Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - The Afghan War Is OVER, Biden Leaves Americans Behind w-Libby Emmons

00:00:00.000 Peace.

00:00:17.000 It is officially the end of the Afghan war as declared by the United States.

00:00:23.000 I don't think it's fair to say that the war is officially over in a certain sense because there's still going to be very serious conflict between warring factions.

00:00:31.000 There are still Americans being left behind.

00:00:34.000 Many people are criticizing Joe Biden because he promised this wouldn't be the case and now they're saying it will be the case.

00:00:39.000 There's a lot to discuss there.

00:00:41.000 And I do think we're dealing with some very serious problems and obviously a very serious crisis.

00:00:46.000 But I'm not convinced, you know, it's fair to say that the U.S.

00:00:49.000 has finally ended the war so much as they just abruptly left mid-evacuation because the Taliban has overrun the Kabul airport and they can no longer maintain the position.

00:00:58.000 So sure, the war is over.

00:01:00.000 A resounding defeat that will lead to chaos.

00:01:04.000 And I'll tell you, when you see these videos, Taliban flying helicopters, walking through the airports, do you think they will be able to maintain that infrastructure and that economy?

00:01:14.000 No.

00:01:15.000 I think Afghanistan is going to start to look like Syria really soon, but far be it from me to actually be an expert. 0.91

00:01:20.000 I mean, to act like I'm an expert on this.

00:01:23.000 We are but humble internet people complaining about things and we've not been over there.

00:01:27.000 So we definitely, you know, we've had some veterans in the past, but we'll talk about the best of our abilities because certainly we're allowed to have opinions.

00:01:33.000 But I want to make sure that's clear.

00:01:34.000 I don't think anyone here is going to pretend to be an expert having deployed or actually experienced any of this stuff.

00:01:40.000 So take it with a grain of salt.

00:01:42.000 There's a lot of other stuff we can talk about too, which we will get into, but we got to talk about Afghanistan.

00:01:47.000 Joining us today is the wonderful Libby Emmons.

00:01:49.000 Hi.

00:01:50.000 Do you want to introduce yourself?

00:01:51.000 I'm Libby Emmons.

00:01:52.000 I'm the Editor-in-Chief with the Postmillennial.

00:01:54.000 Glad to be here.

00:01:55.000 Right on.

00:01:55.000 Welcome back.

00:01:55.000 Thanks.

00:01:56.000 Sup, Libby? 1.00

00:01:57.000 How's it going?

00:01:58.000 I'm concerned about this Afghan. 1.00

00:01:59.000 I'm concerned a couple things.

00:02:01.000 One is the way that it's been framed that we completed the withdrawal when it looks like we just stopped.

00:02:06.000 It didn't look like anything got completed.

00:02:08.000 It just ended with this what seems like an arbitrary outdate of the 31st.

00:02:12.000 I don't understand why he would...

00:02:13.000 Rush things out, leave all this equipment behind, and leave our allies behind?

00:02:18.000 The leaving of the equipment behind, I think, is pretty egregious.

00:02:22.000 Also, the shuttering of the Air Force Base, instead of keeping that open and not having to go through the civilian airport.

00:02:30.000 That seems like that was really poorly thought out as well.

00:02:32.000 A lot of people are saying it feels intentional and feels as different from it is, but people have their opinions.

00:02:40.000 I wonder that it's really intentional or that it was just sheer incompetence, which is sort of what I'm leaning towards.

00:02:46.000 I don't know.

00:02:47.000 We'll talk about it because I don't know if I agree.

00:02:49.000 Okay.

00:02:49.000 Yeah, we'll talk about it, especially after Trump's latest comments.

00:02:52.000 Oh, those are good, I hear.

00:02:52.000 Yeah.

00:02:54.000 Oh, yeah.

00:02:55.000 Well, let me before.

00:02:56.000 He's always got something to say.

00:02:58.000 Lydia!

00:02:59.000 I am also in the corner!

00:03:00.000 Yeah, I was like, what's next?

00:03:02.000 What's gonna happen next?

00:03:03.000 I cannot make up my mind if it's incompetence or malice.

00:03:06.000 It's always kind of a flip of the coin with the Biden administration.

00:03:11.000 I'm hoping it's incompetence, but the sheer volume of stuff that we left there for our actual enemies is really disheartening.

00:03:17.000 Yeah, it could be abject failure.

00:03:20.000 Could be.

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00:04:32.000 Let's jump into this first big story.

00:04:34.000 We've got the lead from Daily Mail.

00:04:37.000 Pentagon confirms the last U.S.

00:04:39.000 troops and evacuation flights have left Afghanistan just after midnight in Kabul.

00:04:45.000 Taliban take control of airport and celebrate with gunfire as 20-year war ends.

00:04:52.000 There's, there's so much to go through.

00:04:54.000 First of all, you know, Ian, you just mentioned in the intro that it doesn't feel like they've completed the withdrawal.

00:05:00.000 They just stopped withdrawing, like stopped evacuating people and just bounced out.

00:05:04.000 Yeah.

00:05:04.000 The way this, even the statement, this title that you just read off is phrases that the last American troops left, is that the last ones that are going to be leaving are gone now?

00:05:12.000 Or is that the last of all of them?

00:05:14.000 And they're, they're not clear.

00:05:15.000 I don't know if people They're very intentionally not clear.

00:05:18.000 They won't let you know how many Americans are left behind.

00:05:20.000 They won't let you know if they decided to stay on purpose or if they just didn't get in contact with these people.

00:05:28.000 And then you've also seen in the past like week or two, you've seen people saying on Twitter like, I let somebody use my WhatsApp to get a visa at one point and now I'm getting messages via WhatsApp on their behalf.

00:05:42.000 Are they getting the messages or am I just getting the messages?

00:05:44.000 You know, these kinds of things.

00:05:45.000 What's up with this WhatsApp thing?

00:05:47.000 And it's hard to have any idea what's going on.

00:05:49.000 The administration is not being transparent about it at all.

00:05:53.000 And you can see that in the questioning that they've been, the questions they've been taking.

00:05:58.000 What's up with this WhatsApp thing?

00:06:00.000 Someone let's...

00:06:01.000 Yeah, or maybe it was, I think it was actually an email.

00:06:04.000 So a person put on Twitter, I wish I had it, but it was one of these things that's on Twitter.

00:06:08.000 So it's not like you can figure out exactly what the truth is.

00:06:11.000 And the amount of things that I've been getting from people on Twitter that are like, here's video.

00:06:16.000 A bunch of people getting shot inside the Kabul airport and it's like, you know, I track through that person, I track through that person, track through everybody and then you eventually talk to someone who is unwilling to go on the record and you're like, okay, well this story is not going to ever get out if I can't verify who these people are and what's going on.

00:06:33.000 So yeah it was somebody had said I let a friend use my email address to receive visa information.

00:06:40.000 I'm getting notifications now about how it's time to leave Afghanistan.

00:06:44.000 Are they getting these notifications as well?

00:06:46.000 So I don't think it's fair to say the war is over.

00:06:49.000 Because, well, unless the press just stops covering it entirely now and says, yay, Biden, you did it, and starts clapping.

00:06:56.000 I think the Atlantic wrote the article, or it was in the Atlantic, that Biden deserves credit, not criticism.

00:07:02.000 I'm like, no, he deserves criticism.

00:07:03.000 But the reason I say it's not over is there's still, I mean, at least estimates here from the Daily Mail, 100 to 200 Americans are still in Afghanistan, as well as our Afghan allies.

00:07:11.000 So do you think that in the coming days that we're going to hear news about American hostages?

00:07:17.000 I've been wondering about this as well, if we're going to have repeats of these kind of videos that we saw previously.

00:07:23.000 You know, these beheading videos, these hostage videos.

00:07:26.000 What's going to happen with that?

00:07:29.000 There was a clip that came out over the weekend.

00:07:31.000 It was Taliban soldiers in a TV studio with a TV anchor, and the anchor was saying what the Taliban told them to say.

00:07:39.000 You know, everything's going great.

00:07:43.000 I don't think we have any idea what's going on.

00:07:44.000 And the fact that we were engaged in a war for this long in a place that has destroyed empires before us was already absurd.

00:07:53.000 Yeah, that one I find particularly humorous that people, you know, have mentioned, hey, all of these empires kind of faltered after Afghanistan fiasco.

00:08:01.000 But I'll tell you, I'll tell you back to the point about the war not being over.

00:08:05.000 I'm watching this video clip of the Taliban walking through the airport and there's like helicopters and planes.

00:08:10.000 It's not just the military equipment they received.

00:08:12.000 It's the civilian equipment that's left behind by those evacuating.

00:08:15.000 Right.

00:08:16.000 That's all resources.

00:08:17.000 Trucks, there's something like 40,000 SUVs they've received.

00:08:20.000 And I'll tell you why it's not over.

00:08:22.000 You think the Taliban coming in, I don't care if it's the Taliban or any government, honestly, although the Taliban would be markedly worse, you think they're gonna be able to maintain the power? 0.55

00:08:32.000 They're gonna be able to maintain the infrastructure, the economy, the natural resources?

00:08:37.000 Homes are going to lose electricity overnight.

00:08:39.000 How many days do we have until all of a sudden the power goes out?

00:08:41.000 Well also they're already fighting with, they have ideological battles with this other terrorist organization.

00:08:48.000 Yeah.

00:08:48.000 Right, ISIS-K.

00:08:49.000 There was actually a clip, I don't know, I hope I didn't tell you guys this already, but Jack Kerouac went on the William F. Buckley show in I guess the 60s or 70s, whenever it was, and Kerouac said that he thought the Vietnam War was a conspiracy between the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese, who in his words were cousins.

00:09:09.000 to get a lot of Jeeps in the country.

00:09:12.000 And Buckley said, well, you know, I don't think it went too well for them.

00:09:15.000 And Kerouac said, I don't know.

00:09:16.000 They got a lot of Jeeps.

00:09:17.000 Yeah.

00:09:18.000 So, well, they've got a lot of American equipment.

00:09:22.000 Have you seen the before and after footage from like Idlib or Aleppo, you know, in Syria and things like that?

00:09:28.000 Oh, yeah.

00:09:29.000 I mean, that was a while ago.

00:09:30.000 A while ago, for sure.

00:09:31.000 I remember, you know, you're looking at these at these photos, particularly like Aleppo.

00:09:34.000 and it's and it's amazing this beautiful city and there's like the colors oversaturated because people are trying to purposely evoke emotion and but you see the trees you see the buildings the people and then it's like the syrian civil war it's rubble it's brown rubble i don't know if it's going to get that bad in afghanistan necessarily but i i person my personal opinion which is based off of just what we're seeing right now and a lot of things could change because i can't see the future i think it might get to that point You have no clear command structure.

00:10:01.000 It's a group of people who are fighting against the U.S.

00:10:04.000 And now, sure, sure, sure, let me say this.

00:10:06.000 You have some command structure, right?

00:10:08.000 There's people who are in charge.

00:10:09.000 But in order to maintain a country, let alone a city, you need massive managerial infrastructure, which they do not have.

00:10:18.000 So all of a sudden, you're gonna have some dude, and he's gonna be at a factory that makes, I don't know, plastic lids or something, whatever they might need.

00:10:24.000 And he's gonna be like, I don't know where any of this stuff comes from.

00:10:26.000 And he's going to go to the guy who works there and says, oh, we order from this other company, but no one's there right now or something like that.

00:10:31.000 The power company, people's going to leave already.

00:10:35.000 Things are going to shut down.

00:10:36.000 The guy who ran their central bank fled.

00:10:38.000 So now there's no like, as much as I don't like central banking, there's still like the system has been gutted from the inside.

00:10:38.000 Right.

00:10:45.000 So what's going to happen?

00:10:47.000 With no food, people are going to go nuts and it's going to start breaking down and it's going to get brutal.

00:10:52.000 It does beg the question, what is America's responsibility to nations that can't handle their own governance?

00:11:00.000 We certainly stepped in in Europe all over the place, but is that the kind of thing that people want from us and other countries?

00:11:07.000 I think it's pretty clear that the people in Afghanistan don't want that. 0.99

00:11:11.000 They don't want the U.S. 0.73

00:11:12.000 determining their Government structure or you know any of that any of that kind of stuff.

00:11:18.000 So and what is the I saw another I wish I could remember exactly who this was.

00:11:22.000 I'm sorry that I can't but I saw somebody else who was talking about how America really is falling apart itself at this point.

00:11:31.000 How can we take in some 200,000 Afghan refugees Who knows how well they've been vetted. 1.00

00:11:39.000 We have people pouring across the southern border.

00:11:42.000 We don't have any control over that.

00:11:44.000 We have governors fighting with the president over the sovereignty of their own states and the sovereignty of American borders.

00:11:51.000 We can't properly educate our children.

00:11:53.000 We can't figure out a cohesive strategy for dealing with, you know, a global pandemic that we have taken responsibility for globally as well as nationally.

00:12:02.000 What is it that we think we're doing?

00:12:04.000 You know, it's like we constantly are talking about how much we hate ourselves and how we are the worst oppressors and we're, you know, this privileged, horrible, bratty country.

00:12:15.000 But we also take on everybody else's problems.

00:12:19.000 And as much as the left will talk about American exceptionalism being a problem, they're the most American exceptionalist of all.

00:12:26.000 They think that we can go out there, smack ourselves in the face, wear hair shirts and still save the world.

00:12:32.000 And that's what they expect.

00:12:34.000 It's very weird to watch.

00:12:36.000 Yeah.

00:12:39.000 I feel like this war thing in Afghanistan, which is never actually, it's not a real war.

00:12:44.000 It was never declared by Congress.

00:12:45.000 It was just a military action.

00:12:46.000 And it was only to get bin Laden. 0.82

00:12:48.000 There was no Taliban involved in any of this in the beginning.

00:12:50.000 Right.

00:12:51.000 Taliban formed around it. 0.90

00:12:52.000 And then then it was ISIS.

00:12:53.000 Then it was al Qaeda or it was al Qaeda in the beginning.

00:12:56.000 Taliban was 1994.

00:12:56.000 Well, let's slow down.

00:12:58.000 OK, so it's been around forever.

00:13:00.000 So I guess, you know, people, different names, different places.

00:13:02.000 No, the Taliban formed out of the out of the Mujahideen.

00:13:05.000 And they there was an Afghan civil war.

00:13:07.000 But it was like expanding, getting more power.

00:13:10.000 is like, we're going to go in and get them.

00:13:10.000 And then the U.S.

00:13:12.000 Well, we went in to get al Qaeda to get Osama bin Laden.

00:13:15.000 And then that that got happened after a couple of years.

00:13:18.000 And then they stayed.

00:13:19.000 After a decade, bro.

00:13:19.000 Yeah.

00:13:21.000 And then the real reason we went in and came out was to build that country in the eyes

00:13:27.000 of America and get its resources.

00:13:30.000 Well that faltered.

00:13:31.000 We have no justification to fight.

00:13:34.000 I mean, it's not to fight the Taliban.

00:13:37.000 We were never there to fight the Taliban.

00:13:38.000 Right.

00:13:39.000 So that is not something we will ever do.

00:13:42.000 Look, it was colonization.

00:13:43.000 They call it nation-building.

00:13:44.000 I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's colonizing.

00:13:46.000 Yeah, it was colonizing.

00:13:46.000 I'm not saying that from some leftist, college, blue-haired perspective of like, they're colonizing.

00:13:51.000 No, it's like literally like... No, that's actually what it is.

00:13:53.000 Yeah.

00:13:53.000 The only problem with colonization is when it fails.

00:13:57.000 And it can fail bad.

00:13:58.000 And it can fail really badly.

00:14:00.000 Like massacres.

00:14:01.000 I don't know.

00:14:01.000 There's problems with colonization.

00:14:03.000 How would you feel if China colonized New York City?

00:14:05.000 I think it'd be worse if they did a bad job of it, frankly.

00:14:08.000 I think it'd be bad no matter what!

00:14:10.000 Yeah, it'd be terrible no matter what.

00:14:12.000 Sure, I guess if China came in and all of a sudden restored everyone's civil rights... I would say Western colonization is specifically bad when it fails.

00:14:19.000 But I don't think, you know, I think there's an argument to be made that Western colonization has actually been globally good in a lot of ways.

00:14:26.000 But, you know, I'm of the opinion that we should, at this point, I mean, to a certain extent, I would agree, obviously.

00:14:33.000 But I'm also of the opinion of, like, maybe we should mind our own business, especially at this point.

00:14:37.000 I feel that way as well.

00:14:38.000 And I also feel that way in terms of nations that clearly don't have any interest in what we have to offer.

00:14:45.000 Well, there was a poll I saw of a bunch of different countries pertaining to Islam.

00:14:51.000 And when it came to Afghanistan, these people did not share our values in any way. 0.83

00:14:56.000 There were people who were, I'll put it bluntly, we can sit here and say, hey, look, it was better with Americans there because of freedoms and economics.

00:15:05.000 But these people genuinely hate, you know, our way of living.

00:15:10.000 They are very, very faith based.

00:15:11.000 They're very, very tribal, like literal tribes.

00:15:14.000 Actual and there was a poll where I think like a very large percentage thought the death for I'm sorry

00:15:19.000 The the punishment for apostasy is death like we don't have those things and so we enter this country 1.00

00:15:24.000 Very different way of living very different clothes much much more advanced weapons and we tell them from now on you

00:15:30.000 live the way we tell You naturally they're not happy with that. They're still

00:15:34.000 not happy with that. Well, and they shouldn't be you.

00:15:37.000 You know, there's also this issue of how can you bring you can't bring democracy and this kind of liberty to a populace that doesn't want it themselves.

00:15:47.000 You know, you can't just force that on people because that's like the thing you're saying you're not going to do.

00:15:53.000 And then you're doing it in order to get them to live your way.

00:15:56.000 That's not effective.

00:15:56.000 But let's talk about the the the more What's the right word?

00:16:01.000 Terrifying result of everything we've done in this... I'm gonna say it, and people might get mad.

00:16:07.000 It actually is a kind of funny video, as much as it is horrifying.

00:16:11.000 Taliban appear to fly U.S. 1.00

00:16:11.000 Now I'm scared. 1.00

00:16:14.000 Black Hawk helicopters over Kandahar.

00:16:16.000 The Afghan Air Force reportedly had 167 operational aircraft, including 33 Black Hawk attack helicopters, before the Taliban took over.

00:16:24.000 And there's a video, you may have seen it, of the Taliban Literally flying around in Blackhawks.

00:16:30.000 There's like a guy hanging from it.

00:16:32.000 And there's this one Twitter account of the Taliban, and they're tweeting, like, trying out our new weapons and stuff like this.

00:16:38.000 The U.S.

00:16:39.000 just gave one of the most advanced militaries, an air force and ground forces, to ideological extremists.

00:16:51.000 Who beat us back with basically rocks and sticks.

00:16:55.000 That's the amazing thing.

00:16:56.000 Was the goal of the Americans like, how can we funnel a bunch of weapons to these people?

00:16:59.000 No, it was, we're going to leave these weapons for the Afghani allies.

00:17:03.000 It really was, but we're going to strip all their support out and they're just going to figure it out.

00:17:06.000 And then the Afghani allies were like, uh, no, we're not because we can't.

00:17:10.000 Well, but we also gave them, we also gave all those Afghan allies the option of leaving, right?

00:17:16.000 I mean, we facilitated in the past couple of weeks or whatever, we facilitated a massive brain drain from that country.

00:17:23.000 How do we expect it to ever stand up for itself after we basically said to all of the educated people there, why don't you just come here?

