Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - State Of Emergency EXPANDS, Truckers Fear Supply Shortages With No Gas w-Daniel Turner

00:00:00.000 The state of emergency that is affecting 17 states is being expanded.

00:00:25.000 Several states are now declaring their own states of emergency as around 1,000 gas stations are out of gas.

00:00:31.000 And the strangest, creepiest thing about it is the media keeps saying it's not happening.

00:00:36.000 There was one tweet I saw earlier from a public figure who said that in Asheville, they called 10 different stations, gas stations, and they were told there's no gas.

00:00:45.000 But on the local news, on NPR, nothing.

00:00:47.000 New York Times put out a tweet saying there's no long lines.

00:00:51.000 Nothing.

00:00:52.000 Meanwhile, if you look at social media, you can see people are actually starting to freak out.

00:00:55.000 Now, this may just be panic buying, and there are some photos showing that may be the case.

00:01:00.000 Or it could be that we are now going into, what is it, day five or so?

00:01:04.000 It was last Friday this hack occurred.

00:01:06.000 They've shut it down, and people are, well, maybe the gas isn't going out.

00:01:10.000 Now, I'll tell you what's really interesting about this is there were stories a few weeks ago Predicting that there was going to be a gas shortage.

00:01:15.000 CNN reported on this.

00:01:17.000 The Guardian reported on this.

00:01:18.000 Fox reported on this.

00:01:19.000 And all of a sudden, now, this cyber attack happens, which is really, really just crazy timing, I should say, at the very least.

00:01:26.000 But it's more than just this gas shortage.

00:01:27.000 We've got an escalating crisis now between Israel and Gaza.

00:01:30.000 A 13-story residential building was on video.

00:01:33.000 You see it just blows up, falls over.

00:01:37.000 Things are getting crazy out there, and now we're gonna get weird and wild because apparently there is a solar storm on the way, expected to slam into the planet.

00:01:44.000 I am not exaggerating.

00:01:45.000 Wow!

00:01:46.000 Man, talk about... It's been a crazy week.

00:01:48.000 We got a border crisis, we got inflation, we got mass exodus from the job market, we've got gas shortages, there's a massive drought in California, a solar storm is coming, war in the Middle East! 1.00

00:01:58.000 Geez, should we talk about some movies or something and get away from all this?

00:02:02.000 No, we're gonna get serious.

00:02:04.000 Perfect timing.

00:02:05.000 Joining us today is our good friend Daniel Turner, who is an expert on all things energy related.

00:02:09.000 You want to introduce yourself?

00:02:10.000 Yeah, Daniel Turner, power of the future.

00:02:13.000 It is great to be here for the third time.

00:02:15.000 And when we when you invited me back, which I'm always grateful to be here, this had not yet happened.

00:02:20.000 So it really is kind of crazy that that this is happening.

00:02:24.000 And this is my forte.

00:02:25.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:26.000 So I mean, there's like, you know, talk of the Green New Deal and, you know, some other stories.

00:02:29.000 I was like, oh, so we'll, you know, we'll have Daniel come down, we'll talk about whatever.

00:02:33.000 Because you talk about everything else as well, just general politics.

00:02:35.000 And then it's like, we're like, who do we have?

00:02:37.000 We need to get somebody who's good, talking about energy and these, oh, we're good.

00:02:42.000 We're good.

00:02:44.000 Great.

00:02:45.000 It's kind of not a good thing, but... No, it's just good timing.

00:02:48.000 And so it's great to be back here.

00:02:49.000 Thanks for having me on again.

00:02:51.000 I have so many things to say.

00:02:53.000 I'm going to keep it short for now.

00:02:54.000 I'm Ian Crossland coming at you from iancrossland.net.

00:02:57.000 Hello.

00:02:57.000 What's up everybody?

00:02:58.000 And I'm excited to hear what Ian has to say tonight.

00:03:00.000 I'm just in the corner pushing the buttons for the show.

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00:04:08.000 Sometimes that happens.

00:04:09.000 But now we're dealing with these gas shortages.

00:04:11.000 There have been stories about a shortage of truck drivers.

00:04:14.000 If there's no truck drivers, there's no supplies.

00:04:16.000 There's no gas coming in.

00:04:17.000 There's no food coming in.

00:04:19.000 Maybe nothing will happen.

00:04:20.000 Maybe this is just a bad time, and these things are all coming together at the same time.

00:04:25.000 It kind of makes people freak out, so don't freak out.

00:04:28.000 But I still think, look, if you're going to have a first aid kit in your house, because sometimes you get caught and you need antiseptic, and that doesn't happen all that much, well, you've got to eat and you've got to drink too, so you probably have some emergency food.

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00:04:54.000 Man, uh, you know, aside from all of those other crazy things I'm mentioning, we still have censorship, which is a very real problem.

00:05:01.000 As most of you know, you know, we got, uh, my personal Facebook page has been put under restrictions by Facebook, so in the event that we get banned or whatever, you can find us here.

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00:05:17.000 So let's just jump into the news now.

00:05:19.000 The first story we have is from the Daily Mail.

00:05:21.000 Virginia, Georgia, and North Carolina declare state of emergency over gas shortages after colonial pipeline hack as 1,000 fuel stations run dry in Southeast as people panic buy.

00:05:33.000 They say, Ralph Northam and Brian Kemp, governors of Virginia and Georgia, declared a state of emergency on Tuesday.

00:05:39.000 On Monday, the governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, took a similar step to deal with the fuel crisis.

00:05:44.000 Now, they're going to mention a lot of stuff most of us already know, that the pipeline was hacked, it's ransomware, it's the largest pipeline in the country.

00:05:51.000 I'm not entirely convinced.

00:05:53.000 I think we're being lied to by the government.

00:05:55.000 So we heard from a DHS, one of the spokesperson people from the DHS, there's no shortage.

00:06:00.000 We're seeing the New York Times say there's no long lines.

00:06:02.000 There was another story, I can't remember which outlet it was, saying there's no long lines, everyone calm down.

00:06:06.000 But here's what I find strange.

00:06:08.000 The Daily Mail's reporting it's panic buying.

00:06:10.000 Why is it so heavily prominent in North Carolina?

00:06:13.000 Is it just something about people in North Carolina where they're more prone to panic and buying?

00:06:18.000 Is it just panic buying?

00:06:19.000 I don't know.

00:06:20.000 What do you think?

00:06:20.000 I don't know why North Carolina in particular.

00:06:22.000 I will say in the region of the country where I live and even coming here tonight, every gas station I passed had very long lines.

00:06:31.000 You don't live far away from us.

00:06:32.000 Everybody knows where we live, by the way, just so you know.

00:06:32.000 No.

00:06:34.000 And I filled up this morning.

00:06:36.000 I got up early because I saw the news last night and I've been following this and I thought, you know what, I'm just...

00:06:42.000 Going to get up and first thing I did was I took my car.

00:06:45.000 I took the other car.

00:06:46.000 I took our gas cans and I just filled up everything just to be safe.

00:06:50.000 So was I panic buying?

00:06:52.000 I was.

00:06:52.000 Absolutely.

00:06:53.000 I'm sure a lot of people are doing the same.

00:06:55.000 But it raises a larger question about infrastructure and just rethink a couple weeks ago when The media cycle is easier, right?

00:07:04.000 It's amazing how crazy and how fast the media cycle goes.

00:07:07.000 When the president introduces infrastructure bill and everyone began joking, saying healthcare is infrastructure and poetry is infrastructure and childhood dreams are infrastructure.

00:07:15.000 No, this really is infrastructure.

00:07:17.000 Like, infrastructure is infrastructure.

00:07:19.000 And I think one of the biggest challenges I have in my industry is that oil and gas isn't always sexy.

00:07:24.000 Energy isn't always sexy.

00:07:25.000 It's not titillating.

00:07:26.000 It's not guns.

00:07:27.000 It's not abortion. 1.00

00:07:28.000 Half the country hates it.

00:07:30.000 But boy, oh boy, is it really the lifeblood of our economy, and we're getting a taste of what happens when it's tinkered with.

00:07:37.000 This is what freaks me out.

00:07:39.000 You remember when Greta Thunberg was like, we're not talking about 2030 or 2022, we want right now!

00:07:44.000 Shut it down! 1.00

00:07:45.000 You got it.

00:07:45.000 Look what's happening!

00:07:47.000 When there's just 45% of the supply on the east coast and the southeast is disrupted, this is what happens.

00:07:53.000 What do you think would happen if they actually got their way and shut down everything?

00:07:56.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:07:57.000 And we have a larger energy infrastructure problem because most of our refining happens in very strategic areas, right?

00:08:05.000 The refining happens in the Gulf because, historically, we imported most of our oil.

00:08:10.000 It was cheaper to bring it in by barge, so you wanted it by the water.

00:08:13.000 And the Eastern Seaboard, because it was coming from the Middle East, the Eastern Seaboard was all really expensive real estate, so there was nowhere to go.

00:08:20.000 So they went around Florida.

00:08:22.000 And they ended up in the Gulf Coast, and that's where the refining is.

00:08:24.000 And if you see a map of the refineries, and then a map of the pipelines, pipelines everywhere, but there really is just one pipeline from the Gulf Coast all the way, and that's Colonial Pipeline, and it is a major pipeline.

00:08:37.000 Should we have built a second, a third, a fourth?

00:08:39.000 Absolutely.

00:08:39.000 Should we have refining in the Northeast?

00:08:41.000 We should, but you also have to remember, we refine a lot in the South, because just in terms of chemistry, refining takes a lot of heat.

00:08:48.000 It's less expensive and more efficient to refine something that is already warm than to do it in a cold environment.

00:08:56.000 So of course we refine in the cell.

00:08:57.000 So this is like the barges bring the crude petroleum.

00:09:00.000 Yes.

00:09:01.000 And these refineries turn it into other stuff like gas.

00:09:03.000 What else do they make?

00:09:04.000 The crew that comes out of the ground is refined into literally hundreds of different products.

00:09:09.000 The reason why my organization, why I, why we fight sometimes a lot of these renewable fuel standards and CAFE standards is not because we don't believe in protecting the environment, but because if you are... California, for example, has over 50 different blends of oil.

00:09:25.000 Right?

00:09:26.000 For different seasons, for different vehicles.

00:09:28.000 If you're a refinery and you have to produce 50 products, think of a bartender.

00:09:32.000 It's a lot easier just to be pouring beers, but if you have to make 50 different cocktails, well, every time you've got to stop, you've got to switch.

00:09:39.000 Well, every time you do that, it drives up the price a little bit, a little bit, a little bit.

00:09:43.000 This one pipeline is bringing not just one type of fuel, but multiple types of fuels. 0.99

00:09:47.000 And every state has their own special blend, because a bunch of idiot politicians who know nothing about energy Pass a law, they're like, we want the blend to look like this! 0.99

00:09:56.000 And everyone claps, and that's the problem. 0.99

00:09:58.000 So this pipeline isn't just like one big tube.

00:10:01.000 No.

00:10:01.000 It's like a bunch of small tubes in a big tube?

00:10:03.000 Absolutely.

00:10:04.000 A series of tubes.

00:10:04.000 Exactly.

00:10:05.000 And they have said some of the smaller ones, and I forget what, there is a phrase for it, and I don't know if they're called the ancillary ones, the secondary ones, but there is a phrase for them.

00:10:12.000 A lot of those, I forget, I wish I remembered the names, a lot of them are starting to come online.

00:10:18.000 But the big jammies, they're going to be offline for a little while.

00:10:21.000 And that's really, really frightening.

00:10:23.000 So I'm hearing people are tweeting out that we're importing gas now from Europe.

00:10:27.000 We're trying to bring in some energy.

00:10:28.000 Is that true?

00:10:30.000 Well, you know, this is where energy gets a little bit ugly because we've always imported quote-unquote because we refine.

00:10:36.000 So, for example, some of the big energy companies, companies really that don't like me necessarily because they don't They will say, you shouldn't ban imports from the Middle East because we refine those oil and this is bad for our company.

00:10:51.000 And my response is, I'm not here for your company.

00:10:54.000 I'm here what is good for America.

00:10:55.000 And if importing oil from the Middle East is good for your company, what the heck do I care?

00:11:00.000 Right?

00:11:00.000 So, but if you're a refiner, do you want to buy Saudi oil at $9 a barrel or do you want to buy Permian Basin oil at $45 a barrel?

00:11:09.000 I'll buy the Saudi oil.

00:11:10.000 Well, that's not good for America.

00:11:12.000 They would say, well, but it's good because then we sell it cheaper into the American grid at the expense of American energy interests.

00:11:18.000 So we do always import quote unquote, because we refine it, but not on the Pacific coast.

00:11:18.000 Right?

00:11:23.000 Alaska, think how crazy this is. 0.99

00:11:26.000 Alaska sends its oil at this point now to China to be refined to come back to America because we can't build a refinery in the Northwest.

00:11:34.000 They do that with a lot of products.

00:11:35.000 We can't build refineries in the Pacific Northwest.

00:11:38.000 The very green groups that say we need to get off fossil fuels are making us go 9,000 miles across the Pacific to refine in China.

00:11:45.000 And by the way, the Chinese refineries are environmental standards you would not believe, right?

00:11:50.000 Oh, amazing.

00:11:51.000 Oh, gosh, yes.

00:11:53.000 And then we barge it back to America. 0.74

00:11:55.000 No, no, no.

00:11:55.000 You mean like awful.

00:11:56.000 Oh, my God.

00:11:57.000 It sounded like you're about to say they're so great.

00:12:00.000 You would not believe how amazing.

00:12:02.000 All the nine year old girls that work in those refineries, they get paid at least a dollar a day. 1.00

00:12:06.000 Wow.

00:12:07.000 Right.

00:12:07.000 Exactly.

00:12:08.000 So so China then benefits from the fact that the green groups that don't allow us to build a refinery in America because it's bad for the environment.

00:12:16.000 Same with the Keystone pipeline.

00:12:17.000 Right.

00:12:18.000 The very first conversation I was here, Keystone had just Joe Biden shut it down.

00:12:22.000 Right?

00:12:23.000 Is that oil not going to Houston?

00:12:24.000 Of course it's going to Houston, but it's going by train or by truck.

00:12:27.000 I'm sorry, man, this is infuriating me.

00:12:30.000 Because, you know what, I refer to this today as a political drive-by.

00:12:33.000 You look at MSNBC and CNN.

00:12:36.000 You have all of those viewers and voters stopped watching.

00:12:40.000 Now that Trump isn't president anymore.

00:12:42.000 They based their vote off of hating somebody, not for something.

00:12:46.000 And the first thing we get, now a lot of people were in favor of Joe Biden shutting down Keystone.

00:12:50.000 Now Keystone's shut down, a lot of union guys lost their jobs, and now we're dealing with this crisis, with this pipeline.

00:12:58.000 Well, they're coming out and saying, there's no shortage, there's no shortage.

00:13:02.000 I'm sorry if I don't believe them.

00:13:04.000 I mean, there's a shortage at the gas stations, it's a fact.

00:13:06.000 And for whatever reason, maybe it's panic or otherwise.

00:13:09.000 They're not able to get the fuel back up there.

00:13:11.000 So even if it is panic, what do you think happens?

00:13:13.000 Panic should be baked into the plan. 0.99

00:13:17.000 We should know if there is a disruption, panic happens.

00:13:20.000 Well, thanks to Joe Biden, Keystone's not going to be available.

00:13:23.000 It makes me think of, don't buy them.

00:13:25.000 You don't need a mask.

00:13:26.000 Remember that?

00:13:27.000 Right when it came out, Fauci said that.

00:13:29.000 You don't need them for two weeks because they didn't want to run on the masks.

00:13:32.000 If they said there's an oil shortage, there would be a run on the oil.

00:13:35.000 They don't want to run on the oil.

00:13:36.000 It's a good point.

00:13:39.000 Fauci came out later and admitted, we were concerned that medical professionals wouldn't get it, so he said that.

00:13:45.000 And that's what I see now.

00:13:46.000 And the New York Times said there's no long lines.

00:13:49.000 I think what happens is these people in media, no longer is their job to inform the population so they can make decisions for themselves.

00:13:56.000 They've become the self-appointed nannies of the state, where the New York Times is like, just tell them nothing's happening so they stay home.

00:14:03.000 But then people who pay attention, like, I mean, you had the biggest advantage.

00:14:07.000 You're the energy guy, Daniel.

00:14:09.000 So when this happened, you probably got word before anybody else.

00:14:12.000 And you're like, better go to the gas station.

00:14:14.000 People are like, what are you doing?

00:14:15.000 Don't mind me.

00:14:15.000 I'm just filling up all these tanks.

00:14:17.000 I did tell my family very early on.

00:14:19.000 I want to go.

00:14:20.000 And I should have made it more of a public announcement.

00:14:23.000 But yeah, like a lot of this is foreseeable.

00:14:26.000 No, I know.

00:14:27.000 But a lot of this is foreseeable.

00:14:30.000 And there is a supply issue, right?

00:14:32.000 Keystone is a supply issue.

00:14:33.000 As you reduce the supply of any good, and the demand does not diminish, well, the price is going to escalate.

00:14:39.000 So, you could say, well, I don't like Keystone, it's bad for the environment.

00:14:43.000 I'm saying that when you take it away, you are causing a supply concern.

00:14:47.000 It's still coming, like I said, it's coming by rail, or it's coming by car, by truck, but that's expensive.

00:14:53.000 So we are, the goal- It takes fuel to do that.

00:14:55.000 It does, of course it does, yeah.

00:14:56.000 The goal of the, one of the jobs of the president, and this is where I do lay this at the feet of President Biden.

00:15:02.000 Did he cause the cyber attack?

00:15:04.000 I lay this at the feet of President Biden because the president, we all know, is extremely powerful

00:15:10.000 and can send signals that can tank the stock market or can make industries go through the roof.

00:15:15.000 Trump would tweet and people would become millionaires or lose a million dollars.

00:15:19.000 Absolutely. And that is the power. And for good or ill, that is the power of the president.

00:15:24.000 Joe Biden has been sending signals since the campaign during transition and now as president,

00:15:29.000 and he does not want to accept the consequences of those signals.

00:15:32.000 So he signaled that he has no problem with any illegal immigrant coming across the border.

00:15:36.000 What do we have now?

00:15:37.000 Four and five times the record.

00:15:39.000 They're wearing those shirts.

00:15:41.000 Biden, please let us in.

00:15:42.000 He sent a signal, right?

00:15:44.000 And people listened and they responded.

00:15:46.000 He sent a signal that Israel's not necessarily our friend.

00:15:49.000 I know that's the next topic.

00:15:51.000 He gave money back to the Palestinians, right? 0.97

00:15:53.000 He re-started that funding.

00:15:55.000 He sent a signal that Israel is not our strategic partner.

00:15:58.000 What's happening right now in Israel?

00:16:00.000 He sent a signal on day one that energy infrastructure is not important.

00:16:04.000 He signed that keystone thing.

00:16:05.000 He sent a signal and people are responding.

00:16:08.000 I tweeted, you know, I guess build back better means crumbling infrastructure, crisis of

00:16:12.000 the Middle East, mass exodus from the workforce, unemployment.

00:16:15.000 And I get these lefties being like, do you, it was Trump's fault or whatever.

00:16:19.000 And I'm like, oh, it's a magical coincidence that Biden's policy ending executive orders

00:16:24.000 The Migrant Protection Protocols, the Remain in Mexico Policy, or shutting down Keystone Pipeline, or the $300 unemployment stimulus.

00:16:33.000 Those policies, which he's enacted in the past several months, have no impact on those crises that are happening right now.

00:16:39.000 It's absurd to think that it's a coincidence.

00:16:41.000 And we had, what was it, David Frum, I think?

00:16:43.000 Was it Frum?

00:16:44.000 Yeah, who was like, oh, but everyone was cheering for Trump's piece in the Middle East.

00:16:47.000 And it's like, oh, and then and then and then three months in with Joe Biden, it's Trump's fault.

00:16:52.000 Yeah, of course. Amazing. It's amazing. It's a magical coincidence. It was it's as if they

00:16:56.000 believe Donald Trump was holding the country together with duct tape. And then as soon as

00:17:01.000 he left, now all the problems are emerging.

00:17:04.000 Sorry.

00:17:05.000 2019, Jim Cramer.

