Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - US Gov SEIZES Bank In 2nd Largest COLLAPSE, Banking Crisis IS HERE w-Libby Emmons

00:00:00.000 the world.

00:00:22.000 history happened at 4 a.m.

00:00:24.000 Clearly, they're trying to do it.

00:00:25.000 Well, they want to do it before the markets open, and they did it kind of out of sight of everybody, and I'm surprised it's not getting more attention.

00:00:31.000 First, Republic Bank was seized by the U.S.

00:00:34.000 government and then sold off to JPMorgan with, I think it was $50 billion in federal financing, which is basically like, y'all are bailing them out again, as much as Biden's insisting you're not.

00:00:45.000 So, look, I don't know what to tell you, man.

00:00:47.000 There's some economists saying the dollar is doomed.

00:00:49.000 I'm not here to give you any financial advice, but I think when you've had three of the largest banking failures in U.S.

00:00:55.000 history within the span of a couple months, I don't know, maybe you should go seek some financial advice.

00:01:00.000 Not for me, but I know I'm going to be making some moves because I'm kind of worried.

00:01:04.000 What they're saying is that people panicked over First Republic, pulled their money out.

00:01:08.000 Many of them actually went to JPMorgan, but my fear now is, I'm not an economist, but If J.P.

00:01:14.000 Morgan's absorbing this dying bank, isn't that just going to get people scared that J.P.

00:01:19.000 Morgan won't be able to handle it and then they'll pull their money out of there and then run somewhere else?

00:01:23.000 Cascade effect.

00:01:24.000 We'll see what happens.

00:01:25.000 We got other big news!

00:01:26.000 Vice is reportedly on the verge of bankruptcy!

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00:01:55.000 How pathetic and spineless. 0.94

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00:03:30.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more, she has returned!

00:03:33.000 It is Libby Emmons.

00:03:34.000 Hey Tim, what's going on?

00:03:35.000 Welcome back.

00:03:36.000 Thanks, glad to be around.

00:03:37.000 Who are you?

00:03:38.000 I'm Libby Emmons.

00:03:39.000 I'm the Editor-in-Chief at the Postmillennial and Human Events.

00:03:42.000 Right on, and of course Shim Sham is back.

00:03:44.000 Good to be back, everybody.

00:03:45.000 Good to have Libby here. 1.00

00:03:47.000 Pretty, pretty sad about Vice.

00:03:52.000 Just if we could take a moment of silence.

00:03:54.000 I wish it was me instead.

00:03:56.000 Really, really.

00:03:58.000 BuzzFeed, now Vice?

00:04:01.000 Why do we need the dollar to be successful?

00:04:03.000 What is worth purchasing?

00:04:05.000 If not, whatever it is those websites are selling.

00:04:07.000 We might have to crack out the Louis XIII. 0.99

00:04:11.000 Ooh, what's that?

00:04:12.000 It sounds fancy.

00:04:12.000 It's extremely expensive cognac.

00:04:15.000 Oh, nice!

00:04:15.000 Let's try it!

00:04:16.000 Let's give it a shot.

00:04:17.000 To celebrate Vice's bankruptcy.

00:04:18.000 I think we should give it a try.

00:04:19.000 I mean, they were already morally bankrupt, so... Yeah, that's true.

00:04:23.000 Let's see the finances match it.

00:04:25.000 I wonder how mad they will get, the people who work there, when they see a video of us pouring $5,000 cognac to celebrate their bankruptcy.

00:04:34.000 Well, we could just call it a wake.

00:04:37.000 Is that what we're doing it for?

00:04:38.000 Listen, that's what Irish funerals are like.

00:04:40.000 I have no idea if they're Irish, but we're ethnically Irish.

00:04:43.000 I don't drink anymore, but I could not be more supportive of a celebratory toast for the demise of Vice.

00:04:51.000 We'll give you an energy, like a vitamin drink.

00:04:53.000 I'm saying you should all drink.

00:04:55.000 Don't hold back on my account.

00:04:57.000 I just remember going to Vice parties in New York a million years ago.

00:05:01.000 They were fun.

00:05:02.000 Well, anyway, we'll talk about it.

00:05:03.000 We got Phil.

00:05:03.000 He's hanging out.

00:05:04.000 Phil Labonte from All That Remains.

00:05:05.000 How you doing?

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00:05:07.000 I anti-communist and counter-revolutionary.

00:05:09.000 How you doing?

00:05:09.000 And my buddy Serge is here.

00:05:11.000 What's up?

00:05:12.000 His microphone's off.

00:05:13.000 I'm on mute, like always.

00:05:14.000 How you guys doing?

00:05:16.000 Yeah, ready to start when you guys are.

00:05:17.000 Let's jump into this first story.

00:05:19.000 I love this one.

00:05:19.000 From the hill, First Republic fallout.

00:05:22.000 Democrats fume as regulators bail out yet another failed bank.

00:05:26.000 What I love about this is that they're like, while Democrats aren't arguing the Biden administration should have let First Republic fail, many are concerned that the current spate of bank rescues point to financial stability concerns.

00:05:39.000 I love it.

00:05:40.000 Democrats basically coming out and being like, I can't believe they'd bail out another bank.

00:05:43.000 I mean, we want them to do it, but we're so shocked that they didn't.

00:05:47.000 Yeah, they wanted this to happen.

00:05:48.000 They say the San Francisco-based regional powerhouse is the third major U.S.

00:05:51.000 bank to fail and prompt a government administrative bailout of depositors following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March.

00:05:59.000 It is the second largest bank collapse in U.S.

00:06:02.000 history, eclipsing Silicon Valley Bank.

00:06:05.000 I love this because it's like, no one seems to care.

00:06:09.000 It's like just another domino falling.

00:06:11.000 It's almost like it's not news that our banking system is collapsing.

00:06:15.000 I wake up.

00:06:16.000 It's 6am.

00:06:16.000 I look at my phone and I'm like, my eyes are like stuck shut.

00:06:18.000 And I'm like, what's going on here?

00:06:19.000 I look at my phone.

00:06:20.000 And it's like the federal government seized First Republic Bank this morning and sold it to JP Morgan with $50 billion in financing from them.

00:06:27.000 And I'm like, wait, what?

00:06:29.000 At four in the morning, they did this?

00:06:31.000 Wow, it sounds like it's all falling apart, and then throughout the rest of the day, like, no one's talking about it.

00:06:35.000 The first thing I saw was your tweet, and I was like, oh, we gotta write about this right away.

00:06:38.000 Yeah.

00:06:38.000 That was our first story out today.

00:06:40.000 And everyone was like, oh, wow, how about that?

00:06:42.000 You guys hear Vice is going bankrupt?

00:06:43.000 It's like, dude, our banking system is bankrupt.

00:06:46.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:06:46.000 Oh, yeah, but Vice sucks. 1.00

00:06:48.000 That's also true. 1.00

00:06:48.000 I mean, look, our banking system sucks, too. 1.00

00:06:51.000 Our banking system also sucks. 0.98

00:06:53.000 I don't- I guess the issue is, like, we know the banks are failing, but what do we do? 0.98

00:06:58.000 Yeah, exactly!

00:06:59.000 I feel like everybody- that's kind of the situation.

00:07:01.000 Everyone knows, everyone's aware of how much money has been printed in the past five years.

00:07:06.000 How much money they printed.

00:07:07.000 It was, you know, unprecedented amounts of money.

00:07:09.000 We are- basically ascribing to an unprecedented monetary policy.

00:07:15.000 Modern monetary theory is essentially it's a new idea.

00:07:18.000 It's not been tested.

00:07:19.000 We don't know exactly how much stress the system can take.

00:07:23.000 And so far, thankfully, things haven't gone terribly wrong, but there's no reason to believe that something

00:07:29.000 wouldn't happen, can't happen tomorrow and everything fall apart.

00:07:33.000 And a lot of the money that got spent over the past few years got spent really willy nilly.

00:07:38.000 I remember in Washington State, a bunch of the money that went out that was like extra unemployment actually went to Africa.

00:07:46.000 There was like a whole scam going on.

00:07:48.000 They were like, oh, we're unemployed.

00:07:49.000 Don't check our IP addresses.

00:07:51.000 And nobody did.

00:07:53.000 Yeah, it's just the First Republic got really into NFTs.

00:07:57.000 They got all those bored apes, and I guess it didn't pan out.

00:08:01.000 You know what they were really doing?

00:08:03.000 Apparently, it's been reported, they were giving interest-only loans to ultra-wealthy individuals.

00:08:10.000 Basically, they were just buying penthouses for rich people, and then no money down.

00:08:15.000 Like BLM?

00:08:17.000 It seems like the Titanic hit the iceberg a long time ago, and the rich people have been extracting as much as they can to bail out as it's sinking to the ground.

00:08:26.000 I mean, that's- That's like 2,000 people left New York.

00:08:28.000 2,000 millionaires left New York.

00:08:30.000 It was like 250,000 people left Manhattan, which is also higher income.

00:08:34.000 Yeah, and then it was like, but there were like actually 2,000 legit millionaires.

00:08:39.000 And then where did they go?

00:08:40.000 Florida, I guess?

00:08:40.000 A bunch of them went to Florida.

00:08:42.000 Yeah, New Zealand bunkers or something.

00:08:44.000 Yeah, just get the hell out.

00:08:45.000 They can get to Montana, where they have the old nuclear silos.

00:08:50.000 I gotta give a shout-out to Jim Cramer.

00:08:51.000 He's undefeated.

00:08:53.000 Completely undefeated.

00:08:54.000 He has that tweet where he's like, First Republic, good bank!

00:08:56.000 He's like, everybody move, move, move to New York!

00:08:58.000 Go over there, pack your stuff up!

00:09:00.000 He said something positive about Bitcoin the other day, and I'm like, no, Jim, no!

00:09:03.000 No, Jim!

00:09:04.000 Stop! 1.00

00:09:06.000 What are you doing, Cramer?!

00:09:08.000 Well, no, maybe that's the one thing where it's like, maybe I'll move my assets.

00:09:11.000 If he's recommended, I'm getting out because I don't know what's going on here, but maybe he's created the inverse Kramer effect where they actually are good banks, but by him shouting it out, everyone panics and then pulls their money out.

00:09:23.000 He's like, I want to burn it all down.

00:09:25.000 He's just been studying the economy for years and he sees the corruption in the system.

00:09:28.000 I will be its reckoning.

00:09:30.000 Behind the scenes, he's just calling these institutions out so people lose faith in them.

00:09:35.000 He's actually burning it all down.

00:09:37.000 If he had made that tweet in Mandarin, Bitcoin would have crumbled because the people in China would have understood. 1.00

00:09:44.000 What I find really funny about this story is that there's a whole bunch of stories where it's like, there is no banking crisis.

00:09:49.000 Experts say it's all media nonsense.

00:09:53.000 Don't worry, nothing bad's happening.

00:09:54.000 And, like, from March until three days ago, all of the news stories were, there is no banking crisis, it's all being overhyped.

00:10:02.000 And then, like, two days before, the US government seizes the second largest bank.

00:10:09.000 It's the second largest collapse seized by the U.S.

00:10:11.000 government.

00:10:12.000 ABC runs a story saying, is the banking collapse over?

00:10:15.000 And I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:10:17.000 Y'all were saying there was no banking collapse in the corporate media.

00:10:20.000 And then right before this collapse, you're like, is it, is it over?

00:10:23.000 Well, answer was no.

00:10:24.000 But here's my concern.

00:10:26.000 JP Morgan gets $50 billion in federal financing.

00:10:29.000 So basically, we are, maybe not the taxpayer, but we as regular people are all footing the bill because Like, it's just tied to the FDIC is supposed to be for us.

00:10:40.000 It's supposed to be insuring our money.

00:10:41.000 Right, and instead they're using it to finance the sale to JP Morgan.

00:10:45.000 But here's my thought process.

00:10:47.000 Yo, it's just me.

00:10:49.000 And I understand why people in media will just say like, everything's fine, everything's fine.

00:10:53.000 Because they don't want to run in the banks.

00:10:54.000 So recognizing that, I'm gonna be completely honest.

00:10:57.000 If I had money in JP Morgan, I would have gone first thing today and pulled it all out.

00:11:02.000 All of it.

00:11:03.000 Every penny, huh?

00:11:04.000 Every penny.

00:11:04.000 Because JPMorgan just bought a necrotic multi-billion dollar asset.

00:11:10.000 With 84 branches.

00:11:11.000 And with government financing.

00:11:14.000 Meaning the only reason this was possible was because the FDIC gave $50 billion in fixed rate financing.

00:11:23.000 So JPMorgan was not capable of absorbing this without the federal government's intervention, so I'm kind of like, why should I believe they can rescue this failing bank?

00:11:34.000 Well, and the other thing, too, is the FDIC has said that they were going to put a new program in place to make banks pay more money for this bank bailout insurance fund.

00:11:43.000 Like, that's coming up, too.

00:11:44.000 I just, I think JPMorgan's not going to be able to handle it.

00:11:48.000 Well, are any of the banks going to be able to handle this kind of thing?

00:11:51.000 And they're all going to be expected to pay into this new fund.

00:11:54.000 Right.

00:11:54.000 The argument, I guess, was J.P.

00:11:56.000 Morgan was saying that when people fled First Republic, they went to chase and they brought that money with them.

00:12:01.000 But imagine you're like on a sinking ship.

00:12:04.000 Right.

00:12:04.000 And you're like, quick, everyone jump to that ship.

00:12:06.000 Yeah.

00:12:06.000 And the other ship is like, yeah, actually, you know, we're we're that's part of our fleet, too.

00:12:10.000 And we're like connected to it.

00:12:11.000 They're going to be like, we don't have that many lifeboats.

00:12:14.000 We were running from from that bank.

00:12:16.000 And now our money's right back with them.

00:12:18.000 I mean, at this point, it really is a situation where people are kind of on their own figuring out where the safe place to go is.

00:12:26.000 Because there's got to be contagion from this bank or from the other banks that are going to be brought to J.P.

00:12:32.000 Morgan.

00:12:32.000 I mean, I assume J.P.

00:12:34.000 Morgan is alleged to be able to handle it.

00:12:36.000 The government is going to back it up.

00:12:38.000 But again, what happens if something unprecedented happens?

00:12:41.000 They can only handle it because the FDIC gave them $50 billion.

00:12:44.000 Yeah.

00:12:46.000 A promissory note.

00:12:48.000 So if J.P.

00:12:48.000 Morgan could not do it on their own without government support, why would I assume they're going to be able to manage this properly?

00:12:55.000 Because the government will keep writing checks.

00:12:57.000 So it's essentially you're betting on the U.S.

00:12:58.000 government.

00:12:59.000 So why didn't the government just write a check to First Republic and keep them afloat?

00:13:03.000 I don't know exactly what the thought process was.

00:13:06.000 Yeah, there's something else going on there.

00:13:07.000 Then my issue there is...

00:13:12.000 Okay, if they're gonna write a $50 billion check to JPMorgan, why not just write a $50 billion check to First Republic?

00:13:18.000 Because they don't want to nationalize, because then it would be looked at as nationalizing the bank.

00:13:21.000 They did!

00:13:23.000 I know, but I think it's gonna be a situation of just, they're gonna say, oh well, it's not nationalized because JPMorgan's running it, blah blah blah.

00:13:30.000 Even though they're financing it or funding it, if the government just says we're taking over, And we're going to send regulators from the SEC in, or whatever the, you know, whatever the regulating body is.

00:13:40.000 If they just send them in, then it becomes a situation where they're going to be like, no, it's government bank.

00:13:44.000 Because that was the problem, or that was the concern back in 2008.

00:13:46.000 They didn't want to have Goldman Sachs look like it was being owned by the government.

00:13:51.000 And people are allergic to nationalizing.

00:13:53.000 They want someone, they want it to be taken over, but they want a private company to be the one doing it.

00:13:58.000 At the very least, so that way they can say that it's not nationalized.

00:14:01.000 So they can say that the government didn't take over the bank.

00:14:04.000 If there's an ulterior motive, it just sounds like they're being shady.

00:14:07.000 And once again, if I use Chase, I would be gone.

00:14:10.000 That's just me.

00:14:11.000 I mean, and I get it.

00:14:12.000 The reason why people like Jim Cramer come out and they're like, everything's fine, everything's fine, even though it's not, is because they don't want to create the self-fulfilling prophecy where you go in the media, say everything's not fine, causing a run in the banks.

00:14:23.000 I don't want this system to collapse.

00:14:24.000 SVB was like Twitter conversation and then there was a run on the bank.

00:14:28.000 Well, it's also like... And First Republic was the same thing.

00:14:30.000 When they started getting hit, people started pulling their money out, causing it to collapse.

00:14:33.000 Right.

00:14:33.000 I wonder if Occupy Wall Street activists are cheering this on right now.

00:14:36.000 It's like everything they've ever wanted.

00:14:37.000 Well, they probably have all their money in chase.

00:14:39.000 Yep.

00:14:40.000 Well, Tim, I mean, like, if I sat you down and I was like, Tim...

00:14:43.000 Everything's going to be okay.

00:14:44.000 Do you understand?

00:14:46.000 Everything's all right.

00:14:47.000 It's not your fault.

00:14:47.000 It's okay.

00:14:48.000 Everything's fine.

00:14:49.000 You'd be like, what's going to happen?

00:14:50.000 I mean, what's going on?

00:14:51.000 Whenever someone feels the need to reassure you.

00:14:54.000 It's like, um, goodwill hunting.

00:14:57.000 It's not your fault.

00:14:58.000 I'm thinking more.

00:14:59.000 Stop saying that.

00:15:00.000 Do you remember?

00:15:01.000 Do you remember at the end of The Dark Knight?

00:15:04.000 When, not to spoil it or anything, but when Harvey Dent's like, have you ever told someone everything's gonna be okay when you know it isn't?

00:15:11.000 That's Jim Cramer right now.

00:15:12.000 Do you have any idea what it's like?

00:15:14.000 Someone should make that meme where he's yelling at Jim Cramer.

00:15:17.000 Because that's literally what the dude has done.

00:15:20.000 I never do that.

00:15:21.000 I never say everything's going to be okay.

00:15:23.000 I mean, I don't know if it's going to be okay.

00:15:25.000 I do know that... No, like, eventually we're all going to be dead.

00:15:28.000 Yes!

00:15:29.000 But that might, you know, if you get to heaven, that's okay.

00:15:30.000 That's when everything's actually okay.

00:15:32.000 Right.

00:15:33.000 When okay has no meaning.

00:15:34.000 Well, you have nothing to complain about.

00:15:37.000 But I mean, like, living a long and healthy life and dying of old age started by loved ones is okay.

00:15:42.000 No, that sounds great.

00:15:43.000 So everything will be okay.

00:15:43.000 Right.

00:15:44.000 I aspire to that kind of death.

00:15:46.000 I mean, it's just the human experience, you know?

00:15:49.000 I'm just saying, I understand why everyone's coming out and saying it's gonna be okay, but you gotta understand the people who are saying that to you, they may claim to have noble reasons, but they're pulling their assets and they're putting it somewhere else.

00:16:03.000 But where are they putting it?

00:16:04.000 China.

00:16:04.000 Where do you put it?

00:16:05.000 China? 0.73

00:16:06.000 That doesn't sound like a safe bet.

00:16:06.000 Yeah.

00:16:07.000 Put it in their mattresses.

00:16:08.000 Eventually we'll have some sort of like tariff situation, we won't be able to get our money out of there.

