Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - US Plans DIRECT ATTACKS On Russian Infrastructure Could Mean WW3 w-Ian Smith

00:00:00.000 You know, on this show a couple of days ago, we didn't expect it would get this bad in

00:00:10.000 We had several conversations where, you know, I had said there's no way that Russia is going to move from the north of Ukraine or through Belarus to try and take Kiev.

00:00:20.000 We had Steve Rene on.

00:00:21.000 He's from Fortitude Ranch.

00:00:23.000 And I asked him, do you think Putin would move from eastern Ukraine up to, like, as far west as Kharkiv?

00:00:27.000 And he's like, no, no, it's going to be southern Landbridge.

00:00:30.000 Boy, were we wrong, because there's reported attacks as far west as Lviv, which is basically, it's very close to Poland, and things are getting, things have gotten really, really bad.

00:00:41.000 So they're absolutely moving north through Belarus.

00:00:44.000 Belarus has apparently been like, no, we don't know anything about it.

00:00:46.000 We got nothing to do with it.

00:00:47.000 The U.S.

00:00:48.000 has got troops in Poland.

00:00:49.000 The Baltic states are on high alert.

00:00:51.000 Things are bad.

00:00:52.000 I've got, I spoke with a friend who's from Kiev who said, yup, war is here.

00:00:57.000 They're concerned for their family.

00:00:59.000 And so, yeah, dark times.

00:01:01.000 But here's where it gets particularly worrisome.

00:01:03.000 There's a few big stories, three in particular.

00:01:05.000 One is that NBC reported Joe Biden has been presented with plans for the US to engage in cyber attacks against Russia, against their infrastructure, which would mean US directly and publicly attacking Russian infrastructure in response to the war in Ukraine.

00:01:21.000 That is a dramatic and direct escalation.

00:01:25.000 It's effectively This article is threatening enough, you know, but Putin's probably got intelligence, but if the U.S.

00:01:33.000 were to actually publicly say, oh, we're gonna cyber attack your trains and your internet, we're gonna disrupt your economy, I don't see how that's not a declaration of war.

00:01:43.000 The next big story, which is potentially worse, is Ukraine and Boris Johnson and many others, journalists, blue checks, all saying, ban Russia from the SWIFT payment system, that's international banking.

00:01:55.000 If you do that, the US petrodollar is out.

00:02:00.000 Russia is not going to cease to exist.

00:02:02.000 They have resources.

00:02:03.000 They're going to be immediately working with China.

00:02:05.000 China's already backing them up.

00:02:07.000 Kicking them off of SWIFT would be, it would guarantee international war as far as I'm concerned.

00:02:14.000 Now, maybe I'm wrong.

00:02:15.000 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:02:16.000 And the last, most important story is China's defending Russia.

00:02:19.000 They're saying the U.S.

00:02:20.000 fanned the flames, the U.S.

00:02:21.000 caused this problem, and that Taiwan is basically the same as Ukraine.

00:02:27.000 And it's now been reported that China is basically saying they're going to need Russia's support because they plan to do the exact same thing to Taiwan.

00:02:34.000 This is everything we feared would happen, that if Russia moved into Ukraine, in the distraction, China would make its moves on Taiwan, and it seems like all of that is building up.

00:02:41.000 Now, I don't believe that Biden will actually attack, or there will be cyber attacks, but even if they were to happen, we wouldn't know.

00:02:50.000 They wouldn't come out and say, hey, we did this.

00:02:53.000 Russia may not care. 0.59

00:02:55.000 They may view any attack on their infrastructure from anyone as Joe Biden at this point.

00:03:00.000 Imagine some rogue hacker group now goes after their infrastructure and Putin says, well, Biden was the one saying he was going to do it.

00:03:06.000 Who does he blame?

00:03:08.000 We got a lot of stories to talk about.

00:03:08.000 We got a lot to talk about.

00:03:10.000 This is crazy stuff.

00:03:11.000 Joining us to talk about all of this is Ian Smith of Attilis Gym.

00:03:16.000 You had the state government, I believe, and these police, they come after you because you refuse to shut down your gym.

00:03:23.000 Now you're running for office.

00:03:23.000 Do you want to introduce yourself?

00:03:25.000 My name is Ian Smith.

00:03:25.000 Yeah.

00:03:26.000 I'm one of the co-owners of the Attilis Gym of Belmar, New Jersey.

00:03:30.000 You may have heard of our story over the past two years when we reopened our business against lockdown measures in the state of New Jersey and Governor Phil Murphy threw pretty much all of the weight of the New Jersey government and legal system against us.

00:03:43.000 We went to war with these people and 700 and some odd days later our gym still is open.

00:03:50.000 We've amassed hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines.

00:03:52.000 We've had Pretty much everything thrown at us, but the gym stayed open, so we won that battle, and we remain open every single day.

00:03:59.000 That was our mission from the beginning, so the rest of it will get sorted out in the court system, slowly but surely.

00:04:05.000 And in the meantime, I have launched a congressional campaign in the 3rd District of New Jersey against incumbent Democrat Andy Kim, and we're gonna have some fun with it.

00:04:16.000 The goal is to make politicians really uncomfortable.

00:04:19.000 There you go.

00:04:20.000 You're also going to get thrown into the deep end on foreign policy conversations now.

00:04:24.000 Yeah, it's good practice.

00:04:25.000 This is going to be interesting.

00:04:26.000 Now, what I think is really interesting is it's Ian's time to shine because Ian's been harping on the swift payment system for some time.

00:04:32.000 And here we go.

00:04:33.000 Oh, man.

00:04:33.000 So this is like cancel culture at its worst.

00:04:35.000 If you think you can cancel rush out of existence and just close your eyes and they're gone.

00:04:39.000 This is not banning people from the methodology of living on Earth is not the way to to make them get along with you.

00:04:48.000 I'm ready to talk about it tonight.

00:04:50.000 Talk to you soon.

00:04:51.000 And I'm also here in the corner pushing buttons.

00:04:53.000 Very excited for this conversation.

00:04:54.000 The world is looking a little dark today, so hopefully we can shed some light on that.

00:04:58.000 We'll see what's up.

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00:05:26.000 This one's just for you guys to pay attention and to be safe.

00:05:29.000 Make sure you have plans for the safety and security of your family.

00:05:32.000 Make sure you know if you're in potential hot spots.

00:05:35.000 Pay attention to what's happening around the world.

00:05:37.000 I don't know if this goes global or whatever.

00:05:40.000 I'm just saying, having some food, having some water, having a bug out kit, having a plan.

00:05:44.000 Sometimes there's a fire.

00:05:46.000 Sometimes there's a hurricane.

00:05:47.000 You just gotta understand these things.

00:05:48.000 And I hope everybody stays calm, stays safe, and thinks things through because it could get really spicy.

00:05:54.000 Let's get started by taking a look at this first story.

00:05:56.000 This one from NBC News.

00:05:59.000 One of the most shocking stories and I think, let me read the headline.

00:06:04.000 Biden has been presented with options for massive cyber attacks against Russia.

00:06:08.000 The options presented include disrupting the internet across Russia, shutting off power and stopping trains in their tracks.

00:06:14.000 They say, Biden has been presented with the menu of options for the U.S.

00:06:20.000 to carry out cyber attacks to disrupt Russia's ability to sustain its military operations in Ukraine, for people familiar with the deliberations tell NBC News.

00:06:27.000 This is important because they're not talking about retaliation.

00:06:31.000 This is not some story where they said, we've presented potential cyber attacks against Russia in the event they attack us.

00:06:37.000 No, this is, we want to have the U.S. 0.95

00:06:41.000 attack Russia to stop their operations in Ukraine.

00:06:44.000 Now, many people believe that we should be backing up Ukraine.

00:06:47.000 Many believe that we shouldn't.

00:06:49.000 Regardless, this story, I believe, is a threat to Vladimir Putin.

00:06:53.000 The purpose of publishing this is so that Putin knows the U.S.

00:06:57.000 is prepared to do it.

00:06:59.000 If the U.S.

00:06:59.000 wages a cyber war against Russia, going after their internet, their trains, they are attempting to cripple their economy.

00:07:05.000 Economic damage is warfare.

00:07:08.000 Scary stuff, man.

00:07:10.000 Yeah, I mean, it's no different than if we were to go and bomb these same train routes.

00:07:15.000 There's less death and violence, but the same objective from a warfare standpoint is achieved, and that's the shutting down of the economy.

00:07:22.000 And that has major repercussions that no country is going to ignore.

00:07:27.000 So when you're putting these options on the table, you said it perfectly, are we thinking about retaliation?

00:07:33.000 Because we're not immune to that.

00:07:36.000 We've already seen over the past year, I mean, we've seen several cyber attacks over the past year.

00:07:41.000 We know that our networks are just as vulnerable, if not more vulnerable, to those same cyber attacks.

00:07:46.000 So do we really want to start that tit-for-tat?

00:07:49.000 No, we definitely don't.

00:07:51.000 I don't think there's a winner in that game.

00:07:53.000 It may already be happening.

00:07:54.000 There was a, what was it, the refinery explosion?

00:07:56.000 Yeah, in Oregon.

00:07:57.000 Yeah.

00:07:57.000 When was that, last night or when was that?

00:07:58.000 Crazy.

00:07:59.000 So that was the day before.

00:08:00.000 It was yesterday, I think.

00:08:01.000 And it just blew up and they had no idea why.

00:08:04.000 So I still didn't figure it out.

00:08:05.000 I was just like, is this possibly an infrastructure attack?

00:08:07.000 Yeah.

00:08:08.000 It was a food processing plant that just exploded.

00:08:11.000 Hey, look, I don't want to connect dots where we have no reason to connect dots.

00:08:14.000 Weird.

00:08:15.000 Putin, I was listening to an interview a couple years ago, he was talking to like a crowd and saying that America's military defense capabilities basically the last 20 or 30 years, they've been building up their defensive capabilities against intercontinental ballistic missiles and missile defense.

00:08:27.000 And now that weaponry is so advanced and evolved that all that defenses stuff is obsolete.

00:08:33.000 And so all this American, we think we've got these great, complete obsolescence. 0.91

00:08:37.000 I mean, anyone that wants to kill right now, any government that wants to blow up a country can do it.

00:08:42.000 I don't think they can, any superpower, US, China, or Russia, if they want to level something, they can level it.

00:08:47.000 There's going to be consequences, obviously, but we're not safe.

00:08:51.000 Like, we're not living in like a bubble here, guys.

00:08:53.000 I don't... Well, just imagine if somebody were to shut off the The subway system in New York City.

00:09:00.000 Imagine the type of chaos that would ensue from something just as simple as one target like that.

00:09:08.000 You don't need bombs.

00:09:10.000 You could turn a country inside out on itself with some of these cyber attacks.

00:09:14.000 You know, you could cause shortages in the supply chain.

00:09:16.000 You could cause disruptions in major cities.

00:09:19.000 Imagine New York City in a traffic jam of nine million people who can't get around all of a sudden.

00:09:26.000 What happens then?

00:09:27.000 And a lot of people don't realize, because people have like a movie-esque view of warfare, the targeting of civilians wins you wars.

00:09:36.000 Look at World War II.

00:09:38.000 We blew up two cities, killed untold numbers of civilians, I mean massive numbers of civilians.

00:09:42.000 At least two cities.

00:09:43.000 And they beg, please, please, please stop.

00:09:47.000 It's a scary thought, but you've got a lot of people who have this view of warfare as like, I love the idea of war crimes. 0.97

00:09:53.000 When you're dealing with the idea of war crimes, you're not really dealing with real war, necessarily.

00:09:58.000 What I mean by that is, when you can wag your finger and say, the international court will hear what you've done... That's not war.

00:10:05.000 I mean, it's a lower tier of what war could be.

00:10:09.000 When you're talking about actual existential war, then you're talking about people saying, I am going to evis-scorched earth your cities.

00:10:17.000 Because you gotta understand about targeting of civilians.

00:10:19.000 Who do you think is making the machines?

00:10:21.000 Who do you think is running the economy? 0.99

00:10:22.000 Who do you think is producing the food? 0.61

00:10:24.000 It's not like military is hammering away and smelting.

00:10:28.000 It's not like it's all military farming.

00:10:29.000 It's regular people.

00:10:30.000 So when you look at, say, the Civil War, Sherman's march to the sea, that's what the North said.

00:10:35.000 We wipe out the farms, we wipe out the people, we win the war, and boy, is that dark stuff.

00:10:40.000 But that's real war.

00:10:41.000 That's brutal war.

00:10:42.000 Yeah, I'm pretty sure Dresden, the reason that the Allies firebombed Dresden in World War II, which was really one of the greatest atrocities of the war, Arguably had to happen because that's where they were, but it was a weapons manufacturing hub, basically. 0.86

00:10:53.000 So they were like, you know what?

00:10:54.000 We're taking them all out.

00:10:55.000 Full of civilians.

00:10:56.000 This isn't like if a terrorist has a building and they're firing at you and then they have a family in there with them.

00:11:03.000 Do you unload on the building with your M1 Abram and just level it to the ground?

00:11:07.000 The answer in warfare is yes, because you're being fired at from that building.

00:11:12.000 People will use human shields, man.

00:11:14.000 I was watching these videos out of Ukraine and the subway systems in Kiev where everyone was piling in trains.

00:11:20.000 What people need to know is the subway systems in Kiev, I believe probably most of Ukraine, go deep underground, like legit.

00:11:28.000 When I was there and I'm taking the train, the escalator's going down.

00:11:32.000 Seemingly endless!

00:11:34.000 And it's because during the Cold War, when they're building these things, they were worried about nuclear strikes.

00:11:38.000 And trains are extremely, if not the most important piece of infrastructure, transporting people and goods.

00:11:46.000 So they said, if we're gonna protect anything with deep underground bunkers, we gotta get our train systems to move goods.

00:11:51.000 You take a look, there's a story out of New York, it's fascinating. There's like a secret room in

00:11:55.000 Grand Central Station that contains this old machine that used to run all of the tracks.

00:12:00.000 And it was hidden behind like a secret wall or something. I don't know if you can fact check me

00:12:03.000 on the story, but something like this. The reason was, if any of our adversaries, say Cold War

00:12:08.000 adversaries, found it, shutting down that one machine would cripple the US economy.

00:12:11.000 You try to understand, man, when the US...

00:12:14.000 says we're going after your trains, that is level one of starting the war.

00:12:19.000 We are going to shut down your ability to transport materials and maintain your economy.

00:12:27.000 And the report is so specifically we can shut down your efforts in Ukraine.

00:12:31.000 It's a form of siege warfare, really.

00:12:33.000 If you're crippling their ability to transport food to their citizens, you're putting them under siege.

00:12:37.000 And I think it's I think it's extremely reckless to put that threat out in the open.

00:12:42.000 Right.

00:12:43.000 It just it seems it seems like a flagrant wag of the finger or a middle finger into the face of somebody who is clearly already easily provoked.

00:12:56.000 Yeah, doesn't it seem strange that we are having this conversation about this?

00:13:00.000 Doesn't this seem like something we should keep on the down-low?

00:13:02.000 Am I crazy?

00:13:03.000 Why would you say that out in the open?

00:13:03.000 Exactly!

00:13:05.000 It's intentional that they put it out there.

00:13:08.000 They're basically saying, Vladimir Putin, we intend to attack you.

00:13:11.000 And they knew, having Biden say this, he'd come out like... It's like, no, we can't even let our president say it.

00:13:17.000 We got to put it in the news.

00:13:19.000 It's that bad.

00:13:20.000 What did someone say?

00:13:21.000 Joe Biden said, chew grain instead of Ukraine or something like that.

00:13:25.000 Yeah, someone shared this.

00:13:26.000 I don't know.

00:13:26.000 I didn't see the clip, but... Wow, a president that can't command.

00:13:31.000 There's a whole bunch of memes about, you know, what's going on.

00:13:34.000 And it's like, there's one, it's Braveheart.

00:13:36.000 And it's like, Barack Obama.

00:13:38.000 And then it's, you know, Mel Gibson.

00:13:39.000 No!

00:13:40.000 And then Trump comes, then it says Trump.

00:13:42.000 Four Trumps, you know, for each year.

00:13:44.000 And he's like, hold!

00:13:45.000 And then it's Biden.

00:13:46.000 No!

00:13:46.000 Charge!

00:13:48.000 Yeah, look, there's something to be said for that.

00:13:51.000 There's something to be said for the fact that throughout, love them or hate them, throughout the Trump years, we didn't have these type of situations bubbling up to the surface right in front of us where people seem to be able to do whatever they want without fear of recourse.

00:14:06.000 I mean, there's something to be said for that type of posturing.

00:14:11.000 And I think if you want to keep the world a safe place, You have to be able to do that to a certain extent.

00:14:19.000 You see what Rachel Maddow said?

00:14:20.000 Oh my gosh.

00:14:21.000 That the reason that Putin didn't attack Ukraine under Trump was because Trump's position was aligned with Putin's or something like that.

00:14:28.000 Moscow, yeah.

00:14:29.000 Yeah, with Moscow.

00:14:29.000 Of course, they're still selling that Russian collusion narrative, right?

00:14:33.000 To a certain degree, though, I don't think she's, I think she's tactless, but there's one issue is the issue of NATO.

00:14:39.000 I mean, we brought it up on the show that Trump was like, why are we still in NATO?

00:14:44.000 Like, what's the purpose here?

00:14:45.000 And so Putin was like, Okay.

00:14:47.000 Like, let's see what happens.

00:14:48.000 However, I do think, in my opinion, I think Trump was too erratic.

00:14:54.000 I don't think that Vladimir Putin was like, finally a president who's going to work it for my favor.

00:14:58.000 No, that makes no sense because he was moving on Ukraine under Obama.

00:15:01.000 He wanted Crimea, the Eastern regions had already declared independence.

00:15:06.000 He waited until there was someone weaker in office.

00:15:07.000 And I think the issue is certainly maybe, you know, it may be that When Trump was questioning NATO and saying they should pay more, Putin was like, we'll see what happens.

00:15:17.000 But that just seems like a stretch. 0.72

00:15:19.000 The simpler answer is Donald Trump was called a madman by his own followers, by his own fans. 0.99

00:15:24.000 They called him the madman. 0.99

00:15:26.000 They called him the God Emperor. 0.65

00:15:27.000 Vladimir Putin's like, got to be careful with a man like that.

00:15:30.000 He's erratic.

00:15:32.000 You can't predict necessarily what he's going to do.

00:15:34.000 Now it doesn't mean that Putin...

00:15:35.000 Because in a sense he's looking at a reflection of himself.

00:15:37.000 Absolutely.

00:15:39.000 There's a lot of aspects about Vladimir Putin that are very similar and you can't predict

00:15:44.000 what they're going to do. They're extremely hard-headed individuals. And again, it's not

00:15:50.000 do you like it, do you not like it, it's what keeps the wolves at bay.

00:15:55.000 How much you want to bet?

00:15:55.000 You see that statement from Joe Biden about a minor incursion?

00:15:58.000 Remember that?

00:15:59.000 Yeah.

00:16:00.000 They were like, what do you do if Russia invades us?

00:16:01.000 It depends on whether it's a minor incursion or not, you know, we'll see what we'll do.

00:16:05.000 And then everyone's like, he's basically saying the U.S.

00:16:06.000 is a tolerance level for a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

00:16:09.000 And then Biden was like, that's their line?

00:16:12.000 I can push it a little bit.

00:16:13.000 I can't believe it.

00:16:14.000 Let's pull up this map real quick from NBC News.

00:16:16.000 Putin pushed it a little bit.

00:16:17.000 Yeah, Putin.

00:16:18.000 What did I say?

00:16:18.000 Biden.

