On today's show, we discuss the recent settlement between the city of Minneapolis and George Floyd's family for $27 million in a civil suit brought forward by a jury that was tainted. Plus, we talk about an autonomous zone in Minneapolis where Black Lives Matter extremists have taken over an area of the city, and we're joined by Jack Murphy to talk about that and much more.
00:02:03.000The people who live here are writing about how cops don't come, a 30-year-old volunteer was shot and killed, on multiple nights, 30 gunshots ringing out, children running and hiding, bullets riddling people's homes and garages.
00:02:56.000Well, because extremists have taken over the area because cops can't get in, because cops don't want to get in, because cops have been fired, and the city defunded the police.
00:03:03.000Now they've got to spend millions to bring these officers back.
00:05:07.000The one thing we hear from everybody is they're like, you know, if, like, there were a series of misprints that went out, but they really love the quality of the shirts.
00:06:11.000Well, the brewery is not really in Harper's Ferry, but we went up there and we grabbed a bunch of their beers and we try to make it up there so often.
00:07:00.000Well, so the reason I wanted to kind of start off a little slow and kind of just be silly and have fun and talk about beer and stuff, because this this subject is going to get dark.
00:07:19.000I was so honored and humbled that he wanted to come on the show and talk about his The issues that are relevant to him and his career and military service, so I was incredibly honored.
00:07:30.000And I guess everyone really loved him being on the show.
00:07:33.000Afterwards, we did an exclusive segment with him where he talked about critical race theory, wokeness, how it's affecting politics, and of course, he's no fan.
00:07:39.000It was a really interesting conversation.
00:07:40.000I have to admit, I probably have a lot of opinions you've heard from a lot of people, but it's interesting to hear it from, you know, a veteran of both the political space as well as the military.
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00:07:58.000Now we're gonna get dark, and that's why I was like, let's go slow a little bit with this one, because when I saw this op-ed, this is from March 15th.
00:08:07.000Near George Floyd Square, revolution by day, de-evolution by night.
00:08:11.000I saw this, and I'm like, oh, this'll be interesting.
00:08:13.000You know, they're gonna talk about, you know, Antifa.
00:08:15.000I actually assumed they were gonna be... I thought it was gonna be positive.
00:08:19.000I thought they were gonna be like, these activists have come, and they've helped us, and they've brought all this goodness and organization.
00:08:26.000And then I just got a couple paragraphs in, and it just got so incredibly dark.
00:08:53.000They don't care about what they're saying, and they will do nothing to help these people.
00:08:57.000This story, I'm not going to read through every little bit of it.
00:08:59.000But I'll read a little bit right now to give you an introduction to what's going on.
00:09:02.000They say, As neighbors of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, also known as George Floyd Square or the Autonomous Zone, we are witnessing a revolution by day and a devolution by night.
00:09:15.000Visitors arriving with flowers in hand only to retreat to their cars when greeted by the sound of gunshots.
00:09:21.000Neighbors ducking for cover behind our houses, children in tow.
00:09:25.000The spiritual health of our community, the feeling of being connected to something larger than ourselves, is collapsing.
00:09:31.000Here's an account of some of the events of the past 10 days on one block adjacent to George Floyd Square, where police are met by hostile groups when responding to our repeated 911 calls.
00:09:47.000A 30-year-old volunteer is killed in the zone by gunshot.
00:09:50.000People in the zone are seen picking up shell casings and throwing them into city garbage, loading the gunshot victim into a car to drive him to the hospital.
00:10:24.000Parents and children out biking and walking on a sunny day duck behind houses.
00:10:27.000Children watch bullets kicking up dust in the street.
00:10:31.000A zone leader visits a bullet-riddled house to comfort the family while others from the zone are observed picking up shell casings behind her.
00:11:42.000As some neighbors are picking up shell casings, people near the first statue in the zone repeatedly yell, get the F outta here!
00:11:49.000Then a gun is fired from near the first statue.
00:11:51.000Four men come out of the zone to tell neighbors, they weren't shooting at you.
00:11:55.000The neighbors ask if they are zone security and are told no, but one man reports he has his gun.
00:12:00.000Neighbors ask how to protect themselves and are told the best thing to do is fill the street corners with garbage containers to block off our streets.
00:12:14.000March 12th, 30 shots from inside the zone.
00:12:16.000I'll point out a few things I think need to be corrected.
00:12:19.000I do not believe this, uh, they mentioned a person, you know, witness recognizes a, a 30, an assault rifle with a 30 round clip.
00:12:27.000I do not believe there was someone there with like a clip fed M1 Garand that was modified for full auto or something like that.
00:12:34.000I think Star Tribune, the people who live in this neighborhood don't know much about guns.
00:12:39.000And what they're actually saying is that someone had a rifle of some sort with a 30 round magazine.
00:12:45.000If it is true, however, that they do understand the context of Assault Rifle, meaning Select Fire Rifle, what they're telling us is that somebody was perched atop a building in this area with a fully automatic rifle on a tripod.
00:13:00.000This person probably was just thinking they were gonna protect the neighborhood, and they mounted an AR-15 of some sort, a rifle, semi-automatic, on a tripod with a 30-round magazine.
00:13:12.000I don't know why they would need to do that unless the police have been defunded, extremists have taken over the area, and residents are now cowering in fear.
00:13:21.000They say medics are being provided for those who are being traumatized.
00:13:25.000You know, typically when we hear about these Antifa zones and trauma, we usually fan it off like a bunch of weak, pathetic college kids who think hearing a fart is gonna traumatize you.
00:13:35.000Or that journalist who fired an AR-15, probably a 5.56, and then got PTSD from doing it.
00:13:41.000No, I think these families are absolutely going to be suffering PTSD because it sounds like they're in a war zone.
00:13:46.000Cars crashing through a fence, 30 rounds ringing out at some point, a 30-year-old being shot and killed.
00:13:52.000We heard about that story when it happened.
00:13:54.000The police tried to come and render aid.
00:13:56.000And then what happens in these autonomous zones, the extremists pick up the evidence, the shell casings, and they destroy all the evidence.
00:14:03.000When the security in the, I believe it was the CHAZ, Executed those kids for 10 minutes.
00:14:09.000We're just unloading round after round.
00:14:14.000Well, the police couldn't get in, so they stripped the vehicle of evidence so that nobody would know who did it and what they did.
00:14:20.000Now it's been happening in Minneapolis.
00:14:22.000All while we have this trial going on.
00:14:24.000I don't know how you have a, I can't believe they're having this trial for Chauvin in Minneapolis right now.
00:14:30.000They need to move him to Bumpkinville somewhere far away from all of this stuff, all of the press, all of the gunshots, all of the settlement, and then just let people in different community hear this because there's no way this guy's getting a fair trial.
00:14:59.000So maybe they have to reveal it, but it seems to me, if you're going to settle and put that statement of that number out there, what you're basically saying is we think we're guilty and, you know, why settle it now?
