In a viral video, Rand Paul called on Americans to resist the CDC's anti-vaccine mandates. This resulted in him trending on Twitter with hundreds of thousands of tweets. And of course, it turned into a propaganda war, with people saying that he was either pushing misinformation or peddling other garbage nonsense.
00:00:20.000This resulted in him trending on Twitter with like hundreds of thousands of tweets.
00:00:25.000And of course, it turned into a propaganda war, I suppose, with people saying that he was either pushing misinformation or peddling other garbage nonsense.
00:00:35.000And so there's a question around whether or not Rand Paul should be listened to, considering we're looking at the expansion of mask mandates, and more importantly, even NBC has written that vaccine mandates could actually hurt the economy because people are going to choose not to take jobs.
00:00:51.000There are companies that are doing mask mandates, there are companies doing vaccine mandates, and there's a lot of people saying, you know what, I'm not going to do that, so then they don't get jobs.
00:00:58.000And then these companies can't hire, and now we have something really fascinating happening.
00:01:06.000We have more jobs available than people available to work at this point, which they say is supposed to be indicative of some great economic boom.
00:01:15.000But in fact, we're coming off of a massive economic recession, so this has people quite worried.
00:01:58.000No, but it, uh, but we'll definitely, it'll be interesting to talk about your experience in New York and what's going on, especially in light of, you know, what Rand is saying and everything.
00:02:12.000Are they really like not letting people into bodegas without getting vaccines?
00:02:17.000Bill de Blasio, the illustrious mayor of New York City, put in place this requirement that you have to show your vaccine card or this Excelsior pass that Governor Andrew Cuomo created, which has plenty of problems.
00:02:31.000But the requirement goes into effect, I believe, September 13th.
00:02:36.000So there's a very limited period of time in which to still enjoy the delights of the Big Apple.
00:02:41.000You mean a limited amount of time to escape from New York.
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00:04:20.000Paul also threatened to hold up every bill with two amendments.
00:04:23.000If any school system tries to keep kids out of the classroom this fall, one to defund them, and another to allow parents the choice of where their money goes for their child's education, That should be law anyway.
00:04:35.000We should have school choice, but he says there's a quote Children are falling behind in school and are being harmed physically and physiological and psychologically By the tactics that you have used to keep them from the classroom during the last year.
00:04:47.000We won't allow it again Now, of course, there's already a bunch of people who are claiming that he's telling people to outright defy the CDC in general, which was the funniest thing I saw from that.
00:04:57.000They were like, Rand Paul says to defy the CDC.
00:05:00.000And I'm like, he specifically said the restrictions that he called anti-science.
00:05:05.000I don't think he said the entirety of the CDC.
00:05:07.000And that distinction is kind of important because the CDC does more than just talk about COVID, mind you.
00:06:36.000And additionally, part of the idea with the Excelsior Pass is that if you show it to get into a sporting event or what have you, you also have to show supposedly your ID.
00:06:45.000This is what it says on the New York State website, so that they can prove that it's actually your pass.
00:06:50.000So now, in order to Move about freely in the city where you live.
00:06:55.000You have to show your papers at various places.
00:06:58.000Yeah, that's what it says on the website.
00:07:30.000And it is true in New York and especially many of the places the black community is the least least likely to be vaccinated among racial demographics.
00:07:38.000So that was something I was thinking about, too, because, you know, de Blasio has paid lip service to the black community for a long time.
00:07:44.000Even last year when we had all of the BLM protests and then you had the, I forget what they were called, but they were like the COVID tracker people, right?
00:08:03.000And de Blasio and Cuomo, one of the things that they agreed on during the pandemic was that you are not allowed to ask someone if they have been to a protest when you are doing a track and trace thing for COVID.
00:10:10.000Our rights are not being protected when we're being treated as though we can't make decisions about our own medical care.
00:10:17.000Yeah, it feels like everything being put into place, and I've probably said this 50 million times by now, is just literally destroying the economy.
00:10:25.000And you have to ask, if we're doing the same thing we did last time, and it didn't work last time, why are we doing the same thing again?
00:10:35.000Like, they're putting in policies that, according to NBC News, are going to hurt job recitation growth.
00:10:43.000And they're putting into place policies that will basically just drive people out of New York.
00:10:48.000And we did hear Bill de Blasio say he wanted to convert the abandoned buildings into public housing.
00:10:52.000So maybe, insofar as it goes with like de Blasio, On purpose isn't that far.
00:10:57.000I think he does want to completely destroy the city.
00:10:59.000I don't think he has any vision at all or any understanding of what it is that New York is really about.
00:11:04.000The other issue too is a matter of enforcement.
00:11:08.000So we've seen I think we were looking at videos earlier in France you see police going around to the restaurants being like oh let me see your Let me see your documentation that permits you to be outside of your home.
00:11:31.000First of all, if the police aren't asked to do it, now you're asking just your basic guy at the bodega to start demanding things of patrons.
00:12:09.000I was talking to some guys at the NYPD that I met at some Black Trans Rights Lives Matter protests over the summer that were actually rather amusing.
00:12:19.000And I was talking to a guy who said that the NYPD, in fact, declined to enforce social distancing mandates.
00:12:27.000What happened was, it was early on, it was like May 2020, and they were being asked to enforce social distancing.
00:12:34.000They were going out into the communities where there was the most COVID, most active COVID.
00:12:41.000These were mostly minority communities.
00:12:43.000So they're wandering around like, Fort Greene or whatever you know like Crown Heights wandering around like Bed-Stuy looking for black people and Latino people on their stoop having barbecues and then telling them to go inside so the guys I was talking to in the forest they were like that was a really super bad look that we were like breaking up you know here we are we're told to
00:13:09.000Be less enforcing of things in these communities.
00:13:12.000We had done stop and frisk, whatever else they pulled back on that.
00:13:16.000And now they're supposed to tell them to all go inside.
00:13:21.000They declined to enforce the mask thing.
00:13:23.000If you go around, if you're on the N.Y.
00:13:26.000New York City subway system and you happen to spot a police officer, Which is not super frequent these days, but if you haven't spot them, they're not wearing masks.
00:13:37.000Lots of other people are wearing masks.
00:13:38.000The NYPD declined to enforce that stuff.