00:16:19.000 Oh, Putin pushed it.

00:16:21.000 No, Biden.

00:16:22.000 The only thing he pushes is his wheelchair as he's going to the sunroom to go to sleep.

00:16:26.000 I want to help him.

00:16:28.000 Check out this map.

00:16:29.000 They hit everywhere.

00:16:30.000 I mean, this is crazy.

00:16:31.000 Yeah.

00:16:32.000 Through Belarus.

00:16:34.000 It's absolutely insane.

00:16:35.000 Comprehensive.

00:16:35.000 And this map isn't even comprehensive.

00:16:39.000 Lviv is not even on this map.

00:16:40.000 So, you know, I was talking to my friend from Kiev, and she was just telling me, like, all of these cities that were hit.

00:16:47.000 So what it may be is that Russia's got special forces or some kind of ground troops who had already infiltrated Kiev and then staged these low-tier attacks to cause widespread chaos, confusion, and panic.

00:17:00.000 Seems to have worked.

00:17:01.000 There's a lot of Russian sentiment in Ukraine, from what I've heard, what I've been learning about.

00:17:01.000 That sounds right.

00:17:05.000 I mean, it used to be part of the Soviet Union, and a lot of people in the Soviet Union felt a lot of kinship towards Russia, and it all kind of spawned from Russia in the beginning, the Russian Revolution and so on.

00:17:16.000 You guys ready to get madder than you've ever been?

00:17:19.000 Yeah.

00:17:20.000 I'm looking at it already.

00:17:22.000 Why don't you read that headline, Ian?

00:17:23.000 You want me to take the first line and take the second line?

00:17:29.000 You go all the way.

00:17:30.000 Biden administration asks CBP officers to leave southern border for Ukraine, according to new memo.

00:17:38.000 You have got to be kidding me!

00:17:41.000 This is the type of stuff that makes me want to go crazy.

00:17:46.000 First of all, you look at that headline and you can't even begin to wrap your head around it.

00:17:54.000 We don't even have enough people at the southern border.

00:17:56.000 This has been an issue for, what, a year now?

00:17:58.000 And you're pulling them to go to Ukraine.

00:18:01.000 Or asking volunteers.

00:18:03.000 And it's because they want... So it's mostly Poland. 0.99

00:18:06.000 They want these troops in Poland processing Ukraine refugees or migrants.

00:18:12.000 It's just... Let me read a little bit.

00:18:14.000 They say...

00:18:15.000 The Biden administration is asking CBP officers to voluntarily deploy to Poland following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

00:18:22.000 After being selected, volunteers will deploy within two or three days and work in Europe for at least one month.

00:18:27.000 They say the Office of Field Operations is seeking volunteers to assist with the possible evacuation of U.S.

00:18:31.000 citizens, lawful permanent residents, and their immediate family members in Ukraine, reads a memo sent to the agency's field operations executives and obtained by Just the News.

00:18:39.000 So I don't want to immediately be like, oh, you know, shake my fist.

00:18:43.000 We got to get Americans out of Ukraine. 1.00

00:18:45.000 We got to get permanent residents.

00:18:46.000 We got to get, you know, anyone who's helping us.

00:18:48.000 We cannot let this be another Afghanistan. 1.00

00:18:49.000 Correct.

00:18:50.000 Do we need the border patrol here in America doing that job to leave?

00:18:55.000 I feel like we have plenty aspects of our military that could cover that job.

00:19:01.000 Absolutely.

00:19:03.000 I think military police could probably do that, just to name a few.

00:19:08.000 I'd like to present you with my vision of how this came about.

00:19:14.000 So, you've got Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and they're in a room, and someone comes in, you know, and they're like, Mr. President, the situation in Ukraine is very serious.

00:19:22.000 We're going to need personnel to evacuate American citizens, permanent residents. 1.00

00:19:28.000 And Biden goes, oh, oh, oh, no!

00:19:31.000 Oh, we have to open the southern border now!

00:19:33.000 Because CBP is the only one who can do it.

00:19:35.000 And they're like, no, Mr. President, we don't have to.

00:19:37.000 Oh, geez, you forced my hand. 0.83

00:19:40.000 All right, send CBP off the border and send them to Ukraine.

00:19:42.000 The only people that understand borders is the Border Patrol.

00:19:46.000 I was thinking yesterday, I actually tweeted it out.

00:19:48.000 A war with Russia is actually a war with Russia and China.

00:19:50.000 And if that happened, we wouldn't be complaining about China invading Taiwan.

00:19:53.000 We'd be complaining about them invading our southern border through Mexico. 1.00

00:19:57.000 Do not F around with this.

00:20:01.000 Can we coin the term for, like, the Russia-China alliance?

00:20:04.000 You know, because, like, history will remember the name of the... They're going to call them, like, you know, like the Axis of Evil or something.

00:20:10.000 Sino-Rus.

00:20:11.000 Sino-Rus.

00:20:12.000 Yeah, something like that.

00:20:13.000 How about, like, the...

00:20:16.000 The evil Avengers.

00:20:17.000 I can't even bring myself to call them evil.

00:20:20.000 Like the good and evil narrative is broken down.

00:20:22.000 We've been, America's been putting weapons and military bases in people's face for a hundred years.

00:20:28.000 This is insane.

00:20:29.000 And then they invade Iraq.

00:20:30.000 This is the country of freedom.

00:20:31.000 The one that liberated Cuba from the Spanish empire and gave it autonomy and independence.

00:20:36.000 We fought a war to give Cuba independence, not to conquer it.

00:20:40.000 And then we go into Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:20:42.000 We give the rest of the world carte blanche.

00:20:43.000 You can't sit in a country and let the government conquer, say nothing, and not expect other countries to start conquering.

00:20:51.000 We are the example.

00:20:54.000 It's all the same.

00:20:54.000 It's propaganda.

00:20:55.000 The U.S.

00:20:57.000 and Afghanistan.

00:20:57.000 The U.S.

00:20:58.000 and Iraq.

00:20:59.000 And then they go, oh, I can't believe that Russia would invade Ukraine.

00:21:03.000 Get out of Iraq! 1.00

00:21:04.000 Get out of Iraq, right now! 1.00

00:21:06.000 Get out, man!

00:21:06.000 Get out and do it safely!

00:21:08.000 God, get out!

00:21:08.000 This is what I tweeted, and it was a multifaceted tweet.

00:21:11.000 I said, I'm gonna start an organization called Anti-War, and we're going to claim to oppose war, but we'll actively support any war that we're engaged in, because we're engaged in war for the sake of stopping war, so our war is justified.

00:21:23.000 And then everyone was like, you're describing the United States and Antifa at the same time.

00:21:27.000 And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's a good point.

00:21:30.000 The US is justified in engaging in its conflicts. 0.83

00:21:33.000 You know what the issue is?

00:21:35.000 It's the same players pointing their fingers at each other over and over again.

00:21:38.000 I mean who was in Afghanistan before we were?

00:21:41.000 It was the Russians, the Soviets. 0.92

00:21:44.000 It's back and forth and back and forth and when you're playing that game it's hard to point the finger because we don't have any right to say anything because we've been invading territories For our own reasons.

00:21:56.000 We had weapons of mass destruction was the first reason.

00:21:59.000 That turned out to be a big lie.

00:22:00.000 And then, next thing you know, we're in how many countries in the Middle East?

00:22:04.000 And then we're pulling out recklessly?

00:22:06.000 And then you want to point your finger?

00:22:07.000 And it's not to say that what Putin is doing is right.

00:22:10.000 It's not.

00:22:11.000 But we can't be the moral high ground of the world if we don't have a moral high ground to stand on.

00:22:17.000 Yeah.

00:22:18.000 So, you know, when people are talking about why we should not get involved in Ukraine, I agree. 1.00

00:22:25.000 I'm like, we shouldn't.

00:22:26.000 You know, to a certain extent, we can be.

00:22:28.000 We obviously have to protect our allies in the Baltic states to a certain degree.

00:22:32.000 I don't even know how much we want to get involved in that if things, you know, truly go south, because it's not even our border.

00:22:36.000 But we do have allies.

00:22:38.000 The challenge, though, I think, is It may be inevitable.

00:22:42.000 Whether we want to or not, you look at what happens in World War II, eventually you get dragged into it now.

00:22:47.000 Yeah, you could ignore it.

00:22:49.000 You know, you could say, okay, well, we're not getting involved in Ukraine, but what happens when Ukraine falls?

00:22:55.000 What does Putin do next?

00:22:57.000 You know, so... Poland's not going to be sitting... They're not going to be happy about that.

00:23:01.000 Yeah, we've become entangled in all these relationships because we wanted to go out and be the world police.

00:23:06.000 We wanted to go out and put all these weapons facilities all over the world and Spread freedom by force and look where it gets us.

00:23:16.000 How much better off is the American public over the past 60, 70 years that we've adopted this world police sort of mentality?

00:23:22.000 What has it done for the average American citizen?

00:23:24.000 Yeah, quote unquote, it's guaranteed our safety, but you can't even measure that.

00:23:28.000 You can't measure what you've actually stopped.

00:23:29.000 Yeah, I don't feel very safe right now.

00:23:31.000 But what is the cost to the average American citizen?

00:23:33.000 We have what, $30 trillion in debt?

00:23:35.000 How much of that is war debt?

00:23:37.000 You know, from from us being the world police, from us funding NATO, from us funding all these alliances and acting like we're supposed to be, you know, regulating everybody's behavior around the world.

00:23:47.000 It's it's a novel or excuse me, it's a noble cause.

00:23:51.000 But how how successful have we been and at what cost?

00:23:55.000 Nobody nobody wants to be the one to back down.

00:23:58.000 You know, when I when I talk about, say, Antifa and the woke far left.

00:24:04.000 Actually, I'll present you the conundrum.

00:24:08.000 The culture war is rampaging on.

00:24:10.000 Would you be willing to give up free speech and the first and second amendments to have peace with Antifa?

00:24:17.000 Like, I say Antifa, but, you know, the far left, the woke, of course not.

00:24:20.000 Never.

00:24:20.000 There's no compromise there.

00:24:22.000 Even if it would come at peace, because it's peace at what cost kind of deal, because what comes after that peace?

00:24:28.000 And so what happens with a country like Ukraine is people, you know, they say things like, we should just not have the war, you need to, like, we should do, and it's like, I know it's, yes, we don't want war, and it's really easy to say, but you've got Russia.

00:24:42.000 Vladimir Putin looks at what's going on there and he says, I will not tolerate the U.S.

00:24:47.000 coming in.

00:24:48.000 And I mean, you look at what happened.

00:24:51.000 It's EU.

00:24:51.000 It's the West.

00:24:51.000 It's NATO.

00:24:53.000 You look what happened in 2014 with the protests there with Yanukovych.

00:24:56.000 Putin views Ukraine as already conquered by the U.S.

00:25:00.000 Yanukovych was ousted.

00:25:02.000 Pro-America politicians get put in.

00:25:06.000 Pro-West politicians.

00:25:07.000 And then he's like, I'm not going to tolerate, that's a red line for me.

00:25:10.000 So he says, we're going to go in and we're going to get rid of this Western influence.

00:25:13.000 The United States says the exact same thing about Russia.

00:25:16.000 Vladimir Putin wants to rebuild the Soviet Union.

00:25:18.000 He's trying to build up the Russian Trade Federation.

00:25:20.000 He wants Ukraine as well.

00:25:22.000 We're battling over Ukraine.

00:25:24.000 And the question with Yanukovych was, you know, who's he going to side with?

00:25:27.000 Where's the country going to go?

00:25:29.000 Neither side is willing to give up that territory, the breadbasket of Europe.

00:25:33.000 Thus, you get war.

00:25:34.000 Now let me just throw it back to the original.

00:25:36.000 We're no better off than we were 70 years ago, 80 years ago during the Cold War.

00:25:40.000 Right.

00:25:41.000 We're right back in that same scenario.

00:25:43.000 But let's throw it to the start of the segment and to what I think matters substantially more.

00:25:49.000 When you have the Biden administration asking CBP officers to leave our southern border, They do not care about this country.

00:25:56.000 And they're asking the United States of America to sacrifice blood and treasure for people in a faraway land.

00:25:56.000 Right.

00:26:02.000 Sorry, go ahead.

00:26:03.000 I was going to say, shouldn't we secure our own oxygen masks?

00:26:07.000 Could you imagine being one of the first people that volunteered to go to Vietnam because you didn't know what was actually coming and waiting for you over there?

00:26:15.000 Yeah.

00:26:15.000 Those people, like the people who volunteered happily in the beginning because they didn't realize.

00:26:19.000 Because they bought all the propaganda.

00:26:21.000 I felt like I interrupted you.

00:26:21.000 Lydia, I'm sorry.

00:26:22.000 No, you're fine.

00:26:23.000 I was just going to say this to me seems like such insult to injury for Joe Biden to stand up there and say we're going to have to make sacrifices.

00:26:29.000 Who's really making sacrifices here?

00:26:31.000 Is it Joe Biden?

00:26:32.000 The middle class.

00:26:33.000 It's my middle class and only the middle class.

00:26:35.000 I mean, it's the it's the poverty, like middle class and down.

00:26:35.000 Yeah.

00:26:39.000 When I say when I say middle class, I mean everybody, because to us or to them, to them, it's it's everybody except them. 1.00

00:26:39.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:26:45.000 Look at these like blue check elites who are like, we have to intervene. 0.97

00:26:49.000 And it's like, I've got an application right here for you to sign up.

00:26:52.000 I will do your 55.

00:26:54.000 Well, if you could hold a gun.

00:26:55.000 I thought you asked a really interesting question.

00:26:56.000 What's Putin going to do next?

00:26:58.000 And that's like, I've been thinking a lot of this came up a couple of days ago and was worth repeating that when Hitler invaded Poland, he was doing it. 0.93

00:27:04.000 And he said, because they were after World War I, the Treaty of Versailles split a piece of Germany off, gave it to Poland.

00:27:09.000 And then the Polish government was executing and committing genocide on these Former Germans, now Polish.

00:27:15.000 So Hitler was going to liberate that area and bring peace back to those Germans. 0.90

00:27:19.000 Putin's saying a similar thing with Ukraine.

00:27:22.000 Post-Soviet, they're Russian. 1.00

00:27:24.000 There's a genocide going on.

00:27:26.000 He actually said that in his declaration yesterday.

00:27:29.000 I don't know if there's a genocide going on.

00:27:31.000 The U.S.

00:27:32.000 news has been completely silent.

00:27:33.000 I've never heard an inkling that there might be a genocide going on in Ukraine.

00:27:37.000 It's not out of the realm of possibility.

00:27:37.000 It's different.

00:27:39.000 No, no, no.

00:27:40.000 It's different.

00:27:41.000 I would say I think the Ukrainians learned their lesson about Russian control from the Holodomor and probably are not too keen to be involved in something like that. 0.68

00:27:48.000 But if we're drawing parallels, Russia doesn't need to be Germany in this.

00:27:53.000 China can be.

00:27:55.000 It's, you know, history doesn't repeat itself.

00:27:56.000 Because China does have... Mussolini and Hitler kind of fed off each other.

00:27:56.000 Oh, you're right.

00:28:00.000 One would invade a little bit, then the other would be like, oh, okay, I guess that means it's okay for me to take.

00:28:04.000 And they're like, really?

00:28:05.000 Well, then I'm going to take a little bit more here.

00:28:06.000 Then I'll go into Poland here. 0.98

00:28:08.000 So if the Russians take a little piece, the Chinese psychotic racist, Han supremacist mentality might... Because Putin's not a psychotic racist. 0.99

00:28:16.000 Hitler was. 1.00

00:28:17.000 But the CCP, they strike me as psychotic racist. 0.96

00:28:21.000 Well, they got the Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps. 0.92

00:28:23.000 And this is also American propaganda.

00:28:25.000 I'm getting this fed to me from the Americans, but that's what it seems like. 0.51

00:28:28.000 It's not just the Americans reporting on what's happening with the Uyghur Muslims. 0.96

00:28:31.000 And you've also got the Falun Gong.

00:28:32.000 That's an established fact.

00:28:33.000 I mean, it's like open massacre on these people.

00:28:37.000 We're not without sin, but I think there's a certain level of sinister behavior that's going on.

00:28:43.000 Within the Chinese government that is beyond what we're talking about with everybody else.

00:28:50.000 Let me jump to this story from Newsweek because this is relevant.

00:28:53.000 Newsweek reports U.S.

00:28:55.000 expects Kiev to fall in days as Ukraine's source warns of encirclement.

00:29:00.000 So you've got multiple reporters on the story saying, three different U.S.

00:29:04.000 officials, Ukraine's capital will fall within, I think they say 96 hours, and within a week the Ukrainian government will fall to Russia.

00:29:13.000 It's bad.

00:29:14.000 It's very bad.

00:29:15.000 However, it could be better than the alternative.

00:29:20.000 Ukraine falling could be an end to the conflict outright.

00:29:24.000 Sure, yeah.

00:29:28.000 These situations are terrible because they're incredibly complex and you don't know the next moves of some of these people.

00:29:35.000 What happens when Ukraine falls?

00:29:37.000 Is Putin satisfied?

00:29:38.000 That's a great question.

00:29:39.000 This is my next question.

00:29:41.000 Is he satisfied?

00:29:41.000 If he is satisfied, do we just take that loss?

00:29:47.000 Yeah.

00:29:48.000 And what are the repercussions of that?

00:29:49.000 I mean, is it a loss for America?

00:29:52.000 What are we worried about?

00:29:53.000 Now, the issue is, NATO, these Western European nations, want cheaper energy.

00:30:01.000 Russia controls a lot of the energy flowing in.

00:30:04.000 The craziest thing is, one of the moves that Joe Biden made in the past couple of days was to sanction the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which goes from Russia to Germany.

00:30:13.000 He sanctioned that.

00:30:15.000 But he was the one who lifted the sanctions on it in the first place.

00:30:18.000 They tried to appease Putin.

00:30:19.000 After he shut down the Keystone XL pipeline.

00:30:20.000 Exactly.

00:30:21.000 They tried to appease Russia.

00:30:23.000 It didn't work.

00:30:26.000 Vladimir Putin sees the appeasement.

00:30:28.000 They're like, OK, we're going to lift these sanctions.

00:30:29.000 You can do your pipeline.

00:30:31.000 Just don't invade Ukraine, otherwise we'll put them back in place. 1.00

00:30:34.000 And Putin went, Oh, yeah, sure.

00:30:36.000 Because we were fine with those sanctions.

00:30:39.000 Yep.

00:30:39.000 You know, they weren't affecting them that greatly.

00:30:42.000 So he said, OK, sure.

00:30:43.000 Ben Shapiro made a really, really great point.

00:30:45.000 He said, paraphrasing, that our culture is so materialistic that we think sanctions inhibiting their ability to buy things will stop them.

00:30:56.000 Russia wants to rebuild the Russian Empire.

00:30:59.000 Joe Biden said it today.

00:30:59.000 China wants Taiwan.

00:31:01.000 Joe Biden said it today that he didn't think the sanctions were going to do anything.

00:31:03.000 Yeah, he did.

00:31:04.000 He did say that.

00:31:04.000 There's a clip of him coming out and saying, yeah, well, we didn't think sanctions were going to do anything anyway.

00:31:09.000 You know, so it's all for show.

00:31:13.000 He knows that that's not going to be enough of a deterrent.

00:31:16.000 Ben Shapiro made the really interesting point.

00:31:17.000 Sorry to cut you off.

00:31:18.000 I just had to throw this out there.

00:31:19.000 But Ben Shapiro made the really interesting point that Russia has something higher to work for that the U.S.

