Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - WallStreetBets Gets NUKED For Hate Speech, Subreddit Goes Private w-Jason Whitlock

00:00:00.000 you you

00:00:38.000 A peasant revolt is upon us.

00:00:41.000 r slash WallStreetBets for the past, I think, couple of weeks.

00:00:45.000 I mean, honestly, probably for a longer time than we realize.

00:00:47.000 They've been going after these hedge funds, these companies that are basically betting on retail shops doing really poorly.

00:00:55.000 Well, they decided to counter this move by rallying everybody, all these small individuals with a couple hundred bucks here and there to buy some stock in things like GameStop and AMC to destroy, effectively destroy, these hedge funds.

00:01:08.000 Well, all today.

00:01:10.000 We had people on the left and the right cheering, watching these people buy stock in these companies because it meant that these hedge funds were going to lose billions of dollars for once.

00:01:22.000 It seemed that the working class people were transferring wealth from the 1% to them as opposed to the other way around. 0.74

00:01:30.000 Well, there's a lot to go here to break down the story.

00:01:33.000 I'm sure many of you have been following it.

00:01:34.000 It's huge.

00:01:35.000 GameStop stock went from like 18 bucks to 350 bucks per share.

00:01:41.000 And this is a company that most people think isn't doing all that well, so it seems to be quite irrational.

00:01:46.000 But so the saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

00:01:50.000 I just read that today, honestly.

00:01:52.000 So you look, I'm not a stock person.

00:01:54.000 Here's the bad news.

00:01:55.000 Discord has taken down Wall Street Bets server for hate speech.

00:02:00.000 Yep.

00:02:01.000 It's only a matter of time.

00:02:02.000 When you start taking the money from the billionaires, what do they do?

00:02:06.000 They halted trading.

00:02:07.000 They put a circuit breaker freeze on some trading.

00:02:10.000 They started calling for regulation on Barron's magazine.

00:02:15.000 They were saying we should get a 30-day stop on GameStop.

00:02:18.000 Why?

00:02:18.000 Because the billionaires were gonna lose all that money.

00:02:20.000 We can't have that.

00:02:21.000 The peasants, the plebs, must know their place. 1.00

00:02:24.000 Now, the Wall Street Bets subreddit, where all this is going on?

00:02:27.000 Private.

00:02:28.000 So we'll talk about all this.

00:02:30.000 We got a bunch of other stories.

00:02:31.000 We got Vladimir Putin basically saying, we are looking at a World War II type scenario.

00:02:37.000 We got this Twitter troll going to prison for posting a meme, so people say, but it did misinform people on how to vote and, well, it's a crime apparently.

00:02:47.000 This dude's been arrested.

00:02:49.000 So we got a lot to talk about.

00:02:50.000 We'll talk about this.

00:02:51.000 We'll talk about Wall Street bets and the ramifications of this.

00:02:53.000 We'll talk about the stocks.

00:02:54.000 But we have a really cool guest today.

00:02:56.000 We got Jason Whitlock.

00:02:57.000 How's it going, man?

00:02:58.000 Awesome.

00:02:58.000 Awesome to be here.

00:02:59.000 Thank you, Tim, for having me.

00:03:00.000 So who are you?

00:03:01.000 What do you do?

00:03:02.000 Who am I?

00:03:03.000 I'm a longtime sports writer.

00:03:09.000 Made my name in Kansas City, Missouri at the Kansas City Star in the 1990s and early 2000s.

00:03:16.000 Writing predominantly about the intersection of sports, race, and culture.

00:03:24.000 And eventually got jobs at ESPN and Fox Sports and went out on my own.

00:03:33.000 Recently I moved fully into TV, doing my own TV show at Fox Sports 1.

00:03:40.000 And then went out on my own without kick, and now I'm a free agent again, about to do my next move and probably try to, you know, move into the space you're in, in terms of just being an independent voice of truth.

00:03:54.000 And here more recently, I still write about sports, but I write mostly about race and culture, and that's kind of what I'm known for.

00:04:03.000 As of recent, I think you had a particular critique of Black Lives Matter.

00:04:07.000 I think it's fair to say you're not particularly woke.

00:04:09.000 Quite the opposite.

00:04:10.000 No, I am... The whole sports media landscape has gone woke, and I've never been that guy.

00:04:22.000 I'm not political, as I was telling Lydia, she picked me up from the airport.

00:04:27.000 I've never voted.

00:04:29.000 I never wanted a political identity.

00:04:32.000 Now, I am someone that was raised in a church.

00:04:35.000 I am someone that grew up playing football.

00:04:37.000 I went to college on a football scholarship.

00:04:39.000 And so, that's where my values came from.

00:04:43.000 Football and the church.

00:04:45.000 And that has painted me into the, you know, I'm seen as conservative.

00:04:50.000 But I'm still not all that political.

00:04:53.000 Although, here this last election cycle has pushed me probably.

00:04:58.000 In the next election, I will be voting.

00:05:00.000 I'm pretty confident.

00:05:02.000 I now, I feel compelled that I have to participate in the election process because I'm so disappointed by what has transpired over the last few years here.

00:05:14.000 Oh yeah, well we have a lot to talk about, especially with some executive orders from Joe Biden and critical race theory and all that stuff, so we'll get into all that.

00:05:20.000 We also got Luke Rutkowski hanging out.

00:05:21.000 Joe Biden would say some interesting things about you if he found out you didn't vote for him.

00:05:26.000 Also, another thing before starting out here.

00:05:29.000 Tim, I got to correct you here.

00:05:30.000 When it comes to some of the censorship happening right now, we do have to understand that the hedge funds managers statistically are a minority, and it's important for the big tech algorithms to, you know, use, you know, to police all the hate speech going against them right now. 0.95

00:05:44.000 So when you say hedge fund managers are dumb, It's hate speech. 0.93

00:05:50.000 Yeah, they're a minority. 1.00

00:05:51.000 Yeah, they're a minority.

00:05:52.000 So yeah, a lot of hate speech going around a lot of cracking of the whip.

00:05:55.000 So I just realized the 99% is the majority.

00:05:58.000 Yeah, yeah, that 1% is the minority.

00:06:01.000 That's bigotry.

00:06:02.000 Exactly.

00:06:02.000 Welcome back beautiful and amazing human beings.

00:06:04.000 My name is Luke Godowsky of WeAreChange.org.

00:06:06.000 If you want to find out more about me, you can check out my independent media channel on WeAreChange on YouTube.

00:06:12.000 Thanks for having me Tim.

00:06:13.000 Yeah, Ian's hanging out.

00:06:14.000 What up, everybody?

00:06:15.000 Ian Crossland.

00:06:16.000 And speaking about Biden's executive orders, I think he signed 30 in his first week.

00:06:20.000 There are about more now.

00:06:21.000 And one of them repealed or canceled five executive orders.

00:06:26.000 So maybe that counts as five, even though he only did it in one.

00:06:28.000 It's a sign of the collapse, bro.

00:06:30.000 It's shocking.

00:06:30.000 The fact that we are getting to this point where when like Trump signed an executive order on day one, it was a big deal.

00:06:36.000 Biden does, I think.

00:06:37.000 How many did Biden do?

00:06:38.000 A lot more.

00:06:39.000 A couple days ago, I think it was 30.

00:06:40.000 He did a lot more today.

00:06:42.000 It's a lot.

00:06:43.000 I don't even know the total.

00:06:44.000 I got to look it up.

00:06:45.000 When your government starts relying on this executive action, just finger snap, trying to make things happen, it's decay.

00:06:51.000 The end is nigh, man.

00:06:53.000 I don't know what's going to happen.

00:06:54.000 Some people have messaged me, some foreigner friends I have, a lot of commentators in Europe and stuff, saying, it's not the end of the United States.

00:06:59.000 It's the end of the United States as an empire, as this global force.

00:07:03.000 The country is going to exist and be fine, but this is that change that's coming, and there's going to be inner turmoil and conflict, and it's, you know.

00:07:09.000 Maybe gonna be like the fall of the Soviet Union.

00:07:11.000 He has the House and the Senate that are democratically controlled, and he's still signing executive orders like a madman?

00:07:17.000 There's a lot to get into.

00:07:19.000 And especially with the Wall Street stuff.