00:17:31.000 Why don't you abandon your responsibility to your own nation and come to a nation that we're already destroying? 1.00

00:17:37.000 That's really the craziest thing to me, seeing so many people be like, I don't care about this place I'm leaving.

00:17:43.000 Right.

00:17:44.000 You know, okay.

00:17:45.000 Why would we, why were we trying to help a nation where the people, the brightest people in the country didn't care about it?

00:17:53.000 Heroin and oil.

00:17:54.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:17:54.000 No, no, no.

00:17:55.000 I was going to say, these people were not raised, you know, a lot of them are young.

00:18:01.000 Like the one guy who got on the plane and then died, I think he was what, 19 years old.

00:18:04.000 Right, the soccer player.

00:18:05.000 So he was born into occupation.

00:18:07.000 Right.

00:18:08.000 He has no sense of country, no community.

00:18:10.000 So when it all comes crashing down, he's like, that's what I recognize.

00:18:14.000 And I don't know what that is.

00:18:15.000 I'm going with that.

00:18:16.000 Right.

00:18:16.000 So the United States did a very, very poor job of culture building.

00:18:20.000 And you know what's funny?

00:18:21.000 Well, we shouldn't be culture building somebody else's culture.

00:18:23.000 Well, no, no, no, no, for sure.

00:18:25.000 We shouldn't have been in there in the first place.

00:18:26.000 But the point is, if you want an operation like this to be successful, to like create a stable country or whatever, you've got to give people stories and things to rally around and victories and something like, you know, we have that story of the writing of the Star Spangled Banner, where like the bombs are exploding and then every time a bomb blasts, you could see the flag just as the light of the explosions.

00:18:48.000 And then when they came back to the fort, what did they find?

00:18:51.000 We even have cultural stories though.

00:18:52.000 of the American soldiers who are running in and holding the flag up and their bodies formed

00:18:56.000 the base that kept it.

00:18:57.000 Those are the stories that people are like shed a tear like, yes, we did it.

00:19:00.000 They don't have any of that.

00:19:02.000 We even have cultural stories, though.

00:19:03.000 I mean, if you think about it, during the Cold War, you know, the USSR was our big enemy.

00:19:09.000 And how did we infiltrate the USSR?

00:19:11.000 We, you know, Americans and Europeans would go there with suitcases full of blue jeans and Beatles tapes.

00:19:18.000 We infiltrated culture from the bottom and from the side and from the angle.

00:19:23.000 They make the blue jeans illegal.

00:19:25.000 You'll literally be killed in public if you're listening to music in public.

00:19:28.000 And, you know, I think that that's something that America forgets is our best offerings are not our, you know, administrative level things.

00:19:37.000 Our best offerings are our culture and we are undermining that too at every turn.

00:19:42.000 In the United States.

00:19:43.000 We are undermining our own culture.

00:19:44.000 It's falling apart.

00:19:46.000 I think for the most part, uh, the Uniparty is absolutely to blame.

00:19:49.000 These people have no idea how countries are run.

00:19:53.000 Politics is downstream from culture.

00:19:55.000 Yeah.

00:19:55.000 And so the Republicans clearly do not understand this.

00:19:59.000 When they're like, we got so many judges and yeah, and then the judges are like, political pressure has forced me to go in the direction of mainstream culture.

00:20:06.000 Also, once you're in court, you lost.

00:20:07.000 It doesn't matter what the victory is.

00:20:10.000 I gotta say, this 21st century war, because this is to both the points you guys are making, with the new age of military and the way it's done with the internet, you don't send troops to a country, nation building.

00:20:20.000 You don't put a soldier on every block and every window so that they can't get from place to place.

00:20:27.000 You basically are controlling the system because they have Facebook groups.

00:20:30.000 They can coordinate on the internet now.

00:20:32.000 Putting troops in a foreign country to nation-build is not the tactic anymore, and if anything that I've learned from the vets that are coming back there, it's that.

00:20:38.000 You did not fight in vain.

00:20:39.000 You fought to teach us that in a modern war we cannot be putting boots on the ground to build nations.

00:20:44.000 It has to be through the internet.

00:20:46.000 Except when you can't get internet in there either because of the mountainous region of the country or because the

00:20:51.000 ideological extremism Yeah, that's which is which is my point about what's

00:20:55.000 happening here in the US They spent so much time worrying about Afghanistan and Iraq

00:20:59.000 and Iran in between that they ignored the fact that the US itself is being

00:21:04.000 Overrun by a psychotic cult of people and I'll tell you I love I love the idea of the cult

00:21:09.000 You know why because I saw this post about horse dewormer on reddit. Okay, that's

00:21:15.000 And the people in the commented like, it's a death cult.

00:21:17.000 And I'm like, bro, if you actually did two seconds of Google searching, you would realize that certain medications, which, you know, are widely available at Walgreens, but for some reason the media keeps saying horse dewormer over and over because you are in the matrix.

00:21:33.000 And so here we... Maybe that's what they're thinking. 0.99

00:21:35.000 Let's have a dumb population. 1.00

00:21:35.000 They're like, I don't know. 1.00

00:21:37.000 That'll allow us to flourish.

00:21:39.000 No, it won't.

00:21:40.000 A bunch of people who have no idea what's going on, who can't make any decisions, and perhaps you think that'll empower you, but it guts the country from the inside.

00:21:46.000 It's a brain drain happening in our own country.

00:21:48.000 We've done it on purpose.

00:21:50.000 I mean, we did it on purpose because we had these ideals of what we should be doing instead of the thing we were doing.

00:21:56.000 So we've gutted our educational system.

00:21:57.000 We've completely devalued the college degree.

00:22:00.000 We've devalued graduate degrees.

00:22:02.000 We've devalued diplomas.

00:22:04.000 We don't learn anything in schools at this point.

00:22:07.000 We don't teach anything, you know?

00:22:10.000 Imagine unironically thinking college is a good idea.

00:22:13.000 Right?

00:22:13.000 Yeah.

00:22:14.000 Or unironically saying college is a good idea.

00:22:16.000 I mean, I'm sure that I have a similar experience to you guys.

00:22:18.000 When I was a kid, my parents were like, you know, you're definitely going to college.

00:22:23.000 And I'm looking at my son, and I'm like, if you want, maybe you could go to state.

00:22:29.000 Oh, I'm totally different from you.

00:22:31.000 Yeah, make sure he understands compound interest.

00:22:31.000 I'd be like, no.

00:22:35.000 I'm telling him, you know, like the money I have saved for you, you could also just buy some property if you want.

00:22:40.000 You know, you could travel.

00:22:41.000 Start a business at 14.

00:22:42.000 You could do whatever you want.

00:22:43.000 You could read on your own on the internet which is now free and learn how to discern between real and fake news and then teach yourself because there are a lot of prominent young people or young people today who are older but rose to prominence when they were young because they just went online and there's some famous stories about young hackers or like you know let's say tech entrepreneurs and when they were 15 years old on the internet in forums contributing code The other 30-year-olds taking that code had no idea it was a 15-year-old contributing.

00:23:11.000 Right.

00:23:12.000 And so there's a real opportunity to get away from that broken system.

00:23:15.000 But I do think there's a lot at the end of the tunnel, though, with the coming collapse.

00:23:20.000 Remote working means you'll be around your kids more often.

00:23:22.000 Right, that is a plus.

00:23:23.000 And remote schooling means the parents are more likely to be near their kids when their kids are learning.

00:23:27.000 These are good things.

00:23:28.000 And to see what's actually being taught.

00:23:29.000 The CTO of Minds.

00:23:29.000 Right.

00:23:30.000 Which is pretty important.

00:23:31.000 He was 17 when he started working with Minds.

00:23:34.000 I mean, you can do it young!

00:23:35.000 You do not need school.

00:23:37.000 This is the big thing why we talk about the Cask Castle vlog we've been doing and building culture.

00:23:42.000 And trying to bring more people here to have fun?

00:23:44.000 Yeah, that's so important.

00:23:45.000 That's like the most important thing is storytelling, you know, remembering the old stories.

00:23:50.000 I think that's a big part of it, too.

00:23:51.000 The more we replace the canon with things that we think, you know, are contemporaneously important, the more we undermine what our culture is founded on.

00:24:02.000 There's a really interesting... We have to go back to the old stories.

00:24:04.000 There's a really interesting kind of similarity between some of what's happening with the Taliban flying around in Blackhawks and what's happening in the U.S.

00:24:10.000 We have ideological zealots who have taken over the New York Times, for instance.

00:24:14.000 And so now they're wearing it like a skin suit. 0.92

00:24:16.000 And we see that with so many different franchises and movies.

00:24:18.000 Yes.

00:24:19.000 Ezra Klein at the New York Times, we've seen that.

00:24:21.000 What did he do?

00:24:23.000 He's just, you know, he's writing these columns all the time that are just supporting the administration without any real reason.

00:24:28.000 Or Jennifer Rubin today at the Washington Post, where she was like, the U.S.

00:24:33.000 is still the only superpower.

00:24:36.000 And it's like, girl, if you got to say that, we're already in trouble.

00:24:40.000 So the New York Times, this powerful institution of, you know, 100 plus years or whatever, now being worn as a skin suit by these ideologues.

00:24:49.000 American military power and Air Force supremacy of the Blackhawks now being worn by an ideological extremist group that have seized control of this infrastructure.

00:25:00.000 How many missiles did they leave?

00:25:01.000 I'm not saying it's identical.

00:25:02.000 I'm just saying there's an interesting similarity.

00:25:03.000 They're not going to tell you how many missiles they left.

00:25:05.000 They're not going to tell you how much equipment.

00:25:06.000 Did you see this Taliban's new arsenal graphic?

00:25:09.000 Was anyone able to... Yeah, there were some graphics, but I couldn't figure out where they came from.

00:25:13.000 This says it's from the U.S.

00:25:14.000 Government Accounting Office.

00:25:15.000 Ian, what country is due west of Afghanistan?

00:25:19.000 That would be Iran. 0.99

00:25:20.000 And do you think that when everything starts falling apart in Afghanistan, and they need electricity and infrastructure and resources, do you think they might say, hey Iran, look at the 42,000 SUVs we have.

00:25:32.000 Might you need some of this?

00:25:33.000 Yes, I think- We have some Hellfire missiles sitting right here in this building!

00:25:36.000 We can't do anything with them!

00:25:37.000 I think- But you know what we do need is electricity!

00:25:40.000 Well and Iran is pretty close- a lot closer to nuclear capability now at this point anyway.

00:25:46.000 I'm willing to bet the moment They took Kabul, like I'm willing to bet a phone call was made the moment Donald Trump signed that peace treaty with Iran was immediately like, you know, like, what do you got?

00:25:59.000 What are we going to do?

00:26:00.000 But I'll tell you this.

00:26:01.000 There may have been some phone calls back and forth back then.

00:26:04.000 The moment word got out.

00:26:06.000 What do you think would have happened if the U.S.

00:26:08.000 that all of this equipment was abandoned iran called up and said you know call of the elements that

00:26:13.000 but he had a you've been popular who's always been there for you

00:26:17.000 what do you think would have happened the u s had left

00:26:21.000 on trump's timetable uh... it's it's not so much of a timetable to about the the

00:26:25.000 the caliber of leadership

00:26:27.000 Right.

00:26:28.000 I'm wondering how that would have been, if it would have been any different.

00:26:32.000 Biden has said repeatedly that he doesn't think it would have been any different.

00:26:35.000 He says, I think he's wrong too.

00:26:38.000 It would have been similar.

00:26:39.000 I think it would have been a little more organized, perhaps.

00:26:42.000 It's not so much about the timeline.

00:26:43.000 The bigger question is, what would have happened if Biden stuck to the arrangements and agreements set forth by the Trump administration?

00:26:50.000 How about this?

00:26:51.000 Why did they abandon Bagram overnight?

00:26:53.000 Because they easily could have said, we're evacuating out of Bagram.

00:26:56.000 Why didn't they do it in April?

00:26:58.000 I haven't fact-checked this, but I've seen some reporting.

00:27:02.000 In April, the U.S.

00:27:03.000 issued a warning to American citizens.

00:27:05.000 You need to get out.

00:27:06.000 Now a lot of Americans stayed, chose to stay, and that is true, but I don't think it's as

00:27:06.000 Right.

00:27:10.000 easy to say that Americans were like, well they're choosing to stay, that's their problem. 0.98

00:27:13.000 Well, it's probably like there's people they're trying to help and won't leave behind.

00:27:18.000 And so that means the US need to have a hard extraction, like come on, get your stuff, 0.72

00:27:23.000 we are leaving, you can't stay.

00:27:26.000 Americans do have a right to choose to stay in a combat zone, private contractors or whatever.

00:27:29.000 But I believe if they stuck to the original plan, and I'll tell you this, it's more to do with the leadership than just the plan.

00:27:38.000 But if the original plan was stuck to, I don't think this would have happened.

00:27:41.000 I think the Taliban would have absolutely tried moving forward, and then there would have been some very serious drone strikes.

00:27:46.000 Drone striking, moving militants through the desert, heading to provincial capitals, is a lot easier than doing a drone strike on residential houses in Kabul, which just killed a bunch of kids. 0.98

00:27:56.000 Yeah, I think that there's also something to be said for sticking to the plan that your predecessor laid out, because America's word is now garbage. 0.96

00:28:06.000 We made a deal, and then we were just like, meh. 0.72

00:28:10.000 I feel like that's a problem.

00:28:13.000 Regardless of whether or not, you know, the Taliban would have stuck to their end, the U.S., once the U.S. 0.93

00:28:19.000 makes a deal, like, we should stick to that.

00:28:21.000 It shouldn't matter who's in power.

00:28:22.000 The Taliban broke the deal.

00:28:24.000 Right.

00:28:25.000 I'm sorry.

00:28:25.000 I take that back.

00:28:26.000 Biden broke the deal.

00:28:27.000 Yeah.

00:28:28.000 He broke the timeline.

00:28:28.000 We should have said, we should have like, you know, as soon as he got into office, he should have said something like, if this was the view, I don't think we should leave right away.

00:28:37.000 But we said we would.

00:28:38.000 So I'm going to honor the word of the United States.

00:28:41.000 Yeah.

00:28:42.000 I feel like he didn't do much about it in the early days of his presidency.

00:28:45.000 He didn't do anything except reverse Trump bans on critical race theory.

00:28:45.000 Yeah.

00:28:50.000 You know, he spent days reversing executive orders instead of actually, you know, and getting masses of praise for that.

00:28:58.000 I could see like months and months where they did not do anything about evacuation, even though they knew they had a timetable, because in the back of his mind, he was like, F Trump.

00:29:07.000 That guy's I'm not paying attention.

00:29:08.000 That guy, whatever.

00:29:09.000 I'm not right.

00:29:10.000 I'm focusing on this.

00:29:11.000 And he had months to prepare for this.

00:29:13.000 Well, and I think he also had this completely backwards idea that the entire rest of the world thought that Trump was as illegitimate as the current administration thinks Trump was.

00:29:24.000 But in fact, that wasn't the case.

00:29:26.000 Whether our allies or enemies or whatever liked or didn't like Trump, he was the legitimately elected president and he was treated that way, as well he should have been, and his bilateral agreements You know, were the word of the United States, whether Biden liked them or not.

00:29:40.000 So when he came in, he kind of acted like, oh, the past four years, I can just, you know, completely sweep them under the rug and get rid of everything that happened during that period of time, because everyone knows that that was an illegitimate presidency.

00:29:53.000 And that was completely bonkers.

00:29:55.000 And and a slap in the face to the American public that voted for the previous administration.

00:30:00.000 Joe Biden made a promise.

00:30:02.000 He promised that there would not be Americans left behind.

00:30:06.000 From The Daily Caller, Biden breaks his promise and leaves stranded Americans behind at the mercy of the Taliban.

00:30:12.000 There's some nuance here that I do want to get into.

00:30:14.000 What's it like?

00:30:15.000 They said it was like in the low hundreds, I think, right?

00:30:17.000 I don't know if I believe that.

00:30:19.000 I mean, that sounds absurd to me.

00:30:19.000 Yeah.

00:30:21.000 It's got to be in the thousands.

00:30:21.000 And you saw that question the other day about transparency, where the one kid was like, maybe I'm saying kid, I'm sure he's younger than me anyway, but he was like, you know, you didn't give us accurate information about dog bites, so why do we think that you're giving us accurate information now?

00:30:36.000 Major apparently bit Secret Service guys for days, and instead of answering the question of how can we believe you now when you weren't even transparent about the stupid dog, Jen Psaki just gave information about the dog, which may or may not be accurate.

00:30:51.000 So this is from August 19th, this promise. 0.83

00:30:54.000 If there's American citizens left, we're going to stay to get them all out. 1.00

00:30:58.000 Now they're saying, well, you know, everybody wanted out.

00:30:58.000 Oh, that's right.

00:31:00.000 We got them.

00:31:01.000 Huh?

00:31:02.000 And we can't get them anyway.

00:31:03.000 Why did they rush?

00:31:04.000 I don't understand.

00:31:04.000 Why did they rush?

00:31:05.000 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:31:06.000 Rush?

00:31:06.000 Why did they rush to get out by the 31st?

00:31:06.000 Yeah.

00:31:08.000 What?

00:31:09.000 The Taliban.

00:31:09.000 So what?

00:31:10.000 They didn't rush.

00:31:11.000 Well, why didn't they get everybody out?

00:31:12.000 I thought the Taliban kind of took over the airport.

00:31:14.000 Well, that's because they started evacuating.

00:31:16.000 They got rid of Bagram. 0.96

00:31:17.000 They pulled out all sorts of weird defenses and logistics early.

00:31:20.000 Hold on.

00:31:22.000 An attack happened.

00:31:25.000 And 13 servicemen and women were killed because the U.S.

00:31:30.000 did not pull them off of the gate.

00:31:32.000 What is it?

00:31:33.000 That's right.

00:31:33.000 Abbey Gate.

00:31:34.000 And they had forewarning.

00:31:36.000 They warned others to prepare for an imminent attack, and they did not pull our troops off that gate.

00:31:41.000 They wanted to keep it open a little bit longer for the British.

00:31:46.000 Was it those service animals?

00:31:47.000 Americans were told not to come, to stay away.

00:31:52.000 The men and women in uniform at the gate were supposed to shut it down earlier, but they decided to leave it open, and that's what happened.

00:31:58.000 And so they're under fire.

00:32:00.000 They fear more attacks are coming, so they said, pull them out.

00:32:04.000 I'm thinking, like, grand scheme.

00:32:06.000 You've got all these people you need to get out.

00:32:08.000 Why would they just not say, look, it's going to take us until it takes us to get these people out.

00:32:13.000 The Taliban, what are they going to do, attack?

00:32:15.000 Yes.

00:32:15.000 Well, we're at war.

00:32:16.000 Then we attack back.

00:32:18.000 We've been at war for 20 years.

00:32:19.000 We're going to stay there, and we're going to get everybody out.

00:32:21.000 Why?

00:32:22.000 It's already bad!

00:32:23.000 It's war!

00:32:24.000 There's so many people there that need our help!

00:32:27.000 Ron Paul, I think, said it best.

00:32:30.000 When you prescribe the wrong medication, you don't simply say, well, there might be a withdrawal, so we'll keep him on it.

00:32:36.000 No, you get off that medication.

00:32:38.000 And what he's saying is, we should not be in this country.

00:32:41.000 But what if the medication got people addicted, and it's going to kill them if you take them off it?

00:32:46.000 But it's not the right medicine.

00:32:47.000 You gotta figure out a way to get them off without killing them.

00:32:49.000 I mean, we never should have gone in.

