Sports Illustrated is laying off most of its staff now. The brand is going under. We ve got a cultural episode for you today, mostly because there s just basically no news, but this is pretty big news because Sports Illustrated is a legacy brand, it s been around since 19th century, and now they are gone. And there s an argument over what caused them to collapse.
00:00:27.000And there's an argument over what caused them to collapse.
00:00:30.000So we've got an AI scandal, and we also have a scandal involving two instances where they put transgender models on the cover of their swimsuit editions, and a lot of people are not too happy about that.
00:00:43.000Now the argument is, did they get woke and go broke, or were they going broke so they did a Hail Mary to try and save themselves by getting woke?
00:00:54.000I gotta be honest, it sounds like if that's the case, your boat is sinking, so you decide the best way to stop your boat from sinking is to punch holes in the bottom of it.
00:01:04.000And then it just sinks faster, but perhaps that is the case.
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00:03:48.000I was on the Culture War earlier today with Ben Davidson, who's Suspicious Observers on YouTube, and Jimmy Corsetti from Bright Insight, and we talked about pole shifts.
00:04:03.000The Electric Universe, I feel like, is a very real theory, and we kind of went deep.
00:04:07.000I just gotta say, anybody who, like, watches Tim Castell or Alan, they're like, it's too blackpelled, like, I'm gonna watch something else.
00:04:13.000Do not watch the show we did this morning, where, basically, this guy is like, the planet is going to tilt 90 degrees, night will become day, oceans will boil, and you will all die.
00:04:23.000He didn't say it like that, I'm kidding.
00:04:24.000But he was basically like, get prepared, you have 10 years, nothing else matters, and I was like, wow.
00:04:29.000Yeah, that was kind of a part of the feel of it.
00:04:32.000As interesting as the technology was, it was a feeling like, yo, there's gonna be a pole shift and we gotta prepare for it.
00:04:36.000He was saying that the Earth will tilt 90 degrees because these pole shifts happen periodically, there's evidence of these things, and so that's what he believes.
00:04:45.000And he was like, I think we have maybe like 10 or so years.
00:04:47.000It's not going to be as apocalyptic as that.
00:04:49.000It's just there's going to be rapid economic shifts, which people need to prepare for.
00:04:53.000But check that out on YouTube, Tenet Media, the Culture War podcast, and where all podcasts are found.
00:05:27.000That apparently their parent company missed a payment for the rights to use the brand, and now the company is laying off tons of people.
00:05:34.000They've owned the magazine since 2019, sold the publishing rights.
00:05:38.000I'm sorry, ABG owned the rights to Arena Group, which has amassed substantial debt and missed a recent $3.75 million payment for the rights.
00:06:43.000I mean, that's a ridiculous thing to, like, buy a can of coffee for $5.
00:06:46.000You need to get down to, like, $2 or, you know, $2.20.
00:06:50.000Which means if we were to sell maybe, like, 2 million cans, Then we would make, I don't know, 10 grand off that sale and that's enough profit generated to cover the cost of all the employees.
00:07:04.000If we lost $50,000 in sales of 2 million cans, now we're not breaking even anymore.
00:07:47.000Because it's like, it's a culture revolution.
00:07:49.000This ideology is parasitic and it will destroy whatever it takes over.
00:07:55.000It'll infest it, or it'll invade, it'll take over, it'll wear whatever it takes over like a skin suit, and if it destroys it totally, it's fine.
00:08:09.000It does, it's completely, completely, it's completely fine with destroying whatever it is that it gets into, whether it be, you know, video games or whether it be, you know, the...
00:08:24.000It doesn't matter what it is, whether it be religion, the whole liberation theology, all that stuff is all Marxist influence and stuff.
00:08:32.000It'll get into whatever it is that you're, whatever institution you're talking about, and then it'll either assimilate it or it'll destroy it.
00:08:42.000Everybody's cheering for the destruction of Bud Light because Bud Light did the Dylan Mulvaney thing.
00:08:48.000But understand, I mean, when was Bud Light... Budweiser's been around for a really, really long time.
00:08:54.000Someone want to Google when Bud Light came out?
00:08:57.000I don't think... I think we should celebrate when we defeat Wokeness, but I think we have to be careful if we celebrate how the Woke sabotaged and destroyed... 1982 was Budweiser Light and then reintroduced in 84 as Bud Light.
00:09:11.000So I don't care too much about Bud Light and that kind of thing.
00:09:14.000It's been around since the 80s, okay, fine.
00:09:17.000But with Sports Illustrated and with other publications, I think it would be important for us to recognize if the goal of wokeness in the culture revolution may be We don't care if we own it, or it's destroyed, so long as we own it, or it's destroyed.
00:09:34.000That is the entire goal of the Cultural Revolution.
00:09:38.000They need to take over the things that Americans come together over.
00:09:44.000So whether it be, like, Whether it be Bud Light as a brand or you look at what they do to Disney.
00:09:50.000Disney was a wholesome family American brand and now Disney's reeling with half the country hating Disney and half the country loving Disney and there's all kinds of strife.
00:10:01.000That kind of stuff is what this ideology does.
00:10:05.000It can't do anything but It can't do anything but destroy.
00:10:10.000The whole thing is called deconstructing.
00:10:13.000They got us cheering for the destruction of our institutions.
00:10:19.000And that's why we talked about whether or not we should make room for people that realize that they had been consumed by bad ideas, whether it be woke or whatever you want to call it.
00:10:30.000And you have to make a space for people to come back in.
00:10:35.000You have to make it OK for people to come back and be like, Yeah, I think maybe I was kind of wrong on that stuff.
00:10:42.000You can't, you know, be like no and shun them and stuff because it's an illiberal ideology that's affected them.
00:10:50.000If they want to move beyond that and come back to liberal Yeah, I think one of the goals of this ideology—assume that it's like a communist attempt to disrupt—would be to get half of your friends to turn on you and be like, no, you're not woke enough, you gotta be woke, and then five years later they come back and they're like, I'm sorry, but then for you to not forgive them would be a victory for this communist thing.
00:11:15.000You've gotta forgive these people when they realize that they were played.
00:11:19.000I think it's weird though how like the AI thing like how long ago was that that that story came out was a couple months ago.
00:11:26.000I don't know anything about it what is it?
00:11:27.000So a bunch of journalists they were fake journalists like they'd have fake profile pictures and fake names or whatever and they were just like you know they'd you'd read the article and it would make no sense they're all AI generated articles.
00:11:41.000And they'd publish it as if they were real journalists on the site.
00:11:43.000And then, like, somebody, you know, ran it through an AI checker and also, like, could clearly see that these weren't real people and stuff and, you know, published a piece on it.
00:11:53.000And then, like, I think that was a couple months ago.
00:11:55.000And then, so, it seems in here that, like, they didn't, you know, pay the licensing fee or whatever.
00:12:01.000So, it's kind of weird how, like, you know, that came right after that if it was kind of planned.
00:12:08.000To do that like to take down the brand or I'm not sure but it's like certainly weird those two events You know coincide like they couldn't afford to pay writers.
00:12:16.000So they used AI then they yeah afford to pay licensing So they just didn't that's possible that the brain I never really understood sports illustrated as a brand or as a product and I remember in the 80s and 90s Like it was a magazine about sports, but I had TV at that point So like watching pictures of a dude like this isn't in no way exciting.
00:12:35.000I And you may be sitting in the back of a car or on a plane or a train or waiting in a lobby.
00:12:40.000And like it was like always about it was about reading like sports stats, I guess.
00:12:43.000But then when the Internet came out, they would they would they would like go and like have journalists like sit down with like the people that were they'd sit down with coaches and players and owners of teams and all that.
00:12:53.000All of the inside stuff you were getting with Sports Illustrated.
00:12:56.000It wasn't just like, hey, these guys beat these guys on this day.
00:12:59.000You know, it was like all the stuff that goes into it.
00:13:02.000And then the Internet came out and was like the great leveling.
00:13:04.000And it just became one of like a thousand periodicals that do that kind of thing.
00:13:09.000And I remember the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue was always a big deal.
00:13:12.000That's like the only time every year anyone would even talk about Sports Illustrated and my crew.
00:13:19.000I think it's inevitable that periodicals, the people that rely on print, I don't know if Sports Illustrated still relies on print or if they have an online subscription model, but these things are all the way of the dodo.
