Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Ukraine Tried To ASSSASSINATE Putin In Strike On Kremlin Claims Russia w-James Rosen

00:00:00.000 So we got some crazy news this morning.

00:00:23.000 Apparently, Ukraine sent a drone to kill Vladimir Putin.

00:00:28.000 Fortunately, he was not there.

00:00:29.000 He did not die.

00:00:30.000 Except that's the narrative coming out of the Kremlin.

00:00:33.000 We don't actually know what really happened.

00:00:35.000 There is the fog of war.

00:00:36.000 And many people are saying either this was a false flag attack on the Kremlin, so that there would be some kind of Justification for escalation, or an attempt to rally public support in Russia for the war in Ukraine, or Ukraine actually did make a crude attempt at taking out Vladimir Putin.

00:00:51.000 Either way, you can expect some kind of escalation, and there are many people who are saying, oh no, this is it, this is World War III, and I'm kind of like, I don't know if this is it.

00:01:00.000 But an attack on the Kremlin is fairly serious, and if it wasn't really an attack on the Kremlin, they're going to act like it was, so still fairly serious, but we'll talk about that.

00:01:09.000 We got some news as it pertains to Anheuser-Busch.

00:01:12.000 Apparently, they've begun giving out free Bud Light to distributors in desperation.

00:01:17.000 Wow.

00:01:18.000 I did not think the boycott would be so effective.

00:01:20.000 They'd start giving the beer away desperately because nobody's buying it, but this is where we are right now.

00:01:26.000 And then, um, I guess because, you know, I'm trying to give you a black pill sandwich.

00:01:31.000 It's like we got really bad news on war.

00:01:32.000 And there's some good news.

00:01:33.000 You know, boycott's working.

00:01:34.000 Here's the bad news again.

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00:03:24.000 Thank you.

00:03:25.000 Who are you, sir?

00:03:27.000 Oh, identify yourself.

00:03:28.000 Yes.

00:03:29.000 I have my ID somewhere here.

00:03:32.000 James Rosen, chief White House correspondent for Newsmax and author most recently of Scalia Rise to Greatness 1936 to 1986, volume one of a two volume biography of Antonin Scalia.

00:03:44.000 Is there a website URL or something for people to find the book?

00:03:46.000 You can just go to my Twitter feed at James Rosen TV.

00:03:49.000 You'll find everything you need there.

00:03:50.000 And I think, I don't know, what I most have known you for is because 10 years ago you were illegally, I'm assuming literally and codified as illegal or adjudicated as illegal, but in our view and all the activists spied on and targeted by the Obama administration for literally doing journalism and it was shockingly corrupt.

00:04:11.000 So this story was huge in the activist circles and the freedom of information circles.

00:04:15.000 Strangely now, many of these left-leaning individuals have abandoned those principles, but that was you targeted by Obama.

00:04:21.000 So yeah, we're actually coming up on the 10th anniversary of when this all first came to light.

00:04:27.000 It was May 20, 2013.

00:04:30.000 But the actual surveillance that you're talking about had happened earlier.

00:04:36.000 How to make this brief.

00:04:37.000 I was a reporter for Fox News at the time.

00:04:39.000 I was covering the State Department.

00:04:41.000 And I did a series of reports relating to different facets of North Korea.

00:04:46.000 Their nuclear program, how they intended to respond to various actions by the United States vis-a-vis their nuclear program.

00:04:54.000 And also information relating to the succession plan that resulted in Kim Jong-un taking power in North Korea.

00:05:03.000 And that reporting at the time for Fox News even was able to to expose the fact that the

00:05:13.000 mission of North Korea at the United Nations in New York was sending out points, sort of

00:05:20.000 talking points about the son, Kim Jong Un, who was only dimly known at that time, that

00:05:26.000 were to be absorbed and internalized by all North Korean personnel, diplomatic personnel

00:05:31.000 around the world.

00:05:34.000 Eventually the Obama administration, concerned about my reporting, launched a national security

00:05:39.000 leak investigation.

00:05:41.000 And they zeroed in on someone whom they identified as a source for me.

00:05:46.000 And ultimately to avoid the lengthy and debilitating costs of a trial, that person stood up in open court and pleaded guilty to providing national defense information to James Rosen of Fox News.

00:05:59.000 I have never identified whether this person was a source of mine or not, Because I don't think that's an appropriate business for reporters.

00:06:06.000 But they called you a co-conspirator, didn't they?

00:06:08.000 Yes, and so it was later disclosed that in order to have access to all of my gmails, which I used to communicate with sources, and to the phone records pertaining to 20 different phone lines associated with me, including even the phone records of my parents on Staten Island at the time.

00:06:27.000 Wow!

00:06:27.000 An FBI agent swore out a sworn statement, an affidavit for a search warrant application

00:06:35.000 for a federal judge to approve.

00:06:37.000 And in that document, this FBI agent attested that given his experience, James Rosen is

00:06:46.000 running his sources like an intelligence officer, which was almost like a professional compliment

00:06:51.000 of sorts.

00:06:52.000 But they designated me in that document as a criminal co-conspirator in a violation of

00:06:58.000 the Espionage Act.

00:06:59.000 And it was the first time that's ever been a...

00:07:01.000 Apply to any reporter.

00:07:04.000 Let's just by way of context, Neil Sheehan, now deceased, who was the New York Times reporter who in 1971 broke the Pentagon Papers, which was 7000 pages of classified documents, an internal Defense Department study tracing the arc of American involvement in Vietnam.

00:07:20.000 Not even the Nixon administration designated Neil Sheehan as a criminal co-conspirator in a violation of the Espionage Act.

00:07:26.000 How did this resolve itself?

00:07:29.000 President Obama himself at a speech at National Defense University on counterterrorism at the time proclaimed himself troubled by the notion Of working reporters being criminalized for doing their jobs.

00:07:43.000 And to get to the bottom of how this possibly could have happened, this novel legal designation that was applied in a secret search warrant application filed by an FBI officer and approved by a federal judge so they could gain access to all those records, to get to the bottom of how that happened, President Obama, in what passed for accountability at the time, appointed to investigate the whole thing, Well, the person who had actually approved the search warrant and that novel designation, which was Attorney General Eric Holder.

00:08:12.000 Wow.

00:08:12.000 I'll tell you quickly another facet to this story.

00:08:16.000 The Washington Post broke the story on May 20, 2013, that the FBI and the State Department had been spying on James Rosen of Fox News, including monitoring my whereabouts, examining where and when I used my swipe badge at the State Department, all the phone records that we've talked about, the Gmails.

00:08:36.000 That was May 20 of 2013.

00:08:39.000 As it happened, Attorney General Holder, who quickly acknowledged that he was responsible for this extraordinary legal step that the United States government had never taken before, designating a working reporter as a criminal co-conspirator for doing his job, five days earlier on May 15 of 2013, Attorney General Holder was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee and he was asked about the potential prosecution of a member of the news media for the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.

00:09:07.000 And I'm paraphrasing, but pretty closely.

00:09:08.000 He said, in terms of the potential prosecution of a member of the news media for the unauthorized

00:09:14.000 disclosure of classified information, which is something that goes on, by the way, every

00:09:17.000 day in Washington, Bob Woodward is famous for having walked off White House grounds

00:09:21.000 with classified maps.

00:09:22.000 They're doing to Trump right now all day, every day.

00:09:24.000 OK, lots of classified information gets published.

00:09:26.000 But Holder said in terms of the potential prosecution of a member of the news media

00:09:30.000 for the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.

00:09:34.000 That's not something I've ever heard of, been involved in, or would think would be wise policy.

00:09:39.000 And five days later, the Post broke the story of what was done to me.

00:09:42.000 So you're saying they're liars?

00:09:44.000 So I'm telling you that the majority staff of the House Judiciary Committee at the time,

00:09:49.000 which was Republican, later issued a formal report concluding that Attorney General Holder's

00:09:55.000 testimony on that occasion had been false and misleading.

00:09:59.000 Shock of shocks, the DC bar did not rise up to immediately begin investigating whether

00:10:04.000 the Attorney General should keep his law license.

00:10:07.000 He was asked by Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC towards the end of his tenure what his biggest

00:10:11.000 regret from his time as Attorney General was, and he said, oh, the thing involving, what's

00:10:17.000 The Fox reporter, Rosen.

00:10:19.000 You know, with this studied sort of nonchalance.

00:10:22.000 Um, that was one episode.

00:10:24.000 Well, I think that breaks down who you are.

00:10:28.000 Yeah, sure.

00:10:29.000 There's more.

00:10:30.000 Well, uh, we'll get into all that.

00:10:31.000 We also, uh, no Seamus tonight.

00:10:33.000 We have Hannah-Claire Brimlow hanging out.

00:10:34.000 Hi, I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow.

00:10:35.000 I'm a writer for TimCast.com.

00:10:36.000 I'm really looking forward to tonight.

00:10:38.000 Me too, because I'm back.

00:10:39.000 Yeah, you are back.

00:10:40.000 What's happening?

00:10:41.000 We have the same hair.

00:10:42.000 Someone asked if I was Ian Crosland with straight hair.

00:10:44.000 Did you tell them no?

00:10:45.000 Of course not.

00:10:46.000 I think you take care of your hair more than he does.

00:10:48.000 Man, I was just in Texas.

00:10:49.000 I did Alex Stein's show.

00:10:51.000 I was on with Sarah Gonzalez at The Blaze.

00:10:52.000 If you guys didn't see it, you're going to want to check it out.

00:10:53.000 Alex Stein is a wild, wild man.

00:10:55.000 And it gave me a new lease on life.

00:10:56.000 A new perspective.

00:10:57.000 Realizing that, you know, Twitter isn't everything.

00:10:59.000 And that maybe your family is more important than the TV.

00:11:04.000 Anyway, you were talking about music before the show, too, talking about the Beatles.

00:11:07.000 James Rosen, the most dedicated Beatles fan on earth, I didn't know.

00:11:11.000 That's right.

00:11:11.000 Until about 20 minutes ago.

00:11:12.000 It's breaking news here at TimCast.

00:11:13.000 Maybe we'll just talk about the Beatles.

00:11:15.000 Maybe.

00:11:15.000 Maybe we'll sing a little song.

00:11:17.000 Ian's back.

00:11:17.000 Good to see you, Tim.

00:11:18.000 And thanks for that coffee yesterday.

00:11:19.000 It was delicious.

00:11:20.000 Yeah, the Roberto Jr.

00:11:21.000 Oh my gosh, got a nutty, nutty, yeah.

00:11:23.000 It's bright.

00:11:24.000 It's a light roast.

00:11:24.000 I'm gonna have some more tomorrow.

00:11:25.000 I'm very much enjoying it.

00:11:26.000 We also have to my right, Serge Duprea.

00:11:29.000 Hey guys, uh, yeah.

00:11:31.000 Let's get started.

00:11:32.000 Alright, so here's the, uh, uh-oh.

00:11:35.000 What was that?

00:11:36.000 Here's the first story we got from the Washington Post.

00:11:39.000 Ukraine denies Kremlin's claim of drone assassination attempt on Putin.

00:11:43.000 Now, we have this video that was posted by the Times on YouTube.

00:11:46.000 I'm going to play the clip for you.

00:11:47.000 I don't think there's any audio.

00:11:49.000 And, uh, you just see a weird little object fly in and then blow up.

00:11:55.000 And that's it.

00:11:57.000 So it exploded over the building, and I guess what happened was they destroyed it.

00:12:03.000 I mean, you're not going to get a drone into the Kremlin.

00:12:06.000 I mean, they've got air defenses.

00:12:07.000 According to the Washington Post, Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine of staging a drone attack intended to kill Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.

00:12:15.000 An incendiary allegation that was forcibly denied by Ukrainian officials, some of whom warned it could be a pretext for Russia to escalate the war.

00:12:23.000 It is.

00:12:24.000 It absolutely is.

00:12:25.000 Whether or not it's a false flag, whether or not Ukraine actually did it, there's video.

00:12:29.000 They claimed it happened and that's what you're going to see.

00:12:32.000 Some kind of escalation.

00:12:33.000 Some kind of justification.

00:12:35.000 Perhaps it's Vladimir Putin trying to rally public support in his country for the ongoing war.

00:12:40.000 Or because he wants to turn the heat up and use more advanced weapons or something like that.

00:12:44.000 And he needs some kind of justification.

00:12:45.000 Or maybe Ukraine just tried to do it.

00:12:49.000 Maybe it could be an insurgent faction.

00:12:52.000 It could be a group of Ukraine.

00:12:53.000 Who knows?

00:12:54.000 But I wouldn't put it past him.

00:12:55.000 I do kind of think this was crude and poorly done.

00:12:59.000 So it's probably, I don't know, I'd assume more was a false flag.

00:13:02.000 Yeah, first I heard there were two drones and that they were brought down by Russian countermeasures.

00:13:07.000 And so that was the drone actually coming down as a result of the Russian interference.

00:13:12.000 But I don't know if that was true or not either.

00:13:14.000 I mean, it's all fog of war.

00:13:15.000 That's what the Kremlin said.

00:13:15.000 They released a statement saying it was two unmanned aerial... Two drones.

00:13:20.000 ...apparatuses.

00:13:20.000 And they also said, you know, we have...

00:13:23.000 This is basically the White House.

00:13:24.000 It's like the Russian version of the White House. 0.89

00:13:26.000 that are when Germany fell to the Soviet Union.

00:13:28.000 And so this is lining up on sort of to be an attack on our national pride.

00:13:34.000 Basically, this is this is basically the White House.

00:13:36.000 It's like the Russian version of the White House. 0.89

00:13:37.000 Washington Post says it's the working residents of Vladimir Putin.

00:13:42.000 But to fly a drone.

00:13:43.000 I mean, the explosion was very small compared to the building.

00:13:46.000 Just to aim a thing into the top of the Kremlin, I don't see how that would get Putin.

00:13:50.000 Maybe they knew where they were headed and they were trying to go right into his office.

00:13:54.000 What kind of drone was it?

00:13:54.000 He wasn't even there?

00:13:57.000 What kind of drone was it is the question.

00:13:59.000 Was it a small, you know, commercial consumer drone or something?

00:14:03.000 Or was it You know, an American military-style Reaper or whatever.

00:14:07.000 Yeah, was it loaded with explosives or was that just the machine itself being blown apart?

00:14:10.000 Yo, I warned about this 10 years ago.

00:14:12.000 This is crazy to see happen.

00:14:13.000 I was doing research in 2011 on drone stuff and when I... it was about 2014, I think, I actually went to the, what is it, the Northwestern Drone Coalition.

00:14:24.000 A group of universities were working with the government and news organizations to figure out what are we doing about this new technology?

00:14:32.000 And when I went and met with these university people, I outright told them,

00:14:35.000 your biggest concern is probably security.

00:14:38.000 Because someone's going to take one of these things, they're going to arm it,

00:14:41.000 and they're going to fly it straight into a city, and there is nothing you can do at that point.

00:14:45.000 At that point, your question is, where does it blow up?

00:14:48.000 Not if it will.

00:14:49.000 And swarm technology is the next level.

00:14:51.000 Right, now we're seeing in Ukraine these small commercial-style drones, and military ones but that are small, carrying explosives and payloads, swarming and just peppering targets and stuff like that.

00:15:03.000 You'll need, like, a laser defense system where, like, there's a pylon that, if there's, like, 10,000 drones all coming, that the thing will, like, spark out 10,000 shocks and hit them all at once and knock them all down.

00:15:13.000 I don't think... Because you can't stop them individually.

00:15:15.000 It's not going to be able to move fast enough.

00:15:16.000 If they did some kind of laser defense system, I think that could work.

00:15:20.000 So you would need a high-powered laser, but it's not going to be able to... Well, it could theoretically move fast enough, but to transfer enough energy from the laser to the drone to disable it might take more than just a second.

00:15:33.000 Huge amounts of energy for that.

00:15:34.000 It would point at it, hold for about a second, and probably take it out of the sky instantly, scramble it up, heat it up, overheat it.

00:15:40.000 But if there's 10,000 of these drones, or even a few hundred of them, this laser's not gonna be able to stop all of them.

00:15:45.000 What vibe did you get, James, about this whole thing?

00:15:47.000 There's so much that we don't know, and our primary source of information about it, we have to remember, is the Kremlin.

00:15:53.000 Right, so even the video itself, it's intriguing to me that we're being allowed to see it.

00:15:58.000 Why would the Russians release video of what they're claiming was almost a successful attack on the Kremlin?

00:16:06.000 Benefits them?

00:16:11.000 So, be that as it may, first, our only source of information is a very unreliable one, okay?

00:16:17.000 As to the question of whether this could be the pretext for an escalation, whether it was a false flag or a genuine Ukrainian attack, the Russians haven't shown throughout this entire conflict that they need any particular pretext to escalate.

00:16:32.000 The whole, the war itself is an enormous escalation, right? There was no conflict. So I don't

00:16:38.000 think they particularly need any staged events or even a real event to claim as a justification for

00:16:45.000 escalation. And the fact is too that the Russian military throughout this conflict

00:16:49.000 has been so shockingly ineffective that I'm not sure that what escalations they can even

00:16:57.000 successfully mount beyond the obvious one that we all worry about, which is the introduction of some kind of

00:17:03.000 nuclear conventional or tactical or genuine nuke-sized nuclear escalation.