00:31:24.000 no longer has.

00:31:26.000 He's like, we are so materialistic, we care about faster cars, we care about Levi's, we don't actually care about our country, or like any kind of overarching moral framework, and they do, and that's something we cannot understand.

00:31:37.000 Because they've been struggling for how long?

00:31:38.000 Right, exactly.

00:31:42.000 And if you're in the Russian government, and if you're Vladimir Putin, you're seeing this as a chance to, like you said, rebuild or restore whatever that empire was in his mind.

00:31:52.000 And we're not looking at it from that perspective.

00:31:54.000 In America, we've never experienced that.

00:31:57.000 The worst hardship that we've experienced financially, in terms of hardship, was the Depression.

00:32:04.000 And we made it out of that okay, and that elapsed far into our memories.

00:32:08.000 These people have been living Under harsh conditions for a really long time.

00:32:13.000 So they're looking at these opportunities to capitalize and become a more powerful country, become more economically stable.

00:32:22.000 So what dog do we have in the fight here?

00:32:25.000 I think if he was smart, Putin, and he is, that he would take what he takes out of Ukraine and then that's it.

00:32:31.000 He moves on and he's remembered as Vladimir the Great.

00:32:35.000 But if he pushes too far?

00:32:37.000 Honestly, if you were a betting man, would you bet that he would do that?

00:32:40.000 No, I wouldn't.

00:32:41.000 Yeah, because otherwise he's going to get the world to declare war on him.

00:32:44.000 He's got to be careful.

00:32:45.000 No, no.

00:32:46.000 I think, you know, we learned a lesson here.

00:32:49.000 Just two days ago, we're like, ah, he won't go for Kiev. 0.98

00:32:51.000 That's ridiculous. 0.94

00:32:52.000 He won't go. 0.96

00:32:54.000 96 hours, yeah.

00:32:55.000 Yeah, we were sitting here saying it'll never happen.

00:32:57.000 And then last night, it's like the show ends and I got a message from Luke and he's like, all caps.

00:33:02.000 That was during the show too, that's crazy.

00:33:04.000 Yeah, Russia's invaded and I'm like, well then. 0.94

00:33:07.000 Hard and fast, because if he took a little bit now and then waited and later went for Kiev, it'd be a big deal.

00:33:12.000 Now he's just taking it all at once to get it over with before people have a chance.

00:33:14.000 From the looks of the map, it looks like the entire country's gonna go down.

00:33:17.000 Yeah, he's gonna take the whole thing.

00:33:18.000 And then it's gonna be done.

00:33:19.000 And it's gonna be Russia. 0.69

00:33:21.000 Why would he stop?

00:33:22.000 Because the world will declare war on him if he doesn't.

00:33:24.000 No, they won't.

00:33:24.000 I think they will.

00:33:25.000 He's already, who?

00:33:26.000 We have no choice at that point.

00:33:27.000 Yeah, yeah, who?

00:33:28.000 The United States, Britain, France, Germany.

00:33:32.000 All these people that are relying on cheap energy.

00:33:34.000 Turkey probably will get... This is the issue. 0.84

00:33:36.000 Chinese will be on the Russian side.

00:33:38.000 It'll be absolute torture for everybody.

00:33:39.000 It's this entanglement of everybody's interests.

00:33:42.000 You know, you have Europe relying on Russia for a tremendous amount of cheap energy.

00:33:47.000 Are they going to be so quick to declare war?

00:33:50.000 Well, this is the crazy thing.

00:33:52.000 The idea for so long was that trade would stop war.

00:33:56.000 It's what the neocons and neoliberal establishment thought they were going to do.

00:33:59.000 They said, we do a free trade agreement with China and then we'll have peace because no one will want to go to war.

00:34:04.000 Instead, what happens is the bully in the room says, I'll go to war and I get your stuff and ain't nothing you can do about it.

00:34:10.000 Yeah, it works a little true, but it doesn't stop war. 0.55

00:34:10.000 Yep. 0.55

00:34:14.000 It helps get people get to know each other, but that's it gives you an incentive to work together, but it doesn't stop conflict.

00:34:20.000 That's no, it doesn't because there's always workarounds in a global economy.

00:34:23.000 There's always workarounds.

00:34:25.000 You can slap rash Russia with sanctions, but guess what? 0.90

00:34:27.000 When China has their back, how much do the sanctions actually mean?

00:34:30.000 Yeah.

00:34:30.000 Like if they get kicked off the swift payment system, did that we already touch on that story?

00:34:33.000 We're going to show next in a second.

00:34:35.000 Yeah, that's I mean, that's talking about a new banking regime.

00:34:38.000 But I think.

00:34:41.000 Right now you've got Germany. 0.92

00:34:43.000 They didn't want the sanctions on Nord Stream 2 because they want the gas.

00:34:47.000 They want the energy.

00:34:48.000 They need it.

00:34:49.000 Now they have no choice because Vladimir Putin's like, I literally don't care.

00:34:49.000 Yeah.

00:34:53.000 I got you by the balls. 0.99

00:34:54.000 If you need our gas, we can take what we want. 0.98

00:34:57.000 It's one of the reasons the US was like, hey, we should be working with our Western allies to move this pipeline up from, you know, the Qatar Turkey pipeline through Syria.

00:35:06.000 But all of that does, all that does, If Vladimir Putin has control over your energy, and then you say, we're going to screw with your allies and build a pipeline to shut your monopoly on energy down, they're going to be like, you know I can see you doing that, right?

00:35:19.000 I don't think that's going to happen.

00:35:20.000 Putin's like, I'm watching you attack my interests.

00:35:23.000 I'm not going to sit back and let you do it.

00:35:25.000 I used to play a lot of Civilization, and in the game sometimes I would choose to be like a trade-heavy country, and I'd have all these trade networks all over the world, but then every once in a while the world would be like, we're going to war.

00:35:37.000 And as soon as the person would go to war with me, all my trades would end abruptly.

00:35:40.000 I'd be bankrupt.

00:35:42.000 I'd have no income.

00:35:43.000 I'd have no furs.

00:35:44.000 I'd have no leather.

00:35:46.000 Basically, if you're relying on trade and you go to war with your trade partner, you're done.

00:35:51.000 You're saying you're bad at Civilization?

00:35:52.000 Is that what it is?

00:35:53.000 Well, I learned the hard way.

00:35:54.000 I got good the hard way, is what I was saying.

00:35:55.000 See, what you do in Civilization, it's a video game, is... Energy independence.

00:35:59.000 No, you take the furs from them with guns.

00:36:02.000 Well, that's one option, if you're playing that kind of... I never play Civilization that way.

00:36:07.000 I always have really strong borders, a really strong and advanced military, and I mind my own business.

00:36:11.000 If I get attacked, I go full.

00:36:13.000 That is a novel concept.

00:36:15.000 Can you say that one more time for us?

00:36:17.000 This is how I... Isn't it... You know, this is really funny, though.

00:36:20.000 Do you win a lot when you play?

00:36:21.000 Oh, yeah, every time.

00:36:22.000 But I go for science and cultural victory, which is, there's different ways to win.

00:36:26.000 So, you know, I had a buddy, and he introduced me to Fallout 3.

00:36:30.000 So I'm playing Fallout 3.

00:36:31.000 You ever play Fallout?

00:36:32.000 Yeah.

00:36:33.000 So, whenever I play it, you know what I go for?

00:36:35.000 I go for stealth, sniper, sneak, lockpick.

00:36:39.000 So dangerous, yeah.

00:36:40.000 That's how I play the game.

00:36:41.000 I never get in any direct conflicts.

00:36:42.000 I see a super mutant, I'm in the bushes, and slow motion, vats.

00:36:45.000 Gotta get some power armor just in case.

00:36:47.000 Hold on, my buddy, when he's playing the game, He runs in, guns blazing, heavy weapons.

00:36:53.000 That's how I played Metal Gear.

00:36:54.000 Hip fire.

00:36:55.000 But wait, wait, wait, hold on.

00:36:56.000 Check it out.

00:36:57.000 He was a Marine.

00:36:59.000 And so I'm like, you know what, like the mentality of the person comes out, you know, it's expressed in the way they play these games.

00:37:06.000 His view was go in, guns a-blazing, shut it down quick and fast and control the situation.

00:37:11.000 Mine was sneak around slowly, take your time, be patient, very different personalities.

00:37:15.000 When I play Civilization, You can see my mentality on all this stuff.

00:37:19.000 I don't like war.

00:37:20.000 Mind my own business.

00:37:22.000 Peace and prosperity.

00:37:23.000 And that's how I play the game.

00:37:25.000 I build up my cities.

00:37:27.000 I make everyone live really great lives.

00:37:29.000 We do research and technology.

00:37:31.000 And we mind our own business.

00:37:32.000 What do you do if someone attacks you in the game?

00:37:33.000 We wipe them out.

00:37:34.000 Strong borders.

00:37:35.000 I take it to zero.

00:37:36.000 It's a strong defense though. 0.93

00:37:38.000 I'll go, if I get attacked, I go completely ballistic and wipe them off the face of the earth.

00:37:44.000 I don't just sue for peace. 1.00

00:37:46.000 I eradicate the species.

00:37:48.000 Well, in civilization, if you do that, all the other countries... And then they think I'm a warmonger, but it's like, you know what? 0.92

00:37:53.000 You deserve it because you attacked me.

00:37:56.000 That's a crazy mentality, and I'm afraid that humans have that mentality in real life.

00:38:00.000 I'm playing a game.

00:38:01.000 I got my little country.

00:38:02.000 You know, the land my people have settled.

00:38:05.000 They come to my borders and they say, give me your stuff.

00:38:06.000 And I say, don't try it.

00:38:08.000 They try it.

00:38:08.000 Don't try it.

00:38:09.000 They get crushed.

00:38:10.000 I go into their cities.

00:38:12.000 I occupy them.

00:38:13.000 And then when everyone gets mad at me, I say, I don't care.

00:38:16.000 Stay the eff away from my borders. 1.00

00:38:17.000 Leave me alone and you'll have no problems.

00:38:20.000 I like that mentality.

00:38:21.000 America can have all the nukes in the world, it can be the most powerful MF around the planet, and it can sit back with its feet up and be like, dude, we're chilling, you guys leave us alone, and we're good.

00:38:31.000 That was the original idea, right?

00:38:32.000 Until they invaded Iraq, or Afghanistan. 0.86

00:38:35.000 I mean, we got it wrong way before that.

00:38:38.000 I think it was like Woodrow Wilson.

00:38:40.000 It was before.

00:38:41.000 We colonized Hawaii.

00:38:42.000 We invaded Hawaii and took it over from the natives. 1.00

00:38:45.000 We invaded Wake Island and Midway Island.

00:38:47.000 We were one of those conquistador countries with Britain and France and all them.

00:38:54.000 Yeah, but the original idea was that we set out to be isolationists.

00:39:00.000 We conquered, obviously, from sea to sea, and then we said, okay, this is our spot here now, and we're not going to go around the world, but we're going to show it off.

00:39:14.000 You know, they sailed the Navy around the world originally.

00:39:17.000 The Great White Fleet or whatever I believe it was called.

00:39:21.000 You know, because to show off our might.

00:39:23.000 But then it went back to our borders.

00:39:25.000 And realistically, that should be the purpose of a military.

00:39:29.000 You know what would have enabled us to maintain our isolationist policies would have been to have developed some form of energy independence, because this is a problem in Germany.

00:39:38.000 They decided to shut down their nuclear plants because they had a whole lot of green guilt from a little Swedish girl. 0.90

00:39:43.000 And now they rely so heavily on Russian gas.

00:39:46.000 They can't live without it.

00:39:47.000 They're literally talking about blackouts and brownouts during the winter in Germany because they shut down their nuclear power plants and they rely so heavily on it.

00:39:54.000 And when they sanction Russia, it is going to be a dark and cold winter.

00:39:57.000 Well, freedom is about Right.

00:40:01.000 If you can't stand on your own two feet, whether that be at the level of a country or all the way down to the individual, you can't be free unless you can tell somebody to piss off.

00:40:12.000 That you don't need them and that you'll do it yourself.

00:40:15.000 Yes, yes.

00:40:15.000 And we need to have that, if we're going to adopt that mentality as a country, we can't be reliant upon China, Russia, anybody for energy.

00:40:24.000 We have to be able to stand on our own two feet and say, we're not getting involved, but if you come to our borders, you will find out.

00:40:30.000 I got truly trounced by this.

00:40:32.000 If you think nuclear energy is too dangerous, but you're willing to threaten a nuclear war power for oil for your energy, you've missed the plot.

00:40:40.000 Don't see the problem.

00:40:41.000 Nuclear power is less dangerous.

00:40:42.000 It's safer than attacking Russia. 0.91

00:40:45.000 I gotta give, we gotta give an honorable mention to Ian for this next segment.

00:40:48.000 The Guardian reports, Kiev is furious as EU waivers on banning Russia from the SWIFT payment system.

00:40:54.000 Now, before we get into everything, I just want to point this out.

00:40:57.000 If you guys, you know, there's a lot of people that are like, oh, World War III, it's clickbait, it's not gonna happen.

00:41:02.000 The SWIFT payment system.

00:41:04.000 It's the International Monetary International Banking System.

00:41:07.000 ACH payments, bank transfers.

00:41:09.000 It's how trade is done.

00:41:11.000 If Russia gets booted, because this is what's happening. 0.88

00:41:13.000 Kiev is furious.

00:41:14.000 They say, we want it to happen, but their members of EU, like Germany, they're saying, we don't want to do it.

00:41:18.000 Boris Johnson is saying, do it, boot Russia from SWIFT.

00:41:22.000 This would mean Russia can't use banks anymore outside of the country.

00:41:26.000 It cuts them off financially.

00:41:28.000 Do you think China says, sorry, Russia can't help you. Or do you think China

00:41:32.000 says we'll facilitate the trade for you?

00:41:35.000 Do you think Russia says, Oh no, I guess we've lost. And now everything is done. Or do you think

00:41:39.000 Russia says you want a war? We'll give you one cutting them off from the financial system. 0.85

00:41:44.000 Look, the only thing it will do is push Russia further away and give them less of a reason to 0.95

00:41:51.000 actually negotiate on any of this stuff. And I see blue checks.

00:41:56.000 I see high-profile Democrat personalities and never-Trump or neocon types being like, yeah, we should do this.

00:42:02.000 Yeah, yeah, shut it down.

00:42:03.000 And I'm like, okay, give Russia nothing left to lose. 0.87

00:42:06.000 Do it.

00:42:07.000 And then see how they respond.

00:42:08.000 Fortunately, from the Washington Examiner, 50 minutes ago, Biden declines to cut Russia from SWIFT payments.

00:42:14.000 No, no, that's from today's sanctions.

00:42:16.000 There's going to be a meeting, I believe, tomorrow.

00:42:18.000 So Biden today said, we're only going to sanction some of their biggest banks.

00:42:23.000 We are not going to be cutting them off from SWIFT.

00:42:26.000 This does not mean they won't in the future.

00:42:28.000 That sounds like a baby step to me.

00:42:31.000 Saying your four largest banks are being cut off.

00:42:33.000 It's saying, be prepared.

00:42:35.000 We're going to shut down your entire financial system coming soon. 0.92

00:42:38.000 So crazy.

00:42:38.000 And then you see him shutting off the bank accounts of the Canadian people.

00:42:41.000 Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, has shut off three, according to Tulsi Gabbard, three of the largest television stations in prison.

00:42:48.000 Like, this is Western democracy doing these things.

00:42:51.000 Threatening to shut off economies.

00:42:53.000 We're not the good guys.

00:42:55.000 No, no, no, no.

00:42:55.000 Maybe we're not the good guys.

00:42:57.000 War, war, war ain't no thing.

00:42:58.000 No, nobody's a good guy in war.

00:43:00.000 War is not a walk in the park.

00:43:01.000 During World War II, we had an office of censorship.

00:43:04.000 The U.S.

00:43:05.000 had a department of censorship.

00:43:08.000 The Germans had the Minister of Propaganda, Goebbels.

00:43:11.000 Yo, we had internment camps for the Japanese in the United States.

00:43:15.000 They don't teach that too often anymore.

00:43:18.000 They browse right over that in U.S.

00:43:21.000 history 1 and 2 in high school now.

00:43:23.000 What, internment camps?

00:43:24.000 Not for me!

00:43:25.000 Well, now, I mean.

00:43:27.000 You know that these days?

00:43:28.000 Yeah.

00:43:29.000 I mean, history history class has gotten watered down tremendously since, you know, since the

00:43:33.000 time that we were in school.

00:43:34.000 We should know more.

00:43:35.000 I mean, that's that's something that's really important, because, again, it's it's if we

00:43:38.000 are going to be the country that says you are wrong, you can't do this.

00:43:44.000 We need to start working on our BS too.

00:43:47.000 And like Tim was saying, in war, you know, how things change, maybe there was some value to interning the Japanese that may have been Japanese spies.

00:43:54.000 Who knows?

00:43:55.000 If we hadn't interned the Japanese, maybe there would have been an overthrow. 1.00

00:43:58.000 That was the initial reasoning for it.

00:44:00.000 But it was like Japanese citizens, civilians, like expats, people that didn't deserve to be imprisoned were being interned.

00:44:05.000 Yeah, there's a lot of collateral damage when you do something as sweeping as that.

00:44:09.000 So you talk a lot, Ian, about the swift payment system.

00:44:13.000 Tell me your ideas on the SWIFT payment system.

00:44:15.000 It's like a global... I don't know who created it or where exactly.

00:44:18.000 I imagine it has to do with the Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland.

00:44:22.000 But it's like a company... It actually goes through the Bank of Belgium.

00:44:25.000 Wild.

00:44:26.000 I think like 11,000 banks.

00:44:27.000 Alright.

00:44:27.000 11,000 banks, 200 countries around the world.

00:44:32.000 And it moves through the Bank of Belgium.

00:44:34.000 The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, SWIFT.

00:44:39.000 It was founded in 1973, 48 years ago.

00:44:43.000 La Hulp, is that how you pronounce it?

00:44:44.000 Belgium.

00:44:46.000 It handles basically all... I'm sorry, it says around half of all high-value cross-border payments worldwide use the SWIFT network.

00:44:54.000 Does it have any figure as to the dollar amount of the transactions that go through that type of...

00:45:00.000 It says 32... I'm sure it's staggering.

00:45:03.000 32 million messages per day.

00:45:04.000 So... So it's a message, a transaction?

00:45:07.000 A transaction.

00:45:08.000 I would imagine.

00:45:09.000 32 million, okay.

00:45:09.000 So that's... You're talking an unconceivable amount of money, probably.

00:45:14.000 Yep.

00:45:14.000 And it's probably dark money, too.

00:45:15.000 I bet a lot of that's under the table.

00:45:17.000 That's the problem with the Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland, where they kind of funnel money through, is there's no oversight, no governmental oversight in the world.

00:45:23.000 It's a private company that's controlling this economy, basically, right now.

00:45:27.000 So, I have a... maybe you'll have some thoughts on this, right?

00:45:31.000 So, say we do kick them out.

00:45:35.000 Right? 0.56

00:45:35.000 We kick them out of SWIFT. 0.56

00:45:37.000 Where does the crypto market come into that?

00:45:39.000 Oh, baby.

00:45:40.000 They'll probably make like Bitcoin.

00:45:41.000 I bought Bitcoin today.

00:45:42.000 Yeah, they'll probably make it their national currency, a crypto.

00:45:44.000 They'll probably create like one or use Bitcoin.

00:45:47.000 Or that's an interesting, what happens with the crypto market then when an entire country says, all right, you'll kick me off of your traditional standard transaction system?

00:45:58.000 Well, We have crypto.