00:15:28.000I don't get how people are calling 911 from inside the zone to police outside the zone and it's not being treated as like a hostage situation.
00:16:04.000I remember I'd be, you know, sleeping and you hear, pow, pow, pow, in the middle of the night.
00:16:08.000And you just, you're laying down, so what can you do?
00:16:12.000You know, go to the floor if you hear it closely, but usually it's far away.
00:16:15.000I remember hearing from a friend of mine, I was talking to him on the phone late at night because we were going to go skate or something, and then he's like, oh, dude, hold on a second.
00:16:23.000Yeah, there's a couple people dragging... Dude, they're dragging a body.
00:16:28.000He basically said, what he told me was, that he saw two people going through an alley carrying a rolled up carpet with feet sticking out the back of it.
00:16:36.000Even going to a place like this, I could not imagine 30 shots ringing out.
00:17:13.000So they're saying 38th and Chicago is the George Floyd Square.
00:17:19.000So there's probably four adjacent blocks, one going east, west, north, and south, or whatever the directions they have it built in.
00:17:27.000Maybe it's north by northwest or something.
00:17:30.000And this is one of those blocks adjacent to the memorial.
00:17:35.000We read about that story, man, where the 30-year-old volunteer was shot and killed.
00:17:38.000But this is just so much like what happened in Seattle.
00:17:40.000You'd think the first time this happened, then police would take it seriously.
00:17:45.000But I want to add to this, when will there ever be a federal response to what's going on with these extremists?
00:17:51.000Because I'm willing to bet, you know, they mentioned that one of these guys who was shooting had nothing to do with the neighbors who were arguing.
00:17:57.000I'm willing to bet, we call them the tourists.
00:18:00.000So, you know, since Occupy, me and several of many journalists, friends of mine, we would notice there were always these similar people we would see at the same events.
00:20:06.000But the cake, the cake is when I figured out what I had did a house that had bars on the roof hatch on the inside on the second floor of their townhouse.
00:20:16.000There's a roof hatch to go up into the attic and up into the roof.
00:20:19.000They had bars inside their house on the second floor roof hatch because they were they had to pay somebody to come in there and weld it.
00:20:27.000Because someone broke into their attic?
00:20:28.000Because people had been breaking into homes through the attics and invading people's houses.
00:20:33.000So that's like a level of violence that people were accustomed to in the 80s and the early 90s in D.C.
00:21:19.000I'll tell you this, based on what they're reporting, I felt safe, like, reading this, and I'll preface this with, I don't know what it's actually like to be there on the ground, but when I was in Venezuela, nowhere near as scary.
00:21:30.000If what they're going through right now with an autonomous zone sounds more deadly than Caracas, which is the murder capital of the world now, I can only imagine, I mean, Something's got to be done about it.
00:21:43.000This is... I mean, look, there's photos, I guess.
00:21:46.000There's a photo of a giant Black Lives Matter communist fist right in the middle.
00:21:51.000Is this what people can expect when this ideological faction continues to gain power and expand?
00:21:56.000All right, here's two things that are really important.
00:21:58.000One, Black Lives Matter and Antifa should be acting as decentralized cells, not trying to hold territory like this and using politics and other punctuated moments to get their agenda across.
00:22:09.000Holding territory for them seems like a strategic failure, right?
00:22:13.000Because they're just setting up this environment in which they can be blamed for virtually everything.
00:22:30.000If I were designing a circumstance to make Black Lives Matter and Antifa look bad, I would encourage people to go to this autonomous zone and start shooting things up and start blowing things up.
00:22:39.000Or you would encourage them to create the anonymous zone, because you know what invariably leads to when cops don't come anymore.
00:22:45.000It seems like such a bad idea, and maybe they're just this stupid, but it seems like such a bad idea that it feels like it's somebody else doing it.
00:22:53.000I mean, look, the fist symbol they use is literally the communist fist symbol, you know, so I'm not going to pretend that a lot of these people realize what it is.
00:23:04.000They don't know the core ideology behind a lot of what they're doing.
00:23:07.000There are a lot of people who, and this is to be fair and be respectful, support Black Lives Matter because they
00:23:13.000genuinely believe police go around hunting down black people.
00:24:38.000So, you know, in these areas, it's particularly interesting when you have white progressive Antifa types going into minority areas and burning down black businesses and contributing to that, that, that conflict.
00:24:48.000But, but I think they're specifically talking about terror and political, not, not like random street violence and muggings.
00:25:51.000By all means, if the experts come out and say racist extremists and white supremacists are the biggest threat we face, I say, well then, thank God you guys are on top of this one.
00:26:02.000If you guys are actually tracking down the extremists and going to stop the violent criminals from committing atrocities, then I'm glad you're there, because we don't want that to happen.
00:26:10.000Now, do you have any extra police or federal agents that can stop The autonomous zone extremism that's putting people under occupation and making them live in fear and under violence under the boot of these extremists?
00:26:22.000Because I don't understand why they can't do that.
00:26:23.000I don't understand why they can send out a dozen agents for a garage pole rope for that NASCAR driver because they thought it was racist.
00:26:30.000But they can't do anything to stop this? Because the government doesn't want it in
00:26:34.000Minneapolis, in Minnesota. The people don't want it. The elected officials don't want it.
00:26:39.000The city councils are the ones that move to defund the police. That entire community is
00:26:44.000affected in, sorry, infected top to bottom apparently with this mind disease, right?
00:26:50.000And the part that you pointed out... Well, not at the bottom.
00:26:53.000These are the ones who are writing the op-eds saying people are fleeing and we refuse.
00:27:07.000Who could be against Black Lives Matter?
00:27:09.000Well, this is what happens when you've been taken as a unwitting foot soldier in a war where you don't know what the end goal really is or any of the ideology behind what you're doing, what you're saying, and you just become a pawn.
00:27:22.000And now these people are figuring out that they're pawns, but there's no one in that political apparatus that wants federal agents to come in there and fix this or state troopers to come in there and fix this.
00:27:32.000And they've already told their local police not to fix it.
00:27:57.000So if they're coming out and they're saying that now, I will also say to all the people who voted for it and still sit back and say it's a good thing.
00:28:05.000Don't, don't, I'm not going to interfere.
00:28:07.000I've been thinking about this for about 15 minutes during war, World War II, I think 20 million soldier deaths, 50 million civilian deaths, something like that.
00:28:15.000The number was like two to one in war.
00:28:17.000And that's in like an organized soldier on soldier conflict.
00:28:20.000When you see this city violence, it's the civilian death and destruction that is just goes under the radar.
00:28:29.000If you don't pay attention to the news, if you do nothing, evil triumphs.
00:28:34.000But the problem that we have today is the world has become too complex and it's impossible for an individual to make sense of the world, determine right and wrong, up from down.
00:28:46.000It is impossible to do that today, right?
00:28:48.000Because we live in a purposefully polluted information space.
00:28:51.000It's impossible for anybody working outside of that space.