00:17:10.000 I don't think they're going to go there.

00:17:15.000 The one thing I would say about this is it brings up this posture of the United States throughout this conflict, which is that we are not encouraging or enabling the Ukrainian armed forces to launch attacks inside Crimea or Russia itself.

00:17:31.000 And the question is, why not?

00:17:33.000 Wouldn't the war be over much more swiftly if Vladimir Putin and the ruling class in Russia were made to

00:17:41.000 pay Those kinds of prices the very prices the Ukrainians 1.00

00:17:44.000 themselves are paying they want to avoid total war They're seeking a limited war in eastern Ukraine. They don't

00:17:49.000 want Putin to get killed They don't want Zelensky to get killed because then it's

00:17:53.000 Joe Biden's on the line So I think this is I honestly think this is a way for the

00:17:57.000 Russians to establish Grievances in the global community and be like see now we 1.00

00:18:00.000 have a little bit of justification If we do decide to go after Zelensky, so Zelensky, you better run.

00:18:05.000 And he's like in Finland right now or something?

00:18:07.000 And he decided to stay?

00:18:08.000 I think he's up in some Nordic country. 0.99

00:18:10.000 I just want to say, if this really was a false flag, it is the saddest and most pathetic we've seen.

00:18:15.000 I mean, you've got the burning of the Reichstag, which many people believe was a false flag to justify expansion of war and things like that.

00:18:24.000 And that was literally burning the whole thing to the ground.

00:18:27.000 This is like a little explosion overhead that didn't do much damage at all, and Putin wasn't even there.

00:18:32.000 So I'm not sure what they get out of this, really.

00:18:36.000 And some people I already see in the super chat are pointing out that there's no way those drones flew 400, 500 kilometers to make it there.

00:18:43.000 So what is this?

00:18:45.000 High-altitude reconnaissance drones, maybe?

00:18:47.000 They just got brought down by some sort of magnetic... We're going to have to... I'm sorry, go ahead.

00:18:53.000 We're just going to have to acclimate ourselves to the reality that we're not going to learn all that we would wish to learn about this event.

00:19:01.000 But just to your point before about, you know, the reason why the U.S.

00:19:05.000 is just not encouraging or enabling Ukrainian armed forces to strike inside Russian territory is because they fear World War III.

00:19:15.000 But it just seems to me you're already in a kind of a proxy war to begin with, right?

00:19:21.000 And it's a strange way to pursue war-making.

00:19:27.000 If your every decision is going to be governed by fear of the opponent escalating the conflict.

00:19:32.000 Aren't they enabling?

00:19:34.000 Isn't the US enabling by funding this war, though?

00:19:36.000 I mean, we send materials and supplies to Ukraine.

00:19:40.000 We are the war.

00:19:41.000 So we are saying, oh, we're not enabling it, but we are.

00:19:44.000 Well, in other words, I don't know whether the particular weapon systems that we've been supplying would enable the Ukrainian Armed Forces to do damage inside territorial Russia.

00:19:57.000 Probably there's a suite of weapon systems we could supply that would guarantee the ability of the Ukrainians to They don't need full-scale warfare weapons from us to engage in conflict on Russian territory, in Russian territory.

00:20:21.000 In fact, that would probably be the least effective thing to do.

00:20:24.000 The most effective thing to do is what that lady did when she brought the statue to that blogger and blew him up. 1.00

00:20:29.000 Like, insurgency style, targeted guerrilla warfare, disrupting the economy.

00:20:35.000 I mean, they're not gonna, there's nothing they're gonna have that's gonna be able to do enough damage to these areas.

00:20:40.000 And if they did, open strike on a Russian city would be a total annihilation of every Ukrainian major city by the Russian Air Force.

00:20:47.000 It would just, overnight, it would just be total war.

00:20:50.000 The entire country would be leveled to the ground if they started attacking Russian cities. 1.00

00:20:53.000 This is the crazy thing to me about this whole thing.

00:20:55.000 The restraint you see in war makes no sense.

00:20:59.000 Like, Ukraine could easily have more of these assassinations with a statue.

00:21:05.000 You guys know about that story?

00:21:06.000 First I've heard of it.

00:21:07.000 For those that don't know, there was this, I guess he was a vlogger.

00:21:10.000 He was a guy who would make, you know, he would propagandize in favor of Russia, and he was given a bust of himself, and it exploded, killing him and injuring several others.

00:21:20.000 These are the kinds of attacks taking out key targets that are Easier and more effective in terms of destabilizing, you know.

00:21:29.000 And they instill terror, right?

00:21:31.000 Because the populace wants to know, well, where's the next place that could be struck and stricken?

00:21:35.000 But what you were saying, Ian, was that if Ukrainians did use US-granted or NATO-granted weapons of war on a Russian city, Russia would retaliate with full-scale airstrikes.

00:21:47.000 My question is, why don't they do it now?

00:21:48.000 Because they want to own the country.

00:21:50.000 I think they really want trade out of this.

00:21:52.000 They want to be a richer country after this war is over than before it started.

00:21:55.000 So they're trying to take eastern Ukraine east of the Donbass, run those freeways down into Crimea, and just start shipping steel out into the Mediterranean.

00:22:01.000 And I do want to stress, there are U.S.

00:22:03.000 boots on the ground.

00:22:04.000 That was confirmed in the leaks that came out a while ago.

00:22:06.000 Plus, there's several other European countries that have boots on the ground.

00:22:09.000 And Hannah Clare's point is true, which is what distinction are you really making when on the one hand you're saying, well, we are proceeding very carefully each step up the escalatory ladder so as not to trigger an unwelcome escalation from Mr. Putin, But, you know, five minutes later in the same news conference, you're saying, the weapons and the training that we're providing are killing Russian soldiers, are causing all these extraordinary casualties that the Russians are absorbing.

00:22:40.000 So, in essence, you're boasting about the very thing that you're claiming not to be doing.

00:22:44.000 But realistically, I think, you know, utilitarianly, they care a lot less about losing humans than they do about losing infrastructure.

00:22:50.000 You blow up buildings, that's going to piss them off a lot more than killing a bunch of dudes.

00:22:54.000 But again, at what point should the entire Western alliance be governed by fear of whether this particular leader is going to go nuclear?

00:23:04.000 You know, does he not also subscribe to MAD, to Mutually Assured Destruction, which governed relations between the US and the Soviet Union for 50 years?

00:23:11.000 I think that's fake.

00:23:13.000 Mutually assured destruction, in my opinion, is completely overhyped and confused by the average person.

00:23:21.000 Because people tend to simplify things and because their views are based off of pop culture and not actual history, they think things like gunshots.

00:23:29.000 They don't know what they really sound like.

00:23:33.000 It's like that movie Last Action Hero.

00:23:35.000 Remember that with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis?

00:23:38.000 He shoots the taxi in the real world.

00:23:40.000 He lives in the movie, but then he comes to the real world and he shoots the car, but nothing happens.

00:23:43.000 Because in movies, you shoot a car and it explodes, like, for no reason.

00:23:47.000 And so, what you have with mutually assured destruction is this idea, based on intercontinental ballistic missiles, that if Russia were to nuke a U.S.

00:23:55.000 city, we would fire a nuke in return, in retaliation, and then the whole world just blows itself up.

00:24:01.000 I don't believe that's true.

00:24:03.000 I believe that's a myth.

00:24:04.000 And I also believe... Is it a myth that there's a second strike capability?

00:24:07.000 What do you mean?

00:24:08.000 In other words... If we get nuked, we will launch nukes.

00:24:12.000 Well, in other words, what you just identified as, you know, preposterous or whatever is the idea that if we are fired upon with a nuclear weapon, we will fire one back, and then the whole world goes boom.

00:24:23.000 Isn't it possible that we clip off the end of that, the whole world going boom, and there's, you know, do you believe, just as a threshold matter, That if we are attacked with a nuclear weapon, we have a second strike, what's called a second strike capability, the ability to launch the second nuclear strike and retaliate.

00:24:39.000 So there's so, I think there's so much wrong with the presumption.

00:24:42.000 First, there's that famous story of the Russian submarine that received word that a nuke had been launched.

00:24:49.000 And the guy in this one, I guess, what did he do?

00:24:50.000 He refused to launch it, is the story?

00:24:52.000 Was that what it was?

00:24:53.000 Yeah, I'm gonna pull his name up.

00:24:54.000 Pull that up and get us a story correct, because I could be getting it wrong.

00:24:56.000 But even when it was like, they have attacked us, the nukes are heading towards us, he goes, I won't fire it, I won't do it.

00:25:02.000 And so that was this legend, legendary story, or urban legend, whatever you want to call it, historical legend.

00:25:06.000 Yeah, basically he believed that there was an error, because a lot of Soviet tech at the time was not as, you know, Are you sure that he believed it was an error?

00:25:14.000 My understanding was that he refused to fire even when ordered to.

00:25:17.000 It could be both, but from what I remember of that story that you're talking about, I think he was on a sub, I believe, and he believed that it was an error, it wasn't actually the beginning of a nuclear war.

00:25:27.000 There's a movie about this whole subject, Failsafe, where the American pilots have been given word that we've been attacked, and they're reluctant to be the ones that actually You know, but that's why you have command, you know, you have a chain of command and so on.

00:25:40.000 His name was Vasily Alexandrovich Arkhipov, and he refused to authorize a captain to fire nuclear torpedoes at the U.S.

00:25:46.000 Navy.

00:25:46.000 What year was that?

00:25:46.000 Wow, I'm surprised.

00:25:50.000 I'm surprised it's not there.

00:25:51.000 So there was a... 1947?

00:25:54.000 I think it was a British MP or someone in Europe said, You would be insane to sacrifice London or New York for, you know, Warsaw or something.

00:26:07.000 That if Vladimir Putin were to use, and especially Kiev, if Vladimir Putin were to use intercontinental ballistic missiles, we're talking multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles with 12 warheads peppering every major city in Ukraine, I do not believe anyone in the West would fire upon Russia with nuclear weapons.

00:26:27.000 And if Vladimir Putin were to actually fire an intercontinental ballistic missile at Poland, I do not believe the West would launch nuclear ICBMs in retaliation at Russia.

00:26:37.000 as they are legally required to come to the defense of that.

00:26:41.000 Required to come to the defense does not mean firing nukes at civilian targets.

00:26:44.000 So, but why is MADD... so MADD is a fallacy or is a popular delusion because...

00:26:54.000 Well, I think it's more complicated than people think.

00:26:57.000 They think that if Russia were to launch a nuke, then, like in that movie, was it War Games with Matthew Broderick, all the nukes go flying in the air, and I just don't think that's reality.

00:27:07.000 Because the reality of strategy in war is not that some dude sitting at a computer and he's like, well, a nuke was fired, better fire ours.

00:27:15.000 But I will say, if it was World War II, if the Japanese had had nuclear bombs, that they probably would have dropped them back on the United States after Nagasaki. 0.79

00:27:22.000 Perhaps, but those were gravity bombs.

00:27:25.000 The very first nuclear weapons were dropped out of bombers.

00:27:27.000 And after, we knew the capabilities, the Germans knew the capabilities of nuclear bombs. 0.77

00:27:32.000 And there was a rush to weaponize this, and we got there first.

00:27:36.000 The United States, knowing the capability of a gravity bomb, seeing a bomber with, you know, fighters on its wing, they'd be like, stop that bomber!

00:27:45.000 And we would definitely be prepared for something like that.

00:27:47.000 But we shouldn't allow geography, I think, to govern our assessments in this area so that if it's simply the fact that the United States and Russia are so far away from each other and it would require intercontinental ballistic missiles for this kind of exchange to occur.

00:28:06.000 Let's shrink our example to India and Pakistan, okay?

00:28:10.000 Which, you know, are not as far away from each other and are both nuclear armed and which have a history of conflict with each other, okay?

00:28:18.000 Do you believe that mutually assured destruction theory obtains in that theater?

00:28:26.000 We need to break down what it really means in that there is the reality that if Vladimir Putin fired an ICBM, a MIRV for instance, a nuclear armed multiple independently targeted reentry vehicle with 12 warheads, It goes up into the air, ejects 12 warheads to pepper the eastern seaboard of the United States.

00:28:48.000 The United States would absolutely fire in retaliation.

00:28:52.000 But that is an oversimplification of what nuclear war likely will be.

00:28:57.000 So in your example with India and Pakistan, we're not talking about a 7, 8,000 mile launch of an ICF into space, which we all know is coming, and then be like, there it is, and we know it's heading for us, we can't stop it, fire.

00:29:12.000 India, what I think that the mistake is that when you talk about nuclear war, people only think one thing.

00:29:17.000 An ICBM launching from a silo in the ground in Siberia or in Oklahoma and then flying through the air, when in reality what's likely going to happen is Vladimir Putin, when he escalates to nuclear war, is going to take nuclear artillery and he's probably going to use lower yield gravity bombs, 100 kiloton, maybe even getting to the point of a megaton, These are much, much smaller these days, and attacking Ukraine to win, if he has to.

00:29:43.000 No one in the West is going to retaliate with a nuclear strike on Russia if Russia uses nukes to win the war in Ukraine.

00:29:50.000 However, our leaders in the present government, including the National Security Advisor at the White House, let's say, Jake Sullivan, have stated many times that they have communicated to the Kremlin

00:30:05.000 through the channels they have, and they have them, that very, very severe consequences

00:30:11.000 would befall Mr. Putin and his government if any kind of nuclear weapon were introduced

00:30:16.000 into this conflict.

00:30:18.000 And that's not a U.S. retaliatory strike on Russia.

00:30:22.000 What would you imagine would be our most severe response?

00:30:25.000 Sanctions.

00:30:27.000 If Russia introduced the most severe, I'd imagine, is a U.S. 0.98

00:30:31.000 declaration of war and... No, I mean really could actually imagine taking place.

00:30:37.000 Right, yeah, I think there's a strong possibility that if Vladimir Putin were to use tactical nuclear artillery or small lower yield weapons, nuclear weapons in Ukraine, that NATO would formally declare war and the US would enter the war and have a strong, probably generate a decent amount of public support if they come out and say, They just use nukes!

00:30:58.000 The world will not be destroyed, we must stop this madman.

00:31:00.000 And I think that's very likely.

00:31:03.000 So, Putin may be concerned that if he escalates to that point, he gives a casus belli to the West to directly invade and engage.

00:31:11.000 Right now, it's relatively passive, what the US is doing.

00:31:14.000 That being said, Putin is not playing a game to lose.

00:31:17.000 And if pushed to that brink, I genuinely believe he will be like, well, It's either I lose now or I lose against NATO in a year.

00:31:27.000 Fire the nukes.

00:31:29.000 I don't know.

00:31:29.000 But we'll see.

00:31:30.000 One aspect of this is that his military is so depleted as a result of this catastrophic misadventure.

00:31:37.000 I don't believe it.

00:31:38.000 Those leaks showed that the amount of casualties was substantially less than they'd been reporting.

00:31:42.000 What was it actually like?

00:31:43.000 But wasn't that supposed to have been doctored?

00:31:45.000 Wasn't that the one part of the document that was supposed to have been altered?

00:31:47.000 So much fog of war.

00:31:50.000 Perhaps.

00:31:52.000 But I just think it's fascinating this idea that Russia, which is a massive economy, would be losing to the only country that's become poorer since the fall of the Soviet Union.

00:32:05.000 But they're not just fighting that country.

00:32:07.000 They're obviously fighting a coalition that's supplying them and training them and so on.

00:32:10.000 U.S.

00:32:10.000 veterans and volunteers.

00:32:11.000 Look, you don't have to be a military analyst or have military experience to assess this conflict and to be able to discern accurately that it hasn't gone well for Russia and that it, you know, what was the, I think, the operating premise of both the Russians and the West at the start of the conflict was that it wasn't going to last very long and that they would, if they had the gumption, if they had the nerve Well, you know, Putin's problem was that he sat back and let NATO expand for decades.

00:32:41.000 And that was Russia's problem. 0.90

00:32:42.000 And it's like, only now they're willing to engage in military conflict.

00:32:44.000 if he was willing to cross that line, he was going to have an easy time capturing Kiev 0.70

00:32:50.000 and deposing the Zelensky government.

00:32:51.000 Well, you know, Putin's problem was that he sat back and let NATO expand for decades.

00:32:57.000 And that was Russia's problem. 0.90

00:32:58.000 And it's like only now they're willing to engage in military conflict.

00:33:02.000 They've basically lost at this point.

00:33:04.000 It's the craziest thing to me that you would lose, you know, 50% of the conflicted territory

00:33:10.000 and then decide to fight.

00:33:12.000 You lost already, bro.

00:33:13.000 They already got your border with Estonia and Latvia, now you're mad because of Ukraine and Gazprom?

00:33:18.000 But also look at the reliance on the Wagner Group.

