Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Political Catholicism Vs. Cultural Marxism w-Sohrab Amari & Seamus

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Ron DeSantis has won.

00:00:21.000 He has gotten critical race theory banned in Florida schools, though they didn't explicitly say critical race theory.

00:00:26.000 They've banned core tenets of the reactionary racist ideology that masquerades as academic theory called critical race theory.

00:00:35.000 Many other states have done something similar, and this leads to a very interesting conversation around free speech.

00:00:40.000 around whether or not kids should be taught certain things.

00:00:42.000 And of course, the leftists, the woke, try to say, we're just teaching kids about the theory.

00:00:48.000 But actually, no, they're telling the theory is true and correct.

00:00:51.000 There's a big difference.

00:00:52.000 And it isn't.

00:00:53.000 It's a cult-like racist ideology.

00:00:55.000 And they're trying to hide behind science to make these things a reality.

00:01:00.000 In reality, it's a non-theistic religion.

00:01:03.000 Wokeness, intersectionality, critical race theory, critical theory in general, or as some people call it, cultural Marxism.

00:01:09.000 So it's a Friday night and we're going to be chilling and talking about political Catholicism or just Christianity in the United States, the moral frameworks, things we have to talk, we talk about that quite a bit sometimes, and cultural Marxism.

00:01:20.000 And I think one of the core components of the culture war right now is that wokeness, critical race theorists, intersectionality feminists, whatever you want to call it, social justice warriors, have an absolutely different moral framework. 0.99

00:01:34.000 Perhaps they don't have one at all.

00:01:35.000 and the United States was founded upon, whether liberals like it or not, a Judeo-Christian

00:01:35.000 Thank you.

00:01:39.000 moral framework.

00:01:40.000 Joining us to talk about that today is Sohrab Amari, author of The Unbroken Thread.

00:01:45.000 Thank you.

00:01:46.000 Thanks for having me.

00:01:47.000 Do you want to just do a quick introduction for who you are?

00:01:49.000 So in my day job, I'm the op-ed editor of the New York Post.

00:01:54.000 And on the side, I write books.

00:01:56.000 And most recently, I wrote this book, The Unbroken Thread, Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, which is a book I wrote for my four-year-old son.

00:02:05.000 Although when I started writing the book, he was two.

00:02:07.000 Right on.

00:02:08.000 We also have Seamus of Freedom Tunes.

00:02:10.000 Yes, I'm here, actually.

00:02:11.000 I wasn't planning on doing the show.

00:02:12.000 I don't think we had any slated for tonight, but we got into this really interesting conversation and all decided that we should continue it on air, so I'm happy to be here.

00:02:19.000 I think this will be a really interesting show.

00:02:21.000 Fridays are pretty conversational, and, you know, we're planning on discussing cultural Marxism, critical race theory, and the more traditional moral framework, which is Christian values, and Seamus is a perfect person to join that conversation.

00:02:34.000 Oh, thank you.

00:02:35.000 We also have Ian.

00:02:35.000 Yeah, I'm really excited about this.

00:02:37.000 I listened to a lot of Graham Hancock's work.

00:02:39.000 He's an archaeologist and talks a lot about ancient history and cultures and about looking back to remember, you know, a lot of the wisdom that we've lost over the ages.

00:02:47.000 I think it's such an important conversation.

00:02:49.000 And now, but Graham Hancock believes that there were advanced civilizations in prehistory, correct?

00:02:54.000 I think he thinks that it is highly likely.

00:02:58.000 I don't know if he's ever found any proof of it.

00:03:00.000 I think he's actually making a great case for lost wisdom by thinking that.

00:03:04.000 I watched a video of this guy who could move like 200 pound stones, 200 ton stones, by digging a hole under one side and then bouncing it back and forth, using its own weight against itself to slip it.

00:03:19.000 So that's, you know, and using sand to push things, you know, lowering... And, like, vibration.

00:03:24.000 They used to have these temples where they'd go in and they'd, like, strike the key of A in one area of the temple and the entire temple would start to vibrate.

00:03:30.000 You know, your bones are made of this crystal.

00:03:31.000 You can move very heavy rocks, very heavy objects by vibrating.

00:03:35.000 And now science is developing acoustic levitation.

00:03:37.000 So we're seeing like it's like almost like we're rediscovering not.

00:03:41.000 I mean, I think we have a more powerful power source than we've ever had with like fusion and nuclear power.

00:03:45.000 I don't I don't see any evidence that we've ever had that amount of energy before, but it seems like we're like, you know, recursing technology.

00:03:52.000 And that's what Ian will bring to this conversation about theocracy and religion and cultural Marxism.

00:03:57.000 We also have Lydia pushing all the buttons. 1.00

00:03:58.000 I think it's going to be a really fun conversation tonight.

00:04:00.000 I am Lydia and the reason the camera switch smoothly.

00:04:03.000 Here's Tim.

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00:04:53.000 And let's just jump into the conversation.

00:04:55.000 So, why should we have an authoritarian theocracy?

00:04:59.000 I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

00:05:00.000 Yeah, but, uh, so, uh, today we saw Critical Race Theory was trending.

00:05:04.000 And one of the things that really worries me the most about whatever this is, right, I think, I actually think Critical Race Theory is the wrong way to describe it.

00:05:12.000 We are giving the battlefield to the left by using their terminology.

00:05:17.000 This battle, this culture war has been going on for a very, very long time.

00:05:20.000 And you can say the first modern battle in the culture war was Gamergate.

00:05:25.000 Then we see, you know, movies, video games, Cometgate, et cetera, where you started to see this critical theory, whatever you want to call it.

00:05:33.000 Some people called it cultural Marxism.

00:05:34.000 I think that's a bigger umbrella term, a better umbrella term for a lot of what it is.

00:05:37.000 Wokeness is an easy way to explain it colloquially.

00:05:40.000 But when we talk about critical race theory, It's easily masked by the woke.

00:05:45.000 They just say, oh, it's just an academic theory and you're overthinking things and we shouldn't ban academics for children.

00:05:50.000 But what's happening is critical race theory is a core component.

00:05:54.000 It's just the racial component of critical theory, which is quite literally an advance on, or I should say developed off of Karl Marx's thinking and the Frankfurt School.

00:06:03.000 I don't want to get too jargony.

00:06:05.000 But it essentially is a totally different moral framework from Christianity in the United States.

00:06:11.000 And this is mostly just my opinions, but you guys can feel free to chime in.

00:06:14.000 It's built on a Christian framework.

00:06:16.000 Christian moral framework.

00:06:18.000 You look at what Ben Franklin said about it's better that a hundred guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer, which was just taking from Blackstone's formulation.

00:06:27.000 It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer, which was just taking from the stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, which I believe he quite literally said.

00:06:34.000 So we end up with a society where you have a lot of secular liberals, atheists, etc., who are living by this moral framework.

00:06:42.000 They don't understand it, though.

00:06:44.000 You know, over time, we've moved away from the more, I guess, societally enforced, you know, I don't want to call it theocracy, but societally enforced religious views or faith, and understanding why we have these moral frameworks.

00:07:00.000 By losing that, something else comes in.

00:07:03.000 These woke people believe there is no truth but power, and therefore they're entitled to lie, cheat, and steal to get whatever they want, until they gain power.

00:07:11.000 So I'm curious, your thoughts, you wrote, and you can talk about your book and explain to us what your thoughts are.

00:07:16.000 I think you called it political Catholicism, but yeah.

00:07:18.000 Sure, no, I mean, I think that's right that the fact that they're moving in to me shows is proof that there was never going to be any kind of a neutral public square, that our societies will one way or another always enshrine some orthodoxy, some authoritative view of what it means to live a good life, Some account of the highest goods of human life.

00:07:41.000 What is what's the purpose of living?

00:07:43.000 One way or another a society will enshrine that and for a long time the society had a as you said a kind of Christian I would say kind of a Protestant establishment a Protestant consensus and then in the you know much of the 20th century Catholics and Jews were added to the picture and we started using terms like Judeo-Christian and that was the consensus and but a certain element of liberal ideology, which I think our society is ultimately a liberal civilization, has this tendency to be very suspicious of orthodoxies, of attempts to enshrine ultimate meaning in the public square.

00:08:22.000 And so it chipped away at those, culturally, politically, over a long time.

00:08:27.000 And we see that in the vacuum that was created, the woke's moved in, right? 0.99

00:08:32.000 So and now they're moving very quickly.

00:08:34.000 Every element of national life, you know, corporate businesses, you know, universities, almost certainly, obviously, but now K through 12 education, there's not a not a one dimension of American life where you can escape it.

00:08:47.000 So, to me, that just shows neutrality is over.

00:08:50.000 And it was always an illusion.

00:08:51.000 There was always going to be some account of what it means to be happy, what it means to be good, what it means to be fully free.

00:08:57.000 Exactly.

00:08:58.000 The woke, whatever they call themselves or whatever it is, they need people to believe there is no conflict.

00:09:06.000 They need people to believe we're just teaching about slavery?

00:09:10.000 We're just teaching history?

00:09:12.000 No, I mean, they're quite literally fabricating with the 1619 Project.

00:09:15.000 It is a... I would argue it's a different moral framework, but I think it's just a lack thereof.

00:09:21.000 No, these things often are.

00:09:26.000 It's a kind of bastardized Christianity. 0.98

00:09:28.000 I think you said that, Tim. 0.52

00:09:29.000 So, for example, it has an element of original sin.

00:09:33.000 But the original sin in biblical religion is something we all inherit.

00:09:38.000 And you have to seek redemption through faith and so forth.

00:09:43.000 But the opportunity for redemption is open to everyone, and everyone is equally fallen, except the Blessed Virgin Mary.

00:09:54.000 So now we have the concept of original sin, but it's sprinkled across different groups.

00:09:58.000 Depending on your skin color, you are forever tainted by racial sin and have to spend your life trying to expiate this racial sin. 0.96

00:10:07.000 And if you're a minority or, you know, fit whatever intersectional boxes, the more the better, like trans, disabled, black, blah, blah, blah. 0.62

00:10:14.000 Exactly.

00:10:14.000 Then you're sort of part of a holy class.

00:10:17.000 You're sort of, you know, you're... Unless you're an apostate.

00:10:20.000 Unless you are, say, a black conservative. 0.99

00:10:22.000 John McWhorter or something like that. 0.85

00:10:23.000 Candace Owens?

00:10:24.000 Well, I think this is interesting because, so you were sort of suggesting that this wokeness, leftism, critical race theory, any of these similar types of thought are A moral system in and of themselves, and you were sort of alluding to them being a lack of a moral system.

00:10:39.000 I think what it is is a moral system without any virtue or any emphasis put on virtue.

00:10:43.000 And so it can be very confusing to suss out exactly what it is.

00:10:47.000 And I think you're also right that it was impossible for there to be any kind of neutrality.

00:10:51.000 Ultimately, what the government has to have is some kind of definition of what a human being is, because you can't govern something without reference to what that thing is.

00:10:59.000 And so, if humans are created in the image and likeness of God, and the government believes that, it's going to govern a certain way.

00:11:06.000 If human beings are just blobs of organic material that happen to have amassed consciousness through some information processing at the level of the brain, and there's nothing inherently value about us metaphysically, the government's going to govern in a very different way.

00:11:19.000 This is actually really interesting because I think we had a conversation about aliens on this show, maybe a few months ago.

00:11:26.000 Would the Constitution protect the rights of an alien?

00:11:29.000 If like an alien spaceship landed on Earth and these, you know, little grey men came out, would they have free speech rights? 1.00

00:11:35.000 Would they have constitutional rights?

00:11:36.000 And, you know, typically when we talk about this, people are like, well, of course!

00:11:39.000 I mean, they're presumably people, and it's like, okay, well, if it's a different, entirely different species of being, then why do not dolphins or elephants have constitutional rights?

00:11:48.000 In which case, there is a presumed definition of who the law applies to, and it's a human being.

00:11:54.000 Yeah.

00:11:54.000 I would also say, too, when people get into discussion on aliens, obviously, it gets extremely theoretical, but the question is, are we talking about a creature which has free will?

00:12:04.000 Because people will say things like intelligent life.

00:12:06.000 Well, how are we defining intelligence?

00:12:08.000 I think, ultimately, it's, does this have free will?

00:12:10.000 Does it have a soul, so to speak, or a rational soul?

00:12:12.000 Well, you know what else is our people, is corporations, according to our government, legally.

00:12:17.000 And you want to talk about modern day religion, we're living in it, the corporate, corporatocracy.

00:12:21.000 Maybe that's what this should be, a corporatocracy, not a theocracy.

00:12:24.000 Yeah, it's interesting, you know, and you were sort of talking about this, but how a lot of this intersectional stuff is really just a corporate religion, too.

00:12:31.000 It helps them because you can look the other way on how they're abusing their workers, as long as they're giving money to the right causes and promoting wokeness.

00:12:37.000 You know, they all changed their Twitter bio picture to a rainbow flag this month, so I guess they're nice and progressive and we don't have to worry about anything they're doing.

00:12:45.000 But yeah, I think it's interesting that Wokeness, you can kind of trace its birth, I mean, Gamergate is interesting, but that it came after Occupy Wall Street.

00:12:55.000 It was at Occupy, it was.

00:12:57.000 Well, no, but the thing was, Occupy was making, I think now, at the time as a conservative, I was like, oh, these crazy leftists.

00:13:03.000 But in fact, after what kind of big finance did with the Great Recession, in fact, those demands weren't, now in retrospect, I think weren't so crazy.

00:13:15.000 Because the idea that you would privatize all the gains, but then socialize the risk onto people, That's outrageous, and that was crazy.

00:13:24.000 But that movement didn't work.

00:13:26.000 And what instead it turned to is instead of a kind of class-based movement having to do with legitimate economic injustices and overweening corporate power in this country, it shifted to wokeism, which is really, really easy for corporations to accommodate.

00:13:42.000 I actually think that was intentional.

00:13:43.000 During Occupy Wall Street, during the first week or so, actually, I know a lot of people are like, where's Luke at?

00:13:48.000 We demand Luke!

00:13:50.000 No Luke, I puke!

00:13:51.000 So, our friend, he's like an ANCAP libertarian, or Luke, whatever you describe yourself as.

00:13:55.000 We met during Occupy Wall Street, and he's libertarian right, and I was very libertarian left, but we both met during Occupy Wall Street in New York.

00:14:04.000 There were conservatives down there, sitting down, holding up the American flag during Occupy Wall Street.

00:14:10.000 It was very much just a general populist movement.

00:14:13.000 Complaining about the 1% the elites.

00:14:16.000 And then something really interesting happened.

00:14:18.000 A lot of conservatives came out against it.

00:14:20.000 And there were conservatives there.

00:14:21.000 So that was, you know, for me, I was kind of surprised.

00:14:23.000 I actually interviewed an older couple.

00:14:25.000 And then the woke came in.

00:14:27.000 All of a sudden, the conversations around wealth inequality turned into racial inequality. 0.99

00:14:32.000 All of a sudden, when you started making demands about the big banks stealing from the working class, they said, you're white, shut up.

00:14:38.000 And then, immediately, conservatives and libertarians started leaving, not wanting to have a part in this, probably not wanting to sleep in a park, probably.

00:14:45.000 That's fascinating, I didn't know that.

00:14:46.000 And then we started seeing the rise of the I am the 47% movement, which to me was also very strange.

00:14:52.000 Why were a bunch of people deciding to be opposed to an economic populist movement?

00:14:59.000 I mean, I think Bannon just the other day said, tax the rich.

00:15:02.000 Today, he said it.

00:15:02.000 Today, yeah.

00:15:03.000 Yeah, so to me, I was kind of like, I was like, oh, I totally understood what they were saying.

00:15:08.000 But the people who initially came down and were protesting, the establishment and the elites, ultimately, what I ended up experiencing, I went to the Deplora Ball when Donald Trump was elected.

00:15:17.000 And I'm there.

00:15:18.000 I'm like, wow, it's a bunch of conservatives.

00:15:20.000 You know, I don't know anybody.

00:15:21.000 I know who some of these people are.

00:15:23.000 And then all of a sudden, some people come to me like, hey, Tim, we're big fans.

00:15:25.000 And I was like, oh, really?

00:15:26.000 I didn't realize Trump supporters, you know, like watched my live streams on my YouTube channel.

00:15:30.000 And they were like, no, no, no, we were down at Occupy Wall Street.

00:15:33.000 And I was like, and your Trump supporters, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, like, screw the establishment, screw Hillary Clinton, Trump's the one who's gonna knock that all down.

00:15:39.000 So what happens is, wokeness shattered the economic populist movement after 2008.

00:15:45.000 And now we've been entrenched in that battle where I think we are very much distracted by it.

00:15:49.000 The problem is, They saw an opportunity to move in.

00:15:54.000 They woke.

00:15:54.000 They saw a grievance.

00:15:55.000 And they saw an opportunity to manipulate.

00:15:57.000 And I think most of these corporations saw an opportunity to as well.

00:16:01.000 If you shift this to this kind of stuff, as my friend Christopher Caldwell says, where he says, Various realms of life, whether it's public corporations or government, they will say like, well, you know, we've done nothing for the working class.

00:16:18.000 We've done nothing for the working poor.

00:16:20.000 But you know what? 0.54

00:16:21.000 The new CEO is a trans woman.

00:16:24.000 And so it's just you shift power within elites according to like hierarchies of intersectionality without actually shifting economic justice one iota. 0.62

00:16:36.000 Now Oprah Winfrey is oppressed and a homeless white veteran in a wheelchair is the oppressor. 0.99

00:16:43.000 And his privilege is more dangerous because he doesn't recognize it.

00:16:47.000 I think that everything you're saying rings true and also there was this period of time, I'd say right after the Occupy movement, and this was really all post-financial crisis, right after 2008.

00:16:56.000 You're an ordinary person.

00:16:58.000 Many people were upside down in mortgages.

00:17:02.000 And what happened?

00:17:03.000 Well, the banks got bailed out.

00:17:04.000 And so, on the right and left, you saw the rise of these populist movements.

00:17:07.000 And you had Occupy Wall Street, which was generally considered to be more left-leaning, and you had the Tea Party, which was generally considered to be more right-leaning.

00:17:13.000 And I think the media and the establishment were terrified of people realizing just how much overlap there was between those two groups, because then you could actually have the left and right working together to pursue some kind of economic justice.

00:17:23.000 But that isn't what happened.

00:17:24.000 Then you had a revival of these populist movements as a result of, I would say, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, and then they were split between those two groups.

00:17:31.000 But I would say for as much as I dislike Bernie Sanders, I would get along with a Sanders supporter a whole lot better than I'd get along with a Biden supporter in terms of what their aspirations are for the country and what problems they identify and how they view the political class.

00:17:41.000 Yeah, I completely agree.

00:17:43.000 Although Sanders, I think in 2020, got absorbed by the woke blob.

00:17:48.000 I think so, too.

00:17:49.000 Look, and I have never, as I've said, never been a fan of Sanders.

00:17:54.000 I think I'm sympathetic to, at least in some way, the desires of his followers.

00:18:00.000 I think I agree with them when they point out certain problems, though I very much disagree with their solutions.

00:18:05.000 However, Sanders was very disappointing.

00:18:06.000 It was almost like he just begged the establishment to take that nomination from him the second He was never very solution-based.

00:18:13.000 I liked the guy's fervor and vehemence, but he was always like, we need to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.

00:18:18.000 And I was like, if he says crumbling infrastructure, I'm going to lose my... And he would never say how.

00:18:22.000 I never once heard him say like... The 1%.

