Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Pfizer ADMITS To Engineering Virus In Response To Project Veritas w-Matt Strickland

00:00:00.000 All in all, it was actually kind of a weirdly slow news day, but we did have a lot of news

00:00:19.000 All in all, it was actually kind of a weirdly slow news day, but we did have a lot of news

00:00:23.000 over the past week and weekend.

00:00:25.000 And for those that missed it, because you weren't, it was, it was, that was the intention

00:00:28.000 of Pfizer, so that you would miss it.

00:00:29.000 of Pfizer, so that you would miss it.

00:00:31.000 Last Friday at 8pm, they issued their formal response to James O'Keefe and Project Veritas.

00:00:37.000 Okay, informal.

00:00:38.000 They issued a statement about mutations and directed evolution.

00:00:41.000 And the interesting thing is that they actually said that in certain cases, such a virus could

00:00:46.000 be engineered so they could help, help identify antiviral drug treatments, blah, blah, blah.

00:00:52.000 Basically, in a matter of speaking, they made it seem like they were denying having done

00:00:57.000 anything like this.

00:00:59.000 It's not gain of function or directed evolution, nothing like that.

00:01:01.000 It's just engineering such a virus and researching the mutations to determine whether, okay,

00:01:07.000 fine, you know what, I don't know what they're trying to say.

00:01:09.000 How about we read you their statement, which basically says they're doing it.

00:01:13.000 And several al-Safari reported, they deny gain of function but admit to...

00:01:17.000 Engineering viruses.

00:01:19.000 They claim it's safe.

00:01:20.000 Don't worry.

00:01:22.000 But we'll read into that.

00:01:23.000 We'll talk about that.

00:01:23.000 Plus, we got celebrity actor Zachary Levi.

00:01:28.000 He's in Shazam. 0.95

00:01:30.000 And in the wee hours of Sunday morning, he tweeted that he agreed Pfizer was dangerous for the whole world.

00:01:36.000 And now he's got a bunch of liberals attacking him as an anti-vaxxer, which is the weirdest thing because he didn't mention vaccines.

00:01:41.000 Nobody did.

00:01:42.000 It's just a big corporation that's been fined billions of dollars for being found guilty of criminal charges and allowed to continue operating.

00:01:50.000 So we'll talk about all that, plus a bunch of really fun stuff.

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00:03:09.000 Joining us today to talk about this and a whole bunch more, including his personal experience with the lockdowns, we got Matt Strickland.

00:03:15.000 Tim, thanks for having me on, brother.

00:03:17.000 I really appreciate it.

00:03:18.000 My name is Matt Strickland.

00:03:19.000 And you're a restaurateur.

00:03:22.000 I sure am.

00:03:23.000 Before that, I was in the military, so I'm a veteran.

00:03:26.000 Spent about 10 years of my life fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and came home and I opened a food truck.

00:03:32.000 It turned into a restaurant and that quickly became successful as well until COVID hit.

00:03:38.000 And I realized very early on that these mandates were more about control than they were our health and safety.

00:03:44.000 So I fought back.

00:03:45.000 And because I fought back, the government stripped me of all of my licenses.

00:03:48.000 But I continued to fight back.

00:03:50.000 And the people stood with me. 1.00

00:03:52.000 And we kicked the government's ass. 1.00

00:03:53.000 You won. 1.00

00:03:54.000 We won.

00:03:55.000 We gotta talk about it.

00:03:55.000 This is great.

00:03:56.000 We went down to Gore Melts.

00:03:58.000 It's in Virginia.

00:04:01.000 Amazing food.

00:04:02.000 Love the music, 90s music.

00:04:04.000 Yeah, the food was legit.

00:04:06.000 It was good stuff.

00:04:07.000 And hearing that you won in the end is exactly what people need to hear.

00:04:11.000 That's right.

00:04:12.000 Because, you know, nonviolent civil disobedience.

00:04:15.000 You say, look, we're a restaurant.

00:04:16.000 This is unconstitutional.

00:04:17.000 We're going to do our thing.

00:04:18.000 The government came after you.

00:04:19.000 It was a hard fight.

00:04:21.000 And in the end, You win.

00:04:22.000 That's it.

00:04:23.000 That's what it was all about.

00:04:24.000 I mean, I saw them stripping my customers and my employees of our constitutional rights, and I wasn't going to be complicit in that.

00:04:30.000 And the reason was I spent my entire adult life fighting dictatorships overseas, and I was not going to come home to my country and allow a dictatorship to rule.

00:04:39.000 And then what disappointed me is that my Republican leadership in the state of Virginia did not step up and fight with me.

00:04:46.000 And for that reason, I'm now running for state Senate in Virginia, and I'm coming to crush the establishment.

00:04:51.000 All right, man.

00:04:51.000 We'll definitely talk about it.

00:04:53.000 Thanks for hanging out.

00:04:53.000 Thanks for joining us.

00:04:54.000 We got Libby hanging out as well. 0.96

00:04:55.000 She's back.

00:04:56.000 Hey, what's going on?

00:04:57.000 It's Libby Edmonds.

00:04:57.000 I'm with the Postmillennial.

00:04:59.000 Glad to be here.

00:04:59.000 Right on.

00:05:00.000 Hi, everyone.

00:05:01.000 Ian Crossland here.

00:05:02.000 Happy to report.

00:05:03.000 Bucko's doing extremely well.

00:05:04.000 We had an amazing weekend together, hanging out, healing, eating a lot.

00:05:08.000 And also from the front of gaming news, if you haven't heard, Wizards of the Coast has gone back on their decision and plans to basically rip apart their old open gaming license and proprietize all their software.

00:05:21.000 They were about to start taking huge chunks of percentages from people that were trying to make money off the D&D rule set, which had previously been made open.

00:05:27.000 They couldn't even do it if they tried.

00:05:29.000 Yeah, and they realized that 89% of the people were dissatisfied in their polls, so they just scrapped the whole plan.

00:05:35.000 They're just keeping it open.

00:05:36.000 Another instance of humanity stepping up and making sure that what's right remains.

00:05:41.000 Some quick context.

00:05:42.000 Mr. Bocas is the cat.

00:05:44.000 He is our cat here at the Cast Castle.

00:05:47.000 And he's sick, so Ian is getting some experimental treatments for him.

00:05:50.000 But see, for us, normally, you know, Bocas lives with me, or he did, until Ian started tending to him 0.58

00:05:57.000 over the past couple of weeks for his medicine.

00:05:58.000 But, you know, Bocas will try and wake us up at about 6.30, 7 a.m., screaming.

00:06:03.000 And then what he does is he puts one paw on your face and then lets out a claw, right in your face.

00:06:07.000 And you go like, wake up to a, like a lightening, like, ah, like what's happening?

00:06:10.000 And then he's yelling, like, I want food, wake up.

00:06:13.000 So we were thinking it was kind of funny.

00:06:15.000 I'm like, oh man, you know, Ian sleeps so late.

00:06:19.000 How's he going to handle Bocas screaming at him? 1.00

00:06:20.000 And then I went, Ian's awake at 6.30am.

00:06:23.000 He goes to bed.

00:06:25.000 So Bocas is chilling.

00:06:26.000 He wants dinner.

00:06:27.000 Ian gives him his 6.30am dinner and then they both go to bed at the same time.

00:06:30.000 It's great.

00:06:31.000 And also it's Kara and I are doing it together, my girlfriend Kara.

00:06:33.000 So the two of us have a 12 hours on, 12 hours off kind of schedule.

00:06:37.000 The buck was in good hands.

00:06:39.000 Right on.

00:06:39.000 We got Serge pressing the buttons.

00:06:41.000 Yo, what's up guys?

00:06:42.000 I hope you guys are well.

00:06:43.000 It's been a long weekend for me, but we're out here.

00:06:45.000 Let's get started.

00:06:46.000 All right, here's the story from the Daily Mail.

00:06:48.000 Pfizer admits engineering COVID mutants in lab studies to ensure its antiviral drug works on new variants, but PharmaGiant insists tests were not gain-of-function and did not pose risk to the public.

00:07:01.000 I love this story, because we constantly hear this, where it's like, you know, the analogy I give is, you know, Dr. Fauci, is there a door on the building of the NIAID?

00:07:12.000 No, there is no door.

00:07:13.000 We have no door.

00:07:15.000 We have a porthole with a large wooden object, and there is a mechanical device you twist, which causes it to unlatch and open on hinges.

00:07:23.000 And you're like, bro, you're describing a door.

00:07:25.000 They just play this game where they're like, I didn't jaywalk.

00:07:28.000 I just crossed the street, not in the crosswalk.

00:07:31.000 It's like you're describing literally the thing.

00:07:33.000 So Pfizer, in response, presumably to Project Veritas, Released a statement at 8 p.m.

00:07:40.000 on Friday.

00:07:41.000 Look at this!

00:07:42.000 Friday, January 27th, 8 p.m.

00:07:45.000 You know, we did a show that day, but like, we didn't see this message come out literally the moment we go live, because we do pre-production about an hour before.

00:07:53.000 But we're gonna make sure we get this story front and center on Monday, so that nobody forgets.

00:07:59.000 They tried to memory hole this.

00:08:00.000 Let me read for you what they say, because it'll make you laugh.

00:08:04.000 Allegations have recently been made, is their statement, related to gain-of-function and directed-evolution research at Pfizer, and the company would like to set the record straight.

00:08:13.000 The next paragraph you're about to hear is just patter to, like, make you not want to read it.

00:08:17.000 They say, in the ongoing development of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer has not conducted gain-of-function or directed-evolution research.

00:08:24.000 Working with collaborators, we have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern.

00:08:34.000 This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified by public health authorities.

00:08:38.000 This research provides a way for us to rapidly assess the ability of an existing vaccine to induce antibodies that neutralize a newly identified variant of concern.

00:08:46.000 We then make the data available through peer-reviewed scientific journals and use it as one of the steps to determine whether a vaccine update is required.

00:08:55.000 Okay, so wait.

00:08:57.000 You get the new variants, then you test it, see if you need to update.

00:09:01.000 Makes sense.

00:09:02.000 They add.

00:09:03.000 In addition, to meet U.S.

00:09:05.000 and global regulatory requirements for our oral treatment, PaxLivid, Pfizer undertakes in vitro work, e.g.

00:09:11.000 in a laboratory culture dish, To identify potential resistance mutations to Nirmatrelvir, one of PaxLivid's two components.

00:09:21.000 With a naturally evolving virus, it is important to routinely assess the activity of an antiviral.

00:09:26.000 Most of the work is conducted using computer simulations or mutations of the main protease A non-infectious part of the virus.

00:09:34.000 You see, at this point I'm reading it like, they're not saying they're engineering anything.

00:09:38.000 They then go on to say, in a limited number of cases when a full virus does not contain any known gain-of-function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells.

00:09:50.000 Okay.

00:09:52.000 Now they're just trying to play a legal game with me.

00:09:54.000 Let's just break that sentence down and try and understand it.

00:09:58.000 In a limited number of cases, when a full virus does not contain any known gain-of-function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable the assessment of antiviral activity in cells.

00:10:11.000 What they're saying is, when they engineer the cell, they need it to express mutations like they said they were checking for, so that they can see if their antiviral works.

00:10:20.000 That, to me, fine.

00:10:22.000 Don't call it gain of function.

00:10:23.000 Call it engineering, like they did.

00:10:25.000 So COVID's actually engineering such a virus, as they've stated, to assess antiviral activity.

00:10:31.000 Okay, there you go.

00:10:32.000 Pfizer.

00:10:32.000 Pfizer's engineering.

00:10:33.000 Oh, sorry, what is it?

00:10:34.000 COVID is engineering.

00:10:35.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, Pfizer.

00:10:36.000 Pfizer, sorry.

00:10:38.000 So Pfizer, you're saying in this, they admit to engineering certain viruses.

00:10:41.000 Well, they have to check and see if it works.

00:10:44.000 Right, right, right.

00:10:45.000 It's not gain of function or directed evolution, it's engineering.

00:10:49.000 This is the game they play.

00:10:50.000 You're right, Tim, because when I read this, I also started to fall asleep, especially after that second paragraph where they're like, let us be clear about what we did.

00:10:57.000 We did not do it, was the way they start off the first thing.

00:11:00.000 But when they say that they've conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2, let me get this below this image up here.

00:11:07.000 has been used to express the spike protein from new variants.

00:11:12.000 So the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants. What does that mean?

00:11:19.000 That just... The use of virus to express a protein in another

00:11:22.000 variant.

00:11:24.000 It just sounds like what they're saying is when there's a new variant discovered, they take it and then they put it in a dish and, like, grow it so they can have the spike protein.

00:11:35.000 That doesn't sound like gain-of-function or anything like that.

00:11:38.000 It's the middle part of the third paragraph, well, second paragraph, where they're like, and in a limited number of cases, if the virus does not contain any known gain-of-function mutations, such a virus may be engineered.

00:11:48.000 It sounds like they're saying engineered to have gain-of-function mutations.

00:11:51.000 It does sound like they're saying that.

00:11:53.000 Come on, man!

00:11:53.000 I think they are saying that.

00:11:55.000 But you had Fauci saying for a while that they weren't doing gain-of-function,

00:11:59.000 and then it was clear that the research that was being funded was gain-of-function research.

00:12:04.000 It says gain-of-function on the research documents.

00:12:06.000 Yeah, that's what it says.

00:12:07.000 And Rand Paul is like, Dr. Fauci, this document is yours, and it says gain-of-function

00:12:12.000 research.

00:12:13.000 No, we did not do it!

00:12:14.000 It says right here, gain-of-function.

00:12:16.000 I didn't do it!

00:12:17.000 Okay, man, I just... And you can see why they would think it's a good idea, right?

00:12:21.000 You can see why they would think like, okay, we're gonna do research, we're gonna figure out, you know, we're gonna make the virus worse so that we can test our drugs and whatever else.

00:12:30.000 You can see why they'd think it's a good idea, but that doesn't make it I disagree.

00:12:37.000 I think the potential mutations of a virus have to be infinite.

00:12:43.000 I don't think it's a good idea.

00:12:44.000 Let's say there's a million potential mutations to the virus.

00:12:52.000 Why would they mutate it and be like, if we mutate it this way, we can make a vaccine for it this way.

00:12:57.000 And it's like, oh, so one in a million chance.

00:12:58.000 You make money off that?

00:12:59.000 That doesn't make sense to me.

00:13:00.000 I don't know.

00:13:01.000 To me, it sounds like the quintessential CYA.

00:13:04.000 They just spent a whole paragraph telling us they're not doing something and just slipped a sentence in there saying, psych, we're doing it.

00:13:12.000 I was saying before the show to you, Matt, that like, I think the maybe even have like, you know, immunity from the CIA is like, go, you're gonna have to lie on this one.

00:13:20.000 And you've got all retroactive immunity if it comes out that you were lying in the future.

00:13:23.000 So I mean, it's public information that Pfizer's got immunity.

00:13:27.000 I mean, and the reason they have immunity is because our politicians aren't the one running the show here, guys.

00:13:33.000 And you guys know that.

00:13:34.000 The people that are funding their campaigns are the ones running their show, and who's at the top of that food chain?

00:13:39.000 Pfizer.

00:13:40.000 And the pharmaceutical companies.

00:13:42.000 The people that print the money, basically.

00:13:44.000 Where's the money coming from?

00:13:44.000 Who's making the money?

00:13:45.000 Because those are the people that are divvying out, like the Federal Reserve decides who gets the loans first.

00:13:49.000 Right, so you've got maybe a company that might sound like black crock. And I just said random word I thought of and they 1.00

00:14:01.000 get Federal Reserve loans just pass right along to them to buy

00:14:05.000 up whatever they want. Companies like these then, you know, I

00:14:09.000 think we'll invest in packs and super packs, allowing politicians

00:14:12.000 to get elected. I don't know if if overturning Citizens United

00:14:16.000 ruling would actually change this it might I'd be interested to hear what people thought about that.

00:14:21.000 You guys are familiar with Citizens United?

00:14:22.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:14:23.000 Basically, super PACs, as long as they don't collude with the candidate, you can donate an infinite number of money and then they can say whatever they want.

00:14:33.000 So what ends up happening is you get big corporations, they'll go to the candidate and say, are you the guy who's going to help our very important research save America?

00:14:44.000 Cause we're looking to donate a lot to help that happen.

00:14:47.000 And then the candidate will be like, well, I don't know nothing about that, but rest assured, I'm a big fan of Pfizer and them helping would sure would be great if I won.

00:14:55.000 And they go, we get it.

00:14:56.000 They then go to a super PAC and say, here's $500 million.

00:14:58.000 We want him.

00:14:59.000 Super PAC can run a campaign for somebody.

00:15:01.000 You don't, you have to be involved in it.

00:15:02.000 They're going to make you win.

00:15:03.000 Well, Biden is planning to completely increase the medical-industrial complex as part of the Cancer Moonshot Plan.

00:15:11.000 You know, they're going to put so much money in to create basically a federally-funded, federally-affiliated medical research situation.

00:15:24.000 Wow, that sounds like a good idea.

00:15:25.000 Disturbing.

00:15:26.000 Yeah, it's very disturbing.

00:15:28.000 But that's that's like part of their big plan.

00:15:28.000 Yeah.

00:15:30.000 They're going to increase that portion of the federal government, get a whole bunch of researchers on there to do, you know, more stuff like this.

00:15:38.000 All in the idea that they're going to cure cancer.

00:15:41.000 I wonder how much cancer they make in labs, you know, that they're then going to try and cure it.

00:15:44.000 Yeah, well, I mean, a high-acidity lymphatic system can cause the cells to duplicate at a rapid pace, which a lot of scientists call cancer.

00:15:52.000 Like, if you don't alkalize your lymphatic system, you can feed people sugar and keep making medicine, and then you're doubling down on the profit, because not only are they buying your food, they're buying your medicine.

00:16:02.000 I think that there's some value for Pfizer to be working on, I guess you'd call it, gain

00:16:02.000 I can't stand it.

00:16:10.000 of function in simulations and computer simulations, like a quantum computer.

00:16:13.000 That's different than the lab thing.

00:16:14.000 You want millions and billions of potential viral outcomes and then millions and billions

00:16:18.000 of potential digital cures of viruses in a computer.

00:16:23.000 Keep it in the computer, because outside, you know, they can leak.

00:16:26.000 They can leak.

00:16:27.000 Viruses can leak.

00:16:28.000 You create something that you're afraid of becoming reality.

00:16:30.000 You just created the thing that you were afraid of becoming reality.

00:16:33.000 So, I don't know.

00:16:35.000 But I mean, I think they're doing it personally.

00:16:36.000 I think they're just doing it for profit.

00:16:37.000 I think that companies, because they're allowed to, if someone's allowed to do something, assume that they're going to.

00:16:43.000 That if they're allowed to make a virus and a medicine for it and profit off that medicine, why would they not?

00:16:49.000 Well, and once a kind of technology or something like that is created, it will be used.

00:16:54.000 It's just a matter of time.

00:16:55.000 The for-profit aspect of it is actually, I mean, it's terrifying.

00:17:00.000 It's not, it's unethical to profit off of a meta.

00:17:06.000 I don't know.

00:17:06.000 People profit off of food.

00:17:07.000 They profit off of food.

00:17:08.000 The food industry is for profit, so… Look, man, I've never been all about laissez-faire capitalism like Luke is.

00:17:14.000 You know, he likes to come on and he just talks about how capitalism or free market solves everything and there's corporatism and things like that and the government actually intervenes to help major corporations win.