00:13:41.000In fact, I don't know if you guys remember, there was a bar in Staten Island that was like very vocally opposed.
00:13:47.000So it was the state police that were enforcing that stuff because that's who Cuomo had control over.
00:13:52.000Well, then the state police are going to come in and do it.
00:13:54.000Do you think that the state police would end up with this?
00:13:57.000They bring in outside cops because, you know, if you're a cop in New York, you're worried that if the NYPD steps on toes of the locals, then you're not going to be able to go to restaurants.
00:14:07.000You're not going to be able to get people throwing stuff at you.
00:14:09.000So it happened with Attila's Gym in New Jersey.
00:14:14.000The local cops from that town showed up and said have a nice day everybody and left.
00:14:19.000So they brought in outside cops who came in and said screw you with a smile on their face and put the boot down.
00:14:24.000Yeah, I wonder how that would go down.
00:14:27.000Hopefully nobody ever has to find out.
00:15:10.000I love there's a meme where it's like, uh, they, someone pulls up to a drive-through and they're being handed a, there's a tray holding the, like the Wendy's bag.
00:15:24.000And they were like, for COVID, like, why can't you just hand me the bag?
00:15:27.000Because we're trying to reduce contact.
00:15:29.000So you mean to tell me that you literally handled the meat, handled the bread, handled the lettuce, you put it all in the wrapper, put it all in the bag, you've touched it all already, and now you've put on a tray that you won't touch, so you're not touching the bag the one last time.
00:15:41.000If anything, you've increased the amount of contact you've made by holding the tray!
00:18:20.000So this is interesting, though, because there's two things I want to hit at.
00:18:24.000First, we briefly mentioned a little bit of the New York stuff, but what I've been saying for the past couple of months is that it's like you're in a house and the garage starts on fire.
00:18:32.000And you're like, I'm in the living room.
00:19:43.000Uh, you know, they just don't like the kids.
00:19:46.000They don't want the kids having fun is the way I see it.
00:19:49.000I talked to some residents and people who live in Greenwich Village, which used to be like a super artsy neighborhood and is now basically just NYU's campus.
00:19:57.000And so it's like a lot of rich professors in their NYU housing
00:21:05.000I'm continually impressed by the cognitive dissonance of the TV says X one day and then Y the next day, but they're both consistent.
00:21:13.000I just love these memes that are going around where it's like these blue check people tweeting things like, you know, during Trump, why would anyone trust the federal government?
00:21:21.000And then there's one guy and he's literally saying, give me the booster every single day into my veins.
00:21:50.000I mean, I'm I'm a registered Democrat in New York so that I can vote in the primary because other like who cares about the mayoral primary on the on the Republican ticket?
00:23:16.000I've lived, I've spent my entire life in the Northeast.
00:23:19.000where who your family is matters where you went to school matters what your job is matters like all of these little things matter and the only thing that doesn't really matter is who you are personally and individually you know all that matters is like the trappings of who you are and in Dallas it wasn't like that there was this great neighborhood called Deep Ellum where I went out drinking pretty much every night which I really that was fun but another thing that I like to was that it was a big city, but it didn't have these same... it didn't feel like it had these same kind of constraints.
00:24:04.000Dallas was a very walkable city, which I liked.
00:24:07.000Like, I could walk to all of the places I wanted to go.
00:24:11.000Another thing I like too though just you know and maybe it's just because I spent my whole life in the Northeast and it's changing so quickly into something that where I don't feel comfortable where I where I don't feel like I can be part of life there like when I was in Texas I've never spent I've never spent like any time in the south ever in my life like I've been to Florida when I was eight I think we went to the beach in the Carolinas Oh yeah.
00:24:46.000So I've never spent any time in the South.
00:24:50.000It was amazing to have absolutely no point of reference.
00:24:53.000Like, there were no memories anywhere.
00:24:56.000There were no – in New York, everywhere I go, like, every street I walk down, every corner, you know, it's like, oh, I remember that, I remember that.
00:25:03.000I was recently walking with friends and I realized that we kept passing theaters where
00:25:08.000I'd had work performed and I don't do theater anymore.
00:25:13.000But I was like, every time I was like, oh, crushing, a little crushing, a little crushing.
00:25:18.000Nothing like that in Dallas, which also is open and free and comfortable and people are
00:25:24.000non-judgy and maybe I can, I don't know, maybe I can make a new life.
00:25:29.000I'm also, I'm really interested in moving the post-millennial to a southern state.
00:25:33.000So we've been kind of talking about that.
00:28:01.000There are people who, well, to be fair, there's probably the people who are talking to me who are like, I like that you try to at least, you know, give the information, but we still don't like those guys.
00:28:17.000But when we have tons of people, I can't tell you how many emails we get where it's like, I really wish I could say something, but I can't.
00:28:27.000I get those emails too from people who, you know, were in theater and that I've worked with and they're like, oh, I'm still trying to hang on to my theater career.
00:29:18.000The weather is like, it's like you might as well go live under the sea.
00:29:21.000It's like humid and raining all the time.
00:29:23.000But DeSantis is doing a pretty good job with the state.
00:29:26.000They're coming out and saying like, oh, the COVID and all this crazy stuff.
00:29:29.000And I'm like, At this point, if people have the opportunity to get the vaccine and they don't want to do it, I don't know what a country is supposed to do if you, like, you know, I guess de Blasio forced people to do it.
00:29:43.000From the New York Post, Hollywood stars are fleeing to Austin amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and I warned y'all this would happen.
00:29:51.000When there's that comic of Joe Rogan, and he's got his little pull bag, you know, whatever, his roller bag, and he's walking from California, Texas, and the bag says liberal policies on it.
00:30:00.000Should've been a fanny pack, by the way.
00:30:01.000And there's, it says liberal policies on it, and there's a cowboy saying like, hey, hold on there, mister, why don't you leave that where you got it?
00:30:06.000Everyone's like, yeah, but is Joe Rogan really gonna be bringing these policies with him?
00:30:10.000He may be fairly, like, lefty in a lot of ways, but he's very anti-authoritarian.
00:30:36.000And then the rest of the Hollywood stars are going to be like, did you hear that Elon Musk and All of these really fun and amazing people are moving to Austin, I should go there too.