00:18:24.000 The 1% has all the money that we need to take.

00:18:27.000 And it was also very much, you're right, it was just highlighting grievances.

00:18:30.000 And he would talk about democratic socialism, and there would just sort of be this vague notion of we will do what Europe does.

00:18:35.000 This is, you know, the most frustrating thing, is the left doesn't understand what the economy is or what it means, and they assume that by simply having money, people will be able to do something they were already able to do.

00:18:50.000 Just because if you, like, you don't need the money to do it, you just need the movement within an economy to do it.

00:18:56.000 If everyone decided right now to go spend money, you don't need to tax anybody.

00:18:59.000 The economy would just be on, it would explode.

00:19:01.000 People would just buy and spend and the money would be circulating really quickly.

00:19:04.000 The amount of money is less relevant to people actually just spending it.

00:19:08.000 They don't understand that the real core of the economy is the labor within it, not the digital number in a bank account.

00:19:16.000 That's what you end up with, though.

00:19:17.000 That's what they advocate for.

00:19:18.000 I think, for me, I've shifted on economic issues.

00:19:23.000 You know, I used to work for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and that's obviously just, you know, your typical, you know, the absolute end of all government is to cut marginal tax rates and promote growth.

00:19:36.000 Over time, I mean partly personal experience and partly you see the response, the populist response, and you're like, well, there's something wrong in American society.

00:19:46.000 The way I put it, actually I should quote Tucker Carlson where he says, I don't just want growth.

00:19:52.000 I want a decent society.

00:19:54.000 A society where it's just based on maximizing growth or maximizing, you know, the economic rights of individuals isn't necessarily a good society.

00:20:03.000 So there are things where, as a conservative, I've come around to the, you know, at least the diagnosis.

00:20:08.000 Maybe the solution, Sanders and I will disagree, like you said, Seamus, but for example, health care is legitimately a problem in this society.

00:20:15.000 100%. 100%.

00:20:17.000 I have a corporate insurance.

00:20:19.000 I used to live in London, and we had our first child there.

00:20:23.000 And look, if he got sick, and if you're a new parent, you right away take them to the doctor because you don't know what's going on.

00:20:30.000 And they were treated for free.

00:20:33.000 And then we moved back to the United States, again, back into a kind of corporate insurance plan.

00:20:38.000 Kid gets something called the human metanemovirus, which is not a big deal, but it needs like one night of monitoring in the hospital.

00:20:45.000 And we get a bill for $20,000, of which we were responsible for, like, $3,500.

00:20:49.000 And I was like, okay, well, I can give an extra speech somewhere, I can write an extra essay, and it's not a big deal.

00:20:54.000 But how do middle-class people deal?

00:20:57.000 They just go bankrupt.

00:21:00.000 Profoundly unjust.

00:21:01.000 It's complicated, and this is another area where I agree with the Sanders types in terms of their diagnosis of the problem.

00:21:06.000 I think the solutions they propose are really bad, because often it's been state involvement and just lobbying from health insurance companies In government overreach, that has led to healthcare becoming such a disaster in this country.

00:21:16.000 And they'll say things like, well, we should have Medicare for all.

00:21:19.000 Well, even in Europe, most of the universal healthcare systems are not single payer like that.

00:21:24.000 And Medicare for all would be unbelievably expensive at a time when we're already massively in debt.

00:21:28.000 I can't claim to know what the exact solution is.

00:21:30.000 I tend to be in favor of limited government solutions, but healthcare is, it's such a complicated mess right now that I can't say one way or another this is This is my preferred policy.

00:21:39.000 I have some ideas, and I think it would be good for lower-income people, for example.

00:21:44.000 I think what we have to do, what we absolutely have to do, is reconnect people to prices, but in a way that allows for people who are low-income to be treated when they need it.

00:21:53.000 I think most healthcare spending is not emergency spending, so people really could be shopping around, but instead they go, my health insurance company will pay for it, so they don't look at how much the services cost, and it allows Hospitals to inflate the price of basically everything they sell which makes it impossible for poor people to get treatment.

00:22:09.000 So I For a long time was very pro universal health care and even up till sort of recently Idealistically, I very much like the idea of universal health care kind of like how other countries do it There's a basic level of coverage Everyone has access to and then you supplement with private insurance and we do try to save as many people as possible However, in the United States, we have two really, really big problems, which makes me feel like maybe, maybe this is not going to work.

00:22:39.000 The first of which is Bernie Sanders saying, abolish private health insurance.

00:22:43.000 And immediately I'm like, okay, no, no, no, no, no, no one.

00:22:46.000 He's like, we should have universal health care like everybody else.

00:22:49.000 And then abolish private health insurance.

00:22:50.000 And I'm like, no one did that.

00:22:53.000 You can have your own private coverage on top of your standard universal coverage.

00:22:56.000 But I'll tell you, the nail in the coffin for universal health care for me, you know what it is?

00:23:00.000 It was when they announced racial distribution for vaccinations.

00:23:04.000 And that was a hard stop.

00:23:06.000 If critical race theory, wokeness, are the driving forces for how we implement policy, and it seems to be the case these days with them flying Black Lives Matter flags at the embassies, the last thing I want to see is them going, okay, now we have your life-saving emergency medical treatment and What's your race? 0.80

00:23:23.000 Hold on a second.

00:23:24.000 But why won't why wouldn't private insurance adopt woke categories?

00:23:29.000 That's the right.

00:23:30.000 Look, if corporations are going in the direction of it.

00:23:33.000 So a lot of times in, you know, rightly so.

00:23:37.000 I think in some ways, American conservatives or Americans in general are worried about public tyranny.

00:23:44.000 And that's important.

00:23:45.000 But there's also the possibility of private tyranny.

00:23:47.000 One hundred percent.

00:23:48.000 You know, whether it's corporate or what have you.

00:23:51.000 And I think in any other marketplace, you might be able to say, well, people can shop around, and if the insurance company decides that they want to discriminate against white people, they can find a different insurance company.

00:23:59.000 But in a country where your access to health insurance is tied basically directly to your employment 90-something percent of the time, that's just not realistic.

00:24:07.000 So I agree.

00:24:08.000 I also, though, I would say this.

00:24:10.000 One another reason that I agree that the solutions in Europe can't work I don't think that's true.

00:24:14.000 the United States is a gigantic country so implementing one federal health care

00:24:18.000 system for every state seems like a like an impossible to win battle. Also we are

00:24:24.000 the fattest country in the world. We are unbelievably unhealthy. I don't think that's true though. 0.55

00:24:29.000 What did Mexico overtake us recently? 0.70

00:24:31.000 Maybe, uh, I don't think we're the fattest.

00:24:33.000 They got aspartame and Coca-Cola went deep into South America in the last, like, 15 years.

00:24:38.000 You've seen a large explosion of obesity.

00:24:41.000 Oh, so the United States is no longer the fattest country, but I know, yeah, that was a surprise.

00:24:46.000 Oh, dude, we're not even in the top 10.

00:24:47.000 Really?

00:24:48.000 Oh, well, you know what?

00:24:49.000 That's a misconception.

00:24:51.000 That's a misconception I'm glad to have shattered.

00:24:53.000 That said, it's not as if we have a healthy population per se.

00:24:56.000 Nauru, Tonga, Samoa, Kuwait, St.

00:24:59.000 Kitts and Nevis.

00:25:00.000 They're tiny countries.

00:25:01.000 Yeah, St.

00:25:02.000 Lucia, Kiribati, Palau, Micronesia, and Tuvalu.

00:25:06.000 So thanks for calling that sounds like per capita.

00:25:08.000 They're doing the measurements by like America is a fat country that you're correct. 0.99

00:25:11.000 Oh, wait Yeah, so yes, so America's a fat country I'm actually glad you called that out because I don't want to spread any misinformation But at the same time we are a very unhealthy country We basically eat garbage and people see the time to take care of themselves As being when they're at the hospital and really it should be when you're going to get something to eat This is what I'm talking about.

00:25:28.000 The sugar industry is so involved in our government. 0.84

00:25:31.000 It's disgusting.

00:25:32.000 Michelle Obama had this let's move campaign when they first got into office. 0.67

00:25:35.000 It was about let's kick sugar out of our diet.

00:25:37.000 The sugar industry said it was what that was about in the beginning.

00:25:40.000 And then so the sugar industry got involved.

00:25:41.000 Hey, Michelle, let's make this an exercise campaign instead. 1.00

00:25:45.000 So she did!

00:25:46.000 Sugar industry is still involved.

00:25:47.000 It's like having big heroin or big cocaine in your government.

00:25:50.000 And I wonder how connected the insurance companies and the sugar companies are making you sick and then making you pay to get healthy again.

00:25:57.000 Bro, we do have big heroin in government.

00:26:00.000 The doctor is giving out opioids like crazy and it's creating a pandemic.

00:26:03.000 It's destroying this country.

00:26:05.000 It is like that, man.

00:26:06.000 That's the other thing too.

00:26:06.000 Like when you, when you see how our healthcare system is being used in these unbelievably corrupt ways, you also see like, maybe this isn't just a question of public versus private.

00:26:13.000 It's also, um, I think it's just a massive issue with, with virtue as well.

00:26:17.000 I think we can get into this at some point, but no matter what kind of system you have, if people are just looking to screw each other over and get one up on the next guy, no system, like nothing's going to work.

00:26:27.000 That's, so that brings me back to, we were talking about moral frameworks, religion, and you know, and things like that.

00:26:33.000 Yeah, if people have no shared value system, they don't care about anybody.

00:26:38.000 You know, so I'll throw it to Luke, right?

00:26:40.000 So our good friend Luke, who's coming back soon, he has a video, and I think it's called Just Keep Going, You've Got Nothing to Lose, where he basically says, you know, New York City, this transit system, millions of people ride the subways every day, and they never talk to each other.

00:26:55.000 And so one day he decided to just go and start talking to people and asking them questions.

00:26:58.000 And then, you know, it gets a little conspiratorial or whatever, but it's a good message in the beginning.

00:27:03.000 It's a good message.

00:27:04.000 We stand next to our neighbors every single day and we never talk.

00:27:07.000 That's true.

00:27:08.000 We don't care.

00:27:09.000 You know, we don't care to communicate with them, to learn about their day.

00:27:12.000 When we had smaller communities, we had things bonding us together, but we also had a very shared moral framework.

00:27:19.000 People would meet at church.

00:27:21.000 That's where the communications would happen.

00:27:23.000 That's where ideas were shared.

00:27:25.000 We changed society.

00:27:27.000 We lost those things.

00:27:28.000 We lost the town center.

00:27:29.000 We lost the church as the place for communication.

00:27:32.000 And now people all of a sudden have no idea who lives next door to them.

00:27:35.000 That's how it is in New York City.

00:27:37.000 Many people don't even know who lives right above them.

00:27:40.000 I saw a funny meme.

00:27:41.000 And it was like, on the door, and it said, like, next to the apartment number, and it was like, this apartment's favorite shoes, and it was Bricks.

00:27:48.000 And I was like, do you know the name of the person who lives next to you?

00:27:52.000 I know a lot of people in New York.

00:27:53.000 I used to hang out in a lot of different apartments.

00:27:55.000 People never knew who their neighbors were.

00:27:57.000 Oh, it's some guy.

00:27:58.000 He's like a tech guy or something.

00:28:00.000 I don't know his name.

00:28:01.000 We have no connection.

00:28:02.000 And that means when push comes to shove, when a crisis hits, people are just every man for themselves.

00:28:07.000 So, I live in New York, I live in Manhattan, and we do know, I think my wife and I know the people on our floor.

00:28:12.000 You think you know?

00:28:14.000 No, no, we know them.

00:28:16.000 My wife better than I do, actually, but upstairs and downstairs we don't.

00:28:20.000 Yeah, I mean, this is why I wrote this book, basically.

00:28:24.000 I have this son, he's four years old now, he was two when I started writing it, and I guess I'm just worried about the kind of man our civilization We'll chisel out of him, and I think a lot of it has to do with a wrong account of freedom.

00:28:39.000 I think we define freedom, and this is a product of I think maybe the past three, four hundred years.

00:28:47.000 I'll blame the Enlightenment as a Catholic who's bitter about the Enlightenment. 0.83

00:28:52.000 I'm glad there's another one.

00:28:54.000 But, you know, this idea that freedom just means having the maximal amount of choice.

00:29:01.000 And there's no difference whether you use your freedom for good or freedom for evil.

00:29:06.000 In this country, the founding generation did understand that.

00:29:08.000 They distinguish between liberty and license.

00:29:10.000 Yes.

00:29:11.000 So true freedom in the kind of classical tradition, Christian tradition, true freedom meant doing what you ought to do.

00:29:18.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:29:19.000 And it entailed accepting limits.

00:29:21.000 It entailed duty.

00:29:23.000 It entailed sacrifice.

00:29:25.000 Responsibility.

00:29:26.000 Responsibility.

00:29:27.000 The freedom to do the right thing, basically.

00:29:29.000 And, you know, when you don't... In the book, I have a chapter on Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian dissident.

00:29:34.000 He obviously was exiled in the United States after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.

00:29:40.000 He blew the... He exposed much of the world to what was happening in the Gulag system.

00:29:45.000 And he comes to the United States.

00:29:47.000 He's asked to give an address, a commencement address at Harvard, and everyone thinks he'll just condemn the Soviet Union.

00:29:53.000 Of course he hated the Soviet Union.

00:29:54.000 Of course he hated the communist regime.

00:29:56.000 But he spent most of his time criticizing the West and what he saw as it's that the West had also somehow gone wrong, that it had been deformed.

00:30:06.000 And specifically he picked on this idea of that you mentioned that we're all just out to Yes.

00:30:11.000 just to get ahead and one up each other.

00:30:15.000 Right?

00:30:17.000 That's also less than worthy of people, he said, right?

00:30:20.000 And it breeds its own kinds of tyrannies, often private tyrannies.

00:30:25.000 And there's a certain kind of libertarian today where you say, well, actual freedom of speech

00:30:31.000 where it matters, which means like exposing power as a journalist is dying.

00:30:35.000 But it's dying at the hands of private institutions.

00:30:38.000 And they'll say, well, that's the end of the debate.

00:30:40.000 There are private actors.

00:30:41.000 Big tech can do whatever you want to do.

00:30:43.000 If you want to build your own platform, go ahead.

00:30:48.000 Within a narrow libertarian framework, sure.

00:30:51.000 But in terms of, is that good for society?

00:30:54.000 I had a conversation with some Trump supporters a couple years ago at one of Mike Cernovich's events.

00:31:00.000 He does these A Night for Freedom things and this is in DC.

00:31:03.000 And I was talking to these guys and I said that I oppose the use of physical and coercive force against people to take from them.

00:31:13.000 I think that it has to be free exchange either through a market or through cooperation.

00:31:19.000 And one of the guys said, wait, wait, wait, coercive force?

00:31:22.000 And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, coercive force or manipulative force.

00:31:25.000 And they were like, elaborate on that.

00:31:26.000 And I said, like defrauding someone, tricking someone into giving up their possessions in exchange for something else.

00:31:34.000 And these three guys were basically like, no, no, no, no, no.

00:31:36.000 Like, we disagree with you.

00:31:38.000 If I convince someone of their own free will to give me something that was their choice, And that's the way it should be.

00:31:46.000 And I said, so you think that, like, powerful institutions can say whatever they want, and if it convinces people to act a certain way or give up something, that's fine.

00:31:54.000 Coercion to enforce something is fine.

00:31:57.000 And they were like, for the most part, and I was like, just like how the mainstream media lies to us every single day to get people to vote for people who extract from our economy and destroy our country, and then they were like, Yeah, no, that's really bad.

00:32:09.000 And I'm like, right, I don't know how we get past that.

00:32:10.000 I believe in free speech.

00:32:11.000 And there's a very serious challenge then when you have basically the entirety of the corporate press lying every single day in every possible way.

00:32:21.000 Donald Trump cleared a protest for a photo op.

00:32:25.000 And when conservatives came out and said, I think it was Molly Hemingway, the Federalist, There was already a plan to clear the protest to put up secure fencing.

00:32:34.000 It was incidental that Trump came out afterwards.

00:32:36.000 They said, fake news. 0.97

00:32:38.000 The Federalist is liars and fake news.

00:32:40.000 We, the media, dictate what is true.

00:32:42.000 And what happens when the independent IG report just comes out?

00:32:46.000 Oh, all that reporting was correct.

00:32:47.000 The conservatives were right the whole time.

00:32:49.000 The mainstream media exists solely to lie to people.

00:32:52.000 Now, to me, that is fraud.

00:32:54.000 But they have a right to free speech.

00:32:56.000 And so therein lies a very, very serious challenge.

00:32:59.000 When you start to recognize what the left has already been doing.

00:33:02.000 Exploiting our values and our goodwill to destroy a system that ensures people have a right to speak freely.

00:33:08.000 They call it the paradox of intolerance.

00:33:10.000 They put out this meme.

00:33:12.000 Where they say, you must not tolerate intolerance, otherwise intolerance will wipe you out.

00:33:16.000 But the funny thing is, they're the ones intolerant.

00:33:18.000 They're the ones banning conservatives and anti-establishment actors from the internet.

00:33:22.000 Meanwhile, they're the ones who get away with whatever they want, and it's the conservatives who keep letting them do it.

00:33:27.000 Of course, they push back and say, you shouldn't do this, but we still sit here and say, Look, I understand basically the entirety, every single media organization was lying about everything Trump did almost all the time.

00:33:40.000 Five years of Donald Trump as a Russian spy. 0.50

00:33:43.000 And we just say, but our principles dictate that we allow them to say it.

00:33:47.000 It's interesting.

00:33:48.000 I believe also Karl Popper, who they're quoting in The Tolerance of Intolerance, or yeah, he was also a critic, a heavy critic of communism as well.

00:34:00.000 But of course, that's not that's not going to be something that makes its way into a little viral comic.

00:34:04.000 But I think there's a few things.

00:34:06.000 He wrote a book called The Open Society and Its Enemies.

00:34:09.000 And I've always wanted to write a book called The Closed Society and Its Friends.

00:34:14.000 That's hilarious.

00:34:16.000 I favor some closeness.

00:34:17.000 Yeah, no, I hear you.

00:34:18.000 I'm not necessarily endorsing him.

00:34:19.000 I just think it's funny that they leave this out.

00:34:21.000 I will say this, though.

00:34:23.000 So, Tim, there's a few things here.

00:34:26.000 You mentioned these media outlets, and you're right.

00:34:27.000 It's really complicated, because on the one hand, they do have freedom of speech.

00:34:30.000 On the other hand, they are saying things that we know to be lies.

00:34:34.000 Not necessarily to come down one way or the other here, but I would ask myself the question, are these people who would be comfortable silencing me?

00:34:40.000 Now, I'm not saying someone's rights are based on whether or not they would give you the same right.

00:34:44.000 Your enemies still have rights.

00:34:45.000 But, I think we should at least entertain this discussion.

00:34:50.000 Of something being done.

00:34:51.000 So for example, if you lie about and smear a teenage boy because he's wearing the wrong kind of hat and it fits your narrative, then there is good reason for there to be legal penalty because you've attempted to destroy somebody's life with bad information and your job as a journalistic outlet is to spread the truth.

00:35:07.000 You're talking about Nick Sandman.

00:35:08.000 Yes, Nick Sandman.

00:35:10.000 And I also want to say this.

00:35:10.000 You were sort of talking about freedom a moment ago and the fact that freedom is really, in antiquity and the classical tradition, the freedom to do the right thing.

