And the people that are just into the one song will go back to doing their thing or finding other stuff.

01:38:41.000 But she really built a fan base that's really kept her Her relevant for a long time.

01:38:46.000 She's been working for ages.

01:38:48.000 That'd be cool to talk to her about it.

01:38:54.000 Um, the lights.

01:38:57.000 Too bright?

01:38:57.000 Too bright in here.

01:38:59.000 Both the glasses and the beer came off.

01:39:00.000 It's the end of the day, and I'm just, yeah.

01:39:03.000 Eric Miller says, Tim, next week, why don't you call in through Discord so you can still be part of the conversation?

01:39:08.000 Perhaps what I can do is just hang out in the Discord, but the reality is I'm going to be literally in a hospital all week.

01:39:14.000 So, here's the gist of it.

01:39:16.000 I have probably a labrum hip tear, cartilage damage, which reduces mobility and range of motion and causes pain when I'm extending my leg.

01:39:27.000 And so, if I were to pursue your typical course of treatment, what I was told by the local hospitals was, we can consult you in two weeks.

01:39:35.000 Okay, well, I can't skate.

01:39:37.000 So, like, what do I do?

01:39:38.000 I can't exercise.

01:39:39.000 Like, that's no good.

01:39:40.000 We're currently working on building the facility, which includes skating and exercise, and I want to be able to do it.

01:39:45.000 After the consultation, we'll perhaps schedule in a few days, over the weekend of course, so it could be four or five days, an MRI.

01:39:53.000 Okay.

01:39:54.000 And then from there we'll plan out in the next couple of months a procedure for which we can start to repair.

01:39:58.000 I'm like, okay, you know what man?

01:40:00.000 So there is a facility that is out of state.

01:40:03.000 It's one of the highest rated like sports injury clinics and they're like, we do it all in a week.

01:40:07.000 You come in.

01:40:08.000 all the diagnostic work, then we prepare, then Wednesday we plan the treatment,

01:40:15.000 and then you should be done with everything by Friday.

01:40:17.000 The reality with the labrum tear treatments, they do PRP in stem cells, that's platelet-rich plasma,

01:40:24.000 but they can also do surgical repairs.

01:40:26.000 These only take like an hour, but you have to go through like paperwork, MRI, diagnosis.

01:40:31.000 So I'm like, this one place will do it all right away.

01:40:34.000 Done.

01:40:35.000 But it means I'm basically in the hospital going through the whole process.

01:40:35.000 Done.

01:40:40.000 That's it.

01:40:40.000 So there's no morning show.

01:40:41.000 I can't do IRL.

01:40:43.000 But it beats randomly taking off one or two nights every week to go through this and then not being able to skate or exercise for six, seven months because of the recovery process.

01:40:51.000 Because they're saying recovery for it could be like a A month to two months.

01:40:56.000 And I will also add, it's so annoying because I can run up and down the stairs, I can jump, I can basically do literally everything except kickflip.

01:41:06.000 I can't do anything that requires a ninja kick of my left leg.

01:41:10.000 It's just like, there's no strength.

01:41:13.000 And so, what I'm generally told by the doctors is, If you don't take care of it now, and you keep going, hip

01:41:22.000 replacement later.

01:41:23.000 I guess I got my shoulder replaced. It sucked. 0.97

01:41:26.000 Right. So they're like, we can do something that's minimally invasive.

01:41:29.000 It's going to take a week of your time. It's done in an hour. Takes you a month.

01:41:33.000 And then you're good. Or you can ignore it, be in pain, not exercise.

01:41:38.000 And then in a few years or so, have to deal with a real serious invasive surgery.

01:41:41.000 So it's just like, let's just do it.

01:41:42.000 Let's just get it over with.

01:41:43.000 I'm an old man, so it has to be done.

01:41:45.000 And with less exercise in the meantime, it actually makes the problem worse the longer it goes.

01:41:50.000 Exactly.

01:41:51.000 I'm still having like reoccurring knee issues that's one of those things like when I was skating every single day I was I just built up enough strength that I was able to get through it without having Too many problems, but since then like even now if I'm skating just three four times a week I notice it way more You know it's not like I'm working manual labor so it's like if I go out and try and skate at 8 p.m.

01:42:12.000 or 9 p.m.

01:42:13.000 when I'm done with work I feel as if I've been you know it feels as if I've been on my feet the whole day when that's not necessarily the case because I'm not building up the strength from skating every single day.