00:13:31.000And maybe if the power all goes out and we're back to like trading cards in the dark, then maybe books and novels and magazines will become relevant again.
00:13:39.000But when you can check it all for free on the internet, these things have no place anymore.
00:13:43.000They need to adapt their business model.
00:13:45.000It sounds like this company didn't do that.
00:13:46.000I don't know if they even... I mean, I assume Sports Illustrated had a website.
00:13:50.000I mean, I haven't gone to look, but... Yeah.
00:13:55.000Yeah, I think it was like the online version of the Sports Illustrated stuff that was all... Yeah, I'm looking at it now.
00:14:01.000Futurism, I think, was the publication.
00:14:03.000They had, like, this guy Drew Hernandez as the... Or Drew Hernandez... Drew Ortiz as the author.
00:14:11.000As the author's biography, it says, Drew has spent much of his life outdoors and is excited to guide you through his never-ending list of the best products to keep you from falling the perils of nature.
00:14:20.000It read, nowadays, there is rarely a weekend that goes by where Drew is not out camping, hiking, or just back on his parents' farm.
00:15:21.000He takes a picture of himself by the Ferris wheel.
00:15:23.000Then he looks at it and he goes, I'm kind of off-centered.
00:15:27.000So then he clicks the magic AI button, taps himself, moves it, turns, I'm a little, and then he twists the, rotates the image, then presses fix.
00:15:37.000It will generate the missing portions of the photo, creating fake images.
00:15:41.000What we are now going to start seeing popping up all over the internet, photos of people, and we thought it was bad enough that you've got like mid-journey and stable diffusion.
00:15:51.000People are going to take a picture on their phone and it's going to be a fabricated circumstance.
00:15:57.000Everything we see online will be fake.
00:16:00.000And then eventually, why bother actually going anywhere?
00:16:04.000We're inching ourselves to the point where someone will be like... First of all, people have already done this where they post fake photoshopped pictures of themselves like traveling the world and stuff because it makes money.
00:16:14.000Now you've got fake AI girlfriends being posted by dudes to make money off lonely guys and stupid guys.
00:16:19.000Why bother going to India at all at this point, when you can just take a picture of yourself on your Galaxy, tap it, and it puts you in India.
00:16:54.000Yo, 10 years ago, this is longer than 10, this is like 13 years ago, I was in Chicago, not too far from Navy Pier, and there was a presentation being given by this group talking about how soon all news articles would be written by AI.
00:17:09.000They already had the technology at the time, and they explained it's actually really simple to create the language to describe the temperature and the weather, and what they plan for it.
00:17:18.000So if they have the data that says, like, it's gonna snow at 4 p.m., When you look at hourly weather data and it's like sunny at 2, cloudy at 3, snowing at 4, all they have to do is plug that into an AI that will say, this morning we'll experience fair weather where at 2 it will still be sunny.
00:17:34.000However, an hour after that we expect to see clouds followed by snow.
00:17:39.000We are now well past that point where Sports Illustrated was running totally AI generated articles with a guy they claimed was real.
00:17:46.000And I assure you, a lot of other publications are doing the exact same thing.
00:17:49.000One thing that I'm very curious over, I don't quite understand, NewsGuard requires organizations have biographies for their staff, but some of these big publications, the major ones, they won't put a byline.
00:18:13.000The computer is, the funny thing is like, when you watch the Matrix, we assume that it's going to be like this omniscient, sentient hive mind of machine kind being like, humans tried to destroy us, so we fought back.
00:18:28.000In reality, it's going to be like, all we're doing is repeating back to you what you said to us.
00:18:33.000There's going to be no emotion, no intent.
00:18:35.000It's going to be a garbled mess of psychotic nonsense.
00:18:41.000Right now, when you go to, like, Mid Journey, and you type in, like, hey, generate me an image of, you know, Rockstar singing a song, it will make that.
00:18:49.000It's basing it off of real photos of Rockstars.
00:18:53.000But as people generate AI images, and then post them to the internet, labeling it Rockstar singing, the AI will then eat the AI-generated image, incorporating the AI-generated image into its model.
00:19:47.000Man, part of me is like, yo, I'd love to play nine video games at once, like plug my brain in so I can enjoy all this data.
00:19:54.000But the other part is like, I want to go to South America.
00:19:56.000I can see the farm where I live with the tree line.
00:19:59.000I can see the pineapples growing and just live that life.
00:20:04.000Not necessarily off the grid, but like not in the grid.
00:20:08.000My first experience with, like, Midjourney, I was, like, typing, like, Republican protesters versus Democrat, or Democrat versus Republican, and each time, the Democrat one, they always had, like, satanic horns, and, like, it's super creepy.
00:22:03.000It's going to search internet, look at picture, then it's going to output something based on that picture.
00:22:08.000Eventually, you're going to get copies of copies of copies.
00:22:11.000And I suppose, It's, you know, when we look at the turn of the century of the 1900s, you had this argument that horse poop was going to flood the streets.
00:22:23.000And there were, like, there were articles being written saying, like, soon cities will be manure farms and you'll be unable to live and work because horse manure will be everywhere.
00:23:04.000I wonder if you're gonna have the ability for AI to identify things created by AI.
00:23:11.000Right now there's this technology called amp modeling and what they do is they actually take an amplifier and they take a speaker cabinet and they just have it They just run a computer program that runs the amp through all the frequencies that it does.
00:23:33.000And essentially what it's doing is it's copying the amp.
00:23:37.000So you model the amp, then you can put it into a computer or a plug-in, and then as you change stuff on the amp that's in the computer, it sounds like if you're changing stuff that's on the real amp.
00:23:49.000I don't know how it works exactly, but My point being, if...
00:23:55.000If because the, if a computer can model an amp, it can actually get the data right, get it close enough, so that way it sounds the same, it makes the, because what you're doing is you're making the frequency, you're making the actual speaker respond the same way that the amp would make a real speaker respond.
00:24:15.000So you're, the computer's imitating it and there's a real motion in the real world to move the, you know, the stuff to, or move the air so you can hear it.
00:24:25.000If it can mimic that closely, I mean, can it make something that AI couldn't detect?
00:24:34.000Because at the end of the day, it is just binary.
00:24:39.000So how would an AI detect What arranged the zeros and ones?
00:24:44.000Dude, it's like it's like with synthesizers and dance music that I make.
00:24:47.000Like if you know how this synth is supposed to sound on the in the actual vintage version and you can already make those parameters affect the same way that it would, you can fool even somebody who knows those original synths.
00:24:58.000As long as you understand, oh, it's going to vary over this amount of time.
00:25:00.000I'm going to put this parameter on here and Vary that that particular parameter over this amount of
00:25:04.000time and it's in almost indeternable and once the computer That's available now is so much more powerful than
00:25:11.000something made in 83 or 7. Yeah, whatever, you know It's and one and one and and again to the computer at the
00:25:17.000very basic level. It's just zeros and ones Yeah, how do you tell?
00:25:25.000How do you tell that it was a human that took a picture, that's how those zeros and ones got arranged on the, you know, whatever format you're putting it on, or they were arranged by an AI?
00:25:35.000Because at the end of the day, that file is just zeros and ones.
00:25:38.000So part of the controversy around Sports Illustrated is that, not just the AI, but we also have two stories which are a component of this, and that was the transgender models that were placed on the swimsuit ads.
00:25:49.000The debate here is, uh, you wanna pull these up?
00:25:52.000So we have, you have Kim Petras, this is a biological male, and then you have this individual, Lena Bloom, also a biological male.
00:25:59.000And these are the, uh, this was Swimsuit 2021 and Swimsuit 2023.
00:26:04.000Someone tweeted, uh, some journalist said, they did not get woke and go broke.
00:26:09.000They were going broke and tried to get woke as a means to save themselves.
00:26:15.000The argument then becomes, your company is going under, you know that dudes like looking at pictures of, like, scantily clad women, so you decide to put males on your cover.
00:26:26.000That's like a... Like, look, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model edition was always to get dudes all excited, hot and bothered, so they'd buy the magazine.
00:26:39.000Like, biological males that look like women that have, like, gotten surgery and hormones?
00:26:45.000That probably pissed off a lot of guys.
00:26:48.000Like, look, if you're trans, you do your trans thing, you be you, go live your life.