00:33:21.000 Okay, which shouldn't be necessary for a world-class military.

00:33:25.000 And who is the Wagner group?

00:33:27.000 They're plucking convicts out of prisons and throwing them there.

00:33:30.000 And even after the call-up order that went down in September, I think it was, which met with some extraordinary displays of resistance on the streets of Moscow and elsewhere, You know, the reports are that, and this is also verified by interception of signal communications between soldiers at the front and their families and so on, but they are throwing even the conscripts into battle without sufficient gear, making them pay for their own helmets.

00:34:01.000 They can't even feed them. 0.67

00:34:02.000 Their quartermastership alone has been an absolute catastrophe.

00:34:06.000 We heard the same thing about Ukraine.

00:34:08.000 There was that guy last year or whatever who tried to volunteer and then said it was a disaster, people need to have guns, and they were like, if you leave we'll shoot you or whatever.

00:34:16.000 But we ought to be more surprised hearing it about the Russian military.

00:34:21.000 Considering, considering, but you know, I think you do make the point, NATO is, it's basically Russia versus NATO and Ukraine's being propped up by us.

00:34:27.000 I want to jump to this story, and we'll pull this one into the culture war.

00:34:31.000 Let's start with this, from the post-millennial.

00:34:34.000 U.S.

00:34:34.000 Army expected to miss recruitment goal again in 2023.

00:34:38.000 Oh boy!

00:34:40.000 I sure hope we don't actually enter World War III with Russia, considering we're not hitting our recruitment goals. 0.87

00:34:45.000 I got it.

00:34:46.000 Maybe there's something we can do to drum up support among young people and inspire them to be the heroes of tomorrow, to stop the madman that is Vladimir Putin.

00:34:56.000 Perhaps, I don't know, drag queens! 1.00

00:35:01.000 You're supposed to inspire young, overly-testosterone-filled dudes to go on and blow stuff up to join the military, not change their gender. 0.95

00:35:14.000 Tom Cruise just gave you the second Top Gun, and this is how you follow up?

00:35:17.000 Yeah, seriously.

00:35:18.000 Top Gun, one of the best recruitment videos ever.

00:35:21.000 The Hero's Journey, and I see this story, and you know my responses to it, I don't care if you want to be a drag queen, by all means, go ahead and do your thing, but it's a hobby.

00:35:29.000 That's not something you sign up for military service to do.

00:35:34.000 Yeah, it'd be like talking about how many girls you ran through or something.

00:35:37.000 It'd be like, oh yeah, I slept with 15 women last year. 1.00

00:35:40.000 Join the army.

00:35:41.000 And you'd be like me.

00:35:44.000 Maybe that would get guys to join.

00:35:45.000 That probably would.

00:35:46.000 It'd be like, really?

00:35:47.000 Women dig guys in uniform, huh? 1.00

00:35:49.000 This is like, you're not getting laid.

00:35:51.000 You're going to a show to watch a man dress like a woman and sing songs. 0.99

00:35:55.000 I don't think that's a reason to join the Navy.

00:35:57.000 Just, you know, I see the photograph and all I can say is how far we've come

00:36:02.000 from when Bob Hope used to bring Raquel Welch over to Vietnam to entertain the troops,

00:36:07.000 you know, and she seemed, I'm just going to say, I've seen photos and some films of that.

00:36:11.000 It seems like she was well received on those occasions.

00:36:14.000 Why wouldn't they just stick with that formula?

00:36:16.000 You know what I said when I saw this story, everyone's complaining about it. 0.54

00:36:18.000 And I was like, isn't the Navy notorious, like notoriously stereotyped for being gay?

00:36:22.000 Like the whole village? 0.66

00:36:23.000 In the Navy.

00:36:24.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:36:25.000 Yeah, in the Navy.

00:36:26.000 And then I'm just like, this is not at all surprising to me.

00:36:29.000 But like, we'll just play to it.

00:36:30.000 It'll be fine.

00:36:31.000 But in all seriousness, when we're seeing recruitment shortages, it's...

00:36:36.000 It is kind of alarming that they're like, I know what's going to make young men want to sacrifice their lives for the United States.

00:36:45.000 Drag queens. 0.90

00:36:46.000 Less than 1% of the population.

00:36:48.000 I think they're just trying to give drag queens work, you know? 1.00

00:36:51.000 They're trying to say, like, we have this surplus of drag queens and they can do anything. 0.99

00:36:55.000 They can recruit for the military and they can read to your kids.

00:36:57.000 They can do it all.

00:36:58.000 You should be excited to have a drag queen in your neighborhood. 1.00

00:37:00.000 What they gotta be doing is indoctrinate kids via video games.

00:37:03.000 They gotta give really awesome VR or free video games, free download, make it so addictive and awesome and then be like, join the military now.

00:37:11.000 They had these video games.

00:37:12.000 Yeah, America's Army was one of them.

00:37:14.000 But now imagine you get Call of Duty 6 or whatever number they're on, and it's like, the story starts and the guy's like, I was on a ship when Harpy Daniels did a performance.

00:37:22.000 And then you're watching a drag queen and you're like, I don't feel inspired to die.

00:37:26.000 Like, to go to war to save my country.

00:37:28.000 You know what the male power fantasy's more like?

00:37:31.000 If they had a guy just like Spider-Man, it'd probably be a lot better.

00:37:35.000 Literally have a guy just like Spider-Man and do a backflip would be better recruitment than a drag queen. 1.00

00:37:40.000 This brings to mind the statement of Mike Huckabee when he was one of the candidates against Donald Trump in 2016, and they still were having large debates with the whole field of candidates.

00:37:51.000 And Huckabee said on that occasion, something fairly close to this, the United States military is not a laboratory for social experimentation, okay?

00:38:00.000 It has one mission, which is to preserve and defend the national security and territorial sovereignty of the United States.

00:38:09.000 And I think I would wait a long time if I waited for somebody in the Pentagon to explain to me

00:38:15.000 how that photo comports with that.

00:38:17.000 There needs to be congressional hearings and dishonorable discharges or stripping of rank

00:38:24.000 or something for the people who are responsible for this.

00:38:27.000 You've already got the meme of the Russian, have you seen the Russian military ad? Where it's

00:38:32.000 like this dude's all ripped and he jumps out of a plane and then lands in the snow and he puts

00:38:37.000 the mask on, he's got the gun and it's like, you are going to be a hero in Russia. Then you get

00:38:42.000 the American ads and it's like, I have two moms and I'm a drag queen. And it's like, man,

00:38:48.000 look, they may not have the resources.

00:38:52.000 They may be having a hard time with the, they're using old tanks now and they're recycling old

00:38:56.000 weapons, but we're going to, we're having a personnel problem.

00:39:00.000 Yeah, we literally cannot get enough people to go to boot camp, not just because of ads like this and an apathy, but also because people don't qualify.

00:39:09.000 There are more people turned away because they are overweight or they struggle with a mental health disorder, they have a drug use problem, that do not qualify for the military.

00:39:17.000 I mean, the DoD put out this report saying basically it's like...

00:39:20.000 I want to say 200,000 people every year that qualify to join the military, and of those, around less than 10% actually have an interest in joining.

00:39:28.000 I mean, it is a miniscule population who I really think we should just talk to and say, hey, did this commercial with the drag queens seem appealing to you? 1.00

00:39:36.000 Like, where is the basic marketing study where they gather a bunch of people who successfully did the thing they wanted and say, would these appeal to you if you had to do it again?

00:39:44.000 Because I don't think this would work.

00:39:46.000 It's so profoundly offensive, and it's not so much the drag queen thing, because I'm like, I don't care if people want to do that and have, you know, gay men's burlesque. 0.97

00:39:55.000 It's America, man.

00:39:57.000 You go live your life, do what you want to do. 0.82

00:39:58.000 What's offensive is that they're advertising the Navy is a silly nonsense It's not for fun.

00:40:06.000 I mean, honestly, you want to dress in drag fine, but not while you're in the service. 0.94

00:40:09.000 You're in uniform there.

00:40:10.000 they were like, join the Navy so that you can hang out with your buddies and eat,

00:40:13.000 you know, drink beer and watch the game. I'd be like, that's also, that's also bad.

00:40:16.000 It's not for fun. Granted, this is worse, but... I mean, honestly, you want to dress in drag fine, 1.00

00:40:20.000 but not while you're in the service. You're in uniform there. Maybe on your private time,

00:40:24.000 but not while you're on duty. That's the other thing. There's photos of this dude protesting,

00:40:28.000 and I'm like, is he allowed to do that as a Navy serviceman?

00:40:32.000 Protest holding up a sign for abortion?

00:40:35.000 Look, I think we all agree that this is not the answer to the recruitment problem, right?

00:40:44.000 And so, you know, at a threshold level, we condemn those who thought that this somehow would be the answer to that problem.

00:40:52.000 But if you really want to look at the actual root of the problem itself, It gets to what you said earlier, I think, which is you were talking about what's going to motivate a young person to join the military, which is an all-volunteer institution, to potentially give up their lives, right?

00:41:08.000 Give up their lives for what?

00:41:09.000 Batman!

00:41:09.000 For something much larger than themselves, right?

00:41:12.000 It has to be something larger than themselves.

00:41:14.000 And as we are, as a society, tearing down Everything that the United States has always historically meant, okay?

00:41:21.000 You're going to see fewer people want to lay down their lives for what remains of that definition of a country.

00:41:28.000 Who wants to lay down their lives for this?

00:41:30.000 Well, it's this identity thing.

00:41:31.000 The military is not about establishing personal identity.

00:41:34.000 It's about giving up your personal identity for the group.

00:41:36.000 Well, and I will say, the Surgeon General just came out with this report saying the next public health crisis is loneliness and social isolation.

00:41:45.000 Do you know what branches of the military are successfully reaching their quotas?

00:41:49.000 It's the Marine Corps.

00:41:50.000 It's NASA.

00:41:51.000 It's things that people feel like they are part of something bigger.

00:41:55.000 We can identify our problem and yet we don't apply it to the institution that apparently needs it most, the military recruitment.

00:42:01.000 The Air Force struggles, all reservists struggle, the Army struggles, the Navy struggles, but yet something that has a really strong core identity, the Marines, and again Space Force, they are doing okay.

00:42:13.000 They're not doing great, but they are making their quotas.

00:42:15.000 Trump needs to get reelected and fire all of these people, just strip them and boot them out.

00:42:21.000 You want to, you want to know what you need to make you want, you want a commercial right now.

00:42:24.000 You need some real propaganda.

00:42:26.000 Here's what you do.

00:42:27.000 You make a video of a guy in Ukraine.

00:42:32.000 And a Russian soldier is, you know, firing on some soldiers and then the guy like grabs a child and runs from an explosion and then gives the child to the mother who's crying and thanks him and he's like, go, go, go!

00:42:43.000 And then the guy turns around and runs into battle in slow motion and it's like, be the hero, join the army.

00:42:48.000 Yeah, but it's got to be like an invasion of Alaska and be like, don't let it happen here.

00:42:52.000 So anything, anything, anything better than a guy dressing up like a woman and dancing? 0.99

00:42:58.000 No young man is being like, wow, that's why I want to go to a battlefield and die. 0.84

00:43:02.000 Elephant in the room, man.

00:43:04.000 When they discharged all these people out of the military during this COVID crisis, And it was like the most based, hardcore dudes that were like, I'm not putting that you cannot make me.

00:43:14.000 I'm here to serve my country.

00:43:15.000 Leave me alone.

00:43:16.000 Let me do my job.

00:43:17.000 And now they were just kicked out.

00:43:18.000 Now they're just men and women.

00:43:20.000 And now they're all pissed off the United States, like they're going to come back. 0.99

00:43:25.000 I think this is us losing the war, right? 0.92

00:43:28.000 Sun Tzu says, win the war before you start it, before fighting it.

00:43:33.000 So right now we have recruitment problems, and the best they can come up with this, China's like, looking at, you know, Xi Jinping's looking at his watch like, don't invade Taiwan yet, let's let him fester for a little bit.

00:43:43.000 Oh, they're doing the drag queen thing? 0.90

00:43:44.000 Okay, now we're good.

00:43:45.000 Once we miss military recruitment goals for the fifth year in a row, then we'll move in.

00:43:49.000 I mean, I feel like this is so obvious and it's happening very publicly.

00:43:53.000 America exports its culture at such a high level that there's no way that this is not part of anyone's calculation, thinking, wow, they don't have a healthy population.

00:44:05.000 Their young people have higher rates of depression than anyone else.

00:44:10.000 They are looking to join the military.

00:44:12.000 They are feeling isolated.

00:44:13.000 They are a weak country.

00:44:14.000 And therefore, we know that ultimately, if we can hold on long enough, we can tip the scales in our favor.

00:44:20.000 Like, that's a very terrifying thought.

00:44:22.000 A weakness is provocative, as they say.

00:44:24.000 What's the Chinese military looking like right now?

00:44:26.000 How are their tasks?

00:44:26.000 Massive.

00:44:27.000 Yeah, I would imagine.

00:44:27.000 They have a great commercial.

00:44:28.000 How's our border defense in Alaska?

00:44:31.000 How's the Canadian border defense on the border of Alaska there?

00:44:33.000 Because if the Chinese decide to join this war, Right, and Canada has a very, very small military. 0.67

00:44:37.000 And Trudeau would just absolutely be deferential to China.

00:44:40.000 Yeah, they would have no choice.

00:44:41.000 They could roll into the capital and Alberta.

00:44:43.000 I mean, the American military would be on the ground, but like... Doesn't Russia border Canada?

00:44:49.000 It's all very close.

00:44:50.000 Russia from Alaska.

00:44:52.000 From Alaska.

00:44:52.000 From Sarah Palin's house.

00:44:53.000 Sarah Palin told us.

00:44:54.000 And if Taiwan becomes a point of contention... She never actually said that, but on Saturday Night Live...

00:45:01.000 I thought it was in some New Yorker profile.

00:45:03.000 No, she said that when it comes... So the actual context of what Sarah Palin said was, to be vice president, she would be in a good position considering Alaska actually negotiates with Russia over the Bering Strait.

00:45:14.000 And in fact, from the westernmost part of Alaska, you can see Russia.

00:45:18.000 So they're often dealing with trade negotiations as Russian ships are moving through these territories.

00:45:23.000 And then Tina Fey went on Saturday Night Live and went, I can see Russia from my house! 0.94

00:45:26.000 And then every Democrat was like, I can't believe Sarah Palin said that.

00:45:29.000 And that was also true, George W. Bush gave a speech where he was like, who came up with this word?

00:45:34.000 Because actually, is it Will Ferrell or one of the comedians?

00:45:38.000 He was the one who came up with strategery, and George W. Bush was like, ugh.

00:45:41.000 Got stuck with it.

00:45:42.000 Yeah, he gave a good speech where he was like, ah, too bad, I wish I'd come up with that one.

00:45:45.000 I'm of the observation that we need to negotiate peace right now, and if that means concessions to the Russian army and giving them a piece of Ukraine, if we don't and we escalate, the Chinese will invade Taiwan with Russia as their ally. 0.77

00:45:57.000 So we're better off ending this thing with Russia so that China's afraid to go into Taiwan because they'll suffer the same kind of losses that the Russians suffered. 0.71

00:46:05.000 What do you think about Taiwan?

00:46:10.000 I'm not sure.

00:46:11.000 I think an argument could be made either way along with the lines that that Ian was just sketching out, which is to say Ian's point is if I understood it correctly with just now was If we secure a diplomatic resolution to this conflict right now, that makes it more difficult for China to launch an invasion of Taiwan.

00:46:31.000 Whereas you could say that the greater demonstration of resistance that the West puts up in Ukraine will be more likely to convince China of the resistance they would face if they moved on Taiwan.

00:46:47.000 Um, I think that if we produce too much resistance in Ukraine that China will have no, eh, they'll have a choice, but they'll choose to join the war.

00:46:56.000 If the United States continues to push, push, push, push, push the Chinese and the Russians, they're already building another economy.

00:47:02.000 They're ready to take control of the world right now.

00:47:04.000 And if we don't end this, it's going to escalate into a multi-faction war.

00:47:08.000 And then, just like Hitler took Poland after Mussolini took North Africa, China will take Taiwan, just like Russia is trying to take Ukraine. 0.58

00:47:17.000 I think it's inevitable.

00:47:19.000 But it's better off if we just get China alone trying to act, like pushing Russia and China together is insane. 0.73

00:47:24.000 I'm just saying, get out of cities, homeschool your kids, get some chickens, start a little garden, because watching the drag queen navy thing, I've kind of lost all faith in the US military's capabilities, to be completely honest. 0.97

00:47:37.000 I think the resistance that's been shown to Russia is enough to prove to China that there's going to be insane 0.78

00:47:42.000 Resistance in Taiwan of some sort of military incursion. I'm not so convinced anymore. Keep it up. Correct. This is what

00:47:47.000 I I this would like if you came to me and said do you think the United States would win?

00:47:47.000 you say?

00:47:52.000 I know.

00:47:53.000 Sorry.

00:47:54.000 Recruitment goals missed for what?