00:16:12.000 Yeah, for sure, but if you're rich you're probably not gonna worry about it.

00:16:14.000 I mean, Panama?

00:16:16.000 El Salvador people, they're probably buying tons of Bitcoin.

00:16:18.000 I wouldn't be surprised if Bitcoin skyrockets.

00:16:20.000 There have been predictions that a few months ago, several people were predicting that Bitcoin would hit a million dollars soon.

00:16:27.000 And who was that?

00:16:29.000 He's an economist or whatever, and he said it was going to hit a million dollars and he would make a bet with somebody that it would.

00:16:36.000 Everybody said the amount of increase in Bitcoin due to him creating this narrative is going to cover any potential losses from giving away a million dollars.

00:16:44.000 They didn't believe him.

00:16:45.000 But the point he made was that the banks are insolvent.

00:16:48.000 They're holding a bunch of, they're holding way more liabilities than they have assets.

00:16:52.000 And they're unrealized losses.

00:16:54.000 And as soon as this comes in the next few months, the dollar is gonna collapse.

00:16:58.000 Bitcoin's gonna skyrocket.

00:16:59.000 Then this happens, the second biggest collapse in US history

00:17:05.000 happening with two other major collapses in the span of a couple months.

00:17:08.000 You know what's interesting is Chase, like J.P.

00:17:11.000 Morgan in the first place, back in like 19-whatever, 1913 or something like that, he didn't, when there was like a run on banks, there was a run on local banks and all the local banks had their money invested with regional banks and the regional banks had their money invested with, you know, banks in New York and everything.

00:17:27.000 So when there was a run on the banks, the local banks, they couldn't get their money out fast enough to cover it, because it was all invested basically upstream.

00:17:37.000 But JP Morgan thought that there should be a private banking back situation, where like it was not nationalized at all, but all of the banks got together and basically created their own kind of, you know, FDIC, but it was for the banks themselves and private.

00:17:53.000 And instead it ended up being, you had like the Federal Reserve Act.

00:17:59.000 So someone chatted that Valley National Bank is also falling right now, and I just looked it up, and like, it's in the news, they're starting to fall now.

00:18:09.000 Minus 20%!

00:18:09.000 My goodness gracious!

00:18:12.000 Does anybody have a clear memory of what it was that made the average person realize that the banking crisis was happening in 2008?

00:18:22.000 As far as I remember, it was the- Bear Stearn, probably?

00:18:25.000 I thought it was the- Was it Lehman?

00:18:26.000 Wasn't it Lehman?

00:18:27.000 Well, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns were banks that were involved, but I'm wondering what it was that made the average person.

00:18:32.000 Was it because, I thought it was because the companies like GE weren't able to get credit from other companies to make their payroll.

00:18:41.000 And I'm wondering if there has to be a catalyst to make the average person aware if they're not, you know, it's like if you don't have your money in any of these particular four, these four banks, you kind of might just not really pay attention.

00:18:53.000 Oh, a bank failed and then go about your day and it doesn't really affect you.

00:18:56.000 I had very little money in 2008, so I don't remember at all.

00:18:59.000 you know, makes it become everyone's problem.

00:19:02.000 And I'm wondering if there's, if anyone has any insight on that,

00:19:04.000 what it was back in 2008, or if there's something- I had very little money in 2008,

00:19:09.000 so I don't remember at all.

00:19:11.000 Fair enough.

00:19:12.000 Speaking of having very little money, Well, hold on.

00:19:15.000 This is not financial advice, but I'm going to buy a bunch of NFTs, print them out, and stuff them in my mattress.

00:19:20.000 That's a really clever idea.

00:19:20.000 That's it.

00:19:21.000 Great idea.

00:19:22.000 Thank you.

00:19:22.000 That's brilliant.

00:19:23.000 Great idea.

00:19:24.000 The banks will never get it.

00:19:25.000 Good luck, James.

00:19:26.000 Use the good picture paper, too.

00:19:28.000 The stuff they... The glossy stuff.

00:19:29.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:19:30.000 They will retain their value.

00:19:31.000 They're just different NFTs of your face.

00:19:34.000 Exactly.

00:19:34.000 I'll make my own NFTs, drive the price down, buy them up, then stuff them in my mattress once the price point is high.

00:19:43.000 Because they're yours.

00:19:43.000 Not financial advice.

00:19:45.000 You just figure out what they're worth.

00:19:46.000 That's basically what Sam Vanckman Freed did.

00:19:48.000 That was literally it?

00:19:49.000 That's brilliant.

00:19:51.000 Let's jump to this next story.

00:19:53.000 We have this from KOMONews.

00:19:55.000 Bud Light sales continue to drop down 21.4% following Trans Activist Partnership.

00:20:02.000 The latest data released Monday by Bump Williams Consulting shows Bud Light sales for the third week in April were down 21.4% compared to the same time last year.

00:20:10.000 The week before, sales were down 17%.

00:20:13.000 It just keeps getting worse.

00:20:14.000 Check this out.

00:20:15.000 Competitors gain ground.

00:20:16.000 Coors Light is up 20%.

00:20:18.000 Miller Light sales are up 21%.

00:20:19.000 You know what that means?

00:20:20.000 It means for every one Bud Light someone does not buy, they buy one Coors and one Miller.

00:20:26.000 Yeah, that's a lot.

00:20:27.000 That's a lot of extra beer drinking.

00:20:28.000 They're like, I'm gonna buy one of each.

00:20:30.000 For every Bud Light you try to sell, I'm gonna buy two of the other ones.

00:20:32.000 It's crazy that they're not buying Good Beer instead, but it's better than nothing.

00:20:36.000 I don't care what they buy as long as it's not Bud Light.

00:20:38.000 Amen.

00:20:39.000 The Human Rights Campaign, civil rights activist group for LGBTQ plus community penned a letter to Bud Light demanding, they're demanding that they defend them.

00:20:48.000 They say when, uh, what is this?

00:20:50.000 They were super drunk on Bud Light, right?

00:20:51.000 Like, this is an outrage.

00:20:55.000 She's a beautiful woman!

00:20:57.000 So there was a bar in Indiana.

00:21:00.000 There's a bar in Indiana that issued a statement saying, if you've got a problem with this, then you can leave.

00:21:07.000 Dude, you're in Indiana, like... And then they came back a week later, they were like, We didn't mean it!

00:21:12.000 Please!

00:21:12.000 Please come back!

00:21:13.000 What we meant was you can leave a review on Yelp and come back on InFriend!

00:21:17.000 You can leave a big tip because we ain't doing that stuff anymore, man!

00:21:21.000 We're done!

00:21:22.000 I love this story because, uh...

00:21:24.000 We're winning. Bud Light is so desperate not to apologize.

00:21:28.000 They're going to spend millions in marketing. They're hiring ex-GOP aides to assist them.

00:21:32.000 They're having secret meetings.

00:21:33.000 But they're going to have to apologize because they are, for the third week in a row,

00:21:37.000 and that was last week, their sales are down 21.4 percent on the

00:21:42.000 Imagine what it's going to look like this week.

00:21:44.000 It's going to keep being bad.

00:21:46.000 And the only way out is an apology.

00:21:49.000 I don't think an apology would work.

00:21:53.000 I remember when I got canceled, I was told to apologize.

00:21:56.000 And I was like, even if I did, it wouldn't work.

00:21:58.000 This is different.

00:22:02.000 The woke mob cancelling people was never in good faith.

00:22:05.000 No, that was never in good faith.

00:22:06.000 When Bud Light did this, the first thing everyone said was, just say you're sorry, and we will move on and buy your beer.

00:22:11.000 And I said, look, if they just came out and said, we're sorry for sponsoring Dome Mulvaney, we won't do it again, we apologize for offending our audience, I'd have been like, okay, okay, okay, fine.

00:22:19.000 I'll still not drink your beer!

00:22:20.000 No, no, I said, I said- You don't drink it at all!

00:22:23.000 I said I would go and stalk the entire office for our guests if they were willing to apologize for having done this, and they are not.

00:22:32.000 In fact, my view of it is, they are the opposite of apologizing.

00:22:36.000 Hiring, having secret meetings, hiring GOP aides to consult for them, paying millions in marketing, is them saying, we will do everything in our power to not apologize to our own customers.

00:22:48.000 That is the biggest F you Well, they don't care about their customers.

00:22:52.000 They don't care about their customers' values.

00:22:54.000 That's why, at this point, they have done it.

00:22:56.000 I do not see in any way why anybody would want to be associated with them at this point.

00:23:00.000 And for three weeks, they could have just come out after that first week and been like, guys, we did not mean to sponsor this person.

00:23:06.000 We had no idea.

00:23:07.000 We are sorry about sponsoring Domo Veni.

00:23:09.000 Well, there was that thing for a second where it was like, oh, the corporate people didn't really know that this was going on.

00:23:09.000 End of story.

00:23:15.000 Yeah, but they never said sorry.

00:23:16.000 To be fair, have you ever been in an argument with someone and then you realize like halfway through you're wrong and you're like, how do I be a reasonable person without apologizing here?

00:23:16.000 No.

00:23:24.000 I'm clearly incorrect.

00:23:26.000 Gaslight!

00:23:26.000 I am 100% wrong.

00:23:27.000 Would you not spend millions of dollars to get out of that situation if you had it?

00:23:30.000 Would you not be like...

00:23:32.000 That's what we do here on Timcast.

00:23:33.000 I would just apologize.

00:23:35.000 Oh, you're so virtuous, Libby!

00:23:37.000 No, I'm not.

00:23:37.000 I just know when I'm wrong, and it happens a lot.

00:23:39.000 Well, you're wrong right now.

00:23:41.000 I'm used to apologizing.

00:23:42.000 Here's what you do.

00:23:43.000 You quit drinking, and then... Right, then you, like, take the steps.

00:23:48.000 Imagine all the good drinking.

00:23:49.000 You have to apologize to everybody.

00:23:51.000 Everything's easier once you quit drinking.

00:23:53.000 Maybe Red Light should go to AA, and they'll get to that round.

00:23:56.000 We apologize to all our customers for thinking that A whole bunch of men really wanted to drink beer.

00:24:00.000 Budweiser needs to go to AA, man.

00:24:02.000 Sponsored by this fella in a dress. 1.00

00:24:02.000 I'd back it. 1.00

00:24:03.000 Anheuser-Busch in the AA meetings. How many lives have they saved by stopping all these men from drinking? 0.98

00:24:09.000 No, people are buying twice as much!

00:24:20.000 Bud Light's official to apologize is taking lives!

00:24:24.000 I'm not drinking Bud Light parties.

00:24:25.000 I bet Coors put him up to it.

00:24:26.000 I bet these other companies were like, you know what would be really cool?

00:24:33.000 Coors CEO has a meeting with the Anheuser-Busch CEO and he's like, we got a dog playing chess and he's like, you guys think you're the biggest dogs in the park, but I got news for you.

00:24:42.000 Our next play Dylan, however much they're paying you, I'll double it!

00:24:45.000 None of that 70 cents on the dollar thing, I know you're actually a man!

00:24:48.000 Sponsoring Dylan Mulvaney and then Anheuser-Busch guy gets up and he's like,

00:24:51.000 I have to go to the bathroom real quick.

00:24:52.000 He runs and he's like, get it!

00:24:53.000 Sponsor this person! 0.85

00:24:54.000 And then the Coors- Dylan, however much they're paying you, I'll double it!

00:24:56.000 None of that 70 cents on the dollar thing, I know you're actually a man!

00:24:59.000 I'll pay you a full dollar!

00:25:00.000 Then the Coors-like guy gets up and walks away and laughs. 0.99

00:25:04.000 And Bud Light's now.

00:25:06.000 So, all of this, all of this that they're doing, take a look at this story, this is interesting.

00:25:10.000 Bud Light owners hired XGOP staffers as Capitol Hill lobbyists the same day they released the partnership with Dylan Mulvaney.

00:25:18.000 They are doing everything in their power to avoid actually just speaking to their own customers.

00:25:25.000 No, no, no, I didn't say apologize.

00:25:26.000 Speaking to.

00:25:27.000 Yeah, they don't want to do that.

00:25:28.000 They don't want to say anything directly to these angry individuals, to the point where they've put two people on leave, they're spending millions in marketing, they're hiring these people, they made a commercial referencing 9-11.

00:25:41.000 Right, they went full patriotic.

00:25:42.000 That's so desperate.

00:25:44.000 Really desperate.

00:25:45.000 Did you see what Dylan Mulvaney did?

00:25:46.000 Dylan Mulvaney's last, most recent TikTok.

00:25:49.000 Oh, I always keep up.

00:25:50.000 Right?

00:25:51.000 I actually do always keep up because it's fun doing these stories.

00:25:54.000 Only reason I have TikTok.

00:25:55.000 David has notifications turned on.

00:25:58.000 I push notifications, they go to my phone.

00:26:00.000 Ding!

00:26:01.000 Look at you!

00:26:02.000 But Dylan Mulvaney, his last TikTok, you know how he does like 365 days of girlhood?

00:26:08.000 Yeah, he skipped a bunch.

00:26:08.000 It was day 9601 of being human.

00:26:13.000 And I was like, there you go!

00:26:14.000 Just be that!

00:26:15.000 Just be human!

00:26:16.000 And then you're basically fine.

00:26:17.000 But the video that was put up by Mulvaney was saying like, you know, people are saying things in the press about me that's not my truth.

00:26:26.000 And it's just like, not my truth.

00:26:28.000 It is the most, that is exactly the problem.

00:26:32.000 Yes it is.

00:26:33.000 What they're saying was the truth, but not yours.

00:26:35.000 Exactly.

00:26:36.000 Like, what are you, God?

00:26:37.000 You get to invent truth yourself?

00:26:39.000 This is the subjective cult worldview these people have.

00:26:42.000 They determine what is true.

00:26:43.000 It's self-worship.

00:26:45.000 Anyone who says my truth is engaged in self-worship.

00:26:48.000 There's no such thing as your truth.

00:26:49.000 Well, that's what it is.

00:26:50.000 It's the deification of the self.

00:26:51.000 I am the way and the truth and the life.

00:26:53.000 The Logos?

00:26:54.000 Mm-hmm.

00:26:55.000 Christ is truth.

00:26:56.000 He is truth.

00:26:57.000 Even outside of that religious perspective, it is obvious that woke people worship themselves.

00:27:03.000 Yes, that's correct.

00:27:04.000 The universe revolves around them.

00:27:06.000 Their reality is reality.

00:27:08.000 That is the postmodernist subjective morality.

00:27:11.000 James Lindsay is jumping up and down, screaming, yes, Tim, yes, Tim, yes, Tim, right now.

00:27:16.000 Well, what else is self-care?

00:27:17.000 I'm swinging a sword.

00:27:18.000 I mean, self-care is like preparation of the sacred vessel.

00:27:22.000 Amen.

00:27:23.000 Well, and the irony, right, about self-care is you're not actually caring about yourself.

00:27:26.000 You're just indulging in selfish pleasures that make your life significantly worse in the long run.

00:27:31.000 Tim, you talked about how this is a... Really nice lotion and ice cream.

00:27:33.000 Exactly.

00:27:34.000 Not like going to bed and getting up at a decent time and going to your job and earning and, yeah.

00:27:40.000 I saw the first, for the first time, I saw someone do a cover of a TikTok bit.

00:27:46.000 You know the Dylan Mulvaney bit that he did where he had the tampon and stuff?

00:27:51.000 I saw another different TikToker literally do the same bit.

00:27:55.000 It wasn't like a, yeah, it was like a cover song.

00:27:57.000 That guy Sykes. 0.98

00:27:59.000 I don't know the name. Yeah, so I'm telling you this guy was one of the guy this guy pledged to a bunch of sororities

00:28:05.000 At I think Alabama. Oh, I think it was Alabama. We wrote about him a little bit today

00:28:10.000 But he pledged a bunch of sororities. He didn't get into any of them. He got very mad

00:28:14.000 He posted all these prom pictures. He has his hair really short, but it's got like highlights

00:28:18.000 He's clearly an effeminate gay man, which like okay go ahead 0.86

00:28:22.000 But here he is, trying to get into all these sororities, and then he started ripping off the Dylan Mulvaney stuff, because it was doing well for Mulvaney, and he must have been like, oh, I could definitely get in on this. 0.97

00:28:34.000 So I watched some of his videos, and yeah, he goes into the stores, he makes fun of tampons, and it's like, look, none of us like tampons either, okay?

00:28:41.000 Like nobody's into it, it's not something we're all like, dangly tampons, it's like you're stuck, you know,

00:28:46.000 you don't wanna like bleed all over the place.

00:28:48.000 I like what they do though, I like the, I like the way they perform.

00:28:52.000 The effect of tampons is useful, but we don't need to go into the store

00:28:54.000 and be like ogling all these cotton products, for goodness sake. They do these 0.90

00:28:58.000 Instagram ads where it's like, people have periods and it shows women 0.62

00:29:03.000 in their underwear with stains and stuff.

00:29:06.000 The activist posts?

00:29:07.000 Fortunately, no.

00:29:08.000 There's been a bunch of leftists who have posted... The freebleed, the freebleed.

00:29:11.000 Oh, I remember this.

00:29:13.000 Runners do that. 0.96

00:29:13.000 They've posted images on Instagram of them laying in bed in their underwear with stains. 0.96

00:29:18.000 And my view of that is, like, no different than if a dude had, like, crap on his ass. 1.00

00:29:23.000 I'm free-shitting, dude. 1.00

00:29:25.000 It's like, why should society constrain my biological functions? 0.99

00:29:29.000 But hold on.

00:29:30.000 Imagine if people were this animated about toilet paper.

00:29:34.000 I've got those Charmin Bears.

00:29:36.000 They're excited.

00:29:37.000 They're super pumped about toilet paper. 0.84

00:29:39.000 But they're not against it, though.

00:29:41.000 That's the point.

00:29:41.000 They're not like, this toilet paper's oppressive to bear kind.

00:29:46.000 Why must I cleanse... Clean fuzzy bears.

00:29:49.000 Exactly.

00:29:51.000 Toilet paper wasn't around for all of history.

00:29:53.000 Commercials are kind of weird, to be honest.

00:29:55.000 Yeah, I don't like any toilet paper commercials.

00:29:57.000 I don't like any tampon commercials.

00:29:58.000 I hate all the menstruation commercials.

00:30:01.000 It's always a woman in nature being super happy. 0.99

00:30:07.000 But in the commercials, she's super happy.

00:30:10.000 She's out in nature on a rowboat and it starts sinking and she's like, oh no.

00:30:15.000 I hate all that so much.

00:30:16.000 And you know what?

00:30:17.000 You don't need commercials for these things.

00:30:19.000 Yes you do, because your brand needs to be the one that people know. 0.97

00:30:24.000 When people think crappy butts, they think Charmin. 0.58

00:30:28.000 Look, people go to the store, they walk through the aisle, and they grab the one that's soft. 0.98

00:30:32.000 I don't know about what women do. 1.00

00:30:34.000 I don't want to talk about it.

00:30:36.000 You know how there's been all this shoplifting at like the Duane Reade's and the Walgreens and everything like that?

00:30:41.000 So I keep being afraid that when I go into a drugstore it's all gonna be locked up and I'm gonna have to walk up to some teenager at the front and be like, um, can you unlock the tampon?

00:30:51.000 They'll have like weird color hair and be wearing a mask.

00:30:52.000 I don't want any piece of that, you know?