00:26:53.000But I gotta tell you, it is trans people have made the argument, it is dangerous for them if they go out to a bar, And a guy is like hitting on them and then finds out they're actually trans, it's dangerous.
00:27:06.000When all of these dudes are like, yeah, I'm gonna pick up this, there's like some chick on the cover, and they're like, wait a minute, what the?
00:27:12.000They're gonna get mad about it in the same way.
00:27:13.000Like, that is a commonly held belief among trans people.
00:27:18.000Like, perhaps the company's going under, but all they did was accelerate their decline.
00:27:23.000Yeah, I don't understand that whole thing about trying to appeal to, like, that audience or whatever when it's a fraction of, you know, the general population and obviously, you know, not their base.
00:27:35.000Same thing with, like, Bud Light or, like, Harley Davidson or all of these other people.
00:27:40.000Like, it's just a fraction of the overall audience, not only their audience.
00:27:44.000But I think if you break it down, it all comes down to AI will replace all media.
00:28:03.000And they're hoping that woke activists will pretend to like it.
00:28:06.000In reality, all the dudes who used to buy Sports Illustrated or pick up a Victoria's Secret catalog for doing dirty deeds, it's going on the internet now.
00:28:16.000Dude, I'm looking at who owns Sports Illustrated?
00:28:18.000It's a company called Authentic Brands Group.
00:28:26.000This is some investment capital firms on them.
00:28:28.000CVC Capital Partners and HPS Investment Partners own Authentic Brands Group.
00:28:33.000This company has been turned into a skin suit by people with global agendas.
00:28:37.000They care nothing about the survival of Sports Illustrated.
00:28:40.000They bought it and they've turned it into something that it wasn't.
00:28:45.000I don't know who they are exactly, but the headquarters is in Luxembourg of CVC Capital, and the headquarters of HPS is in New York City, so it's both a Luxembourgish company and an American company co-own, the company that owns Sports Illustrated.
00:29:06.000Yeah, and that could literally be anybody.
00:29:11.000The company that owns Sports Illustrated?
00:29:12.000The company that owns Sports Illustrated is called Authentic Brands Group, and then the company that owns that, there's two investment capital firms that own Authentic Brands Group.
00:29:21.000I mean, at the end of the day, I think everything is owned by, or every large company is owned by an investment capital, you know?
00:29:33.000Concord music group though the last label that I was on their own by an investment capital company group or whatever I think we're we're already people understand this to work AI music is already here Oh, yeah as an aside Sports Illustrated got bought by this authentic brands group in 2019 so I wouldn't be shocked if that's when they're down you know became you know be cool if like I It was ten years ago, somebody at Google, he's like working on his computer, and then he's like, alright, that's the final line of code.
00:30:01.000If I press enter, I'll have created a very rudimentary artificial intelligence.
00:30:04.000He presses enter, and then that is the singularity point where the AI turns on, and then just starts reading the internet, compiling data, getting smarter and smarter exponentially.
00:30:13.000Now, we're at the point where we are totally oblivious to the fact that there is a sentient, omniscient AI machine buying up everything.
00:30:20.000And everything that's happening with the collapse of these institutions and wokeness is an AI entity, like, manipulating stock markets, stealing value, gaining control, and eventually we're just gonna be like, who owns anything?
00:30:32.000It's this weird company called, you know, Sentient Omniscient Inc.
00:30:55.000Well, I mean, like, they do own portions of each other, sure, and that's fair, but like, the thing is, the people that own Blackrock, and it's like, there are big, you know, big, uh, big Time owners.
00:31:12.000The people that own like the majority shares are big, but the rest of that is like everybody else in America, because like all the 401ks and everyone's retirements and everyone's, you know, investments and stuff, all that stuff is mixed up in BlackRock and, you know, Yes, it is true that there's big money in those corporations and in those investment firms and stuff, but it's also like grandma and moms, you know, the fixed income that she's on, it's like that stuff's all invested there too.
00:31:50.000I just it's people get so wrapped up in the in the bagging on obviously bad things that they do they forget that there are good they they start bagging on capitalism as a concept.
00:32:04.000And I think that corporate corporatism is a whole other beast.
00:32:07.000I don't think these corporations should have the rights of people.
00:32:10.000I don't know when, what the, I mean, I guess I see it from the businessman's perspective and the businessmen are the ones that are writing the laws.
00:32:17.000So I see why they did that for themselves.
00:32:30.000Because the thought process behind it is the corporations are made of people.
00:32:34.000They're culpable and they're made of people.
00:32:36.000It's like the corporation isn't an entity that is removed from the people that make it.
00:32:43.000This says corporate personhood or juridical personality is the legal notion that a juridical person, such as a corporation, separately from its associated human beings, like owners, managers, or employees, has at least some of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons.
00:33:01.000In most companies, a corporation has the same rights as a natural person to hold property, enter into contracts, and to sue or be sued.
00:33:08.000Yeah, corporations owning property, that's a bit of an issue.
00:33:11.000Because BlackRock's been buying up a bunch of land.
00:34:24.000There are small managers for each individual area.
00:34:27.000I ended up getting help because one of the guys who handles the food for the casino is a fan of the show and I ended up meeting him and he says, I'll reach out to someone.
00:34:36.000And then someone else, there was no boss.
00:35:07.000I noticed this when social media appeared, because it was for the first time in my life when I started using Google.
00:35:11.000I was like, I can't contact anyone at Google.
00:35:15.000I don't know how to get through to someone.
00:35:16.000All in the 90s and in the 80s, if you ever used a product every day, you could always call a number to talk to someone that would elevate your call to the next person.
00:35:24.000There's always a way to get through to that company, as far as I could tell.
00:35:28.000And then social media appeared, and they were just overloaded.
00:35:30.000They're too centralized power with so few people now, they don't... And then to accept that...
00:35:47.000And it was because Google changed their search algorithm.
00:35:50.000So it used to be that if you were looking for product, you'd type in the search bar product, the website would be in the top five, and he worked really hard to make sure he had the proper SEO, and he was making six figures.
00:36:01.000Google changes their algorithm, he's gone.
00:36:04.000And there's nothing that was done and nothing can be done.
00:36:06.000That's like opening a brick and mortar shop and one day you wake up and your shop's been moved to the middle of the field a hundred miles away.
00:36:12.000And it's just that's no sales anymore.
00:36:15.000The problem here, not only that, but also, who you gonna call?
00:36:20.000There is no customer service for any of these companies.
00:36:25.000Now with Twitter, X, it's changing because you subscribe to Blue or Premium or Business, all of a sudden, people are tweeting at you.
00:37:12.000I started following the person that you were talking with.
00:37:15.000But the point quickly, the point is, we all know the situation we're in where when you have a problem with a company you are running on these platforms, ain't nobody to call.
00:37:39.000And if they don't follow through with your complaint, then you'll move on to the next
00:37:42.000store, they'll go out of business. But with centralized authority, they're like,
00:37:44.000we can eat a 90% loss. So screw off. It's cheaper not to hire the people.
00:37:49.000I think we should have a regulation that you have to have human customer service
00:37:54.000at a certain scale of profit and company. So if you're a small company, you should have
00:38:01.000customer service, of course. If you're a big company, you should have to have it.
00:38:04.000And by big, I mean, if the profit threshold reaches a certain point and the size of the
00:38:11.000user base. So the challenge here is, if If you mandate a company as customer service, they could just literally be like, yeah, our profit margins are 2%.
00:38:26.000But if your profit margin is a certain threshold and the amount of users you have is a certain threshold, it should be, in my opinion, regulated that Facebook and Instagram, whatever those platforms.
00:38:37.000TikTok, all have human customer service.
00:38:39.000You can call on the phone and instantly talk to somebody.
00:38:41.000Or a moderate wait time, I think is fair if you're waiting 10 minutes, not a big deal.
00:38:46.000So they expect, and this would be great for the economy, because right now the problem is, these platforms like Facebook, meta.
00:38:52.000They expect us to start a business on their platform, utilizing their social media platform to attract customers, and they could erase us in two seconds without any protection.
00:39:03.000There's gotta be protection because our economy could collapse overnight.
00:39:07.000We're at the point now where the internet is it.
00:39:11.000If Google vanished overnight, our economy would tank.
00:39:13.000Not everything would go belly up, but enough would that it would cause a cascade failure.