00:47:56.000 Five years?

00:47:56.000 Is that where we're going?

00:47:58.000 The United States could win a defensive war.

00:48:00.000 But I mean, what's that?

00:48:01.000 A bunch of destroyed cities and dead armies?

00:48:03.000 I mean, you look at the crime.

00:48:05.000 You look at the defecation on the streets of American cities.

00:48:09.000 You look at the banking crisis.

00:48:10.000 These banks are collapsing.

00:48:12.000 I don't feel confident that if a war started, the U.S.

00:48:14.000 would do anything successfully.

00:48:16.000 I think it would just crumble like a house of cards.

00:48:21.000 Let me ask a question.

00:48:23.000 Should we regard that the Chinese communist state is foreordained to failure for the same reason that the Soviet Union failed, which is to say it is morally bankrupt at its core?

00:48:40.000 Like that's why we're going to fail?

00:48:42.000 Because we're morally bankrupt?

00:48:43.000 No, I'm saying do we do you regard that the Chinese enterprise However strong they might seem in the moment, however much they build up their military, that ultimately the Chinese enterprise is foreordained to failure because it is morally bankrupt at its core. 0.95

00:48:56.000 It's a good point because the United States is morally bankrupt at its core as well.

00:48:59.000 So what, they both just fail?

00:49:01.000 Perhaps the war ends up wiping everybody out.

00:49:03.000 So you are engaging in what they call moral equivalence.

00:49:06.000 You're saying the U.S.

00:49:08.000 and China are equally morally bankrupt at their core. 1.00

00:49:11.000 Yes.

00:49:12.000 But I don't understand your point.

00:49:15.000 I think the reason the Soviet Union failed is because they couldn't withstand the peace.

00:49:20.000 We stayed at peace for too long.

00:49:21.000 They were ready to do some crazy war, and we prevented it.

00:49:24.000 But the Chinese are ready for war. 1.00

00:49:25.000 I think it had to do with their economic system being a total failure.

00:49:28.000 Yeah, the Chinese are the same way.

00:49:30.000 But China uses capitalist mechanisms with a totalitarian communist party controlling all of these things to have rapid expansion.

00:49:40.000 And they've got a lot of people, and what they'll do is they'll put the Communist Party and every major corporation to control it, but let it function to a certain degree.

00:49:48.000 Give it capitalist free reign, but always make sure you've got your tendrils in it so it can't go outside of your control.

00:49:54.000 Which is a Potemkin village.

00:49:55.000 Any effort at economic liberalization without political actual democratization is a Potemkin village, right? 0.90

00:50:02.000 Nobody believes the Chinese assessments as to their GDP rates, you know? 0.93

00:50:06.000 Their property values are ridiculous, it's all fake.

00:50:10.000 In other words, if you have freedom until you reach the boundary of the Communist Party, then you don't really have freedom. 0.71

00:50:17.000 And I don't care if you're calling that market reforms or whatever.

00:50:20.000 But to the point of whether, you know, this moral equivalence, it brings to mind a favorite quote of mine from William F. Buckley Jr.

00:50:27.000 Who used to say when, in the 70s, when people would say, oh, the CIA and the KGB are the same guys.

00:50:33.000 You know, they just, they wear different colored trench coats, like in Spy v. Spy, but like they're, they do the same things.

00:50:38.000 And Buckley would say, men who push old ladies into the way of an onrushing bus and men who push old ladies out of the way of an onrushing bus are, it seems to me, ought not to be grouped together as men who go around pushing old ladies around.

00:50:52.000 So what happened when the federal government went to that woman in Alaska's house because she looked like another woman on January 6th and they raided her home?

00:50:59.000 I just, I understand that China's operating these Uyghur concentration camps and doing very, very horrible things that we're not doing, but... 0.93

00:51:07.000 My view is, while China may be morally bankrupt to a substantially worse degree, the United States has no leg to stand on. 0.90

00:51:14.000 We've got a corrupt government that's been corrupt.

00:51:16.000 The country's been extracted for its value, its labor being extracted for decades.

00:51:22.000 You've got interests in the United States working with China to send our labor over there.

00:51:26.000 You've got Joe Biden flying on Air Force Two with his son to do private equity deals with China.

00:51:30.000 The United States, at this point, is a shell of whatever it may have been a hundred years ago.

00:51:36.000 The federal government for sure, but the states are powerful, especially some of them.

00:51:39.000 And many of the states are aborting kids at nine months and sterilizing children.

00:51:45.000 But look at the growth of TMCAST.

00:51:46.000 Look at this extraordinary operation.

00:51:48.000 In what other country would this have happened?

00:51:50.000 I don't think it could happen in any country other than the United States.

00:51:55.000 We have a modicum of influence and power compared to even CNN.

00:52:00.000 And it's funny because people might... Right, but you just got started in relative terms.

00:52:03.000 I mean, they've been around since 1980.

00:52:06.000 Sure.

00:52:06.000 I mean, you look at a lot of the big networks and what happens?

00:52:10.000 YouTube will suppress us.

00:52:12.000 Every step of the way.

00:52:13.000 And the tactic they have is you censor shows like ours at 49% and prop up shows like CNN at 51% so in the long run you fail and they succeed.

00:52:23.000 They will absolutely make sure that what happens fits the corporate algorithmic structure which is moral decay and a psychotic expansion of the woke cult.

00:52:33.000 The United States may very well succeed in many regards.

00:52:35.000 I'm not completely I don't think the United States will cease to exist.

00:52:40.000 I think what's going to happen is if there is a large-scale global war of some sort, we're not winning it.

00:52:46.000 The petrodollar will fall.

00:52:47.000 The economic standing of the United States will be wiped out.

00:52:50.000 We will lose our control on military bases in many other countries.

00:52:54.000 Most of the military bases probably will collapse and fall into the control of the countries that they're in.

00:52:59.000 And then the people who are smart enough to get out of cities and start taking care of themselves will probably succeed.

00:53:03.000 And then we'll see a new generation of people in the United States building up, becoming economically resilient, starting businesses.

00:53:10.000 It will not be like the U.S. 0.97

00:53:11.000 just ceases to function, but as a global, multipolar world, it's done.

00:53:17.000 We're now multipolar.

00:53:18.000 It's now China, the U.S. 0.99

00:53:19.000 Russia's clearly, you know, either... I don't think Russia's going to fall.

00:53:23.000 Russia's probably going to work with China.

00:53:24.000 We may see some grand war, but I don't see how the US actually is able to pull through considering what we're witnessing now internally and in our own military.

00:53:33.000 Nobody wants to join.

00:53:34.000 Young people are completely disaffected. 1.00

00:53:36.000 Their brains are shattered by nonsense, garbage, social media algorithmic... 1.00

00:53:40.000 Crap. 1.00

00:53:41.000 Like, they actually believe Marxism makes sense, because they don't know what they're talking about. 1.00

00:53:45.000 You see these videos of young people saying the stupidest things you've ever heard, and you're like, man, uh, Greta Thunberg, I mean, she's not American, but she's outright saying, kill 60 million people overnight, when she says, we must end fossil fuels now, we're not going to vet! 0.99

00:53:58.000 It's like, okay, yeah, if you ended fossil fuels right now, like New York just banned natural gas, these people, their brains are broken. 0.99

00:54:04.000 They're completely broken.

00:54:07.000 Absolutely. 0.98

00:54:09.000 They've been wrapped up on this social media algorithmic garbage.

00:54:14.000 That tells them, whatever the algorithm promotes, that's what you must adhere to. 0.79

00:54:19.000 So these young people see climate change as bad.

00:54:21.000 Then you end up with a politician saying, tell me what to do so you'll vote for me.

00:54:24.000 And they say, bad natural gas.

00:54:26.000 And he goes, okay, no more gas stoves.

00:54:27.000 Are you kidding?

00:54:29.000 Natural gas is a large component of how we generate electricity.

00:54:32.000 How about we do nuclear power? 0.95

00:54:33.000 No, these people are too moronic because of what they read on the internet to know nuclear power is clean and actually the best way to generate electricity. 0.98

00:54:40.000 So I see in this country, The cities are corrupt. 1.00

00:54:43.000 The federal government is corrupt.

00:54:43.000 They're decaying.

00:54:44.000 It's in decay.

00:54:45.000 Our best chance, in my opinion, is probably Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, maybe a Trump-DeSantis ticket, but that's going to require a serious amount of force to go in and start arresting and criminally charging the corrupt politicians who are doing insider trading, who are illegally targeting American citizens with unjust criminal probes.

00:55:04.000 They're going to have to start firing all the bureaucrats, and that's a decade-long project plus. 0.90

00:55:09.000 You can't reverse 50 years of corruption overnight.

00:55:12.000 And the problem with all of that is while Trump may want to do it, he's facing resistance from nightmare zombie politicians who just want to get an office so they can buy and trade stock while the Titanic sinks.

00:55:23.000 I am not confident in the federal government outside of the United States, and I'm not confident that we are going to be the dominant unipolar power.

00:55:32.000 I don't even think we're going to be a superpower in 20 or 30 years.

00:55:35.000 There's one word that did not appear in it in all that you said.

00:55:39.000 God has a strong lack thereof in this country.

00:55:48.000 In other words, if you regard that the cities are corrupt and you regard that the federal government is corrupt, those are two large sectors right there, right?

00:55:56.000 Of our society, federal government, municipal government.

00:56:00.000 What does that leave?

00:56:01.000 You've got business, right, which I presume you also regard as

00:56:05.000 hopelessly corrupt and absolutely okay.

00:56:08.000 It's not about woke, it's just mindlessly corrupt and has been.

00:56:11.000 So then there's, you know, one, traditionally anyway, there was one other major power center

00:56:18.000 in this country that had the ability to move people, to motivate people, and even to feed

00:56:24.000 people.

00:56:25.000 And that was the churches, right.

00:56:27.000 Yeah, gone.

00:56:28.000 And so I just, that's why I bring it up.

00:56:28.000 And faith.

00:56:30.000 Yeah, we need a sea change, we need a collective consciousness, something to change.

00:56:33.000 This country has experienced a severe moral and communal decay.

00:56:39.000 Over the past couple decades in this past these past 10 years have been a rapid acceleration of it to the point where starting around 2016-2017 you started to see serious conversations in corporate press about civil war and the real prospect of it.

00:56:53.000 A Princeton professor coming on the I think like MSNBC saying we are in a cold civil war.

00:56:58.000 You start seeing factions fighting in the streets.

00:57:00.000 You're seeing crime running rampant in all of our major cities with no willpower to do anything about it.

00:57:05.000 In fact, in Chicago, despite the fact that crime is increasing and people don't feel safe there, they elected an even further left politician.

00:57:14.000 So that's why I say get out of these cities.

00:57:16.000 Do I think we as the United States will get through this?

00:57:18.000 I really do.

00:57:19.000 But the night is always darkest before the dawn.

00:57:21.000 If you want to stay in these places, it's going to get bad.

00:57:23.000 If China wants to take Taiwan, we may resist, but they're probably going to get it. 0.98

00:57:29.000 Looking at how the federal government is acting, what I see as our best path forward is Trump getting into office, Following through with Schedule F, we need some serious criminal justice action.

00:57:42.000 I'm talking getting an AG who starts going department to department and issuing criminal indictments on, say, people in the FBI for targeting American citizens with trumped-up BS and ignoring the far-left extremists who have done comparable things, or worse things.

00:57:56.000 I believe, though, that if he did that without the consciousness, the will of the consciousness, he'd be killed by the CIA overnight.

00:58:02.000 Well then that's a black pill.

00:58:03.000 I think we need to rename this show The Grim Cast.

00:58:06.000 I think that's where we're at.

00:58:08.000 Some nights are more black pill than others.

00:58:09.000 So God, you brought up God.

00:58:11.000 If we were to start believing in God as a culture again, God doesn't win wars, God doesn't build businesses.

00:58:17.000 How would understanding God and bringing people together under that help us become a society?

00:58:22.000 God provides fuel for those enterprises.

00:58:25.000 When we talk about belonging to something larger than ourselves, God encompasses that, in my view.

00:58:33.000 Unified moral focus.

00:58:36.000 If everyone said, we all agree, look, I'll put it this way, we've talked to many people who are religious, I am not a Christian, I do believe in God, but I firmly believe, and this is obvious, if every single person in this country had the same faith, You wouldn't really need law enforcement.

00:58:53.000 You would to a small degree, but you wouldn't have to worry too much if everyone 100% was faithful.

00:58:59.000 Or practiced.

00:59:01.000 If everybody was devout 100%, there would be absolutely no need for law enforcement at all.

00:59:07.000 If men were angels, we would have no need of government.

00:59:09.000 Right.

00:59:10.000 And so, what you actually end up getting is, to varying degrees, a large portion of a population having one moral framework, and thus you don't see a lot of crime, but then you have some people who just genuinely don't care, or through crimes of desperation commit crimes, so you'll need some kind of law enforcement or policing or communal watch or defense or something like that.

00:59:29.000 Right now what we have is a completely shattered social infrastructure with no moral framework at all.

00:59:34.000 And woke people, these younger people that are growing up, have no moral framework at all.

00:59:40.000 We here on this show have a solidly, whether anyone, any liberal or whatever wants to admit it, in the United States a solidly Christian moral framework.

00:59:49.000 I bring this up very often.

00:59:50.000 Bill Maher has a Christian moral framework in his worldview.

00:59:53.000 He believes in the presumption of innocence, which is rooted in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, which is where Blackstone's formulation comes from, which is where we get our Fifth Amendment and Fourth Amendment and other amendments.

01:00:05.000 But you look at the woke generation now, you look at the younger generation, they don't care about any of that.

01:00:10.000 They've actually come out against the Constitution.

01:00:12.000 They have protested saying we should get rid of it.

01:00:14.000 They don't believe in fundamental rights because they don't have the same moral framework we do.

01:00:19.000 Their moral framework is rooted in the fascistic view, there is no truth but power.

01:00:23.000 I believe this.

01:00:24.000 We have to win that war.

01:00:25.000 Judaism is... I'm finding myself more Jewish by the day. 0.97

01:00:29.000 And I think what's happened is these global banking cartels are sometimes run by people with Jewish ancestry and they're, they might not even believe in God, but they call themselves Jewish and they're poisoning the name of the Jew and taking credit for something that I want to see it. 0.97

01:00:44.000 I want to see you behave like a Jew, if you are. 1.00

01:00:48.000 You show me.

01:00:50.000 It's about, you don't worship money?

01:00:52.000 Like, how can you fathom setting up a bank and taking interest from people that they can't afford?

01:00:59.000 I think part of it is the young.

01:01:03.000 I think the youngest generation is so lost because we are a culture that didn't safeguard our morals.

01:01:10.000 I understand objections to organized religions.

01:01:12.000 People feel like any institution, you know, churches can become corrupt, but we didn't raise children in a collective understanding of what's good and what's wrong.

01:01:22.000 We raised children in a culture that said, you know, push your boundaries constantly.

01:01:27.000 Anything is whatever you want it to be.

01:01:28.000 It was a very ambiguous time and this has been going on since the 80s.

01:01:32.000 And I think as a result, we have a generation of people who are in many respects hopeless and lost.

01:01:39.000 And that is a very difficult thing to come back from because bitterness is a pill you can't unswallow.

01:01:43.000 Let me show you this story from CNN.

01:01:44.000 I want to talk about this Tucker Carlson thing.

01:01:47.000 Tucker Carlson sent a racist text to a producer, quote, it's not how white men fight. 1.00

01:01:52.000 Silly. 0.98

01:01:53.000 You have this story, uh, what's his name, Abby something, Grossman is her name, I guess? 0.98

01:01:57.000 Grossberg.

01:01:57.000 Grossberg, there you go.

01:01:59.000 And she was, uh, coming out being like, oh, they were so bad to me, they were so awful.

01:02:04.000 So what happens is, Tucker Carlson releases a text where he says, I saw this video of Proud Boys beating up an Antifa guy, and I started getting into it, saying I could taste it, and then I realized, you know, I shouldn't be thinking these things, this is bad, I don't want to be in this place.

01:02:17.000 Here's what CNN does.

01:02:19.000 They show the first part of the quote that makes it look like Tucker is just bloodthirsty.

01:02:24.000 They then give you this massive story about Fox and Dominion and text messages and a lawsuit and settlement before they give you the actual quote.

01:02:33.000 Which is Tucker saying, these are bad things, we shouldn't think these things, and that's my point.

01:02:38.000 Because what happens is people will read the first quote, once they get down to the part about Dominion, old news from a month ago, they'll just stop reading.

01:02:46.000 I think about this person, Abby Grossberg, and this is what this nation has raised people to be.

01:02:51.000 Mindless self-indulgence.

01:02:54.000 They see that you can be popular by saying whatever the machine wants you to say.

01:02:58.000 They are quite literally slaves to the AI already.

01:03:02.000 If they can get likes from it, they'll say it.

01:03:04.000 They don't care what it is.

01:03:05.000 If they don't get likes from it, they won't say it, even if it's right.

01:03:08.000 Like an episode of Black Mirror.