00:17:06.000 Was it CNBC, I think?

00:17:08.000 Best numbers of our lives.

00:17:09.000 The economy was a boom.

00:17:10.000 And don't get me wrong, he was spending a lot of money, and that bill always comes due.

00:17:14.000 But it's very different compared to what we saw with Republicans and Democrats last year, just cranking out the stimulus.

00:17:19.000 Now we gotta pay for it.

00:17:21.000 Now we have this oil pipeline.

00:17:25.000 Crumbling infrastructure is an understatement.

00:17:27.000 We have a real problem in America politically because we live in an Instagram, social media, Twitter world.

00:17:35.000 It's great for fast communication and agility, but it's bad because candidates now target their entire campaign around that.

00:17:42.000 Build Back Better is a wonderful alliterative bumper sticker.

00:17:46.000 It is not policy.

00:17:47.000 And all of his proclamations, and my dad told me, Joey, and he looked me in the eye, and all those little stories are cute on the campaign trail, but now you actually have to govern.

00:17:47.000 Right?

00:17:56.000 And I don't think, kind of like President Obama, I don't think President Biden really wants to govern.

00:18:01.000 I agree.

00:18:02.000 I think he likes the campaign.

00:18:04.000 I don't think confronting a guy who was banging a straight razor on a curb, putting in a rain barrel to get it all rusty, I don't think that's the experience someone needs to actually run the country.

00:18:12.000 But it was a great story, I guess.

00:18:14.000 You know, people had a laugh about it.

00:18:16.000 Uh, what did he call that guy?

00:18:18.000 No, he called Cornpop a name.

00:18:18.000 Cornpop?

00:18:20.000 Do you remember what the name was?

00:18:22.000 Bad dude?

00:18:22.000 No, no, no.

00:18:23.000 He said Esther.

00:18:24.000 He called her Esther.

00:18:25.000 Oh, he called her Esther Williams.

00:18:26.000 Yeah, which I'm happy to say I'm too young.

00:18:29.000 I'm too young to know what Esther Williams is.

00:18:31.000 Mr. Williams is or why that was important. I think I think Joe Biden just wanted to be president and then I'm sure

00:18:38.000 that you know He stands he's probably sitting in a wheelchair looking in

00:18:41.000 the mirror with a smile on his face and people are running around frantic behind him

00:18:45.000 There's like papers flying and the phones ringing off the hook and like his assistants hairs all frazzled and they're

00:18:50.000 like I don't know what to do about Israel and Biden's like

00:18:53.000 You know what I bet he didn't even want to be president cuz he didn't run in

00:18:58.000 2016 made me think like he doesn't want it He doesn't care He would have run a hundred percent the VP comes out.

00:19:03.000 They go right into it.

00:19:04.000 Seamless.

00:19:05.000 You didn't want it in the DNC hated Trump Yeah, they brought them up.

00:19:08.000 He was like I have a right he felt like a Force of God like this is my purpose here.

00:19:13.000 I must do this.

00:19:14.000 You don't want it.

00:19:15.000 He wasn't capable He just went along he got pushed along now say Donald Trump really wanted it.

00:19:20.000 Yes, and he still does.

00:19:22.000 And he still does.

00:19:24.000 There's a lot of people who think he's, you know, they call him the God Emperor.

00:19:27.000 Most of them joking, but some people are serious.

00:19:30.000 I think we would have been better off.

00:19:33.000 I certainly think so.

00:19:33.000 But I guess the interests of the military-industrial complex types and the international monetary fund types, they weren't too happy with Donald Trump being like, America, America, They're like, no, no, no!

00:19:44.000 We make money off of exporting the reserve currency and putting guns in a bunch of different countries.

00:19:50.000 I want to talk about something really crazy.

00:19:51.000 Check this out.

00:19:53.000 So everybody knows there's a gas shortage.

00:19:55.000 It's all over the news, as much as the New York Times and some other outlets might want to lie about it.

00:19:59.000 But when I'm looking up stories, trying to get more details on this, something really interesting happens when you Google search gas shortage.

00:20:05.000 What's the date you find on some of these stories? 1970.

00:20:09.000 No, no.

00:20:10.000 1979 Jimmy Carter.

00:20:10.000 Yeah, for sure.

00:20:11.000 Of course, of course.

00:20:13.000 People are, you know, is it Biden Jr.

00:20:14.000 compared Biden to Carter?

00:20:16.000 It's like, what are the tweets?

00:20:18.000 Like, I guess, I guess my, my tweet on this is aging like fine wine.

00:20:20.000 No, no, no, no.

00:20:22.000 No, the, the, the hack happened on Friday.

00:20:24.000 What was, what was Friday?

00:20:25.000 That was the 7th.

00:20:25.000 Was it the 7th?

00:20:26.000 The 7th.

00:20:26.000 Yep.

00:20:27.000 So you, but you Google, Google search gas shortage.

00:20:29.000 You'll find stories going back to April 27th, April 29th.

00:20:31.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:20:34.000 How was there a news cycle about gas shortages before the hack even happened?

00:20:40.000 And it's one thing if it was like a few months before they were like, economists predict.

00:20:44.000 No, it's like a few days before this happened.

00:20:47.000 We were getting these predictions.

00:20:48.000 CNN Business.

00:20:48.000 Check it out.

00:20:49.000 Coming this summer, gas stations running out of gas.

00:20:52.000 Check this out.

00:20:53.000 ABC News.

00:20:54.000 Lack of truck drivers could lead to fuel shortage this summer.

00:20:59.000 And we've got this on Fox Business, truck driver, I'm sorry, yes, it's from May 3rd, May 3rd.

00:21:03.000 Truck driver shortage could fuel spike in gas prices.

00:21:07.000 This, to me, is just very, very interesting timing.

00:21:10.000 Yeah.

00:21:11.000 Does anyone of those articles talk about why there's a shortage in truck drivers?

00:21:16.000 I mean, we produce more oil and gas than ever before in the year 2019 and 2020.

00:21:20.000 We never seem to have a shortage of truck drivers.

00:21:23.000 Here's what ABC News says.

00:21:24.000 Where did they go?

00:21:26.000 As millions of Americans return to driving and planning summer road trips, experts are warning that some gas stations could face fuel shortages.

00:21:32.000 Quote, Jeanette McGee, a AAA spokesperson, said in an interview with ABC News, in fact, we have ample supply in the U.S.

00:21:40.000 to get through the summer and the rest of the year.

00:21:42.000 What the concern is right now is a shortage of fuel truck drivers.

00:21:46.000 First reported by CNN, the National Tank Truck Carriers, the industry's trade group said that between 20% and 25% of tank trucks in the fleet are parked.

00:21:56.000 Last year during the pandemic, many of the drivers retired or they went to different industries and that created a shortage.

00:22:02.000 Truck drivers also need special training to haul oil and some driving schools have closed amid the pandemic, exacerbating the problem.

00:22:10.000 Some areas have begun to see the effects of the driver shortage, particularly Las Vegas and northwest Arkansas.

00:22:15.000 McGee said vacation hotspots near beaches or in the mountains in particular could feel the biggest effects.

00:22:22.000 Someone super chatted us this.

00:22:23.000 They said there's a trucker shortage and it could result in supply shortages.

00:22:27.000 You go to Walmart.

00:22:28.000 Already, what was it?

00:22:29.000 You were saying you couldn't find bacon?

00:22:30.000 Yeah, we were looking for bacon actually at Costco the other day.

00:22:33.000 Couldn't find it anywhere.

00:22:33.000 Couldn't find bacon.

00:22:34.000 The four pack of bacon?

00:22:35.000 That's like the most inexpensive bacon in the world?

00:22:37.000 Yeah.

00:22:37.000 Can't find the bacon?

00:22:37.000 It's not there.

00:22:38.000 It's terrifying.

00:22:38.000 The four pack of bacon?

00:22:39.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:22:40.000 So, I just find it absolutely fascinating that we have these news stories talking about this trucker shortage a week ago.

00:22:47.000 The cyber attack happens, perhaps coincidence.

00:22:50.000 But the new emergency regulations allow truck drivers to drive more than their allotted hours.

00:22:57.000 When did that regulation get put into effect?

00:22:59.000 After the cyber attack.

00:23:00.000 Isn't it just... I'm not asserting anything other than... Oh, I will.

00:23:00.000 Wow.

00:23:04.000 What a very interesting coincidence.

00:23:05.000 Yeah, we have to at least... Let me just... I'll just lay it out.

00:23:08.000 Thank you, Tim.

00:23:09.000 A week before the cyber attack, there aren't enough truck drivers, warns CNN, ABC, and Fox.

00:23:16.000 This could result in rising gas prices, and it could result in gasoline shortages.

00:23:21.000 So how do you compensate?

00:23:23.000 How would a normal person compensate for a lack of drivers?

00:23:25.000 Well, outside of any cyber attack, you'd say, can we increase the amount of hours the oil haulers are allowed to drive?

00:23:32.000 There's a federal regulation barring that.

00:23:36.000 Well, I guess, coincidentally, a national emergency, or a regional emergency.

00:23:40.000 17 states and DC, and now the drivers are allowed to drive over there a lot of times.

00:23:45.000 You could eliminate that problem altogether if you just built pipelines.

00:23:50.000 I know, isn't it great?

00:23:51.000 Right?

00:23:52.000 It's greener, it's cheaper, it's safer.

00:23:55.000 Yeah, let me ask you.

00:23:57.000 A lot of people, proponents of the Keystone Pipeline, said that there's actually more leaks.

00:24:00.000 I think Ian brought up, you looked up, there were like 26 leaks from Keystone or something.

00:24:05.000 But are there, you know, I guess per gallon, are there more leaks from freight and train?

00:24:10.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:24:11.000 And it's well documented that pipelines are by far safer, cleaner, greener.

00:24:17.000 And what I care most about, the more cost efficient for the American consumer.

00:24:22.000 Indisputed.

00:24:23.000 And proof of the matter is the amount of pipeline we have.

00:24:28.000 I mean, we have enough pipelines to go to the moon and back 10 times in America, right?

00:24:32.000 We have almost 3 million miles worth of pipeline crisscrossing this country.

00:24:37.000 This place we're in probably has multiple gas pipelines all throughout the walls.

00:24:41.000 And people are like, I'm afraid of pipelines.

00:24:43.000 Well, you can't be that afraid because you do go to your home, right?

00:24:47.000 So our pipeline capacity in America is absurd.

00:24:51.000 But it is vulnerable.

00:24:53.000 Clearly, the cyber attacks.

00:24:54.000 So, Keystone was going to be bringing in from, like, the tar sands areas?

00:24:57.000 Alberta, Canada.

00:24:58.000 Yeah.

00:24:59.000 The only reason why the president got involved in Keystone is because it crossed an international border.

00:25:04.000 And now they're trying to use that as a premise to shut down other pipelines.

00:25:04.000 Right?

00:25:08.000 But he is not a czar.

00:25:10.000 Neither president, nor Trump, nor Biden could go into a state and say, I want to shut down this pipeline within the state of Minnesota.

00:25:17.000 That's not your prerogative.

00:25:18.000 He's going to try to make it his prerogative.

00:25:20.000 And this is where, thank God, we have the 10th Amendment and hopefully a court system that upholds it and says... I don't know, man.

00:25:26.000 But yeah, I don't know either.

00:25:27.000 Isn't Canada suing now over this?

00:25:29.000 Yeah, as they should because Canada followed all of the rules to get this pipeline approved.

00:25:35.000 I don't know what the statute of limitation is for a presidential executive order.

00:25:39.000 They went through all the necessary paperwork starting years ago, starting in the Obama administration.

00:25:44.000 Obama never rejected it, he just kept it on abeyance forever, forever, forever.

00:25:48.000 And then finally Trump became president Well, they were hoping Hillary would be the one to have to give the big no.

00:25:54.000 Trump won.

00:25:54.000 She didn't win.

00:25:55.000 OK, boom, let's get the pipeline started. 0.83

00:25:57.000 So we had Max Keiser and Stacey Herbert on the show last night, and they were talking about, you know, the U.S.

00:26:03.000 dollar is the reserve currency, so we've got to send it out.

00:26:05.000 Otherwise, it's not the reserve currency, so they print this money, they give it to these foreign countries to maintain the status as the reserve currency.

00:26:12.000 I guess because the U.S.

00:26:13.000 doesn't make a whole lot, and we're being given all this stuff because we print money.

00:26:17.000 But I wonder if, you know, and you're the energy guy, so correct me if this is not true, or will not correct me, but I'll assert, I'll ask the question.

00:26:24.000 Is the reason why the Democratic establishment or the political establishment in general doesn't want to produce fossil fuels here is because they want to use the U.S.

00:26:32.000 reserve currency to have other countries do it and maintain our status abroad?

00:26:38.000 I would say that they don't want to produce fossil fuels because it's one of the biggest, if not the biggest, industry that is not controlled by the state.

00:26:46.000 And I think at this point, the modern Democrat party is a statist party.

00:26:50.000 And the fossil fuel, and it's kind of what Obama did with health care, right?

00:26:54.000 He wanted to centralize health care under the purview of the federal government because that's just what big statists think. 0.79

00:27:01.000 Venezuela has national energy.

00:27:03.000 Most of the European countries have national energy.

00:27:05.000 Exactly.

00:27:05.000 It's going great for them, huh?

00:27:06.000 And I think they hate this industry in particular.

00:27:08.000 Climate change and all that stuff is just a very good vehicle to accomplish what they want.

00:27:13.000 And what they want is a state-run... They look like they want to nationalize the election system.

00:27:18.000 You're right, right, right.

00:27:19.000 They like nationalizing and centralizing everything.

00:27:22.000 Industry, whatever.

00:27:24.000 We had this PhD pathologist guy on the show, and he was talking about, like, insect species collapse and, you know, the ramifications of human population.

00:27:34.000 It's expansive, there's ocean acidification.

00:27:37.000 And I think that crisis is absolutely exploited.

00:27:39.000 I know a lot of conservatives don't agree.

00:27:40.000 They think it's a lot of propaganda.

00:27:42.000 I think it's a crisis, and I think it's exploited to the most absurd degree.

00:27:45.000 Notably, when we're talking about the border crisis, Kamala Harris was like, the crisis is caused by climate change.

00:27:52.000 And it was funny because conservatives predicted it.

00:27:53.000 They were like, Kamala Harris is going to go up on the podium and say climate change caused the crisis.

00:27:57.000 And she did it!

00:27:59.000 And it's just absolutely absurd, but I believe this is their go-to to seize power.

00:28:05.000 I'd be willing to bet it has more to do with consolidating power within the state, like you mentioned.

00:28:09.000 It's not a federal-controlled industry or whatever.

00:28:12.000 and they want that power. And climate change is a wonderful villain because it is faceless,

00:28:17.000 it is nameless, and you are powerless against it. So for example, you take someone like Gavin

00:28:22.000 Mooson who talks about the fires in California are caused by climate change, which is crazy because

00:28:28.000 southern Oregon doesn't have that level of fires, western Nevada doesn't have that level of fires,

00:28:33.000 southeast Idaho doesn't have, southwest Idaho doesn't have that level.

00:28:36.000 Why is just California?

00:28:38.000 Well now I am, I am absolved of forest management.

00:28:38.000 Climate change.

00:28:42.000 I am absolved of running the state because it's climate change.

00:28:45.000 Remember when they criticized Trump?

00:28:48.000 Trump tweeted out, you know, it's poor, poor forest management. 1.00

00:28:51.000 They're like, oh geez, Trump's so dumb. 0.99

00:28:53.000 And there's actually an article from like a year before it was like, 1.00

00:28:53.000 PG&E. 1.00

00:28:53.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:28:55.000 California is not managing their forests properly.

00:28:58.000 It's going to result in fires.

00:28:59.000 Not only that, but I think one of the wildfires was caused by electrical

00:29:02.000 company, not shutting off the grid.

00:29:04.000 Yeah.

00:29:04.000 Progeny.

00:29:05.000 And so like sparked and like ignited things and they're like, well, clearly

00:29:05.000 Yeah.

00:29:09.000 that was because of the, you know, the CO2 levels, but I'll tell you this.

00:29:12.000 Look, I think, you know, I talked to some very smart people and they say

00:29:15.000 there's concerns about what happens when you have too many people.

00:29:18.000 It's not, it's, you know, a lot of people think overpopulation is like we're all standing shoulder to shoulder.

00:29:21.000 No, it's just a lot of waste is produced and it can upset the delicate balance of an ecosystem.

00:29:26.000 Unfortunately for the people who are environmentalists and really advocating for this stuff, I gotta say, you have lost the trust of so many people when Barack Obama buys beachfront property.

00:29:36.000 When these wealthy investors go and buy Miami beach property while complaining that Miami is sinking.

00:29:42.000 I'm sorry, dude.

00:29:42.000 Yeah.

00:29:43.000 It's really hard to generate trust.

00:29:45.000 And if you're somebody who wants, you know, these Democrats are like, Republicans got to get on board and fight climate change.

00:29:51.000 Well, you got to start with, you know, your thought leaders not flying in private jets, not owning massive 50 bedroom homes and not buying this beachfront property.

00:30:01.000 I saw this video.

00:30:02.000 It was actually really compelling.

00:30:05.000 Not in the way I think a lot of conservatives expected it to be for me.

00:30:08.000 There's a guy, he's a financial guy, and he says the one thing that he believes disproves climate change is that in Miami Beach they're still selling these multi-million dollar expensive properties and these very wealthy individuals who are supposed to be in the know are buying them on 30-year mortgages.

00:30:24.000 And he says, how is it when they receive like a prospectus or like an investment packet, it doesn't say, warning, in 10 years this will be underwater and worth zero.

00:30:33.000 How is that?

00:30:34.000 Well, when I saw that, what it said to me was, these people either don't believe their own pitches, or they're absolutely just willing to exploit people by buying property they know is gonna be bunk and then selling it later, or just going, like, extracting as much as they can from the system as they ride it all the way to the gutter.

00:30:50.000 Well, I mean, this administration is making a huge push that all industry, all business has to have a climate component.

00:30:57.000 And the products you create, whatever you manufacture, the effect on the climate has to be built into price.

00:31:04.000 Real estate seems to be exempt from that.

00:31:05.000 So you're absolutely right.

00:31:06.000 Like, if you're Bank of America and you're like, we can't finance this because it's bad for climate change.

00:31:11.000 Well, you gave a 30-year mortgage on a house in an area that's going to be underwater in 15.

00:31:16.000 Is that a good investment of your money?

00:31:18.000 So you're right.

00:31:19.000 I'm not saying that this should happen, but I'm saying it's funny that the banks are not pricing real estate into this industry.

00:31:25.000 I got a solution.

00:31:26.000 What's the regulatory body that deals with... Would that be the SEC?

00:31:29.000 Or would that be the FTC?

00:31:30.000 It wouldn't be the FTC, would it?

00:31:31.000 It wouldn't be the SEC.

00:31:33.000 Dealing with, like, when a bank gives out a bunk loan.

00:31:37.000 Isn't that FDIC?

00:31:39.000 FDIC?

00:31:40.000 That's insurance.

00:31:40.000 I think so.

00:31:41.000 Okay, how about this?

00:31:43.000 Here's what I gotta say.

00:31:43.000 Probably SEC.

00:31:45.000 Banking.

00:31:46.000 Securities and Exchange.

00:31:47.000 That's a security.

00:31:47.000 I'd imagine.

00:31:49.000 Maybe a little bit of both.

00:31:50.000 FTC.

00:31:51.000 How about this?

00:31:52.000 Conservatives and Democrats can come together, okay?

00:31:54.000 Not the ultra-rich property owners.

00:31:56.000 Just the regular working class people who disagree.

00:31:58.000 And here's one issue they can come together on.

00:32:01.000 These banks that are giving out loans on these properties in Miami Beach, on 30-year mortgages, or even 15-year mortgages, how about we send the feds after them for fraud?

00:32:11.000 And I think the Democrats, who think climate change is a serious problem, we've got 12 years left, would agree.

00:32:16.000 And I think the conservatives, who see these people as exploiting the crisis in order to make for personal gain, hey, why not?

00:32:23.000 If these people want to come out and say, you know, oh, there's a big crisis, but then they're selling these expensive properties and giving out these loans, send the feds after them.

00:32:31.000 They'll give them a million dollar loan.

