On today's episode of Shimcast, Ron Coleman takes over the show in place of guest host Tim Pool, who is in the hospital with an undisclosed illness. Ron takes over and talks about a number of stories, including the tragic loss of the Oceangate CEO and his son on the Titan, the Minnesota AG warning Target about their obligations to the LGBTQ community, a Pentagon accounting error to the tune of $6.2 billion, an IRS whistleblower talking about Hunter Biden, as well as an AI saying conservative women are happier and more attractive. We have all the juicy stories just in time for Tim to be sick and for me to take over.
00:01:16.000I mean, I have a lawyer here who can confirm that nothing I said was incorrect.
00:01:20.000At this time, we have no further elucidations to add to your statement.
00:01:25.000We do wish to reserve our right to make any additional amendments as might be required.
00:01:34.000Yeah, well, it's interesting how my first time ever hosting the show, Tim was like, we need to send a lawyer in here just to fact check him and make sure he stays on point all night.
00:01:45.000The Oceangate story, the tragic loss of the Oceangate CEO and his son on the Titan.
00:01:51.000The Minnesota AG warns Target about their obligations to the LGBTQ community.
00:01:58.000A Pentagon accounting error to the tune of $6.2 billion.
00:02:04.000An IRS whistleblower talking about Hunter Biden and his investigation, as well as an
00:02:10.000AI saying that conservative women are happier and more attractive.
00:02:15.000We have all of the juicy stories just in time for Tim to be sick and for me to take over.
00:02:20.000But let me tell you something, because I still care so much about my friend who's allowed for me to take the wheel tonight, I'm gonna ask all of you to go over to castbrew.com.
00:02:47.000I can't tell you if it's going to have anything to do with Tim's recovery, but I think he'd feel a little bit better, at least with respect to his morale, if you guys purchased some cast brew coffee.
00:02:57.000And also, it's going to make me look good.
00:02:59.000He's going to say, look, you know, ShimCast hosted and we moved more product than usual.
00:03:25.000And if you are able to, we would massively appreciate it if you became a member, supported what he's doing, supported his mission, and help him grow out what he's trying to do here, which I think is a good thing, and I hope you all agree.
00:03:38.000You'll also get access to the After Hours show, which is going to be pretty spicy.
00:03:43.000So, now that I have sufficiently introduced the show, we have with us today the man who needs no introduction.
00:04:07.000I'm saying that, like, Tim might have a case against you at this point.
00:04:09.000No, actually, it would be the best thing I could do for Tim to actually speak in his voice in a way guaranteed to avoid any legal entanglements whatsoever.
00:06:04.000And the illustrators look down on the cartoonists and say they're not real artists, but no one tells a cartoonist that because a cartoonist can ruin your life.
00:06:15.000When people go to Casperoo Coffee, Casperoo.com that is, and buy their coffee, I think if we can get enough people, more people tonight to buy coffee than ever before, I think it's going to make a real statement.
00:07:11.000Ian, I actually really appreciate you mentioning that because the information I had here was incorrect and I wouldn't want to spread anything untrue here.
00:07:26.000We talked about this a little bit yesterday, so I'm going to read a letter that the OceanGate Expeditions Twitter account sent out earlier.
00:07:34.000We're not going to read the whole thing, but I think the first line is certainly worth repeating, given it has the names of all the People who lost their lives they wrote we now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shazda Dawood and his son Suleiman Dawood, Harish Harding and Paul Henry
00:07:57.000Hamish Harding, that's my mistake, and Paul Hardy-Nargalet have sadly been lost.
00:08:03.000So, they go on to say that these men were explorers who had a spirit of adventure.
00:08:10.000That is, of course, a very sad story, and I think that we should try to keep reverence while discussing it.
00:08:14.000A lot of people on Twitter have been laughing at the fact that these people died because they're wealthy, and we discussed that a little bit on last night's show, so we probably don't have to retread.
00:08:24.000That territory, but I want to open it up to you guys.
00:08:28.000What do you guys think about the fact that the Navy says that they heard or detected that there was a hull implosion several days ago and didn't say anything until now?
00:08:50.000The hole cracked, and they found debris, I think, about a third of a mile from the wreckage of the Titanic, so... The Wall Street Journal is reporting that this U.S.
00:09:00.000Navy technology that's used to find enemy submarines Picked up on what they now believe was this implosion around the area where debris was now found.
00:09:09.000And doesn't that answer the big question to at least one possible non-conspiratorial answer to the big question everyone's asking?
00:09:19.000Now we know what that weird noise was.
00:09:23.000Yeah, well this is something we were talking about a little bit before the show, but there's something curious about the fact that they waited to release this information until after it was already made public that the debris had been found, and so people have been speculating about why that's the case.
00:09:39.000I can understand why they might not say anything, because it's possible they didn't know initially what the noise actually was, and now that the debris has been found, they can confirm that it actually was the submersible imploding.
00:09:51.000And they would probably have some concern about dissuading rescuers from making attempts by telling them, we heard something that very well could have been this craft being destroyed by the water pressure.
00:10:02.000Sorry, or releasing information through the media when really these people have families who probably want some dignity and some privacy while they learn possibly that they've lost, you know, family members.
00:10:13.000So the Navy is claiming that they, I think it was the Navy, is that who it is, detected, they detected the implosion on Sunday or shortly after they lost contact, I think, maybe on Sunday.
00:10:20.000And then they let a global initiative to search and rescue go on without telling people, hey, wait a minute.
00:10:27.000Maybe because they found- so I'm having a problem with this.
00:10:38.000If they're going to tell me that this thing, they know now it imploded, they're very almost sure that it imploded, and then they found the wreckage.
00:10:54.000What is this that I've been invited to?
00:10:55.000Crazy corruption scandals about the president's son, but all of a sudden this new piece of pop news takes over and they're trying to shove it down my throat for five days.
00:11:05.000So, I'm curious, what do you think happened here, then, if you don't believe that this craft was actually destroyed by the water pressure or faulty construction?
00:11:13.000For all I know, it's still out, it's still down there, and they all died a really horrible, slow death, and they don't want to put that in the news.
00:11:19.000What do you think their motivation would be for wanting to keep that out of the news?
00:11:21.000They want to make, they want to raise morale.
00:11:23.000They want to be like, they all died painfully, because that's what Mike Cernovich tweeted out, they all had a painless death, don't worry about it, everything's... I remember they said that about, about the space shuttle.
00:12:04.000Hannah-Claire, you made this point earlier about dignity, the fact that people had died, that they lost their loved ones, and there's a media fiasco around this.
00:12:12.000It's an interesting exploration, because we want to look at these issues, we want to know what's happening in the world, and it's good that people were rooting for these individuals to live.
00:12:22.000The public, at least the Pro-social segment of the public who aren't just completely out of their minds and would celebrate the death of somebody simply because they're wealthy.
00:12:34.000But I think you're onto something with what you're saying about the fact that there's a level of sensitivity that needs to be considered here, and it goes beyond simply saying, I acknowledge something horrible happened here.
00:12:45.000There's an element of discretion that is necessary.
00:12:49.000Yeah, it reminds me of, and I'm loathe to bring up a completely different political point, but when Biden withdrew troops from Afghanistan, right, we lost 13 Marines.
00:12:57.000Would you want those Marines' names to be released in the media or would you want their parents to have a chance to hear it first?