01:42:23.000 Yeah, so anyway, uh, that means I'm out.

01:42:26.000 I'm out.

01:42:26.000 And, uh, I hate doing it.

01:42:28.000 It would be like, there's only one other time that an injury ended up resulting in me not being able to work, and it was, uh, I got a root canal.

01:42:36.000 No, uh, no, I got a crown put on.

01:42:37.000 I got a crown put on.

01:42:39.000 I had a root canal a long time ago and I had to get it fixed and that was three days of like... I think I still remember that.

01:42:45.000 That was before, that was like 2018 or something.

01:42:47.000 I still remember the post about it because I was watching the show at the time.

01:42:50.000 And it's just like, I hate that I was sick a week ago and now it's like, this thing happens.

01:42:56.000 And I'm just like, you know, as my body begins to fall apart and I age and wither away, that's just the reality of it, right?

01:43:03.000 Alright.

01:43:03.000 37.

01:43:03.000 Oh my god.

01:43:06.000 You talk like you're 51.

01:43:08.000 Yeah, no, I'm kidding.

01:43:09.000 I'm mostly kidding.

01:43:10.000 And it's because, like, outside of the hip thing, I don't notice anything about being 37 when I skate, except my hip started to hurt.

01:43:19.000 And I'm like, there it is.

01:43:20.000 That's literally just it.

01:43:21.000 Knees are fine, jump strength, everything seems to be fine, actually doing new tricks, better tricks.

01:43:26.000 And then, you know, after 23 or so years of skating, you get some damage in your cartilage, it's not healing, and now you go to the hospital.

01:43:34.000 All right, the KL Tanker says, Seamus should not get a coffee blend.

01:43:38.000 It should be hot chocolate with Lucky Charms marshmallows.

01:43:41.000 Perfect!

01:43:42.000 Actually, we had a really good idea for Seamus's blend, but I don't want to say anything just yet.

01:43:47.000 Of course, that'll actually take some time, but the new ones are almost ready.

01:43:51.000 The Mr. Boca's Pumpkin Spice Experience and the K-Cups should be available very, very soon.

01:43:58.000 All right.

01:43:59.000 Vasht says, This is literally MSM saying Trump called Neo-Nazis very fine people.

01:44:04.000 I stand on principle.

01:44:06.000 F Pence and F Fake News voting Vivek.

01:44:09.000 You know, the issue is, what I get out of what Mike Pence said, when he was like, that's not my concern, I think it's fair to say he was trying to say, Ukraine was not my concern, but then he literally says, why can't it be our concern?

01:44:22.000 He says, if you think it can't be one of the issues we care about, then you're mistaken.

01:44:26.000 So, where are we at with it?

01:44:29.000 Halfway.

01:44:29.000 He didn't say, screw American cities.

01:44:32.000 He didn't say, all for Ukraine and nothing else, Slava Ukrainia, he said, no look, Ukraine isn't my concern, America isn't, and doing right by America, but we can be leaders of the free world too.

01:44:44.000 And I'm like, so the truth is closer to the middle.

01:44:48.000 Some people may say, I don't care about Ukraine, put all your focus, don't waste time, and his argument is, we can do both.

01:44:55.000 We can help Ukraine and help America.

01:44:58.000 I don't know about that, dude.

01:44:59.000 The government here continually proves that they cannot do both.

01:45:02.000 They can rarely do one.

01:45:05.000 Andrew!

01:45:06.000 Just my biggest problem with the whole Ukraine thing is, like I said to a friend today, regardless of what the details are about the new issue, I still don't see the off-ramp.

01:45:16.000 I don't see what gets us out of a, you know, out of the confrontation with Russia yet.

01:45:22.000 And until I do, I'm just... Well, we're just shipping over more weapons of mass destruction.

01:45:27.000 I mean, stuff that have been banned.

01:45:29.000 Cluster munitions.

01:45:31.000 And it's going to escalate.

01:45:32.000 Because they had criticized Russia for doing the same thing.

01:45:34.000 Now the U.S.

01:45:35.000 and the West is doing it.

01:45:36.000 Yeah.

01:45:37.000 Now troops, reserve troops, being sent to Europe?

01:45:39.000 Come on.

01:45:39.000 You've seen both the Russians and Ukrainian soldiers don't want to be fighting this war.

01:45:45.000 You know what I'm looking forward to?

01:45:46.000 I just want you to imagine this.