00:30:54.000 I just gotta be assertive. 0.94

00:30:56.000 I gotta be like, hey doc, I gotta wipe my butt. 0.97

00:30:58.000 Open the cabinet. 0.85

00:30:59.000 Give me some of that TP.

00:31:01.000 That's right.

00:31:01.000 What are you going to do?

00:31:02.000 Hey, everybody, poops!

00:31:03.000 Give me the wet ones. 0.97

00:31:04.000 Let's go.

00:31:05.000 Wet ones.

00:31:07.000 But Tampax actually was sponsoring Dylan Mulvaney.

00:31:11.000 Yes, which is weird.

00:31:13.000 And I was horrified by that. 0.99

00:31:15.000 I was like, should I stick him up his butt? 0.99

00:31:17.000 Did you ever see that South Park with Kenny? 0.99

00:31:20.000 Yes.

00:31:20.000 Dylan came out and said after the backlash that the whole bit was actually to help women.

00:31:26.000 Because even leftist women and regular women were offended by what Dylan was doing marketing tampons. 0.85

00:31:32.000 Yeah.

00:31:33.000 And so that video was like, I was just trying to be helpful.

00:31:36.000 And then women got even angrier because a bunch of women started posting like, having a male come up to you in the bathroom. 1.00

00:31:41.000 You're mansplaining tampons! 1.00

00:31:44.000 You're a woman, a woman is in the bathroom, and a male walks up to you and says, would you like a tampon? 0.99

00:31:53.000 Oh my goodness, I would be terrified.

00:31:56.000 Where's the holy water?

00:31:57.000 And that's why the backlash just got worse.

00:32:00.000 Now, my hope from all of this is that companies just stop sponsoring Dylan Mulvaney.

00:32:05.000 Dylan Mulvaney... No!

00:32:07.000 Dylan Mulvaney... But he's got everything already.

00:32:08.000 He's got a KitchenAid blender, he's got Kate Spade, everything.

00:32:12.000 Right.

00:32:12.000 He's got, like, oil of a leg or whatever.

00:32:14.000 He's running for president, got the Republican nomination.

00:32:16.000 Right, he's doing that.

00:32:17.000 And Dylan represents algorithmic manipulation to no one.

00:32:21.000 And Bud Light is learning what that means.

00:32:24.000 It means when the algorithm says something is popular, it is not.

00:32:28.000 Just because people are looking at it does not mean people like it.

00:32:30.000 And what is on the internet is, here's what's actually happening.

00:32:34.000 There are fringe groups in this country that normally don't have the relationship to each other to organize in large numbers.

00:32:40.000 That means if one person in every major city in the US believed in, you know, space lizards, There's no great space lizard organization, but the internet allows them to congregate digitally.

00:32:52.000 This then results in someone getting a hundred thousand views on their space lizard video, but these people don't organize in the real world.

00:32:59.000 Now you've got companies being like, who's that guy who's got a hundred thousand followers?

00:33:02.000 Oh, space lizard guy?

00:33:03.000 He's great.

00:33:04.000 Let's sponsor that.

00:33:05.000 Whereas people normally are like, that's not okay.

00:33:08.000 Dylan Mulvaney gets views because the algorithm props it up.

00:33:11.000 Bud Light says, sponsor it.

00:33:13.000 Regular people say, what the are you doing?

00:33:16.000 This is not okay.

00:33:17.000 Now they're reeling from it.

00:33:18.000 I hope other brands take notice and stop sponsoring algorithmic manipulation.

00:33:24.000 But let's do this.

00:33:25.000 Speaking of this subject, we have big breaking news.

00:33:29.000 This is a big story from this weekend.

00:33:31.000 And a 70 year old man named Dave Defeats 82 women in the World Poker Tour Ladies' Event.

00:33:39.000 So, in Southern Florida, the World Poker Tour is currently on, and this fella right here, Dave... She's aspirational. 0.57

00:33:47.000 The Ladies No Limit Hold'em event in Seminole garnered 83 entries with a prize pool of $17,430.

00:33:52.000 Here's the...

00:33:54.000 This guy's having a good time.

00:33:56.000 It's just really funny because it's like not sports.

00:33:58.000 It's not like a physical activity.

00:34:00.000 You just went there and just mopped the floor.

00:34:02.000 But this is true of any...

00:34:04.000 But look, men are better than women at chess. 0.99

00:34:08.000 Men are better than women at poker. 1.00

00:34:10.000 Poker is actually more obvious than chess.

00:34:12.000 Chess, I don't have an explanation for.

00:34:13.000 Maybe it's related to aggression and risk-taking.

00:34:16.000 The reason why men tend to beat women in poker, and not completely, there are some women who are good, like in any other sport, it's because men are more aggressive and are more... 0.94

00:34:25.000 Bigger risks.

00:34:25.000 They will play aggressively.

00:34:26.000 They will make bigger bets, they will take bigger risks, and they will get paid out for it.

00:34:30.000 Women are less likely to. 1.00

00:34:31.000 So, of course, this guy won.

00:34:33.000 He won first place.

00:34:34.000 He gets $5,555.

00:34:36.000 And what they said is, Ebony Kenny, another female, I believe she's a pro poker player, said, maybe Dave was overheard saying, quote, he could pretend to identify as a woman because they allow anything nowadays.

00:34:48.000 And by maybe, I mean 100% now.

00:34:52.000 As we were launching the show, I got word that Dave actually gave a statement to TimCast.com.

00:34:59.000 Thanks, Dave.

00:35:00.000 And my understanding is that he was literally protesting that they allow males to compete against females.

00:35:06.000 So I have not actually seen his statement until now.

00:35:08.000 We're going to read it on the show.

00:35:10.000 Dave Hughes responds to winning women's poker event.

00:35:13.000 Hughes said he drove over five hours from Orlando to visit a friend competing in the $7 million main event at the Seminole Hard Rock in Florida.

00:35:21.000 Upon arriving in the poker tournament, Hughes wanted to play a hand of poker, but learned the only event available for participation was the ladies' no-limit hold'em.

00:35:29.000 I figured, why not?

00:35:30.000 The ladies, as you know, are just as fierce, capable, as competitive as the men in poker, and smell a lot better as well. 1.00

00:35:35.000 For the record, I'm 100% against men taking advantage of women in sports where strength and muscle make it quite unfair, as we can all clearly see with men breaking all records set by women in every sport across the board while pretending to be women. 0.90

00:35:49.000 It's pathetic and embarrassing that we allow our women to be abused and victimized by this nonsense, and eventually, the country will wake up to this and put a stop to it.

00:35:58.000 Our young girls and women who dedicate their lives to playing sports deserve better, better than that, and the silent majority are starting to speak up. 1.00

00:36:05.000 Damn! 0.97

00:36:07.000 Well, you know, the worst part of the whole story is the prize was originally $4,125, but because he's a man they gave him $5,500. 0.99

00:36:15.000 Really messed up.

00:36:17.000 So apparently in the World Series, I think it's the World Series of Poker, I think we may have written this up.

00:36:24.000 I'm not sure if we did.

00:36:26.000 They have a ladies event as well, and it's illegal to bar men from entering a tournament.

00:36:31.000 So in Florida, what they said was they were like, we legally cannot say someone is, based on their sex, not allowed to enter an event.

00:36:38.000 So he's allowed to play.

00:36:40.000 They were just like, we hoped people would honor it.

00:36:42.000 In, I think it's the World Series of Poker in Vegas, what they do is it's a $10,000 fee to enter, with 90% off if you're female.

00:36:51.000 That's still illegal.

00:36:53.000 They're saying, aha, we found a loophole to discriminate against someone based on sex.

00:36:57.000 Does not work that way.

00:36:58.000 Anybody who wanted to sue could at the federal level and they would win.

00:37:00.000 You can't do that.

00:37:01.000 There's a dude who is famous for going around to bars that had ladies night and filing lawsuits and winning instantly.

00:37:07.000 Summary judgment.

00:37:08.000 You cannot offer cheaper drinks to women based on the fact that they are women. 1.00

00:37:12.000 You can't do it.

00:37:13.000 And so this guy would just be like, you can't do it.

00:37:15.000 I'm suing.

00:37:16.000 I win.

00:37:16.000 A couple grand.

00:37:18.000 But good on this guy for speaking out.

00:37:20.000 That guy ruined ladies' nights at every bar. 1.00

00:37:22.000 Now the women aren't showing up for cheaper drinks. 1.00

00:37:24.000 And they were putting bounties on him.

00:37:26.000 So other players, a bounty is a financial incentive to knock a player out of the game.

00:37:29.000 So if you were to beat him and take all his chips, you would get paid extra by someone else.

00:37:34.000 Didn't work.

00:37:34.000 He won.

00:37:35.000 He actually won.

00:37:36.000 Now do you think, let me ask you, this random guy who wasn't planning on entering the tournament, who just drove up there on a whim to watch his friend play, he still beat all the men who actually showed up to compete in this tournament?

00:37:51.000 I don't think it's that surprising, honestly.

00:37:55.000 Men take bigger risks.

00:37:57.000 That seems like part of the fun of testosterone.

00:38:01.000 It's science.

00:38:02.000 There's a little bit of fearlessness there.

00:38:04.000 Small brain women. 1.00

00:38:05.000 I don't think it's that.

00:38:06.000 I wouldn't say small brain.

00:38:09.000 Well, you could and it'd be fun to see.

00:38:11.000 Well, there's like a whole IQ thing where more women are in the middle than on either end. 1.00

00:38:18.000 The greater male variance hypothesis.

00:38:20.000 I think it's probably the aggressiveness is, you know, the risk-taking and stuff, whereas men are more prone to take risks.

00:38:28.000 Well, every time, I have a friend that I've gone to casinos with, and every time we've gone together, like, he takes big risks, and I take, like, no risks, and he makes a lot of money, and I end up losing $80 or whatever.

00:38:39.000 And he's like, oh, you need to take risks, you know?

00:38:42.000 And I'm like, oh, but it's my money. 0.99

00:38:47.000 I suck at it.

00:38:48.000 I take some risks, but nothing's kind. 0.99

00:38:50.000 Not with my money or my wits.

00:38:51.000 He said, quote, doubt I'd ever do it again, but it sure caused a fuss and created a buzz

00:38:56.000 and a lot of extra prize money for the ladies. 0.82

00:38:59.000 Women are every bit as good as men in any game that requires mental skill and wits. 1.00

00:39:03.000 He is technically technically correct.

00:39:06.000 He ruined it.

00:39:07.000 It's the greater male variance hypothesis.

00:39:09.000 What what what he's saying is, if you were to probably do if you probably were to average

00:39:12.000 it out, you would find that the average man and average woman are probably comparable

00:39:16.000 in general skill in games like poker or chess. 0.99

00:39:20.000 The issue is, there are substantially more stupid men who suck, and competent men who are good, because there's greater male variance. 1.00

00:39:28.000 So most women fall in the middle. 1.00

00:39:30.000 And then I feel bad for women, because you know what that means? 1.00

00:39:32.000 It means, for women, They are more likely to encounter stupid men and smarter men. 1.00

00:39:38.000 So it's just frustrating across the board. 1.00

00:39:40.000 It is frustrating across the board. 1.00

00:39:41.000 Dealing with men, as a woman, is a pain in the ass. 1.00

00:39:44.000 Because most of them are dumber than you, and then a lot of them are smarter, but they're... A couple. 1.00

00:39:49.000 A couple. 1.00

00:39:49.000 Well, it's actually a bell curve. 1.00

00:39:52.000 So you have... I was talking about me personally.

00:39:54.000 Oh yeah, for sure.

00:39:55.000 But I mean, like, the day-to-day interaction for a woman working in an office is probably going to be with the lower end of the bell curve men. 0.99

00:40:02.000 And so women are probably experiencing many more stupid men than men experience of women. 0.99

00:40:06.000 Yep. 1.00

00:40:07.000 Well, you know, you talk to these male feminists and you try to explain this principle to them. 1.00

00:40:10.000 You say men are more likely to be smart or dumb, whereas women are more likely to be average. 0.98

00:40:14.000 And they go, I've never noticed that women seem less intelligent than me. 0.99

00:40:17.000 I have bad news, buddy.

00:40:20.000 Bad news about where you are on that spectrum.

00:40:23.000 Whenever a dude's like, oh, they're so much smarter than us, I'm like, ooh.

00:40:28.000 You already said male feminists. 1.00

00:40:30.000 You know it's at the lower end of the bell curve.

00:40:32.000 But I mean, it makes sense that dudes that are more aggressive and actually that are smart guys, they're going to be the ones that are going to go out and try to start something on their own.

00:40:40.000 And I'm sure women will too.

00:40:43.000 But we need that.

00:40:44.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:40:44.000 But in an office, it's going to end up with the midwits Yeah, because being in an office is awful.

00:40:51.000 So a lot of these prominent feminist writers are midwits. 1.00

00:40:56.000 Like who? 0.79

00:40:57.000 Like the women who work at Jezebel and Vice. 1.00

00:40:59.000 Oh, you mean like Taylor Lorenz and all of these types of people? 0.98

00:41:01.000 They're midwits.

00:41:02.000 You can go to Media Matters.

00:41:03.000 They are slightly above average in intelligence. 1.00

00:41:05.000 And that means they're going to be surrounded by a bunch of really dumb men. 0.99

00:41:09.000 And then they're going to, you know, report that experience. 0.99

00:41:13.000 Yeah, you got to understand this too.

00:41:16.000 I'm gonna swear, but this is an actual scientific term.

00:41:19.000 So, I'm warning everybody, this is the actual academic phrase. 0.99

00:41:24.000 Sneaky fucker. 1.00

00:41:25.000 Really? 1.00

00:41:26.000 That is not an insult, that is not a gag, that is not a joke.

00:41:28.000 It's a reference to... It's a little insulting.

00:41:31.000 Well, it's a reference to, in biology... 0.99

00:41:34.000 In species you have the dominant men and you have the dominant males and the sneaky fucker males. 0.98

00:41:40.000 And the sneaky fucker males will go in the middle of the night in some species and then reproduce under, you know, they'll sneak in to reproduce while the dominant strong man who is the authority is unaware. 1.00

00:41:51.000 That's why they're called sneaky fuckers. 1.00

00:41:53.000 Male feminists are described similarly in that they are men who will say whatever they think the woman wants to hear in order to get access to reproduction. 0.99

00:42:03.000 Then you have the confident, you know, I guess, you know, strongman types who Win, or through confidence and status, are attractive to women. 0.99

00:42:13.000 So you have the sneaky fucker and then you have the... Those sneaky fuckers though, they're very, you can see that when you look at them. 1.00

00:42:20.000 Not when you're in birth control! 1.00

00:42:21.000 Not when you're a male feminist. 1.00

00:42:24.000 Not when you're a feminist and you're surrounded by nothing but sneaky fuckers. 1.00

00:42:28.000 And surprise, surprise, it is no surprise to me that these feminists are writing articles being like, all men are this way. 1.00

00:42:34.000 Because you've surrounded yourself with nothing but low quality sneaky fucker men. 1.00

00:42:38.000 And they always project, that's why those guys always go, men just want to use women's bodies. 1.00

00:42:43.000 You're telling me about yourself, buddy.

00:42:45.000 You're telling me about you.

00:42:46.000 I'm pretty sure Michael Knowles, who married his high school sweetheart and had a family, was intending on more than just having a body of this person for decades.

00:42:55.000 Exactly.

00:42:56.000 And you and I were speaking about this on my podcast a while ago, Libby, but what they project in such egregious ways, they say conservatives just want to use women for their bodies and only see them as birthing people, even though they use phrases like birthing person.

00:43:09.000 And now they're advocating for surrogacy, where you literally just use a woman for her body and see her as a baby maker rather than a person you're committed to.

00:43:18.000 Yeah, I think everyone knows how I feel about surrogacy.

00:43:21.000 We've been through that.

00:43:23.000 Indeed.

00:43:24.000 Yeah, it's a self- it's a...

00:43:28.000 I don't know how you correct for this problem when liberal women surround themselves with 1.00

00:43:35.000 You've repealed the 19th. 0.69

00:43:36.000 I mean, I don't think that changes that women are going to be surrounded by men who are going to say whatever the women want to hear in order to get access to banging them. 0.94

00:43:44.000 I think there's a misconception, right, about relationships.

00:43:48.000 I think when you fall in love with your high school sweetheart, you should probably marry them.

00:43:52.000 You should probably marry the person you fall in love with and not wait around.

00:43:55.000 Well, that's not what they're saying nowadays.

00:43:57.000 No, now they say all these other things.

00:43:58.000 I saw this thing on Instagram and it was like, you're going to have three great loves in your life.

00:44:02.000 And it went to list them.

00:44:03.000 And it was like the first love, right?

00:44:05.000 This is a horoscope?

00:44:06.000 No, this was like, it was on Instagram.

00:44:08.000 I don't know. 0.99

00:44:08.000 It was the, it was the sneaky fucker algorithm is what it was. 0.99

00:44:12.000 Okay. 0.99

00:44:13.000 He's like, hey, I'm number three.

00:44:15.000 It's the best one.

00:44:17.000 But it was like it went through them all, like all these different things.

00:44:20.000 And it was like, well, why not just get together with the person you fall in love with first?

00:44:25.000 What's happening is feminists are working for these corporations like Vice, BuzzFeed, etc. 1.00

00:44:31.000 And they're surrounded by sneaky fucker men. 1.00

00:44:33.000 Yes. 1.00

00:44:33.000 And again, I'm not saying it's an insult. 1.00

00:44:35.000 I love your loophole.

00:44:36.000 It's not a loophole, it's an actual biological term. 0.99

00:44:40.000 Biologists describe this method of reproduction as sneaky fucker. 0.97

00:44:46.000 So what happens then, when these women are sitting around and they're like, what do you think about sexual liberation? 1.00

00:44:52.000 Of course the sneaky fuckers are like, yeah! 1.00

00:44:54.000 It's empowering! 1.00

00:44:55.000 You should totally at-bang everybody! 0.98

00:44:57.000 Protest topless, that'll show us! 0.99

00:45:00.000 In the early days of the feminist movement, the feminists were not all gung-ho about abortion. 0.98

00:45:05.000 It was men who got involved and were like, let's put abortion in! 0.66

00:45:08.000 And everyone was like, I guess... Consequence-free sexual access?

00:45:12.000 I wanted to hook up, I don't want to have a family! 0.85

00:45:14.000 So why don't you go...

00:45:16.000 It's like Dennis in, um, uh... It's Always Sunny?

00:45:18.000 It's Always Sunny.

00:45:19.000 When he, you know, he supports the pro-choice because he's like, I don't have a family. 0.98

00:45:23.000 Are you crazy?

00:45:24.000 That's bold of that show to do that joke, to be honest. 0.96

00:45:29.000 I saw a lot of it when I was younger.

00:45:31.000 Even right now I'm actually impressed with some of the jokes they've been willing to do.

00:45:34.000 Wait, are they still on?

00:45:35.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:45:36.000 That's a great show.

00:45:37.000 I guess they just did an episode with Bryan Cranston and Aaron... Aaron Paul, probably?

00:45:45.000 The bad guy?

00:45:45.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, both of them.

00:45:47.000 Let's jump to this next story.

00:45:48.000 Ladies and gentlemen, crack open your celebratory drinks.

00:45:52.000 We've got breaking news from the New York Times.

00:45:54.000 Vice is said to be headed for bankruptcy.

00:45:57.000 The company, which was once valued at $5.7 billion, has been struggling to find a buyer this year.

00:46:01.000 In fact, they're reporting it's going to go to auction.