00:17:24.000 It's not really capitalism, but I genuinely believe that if you have completely unrestricted markets, you're going to get seed oils.

00:17:32.000 Like, this is my shout out to Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change.

00:17:36.000 You're not here to defend yourself.

00:17:37.000 Too bad.

00:17:39.000 Unrestrained capitalism.

00:17:40.000 A company's gonna say, look, no one cares about seed oils.

00:17:44.000 Only these weirdos like Luke Rudkowski are complaining about seed oils.

00:17:48.000 And they're cheaper?

00:17:50.000 Use those.

00:17:51.000 And then everyone's going to start eating them.

00:17:52.000 And if they get sick, they're not going to know why.

00:17:55.000 And there's not going to be anything.

00:17:56.000 They're not going to they're going to keep buying these products.

00:17:58.000 You got a little stick bug right on your chest there, guy.

00:18:00.000 Oh, you're coming for me.

00:18:01.000 What really concerns me is the drug dealers that are making money off this system.

00:18:04.000 Like Pfizer is a company that deals drugs.

00:18:07.000 I mean, you might use a different term.

00:18:08.000 They sell drugs to people.

00:18:10.000 But like the tobacco industry used to have commercials for kids.

00:18:14.000 They would target kids with Joe Camel and like they want you to start early and that was the Congress had to step in because the unrestricted capitalism.

00:18:23.000 You're right about the drugs though and if you look at the data the number of kids and teens that are on Psych meds is incredibly high and a lot of the kids that are on psych meds are like vulnerable kids, like kids in foster care, a lot of boys are on psych meds and a lot of these kids are on medications that are not approved for their age group and they're on multiple drug cocktails that are not approved for their age group as well.

00:18:51.000 I just want to say stink bugs are lucky that they're kind of cute and doofy.

00:18:55.000 They're not cute?

00:18:56.000 I think they're tremendously cute.

00:18:57.000 They're creepy.

00:18:58.000 They're not creepy.

00:18:59.000 They clap, you know that?

00:19:00.000 I don't like them.

00:19:00.000 They clap.

00:19:01.000 I don't kill them, but I also don't like them. 1.00

00:19:03.000 You kill them, they make a stinky smell. 1.00

00:19:04.000 I don't want anything to do with them. 1.00

00:19:06.000 He was on my monitor, but they clap.

00:19:08.000 I'm not even kidding.

00:19:09.000 I recorded a segment, and then I was done, and I looked up, and there was a stink bug just going like this.

00:19:13.000 I'm like, why is it doing this?

00:19:14.000 Is that some kind of mating call?

00:19:16.000 Probably.

00:19:16.000 Right?

00:19:17.000 I mean, aren't they all mating calls?

00:19:18.000 They were just like, yo, you complain about Joe Biden so good.

00:19:20.000 They dance too.

00:19:22.000 If you watch them, they'll like walk sideways and then walk sideways and keep doing like turn and shake and stuff.

00:19:28.000 As far as these pharmaceutical companies go, it's insane to me how incentivized doctors are to prescribe a certain medication.

00:19:37.000 When I was in the military, I was a combat medic.

00:19:40.000 So I was an infantry medic.

00:19:42.000 And the first job I got when I got out of the military, I was working at a hospital.

00:19:47.000 And these pharmaceutical reps would come in and wine and dine these doctors and provide all of us, even us medics, you know, free lunches and such.

00:19:56.000 And it's just insane to me how incentivized these doctors are to sell those specific products.

00:20:02.000 And as far as the packs go, They may not be able to deal directly with a candidate, but everybody knows, you know, if it's two or three people removed, they get a hold of these candidates.

00:20:13.000 And when Matt Gaetz was on the show just a few days ago, he told you guys, he said, the first thing you do when you become a congressman, when you get to D.C., is you sit down at a table with the people who are the leaders in the industry that you want to be on a committee.

00:20:29.000 And that just shows you right there, it proves to you how corrupt politics are and it lets you know that these politicians that we get pissed off at and that we blame for all of these problems, they're not the ones running the show.

00:20:41.000 It's these lobbyists and these PACs in the pharmaceutical industry.

00:20:45.000 I mean, those guys are at the top of that food chain.

00:20:48.000 It's a lot of companies.

00:20:49.000 The military industrial complex?

00:20:50.000 Absolutely.

00:20:51.000 You got Lockheed, you got Boeing, you got Halliburton.

00:20:53.000 I mean, the list goes on.

00:20:54.000 what you were saying too about hospitals and pharmaceutical reps. When I finished college,

00:20:59.000 I worked for a small medical office and I was doing insurance paperwork. That was my job.

00:21:06.000 But these pharmaceutical reps would come in almost every day and they would bring lunch for the

00:21:10.000 entire office and they'd just spill sample cases full of their drugs all over the place. And it's

00:21:16.000 so weird. You're right. They used to target kids with tobacco advertising. And now, anytime you

00:21:21.000 watch TV, there's half a dozen drug advertisements. And you listen to the list and my son and I will

00:21:27.000 joke about it. He'll be like, oh, this drug for depression, mom, it cures your depression,

00:21:31.000 but you might have increased thoughts of suicide. And it's like, oh, okay.

00:21:35.000 Isn't that the opposite of what it's supposed to do? 0.64

00:21:37.000 And you listen to it, and it's like, this will help you lose weight, but you might want to kill yourself.

00:21:41.000 Or sleeping drugs, and it's like, you may forget that you got up and drove your car while you were on this drug, so be careful with that.

00:21:49.000 And why are we seeing all of these advertisements for major pharmaceutical drugs that can make you think you're sleeping while actually you're driving your car?

00:21:59.000 The best thing is when they don't actually tell you what the drug does.

00:22:02.000 Right, and they never do!

00:22:04.000 They're like, ask your doctor, and you're like, about what?

00:22:06.000 Yeah, I remember seeing a commercial, I can't remember, y'all have probably seen commercials like this where it's like an old guy and he's like looking sad and it's like the color's gray and it's like, feeling down?

00:22:16.000 Maybe Clovestal is right for you and then he's smiling and then he's like walking through a park and it's like, ask your doctor today about Clovestal.

00:22:23.000 No!

00:22:23.000 I don't know what you're selling me!

00:22:25.000 Yeah.

00:22:25.000 And the drug names are so bizarre, like Successra.

00:22:30.000 It's the reason they made pill boxes, because you need a pill to remedy the side effects from this pill, and then you need another pill to remedy the side effects from that pill, and it just goes on and on and on, and that's why they created pill boxes.

00:22:43.000 This one makes the pain go away, but also makes you want to die.

00:22:47.000 This one makes you not want to die, but could also make you think about wanting to die.

00:22:50.000 So then you have this one here that actually makes you forget what's going on so that you don't remember wanting to die.

00:22:55.000 Side effect, it might cause pain.

00:22:57.000 So back to the original pill, might have to double your prescription.

00:23:00.000 You know, I think when the oxycodone epidemic in the 90s, late 90s, this is the oxy, this is the, this is what you would call the, what would you call it?

00:23:11.000 What kind of drug is that?

00:23:12.000 It was like an opiate.

00:23:13.000 I remember actually, I was trying to buy weed and the guy didn't have any weed and he was like, oh, here, take this.

00:23:21.000 And it was an Oxycontin.

00:23:24.000 And I was out for like two days.

00:23:26.000 You had no idea what it was? 1.00

00:23:29.000 No, yeah, I was an idiot. 1.00

00:23:30.000 I was an idiot, obviously. 1.00

00:23:32.000 Nobody else should ever do that. 1.00

00:23:35.000 Especially today with fentanyl, people have been dying from overdosing on fentanyl that they think is like a... I don't get the whole fentanyl thing.

00:23:41.000 Isn't it a prescription drug?

00:23:42.000 Like, how did it get in all the street drugs?

00:23:44.000 Like, how did this happen?

00:23:46.000 It's both prescription and street.

00:23:48.000 China.

00:23:49.000 I'm telling you, so in 2012, I had a vasectomy in 2012, and first time I ever took any kind of painkillers.

00:23:58.000 So they gave me Percocet and Vicodin.

00:24:00.000 Oh man.

00:24:00.000 That's a lot of painkillers.

00:24:01.000 That's a lot of painkillers.

00:24:02.000 Percocet's powerful stuff.

00:24:04.000 I took two.

00:24:07.000 And I flushed them down the toilet.

00:24:08.000 And the reason I flushed them down the toilet is because it was like the best drunkness you've ever had without the hangover.

00:24:15.000 Happened to me.

00:24:15.000 And I was like, this is dangerous.

00:24:17.000 So I just, I had to flush them down the toilet.

00:24:19.000 And it's in the freaking water supply because people are flushing them down.

00:24:22.000 Well, I don't know if that persists. 0.74

00:24:23.000 Might get filtered out.

00:24:24.000 But in 2014, I had a kidney stone.

00:24:27.000 And there's nothing they can do for you.

00:24:28.000 I mean, if it's like really bad, you might get surgery, but it wasn't really that bad.

00:24:31.000 It just, it hurts.

00:24:32.000 And also people don't understand.

00:24:33.000 Let me tell you guys, it's, it's inside your body.

00:24:35.000 It's not like, you know, you're going to the bathroom one day and you're like, there's something jammed up in, you know, my, my schlong or something.

00:24:41.000 You're, you're at the doctor's and it, I would like, it's either appendicitis or like they thought it was appendicitis.

00:24:47.000 And then I went in, like, pain in my abdomen, and they were like,

00:24:50.000 yeah, it's your kidneys released like a small rock.

00:24:53.000 And they were like, nothing we can do about it.

00:24:55.000 Here's a bottle of pills.

00:24:57.000 And I took one, and you nailed it.

00:24:59.000 Felt awesome.

00:25:00.000 And I never took another one.

00:25:02.000 You wrote a song about it.

00:25:03.000 At least that's one of the songs you were telling me about it.

00:25:05.000 Was that a guy?

00:25:07.000 A guy searching for the fix, at least that was one of them.

00:25:09.000 Oh, that was written a long time before this.

00:25:11.000 That was wild.

00:25:12.000 But this is, like the feeling you get from it was so intense that I did the same thing you did.

00:25:17.000 I didn't flush it down the toilet, I just threw it away.

00:25:19.000 But the point is that, so I flushed it down the toilet, and I just took Motrin, and guess what?

00:25:24.000 I was absolutely fine.

00:25:25.000 That's all I needed.

00:25:27.000 So these doctors, they're just pushing this medication, just shoving it down your throat.

00:25:30.000 Well, it's not only the medication, it's surgery.

00:25:32.000 It's like at one point I hurt my back, like after my son was born, and I saw two doctors and they were like, you need back surgery.

00:25:39.000 And I was like, no, no, I do not need back surgery.

00:25:41.000 Well look at Hulk Hogan, he's paralyzed now.

00:25:43.000 Yeah, we were just talking about it before the show, Hulk Hogan's paralyzed.

00:25:45.000 I had a doctor, I went in because I was having trouble sleeping and she prescribed me sleeping pills which then gave me nightmares and I also couldn't sleep and then I bought new pillows.

00:25:54.000 Like I literally bought new pillows and I didn't have an issue ever, like ever after that.

00:26:00.000 You know, the reason I brought up the opiate crisis, and some people call it an epidemic, because, is, do you see what the Sackler family did to humanity for profit in the 90s and 2000s? 0.97

00:26:09.000 That was crazy.

00:26:10.000 So that's the example of what pharmaceutical companies- And their name is all over everything.

00:26:14.000 I know, you would think at this point people would realize, oh, that family is demonic.

00:26:17.000 I'm not like a good and evil kind of guy, I'm not that binary, but when you see pharmaceutical companies eradicating the population for profit, I gotta wonder if maybe they're evil or doing something wrong.

00:26:27.000 They're the oxy people, right?

00:26:28.000 Yeah, the oxycodone, they created it.

00:26:31.000 Oxytocin.

00:26:32.000 It's supposed to be like a feel-good chemical.

00:26:34.000 I think that's why they named it that.

00:26:36.000 It's like the orgasm.

00:26:37.000 Manipulation tactics.

00:26:39.000 So you would think people would be so awakened to the pharmaceutical company's attempt at profits that they would be eye-opening and gazing at Pfizer right now with a microscope.

00:26:48.000 Well, what's weird is they came down so hard on tobacco, right?

00:26:52.000 But they don't come down, they like praise the pharmaceutical industry for all that they're doing for humanity.

00:26:57.000 And the pharmaceutical industry is getting all this federal funding.

00:27:03.000 You know, hey, breathing and burning smoke obviously is bad for you, so that's an easy target.

00:27:07.000 I mean, look at how much money we're paying up for that stuff with, like, all the COVID tests and all that crap.

00:27:11.000 Considering we're ragging on these big pharmaceuticals, let's jump to this story from Fox News.

00:27:16.000 Zachary Levy sparks Twitter controversy over claim that Pfizer is a danger to the world.

00:27:21.000 Hardcore agree.

00:27:23.000 I love this.

00:27:23.000 Here's a tweet.

00:27:24.000 Lyndon Wood said, do you agree or not that Pfizer is a real danger to the world?

00:27:27.000 He said, hardcore agree.

00:27:29.000 And liberals went nuts. 1.00

00:27:31.000 Okay, one less movie ticket to spend money on, stupid! 1.00

00:27:36.000 Seriously, guys? 1.00

00:27:38.000 He didn't like a massive multinational pharmaceutical corporation that's been fined some of the largest fines in history?

00:27:45.000 $2.3 billion plus another $430 million from five years prior?

00:27:49.000 They didn't learn their lesson.

00:27:51.000 They got fined like $200 million in, I think it was in 2001 or something like that.

00:27:55.000 They got fined $430 million in 2004.

00:27:57.000 Then they got fined again in 2009, and it was 2.3 billion dollars.

00:28:01.000 And my question is, at a certain point, why don't you shut them down?

00:28:05.000 You're committing crimes over and over again, you're done.

00:28:09.000 When a human being commits a crime, we say we take you from your job, your job is no longer being done, we put you in a box, we close it, you can't go out.

00:28:16.000 With these corporations?

00:28:18.000 Well, it depends on the severity of the crime.

00:28:19.000 Sure.

00:28:20.000 But if we're talking about a crime against humanity on the scale of 2.3 billion dollar fine, because they were selling off, you know, off... I can't remember exactly what they were doing, but they were like...

00:28:30.000 Misleading the public as to what their drugs were doing or something like that.

00:28:33.000 That lets you know how crooked it is because at my restaurant, if there was case after case after case after case of people getting sick after eating at my restaurant, I'd be shut down and there'd be no question about it.

00:28:45.000 If you ran a company, if you were in a restaurant, And that restaurant was dealing drugs out of the back door.

00:28:52.000 They would shut it down, every employee fired.

00:28:55.000 I mean, it's like, sorry, this company's committing crimes.

00:28:59.000 And you know what it could be?

00:29:00.000 It could be one manager who's been doing it, and they shut the thing down.

00:29:03.000 And they say, no, no, no, this is a criminal enterprise.

00:29:06.000 And then the people are just like, I don't know, man, I just make burgers.

00:29:08.000 Like, too bad, you lose your job.

00:29:10.000 But when a pharmaceutical company does it, this is the reality of the world, they're too big to fail, so the government says, just give us a cut of the profit, and keep doing what you're doing.

00:29:18.000 So for the record, Pfizer got fined $2.3 billion for misbranding Bextra, the drug Bextra, with the intent to defraud or mislead the attempt, essentially according to- What was Bextra for?

00:29:31.000 Justice.gov.

00:29:33.000 I'm not sure what it was for.

00:29:34.000 Hold on.

00:29:34.000 Is that the $2.3 billion one?

00:29:36.000 $2.3 billion.

00:29:36.000 They were selling it off-label, meaning that they didn't get FDA approval for the things they were selling it for.

00:29:41.000 They had only had approval for the original thing.

00:29:43.000 And actually, the FDA had declined to give it approval for the things that they were selling it for off-the-label, according to Justice.gov.

00:29:52.000 A big, big, big mishandling of public trust.

00:29:55.000 There's also a situation where there's this drug Lupron that's used for prostate cancer and things like this, and it's being used off-label as a drug to give children to block puberty for gender dysphoria.

00:30:11.000 And it's also used for precocious puberty in like some cases, but it's only recommended for three months at a time.

00:30:18.000 And so it's not FDA approved for use in children for more than three months for this extra purpose, this gender dysphoria purpose, but no one says anything about it and Lupron's sales continue to increase.

00:30:35.000 They don't recommend the drug for that purpose, but they certainly just keep taking the money.

00:30:39.000 This company, AbbVie, which makes a ton of drugs.

00:30:42.000 This is how it works with big corporations.

00:30:44.000 Typically, the government just says, look, give us our cut and you can keep doing it.

00:30:48.000 A company does something that's illegal, makes $10 million.

00:30:52.000 FTC says it's a $5 million fine, sir.

00:30:55.000 And they go, oh, jeez, I guess I got to pay you.

00:30:57.000 Have a nice day.

00:30:58.000 And they put $5 million in their pocket.

00:30:59.000 I should specify, Cis, here that the FDA, when it came to Bextra, specifically declined to approve.

00:31:05.000 So I think that they didn't say, this is bad, I think they just didn't give it an approval.

00:31:08.000 But they went ahead and used it anyway.

00:31:10.000 Zachary Levy, is it Levi?

00:31:12.000 Is it Levy?

00:31:13.000 Dunno.

00:31:14.000 I'll call him Levy.

00:31:15.000 He was getting ragged on and attacked by the left.

00:31:18.000 So he tweeted, just one example of what I'm referring to, and it's at justice.gov, the largest, what is it, largest healthcare fraud settlement in history.

00:31:26.000 It's not anymore, I think there's a, was it GlaxoSmithKline's now the biggest, yeah, three billion something.

00:31:31.000 But, and that was later on.

00:31:33.000 But they're still attacking this guy over it.

00:31:35.000 It's like, You're not going to go see Shazam next? 0.96

00:31:38.000 You know what I'm going to do?

00:31:39.000 I'm going to buy two tickets to Shazam! 0.99

00:31:42.000 And if nobody takes it, just pay for it.

00:31:44.000 I'm going to give the DC Universe, Warner Bros.

00:31:47.000 money.

00:31:48.000 Because they got a guy leading a movie who didn't say anything anti-vax, just said, hey man, be wary of these massive multinational corporations, they're dangerous.

00:31:57.000 I respect that.

00:31:58.000 And that's the kind of marketing I think movies should be all about.

00:32:01.000 So you know, I'll buy two tickets.

00:32:03.000 I'll buy two tickets for you.

00:32:04.000 Thanks.

00:32:05.000 I won't see it, but yeah.

00:32:06.000 Oh, maybe I will then.

00:32:06.000 Okay.

00:32:07.000 Oh, we got tickets to go.

00:32:09.000 We have tickets to see Quantumania.

00:32:09.000 Oh, no, we don't have tickets.

00:32:11.000 No, I really do want to see Shazam, Fury of the Gods. 0.92

00:32:15.000 I'm really excited.

00:32:15.000 The first Shazam was awesome.

00:32:17.000 I don't know anything about Shazam.

00:32:19.000 It's a DC superhero.

00:32:21.000 Billy Batson's a little kid.

00:32:22.000 Wizard gives him the power of Shazam. 0.99

00:32:25.000 It's a bunch of gods.

00:32:26.000 Shazam is that like the wisdom of Solomon the strength of Hercules the the you know something I don't know.

00:32:32.000 He's fast like lightning.