00:13:40.000You have to remain a little bit skeptical.
00:13:42.000I think what we're seeing a little bit now is the question of why did we finally get this information today that there is debris, that there was an implosion, and what else is going on in the news media that would indicate this.
00:13:54.000This morning, the news alerts I was getting were saying, you know, today is the last day that they would have oxygen.
00:13:59.000So there is a reason why this sort of hit its crescendo today.
00:14:03.000We knew after today, if they weren't found, things were bleak no matter what.
00:14:08.000We know, and based on what you were pointing out earlier about the Challenger mission and the catastrophe there, that the media has covered up for organizations to make the fact that people died horrible deaths seem less tragic by claiming it happened quickly and painlessly.
00:14:23.000However, I will say one key difference is The media might have some desire or motivation to cover for NASA, whereas I'm not sure what the motive would be to cover up for this small organization that doesn't really seem to have any connections to state or media powers.
00:14:39.000Especially when usually they're, uh, I feel like the federal government is very against independent exploration, right?
00:14:45.000I mean, this was all, uh, Elon Musk and, uh, and, uh, Richard Branson's efforts to get to space.
00:14:51.000I don't think, uh, the federal government necessarily was, was rooting them on.
00:15:01.000Again, private exploration of the sea, I think we stopped thinking about it because we became focused on space, but I'm sure there are reasons that people want to plunge to the ocean and see what's there.
00:15:34.000I think you're correct in saying that when it comes to exploration of parts of the world that are currently uncharted, there is a nobility in wanting to take that venture on.
00:15:43.000However, in the coming days or weeks, there are going to have to be some questions asked about the particular risks that Ocean Gate took in their construction of this vehicle and placing people on it and whether this was the best constructed craft, because there's been a lot of discussion about that, but maybe now is not the time.
00:16:01.000I heard there was a waiver, they signed, someone on Twitter, and this is all anecdotal, I don't have the tweet, but they said that they had ridden with Ocean Gate a year ago, and to the Titanic actually, and back, and they'd signed a waiver, and on the front page it was like, you waive just in case you die, and they said it said death three times on the front page, could be hyperbolic, but they were pretty much like, I think maybe these people- So I actually heard, so my friend Legal Mindset, Andrew Esquire, A YouTuber did a very good video that I think he posted, yep, 12 hours ago today, addressing potential legal issues that are raised by this tragedy.
00:16:39.000And going to your point again, because of, I think, what is generally a government hostility towards any kind of independence, and certainly big independence like this, he seemed to suggest that this is going to provide an impetus for uh more regulation but i i'm surprised that he said that because the first thing he said in his video and he's and i think the video is great is that where there's a jurisdictional issue here this is international waters and part of the reason there is what there is so little regulation is precisely because of the lack of a regulating or an enforcing authority so the fact that
00:17:21.000See, everyone knows that in the world of sailing, the nautical world, if you have any familiarity at all with cruise lines, they're notoriously unregulated.
00:17:52.000So I don't know if this, but there is some very, one of the things that Andrew did point out was that you can sign a waiver, you can waive all kinds of things, but you can't, there's a level of negligence, of gross negligence, that you cannot waive away.
00:18:12.000By virtue of signing a waiver that doesn't give you permission, okay, now I can come into your treehouse.
00:18:22.000So there will be lawyers looking very hard at this.
00:18:27.000Well, speaking of lawyers, the Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison actually warned Target about their obligations to LGBTQ individuals, and of course we know that means the LGBTQ lobby.
00:18:42.000That's what they're referring to whenever they talk about this community.
00:18:45.000So this was not just the Minnesota AG, there was a coalition of fifteen AGs and they reached out to the CEO of Target to
00:18:52.000offer support after the Pride backlash in an open letter where they said, and I
00:18:58.000quote, and you know please stay sitting,
00:19:00.000we understand Target recently pulled some Pride merchandise from its shelves
00:19:06.000excuse me, from its shelves out of concern for worker and customer safety
00:19:11.000the letter says. While we understand that... Very dangerous merchandise.
00:19:42.000But the Minnesota AG Keith Ellison wrote to Target warning that their decision to pull Pride merch, and this is from Fox by the way, this is their wording, from stores encouraged bullying and will embolden hateful methods.
00:19:59.000I would say if there was an example of bullying in this story, it would probably be from the LGBTQ activist who sent bomb threats to Target, but I'm curious to hear all of your thoughts on this.
00:20:13.000Well, we never want to empower bullying in this country.
00:20:17.000Definitely the progressive left has never, ever tried to push its agenda in a manner that would constitute bullying.
00:20:27.000It is interesting that, you know, it is a coalition of, what, 15 attorney generals and the Minnesota attorney general is there.
00:20:33.000You probably already mentioned this, but Target is based in Minnesota, so there's a certain amount of pressure to get in line, fall in line with your hometown.
00:20:42.000It reminds me of the Bud Light boycott in some ways, because initially it was the conservatives saying, we won't drink this, Anheuser-Busch, you've gone too far, you're pushing inappropriate things to underage children.
00:20:52.000And then on top of that, gay bars started boycotting Bud Light, saying, how could you not vocally support Dylan Mulvaney and everything else that this community represents?
00:21:03.000And so we're seeing the same thing here.
00:21:04.000You know, Minnesota is now saying, Why are you not doing more, even though we will not acknowledge that you've lost billions of dollars?
00:21:14.000And so, I mean, there's just so much to pull apart here.
00:21:17.000Firstly, Target obviously has a fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders to ensure that they're not tanking the price of their company and the valuation of it, so that the people who have invested their money in them aren't, you know, completely S.O.L.
00:21:30.000That's not something Mr. Ellison It is particularly concerned with, as it turns out.
00:21:36.000No, the obligation is to the LGBTQ community here.
00:21:40.000And what they were saying, of course, in the letter was that they understand that there was a legitimate threat to the safety of consumers at Target.
00:21:47.000No, it was the consumers who said they were no longer interested in what Target was pushing
00:22:01.000And of course, they call that a threat to their safety.
00:22:03.000And then they try to turn around and say, this is a threat to the safety of our customers.
00:22:07.000This is a very textbook left-wing tactic to just project.
00:22:12.000What they are trying to do is have a predatory relationship with their customers where they
00:22:15.000force any idea or perverse set of lifestyle choices onto those customers and they do nothing
00:22:20.000So they're the ones who are actually a threat to the safety of their customers.
00:22:23.000They're the ones trying to victimize them in a very real sense.
00:22:26.000When those customers turn around and leave, they say, well the customers are actually being victimized by virtue of the fact that they're no longer shopping in our locations because the only explanation for this is big bad right-wing terrorists or whatever other boogeyman they want to invent to avoid accountability here.
00:22:42.000Yeah, I wonder too, it's just so arrogant of these attorney generals to not acknowledge that by telling Target, you have to keep this merchandise on your shelves for everyone to then take pictures of and share how it's not selling.
00:22:56.000I mean, I think one of the best things Alex Stein has ever done is go to Target and try on their Tuck-friendly swimsuit, right?
00:23:02.000I think Alex also feels That that's one of the best things he's ever done, too.
00:24:08.000If parents become unruly or they refuse to respect, you know, everyone gets two minutes to speak and you went over or you're Matt Walsh and you're too effective and compelling, you know, but there there's a sort of an immediacy and there's a sort of a menace.