01:03:10.000 Absolutely.

01:03:11.000 And so now what you have a generation of people who are like, don't know, don't care.

01:03:14.000 I will say whatever gets traffic.

01:03:16.000 And there's this really funny clip.

01:03:19.000 Actually, let me pull it up because I have it and it's from the Tim.

01:03:21.000 It's from Tim Dillon's podcast that perfectly exemplifies the vapid, despicable nature of these young people.

01:03:28.000 Here we go.

01:03:29.000 I'm going to pull this up right here.

01:03:31.000 Let me play this clip for you guys.

01:03:32.000 To be honest, like, it's actually really hard in this space, right?

01:03:35.000 Like, we have, like, 45 seconds to record a video, keep people's attention.

01:03:39.000 And a lot of the people on our side, like, if they start hearing, like, I've actually done it before.

01:03:43.000 I've criticized, like, Democrats, like, specifically Hakeem Jeffries.

01:03:48.000 It all just went south.

01:03:49.000 Like, I started losing followers.

01:03:50.000 Like, it's bad, right?

01:03:51.000 And I really want to be that person that, like, reaches the other side. 0.80

01:03:54.000 Because Democrats, I mean, they're horrible at their jobs, right? 0.99

01:03:56.000 They do a lot of shitty things. 0.99

01:03:58.000 Although, I'll vote for them all the time. 0.99

01:04:00.000 But it's also hard in this space to criticize them.

01:04:01.000 That's a good... Can we clip that quote?

01:04:04.000 Please don't.

01:04:06.000 Please don't clip that.

01:04:06.000 Please don't.

01:04:10.000 He legit was like, no, no, no, please don't clip that.

01:04:12.000 Please.

01:04:12.000 And when I first heard this kid said that, I thought it was him more snarkily be like, don't clip it.

01:04:16.000 Come on guys.

01:04:17.000 But he actually sounds scared.

01:04:19.000 And this is it.

01:04:20.000 These two young men, they're paid by a talent agency that gets money from the DNC.

01:04:25.000 They go on the internet and just say mindless, vapid, garbled nonsense that sounds like politics, but has no bearing in reality.

01:04:33.000 They get followers from it.

01:04:35.000 If they deviate from that line, they lose followers.

01:04:38.000 We can have Luke Rudkowski come on this show and rant about how he doesn't like Donald Trump, and people still like and follow Luke Rudkowski.

01:04:44.000 Because whatever space we're in, we're more interested in having an honest conversation and explaining our ideas, even if it challenges my or someone else's opinion.

01:04:51.000 People will still be like, well, I want to hear what these people think and why.

01:04:54.000 That whole thing is a cult.

01:04:56.000 And this is what young people are being raised to do.

01:04:59.000 It doesn't matter what Tucker Carlson was actually trying to say.

01:05:02.000 What matters is, how can we extract Cult responses.

01:05:07.000 How can we extract followers?

01:05:09.000 Zombies. 1.00

01:05:10.000 I don't see how the United States remains a dominant power, if it even still is, if half or more of this country are either lazy, ignorant, willfully ignorant, or willfully manipulative like these young men. 1.00

01:05:26.000 You were about to say something. 1.00

01:05:26.000 Even 30%. 1.00

01:05:29.000 I personally recoil from generational disparagement.

01:05:34.000 It's because you have children and you want to believe they can take the future back.

01:05:39.000 No, my kids are irretrievable.

01:05:40.000 No.

01:05:42.000 Only because, you know...

01:05:45.000 We could talk about kind of pajama guy.

01:05:47.000 I don't know if you remember that.

01:05:48.000 It was from like, I don't know, maybe it was the Obama era.

01:05:52.000 And there were ads that were created to promote Obamacare.

01:05:56.000 And one of them showed this sort of effete looking guy in his pajamas and he You know, he was dressed in red flannel pajamas and he had a little cup of java and he had sort of horn-rimmed glasses.

01:06:07.000 Yes, I think we talked about this.

01:06:09.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:06:10.000 Yeah, we pulled this up recently.

01:06:11.000 So it might be tempting to sort of, to write off the current generation of young people as pajama guy or, you know, they're just completely wrapped up in their artificial cocoon of, you know, their phones and social media and everything else.

01:06:26.000 But You know, just getting older, I recognize that these are glib distinctions to say that one generation had grit and understood, and this generation doesn't.

01:06:36.000 And that's a fact though.

01:06:38.000 You can't compare any of the generations since World War II.

01:06:42.000 Well, the kids that were growing up in the internet, you brought this up before the show, the kids that were born into the age of the internet don't have the reference of knowing what it's like without the machine.

01:06:49.000 Sometimes.

01:06:50.000 It's one thing to say when the boomers, when the greatest generation is talking about the boomers, and you're like, don't criticize the younger generation.

01:06:59.000 Everybody does it.

01:07:00.000 There's that quote from Socrates about how they got no respect.

01:07:04.000 After several generations, you've come to the point where Gen Z is morbidly obese, lazy, demanding safe spaces full of cotton candy because people said naughty words on campus, and you compare that to the greatest generation who stormed the beaches of Normandy. 0.82

01:07:17.000 But again, how many members of this current generation that we're so quick to dismiss are the heroes who are responding at school shootings or are in the military and doing extraordinary things.

01:07:30.000 We're missing our recruitment goals and the Uvalde cops did nothing and the security guard in Parkland ran away.

01:07:37.000 So now what we're seeing is there was a story in Philadelphia where a man raped a woman on the train and not a single person did anything to help.

01:07:45.000 That's where we are with our current generation.

01:07:47.000 Does the name Kitty Genovese ring a bell?

01:07:49.000 Has anyone heard of Kitty Genovese?

01:07:52.000 So Kitty Genovese was a woman in Queens in 1964 and she lived in a big apartment building that had a central courtyard area and she was attacked and raped repeatedly and killed and she died from her injuries.

01:08:07.000 And the investigation, this is 1964, which as far as I'm concerned is modernity, and the investigation determined that there were several dozen people Who were aware of the attack, who were witnessing it take, or different parts of it take place.

01:08:24.000 Not one single person called the police.

01:08:28.000 And the Kitty Genovese case endures as a model of urban sociology.

01:08:31.000 It's been taught for 50 years in college courses.

01:08:35.000 And what was the reason that nobody called the cops?

01:08:38.000 And as opposed to your example on a subway where nobody lifted a finger, you're right there in the thick of it, you might be afraid that you're going to get slashed or whatever.

01:08:45.000 Here was a situation where these several dozen people in this apartment complex looking down on their courtyard didn't even face the hurdle of personal exposure to danger, right?

01:08:55.000 They just had to pick up a phone.

01:08:56.000 And nobody did.

01:08:58.000 And why didn't they?

01:08:58.000 I bet I know.

01:08:59.000 Because they all thought somebody else was going to do it.

01:09:01.000 Correct.

01:09:02.000 Okay, so, you know, when you cite an example like that one on the subway as an example of today's morality, depraved morality on the part of a given generation, then we can talk about Kitty Genovese from 1964, which was a generation by and large with much greater civic sense.

01:09:19.000 Yes, yes, yes, but I'm saying it just has gotten worse.

01:09:22.000 Like, I'm not comparing those people to the people who stormed the beaches of Normandy.

01:09:26.000 I absolutely agree that generations have increasingly gotten worse.

01:09:31.000 Now, what we're dealing with there is two singular stories that, you know, the plural of anecdote is not data.

01:09:37.000 We have these stories, they're interesting.

01:09:38.000 But I think when you look at what's happening with our universities, you take a look at the fact that movies, they're firing, they fired Sarah Silverman, I think.

01:09:47.000 She got fired from a movie because she did a blackface joke 15 years prior, mocking the idea.

01:09:53.000 We're in a generation now where you have college students screaming at professors that this is not about education, it's about safe spaces.

01:10:01.000 Look, there's a lot of troubling phenomena out there with the current generation.

01:10:04.000 All I'm saying is that if I were on that day where I have the supernumerary Reese's peanut butter cup that I just shouldn't, right?

01:10:14.000 And I plop to the ground.

01:10:17.000 I'm pretty sure it's going to be a person of the current generation who's going to get me to a hospital and who's going to take care of me. 0.93

01:10:24.000 Sure, sure, sure.

01:10:25.000 But again, anecdotal.

01:10:26.000 But so is your subway.

01:10:28.000 I'm willing to step back and say, and let's multiply it by, you know, millions.

01:10:37.000 So let's do that.

01:10:39.000 Let's talk about, let me ask you a question.

01:10:40.000 Do you think that if a woman is nine months pregnant, and at the point of birth, a doctor should be allowed to kill the baby?

01:10:49.000 So you're asking about my personal political opinions, which I'm not supposed to give because I'm a reporter.

01:10:53.000 So let's just put it this way.

01:10:54.000 You don't have to answer that question.

01:10:55.000 In Colorado, a woman can be at the point of birth and a doctor can kill the kid. 0.82

01:11:01.000 The Democrats tried passing a law allowing basically limitless abortion for the health of the mother.

01:11:09.000 And there was interesting ways they described what that really meant.

01:11:11.000 It could mean depression and things like that.

01:11:13.000 We've gone into great detail.

01:11:14.000 We're at a point now where Our standard, and using abortion as one single example, you have states that have said no limit.

01:11:22.000 You have states that have banned it outright.

01:11:24.000 A complete hyper-polarization of morality in this country.

01:11:27.000 You have people, you have states that are advocating for child sterilization with sex change surgery despite the fact that the universities and medical practice in Europe have already abandoned it.

01:11:37.000 They don't care about what makes sense.

01:11:40.000 I think it is Not that I'm saying that we're going to lose, but there is a very clear moral decay in this country with the current generation that didn't exist with the previous generation.

01:11:52.000 And now, again, I'm not giving any of my own opinions because I'm not paid to do so, although I'm willing to explore those options with Tim Kast.

01:12:00.000 Here you are talking about moral decay, and the person whom you have identified, just in the course of our conversation, as the only person who can possibly start the great rescue effort of the United States that urgently needs to be undertaken, is Donald Trump.

01:12:15.000 That's right.

01:12:16.000 Okay, who is married three times.

01:12:19.000 Yep.

01:12:19.000 You know, under indictment, presently facing on- Fake indictment.

01:12:24.000 Rape trial.

01:12:25.000 Fake rape trial.

01:12:27.000 That's quite literally the moral decay to which I'm referring.

01:12:29.000 A 30-year-old case that clearly appears to be fabricated, a false accusation that he was working for Russia, Ukrainegate, clearly something Joe Biden was doing, engaging in a quid pro quo, and our morally decayed country indicted Trump for figuring it out rather accidentally.

01:12:46.000 Trump is not a saint. 0.99

01:12:47.000 He's a lewd, lascivious old man. 1.00

01:12:48.000 And it's scary that he is our best chance. 0.98

01:12:51.000 But when you talk...

01:12:53.000 You don't think?

01:12:54.000 Maybe politically, but I think it's in the music.

01:12:56.000 Oh come on, he's in the bus saying you can grab the women, they let you do it, whatever. 0.99

01:13:01.000 I'm not gonna come out and be like, you know, what the left is saying about him.

01:13:04.000 He said they let you, fine, whatever.

01:13:06.000 But it is fairly, you know, locker room talk, whatever you want to call it. 0.86

01:13:09.000 Trump is not a saint.

01:13:11.000 But Trump is, at the very least, someone who's, I would say, our only chance at getting rid of the first layer of crust That has taken over our government system.

01:13:21.000 And all the other potential Republican contenders whose names we all know you regard as hopelessly corrupt?

01:13:30.000 Well, like who?

01:13:32.000 DeSantis.

01:13:32.000 DeSantis, I think, is good.

01:13:33.000 That's why I said a Trump-DeSantis ticket is probably pretty good.

01:13:36.000 I think it is a good job, but I think DeSantis is going to negotiate.

01:13:40.000 And what that will do is just be another sludge in the machine of slowly moving forward, whereas Trump's going to go in like a bull in a china shop and just start saying, enough, I'm done with this.

01:13:50.000 But we need the groundswell, because the head does nothing without the body's attention.

01:13:53.000 And so the people, the generation, I think this is why institutions should be brought up, don't demonize generations of humans, because Every generation faces its own coming-to-God moment, its own struggle and overcoming of it.

01:14:07.000 And this generation is facing it, and a lot of them are failing.

01:14:09.000 They've been sucked into the machine and have become something they're not, or that they weren't, or that they don't want to be, or that they don't understand.

01:14:15.000 But there's a lot of great ones, and we're speaking to all of them, especially the ones that are listening to you right now.

01:14:21.000 Like, I don't know what, 30-40% of our audience is between the ages of 18 and 34.

01:14:26.000 Like, we've got a lot of you listening right now, and it is you that is going to change the world and hold this thing together.

01:14:32.000 So what I'm saying is, not that every single person that exists is bad.

01:14:38.000 I'm saying that millennials have a very serious malignancy, and so does Gen Z. Something that we've not seen in the past. 1.00

01:14:44.000 In the 1990s, I grew up in Chicago as a Democrat, as Democrat could be, and I worked at a bunch of non-profits when I got older.

01:14:52.000 I did register vote actions, and I thought I liked Obama until, you know, he started blowing up kids, and obviously the stuff he did to you was really bad.

01:15:00.000 But that was what my family believed in, and when it came to abortion as a really good moral example, The argument that I would hear from my urban liberal Democrat friends was, no, none of us like it.

01:15:11.000 We all think abortion is bad, but it's not an issue for government.

01:15:14.000 It's an issue of medical practice.

01:15:16.000 So we agree at a certain point, maybe it should not be allowed, but the government shouldn't intervene within a certain amount of time.

01:15:22.000 Now the argument is that that female comedian going on Netflix saying, Everybody get an abortion! 1.00

01:15:27.000 You get an abortion! 0.98

01:15:28.000 You have Lena Dunham going out and saying she wished she had one, despite not being pregnant.

01:15:33.000 She's like, I never got one, but I wish I did.

01:15:35.000 That is absolute chaos and moral decay that didn't exist in the previous generation.

01:15:41.000 And we're seeing that get crazier and crazier to the point where Washington and Colorado are creating sanctuaries for child sex changes.

01:15:49.000 Like, it's just, come on!

01:15:50.000 You know, in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, they say, OK, we're going to stop doing these things that don't work.

01:15:55.000 The Tavistock Center in the UK is being shut down.

01:15:58.000 In the United States, the Democrats are codifying law to take 10-year-olds and give them hormones that sterilize them.

01:16:05.000 And I'm just like, OK.

01:16:07.000 The thirst for power and money knows no bounds.

01:16:11.000 The doctor in Florida who made videos saying she was gonna yeet teats today and talked about, you know, she makes tons of money giving young girls double mastectomies because they're going through some kind of psychological trauma.

01:16:23.000 This is moral decay that did not exist.

01:16:25.000 Now don't get me wrong, lobotomies happen.

01:16:27.000 And then everybody was like, yo, these are bad things, you should stop doing it.

01:16:30.000 But today, there's a bifurcation.

01:16:32.000 It feels like the traditional left and right paradigm is in one camp, and then this new morally psychotic algorithmic mess is the left.

01:16:40.000 Yeah, it's the first time that the international community has heavily influenced the United States like this.

01:16:45.000 I think the hardest thing is you don't want to demonize a whole generation.

01:16:47.000 I think you're right.

01:16:48.000 But on the other hand, we have to be honest with the challenges that they're facing.

01:16:51.000 And the way that the generations before them have prepared them to take on the world is not serving them.

01:16:57.000 You're part of this generation.

01:16:58.000 You should say we, not they. 0.99

01:17:00.000 I'm talking about millennials.

01:17:02.000 I'm a millennial. 1.00

01:17:03.000 I think millennials are garbage. 1.00

01:17:04.000 I think they're... No, you guys are awesome, man. 1.00

01:17:06.000 Millennials are over... Millennials are the... Look, Gen X is fantastic.

01:17:11.000 I think Gen X is great.

01:17:13.000 Gen X and boomers. 0.82

01:17:14.000 And I am willing to praise whole generations.

01:17:18.000 But here's how I view it.

01:17:20.000 You have Gen Xers which are net positive, but maybe it's 60-40. 1.00

01:17:26.000 There's a decent amount of people in their 40s and 50s who are very weak.

01:17:30.000 And allow this kind of stuff to take over.

01:17:33.000 You then get the millennial generation, which inverts, where very few millennials are of strong moral character, and overwhelmingly are vapid, narcissistic, social media-driven individuals.

01:17:43.000 Gen Z actually might be slightly more based.

01:17:45.000 Then Millennials, because we're starting to see a bunch of young people protest the algorithmic psychosis that Millennials were entrenched in.

01:17:52.000 So I think that may be a net positive, but Gen Z is still fairly even. 0.85

01:17:57.000 Gen Z is better than Millennials, I think, but Millennials are, and I'm a Millennial, I think Millennials are the worst. 0.99

01:18:03.000 Well, the thing I like about Z and Millennials is that they're involved.