00:30:47.000And I've got a bunch of Hollywood celebrities being like, Austin's the place to be.
00:33:01.000Like, if I can sit here and have a conversation with an actual communist who believes in communism and genuinely believes in communism, I can respect them actually standing up and being honest.
00:33:10.000These Hollywood—even though I disagree with them—the Hollywood stars, they don't believe in anything.
00:34:12.000But we look at Texas, and I'm like, I can see what's gonna happen in Texas.
00:34:16.000I can see what's gonna happen with these Hollywood, California, Arizona, Colorado, they're all gonna keep coming in, and then, there you go, you end up with hipster blue state.
00:34:27.000People are, because there's a, there's this phenomenon, it's really fascinating, that even in red states, urban centers tend to be blue for some reason.
00:34:34.000So even in West Virginia, you have blue areas.
00:34:38.000The people who are there, there was an article I was reading in the AP and this woman was like, I'm a teacher and this is horrible, this state is terrible, I'm leaving.
00:34:56.000If we went to an area that used to be bustling with life, and it's got buildings and infrastructure, but now it's an opportunity zone because the industry left, we could save money, we could have available resources and internet, find a bunch of towns just like that.
00:35:09.000So bringing people in would be impossible.
00:35:11.000So then we find this area basically, which is the Compromise, where we're close enough to an airport, but kind of far away, but this facility is still in Maryland, I love this idea of revitalizing a dead town.
00:35:24.000There was an entire town in Connecticut I think I saw a year or so ago.
00:36:16.000So we need a bigger production facility.
00:36:19.000This place we're in right now can host a few of the shows we're doing, but we've got so much happening and so many people that we're like, okay, we need another building.
00:36:28.000We need another space because we don't have the offices for this place.
00:36:31.000I love how the media's like, Kim Bull bought an eight-bedroom mansion.
00:36:34.000It's like, yeah, we rent out half of it for production, and the other half is basically a green room essentially where people are like working.
00:36:40.000Plus, why can't you have whatever you want?
00:36:41.000Like, have your big house if you want.
00:36:45.000But what I mean is, they try to make it seem like the purpose of the house is like, we're all just like, we have a theater room, and a game room, and a bowling room, and it's like, well, we have an office, an office, an office, an office, an office, a studio, a studio.
00:36:56.000So we need another building so we can actually alleviate some of that pressure.
00:36:59.000So that you can have the bowling room and the game room.
00:37:02.000Actually, I mean, we do have a skate park here.
00:37:38.000But why bother trying to build this massive unit and get utilities installed and all that stuff When we could literally buy, like, three of these houses for the same price, and then have twice as much space as we normally would, we wouldn't have the acreage, but we'd have a decent amount of acreage, and then we actually just have a little urban hub, like, well, suburban hub, where we have, like, that building?
00:37:57.000Oh yeah, that's where they do video editing.
00:37:59.000That building is where they do the game design.
00:38:00.000And so then you have a little town instead of a building.
00:38:34.000I've long maintained this, even going back to the days of, like, Ron Paul.
00:38:37.000Because I don't completely agree with Ron Paul's conservative positions in a lot of ways, but I do agree with his libertarian positions of, like, leave me alone.
00:38:53.000The problem with, like, the Libertarian Party is they're all kind of, like, out of their mind, except for now you've got, you know, Dave Smith and these caucus guys who are pretty savvy and on the level.
00:39:03.000There's no situation by which you can vote in the modern system, left libertarians, and actually get a cooperative system that you want.
00:39:10.000But if you have in a Ron Paul style government of limited government, then you and your friends can be free to get together and do what you want to do without being oppressed by outside forces.
00:39:19.000Which really should be, you know, that's that's Americanism.
00:39:26.000What we have on the left these days is so much, but it's about You know, these principles that they tout, these principles of compassion and whatever else, but there's literally nothing that they wouldn't sacrifice for this mythological conception of the greater good.
00:39:47.000And I think Charlie had brought this up, Charlie Kirk brought this up, and then I agreed that basically there's no real good way to scale left libertarianism.
00:39:56.000Because the idea of libertarian socialism eventually becomes authoritarian because there's no way to enforce.
00:40:01.000Once the lines of communication go six degrees of Kevin Bacon, then you're forcing people to do things they don't want to do.
00:40:37.000If there is a left libertarian system, how does it expand to actually encompass and guarantee your rights in a large space where you're hundreds of miles away from somebody else?
00:40:46.000You need like isolated pockets of it that can co-interoperate.
00:40:54.000If you had a government that was left-libertarian, that is encompassing the entire state.
00:40:59.000You then have people in the northwest part of the state saying, I don't agree with what the southeast is imposing on us, and now you are getting into authoritarianism.
00:41:06.000It's not necessarily that it is authoritarian.
00:41:09.000It's that people are not going to start fighting, and it's hard to have a cohesive system.
00:41:12.000If the system itself is right-libertarian, then you can be like us here up in the northwest.
00:41:15.000We operate on the left-libertarian principle of libertarian socialism.
00:41:18.000If you want to move here, here are the rules.
00:41:22.000And then everyone agrees and they all work together and they can share their vegetables without using money.
00:41:26.000And then the right libertarian people is the overarching system where it says we're gonna leave you all alone.
00:41:30.000Unless there's the non-aggression principle, and unless you've got the currency and the negotiating skills, you can't come in and screw with these people.
00:41:37.000Then on your own little hippie farm you can do whatever you want.
00:41:42.000Yeah, except that it's a very similar type of thing, right?
00:41:45.000Because you still then have a sort of group ideology that rules everything and individuals are not permitted to go against that group ideology.
00:42:43.000Right, that's when you get into authoritarianism.
00:42:45.000That's why I'm saying left libertarianism doesn't scale.
00:42:48.000It eventually just becomes authoritarian.
00:42:50.000So the true ideal of left libertarianism would be like a farm with like a bunch of hippies hanging out and they're friends with each other and they're a family or whatever.
00:43:01.000There's a very famous one that's got a hundred person capacity, and people apply, and then they say, here are the rules, and then they come in, and they stay as long as they want, and when they're done, they leave, and then it opens up a position for someone else.