00:32:33.000 So he's a little kid and then he yells Shazam and gets struck by lightning and then turns into a big huge dude and it's it's fun and funny it was like the only DC movie that was actually a bit irreverent.

00:32:43.000 I like the funny ones.

00:32:44.000 That's why I liked Guardians of the Galaxy.

00:32:46.000 It's funny.

00:32:46.000 Yes.

00:32:47.000 You haven't seen Shazam?

00:32:48.000 You'll like it.

00:32:48.000 No.

00:32:49.000 It's fun.

00:32:49.000 Can I take my kid?

00:32:49.000 I'll check it out.

00:32:50.000 Probably.

00:32:51.000 Oh, yeah, absolutely.

00:32:51.000 He'll be like, oh, nice.

00:32:52.000 We're going to see something I like.

00:32:54.000 But you can see the first one.

00:32:54.000 The first one's out.

00:32:55.000 Okay. 0.99

00:32:56.000 It was like the best performing DC movie, I think, because they're all garbage. 0.93

00:33:00.000 This one actually was good. 0.53

00:33:01.000 And the second one's coming out.

00:33:03.000 And all these liberals are yelling like one month before the movie comes out, this guy's an anti-vaxxer.

00:33:08.000 And it's like, I didn't say any of that! 1.00

00:33:09.000 You guys are nuts! 0.96

00:33:09.000 Well, the thing is, like, these Hollywood people, they need you all to comply with their viewpoint or else they're gonna yell at you. 0.96

00:33:15.000 And it's like, there's no reason to comply with anyone's viewpoint.

00:33:18.000 Think for yourself.

00:33:19.000 Every single time.

00:33:21.000 I mean, obviously.

00:33:22.000 It's like making a song.

00:33:23.000 This is why the Beatles were so great.

00:33:24.000 John and Paul did not work in lockstep.

00:33:26.000 They didn't sing harmonics of their words.

00:33:29.000 They sang two totally different songs together to create a mega song.

00:33:32.000 And we need more of that with arguments.

00:33:33.000 Who do you think was better?

00:33:34.000 John or Paul?

00:33:34.000 John.

00:33:35.000 Really?

00:33:35.000 I mean, John Lennon's one of my ultimate personal top three heroes.

00:33:38.000 Well, here's the reality.

00:33:39.000 George Washington and Einstein, probably.

00:33:41.000 Paul was poppy.

00:33:43.000 John Lennon was cool.

00:33:44.000 And so together, that was a powerful force.

00:33:49.000 John's willing to speak out against the military-industrial complex before it was cool.

00:33:52.000 He had the cool glasses.

00:33:53.000 Think about Paul's songs.

00:33:55.000 Was that one he wrote years ago?

00:33:58.000 Which one?

00:33:58.000 He's written so many.

00:34:02.000 It's all like super poppy.

00:34:03.000 It is very poppy.

00:34:04.000 Yeah, he was the pop star of the band.

00:34:06.000 And John Lennon is all like, Vietnam is wrong.

00:34:09.000 You know, kids are getting dark, angry, got beat up when he was a kid, like just a rough life.

00:34:14.000 Love that guy.

00:34:15.000 Do you know what?

00:34:15.000 I want to add some nuance to what Zachary was saying about Pfizer being evil.

00:34:20.000 I think that what happens is unfettered drug dealers are dangerous or evil.

00:34:25.000 Not all.

00:34:26.000 Because marijuana is a different beast.

00:34:28.000 Caffeine is a different beast.

00:34:29.000 They're both drugs.

00:34:30.000 THC and caffeine.

00:34:31.000 Yeah, but unfettered, it's really bad.

00:34:33.000 I mean, like, there's unfettered marijuana sales in New York City right now.

00:34:37.000 You can't walk down the street without smelling it.

00:34:39.000 Like, every bodega has unregulated marijuana sales.

00:34:43.000 You don't have any idea what is being purchased or what is being sold.

00:34:46.000 You don't have to show ID.

00:34:47.000 There's absolutely no regulation.

00:34:50.000 And the city is trying to shut it down now and be like, no, we're only going to give weed licenses to people who were formerly incarcerated or, you know, on drug charges.

00:35:00.000 But it's been like over a year.

00:35:01.000 You can't tell the bodegas they have to stop selling loose pre-rolled joints now.

00:35:06.000 They're not going to.

00:35:08.000 And it's unregulated, it's unfettered, and it's not a good situation.

00:35:12.000 Yeah, Pfizer's a result of an unfettered system where they can have immunity.

00:35:17.000 Like, Moderna's right there in the shadows.

00:35:19.000 If you want to take down, spend the next 10 years taking down Pfizer, Moderna.

00:35:23.000 It's next, and it's gonna be the exact same problem.

00:35:25.000 It blows my mind that there's regular people on Twitter defending Pfizer.

00:35:29.000 I can't believe that.

00:35:30.000 I mean, it's the same.

00:35:32.000 Well, probably not.

00:35:34.000 But it's the same cycle when it comes to these pharmaceutical companies.

00:35:37.000 It's create a medicine or vaccine or whatever, cause injuries, destroy lives, make $30 billion, fine $3 billion, rinse and repeat.

00:35:48.000 Well, that's the thing I was saying about what we were just reading with the off-label, the intentional misleading.

00:35:54.000 These are companies that, if you pull up, there's the Wikipedia list of all of the crimes committed by these corporations.

00:36:00.000 So the real issue for me is these people aren't doctors.

00:36:04.000 I mean, they're technically doctors, but you have a doctor that you talk to when you're like, yo, I got a bum knee.

00:36:11.000 They know your medical history.

00:36:11.000 They know your family.

00:36:12.000 If you get a good one, you've had them for a long time.

00:36:14.000 The problem is when, you mentioned earlier, they go and lobby the doctors and they say, I told this story earlier.

00:36:20.000 I was skating when I was like 16 and I hit my knee and I heard it and I'm like, I better get it checked out.

00:36:26.000 Doctor says, ah, it's a sprain or a strain or something.

00:36:29.000 You're fine.

00:36:29.000 Here.

00:36:29.000 And then he handed me a whole bunch of sample packets of an anti-inflammatory steroid.

00:36:34.000 Methylprednisone, I think it was.

00:36:35.000 My goodness!

00:36:36.000 And he was like, just take a couple of these.

00:36:38.000 And they were sample packs.

00:36:39.000 And he just threw them at me.

00:36:40.000 And then I was like, whatever you say, doc.

00:36:42.000 And I'm like... My doctor did that with birth control pills.

00:36:45.000 Yes!

00:36:46.000 Like in little sample packs?

00:36:47.000 Yeah, like a ton of them.

00:36:48.000 Like, here, just take all these.

00:36:50.000 You know, this was my family's doctor.

00:36:51.000 And when I was 16.

00:36:53.000 And you know what ended up happening is I was like, okay, so I took a couple of them and then I didn't notice anything.

00:36:59.000 And the next day I was like, I don't know, I just didn't take them.

00:37:00.000 And then I ended up just getting better because I was a kid who, you know, I banged my knee.

00:37:05.000 I was skating, I fell, hit my knee and I couldn't bend it.

00:37:08.000 And so it like swole up or something and it turned out to be nothing legitimately serious or anything like that.

00:37:13.000 But I just kind of, I don't know, man, it's kind of weird to me.

00:37:17.000 You've got to make sure you've got a good, trusted doctor.

00:37:19.000 It's just that.

00:37:20.000 You've got to make sure that when they hand you some samples or whatever, you ask them, what does it do?

00:37:24.000 Why do I need it?

00:37:25.000 And if they can't answer and they're like, well, it was given to me, then maybe you've got a salesman and not a doctor.

00:37:29.000 So find someone who can give you good advice and talk to you about it.

00:37:32.000 But actually, Matt, I want to talk to you about what you went through because we're talking about all the big pharma stuff.

00:37:39.000 But I'm curious, when all the lockdowns happened, there were a handful of businesses that stood up and said no.

00:37:46.000 You ran one of these businesses that the government tried to shut down.

00:37:51.000 You resisted.

00:37:52.000 And the first thing I just want to say is this is a story that I'm excited for you to tell because we've long told people Non-violent civil disobedience, stand up for what you believe in, file the lawsuits, file the complaints, make them work for their oppression or whatever, and you will win.

00:38:09.000 And you won.

00:38:10.000 They tried to shut you down, they hurt your business, they hurt you, but then in the end you ended up winning out.

00:38:16.000 So tell us exactly what went down with your business, how that started.

00:38:20.000 Yeah, well, so as soon as COVID started, I was actually at the at the time, I was still working as an intelligence analyst for the military, just to supplement my income, you know, because when you when you start a restaurant, you're not off to the races, you know, automatically making money.

00:38:35.000 So when COVID happened in March of 2020, they shut my entire program down that I was working on.

00:38:42.000 And I was working on a pretty intense, a pretty serious program that had a lot of national security implications.

00:38:50.000 So when they sent all of us home and they shut the entire SCIF down, I paid attention and I said, well, this must be something serious.

00:38:56.000 This must be a virus that's going to kill half the world, like they're saying.

00:39:00.000 So I took it serious and I listened to the recommendations of, at that time, Governor Northam and I shut my restaurant down.

00:39:08.000 Took a step back because I wanted to be responsible and didn't want to put my customers in harm's way.

00:39:13.000 Nobody knew at that time what was going on.

00:39:15.000 So it wasn't long after that, maybe a month or so, that I started to realize something weird was going on.

00:39:22.000 And then three months after, June of 2020, Governor Northam said, OK, restaurants, you can open back up, but under these provisions.

00:39:31.000 And that's when it clicked.

00:39:33.000 I said, wait a minute.

00:39:34.000 This is more about control than it is our health and safety.

00:39:38.000 And it was because they put mandates in place like you have to wear a mask when you walk in the restaurant, but as soon as you sit down somehow you're safe from covid and nobody's allowed to sit at my bar, but I could pull the table up to the bar and you can sit there and my bartender couldn't hand a drink over the bar.

00:39:56.000 My bartender had to walk around the bar and serve it to the person side-by-side.

00:40:01.000 Just very arbitrary mandates that made absolutely no sense and so like I said I spent my entire adult life fighting dictatorships overseas and I wasn't going to come home and allow a dictatorship to rule.

00:40:13.000 So I did the only thing I could do and that was fight back by not complying.

00:40:18.000 Civil disobedience.

00:40:19.000 And I kind of Did that kind of under the radar at first.

00:40:24.000 I didn't announce it.

00:40:26.000 My customers just knew that when they came to Gore Melts, they were walking into what America used to be pre-COVID.

00:40:32.000 They were walking into freedom.

00:40:34.000 A safe space.

00:40:35.000 A safe space.

00:40:35.000 There you go.

00:40:37.000 And I operated that way actually from June of 2020 to January of 2021.

00:40:42.000 I would get a call from the health department maybe once a month or so and they would say, hey Matt, we got a call from one of your customers that said you're not following COVID mandates.

00:40:52.000 And I would never confirm or deny it.

00:40:54.000 And at that time, the health inspectors, they weren't allowed to come out and inspect.

00:41:00.000 So none of them ever came, came out to my restaurant.

00:41:03.000 So I would just say, Oh, thanks for the call.

00:41:05.000 I appreciate that.

00:41:06.000 And they would just say, Oh yeah, you know, just, you know, follow COVID mandates.

00:41:08.000 And I'd be like, Oh, okay, cool.

00:41:09.000 Whatever.

00:41:11.000 And it went like that until January 2021.

00:41:13.000 Now, what happened in January was Biden took office.

00:41:18.000 And when he took office, as you guys know, he started firing off all of these executive orders.

00:41:23.000 One of those executive orders mandated OSHA come out in conjunction with local health departments and shut down restaurants specifically that weren't following COVID mandates.

00:41:34.000 And that's when I got my first visit from the health department and OSHA.

00:41:39.000 And they said, hey, Matt, you're not following COVID mandates.

00:41:41.000 And I said, no, no, I'm not.

00:41:43.000 I said, because they don't make any sense.

00:41:45.000 I said, if you can make them make sense to me, common sense, because I'm all about common sense.

00:41:49.000 I've never been a very political guy.

00:41:51.000 I've never trusted politicians on either side of the aisle, to be honest with you.

00:41:55.000 And I just want things to make sense.

00:41:58.000 And what he told me is really what set the wheels in motion.

00:42:03.000 He said, well, Matt, it doesn't have to make sense.

00:42:06.000 The governor said you have to do it, so you have to do it.

00:42:09.000 And at that point, I said, absolutely not.

00:42:11.000 This is not how things work in America.

00:42:14.000 And he said, well, we'll come back and we'll suspend your health department license.

00:42:18.000 And I said, well, you do what you have to do, but I'm going to do what I know I have to do, and that is afford my customers their constitutional rights.

00:42:27.000 And at that point I told him, I said, At this point, you were trespassing, so if you don't leave my property, I'll have you removed.

00:42:34.000 And he left, but he made good on his promise and he came back about two weeks later, served me with the suspension papers, suspended my health department license.

00:42:42.000 And in the state of Virginia, if your health department license is suspended, your alcohol license, your ABC license, is automatically suspended.

00:42:51.000 So I lost both of those that day.

00:42:53.000 And I continued to operate business as usual.

00:42:57.000 I didn't comply.

00:42:58.000 And at that point I made a video and I put it out to the public what was going on and I let them know that I would not be complying.

00:43:06.000 And the main reason is because, like I said before, I spent a lot of my time, a lot of my adult life fighting Overseas and I have a lot of brothers that went overseas with me and didn't make it back.

00:43:17.000 A lot of guys have died over there and their kids are growing up right now here in the United States of America because they felt that America was more important than their life.

00:43:25.000 So if I'm not willing to put my livelihood on the line when those guys are willing to put their life on the line, then what kind of man am I?

00:43:32.000 And my wife and I, we always teach our kids to do what's right, no matter what the personal cost is to them.

00:43:38.000 So how in the hell are we going to teach them that if we're not willing to do the same thing ourselves?

00:43:42.000 So those are the main reasons why I fought back.

00:43:45.000 And because I did that, they sued me.

00:43:49.000 Governor Northam sued me and he took me to court and tried to shut my business down.

00:43:54.000 But I didn't back down, and it was overwhelming the response from the community that showed up after that.

00:44:01.000 I mean, I had people coming from across the nation to support me.

00:44:05.000 I had one guy come all the way, I remember, from Iowa.

00:44:09.000 Now, my restaurant, Gore Melts, is right off of Interstate 95 in Virginia, not even a mile from the exit.

00:44:16.000 So it's very convenient.

00:44:17.000 So I get a lot of people that come by all the time just passing through.

00:44:21.000 So this guy came up to me and he said, hey, I'm from Iowa.

00:44:24.000 And I said, well, you just passing through or what?

00:44:26.000 And he said, no.

00:44:27.000 I flew out here just to come to your restaurant and shake your hand and look you in the eye and thank you for what you were doing.

00:44:34.000 And he started crying.

00:44:36.000 And that right there, man, it got me.

00:44:38.000 It let me know at that point that I was doing the right thing.

00:44:42.000 Because when you make a decision like my wife and I made, which was to fight back, you have no idea which way it's going to go.

00:44:49.000 We thought it was going to be the end of our business.

00:44:51.000 We thought it was going to be the end of everything we worked our entire life for.

00:44:55.000 But the community showed up and they supported us and we had a line out the door from open to close.

00:45:00.000 And by 7pm we had no food left.

00:45:03.000 All we had was bread.

00:45:05.000 And people were walking up to the register saying, give me a piece of bread and I'll pay full price for it.

00:45:09.000 Wow, that's amazing.

00:45:10.000 And it just blew my mind.

00:45:11.000 And we continued to fight back.

00:45:15.000 And I reached out to my Republican representatives in Virginia.

00:45:20.000 Because they're supposed to be conservative patriots that stand for the Constitution.

00:45:24.000 And all I was doing was standing for the Constitution, standing for my customers' constitutional rights.

00:45:30.000 And I was very disappointed that none of my Republican representatives reached back out to me. 0.99

00:45:39.000 Long story short, I said, how do I get rid of these scumbags? 0.99

00:45:42.000 How do I make sure? 1.00

00:45:43.000 Because they run around saying Democrats are ruining the country, and they are.

00:45:47.000 But these Republicans that are sitting on their hands, not willing to step up and fight for you and me, they're no better than those Democrats.

00:45:53.000 That's the establishment we talk about.

00:45:55.000 The Uniparty is absolutely real.

00:45:58.000 In the end, you got back your liquor license, your health license, and all that stuff?

00:46:02.000 So what happened is we go to court with the health department and I beat the health department in court.

00:46:08.000 I proved that these mandates were in fact unconstitutional and they had to give me my health department license back.

00:46:13.000 Good.

00:46:14.000 So the next step was the ABC.

00:46:16.000 We go before the ABC board to get my ABC license back and we thought it would be, you know, cut and dry, open and shut.

00:46:23.000 Hey, you took my ABC license only because the Virginia Department of Health took my health department license.

00:46:29.000 Well, we beat them in court, and they had to give me that license back, so now in turn, you should have to give me my ABC license back.

00:46:35.000 Makes sense, right?

00:46:36.000 Yeah.

00:46:36.000 Well, it's a very liberal ABC board.

00:46:39.000 Now, at this time, we had a change of governors in Virginia.

00:46:44.000 So Governor Youngkin took over.

00:46:45.000 So now, Ralph Northam is no longer the governor.

00:46:49.000 We got a Republican governor, Republican lieutenant governor, and Republican attorney general.

00:46:54.000 So I go before the ABC board, and it's a very liberal ABC board, and what they said was, in a nutshell, basically was, Matt, it doesn't matter that you beat the Department of Health, and that's the only reason we took your license.

00:47:05.000 It doesn't matter that the reason they took it was unconstitutional.

00:47:08.000 All that matters is we took it, and you didn't comply.

00:47:12.000 And that word comply kept coming up.

00:47:14.000 And they said, so for that reason, we're not going to give you your license back.

00:47:18.000 And I said, well, Roger that, then I don't need a license.

00:47:20.000 And I continued to sell alcohol without it.

00:47:22.000 Wow.

00:47:23.000 And I immediately, as soon as Glenn Youngkin took office, I reached out to him and I heard nothing back from him.

00:47:30.000 We all saw the video where you're filming and the ABC guys come in and the cops come in and they're raiding and looting your private property of alcohol.

00:47:42.000 So what finally happened?

00:47:43.000 What is this?

00:47:44.000 Yeah well the reason they came out and raided my place is because like I said I was reaching out to the governor since he took office and by that time I announced my run for state senate to come crush the establishment and Republican leadership they don't like when a Republican candidate speaks out against other Republicans but I have no idea why.

00:48:02.000 You should speak out against any politician that's not doing their job.

00:48:05.000 So for that reason They didn't reach out and help me.

00:48:08.000 They left me to the wolves, and I heard nothing back from the governor's office or the attorney general's office until December 2nd of 2022, this past December, when the Virginia State Police and the Virginia ABC agents came and raided my restaurant and took every drop of alcohol out of my restaurant.

00:48:26.000 That's where you're at right now?

00:48:28.000 Well, so that's the viral video that you guys saw.

00:48:32.000 And so what happened after that is We were going back and forth and they were trying to settle with me, but I've always stayed strong in my stance in that I will not settle with you.

00:48:42.000 I didn't do anything illegal.

00:48:43.000 I didn't do anything wrong.

00:48:44.000 What do they want?

00:48:45.000 What kind of settle do they want at this point?

00:48:47.000 I mean, the whole thing's over.