00:28:55.000So you expect the journalist to distill his information and give you an accurate worldview so you can make better choices.
00:29:01.000Instead, what you get now is rage-bait garbage.
00:29:04.000Ridiculous stories, drama, articles, so-and-so's fighting with so-and-so, or whatever.
00:29:57.000During, I mean, look, we did, we, you were on the show on January 6th.
00:30:00.000We had like, you know, 80,000 people watching, a million views in the first night of live viewership.
00:30:07.000And then like 800 or 900,000, you know, video on demand views.
00:30:10.000And now viewership goes way down because we're coming off of that political season.
00:30:15.000Fortunately for us, we're a small podcast with small business. Things are going well,
00:30:21.000but for CNN, oh no, they're getting crushed and it's getting brutal.
00:30:25.000To finish that last point, though, on this complexity of the world,
00:30:29.000it was once upon a time, I believe, rational to be ignorant of politics.
00:30:35.000You're not going to be able to deduce everything.
00:30:37.000You're not going to be able to figure it all out and make a vote that's going to count, right?
00:30:41.000Because it's never just been decided by one vote.
00:30:44.000So there was a little rationality to being ignorant.
00:30:46.000But today, it is irrational to be ignorant.
00:30:49.000If you are ignorant and you just accept what's given to you over the mainstream media and through the legacy and through our institutions, you will end up fat, sick, chained to a desk, in debt, working for a corporation, wearing a mask, staying at home, putting your kid in quarantine next to you, listening to him cry out for you.
00:31:07.000And you'll think that we live in a world where white supremacy is the biggest problem and that Black Lives Matter just means we want black people to have a good life.
00:31:15.000That's what happens when you don't pay attention.
00:32:04.000It's so much so that she's experiencing depression, and she thinks it's normal because she sees other people experiencing this, that she's like, it's just being a normal adult.
00:32:13.000No, lady, dude, you are in serious trouble, okay?
00:32:16.000Listen, if you're gaining 30 pounds overnight, what are you eating, and why aren't you getting physically active?
00:32:22.000Are you just sitting around and eating garbage food?
00:32:24.000Sounds like you got a favorite spatula.
00:33:40.000This is just like, it's sad millennial depression.
00:33:43.000But listen, what I'm seeing from this is, if she's a creator, if she's an influencer, and she thinks this resonates with her audience, millennials got serious problems.
00:33:52.000So my girlfriend is a hairstylist, and every day in her chair she has an endless stream of women between 25 and 55 coming into her chair.
00:34:00.000And when you sit down in a hairstylist chair, it's sort of like sitting down at the therapist because you're not making direct eye contact and you can just spill your guts.
00:34:09.000And of course the whole time she's just like, oh yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
00:34:12.000And she tells me that the women all say the same thing.
00:34:14.000Every single one that comes into her chair talks the same way.
00:34:17.000Depression, gaining weight, the world sucks.
00:34:47.000It's super simple, but it's the path of least resistance, right?
00:34:51.000Everybody is dealing with some crazy cultural problem right now, where we've got social media making people depressed, they want likes, they're desperate for it, but there's no actual community event for them to go out to.
00:35:03.000And that's what I think is a big factor here.
00:35:04.000Yes, but what we need to look at is whether or not the rates of anxiety and depression were this high in February of 2020 as they are now.
00:36:34.000But I think when you and we can talk about all the different correlations in human behavior, why millennials Why are they so... What's up with the wokeness, right?
00:36:44.000Because I did a segment about this a couple of years ago.
00:36:47.000I think one of the big factors in this, you know, for this woman, why they're depressed, is a lack of purpose in life.
00:36:58.000Yeah, parts around the world where if you live there, you eat the diet that's indigenous there, and you get the sunlight and the air, you live to like 150 years old or whatever.
00:37:07.000Blue zones are areas where people live to be over 100, and there's a certain combination of factors they found in all these different places.
00:37:14.000You know what one of the most important things was?
00:38:29.000You get young men who are angsty and angry, who don't go out, who don't go for walks, who don't exercise, who feel completely defeated, who feel that they're too ugly, there's something wrong with them, and they'll never succeed.
00:38:39.000And Jordan Peterson, you know, there's a reason why what he said resonated with a lot of these young men.
00:38:44.000Find the heaviest thing you can carry and carry it.
00:38:46.000He was basically saying, get out and do something.
00:38:49.000So you have, I see this very much so, not every millennial, many of them have filled the void with fake purpose, activism, and nonsensical threats to their existence, and the other half have just abandoned purpose and just play video games all day and waste away.
00:39:03.000This is leading to mass depression in my opinion, but there's a lot of other factors too.
00:39:06.000Huge amount of factors, but you're absolutely right.
00:39:09.000The number one issue is a loss of meaning.
00:39:12.000And part of that is because we've diminished the value of nationalism.
00:39:16.000Surviving for your country, thriving for your country, not a thing.
00:39:20.000It's not cool to be a nationalist anymore, popularly.
00:39:24.000I mean, even if... I think there could be a global effort towards, like, the ISS or something.
00:39:33.000There's no... Where's, like... You know, we land on the moon, and it's this big television broadcast, look what we're doing, we're amazing, and everybody was like, look how awesome we are.
00:39:46.000Between like any goals. There's no goal. Okay, even if you're even if people were like it's about nationalism
00:39:52.000Okay Well, you can have a cooperative contest a friendly
00:39:54.000competition between various nations to help develop the proper composite component
00:39:59.000Whatever for getting us a lightweight material strong flexible and finding a way to colonize Mars. We don't have
00:40:04.000that space elevators We don't have anything like that
00:40:07.000We have some people who very much like the idea, and then we have a dominant culture of posting fake pictures on the internet, posting dumb videos, complaining about somebody for some reason, and then what do you get?
00:40:17.000You get Cats Against Humanity saying they're gaining tons of weight, they'd rather go to sleep, everything hurts, they have a favorite spatula but everything feels like a chore, and they're always annoyed.
00:41:21.000So that you can have your ego, your sense of self, and everything about you obliterated, smashed into a million billion pieces, and then you can be whatever they want you to be.
00:41:48.000Dude, I want the documents in front of me because I agree with you.
00:41:50.000We've had James Lindsay was on last week talking about it.
00:41:53.000It's like an 80-year-old communist plot, basically.
00:41:56.000I mean, this has been going on since the 1930s, was it?
00:41:58.000Look, I talked to the leading Russian philosopher.
00:42:03.000Who helped in the 80s and 90s formulate the way to destroy America.
00:42:08.000I talked to him directly and he admits the whole point is to destroy meaning, is to destroy barriers, is to erase boundaries and barriers that give you identity and give you a place in the world.
00:42:21.000If you look out into the universe, it's infinity.
00:42:24.000Your brain explodes when you're confronted with infinity.
00:42:27.000The only way that we can have sanity is if you make barriers and boundaries and identify who you are and have an identity and give yourself meaning.