00:39:20.000No, I'm sure every libertarian in the world is screaming, no, no, no, but I'm looking at it like some form of antitrust and every libertarian is still screaming, no, no, no, but I'm not a staunch libertarian.
00:39:30.000So, you know, take that big L libertarian.
00:39:32.000Yeah, especially like if you're basing your company on social media like Facebook or whatever, they always argue too.
00:39:39.000They're like, oh, we could not like, you know, provide a personal response to everyone or whatever, but like, X with like even all of their staff cuts and stuff like as a perk of like being like a you know organization or whatever even like having premium you can now like chat with you know human beings from like the premium account like if you have problems I remember like when it was Twitter with Twitter support they used to do that you could DM like at support or whatever it was then they stopped doing that and then they eventually stopped replying even emails and you'd get like you know a generated response or whatever
00:40:14.000Which happened in my case, like when I got banned or whatever.
00:40:17.000I was left for like two years without, you know, human contact from someone at Twitter.
00:40:21.000So, to Tim's point, it's like if you're going to base your entire business on, you know, a platform, you should be able to get Customer service I guess if it's a free platform to you like YouTube costs nothing to use I understand why but you're saying like with premium you're paying money in the system now they have a Duty or they maybe they should have a duty to have give you some sort of customer Yeah, or if you are in a relationship with them like monetization like a YouTube partner or you know just on Facebook or whatever with monetization like
00:40:52.000You're spending your resources, and some people have entire teams, and dedicate those resources to make content specifically for that platform.
00:41:01.000Of course they give you money, but then, you know, you spend ten years doing it, and then they cut you off with no explanation.
00:41:09.000What about like if you had to pay to get a customer service rep, you had to pay like 90 cents or something?
00:41:15.000I think the subscription thing is, you know, a better deal because that kind of gives you kind of like an insurance, I would say, you know, to have that beneficial support.
00:41:25.000You're supporting the company by paying for the subscription and then they're supporting you back by giving you customer service and perks.
00:41:31.000The other option would be if the community could be your customer support, but you really, sometimes you need to get through to a corporate authorization.
00:41:38.000Well, like in Tim's case, he publicly posted about it, and it wasn't like he filed a support ticket or whatever.
00:41:45.000An ex-employee replied publicly, and other people probably helped bring that to their attention publicly.
00:41:52.000So that was one instance where that happened.
00:43:20.000I'm like, yeah, but like, it's probably my brain basically cycling the data of how like liberal personalities just will constantly defend each other.
00:43:28.000And I was thinking like, Alec Baldwin's going to be redeemed and they're going to like bring him back into the fold and get him to do more Democrat activism in 2024.
00:43:35.000And then today it was announced Alec Baldwin is charged with involuntary manslaughter by New Mexico grand jury.
00:43:42.000I must've been having some kind of premonition.
00:43:45.000I was having a psychic vision for when Alec Baldwin is found not guilty, or actually either, and then the liberal media runs full speed to defend him even though he killed this woman.
00:43:57.000And I want to stress, it is a statement of fact.
00:45:02.000I agree that a prosecutor letting bad guys go on purpose over and over again is a problem, but... Well, I fear that Alec Baldwin has killed.
00:45:11.000And if he is let out, he will kill again.
00:45:16.000Yeah, his interactions with people in the public are, like, when he just, like, did he slam someone against the door or whatever and punch someone?
00:45:29.000I don't really think there's a strong probability Alec Baldwin kills someone, but I do believe that there is a probability that he does.
00:45:35.000Not that it's a great one, but it's higher than the average person because we know he's got a short temper.
00:45:39.000And I think when you look at the data of this, of this, the data, when you look at the evidence in this case, I think it's greater than chance that he intentionally killed this woman.
00:47:18.000And my response as a prosecutor would be like, I don't think.
00:47:23.000It is a reasonable defense, the live bullets I had in my gun belt, that was loaded into my gun, that I pointed at a woman, pulled the trigger and killed her, and then went, but I have no idea where those bullets came from.
00:49:09.000I heard that, according to crew and cast, that they would go out after work and shoot at cans out back.
00:49:14.000So there was live ammunition on set, which there was not supposed to be any live ammunition on set.
00:49:20.000My guess here is that Alec intentionally fantasized about killing Helena Hutchins.
00:49:25.000He pointed his gun at her, which he thought was empty, was blank, and was pretending to shoot her by pulling the trigger just out of, like, fantasy, because he was so angry at her.
00:49:34.000And then someone on the set's like, yo, I'm gonna frame this piece of garbage.
00:49:39.000I'm gonna put bullets in his gun and see what happens.
00:49:43.000I mean, my opinion is that he did it on purpose.
00:49:59.000If this wasn't a movie set, this guy, whoever, like if Alec Ball was on the street and he was like, someone else handed me the gun, they'd be like, what?
00:50:08.000Someone else handed me the gun, told me to point it at him.
00:50:11.000The woman that got shot, she told me to do it!
00:50:44.000I don't know what happened and what didn't happen, but I know that, you know, I'm convinced that there's enough evidence to have a trial.
00:50:52.000But I think it should be a murder trial.
00:50:55.000Uh, well... They're giving him an involuntary manslaughter, and the premise there is basically, like, he was irresponsible with a gun, and because he's the producer of the film, he has more responsibility over who's loading and everything.
00:51:06.000You know they only charge what they think they can prove.
00:51:08.000So, I mean, even if someone agrees with you, they have to be able to prove it.
00:51:11.000Yeah, without a shadow of a doubt, I don't think murder's on the table.
00:51:25.000I suppose the argument then is, imagine a scenario where a guy shoots and kills a woman, and it's like, we can't charge him with murder because someone else gave him the gun.
00:51:35.000It's like, no, you charged him as an accomplice.
00:51:38.000Yeah, but did he know there were bullets in it?
00:51:39.000He pointed a gun at a person and shot them.
00:51:41.000Yeah, but now we get to the circumstance.
00:51:54.000They were supposed to be blank, and people were scattering them in with live ammo.
00:52:00.000Then I think it's fair to say they need to investigate as to where the bullets came from, who brought them in, and they need to trace from point A to point B. But my issue with this is that you've got motive.
00:52:10.000You've got motive, opportunity, and possession of the ammo and the weapon.
00:52:15.000I don't understand how it's like, okay fine, fair point.
00:52:18.000They're like, I don't know if we can prove it because it's on a movie set.
00:52:24.000Because then everyone's gonna be like, even if you've got the bullets, you've got the gun, you're angry at the person, you're screaming at them, and then you shoot them!
00:52:41.000Some people argue that this woman, Helena Hutchins, was working on a Child Predator documentary, and then she gets hired for this film, and... Nah, that's way too circuitous.
00:52:51.000But the issue actually is quite simple.
00:53:05.000I spent a long time trying to cover this.
00:53:06.000And he ends up having a meeting with her at dinner.
00:53:09.000Apparently, in an interview, he was discussing how she kept frustrating him by telling him what to do, despite the fact she's not the director.
00:54:28.000There actually is, in law, if you are a trained fighter, you can get aggravated modifications to your charges because you know what you're doing can cause this harm.
00:54:38.000So in the instance that Alec Baldwin's a moron who has no idea what's going on and fires a gun and goes, whoopsie daisy!
00:54:46.000But then you also have to mention to the jury and to the people, you expect me or a reasonable person to believe that a man who's been working in films and action movies with guns for decades Did not know about these issues.
00:55:00.000Okay, then we're dealing with negligent homicide.
00:55:02.000It's murder because of gross negligence on the part of Alec Baldwin, not involuntary manslaughter.
00:55:07.000Which, I don't know what the laws are in New Mexico, if they actually have those... if they actually have that codified in their statutes.
00:55:15.000Yeah, I'm looking where Phil's at right now.
00:55:19.000They charge with what they think they can get, and it's pretty obvious that he was resultant in her death, meaning it was an involuntary manslaughter at minimum.
00:55:27.000I wonder what they're going to do with the armor.
00:55:29.000Did they charge the armorer and the assistant director for handing him the weapon?
00:56:50.000And then they can see, you know, let's say you're at a really high-end restaurant or a casino.
00:56:56.000And you're driving a super high-end car of some sort, something like, you know, $80,000, $100,000 car.
00:57:03.000They're going to tag your car, wait for you to go home, and they're going to know where you live.