00:48:48.000 Yeah, well so you know they've always you know they were offering me you know

00:48:52.000 hey Matt instead of 90 days of suspension and a $15,000 fine or

00:48:56.000 whatever it was, no suspension of your license and just give us two

00:49:00.000 Oh my goodness.

00:49:02.000 And we'll make it go away.

00:49:03.000 A little extortion.

00:49:04.000 A little shakedown.

00:49:05.000 Yeah.

00:49:06.000 And it's all about them wanting to get a win and that's it.

00:49:06.000 Exactly.

00:49:10.000 And so I said, listen, I stood strong.

00:49:12.000 Hey, no settlement at all.

00:49:13.000 And they kept coming back with settlement offers.

00:49:15.000 I said, you know what?

00:49:16.000 I will settle with you.

00:49:18.000 I said, I'll pay you $17.76.

00:49:20.000 And I was hoping like hell they took that just to remind them of freedom.

00:49:27.000 This is like Michael Corleone when he says, you know, my offer is this nothing.

00:49:31.000 That's right.

00:49:32.000 So of course they didn't take it.

00:49:34.000 And I said, well, listen, man, you guys aren't getting a dime from me.

00:49:39.000 I am not going to serve a suspension.

00:49:41.000 And I'll tell you what.

00:49:43.000 After I reopen my restaurant for Christmas, because I'll be closed for Christmas, when I reopen after Christmas, I'm gonna open my bar back up, and I'm gonna sell alcohol, and I'm operating business as usual.

00:49:55.000 And magically, before I close for Christmas, December 23rd, and I told him, I said, hey listen, if Glenn Youngkin and the rest of the Republican leadership in Virginia, if you guys are ready for the political shitstorm that follows you arresting A small business owner who's also a veteran that fought for his country. 0.82

00:50:14.000 If you're ready for that political shitstorm, I'm ready to go to jail.

00:50:17.000 Because a lot of my brothers were ready to die for this country and they did. 0.98

00:50:20.000 So, I've been ready to die for my country since I was 17 years old.

00:50:23.000 So, I'm damn sure ready to go to jail for my country.

00:50:26.000 So, at that point, it was a Mexican standoff, man. 0.68

00:50:30.000 And they folded.

00:50:31.000 December 23rd, they gave me all of my alcohol back, they gave me my ABC license back, and I didn't pay a dime.

00:50:37.000 When did we go down there?

00:50:38.000 What was that?

00:50:39.000 That was before this, right?

00:50:40.000 That was before that.

00:50:40.000 So, remember, we were planning a party.

00:50:43.000 Yeah.

00:50:43.000 Right, right, right.

00:50:44.000 So, I told you, I said, hey Tim, this is my plan.

00:50:47.000 I said, regardless of what happens, the day we open after Christmas, we're going to be selling alcohol, man.

00:50:53.000 Let's throw a party down here.

00:50:55.000 And we were planning that.

00:50:56.000 And magically, they said, you know what, never mind.

00:51:00.000 They tapped out and they said... They brought your booze back.

00:51:03.000 December 23rd, you get everything back.

00:51:05.000 Wow.

00:51:06.000 You would have made them look so bad.

00:51:08.000 I mean, you made them look bad.

00:51:09.000 And good.

00:51:10.000 What happened in the early days when you were resisting the initial stuff?

00:51:14.000 What was the process?

00:51:15.000 Day one, you didn't shut down.

00:51:16.000 Were they, like, fining you every day?

00:51:19.000 And then in retrospect, they just dismissed the fines?

00:51:22.000 What was happening day to day?

00:51:23.000 I feel other people are going through this.

00:51:25.000 Yeah, I mean, so I was fined over $70,000 by OSHA for having an unsafe work environment.

00:51:32.000 Was that a day-by-day fine that added up to $70,000?

00:51:34.000 It was just arbitrary fines that they just made up.

00:51:36.000 So they sent me this piece of paper that said, oh, hey, Matt, for not making people wear a mask, we're fining you $20,000.

00:51:45.000 For not putting up plexiglass, we're fining you $35,000, or whatever it was.

00:51:50.000 Where the hell did you get those numbers from?

00:51:52.000 You just made them up?

00:51:53.000 And where'd you get these regulations?

00:51:54.000 I mean, they're totally arbitrary.

00:51:56.000 Plexiglass is gonna do something.

00:51:58.000 Yeah, it's just insane.

00:51:59.000 So when that ocean inspector actually came out to my restaurant, he said, you got to put plexiglass up.

00:52:03.000 I said, okay, I want to know the regulation.

00:52:05.000 How wide does the plexiglass have to be?

00:52:08.000 And he said, well, actually, in the regulation, there's nothing that says how wide it has to be.

00:52:12.000 I said, well, so you're telling me If I put a one-inch strip of plexiglass up, I'm technically in compliance?

00:52:19.000 And he said, well, technically, yeah.

00:52:22.000 And I said, listen, man, take your OSHA hat off for one second and just talk to me man-to-man.

00:52:26.000 Does that make any sense to you?

00:52:27.000 And again, he said, man, it doesn't have to make sense.

00:52:30.000 That's what they said, so you have to do it. 0.92

00:52:33.000 Psychotic.

00:52:34.000 That's not how the American government is supposed to work.

00:52:37.000 That's how they work.

00:52:38.000 That's how they do it.

00:52:38.000 That's not what we signed up for.

00:52:40.000 What my story proves, what it proves is that if you stand up and you fight back, no matter how much they try to back you into a corner and bully you, if we stand together, because I wouldn't have won this by myself.

00:52:52.000 If it was just me, Matt Strickland, fighting, I'd be in prison right now.

00:52:56.000 But the people of America stood with me from across the nation.

00:52:59.000 I mean, they came out of the woodworks and supported me.

00:53:02.000 And the only thing that politicians The only thing that they answer to is political pressure.

00:53:09.000 And I mean, everybody knows Glenn Young is trying to run for president now.

00:53:12.000 And so they inundated his office with emails and phone calls.

00:53:15.000 He couldn't make a social media post without somebody jumping on his post saying, hey, what about Matt Strickland?

00:53:21.000 What about Gore Meltz?

00:53:23.000 And they caved to that political pressure.

00:53:25.000 They didn't want to help me because I stand up against not only Democrats but Republicans also.

00:53:30.000 But the political pressure was enough from across the nation that they had no choice but to act.

00:53:36.000 I think part of what's What's great about the story is, too, you were willing to comply in the early days, in the very beginning, when you didn't know if it was airborne Ebola, where people were gonna, their skin was gonna start melting off.

00:53:47.000 You didn't know, and you were ready to make the sacrifice for the betterment of the people.

00:53:50.000 And then when the evidence starts coming in, then it's like, okay, now realism and common sense takes over.

00:53:57.000 As it did in the beginning, too.

00:53:58.000 I think that's why I was willing to shut down for two weeks, to slow the spread.

00:54:01.000 But on top of that, you'd walk into a restaurant, And you'd walk in the front door, and they would say, please put on a mask.

00:54:08.000 You'd say, okay, you put it on.

00:54:09.000 They'd hand you one.

00:54:11.000 You'd wear it, and they'd say, now the chair right next to you, please sit and take the mask off. 0.59

00:54:15.000 Then you take it off, throw it in the garbage.

00:54:16.000 And then you're supposed to put it back on to walk to the bathroom.

00:54:18.000 Do you remember this?

00:54:19.000 You were supposed to put it back on to walk to the bathroom.

00:54:21.000 We had a plan here we never got around to, because, you know, and West Virginia was fairly lax, and then they ended up lifting it, but what we wanted to do was get full hazmat suits, walk in, sit down, take the full suit off, Or like, go to your table, take the full suit off, place it on the chair next to you, sit down, order food, and then go, I'm gonna run to the bathroom real quick.

00:54:39.000 Put the full suit back on, zip it up, and then walk slowly and awkwardly.

00:54:44.000 Just to make the point. 0.95

00:54:45.000 Yeah, it was ridiculous.

00:54:46.000 It's like, there's that comic where the person's walking and the COVID virus hits them in the face, and then it shows them sitting down with like a check mark. 0.82

00:54:52.000 And it just goes right over their head.

00:54:54.000 Yeah, right on their head.

00:54:55.000 Exactly.

00:54:55.000 And it's interesting, too, how you talk about how it was June 2020 that they said you could open your restaurant again, and they hit you with all of these arbitrary arbitrary restrictions of what you had to do in your

00:55:05.000 restaurant.

00:55:06.000 That's of course after George Floyd was killed, and it was after the entire government of all the blue

00:55:14.000 states decided that you can't get COVID if you're protesting for

00:55:18.000 Black Lives Matter, but you can get COVID if you go to a restaurant that doesn't 0.97

00:55:21.000 have plexiglass.

00:55:22.000 You know what you should have done?

00:55:23.000 You should have just put up a BLM flag. 0.97

00:55:26.000 And then they'd say, you know what, you're good.

00:55:29.000 No fine for you.

00:55:30.000 I mean, it's funny you guys say that because, of course, I was trashed online for not following COVID mandates and people who have never met me a day in my life We're saying all kinds of things about me, and somehow, just because I didn't make people wear a mask when they walked into my restaurant, I was racist.

00:55:50.000 That was the crazy thing, too.

00:55:52.000 It's always racist.

00:55:54.000 Whenever you don't comply, when you don't just do what you're told, then you're racist. 0.77

00:56:00.000 As though there's no black people who want to stand up for their rights. 0.90

00:56:06.000 Aliens are trying to control us but don't quite understand humans. 0.78

00:56:11.000 Humans don't like being called racists, so no matter what they do, call it racists.

00:56:15.000 And really, it's not aliens, it's children.

00:56:16.000 You know what the best part about the internet is?

00:56:19.000 On the internet, you're not aware you're arguing with a 14-year-old.

00:56:23.000 They're adult men.

00:56:26.000 In their 40s who work for major news outlets who go on Twitter, and there's an account called like, you know, Trump Maga 300.

00:56:32.000 And it'll be a picture of Trump going like, yeah. 1.00

00:56:35.000 And then it'll say something like, you're stupid, your politics are bad. 1.00

00:56:38.000 And they'll be like, who is this guy? 1.00

00:56:39.000 You're so you can't say that to me.

00:56:40.000 And it's like a 14 year old kid is just laughing.

00:56:42.000 I have no idea what's going on.

00:56:43.000 He's like a licker to me.

00:56:45.000 11 year old kid.

00:56:46.000 It could be my kid.

00:56:47.000 Yep, just goofing off on the internet.

00:56:49.000 Don't even care.

00:56:50.000 These people take it so seriously.

00:56:54.000 The DDM on my team in Iraq, the sniper, when we'd have downtime, he'd go on and play Call of Duty.

00:57:01.000 I remember when he told me one morning, he was arguing with a 12-year-old on Call of Duty.

00:57:07.000 He showed me the game.

00:57:08.000 He said, look at this dude.

00:57:09.000 Look what he's saying, man. 1.00

00:57:10.000 You suck. 1.00

00:57:11.000 You have no idea what real combat is. 1.00

00:57:13.000 You don't know how to shoot.

00:57:14.000 That's what the kid was saying to him. 0.63

00:57:15.000 The dude is a sniper.

00:57:17.000 You know what I mean?

00:57:19.000 Looking back over the last couple years for yourself, is there anything that you would have done or would have changed in the process?

00:57:26.000 I know it seems to have turned out extremely well, but for people in the future that are willing to stand up to create civil disobedience, is there anything that you can help with?

00:57:37.000 Yeah, well, first of all, what I would have done earlier is pay attention to politics.

00:57:43.000 I did not pay attention to politics like I do now.

00:57:47.000 And I run it for State Senate now.

00:57:49.000 And if anybody wants to follow my journey on that, they can follow me on social media at Matt4VA.

00:57:54.000 And my website is matt4va.com if you want to see how that turns out.

00:57:58.000 But I'm ashamed to say, and I was telling you guys this before the show, the first time I ever voted was in 2020.

00:58:06.000 And the reason for that is because I don't trust politicians on either side of the aisle.

00:58:11.000 And so pay attention to politics, especially on the state level, because that's where you make your money.

00:58:17.000 But as far as fighting against COVID mandates and such, I truly believe it will happen again.

00:58:22.000 Maybe not in the same shape and form that it happened this last time, but the government trying to take control of our rights.

00:58:29.000 I mean, so one of the mandates in Virginia was you weren't allowed to leave your house between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m.

00:58:36.000 How is that curbing COVID?

00:58:39.000 How does that do anything for COVID?

00:58:40.000 That's when COVID is active.

00:58:41.000 A guy was surfing.

00:58:42.000 Remember the guy on the beach or whatever?

00:58:43.000 Oh, he was arrested for surfing by himself.

00:58:45.000 Remember the video where the guy's jogging on the beach and the cop chases after him and the jogger just speeds up and just bolts and the cop can't catch him?

00:58:52.000 It's just insane.

00:58:53.000 That sounds more like an anti-rioting thing.

00:58:55.000 Yeah, it just makes no sense.

00:58:56.000 So what I would say is what you need to do the next time something doesn't feel right is trust your gut.

00:59:03.000 And you need to stand up and you need to fight back from the beginning.

00:59:05.000 And not only that, Everybody needs to support you, especially small business owners.

00:59:10.000 You would be surprised how many restauranteurs in the state of Virginia had called me as soon as they heard about my story.

00:59:17.000 And they would say, hey Matt, thank you so much for standing up and doing what you're doing.

00:59:22.000 I'm totally behind you 100%.

00:59:24.000 What can I do to support you?

00:59:26.000 And I would tell each and every one of them, if you believe in what I'm doing, the best thing you can do to support me is do the same thing.

00:59:32.000 And they would all say the same thing.

00:59:34.000 They wouldn't do it?

00:59:35.000 Not me!

00:59:36.000 But I don't want the health department breathing down my neck, man.

00:59:38.000 And I said, listen, with that attitude, they're going to be breathing down your neck the rest of your life, man.

00:59:44.000 Well, wasn't that the shocking thing, too, was how many people just did comply?

00:59:48.000 I found that so stunning how many Americans just sucked it up and did what they were told, and I found that extremely disappointing for my fellow countrymen to watch them just, like, capitulate and do what the government told them to do.

01:00:02.000 It's like, that's not what we're founded on.

01:00:04.000 We're founded on telling the government exactly that we're not going to do what they tell us to.

01:00:08.000 I feel like video games has made people really Willing to comply, because in a game, there's a structure and a set of rules that you cannot bypass.

01:00:15.000 You're stuck within this realm of, like, if-then.

01:00:19.000 But in reality, you have complete freedom.

01:00:21.000 You can go anywhere, see anything, interact with anything.

01:00:24.000 Have you guys seen 1883?

01:00:27.000 Negative.

01:00:28.000 I haven't seen Yellowstone, but we were having dinner and everyone's like,

01:00:30.000 you got to watch it.

01:00:31.000 So I heard about that too.

01:00:31.000 It's three.

01:00:32.000 And, uh, there's, there's a really great scene where the, uh, there's like a,

01:00:37.000 it's a bunch of German people and they're trying to get to Oregon because it's

01:00:40.000 paradise.

01:00:41.000 They hear and they, they got to cross a river.

01:00:43.000 And so the, you know, the Marshall guy or whatever his name is, he's like, you

01:00:48.000 guys, uh, swim in Germany.

01:00:49.000 I was like, no, it's illegal.

01:00:50.000 And he's like, it's illegal to swim in Germany?

01:00:53.000 And then he gets angry and he's like, everything, I don't think he says Germany, he says it's illegal to swim where I'm from.

01:00:57.000 He's like, everything is illegal where I'm from.

01:00:59.000 He's like, that's why we're leaving.

01:01:01.000 And it's crazy to think about, that's, for a lot of people that were leaving Europe and coming to emptiness, conflict, and death, it was because it was better than having the government live, to live with the government's boot on your neck.

01:01:15.000 I actually just showed my son the other night the movie Brazil.

01:01:18.000 You remember that movie?

01:01:19.000 What's that one?

01:01:21.000 I think it's Terry Gilliam.

01:01:23.000 That's a person, right?

01:01:25.000 I'm pretty sure it's his movie.

01:01:26.000 But it's basically about this guy who works for the government and it's just all red tape and bureaucracy.

01:01:31.000 And all he does, he has his He has his dreams, you know, and he like lives in a fantasy kind of.

01:01:37.000 But at the end, at a certain point, I won't give it away, but he ends up sort of outside of the city.

01:01:42.000 He gets up away from the paperwork and you just see these mountains and you're just, it's like you can finally breathe watching the movie.

01:01:49.000 We're doing a whole dystopia thing, right?

01:01:51.000 Like he's reading 1984.

01:01:52.000 We're going to do all of it.

01:01:54.000 Fahrenheit 451.

01:01:56.000 But the other thing that you were talking about in terms of the COVID restrictions and how that was used, and these restaurateurs are going to have the government breathing down their necks the rest of their lives.

01:02:05.000 There's a lot of officials around the world, not necessarily in the US, although I think probably in the Biden administration there are, who see a lot of this COVID lockdowns and restrictions almost as a blueprint of how they can coerce the population into submitting to climate change mitigation measures.

01:02:25.000 The German health minister was talking about this a year ago, and I think, you know, Jack Posobiec was fact-checked for saying that this was happening, but it actually was happening.

01:02:36.000 And they say things like, you know, the kind of restrictions that we used for COVID, we can ask people to do that to mitigate climate change.

01:02:44.000 We can ask corporations to tell their workers to work from home.

01:02:48.000 We can ask them not to take business trips, not to travel as much as they would like to curb this climate thing.

01:02:53.000 So yeah, I mean, they're going to use these same methods over again, you know, they're going to use it for whatever new crisis they come up with.

01:03:01.000 And what we see from the left, what we see from Democrats is a willingness and insistence to rule us based on crises.

01:03:09.000 I don't even know if it's... It's always a crisis.

01:03:10.000 I wouldn't even start at the left.

01:03:11.000 It's just people that are with their head down.

01:03:13.000 Like you're saying, half the governments of the Republican state... That makes sense too, but I mean, that's the methodology.

01:03:19.000 Call it a crisis and then use it to control and manipulate people.

01:03:22.000 I think a power outage maybe would be one.

01:03:24.000 Let's pull up this story from Daily Mail.

01:03:26.000 Biden will finally lift COVID emergencies on May 11th after more than three years.

01:03:32.000 White House urges 14-week drawdown to deal with Title 42 at the border, student loans, and hospitals.

01:03:37.000 So that's it.

01:03:38.000 He's finally putting an end to the COVID-19 national emergency.

01:03:43.000 I mean, we've been, I guess we've been out of the pandemic for a while.

01:03:46.000 Restrictions have been lifted.

01:03:48.000 Biden said the pandemic was over when he toured the Detroit auto show in September.

01:03:52.000 Right.

01:03:53.000 And then the White House was like, no, it's not.

01:03:54.000 It's not over.

01:03:55.000 It's over now.

01:03:56.000 He's ending it.

01:03:58.000 It's it.

01:03:58.000 There it is.

01:03:59.000 He says the emergency is over in four months.

01:04:03.000 How can you be sure?

01:04:04.000 I thought it were an emergency.

01:04:05.000 No, no, the emergency is over.

01:04:06.000 Okay.

01:04:07.000 Oh, it's a 14 week drawdown.

01:04:09.000 Okay, good.

01:04:09.000 That's what it is.

01:04:10.000 It's totally stupid. 1.00

01:04:12.000 According to Biden, the pandemic is over. 1.00

01:04:13.000 It ended last year.