01:18:06.000 The problem with Gen X, and I'm not speaking for everybody, because obviously James, you and I are ex, I'm like tail end of it a year earlier or in the middle of it somewhere, is that they checked out.

01:18:14.000 A lot of Gen X has just checked out.

01:18:16.000 Well, the name of the movie was Slackers, right?

01:18:18.000 I mean, that was one of the sort of iconic movies from the Gen X period.

01:18:23.000 We were talking about this before we started the show.

01:18:27.000 And yeah, I was born in 1968.

01:18:28.000 So I turned 10 in the year 1978.

01:18:32.000 You know, where in evenings entertainment was you watch TV, one of the three channels, maybe you had a VHS machine, but you played board games, you know what I'm saying?

01:18:42.000 And like there were times of the day that were set aside, generally the morning and 6pm.

01:18:47.000 And in those times, if you wanted to be engaged in the business of acquiring information, those were the times when you did that.

01:18:54.000 Otherwise, you were living your life.

01:18:56.000 And I'm very grateful to have experienced a time before computers took over everything.

01:19:02.000 So what I see with The Boomers, for instance, is that we had a lot of great content in the 90s.

01:19:11.000 You know, having grown up in the 90s, I'm biased for sure.

01:19:13.000 The gin blossoms.

01:19:15.000 Oh my god, what a great band.

01:19:19.000 I think about where we are culturally today, and especially with AI and algorithms and what that's leading to, it's static, it's chaos, and where we were in the 90s and before that, and it just feels like an unraveling.

01:19:31.000 Yeah.

01:19:33.000 That is certainly, I feel like, a psychological attack by foreign interests, corporate interests, to try and disrupt the people of the United States.

01:19:42.000 It's not a natural thing that just happened because these people are who they are.

01:19:46.000 I think it's just a result of the internet.

01:19:48.000 Right?

01:19:48.000 I mean, exactly to your point, there was limited connection to the outside world.

01:19:54.000 You got information at certain times, otherwise you were more engaged with your family life and your community.

01:19:58.000 I don't think when we had the internet, which of course is a great blessing in a lot of ways, we knew what it was like.

01:20:04.000 We didn't know we'd have to put it back in the box, right?

01:20:06.000 We didn't know that at some point you would hand a 12-year-old a smartphone and say like, Okay, be careful on this.

01:20:12.000 You could get semi-addicted to it and be constantly seeking dopamine hits through people online.

01:20:17.000 We didn't know what we were bringing up and that's why I think it's so important to talk about the challenges that specifically face the youngest generations in this country because they're unlike any generation before them. 0.90

01:20:26.000 Worse still, we're hearing that crazy story about Roblox.

01:20:28.000 You guys hear about this one?

01:20:29.000 No, tell me.

01:20:30.000 Predators are going on Roblox because they know there's no parents and it's all kids.

01:20:35.000 And then they start indoctrinating these kids and saying creepy things to them and exploiting them.

01:20:42.000 And that's, but I think that also happened on like, do you remember runescape? Yeah,

01:20:46.000 my brother used to play that and like, you would get people being like, Oh,

01:20:49.000 let me give you your phone number or whatever else like these, these, again, very morally corrupt

01:20:54.000 people will find a way to use technology that we think is innocent to for negative and nefarious

01:21:00.000 means. This is what we're seeing with drag queen story hour is it's gotten to the point where the

01:21:04.000 left establishment is protecting the exploitation of children to rather extreme degrees like the

01:21:10.000 the sterilization of children.

01:21:14.000 I'm going to play this clip so I can explain to you moral bankruptcy in a way that I think you might say, oh man, let me see if I can pull this up from the post-millennial.

01:21:25.000 I'm always up for some good moral bankruptcy.

01:21:28.000 Yeah!

01:21:28.000 In whatever form you want to feed it to me.

01:21:30.000 You know, you can go bankrupt and still be very wealthy, I found out.

01:21:34.000 There is this phenomenon, I think, where people in this modern generation feel like they're failing if they're not on the internet, if they're not connected.

01:21:40.000 It's a sort of failure.

01:21:41.000 But the reality is the inverse.

01:21:43.000 Taking ten days away from the internet can make your life magnitudes better, greater, a hundred times better.

01:21:49.000 I'm gonna play for you this clip from a major television network.

01:21:56.000 And warning to all those, you may have heard it before, it's disturbing.

01:22:01.000 With her, I'm worried about her mental... 0.97

01:22:05.000 Well-being and her dilation.

01:22:07.000 The minute she leaves my house, we have a dilation problem. 0.99

01:22:11.000 That is a concern.

01:22:12.000 When you don't have that watchful eye, they tend to go back to old patterns. 0.99

01:22:17.000 I have woken Jazz out of a dead sleep and taken the dilator and put the lubrication on it and said, here, you take this and you put it in your vagina. 1.00

01:22:25.000 If not, I will. 0.99

01:22:26.000 But Jazz is bad, even when I'm home once a day.

01:22:29.000 I would be so mad if she goes away to college and that thing seals up. 0.99

01:22:37.000 This is a story about a biological male.

01:22:43.000 So let me explain.

01:22:45.000 Let me say it for you as plainly and ineffectively as possible.

01:22:49.000 I am not going to explain this to people in a way that will invite invective or aggression.

01:22:56.000 I will just try and keep the language plain.

01:22:59.000 This is a story about Jazz Jennings, a biological male, who at the age of 3 was determined to be transgender by Jazz's family.

01:23:06.000 Began social transition around 7, puberty blockers, hormone blockers.

01:23:11.000 At the age of 17 as a minor, Jazz received a sex change operation, they refer to as bottom surgery.

01:23:19.000 Typically, an adult male receives... At what age?

01:23:22.000 17, as a minor.

01:23:23.000 Typically, people receive what's called a penile inversion vaginoplasty if they're adults, but because Jazz underwent puberty blockers, Jazz did not develop any physical function in terms of sexual components.

01:23:38.000 This resulted in severe complications and multiple surgeries where they had to take stomach lining to create the inside of what is a permanent wound. 0.88

01:23:47.000 In the pelvis of this young male, the purpose for which is so that a man who is attracted to this to this to jazz can insert themselves for sexual gratification.

01:23:58.000 After the surgery, because the wound tries to seal itself, you have to introduce what's called a dilator every day, which is a device that cranks the wound open with lubrication.

01:24:08.000 This is the story of a mother on the Learning Channel, a major corporate cable channel explaining how she wakes up her biologically male child in the middle of the night and says stick this in your wound and crank it open or I will and then goes on to say if she leaves and that wound closes I will wring her neck tell me this is not moral decay when on cable television this which I believe to be purely criminal child abuse is celebrated I see that and I just say we have reached a severe state of moral decay

01:24:43.000 It's a kind of, it sounds like a psychosis.

01:24:46.000 Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

01:24:47.000 A collective psychosis.

01:24:50.000 And the idea that it would be presented on any sort of viable commercial television outlet of some kind is staggering to me.

01:24:58.000 And you know Ron DeSantis hasn't filed any criminal charges against his family for what they've done.

01:25:03.000 It's gotten to the point where, I'll phrase it this way.

01:25:06.000 If it was 1990 and we heard a story about a parent who did this to their child, they'd probably be arrested, investigated, the child would be removed, given psychotherapy and some kind of help.

01:25:17.000 This is to the point where not only is... Look, there are people in this country who are mad at me right now for saying this.

01:25:27.000 This woman says that she forces her child to do this.

01:25:32.000 Her child clearly does not want to.

01:25:34.000 That's why she has to wake up her child in the middle of the night and say, do it or I will for a TV show. 1.00

01:25:38.000 And instead of saying, maybe we should investigate because this sounds like abuse.

01:25:43.000 This sounds like the child does not want to engage in this practice and the mother is making them do it and it could be potentially harmful.

01:25:49.000 Why don't we get protective services or some kind of law enforcement to at least investigate?

01:25:53.000 Not only are we not doing that, we're putting it on television, celebrating it, giving them commercials.

01:25:58.000 And selling ad time on it.

01:25:59.000 And their book.

01:26:00.000 It's Warner Brothers.

01:26:01.000 And Jazz has a book encouraging more children to engage in this.

01:26:04.000 Jazz is an adult now, which is why there's no protective custody thing going in now. 0.86

01:26:09.000 You would assume it's a consensual relationship between two consenting adults.

01:26:13.000 Otherwise, Jazz would have filed a complaint. 1.00

01:26:15.000 Let me play this other clip, because people are requesting I play this other clip.

01:26:17.000 Here, listen to this.

01:26:20.000 So, um, are you feeling like you wanted to start talking about... Are you okay?

01:26:26.000 I'm okay.

01:26:26.000 I feel like I'm going to cry.

01:26:29.000 You know I can't get out of my head.

01:26:31.000 I know.

01:26:31.000 No, listen.

01:26:33.000 It just doesn't stop.

01:26:34.000 It's okay.

01:26:35.000 It's okay.

01:26:35.000 Give me a hug.

01:26:36.000 I know what you're going through.

01:26:37.000 We've been there before.

01:26:37.000 No, it still doesn't stop now.

01:26:39.000 And I'm already going back to negative.

01:26:40.000 The more you're talking about yourself, it gets harder.

01:26:44.000 You're digging in and it's making you put a magnifying glass on what's already difficult as it is.

01:26:49.000 So this is hard for you, I know.

01:26:51.000 And we don't want to push you anymore.

01:26:52.000 And I know I'm the one doing it.

01:26:54.000 I know.

01:26:54.000 You're your own worst enemy.

01:26:58.000 I feel kind of all over the place and like my mind is very cluttered and not clear and I really want to have that clarity.

01:27:05.000 I really want to understand myself and be able to read my own soul and what I want and it's just very challenging.

01:27:12.000 I think I'm kind of breaking down a little bit and spiraling into negativity.

01:27:17.000 I just want to feel like myself.

01:27:19.000 Like that's it.

01:27:19.000 I don't care.

01:27:21.000 All I want is to be happy and feel like me and I don't feel like me ever.

01:27:27.000 The interesting thing with this now is that Jazz, a biological male, who was raised as a female and underwent surgery, is dating women.

01:27:35.000 This to me is obvious moral corruption of our society in ways we've not seen in previous generations.

01:27:43.000 I'll tell you what it brings to mind for me.

01:27:46.000 It brings to mind the statement from John Kenneth Galbraith.

01:27:51.000 Raise your hand if you know who John Kenneth Galbraith was.

01:27:53.000 He was an economist, he coined the term the Affluent Society, and he was also President Kennedy's ambassador to India.

01:28:02.000 And he and Buckley used to have a kind of a relationship, sort of like Scalia and RBG, where you had these two people on different sides of the issues who would debate, and they were best friends.

01:28:11.000 They would go skiing together, etc.

01:28:13.000 But John Kenneth Galbraith said, I think around 1960, that America is the first country in the history of the world Where more people are at risk of dying from having too much to eat than from having too little.

01:28:29.000 And the choices that, and the decision-making and the enterprise that you've just played is, are the choices and decisions and the enterprise of an elective society where, you know, if you go around the world or if you go into other neighborhoods in the United States where they don't have enough to eat, no one's doing this sort of thing.

01:28:53.000 Yeah.

01:28:54.000 I mean, I think it's important to note that this was something that boiled up over time, right?

01:29:02.000 This was something that crept up to be at the point where we now talk about it as if it's a regular part of society.

01:29:09.000 Jazz's show used to be on TLC.

01:29:11.000 TLC also hosted 19 Kids and Counting which were Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar who were these homeschooling Christians and they were sort of another view and an extreme family because that's how TLC made money for years and years and years.

01:29:24.000 They took people who lived in sort of unorthodox ways, or not in a normal way, and put them both on TV.

01:29:29.000 And one of the sons-in-law, Derek Dillard, on Twitter, this is, I think this was in like 2016, maybe 2014, said, you know, jazz is being abused, this is not real, you know, there's only two genders, and this is all terrible.

01:29:47.000 And TLC said he can't appear on the show anymore.

01:29:50.000 He is not allowed to be on this thing where theoretically he makes money because they sided with the gender ideology and this was, I mean, close to a decade ago at this point.

01:30:00.000 We have seen this coming for some time and instead of intervening and saying like, well let's at least have both opposing opinions on air and let people sort it out for themselves, you know, I know you always say this, but people thought, well, this one makes more money, so we'll side with it.

01:30:15.000 I don't even know if it does make more money.

01:30:17.000 But there is a – when you look back, it's sort of dark to think that along the way we could have had rational discussions and we could have said, I don't know, maybe this is too far, maybe there are some boundaries we're crossing.

01:30:30.000 And instead we're like, no, we need to let people live as they live even when you sacrifice a child body, basically.

01:30:37.000 When I saw Rachel Dolezal, she was the lady out in the Seattle area, I think, who became convinced that she identifies as an African-American person and took every step possible to further that idea, including changes in the way she presented herself and so on, but she got as far with it As securing the position, I think, of executive director of the local NAACP out there, okay?

01:31:09.000 She got to be in charge of an organization that advanced the interests of people of color, even though she herself was white.

01:31:17.000 And when I saw that take place, I thought to myself, well, what should prohibit me from saying that from the age of five, I have strongly identified as a Beatle?

01:31:27.000 And I'm going to demand that all of you, anyone who comes into my presence, and all of you who don't, shall now treat me as a Beatle.

01:31:35.000 That starts with the checks, but that's not the end of it, right?

01:31:37.000 Beatle the musician, not the bug.

01:31:40.000 The sixth Beatle.

01:31:42.000 Sixth, I suppose.

01:31:43.000 Well, there's the drummer, and then I guess you could say Epstein.

01:31:46.000 Original Paul.

01:31:47.000 The first Paul was the fifth.

01:31:49.000 Are you the original Paul?

01:31:50.000 I am the six millionth fifth Beatle, is what I am.

01:31:54.000 But, you know, Again, this isn't happening.

01:31:59.000 What you just played, the Jazz Jennings saga, isn't happening in places where people are scrounging just to have enough to eat.

01:32:05.000 Right.

01:32:05.000 These are the decisions, the elective decisions of an affluent society.

01:32:11.000 Moral decay.

01:32:12.000 And it's just extraordinary.

01:32:13.000 Are you familiar with the rat hope experiment?

01:32:15.000 No.

01:32:16.000 Scientists put a bunch of rats in a space, limited space, unlimited resources, food and water, and then observed what they would do, and they broke down to the point where they were huddling around each other, no longer engaging in normal rat behavior.

01:32:33.000 One group started grooming themselves and did nothing else.

01:32:36.000 Their behavior started to break down.

01:32:37.000 They became aggressive.

01:32:38.000 With a limited amount of space, they would all congregate in one small area.

01:32:43.000 They, uh, the social breakdown resulted in, like, stopping eating and then dying.

01:32:50.000 When they would take one of the rats from this place and put it back into a normal rat society, it would retain the social behaviors and spread them and then bring social decay.

01:32:59.000 So, very horrifying.

01:33:00.000 A behavioral sink, the rat utopia.

01:33:02.000 I think you may have said rat, uh, hope experience, which is a different one.

01:33:05.000 The hope was a different one, that was the rat utopia.

01:33:06.000 They put them in water and make them swim, but it's the rat utopia.

01:33:08.000 Yeah, the rat hope one's scary too.

01:33:09.000 Yeah, when you give people unlimited food, you know, how, how do you convince them not to eat too much?

01:33:15.000 Become a Christian?

01:33:16.000 Become a Jew? 0.57

01:33:17.000 Like, don't, gluttony is a sin for a reason?

01:33:19.000 Well, the difference is, cities are like the rat utopias, but you can still get out to the country and get away from these congested areas.

01:33:26.000 So the difference is, In the rat utopia, they stayed in one place. 0.93

01:33:32.000 In the human utopia, people who are seeing the decay are fleeing and the people who are absorbing the decay are staying.

01:33:38.000 And they're making TV shows about the people that are staying there.

01:33:40.000 That's right.

01:33:41.000 And then they're broadcasting it to the entire world and saying, look how profitable it is if you're like that.

01:33:44.000 They'll make a show out of you. 0.95

01:33:46.000 Jazz can't have children. 1.00

01:33:48.000 So, you know, the people of this moral ideology, eventually, from aborting their children and sterilizing their children, are less likely to reproduce and share those ideologies.

01:33:59.000 They try to go to schools, but conservatives have started pulling their kids out and engaging in homeschooling, so I think, rather optimistically, for bad reasons, the future is more likely to course correct, and this will naturally resolve itself.

01:34:13.000 Yeah.

01:34:13.000 Well, these kind of movements, which are Stalinist, At their core, ultimately become self-devouring.

01:34:21.000 You know, my feeling about this is that in 1954, we had Brown v. Board of Education, right?

01:34:28.000 The landmark Supreme Court ruling that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson from 1896, which had said separate but equal is constitutional, right?

01:34:37.000 And after Brown v. Board of Ed, it was no longer lawful or constitutional for a state system to discriminate against somebody based on their color.

01:34:47.000 And then there were subsequent Supreme Court rulings, which, you know, I think Brown v. Board of Ed mandated desegregation, quote, with all deliberate speed.