00:46:04.000 Look at this.

00:46:04.000 I got $50.

00:46:07.000 I'd offer stands.

00:46:08.000 50 bucks.

00:46:09.000 Vice would continue operating normally and run an auction to sell the company over a

00:46:13.000 45 day period with Fortress Investment Group in pole position as the most likely acquirer.

00:46:21.000 This is amazing.

00:46:23.000 That's it.

00:46:24.000 It's all coming crashing down.

00:46:26.000 It is kind of sad, I gotta tell you.

00:46:28.000 When I started at Vice, it was not as bad as it had become.

00:46:32.000 In fact, it was quite good.

00:46:34.000 Shane Smith, the CEO, had gone on Colbert and said, look, we're not Democrats or Republicans, we're storytellers, we're just trying to figure this thing out.

00:46:40.000 And I'm like, that's amazing.

00:46:42.000 The videos they were producing were just like your bar buddy telling you a story about how he walked to this place, here's what he saw.

00:46:48.000 There was no pretense, there was no authority, and then as soon as they got money, he said, bring in the pretense, bring in the authority, and bring in the feminists. 1.00

00:46:55.000 And it burned the company to the ground.

00:46:58.000 I gotta be honest, when Vice was sex, drugs, and rock and roll and edgy, it was skyrocketing.

00:47:04.000 It was cool.

00:47:05.000 And the moment they decided to get woke, they went...

00:47:09.000 Yeah, well it's like what Elon Musk was saying about the woke mind virus, you know, and it took over Vice, and it destroyed it, took over BuzzFeed, and it's basically like that's the reason post-millennial exists, you know, to combat this kind of stuff.

00:47:21.000 Yeah, there's nothing cool about woke, right?

00:47:24.000 Like, it's cool to be nice to people, and that's what you, you know, you want to treat people with respect and stuff, I get it, but there's nothing edgy, there's nothing cool about being woke, and Vice is The whole foundation was built on being edgy and cool.

00:47:37.000 They snuck into North Korea!

00:47:39.000 Like, the whole point was supposed to be their ball scene!

00:47:41.000 Well, and they were sexy!

00:47:42.000 Like, their New York parties were always sexy and really fun.

00:47:43.000 Well, I mean, I never went, but... It was, uh... You know, it's like, it's supposed to be edgy and cool, and then it's, like, all Woke is is just, like, society's hall monitors.

00:47:53.000 And it sucks, because all they ever do is, you can't say this, you can't do that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:47:57.000 And it's totally antithetical to what Vice started out as. 0.96

00:48:01.000 It was supposed to be the CNN of the street.

00:48:03.000 It was supposed to be anti-establishment.

00:48:05.000 It was edgy.

00:48:06.000 It was taking over.

00:48:07.000 And then as soon as they got any semblance of money, immediately, Joe Biden's coming in for an interview back during the Obama administration.

00:48:16.000 We're going to get, oh, we're so excited for this.

00:48:19.000 They went full, just as soon as the government came and knocking, as soon as the investors came and knocking, they said, we will do anything you say.

00:48:26.000 And this was inevitable.

00:48:28.000 Yep.

00:48:28.000 Now, I'm sure they're going to come out and try and give you all the reasons about, well, it's changing landscape and media.

00:48:32.000 No, I disagree.

00:48:34.000 There's a reason why TimCast is expanding and Vice is imploding and BuzzFeed is imploding.

00:48:39.000 And there's a reason why all of these journalists are just so salty.

00:48:42.000 I offer them jobs every time.

00:48:44.000 Do you really?

00:48:45.000 Absolutely.

00:48:46.000 Absolutely.

00:48:46.000 But, you know.

00:48:47.000 Has anyone taken you up on it?

00:48:48.000 Uh, there actually are people at Vice who are good people, who are just documentary filmmakers, who are like, let me know if you ever need a pitch, because, you know, we always want to go and travel and do some stuff.

00:48:57.000 You should buy Media Matters.

00:48:59.000 So I, that's a non-profit.

00:49:00.000 Well, the people there who are good are, the people there at Vice who are good are going to find jobs making things that are good instead of that garbage. 0.97

00:49:09.000 And the people there who suck and are dragging the company down are going to either change or they're not going to find work. 0.95

00:49:14.000 So that's the thing, it's creative destruction. 0.97

00:49:17.000 I can't believe it's fun.

00:49:18.000 It really is sad.

00:49:19.000 I mean, I looked at the old Vice building for sale, $34 million.

00:49:23.000 Oh, wow.

00:49:24.000 It's a compound in Williamsburg in New York.

00:49:27.000 It's got a whole bunch of business in it.

00:49:28.000 But man, I went and looked at it since Vice moved to a new building in the southern part of Williamsburg in New York.

00:49:35.000 And the old building's just fallen apart.

00:49:38.000 It's like nothing.

00:49:39.000 It's like graffiti all over it.

00:49:40.000 Sad.

00:49:41.000 I think a large portion of it was actually torn down.

00:49:43.000 Yeah, and it is, I'm like, man, I'm looking at the picture and I'm like, I used to stand out in front of there, you know, just talking smack with other employees, all these stories, talking news, talking politics, finance, and now it's all just falling apart.

00:49:56.000 Yeah.

00:49:56.000 And it's crazy because I'm just thinking back to 2012, 2013, when I'm, like 2012 I'm talking to these guys, 2013 I'm getting hired over there, and they would not listen.

00:50:08.000 But you know what?

00:50:10.000 Part of me wonders if Shane Smith cares.

00:50:13.000 I think he does, because brand was always so important to him.

00:50:16.000 It was always the most important thing to build up the brand.

00:50:19.000 And I think he wanted Vice to become Disney, to become CNN, to be this legacy brand. 0.96

00:50:25.000 And because of his inability to see what was happening around him, and his embracing of this crackpot cult garbage, he burned his own name to the ground. 0.92

00:50:35.000 And now what does he have to show for it? 0.98

00:50:37.000 Well, look, he may still be worth a lot of money.

00:50:40.000 But most of his wealth was tied up in Vice.

00:50:42.000 So when people said that he was a billionaire, it was only because of Vice's value at $5.7 billion.

00:50:47.000 He cashed out, I think, like $30 or $40 million, maybe?

00:50:52.000 And now that Vice is worthless and entering bankruptcy and gonna be sold, I don't know how much he'll even get out of this.

00:50:57.000 I think it is.

00:50:57.000 I think it is too bad.

00:50:58.000 I always really liked their photography and, you know, the like edgy nature of it.

00:51:04.000 I thought it was fun.

00:51:05.000 But those people who were good at doing that, they're going to find work at organizations that are decent.

00:51:11.000 Or they'll be able to start something new themselves.

00:51:13.000 Exactly, because with an organization like this, and this is part of why I'm cheering it on, it's not because I'm glad that the people who are talented and hardworking and dedicated are out of work, it's because all of those people were locked into an organization with a bunch of idiots who were woke and had no idea how to direct the company, and now the workers who are genuinely good are free to pursue opportunities at companies that will guide them better and lead them better, or like you said, start their own businesses, and I think that's a beautiful thing.

00:51:41.000 Yeah, I think it's always good to start your own enterprise.

00:51:43.000 One thing, I mean, at Post Millennial I came on in 2019 as a freelancer, and now I'm like, you know... You're top dog.

00:51:51.000 Part of running the company, and like I... Part of.

00:51:54.000 You know, I'm part of running the company.

00:51:56.000 Don't try to avoid accountability here, alright?

00:51:59.000 I'll take full responsibility, but I am only part of running the company.

00:52:04.000 But I will take full responsibility.

00:52:06.000 But the fun thing about it, and a big part of the reason I wouldn't want to go somewhere else, is I've been working on it this whole time.

00:52:13.000 I've been making it with these people that I really enjoy that work there.

00:52:19.000 And it's like, we built this thing.

00:52:21.000 Why would we?

00:52:22.000 I would never want to do something else.

00:52:25.000 My hands are stuck in the muck of this project.

00:52:28.000 This may be one of the biggest get-woke-go-brokes we have ever seen. 0.99

00:52:33.000 I pulled up a story from 2017.

00:52:34.000 Vice Media's Shane Smith is now a billionaire.

00:52:39.000 They said that due to a $450 million investment round, Shane Smith's holdings were now worth some $1 billion.

00:52:47.000 They said that he had roughly 20% of Vice.

00:52:50.000 After applying a 10% private company discount to its valuation and adding Smith's spread of some $33 million in real estate, his net worth totals an estimated $1 billion.

00:52:59.000 If he had 20% of the company and that's what put him at $1 billion, With Vice currently going bankrupt, his net worth is now in the low tens of millions.

00:53:09.000 Ha! 0.89

00:53:09.000 He's broke! 0.89

00:53:11.000 I looked down on him!

00:53:13.000 He has nothing!

00:53:13.000 Tens of millions.

00:53:14.000 No, no, no, hold on.

00:53:15.000 He's got more money than he could ever spend.

00:53:18.000 He even says in this, he says, I don't give an ish about money.

00:53:22.000 I'm worth more money than I can ever spend.

00:53:24.000 That sounds fun.

00:53:25.000 That's absolutely true.

00:53:27.000 So he's going to be able to retire very, very comfortably and probably be independently wealthy for the rest of his life.

00:53:32.000 He never has to work again.

00:53:34.000 But going from being a billionaire, running one of the most valuable media companies, to losing all of that in a matter of a few years, all because they wanted to get well.

00:53:44.000 And you know what?

00:53:45.000 They want to make any excuse they can.

00:53:47.000 And I can prove outright, or I'll just say outright.

00:53:51.000 It is BS.

00:53:52.000 Vice had no reason to lose its standing.

00:53:56.000 It was the wokeness.

00:53:57.000 It is divisive.

00:53:59.000 It splits your audience.

00:54:00.000 And they hyper-polarized.

00:54:03.000 They basically told everybody who ever liked Vice to F off.

00:54:07.000 Let me tell you a story about when I was talking to one of my producer buddies that I've known from Vice for a long time.

00:54:13.000 Vice ran an article.

00:54:15.000 And it said, this horrible app can show you what women look like topless. 0.95

00:54:20.000 And it said someone developed an AI app that if it takes a picture of a woman, you can press render and it will AI remove their top.

00:54:29.000 And I said, do you know what Vice's headline would have been in 2013?

00:54:33.000 This amazing app can show you any—because they were mocking, they were trying to be edgy and be like, screw you, you can do whatever you want. 0.98

00:54:40.000 And they decided to get woke and be hall monitor feminists, and they basically told their entire audience, you are bad people, F off. 1.00

00:54:48.000 And I was told by this dude at Vice, well, but we have to change. 0.93

00:54:51.000 We can't do that anymore.

00:54:52.000 And I'm like, then you're going to fail.

00:54:54.000 You're not going to be Vice.

00:54:56.000 They changed your name. 0.99

00:54:58.000 I think it's fair to say that app sucks, though. 1.00

00:55:00.000 I think it's fair to say that particular app sucks. 0.94

00:55:02.000 But the point was, it's not that Vice's old headline would literally be intending to talk about how great it is the app exists. 0.97

00:55:09.000 It was meant to insult the established narrative and be edgy and say, screw your system.

00:55:15.000 But instead, they became hall monitors.

00:55:17.000 I mean, I gotta be honest, they probably wouldn't have even written the article.

00:55:19.000 They'd be like, who cares? 0.98

00:55:21.000 Let's complain about how screwed up everything is and tell everyone to go F themselves, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. 0.98

00:55:25.000 Instead, they were like, let's put on our button-up shirts and then go complain about how oppressive these people are. 0.89

00:55:32.000 All they did was start ponying up to the establishment narrative, and people don't care for that.

00:55:37.000 Especially young people.

00:55:38.000 But more importantly, this is what Bud Light did.

00:55:40.000 Vice went to their readers and said, now that we have investment, we don't care about you, and we're going to target a different demographic.

00:55:47.000 And guess what?

00:55:48.000 The younger demographic did not care.

00:55:50.000 They did not care for the hall monitor style of content.

00:55:53.000 Well, and they don't like it.

00:55:54.000 I mean, because what all of these wokey people and the corporations don't realize is that they are now the establishment.

00:56:02.000 And the kids are coming up, and they're looking at it, and they're going, stop telling us what to do.

00:56:05.000 Stop telling us what to believe.

00:56:06.000 We don't subscribe to your whole worldview.

00:56:09.000 We're going to buck it.

00:56:10.000 We're going to get off this whole train.

00:56:12.000 And so that's what they're doing.

00:56:13.000 Like, you know, my son and his friends, they look at this stuff, and they see right through it. 0.96

00:56:17.000 They see that it's total ideological garbage, and they want to make their own way. 0.91

00:56:21.000 They want to come up with their own opinions and ideas. 0.97

00:56:23.000 I have two teenage nephews and they're the same.

00:56:25.000 Yeah, and I have mad respect for these kids looking at being like you are the establishment and the Millennials didn't realize that when they were buying into this whole narrative.

00:56:33.000 It was the establishment narrative, you know and Gen Z. I think we're still waiting to see what happens with them. 0.89

00:56:39.000 But you know, they're all these this guy Sykes with the tampon guy and all this stuff. 0.73

00:56:44.000 That's what they're doing and they're getting all this money from the Biden administration now to We don't like the Republicans! 0.98

00:56:50.000 to start, you know, spilling this garbage narrative. 0.68

00:56:53.000 Oh yeah, did you see those two Twitter guys? 0.93

00:56:57.000 The Gen Z, what's his name? 0.94

00:57:00.000 You know, talking about the two Gen Z dudes who are making videos where they're all smarmy and like, 0.98

00:57:04.000 we don't like the Republicans, we're not paid by the DNC.

00:57:08.000 And there's a community being like, they're hired by a management firm that's funded by the DNC.

00:57:13.000 They're getting community notes.

00:57:14.000 Look, the greatest trick the establishment ever pulled was convincing people that it wasn't the establishment.

00:57:20.000 That was really clever.

00:57:21.000 Obama did that.

00:57:22.000 He did an amazing job.

00:57:23.000 People thought they were counter-cultural because they liked the president, which is absurd.

00:57:28.000 When I was a teenager, I found it very patronizing.

00:57:31.000 When I would Have the misfortune of seeing anything on MTV because someone else was watching it I would cringe because it always felt very how do you do fellow kids and I knew that these were adults writing.

00:57:43.000 He's fantastic.

00:57:45.000 But it was obvious that these were adults writing young people saying the things that these weird creepy adults thought young people should be saying so that I would watch that and go That's so cool!

00:57:54.000 That's what I believe now!

00:57:56.000 But it made me extremely angry as a youth, and unfortunately now they have this edge of being able to promote whichever voice they want through the algorithm on TikTok, because sure, you're always going to find young people who are mixed up and will repeat these talking points, and because it's not as highly produced, because it's not clearly coming from Hollywood or the establishment, Yes, it seems organic and it seems like something the majority of young people actually believe because it's continually recommended by the algorithm.

00:58:25.000 And it's possible that among that generation that's true, but regardless, my point is the propaganda catches on more easily when it's your fellow young people saying it and it's promoted as opposed to a highly produced television show that I know is being written by people in their 40s.

00:58:42.000 It's very produced.

00:58:43.000 It's very much the algorithm pushing the ideas that I don't think that are actually popular with people.

00:58:54.000 Bud Light's proof.

00:58:55.000 Bud Light is proof.

00:58:58.000 Dylan Mulvaney's five o'clock shadow and zero hips, bust, or butt are evidence that none of this stuff is really popular.

00:59:07.000 With young people, though, I mean.

00:59:08.000 I think they reject it, and I think that's what we kind of— The other thing, too, the more we see—I was writing about this recently, I've been giving a lot of thought—the The current beauty standards are more unhealthy and unattainable than the previous ones.

00:59:21.000 They're a rejection of beauty standards.

00:59:22.000 Are we supposed to look like Elliot Page and cut our boobs off? 1.00

00:59:26.000 Are we supposed to look like Lizzo and gain, I don't know, like a lot of weight? 0.71

00:59:30.000 It's a rejection of traditional beauty.

00:59:32.000 And she's obviously very beautiful, like she's a beautiful woman.

00:59:36.000 I heard Jared Leto was trying to gain weight for a role, so he would take a pint of Ben & Jerry's every night, microwave it, and then pour olive oil and soy sauce and stir it up and then chug it.

00:59:47.000 Crazy that he was born that way.

00:59:48.000 Why not just eat the ice cream?

00:59:49.000 He gained weight so fast that he couldn't stand, and he had to use a wheelchair.

00:59:54.000 Yeah.

00:59:54.000 Oh my gosh.

00:59:55.000 Because the salt helps absorb the water, I guess.

00:59:59.000 I remember very distinctly, I used to eat a pint of ice cream every day when I was in college.

01:00:04.000 I was stoned.

01:00:06.000 But I realized at a certain point, I was like, wait, I'm gaining weight.

01:00:10.000 And I switched to a half pint and I stopped gaining weight.

01:00:13.000 That was college.

01:00:14.000 That's college.

01:00:15.000 I'm finding a lot of people that I've known and a lot of personalities that I used to watch when I was growing up, pro skateboarders, musicians, are becoming more conservative.

01:00:25.000 I think there's a rejection of what the left is doing to the point where you've got edgy urban liberal types Who are just like, y'all have lost your minds.

01:00:35.000 And now they're like, people need to have families and get jobs.

01:00:37.000 And they used to be the sex, drugs, and rock and roll people.

01:00:39.000 And they're just like, none of this is okay.

01:00:41.000 It's gone too far.

01:00:42.000 The degeneracy is literally destroying companies.

01:00:47.000 I'm not gonna name anyone specifically, but there are some famous skateboarders and musicians who are very much from the world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, who are now like, have a family, buy property, work hard, save for the future.

01:00:59.000 And I think it's because they're looking into the mirror that is the left and being like, nah, this is not a good thing.

01:01:03.000 That's how I ended up over here, too.

01:01:05.000 I know guys like that.

01:01:06.000 I'm perfectly happy to be a bit libertine, but I don't think that that should be the social ethos.

01:01:12.000 Yeah.

01:01:12.000 Like this is one ban, all that remains.

01:01:14.000 Yeah.

01:01:15.000 Very often, you know, it's normal that as people get older, they do tend to become more conservative.

01:01:20.000 Part of what's so insidious now is that people on the left are encouraging these young people to receive body mutilating surgeries that they will not be able to reverse.

01:01:33.000 And part of what ends up happening as a result of that is a person is so bought into it That they can never admit it was wrong.

01:01:40.000 How do you admit that you were wrong?

01:01:43.000 If you mutilate your body, how do you come back from that?

01:01:48.000 Psychologically.

01:01:48.000 Let's jump to the story because we do have big news.

01:01:50.000 KISS co-founder Paul Stanley, 71, slams parents who confuse their children about gender identity, branding child sex change as a sad and dangerous fad.

01:02:00.000 This is the front man.

01:02:02.000 This is the guy, the star on his face for KISS.

01:02:04.000 That's the guy.

01:02:05.000 Star child.

01:02:06.000 Star child.

01:02:07.000 That's him.

01:02:07.000 He doesn't even look bad.

01:02:09.000 He's 71, isn't that crazy?

01:02:10.000 Yeah, he doesn't look bad at all.

01:02:11.000 He's aged better than me.

01:02:12.000 Look at that!

01:02:13.000 Here we go, he says, I'll read some of what he says.

01:02:17.000 There's a big difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification As though some sort of game, and then parents in some cases allow it.