00:24:25.000I'm in the most, I mean, this is pure democracy in action, but is there anything even comparable to that?
00:24:37.000Yeah, I think people, it's possible, but my understanding is what they're really concerned about is just the fact that people have stopped shopping there and their stock prices plummeted.
00:24:45.000I don't know if they would be as concerned about protests.
00:24:47.000And I think a lot of this is, I think a lot of what's happened with Target and a lot of what has happened with Bud Light is that there have been, you know, Right-wing organizations getting protesters together.
00:24:57.000It's just that ordinary people have said we don't want this anymore, and we're not gonna purchase your product Well, not just that we're not gonna go to your stores when if you go whenever you go to a target What do you see people?
00:25:08.000They're dragging their kids along because these are people who most of them are caregivers and also people don't work anymore So everyone's there with their kids And all of a sudden kids are looking at these displays and these bizarrely configured, you know, articles of clothing and asking very awkward questions.
00:25:28.000And what they want to have happen is for the normal to become, you should, your children should be exposed to this, your children should ask these questions.
00:25:45.000Unfortunately, consumers still have the power to boycott these organizations, and they would love to see that stop.
00:25:52.000Unfortunately, there are organizations that we don't have the power to boycott, segueing into our next story about the United States government and the Pentagon.
00:26:02.000You may have heard over the past several days, while we've been taking a break from Tim Kast, that the Pentagon had a little bit of an accounting error which resulted in an extra $6.2 billion for Ukrainian military aid.
00:26:15.000You know, I really wish that every now and again one of these accounting errors could result in the American people getting tax cuts or money being returned back to us, but it's kind of fascinating how these mistakes seem to happen in one direction.
00:26:29.000Well, the Pentagon said Tuesday that they overestimated the value of weapons sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion over the past two years.
00:26:37.000And, I don't know, I'm sitting here thinking, we can't afford not to spend an extra $6.2 billion on aid to Ukraine, and apparently they can't afford not to have it because we're still sending it over there, they still get to keep it, and there's absolutely no accountability.
00:26:51.000I mean, I can't imagine a strategy more foolish for determining how your national defense, or even just expenditure, Well that's the theme of our era, is no accountability.
00:27:09.000And certainly no one in the federal government has ever held accountable for things that they're quite rationally expected to be accountable for.
00:27:19.000I was saying before the show, as we were talking about this, that I'm surprised the Pentagon even bothered coming up with this story.
00:27:59.000When questions are raised by audits, boards of directors have responsibilities to follow up on those, and they have a fiduciary obligation to shareholders to make sure that problems are addressed.
00:28:24.000And it's not even just a word for... Remember when we all got together and accidentally gave Ukraine an extra 6.2 billion when we all just got together and did that?
00:28:33.000What I'm kind of wondering here is one of the things I've kind of heard recently was that they A lot of the stuff that was sent to Ukraine, it was actually, the military was kind of happy to get rid of it.
00:28:46.000A lot of it was outdated stuff and, you know, it gives them an excuse to replace those things with new and better stuff.
00:28:55.000And maybe it's like a clearance sale but for military exactly right gotta get rid of it Yeah, gotta get rid of it by shooting it at or we're having we're not shooting it.
00:29:08.000It just salvaged their independence and their pride.
00:29:10.000This did not mean pride this story Different pride, but you did say This story reminds me, I don't know if it's a meme or whatever, I saw on Twitter of like, it comes up every tax season where it's like, the government.
00:29:29.000This doesn't make any sense to me because the government gets to be like, we misplaced six billion dollars.
00:29:34.000Let's stick a pin in that conversation because I think we will be coming back to it tonight again also.
00:29:40.000I wonder if it's an inflationary thing, like they gave technology over, which two years ago when they signed the paperwork, it's yours, was worth $6.2 billion less, and today they're like, oh, well the value's now.
00:30:46.000That's exactly what I was about to say.
00:30:49.000Sometimes I wonder if there's a little bit of Rubbing people's faces in these kinds of situations?
00:31:00.000I almost wonder, and I know it's a bit conspiratorial, but if they come out and they admit these things because they just want to confirm that you're not going to do anything about it, there's not really going to be any backlash.
00:31:43.000And I mean, the FBI has admitted to far more horrific stuff than that, too.
00:31:48.000I mean, the FBI and CIA, when you just look at the things that they've leaked, you go, I'm glad that they were transparent about this, but not to get too sidetracked, hearing about things like, you know, MKUltra or Project Northwoods, any of these things that were going on behind the scenes that if the American people had known about them at the time, they might have actually attempted some kind of coup.
00:32:10.000And then you go, well, they're telling us now and they're also telling us that they would never do anything so horrible again.
00:32:15.000So I guess everyone's just kind of kind of roll over and obey the regime.
00:32:19.000I've been thinking about secret police lately, like it's secret police.
00:33:35.000And the astonishing thing that Stalin, among many of the many astonishing things that Stalin achieved was he gutted the leadership of the NKVD.
00:33:51.000I mean, he would sometimes split them into different ministries, internal, external.
00:33:55.000But the bottom line is, you know, Soviet secret police were turned inside out and it had been understood pretty much you know since Lenin and through the early purges of Stalin that to be what they call the Czechist was to be a uniquely privileged person.
00:34:17.000You were the elite and yes from time to time the number one guy would get his head chopped off but yeah being a dutiful Czechist was still a very secure and then all of a sudden And it was an extraordinary implementation of power on Stalin's part to be able to do that and not result in a kind of rebellion there because there were so many different internal monitoring systems of the internal monitoring systems that you never knew
00:34:55.000Which circuit you were pulling on, you know, which wire you were pulling on.
00:35:01.000And you know, the more power and in fact, the more powerful and invasive your security state is, the more likely that is to happen.
00:35:10.000That is, that a strongman can start picking it apart without it realizing that it's being destroyed or even capable at stopping itself from being... Although I'm not sure that the CIA as such, or the NSA, or the FBI have really suffered any No.
00:35:40.000But, you know, Ian, you were talking about these agencies turning on themselves, you were talking about some examples of that, and it goes back to what we were saying earlier about these organizations not really being held accountable.
00:35:51.000So, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, I mean, in theory, you could argue that, like, at the very least, the FBI may be a federal police force.
00:36:00.000Again, I don't love the idea, I'm not saying I'm in favor of it, but if you just wanted to make an argument for a kind of federal police force existing, what you would need to do is create a very strong incentive structure for it to not go off and do things that are against the interests of the American people.
00:36:16.000And the church committee, which none of you will remember, but you've heard of, Which investigated the MKUltra stuff and the domestic spying was supposed to resolve that.
00:36:26.000And what they didn't count on was that Congress would completely drop the bow on its oversight.
00:36:34.000And also, You know, the post 9-11 security, you know, and secrecy reforms, so to speak, the legislative permit that was given to the security state to essentially operate with a degree of comprehension that would have been inconceivable in the 70s when the church hearings took place and which are incredibly invasive and there's no accountability.
00:37:03.000Do you think that we need these agencies in today's America?
00:37:10.000To your point, I can't imagine competing in the global world, the global world as opposed to the flat one, which everyone... Yeah, I was going to say, we don't talk about that until the after show.