00:07:20.000 So we're gonna talk about this.

00:07:21.000 This is trying times, man.

00:07:22.000 Doesn't he have to get all this in before Kamala takes over?

00:07:26.000 I guess that's what it is, you know?

00:07:28.000 He's looking at his watch.

00:07:29.000 What was it like being kind of a political outsider watching the last election?

00:07:34.000 Disappointing.

00:07:35.000 I mean, that's the only word I could use for it, just because my business has been built on independent, outspoken, free speech.

00:07:45.000 A search, go wherever the truth leads.

00:07:48.000 That's been my motto.

00:07:50.000 And it feels like that's being outlawed in America.

00:07:55.000 Free speech, anybody on a search for truth, you have to take some political agenda hardcore, and it was...

00:08:06.000 Uncomfortable for me to realize that as flawed as President Trump was, he was our last best hope to retain free speech and a lot of the traditions in America that I actually love and enjoy about America.

00:08:26.000 It was uncomfortable to come to that realization, like, that's our last hope.

00:08:32.000 I hear you, man.

00:08:32.000 Well, we'll definitely get into this because I want to talk, I want to, I want to segue from like the Wall Street bets to like this collapse stuff.

00:08:37.000 But don't forget, while we're finishing our intros, we got Sour Patch, let's press another button.

00:08:41.000 I am here in the corner.

00:08:41.000 I am old enough to remember when Joe Biden thought that executive orders were a form of dictatorship.

00:08:46.000 Apparently he's changed his mind about that since he's been in office.

00:08:49.000 So this will be exciting.

00:08:51.000 I'm thrilled.

00:08:51.000 Right on.

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00:11:40.000 Let's jump over to the first story and talk about Wall Street Bets.

00:11:43.000 My friends, CNBC reports the devastating news.

00:11:47.000 Reddit group WallStreetBets behind massive GameStop and AMC run-ups goes private.

00:11:54.000 Invitation required.

00:11:55.000 CNBC doesn't like WallStreetBets because CNBC is where all these crony hedge fund types and WallStreet types go on the TV and essentially it can manipulate markets and trick poor people into losing a lot of money.

00:12:09.000 They say, Wall Street Bets Reddit chatroom, where retail investors marshal against short sellers, went private Wednesday.

00:12:17.000 You must be invited to visit this community, the page now states.

00:12:20.000 The forum's members topped 3 million as of Wednesday.

00:12:23.000 The community gathered an army of rookie day traders who go after heavily shorted stocks, pushing share prices higher and squeezing out short-selling hedge funds.

00:12:33.000 My favorite part in all this, everybody loves it.

00:12:35.000 Everybody except the crony establishment elites.

00:12:37.000 But here's what it looks like.

00:12:39.000 You go to Reddit, and right now, you have to be invited to this community.

00:12:42.000 I suppose that means there's about 3 million people who are still able to easily access this and see what's going on, but if you're, you know, a layman looking in from the outside and you didn't sign up, like me, you can't see what's going on.

00:12:53.000 So let me show you something real quick.

00:12:54.000 I just want to show you the GameStop stock.

00:12:56.000 It's after hours.

00:12:57.000 It's at $347.51, my friends.

00:12:58.000 $347.51 my friends. Some regular old people are becoming millionaires off of this. 0.91

00:13:06.000 I saw a post from someone, they put like their life savings into it, I guess, and then they made like a million dollars.

00:13:11.000 I'm not saying that's a good idea.

00:13:12.000 I think it's hugely risky.

00:13:14.000 And to be fair, there are some of these, you know, Wall Street types who are definitely saying it's a big mistake, these people are gonna get hurt.

00:13:20.000 Some people probably will.

00:13:21.000 That's why, don't take any advice from anyone.

00:13:24.000 Anyone here on this show, anybody saying anything is not advice, because we got no idea what we're talking about.

00:13:27.000 We are not stock experts in any capacity.

00:13:29.000 And I think to a certain degree, a lot of people on Wall Street bets aren't either.

00:13:34.000 However, to be fair, a lot of people who go on TV and tell you what to buy are probably lying, too.

00:13:39.000 Now, here's where it gets really crazy.

00:13:40.000 This is the big, big drop.

00:13:43.000 Discord bans Wall Street bets for hate speech.

00:13:46.000 And that's it.

00:13:47.000 That's the lie.

00:13:48.000 That's the trick.

00:13:50.000 They've been talking about how they have to censor everybody for their hate speech because they say naughty things that offend people.

00:13:56.000 But what happens when you get a group of people, a large group of people, thousands, tens of thousands, millions, who are saying, we found out a way to take the money from the 1% and bring it back to the people?

00:14:06.000 Oh my, we've discovered hate speech!

00:14:08.000 We better shut down their ability to coordinate.

00:14:11.000 This, to me, looks like a dirty game.

00:14:13.000 First, they tried... they halted trading on the stock market.

00:14:17.000 It was a circuit breaker.

00:14:18.000 So that's when, like, trading goes too crazy, they stop it.

00:14:20.000 But then we saw that some of these platforms, like TD Ameritrade, restricted trading.

00:14:24.000 So we know what they're doing behind the scenes.

00:14:27.000 The people at Wall Street Bets even think that there's a coordinated effort to manipulate the market to try and save these hedge funds, because someone's got to bail them out.

00:14:34.000 They could end up being in debt $10 billion, meaning they're gone.

00:14:39.000 Now, I don't know what you guys think.

00:14:40.000 To me, this reeks of phony censorship.

00:14:45.000 Accuse them of hate speech, that way they can try and at least pretend like they have some moral high ground.

00:14:50.000 But who's buying it?

00:14:51.000 I mean, what did you think when you allowed Silicon Valley to aggressively police speech?

00:14:55.000 What did you think was going to happen?

00:14:57.000 Of course, they're going to be using it and abusing it to help out their friends, their family members, the people who serve them, the people who give them money in.

00:15:03.000 And this is huge.

00:15:04.000 According to S3 Partners, Short sellers lost $14.3 billion dollars just on GameStop, not even including all the other ones.

00:15:16.000 GameStop.

00:15:18.000 Exactly.

00:15:19.000 And then other people are answering back saying, no, no, no, no.

00:15:23.000 Short sellers didn't lose.

00:15:25.000 People won and enriched themselves to the tune of $14.3 billion.

00:15:30.000 Manipulators all these hedge funds managers that are ... absolutely hated by the left and the right are finally ... getting a taste of their own medicine and a lot of people ... are realizing hey it's only capitalism when it benefits ... them and we saw massive massive pushback by CNBC ... freaking out CNN wrote an article.

00:15:49.000 How Trumpism explains the GameStop stock surge.

00:15:52.000 Are you kidding me?

00:15:53.000 I mean, if CNN couldn't absolutely hate it when Wall Street hedge funds managers don't get their pound of flesh from Main Street, this absolutely exemplifies it.

00:16:03.000 It's absolutely sickening.

00:16:04.000 When the little guy wins, CNN is always going to be backing the big guy.

00:16:08.000 It's crazy.

00:16:09.000 Trumpism!

00:16:09.000 Trump's gone!

00:16:12.000 I saw a post of someone there like, wow, Trump disappeared real quick, didn't he?

00:16:15.000 He's out of the presidency and like, we don't see him.

00:16:17.000 We don't hear from him.

00:16:18.000 So what does CNN do?

00:16:20.000 Well, it's Trumpism.

00:16:21.000 I knew it.

00:16:22.000 We said it was coming.

00:16:23.000 They're really out of touch.

00:16:24.000 Cause it's just like a bunch of kids.

00:16:25.000 Well, I don't know if they're all kids, but like using Reddit forums, that's not, has nothing to do with Trump.

00:16:29.000 It's been around since before Trump.

00:16:31.000 They did use that tactic to get Trump elected.

00:16:33.000 Here's what is new though, guys.

00:16:36.000 And since COVID.

00:16:39.000 There's a lot of working class people stuck at home.

00:16:43.000 Their jobs have been shut down.

00:16:46.000 If you're in the service industry, you're not making near the money that you used to make.

00:16:52.000 Many of the people have lost their jobs.

00:16:54.000 And so, listen, I don't want to cry broke here because I'm not broke.

00:16:58.000 But I will say this about COVID and what has happened is that I got heavily involved with my TD Ameritrade account.