00:42:34.000All the institutions that gave us meaning, gone.
00:42:36.000Corrupted universities, churches, government, nationalism, all of it, gone.
00:42:50.000The end result is people that are too depressed, too scared, too anxious to fight back against anything, to be an individual, to even know what's right.
00:42:59.000They get turned into these mindless drone foot soldiers that are like, Black Lives Matter, right on, except they don't understand what that really means.
00:43:06.000They don't realize that the fist they hold up is actually the communism fist.
00:44:16.000Uh, you can also get a, get a, our pillow, I think on Tim.
00:44:20.000I'm going to make a real quick shameless plug here.
00:44:21.000If you are a man and you feel like you don't have any meaning and your community has been obliterated and you're not allowed to be a nationalist and you've lost touch.
00:44:41.000Like, people who lived in Texas 30 years ago didn't have the same ideals as those who lived in New York, but they had a community that gave them purpose, and then beyond that there was a shared national identity and specific goals.
00:44:54.000If you go back to the 60s, fighting the Cold War was important to basically everybody in this country.
00:44:59.000Today, man, you couldn't find unity to stop China's concentration camps if you tried.
00:45:04.000They argue about what the right approach is.
00:45:06.000Nobody wants to get on board with any plan.
00:45:09.000And we just kind of sit back and let everything fall apart.
00:45:12.000Meanwhile, what are we complaining about?
00:45:48.000And it was really funny, Frank Luntz, the famous pollster, tweeted at Brian Stelter when he tweeted this, maybe try covering the issues instead of some guy.
00:45:56.000And then Brian was like, maybe you should watch the full segment because I... No, dude, talk about the issues.
00:46:00.000I'm not interested in any of these individuals necessarily.
00:46:02.000I mean, sure, we can call out bad behavior when it's particularly egregious.
00:46:06.000But our culture is nothing now, for the most part, other than, here's who I don't like.
00:46:11.000Meanwhile, you know what China's culture is?
00:46:13.000We're expanding into the South China Sea, we're building military bases on the atolls, we're building fake, we're building artificial islands to hold weapons.
00:47:53.000What do you think they thought about getting on a boat for three months with a 1 in 5 chance of dying to land on a shore where there's no food, no water, no shelter, nothing?
00:48:00.000First of all, they believed that there would be food and they believed that there would be water because they knew they were going to be on Earth, first of all.
00:48:07.000And they knew how to hunt, and where they were living already, they were already fending off the land.
00:49:02.000The people who are getting- I don't understand.
00:49:04.000Yeah, these big wooden ships, the technological advancements that allowed them to actually make it across the Atlantic, thousands of miles.
00:49:30.000The alternative hypothesis around Thanksgiving is like, look at us show off this abundance of food.
00:49:38.000Before we go to Mars, we're going to be sending supplies and technology so that the people who finally arrive will be able to build large ecodomes with food and supplies that will last them for years, with consistent amounts of supplies coming in.
00:49:51.000I understand a lot of people are scared of this because it's a one-way trip for the most part and you may die on a red planet.
00:50:16.000Are you trying to talk me into it or out of it, bro?
00:50:18.000I'm trying to explain to you that we used to have people on this planet who are willing to sacrifice in the name of reaching new heights, of challenging themselves and finding freedom.
00:50:31.000And now we have a bunch of people who, instead of saying, I'm going to move to the middle of nowhere and build my own building, do what I have to do, they're saying, I want the government to regulate all of the jobs.
00:50:42.000I'm not religious at all, but I'm with you on that, but not on Christ.
00:50:46.000I mean, I think that we need this, like this belief in, I don't know if it's God or what, but like this unified belief in, in the universe structure, you know, that, that Jesus was one of the guys that was like, I'm tapped.
00:50:57.000He tapped the basis of spirituality is to get outside of yourself.
00:51:03.000Whether it's a belief in God, an afterlife, community service, helping other people, doing charity work, get out of yourself.
00:51:12.000Our culture today is designed around being in yourself, wallowing in yourself, and presenting yourself as the biggest victim that there is in order to get to the top of the victim standings.
00:51:24.000That's the problem with our culture today.
00:52:19.000It's not happening because the Chinese government is ordering people, the Chinese Communist Party, is ordering people to go and take over or anything like that.
00:52:27.000It's just people who are in a very crowded country, trying to find a better life, just like we saw with Europe hundreds of years ago.
00:52:35.000But now, there's planes, there's trains, there's boats, and many of these people have the resources, they find their way to another country, set up communities, and they grow and they work.
00:52:43.000And I'll tell you this, the American dream is alive and well.
00:52:46.000There's just too many people in this country, too egotistical to actually work towards it.
00:52:50.000When I worked for American Eagle Airlines, it's American Airlines' regional airline, There was a group that referred to themselves as the Filipino Mafia.
00:53:00.000No joke, that's what they called themselves.
00:53:02.000And it was a large group of Filipino immigrants who were working for the airport, working for the airline.
00:53:08.000And they all basically worked 16-hour days every day.
00:53:13.000There was one guy, he was like in his 50s.
00:53:16.000They forced him to take a two-week vacation, a two-week paid vacation.
00:53:20.000And he was freaking out and complaining, saying, I refuse, you can't make me do it.
00:53:24.000They said, actually, we legally are required to make you take a two-week vacation.
00:53:28.000He didn't want to do it, because a one-week vacation is only 40 hours paid, when he worked 80 hours a week.
00:54:00.000Where are the people today that are saying, I will do anything I can?
00:54:04.000A lot of immigrants who come to this country absolutely believe that, and I've watched it.
00:54:07.000You look at the people who come from China to the United States, what do they do?
00:54:10.000They cram their families into small apartments that are cheap, they work themselves to the bone, they make money, and they give their children a better life.
00:54:17.000Now we have a lot of people in this country, a lot of progressives, mind you, yeah, obviously I'm biased in that regard, who are just demanding the government give to them.
00:54:25.000Meanwhile, they're the ones who are claiming they're the party of immigrants, and it's like, well, why don't you actually take some advice from them and work hard to succeed?
00:54:51.000A Martian colony can be fantastic for the development of new technologies that make everyone's lives better, and the people who ultimately decide to go there are going to be going on a very dangerous journey where they will probably die.
00:55:01.000The likelihood of death might be like 1 in 5, like it was for those who went from Europe to the New World.
00:55:07.000Granted, we have new technology, and we'll have a lot of fail-safes, so maybe it'll actually be a bit less, but boy, will it be lonely.
00:55:13.000But these are the people who are saying, hey man, I'm down to do it.
00:55:16.000Now, while we've got all these people signing up for Elon Musk's Mars trip, there was that Mars 1 project, or what it was called, and thousands of people were like, I wanna go to Mars, I wanna go to Mars, and none of them were healthy enough to actually do it.
00:57:41.000The American dream actually was upward mobility.
00:57:44.000There are certain countries where you're poor, you'll always be poor because you're not a noble, you're not landed gentry, you're not a king, it's never gonna happen.