00:37:44.000So you look at the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and all the mass data collection that's gone on the fact that they have information on literally anyone who could ever potentially stand up to try to regulate them.
00:37:53.000It seems to me you're either going to need a squeaky clean person in politics, Or someone in politics who doesn't care if they get exposed and have their life ruined, or somebody who's both of those things, or they're just going to keep doing whatever they want to do forever.
00:38:06.000Because even if you do find that person or enough people who fit that description, it's still a long shot.
00:38:11.000I don't want to be too black-pilled about this, but these agencies are incredibly powerful.
00:38:15.000There is a reason they were able to have the information come out to the American people that they were, literally with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plotting against the United States by planning a false flag attack, Or, you know, with MKUltra doing secret experiments on American citizens and still continue to exist, right?
00:38:34.000It's because they're pretty much impossible to get rid of at this point.
00:38:37.000And, you know, the question of, let's say you were made king for a day, right?
00:38:43.000So you had the power to disband the FBI.
00:38:46.000That might not be such a great idea because now you have a lot of people with a lot of sensitive information and a lot of powerful tools who are unemployed and are looking to sell what they know.
00:38:58.000They're looking to become freelancers and we're not going to put bullets in the back of all their heads.
00:39:04.000The vast majority of them are respectable people and they have their own, they have families, they feel like they're doing their duty.
00:39:11.000I think we have all been disabused of the notion that they are you know, won't do whatever they have to do to maintain
00:39:18.000their jobs. And as I said last night, you know, their pensions and fine, but be that as it may,
00:39:25.000you can't just wish you just can't wish that away. And it is extremely it's a ratcheting
00:39:29.000effect, very hard to imagine how you loosen, how you loosen that. And by the way, we do
00:39:35.000have serious rivals on the world stage, as well as serious
00:39:42.000problems with crime and with a, you know, and with cyber security, both internally and
00:39:49.000externally, and corporate espionage, you do need sophisticated help.
00:39:56.000Government is very well positioned to do that, and I've never been the biggest libertarian in the world.
00:40:03.000I bet if Tim were here, he could make an argument along the lines of privatizing those kinds of services.
00:40:12.000If you're a corporation and you have information that needs to be protected, or if you're a person that needs to be protected, move out to Maryland along the border of West Virginia.
00:40:21.000And, you know, everyone can do that, but be that as it may, I think there's a very strong consensus.
00:40:27.000And by the way, this is another point, the vast majority of Americans don't know that there's a problem.
00:41:28.000A prominent scientist who worked on coronavirus projects, funded by the U.S.
00:41:33.000government, do I have to keep reading?
00:41:36.000Is one of three Chinese researchers who became sick with an unspecified illness during the initial outbreak of COVID-19, according to current and former U.S.
00:41:55.000We have had a number of conversations on this story about lab leak hypothesis versus the it-came-from-a-bat-that-lived-a-thousand-miles-away-from-where-the-virus-first-sprang-up theory, which I guess a nickname we could give to that shorthand is stupid.
00:42:16.000We have had conversations on this show about the fact that there are certain theories That we as the American people didn't have access to because information was withheld from us.
00:42:26.000This is an example of the American people having basically all of the facts that they needed to have to come to the correct conclusion very early on, but the media just continually gaslighting people about drawing the most obvious possible conclusion.
00:42:41.000The reason the term conspiracy theorist is so effective is because what it does is it generates an image in the mind of the person who hears that term of an individual who doesn't go for the most succinct,
00:42:53.000credible, reasonable, and simple explanation, but who instead will make any kind of logical leap
00:43:00.000or stretch to believe whatever it was they wanted to believe in the first place.
00:43:04.000Now, to me, that sounds a lot more like that description fits somebody who thinks
00:43:10.000that COVID sprang up in a population of bats that live a thousand miles away from Wuhan,
00:43:15.000as opposed to having come from the virus factory where they were doing gain-of-function research
00:43:21.000in the city where the virus first sprang up for our good.
00:44:25.000But it's not the Wall Street Journal editorial page either.
00:44:29.000It's the- They are presenting it as fact.
00:44:31.000They feel as though they have the evidence to back this up.
00:44:35.000I can't speak specifically to the Wall Street Journal, but most of these major mainstream outlets, we can kind of guess with their track record on this theory, where they cited.
00:44:45.000The fact that this is being reported, I mean, we are three years out.
00:44:49.000A lot of people's attitudes towards the pandemic have really shifted, but it's notable that I now am very pro.
00:45:18.000No, but I think that's the thing you should take away.
00:45:20.000Yes, like you're saying maybe we all already knew this information.
00:45:24.000Maybe this is drawing forth a conclusion that a lot of us had already assumed.
00:45:27.000But the reason the answer to your question is no is that read that last sentence.
00:45:32.000The identity and role of the researchers is one piece of intelligence that has been cited by proponents of the judgment that... That's actually not very good writing.
00:45:41.000Proponents of the judgment that the pandemic originated with a lab leak.
00:45:46.000And that is not an award-winning sentence, but it's still... They don't actually take the position that this tends to prove, or this proves, that it was always bullshit that it was anything other than a lab leak.
00:46:00.000The nature of their illness hasn't been conclusively proven.
00:46:14.000So, this is one of those things you are able to discuss, but we probably shouldn't push out further into other questions of the medical science that YouTube would.
00:46:22.000We're questioning the Wall Street Journal.
00:46:24.000When I talk about the medical science too, I think, well, there are certain elements of it that you're not allowed to discuss because that's, you know, how science works, but I know that with this, the establishment is actually starting to admit that this is clearly true.
00:46:41.000It seems like people are like, okay, we've kind of figured out what happened.
00:46:45.000And now these news organizations, I don't want to speak for all of them, but the ones that relied for so long on printing newspaper are failing.
00:46:52.000They don't have the income that they used to have in there.
00:47:42.000Please look that up for us right now because that's certainly valuable information.
00:47:47.000I think I've pretty much made my point on this, that the explanation here from the get-go was unbelievably obvious.
00:47:52.000We've had a number of different people in media and in the channels of the United States government and actual official institutions that people look to as authorities throughout this entire pandemic come out and say that they were not either being honest with us from the beginning, but maybe a better way of putting it is saying they weren't being truthful, because that doesn't necessarily demand that we believe that they are being intentionally dishonest, just that what they were saying clearly wasn't true.
00:48:21.000The lawyer appreciates me saying that.
00:48:23.000I'll tell you why, because you just hit on something that I actually had wanted to say before, but I'd forgotten, which was misinformation.
00:48:41.000Disinformation is an affirmative attempt to lie to you about reality so that you, for policy reasons, for political reasons, get misinformed.
00:48:59.000There was never such a thing as misinformation.
00:49:01.000I mean there might have been, the formative might have existed theoretically, but misinformation is something that was created in the social media era as a term to describe What might not be truth, but to make it sound like those who repeat it are engaged in disinformation, because it rhymes with and it alludes to disinformation.
00:49:26.000But accusing someone of disinformation is almost saying that they're competent state actors or something.
00:50:08.000I think what everyone has to remember here is the media, you know, social media platforms and basically everyone in government, including people in government who are actually colluding with social media companies to have them censor people from those platforms, were claiming that their interest was in protecting the American people.