00:32:50.000 if there would be a withdrawal withdrawal symptoms from it.

00:32:53.000 The point is you can't we can't just stay we we we can't reinvade. I mean the problem was should have

00:33:00.000 gone in it was just it's a bunch of backseat quarterback Monday morning quarterback.

00:33:04.000 Sure.

00:33:04.000 But I mean, still, like, what were we supposed to, what would we be doing there right now?

00:33:08.000 Other than, like, getting shot at.

00:33:10.000 Drone bombing.

00:33:12.000 Aren't we doing that?

00:33:12.000 Roads.

00:33:13.000 Listen, this is exactly the problem.

00:33:14.000 That's what we did do.

00:33:15.000 Joe Biden botches the withdrawal.

00:33:16.000 And now here you are saying we should have stayed in.

00:33:19.000 Exactly.

00:33:19.000 We should have evacuated people if we were going to evacuate people.

00:33:22.000 That's why Tucker Carlson said, it seems like Biden did this on purpose.

00:33:27.000 And he's not the only one who said it.

00:33:28.000 What, just to make it look?

00:33:29.000 I missed that clip.

00:33:30.000 Was that like to make it look like we shouldn't have left at all?

00:33:36.000 By botching this withdrawal, it would force the U.S.

00:33:38.000 to re-invade.

00:33:39.000 And now even Trump himself is saying, I would send in more troops.

00:33:43.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go.

00:33:43.000 We did send in like 6,000 more troops.

00:33:46.000 We did. 0.99

00:33:47.000 And so the concern is the stupidity or the malice, whichever one it is you want to believe it was, because abandoning a two runway Air Force base and then shuttling everybody to the civilian airport in the middle of a densely populated city is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. 0.99

00:34:06.000 Asking permission from the enemy to allow us to retreat. 1.00

00:34:09.000 Like, come on.

00:34:10.000 You get it.

00:34:10.000 You do that in war sometimes.

00:34:12.000 And now there are Americans still there because having nothing to do with the timeline.

00:34:17.000 The timeline is irrelevant.

00:34:18.000 Biden's promises are meaningless. 0.99

00:34:19.000 The point is, the administration is so absolutely vile and pathetic, whether it was intentional or not, they screwed up everything. 0.98

00:34:28.000 And maybe they want this as justification. 0.98

00:34:31.000 I don't remember who was on the show last time they said, maybe it was to punish us.

00:34:35.000 That you see what happens when you want to withdraw?

00:34:38.000 This is what happens and you get to watch.

00:34:40.000 Yeah, well, it's your fault.

00:34:41.000 I don't care.

00:34:42.000 Screw all of these people who started all of it and want to do everything in their power to make sure this stuff keeps happening.

00:34:48.000 If we didn't go in there in the first place... Listen, Cassandra Fairbanks said it best when she was on the show talking about China.

00:34:53.000 There are many countries on this planet that are engaging in atrocities, and we don't report it in the news.

00:34:58.000 We don't talk about it.

00:34:59.000 We don't invade.

00:34:59.000 We don't go there.

00:35:00.000 We don't colonize.

00:35:01.000 But for some reason, some of these countries...

00:35:04.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:35:05.000 What did the Taliban say?

00:35:06.000 They said, how come the U.S.

00:35:08.000 is okay with Saudi Arabia?

00:35:09.000 That's a really good question.

00:35:11.000 Yeah, so I'm sick of all of this.

00:35:13.000 I'm sick of their excuses for how they break things and then say, oh no, oh, but if only, no, not if only, you guys broke it on purpose.

00:35:20.000 I don't mean the withdrawal, I mean the country itself.

00:35:23.000 They wanted to nation build.

00:35:24.000 It was an intentional action to go into the country, start nation building, and the whole thing broke because of it.

00:35:30.000 I think Obama's interest was in nation building because he ran on a platform in his first campaign.

00:35:35.000 He said, I'm going to send more people into Afghanistan. 1.00

00:35:37.000 We're going to keep doing this.

00:35:39.000 And I remember talking to friends at the time being like, he's going to keep this war going. 0.55

00:35:43.000 You guys marched with me against this war when George Bush invaded.

00:35:46.000 We, you know, went into the streets and we were like, don't do this.

00:35:50.000 And now you're voting for Obama, who is definitely planning to keep this war going.

00:35:55.000 And that's, of course, what happened.

00:35:56.000 My favorite was people I knew who voted for Obama twice, who then were like, we have to vote for Biden.

00:36:02.000 I'm like, dude, you were at Occupy Wall Street protesting Biden, like Biden and Obama.

00:36:07.000 You were mad at them.

00:36:08.000 Now you're like, Biden's our only hope.

00:36:10.000 They've sure turned you around.

00:36:10.000 Wow.

00:36:12.000 They really, they really sold us on this guy.

00:36:15.000 They really sold the country on this guy.

00:36:16.000 It was a false bill of goods.

00:36:17.000 They did such a terrible job.

00:36:19.000 It's like and everyone just kept backing him.

00:36:21.000 All of the news media for the most part was backing him.

00:36:25.000 You know, you had like universities and institutions and all the organizations were saying we have to go with Biden all because they hated Trump.

00:36:32.000 They did this to us because they hated Trump.

00:36:35.000 for their own reasons without being able to look at, you know, policies or whatever and say, oh, this is OK.

00:36:41.000 This is not good.

00:36:42.000 I hate his bluster.

00:36:44.000 But this is you know, this is what the situation is.

00:36:47.000 It's a they created this cult of personality for Trump and then became everything they hated about him.

00:36:53.000 It's really the most amazing thing.

00:36:55.000 And propped up a puppet presidency. 0.50

00:36:56.000 Like the you know, the joke is an alarming number of people who said punch a Nazi are now saying papers, please.

00:37:02.000 That punch-a-nazi thing was so disturbing.

00:37:04.000 2017, is that when it got popular?

00:37:07.000 Remember Kill Turfs?

00:37:10.000 There was a Kill Turfs exhibit at the San Francisco Public Library. 0.99

00:37:14.000 There was a funny thing that happened on Facebook where a bunch of feminists were saying, kill all men. 1.00

00:37:25.000 And then Facebook started banning them. 0.97

00:37:27.000 And they were shocked and outraged, saying, but we're just making a political point!

00:37:30.000 And Facebook was like, you can't advocate for genocide.

00:37:33.000 And they were like, but, and I'm like, no buts.

00:37:35.000 You can't advocate for genocide.

00:37:37.000 But you can't ever say, advocate for punching people of a political persuasion in the face. 1.00

00:37:37.000 You lunatics. 1.00

00:37:41.000 Like, that's so crazy. 1.00

00:37:42.000 That should be banned, too.

00:37:43.000 Yeah, Twitter allowed it.

00:37:43.000 Twitter allowed it.

00:37:44.000 That stuff gets banned off my, when I was working at Mines, that stuff was not allowed.

00:37:47.000 That was a call to violence.

00:37:48.000 It wasn't, the thing is, it's not an imminent call to violence, because it's not like punch a Nazi at 2 p.m.

00:37:53.000 That then becomes illegal.

00:37:53.000 tomorrow.

00:37:55.000 But when you just say, hurt a person, you know, and you're kind of vague about it, there's no imminent threat.

00:37:59.000 The problem is it's not illegal.

00:38:01.000 It's not.

00:38:03.000 At the time it was the word Nazi.

00:38:05.000 Now it's like far right.

00:38:06.000 Everybody's far right.

00:38:07.000 Next it'll be what?

00:38:10.000 There's no definition of what these things mean.

00:38:11.000 We try to understand what it is, but I just love when they like, like, I love when they smear Ian trying to make you seem right wing and everyone who watches the show is like... It's so confusing.

00:38:21.000 Even to me, dude.

00:38:22.000 It's certainly not true.

00:38:24.000 Tidal wave, hurricane.

00:38:25.000 It's like you're a long-haired hippie guy talking about psilocybin and DMT.

00:38:29.000 All this stuff transcends political parties.

00:38:31.000 That's part of why I'm here and why I enjoy this so much.

00:38:33.000 You know, we're people first with, like, needs and wants.

00:38:35.000 And then the politics, we've just made up.

00:38:37.000 All that stuff didn't used to exist.

00:38:39.000 As humans, we've created it.

00:38:40.000 But I love talking to people who are, you know, trying to navigate the space, maybe new to it.

00:38:46.000 And they're like, you know, are you left or right?

00:38:48.000 And they'll say something like, oh, I don't know.

00:38:50.000 You know, I think I'd be on the left or like probably middle of the road and then I say something like, what did I say?

00:38:58.000 I can't remember.

00:38:58.000 There's so many wedge issues in the culture war, but something like, do you think there should be no medical exemptions for vaccine mandates?

00:39:04.000 And they're like, oh, well, no, I don't think, okay, you're an anti-vaxxer and you're far right.

00:39:07.000 No joke.

00:39:08.000 If you went outside and you were standing in front of a hospital and someone said, do you oppose mandatory vaccination with no medical exemption?

00:39:14.000 You said, wow, that sounds really bad.

00:39:16.000 Aha, you're far right.

00:39:17.000 The media would call you far right.

00:39:19.000 You know, that's been happening all over my Facebook.

00:39:20.000 So I'll post things.

00:39:22.000 I think it was the last thing I posted on Facebook was probably Tyrant de Blasio's vaccine mandate situation thing.

00:39:29.000 And I was like, this is tyrannical and fascistic.

00:39:32.000 And I got so ganged up on for that.

00:39:35.000 And people are saying, you know, you give up privacy all the time or, you know, you've given away this many of your rights already.

00:39:40.000 So what's a few more?

00:39:41.000 That's a good reason to do it.

00:39:43.000 You're losing.

00:39:44.000 So just lose.

00:39:46.000 Just give it up altogether. 0.80

00:39:48.000 You know, you've already cut off your right arm, so just cut off your left.

00:39:52.000 It's the word just. 0.84

00:39:53.000 It's just a mask.

00:39:55.000 Calm down.

00:39:56.000 It's just 15 days.

00:39:57.000 Calm down.

00:39:58.000 It's just until we can make sure we slow this down.

00:40:01.000 It's not a big deal.

00:40:02.000 Why are you speaking back against authority?

00:40:07.000 Here's the thing about the people I'm talking about here, okay?

00:40:10.000 These are people that I have known.

00:40:12.000 These are artists.

00:40:14.000 These are actors.

00:40:15.000 They're writers.

00:40:16.000 They're directors.

00:40:17.000 They're theater people.

00:40:17.000 They're painters.

00:40:19.000 And they're telling me that my concern about having to show my paperwork just to order a drink at a bar, that makes me a bad person.

00:40:28.000 That I would dare question the authority.

00:40:30.000 These are people who have for their entire lives, until now, said things like, question authority, you know?

00:40:38.000 And then Obama comes along.

00:40:40.000 First of all, that was the first clue that all of these people are willing to turn tail, right?

00:40:45.000 Obama comes along and everyone suddenly trusts the federal government.

00:40:48.000 Why would you ever trust the federal government for anything?

00:40:52.000 I also was in the theater.

00:40:53.000 I found a lot of people in the theater.

00:40:54.000 This is a gross exaggeration.

00:40:56.000 It definitely isn't going to be for everybody in the theater, but I think a lot of them are followers that want to be accepted, that are kind of weirdos, that love being part of a group and that need to feel like they're not weird.

00:41:06.000 And so now we're seeing that sociologically because a lot of people I know in the theater are weird, like huddling with the mask and like, let the government control everyone.

00:41:13.000 That is what's going on.

00:41:14.000 They're hiding out.

00:41:15.000 Yeah.

00:41:15.000 They want to be famous.

00:41:16.000 They get into jobs like this because their goal is to be famous.

00:41:20.000 That's not how art used to be.

00:41:21.000 Mostly, not really.

00:41:23.000 That's not how real art used to be.

00:41:25.000 Like, when I got involved in art, I was an artist and so I had to be involved in making art.

00:41:31.000 And it had nothing to do with being famous or anything like that.

00:41:34.000 You know, it's nice to have accolades.

00:41:36.000 It's nice to have people recognize your work and say that they enjoy it.

00:41:40.000 But making art has nothing to do with being accepted by masses of people or being propelled into some sort of stardom.

00:41:47.000 That's the complete bastardization of it.

00:41:50.000 You make art because you need to tell stories, because you need to communicate part of the river of human consciousness.

00:41:57.000 You need to explore that.

00:41:59.000 You need to communicate that to people.

00:42:01.000 That's what art is.

00:42:04.000 Is art an object or is art the experience of participating in art?

00:42:10.000 Which one is it?

00:42:10.000 Is it both?

00:42:12.000 These are the questions that artists used to ask.

00:42:15.000 These are the questions that we used to talk about late at night and try and figure out what kind of work we wanted to make.

00:42:22.000 And now you see what's going on in the art world.

00:42:25.000 And it's all about propelling your own personal self forward and hoping you get some sort of, you know, I don't know, Oscar or whatever the things are.

00:42:33.000 It doesn't make any sense, and it's not art.

00:42:35.000 It's just another industry.

00:42:37.000 I noticed something really interesting.

00:42:38.000 A great change happened that makes me kind of happy.

00:42:41.000 Several years ago, back when I was working for like Vice and Fusion, I would get emails all the time from people who were like, I want to do what you do, you're so lucky, I want to travel the world, report, make documentaries, it sounds so amazing!

00:42:53.000 And I'd be like...

00:42:54.000 Well, go and do it.

00:42:56.000 Go do the thing.

00:42:57.000 But they would always be like, oh, it's too hard.

00:42:59.000 I don't have enough money.

00:43:00.000 It's impossible.

00:43:01.000 If only I had your job.

00:43:02.000 And I said, I just bought a bus ticket for 20 bucks and went to New York with a cell phone.

00:43:06.000 Right.

00:43:07.000 But you can do it, right?

00:43:07.000 I had a cell phone.

00:43:09.000 Well, there were a few people that I said, OK, how about this?

00:43:13.000 How about you come, I'll introduce you to a bunch of people, we'll get you a bunch of advice, we'll send you off in the right direction.

00:43:19.000 And they're like, wow, really?

00:43:21.000 Like, yeah, come hang out.

00:43:22.000 By all means, we want to support people who want to do this stuff.

00:43:25.000 And you know what would happen every single time?

00:43:28.000 Within a week, they'd be like, I don't want to do this.

00:43:31.000 Hold on, what do you mean you don't want to do this?

00:43:33.000 Ah, they saw how the sausage got made.

00:43:35.000 You mean you have to actually get on a plane for 12 hours, it's uncomfortable, your back hurts, then you land, you're groggy-eyed, you go through security, they question you, what you're doing, they could turn you around, you gotta go to the press building, then you're in a country where they have no muzzle control and the Egyptians were pointing guns straight at people's heads.

00:43:52.000 And they're like, that doesn't sound fun, that's scary.

00:43:54.000 And I'm like, so what did you want to do exactly?

00:43:57.000 Well, I wanted to be on TV.

00:43:59.000 That's the same thing that used to happen with art.

00:44:00.000 So I was making theater, you know, for no money.

00:44:03.000 I was like, you know, paying stuff out with my own day job or whatever, which was fine.

00:44:08.000 I'm honored and privileged to do it.

00:44:12.000 But people seem to think that the thing you're doing is something else, right?

00:44:16.000 So it's like you show up, you work 12-15 hours a day to do the thing, to make the artwork, to make that one crystallized perfect moment that you can share with the audience.

00:44:26.000 And then everybody loves it.

00:44:27.000 And then everyone wants to, yeah, because that's what happens.

00:44:30.000 And people are like, I want to do that.

00:44:31.000 I want to make that kind of artwork.

00:44:33.000 But they don't actually want to make it.

00:44:34.000 They just want to be part of that final experience.

00:44:37.000 And it's not the same thing.

00:44:38.000 Like it's, when you're really, when you're doing successful work, you don't realize that you're successful.

00:44:45.000 You're just doing the thing that you do every day.

00:44:47.000 Well, here's what the change was. So I saw I saw those people who are just like, oh, I want to be on TV

00:44:52.000 I want to be famous and then something started to change around the Trump era

00:44:56.000 When Trump came out and I saw the media lying and I'd be like they're lying about that and they're lying about that

00:45:01.000 and I don't Like Hillary or Trump's or whatever all of a sudden a lot

00:45:04.000 of these emails started to stop and today As much as we get tons of job offers

00:45:09.000 There's something very different in in the requests in In the, I wanna do what you do.

00:45:14.000 It's very, very different.

00:45:16.000 The emails I get now are like, I'd love to help in any way.

00:45:19.000 I'm good at doing these things.

00:45:21.000 Is that something that you need?

00:45:22.000 It used to be, I wanna do what you do.

00:45:24.000 And you know what I realized?

00:45:26.000 The people who would say things like, I want to do what you do, what they were really saying was, I want to be socially accepted and famous.

00:45:33.000 And now that you are effectively an apostate of the liberal order by coming out and being like, orange man, not that bad.

00:45:40.000 Just saying something like that.

00:45:41.000 They're like, oh, well that won't make me famous.

00:45:43.000 I don't want to do that.

00:45:44.000 And I'm like, it's such a relief now.

00:45:46.000 Because now I don't get the emails from people who are like, all I care about is notoriety.

00:45:50.000 Now the people are like, I just care about doing something good.

00:45:53.000 Way better.

00:45:53.000 Right.

00:45:54.000 Which is much more important than notoriety.

00:45:57.000 And it also gives you a life instead of just a couple of moments.

00:46:01.000 The left has become overwhelmingly narcissistic, paranoid, delusional, and not every single leftist.

00:46:10.000 There are some dirtbag leftists who are anti-woke and just believe in, like, leftist economic policy, and that's fine. 0.84

00:46:15.000 But the overarching popular leftists on YouTube are, like, the most duplicitous pro-establishment shills.

00:46:23.000 Plus, then you have the Uniparty, which is, you know, the neocons and the Lincoln Project, along with the Democrats.

00:46:29.000 It's all the same thing. 1.00

00:46:30.000 It is a hive of scum and villainy and narcissists. 1.00

00:46:34.000 That's because they became the thing they hated. 1.00

00:46:36.000 They said, Trump is all of these things.

00:46:39.000 Or they were just projecting the whole time.

00:46:40.000 Right, and we have to beat him no matter what, no matter if we break all our own rules.

00:46:44.000 So they became the horrible thing that they thought he was.

00:46:47.000 I don't think they have rules.

00:46:49.000 When, like, listen.

00:46:50.000 No, no, they don't have rules because there's not a value system.

00:46:52.000 There's no undercurrent of ethos, right?

00:46:56.000 It's just shifting sands.

00:46:58.000 When I see someone who can say something within the same, like, hour.

00:47:03.000 Like, there's a really funny tweet where they're like, F the police!

00:47:06.000 F the police!

00:47:09.000 Ashley Babbitt's shooter was justified.

00:47:11.000 This officer.

00:47:12.000 That's a shocking thing to watch that, right?

00:47:14.000 So I was what I was looking today.

00:47:16.000 CNN reported about how Pelosi's special committee on January 6th, right?

00:47:21.000 Because that's what we're doing now.

00:47:23.000 She reported about how they are now trying to get telecommunications companies to fork over phone records for like hundreds of people, including a bunch of Members of Congress?

00:47:34.000 Members of Congress, yeah, like mostly GOP legislators like Matt Goetz and Lauren Boebert and Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, the people that she cut from the committee in the first place after McCarthy appointed them.

00:47:48.000 And CNN reported the committee's investigation into the deadly riot of January 6th.