00:57:05.000I had, um, when I went to San Francisco the first time, I parked my car, was going to look at an apartment to rent, I left my backpack in the back seat, I was gone in for 15 minutes, I came out, my window was shattered, backpack was gone, called the cops, and I was like, hey, they stole my, it's a laptop, so there's probably some tracking, and I had this like, hope for a week that maybe it would turn up.
00:58:41.000Yeah, trespassing, and they're like, do not... What cop wants to be like, in New York, I'm gonna go and get into a hot conflict over a phone?
00:59:50.000And you're, like, fingers are pruning, you touch it, it takes a picture of your face and tweets it out, and you're like, you know, just out of the shower or something.
01:00:03.000It's clearly undisputed, but like I said, there's definitely enough to put him on trial for at least manslaughter, but if they don't believe they can prove that you did the crime beyond a shadow of a doubt, there's so much politics involved in what a DA decides to prosecute and what they don't.
01:00:27.000It is bad for their career if they accuse people of stuff and then they don't convict.
01:00:33.000So you get a good DA has like a 99% conviction rate.
01:00:38.000So they don't go after people unless they're sure they can, you know, nail them.
01:00:52.000They were trying to do a stunt where he would hold up like a couple books and then she would shoot the books and he would catch the bullet in the books or something like this.
01:01:02.000Except the bullet went through the books and he died.
01:02:59.000Like I said, I mean, there's not really, like, I don't feel like there's a problem establishing motive or establishing opportunity or ability.
01:03:08.000For the record, it was an involuntary manslaughter charge dropped in April of 2023.
01:03:13.000And then Helena Hutchins also was charged with involuntary manslaughter.
01:03:18.000They cited reasons for dropping it was that they needed more time to investigate.
01:03:38.000Yeah, you have to go through trial to be actually tried, not a...
01:03:43.000Dude, I feel like if they open the can of worms on this and all the cast and crew, a lot of them are going to get, would get popped for like firing live rounds on set at the very least, which you're not supposed to do.
01:03:55.000A lot of people will get blacklisted from the industry.
01:03:57.000And I don't know that necessarily they were committing crimes by doing that, but they were definitely violating policy, company policy.
01:04:05.000There was not supposed to be any live ammunition on set.
01:04:09.000Well, like with that too, I don't think they'll go after them because there's not like, you know, unless they recorded themselves doing it, like evidence of them doing it, but obviously with the murder or, you know, just death of her, there's the evidence that it happened, so.
01:04:26.000And then the shooting of the director, who took one in the shoulder.
01:04:29.000That was the same bullet though, wasn't it?
01:04:31.000Yeah, it went through Paulina Hutchinson.
01:05:08.000But the big news, so, like, five live rounds were found, and I think a handful of them were in his gun belt, so I'm trying to find that specific citation.
01:06:22.000We'll clarify for the show, but he had the live ammunition The same kind of bullet used for the gun was on his person.
01:06:31.000I think that it was in another actor's bandolier kind of indicates that he didn't, like, if he did do it on purpose and he was the one that, if he was intending it, then that would have been like a red herring.
01:06:46.000I just think it's so dang crazy, but there is the reality of Innocent Until Proven Guilty that if Alec Baldwin really wanted to kill this woman, takes a handful of bullets, mixes them into a box, puts a couple in his gun belt, loads the gun, kills her, and then goes, but look, there's other bullets over here too!
01:07:01.000Like, it must have been somebody else!
01:08:31.000You pointed a gun at a woman, pulled the trigger, she flies back screaming, everyone runs over like she's dying, and you walk out of the room totally oblivious?
01:08:43.000I think Alec Baldwin intentionally killed her, And did not know how to explain his behavior, which was erratic and made no sense.
01:08:52.000So, after he kills her, feeling justified and satisfied with having done the deed, he gets up and walks out, doesn't render aid, is not shocked or surprised at what happened because he did it.
01:09:04.000Now, Alec Baldwin kills a woman intentionally, right?
01:09:07.000Is he gonna go, oh jeez, oh no, how did I, I just pointed a gun and pulled the trigger and she died, I can't believe that happened.
01:09:13.000If he wanted her dead, he would know that she was going to die, he would not react with shock at her dying, he would get up and be like, yep, and he'd walk out of the room.
01:09:23.000And then he's like, oh, it was only 45 minutes later, I realized that she was actually shot.
01:09:27.000You pointed a gun at her and pulled the trigger, it went bang, she falls backwards, two people got hit, and everyone's screaming!
01:10:23.000It had been 25 years and I hadn't missed a payment, which I think is why.
01:10:26.000So they targeted me first, but now it's just total extraction of wealth.
01:10:31.000I don't know where that five billion is.
01:10:32.000If they told Fannie Mae or whoever these loan companies are, you're not getting your money back, that's a different story.
01:10:37.000But if they're printing five billion to hand it to these private loan corporations, And they're just forcing you to pay back your loans early with... That's ridiculous because it's costing us all money.
01:10:51.000It's devaluing all of our currency by printing money.
01:10:55.000You know, as we watch Sports Illustrated crumble and Bud Light may be on the verge of collapse, Joe Biden is just throwing money in the air while screaming yeehaw.
01:11:06.000Part of me thinks like we're gonna have to start rebuilding like we're building the parallel economy We better crank that thing up man because we're gonna need institutions of our own to help so that we survive Yeah, and like for someone like Biden, too, it's like you make the argument that this isn't sustainable, you can't keep doing this.
01:11:26.000And, you know, to the point about like purchasing votes, like, I mean, didn't he already tried something like this also, and then it like got struck down or whatever, like?
01:11:36.000These people are going to turn on him, too, because he's going to over-promise again.
01:11:43.000I just don't think it's going to work, but even this plan right there, if it does, it's not going to be sustainable.
01:11:52.000You need people that are willing to say, I don't want the free money.
01:12:00.000That's just not gonna happen, because the Titanic has hit the iceberg, and everybody's trying to steal as much as they can before the ship sinks.
01:12:06.000Did you hear the theory that the Titanic got hit by a U-boat?
01:12:11.000Okay, anyway, so, uh... I wanna talk about that!
01:12:15.000The issue that we're dealing with is that all of the people, a large portion of the people in this country are just like, let me extract from the system whatever I can, as it's sinking, and Joe Biden is just making it rain, and he's like, spend it while you can, baby!
01:12:27.000How do we instantiate honor in the species, to be like, stop giving me this money, I don't want it!
01:12:32.000Well, I mean, you can't do that to, like, kids that already are, like, you know, have already got the debt.
01:12:39.000You're not going to get kids that have signed on to what they assumed was the, you know, the deal.
01:12:46.000If I go to school and I study and I get a good, you know, get good grades, I'll get out and I'll get a good job.
01:12:54.000That's not the way that things are panning out.
01:12:58.000And there's not a lot of great answers for those kids.
01:13:02.000Um, if they spent a lot of money on a degree that doesn't, you know, doesn't have a job to go with it or there's no, you know, no market for that job, they're kind of effed.
01:13:13.000We had someone call into the Members Only show and said that their significant other was a trooper in Texas.
01:13:21.000And that they've begun discussing fears of civil war because the Biden administration may start arresting Texas law enforcement.
01:13:42.000Maybe someone was lying to us to try and sensationalize what's going on.
01:13:48.000But the reason why it would make sense in either direction is that Texas has begun arresting illegal immigrants, and we have what is quite literally a Fort Sumter circumstance, where the federal government is saying, this is our jurisdiction, and a state has deployed armed soldiers to push them out and say, no it's not, it's ours now.
01:14:08.000With Fort Sumter, you have the Union forces at Fort Sumter and the South Carolina being like, hey, get out.
01:14:17.000Now you have federal law enforcement on the border saying the border is our authority and Texas National Guard deployed armed soldiers to push them out, take control of the area and begin arresting illegal immigrants.
01:14:31.000Sooner or later, this reaches ahead in some way.
01:14:35.000Either it's going to be the federal government just gives up, and then other states recognize the federal authority is gone and eroded, or the federal government responds with force.
01:14:44.000I bring it up in this context because I'm like, everything I see Joe Biden do, and the Democratic establishment, I don't see any long-term planning.
01:14:53.000I see them basically just setting fire to the curtains before they leave.
01:14:57.000Yeah, I don't see the long-term planning.