01:02:32.000 He says, there are individuals who as adults may decide reassignment as their needed choice, but turning this into a game, or parents normalizing it as some sort of natural alternative, or believing that because a little boy likes to play dressed up in his sister's clothes, or a girl and her brothers, we should lead them steps further down a path that's far from the innocence of what they're doing.

01:02:51.000 I think he's completely right.

01:02:54.000 You know, kids will play with whatever toys because they're just kids, they're exploring the world.

01:02:58.000 And what's happening now is, this is the meme.

01:03:00.000 It's a kid playing with a doll, and then the parent says, I'll prep the surgery.

01:03:03.000 Right?

01:03:03.000 It's like, oh, he played with a doll?

01:03:05.000 Well, there it is!

01:03:06.000 The funny thing is, and I've pointed this out, so has many others, how is it that they argue simultaneously that gender is a social construct?

01:03:12.000 Meaning playing with dolls is not unique to males or females, but then if a male plays with dolls or a female with a football, that proves they're actually identifying as the opposite sex. 0.90

01:03:21.000 The weird thing too is the genderization of toys and clothes. 1.00

01:03:28.000 Came I came like after my childhood after my brother's childhood and you started to go into the Lego section and you would see girls like those and boys like us that didn't used to be the thing when I would hang out in my friend Nikki's basement and play with her brother's Legos.

01:03:41.000 We just we just all played Legos it wasn't a big deal and the same thing with the Barbie dolls like we would just all play it wasn't a big deal.

01:03:48.000 No, I joined a girls Lego competition and I just crushed.

01:03:53.000 I crushed.

01:03:53.000 I joined a girls Barbie competition even and I still beat them.

01:03:57.000 It was incredible.

01:03:58.000 You would never beat me in Barbies. 1.00

01:03:59.000 I would just like to say, I would kick your ass in Barbies. 1.00

01:04:02.000 In all seriousness, there There was a clip I saw from your show, and I can't remember the guest, and if you can, please shout him out, but he was saying there were studies on how boys and girls will play differently. 0.99

01:04:12.000 They'll play with the same toy, but when the boy picks up the toy, he starts embodying the character he's playing with, whereas when the girl picks up the toy, she has the character act the way she does.

01:04:22.000 So even when we're playing with, er, as kids playing with different toys, we, we, er, it's the same toys but, yeah, like, differently.

01:04:28.000 Like, the boy picks, the way he described it, I feel bad that I can't remember who it was, but the way he described it is, when a boy picks up a Batman toy, now he's Batman.

01:04:36.000 He's like, I'm Batman!

01:04:38.000 And he's just playing like Batman.

01:04:39.000 When the girl picks Batman up, Batman's like, do you want to have a tea party? 0.81

01:04:42.000 Then Batman wants a tea party.

01:04:44.000 Exactly.

01:04:44.000 I used to play Barbies with my friends at my mom's apartment and like the neighbors and stuff.

01:04:50.000 We had this Barbie dream house and my friend Julia's brother came to play with us and he was older.

01:04:57.000 He was like 12, I want to say, and we were like 10 or something.

01:05:01.000 But he took one of my Barbies that was disabled and Strap together with rubber bands and he was like this. 1.00

01:05:09.000 This is the madam of the Barbie Dreamhouse and we were like, what's that?

01:05:16.000 Television and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

01:05:19.000 Whoa, whoa, Uncle Ted!

01:05:22.000 Let's talk about radio!

01:05:24.000 The next thing you know, we had the Barbie brothel. 1.00

01:05:28.000 We had the drool thing set up. 0.95

01:05:30.000 It was ridiculous.

01:05:31.000 And I told my mom about it. 0.94

01:05:32.000 I was like, oh, Mark said this and that.

01:05:33.000 And my mom was like, uh... You can't go over there anymore. 1.00

01:05:36.000 It was Ethan Van Scriver who said that.

01:05:39.000 Ethan Van Scriver, the comic artist.

01:05:41.000 Yeah, awesome.

01:05:42.000 Someone mentioned in the chat.

01:05:45.000 I wouldn't know because I've never been female, but when I used to play with Legos, you're right.

01:05:51.000 When I would play with toys, me and my friends would take the action figures or whatever, and we would voice them.

01:05:57.000 We would be like, I am going to take over the world!

01:06:00.000 Like, we were, the character was us.

01:06:02.000 We were, like, acting as them.

01:06:04.000 That's what we used to do with the Barbies. 1.00

01:06:05.000 We'd, like, make worlds.

01:06:06.000 Well, then that's the opposite of what you're saying.

01:06:07.000 Well, I was just quoting someone.

01:06:09.000 That's what I was told.

01:06:10.000 We would do, like, stories. 0.98

01:06:12.000 We would, like, invent whole worlds with the Barbies, and mostly they ended up having sex.

01:06:16.000 The issue is, when you would play with Barbie, was the Barbie channeling you, and you were like, I'm Barbie, and Barbie would do things you would do?

01:06:24.000 No, Barbie was another character. 0.93

01:06:25.000 I distinctly- Liar. 0.96

01:06:26.000 Barbie was, like, the character of the- Liar. 0.87

01:06:28.000 You know?

01:06:29.000 See, I distinctly remember when I was- But, like, we'd do the voices.

01:06:31.000 We'd be like, I'm going over here now.

01:06:33.000 When I was a kid, if I was playing with like GI Joes or whatever and my cousins were playing 0.80

01:06:33.000 Yeah. 0.80

01:06:40.000 with Barbie or whatever and they wanted to like have the Barbies and the GI Joes interact, 0.90

01:06:44.000 I would get upset because they would want the GI Joes to do like Barbie things and I'm 0.98

01:06:48.000 like no, GI Joes don't do that. 0.97

01:06:52.000 They're going to fight and they would be like no.

01:06:54.000 This is why my cousin would be like, he had the Hulk Hogan and the Rowdy Roddy Piper guys, and so whenever I played Barbies with him, it was like wrestling Barbies.

01:07:05.000 Would they have like the G.I.

01:07:06.000 Joes at the mall with the Barbies, and then one G.I. 0.98

01:07:09.000 Joe goes to the other, and he goes, hey, that uniform, what platoon were you with?

01:07:15.000 STOLEN VALOR!

01:07:16.000 THIS GUY'S STEALING VALOR!

01:07:18.000 I don't think stolen valor was really a thing back then, to be honest.

01:07:21.000 I'm sure it was, they just got away with it because no one was filming it.

01:07:23.000 But no one put it on Twitter.

01:07:26.000 Dee Snider came out on Twitter and actually agreed with Paul Stanley.

01:07:29.000 And so I'm feeling pretty confident and I'm feeling pretty white-pilled as of lately because I think what's happening is that we are reaching woke critical mass.

01:07:39.000 I think Bud Light is very very important in more ways than people realize.

01:07:43.000 The fact that Bud Light's sales are down 21.4% suggests to regular people who are the people who are like I don't know what's right or wrong I just want to be on the right side of history are now going maybe it's not the woke people.

01:07:56.000 Yep.

01:07:56.000 If rock stars, celebrities, and the average person is not buying this beer anymore.

01:08:01.000 So now imagine this.

01:08:03.000 Bud Light is uncool.

01:08:04.000 Nobody wants to buy it.

01:08:05.000 Now you're going to see a rejection of this because a regular person who normally just follows the trends is going to be like, I don't drink Bud Light.

01:08:12.000 Whatever you say, guys.

01:08:13.000 And then a beer company is going to hire an actual woman to advertise their beer. 1.00

01:08:18.000 It used to be that the joke was, uh, the joke family guy did.

01:08:22.000 No, don't do that.

01:08:23.000 She needs to be dressed modestly. 1.00

01:08:23.000 If they're really Conor and Lucia, she'll dress modestly. 1.00

01:08:25.000 And they say that, uh, drink our beer and beautiful women will want to have sex with you. 1.00

01:08:30.000 And the commercial was women. 1.00

01:08:31.000 That used to be the thing, yeah.

01:08:32.000 That was the commercial.

01:08:33.000 And now the commercial is, if you drink Bud Light, you are sexually attracted to people of the same sex as you.

01:08:39.000 And I don't think your average guy who's going to a barbecue wants to convey that message to his neighbors.

01:08:44.000 So they're just like, that's not my, I don't drink that stuff, don't look at me.

01:08:46.000 Bud Light, it's reverse conversion therapy.

01:08:51.000 I mean they used to sell sex for everything.

01:08:56.000 I think when it comes to a lot of alcoholic drinks like Bacardi Silver or O or whatever, I don't know if they still have those, but like fruity light drinks and wine coolers or whatever are seen as effeminate and guys want to drink like, get us, like a strong dark beer or something.

01:09:14.000 So now you have Bud Light being, like, the frilliest of fufu brands.

01:09:17.000 Exactly.

01:09:18.000 And outright stating, like... Yeah, like, White Claw is more masculine than Bud Light.

01:09:23.000 If they were selling, like, strawberry daiquiris, I could understand.

01:09:28.000 Yeah.

01:09:29.000 But now you have a beer that is widely seen as effeminate.

01:09:32.000 And surprise, surprise to all of the woke Gen Zers or whatever, guys don't want to be seen as weak.

01:09:39.000 And to be fair, some are probably fine with it.

01:09:40.000 That's who drinks beer.

01:09:41.000 Like, dudes drink beer.

01:09:42.000 Women buy those fruity things. 1.00

01:09:44.000 Those, like, Bud Lights are the beer that you get for, like, or were the beer that, like, you'd get for the afternoon because you didn't want to have, like, too heavy beer and it's kind of thirst quenching and stuff and then you drink the heavier stuff later.

01:09:54.000 Nobody's doing that anymore.

01:09:55.000 No one's drinking that anymore.

01:09:56.000 It's the beer that you buy because you're not only manly enough to drink beer, you're manly enough to not care if anyone you're with wants good beer.

01:10:04.000 So you bring that over.

01:10:05.000 That's the demographic.

01:10:05.000 They're like, Dylan Mulvaney.

01:10:07.000 That's who we'll slap up. 1.00

01:10:08.000 Shut up and drink. 0.99

01:10:09.000 It is pretty masculine, right? 0.99

01:10:10.000 My main point with bringing this subject back up is...

01:10:14.000 Regular people, the left is trying to win the culture war by saying you are on the wrong side of history.

01:10:19.000 And because civil rights is the right side of history, they're trying to pretend that they represent civil rights, when in fact they represent segregation.

01:10:26.000 And fascism.

01:10:27.000 And fascism, and fascistic ideologies.

01:10:29.000 Compelled speech.

01:10:29.000 But they're wearing a mask of civil rights.

01:10:32.000 Now that regular people, though, are saying no to Bud Light, Many people who are following The Woke are going to question whether or not that's the safe place to be.

01:10:40.000 Because they were just going along with the crowd.

01:10:41.000 Hey, the crowd's not there, man.

01:10:43.000 The crowd's clearly boycotting Bud Light.

01:10:45.000 What ended up happening to Gillette's numbers after that ad?

01:10:48.000 I think they were a men's brand.

01:10:50.000 They were a men's brand.

01:10:51.000 And I remember people saying, Go Woke.

01:10:54.000 Get broke or get woke, go broke, whatever the phrase is.

01:10:57.000 I'll tell you what happens.

01:10:58.000 When Hershey's had a male sponsor their women's candy bar, we got this delicious She Her Candy Bar by Jeremy's Chocolates.

01:11:07.000 And I will stress, they don't pay me to do this.

01:11:07.000 Isn't it hilarious?

01:11:10.000 They do not.

01:11:11.000 Dude, people, and it's funny, because whenever anyone responds... I know, but I feel weird chewing into the mic.

01:11:17.000 Wait, I'll just... You know what?

01:11:18.000 Go ahead, you talk.

01:11:19.000 Unbelievable.

01:11:20.000 You talk, and I'll just chew over here.

01:11:22.000 There you go.

01:11:23.000 Whenever these boycotts happen, people go... Oh, absolutely.

01:11:27.000 Why do you care so much?

01:11:30.000 I don't know, because it's being forced onto me at all times by everyone?

01:11:34.000 Because we're literally a year away from S the D bigot. 0.85

01:11:39.000 No, dude, that was like two years ago.

01:11:41.000 Well, I mean, yeah, that was the joke two years ago.

01:11:45.000 It's getting to the point where there are people that do, and not that there's a lot of people that support the argument.

01:11:45.000 I really do.

01:11:50.000 There are people that do make the argument that if you won't date a trans woman, if you're a straight man and you won't date a trans woman, you're a bigot. 1.00

01:11:58.000 And I don't give a shit. 1.00

01:11:59.000 I'm a bigot. 0.99

01:12:00.000 I don't care. 0.98

01:12:02.000 You know who really has this pushed on them are lesbians. 1.00

01:12:06.000 Lesbians are like, wait, I'm not doing the right thing. 1.00

01:12:08.000 What am I supposed to do? 0.70

01:12:09.000 Let me do the right thing.

01:12:11.000 I'll do the thing. 0.99

01:12:12.000 And so, yeah, lesbians are easy to push around, it turns out. 1.00

01:12:15.000 You know what the crazy thing is? 0.99

01:12:16.000 Like a lot of women. 1.00

01:12:17.000 I read before that in Iran, if you're a gay man, they force you to get a sex change. 0.95

01:12:22.000 And if you're a gay woman, the same thing.

01:12:24.000 But now what we're seeing is these young women who are like autistic and gay are being told they're trans and should get you know sex changes or whatever or mastectomies and that's like weirdly similar to what Iran does. 0.69

01:12:37.000 It's very similar to what Iran does and it was like what like 4,400% increase in young women deciding to be trans. 0.62

01:12:44.000 So this was interesting.

01:12:45.000 So you have all these young women deciding to be trans right around puberty and they look at womanhood and they're like, I don't want any piece of that. 1.00

01:12:56.000 That seems awful.

01:12:58.000 You've got the tampons.

01:12:59.000 You've got the whole thing.

01:13:00.000 It's awful.

01:13:02.000 It's hard to see anything good about it, right?

01:13:04.000 And so they decide that they want to be boys instead and they go through that whole thing.

01:13:08.000 I was recently seeing, I think it was a writer who does a lot of trans writing and stuff, is basically hitting menopause, like pre-menopause and being like, I am transmasculine now.

01:13:21.000 And it's kind of the reverse of kind of the same thing.

01:13:25.000 She's looking at crone-hood. 0.99

01:13:26.000 She's looking at being an old woman. 1.00

01:13:28.000 No one wants to be an old woman, even more than no one wants to be a grown-up woman. 1.00

01:13:33.000 You look at this, everything in your body just like sags down.

01:13:35.000 It's terrible.

01:13:36.000 It's horrible.

01:13:37.000 Nobody wants any part of that.

01:13:38.000 And so now she's going to be masculine.

01:13:39.000 She's getting a breast binder. 1.00

01:13:41.000 And it's like, yeah, because they're already like hanging down to your navel, probably, you know?

01:13:48.000 It's like the same kind of thing.

01:13:50.000 When a woman hits a change of life, whatever that change of life is, she's like, I don't want any part of that! 1.00

01:13:55.000 And who can blame her? 0.99

01:13:56.000 It sucks. 0.99

01:13:57.000 I think that's a very good point. 0.99

01:13:58.000 I mean, girls are generally uncomfortable during puberty. 1.00

01:14:01.000 There are a lot of changes there.

01:14:02.000 And especially when you look at the current cultural paradigm, women are told not to want to do things that are natural to women.

01:14:10.000 And also, one aspect of this people don't talk about is that The average age of first exposure to pornography is 13 years old.

01:14:18.000 And there is really gross, horrible, hardcore stuff out there.

01:14:22.000 And you can absolutely imagine a girl encountering that and going, oh my gosh, that's what sex is? 0.96

01:14:27.000 That's what happens to women? 1.00

01:14:28.000 No, I don't want to be a woman! 1.00

01:14:30.000 Someone super chatted that we should look at Noodles, the guitar player from The Offspring's reaction to Kiss.

01:14:36.000 And I just want to say this.

01:14:37.000 I know this is a bit personal for me to say, but this may be one of the greatest days of my life.

01:14:45.000 The guitarist from The Offspring has me blocked.

01:14:49.000 The very first song I ever learned how to play on the guitar was The Kids Aren't Alright, written by this man, and he has blocked me on Twitter.

01:14:57.000 Truly a day for me to behold.

01:14:59.000 Was your cover that bad? 0.99

01:15:01.000 He probably blocked me because, you know, I'm friends and play music with their old drummer who they crapped all over because they're nasty, evil people. 0.98

01:15:12.000 Man, you know what? 0.90

01:15:13.000 I will say one thing that frustrates me is that there's a lot of secrets about celebrities that if people only knew, but this guy, from my understanding, is lying about everything.

01:15:26.000 Really?

01:15:27.000 I can't say much more, it's not my place to say, and that bothers me, but until someone comes out and comes on the record about the band and about their actual, let's just say, about the truth, there's not much more I can say.

01:15:40.000 But what I will say is this.

01:15:42.000 Many of these people in Hollywood who post these tweets do so just because they want to get the PR brownie points and they voted for Trump.

01:15:51.000 Oh, and they voted for Trump.

01:15:52.000 For one reason.

01:15:53.000 Taxes.

01:15:54.000 Taxes, that's it.

01:15:55.000 They don't care about anything.

01:15:56.000 These people... That's why a lot of rappers will vote for Trump.

01:15:56.000 Yeah.

01:15:58.000 Because they're, like, into the not having to pay a... Here's what I want to say.

01:15:58.000 Yup.

01:16:03.000 I don't believe any rappers voted for Joe Biden.

01:16:05.000 I don't care what they say publicly.

01:16:06.000 I don't know why you would ever.

01:16:07.000 None of them voted.

01:16:08.000 They're all like, I'm voting for Trump.

01:16:10.000 Let me show you. 0.99

01:16:10.000 Trump's a baller and Joe Biden's an old creepy man. 0.99

01:16:13.000 Let me show you what Noodles actually said.

01:16:15.000 I clicked his Twitter account to see his response to Paul Stanley and saw that I was blocked.

01:16:19.000 He said, This is a very disappointing take, especially from someone

01:16:22.000 who wore high heels, makeup, and teased up hair his whole career.

01:16:26.000 As a young kid, your band helped teach me that I could be whatever I wanted to be.

01:16:28.000 I guess it was just gimmickry after all.

01:16:31.000 Ben Collins of NBC says, The idea of kiss of all bands complaining about gender nonconforming

01:16:35.000 people is just chef's kiss.

01:16:37.000 The funny thing is, he is of all the people to come out and say kids should not be doing this, he is the perfect person in that he wore high heels and makeup and he never cut off his genitals. 0.93

01:16:49.000 He never did, not even one time.

01:16:50.000 His point being made is, you can!

01:16:53.000 He didn't even try it!

01:16:54.000 He outright says, children may dress in their brothers and sisters clothes and that's just something they want to do.

01:16:59.000 Don't tell them to get surgeries and drugs.

01:17:04.000 And they're coming on being like, yeah, but you wore those clothes.

01:17:07.000 He said it's okay that kids do this!

01:17:09.000 You can wear the clothes!

01:17:11.000 That's the thing about drag that drives me crazy too, is you have all this like drag for kids, and it's like guys, drag is an adult thing.

01:17:17.000 We all had a great time at the drag show.

01:17:19.000 Why are we suddenly imagining that a bunch of guys who dress up like campy women, like fake beauty pageant women, and have We've taken on entertainment stage names that are like sexual names for the most part.