00:50:25.000Now, if it's true that you are genuinely just a seeker of truth who wants to use the best information available to protect people, Then when your track record ends up revealing that you have been consistently incorrect about important details, which you punish people for speaking truth on, you'd imagine some kind of humility would be demonstrated, and you would loosen your grip over the control of informational flow, or you would loosen your restrictions.
00:50:50.000And on some things they have, however, they still act with a degree of authority and certainty which is not only unearned, but which has been thoroughly Dismissed and refuted by the facts.
00:51:05.000I would say has been entirely undermined by their own track record It's either that is that they were Incompetent or malicious and either way I'm concerned with that's why I just don't buy anything at face value anymore It's really eroding my will to live.
00:51:30.000I don't see a good future in 10 years with this AI revolution and the amount of stranglehold that the US government seems to be trying to keep on people.
00:51:44.000Otherwise, I can't imagine anything good happening in the next five years, geopolitically.
00:51:48.000I mean, not nothing, but I'm saying...
00:51:52.000I don't... I mean, if they're willing to shut off people's bank accounts that are trying to live off the grid, like, what the hell are we doing to ourselves?
00:52:10.000I hear a lot of what you're saying, and I think there are a lot of people in the audience who probably feel similarly about seeing a very bleak future ahead of them, but I mean, don't lose your will to live over it.
00:52:27.000That might be part of it, it's too much coffee.
00:52:29.000Maybe you just got so blackpilled by that information.
00:52:32.000And I will say, if you work in news media and you just consume these stories back to back to back to back to back, it is easy for it to become like you do.
00:52:42.000On the other hand, you have to remember all the things that happen in your daily life that are worth continuing to push against the system for.
00:52:59.000If you decide not to push back, I mean, that's part of a part of self-determination, right?
00:53:03.000Like you have the free will to be actively present in the life you have right now and to do what you can to make the world a place that you would want to pass down to your children.
00:53:26.000The attack on religion and the attack on the family as well.
00:53:28.000You mentioned something about children.
00:53:29.000Again, I don't have any kids, but From every single parent I've ever spoken to, it sounds to me like choosing to have children is a tremendous act of hope.
00:53:37.000You're hoping that there will be a better future.
00:53:39.000You're being optimistic and saying, I'm going to bring life into this world because I think it's going to be a good thing that I did it.
00:53:47.000You mentioned to us before the show that you renewed your faith in your early 20s.
00:53:51.000Was this idea of hope and having a path forward something that did that for you?
00:53:55.000I mean, really, you know, growing up in what's considered to be a secular Jewish environment, although it was very strongly ethnic because of the immigrant component of my parents and grandparents, you know, and then finding myself as someone whose own parents had not gone to college and all of a sudden I was at Princeton, so I was in the very precipice of In an elite school.
00:54:21.000In an elite school, and supposedly the entree into the elite of the world, which is not what I learned much, much later, was that these schools mostly perpetuate networks.
00:54:31.000They're not there to invite you into their network, although if you want to de-self yourself enough to really be a member of the club, you could.
00:55:01.000Exactly, they moved away from their ideological father.
00:55:03.000But the answer to the question is yes.
00:55:05.000I mean, looking at this strong identity that I had and then looking at what really assimilating really meant and the fact that I knew that I had an inherent belief in God and in the validity of the Jewish tradition Being something that was valid and meaningful to me it What I did was I went to I went to Israel to study and became much more knowledgeable about my heritage and actually took a couple of years between Graduating law school and starting my career my what would eventually become legendary legal career To bring some humility to you imagine what it was like before I
00:55:57.000No, actually, well, that's much more humbling than being 25 years old and have a degree from Princeton and from law school in Northwestern.
00:56:06.000Yeah, that sounds really humbling, man.
00:56:26.000Well, and I'll mention this, and I think we could have a really fascinating discussion about this and about religion and faith on the after show, but this is one thing a lot of people are deprived of is a religious education because parents say, you know, I want to let my kids choose when they're older.
00:56:39.000Your kid's gonna make a choice when they're older regardless.
00:56:45.000Teach them something so that if they do choose it, they don't have to start from square one like they're like a little kid learning it all for the first time.
00:56:51.000And my friend from Princeton days, Yoram Hazony, writes in his books about national conservatism and about conservatism.
00:57:00.000People under a misapprehension, they think, well, why should my child be exposed to our particular religion?
00:57:07.000Sure, he has to have a religious education, but what makes our family's tradition any more valid?
00:57:29.000We definitely agree on throwing Freud out.
00:57:31.000We could save more of this today, for sure.
00:57:32.000Yeah, and I think we'll save more of it.
00:57:33.000One thing I would say to people, too, is when you start learning about Christianity and Catholicism and decide to become Catholic, then don't.
00:57:39.000You know, feel free to not do the same thing.
00:57:40.000I told you this was going to be a contentious show.
00:57:42.000I just knew that Blame the Jews card would be played.
00:57:45.000We'll talk about it on the after show.
00:57:47.000We'll talk about it on the after show.
00:57:48.000Let me give you a touch more of the black pill before, and then we can carry the rest on to the after show.
00:57:52.000Give us a little bit of that, because the next story is a black pill, so let's get I gained a faith in God 10 years ago or so, 15 years ago.
00:58:39.000We'll get into it on the after show, because we have other black pills that I have to feed people right now.
00:58:43.000Otherwise I'd want to stay on this topic, so we will flesh it out later.
00:58:46.000But speaking of humility, we've got a story about Hunter Biden here, the most humble member of, I guess we could say, our royal class in the United States.
00:58:56.000At this point, especially when you look at the way that they're treated.
00:58:59.000I mean, no, effectively, he's royalty.
00:59:01.000It's one of the number one critiques of monarchy, and it's one of the number one reasons people supported democracy.
00:59:06.000What happens if you're in a monarchy and the king just has an absolutely horrible family unit being ruled by complete degenerates?
00:59:41.000This is something Ian and I talked about quite a while ago.
00:59:44.000And what I said is the way I define elite is someone who will not pay any consequence for their actions.
00:59:49.000That's basically how an elite is defined in a system which is as corrupt as ours is.
00:59:53.000And when you're looking at somebody like Hunter Biden, and our next story, which is the fact that IRS whistleblowers actually came out, and not just one, but two of them, and alleged that there was political interference in the Hunter Biden investigation.
01:00:06.000Talk about information I didn't Exactly.
01:00:11.000This is exactly what I was saying earlier with the lab leak hypothesis, right?
01:00:14.000There's just story after story after story of the conspiracy theorists being proven right.
01:00:21.000Information that we were already well aware of.
01:00:23.000I appreciate these guys coming forward.
01:00:25.000I agree that this stuff has to come out and it's good that they're talking about it.
01:00:29.000But the fact is, nobody thought this was going to be impartial or unbiased.
01:00:33.000Under the Obama administration, the IRS was specifically targeting conservative groups.
01:00:38.000This has been a biased organization for a very long time.
01:00:44.000And if it did start with Hunter Biden, it was so blatant and obvious that basically everyone in this country was already in a position where they'd be capable of hearing it without these whistleblowers.
01:00:52.000That said, we're glad they stepped forward.
01:00:54.000They should be commended and they should be thanked.
01:00:57.000The Justice Department in Delaware U.S.
01:01:00.000Attorney's Office went out of their way to hamper an IRS investigation of Hunter Biden's taxes by consistently slow walking the case, preventing enforcement actions by the IRS, and tipping off actions related to the investigation to Biden's attorneys in advance, according to a new whistleblower testimony released Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee.