00:17:08.000 I have one that my financial advisor runs, and then I have my own little one that because of COVID and I was at home more, I started paying a lot of attention to.

00:17:19.000 And if there have been stories written, I think like 16 million people have signed up for their own personal accounts.

00:17:27.000 And so what I think is going on here They're calling a timeout like, wow, we got 16 million new traders.

00:17:34.000 There's some people that read it that have figured out.

00:17:37.000 They've gathered up people that have been put out of work, the working class, and they figured out how to make money. 0.85

00:17:44.000 And we have to call a timeout and figure out how do we respond to all of these new traders and this new economy that's going on in the stock market.

00:17:55.000 And so they're coming up with excuses while they try to figure out how they stop this disruption.

00:18:00.000 that it's taking their money away bro yes but just think about what hedge funds represent the

00:18:07.000 destruction of the little man and the small businessman the individual restaurant owners

00:18:13.000 the individual stores and provide everything is walmart Everything is Amazon.

00:18:18.000 Everything's this big global chain.

00:18:21.000 And I think these people, and again, I don't have a full understanding of Wall Street bets and what's been going on, but it just feels like the working class fighting back and the elites calling a timeout.

00:18:33.000 We gotta figure out how to stop them.

00:18:35.000 That's what the Nasdaq CEO was considering today, thinking about holding and stopping trades to recalibrate their positions to, of course, combat people on Reddit.

00:18:44.000 And now people on Reddit are even pushing their discussions, making their groups private, which is absolutely crazy here.

00:18:50.000 But one thing that you also brought up during the whole coronavirus 2020 year, stock market speculators were the only ones who made record high profits while everyone else was wiped out.

00:19:03.000 People realize this.

00:19:04.000 People understand that this is not right because when we look at hedge funds managers, the people on Wall Street, they don't provide any services.

00:19:11.000 They don't provide any goods.

00:19:12.000 They literally move around zeros on the computer and make more money for themselves.

00:19:16.000 And people are scratching their heads like, hey, if they could do it, we could do it as well.

00:19:19.000 But bro, it's fine if someone is like, yo, I got 10,000 shares at a dollar.

00:19:24.000 Oh, it's $2.

00:19:25.000 I'll sell it.

00:19:25.000 I just made a bunch of money.

00:19:27.000 It's another thing when they start putting shorts on stock where they're basically betting someone's going to fail.

00:19:32.000 While saying we're infusing money, but what happened?

00:19:34.000 I'll tell you what the problem is.

00:19:36.000 Okay, fine.

00:19:36.000 You want to short sell something?

00:19:37.000 You want to take that bet?

00:19:38.000 It's risky?

00:19:39.000 I accept that too.

00:19:39.000 You wanna make a risky bet?

00:19:40.000 You know what I don't like?

00:19:42.000 Is when they short a stock, then they get their buddies to go on TV and go, oh, it's gonna be bad.

00:19:47.000 You better sell now.

00:19:48.000 And then everyone panics and the stock crumples.

00:19:50.000 They start laughing because they manipulate the game to make money.

00:19:53.000 This is what they are reaping.

00:19:55.000 This is what they get.

00:19:56.000 And the best part, you were mentioning this with COVID and all that, a lot of these people, Young people.

00:20:01.000 A lot of these people needed money real bad.

00:20:03.000 And it took months for the Congress to get these checks out, to even negotiate these things.

00:20:09.000 And some people were desperate, got those and used what they could and did what they did.

00:20:13.000 But there are some people who had some lying around.

00:20:15.000 We just got $600 stimulus checks, got sent around.

00:20:18.000 Now you get a bunch of bored people.

00:20:20.000 Sitting around with their Robin Hood accounts, TD Ameritrade, and then someone says, hey, you know those fat cats who made billions of dollars off our back while our economy collapsed?

00:20:29.000 You want to stick it to the man?

00:20:30.000 And they're like, what do I got to do?

00:20:31.000 You got a couple hundred bucks?

00:20:32.000 I sure do.

00:20:32.000 From my stimulus.

00:20:34.000 Drop it in.

00:20:35.000 My favorite thing about this is the establishment is being hoisted by their own petard.

00:20:38.000 That's my favorite thing.

00:20:39.000 They want to pump out these billions of dollars.

00:20:42.000 $1,400 stimulus checks are coming.

00:20:44.000 And what do you think is going to happen when a bunch of these young people are like, screw it, and they dump it all to target these short squeeze out these hedge fund managers?

00:20:51.000 It's Robinhood, dude.

00:20:52.000 Yes, it's Robinhood!

00:20:54.000 That's what Robinhood did!

00:20:55.000 Stole from the rich and gave to the poor.

00:20:57.000 And now we're seeing it again digitally.

00:20:59.000 That's not a coincidence.

00:21:00.000 If this really is a simulation.

00:21:02.000 Dude, the app is called Robin Hood.

00:21:04.000 You're talking about an app that people are using.

00:21:07.000 People are using Cash App.

00:21:08.000 People are using Robin Hood.

00:21:09.000 I personally tweeted out my Cash App and people are like, oh, you're selling shovels during the cold rush here.

00:21:17.000 I see what you're doing here.

00:21:18.000 And I'm like, yeah.

00:21:19.000 Yeah, I mean, it makes sense.

00:21:20.000 Now, of course, I'm always very skeptical of Reddit because I know Reddit could be manipulated.

00:21:24.000 I know the stock market is fully manipulated.

00:21:26.000 So we should be cautious here.

00:21:28.000 And another thing to kind of really, really consider here is wait until Wall Street bets, wait until that community finds out about Bitcoin.

00:21:36.000 I mean, there's also another huge potential here of people saying, well, we're going to invest where things actually matter, where they actually make an impact.

00:21:43.000 And this is a sign that a lot of people on the left and right are seeing as this huge merger point of people finally coming together, putting their political differences aside and saying, you know what?

00:21:53.000 Everything's rigged.

00:21:54.000 Let's play the market just like they play it.

00:21:56.000 I, you know, I hear what you're saying, but you know what I think is more likely to happen is that the hedge funds are going to panic and find Bitcoin.

00:22:01.000 Because these shorts are being attacked, all right?

00:22:04.000 So I'll try to explain it.

00:22:06.000 I may be getting it wrong, because I'm not a stock person.

00:22:08.000 So you guys can super chat, and then we'll get to that.

00:22:10.000 But the general idea, my understanding of a short, is that, I'll put it this way.

00:22:15.000 Like Ian, let me borrow that share real quick.

00:22:16.000 I'll pay you for it next week.

00:22:18.000 I then sell it to Luke for 10 bucks.

00:22:20.000 I'm hoping that in a week, it's worth a dollar.

00:22:23.000 So then I'm holding 10 bucks.

00:22:24.000 Here's your dollar for the stock you lent me, right?

00:22:26.000 I'll pay you back for it now.

00:22:27.000 But what happens when I sell it for $10 to Luke, and then a week later it's worth $100?

00:22:31.000 And then, you know, Ian comes to me and says, all right, $100 is due, but I only have $10.

00:22:35.000 I don't got the stock anymore.

00:22:37.000 So what they're doing is, by everyone buying into these stocks, the value skyrockets.

00:22:42.000 And then the crazy thing is, these hedge funds who short the stock, there's no bottom.

00:22:48.000 It's a near infinite potential loss.

00:22:51.000 If the GameStop stock goes to $5,000, which I'm not saying it will, then for every share that they sold at $6, they owe that $5,000, and they only got $6.

00:23:02.000 So they're looking at, what do you say look like?

00:23:04.000 $14 billion lost.

00:23:06.000 Just on, according to S3 Partners, just in GameStock alone.

00:23:12.000 I am not offering any advice, advocating for or encouraging anything, but I will tell you my opinion.

00:23:18.000 Oh man, I love it.

00:23:19.000 I love it so much.

00:23:20.000 I got mixed feelings because...

00:23:23.000 It's dangerous for people to coordinate and game the stock market, but it's totally possible.

00:23:28.000 Well, that's what goes on every day.

00:23:29.000 That's what they do.

00:23:30.000 That's exactly what they do, bro.

00:23:32.000 That's the name of the job.

00:23:33.000 Listen, listen.

00:23:34.000 Who was it?