01:04:15.000 Well, there we go, everybody.

01:04:16.000 Congratulations.

01:04:16.000 We did it.

01:04:17.000 We can go back to doing everything.

01:04:19.000 But you know what I noticed?

01:04:21.000 You know, I love the casino out here.

01:04:23.000 It's the Hollywood Casino.

01:04:26.000 When we first moved out here, craziest thing, every table game had plexiglass, like you were talking about, Matt.

01:04:33.000 Gotta put the plexiglass.

01:04:35.000 And you weren't allowed to touch any cards.

01:04:37.000 This is a gambler's dream.

01:04:39.000 Because that means when you're playing a table game, maybe you're playing, I'll tell you, Mississippi. 1.00

01:04:44.000 You guys ever play Mississippi Stud?

01:04:46.000 Here's how the game works.

01:04:47.000 Dealer gives you two cards, there are three cards on the board that everybody shares, and you gotta pay every time you wanna see the next card, hoping that you get a good enough hand to win your bet.

01:04:56.000 It's like, if you get a pair of jacks or better, you win money.

01:05:01.000 If you know what your cards, the cards the other players have, your odds increase.

01:05:06.000 So you go to the casino and then everybody's forced to show their cards.

01:05:10.000 It's funny to me, I don't understand.

01:05:11.000 It's like you're teaching a kid how to play.

01:05:13.000 That's how you teach a kid to play, is everyone shows their cards.

01:05:15.000 I'm like all the gamblers, right, but you're walking and you're looking down and you're like, okay, this guy's got an ace, I got an ace, there's no ace on the board I fold.

01:05:21.000 And so these businesses were complying with policies that made no sense Stopped nothing, hurt them substantially, but everybody was just for it.

01:05:30.000 But here's the point I wanted to bring up, aside from that insanity.

01:05:33.000 They shut down large portions of the casino, and they've never reopened them.

01:05:39.000 Really?

01:05:39.000 Never.

01:05:39.000 Why not?

01:05:40.000 And I think, for whatever reason, nobody wants to work.

01:05:46.000 So there's a horse track there, and we went out, not this weekend, but the previous weekend, and we went to the horse races.

01:05:52.000 It's so much fun.

01:05:52.000 You guys ever go to the horse races?

01:05:54.000 Yeah, they're a blast.

01:05:56.000 Yeah, they have a horse race every 15 minutes, and it's a minute-long thing, but you get some food, you get a beer or whatever, you bet a dollar on the horse with the silliest name, and then you hope it wins, and then you win like $1.50 or something.

01:06:08.000 Oh, it's a good time.

01:06:10.000 It's a good time.

01:06:10.000 It's fun.

01:06:10.000 It's silly.

01:06:11.000 It's outdoor. 0.86

01:06:12.000 But it's outdoor.

01:06:14.000 And so we went there.

01:06:15.000 And it was funny because we were there with Shane Cashman and Nancy, his wife.

01:06:19.000 And he bet on this one horse called like, what was it called?

01:06:23.000 Like American, American Pride or something or American Patriot.

01:06:27.000 And when we were looking at the horses going around, like they're doing the walk-up, I mean the warm-up, his is going sideways and like fighting.

01:06:33.000 He's like, oh no, it came in last.

01:06:36.000 We were laughing.

01:06:37.000 My horse came in first, I ended up winning like 50 bucks.

01:06:39.000 But anyway, there's no restaurant.

01:06:42.000 Normally you'd sit and eat food and watch the races outside, and it's so fun.

01:06:46.000 Because every 15 minutes the horses are running, and they said they really want to reopen it, but they can't find anybody.

01:06:52.000 Nobody wants to work.

01:06:53.000 It's the weirdest thing, man.

01:06:54.000 People ask me that all the time, too.

01:06:55.000 Do you have that issue at your restaurant?

01:06:57.000 They ask me, hey man, is it difficult finding people to work now?

01:07:00.000 And I'm like, yeah.

01:07:01.000 They're like, why is that?

01:07:02.000 I'm like, I have no idea.

01:07:03.000 It's so weird.

01:07:04.000 I wonder that, too.

01:07:05.000 Like, how is everybody feeding their families?

01:07:07.000 How are people paying their bills?

01:07:09.000 Certainly not with eggs.

01:07:09.000 Where's this, right?

01:07:10.000 Where's this money coming from that everybody has?

01:07:12.000 Well, first of all, it was ridiculous in the beginning of the pandemic to pay people double what they were making to work to sit at home.

01:07:22.000 How in the world is an employer going to get somebody back to work?

01:07:25.000 Come back to work for less than you're making to sit at home.

01:07:28.000 Who in their right mind is going to agree to that?

01:07:30.000 But the reason why people can't find workers is is a question that nobody is able to answer.

01:07:37.000 I have no idea what's going on.

01:07:38.000 What are all these people doing?

01:07:40.000 I've been asking this for what, a year now?

01:07:43.000 Brought it up on the show?

01:07:44.000 And the joke is, I mean, I was saying this when Seamus was here, they got raptured.

01:07:48.000 Where is everybody?

01:07:49.000 How is it that we still have a shortage of workers, nobody wants to work, but there's, I mean, well, hold on, Ian, you pointed this out, a lot of homeless people.

01:07:57.000 Yeah, a lot of them are on the street.

01:07:58.000 I don't have proof that those that got fired from their jobs are the ones on the street.

01:08:03.000 It makes sense, though.

01:08:04.000 Yeah, they're collecting unemployment and sitting in their one-bedroom apartment.

01:08:08.000 Unemployment gives out.

01:08:10.000 You get 18 months of unemployment.

01:08:12.000 I've always been sort of terrified to not have a job.

01:08:14.000 I've been working full-time basically since I was 19 years old.

01:08:18.000 I don't know how else you're supposed to exist.

01:08:20.000 What are you supposed to do?

01:08:22.000 I got unemployment for about two years.

01:08:23.000 A lot of people seem to be doing that.

01:08:24.000 That's a problem too.

01:08:25.000 They said like, in 1984, they're like, football, alcohol, and gambling are the three signs

01:08:34.000 of the end of the civilization, especially gambling.

01:08:36.000 Football, alcohol, and gambling?

01:08:37.000 I think those are the three that George Orwell talks about.

01:08:40.000 You and Taylor were with us, right, at MGM?

01:08:42.000 Yeah, Taylor won a bunch of money and I lost $300.

01:08:44.000 We went to MGM National Harbor, and Libby just lost every hand. 1.00

01:08:49.000 And Taylor Silverman was with us, and her first hand, she gets trips on three-card poker and won like $1,000. 0.70

01:08:55.000 Yes, she was like, Libby, I made your money back. 0.87

01:08:58.000 I'm pretty, I have like a real aversion to gambling.

01:09:01.000 It makes me really nervous because it's so easy and fun, but that's the problem with it.

01:09:05.000 This is the thing.

01:09:06.000 I think it's an indicator of the end of a society or civilization, the rapid expanse of gambling.

01:09:13.000 You know, look, I love the casino.

01:09:16.000 It's fun.

01:09:16.000 It's like an adult arcade.

01:09:17.000 You never go there thinking you're gonna win money.

01:09:19.000 I'm not talking about going and being like, oh boy, I'm gonna take my rent money and bet it, and then... No, no, no, you don't do that.

01:09:24.000 You get a hundred bucks or whatever, and you say, we're gonna just play some fun games, minimum bets, just for the fun and excitement, then have some food and go home, and it's like going to the arcade.

01:09:33.000 You're spending a hundred bucks on games, no different than if you went to an arcade and put a hundred bucks in your chip machine so you could play tokens with your kids or something.

01:09:39.000 But there are people like Mr. Beast who cured a thousand people's blindness.

01:09:44.000 I go to the casino and what do I see?

01:09:46.000 It's people milking themselves dry.

01:09:49.000 I walk up to the ATM and I see a receipt.

01:09:51.000 True story.

01:09:51.000 I saw the receipt and I pulled it out because I'm curious.

01:09:53.000 Who are these people betting all this money?

01:09:55.000 It's crazy to me.

01:09:57.000 When I sit down, I go to the craps table, dice game, for people who don't know.

01:10:01.000 And I see a dude standing there and he's got $10,000.

01:10:03.000 And I'm like, who the is this guy to be gambling $10,000 like that?

01:10:08.000 So crazy.

01:10:11.000 There's a, they, this, I don't know if this casino is still, they have a credit window but it's closed, but like National Harbor's got a credit room.

01:10:17.000 You go in there, people are gambling away things they don't have.

01:10:20.000 I pulled, I went to the ATM and there was a receipt hanging, I picked, I pulled it out and it said withdraw $100 of total available balance, negative $300.

01:10:29.000 Meaning, yikes, they likely had just gotten paid withdrew from their paycheck, but their account was

01:10:36.000 previously negative, so it didn't roll over.

01:10:38.000 Trying to win back the fee that it's going to charge them for taking out overdraft.

01:10:42.000 It's like $6 for the... yep, yep. 0.98

01:10:44.000 That sucks.

01:10:46.000 I don't know, but I mean, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. 0.92

01:10:52.000 I don't buy into these conspiracy theories, but I do truly believe that the government at large, they do not want a prosperous middle class.

01:11:02.000 And that's evident.

01:11:04.000 And I do believe that one of, I'm not saying the reason for COVID was to kill small businesses, but I do believe that it's one thing that did happen.

01:11:13.000 And at the very least, the government saw it happening and accelerated that process.

01:11:18.000 Because small businesses were absolutely just ravaged during the pandemic.

01:11:23.000 Well, there was a thing early on in, I think it was Lansing, Michigan.

01:11:27.000 It was like, I think it was April of 2020.

01:11:30.000 Was it April?

01:11:32.000 Anyway, it was like right early on and a whole bunch of small business owners went to the Capitol in Lansing to protest Gretchen Whitmer and be like, hey, you need to let us open up our nail shops and our hair salons and all of our little businesses.

01:11:45.000 You need to let us open back up.

01:11:47.000 And Whitmer had allowed casinos to stay open, liquor shops to stay open.

01:11:51.000 She allowed big box stores to stay open, and all the little shops had closed.

01:11:56.000 So all these people showed up, and they did like a car protest, essentially.

01:12:00.000 And some people went into the Capitol, you know, and they were armed.

01:12:03.000 They weren't like brandishing their weapons around or anything like that, but they were armed.

01:12:09.000 And everybody freaked out that these people were there, and they were like, you're racist

01:12:14.000 because you're protesting these lockdown measures.

01:12:16.000 And I remember distinctly there was one woman who ran a nail shop, and she was like, 0.98

01:12:20.000 I have employees, I have a family.

01:12:23.000 I have a nail shop, and you took it from me.

01:12:25.000 Why did you do this?

01:12:26.000 There was a hair shop in Texas, and she refused to close, and she kept getting shut down. 0.86

01:12:31.000 There was a woman in Minnesota, I think it was.

01:12:34.000 Southern Minnesota.

01:12:35.000 She had a coffee shop, and she refused to close.

01:12:37.000 That's right.

01:12:38.000 So they went after her and she fled to Iowa, I guess, and then the sheriffs came and arrested her for illegally running a coffee shop. 0.88

01:12:45.000 Yeah, it was ridiculous.

01:12:46.000 Well, the thing is, as a restaurateur, obviously I have a lot of kids working for me, you know, minimum wage kids.

01:12:52.000 And the minimum wage is going up to $15 in Virginia, and you just cannot afford that as a small business.

01:12:59.000 So, I mean, you're more than doubling what the minimum wage used to be.

01:13:03.000 As a business owner, I have to, I've got to increase my prices.

01:13:07.000 But as a restaurateur, I can only sell a burger for so much before you say, I'm not paying 20 bucks for a burger.

01:13:15.000 I can only increase it so much.

01:13:16.000 And so that what that does is it eventually it destroys small businesses because restaurants, that's the biggest industry as far as small businesses go in America.

01:13:26.000 There was a little barbecue stand not too far from where we are.

01:13:30.000 It's where West Virginia meets Virginia.

01:13:32.000 It's gone now.

01:13:32.000 I don't know.

01:13:33.000 I think someone stole it.

01:13:34.000 Crazy.

01:13:35.000 Someone stole their their cooker and drove off with it or something like that.

01:13:37.000 And now there's and there wasn't a waffle stand.

01:13:39.000 It's gone.

01:13:39.000 I don't know why it's gone.

01:13:41.000 It's sad.

01:13:41.000 But we used to go there and you'd go to the barbecue.

01:13:44.000 I remember one day we went there.

01:13:45.000 I took a picture.

01:13:45.000 I posted on Instagram.

01:13:46.000 They said they had no brisket.

01:13:48.000 The cost of beef was too much.

01:13:49.000 Yeah.

01:13:50.000 And I said, well, I mean, can you get it?

01:13:53.000 And they're like, we can, but who's going to want to buy a $20 brisket sandwich?

01:13:57.000 And I was like, I'll take the $5 chicken sandwich.

01:14:00.000 And the thing is, what people don't realize, and I mean, it's the most obvious thing to me, is that minimum wage more than doubles, right?

01:14:08.000 But did that person who's making $60,000 a year, Did his salary double?

01:14:12.000 No it didn't.

01:14:13.000 So now when businesses have to double their prices to keep up with the people that they have to pay to work, now you as the middle wage earner, the $60,000, the $150,000, now you're poor.

01:14:25.000 So we lifted the minimum wage and now the teenagers are getting paid a lot more money.

01:14:29.000 But now you, the person that needs to take care of a family, now you are doing nothing but getting poorer and it's killing the middle class.

01:14:36.000 And it's so obvious.

01:14:38.000 And the thing is, why should you be paying $15 an hour to some kid who doesn't know how to do their job either?

01:14:44.000 Why is that the thing?

01:14:46.000 This happens with minimum wage increases as well as what happened with UBI.

01:14:51.000 You're a business and you have to pay, whether it's because by government mandate or by environmental pressures, 15 bucks an hour, you're raising your prices, end of story.

01:15:01.000 So for like UBI, you tell everybody you get 500 bucks per week guaranteed.

01:15:06.000 Then one day, all of your employees quit.

01:15:09.000 All of your stockers and cashiers quit.

01:15:12.000 And you're like, well, why are you quitting?

01:15:13.000 And they're like, I get 500 bucks a week for free.

01:15:16.000 Why should I work?

01:15:17.000 Well, how much do you want to work?

01:15:19.000 Man.

01:15:20.000 In order to compete with a free $500, you gotta understand this.

01:15:25.000 We're not just talking about the amount of money I got at the end of the week.

01:15:29.000 We're talking about the equation of how much work do I have to do for how much reward.

01:15:35.000 If the amount of work I have to do for UBI is fill out a form one time and then I'm done, we're talking about $500 per week for the rest of my life, add that up for one minute of work.

01:15:47.000 Do you think your 40 hours of work for even $600 comes close?

01:15:51.000 Sorry.

01:15:53.000 People are gonna say, I would rather eat out less, but not have to work at all.

01:16:00.000 If you're doing UBI or free 500 bucks, or let's say it's even 100 bucks, $100 to a young person, they're gonna say, $400 a month, I'll split that money with my buddy, we'll get a studio apartment and live for free, and then I'll figure out the rest, but now I don't have to have a job at all.

01:16:18.000 And if you then say, we'll give you $100 a week if you do this job, that way you're getting twice as much, they're gonna be like, yeah, but I have the minimum I need, and I don't have to work, so I'm not going to.

01:16:27.000 You say, okay, how about $200 a week?

01:16:29.000 And they're gonna say even that.

01:16:30.000 You want me to work 40 hours a week, or 30 hours a week or whatever, okay.

01:16:35.000 600 bucks a week, and they'll say, I mean, I guess.

01:16:40.000 But it's still a maybe.

01:16:41.000 It's an exponential increase in the amount of money you have to offer, because you're not actually offering them money, you're offering them 40 hours more work they don't have to do if their needs are met.

01:16:50.000 And that's going to bankrupt not only the economy, but it'll bankrupt society, because there won't be any innovation.

01:16:56.000 Well, who's all for these minimum wage increases? 0.71

01:16:59.000 These big corporations, the ones that fund these politicians' campaigns.

01:17:04.000 Well, and then they can put the small businesses out of business.

01:17:07.000 Exactly.

01:17:08.000 Starbucks can afford the 15.

01:17:10.000 How can I compete with Walmart, who a teenager can just go there And stock shelves and by the way, put their AirPods in and not have to deal with any customers and listen to music while they're stocking shelves and make 18 bucks an hour.

01:17:25.000 And Walmart can afford that because now they have like a 50% reduction in workforce because they don't even need cashiers anymore.

01:17:33.000 Now you're the cashier.

01:17:34.000 I hate that so much.

01:17:35.000 I hate that.

01:17:36.000 So I cannot even tell you how much I hate self checkout. 0.98

01:17:40.000 Like I have a job and now I'm doing this and I was at the thing the other day with my kid and we like bought some stupid crap shelf that then I had to build myself, you know, 0.90

01:17:50.000 because I can't even buy anything that's put together.

01:17:52.000 And we put it on the, I'm like, okay, we have to try and get it on the scanner.

01:17:56.000 You know, it's this whole undertaking of engineering project, and we don't even realize

01:18:00.000 that there's like a glass sitting there that I had already paid for, a little toothpaste cup.

01:18:05.000 And the whole thing, the shelf smashes into the glass.

01:18:09.000 The glass goes flying.

01:18:10.000 Now everything is smashed. 0.99

01:18:12.000 And now I have to clean up the smashed glass that I already paid for that I can't even take home with the stupid shelf. 0.99

01:18:17.000 Oh, I'm so mad. 0.99

01:18:18.000 I'm so mad.

01:18:18.000 I'm still mad, obviously.

01:18:19.000 I got a solution for you.

01:18:21.000 I ate it so much.

01:18:22.000 I got a solution for you.

01:18:23.000 Check out this tweet from Wall Street Silver on Twitter.

01:18:27.000 Coming to a town near you, face scanning for access to food and public transportation.

01:18:32.000 It works great as long as your social credit score is high enough because you obey.

01:18:36.000 Fire.

01:18:37.000 And then there's another video, I don't know if you saw it, TikTok, where a woman says she's paying her bills at Whole Foods, her checkout, with her palm.

01:18:45.000 What, because she has like a RFID chip for her bank account?

01:18:47.000 No, you go up to a machine and you put your credit card in it, you then hold your hand over it, and it scans your hand, and then you take your card out, and now your handprint is connected to your card.

01:18:57.000 No!

01:18:58.000 So when you're buying your groceries, this is at Whole Foods I think it was, you walk up and you just hold your hand over the thing, it goes bong, and then you walk right out.

01:19:05.000 No, I want this not at all.

01:19:06.000 I don't want any piece of this.

01:19:08.000 Recently I moved out of New York, and part of it was like, I don't want this encroaching You know, overtaking of my body and soul and mind and identity to, like, go to all of this stuff.

01:19:19.000 We're very close in New York to having the thing where you put your hand scanner on just to ride the subway.

01:19:23.000 That's what this is.

01:19:24.000 No!

01:19:25.000 Have you seen Minority Report?

01:19:26.000 No.

01:19:27.000 When, uh, you've never seen Minority Report?

01:19:28.000 Come on.

01:19:29.000 Tom Cruise, he walks into a mall.

01:19:29.000 No.

01:19:30.000 I literally watch space movies and stoner comedies and, like, Woody Allen and that's it.

01:19:34.000 It's the future.

01:19:35.000 He gets an eye, he gets eye implants.