00:47:56.000 They keep saying this deadly riot thing over and over, and they refuse to ever just print where a police officer shot an unarmed woman to death with no warning or provocation.

00:48:07.000 This is one of the darkest stories, I gotta tell you, to be completely honest, from CNN.

00:48:12.000 January 6th committee to ask telecommunications companies to preserve phone records of members of Congress who participated in Stop the Steal rally.

00:48:19.000 They're doing it in increments.

00:48:20.000 Yes.

00:48:20.000 They're preserving the records, because they don't want to come out right now and seize the records.

00:48:24.000 Did you see that?

00:48:24.000 They did a blacklist last week.

00:48:25.000 A blacklist?

00:48:26.000 They did a roundup.

00:48:27.000 They demanded all of the correspondence between a number of conservative, it was like conservative journalists and influencers and a bunch of people in the Trump administration and associates there.

00:48:39.000 This is the next level.

00:48:39.000 That's right.

00:48:40.000 So they're doing it one step at a time.

00:48:42.000 First it's, you know, we want this information from the government on these individuals, the Trump administration and all the activists who helped him and their communications from around election time.

00:48:50.000 They're trying to pull that from the archives.

00:48:51.000 They want phone records preserved, which means give it a week and they'll say, okay, now we want those phone records.

00:48:57.000 That's correct.

00:48:58.000 So this is... And they're throwing... We talk about the collapse of Afghanistan, but this is the collapse of the U.S.

00:49:05.000 No joke.

00:49:06.000 It's horrifying to watch this unfold.

00:49:08.000 And what we're seeing is that they don't actually have any evidence of the thing that they believe happened.

00:49:14.000 There's no one charged with insurrection.

00:49:16.000 That's exactly right.

00:49:17.000 There's very few people charged with assault.

00:49:20.000 There were like very few people charged with previous conspiracy.

00:49:24.000 Right.

00:49:25.000 And the previous conspiracy people were like known members of, you know, radical organizations.

00:49:33.000 I mean, it's like, they said, the FBI report said there was no coordination or central planning.

00:49:38.000 Scant evidence.

00:49:39.000 They found scant evidence, yeah.

00:49:40.000 They said there was some evidence to indicate people planned on breaking into the building, but no actual plan for what that would entail.

00:49:45.000 That's right.

00:49:46.000 So, people smack-talking on the internet, I guess?

00:49:48.000 That's basically it.

00:49:49.000 And mostly they were doing it on Facebook.

00:49:51.000 Even though they pulled Parler down to punish Parler for Facebook's sins.

00:49:56.000 And from this, we are now getting the Democratic Party going after their rivals, their political opponents.

00:50:03.000 Everything they accused Trump of doing, they are doing right now to the umpteenth degree.

00:50:06.000 That's correct.

00:50:07.000 So this is the end.

00:50:09.000 I can't see how a country can lose in Afghanistan, considering the past examples of the collapses of countries after failing in Afghanistan.

00:50:18.000 OK, maybe that's unfair, but man, was that bad.

00:50:20.000 It could shatter the empire.

00:50:22.000 Yeah, for sure.

00:50:23.000 Like the Soviet Union cracked, but Russia remains. 0.85

00:50:27.000 Even a search warrant, you need to have probable cause and say what you're looking for.

00:50:31.000 And this committee, they're not even saying what they're looking for because they don't actually have any idea how they're going to prove that January 6th was a white supremacist conspiracy to overthrow the government.

00:50:41.000 They don't care about that.

00:50:42.000 They want phone records because those phone records will then leak.

00:50:46.000 Yes.

00:50:47.000 They want all of it because they don't know what they're looking for.

00:50:50.000 I mean, we're at the age of just don't use a phone.

00:50:52.000 Don't use unencrypted communication.

00:50:55.000 Right.

00:50:55.000 Yeah, that funny story.

00:50:58.000 People know it better than I do, but that story about the war game they did where like the older guy went up against the younger guys and the older guy won because he sent communications via motorcycle with a written note and they were trying to do digital and they couldn't track it or something like that.

00:51:10.000 It's a funny story.

00:51:11.000 Yeah, but you can't not use a phone, you know what I mean?

00:51:15.000 But you can use things like Signal.

00:51:16.000 You can use Telegram and Signal, yeah.

00:51:18.000 Telegram and Signal.

00:51:18.000 You can set up custom operating systems.

00:51:21.000 You can learn how to flash, you know, different operating systems on your phone.

00:51:23.000 It's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's not particularly difficult.

00:51:26.000 But I think the bigger issue here is it's not about looking for evidence.

00:51:31.000 What they're doing is they're saying, for one, if you oppose us, we will dig through all your records.

00:51:35.000 We know those records will leak to the press, whether it's social media or telecommunications, and more importantly, they're looking for strategy.

00:51:42.000 They wanted information on all of these people from April 2020 to January 2020.

00:51:47.000 Right.

00:51:48.000 Once they have that information, could people just put in FOIA requests for it?

00:51:55.000 Well, so the issue with the first request on social media was that they want government communications, things that already exist.

00:51:55.000 I don't.

00:52:01.000 Right.

00:52:02.000 So entirely possible now that they've made the announcement.

00:52:05.000 That was the National Archives stuff.

00:52:06.000 Now that they've made the announcement that these things potentially exist, I'm sure BuzzFeed already went to town subpoenaing every single one of these individuals.

00:52:13.000 It's actually, there's a funny thing that I did at Vice once, we wanted to do, we never actually did, we were planning it, was to do a FOIA request on ourselves and see what comes up, and then whoever gets the biggest stack is the winner.

00:52:23.000 Nice.

00:52:24.000 You know, going to North Korea, Venezuela, you'd wonder who has the bigger, you know, FBI file or whatever.

00:52:30.000 So, but you can easily do this.

00:52:32.000 You can now FOIA request saying like, oh, the Democrats requested this.

00:52:36.000 I would like public information, you know, these documents to be released to the public on all of these individuals and what they were saying.

00:52:41.000 And it's going to leak regardless of FOIA.

00:52:44.000 Well, the National Archives, I don't think, have turned over the information yet.

00:52:47.000 I think they have till, like, September 9th.

00:52:49.000 It'll happen.

00:52:50.000 You think so?

00:52:51.000 It's the second request.

00:52:52.000 The committee asked for it, I think, back in March or something.

00:52:56.000 Yes, so a lot of the request is new.

00:52:59.000 Some of it didn't get turned over, but I think it will.

00:53:01.000 Interesting.

00:53:01.000 I mean, we'll see.

00:53:02.000 Was there resistance before?

00:53:03.000 No, I think they just didn't do it.

00:53:05.000 I mean, the National Archives, they're probably sitting there like, really?

00:53:05.000 I don't know.

00:53:08.000 We got to do something?

00:53:09.000 Why?

00:53:09.000 There's a lot of work.

00:53:11.000 The CIA can look at anybody's info at any time without a request.

00:53:15.000 They can do like a kangaroo court and get a FOIA or whatever.

00:53:18.000 FISA?

00:53:19.000 Yeah, FISA.

00:53:20.000 But Congress has to get permission.

00:53:22.000 This is what we're learning, right?

00:53:25.000 They have subpoena power.

00:53:26.000 I mean, this committee has that power.

00:53:28.000 They could just subpoena, but I think they're slow rolling it.

00:53:30.000 That's why they're saying preserve records.

00:53:32.000 Yeah.

00:53:32.000 That's why they're not saying we demand all records immediately.

00:53:35.000 They're slow rolling it so that people don't get shocked.

00:53:37.000 They want the frogs to boil, not jump out of the pot.

00:53:40.000 Right.

00:53:41.000 These are truly dark days.

00:53:43.000 I know, it's annoying.

00:53:44.000 I thought that the government was going to help me.

00:53:46.000 Also, the Durham report.

00:53:49.000 What?

00:53:49.000 Growing up, I was always like, thank God I live in the U.S.

00:53:51.000 I thought you meant like recently.

00:53:51.000 Oh, really?

00:53:53.000 I was like, no way, dude.

00:53:54.000 For like the last 30 years, I was like, sweet.

00:53:56.000 Right, I was like, after everything you've said, I can't deny it.

00:53:58.000 This government's awesome.

00:53:59.000 Aren't we still waiting for the Durham report to come out also?

00:54:02.000 Because the... But I think it was due already to talk about this.

00:54:09.000 You were like, for a second there, like, is he being serious?

00:54:12.000 I caught on.

00:54:13.000 I caught on pretty quickly.

00:54:14.000 After I was in a little car wreck today, you know, everything's a little... I don't think there's gonna be a Durham report.

00:54:14.000 Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

00:54:20.000 You saw a four-car pileup you were talking about.

00:54:23.000 Oh, yeah.

00:54:24.000 It was behind me.

00:54:25.000 That's crazy.

00:54:26.000 You barely avoided it.

00:54:27.000 I was like fast and furious and you like drifted and the car flew over you.

00:54:32.000 You rose up out of the car.

00:54:34.000 No, there was this crazy truck driver.

00:54:36.000 He didn't break in time.

00:54:37.000 He smashed into a whole bunch of people and the car behind me like smashed into smashed into us.

00:54:42.000 And then I hit the gas and we like got out of there.

00:54:45.000 Did you fear for your life at any time in that?

00:54:47.000 Kind of, yeah.

00:54:48.000 I'm a new driver.

00:54:50.000 I've only been driving for like less than a year now.

00:54:52.000 Like we talk politics.

00:54:53.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:54:54.000 But like when your life is on the line, look at these people in Louisiana right now with this hurricane.

00:54:58.000 How many people are stranded right now?

00:55:00.000 Roofs coming off of hospitals?

00:55:02.000 Dude, I remember that one in 2003, the hurricane that George Bush... The Katrina?

00:55:07.000 Katrina!

00:55:07.000 And they mishandled that terribly.

00:55:10.000 1,800 people died in that.

00:55:12.000 People were on their roofs.

00:55:13.000 Now we're truly entering the panopticon.

00:55:15.000 Drone footage flying overhead, filming people looting buildings.

00:55:18.000 Oh wow!

00:55:19.000 In Louisiana?

00:55:20.000 So speaking of surveillance... The eye that sees everything but itself.

00:55:23.000 I love the panopticon.

00:55:24.000 And them shutting down the airspace over that wreckage earlier is probably because they don't want the panopticon.

00:55:29.000 Right?

00:55:30.000 Yeah.

00:55:31.000 Yeah, I think we're headed towards a future where there's going to be drones over your backyard.

00:55:34.000 You're going to be in your bathroom and the government drone's going to fly up to the window and you're going to be naked.

00:55:38.000 It's going to be like, do not be alarmed, citizen.

00:55:41.000 We are simply doing an ID check.

00:55:43.000 And you're going to be like, OK.

00:55:44.000 It's not going to be the government drone.

00:55:45.000 It's going to be Amazon.

00:55:47.000 Or Tesla.

00:55:48.000 Well, maybe not Tesla.

00:55:49.000 Apple.

00:55:50.000 Tesla's going to have some kind of weird Musk-type implosion situation. 1.00

00:55:55.000 But it's definitely going to be Amazon saying, stay in your homes.

00:55:58.000 We will bring you the things that you require.

00:56:00.000 That was, uh, what show was I watching?

00:56:03.000 I think that was Electric Dreams.

00:56:04.000 The one I was talking about a little bit.

00:56:06.000 Where it's like, the AI system wipes out humanity by just mass producing products of want.

00:56:13.000 And so then eventually humans are just strangled out from the dying environment.

00:56:18.000 And they're like, the machines just drop boxes of random garbage.

00:56:21.000 But I think what we'll likely see is with moves like this over the, you know, January 6th, they're going after politicians.

00:56:30.000 They're going after prominent activists.

00:56:32.000 This really does paint a picture of that future where Amazon, like there's a uniparty, like we had a uniparty for some time, but they'll lucratively merge with the likes of Amazon or whatever.

00:56:41.000 Well, that's already happening.

00:56:42.000 I mean, when you see, you know, the administration was asked if they were going to do vaccine passports.

00:56:47.000 And they said, no, there will be no federal vaccine credential.

00:56:51.000 Right.

00:56:52.000 But then they supported states doing it.

00:56:55.000 They supported cities doing it.

00:56:56.000 And they have been encouraging businesses to do it themselves.

00:57:00.000 So you see that they're already teaming up.

00:57:03.000 They're already creating this corporate federal infrastructure that is Horrifyingly difficult to get out of, like the CCP.

00:57:14.000 I mean, this is something I think is definitely happening, and it's happening with all of our acquiescence.

00:57:14.000 I think that's real.

00:57:20.000 We like having little pieces of garbage delivered to our homes.

00:57:24.000 I just watched this really amazing classical movie.

00:57:29.000 It's called Fast and Furious.

00:57:33.000 One of the classics.

00:57:34.000 I've never seen this film.

00:57:36.000 You've got to see it.

00:57:37.000 You know why?

00:57:38.000 Because I was watching it and the bad guy's name is Reyes.

00:57:41.000 Now hold on.

00:57:41.000 Listen.

00:57:42.000 Okay?

00:57:43.000 The bad guy's name is Reyes.

00:57:44.000 Okay. 0.97

00:57:44.000 And he's a Brazilian, like, crime lord. 0.97

00:57:47.000 And he was, in the beginning of the movie, this is really, this is a profound moment, I was thinking about this.

00:57:51.000 He was talking to these two guys and he says, you know, I don't want to work with you.

00:57:54.000 Your methods are too violent.

00:57:56.000 You know, when you get violent and you back someone into a corner, they have nothing left to lose and they fight back.

00:58:01.000 I give them something to lose, and then I own them.

00:58:05.000 And I was like, wow.

00:58:07.000 That's something big.

00:58:08.000 I didn't think I was going to get any kind of philosophy from Fast and Furious.

00:58:12.000 But to say like, give the people something to lose and then threaten to take it away, and you will own them.

00:58:18.000 That's why the Americans don't want to fight.

00:58:19.000 That's why people don't want to... I'm not speaking for everyone here.

00:58:24.000 Yeah, there's too much to lose.

00:58:25.000 Like a nuclear war would, I mean, yeah, the people in Somalia would lose stuff, but we would lose this.

00:58:31.000 Look at the people who trespassed and are getting six months in prison.

00:58:35.000 Most of them were like bankrupt already.

00:58:37.000 A lot of these people had nothing.

00:58:40.000 And so I think Ashley Babbitt, for example, was like facing bankruptcy.

00:58:44.000 So these are people, like Reyes said in Fast and Furious, who had nothing left to lose.

00:58:49.000 And so now they're saying, what they're doing to these people is a reminder, you still have something left to lose.

00:58:55.000 We will lock you up and torture you in solitary confinement for eight months.

00:59:00.000 Then you'll realize what you've got to lose and people are going to see that.

00:59:03.000 That's the message they're sending.

00:59:04.000 Give the people something to lose and you will own them.

00:59:07.000 It's messed up.

00:59:07.000 Did you see what, you know, Adam Kokesh?

00:59:09.000 Did you see what they did to him back a couple of few years ago?

00:59:12.000 He went to DC and protested with a shotgun and open carry and they were like, Well, that gives us, you know, what do they call it when they have a probable cause?

00:59:21.000 Yeah, probable cause to search your apartment.

00:59:22.000 So they went to his house and they found mushrooms in his apartment, threw him in prison.

00:59:26.000 For mushrooms?

00:59:27.000 Just devastated him.

00:59:28.000 And he came out a completely different person. 0.96

00:59:29.000 Like, he does not talk crap about the government anymore. 0.70

00:59:32.000 Terrifying, because he was a hardcore activist. 0.97

00:59:35.000 Ex-military.

00:59:37.000 Really?

00:59:37.000 They just look for it.

00:59:38.000 They bring the hammer when they come.

00:59:40.000 He doesn't do any anti-government stuff?

00:59:42.000 I shouldn't say any, but he's not the outspoken vocalist that he was in the early days, like screaming profanity-laced tirades about the military-industrial complex because of mushrooms.

00:59:52.000 We're gonna have a medical.

00:59:53.000 Did you see how the government wants to expand the federal reach into medical research?

01:00:01.000 That's awesome!

01:00:02.000 What?

01:00:03.000 For mushrooms?

01:00:04.000 For all of it, really.

01:00:08.000 This is part of Biden's infrastructure plan.

01:00:11.000 It's like billions of dollars to create more federal medical infrastructure.

01:00:17.000 So I don't like it either.

01:00:19.000 And the idea is that when we need vaccines, we would just have the government do it.

01:00:22.000 We wouldn't have to, you know, engage American industry in doing these things in a competitive way.

01:00:29.000 I was talking to a friend and, uh, they were saying something to me like, this is kind of a lefty person.

01:00:34.000 They're like, I'm really scared about what's happening with these, these COVID numbers skyrocketing.

01:00:39.000 And I was like, I get it.

01:00:41.000 But I'm like, what, at what point do you just stop believing everything because of how much they've been wrong?

01:00:46.000 I'm not, not, not to say don't believe the numbers or anything.

01:00:46.000 You know what I mean?

01:00:49.000 I'm just like.

01:00:49.000 At a certain point, don't you throw up your arms in futility like, I've done everything they've said, nothing's changed, we got vaccinated, we wore two masks, it's all the same, and they just keep blaming other people.

01:01:01.000 And the response was like, but the government's really, really scared and that freaks me out.

01:01:06.000 And so it's like, I don't know.

01:01:08.000 I guess there's two ways you can go when you come to the futility of like, I just don't know anymore.

01:01:13.000 I'm broken mentally on this one.

01:01:15.000 I've seen too much reversions and back and forth.

01:01:18.000 I'm just like, you go do your thing.

01:01:19.000 I don't even know.

01:01:21.000 But then other people say, I give up.

01:01:22.000 Just tell me what to do.

01:01:24.000 I don't want to think anymore.

01:01:25.000 I think that is the point.

01:01:26.000 I think it's an intentional confusion.

01:01:29.000 So once we give up logic, we have nothing, and the regulations and the rules that are coming down to us don't make any cohesive sense.

01:01:38.000 They're not based on anything, right?

01:01:40.000 And so if you look to, for example, absurdist literature from Eastern Europe during the Cold War, If you look at, like, Kafka or if you look at Vaclav Havel, right, who was a brilliant playwright who ended up president of the Czech Republic randomly after the Velvet Revolution.

01:01:57.000 But you can see in this literature where these writers have discovered,

01:02:04.000 or they rather elucidate the way that communism worked in those nations,

01:02:08.000 where it's like they tell you one thing and then they do something else.

01:02:11.000 Like if you look at the trial, right, did you read Kafka's trial?

01:02:15.000 So I read this in high school and I had to convince them to let me read it, but whatever.

01:02:23.000 So this guy, K, ends up on trial and he can never get any real information as to what he's on trial for,

01:02:30.000 what it's about, who his solicitor is, what the punishments are going to be.

01:02:35.000 It's all just very confusing and it's very much like in Metamorphosis where he becomes the bug, right?

01:02:42.000 So the guy becomes, and this is probably easier to explain, but So he wakes up one morning, he's a cockroach.

01:02:49.000 He's horrified that he's a cockroach.

01:02:50.000 He doesn't know what to do about it.

01:02:52.000 He goes all through, how am I going to explain this?

01:02:54.000 What am I going to do?

01:02:55.000 I don't know.

01:02:56.000 As soon as he accepts the fact that he's a cockroach and nothing makes any sense and there's no way out of it, that's the end.

01:03:02.000 That's kind of the whole story. 0.99

01:03:04.000 He's like, I'm going to go eat some garbage. 0.96

01:03:06.000 No, he just kind of dies. 0.96

01:03:07.000 He dies under his bed, I think.