00:43:13.000So it's capped at a hundred, and everyone knows the rules, and everyone agrees, and they, you know, arbitrate disputes between people, but for the most part, it is a cooperative, and the people with seniority are the ones who basically say, like, okay, if you're new here, we're gonna protect the people who are here, but people rotate.
00:44:27.000The president basically told, there was like one of those stupid town hall things on CNN, and a business owner was like, hey, I can't get anyone to come work at my restaurant.
00:44:35.000And Biden was basically like, maybe you should pay more.
00:45:11.000Let's say right now the government's like, okay, $300 per week is a bonus.
00:45:15.000And you're thinking, okay, $300, that can buy me enough groceries for about a week.
00:45:19.000Inflation hits because they're mass printing of money without any resources being produced.
00:45:23.000So within a couple of weeks or a month, now they're like, okay, $300 can get me about 65% of the way through the week in terms of groceries.
00:45:39.000It's just it's free something no matter how much or how little is it is a free something so until $300 becomes worth zero people will never give up free money Granted a free cheeseburger.
00:45:50.000You'll start to get a job then, but then we're still driving hyperinflation.
00:45:53.000Depends on how big the cheeseburger is But yeah, I mean, I think also part of the devaluing of work and devaluing the work ethic is part of our culture that devalues life.
00:46:39.000If aliens ever come to Earth, they will shake hands with humans, not because they overcame nuclear weapons, but because we overcame the Xbox.
00:46:47.000I can't remember what that quote is from.
00:46:50.000It's a little bit old, because Xboxes... Are a little bit old, yeah.
00:46:53.000Well, no, I mean, everyone plays PlayStation, right?
00:49:15.000I've met him a couple times, I've talked with him, and he always seemed to be willing to listen and kind of more reasonable.
00:49:21.000Like, when the media ecosystem was on TV yelling and things like that, he always presented the news in a way that was more so like, well, let's take a look at what they're saying and why.
00:49:33.000Phil DeFranco tweeted, imagine having the eligibility and access to get the vaccine and saying, nah, also to the pearl clutchers offended by this tweet.
00:49:41.000Yes, I am calling you stupid and you can go F yourself, you ignorant, selfish F face.
00:49:46.000He then posted again, F man, dammit, this isn't me.
00:50:00.000And to the people saying, oh wow, name-calling is really gonna convince me, I'm done trying to convince you, that's over.
00:50:05.000I'm just gonna mock you for believing a bunch of F-faced grifters monetizing misinformation and or ignorance over scientists using the most recent and relevant info.
00:50:14.000So look, I'm not gonna cry about it, it's like whatever, I don't know.
00:50:17.000You know, he does his thing, that's fine.
00:50:19.000But I saw that and I'm like, what happened to us?
00:50:44.000Like the last time I saw him at VidCon or whatever, and he was like, hey, you know, he's really nice, really calm, really chill.
00:50:49.000Now he's on Twitter just calling people F-face and insulting them.
00:50:53.000I was thinking this about Sarah Silverman too.
00:50:55.000It seems like, and I don't know if it's indicative of celebrities only, but it seems like people that are kind of tertiary or on the outskirts watching what's happening have like a snapping mental break moment.
00:51:04.000And then it comes out in some dumb Twitter post.
00:51:06.000I remember Sarah Silverman was like, just get over it, people.
00:52:31.000Things like this, that are just really nasty, really low, really angry and mean, no forgiveness.
00:52:37.000That's like the key thing here, like what happened to being like, yo, let's work this out, let's be nice to each other.
00:52:42.000But one thing that is going on too, and we can go back to the, I mean, discussing this vaccine passport situation, is that is bullying, right?
00:52:50.000Saying to people, you can't go to work, you can't work out, you can't eat out, you can't participate in life, unless you do this thing that I'm demanding that you do, whatever it is.
00:53:03.000And so I understand... From the same people who are constantly saying like, oh, don't bully.
00:53:07.000We have to have special sessions in all of our schools and... So here's what I want to point out.
00:53:14.000When he says, I'm going to mock you for believing a bunch of F-faced grifters monetizing misinformation and or ignorance over scientists using the most recent irrelevant info.
00:53:23.000You know what the nail in the coffin for me on this one is?
00:53:28.000From UPMC, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, researchers identified groups hesitant about COVID-19 vaccine.
00:53:36.000And they say, Hesitancy held constant in the most educated group, those with a PhD.
00:53:41.000By May, PhDs were the most hesitant group, while vaccine hesitancy decreased across virtually all racial groups.
00:53:50.000They say blacks and Pacific Islanders had the largest decrease.
00:53:52.000They mentioned that those with high school educations or less were the most likely to reduce their vaccine hesitancy.
00:53:59.000So here's my overall point about what Phil is doing.
00:54:04.000Not only is he being really, really mean to people, but he is also very, very wrong about what he's talking about.
00:54:10.000The people who are being misled or, you know, whatever, are not... First of all, why would you be mean to somebody who is confused by lies?
00:54:20.000Like, when people believe bad things, I don't say, you're a stupid moron!
00:54:24.000I say, that's not true, let me show you the proof.
00:55:39.000Interaction like when it's all text when I catch something on a wall and then you walk in and look at the wall We're not having that emotional connection.
00:55:45.000And so you know where the anger why build I write tweets all the time I'll write a tweet and then I'll delete it.
00:55:52.000Yeah, I did that Do it like seven times a day.
00:55:55.000I'm like, here's how I feel and I don't need to share that.
00:55:57.000Yeah I kind of should have done that the other day Why what did you tweet?
00:56:02.000I tweeted about how New York City's vaccine passports are a total disaster and I'm definitely going to leave New York.
00:56:53.000We should have a right to live anonymously in our cities, for God's sake.
00:56:58.000Well, it's not only that, it's that how many times have we heard showing your papers was the wrong thing, that we should never have the authority demanding papers from people going about their business.
00:57:05.000But you have to watch saying anything about that, too.
00:57:07.000I mean, you have Marjorie Taylor Greene comparing, you know, vaccine passports and mandates and things like that to Third Reich things, and she gets totally slammed for it.
00:57:18.000So, I mean, you can't... There's also this thing where you can't make comparisons to historical realities.