00:35:19.000 And with that comes this robust understanding that freedom and rights are very much duty-based.

00:35:24.000 The reason I have a right to own a gun is because I have a duty to protect myself and therefore you're not able to prevent me from doing the things that I have a duty to do.

00:35:32.000 And it's similar with the freedom of speech.

00:35:34.000 I have a duty to speak truth when necessary, but if I'm prevented from doing that, I don't think it matters whether it's the government preventing me or a giant corporation.

00:35:41.000 My right has been violated.

00:35:43.000 It's a very, very serious ethical conundrum.

00:35:46.000 We don't want to take away the right of free speech because we know that they would gladly use that power against us.

00:35:51.000 In which case... 100%.

00:35:52.000 You're entering war, right?

00:35:55.000 So think about it this way.

00:35:55.000 I have a right to keep and bear arms, to defend myself and defend the free state.

00:35:59.000 If they start using their right to bear arms to aggress against me, I have a right to defend myself, you're entering open conflict.

00:36:05.000 If I have a right to free speech to express and defend a free state,

00:36:08.000 and they start using speech to suppress and oppress, you're entering conflict.

00:36:12.000 But we don't take away people's rights. We just enter that conflict and try and combat those

00:36:17.000 ideas. The challenge becomes when you are losing. I mean, two points.

00:36:24.000 I would say, first of all, one of my big battles within conservatism, and I famously picked a fight with David French a couple of years ago, but one of my big battles within conservatism is this tendency to say, if we use power, God forbid, they'll use it against us.

00:36:41.000 And I always say, They are using it against us, right?

00:36:47.000 And there's no movement that should say, our goal is to not use power.

00:36:52.000 But why are you then a political movement?

00:36:54.000 You are in politics to exercise power towards some substantive vision of what is a good society, what do I want to do?

00:37:00.000 If I just come in and say, we're here because we don't want to use power, that's obviously an invitation to progressives.

00:37:07.000 That sounds like basically every Republican.

00:37:10.000 Yeah.

00:37:10.000 With every opportunity they didn't do it.

00:37:13.000 Some do.

00:37:14.000 So it's an interesting paradox because you have the left which is entirely power-based.

00:37:18.000 I mean that's how they analyze everything and it seems to be all they want.

00:37:21.000 And then on the right you have people who just don't want to go anywhere near any kind of political power because they view it as inherently corrupting.

00:37:27.000 And it's true that that power does corrupt so you have to be careful with it and we don't want to Ignore that.

00:37:31.000 But you're also right that they're using this against us and we have to do something to defend ourselves.

00:37:35.000 And look, the point of having a political movement is wanting to change something about society and political power is the vehicle for doing that.

00:37:42.000 And then on the speech point, I would say just because I'm not a free speech absolutist, actually, that there is a kind of retconning going on where people look at the founding and they impose basically a post-war consensus on speech.

00:37:59.000 And they retconned it into the founding era.

00:38:03.000 The founding era, the founders would have been appalled by the idea that there is a free speech right to teach kids about transgenderism.

00:38:13.000 It just would not have, because they had a sense of obscenity, right?

00:38:17.000 Yes, that's absolutely right.

00:38:19.000 You had obscenity laws in the United States.

00:38:21.000 You had them in the colonies before there was a republic.

00:38:23.000 There were common law obscenities, and then we had federal obscenity laws after the republic.

00:38:28.000 So, the founders were not these kinds of Reason Magazine libertarians.

00:38:32.000 We had blasphemy laws, you know. 0.64

00:38:36.000 Into the 19th century, you know, you had blasphemy upheld as a kind of common law charge.

00:38:42.000 So, if you're not a free speech absolutist, then you think, okay, well, there has to be some public authority to regulate the abuses of the kinds of things we're talking about, like, you know, big tech or media.

00:38:57.000 I think.

00:38:57.000 And in this sense, I think it's a battle line where, you know, people like me are often called authoritarians, but I'm like, well, yeah, but the vision, the libertarian vision you have is literally a kind of a 50, 60 year old fantasy.

00:39:11.000 It is not, it does not have even roots in the founding.

00:39:14.000 I think we made tremendous improvements in terms of free speech and expanding the ability to speak. 0.97

00:39:20.000 I think a lot of obscenity laws were dumb. 0.95

00:39:25.000 But I would say a lot. 0.91

00:39:26.000 I think the issue is...

00:39:28.000 The system itself is now being exploited.

00:39:31.000 Free speech for me, but not for thee.

00:39:33.000 They'll put the communist red salute in a children's cartoon on Nickelodeon with a drag performance, but then if you tell a journalist Learn to Code is a joke, they ban you.

00:39:42.000 So quite literally, there is no free speech in this world for those who are anti-establishment or conservative or even just not woke.

00:39:51.000 But the woke have all the free speech in the world, While claiming free speech is bad, and therein lies the victim.

00:39:57.000 It makes me think about, like, a bunch of people hanging out in a public space and then talking, and then one guy, Johnny, starts to—sorry, Johnny, if you're out there— starts to make a lot of noise and be disruptive.

00:40:07.000 And then everyone's like, stop, stop, stop.

00:40:08.000 And then a couple minutes go by and he does it again and again.

00:40:11.000 And then you're like, you know, you do that again, we're going to throw you out by force.

00:40:14.000 And he's like, but I have the right to do this.

00:40:16.000 Well, I don't agree with that.

00:40:18.000 I mean, what's happening is a conservative will go on to Twitter and make a comment about transgenderism and get instantly banned for simply having an opinion.

00:40:29.000 Not even directed... Look at Zuby.

00:40:30.000 Not just an opinion, for stating facts.

00:40:32.000 Literally stating facts.

00:40:33.000 Zuby said, OK, dude.

00:40:36.000 Zuby the rapper, talking to someone on Twitter, responded with, OK, dude.

00:40:40.000 Not a genderism, just quite literally as a passive, OK, whatever, dude.

00:40:44.000 Got suspension for it.

00:40:47.000 The amount of speech that exists in the cultural right, according to the whims of the cultural left, is zero.

00:40:55.000 It's shut your mouth, you don't get any free speech.

00:40:58.000 But thank you for extending us that opportunity.

00:41:00.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:41:01.000 So the second part of what I was saying is like, then the government, so eventually you throw Johnny out, he comes back, he's like, I'm not, the government comes in and says, you can't stop him from being disruptive.

00:41:09.000 And that's what it feels like, this government Forcing of us to listen to this bizarre... I don't know what you want to call it.

00:41:18.000 A twisting of faith or a twisting of morality.

00:41:21.000 How are they forcing us to listen to it?

00:41:24.000 Like, you can't say, you can't tell a transgender man that he's a woman on Twitter.

00:41:28.000 That's a corporation.

00:41:29.000 That's not the government.

00:41:31.000 Well... Corporations do not... But that it's seeping into the government is what I guess...

00:41:34.000 Well, sure, sure.

00:41:35.000 I mean, you're right.

00:41:36.000 It is a flying, which is a form of government, unfortunately.

00:41:38.000 But I mean, I think the way to to deal with that is, first of all, reform this law, Section 230, which, you know, we at The New York Post, if I publish libel in our pages, our publisher, you know, God forbid, can get civilly held liable, sued.

00:41:58.000 But in the 1990s, before there was ever a Twitter, before there was ever a Facebook, Congress enacted a law called the Communication Decency Act of 1996, where it gave these platforms, at the time they were like internet bulletin boards, they were completely nascent, so no one had any idea they would become so big, the right to act like publishers, meaning to censor kind of violent threats, truly kind of prurient content, child pornography or what have you, And nevertheless not be subject to a traditional publisher's liability.

00:42:30.000 That's the provision that Twitter and Facebook use where they act like publishers, but if you publish liable on their website, they cannot be held civilly liable.

00:42:40.000 The law actually extends rather uniquely to literally any web service.

00:42:45.000 So interestingly, I think you actually have an argument for not being able to sue the New York Times.

00:42:50.000 I'd love the New York Times to just cite Section 230 as a legal defense because it would probably work.

00:42:55.000 2.30 just says a online web service.

00:42:57.000 It doesn't define social media or anything.

00:43:00.000 And so there's no distinction between publisher or platform.

00:43:04.000 None whatsoever.

00:43:05.000 There's interesting conundrums in that regard then, because I brought this up with Wikipedia.

00:43:09.000 Wikipedia uses the 230 shield, where they say, you can't sue us for what a Wikipedia article says about you because it was written by users, not us.

00:43:18.000 However, the published page on Wikipedia was not written by users.

00:43:23.000 It is an amalgam of a bunch of different comments from a bunch of different people, but then formatted and published by Wikipedia with a banner that reads, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

00:43:35.000 Considering that they have now claimed publisher of this article and you don't see the user's name or picture or the link.

00:43:43.000 That's I think Wikipedia is the biggest grounds for a lawsuit in terms of libel. 0.86

00:43:47.000 And the clearest case is to me is Twitter, though, because Twitter has now it has its own editorial voice somehow, where if you look at the trending material, Some, like, hack has written something like, people are talking about Governor DeSantis banning the teaching about racism, obviously, and in this kind of completely New York Times-y, stupid lie framing.

00:44:09.000 But that is no longer just like a neutral platform.

00:44:13.000 It has its own worldview.

00:44:14.000 Yes, yes.

00:44:15.000 So then, OK, then you should be sued.

00:44:17.000 You could sue Twitter for what they write.

00:44:20.000 So when, for instance, Twitter said that James O'Keefe was operating multiple accounts, James O'Keefe sues Twitter saying that was a false statement of fact.

00:44:27.000 Oh sure, no, but I'm saying that the fact that they act like that, the fact that they have their own editorial voice, just makes it clear that they're no longer any kind of a, just a web service.

00:44:36.000 They're a publisher, and therefore they should be subject to liability.

00:44:40.000 I think the bigger problem is Times v. Sullivan.

00:44:42.000 Well, I should say it's Times v. Sullivan as well as Section 230.

00:44:45.000 For those who aren't familiar, Times v. Sullivan created the actual malice standard and defamation suits.

00:44:51.000 So there has to be a reckless disregard for the truth or you had to know you were lying, which is actual malice.

00:44:56.000 I think what's happening now that needs to be challenged, what separates Twitter deciding what is allowed to exist on their platform

00:45:04.000 in terms of other people writing things and the New York Times separate, you know,

00:45:08.000 deciding what's allowed on their platform and choosing what appears on the front page.

00:45:13.000 Twitter through algorithms and through their rules will remove and shadow ban conservatives

00:45:19.000 for the most part.

00:45:20.000 There are leftists who get banned for sure, but it's a tendency towards banning conservatives

00:45:24.000 and it's a very strong tendency.

00:45:26.000 So what's the difference between that and the New York Times saying we're only going

00:45:31.000 we're going to allow this to appear on the front page.

00:45:33.000 Money?

00:45:35.000 Is that really it?

00:45:36.000 No, no, I mean this seriously.

00:45:38.000 If Twitter says, okay, Saurabh, you tweeted, learn to code, and Ian tweeted, happy pride.

00:45:46.000 I'm gonna ban you. 1.00

00:45:47.000 Hey, guess what?

00:45:47.000 The only thing that appears on the front, you know, on the newsfeed for everybody is exactly what Ian said, and I banned everybody else.

00:45:53.000 So it's this really fascinating thing where they're like, I didn't choose to put his writing on the front page.

00:45:59.000 I just asked one million people to write their opinion and banned all of the opinions I didn't like, so quite literally exactly what I wanted appeared on the front page.

00:46:07.000 Whereas the New York Times says we have 30... I mean, the New York Times probably has thousands of contributors who all write articles and then they say, We looked at all of them, and we've decided this is the one that will go on the front page.

00:46:18.000 What's the difference?

00:46:19.000 The New York Times is a corporation.

00:46:20.000 Paid that person?

00:46:22.000 Alright, here's what I'm saying.

00:46:23.000 Here's what I'll do.

00:46:24.000 I'll create the TimCast Community User Board, where I'll ask people to contribute to writing whatever wild and cockamamie garbage they want, and we'll put it on the front page!

00:46:35.000 Statement of fact!

00:46:37.000 Sue me! 0.74

00:46:37.000 Boom! 0.74

00:46:38.000 I'm protected by Section 230.

00:46:40.000 I think the difference is that the New York Times has a human choosing it and curating it, whereas the Twitter has an algorithm doing it.

00:46:47.000 So they're kind of like hiding behind an algorithm. 0.98

00:46:49.000 So Twitter, I could argue that I'm willing to bet New York Times has filters for their contributions that come in that, you know, stupid things get thrown in the trash and spam folder, right? 0.99

00:47:00.000 Okay, there you go.

00:47:01.000 I'm sure the New York Times has an email account and a Gmail account and their spam filters an algorithm that sorts out what doesn't get to go on the front page.

00:47:07.000 I think it's arbitrary if a human does it or if an algorithm does it that a human built.

00:47:12.000 If a human built the algorithm to pick it for you or if you pick it, it doesn't really matter.

00:47:16.000 It shouldn't matter.

00:47:17.000 Another possibility is to treat them, and this is just as Clarence Thomas voiced this

00:47:21.000 possibility, to treat them like common carriers, right? 0.51

00:47:25.000 They're like airlines or telephone providers or what have you, where you, you know, as

00:47:32.000 a user, you know, you have to use it because that's how people communicate now.

00:47:36.000 And so, you know, an airline, blessedly, cannot say, well, because of your worldview, Seamus,

00:47:43.000 your terrible views as a Catholic, like, we're not going to sell you an airline ticket. 1.00

00:47:47.000 They can't do that.

00:47:48.000 And so, likewise, a common carrier social media company shouldn't be able to do that

00:47:53.000 either.

00:47:54.000 So one of the things that happens, interestingly, on Twitter is that a Twitter account, that

00:48:00.000 Twitter is, we'll write something libelous.

00:48:02.000 Twitter as an organization is protected by Section 230, but Twitter as an organization

00:48:06.000 is the only one who knows that account belongs to.

00:48:09.000 So, what's happened in the past is that there'll be an account called, like, you know, Ianisdumb, and they'll say, you know, uh, Ian wants, uh, whatever, punched a goat, right?

00:48:18.000 That's the go-to thing for absurd statements?

00:48:20.000 And then when Ian says, I'm going to sue this person for libel, Twitter says, we will not turn over the records of this user.

00:48:20.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:48:28.000 So Ian has to sue Twitter first to figure out who defamed him in the first place.

00:48:33.000 And then Twitter blocks it and files a bunch of billion- with their billion-dollar corporation legal apparatus, shutting your lawsuit down, and then you'll never figure out who actually defamed you, and you can't sue them anyway.

00:48:44.000 We've got a very, very serious problem. 0.92

00:48:46.000 The mainstream press has been pumping out trash lies. 0.95

00:48:49.000 I'm sure the corporations love a confused and demoralized population. 0.90

00:48:53.000 We have no reasonable means to actually do journalism and stop misinformation when big tech corporations shield defamation and CNN is propped up by YouTube and the Minister of Misinformation, Brian Stautter himself, is given preferential access on his content.

00:49:12.000 Yeah, I mean, I think we need a regulatory.

00:49:15.000 We need a regulatory.

00:49:19.000 And then, I mean, to go to your point, Tim, about the press, I mean, I'm so, so embarrassed for my profession.

00:49:26.000 You know, in February 2020, we ran an opinion column in The Post by the China scholar Steve Mosher, where he speculated, he didn't definitively say, but he speculated that the virus could be man-made in origin.

00:49:41.000 Oh, no.

00:49:43.000 You know, obviously, it didn't take much at the time.

00:49:45.000 It should have been so obvious.

00:49:46.000 The epicenter of the pandemic happens to be where the Chinese have the only lab capable of handling coronavirus. 1.00

00:49:52.000 BSL-4.

00:49:53.000 Yeah, this was the only one.

00:49:54.000 And so that's all he said.

00:49:56.000 And Facebook banned our, you know, article.

00:50:00.000 And the New York Post is the oldest continuously daily kind of published newspaper in this country, founded by Alexander Hamilton.

00:50:06.000 NewsGuard says you're fake news now.

00:50:08.000 Oh yeah, yeah.

00:50:09.000 Of course.

00:50:10.000 No, it gets even worse.

00:50:10.000 We were talking about this on the After Show the other day.

00:50:14.000 Francis Boyle, he's the author of the American implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention, known as the, I believe, the Biological Weapons and Terrorism Act of 1989.

00:50:24.000 It passed unanimously.

00:50:26.000 And it's basically the rules for what kind of meddling with different germs is legal, what's biological warfare, what isn't.

00:50:34.000 And at the beginning of the pandemic, he said that he believed That the coronavirus was a bioweapon, that's how he defined it, and he's the person who wrote the legislation that is the law of the land of the United States, and he is referred to as a conspiracy theorist, which is insane to me.

00:50:50.000 I just heard a crazy new conspiracy theorist from the sage Duncan Trussell on Joe Rogan's 1666 podcast just recently.

00:50:58.000 What if some crazy eco-terrorist went to Wuhan and released it right next to the biolab to make us think that it came from the biolab?

00:51:06.000 It's just a much simpler explanation to say it was released from the lab.

00:51:14.000 At this point, I would say, now that we're learning that early on scientists believe it may have been engineered, that kind of changes everything.

00:51:20.000 We didn't know that, and Fauci wasn't telling us that.

00:51:23.000 He wasn't too forthright.

00:51:25.000 I think Bret Weinstein mentioned that when they were studying the structure of the actual virus, that they were saying it looks like it's been tampered with.

00:51:33.000 We have a bipartisan elite that so benefits from the relationship with China, is so bound up with the idea that opening up China was a good idea, Even though it decimated the middle class in this country, even though it empowered this vicious, horrible totalitarian regime.

00:51:48.000 But they're so wedded to this idea that I think it just cannot be acceptable to them that this was a lab leak issue.

00:51:59.000 So it just embarrasses our entire... Again, a bipartisan elite.

00:52:04.000 It's not just Democrats.

00:52:05.000 It's kind of the uniparty of the Bushes and the Clintons and the Obamas.

00:52:11.000 And Goldman Sachs and blah, blah, blah.

00:52:14.000 We have a decayed system right now.

00:52:16.000 And I think, I find it fascinating that, you know, conservatives still refer to what Antifa does as rioting.

00:52:23.000 And I'm like, when the moment conservatives had a riot, it was called an insurrection.

00:52:27.000 Yeah.

00:52:28.000 It was like the first conservative riot in, you know, decades or plus, right?

00:52:32.000 It was an insurrection.

00:52:34.000 And even now, Considers are still like, Antifa riots. 0.99

00:52:37.000 I'm like, I don't know, maybe that's insurrection.

00:52:39.000 Maybe after a year of burning down buildings and throwing bricks at people and beating cops and challenging the authority, subverting it and infiltrating institutions, you can call it...

00:52:50.000 Subversion?

00:52:51.000 At least?

00:52:52.000 Insurrection?

00:52:53.000 Whatever?

00:52:53.000 But it's so state-backed, right?

00:52:56.000 It's like the mayors of these blue cities and governors, blue states and blue cities, would kind of wink at them.

00:53:03.000 Which almost makes it more of an insurrection, right?

00:53:05.000 Like when you're flying their flag at one of your embassies, It's almost like it was an insurrection, and they won. 0.55

00:53:10.000 I mean, people have been thoroughly intimidated.

00:53:12.000 You know when people talk about the militant wing of Hezbollah and the social welfare wing?

00:53:17.000 It's kind of like that, and at some point it's a militant wing of the woke establishment.