00:57:51.000You come to America and you could flick off the president.
00:57:54.000You could see the president walking by and go, hey president, F you!
00:58:07.000At some point, millennials, especially, figured the American dream was, I do as I'm told, I take out massive loans, I go to college, and then I'll be rich?
00:58:17.000It could have been the Rockefeller movement.
00:58:19.000He monopolized the education industry and kind of destroyed people's will to... I never went to business school.
00:58:34.000Yes, I understand what you're saying, Jack, about communism and infiltrating schools and all that stuff, and I've heard a lot about it.
00:58:39.000We know that China has an interest in promoting this because the Chinese accounts on Twitter, this is what James Lindsay was saying, they used to mock the Beizhua, the white left.
00:59:02.000My family, I always would hear these stories growing up about how someone my family knew was making six figures because they went to college.
00:59:11.000And that's why you have to go to college to get a good job.
00:59:29.000Granted, they didn't have the same level of technology or comfort as we did, so, you know, standard of living was particularly different.
00:59:35.000But with a high school education alone, I read about how the boomer generation, people with high school educations, they were managers at companies, they had jobs, they weren't making six figures.
00:59:46.000They made the false assumption that the money came because of the college degree.
00:59:52.000However, if you grew up at a time where you didn't need a college degree to succeed and feed your family, but you decided to pursue your passion, What was really happening is that those who are most passionate and driven towards a certain goal decided to go to college.
01:00:11.000The actual correlation is those who are willing to work hard to attain or achieve some goal and those who are not.
01:00:17.000What happens then when your entire society starts telling all the young people, college is the key.
01:00:21.000Take out forty, fifty, sixty thousand dollars worth of loans, you'll never pay back in a lifetime.
01:00:26.000You end up with a bunch of angry Indebted serfs can't find work and think the American Dream was stripped from them.
01:00:34.000Well, they were lied to, for sure, by a society that went astray.
01:00:37.000But these are people who need to be taught how hard work can give you the American Dream.
01:00:43.000The only problem is, the hard work they worked towards was a trap.
01:00:46.000They dug themselves into a massive hole, generated tons of debt, because they were dumb 18-year-olds who didn't know better, and because, I blame the older generation, Stripping the value, extracting what they can, and then we get financial crisis, chaos, and everything's falling apart.
01:01:00.000So forgive me if I'm a millennial blaming the older generations, but look, we inherited this stuff from you, so it's not on me.
01:01:12.000Tim, a lot of what you said is absolutely right.
01:01:15.000The people that made the most of a college degree were going to make the most of life Anyway, when they didn't need one though, right?
01:01:22.000The point is if society tells you you don't need to go to college and you go Yeah, but I want to because I really want to study this thing Well, it's no surprise that this passionate driven individual became successful But you get a bunch of people who are like, you know I remember when I was 18 and they're like you got to go to school and I'm like for what?
01:02:43.000Maybe there's a good thing in that, but ultimately it means our communities started breaking apart.
01:02:48.000And now one of the biggest problems we have is people are replacing their real communities with fake online communities, often with sock puppet accounts.
01:02:55.000And they're looking for some kind of gratification from online strangers who have cat avatar profiles or something, or cat cat anime pictures on their Twitter account.
01:03:23.000These ideas were seriously implanted in our brains back in the 50s and the 60s.
01:03:27.000And they've now made their way through the institutions to the point now where we are a sick culture of victims who rank themselves according to how aggrieved they are, not according to how successful or accomplished they are, or how realized or actualized that they are.
01:03:43.000It's actually a detriment to be successful.
01:03:46.000Right, because that's evidence that you're part of the white supremacy culture.
01:03:50.000Well, that's what they said to me when I was at Occupy Wall Street before I got any recognition.
01:03:55.000I had all of these people saying like, see, look at you, man.
01:03:57.000You know, you dropped out of high school and like you're a smart guy.
01:04:01.000You should be very successful, but the system doesn't allow it.
01:04:03.000You know, you come from a mixed family and it's very obvious how it's holding you back.
01:04:08.000And then all of a sudden I'm featured in Time magazine.
01:04:11.000And they said then, Tim Pool is white and he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
01:04:17.000Moral of the story, don't listen to other people.
01:04:19.000The moral, perhaps, and the gist of the story is, if you succeed, they will accuse you of being privileged and always having been privileged because the idea of hard work doesn't exist to them.
01:05:20.000So, what's happening here is that the CRT folks and the African-American victim community that wants to be victims, not all of them, the specific community, are saying that we live in an oppressive society that keeps minorities down.
01:06:00.000If you're good at something, you get paid for it.
01:06:02.000You can be Tim Pool, drop out of high school, not go to college, become a, you know, many thousandaire here living in wherever we are.
01:06:11.000But the reason that this conflict is going to come between the blacks and Asians is because the Asians are just proving the thesis of Black Lives Matter false.
01:07:07.000It is about manipulative, extremist, dogmatic cultists Who will use whatever narrative they have to to gain power.
01:07:15.000Sometimes they'll talk about Black Lives Matter, but they'll use the communist fist as their symbol.
01:07:19.000Sometimes they'll blame Asians, because you've got that one woman, I'm not gonna say her name, but James Lindsay's been tweeting up a storm about her, where she was like, well, you see, the Asians who came here chose to come here in the early, you know, early American history.
01:08:25.000So, the point was, Donald Trump certainly had his bombastic, demagoguery-type language, but they're built upon it and have been for a decade.
01:08:32.000Trump was a response to it, not the creation of it.
01:08:35.000When they kept coming out in the early, late 2009, early 2010s, screaming about white privilege, racism, systemic racism, white people, and you can see in the LexisNexis data, the hockey stick of the New York Times, just screaming about white privilege.
01:08:49.000Then you got what they were calling the white lash.
01:08:53.000A backlash, but white people were now saying enough of this already.
01:08:56.000The funny thing is, we were taught growing up, segregation is wrong.
01:09:36.000Now, what's funny is at the end of the day, you're right.
01:09:38.000There's going to be one small group of people over here, the woke, and there's going to be a huge coalition of diversity over here opposing woke.
01:09:48.000And in fact, the opposing racial justice people will be more diverse than the group saying that they're, you know, the woke folks.
01:09:58.000And the irony is it's not going to be African-Americans in the middle of that.
01:10:03.000It may end up being black trans women or whatever, but truly all of this is suburban, white, liberal women.
01:10:14.000This entire thing is about suburban, white, liberal women, their guilt, their interest in destroying the patriarchy.
01:10:23.000They're lying supinely on the ground, begging for acceptance and forgiveness, and they're willing to throw their entire country away just so that they won't be called a racist when they haven't been one, they aren't one, and they've just taken this identity on for themselves.
01:10:39.000I did an interview with Arthur Millick, the head of the Center for the American Way of Life in Washington, D.C., at Claremont East.