01:03:08.000 Well, that's brutal.

01:03:09.000 Well, yeah.

01:03:11.000 That's what this is.

01:03:12.000 If they confuse you enough, if they make you so confused that you stop questioning it because to question it itself is going to make you crazy.

01:03:22.000 That's sort of the end goal.

01:03:24.000 Because then you don't question.

01:03:25.000 Then you just do what you're told.

01:03:27.000 You just show up where you're supposed to show up.

01:03:29.000 You hand over what they tell you to hand over.

01:03:32.000 And in return, you get to what?

01:03:34.000 Like have a drink on Smith Street in Brooklyn.

01:03:36.000 Watch The Simpsons. 0.99

01:03:37.000 Watch The Simpsons and like jerk off. 0.99

01:03:37.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:03:39.000 You get to do that too.

01:03:39.000 Right?

01:03:40.000 I studied about the... They even gave everyone their OnlyFans back.

01:03:45.000 They're like, we can't take that away.

01:03:46.000 It's distracting people.

01:03:47.000 It's too much.

01:03:48.000 I took this, I tweeted this thing out.

01:03:49.000 It's on my Twitter feed somewhere about the gamification of trust, sociological trust.

01:03:54.000 And what's happening according to this game theory study is that not that we've been overloaded with communication and that there's too much of it.

01:04:00.000 All this new information, you know, the red pilling and the war on terror and all that.

01:04:06.000 But it's that the amount of misinformation is causing people to distrust each other.

01:04:11.000 And then the cheaters, the ones that are willing to game that and work with the distrust, are proliferating as a result.

01:04:18.000 And if there's too much misinformation, cheaters will overwhelm the system.

01:04:21.000 And then you'll have a system of cheaters.

01:04:24.000 If there's not too much distrust or misinformation, then the people that are willing to kind of play the game are going to override the cheaters.

01:04:32.000 There are some prominent leftist personalities who have always claimed to be anti-fascist, who are all of a sudden now making YouTube videos being like, why would anyone oppose government mandates on forced medical procedures?

01:04:43.000 And I'm like, it's so weird!

01:04:44.000 You know, for me, I've always been so in favor of freedoms, I've always been opposed to the coalescing of corporate power, that I find myself aligned with whoever at the time seems to oppose the coalescing of massive corporate and government power.

01:04:58.000 So it used to be the left, all of a sudden they're all pro-corporate power, and now it's the right!

01:05:03.000 I say it all the time, in a few years, you know, there will be a shift backwards and

01:05:08.000 the, you know, it's people like, like Jack Murphy, a really great example of somebody

01:05:12.000 who was a Democrat.

01:05:13.000 Now he's like Democrat to deplorable.

01:05:15.000 And I don't think it's that he's a Republican by party.

01:05:18.000 He's a Republican by, you know, who's willing to support more of his ideals.

01:05:22.000 And I feel that way.

01:05:24.000 So I have a feeling that a lot of people like us, who are maybe in the middle right now, leaning to one side or the other, will shift back and forth depending on which tribe wants to actually adopt freedom.

01:05:33.000 And who's actually willing to back our natural rights.

01:05:38.000 To what you were saying, Ian, about this misinformation thing, people aren't able to think critically, so they're not able to differentiate between what's supposedly misinformation and what's actually true or

01:05:52.000 anything like that and in part that's because we've completely destroyed our educational system.

01:05:56.000 So we've destroyed the canon, we've destroyed the literary canon, we've taken away Shakespeare

01:06:01.000 and Homer and you know all of this other stuff that used to tell us kind of a timeline of

01:06:08.000 this is a timeline of human thought about ideas, this is how you can you know track

01:06:13.000 truth, this is how you can understand things.

01:06:16.000 We've taken that all away, we've replaced it with stuff that we think is appropriate

01:06:20.000 to think about now and we've been left with a public that doesn't know how to think clearly

01:06:26.000 because we haven't given them any examples as to how to do so.

01:06:29.000 I'd like to read a text message I received allegedly from the ACLU.

01:06:35.000 I have a series of text messages from a number from... I'm not going to say the number, but it's an ACLU number, supposedly, they say.

01:06:43.000 As schools start nationwide, Kimberly Crenshaw talks teaching the truth about race in America.

01:06:49.000 Check out our podcast.

01:06:50.000 Back to school merch that backs civil liberties. 0.97

01:06:54.000 Why did the ACLU text me saying that Kimberly Crenshaw is gonna, you know, have a podcast about back-to-school stuff? 0.96

01:07:00.000 She is, like, listen.

01:07:01.000 She created intersectionalism.

01:07:03.000 Kimberly Crenshaw is as close as you can get to being a Nazi as you can in the modern era, in my opinion. 0.95

01:07:09.000 When I see the stupid people walking around with the symbols of the Nazi party or whatever, or like the bikers who do it because they're trying to be, you know, punk or edgy or anti-establishment, that's very different from someone who is overtly Identitarian, wanting government based on race, and is a proponent of fascistic ideologies, whether they assert them verbatim or not. 0.95

01:07:32.000 But the people who are like, I believe the government should have absolutely authority to do these things. 0.99

01:07:36.000 And also, I think the law should be based on race. 0.93

01:07:38.000 Okay, yeah, that's as close as you can get to what the Nazis were doing.

01:07:42.000 So when I see some of these prominent, you know, leftist YouTubers with over a million subs, and they're like, You know, these anti-vaxxers are saying that the vaccine mandates are bad and the government shouldn't be doing this, but people should just do what the government tells them.

01:07:53.000 I'm like, so you support race-based ideology, identitarianism.

01:07:57.000 So does the government.

01:07:58.000 You support massive multinational pharmaceutical countries getting guaranteed no liability contracts, and you support the government forcing people to undergo medical procedures. 0.58

01:08:09.000 Yo, you're Nazis!

01:08:10.000 Yes. 1.00

01:08:10.000 You're at the very least fascist. 1.00

01:08:11.000 can get to it. You're at the very least fascist. Yes. I'm gonna I'm just gonna go straight for violating Godwin's law 0.99

01:08:17.000 right away because because it's it's it's the look when someone's like you know you just want people to live the

01:08:23.000 way you want cuz you're a Nazi it's like well well hold on I personally think people should take care of their own

01:08:30.000 decisions and take care of themselves and their friends and their families so long as they're not hurting other people

01:08:35.000 it's It's the dominant left Democrat faction that are basically saying pro-corporate power, guaranteed contracts for massive, unaccountable pharmaceutical countries, and the government will mandate the Medicaid— Companies.

01:08:48.000 Pharmaceutical countries.

01:08:49.000 Twice you said that, dude.

01:08:50.000 Are you prophesying something?

01:08:52.000 I know we have theocracies.

01:08:53.000 You see what's happening?

01:08:55.000 Because they're merging in my mind like I'm slipping.

01:08:58.000 Oh, Lord.

01:08:59.000 The other thing too is that- Listen, listen.

01:09:01.000 Massive multinational corporations say, here is the product, and these left establishment

01:09:08.000 people are going, yay, save us, big pharma.

01:09:10.000 And then the government says, and you have to buy their product.

01:09:13.000 And they go, yay, save us.

01:09:15.000 And I love it.

01:09:16.000 Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks said, do you think if the right-wingers came out and said seatbelts were tyranny, that they would all stop wearing them?

01:09:23.000 And I'm like, yo, libertarians do think forcing people to wear seatbelts is tyranny.

01:09:28.000 And you know what?

01:09:29.000 I remember this back in Illinois when they passed the law saying you have to wear a seatbelt, click it or ticket.

01:09:34.000 And what I was told, I'm not saying it's true because I was a kid at the time and it was just the scuttlebutt I heard from the adults, was yeah, the insurance companies were lobbying for seatbelt laws because it made sure their profits stayed the same because you have to have insurance, but it meant their payouts would go down because people were less likely to get injured.

01:09:50.000 And the politicians saw it as a safety issue, and the insurance companies saw it as a reducing their expenses issue. 0.96

01:09:57.000 So yes, it very much was in this Bloombergarian idea of the people are too stupid to live their own lives, so the nanny status tell them what they have to do. 0.98

01:10:07.000 And now we have, click it or ticket. 0.99

01:10:09.000 I hate the thing too where it's like, people are like, why don't you, you know, the vaccine is free, just get it.

01:10:14.000 And it's like, it's not, it's so obviously not free.

01:10:16.000 The Pfizer one is like 19.25 a shot.

01:10:19.000 The other ones are like 10 bucks or something like that.

01:10:21.000 It's like, my kid is going to be paying for all of this stuff.

01:10:24.000 What?

01:10:25.000 They were doing free vaccines for a while, but I think that ended, didn't it?

01:10:28.000 No, I'm pretty sure it's still free.

01:10:30.000 You could get it free at the Rite Aid.

01:10:33.000 Oh, I thought you were saying it wasn't free.

01:10:34.000 No, it is free, but it's not free.

01:10:36.000 I mean, it's not actually free.

01:10:37.000 The government is paying for it.

01:10:39.000 Oh, right, right, right.

01:10:40.000 Our taxes are paying for it.

01:10:41.000 So we're paying for it.

01:10:42.000 And the administration is like sending out $250 a month to families who have kids for like every kid.

01:10:49.000 See, this is weird, but the thing too is like this booster shot thing, right?

01:10:53.000 So now booster shots every five months.

01:10:54.000 Yeah.

01:10:55.000 So we're just going to keep paying for that forever.

01:10:57.000 It's like they finally figured out a way to turn us all into lifelong medical patients.

01:11:01.000 They've been trying to do that for a while now, and here it is.

01:11:04.000 And so at a certain point, your vaccine passport is useless anyway, unless you re-up your dose.

01:11:12.000 Here we go from Insider.

01:11:14.000 Business Insider.

01:11:15.000 Fauci says U.S.

01:11:16.000 still planning for COVID-19 booster after 8 months.

01:11:19.000 Biden said shots could be administered after 5.

01:11:22.000 I know some people who already got theirs and it hasn't been 8 months.

01:11:26.000 There was a tweet I saw where they were like, well, now all the data's screwed up.

01:11:26.000 Wow.

01:11:30.000 Because we had, like, the regimen, you know, two shots, and then we'll track what happens, and now people are getting more.

01:11:36.000 And, look, I say it all the time.

01:11:39.000 There's a report we also have.

01:11:41.000 Let me see if I can pull this up.

01:11:42.000 This is from TimCast.com.

01:11:44.000 Switzerland warns of potential terror attacks on vaccination sites.

01:11:48.000 The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service voiced its concern with the national newspaper of the weekend.

01:11:52.000 That is horrifying.

01:11:53.000 If people go to their trusted medical professional, do some research or whatever, make a decision for themselves, and that means they want to go get the vaccine, they should be allowed to do it.

01:12:01.000 Nobody should be stopping people from getting medicated, whatever that medication might be.

01:12:04.000 Because there are a lot of people who are like, you know, that particular antibiotic is bad for this reason.

01:12:08.000 It's like, dude, mind your own business.

01:12:10.000 And so when it comes to Fauci and Biden, another discussion around five months, they'll get a booster.

01:12:17.000 The problem is not, in my opinion, the vaccine.

01:12:20.000 The problem is the authoritarianism.

01:12:23.000 That is the problem with it.

01:12:25.000 I mean, I was vaccinated.

01:12:28.000 The problem is telling everybody what to do.

01:12:30.000 And making, listen, I was talking to- Which is just not okay.

01:12:34.000 I mean, we get to have decisions to make for ourselves.

01:12:37.000 Dude, I was talking to a lefty friend of mine and I said, you are supporting a massive, guaranteed, no liability contract for big pharma.

01:12:47.000 It's the opposite of universal healthcare.

01:12:49.000 And if this goes through, you will never see universal healthcare.

01:12:53.000 The other, no, that's interesting.

01:12:55.000 The other thing too is there have been, you know, anytime anyone tries to make a report about some concern with the vaccine, um, that gets squashed by social media instantly.

01:13:08.000 So there's no way to have a public conversation, uh, because everyone's already, everyone's opinions have already been bought and sold.

01:13:16.000 So you're not allowed to, The rules.

01:13:18.000 For instance here, Putin says no to vaccine mandates.

01:13:22.000 Have you guys confirmed this at all?

01:13:23.000 I didn't see that.

01:13:25.000 Who's reporting on it?

01:13:25.000 Because I can't find any large organization reporting on this.

01:13:29.000 I've got welovetrump.com, coronanews123.wordpress.

01:13:36.000 Talk about authoritarianism, or the lack thereof, when the Russian premier has decided, president, as that's what he's called, they're not going to do mandates if that's real.

01:13:44.000 I think this all comes down, it hinges on do you think- Well, then they'd have to give it away anyway, so maybe that's part of it.

01:13:49.000 What do you mean?

01:13:50.000 Well, they don't, they don't, probably they don't want to pay for all those vaccines for their entire population.

01:13:55.000 Maybe, I don't know.

01:13:56.000 Yeah.

01:13:56.000 That's a good point.

01:13:57.000 Another, another reason.

01:13:58.000 But it just this entire thing hinges whether or not these people are Nazis, whether blah is like, what's the threat level of COVID?

01:14:05.000 This story is actually pretty old.

01:14:06.000 I've got something from this is funny.

01:14:07.000 It didn't come up on Google, but it came up on DuckDuckGo.

01:14:10.000 Putin says Russia won't make COVID vaccines compulsory, but skepticism remains a problem.

01:14:14.000 It's from May 27.

01:14:16.000 I googled search and I couldn't find anything.

01:14:17.000 Yeah.

01:14:18.000 And then I went on DuckDuckGo and it popped right up.

01:14:19.000 OK, maybe it's maybe it's just a resurged article.

01:14:22.000 I know he got the vaccine.

01:14:24.000 Or maybe he said something recently.

01:14:25.000 Yeah.

01:14:26.000 Isn't it crazy?

01:14:27.000 I saw a comment where somebody, I think it was on Reddit, where they were talking about how, you know, emigrating to the United States and wondering if now they actually want to go back, you know, to Russia.

01:14:38.000 Oh, that's interesting.

01:14:39.000 Yeah, because of what's happening in the United States.

01:14:42.000 It's absolutely insane.

01:14:43.000 It is absolutely insane.

01:14:45.000 I hear these stories from friends where they're like, oh my friend texted me about being friends with you,

01:14:53.000 or someone will say something like, oh I got a text from a friend where they were like,

01:14:58.000 I can't believe you would be friends with this person or that person.

01:15:00.000 I can't believe you would watch this show or that show.

01:15:02.000 You know, or you watch Alex Jones.

01:15:04.000 Like, how could you watch or listen to Dave Rubin?

01:15:06.000 He's far right.

01:15:07.000 You know Tim Pool?

01:15:09.000 And I'm like, you know what this reminds me of?

01:15:10.000 Reminds me of being a kid and having people being like, I can't believe you turned away from the church.

01:15:14.000 I can't believe it.

01:15:15.000 What's happened to you?

01:15:17.000 And it's like this level of dogmatic faith.

01:15:21.000 And this emotional manipulation of messaging someone and saying these things.

01:15:25.000 I'm like, yo, these people aren't a cult.

01:15:27.000 Well, it's apostasy, right? 0.61

01:15:28.000 Because you've committed apostasy.

01:15:29.000 That's what it is.

01:15:30.000 Here's the important thing.

01:15:31.000 When someone would join a cult back in the day, you could take them away from the cult and deprogram them.

01:15:38.000 But you had to get them away from the cult.

01:15:40.000 You can't do it anymore.

01:15:41.000 It's their phone.

01:15:43.000 It's linked into their minds.

01:15:43.000 It's everywhere.

01:15:45.000 Well, and now they're fed back that same algorithm.

01:15:48.000 So there's it's very hard to break away from that.

01:15:50.000 You have to go to DuckDuckGo.

01:15:52.000 Apparently, even then, when I searched Putin vaccine on DuckDuckGo, I got Putin gets coronavirus vaccine from March.

01:15:59.000 Well, you search for the title like Putin says no vaccine mandate.

01:16:01.000 Yeah.

01:16:02.000 No, I mean, yeah, you're right.

01:16:03.000 I'm not an expert with searches.

01:16:06.000 Search for the words.

01:16:07.000 Search for them!

01:16:08.000 I will find them.

01:16:09.000 Give me the words, Tim.

01:16:10.000 I just searched for, on doctor.go, Putin vaccine mandate.

01:16:14.000 And then a bunch of stories popped up.

01:16:15.000 Putin says no compulsory vaccines.

01:16:17.000 Yeah, rock.

01:16:18.000 I mean, to be fair, Biden said no compulsory vaccines.

01:16:20.000 Oh, that's from RTU.

01:16:21.000 Well, but he lied.

01:16:22.000 Well, I got CNBC right here.

01:16:23.000 Cool.

01:16:24.000 Well, the government isn't like the federal government isn't doing it.

01:16:27.000 Bill de Blasio is doing it at the city level.

01:16:29.000 Yeah.

01:16:29.000 And all these other cities.

01:16:30.000 San Jose is doing it.

01:16:31.000 Yeah.

01:16:32.000 And New Orleans and San Francisco.

01:16:34.000 And they're all doing this with the full backing of the federal government.

01:16:37.000 Biden goes out there and says that he wants everybody to do this.

01:16:40.000 He encourages big companies to.

01:16:43.000 I think it was just recently like the other day when the FDA approved the vaccine.

01:16:47.000 Was it like a week ago?

01:16:48.000 Yeah.

01:16:49.000 And he encouraged big companies to require all their employees to get vaccinated.

01:16:54.000 This is another really weird thing that I've talked about before, but people keep emailing me claiming that the vaccine, the Pfizer vaccine, isn't FDA approved.

01:17:02.000 And they're using like, it's the weirdest thing, a twisted semantic argument that is not true.

01:17:06.000 Oh, is this, that's the like other drug that has a different name?

01:17:10.000 community which is literally the exact same vaccine as per the FDA letter and so when Bannon was here he mentioned this and I was like I don't think that's true and I googled it I'm like it says right here it is the vaccine that is approved and then I got a bunch of emails like Bannon is right Tim take a look at this and there are a bunch of articles like you know patriot national dot you know info or whatever and it says something like take a look at this letter And so I read the FDA letter and it literally says the formulation is identical and interchangeable, but one is the marketing brand.

01:17:41.000 Either can be used because they're the same thing.

01:17:44.000 Yeah.

01:17:44.000 What he was saying, I thought, was that Pfizer has a bunch of different vaccines that it's working on and only one of them has been FDA approved.

01:17:50.000 That's the Comirnaty one. 0.94

01:17:51.000 So when people say the Pfizer vaccine is FDA approved, they're not being accurate because

01:17:55.000 there's it's one of the Pfizer vaccines. There's one COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine. It is being marketed

01:18:01.000 as Comirnity. They are the same exact vaccine under just different names. The FDA letter says

01:18:07.000 it is commonly known as the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which will now be marketed as Comirnity.

01:18:12.000 They are interchangeable and an identical formulation. And so for some reason, people

01:18:18.000 are claiming, you know, they're actually two different ones.

01:18:20.000 I'm like, what do you, what?

01:18:22.000 Yeah, is Pfizer working on other COVID vaccines?

01:18:24.000 I don't know.

01:18:25.000 But I thought that's what Steve was saying.

01:18:26.000 No, so people keep emailing me this thinking that there's some like underhanded scheme to like trick people into thinking that community is available, but it's not really.

01:18:35.000 That way they're not liable.

01:18:36.000 And it's like, no, no, no, no.

01:18:37.000 Just like, did you read it?