00:46:00.000 That's right.

00:46:00.000 And you can't shut that down.

00:46:03.000 You can't.

00:46:03.000 Russia can just very easily say, we're going to now... Unless you shut off their internet in the entire country, I guess would be the only... That was a threat.

00:46:12.000 The threat from this article.

00:46:13.000 And again, look how quickly that escalates.

00:46:17.000 You could replace the banking ledger with the crypto ledger.

00:46:21.000 You could say, here's what we're going to do.

00:46:23.000 I mean, I'm sure Russia's already working on it.

00:46:24.000 Russia's bought up Bitcoin.

00:46:26.000 They're probably saying, why should we rely on the centralized controlled payment system out of Western Europe?

00:46:33.000 We can just use decentralized crypto to facilitate value exchanges and then have that be the basis for our monetary system in our own country.

00:46:41.000 And again, you have talking from a crypto standpoint, you know, I have a very novice level of understanding of crypto, but they say, OK, we're going to adopt crypto.

00:46:51.000 And then what happens when the entire Russian economy switches to mining crypto?

00:46:55.000 They have the space for it.

00:46:56.000 They have the resources.

00:46:59.000 They could do it up in those really cold Siberian places where it keeps the GPUs cold enough.

00:47:03.000 We're in an interesting place in crypto where we're moving away from proof of work to create the crypto and it's moving towards proof of stake.

00:47:09.000 So like the people that are rich are going to get more rich, but the people that are creating it are not really going to be the ones that make money on it anymore.

00:47:16.000 It's kind of lame that they're doing that, but it's like a rich man's game.

00:47:19.000 Well, it's what happens when government starts getting involved in these things.

00:47:22.000 You know, crypto was, at least from my understanding, the The separation between government oversight and regulation and money.

00:47:31.000 And now we're watching governments adopt it.

00:47:34.000 We may provoke one of the world's largest countries to adopt it.

00:47:40.000 It may be inevitable, actually.

00:47:41.000 I was thinking of the bastion of freedom in the United States that's now invaded and enslaved Iraqis for 20 years.

00:47:47.000 It would be the pressure that would push a country to develop some sort of more free, equitable currency.

00:47:54.000 When I saw the news about, you know, Ukraine saying we want to ban from from SWIFT, Kiev saying we want to ban from SWIFT, when I saw Boris Johnson saying it, I immediately bought Bitcoin.

00:48:05.000 That's just me.

00:48:05.000 Immediately.

00:48:06.000 I'm not giving anybody advice.

00:48:07.000 I bought it.

00:48:08.000 And then right after I did, I was in the dip because it dropped when the chaos happened and then spiked again.

00:48:12.000 And I was in the dip and it spiked.

00:48:13.000 And I was like, all right, that's good for me, I guess.

00:48:15.000 But you know what I'm thinking?

00:48:17.000 If they do ban, look, they're already sanctioning these banks.

00:48:20.000 These banks can already circumvent that by using Bitcoin right now.

00:48:24.000 Yeah.

00:48:24.000 So what does that sanction mean?

00:48:25.000 Sanctions are meaningless.

00:48:27.000 But if they kick them off swift, I think Bitcoin through the roof.

00:48:31.000 Because Russia's going to be like, buy it up. 0.99

00:48:33.000 And what does China do at that point?

00:48:35.000 Buy it up.

00:48:36.000 Oh, yeah.

00:48:37.000 After they've already taken this hard stance against, you know, kind of crypto.

00:48:42.000 I guess they've taken a hard stance against people owning crypto, but I'm sure they have no problem buying it up themselves.

00:48:47.000 No, they do that as a game.

00:48:49.000 They put out these bans so they can strike the price down because people panic and they can buy it back up.

00:48:55.000 I don't know if it will.

00:48:55.000 You know what might happen?

00:48:57.000 We kick Russia off SWIFT. 0.95

00:48:58.000 Russia says, we're going to use Bitcoin to back our transactions and handle our international trade.

00:49:02.000 China says, hey Russia, we're in it with you. 0.77

00:49:05.000 We want your help on Taiwan.

00:49:07.000 Both Russia and China don't like the petrodollar anyway.

00:49:10.000 They say, okay, you don't want to trade oil.

00:49:12.000 You don't want us to get access to your markets.

00:49:14.000 We're going to cut you off from our energy production and we're going to buy in crypto or Bitcoin or other currencies.

00:49:19.000 You can't do nothing about it at this point.

00:49:21.000 It could precipitate the end of the US dollar.

00:49:24.000 Absolutely.

00:49:26.000 We're watching it slowly just decline at this point, but that would be an overnight death to the dollar.

00:49:37.000 Not to mention gas prices already skyrocketing.

00:49:40.000 Four bucks a gallon is coming?

00:49:40.000 What are they saying?

00:49:42.000 We're getting close.

00:49:44.000 Now with the sanctions and the conflict, Russia is going to be pushing back, being like, you don't get our oil.

00:49:47.000 If we can't trade on your systems, we don't give you the oil.

00:49:50.000 We're going to keep it for ourselves.

00:49:51.000 And I bet you Joe Biden doesn't even consider opening our national pipelines.

00:49:55.000 Oh no, he's shutting him down.

00:49:56.000 There was a, he recently, recently there was news, I should try, I'll try and find it in a second, recently issued a ban on producing natural gas in the United States.

00:50:05.000 Another one.

00:50:06.000 I don't know, man.

00:50:06.000 Why?

00:50:09.000 The little Swedish girl.

00:50:10.000 Why, why, no, no, why are they taking- Seriously, green guilt.

00:50:14.000 It's green guilt.

00:50:15.000 It's this hijacked idea.

00:50:15.000 Why are they taking CBP from our southern border to go to Poland The policy is, is to gut this country.

00:50:25.000 Either because they're morons or they're laughing all the way down. 1.00

00:50:28.000 It's gotta be. 1.00

00:50:29.000 I believe the latter.

00:50:30.000 I really do.

00:50:31.000 At this point, you can't be, you know, you hear people all the time. 1.00

00:50:34.000 Oh, Joe Budden, he's so stupid. 1.00

00:50:35.000 And you know, come on. 1.00

00:50:36.000 I don't believe these people are that stupid. 1.00

00:50:38.000 You don't get to that position in life being an idiot. 1.00

00:50:41.000 He's good at following orders. 1.00

00:50:42.000 That's for sure.

00:50:43.000 Sure, but you can't be making this many mistakes. 1.00

00:50:47.000 They've made too many mistakes at this point for it to be stupidity. 1.00

00:50:50.000 Yeah, I think... You're gutting this country from the inside. 0.99

00:50:53.000 I think corporations, including the federal... Just take it one issue at a time.

00:50:58.000 Look at the southern border and work your way up from there.

00:50:59.000 What comes across the southern border?

00:51:01.000 Illegals, you know, people... nobody vetted. 1.00

00:51:04.000 Fentanyl. 0.98

00:51:05.000 The number one killer of the ages between, what, 18 and 35 right now is fentanyl.

00:51:09.000 Where does that come from?

00:51:10.000 It comes from China.

00:51:11.000 You know, look at our supply chain, look at our energy production, look at the value of our dollar.

00:51:15.000 All of these things are moving in the wrong direction, and they are all the result of policy created by our own government.

00:51:24.000 None of these things are happening to us because of outside influence.

00:51:28.000 Yeah, sure, China is shipping drugs, but we have a responsibility to protect our own border.

00:51:32.000 We're not doing any of these things, and all of the problems that we're facing today as a society, as an American society, are self-inflicted.

00:51:41.000 By our own government. 0.98

00:51:42.000 Moving border agents to Poland when we have a clear crisis at the border is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. 0.99

00:51:49.000 How about this one for you? 0.97

00:51:51.000 From AmericanPress.com, Biden halts all new oil and gas leases.

00:51:55.000 From Wednesday, February 23, 2022, reported by the AP, the Biden administration is delaying decisions on all new oil and gas drilling on federal land and other energy-related actions after a federal court blocked the way officials were calculating the real-world cost of climate change.

00:52:09.000 What were you just saying?

00:52:11.000 Green guilt?

00:52:12.000 Green guilt!

00:52:13.000 It's a hijacked idea.

00:52:16.000 Nobody, I don't think at this point, denies the fact that humans have an influence on the climate around them.

00:52:21.000 But this idea that everything we do has to be renewable and this and that, it's a ruse to undermine all of these things that make us fiercely independent.

00:52:35.000 This country can depend on itself.

00:52:37.000 We have everything that we're a unique country.

00:52:41.000 We have everything that we need within our borders to be completely self-reliant and somehow we are not.

00:52:46.000 I think we're missing lithium.

00:52:48.000 We're on the verge.

00:52:50.000 We are facing down full-scale ground war in Europe.

00:52:54.000 Like, there is legitimately a ground war.

00:52:57.000 In Europe right now, the most significant we've seen since World War II.

00:52:59.000 And we're halting oil and gas production domestically.

00:53:01.000 And Biden's like, Oil and gas, we don't need it.

00:53:04.000 That should be something he rubber stamps at this point.

00:53:07.000 Until further notice.

00:53:08.000 You have a conflict on the horizon, ramp up the machines at home and get ready to at least, at the very least, flex your muscles.

00:53:18.000 Biden's gonna look at Joe Biden flexing his muscles and laugh.

00:53:22.000 Excuse me.

00:53:24.000 Biden might be looking in the mirror and laughing.

00:53:27.000 I gotta say something that's probably controversial, you know, and it's gonna make a lot of people angry.

00:53:32.000 No.

00:53:33.000 But Donald Trump was a better president than Joe Biden.

00:53:35.000 But there are no mean tweets.

00:53:37.000 That's right.

00:53:39.000 I thought about it, I thought about it, and I was thinking maybe the mean tweets were worth it.

00:53:44.000 Maybe it was, yeah.

00:53:45.000 Energy independence.

00:53:47.000 There are a lot of things that I disagree with Donald Trump on, but he is unequivocally a better and stronger, and I think stronger is really...

00:53:59.000 in terms of this topic an important characteristic. He is a stronger president. He projects strength

00:54:05.000 in a way that Joe Biden I don't think ever could, nor Kamala Harris or nor really anybody on that

00:54:10.000 roster on that side. I got to get a little real with it. It's not hard to be better than Joe Biden.

00:54:15.000 No, no, no. We're not setting the bar. I thought Trump was great about not falling for this kind

00:54:21.000 of global agenda of corporatization.

00:54:24.000 He got us out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership within two weeks of coming into office.

00:54:27.000 He saw the danger of allowing our citizens to be sued by corporations because they didn't want to discriminate.

00:54:32.000 They didn't want to buy Malaysian oil.

00:54:35.000 We're sovereign citizens.

00:54:36.000 We don't have to bow to a corporation.

00:54:38.000 That was early on World Economic Forum stuff.

00:54:41.000 Um, and I think that what's happening is that there are corporate powers that are putting countries against each other so that they fight and then they can fall apart and be like, Hey, see, national governments don't work anymore.

00:54:54.000 Let us come in and say, I told you guys this before the show, let us come in and save you with our corporate benevolence.

00:55:00.000 I want to follow this story from the AP.

00:55:03.000 Biden halts oil gas leases amid legal fight on climate costs.

00:55:08.000 Russia just invaded, and this is February 22nd.

00:55:13.000 When they were screaming, Russia was going to invade Kiev.

00:55:16.000 We're talking about climate cost.

00:55:17.000 And he was like, well, you know that little Swedish girl yelled at me, so I think, cut off the power.

00:55:23.000 I just, I'm flabbergasted at the people who voted for this man.

00:55:27.000 Even with this stuff.

00:55:28.000 What, what, beyond the headline, because it sounds, it sounds nice to your, you know,

00:55:33.000 to your bleeding heart, you know, social justice warrior.

00:55:36.000 What does climate cost actually mean in, in, in that discussion?

00:55:42.000 I think the assumption is that too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is going to cause a greenhouse effect, which is going to cause superheating.

00:55:49.000 That's the worry.

00:55:50.000 We should be worried about the shorelines disappearing more than we should about a possible European invasion from Russia. 0.61

00:55:59.000 That's the calculus that we're doing.

00:56:01.000 Potential invasions are preeminent and forefront, I think.

00:56:05.000 You should not be focusing on how bad things could get, but how to fix the problem, which is the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

00:56:11.000 I just gotta step in and say, we've got the potential for total nuclear annihilation in the immediate, but we're looking at that clock about climate change.

00:56:21.000 You want to talk about environmental danger?

00:56:22.000 A nuclear bomb going off in the atmosphere?

00:56:24.000 Exactly.

00:56:25.000 It's like 10 million years of this stuff.

00:56:27.000 Those two words are essentially meaningless.

00:56:29.000 Climate cost.

00:56:31.000 It's I'm right meaningless.

00:56:34.000 It's you know, the American military is like the biggest polluter in the world the amount of crap it dumps into the oceans with its Navy is And its army is like it as a core if it was a corporation, it would be the largest polluter on earth I'm sure probably is and and we're we're not even high.

00:56:48.000 We're not even up there on the list of of The people that we're talking about in this discussion, Russia, China, all these are polluters of the world.

00:56:56.000 These are people who don't buy this climate cost nonsense.

00:57:02.000 And granted, China does a lot of things wrong.

00:57:03.000 There's no acceptance of the way that they do things coming from me.

00:57:07.000 But we are worrying about climate cost when these people are worrying about taking over entire countries.

00:57:15.000 It's like what Ben Shapiro was saying.

00:57:16.000 We're like, we're going to sanction you and then you can't use the bank. 0.77

00:57:19.000 And Putin's like, I want to rebuild the empire and I'll kill anyone to get my way. 0.95

00:57:23.000 Exactly.

00:57:24.000 We're not even having the same discussion.

00:57:25.000 But you can't buy that car.

00:57:27.000 We want to make sure there's a bow on it before you do it. 0.97

00:57:29.000 And he's like, smashes the wall out of the way.

00:57:31.000 And it's like, come on.

00:57:32.000 I saw this story.

00:57:33.000 I saw this.

00:57:34.000 I saw this story the other day.

00:57:36.000 And I'm like, my immediate thought process was shut down the show.

00:57:40.000 Shut down all the work we're doing.

00:57:42.000 Tim Cass is over.

00:57:43.000 I'm gonna go buy a coconut, sit back, put my sunglasses on, put my feet up, and be like, it was fun while it lasted.

00:57:50.000 It's time to milk as much time as we got left, because baby, we are going downhill from here.

00:57:54.000 This is absurd.

00:57:56.000 Our priorities are, and again, it's not to say that these things are not important, because I'm not one to just spit into the wind, because that's what you're doing when you're ignoring Uh, the effects that you do have on the climate.

00:58:08.000 However, we need to have some prioritization of, of what is important and what is not important.

00:58:14.000 And, and we're, we've got it seemingly completely upside down.

00:58:18.000 People are going to vote for the Democrats.

00:58:20.000 Just, I'm just, in November, there's going to be a midterm and it's going to be close.

00:58:24.000 The Democrats could even win.

00:58:26.000 I just, I just, if, if you, if you show this article to someone and you're like Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden decides to stop producing oil and gas.

00:58:37.000 I'm just, how are you the party of Vladimir Putin is an existential threat and Trump was colluding with them.

00:58:44.000 And also, let's shut down our energy production.

00:58:47.000 It's like the people who are like, we don't like the government has all the guns.

00:58:50.000 Let's ban all the guns. 1.00

00:58:51.000 Yeah.

00:58:51.000 Except for the government.

00:58:52.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:58:54.000 Well, I'm just, I'm so ready.

00:58:55.000 That's kind of par for the course at this point, you know, coming, coming from that side, you know, it's, it's the, it's the, the movement of doublethink and, and mental gymnastics, because somehow to these people, when they go to the ballot box, it makes sense to them.

00:59:09.000 I'm going to buy a machete and a bunch of coconuts and I'm going to sit downstairs and I'm just going to machete open those coconuts and drop a straw in there and be like, I'm, I'm, I'm done.

00:59:17.000 Well, before you do that, I have to say, I will say that I've not seen the term climate cost before, and that is really interesting to me because it is super vague.

00:59:25.000 It strikes me a little bit as... Yeah, how's that calculated?

00:59:28.000 It strikes me as anti-racism.

00:59:29.000 This is one of the nebulous goals that Black Lives Matter is fighting for.

00:59:34.000 What is climate cost?

00:59:35.000 So if we achieve this goal, what is the goal?

00:59:38.000 Is there an equation?

00:59:39.000 The opportunity cost of loss of like the climate getting hotter?

00:59:43.000 Who's calculating this?

00:59:44.000 Exactly.

00:59:44.000 And they're linear calculations.

00:59:46.000 They're not accounting for change in the progression.

00:59:49.000 So if you develop a new technology that can recover the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into graphene, it dramatically changes the direction of our models.

00:59:59.000 And I think it's been clearly shown, at least to my understanding, that of all the things that we can factor in to climate cost and climate change, we're only accounting for a quarter of the things that actually come into play.

01:00:14.000 So this equation that we're basing domestic policy on is Not a very good one.

01:00:21.000 Yeah.

01:00:21.000 An asteroid could completely annihilate the surface.

01:00:24.000 Yeah.

01:00:24.000 That's climate change.

01:00:25.000 Yeah.

01:00:25.000 It's just, it's, you know, it, again, you, you have to prioritize and this is, this is, this is pure, uh, this is, this is par for the course of what we're seeing.

01:00:34.000 You know, what do, what do we prioritize at home?

01:00:36.000 We're prioritizing, you know, all of these ludicrous agendas.

01:00:40.000 Meanwhile, our country is legitimately falling apart from the inside.

01:00:44.000 I can't imagine that the U.S.

01:00:47.000 can survive something as insane as this.

01:00:49.000 I mean, we're talking about our energy infrastructure, and we're not just talking about that.

01:00:53.000 We're talking about that plus war.

01:00:56.000 When you're a country that cannot put aside, you know, long-term climate goals to deal with present emergencies, existential crises, You're doomed.

01:01:10.000 I mean, it's like the United States is looking at Russia and they're like, we would rather die than pollute the air. 0.62

01:01:18.000 That's essentially what that headline reads.

01:01:22.000 Yeah.

01:01:23.000 It is so strange to me that people who can't ever think past stage one are now thinking so far into the future that they can't look at an actual possible nuclear war and be like, oh, maybe we should put this on the back burner for Maybe a month or two while we figure out.

01:01:36.000 Just a little while.

01:01:37.000 Yeah, just like an actual.

01:01:37.000 Just turn them on until we get this situation under control and then we can resume that less important discussion.

01:01:43.000 Yes, I can't believe that.

01:01:44.000 Yo, I don't know man, what's going to happen?

01:01:46.000 Aliens are going to invade and then force humans.

01:01:48.000 Yes, please.

01:01:49.000 Oh yeah, I think save us.

01:01:49.000 Save us.

01:01:50.000 The solution is meditation, is prayer and meditation.

01:01:54.000 I don't know, I heard.

01:01:55.000 Thoughts for Ukraine?

01:01:57.000 Prayers for Ukraine? 0.94

01:01:57.000 Yeah, and then silent mind. 0.94

01:01:59.000 You do the prayer of healthy or whatever you want to pray and then Absence of thought for as long as you want.

01:02:06.000 Alex Jones told me that if you do DMT, you can speak to the machine elves who will grant you the secrets of the universe. 1.00

01:02:12.000 So maybe they're going to help save all of us from whatever this stupidity is. 0.99

01:02:15.000 I'm trying to find a conventional way to fix it. 1.00

01:02:18.000 It just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse and infected and more black mold.

01:02:23.000 It's got to be some psychoactive solution.

