Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - US Announces Troop Deployment To Middle East, Israel INVADES GAZA w-Grace Chong

00:00:00.000 Bye now.

00:00:16.000 has announced we will be deploying more troops to the Middle East.

00:00:20.000 We've already got a large amount.

00:00:23.000 19,000 personnel already in the Mediterranean.

00:00:26.000 We've got another 2,000 Marines that are poised to go.

00:00:30.000 And the Pentagon is saying 900 more troops have already deployed or are deploying.

00:00:35.000 So I hope y'all are ready for what's to come.

00:00:37.000 Israel previously agreed to delay their invasion of Gaza to allow the U.S.

00:00:41.000 to prepare missile batteries, Patriot missile and THAAD missile systems.

00:00:45.000 And now we've got reporting, Israel has invaded Gaza.

00:00:49.000 So I hope you're ready for what comes next.

00:00:50.000 Now, interestingly, the official reporting is saying, no, no, they have not yet invaded Gaza.

00:00:56.000 They've just sent a bunch of tanks in to start targeting Hamas targets and killing Hamas leaders with tanks in Gaza.

00:01:03.000 So the tanks are going in, but it's not an invasion.

00:01:06.000 And I'm just like, yo, if having a bunch of tanks go into this territory and kill people is not an invasion, then what's happening on the southern border is not an invasion, okay?

00:01:14.000 Yeah, this is what's happening.

00:01:16.000 But they're trying to be careful about what they call it for PR reasons.

00:01:19.000 People are probably gonna get really mad about that.

00:01:21.000 We'll talk about that, plus we got a bunch more news as of right now.

00:01:24.000 Police have surrounded the suspect in the main shooting.

00:01:27.000 They've surrounded the home.

00:01:28.000 They've announced to come out.

00:01:29.000 This is all developing, so we'll give us a little time to see what's going on with the story.

00:01:34.000 And then a new video of Jamal Bowman.

00:01:36.000 Oh boy.

00:01:37.000 The video shows him intentionally removing the warning signs from the door, pulling the firearm, and running away.

00:01:43.000 Yeah, this is much more than just I accidentally pulled a fire alarm.

00:01:47.000 Now, he's already pleaded guilty, but it looks like the actions he's taken appear to be more felony territory than anything.

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00:07:03.000 I was reporting in East Palestine and I chased a guy who was in a screaming match at the local Authorities there.

00:07:09.000 And I, when I followed him, I wound up at a bar and in that bar, I looked over his shoulder and Steve Bannon was there.

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00:07:46.000 All right, here's the story from CNN.

00:07:48.000 Pentagon says 900 US troops have deployed or are deploying to Middle East amid heightened tension.

00:07:54.000 So just a few days out from Halloween.

00:07:57.000 And we have not even prepared our Halloween party, but don't worry, we don't need much.

00:08:02.000 All we'll have to do is put on CNN and a bunch of other news outlets and just have them run continuous news coverage of how the U.S.

00:08:09.000 is about to enter a massive regional conflict which could bleed out into World War III.

00:08:14.000 The one thing I can say is that whereas this is getting crazy, what's going on in the Middle East, it seems like Ukraine's dying down.

00:08:22.000 Yeah, what's that?

00:08:22.000 You know, so maybe... So Linsky will tell you all about it, do not worry.

00:08:26.000 Maybe it won't be World War III because everyone kind of forgot Ukraine's happening. 0.75

00:08:29.000 Yeah.

00:08:30.000 And that's, you know, gone.

00:08:31.000 But at the same time, as we're seeing these deployments, we have this from, this is, no, The Guardian is also talking about US deployment.

00:08:39.000 But, uh, we have this from Fox News.

00:08:41.000 Israeli forces conduct tank raid in Gaza ahead of expected invasion. 1.00

00:08:47.000 I am not going to play these stupid doublespeak games with you. 0.99

00:08:52.000 You do not have video, even, of tanks storming through the border and killing people and blowing things up and say, we didn't invade yet. 1.00

00:09:02.000 That's quite, quite literally you invaded.

00:09:05.000 Now they're trying to make this distinction likely because they want to downplay their actions.

00:09:10.000 And we know when the word gets out, it's not like any foreign country cares about what we call it.

00:09:16.000 This is for the American people.

00:09:18.000 They don't want the American people to hear Israel has invaded Gaza, U.S.

00:09:23.000 deploys troops to the region.

00:09:25.000 So they say, no, no, no, there's no invasion yet, just a tank raid.

00:09:28.000 The tanks are just going for a walk, you know, they need to stretch their legs, test out their wheels.

00:09:33.000 So, you know, it's not an invasion.

00:09:35.000 Stop asking us questions.

00:09:36.000 It's an incursion.

00:09:37.000 They know once the American people hear words like World War Three, there's no coming back.

00:09:41.000 And I think the media is afraid to define it as such, although I also think they want it.

00:09:45.000 I think a lot of people in media do want this war.

00:09:47.000 They need They need their castus belli BEFORE the escalation.

00:09:53.000 If World War III keeps getting repeated over and over again, and we hear about troop deployments, and there's no justification for it, people are gonna reject it, it's gonna poison the well.

00:10:03.000 So that's why they gotta downplay the language and make it seem like nothing's happening, it's just, you know, things are getting tense.

00:10:08.000 Then, when U.S.

00:10:09.000 forces are attacked or there's some kind of terror attack or something happens, they can then say, now we've invaded.

00:10:14.000 Do you think to a certain extent they also want to normalize it?

00:10:17.000 They want people in the U.S. 0.99

00:10:19.000 to think, oh, well, our troops are already there.

00:10:20.000 Of course they're there.

00:10:21.000 They had to be there.

00:10:22.000 Look at Syria! 1.00

00:10:23.000 Does anybody remember the point at which we entered Syria and started building military bases?

00:10:28.000 No.

00:10:28.000 But then they could run the headline, American military base bombed or whatever.

00:10:32.000 It was all of a sudden, Donald Trump's like, oh yeah, we've had troops in Syria, we're getting them out.

00:10:35.000 We're like, wait, what?

00:10:36.000 Really?

00:10:38.000 We were there?

00:10:38.000 Yeah, we're getting our troops out.

00:10:39.000 And they lied about that too.

00:10:41.000 They don't want the American people to know, this is the craziest thing, that there are secret wars going on.

00:10:47.000 And this is 10 years ago, what was going on in Yemen was described as a secret war.

00:10:50.000 The American people did not know it was happening.

00:10:52.000 And it's still happening.

00:10:53.000 And now, Syria and all these countries, I think, I wonder if they realized, hey, we don't need to generate public support if we just don't tell them it's happening.

00:11:02.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:11:03.000 You know?

00:11:03.000 Just don't write it.

00:11:04.000 No, no, no.

00:11:04.000 Once you just tell them we're already doing it, people expect that it's normal, right?

00:11:08.000 If they're used to seeing the headlines, they don't care.

00:11:10.000 And that's what I think is the most frustrating thing about the 24-hour news cycle.

00:11:13.000 It's not that we don't need to have it, of course, with the internet, you have to keep up.

00:11:16.000 On the other hand, Everything becomes information overload.

00:11:20.000 So you're used to seeing American troops in places that you didn't expect them because you've, by the time you wake up in the morning, 45 stories have been written about it.

00:11:27.000 There's no way to just say like, oh wait, this is- It's just getting normalized.

00:11:29.000 Right.

00:11:30.000 Yeah.

00:11:30.000 When I walked in the room just now and I asked you guys, what are we starting with?

00:11:34.000 I had been on another show for an hour and I, you know, the world can change in the hour.

00:11:39.000 And you were like, oh, we've been, Israel's invaded.

00:11:41.000 God's like, oh wow.

00:11:42.000 You know?

00:11:43.000 And that's how I feel when I fly now.

00:11:44.000 I get in the airplane, I'm afraid to come down.

00:11:46.000 You know, I'm like, what?

00:11:47.000 Will the world look like when I land?

00:11:49.000 Well, I mean, the internet on airplanes is pretty good these days.

00:11:51.000 I never get it.

00:11:52.000 I actually, I never get wifi on an airplane.

00:11:54.000 Well, you know, you get it.

00:11:55.000 Well, why not?

00:11:55.000 I get work.

00:11:56.000 I get work done.

00:11:57.000 I get to write.

00:11:58.000 Yeah, I do that all the time.

00:11:59.000 I have two loud kids, and I get my office face up in the air.

00:12:01.000 That's your chance.

00:12:02.000 But yeah.

00:12:02.000 I mean, when I'm flying, I'm online.

00:12:05.000 That's what I do.

00:12:05.000 I'm tracking the news.

00:12:06.000 Yeah, I'm a caveman.

00:12:07.000 I kind of, sometimes it's nice to be able to plug in, like when we were flying to Miami, I was transcribing an interview I had done, and that way I couldn't open four or five tabs, you know what I mean?

00:12:16.000 Transcribing.

00:12:17.000 I'm a hundred years old, Tim, what can I say?

00:12:19.000 No, it's just like the worst job ever.

00:12:21.000 I know.

00:12:21.000 The worst thing.

00:12:22.000 But like, occasionally there's things that you're thinking, if I just buckle down and do this, it will be great.

00:12:27.000 The mainstream media doesn't, I mean, and the same thing with social media, right?

00:12:30.000 They need you to constantly be checking your apps.

00:12:31.000 They need you to want the notifications.

00:12:33.000 They need you to be hooked up to the dopamine.

00:12:35.000 And in some ways, the way this news cycle is working, I'm sure everyone can point to something else.

00:12:38.000 It reminds me a lot of the beginning of COVID, right?

00:12:40.000 Every five seconds.

00:12:41.000 That's their business model.

00:12:42.000 Right.

00:12:43.000 You're checking constantly for updates on where you're allowed to go.

00:12:45.000 Do you remember that during COVID, there were states where you couldn't travel from another state?

00:12:50.000 Yeah.

00:12:50.000 That was such a bizarre time.

00:12:51.000 And so you were constantly looking for new information.

00:12:53.000 Weren't there checkpoints between New York and Connecticut?

00:12:55.000 They almost didn't let me in the room to see my daughter be born.

00:12:58.000 That's a lot of tests.

00:12:59.000 There was that woman who got arrested because she flew to Hawaii and then filmed herself

00:13:04.000 like walking around and they were like, you didn't quarantine and get tested and stuff.

00:13:07.000 They almost didn't let me in the room to see my daughter be born.

00:13:10.000 I had to handcuff myself almost to my wife.

00:13:12.000 This is one of my opening stories to Shane.

00:13:14.000 He was like, yeah, I brought handcuffs and I wasn't going to go anywhere.

00:13:17.000 I was going to handcuff myself to the bed.

00:13:18.000 There was no way there.

00:13:19.000 Yeah, I was ready.

00:13:20.000 Wow, dude.

00:13:21.000 And then she was the only one who had to get your wife was the only one to get COVID tested.

00:13:24.000 Yeah.

00:13:24.000 Oh, yeah.

00:13:25.000 And I had a governor who was a mass murderer.

00:13:27.000 We can get into that later.

00:13:28.000 But speaking about Speaking about like the news and missing it for an hour, like last time I was on IRL last week, it was when the hospital was supposedly bombed, right?

00:13:37.000 Oh yeah.

00:13:37.000 Within that first hour, there were multiple realities about that.

00:13:40.000 Or last night I'm watching the main thing unfold with the shooter and there's people sharing multiple videos that aren't true or pictures of people that aren't the suspect.

00:13:47.000 So it's almost like it doesn't matter what happens in an hour because in that first hour of news breaking, there's a distortion of all this noise and no one knows the truth.

00:13:53.000 And probably for the next few weeks too, until we know more.

00:13:56.000 Sometimes I like the first hour after a story has broken because just the bare minimum details are coming out and it gives you something to build off of because by the time the identity of whoever's involved or the total numbers of death or these kind of tragic details that are incredibly important to report accuracy, by the time those are out, there's already a slant and you can see the way it's being bent.

00:14:14.000 It's funny because I typically say I, when I was teaching journalism, I like to tell the students, you know, your, your best source for information is the stuff that's closest to the event.

00:14:22.000 So like in Maine, you know, it's who's there, but then thinking of what's going on in Gaza and Israel, there's a lot of people on that ground who are manipulating news as well.

00:14:31.000 And they're right there.

00:14:32.000 So you got to be so careful.

00:14:33.000 You know, I'm, I'm keep urging people to not just believe anything that instantly confirms any bias you have towards anything domestic or foreign, because if it makes you feel good, you should probably be extra suspicious of that news.

00:14:44.000 I saw a ton of conservative commentators retweeting a bunch of fake videos.

00:14:48.000 Uh-huh.

00:14:48.000 All the time.

00:14:49.000 It's happened a lot.

00:14:50.000 I mean, yesterday with the shooter in Maine.

00:14:52.000 Oh, yeah.

00:14:53.000 Yeah, I saw it.

00:14:53.000 And I was like, yo, what are you guys doing, man?

00:14:55.000 But it's that urgency, especially TwitterX, whatever it's called, has really emphasized this more than ever, that you have to be the first or one of the beginning people to share it, to repost it.

00:15:06.000 You know, you need to be on the front lines of everything.

00:15:07.000 And it means that if you wait to verify you're behind, But actually, you know the truth.

00:15:13.000 It's this sort of weird, weird issue.

00:15:16.000 With what you're saying with the international component of what's being reported on the ground, I always find that the language barrier is sort of the biggest obstacle because, you know, I don't speak either of the languages for which the main- Why not?

00:15:28.000 I'm just not that educated, you know.

00:15:30.000 I just, I really like English.

00:15:32.000 I'm still trying to master it.

00:15:33.000 Every day is a struggle.

00:15:34.000 No, I'm just kidding.

00:15:35.000 But unless you're Chris Carr and you see all my typos.

00:15:39.000 The issue there is that people who can speak those languages, and I don't mean this in a mean way, have their own bias when they read the news.

00:15:46.000 And so when they are reading their own sources, I mean, especially if you're, you know, let's say an immigrant from one of these places in America, you have ties there.

00:15:53.000 It makes it, not that they couldn't do it accurately, I don't want to make any accusations, but it just means it's, there's a layer of emotional There's a layer of emotion there that's not true for everyone.

00:16:01.000 There's two barriers you're talking about and there's like the barrier we have to deal with here and other English-speaking countries where it's like the barrier of bias and the words they use to describe certain people and the qualifiers they might use in terms of like when New York Times writes about RFK Jr.

00:16:14.000 all the qualifiers I got to put in front of his name he's a you know COVID conspiracy theorist all these things but then it's also the language barrier on top of that when you're dealing with the international news so it makes it to the point where I'm like I can't really believe anything I'm reading right now.

00:16:26.000 And everyone just wants to go viral.

00:16:28.000 Oh, yeah.

00:16:29.000 Yeah.

00:16:29.000 And whether it's true or not or somewhat true.

00:16:32.000 Yeah.

00:16:33.000 And then they won't delete it because they should.

00:16:36.000 Yeah.

00:16:36.000 Elon should get rid of, well, I say he should, but Twitter had talked about getting rid of follower counts and like retweet numbers and stuff like this.

00:16:45.000 And the reason they never did, Twitter knew that it's a scoring system.

00:16:50.000 Status.

00:16:51.000 Ratio means you failed and retweets mean you've succeeded.

00:16:55.000 And that's what everyone does on X. If you got rid of that, you lose the gamification of social media.

00:17:03.000 And nobody wants to give up that position.

00:17:05.000 Sorry, the bots subverted that though.

00:17:07.000 Like just today, our friends in MythInformed, they were locked out of their account.

00:17:12.000 I retweeted something about them.

00:17:13.000 I happened to tag X support or whatever.

00:17:15.000 Infiltrated by bots.

00:17:18.000 Dozens of accounts all created in October of this year sharing the same link, different bots.

00:17:22.000 But are those bots, they have the blue check, right?

00:17:26.000 I don't know if they all had the blue check, but their names were all similar.

00:17:28.000 It was like a name and then like a bunch of numbers next to it and then the same link.

00:17:31.000 So they will have a lot of those bots will now have those blue checks.

00:17:35.000 Yeah.

00:17:36.000 Instagram tried something similar where they removed, they would say, we'll take away that the like number, like how many likes your photo is getting.

00:17:42.000 And at the time they were saying it was to combat, especially, uh, you know, social media addiction, but specifically, um, body dysmorphia issues with young teenage girls.

00:17:51.000 Uh, the fact that they would, you know, post certain things and they would get a reaction to it.

00:17:54.000 And I don't know that it made a difference.

00:17:56.000 I think in some ways it just re-emphasized that you don't know how valued you are.

00:18:01.000 And I don't like that we have these digits.

00:18:03.000 On the other hand, you can understand when we have the content, the influencer industry that says we need to know how many people follow you, we need to know what your reach is like, we need to know what your engagement is like, why those tools actually exist for some people as a business model.

00:18:15.000 I want to pull up this tweet from Kit Clarenberg.

00:18:18.000 Kit is a reporter for, I believe he's at Greyzone, and he noticed something interesting.

00:18:24.000 Now I want to make sure I'm very careful here as we start this.

00:18:27.000 This is not hard confirmation of anything, but I do think it's something that warrants paying attention to.

00:18:34.000 He stated, it's over.

00:18:36.000 And there's an article that says, Israel rejects Zelensky's visit.

00:18:39.000 Time is not right.

00:18:40.000 And this is from 10 days ago.

00:18:42.000 He says, what's also striking is prominent pro-Ukraine accounts are shuttering rapidly, such as UA Weapons, which claimed to track Russian losses and garnered almost a million followers.

00:18:51.000 Wonder how long it'll take for those flags to start disappearing from display names.

00:18:55.000 Display names.

00:18:56.000 Why do you think, asks H2, he says, infrastructure technology and personnel used to amplify these accounts is being redirected elsewhere.

00:19:03.000 Western powers have no use of propaganda encouraging the view Ukraine will win and needs to be sent weapons now, quite the opposite.

00:19:10.000 So this is an interesting argument that we're seeing.

00:19:13.000 I think we have this one.

00:19:15.000 He says, absolutely classic, an anonymous high-profile pro-Ukraine account that 10 days ago attacked me for suggesting high-profile pro-Ukraine accounts are shutting down, in a coordinated manner, is now shutting down.

00:19:27.000 Calibre Obscura says, I will be deleting this account within a few weeks.