00:32:33.000 They're like, you know what?

00:32:33.000 If it goes underwater in 15 years, my dollar is going to be worth a hundred million dollars anyway because of inflation.

00:32:38.000 So I'll just pay off that loan.

00:32:39.000 Not even that?

00:32:40.000 Calculated risk loss.

00:32:41.000 I'd be willing to bet the banks are like, look, in the event that it's underwater in 15 years, we just get the taxpayer to bail it out.

00:32:46.000 You're fine.

00:32:48.000 It'll be a crisis.

00:32:48.000 FEMA will come in.

00:32:50.000 They'll start building these emergency seawalls for you. 0.82

00:32:54.000 You don't got to worry about a thing, and it won't come out of your pocket.

00:32:56.000 The government will keep printing money for you and the banks.

00:32:59.000 It's the poor people who got to work extra hard to get that emergency circumstance solved.

00:33:05.000 Yeah, there's not physical evidence of climate change.

00:33:09.000 I know someone is listening to this right now and their head is about to explode.

00:33:12.000 Media Matters just clipped that in their live.

00:33:14.000 Exactly.

00:33:14.000 But I mean, they'll show you the California wildfires.

00:33:18.000 They'll talk about, and we hear this phrase all the time, especially from this administration, the severity and the intensity and the frequency of storms.

00:33:25.000 If you look at 30 years of tornadoes, of hurricanes, there is no more severity, intensity, or frequency of storms.

00:33:32.000 The data is fairly flat.

00:33:34.000 There are bad years, absolutely.

00:33:36.000 There are some really bad years.

00:33:37.000 There are some empty years.

00:33:39.000 But over 30, 40, 50 years, the data is pretty evident.

00:33:43.000 And for me, the biggest evidence that this climate change thing is used... I'm not saying climate change doesn't exist.

00:33:49.000 I'm saying the way it is used by the left for political purposes.

00:33:54.000 For me, the biggest evidence is that the same bodies that have been talking about climate change for most of my life now.

00:33:59.000 I was a sophomore in high school the first time I heard about global warming and the United Nations Environmental Program, UNEP.

00:34:06.000 You can still see the article online.

00:34:09.000 They talk about, we have 10 years left to fix this.

00:34:12.000 1989 shows you my age.

00:34:13.000 By the year 2000, the Maldives were going to be underwater.

00:34:16.000 They said half of Bangladesh was going to be underwater.

00:34:19.000 They talked about huge catastrophe.

00:34:21.000 Not only did it not come true, But those agencies have never said why their data was so wrong.

00:34:28.000 What formulation did they use?

00:34:29.000 What algorithms?

00:34:31.000 What calculation and modeling did they use?

00:34:33.000 And how did they fix it?

00:34:34.000 I've never been able to see their fixed.

00:34:36.000 Show your work when they don't.

00:34:38.000 When I was in grade school, they had us go over a prediction for peak oil consumption.

00:34:42.000 Yeah.

00:34:42.000 Jimmy Carter said it was by the year 2000 and 76 when he was running for reelection.

00:34:46.000 I don't remember exactly, but I think it was like 2010.

00:34:49.000 It was like the curve was crashing and it was like there's no oil left and that's when we're screwed.

00:34:54.000 I grew up thinking oil and gas were finite commodities that would be exhausted.

00:34:58.000 I'm at the point now that I think they're not infinite, but they're clearly replenishing because we find more oil and gas every time we turn around. 0.54

00:35:05.000 It's ridiculous.

00:35:06.000 I think there's probably a lot. 0.94

00:35:07.000 Yes.

00:35:08.000 But I also think that we've been able to synthesize it.

00:35:11.000 And so this idea that we have to dramatically transform the whole planet because of, you know, because of the fear of like Pico or whatever, we could synthesize it and maintain our current infrastructure.

00:35:24.000 It'd just be different.

00:35:25.000 I have no problem with going green as a concept.

00:35:30.000 I have nothing against solar and wind.

00:35:33.000 One of the things I try to do is say, we have to see the costs, and not just the physical dollar costs, but the costs to human flourishing, if we do this.

00:35:42.000 Because there is going to be a lot of suffering.

00:35:44.000 You mentioned right now, when Greta said, I'm talking right now, no more oil and gas.

00:35:48.000 Well, there's a lot of people right now who are experiencing it.

00:35:51.000 Millions would die.

00:35:52.000 Literally.

00:35:53.000 Literally.

00:35:53.000 overnight. No, no, no, no. I mean, literally, the people who require insulin, it's got to be refrigerated. You shut.

00:36:02.000 What do you, what do these people think the power plants run on? You know, farts, some smug sense of self-satisfaction 0.99

00:36:12.000 of these, Oh, we'll build solar plants at night. How do you, you have no batteries. I love the idea of new technology. I

00:36:13.000 I don't like the idea of holding back development for the sake of existing.

00:36:16.000 You know, I don't like the argument of like, oh no, we got to protect jobs.

00:36:19.000 We do.

00:36:19.000 I think we should have new technology, nuclear fusion, whatever.

00:36:23.000 But this idea that you can come out right now and just shut it down.

00:36:26.000 Oh, okay.

00:36:26.000 Well, people will starve to death.

00:36:27.000 People will freeze to death.

00:36:28.000 Diabetics will all die because they won't be able to refrigerate their insulin.

00:36:31.000 We've never advanced as a society by banning something that is currently in use.

00:36:36.000 We offer better alternatives and the marketplace and a free people adopt them freely.

00:36:41.000 We have never said that this is the way to go and therefore this is now illegal.

00:36:45.000 I think carbon recapture is really the future.

00:36:48.000 Like you can change the climate, climate change, you can add or reduce carbon in the atmosphere.

00:36:53.000 Changing the climate climate change the carbon is a beautiful commodity here.

00:36:57.000 We go and it's there in the atmosphere for us to condense And you know what you're talking about and then you have and I know he's old and I hate to pick on him But then you have the president of the United States on Earth Day say I'm working with Vladimir Putin and we're gonna try to get all the carbon out of space and And everyone just claps, let alone the fact that he has a

00:37:20.000 mask on in the Zoom call.

00:37:21.000 And you say you're going to get all the carbon out of space.

00:37:25.000 What the heck does that mean?

00:37:26.000 John Kerry said, we are going to make sure that there is no carbon by the year 2030.

00:37:31.000 Well plants really don't like that plan.

00:37:33.000 Humans really don't like that plan.

00:37:35.000 We're carbon-based!

00:37:36.000 I think if we're smart, we'll start recapturing the carbon, and then we're actually gonna be competing with the plants, and we're gonna make sure that we don't take too much of it out of the atmosphere, and it'll be like climate change in the other direction, so we're gonna have to find a balance with producing and reusing along with the plants.

00:37:52.000 We talk about carbon like it's evil.

00:37:54.000 We talk about carbon like it's...

00:37:57.000 It's so bizarre.

00:37:58.000 These are the most such unscientific people.

00:38:01.000 I think I know what it is.

00:38:02.000 It's the silicon-based lifeforms, the aliens.

00:38:04.000 They don't like carbon-based lifeforms.

00:38:06.000 So their propaganda campaign, carbon bad.

00:38:08.000 And there's all this UFO stuff, non-stop.

00:38:10.000 Every time you turn around, there's another UFO sighting.

00:38:12.000 I wanna mention something as an aside, real quick, I just gotta do it.

00:38:15.000 Joe Biden said to take a shotgun and fire it into the air.

00:38:19.000 And I don't know if you guys know, it's just totally derailed for a second.

00:38:22.000 Boogie, who's a big YouTuber, has a warrant, a felony warrant for aggravated assault because some guy came to his house and he fired his gun into the air.

00:38:29.000 You can't do that!

00:38:30.000 And he lives near a school, so that's aggravated assault.

00:38:33.000 But the funny thing is a lot of people are pointing out, like Joe Biden said to do it.

00:38:36.000 Honestly, I wonder if that defense would work.

00:38:39.000 The president said to fire a gun into the air, and so the guy was like, I got scared, so I did what the president said to do.

00:38:45.000 It wasn't a shotgun.

00:38:46.000 But anyway, I digress.

00:38:47.000 Joe Biden says insane things, and it quite possibly has a result in this country on people thinking and doing insane things.

00:38:54.000 And a lot of these people now have positions of power, so they say things like, we need to get off fossil fuels now.

00:38:59.000 We need to give every American free health care now.

00:39:02.000 Well, There are real consequences to, again, alliterative bumper sticker campaigns.

00:39:08.000 Now we need to be adults and we need to say, what does it mean if we got off fossil fuels now?

00:39:13.000 Millions are suffering through it and I feel for them.

00:39:15.000 I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna go totally cliche, stereotypical.

00:39:19.000 This is communism!

00:39:21.000 Check out this story from CNBC.

00:39:23.000 All eyes are on this inflation number, which could have the biggest gain in nearly a decade.

00:39:28.000 They say the Consumer Price Index for April will be reported on Wednesday at 8.30 a.m.

00:39:33.000 and is expected to be the hottest in nearly 10 years.

00:39:36.000 Economists have said the jump in inflation looks larger because of the base effects of last year when prices were weak due to pandemic shutdowns.

00:39:42.000 The specter of inflation has been spooking investors, so any surprise the upside could stress the market.

00:39:50.000 This inflation thing, what is Joe Biden doing?

00:39:52.000 They're mass printing money, mass spending bill.

00:39:55.000 Their policies, these are Biden policies that have caused people to not want to work anymore.

00:40:00.000 It's Democrats and Republicans together who have mass printed money.

00:40:02.000 I was in favor.

00:40:03.000 I said, look, when the 15 days slow the spread, good faith effort, everyone kind of agreed.

00:40:07.000 We got this crisis.

00:40:08.000 And they turned it into a year and a half, you know, a year and three months.

00:40:11.000 And so the economy was just in flames and they kept printing money like crazy.

00:40:15.000 What's happening now is...

00:40:18.000 Let's say Ian slept on a couch for a week and did no work, and then I worked 40 hours that week and made $500.

00:40:25.000 Ian has no money, I have $500.

00:40:28.000 The government comes in and starts mass printing money, giving this very heavy unemployment.

00:40:35.000 Ian, as somebody who's lying around, hasn't produced any value for the system.

00:40:39.000 I, as someone who worked 40 hours a week, has.

00:40:41.000 But now Ian has buying power out of nowhere, which dilutes my buying power, so they're effectively It's effectively communism.

00:40:48.000 And I'm not saying like literally it's communism, but you have this very authoritarian government, you have them pushing absurd policies that are like shutting down pipelines, causing economic damage, and then the mass printing of money, and then this unemployment scheme, and it's just basically stripping away the buying power from working Americans and giving it to people who aren't producing and aren't working.

00:41:08.000 That's what we were warned about.

00:41:09.000 I would get it like a ratio because if I had zero and you had 500 and then they gave everybody $500

00:41:14.000 So even this is gonna argument for you bi not being functional. You'd have a thousand. I have 500

00:41:18.000 I now have 50% of your purchasing power before I had 0% right? That's a huge

00:41:23.000 increase so that means think about this way if I made 40 widgets and you made zero and then I get $500 and you

00:41:32.000 get And you get $500 so I have a thousand total

00:41:35.000 They just gave you the ability to take 20 of my widgets away, even though I made them and you made nothing.

00:41:40.000 That's what's happening right now with all of this spending.

00:41:43.000 You add all of this, you look at what's going on, and it seems like...

00:41:47.000 Yeah, not to be too conspiratorial or anything like that.

00:41:49.000 No.

00:41:50.000 But maybe these conservatives who are like, you know, Hannity or Rush, banging on the table saying, they hate America! 0.60

00:41:55.000 They're communists!

00:41:56.000 They weren't completely wrong.

00:41:58.000 Just do you think the authoritarians and the communists are going to come out and be like, we want to redistribute wealth from working class people to poor people so we can, you know, normalize.

00:42:07.000 We want to take away your ability to drive.

00:42:09.000 We don't want you to have the independence to spend your own money.

00:42:12.000 We want to tax the poor.

00:42:14.000 They're not going to come out and say that.

00:42:15.000 I mean, Bloomberg, Did come out and say tax the poor.

00:42:17.000 Yeah.

00:42:17.000 But they're not going to come out and say that.

00:42:19.000 They're going to come out and go, oh, gee, we got to give everybody unemployment.

00:42:19.000 They don't know what's good for them.

00:42:24.000 It's so sad that the economy was shut down and then it's only the blue states that are still shutting down.

00:42:30.000 Here's what gets really crazy.

00:42:32.000 This is what I think is going to be freaking people out.

00:42:35.000 You see all these signs from these fast food restaurants where they're like, we quit, we won't work here anymore?

00:42:39.000 You saw those we talked about the other day?

00:42:41.000 There's a Dollar General where it says, we refuse to work for these wages.

00:42:45.000 In these red states, a bunch of the Republican governors announced they will not be taking

00:42:48.000 any money from Biden.

00:42:50.000 This $300 unemployment, they ain't gonna take it because people don't wanna work, because

00:42:54.000 you get $16 an hour unemployment.

00:42:56.000 So imagine you live in Mississippi, where I think it's one of the states where they're

00:42:59.000 doing this, and your unemployment's getting cut off, and you're like, okay, I better go

00:43:03.000 get a job.

00:43:04.000 So you go down to local McDonald's or whatever, and you apply for a job, and they're like

00:43:07.000 13 bucks an hour, and you're like, better than nothing.

00:43:10.000 Then some dude shows up, and he's got like a pink sweater tied over his shoulders, and

00:43:14.000 like a green pastel shirt and he's got aviators on and his hair slicked back.

00:43:18.000 And he walks in and he goes, I'll take the number 10.

00:43:20.000 Give me two number 10s and two apple pies and two McFlurries.

00:43:20.000 You know what?

00:43:24.000 Screw it.

00:43:24.000 You know what?

00:43:25.000 And he dishes out a bunch of cash.

00:43:26.000 And this guy who's working in Mississippi, who's not getting the unemployment, sees this guy who comes from a blue state, that is.

00:43:34.000 The guy in the blue state did no work.

00:43:36.000 He's, in the analogy I gave, the guy who did nothing and now has been given the buying power of the guy who's doing work.

00:43:42.000 The people in red states are going to be like, nah, you come in here with that money that was printed, that strips our buying power away, and then buy from us while we work?

00:43:52.000 That means these red states where people are working are going to be in effect producing Free of charge for the blue states, especially when it comes to goods that are transported across state lines.

00:44:01.000 So imagine you work in Mississippi, and you're making... I don't know what they make. 1.00

00:44:05.000 What do they make in Mississippi? 0.67

00:44:06.000 What kind of fruit?

00:44:07.000 How about Georgia?

00:44:08.000 They do peaches, right?

00:44:09.000 Peaches.

00:44:09.000 Peaches in Georgia!

00:44:11.000 So, I don't know if Georgia's one of these states, but let's say they're like, okay, no unemployment for you, you gotta get a job.

00:44:15.000 Somebody goes, I'm gonna go grow peaches. 0.97

00:44:16.000 Then, the peaches get shipped up to New York, where the people are not working, and they're getting free money from the federal government.

00:44:22.000 While you work on a farm to make those peaches for $13 an hour, they're getting $16 an hour doing nothing and getting the fruits of your labor, literally.

00:44:31.000 So you mentioned, sorry let me jump in here because I love the Tenth Amendment and this is something that you mentioned before and I don't think any of our guests have ever really mentioned the Tenth Amendment.

00:44:39.000 The Tenth Amendment is so important for allowing the states to do what the federal government is not specifically supposed to do.

00:44:46.000 So I wonder, this looks like a good application of the Tenth Amendment but to me it also looks like it could be starting the roots of a civil war.

00:44:54.000 It's a great point, and yes, I agree with you.

00:45:00.000 I think the way out of our current problems of an all-powerful D.C.

00:45:04.000 is federalism, meaning those powers that are not specifically in the Constitution enumerated for the federal government belong to the states, but that is kind of how you begin a bit of secession movements, and there's a lot of that in America, but there has to be Some pushback.

00:45:19.000 And I don't think it should come from the people.

00:45:21.000 I think it should be coming from the governors.

00:45:23.000 So like you said, the governors are not going to take cash.

00:45:26.000 Governors should... You mentioned your example, which I thought was really good and really illustrative of what's going on.

00:45:33.000 I think there's another factor, if I could add it on, is you want to get a job, you go to the McDonald's.

00:45:38.000 But the vast majority of Americans work in small businesses.

00:45:41.000 And with 150,000 illegals crossing the border every day, I don't need to pay $13 an hour.

00:45:46.000 I can charge this guy six.

00:45:48.000 And that's what's going to happen.

00:45:49.000 So now I can't even get a job for $13 an hour because the market is flooded by cheap labor.

00:45:54.000 So imagine the crisis you just said, but the labor is the other and our labor is not constant.

00:45:59.000 Our labor pool is growing tremendously with no consequence.

00:46:06.000 Why are you going to work for $13 an hour when, why am I going to hire you for $13 when Joe Biden says it's totally cool to hire that guy for half?

00:46:14.000 Well, we saw that when under Donald Trump, there was a raid on a bunch of chicken processing plants.

00:46:21.000 And I think, what is it, like six to 800 illegal immigrants were arrested and deported.

00:46:26.000 And then local news went down.

00:46:28.000 They had hiring fairs and they saw a bunch of people, you know, a diverse group of people.

00:46:32.000 Showing up and they were like, why are these people coming for a job and they asked one guy and they were like

00:46:37.000 Why would you want to work for these low wages and he goes pays 14 bucks an hour?

00:46:41.000 It's more than I was getting at the gas station so these companies

00:46:45.000 Exploit, yeah porous borders. Absolutely. It's always been that way

00:46:48.000 It's why Bernie Sanders in 2015 said it is a Koch brothers proposal to have open borders

00:46:54.000 Now the left is all for it because they support industrialists, I guess

00:46:58.000 That's the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:47:00.000 The Republicans are trash. 1.00

00:47:02.000 There's like a handful of good ones, I guess. 1.00

00:47:04.000 But they're not doing anything either.

00:47:06.000 I remember when Dylan Rattigan did that epic rant.

00:47:09.000 I don't know if you remember it from back in 2013 where he said, The Democrats, the Republicans are burning the system down

00:47:14.000 while Democrats are kicking the can down the road for future generations. And I'm like, kind of

00:47:17.000 feels like it's inverted at this point.

00:47:19.000 Republicans are just sitting there twiddling their thumbs, watching, you know, just kicking

00:47:22.000 the can down the road, ignoring the problems, while the Democrats are actively burning the

00:47:26.000 system down. And I think it's because they want to extract, they feel the system is crumbling.

00:47:31.000 So they want to extract as much as they can for themselves individually before it all comes

00:47:36.000 tumbling down. There was a statistic I saw from the 2020 tax returns that blew my mind. And it

00:47:42.000 was I believe it was 62 percent of those who filed having made more than $500,000.

00:47:47.000 62 percent were registered as Democrats.

00:47:50.000 Oh, yeah.

00:47:50.000 I mean so in in the course of my lifetime You're right.

00:47:50.000 Yeah.

00:47:53.000 It has flip-flopped.

00:47:55.000 They are the party of the rich.

00:47:57.000 They are the party of the big banks, they are the party of open borders, and the Republicans

00:48:01.000 are now the party of censorship.

00:48:03.000 I was a kid, it was that shouldn't be on TV, and where are our morals?

00:48:08.000 And the answer was if you don't like it, turn the channel.

00:48:10.000 Now the right is the one saying, well if you don't like it, turn the channel, and the left

00:48:13.000 is saying that shouldn't be allowed on TV.

00:48:17.000 It's amazing.

00:48:18.000 I think the culture war was looming and I think Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders were insurgents trying to break into their parties.

00:48:24.000 Bernie's much too weak.

00:48:26.000 And so the Democrats grabbed him by the throat and said, you know, shut up or else. 0.87

00:48:29.000 And he said, okay, I'm so sorry.

00:48:31.000 And Donald Trump was like, no, no.

00:48:32.000 And he like kicking tables over and he's like flipping tables and, you know, slamming glasses on the ground.

00:48:37.000 Oh, I agree with you.

00:48:37.000 Yeah.