01:02:26.000 No, there's rumors already that they've already been shuffling out prominent, high-profile political figures into bunkers.

01:02:35.000 I don't know if that's true or not.

01:02:38.000 No, no, in the United States.

01:02:38.000 In Ukraine?

01:02:39.000 Okay.

01:02:40.000 Yeah, I don't know if it's true.

01:02:41.000 Trudeau ran away from truckers, so maybe I'm not surprised.

01:02:45.000 Perhaps, but there's rumors going around that some flights have left and they're going to areas with underground bunkers.

01:02:50.000 I don't know if it's true.

01:02:51.000 Maybe it's not true.

01:02:52.000 I hope it's true.

01:02:53.000 If we're literally on the verge of potential chaos, we need our political leaders.

01:02:57.000 War is happening.

01:02:58.000 I know, I hate saying that out loud, but yeah, we do.

01:02:58.000 Do we?

01:03:01.000 We as an American citizen.

01:03:02.000 I'm not talking about our president or anything like that.

01:03:04.000 I'm talking about just prominent, high-profile individuals getting ready for war.

01:03:08.000 And no, if our leaders aren't going to bunkers, it's a good thing.

01:03:10.000 You don't want your king standing out in the field just waving, like, I'm the king!

01:03:14.000 I'm in charge here!

01:03:15.000 I wouldn't mind Joe Biden standing out in the middle of the field right now.

01:03:17.000 At this point, I was wondering, is Kamala Harris a more competent leader? 0.96

01:03:20.000 Could you imagine Joe Biden on horseback, like, leading the charge?

01:03:24.000 No.

01:03:25.000 That'd be cool.

01:03:25.000 Can't.

01:03:26.000 He wouldn't be able to get up.

01:03:26.000 That'd be wild.

01:03:27.000 They tie him to the horse.

01:03:28.000 They used to do that.

01:03:30.000 Weekend at Bernie's.

01:03:31.000 I gotta do this, you guys.

01:03:33.000 I have to talk about this, man. 0.99

01:03:34.000 Oh, the garbage, yes. 1.00

01:03:36.000 The garbage. 1.00

01:03:37.000 I have to talk to you about a man named Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks and I don't want to because he's just a pundit. 0.98

01:03:42.000 But when we're dealing with an internal conflict that is effectively an existential threat, you need to understand the sentiment that exists among some of these individuals on the establishment side.

01:03:53.000 Cenk Uygur tweets, right-wing doesn't love Putin just because he is an authoritarian tyrannical leader.

01:03:59.000 They love him because he's a white authoritarian leader.

01:04:02.000 Race has become more important than even nationality. 0.95

01:04:06.000 They've turned on democracy and now even America in favor of a white warlord. 0.91

01:04:11.000 This may be one of the most insane things I've ever read.

01:04:14.000 Nowhere in these incoherent ramblings was there even a semblance of a thought.

01:04:20.000 Yet this man has millions of followers and does actually have influence over a large portion of the political discourse in this country.

01:04:29.000 Joe Biden is an old white man who is leading the empire of the United States.

01:04:36.000 According to the Young Turks themselves and many of the left, the U.S. 0.60

01:04:39.000 is the empire, is the fascist empire. 0.93

01:04:41.000 So is Joe Biden not a white, tyrannical authoritarian? 0.96

01:04:45.000 Apparently not. 0.93

01:04:45.000 Apparently it's Putin. 0.93

01:04:46.000 But please show me where right-wing individuals are cheering for what Putin is doing.

01:04:52.000 Cenk Uygur highlights Tucker Carlson, saying it proves him right.

01:04:56.000 Because Tucker explained what Putin's mentality was.

01:05:00.000 That's it.

01:05:01.000 And I think that's important to understand.

01:05:02.000 Right.

01:05:03.000 Is it not?

01:05:03.000 It is.

01:05:05.000 When dealing with who is right now your enemy, is it not good to understand the mentality that they have?

01:05:12.000 It's necessary.

01:05:13.000 To perhaps come to some sort of solution.

01:05:15.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:05:19.000 It's this typical rhetoric today where you don't even attempt to understand the other side.

01:05:24.000 This is insane.

01:05:25.000 You just declare that they are wrong and hate them.

01:05:29.000 Yeah, I would like to understand Putin's side.

01:05:31.000 I'm not like, yay, I wish he was my leader, but I think as a general goes, if I was playing a video game and I wanted to put a guy in command of my military, I'd pick him over Biden or Xi Jinping, who both are bureaucrats, This guy's got, like, military experience.

01:05:46.000 He's ex-KGB.

01:05:48.000 He's cold as ice.

01:05:49.000 He doesn't show emotion on his face.

01:05:50.000 He's a good commander.

01:05:52.000 Now, ethically, that's a whole other discussion.

01:05:54.000 And we have different—Russia and the United States come from different places, and we have different ethics and morals.

01:06:00.000 That's another conversation.

01:06:01.000 But I have that appreciation for the guy, for his abilities.

01:06:04.000 But, you know, just bringing it back to what the U.S.

01:06:06.000 is facing.

01:06:07.000 But it's not because he's white and what Cenk Uygur said is completely racist.

01:06:10.000 It's not just that.

01:06:12.000 I don't care.

01:06:13.000 There's no substance here.

01:06:14.000 It doesn't matter the ideas he's trying to convey.

01:06:18.000 What matters is that he's just not well.

01:06:22.000 He's a not well person. 1.00

01:06:23.000 It's white people attacking white people. 0.99

01:06:24.000 It's really disturbing. 0.97

01:06:25.000 You know, what does this have to do with race?

01:06:28.000 This is typical, again, talking about priorities of the American mindset.

01:06:34.000 This is what we're worried about.

01:06:35.000 We're worried about white authoritarian leaders.

01:06:38.000 How about just the fact that people are dying?

01:06:41.000 The Young Turks was a genocidal group of Turks in the early 1900s led by Enver Pasha that basically created the Armenian Genocide.

01:06:48.000 It's basically they did.

01:06:49.000 Why would he name his company the Young Turks?

01:06:52.000 And why won't he change the name?

01:06:53.000 Yeah, check.

01:06:54.000 Dude, why?

01:06:55.000 I just want to know why.

01:06:56.000 It's a cool sounding name, I guess.

01:06:58.000 No, listen.

01:06:58.000 Listen.

01:06:58.000 No.

01:06:59.000 It's because... Look, man.

01:07:01.000 I don't want to be overly reductive.

01:07:03.000 Here's a guy spouting that they love Putin.

01:07:06.000 I certainly don't love Putin.

01:07:07.000 I don't know.

01:07:08.000 So, you know, I'm not going to assume he's talking about me.

01:07:10.000 I'm not right-wing, right?

01:07:11.000 He's not talking about me.

01:07:12.000 I can respect an enemy without being in love with the guy.

01:07:14.000 Cenk calls me right-wing whenever they do segments about me.

01:07:17.000 Certainly, whatever that means, fine.

01:07:19.000 But to imply that I am involved in any kind of love for Putin is psychotic.

01:07:23.000 Cenk Uygur doesn't... I don't think he reads.

01:07:26.000 I don't think he pays attention.

01:07:28.000 And I think he actually... Look, I'm going to come out and say it.

01:07:32.000 He named his organization the Young Turks, a genocidal group of people. 0.74

01:07:37.000 He even denied the existence of the Armenian genocide until I think like 10 years ago or something like that.

01:07:43.000 So even while he had the Young Turks, he's like, it never happened or something like that.

01:07:46.000 And then he apologizes for it.

01:07:47.000 I can respect the apology for it 100%.

01:07:49.000 Bro, change the name of your organization.

01:07:51.000 It's like, this is something that comes up all the time.

01:07:54.000 But this dude has the nerve to come out and claim the right loves Putin because he's an authoritarian tyrannical leader.

01:07:58.000 Dude literally names his organization after people who carried out a genocide and refuses, refuses to change its name.

01:08:06.000 Dude, don't get your moral lessons from these people.

01:08:09.000 This tweet should be enough to know this dude's lost his mind.

01:08:12.000 And this is coming from the authoritarian left.

01:08:14.000 I mean, These are the same people that champion Antifa, you know, and exactly.

01:08:22.000 It's such cognitive dissonance.

01:08:23.000 They're talking about authoritarian leaders.

01:08:25.000 What have we been experiencing over the past two years with mandates?

01:08:30.000 These people have championed rule by mandate sort of governing.

01:08:34.000 Rule by decree.

01:08:35.000 Does Cenk support that?

01:08:37.000 I haven't really followed that.

01:08:38.000 He doesn't talk highly of Antifa.

01:08:40.000 Well, I would go ahead and bet heavily.

01:08:42.000 I would do.

01:08:43.000 Yeah, I would go ahead and bet heavily that he was pro lockdown, that he was

01:08:47.000 probably pro vaccine mandate and all of that.

01:08:51.000 And if I'm if I'm wrong, correct me.

01:08:53.000 But coming from that portion of the left, these are people that love, love big government.

01:09:00.000 Look at this tweet he's got.

01:09:01.000 When it caters to them.

01:09:02.000 You know, look, I hate to talk about him because he needs this kind of attention.

01:09:06.000 He doesn't nearly get as much attention as he used to or whatever.

01:09:09.000 He says, I'm sure the fake left in America, Tulsi Gabbard, etc., who are still pretending to be progressive, are livid about this attack on civil rights, let alone Putin's unmitigated imperialism.

01:09:18.000 I'm sure those pundits and award-winning journalists are speaking out forcefully, right?

01:09:23.000 Yes, Russia arresting protesters is wrong.

01:09:27.000 100%.

01:09:28.000 What world does this man live in or his followers that they think the right likes Putin because he's a white tyrannical leader and that they're happy he's arresting people?

01:09:38.000 This is a fabricated reality.

01:09:39.000 It doesn't exist.

01:09:39.000 Yeah, where where where's the evidence that that that thought even has been put out there by anybody credible that represents the right?

01:09:47.000 I really don't like assumptions in general.

01:09:50.000 I mean, that's just one of those things where it's like, at least show me a tweet from somebody who's got as many followers as you do that has that has said like, yeah, Putin, go get them.

01:09:59.000 Exactly.

01:09:59.000 It's I mean, it's these people love creating enemies where there there is none and boogeyman's where there are none.

01:10:06.000 It's The weird thing is, it's like you said, these people.

01:10:10.000 Cenk changed.

01:10:11.000 He's the same guy, but different behavior.

01:10:14.000 He used to be real anti-war.

01:10:15.000 Right now, he'd be talking about Iraq if it was 2007, and how we are the reason that other countries are invading. 0.99

01:10:22.000 I know he knows that, but to get hung up on this crap, man. 0.99

01:10:27.000 And he's just doubled down and gone crazy with it. 1.00

01:10:29.000 Cenk, come back to me, baby. 1.00

01:10:32.000 Obviously what he said was insane.

01:10:34.000 Obviously the right is not cheering for protesters being arrested who are opposing this.

01:10:39.000 Obviously they're not out there supporting Putin.

01:10:41.000 He's trying to make it seem like because Tucker Carlson says that Putin does not like Western influence in Ukraine, here's the perspective, that it's support of Putin.

01:10:49.000 But then what happens is a bunch of other American establishment left personalities defend his insane idea for tribal reasons.

01:10:57.000 Because the right now mocks Cenk Uygur, they're gonna come out and be like, he's right, it's a fact now.

01:11:02.000 His psychotic statement is now a fact among these leftists.

01:11:06.000 The battle of cult worship.

01:11:07.000 And ignoring the fact that what Tucker Carlson is saying is a mere fact.

01:11:14.000 Talking about the fact that Vladimir Putin is hostile towards Western European influence is a fact.

01:11:21.000 That's not a supporting statement of any kind.

01:11:24.000 There's no emotion in that statement.

01:11:26.000 That is a black and white fact.

01:11:27.000 They said he echoed Putin's talking points.

01:11:30.000 He literally told his audience what Putin said.

01:11:32.000 He's educating.

01:11:33.000 Oh yeah.

01:11:34.000 It's amazing.

01:11:34.000 Putin's job is to echo talking points, I believe.

01:11:37.000 Putin says that the Ukrainian administration is a Western puppet.

01:11:42.000 And then Tucker Carlson on his show says, Vladimir Putin views Ukraine as a Western puppet.

01:11:50.000 In 2014, you know, the ousting of Yanukovych, and they're like, he's echoing his talking points.

01:11:54.000 Well, how else is he supposed to tell people what's happening in that country?

01:11:56.000 I feel like this is a step further on the removing the context thing, like what they did with Joe Rogan.

01:12:02.000 He said the N-word, supposedly, whatever.

01:12:05.000 They completely removed all context.

01:12:06.000 He made it seem like he was insulting someone.

01:12:08.000 So now what they do with Tucker is say he's echoing his talking points just by saying that this is what he said.

01:12:12.000 He's reporting the news.

01:12:14.000 He's telling his audience.

01:12:14.000 He's a journalist.

01:12:15.000 Exactly.

01:12:16.000 He actually is a journalist.

01:12:17.000 In fact, that's misleading.

01:12:18.000 Telling someone someone's talking points is different than echoing them.

01:12:20.000 Exactly.

01:12:21.000 Echoing them as claiming that you agree with it and you're repeating it.

01:12:24.000 Exactly.

01:12:25.000 Echoing would be like, yeah, and I think that's really bad too.

01:12:28.000 I'll put it this way.

01:12:29.000 The way Tucker explained what was going on, he spoke factually, but it was very much...

01:12:37.000 There's certain things that are happening in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin has stated, which are easy facts.

01:12:43.000 Simply by saying, here's a fact of something that happened in Ukraine.

01:12:47.000 The issue is U.S. 0.65

01:12:49.000 corporate press lies.

01:12:50.000 They lied about Joe Biden.

01:12:52.000 They lied about Joe Biden as quid pro quo.

01:12:55.000 And if you tell the truth on that, you're echoing Putin.

01:12:58.000 Joe Biden absolutely engaged in illegal quid pro quo.

01:13:01.000 You're talking about his charisma?

01:13:02.000 And Vladimir Putin sees that and he says, So the prosecutor in the administration is fired because Biden threatened to take away illegally, mind you, aid from the United States?

01:13:18.000 It's so obviously an American puppet, that country. 0.96

01:13:22.000 Well, you're echoing Putin now.

01:13:24.000 That Zelensky guy.

01:13:25.000 See how that works?

01:13:26.000 Now, just by observing corruption, you are now in support of Russian agendas.

01:13:34.000 Technically, I said it first, so the Russian agendas are in support of me because it was my idea.

01:13:38.000 I saw it coming two years ago, and I claimed it then.

01:13:42.000 This Zelensky stuff is not... Dude, Biden goes in there.

01:13:46.000 He basically, I don't know what you would call, browbeated the president to fire a guy that was examining a company that his son was on the board of.

01:13:55.000 So the president fired the guy.

01:13:57.000 And then when Biden, that was when Biden was a VP, when he left office after Trump gets in, the guy comes back.

01:14:02.000 He bragged about it.

01:14:03.000 He bragged about it on stage.

01:14:04.000 Yeah.

01:14:05.000 We've talked about this so many times, which is so important to understand.

01:14:08.000 But a video of him doing it!

01:14:09.000 If you say that, then you're echoing, you know, Russian propaganda.

01:14:14.000 I want to, I want to now get into sort of the, um, what's the right word?

01:14:18.000 Irreverence of the psychosis here.

01:14:20.000 We have this story.

01:14:21.000 I don't, I don't know what this is.

01:14:23.000 Sismacht?

01:14:23.000 Actress?

01:14:24.000 Oh, actress is mocked. 1.00

01:14:26.000 Geez, proofread your headlines.

01:14:27.000 For uploading a video of herself reading a self-penned poem saying she wishes she'd been Putin's mom so she could have hugged him to stop him turning into a warmonger.

01:14:37.000 Actress Anna Lynn McCord, 34, posted a bizarre poem online Thursday about her desire to be Putin's mother.

01:14:43.000 Putin 69 ordered a full scale invasion of Ukraine.

01:14:47.000 Can I do they have this?

01:14:48.000 Let's play it because it.

01:14:50.000 Oh, wait, I got to turn the sound on, don't I?

01:14:51.000 Yeah.

01:14:52.000 Okay.

01:14:52.000 We got this.

01:14:53.000 This is going to be you guys ready for this one?

01:14:54.000 It's still muted.

01:14:56.000 Okay, here we go.

01:14:57.000 Dear president Vladimir Putin.

01:15:00.000 I'm so sorry that I was not your mother.

01:15:03.000 That was when I paused at the first time.

01:15:07.000 What?

01:15:07.000 Oh, come on.

01:15:07.000 The stupid thing's not working.

01:15:09.000 I was like, this is cringe. 1.00

01:15:10.000 It's really quiet anyway.

01:15:11.000 So cringe.

01:15:12.000 All right, is it gonna work now?

01:15:14.000 Never would the story's plight the world unfurled before our eyes, a pure demise of nations sitting peaceful under a night sky.

01:15:22.000 All right, all right.

01:15:23.000 We're not gonna listen to this.

01:15:23.000 The problem I have with that is it wasn't genuine.

01:15:27.000 She wasn't saying it.

01:15:28.000 She was just reading a poem with, like, cadence to it.

01:15:31.000 It didn't sound like she actually meant it.

01:15:34.000 I was gonna say, like... That's unbearably cringe.

01:15:37.000 Something is... We have a malignancy in this country of vapid shells of people who do things like this.

01:15:47.000 Where they're like, I don't know about Ukraine.

01:15:50.000 I don't care about Russia. 0.87

01:15:51.000 I heard the name Putin in the news.

01:15:53.000 Let me make a video.

01:15:55.000 You know what?

01:15:56.000 Social media was a mistake.

01:15:57.000 Yep.

01:15:57.000 There are just some people that shouldn't be allowed to post.

01:16:00.000 Yep.

01:16:00.000 I am kidding, by the way.

01:16:01.000 That's a joke.

01:16:02.000 They should be censored.

01:16:04.000 All right.

01:16:04.000 Maybe minors shouldn't be able to post.

01:16:06.000 I don't know.

01:16:06.000 She's 34, Ian!

01:16:07.000 She should know better.

01:16:09.000 You look at this.

01:16:10.000 She's half the age of Putin.

01:16:11.000 You look at this and it's...

01:16:15.000 It's so absurd you don't even know what to start with.

01:16:19.000 Who is this Hollywood actress and what does she have to do or what does she know about... 1.00

01:16:25.000 90210, man.

01:16:25.000 Come on.

01:16:26.000 Don't you know?

01:16:26.000 And what does this poem help?

01:16:28.000 I mean, this is this is typical, like America, like the toxic American culture where we think like, you know, if enough hearts bleed and we, you know, and we shed enough tears and hashtag hard enough, like we're going to solve world problems like like this is going to come across Vladimir Putin's desk and a tear is going to like, yeah, just a single tear is going to just drop from his like stone stature.

01:16:53.000 And you know what he's going to say?

01:16:55.000 Let's pull back.

01:16:55.000 He's gonna slam the table And I too wish you were my mother I think this this reminds me of There's this like kind of idea like oh If I go back and help Hitler when he was a baby and I give him the kindness he needed to become an artist Maybe you wouldn't have become a psychoactive psychoactive psychological dictator, but I think that's this idea like drugs though Yeah, he was all on amphetamines not stop.

01:17:19.000 Yeah Just shell shocked from World War One destroyed mind.

01:17:22.000 This girl, I think, is doing that with Putin.

01:17:24.000 She's like, oh, if I could have if somehow I could have reached his inner child, that maybe he wouldn't be so vile.

01:17:29.000 No, I'm very cynical about this.