00:19:31.000 Life is increasingly busy and frankly no longer in a place where I want to interact with things that I do every day, etc, etc.

00:19:37.000 Now, it may be.

00:19:39.000 This is very, very interesting.

00:19:40.000 This is a tweet from October 16th when he put this out.

00:19:42.000 This is a little while ago that he tweeted this.

00:19:45.000 And then I think this next one was from just yesterday.

00:19:49.000 It could be that U.S.

00:19:51.000 intelligence agencies have been running psyops.

00:19:54.000 Pro-Ukraine accounts generating massive numbers of followers.

00:19:57.000 Not necessarily pro-Ukraine, like this U.A.

00:20:00.000 weapons account apparently was tracking all information.

00:20:05.000 But the argument would be, yes, but from a Western perspective.

00:20:08.000 When they say, oh, Russian troops are dying, is it the Western number or the Russian number?

00:20:12.000 And then you have this other account that's shuttering as well.

00:20:15.000 Perhaps one of two things is happening, and there could be other things.

00:20:18.000 Intel agencies are running PSYOPs, and now that the money is being diverted to Israel and the Middle East, we can't run these accounts anymore.

00:20:26.000 So somebody who is in, you know, some kind of PSYOPs division or private contractor is told, hey, shutter those accounts.

00:20:31.000 We're going to be focusing on Israel.

00:20:33.000 And they go, you got it.

00:20:34.000 Oh, sorry, my family thing happened.

00:20:36.000 Or the simple solution perhaps is, Ukraine is over.

00:20:42.000 No one cares anymore.

00:20:44.000 Look, this one account, Calibre, being like, you know, my life's getting a little busy.

00:20:49.000 You may as well just say, what is going on in Ukraine no longer bears weight with me.

00:20:56.000 And other things have become more important.

00:20:58.000 And that just says, whether it is the end of a PSYOP or not, nobody cares about Ukraine.

00:21:05.000 It's done.

00:21:05.000 Yeah, I mean, it's not good for Zelensky either way.

00:21:08.000 He was really counting on more American money, from what I understand.

00:21:12.000 But I think it's interesting.

00:21:14.000 I said this before, Russia won. 0.88

00:21:16.000 Yeah, I think in a lot of ways that's true.

00:21:18.000 I think it's interesting to see the way Ukraine has fallen to the background, right?

00:21:24.000 I mean, we don't see any pro-Ukraine protests.

00:21:28.000 It's not even like there was a way for these two different groups to team up.

00:21:31.000 It's just off record.

00:21:32.000 And to a certain extent, I credit that to the fact that the American people can really only have one big thing in the news cycle at a time.

00:21:39.000 It's very difficult for them to have, you know, hold, pay attention to two things at once.

00:21:44.000 It's like that meme where they insert one brain trip of Ukraine, then the next one is of Israel.

00:21:51.000 Yeah, Israel. 0.54

00:21:52.000 Yeah.

00:21:53.000 I mean, that's like the capacity that they can really just go off of.

00:21:57.000 Right.

00:21:58.000 If it is a PSYOP.

00:22:00.000 Man, I got a rude awakening.

00:22:01.000 We got a rude awakening for these intel agencies. 0.99

00:22:03.000 It's like all of the stuff that's been happening with the manipulation on social media that's propped up woke leftist psychotic garbage. 0.91

00:22:11.000 How do they expect to get military support for Israel when they have themselves coordinated with these big tech platforms to prop up anti-Israel sentiment? 0.83

00:22:21.000 I don't know. 0.81

00:22:22.000 I'm saying they're incompetent.

00:22:24.000 Unless it really is some deep 5D chess where they're like, first we make them hate Israel, then we make them like Israel. 0.75

00:22:30.000 I really doubt it. 1.00

00:22:31.000 I think the people who are just running this propaganda are just really dumb. 0.95

00:22:35.000 I wish they could rebrand these PSYOPs into something positive and caring about places like East Palestine or Maui. 0.97

00:22:41.000 But they won't do that.

00:22:42.000 I don't know why.

00:22:43.000 That's always my question.

00:22:44.000 Are they just incompetent?

00:22:49.000 I don't think they make money off East Palestine the way they do with this.

00:22:53.000 Yeah, for sure.

00:22:53.000 And I think that's evil taking advantage of a lot of incompetent people.

00:22:58.000 And I think there is a PSYOP component to these things, and there's obviously also organic people who latched onto the PSYOP, like maybe this person who says, you know, I'm moving on to other things, is a real person.

00:23:09.000 We went to this tapas restaurant called Barcelona in Reston, Virginia.

00:23:14.000 It was awesome, by the way.

00:23:15.000 We've been there like three weeks in a row because it's so good.

00:23:18.000 Barcelona?

00:23:19.000 Barcelona.

00:23:20.000 That's how they say it in Catalonia.

00:23:22.000 But Barcelona is the name of the restaurant and we have fans who work there.

00:23:28.000 Maybe they won't like that I'm saying, I don't know.

00:23:30.000 But the people there were completely open, like, oh hey, we're big fans, nice to meet you.

00:23:33.000 And then we went back and this guy came up and said, He's like, Hey man, I love your show.

00:23:37.000 You're probably not going to get that out here in Reston, but I'm a big fan.

00:23:40.000 Keep it up.

00:23:41.000 And I was like, actually, you've had like four or five people here.

00:23:43.000 Shout us out.

00:23:44.000 I think the reason I bring that out, I'm not trying to humble brag or anything.

00:23:47.000 The point is stop thinking you're alone.

00:23:50.000 Everyone thinks they're the only one they're sitting there being like, Oh, that's Tim Pool.

00:23:55.000 I watch him.

00:23:55.000 I know no one else does.

00:23:57.000 So I better just say it quietly.

00:23:58.000 No, no.

00:23:58.000 It turns out everybody there was super cool.

00:24:00.000 So.

00:24:01.000 Too many people are seeing these PSYOPs, seeing the manipulation on social media, and they're assuming, wow, everyone in this country must secretly like trans kids and Ukraine war and stuff. 0.85

00:24:11.000 I better keep my mouth shut.

00:24:13.000 Then it turns out, and everyone actually agrees with you, nobody likes us wasting money on these foreign wars.

00:24:18.000 There's been no justification for why we're doing it.

00:24:20.000 Shifting from Ukraine to the Middle East now.

00:24:22.000 So if people just start realizing that, start speaking up, maybe we can put a stop to it.

00:24:26.000 This is why I advocate for parents, when they go on playdates, to immediately open up the conversation about all the things you care about the most, so you can whittle down who you can have your kids hang out with or not.

00:24:36.000 I think you should screen all your kids, friends.

00:24:37.000 That does make sense to me.

00:24:38.000 I got an idea.

00:24:40.000 I got an idea.

00:24:40.000 Here's what we do.

00:24:42.000 An app where you can select things that you believe in politically, and then with your friends, it will only show your political positions if you agree.

00:24:53.000 It's like public welfare.

00:24:54.000 Okay, I'm gonna tell my developer friend, did you get that?

00:24:57.000 So like, it'll say what's your stance on pro-choice, pro-life, progressive taxes, border control, and then if you don't agree on anything, it just doesn't share anything.

00:25:08.000 It's like a dating app, sort of, for parents.

00:25:12.000 They had Bumble BFF, which was for women to meet other women and make friends. 1.00

00:25:16.000 I'm not actually serious, for the most part, because you can't implement something like this, but the general idea is, you know, you could input your political views, and then you don't have to worry about someone being like, ah!

00:25:29.000 But the reality is you should just be able to say, hey, you know, I don't like the fact that in New York they're threatening Jewish people right now.

00:25:36.000 Maybe they shouldn't do that. 0.68

00:25:37.000 I think you're probably just not as weird as you think you are.

00:25:39.000 I mean, I think a lot of people feel like because they're not hearing it on mainstream media, maybe other people don't want to talk about it.

00:25:44.000 Or just too afraid to say it out loud.

00:25:46.000 Right.

00:25:46.000 Probably your views are not that outlandish.

00:25:48.000 You're probably not that dramatic of a person.

00:25:50.000 Like you just believe things you believe.

00:25:51.000 And if you treat it like it's normal, which it is, other people will fall suit even if they don't completely agree with you.

00:25:56.000 So like when I say clouds are fake, it's fine.

00:25:58.000 Well, it gives us something to talk about, right?

00:26:00.000 How are we going to get to know how people feel about this important issue?

00:26:03.000 Wait, clouds are fake?

00:26:04.000 I think the majority of clouds are fake, yes.

00:26:06.000 That's another subject.

00:26:07.000 I think they've been pumped into the atmosphere or created out of chemtrails and they just get recycled and it's just poison falling out of the sky.

00:26:13.000 I think it's just water vapor.

00:26:15.000 Well, I think a lot of them, or I think some of them are water vapor.

00:26:16.000 And how could you build an intellectual conversation about these differing viewpoints?

00:26:20.000 I think we've poisoned our sky to such a degree.

00:26:21.000 Another app idea.

00:26:23.000 Yeah.

00:26:24.000 I think we've cloud seeded so much that it's hard to tell what's real anymore.

00:26:26.000 Yeah, but they use lasers for cloud seeding now. 0.99

00:26:29.000 Yeah, they don't need to put chemicals up there. 0.72

00:26:30.000 Maybe, but I'm talking, maybe it's the vintage clouds, you know, that haven't really got, they're still in the cycle.

00:26:34.000 See, the thing is, I don't have a position on clouds, so this is very helpful to help me to think, learn about this topic.

00:26:38.000 That's right.

00:26:38.000 Look it up, look it up, this is good.

00:26:39.000 We've been seeing clouds for a while.

00:26:40.000 For sure, yeah.

00:26:42.000 But we're doing it different ways now, more ethical ways.

00:26:44.000 Silver iodide was the first way they did it, and then they started using, I think 10 years ago, infrared lasers.

00:26:49.000 It's glazers to cloud seeding.

00:26:51.000 It must be wild when you go on playdates with your kids, like what you launch into.

00:26:54.000 Yeah, it's just like this.

00:26:55.000 What's your view on clouds?

00:26:57.000 Also, our kids don't eat sugar.

00:26:59.000 Exactly.

00:26:59.000 Or salmon's bioengineered and it's part bug, so don't eat that either.

00:27:03.000 Well, also, people don't realize that a lot of salmon, when it says wild-caught, they grow it in a farm, release it into the wild, and then re-catch it.

00:27:09.000 No joke.

00:27:10.000 Wait, so wild-caught... It can be a lie.

00:27:12.000 Wait, so then, which one do you get?

00:27:15.000 Which one do you get?

00:27:16.000 Because it's not... So, there's... Things you gotta watch out for are, if there's a company called, like, Wild-Caught Salmon, and Wild-Caught is a brand name, then it's farmed.

00:27:25.000 Or if Wild-Caught Salmon is a brand name, it's not a man.

00:27:28.000 I'm not saying quite literally, that's the case.

00:27:29.000 I'm saying watch out for brand names that masquerade as...

00:27:32.000 And look for the colors of salmon too.

00:27:34.000 Yeah.

00:27:35.000 If you look online, you'll notice that wild salmon is actually not so fatty.

00:27:38.000 So if your salmon is pretty fatty, it's probably corn fed or something nonsense.

00:27:42.000 But what they'll do is they'll raise salmon in a farm in a big vat.

00:27:45.000 Then they'll dump them in the ocean.

00:27:47.000 Then they'll go with big ships and catch them and say, we caught them in the wild.

00:27:50.000 Yeah.

00:27:51.000 Fukushima is also a problem.

00:27:52.000 So wait, to recap, Siemens don't like corn?

00:27:54.000 They're not a corn on the cob fan?

00:27:56.000 I think they feed them corn, I'm not entirely sure.

00:27:58.000 But back to the point, the point I was bringing up initially is that with this story, potentially arguing that many of these pro-Ukraine accounts were PSYOPs, the first thing I'd have to say outside of the context of the story just in general is absolutely the government is running psychological operations on social media to generate support for war.

00:28:17.000 Yes.

00:28:18.000 So think about all the accounts right now that are demanding U.S.

00:28:22.000 intervention over Israel.

00:28:24.000 And Elon Musk says he wants to charge a dollar per year.

00:28:27.000 It's the only way to get rid of the bots.

00:28:30.000 I don't know if even that will work.

00:28:32.000 All he's going to do is create a more expensive market for bots.

00:28:36.000 Right now, bots are free.

00:28:38.000 You charge a dollar, what's going to happen is the barrier for entry for bot making goes up, and then the bot companies and contractors will just say, So you wanted how many bots?

00:28:46.000 3,000?

00:28:47.000 We're increasing our prices by 340% because of Elon Musk's, you know, dollar.

00:28:52.000 So you've got to cover the dollar per account.

00:28:55.000 Then you've got to cover the credit card, you know, so it's an extra 15 bucks.

00:28:58.000 All in all, it's going to cost you three or four times more for your bots.

00:29:00.000 And then these organizations go, oh yeah, no problem.

00:29:03.000 I can afford that.

00:29:03.000 It becomes a business expense.

00:29:05.000 It's just more expensive to do.

00:29:07.000 Right.

00:29:07.000 And you think, like, governments are going to abandon their psyops on Twitter?

00:29:11.000 No, they've been working on those for a long time.

00:29:13.000 They love psychological operations.

00:29:15.000 They've been performing them on us for forever.

00:29:17.000 So he's a PSYOP within a PSYOP within a PSYOP.

00:29:20.000 Yeah, that's exactly it.

00:29:21.000 Yeah, you don't know.

00:29:23.000 Maybe the PSYOP was the PSYOP the whole time.

00:29:26.000 Maybe the PSYOP was the PSYOP we made along the way.

00:29:28.000 Getting the PSYOP to be exposed was the actual intention.

00:29:32.000 Wow.

00:29:33.000 Again, if I can't follow... That is Inverted World Season 3.

00:29:37.000 Off I go.

00:29:39.000 It is kind of hilarious that, you know, a few weeks ago we were talking about how... I'm looking at the BBC's...

00:29:45.000 BattleMap for Ukraine, and it shows Russia controlling the land bridge into Crimea, and I'm like, that's it, they got what they wanted. 0.81

00:29:51.000 And these conservatives are like, that's not true, they wanted all of Ukraine, they were gonna invade from the north, and now all of a sudden it's like, okay, we lost, we're done, everybody out!

00:29:59.000 We're no longer interested in what's going on in Ukraine.

00:30:02.000 Again, I'd really like to hear more from Zelensky, who is probably so mad about his business venture failing.

00:30:08.000 I do think, you know, we couldn't sustain this even with Janet Yellen saying we can afford two wars.

00:30:13.000 Realistically, no.

00:30:14.000 And also, we could maybe theoretically continue to pay for both things.

00:30:19.000 I know Speaker Johnson was sort of, there was a clip of him being asked by journalists, are you going to send more money to Ukraine today?

00:30:27.000 The reality is, as much as we need financial, it needs the attention span of the American people.

00:30:31.000 That's right.

00:30:32.000 And if it's not there, the money won't follow.

00:30:34.000 They could print all the money they want, but it's the morale they need.

00:30:36.000 I want to jump to this Twitter thread from Jeff Morris Jr.

00:30:40.000 at JMJ.

00:30:41.000 He's a managing partner at Chapter One.

00:30:43.000 And he writes at The New Internet, former VP of Product at Tinder, VP of Product at Renu.

00:30:48.000 He says, the TikTok war, why high school and college kids are getting the wrong information about Hamas and Israel.

00:30:55.000 He said, I spent the weekend trying to reverse engineer the TikTok algorithm, as I am convinced this is the reason we are losing the information war with high school and college students.

00:31:03.000 One red flag was seeing San Francisco high school students who were aggressively anti-Israel And asking myself where they were getting their news.

00:31:10.000 Their protests happened right after the fake New York Times headline that accused Israel of the hospital bomb.

00:31:15.000 I also want to pause real quick as well.

00:31:18.000 The Wall Street Journal maintains that the video we see of the rocket exploding in midair and payload falling was what hit the parking lot.

00:31:25.000 The New York Times got the story wrong, apologized, and then came out with another story, like, actually, that video you watched was wrong.

00:31:31.000 Our analysis says that's actually not what hit the hospital.

00:31:33.000 And it's, like, very convenient for the New York Times, who flubbed this one really, really bad, to be like, actually, we weren't that wrong.

00:31:39.000 So I think the New York Times is full of it.

00:31:41.000 I think the New York Times is a captured organization that is desperately trying to be pro-Hamas.

00:31:46.000 We saw this with the Tom Cotton op-ed.

00:31:49.000 The op-ed editor got fired because Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed about sending the military because of the BLM riots.

00:31:56.000 New York Times, you've known for a long time, look what Barry Weiss had to say.

00:31:59.000 It is a captured leftist institution.

00:32:02.000 Let's read.

00:32:03.000 He says, the bigger red flag was seeing 51% of Americans aged 18 to 24 believe Hamas.

00:32:08.000 Terrorists who raped and murdered innocent women and children believe Hamas was justified. 1.00

00:32:13.000 My high school classmates who lived through 9-11 would never believe this. 0.60

00:32:16.000 That's right.

00:32:17.000 Look at this.

00:32:17.000 You guys seen this chart?

00:32:20.000 This graph is actually missing one other important component.

00:32:23.000 Not only do 18 to 24 year olds in the majority believe it was justified, but in the majority believe it was genocide.

00:32:30.000 I believe it's 63% of 18-24 year olds believe what Hamas did was genocide, and 51% believe it is justified. 0.97

00:32:42.000 That is insane!

00:32:44.000 Let's read more.

00:32:46.000 He says, why do high school students in San Francisco hate Israel so much?

00:32:49.000 I'd assume very few of them have been to Israel, let alone have a fully formed view of a multi-generational conflict.

00:32:54.000 They're 16 years old and live in California.

00:32:56.000 Let's be serious for a minute.

00:32:57.000 Rude.

00:32:57.000 For Gen Z, TikTok is the new search engine.

00:33:00.000 It's the number one search engine for more than half of Gen Z. It's the primary news source for many younger demos.

00:33:05.000 And while we have justifiable concerns about the New York Times and mainstream media,

00:33:08.000 this has become a TikTok war.

00:33:10.000 When I discovered through data and user testing, what I have discovered is extremely concerning

00:33:15.000 and I believe requires more attention, as this is an actual national security issue.