00:48:38.000 kind of guy. So I said it before I think when he got elected the establishment was like

00:48:42.000 OK Donald you won here's the plan. He went no I don't think so. And they're like you're

00:48:46.000 going to play ball. No I'm not. OK he's a Russian spy. Yeah. 0.60

00:48:49.000 There you go. Oh I agree with you. And Bernie as you mentioned earlier you were

00:48:53.000 talking about how going back quickly to the climate change issue how there is such hypocrisy of

00:48:59.000 the people who push these causes in the opulent life they live.

00:49:03.000 For me, he's a wonderful example.

00:49:04.000 I mean, does he have an opulent life?

00:49:05.000 Maybe not, but he does have three houses.

00:49:07.000 Four, if you include his... You know, I don't have four houses.

00:49:10.000 Now, if you really believed in the human ability of anthropomorphic climate change or global warming, AEGW, And you believe your actions are causing this.

00:49:22.000 Well, your action of maintaining and traveling to four different homes has a carbon footprint.

00:49:28.000 Is Bernie going to give it up?

00:49:29.000 No, neither is anyone on that side.

00:49:32.000 So for me, when people like Bernie's a communist, I'm like, he's not really a communist.

00:49:36.000 He, no, he's, he's a communist party official.

00:49:36.000 He is.

00:49:39.000 because at the height of the soviet union the party leaders never wanted for

00:49:39.000 Right.

00:49:42.000 caviar vodka the people were dying in the streets but they had a very

00:49:46.000 good life and they supported and toast the system

00:49:49.000 bernie is a party leader i really think that one of the greatest moments in the

00:49:54.000 history of government economics or just

00:49:57.000 humanity in general was when maduro was giving a speech to his starving people

00:50:01.000 in venezuela and he pulls an empanada out of a drawer and he takes a big

00:50:05.000 bite because not only was it like insult to injury that people

00:50:09.000 are starving and you're eating in front of them

00:50:10.000 but why did he have an empanada in his desk drawer in his office?

00:50:14.000 no no no no hold on

00:50:17.000 maybe i understand you having some cookies or crackers like in somewhere else

00:50:21.000 but it's his work desk where he's giving a speech from

00:50:25.000 He leans in and he pulls an empanada out of a drawer That's weird.

00:50:29.000 That's like someone having like an unwrapped Snickers in their pocket.

00:50:31.000 Yeah, like what is like walking around spaghetti in your pocket?

00:50:34.000 It's a weird thing to do, but you gotta love the corruption of the of these far leftists And with Venezuela, you mentioned Maduro.

00:50:41.000 The richest person in Venezuela is Hugo Chavez's ex-wife, dead widow, right? 0.89

00:50:48.000 Is the richest person in Venezuela.

00:50:49.000 So when you were saying earlier about those who have purchasing power but have done nothing to earn it, That is taken to the extreme.

00:50:56.000 What has she done to be worth tens of billions of dollars? 1.00

00:50:59.000 She hasn't done produced.

00:51:01.000 Is it fair that is a quote unquote fair that that Jeff Bezos is worth $200

00:51:05.000 million and am I jealous he just bought a $500 million sailing by the way.

00:51:09.000 Isn't it funny though, that we are actually arguing from the left on this

00:51:14.000 point, that these communists and socialists have done nothing to produce

00:51:18.000 the wealth and the access that they hold.

00:51:21.000 And we are angry.

00:51:22.000 The workers have had their value stripped away by a corrupt system.

00:51:25.000 Exactly.

00:51:26.000 That's...

00:51:26.000 Maybe the.

00:51:27.000 That...

00:51:29.000 You're right.

00:51:29.000 That is a brilliant, that's a great point.

00:51:31.000 Yeah, now we sound like old school lefties.

00:51:35.000 We sound like old Union, what's his name, Jimmy Hoffa.

00:51:42.000 This is the problem I have with the unions, with the left, is that they've clearly been

00:51:46.000 corrupted by the industrialists, by the industry, by the corrupt, by the crony capitalists,

00:51:52.000 by the establishment politicians who just want to extract value from the working class.

00:51:56.000 And the problem is the younger leftists aren't experienced enough to understand they're being

00:52:01.000 exploited and they just play right into it.

00:52:04.000 So it's funny when you see all of these people who voted for Joe Biden, they're young people

00:52:08.000 who don't understand who they're voting for.

00:52:10.000 And I'm like, you're voting for Joe Biden? 1.00

00:52:11.000 Yeah, well, Trump's a fascist. 0.95

00:52:12.000 I was like, do you have any idea who you're talking about with Joe Biden? 0.98

00:52:16.000 He was overseeing Iraq for the Obama administration, and his brother gets these contracts to build, you know, in Iraq, becoming a millionaire.

00:52:25.000 The Obama administration killed a bunch of people, started a bunch of wars.

00:52:28.000 I don't care if you don't like Trump, but stop pretending like Biden is in any way good.

00:52:32.000 Yeah, and no, that's that's a great point.

00:52:36.000 My ideas went right out of my head.

00:52:38.000 I was talking, we talked about, oh, and purchasing power.

00:52:40.000 So you said the way we were talking about, you know, we now sound like leftists talking about exploiting the workers as opposed to, you know, the industrialists or the people that own all the wealth.

00:52:53.000 I lost my train of thought.

00:52:55.000 I'll get back to you. The left has become the right point.

00:52:55.000 Sorry.

00:52:58.000 That's why I've had like a couple jokes where I've been like, you know, it's about time the

00:53:03.000 workers stood up to the exploitation of the establishment politics and maybe maybe the the workers

00:53:07.000 of the world should unite and push back.

00:53:09.000 And yes, and that's there was sorry, am I cutting you off?

00:53:13.000 No, no, go ahead.

00:53:13.000 Well, that was my point of the value of, you used the phrase a couple times of paying into the system, or buying into the system, or contributing to the system, and that was a little bit of what I found fascinating with the early Occupy Wall Street movement.

00:53:26.000 And I remember one of the leaders of it, and I'm not making fun of the guy, but he was

00:53:30.000 talking about his huge student loan debt because he had gotten advanced degrees in puppetry.

00:53:36.000 And he couldn't pay off his student loans.

00:53:38.000 And that's the problem I have with Elizabeth Warren's proposal of paying off student loans,

00:53:42.000 is you value very highly your degree in medieval literature.

00:53:46.000 the literature you value to the point of three hundred thousand dollars in debt

00:53:49.000 at yale i did i i doesn't mean society or the markets or and that doesn't mean

00:53:54.000 therefore that i should have to pay off your debt i i i i was down there

00:53:58.000 like my wall yeah that's why i meant that's why i didn't know this i knew it all

00:54:01.000 went together i was so mad i was like a thought earlier

00:54:05.000 under employed puppeteer joins are you know street where while i was

00:54:08.000 And they say, a few years ago, he graduated from the NYC Teaching Fellows program, working full-time drama teacher, public teacher.

00:54:16.000 Best puppetry school in the country.

00:54:18.000 $35,000 in student loans, and now he's like, give me money.

00:54:21.000 I saw a meme where someone was like, you know, these bourgeois leftists are like, you should pay off our student loan debt because just because you were able to pay your debt doesn't mean we should suffer.

00:54:36.000 And I was just like, I think asking the working class to pay the debts of the wealthiest, the highest salary earners in the country is like pretty far right. 0.99

00:54:45.000 And people are like, oh.

00:54:47.000 Like, what do you call it, I guess not far right's not the right answer, but what do you call it when the ultra-wealthy, I shouldn't say ultra-wealthy because that's like the 0.1%, what do you call it when the rich people, the highest salary earners in the country, demand of the working class and the poor to pay their debts for them?

00:55:04.000 Yeah, slavery.

00:55:05.000 I guess communists do that, right?

00:55:07.000 It's like Roman, old Roman slavery. 0.96

00:55:09.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, feudalism.

00:55:09.000 You have your citizens and then everyone else.

00:55:15.000 And the Greek philosopher King's system gave us really the foundation of Western thought, right?

00:55:25.000 But they did have a whole boatload of slaves to keep that system afloat. 1.00

00:55:30.000 I've always had a little thing against academia.

00:55:33.000 There's a great quote by Fulton Sheehan, a famous Catholic priest up for sainthood, and he has this funny quote.

00:55:38.000 He says that intelligentsia is when you educate someone beyond his intelligence.

00:55:43.000 I think that's a great quote, right?

00:55:46.000 So I've always had a problem a little bit with the intelligentsia.

00:55:48.000 Again, go get your PhD in medieval poetry.

00:55:51.000 That's fascinating.

00:55:53.000 But it doesn't really contribute to society in anything other than the intellectual way.

00:55:58.000 And if someone is not sustaining your livelihood as a medieval poetry professor, then it is communism, it is a form of slavery really, or

00:56:07.000 totalitarianism, to then come to the working class and say, and therefore now you must pay 0.83

00:56:12.000 the debt.

00:56:13.000 And that is what is happening.

00:56:14.000 So it's really funny that in this sense the Trump supporters were far left.

00:56:19.000 They wanted the union jobs back.

00:56:20.000 They wanted the jobs brought back to the country. 0.85

00:56:22.000 They wanted manufacturing jobs.

00:56:23.000 They wanted to work.

00:56:24.000 They were tired of being exploited by the ultra-elites, the people who are rigging the system.

00:56:28.000 And the leftists are the college graduates who want the poor people to pay their bills and want the establishment to go bomb other countries.

00:56:34.000 Not all the leftists.

00:56:35.000 A lot of leftists don't like any of that stuff, but they're willing to support it.

00:56:39.000 I think one of the greatest things that... I'm sorry, what's a collaborator is the right word?

00:56:45.000 Conspirator.

00:56:45.000 Conspirators.

00:56:46.000 That's what they would say.

00:56:46.000 Co-conspirators.

00:56:47.000 So these leftists, these DSA types who voted for Biden are co-conspirators in their own terminology.

00:56:53.000 And based on the ideology of the Trump supporters, they're actually further left than they are in the sense that they support the workers' rights.

00:57:01.000 They're not communists, though.

00:57:04.000 So as center-right defending workers, they're still somehow further left than the leftists who are bourgeois right authoritarians.

00:57:12.000 Yeah, and their salon, right?

00:57:13.000 Like sipping expensive liqueurs and talking lofty thoughts.

00:57:18.000 I remember the first job I got in a campaign, the campaign manager said, we don't need anyone here who wants to sit in a room and think lofty thoughts.

00:57:27.000 Like the first job was we have to blow up balloons, right?

00:57:30.000 And it's not fun to blow up 5,000 balloons, but someone has to do it.

00:57:33.000 But you meet a lot of these campaign people who are like, well, I really love to think about like trade policy.

00:57:38.000 Okay, kid, you know what?

00:57:39.000 We need you to set up chairs and blow up balloons. 0.98

00:57:43.000 And we have a lot of that.

00:57:44.000 We have a lot of the people who want to think lofty thoughts

00:57:46.000 and they want other people to finance it.

00:57:49.000 And there's gonna be some violent pushback if that movement grows.

00:57:53.000 There's gonna pay for college loan. 0.72

00:57:55.000 Historically, there's been like Hammurabi, for instance, one of the greatest kings in Babylonian king, canceled all debt and it just infuriated the elite.

00:58:04.000 They wanted, they hated it, but he was such a good, powerful, smart guy that he didn't get assassinated.

00:58:08.000 Normally the elite will try and assassinate you if you do that.

00:58:10.000 The people loved him and then the community thrived as a result.

00:58:14.000 So you get these people like Kennedy, for instance, who wanted to break up the CIA's power.

00:58:19.000 Unfortunately, he was sitting in the White House.

00:58:20.000 They knew where he was. 1.00

00:58:21.000 It's easy to follow him, track him, kill him. 0.94

00:58:24.000 Maybe you get these populist debt cancelling... Wait, you said Kennedy? 0.97

00:58:27.000 Kennedy?

00:58:27.000 What about?

00:58:28.000 Are you talking about Kennedy?

00:58:29.000 John F. Kennedy.

00:58:30.000 He was kind of a populist.

00:58:31.000 I don't know if he was going to cancel debt, but he wanted to kind of break up the power of the central banks. 0.79

00:58:35.000 Yeah, he wanted to... And they got shot by a crazy guy.

00:58:36.000 Disrupt the... Yeah, yeah.

00:58:38.000 What a horrible coincidence that was.

00:58:41.000 So I don't know.

00:58:42.000 Unless you've got something to show me.

00:58:43.000 I don't know what else to say.

00:58:44.000 I think we're in a debt situation that's spiraling and we do need to cancel debt.

00:58:47.000 Some debt, maybe not all debt.

00:58:49.000 And we need to figure it out sustainably.

00:58:50.000 Interest rates maybe?

00:58:51.000 Cancel interest rate debt.

00:58:53.000 Cancel the interest rates on the student loan debt.

00:58:55.000 So they still got to pay down what they received, but it's not going to start stacking up.

00:58:58.000 And the Federal Reserve interest rates and stuff.

00:59:00.000 I know people who took out like $35,000 in student loans and now owe $70,000.

00:59:03.000 Yeah, cancel that. 0.75

00:59:05.000 That's ridiculous.

00:59:06.000 Pay back what you were given. 0.68

00:59:07.000 And we've got to talk about interest and inflation.

00:59:09.000 That's another problem.

00:59:10.000 Because taking out $35,000, sitting on it until inflation hits, and then paying back it down, that's distracting.

00:59:16.000 But you can only have a debt problem if you have a spending problem.

00:59:20.000 And I think one of the consequences, for example, of the first round of the stimulus, one of the biggest beneficiaries was Foot Locker.

00:59:27.000 People took their $1,400 checks and went to Foot Locker and bought new sneakers.

00:59:31.000 The government says we're going to give people $1,400 so they can pay their mortgage, so they can buy formula for the baby.

00:59:38.000 Is it wrong?

00:59:40.000 Am I going to force a law that says how you have to spend your money?

00:59:43.000 I don't know, but how can you continue to put the country in debt and then know that people have this spending tendency?

00:59:50.000 So that's why I am a star of the beast approach.

00:59:53.000 Well, let's get real then.

00:59:55.000 One of the biggest problems in this country is the spoiled attitude of every single American.

01:00:01.000 I think, you know, 90% of this country are spoiled or entitled to a degree.

01:00:06.000 but some obviously more than others. So obviously conservatives are substantially less spoiled than

01:00:11.000 Democrats, but still spoiled. I think it's a pretty decent gap, but there are a lot of people who are

01:00:15.000 entitled to the comforts and luxuries of modern living. So I look at what's going on with these

01:00:21.000 fast food getting shut down because people don't want to work there. 0.66

01:00:24.000 And I'm like, don't eat that garbage food.

01:00:27.000 You know, it's not hard.

01:00:28.000 I think, you know, people were tweeting at me when I tweeted this.

01:00:30.000 Pictures of like someone threw some onions and carrots and some beef into a pot, cooked it, and they were like, it was cheaper and it fed more people and it was better for you.

01:00:37.000 We're addicted to these luxuries of getting greasy garbage salt food for a couple bucks at a fast food restaurant.

01:00:43.000 We don't want it.

01:00:44.000 People got to figure out how to survive.

01:00:46.000 They got to get back to the basics.

01:00:47.000 We have a garden out front.

01:00:49.000 So, you know, I was reading something interesting.

01:00:51.000 A lot of environmentalists talk about this.

01:00:54.000 That the biggest crop in the country is grass.

01:00:56.000 Everybody has a lawn growing grass.

01:00:58.000 All we do is we spend money to get rid of it.

01:00:59.000 We cut it and throw it in the compost or whatever.

01:01:02.000 Why not have gardens?

01:01:03.000 Why not have a front garden where you can grow some vegetables for your area and then subsidize yourself in a way that you're not having to buy as much from these stores so you're growing your own food.

01:01:12.000 Man, growing your own food is amazing.

01:01:14.000 Get some chickens maybe.

01:01:15.000 They lay eggs and they're hilarious. 0.99

01:01:17.000 They're filthy and dumb, but it's funny to watch them do their chicken stuff. 0.99

01:01:20.000 And you get eggs. 1.00

01:01:21.000 They eat bugs, they eat grass, and then you give them some feed and you get eggs every day, right?

01:01:26.000 So I look at a lot of these problems and I'm like, well, you know what?

01:01:29.000 Look, man, I would be more than happy to live in a van down by the river and go fishing.

01:01:33.000 You know, I do this because I want to, and if at any point I couldn't do it, I'd say, okay, fine, I got no problem living in a van down by the river.

01:01:40.000 But a lot of people are just too entitled.

01:01:41.000 They won't give up their modern comforts.

01:01:44.000 Now a lot of these lazy, gluttonous, city-dwelling people are forced to sort of reconcile with this way of life that they can't sustain anymore.

01:01:51.000 I think if you look at the pandemic and the lockdowns, conservatives, I hear it from a lot of these people in rural areas, not as affected.

01:01:58.000 You're in the middle of nowhere.

01:01:59.000 There's no outdoor mask mandates.

01:02:02.000 You're living your life the way you normally do.

01:02:03.000 Your neighbor is kind of far away.

01:02:04.000 You still go talk to him.

01:02:05.000 In the cities, it's panic.

01:02:07.000 You're in a cubicle.

01:02:08.000 You can't go outside.

01:02:09.000 It's solitary confinement.

01:02:10.000 People are fleeing the cities.

01:02:11.000 They don't want to live this way anymore.

01:02:12.000 They can't get supplies in the cities.

01:02:13.000 Gas is skyrocketing.

01:02:14.000 Gas shortages.

01:02:15.000 People in the country, like, what did you just say earlier in the show, Ian?

01:02:18.000 You're isolated from what was going on in the cities?

01:02:21.000 No, I don't remember saying that.

01:02:22.000 What do you mean?

01:02:22.000 You were mentioning something about these people who have been locked up in their apartments, they can't get out.

01:02:28.000 Maybe it was before the show, and you're isolated from that because we're out in the middle of nowhere.

01:02:31.000 Oh yeah, I haven't experienced it in a while.

01:02:33.000 I was in the city for like 15 years, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and I felt like I was doomed.

01:02:39.000 The brake dust is a big part of it because the particulates of the brake dust on the cars are so fine they get in the alveoli of your lungs, right into the blood barrier, way worse than the carbon monoxide.

01:02:50.000 And that can cause hypertension and stress, but you're compacted and there's nowhere to run.

01:02:56.000 Like if you're in Manhattan, you can't really get out.

01:02:58.000 If they shut down the bridges, you can try and swim the East River, but if they don't want you to, they'll be looking for people.

01:03:05.000 My point is, I don't know about turning Manhattan into a prison, but my point is, for many rural people, which is predominantly conservative, it's not been as bad.

01:03:17.000 No, it's amazing out here.

01:03:19.000 But you know what?

01:03:20.000 Am I going to shed a tear over these gluttonous, entitled, city-dwelling folks who demand... I'm sorry, man.

01:03:28.000 When I see people, illegal immigrants, Picking figs in Southern California. 1.00

01:03:35.000 I went down and I interviewed people and I met the children of illegal immigrants and they were like my family.

01:03:39.000 They pick dates or something and they get paid 14 bucks an hour.

01:03:42.000 And I'm like, isn't it amazing that those people are doing work and these New York and LA liberals who write articles about Brad Pitt's junk are making $50,000 a year and getting to eat the fruits of your labor while they do nothing?

01:03:53.000 That's why the Democratic Party likes this.

01:03:55.000 They like the cheap labor coming in to do the real work where they can sit and pretend they're doing work.

01:03:59.000 As if writing an article about celebrity gossip or garbage is producing something of value for society other than wasting their time.

01:04:05.000 And the next echelon is the banking.

01:04:07.000 People that work in finance that don't do anything but take meetings and have lunch during the day.

01:04:12.000 And they just keep making money on their money.

01:04:16.000 They keep getting interest.

01:04:18.000 And so Max was talking about this, the private, the hedge fund billionaires, the private equity.

01:04:22.000 But I just want to say, I mentioned this before, that I have infinitely more respect for the illegal immigrants who will cross vast swaths of desert, ride on top of trains for thousands of miles because they love America so much than I do for these people in these cities who are like, America's racist. 0.88

01:04:36.000 I hate this country.

01:04:38.000 I don't know if they love America so much, or they need opportunity so much.

01:04:44.000 I know what you mean, but I don't think they have a great love for the country.

01:04:49.000 It gives you the chance to not have to love the country.