00:23:35.000 Loeffler and Perdue?

00:23:35.000 Were they the ones?

00:23:36.000 Oh, they were the ones, yeah.

00:23:37.000 They moved these stocks around?

00:23:39.000 Uh leffler they moved these stocks around just before covet or whatever and they got called out for it

00:23:43.000 And they said it was totally legit and we weren't the ones who did it sure

00:23:47.000 Wealthy individuals with connections with access always know the right moves to make it's just convenient, isn't it?

00:23:53.000 But also let's just think about The really wealthy people and the connected people the

00:23:59.000 globalists and you know, i'll get fried for using that word.

00:24:02.000 Maybe I don't know The global when they're shutting down the economy sending

00:24:07.000 everyone home put mask on you can't work They see the stock market

00:24:12.000 And the globalists have all the money to invest In the stock market as it crashes and they've benefited and

00:24:20.000 everybody knows that if you've got a brand you've been following the rich

00:24:24.000 made a ton of money during coven

00:24:28.000 I'm embarrassed and I'm not, I'm not, Super rich, but I'm embarrassed by how much money I've made during COVID by buying devalued stock and then sitting back for the last six months and watching it grow. 0.83

00:24:42.000 It's embarrassing how much money I've made sitting on my rear end. 0.60

00:24:47.000 At home!

00:24:48.000 It is a transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich. 0.65

00:24:51.000 And when I hear about millions of regular people saying, I got a stimulus check, let's do it.

00:24:57.000 You know what that is?

00:24:57.000 We had a bunch of people storm the Capitol.

00:24:59.000 That was dumb. 0.99

00:24:59.000 They accomplished nothing. 0.99

00:25:01.000 They're gonna charge people with sedition.

00:25:02.000 Nothing's accomplished from it.

00:25:04.000 Now the feds are like, we want more security powers.

00:25:06.000 Nothing gets accomplished.

00:25:07.000 I'll tell you what really scares them.

00:25:09.000 When you go after their pocketbook.

00:25:10.000 When the regular working people figured out a way to stick it to the man.

00:25:14.000 And so they panicked so hard, It's hate speech! 0.93

00:25:17.000 They're bigots!

00:25:19.000 Economics is our only solution.

00:25:24.000 We can't count on the ballot anymore.

00:25:26.000 We can't vote them out.

00:25:27.000 But if we can make them pay an economic price for the exploitation of the working class, then you have a shot. 0.99

00:25:35.000 Yeah.

00:25:35.000 I'm loving the left and the right together on this one.

00:25:38.000 I'm seeing like, like leftist, you got Kyle Kalinske, you got Vaush.

00:25:41.000 They're all like, this is fantastic.

00:25:43.000 You got right-wing individuals cheering for it.

00:25:44.000 And I'm sitting back like, yes, unity.

00:25:46.000 I mean, this is why we've been saying voting with your dollar is extremely important.

00:25:51.000 And when we look back at previous movements like Occupy Wall Street, we can make fun of them, we can ridicule them, but one of the major success stories was them disinvesting from major big banks and investing in smaller community-based banks.

00:26:04.000 And that's one of the success stories that I think shook a lot of people from the core.

00:26:08.000 I think a lot of people are shook especially from the reaction from the mainstream media especially from the reaction of big tech and also from the from the response that we got from the White House today as Biden's press secretary was asked about this and her only response was do you know we have a female Treasury secretary?

00:26:26.000 Literally that was her response and that the female ... Treasury secretary by the way Janet Yellen former head of ... the Federal Reserve who also gave speeches to Wall Street to ... the tune of millions of dollars she enriched herself ... for giving speeches to Wall Street and also was a part of ... the same institution that bailed out all these big Wall ... Street banks and firms during the covid scandal we have to ... understand those a huge transfer of wealth that no one ... wants to talk about with a Federal Reserve printed a ...

00:26:53.000 You know what's funny about this?

00:26:54.000 and literally gave it to all these speculators gave it to Wall Street.

00:26:59.000 So their losses were literally privatized their their you know profits whenever they make money that of course is

00:27:05.000 pure capitalism, but when they lose money the government steps

00:27:08.000 in now, they have a potential of losing more money because of independent small actions of Redditors and now they're

00:27:13.000 freaking out talking about look, but we have a female. 1.00

00:27:16.000 Look how diverse we are.

00:27:18.000 You know, are you kidding me?

00:27:19.000 You know, what's funny about this is that what we're watching

00:27:22.000 right now are these billionaires having their wealth redistributed among this community of 3 million people.

00:27:27.000 And I'm like, that sounds awfully like what these socialists have been calling for for some time, but everyone's cool with it because it wasn't done through government.

00:27:35.000 It was done through the market.

00:27:37.000 And so everyone, like, so the left is basically like, well, it wasn't government, but you did redistribute wealth.

00:27:42.000 And then the people on the right are like, these monopolistic oligarchs are getting what's coming to them.

00:27:46.000 And it's through the market.

00:27:47.000 Everybody's happy!

00:27:48.000 We've got to be careful in the coming years, because I think this is going to continue, this coordinated stock buys and sells and stuff.

00:27:53.000 Be careful about buying stock on margin.

00:27:55.000 This is what happened during the Great Depression.

00:27:57.000 You can't give advice.

00:27:58.000 Okay, but during the Great Depression, what happened was the economy was booming, and everyone was like, oh, you can buy stocks to make money?

00:28:04.000 Well, that's awesome.

00:28:05.000 I'll take out a loan to buy stocks and assume that the stock's going to go up.

00:28:08.000 And it kept happening, and people kept taking out more loans and more loans, and then one day, A big sell happened, and they called a margin call, which is the stock's down, so you're going to have to pay for the loss with your loan.

00:28:21.000 People are like, I don't have that money.

00:28:23.000 I took a loan out to buy the stock in the first place.

00:28:25.000 Now it's worth less.

00:28:26.000 I owe money.

00:28:26.000 And then it would dip more.

00:28:28.000 And the people that sold immediately got out.

00:28:30.000 But a lot of regular working class people lost their wealth that way. 0.99

00:28:34.000 Listen, must stress, you gotta get your own financial advisors because we are just a bunch of morons who know very little. 0.98

00:28:41.000 Use history as a lesson, as a book, as a history book. 0.97

00:28:44.000 Not financial advice, but me personally, I don't invest any money that I'm not afraid of losing.

00:28:49.000 Whether it's cryptocurrency, silver, gold, bullets, even stonks.

00:28:53.000 Personally, I'm not going to spend it if I can't afford to lose it.

00:28:56.000 That's me personally, not telling you what to do, not financial advice.

00:29:00.000 We have to stress this enough.

00:29:03.000 Because, again, I think all of us are involved in the stock market in one way or another, and we have to disclose this, and there's a bunch of weird particular rules surrounding this particular issue.

00:29:13.000 Like Jason, I got in during COVID to the stock market.

00:29:15.000 I love the saying that the market will remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

00:29:21.000 So these people who are placing these bets or buying on margin, when those calls come in and you've got to pay up, You might be like, that makes no sense.

00:29:28.000 Why is GameStop at 350 bucks?

00:29:31.000 It's a failing retail market.

00:29:33.000 Doesn't matter.

00:29:34.000 The market speaks.

00:29:35.000 And so what we're seeing from this, in my opinion, we got Joe Biden cranking out executive orders like nobody's business.

00:29:41.000 Like history, right?

00:29:42.000 I just counted 37 presidential actions.

00:29:46.000 I don't know if they're all executive orders.

00:29:48.000 Well, because they could be memorandums.

00:29:49.000 But either way, it is trying to establish, in effect, changing the rules, changing the law.

00:29:54.000 This, in my opinion, is a sign of decay of the system.

00:29:57.000 The legislation's not working anymore.

00:30:00.000 Joe Biden's come in and he's just rubber stamping whatever they want.

00:30:03.000 Then you also have people Showing how broken the market is.

00:30:06.000 For a year, when our economy was in shambles, people were making billions off speculating.

00:30:11.000 You got people, their stock value skyrocketing.

00:30:14.000 And I understand it's not liquid cash, right?

00:30:16.000 They're getting net worth and net value.

00:30:18.000 But traders were selling and were making money.