01:10:45.000And he pointed out that even the ancient texts, the classics, they talk about the demise of a society is when it's run on the whim and fancy of single women.
01:10:59.000The entire nation, all of our political discourse, all this woke crap, all this everything is based on trying to appease this power of single white liberal women.
01:12:39.000You want to talk about the woke, all the problems they're bringing.
01:12:44.000I got to stop and say at a certain point, you know, we had a great... I know a lot of people didn't like Rucka, but he asked a good question.
01:12:49.000Okay, you're complaining about wokeness.
01:13:28.000Because I'm not saying, I refuse to buy it because I'm mad.
01:13:31.000No, I just won't buy it because I probably don't care all that much about reading that story.
01:13:34.000But I'll tell you this, where are you to make your own comic?
01:13:38.000Where are you to make your own new TV show or video game?
01:13:43.000How many people sit back and complain, why aren't they making the games that I like and the movies I like?
01:13:47.000And I'm like, I don't know, why aren't you making them?
01:13:49.000So we can sit here and complain about The Woke and I think it's merited, but at a certain point we have to complain about ourselves for not doing enough.
01:13:54.000Not making our own things, our own culture.
01:14:29.000But at a certain point, you gotta stop complaining that other people don't agree with you and won't give you what you want.
01:14:36.000While I can absolutely agree it is a problem for our society when big tech is censoring people because they have a monopoly on the political discourse space, at a certain point, you must take control and do the work yourself because no one is coming to save you.
01:15:42.000I think that what you're doing is potentially like applying the solution that you see is as possible in front of you and demanding it of everybody else.
01:15:51.000I don't know that that's necessarily possible.
01:15:54.000So how do consumers contribute to society to merit consuming products made by other people?
01:17:02.000You can also be a consumer and a creator in different phases.
01:17:06.000Like, I've gone through heavy creation phases where that was all I did, and then I go back into my consumer phase for like two years, and then back into creation phase for three months, and then so it maybe takes some effort to change your brain space.
01:17:19.000Everyone should be producing at a slightly higher rate than they are consuming.
01:17:24.000That is extremely important for expansion, for growth, survival.
01:17:29.000And it doesn't need to be, as Greta Thunberg said, this fairy tale of endless economic growth.
01:17:35.000There can be endless economic growth because we have digital and virtual spaces.
01:17:39.000You can create things that are abstract.
01:17:41.000We have the NFT, you know, non-fungible tokens.
01:17:43.000Now people are making ARK that exist in the blockchain.
01:17:46.000It's a lot of things that you can do that won't create something physical.
01:17:55.000You can develop new ideas and new technologies and new methodologies.
01:17:59.000Or at the very least, you can stop being a consumer in these cities And maybe go out to the middle of nowhere, save up a little bit of money to buy a small plot of land, literally in the middle of nowhere, dig your own well, build your own house, because at what point... I don't know when it happened, but people started saying, the government owes me.
01:18:28.000But I also recognize at a certain point you have to be responsible for what you truly want and you can't expect someone to do it for you.
01:18:34.000I certainly think there are regulations and they're like, you know, that's why I'm a fan of, you know, border control, ending these free trade agreements.
01:18:42.000But I also think if it doesn't come to you, then you have to decide when you are going to take the reins and do the work to make it come to you.
01:19:02.000People need to take responsibility for their lives, man.
01:19:06.000Man, you're not going to hear any pushback from me on that.
01:19:09.000Personal responsibility, accountability, auto-regulation, independent thinking, making your own way, owning your own S. Yes, that is the way.
01:20:20.000There's huge chapters in my book, Democrats are Deplorable, all about this very element right here, about liberating the means of communication.
01:20:28.000I use Marxist language to describe what happened.
01:20:31.000We've liberated the means of communication.
01:20:33.000Instead of one person talking to many, we have many talking to many.
01:20:37.000And in doing so, we've created and injected a number of new narratives, national narratives, personal narratives.
01:20:45.000And now we have no cohesion because Walter Cronkite used to sit there and tell us all how to feel.
01:21:01.000And we mentioned this the other day, I think I mentioned it to Alan West, that people like Bill Maher, he doesn't realize that his values are actually rooted in Judeo-Christian values.
01:22:31.000So Bill Maher sitting there in his jacuzzi with his hookers and his cocaine and his weed, as he admits, thinks that he's an atheist who just came up with these ideas of these values that somehow they're universal.
01:22:43.000First of all, entire civilizations have lived and flourished and failed eventually without these values and without this, uh, the, these norms.
01:22:52.000And here we are, this is the most successful culture in the world ever based on Christian values.
01:22:58.000It's like we're here for a new religion.
01:25:33.000They avoided making a state religion by baking the religion into the structure of the government.
01:25:39.000Well, I think what you're basically saying is they took the moral framework of the religion and structured it into government, but it left out a lot of the things they didn't like.
01:25:47.000Yeah, they're like, hey, you can be here and not be Christian.
01:25:49.000But by the way, all of our laws, our rules, our regulations, our morals, the structure, how you're going to live your life, it's Christian, are the evolution of a Judeo-Christian moral framework.
01:25:59.000Now you have secular individuals who don't believe in God and don't believe in the Bible and don't realize their moral framework is rooted in an American culture that was very religious.
01:26:08.000And look, man, Look, Tim, I want to go back to what you were saying before.
01:27:34.000The episode that was playing the hour before was the, there are four lights.
01:27:39.000Tim, I want to make a there are four lights show, but I don't know if... In response to all this nonsense right now that you've been spewing, I'm four lighting it right now.
01:28:15.000was captured by enemies and he was being tortured mercilessly and the man torturing him had four lights above him and he asked Captain Picard how many lights are there and Picard said there are four and then he presses a button activating a torture device and says you're mistaken there are five lights And no matter how hard he tried to force Captain Picard to say something that was not true, Picard would not do it.
01:28:43.000I know a lot of people are like, Star Trek's a silly thing, it's a sci-fi show.
01:28:46.000You know what I learned growing up seeing stories like that?
01:28:49.000There will never be a moment in my life where you come to me and tell me to say something that is not true, and I will say it.
01:28:56.000I will look you in the eyes and say, there are four lights.
01:28:59.000When you come to me with your stupid fake news garbage, and you say, we will ban you, we will destroy you, we will take your income, we will take your life, say there are five lights or else, I'll look you in the eyes and say, there are four lights.
01:29:14.000That show was brilliant, and that was a show made by Americans in the 90s, actually 1989, and that was the value being instilled in people at that time, and I grew up with shows like that.
01:29:25.000Today, they have dogmatic, cult-like garbage they are instilling into people, and they are ruining the classically liberal, defiant, individualistic content that taught us to be good people, to respect one another.
01:29:39.000Now colleges are segregating people based on race.
01:29:42.000When Star Trek was the show that, they say, had the first interracial kiss, apparently that may be a myth, but it did, and it was important.
01:29:49.000And there was this really famous story I read about the woman who played Captain Uhura on Star Trek, When she was speaking with Dr. King.