01:45:48.000 So you're sitting on the sidewalk.

01:45:50.000 Sitting up against a brick wall that is nothing but rubble, and the power lines have crashed down, the sky is orange, and there's just buildings collapsed everywhere, and you're covered in dirt, and you're shaking, and then you see, this is the best part, a liberal walks by, and you get to go, I told you so!

01:46:12.000 It'll be so worth it, won't it?

01:46:14.000 I was telling someone at the castle that like when we had all that smoke from the Canadian wildfires

01:46:19.000 I'm like if we had like a nuclear like war this is how it would be every day if we survived the blast

01:46:25.000 It would just be this haze. We can't breathe be terrible awful

01:46:30.000 Andrew Roland says, if we elect Vivek, we Republicans get bragging rights to elect the first Native American president, thus ticking off the left, since they are obsessed with the first this and that.

01:46:39.000 Isn't Vivek Indian? 0.72

01:46:41.000 Yeah, I think so.

01:46:42.000 But not Native American? 0.99

01:46:43.000 No, no, no.

01:46:44.000 Yeah, I think he's Indian country.

01:46:47.000 That's right.

01:46:48.000 I say the party switch later and then they'll take credit for it.

01:46:51.000 Won't matter.

01:46:51.000 Yeah.

01:46:53.000 What do we have here in the old super chat box?

01:46:57.000 Ryan Ellis says, politicians will use our tax dollars to supply guns and ammo to foreigners.

01:47:01.000 They will also use our tax dollars to pass legislation that bans Americans from owning guns and ammo, the same guns they say are evil and have no place in society.

01:47:08.000 Weapons of war.

01:47:10.000 Yep.

01:47:10.000 Yes.

01:47:11.000 We've armed every enemy we've ever had.

01:47:14.000 Here's a question for you.

01:47:16.000 Andrew Reinheimer says, question for Shannon, how are your positions better than Mark Robinson?

01:47:22.000 Oh, that's a North Carolina.

01:47:25.000 Well, it kind of depends on what we're talking about, whether it's the education, the economy, or even the social issues.

01:47:33.000 Mark Robinson is fairly authoritarian, very hard to the right.

01:47:39.000 There's some things that we agree on, like the abolishment of Obamacare and trying to help some of the health care.

01:47:47.000 But I'm also, I have some differences on the abortion aspects to where I too would like to see a 12 to 16 week abortion ban after, but with the exception of medical conditions that are there to save the mom's life and the baby's life where he's more negative on a lot of those aspects.

01:48:12.000 So and he's a very hard right Republican.

01:48:17.000 A lot of people are having, you know, a hard time stomaching a lot of his policies.

01:48:23.000 But then one of my goals is to go after taxes and reduce the size of the government in North Carolina, which is going after the Department of Education or not just education, but our education system there is horrendous.

01:48:38.000 I mean, we get the The North Carolina Education Lottery, which is really the only money that's going to our education system, yet we're 50th in the country.

01:48:50.000 What state has the best education system in the country right now?

01:48:55.000 Does anybody know?

01:48:56.000 No idea.

01:48:58.000 If you were to model your education department after one, what would you be looking to do for it?

01:49:03.000 That's actually an excellent question.

01:49:04.000 I probably need to look at who's number one.

01:49:07.000 Florida?

01:49:08.000 Not in terms of like, outside of the academic approach, but in terms of the parental rights and cultural approach?

01:49:15.000 Yeah.

01:49:15.000 Rhonda Sanders did a pretty good job.

01:49:17.000 I'm a big fan of the whole school choice and the parents being involved.

01:49:22.000 In North Carolina, we don't really have that.

01:49:24.000 We're last, but yet the government is just... It's horrendous in education.

01:49:34.000 I moved away from Louisiana because they had the worst education system when I was growing up, and I moved to North Carolina, and now we're the worst.

01:49:39.000 It just followed you.

01:49:41.000 It just followed me around.

01:49:43.000 All right, we'll grab this one.

01:49:44.000 Chuck Taylor says, for Phil, what was it like working with Shannon Lucas?

01:49:48.000 He's my all-time favorite.

01:49:49.000 Love all the remains.

01:49:50.000 Saw you guys at HOB Cleveland in 07, but not since.