01:18:38.000 And so I just took a quote from the letter and it says like, these are identical, interchangeable and the same exact formulation.

01:18:44.000 And I email it back.

01:18:45.000 I'm like, I don't know why you thought that was true.

01:18:47.000 Right.

01:18:47.000 Did you read the letter?

01:18:48.000 But people, I think, I think it's because Well, a lot of people said, oh, you know, I'm not going to get it until it's FDA approved.

01:18:55.000 Right.

01:18:55.000 And that was their, like, rationale.

01:18:57.000 And then once it got approved, they needed to maintain a rationale.

01:19:00.000 Well, then that was Biden's whole speech last week, was like, all you people who were waiting for it, now it is.

01:19:04.000 I think just assert your- So everyone just get it.

01:19:08.000 If you, if you really are like, you know, just, just say it, just publicly state how you feel about it and don't rely on semantic arguments.

01:19:16.000 Right.

01:19:16.000 And maybe if you don't want to get the vaccine or any medical treatment, then that's kind of up to you.

01:19:22.000 That's up to you.

01:19:23.000 And I am not going to give people medical advice.

01:19:25.000 When it comes to like mandating it and whether those people are Nazis that want the government to mandate this.

01:19:30.000 Is like how dangerous is COVID?

01:19:33.000 Because when when people got polio and were getting paralyzed, they didn't say it was authoritarian Nazism to mandate a vaccine.

01:19:33.000 That's what we have to ask.

01:19:41.000 They just did it.

01:19:42.000 Well, maybe they did.

01:19:43.000 I wasn't around.

01:19:44.000 My dad got it.

01:19:45.000 He took it on the arm.

01:19:46.000 There were a lot of people who didn't want to get it.

01:19:48.000 And also the federal government at the time put out a few different statements saying, you know, As people get this vaccine, people are going to die.

01:19:58.000 It doesn't necessarily mean that it's from the vaccine.

01:20:01.000 People die anyway, and sometimes these things are going to be, you know, coincidental.

01:20:07.000 The CDC says it very, very bluntly.

01:20:10.000 They've said it to me in a statement as I interviewed people.

01:20:13.000 I actually interviewed one of the highest guys at the CDC in like his full military uniform a few years ago.

01:20:18.000 And they said, we know there are side effects and adverse effects, we know that some people face problems, but percentage-wise, it is substantially better that people get vaccinated than not, even with the side effects.

01:20:31.000 Basically, they're saying the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the risk from the vaccine is substantially lower than the risk from not getting it for society as a whole.

01:20:40.000 So my thing is like, I'm very much for the individual.

01:20:43.000 I think you have to find someone you trust when it comes to medicine, a medical professional, and come to a personal decision that I'm not going to make for you.

01:20:52.000 I want to get sued.

01:20:53.000 That's even what you were saying, talking to that CDC official a few years ago.

01:20:58.000 That's even different than the messaging we're getting now, right?

01:21:00.000 No, I don't think so.

01:21:01.000 I think it's on their website.

01:21:02.000 The CDC literally has it.

01:21:03.000 Yeah.

01:21:03.000 OK.

01:21:04.000 But from the mainstream media, from social media, from like the way that that message is interpreted.

01:21:10.000 That sounds very reasonable, right? 1.00

01:21:12.000 The way that that message is interpreted is almost as though to say the American public is too stupid to figure 1.00

01:21:18.000 out what to do. 1.00

01:21:19.000 Bloomberg literally said that.

01:21:20.000 Yeah. And so, you know, the way it's interpreted is that people are not trusted to make their own decisions.

01:21:27.000 That's the problem, right?

01:21:29.000 If that was what we hear all the time and people were like, oh, that's interesting.

01:21:33.000 I'm going to make my own decision.

01:21:34.000 I'm going to think about it.

01:21:36.000 But people are told not to think about it, to just do what they're told.

01:21:38.000 And that's the issue.

01:21:40.000 That is the problem.

01:21:41.000 This is why I think we're all collapsing.

01:21:43.000 First, we got the failure of Afghanistan, the absolute chaos of the Biden administration.

01:21:47.000 Donald Trump was anti-elected, so people voted not for Biden, they voted against Trump.

01:21:53.000 But it's like to the most extreme degree I've ever seen in my life.

01:21:56.000 You have economic crisis, labor shortages, and you have no national unity.

01:22:03.000 And I don't mean just like obviously there's a culture war, I mean quite literally a crisis happens.

01:22:07.000 There's 15 days to slow the spread.

01:22:10.000 And then instantly, every single grifter of grifters comes out to make money.

01:22:14.000 The pharmaceutical companies want no bid guaranteed, no liability contracts.

01:22:19.000 The government just says, fine.

01:22:21.000 Then all of these local jurisdictions are like, I don't care.

01:22:24.000 I don't want to be held responsible.

01:22:25.000 So whatever that guy says, you do.

01:22:28.000 All that's happening is people are saying, I want nothing to do with you.

01:22:32.000 I want stuff for me.

01:22:33.000 Like I said, what we're seeing is the elites knowing that we hit an iceberg and they're stealing all the silverware and running to the safety boats before anyone realizes what's happening.

01:22:42.000 This was interesting, too, the other day.

01:22:44.000 So we have a mayoral election going on in New York City.

01:22:47.000 De Blasio is going to be out, which is great.

01:22:49.000 Eric Adams is the—he won the Democratic primary in June.

01:22:54.000 He was the Brooklyn Borough President.

01:22:57.000 He's relatively popular.

01:22:59.000 He was not the far-left candidate, so people were displeased that he won that primary.

01:23:04.000 But anyway, he's running against Curtis Lewa.

01:23:07.000 who was recently doing a like you know doing a campaign event that was interrupted by a homeless guy who was started like yelling about stuff and Sliwa went over to him he wasn't miked you know he just went over and started talking to the guy and being like oh you know talking to him like a human being which obviously he is what's your situation you know have you been are you supposed to be taking medication have you been hospitalized And the guy breaks down and says, you know, I don't want to be a burden to anybody.

01:23:39.000 I don't, you know, I don't want to do this to everybody.

01:23:43.000 And Slee was like, no, you're not.

01:23:45.000 Like, you're our responsibility.

01:23:47.000 And then he asked him, do you want to stand here with us?

01:23:49.000 Do you want to stand here with us?

01:23:50.000 Yeah.

01:23:51.000 Now, the current administration, de Blasio, de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McRae, tweets out like, if you see homeless people, call the homelessness outreach line.

01:24:01.000 You had Bloomberg saying, you know, previously saying, if you see homeless people in need of help, you know, don't help them yourself.

01:24:10.000 Call somebody and call the homelessness outreach to go help them.

01:24:14.000 And I think this is part of it too.

01:24:15.000 We don't take any responsibility for our neighbors.

01:24:18.000 We don't take any care for the people around us.

01:24:20.000 We assume that there's always somebody else who's supposed to do that thing and that maybe we should let them know, hey, There's someone bleeding to death over here.

01:24:28.000 I'm gonna be late for coffee, you know, so I can't do it.

01:24:31.000 You deal with it.

01:24:33.000 And we see that all over the place in our culture where we are supposed to put our trust in the government.

01:24:40.000 We saw this with Obama and I think in a lot of ways this goes back to Obama.

01:24:44.000 Like Obama had this whole like video for Obamacare, right?

01:24:50.000 That was this woman And I think her name was Julie in the advertising. 0.62

01:24:55.000 And she was just all by herself.

01:24:58.000 And at every turn the government was there to help her.

01:25:01.000 Right down to a certain point she had a child and the government was there to help her.

01:25:05.000 She had a child.

01:25:06.000 There was still nobody else in the picture at that point.

01:25:08.000 There was still just her and the child.

01:25:10.000 There was no one else that she could be.

01:25:11.000 There was no father.

01:25:12.000 Right?

01:25:13.000 Is my point.

01:25:13.000 That's bad marketing.

01:25:14.000 It was weird marketing at the time.

01:25:16.000 And I remember looking at it being like, I don't want to have a baby with the government.

01:25:20.000 You know, I'm not up for that.

01:25:22.000 That's weird and creepy.

01:25:24.000 And that's where we landed.

01:25:26.000 I was recently again like Facebook with people that I've known for a long time or whatever.

01:25:31.000 And there was a woman who was saying that someone in California had come up with a lot of money for homelessness housing.

01:25:38.000 And she found this infuriating.

01:25:39.000 This was a private guy.

01:25:41.000 And she was like, you know, why?

01:25:44.000 Why do we need this private guy to come up with homelessness housing?

01:25:49.000 It's not his responsibility.

01:25:50.000 The government should be doing this.

01:25:52.000 And I was like, no, this guy should be doing it.

01:25:54.000 If he thinks that this is his responsibility to take care of people, then he should be doing it.

01:25:59.000 Obviously, we can't just have a government and say everybody just rely on the government and the government will come and interfere in every aspect of our lives.

01:26:09.000 We should want to take responsibility for each other.

01:26:11.000 We should want to care about our neighbors and be cared about.

01:26:15.000 Why do we not want that?

01:26:17.000 There was an old woman who died next door to me. 1.00

01:26:19.000 I had only met her two times and I felt so stupid that I had, you know, barely ever interacted with her and then her son shows up to clear out her apartment and he's like, do you want, you knew my mother and I was like, dude, I've, I met your mother twice.

01:26:36.000 Like, please don't give me her valuable things.

01:26:40.000 I don't, you know. 0.97

01:26:42.000 I am garbage who lives next door to her. 1.00

01:26:42.000 Yeah, I'll give a shout-out. 1.00

01:26:44.000 I'll give a shout-out to Luke's video we mentioned before.

01:26:49.000 It's called, I think it's called, like, Just Keep Going, You Got Nothing to Lose.

01:26:51.000 Luke Rikowski from We Are Change.

01:26:53.000 And it's this old video you made back like 10 years ago where he's like, you know, I take the train every day in New York and there's millions of people, but I noticed they never talk to each other.

01:27:02.000 So one day I decided to start talking to these people, and then he films and asks them questions that, you know, get kind of weird, like, do you trust the government?

01:27:08.000 But I think it's funny, and it makes a good, you know, emotional point anyway, that, like, people in New York City, they live around each other.

01:27:16.000 They're not neighbors.

01:27:17.000 Neighbor is the wrong word.

01:27:17.000 No.

01:27:18.000 That is exactly the wrong word.

01:27:19.000 Remember when Mr. Rogers would say, hello, neighbor.

01:27:23.000 That meant something.

01:27:23.000 Oh, yeah.

01:27:24.000 Yeah, that's not good.

01:27:25.000 Now it's like, you're not my neighbor.

01:27:26.000 Like, you live next to me and you yell too much.

01:27:29.000 Yeah, I've actually started trying to like talk to the people in my building now. 0.99

01:27:32.000 Ever since this woman died, I was like, that sucks. 0.99

01:27:36.000 And so I've tried to talk to people and they just kind of look at me, but I'm good. 0.95

01:27:39.000 I think I'm going to keep it up.

01:27:40.000 But there's this, there was a sign on the MTA, speaking of not talking to each other on the MTA with COVID, right?

01:27:46.000 So there were three options and the MTA let you know which one was the appropriate option.

01:27:51.000 The first option was two stick figures having a conversation with no masks looking animated having a conversation and it said not this.

01:27:59.000 The next one was people wearing masks having a conversation and it said not this.

01:28:04.000 And then the final one was two people looking down separately at books not looking at each other having no communication at all and the MTA was like this this is what we want you to do.

01:28:16.000 Don't talk to anybody.

01:28:18.000 Don't look at anybody.

01:28:19.000 Don't be near anybody.

01:28:20.000 Don't exist with other people. 0.96

01:28:22.000 Just live in your own literal bubble behind your face covering and go about your business.

01:28:30.000 That's the brave new world we live in.

01:28:31.000 Yeah, that's what happens when you let the corporations take over, man. 0.98

01:28:35.000 Whether it's the city, the state, the corporate corporation, the centralized authority makes these stupid machine-like rules and restrictions on humans when we're not machines.

01:28:45.000 I watch this movie, it's called, I think it's called 2149, where it's like people live in concrete pods their whole lives, and they just, all they do is play video games, and they interact without, just by typing, and that's like the world.

01:28:58.000 That's the E.M.

01:28:59.000 Forrester story also, The Machine Stops, did you ever read that?

01:29:01.000 No, what's that?

01:29:02.000 It's a free download, in fact, you can get it because it's out of, what do you call it, copyright, The Machine Stops.

01:29:07.000 E.M.

01:29:07.000 Forrester wrote this book 19, I don't know, 1914, 1918, I don't know when it was, something like that.

01:29:15.000 And all of these people live underground in their own little studio apartments.

01:29:20.000 And whenever they need anything, they ask the machine for it.

01:29:23.000 And the machine will provide it, whether it's food or anything else.

01:29:27.000 Whenever they want to talk to each other, they all deliver lectures on basically telescreens.

01:29:34.000 It's basically the internet.

01:29:35.000 And that's how they talk to each other.

01:29:37.000 And they respond.

01:29:38.000 When was it written?

01:29:39.000 Wow.

01:29:39.000 1909.

01:29:40.000 Yeah.

01:29:40.000 There you go.

01:29:41.000 Interesting.

01:29:42.000 Yeah, this is a fascinating story.

01:29:44.000 So basically he predicted people sitting in their mom's basements.

01:29:46.000 Yes, yes.

01:29:47.000 Playing Warcraft.

01:29:48.000 Yeah, and he predicted online dating as well.

01:29:51.000 Because the main character, this woman, I think her name's Vashti or something, so she lives in her little underground cubby.

01:29:59.000 She delivers lectures through telescreen, and most of her lectures, most of the things she delivers, she talks about, are responses to other people's lectures.

01:30:08.000 And at the beginning of the story, she talks about how she was listening to a symphony and there was a glitch in it.

01:30:14.000 And when she first recognized that, when she first heard the symphony with the glitch, she was very upset and she was, you know, wanted to complain about this glitch and now she wouldn't recognize the symphony without it.

01:30:25.000 It's creepy.

01:30:25.000 It's very creepy and also she has a child but she had a child with a man who showed up.

01:30:31.000 They, you know, engaged, had a child and he left and she never saw him again.

01:30:37.000 So it's Tinder, it's Siri, it's like everything.

01:30:41.000 It's Amazon.

01:30:42.000 And then of course the machine breaks down and so all of the people eventually they start like pouring out of their cubbies and the little transport system doesn't work.

01:30:52.000 Um, and her son, who had contacted her, makes his way to the surface to breathe air for the first time.

01:31:00.000 And it's poison, and it kills him, and he dies, but he, you know.

01:31:03.000 Nice! 0.94

01:31:04.000 Wow.

01:31:05.000 E.M.

01:31:05.000 Forrester is amazing.

01:31:06.000 That led me to read everything E.M.

01:31:08.000 Forrester ever wrote, and that's really the best thing.

01:31:11.000 I should have just stopped there.

01:31:13.000 Well, how about we go to Super Chats?

01:31:15.000 Smash the like button.

01:31:17.000 Give it a gentle little tap.

01:31:18.000 Do it for Ian.

01:31:19.000 Just love it.

01:31:20.000 Yeah, just do it for Ian, everybody.

01:31:21.000 You have to make love about it.

01:31:22.000 And go to TimCast.com, become a member.

01:31:24.000 There's going to be a member segment coming up.

01:31:25.000 We usually post them around 11 or so p.m.

01:31:28.000 That will be for members, like I said, so make sure you subscribe to the channel and become a member over there.

01:31:33.000 Let's read some Super Chats. 0.87

01:31:33.000 Smash the like button. 0.87

01:31:35.000 Deplorable Pirate Captain Gunbeard says, according to a new study, kids aged 5 to 11 went from an obesity rate of 36% to 47% because of the lockdown in the U.S.

01:31:45.000 Saw that!

01:31:46.000 That's really bad for people's health.

01:31:47.000 That's a lot.

01:31:48.000 Jason D says, Tim, you got some interference on your show.

01:31:52.000 Yes.

01:31:52.000 I think it was because the microphone may have been rubbing against the power cable, which causes interference.

01:31:57.000 So the problem is it doesn't seem to be consistent.

01:32:00.000 It seems to be intermittent.

01:32:02.000 Uh, intermittent.

01:32:03.000 So I just moved the cables.

01:32:04.000 Hopefully that solves the problem, but we'll figure it out.

01:32:07.000 All right, let's see.

01:32:10.000 Jeffrey Pfaff says Iran still flies USF-5 1965 with heavy sanctions.

01:32:18.000 That is amazing.

01:32:20.000 I guess they know how to keep them up.

01:32:20.000 Yikes.

01:32:24.000 All right, let's see.

01:32:25.000 Moonlight Film says, why does the Biden pullout got to be worse than Tim Pool's internet connection?

01:32:30.000 That is not fair.

01:32:31.000 The interruptions we've had the past few times, the past couple of weeks, was on YouTube's end, not our end.

01:32:37.000 Our internet is working.

01:32:39.000 We have got this robust multi-network system with fail-safes, and the web was dropping out, not because of us.

01:32:46.000 We had a clean connection the whole way through.

01:32:48.000 All right, let's see.

01:32:53.000 Hayden says, random but I thought of something.

01:32:55.000 Let's see.

01:32:57.000 Hit IRS and Fed where it hurts by passing amendment where employers can't take taxes, Medicare, anything out of employee checks, forcing people to write a check to the IRS every year so it is more clear that return was their money already.

01:33:10.000 You see, that's the issue.

01:33:12.000 People get paid and their taxes are taken out instantly as a convenience, right?

01:33:16.000 No, it's so that they don't realize.

01:33:18.000 I remember when I first, like my second job, actually like my fourth or fifth job,

01:33:22.000 but like my first big corporate job.

01:33:24.000 And they were like, it's 10, 25 an hour.

01:33:27.000 So I was counting the hours.

01:33:29.000 And then I was like, okay, so I worked 40 hours, I should be getting about this much money.

01:33:33.000 Taxes will probably come out to this, so I think I'll get this, and I got half.

01:33:36.000 And then I remember looking at my check and I'm like, hold on a minute.

01:33:39.000 And they looked through it, they did the math, they're like, that's right.

01:33:41.000 And I'm like, yo, I'm poor.

01:33:42.000 I can't afford to get five bucks take home.

01:33:44.000 Like, what is this?

01:33:45.000 I saw it happen.

01:33:46.000 So I guess what I mean to say is, for a lot of middle class people, they don't realize.

01:33:51.000 At the end of the year, you're like, yo, I got a big refund.

01:33:53.000 Yeah.

01:33:54.000 And it's like, oh, so the money that was taken from you just found his way back.

01:33:54.000 And they high five.

01:33:56.000 That's great.

01:33:57.000 And then poor people see it.

01:33:57.000 Yeah.

01:33:59.000 The government earns the interest on your money and you don't get to earn it yourself.

01:34:02.000 You can make a lot of money with that.

01:34:02.000 Yeah.

01:34:04.000 I bet they do.

01:34:05.000 A lot of delinquencies when people would just get their full paycheck at the end of the year had to pay taxes and they were like, I wasn't planning for this.

01:34:05.000 I'm sure they do.

01:34:12.000 Right.

01:34:14.000 Then there's this weird thing, too.

01:34:15.000 So the administration is giving out like money for kids.

01:34:18.000 Right.

01:34:19.000 So every child, every family, every kid, $250 a month.

01:34:24.000 And I'm wondering what's going to happen when it turns out that they've been sending $250 checks to a bunch of people who aren't actually eligible for that child, that like same kind of deduction or who owe money and that's going to be screwed up.