01:17:34.000 Why are we imagining that these are the people who should be entertaining and educating our kids?

01:17:38.000 It doesn't make any sense!

01:17:39.000 It's a horrible Motten daily.

01:17:40.000 Nothing's wrong with drag.

01:17:41.000 Go to the drag show.

01:17:42.000 Have a great time. 0.92

01:17:43.000 Get trashed.

01:17:44.000 Enjoy yourself.

01:17:45.000 Listen, I'm a little bit of a libertine here and there.

01:17:48.000 But I never had an issue with that.

01:17:50.000 I've been to plenty of drag shows. 0.54

01:17:52.000 I've had friends who do drag.

01:17:55.000 Don't go hang out at my kid's library.

01:17:57.000 Doing drag is not surgery. 0.99

01:17:59.000 Yeah, and don't go reading them books about how they should cut their dicks off. 1.00

01:18:03.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:18:03.000 Well, I think Matt Walsh said it very well when he described drag as burlesque for gay men. 0.99

01:18:09.000 Sure.

01:18:10.000 That's basically what it is. 0.95

01:18:11.000 Well, and a bunch of fag hacks, too. 0.99

01:18:13.000 Yeah. 0.97

01:18:17.000 It's been a while, I know.

01:18:20.000 It's been a while.

01:18:22.000 I think it's probably not politically correct anymore to say that.

01:18:25.000 Nothing's politically correct.

01:18:26.000 As soon as you open your mouth, you're going to get cancelled anyway, so it doesn't matter.

01:18:29.000 I mean, you showed up here at the castle.

01:18:31.000 You're over.

01:18:32.000 It's done.

01:18:34.000 I think that it's obvious, it should be obvious, and I really think that the average person, when they hear what goes on when it comes to surgeries and stuff, they're like, that's not right.

01:18:47.000 That is so far outside of how we treat any other issue that anyone has, ever.

01:18:55.000 Like you don't cut up healthy bodies because of psychological issues, whether it be AGP or whether it be dysmorphia or whatever you want to call it, right?

01:19:07.000 Like I don't believe the wrong body thing because I'm not a guy that believes in a soul.

01:19:10.000 I think your brain is your brain.

01:19:12.000 You're not born with a man's brain in a woman's body. 0.99

01:19:14.000 You're born with a woman's brain in a woman's body or a man's brain in a man's body because your brain is part of your body.

01:19:20.000 That's it.

01:19:22.000 That's the physicalist approach.

01:19:23.000 Yeah, I mean that's and that's how I I mean, I'm not a spiritual guy.

01:19:26.000 I'm you know, that's that's just my thing.

01:19:28.000 But also gender isn't the soul like even if you are spiritual gender is not the soul. 0.71

01:19:32.000 Yeah, and it turned but that's where it's it becomes that whole creepy weird religion thing that the left has got going on.

01:19:39.000 It's a cult because there's no forgiveness.

01:19:41.000 I would say this.

01:19:41.000 Religions have forgiveness.

01:19:43.000 And I would add this in there as well.

01:19:46.000 I do believe in a soul, but also I believe human beings are a body-soul composite, and you are both.

01:19:50.000 It's not like you're a body and you have a soul, or you're a soul and you have a body.

01:19:53.000 You are your body and your soul.

01:19:55.000 The idea that you are something different from your body is a contradiction.

01:19:58.000 It doesn't make sense.

01:20:00.000 Right.

01:20:02.000 Yeah.

01:20:03.000 Don't cut your wiener off.

01:20:05.000 Yeah, please, please.

01:20:06.000 That was an excellent response to the spiritual... No, he summarized it!

01:20:11.000 Put it in layman's terms!

01:20:13.000 And I think there is something, you know, I think there is a spiritualness to having a sexual life, you know?

01:20:20.000 So I think it's just really a crime to destroy these children's bodies before they have a chance to be involved in loving relationships.

01:20:27.000 A hundred percent.

01:20:28.000 The fact that there are so many people that advocate to do things pre-puberty, because allegedly it makes it easier to transition, which I don't believe because there's the stories of Jazz Jennings, like how her body is… That's not a good situation.

01:20:45.000 It's a train wreck because she went… That's not a good situation.

01:20:47.000 So anyways, my point being… I can't see how, and I keep coming back to the same point, I can't see how endorsing surgery on children, people that haven't, their brains haven't even fully developed.

01:21:02.000 Go by what the insurance companies say.

01:21:03.000 The insurance companies know you can't, like 25 to rent a car, like that's it.

01:21:09.000 When I was 12 years old, I knew that I really wanted to do drugs.

01:21:12.000 Like I was very clear on that.

01:21:13.000 I was like, oh, that's interesting.

01:21:14.000 I definitely want to do drugs.

01:21:16.000 And I thought, okay, you're 12, so maybe just hold off.

01:21:21.000 And I made a deal with myself.

01:21:22.000 I was like, okay, you gotta hold off until you're 18, and then you can try drugs.

01:21:26.000 That's the most mature thing I've ever heard a 12-year-old do.

01:21:29.000 I didn't think about drugs until I was 15, and someone said, you wanna smoke a joint?

01:21:32.000 And I said, yep.

01:21:32.000 That was it.

01:21:33.000 Well, that way, when I was 15, and someone was like, do you wanna smoke a joint?

01:21:36.000 And I was like, no, I gotta wait.

01:21:38.000 I actually had someone offer me cocaine when I was 16, and I had really wanted to do cocaine when I was 12.

01:21:43.000 In New York?

01:21:47.000 I'll tell you the story another time.

01:21:49.000 It's for the after show.

01:21:50.000 It's definitely an after show story.

01:21:52.000 Anyways, so someone offered me cocaine when I was 16 and I was like, you know what, I have to wait until I'm 18.

01:22:00.000 All the drugs, like LSD, all the stuff, I was like, I'm waiting on that.

01:22:06.000 So I think when you're 12, you have a way to know, like, hey, maybe I shouldn't cut my boobs off. 0.87

01:22:12.000 You might have. 0.91

01:22:13.000 I didn't.

01:22:13.000 I was a spaz.

01:22:15.000 Shockingly.

01:22:16.000 I was an alienated, bullied weirdo.

01:22:18.000 But I knew some stuff.

01:22:20.000 Yeah.

01:22:20.000 I mean, shockingly, people don't know what's best for them when they're younger.

01:22:24.000 I remember a few years ago, I was at a bar with one of my cousins.

01:22:30.000 And we must have been in our early 20s, and the bartender there was a bit older.

01:22:35.000 She was, I believe, in her 50s, and my cousin said something like, I'm never going to have kids.

01:22:39.000 The bartender goes, how old are you?

01:22:40.000 And she says, I'm 22. 0.99

01:22:41.000 The bartender's like, shut up. 0.98

01:22:44.000 You're 22 years old, okay? 0.86

01:22:47.000 You're not going to sit here and tell me that you're never going to have kids because you don't want to have them right now.

01:22:51.000 You're going to get older, and you're probably going to want them.

01:22:53.000 I had that experience when I was 22.

01:22:55.000 I didn't want to have kids.

01:22:56.000 I think well I think many women in this culture do and I'm not saying that that's historically normal but in this culture it's certainly normal in your early 20s to not want kids and it doesn't mean that you're never going to want them later.

01:23:09.000 Yeah.

01:23:10.000 Yeah.

01:23:11.000 Historically, I think it probably was odd.

01:23:13.000 Historically, very abnormal.

01:23:14.000 Yeah, I actually think... I'm not kidding.

01:23:16.000 I heard that Spinster was defined as unmarried by 22. 1.00

01:23:19.000 I need to double check on that, but... I was born when my mom was 26, and I remember that being like, she's old.

01:23:26.000 My mom, I think my mom was 22 when I was born.

01:23:32.000 Okay, so in the 17th century, a woman was considered an old maid if she remained unmarried and childless by the time she reached her mid-twenties.

01:23:40.000 Wow.

01:23:40.000 Today, the word spinster is more commonplace and is used to refer to women between the ages of 23 and 26.

01:23:48.000 I've never heard it used to refer to women between 23 and 26, but probably because I live in the West.

01:23:53.000 I bet you in other countries it's more shocking to them.

01:23:56.000 Probably.

01:23:57.000 Yeah.

01:23:59.000 Could be.

01:24:02.000 Have we solved all of life's problems?

01:24:03.000 Yeah, we fixed it.

01:24:04.000 We got really close.

01:24:05.000 I found out that I'm an old spinster today.

01:24:09.000 You're in your 20s?

01:24:10.000 Yes.

01:24:11.000 Good for you.

01:24:13.000 Clock's ticking though.

01:24:15.000 I've almost run out of 20s.

01:24:16.000 Don't worry, you'll be fine.

01:24:18.000 Your 30s are gonna be great.

01:24:20.000 You know what, yeah, 30s are good.

01:24:21.000 I appreciate the optimism.

01:24:22.000 I don't know, with all the banks collapsing and stuff.

01:24:23.000 20s are good.

01:24:24.000 I don't know if that explains it.

01:24:25.000 I think it's all good.

01:24:26.000 Like, there's always, it's always good.

01:24:27.000 Well, people used to want to get older.

01:24:29.000 That's the thing.

01:24:30.000 Like, people have always enjoyed youth, but there was a time when gaining age was seen as gaining experience and therefore wisdom.

01:24:39.000 I can't remember who the ancient philosopher was who said it, but no wise man ever wished to be younger.

01:24:43.000 Yeah, my son was telling me recently he's afraid to grow up, and I was like, you're gonna be an awesome adult!

01:24:48.000 You're gonna be great!

01:24:49.000 You're gonna get to do whatever you want, you're gonna be responsible, it's gonna be terrific!

01:24:53.000 And he was like, uh, and I was like, no, for real, it's gonna be really good.

01:24:56.000 Yeah, and it's natural for people to prefer youth or want to be young, but on top of that, our culture puts extra emphasis on it.

01:25:03.000 We have a very disordered valuation of youth.

01:25:06.000 We place it on far too high a pedestal.

01:25:08.000 I think that's true, too.

01:25:10.000 That's probably your accuracy.

01:25:12.000 I've always viewed youth, midlife, and aging as the human experience that people are supposed to experience.

01:25:22.000 So when I was younger and I'm seeing all these women, they want to act like they're—what I was told is women always want to be 24. 0.99

01:25:29.000 When they're younger, they want to dress like they're older.

01:25:30.000 When they're older, they want to put on makeup and look like they're younger.

01:25:33.000 And I was kind of like, doesn't everybody go through life where you have these things to experience?

01:25:39.000 You get old.

01:25:40.000 It's a part of life.

01:25:41.000 I mean, I guess if we invent cures and immortality and stuff, people will just be satisfied with being young forever.

01:25:47.000 But for the time being, it's kind of like, yeah, we're all going to get old, you know, enjoy it.

01:25:50.000 You get to experience it.

01:25:51.000 It's something you will feel, and you will learn from, and you will see, and you will remember. 0.70

01:25:56.000 Then you'll die.

01:25:57.000 I just want people to know that in chat, Luke said I'm 45, and now people are saying I'm 45 in potato years. 0.65

01:26:04.000 I guess that also works.

01:26:05.000 Yeah, multiple people.

01:26:07.000 28.

01:26:08.000 Yeah, 28 is 45 in potato years.

01:26:10.000 What's the math on that?

01:26:11.000 I have no idea.

01:26:13.000 I'm not old enough to be good at math yet.

01:26:15.000 I don't think I ever will be.

01:26:16.000 They say IQ peaks at like 22, so it's all down here.

01:26:19.000 As the old guy at the table, just the only thing that I have to say about getting older is just keep your body in good shape by exercising.

01:26:29.000 I'm pushing 50, and I go to the gym, and I don't have any of the aches and pains that I hear other people my age talk about.

01:26:36.000 Are we the exact same age, Phil?

01:26:38.000 I don't know.

01:26:39.000 We might be.

01:26:40.000 We can compare notes.

01:26:42.000 You won't just say how old you are?

01:26:45.000 I'm not worried about it, but ladies... I don't care. 1.00

01:26:47.000 Okay, I'm 48.

01:26:48.000 She's the one who brought it up.

01:26:49.000 You're older than me, but only a little.

01:26:51.000 I'm 47.

01:26:52.000 And I just turned 48 a couple weeks ago.

01:26:54.000 Luke just said I fart dust, excuse me.

01:26:56.000 I don't have to.

01:26:57.000 Please continue.

01:26:59.000 But yeah, the thing is, if you stay, you have to stay active and you have to just don't gain a bunch of weight because you're going to be miserable.

01:27:08.000 Whoa! 0.71

01:27:09.000 Whoa! 0.71

01:27:11.000 Whoa, buddy!

01:27:12.000 I hear some body non-positivity coming from over there.

01:27:16.000 They're appreciative.

01:27:17.000 If you're overweight, you have a negative body.

01:27:20.000 Just make sure when you're eating your she, her, Jeremy's nutless chocolate bar, you restrict yourself because 21 grams of sugar per bar.

01:27:28.000 Only four ingredients and soy free.

01:27:30.000 Again, they don't pay me to do that.

01:27:32.000 They're good.

01:27:33.000 That's very kind of you.

01:27:34.000 I guess my point is, I cut out sugars today.

01:27:37.000 You know what I had today?

01:27:39.000 We went to, there's a market in Potomac, Maryland, and they have sushi grade salmon.

01:27:45.000 So we just bought a big piece of salmon and we just cut it and ate it raw.

01:27:51.000 Yeah.

01:27:51.000 With avocado.

01:27:52.000 That sounds perfect.

01:27:53.000 Yeah, I made some spicy mayo.

01:27:55.000 It was like, you know, being a sushi chef.

01:27:57.000 Yeah, that's a really good- Healthy.

01:27:58.000 That's a really good dish.

01:27:59.000 Very healthy.

01:28:00.000 And for, uh, and to drink, I had this, uh, delicious rice with Roberto Junior.

01:28:04.000 So actually, the Roberto Junior, uh, this, we just got ours.

01:28:09.000 So for people who are ordering it, they're going to start seeing it already.

01:28:12.000 But it came in the mail and I immediately was like, we got to brew some, we got to brew some.

01:28:15.000 Of course we've had it because we are the ones who like took all the samples and blended everything and then made it, but we're really excited to get it.

01:28:22.000 But yeah, eating healthy.

01:28:23.000 I want to get some of the whole bean kind, because I like to- Grind it yourself?

01:28:26.000 I do.

01:28:26.000 Yeah, it's fresher and better.

01:28:27.000 Yeah, we have those too.

01:28:28.000 Also, it's fun.

01:28:29.000 It's sort of like- It is very fun.

01:28:30.000 I like to press the button.

01:28:32.000 No, but what I'm saying is take care of yourself.

01:28:36.000 Live your best life.

01:28:38.000 Be healthy, exercise.

01:28:42.000 Exercise is so important.

01:28:43.000 It's so important for your mental health.

01:28:45.000 It's so important for your body.

01:28:46.000 I can't stress enough.

01:28:49.000 Go out and exercise.

01:28:50.000 I didn't start exercising until I was 30.

01:28:52.000 People who don't exercise don't understand.

01:28:55.000 When you're sedentary, you might feel like this is baseline.

01:29:00.000 This is what normal feels like.

01:29:02.000 Ah, man.

01:29:02.000 If that's the case, when you start exercising consistently, you feel good all the time.

01:29:07.000 It's so annoying too because I'll be in a really bad mood and I'll realize I haven't exercised and I'll be like, damn it, now I have to go exercise and then I feel better and then I'm annoyed.

01:29:18.000 I don't know if you guys are aware of this but telling people that they're actually capable of making a difference in their life by making better choices is horrible and unfair and cruel and marginalizing.

01:29:29.000 I think you're right, we're not affirming people's poor choices.

01:29:31.000 Exactly. I always see that, dude. There is nothing that makes people more angry than saying,

01:29:36.000 hey, if you're depressed, you should try getting a better sleep schedule,

01:29:39.000 getting a better diet, exercise, and be like, oh, and you're like, oh,

01:29:44.000 are you already doing those things?

01:29:45.000 They're like, no.

01:29:46.000 You should do that again.

01:29:47.000 There, there, you like it?

01:29:50.000 It's funny.

01:29:50.000 You like that the second time?

01:29:51.000 Thank you.

01:29:51.000 That's how I'm going to express myself more often.

01:29:53.000 I think you should.

01:29:54.000 It's a point across.

01:29:54.000 You should be like a, that should be a little fancy.

01:29:56.000 But that's literally, that's literally what they do.

01:29:58.000 That's literally what they do.

01:30:00.000 It's a crazy day.

01:30:01.000 They get upset.

01:30:02.000 It's a weird day.

01:30:02.000 It is a dangle crazy day.

01:30:03.000 And I told that bank to invest better and they're like, oh, we're crashing. 1.00

01:30:06.000 I was like, maybe invest better and don't buy bad assets and give out stupid loans. 0.99

01:30:09.000 And they went, I don't have the energy for it. 0.99

01:30:12.000 I kind of just feel like.

01:30:15.000 With that news of the bank collapse, people are just sitting around shrugging, being like, we know, but whatever.

01:30:23.000 And then also you have Congress is going to have to vote to raise the debt ceiling.

01:30:27.000 That's a mess.

01:30:29.000 That doesn't, none of that seems, it doesn't seem good to do it and it doesn't seem good to not do it.

01:30:34.000 We're all burned out on all of it, just like we know the system has imploded.

01:30:38.000 And there's no need to just say it at this point, buy some chickens and is sometimes the news day is like that.

01:30:44.000 So I wake up every morning.

01:30:45.000 I scan all the headlines.

01:30:46.000 I look at all the newspapers.

01:30:48.000 You know, I start thinking about what we should cover.

01:30:50.000 And then you realize I should buy chickens.

01:30:53.000 And actually I had, there's chickens next door to me where I live.

01:30:57.000 And this morning I kept hearing the rooster and I was like, why am I still hearing this rooster?

01:31:02.000 And then I looked outside, all the chickens had escaped.

01:31:04.000 They were all running over my yard.

01:31:06.000 And I was like, wait a minute.

01:31:07.000 Do I, can I just go get one?

01:31:08.000 Like, what do I do now?

01:31:09.000 I just let him go.

01:31:11.000 And then I was driving over here.

01:31:13.000 There were chickens like hanging out in front of my car.

01:31:16.000 Don't get squashed.

01:31:17.000 You drive around in West Virginia and you'll see chickens just walking around.

01:31:20.000 Yeah.

01:31:20.000 They go do their thing and then they go home.

01:31:23.000 That's it.

01:31:23.000 They're just, they're like the cats.

01:31:25.000 Same thing in Hawaii.

01:31:26.000 Really?

01:31:26.000 With chickens?

01:31:27.000 On Oahu.

01:31:27.000 Yeah, like you're all over the place.

01:31:29.000 I've never been to Hawaii.

01:31:30.000 I would love to go to Hawaii.

01:31:31.000 It's awesome.

01:31:32.000 It's really fun when I ride my, I got my electric motorcycle and I ride it up here in the morning to come to work and I can see Chicken City and there's just some doofy looking chicken just staring at me and I'm just like, isn't life great?

01:31:41.000 Well I come over here and they're all like talking to me and I'm like, hey fellas, what's going on?

01:31:45.000 Yelling about something or other.

01:31:47.000 We got Lil Luke in the Polish one. 1.00

01:31:50.000 He sounds just like his dad.