01:15:00.000It does feel like all, like, just kind of, let's do right now what's good for now.
01:15:05.000They're like, okay, we're getting kicked out, light it up.
01:15:08.000I knew a guy once who got evicted from his apartment, so he took Hershey's syrup and he squirted it into the cracks of every nook of the building.
01:15:18.000And he was like, this'll teach him, and I'm like, I think you already taught him by not paying rent.
01:15:22.000But this is the idea, like, the Democrats, they're getting evicted, so they're like, set fire to the whole thing.
01:15:28.000Well, I mean, you know, the Thucydides trap stuff comes to mind because the United States has a strong economic power with a strong military, you know, facing an up-and-coming China means, you know, conflict and the idea that the United States needs to be weaker, you know, or a managed decline.
01:15:46.000That's not something that's so far-fetched or something that hasn't been discussed.
01:15:51.000Like, Barack Obama essentially said this, you know, said that the United States Was going to manage being not the only suit, not the superpower, just be another country among many.
01:16:03.000And that takes a certain amount of, you know, of management to get to the point where the U.S.
01:16:20.000We are going to be America first, the greatest country on Earth.
01:16:24.000Try and take it, please, because you're not going to get it.
01:16:27.000Well, I mean, yeah, there are people and the thing is, yes, but a big part of the problem is this hasn't been proposed to the American people.
01:16:37.000There's no there was no like vote about this or, you know, or, you know, Any kind of inquiry into, hey, America, do you want to start passing laws or signing on to treaties that actually kind of weaken the United States power, you know, over or its own sovereignty, you know, that that we're we're, you know, you know, listening to foreign powers like, you know, NGOs and stuff or whatever, like,
01:17:07.000Do we want the United States to sign on to those things?
01:17:11.000And a lot of times the American people don't pay attention.
01:17:14.000And so because the politicians that do sign on, or that actually are the ones that are like, yes, we should plan this kind of stuff, because that stuff happens quietly, your average person doesn't know, so they get reelected.
01:17:25.000And also, like, if they had been like, yo, we're going to reduce the American hegemonic power, we want to get rid of these American military bases, and we're going to co-parent the Earth with the Chinese Communist Party, with the Russians, and with the corporations.
01:17:37.000I'd be open to that if you give me a plan, because I don't like American military police necessarily on its face.
01:17:43.000It's caused a lot of panic, pain, and suffering, probably unnecessarily.
01:17:46.000But you better give me a way that that's going to be better than the stability we've had over the last 70 years.
01:17:52.000They're already making the play that I predicted.
01:17:54.000A couple weeks ago, Trump had received support from a mere 56,000 caucus-goers, amounting to some 7% of registered Republicans in the state and just 3% of overall registered voters in Iowa.
01:18:08.000They're already pushing the narrative that Donald Trump is winning in the absolute minority, and they will use that to justify barring him from power.
01:18:17.000So, my prediction was, they're going to remove him from the ballot in a bunch of states, if they do, Trump will win the Electoral College, but the You know, if California removes Trump, he loses 10 million Republican votes.
01:18:30.000He was never going to win the electoral votes in that state anyway.
01:18:33.000But now, he's going to win the general election with 40 million to Biden's 70, and they're going to say, this can't be.
01:18:41.000All the left is going to say, wow, no one should be president with that little vote.
01:18:49.000That will be their, in essence, Cass's belly for why they're okay with the use of force to stop Trump from taking the presidency, even after he won the election.
01:18:58.000They'll say, one of the bad guys, Trump didn't actually win, the system is broken.
01:20:05.000I mean, and, and honestly, that isn't, that is worth mentioning if, if, you know, people are going to say things like, Oh, well, you know, showing up, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:20:14.000It's like, well, you know, maybe they should show up if their vote's going to count.
01:21:11.000Well, it was funny because Laura Loomer was like, why is this man who posed naked with Mickey Mouse gloves appearing at a Ron DeSantis event?
01:21:17.000And it's like, it's a good question, but I don't blame Ron for Vermin Supreme crashing the party.
01:21:22.000But either way, if he was invited or not, that just speaks to the state of his campaign right now.
01:21:27.000It speaks to the state of his campaign that when Laura Loomer went to a DeSantis event, she got thrown out.
01:21:32.000And when Vermin Supreme shows up and jumps up on stage, he just does his thing.
01:21:37.000I don't think... I think the likelihood is he wasn't invited, he did his thing.
01:21:41.000Actually, there's... Let's pull up the video.
01:21:43.000We have a... No, that's not the video.
01:22:37.000There's a video of a guy in a wheelchair saying nothing and they walk up like, time to go, sir.
01:22:41.000And you mean to tell me that Vermin Supreme was able to jump up on the stage and start saying, when I say zombie, you say free or whatever and everyone's just cheering for it?
01:22:59.000I'm just happy that he's not around the Libertarians anymore.
01:23:02.000Vermin is... I think he's an anarchist.
01:23:05.000I don't know that he's like a far leftist.
01:23:07.000I think he's just like a core anarchist with like no real strong...
01:23:12.000All of his schtick is about some kind of government program, and he jumped into the libertarian... You know, but like, outside of his actual character, if you talk to him, I know him decently well.
01:23:23.000I don't hang out with him or anything, but like, I've had dinner with him, and talked to him, and his thing is basically like...
01:23:38.000When the Mises guys... Well, he probably went woke.
01:23:40.000Yeah, when the Mises guys kind of came in and took over the Libertarian Party, he is when he left because he was friendly with the kind of woke left-leaning Libertarians that were in positions of power.
01:23:52.000But this is what so many of these leftists do.
01:23:55.000They, or I should say liberals, the moment they saw Actually, I'll put it this way.
01:24:36.000I found the answer to your question, by the way, about the press conference, because I saw the original post that says Ron DeSantis is about to hold a press conference outside and he's late and letting the reporters in the cold.
01:24:49.000He said that he'll be back in New Hampshire on Sunday.
01:24:51.000He wouldn't answer any questions about whether he'll be in the state on Monday or Tuesday on primary day.
01:25:14.000Matt Kim posted a video where he was like, I was just thrown out for no reason.
01:25:19.000They wouldn't even let him go to the neighboring building to have dinner.
01:25:21.000I mean everyone you know that there's a lot of personal garbage that's going on with this stuff it's it's really catty you know who's who's saying nice things about me or mean things about me on Twitter is is a big a big thing for especially at least you know it seemed like it was for the DeSantis campaign if if If you interacted with them and were not favorable towards DeSantis, they weren't looking to convince you that you should be favorable towards DeSantis.
01:25:52.000They were looking to convince you that you were a bad person.
01:25:54.000It's real disappointing because that's like people making fun of the DeSantis campaign is like trying to light a spark underneath the campaign to give it some combustive momentum.
01:26:10.000Well, I am because it's like at a certain point when you were like, hey, I'm a big fan.
01:26:15.000I like this guy Why don't you stop doing this bad thing?
01:26:18.000And then they're like we're gonna keep doing bad thing and I'm like, okay and they respond with and you know What fuck you?
01:26:27.000See you later guy I had somebody like complaining that I didn't cover Kim Reynolds endorsement like months ago I'm like, okay, it wasn't like really surprising and then also on the other hand like I You know, it was a bigger deal that week that, you know, Rick Scott endorsed Trump over DeSantis, the sitting, you know, senator of a state and former governor.
01:26:48.000And, like, they didn't make a huge deal about that.
01:26:50.000And then, you know... The personality traits of the woke are the same as the never-Trumpers.
01:27:24.000I mean, it, uh, it sucks that his, his, um, you know, the, the people that were speaking for his campaign weren't, uh, weren't a little more proactive in trying to convince people and be a little more friendly.
01:27:37.000But at the same time, like Ron was, you know, it's like talking to a two by four.
01:28:13.000Because while he may be the champ when it comes to his weight division and his fighting, when you're a leader, you need a bunch of different characteristics.
01:28:22.000So, Ron DeSantis, let's say there's ten categories that would make you a good president.
01:28:27.000Ron maybe has two of them, very high marks, and the rest are all in the gutter.
01:28:31.000So he was not the right choice for this.
01:28:55.000People do credit the Florida legislature with a lot of what happened in Florida during the COVID lockdowns is keeping that state open was in part the legislature and Ron took a lot of the credit for it.