01:49:54.000 Oh, wow. 0.83

01:49:54.000 Sick. 0.83

01:49:54.000 Well, Shannon's great. 0.83

01:49:57.000 At the time, you know, we were both really young and so we could only kind of make it work for one record, but we've since talked and I'm hoping that Shannon will do something for all that remains in the future, not like recording or anything, but we talked about getting him to do some drum playthroughs of stuff that he did in the Fall of Ideals, and hopefully we can get him to do that, so keep your eyes out.

01:50:23.000 Cheers.

01:50:24.000 All right, JR says, Libertarians tend to suffer the no true Scotsman fallacy a lot.

01:50:30.000 Yeah.

01:50:33.000 Bruno Bronowski says, Tim, why aren't you posting videos to Twitter yet?

01:50:36.000 Stop being a bonus hole.

01:50:37.000 I love you, brother.

01:50:39.000 And he superchatted that four times.

01:50:40.000 I think that might have been an accident.

01:50:42.000 We actually are discussing that.

01:50:43.000 The challenge is, I'm not sure a 20-minute segment would do as well on Twitter as it does on YouTube, because YouTube is a platform where you open the player and then work and listen.

01:50:54.000 Twitter is, you're scrolling through.

01:50:57.000 There is the potential now.

01:50:58.000 I mean, Elon is doing an amazing job.

01:51:00.000 Mad props.

01:51:01.000 The picture-in-picture for videos?

01:51:03.000 Brilliant.

01:51:03.000 That does open the door.

01:51:05.000 I think what we're looking at right now is uploading short clips, but typically about a minute long, and then, you know, linking to a longer form thing, or something like that.

01:51:14.000 I think for what Twitter is, shorter form video would do really well to ignite conversation and generate plies.

01:51:21.000 Because if I put up a 20-minute video on Twitter, someone's 10 minutes through, and then they say, oh, I'm going to comment on that.

01:51:26.000 And then they reply, yeah, you said Trump did this, and he did that.

01:51:29.000 That's what I think.

01:51:31.000 Someone else is going to see that comment and be like, I didn't hear that part.

01:51:33.000 Like, where in the video is that part?

01:51:35.000 Right?

01:51:35.000 Because Twitter is very different.

01:51:37.000 But you know, to be completely honest, it's about experimenting.

01:51:39.000 And I think one of the things we're looking at is potentially simulcasting to Twitter Mainly because, I'll say I know this, the majority of people who follow me on Twitter do not watch this show live.

01:51:51.000 They'll watch clips or something like that.

01:51:52.000 And that if we did put up our show live 8pm on Twitter, I think we'd end up getting like 10 to 20 million more views than we already do.

01:52:01.000 And so I think probably by the time I'm back I'm hoping that we figure out how we can do that effectively.

01:52:06.000 And the monetization is a huge element of it.

01:52:08.000 Your talker's doing pretty good on Twitter, isn't he?

01:52:10.000 Yeah, and he's been getting like, he got what, like 70, 100 million views or whatever?

01:52:15.000 First one, yeah.

01:52:16.000 And you know, Elon says, how many impressions do you generate is how much you get paid.

01:52:20.000 Yo, the reality is, Tucker's generating a lot of ad impressions when he's getting 50 million views on a video.

01:52:26.000 So, I genuinely think...

01:52:29.000 It's hard to know for sure exactly what would happen if we went live on Twitter.

01:52:32.000 I know a lot of people who follow me on Twitter do not watch live on YouTube.

01:52:36.000 I know a lot of people really don't like YouTube and don't want to be here, but they are on Twitter because they got unbanned.

01:52:40.000 And so, I wonder.

01:52:41.000 I mean, I've seen a lot of people do live streams on Twitter to very little success.

01:52:45.000 I wonder if we would have the same degree of success, but to be fair, I also have 1.7 million followers on Twitter.

01:52:50.000 So maybe we would end up getting a million or so hits, and that's really enough, I mean, to be completely honest.

01:52:56.000 So we'll see.

01:52:56.000 I think one thing that Elon needs to do is he needs a grid format for videos.

01:53:02.000 And when it comes to live, you need real time comments, not just thread comments.

01:53:08.000 So chat like a similar to the chat function.

01:53:10.000 Yup, yup, yup.

01:53:11.000 And I hope he gets there.

01:53:13.000 But either way, you know, we're interested in trying to multicast.

01:53:18.000 I wonder if you if you tweet while you're watching the video, if they could just put a timestamp in the in the tweet.

01:53:25.000 Yeah.

01:53:26.000 Just a reference where they where you said in the video.