01:34:56.000 But there was a – I think it's Alexander v. Holmes, forgive me for not remembering off the top of my head, but there was a 1969 Supreme Court ruling which took it further and said, not with all deliberate speed, now, okay?

01:35:09.000 So African Americans were and remain a minority group.

01:35:13.000 Okay.

01:35:13.000 I think they comprise 13% of the American population.

01:35:17.000 Let's assume it was roughly the same in 1954.

01:35:19.000 This was a minority group that was terribly aggrieved and sought redress through the courts and succeeded.

01:35:28.000 And ever since then, what you've had is every minority group, some of them with far less compelling claims to being aggrieved.

01:35:36.000 They're all seeking their Brown v. Board of Ed moment.

01:35:39.000 Well, hold on.

01:35:41.000 The left today, Black Lives Matter, for instance, they want to reverse Brown v. Board of Ed.

01:35:46.000 Derrick Bell, for instance, spoke out against it, saying it was wrong, and he agreed with Plessy v. Ferguson.

01:35:50.000 So, if they're allowed to continue down that path, we'll get segregation.

01:35:54.000 And, in fact, they've reintroduced segregation in many universities.

01:35:57.000 Well, this would be the difference between the Civil Rights Movement and BLM.

01:36:01.000 But in short, what you're seeing with this fight over bathrooms and the whole transgender question is a minority group that has its own sense of aggrievement and which is seeking to use The courts and other traditional means to redress this to their satisfaction. 0.92

01:36:25.000 Now, when everyone saw the TV broadcasts of the film footage of Sheriff Bull Connor, you know, sicking dogs and fire hoses and billy clubs on innocent African American demonstrators, The horror was so vivid and readily discernible that no one would quarrel with a ruling like Brown v. Board of Ed.

01:36:53.000 The policy was so self-evidently discriminatory.

01:37:00.000 There was so much interaction between the majority and the minority group.

01:37:05.000 Here, I remember seeing Cory Booker on the very first debate that was held for the 2020 cycle.

01:37:11.000 It was in late June of 2019.

01:37:14.000 And you had so many Democratic candidates in June of 2019, they had to have two programs back-to-back.

01:37:20.000 With what they call the kids table.

01:37:23.000 And Cory Booker, you know, he's been around for a while.

01:37:25.000 People in Washington certainly know who he is, but perhaps this was his chance really to introduce himself to the American electorate writ large.

01:37:33.000 And maybe he wouldn't get another better chance.

01:37:36.000 And as it happened, he didn't.

01:37:38.000 But I remember him saying in that debate, we must spend more time talking about trans Americans and in specific African-American trans Americans.

01:37:47.000 It's a tepid applause.

01:37:50.000 We're talking about a minority here that is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction, okay?

01:37:57.000 And yet look at the extraordinary attention that's paid to this.

01:38:00.000 Look at the resources that are consumed with it.

01:38:02.000 Look how much time we're spending discussing it, okay?

01:38:05.000 And that is because... But we're not talking about that small of a minority.

01:38:08.000 We're talking about, I think, 47,000 young people in the past four years have been put on sterilizing chemicals.

01:38:15.000 I think that's fairly substantive that establishment medical practices are engaging in this behavior to this degree, and we're in the thousands of young girls who have had their breasts removed, and we're talking about 15-year-old girls.

01:38:26.000 Right, but what I'm talking about is the success of a very, very small minority.

01:38:31.000 in bringing its grievance to the big show.

01:38:36.000 But this isn't my point.

01:38:38.000 It's not a small minority.

01:38:40.000 It is powerful establishment political forces bringing this issue to the fore.

01:38:44.000 Being co-opted or aligning themselves with this tiny, tiny minority of people.

01:38:48.000 But it's a child who doesn't No, no. 0.72

01:38:53.000 what any of this is, being brought to a doctor to have her breasts removed, is not a member 0.98

01:38:57.000 of a community seeking civil rights justice.

01:38:59.000 It is an adult who is not...

01:39:02.000 Jazz Jennings' mother is not a trans person.

01:39:04.000 Jazz Jennings' mother introduced her three-year-old child to this.

01:39:07.000 So it's not the minority.

01:39:08.000 But we do have to go to Super Chips.

01:39:09.000 We're definitely...

01:39:10.000 Wait, wait, you were about to say because...

01:39:11.000 Eight minutes.

01:39:12.000 No, no.

01:39:13.000 Oh, you answered it.

01:39:14.000 Okay.

01:39:16.000 Head over to TimCast.com, become a member, so we, uh, you can watch the uncensored members-only show coming up at about 10, 10 p.m., but let's read your superchats.

01:39:24.000 Um, NotYourBuddyGuy says, this is Canada.

01:39:27.000 A conservative MP had his family threatened in China, and the liberals silenced him, saying it would be debunked despite CSIS confirmation.

01:39:36.000 I mean, the CCP had threatened his family in China.

01:39:40.000 Interesting.

01:39:41.000 Grofty says, Tom McDonald should be protected at all costs for this country.

01:39:45.000 Change my rooster mind.

01:39:46.000 Buck, buck, buck.

01:39:47.000 Tom McDonald is fantastic.

01:39:48.000 He has a new song, Dirty Money.

01:39:49.000 You guys should definitely check it out.

01:39:50.000 Support his work.

01:39:53.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:39:54.000 says, Tim, at first I was angry about the weak-willed wants to understand white rage run in our military into degradation, then recalled living on a ship for a year with sailors, and well, sounds about right.

01:40:07.000 Unfortunate.

01:40:09.000 Robert Knight says the Fed rate hike today will destabilize the banking industry more.

01:40:13.000 Powell didn't rule out another rate hike in June.

01:40:16.000 This is unfurling and dangerously.

01:40:18.000 Also expect energy prices to spike in summer.

01:40:21.000 Definitely with air conditioning.

01:40:25.000 Joel Stein says, re yesterday's convo about sponsoring a sports team.

01:40:30.000 You should put a picture of your big Roberto Jr.

01:40:32.000 on the hood of a NASCAR Cup Series car.

01:40:35.000 The first car comes to mind.

01:40:37.000 You are a wrecking ball.

01:40:38.000 I don't know if I can afford that. 0.80

01:40:40.000 Have you heard about Roberto Jr.?

01:40:41.000 No.

01:40:41.000 We have a chicken colony.

01:40:43.000 I'm probably not the one who can describe it best.

01:40:44.000 There's babies!

01:40:45.000 We have babies.

01:40:45.000 Six new ones.

01:40:45.000 Yeah, they're new babies.

01:40:47.000 And this is part of Tim's personal interest and also sort of the cultural, I don't know, movement to grow your own food.

01:40:53.000 So Roberto Jr.

01:40:55.000 is the lead chicken?

01:40:56.000 Or the one and only?

01:40:58.000 Roberto was, and then he had a son, Roberto Junior.

01:40:59.000 He was the prince, and now he is the king.

01:41:01.000 But Roberto had to retire because he was banging his daughters, and you can only allow that for so long. 0.92

01:41:05.000 It was dirty.

01:41:06.000 Chickens, it's called line breeding actually, so you can do like a generation, but you don't want to keep doing it.

01:41:11.000 And so then we introduced Roberto Junior, but now we're getting to the point where Roberto Junior may have to get his own private mansion with some girls because You know, now he's... He's become part of the very problem he was intended to solve.

01:41:25.000 I think Roberto Jr.

01:41:26.000 has one child.

01:41:28.000 But, uh, big news.

01:41:29.000 The Silkies had four babies and the Cochin had two babies. 0.72

01:41:34.000 So, uh, wow.

01:41:38.000 For you, Tim, as emperor, who will you designate as the next viceroy when Jr.

01:41:44.000 steps down or is removed from power?

01:41:46.000 Man, that's tough.

01:41:48.000 Maybe we'll give Lil Luke his ring.

01:41:49.000 I like it.

01:41:50.000 Ian, to see you shamelessly lobbying for the job this way is... It's very unappealing.

01:41:54.000 I mean, I'm already in, but I don't want to talk about it online.

01:41:57.000 Michael Knowles will be the sheriff of Chicken City.

01:41:59.000 That makes sense.

01:42:00.000 You remind me of Michael Knowles.

01:42:01.000 Has anyone ever told you that before?

01:42:03.000 No, but I know who he is.

01:42:05.000 He's a good-looking guy, so I'll take it.

01:42:06.000 Absolutely!

01:42:07.000 All right.

01:42:08.000 Let's grab some more super chats.

01:42:10.000 Vocal cadence.

01:42:11.000 I don't know if that's true.

01:42:12.000 Gabby Hayes says, Ian, I want you to know you have a true supporter in me.

01:42:15.000 Everyone else may not always know where you come from, but I know it's from a place of love and passion.

01:42:19.000 Glad you're back.

01:42:19.000 Long live Tim Kast.

01:42:20.000 Gosh, thanks, Gabby.

01:42:23.000 Daystar says, who do you think supplied those drones?

01:42:26.000 Well, if it was Russia, then Russia. 0.73

01:42:28.000 If it was Ukraine, then Iran. 0.89

01:42:29.000 Iran.

01:42:30.000 Iran's been supplying drones to the Russians.

01:42:32.000 To the Russians?

01:42:33.000 Yeah.

01:42:34.000 Oh, yeah.

01:42:34.000 But they're like small ones, aren't they?

01:42:37.000 I can't say I know the exact models, but that's where they've been getting their drones from.

01:42:45.000 Casey Willis says, first super chat ever, and I've been listening since day one, had my first cup of your Appalachian Nights blend this morning, and I do have to say, as a usual drinker of Folgers, your coffee is chef's kiss.

01:42:57.000 Oh yeah, so the two signature blends we have now, we have a light and a dark, and we have like a very light and a very dark.

01:43:03.000 Next we're making is, so this will be about six weeks, is a medium and two, a light and a dark decaf.

01:43:09.000 So the medium roast is Stand Your Grounds, and then we have Unwoke and Sleepy Joe.

01:43:15.000 The decaf ones.

01:43:16.000 Those are great.

01:43:17.000 Will you bring Rives with Roberto Jr.

01:43:19.000 tomorrow?

01:43:19.000 Yeah, we'll bring it up.

01:43:21.000 We need to order a bunch more, but Appalachian Nights is a very, very dark roast.

01:43:25.000 It's not as dark as an espresso blend, but it is dark.

01:43:28.000 That's less caffeine.

01:43:30.000 Maybe bring that one.

01:43:31.000 Do you have that one too?

01:43:31.000 We don't have that one.

01:43:33.000 We did before, but we drank it all.

01:43:35.000 Ben, the new orders came in, and I ordered just the single sample for display.

01:43:39.000 And Rise with Roberto Jr., if you like a nutty blend, I mean... Very bright!

01:43:42.000 Yeah, it's really good.

01:43:43.000 I love it.

01:43:44.000 Fresh smell.

01:43:44.000 Does Newsmax have its own coffee?

01:43:46.000 They don't have their own coffee, but they're generous with coffees.

01:43:49.000 Like, they have a machine where, you know, you just push this button, the thing comes.

01:43:53.000 And then like, they have like 15 different blends that you can choose from, which all look like the same communist blend.

01:43:59.000 But, and you stick that, it's like a pouch, right?

01:44:02.000 It's a pouch and you stick it in there.

01:44:03.000 It's got the tip at the top of the pouch.

01:44:07.000 Close the thing and coffee comes out and I drink it.

01:44:09.000 Yeah, there you go.

01:44:10.000 It's free.

01:44:10.000 Are you going to do K-Cups for Tim Caffey?

01:44:12.000 Yes, those are currently in production, K-Cups.

01:44:14.000 So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to order like a thousand for us here and they're going to be just like unlabeled just so that we can have them so we can drink them because I want to have my coffee in the morning.

01:44:24.000 But K-Cups are in production.

01:44:26.000 Cool.

01:44:26.000 And we're, I was adamant that we make biodegradable.

01:44:30.000 Yes, thank you, sir.

01:44:31.000 However, that is gonna have to probably be the next batch after the first one because they're not quite at production capability yet.

01:44:37.000 Cool.

01:44:37.000 But I'm really excited for that.

01:44:38.000 I wouldn't want to do K-Cups if the future of it was just making more plastic garbage.

01:44:42.000 Yeah.

01:44:43.000 But, and also I don't like eating the plastic, so you know.

01:44:45.000 But the biodegradable ones are made of like corn protein or something, so they break down.

01:44:50.000 All right, Glenn1833 says, a Focus Microwave or EMP Burst Defense Gun.

01:44:55.000 Yeah, that's kind of what I thought.

01:44:56.000 Yeah, um, microwaves will scramble the signal, but people, uh, and if you can heat it up, you can knock it out of the sky, short it out.

01:45:03.000 So you need a lot of power.

01:45:04.000 Uh, scrambling the signal out, I mean to say, isn't enough because these things are pre-programmed.

01:45:09.000 You don't, it doesn't need remote control.

01:45:10.000 It knows where it's going.

01:45:13.000 Coley Lock Productions says, Israel's Iron Dome can take out hundreds of rockets at one time.

01:45:18.000 If it can take out multiple near-supersonic rockets at one time, with an almost 97% accuracy rate, it can handle hundreds of drones.

01:45:25.000 I disagree.

01:45:26.000 We're talking about small drones the size of your fist, carrying an explosive payload, and we're talking about thousands, and even hundreds.

01:45:35.000 They're going to be flying low and over buildings.

01:45:37.000 They're not going to be able to be shot out of the sky.

01:45:39.000 They might be flying straight down, too.

01:45:41.000 But they're not going to come from way up high.

01:45:43.000 They're going to be on the ground.

01:45:44.000 They're going to jump over walls and go to their targets.

01:45:47.000 What do you think?

01:45:49.000 I'd be... You don't want to give your expertise?

01:45:53.000 Yeah, I think I'd have more expertise on A, the incestuous chickens and... You're a chicken man.

01:45:59.000 And some of the other exotic subjects we've covered.

01:46:02.000 Fair enough.

01:46:02.000 Chickens are good people.

01:46:04.000 They just do chicken stuff.

01:46:05.000 Purple says, God bless everyone here.

01:46:07.000 We're all here because we want to be better.

01:46:09.000 Stay confident and believe in yourself.

01:46:11.000 Hard times won't last forever.

01:46:13.000 Evil is real, but we don't have to let it into our body and mind.

01:46:16.000 Always remember, Jesus loves you.

01:46:17.000 Look, I think the night is always darkest before the dawn.

01:46:20.000 The bad things that are happening are not the apocalypse.

01:46:22.000 Humans have faced great struggles, and the struggles make us stronger.

01:46:25.000 So if weak men make hard times, we are in those hard times, but never forget, those hard times will make strong men.

01:46:31.000 So after we pull through this, everything's gonna get a whole lot better.

01:46:35.000 That's the fourth turning.

01:46:38.000 We're in the fourth turning now.

01:46:39.000 The next season will be spring, and then we're going to see 60 years of prosperity and then 20 years of calamity.

01:46:46.000 This is what I was asking you earlier.

01:46:47.000 I was saying, do you regard that the American enterprise is foreordained to success, that will always elude the Chinese enterprise? 0.99

01:46:57.000 Now you sound more optimistic.

01:46:58.000 But China is going to go through a similar thing, right?

01:47:01.000 Their moral bankruptcy will lead to, as the saying goes, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make hard times, hard times make strong men.

01:47:11.000 Everyone's going to go through that.

01:47:13.000 So I think the planet will just be changing.

01:47:15.000 I think the U.S.

01:47:16.000 is set for a hard fall.

01:47:18.000 We'll probably lose superpower status.

01:47:20.000 I can't see how we maintain it with the petrodollar already in How will we know when we have lost superpower status?

01:47:25.000 What will be the unmistakable clue?

01:47:29.000 You'll want to buy a laptop and it'll cost you $7,000.

01:47:32.000 Or I think when American military bases start getting taken over in their native countries.

01:47:37.000 That's especially, you know, bad.

01:47:40.000 But I think the first thing we'll start seeing is imports will become exorbitantly expensive.

01:47:44.000 Because the petrodollar will just be weak, and the U.S.

01:47:47.000 won't be exporting anything, and then it's gonna become harder to come buy certain goods, we'll start seeing serious inflation, China will move on Taiwan and we'll shrug.

01:47:56.000 Things like that will start happening.

01:47:57.000 But, uh, grains of sand making a heap.

01:48:01.000 You won't recognize the history until the history's passed.

01:48:04.000 We could be in World War III right now, and we won't know until 50 years afterwards when the historians say, well, we believe it started on this day.

01:48:11.000 Well, it's like a recession, yes.

01:48:12.000 Right.

01:48:13.000 Yeah, you gotta be in it before you know you're in it.

01:48:16.000 Let's grab some more Super Chats!

01:48:19.000 Dim Sum Nim Sum says the drone attack seems as incompetent as the Ukrainian attack with the fighter missile in 2014.

01:48:24.000 Maybe both were CIA.

01:48:25.000 Yeah, it just went right down at the gentle angle, right into above the flag, and then just blew up right there.

01:48:31.000 It's a nice photo op.