01:04:52.000 You don't have to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

01:04:53.000 You don't have to say it. 0.59

01:04:54.000 You can stomp on the flag and burn it on the ground.

01:04:56.000 This is a place for you to be your best. 0.58

01:04:59.000 I wish we wouldn't, though.

01:05:01.000 But listen, I mean, in general, there are people who are like, America, I have to be there.

01:05:05.000 They're not talking about the founding fathers.

01:05:06.000 They're not talking about our constitution.

01:05:08.000 They're saying this country is just good.

01:05:10.000 I respect those willing to go on this dangerous journey to come to find the American dream and the people in these cities who are complaining, America's awful.

01:05:17.000 And then, you add on top of that the insult to injury of a bunch of these people I knew in New York working for these companies, writing these articles saying, Donald Trump, orange man, bad, getting paid $50,000, $60,000, $70,000 a year, and those same illegal immigrants making five bucks an hour, and they're like, America's great. 0.52

01:05:32.000 It's funny that as you're doing this, you keep making this gesture because... 0.91

01:05:35.000 Like a type in the garbage article.

01:05:36.000 Yes, no, exactly.

01:05:37.000 Because I think it's...

01:05:38.000 If they don't want to type.

01:05:39.000 Because I think compounded to that, and the article I wrote last year about leaving DC,

01:05:43.000 and I've been a city kid my whole life, but now I'm a country boy and I'm learning.

01:05:46.000 But I think compounded to that also is that we are a 10,000, 50,000, 70,000 year old

01:05:52.000 species and it's really the first time that people have made a living off of something

01:05:57.000 that requires no manual labor.

01:05:59.000 But it doesn't change our DNA.

01:06:01.000 It doesn't change our nature.

01:06:02.000 And I feel like, especially for guys, if I don't mean to sound sexist, but I feel like the city guys I know who were most well-adjusted have some sort of physical outlet.

01:06:13.000 But if you just work all day on a computer and you go home and you play video games and you watch TV and that's what you do after you do, well your only outlet of productivity or creativity or masculinity is like a nasty Yelp review because your barista Got your order wrong, right?

01:06:29.000 You need an outlet.

01:06:30.000 You talked about the garden.

01:06:31.000 You talked about chickens, people, men and women.

01:06:34.000 You need something to do, to create, to hold in your hand, whether it's art, whether it's you need to do something.

01:06:40.000 And we have a whole society that does not produce anything.

01:06:44.000 I think it's funny how many people who watch the show, like, sort of poke fun at us out here as new, you know, country folk, sort of.

01:06:51.000 They're like, oh, it's so cute hearing you talk about how you have no idea what you're doing with those chickens.

01:06:55.000 But it's like smiling and laughing, like, oh, you'll figure it out.

01:06:58.000 People in the cities ain't never gonna figure it out because they're living in their concrete cubicles that smell like sour milk, complaining and demanding resources from outside the cities.

01:07:06.000 What I really love about the arguments from a lot of these leftists when they say, Well, the cities are the ones that produce, you know, all of the GDP and everything.

01:07:13.000 It's like, okay, let me explain something to you.

01:07:16.000 Farms aren't in cities. 0.64

01:07:17.000 They're outside the cities.

01:07:19.000 The food you eat, it's being imported, it's being driven by truck drivers.

01:07:22.000 How about your energy?

01:07:22.000 Not in those cities.

01:07:23.000 Your energy is produced, not in your cities.

01:07:25.000 That pipeline originates in the country.

01:07:27.000 And you look at some of the jobs in these cities.

01:07:29.000 I gotta tell you, man, I'm hung up on this because I remember the first time I went to one of these newsrooms, it was when I worked for Vice.

01:07:36.000 And the job I had before Vice was non-profit office, which was not paid very well, better than I'd been paid working for the airlines, and a lot of hard work.

01:07:46.000 People couldn't handle the job because it was sales, basically.

01:07:46.000 It was very stressful.

01:07:49.000 And so then I remember, you know, I had worked for 10 bucks an hour at O'Hare Airport, lifting heavy bags, like 50,000 pounds of luggage every day, just eight hours.

01:07:57.000 And then I walk into this Vice newsroom, and I see half the chairs are empty, and I'm like, oh, where is everybody?

01:08:02.000 And they're like, oh, they're working from home.

01:08:03.000 I'm like, working from home?

01:08:05.000 How much do they get paid?

01:08:06.000 $40,000 a year.

01:08:07.000 I'm like, $40,000?

01:08:08.000 What do they write?

01:08:10.000 Well, sometimes they'll write like an article or two per day.

01:08:12.000 I'm like, about what? 0.99

01:08:13.000 Brad Pitt's junk. 0.99

01:08:15.000 I'm like, wow. 0.99

01:08:17.000 So you guys are like Elysium, you know?

01:08:19.000 I think I worked there before the movie came out, I don't remember.

01:08:21.000 But it's like where that space station, where all the rich people live, and they have like all this technology. 0.98

01:08:25.000 You come into the office when you feel like it, you write stupid articles about trash, and you get paid 40 grand a year. 0.94

01:08:31.000 Not a lot of money, I understand, but for someone who's in their early 20s, relative to somebody who's gotta like, I don't know, be a janitor. 0.99

01:08:36.000 You look at some of these jobs in New York where a guy's like changing light bulbs. 0.98

01:08:39.000 You get like a 45-year-old custodian, he's like doing work, and this 20-year-old's getting paid twice as much as he is to write nonsense garbage.

01:08:47.000 Now at least that person, so we'll keep this going, that person you could say theoretically is producing something.

01:08:57.000 I think I feel more disgust for the consumer side, because that person is only producing because someone is clicking on that article. 0.97

01:09:04.000 And who are these hundreds of thousands of people who have nothing better to do than to be like, oh, Brad Pitt's junk. 0.96

01:09:11.000 Seven times your cheeseburger reminded you of Brad Pitt's junk. 0.98

01:09:14.000 Exactly. 0.86

01:09:15.000 So there are clearly enough people who are clicking on that and that is where our society has become.

01:09:21.000 So I'm producing content because there are enough people who have the largesse.

01:09:25.000 Why do they have the largesse? 0.70

01:09:26.000 Because we have 150,000 illegals every month crossing the border who are doing all of the labor that allows them the luxury to click on Brad Pitt's junk articles. 0.99

01:09:38.000 It's funny because I hear the argument from conservatives.

01:09:42.000 When they raided that chicken processing plant, the guy was like, I want to work.

01:09:46.000 You know, I want to make money.

01:09:47.000 And the left says, nobody wants those jobs. 1.00

01:09:50.000 No, it's just your entitled, disgusting, lazy attitude. 0.99

01:09:56.000 You don't want that job. 0.99

01:09:57.000 A ton of Americans want that job. 0.98

01:09:59.000 A ton of Americans would kill for that job.

01:10:01.000 Well, now, you know, I guess fortunately for most people, Joe Biden says, come on, man, just give everybody money for no reason.

01:10:07.000 So now people are like, what's the point of working?

01:10:08.000 Yeah.

01:10:09.000 Those will be the ones if the zombie apocalypse came who, I mean, they would die within the first couple of hours, right?

01:10:16.000 Like you said how we would die.

01:10:17.000 They would be the zombies.

01:10:18.000 They probably would.

01:10:19.000 They would be they would be the zombies.

01:10:20.000 They already are the zombies.

01:10:21.000 But like just think of if we did lose fossil fuels Like that.

01:10:26.000 And you said within days, millions of people would be dead.

01:10:29.000 I think millions of 15 and 16 year olds would be dead because their parents would kill them.

01:10:33.000 Because they can't Snapchat, they can't TikTok, they can't... Oh, they'd break down, their heads would explode. 0.97

01:10:39.000 They'd be insufferable, so you'd just have to put them down.

01:10:41.000 A bunch of these Gen Z kids grew up attached to the internet.

01:10:45.000 If the grid went down, they would have serious episodes.

01:10:48.000 I mean, during the lockdown, this is crazy, a bunch of teenagers committed suicide.

01:10:52.000 I know.

01:10:53.000 Some people, like I know, lost children.

01:10:53.000 Tragic.

01:10:56.000 And I'm not going to say any names or anything, but yeah, these stories.

01:10:59.000 Because they got disconnected from their friends.

01:11:02.000 It's crazy what would happen if we actually had some kind of real crisis.

01:11:05.000 And I tell you, I think most conservatives are particularly confident in their abilities, for good reason.

01:11:12.000 And I think most Democrats are confident in their abilities out of ignorance.

01:11:16.000 These people who grew up in cities, man, they think they'll be okay.

01:11:20.000 They scoff and they laugh.

01:11:21.000 So we did the promo for the food things, for the food buckets, safeandreadymeals.com. 1.00

01:11:26.000 And I hear it from these leftists laughing, mocking me, saying, he's so dumb selling these emergency food bins to stupid people. 0.99

01:11:33.000 And I'm like, What do you think's gonna happen when, I don't know, like a heavy rainfall hits? 1.00

01:11:38.000 And I remember it was, I think it was Houston or Dallas where they had that severe flooding.

01:11:42.000 And people were trapped in their homes.

01:11:44.000 And I'm like, do you think emergency food is only for when the zombies come?

01:11:47.000 Or is it because sometimes it rains? 0.96

01:11:49.000 And they're so arrogant.

01:11:51.000 They always believe that food is infinite.

01:11:54.000 That they can walk into the store and food's just there.

01:11:56.000 There's a really great comedic bit.

01:12:00.000 This video where a guy He wakes up on his couch and there's garbage everywhere.

01:12:05.000 And his girlfriend walks in and she's like, what are you doing?

01:12:07.000 Clean up the garbage.

01:12:08.000 And he goes, no, no, no, no.

01:12:09.000 Wait, wait, I gotta show you something.

01:12:10.000 It's amazing.

01:12:11.000 You just put the garbage right here on the table.

01:12:14.000 You go to sleep.

01:12:15.000 And when you wake up, it's gone.

01:12:17.000 This works, by the way.

01:12:17.000 And she's like, what?

01:12:19.000 And he goes to sleep.

01:12:19.000 And he's like, watch.

01:12:20.000 And then he wakes up and it's gone.

01:12:22.000 And she's gone.

01:12:23.000 And the joke was, she's doing the work. 0.97

01:12:24.000 You just don't know it.

01:12:25.000 So these people think they can walk downstairs and there's just food in the bodega.

01:12:29.000 And I love it when I was arguing with UBI people, and they were like, if we have UBI, then people can buy food.

01:12:36.000 And I was like, if you shut down the businesses, and the farms can't produce milk, and the milk can't get transported to the store, where does the milk come from?

01:12:44.000 And I kid you not, someone tweeted, food comes from the store.

01:12:47.000 What are you talking about?

01:12:48.000 Yeah, there you go.

01:12:48.000 I was like, what?

01:12:50.000 Have you ever seen the trucks pull in and unload this?

01:12:53.000 Have you tried?

01:12:54.000 My mind was blown.

01:12:55.000 Where do the toilet paper is?

01:12:56.000 Toilet papers, it's still, they were saying, it's still there, it's just they have to restock it because it's in the back.

01:13:02.000 Do you think that like a genie walks in the back and goes like, and like toilet paper goes boop, it just appears, and they walk it out and put it on the aisles?

01:13:09.000 Apparently a lot of these people don't realize that your avocados, they come from Mexico.

01:13:13.000 They gotta ship that from Mexico to New York so you can have your hipster avocado toast.

01:13:18.000 It's terrible for the environment, by their standards especially, and they don't care.

01:13:24.000 You know what I'm most excited about is vertical farms. 0.98

01:13:26.000 I kind of want to get back to talking about how ridiculous people are too.

01:13:29.000 But vertical farms, are you guys familiar with Arrow Farms in New Jersey? 0.87

01:13:32.000 It's in Newark.

01:13:32.000 Biggest indoor vertical farm in the world, at least it was a few years ago.

01:13:36.000 So they grow food without dirt.

01:13:39.000 The roots will grow on a mesh and they'll spray nutrients on the mesh. 0.86

01:13:42.000 You have these floors and floors and floors of indoor plants.

01:13:47.000 I think that's the future of urban living.

01:13:50.000 Hydroponics?

01:13:51.000 Yes!

01:13:52.000 Well, let's talk about this.

01:13:52.000 Aquaponics, yeah.

01:13:55.000 California declares drought emergency across vast swath of state.

01:13:59.000 We talked a lot about political crises.

01:14:02.000 But what happens?

01:14:03.000 So, let me start answering.

01:14:05.000 I don't want to blame Joe Biden for everything.

01:14:07.000 I think he's a bad leader.

01:14:08.000 I think his policies have caused very serious problems with the economy and with the border, of course.

01:14:13.000 I don't think we can blame him for everything having to do with Israel and Gaza.

01:14:16.000 That would be insane.

01:14:17.000 That conflict has been going on for a long time.

01:14:19.000 But what we're looking at now with this story from California, there's a massive drought.

01:14:23.000 I look at some of these photos and I went and covered the drought several years ago when it was, you know, in its peak, it was a disaster.

01:14:31.000 And it looks worse now.

01:14:32.000 I mean, maybe I'm wrong.

01:14:33.000 Maybe it's just I'm misremembering, but it seems like it's way worse. 0.98

01:14:36.000 What are we going to do now when we have this pathetic president who has no ability to lead? 0.98

01:14:41.000 How is he supposed to deal with his own problems of his creation and with natural disasters? 0.98

01:14:46.000 Because California's They're already in trouble.

01:14:50.000 Now you add this drought, they're going to start going to other states and making demands.

01:14:54.000 They're in demand relief.

01:14:55.000 We pay for it.

01:14:55.000 That drought that you said you covered, was that about a decade ago?

01:14:58.000 about probably about a decade ago? Well no, no it was 2016.

01:14:58.000 2015-2016.

01:14:58.000 No, it was 2016.

01:15:02.000 2015, 2016. What steps did the state of California or did America take after that

01:15:09.000 drought to say how do we make sure this doesn't happen again?

01:15:12.000 Like I said earlier on, one of the things I challenge, my challenge in this industry is that it's not always sexy.

01:15:12.000 Right?

01:15:17.000 It's not titillating.

01:15:18.000 It's not fun.

01:15:19.000 That's another example.

01:15:20.000 And this is the role of government, right?

01:15:22.000 The role of government is not to police your pronouns.

01:15:25.000 It is not to talk about your boys and girls in sports.

01:15:28.000 These are, for good or for ill, these are the jobs we've put at the feet of our government.

01:15:34.000 What has California or the country done to secure our electric grid, to secure our energy supply, or in the case of California, to secure its water supply?

01:15:42.000 Because you know you are drought prone, you know what your population is, you know that the rain is cyclical.

01:15:48.000 What have you done?

01:15:49.000 I want to make sure I highlight the other story in this because this is about the great natural disasters and we have this one from Express.co.uk.

01:15:55.000 Solar storm traveling at 1.3 million kilometers per hour to hit Earth tomorrow.

01:16:00.000 Oh great.

01:16:00.000 They say it could spark satellite related issues.

01:16:03.000 Sometimes when we get these storms it causes issues with like cell phone coverage and things like that.

01:16:08.000 I don't think this is the big one where all of our electronics get fried or anything.

01:16:13.000 But just another example of outside of the political crisis and the government, to your question, not doing anything about it.

01:16:20.000 And I'm not comfortable right now with a Biden presidency, a Biden administration, as we're staring down the barrel of natural disasters, Middle Eastern conflict, economic crisis, migrant crisis.

01:16:33.000 I'm actually, what's the opposite of comfortable?

01:16:37.000 Uncomfortable is a strong word.

01:16:37.000 Disconcerted.

01:16:38.000 That's a long word, though.

01:16:39.000 No, not enough.

01:16:40.000 Agitated.

01:16:41.000 I'm anxious and genuinely concerned.

01:16:45.000 But, you know, I would say I'm not particularly excitable.

01:16:50.000 So when it happens, I kind of laugh, and then I go and buy a bunch of bullets.

01:16:54.000 That was my reaction today.

01:16:55.000 Like, I did my segments.

01:16:56.000 So I do my hour and 20 minutes or so in the morning, the three segments, 10, 1, and 4 p.m.

01:17:02.000 And afterwards, I was like, da-da-bump-da-do, ammo.com, let's see, 9mm, ooh, hollow point, ooh, let's see, 45 ACPO, yeah.

01:17:09.000 And you got it, no problem.

01:17:11.000 There's a lot of shortages.

01:17:13.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's been a little bit better.

01:17:14.000 It was really bad last year, but I was like, I'm gonna buy a bunch of bullets, and then I got, like, some beans and rice, and I'm like, you know what, man?

01:17:22.000 That's the manifestation of my anxiety watching a Biden presidency and natural disasters.

01:17:26.000 I'm like, time to buy some ammo!

01:17:28.000 You're not wrong either.

01:17:29.000 Historically, if you've ever heard, I want to tell you about the Sea Peoples.

01:17:32.000 Have you guys ever heard of the Sea Peoples?

01:17:33.000 1200 BC?

01:17:34.000 The Sea Peoples?

01:17:35.000 Yeah, apparently this unknown culture of humans, 1200 BC, came from Asia and just flooded the Mediterranean and wiped out and murdered and destroyed all civilization essentially as we know it. 0.88

01:17:48.000 They don't know why.

01:17:49.000 No one really knows anything about them or where they came from or why they came, but what they think happened was a series of events.

01:17:54.000 It's never the big one.

01:17:55.000 It's very rarely.

01:17:56.000 It's a volcano along with three years of famine and then there's a flood.

01:18:01.000 Or there's a war involved with a famine, and then there's a solar flare, or there's a fire, and it's all these things happening at once.

01:18:10.000 That's what causes social collapse. 0.91

01:18:12.000 It's not the oil alone, it's not the solar flare alone, it's not the war alone, but it's when they all conflict.

01:18:19.000 And they're all happening right now, isn't that perfect timing?

01:18:21.000 At any moment they can all happen right now.

01:18:23.000 We have to be on guard for that.

01:18:25.000 And that's like why I think Biden is particularly bad for us.

01:18:29.000 I understand it's like so obvious Tim Pool criticizing Joe Biden, I get it.

01:18:34.000 I think Trump had his problems, but Joe Biden is like sitting in his wheelchair

01:18:39.000 with his little warm blanket in the sun going brrrr while like everything's on fire.

01:18:42.000 If Yosemite erupts, and then there's, uh... If Yosemite erupts, we got nothing to worry about.

01:18:47.000 We'll be there.

01:18:48.000 And there's a war, and a flood.

01:18:50.000 Well, we all have masks.

01:18:51.000 So if Yosemite erupts, we have masks.

01:18:53.000 It could block out the sun, at the very least, other than the actual... I mean, for, I don't know how long it would block out the sun.

01:19:00.000 That would destroy a crop. 0.99

01:19:00.000 Years. 0.99

01:19:02.000 So you're saying the secret bunker should be hermetically sealable, so that we can go underground and...

01:19:06.000 Yes, indoor farms.

01:19:07.000 Prolong our suffering.

01:19:08.000 Indoor farms is a big part of it.

01:19:10.000 It's going to be a race to get to Mount Weather if Yellowstone and Yosemite goes up.

01:19:15.000 Mount Weather, that's the station in Virginia.

01:19:19.000 It's actually right outside DC, but that's what the government built in the case of nuclear war.

01:19:26.000 Mount Weather.

01:19:27.000 You can see it.

01:19:27.000 It's right there on a hill.

01:19:28.000 It's a secret government.

01:19:29.000 It's not secret because everyone knows what it is.

01:19:30.000 Oh, but it's on a mountain.

01:19:31.000 What's happening?

01:19:32.000 Well, it's on a mountain and it's called Mount Weather and it's one of those What actually happens at Mount Weather, no one knows.

01:19:37.000 Isn't that where the enclave is?

01:19:38.000 But it is a government bunker.

01:19:39.000 Isn't that where the enclave is in Fallout 3?

01:19:41.000 I don't know, that's awesome.

01:19:42.000 Yeah, if you go far west of the mountains and there's like a... Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.

01:19:45.000 The thing that concerns me is I don't think we should even talk about if.

01:19:47.000 It's when Yosemite erupts.

01:19:50.000 Because it will again in the future.