01:53:28.000 But real-time chat matters.

01:53:31.000 When you re-watch these shows, you can see the real-time chat.

01:53:34.000 Someone's comment goes along with right where the video is, and you can see that happen.

01:53:38.000 That's an interaction that matters.

01:53:39.000 When we do live, I'll interact pretty extensively with people in the chat as well.

01:53:45.000 Not just the Super Chats, but if somebody makes a reference point, or I'll ask the chat for verify on this right here.

01:53:52.000 If you're watching back and if you're watching the playthrough, that won't make sense unless you also follow the live chat replay.

01:53:58.000 Right on.

01:54:00.000 I think YouTube Shorts drive subscribers.

01:54:03.000 And younger people tend to use them.

01:54:05.000 But it's crazy.

01:54:05.000 the way that like YouTube Shorts does that transition more to viewership in a way?

01:54:09.000 I think YouTube Shorts drive subscribers. And younger people tend to use them. But it's crazy,

01:54:15.000 the amount of views we're getting on Shorts is ridiculous.

01:54:19.000 It's not worth any money though.

01:54:21.000 No, it makes very, very little in the way of money.

01:54:23.000 But if it's advertising, you know.

01:54:24.000 And it gets people that might not normally engage with the content, because if people are watching or used to more long-form content, especially like this show or our show is a two-hour podcast every day, that's very different than somebody who's literally going and scrolling and looking for YouTube shorts.

01:54:39.000 So sometimes you'll actually, it's kind of interesting, you'll get people that are more that disagree with you more because they're looking for different content and they're not in the same sphere of influence.

01:54:51.000 So you get a lot of people that end up pushing back on the stuff you say, which is awesome.

01:54:54.000 All right, let's grab a super chat.

01:54:57.000 Atherin Zala says, Tim, here's how you prove the world is round.

01:54:59.000 If it was flat, cats would have knocked everything off the edge.

01:55:04.000 Fair, fair.

01:55:05.000 That's true.

01:55:06.000 Compelling.

01:55:07.000 I love, I was reading about this and I was reading this post from a flat earther who said gravity's not real.

01:55:12.000 What actually is happening is that the Earth is accelerating infinitely upwards, which creates... Every time a turtle appears underneath, which is constantly happening, that's pushing the Earth up because it's turtles all the way down.

01:55:25.000 Well, no, it's just, you know, the image was, it's not flat, it's more of like a disk with, like, rocks underneath it, like, hanging, and then... Rushing through space.

01:55:37.000 And it's rushing through space.

01:55:39.000 I love this.

01:55:40.000 Yeah, they wasted their brain cells on that theory.

01:55:43.000 I love it.

01:55:43.000 If it was going the same speed, you would not experience gravity.

01:55:47.000 You'd be in, you know, like stasis with plants.

01:55:50.000 It has to be going faster.

01:55:51.000 I'm just like, dude, or gravity like Israel. 0.86

01:55:53.000 I don't know, man. 0.93

01:55:54.000 Yeah, they wasted their brain cells.

01:55:57.000 I love it.

01:55:57.000 You know, Justice Skeptic says the best thing you said tonight,

01:56:01.000 Tim was about the potheads.

01:56:02.000 It's true.

01:56:03.000 I'll have to go back and play it later from a pothead.

01:56:05.000 All right on, you know, I.

01:56:08.000 I don't think people shouldn't be allowed to, but I just think it is.

01:56:12.000 It is not good.

01:56:14.000 Solon Woodall says, the smell of cast brew coffee is one of the world's greatest inventions.

01:56:19.000 Indeed.

01:56:20.000 I'm going to say it again, because every morning when I've been having Appalachian nights, I just can't wrap my head around, I'm like, how is this so good?

01:56:30.000 We got a bunch of beans, we tried mixing different kinds, I wanted a little darker roast, and we hit this blend that was so good, I'm just I'm not kidding.

01:56:38.000 I love that stuff.

01:56:39.000 I could just, like, drink, like, a gallon of it in the morning.

01:56:42.000 We will grab some Super Chats here.

01:56:45.000 We got Sideways saying, man, I think Ian might have been right about Ron and Vivek switching spots.

01:56:50.000 I don't always agree with him, but he rolled a 20 on that one for sure.

01:56:53.000 Yeah, I think maybe in a couple weeks, couple months, Vivek's gonna be number two.

01:57:02.000 He's hitting it out of the park.