01:31:27.000And it was an episode about, you know, Fry and his dog gets fossilized and he decides whether or not he's going to bring his dog back.
01:31:34.000Or there was also the episode about Fry's brother who kept stealing his ideas and his moves.
01:31:41.000Talk about amazing writing and amazing show.
01:31:43.000So the character Fry talks about how he has a seven-leaf clover, and it gave him all the luck in the world.
01:31:49.000But his brother Yancey kept stealing everything from him.
01:31:51.000He then learns, because the feature is about a guy who travels a thousand years in the future, that a guy named Philip J. Fry, who looks just like his brother, was taking all his dreams, going to Mars, being in a rock band, and he had a seven-leaf clover.
01:32:03.000At the end of the episode, when he goes to rob the grave of what he thinks is his brother who stole everything, he learns that it was actually his nephew that his brother named after him because his brother loved him.
01:32:16.000This amazing writing where you're watching this dumb comedy show and you end up crying afterwards with that episode and the episode Jurassic Park.
01:32:23.000What happened to shows like Star Trek?
01:32:47.000So they have to like do these beacons of light in the sense of like, let's do a reboot that everyone's going to put their eyes on.
01:32:54.000In 1989, it was like five, 12 channels, you know, one production company that are like, you know, a small segment of production companies that could pick what got seen.
01:33:04.000But there is not a single Marvel movie, and probably, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but off the top of my head, I don't think I can name a movie in the past five years that gives me the same sense of, like, awe and emotion that I get from, like, I think the episode of Star Trek was called The Make of a Man, when Dado the andro was on trial, and they're trying to determine whether or not he was a sentient living being with full rights, and they talk about what makes a person a person.
01:35:28.000So the Grammys can do their show and I'm not going to watch it.
01:35:32.000But my criticism is that what do we then share as a mass culture where we all actually say this is something that inspires us and it makes us feel better.
01:37:05.000People end up looking at, you know, these political compass tests and political tests and it's like... No, the only question dividing us politically and will be eventually we will all be sorted by this 100% is do you believe in essentialism or do you believe in the blank slate?
01:37:18.000That's going to be the final dividing line.
01:37:39.000And you are injected with all the things that you believe and all of your interests and all of your desires and all of your capabilities and all of your aptitudes.
01:38:41.000When you look at my my my test, 57 percent capitalism, but 69 percent progressive.
01:38:46.000And they'll tell they'll tell you people like me don't exist.
01:38:49.000But I'm 57% essentialist, meaning collective constructivism, where you think everything's a construct, is non-existent on my eight values test.
01:38:58.000And then international and national are fairly balanced.
01:39:00.000Revolution and reform, fairly balanced.
01:39:19.000And in fact, that's the main thesis of my book, Democrats are Deplorable, is that our political parties will be sorted and are sorting currently under this paradigm.
01:39:29.000We got to go to Super Chats because we are running late.
01:39:31.000But let's talk more about this political spectrum stuff and constructivism in the members-only segment.
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01:40:31.000The Black Blade says, Ian, you might not be married or have kids, but did you know that you were helping me become a better husband and father?
01:40:38.000My seven of Damascus steel would have your back any day.
01:42:37.000Let's talk about their employment tax, social security.
01:42:39.000Bro, you ain't gotta convince me taxes are bad.
01:42:42.000People don't understand that income tax is not the only issue taking money away from people who are, you know, working.
01:42:49.000And there's actually net benefits wealthy people get at a certain level, like Social Security tax stops at a certain number, so you're making a ton of money, also your check gets bigger.
01:42:57.000I'm just saying that if we're already taxing this, if it's taxed, my argument was that Let's say you were making $150 a year, and so you got an apartment in New York because your standard of living is there, and then COVID hits and you lose your job.
01:43:12.000And now you can't, everything you budgeted for, your phone bill, your car, you got an auto loan.
01:43:16.000You know, your loan is a couple hundred bucks a month or whatever, and now you're like, I can't pay these bills.
01:43:21.000Then you hear about the stimulus and you're like, please, I need some money.
01:43:26.000And they say, oh, but not you because you're rich.
01:44:22.000And he's basically like, look at all this we're spending in taxes.
01:44:25.000And the problem is, and then he goes into healthcare costs and like, inefficiency of the healthcare industry, and I was like, you were so close, bro.
01:45:29.000All right, Christina H. says, By the way, Ian, last week when I said you look like Ian Hill of Judas Priest in the 80s, I totally meant that as a compliment.
01:47:28.000Although sometimes, you know, we've had people on the show where we get into pretty, like, you know, pretty legit arguments.
01:47:33.000I do try to be like, okay, here's a person who's expressing their opinion.
01:47:36.000Let's flesh out their opinion a little bit.
01:47:38.000And then if they say something I really disagree with, I'll push back.
01:47:40.000You know, but for the most part, it's like we're trying to learn from other people and think and figure out what they think.
01:47:46.000All right, DV Ken Bravo says, Tim and crew, first SC here.
01:47:50.000Funny how the Democrats say that states that have constitutional carry or are two-way sanctuaries will turn to the Wild West when leftist-run cities like Minneapolis sure look like the OK Corral.
01:49:24.000And it's funny, the guys like Steven Pinker that will look around the world and say, oh, democracy and freedom is spreading and changing poverty conditions and bringing people out of poverty.
01:49:33.000They fail to mention that the number one driving statistical force in people coming out of poverty is Chinese authoritarian communism.
01:50:58.000The gut biome is like... We gotta have a gut biome expert on some... Well, South parted that episode where they were trying to get... Oh, yeah.
01:52:33.000Their moral framework is, is if you don't work towards justice for everybody, you're actively working against justice for everybody and therefore you're evil.
01:52:40.000Define justice in this moral framework.
01:54:32.000It's like I talked about with the Occupy people who got that farm.
01:54:35.000They realize how hard it is to actually live being self-reliant, and it is just easier to say, I'd rather just work at a fast food restaurant.
01:54:44.000It is easier to work at a fast food restaurant.
01:54:46.000There's really cool prefab buildings with like gray water systems built in and I think they're a lot more solar.
01:54:56.000You can get some pretty cheap prefab stuff.
01:54:59.000Granted, now we're talking of tens of thousands of dollars, but if you get an acre of land with some trees on it, it's not all that expensive.
01:55:07.000It's not the easiest thing in the world.
01:55:39.000I will dedicate myself to solving this problem because I'm an independent, auto-regulating man or woman, whatever.
01:55:46.000Point is is you just have to take this attitude of I can Not the attitude of I can't that's exactly it So I'm not I shouldn't literally like I think it's an extreme example of like go in the woods and build a house with sticks What I'm actually just saying is be a pioneer, you know Find the heaviest thing you can carry and carry it Whether it's go into your like living room and just start drawing pictures something you don't normally do honestly I think people should go for walks.
01:56:12.000I think people should literally like if you play video games all day Turn on a podcast and go for a walk.