01:17:31.000 Have you guys ever heard of this lady's name before in your life?

01:17:33.000 No, no, no, no.

01:17:35.000 This person never heard of this lady.

01:17:36.000 No.

01:17:36.000 Yeah, I haven't either.

01:17:37.000 Until today.

01:17:38.000 Hey.

01:17:38.000 Look, she's getting it says she was on 90210.

01:17:40.000 So I guess that makes her somewhat credible.

01:17:42.000 Yeah, I mean, she's got like 200,000 followers.

01:17:45.000 I would imagine right the 90210 reboot.

01:17:47.000 Yeah, I know the original I was your mother you would have been so loved.

01:17:53.000 Oh man, we are, we are.

01:17:55.000 So they're, they're trying, this is like, this is, uh, this is American, you know, uh, toxic culture trying or Hollywood culture trying to tie this to like toxic masculinity in some way. 0.98

01:18:05.000 We're a silly people. 0.97

01:18:06.000 And again, look at our priorities. 0.99

01:18:08.000 We're like Putin, like, you know, if you just had a mother, it would be okay.

01:18:12.000 And it's like, let's not talk about like Look at any of the other factors in this.

01:18:18.000 His mom's like, look at this.

01:18:21.000 Hold on, hold on.

01:18:22.000 There's a picture.

01:18:22.000 They say, although McCord blames the family matriarch, Putin's mother, Maria Shalimova, has been characterized by others as a kind factory worker who secretly baptized him.

01:18:34.000 Could you imagine, you know, if anything, you know what's going to happen?

01:18:37.000 Putin's going to be like, what'd you say about my mom?

01:18:41.000 I understand wanting to emotionally connect with Vladimir Putin right now, and you have the technology to do it, so you may as well try, but don't read a script, man.

01:18:49.000 A poem that you wrote that you're... Come on, do it genuinely if you're gonna do it, otherwise you're just burning the ground you walk on.

01:18:57.000 It's just, there's so much insanity.

01:18:58.000 This isn't the only insane thing. 0.97

01:19:00.000 There's this post from a lady and she's like, the only reason that Putin's allowed to wage war is because he's white.

01:19:06.000 I was just trying to find that as we were reading this other headline. 0.97

01:19:09.000 If a black or brown man had invaded Ukraine, it would have been swiftly dealt with. 1.00

01:19:13.000 And it's like, what? 0.94

01:19:14.000 It would have been allowed, they said.

01:19:16.000 It wouldn't have been allowed.

01:19:17.000 Allowed.

01:19:17.000 Like, none of this is allowed.

01:19:19.000 And again, that goes to the, it just goes to highlight how little these people actually understand The gravity and the severity of the situation that is unfolding right before our eyes.

01:19:32.000 These people vote.

01:19:33.000 That's scary.

01:19:34.000 It is.

01:19:35.000 It's very scary.

01:19:36.000 And I think it was Thomas Edison that said the greatest threat to a democracy is an uneducated public.

01:19:43.000 And we are looking at millions of them at this point.

01:19:46.000 Oh man.

01:19:47.000 Zombie hordes.

01:19:48.000 You know, people who vote with their emotions.

01:19:50.000 You know, I'm quite certain that this woman went out and probably voted against Trump because she thought his tweets were mean.

01:19:56.000 Yep, that's exactly it.

01:19:58.000 That's a good point.

01:19:59.000 This story of this woman saying, if I was your mother, you'd have been so helped. 1.00

01:20:03.000 It shows the stupidity, the ignorance. 1.00

01:20:07.000 And I would bet a large sum of money she voted Joe Biden. 1.00

01:20:10.000 Oh, for sure.

01:20:11.000 Yeah, I would absolutely bet that.

01:20:15.000 I do.

01:20:15.000 I cannot imagine.

01:20:16.000 I mean, who knows?

01:20:16.000 Maybe she, she, she voted for Trump.

01:20:18.000 I really doubt it.

01:20:19.000 It's crazy.

01:20:20.000 You know, you see these people and they say things like, well, it's a good thing Trump's not president.

01:20:25.000 And I'm like, but it's bad.

01:20:27.000 Like the bad thing happened.

01:20:31.000 All of the things that you said were going to happen under Trump are happening right now.

01:20:35.000 The bad things didn't happen under Trump.

01:20:36.000 Exactly.

01:20:36.000 They're all happening now.

01:20:38.000 It's remarkable that they're like, well, if Trump was president, everything would be a whole lot worse.

01:20:43.000 And it's like, but it wasn't.

01:20:44.000 You had him as president.

01:20:45.000 The economy was great.

01:20:46.000 Putin didn't invade Ukraine.

01:20:48.000 Biden gets in and then he does within a year.

01:20:50.000 And you think the issue is Putin would have done it anyway.

01:20:53.000 And it would have been worse with Trump.

01:20:56.000 Alright, man.

01:20:57.000 Some people are just lost.

01:20:58.000 No, I don't think you can even start to reason with that because that's... that's that.

01:21:03.000 They have already made up their mind, and anything you throw is going to lead them back to their original conclusion no matter what.

01:21:10.000 Yeah.

01:21:10.000 And it comes from just a genuine lack of understanding, I think, to the severity of the situation.

01:21:16.000 And Lydia, what you were saying earlier about how the less people understood where Ukraine was, the more they wanted intervention.

01:21:25.000 I guarantee that if you put a globe in front of this young lady here, that she will not be able to find Ukraine. 0.96

01:21:31.000 At all.

01:21:32.000 It's kind of crazy.

01:21:32.000 Probably five guesses, and she probably still would not be able to get it.

01:21:36.000 You could play Wordle with her and say, guess the letters, and she still would be like, what's Ukraine?

01:21:42.000 It's like, it's pronounced Ukraine.

01:21:45.000 Huh.

01:21:47.000 I thought it was U-C-R-A-N-E. 1.00

01:21:48.000 Oh my gosh.

01:21:50.000 Close, but not quite.

01:21:52.000 This is why I'm talking about just buying all those coconuts and sitting back and just macheting them, macheting them open and see that straw in there and just sit back.

01:21:59.000 I remember the good old days.

01:22:00.000 I went to Rio once.

01:22:01.000 Dollar, it's like a buck for a coconut. 0.61

01:22:03.000 Givers are everywhere.

01:22:04.000 You sit on the beach, you walk right out of your hotel and you sit on the beach and you just get a coconut.

01:22:07.000 Right in Copacabana right there.

01:22:08.000 Have you ever been?

01:22:09.000 Yes.

01:22:10.000 Oh, it's amazing.

01:22:10.000 I went during Carnival.

01:22:12.000 Yes.

01:22:12.000 And they got snacks and food and street food and meat on a stick right in the street.

01:22:18.000 Yep.

01:22:18.000 Yeah.

01:22:18.000 It's good living.

01:22:19.000 That's what I'm thinking about.

01:22:22.000 Well, uh, I do have a Brazilian visa.

01:22:24.000 I'm just thinking, you know, as it all comes crumbling down, maybe, maybe we should spend time with our loved ones and smile.

01:22:30.000 And, uh, it's like, have you seen the movie?

01:22:32.000 Don't look up at the end when they're all at the table holding hands.

01:22:35.000 And it's like the world's about to end.

01:22:36.000 I'm like, that's kind of how I feel right now.

01:22:38.000 I know I feel very I made a video last night that I didn't end up uploading because it was so it got so dark like I I want to believe that We're better than animals, but we're just animals.

01:22:52.000 Someone superchatted, she was trying to kill Putin by getting him to die laughing. 0.54

01:22:57.000 Could you imagine if, like, this story comes out that Putin had a stroke, and then, like, there's a photo of him on the ground confirming it, and on his phone is a picture of the woman and a big smile on his face?

01:23:09.000 And then someone's like, I think he laughed himself into a stroke and died.

01:23:13.000 The war is over.

01:23:14.000 I think this woman stopped World War III.

01:23:16.000 She actually did it.

01:23:19.000 All it took was one poem.

01:23:21.000 You know, I wanted to ask you, Ian, about Attila's Gym a little bit before we go to Super Chats.

01:23:25.000 You guys down?

01:23:26.000 I don't know.

01:23:27.000 We haven't talked about it really.

01:23:28.000 Well, we should.

01:23:30.000 I want to briefly mention just a little bit just what's going on with Taiwan and then it'll be 30 seconds.

01:23:36.000 So we didn't talk about it all too much, but I just want to make sure we squeeze this in a little bit.

01:23:41.000 Fox News reports Taiwan warrants Chinese aircraft flying in air defense zone day of Russia-Ukraine invasion.

01:23:48.000 This is just China being like, you know, we're going to whip it out. 1.00

01:23:53.000 We're going to flap it around because we can.

01:23:54.000 The U.S.

01:23:56.000 is in a rough spot.

01:23:57.000 You're totally distracted.

01:24:00.000 They do this.

01:24:00.000 They do it often, the pressing on Taiwan.

01:24:03.000 But I think this is, um, man, you know, in all seriousness, we could talk about this lady being crazy, but there's there's. 0.74

01:24:12.000 I'm worried about what's going to what's what's coming, you know what I mean?

01:24:14.000 Well, we get for invading Iraq and not not getting our government out of there, man. 0.94

01:24:18.000 Well, it goes goes right along with with what we said earlier.

01:24:22.000 You know, what do you do?

01:24:23.000 Do you step in and you step into Ukraine?

01:24:26.000 Right.

01:24:26.000 Do we?

01:24:28.000 Do we commit X amount of troops there, right?

01:24:31.000 Just walk through it.

01:24:32.000 You say you put 50,000 troops there, okay?

01:24:35.000 Then what happens when the Chinese say, okay, well, we see you have 50,000 troops in Ukraine, and we're gonna put 100,000 on Taiwan?

01:24:47.000 What's America's next step in that situation?

01:24:49.000 And how far do our alliances and entanglements go before we say this is not going to end well for anybody, and we're going to step out of this.

01:25:01.000 But at the same time, how do you just let these things happen?

01:25:06.000 If we're taking our border protection off our own border to go to Poland, China knows we are spread too thin.

01:25:12.000 We've already gone too far.

01:25:14.000 I would read that exactly the same way if I was in charge of the Chinese military.

01:25:19.000 Yeah, America's in disarray right now, thank God.

01:25:22.000 But let's find a couple minutes talking about Attilis.

01:25:25.000 Well, the thing about Taiwan, the last thing I'll say is, in a war game scenario, what do you do with Taiwan if it's invaded?

01:25:32.000 Do you level it to the ground like scorched earth and like no one can have it?

01:25:35.000 This is where you make 60% of the world's microchips or processing, like computer software.

01:25:41.000 You can't give that to your enemy in a war scenario.

01:25:43.000 You can't.

01:25:44.000 So it's like blowing up a factory that makes the atom bomb before they take it over.

01:25:48.000 You can't let them have that factory.

01:25:50.000 But I've never been to Taiwan.

01:25:51.000 I don't know the scope and scale of leveling the island to the ground.

01:25:53.000 Why would we do that?

01:25:54.000 Because if you allow the Chinese to take control of the production... You'd be killing millions of people. 1.00

01:25:59.000 No, no, they would do it systematically before they left the island.

01:26:01.000 They would blow up all the infrastructure.

01:26:02.000 The Chinese aren't going to let anybody off that island. 1.00

01:26:04.000 Bro, millions of people aren't going to blow up their own, you know, homeland and flee.

01:26:07.000 That's a lose-lose situation.

01:26:11.000 And the Chinese probably know that.

01:26:13.000 The Chinese probably know that if they step into Taiwan, it is a lose-lose scenario for the American military.

01:26:22.000 What is it going to take to defend Taiwan?

01:26:25.000 It would take probably a full-scale war.

01:26:28.000 And that becomes a game of chicken.

01:26:31.000 China says, hey, we're going to do it. 0.98

01:26:34.000 Yeah.

01:26:34.000 And we say, no, you better not.

01:26:36.000 Well, we're going to do it.

01:26:38.000 Your border patrol agents are over in Ukraine right now.

01:26:40.000 You're helpless.

01:26:41.000 Yeah.

01:26:42.000 How strong are you?

01:26:44.000 You know, and if if you're somebody like Taiwan, who is on an aggressive footing. 0.99

01:26:50.000 And you're looking at Joe Biden.

01:26:52.000 In the way he's handled everything so far, I'm going to call your bluff.

01:26:58.000 And if that's something that I wanted to do, I wouldn't look at the United States right now as a credible threat to stopping.

01:27:05.000 The Chinese said it straight to, I think it was Anthony Blinken.

01:27:08.000 They said the U.S.

01:27:08.000 is not coming from a position of strength.

01:27:11.000 Yeah.

01:27:12.000 You know what I was thinking when we were talking about this stuff with the Soviet Union and the United States?

01:27:16.000 You've got these two jocks on the playground fighting each other, and there's some fat Asian kid, chubby kid in the corner, who's not part of the fight or anything. 0.97

01:27:24.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:27:25.000 Everyone's older and going to high school and they see the kid for the first time

01:27:27.000 and he's six foot tall and super ripped and he's like, get out of my way.

01:27:30.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:27:31.000 And now the fight between, you know, the Russian kid and the American kid 0.80

01:27:34.000 is getting interesting because the ripped Asian kid is walking up to the Russian guy like, 0.99

01:27:38.000 I got your back, bro.

01:27:39.000 It's like, oh, yeah.

01:27:41.000 The Russian guy's like, I'm going to pick you first. 1.00

01:27:42.000 And the Chinese guy's like, no, I'm going to pick you first. 1.00

01:27:46.000 Get it?

01:27:46.000 They want to be the leader.

01:27:47.000 They want to be the team captain.

01:27:49.000 Somebody mentioned that it's called the dragon bear.

01:27:52.000 China and Russia.

01:27:54.000 The dragon bear.

01:27:55.000 It's a horrifying creature.

01:27:56.000 So, like, World War III is what? 0.99

01:27:58.000 The silly nannies versus the dragon bears? 0.96

01:28:00.000 No, it would be corporations versus... I don't think none of those countries... McDonald's? 0.99

01:28:04.000 Nobody really wants it except the corporate drones.

01:28:07.000 Like, they don't care.

01:28:08.000 And I mean literally, physical drones, mechanical drones, they don't have any feelings.

01:28:12.000 And then the people that are locked into the corporate media, they don't care because their emotions are drained.

01:28:17.000 Well, we saw... I don't know if you guys saw the CNN clip where they're...

01:28:22.000 Yes.

01:28:23.000 Which one?

01:28:24.000 So there's literal bombing.

01:28:28.000 Oh, that's right.

01:28:29.000 The air raid sirens.

01:28:29.000 I mean, if, if there's not, if there's not more of a dude, if you've ever seen the movie idiocracy, I mean, that is like, you're like, wow, we are, we are live in part two.

01:28:40.000 Like they are posted.

01:28:41.000 They're putting Applebee's five for five, you know, uh, happy hour deals.

01:28:46.000 It's the most right over top of.

01:28:49.000 Literal bombing footage.

01:28:50.000 This is great.

01:28:51.000 And in the worst way.

01:28:52.000 This is not great.

01:28:53.000 There it is, yeah, right there.

01:28:54.000 You guys ready?

01:28:55.000 Wait, wait, I'm gonna start it over.

01:28:56.000 This is from CNN.

01:28:57.000 Here we go, here we go.

01:28:58.000 19 seconds long.

01:29:11.000 I'm gonna go get my stuff.

01:29:12.000 No beer on a Friday night.

01:29:15.000 Apparently something just happened.

01:29:19.000 I gotta admit though, the air raid sirens lead up very well to the start of that song.

01:29:24.000 Then they drop the beat.

01:29:25.000 And then when I heard it, I was like, I'm watching these air raid sirens and I'm like, this is the end.

01:29:31.000 But a cold beer on a Friday night sounds pretty good.

01:29:34.000 And most Americans probably had a similar experience to that, terrifyingly.

01:29:38.000 It's like war, brought to you by Applebee's.

01:29:41.000 Oh, war till Friday, then I get to have my beer and my chicken wings.

01:29:44.000 Like, dude, why would they?

01:29:46.000 You know someone pressed the button?

01:29:48.000 Yeah.

01:29:48.000 Like, so when we do live stream, there's a button on YouTube where I can turn an ad on.

01:29:52.000 We never do it, but you can click it and then, you know, a certain amount of people who are watching see an ad.

01:29:57.000 It's pointless to do.

01:29:59.000 Someone at CNN.

01:29:59.000 It was like, now.

01:30:01.000 It's my last day.

01:30:05.000 Here I go.

01:30:06.000 No, they were probably like, they were like, this kind of, this kind of jams.

01:30:10.000 Yeah.

01:30:11.000 I love this song.

01:30:12.000 They're like, cause, cause they have like a, I think they have like a, they have a switcher.

01:30:19.000 So there, someone heard the air raid sirens and then was like, they're like waiting for it.

01:30:23.000 They got turntables.

01:30:26.000 Yeah, bring it up.

01:30:28.000 And then you have that, like that dude doing the weird butt shuffle.

01:30:31.000 It's like, this is the weirdest thing.

01:30:34.000 And it's still showing the, the air raids.

01:30:39.000 Wow. 0.97

01:30:39.000 That is, that is American idiocracy. 0.97

01:30:42.000 Yup. 0.96

01:30:42.000 It is. 0.96

01:30:42.000 It's, I mean, that's, I remember watching that movie 10, 15 years ago. 0.96

01:30:48.000 And laughing at it because, like, that's so absurd.

01:30:51.000 And it's like, wow, well that's, you know, the only thing they need, like, next is a commercial about, like, you know, electrolytes.

01:30:57.000 I actually, I like Applebee's.

01:31:01.000 They got good, they got good wings.

01:31:02.000 I don't know how they, what they fry stuff in, that's my only concern.

01:31:04.000 I'll tell you this, I never, I didn't like Applebee's, I went to- I'm sure it's probably not good, whatever it is.

01:31:08.000 I went to an Applebee's, I got sick.

01:31:09.000 And the food was awful, I was like, I'm never coming here again.

01:31:11.000 Or Applebee's, I think they called it.

01:31:14.000 We were ordering, and they have this trick where you go on Grubhub.

01:31:17.000 Oh yeah.

01:31:17.000 And it was called something, I can't remember, it was like Libby's Barbecue or something, I can't remember.

01:31:22.000 And then I was like, oh, no, no, no.

01:31:23.000 It was like kitchen wings.

01:31:25.000 And then I was like, we're going to order wings and sauce.

01:31:26.000 And so I ordered a bunch of wings.

01:31:28.000 And when it came, it came in Applebee's bags.

01:31:30.000 And I was like, they tricked me.

01:31:32.000 They create fake restaurants that serve only a certain thing so that people who are like, I don't want Applebee's, I want wings, will still buy from Applebee's.

01:31:39.000 And then I was like, it's actually pretty good.

01:31:42.000 And so now we just straight order from Applebee's sometimes.

01:31:44.000 It's the old bait and switch.

01:31:46.000 Applebee's cheese sticks.

01:31:48.000 Before I got into health consciousness, I loved Applebee's.

01:31:50.000 Are they the ones who have the coconut shrimp?

01:31:52.000 Cause that's really good too.

01:31:55.000 I worked there like years and years and years ago as like a teenager.

01:31:58.000 I'm sure it's probably still on the menu.

01:31:59.000 What was your position?

01:32:01.000 Server.

01:32:01.000 Oh, nice.

01:32:03.000 Before you were 18?

01:32:03.000 Yeah.

01:32:04.000 Oh, cool.

01:32:05.000 We also order from Ruby Tuesdays.

01:32:07.000 We, we live, we live kind of in the middle of nowhere.