00:30:21.000 They were getting liquid cash out of the system, while everyone wasn't, people weren't working.

00:30:25.000 Then we saw the government print all this money, trillions of dollars, and they're gonna do it again.

00:30:29.000 The system is in decay.

00:30:30.000 This, to me, is a sign of major instability.

00:30:33.000 I'm not entirely confident about what comes next.

00:30:36.000 You know, we've talked about civil conflict, you know, whatever you want to call it.

00:30:41.000 Man, I gotta tell you, when we've talked about like Weimar Germany and the mass printing of money and people shoveling money into the gutter and stuff, we are looking at this crazy economic instability.

00:30:52.000 What happens when the system shuts down?

00:30:54.000 When they try everything in their power to stop the people from rising up?

00:30:58.000 So what do they do?

00:30:58.000 We're halting trading.

00:30:59.000 We're circuit-breaking the stock.

00:31:01.000 You can't trade anymore.

00:31:02.000 That didn't work?

00:31:03.000 Well then, ban them for hate speech!

00:31:05.000 People are gonna be like, that's BS, dude!

00:31:07.000 You keep changing the rules and moving the goalposts every time we figure out a way to stick it to the man.

00:31:12.000 To find a way to finally get the wealth out of the hands of the 1%.

00:31:15.000 They change the rules again.

00:31:17.000 And when the rule changes don't work, they scream hate speech.

00:31:20.000 Eventually people are gonna say, the system is so broken, there's no point playing anymore.

00:31:24.000 And then...

00:31:25.000 It falls down.

00:31:26.000 But again, a bigger point to add here, no matter who made money today, we also have to realize a big fact here that tens of millions of people woke up to how the game is rigged.

00:31:36.000 We had a very, we had a very... What woke them up?

00:31:39.000 Yeah.

00:31:39.000 Well, no, what woke them up?

00:31:41.000 CNN, CNBC, I mean, we can make another argument that, but again, today's a very special day because it is the rare occurrence where wealth Finally transferred from Wall Street to Middle Street.

00:31:54.000 Usually it goes from Middle Street to Wall Street.

00:31:56.000 Main Street.

00:31:56.000 No, Main Street.

00:31:57.000 Usually it goes from Wall Street to Main Street.

00:31:58.000 Today it went from, you know, Wall Street to Main Street.

00:32:01.000 Usually it goes Main Street to Wall Street.

00:32:03.000 They use these tricks.

00:32:04.000 You know what really made me angry, man?

00:32:07.000 I'm really angry.

00:32:08.000 When Bitcoin was reaching like $38K, $39K, I saw these articles pop up.

00:32:12.000 Investors could lose everything in Bitcoin.

00:32:14.000 Oh, I saw one of those.

00:32:15.000 These people took out loans and they're going to lose everything.

00:32:17.000 And I'm like, dude, I knew what the game was.

00:32:19.000 They wanted you to get scared.

00:32:21.000 They wanted you to sell so they could buy it cheap.

00:32:23.000 When it was at like $38, $39, you had people who finally, finally poor people see cryptocurrency and they're like, I'm going to buy some of this.

00:32:30.000 It's going up.

00:32:31.000 There's real value here.

00:32:32.000 Well, the fat cats, the big firms, the big funds, they're like, how can we get more of this?

00:32:36.000 But I don't want to spend that much.

00:32:38.000 Can we get our cronies in media to freak the people out and make them think they'll lose it all so they sell and then we buy at a premium?

00:32:44.000 And it works.

00:32:45.000 They do it over and over and over again.

00:32:47.000 And now they're reaping the reward of their own broken system.

00:32:49.000 It's crazy because you're not allowed to go out and say, like, you can't go out and say, hey, sell your Bitcoin.

00:32:54.000 But an article can be written about how dangerous it is.

00:32:58.000 So CNBC and their friends, they can write an article saying, it's really bad to buy this.

00:33:03.000 Don't do it.

00:33:04.000 Meanwhile, the billionaires are laughing all the way to the bank and the working class people are the ones getting screwed over.

00:33:08.000 Tim, you made your point wonderfully.

00:33:11.000 I just want to repackage and restate your point to me, my interpretation of your point.

00:33:16.000 I think America tried to speak through politics, through the ballot, hey, we don't like politicians, so we're gonna elect a reality TV star.

00:33:27.000 Yeah.

00:33:27.000 Then, now that they've totally rejected that, they've turned to, okay, we're gonna take money from you to try to express our dissatisfaction, so it goes from the ballot to the dollar, and the only option left is the gun.

00:33:41.000 What was that saying about the boxes?

00:33:44.000 The ballot box and the cartridge box or whatever?

00:33:46.000 Something like that?

00:33:48.000 I'm scared of that.

00:33:49.000 I'm scared of the idea that if people are told that you're not even allowed to play the game, like the rich people get special privileges.

00:33:56.000 You know what I saw in Barron's magazine?

00:33:58.000 They said we need a 30-day stop on GameStop stocks because these poor, unsophisticated investors are going to be hurt by this.

00:34:08.000 Oh yeah, I'm sure.

00:34:10.000 Look, some dude takes his check.

00:34:12.000 He's got $600.

00:34:12.000 He pays his rent.

00:34:13.000 He's got a couple hundred bucks left.

00:34:15.000 You know what his worst case scenario is?

00:34:17.000 When this person puts $200 into some stock and it crumbles, he lost $200.

00:34:22.000 I'm sure he or she will be upset about it.

00:34:24.000 They will be upset about it.

00:34:25.000 But these hedge funds are going to lose billions.

00:34:28.000 So no, they're not concerned about the poor, unsophisticated investor who might lose a couple hundred bucks.

00:34:33.000 They've never cared about these people.

00:34:35.000 They're worried about their buddies and their hedge funds, which are going to lose billions.

00:34:38.000 And that's it.

00:34:39.000 System crumbles.

00:34:40.000 You know, Tim, without government, who's going to make sure that the stocks don't rise too quickly, right?

00:34:46.000 And that's exactly what's happening here.

00:34:48.000 And it's so absurd because we're having people invest in a company, invest in the stock market, something that a government should see and say, Yeah, that's great.

00:34:57.000 People are investing and having trust in our big financial institutions that are usually rigged against them. 0.92

00:35:02.000 But because they're so rigged, because they're so manipulated, people are using those same tricks and they're having a mirror to this corrupt, nasty little witch that is the financial system and it's finally seeing itself in its own reflection and it's saying, oh my goodness, I am ugly. 0.96

00:35:18.000 I created these rules and these rules are slapping me upside the head and I'm becoming a lot uglier as the time goes on. 0.97

00:35:23.000 Let's talk about this Trumpism article.

00:35:25.000 This is an amazing article.

00:35:26.000 Insane.

00:35:27.000 From CNN, how Trumpism explains the GameStop stock surge.

00:35:33.000 Spoiler alert, it doesn't.

00:35:35.000 But let's read anyway from Chris Silliza.

00:35:37.000 He says that the core of Donald Trump's angry populist appeal was and is this sentiment, quote, the elites think they know better than you.

00:35:45.000 They think they can tell you how to live and what to believe.

00:35:47.000 But guess what?

00:35:48.000 We the people are smarter than the elites.

00:35:51.000 Let me stop you right there, Chris.

00:35:53.000 The elites do think that.

00:35:55.000 And we the people, as a decentralized distributed computing network, are smarter than you.

00:36:01.000 It's why communism doesn't work.

00:36:03.000 Because a committee can't figure out how to distribute resources better than a decentralized network of individuals who are seeking the things they need and want.

00:36:12.000 Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a lousy fair capitalist.

00:36:13.000 I think there are still problems there.

00:36:15.000 But yeah.

00:36:16.000 We see it in computing.

00:36:18.000 A distributed network is better than a single point of failure.

00:36:21.000 I digress.

00:36:22.000 He says Trump elucidated this argument in its purest form at a rally in North Dakota in 2018, when he went on his rift, quote, I meet these people.

00:36:30.000 They call them the elite.

00:36:32.000 These people, I look at them.

00:36:33.000 I say, that's elite.

00:36:34.000 We got more money.

00:36:35.000 We got more brains.

00:36:36.000 We got better houses, apartments.

00:36:38.000 We got nicer boats.

00:36:39.000 We're smarter than they are.