01:19:51.000 That's what volcanoes do. 0.99

01:19:52.000 It's overdue by only like 80,000 years, so there's nothing to worry about.

01:19:56.000 When there's a conflux of events that causes mass catastrophe on the surface of Earth, hopefully we'll be on Mars, we'll be on the Moon, we'll have space stations, but...

01:20:04.000 Where's our localized infrastructure?

01:20:06.000 I don't want to rely on a pipeline.

01:20:08.000 I don't want to rely on an energy source far away.

01:20:10.000 I mean, where's my food, my water, my waste?

01:20:14.000 Just real quick.

01:20:15.000 Yes, Mount Weather is what they use to model Raven Rock, which in Fallout 3, for those that are familiar with the game, is where the Enclave, which is the remnants of the US government, are based after the nuclear apocalypse.

01:20:25.000 There you go.

01:20:26.000 That's always a real place.

01:20:27.000 But they're not going to let you in.

01:20:28.000 Well, no. 0.99

01:20:29.000 They'll shoot you! 0.99

01:20:29.000 We're going to try to get in. 0.99

01:20:33.000 But to your point though, absolutely.

01:20:35.000 If societal collapse happens, it is every man for himself. 0.80

01:20:41.000 And that is why teaching self-resiliency and independence is a virtue.

01:20:48.000 And I feel like what we are inculcating as a culture, and I feel like what this president is doing, is inculcating dependency.

01:20:54.000 We will take care of you.

01:20:55.000 Last night we were talking about Africa a lot, and I think Nigeria, how they're on crypto.

01:20:59.000 And a lot of what's happened in these African countries is they've leapfrogged the last 100 years of electrical infrastructure because they didn't have a central grid.

01:21:06.000 So they just immediately went to a solar panel on every house.

01:21:09.000 And now they all have cell phones, they have bypasses.

01:21:11.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:21:12.000 They bypass like the telephone, you know, centralization structure.

01:21:16.000 So they have cell phones, solar panels.

01:21:18.000 They're using crypto.

01:21:19.000 So there is potential for new societies to have to start with, you know, sustainable stuff, as we can see in the gravity lights.

01:21:27.000 Gravity lights are really cool.

01:21:28.000 You ever see those?

01:21:29.000 No.

01:21:30.000 It's a series of gears and you have a rock on a string and you lift the rock up and let it go.

01:21:37.000 And as the rock is falling, it's spinning the gears, which generate electricity.

01:21:41.000 It falls for like 12 hours.

01:21:42.000 Yeah, it takes 12 hours to go all the way down, and it lights, it turns a light on.

01:21:45.000 So it's like an old clock, like an old clock that has a pendulum and has... So it's just using a gear ratio so that as it's spinning, it goes really slow, it spins really fast, and then... And gravity, like, the thing about something in orbit is it's falling.

01:22:02.000 Technically, when you're orbiting the Earth, you're in a state of falling.

01:22:04.000 So if we could utilize that force to create electricity, I think that would be sustainable.

01:22:08.000 You couldn't because...

01:22:10.000 It is falling, but it's moving forward fast enough to where it orbits.

01:22:14.000 You'd have to reduce speed at some point.

01:22:16.000 That would be a perpetual motion machine.

01:22:19.000 It wouldn't work.

01:22:20.000 You can't just get energy out of the system.

01:22:22.000 It wouldn't be perpetual.

01:22:23.000 It would slow down over time, but it might be slow down.

01:22:26.000 As the rock falls, it takes 12 hours to fall.

01:22:28.000 Maybe it could take 600,000 years for it to fall back to Earth.

01:22:31.000 Just like orbital decay.

01:22:31.000 I see.

01:22:32.000 And then capturing that somehow.

01:22:35.000 Maybe.

01:22:35.000 I don't know.

01:22:37.000 Seems kind of crazy.

01:22:37.000 Yep.

01:22:37.000 Yep, but maybe we'll get by a solar storm and then it'll get erased. I think it wiped out going back to the

01:22:42.000 California droughts I mean there are whole countries. I'm thinking of Israel 0.95

01:22:46.000 that have mastered desalinization Yeah, but you know the problem with that is I actually

01:22:51.000 Why can't we in California?

01:22:53.000 They do have one in Carlsbad.

01:22:54.000 I went there.

01:22:55.000 It's beautiful.

01:22:56.000 It's a whole bunch of... It's a series of tubes, as most things are, I suppose.

01:22:56.000 It's crazy.

01:23:00.000 The internet, the old pipelines.

01:23:01.000 But they have a whole bunch of these tubes where the water runs through all of them.

01:23:05.000 The problem is, there is going to be refuse.

01:23:08.000 Brine.

01:23:09.000 And we watched it, we filmed it, as it poured out of these wastewater pipes.

01:23:14.000 The brine sinks to the bottom and goes under the ocean water, killing everything on the ocean floor.

01:23:20.000 And that causes a wave of death going all the way up because the food chain dies.

01:23:25.000 The critters that eat stuff on the floor die because there's no food anymore.

01:23:28.000 The critters that eat those critters die.

01:23:29.000 The critters that eat those critters die.

01:23:31.000 And then the people who go fishing can't get fish anymore.

01:23:33.000 So there's a lot of things to solve with desalination.

01:23:36.000 One of the issues, I suppose, is Humans consuming more and more of the ocean water, changing salinity, destroying coastal areas, destroying fisheries. 0.95

01:23:46.000 I don't think there's a solution for infinite growth, or at least exponential growth, considering how many people there are.

01:23:53.000 I think there's a certain point where we just get too many people and then we strain our ecosystem.

01:23:57.000 It happens to deer, it happens to basically every creature on the planet.

01:24:02.000 Hogs, for instance, people go around in helicopters shooting hogs, just too many of them. 1.00

01:24:06.000 Humans are not going to be immune from the same environmental forces that everything else on the planet is.

01:24:11.000 And so we got to pay attention to that.

01:24:13.000 I'm not going to pretend to know the solutions, but I can tell you a lot of really crazy people are willing to do a lot of really crazy things once they get power to ensure that they get to live comfortably forever.

01:24:22.000 And you are the one who is the hog being culled.

01:24:26.000 They're the ones who have the private jets and the multiple homes.

01:24:30.000 This is what I think about the climate change thing.

01:24:30.000 That's right.

01:24:32.000 I think a lot of these people are like, you know, there's like a guy and he's like, he's wearing his like velvet bathrobe or whatever in the morning and he's sipping his morning coffee with a cigar.

01:24:41.000 And then he sees the newspaper and it says, due to climate change, people will lose access to these luxuries.

01:24:46.000 And he goes, Heavens!

01:24:48.000 I have to give up my private jet?

01:24:51.000 No, make everyone else give it up.

01:24:53.000 So he throws money and says, everyone give up all your luxuries.

01:24:55.000 Give up all your luxuries.

01:24:56.000 And he goes, once they all give up their luxuries and they're flushing their toilets, and now you got to pee in the top of the toilet to flush the rest of it because we got to save water.

01:25:04.000 I'll get to keep my yacht.

01:25:06.000 I'll get to keep my private plane.

01:25:08.000 It's better this way.

01:25:09.000 By the way, that's a wonderful accent of a rich person.

01:25:11.000 I mean, that's just, that's flawless.

01:25:11.000 Yeah, it was good.

01:25:14.000 Rich people naturally develop those accents.

01:25:15.000 Oh yeah, of course they do.

01:25:16.000 It happens.

01:25:17.000 Yeah, as soon as you break your first million.

01:25:20.000 You can watch it happen.

01:25:21.000 You should go to a club and there'll be a guy and he's like, well, I'm looking at my portfolio here and oh, it's about to cross one million dollars!

01:25:29.000 Oh my! 0.58

01:25:30.000 It's happened!

01:25:31.000 Jolly good!

01:25:32.000 Oh, Rufus, your voice broke!

01:25:34.000 I see you've made a million dollars!

01:25:36.000 There's a woman and she's like, You made a million dollars? 1.00

01:25:39.000 And he's like, you can tell, can't you? 0.97

01:25:42.000 When the rich psycho says, I need to rule all these sycophants, these people, because they're not smart enough. 0.99

01:25:50.000 And then they make these decisions, like if they give up their, what's that?

01:25:52.000 Bloomberg.

01:25:53.000 Yeah, yeah. 0.98

01:25:54.000 So when that happens, I wonder, like, then you were talking to all these people that just can't stop eating crap, salty fast food.

01:26:00.000 They can't, like, bring themselves to change, to become self-identified, to 0.85

01:26:04.000 cook their own food, to take control of their life. 0.98

01:26:06.000 Are they really like a mass of ignoramuses that need to be controlled and called, not called, but like taken care of 0.78

01:26:13.000 by a small group of highly intelligent humans? 0.95

01:26:17.000 Or is that a story we're told?

01:26:19.000 That's a really good point.

01:26:20.000 I think maybe you're onto something Ian.

01:26:23.000 There could be a group of people that maybe just have better ideas.

01:26:27.000 It could be a reference to like enlightenment or you know, like a light, like an illumination.

01:26:32.000 They could call themselves something like that.

01:26:34.000 Like Illuminati guys or something.

01:26:36.000 The Illuminati.

01:26:38.000 Yeah, the ones who know all things.

01:26:40.000 Yes, yes.

01:26:40.000 And they can tell other people how to live, because as we've seen throughout history, centralization of power always is a good thing.

01:26:48.000 If you hoard all your information on an island, then there's no chance the island will get flooded and destroyed and that the information will be lost.

01:26:54.000 Or in a great library, perhaps. 0.72

01:26:57.000 The problem with these people is that, while I think it's true there are a lot of really, really dumb people, and I think there are very few smarter people, Centralization doesn't work. 0.91

01:27:07.000 One person, a small group of people, cannot adequately plan for how a system this large will work. 0.99

01:27:14.000 They've tried it over and over again.

01:27:15.000 It was called communism.

01:27:17.000 It clearly doesn't work.

01:27:18.000 It didn't work.

01:27:19.000 And I know all these commie leftists will be like, that was because the US was interfering in the Kremlin.

01:27:23.000 It wasn't real communism.

01:27:24.000 Yeah.

01:27:25.000 When they were like, starve the Ukrainians to give the Russians food because we need it more. 1.00

01:27:28.000 I'm like, that's central planning. 0.97

01:27:30.000 So what makes an individual like trash?

01:27:32.000 The problem is not that they're making people do something or making them not do something, it's that they're restraining their ability to be adaptable.

01:27:39.000 Because you need to allow people to be adaptable.

01:27:41.000 Decentralization.

01:27:42.000 Restraining their ability to be free.

01:27:44.000 Yeah, I mean, adaptability is freedom.

01:27:46.000 And then that's taken away in a centralized system.

01:27:50.000 It's interesting, Max the other day was talking about how these Altcoins are a casino.

01:27:57.000 Somebody says, I put in money on this cryptocurrency, I lost money, and now I need to make it back up.

01:28:02.000 So they put in a different currency and they keep losing money.

01:28:04.000 I feel like a lot of the centralization we see with these wealthy individuals is, they made a bet.

01:28:09.000 Hey, we should do this policy and control this good.

01:28:13.000 It'll make everything better.

01:28:14.000 Then when it gets worse, they go, quick, quick, do another policy!

01:28:17.000 And so they keep stacking duct tape onto a thing.

01:28:20.000 The problem is caused by them.

01:28:22.000 Yeah, and you talked about how it's a series of events that lead to the ultimate collapse of society, and I think you're absolutely right, but if you look at one country in particular, and more should be written about this.

01:28:31.000 Movies, you talked about doing original, creative... Oh, we're doing it!

01:28:35.000 Movies should be written about this, and it is, in our lifetime, the story of Venezuela.

01:28:39.000 I mean, in the turn of the century, this century, the year 2000, It was the wealthiest, most prosperous country in South America.

01:28:48.000 It had a number of American and European engineers and doctors who lived there.

01:28:54.000 Hugo Chavez did not run as saying, I'm going to destroy your country.

01:28:57.000 He ran as I'm going to bring a greater sense of equality and equity or whatever, whatever.

01:29:03.000 And here we are 21 years later and 70, the latest statistic I saw 78% of the population is in extreme poverty.

01:29:09.000 I mean, they have the world's largest proven oil and gas reserve, oil reserves, and they have no, they have no oil.

01:29:16.000 A lot of murder though.

01:29:16.000 I got a lot of murder.

01:29:17.000 Exactly.

01:29:18.000 I mean, in every single, those who, those Illuminati, those who were smart, those who were, fled the country.

01:29:26.000 And what is left?

01:29:27.000 And who takes care of those people?

01:29:29.000 And that is, I fear, the direction we are slowly headed in.

01:29:33.000 It's a series of collapses.

01:29:34.000 In addition to the series of collapses, what happens, what tends to happen is it will affect one large group of people and then those people will migrate because they're screwed and then the migration will cause another catastrophe where they land and they'll disrupt those that populace the sea people are the ones that were catastrophically affected by the series of events so it seems but the people that were murdered in the mediterranean just suffered the fallout

01:29:57.000 So what you're basically saying is that in these blue areas destroyed by Democrats, they're all going to flood into red areas.

01:30:02.000 We're seeing it happen.

01:30:03.000 And they're bringing their weird race theories.

01:30:06.000 It's like a drop of it.

01:30:07.000 It's landing in schools in West Virginia, freaking out parents.

01:30:11.000 Colorado.

01:30:13.000 And that's why federalism is your best fight back, because you have so much more power.

01:30:19.000 Power should be as concentrated at the localist level possible.

01:30:22.000 And people, get rid of the Electoral College! 1.00

01:30:25.000 Without getting into the history of our founding fathers, the person who is not elected by electoral college is your governor.

01:30:30.000 Because that's where more power should be than the president. 0.99

01:30:33.000 They never wanted the president.

01:30:34.000 They never wanted DC to be powerful.

01:30:36.000 So did the founders love democracy?

01:30:38.000 They loved direct democracy because they wanted it at the most local.

01:30:41.000 Your mayor is elected by direct democracy.

01:30:43.000 But boy, wouldn't it be great if your mayor had more power than your governor and your governor had more power than the president?

01:30:48.000 But instead, there used to be an expression.

01:30:50.000 My mom, I hope you're listening, mom, she used to say it all the time, and maybe she's the last one, don't make a federal case out of it.

01:30:55.000 Oh, don't make a federal case out of it.

01:30:56.000 We don't say that anymore.

01:30:58.000 Everything is now a federal case.

01:31:00.000 My trans daughter can't play volleyball. 1.00

01:31:02.000 Go to the Supreme Court. 1.00

01:31:03.000 Holy crap, there's no other recourse. 0.97

01:31:05.000 Everything gets elevated to Washington, D.C. 0.97

01:31:08.000 Well, it's like we're asking mom and dad to solve our problems for us.

01:31:14.000 It's an interesting thing.

01:31:15.000 The problem is, if people live in these awful blue states, then they move to red states and then start voting blue again, and then they just keep... Yeah, and then maybe we'll move back to California one day and reclaim it as our own.

01:31:27.000 Right.

01:31:28.000 I mean, there are states that were blue that have turned red and there are states that are red that are turning blue.

01:31:32.000 And I'm not going to stop migration patterns.

01:31:35.000 But, you know, California had the largest exodus in the last 10 years.

01:31:40.000 Who knows?

01:31:40.000 Maybe they'll drive it so far into the ground.

01:31:42.000 People will start moving back to California and reclaim it.

01:31:44.000 Well, how about we take some Super Chats?

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01:32:07.000 Alright, let's see what we got here.

01:32:09.000 Mike Sullivan says Mr. Biden recently met Jimmy Carter.

01:32:12.000 Carter told him about the amazing gas lines he had.

01:32:15.000 Joe said, hold my Geritol and watch this.

01:32:18.000 And now we have gas lines again.

01:32:20.000 That's fantastic.

01:32:23.000 Wolfstar says, Tim will never stop selling fear to his audience.

01:32:27.000 He is worse than the MSM.

01:32:30.000 You're entitled to your opinion.

01:32:31.000 I disagree.

01:32:32.000 The mainstream media is outright lying to you about what's going on.

01:32:34.000 And it's really funny when I have people who say like, Oh, Tim, you said all of these things were going to happen.

01:32:39.000 I'm like, some approximation of those things are literally happening.

01:32:42.000 Last year when I was like, man, I'm really concerned about shortages, you know, so check out this emergency food stuff.

01:32:47.000 Don't go crazy, just, you know, have some emergency food, water, and a first aid kit.

01:32:51.000 And then we got all this news about supply shortages at all these major chain stores, and I'm like, okay, the apocalypse isn't here, but like, it's important to pay attention to the stuff.

01:32:59.000 If you don't like it, hey man, you're entitled to your opinion, you don't gotta watch the show.

01:33:02.000 Nobody's making you do it.

01:33:05.000 Alright, let's see.

01:33:07.000 John Lee says, Tim, today, when typing your channel, your newly uploaded videos didn't show up.

01:33:12.000 I had to go into your channel to find the video.

01:33:13.000 Did something happen?

01:33:14.000 More importantly, where's my chicken stream?

01:33:17.000 I guess YouTube nuked the video.

01:33:17.000 I don't know.

01:33:19.000 It happens sometimes.

01:33:20.000 I'll have to look into it, I guess.

01:33:23.000 The chicken stream is... We're working on it, I guess?

01:33:26.000 All good things are worth the wait, right?

01:33:29.000 That's right.

01:33:31.000 Tango Hotel says, Tim, I heard your call to create new culture.

01:33:34.000 I'm a disabled vet and I create every day at Twitch.

01:33:37.000 Tango Hotel, where I stream XCOM 2, Long War, and a variety of other games.

01:33:40.000 Thank you for all of, uh, for what you do.

01:33:42.000 Appreciate it.

01:33:43.000 XCOM Long War is so legit.

01:33:45.000 So good.

01:33:46.000 Unreasonably Angry says, hey Daniel, as a trucker, I would like to hear your expert opinion on what the next step is for trucking.

01:33:52.000 Electric, hydrogen, cell, or stick with diesel?

01:33:56.000 You probably know this a lot better than I do, but the reason why I have hesitancy to say that we're going to go all electric with trucking is because of the size of the battery, the weight, and the amount of space it takes up in the truck.

01:34:10.000 People say we're going to have a fleet of electric trucks one day.

01:34:13.000 When I look at what truckers carry in terms of especially fossil fuels, but other things that are extremely heavy payloads, not your Amazon truck, not your UPS truck that is not, but really, really heavy payloads.

01:34:25.000 There will not, there is not yet a battery strong enough to run that truck.

01:34:28.000 That may happen one day.

01:34:30.000 I'm not opposed to it.

01:34:31.000 Again, and let technology take its place.

01:34:33.000 But right now I think the trucking industry is, the way our economy runs, I think our trucking industry is very safe.

01:34:39.000 Even though I was advocating for the pipeline for fuel transportation, truckers don't have to worry about their future in the immediate future.

01:34:45.000 They don't.

01:34:46.000 Damon Cord with probably the best comment so far.

01:34:49.000 There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

01:34:52.000 Also, don't forget hurricane season is right now.

01:34:54.000 Yeah, keep in mind.

01:34:55.000 For those unfamiliar with that reference, there's no war in Ba Sing Se.

01:34:57.000 It comes from the Avatar show, where they go to this great big city called Ba Sing Se, which is literally being attacked, or there's a war with the Fire Nation, but the government doesn't allow people to talk about it.

01:35:08.000 They're just like, shut up, nothing's happening.

01:35:10.000 And that was a great story arc.

01:35:12.000 And now a meme.

01:35:14.000 American Capitalist says hyperinflation has hit the used vehicle market.

01:35:17.000 There was a YouTube short of a $65,000 Corvette with 15 miles being flipped for $100,000.

01:35:24.000 Dealerships are empty.

01:35:25.000 My three-year-old truck's trade-in value is higher than it was brand new.

01:35:28.000 Whoa! 0.71

01:35:29.000 Wow.

01:35:32.000 Turk Longwell says, Tim, I think Max and Stacy may have convinced me to go straight Bitcoin, especially with all the disaster talk lately.

01:35:39.000 Love the show.

01:35:40.000 Smash that like button.

01:35:41.000 You know what, man?

01:35:43.000 I've known about Bitcoin for a decade.

01:35:45.000 And every step of the way, I was like, if only I had bought some.