00:53:22.000 Of the left of the Democratic Party, even.

00:53:24.000 We created a system that was very forgiving, that offered up a lot of goodwill.

00:53:29.000 and our enemies exploit that. And so good people of principle, like I mentioned with free speech,

00:53:34.000 will say, I know they lie about us every single day to destroy true freedom and liberty, and we

00:53:41.000 will continue to afford them the right to use these things while they strip us of those same rights.

00:53:45.000 So how did it get, how did it get here?

00:53:48.000 Like, obviously we had a system of free speech for 200 years, uh, leading up to now.

00:53:52.000 Did they, and they were, like, militantly, they would crack down.

00:53:55.000 Like, in World War II, they had, like, put people in internment camps.

00:53:58.000 In the 1800s, they would, I mean, I don't know.

00:54:01.000 People were locked up under Wilson or attempted to be locked up for, like, protesting World War I. Yeah, we had an office of censorship.

00:54:06.000 Yeah.

00:54:07.000 Silence accelerates victory was the slogan of the World War II office of censorship in the U.S.

00:54:10.000 And you gotta wonder, at some point, Were they right?

00:54:14.000 Like, is unbridled free speech, is it opening us up to being manipulated from outside powers?

00:54:20.000 It seems like if you go too far in either direction, then you're setting yourself up for disaster.

00:54:25.000 I'm gonna let you in on a sad truth, Ian.

00:54:28.000 Liberalism is a luxury of those not in conflict.

00:54:32.000 I've talked about this for years.

00:54:34.000 That, for instance, feminism, as we know, intersectional feminism and critical race theory, is only able to exist because we live in this beautiful protected bubble that no one can invade. 0.51

00:54:45.000 If we were actually dealing with international conflict and we were facing civilian attrition, people were dying and being killed and cities were being bombed, you better believe they would lock down free speech and go nuts arresting random people.

00:54:58.000 Abraham Lincoln.

00:55:00.000 What he tried to do, there's like the legend that he issued an arrest warrant or wanted to for a Supreme Court justice.

00:55:06.000 War.

00:55:08.000 You don't have the luxury.

00:55:09.000 The people who are willing to get aggressive and violate principles are the ones who in many instances end up winning, and that's horrifying.

00:55:18.000 So we want to maintain our principles, we want to believe in freedom, but now what we're starting to see in the U.S.

00:55:23.000 is a lot of people, and this is the crazy thing, not even the U.S., I was in the U.K., and some British conservative activists told me that they used to be classically liberal, now they're fascists.

00:55:31.000 And I'm like, get out of here, you're not really a fascist.

00:55:33.000 And they would tell me, no, but they're full-on authoritarians.

00:55:36.000 They think that the only way to combat the incursion of Marxism and these insane ideologies and this moral corruption within society is by force, to ensure the protection of your values.

00:55:49.000 And you know what?

00:55:50.000 The United States did it in World War II.

00:55:52.000 So these leftists want to talk about, here are the U-boats storming Normandy.

00:55:56.000 Those are the real anti-fascists.

00:55:57.000 Guess what?

00:55:58.000 They really do mean it.

00:56:00.000 They were technically anti-fascist in a sense.

00:56:03.000 The anti-fascists by name back then were communists.

00:56:06.000 But the Americans had an office of censorship.

00:56:08.000 We put people in concentration camps, internment camps, whatever you want to call them.

00:56:12.000 We literally said, hey, you look a certain way, so we're going to lock you up.

00:56:15.000 The United States violated the rights of so many people to win that war.

00:56:19.000 And the same thing happened in the Civil War.

00:56:20.000 But you know what?

00:56:21.000 Not a single person, I think, would say the U.S.

00:56:23.000 was the bad guy- the North were the bad guys in the Civil War.

00:56:25.000 Not a single- well, I shouldn't say not a single person, obviously.

00:56:29.000 There's the South.

00:56:29.000 The War of Northern Aggression is what they call themselves.

00:56:31.000 I'll put it this way.

00:56:32.000 In modern society, the average person would say the North were the good guys.

00:56:36.000 And then when you bring up all of the rights that were violated and say, we did, we had to be done.

00:56:39.000 Then you say 1945, internment camps for the Japanese and the suspension of freedom of speech.

00:56:44.000 And they would say, well, you know, the Nazis were bad, we did, we had to be done.

00:56:48.000 That's scary to me.

00:56:49.000 Because it's the reality of war.

00:56:51.000 Well, I think you can get more nuanced, though, and say, well, yeah, the North were the good guys, and the Allies were the good guys in World War II, but war crimes were committed, and we should condemn those.

00:56:58.000 So, for example, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrific war crimes.

00:57:03.000 Sherman's march to the sea just burning down civilian homes and making warfare on innocent people was unbelievably horrific.

00:57:09.000 Was that the first iteration of Scorched Earth?

00:57:11.000 I think? The march to the sea?

00:57:13.000 I don't think so.

00:57:14.000 I'm not entirely certain.

00:57:16.000 I remember hearing that, but I don't... It's been going on for thousands of years.

00:57:20.000 Yeah, very old principle.

00:57:21.000 The Romans would do it. 1.00

00:57:23.000 That's right.

00:57:25.000 I mean, I want to go back to, you said something, liberalism is a luxury for when there isn't war or when there isn't violence.

00:57:34.000 I would also say liberalism itself has been a tremendous force for violence itself, right?

00:57:40.000 In the sense that, first of all, I mean, especially in Europe, liberalism, the rise of liberalism, the French Revolution, right?

00:57:48.000 It's a classically liberal revolution.

00:57:50.000 No, no, no.

00:57:53.000 Leftism doesn't quite come into the picture.

00:57:55.000 Not certainly not like an economic Marxian left.

00:57:59.000 In the late 18th century, these were liberals.

00:58:00.000 They were bourgeois liberals who want to unseat kind of traditional authority, specifically the church. 0.53

00:58:07.000 And that meant guillotining priests, raping nuns, stripping altars and putting up like, you know, the goddess of reason instead of the virgin or the cross. 0.86

00:58:19.000 Changing the calendar? 0.76

00:58:20.000 So liberalism has come to power because it's been nearly two, three hundred years.

00:58:26.000 It's got this glow of sepia tone that it's this kind of gentlemanly, powdered wig people who just wanted rational discussion.

00:58:35.000 But it itself was an intrusive force in the world.

00:58:38.000 And a lot of people weren't prepared to say, well, here's an ideology that wants to divorce the individual from political community, from tradition, from local places, and just wants to have just a rights-exercising, rational individual alone on his own.

00:58:55.000 To bring that world about involved tremendous violence.

00:58:58.000 And it continues to be, as my friend Patrick Deneen argues in a wonderful book, Why Liberalism Failed, it's not the case that we face a battle between individualism and statism, or a tension between those two.

00:59:11.000 The two grow in tandem, because the more you kind of individualize the person, remove him from these traditions that guided us over centuries, and kind of gave you a sense of what the good life is, the more you remove him economically and make him atomized, The more he has to rely on the state to enforce his rights, to protect him.

00:59:27.000 Completely.

00:59:28.000 So those two forces go in tandem.

00:59:31.000 They're not oppositional forces.

00:59:32.000 Individualism and statism are friends.

00:59:34.000 I think there's truth in that.

00:59:35.000 Yeah, I think excesses of individualism end up leading to authoritarianism and collectivism.

00:59:39.000 And part of why I invoked the left when you were talking about the French Revolution is because this is something I've said on this show many times before, but it's part of why Catholicism and leftism cannot be reconciled, because the intellectual origins and foundings of leftism Come from this time period.

00:59:54.000 We get the terms left and right from the French Revolution, and the purpose of the left since its inception has been to oppose traditionalism, to oppose specifically Catholicism in the church's interest.

01:00:04.000 The left side of the National Assembly.

01:00:05.000 Yeah, yes.

01:00:07.000 So, pulling up Sherman's march to the sea, one of the most horrifying things The end of slavery.

01:00:14.000 What was a contributing factor, one of the contributing factors that led to the eventual surrender of the Confederates and ultimately to the Reconstruction era and the abolition of slavery?

01:00:24.000 It was when, wow, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army began to march from Atlanta, burning down and destroying industry, infrastructure, and civilian property.

01:00:36.000 The operation broke the back of the Confederacy and helped lead to its eventual surrender.

01:00:40.000 Sherman's decision to operate deep within enemy territory without supply lines is considered to be one of the major campaigns of the war and is considered to be, uh, considered by some historians to be an early example of modern total war.

01:00:52.000 What did they do?

01:00:53.000 They destroyed civilian property.

01:00:55.000 They wiped out people who had, who didn't want to be involved, But you know what?

01:00:55.000 Yeah.

01:00:59.000 The reality of war was, the food they make goes to our enemy.

01:01:03.000 And if we want to end slavery, this was one of the tactics used, and it worked. 0.88

01:01:09.000 That's really horrifying, isn't it?

01:01:10.000 It is horrifying, but also I think there could be a better way, because every other developed nation ended slavery without committing similar war crimes.

01:01:16.000 I mean, I'm on the side of the North here, but other countries mostly, I believe the United States is the only developed country that ended slavery through a civil war.

01:01:24.000 We're going through some kind of new iteration, fourth or fifth generational warfare with what's happening in this country.

01:01:31.000 And I think it's fair to say that those who believe in freedom and liberty or classical liberalism, these ideas, have probably already lost.

01:01:39.000 I know a lot of people say that, and I think James Lindsay said something to that effect.

01:01:41.000 There are people like Michael Malice who are much more optimistic and say there's no way we can possibly lose.

01:01:47.000 Mal says that? 1.00

01:01:48.000 Yeah, he's very much like, look how stupid these people are. 1.00

01:01:51.000 How could anyone be, you know, blackpilled on this? 1.00

01:01:53.000 These people are horribly dumb. 1.00

01:01:54.000 And he's got a good point. 1.00

01:01:55.000 I like Michael Malice a lot. 1.00

01:01:57.000 Dumb people win all the time. 1.00

01:01:58.000 Wasps are really dumb too. 1.00

01:02:00.000 And lots of them can easily kill a person and carry on and do it again. 1.00

01:02:04.000 So what we end up seeing now is, I'll say it again, our embassy's flying the flags of Black Lives Matter.

01:02:10.000 And of course the rainbow flag, the sacred liturgical item you have to carry.

01:02:19.000 That one very much is the centerpiece in many ways of the modern religion that they have.

01:02:25.000 If you question any of their views on quote-unquote sexual freedom, that's it.

01:02:30.000 That really is the group you're not allowed to speak out against.

01:02:33.000 And reality.

01:02:34.000 It forces you to, this is the most totalitarian aspect of it.

01:02:38.000 It forces you to say that something that you know is not true, right?

01:02:43.000 The fact that there are two sexes and gender has this kind of embodied component that you cannot overcome just by willing it or with surgical mutilation. 1.00

01:02:52.000 But you have to say that, you know, there are, first of all, that there are 135 or however many genders.

01:02:59.000 Infinite.

01:02:59.000 Possibly infinite.

01:03:00.000 I mean, and it's entirely concrete, right?

01:03:02.000 Sex is entirely concrete.

01:03:04.000 There are two possible roles that a person can have, and your subjective sense of self-expression doesn't change that at all.

01:03:10.000 We talked about this in the last show we did, and I think it was on the After Show segment, but part of my belief here is that this is just the inevitable outgrowth of a contraceptive culture, because once people lose sight of the sexual act as being procreative, it becomes about pleasure and self-expression.

01:03:24.000 Absolutely.

01:03:24.000 And so it's not a question of what am I doing to contribute or create?

01:03:28.000 It's a question of how am I expressing myself here?

01:03:31.000 And then you become entirely detached from reality and you create millions of different expressions that in no way

01:03:36.000 shape or form map onto the act which is occurring.

01:03:38.000 What we're referencing.

01:03:38.000 I think...

01:03:39.000 I agree, but I think a lot of it is just remnants or an outbreak from deconstruction.

01:03:46.000 When words become meaningless.

01:03:49.000 And I think that the goal is basically that nothing means anything.

01:03:53.000 Ibram X. Kendi was asked to define what racism was, and he said, racism is when institutions have racist policy.

01:04:01.000 And it's like, What?

01:04:02.000 Can't use the word to define the word.

01:04:04.000 Yeah, what are you talking about?

01:04:05.000 So when it comes to gender as well, men and women become entirely meaningless. 0.73

01:04:09.000 And that's why there's a meme where you ask someone to define the word woman. 1.00

01:04:12.000 Yes.

01:04:13.000 And they can't.

01:04:14.000 Now, scientifically, it's very simple.

01:04:16.000 It's an adult human female.

01:04:18.000 Exactly.

01:04:18.000 But then... It's not complicated.

01:04:21.000 I mean, if you look up any academic journal, it says this.

01:04:21.000 Yeah, no.

01:04:24.000 In modern mainstream culture, it is a ban-worthy offense to assert something like this, let alone...

01:04:32.000 Zuby said okay, dude!

01:04:34.000 This is the point I was making earlier.

01:04:37.000 With these violations of people's ability to express themselves, it's not as if it's my opinion versus your opinion, and the conservative opinion just happens to not be allowed on Twitter.

01:04:46.000 It's not a conservative opinion that there is such a thing as a woman, and that women are different from men.

01:04:51.000 Like, this is a fact.

01:04:53.000 The fact that a woman is an adult human female is a fact.

01:04:57.000 And yet you're banned for stating it.

01:04:58.000 It's not as if this is one person's opinion versus another person's opinion.

01:05:01.000 These are concrete realities.

01:05:03.000 Well, they were.

01:05:04.000 But when you have a group of people who are dominating our cultural institutions, who are in every major corporation and advertising network, and are making the rules for social media, then you get governors and politicians locking you down so you can't go and talk to people.

01:05:18.000 They wouldn't let people go to church.

01:05:20.000 The only way to get your news was through social media, which has filtered out even fact-based news articles we know to be true, like the New York Post.

01:05:30.000 So the only opinion in news you're getting is the one they deemed you're allowed to get.

01:05:34.000 Exactly.

01:05:35.000 Dr. Fauci, he is the science.

01:05:37.000 You cannot debunk me!

01:05:37.000 Yes!

01:05:39.000 I am science!

01:05:41.000 I tweeted again last night and felt guilty that I was using Twitter and not Mines.

01:05:45.000 Like, why do I keep using Twitter?

01:05:47.000 I mean, I like the idea of Twitter.

01:05:47.000 I like Twitter.

01:05:50.000 It's functional, it's big, but why?

01:05:51.000 Why do we keep using it?

01:05:53.000 Yeah, we have to switch over.

01:05:54.000 I mean, it's unfortunate, but it's the place where other people are going to hear you.

01:05:57.000 And they did everything they could.

01:05:59.000 I know why we use Twitter, because when Parler attempted to launch, the massive companies got together and said, we're not going to allow that.

01:06:06.000 That's why we're using Twitter.

01:06:07.000 They got there like the next day.

01:06:09.000 The next day, it was immediate.

01:06:10.000 But Ian, you got to have fun with it, right?

01:06:11.000 So the other day I tweeted, imagine not thinking the Foo Fighters are the greatest band of all time.

01:06:16.000 I like everyone Everybody was like Tim what's wrong with you? How dare you

01:06:22.000 do you actually believe I think I like that tweet actually I

01:06:24.000 Posted I posted a month ago. Who is the greatest bet?

01:06:28.000 What is the greatest band of all time and why is it radiohead?

01:06:30.000 The point is I just know that these are things that people get riled up about like your favorite band is of course

01:06:36.000 Europe and you know music is better than everyone else's most people have fun with it and they post things like no

01:06:40.000 My favorite band is this but it was funny just how I would like people just erupt and I'm like, that's what Twitter is

01:06:45.000 for war.

01:06:47.000 See, Michael Malice has it right in that regard. 0.97

01:06:49.000 However, I don't completely agree with him when he points out someone being dumb on Twitter, and I'm like, dude, a zombie horde can wipe out a civilization. 0.87

01:06:57.000 In every movie we've seen it. 0.88

01:06:59.000 Okay, maybe not really, but if you get these like- No, but barbarians can overcome Rome.

01:07:04.000 Yes, seriously.

01:07:06.000 Or the French Revolution can happen.

01:07:07.000 Look, look, look.

01:07:08.000 Anybody who's played, like, OG Warcraft, you just spam from the barracks a bunch of knights or grunts, and then just keep sending them non-stop and overwhelm your opponent.

01:07:19.000 That's how Zerg became a verb.

01:07:21.000 Basically, the Zerg are from StarCraft. 0.84

01:07:22.000 It's this alien-like lizard.

01:07:24.000 If you see, what's the Starship Troopers where they fight the bugs?

01:07:27.000 That's the Zerg.

01:07:28.000 And they would just make massive amounts of Zerglings and then rush the opponent. 0.99

01:07:32.000 They're, like, really weak.

01:07:33.000 Oh, I'm being Zerg'd!

01:07:35.000 I famously have a very, um, uh, kind of, uh, quick to block trigger finger.

01:07:40.000 So I just, I, I, I, I deal with the Zerg the way the Starship Troopers. 1.00

01:07:44.000 I'm like, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, block, Yeah, well, I mean, the police did get defunded.

01:08:04.000 Political violence in this country worked, which is what made that when they turned it into a kind of a 9-11, they call it 1-6.

01:08:11.000 What made their response to that so outrageous is that they had spent the summer making it clear that political violence gets you results.

01:08:19.000 Yeah.

01:08:20.000 If you want to defund the police, you know, burn down entire neighborhoods, working class neighborhoods. 1.00

01:08:25.000 But conservatives aren't willing to be insane lunatics who want to hurt people, unfortunately. 0.97

01:08:30.000 Or moderates. 0.98

01:08:32.000 Yeah.

01:08:32.000 You just have this extreme sect of people that are kind of twisting out of their mind and everyone else is like in shock.

01:08:38.000 I want you guys to imagine some.

01:08:39.000 I'm just imagining a moderate riot.

01:08:40.000 They're like, some of this, but not too much.

01:08:44.000 No, I want you to imagine this.

01:08:45.000 I want you to imagine like Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin angrily marching in their nice fine suits with torches.

01:08:52.000 If you think I'm not going to burn your store down, you're absolutely wrong, man.

01:08:56.000 I've got this brick for a reason.

01:08:57.000 It's going through your window.

01:08:58.000 That's a pretty good impression.

01:09:00.000 Thank you.

01:09:00.000 But could you imagine Dave Rubin marching with a bunch of angry people to cause violence?

01:09:05.000 It's never, ever going to happen.

01:09:08.000 And you know what?

01:09:09.000 These companies and these mayors and these Democrats know they have zero to worry about from people who challenge their orthodoxy.

01:09:15.000 Yeah, I don't want a government of reactionaries.

01:09:17.000 I don't know if they think that there's nothing to worry about, though, because they're working very hard to ensure that people get censored.

01:09:22.000 You always see these op-eds written about large YouTube celebrities who have larger platforms at this point than these media conglomerates do, or some of their favorite properties on their networks have.

01:09:34.000 And you almost always get the feeling that this is because they want these social media platforms to step in and start silencing creators who the media deems as problematic because, again, they're competition.

01:09:44.000 But that said, yeah, I think they really are afraid.

01:09:46.000 They wouldn't be trying to censor us otherwise.

01:09:48.000 No, I disagree.

01:09:49.000 I think of it like this.

01:09:50.000 If the people on January 6th, they engage in that behavior, the FBI goes full force against them.

01:09:56.000 But when you completely demoralize and cripple an entire army, What do you then do?