01:32:08.000 So we have like, we have few options, you know, it's like either pick up from a local pizzeria or something, or you can order from like these medium sized chains.

01:32:16.000 Can you give us a brief update on Attellus?

01:32:19.000 Because we're about to go to Super Chats.

01:32:20.000 We've got about a minute.

01:32:20.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:32:21.000 What's the status?

01:32:22.000 We are still open.

01:32:23.000 We just actually passed 365,000 registered visits to the facility.

01:32:28.000 We still have a voluntary contact tracing system in place.

01:32:33.000 We put that in place originally just so that nobody could say, hey, you're spreading coronavirus.

01:32:37.000 And to date, we've had no outbreaks linked to the facility.

01:32:40.000 We have a storage unit full of 365,000 slips of paper.

01:32:42.000 Dang! 0.99

01:32:45.000 Just to prove a point.

01:32:47.000 But we're open every day.

01:32:47.000 We have no less than 500 healthy, happy people coming through.

01:32:50.000 We're still in the court system.

01:32:52.000 We have an appeals process going on with all of the fines and the hundreds of thousands of dollars that they fined us.

01:32:59.000 We have an appeal process going on to sue the township so that we can get our business license back because we shut down our billing in March of 2020 and have not resumed it since.

01:33:08.000 And then we're finally getting to a municipal court that was kicked down the road for two years because of COVID and that's where we can actually bring forth like legitimate arguments about constitutional violations and things of the sort.

01:33:20.000 We've been narrowed to very, um, very narrow scopes of argument, um, being caught with court orders and stuff like that.

01:33:27.000 And we also just pled guilty to criminal contempt of court for the heinous crime of taking our doors off of the hinges.

01:33:34.000 And we got one year of probation for that.

01:33:37.000 What do you mean by we?

01:33:37.000 Like your store or you?

01:33:39.000 Me and my business partner.

01:33:40.000 Wow.

01:33:41.000 Yeah.

01:33:41.000 The company got charged or you guys get it?

01:33:43.000 No, individually, we got charged.

01:33:45.000 They pierced through the LLC for all of this.

01:33:47.000 So we're all we're personally liable for the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars of fines.

01:33:53.000 And they brought criminal citations against both Frank and I. To give context, Attila, you guys basically right when COVID came out and they started putting lockdowns and shutdowns, you guys just basically said no?

01:34:05.000 We're staying open?

01:34:06.000 Two months in, we reopened.

01:34:08.000 Day three or four is when we decided that we were going to reopen, but we took our time over the next like six weeks.

01:34:15.000 to develop a very comprehensive safety protocol program because we knew that we were going to get pushback.

01:34:21.000 And we didn't want to just open just to, you know, just to open recklessly.

01:34:25.000 You know, we wanted to open because at the time, we truly believed that COVID was a credible threat, but that there could be some sort of happy medium between shutting the world down and mitigating, you know, the spread of COVID.

01:34:39.000 So we opened two months after, in May of 2020, and we've been open ever since, no matter what they did.

01:34:46.000 Right on.

01:34:46.000 Let's go to Super Chats, though.

01:34:47.000 If you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, share the show with your friends.

01:34:51.000 Head over to TimCast.com.

01:34:52.000 We're going to have a members-only segment coming up for you around 11 or so p.m.

01:34:55.000 We're going to be talking about conspiracy theories, about why Vladimir Putin really attacked.

01:35:02.000 It'll be interesting.

01:35:03.000 It has something to do with biolabs.

01:35:04.000 You'll want to check this one out.

01:35:06.000 But let's get into the Super Chats for now.

01:35:08.000 Get your Super Chats in now, and we'll try and read as many as we can.

01:35:12.000 All right.

01:35:13.000 LaParty says, I don't know how Alex Jones does it, but he called it again.

01:35:18.000 Check out the video from Memology101.

01:35:21.000 He was right again.

01:35:22.000 All right.

01:35:23.000 I love looking at it.

01:35:24.000 This might be a video I think I saw from last October where Alex was like, uh, apparently my sources are telling me there's going to be some sort of military war conflict in February.

01:35:33.000 Really?

01:35:34.000 This is from my sources.

01:35:36.000 He tends to be proven right behind.

01:35:38.000 Yeah, this is awesome.

01:35:39.000 He's got a pretty good track record over time of being right ahead of the curve.

01:35:42.000 I think he knows a lot of the right people.

01:35:44.000 There's a lot of noise in there.

01:35:45.000 Yes.

01:35:45.000 You know, a lot of stuff he says is noise.

01:35:47.000 Well, when you throw a lot of, you know, crap at the wall, you know, some of it will stick, but I think he's been right on some pretty important things, you know, along the way.

01:35:57.000 Ryan Johnston says, as much as I despise the administration, I will go back into the USMC if we have World War III, because it is the best hope for the survival of the Constitution. 0.85

01:36:08.000 My life is swore to the Constitution.

01:36:12.000 Right on.

01:36:12.000 I respect that tremendously.

01:36:14.000 That's a scary thing to sign up for.

01:36:16.000 Yeah.

01:36:16.000 Willingly.

01:36:18.000 This is when Zelensky got put into office?

01:36:19.000 Is that 2014?

01:36:19.000 I don't know if it was Zelensky.

01:36:21.000 Was it Zelensky or was it... I don't know.

01:36:22.000 Check that out.

01:36:23.000 coup d'etat in 2014 and encouraging them to antagonize Russia and become a nuclear NATO

01:36:27.000 member, Russia could not permit that.

01:36:30.000 There was a, call it a coup, but the president was removed.

01:36:34.000 This is when Zelensky got put into office?

01:36:36.000 I don't know if it was Zelensky.

01:36:37.000 Was it Zelensky or was it...

01:36:39.000 Check that out.

01:36:40.000 Who was it?

01:36:41.000 I don't remember.

01:36:42.000 2014.

01:36:43.000 Might have been.

01:36:44.000 Was it Poroshenko or was he?

01:36:46.000 I'm not sure.

01:36:46.000 I don't know.

01:36:48.000 But Yanukovych was ousted and he was the president of the country.

01:36:54.000 KT Sky says, you are always wrong.

01:36:56.000 Ian is always right.

01:36:58.000 Oh, well, there you go.

01:36:59.000 Only Sith deals in absolutes. 0.52

01:37:03.000 Okay, let's grab some more super chats here.

01:37:07.000 Grand Kai says, didn't Biden give a list to Putin of infrastructure not to attack after one meeting?

01:37:12.000 Could this whole thing be planned with China and Russia, given all the connection between them and the elites? 0.88

01:37:17.000 That sounds ridiculous because, you know, Putin's, he's too headstrong. 0.90

01:37:17.000 No, I don't know. 0.90

01:37:23.000 He's too into himself.

01:37:24.000 I really doubt it.

01:37:25.000 But Biden giving a list of things not to attack was like just pathetic diplomacy, where he was like, all right, if you do attack us, just don't do these.

01:37:34.000 And everyone's like, did you just give him a list of critical infrastructure to attack?

01:37:37.000 That's kind of what that is.

01:37:39.000 Again, that's going back to that idea that we shouldn't really be talking open strategy or weaknesses in our mainstream media.

01:37:47.000 We should kind of keep that stuff under wraps.

01:37:50.000 Arseniy Yatsenyuk was the interim governor for Ukraine after the revolution.

01:37:58.000 Petro Poroshenko became the president.

01:38:00.000 Yeah, he was governing until Poroshenko became president.

01:38:03.000 All right, Mr. Slendy says, these aren't goat farmer militias in the desert.

01:38:06.000 Anyone who has been spoiled by the proxy wars on the other side of the world, wake up.

01:38:11.000 These are enemies who can reach out and touch us with fire and death.

01:38:15.000 Yikes, man, that's true.

01:38:17.000 Very true.

01:38:20.000 Alex Law says, all Russia has to do is turn off the gas supply to Europe if anyone, including the US, retaliates in any way.

01:38:26.000 That's right.

01:38:27.000 Yep.

01:38:28.000 That is true and correct and scary.

01:38:29.000 They are beholden.

01:38:31.000 Wow, man.

01:38:33.000 It's not like we're going to come in and subsidize that in any way.

01:38:38.000 That's a secret room at Grand Central.

01:38:40.000 Room 34.

01:38:41.000 No, I don't think that's true.

01:38:42.000 Is that what it's called?

01:38:43.000 Is that what it's called?

01:38:44.000 He seems like he knows what he's talking about.

01:38:46.000 Interesting that's a secret room what they call room 134 room 34. No, I don't think that's true. Is that is that

01:38:51.000 what's called?

01:38:52.000 That's cool, though. That's a Is that real

01:38:57.000 Room 34?

01:38:58.000 No.

01:38:58.000 Not seeing it.

01:39:00.000 I think it's a quick search.

01:39:01.000 Oh! 0.60

01:39:02.000 Inside the secret life of New York's Grand Central.

01:39:04.000 Is that what it is?

01:39:05.000 Maybe, yeah.

01:39:06.000 Architecturaldigest.com.

01:39:09.000 I think I read it in the New York Times.

01:39:10.000 Ooh, Grand Central is amazing.

01:39:11.000 And we were talking about having, privatizing the train tracks or like having, not privatizing, giving naming rights.

01:39:16.000 Naming rights to the infrastructure.

01:39:17.000 And having like Amazon and FedEx bring, create like hubs in the city and then overhaul and maintain all the tracks.

01:39:26.000 Be cool to have a big Grand Central like shopping mall, I think, at Grand Central.

01:39:30.000 That'd be really cool.

01:39:31.000 All right, Alex Hilbert says, Hey Tim, I'm a paratrooper in the 82nd that works in an S2 shop.

01:39:36.000 Intelligence, I appreciate your attention to detail and I have to say, keep up the good work.

01:39:40.000 Ian, keep rolling 20s.

01:39:41.000 Hey, thanks man.

01:39:42.000 I really appreciate it.

01:39:43.000 I mean, look, I read a lot of different news sources and I try and, you know, when claims are made, I try and find alternate sources and I try and find root sources to make sure that I'm getting the real legit information.

01:39:55.000 And, when a lot of the information is based off of videos on Twitter, it's like, how do you really confirm it?

01:40:00.000 Like, when someone posts a video of a tank rolling in, I'm like, how do I know that's Russia? 0.69

01:40:03.000 Yeah, you don't even know where that is, just because it says that.

01:40:07.000 Luke tweeted out, like, airplanes flying overhead, and it was like the Russian invasion has commenced, and people in the comments were like, this is from a year ago, this is like a flying exercise.

01:40:15.000 We, we, you know, this morning when I woke up, I heard quite a bit of air traffic.

01:40:19.000 We're really, we're really close to DC out here.

01:40:21.000 Interesting.

01:40:22.000 And so there were some helicopters and some other, you know, flights.

01:40:25.000 Sometimes we see Ospreys.

01:40:27.000 It's cool.

01:40:27.000 You ever see those where like they have the props that can turn up and go forward?

01:40:31.000 Yeah, those are cool.

01:40:32.000 Yeah, I wonder where they're going.

01:40:33.000 But, you know, DC's nearby.

01:40:35.000 Plus, we got Mount Weather right over here.

01:40:37.000 I told Luke that he needs to get out of Florida.

01:40:40.000 I was like, you don't want to be in Florida right now, because it's a peninsula.

01:40:43.000 And, you know, I don't know what's going to happen, but if you're concerned about this escalating, Florida's not a good place to be.

01:40:48.000 And he's like, you're right next to Mount Weather, which is like the emergency bunker.

01:40:52.000 And I'm like, I didn't say we were in a good spot!

01:40:54.000 We just have better ways to exit.

01:40:57.000 Well, no, but I'm just saying, like, Florida's not a good place to be if you think war's coming.

01:41:03.000 All right, James Rogers says, Tim, I really wish you'd stop pushing this narrative that we're all going to war.

01:41:09.000 All we will do is push sanctions and give aid.

01:41:12.000 Russia is manufacturing a false narrative, and your hatred of Biden is making you fall for it.

01:41:16.000 Stop.

01:41:16.000 I actually gave credit to Biden.

01:41:19.000 I think, James, you might have an optimism bias or a normalcy bias.

01:41:25.000 I actually said I don't blame Biden for everything that's going on.

01:41:27.000 No.

01:41:29.000 I think Vladimir Putin's exploiting a situation he's long wanted to pursue.

01:41:32.000 I think a lot of the problems we've been facing with inflation is easily attributable to COVID, but I think Joe Biden's did a bad job as well.

01:41:38.000 Yeah, and when it comes to the situation in Ukraine, Biden isn't entirely at fault.

01:41:44.000 He's mishandling the situation, but a lot of the restrictions and the things you have to take into account are from years and years of foreign policy.

01:41:56.000 You know, so he's even if he's making the wrong choices, he's operating on a playing field that he didn't necessarily lay out in front of him.

01:42:03.000 So is it his fault entirely?

01:42:05.000 No, but he's the one steering the ship.

01:42:07.000 So I think that we should be looking towards him to make the best decisions that he can given the set of circumstances in front of him.

01:42:15.000 And on top of that, I just want to point out, I mean, when have we talked about stripping out a nuclear power from the SWIFT payment system?

01:42:21.000 Or the U.S.

01:42:22.000 directly attacking Russia?

01:42:23.000 This is not... We're not talking about Afghanistan or Iraq.

01:42:26.000 This is not proxy wars.

01:42:27.000 This is not Syria. 0.84

01:42:27.000 This is the U.S. 0.84

01:42:28.000 being like, yeah, we'll... These are two superpowers butting heads.

01:42:31.000 Is Russia a superpower?

01:42:32.000 I guess they are.

01:42:33.000 They still are.

01:42:34.000 They got nukes.

01:42:35.000 Their GDP is nowhere near, you know, the U.S.

01:42:37.000 and China, but... Size of Florida.

01:42:39.000 Size of Florida?

01:42:40.000 Ha! 0.89

01:42:40.000 Yeah. 0.89

01:42:41.000 See, that's why Putin's mad. 0.96

01:42:43.000 Because he used to be a bully on the playground. 0.84

01:42:45.000 He keeps rolling through Eastern Europe.

01:42:46.000 You know, he's going to have a little bit more in that armory.

01:42:49.000 And when you have China, who has clearly backed him already, I mean, that doesn't matter so much that he's got a small, smaller GDP.

01:43:00.000 Also, if you're calculating GDP, if they've got a trillion GDP in fiat, you've got a trillion GDP in Bitcoin.

01:43:06.000 Your Bitcoin trillion is worth a lot more than that trillion in fiat if you measure the calculate the way the fiat is headed inflation wise.

01:43:14.000 So GDP may look small on paper, but it might be better currency.

01:43:17.000 All right, Keegan Mooney says, fourth attempt this week.

01:43:20.000 In the immortal words of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, watch Attack on Titan.

01:43:25.000 Real quote, real life parallels are only getting realer.

01:43:28.000 Really?

01:43:29.000 I've only seen a little bit of Attack on Titan.

01:43:30.000 I should check it out.

01:43:31.000 It's where they fight the Giants?

01:43:32.000 Yeah, the Titans.

01:43:32.000 The movie shows wild.

01:43:34.000 And they've got these weird things on their hips that have like that fire cable so they can launch themselves in the air. 0.85

01:43:39.000 Really disturbing art.

01:43:40.000 Worth seeing.

01:43:41.000 Just put your eyes on it to see the art.

01:43:43.000 It's really weird.

01:43:43.000 Really crazy.

01:43:45.000 Hank McCormick says 100 suitcase-sized nukes missing from the Russian stockpile since the 90s.

01:43:50.000 How many Russian sleeper cells are out there?

01:43:53.000 I don't know, man, but maybe there's Tom Cruise with a crack team of special agents keeping us safe.

01:44:00.000 No.

01:44:01.000 What if, what if Tom Cruise actually was the secret agent for Mission Impossible and the movies are to cover up the explosions?

01:44:08.000 They say they're just doing stunts.

01:44:10.000 He was a fighter pilot in Top Gun.

01:44:12.000 That's right.

01:44:14.000 That proves it.

01:44:15.000 He's the hero.

01:44:19.000 He does a lot of his own stunts, I hear, though.

01:44:20.000 He broke his foot that one time filming Mission Impossible.

01:44:22.000 He jumped between two roofs and then like... Oh, Stuntman.

01:44:26.000 Yep.

01:44:28.000 All right.

01:44:29.000 Let's see what we got here. 1.00

01:44:32.000 Christopher Massey says, as an Afghan vet, I feel qualified to say not only did the idiots in the swamp lose a winnable war, but it took 11 years to kill a guy that was living in caves. 1.00

01:44:43.000 But they're gonna outsmart Putin? 1.00

01:44:45.000 Mmm.

01:44:46.000 Doubt.

01:44:46.000 Yup.

01:44:47.000 Man, that's why I'm saying I'm confident.

01:44:49.000 And these are the people that we should be listening to, not the girl reading the poem on the internet.

01:44:55.000 These are people who have experienced conflict and who understand that there's really no winners in this situation and that we should be trying to resolve this as diplomatically as possible and with as few casualties as possible because Any American conflict in the past 20, 30 years has not brought this country any, any form of good.

01:45:18.000 It's only, it's only hurt people like this, these veterans.

01:45:20.000 And, and we know a lot of these guys, cause these are, these are the guys that come to our gym, you know, and these are the guys that have seen it and, and, and seen that these are not, these are not wars that we want to get involved in.

01:45:31.000 We want to prevent these wars, if anything.

01:45:34.000 We got Amy Beth Quinn says, Tim, can you give a big shout out to Wes, a fan of yours who is currently hauling my family's stuff in a semi from Washington to Tennessee as we move from tyranny to more freedom.

01:45:34.000 Yeah, all right.

01:45:45.000 And Lydia, I have a super guest recommendation for you.

01:45:48.000 Check out Jim Stroud on RumbleAndAnchor.fm.

01:45:51.000 I will do that.

01:45:52.000 Shout out, Wes.

01:45:52.000 Very cool.

01:45:53.000 Nice job, Wes.

01:45:56.000 Vesidious says, you really need to get Scott Horton of Antiwar.com on.

01:46:00.000 He broke down the politics and history of the Ukraine-Russia conflict expertly on Dave Smith's podcast.

01:46:05.000 We've had Scott, right?

01:46:06.000 We have.

01:46:06.000 Yeah, we skated with him.

01:46:07.000 He came on the show, and then afterwards, it's like midnight, and he's like, let's skate the mini ramp.

01:46:11.000 And I was like, bro, it's midnight, I gotta wake up.

01:46:13.000 But I did a kickflip pivot. 0.99

01:46:15.000 So bonus.

01:46:16.000 That's a sick trick, and I was very stoked that I landed it.

01:46:20.000 You'd be cool to have Dave Smith and Scott on.

01:46:21.000 Yeah, that's a good idea.

01:46:23.000 If they're available, it'd be great to have some anti-war personalities talking about what's going on.

01:46:29.000 Let's see what we got here in these superchats.

01:46:32.000 Richard Bloom says, when has any communist or fascist or bully ever had enough?

01:46:36.000 Study economics.

01:46:37.000 Growth through expansion is the only way they succeed.

01:46:39.000 Yeah.

01:46:44.000 Chris Williams says, why do you think Russia wants Chernobyl so badly?

01:46:49.000 I think they want to secure the country.

01:46:51.000 Symbolism?

01:46:53.000 No, I don't think they want Chernobyl so badly.

01:46:54.000 I think they moved into the north.

01:46:55.000 Chernobyl is very close to Kiev and they're taking strategic points.

01:46:59.000 They can use it to their advantage and they're going to move into Kiev.

01:47:04.000 There you go, man.

01:47:05.000 Alan Rogers says, so much for 69th generational propaganda PSYOP digital warfare, eh, Tim?