00:57:24.000This is the perfect example of tribalism.
00:57:29.000The fact that when they see your post saying, like, we shouldn't mandate this stuff, the response is, anti-vaxxers are so dumb, even though you are vaccinated.
00:57:36.000It shows that they don't care about reality.
00:57:45.000It's the Philip K. Dick shorts or whatever.
00:57:48.000Dude, you guys got to watch the 10th, the final episode.
00:57:51.000I think it's episode 10, might be episode 8, I don't know.
00:57:54.000It is about this guy, and it's like in the near future, I guess, and there's one candidate left in the race, and so you vote to affirm the president, and then this female candidate, and she's being interviewed, and she abruptly says, kill all others, and then changes the subject to education real quickly, and then the interviewer is like, I can't believe you would say something like that, about education, and then this guy's like, wait, what?
00:58:58.000If the government says, we're gonna do something abusive and authoritarian, and you say, I don't think you should do that, they say, then you're the Nazi, you're the fascist, you're the anti-vaxxer.
00:59:07.000Yeah, it's risky when you're dealing with totalitarian regimes, because if you come out against them, you'll get murdered.
00:59:13.000But if you Create an alternate path that often can work.
00:59:19.000It is extremely creepy to me what's happening with everything about how you quite literally have people who last year were anti-vaxxers and we all called them anti-vaxxers.
01:01:45.000NBC News says mandating vaccines amid a worker shortage could spell trouble for corporate America.
01:01:50.000It's so hard to find workers now that if you know a certain percentage of your workers are going to quit due to a vaccine mandate, you're not going to disrupt that, said one HR expert.
01:02:52.000I made a point where I said, when we had John Schnatter on the show, Papa John, he mentioned in the member segment that he knows a pizzeria where they're paying $35 an hour for people to make pizzas, which is unheard of.
01:03:04.000And then I was like, okay, so enjoy your $50 pizza.
01:03:07.000And then I get all these people being like, Tim, in Sweden, cheeseburgers are still only $5 and they have- Sweden is like one of the largest weapons exporters per capita.
01:03:17.000Don't come to me and talk to me about what's sustaining their economy, okay?
01:03:20.000I'm not saying that quite literally overnight your pizza's gonna cost $50 because they're paying $35 an hour right now.
01:03:26.000What I'm saying is, sure, at a store with massive volume, where they're doing hundreds of cheeseburgers per hour, they can accommodate higher salaries and wages, and they should, absolutely.
01:03:36.000McDonald's and Burger King, all these places, they should pay more, they have massive profits, same is true for Walmart.
01:03:40.000But when it comes to a small mom-and-pop pizzeria, if you've got to pay someone $35 an hour, how many pizzas are you making per hour?
01:04:41.000I'm going to make it impossible for me to do that.
01:04:43.000I'm going to, like, destroy my vaccine card so that I can't, you know, I can't even give in, you know, there's something they ought to like.
01:06:08.000The interesting thing too with Trump is when you ask people what were some of his authoritarian fascist policies, they can't actually name any.
01:06:15.000It was just resist the individual that you really, really think is over the top and obnoxious.
01:06:20.000Did you see Ben Shapiro on Bill Maher?
01:06:23.000So one of the things that Bill Maher said when he mentions Ben Shapiro's book— And I talked to him last week.
01:07:02.000I guess the idea, the one thing I could say is the people who are willing to believe, like just follow Trump, no matter what Trump said, But that wasn't the majority of conservatives.
01:07:12.000Conservatives, like the Republicans, the people who voted for Trump, were more than willing to criticize him
01:07:16.000as evidenced by the fact that you actually have this weird agreement, like,
01:07:20.000independent voters and Republicans are leaning in the same direction right now.
01:07:24.000Clearly, independents, people who probably vote Libertarian and third party, aren't Republicans.
01:07:29.000But they all recognize the economy is not good.
01:07:33.000But for some reason the Democrats... You wanna know what authoritarian is?
01:07:36.000Authoritarian is when the economy is in flames.
01:09:44.000They're not talking about making anyone here to Yes.
01:09:48.000And the problem, the authoritarianism comes from the people who are like, oh, Rachel Maddow said the other day that she doesn't trust vaccines, but today she says she does, so I guess I will too.
01:12:02.000So when Trump came along and was like, hey, 75 million people who don't see your values or views reflected anywhere in the country in literally anything you're capable of subscribing to.
01:13:53.000He doesn't appear to be a narcissist either, which I respect.
01:13:57.000I don't agree with a lot of his positions, and so I'm not saying I would vote for the guy.
01:14:00.000I'm just saying I probably would not support Trump, considering we've learned our lessons and we have an opportunity for, you know, someone else.
01:14:07.000That being said, I've never been a big fan of the two-party system.
01:14:09.000Like I said, I didn't vote in 2012 or 2016, and 2020 was only because it was just a crazy time, to be completely honest.
01:14:37.000It's really fascinating to like see all of these, uh, what's the new term?
01:14:41.000America first, America first people running.
01:14:43.000I kind of, I'm interested to see what, uh, what they have to say for themselves.
01:14:48.000I think people have learned a lot of lessons, and that means that come 2024, I don't think Trump will be as necessary as people think he was last year or even right now.
01:15:31.000And I think what's inspiring about Dave is that he's a guy you can talk to.
01:15:37.000He's not out of reach and out of touch and more interested in, you know, the consultants, what they're going to say, what size shoe or color tie or anything like that.
01:15:45.000That's one of the problems we have with the two-party system, is it's just machine regimented.
01:15:49.000And Trump kind of broke that in a lot of ways.
01:15:51.000But back to what you were saying about all these midterm people running, people are learning the lessons.
01:15:55.000A lot of America first types, a lot of populist types.
01:16:00.000are now running, and there's a huge opportunity.
01:16:03.000I think what we saw in 2020, the overperformance in the mid-term, I'm sorry, in Congress of the Republicans, it's going to be, it's going to be even crazier.
01:16:11.000Because look, this is what happened with Trump in 2016.
01:16:35.000But because those people did not come out in 2018, to a certain degree was lost, Republicans ended up losing a lot of seats because of that.
01:16:41.000That's when we got like AOC and all those guys, right?