01:10:01.000 You humiliate them and you start to torture and demean and berate.

01:10:06.000 When China had POWs, they would absolutely use manipulative tactics and try and demoralize and break them down.

01:10:16.000 So censorship is basically like Look, after you've wiped out their navy, you stormed the beaches.

01:10:22.000 So yeah, we've lost our navy in this regard.

01:10:24.000 We have no defense for our figurative shores.

01:10:26.000 And the censorship is just them continuing the onslaught as we were retreating.

01:10:31.000 We're running back.

01:10:32.000 The line is broken and they're still chasing us.

01:10:33.000 They call that a route.

01:10:34.000 Exactly.

01:10:35.000 I think part of the censorship regime, I think Oliver Bateman made this point in an American Greatness essay where he said, It's not really about not letting the rabble access information, or that's not solely about that. 0.91

01:10:49.000 It's also for the elites themselves to create a bubble in which they don't hear from what the majority, you know, normal people think.

01:10:58.000 Right? 0.99

01:10:58.000 Normal people don't want stupid wars in the Middle East. 0.99

01:11:03.000 They don't want socialism, but they also don't want, like, a kind of predatory capitalism. 0.98

01:11:07.000 And they don't want their kids being taught, like, they want their kids to learn about, you know, the Napoleonic Wars and Homer and poetry, and not to just sort of endlessly solipsistically meditate on their own race and gender.

01:11:17.000 So normality, like sane politics are possible if you just minimally listen, I think still, to ordinary Americans.

01:11:24.000 But elites, by censorship, they actually just block themselves off.

01:11:29.000 And I think that's very dangerous because you can't have a superpower whose elites don't actually know what the F is going on in reality, right?

01:11:37.000 Well, that's why we're not going to be for much longer.

01:11:39.000 No, I don't think so. 1.00

01:11:40.000 An elite that's this stupid. 1.00

01:11:42.000 I mean, sometimes I'm like, look, the Chinese in some sense deserve to inherit the 21st century. 1.00

01:11:48.000 I hate their regime. 0.97

01:11:49.000 It's a monstrous regime. 0.96

01:11:50.000 It puts a million people in camps, whatever.

01:11:53.000 But, you know, they don't have an intelligence agency that does its recruiting by being like, I have anxiety disorder and I work for the CIA.

01:12:03.000 Like, just kind of imagine the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party or inside the Kremlin, like, looking at the Americans, you're like, they must be laughing.

01:12:12.000 If someone, I can imagine someone going to, I guess there's no name for the Chinese intelligence, they just call it Beijing, but imagine, you know, there's a Chinese national going to Beijing and saying, I've got an anxiety disorder, I'm gender non-binary, and they're like, interesting, interesting, right this way.

01:12:25.000 They put him in a room and they put a pry bar in front of it and weld the door shut and walk away like they did to all the people who got sick.

01:12:31.000 They do not tolerate anything that could be a threat to their system.

01:12:34.000 They literally killed their own citizens for it.

01:12:35.000 Right.

01:12:36.000 Right.

01:12:37.000 You have to.

01:12:38.000 I mean, it's just not a serious power.

01:12:39.000 I think a power whose central intelligence agency is obsessed with, you know, the gender identity issues of of the agents.

01:12:49.000 It's just.

01:12:50.000 Partly like the way our government's set up right now is if you want to contact and communicate with like a representative, you can't, you can contact their office and like leave a message for their aid or something, but there's no way to like talk to, you know, Rand Paul right now if I needed to.

01:13:03.000 If we had like internet video where like, as your job as a, as a congressman is to sit down and listen to like 20, 30 YouTube videos a day, you know, minute, one minute clips or like, uh, you know, 120 of them a day, two hours.

01:13:16.000 You sit there and you listen to people's suggestions and complaints.

01:13:18.000 I could see that.

01:13:19.000 Yeah, but it's still limited.

01:13:20.000 It's very limited because you can only get 60 people or 100 people.

01:13:23.000 You're like a mind meld type thing.

01:13:26.000 I don't know, man.

01:13:27.000 I think it's... I mean, the media is supposed to do that for the representatives.

01:13:32.000 The media is supposed to reflect public opinion in part. 0.99

01:13:36.000 But instead, what they've done is to think of themselves as mediators between what power wants to do and the stupid rabble that doesn't know what's good for them. 0.95

01:13:46.000 And the media's job is sort of to like massage the messages of power to the people rather than reflect it to power and hold power accountable. 0.97

01:13:53.000 The root of the word mediator is media.

01:13:55.000 What?

01:13:56.000 Yeah.

01:13:57.000 That's all.

01:13:58.000 Yeah.

01:13:59.000 The mainstream media, the fourth estate, used to be that they were considered to be almost

01:14:04.000 a co-equal branch of government.

01:14:05.000 They would challenge the power and regulate it such that the people had an opportunity

01:14:09.000 to challenge the corrupt.

01:14:10.000 Not anymore.

01:14:12.000 It's true.

01:14:12.000 We kind of do like this show is an example of it because we could have people on the

01:14:16.000 show that have an opportunity to express like unknown opinions and then people like Rand

01:14:20.000 Paul will hear it because people they watch it.

01:14:23.000 And I think one of the most important things we're doing is over at Timcast dot com because

01:14:28.000 I was talking about this in an earlier video today.

01:14:31.000 Brian Stelter, he was on C-SPAN, and people were calling up C-SPAN, and it was hilarious.

01:14:36.000 They were like, you are the worst disinformation outlet. 1.00

01:14:40.000 CNN is trash. 1.00

01:14:41.000 You're liars. 1.00

01:14:42.000 One guy called him the minister of misinformation and said, at this point, if you do the opposite of what CNN says, you'll probably be better off. 0.97

01:14:49.000 So I tell people, we can't just be doing shows where we complain about it.

01:14:55.000 It's a good thing to spread awareness, but you have to do more than that.

01:14:59.000 You have to create stuff.

01:15:01.000 So that's why I reduced by 50% the amount of segments I was producing every day, because I wanted to make the vlog happen.

01:15:08.000 I need more time to do that.

01:15:09.000 I need more time to look through job applications and expand the business.

01:15:13.000 Now we have a vlog, which I believe it's the ninth episode coming up tomorrow morning.

01:15:18.000 And here's what I always tell people.

01:15:19.000 We're not there yet.

01:15:20.000 We're building it.

01:15:21.000 It's hard.

01:15:22.000 We do not have the resources of these massive corporations or the privileges that YouTube grants them.

01:15:26.000 But in that skate park, when a dude shows up on his BMX and grinds the grind bar and it's his big deal, he has a Gadsden flag right there.

01:15:33.000 That means some little kid who watches that YouTube video is gonna see the Gadsden flag. 0.97

01:15:37.000 And he's not gonna know too much about it, but then one day when he's in school and his teacher says some stupid critical race BS about the Gadsden flag being racist, he's gonna go, what? 0.97

01:15:45.000 No, the Castle guys have one of those. 0.98

01:15:47.000 They're not racists.

01:15:48.000 They have people of all different types over there.

01:15:50.000 Is my teacher lying to me?

01:15:51.000 Yeah.

01:15:52.000 We need to produce culture, talk about what we're for, and make things.

01:15:56.000 So instead of just complaining about the media lying all the time, what are we gonna do?

01:15:59.000 Well, we've got some people coming out we're gonna hire to do journalism.

01:16:03.000 And, of course, we're not the only ones doing it, but more people need to.

01:16:07.000 We need something comparable.

01:16:09.000 We need... If the Fourth Estate has been destroyed, we must rebuild.

01:16:12.000 Hopefully, we're, you know, considering we're facing conflict, they'll try and come and shut us down.

01:16:17.000 They'll try and stop us.

01:16:18.000 We have to be very, very careful about what we talk about when we do it on channels like YouTube.

01:16:22.000 But once we get the website up and running, we get a bunch of journalists, we can say whatever we want.

01:16:28.000 Yeah, I tend to agree with what you're saying here.

01:16:31.000 I believe conservatives need to put more emphasis on creating culture.

01:16:34.000 This is part of why I do Freedom Tunes.

01:16:36.000 I like to do these little animated shorts that are promoting these values.

01:16:39.000 I really just make them because I want to make something funny, but because my values are conservative and Catholic, they'll come through in the content.

01:16:46.000 But the problem is, conservatives generally scoff at media.

01:16:49.000 It's strange.

01:16:50.000 They'll lament the fact that they don't have enough representation in media, but when someone says they're going into media, they tend to laugh at them.

01:16:56.000 And they definitely won't let their children pursue a career in media.

01:16:59.000 But the reality is, the way the left has gotten their morality across is by very passively asserting it in the background of the things that they create, or in the foreground, but not in an overt, heavy-handed way.

01:17:09.000 So they'll just have characters in their films agree with certain lifestyle choices that other characters have made without beating you over the head with the fact that the producer thinks that that's an okay thing to do.

01:17:19.000 They'll have characters talk about how they have casual sex, but it won't be a driving part of the plot of the film.

01:17:25.000 They'll have characters discuss abortion in a way that isn't condemning it or homosexuality.

01:17:29.000 They don't sit there like conservatives do and say, here's what we believe about X, Y, and Z. They just show you those things happening and say that those things are normal.

01:17:37.000 And if conservatives want to have any shot at winning the culture war, they need to do the same thing with the media they create.

01:17:41.000 There's this tape from, uh, like the Nixon tapes, uh, and he's talking to some of his advisors. 0.99

01:17:47.000 Um, you can find this online and he's like turning to, I can't remember who it is, but he's like, you see on the TV, they're making the working man look stupid, like an oaf. 0.98

01:17:56.000 And the urban homosexual, they're making him look cool. 1.00

01:18:01.000 I don't think it's... But I think it's true, fathers are always depicted as complete idiots. 1.00

01:18:07.000 Absolutely. 1.00

01:18:08.000 The Real Housewives, if you watch that show, which you probably do. 0.99

01:18:10.000 Do you?

01:18:11.000 No, I'm just kidding.

01:18:12.000 I have been lately, a little bit, as kind of a social experiment, but they're alcoholics.

01:18:15.000 I mean, they're pretty much all alcoholics.

01:18:16.000 I came downstairs and I saw Seamus.

01:18:17.000 He had a TV and... Stop, Tim, you promised.

01:18:20.000 It's subversive because they're all alcoholics, most of them, but they don't talk about it, really.

01:18:24.000 They just laugh and joke about it, and they have funny music going on as she's taking her fifth shot.

01:18:29.000 And you know what the point of those shows are?

01:18:31.000 It's to have your average person watch it and say, well, I'm not that bad, so I really don't need to improve myself.

01:18:35.000 Hold on.

01:18:36.000 You know what?

01:18:37.000 We talk about when everything went bad and everyone says Harambe is a joke, but maybe, you know, we used to have TV shows that were like family-friendly, wholesome shows about like moral messages about improving yourself and being better.

01:18:48.000 We had superheroes.

01:18:49.000 Yeah.

01:18:49.000 And then all of a sudden it became about dysfunction.

01:18:52.000 Something happened.

01:18:53.000 Who's fault is it?

01:18:54.000 Is it the Boomers?

01:18:54.000 Can we blame them?

01:18:55.000 Are they the ones?

01:18:56.000 LSD?

01:18:57.000 It's easy to blame someone else for our problems, right?

01:18:59.000 There are ways also to portray dysfunction and even portray dysfunction in a comical way that doesn't glamorize it.

01:19:05.000 Like Looney Tunes.

01:19:09.000 Like, animation is great for that.

01:19:11.000 I mean, maybe I went too far.

01:19:12.000 His devices keep failing.

01:19:13.000 Yeah, it's not his fault, it's Acme's fault. 0.96

01:19:15.000 But he is dumb for not just going to Acme and being like, hey guys, I want a refund. 0.97

01:19:20.000 Can I get it? 0.99

01:19:20.000 Is there a different company? 0.99

01:19:21.000 Why is he still choosing this brand?

01:19:23.000 They must have phenomenal customer service because none of their products work.

01:19:26.000 Acme's like, if you want to build your own dynamites, go ahead.

01:19:29.000 You want to build your own Acme?

01:19:31.000 Oh my gosh, was Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner a cautionary tale about monopolies?

01:19:37.000 What happens when corporations take over?

01:19:37.000 Yes.

01:19:39.000 Does that stand for something?

01:19:42.000 There's actually a Family Guy joke where he's going to get a refund and his wife's yelling at him.

01:19:48.000 He's in the store and he's like, look, it didn't work.

01:19:51.000 I paid for this.

01:19:53.000 Nothing he ever bought worked.

01:19:54.000 Well to be fair also Roadrunner had magic powers like when Wiley would draw the fake tunnel on the wall and Roadrunner would actually run through it and then he wouldn't.

01:20:02.000 Maybe Roadrunner was part of his imagination and he was tripping.

01:20:05.000 Was that like the 50s or 60s?

01:20:06.000 It's a cautionary tale for not taking your medication.

01:20:09.000 Not taking your medication and also not allowing large corporations to dominate an entire market.

01:20:14.000 Dominate the market for giant cartoonish magnets and rockets and billboards.

01:20:20.000 What if there was a law that said if you were diagnosed with a mental illness you couldn't vote?

01:20:24.000 That's dangerous.

01:20:25.000 Yeah, because also, dissent is so frequently pathologized even now. 0.99

01:20:29.000 If you disagree with the homosexual lifestyle, you're a homophobe. 0.99

01:20:32.000 You have a phobia. 1.00

01:20:34.000 You're a transphobe. 0.89

01:20:34.000 Or if you're a critic of Islam, you're not a... An Islamophobe. 0.89

01:20:37.000 You're an Islamophobe.

01:20:37.000 Yeah.

01:20:38.000 We were talking about that.

01:20:39.000 No one gets to vote.

01:20:40.000 Nobody.

01:20:40.000 No votes.

01:20:41.000 I'm fine with that.

01:20:41.000 Only one person gets to vote this time.

01:20:44.000 It's the robot.

01:20:44.000 Pope Francis.

01:20:45.000 What if we just had a lottery every year, and one person, it was like a handful, maybe like 12 people.

01:20:50.000 Demarchy.

01:20:51.000 I think it was... That's what it's called.

01:20:52.000 I think it was Buckley who said he would rather be governed by the first hundred names in the phone book than the committee at Harvard.

01:21:01.000 The oligarchy.

01:21:03.000 I mean, the problem is it would be like, it would be like John, you know, Anderson, Bill Aardvark.

01:21:08.000 And it's like people be changing their names, bro.

01:21:10.000 Yeah.

01:21:10.000 I'd call myself, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.

01:21:12.000 Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.

01:21:14.000 And then I'd be the president.

01:21:15.000 Then a hundred random names in the phone book, Tim, alright?

01:21:17.000 Problem solved.

01:21:18.000 Then everyone's trying to get in the phone book?

01:21:20.000 Yep.

01:21:22.000 There's no phone book anymore.

01:21:24.000 They're not real.

01:21:25.000 Actually, they might still exist, right?

01:21:27.000 They're online.

01:21:28.000 Do you guys think there's a peaceful, like, um, I don't know if there's a solution is the right word, but transition, kind of?

01:21:35.000 Because it seems like our free speech has gone so far.

01:21:37.000 Out of whack that we're allowing things that maybe shouldn't be allowed. Ah, that's not what I want to say. Well

01:21:43.000 You said it then you're like, ah, what is wrong with i'm gonna be emperor here and say good

01:21:49.000 I want to say this though. I think there is something flow through you

01:21:54.000 There is something really interesting to be said about this though

01:21:57.000 Because you just said something and went. Oh, I don't want to say that. Uh

01:21:59.000 I mean, you're exploring your thoughts here.

01:22:02.000 And when you make a public statement, you're sort of connected to it for the rest of your life, even if two seconds later you disagree with what you just said.

01:22:08.000 It's a very strange phenomenon.

01:22:09.000 I mean, I understand the necessity to be responsible when you're speaking in front of thousands of people.

01:22:14.000 I'm not discounting that.

01:22:15.000 But at the same time, This conversation is occurring live and in the back of our minds, there's this question of, am I going to say the right thing?

01:22:23.000 Am I going to trip up?

01:22:24.000 And I'm, am I going to be irresponsible?

01:22:25.000 It's, it's something you can't remove from the equation, no matter how hard you try.

01:22:28.000 I think that's really interesting.

01:22:30.000 It's not examined enough when people watch live shows that have other people talking.

01:22:33.000 That's why I'm fundamentally a writer.

01:22:35.000 Like I write because you can try and refine, edit these formats.

01:22:40.000 I only do when I'm promoting a book.

01:22:41.000 Exactly, and we spend our entire lives practicing conversation totally in private, and the skill sets for a private conversation don't necessarily map onto a public conversation because you don't know how your audience is going to understand you the way you do the person sitting across from you will.

01:22:55.000 Yeah, that's true.

01:22:56.000 I try and make a fool of myself that way so that other people don't get hit by it, because you're right.

01:23:01.000 I want to get out ahead of that. 0.82

01:23:02.000 So then do we adopt authoritarian classical liberalism?

01:23:05.000 Where what we do is, anybody who's using free speech to advocate for anti-liberalist values is figuratively crushed.

01:23:16.000 The dissent is removed.

01:23:18.000 Only the communists.

01:23:21.000 That's what brought us here.

01:23:23.000 I gotta say real quick.

01:23:25.000 That's like a James Lindsay movie, huh?

01:23:26.000 The point is, the left is literally advocating for that.

01:23:29.000 Not tolerating intolerance.

01:23:31.000 Saying, we're very tolerant of everyone, except for those who oppose us.

01:23:34.000 But then you see, like, last year, when they were burning buildings and things, and nothing happened.

01:23:39.000 Like, there wasn't a federal National Guard response.

01:23:42.000 Like, did we let it go too far?

01:23:44.000 Did we let this idea of freedom... No, no, no, there was a National Guard response.

01:23:47.000 But it wasn't very much, and it didn't stop the riots.

01:23:50.000 It wasn't a National Guard response, as in, like, they went and started arresting people.

01:23:53.000 It was actually that the National Guard showed up, stood around, and then they still rioted anyway.

01:23:56.000 Yeah.

01:23:57.000 So, like, what do we do?

01:23:58.000 Do we crack down on, like, rioting?

01:24:01.000 Absolutely.

01:24:02.000 Of course, yeah.

01:24:03.000 I mean, rioting is illegal, and so it just means... But the way that it was... I think not.

01:24:09.000 I mean, Kamala Harris raised money to get them out of jail, and they did, and their charges were dropped.

01:24:13.000 No, I'm saying that it's not being enforced, or it's being selectively enforced.

01:24:18.000 That just goes to show that none of these categories is neutral.

01:24:21.000 My long-term solution is taking... I got an idea.

01:24:26.000 I got an idea.

01:24:26.000 You were about to say what the secret of the universe is.

01:24:29.000 I was going to say something really sinister, but no.

01:24:30.000 No, I think I think I I'm a I've become a kind of big government conservative, but a conservative who believes

01:24:39.000 that we we do need a government to to mediate between these different actors in society and and and to, you know,

01:24:48.000 authoritatively guide people to virtues.

01:24:52.000 So your friends in Britain who call themselves fascists, that's horrible because fascism is more kind of raw exercise of power and tyrannical.

01:25:00.000 No, not friends of mine.

01:25:01.000 In fascism, I was covering a rally.

01:25:03.000 Sorry, sorry.

01:25:04.000 Yeah, sort of the people you met at the rally.

01:25:06.000 But I think a government that authoritatively guides people to be a little bit more virtuous through policy and so forth, that's just what the purpose of government is.