01:19:39.000 I guess your eyes, all the cameras everywhere scan your eyes.

01:19:42.000 So he gets them removed and gets other eyes put in.

01:19:45.000 And then he walks into a mall and it's like, hello Mr. Wong.

01:19:48.000 And the ads, because it's like Mr. Wong's eyes or whatever, are all tailored to him.

01:19:53.000 So you're walking around seeing things.

01:19:55.000 They'll be like, hi Libby, did you pick up that new lipstick yet? 0.69

01:19:58.000 It's right over here around the corner.

01:19:59.000 That's what it's gonna be like.

01:20:01.000 They're doing this facial recognition stuff.

01:20:04.000 I went to, a few years ago, it was the Amazon store, I think it was, in Seattle.

01:20:10.000 They have a store?

01:20:11.000 Yeah, you walk in, grab whatever you want, and walk right out, and the cameras track everything you do.

01:20:17.000 Oh, that's right.

01:20:17.000 They bought Whole Foods!

01:20:18.000 The plan is to implement this at Whole Foods.

01:20:19.000 That's what they're doing, the palm scanner thing. 0.99

01:20:22.000 Whole Foods, during the pandemic, I went in and I tried to get them to make me a sandwich, and they said, no, they can't make me a sandwich because of the stupid, arbitrary garbage rules. 0.98

01:20:30.000 And, uh, they were like, no, but we have sandwiches made here. 0.98

01:20:33.000 And I was like, didn't you make those?

01:20:34.000 And they're like, yeah.

01:20:36.000 I'm like, okay, so you can make a sandwich with your COVID germs, wrap it up in plastic and put it here.

01:20:41.000 But, and I could buy that, but you can't make a sandwich now and wrap it up in plastic and hand it to me so that I have the sandwich I want.

01:20:47.000 And the thing is that no matter how much... Gore melts cans.

01:20:50.000 Come check it out.

01:20:50.000 Gore melts cans.

01:20:52.000 And we won't stop.

01:20:52.000 Can't stop, won't stop.

01:20:53.000 But the thing is that no matter how bad you don't want it, it's gonna happen.

01:20:58.000 And the reason is people are lazy.

01:21:00.000 It's so awful.

01:21:01.000 And the problem with society is this.

01:21:03.000 It's very simple.

01:21:05.000 The problem with society is we're too comfortable.

01:21:08.000 And people are willing to blindly comply because they have A.C., they have heat, they're able to pay their bills, they can go grab a coffee from Starbucks when they want, and as long as they can do those things, they will gladly hand their rights over to the government.

01:21:24.000 Well, I gotta tell you, man, look, look, look, I know I'm not a big fan of Starbucks, but let's be honest, that pistachio cold brew cream thing, that's so good.

01:21:33.000 I haven't tried it, man.

01:21:34.000 I was thinking the other night that you've got to do uncomfortable things to succeed, and I thought, no, it's backwards.

01:21:39.000 It's that the things that you need to do to succeed are uncomfortable.

01:21:42.000 So you've got to be willing.

01:21:43.000 Not everything that's uncomfortable is going to make you succeed.

01:21:45.000 Don't break your legs.

01:21:47.000 I disagree.

01:21:47.000 I disagree with someone with that.

01:21:49.000 You are right.

01:21:49.000 But let me rephrase it.

01:21:52.000 I think what happens to our society is that what used to be a rewarding experience people don't have to do and now hate doing.

01:22:01.000 So for example, exercise, right?

01:22:03.000 I like skating. It feels good.

01:22:06.000 Exercise is ancillary.

01:22:09.000 It's like, it just so happens that if you're skating, you're staying in shape, but skating is fun.

01:22:14.000 Yeah.

01:22:14.000 There are a lot of people who like working out because they're pushing their limits

01:22:17.000 and they're trying to get more, lift more weights. 0.98

01:22:20.000 But for a lot of people, most people, working out sucks.

01:22:23.000 And they're like, I have to do something that's uncomfortable if I want to succeed.

01:22:26.000 It shouldn't be that way.

01:22:28.000 It should be from when you're a kid, your parents take you out to go exercise, and it becomes a routine that you enjoy doing, that you push yourself and you succeed at it, and it feels good to do those things.

01:22:37.000 You know what I mean?

01:22:38.000 Like biking is great.

01:22:39.000 Acquiring food used to be like that.

01:22:41.000 It used to be a big deal when someone would come back to the tribe with food.

01:22:44.000 That was not expected.

01:22:46.000 Now it's like people loathe going to the grocery store.

01:22:48.000 Oh, I don't want to do it.

01:22:49.000 I have to go all the way there to get the thing.

01:22:51.000 Like, dude, you are lucky.

01:22:53.000 I'm watching 1883.

01:22:54.000 And there's the scene where the dad is hunting with the kid.

01:22:57.000 And then he points the scope at the deer and then he tells the kid to look.

01:23:01.000 And then the kid's five and he says, you know, pull the trigger.

01:23:04.000 And then then he's like, he brings the kid down and he's like, you did it.

01:23:07.000 You got your first kill.

01:23:08.000 It's a deer.

01:23:09.000 It's going to feed us for weeks.

01:23:10.000 He's all excited.

01:23:11.000 And then he's got to, like, gut it and pull out the garbage and then throw it on the horse and bring it back.

01:23:15.000 Or he carries it, I think.

01:23:16.000 Well, you know what?

01:23:17.000 We don't even have to go back to the 1800s.

01:23:20.000 I was actually, ironically, just thinking about this yesterday. 0.99

01:23:23.000 And in the 90s, you know, in the early 90s when I was growing up as a kid, I ate like shit. 0.98

01:23:30.000 But when I joined the military at 17 years old, I was 130 pounds. 0.98

01:23:32.000 Why?

01:23:35.000 Because it wasn't as comfortable as it is today to be in the house. 0.99

01:23:39.000 TV sucked. 0.99

01:23:40.000 You had to get up and change the TV. 0.98

01:23:43.000 And everything that you wanted to do, if you wanted to interact with your friend, you had to go outside.

01:23:49.000 So I truly believe that, of course, food is an issue.

01:23:52.000 I mean, there's no doubt about that.

01:23:54.000 But I believe the bigger issue is the inactivity.

01:23:58.000 And I think it proves it because, you know, in the 90s, we had a We had the same foods that we had today and it was just as shitty but the obesity wasn't as rampant because we were doing things.

01:24:09.000 We weren't sitting in a dark room playing video games or sitting at our phone and just our friends are just at our disposal right here on our phones.

01:24:17.000 We had to actually Go outside and interact with them.

01:24:20.000 I used to have to go to the store to shop and go to the bank to get money.

01:24:24.000 Now, I bought like 20 things on Amazon in the last four or five days from my room.

01:24:29.000 I didn't even leave the room.

01:24:31.000 I remember when I was a kid, I'd have to go run errands with my stepmom like before the weekend.

01:24:36.000 And one of the errands was always to go get cash because you couldn't get any cash at the weekend.

01:24:41.000 Or you'd have to like go to the grocery store and cash a check.

01:24:43.000 You have to stand in line with everybody else who forgot to go to the bank on Friday.

01:24:46.000 Mm-hmm.

01:24:47.000 Before the debit card.

01:24:48.000 I got my first debit card in, like, 92.

01:24:49.000 And there was no ATM.

01:24:50.000 We had to, like, do a drive-thru with, like, a little hydraulic thing and you'd—whatever.

01:24:54.000 You had to interact with somebody to cash a check to get your money.

01:24:56.000 I mean, I think you're completely right that the lack of socialization is driving this.

01:25:00.000 Also, I think that the opiates are heavily involved with the lack of socialization, but— Oh, no doubt about that.

01:25:06.000 I mean, but the bottom line is, it goes back to we're just way too comfortable in today's society.

01:25:12.000 And the video that I filmed live when those police officers came into my restaurant and stripped my livelihood from me, that's the message I was trying to get across to them.

01:25:25.000 I was not ragging on police.

01:25:26.000 I've always supported police officers.

01:25:28.000 What I was telling them is what they specifically were doing was wrong.

01:25:33.000 And I don't give a damn what your profession is.

01:25:36.000 If you're a police officer, if you're a teacher, if you're in the military, if you're a small business owner, if you're complicit in stripping a citizen of their constitutional rights, you are wrong.

01:25:46.000 But they were willing to do it.

01:25:48.000 And I know for a fact, That at least one of those officers that day felt bad about what he did because he had a friend come into my restaurant afterwards and tell me such.

01:25:58.000 And, uh, but the reason he did it is because what?

01:26:03.000 Because he didn't want to lose his job because he, he wanted to maintain his benefits and he wanted to have a paycheck coming in so he can provide for his family.

01:26:11.000 And on one hand you ask yourself, well, what can you blame him?

01:26:15.000 But then on the other hand, the answer is, well, the only reason this is going on is because Of people like him that are willing to be complicit in things that are illegal and unconstitutional to be comfortable.

01:26:27.000 Now, if every police officer involved in that situation would have stood up and said, this is unconstitutional, I'm not doing it, then it wouldn't have happened.

01:26:36.000 And it was the same for me.

01:26:38.000 It would have been way easier for me to comply and just go along with what they were telling me to do.

01:26:44.000 And I wouldn't have lost, you know, six figures.

01:26:47.000 I wouldn't have had the stress put on me and my family that was put on me.

01:26:51.000 But there's things that are bigger than you and there's things that are more important than you and your business and your money.

01:26:58.000 And my mindset was always, if I lose everything, if everybody in this entire country stands against me for what I'm about to do and I lose it all, Well, I'm a hard worker.

01:27:07.000 I'll bust my ass, and one way or another, I'll provide for my family, and I'll be okay.

01:27:12.000 But, if I give up my freedoms, I'll never get that back. 0.96

01:27:15.000 And that's what I want people to understand and remember next time, is that if you refuse to stand up and fight for what's right, just so you can keep the comfortability of your daily life, then you're gonna lose something much greater.

01:27:31.000 And those are your constitutional rights, and those are your freedoms.

01:27:34.000 And I just don't know how to get that across to people, but I hope that my story and my situation, I hope that if nothing else, what it proves is that if you do stand up and you do fight, the people will rally behind you and you can beat the government and you will beat the government.

01:27:51.000 And we are bigger than the government.

01:27:53.000 We are stronger than the government because we are the government.

01:27:56.000 Well, and once you give away your rights, that's your kids' rights, too.

01:27:59.000 That's your grandchildren's rights.

01:28:00.000 And that's the most important thing.

01:28:02.000 Then you have to fight a war to get them back.

01:28:04.000 That's right.

01:28:06.000 And I did this.

01:28:07.000 I took on this fight.

01:28:09.000 Mainly for my kids, and for the next generation, because if we don't, you and me, if all of us here in this room, if our generation doesn't step up and take this fight on right now, and not only take it on, but win, and we just hand this fight over to the next generation, by the time they're old enough to fight this, it'll be too far gone.

01:28:29.000 Well then they'll be squashed already.

01:28:31.000 I've got a feeling the next round of shutdown government stuff is going to be for power outages.

01:28:36.000 I could be wrong about that.

01:28:37.000 What do you mean, for power outages?

01:28:38.000 If the grid goes down for two weeks, then our phones are off, people are trying to figure it out, the government starts coming around saying, we're going to take control, don't leave the house, don't leave the house, don't leave the house.

01:28:48.000 They're not going to do that until they make us all have electric cars.

01:28:51.000 They're going to wait till we all have electric cars, then we can't go anywhere either.

01:28:54.000 I don't know if they're going to cause it or if it's just going to happen.

01:28:56.000 But if that's a situation where it's like, don't leave the house, don't leave the house, what do we do?

01:28:59.000 Do we resist against it?

01:29:01.000 That's literally how every city was during COVID lockdown.

01:29:04.000 It's going to be asymmetrical.

01:29:05.000 So next time, it probably won't be a virus next time.

01:29:08.000 It'll probably be something a little... They're calling it a cyber 9-11.

01:29:11.000 Yeah, they're working on that too.

01:29:13.000 Like the FAA, the flights that all got grounded.

01:29:17.000 They could pull something like that.

01:29:18.000 At the World Economic Forum, they're referring to it as a cyber pandemic or some kind of cyber 9-11 incident.

01:29:23.000 that will destroy a global economy. 0.97

01:29:26.000 I mean, you're pretty realistic.

01:29:26.000 What do you think?

01:29:27.000 It would wipe out everybody's money, right?

01:29:29.000 What are those things that would like wipe out all of the information?

01:29:33.000 Temporarily, and then all of your money is...

01:29:34.000 Do you think that people should prepare realistically?

01:29:34.000 And all of your money is...

01:29:38.000 Like I've got like a ham radio, solar panels.

01:29:41.000 Chickens.

01:29:42.000 Hey, hey, hey.

01:29:43.000 Everybody who listens to this show and can or figure out how to get chickens

01:29:50.000 is laughing right now listening to this show Because they got eggs.

01:29:53.000 And their neighbors are probably like, please, sir, might I borrow some eggs for my pancakes?

01:29:57.000 And you're like, no, they're mine.

01:29:59.000 Actually, you can have some.

01:30:00.000 No, you're not wrong.

01:30:01.000 You're absolutely right.

01:30:03.000 I mean, being self-sustainable is the most important thing, but I'm telling you guys right now, and I hope this doesn't come across as too politician-y, but I am running for office right now, but I am the furthest thing, even in this room, from a politician, man.

01:30:21.000 But I'm telling you guys, you need to start paying attention to state politics.

01:30:24.000 These federal elections are not where you make your money.

01:30:27.000 It's at the state level.

01:30:28.000 In Virginia, in 2035, Electric cars are gonna be the law.

01:30:36.000 So you are no longer- California too, and New York.

01:30:39.000 And Oregon and Washington.

01:30:40.000 I hate that so much.

01:30:41.000 And I think it's Wyoming that said- Wyoming said that they're banning electric cars.

01:30:46.000 Electric cars are banned.

01:30:48.000 And so let me tell you guys something- That's where you're gonna move next.

01:30:50.000 A lot of people don't know.

01:30:51.000 Oh yeah, absolutely.

01:30:52.000 It's awesome.

01:30:53.000 It's expensive though.

01:30:53.000 Yeah, it is.

01:30:54.000 The most important thing, guys, the most important thing by far, and even if you don't believe that, and we were talking about this before the show, Even if you don't believe that any election was stolen or any of that, elections are not secure.

01:31:07.000 In the state of Virginia, you can go vote without showing an ID.

01:31:10.000 You tell me how elections are secure when you can do that.

01:31:12.000 That's true in New York, too.

01:31:13.000 You just sign for it.

01:31:14.000 Well, hold on.

01:31:15.000 In what was the story?

01:31:17.000 I think we talked about it.

01:31:18.000 Did we talk about it?

01:31:19.000 Non-citizens can vote?

01:31:20.000 Oh yeah, well in New York they put up a proposal where non-citizens could vote in local elections and it was overturned.

01:31:27.000 They can vote right now.

01:31:28.000 I'm going to tell you how, and not a lot of people know this, so check this out.

01:31:32.000 In the state of Virginia, and in many other states as well, as an illegal alien, As an illegal immigrant, you can get a driver's license at the DMV, a valid driver's license, right? 0.55

01:31:44.000 So, our voter rolls, they come from the DMV.

01:31:48.000 And they go, so how our voter rolls get handed down to the Office of Elections.

01:31:52.000 Wait, it's like an auto register, right?

01:31:53.000 That's what happened in California.

01:31:54.000 So check this out.

01:31:55.000 Big story a few years ago.

01:31:56.000 The people that run our voter rolls, is an organization called Eric.

01:32:01.000 E-R-I-C. 0.99

01:32:02.000 And everybody look this up if you think I'm BSing.

01:32:05.000 E-R-I-C. 0.99

01:32:06.000 The Electronic Registration Information Center.

01:32:09.000 Eric.

01:32:10.000 So what Eric does is it reaches down to the DMVs and it says, hey DMV, We want all of your information from all of the people in your state that are of legal age to vote.

01:32:23.000 So the DMV sends them all that information.

01:32:25.000 Now, illegal immigrants are in that batch because if you look in the bylaws of Eric, it doesn't hide it from you. 1.00

01:32:31.000 It says in the bylaws of Eric, it says, hey DMV, you are not allowed to tell us who is a citizen and who's not.

01:32:38.000 Why?

01:32:39.000 I'll tell you why.

01:32:40.000 Okay.

01:32:42.000 And so what happens is Eric sifts through that information and sends the voter rolls down to the state level and it says, this is everybody in your state that's allowed to vote.

01:32:53.000 And illegal immigrants are included in that. 0.98

01:32:55.000 And the answer to you as to why, you know who funded Eric?

01:33:00.000 Who helped create Eric?

01:33:01.000 Take a wild guess.

01:33:03.000 George Soros.

01:33:05.000 George Soros.

01:33:06.000 So George Soros is running your elections.

01:33:08.000 And if you think any of that is a lie, Please do the research.

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01:33:39.000 Alright.

01:33:40.000 MoralObjection says, been really quiet on TimCast about the whole Eliza Blue situation.

01:33:45.000 You'd think real journalists would want to know why Twitter is censoring prominent content creators on her behalf. 1.00

01:33:50.000 Not only do we have a journalist currently being funded to go out and cover the story, but um...

01:33:59.000 Well, I mean, I guess I should say that.

01:34:01.000 We quite literally have a guy flying on a plane, going to meet all the people involved, and interview to figure out what's going on and do an investigation of it.

01:34:09.000 And I gotta be honest, like, everybody's, like, spamming the chat and spamming the super chat, demanding that we talk about this one issue, and it's just like, I don't know if you guys follow the show, but we never cave.

01:34:22.000 Like, the pre-production isn't dictated by what the things in the chat are, like, The hour before the show, we pull up all the stories.

01:34:29.000 We don't then have a whole bunch of people start chatting to us, and then we say, oh, hey, let's throw out all the stories we already planned for, and then not have anything pulled to talk about whatever.

01:34:37.000 We don't do that.

01:34:38.000 So I'll tell you this.

01:34:39.000 Know all about it.

01:34:41.000 Jeremy sent me some information on it.

01:34:42.000 Jeremy was supposed to be on the show.

01:34:44.000 We were going to have Jeremy Hambly on the show today, actually.

01:34:49.000 Today.

01:34:49.000 True.

01:34:50.000 And he just, I guess, I don't know exactly what happened.

01:34:53.000 He didn't get back to Cassandra, who handles all the bookings for us.

01:34:58.000 And then he didn't come.

01:34:59.000 I told him to come on.

01:35:00.000 I was like, I want to have you on.

01:35:01.000 Like, this would be the perfect time.

01:35:03.000 Especially, he was just reinstated.

01:35:04.000 He has a big threat about what happened.

01:35:06.000 And I'm like, dude, I'm not the person to, like, Jeremy, come on the show.

01:35:11.000 Like, would love to.

01:35:12.000 I'm a fan.

01:35:13.000 I'm a friend.

01:35:14.000 Want to talk about coffee, too?

01:35:16.000 But Jeremy didn't make it out, so I told him, you just gotta come on when you can.

01:35:19.000 So if everybody wants to talk about it, it's like, my guys, let's get Jeremy to come on the show, man.

01:35:23.000 We want the quartering on the show. 0.94

01:35:25.000 So we sent Shane Cashman.

01:35:27.000 So we're hoping to get a sit down with anybody we can on whatever the story is.

01:35:34.000 It is really interesting.

01:35:35.000 It is really interesting to see all the details.