00:36:40.000 And they and they say they're elite.

00:36:42.000 We're the elite.

00:36:43.000 You're the elite.

00:36:44.000 We're the elite. 0.98

00:36:45.000 So I said the other day, let's keep calling these people and let's face it, they've been stone-cold losers, the elite, the elite. 0.57

00:36:52.000 So let them keep calling themselves the elite, but we're going to call ourselves. 0.76

00:36:56.000 And remember, you are indeed, you work harder, but you are indeed smarter than them.

00:37:00.000 Let's call ourselves from now on the super elite.

00:37:03.000 We're the super elite.

00:37:05.000 Chris says, what made Trump's argument so potent, politically speaking, is that he wasn't just calling out the elites, he was saying that the average Joes needed to rise up and actually show them how wrong they were. 0.73

00:37:15.000 That voting for him was the best way to express their anger and frustration, with the condescension of the alleged bettors.

00:37:23.000 Donald Trump offered himself up as a collective middle finger to the elites, and he won.

00:37:28.000 All of which brings me to the current, seemingly inexplicable stock surge of GameStop, the video game seller that has made its money over the years, thanks to its location in malls.

00:37:36.000 Now, from here, we get kind of the point.

00:37:38.000 I got to tell you, for the most part, he's bringing up the correct point in kind of the wrong way.

00:37:42.000 It's not Trumpism.

00:37:44.000 Trump did not create this.

00:37:46.000 Trump is a symptom of this.

00:37:47.000 Guess what?

00:37:48.000 The elites have been saying we're smarter than you.

00:37:51.000 They have been using revolving-door politics, where the people from the biggest corporations get the jobs in government, overseeing the same company they just worked for as CEO.

00:37:59.000 Or starting wars and selling the bombs from government back to their friends in those companies.

00:38:03.000 We know what they do, and we know the games they play.

00:38:05.000 We know the bailouts they get.

00:38:07.000 When they fail, they say, oh, well, we have to save them.

00:38:09.000 They're too big.

00:38:10.000 But when mom-and-pop shops fail, they say, sorry, too bad.

00:38:13.000 Why don't you apply for unemployment?

00:38:14.000 Maybe six months will kick you a check.

00:38:16.000 That isn't enough to buy a loaf of bread.

00:38:18.000 More importantly, let's even talk about schools.

00:38:20.000 I'm not a fan of college, but they are telling these people, your only choice is to go to college, racking up massive debt for young people who find no way out.

00:38:27.000 The system is crumbling.

00:38:29.000 The elites have been milking it and extracting it forever.

00:38:32.000 And it's gotten to the point where people are saying, enough.

00:38:35.000 And now the best part is, the left and the right are both laughing as this happens.

00:38:39.000 But to claim it's Trumpism, no, you see, Trump was the imperfect avatar for people who felt this anger.

00:38:46.000 But there are people who couldn't agree with his policies.

00:38:48.000 As a man, he couldn't represent this entity well enough.

00:38:53.000 With Trump gone, that entity is now in its purest form.

00:38:56.000 The rage of the people staring at the elites who have been stripping out their value and kicking them down and mocking them has now just been unleashed.

00:39:05.000 And this is what we get.

00:39:05.000 It's like Obi-Wan Kenobi, man.

00:39:07.000 Yes!

00:39:07.000 Struck him down.

00:39:08.000 Now he's a being of light.

00:39:10.000 Chris the author of this article actually tweeted it and the number one response right now is a picture of Ralph with a flute in his nose with a thousand five hundred likes right now and I'm reading some of the replies and a lot of people are just like what are you talking about?

00:39:27.000 And you're right, he had a hard time explaining what was happening, so he just did the laziest

00:39:32.000 thing he could and said, it's just all because of this one guy.

00:39:35.000 Trumpism.

00:39:36.000 I'm going to share this story.

00:39:38.000 I'm not endorsing what I'm about to share the story, but I live in middle America.

00:39:43.000 I live in Tennessee.

00:39:44.000 I live in Nashville.

00:39:46.000 And the problem with a lot of the media, they live in New York or LA, they're totally disconnected

00:39:51.000 from real people.

00:39:52.000 I live in Nashville, right downtown.

00:39:54.000 It's a very popular bar across the street from me.

00:39:56.000 I went and watched Sunday football.

00:39:58.000 There was a young man in the bar wearing a hat.

00:40:02.000 And he was with a big group of people, and he walked by to go to the bathroom.

00:40:06.000 I said, what's on your hat?

00:40:08.000 And it said, make politicians afraid again.

00:40:11.000 Oh.

00:40:11.000 And that's the sentiment you have in the South, in Tennessee, where I live.

00:40:18.000 Nashville is a relatively liberal city.

00:40:22.000 It's had a liberal mayor, a Democratic mayor, since like the 1960s or 70s.

00:40:27.000 But that guy's sentiment on his hat that he's wearing out in a crowded bar, everybody watching football, no one bats an eye at thinking like that.

00:40:36.000 And so you're right.

00:40:38.000 Again, Trump, imperfect avatar.

00:40:42.000 But if we let people express their anger through the ballot, it's a lot better than these other methods that they're gonna go to.

00:40:51.000 And if we don't restore some integrity in our election process, we're headed for civil conflict.

00:40:58.000 Well, I got this quote.

00:41:00.000 This is, uh, the Four Boxes of Liberty, which we briefly mentioned.

00:41:03.000 They say Larry McDonald, a politician from Georgia and former president of the John Birch Society,

00:41:07.000 has also been quoted omitting the caution to use bullets as the last resort.

00:41:11.000 We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom. The soap box, the ballot box, the jury

00:41:16.000 box, and the cartridge box. The term is used in newspaper articles and has been used in a petition

00:41:21.000 to the Supreme Court of California.

00:41:23.000 Four boxes and derivatives have been used in the name of various websites that espouse patriotism and the right to bear arms.

00:41:30.000 I think there's a better quote that's probably safer to use.

00:41:34.000 Those that make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.

00:41:38.000 And that was, we talked about this.

00:41:39.000 Kennedy.

00:41:39.000 Kennedy said that.

00:41:40.000 And so it's similar.

00:41:41.000 When people soapbox and they stand up and say, this must happen.

00:41:45.000 And then big tech bashes them over the head and knocks them to the dirt.

00:41:48.000 Well, then they go to the ballot box.

00:41:50.000 They cast their votes.

00:41:51.000 Then we saw Trump bring people to the jury box.

00:41:54.000 Sort of.

00:41:54.000 They went to the courts.

00:41:55.000 They tried.

00:41:56.000 They tried.

00:41:57.000 And then what we saw was people storm the Capitol.

00:41:58.000 So it's a low grade version and it's scary because we don't want conflict.

00:42:02.000 We want people to, like, figure out a path forward.

00:42:05.000 But I tell you right now, what we're seeing with this GameStop Wall Street stuff is populist anger.

00:42:11.000 You know, what's funny is there are a lot of establishment Democrat types who are scared of the word populist.

00:42:16.000 They don't know what it means.

00:42:17.000 You're either populist or you're an elitist.

00:42:19.000 I understand it's not absolute, but the general idea is for, of, and by the people, or for the establishment elites, the cronies, the people with the money, the people born in the wealth.

00:42:29.000 The way I look at populism is popular ideas for the population, ideas that the people want and need.

00:42:36.000 So when you have the left and the right completely disagreeing on how to implement the policies to make things better, but completely agreeing the establishment is crooked and corrupt and cheering this on, well then we are seeing some kind of raw unified force.

00:42:50.000 It's not going to be politically unified.

00:42:54.000 The political parties and the ideologies are more of effigies or avatars of this ideology or anger.

00:43:03.000 No, what we're seeing now is pure rage.

00:43:05.000 When you see people go out in the street and riot, pure rage.

00:43:07.000 There's no rhyme or reason.

00:43:09.000 What we're seeing now with Wall Street bets is just digital.

00:43:12.000 It's online.

00:43:12.000 It's more strategic.

00:43:14.000 But a lot of people are throwing their money behind this, not expecting to get rich.

00:43:17.000 Tim, do you think, because my concern as a black person is, I'm wondering, it's like when I'll have a conversation with my mother about all of this and she's so into Democratic politics.