01:25:19.000 You know, we're one way or another, we're guided to some morality.

01:25:22.000 Yeah, I certainly want to do it.

01:25:23.000 I have the solution.

01:25:25.000 It's been in front of us the whole time.

01:25:25.000 It's really obvious.

01:25:26.000 What's that?

01:25:27.000 You see, these leftists have been infiltrating our cultural institutions and our government.

01:25:33.000 The right just needs to all start showing up to Antifa meetings and then gain positions of authority within Antifa.

01:25:39.000 Infiltrate.

01:25:39.000 And then, when all of these different local Antifa chapters are run by MAGA conservatives, then that's it.

01:25:44.000 No more Antifa, no more rioting.

01:25:46.000 Done.

01:25:46.000 Boom.

01:25:47.000 Reverse infiltration.

01:25:48.000 I think with what you're saying, I hear you.

01:25:52.000 I don't ultimately think that that's big government.

01:25:53.000 There are different approaches to it.

01:25:55.000 Some would involve more government involvement than others, and I also just want to echo what you said about fascism.

01:26:01.000 It's very unfortunate.

01:26:02.000 It's just this strange totalitarian Marxism LARPing as traditionalism.

01:26:06.000 Ultimately, I believe that a country as large as the United States, especially with a government as big as ours, is fundamentally impossible.

01:26:13.000 I don't think it's going to last in the long run.

01:26:14.000 I think the kind of social and cultural decay we're seeing is probably going to continue.

01:26:18.000 Ideally, we would have States with much more autonomy to implement the kind of I think in those individual states virtue based governing strategies because what you try to implement now in a place like Georgia probably isn't going to fly somewhere like California, but the problem is the nation is so tightly interlinked because of a massive our federal government is

01:26:41.000 That everyone is invested in what's going on in states that they might not even visit in their lifetimes.

01:26:47.000 So I would say we really need to roll back the power of federal government.

01:26:51.000 And so in that way, I'm very anti-big government.

01:26:54.000 They won't leave you alone in your like red state readout.

01:26:57.000 Because that's the nature of the ideology.

01:26:59.000 I also think that's true.

01:27:00.000 The game is a federal game, and it'll be played on that field.

01:27:04.000 Do you think so?

01:27:06.000 See, I think it's possible that at some point the federal government will become incredibly weakened.

01:27:12.000 I don't see it happening in the immediate future, and maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part, because I agree with you that if you have the federal government, especially with the power that it has, people on the left are never going to be able to tolerate the existence of a right-wing society.

01:27:26.000 They just won't.

01:27:27.000 And even if you haven't... So it's complicated.

01:27:30.000 I mean, there is something about unvirtuous people who are living unvirtuous lifestyles where they cannot tolerate the existence of people whose existence challenges their conscience fundamentally.

01:27:40.000 So I hear you there, but I also...

01:27:43.000 I don't want to slide into this thinking where we reject any and all use of power, but I just don't see a lot of these right-wing strategies working effectively at the federal level in terms of development of virtue among the populace.

01:27:57.000 So look, you have to have private exhortation to virtue.

01:28:04.000 Family matters and so on and so forth.

01:28:06.000 But at the bottom line is I think we're in a really, really bad state.

01:28:11.000 We're in a kind of dystopia.

01:28:13.000 It feels like, I mean, there's a kind of Twitter joke and we laugh about it, but it kind of feels real.

01:28:17.000 It's like, you know, eat the cicadas, eat the bugs, live in the pods, look at the

01:28:21.000 porn, live in your pod and have like your food delivered by drone and

01:28:25.000 increasingly your face mass.

01:28:27.000 So they don't have any inbox.

01:28:28.000 This is, this is the stuff of like Blade Runner movies and it's becoming real.

01:28:34.000 So to me that takes dramatic action.

01:28:37.000 But the good thing is, um, uh, you know, you, you precisely because of the nature

01:28:41.000 of, of power, if, of power as it exists now, if you infiltrate it, you can very

01:28:48.000 quickly, uh, reshape society, I think, because the law is a teacher.

01:28:53.000 What the law approves or what it authoritates, people will and you'd be surprised.

01:28:58.000 I really believe this.

01:28:58.000 You'd be surprised how quickly people will change their minds and then they will forget that a week earlier they held the contrary opinion.

01:29:05.000 So you have as power shifts, they're like, oh, yeah, I've always been here, you know.

01:29:09.000 So so for me, what that means is for conservatives, you know, they often say, well, we don't have the culture with us.

01:29:15.000 What does that mean?

01:29:16.000 The vast middle of people go this way and that.

01:29:18.000 What really matters is if you can capture the elite, as an elite enter positions of power, you can very quickly shift the ship of state as it were.

01:29:29.000 I think that's interesting.

01:29:30.000 I'm definitely going to really strongly consider that.

01:29:32.000 My point has more or less been that I think the United States government Yeah.

01:29:37.000 is just too gigantic in this is too large a country to be governed under one

01:29:41.000 main governing body i mean you seem to be saying something different i do

01:29:44.000 really want to consider that so i'm open-minded here what would you think i would

01:29:49.000 ask over that will know i guess i guess my point is

01:29:52.000 when you have fifty states in initially when the united states was set up

01:29:55.000 it wasn't intended to be a country where you have this monolithic

01:29:58.000 federal government running this gigantic country

01:30:00.000 It was more or less smaller states governing themselves, and then the federal government could come in and regulate trade or dictate a common currency, solve other disputes, ensure that the Constitution is being held to.

01:30:11.000 But now it's as if people almost go directly to the federal government whenever they want a law changed, instead of looking at how they can implement change on the local level.

01:30:20.000 And I fear that it becomes an impossibility for $330 million to be guaranteed by the same— We have a national economy, we have an international economy, and therefore localism doesn't really work.

01:30:32.000 It's just the nature of the thing.

01:30:35.000 And I think, you know, certainly the kind of Hamiltonian strand of the founding is not quite As you describe it, it's more like energy in the executive is constantly the phrase that Hamilton uses.

01:30:45.000 That's true.

01:30:48.000 They were not all of one mind on this, of course.

01:30:50.000 I'm always open to the idea of subsidiarity in Catholic social teaching, which is that problems should be solved at the level appropriate to them.

01:30:57.000 So if a family can solve a problem, then the local municipality shouldn't interfere.

01:31:01.000 And if a local municipality can solve a problem, then the state shouldn't interfere.

01:31:05.000 But I think we're at a point where all the crises we're facing, unfortunately, can't be solved at the level of family, local, municipal.

01:31:12.000 It has to go all the way up because they're kind of global or national problems.

01:31:17.000 So I hear what you're saying, yeah, in this idea behind subsidiarity.

01:31:20.000 It goes as far as to say that the most local possible authority should be the one to solve it.

01:31:25.000 But then we have that conflicting with solidarity as well.

01:31:29.000 I think over the past hundred years, We have moved so much away from subsidiarity and maybe that's what's created this problem where it's as if nothing can be solved at the local level.

01:31:40.000 I have to consider that more strongly as well.

01:31:43.000 What would be an example, you think, of some way the federal government could shift or change policy to enact what you're talking about, like a psychological shift in the will of the people?

01:31:56.000 Sure.

01:31:57.000 I think we should promote people forming families and having children.

01:32:01.000 And so I would do what the Poles and the Hungarians are doing, which is if you have four children or more, you're exempt from income tax for the rest of your life. 0.99

01:32:12.000 you get a cash subsidy even, or you get a loan for a van so you'll be able to carry your,

01:32:17.000 you know, but that means that conservatives have to believe that it's good for people

01:32:22.000 to form families and have children.

01:32:24.000 Yeah, and for the government to spend and tax.

01:32:27.000 Spend and tax. So the heritage foundation types and the entire apparatus of the conservative

01:32:32.000 movement is created to give lip service to these kinds of things, but then push policies that

01:32:39.000 deracinate people that work really well for Goldman Sachs and, and, and, and.

01:32:44.000 And basically, financiers, big corporations, and they'll say, they'll be alarmed.

01:32:51.000 They'll be like, oh, if we do a certain kind of policy where moms stay home more, then moms won't enter the workforce. 1.00

01:32:57.000 Heaven forfend.

01:32:59.000 I know.

01:33:00.000 You saw the conservative Twitter account, right?

01:33:02.000 That was Heritage, yeah.

01:33:03.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:33:03.000 They were like, oh no, I don't know.

01:33:05.000 But there's nothing there I would disagree with, by the way.

01:33:07.000 We should jump over to Super Chats.

01:33:09.000 So if you haven't already, give us a good little like.

01:33:11.000 It's very simple.

01:33:12.000 If you think CNN deserves more views than us, then don't press the like button.

01:33:17.000 Don't share the video.

01:33:18.000 Then we can all just sit here and be grateful that CNN is as big and as powerful and privileged as they are.

01:33:23.000 Because, you know, YouTube puts them on the front page.

01:33:26.000 They're the authoritative source.

01:33:28.000 Isn't that funny?

01:33:28.000 I mean, think about it for two seconds.

01:33:29.000 CNN was lying to us for years about Russia, and YouTube will still put them on the front page as the authoritative source.

01:33:37.000 So in all seriousness, if you think that's a problem, you can share this show.

01:33:42.000 You can become a member at TimCast.com, and just know that your membership is going to go towards hiring more journalists and reporters, and working on building up this newsroom, as well as a bunch of other shows.

01:33:51.000 Of course, we do have the Paranormal Show we've been working on.

01:33:53.000 And a bunch of other fun stuff.

01:33:55.000 But, uh, let's read some of your superchats.

01:33:58.000 And, uh, we have here... Jason McNeil says...

01:34:02.000 Maxim Bernier, the only political leader against lockdowns in Canada, has been arrested in Canada, getting more worrisome as time goes on.

01:34:10.000 When they started locking down the country, these states, it was despotism.

01:34:16.000 It was an act of authoritarianism.

01:34:19.000 And still, you know, most people just sit back and say, well, you know, I won't violate my principles.

01:34:23.000 So what ends up happening is these Democrat governors keep doing it.

01:34:29.000 They're not going to stop.

01:34:30.000 All right, we got Bryce Blosser says, hoping we will have a better governor next year in Virginia.

01:34:35.000 In the meantime, check out Glendorfarm.com for small family farm, small family farm, American prime beef for patriots.

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01:34:43.000 Hey, that's cool.

01:34:44.000 Maybe we'll go and check that out.

01:34:46.000 Glendorfarm.

01:34:48.000 Chris H says, I'm happy that you seem to have fixed your internet issues.

01:34:51.000 It is deeply disappointing trying to listen to your stream live at 2 a.m.

01:34:54.000 in Germany with connection issues.

01:34:56.000 Apologies for that.

01:34:57.000 So apparently the lightning strike fried one of the boxes.

01:35:00.000 Yes, that's what all the internets were having.

01:35:03.000 The router was on fire.

01:35:04.000 That's wild.

01:35:06.000 Yeah, so the lightning strike hit the cable.

01:35:09.000 That's so weird.

01:35:10.000 I don't know.

01:35:11.000 We're kind of elevated.

01:35:13.000 It was like some lightning strike fried up the line that went into the box and it only damaged some of it, but they had to replace the line.

01:35:19.000 That's cool though, you know.

01:35:21.000 Lightning.

01:35:22.000 Bug HQ says, a NC steel machining place was hit by a cyber attack today.

01:35:27.000 Is steel the new target?

01:35:29.000 Shout out to JJ, the best stepdad I could hope for, for my daughter.

01:35:32.000 Don't eat the bugs guys, they're for the lizards.

01:35:35.000 I should know.

01:35:36.000 So we're trying to get, we're trying to do live events.

01:35:38.000 There's a bunch, there's a couple hurdles we have to overcome.

01:35:40.000 One of them is structural, but we just had some guys be like, look, we don't think you can do steel because the prices are way too high to, like, open up the building and make it better.

01:35:48.000 And so I don't know.

01:35:51.000 They're like, you have to double up lumber.

01:35:52.000 It's cheaper, but still ridiculously expensive.

01:35:54.000 So they went after the food, the oil, and now the steel.

01:35:57.000 Yeah, building equipment, wood.

01:35:59.000 Alright, OneEyeGaming says, Ian, a few days ago you said you were worried about who Russia would side with if war broke out between America and China.

01:36:06.000 Yes.

01:36:06.000 Russia will either side against China or stay neutral.

01:36:08.000 China claims Russian cities and competing with Russia in arms sales.

01:36:12.000 Well, remember how staying neutral worked for the Russians in World War II?

01:36:15.000 I guess technically they sided with the Germans and then they got invaded by the Germans.

01:36:18.000 So, I don't know if they're gonna make that same mistake again with China.

01:36:22.000 Right on.

01:36:23.000 Firstlast says, Can I still be a Christian without going to church and liking the Pope?

01:36:27.000 Is reading the Bible, hearing people like JP and Cliff Nectal from YouTube, Ask Cliff, a good way for spirituality and one with God?

01:36:36.000 This is a really, really good question.

01:36:38.000 I'm sure Saurabh has an answer for this as well.

01:36:40.000 I would say that Jesus Christ came to earth and he died for your sins and came back from the dead and he founded a church.

01:36:48.000 And through that church he has delineated clear rules for the ways a person must go about getting to heaven.

01:36:55.000 And one thing that we're bound to do is attend mass every Sunday.

01:37:00.000 And so, well, you spoke about the Pope and you also spoke about Christianity without referencing Catholicism.

01:37:06.000 I assume you're probably asking a question about Catholicism because of that invocation of the Pope.

01:37:12.000 And I would say one of the requirements to be considered a practicing Catholic is to observe all the necessary holy days, which would include the Sunday obligation to attend Mass.

01:37:23.000 I would say you should do it, and I'm not sure if you're in an area which is particularly locked down or if you've been to a Catholic Mass before, but I would recommend going to your first if you haven't and talking to the priest there and asking him some of these same questions.

01:37:38.000 And furthermore, if you can, try to find a TLM, a traditional Latin Mass, because I promise if you do, that priest will have Solid answers for you.

01:37:46.000 I got a question for you guys about Jesus.

01:37:47.000 Do you think that he was the meat body of Jesus or the spirit that inhabited his body?

01:37:53.000 He was both.

01:37:54.000 This is actually interesting.

01:37:55.000 Isn't it Arianism that he was... He was a creation of God the Father.

01:37:58.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:38:00.000 And it's various Gnostic movements in late antiquity which basically said that You know, what you are is this divine spark that happens to be trapped in a kind of fleshly apparatus that's bad.

01:38:14.000 And you see it, by the way, echoed in modern transgenderism, right?

01:38:17.000 I talked about that last time I was on the show, yeah.

01:38:19.000 The idea that I'm just the kind of mental material, that's my real self, and this body means nothing, therefore I can do everything with it.

01:38:27.000 Orthodox, historic Christianity always made a point of saying that that Jesus

01:38:31.000 Christ was fully man and had a soul, true God and true man, but also had a body.

01:38:37.000 His mother bore him to term just like any other person and therefore it resists those Gnostic tendencies. 0.52

01:38:46.000 So Christianity, especially in its Catholic iteration, is incredibly concerned with matter, too.

01:38:52.000 It's not just this kind of airy-fairy spirit.

01:38:55.000 The spirit is important, but we're human beings, we're embodied, and the fact that Jesus is fully man, fully God, therefore gives us a bodily claim on heaven, not just the spiritual one.

01:39:07.000 Yeah, that's very, that's, that's, I mean, I couldn't have said it better myself.

01:39:09.000 And I'll just add this.

01:39:10.000 This is part of why it's so important that Christ rose from the dead body and soul.

01:39:14.000 It wasn't a metaphorical resurrection.

01:39:16.000 He literally came back.

01:39:17.000 And as Catholics, we believe in a resurrection of the dead, which means that we believe at the end of time, everyone will be resurrected and given a body.

01:39:24.000 Don't you think that someone just robbed his grave and took his body?

01:39:26.000 Well, no, because there were eyewitness accounts of him being alive after the crucifixion, after he'd already been buried.

01:39:32.000 This is good, good stuff.

01:39:33.000 I love you, I Fight You Naked. 0.95

01:39:34.000 I'll fight you naked says thanks to him. I bought physical gold crypto and survival food. I'm not a financial advisor

01:39:40.000 Lydia Thanks for taking the time to read my article

01:39:42.000 But mine takes six minutes to read and someone with a following stole my title and wrote some woke sympathetic BS

01:39:48.000 I love you. I fight you naked I'll fight you naked. I like that name

01:39:52.000 All right Actually, is it okay if before the next super chat I asked

01:39:57.000 or have a question do it This this might this might take a little too long. And so

01:40:00.000 if it's an after-show discussion, I'd still be really interested in that

01:40:03.000 We one thing we were discussing was the fact that people who live real and virtuous lifestyles

01:40:08.000 And I think it's especially linked to unchastity have this in capability of tolerating virtuous societies

01:40:14.000 and so I'm curious about how that maps on to any social change that conservatives might

01:40:19.000 Attempt to implement at the federal level like you were discussing

01:40:23.000 Mm.

01:40:24.000 I mean is it possible are those people just ungovernable at the federal level

01:40:28.000 I guess what what is to be done about it?

01:40:30.000 I mean look I have to go to sort of basics which is that um you know the same thing.

01:40:37.000 Thomas in the Treatise on Law, relying on Aristotle's ethics, says that exhortations to virtue aren't enough.

01:40:47.000 So the certain kind of, you know, there's a kind of Christian that says, just privately do your thing, evangelize the culture.

01:40:54.000 That's not enough because the ruler who wants to lead his people to virtue needs to have the ability to to use authority, right?

01:41:04.000 And kind of lovingly use authority.

01:41:06.000 So I think the first thing I would want to see is just a society that makes it a little bit easier to start a family, to have a family, and not to sort of be bombarded with, you know, let's say pornography, right?

01:41:22.000 100%!

01:41:22.000 We're there with you.

01:41:23.000 As you know, 9 out of 10 boys We'll see hardcore porn before hitting puberty.

01:41:32.000 That's a University of New Hampshire saying.

01:41:33.000 It's insanity.

01:41:34.000 That's a really bizarre society.

01:41:36.000 Yeah.

01:41:36.000 So I just want some of the sort of the worst of it, at least, curved.

01:41:41.000 And I just give space for people to... Because we are human beings.

01:41:46.000 We're relational animals.

01:41:47.000 We thrive in families.

01:41:48.000 We seek union with one other person.

01:41:54.000 All this stuff has been so distorted.

01:41:56.000 Yeah?

01:41:56.000 That's the problem.

01:41:57.000 And as goes, as they say, you know, as goes sex, so goes the family, so goes the society, and we've allowed our sexual attitudes to be completely distorted by pornography.

01:42:04.000 Yeah, that's a really good answer.

01:42:06.000 I'm glad I asked.

01:42:07.000 All right, LostInMyHead6063 says, Freedom Tunes brightens my day.

01:42:11.000 Oh, thank you.

01:42:12.000 Tim, keep up the good work.

01:42:13.000 You too, Lydia.

01:42:14.000 More DMT, Ian.

01:42:15.000 Okay.

01:42:15.000 Also, can you shout out- No, no, Ian, no.

01:42:17.000 Yes, yes, let's go.

01:42:18.000 My GoFundMe helped us build an off-grid community.

01:42:20.000 I lost my job to COVID and China after spending a long time building towards this goal.

01:42:25.000 Sounds cool.

01:42:26.000 That is very cool.

01:42:28.000 All right.