01:34:36.000 Wow.

01:34:37.000 There are a couple of superchats asking about this.

01:34:39.000 Paulo Ramirez says, sources are saying that about 200 military service dogs were released in the streets of Kabul.

01:34:45.000 I haven't heard that, but it would not surprise me.

01:34:48.000 I saw an image of a bunch of kennels.

01:34:50.000 Really?

01:34:51.000 Yeah, it was pretty disturbing.

01:34:52.000 I couldn't cover it.

01:34:52.000 Hard to fact check though.

01:34:53.000 Yeah, we gotta fact check that stuff.

01:34:54.000 It's hard.

01:34:56.000 Christopher says, I feel like at this point the Black Swan event is that Joe Biden messes up everything to such a degree that we are all united.

01:35:03.000 Uniting would truly be unpredictable.

01:35:05.000 I gotta say, man, right now under, you know, you've got a lot of populist leftists who are ragging on Joe Biden and the right ragging on Joe Biden.

01:35:15.000 And so now you have this creepy neocon establishment Democrat alliance, which has been, you know, been around for a while, but now they've lost a lot of the populist leftists.

01:35:24.000 So now it's starting to get funny when you see like the populace left being like, I'm going to buy guns and Biden is terrible.

01:35:30.000 And like, we were betrayed.

01:35:32.000 Everything we thought we were going to get, we didn't get.

01:35:34.000 And I love it when Biden was like, he didn't meet with Black Lives Matter or speak with them.

01:35:38.000 And they got really angry about it.

01:35:39.000 It's like, oh, you thought this guy was going to get you something?

01:35:42.000 Meanwhile, you did get everything that you thought you were going to get.

01:35:44.000 You got not Trump.

01:35:45.000 Yeah, there you go.

01:35:46.000 Congratulations.

01:35:47.000 How's NotTrump doing for you?

01:35:47.000 Well done.

01:35:48.000 It's doing, yeah.

01:35:49.000 There it is.

01:35:50.000 Josh, oh my gosh, says, last year the song Sound of Silence covered by Disturbed was the song of the dang year.

01:35:56.000 My words fell on deaf ears like silent raindrops.

01:35:59.000 Dude, Ian, I want to sing with y'all.

01:36:01.000 That would be awesome.

01:36:01.000 I love to sing.

01:36:03.000 I love the Sound of Silence, the electric version from Simon & Garfunkel.

01:36:08.000 It's a really great song.

01:36:09.000 You know, you listen to the lyrics, and I don't think it applies in any way, or for the most part, to today, but it kind of feels like it does, you know?

01:36:18.000 I don't know the lyrics.

01:36:19.000 I love that song.

01:36:20.000 That song is so good.

01:36:21.000 I was listening to Bridge Under Troubled Water yesterday, too.

01:36:24.000 Yeah, like, a lot of it reminds me of Twitter.

01:36:26.000 Really?

01:36:27.000 Sound of silence room?

01:36:28.000 Well, yeah, like the lyrics talking about, like, people not actually listening.

01:36:28.000 Sound of silence.

01:36:31.000 Praying to the neon god they made.

01:36:33.000 You'll notice if you are completely silent, you'll hear the blood going poof, poof, poof in your head.

01:36:33.000 That's right.

01:36:40.000 Right?

01:36:40.000 Alright!

01:36:41.000 It's never truly silent.

01:36:42.000 It's true.

01:36:43.000 Yeah, there's that room that's like the quietest room in the world.

01:36:46.000 Yeah, I wanna go there.

01:36:46.000 That apparently it's so quiet people can't stand it.

01:36:48.000 We gotta build something like that.

01:36:52.000 It's a room where you like walk on a platform and the whole room is like it's like spikes all around So that sound is completely absorbed.

01:37:01.000 There's no echo.

01:37:02.000 I will tell you this I Created I had one little recording studio where I put sound foam everywhere And it, it's almost painful.

01:37:11.000 It's the weirdest experience.

01:37:13.000 Like you, there, there's like, it's, it's not like there's a loud echo where you can hear your words repeated back at you normally, but you truly understand sound reflection once you dampen the whole room.

01:37:23.000 And then it, it sounds like you're, it's weird.

01:37:26.000 It's a weird feeling.

01:37:28.000 Your words seem to have like no weight to them because they just disappear instantly.

01:37:32.000 Like cocooned.

01:37:33.000 Yeah.

01:37:33.000 It's a creepy feeling.

01:37:34.000 That's like Vantablack with light.

01:37:36.000 It like sucks up 99% of the light.

01:37:38.000 That would be a cool room to make.

01:37:40.000 A Vantablack sound absorption.

01:37:42.000 Have you seen Vantablack?

01:37:44.000 It just looks flat. 0.88

01:37:45.000 Yeah, a black body. 1.00

01:37:46.000 It's just nothing.

01:37:47.000 They put a laser on it like a light.

01:37:48.000 It's like Anish Kapoor has used it for art projects.

01:37:52.000 Oh yeah, Vantablack sound absorption with like LED lights of different colors.

01:37:58.000 That would be the craziest room ever.

01:38:01.000 We could make like a floating room where we do that.

01:38:04.000 It should be floating, yeah.

01:38:05.000 Like turns and spins.

01:38:06.000 It could be like on a gyroscope.

01:38:07.000 It'd be like a gyroscope.

01:38:08.000 Well, I don't know about that because the sound absorption stuff are like pointed, you know?

01:38:12.000 Okay.

01:38:13.000 But it would be like suspended by cables.

01:38:16.000 So then you'd go in and it would be two layers.

01:38:18.000 So the inside room is mounted on, you know, four corners and then there's a gap between the outer room which is suspended on cables.

01:38:25.000 Everything's Vantablack and then there's acoustic absorption around the whole thing.

01:38:28.000 So you walk in, you'll still touch.

01:38:31.000 Right.

01:38:31.000 That's why with sensory deprivation tanks, you're floating.

01:38:33.000 Uh-huh.

01:38:34.000 So it's, you know.

01:38:35.000 It's like the water.

01:38:35.000 Yeah.

01:38:36.000 It's interesting.

01:38:37.000 Have you used one of those?

01:38:38.000 No, I have wanted to do a sensory deprivation thing, but I, I think I have trust issues.

01:38:46.000 Cause it's like, that's it.

01:38:48.000 How would you.

01:38:49.000 You just cry, lay there and cry and cry and cry.

01:38:53.000 That's pretty nice.

01:38:55.000 Lynn says, Ian, I saw your federal, federal reserve video from 12 years ago.

01:38:55.000 All right.

01:38:55.000 Medicine.

01:38:59.000 Did you ever get the word out?

01:39:00.000 Like you said you wanted to.

01:39:01.000 Oh, I think I saw your comment.

01:39:03.000 Well, I'm getting the word out now.

01:39:04.000 Sometimes it takes a little while.

01:39:07.000 Oh yeah.

01:39:09.000 It's a slow burn.

01:39:11.000 That's sort of my take.

01:39:15.000 Sleepy Joe.

01:39:20.000 I just think the experts aren't that smart.

01:39:24.000 I think we have totally misjudged them.

01:39:27.000 Think about it. 0.99

01:39:28.000 They all went to the best colleges, which we now know are garbage. 0.99

01:39:31.000 You know? 0.98

01:39:32.000 Interesting.

01:39:33.000 Well, there you go.

01:39:33.000 to correct your timeline.

01:39:35.000 Al Qaeda was in Afghanistan before Taliban.

01:39:37.000 Taliban were the radicalized next generation that had been living in exile during the USSR war

01:39:41.000 and were returning when USSR left.

01:39:43.000 Interesting.

01:39:44.000 Well, there you go.

01:39:46.000 All right, let's see.

01:39:49.000 Kyle O'Brien says, I would trade Biden, his administration

01:39:54.000 and all the woke generals for just one of the service dogs we left behind. 0.99

01:39:58.000 Convention of states now, we can't be governed by corrupt cowards who hate us. 1.00

01:40:02.000 That's so sad. 0.99

01:40:03.000 I got a Daily Caller story.

01:40:04.000 Death sentence animal rights group goes after Biden administration for allegedly leaving service dogs behind.

01:40:09.000 That's from the Daily Caller.

01:40:11.000 The British took their service dogs home.

01:40:13.000 Not as good as them, I guess.

01:40:13.000 Wow.

01:40:15.000 They're mad at us for really good reasons.

01:40:18.000 We deserve it.

01:40:19.000 Yeah, apparently our special relationship's on the rocks.

01:40:23.000 Musky Ferret says, so we left Afghans aircraft that they were not able to operate or maintain?

01:40:28.000 Also, we are there for their natural resources.

01:40:30.000 Nobody cares for freedom.

01:40:31.000 That is a based super chat.

01:40:33.000 Yeah, a lot of poppy, right?

01:40:35.000 Yeah, poppy seeds, which give you opium, which you can make heroin with.

01:40:38.000 No, no, no, no.

01:40:39.000 It was clearly to make lemon poppy seed muffins.

01:40:41.000 Clearly to reshoot The Wizard of Oz and the scene so she can land the poppies again. 1.00

01:40:46.000 Is that what she did? 0.92

01:40:47.000 She laid in a big field of poppies and just like totally got drugged out. 0.93

01:40:52.000 She falls asleep in the movie, but it's opium from the poppies.

01:40:55.000 So if the Taliban is now going to be making a whole bunch of heroin, and our southern border is wide open, are we about to have a massive... No, the Taliban bans all that stuff, I'm pretty sure.

01:41:04.000 Really?

01:41:05.000 Yeah, they like... But they'll sell it.

01:41:07.000 They'll export it.

01:41:09.000 They don't use it in the country.

01:41:10.000 They don't allow that, but they'll allow it to get out.

01:41:12.000 I wouldn't be surprised.

01:41:14.000 Fun.

01:41:16.000 Alright, Tinman says, I was enlisted in the Marine Corps, and if you lost your weapon during training and couldn't be found, they would literally close down the base until it was.

01:41:23.000 Then you'd get NJP'd.

01:41:25.000 They left... Yeah, they left $80 billion in weapons in Afghanistan at double standard much?

01:41:31.000 Oh, that's beyond a double standard, man.

01:41:33.000 Yeah, that's pretty bad.

01:41:34.000 I love that your name is Tin Man, by the way, after that little Wizard of Oz shoutout.

01:41:38.000 Daniel Morton says, Tim, what do you think would happen if the U.S.

01:41:40.000 pulled all of its troops out of South Korea in 1970?

01:41:45.000 What the U.S.

01:41:46.000 just did by pulling out of Afghanistan was the modern equivalent.

01:41:48.000 Troop presence is deterrence against aggression.

01:41:52.000 You know, I think there's similarities, but I don't think it's the same thing.

01:41:56.000 But there are similarities, and that's the big challenge.

01:41:59.000 Yeah, this is a moral conundrum.

01:42:01.000 I've brought it before because I'm actually happy that South Korea exists and is flourishing and is growing and things like that.

01:42:08.000 At the same time, I don't like the fact that the U.S.

01:42:10.000 gets involved in all these other people's business, and so...

01:42:13.000 It really is a challenge.

01:42:14.000 I think it's not so much about a principle like, I believe in free speech, but more so, where do you draw the line on free speech?

01:42:21.000 Because I can say I'm for free speech all day and night, and then be like, oh, but if someone incites violence, and then if you entertain the idea that the government can pass a law to say something isn't free speech because incitement to violence is bad, then someone says, okay, pass the law saying hate speech isn't free speech, and you're like, oh, okay, so maybe we're either for all free speech, even if, you know, whatever you say, Or we're okay with the government putting restrictions.

01:42:42.000 Therein lies the big challenge I think everybody butts into.

01:42:46.000 So, to answer your question, if the U.S.

01:42:48.000 pulled all of its ships out of South Korea, North Korea would have came in with the Soviets and taken over, and there would be no South Korea. 0.57

01:42:53.000 It would be, well, I don't know, is Vietnam... How's Vietnam doing?

01:42:57.000 I haven't looked into the politics of Vietnam.

01:42:58.000 They have a lot of contracts for manufacturing.

01:43:01.000 A lot of clothes and things are made there.

01:43:03.000 Similarly to Cambodia, actually, there was like a whole treaty with regard to that.

01:43:07.000 Yeah.

01:43:08.000 So, I don't know.

01:43:09.000 It is very difficult, but I think we should not have entered Afghanistan in the first place.

01:43:14.000 Regarding free speech, obviously you can't go out on TV and command people to do violence, but if you're in your room alone and you say the most vile, illegal stuff, you're fine.

01:43:25.000 You're in your room alone.

01:43:27.000 If the government's spying on you and hears you in your room alone just saying stuff like you're reading a script, you know, and you're reading some crazy violent lines, whatever.

01:43:35.000 Maybe you're not reading a script.

01:43:36.000 It doesn't matter because you're alone and you're not inciting violence.

01:43:39.000 But it can be taken out of context.

01:43:40.000 They'll arrest you.

01:43:41.000 If they're spying on you, it can be taken out of context.

01:43:43.000 I had an idea for a joke with my friends because we were playing GTA a long time ago, like GTA 4.

01:43:48.000 And my one friend was yelling these really awful things, like, take it to the bridge!

01:43:52.000 Go to the bridge now!

01:43:53.000 And I'm like, yo, the things you're saying right now and telling us to do, like, if we're taken out of context... So I just imagine there's, like, some cops in a van, and they're listening, and they hear this guy being like, and then we're gonna take the car.

01:44:05.000 drive it underneath the bridge, et cetera, et cetera.

01:44:07.000 And then the cops are like, it's happening.

01:44:09.000 And they break it.

01:44:10.000 And it's like three fat dudes playing GTA, like what's happening?

01:44:13.000 Right, like all out of context.

01:44:14.000 They're going after phone records and things.

01:44:16.000 I mean, it's all that's out of context.

01:44:19.000 Ray Gardner says, adding to Ian's point, then we should further assist Elon provide internet to the whole world through the mini satellites.

01:44:27.000 Side note, did you see the military dogs left in their kennels at the airport?

01:44:31.000 Yeah.

01:44:32.000 Internet, global internet.

01:44:33.000 That's a big part of it.

01:44:34.000 Left a bunch of dogs in the airport.

01:44:36.000 I'm not putting anything past US government today.

01:44:39.000 Why would they, why would they do that?

01:44:41.000 Ugh.

01:44:42.000 Elizabeth Carmella Comedian says, to add to all the bad news of the day, Lake Tahoe is currently burning down here in California.

01:44:51.000 I live about two hours away.

01:44:52.000 We've been inundated with smoke for weeks.

01:44:55.000 Everyone has been evacuated from there.

01:44:56.000 Please give a shout out to them and pray.

01:44:58.000 Yeah, sad to hear it.

01:44:59.000 I hope everybody's okay.

01:45:01.000 Natural disasters, man.

01:45:02.000 It's scary stuff.

01:45:03.000 It's interesting about that with Larry Elder, who's running against Gavin Newsom, has brought up the points about how a lot of these wildfires are due to poor forestry management.

01:45:13.000 Yes.

01:45:13.000 Yeah.

01:45:14.000 Which a friend of mine, Sashi McEntee, who was the mayor of Mill Valley, California, has also been saying that these wildfires are in large part because of that.

01:45:22.000 Yeah, PG&E runs a bunch of old, outdated power lines through the forest and they'll like, you know, debris and sticks and then one of the power lines will go out and set a forest fire.

01:45:33.000 But I feel like you should be able to run lines through a forest without having to worry about the forest being so poorly managed that you're going to set the whole state on fire should something go wrong.

01:45:42.000 Because I feel like lines are going to go down, right?

01:45:44.000 And then you shouldn't have to worry about California being so horribly mismanaged that you're gonna burn the whole state down.

01:45:50.000 I think they run power lines underground in some places on Earth.

01:45:52.000 I don't know.

01:45:53.000 Yeah.

01:45:53.000 Lots of places.

01:45:54.000 New York.

01:45:54.000 This above-ground thing's weird.

01:45:56.000 Yeah.

01:45:57.000 Listerable says, it's so strange to hear everyone talk about what POTUS does as if his mind was working.

01:46:03.000 That's a good point, to be honest.

01:46:05.000 Brendan Thompson says, Tim, I'm sick of you lying about my country, Australia.

01:46:10.000 We can- Brendan Thompson.

01:46:11.000 We can buy Foster's Lager here.

01:46:13.000 What did I say, Brandon?

01:46:15.000 Oh, it was Brandon.

01:46:15.000 I think you said Brandon.

01:46:16.000 I was just shouting out Brandon.

01:46:17.000 Oh, okay.

01:46:17.000 You can buy Foster's.

01:46:19.000 What do you guys think of Jacinda Ardern?

01:46:21.000 I'm a little weirded out by her.

01:46:23.000 She's totally weird. 1.00

01:46:24.000 She seems kind of authoritative.

01:46:25.000 Really?

01:46:26.000 And she also had a thing after the Christchurch shooting.

01:46:29.000 She had a call, what she called the Christchurch call, to try and get all Western nations to censor internet speech.

01:46:37.000 That's crazy.

01:46:38.000 I was working at mines while that was going on and facilitating some of the boost admin stuff.

01:46:42.000 And people kept posting the video of the Christchurch shooter, first person video.

01:46:47.000 And then they'd like overlay the Doom console and it was like a video game, like how many people could shoot in the head.

01:46:52.000 So disturbing.

01:46:52.000 But, but I mean, it was very, it messed me up.

01:46:55.000 It changed me to see that over and over.

01:46:57.000 So I understand.

01:46:57.000 I understand censoring.

01:47:00.000 You know, you got to protecting the young mind.

01:47:02.000 That's like a, that's what this is all about.

01:47:04.000 I think the censorship thing.

01:47:07.000 All right, let's see.

01:47:09.000 Lucy Lurker says, Brandon Burns in Las Vegas is working to stage a protest on September 7th for a mass callout with a rally in Las Vegas and elsewhere, Freedom of Choice Rally.

01:47:18.000 He has a good take and would be a great guest to have on.

01:47:22.000 I googled searched vaccine mandate protest, and I'm pretty sure you can find every single city.

01:47:28.000 Like, just name a city.

01:47:29.000 It was like Roswell, New Mexico, Cedar Rapids, not Dubuque, but you know, Cedar Rapids.

01:47:35.000 And it was just like, I had a list of like 30 and I'm like, I can't even fit this in my browser.

01:47:38.000 So I had to get rid of some of them.

01:47:39.000 And I was like, I read that in my main segment, like protest, protest, protest, protest.

01:47:42.000 And it's a lot of healthcare workers too.

01:47:44.000 That's right.

01:47:45.000 There's a lot of nurses and stuff saying nah. 1.00

01:47:47.000 Which is interesting too, because we have such a huge nursing shortage and we're willing to just have a worse nursing shortage.

01:47:55.000 Yep.

01:47:56.000 This is it.

01:47:57.000 Hundreds gather in Santa Monica to protest.

01:47:58.000 Hundreds protest in New York.

01:48:00.000 Protests in Greece get violent.

01:48:02.000 This is mainstream.

01:48:03.000 This should be... Of course, you're not going to see it on CNN.

01:48:06.000 Yeah, you don't see it.

01:48:07.000 You don't see it unless something violent happens.

01:48:09.000 And what flag did the guy in Santa Monica wave?

01:48:12.000 It looks like the LGBTQ... I don't know, it's purple. 1.00

01:48:16.000 There's a photo.

01:48:17.000 Oh, he's got the Gadsden flag.

01:48:19.000 It's a rainbow Gadsden flag.

01:48:21.000 I love it.

01:48:22.000 Absolutely.