01:16:44.000And I think 31 seats flipped from Republican to Democrat because without Trump's name on the ticket, the Trump voters, so many Trump voters were first time voters or independent voters.
01:17:03.000They have lost the name Trump as well.
01:17:05.000So how many regular people are going to come out in 2022 all dancing and cheering saying, and the orange back the back the party that's been doing by that point will have been doing such a poor job of handling this.
01:17:20.000When you watch the poll numbers dropping, the worse COVID gets and the less control over it the White House can maintain, the more Biden's ratings are going to tank.
01:18:04.000I know people who are as dumb as a box of rocks, who have no business in politics, and couldn't tell you even the name of the parties who are posting videos going and voting by mail, or who are posting the videos of getting their ballots and voting with them.
01:19:51.0001, it's 800 something pages of rules about voting that have absolutely nothing to do with anything other than preventing states from making their own laws.
01:20:02.000So I looked up the, it's called the Remote Accessible Vote by Mail.
01:20:09.000You can print your selection, sign the envelope, and then return the printed and signed selections either by mail or dropping it off in a voting location.
01:20:18.000The selections cannot be returned electronically, so the answer is yes.
01:20:22.000You can request to vote at home, print out your, here's what it says, you download the application, mark your selections, print their selections, sign the envelope using the envelope provided with the vote by mail ballot, or the voter's own envelope.
01:20:52.000Ian, this is the opposite of blockchain.
01:20:55.000Yeah, this is where my nihilism is coming from.
01:20:58.000It is blatantly obvious that if you have a proprietary voting machine counting votes, it's not secure, and that we have an opportunity to attempt to secure it with a third blockchain.
01:21:08.000Like, you still do what we're doing, plus a blockchain layer.
01:21:12.000Literally zero security on the system.
01:21:18.000That to me either shows that people are very stupid in general and we're just destined for extinction, or there are nefarious things keeping it from happening, which I think is more likely, which is terrifying.
01:22:11.000Now we're being told that we are idiots and cursed at, you know, by various YouTubers or whatever, because we believe that individual rights supersede group rights.
01:22:20.000But obviously that's the only way to ensure that there's equality, is to put the individual's rights first.
01:22:26.000You know, what is it with the whole thing about like, you know, it's better that a hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man be in prison?
01:23:14.000This is a big issue in New York because crime went up because they ended cash bail, and this is a progressive issue.
01:23:18.000AOC is very much in favor of ending cash bail, and I completely agree with her.
01:23:22.000The idea that there's some working class dude who gets arrested and accused of a crime, and then they say, now you're going to sit in jail for two months until your court date, you lose your job, you lose your apartment, your family doesn't know where you are, or things of that nature.
01:23:34.000Because you didn't have the thousand dollars to pay bail, I think is wrong.
01:23:37.000What we need is a much speedier court system.
01:23:39.000I mean, we have such... There was a young man who actually died in prison because he couldn't afford bail and it was over a stolen backpack and he didn't do it.
01:23:46.000And I think he died in, like, Reichers or something like that.
01:23:51.000The state should not have the ability to punish you in any way unless it's a violent crime with probable cause and the judge can actually say... What about recidivism?
01:24:18.000I'm not remembering the story, but like someone was arrested a bunch of times on gun charges, kept being released, kept being released, kept being released.
01:24:24.000And then, you know, See, that's the promise about the tyranny.
01:24:28.000If somebody is arrested on a violent crime, and they say, here's the person, your honor, here's our probable cause as to why we believe this person did this, the judge will then say, due to the threat, you are remanded to custody.
01:25:46.000The greater metropolitan area of New York.
01:25:48.000The people who come into the city and come out.
01:25:49.000Well, the greater metropolitan area of New York, though, I mean, you don't have, like, all of those people aren't subject to the same courts.
01:25:55.000No, if the people who come into and out of New York.
01:26:46.000There's that tendency that people won't fight their own, sit at their own neighbors, so maybe we need jurors from elsewhere.
01:26:51.000The problem with an online court, though, is it removes the... It's like we were talking about earlier with Twitter, right?
01:26:55.000It's like it removes the emotional aspect.
01:26:58.000So when you're a judge and you see a defendant in an orange jumpsuit on a closed circuit prison camera, are you really going to look at that guy and see his humanity?
01:27:31.000Yeah, one of the things that's, it is relatively easier for certain crimes where it's like the cops themselves witness it and they say, you know, we are witnesses, but then there's still agents of the state.
01:28:50.000Like, you know, in terms of calling police officers for some reason, if there's something going on, you have to be really careful with that because cops show up and they don't know who is who.
01:29:31.000And she, like, had a couple of kids and she was trying to I don't have any respect for officers who are imposing and enforcing lockdowns either.
01:31:46.000I was talking to Ben Shapiro about this, because I was like, what happens when People, you know, he was calling it like the big sort, you know, like there's going to be a big sort out.
01:31:56.000Like, will it eventually overtake the entire country?
01:32:51.000But the overall average among all regions, when I actually went through the math, I went through the population of each state, normalized for population, 37.2% of people in this country are in favor of their area breaking off from the U.S.
01:33:02.000With the Great Sort, you are going to see those numbers dramatically increase.
01:33:06.000Because the people in the Pacific region, the 30% of Republicans who are there and want to break off, will move to Texas and bolster the Republican number there and increase it.
01:33:15.000I think 60% of Southern Republicans wanted to break away.
01:33:18.000I think that's like, I want though, like I want to eat cake every day.
01:33:21.000Like they don't really want, they don't know what it is they're saying they want.
01:33:25.000If you want to militarize, you want, you want like a warlike five tribal North American, you know, 21st century, don't, that's how you split it up.
01:33:33.000Then we'll all go to fight each other.
01:34:07.000The Senate was asked recently, wasn't it, to vote for the massive, giant, stupid infrastructure bill before it was written because the House refused to take it up unless the Senate promised that they would pass something that the House drafted.
01:34:21.000There will be... Ian, here's what'll happen.
01:34:26.000There will be a certain amount of signatures to get something as a referendum.
01:34:30.000It'll appear on the ballot in November, and then people will see it, and as we already know, X amount of people in these regions want to secede.
01:34:36.000So when they're voting, it'll be like, would you like your region to become its own region?