01:42:29.000 John says a follow up to a super chat about World of Warcraft earlier this week.

01:42:29.000 Mavro St.

01:42:33.000 It's honestly funny to think about left and right as alliance and horde.

01:42:36.000 They hate each other so much they can't see the things they share in common.

01:42:40.000 Very obviously the horde is the left and the alliance is the right.

01:42:43.000 That's why I like Thrall because there are people on the left that shake the shackles of slavery of mind.

01:42:50.000 Yeah, the horde is the left for sure.

01:42:53.000 The alliance is the right.

01:42:54.000 Thrall was, like, this orcish shaman that was, like, just transcended orcism and became, like, unified with the humans and the elves and just realized there was a greater purpose to fight the demons, really, I guess you would say.

01:43:06.000 Or protect the other living organisms from the demons.

01:43:10.000 All right.

01:43:12.000 CoolerInTex says, first time Super Chats.

01:43:14.000 Tim, I know a little HVAC and am a professional LIDS sim.

01:43:18.000 Oh, wonderful.

01:43:19.000 You should hire me so I can escape California.

01:43:22.000 Uh, I don't think we need anybody for HVAC.

01:43:24.000 You know, but, uh, send an email to jobs at TimCast.com if you're interested.

01:43:29.000 Samuel Eddie says, live in the cabin, eat the venison, harvest the fields, and buy the guns.

01:43:29.000 Alright.

01:43:33.000 Dude, liberals read that and they're like, how horrible.

01:43:37.000 Yeah, we should make a shirt that says that.

01:43:39.000 And then we'll make... We have an Eat the Bugs graphic.

01:43:43.000 It's a cornucopia with bugs bursting from it.

01:43:46.000 And I'm trying to figure out what the right thing to do with it is.

01:43:49.000 I don't know if a shirt makes sense.

01:43:49.000 It's hard.

01:43:50.000 Maybe we'll just make the shirt anyway.

01:43:51.000 It's, you know.

01:43:53.000 Omjipuppi says, Rods from God.

01:43:53.000 All right.

01:43:55.000 If you are in orbit and drop something, it just orbits there next to you.

01:43:59.000 If one ton rod hits at eight kilometers per second orbital speed, kinetic energy equals five tons of TNT.

01:44:05.000 For nuclear size explosion, you need 100 times that speed.

01:44:08.000 But what if you shoot it down, and then that would hyper-accelerate the speed, I would think.

01:44:14.000 I don't know.

01:44:15.000 Rather than just drop it.

01:44:16.000 Yeah.

01:44:17.000 Perhaps.

01:44:18.000 They just lightly tap it.

01:44:20.000 Yeah.

01:44:20.000 And then it starts accelerating faster and faster and faster.

01:44:22.000 Just a little tap.

01:44:26.000 Cackling Kamala says, I worked at a liquor store in the 90s and paid 20 bucks a month for insurance and better coverage than I do now.

01:44:32.000 Conservatives think we can get back to that.

01:44:34.000 I'm not so sure.

01:44:35.000 There's a funny joke I saw.

01:44:37.000 It's, find a woman who enjoys laughing as much as Kamala Harris loves laughing when you ask her about human traffickers smuggling children.

01:44:43.000 Yeah.

01:44:45.000 Any questions she can't answer.

01:44:49.000 Hillary Clinton, too, though.

01:44:50.000 What's up with that?

01:44:50.000 Dude, that's so true.

01:44:51.000 Did you ever see that Placeboying music video of Hillary Clinton's laugh remixed?

01:44:55.000 It's perfect.

01:44:56.000 It's just called Hillary is Evil. 1.00

01:44:58.000 Seamus, Seamus, ask me what my favorite color is.

01:44:58.000 You all need to look it up.

01:45:00.000 What's your favorite color, Tim?

01:45:05.000 That's how I envisioned all of these interviews with Kamala.

01:45:08.000 My favorite was when, I can't remember who it was, a PBS woman was asking her a serious question, and then she just sits there with her mouth open, smiling, eyes all wide, like, what are you doing?

01:45:19.000 Because she laughs at the answer, and the journalist kept pressing, like, I want an answer to this.

01:45:23.000 She laughs, what's the answer?

01:45:24.000 And then she's just like, So I think the question was about the fact that she had condemned Biden as a sexual harasser. 0.99

01:45:31.000 As a rapist and a racist, yeah. 0.98

01:45:33.000 And then she was like, well, what do you think now that you're his running mate? 0.99

01:45:36.000 And she just said, ah.

01:45:38.000 She says, it was a debate. 1.00

01:45:41.000 You said the man was a rapist who hates black people. 1.00

01:45:45.000 It was a debate! 1.00

01:45:46.000 It was a debate!

01:45:48.000 You see, you make things up when you're debating people.

01:45:51.000 That's exactly it though, that's how horrible the discourse is where it's considered like a legitimate and fair debate tactic to call someone a rapist and a racist.

01:45:59.000 Those are just accusations we throw around, those are just words.

01:46:02.000 There was also recently, Kamala was asked about going down to the border and she's like, I'm not going to go to Europe either!

01:46:07.000 I was like, what?

01:46:08.000 What are you talking about?

01:46:09.000 That wasn't even remotely analogous to the question.

01:46:11.000 Shouldn't you go to Europe as the Vice President of the United States?

01:46:14.000 You'd think you'd be traveling, but even so, it's not analogous.

01:46:17.000 There's a border crisis.

01:46:18.000 Derek Lozano says, great show tonight, guys.

01:46:18.000 All right.

01:46:20.000 I'm a 30-year-old father of three, and I'm also the mailman for my neighborhood.

01:46:24.000 I've tried to get to know all of my customers over this past year.

01:46:27.000 People are hurting.

01:46:27.000 Talk to your neighbors.

01:46:28.000 That's right.

01:46:28.000 That's awesome.

01:46:29.000 Yeah.

01:46:30.000 I like that.

01:46:31.000 Right on.

01:46:32.000 Michael Johnson says, hey Tim and company, big fan of the show.

01:46:35.000 Did you hear the RCMP just arrested Maxim Bernier in Manitoba?

01:46:40.000 He's one of the only Canadian politicians who has spoken out against the harsh lockdowns we have up here.

01:46:44.000 Viva Frey posted about it.

01:46:45.000 He's great.

01:46:46.000 I love him.

01:46:47.000 Man, Canada.

01:46:48.000 Who'd have thought they'd go full fascist?

01:46:49.000 Easy, man.

01:46:50.000 I could have predicted that.

01:46:51.000 I mean, Canada's had hate speech laws, which have made quoting scripture an offense.

01:46:55.000 I will say that my entire Bible study, full of lovely, sweet Canadian ladies, is literally all ready to move to the U.S., like Florida and Vermont. 1.00

01:47:03.000 Yeah, I've talked to other Canadians, too, who are like, I am done with this country.

01:47:06.000 I'm like, good for you.

01:47:07.000 We've got, we've got, okay, Corlex, he says, Hey Tim, I have been watching your videos and show for a full year now.

01:47:12.000 I'm happy for you.

01:47:13.000 Luke was one of my favorite people on here and I miss him.

01:47:16.000 However, Seamus is a great replacement.

01:47:18.000 I listen every day since August.

01:47:19.000 Well, I have really good news.

01:47:21.000 We are, are, are evicting Seamus.

01:47:24.000 Luke is coming back.

01:47:25.000 That's right.

01:47:26.000 Also, to be fair, so I wouldn't see myself as a replacement.

01:47:29.000 Me being on here has had nothing to do with Luke being gone.

01:47:31.000 Yeah.

01:47:32.000 It's not as if, like, Luke left.

01:47:33.000 They're like, Seamus, come on.

01:47:34.000 I've just been here working with Tim on some projects, and when I'm here, we like to do a show together.

01:47:37.000 Yeah, I was voicing Dr. Fauci.

01:47:38.000 Yeah, he was voicing Dr. Fauci.

01:47:39.000 We've been working on a card game and some other really exciting stuff.

01:47:42.000 Video game.

01:47:43.000 Yeah, and a video game.

01:47:44.000 We probably need more devs if we really want to get the video game What I'm looking for, honestly, is more help creating the sprites, so if there are animators we could find who'd be willing to help, who could emulate my style decently, that would be a massive help, and it would allow us to get the game done pretty quickly, I think.

01:47:58.000 At least more quickly than on our current trajectory.

01:48:01.000 Have we talked about what the game was about yet?

01:48:03.000 Not yet.

01:48:04.000 I don't know how much we should tease.

01:48:05.000 It's gonna be really... So, Chris and I were playing earlier today, and we were playing the multiplayer mode he's been putting together, and it was so much fun.

01:48:13.000 It looks awesome.

01:48:14.000 It's really great.

01:48:15.000 I mean, I'm really happy with how it's shaped out.

01:48:17.000 Let's not say the name, but I'll give a basic description without going into details.

01:48:22.000 You just, all right, does that work?

01:48:24.000 You know what, I shouldn't say anything?

01:48:24.000 I don't know.

01:48:25.000 I think we should be really careful about this.

01:48:27.000 All I will say is this.

01:48:29.000 When the idea was first described to me, I thought it was very interesting.

01:48:32.000 I was like, yeah, this is something I would definitely want to collaborate on and supply my style to.

01:48:38.000 And as I have been helping to develop these sprites and seeing how the game is shaping up, I'm very pleased.

01:48:44.000 It's gonna be amazing.

01:48:45.000 If animators get in touch with you, what's the best way for them to get in touch with you?

01:48:48.000 That's a good question.

01:48:49.000 So since it's for this game, I don't have an email address created for soliciting workers.

01:48:55.000 They usually reach out other ways.

01:48:57.000 If someone's interested in working on this game as an animator, can we just have them send an email to jobs at Timcast?

01:49:01.000 Would that work for you?

01:49:02.000 Yeah.

01:49:03.000 Put Video Game Animator in the subject.

01:49:05.000 Yeah, just put Video Game Animator in the subject line.

01:49:07.000 Send an email to jobs at timcast and we're definitely going to be needing help.

01:49:11.000 Alright, let's see.

01:49:13.000 We've got, uh, I can't read Cyrillic, so I'll just try and pronounce it as if it's not Cyrillic.

01:49:17.000 That's a long name.

01:49:18.000 E-b-r-a-h-i-n... E-r-r-r-i-c-k-a-h-b. 1.00

01:49:22.000 That's not even an A. I can't read Cyrillic.

01:49:26.000 Hey! 0.99

01:49:26.000 Karl Popper was amazing, man. 0.99

01:49:28.000 His criterion of empirical falsifiability is the foundation of modern science.

01:49:33.000 Not to trust the science macabre.

01:49:33.000 Real science.

01:49:35.000 I look him up, though.

01:49:36.000 Rob, how do you feel about that? 0.77

01:49:38.000 I think he was a midwit. 1.00

01:49:40.000 Oh my gosh, dude! 0.97

01:49:42.000 Alright.

01:49:45.000 No, not in my cup of tea.

01:49:47.000 I mean, he was an important thinker.

01:49:50.000 AlphaTwitch, he says, hey Tim, I'm buzzed.

01:49:52.000 So here's an anime recommendation.

01:49:54.000 Watch Vivi the Fluorite, Ai's song.

01:49:57.000 All right.

01:49:58.000 Diego Salazar says, careful how you decide what is decent and what's not.

01:50:01.000 Times change and society oscillates like a pendulum.

01:50:04.000 One side makes more force towards them.

01:50:07.000 The more extreme it will be when it goes back and vice versa.

01:50:10.000 Balance is the only answer. 0.94

01:50:12.000 I think about the Aztecs, and they would, instead of kill their opponents in battle, knock them unconscious to drag them back to Teotihuacan and cut their chests open. 0.88

01:50:20.000 People still thought that was horrible in the Aztecs.

01:50:24.000 A lot of them still thought it was.

01:50:25.000 So maybe there is moral absolutism.

01:50:27.000 I don't know.

01:50:27.000 Yeah, for sure.

01:50:28.000 There's an objective moral order.

01:50:30.000 The fact that you're interiorly aware that something's wrong suggests there's an objective moral order, which means that That there is decency and indecency in any given age and across time and across civilization.

01:50:43.000 Seamus.

01:50:43.000 Amen.

01:50:44.000 Yes.

01:50:45.000 I am.

01:50:45.000 You ready for this one?

01:50:47.000 Murray Fairey says, third super chat attempt.

01:50:50.000 Anyone know if Seamus is single?

01:50:52.000 Asking for a friend.

01:50:53.000 She's 23, Catholic, and single.

01:50:55.000 I am single.

01:50:55.000 That's very sweet.

01:50:56.000 Oh, look at that.

01:50:58.000 Seamus just basically said, I would like to meet this woman.

01:51:00.000 And if they would like to contact you, do you have an email address?

01:51:03.000 Jobs at 10 Catholic.

01:51:06.000 I don't have an email set up for soliciting girls.

01:51:09.000 I would like to apply for a job being Seamus's wife. 0.91

01:51:12.000 I'm a 45 year old man looking for work.

01:51:15.000 Mad Cow says, It was not an insurrection or riot.

01:51:18.000 It was a peaceful protest.

01:51:20.000 Just to be clear, not being sarcastic, I think we should start referring to January 6th as a mostly peaceful protest.

01:51:25.000 Oh, I looked up the definition of insurrection.

01:51:27.000 It was basically, yes, what Antifa did last year was an insurrection.

01:51:30.000 Right.

01:51:30.000 It was a definition of insurrection is a violent uprising against an authority or government.

01:51:36.000 Check, check, check.

01:51:37.000 OK, because it was against the authority, then yeah, it was insurrect.

01:51:42.000 Oh, no.

01:51:43.000 The couch says, hey Tim, long time listener, first super chat.

01:51:46.000 Wanted to see if anyone saw the cringeworthy segment they did with Jeffrey Toobin.

01:51:49.000 How does someone get caught doing what he did and keep their job?

01:51:53.000 Who is that guy that's like a story, it's like he said boobs on CNN so they banned him?

01:51:56.000 What?

01:51:57.000 Yeah, like he was, I can't remember who this was.

01:51:59.000 They were like, I went on CNN and said boobs and they kicked me off, but Jeffrey Toobin gets caught, you know. 0.98

01:52:04.000 Sounds like a bunch of boobs. 1.00

01:52:05.000 Toobin it on camera in front of his employees, his co-workers. 0.99

01:52:08.000 Toobin his own horn.

01:52:11.000 That was our headline at the post for that.

01:52:13.000 So tube is a verb, right?

01:52:14.000 Tube?

01:52:14.000 No?

01:52:15.000 Yeah, tubing it.

01:52:15.000 Tubing along.

01:52:16.000 Tubing is when you are on a work call with a bunch of other colleagues and they're watching through your webcam.

01:52:22.000 Guys, there are good 23-year-old Catholic girls watching. 1.00

01:52:28.000 All right, all right.

01:52:30.000 Alright, let's see what we got here.

01:52:31.000 Name and Fame says, Please read! I've super chatted this on multiple videos.

01:52:34.000 Beef is not bad for the environment.

01:52:36.000 Look up, eating less meat won't save the planet. Here's why.

01:52:39.000 By what I've learned.

01:52:40.000 He debunks all the climate arguments and links sources.

01:52:43.000 So why won't they let us eat beef?

01:52:45.000 Why is Joe Biden like, He doesn't like the po-boys. 1.00

01:52:45.000 They're rude. 1.00

01:52:49.000 He doesn't like the po-boys. 1.00

01:52:51.000 It's like some dude got bit by one of those ticks that makes you allergic to beef.

01:52:54.000 You hear about that?

01:52:55.000 Yeah, a friend of mine claims that that happened.

01:52:57.000 Why am I saying claims?

01:52:58.000 We all make fun of him.

01:52:59.000 We're like, that's not true.

01:53:00.000 You're lying.

01:53:01.000 But he got bit by this tick a while ago, and he is allergic to basically everything.

01:53:05.000 He can't eat meat anymore.

01:53:06.000 Yeah, so it's like the origin story for a villain.

01:53:09.000 It's like he just it's this guy he's a griller he just like all day flipping burgers and smiling and waving

01:53:14.000 He's really good at it. Everyone loves him and then one day the tick bites him and then he's like no

01:53:19.000 And then he he takes the burger and he bites it and he swells up if I can't have it no one can

01:53:24.000 And then he starts an organization called pita or whatever That's hilarious.

01:53:31.000 No one should be allowed to have beef. 0.69

01:53:33.000 I'm actually a person for the ethical treatment of animals because I think it's perfectly ethical to eat them.

01:53:33.000 Well, here's the thing.

01:53:38.000 There's nothing wrong with that.

01:53:40.000 That's a good point.

01:53:41.000 I am treating them ethically by consuming them.

01:53:43.000 I believe it is perfectly ethical.

01:53:44.000 We have dominion over them as humans.

01:53:46.000 The perfectly ethical treatment of animals.

01:53:49.000 PETOA.

01:53:49.000 Or PETA.

01:53:50.000 I guess the of can fall off.

01:53:53.000 People eating the animals?

01:53:58.000 People eating tasty animals.

01:54:02.000 Alright, alright.

01:54:03.000 Insert name here says, Tim, don't play their game, calling the rioters as they want.

01:54:06.000 Antifa, protesters, if they're burning buildings, attacking people, police fed, they are insurrectionists.

01:54:12.000 Same as politicians, aiding and cheering them on.

01:54:14.000 Agreed.

01:54:15.000 That's a problem I had with Trump referring to the left.

01:54:15.000 Literally.

01:54:18.000 As soon as he said it, I felt like he started- The radical left!

01:54:20.000 Yeah.

01:54:21.000 He started to play their game.

01:54:23.000 It felt like he, like, he became a pawn in the game.

01:54:26.000 Like he fell for it.

01:54:27.000 There is no left.

01:54:28.000 It's all like, just.

01:54:28.000 There is no right.

01:54:29.000 I agree.

01:54:31.000 No, I mean, there's, there's, there's simplification of saying the left and the right to for colloquial reason, but the actual core of the definitions make little sense outside of tribal signifiers.

01:54:41.000 Like what is, what does left mean?

01:54:43.000 Yeah.

01:54:43.000 But what about Democrat voters who are like Catholic?

01:54:45.000 And this is the definition I usually use, and it's very broad, and it may be a little

01:54:50.000 imperfect, but just the purpose of the left is to oppose the Catholic Church and its goals.

01:54:56.000 What about Democrat voters who are like Catholic? 0.52

01:54:58.000 Like Joe Biden?

01:54:59.000 No, I mean like real ones.

01:55:00.000 Here's the thing, you cannot vote for a pro-choice candidate if there's a pro-life candidate

01:55:04.000 available as a Catholic.

01:55:06.000 So when people say that they're... They're pro-life Democrats.

01:55:08.000 That is true.

01:55:09.000 There was a huge revolt.

01:55:10.000 Most Americans do not agree with the radical left!

01:55:14.000 The radical left on abortion!

01:55:16.000 No, I agree that it's amorphous, but I also don't want to fall into this trap of saying it doesn't mean anything, because it is a very helpful term for identifying your enemy.

01:55:23.000 Don't you think, as a Catholic, that if there was someone that actually exuded all the virtues except they were pro-choice, that they would be a better candidate than someone that's just rife with sin but was pro-life?

01:55:34.000 No, because I don't know how you could exude all the virtues and be pro-choice, if I'm being entirely honest.

01:55:38.000 Well, like six of the seven virtues or whatever.

01:55:38.000 Boom.

01:55:41.000 That's not enough!

01:55:42.000 Dude, hold on.