01:57:03.000 You know, and unfortunately for Ron, I think the issue is he's got great policy, but the hatred towards him comes from a perceived disloyalty.

01:57:12.000 That he went against Trump, that he was saying he's not gonna run, and then all of a sudden it was like all in the cards the whole time.

01:57:19.000 I think people are pissed about that.

01:57:22.000 But also it's probably that To a certain degree.

01:57:25.000 Nobody really thinks Vivek is going to win, right?

01:57:27.000 No.

01:57:28.000 No, but what if Trump actually gets indicted for something, right?

01:57:32.000 And then you lose that power base.

01:57:34.000 Then all of a sudden you have an election in turmoil.

01:57:37.000 He's already been indicted, but well, I mean, actually convicted.

01:57:39.000 convicted convicted convicted yeah that would be absolute chaos God's other son

01:57:46.000 says I've had hip issues for almost 30 years They eventually recruited my knees in their war against me.

01:57:51.000 Get better soon.

01:57:53.000 Yeah, my knees seem to be pretty good.

01:57:56.000 I should, by all accounts, have legs that shake and I can barely stand because I've been skating for 23 years, sprained and rolled my ankle on dozens upon dozens of times.

01:58:05.000 My knees should be, they make a disgusting sound when I bend them because, you know, just what I've been doing my whole life.

01:58:12.000 But no issues whatsoever there.

01:58:15.000 You know, like, I'm skating, and, uh, for the skate nerds out there, we went out to film, and I was like, I'm gonna do a nollie flip nose slide on the ledge, which is, you know, I guess it's a decently good trick, and I lock it in first try and slip out, and what I encountered when trying to- we were filming, is that I can't extend my left leg enough when I snap, when I pop the board, and it's causing me problems and pain, And I thought it would just go away.

01:58:38.000 I'm like, I must have strained it or something.

01:58:40.000 It did not.

01:58:40.000 It got worse.

01:58:41.000 And so I reached out to some pro athletes and I was just like, what do you think?

01:58:45.000 And they were like, oh bro, dude, whoa, no, I know this.

01:58:48.000 I've heard this story before.

01:58:49.000 You need to call a doctor.

01:58:50.000 And I was like, okay.

01:58:51.000 And then they were just like, 20, 30 years ago, you know what they'd say to you? 0.61

01:58:54.000 They'd say, well, life sucks. 0.76

01:58:57.000 Take some ibuprofen and good luck.

01:58:58.000 But now we've got all these treatments and they're like, no, no, no, get it in now.

01:59:01.000 We'll take care of it.

01:59:01.000 You'll be good as new.

01:59:03.000 That's the reality of the world, man.

01:59:04.000 I gotta go.

01:59:06.000 And it won't be the first time.

01:59:07.000 It actually is the first time, actually.

01:59:09.000 I guess if you count the crown I got.

01:59:11.000 But it won't be the last time.

01:59:12.000 I'm only getting older.

01:59:14.000 Nothing you can do about it.

01:59:15.000 It'll happen.

01:59:16.000 And c'est la vie.

01:59:18.000 But I do think the important component here is all of you have been begging that we get Reserve hosts, backup hosts, and other co-hosts who can take over the show and host it in events.

01:59:28.000 I'm incapacitated.

01:59:29.000 So the show doesn't just cease to exist.

01:59:30.000 And in fact, that's actually why Phil's here.

01:59:32.000 And potentially in the future, Phil will be doing the same thing Seamus is doing, while we have Seamus.

01:59:36.000 Seamus can handle it, but even Phil at some point.

01:59:40.000 And then...

01:59:42.000 It's gotta be more than just me, in the long run.

01:59:44.000 So we've got morning show plans, a view-like show, studio is at like, I think maybe like 70% completion, construction's still underway, some hiccups along the way, but uh, it's common, it just takes a really long time to build this all.

01:59:58.000 And then once the new facility's up, we're gonna be doing a morning show to compete with the view, with sane women. 1.00

02:00:03.000 It's gonna be very fun.

02:00:04.000 I'm excited about that, especially considering the ladies that you've been talking about having on there.

02:00:08.000 I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.

02:00:09.000 Yeah, it's people everyone knows and loves.

02:00:11.000 People we've had on the show before that are moms that have a moderate to, like, reasonable view of varying dispositions. 1.00

02:00:18.000 Conservative, liberal, libertarian.

02:00:19.000 I say this with deep love for all of them.

02:00:21.000 They're all big mouths.