01:31:53.000 He's got parted hair, he's blonde, a big nose, he's Polish, and he yells a lot. 1.00

01:31:57.000 Oh cool, that sounds like a pretty interesting chicken.

01:31:59.000 We should go to Super Chats.

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01:32:15.000 DeSantis...

01:32:17.000 I'm gonna be vague, but he's just signed into effect a very extreme form of punishment for a certain kind of criminal, and not very family-friendly, so we'll talk about that over at TimCast.com.

01:32:29.000 Should be live at about 10, 10 p.m., so sign up by going to TimCast.com, clicking join us, but let's read your superchats!

01:32:37.000 We got Grofty, who says, peck that like button, buck buck buck!

01:32:40.000 We love those chickens.

01:32:42.000 Alright!

01:32:43.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:32:44.000 says, Tim, we appreciate the update and everything today and the work you're doing to get the social club going.

01:32:49.000 My offer still stands.

01:32:49.000 If you need any help at all, I look forward to bluffing out a pot win.

01:32:53.000 So, uh, Cast Brew Coffee Cafe is underway.

01:32:56.000 It is in development.

01:32:58.000 We got a, um, what is it called?

01:33:00.000 A voiceograph?

01:33:02.000 One of the things that we have at the coffee shop is this booth you can go into and record a vinyl of yourself.

01:33:09.000 So that's one of the things we're going to have here.

01:33:10.000 It's super fun.

01:33:11.000 You can sing, you can talk or whatever, and then you'll have a vinyl record of that recorded audio.

01:33:15.000 Very cool.

01:33:16.000 That's sick.

01:33:16.000 That does sound cool.

01:33:17.000 So it's happening.

01:33:18.000 It's getting built.

01:33:19.000 And then our coffee, of course, that we're going to be selling there is here.

01:33:22.000 And so we're going to have tons of this at the location.

01:33:24.000 We're going to be carrying, and this is true, we're going to have at the shop Jeremy's chocolate bars.

01:33:30.000 We're going to have those like on the counter for people when you're buying stuff as like an impulse buy.

01:33:34.000 So all of that's getting installed.

01:33:35.000 The plumbing is getting installed.

01:33:36.000 Second and third floor social club, we will probably open really, really, really soon.

01:33:41.000 Because to open a social club, we don't have to do anything.

01:33:42.000 We literally just put a couch and a TV in there and then say, I don't know, figure it out.

01:33:45.000 I want to come. Yeah, figure it out. But what we want to do is we want to have fun things to do.

01:33:51.000 So to start, obviously, there'll be video games, there'll be movies. We don't have a liquor license,

01:33:55.000 so it'll be soft drinks, but you can order food or whatever and just hang out, creating a community

01:34:00.000 space for like-minded individuals and an overlap where it will be its own private business,

01:34:05.000 but a courtesy to Timcast members to come and hang out. And then the elite members for this

01:34:11.000 special third floor VIP.

01:34:12.000 But we want to do Poker with the Boys, the show, on the third floor.

01:34:16.000 And oh boy, am I learning a whole lot about West Virginia law.

01:34:20.000 Uh, Pokemon and Magic the Gathering are illegal under West Virginia law.

01:34:23.000 And I'm not, I'm not, I'm not being, I'm not being funny.

01:34:26.000 I'm not being silly.

01:34:27.000 Uh, the law was drafted before trading card games existed.

01:34:30.000 And so the law literally says any card game or table for any card game It doesn't define wagering money or making bets.

01:34:37.000 It outright just says card games.

01:34:39.000 And I think it's, like I said, card games are, I think the first card game was Magic the Gathering in the early 90s, but poker laws have been in the books going back a hundred some odd years.

01:34:47.000 So they never legalized the right to play any kind of card game.

01:34:51.000 It was always viewed as illegal gambling.

01:34:54.000 So I learned this because when we were researching the law, we were told Even playing poker for nothing, like a prop game where everyone gets a set amount of chips, no one spends any money, and you play for fun, is also considered illegal gaming if a private business offers it.

01:35:07.000 And I'm like, well hold on there a minute.

01:35:10.000 There are a bunch of places that offer, a child can go into a game store, give $20, play a card game in hopes to win something of value, which is literally defined as illegal gambling in West Virginia, but they allow it.

01:35:25.000 That's what we're working on right now, and I spoke... This is really, really funny, because I spoke with the government of West Virginia, and I don't want to drag anybody, but the response I got when I mentioned, like, what's the legal reasoning for, you know, these card shops that have Yu-Gi-Oh!

01:35:41.000 magic and Pokemon card games, where a person will pay money to enter a tournament, play a game, which includes skill and chance, and then win something of value, they said, oh, but that's all regulated by the West Virginia Lottery Commission.

01:35:53.000 And I was like, you think these Pokemon tournaments are regulated under the West?

01:36:00.000 You think these children, these game shops, are signing up and buying licenses?

01:36:04.000 They're not doing that.

01:36:05.000 And he was like, oh, I don't know.

01:36:07.000 I think it's just no one knew it was happening.

01:36:10.000 It's just under the radar.

01:36:11.000 Because if it's not culturally enforced, who's going to?

01:36:13.000 What cop is going to go to a Pokemon card game and be like, card games are illegal in this state.

01:36:17.000 Sorry, kids.

01:36:18.000 Go on.

01:36:19.000 But since my argument is, what is their reasoning for allowing one but not the other?

01:36:24.000 And I'll get, there's another super chat I'm going to read later on, I'll get more into detail, but let's read some more.

01:36:28.000 Omega Rasetsu says, Tim, the Federal Reserve is partly owned by JPMorgan Chase.

01:36:32.000 I don't think Chase will go belly up due to the acquisition.

01:36:35.000 The Fed will bail out Chase.

01:36:37.000 Then the question is, why didn't the Fed bail out First Republic? 0.90

01:36:40.000 And maybe for that reason, but that says to me, something shady is going on.

01:36:43.000 And, uh, that's just me.

01:36:44.000 If I had money with Chase or a credit card, I wouldn't use it because I'd be scared that something shady was going on.

01:36:49.000 Like, they're trying to use banking crisis as a vehicle to implement a digital, a central bank digital currency.

01:36:55.000 In that, if they can seize banks and then use federal money to sell them to J.P.

01:37:02.000 Morgan, but, like, here's the thing.

01:37:04.000 The federal government seizes the bank, then gives J.P.

01:37:06.000 Morgan money, then J.P.

01:37:08.000 Morgan buys it from the government.

01:37:10.000 That is not a purchase.

01:37:11.000 That is a government seizure and handing over of a bank with public funds to a private entity.

01:37:16.000 Sounds shady to me.

01:37:18.000 So here's the thing.

01:37:18.000 So it does sound really shady.

01:37:20.000 Are we at the point of no return?

01:37:22.000 How would you even stop something like this?

01:37:25.000 What could you even do?

01:37:26.000 It's going to happen, right?

01:37:27.000 I mean, if it were me, I'd just take my money out of Chase.

01:37:31.000 I wonder if the point of no return is like the event horizon of a black hole.

01:37:35.000 Like, do we pass it and not know it?

01:37:37.000 Right.

01:37:38.000 Are we already stretching?

01:37:39.000 Are we already spaghettifying?

01:37:42.000 Spaghettifying. 0.81

01:37:43.000 That's the scientific term. 1.00

01:37:45.000 Like sneaky fucker. 1.00

01:37:46.000 It's like the scientific term. 1.00

01:37:49.000 But that's a real term.

01:37:50.000 I know.

01:37:50.000 I'm just going to say it a lot.

01:37:52.000 So spaghettification. 0.96

01:37:52.000 I think we were talking to Peter Boghossian when we were on the show, when we were in Austin. 0.96

01:37:56.000 He was explaining, he was like, I'm not saying this as an insult.

01:37:58.000 This is the actual term biologists used.

01:38:01.000 Yeah, I'd say there you go.

01:38:03.000 Well, if Peter Pagosa can say it on air.

01:38:05.000 What do we got here?

01:38:06.000 Jason Dixon says, I don't know what y'all did, but the show is so much better.

01:38:10.000 What have y'all done differently?

01:38:11.000 It's just the last week.

01:38:13.000 It's just the last week this has happened.

01:38:15.000 I don't know.

01:38:16.000 Something changed.

01:38:17.000 It feels more leprechaun-y.

01:38:20.000 You know what I mean?

01:38:21.000 Ooh, like a little, like there's some trolls under the bridge.

01:38:23.000 I'm a little bit of a leprechaun man.

01:38:25.000 You know what I mean?

01:38:26.000 I have no idea what that was supposed to mean.

01:38:28.000 I do have leprosy and I'm a con man.

01:38:30.000 I thought it meant you had leprosy as well.

01:38:31.000 It's both, yeah.

01:38:32.000 I have leprosy and I lie.

01:38:33.000 I was just trying to compliment you, Seamus.

01:38:35.000 You should be on a little island.

01:38:36.000 Thank you.

01:38:37.000 I want you all to know that's the nicest thing Tim's ever said to me.

01:38:40.000 And it involved insulting me.

01:38:42.000 I heard you went on a podcast and the guy gave you a potato. 1.00

01:38:44.000 Yes, I was on Pints with Aquinas and Matt Fradd, that dirty dog. 0.99

01:38:48.000 Shout out to Matt Fradd. 0.84

01:38:49.000 I told him to name the episode Matt and Seamus waste five hours because literally we wasted five hours.

01:38:55.000 We, yeah.

01:38:57.000 I did his longest podcast ever at four hours, and then George Farmer beat that time, so we had to beat it, and we should have edited it like three and a half hours, and we just, we wasted a lot of time.

01:39:09.000 Don't watch it.

01:39:10.000 But he gave you a potato.

01:39:11.000 And he gave me a potato, and it was really hurtful, and I stormed out.

01:39:13.000 Hurtful?

01:39:14.000 Yeah, it was very hurtful.

01:39:15.000 If someone gave me a potato, I'd be like, oh, thank you.

01:39:17.000 You know what really always bothered me?

01:39:18.000 I'd be like, can I have two?

01:39:19.000 Then I can have dinner.

01:39:20.000 You know the saying, if life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.

01:39:22.000 If life gives you potato, make vodka.

01:39:23.000 If life gives me lemons, I go, oh wow, I love lemons.

01:39:25.000 Thank you, life.

01:39:26.000 Lemons are fantastic.

01:39:27.000 I can put it on my fish.

01:39:28.000 I can put it on some oysters or whatever.

01:39:30.000 You know what's really great?

01:39:31.000 If you take lemons right off the lemon tree, they're sweet.

01:39:35.000 You don't have to add sugar.

01:39:35.000 They're just delicious.

01:39:37.000 Absolutely.

01:39:37.000 When I was in Greece, I was in Crete, and we were like picking lemons off this lemon tree before These guys came out of the monastery and started shooting at us, because apparently we weren't supposed to touch the monastery's lemon tree.

01:39:47.000 I didn't realize.

01:39:48.000 Shooting?

01:39:48.000 Whatever.

01:39:49.000 Things happen.

01:39:50.000 But we absconded with a good couple of lemons.

01:39:54.000 And they were delicious.

01:39:54.000 When life gives you lemons, you say, thank you, life.

01:39:57.000 These are delicious.

01:39:58.000 When life gives you lemons, you run away from the man shooting at you.

01:40:02.000 Whatever.

01:40:02.000 It happens.

01:40:03.000 All right, here we go.

01:40:04.000 Robert Knight says, it's a culmination I've been talking about since January.

01:40:08.000 They're consolidating deposits into a few major banks to make transition to FedNow and future CBDC easier.

01:40:14.000 Also, debt limit cap happens in June.

01:40:16.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:40:17.000 This guy knows.

01:40:18.000 He knows better than I do.

01:40:20.000 I'm like, this bank collapse stuff is how they implement a central bank digital currency.

01:40:25.000 Your bank goes belly up, and then they say, we've rescued your money, just download FedNow on the App Store, and all of your deposit has been converted to FedCoin, which you can use to make any purchase.

01:40:36.000 It's the same as US dollars.

01:40:37.000 This is what I'm saying, I hate it, but how can we stop it?

01:40:43.000 You have the option.

01:40:43.000 I don't want to give anybody financial advice.

01:40:45.000 Sure.

01:40:46.000 Okay, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

01:40:47.000 Okay.

01:40:48.000 I am taking my money away from institutions that are engaged in this kind of practice.

01:40:51.000 I'm investing in things like Bitcoin currency, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and investing in land and stuff like that, and trying to have a decent amount of physical dollars, as well as gold, silver, and other precious metals in the physical world.

01:41:08.000 Other than that, I'm looking at... Physical assets.

01:41:11.000 Yeah.

01:41:11.000 But things that are considered to be of monetary exchange, like a silver coin can be traded with someone as a universal, you know, holder of value.

01:41:19.000 But other than that, there's also items that we may consider to be something that'll appreciate in value.

01:41:24.000 What is a household item that may become hard to get that you would want to have that is good for trade value?

01:41:29.000 So what is hard to manufacture?

01:41:31.000 Rice cooker?

01:41:32.000 Primers.

01:41:33.000 Eggs.

01:41:34.000 Primers are impossible to get.

01:41:35.000 What's a primer?

01:41:36.000 Primers for firearms.

01:41:37.000 No, I'm thinking about primers for a bullet.

01:41:41.000 I was thinking incandescent light bulbs.

01:41:45.000 Didn't Biden illegalize or make illegal incandescent light bulbs?

01:41:49.000 Oh, I don't know.

01:41:49.000 Don't we all prefer the better light?

01:41:51.000 Look at this.

01:41:53.000 Dan Gingrich said the same thing.

01:41:55.000 The bank crisis is intentional to reduce the number of banks controlling the money so they can more easily institute central bank digital currency and use that to institute more control over the population.

01:42:04.000 You see?

01:42:05.000 We got smart people here watching this show.

01:42:06.000 They know what's up.

01:42:08.000 Voice of the People says, serious question, why invest in crypto if they control digital currency with EO-14067 and control the internet with the Restrict Act blocking access to markets while fining millions and imprisoning for VPN use and assets?

01:42:22.000 Because you can With Bitcoin being decentralized, I'm not telling you to buy any, they can control certain points of access, but they can never control the decentralized network which stores your value.

01:42:35.000 And then you can always find some means of connecting to it, or you can store the crypto in cold storage and then physically transfer it to somebody in exchange for something.

01:42:44.000 They've made, they've done transfers with all sorts of mediums.

01:42:48.000 You can send, you can literally send like physical mail with the code to change.

01:42:52.000 Oh, really?

01:42:53.000 Yeah, you could, you just have to send someone your private key if you want to send them Bitcoin.

01:42:57.000 So, I mean, you can do all sorts of interesting and creative ways to transfer Bitcoin that are not directly on-chain.

01:43:09.000 Oh, look at this.

01:43:11.000 Donald DeVol says, it gives me a headache anyways, but Barron's reports, Bud Light sales fell 26% due to the backlash.

01:43:18.000 Wow.

01:43:19.000 Interesting.

01:43:21.000 I always get so nervous that like the things I like are going to end up getting caught up in all these dumb controversies and I'm going to have to not buy them anymore.

01:43:30.000 I hate that.

01:43:30.000 I have Nikes and stuff that I'm like, I can't even wear them anymore.

01:43:34.000 At least I can't wear them here because I know that the chat will just- You wore that shirt that one time.

01:43:37.000 I know.

01:43:38.000 I've got a Nike hat and a couple pair of Nike shoes.

01:43:41.000 I'm never wearing them again.

01:43:43.000 The Lion says, Phil, I was at work by myself Saturday.

01:43:46.000 Didn't feel like listening to podcasts.

01:43:47.000 Wanted some music.

01:43:48.000 Put on some All That Remains.

01:43:49.000 You got a new fan, bud. 0.99

01:43:51.000 Sick.

01:43:52.000 Thank you.

01:43:52.000 I appreciate it.

01:43:53.000 There you go.

01:43:55.000 Wishbone says, JP Morgan and Citi won't fail until the dollar does.

01:43:59.000 JP has the military-industrial complex and the DoD travel money goes through Citi.

01:44:03.000 They're centralizing it.

01:44:05.000 Interesting.

01:44:08.000 Seve Rose says, Grandpa, tell us again about the Bud Light Wars.

01:44:12.000 All right, children, gather round while I tell you about a beer that everyone hated but fought over anyway.

01:44:18.000 That's why it was so easy to win, because Bud Light was never good to begin with.

01:44:22.000 No, nobody wanted to drink it.

01:44:24.000 Now they have a reason to be like, I'm not drinking it.

01:44:25.000 Definitely not.

01:44:26.000 Easiest boycott I ever did.

01:44:28.000 I quit drinking years ago.

01:44:30.000 I just don't understand why people drink that anyway.

01:44:31.000 I think there's a lot of forgotten wars, like the Blackhawk War.

01:44:33.000 No one remembers the Blackhawk War.

01:44:35.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:44:37.000 Lincoln was involved in that.

01:44:39.000 I was at an event, and I had a yingling.

01:44:43.000 It tastes good, I like it.

01:44:44.000 I like yingling.

01:44:45.000 Delicious.

01:44:46.000 I don't like drinking all that much, but, you know.

01:44:49.000 What do we got here?

01:44:49.000 We got the DDMegaDooDoo says, the shimmous and full episode is the one I've been waiting for.

01:44:55.000 Now we need to have James Lindsay and the two of you on together.

01:44:58.000 Okay.

01:44:59.000 I want to hang out.

01:44:59.000 Come on back, Jim.

01:45:03.000 Brado Jacko says, the goal of the Fed is to collapse all smaller banks so CBDC can be easily forced by the few huge Fed banks like Goldman that are allowed to remain.

01:45:13.000 They'll collapse and consolidate and then the big banks will collapse and they'll say, here's what's going to happen.

01:45:20.000 They're hoping that someone like me, looking at our business at Timcast, sees our operating account collapse because our bank goes under, and then they want me to either say, we have to do this, otherwise I can't pay my employees, or cease to exist because we can't pay our employees.

01:45:40.000 That's what, that's how it'll happen.

01:45:41.000 It is being forced in one direction.

01:45:44.000 Plan forward accordingly by talking to a financial advisor you trust today, which ain't me.

01:45:49.000 Bye guns.

01:45:50.000 Satasha Katergater says, cheers from Vegas, I love poker.

01:45:53.000 It's day four of being a Seamus fan.

01:45:55.000 By the way, y'all should check out Speechless by Michael Mills.

01:45:59.000 Are you in Vegas for the World Series of poker?

01:46:03.000 I think that's starting now-ish or something like that.

01:46:05.000 They were having the World Poker Tour in Florida, that's why that guy joined the ladies event. 0.99

01:46:09.000 So that was... And kicked ass. 0.99

01:46:09.000 Mm-hmm. 0.99

01:46:11.000 Yeah!

01:46:12.000 He showed those ladies how to play.

01:46:13.000 That's great.

01:46:14.000 The funny thing, though, is like he was a random guy who just showed up while all these women were actually there to compete.

01:46:19.000 I mean, the jokes just made it right themselves.

01:46:20.000 Isn't that crazy?

01:46:21.000 It kind of does with that one.

01:46:22.000 It really does.

01:46:24.000 Step aside, ladies. 1.00

01:46:29.000 All right, let's uh... I'm gonna grab... I want to grab this super chat right here from YeahButTrump.

01:46:34.000 Because uh...

01:46:36.000 You got some fightin' words there, sir.

01:46:37.000 He says, Tim, how much did you pay for the Power 9 cards in your decks?