01:55:43.000 But if you haven't figured out, like, don't kill babies, I don't know how much good the other virtues are doing.

01:55:47.000 Seems basic.

01:55:48.000 But I didn't steal anything.

01:55:49.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:55:50.000 I didn't steal.

01:55:51.000 I wasn't lustful.

01:55:52.000 I wasn't, you know.

01:55:54.000 Let's see. 0.99

01:55:54.000 We got Josie Pussycat says, Hey, Tim, I replied to one of your tweets with let's burn her at the stake. 0.99

01:55:54.000 All right. 0.99

01:56:00.000 It was obviously a joke and Twitter suspended me.

01:56:02.000 Thanks, Tim.

01:56:03.000 Don't blame me.

01:56:04.000 Thanks a lot, Tim.

01:56:05.000 It's all Tim's fault.

01:56:06.000 It is, yes.

01:56:08.000 Wait, what is this?

01:56:10.000 Napalm Bonerfart.

01:56:12.000 Great name, by the way.

01:56:13.000 It's like a Napoleon thing.

01:56:14.000 Yes.

01:56:15.000 Napalm.

01:56:16.000 Says, from the Daily Mail, AOC's grandmother came out in support of Donald Trump.

01:56:20.000 Says he sent aid, but Puerto Rico's government did not use the aid.

01:56:23.000 Really?

01:56:24.000 Matt Walsh sent aid to AOC's loyal as well. 0.74

01:56:28.000 That was really pathetic of AOC to not take it.

01:56:29.000 I just thought it would've been so amazing if she was like, oh no, you owned the libs, thanks for helping the poor people of Puerto Rico, and then it could've been like, you know what she could've done? 0.77

01:56:41.000 She could've said, alright, I'm gonna take this money, and you know what I'm gonna do?

01:56:44.000 We're gonna use what we need to for the repairs and donate all of the rest to another GoFundMe, and the left is gonna prove we can raise more money than the right to help the people of Puerto Rico.

01:56:53.000 Oh, now we're talking.

01:56:54.000 How amazing that would have been.

01:56:55.000 And then you get all the conservatives being like, come on, guys, we got to raise money for the people whose lives were destroyed by the hurricane than the left.

01:57:01.000 And then the left and the right raise like 10 million each.

01:57:04.000 And then the poor people of Puerto Rico have their homes fixed.

01:57:07.000 I like Matt Walsh and we're friends on Twitter.

01:57:10.000 But I have to say, I agreed with the she's a she's a great account.

01:57:15.000 Amy Torres.

01:57:16.000 I don't know if you guys follow her.

01:57:17.000 No, but she she said, you know, like, oh, wow, you really owned her by raising, you know, whatever, like, I don't think so.

01:57:25.000 AOC should have turned it into a woke-off or a politics-off or whatever.

01:57:30.000 At some point, I think people need to stop taking it as seriously or at least find a little levity and joy in life and the other people that you think maybe aren't your friends, maybe are.

01:57:41.000 I think that concept of joy, as you're talking about it, is white supremacy.

01:57:45.000 is white supremacy. 0.59

01:57:46.000 I mean, I could feel it.

01:57:53.000 Ben Macklin says I'd love to see Carl from InRangeTV on the show.

01:57:57.000 He has a firearms and cybersecurity background and made the news a while back for putting firearms content on adult hub to show that the info will exist somewhere.

01:58:05.000 I remember that.

01:58:07.000 Yeah.

01:58:08.000 Yeah, definitely.

01:58:08.000 Sounds cool, dude.

01:58:09.000 Sounds like a cool dude, for sure.

01:58:12.000 Uh, Crandall Logan says, do the Fauci voice of you diving out the window.

01:58:17.000 Was that ad-libbed?

01:58:19.000 I think I might- I'd have to double check the footage, which people can see if they donate at patreon.com slash freedomtube.

01:58:19.000 Or did you tell me to do it?

01:58:25.000 I just went like this, I went, DROPLETS! 1.00

01:58:28.000 Pulled the mic away from me.

01:58:29.000 Droplets!

01:58:30.000 Droplets!

01:58:32.000 You don't need to wear 12 masks if you've been vaccinated 300 times.

01:58:38.000 That's a joke, obviously.

01:58:39.000 YouTube's already like, I'm gonna push the button!

01:58:42.000 Don't push it!

01:58:44.000 You know the meme where it's like, I don't know what the guy is, but he's like holding his hand and the beams are coming out of it.

01:58:50.000 He's like, must must ban channel!

01:58:53.000 He made joke!

01:58:55.000 Dr. Fauci! 0.55

01:58:57.000 I almost bought you a Fauci bobblehead, dude.

01:58:59.000 I can't bring myself to spend money on it.

01:59:03.000 Inches away.

01:59:03.000 I may, I may still.

01:59:04.000 I'm so excited for him to disappear on national life.

01:59:09.000 All right.

01:59:09.000 We got, uh, Mr. Toad says, those that are anti-colonial and want decolonization of institutions are the same people that want globalization, open borders, and call themselves citizens of the world.

01:59:09.000 All right.

01:59:19.000 They want a globally homogenous identity.

01:59:21.000 They want to colonize the planet.

01:59:23.000 Isn't that funny how that works?

01:59:24.000 Absolutely, that's right.

01:59:24.000 Yeah.

01:59:25.000 And they want to basically turn Africa into a place where contraceptives, LGBT ideology... Bingo! 0.97

01:59:33.000 That is the most ideological... In fact, Pope Francis has called that ideological colonialism.

01:59:38.000 Colonization?

01:59:38.000 Yeah, that's right, he did.

01:59:39.000 Wouldn't that result in the birth rate dropping dramatically in Africa?

01:59:43.000 Yeah, they're fine with that.

01:59:44.000 Didn't Henry Kissinger make a bunch of really insane comments about the population of Africa?

01:59:44.000 They're misanthropists, too.

01:59:48.000 I'm sure he did. 0.95

01:59:50.000 Yeah, and the Gates... Well, I guess they're not a couple anymore, but they spend a lot of money on ensuring that, you know, there are fewer black babies born. 0.97

01:59:59.000 Isn't that a little weird?

02:00:00.000 Yeah.

02:00:00.000 Isn't that a little weird?

02:00:01.000 Yeah, I mean, but this is another thing.

02:00:02.000 The left, for as vague as these terms have become, the left is generally misanthropic.

02:00:06.000 They don't want more people.

02:00:07.000 And it's often disguised as environmentalism.

02:00:10.000 Yep.

02:00:11.000 All right, let's see.

02:00:15.000 Call me.

02:00:16.000 Okay.

02:00:17.000 Rondo says, thanks for all you do.

02:00:18.000 Bought some Ethereum because of you.

02:00:20.000 If the stock market crashes, what would be the best thing to do?

02:00:20.000 No regrets.

02:00:23.000 I cannot give anyone any advice.

02:00:25.000 I don't know.

02:00:26.000 I got a bunch of chickens.

02:00:27.000 We're getting a rooster tomorrow. 0.80

02:00:28.000 So I posted that one of our chickens is transgender. 0.63

02:00:32.000 I'm not even joking. 0.83

02:00:32.000 And it's true. 0.83

02:00:34.000 It's a normal thing that happens when there's no rooster.

02:00:36.000 I think one in 10,000, they say, hens will start appearing like a rooster and crowing and acting like a rooster.

02:00:43.000 But a lot of people informed me that alpha hens who

02:00:48.000 Become like roosters are way more aggressive and could actually end up killing one of the other hens

02:00:54.000 They're like you need to get a rooster Otherwise that alpha hen will seriously injure and you need

02:01:00.000 like so we got to bring a dude in to kind of level thing The scientists called them

02:01:04.000 Karen's I knew It's a really interesting thing because we would we had to

02:01:09.000 call the fire department You know came out. It's like 3 in the morning and then all

02:01:12.000 sudden I hear a And I'm like, what was that?

02:01:16.000 And I look over and there's one like there's this chicken and she's just like staring at me and I'm like

02:01:21.000 Staring back at her like what's going on?

02:01:23.000 And then nothing happens I turn around and then I again and then I turn around and there she is But there's like other chickens that I'm like was it was a her and then all sudden she's just looking me in the eyes And I'm like, oh, what are you doing?

02:01:35.000 You're not a rooster.

02:01:36.000 And so then I looked into it today in the storm.

02:01:39.000 She was I Oh wow.

02:01:41.000 And so I tweeted about it and people were like, you need to get a rooster because if she starts doing that, she might actually kill. 0.99

02:01:47.000 It's a crazy dynamic that they're like, you need to bring a man in. 0.99

02:01:51.000 You need to bring in the male rooster. 1.00

02:01:52.000 It seems like, uh, it seems like phallogocentric, white supremacist, patriarchal oriented science came up with that.

02:02:00.000 Or nature.

02:02:01.000 No, no, but I was reading a lot.

02:02:03.000 It said if you introduce a rooster into the pecking order, she'll stop doing that and revert back to being a hen. 1.00

02:02:08.000 Oh, that's awesome.

02:02:09.000 Yeah, I guess they say, like, sometimes the hen will be nominated to be their protector and, like, will take on the job of a rooster.

02:02:15.000 She kind of looks like a rooster. 1.00

02:02:16.000 But in the meanwhile, you're going to refer to this hen with the right pronouns.

02:02:19.000 Yeah.

02:02:20.000 Well, the thing is, this chicken's name has always been Roberta Beaks, Bobby Beaks, but now we say Robert.

02:02:26.000 She's Bob.

02:02:27.000 Robert.

02:02:28.000 But she hasn't formally requested a change in pronouns.

02:02:30.000 I'm glad you can stay on Twitter.

02:02:31.000 I'm not going to assume chicken's gender.

02:02:33.000 But, you know, these things happen, yeah.

02:02:36.000 So tomorrow, again, if you haven't already, go to youtube.com slash castcastle and subscribe, because we'll have a video up tomorrow.

02:02:43.000 It's FPS cicada hunting, where I have this little, like, it's like a nerf gun, basically.

02:02:48.000 And it fires salt, which knocks cicadas out of the air.

02:02:51.000 It doesn't actually hurt them.

02:02:52.000 It's kind of a weird thing.

02:02:53.000 I'm like worried about hurting cicadas that I literally hunt to feed the chickens.

02:02:57.000 But it really doesn't.

02:02:58.000 You like bop them and then they just kind of flutter down and then you pick them up and give them to the chickens and the chickens eat them.

02:03:03.000 I'm like, does that matter though?

02:03:03.000 Yeah.

02:03:05.000 It's chicken food.

02:03:06.000 It's like there's bugs.

02:03:07.000 Oh, the cicadas are basically gone now.

02:03:08.000 I don't know if you guys have noticed.

02:03:09.000 Interesting.

02:03:10.000 Maybe the rain?

02:03:11.000 No, no, no, no, no.

02:03:13.000 The noise levels have dropped dramatically, and the cicadas that we're seeing are tiny.

02:03:18.000 They're a quarter of the size.

02:03:19.000 They only came out for about two weeks is what I was being told.

02:03:23.000 They come out for about two weeks every 17 years.

02:03:24.000 People were saying four to six, but yeah, it was really bad for like one week, and these massive cicadas were everywhere.

02:03:32.000 Dude, it was nuts in West Virginia. 0.84

02:03:34.000 Did you see the guy posted a picture on Twitter of a cicada with a white puff coming out of its butt? 0.94

02:03:38.000 I think it was the butt fungus. 0.58

02:03:39.000 It was the bungus fungus, bro.

02:03:40.000 Bungus fungus.

02:03:42.000 I'm worried about it.

02:03:42.000 It's crazy.

02:03:43.000 It's like a methamphetamine in their system.

02:03:45.000 It's a sign of divine disfavor for the Biden administration.

02:03:48.000 That's right.

02:03:50.000 Jonathan Duger says, AC is blue and thus the left, the Alliance.

02:03:54.000 Horde is red and thus the right. 0.79

02:03:55.000 That's not true.

02:03:56.000 If you take a look at World of Warcraft, it's very obviously divided between left and right.

02:04:00.000 Think about it.

02:04:01.000 The Horde, for those that aren't familiar with World of Warcraft, there's two alliances, there's two factions.

02:04:05.000 One is called the Alliance, one is called the Horde.

02:04:08.000 The Alliance is like the realms of men, dwarves, and elves, essentially.

02:04:13.000 It's a complicated Warcraft history.

02:04:14.000 But, uh, basically they're, like, beautiful castles and, like, European art styles.

02:04:21.000 And then you look at the Horde, and it is a bunch of marginalized and disaffected communities with- who've, like, lost their homes, who band together.

02:04:29.000 And it's also- the craziest thing about it is, like, how overtly racist World of Warcraft is.

02:04:35.000 For instance, trolls. 0.94

02:04:38.000 All have Jamaican accents. 0.98

02:04:39.000 And they practice some kind of voodoo magic. 0.97

02:04:42.000 The pandas have like the Asian accent.

02:04:44.000 Yeah, the pandas do kung fu.

02:04:46.000 It's like super racist.

02:04:49.000 I only played the like the first Warcraft, which was a is like a DOS based game.

02:04:54.000 And it was only humans and orcs.

02:04:54.000 Oh, yeah.

02:04:56.000 And that was it.

02:04:57.000 It was it kept it simple.

02:04:58.000 I preferred that.

02:04:59.000 The orcs were fleeing, like, their homeland, which had been attacked or taken over by, like, the Burning Legion or something.

02:05:04.000 So they were gonna take over the Earth. 0.69

02:05:06.000 Yep.

02:05:06.000 Or our domain, as of Roth.

02:05:08.000 Refugees.

02:05:09.000 Daniel Mikkel says, I watched the quarterings live stream about 20 minutes ago.

02:05:13.000 Someone said they won a contest you offered and didn't get the skateboard prize yet.

02:05:17.000 Uh, that was probably a long time ago.

02:05:19.000 Adam was running those skateboard prize contests, so I'm not sure exactly what happened with all that.

02:05:23.000 That was last year.

02:05:25.000 Yeah, that was last year.

02:05:26.000 There was one skateboard that was supposed to go overseas.

02:05:30.000 That took us a lot of trouble to get it going to the right place.

02:05:33.000 So that might have been it?

02:05:34.000 Everything else should have gone there.

02:05:36.000 I wasn't... I don't know, you know?

02:05:39.000 I guess maybe something fell apart.

02:05:41.000 Apologies if that's the case.

02:05:43.000 Alright, we'll just read this last one here.

02:05:46.000 Actually, wait, what's this?

02:05:47.000 Okay, yeah, we'll do one more.

02:05:48.000 BH says abolish the federal government and make each state its own country.

02:05:53.000 Yeah.

02:05:53.000 Done.

02:05:54.000 All right, everybody.

02:05:54.000 Like Europe.

02:05:55.000 That's sort of what I was voicing my opinion in favor of earlier.

02:05:58.000 It's Friday night.

02:05:59.000 We got some cold pizza in the fridge.

02:06:01.000 Ooh, yum.

02:06:02.000 I got some Hearthstone to play.

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02:06:11.000 But I got to tell you, I am so incredibly excited for the launch of this newsroom because at a certain point, it just can't be me doing YouTube videos.

02:06:21.000 It's got to be more than that.

02:06:22.000 And that means we need articles to be written, we need real investigative reporting, and we need to start building a

02:06:27.000 business that will survive long after I have departed this world.

02:06:30.000 And I gotta say, I was very much inspired by Breitbart. Breitbart.com.

02:06:35.000 Andrew Breitbart was one of the most... I was thinking about this. James O'Keefe. Why is he such a fighter?

02:06:43.000 Why is he the tip of the spear?

02:06:45.000 Is he working harder than anybody else to challenge the corrupt?

02:06:50.000 And I'm like, well, one of his big inspirations was Andrew Breitbart.

02:06:53.000 And then I started thinking about, where are all these other conservatives, and not even conservatives, but anti-woke personalities, to start producing content and try and grow a business and just fight and fight and fight?

02:07:04.000 And then I was like, man, Andrew Breitbart really did that.

02:07:06.000 He made all these different sites.

02:07:08.000 They're called Breitbart.com.

02:07:09.000 They exist today.

02:07:10.000 They've been extremely influential.

02:07:11.000 Are you telling us you're gonna go to Mars?

02:07:14.000 Yes.

02:07:14.000 That's what I'm hearing.

02:07:15.000 to build something so that you know rest in peace Andrew Breitbart yeah long

02:07:15.000 You were chosen.

02:07:19.000 after I'm departed the world and you know there's something else that would

02:07:22.000 be powerful and big and will help shine a light in the darkness. Are you telling us

02:07:25.000 you're gonna go to Mars? Yes. That's what I'm hearing. You were chosen. Elon called me and he was like Tim we have to

02:07:31.000 He's like Starlink didn't work but you know it will. We have to go to Mars Tim.

02:07:31.000 go to Mars.

02:07:35.000 Martian colonization.

02:07:36.000 It's the only way, and I'm like, yes!

02:07:38.000 Anyway, so follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

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02:07:52.000 Can't wait for this newsroom to launch, and we'll start having articles being put out there.

02:07:56.000 We're going to do guest op-eds.

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02:08:00.000 We are going, and we're going to pay well.

02:08:02.000 We are going to make sure journalists who are doing real journalism are compensated.

02:08:06.000 Why?

02:08:07.000 I want to create market pressure for these news organizations that produce garbage out of New York City to have those journalists be like, it is not worth my time to write listicles about Brad Pitt's junk when I can actually get paid the same rate for one article about, say, Middle Eastern conflict. 0.78

02:08:24.000 Yes. 0.66

02:08:24.000 Incentivize something better through the market. 0.66

02:08:27.000 Build something better.

02:08:29.000 We're doing it.

02:08:30.000 So, again, you can follow me personally at Timcast.

02:08:33.000 And do you want to mention anything, Saurabh?

02:08:34.000 Sure.

02:08:35.000 Saurabh Amari, at Saurabh Amari, S-O-H-R-A-B-A-H-M, like Mary, A-R-I, and the book is The Unbroken Thread.

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02:09:14.000 Do we got the next one coming out next week?

02:09:16.000 There should.

02:09:16.000 Oh my goodness.

02:09:17.000 No, that one is in the works.

02:09:18.000 Tim and I improv.

02:09:19.000 We mentioned this in the last show.

02:09:20.000 We improv'd a video and it was really pretty good.

02:09:24.000 I'm thinking maybe next week or the week after.

02:09:27.000 Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out, because we sat here and riffed for how long?

02:09:31.000 Maybe like 10-20 minutes?

02:09:32.000 20 minutes.

02:09:32.000 Yeah, and so there's a lot of material to pull out of it.

02:09:34.000 I'm trying to get the best, but I'm not sure how long it's going to be.

02:09:36.000 Make it a two-parter.

02:09:38.000 Give it a cliffhanger.

02:09:38.000 It's got to be one continuous narrative, but we kept throwing jokes at it.

02:09:45.000 Yes.

02:09:45.000 Yeah, looking forward to it.

02:09:46.000 Yeah, me too.

02:09:47.000 Super good.

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02:09:51.000 I want to say as you're going into this weekend that you guys need to notice that the left always projects when they talk about normalizing things.

02:09:58.000 Yeah.

02:09:59.000 That's what they've been doing all along.

02:10:00.000 They have control of all our TV, all our movies, all our theater, everything that's entertaining to us, and they make all of their ideas normal.

02:10:07.000 We need to do that too.

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - June 11, 2021

Timcast IRL - Political Catholicism Vs. Cultural Marxism w-Sohrab Amari & Seamus

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