01:47:10.000 Looks like guns, tanks, and planes are here to stay.

01:47:13.000 Oh, I never said they were gonna be gone.

01:47:15.000 I was saying that a key portion of the war is gonna, like, like war will be fought through propaganda.

01:47:20.000 But what you gotta understand about hot war with planes, tanks, guns, and all that stuff, is when the propaganda stops working, then you escalate your tensions.

01:47:28.000 You know, are we gonna see nukes launched?

01:47:31.000 We've seen gravity bombs dropped in World War II, and that was it.

01:47:34.000 We gonna see ICBMs be actually used for the first time?

01:47:37.000 I certainly hope not.

01:47:38.000 But they could be.

01:47:39.000 Could be, man.

01:47:43.000 Seth says, was delighted to tune in tonight to see you were able to get Nordic Kratos on.

01:47:49.000 Did people call you that or something?

01:47:53.000 No, but I'm guessing he was talking about me.

01:47:56.000 I got a feeling.

01:47:56.000 Oh yeah, it's Kratos, the guy from God of War.

01:47:59.000 You do look like him, he's a beast.

01:48:05.000 How fitting for tonight's show.

01:48:08.000 I've been talking about de-escalation of conflict the entire night.

01:48:11.000 I'm not doing my job.

01:48:14.000 Liven says, do you think this will result in Biden having to re-establish our energy independence, rolling back restrictions on fracking and restoring Keystone?

01:48:22.000 Now, I did want to read this, even though we did address it, because I just want to reiterate, Biden recently, in the past few days, suspended leases on oil and gas.

01:48:30.000 Yes.

01:48:32.000 20 seconds.

01:48:33.000 That would be a fantastic step in the right direction from Joe Biden.

01:48:38.000 I would take him a lot more seriously as somebody who is protecting the interests of this country.

01:48:43.000 If I saw a move like that.

01:48:45.000 You know what we were saying the other day is, could you imagine if for the State of the Union he comes out and he's like, my fellow Americans, we've done a bad job.

01:48:53.000 Inflation's through the roof.

01:48:54.000 Our policies haven't worked.

01:48:55.000 War has erupted in Eastern Europe and we're not sure how to handle it.

01:48:58.000 Afghanistan was an absolute disaster. 1.00

01:49:00.000 It was on my watch and my fault and I'm sorry.

01:49:03.000 Could you imagine?

01:49:04.000 I'd respect him if he did that.

01:49:05.000 I would, too.

01:49:06.000 I would be like, wow.

01:49:07.000 I'd be like, all right, man.

01:49:09.000 After coming clean and saying all that and just owning up to it, I'd be like, let me know what you need.

01:49:13.000 I'll help you fix it.

01:49:14.000 You come out here and honestly say- That would be a powerful statement from any world leader.

01:49:20.000 Good luck getting that.

01:49:20.000 Right.

01:49:24.000 I'm sorry.

01:49:25.000 Someone superchatted the other day.

01:49:26.000 They were like, God bless his speechwriters for the state of the universe.

01:49:30.000 What are they going to write?

01:49:31.000 This has been a terrible past year.

01:49:33.000 They put up a fence already.

01:49:35.000 I don't know what you're going to write about it.

01:49:36.000 COVID was worse than it was under Trump.

01:49:38.000 There were more deaths.

01:49:39.000 Inflation is through the roof.

01:49:41.000 Gas prices have doubled.

01:49:42.000 Afghanistan was bungled.

01:49:44.000 There's a war breaking out in Europe.

01:49:46.000 We could have seen it all coming.

01:49:48.000 What if he's like, I'm out, and he drops the mic and just leaves?

01:49:48.000 What if he quits?

01:49:51.000 I'm going to get some ice cream.

01:49:52.000 And then Kamala's like, is this thing on? 0.97

01:49:58.000 What would actually be way better if he comes out with his aviator sunglasses, and he's got the ice cream cone, and he's like, and then instead of speaking, he just goes like, you're screwed, bucko, and he walks out.

01:50:08.000 I don't know, Jack. 0.98

01:50:09.000 Look fat.

01:50:12.000 Look fat.

01:50:13.000 I love it. 0.92

01:50:14.000 He should just come out with one of those stories where he starts just talking about like kids touching his legs.

01:50:19.000 He should just come out right from the rip with something that has nothing to do with the State of the Union and just do one of those like shuffles where he walks away real quick as everybody's just bewildered trying to ask questions.

01:50:28.000 Yes.

01:50:29.000 Yeah, I mean, now's the time.

01:50:31.000 Dramatic exit.

01:50:32.000 That's right.

01:50:32.000 He's got an audience.

01:50:33.000 Yeah, some people were mentioning there was a deal the U.S.

01:50:35.000 had with Ukraine that we would back them up. 0.58

01:50:37.000 I don't know.

01:50:37.000 I don't know about it.

01:50:38.000 But there we go, man.

01:50:38.000 back Ukraine and Russia if Russia came knocking.

01:50:41.000 Does anyone think Russia would invade if Ukraine had nukes?

01:50:44.000 That's right.

01:50:45.000 Yeah, some people were mentioning there was a deal the US had with Ukraine that we would

01:50:48.000 back them up.

01:50:49.000 I don't know about it.

01:50:50.000 I don't know.

01:50:52.000 But there we go, man.

01:50:53.000 I'd like to know more about that if you guys have any info.

01:50:57.000 Odd Stance says, I hope people can now realize there are no right sides when it comes to

01:51:01.000 The victor writes the history books.

01:51:02.000 Hopefully people will now realize that fact.

01:51:05.000 When you get into a pissing contest, you don't win, you just get covered in piss.

01:51:07.000 Yep.

01:51:08.000 Yep. 0.99

01:51:10.000 Wrestling with a pig. 0.99

01:51:11.000 John L says, Russia won't buy Bitcoin. 0.98

01:51:14.000 Putin will buy all FJB coin.

01:51:17.000 Wouldn't that be really funny if Putin was just like... That would be an interesting turn of events. 0.66

01:51:21.000 That would be awesome.

01:51:22.000 The new standard.

01:51:25.000 Just buy FJB.

01:51:27.000 You're gonna see a spike in that today.

01:51:29.000 The Russia going to crypto is kind of like a hope.

01:51:32.000 I don't know if it's likely, but that's like a hope of mine.

01:51:35.000 Likely what would happen if they got cut off from SWIFT.

01:51:38.000 They'd have to create their own currency, whether it be a central bank coin or a piece of crypto that went on a blockchain.

01:51:42.000 I don't know.

01:51:44.000 Yeah, I mean, either way, they're obviously going to come up with some sort of solution.

01:51:47.000 Trackable digital currency.

01:51:48.000 Even if it's a... I mean, even if they don't go to crypto, they're going to go to some sort of other payment system, and you don't think that China would hop on board with that very quickly?

01:51:58.000 China can exist in both.

01:51:59.000 So why wouldn't all these big economic countries in that part of the world say, yeah, we'll use that one too?

01:52:08.000 You'd see American corporations spinning up Russian currency if they did that, and be like, But I'm playing both sides, just like Henry Ford did in World War II.

01:52:15.000 Yeah.

01:52:15.000 I mean, so whether or not it goes crypto or it stays on fiat, I mean, that's a bad idea regardless.

01:52:20.000 I think that that's something that needs to just get pulled off the table immediately.

01:52:24.000 Hunter Keller says a nuclear winter will cancel out global warming.

01:52:27.000 Yeah, there you go.

01:52:28.000 That's the plan.

01:52:29.000 And Greta will be happy.

01:52:32.000 I don't know if that's true, but... What does Snope say about that?

01:52:35.000 What does Snopes say about that?

01:52:35.000 Yeah, right.

01:52:38.000 Yeah right.

01:52:39.000 Yeah.

01:52:40.000 Andrew Alvarez says I'm running for US House of Representatives.

01:52:44.000 House in Texas trying to primary an incumbent.

01:52:47.000 Texas primary elections are March 1st.

01:52:49.000 Keep America working and our families safe.

01:52:49.000 Wish me luck.

01:52:52.000 Everybody, please, right now, look up when your local primaries are and get rid of these incumbents.

01:52:58.000 Yes.

01:52:59.000 I don't care if they're Democrats or Republicans. 0.95

01:53:00.000 Tell them to go away.

01:53:03.000 It's happened before.

01:53:03.000 I think it was like in the 50s, like all the incumbents got voted out and then just all new people on both sides.

01:53:09.000 Was it good?

01:53:10.000 Did it turn out to be good?

01:53:11.000 I think that's something that should happen regularly.

01:53:11.000 I don't know.

01:53:14.000 You know, part of the problem I think that we have in our political culture is that people don't pay attention until it's time to go to the ballot box.

01:53:22.000 So they haven't really, in essence, they haven't really selected their candidate.

01:53:26.000 You know, such a small portion of people take part in the primaries of their parties that whoever's on the ballot, they just vote for, but they don't really know much about them.

01:53:35.000 You know, there's so many better options that are not making it through that initial cut merely just because people aren't paying attention to it.

01:53:44.000 You know, I don't know what the percentage is, but it's a dim percentage, the amount of people who pay attention in the primary.

01:53:52.000 compared to those who show up in the general election. And that's, I mean, you want to start

01:53:55.000 seeing change. You know, that's a good place to start as an individual.

01:53:58.000 Tiberius says the real tragedy is that Hunter Biden lost his job. 1.00

01:54:03.000 Oh, damn. 0.99

01:54:05.000 Tina Collette says on climate change, climate cost, etc. 0.99

01:54:10.000 Just remember one good volcanic eruption and the world temperature dropped several degrees

01:54:14.000 immediately for years.

01:54:15.000 Oh, that's what we need.

01:54:16.000 There you go.

01:54:17.000 Yeah, and if you get a Yellowstone eruption, then you get the sun blocked out for... Then break out those coconuts.

01:54:24.000 That's right.

01:54:26.000 Sit back and put your feet up and say, all right, man.

01:54:29.000 Kevin Clark says, metal gear is great.

01:54:31.000 I love the boss.

01:54:32.000 The end. 0.89

01:54:33.000 Everyone you kill comes back to haunt you during it.

01:54:35.000 It really makes you think about your actions and their impact.

01:54:37.000 Oh, that's awesome.

01:54:38.000 Love Tim Caskey, but the great work.

01:54:39.000 Appreciate it, man.

01:54:40.000 I only played the first Metal Gear.

01:54:41.000 You said you played... I played a couple of them.

01:54:43.000 ...as a sniper? 1.00

01:54:44.000 No, I would just run through and just kill people. 0.97

01:54:47.000 I, like, tried to, like, hide in the box, but, like, the guard would always find me and I'd just pop out and kill him. 0.95

01:54:50.000 Hide in the box.

01:54:51.000 Yeah, like action games.

01:54:52.000 Kelsey Lacour says, live in Carroll County, Maryland.

01:54:55.000 This morning we saw two batches of eight to ten military helicopters flying in formation heading northwest from D.C.

01:55:02.000 Yup.

01:55:03.000 Yeah, when I was getting ready, it says, like, 7.30, 8 a.m., I could hear helicopters.

01:55:08.000 There's a lot, yeah.

01:55:08.000 them every so often. Sometimes the Chinooks come over and stuff like that.

01:55:11.000 There's a lot, yeah.

01:55:12.000 Yep. So, you know, in talking about potential for war and everything,

01:55:17.000 when I was saying I talked to Luke, I'm like, Florida's not a good place to be.

01:55:20.000 And he's like, well, you're by Mount Weather. And I thought about it and I was like, no,

01:55:23.000 for sure, it's a hike. It's this area, the DC area is a target. Probably the safest area, though.

01:55:30.000 You know what I mean?

01:55:30.000 Well, maybe not the safest.

01:55:31.000 You know, the bunkers of mountains in Colorado are probably the safest.

01:55:35.000 I think they moved NORAD.

01:55:38.000 But they've got mountainous underground bunkers you probably don't even know about.

01:55:40.000 You've got Mount Weather.

01:55:41.000 But we do have SAM sites throughout the D.C.

01:55:46.000 area.

01:55:47.000 So, you know, if anything started to happen, you got surface-to-air missiles.

01:55:50.000 I don't know if they have any way of stopping ICBMs. 0.98

01:55:53.000 I'd imagine we've had to have deployed high-power lasers already, right?

01:55:57.000 That can just track and target, like Iron Dome. 0.86

01:56:00.000 If Israel's got Iron Dome, we have to have something like that.

01:56:02.000 I'm fairly certain that if we wanted to stop something coming over the ocean at us, that we—

01:56:07.000 Yeah, I don't think it's not the ICBMs.

01:56:08.000 It's orbital strikes that are the next big thing They just come from above you don't see him coming rods from God or missiles from orbit that are straight down Yeah coming straight down at you to too high velocity to even detect coming in.

01:56:20.000 Hmm I think that we may want to get involved with the military in the US.

01:56:24.000 Actually, Tim, it's so weird to think this, but like we might be do a great service to our species if we like go to NORAD and help them or like go, we'd have to be invited.

01:56:33.000 But I think that we could because you have a voice that people listen to which we need right now.

01:56:38.000 You want me saying I should go to NORAD and broadcast propaganda for the government?

01:56:42.000 Basically, if it comes to a war, a real war, yeah, that's the kind of thing you need people like me, or at least like you, thinkers that are outside of this woke crowd to save the lives of The US administration would be like, thanks so much for your input, Ian.

01:56:57.000 I just read this script and it would be like, war is good. 1.00

01:57:00.000 Vladimir Putin is evil and our war is justified.

01:57:03.000 Enlist today if you're 18 to 26. 0.89

01:57:05.000 Take up arms.

01:57:07.000 It's an adventure.

01:57:09.000 I'm not sending people to their death, but I will do my best to protect people.

01:57:13.000 That's for sure.

01:57:13.000 I'm not reading a script either.

01:57:15.000 There's no circumstance where they're going to be like, thank you.

01:57:17.000 Now please broadcast this anti-war message.

01:57:19.000 I'll read the script if I agree with the script, but that's about that.

01:57:21.000 Or just say your script here and just say whatever you want to say.

01:57:25.000 Yeah, we don't need to be there to help, but in the case of bombs dropping, it would be nice to be in a bunker. 1.00

01:57:31.000 Joe Biden is a crooked, crony, capitalist criminal. 0.99

01:57:37.000 All of those C's. 1.00

01:57:38.000 Lots of C's.

01:57:39.000 I don't trust a word out of that guy's mouth. 0.94

01:57:42.000 I know it sucks to think that my own government is the enemy.

01:57:45.000 I don't like living like this. 0.96

01:57:46.000 I don't trust a word out of Putin's mouth.

01:57:48.000 Yeah, me neither. 0.99

01:57:48.000 He's nuts, but I think there's one thing I can count on. 0.99

01:57:51.000 Joe Biden's self-interest. 0.95

01:57:53.000 And his self-interest requires an America to exist in some form.

01:57:58.000 Clearly the southern border is proof he doesn't care all that much about it.

01:58:01.000 But at least he wants Delaware to be around because he's got a house there.

01:58:04.000 So that's the one thing I can say.

01:58:06.000 Putin doesn't care about Joe Biden's house.

01:58:09.000 So long as Joe Biden cares about Joe Biden's house, the peripheral areas will probably be a bit safer than, you know.

01:58:14.000 So I can trust self-interest.

01:58:16.000 Yeah.

01:58:19.000 All right.

01:58:19.000 Chris Pavotto says, Ian, rolling low, bro.

01:58:22.000 The Navy does not emit the most CO2.

01:58:24.000 A lot.

01:58:24.000 Yes.

01:58:25.000 The most.

01:58:25.000 Please check the numbers.

01:58:26.000 We have the safest global nuke power with carriers and subs.

01:58:30.000 I trust our nukes people to operate our plants. 0.99

01:58:32.000 Go Navy.

01:58:33.000 I think I said the American military is the largest polluter.

01:58:36.000 The Army and the Navy combined.

01:58:39.000 You know, definitely don't take my word at face value, but that's analytics I've seen in the past.

01:58:46.000 Word. 0.95

01:58:49.000 Trash Panda says, we are divided at a time where division is dangerous, and I can't see how we get reunited, seeing how insane leftists are. 0.71

01:58:56.000 Dark times are ahead of us. 0.85

01:58:57.000 We don't!

01:58:58.000 We don't.

01:58:59.000 Maybe this is it.

01:58:59.000 We're nearing 250 years, right?

01:59:02.000 Yep.

01:59:02.000 There you go.

01:59:02.000 250 years.

01:59:03.000 Why don't you guys, why don't you do this?

01:59:05.000 Order yourself some Papa John's.

01:59:09.000 Cheese stuffed crust.

01:59:11.000 Get extra cheese, extra sauce, some pepperoni.

01:59:14.000 Order some wings.

01:59:15.000 Sit back with your friends and your loved ones.

01:59:18.000 Buy a machete and some coconuts and crack them open.

01:59:20.000 Just sit back and drink that coconut water.

01:59:23.000 It's good for you.

01:59:25.000 Fix your gut biome.

01:59:26.000 That's no joke because that'll get your head in the game.

01:59:28.000 That'll help you get your head in the game.

01:59:30.000 Just enjoy it because Man, it looks like there's going to come a time where you're not going to be able to have that pizza.

01:59:36.000 Correct.

01:59:37.000 Our Papa John's already has no employees.

01:59:39.000 There's like one guy who works there.

01:59:41.000 So there's no deliveries anymore.

01:59:42.000 It's one of the craziest things that I've been seeing recently is, you know, I traveled recently out to Arizona for a speaking engagement, you know, and I used to live in Arizona and wanted to go to this old restaurant that I loved.

01:59:55.000 Just this Mongolian grill, just, you know, real basic.

01:59:58.000 We pulled up and it said temporarily closed due to employee shortages.

02:00:02.000 Yep.

02:00:03.000 Yes, that was the that was the first time and it's it's not like it's a bad restaurant.

02:00:07.000 It's good food.

02:00:08.000 It's they didn't have enough people to operate the restaurant. 0.98

02:00:12.000 So they temporarily closed it.

02:00:14.000 High unemployment and high lack of employment at the same time.

02:00:18.000 It's so weird.

02:00:19.000 It's high unemployment, but low... I don't even know what the term is.

02:00:25.000 Seeking work.

02:00:27.000 Yeah.

02:00:28.000 If you stop seeking work, you're not even calculated as being unemployed anymore.

02:00:30.000 No, and that's the problem, is you have a tremendous amount of people who are just not seeking work at the time, or not seeking work on the books.

02:00:38.000 Because of, again... Because they're getting unemployment and they don't want to lose it.

02:00:42.000 All right, everybody.

02:00:45.000 We're going to talk about these bio labs in Ukraine.

02:00:48.000 This is really interesting stuff.

02:00:50.000 May all just be a conspiracy theory.

02:00:52.000 Crossbone says Twitter banned a user who matched up the bombing locations in U.S.

02:00:56.000 bioweapons labs in Ukraine.

02:00:58.000 Putin is hitting the deep state when he makes these attacks.

02:01:00.000 I don't know if that's true.

02:01:02.000 Snopes says false.

02:01:04.000 Oh, okay.

02:01:04.000 And that means it must be true.

02:01:06.000 That settles it.

02:01:06.000 Right, right, right.

02:01:07.000 Well, we don't know, but we're going to take a look.

02:01:09.000 We're going to talk about it.

02:01:09.000 I don't know if it's true.

02:01:10.000 It's just some posts on Twitter.

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - February 25, 2022

Timcast IRL - US Plans DIRECT ATTACKS On Russian Infrastructure Could Mean WW3 w-Ian Smith

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