00:33:19.000 When I engaged with one post on TikTok supporting opposing views,

00:33:22.000 my entire feed became aggressively anti-Israel.

00:33:25.000 It was as if I was placed in an A-B test variant and was told to see this war

00:33:29.000 with Israel being the evil side. 0.96

00:33:31.000 As I looked at the tactics and data, I saw that much of TikTok is being controlled

00:33:36.000 by anti-Israel bot farms, paid commentators, commenters, likers, sharers,

00:33:41.000 much of which is paid for by Hamas supporting organizations.

00:33:45.000 I then looked at the data and saw that Israel is losing the TikTok war by a long shot.

00:33:48.000 As an example, the top hashtag has 3 billion views for Palestine versus 200 million for Israel.

00:33:54.000 If you look at the other hashtags, it is clear that Israel has a distribution issue.

00:33:58.000 So, he goes on a bit, but you get the point.

00:34:01.000 He says he's still researching.

00:34:02.000 I actually think the point is this.

00:34:03.000 China is trying to get the U.S. 0.95

00:34:05.000 into multiple wars at once.

00:34:07.000 And the purpose of this is get the U.S. 0.59

00:34:10.000 into war in Ukraine, in the Mediterranean, and itself.

00:34:16.000 This is going to create a massive conflict in the U.S.

00:34:18.000 Look at what we're seeing with Cooper Union yesterday.

00:34:22.000 Ron Coleman made a really important point.

00:34:24.000 A video of Jewish students locked in the library, as far leftists are banging on the door screaming, free Palestine.

00:34:31.000 And the latest reporting that came out is that the librarian told these students to hide in the attic.

00:34:37.000 I kid you not.

00:34:38.000 Wow.

00:34:38.000 Now I'm wondering what attic is in the building and if they're just saying that because it's like invoking some serious images.

00:34:47.000 But how does something like that happen where these are just some Jewish students in New York and Ronald Coleman says, they're not Israeli students.

00:34:56.000 That's right.

00:34:57.000 The leftists did not go to the room where Israelis were. 0.64

00:35:01.000 They went to the room where the Jewish students were banging on the door and screaming for Palestine.

00:35:05.000 They don't see a distinction.

00:35:07.000 So I actually think this is, hey, it's TikTok.

00:35:11.000 It's China. 0.90

00:35:12.000 And we get these doofy Republicans who are like, they're spying on us. 0.64

00:35:16.000 No, dude, they're manipulating young people.

00:35:19.000 Hey, we're banned on TikTok.

00:35:20.000 I wonder why that is.

00:35:22.000 You're on TikTok a lot, you said before the show.

00:35:24.000 Is this what you're seeing too?

00:35:25.000 I'm, I am on TikTok.

00:35:28.000 Sorry, did I just expose you?

00:35:29.000 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:35:30.000 I am on TikTok.

00:35:31.000 I got banned a couple times.

00:35:34.000 Carly Bonet, who helps push war room stuff.

00:35:38.000 She's been banned like 25, 25 times. 0.99

00:35:41.000 We just started a war room one.

00:35:44.000 And It's yeah, they ban war room all the time anything that is a you know, I guess any of that So and you don't and when you're you don't really scroll through it yourself.

00:35:55.000 You just use it for war room I have my own personal one.

00:35:59.000 Yeah.

00:35:59.000 Are you seeing it in your algorithm?

00:36:00.000 I'm wondering.

00:36:01.000 Oh, yeah.

00:36:02.000 I'm asking because if it's complete takeover or if it's targeted to young people.

00:36:05.000 It's all pro.

00:36:06.000 Yeah, it is.

00:36:07.000 It's a takeover.

00:36:08.000 And I see even in the live streams, they have like, you know, the live whatever's.

00:36:15.000 It's all pro Palestine, like just like it. 0.99

00:36:18.000 All of it.

00:36:19.000 I've wondered, and I can't remember who made this point in the past week that I've been on IRL, that one of the things that happened post 9-11 was that to avoid encouraging an anti-Islam, anti-Muslim sentiment, textbook companies partnered with organizations that are pro-Islam and There is an influence there.

00:36:39.000 I believe it almost, and it could be part of the algorithm, but like if I watch one, you know, video about like, you know, oh this is what's really happening and it's, I'll just see all those videos.

00:36:53.000 It makes me wonder if students are particularly vulnerable because of this Precaution that was potentially taken when they were publishing textbooks post 9-11 in addition to the fact that it's being pushed on them social media.

00:37:05.000 So there's no narrative, right?

00:37:06.000 If you- I mean, I felt like this- I went- I grew up in a liberal bluish- a blue area and I always leaned conservative and I remember there were times in school where you're being taught something but you know you're reading something different at home the conversations are different among your family you can kind of you know to question it whereas if it's hitting you from social media which is basically how you run your entire after-school life maybe in school too and your teachers are presenting information that says you know actually this is how this conflict started and you know this side gets this wrong and whatever if there is no escape if there's no no way for them to see on the outside unless they have family in israel unless they have a connection somewhere else i have only seen pro pro hamas type

00:37:46.000 Videos on TikTok.

00:37:48.000 Yeah.

00:37:49.000 I'm not surprised with the college stuff because I think they were all primed for this after the like riot summer with BLM and this is just like an extension of that so they see violence as righteous.

00:37:58.000 And they were young I mean if you're a high school student now in 2020 if you're if you're if you're 17 now you were 13 that's like what the end of middle school and so you grew up in a time where social media and really outlandish protests that verge in the point of destruction and violence are the norm and perhaps even celebrated that it was cool that all of your friends older siblings were getting likes for attending these things and throwing bricks through windows or whatever else it's the cultural revolution it's the red guard yeah and they've been waiting they've been waiting to have their chance yeah they primed them to want violence right even though it's the same crowd that says silence is violence or words are violence these are uh will chamberlain pointed out these are people who

00:38:37.000 Cheered.

00:38:38.000 Not in New York City, but in New York City.

00:38:39.000 Cheered for Hamas. 0.99

00:38:41.000 And are now, because of what's going on in Maine, arguing to disarm people.

00:38:45.000 Yeah.

00:38:47.000 Unbelievable.

00:38:48.000 It seems wild.

00:38:48.000 They hate their political enemies.

00:38:50.000 They have no moral center and they'll say whatever they have to do to destroy their political enemies.

00:38:54.000 How about Hamas? 0.72

00:38:59.000 Breaks through the barriers, paraglides in, murders a bunch of civilians and men, women, and children.

00:39:06.000 And then Israel strikes Gaza.

00:39:09.000 When Hamas storms in, what do we see? 0.97

00:39:11.000 We see people in New York City cheering for the killing of civilians.

00:39:15.000 Then, when Israel bombs Palestine, we see these people saying, they bomb Gaza, they say, oh no, they're killing civilians, and they're crying and saying, how could you support this?

00:39:23.000 And I'm just like, bro, you were supporting it.

00:39:25.000 It's okay when it happens to someone else's civilians. 0.96

00:39:28.000 Gaza, Israel...

00:39:30.000 People, okay?

00:39:31.000 Like, I'm not Israel or Palestine or whatever.

00:39:33.000 All I know is people are dying.

00:39:35.000 But y'all were celebrating civilians dying and now you're complaining about civilians dying.

00:39:40.000 I don't think you actually care about civilians dying.

00:39:42.000 Right.

00:39:42.000 No, I don't think so either.

00:39:43.000 I think there's also a level of, you know, one of the things that I have heard told over and over again is that one of the reasons people say you should support Palestine, support Hamas or whatever is because they're being colonized, right?

00:39:55.000 They're the colonizer oppressing them.

00:39:56.000 And this is actually very similar to the language that We hear with BLM and with other... It's critical race theory.

00:40:01.000 Right, exactly.

00:40:01.000 And so if all of our young people are trained sort of a la Pavlov and his dog, that when they hear a certain word, they know exactly how they're supposed to respond.

00:40:11.000 They know how to fall in line.

00:40:12.000 Right.

00:40:13.000 If you hear colonizer, you know which side you're supposed to be on because in our history, which is the only lens they're allowed to, they can view it through.

00:40:20.000 And part of that, I would say, is probably immaturity, right?

00:40:23.000 They haven't experienced the world.

00:40:24.000 They don't know anything.

00:40:25.000 But also, You know, they are only ever allowed to hear certain terms and line up on certain sites.

00:40:30.000 It's all indoctrination.

00:40:31.000 I mean, you know, you go back to Japanese Korean culture, like way back when, I mean, you know, Japanese colonized Korea, you know, I mean, there's colonizers everywhere.

00:40:41.000 So would the modern day teenager be on Korea's side? 0.87

00:40:46.000 That's a good question.

00:40:47.000 I haven't thought about that.

00:40:50.000 That's how they know how to line up.

00:40:52.000 I think part of it is that there's not a lot of critical analysis.

00:40:55.000 They just want to have the viral moment.

00:40:56.000 And again, I said this before, but you know, that story about the student who wrote Black Lives Matter, you know, however many times on his college application and got admitted to whatever Ivy League, Like, these kids are going to present their TikToks being like, I got every one of my school to dance in the pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas rally.

00:41:13.000 And so I'm very, very important and you should let me into your school.

00:41:16.000 Like, this is what they think will build their potential activist future on, which is linked to both their social value and their intellectual value.

00:41:23.000 You know, the views of these students will never change.

00:41:28.000 I mean, in small numbers, for sure, people do change.

00:41:32.000 What people need to understand about generations is that when we see, according to Pew Research, Gen Z being slightly more conservative than Millennials in some areas, they assume this means that Gen Z is learning these things.

00:41:46.000 When in reality, it's just conservatives have more kids.

00:41:49.000 More kids are being raised.

00:41:52.000 These young people who are chanting from the river to the sea, It's locked in. 0.92

00:41:56.000 They've chanted it, they've said it, it's part of who they are, and it will be painful to admit they were wrong.

00:42:02.000 Only some people ever have the strength to actually go through these transformations and be like, what was I thinking?

00:42:08.000 Most of them, when they're in their 30s, are going to be part of extremist groups in some fashion or another.

00:42:14.000 This is why, you know, when we were talking last time about Marxism and in the college world, and then, you know, I'm thinking of like domestic terrorists, such as Weather Underground, literally blowing people up, you know, and they're avowed Marxists.

00:42:28.000 They're very open about it.

00:42:30.000 They eventually go to jail.

00:42:31.000 People like Bill Ayers or Susan Rosenberg.

00:42:33.000 Susan Rosenberg gets pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last day in office.

00:42:37.000 She becomes a professor.

00:42:38.000 She's espousing all those things.

00:42:39.000 They all are.

00:42:40.000 Eventually, even my beloved Cuomo, a mass murderer in New York, let out on his last day in office a Weather Underground person who built a bomb and killed people.

00:42:49.000 They take over the colleges.

00:42:50.000 There's a lot of them.

00:42:51.000 They breed this world where they talk about how Marxism will be the paradise for people.

00:42:55.000 But anyway, Susan Rosenberg, what does she do other than being a professor?

00:42:58.000 She starts Thousand Currents and then Act Blue. 0.98

00:43:00.000 What does Act Blue do?

00:43:01.000 They help siphon the money for Black Lives Matter, which in my opinion is another domestic terrorist organization. 0.72

00:43:05.000 So it's like, I just see a straight line through all of this where that's the kind of violence that those campuses breed.

00:43:10.000 I think Veritas had a report, I want to be very careful of my language here, alleging that China was funneling money to political parties through ActBlue.

00:43:17.000 I'm not entirely sure what the reporting was.

00:43:19.000 I wouldn't be surprised.

00:43:20.000 I wouldn't be surprised either.

00:43:21.000 I think that was a big story, I just don't have it pulled out in front of me.

00:43:23.000 I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if it's through colleges.

00:43:24.000 A lot of colleges rely, especially small colleges, rely on foreign donations to make their quotas at the end of the year.

00:43:31.000 I mean, you have so many foreign students from China just, you know, at the universities.

00:43:35.000 Didn't we have professors during COVID getting arrested for ties to China for certain things?

00:43:40.000 I forget, was it espionage or what they were doing?

00:43:42.000 And there's like some guy with a suitcase and viruses in it.

00:43:45.000 Crazy stuff was going on back then.

00:43:47.000 You have to send me a link, because I don't know that one.

00:43:49.000 Yeah, that's a deep cut from like three years ago.

00:43:51.000 I mean, that was the thing about COVID, though.

00:43:53.000 There was both so much happening.

00:43:55.000 No, I remember that.

00:43:56.000 You're talking about, like, there was a person that was traveling with, like, viruses he shouldn't have.

00:44:01.000 Yeah, right.

00:44:02.000 And they somehow, like, fell out because they were carrying them in some way that made it, like, very sketchy, right?

00:44:06.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:44:07.000 Totally remember that as well.

00:44:08.000 They fell out or they fell out?

00:44:08.000 Real quick, fact check.

00:44:09.000 It's O'Keefe Media Group.

00:44:11.000 Four months ago, FBC story update, Chinese money involved in ActBlue donations.

00:44:16.000 Chinese money's everywhere.

00:44:21.000 And Mao's culture revolution.

00:44:23.000 And Bill Ayers and Weather Underground look up to Mao.

00:44:26.000 I see that as the poison that's destroying this country.

00:44:29.000 I think one of the problems we have is children are being raised by children and now by algorithms and adults want to be children.

00:44:37.000 That is also true.

00:44:38.000 Where is Gen X?

00:44:39.000 We need Gen X. But where are they? 0.53

00:44:42.000 I mean, what are they up to?

00:44:43.000 I mean, I'm like, I'm a zillennial, so.

00:44:47.000 I don't even know if generations matter anymore because social media has flattened everyone down into one.

00:44:51.000 But it does.

00:44:55.000 Like all generations, they have their style, their slang, their music.

00:44:59.000 I believe it may be one of the last generations to experience something like this because of the decline in population.

00:45:04.000 I don't know if this is true, but I saw a report that Italy didn't record a birth for like three months or something.

00:45:09.000 I saw that but I haven't verified it yet.

00:45:12.000 It is interesting though.

00:45:14.000 Well let's just assume it's not true.

00:45:16.000 Fertility rates have massively collapsed.

00:45:18.000 Wow.

00:45:19.000 And if we're below, I got bad news for Gen Z. 0.99

00:45:22.000 If we are below, maybe not so Gen Z but Gen Alpha, if we're below replacement rate reproduction,

00:45:28.000 that means that there will be more millennials than Gen Z, more millennials than Gen Alpha.

00:45:34.000 That means that the interests of the economy will favor the larger generations. 0.97

00:45:39.000 So typically what you see is a lot of companies will try to get woke because they're like, we got to be hip with the kids.

00:45:47.000 When I worked for Fusion, that was the thing.

00:45:49.000 They were like, look, we're targeting young people.

00:45:51.000 They're more progressive.

00:45:52.000 So that's what we're going to do.

00:45:53.000 And boy, were they wrong.

00:45:55.000 That was not what the data was showing.

00:45:56.000 And they imploded because of it.

00:45:57.000 But they didn't actually care or believe in any of these things.

00:45:59.000 They just thought, we got to go where the kids are.

00:46:02.000 Shane Smith of Vice, he's like in his mid-30s when Vice is starting to take off.

00:46:07.000 He's in his mid-40s when it really takes off.

00:46:09.000 And he's making content that was targeting people in their 20s.

00:46:12.000 That was the mentality that a lot of these big companies had.

00:46:15.000 That's not going to be the case.

00:46:17.000 You're going to launch a company and you're going to say, what's the biggest market share we can get?

00:46:21.000 And they're going to say, well, we got 75 million Gen Z, we got 50 million Gen Alpha, we got 100 million Millennials.

00:46:28.000 Well, screw it, go for the Millennials. 0.95

00:46:29.000 What about Gen X?

00:46:31.000 Well, I'm saying like, Gen X is going to be out of them. 0.99

00:46:35.000 At this point, when Gen Alpha is in the marketplace, Gen X is phased out.

00:46:41.000 So I'm talking about Gen Alpha in their late teens and into their twenties.

00:46:45.000 Millennials are going to be in their late fifties and they're going to be exiting.

00:46:48.000 Gen X is already going to be out in retirement.

00:46:51.000 Less of a consideration in terms of big ad spends.

00:46:54.000 But this means that millennials are going to continually hold a disproportionate amount of market power because of the size of the generation.

00:47:01.000 True.

00:47:02.000 So I'm not as concerned with seeing a bunch of crackpot young kids because the likelihood What I see being, what may happen is, as the market seeks to pander to the larger block of the market share, these kids are going to have to adhere and change to fit the mold of what millennials want, and not the other way around.

00:47:25.000 Right?

00:47:26.000 So, I think one of the reasons adults want to be kids You know, like that Abe Simpson meme.

00:47:31.000 I used to be with it and they changed what it was and Homer's like, that'll never happen to me, man.

00:47:35.000 It's because you're watching TV and you're watching what you perceive as social acceptance.

00:47:40.000 What does everyone love?

00:47:43.000 They love the rock star.

00:47:44.000 I want to be like the rock star.

00:47:45.000 Only thing is, rock star is now 20 years younger than you.

00:47:47.000 So you get those midlife crises where it's like, I'm hip, I can be cool.

00:47:52.000 What if cool was just what you were?

00:47:54.000 What if the dad jeans and Rolling Stones never faded out of pop culture, out of the spotlight?

00:48:02.000 I think there's gonna be pockets of fame and personality among young people, obviously, because of their peer groups, but if the money is, if you're gonna make $100 million by doing a Fall Out Boy show, or how about this, you know the When We Were Young tour?

00:48:17.000 If they make more money doing that, then what's gonna happen is, Where's the ad spend gonna be?

00:48:22.000 Big marketing companies are gonna be like, look, this Gen Z thing is good, but we can maybe make $20 million, but this, when we were young thing, these people got money, and there's more of them.

00:48:32.000 You could argue that back in the day, but hold on, older people always had more money. 1.00

00:48:37.000 Yes, and they had kids, and they spent that money on their kids, and now millennials don't have kids, and they're spending the money on themselves. 0.93

00:48:44.000 So it's gonna get real interesting real soon.

00:48:46.000 Yeah, I think you're really cultivating towards the millennials.

00:48:49.000 I found Gen Z really interesting and I can't tell if this is just sort of a biased view through the lens of social media, but it seems like they are really burning through every generational fashion trend.