01:36:19.000Events they require if they require some medical intervention, but here's the point
01:36:23.000First of all when it comes to small business, I don't think the employer or the employee they owe each other anything
01:36:28.000We have an agreement right? I'm looking for someone to do work. Do you want to do work? Here's my stipulations?
01:36:32.000No, have a nice day. I don't owe you any money So when small businesses are like here my restrictions, I'm
01:36:37.000like, okay Well, you know like I'm not gonna tell a small business.
01:36:39.000They have to hire somebody within certain reasons This is a big moral challenge because I understand there are certain things where I'm like, you shouldn't discriminate on the basis of race or identity.
01:36:48.000And then, you know, when it comes to vaccines, it's like, well, like now you're telling people they can't discriminate for a certain reason, but ultimately, you know, it ends up happening.
01:36:55.000The people are now making the hard choice of putting their money where their mouth is.
01:36:59.000No longer will you be able to sit back and just let everyone else fight your battles for you.
01:37:11.000And I probably am not going to talk to you.
01:37:13.000And the problem is, when I was saying a long time ago, if these people are doing these things, you need to speak up now or forever hold your peace.
01:37:20.000When it was just critical race applied principles, people were like, nah, I don't got to say anything.
01:37:23.000Well, now they're telling you to go get an injection.
01:37:28.000Whether your doctor tells you or not, they have requirements.
01:37:30.000Now that's between you and your doctor.
01:37:31.000You go talk to your doctor about what's right for you.
01:39:45.000It's like they constantly, as they enforce these things and throw these things at us, there's this underlying understanding that it's actually helping, that it's actually reducing the virus, that it's actually doing all it did.
01:41:01.000Like when AOC comes out and lies about what happened in the Capitol.
01:41:04.000Her whole story is fabricated, by the way, because the time at which the cop came to her door and knocked was a few minutes before the first Trump supporters actually breached the barricades.
01:42:47.000For her to then claim she thought the protesters got to her room, the conservatives all respond, but her office wasn't even in the Capitol building.
01:42:55.000And then the fact check is, Reuters says, false.
01:43:00.000She was concerned that they made it through the tunnels.
01:43:03.000And then I looked at the timeline, I'm like, it was an hour and 11 minutes after the cop showed up at her door that the first doors got breached at the Capitol building.
01:43:14.000No one thought these people were getting in the building.
01:43:16.000If they did, there would have been more police at the Capitol.
01:43:18.000And if you think that's not true, then you got a problem with the Capitol Police, because they should... If you think the Capitol Police knew that was going to happen, and AOC knew it was going to happen, why didn't they call for more police?
01:44:34.000Because if you are projecting in the future and like, I think it's going to get worse, It's not that you're saying it's going to get worse, but you're just projecting one possible future that happens to be terrifying.
01:45:11.000Make all the hit pieces in the world you want.
01:45:12.000We got a lot of fun stuff happening here.
01:45:14.000It was funny when Vosh came and we were talking with him before he came up.
01:45:17.000We were like, we're doing a bunch of new shows.
01:45:19.000Dungeons and Dragons, Paranormals and Mysteries.
01:45:23.000And I think it's funny that like, The company so far has like a political show and then like we're launching totally not political stuff and they're acting like it's the apocalypse.
01:46:13.000Southern Survival says, I'm a 15-year veteran currently on my fourth tour, and I'm worried about my career being affected by my refusal of the vaccine.
01:46:53.000They have burn pits in, I think it's Afghanistan, where they just, all the trash is thrown in as just a 24-7 burn pit, and then when the wind catches it, brings it over the base, everyone has to breathe that.
01:47:03.000Alright, SuperNeilComic says, I am from Canada and so much want to live in one of the red states like Texas and become a US citizen.
01:47:49.000Ted Cruz, come on the show, that'd be amazing.
01:47:53.000You know, look, here's something, some insight.
01:47:56.000Like when we first started the show, we would send emails to people and they would just click delete.
01:48:00.000They don't care, they don't want to come on the show.
01:48:02.000And then a few months go by, and then people would be like, oh, you know, maybe sometime.
01:48:07.000And as the show's gotten bigger and more subscribers, all of a sudden now we're getting people emailing us, being like, can we come on your show?
01:48:13.000So I'm not in the mindset of, like, reaching out to Ted Cruz and asking him to come on the show.
01:48:17.000But if Ted Cruz wants to come on the show, we'd be like, yeah, absolutely.
01:48:37.000I talked to Ted Cruz last week, and it took a whole bunch of running around like a crazy person to get three minutes or something of his time.
01:49:27.000Dallicourt says, Tim, with all the blue ties rolling into Texas, do you think it'll dilute the liberal influence in the coastal states, allowing for some red winds?
01:49:55.000The problem is the Democrats bring those same policies with them, not caring or realizing.
01:49:59.000So I do think it could theoretically dilute some of their power and expand congressional seats for conservatives because many of these Democrat voters who leave big cities to the suburbs at the least are spreading out their vote into red-dominated areas.
01:50:12.000It could flip some red areas blue that are really close.
01:50:16.000But I think if you've got an area that's like 55% Republican, 45% Democrat, and then some Democrats move out to that suburb, it won't be enough to change.
01:50:25.000So you don't think any of these Democrats are going to change their minds?
01:51:06.000Hey, man, I really appreciate that and the super chat.
01:51:11.000You know, what's crazy is, I think, going back to those smear pieces, there was one, apparently I'm the most dangerous political commentator, I guess, because the reason is, I'm a moderate.
01:51:23.000And that's really, really bad for the far left.
01:51:27.000If you grow up, and you're left liberal, and this is the tribe, and it's the only space you have where you feel safe, And then someone says, well, you can always be a suit wearing Christian conservative.
01:51:37.000They go, I don't, I don't, that's not me.
01:51:50.000I mean, it's like you look at a lot of the podcasts that are prominent conservative and they're wearing suits and they're very stodgy and, you know, very businesslike.
01:51:58.000And, you know, Ian's basically wearing his pajamas.
01:53:08.000The high school that I went to and never finished, because I only went there for like two months, they make you do community service before you graduate.
01:53:15.000At least I'm pretty sure that was the case.