01:35:48.000 If only I had bought some.

01:35:49.000 And at a certain point, I was like, man, I'm stupid! 0.97

01:35:52.000 Cause if only I had bought some, I'm like, okay, I'm buying some. 0.92

01:35:55.000 You know, I have a little bit from a long time ago and it's kind of crazy to see something that was not worth that much now be worth so much.

01:36:01.000 And I'm just like, wow.

01:36:02.000 But I never, man, I wish back in 2012 when it was like five bucks or whatever, I hit five bucks and I was like, ah, it's way too expensive to buy now.

01:36:11.000 Because people don't get it.

01:36:13.000 And I didn't get it, and I knew about it.

01:36:15.000 If only back then.

01:36:16.000 So I think Bitcoin's going to hit a million bucks.

01:36:19.000 Bitcoin has one and then eight zeros after it.

01:36:22.000 That comes out to with, you know, a decimal point, two zeros, a million dollars.

01:36:27.000 So I think it'll reach around that point probably sooner than people realize.

01:36:31.000 So, uh, I'm buying Bitcoin.

01:36:33.000 And I was thinking about it too.

01:36:34.000 I'm probably just going to start treating Bitcoin as if it is worth a million dollars.

01:36:38.000 So what that means is like, if someone's like, you know, Hey, I'll give you, you know, X, you know, point zero, zero, zero, whatever the Bitcoin for X amount of dollars.

01:36:45.000 It's like, wow, someone handing me, you know, a hundred dollars for five bucks.

01:36:49.000 You know what I mean?

01:36:49.000 I was going to buy a laptop.

01:36:51.000 I mentioned this last night and, uh, instead I just bought Bitcoin.

01:36:54.000 And I was like, you know, because I don't want to in a year be like, oh, that was the most expensive laptop I ever bought.

01:36:58.000 I could have bought 10 laptops.

01:37:00.000 I could have bought 15 laptops with this Bitcoin, with this money that the opportunity cost.

01:37:05.000 If I buy it and every time I come on the show, can we can we talk about where it is when I bought it?

01:37:10.000 I mean, yeah, you'd be like, hey, we're up X percent.

01:37:11.000 I'll go back.

01:37:12.000 I'll buy some.

01:37:12.000 I'll go home tomorrow.

01:37:13.000 I'll go home tonight and buy some.

01:37:15.000 I think Max was correct about Bitcoin.

01:37:17.000 People want it because it can store value.

01:37:19.000 It doesn't matter.

01:37:20.000 You know, I didn't realize this way back in the day in 2011 when it was really hard to buy.

01:37:25.000 So I probably would have bought it, even though my friend talked me out of it.

01:37:27.000 But it was just difficult to get.

01:37:29.000 You'd have to arrange a meeting with someone who had some.

01:37:31.000 Yeah.

01:37:32.000 I was actually mining on my computer like, oh, this is fun.

01:37:35.000 It was just so small.

01:37:37.000 I, you know, people, some guys bought a pizza with like 20,000 Bitcoin and it didn't matter.

01:37:43.000 He got a pizza.

01:37:44.000 If people just recognized it did have value, it doesn't matter how many you have.

01:37:48.000 It's going to go up.

01:37:50.000 I'm not telling anybody to buy it.

01:37:51.000 I'm just saying.

01:37:51.000 In 10 years, it went from one cent to $50,000.

01:37:54.000 $60,000.

01:37:54.000 10 years.

01:37:54.000 That's like nothing.

01:37:58.000 Which means if you put in, if you bought 20,000 Bitcoin, you'd be a billionaire right now.

01:38:06.000 And when I first discovered Bitcoin, it was at 70 cents.

01:38:09.000 A billionaire.

01:38:11.000 10 years.

01:38:11.000 Billionaire.

01:38:12.000 You'd buy a yacht.

01:38:13.000 I told Lydia earlier, I was almost going to buy it at 600.

01:38:15.000 I guess it was like eight years ago.

01:38:17.000 And I was like, 600 is so much money.

01:38:20.000 And my friend was like, buy three coin.

01:38:22.000 And I was like, oh my God, are you kidding me?

01:38:25.000 Of course I didn't buy it.

01:38:28.000 So when it hits a million, you're gonna be like... But now it's like $56,000!

01:38:32.000 But don't be turned off by the cost of one, because you buy it in percentages.

01:38:37.000 No, I'll probably... I'll buy 30 or 40 bitcoins.

01:38:40.000 Buy what you can afford.

01:38:41.000 Yeah, something like that.

01:38:42.000 Sure!

01:38:44.000 Good luck with that.

01:38:44.000 Take it away.

01:38:45.000 Just throw me some if you got that much.

01:38:48.000 We got Dr. Remulak says, I did an interview with the Keystone Pipeline.

01:38:48.000 Here we go.

01:38:52.000 I lost a potential $70,000 a year job.

01:38:55.000 I am pissed.

01:38:56.000 Well, it's not all bad.

01:38:58.000 $70,000 a year by next year will only be $20,000.

01:39:01.000 So you won't have lost that much money.

01:39:02.000 Hey, how about that?

01:39:04.000 They'll have to give you a $500,000 a year job.

01:39:07.000 Heart goes out to you, brother.

01:39:08.000 Making those Keystone Pipeline videos was one of the hardest things I did, and talking to those guys.

01:39:13.000 $70,000 is a great salary.

01:39:14.000 I talked to guys who've been working as welders for 30, 40 years.

01:39:17.000 They lost $300,000 jobs.

01:39:19.000 Wow.

01:39:19.000 Tragic.

01:39:20.000 We got a lot of comments from people.

01:39:22.000 Jay Britton Clark says, Democrats be like, there is no Warren bossing say.

01:39:25.000 I thought that too.

01:39:26.000 That's right.

01:39:27.000 Wow.

01:39:27.000 SharkBiteBiz says, Tim, can you give my vodcast SharkBiteBiz some love?

01:39:32.000 There you go.

01:39:33.000 Give a shout out.

01:39:34.000 Thanks for the super chat.

01:39:35.000 Vodcast.

01:39:37.000 Crandall Logan says there is no gas shortage.

01:39:40.000 There is no massive inflation.

01:39:41.000 There is no food shortage.

01:39:42.000 There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

01:39:44.000 There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

01:39:46.000 Yup! 0.99

01:39:47.000 You know why they're saying all these things?

01:39:49.000 They don't want people to panic.

01:39:51.000 And so...

01:39:53.000 I guess we're privileged.

01:39:55.000 Each and every one of you listening are fortunate enough to hear these things before it breaks out into the mainstream.

01:40:02.000 The New York Times put out a tweet that said, there are no long lines.

01:40:05.000 That's crazy.

01:40:06.000 You saw them.

01:40:08.000 You...

01:40:09.000 I have no problem reading the criticism of me where the guy says I'm selling fear.

01:40:11.000 I'll see them when I drive home tonight and heck, I will take a picture and Daniel Turner

01:40:16.000 PTF on Twitter and I'll post them.

01:40:18.000 I wanted to post them but I didn't want to pull over.

01:40:20.000 Right, right, right.

01:40:21.000 I'll go on the way home.

01:40:22.000 But the media is saying, so listen, so I have no problem reading the criticism of me where

01:40:26.000 the guy says I'm selling fear by all means.

01:40:28.000 If that's what you think, don't listen to me.

01:40:31.000 If you think we're making good points, then maybe you should check out safeandreadymeals.com.

01:40:37.000 They sponsor the show.

01:40:38.000 It helps us produce the show.

01:40:39.000 And I genuinely think they're good products.

01:40:41.000 We have a bunch of them.

01:40:43.000 Or don't. 0.61

01:40:44.000 I could be some raving lunatic on the internet who's wrong about everything and you shouldn't listen to me. 0.92

01:40:44.000 By all means. 0.92

01:40:49.000 I'm just some guy with a camera and a bunch of other guys showed up and we talk about stuff.

01:40:52.000 If there's a problem on the horizon, don't be afraid and do not panic.

01:40:56.000 Make a decision and make it fast.

01:40:59.000 You can weather this.

01:41:01.000 There was, there's this great story where, um, I can't remember exactly what it was, but you got people listening probably know.

01:41:06.000 There were like, there's like a shipwreck and a bunch of soldiers were on a boat and they were freaking out.

01:41:10.000 And so then one soldier took out his weapon and took it apart and then gave everyone a piece and then took out a bunch of bullets and then gave everyone, everyone else a bullet. 0.96

01:41:17.000 And then said, okay, shut up. 0.92

01:41:19.000 We're going to rebuild this weapon. 0.84

01:41:20.000 And then called on people who had the right pieces at the right point.

01:41:23.000 And I was reading about, they said, psychologically, it took people out of panic mode and put them into a logical mode.

01:41:29.000 They all sort of stopped and were waiting for their cue to participate in the completion of a logical process that allowed them to plan better, calm down, and assess a situation better.

01:41:39.000 So panic is bad.

01:41:40.000 You never want to panic.

01:41:41.000 When you panic, you run into a burning building or into the direction.

01:41:44.000 So I'll give you a better example.

01:41:46.000 I was in Venezuela.

01:41:47.000 And on one side of the street, down the block, we had a bunch of Venezuelan National Guard armed with guns.

01:41:52.000 One block down, a bunch of protesters.

01:41:55.000 The protesters all start screaming and they all start running north.

01:41:59.000 I ran west because I didn't panic.

01:42:02.000 When people are in those situations and they panic, they all run in the same direction.

01:42:06.000 It's like, imagine a boulder is behind you and you're like, I better keep running straight.

01:42:09.000 Yeah, that's panicking.

01:42:11.000 You should maybe take one step to the right and let it pass you by.

01:42:13.000 Your chickens do that all the time, and you're like, just go to the left.

01:42:17.000 I'm walking to that door, and the chicken just keeps in front of you.

01:42:20.000 And you're like, go to the left or the right!

01:42:22.000 And you eventually have to stop, yeah.

01:42:24.000 Panic doesn't make you think.

01:42:25.000 It's funny, because we have this little thing for the chickens.

01:42:27.000 It's like a little fence area.

01:42:29.000 The gate is open.

01:42:31.000 And the chicken friends will all walk out and walk, they'll come out to the right where the gate is open, then go forward and turn to the left. 0.87

01:42:38.000 And then the one chicken inside is just poking its head at the fence, panicking, freaking out, not understanding why it can't get through.

01:42:44.000 And then I'm like, I can't tell the chicken, the door is there.

01:42:47.000 They're just not smart enough.

01:42:48.000 And then it just stops and just craps right where it's standing.

01:42:51.000 And I'm like, all right, you know, there's no help in these things, I guess.

01:42:54.000 You can give them food and water, but they're funny to watch.

01:42:57.000 Yeah.

01:42:58.000 That's the phenomenon of herd animals and like herding, It is weird how animals run in a pack together straightforward when they freak.

01:43:04.000 Not all of them.

01:43:05.000 Who are all these people reporting it?

01:43:06.000 If I didn't see it, it didn't happen.

01:43:07.000 false. I oversee one of the largest manufacturing plants in the world. There

01:43:10.000 is no shortage in petroleum drivers. I have thousands under my supervision. It's

01:43:14.000 a hoax. Trust me. If that's true, then what's going on?

01:43:18.000 Hey, who are all these people reporting it? If I didn't see it, it didn't happen. That's my point.

01:43:23.000 I got an idea.

01:43:24.000 I looked out the window, I didn't see a line.

01:43:25.000 There are no lines.

01:43:26.000 Hold on, hold on.

01:43:27.000 I'm gonna choose to ignore this super chat and just pretend we didn't read it.

01:43:32.000 There's a truck driver shortage, what do we do?

01:43:36.000 Well, I don't know who this person is, but...

01:43:38.000 Right.

01:43:38.000 Could have been sarcastic, that comment.

01:43:41.000 You never know.

01:43:42.000 Although, in your defense and in the article's defense, it did say particularly oil and gas truck drivers because they do need special certification and those schools were shut down.

01:43:52.000 Again, the implications of shutting everything down for COVID.

01:43:55.000 We have a clarification apparently.

01:43:57.000 So, remember what it said?

01:43:58.000 It said trucker shortage, but then it said the trucks were parked.

01:44:01.000 Right?

01:44:02.000 Not the same thing.

01:44:04.000 CJ Hansen says, truck mechanic here.

01:44:06.000 There's no driver shortage.

01:44:08.000 The emission trucks aren't reliable and fail monthly as if on schedule.

01:44:12.000 The parts aren't available and they don't run without a fully functional emission system.

01:44:16.000 Parked trucks.

01:44:18.000 Could it be a supply shortage instead?

01:44:21.000 Well, it's very similar to the chip shortage that we're facing.

01:44:23.000 I've been trying to get this computer for a long time.

01:44:25.000 We've been waiting for over a month, and I don't fault the company.

01:44:28.000 They're like, we're just sorry.

01:44:29.000 I'm like, look, we want this particular processor.

01:44:32.000 I don't want to buy a machine that's going to fail on us or just not be reliable enough as we expand because we want to do the shows outside.

01:44:36.000 So we want a good machine that can handle a lot.

01:44:39.000 And they're like, then we're gonna have to wait.

01:44:40.000 And I'm like, I guess we have to.

01:44:41.000 I guess we have to wait.

01:44:43.000 It's getting freaky out there, man.

01:44:46.000 Oscar Oliu says, NC residents do tend to panic buy.

01:44:50.000 If there is snow, there is no milk or bread the same day.

01:44:53.000 Also, sheep coin.

01:44:54.000 Sheep coin.

01:44:55.000 Go new puppy coin.

01:44:56.000 Also, used to hate Ian, but he's grown on me.

01:44:58.000 Down with the Fed.

01:44:59.000 I think Shiba Inu is a token, not a coin.

01:45:02.000 In which case, I say, at least Dogecoin is an actual coin.

01:45:09.000 Tokens operate, they're ERC20 tokens, they operate on Ethereum, and people can just like snap their fingers and there's like a million of them.

01:45:16.000 There's gonna be 370 trillion Shiba tokens, I think.

01:45:19.000 370 trillion?

01:45:20.000 Some trillion.

01:45:21.000 It's in the trillions, the amount they're gonna print.

01:45:22.000 It's a lot.

01:45:23.000 It's like... It's a big number.

01:45:24.000 A thousand times more.

01:45:26.000 Look, it's people just trying to... I don't think Dogecoin is the greatest coin ever.

01:45:30.000 Doge, yeah.

01:45:30.000 Because Doge, it's just gonna keep making, they're gonna keep making more, it's inflationary, I get that.

01:45:35.000 But it is, at least still, to a certain degree, decentralized.

01:45:39.000 There's not a lot of infrastructure happening on it.

01:45:40.000 There's not a lot of work being done on it.

01:45:42.000 But these tokens, man, I don't know about that.

01:45:44.000 It's humor.

01:45:44.000 The human and humor, like it's part of what we are.

01:45:47.000 So Dogecoin is like, it's like a comedy coin.

01:45:49.000 So crazy.

01:45:50.000 This world, dude.

01:45:53.000 Yeah, another person, A.I.

01:45:54.000 says, or says Al, there is no truck driver shortage.

01:45:58.000 Regulations make the job very frustrating.

01:46:00.000 I'm about to get my license suspended over my logbook.

01:46:02.000 Time to leave.

01:46:03.000 Wow.

01:46:04.000 It's almost like policy is shutting this stuff down.

01:46:07.000 Exactly.

01:46:07.000 This is the power of government regulation.

01:46:09.000 This is when we need adaptability.

01:46:11.000 Disasters.

01:46:12.000 Freedom.

01:46:14.000 Federalism.

01:46:15.000 That's right.

01:46:16.000 Ayla Gaming Channel says, Ayla Gaming Channel, I watched yesterday's live and you were talking about UBI.

01:46:22.000 I'm not really a huge Yang fan anymore but every time you mention UBI it shows you don't really know much about his actual policy or you just choose not to know.

01:46:29.000 I disagree.

01:46:30.000 I think I know a decent amount because I followed him extensively and donated to him a lot and I understand his policy position.

01:46:35.000 It's a thousand bucks a month for every American and they forego other welfare in exchange for this UBI.

01:46:41.000 The problem is there are a lot of people who just want money.

01:46:44.000 I've heard he's gonna he wanted to put a VAT tax on corporations.

01:46:48.000 So like at every point in the supply chain, the cotton is grown and shipped to the cotton

01:46:53.000 manufacturer. There's a there's a tax taken out. That's part of the value.

01:46:55.000 Then the manufacturer ships it to the store. There's a value added tax taken out.

01:46:59.000 Then the store sells it to the person. There's a value added tax taken out.

01:47:01.000 But then what's going to happen? The concern is that if he puts that in place,

01:47:05.000 the corporations are going to raise the prices to compensate for that tax.

01:47:09.000 so the cost of the product is going to go up and and then he

01:47:12.000 Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.

01:47:12.000 Yes!

01:47:13.000 and then eventually a thousand bucks can't buy anything anymore and so then

01:47:16.000 people say a thousand isn't enough we need two thousand there's two thousand

01:47:18.000 and then here we go that you'd have to dictate that the corporations can't

01:47:22.000 raise their prices which is like fascist you don't want the government the yes

01:47:26.000 sorry I mean to cut you off you're right Otherwise, I love the concept, but man, I don't even like job economy and money.

01:47:35.000 I think we're headed towards a better place.

01:47:37.000 I mean, it is a myth to think that the corporations pay corporate taxes.

01:47:41.000 Biden keeps talking about we're going to raise the corporate tax rate.

01:47:43.000 Do they really think that like Ford Motor Company is like, oh boy, guys, we're not going to make as much money this year.

01:47:48.000 We've got to pay a higher tax bill.

01:47:49.000 Or are they just going to jack up the price of every single car?

01:47:52.000 They're not going to pay taxes.

01:47:53.000 Or go to Mexico.

01:47:56.000 My biggest problem with Yang, if I could just say really fast, I was home for Mother's Day in New York City, where my family is from, where I was born and raised, blah, blah, blah.

01:48:02.000 I saw a lot of his commercials on TV.

01:48:05.000 I don't like UBI, but I hate the fact that his commercials are about, we're gonna invest in kids and make a better tomorrow, and UBI, and I'm like, have you looked around New York?

01:48:15.000 That is not the problems facing New York, Eric Yang, and Andrew Yang, or anyone else running for mayor.

01:48:22.000 It was just total disconnect, sorry.

01:48:24.000 Dr. Doctor says, Climate change is to Democrats what 9-11 was to Republicans.

01:48:29.000 For Dems, it is a vehicle to gain control of industry.

01:48:31.000 For Republicans, it was a vehicle to trample on personal privacy rights.

01:48:34.000 Instead of UBI, what about negative income tax by Milton Friedman?

01:48:38.000 Perhaps.

01:48:39.000 Here's a good one.

01:48:40.000 7omcruise says, What is your opinion on thorium molten salt reactor?

01:48:45.000 Holy cow! 0.96

01:48:46.000 I don't really have an opinion on that.

01:48:48.000 I consider myself a pretty well-versed expert on fossil fuels and on renewables, but that is outside of my pay grade, so I apologize.

01:48:58.000 I'm not going to be able to answer that.

01:49:00.000 My general understanding is that they're excellent new technologies that will generate a massive return on energy invested better than... I don't think it's better than petroleum, right?

01:49:09.000 Nuclear?

01:49:10.000 Yeah.

01:49:11.000 It's not, but it is really high.

01:49:12.000 And the other thing, the only thing I know about thorium is that it's one of those things that for 40 years we've been talking about, but no one's ever seemed to have been able to bring it to market.

01:49:19.000 Well, there's regulations.

01:49:21.000 They're asking me to talk about it on the show.

01:49:22.000 I get messages.

01:49:23.000 I think it's not radioactive, but it gets hot, so you can use it to melt salt and boil salt, which will then cause steam and crank turbines, and the salt doesn't evaporate like water does.

01:49:33.000 Interesting.

01:49:33.000 And then we could desalinate water and use that salt to fill tanks, but there'd be dirt, brine, and other things, so we'd have to purify it.

01:49:40.000 Yeah, interesting.

01:49:41.000 All right, let's see what we got here.

01:49:42.000 Balian says, Tim, I have friends that worked on Keystone.

01:49:45.000 A lot of those leaks were thought to be due to sabotage people who would come by.