01:01:22.000Now, just a show of hands, who in the room is surprised by this?
01:02:03.000Yeah, well, and you look at the fact that Biden, Hunter Biden that is, specifically, failed to pay about a million dollars in taxes, and I'm asking you, as a lawyer, if I, you know, a nice guy like me, failed to pay the government a million dollars that I owed it, do you think I would get two misdemeanor charges?
01:02:24.000I think you'd get two misdemeanor charges on every square inch of your body, and the felony charges would be lodged in other parts of your body.
01:03:27.000I think it's worth noting that this whistleblower testimony was pre-scheduled, I'm assuming, so they always knew that they were going to testify on the 22nd.
01:03:36.000And earlier this week is when Hunter Biden accepts his plea deal and is like, ah, yes, I did do something wrong.
01:03:42.000We're not going to talk about it anymore.
01:03:45.000That makes me think, what else is going to come out?
01:03:48.000Again, I always think anyone in these positions of power or privilege try to get in front of the story.
01:03:55.000So if Hunter accepted the plea deal on, what was it, Monday, what other whistleblower testimony are they trying to prevent from moving forward?
01:04:02.000Because his attorney specifically said, with this plea deal, my understanding is that the investigation is closed.
01:04:20.000We're not going to talk about it anymore.
01:04:21.000And obviously, I don't think most of the American public agrees with that.
01:04:25.000We've referenced it a couple of times, this idea of a multi-tiered justice system in which Hunter Biden is allowed to, you know, Every report that I read after his plea came out was, he is not expected to serve jail time.
01:04:38.000He's also got this gun charge hanging over his head that is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
01:04:46.000No, there's no expectation in our country.
01:04:49.000He will go to jail and the fact that all of us can look at each other and say it's extremely unlikely that Hunter Biden's gonna go to jail for something that anyone else in this room would be convicted and punished to the full extent of the law is crazy.
01:05:00.000How can Joe Biden who's presenting himself as a man of the people all the unions support him Middle-class Joe, he calls himself.
01:07:19.000First of all, no one in American politics is going, oh, look at the person, the middle class.
01:07:26.000That's not how this country works, okay?
01:07:28.000People who hate the middle class still pretend to love it while denigrating it, stripping all of its wealth away, and insulting its values.
01:07:36.000No one ever called Joe Biden middle class, Joe.
01:07:39.000But you were going to make a point, and I so rudely interrupted.
01:07:56.000He's gonna filibuster until he has a point.
01:07:57.000The point was that there was never any concern whatsoever on his part whether or not he filed the taxes because he knew that he's never been held accountable for anything and he will not be held accountable for anything because they have the system absolutely Right.
01:08:23.000What would we hear from the executive branch?
01:08:25.000There's no way he wouldn't do prison time.
01:08:28.000Adam Schiff was saying that he had information about Trump Jr.
01:08:31.000that he was going to be thrown in prison. And we were hearing all of this nonsense from everyone
01:08:37.000in the media about how the walls were closing in. They were closing in on Donald Trump and
01:08:40.000they were closing in on his family. And of course, what we ended up finding with the
01:08:43.000investigation with the Durham report was once again, something that we all knew,
01:08:48.000which was that the deep state was politically motivated and they were attempting a soft coup
01:08:51.000against a sitting president. So when somebody who is anti-establishment ends up attaining the highest
01:08:58.000office in the country in an unbelievable and unprecedented feat by being elected president
01:09:03.000as an outsider, and then the deep state does everything they can to subvert the democratic
01:09:07.000process and unseat that person. And everyone in the media repeats a narrative, which we all know
01:09:13.000was a total farce to the point where they convince the American people to believe things that are
01:09:17.000factually untrue to the point where 60% of Democrats- To the point where 60% of Democrats said in a YouGov survey that the 2016 election was tampered with by Russians in the sense that they were literally retallying vote totals.
01:09:32.000Now, no one in the media openly said this, they just very strongly implied it for several years.
01:09:37.000So that's the treatment that you get when you're an outsider trying to enter into the establishment.
01:09:42.000When you are in the establishment, you can do what Whatever you want, and you will not pay any price.
01:09:47.000And if you do, it'll be a slap on the wrist so they can say, see, we're impartial.
01:09:51.000Hunter Biden did end up catching charges.
01:09:54.000He was prosecuted in a court of law because we gave him two misdemeanors for something you'd be spending decades in jail for had you done it.
01:10:36.000I don't know about that because it was something like 10% of voters, according to a poll published by the Washington Examiner, said had the Hunter Biden laptop story not been covered up, they wouldn't have voted for Joe.
01:11:12.000You just need to wake enough people up.
01:11:14.000Referencing polls is risky because you got to find out how many people, it might be that it was like a thousand people were asked and it was 10% of a thousand people said, and the question might've been asked, like, had you known that Hunter Biden's laptop, something, something, whereas opposed to if they just seen the laptop two weeks ago, it wouldn't really have, but when they're looking at the piece of paper with the question on it, they're like, yes.
01:11:30.000I just think Hunter Biden cumulatively- That's fair, but I do think, I agree with you that polls are imperfect, but I think when we have the information, it's important to do something with it.
01:11:37.000Yeah, I was gonna say, I think just cumulatively, we should look at Hunter Biden.
01:11:41.000We should talk about Navy, his daughter, who is also, he's ignoring.
01:11:45.000I think we should all look at everything Hunter Biden does and say, this is the child that Joe Biden raised.
01:11:50.000Yeah, well- Maybe it's not enough to persuade every voter, but I think- But the real story though, It's notwithstanding the serious character flaws of Hunter Biden, and many great families have had seriously depraved children.
01:12:05.000And a great deal of wealth can have that effect on even the best of families, especially when it's wealth generated by corruption.
01:12:15.000But the real story, going back to our theme, is this is what elites can get away with.
01:12:20.000Yes, it's what elites can get away with, and I'll also add this.
01:12:23.000It's not just that Hunter Biden was raised in an extremely wealthy family, it's he was raised in an extremely wealthy family, and his father is a coward and a phony.
01:12:32.000His dad also probably wasn't around very much.
01:12:35.000I mean, if he worked for 40, 50 years in In Congress.
01:12:39.000He's been in Congress since the 70s, right?
01:12:41.000That's a long time to be spending 28 days a month away from your family.
01:14:36.000Dude, this man got elected and then, I believe it was just right after he was inaugurated, he told us he broke his leg because he tried to grab his dog's tail while he was getting out of the shower.
01:18:16.000And that's why, the reason I say he's not a tyrant is, you know, and before you had your continence prop over here, It was that he's not a dictator.
01:19:31.000Not brilliant and not well-spoken as such, but the point is, okay, if he's articulate, he's well-spoken, but he had the tools to do the job.
01:19:44.000But what he became was a useful, we have a word in Yiddish, a golem.
01:19:49.000He became a zombie, an effective zombie in whom, you know, a new SD card could be placed every morning with that day's, you know, where to stand.
01:20:03.000And he has all those, you know, many years of authority.
01:21:08.000No, he's talking about Paul Ryan versus Joe Biden.
01:21:10.000I remember watching it and at the time I thought that Ryan did better because I wasn't really impressed by Joe Biden, but that also could have been my political bias and the fact that I was 17 at the time.