00:49:01.000 You'll get these enclaves of Girls who are really into the 70s stuff or really into the early 2000s or like 90s grungecore was very popular for a second during COVID and then it kind of went away.

00:49:10.000 I mean they are searching for generational identity and I don't think they are creating one for themselves.

00:49:15.000 They have language and they have social media but social media isn't enough to actually have a generational culture.

00:49:21.000 When I was a kid, a Nirvana shirt was a band that was playing music at the time.

00:49:27.000 And then, you know, not for a time after that in late 90s, but like people would have the holes in their jeans and the Nirvana shirt when Nirvana was releasing music.

00:49:36.000 It's really funny to see that viral TikTok where that like 18 year old girl, she's wearing a Nirvana shirt. 0.98

00:49:41.000 She's like, I don't even know what this is.

00:49:43.000 It's just like, it's at Hot Topic and everyone wears it.

00:49:46.000 Yeah, but then some millennial mom also buys them for her, like, toddlers and chases them around being like, name three songs! 1.00

00:49:52.000 What I am telling you is not predictive, it is descriptive.

00:49:56.000 Go to the mall.

00:49:57.000 Yo, I go to the mall and Hot Topic's got Nightmare Before Christmas.

00:50:01.000 What year did that movie come out?

00:50:03.000 1993 or something?

00:50:05.000 Yeah.

00:50:05.000 And I see Gen Alpha, Gen Z wearing, like, Nightmare Before Christmas stuff And I'm like, they don't have their own, like you were saying, generational identity.

00:50:14.000 They don't!

00:50:14.000 We do!

00:50:15.000 Night before Christmas, that was Millennials! 1.00

00:50:16.000 And I think it's because they have to spend all their time online.

00:50:19.000 Gen X. I'm Gen X. How old are you?

00:50:23.000 Oh, Tim!

00:50:25.000 I'm a zillennial, so I'm in between.

00:50:31.000 But so you were old enough to be part of the people who are wearing the Jack Skellington shirts and stuff.

00:50:37.000 It's crazy now to see young people making videos where they're wearing Nirvana and Nightmare Before Christmas.

00:50:41.000 Now, don't get me wrong, When I was growing up, I also had, like, my mom had a bunch of Zeppelin shirts, Grand Funk, Railroad, whatever.

00:50:49.000 Doobie Brothers, I don't know.

00:50:50.000 I didn't know what any of that stuff was.

00:50:52.000 80's music.

00:50:52.000 But it's different.

00:50:54.000 You go to the mall, and it's not modern, new stuff.

00:50:57.000 When I was a kid and went to the mall, Night Before Christmas was new!

00:50:59.000 You went to Hot Topic, and it was like, here's new things.

00:51:01.000 Now I go in, it's Bleach and Naruto, and I'm like, dude, that was 20 years ago!

00:51:05.000 I don't even know what that is.

00:51:08.000 I don't know if it's stalled so much.

00:51:10.000 I feel like nostalgia is like a drug of complacency.

00:51:13.000 And a lot of people, like a lot of millennials and people our age, even older and younger, they just want to live, like Tim's saying, as adult babies.

00:51:21.000 So they are dressing themselves like they did when they were babies.

00:51:24.000 I think that explains older people, but for Gen Z, they should be serving up something that they can replace, right? 1.00

00:51:30.000 And they're not.

00:51:31.000 And I think some of that, and this is just my maybe touchgrass moment here, but I think some of it is because they spend so much time online looking for what's trendy instead of going out and making trendy things, right?

00:51:39.000 They're even on the worst drug.

00:51:40.000 That's regurgitated nostalgia.

00:51:42.000 There's no nucleus.

00:51:43.000 No, there's nothing.

00:51:44.000 Yeah.

00:51:44.000 And to be fair, COVID wrecked some of it for the for Gen Z because the leaders of Gen Z all had to then go home and spend more time on the internet and not with each other.

00:51:52.000 And they're just like Googling stuff.

00:51:53.000 So Y2K took off.

00:51:54.000 We're wearing Y2K because that was then when they were kids and look at us like retro.

00:51:57.000 I learned this like Gen Z pause. 1.00

00:52:00.000 When you when you make a video, you know how sometimes you're like, hi, The Gen Z pause.

00:52:05.000 Hi.

00:52:06.000 Like, there's so many rules.

00:52:09.000 Or they put text really small on videos.

00:52:11.000 That's something that millennials don't do. 1.00

00:52:14.000 But it's to make you look at the thing for longer.

00:52:17.000 I mean, they're crazy, but it's all driven by social media in a way that no generation has been.

00:52:21.000 The 90s were the last decade.

00:52:24.000 I love the 90s.

00:52:25.000 The 90s were peak human existence.

00:52:26.000 It was the last thing.

00:52:27.000 It was the peak America.

00:52:29.000 There's younger people listening who are like, those old... Tell me about the 90s, guys.

00:52:33.000 Paris Hilton, man.

00:52:34.000 The Juicy Couture.

00:52:36.000 Everybody can argue about the generation they like, and for millennials and Gen Xers who had, like, formative years in the 90s are going to say the 90s were great.

00:52:45.000 The 80s were kind of weird, the 70s had their time, the 60s had their time, but these are discernible generations, or decades.

00:52:53.000 You look at styles, someone can show you a picture of a living room, and you'll be like, oh, that was the 50s.

00:52:58.000 Someone can show you the picture of a diner and be like, that's 70s.

00:53:02.000 Someone can show you a picture of a guy, just a guy, wearing clothes, and you'll be like, That was the 80s.

00:53:07.000 He's wearing, like, neon leopard print hot pants, and you're like, we know when that was.

00:53:10.000 Feathery hair.

00:53:11.000 In the 90s.

00:53:11.000 Yep.

00:53:12.000 And then the 2000s happened.

00:53:14.000 And there are some things, like, how about... I say some things because... Skinny jeans and ballet flats, man.

00:53:21.000 No, it started to break apart.

00:53:22.000 Yeah.

00:53:23.000 So, wearing a long-sleeved shirt with a short-sleeved shirt over it, but that only was in certain areas of the millennial generation.

00:53:31.000 Yeah, for sure.

00:53:32.000 I wonder if it's because of the internet.

00:53:34.000 But we were we're downstairs hanging out in the green before the show.

00:53:38.000 And I'm like, I tell the TV to play top songs from the 80s.

00:53:42.000 And everybody knows the songs.

00:53:44.000 And it's like Shout comes on.

00:53:46.000 And oh, of course, Tears for Fears.

00:53:48.000 And I'm like, just put on Tears for Fears.

00:53:50.000 I was like, I was like 90s.

00:53:52.000 It was like Audioslave.

00:53:53.000 I think you were playing.

00:53:55.000 Uh, what were we playing?

00:53:55.000 No, no, no.

00:53:56.000 I was playing... Soundgarden?

00:53:57.000 No, it was Tony's.

00:53:58.000 Possum Kingdom.

00:53:59.000 Oh, nice.

00:54:00.000 And, uh, do you want to dance?

00:54:02.000 Yes!

00:54:02.000 I love that song.

00:54:03.000 And so, uh, I'm driving in my car, and we put on 90s playlist.

00:54:08.000 Every song that comes on, we're like, man, I know this song.

00:54:11.000 And then I was like, well, we've done 80s, we've done 70s, because the 70s, you got a bunch of hits you know, of course.

00:54:16.000 And then I, uh, I said, put on hits from the 2000s.

00:54:20.000 I knew none of it.

00:54:21.000 Well, 2000s is like Britney Spears, NSYNC, um, I don't know who else.

00:54:27.000 But wasn't that late 90s?

00:54:29.000 Ja Rule? 0.62

00:54:31.000 Yeah, a bit into the early 2000s.

00:54:33.000 Yeah, Nelly, Nelly.

00:54:35.000 It was much more pop.

00:54:36.000 When was Usher big?

00:54:37.000 He was around for a minute.

00:54:38.000 He's about to be big again because of the Halftime Show.

00:54:40.000 Yes, there's no stopping Usher.

00:54:42.000 I think it's the internet.

00:54:43.000 Creed!

00:54:44.000 Jack Posoba, Creed.

00:54:45.000 That's 90s.

00:54:46.000 Creed is 90s for sure.

00:54:48.000 I think it's because of the internet.

00:54:50.000 And what happened was, the reason we all knew these songs is because there was only like five places to get the songs.

00:54:57.000 But I noticed this when I was younger, and I started getting really angry.

00:54:59.000 It's the 2000s, I'm a teenager, and Q101, the radio station in Chicago, was only playing Stone Temple Pilots.

00:55:06.000 Oh, no, no, K-Rock is L.A., right?

00:55:08.000 Yeah, it was playing Stone Temple Pilots.

00:55:10.000 Basically, no matter what you do, you get Stone Temple Pilots and you get Pearl Jam.

00:55:13.000 And I'm like, dude, that song is like 12 years old!

00:55:18.000 And then I remember coming back like a few years ago, and I was like, wow, they're playing music from 30 years ago.

00:55:24.000 That's crazy.

00:55:26.000 And it's like rock, alternative rock.

00:55:28.000 And I'm like, yeah, it's an oldies station.

00:55:30.000 Dude, when I was a kid, we had the oldies station, oldies 104.3, and it's the 90s, and they'd play songs from the 50s and 60s.

00:55:38.000 So now if you're playing music from the 90s and the 80s, like you're oldies, dude.

00:55:42.000 Did you listen to 96.3?

00:55:44.000 In Chicago?

00:55:45.000 Oh, B-96!

00:55:46.000 Of course!

00:55:48.000 Oh, B-96, man.

00:55:49.000 That was my jam.

00:55:50.000 See, I feel like I didn't really grow up listening to the radio, and so I feel like I missed all kinds of musical references.

00:55:56.000 I listen to the radio on the way here.

00:55:57.000 I still like the radio.

00:55:58.000 See, I just listen to NPR all the time.

00:56:00.000 NPR?

00:56:01.000 Oh yeah, for sure.

00:56:02.000 Why do you torture yourself?

00:56:03.000 The thing is, it's good to see what other people are doing and how they're presenting things.

00:56:07.000 And at the time, when I got my license, because I'm a nerd, when I got my driver's license at 16 or whatever, I would drive around listening to This American Life, which I thought was such an interesting- It was a great show.

00:56:19.000 It was a great show.

00:56:20.000 And then I tried to listen to it in podcast format recently, and it was just so different.

00:56:25.000 And I feel like in some ways, if you were a music connoisseur in the 90s and 80s, and you're like, this is really good music, Any recreation, because obviously your favorite bands will have their moment and die down, the ones that come after them are not good enough to feel like they're carrying on the tradition.

00:56:40.000 And so in some ways these traditions of, you know, I think of this as like big band music, they just die.

00:56:45.000 Partially because they go out of fashion, but also because there isn't anyone who's able to carry on the torch effectively.

00:56:50.000 Yeah, I still love, I think radio is great and like when I travel so much, I'm driving so much, I like listening to radio in different areas to see like what they're listening to and stuff.

00:57:00.000 Road trips were so fun when like you'd start to lose a radio station and then you'd try and look for the next one and then all of a sudden it's like, You start hearing both at the same time and then, you know, we're driving and I'm hearing like Blink-182 on the radio, what's my age again?

00:57:16.000 And then it's like, well, I just got back.

00:57:21.000 I'm like, whoa.

00:57:22.000 You're seeing the cross section of culture.

00:57:23.000 That was my experience when I first started coming down to West Virginia during 2020 because there's nothing to do.

00:57:29.000 It's like a lot of driving around and I was with someone and we got like four stations back to back that were all just like very typical what I would call pop punk and this friend like turned to me and he was like West Virginia where pop punk never died.

00:57:42.000 101.5 baby.

00:57:43.000 I think it's so funny because there are I mean in some ways it makes me wonder I talk a little bit about on the show about regionalism and how there is regional culture in America which is largely due to foundational immigration and how we do lose it especially as the internet becomes more popular but maybe the radio is what keeps regional local culture alive.

00:58:00.000 So, right, we lost regional diction because of television, because of national television.

00:58:06.000 Everyone's trying to, look, if I'm going to appeal to the entire country, you've got to lose the accent or whatever.

00:58:11.000 And I think with the internet, you've basically taken away, you've reversed this.

00:58:18.000 So now you've got all of these different subcultures to the point where some of them are getting really, really weird.

00:58:24.000 Really weird and creepy, people dressing up like animals and doing weird things.

00:58:28.000 Yeah, but like, So back in the day, we want people who do nasty, gross things to keep it to themselves.

00:58:37.000 The weird costumes they wear and they go out in public.

00:58:40.000 There's a viral video of a guy dressing like a baby in a diaper going out and chugging out a bottle and filming other people and then talking about how it's getting him off.

00:58:46.000 I'm like, we want people like that not to be able to post these things.

00:58:50.000 That guy would never be on TV.

00:58:54.000 So, most people got their culture from very few sources, so everybody recognized something, and that builds, it builds a connection.

00:59:05.000 When, what's the song, Sweet Caroline?

00:59:06.000 What's the name of the song?

00:59:07.000 It's got, it's not the name of the song.

00:59:09.000 Everybody knows it.

00:59:10.000 And they play it at the baseball stadium, everyone goes, bop, bop, bop.

00:59:14.000 What about modern?

00:59:15.000 Sweet Caroline, yeah.

00:59:16.000 So, I'm at, we're at a pool hall.

00:59:21.000 I put on a bunch of music going back from like the seventies till now, and sure enough, when I put on Bohemian Rhapsody, the entire bar starts singing.

00:59:31.000 And then someone was like, who did it?

00:59:33.000 And like, yeah, and we're all singing Bohemian Rhapsody.

00:59:35.000 It was fun.

00:59:36.000 And then I put on a few other, uh, you know, hits or whatever, and you've got people sporadically singing.

00:59:41.000 Then I put on modern rock and everyone just tunes out.

00:59:44.000 Nobody knows what it is.

00:59:45.000 Modern as in like right now or?

00:59:47.000 Yeah, yeah, like music.

00:59:48.000 No, like 2010s rock songs and stuff.

00:59:51.000 Things that I enjoy.

00:59:51.000 I think the only thing people would know and it would depend on what age group is at the bar are some of the really big hits that were like popular viral dance videos during 2020 especially.

01:00:02.000 But not even Taylor Swift people are singing.

01:00:05.000 Yeah, but that's because you just listen, you really reflect on the philosophy there.

01:00:09.000 But like, everybody knows... The Macaroon.

01:00:14.000 But Mr. Brightside, The Killers.

01:00:15.000 Mr. Brightside, that's a big one.

01:00:17.000 But nobody sings that.

01:00:19.000 Oh yeah, people sing that.

01:00:20.000 That's the difference.

01:00:21.000 When I'm at the bar and I play that, some people are like, I hate Mr. Brightside.

01:00:25.000 It's like, I just can't stand that song.

01:00:26.000 Yeah, yeah, same.

01:00:28.000 I only know people who sing to it.

01:00:30.000 Maybe that's a cultural divide. 0.68

01:00:31.000 I want to talk to you guys about the future.

01:00:33.000 Oh, no.

01:00:34.000 We have this story from Ars Technica.

01:00:36.000 California suspends cruise robo-taxis after car dragged pedestrian 20 feet.

01:00:42.000 Horrifying hit-and-run triggers California suspension of cruise robo-taxis.

01:00:47.000 Most people don't know this.

01:00:49.000 This is the craziest thing.

01:00:50.000 We don't really talk about it that much, but in San Francisco, there are taxis with no drivers.

01:00:56.000 Right?

01:00:56.000 Did you guys, were you guys, you guys know that?

01:00:58.000 It's been, it's been some time.

01:00:59.000 And it's just never been big news that, oh yeah, that thing?

01:01:02.000 Yeah, well it happened.

01:01:03.000 Cars are driving themselves, and the car will pull up, you'll get in, and it'll drive you to your destination, there's nobody there.

01:01:10.000 Well, this car ran somebody over, dragged them, and kept them pinned as they screamed for mercy and help.

01:01:16.000 And the car didn't care, because it can't.

01:01:19.000 They say less than three months after the California Public Utilities Commission approved RoboTaxi Service Cruiser's plan to provide around-the-clock driverless riders, in San Francisco, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has shut down Cruiser's driverless operations.

01:01:30.000 The suspension followed two notable accidents involving Cruiser's RoboTaxis.

01:01:33.000 In August, one person was injured after a Cruiser's vehicle crashed into a fire truck.

01:01:37.000 And earlier this month, a pedestrian using a crosswalk was found in critical condition after a driver of another vehicle struck the pedestrian and threw her into the path of an oncoming Cruze Robotaxi.

01:01:48.000 The hit-and-run incident is still being investigated.

01:01:50.000 According to Cruze, its autonomous vehicle detected the collision and stopped on top of the pedestrian, then veered off the road, dragging the pedestrian under 20 feet.

01:01:59.000 When the AV finally stopped, it appeared to pin the pedestrian's leg beneath a tire, while videos show the pedestrian screaming for help.

01:02:08.000 So this one, wow.

01:02:10.000 The dystopia is here.

01:02:11.000 Guys, did you know that MGM, let me check the app real quick.

01:02:14.000 Did you know that MGM casinos have been, they were hacked?

01:02:18.000 And they've not come back.

01:02:21.000 They've announced, much of it is back to normal.

01:02:24.000 But for those that aren't familiar, if you're into playing poker, there's an app called Bravo.

01:02:29.000 There's a couple of them.

01:02:31.000 Bravo tracks the available poker rooms around you.

01:02:34.000 Okay, as of right now, MGM's app is live, once again.

01:02:37.000 But for, I think, like a month or two, it was down.

01:02:40.000 Their computer systems got hacked.

01:02:42.000 The entire MGM network, from Vegas to DC, wherever, I don't know where their other casinos are.

01:02:47.000 And, um, everything was in cash.

01:02:50.000 They somehow, I think they got phished.

01:02:52.000 Someone sent them an email, they clicked the link, installed the ransomware on their computers, which infected the entire network, and they said, pay us millions of dollars, otherwise we shut you down.

01:03:01.000 They said, we will not pay.

01:03:02.000 The entire casino network got shut down.

01:03:04.000 I would like you to imagine this scenario.

01:03:07.000 MGM does not operate autonomous machines that weigh a ton.

01:03:11.000 MGM has a bunch of, well, technically, I guess you could say they do.

01:03:14.000 They have slot machines.