01:49:50.000 Drill halfway into the pipe, and when it was turned on, it would blow the rest of the way through.

01:49:54.000 And I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

01:49:57.000 Absolutely believe it.

01:49:57.000 No, eco-terrorism is a real problem.

01:49:59.000 It's been a problem for 30 years in this country.

01:50:01.000 Yep. 1.00

01:50:02.000 Because people are just dumb. 1.00

01:50:03.000 There was a post, I'm not going to name the organization, where they wrote an anonymous article on how to derail trains. 1.00

01:50:09.000 It's like, oh, great. 1.00

01:50:11.000 They're just lunatics. 1.00

01:50:11.000 That's stuff. 1.00

01:50:14.000 I played Civilization 2 and one of the units was the Eco-Terrorist.

01:50:17.000 I was like, what?

01:50:18.000 That's horrible.

01:50:18.000 But then I was like, well, these nuclear plants are causing all this pollution and they want to stop the pollution.

01:50:22.000 So they kind of made them seem like the good guy.

01:50:24.000 Oh, they always do.

01:50:25.000 Yeah.

01:50:26.000 Why are they called terrorists?

01:50:27.000 Because they're blowing stuff up.

01:50:29.000 Always good to blow up a nuclear plant.

01:50:31.000 Yeah.

01:50:32.000 That was the Final Fantasy 7.

01:50:34.000 You played as an Eco-Terrorist in that game.

01:50:36.000 It was like super popular game.

01:50:37.000 And this is why we're losing the culture war.

01:50:43.000 Butcher says, as former private contractor, just having a gun for protection is silly.

01:50:43.000 L.B.

01:50:48.000 Look up James Yeager, modern minute man.

01:50:50.000 You need to feed the rifle with love.

01:50:53.000 All right.

01:50:56.000 Let's see where we're at here.

01:50:59.000 True in and on a shabbat of pressure, Betacafcare says, they are never going to sell me on destroying our country because of climate change when they won't say anything about China.

01:51:06.000 I hear you.

01:51:07.000 Greatest username ever.

01:51:11.000 I'm not a Republican.

01:51:12.000 I get called the token Republican a lot, but I don't think I am a Republican.

01:51:14.000 How do you identify politically?

01:51:15.000 dangerous. Your staff and guest is well said. You don't have to be a Republican. You just have to be a loving

01:51:21.000 person to see." 0.80

01:51:22.000 I'm not a Republican. I get called the token Republican a lot, but I don't think I am a Republican.

01:51:28.000 How do you identify politically? What do you do?

01:51:30.000 I guess if I had to call myself something, I would like to call myself a Federalist.

01:51:34.000 I mean, they existed back at the beginning of the country, but I truly believe in federalism and the most local, all power as concentrated at the localist level possible.

01:51:45.000 Federalist does not mean you empower the federal government, it means you empower the local government.

01:51:49.000 Yeah, it's the principle under which our country was supposed to be founded and which we lived for a long time until the Civil War and then we concentrated everything in DC because we were afraid of states going rogue again and then we built on that and built on that and then you got an FDR and then you got a Lyndon Johnson and you got a George Bush and here we are.

01:52:10.000 Yeah.

01:52:11.000 Degol says, hybrid vehicle technology, diesel generator in a car driving electric motors

01:52:15.000 through a generator.

01:52:16.000 Less fuel than internal combustion, but allows electric vehicle tech to develop alongside

01:52:20.000 fossil fuel phase-out instead of instant industry destruction.

01:52:24.000 That sounds like you'd lose energy though.

01:52:27.000 Because you're converting it two steps.

01:52:30.000 Instead of using the combustion immediately for mechanical energy, for kinetic energy, you're converting it to electricity with mechanical energy and then to electromagnetic force, it seems like.

01:52:40.000 And in every conversion you lose a large percentage of potential energy.

01:52:48.000 I love you.

01:52:49.000 But he's not a racist.

01:52:49.000 I heard your comment the other night. I am that fat truck driver from Dubuque you mentioned and I am not racist

01:52:54.000 I thought you would like to know so I just was like shouted out like, you know

01:52:57.000 The working-class guy is like a fat truck driver from Dubuque and they're calling him a white supremacist because he

01:53:01.000 voted for Trump But he's not a racist, but he's but he's not that's the 0.96

01:53:04.000 point. It's like a regular working-class guy He's like not a racist what the Democrats say is

01:53:08.000 Samuel Eddie says we will build communist crushing robots with capitalist steel

01:53:19.000 It's proven that it's better quality and higher tech, and we can get paid to do it.

01:53:23.000 What was Liberty Prime from Fallout 3?

01:53:28.000 You're looking the wrong way, Tim.

01:53:30.000 I don't game.

01:53:31.000 I'm sorry.

01:53:32.000 In Fallout 3, to fight the communists, the US built a giant robot called Liberty Prime, and it's like yelling things about crushing communists.

01:53:39.000 It's a giant robot.

01:53:40.000 Nice.

01:53:40.000 It's hilarious.

01:53:41.000 Best robot ever.

01:53:42.000 Let's build it.

01:53:43.000 That's right.

01:53:46.000 Someone may have done it.

01:53:48.000 Redoubt Production says, Daniel, thoughts on nuclear energy going forward in the U.S.?

01:53:52.000 I don't get why green energy people reject nuclear so hard.

01:53:55.000 It seems to be a bridge to their goal to get pure green.

01:53:58.000 Why ignore nuclear entirely?

01:54:00.000 Isn't it crazy how, like, in the Green New Deal, nuclear energy is also banned?

01:54:04.000 Like, the Green Movement does not consider nuclear to be green.

01:54:08.000 Well, it's because it's a solution to their problem.

01:54:10.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:54:11.000 Look, I always go to the example of France that gets around 90% of their electricity from nuclear power.

01:54:11.000 That's true.

01:54:18.000 And if the French can do it, no offense to France, the French can do it, America certainly could do it.

01:54:23.000 I think the concern is meltdowns of corium.

01:54:26.000 So it's like the type of nuclear, because there's fusion, there's thorium, those are both nuclear reactions, nuclear power, but when you have like uranium nuclear power that melts down and the corium burns through the melts through the stone casing into the earth and then into the dirt and goes into the radioactive... Thorium salt doesn't do that, though.

01:54:43.000 Yeah, thorium doesn't do that, but I think they're afraid of uranium nuclear power because of the meltdown capability.

01:54:50.000 I've talked to so many nuclear engineers who say that nuclear capability now is nothing the way it was 30, 40, 50 years ago, but we've never been able to build it.

01:54:58.000 But we have, but only for the military.

01:55:01.000 We have nuclear-powered military ships.

01:55:02.000 Why can't we have nuclear-powered cruise ships? 0.97

01:55:04.000 It's illegal.

01:55:06.000 Alright, Robert Gonzalez says, if blue states are spending their money in red states, that's taking cash flow out of the blue and adding it to the red state.

01:55:13.000 Wouldn't that strengthen the circulatory cash flow in the red state?

01:55:16.000 No, because what happens is, the red states are working and producing things, the blue states aren't, and then the blue states get money printed by the government to go and extract the value from the people working in the red states, and then, once all of the money is out of the blue states, they'll cry again, and the government will print more money and give it to them, and then they'll go to the red states where they're doing hard work, and keep taking from them.

01:55:37.000 And there you go, that's the cycle.

01:55:39.000 It's not that simple, mind you, but, you know, there you go.

01:55:42.000 I love, again, the left is like the cities are, we're generating the GDP. 1.00

01:55:45.000 Just because your cost of living is so high and you write stupid articles about Brad Pitt's junk 0.99

01:55:49.000 does not mean you are producing things, sorry. 1.00

01:55:51.000 I guess technically that is a product. It's not one I think we need.

01:55:54.000 This episode should be called Brad Pitt's Junk.

01:55:57.000 It's a go-to mockery I do for New York media. 0.99

01:56:01.000 You know, seven times your cheeseburger looked like Brad Pitt's junk. 0.92

01:56:04.000 I just watched a clip from Legends of the Fall last night. 0.93

01:56:07.000 You guys ever see that movie, Legends of the Fall?

01:56:10.000 And each page is only one photo, you gotta click next every time.

01:56:14.000 Pop-up ad, like 37 clicks in one article.

01:56:17.000 Yeah, because every other click is an ad and then it's like...

01:56:22.000 Hey, Dan Lamar says Sean Parnell announces bid for PA's 2022 U.S.

01:56:26.000 Senate seat.

01:56:27.000 That guy's awesome.

01:56:28.000 Yeah, Sean Parnell's great.

01:56:29.000 You had him on the show?

01:56:30.000 Twice?

01:56:31.000 Three times?

01:56:32.000 Sean's a cool dude.

01:56:34.000 Huge fan.

01:56:37.000 I've never met him.

01:56:37.000 Huge fan.

01:56:38.000 Yeah, definitely.

01:56:39.000 He'd be great.

01:56:40.000 One of the few candidates I actually contributed to last cycle.

01:56:43.000 His ad was amazing.

01:56:44.000 Walking through the warehouse or whatever.

01:56:46.000 Like the Dollar Shave Club model.

01:56:49.000 Dollar Sean Club.

01:56:52.000 Big fan. Oh, I'm like a fanboy.

01:56:54.000 Yeah, that's so clever.

01:56:55.000 I love it.

01:56:56.000 All right, here we go.

01:56:57.000 We got Joe Sullivan says, I'm a trucker working the road right now.

01:57:00.000 Truckers aren't worried about the fuel shortage.

01:57:02.000 We can get fuel from farther out to make sure we have enough.

01:57:05.000 Tell people to not worry about getting food and fuel.

01:57:08.000 Tell them to get the hell out of my way.

01:57:10.000 Yeah.

01:57:11.000 That's fair.

01:57:11.000 There you go.

01:57:13.000 Very fair.

01:57:14.000 Brony Ninja says, you should check out Dungeon Full Dive on Kickstarter.

01:57:19.000 It brings, It looks to bring D&D to VR.

01:57:22.000 They're blowing past stretch goals regularly.

01:57:24.000 I've backed it for $1,200 and I'll have a painting of myself in the lobby for my reward tier.

01:57:30.000 Wow!

01:57:31.000 That might be fun.

01:57:32.000 Alright.

01:57:33.000 Sounds amazing.

01:57:34.000 Shark Lunch says, Ian, Hammurabi was an a-hole.

01:57:37.000 Ruined women's rights. 1.00

01:57:38.000 Gudea was the better Mesopotamian king.

01:57:40.000 I didn't know that, thank you.

01:57:41.000 Oh, interesting.

01:57:43.000 Yeah, sometimes the greatest kings were not good people.

01:57:46.000 But they're remembered for what they did, not how they acted.

01:57:50.000 I guess technically it's similar.

01:57:52.000 What you do is how you act.

01:57:53.000 Yeah.

01:57:54.000 CWG aka Jeremiah says while hitchhiking I heard about all of this going down and I didn't want to go into the next

01:58:00.000 town because I thought I'd be killed but I always needed more water now.

01:58:04.000 I'm thinking about going out hitchhiking again. Good luck if you do

01:58:07.000 I mean, I don't know if you're supposed to do that.

01:58:09.000 You can't hitchhike or something?

01:58:09.000 Isn't it, like, illegal?

01:58:10.000 You know what I thought a good movie script would be?

01:58:12.000 People in post-apocalypse looking for water and they have to go deep underground in, like, deep caves to search for it.

01:58:19.000 Are the sea people there?

01:58:20.000 Yes, of course they are.

01:58:20.000 Yeah, something like that.

01:58:21.000 Sea people? 0.96

01:58:22.000 I want to learn more about the sea people.

01:58:23.000 Oh, it's crazy!

01:58:25.000 I've never heard of them.

01:58:25.000 Terrifying.

01:58:26.000 Okay, I gotta look them up.

01:58:28.000 Jeffrey Grunt says, there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

01:58:31.000 Don't you mean Who Is John Galt?

01:58:32.000 Yeah.

01:58:33.000 Yes, that too.

01:58:34.000 There is no war in Galt's Gulch.

01:58:36.000 There are five lights?

01:58:38.000 There are four lights in Galt's Gulch where there's no war.

01:58:38.000 There are four lights.

01:58:41.000 There you go.

01:58:43.000 Grand Takis says, the labor shortage is hard in the carpenter field.

01:58:47.000 I'm 19 and I haven't seen anyone my age work in the field.

01:58:49.000 I started when I was 12 working with my dad.

01:58:51.000 I worked all across Southern Ohio and the youngest man I saw on the field was 22.

01:58:54.000 Check this out.

01:58:57.000 They're giving people $16 an hour not to work.

01:59:01.000 That means there are a lot of people who should be working, who are young and need to start developing these skills.

01:59:07.000 There is a year where there's going to be a gap in basic trade skills.

01:59:13.000 You think that's just gonna just disappear?

01:59:14.000 No, no, no.

01:59:15.000 What do you think is gonna happen in 10 years?

01:59:17.000 We're gonna have stunted trades.

01:59:19.000 We're gonna have a period where it's like, who's gonna fix your toilet?

01:59:21.000 Who's gonna build your house? 1.00

01:59:23.000 Or repair the damage to your house?

01:59:24.000 Or who's gonna help fix your car?

01:59:26.000 And the people who should be learning how to do this didn't work.

01:59:28.000 They skipped that year, maybe even two years.

01:59:30.000 Look what's going on.

01:59:31.000 It's still it's still happening.

01:59:32.000 Two generations.

01:59:33.000 It's concerning.

01:59:34.000 Not two generations, just two years.

01:59:37.000 It compounds.

01:59:37.000 So if you don't know what you're doing next year, it's going to be harder to get better.

01:59:41.000 You kind of almost take a step back if you don't go forward.

01:59:44.000 Yeah, I'm really worried about these kids who are missing school.

01:59:46.000 That's really going to affect them in the future.

01:59:48.000 Oh, absolutely.

01:59:49.000 Yeah, I hope they're okay.

01:59:50.000 It's like all these parents that force their kids to play soccer, and the kid just wanted to learn how to play the violin.

01:59:55.000 Right.

01:59:56.000 And now we have all these fat kids playing soccer, and we are missing a whole crop of violin players.

02:00:00.000 It's like, but my son plays soccer.

02:00:00.000 Yep.

02:00:00.000 Right?

02:00:02.000 Put him in the darn violin! 0.99

02:00:03.000 So yes, we're like, now we will miss all these trade, because we sent them off to go get an economics degree. 0.99

02:00:09.000 I don't want to be an economics degree.

02:00:10.000 I want to be a carpenter.

02:00:11.000 Uh-huh.

02:00:12.000 Can't do that.

02:00:13.000 Big Red says, can confirm gas is scarce in Tennessee.

02:00:16.000 Premium and diesel only at every gas station in my town outside of Nashville.

02:00:20.000 More because of panic buying than anything else, I'm sure.

02:00:20.000 Wow.

02:00:22.000 Yeah.

02:00:24.000 I mean, yeah.

02:00:26.000 Kevin, Land of Verity says, Ian is the poor man's Alex Jones.

02:00:29.000 LOL.

02:00:29.000 I love Alex.

02:00:30.000 The poor man's?

02:00:31.000 That's a compliment.

02:00:32.000 So good.

02:00:32.000 Well, Alex is very wealthy.

02:00:34.000 I love Alex.

02:00:35.000 There you go.

02:00:37.000 AR says solar panels are more environmentally harmful than nuclear, produce more toxic waste metals.

02:00:43.000 Manufacturing them releases NF3, which is a thousand times worse than CO2.

02:00:48.000 Wow.

02:00:49.000 Boom.

02:00:51.000 There is no perfect energy, but let's just have that conversation.

02:00:54.000 NF3, is that what they said?

02:00:56.000 NF3?

02:00:57.000 Nitrogen fluoride?

02:00:58.000 Perfect energy!

02:00:59.000 What would perfect energy be?

02:01:00.000 Yeah, we're all looking for it, but we talk about solar and wind like it's flawless and a perfect solution, and it's not.

02:01:06.000 They have drawbacks.

02:01:07.000 Fossil fuels have drawbacks.

02:01:09.000 We live in the real world.

02:01:10.000 We don't live in fantasy land.

02:01:11.000 It's called nitrogen trifluoride.

02:01:14.000 TomJustTom says, Diesel electric hybrids are more efficient than mechanical drivetrains.

02:01:19.000 Regenerative braking as energy saved, see trains.

02:01:22.000 Stored power in batteries and surface area for solar.

02:01:26.000 Interesting.

02:01:27.000 I like it.

02:01:27.000 I love it.

02:01:27.000 I have Prius.

02:01:28.000 I went from getting like 16 miles a gallon to 42 in Los Angeles.

02:01:34.000 All right, so we'll just do one more here.

02:01:35.000 We got Babida says, Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector YouTuber.

02:01:42.000 Please get her on here. 1.00

02:01:43.000 Call Joe Rogan and get her on there as well.

02:01:45.000 A lot of people are always telling me like, Tim, call Joe Rogan.

02:01:47.000 I can't just call Joe Rogan and be like, Joe, hey, here's your list of guests for this month.

02:01:51.000 It doesn't work.

02:01:52.000 That's not how things happen.

02:01:53.000 I would like to have Miss Park on though. 0.99

02:01:55.000 But that'd be cool, absolutely, especially in the event where there's any more escalation or conflict happening.

02:02:01.000 But alright, let's see if we can just grab one more super chat.

02:02:07.000 Okay, just a simple question here from Rick Bird.

02:02:08.000 He says, have you talked about what's happening?

02:02:11.000 What have you talked about?

02:02:12.000 What me happening in Israel?

02:02:14.000 I mean, what is happening in Israel?

02:02:15.000 Only very a little only a little bit.

02:02:17.000 I am not the biggest expert or anything like that.

02:02:19.000 We mentioned the 13 story building crumbling down and a lot of people are freaking out about that.

02:02:24.000 It's not just people on the left.

02:02:26.000 I'm even seeing like defenders of it's interesting right now.

02:02:31.000 A lot of the pro-Palestinian crowd on Twitter are condemning Hamas and saying like the Palestinians are suffering.

02:02:36.000 And I think it's right.

02:02:37.000 I think it's the actions of bad people.

02:02:39.000 And then a lot of people at the same time are criticizing Israel for knocking down a 13-story residential building to go after some of these extremists.

02:02:45.000 It's not a pretty situation, man.

02:02:47.000 It's hard to deal with.

02:02:48.000 What's the gist?

02:02:49.000 I was reading a little about it.

02:02:50.000 Someone fired rockets.

02:02:51.000 Yeah, Hamas fired just a volley.

02:02:52.000 The rockets.

02:02:53.000 These videos are insane, man.

02:02:55.000 I know I've had friends in Israel tell me the stories when they're like sitting down in their bedroom and all of a sudden they hear explosions and the air raid sirens go off and they can see the shrapnel.

02:03:05.000 They have like Iron Dome.

02:03:06.000 The Iron Dome defense is basically they fire missiles at the missiles.

02:03:10.000 And then they just unload and retaliate.

02:03:12.000 And they're not completely effective.

02:03:13.000 It's not even like retaliation.

02:03:14.000 No, they go after the missile sites.

02:03:16.000 And then the missile sites.

02:03:17.000 And they'll hide the missile sites in like residential areas.

02:03:20.000 Schools and hospitals and things like that.

02:03:22.000 So it's complicated, man.

02:03:24.000 It's hard.

02:03:25.000 Missiles could be like a shoulder mounted.

02:03:26.000 Do they do shoulder mounted?

02:03:28.000 I mean, I don't think so.

02:03:28.000 No, I don't think.

02:03:29.000 No, these are these are pretty intense rockets that are traveling like 70 miles or more.

02:03:33.000 And they're getting more and more advanced.

02:03:35.000 I do have one question, Tim.

02:03:36.000 Wasn't Palestine having a hard time getting the vaccine because they didn't have funding?

02:03:40.000 Because they seem to have a lot of rockets for somebody who doesn't have any funding.

02:03:44.000 Well, there's a big difference between the Palestinian people who are in, you know, crisis and the terror groups who are smuggling weapons in from Iran and things like that or, you know, funded by.

02:03:53.000 All right, so we'll leave it there.

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Timcast IRL - State Of Emergency EXPANDS, Truckers Fear Supply Shortages With No Gas w-Daniel Turner

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