01:48:22.000 Amen.

01:48:23.000 Rainbow flag with the Gadsden flag.

01:48:25.000 Oh, when it comes to my body, I call the shots and then it shows the shot.

01:48:29.000 I love the Gadsden pride flag.

01:48:31.000 That's cool.

01:48:31.000 Don't tread on me.

01:48:33.000 The Gadsden flag in many forms.

01:48:35.000 Have you ever seen, have you seen the Antifa total fascist one where it says, you know, we will tread and it's, it's a snake being squeezed by the fist.

01:48:43.000 It's not pretty.

01:48:43.000 I have not seen that.

01:48:44.000 Yep.

01:48:44.000 And they march around with it's, it's, it's red and black, which is funny because like they're claiming to be anarchists who are going to force people who are libertarians.

01:48:52.000 Like what?

01:48:53.000 That's right.

01:48:53.000 Yeah.

01:48:54.000 These people are creepy weirdos.

01:48:57.000 Anne Mack says Libby Emmons quote from the last show, New York artists have been co-opted by authoritarianism.

01:49:03.000 At this point it's propaganda.

01:49:04.000 Do exactly as you're told.

01:49:06.000 They create the type of work that they are told.

01:49:09.000 Yeah.

01:49:10.000 No, you're going.

01:49:11.000 And so, where do you live, Libby?

01:49:13.000 Dude.

01:49:17.000 Come on, you can do it.

01:49:20.000 Alright, let's see.

01:49:24.000 Chaos Aeternum says, truckers join the fight.

01:49:28.000 Australia and US drivers are organizing to protest.

01:49:30.000 I am optimistic we will win this game of chicken.

01:49:32.000 Spread the word.

01:49:33.000 You guys rock.

01:49:34.000 Truckers.

01:49:35.000 Nice.

01:49:36.000 Oh, there's a trucker shortage.

01:49:37.000 Have you guys seen that?

01:49:39.000 That's why gas prices.

01:49:41.000 In the UK there's a huge problem too because most of the truckers are like 55 or older and they're not getting any new people in to the to the business and once we don't have anyone to deliver our crap to us like what are we gonna do?

01:49:41.000 That's a disaster.

01:49:59.000 We're not gonna have any stuff.

01:50:00.000 We're not gonna have any food.

01:50:02.000 Cole Will says, Love Tim's nonstop reporting on current events, but we need solutions.

01:50:07.000 One is removing the need for fiat and central bank investing.

01:50:10.000 What is Ian's opinion on BlockFi and DeFi or Celsius Network and BTC after mining is over?

01:50:16.000 Well, BlockFi holds your crypto for you.

01:50:19.000 They'll pay you interest on it, but you don't actually have the money while they're holding it.

01:50:23.000 The other stuff, DeFi, what is that?

01:50:25.000 Decentralized... Finance?

01:50:27.000 Finance, yeah.

01:50:28.000 It's a whole movement called DeFi, and that's like the decentralized finance movement.

01:50:32.000 And Bitcoin mining ends in like a hundred years or something?

01:50:34.000 Yeah, eventually.

01:50:34.000 I don't know.

01:50:35.000 And then it's going to be proof of stake as opposed to proof of work.

01:50:40.000 We're like, just the fact that you have the money allows you to get more money?

01:50:43.000 I think they'll fork Bitcoin.

01:50:45.000 Something will happen, there'll be a vote, it'll fork into something slightly different, and then you'll get centralized takeover.

01:50:52.000 You asked a lot of questions about a lot of different things, but I agree with you that solutions and new technologies is where we're going.

01:50:59.000 And we're building new shows on the Timcast network about that specifically.

01:51:03.000 That's why we have the Castcastle vlog rolling.

01:51:05.000 We're just about hitting daily videos.

01:51:07.000 The goal is To not just be always so negative, but you take a look at some of the prominent creators, like on YouTube, and where they've gone, and they're like legit pro-establishment shills.

01:51:19.000 Like, you don't even gotta think, you can just do what the government tells you to do, you know?

01:51:23.000 It's like, no, we're gonna make fun videos where we like, you know, ride around on motorcycles, and there's chickens, and you know, we race cars and jump over the roof, and then we're gonna have a Gadsden flag saying, think for yourself and live free.

01:51:34.000 I want to build a solar-powered water condenser on the property, if possible.

01:51:38.000 They work more in the desert, though, so it might not be... Oh, it's so humid here, you'd fill up, you know, a hundred gallons an hour.

01:51:44.000 Yeah, we'd be like, Ian, what are you supposed to do with all this water you've condensed?

01:51:44.000 Interesting.

01:51:47.000 Drink it.

01:51:47.000 That's a cool idea.

01:51:48.000 That's really easy to do.

01:51:49.000 Yeah, you just put it outside and, like, the water condenses.

01:51:52.000 Yeah, I'll show you the plan.

01:51:54.000 Honestly, we could just do a standard water condenser where you do, like, a really big net with, like, the sheets.

01:52:01.000 Oh, those are great!

01:52:02.000 Those fog catchers?

01:52:03.000 Yeah, exactly, and the water just drips down.

01:52:05.000 I mean, when we had a mini-ramp outside every morning, we'd get, like, two gallons of water on it.

01:52:09.000 And it was really annoying to have to go out and sweep it all off just from the humidity.

01:52:13.000 That would have been good vlog content, by the way.

01:52:15.000 But I was thinking, like, what if we took the skate light material, which is a, it's a, it's a plastic wood, kind of like resin of some sort.

01:52:21.000 It's like a, no, it's like a resin wood chip mix.

01:52:23.000 And what if we just put those up and just funneled them down?

01:52:26.000 We'd, you get so much water every morning, it's insane.

01:52:29.000 So we, you don't even need solar powered.

01:52:31.000 Yeah, not here.

01:52:31.000 Those are for deserts, the solar ones.

01:52:33.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:52:35.000 That's what I think our military should be doing is building water for people around the earth, wells and things like that.

01:52:41.000 I mean, if we build these artificial water capture devices, we could probably reclaim desert.

01:52:46.000 Just bringing water into it.

01:52:47.000 At the very least, we can be like, yo, we're not the bad guys anymore.

01:52:51.000 All right.

01:52:52.000 Let's see.

01:52:53.000 ButtGrubber says, Tim, the state of Washington is firing hundreds of employees in the state police alone of the vaccine mandate while taking away their retirement and unemployment benefits.

01:53:03.000 Look up Trooper LeMay on Jason Rant's podcast.

01:53:06.000 Yeah, I was talking to a friend and just like a normie.

01:53:09.000 And then I was just like, what they're doing with the vaccine mandates with no medical exemptions is nightmarish and like Nazi and Nazism. 0.83

01:53:18.000 And she was just like, that's not happening.

01:53:20.000 It is happening, yeah.

01:53:21.000 It's happening.

01:53:21.000 What?

01:53:22.000 Like, prove it.

01:53:23.000 I'm like, here's me doing the reporting and appearing on Fox News Primetime telling everybody that New York did this.

01:53:30.000 You know, it's like, you gotta just Google search, man.

01:53:33.000 That's a thing, too, where people don't want to see that the thing is happening that they don't want to have happening.

01:53:39.000 So they just assume that it's not because it's illogical.

01:53:42.000 It's like not checking your bank account balance because you don't want to be out of money.

01:53:46.000 Right.

01:53:47.000 It's a trick.

01:53:47.000 That's a clever move.

01:53:48.000 It doesn't work.

01:53:48.000 I'm going to try that one next time.

01:53:50.000 Try it next time.

01:53:51.000 Neil Williams says Tim mentioning Electric Dreams is the equivalent of Joe Rogan mentioning DMT on the podcast.

01:53:57.000 I think Marvel references.

01:53:58.000 Star Trek, yeah.

01:53:59.000 Well, Star Trek, it's been Stargate as of lately.

01:54:01.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:54:01.000 But I mentioned Electric Dreams, I think, five times.

01:54:04.000 Did you watch Stargate?

01:54:05.000 I've never really gotten into it.

01:54:06.000 I've missed a bunch.

01:54:07.000 I've probably seen like 150 episodes out of the 200 and something.

01:54:10.000 Should I like start at the beginning and watch it?

01:54:12.000 It's really good.

01:54:12.000 Watch the movie.

01:54:14.000 Movie first?

01:54:14.000 Did you see the movie?

01:54:16.000 Movie is really good.

01:54:17.000 The show starts off based on the movie, but it's different.

01:54:21.000 It's like there's plot points, different actors, but the plot is different.

01:54:26.000 Oh, you love Stargate.

01:54:28.000 I think it's so much better.

01:54:31.000 I don't want to spoil too much, but it is like a super old show.

01:54:34.000 Stargate starts off with like modern military, just, you know, like, oh, look, we got the Stargate to these other planets and these other galaxies.

01:54:41.000 And it ends with humans adopting all this crazy ass technology.

01:54:45.000 And now they have beaming, like they develop, well, they get technology from other races that they trade with.

01:54:50.000 And so it's cool to see humans go from kinetic weapons, just by luck having a Stargate that allows them to interact with more advanced technological species, to having warp capabilities, building the ships, going to war, and then becoming one of the dominant species in the galaxy.

01:55:06.000 It's pretty cool.

01:55:07.000 That's cool.

01:55:07.000 It's awesome.

01:55:08.000 James Spader.

01:55:09.000 You familiar with his work?

01:55:10.000 Yeah.

01:55:10.000 He's the scientist in the movie.

01:55:11.000 No way.

01:55:12.000 He's so good.

01:55:13.000 My problem with the TV show was I felt like we were missing a James Spader Well, you're always missing James Spader when he's not around.

01:55:19.000 Yeah.

01:55:19.000 Shout out to James Spader.

01:55:21.000 I love him.

01:55:23.000 All right.

01:55:23.000 Let's see what we got here.

01:55:24.000 Jonathan Aylmer says, Tim, ICU nurses at Sydney's Prince Alfred and St.

01:55:29.000 Vincent's hospitals are blowing the whistle that patients are being sedated to safely control them.

01:55:34.000 Whoa.

01:55:35.000 I haven't heard any of that.

01:55:37.000 That sounds crazy, but it's true, though.

01:55:38.000 Okay, as a point of reference, too, sedation is a technique that is commonly used in hospitals to keep people from removing IVs, from injuring themselves, falling on the floor.

01:55:48.000 I used to sit with people who were being sedated to make sure they were still breathing, to make sure they weren't pulling IVs out and coming undone from their bondage equipment.

01:55:58.000 This is an important one.

01:55:59.000 one. Finkenfarn says, Hey Tim and crew, how is the forensic analysis of the

01:56:02.000 Freedom Phone going? Keep up the good work. Your voices give hope around the

01:56:05.000 world. I think it's just better buying them. Yeah, we have the people who are

01:56:09.000 gonna, we know who's gonna be doing the analysis on them and now we just need

01:56:12.000 Okay, tomorrow I'm going to push that.

01:56:13.000 So you guys are checking those things out?

01:56:14.000 Yeah, we want to, Ian's got like a list of like, he's got a crack team of tech whizzes, developers who are working on the Thetaverse project.

01:56:21.000 Okay.

01:56:21.000 We're ready to shred this thing and then integrate our software into it for future.

01:56:25.000 Cool.

01:56:25.000 Future mods are going to be great.

01:56:27.000 Cool.

01:56:27.000 So we'll get that, we'll get that shipped out ASAP tomorrow.

01:56:31.000 Alright.

01:56:34.000 Let's see.

01:56:38.000 So a lot of people are saying that I'm wrong about the FDA letter.

01:56:41.000 Hondo says, Tim, Pfizer says they are legally distinct.

01:56:44.000 I've read both letters, EUA and the BLA.

01:56:46.000 Until it's packaged with the legal disclaimer, two items can be identical and packaged differently.

01:56:51.000 Right, I'm just wondering what the argument is for a legal distinction and how is that relevant to saying that the vaccine isn't FDA approved when it's the exact same thing but you're arguing a brand, you know what I mean?

01:57:04.000 They're legally distinct, I get it.

01:57:06.000 Is it an issue of the emergency's authorization and like liability or something?

01:57:10.000 I don't know.

01:57:14.000 They're the same exact vaccine.

01:57:16.000 Same exact vaccine, just one's got a different name.

01:57:18.000 I want to get to the bottom of this.

01:57:19.000 So apparently something's inaccurate?

01:57:21.000 Well, I guess they're saying that there is the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Community vaccine, which are identical in every way, except they're legally distinct products by name.

01:57:31.000 I see.

01:57:31.000 And one of them got FDA approved.

01:57:33.000 The other one did not, but they're identical.

01:57:35.000 Right.

01:57:35.000 I see.

01:57:36.000 And they can be used interchangeably.

01:57:38.000 Oh, okay.

01:57:38.000 That's what the letter said.

01:57:39.000 Okay.

01:57:40.000 But I, so I don't.

01:57:42.000 So technically it's not FDA approved, but it can be used interchangeably with the one that is.

01:57:46.000 I, but I think that's kind of semantics.

01:57:48.000 You know what I mean?

01:57:49.000 Like the FDA saying like this formulation, it's good to go.

01:57:52.000 It's weird that that happened.

01:57:54.000 I don't know.

01:57:54.000 Whatever.

01:57:55.000 I think, you know, as per usual, don't take medical advice from wackos on the internet. 1.00

01:57:59.000 We're just internet people talking to cameras, you know?

01:58:03.000 I'm not your lawyer.

01:58:04.000 I'm not your financial advisor.

01:58:04.000 I'm not your friend.

01:58:05.000 I'm not your foe.

01:58:07.000 I'm just kidding.

01:58:08.000 Find your own lawyer.

01:58:08.000 Find your own doctor.

01:58:09.000 Talk to them and get some advice.

01:58:13.000 I do think when it comes to all of this stuff, there's a few things I should say.

01:58:16.000 Legal advice is never really an issue on podcasts, I guess, but when people do legal shows.

01:58:20.000 But when it comes to finance and when it comes to medical stuff, get off the internet.

01:58:24.000 You know why?

01:58:25.000 We get superchats all the time from people saying like, Hey Tim, big fan of the show.

01:58:28.000 Just wanted to shout out the hard work you're doing and mention that, you know, BRN, crypto is the number one currency and everyone should... Okay, dude, I just made it.

01:58:36.000 I don't even know.

01:58:36.000 Like, no, dude.

01:58:37.000 People are always trying to do some kind of social media thing to, like, pump and dump.

01:58:42.000 Yeah, and the same thing is true, like, there's a lot of people who are posting things with confirmation bias or cultural issues.

01:58:47.000 Just make sure you talk to people you know and trust, because the internet is a crazy place full of crazy people.

01:58:53.000 That's why I'm like the vlog is so important the cast castle stuff because it's like really you're gonna see people who have the principles of freedom like like you know Andy's wearing a Rothbard shirt while he's skating but it's not a show about politics it's not like we're gonna be preaching to you about what you should it's just gonna be like inspiring you to be a better person have fun get some optimism making good news fun news you know the dog running around and the chickens are flapping and jumping and just you know.

01:59:17.000 Dude me and Carter were playing music earlier Carter Banks he's our he's our resident orchestrator.

01:59:22.000 Yeah, new producer.

01:59:23.000 Magnificent musician.

01:59:24.000 Man, did it sound good.

01:59:26.000 Cody McNutt says, I have a Gadsden Prides flag hat patch.

01:59:29.000 It really confuses people.

01:59:30.000 I love it.

01:59:32.000 Absolutely.

01:59:35.000 All right, let's see.

01:59:36.000 We'll do a couple more here.

01:59:40.000 The Survival Preppers say, the VAX mandate is a purge of those who don't align with the promoted narrative.

01:59:45.000 Hundreds and thousands of people are going to be fired.

01:59:48.000 Who will they be replaced by?

01:59:50.000 If you're not prepping already, it's a good time to get started.

01:59:52.000 Thanks, Tim and crew.

01:59:53.000 Do you guys see this thing on Facebook?

01:59:55.000 Where it's like, somebody posted something about canning?

01:59:59.000 Like making jam and beans and then putting it in a can?

02:00:02.000 That's insane.

02:00:02.000 Facebook has like a warning.

02:00:03.000 I haven't confirmed it, but people have tweeted out saying, does it feel like someone is becoming too prepared?

02:00:08.000 Notify, you know, look for the signs of extremism.

02:00:12.000 That's insane.

02:00:13.000 I saw a couple different posts.

02:00:14.000 I haven't confirmed it.

02:00:16.000 Oh, okay.

02:00:17.000 But we all saw the thing on Facebook where it was like, you may have been exposed to extremist content.

02:00:21.000 That's hysterical.

02:00:22.000 My favorite was the meme of the shifty-eyed guy going like this.

02:00:27.000 And it said, when all of your friends get notifications about extremist content, but you don't.

02:00:33.000 It's you!

02:00:34.000 You're doing it!

02:00:37.000 Alright, let's see.

02:00:40.000 Riley Anderson says, hey Tim, fellow Beanie Guy here.

02:00:42.000 Can you explain why you consider yourself left-wing libertarian, and more importantly, where you disagree with modern Republicans that classifies you left-libertarian?

02:00:50.000 Well, Republican doesn't necessarily mean libertarian or whatever.

02:00:52.000 Republicans tend to be, like, I would say, overwhelmingly moderate conservative, leaning towards, um...

02:01:01.000 What's the right way to put it?

02:01:03.000 Classically liberal, not colloquially liberal, like the actual true meaning of liberal, as opposed to libertarian.

02:01:09.000 But left libertarian is basically like hippies living on a farm.

02:01:11.000 Where I disagree with Republicans is probably on like, I'm less free market capitalism than many Republicans, I'm in favor of social programs.

02:01:21.000 The problem I always mention though is that idealistically it's really easy to be like, We should all cooperate and have certain system in place that have certain guarantees like I love the fact that the fire department exists.

02:01:31.000 I love firefighters.

02:01:32.000 They're fantastic.

02:01:33.000 I like the idea of the armed forces and these things are you, you, you, you, you, you know, it's a government service.

02:01:39.000 It's a guarantee and I think there's good reasons to have them.

02:01:42.000 So the issue is basically like on the left and right scale of the political compass, the right is where you start getting into more and more free market capitalism and the left is where you get more and more into, what's the right way to put it, cooperative systems.

02:01:55.000 So it's hard to actually break down.

02:01:59.000 But the simplest way to explain it is Left Libertarian would be like 10 hippies living on a farm or a small tribe of 30 people that come to agreements.

02:02:07.000 A family.

02:02:08.000 I think Jack Murphy mentioned this.

02:02:09.000 A family is communist.

02:02:10.000 There's a guy who's the father and the mother.

02:02:12.000 They're in charge.

02:02:12.000 They control things.

02:02:13.000 They delegate responsibilities.

02:02:15.000 The children just have to do what they're told, what they're provided for.

02:02:18.000 And that makes sense at a really small level.

02:02:19.000 So Left Libertarian is like, hey, I'm not going to tell you what to do, but if you want to come hang out, pitch in around the house, we got pizza, we got beers.

02:02:26.000 It doesn't work when you go into multiple cities, because now one city is like, that's not fair that we do this work and you get that, and then you start needing better systems of economics.

02:02:36.000 So the way I usually say it is, idealistically, I'm left libertarian.

02:02:40.000 Realistically, I'm like socially liberal.

02:02:43.000 So I'm like centrist, you know, slightly left leaning on some policies.

02:02:47.000 I'd love for there to be universal health care within this system.

02:02:49.000 I don't know if this system is free of corruption to the point where we could actually have it, so.

02:02:54.000 I'll leave it at that.

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