01:56:21.000If you're not active, and I know a lot of people probably can't go for walks because of COVID or whatever, but if you can find the time, like even watching this show, I don't go walk around in the middle of the night or whatever when it's dark out or something, but a lot of people will listen to this show in the next day or so, get up early in the morning, just go walk around a little bit.
01:56:38.000You'll see some squirrels doing squirrel stuff.
01:57:44.000And the troops were like, well, you know, when Antifa was attacking that federal courthouse in Portland and then the people running the thing were like, no, that's not what we're talking about.
01:58:48.000Someone said they were playing World of Warcraft, and they were building up this character, and then eventually realized, like, all that time and energy I'm putting into making this really awesome character, I could make myself really awesome.
01:59:01.000There is no better feeling than leveling up your real life.
01:59:05.000Leveling up your real life is the bomb.
01:59:06.000And dude, making YouTube videos and watching the analytics is like a role-playing game.
01:59:11.000You're like, oh my, my numbers are going up.
01:59:13.000I'm watching the value of the comments, of the communication.
01:59:28.000You detach from the personalization of it.
01:59:30.000Social media is a plague, an addiction, and it's destroying the minds of people because they don't understand human behavior and how networks work.
01:59:38.000And so what happens is, they make a YouTube video, they get a million views, they feel really good about themselves, and then here comes, like, summertime, and everyone goes out to play in the yard and don't watch YouTube videos, and they only get 100,000 views, and they become depressed and then Quit because they don't understand what they're doing wrong.
02:01:25.000The point I'm saying is there are a lot of things you can do to trigger a dopamine release to make you feel good and the simplest and easiest thing anyone can do is go for a walk.
02:01:36.000I used to hang out with Bill Auden when we were building mines and I was playing video games.
02:01:40.000He's like, I was like, don't you play video games?
02:01:41.000He's like, this is my video game, dude.
02:02:45.000You know, but I know, I know this, and this is why skateboarding is so great.
02:02:50.000You go to a skate park, you will meet people, and you can instantly have a conversation and a community, share ideas, and encourage each other, clap and cheer for each other, and it's always there.
02:03:01.000Now, with COVID and everything, it's kind of been getting pretty bad.
02:03:04.000You know, people haven't really been going out, but if you get the chance, well, we do gotta read some more Super Chats, so.
02:03:09.000We got Oliver Morland says, Hey gang, greetings from Minnesota.
02:03:13.000We have blue cities, but every other county in the state is red.
02:03:18.000Rocks and Cows is holding a King Waltz protest during his speech this Sunday.
02:03:23.000The hatred towards him and the state is insane, but well deserved.
02:03:26.000There's a cultural split between cities and outside of cities.
02:03:31.000I was reading a study that said even in red states, cities are blue.
02:04:12.000My brother did that for like two plus years or something.
02:04:14.000I'm sure at a certain point you're just driving and it's a job, but I love road trips, man.
02:04:19.000You're on the road, you're stopping at the rest stop, you get to see little knickknacks they got, you get to meet people, talk about stuff, you got the radio playing.
02:04:27.000Alright, we got Pavi Meris says, It's a fun job until you're away from your family for four days at a time, then when you come back you want to sleep for three days.
02:04:51.000A lot of the things that you say are based on your perspective and it's of single and not, and not having a family.
02:04:58.000Cause I just would never, the thought would just never crossed my mind that like being away from my kids for a week at a time would be a good idea under any condition.
02:06:52.000We could probably speed that up if we wanted to.
02:06:54.000It's a culture war themed rogue-like game that's going to be fun and hilarious, and it only uses cartoon violence.
02:07:00.000And I guess, I'll just say this, I don't know if I'm supposed to, but Freedom Tunes is doing the cartoon work, so it's literally going to be like a Freedom Tunes video game.
02:07:08.000Yeah, we're trying to make it really fun and funny and it's going to be cartoon violence because video games always have some element like Mario smashes turtles by crushing them and like, you know, kicking them.
02:07:19.000But we're going to have more silly like big rubber mallets and like punching gloves and stuff like that.
02:07:27.000But it's a roguelike game, so it's like, you know, you're a little guy, it's a platformer, sort of, and you're, like, making your way... I don't want to give away too much information, but it's Freedom Tunes.
02:07:39.000That's one of my favorite things to do, is to create video games.
02:07:41.000Sorry to cut... Yeah, no, I think we should make, like, we should... We want to open source it, and we want to have it so that people can develop their own items and mods and things like that.
02:07:50.000There's going to be, like, items and combos and it's going to be a really fun game.
02:07:53.000You know, I've got this vision of the future of video games that, like, when you log in to your PlayStation network or whatever, your team, whatever we want to call it, you have, like, an avatar.
02:08:01.000And then when you play a game, anything you do in that game gets you abilities that go back to your account that you can take to other games that you play.
02:08:10.000I was talking with Nishra about this, I think.
02:08:13.000Where you have a general accomplishments app on your phone with a character that you level up, get new weapons, and you can do minigames or whatever, but you level up the character by 5,000 steps, you earn 100 experience points.
02:08:29.000So certain things that you can do and you can track on your phone, like travel five miles, not just even walking, like go out of your house and go drive somewhere, even if it's in your car by yourself for a drive.
02:08:39.000And then what happens is it tracks it, and then your character levels up, and it's actually just a personal thing.
02:08:44.000And that could unlock abilities and items in the video games that are... No, mine was just like how you make a really awesome character, you can show off and generate this little thing, and every day you get 5,000 steps, like something happens.
02:10:34.000And then we can just have at it with the commenters.
02:10:36.000Oh, finally. Let's see. Okay. Just right.
02:10:44.000I'm reading through some super chats here.
02:10:50.000Roberto Flores says, Star Trek, the original series, episode, patterns of force.
02:10:55.000They drug and prop up the Fuhrer to speak on TV, but he's manipulated by the Nazi party to say what they want, like how Biden is propped up.
02:11:04.000I'm not the biggest fan of the original series, but I'm a fan of the original series.
02:11:10.000The Next Generation, I've seen every episode numerous times.
02:11:38.000It's like, I've tried to make sure that, like, my references to her have avoided the stupid petty garbage, because I definitely played that game before.
02:11:45.000Now I'm trying to be like, I only want to say nice things about people when I get the opportunity to do it.
02:11:49.000If they do something dumb, I'll criticize them.
02:11:50.000But AOC did that thing in taxes with millions of dollars, helped people out.
02:14:05.000Somebody who's been skating most of their life, when you see someone jump on a board, you know if they will be able to actually perform on a skateboard.
02:14:12.000Beto O'Rourke can stand on a board and ride it.
02:14:37.000Mitch Devine says 25 year old army vet here looking at a hundred, 200 acre ranch and taking a distilling class to open my own distillery here in Texas.
02:14:51.000We're going to talk about politics a little bit, but I want to talk about what everyone is calling the Biden CGI video because I'm going to surprise everybody.
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