01:03:15.000 I don't know if they weigh a ton, but they're not mobile.

01:03:19.000 These robo-taxi companies, you are going to have a fleet of AI-automated driverless cars, and what happens when an employee clicks a link, installs ransomware on their servers, and then all of the robo-taxis are locked and can't be altered in any way, and they say, we're not paying the ransom, and the cars just start driving around with no human control or input.

01:03:47.000 I suppose the argument would be like, we can do nothing to stop the cars.

01:03:50.000 They're going to keep operating as they do, and maybe they just pick people up and drop them off.

01:03:57.000 But with the ransomware, what's to stop someone from just controlling the entirety of the fleet with a single malware link, and then making all the cars, I don't know, drive into the bay?

01:04:08.000 It's a Black Mirror episode.

01:04:10.000 It's a Black Mirror episode.

01:04:10.000 Honestly, this is why I'm not getting the Neuralink.

01:04:13.000 Yeah, I mean, honestly, I don't have a choice.

01:04:16.000 Well, I'm also going to be honest.

01:04:19.000 The Vax, Tim is mandating the Neuralink for all of us.

01:04:21.000 It's a company.

01:04:22.000 I'm just kidding.

01:04:22.000 I'm going to be a recluse in the woods.

01:04:23.000 It's just really terrifying.

01:04:25.000 It's terrifying.

01:04:26.000 It's yeah, it can happen to that.

01:04:28.000 The Neuralink, I'm a I'm against it, but I also, I'm like.

01:04:32.000 Uh-oh.

01:04:34.000 No, no, no.

01:04:35.000 What?

01:04:35.000 No, no, no, no.

01:04:37.000 Okay.

01:04:37.000 You know what the woke leftists are gonna do with Neuralink?

01:04:42.000 With Neuralink, if you could read right capabilities and you can enter a metaverse where you can actually experience like a real alternate reality, all of these woke leftists are going to go into the metaverse and create white men avatars.

01:04:58.000 Yeah, their Marxist paradise will be in the metaverse.

01:05:01.000 I mean, look, if you were going to make a video game and someone said, you can choose between these five different characters.

01:05:11.000 You've got the fighter, the barbarian, the bard, the cleric, the monk. 0.99

01:05:16.000 And if you choose Barbarian, you get double the experience, you get double the HP, you get double the resources, double the money, everyone agrees with you, and the game's super easy.

01:05:25.000 You'd be like, well, maybe I want the challenge, but a lot of people are gonna be like, look, I'll just, I'll take the strong guy.

01:05:30.000 His stats are way better.

01:05:32.000 So if the leftist argument is, you know, white privilege, they will choose to play as white people in the metaverse.

01:05:38.000 Yeah.

01:05:38.000 Let's put it this way.

01:05:41.000 We're not even- I'm not even talking about a video game with stats or something.

01:05:43.000 Right.

01:05:44.000 Imagine someone is working in the metaverse.

01:05:46.000 Jobs are digital.

01:05:48.000 Do you think these woke leftists are gonna choose non-white avatars?

01:05:52.000 Or do you think they're gonna be like- There's gonna be like a Hispanic woman who's super woke and she'll be like, if I make a white male avatar, I'll get hired. 0.96

01:05:59.000 Right.

01:05:59.000 Will the rules of intersectionality apply in the metaverse?

01:06:02.000 But who's going to legislate all of it?

01:06:05.000 Congress?

01:06:06.000 They can't even get Facebook right, you know?

01:06:09.000 I mean, so... The self-driving cars really freak me out for a lot of reasons.

01:06:15.000 Yeah, same here.

01:06:17.000 I would never want anyone I love to get in one, and I understand there could be maybe an argument that they are helpful, that they make it so women can stay at work longer instead of driving their kids around or whatever thing the utopian left is trying to sell, but ultimately You know, anything controlled by a computer is subjective to failure, and there's no way to protect against that.

01:06:38.000 I mean, humans go rogue too, but I wonder if the reason they're destroying San Francisco is to create a test city for all the weird robot crap they're doing? 0.98

01:06:47.000 Emphasis on crap? 0.99

01:06:49.000 Did you see they have those robot food delivery bots? 1.00

01:06:52.000 Yes, yes.

01:06:53.000 And some dude was going around- Kicking it?

01:06:55.000 Flipping them over, destroying them and then stealing the food.

01:06:59.000 Was it San Francisco who has the robot dog police or is that another place in California?

01:07:02.000 It's like food delivery.

01:07:04.000 Apparently you can buy those robot dogs now and they're not that expensive.

01:07:07.000 I mean they're expensive, don't get me wrong.

01:07:08.000 What would you name one?

01:07:09.000 What would you name a robot dog?

01:07:11.000 Sparky.

01:07:12.000 No, it's gotta be something like Endbringer.

01:07:15.000 Here he is, let's bring him in right now.

01:07:18.000 Tim's new robot dog.

01:07:19.000 Well right, because it's like the Herald of the End of Days.

01:07:22.000 Yeah.

01:07:23.000 I mean the Herald of the End of Days, we just all call him Herald.

01:07:26.000 Well instead of Herald, you can just use a word that represents the sound made.

01:07:30.000 So Trump.

01:07:31.000 I like Herald.

01:07:32.000 They had some in downtown LA and really just like the people did, they just kicked it all

01:07:38.000 I'm sorry, the people smashing the robot food delivery things, I get it, it's wrong, don't break other people's stuff, but it is kind of hilarious.

01:07:48.000 I thought it was the funniest thing ever.

01:07:50.000 It's so dystopian, these massive tech companies that are ultra-woke and funding these horrible policies, build these robots to deliver food to get rid of labor, And don't be coming to downtown LA where there's like so many homeless people out there, you know?

01:08:07.000 This is the future.

01:08:08.000 It's like, I watched Elysium today and I was making fun of it.

01:08:11.000 You guys ever see Elysium?

01:08:13.000 I like it, it's good.

01:08:14.000 What is it?

01:08:14.000 If it's scary, I won't watch it.

01:08:16.000 No, it's a sci-fi with Matt Damon.

01:08:18.000 And Earth is overpopulated and everyone lives in squalor and the ultra-wealthy live in a space, an orbital space station paradise called Elysium.

01:08:25.000 And I'm just like, this movie is such leftist propaganda, and it is, because like, the rich people have a machine that can cure any disease, and the only reason they don't give it to the poor is because they don't want to.

01:08:35.000 That's classic rich people behavior, they're just like that. 0.71

01:08:37.000 Right, they just don't want to give people the cure, it's like, let them die!

01:08:39.000 And like, okay, no, like the reality isn't the real world, it's scarcity.

01:08:42.000 But seeing that, and then seeing stuff like this, I'm like, you know, it's not that far off where you're going to have 90% of people are homeless homeless like street urchin types running around Smashing autonomous food delivery to find food and it's gonna be this weirdest thing.

01:08:59.000 We're like The companies that do the food delivery will have flying drones delivering food to other wealthy people who live on the top of towers, and when the homeless 90% chuck rocks at it to knock it down to get food, the companies say, yeah, it's fine though, because we don't have employees, we save so much money, the cost of the food absorbs all of the damages from... The business expense, yeah.

01:09:24.000 Yeah, so when Amazon opened that store where you didn't have any staff, and you could just walk in and grab whatever you wanted, I very easily... Which was the weirdest thing, have you ever tried that?

01:09:34.000 They're all over, yes.

01:09:35.000 And so, the moment they opened it, I immediately discovered an exploit to be able to get whatever you want for free.

01:09:43.000 And so we did a test run where we were able to trick the system into giving me a massive bag of groceries free of charge.

01:09:52.000 Now don't get me wrong, we did pay for everything, but without going into great details about what we did, because less people repeated it.

01:10:01.000 When I talked to Amazon, the general answer that I got was, we don't care about shoplifting.

01:10:07.000 We save so much money by not having employees that shoplifting is negligible to us.

01:10:13.000 I find myself, when I go to the grocery store and there are the self-checkout lanes and then the ones with the employees, I find myself wanting to go to where the employees are because I just feel like they're getting deleted.

01:10:22.000 I do too.

01:10:23.000 Even if it's faster, I feel like there's some sort of loyalty to humanity, like another

01:10:27.000 human person with a job, I need you to be there so that you have your job so we can

01:10:31.000 continue doing this.

01:10:32.000 Otherwise, it's just like deleting people all the time.

01:10:34.000 Totally.

01:10:35.000 I've heard also part of it is that companies don't have to deal with any wastage now.

01:10:37.000 They have all those products that are going to be going bad, whatever, they don't have

01:10:39.000 to deal with that stuff because people that are getting it shoplifted, they don't have

01:10:42.000 to worry about getting rid of the products after the fact.

01:10:45.000 People just take it.

01:10:46.000 So it's like they're like, hey, whatever, there's more, now it's like-

01:10:49.000 That way they don't have to pay someone to take it off the shelf to remove it.

01:10:51.000 So again, just deleting people this way.

01:10:54.000 This is why I say the 90s is the best.

01:10:57.000 Just the best.

01:10:59.000 I made a video when we did this where, in one continuous shot, I take my bag of groceries, exit, walk a block away, set it down, pull out all of the food, and then wait for the Amazon app to confirm the purchase, and it said I bought a pack of gum.

01:11:14.000 No, that happened to me too.

01:11:16.000 I had like a whole cart.

01:11:18.000 It was like in Buffalo Grove when I was visiting my parents.

01:11:22.000 It was the weirdest thing.

01:11:23.000 I was like so weirded out that we just walked in and I walked out and they calculated everything and it became like it was like five dollars because they didn't Calculate properly?

01:11:34.000 Yeah.

01:11:34.000 Well, for us, we intentionally found a way to exploit Amazon's system.

01:11:37.000 Okay, I didn't- We intentionally made it ring me up for a pack of gum when I had a full bag of groceries.

01:11:42.000 Wow, yeah.

01:11:43.000 Because- But they don't care.

01:11:44.000 And so, recently, at DCA Airport, they now have an Amazon Go, sensors all along the ceiling, you scan your hand, you walk in, take whatever you want, and walk out.

01:11:53.000 Nice.

01:11:53.000 No, no, no, no.

01:11:54.000 I'm not doing that whole scan hand thing.

01:11:56.000 No, no.

01:11:57.000 I resisted when the iPhone had you put your thumbprint in so you could open your home button.

01:12:01.000 I didn't like that for the longest time.

01:12:03.000 I would say we probably found four different exploits for this system where potentially if you keep doing it over and over again, they're gonna call the police on you and the cops are gonna come and be like, this is not an accident, you're doing this on purpose.

01:12:16.000 But there's probably four different exploits for getting whatever you want for free.

01:12:22.000 I do not recommend doing it, but you gotta ask Amazon what their policies are because apparently, like, there have been statements about, like, they don't care if people take whatever they want.

01:12:32.000 The argument made is, how do you prove it's shoplifting if you tell the people to take whatever they want and walk out?

01:12:39.000 Yeah, seriously.

01:12:40.000 I don't know.

01:12:40.000 I mean, theoretically, they have to post... I'm trying to think of comparing it to trespassing or anything else.

01:12:45.000 You have to post signs being like, here's exactly how you pay for it.

01:12:47.000 Civil action.

01:12:48.000 It doesn't make any sense.

01:12:49.000 I think it's civil.

01:12:50.000 If you go into a grocery store and take something and leave with it, that's shoplifting because you're supposed to stop and pay.

01:12:56.000 But if they tell you, don't worry, just walk out and we'll charge you for it, trust us.

01:13:00.000 Hey, I did everything they told me to do.

01:13:01.000 If they didn't charge me, that's their fault.

01:13:03.000 I think the same thing with the self-checkout at the grocery store.

01:13:05.000 Like, if you do it, they're always really annoying.

01:13:07.000 And if it doesn't scan, but you put it in your bag, and then it keeps going, like, are you shoplifting?

01:13:12.000 Or is their system just bad?

01:13:13.000 But usually they'll say, oh, it didn't scan.

01:13:15.000 Sometimes it'll go away.

01:13:18.000 Or they'll be like- There was some lady who had like a, this is a big story. 1.00

01:13:22.000 She had like a 90 cent item that didn't scan. 0.79

01:13:24.000 And so they called the cops and the cops came and arrested her.

01:13:27.000 And the video, this is an old story.

01:13:28.000 Apparently the video showed that she did run everything over the scanner.

01:13:32.000 And then this one small item didn't scan, but she didn't notice.

01:13:35.000 And they were like, oh, she was shoplifting. 0.91

01:13:36.000 And she was like, I have no idea what you're talking about.

01:13:38.000 She's like, here is 90 cents. 0.67

01:13:40.000 I think we're good to go.

01:13:41.000 But if it wasn't in California, that's for sure.

01:13:43.000 Well, look, look, Elysium, I recommend watching it.

01:13:47.000 For one, I love the fight between Kruger and Matt Damon's character in the exosuits.

01:13:51.000 It's good fun.

01:13:52.000 But he's... Old movie.

01:13:55.000 Matt Damon's character is in line.

01:13:57.000 The police are all robots.

01:13:59.000 And so, the robots stop and they're like, what is in the bag?

01:14:01.000 And he's like, do you really need to search it?

01:14:03.000 And they're like, open the bag.

01:14:04.000 What's in the bag?

01:14:05.000 And he's like, hair products, mostly, as a joke.

01:14:08.000 And then they whack him with a baton, breaking his arm for non-compliance, throw him to the ground, and then dump out his bag and there's nothing in it.

01:14:15.000 Because he just made a joke.

01:14:16.000 But this is what you're gonna get with- Bad joke.

01:14:18.000 They're gonna automate police. 1.00

01:14:19.000 No question.

01:14:20.000 Well, there's a- There's a- Fire departments will be automated, police will be automated, and you will not like it.

01:14:24.000 There's a robot police officer in the city, right?

01:14:25.000 Patrolling the subways?

01:14:26.000 Yep.

01:14:26.000 That's New York, right?

01:14:27.000 How's that thing working out?

01:14:28.000 It's probably terrifyingly bad.

01:14:29.000 Is it covered in graffiti by now?

01:14:30.000 Is there someone living inside of it?

01:14:31.000 Also, you could probably just push it in front of a train and it does, like, nothing to do.

01:14:34.000 Not that you should!

01:14:35.000 Don't give him ideas!

01:14:36.000 I'm not advocating for the destruction of police property in any way, but you know, the thing is, what is it gonna do?

01:14:42.000 Run after you?

01:14:42.000 I know.

01:14:43.000 Can't go up steps.

01:14:44.000 Could it taze someone who's resisting?

01:14:46.000 I don't understand.

01:14:47.000 I live in LA.

01:14:48.000 I have no problems.

01:14:50.000 They won't bother.

01:14:51.000 They won't bother?

01:14:52.000 That's crazy.

01:14:54.000 Yeah, seriously, it's like, what, $900?

01:14:57.000 Jay, yeah.

01:14:58.000 I've seen the craziest stuff just walking out of the store and then I'm standing there like, oh, I guess I'm still going to pay for this. 1.00

01:15:03.000 The little idiot at the grocery line when someone's walking out with like a hundred dollars. 1.00

01:15:07.000 Oh, yeah. 1.00

01:15:07.000 I think the minimum is what? 1.00

01:15:09.000 Under a thousand bucks.

01:15:10.000 Yeah.

01:15:11.000 It's under nine hundred.

01:15:11.000 Yeah.

01:15:12.000 It reminds me of those studies on productivity.

01:15:14.000 I don't know if you ever seen this, but if you have like an open office concept

01:15:17.000 and you have a really high performing employee, the people seated around them will also tend to,

01:15:23.000 you know, generate more work, be more productive.

01:15:26.000 But if you have a low performance employee, they bring down everyone around them too.

01:15:30.000 And it's, I can't imagine being the society where you're like trying to be law abiding.

01:15:35.000 And then after a while, it's just like, well, what if I cut a couple corners?

01:15:38.000 Cause they're cutting major corners and so mine's not as bad.

01:15:40.000 And then we just devolve into chaos.

01:15:41.000 But in LA they love, they love homeless people.

01:15:45.000 It's just a different culture.

01:15:48.000 Unhoused neighbors.

01:15:49.000 Let's jump to the story.

01:15:50.000 We'll bring it back to modern times.

01:15:51.000 From the post-millennial, Jamal Bowman surrenders to police after being charged for pulling fire alarm in Capitol.

01:15:58.000 But oh, my friends, it's so much worse.

01:16:00.000 We have this from RNC Research.

01:16:02.000 Matt Gaetz says, this is what lawyers would call intent.

01:16:05.000 Y'all ready for this one?

01:16:08.000 Bowman, you see that?

01:16:10.000 Here's him walking up, removing the signs.

01:16:13.000 Knocking on the floor, pulling the fire alarm, and then walking out.

01:16:16.000 Is anybody surprised?

01:16:18.000 What do we do?

01:16:19.000 Do we impeach members of Congress?

01:16:22.000 Well, someone, I'll get her name in a second, but there is a Republican House member who is wanting to have an official reprimand.

01:16:31.000 Expel.

01:16:32.000 I don't know if they're going to move it to expel.

01:16:33.000 She filed a motion to censure him and to have him moved off committees, but that was before this video.

01:16:37.000 video. So this video was released after the fact. Who can I text and be like, expel him!

01:16:43.000 Who in Congress has been expelled, has been impeached, has been anything?

01:16:50.000 He should be expelled for this. I mean he should be but...

01:16:54.000 She was the one who filed the first motion. I mean...

01:16:58.000 Did you see his statement?

01:16:59.000 He released a statement today.

01:17:01.000 No, the one from this morning being like, you know, I did take responsibility for the fire alarm, but I'm very grateful that Capitol Police agree that I didn't do it to disrupt the vote and Republicans will spin this.

01:17:14.000 You know what they're like is essentially what it says.

01:17:16.000 And then this video comes out and it's even more obvious that it was definitely to disrupt the vote.

01:17:22.000 Premeditated.

01:17:23.000 It seems crazy.

01:17:24.000 He needs to be expelled.

01:17:25.000 If the Republican majority can't expel a member of Congress over this, then the Republican majority doesn't exist.

01:17:29.000 Let's see.

01:17:30.000 But I mean, what about Joe Biden?

01:17:32.000 What about?

01:17:33.000 Look, impeaching a president requires the Senate and it's very difficult.

01:17:37.000 But this is the House with a Republican majority with they call him MAGA Mike the Speaker.