00:43:33.000 She's such a Barack Obama. 0.91

00:43:35.000 I'm not even sure she fully understands what's going on in this country As it relates to working class versus the elite.

00:43:43.000 My mother was a 30-year factory worker. 1.00

00:43:45.000 She is as working class as it comes. 0.99

00:43:47.000 But she's so into Democratic politics that I think she thinks she's an elite. 1.00

00:43:53.000 because of the life that i provide a probably uh... but but i think she thinks she's a delete

00:43:59.000 and everything to her or i don't want speak for but for a lot of black people

00:44:03.000 everything comes down to race trump supporters their races so it doesn't matter 0.93

00:44:08.000 that they stormed the capital and confronted white politicians

00:44:12.000 that was racism that was a

00:44:14.000 it's a divide and conquer now first all i'll say it again cuz i think they accomplish

00:44:18.000 nothing by doing this in the capital

00:44:20.000 But divide and conquer, man.

00:44:22.000 When we at Occupy Wall Street, Luke and I met at Occupy Wall Street, and we're like, on mere images, we both took the political compass test.

00:44:31.000 I'm center-left, Luke's center-right.

00:44:32.000 But we met at the same place.

00:44:34.000 Because Occupy Wall Street attracted libertarian types, ANCAPs, anarcho-communists, leftists, but something disrupted all that.

00:44:42.000 Identity politics.

00:44:43.000 That came in and dominated the discussion and it pushed out anybody else who might actually align.

00:44:49.000 And so that that that was divide and conquer.

00:44:51.000 Yeah, I mean, that's why a few weeks ago we were talking about this and I'm like,

00:44:55.000 there's going to be a huge anti-establishment swell that's going to come after people realize

00:45:01.000 about how Joe Biden is invested in the special interests that don't serve them that screw the

00:45:06.000 American people. I think we're seeing the first steps of this and I think we still have a lot 0.92

00:45:12.000 more to go a lot more to do and I think this is going to become more and more prevalent as we're

00:45:16.000 going to see this kind of new emergence of a new kind of Occupy Wall Street populist movement

00:45:21.000 that's going to be against the establishment. We're seeing it here. I mean, I was telling you

00:45:26.000 it's going to happen a few weeks ago. I think we're at the beginning of it.

00:45:29.000 It might be the stock thing, it might be another thing, but I think we're headed towards a lot of people being extremely discontent with the current system, realizing it, organizing, and moving forward.

00:45:40.000 I mean, we're seeing almost close to civil wars breaking out in places like Holland right now over, of course, the lockdown issues.

00:45:46.000 And that's only just one issue out of many issues that people are getting screwed over with.

00:45:49.000 Look at Vladimir Putin saying in Davos, we're in an era that was just like pre-World War II.

00:45:56.000 And so we're dangerously close to something truly traumatic and devastating in this planet.

00:46:01.000 We talked about this before, the mass printing of money.

00:46:03.000 Did you know that somewhere around like 60 to 66% of all U.S.

00:46:07.000 dollars were printed in the past like 10 months around that?

00:46:11.000 Never happened before.

00:46:12.000 And so you have to imagine there's going to be some rapid and dramatic instability or mass divide between the rich and the poor getting worse.

00:46:20.000 Economic inequality leads to serious economic instability.

00:46:23.000 Angry poor people come up, come out, show up with pitchforks when they realize there's no path forward for them.

00:46:28.000 And that if you're going to, you know, you look at some of these places where there's oligarchy.

00:46:32.000 San Francisco is essentially a big tech oligarchy.

00:46:35.000 There's so much human waste littering the streets of San Francisco.

00:46:38.000 You know about this story?

00:46:40.000 San Francisco has their own poop department.

00:46:41.000 It's funny, right?

00:46:42.000 Haha, we laugh?

00:46:43.000 No, it's serious.

00:46:45.000 You can say that Chicago's got a Chicago Fire Department, they got the Chicago PD.

00:46:49.000 And then you can say they got animal control, whatever public services.

00:46:52.000 San Francisco has a poop department.

00:46:54.000 They deploy people to clean human waste off the streets.

00:46:57.000 But they have some of the wealthiest individuals on the planet living in the Bay Area and working in these areas.

00:47:03.000 How can that be?

00:47:04.000 The divide is massive.

00:47:07.000 People start to realize that the wealthy elites are rigging the game to make sure they never lose and you never win.

00:47:13.000 And then people are going to lose it.

00:47:15.000 They're going to get mad.

00:47:16.000 I'm basically going to reiterate a point we made earlier, but now looking at how people are like, oh, we can play this Wall Street game too, right?

00:47:24.000 Nope.

00:47:25.000 They'll change the rules on you.

00:47:26.000 Yep, Glenn Greenwald had a very, you know, very, very important tweet today.

00:47:31.000 He said, quote, pitch perfect expression of defining neoliberal mentality here.

00:47:36.000 We have an extraordinary political and cultural conflict involving intergenerational wealth, vast disparities of power and a deeply corrupt financial system.

00:47:46.000 And this is all the Biden White House has to say about it.

00:47:49.000 And it's the White House press secretary responding, saying that they have a first female Treasury secretary.

00:47:55.000 So that larger discontent.

00:47:56.000 And her name is Angela Davis.

00:48:00.000 Former Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen.

00:48:04.000 You know, we need the workers of the world to unite.

00:48:08.000 I'm kidding.

00:48:10.000 Short squeeze these comedies.

00:48:11.000 No, it is funny.

00:48:12.000 I made that joke the other day, but I'll make it again.

00:48:14.000 I just love seeing left and right come together because the identity politics divide was what helped destroy the unity around Occupy Wall Street.

00:48:23.000 It became a very leftist thing when it was actually a very anti-establishment thing.

00:48:28.000 It was like the big banks were getting bailed out off our backs and we were suffering because of it and everybody was mad about it.

00:48:35.000 And then all of a sudden some kids showed up and they were like, but you're white. 0.62

00:48:39.000 And then all of a sudden, the conservative types who were down were like, this is creepy and weird, and left.

00:48:44.000 I remember talking to some 60-year-old couple.

00:48:46.000 They were conservatives, and they were down there, and they had an American flag, and they were like, we don't like what they're doing to this country, and they're, you know, extracting our wealth and all this stuff.

00:48:52.000 But within a couple weeks, it was just far-left identity politics, progressive stack, whiteness, and, you know, cis-heteronormativity, and things like that.

00:49:02.000 So is today, perhaps, a moment of optimism?

00:49:06.000 Oh, yeah.

00:49:07.000 Not for the hedge funds.

00:49:09.000 For them, it's the apocalypse.

00:49:12.000 For us, because again, I am anti-elite.

00:49:14.000 That is probably our connection is I can't stand elites.

00:49:20.000 And that's despite and a lot of people say, well, man, you make too much money to hate elites.

00:49:24.000 No, I don't.

00:49:25.000 If I made all the money in the world, I would still hate elites.

00:49:27.000 There's a big difference between, you know, some somebody who comes up and makes money and become successful and has lived through it and the people who are born into massive billion dollar wealth.

00:49:37.000 I'm talking like the true global elite class.

00:49:39.000 And when you guys say like globalist or elitist or anything, are you talking about people?

00:49:42.000 I assume you're talking about people with offshore bank accounts or, um.

00:49:47.000 I'm talking about the media who panders to the elite.

00:49:53.000 Everybody on basically mainstream media, the cable news networks, they all pander.

00:49:58.000 They're their spokespersons.

00:49:59.000 They're their PR department.

00:50:01.000 That's what news is today.

00:50:02.000 And then politicians pander to elites, and then the elites who have all the money.

00:50:07.000 Like global bankers that don't adhere to any government.

00:50:11.000 Phil Knight, Nike.

00:50:12.000 I'll tell you what, Elon Musk is the elite of the elite.

00:50:15.000 He's the richest guy on the planet, isn't he?

00:50:17.000 No.

00:50:17.000 It can't be.

00:50:18.000 There's gotta be like Saudi Kings and stuff.

00:50:20.000 Putin.

00:50:21.000 I think Putin.

00:50:21.000 Putin is?

00:50:22.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:50:22.000 Secretly.

00:50:23.000 That's what I heard.

00:50:24.000 On the books, Elon is.

00:50:26.000 He's more wealthy than Bezos?