01:21:19.000But we've got another story here that I want to try to push into.
01:21:25.000Pixar, the beloved children's film Producer, which for a very long time couldn't seem to miss, has been doing worse and worse over the years, and many people are speculating it's because of wokeness.
01:21:37.000Well, now their new film, Elemental, has absolutely bombed at the box office, doing worse than any of Pixar's films have ever done, and it just happens to feature their first non-binary character.
01:21:55.000Is this just a product of The new marketplace and streaming services, it's certainly possible, but I just want to start by highlighting some of the figures here.
01:22:03.000Firstly, Elemental opened to about $29.5 million its first weekend, which is the worst opening in Pixar's history.
01:22:13.000To be clear, Toy Story made $29.1 million its opening weekend back in 1995, and it had a $30 million budget, okay?
01:22:24.000So accounting for inflation, Pixar's first film film when they were a totally unknown studio which did not
01:22:30.000have hit after hit after hit and a well proven brand blew this current film absolutely
01:23:15.000I watch a lot of these videos about guys talking about what representation and equity and diversity have done to Disney and to Marvel and what very few of the people are talking about is the cost of capital.
01:23:57.000But no, even for these massive companies, I mean, this is, again, this is another example and probably the worst example, at least for Pixar, in a trend that we've seen over the past several years.
01:24:07.000And part of it is these streaming services and the fact that people know that if a film doesn't really catch their interest all that much, they don't need to take the kids to see it opening weekend.
01:24:18.000But also, there is an element, I think, of wokeness, political correctness, and trying to push leftism in children's media that has affected the revenue that a lot of these companies are seeing.
01:24:28.000So, an example we saw about two years ago, one or two years ago I believe, was the Buzz Lightyear spin-off film that was released, and it did abysmally.
01:24:36.000And people were saying that this wasn't a product of the fact that there was a lesbian kiss in the background of the film, and parents were totally fine with that, and they chose not to see it for other reasons.
01:24:45.000And it's true that some people might have chosen not to see the film for other reasons, but the reality is, two of the top ten highest earning children's films of all time are Toy Story films, right?
01:24:57.000And then they release a spin-off film, and I'm not gonna go as far as to say it bombed, But it performed very poorly, given that franchise's track record.
01:25:09.000And people may want to argue, if they're on the left, that the fact that there is a lesbian kiss in a toy story movie didn't affect its marketability, or whether parents would choose to take their children to see it, but I think that's flat-on-its-face absurd.
01:25:24.000And I think the idea that parents We're in no way affected by a non-binary character being in this children's film.
01:25:32.000It is equally absurd, even if streaming did play a role.
01:25:37.000I started out wanting to ask a different question, but I think I've answered that one and I have a new question.
01:25:43.000My original question had been, at the beginning we talked about Target.
01:25:48.000And, you know, middle America not wanting to take their kids into a Target store because of the freaky things that they're selling.
01:25:54.000And now we're talking about middle America not wanting to take their kids to a movie theater because of the freaky things they're selling.
01:26:51.000But, by and large, at the end of the day, Most normal Americans will even vote Democratic, will even believe the media and the implausible stories that they come up with about origins of the, you know, of COVID.
01:27:09.000They, when it comes to Pressing, pushing this sexualization.
01:27:18.000Even forget whether or not it has to do with homosexuality or transsexuality or any of that stuff.
01:28:06.000Right, and they don't have a religious doctrine to fall back on, because they don't go to church anymore, and they don't observe, you know, the tenets of their religion.
01:28:14.000And yet, their souls are screaming within them that there is right and wrong in this world, that there is Call it natural law, call it God's, but there is morality that there are things that matter.
01:28:27.000There are values that are not malleable, and people are embarrassed to be associated with a religious rationale for having those feelings, because what could be less fashionable?
01:28:42.000Well, and I think this is why it's so important to the alphabet people to go after children, because it is true, as you said, this is written on man's heart.
01:28:52.000There are certain things that are wrong, and when a child See something grotesque for the first time, they're going to respond as they are naturally inclined to.
01:29:04.000I'm not saying everything that we feel internally is indicative of a moral reality, sometimes we're wrong.
01:29:10.000But, in general, especially when it comes to sexually perverse behavior, when someone's exposed to it, they recoil.
01:29:18.000So the reason they want to show it to children is because what they're effectively doing is a kind of perverse exposure therapy, which we usually call grooming.
01:29:27.000But, of course, because the left wants this particular form of grooming to continue, they're not allowing people to call it that.
01:29:35.000We need to try to expose children to this and then gaslight them out of following that initial internal sense of revulsion towards the perversity in front of them.
01:29:46.000And it doesn't have to even be porosity.
01:29:48.000As I said, most normal young children are uncomfortable with outward displays of what we might call romantic affection.
01:29:59.000They don't really want to see mommy and daddy kissing.
01:30:27.000I think it's also important to mention that a lot of the people that are performing in drag and etc.
01:30:31.000and in these environments, I mean I was a DJ for years and I've been around a lot of the gay community, say what you will about it, but they don't feel comfortable doing this.
01:30:38.000They don't want children to be around like that and a lot of them are in the situation where they're essentially being forced by people that are like... Yeah, I represent a couple of organizations, one is Gays Against Groomers.
01:30:59.000You know, it is, it is a big part of their identity.
01:31:01.000I mean, you know, there's like an entire different conversation of, does tolerance of homosexuality require me to have to hear about your homosexual interests all the time?
01:31:12.000Separate and apart from that, what my clients are saying is, they're killing our community.
01:31:18.000They're killing the reputation and the image.
01:31:20.000We had, and by the way, There's a parallel to what's happened with race relations in this country.
01:31:26.000Because most of us, until Barack Obama, not only until Barack Obama was elected, but especially after Barack Obama was elected, thought, we did it.
01:31:45.000We can elect, and by the way, many, many, many people voted for him to demonstrate to themselves that they're not racist.
01:31:54.000I'm not racist, I voted for a black president.
01:31:57.000What happened is the door was opened to a radicalization, not necessarily because of Obama himself, I don't think so, but because of people around him.
01:32:07.000I actually don't have that sort of really intense hatred of Obama that a lot of people do.
01:32:26.000Strong dislike, but continue, continue.
01:32:28.000The point is, the people thought that we had sort of had the sexual revolution and a lot of morality, moral choices were unbound and traditional.
01:32:41.000And we were not necessarily all of us that comfortable, especially those of us who are traditional religionists.
01:32:48.000Fine, fine, you go and ruin your own society, we're gonna just hunker down.
01:33:11.000Because when their entire argument for recognition and acceptance and tolerance is premised on marginalization per se is an evil, That means that there is no margin in which you can leave the most perverse behavior, and there we are.
01:33:33.000I mentioned this on the show a very long time ago when I first started doing it, when this conversation came up, but this is why I think Henry VIII and St.
01:33:41.000Thomas More are such an important case study, because There was nothing St.
01:33:45.000Thomas More could really do to stop Henry VIII from discarding with his wife and then taking a new woman.
01:33:53.000It was just the fact that he knew that Sir Thomas More disapproved of what he was doing sexually that made him say, I have to kill this man.
01:34:12.000I mean, good priests end up being sort of a sore thorn in the side of a lot of these corrupt rulers.