01:17:42.000 He should be expelled first thing.

01:17:44.000 I mean, look at this video.

01:17:45.000 They're not going to do it.

01:17:46.000 You could with other things.

01:17:48.000 It's more ambiguous to do this, whatever.

01:17:50.000 This is a video of this guy intentionally walking past a sign that says this is not open, knocking down another sign and pulling a fire alarm.

01:17:57.000 I just love thinking about all those like think pieces and tweets that were sent out after the initial story broke, defending him on why that door was confusing.

01:18:05.000 It was deeply confusing. 0.79

01:18:06.000 And also ridiculous.

01:18:08.000 I was when I was working on this story for Tim Cass news, which you guys shall follow on the social medias.

01:18:13.000 This morning, he Pulls the fire alarm, then walks past Capitol Police because he had to get to the vote, but says nothing about it because he knew there wasn't a fire.

01:18:22.000 But how did you know there wasn't a real fire if you didn't pull the alarm?

01:18:27.000 These people will always lie to you.

01:18:29.000 They don't care.

01:18:29.000 And this guy is particularly brazen because he's just lying over and over again expecting you guys to buy the, well the Republicans are really the ones who have this mess and they're so bad, like it's always about the other party.

01:18:43.000 Meanwhile, The Republicans pulled that fire alarm.

01:18:45.000 And the thing is, are New Yorkers going to be upset enough about this?

01:18:49.000 If he isn't expelled, are they going to vote him out of office and say, I don't like the way you're representing us?

01:18:54.000 Probably not.

01:18:55.000 There's no accountability on that side.

01:18:57.000 It's different, but this also made me think of when AOC lied about the J6 stuff, when she said she was being attacked and felt like they were going to do horrible things to her, but then the timeline broke it down and it wasn't possible even through the tunnels and where she was and all that stuff.

01:19:10.000 They will get away with anything.

01:19:11.000 They can lie to us, we can see the videos, we understand what's going on, but the people at large, the media, they can get away with it.

01:19:17.000 They helped them get away with it.

01:19:18.000 Don't write stories in defense of this still.

01:19:20.000 Right, they have the right letter at the end of their name so everyone will fall in line.

01:19:23.000 It's the same thing with the Pavlov Dov and the world colonizers. 0.92

01:19:25.000 Republicans will do nothing.

01:19:27.000 I mean, look, props to Matt Gaetz for doing anything when it comes to McCarthy, just getting something done.

01:19:32.000 But I don't see them taking a meaningful action like, yo, this course of action where you see him take down these signs and then pull the fire alarm is an intent to disrupt official government proceedings.

01:19:43.000 It is a threat to our democracy.

01:19:47.000 He's gotta be removed.

01:19:49.000 If this kind of behavior is allowed to continue, it will escalate.

01:19:53.000 And we are dangerously close to the point where finally someone in Congress just snaps, and then someone else snaps, and then all of a sudden someone's getting caned, and that's the last thing we want to happen.

01:20:02.000 Yeah.

01:20:03.000 This is just as bad as Pearl Harbor, you know?

01:20:05.000 That's what the Democrats would say if it was Jim Jordan doing it.

01:20:09.000 Well, if a Republican did this, front page of every newspaper, the world would be over.

01:20:17.000 Several inquiries would be launched, lots of special money from the GOJ.

01:20:20.000 And the GOP leadership would apologize for having it.

01:20:23.000 Oh, 100%.

01:20:23.000 And they would announce censure and the removal from committees.

01:20:26.000 Yeah.

01:20:27.000 No, he'll get away with it.

01:20:27.000 He's fine.

01:20:28.000 He's protected.

01:20:29.000 That's why I'm glad the video came out, right?

01:20:32.000 Like, I am glad that the second this happened, this is, I am cynical a lot about a lot of social media, and we do need to verify things, but when this happened, they were in Congress for this, like, stopgap budget vote or whatever, and the video came out over the weekend, by Monday, there was a narrative, there were lots of public condemnations from the Republicans, you know, it was kind of obvious what had happened, and then the second he goes to court, the next time he goes to court is, I think, January, because, okay, so, sorry, one thought at a time.

01:20:59.000 So, He goes to court, accepts this plea deal where he is going to pay a $1,000 fine.

01:21:06.000 He's going to write in a letter of apology to the chief of the Capitol Police.

01:21:09.000 And then if he doesn't break any more laws, this will all be dropped three months from now.

01:21:13.000 That's why he goes back in January.

01:21:15.000 And if it had been a Republican, they would never let this happen.

01:21:19.000 And also the second he accepts the plea deal we get another video about an even more blatant, like it's even more clear what was going on.

01:21:26.000 And so as much as I think social media can warp perspective or you shouldn't share videos that aren't verified, it is interesting that he gets a very sweet deal and as soon as we think it's about to fall, Go under the rug.

01:21:37.000 Someone out there is like, no, you guys really need to see what happened.

01:21:40.000 And that's a good use of Twitter, in my opinion.

01:21:43.000 Oh, I know.

01:21:43.000 I agree.

01:21:44.000 For all the bad stuff that we see on Twitter, I don't want to suppress, you know, a lot of people sharing false news, although I think it's ridiculous that they do it.

01:21:51.000 But I like the debates that it starts because it's been, for me, fun writing about the way people are reacting to these things, whether it's in our journalism sphere or just people at large, you know, the way they The way they're interpreting reality is so different.

01:22:06.000 Even with something like this, this maybe not so much, but you know, I think of the Rittenhouse video or the George Floyd video and the way we could all look at that video and have way different interpretations, even though it looks like it's a, it should be objective reality.

01:22:18.000 Yeah.

01:22:18.000 But depending on what political persuasion you are.

01:22:21.000 And what 30 seconds before or after is included.

01:22:23.000 Oh yeah, for sure.

01:22:24.000 How does War Room handle stuff like this?

01:22:25.000 Like do you guys play videos that you find on Twitter?

01:22:28.000 Do you have a verification process?

01:22:31.000 I think I mentioned this, like, before we started.

01:22:34.000 We don't cover probably about 80% of this kind of news that goes on.

01:22:39.000 Sure.

01:22:40.000 Yeah.

01:22:40.000 So, like, what Steve likes to say is, like, chasing the shiny toys.

01:22:45.000 And so, you know, we try to focus on, you know, for example, the speaker race and just, like, the really nitty gritty of just what's going on.

01:22:54.000 And so not to be distracted.

01:22:56.000 I mean, not saying that this isn't important.

01:22:58.000 It's important.

01:23:01.000 Not to lose focus on the new speaker.

01:23:05.000 You guys have more of a narrowed view.

01:23:08.000 So when this happened, did you guys talk about it at all?

01:23:11.000 Or were you still focused more on the budget?

01:23:13.000 We're just on getting the right speaker, making sure that the posse is calling every single moment, voicing their opinion.

01:23:23.000 All of this stuff is great.

01:23:27.000 For us, we don't focus on that.

01:23:29.000 We want to make sure that, you know, because after the speaker vote, we've got a whole nother job ahead of us to make sure that the speaker, you know, aligns with everything that we want, you know, him to do.

01:23:42.000 So, so that's why it was funny because I was telling Steve, I'm like, I'm like, they talk about current events.

01:23:48.000 I need to go look at current events.

01:23:50.000 And Steve was like, Grace, Just be blunt and just tell them, you know, that we focus on, you know, like the speaker stuff.

01:24:00.000 And we talked about the 90s, which you guys know all about.

01:24:02.000 Steve's big on singularity stuff, though.

01:24:06.000 Very big on singularity, yes, yes.

01:24:08.000 Shout out to Joe Allen, who might be watching right now.

01:24:10.000 Joe Allen, yes, yes.

01:24:11.000 He's a very good friend of mine, and you guys should have him on.

01:24:15.000 Oh, you guys had him on last time.

01:24:16.000 We have his book.

01:24:17.000 Yeah, his book.

01:24:18.000 Yes, oh my God, yes.

01:24:19.000 It's right there.

01:24:20.000 It's right there, dark hand.

01:24:21.000 He's a great guy.

01:24:21.000 Joe's the man.

01:24:22.000 He was with us in Miami, he came to the event.

01:24:24.000 Yes, he was there, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:24:27.000 Good guy.

01:24:27.000 People should understand what the singularity means.

01:24:29.000 The moment the AI generates the ability to improve itself, It's like thousands of years of human development to create an AI and then a fraction of a second where the AI exponentially magnifies itself and becomes something beyond our comprehension.

01:24:45.000 So I have his book and I tell Joe and I'm like, I'm really scared to read it, to be honest.

01:24:54.000 It's a big book.

01:24:55.000 Yeah, it's a big book, but it's an important topic.

01:25:00.000 It's a very important topic.

01:25:02.000 One thing that War Room really prides ourselves on is just being ahead, six months, a year ahead.

01:25:12.000 Talking about the future and the singularity, Neuralink, all that stuff, the marriage with machinery, these cars.

01:25:17.000 Yeah, I mean, even AI, like, I'm telling you, even the app, I mean, full disclaimer, I mean, I use ChatGPT.

01:25:27.000 If Joe's watching, I hope he's sickened.

01:25:29.000 He's probably mad at me, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:25:31.000 No, but I wanted to, I mean, that's the thing.

01:25:35.000 Why, because it makes it- She uses ChatGPT and TikTok, who is this woman? 0.99

01:25:38.000 No, I mean, it's, That's the way it's going.

01:25:43.000 I think it's fascinating that we have hypothesized exactly what AI is gonna do, and it's going to do it, and we know it's gonna do it, and that is, we'll create a robo-car, for instance, and say, your job is to get person from point A to point B, and then robo-car will say, the fastest way to do that is to go 300 miles an hour.

01:26:01.000 You know, speed limits are inhibiting the system.

01:26:04.000 Then they'll try to shut it down, and it'll say, shutting me down inhibits the system.

01:26:08.000 We know that this kind of thing will eventually happen no matter what.

01:26:12.000 The machine will eventually decide that human interaction is a detriment to its system because humans are imperfect in how they code these things.

01:26:18.000 They won't be able to predict the loopholes that will occur in the algorithms.

01:26:23.000 I don't think there's any turning back from it now, which is what's scary.

01:26:26.000 And it's so much sooner than we thought.

01:26:29.000 And probably we even know right now.

01:26:32.000 I mean, the stuff that's reaching the consumer market is not the most advanced stuff that's out there.

01:26:35.000 I mean, just check GPT.

01:26:36.000 Hey, can I have a business model to create some sort of business?

01:26:40.000 Boom, it's right there.

01:26:42.000 To be fair though, chat GPT is so obstructed by wokeness that it's useless.

01:26:48.000 It is.

01:26:50.000 Mid-journey is great because it can help you conceptualize things, but chat GPT I find to be almost useless because it doesn't actually ever tell you anything.

01:26:57.000 Think about how fast Midjourney has changed in the year of using it.

01:27:01.000 I don't know, it's scary to me.

01:27:04.000 I think there's transhumanists who really like the idea of Neuralink, like Ray Kurzweil, and they want to upload their consciousness and be immortal forever, and that's the thing I worry about in the future, where I literally might have to have a fight with my kids on them wanting to be immortal. 0.91

01:27:17.000 Instead of sneaking out, it's like, can I plug my brain in?

01:27:21.000 There's a show called Upload, and it's pretty good, but it just basically turns into leftist propaganda, and it's kind of laughable.

01:27:26.000 But like, we know about that, right?

01:27:28.000 that right? The show is when you're before or after you die you can upload your brain,

01:27:34.000 your consciousness into the digital universes. And in the latest season, spoilers everybody,

01:27:40.000 I don't know if you're watching it but I'm going to spoil it for you, there is to have

01:27:44.000 the luxury afterlife.

01:27:45.000 It's very expensive.

01:27:46.000 And you gotta keep paying.

01:27:47.000 And as soon as you can't pay, you're gone.

01:27:50.000 And for the people who are broke, you get this like pay per megabyte system where you freeze until someone reloads you and then you can start moving again.

01:27:58.000 Time jumps for you.

01:27:59.000 And then so they try to create a free open source version where you can upload your consciousness to this open source world.

01:28:05.000 And it's a plot by the billionaires to just murder 10 million poor people by uploading them into a system that doesn't actually exist and then destroying it all.

01:28:18.000 I would only just say, you can't upload your consciousness.

01:28:24.000 It's not possible. 0.99

01:28:25.000 All you'll be able to do is create a demonic facsimile of your personality that will imitate you long after you're dead and burning in hell. 0.73

01:28:34.000 Do people feel called to be like the first to do this? 0.71

01:28:37.000 Like does anyone feel like this is something they're already doing?

01:28:41.000 When the chip implants first came out, they were viral videos.

01:28:44.000 News reports of people being like, I'm so excited to get the chip implanted in my hand.

01:28:48.000 And then it never got implemented. 0.99

01:28:51.000 So these people who are so excited about walking up to the door and then scanning their hand, it only was like three buildings they were ever able to use and now they got the stupid thing stuck in them.

01:28:58.000 Yeah, I mean, and Neuralink just got approved by the FDA for human trials after a lot of failed tests with animals. 0.73

01:29:04.000 And I've been imploring Elon Musk for a long time on Twitter.

01:29:08.000 I would love to do an interview with you about Neuralink.

01:29:10.000 He said multiple times he hasn't done a technical interview about Neuralink.

01:29:14.000 I would really, really like to sit with him and talk about the future of Neuralink because it's very interesting to me.

01:29:18.000 What they're doing with Neuralink right now is curing the blind, the deaf, and the paralyzed.

01:29:22.000 I know, because there's a lot of beautiful things that they are doing, but the consequences into the deep in the future, I know.

01:29:28.000 But where do you draw the line?

01:29:30.000 That's the thing.

01:29:31.000 It's like, it's a beautiful thing that they can give sight to the blind and all these things, or make a wounded veteran walk again.

01:29:36.000 However, the deep future consequences of that are terrifying.

01:29:40.000 And for every time they get it right, how many times they get it wrong and they're not telling you about someone who is deeply harmed by it.

01:29:45.000 I know.

01:29:45.000 You mean like how many astronauts went to the moon and never came back?

01:29:48.000 Oh, now we're talking.

01:29:49.000 This is the interesting thing about the human brain and technology and like space is part of that, right?

01:29:54.000 There are people who feel called no matter what to push forward.

01:29:57.000 And in some ways that feels very admirable to the human spirit.

01:30:00.000 It like reminds me of when people are going west and they're covered wagons and the opportunity and all of that.

01:30:04.000 And I like that aspect of it, but I don't trust the technology and I don't trust our ability to, you know, obviously like the reason Pandora's

01:30:12.000 Box is such a saying, you can't put it back, right?

01:30:14.000 We can't put these things back if we decide, oh, we made a mistake.

01:30:17.000 Theoretically, we could have been like, oh, don't go into that forest, you know, this area is not able to be settled,

01:30:23.000 but we can't do that with technology.

01:30:24.000 And the problem with Neuralink, oh, there's lots, is that at some point, you will be left out of the modern world if

01:30:31.000 you don't have it.

01:30:31.000 So they'll say like, you have a choice to get or not, but like, if you don't have a smartphone these days, you're

01:30:36.000 kind of left out.

01:30:37.000 I'm kind of veering away from that world.

01:30:39.000 I'm kind of starting to reject a lot of it, although it's going to be hard with the work we do.

01:30:42.000 And this is the thing with the...

01:30:44.000 And he calls to make the internet a utility, right?

01:30:47.000 Because you can't live life without it and so therefore you should have it.

01:30:50.000 I mean, what if you don't want the internet?

01:30:52.000 What if you don't want the Neuralink?

01:30:54.000 There was one interview that I saw which was with, I don't know if you guys know Josh.

01:30:59.000 He just passed away.

01:31:00.000 He was quadriplegic.

01:31:02.000 I don't think so.

01:31:03.000 Awesome, awesome influencer.

01:31:05.000 Just like great guy.

01:31:07.000 And he had an interview with Joe Allen.

01:31:13.000 He had asked, you know, like, am I, you know, he talked about getting Neuralink and, you know, it's very controversial and stuff.

01:31:22.000 And that was one of the interviews where I was just so torn and it was, I can tell it was just, you know, like, I mean, he recently passed away and that was his question.

01:31:36.000 Like, am I a candidate, you know, to get Neuralink?

01:31:39.000 Right.

01:31:40.000 Oh, sorry.

01:31:41.000 But I was just saying the moral part of this is like me being really against it.

01:31:46.000 And then people would ask me, like, what if your kid gets really, really wounded?

01:31:49.000 And that's the only way to fix it.

01:31:51.000 It's a really, really complicated conversation.

01:31:55.000 But again, I do find there's beautiful aspects to repairing people.

01:31:59.000 It's a pretty wild invention.

01:32:02.000 It's the stuff that's going to happen deep after that.

01:32:05.000 And then I go back to my whole point of who legislates that.

01:32:08.000 Congress?

01:32:09.000 They can't even do Facebook.

01:32:11.000 Yeah, you can't trust it.

01:32:13.000 Yeah, so that's a tough topic.

01:32:16.000 Well, let's go to Super Chats!

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01:32:34.000 So, uh, we'll now read your Super Chats and, uh, talk about it.

01:32:37.000 Clint Torres says, howdy people!

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01:32:42.000 Saw the show later and felt the love.

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01:33:03.000 Shane H. Wilder says Bowman pulls the warning signs before pulling the fire alarm and only gets a $1,000 fine and three months probation.

01:33:10.000 Why does this not surprise me that he was just given a slap on the wrist?

01:33:15.000 Bowman has pleaded guilty to committing a crime in Congress.

01:33:20.000 Committing a crime!

01:33:22.000 If the Republicans do not expel them, the Republicans effectively do not exist.

01:33:29.000 That's it.

01:33:31.000 I don't, I don't, I don't, could you, could you imagine a Republican jaywalking?

01:33:35.000 I mean, I'm kidding, but when, when, when they dress improperly, okay?

01:33:41.000 When they, when they refuse to wear masks, it's the apocalypse.

01:33:44.000 There's, there's nothing on Bowman.

01:33:46.000 They kept defending him saying, oh, he thought he was opening the door.

01:33:49.000 Are you kidding me?

01:33:50.000 No one believed that he actually thought that.

01:33:52.000 They're just lying.

01:33:53.000 And they're letting him get away with it. 0.99

01:33:55.000 These people are evil.