01:48:32.000 I think it was taken out, though.

01:48:33.000 Yeah, that's what the Kremlin said.

01:48:34.000 They took it out.

01:48:35.000 They took it out right where they wanted to take it out, so they made it look like it was attacking, but it was just being brought down.

01:48:40.000 They didn't give us that many details, I have to say.

01:48:41.000 It's just such a cheap attempt.

01:48:43.000 It looks so cheap.

01:48:44.000 Staged.

01:48:45.000 Yeah.

01:48:46.000 OMG Puppy says, Russia has a system called the Dead Hand that will automatically launch a second strike even if we vaporize Moscow.

01:48:53.000 And I believe that exists.

01:48:56.000 What I'm saying is that nuclear war isn't the apex.

01:48:59.000 When people talk about nuclear war and mutually assured destruction, what people need to understand about that is, it's referring to the very end of the nuclear war, not the beginning and middle of it.

01:49:10.000 Most people, when I talk to them about mutually assured destruction, they, so this is how it comes up.

01:49:14.000 I say, you know, I think Putin will use nukes.

01:49:16.000 No, he won't because of mutually assured destruction.

01:49:18.000 I'm like, dude, the start of the war is not Putin being like, blow up New York!

01:49:22.000 And then we fire back.

01:49:23.000 It's him being like, tactical nuclear artillery, wipe out Kiev.

01:49:27.000 And then us being like, I don't want to sacrifice my capital for Ukraine. 0.72

01:49:31.000 So what do we do?

01:49:32.000 Let's send in troops.

01:49:33.000 Let's declare war, but it's not going to immediately be ICBMs flying all over the place.

01:49:37.000 And to your point that, uh, When the Soviets installed nuclear missiles on Cuba, precipitating the Cuban Missile Crisis, people forget this.

01:49:49.000 They also sent 40,000 Russian personnel, Soviet personnel to Cuba to To build.

01:49:57.000 They had to build roads.

01:49:58.000 It was crazy.

01:49:59.000 But the point being that, as you say, it's not just there's a missile flying through the air and suddenly we're in nuclear war.

01:50:06.000 The machinations that are necessary just to launch one nuclear missile are fairly elaborate and detectable.

01:50:12.000 So that we would have more warning than just the radar system telling it- Doesn't suddenly happen.

01:50:17.000 That the projectile is in the air. 0.53

01:50:19.000 Kalashnikov says, Tim, you should make Matt Walsh watch Attack on Titan or Psycho-Pass, then see if he holds the same ignorant opinions that all anime is demonic.

01:50:28.000 Does he really believe that? 0.51

01:50:31.000 I don't know.

01:50:31.000 My guess is that he likes to troll mixed in with his speeches and stuff.

01:50:35.000 He's being somewhat facetious.

01:50:37.000 When he says it's all demonic, he's just trying to get a rise, but he thinks a lot of it is.

01:50:42.000 I do think there's a lot of really bad anime, but that's also like saying we got bad cartoons in the United States, too.

01:50:47.000 Also, if he does and you don't agree, like, that's fine, isn't it?

01:50:50.000 Well, he's wrong.

01:50:51.000 Okay, sure.

01:50:52.000 And he's not allowed to have bad opinions.

01:50:54.000 That's true.

01:50:54.000 Like, most of his opinions are actually pretty good.

01:50:56.000 He should know better.

01:50:57.000 Exactly.

01:50:57.000 I went through phases where I thought- Matt Walsh is based, therefore I am disappointed to hear that he doesn't like anime.

01:51:01.000 I went through phases- And he can't disagree with anyone.

01:51:03.000 He has to have the correct opinion.

01:51:05.000 It's true.

01:51:05.000 Always.

01:51:06.000 I thought that entertainment and alcohol were like the devil or demon, but then I realized I was extremely egotistical in that time and that like a balance of these things is part of the nature.

01:51:15.000 Yeah, for sure.

01:51:16.000 I'm gonna read some more.

01:51:19.000 Kiabo Bandit says, sitting in the ER with an eyepatch on and I still wouldn't miss the show even if I'm 20 minutes behind to keep up the good work.

01:51:25.000 Wow, hope you're okay.

01:51:26.000 Heal up.

01:51:27.000 What if he's just hanging out there though?

01:51:28.000 He's fine, he just went to the ER and hung out with an eyepatch.

01:51:30.000 And wearing an eyepatch because it looks cool.

01:51:31.000 He's just living his life.

01:51:33.000 Or maybe just after he hit send on that message, he was subjected to gross medical malpractice and he's not even with us anymore.

01:51:39.000 I hate to bring up those kinds of people.

01:51:41.000 And we're the dark ones?

01:51:42.000 Come on, sir.

01:51:43.000 It's the Grimcast.

01:51:44.000 David Toronto says, sorry, I'm against all drag now.

01:51:47.000 Look what people accepting has led to.

01:51:49.000 It's give an inch, take a mile.

01:51:51.000 I'm done giving.

01:51:52.000 Nope.

01:51:52.000 Well, that's where we're at.

01:51:54.000 Hyperpolarization.

01:51:54.000 I'm gonna wear a dress on the show just to do it to you.

01:51:58.000 I suppose the challenge is, you know, when Jordan Peterson talks about social enforcement, there was shared morality on what the parameters were, what we should and should not do.

01:52:10.000 And we got to the point where liberals won, live and let live, anyone can do whatever they want.

01:52:14.000 But if anyone can do whatever they want, you now have to explain to a child why it is that someone is doing something in public, which leads to the expansion of whatever these things are, and that's where we're at.

01:52:25.000 Joe Spinella said the Navy just asked Bud Light to hold their beer.

01:52:29.000 Quite literally, they were like, hey, you want some Bud Light?

01:52:31.000 They're gonna be the new Bud Light partners in Navy.

01:52:34.000 It's not gonna get better.

01:52:37.000 Rebecca Carne, is that what it says?

01:52:39.000 Carne?

01:52:40.000 I did five years as a corpsman in the Navy.

01:52:42.000 This drag, trans, and other stuff makes me glad I'm not in anymore. 1.00

01:52:45.000 Also, active duty members can protest, but not in uniform or state their active duty.

01:52:51.000 Interesting.

01:52:53.000 I just don't understand why Bud Light didn't make Dylan Mulvaney the face of their seltzer, which they are constantly trying to say.

01:52:58.000 No one would have cared.

01:52:59.000 No one would have cared!

01:53:00.000 This whole thing would have been avoided and then suddenly Bud Light Seltzer would have had sort of this brand era that they're apparently trying to use to connect with the youth.

01:53:08.000 Did the marketing VP get her job back? 1.00

01:53:10.000 I haven't been following up.

01:53:11.000 She's still on leave, but I don't know if that means she's coming back, which I bet she is one day.

01:53:16.000 Kyle Miller says, Tim, as someone who works in disaster recovery, there is no recovery plan for if a civil event was to happen, we would be stagnant for decades.

01:53:25.000 Civil event? 0.65

01:53:26.000 Like war in the United States or something?

01:53:28.000 Or like a breakdown.

01:53:29.000 Well, we have Presidential Directive 51, which the president can just create a new government and erase the old one by signing a paper.

01:53:36.000 Yeah, good luck with that, President.

01:53:38.000 And it will happen.

01:53:39.000 Maybe on the federal level, but states are, like, being controlled.

01:53:42.000 Yeah, no, the blue states would say okay outright.

01:53:43.000 Maybe.

01:53:43.000 And then it'd be really interesting after that.

01:53:45.000 Probably only Florida and South Dakota would say no.

01:53:48.000 I could see it as, like, a defensive maneuver, but, you know.

01:53:51.000 I mean, people need to read more about the Civil War, because there were slave states that were like, we disagree with what's going on, but we really don't want to go to war.

01:53:58.000 Dude, I was just at Harper's Ferry yesterday, or two days ago.

01:54:01.000 My god.

01:54:02.000 It was 180 years ago, and they were just burning the city to the ground.

01:54:06.000 That's very recent.

01:54:08.000 The story of Harper's Ferry.

01:54:10.000 The biggest mistake John Brown made was he let the train leave.

01:54:12.000 John Brown said slavery is an act of war.

01:54:15.000 Slavery is an act of war.

01:54:17.000 That's a quote from John Brown.

01:54:19.000 Yeah, John Brown was notorious for just him and his kids going and killing people. 1.00

01:54:23.000 Crazy guy. 0.99

01:54:24.000 And they claim he's a hero. 0.99

01:54:26.000 I mean...

01:54:27.000 At least the sign did in Harper's Ferry.

01:54:30.000 And because of him, we have done the righteous thing, and now we have no slavery in the country.

01:54:34.000 I mean, he failed.

01:54:36.000 Like, everything he did was a failure.

01:54:38.000 But he tried really hard.

01:54:39.000 So we should give him some partial credit.

01:54:41.000 But he took the armory and then failed, and the slaves that were here were like, we don't want to be involved in what you're doing, man.

01:54:46.000 And he was like, uh-oh.

01:54:48.000 And then they came and they hung him. 0.64

01:54:50.000 Hanged him, sorry. 0.98

01:54:50.000 Hanged him. 0.98

01:54:54.000 Uh-oh. 0.97

01:54:55.000 LegomethaGayan says, Ian, how can you be so full of such illiterate fury and passion about things you barely comprehend? 0.80

01:55:01.000 On even a semantic level, I beg you with tears in my eyes to never describe yourself as becoming Jewish ever again.

01:55:07.000 But it's true.

01:55:08.000 Shalom, Aki.

01:55:09.000 Oh, shalom to you, man.

01:55:10.000 No, I'm not actually— Are you converting?

01:55:11.000 No, no, no, I'm just getting in touch with God without the middleman.

01:55:15.000 Okay.

01:55:18.000 Well, alright.

01:55:20.000 Where we at?

01:55:21.000 Dorian Marius Grace says, if Luke was there, he would remind him that no politician is coming to save you.

01:55:26.000 Why you are putting so much faith in Trump as the savior of the world?

01:55:28.000 I'm not.

01:55:29.000 I'm saying the only thing that has a potential to actually purge the corruption in this government is probably Trump, but I didn't say I was gonna save anybody.

01:55:36.000 I said it is going to get worse.

01:55:38.000 We are going to fall off as a global superpower, whether Trump does anything or not.

01:55:43.000 Trump will just kind of bring back some seed of stabilization after he's gone.

01:55:50.000 We'll see, though, man.

01:55:51.000 I don't know.

01:55:51.000 I'm not psychic.

01:55:52.000 I'm not like that Nostradamus guy who just happened to know everything, right?

01:55:55.000 No, you have internet video, so you're able to convince people.

01:55:57.000 You don't just have to make predictions in your basement.

01:56:00.000 Matt Walsh always has the right opinion, and you have to know everything ahead of time.

01:56:03.000 I thought this was the agreement you guys made with the internet.

01:56:06.000 In 2007, I was obsessed with ending the liberal economic order.

01:56:09.000 Not ending it, but I was like, oh, this whole American military base all over Earth is horrible.

01:56:12.000 Let's stop it.

01:56:13.000 And everyone agreed, like, that knew about it.

01:56:15.000 But now we're actually watching it happen, and it's like, uh, what's the alternative?

01:56:20.000 We got an important one here.

01:56:22.000 Michelle Therese says, Tim and crew, great show and great guest.

01:56:25.000 James, check out the Genovese documentary made by Kitty's brother, where he debunks the story that no one came to Kitty's aid, people did call the police, and stayed with her while waiting for the ambulance.

01:56:35.000 That's not how it was taught, but I will check it out.

01:56:37.000 I wonder what platform I can see that documentary on.

01:56:39.000 I don't trust the media, so I mean, I hear that and I'm like, alright, you know, I'll consider it.

01:56:43.000 Present company excluded, of course.

01:56:45.000 To quote Anthony Blinken today, take it with a large shaker of salt.

01:56:48.000 A large shaker of salt.

01:56:49.000 That was what he said in response to the Ukraine theoretical assassination attempt.

01:56:53.000 Just to make a point too, 9-11 wasn't a thing in New York up until four years after that.

01:56:59.000 They actually used that case to make a point for having 911 systems in the city, so just to know.

01:57:05.000 Scary Terry says the Discord should vote on the Roberto Jr.

01:57:08.000 successor.

01:57:09.000 Roberto Jr.

01:57:10.000 is, we're gonna build him like something special.

01:57:12.000 Like a bionic chicken?

01:57:14.000 Yeah.

01:57:14.000 Well, I actually wanted a 3D print chicken armor.

01:57:17.000 And one thing I wanted to consider was, can we put together some kind of carbon fiber wing extensions to allow the chickens to fly better?

01:57:26.000 I think it can be done.

01:57:27.000 I think an aerogel, graphene aerogel, something threaded.

01:57:30.000 Is it strong enough?

01:57:32.000 It's super lightweight.

01:57:33.000 I don't know.

01:57:34.000 If you do an aerogel with carbon fiber strands going through it to give it structural support, stability, then it probably would work.

01:57:43.000 But aerogel would be brittle, isn't it?

01:57:46.000 Yeah, but when it's mixed with other things, it can become very strong.

01:57:48.000 Like there's a stuff called airloy.

01:57:50.000 It's an aerogel compound that you can hit with a hammer and machine it and stuff.

01:57:55.000 I want to do like a helmet and body armor for the chickens.

01:57:58.000 And one thing I really want to make for Bocas is, imagine we gave him a wingsuit, like a backpack.

01:58:04.000 Bocas is our cat.

01:58:05.000 So when he jumps, the wings deploy, and he glides, and when he lands, they retract.

01:58:09.000 So long as his feet are out, the wings come out.

01:58:12.000 You can buy all of this stuff at Acme.com, right?

01:58:15.000 It's just that they have bad testimonials from one coyote who had apparently bad experiences with their car.

01:58:20.000 I just think the world would be greatly improved if we made wingsuits for cats.

01:58:24.000 It could be interesting.

01:58:24.000 Birds would probably not like it.

01:58:26.000 I want to know, read the successor question.

01:58:29.000 Do the candidates have to make promotional videos that are then shared on Discord?

01:58:34.000 You know, that way you really get to know them.

01:58:36.000 They can say what their policies are, what they would be in favor of.

01:58:39.000 It might be one of the silkies, because then we'll have soft, fluffy chickens. 0.97

01:58:43.000 I like that.

01:58:44.000 But maybe a little Luke, because he's got a cool haircut.

01:58:47.000 In my mind, because the Silkies live in a coop inside the coop, or at least they did for so long, they are more scared. 1.00

01:58:53.000 So it's hard for me to imagine one of them taking over this job of leading the chicken army. 0.67

01:58:58.000 Oh yeah, and it makes them more vulnerable to attack, right?

01:59:01.000 So again, hard to imagine them being installed as a rightful leader.

01:59:04.000 The rooster's fine.

01:59:06.000 You can't have two roosters, one with a domed head and one with not.

01:59:08.000 So little Luke has a domed head, so if he gets pecked in the head, he'll get a concussion and die.

01:59:12.000 But if he's the only rooster, he's got nothing to worry about.

01:59:15.000 So, but Little Luke's feet are also, like, messed up, so we're not even sure he'll be able to properly, you know, handle the ladies.

01:59:24.000 He's like the crippled son of some sort of monarch who's, like, got this chance at the throne. 0.74

01:59:30.000 Oh, like Joffrey?

01:59:31.000 Sure, yeah, like, he's got a chance— I've never seen Game of Thrones.

01:59:34.000 Oh, you should watch it.

01:59:35.000 It's amazing.

01:59:35.000 The first season's incredible.

01:59:37.000 We wanted to do Sarah's son, Isaac, but he's too big because he's a Brahma, and so he's going to hurt the ladies. 1.00

01:59:47.000 He's massive.

01:59:49.000 Do you guys think that people consider installing politicians in such detail as we do with the chickens?

01:59:53.000 His domed head makes him vulnerable.

01:59:55.000 He's just too big!

01:59:58.000 I don't know about Biden and his dome tent.

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02:01:47.000 Raucous, quite an event.

02:01:48.000 And tell me again, you've told me before, before the record, your favorite Beatles album.

02:01:52.000 This is so dirty on your part.

02:01:54.000 You know that I reject the... Any true Beatles freak rejects the whole, who's your favorite Beatle, favorite Beatles song, favorite Beatle album.

02:02:03.000 John.

02:02:04.000 You're right.

02:02:06.000 Just come out.

02:02:06.000 I do have a favorite solo Beatle.

02:02:08.000 That's permissible.

02:02:10.000 But not a favorite Beatle.

02:02:11.000 Who's your favorite solo Beatle?

02:02:13.000 Surge.

02:02:14.000 It was a utilitarian response.

02:02:15.000 The White Album.

02:02:16.000 It's the longest album.

02:02:17.000 I'm not going to stick you to it.

02:02:18.000 If forced to choose, one chooses the White Album.

02:02:20.000 It's the only double album.

02:02:22.000 Good meat.

02:02:23.000 Surge is also here pressing buttons.

02:02:24.000 Mine's Revolver.

02:02:25.000 Yeah, I was just watching.

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