01:53:17.000I didn't know because I never did it because I left and didn't graduate.
01:53:19.000I had to do community service for my confirmation hours, but also for my high school.
01:53:39.000Tim, given your stance on 2A, would you disarm me, a card-carrying CCL holder, if I were to visit the Cast Castle for one of your public events?
01:56:45.000So with the eviction moratorium, there's a group of lawyers who are saying, certainly many of the people who are renting properties are soldiers.
01:56:53.000And if the government is mandating you can't evict a soldier, that is a violation of the Third Amendment.
01:57:00.000And so their argument is the whole thing should be thrown out because there was no consideration given to the idea of how they restrict soldiers.
01:57:09.000But at the very least, the court should say, if you're an active duty soldier or if you are a soldier of the US Armed Forces in any way, you can be evicted, which kind of sucks because of all the people who would be evicted.
01:57:43.000But the real issue, I think, was not that soldiers were occupying homes, but that agents of the state were stealing property from the people.
01:57:50.000So what the Third Amendment should actually say is, Agents of the government shall not be able to claim, seize, or take property from an American citizen without due process.
01:58:02.000Civil asset forfeiture, out the window.
01:58:05.000But the Third Amendment says no soldiers, you know, during peacetime shall, you know, be quartered in someone's home or during a war without an act of Congress or whatever.
01:58:15.000About an act of legislation or something.
01:58:27.000Right now we have cops will actually go in your house and use it for stakeouts and things like that.
01:58:31.000They'll seize property from your vehicle.
01:58:33.000I think all of that should fall under the Third Amendment.
01:58:35.000I think the issue is the language changes and the understanding of what the issue was changes.
01:58:39.000But the core element of what the Third Amendment, I think, represents is being secure in your property from the government just taking whatever they want.
01:58:46.000People never talk about the Third Amendment.
01:58:48.000The Fourth Amendment says, you know, search and seizure.
01:58:50.000So I guess that's why they're like, oh, well, that covers it.
02:00:15.000if you if you called a plumber and you said that my toilets backed up and you went oh you're a bobo line must be birthed you'd be like I don't know what you're talking about I'm gonna call a different plumber I don't understand why people have that that like if your doctor can't give you legitimate answers like you need to find one yeah I mean what I'd like to know is I'm interested to know what the risks are You know, they're talking about emergency authorization for vaccinations for children under 12.
02:00:45.000And I'm saying, like, is there a way to know what the risks are?
02:00:48.000Is there a way to, like, are there additional tests that you could run on kids to make sure that they're not susceptible to some of these adverse reactions, you know?
02:01:03.000I think it's an issue of people taking their doctors, their medical, their health for granted and just assuming that because you've hired someone, they're good at their job.
02:01:11.000The human body is, this has been on my mind a lot too, the greatest gift God has ever given us and to abuse it is blasphemous and is demonic.
02:01:20.000It's a form of possession to abuse your body, whether that's obesity or Haphazardly injecting yourself with God knows what.
02:02:14.000You need to go to healthcare practitioners who are knowledgeable, who have been reading the modern literature and the science, and are going to give you a legitimate, honest opinion based on everything that's going on.
02:02:29.000says, Libby, you should look at Tulsa, Oklahoma for the post-millennial.
02:02:32.000Tulsa is a mid-major city, cheap cost of living, good people, great culture, like a mini-Austin, and one of the best-kept secrets in the Red States.
02:04:03.000I don't, I don't, I think he's over the top.
02:04:05.000But I think what you see is that most people are willing to accept kneeling before a tyrant if it means they'll just get to go to their house, close the door, and eat, you know, Hot Pocket or something.
02:04:13.000To the point where we have social security cards now at birth.
02:04:15.000They don't even ask us if we want them.
02:05:51.000BlackRockBeacon says, To all serving in the Armed Forces, look up DoD Directive 6200.2, Use of Investigational New Drugs for Force Health Protection.
02:06:00.000We need to start doing FOIA requests to ensure all protocols were properly followed, otherwise VAX is an unlawful order.
02:06:07.000And I'll stress to people, the DOJ has, I think the Supreme Court's ruled on this, they can mandate vaccines nationwide if they wanted to.
02:06:19.000I think it was Harmeet Dhillon who also did a thread saying, like, she has to let people understand, like, jobs are allowed to mandate that from you.
02:06:43.000Zane Peavy says, if you're okay with companies mandating employees get the vaccine, would you be okay with them forcing women to take birth control?
02:07:06.000If there's a guy who makes pizzas, and it's literally just him in his kitchen, and he has to hire somebody, and he's like, I don't want somebody who's coming in here and doing, you know, X, Y, or Z, then it's his choice, you know?
02:07:18.000So, I don't know, it's a tough question, I gotta be honest.
02:07:20.000Maybe the answer to that one is no, and maybe it's not so much an issue of principle, it's an issue of personal morals.
02:07:26.000And that's an important distinction as well.
02:07:28.000I might say something like, I don't think businesses should be forced, but I also have an issue with this kind of violation of ethics.
02:07:35.000And then it becomes a really... This is why I'm never going to be a politician.
02:07:37.000This is why I don't want to be legislating law or writing up what should or shouldn't be because someone's going to say it's not fair if I have to do X if this person doesn't have to do Y. And then I'm just like, bro, I am not going to be a king of anybody.
02:07:48.000I think human traffickers force girls to go on birth control before they escort them across the border because of the... Yikes, man.
02:07:56.000This is what Ted Cruz was telling me the other day.
02:08:12.000Yeah, I talked to this other guy who was showing me the bracelets that the human traffickers put on people when they're crossing the border.
02:08:20.000It'll be like, you know, it'll say like Mujer on them and stuff, just like identifying who everybody is as to where they're going to be like sold off to and stuff.
02:08:31.000The people who are profiting from that are clearly the massive international human trafficking cartels.
02:08:37.000Well, my friends, thanks for hanging out.
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02:08:54.000Did you want to shout anything out, Lydia?
02:09:08.000And I just wanted to say, too, that part of what we're doing with the culture is giving some kind of alternative, because I have noticed that one thing conservatives like to do is say, this is bad, bad, bad, bad.
02:09:16.000So, what are you offering as an alternative?