01:35:36.000 I don't know enough about it.

01:35:38.000 I just know that there's something going on here and that the quartering, a very prominent personality talking about culture and news, was suspended.

01:35:47.000 Talking about this video, so I'm curious to see how it turns out.

01:35:50.000 Simply put, when I saw that everybody wanted something done about it, I went and talked with Shane Cashman.

01:35:58.000 He wants to do a full profile on this whole thing, and I was like, it's probably the best and most effective thing we can do.

01:36:05.000 Other than having Jeremy come on the show, so it's like, I don't know what else y'all want from me, my friends.

01:36:08.000 Yeah, just go dig into it.

01:36:10.000 Yeah, like Jeremy.

01:36:11.000 Jeremy can come on the show and he can literally say all of this.

01:36:13.000 We had Eliza on the show before. 1.00

01:36:15.000 All I know is she's on Twitter.

01:36:17.000 She's a prominent activist talking about this stuff.

01:36:19.000 Many people are saying that her past is shady and stuff like that.

01:36:23.000 It's not true.

01:36:23.000 She's lying.

01:36:24.000 And I was like, oh, this is perfect.

01:36:25.000 We're having Jeremy on the show.

01:36:26.000 And then Jeremy didn't make it out, and I hit him up.

01:36:29.000 I was like, bro, you're not coming?

01:36:30.000 Come on the show.

01:36:30.000 So that's the best thing I can do.

01:36:31.000 If you want to see it talked about, We gotta fly Jeremy out.

01:36:35.000 What's figured out, and the challenge was, this was the day we had booked a month in advance, and we're booked up, but I would happily make room for Jeremy.

01:36:43.000 I mean, you know, absolutely.

01:36:44.000 Did Brittany Venti get unbanned on Twitter? 1.00

01:36:47.000 Both of them did.

01:36:48.000 Oh, good.

01:36:48.000 Yeah.

01:36:49.000 All right, let's read some more.

01:36:50.000 Russell Garcia says, I can't wait to vote for Matt in the election.

01:36:53.000 Sending love from Spotsy.

01:36:56.000 I appreciate that.

01:36:57.000 Thank you so much.

01:36:58.000 And if anybody hasn't so far you can you can you can follow this journey because I'm telling you right now I'm coming to crush the establishment and I will with the support of you and you can do so at Matt4VA on social media and the website is Matt4VA.com.

01:37:13.000 I'm fighting a war on two fronts, Democrats and these Republican establishments.

01:37:17.000 So if you can help the campaign out, please do so.

01:37:21.000 Yeah, man.

01:37:21.000 Plus, if you're not too far away, go to Gore Melts, man.

01:37:23.000 That was some good food.

01:37:24.000 We gotta come back down.

01:37:25.000 Is that place lit up right now from all the publicity?

01:37:28.000 Oh, man.

01:37:28.000 I mean, we've got such an awesome customer base, man.

01:37:31.000 And, you know, now it's such a patriotic customer base.

01:37:36.000 And the environment is just... It's awesome, man.

01:37:39.000 There's never any issues in there.

01:37:40.000 And we do something every night.

01:37:42.000 So Wednesday nights, we do trivia.

01:37:43.000 Thursday, karaoke.

01:37:45.000 Friday and Saturday, we do live music.

01:37:47.000 And our live music... So the entire name of the restaurant is Gourmet, 90's music bar and draft house.

01:37:53.000 So we're all about 90's music.

01:37:55.000 And our live music on Friday and Saturdays is 80's and 90's cover bands.

01:38:00.000 So we blast out, man.

01:38:01.000 We have a good time.

01:38:02.000 Maybe we can play a show some night there.

01:38:03.000 Man, yes indeed.

01:38:05.000 Anytime.

01:38:05.000 What are your signature foods?

01:38:06.000 Your top three meals?

01:38:08.000 Oh man, so the top ones are, we have a melt called the Southern Cookout.

01:38:14.000 And melts are, you know, grilled sandwiches.

01:38:16.000 So what's in this one is sharp cheddar cheese, some really good sharp cheddar cheese, and sharp cheddar mac and cheese.

01:38:25.000 Barbecue pulled pork.

01:38:26.000 We do everything from scratch.

01:38:28.000 So we even do our barbecue from scratch.

01:38:30.000 And we don't sweeten our barbecue sauce with sugar.

01:38:33.000 That's good.

01:38:34.000 We sweeten it with figs.

01:38:36.000 It's amazing.

01:38:37.000 Did Luke convince you to get off the seed oils?

01:38:40.000 He did, man.

01:38:40.000 I'm on board.

01:38:41.000 I'm on board, man.

01:38:43.000 Society's at a point where if you spend 30 to 40% more on the ingredients, you're going to get 70 to 80% more on the customer return.

01:38:49.000 Luke actually just chatted, asked him about seed oils.

01:38:52.000 Tell him I'm all in, man.

01:38:53.000 He's all in, he's all in.

01:38:55.000 Yeah, man, we went down there.

01:38:57.000 The food was amazing.

01:38:58.000 The pretzel, that was crazy.

01:39:01.000 I don't want to eat all these glutens, man.

01:39:02.000 I want this mac and cheese pork sandwich.

01:39:04.000 Oh my God, it's good.

01:39:04.000 Definitely want that.

01:39:05.000 My kid will love that.

01:39:05.000 We should come down.

01:39:06.000 Maybe not this weekend, but the next one we'll come down.

01:39:07.000 We've got something for everybody.

01:39:08.000 So everything on our menu, we can do gluten-free.

01:39:11.000 And our pretzels are handmade by a guy locally.

01:39:14.000 He's from Germany.

01:39:15.000 I mean, the pretzels are legit.

01:39:17.000 You tried it.

01:39:18.000 It was so good.

01:39:19.000 We've got grilled cheese tacos.

01:39:20.000 So what we do is we take a corn tortilla and we grill shredded mozzarella cheese to the outside.

01:39:27.000 Because when you eat a single tortilla taco, it falls apart, right?

01:39:32.000 Yeah.

01:39:33.000 All you got to do is lightly grill a little bit of mozzarella cheese to the outside of it.

01:39:37.000 And you're good to go.

01:39:37.000 So that's good.

01:39:39.000 All right.

01:39:40.000 All right.

01:39:40.000 Let's read some more.

01:39:41.000 Let's read some more.

01:39:42.000 All right.

01:39:43.000 What do we got?

01:39:43.000 Let's see.

01:39:46.000 Wade Macundas says MTG reminds me of a triple A gaming company nowadays.

01:39:51.000 Oof.

01:39:51.000 That's actually that is that is that is a dig for those that don't know.

01:39:56.000 All right.

01:39:56.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:39:57.000 says Tim, the cult twists everything we say to fit their narrative.

01:40:00.000 Then if they can't argue against our claims, they go right to insults. 1.00

01:40:03.000 They're pathetic. 1.00

01:40:05.000 Yep. 1.00

01:40:06.000 That's right.

01:40:07.000 T-Rex Patchup says, Tim, I don't have the good stuff for Mr. Bocus, but I have UT supplements and treats that help with kidney health.

01:40:13.000 I can get the good stuff, however, on special order request.

01:40:16.000 What's the update on Mr. Bocus?

01:40:17.000 You know, you being here is the good stuff, man.

01:40:20.000 Bucko's doing fantastic.

01:40:22.000 He's sitting, I'm going to go see him in about 20 minutes, say, wizz-zap, and then I'm going to come back up for the after show.

01:40:27.000 He's probably laying on my bathroom floor right now.

01:40:28.000 I got him a nice big... Is he wearing his body suit?

01:40:31.000 No, I got him a new collar.

01:40:33.000 He didn't like the body suit and he could chew through it to get to the stitches, so I got him this Cosmos collar where it's like stars and stuff and it looks like a flower so he can't bite his own stitches.

01:40:44.000 Eating a lot.

01:40:45.000 He gets inspired when I get inspired, so if I start working out, he gets inspired to start eating a bunch of meat.

01:40:49.000 He's probably put on a pound and a half in the last week or so.

01:40:52.000 Has he?

01:40:52.000 Yeah.

01:40:53.000 He looks fantastic.

01:40:54.000 Filling out.

01:40:55.000 I'm going to take him to the vet tomorrow to get another diagnostic done before we give him the stem cell injection.

01:41:00.000 But those are coming, and then what's the update?

01:41:02.000 The stem cells?

01:41:03.000 They are ready.

01:41:04.000 That stem is the company that does it.

01:41:06.000 It's headquartered in San Diego, California, I believe, and they will be sending it out overnight to the clinic, whatever clinic we choose to go to, and then they will give them.

01:41:14.000 It's a real simple thing.

01:41:15.000 They just give them the injections, and I think it's every three months he gets another injection after that.

01:41:19.000 And they think it will help his kidney function?

01:41:21.000 That's the plan, yeah.

01:41:23.000 It'll help everything actually.

01:41:25.000 His heart.

01:41:26.000 I mean, I don't know exactly.

01:41:27.000 I don't know.

01:41:28.000 I think it might even heal up his stitches on his stomach.

01:41:30.000 I'm fascinated.

01:41:31.000 I think it will.

01:41:34.000 You can buy stem cell therapy for humans, where they harvest it from umbilical cords or whatever,

01:41:40.000 or you can do a thing where they take it from you and then culture it or whatever.

01:41:43.000 But we watched a video about it, and damaged tissue releases some kind of chemical

01:41:48.000 or something, and then stem cells are attracted to it, attach, and then turn into the cells around it,

01:41:54.000 repairing the damage.

01:41:55.000 You can do it with teeth, too.

01:41:57.000 There's experiments that you can regrow.

01:41:59.000 Stem cells for teeth?

01:42:00.000 Yeah, not the enamel, but what's the stuff underneath the enamel?

01:42:04.000 Your tooth?

01:42:05.000 No, it's like the root, but it's what's that stuff called?

01:42:07.000 Not dentin.

01:42:08.000 I'll pull it up.

01:42:09.000 I have no idea.

01:42:10.000 All right.

01:42:10.000 You know what's crazy, though, is one day, like in 100 years from now, like after all the stem cell research and stuff, like being paralyzed is not even going to be a thing anymore.

01:42:21.000 They're going to look back at us and laugh at us like Can you believe they allowed people to stay paralyzed back then?

01:42:26.000 They didn't know.

01:42:27.000 People used to drink mercury.

01:42:28.000 They didn't know.

01:42:29.000 James Tour just figured out how to... He injected graphene nano-ribbons into a spine of a mouse that had complete severance of the spine.

01:42:38.000 It was completely broken in half.

01:42:40.000 And it re-grew the spine.

01:42:41.000 Within two weeks, it was walking again.

01:42:43.000 Within three weeks, it was even better.

01:42:45.000 All right, Christina H says, my chickens have finally started laying again.

01:42:48.000 It's been egg-cellent.

01:42:50.000 They never stopped laying for us.

01:42:51.000 You can do some tricks in the winter that you need a light.

01:42:53.000 Because if there's not enough light, the chickens stop laying.

01:42:56.000 But if you turn the light on, chickens are not very smart, which may be surprising to you.

01:43:01.000 And they think it's day, so they keep laying.

01:43:04.000 It's a good thing, I guess, for chickens.

01:43:07.000 But there's also some breeds that lay better all around.

01:43:10.000 And I think black stars are really good layers.

01:43:14.000 Yeah.

01:43:15.000 It's a Rhode Island Red Rooster and a Barred Plymouth Rock.

01:43:20.000 We have a whole bunch of them.

01:43:21.000 We have too many of these guys.

01:43:22.000 I like those little fluffy ones.

01:43:23.000 What are those called?

01:43:24.000 Little fluffy ones?

01:43:25.000 Silkies.

01:43:25.000 Oh, the silkies!

01:43:27.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:43:29.000 They're cute.

01:43:30.000 Their skin is blue and the chicken meat is black.

01:43:33.000 That sounds awful.

01:43:34.000 I don't know, it's probably delicious.

01:43:35.000 I've served different kinds of chicken meat in the restaurant.

01:43:37.000 I want to now.

01:43:38.000 That sounds delicious, man.

01:43:39.000 That sounds awesome.

01:43:40.000 I mean, you guys, you can tell the difference between just a farm-fresh egg and one you get at the store.

01:43:45.000 No joke.

01:43:46.000 I mean, it's so different, man.

01:43:47.000 It's crazy.

01:43:48.000 Yeah, when I go out to eat and I order eggs, I'm like, these are conventional garbage eggs, because the eggs I get, they're fluffy.

01:43:55.000 I don't know, they're just better.

01:43:57.000 The yolk is a different color.

01:43:58.000 Darker. 0.81

01:43:59.000 Yeah, it's got more of an orange tint to it.

01:44:01.000 Yeah.

01:44:02.000 I'm getting ready to get on the chicken train, man.

01:44:03.000 I'm getting some chickens.

01:44:04.000 Oh, that's cool.

01:44:05.000 Yeah.

01:44:05.000 I've seen restaurants that have chicken coops on the roof and stuff.

01:44:08.000 I've heard of stuff like that.

01:44:09.000 That'd be dope. 0.98

01:44:09.000 They grow their own vegetables on the roof, maybe it was. 0.98

01:44:12.000 All right, Mac N says, I was put on Stratera at the age of five for ADHD.

01:44:17.000 I was in foster care at the time.

01:44:19.000 Later, when I was 14, I was put on Adderall and Prozac.

01:44:21.000 I'm 23 now, and I've been off Prozac for almost a year, and I have never felt better.

01:44:24.000 Nice, dude.

01:44:25.000 Oh, good.

01:44:25.000 Glad to hear it, man.

01:44:27.000 How do you supplement?

01:44:27.000 I want to know.

01:44:28.000 Because for me, sometimes if I'm addicted to something, eating a healthy thing kind of like helps my body, not just waiting for the addiction to go away, but actually introducing new things kind of to take control of my own body.

01:44:39.000 But I'm interested to hear what you've done to kick all that stuff.

01:44:43.000 You know what I did, man?

01:44:44.000 So like during the pandemic, everybody was drinking more.

01:44:48.000 Everybody was like, you know, and I started noticing, man, because I used to, I would have maybe a couple of beers on the weekend or something, but you know, for whatever reason during the pandemic, man, I'd have a beer a day.

01:44:59.000 And I said, I got to cut back, man.

01:45:00.000 You know what I did?

01:45:01.000 I introduced soda water to get me away from, you know, just drinking beer and it worked.

01:45:07.000 Yeah.

01:45:08.000 I just started drinking soda water instead of regular water.

01:45:10.000 And, uh, I didn't, I didn't want to be anymore.

01:45:12.000 To cut back on coffee.

01:45:13.000 Cause I'll do coffee with peanut butter powder and a little bit of coconut water.

01:45:17.000 I just started doing hot water with peanut butter powder and it's the peanut butter.

01:45:21.000 My body's totally into it.

01:45:22.000 All right, we got Mickey Blackwell says, I like this guy.

01:45:24.000 Thanks for fighting for this country overseas and here.

01:45:27.000 We need to watch out for how the government controls our food.

01:45:31.000 Well, thanks, brother.

01:45:31.000 I appreciate that.

01:45:33.000 And you are absolutely correct about that.

01:45:34.000 And that really scares me because how do we really make sure the government doesn't get involved in our food?

01:45:41.000 That's the question.

01:45:42.000 Aren't they already involved in our food?

01:45:45.000 Yeah, but I mean, you hear, you know, a lot of, I don't know if they're rumors or not, but you hear a lot of stories about how they're going to come get these anti-vaxxers one way or another.

01:45:56.000 They're going to put the mRNA vaccine in your food now.

01:45:59.000 And, you know, it's just, and nothing today to me is a conspiracy theory.

01:46:03.000 Everything's on the table.

01:46:04.000 I mean, the government's even admitting the aliens are real now.

01:46:07.000 Well, are they, though?

01:46:09.000 Well, they did release all those documents.

01:46:10.000 Somebody did.

01:46:11.000 Yeah, they're saying UFOs.

01:46:14.000 If they came out actually and said, yeah, aliens are real, I'd... I suspect a false flag.

01:46:18.000 They're going to be like, aliens are attacking!

01:46:19.000 Everyone stay inside.

01:46:21.000 Do not get a gas car.

01:46:22.000 We need to only electric.

01:46:24.000 I don't want to give up my gas car.

01:46:26.000 I just got a car maybe two years ago, my very first car ever in my life, and I will be damned if I'm giving that up.

01:46:32.000 Your TV is going to get taken over and it's going to be an alien being like, humans, we have come to take over your planet. 1.00

01:46:38.000 Unless you get rid of your gas cars.

01:46:40.000 Tune to CNN.

01:46:41.000 We only have CNN.

01:46:42.000 Well, those ones are going to hang on to our gas cars and fight back by keeping our gas cars. 0.99

01:46:46.000 But then what happens when the gas stations go away?

01:46:48.000 I don't like that.

01:46:48.000 You don't have a choice.

01:46:50.000 We need to fight back by putting the right people in these political positions.

01:46:53.000 The issue, too, though, with the electric cars is that they're not actually sustainable or renewable or better because of the implications of the mining that goes into creating those batteries.

01:47:03.000 The waste from the batteries is worse than the waste from all those bills.

01:47:05.000 I think everybody knows that except people who are lying to themselves.

01:47:08.000 Well, I think they, yeah, I mean, you know, these people who are like, oh, I'm going to give up my gas stove to get an electric stove because it's better not realizing that they're just creating waste by getting rid of their existing stove.

01:47:19.000 This is a good one from Jeff Phillips.

01:47:20.000 He says, my background is pharmacology and I've worked in and with the pharmaceutical industry for years.

01:47:25.000 I don't know one scientist at any pharmaceutical company that want anything except making medicines that help.

01:47:30.000 And I'll tell you exactly what happens.

01:47:32.000 The scientists are like, yo, we've discovered this medicine that seems to do this thing.

01:47:36.000 It's going to help a whole lot of people.

01:47:37.000 Let's put it into tests.

01:47:38.000 And then during those tests, they're like, we noticed that these pills you prescribed to save people from heart attacks is giving them boners.

01:47:46.000 And then a business guy goes, we are gonna make a fortune on boner pills.

01:47:51.000 And I think that's what it was, wasn't it?

01:47:53.000 Something like that?

01:47:54.000 That Viagra was not initially intended for that purpose.

01:47:57.000 And Ozempic.

01:47:58.000 It was like a diabetes thing.

01:47:59.000 Now it's like a weight loss drug.

01:48:01.000 But also it will give you suicidal ideation.

01:48:04.000 Ozempic will? 0.98

01:48:05.000 Yeah.

01:48:06.000 But they have that happy song, oh, oh, oh, it's a drug.

01:48:09.000 Yeah, but you have to like listen for the whole thing because it's actually pretty bad.

01:48:12.000 The side effects are, you know, death.

01:48:14.000 I hate that commercial so much.

01:48:16.000 I'll buy into that.

01:48:17.000 I mean, I believe the scientists are really trying to do good.

01:48:19.000 I mean, the worker bees are trying to solve a problem.

01:48:22.000 It's the same as the military.

01:48:24.000 Like us soldiers that go to fight.

01:48:26.000 We think we're fighting for a righteous cause.

01:48:28.000 We're fighting for freedom in America.

01:48:31.000 In reality, we're fighting to the guy or the girl to our right and left.

01:48:35.000 But in reality, do we really know what's going on?

01:48:39.000 Do we really know what the puppets up at the Pentagon are really sending us out to fight for?

01:48:44.000 It's the same thing in the pharmaceutical company.