02:00:22.000 It's gonna be hilarious.

02:00:24.000 I would just love to- Hilarious!

02:00:26.000 A Phil in the Morning show where you just yell at everyone in the morning.

02:00:30.000 I mean, I probably can do that, but I would rather- To wake you up.

02:00:34.000 I would rather hear the ladies, because they're gonna be- I'm telling you, it's gonna be great.

02:00:39.000 But we're doing as much as we can, so we'll grab one more Super Chat here.

02:00:43.000 What do we have?

02:00:45.000 What's a good one?

02:00:48.000 O'Liddy says, Tim, you should all shroom for one video during the day and in the wilderness.

02:00:53.000 Ian was right, it's great.

02:00:55.000 Well, I always tell people to consult their doctors.

02:00:57.000 There has been a tremendous breakthrough in research pertaining to PTSD and trauma and psilocybin and things like that, but that's for a doctor to decide.

02:01:05.000 And it is fair to say I believe recreational, it's legal in some states.

02:01:08.000 So make sure you're always abiding by the law and talk to a medical professional about what's right for you.

02:01:12.000 You can follow the show at TimCast IRL.

02:01:14.000 You can follow me personally at TimCast.

02:01:16.000 We may be posting clips from the show on that Twitter account.

02:01:20.000 I think it's extremely likely within the next week or so.

02:01:23.000 And smash the like button, subscribe to this channel.

02:01:24.000 I am out all next week, but Seamus has you.

02:01:27.000 We have a bunch of really, really great guests.

02:01:30.000 This is really abrupt, and it was an opportunity to just try and get this hip thing done right away.

02:01:36.000 So I really do appreciate everybody.

02:01:38.000 As members at TimCast.com, you've afforded me the ability to take a sick day.

02:01:42.000 Something I had not experienced for a very long time.

02:01:45.000 If I didn't work, I didn't make money, but you guys as members have given me that gift.

02:01:49.000 I really do appreciate it.

02:01:51.000 Shannon, you want to shout anything out?

02:01:52.000 Oh yeah, I mean thanks for having me and if anyone wants to read any policies or whatever you can find out on ShannonBray.us or really to kind of discuss anything.

02:02:03.000 I'm fairly active on social media so ShannonBrayNC on Twitter and I'm happy to chat.

02:02:11.000 Right on, thanks for coming.

02:02:12.000 I am Phil Labonte.

02:02:13.000 I am PhilThatRemains on Twitter.

02:02:15.000 I am PhilThatRemainsOfficial on Instagram.

02:02:18.000 The band is All That Remains.

02:02:20.000 We're available on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, the old YouTube.

02:02:25.000 Next week I'm going to be in L.A.

02:02:27.000 doing drums for some upcoming releases that we have planned, and if you follow me on Twitter, you'll see some updates for that.

02:02:36.000 Guys, my name is Brett Dasovic.

02:02:37.000 It's at Brett Dasovic on Twitter and on Instagram.

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02:02:45.000 You should come join us.

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02:02:48.000 And I am Kellen.

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02:02:52.000 I press the buttons on Fridays.

02:02:54.000 And it was a great, great, great show.

02:02:56.000 It was a lot of fun.

02:02:57.000 So thanks, guys.

02:02:58.000 Thanks for hanging out, everybody.

02:02:59.000 I also recommend checking out the Culture War episode from this morning at youtube.com slash TimCast.

02:03:03.000 Debating the issue of, should, is drag appropriate for children?

02:03:07.000 And I just want to address something for a lot of people.

02:03:10.000 It's a mixed bag of comments.

02:03:12.000 Some people are like, Tim, wow, you did a really great job letting this person speak and share all their ideas.

02:03:16.000 We need to know what they're thinking.

02:03:17.000 And other people being like, Tim, why didn't you push back and yell?

02:03:20.000 The Culture War Show has had its moments of me arguing with people, but we're really trying to have other people express their ideas and have that conversation.

02:03:28.000 So, what I'm hoping with the show is to get people to explain their ideas so that you can hear them, and then ask them questions and explore, in a somewhat Socratic method, what they're really thinking, and it does lead to contradictions.

02:03:40.000 Some episodes will be better than others, but we're really trying to make sure that it's not just me arguing with someone.

02:03:46.000 It is two people of different ideas discussing it, and so that was the plan.

02:03:51.000 That being said, I will wrap it up here.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - July 14, 2023

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