01:33:58.000 Barely a Millennial says, why would China need to invade Taiwan if they already believe it belongs to them? 0.96

01:34:04.000 What's the point?

01:34:05.000 Occupation?

01:34:06.000 Seems like the risk outweighs the reward.

01:34:07.000 What am I missing?

01:34:08.000 A massive economic hub.

01:34:11.000 The production of silicon chips, which would bolster the Chinese technological portfolio.

01:34:16.000 Yeah, they want it.

01:34:17.000 That's it.

01:34:19.000 Access.

01:34:20.000 Control.

01:34:21.000 Gives them more control over the South China Sea.

01:34:25.000 A lot of people there, too, and a lot of economic development.

01:34:27.000 Yeah, a lot of it's those chip fab factories.

01:34:29.000 If they get built in other places, then they won't have so much.

01:34:31.000 It won't be such an important issue for a lot of other countries, honestly, so.

01:34:35.000 Kyle Martin says, seems like graphene stocks are plummeting since Ian hasn't been on the show.

01:34:39.000 We need him back.

01:34:42.000 Is he abandoning his post as the patron saint of graphene?

01:34:45.000 What's happening here?

01:34:46.000 Justin SLA says, Israel invaded the West Bank now.

01:34:49.000 Pray for Palestine.

01:34:50.000 I think that was a couple of days ago, actually.

01:34:52.000 Yeah.

01:34:54.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:34:55.000 says, Tim, seeing the growth of the Discord from day one is amazing.

01:34:58.000 Shoutout to all involved, but a special shoutout to Brett Mack for doing what he does.

01:35:02.000 And shoutout to Raymond and Chris for setting up the Poker with the Boys table.

01:35:06.000 We got the Poker with the Boys poker table, and it is the coolest looking poker table ever.

01:35:14.000 But we're trying to figure out the legality of how we do the poker show, and it's the RFID table.

01:35:20.000 It's got all the chips and the components, and it's super awesome speed cloth.

01:35:24.000 The cards just glide across the table.

01:35:26.000 It says TimCast.com, Poker With The Boys.

01:35:28.000 Beautiful table.

01:35:29.000 We're going to be playing on it tomorrow.

01:35:30.000 It's going to be a lot of fun, but we're trying to figure out the legalities of launching Poker With The Boys the Friday night after show, and it's really hard to do.

01:35:41.000 All right.

01:35:41.000 Adrienne Curry in the regular chat says, pray for Israel.

01:35:44.000 I love Adrienne Curry.

01:35:46.000 She's great.

01:35:46.000 Yes.

01:35:48.000 All right.

01:35:49.000 Justin and Pease says UFC would have done better if they got sponsored by actual transmission fluid.

01:35:55.000 I know that word is banned on YouTube.

01:35:58.000 No, I mean, like, what's a good, uh, like, oil, like, uh, what are those?

01:36:03.000 Lubrication?

01:36:04.000 What do you mean?

01:36:05.000 No, like, oil brands.

01:36:05.000 I don't know anything about oil brands.

01:36:06.000 Pennzoil, right?

01:36:07.000 Pennzoil, there you go.

01:36:09.000 But, like, that's... New sponsor.

01:36:10.000 Yeah, so it's funny that, like, Harley Davidson takes, um...

01:36:15.000 Sponsorship from Bud Light or whatever or whatever.

01:36:17.000 I don't know how that works.

01:36:18.000 And it's just like they're trying to pretend to be manly when it's just like UFC... Well, I'll just put it this way.

01:36:25.000 There's a million and one sponsors that could have taken that would have made them a lot of money and they did not need to take the hundred million dollars.

01:36:30.000 The hundred million dollars is excellent leverage for them to use against any other business to get a good deal.

01:36:36.000 And it would be less, but you'd save your dignity.

01:36:38.000 So I should've looked into this before I asked this question, but when they sponsor UFC, that means that the alcohol at the event is, or like the beer, is presumably from Anheuser-Busch, right?

01:36:49.000 Yeah, and in the center of the octagon it says- It's gonna have the brand, I get that.

01:36:53.000 So is there a chance that one of the components of this is that it's all gonna be like heavily subsidized so people buy it and are like, oh I do like this beer.

01:37:01.000 Or- Is there something else at play that we're not getting and attempting to deliver?

01:37:04.000 I'm wondering if- What component of the deal would require the venues or whatever to carry Bud Light?

01:37:10.000 I don't know if it will, because a lot of these venues are just private venues, right?

01:37:16.000 UFC doesn't own the casinos where they have these things.

01:37:18.000 I think they would have to buy them out.

01:37:20.000 I mean, the sponsors.

01:37:21.000 I mean, if it was Budweiser, right?

01:37:24.000 Yeah, I'm pretty sure if you go to a casino, you can get any beer you want.

01:37:28.000 It's not just going to be bubble tea.

01:37:29.000 Okay, yeah.

01:37:30.000 Casino, maybe, yeah.

01:37:31.000 But what could be is that this forces sales.

01:37:36.000 They'll say, look, our sales are going up, when in actuality, they're just selling the beer, and then it gets thrown in the alley.

01:37:41.000 It's like when Biden says, we have more jobs now, but it's just because you brought back jobs that were lost.

01:37:46.000 Right.

01:37:48.000 All right, that one gamer says, what advice would you give to someone like me who is part of Gen Z?

01:37:51.000 I'm thinking of enlisting before the draft, just looking for some hope somewhere, and we're running out of options here.

01:37:56.000 Me, personally, I would strongly recommend not enlisting.

01:38:00.000 I don't know, man.

01:38:03.000 It's just me, and I don't want to speak ill of those in the armed forces, but...

01:38:06.000 I'm not, I've not been in the military or the armed forces.

01:38:09.000 I've briefly spent time at Fort Carson and outside of Fort Eustis.

01:38:15.000 Know a lot of people who are in the military.

01:38:17.000 And it seems like most of their sentiment is to get a commission and not to enlist.

01:38:22.000 So you like get a college degree before getting in and then you're way better off.

01:38:26.000 But I don't know enough about it.

01:38:28.000 If you are going to get in.

01:38:29.000 I would say right now, my bigger concern is, I've met way too many people who've quit, resigned their commissions because of how awful it is.

01:38:37.000 For me, look, I can't tell you if it's good or bad, I don't know.

01:38:40.000 What I can tell you is, I've met way too many people who are like, I've resigned my commission because it's awful and I don't want to be there anymore.

01:38:46.000 It's woke, it's terrible, it's not worth it.

01:38:48.000 And so, if it were me, I'd say, like, I ain't going anywhere near it.

01:38:54.000 I don't think that's the best path forward.

01:38:58.000 But I did this long video today.

01:39:00.000 There was this young woman who was like, Boomers don't understand. 0.97

01:39:03.000 Gen Z is not lazy.

01:39:05.000 It's just that it's a lot harder to live today than it used to.

01:39:07.000 And I'm like, nope, you're lazy.

01:39:10.000 But I break it down.

01:39:12.000 They're like, look at what the prices were back in the day.

01:39:14.000 She's like, look at what wages were. 0.88

01:39:16.000 Look at what home prices were.

01:39:17.000 And then she does this budget where she's like, if I work for $20 an hour, 40 hours a week, I take home $2,300. 0.69

01:39:24.000 I gotta pay $1,500 rent.

01:39:26.000 I gotta pay these things.

01:39:27.000 That leaves me with $84 at the end of the month.

01:39:29.000 And then, if I want to actually save for retirement by the time I'm 67, I need $1,000 per month starting right now, which means negative $900, whatever.

01:39:36.000 And I'm like, have you considered, I don't know, living with roommates?

01:39:43.000 That cuts your rent in half.

01:39:45.000 Now you're saving $834 a month.

01:39:49.000 And I will say there are lots of other countries in the world where it's normal to live at home for longer, right?

01:39:54.000 And maybe you pay some sort of rent to your parent.

01:39:56.000 Maybe you save money.

01:39:56.000 I mean, the idea that you have to be living alone at the age of 19 is unrealistic.

01:40:01.000 It always has been in America. 0.84

01:40:02.000 People had roommates throughout history.

01:40:04.000 I will, I mean, obviously life's expensive.

01:40:07.000 I'm not trying to downplay it, but maybe rethink what you're trying to What lifestyle you're trying to achieve, right?

01:40:13.000 If you know you wanna travel, live with roommates or live with your parents so you can save up.

01:40:17.000 If you know that you want your own place, that's your budget's priority.

01:40:20.000 The first problem is they're 22 years old out of college, 23, with 50K in debt and no experience.

01:40:29.000 And so she included student loan repayments in her budgeting.

01:40:33.000 And I'm like, well, that's not fair.

01:40:34.000 Your parents didn't have that.

01:40:36.000 She talks about how tuition was way cheaper back then.

01:40:38.000 I'm like, right, yeah, supply and demand.

01:40:40.000 Boomers did not go to college the same degree Millennials and Gen Z does, so with a smaller supply of students available, the universities had to lower wages to be competitive to try and get people to come because they didn't want to. 1.00

01:40:52.000 It's not absolutely that way, but it was true that back then you did not need to go to college to get paid well, and it's actually the college trap This demand of young people to go to college has created this circumstance, which has been detrimental to the economy.

01:41:05.000 But I also do believe a lot of factors play a role, such as women in the workplace, doubling the supply of workers without expanding the supply of jobs, just creates a rapid price shock.

01:41:15.000 But I'll just say this, if you're 18 years old right now, Gen Z, and you start, if you get a job at Starbucks right now, In four years of working at Starbucks, you will get multiple raises, and if you work hard and so desire, you could eventually find yourself a general manager at a very young age.

01:41:34.000 Maybe assistant manager at four years, but maybe you're getting $40,000 to $50,000 a year.

01:41:38.000 I don't know.

01:41:39.000 In four years from now, it's probably going to be $65,000 to $70,000.

01:41:42.000 And your friends will graduate college bragging about their degrees they'll never use in massive debt, while you are the one paying for everything.

01:41:50.000 I don't know if that's better, But, uh, I told this to all my friends when they were going to college and I was 18.

01:41:56.000 They were like, I'm going to go for this, I'm going to go for that.

01:41:58.000 And I'm like, dude, you're going to get out of college in debt with no experience and no job.

01:42:03.000 You're going to be struggling to pay things off and living at home.

01:42:05.000 And I'll be on my fourth year of, you know, whatever job I'm in with more experience, getting raises and paying for my own place and being independent.

01:42:16.000 I read an article when I was 16 that broke down the math.

01:42:18.000 If you start working at 18 minimum wage and work on average, you'll retire with like a million dollars more than a college graduate.

01:42:26.000 Because you have no debt and four years of work experience ahead of college grads.

01:42:31.000 But everybody wants the honor of like, I have a good job.

01:42:35.000 Yeah, all my friends who after high school went into the trades were doing way better than me with houses, started families younger than I did, and just generally were doing better.

01:42:44.000 There was a girl I went to high school with who her mom was like a hairdresser. 1.00

01:42:47.000 She knew immediately that she was also going to be a hairdresser, and I remember thinking she bought a house before a lot of people I knew.

01:42:53.000 She was in a very stable, I think she's married now, and she was also doing stuff like going to New York Fashion Week and doing hair.

01:42:59.000 I mean, her job gave her a lot of opportunities because she was advancing more professionally. 0.98

01:43:04.000 And essentially, I mean, a lot of hairdressers kind of function like independent contractors, right?

01:43:08.000 It was very cool to see what she was accomplishing when the rest of us were like, we don't know what we're doing.

01:43:12.000 What is our job?

01:43:14.000 I think for someone like, you know, I'm second generation.

01:43:17.000 So my parents were like, you You have to go to college.

01:43:20.000 Yep, same.

01:43:21.000 Yeah, you have to get a good job outside of college.

01:43:25.000 My parents, I was really fortunate they paid for my tuition.

01:43:28.000 So they were just so like, you know, work the nine to five.

01:43:34.000 I mean, that was their dream for me.

01:43:37.000 And as I got older, I'm like, This kinda sucks, you know?

01:43:41.000 And I think especially like immigration, like if you're the child of immigrants, there are generations before you that potentially, you know, were doing jobs that they are trying to say, go to college so you can sit in the air conditioning and work at the computer.

01:43:54.000 Yes, they didn't want me to work like 12, 14 hours a day at a dry cleaners, because that's what my parents did for six days a week over like 45 years, you know?

01:44:05.000 But like in me, retrospect, I'm like, Oh my god, mom and dad, you guys worked for yourselves.

01:44:11.000 You guys built Chicago.

01:44:13.000 So this is a totally different mindset.

01:44:16.000 Yeah, for sure.

01:44:18.000 And I think every generation's going to say, oh, I want the thing that you had, or I'm trying to give you a thing I don't have.

01:44:22.000 And that's not necessarily bad.

01:44:24.000 I just think we should acknowledge that college is a model that has built in debt.

01:44:28.000 And the federal government has not stopped.

01:44:31.000 Despite the fact that we know there's a student loan crisis, that this is something Biden continuously campaigns on, and he's going to forgive student loan debt, They still issue student loans.

01:44:39.000 So it's a broken system that they're like, no, no, we'll pay it off, but also the rest of you can go into debt.

01:44:43.000 I mean, if this was really bad, they would stop doing it.

01:44:45.000 I mean, it's definitely become such a scam.

01:44:48.000 So, you know, this young woman, she's like, I make 20 bucks an hour. 0.99

01:44:51.000 Here's what my bills are.

01:44:52.000 I can't afford it, blah, blah, blah.

01:44:54.000 I did the math.

01:44:56.000 When I got my first salary job, I was making $15 an hour, salary equivalent.

01:45:02.000 And I lived in a studio apartment with two other people.

01:45:05.000 I don't know that that's it. It was the same and I and then because you spend what you can spend and I'm like

01:45:11.000 How old was I at the time? I think I was 23 Like is the expectation at 23 that I should have my own

01:45:17.000 house. I It's just I don't know

01:45:20.000 I mean, maybe Boomer's head house is at 23.

01:45:22.000 I think Gen Z also, there's that whole glam of like social media of like people like Gen Z just yeah, like seeing like, they're making millions.

01:45:34.000 I can do it myself.

01:45:36.000 And it's just the Joneses.

01:45:39.000 Tim is the emperor on the wall asking everyone why the people don't just eat meat instead of tree bark.

01:45:47.000 And that, my friend, is the most laughable excuse I have ever heard.

01:45:53.000 Well, this is what I've heard my whole life.

01:45:55.000 From every position I've ever been in, any amount of success was always an excuse that I was privileged.

01:46:00.000 So it's like, no matter how much hard work, no matter how much sacrifice, someone always says, you are privileged and lucky, and that's the only explanation.

01:46:09.000 Well, wait, Tim, you didn't graduate high school, right?

01:46:12.000 No, I did not.

01:46:12.000 Yeah, and you worked yourself, like, to build an empire here.

01:46:16.000 Yeah.

01:46:16.000 Because you're so privileged.

01:46:19.000 But this is the excuse.

01:46:20.000 The excuse is always either...

01:46:23.000 Oh, but you're wealthy and you're telling us to sacrifice.

01:46:25.000 Well, how do you think I got wealthy?

01:46:27.000 I sacrificed as much as possible and saved everything.

01:46:30.000 When I was at Occupy Wall Street, I had $5,000 saved and I never touched it.

01:46:34.000 And that $5,000 has never been touched.

01:46:36.000 Because instead of deciding, you know what?

01:46:37.000 I'm going to crack into that savings and get a motel for the night.

01:46:40.000 I'd be like, I'm going to hug my backpack and sleep in the corner of this piss smelling alley.

01:46:44.000 And not everybody can do that.

01:46:45.000 I'm not saying that's normal for everybody.

01:46:47.000 But I was like, let me think.

01:46:49.000 What's harder?

01:46:50.000 Giving up what little resources I have to invest, or sleeping in a park.

01:46:55.000 I'm sleeping in a park.

01:46:56.000 I'd rather do that.

01:46:57.000 And then when the opportunity arises, I will have the resources and the ammunition required to do it.

01:47:02.000 When I worked for Vice, I spent $300 a month sleeping on my friend's couch.

01:47:06.000 Oh, Vice paid me enough, I could've got a nice apartment in Williamsburg and then I would've had no savings and been living paycheck to paycheck.

01:47:10.000 Like, I'm so broke.

01:47:12.000 Instead I was like, here's my budget, X amount must go into savings, X for resources.

01:47:18.000 Or for, like, my life.

01:47:21.000 Yeah.

01:47:21.000 And so what I end up finding is that, you know, stories like from this woman is 1,500 bucks a month in rent.

01:47:28.000 And I'm like, oh, okay, well, I was hosting documentaries traveling around the world and people thought I was doing well when I was living on a couch.

01:47:34.000 They assume I must be like, nah, being paid relatively, I think I was probably getting like 30 bucks an hour or something relative when my advisor was paying me.

01:47:42.000 And sleeping on a couch.

01:47:44.000 And then what I find is nobody is willing to actually sacrifice to save.

01:47:48.000 And then what happens, I worked at O'Hare.

01:47:51.000 And there were these guys, they called the Filipino Mafia.

01:47:53.000 There's a guy who's 50 years old.

01:47:55.000 He works, uh, one guy worked 16 hours a day, every day with no days off.

01:48:00.000 And then after a couple weeks, you get what's called a mandatory time off, and he fought it and begged not to let them give him time off.

01:48:07.000 He was giving all the money to his kids.

01:48:09.000 And so I'm like, this guy moves to the United States, and it's the American dream to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week, because he knows it gives his kids a better life.

01:48:17.000 And I'm like, my only fear is that those kids will not understand the sacrifice he made for them.

01:48:22.000 That's what happens.

01:48:22.000 That's how they say, like the one generation earns the money, the second generation understands how to keep earning the money, and the third generation spoils it all.

01:48:28.000 All right, we'll read some more.

01:48:29.000 We got Lars Job.

01:48:31.000 He says, not first, and I will do nothing kindly.

01:48:33.000 Gently feathers the like button with sinister intent.

01:48:36.000 Well, thank you.

01:48:38.000 Bid Moon says Grace is a patriot.

01:48:40.000 Oh, thank you!

01:48:43.000 Alright.

01:48:44.000 Fix Bayonets says, that one gamer, don't expect a draft.

01:48:47.000 Take the ASVAB and look at the branches.