01:46:41.000 How much did you pay for the aces in a deck you don't own?

01:46:44.000 How much thought did you put into a Pokémon deck?

01:46:46.000 Magic the Gathering is BattleBots, Poker is throwing darts at balloons at a carnival, no comparison.

01:46:50.000 You're right, there is no comparison.

01:46:51.000 Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc.

01:46:54.000 are more chance-based than Poker is.

01:46:57.000 I would, as someone who's played Magic the Gathering since I was like 8 or 9 years old, since Antiquities or whatever set it was, barely had any idea what I was doing back then, and has played all the way up until now with a bunch of Commander decks, some that have extremely rare cards.

01:47:11.000 I do not have Power 9.

01:47:12.000 Power 9 cards, for those that aren't familiar, are some of the most expensive Magic the Gathering cards in existence, costing thousands of dollars, and they're extremely rare.

01:47:20.000 And so, here's my point about Magic the Gathering.

01:47:24.000 In Magic the Gathering, for those that aren't familiar, it is one of the most popular strategy card games ever.

01:47:30.000 It was the first.

01:47:31.000 When the game starts, you draw seven cards at random from a shuffled deck.

01:47:36.000 The game has spell cards and resource cards.

01:47:39.000 Uh-oh.

01:47:40.000 If you don't draw the correct amount of resource cards, you lose the game outright.

01:47:45.000 Okay, not completely.

01:47:47.000 There's something called a mulligan, but the likelihood you can win if you don't have a good draw starts dropping dramatically, to the point where several pro players would just concede the game outright if they had two bad draws back-to-back.

01:48:01.000 In poker, a hand is only a single portion.

01:48:05.000 A shuffle of the deck and a deal of the cards is a tiny portion of the game, and it's free.

01:48:10.000 No joke.

01:48:11.000 You can sit down at a poker table at a casino and spend no money, and they will give you cards.

01:48:16.000 You can then look at them and say, these are not good cards.

01:48:19.000 I'm not going to play this one hand.

01:48:21.000 You can do that about five times before you have to actually pay what's called a blind, or you can get up and leave and never pay anything.

01:48:27.000 With Magic the Gathering and Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh!, you pay the man at the game shop, the card shop, a $20 entry fee.

01:48:34.000 That money goes towards the prize pool.

01:48:37.000 You then cross your fingers and hope you get a good draw, and if you do, you might have a better chance of winning.

01:48:43.000 Then pointing out the Power Nine, even more random chance.

01:48:47.000 I can't, when I was a kid, I couldn't afford to buy any of those cards.

01:48:50.000 That meant my cards were always gonna be garbage, and my likelihood of winning was extremely low.

01:48:54.000 That's not skill, that's just buying in.

01:48:56.000 The rich kids had better decks.

01:48:58.000 This is why I like poker so much, having been someone who's played Magic my whole life.

01:49:02.000 It's completely equal footing.

01:49:04.000 And the game is based on whether or not you can figure out what your opponent is doing, and whether or not you, like, it's not even about cards.

01:49:12.000 I'll tell you this, I played this weekend and I got a garbage hand and I ended up winning against someone who probably had me beat because I played it better.

01:49:19.000 In Magic the Gathering and Pokemon, which I think are fantastic games and they're skill based for sure, but my argument is there's just more random chance in those than in poker.

01:49:28.000 Simply put, Holden style games, PLO, etc.

01:49:31.000 should be legal and so should Pokemon and Magic and I think it's discriminatory that these states, and many states, are allowing one game and not the other.

01:49:41.000 I'll wrap it up there.

01:49:42.000 But I can go into great detail and talk about why I think it shouldn't be that way.

01:49:48.000 We will read some more superchats from you.

01:49:50.000 Kelly Hort says, Thank you Libby.

01:49:52.000 They make fun of the products that were a little traumatizing when I was younger.

01:49:55.000 I was 19 before I even bought my own tampons.

01:49:57.000 They have no idea what they're mocking.

01:50:00.000 Oh, it's awful.

01:50:00.000 It's so awful to have to go into the store and buy tampons and carry them up to the front and, like, stand, you stand there and they're, like, by your side and you hope nobody looks at you.

01:50:09.000 I've done it for girls and it's not that big of a deal.

01:50:09.000 B.S.

01:50:12.000 Yeah, well, it's not a big deal if you're a fella doing it for girls, but if you're a girl, you're walking up there, you're like, now everyone knows what's going on with my body.

01:50:19.000 It feels weird.

01:50:19.000 Really?

01:50:20.000 And they used to do this thing at drugstores where they would, like, double bag it in a brown bag so that you could walk out and nobody would have to see what you're carrying home with you.

01:50:27.000 Now you have to pay double for the bags?

01:50:29.000 Now you have to pay for the bags and they only give you the plastic bags half the time and everybody can see right through it.

01:50:34.000 I find the whole thing humiliating. 0.95

01:50:36.000 The Real Hydro PX with an embarrassingly ignorant super chat says, Tim does this all the time. 0.96

01:50:45.000 He becomes an expert on anything he does. 0.98

01:50:47.000 You will always pay if you're small blind and big blind.

01:50:50.000 Tim knows it all.

01:50:51.000 He's completely wrong.

01:50:52.000 When you go to a poker table anywhere and sit down They will say, do you want to buy the button or wait for it to pass?

01:51:00.000 There's something called a forced bet in poker where it's, let's say you're playing a game, it's called 1-2.

01:51:05.000 A small blind is one, the big blind is two dollars.

01:51:08.000 If you want to buy the button, you have to pay three dollars.

01:51:11.000 That means that you are entering the game right at the point and you will, the button is the dealer button that goes around the table determining what, whose turn it is and who plays it first and who plays last.

01:51:20.000 If you sit down at a poker table, you can say, I will wait for the button to pass, and you pay $0.

01:51:26.000 You will then be dealt hands.

01:51:28.000 When the button comes around the table, each hand dealt, it moves one space.

01:51:32.000 As soon as the blinds come to your right, you stand up and say, I am now leaving.

01:51:36.000 Thank you for letting me play with you, and you've not paid a single penny.

01:51:39.000 Real Hydro, you are completely wrong.

01:51:41.000 And it's embarrassing.

01:51:42.000 It's really, really embarrassing.

01:51:44.000 I mean, just, man, wow, I can't believe how embarrassing it must be for you.

01:51:47.000 All right, let's read some more Super Chats.

01:51:49.000 Uh, what do we got here?

01:51:51.000 Captain Caveman says, Noodles is woke if woke was a person.

01:51:55.000 Yes, embarrassingly woke.

01:51:57.000 Poor Noodles.

01:51:58.000 Poor Noodles.

01:52:00.000 Aww.

01:52:00.000 Yeah, it was Clapper of Cheeks who said, Please look at Noodles' soy reaction to Kiss.

01:52:04.000 Clapper of Cheeks, I love it.

01:52:06.000 Soy reaction.

01:52:09.000 Jake Swift says, Atlanta barman here.

01:52:11.000 Someone told me this weekend he'd rather choke down a Miller High Life than have Ultra because of Anheuser.

01:52:16.000 That's the champagne of beers, isn't it?

01:52:18.000 Yes.

01:52:19.000 He didn't seem politically motivated, but maybe trying too hard to be masculine.

01:52:22.000 You see, that's what I'm talking about.

01:52:23.000 Guys who drink beers do sometimes tend to be... try too hard to be masculine.

01:52:29.000 You think?

01:52:30.000 That's right.

01:52:30.000 That sometimes happens.

01:52:31.000 Because if they were really masculine, they'd be drinking whiskey.

01:52:33.000 They'd be drinking strawberry daiquiris because they'd be secure in their sexuality.

01:52:38.000 I tell you what, I can't hate on a peach bellini, man.

01:52:40.000 I love my peach bellini.

01:52:43.000 ThatOneGamer says, is Ian returning anytime soon?

01:52:45.000 I disagree with him, but he's a pretty chill guy.

01:52:47.000 Oh, he's the new co-host for Alex Stein's show.

01:52:50.000 He's no longer here.

01:52:51.000 He's gone.

01:52:51.000 He left.

01:52:54.000 He packed his bag.

01:52:55.000 What happened is he had a stick with a handkerchief tied up at the end of it with a couple things in there and he said, I'm going!

01:53:00.000 And he left and he hitchhiked out.

01:53:02.000 Maybe he hopped a freight train.

01:53:03.000 That's right.

01:53:04.000 He's got focus in the bag.

01:53:05.000 Just focus!

01:53:10.000 And the gene therapy treatment.

01:53:12.000 I'm just kidding.

01:53:13.000 He'll be back soon.

01:53:14.000 I literally talked to him this morning.

01:53:14.000 Ian's downstairs.

01:53:15.000 Yeah.

01:53:16.000 He was all excited.

01:53:16.000 Yeah.

01:53:17.000 He's like, we got to work on stuff, man.

01:53:18.000 It's gonna be great.

01:53:18.000 I'm really excited.

01:53:19.000 Uh, RealHydro, he's got a response.

01:53:21.000 He says, if there are two people on the table, they can play for free.

01:53:24.000 No, your claim is only right if the table is full.

01:53:26.000 Duh.

01:53:27.000 That's what I said.

01:53:28.000 The button goes around so you can play five hands for free.

01:53:30.000 Jeez, man, these people don't even understand.

01:53:32.000 And then someone mentioned, um, we got ZillaZilla says, poker rooms charge time limit on games, not rake.

01:53:36.000 It's called time rake.

01:53:38.000 And, uh, depending on the table, some do and some don't.

01:53:41.000 Uh, at MGM, I just learned this.

01:53:43.000 It's called a 5-10 table.

01:53:45.000 That means the small blind is five bucks, the big blind is ten bucks.

01:53:48.000 No rake!

01:53:49.000 Crazy.

01:53:50.000 A rake is when the pot in the middle of money, the dealer takes a portion out for the casino itself.

01:53:50.000 No rake.

01:53:57.000 It sucks. 0.99

01:53:58.000 Oh, interesting. 0.98

01:53:59.000 Over a long enough period of time, every player will lose because the money going back and forth will keep getting smaller, and if you play long enough, you will notice everyone's chips are going down.

01:54:08.000 You play at the higher stakes table, and they do what's called a time rake.

01:54:11.000 Every half an hour, a new dealer sits down, you pay the dealer $7, and then play the game.

01:54:15.000 Blinds or forced bets, you gotta pay those.

01:54:17.000 My point is simply this.

01:54:18.000 At any table, you can play about five hands at a full ring without paying any money, and you can't do that for any Magic the Gathering tournament with stakes.

01:54:27.000 You have to pay up front to the owner of the shop.

01:54:30.000 That money goes towards the prize pool and the house takes a cut of it for their profit.

01:54:35.000 That's no different from raking at a poker game.

01:54:38.000 And here's the other thing.

01:54:39.000 In the law, a wager is a bet that someone will win.

01:54:43.000 This is in West Virginia, this is interesting, which means when you're playing Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, or Magic, when you buy into the tournament, you are saying, I am buying in to enter because I will win these games and then get the cash prize.

01:54:55.000 In poker, a bet is not a determination that you are going to win.

01:54:59.000 If I've got a good hand or bad hand, whatever, and then I say, I make it $15.

01:55:04.000 I am not wagering that I'm going to win, I am saying if you would like to continue playing, you must also put forth $15.

01:55:09.000 I don't know who's gonna win, I don't know if I have the best cards, and I'm not betting, I do.

01:55:14.000 I'm simply saying that's the cost to keep playing.

01:55:16.000 And as someone might say, I don't want to keep playing, you win.

01:55:19.000 And you can have the worst cards and win in that game.

01:55:22.000 Not gambling.

01:55:24.000 And I don't think Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic should be regulated as gambling either.

01:55:27.000 I'm simply making the point that the legal arguments are nonsense.

01:55:31.000 But let's read more!

01:55:33.000 What do we got here in the old Super Chats?

01:55:35.000 Rusty Razor says, Tim, two of the three big bank failures are San Francisco regional banks.

01:55:41.000 Maybe it isn't the banking system that's failing, maybe it's the tech sector.

01:55:44.000 Yeah, but the First Republic, this was, you know, billionaires.

01:55:50.000 Like, people were buying big assets on crazy loans.

01:55:55.000 So it is Silicon Valley, I get it.

01:55:58.000 All right, Brandon Devore says, as a magic player in Tim's defense, look up how many magic pros have gone to poker.

01:56:04.000 It's not even gone to.

01:56:05.000 Tons of Magic the Gathering professional players are simultaneously professional poker players.

01:56:11.000 And having played magic most of my life, I think I think poker is a better game because there's less what we would call variance.

01:56:19.000 People call it gambling, saying it's a game of chance.

01:56:21.000 No, it's just variance in the game.

01:56:22.000 But if you know how to navigate the odds of the game and what people are going to do and when they're doing it, then... I look at Magic the Gathering with, like, pros have a win rate of 51% to, like, your average poker pro whose win rate is 90-plus percent.

01:56:38.000 And I'm just like, come on, man.

01:56:39.000 Don't even bring that stuff to me.

01:56:40.000 And I like Magic the Gathering.

01:56:41.000 It's fun.

01:56:41.000 I got a whole bunch of cards.

01:56:44.000 Nuka Taco says, you post Big Blind to get cards in a cash game.

01:56:47.000 Only if you want to buy the button at first, or if you wait until the Big Blind comes to you. 0.98

01:56:52.000 Like I said, you can wait for the button to pass, play cards for free, then get up and leave.

01:56:57.000 Because people do it!

01:56:58.000 I don't know, whatever.

01:57:00.000 Michael Otis says, Tim, have you heard of the artist Ren?

01:57:03.000 His song Hi Ren is by far one of the most emotionally moving songs I've heard.

01:57:07.000 Highly recommend a listen.

01:57:09.000 Very cool.

01:57:10.000 Robert Knight says, Tim, I just put the rest of the puzzle together.

01:57:14.000 They'll use a bank bail in to pay off bank debts, then issue the Fed CBDC as a replacement for the depositors.

01:57:22.000 It's going to start to unfold over the summer.

01:57:23.000 That's what I'm saying!

01:57:25.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:57:27.000 Alright.

01:57:29.000 Real Hydro says, Tim, can you name the top female chess player? 1.00

01:57:32.000 How about the top male chess player?

01:57:32.000 No, I can't.

01:57:33.000 Magnus Carlsen.

01:57:34.000 Come on.

01:57:34.000 That's easy.

01:57:35.000 Stop looking down on women.

01:57:36.000 We are not the same.

01:57:37.000 Yes, there's a small handful of top female chess players, but they don't reach the same levels as men. 1.00

01:57:43.000 There's a small handful of top female poker players. 1.00

01:57:46.000 There's some that make it and some that don't, but it's overwhelmingly male in like all of these sports.

01:57:51.000 I don't know what the point trying to be made is, because I'm not saying women are bad for not being the best at these things. 0.99

01:57:56.000 I'm just saying men tend to win. 0.87

01:57:57.000 Therefore, there's a reason why we have a Women's League and a Men's League.

01:58:01.000 Robert Bradbury says the greatest thing about New Hampshire is the wild turkeys.

01:58:05.000 We have wild turkeys all over our property.

01:58:07.000 It's great.

01:58:07.000 They walk around and the dudes, their wings like fold down and their butts puff up, but then they can also shrink back down.

01:58:14.000 People are, I feel like city people get confused when they see wild turkeys because they don't understand.

01:58:19.000 They just look like regular birds because they're used to seeing the Thanksgiving pictures of the big turkey with its tail all spread out and puffed up and looking big.

01:58:27.000 Well, in New Hampshire, those are wandering around.

01:58:29.000 They do here too, but when the males shrink back down, they puff up to look big and threatening, and then they'll shrink down, and turkeys fly. 0.83

01:58:37.000 Also, I'm pretty sick too.

01:58:37.000 You see a flock of flying turkeys?

01:58:39.000 Yes.

01:58:40.000 Yes.

01:58:41.000 Yeah, turkeys fly, man.

01:58:43.000 Yeah, last summer I remember seeing turkeys wandering around the streets in New Hampshire.

01:58:47.000 MJ, there was a turkey that tried to get into a fight with his reflection in my car one time in New Hampshire.

01:58:52.000 No way.

01:58:53.000 That's kinda cool.

01:58:53.000 Oh yeah?

01:58:53.000 Wow.

01:58:54.000 They're stupid as hell. 1.00

01:58:56.000 MJ's got the good super chat right here. 1.00

01:58:59.000 Says, Hey Tim, where can we play poker with you?

01:59:02.000 So, for the past couple of weekends, we have been in MGM National Harbor, and before that, it's Maryland Live.

01:59:13.000 We used to play all the time at Hollywood Charlestown, until I stacked a guy in such a way that he got so angry.

01:59:21.000 So, Hollywood Charlestown is the West Virginia casino.

01:59:25.000 Uh, he tried bluffing me, I guess.

01:59:27.000 He kept, he kept raising his bluff on the, you know, he raises pre-flop, I guess he had nothing, I don't know.

01:59:32.000 Then he, uh, he raises on the flop, and I'm calling him, I had Ace-King off suit.

01:59:36.000 And so I just, I see this flop, and it's like, I think it was just like low cards, all different suits, and I'm like, this guy doesn't have anything.

01:59:44.000 He's just throwing money at the table trying to scare me off.

01:59:46.000 So eventually he shoves his whole stack, and it's $300 because it's a $100-$300 game.

01:59:50.000 Those are the buy-ins.

01:59:53.000 And then I'm just like, I'm sitting there thinking, and I'm like, I got Ace-King.

01:59:56.000 It's like the best non-paired hand, and I don't think he made anything, so I call.

02:00:00.000 Then he's like, I don't have anything.

02:00:01.000 He flips over nothing, and I say, I got an Ace.

02:00:03.000 And then they shove all his chips my way.

02:00:06.000 He got so pissed off he leaves.

02:00:07.000 Well, he lost all his money. 0.93

02:00:08.000 He comes back half an hour later and starts cussing me out like crazy.

02:00:11.000 When I asked them to just move the guy and get him out of my face, they told me no.

02:00:14.000 They weren't going to do anything about it and too bad.

02:00:16.000 And I was like, okay, I'm not going to play here anymore.

02:00:17.000 That's insane.

02:00:18.000 And I think the issue is their poker room has been like kind of shrinking and falling apart.

02:00:23.000 I could be wrong about that, but it's like a lot smaller and no one plays there anymore.

02:00:26.000 So they're kind of desperate to retain players.

02:00:29.000 So they were like, please don't fight.

02:00:30.000 We're going to let him keep doing this.

02:00:32.000 I'm out. So, uh, MGM National Harbor is a lot of fun, and I also noticed a lot of people there know who I am.

02:00:37.000 So it's really cool. People are like, oh, hey, man, you know, and they're like fist bump me or something.

02:00:40.000 So that's a whole lot of fun.

02:00:42.000 And, uh, yeah, I appreciate the support. So you might see me there on the weekends if you're ever in the DC area.

02:00:47.000 It's a Maryland casino. Oh, you know, Maryland live is cool, though. You know, it's all these Maryland casinos.

02:00:52.000 All right, we'll grab one more here.

02:00:55.000 Elias Muniz says, Is it possible that the JP Morgan First Republic buyout has something to do with the Jeffrey Epstein JP connection?

02:01:02.000 Government may have told them they will sink their own ship to stop people from finding out.

02:01:06.000 No, I think it's this essential bank digital currency thing.

02:01:08.000 I think it is.

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