01:48:46.000 The scientists, the guys on the ground, they think they're doing what's right.

01:48:50.000 But in all actuality, somebody else is in control of that.

01:48:54.000 All right, David Flores says, guys, I spent 14 years addicted to opiates.

01:48:57.000 Been clean for four years now.

01:48:59.000 I was a fireman at EMT.

01:49:00.000 No doctor told me it was heroin.

01:49:03.000 I lost everything.

01:49:04.000 Glad to hear you're clean now, my friend.

01:49:07.000 Sorry to hear you lost everything, man.

01:49:08.000 That's great, dude.

01:49:10.000 All right, user 4179 says, here's a few bucks for all the 20s Ian's rolled tonight.

01:49:15.000 Hell yeah.

01:49:15.000 Ian's rolling 20s like crazy.

01:49:17.000 Kevin Corbett says, if you like horse racing, try your local dirt track.

01:49:20.000 Sprint cars and late models are beastly.

01:49:23.000 You know, I really want them to reopen the restaurant so you can sit up top with a seat, looking down.

01:49:28.000 That sounds fun.

01:49:29.000 And you're eating food and then every so often you see the horses and you're like, woo!

01:49:32.000 And you can make your bet and then go sit down and have your food and be like, who got it?

01:49:35.000 It was so much fun.

01:49:36.000 I bet on all the favorites.

01:49:38.000 Two weeks ago and all the favorites won.

01:49:40.000 So it's like you you bet ten bucks and you win like thirteen dollars or something So it's like okay And I guess it's because people will bet on the long shot horses and then that money covers so you don't you can't really You like if you really want to make money gambling you can go bet on roulette or something put on a red or black But the horse is fun.

01:49:58.000 It's like you pick the horse with the stupidest name, you know, like American Patriot or something and No offense, I mean, the horse is a nice horse, I'm sure.

01:50:06.000 But he just came in last place, so he didn't win any money or anything like that. 0.99

01:50:09.000 But it's fun! 0.60

01:50:10.000 Those jockeys got some balls, man. 1.00

01:50:13.000 Yeah. 0.98

01:50:13.000 Jumping up on those horses, man, and going around the track like they do, man. 0.98

01:50:16.000 That's the first thing I thought of when I was at a racetrack for the first time.

01:50:19.000 I said, good Lord, man, these dudes, they got some heart, man, because those horses, man, they got some power.

01:50:24.000 My favorite are always the mystery shows that take place at the horse races.

01:50:27.000 Like you'll get like an Agatha Christie show and it's all about there's murder at the horse track and someone was illegally doping the horse.

01:50:34.000 Those are always my favorite ones.

01:50:37.000 Josh, Karen says the Baby Boomers retired during COVID.

01:50:40.000 That's another good point.

01:50:41.000 I've heard that a lot.

01:50:42.000 That's why it's hard to find workers because the Baby Boomers were working, you know, management jobs, they all retire. 1.00

01:50:49.000 Then the Millennials and Gen Xers start moving up.

01:50:52.000 Gen Xers take over these jobs. 1.00

01:50:55.000 Millennials, you know, move into higher positions. 0.68

01:50:57.000 And now there's no low skill worker base.

01:50:59.000 I see.

01:50:59.000 What about all the Gen Z people?

01:51:01.000 Don't they?

01:51:02.000 Are they just too young still?

01:51:03.000 They're posting TikToks too much.

01:51:05.000 I have no idea.

01:51:06.000 They don't know what's going on?

01:51:07.000 They don't know what's going on.

01:51:08.000 They're living at home with their parents, probably.

01:51:10.000 I guess my kid is Gen Z, right? 0.80

01:51:12.000 Is that right?

01:51:13.000 Yeah.

01:51:15.000 If he's 2010.

01:51:16.000 I don't know if that's Gen Z. That might be Gen Alpha.

01:51:19.000 It's like the next one.

01:51:20.000 It's like the unknown.

01:51:21.000 No, Gen Alpha is the next one.

01:51:22.000 I'll call it Alpha Gen.

01:51:24.000 Well, that's what some people call it.

01:51:25.000 You want to look it up.

01:51:26.000 Yeah, now that we've surpassed the Z, Gen Z, we're starting it over again. 1.00

01:51:30.000 Now it's going to be Z Gen, Alpha Gen, Beta Gen.

01:51:33.000 Because Gen Beta, Gen Alpha, you know, I don't want to confuse them.

01:51:38.000 You don't want to trigger them.

01:51:39.000 You want to be nice to those guys.

01:51:41.000 Yeah, you sit here with a piece of paper and they walk on it and then you place it.

01:51:44.000 That's what I do.

01:51:44.000 Alpha Generation, as if they're not going to be the most badass humans ever made.

01:51:48.000 Yeah, I don't know about that, dude.

01:51:49.000 Gen Alpha.

01:51:50.000 Alpha Gen.

01:51:51.000 Is that what it's called?

01:51:51.000 They got the word for it.

01:51:53.000 Yeah, they call it Generation Alpha because they have no creativity, but I call it Alpha Gen. 0.94

01:51:56.000 Alpha Gen are gonna be the wall-e, hover chair, morbidly obese people. 1.00

01:52:00.000 If you say that, they'll believe you and then that's what they'll become, but we gotta inspire Alpha Gen.

01:52:04.000 Yeah, we gotta change it, man.

01:52:05.000 They're like, what, 8, 9, 11?

01:52:05.000 What year is it?

01:52:07.000 What's the Generation Alpha?

01:52:09.000 Early 2010s?

01:52:10.000 Yeah.

01:52:10.000 Yeah, so I guess that's my kid.

01:52:13.000 Yep, that's right.

01:52:14.000 To the mid-2020s, yeah.

01:52:16.000 All the kids these days are Gen Alpha.

01:52:17.000 Well, early 2010s, what is that?

01:52:19.000 Is that 2010 specifically, or because maybe he's at the cutoff?

01:52:22.000 I don't know why it doesn't say.

01:52:24.000 He's a Gen Zelfa, like a Xeniel. 1.00

01:52:27.000 He's, like, right on the cusp.

01:52:28.000 Yeah, well, Ian's a Xeniel, I think they call it. 1.00

01:52:31.000 Yeah, when you're the last year of X. Yeah, I'm 79, so right at the end of Gen X, they call them Xeniels.

01:52:40.000 When does Millennials start? 0.99

01:52:41.000 Millennial?

01:52:42.000 1981.

01:52:42.000 Is it 81?

01:52:43.000 I think it would be millennial.

01:52:45.000 No, it's not 81.

01:52:46.000 Wikipedia says 81 to 96 is millennial.

01:52:48.000 Wow.

01:52:50.000 And then 97 to 2012 is Z. So that'd be 2013.

01:52:52.000 Oh, okay.

01:52:52.000 So he's Z. Yeah, your kid is Z.

01:52:55.000 2012.

01:52:55.000 He's a Zalpha.

01:52:56.000 Okay.

01:52:57.000 He would be a Zalpha. 1.00

01:52:59.000 Yep.

01:53:01.000 All right.

01:53:01.000 What do we got here?

01:53:03.000 James Rice says a lot of people died from COVID and the homeless might be a reason not enough workers.

01:53:07.000 That is a good point.

01:53:08.000 You know?

01:53:09.000 What's your worker base been like the whole process?

01:53:12.000 Did you see more people leave or have you hired more?

01:53:16.000 It's tougher to get people.

01:53:18.000 I mean, my wife and I are at the restaurant all day every day because it's hard to get people in especially management positions.

01:53:29.000 It's easier to get the younger workers that are just coming into the workforce.

01:53:33.000 I mean, although I gotta, you know, I gotta overpay them to work.

01:53:37.000 It's easier to get those folks because they're just coming into the workforce.

01:53:40.000 But to get the 25-year-olds who can hold down the restaurant without me having to be there, you know, 24-7, those are the positions that are impossible to fill right now.

01:53:51.000 And it's just, I have no idea why.

01:53:53.000 I have no answer for it.

01:53:54.000 It's just weird.

01:53:56.000 But what I do see is, I do know a lot of people are on unemployment because I put those ads out and I'll get like 30 applications a week and I'll call all of them in for an interview and none of them will show up.

01:54:09.000 Wow.

01:54:09.000 They're just checking the mark because they got to apply to a certain amount of jobs every week.

01:54:13.000 Oh my goodness, to fill out for unemployment, you have to say.

01:54:15.000 And I actually, I called the unemployment office in Virginia and I said, hey guys, this is going on.

01:54:21.000 Just wanted to, you know, alert you to it.

01:54:24.000 And they transferred me to like five different people because everybody said, oh, I don't know what to do with that information.

01:54:31.000 And I said, no, no, no.

01:54:32.000 I got this person's name right here.

01:54:33.000 I wanted to let you know if they're on unemployment, I called them in for an interview and I'll offer them a job.

01:54:42.000 So just so you know, if they're on unemployment, I will offer them a job.

01:54:45.000 And they transferred me to like five different people finally.

01:54:48.000 She was like, we don't have anybody that records that information.

01:54:50.000 But here's the issue.

01:54:52.000 If someone makes 20 bucks an hour, loses their job, goes on unemployment, comes to you and you say, I'll give you 15 bucks an hour.

01:54:59.000 And they go, okay.

01:55:00.000 And then you're like, why aren't they calling back?

01:55:02.000 They could be telling unemployment, I got an offer, but it was under my normal wage.

01:55:06.000 And they'll say, no, no, don't take it.

01:55:08.000 Because the problem is, if somebody makes, let's say somebody makes like 50k a year, and they get laid off, and they're desperate.

01:55:15.000 Unemployment covers a very small amount.

01:55:17.000 Then they get offered a job at 35.

01:55:19.000 What they actually say is, if you take that underpaying job, your bills, you won't be able to pay them, you will end up in the exact same position, and it'll be for longer, and it will reinstate another round of benefits.

01:55:33.000 So the math actually is, don't take an underpaying job, otherwise you'll end up paying more unemployment.

01:55:37.000 You see how it works?

01:55:38.000 Yeah.

01:55:38.000 Or I do.

01:55:39.000 Not that I'm saying it's justified.

01:55:40.000 I'm saying that's the logic they give.

01:55:41.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:55:41.000 I mean, everything the government puts their hands on turns to shit. 1.00

01:55:45.000 And that's the moral of the story. 1.00

01:55:46.000 That's the bottom line.

01:55:47.000 Yeah, well, you know, that's truth.

01:55:49.000 That's truth.

01:55:50.000 John L says, what is Libby's excuse for the post-millennial headlines of Antifa forced

01:55:54.000 protesters?

01:55:55.000 That was funny.

01:55:59.000 I got you.

01:56:00.000 You did.

01:56:01.000 Yeah, you got me.

01:56:01.000 I was reading his post-mortem.

01:56:02.000 It was like Antifa protests, shoots cop, burns down buildings.

01:56:07.000 And I'm like, hold on a minute.

01:56:08.000 You know, it was interesting because we had run stories about that before where the headline called them domestic terrorists.

01:56:14.000 And this was a story that Andy Ngo was working on.

01:56:18.000 And he and I talked about it at length.

01:56:21.000 And apparently it's actually called the Atlanta Forest.

01:56:26.000 And he thought that by saying defenders, he was making fun of them.

01:56:31.000 Well, why would you want to make fun of them?

01:56:33.000 Why just do the news?

01:56:34.000 We didn't end up totally agreeing on that headline.

01:56:39.000 Yeah, even Cassandra wrote a story and she called them protesters, and then I said the same thing.

01:56:44.000 I was like, TimCast.com, protest?

01:56:46.000 What is this?

01:56:46.000 And then later it says they're charged with domestic terrorism, and I'm like, let's just say, alleged domestic terrorists.

01:56:52.000 Our previous headlines had said domestic terrorists.

01:56:57.000 So I think maybe we were just switching it up a little bit.

01:56:59.000 Alleged is key, if they've just been charged.

01:57:02.000 But I think they were charged.

01:57:03.000 They were charged with domestic terrorism, I believe.

01:57:05.000 The guy that shot the cop in the woods?

01:57:08.000 Allegedly.

01:57:09.000 But then he got shot.

01:57:10.000 Allegedly.

01:57:11.000 He was allegedly killed.

01:57:13.000 Well, he's dead, and you can't defame the dead.

01:57:15.000 But you gotta understand, the scariest thing of this story, about these Antifa terrorists, is that they crossed state lines with guns.

01:57:20.000 You know, that's really a disconcerting situation.

01:57:24.000 I don't think you should... there should be obviously checkpoints so that you're not allowed to cross.

01:57:28.000 They cross state lines with guns.

01:57:29.000 Shout out to the United States.

01:57:31.000 That's crazy.

01:57:32.000 Can't believe they would do that.

01:57:33.000 Could you even imagine?

01:57:34.000 That's just... heavens.

01:57:37.000 Mercy!

01:57:38.000 All right, B. Walsh says, I was in Walmart one night at about 8.30 p.m., so in a busy area, not so real late, they only had self-checkout.

01:57:49.000 I forced them to put someone on the register, said there's 20 employees doing nothing.

01:57:54.000 Yo, you know what I can't stand?

01:57:55.000 We would go, what store would we go to?

01:57:57.000 We stopped going there.

01:57:59.000 I think it's Weiss, the supermarket chain out here, because our self-checkout doesn't work.

01:58:04.000 Here's what happens.

01:58:05.000 I know what you're gonna say.

01:58:07.000 What do you think?

01:58:08.000 I hate it, man.

01:58:09.000 So you ring something up, and then it tells you, put it in the bag.

01:58:14.000 Exactly!

01:58:15.000 And then you're like, it's in the bag!

01:58:16.000 It's in the bag!

01:58:17.000 It's like, please place item in the bag.

01:58:18.000 It is!

01:58:18.000 It's sitting right there!

01:58:19.000 So you have to take it out and put it back in.

01:58:21.000 Exactly.

01:58:21.000 Or when they say, please remove the item from the bagging area.

01:58:25.000 And you're like, there's nothing there.

01:58:26.000 I literally didn't put anything there.

01:58:28.000 And then I'm going, I'm putting it down and then it's like, it won't scan anything and

01:58:31.000 I pick it back up and it's like, please return the item.

01:58:34.000 And you're like, I put it back down and then it goes, please wait for assistance.

01:58:37.000 Oh, are you kidding me?

01:58:39.000 And then we're like, hello, is any human here?

01:58:41.000 There's no humans.

01:58:42.000 Nope.

01:58:43.000 I just want to walk down the aisle and just push everything onto the floor, man.

01:58:46.000 It just pisses me off.

01:58:47.000 That's what they do in New York and then they steal it.

01:58:49.000 They put face masks on because, you know, they're COVID compliant.

01:58:53.000 Walk in with garbage bags, take everything off the shelves and run out.

01:58:57.000 And security guards, like nobody will stop them.

01:59:00.000 And you'll even have employees telling customers, like, don't do anything and they'll just film it.

01:59:04.000 But everything is becoming automated.

01:59:06.000 I get an email probably once a month from companies that are making these robotic arms that can run your grill for you.

01:59:14.000 All right.

01:59:15.000 That doesn't sound like it's going to result in good grilling.

01:59:17.000 No, it doesn't.

01:59:18.000 Steven Sanders says, Tim, a lung cancer patient and myself were arrested December 12, 2022, with another veteran, Deland, Florida.

01:59:26.000 For not wearing a mask held in police car.

01:59:29.000 3 hours 47 minutes.

01:59:30.000 All charges following SSA mask policy last month.

01:59:33.000 Footage available.

01:59:34.000 In Florida!

01:59:35.000 Where's Ron DeSantis?

01:59:36.000 On that one.

01:59:38.000 Big hail fans says, big fan Tim.

01:59:40.000 The fact that this was allowed to happen is absolutely disgusting.

01:59:42.000 Wouldn't this qualify as biological warfare?

01:59:45.000 When do we bring back tarring and feathering?

01:59:48.000 I don't think tarring and feathering is actually effective.

01:59:50.000 Not that I think locking someone up for, you know, a long period of time is effective either.

01:59:55.000 Well, if you tar and feather someone, that's death. 0.98

01:59:57.000 You kill them by doing that. 1.00

01:59:58.000 Were they killing them? 1.00

01:59:59.000 Yeah, you can die from that. 0.97

02:00:01.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

02:00:02.000 They used to do it all the time to people.

02:00:03.000 That's a weird thing to do.

02:00:04.000 They also used to draw and quarter people.

02:00:06.000 That would also kill you.

02:00:07.000 Okay, so I'm watching 1883.

02:00:09.000 I don't like it.

02:00:10.000 Alright?

02:00:11.000 I don't know.

02:00:12.000 You guys have seen it?

02:00:12.000 I haven't seen it, no.

02:00:13.000 Everybody's telling me last night dinner like you gotta see it.

02:00:16.000 It's so good.

02:00:17.000 It's it's the Oregon Trail It's this it's this it's a prequel to Yellowstone and they're and they're going and there's like it's like if you ever played the game Oregon showing your kid Oh, you're gonna love it, and then I'm watching it, and it's literally like every five seconds It's people just killing each other and I'm like come on man And then and then it's apparently like it's it's realistic to how things were back then I'm like Come on, there's like a pickpocket, and then, and maybe this is true, fine, the main character just shoots him in the back, and then he, and then everyone starts, someone else pickpockets, starts stomping on him while he's got like buckshot in his back, and then he goes, he took my wallet, and grabs his wallet back, and then they literally drag him, and just string him up right there, killing him on the spot, and I'm like, for real?

02:00:57.000 Okay, maybe, maybe, maybe.

02:00:59.000 Then, there's like, I don't want to spoil it, but there's like a big fight happens and a kid dies, so they go to the marshal, it was played by Billy Bob Thornton, and he's like, well, let's go, and then he walks into the saloon, and then he goes, he yells out the guy's name, and then he's like, look, I, boom, shoots him, shoots it, shoots a guy, shoots a guy, shoots a guy, and he goes, are there any else?

02:01:19.000 And then he points at another guy and he walks up and shoots him, and I'm like, come on.

02:01:22.000 That's just not.

02:01:23.000 Literally every 10 seconds someone's dying and it's like, how would human civilization function if this is how it actually went down?

02:01:30.000 And people are saying like, that's really how it was.

02:01:32.000 You'd walk into a saloon and just murder 10 people and walk away and nobody... I don't think that's right.

02:01:36.000 The other thing too is whenever you see these shows and a whole bunch of people get killed, no one has any emotional reaction.

02:01:42.000 And I don't think that's accurate either.

02:01:43.000 Like people vomiting and stuff?

02:01:45.000 Like yeah, you'd have an emotional reaction.

02:01:47.000 You'd be like freaked out if somebody walked into where you were sitting and shot 10 people.

02:01:50.000 All right, we're gonna read one more here.

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02:03:37.000 Good to see you, man.

02:03:37.000 Thank you.

02:03:38.000 Looking forward to spend some time at Gore Melts playing a show.

02:03:40.000 I can't wait, man.

02:03:41.000 I'm ready for you guys to come down and rock with us.

02:03:42.000 It's going to be hot.

02:03:43.000 And Matt Gates, when he was on, we were talking about blockchain backups for voting to secure the actual votes.

02:03:48.000 That's very interesting.

02:03:49.000 So if you and Matt can ever get in touch, I think that might be something we can start pushing forward with.

02:03:52.000 I would love to.

02:03:53.000 Yeah.

02:03:53.000 Great stuff.

02:03:54.000 All right.

02:03:54.000 Bye, everyone.

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02:04:03.000 It sounds like your head is in the right place.

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