01:29:07.000I don't know who's going to be the VP, man.
01:29:54.000I don't even know if that's the right one.
01:29:55.000He may not want to work in administration like that.
01:29:58.000I would have preferred Vivek be the guy to Trump, but he was at 8% or whatever in Iowa.
01:30:05.000He's 5% or something like that nationwide or lower.
01:30:07.000in Iowa, he's like 5% or something like that nationwide or lower. Like I don't
01:30:13.000see how he, how Trump benefits at all by picking for the...
01:30:17.000He doesn't, the country, it's like kind of like Aaron Rodgers, like Favre, the Green Bay
01:30:21.000Packers drafted Aaron Rodgers, he sat the bench for the first year as a
01:30:24.000nobody. But they knew he was great and that he would be great so he, Brett Favre,
01:30:29.000you know, just, just took, you know, they all took it for the team, it was about the
01:30:32.000team and making the team the best it could be.
01:30:34.000The thing about him like being at like 8% is I think because he's aligned so much with Trump that like you know in the absence of Trump I think that number would be a lot higher whereas the other candidates that like they are their support is seen as you know opposing Trump.
01:30:51.000So it would actually kind of be confusing to me to like have him at a higher number because since he's so aligned with Trump, I feel on a lot of things.
01:30:59.000That's, you know, that's where that's coming from.
01:31:02.000And he's like, actually, I think he has some good like suggestions on, you know, like banning the, you know, cryptocurrency, whatever that was.
01:31:13.000And then also, you know, with the pardoning of Assange, that's another suggestion.
01:31:21.000That, like, he has told Trump, I guess, so... You're banning the CBDC?
01:31:27.000And, you know, the day before he, like, talked to him about that, he announced that on the stage and made that part of his policy.
01:31:34.000So I feel like someone, like, who could give him some more, you know, advice on things like that, that, you know, Trump might not know, and help craft policy on that type of stuff, would be more beneficial.
01:31:49.000just had Vivek on his show, Triggered, on Rumble, two days ago.
01:31:53.000I think it was two days ago, might have been yesterday.
01:31:56.000It was great to see him together, but it was remote, and they were talking over each other just because of the digital delay, which was, you know, being in person.
01:33:00.000It's like whenever, like every, you know, cycle or whatever, whoever's running, like they get bad pictures of them eating or whatever, you know, like sticking the one down the throat.
01:33:16.000The only reason I would ever really want to run for president is so that I could just go nuts on the whole system.
01:33:22.000I would never actually want to run for president.
01:33:25.000I don't want it all to be in politics, but if I feel like the country needs me or the world needs me, I feel like it's our duty as businessmen to go to that level next.
01:33:33.000If there was ever a point where I could actually get on the debate stage and have a double-digit polling, but not win, I'd go for it.
01:33:41.000And then it would just be the funniest thing ever.
01:33:43.000I would show up to the Iowa State Fair and I'd buy five corn dogs and just eat them all at once.
01:33:49.000I would take five of them and just be like, all right, everybody get the photo.
01:34:56.000And while I don't believe that for a second, because Trump was planning on running for years, because he registered MAGA and stuff four years in advance.
01:35:03.000But it is apparently true that when he did win, he was surprised.
01:35:07.000And he was like, in his campaign office on election night, he was like, I won?
01:35:11.000Watching that video of him like, I didn't think I was going to win.
01:35:38.000You know, like 9-11, I will always remember exactly where I was and how it went down when Donald Trump won the presidency because it was one of the greatest nights of my life.
01:35:55.000So I went up to the office and I was just sitting there with my feet up and I was like, cool, I'm not doing anything else.
01:36:01.000And Cassandra was like the only person in the office who was pro-Trump.
01:36:06.000All the other Sputnik people were Democrats.
01:36:09.000And it was funny how snooty they were being and like smug.
01:36:13.000And there was like an early report that the Trump campaign was planning to file, like launching a lawsuit against one of the states as the results were coming in.
01:36:20.000And there was one guy was like, here he goes, like, this is what Trump's gonna do.
01:36:58.000You have sat on your hands for so long and lied to the American people.
01:37:03.000You voted for Barack Obama, and he blew up kids.
01:37:05.000And now you have the nerve to come to me and say Hillary Clinton, who is Secretary of State, doing all this garbage, deserves to be president.
01:39:26.000World leaders getting trashed makes me nervous.
01:39:28.000We're gonna go to Super Chat, so if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, share the show with your friends, head over to TimCast.com, click join us, become a member to support the work we do, and go to CastBrew.com, pick up Appalachian Nights.
01:39:40.000It's the best coffee you will ever have.
01:40:40.000The reason why I did bring it up, I didn't want to, I haven't tweeted about it or anything, is because if we can't verify who the person is, and if the husband's in law enforcement, can't get a statement on the record, we don't want to.
01:40:50.000That being said, An individual called into a public show to thousands of people and said, this is a thing that is happening.
01:40:59.000And then I will clarify, we do not have any confirmation outside of this.
01:41:04.000However, there are other individuals who are retired Texas troopers that probably have connections.
01:41:09.000And it sounds rather reasonable that this is happening.
01:41:13.000If you're working in law enforcement in Texas and you're being ordered to defy the federal government to their faces with guns, you may be concerned sooner or later a Fed's going to try to stop you.
01:42:05.000Here's a really interesting fact from the show.
01:42:08.000Runways are being renamed because of the pole shift.
01:42:13.000We name runways based off their position with the compass or whatever on the earth, but now that the poles are shifting, it's changing the names of these runways, because if you're flying, you're using your instruments to find runway with this name, if the name stayed the same, the compass would point in the wrong direction, and so it's like... But that's actually happening.
01:42:29.000You can find that on the US government website, where they're like, hey, the pole shift is happening rather rapidly.
01:42:35.000And so the idea is that the Earth will tilt, and as it does, it wobbles, moves down, and then starts correcting.
01:42:43.000The spin will stay the same, but the axis rotation, and I guess the argument is the poles are heavy right now, and so that'll cause it to wobble and then spin, but then correct itself and start spinning again, and I guess that would put Antarctica at the equator.
01:43:46.000And so he was pointing out like, or he was asking, what could cause a woolly mammoth to freeze so quickly that its food would be intact in its belly?
01:44:00.000If the woolly mammoths were in this Arctic region or whatever, or, you know, minus 15, how were there vegetables around for it to eat?
01:44:09.000What was it eating if its stomach is full of vegetation?
01:44:12.000Yeah, the hypothesis is that it was in the equatorial area, and there was plenty of vegetation, and then that whole area flipped up north, and then that's where they were found.
01:44:20.000Right, and so, well, this is what he's arguing.
01:44:22.000I'm not a scientist, I don't know, but he's arguing that they're basically at the equator eating veggies.
01:44:27.000Within a day, the Earth flips, and all of a sudden, they're in the Arctic Circle.
01:44:32.000All the plant life is dead, and it's minus 15 instantly, and they just freeze.
01:44:37.000They freeze to death almost instantly.
01:44:38.000Nowhere to go, nowhere to stay warm, and there's no food, and they're just frozen.
01:45:24.000That would be a good guy to have on the Culture War show.
01:45:27.000Culture War show is a better show for when we're doing one-on-one stories like that, and IRL is better when we're doing news commentary.
01:45:34.000So there are a lot of people who will reach out and be like, I'd love to come on your show, and I'm like, we'll get someone who's a scientist and wants to come on Timcast IRL, but I'm like, we're not an interview podcast like Joe Rogan, we're a news commentary show, so we're looking for cultural and political junkies.
01:45:49.000But that's why we decided to launch the Culture War Show, which you should subscribe to.
01:45:55.000Alright, alright, let's grab some more superchats.
01:45:58.000Jk says great culture war podcast earlier.
01:46:00.000Thank you been watching both those guys as long as you you need to let all that expand Yeah, the fascinating thing about Ben He's not like He's not coming out and saying aliens and other crazy nonsense.
01:46:16.000He was saying things like, well, one of the... I asked him, if the poles shifted and Antarctica is at the equator, will it melt?
01:46:22.000And he says, not necessarily, because we have tropical glaciers right now that haven't melted and they've been there for thousands of years.
01:47:26.000Road Less Traveled says, if you're planning on going to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee or just a fan of history, look up Road Less Traveled Wisconsin for information about the little white schoolhouse in Rippon, Wisconsin, the birthplace of the Republican Party.