01:34:18.000So you think, Ron, Just to understand maybe what you're saying is that like this move towards an openly sexual society or a repressively sexual society is like it's a trend.
01:34:30.000So like the gay rights movement, the liberation of gay marriage, it was always inevitably tending towards complete open sexual transparency towards children.
01:34:39.000And the only other option is to repress it.
01:34:44.000It's a very, you have asked the right question and you've identified the dilemma.
01:34:49.000Because as a First Amendment lawyer, I'll make it first clear that the First Amendment does not protect obscenity.
01:34:58.000But the United States Supreme Court has essentially defined obscenity out of existence.
01:35:04.000And made it pretty much a consent issue.
01:35:07.000Which has nothing to do with obscenity whatsoever.
01:35:11.000We live in a society now where the only criterion had been, until just about ten minutes ago, had been consent.
01:35:21.000And we're now broaching that as well, because there's never a limiting principle.
01:35:26.000So, talking about the sexualization of children, and literally the sexualization and sexuality involving children, the mere fact that people have the audacity to speak in public discourse about Sexualizing children, involving children with sex, is a complete abnegation of the concept that children are deemed morally incapable of giving consent.
01:35:56.000But we have to, we can't maintain that position because we're also taking the position, we, pretty much you and me, not, that children can give their consent, To having their genitals mutilated and to taking drugs that will supposedly change their sex.
01:38:10.000And in the past, Milton Friedman-type libertarians made the mistake of assigning to them a sort of value-free place in economic philosophical thinking.
01:38:30.000Corporations are just something that people choose to do together.
01:38:38.000Some of the most powerful corporations in the world effectively act much in the way that governments do, and many of them are more wealthy than many of the world's governments as traditionally conceived.
01:38:52.000Corporations are a creation of the law, a very, very creative and brilliant way to raise capital.
01:39:03.000If I can remove... And avoid liability.
01:39:35.000You want to have incredible medical developments that are often wildly uneconomical, but they're there, and in theory they might become before?
01:39:43.000All the things that American capitalism, with all its dynamism, and all its waste, and all its stupidity, and all its brilliance, You do need the ability to have capital formation on the level of what corporations do today.
01:39:57.000But there's no reason on earth that corporations cannot be regulated by the state, except for one.
01:41:37.000Don't- I also- I have always wanted to ask Liquid Death, their thing is to burn cans because it's death to plastic, but their cans have a plastic lining.
01:42:09.000I think the important thing to mention about regarding like the plastic is these are not like in plastic bottles that are exposed to sunlight because that's when that plastic is then seeping into the water is when these bottles of water are shipped.
01:42:21.000They're outside and exposed to the sun.
01:42:22.000But there's still plastic in them, right?
01:42:25.000So when you recycle them, what happens to the plastic?
01:42:53.000I'm getting mixed messages here because he's perplexed that Tim would allow me to host the show, but then he's saying Freedom Tunes may reign.
01:42:59.000Speaking of which, we released a cartoon today.
01:44:57.000It is utterly morally unjustifiable to expose yourself, much less a family member, who I understand may not have been all that eager to go, to this kind of literal mortal risk for thrills.
01:45:15.000There's plenty of thrilling stuff to do on the surface, or on a nice sightseeing boat, Or even, you want to dive?
01:45:22.000I mean, but to this level, of course people didn't really appreciate the level of risk.
01:45:32.000Common Sense Fishing says, did you guys forget they found the Titanic by luck while on a top secret mission to find a nuclear sub with nukes on board?
01:46:15.000Yeah, I believe what happened is there was a sub actually down there, like a U.S.
01:46:18.000sub, and then they eventually were paying off and were like, whoa, this is definitely something, and then eventually they went and found it again later on and verified their findings.
01:49:38.000So the Bruin opinion is an important opinion and we do need to understand that what it is addressing has been a phenomenal amount of Overreaching by the states and by municipalities to find ways and excuses and rationales to regulate Firearms in ways that are not tolerable by the Second Amendment, but if you said that someone is psychologically unfit to
01:50:12.000You know, to own arms because of the risk that it poses to others.
01:50:16.000I think that's probably a form of regulation that the Second Amendment would tolerate.
01:50:22.000Unless and until the Supreme Court says you can't regulate it whatsoever, which I don't think they're going to say, I would not want to die on the hill of crackheads can own guns.
01:54:29.000So what happened was on last night's show, I said that I don't think crackheads should be able to own guns.
01:54:34.000People are actively, you know, smoking crack.
01:54:38.000And people were asking, or people were basically saying that the Second Amendment still protects that.
01:54:44.000My point is that I think it is reasonable to have restrictions.
01:54:47.000And what I said yesterday is when the founders wrote the Constitution, what they said is that you need a virtuous populace in order for something like this to ever really be pulled off effectively.
01:54:55.000And one of the hallmarks of a virtuous populace is that they Don't smoke crack.
01:55:14.000Then yes, giving to charity or giving to the soup kitchen would be a good thing to do, but the act of smoking crack does not become virtuous.
01:55:26.000Jacob Jones says, Ian, it was Henry II speaking of Thomas Beckett, that's right, 12th century, with Won't Somebody Rid Me of This Priest, which he said while drunkenly raving.
01:56:02.000Better to have a monarchy that we know as opposed to like a corrupt, a visage of a democracy or a republic that's actually run by one guy in a boardroom somewhere?
01:56:11.000Or even if it's not one guy in a boardroom, but it's, you know, 15 guys, you know, in Davos, Switzerland, or whatever the hell, you know, however you want to imagine, you know, the New World Order.
01:56:24.000If you know, you know, monarchies have fallen, and houses of monarchies have fallen and been replaced.
01:56:30.000I mean, Henry II was not a grandpa of Henry VIII, you know.
01:56:36.000Monarchies lose, you know, there can be transitions.
01:56:41.000One of our problems, in fact, this lightbulb is going over on my head right now, I don't know if your cameras are sensitive enough to pick it up, but is that we are all so busy intoning our commitment to democracy, That we are reinforcing the illusion that democracy exists and we need to come to terms with the fact that, you know, this elitist, this multi-track system of reward and punishment exists and, you know, that democracy perhaps would be a good replacement for it.
01:57:15.000Yeah, also, well, I'll say this, for anyone who's interested in the arguments in favor of monarchy, because especially in the public school system in the U.S., they'll explain to you the benefits of every system, communism, socialism, all of these horrible destructive ideologies, and then you never hear the other side of the question with the democracy vs. monarchy debate, so Hans-Hermann Hoppe has written a brilliant book on this called Democracy, The God That Failed, which I would just encourage everybody to check out.
01:58:15.000But, be that as it may, I'm primarily on Twitter, at Ron Coleman, spelled with an E-C-O-L-E-M-A-N, and when you go there, you'll find all the stuff.
01:58:24.000Of course, not everyone follows me who ought to follow me on Twitter, but, you know, they eventually come around.
01:58:29.000And that's all you really need to know.
01:58:32.000I have a podcast, it's called Cullman Nation.
01:58:34.000The joke is Cullman Nation finishing finalization, not Cullman Nation, but I'm stuck.
01:58:39.000Everyone says Cullman Nation, which would be really lame.
01:59:52.000You can follow me at iancrossland.net or at iancrossland anywhere on social media, and I will be happy to chat from time to time when I see ya, and I'll see ya.
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