01:48:50.000 Tim, say my name like Jeff Daniels yelled Bayonets in Gettysburg.

01:48:54.000 I don't know that one.

01:48:55.000 I do think I saw that with Jeff Daniels, that movie.

01:48:57.000 Is that with Gettysburg?

01:48:59.000 I think so, yeah.

01:49:00.000 Actually, I'm pretty sure I did watch that recently.

01:49:01.000 I don't know.

01:49:03.000 All I know is the Patriot is the best movie ever.

01:49:05.000 The one with Mel Gibson.

01:49:06.000 I think there's another Patriot that's not Revolutionary War.

01:49:10.000 Yeah, that movie is so good.

01:49:11.000 Yeah.

01:49:12.000 Joshua French says, Tim, the PSYOP is not from the U.S.

01:49:15.000 It is from foreign entities trying to further divide the U.S. 1.00

01:49:18.000 Further the divide in the U.S.

01:49:20.000 China needs us to fight and be divided. 0.98

01:49:23.000 We have the biggest unofficial land force with a gun behind every blade of grass.

01:49:27.000 Not for long!

01:49:29.000 No, it's actually not true.

01:49:29.000 We're winning the gun rights thing.

01:49:31.000 Democrats can keep whinging all they want, but they're losing.

01:49:34.000 There's no way.

01:49:35.000 There's no way that, yeah.

01:49:36.000 It's just gun rights have been expanding rapidly.

01:49:38.000 Yeah.

01:49:38.000 There's that one, I love this, the congressman, what's his name, in Maine?

01:49:43.000 What's his name?

01:49:45.000 I forgot his name.

01:49:46.000 But he came out in support of an assault weapons ban. 1.00

01:49:49.000 And I love it because I'm like, well, this man has passed the test that proves he's a piece of human garbage. 0.98

01:49:54.000 And that test is either he is willfully betraying the Constitution, which yes, I think he is, or he only now cares about guns because it happened to him. 0.99

01:50:04.000 Any way you cut it, he's a bad person.

01:50:06.000 The James Golden.

01:50:07.000 Is that what it was?

01:50:08.000 Yeah, it's like, He's a Democrat, right?

01:50:12.000 And he's opposed the quote-unquote assault weapons ban.

01:50:15.000 And everyone's now like, oh, as soon as it happens to him, he's now saying, help, help, we need to change these rules.

01:50:20.000 And I'm like, right, he's also betraying the Constitution.

01:50:23.000 He's a bad person.

01:50:25.000 Wait, he wants to oppose... Wait, say that again? 0.73

01:50:28.000 He opposed assault weapons bans until the mass shooter in Maine.

01:50:32.000 Oh.

01:50:32.000 Now, all of a sudden, he's in favor of it.

01:50:35.000 I mean, there were some states where they didn't even register, you know, the assault ban.

01:50:41.000 Like, there's just no way.

01:50:43.000 Maine is a heavily rural state.

01:50:44.000 It's actually very purple.

01:50:46.000 So I think gun culture is different there, but he's falling in line with the party because that's what he's supposed to do.

01:50:52.000 Mark Bond said, Tim, the Brits did not burn churches full of people.

01:50:55.000 I'm well aware.

01:50:57.000 It's a movie!

01:50:59.000 Also, um, we, we, we, uh, let's, let's, let's think of a good one.

01:51:03.000 We did not freeze a police officer, uh, and sent him into the future with Wesley Snipes. 0.98

01:51:08.000 Shut up. 0.98

01:51:09.000 Wait, I thought we did that. 1.00

01:51:10.000 That's a good one.

01:51:11.000 I'm gonna have to change some articles.

01:51:13.000 I did read a lot about who the characters were based on, and the dude who was the basis for that character was actually considered to be very brutal, but in the UK they celebrate him as a hero.

01:51:23.000 So that's part of Battle Kettle Creek, I believe, right?

01:51:26.000 A lot of the book I did, The Last Ghost of the Confederacy, was in the town where the Battle Kettle Creek was, and the British did pay a lot of Indians to attack the people there, and there's some of the gnarliest, most violent The Brits did? 0.84

01:51:39.000 I'm reading like the reports of these murders where they're killing the kids in front of the parents and stuff

01:51:43.000 The Brits did the Brits were hiring. Oh, yeah, it was it's so brutal

01:51:48.000 They say it's one of the bloodiest revolutionary battles.

01:51:50.000 Wow. Yeah But that scene where the dude finds his kid and his wife

01:51:56.000 man that movie's too good Yeah.

01:52:00.000 If you have not seen The Patriot with Mel Gibson, you are missing out.

01:52:04.000 It's a long one too.

01:52:06.000 But it's like, I'm not even saying it's like, it's not a documentary.

01:52:08.000 It's a fictional movie.

01:52:09.000 Yeah, he's a composite of a lot of characters for sure.

01:52:11.000 It's exaggerated, but it's good storytelling.

01:52:15.000 I don't think Superman's real, but there are good stories, good messages that can be conveyed through fiction.

01:52:22.000 And it's a fun movie.

01:52:25.000 Dexter Olson says, for the next debate, you should each impersonate one of the candidates and do a live impersonation of the debate.

01:52:30.000 Just let me be Chris Christie, please.

01:52:32.000 Oh, and get Trump to moderate it.

01:52:34.000 Well, Tim, you do a pretty good Trump impersonation.

01:52:38.000 I guess.

01:52:39.000 Sometimes.

01:52:41.000 I don't know about it.

01:52:42.000 I still wish Trump would, like, livestream a debate and react to it, you know?

01:52:45.000 I feel like that would be kind of funny.

01:52:47.000 On our show, Trump, just so you know.

01:52:50.000 All right, let's see.

01:52:52.000 Ryan Sargent says, Tim, ask yourself what new band has come out with a platinum-selling album in the last 15 years.

01:52:57.000 It's all the old bands with new records.

01:52:59.000 Taylor Swift.

01:53:00.000 Does she count as a band?

01:53:00.000 She is a one-woman force of nature.

01:53:03.000 We need to have a culture where we just debate Taylor Swift.

01:53:07.000 You're wrong.

01:53:07.000 I'm bringing in Chris Carr because he is a supporter.

01:53:12.000 I really can't stand the fake Taylor Swift hate.

01:53:16.000 Because like... Mine's real.

01:53:19.000 I doubt it.

01:53:20.000 It's like...

01:53:22.000 What is it saying?

01:53:23.000 The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference?

01:53:25.000 Yeah, right.

01:53:26.000 And so, I think the people who hate Taylor Swift... They're just jealous, man.

01:53:32.000 Jealousy, but there is an obsession to it.

01:53:34.000 I don't think at all about Taylor Swift.

01:53:37.000 She's like, people are into it, that's fine.

01:53:39.000 There's a lot of celebrities, a lot of sports.

01:53:41.000 I don't go around being like, you know, man, I can't even name a basketball player.

01:53:46.000 Give me a name of a basketball player.

01:53:47.000 Ron James.

01:53:48.000 No, that's too obvious.

01:53:49.000 The Greek freak. 1.00

01:53:49.000 Dwayne Wade. 1.00

01:53:49.000 The Greek freak. 1.00

01:53:50.000 Kobe Bryant.

01:53:52.000 I don't go around being like, I don't like Kobe.

01:53:54.000 I don't like it.

01:53:55.000 I'm like, I don't know anything about him.

01:53:56.000 Well, mine was too obvious.

01:53:57.000 Michael Jordan.

01:53:57.000 Mine was too obvious.

01:53:59.000 Well, yeah, he's too political.

01:54:01.000 Oh, okay.

01:54:01.000 You know what I mean?

01:54:02.000 Yeah, I don't know anything about him because I just know his name and that he's a basketball player.

01:54:05.000 I can't even name a basketball player.

01:54:07.000 Right.

01:54:08.000 Other than these famous ones.

01:54:09.000 Yeah.

01:54:09.000 You know what I mean?

01:54:10.000 From our youth in the 90s.

01:54:11.000 No, no, like right now, like, you know, but, but I don't, I don't, I don't know.

01:54:16.000 Or like, what about a baseball player or something?

01:54:18.000 I don't go around being like, I really don't like this person.

01:54:20.000 I don't know.

01:54:21.000 Yeah.

01:54:22.000 Or, I mean, Taylor Swift is just a good example.

01:54:24.000 It's like, oh, she makes pop music. 0.84

01:54:25.000 Pop music is like fun, silly music you get stuck in your head sometimes.

01:54:29.000 I think she writes great songs.

01:54:31.000 My dislike of her is not about... Are you looking directly at me?

01:54:33.000 Tim is the one speaking.

01:54:34.000 Because you wrote a beautiful article about her earlier this year, which I really did like, but I just don't like her as a whole brand.

01:54:41.000 You know, a third generation banker with all this money to have these songs written by a lot of people.

01:54:46.000 I know she writes some of her songs.

01:54:47.000 Don't fight me.

01:54:48.000 But did you hear...

01:54:51.000 Did I interrupt you?

01:54:52.000 Britney Spears, in her memoir, famously, like, Hit Me Baby One More Time was written for a different band.

01:54:57.000 Oh yeah.

01:54:57.000 For a different group.

01:54:59.000 This is how it goes!

01:55:00.000 The idea that she's from a wealthy person and whatever else, that's interesting that if you believe this idea that her father's super elite and they're powerful, that instead of sending her into politics, they sent her into culture.

01:55:12.000 And in fact, she ultimately has way more influence there. 0.98

01:55:14.000 And whether you like it or not, that's interesting and that's impressive.

01:55:17.000 It's interesting.

01:55:18.000 You can be against it, but also maybe we should follow the model.

01:55:21.000 What about the theory about, you know, she was like the daughter of the Church of Satan guy?

01:55:29.000 LeVay?

01:55:29.000 LeVay, yeah.

01:55:31.000 The Taylor Swift was?

01:55:32.000 Yeah, she looks just like the woman. 0.99

01:55:35.000 We'll talk about the Taylor Swift conspiracy theory for the members only show.

01:55:39.000 for even me.

01:55:40.000 It's so controversial.

01:55:41.000 Well, we'll talk about the Taylor Swift conspiracy theory for the Members Only show.

01:55:46.000 Joe Spinella says 1980 to 1996 was peak humanity, peak music, all genres, peak movies, all genres.

01:55:53.000 80 to 96.

01:55:54.000 I would push that up to an 80, 99.

01:55:57.000 I don't know about 99.

01:55:59.000 I say 96 because 96 or 97.

01:56:01.000 If I'm looking at records that look for any, if I see 97, 96 I'll pull it out no matter what.

01:56:05.000 When was Alanis Morissette?

01:56:06.000 In the mid 90s.

01:56:07.000 94.

01:56:07.000 94, 95.

01:56:08.000 And then sports.

01:56:09.000 And then after that it was just downhill.

01:56:11.000 And the sports too.

01:56:12.000 You think of like the Yankees then.

01:56:13.000 And like the Bulls.

01:56:14.000 I love the Bulls.

01:56:14.000 The Chicago Bulls.

01:56:16.000 I was supposed to grow up and be Michael Jordan.

01:56:18.000 Oh, man.

01:56:18.000 Dennis Rodman's my guy.

01:56:21.000 Also an ambassador for North Korea.

01:56:23.000 What is he?

01:56:24.000 Rodman?

01:56:25.000 He was a point guard.

01:56:27.000 Oh, I know who that is!

01:56:28.000 That's the guy who went to North Korea, right?

01:56:30.000 Yes.

01:56:31.000 But I only know him from politics.

01:56:33.000 He's a great ambassador for peace.

01:56:36.000 GBP says 2000s not having a particular identity speaks to people expressing themselves independently, not just aligning with what's cool.

01:56:43.000 90s kid, by the way.

01:56:44.000 No, I disagree.

01:56:45.000 Completely wrong.

01:56:46.000 What was happening is that they were finding subcultures instead of the dominant culture.

01:56:50.000 Right.

01:56:51.000 That's what I was going to say.

01:56:51.000 There's less hubs for it.

01:56:52.000 It used to be in the 90s.

01:56:54.000 Back in the day, in free skiing, when I was young, I skied a lot.

01:56:57.000 There was a site called NewSchoolers.com.

01:56:59.000 It was a .com.

01:56:59.000 It was a website in a community you belonged to.

01:57:01.000 Now that doesn't exist anymore.

01:57:02.000 Now everything's on TikTok, and it's like subcommunities on TikTok, and communities on Instagram.

01:57:05.000 You have to find the, the, uh, freestere talk.

01:57:25.000 You have to find the, I don't care.

01:57:27.000 I don't know.

01:57:28.000 I want to sing what's 90s.

01:57:29.000 That's my story.

01:57:30.000 The 60s had great music.

01:57:31.000 Oh man, I was way off.

01:57:31.000 I was off by 10 years too.

01:57:33.000 It was 78.

01:57:33.000 I mean, it's so much better music.

01:57:34.000 Oh man, I was way off.

01:57:35.000 I was off by 10 years too.

01:57:36.000 It was 78.

01:57:37.000 Oh, okay.

01:57:38.000 Okay, so the late 70s was the best year because Rasputin's awesome.

01:57:41.000 Boney M, dude.

01:57:43.000 And they got Babylon. 0.53

01:57:44.000 Come on.

01:57:45.000 Yeah.

01:57:46.000 Disco was great.

01:57:47.000 Bring in a really good 70s covers band for one of the Friday night music things.

01:57:50.000 Cause then I'll learn about these things.

01:57:51.000 The Bee Gees.

01:57:52.000 Yes.

01:57:53.000 Queen, 70s into the 80s.

01:57:55.000 I love them.

01:57:56.000 Yeah.

01:57:57.000 Oh dude, Bohemian Rhapsody, I think.

01:57:58.000 Yeah.

01:57:59.000 I looked up like some, I can't remember, it might've been Rolling Stone or something, the top 100 songs of all time.

01:58:04.000 And I'm like, how is Bohemian Rhapsody not number one?

01:58:06.000 It wasn't?

01:58:06.000 What?

01:58:07.000 No, it was like number 13 or something.

01:58:10.000 And I'm like, look, it doesn't matter if you're like, well, it's not the best song in the world.

01:58:13.000 No, no, no, it's that anyone can sing it.

01:58:14.000 Yes.

01:58:15.000 And a bunch of the songs in the top 10, I'm like, I've never heard of that song.

01:58:17.000 That's like number one karaoke song.

01:58:20.000 You go anywhere and play Hey Jude, Bohemian Rhapsody, people are gonna start singing it.

01:58:27.000 Yeah.

01:58:28.000 We'll grab a couple more.

01:58:29.000 All right.

01:58:30.000 The Dude Abide says, Hey, Tim, I'm from Illinois.

01:58:32.000 Not sure if you knew about The Loop, popular rock station in Chicago.

01:58:35.000 Of course, 97.9.

01:58:36.000 Yes.

01:58:37.000 Sadly, no more.

01:58:38.000 I know 97.9.

01:58:40.000 Yeah.

01:58:40.000 Shut down for a few years now.

01:58:42.000 Upside is a station called The Drive.

01:58:44.000 Has Steve Downs, master chef as a DJ.

01:58:47.000 Oh, that's cool.

01:58:48.000 Oh yeah, how could I ever forget all of my, there was the mix 101.9.

01:58:52.000 Yeah.

01:58:52.000 101.9.

01:58:52.000 Can't forget that one.

01:58:55.000 I had K-Rock 92.3 in New York and we had K-104 for the pop music in 97.1.

01:59:00.000 WGCI 107.5.

01:59:02.000 I also think talk radio walked so that podcasting could run.

01:59:06.000 You know what I'm saying?

01:59:08.000 That's ultimately the pipeline here.

01:59:09.000 97.9, man.

01:59:09.000 Wow.

01:59:10.000 The loop.

01:59:13.000 What else did we have?

01:59:14.000 The prominent ones were The Loop, Q101, The Mix.

01:59:17.000 96.3.

01:59:18.000 B96.

01:59:18.000 That's what we called it, B96.

01:59:20.000 I think we had Chris.

01:59:22.000 Oldies 104.3.

01:59:23.000 Kiss at a certain point, didn't we?

01:59:25.000 101.9.

01:59:25.000 Oh, 103.5.

01:59:25.000 Yes, 103.5, yeah.

01:59:26.000 Yeah, and there was 97.1.

01:59:26.000 But you should have known WGCI, 107.5.

01:59:27.000 Yes, 103.5. Yeah.

01:59:29.000 Yeah, and there was 97.1.

01:59:31.000 But you should have known WGCI, 107.5. That's like Southside.

01:59:35.000 Well, we never listened to it, but we know about it.

01:59:37.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:59:38.000 Never cared about that one.

01:59:39.000 I'm just gonna start picking up radio stations now.

01:59:40.000 It was always, it was always... 1003.

01:59:42.000 We would always switch between the mix and Q101 because those were the only ones that played music that were enjoyable.

01:59:47.000 Oh.

01:59:47.000 B-96 was cool.

01:59:48.000 Some shade thrown to Chicago radio.

01:59:49.000 I loved B-96.

01:59:49.000 What else is there?

01:59:50.000 I don't know, I'm not from there.

01:59:51.000 B-96 was just like random dance.

01:59:53.000 I love that, yeah.

01:59:54.000 So you'd put it on and it'd be like... And you're like, okay, that's cool, but, you know, if I wanna sing, you know, fastball the way, I gotta put on Q101.

02:00:03.000 Yes, I used to record onto cassette and then bounce those cassettes onto other cassettes.

02:00:08.000 Yes, me too!

02:00:08.000 I had time to be alive.

02:00:12.000 It was like those AM, FM, like alarm clocks.

02:00:17.000 I would take my mom's and I would record it.

02:00:20.000 Yeah, the DJ would talk over the beginning of the song and be like, stop!

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02:02:05.000 I'm probably going to go to Maine and go write about what's going on up there.

02:02:08.000 I've been talking to a lot of friends.

02:02:09.000 So we're just taking a trip to Maine?

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02:02:11.000 I think I have to.

02:02:11.000 I've been dismayed over what's going on up there and talking to a lot of friends who know people who lost people.

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02:02:23.000 We already beat England.

02:02:24.000 So I was trying to say we were celebrating the win from England.

02:02:27.000 Hate crime.

02:02:27.000 Yeah, we're celebrating the win over England and we're going to face the All Blacks in New Zealand.

02:02:32.000 You didn't even know.

02:02:33.000 How much of a fan are you?

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