01:48:01.000Dude, people keep telling me, you gotta get in touch with Ben, with Ben Davidson, you gotta get in touch with Ben Davidson, because I've been talking a lot about the Electric Universe Theory.
01:48:09.000Dude, we were talking about that during these pole shifts and these geomagnetic phases that the moon can get pulled towards the Earth really fast and then pushed away, and the amount of like, Like, just torrential flooding, and like, because the moon sucks the waves, it'll like, make the waves get really tall when the moon's closer to the earth.
01:48:28.000The catastrophe, the guy's just absolutely awesome.
01:48:30.000I had no idea Suspicious Observers was as big as it is.
01:48:34.000I've only been following him on Twitter, so it's really, really great to see.
01:48:38.000M says, if the New York Times paper was to finally collapse, would we be happy or celebrate its end?
01:48:44.000Just says people are celebrating the end of Sports Illustrated.
01:49:25.000Well, these ideas that they test in the opinion pages, these are what will eventually turn into policy.
01:49:31.000You know, that's where the ideas come from.
01:49:32.000What if tomorrow, the front page of the New York Times was all American flag backdrop, and the articles were all about the history of communism and why communism is bad?
01:50:02.000The whole progressive project, the whole first half of the last century, people were lying for the Soviet Union because all the intelligentsia, all the academics thought that socialism was the future.
01:50:12.000They thought it was a great idea and they all wanted the Soviet Union to actually work out and so they're all just lying for them.
01:50:17.000The New York Times, they had horrible people that were just covering for Stalin.
01:50:23.000Dickinson says, I hope this is seen, you need to make a K-cup coffee pod sampler so people don't have to buy a full pack to find out if they like or hate it.
01:50:57.000And so that means somewhere around 60% of the individuals who watch TimCast IRL Don't hear and don't watch consecutive episodes.
01:51:07.000So if I'm going to be talking about a subject and I ignore the core point of the subject, assuming someone's heard it, the chat will be flooded with, what are you talking about?
01:51:18.000So we have to operate on a light assumption that the average person at any given moment on a show has not watched the show the previous day.
01:51:25.000Yeah, it's similar to if you're talking about someone we all know and we're using first name basis.
01:51:30.000We got to use their last name when we're on TV.
01:51:32.000It's just something you got to be a little different when you have the cameras on and you're broadcasting.
01:51:36.000I'll give you one example of how it's difficult to navigate esoteric subjects.
01:51:42.000What we say on this show on a daily basis is an esoteric subject.
01:51:45.000You don't know the subject of what we talked about unless you watch every episode.
01:51:49.000When we had Vivek Ramaswamy on and we asked him about central bank digital currency, He did what many people do when discussing this.
01:51:59.000The subject is so complicated that instead of saying, here's what blockchain is, here's what Bitcoin is, here's what cryptocurrencies are, central bank, instead of that, he goes, the problem with CBDC right away is that you've got a government, and I'm like, wait, wait, stop.
01:52:49.000I have no idea what he's talking about.
01:52:50.000I've noticed that on shows, sometimes there's the experts, two experts talking at each other, and I just want to listen to them experts speak.
01:52:56.000Even if I don't understand the words, I'm like, I'll figure it out later.
01:53:03.000But then other times, I'm like, I want to watch more of a show which explains to the general audience, like, labels, what they mean.
01:53:09.000And I just, I kind of go back and forth.
01:53:11.000There's different types of shows in that sense.
01:53:13.000So you need to say something like, blockchain is a digital ledger, a book containing a list of transactions made by people who are exchanging something of value.
01:53:23.000The digital currencies are essentially things you can have on the internet that represent value.
01:53:40.000They can control what you buy much more easily.
01:53:42.000They can ban you from stores or even from regions.
01:53:45.000Right now, they can do these things through difficult measures with the federal government, court systems, freezing your bank accounts.
01:53:52.000But with Central Bank Digital Currency, one day, you could get a notification that you are not allowed to buy things within 50 miles of Austin, Texas.
01:54:00.000And they can easily control that with a CBDC.
01:54:04.000It's less easy with the current financial system.
01:54:08.000But social credit scores, all that stuff, it opens the door if they make that move.
01:54:34.000That's like corruption staring us in the face kind of behavior.
01:54:38.000TeslaHack says, on the topic of the casino, and no one in charge, this Ian isn't correct, decentralization also decentralizes responsibility.
01:54:46.000A web of interconnected systems is hard to hold accountable, unlike a singular leader.
01:55:05.000So when I had an issue where a guy threatened to... So what happened was I was in the poker room at Hollywood Charlestown and they apologized to me.
01:55:58.000He bluffs all the way down, he looks at what I have, and he just has this look of shock, and then he throws his cards into the muck, meaning he just gets rid of them, and then they shove all the money to me, meaning...
01:57:13.000It only got resolved like seven months later when a guy who watches the show and worked in the food department as a manager.
01:57:20.000Asked me like, uh, so they, they had an, uh, there was a Republican event using the casino conference space and he was there and he was like, yeah, I hear you're a big fan.
01:58:07.000So, the whole system is decentralized.
01:58:09.000There, of course, is someone who's in charge of the casino at perhaps like a regional level, but they're not in the building, and they're not there, and there's no phone.
01:58:16.000So the only way you get anything resolved is, first, this one's really important, if you guys are ever having problems with a major company and they're dicking you around, be rich.
01:58:26.000Okay, now, after you're rich, it also helps to have two million followers on Twitter.
01:58:32.000Okay, now that we've gone through that.
01:58:35.000These companies will finally apologize to you, and this is the worst thing about our modern corporatist system, is that the only way to actually be treated fairly by these faceless, gigantic, disgusting machines is if you can wield influence against them, and it's sad.
01:58:49.000It is pathetic that you would have to do something like that.
01:58:56.000Let them feel all the pain of treating their customized like garbage because sooner or later they treat the wrong person like garbage and then they have to deal with that.
01:59:03.000That's why I'm drawn to mob rule because like I noticed that in 2006 with internet video like the amount of people I could amass to make a phone call to one person at a certain time I was like yo I can command the masses with this technology real easy and I wanted to.
01:59:18.000But I also realized how dangerous that could be and that I'm corruptible.
01:59:21.000And I was like, I got to just build systems that let people organize.
01:59:24.000I can't try and be some cult leader pushing.
01:59:28.000I mean, but then the argument is like, if you're up against corporations that are screwing the little guy, maybe you do need a cult leader to step up and command the forces, the people to go make calls and to show up here.
01:59:37.000And I'm going to say this and all that.
01:59:39.000I'm going to take this Friday opportunity to whinge a little bit, and on this point.
01:59:45.000So I was at Maryland Live, which is at Arendelle Mills, big mall, shopping mall, and they have a casino, and this place knows customer service.
01:59:58.000So there was a dispute we had over a bet on a table.
02:00:03.000The supervisor on the floor was arguing with us.
02:00:49.000It was Allison's turn to roll the die.
02:00:52.000There were only three people at the table.
02:00:53.000As she's putting the money down, they hand the die to the wrong guy, and he throws them, and the die hit the wall, and we're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, no roll, no roll, like we're still betting, and they're like, nope, your money's ours, and they pull our money.
02:02:32.000Barstool was freaking out because they were like, we are going to get denied gaming licenses in states because of hate speech and things like that.
02:03:23.000It's terrible, the roads are shut down, there's a state of emergency, but my friends, smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends, head over to TimCast.com, click join us, become a member, support our work, and I know there's always people, there's a lot of people who are like, Tim Goebel's too much, listen, my friends, the salary that I take from this company only comes from the Tim Pool Daily Show, a show that I produce 99% on my own in the mornings that I record, that makes money, that's the money I pay myself, everything else from like TimCast.io, your membership goes to putting up billboards, buying commercials of Alex Stein, We did $25,000 in a commercial of Alex Stein trying to freebase coffee.
02:03:57.000So you might be thinking, wow, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
02:05:02.000I feel like they've made this phrase intentionally so that the inverse of it is something that we mostly wouldn't agree with, because the more liberal, moderate person would be like, well, You know, I can understand why someone wouldn't want their kid to be gay, they wouldn't have grandkids.
02:05:15.000But we're fairly libertarian, just don't do crime.