00:50:27.000 Yeah, now.

00:50:28.000 It just happened like a month ago.

00:50:29.000 I like Elon Musk.

00:50:32.000 I love him.

00:50:32.000 He's tweeting this out. He's promoting it because he listen.

00:50:36.000 I'm not my issue isn't necessarily with the you know I'm probably should clarify this to the ultra wealthy

00:50:41.000 I mean if you make cool stuff if you're building spaceships and you're making cool cars and you're doing things that

00:50:46.000 people like and you're inspiring People I don't care for it. I like that you're it's I'm

00:50:49.000 happy Yeah, if you invent the light bulb and you make people's

00:50:51.000 lives better, please like let you be wealthy, you know Like, it's awesome.

00:50:55.000 But when you have these politicians who make money off insider knowledge with the government, they rig the game.

00:50:59.000 The regulators rig the game, and they use the media to trick you.

00:51:03.000 These people are the corruption in our society that are stealing from us.

00:51:06.000 I'm not saying every politician or every trader or every fund.

00:51:09.000 I'm saying there are bad ones.

00:51:10.000 Majority of them.

00:51:11.000 If you remember, last year, almost exactly this time, there was an entire scandal because there was Senate hearings where they talked about COVID and COVID coming to the United States.

00:51:22.000 What did senators, politicians do with that advanced knowledge that was classified, not available to everyone?

00:51:28.000 Well, hold on, hold on.

00:51:29.000 You're talking about Loeffler and I think, was it Purdue?

00:51:31.000 Was it them?

00:51:32.000 I think it was them.

00:51:33.000 There was, yeah.

00:51:34.000 Go ahead, you want to do this?

00:51:35.000 Just specifically, they said, oh no, no, no, that wasn't us because we don't have control of these things.

00:51:40.000 But I don't care.

00:51:41.000 When you have Nancy Pelosi buying Tesla stock a month ago, and then Joe Biden announces he's going to switch the entire federal fleet to electric cars, guess who makes millions and millions of dollars?

00:51:51.000 Is it a coincidence that she did this right before Biden was about to come in and do this?

00:51:55.000 Maybe.

00:51:55.000 I mean, Tesla was a good bet, so maybe it was a coincidence.

00:51:59.000 But there's a big problem when you have, your politicians are overwhelmingly millionaires and extremely wealthy.

00:52:04.000 What is it, like half of Congress, they're all millionaires?

00:52:06.000 And they don't get paid that money with a salary.

00:52:09.000 So where do they get all of that money?

00:52:11.000 That's the big question that people need to start asking right now.

00:52:13.000 Coca-Cola.

00:52:15.000 Other companies like that.

00:52:16.000 They get money.

00:52:17.000 They get bribes.

00:52:18.000 Well, no, I'm sorry.

00:52:19.000 They're not called bribes.

00:52:20.000 They're called... Lobbying.

00:52:22.000 Super PAC money being funneled in, which you can then... No, what they do is the non-profits.

00:52:26.000 That's the big trick.

00:52:28.000 Someone will say, look, we can't pay you the money, it's illegal, but how about you join the board of our charity and we'll put $50 million in it and then you can use that money as an executive or chairman of this company, do whatever you want.

00:52:41.000 There's ways to give people resources and money through loopholes and it's the game they play.

00:52:46.000 So when you see people like, um, I think it was Biden.

00:52:49.000 The Biden family had like some kind of cancer charity, paid a bunch of salaries, ran out of money, and then just shuttered.

00:52:55.000 I could be wrong about that, so that's probably wrong, but something like that.

00:52:58.000 You see a lot of stories where all of a sudden some super rich person or some politician The Clinton Foundation!

00:53:04.000 I mean, yeah!

00:53:05.000 How much money were they bringing in from who while Hillary was Secretary of State? 0.90

00:53:09.000 That was going on, right?

00:53:10.000 Even with Mr. Epstein involved in that entire mess, but that doesn't get really investigated or looked into.

00:53:14.000 How was he involved?

00:53:15.000 He was bragging about how he started the Clinton Global Initiative.

00:53:18.000 I got kicked out from their meetings and banned for four years when they were still holding committee meetings because I made sure to show up and to ask some serious questions.

00:53:28.000 They put me on a do not enter list.

00:53:30.000 Without, you know, saying too many of the key words here, there's a lot of bad people tied into a lot of lobbying efforts that were directly tied into the Clinton Global Initiative.

00:53:38.000 We got some breaking news.

00:53:39.000 Wall Street Bets has returned, everyone.

00:53:41.000 Actually returned a few minutes ago.

00:53:42.000 To Reddit, yeah.

00:53:43.000 But I pulled up this message, Stay Calm, a quick explanation about why the sub is now private.

00:53:49.000 So this is a message from when they were private, now that they are public, we can read this, and here's why they went down.

00:53:55.000 This is from a uGeomanis says, hello approved friends.

00:53:59.000 The situation here is delicate.

00:54:01.000 Obviously with the deletion of our Discord due to TOS violations, the moderators here are dealing with an existential threat to our community.

00:54:08.000 While in the past, automated moderation using bots has been effective for dealing with human users, violating the WallStreetBets sub, TOS, I think I think A has been reached where the quantity and quality of posts primarily by bot accounts has likely overwhelmed our moderator resource.

00:54:25.000 Please remember that moderators on Reddit are unpaid volunteers, they are likely working on a way to 1.

00:54:30.000 Prevent bots from creating ridiculous quantities of noise.

00:54:32.000 The community up and down voting system doesn't work when there are endless bots able to down vote posts by non-bot accounts.

00:54:39.000 Similarly, even with eliminating accounts, to those registered in the past 45 days, people have been sitting on thousands, potentially millions of accounts that were registered in the past purely in case there was a need to obfuscate legitimate content and concerns.

00:54:51.000 This has been a tactic used by nation-states for other websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and more.

00:54:56.000 I don't see why powerful groups wouldn't employ this tactic as well.

00:55:00.000 They say 2.

00:55:00.000 Refresh the rules surrounding Wall Street Bets etiquette.

00:55:03.000 And 3.

00:55:03.000 Work with Reddit to identify how to safely operate and manage this subreddit.

00:55:07.000 So remain calm, trust in our moderators, try not to spout any memes or offensive material, and check back later.

00:55:12.000 They will find a solution.

00:55:14.000 My friends, in 2015, Reddit was dominated by The Donald.

00:55:19.000 It was just massive.

00:55:21.000 You go to the front... You're familiar with Reddit, right Jason?

00:55:23.000 No, not really.

00:55:24.000 You know what it is.

00:55:25.000 It's a social media website.

00:55:26.000 People post links, and then you can give an upvote or a downvote.

00:55:29.000 And the more upvotes it gets, the higher in visibility it appears, and then eventually it goes to the front page.

00:55:34.000 The Donald is always dominating all.

00:55:35.000 Like r slash all. 0.97

00:55:37.000 It's every subreddit, the Donald.

00:55:39.000 Donald Trump. 0.91

00:55:40.000 Memes, jokes, fun, silliness.

00:55:42.000 They memed Donald Trump into office.

00:55:44.000 That was the internet discovering their hive mind powers with helping Donald Trump win.

00:55:50.000 Now, the fat cat elites were caught off guard.

00:55:53.000 You see, with Donald Trump, the Donald subreddit got first deranked, they were accused of all this craziness, and then they were banned from the front page.

00:56:02.000 They became a restricted or quarantined subreddit where you had to, like, confirm your email and then bypass some filter to actually get to the forum to see the memes and the posts about Trump.

00:56:12.000 No longer would these pro-Trump memes appear on Reddit, unless you sought it out.

00:56:18.000 One day, The Donald decided, we're at risk of being banned, so we're going to create our own clone called TheDonald.win, a separate website that functions the same.

00:56:28.000 They left.

00:56:30.000 The community started existing on its own, totally independently, and then four months later, even though the moderators had basically shut down the Reddit version of it, the admins for Reddit banned them and claimed they were posting hate speech or some other nonsense.

00:56:44.000 Which is weird, because they had been operating entirely on a different website.

00:56:48.000 So why did they get banned on Reddit?

00:56:49.000 It seemed coordinated on purpose.

00:56:51.000 Now that Donald has become Patriots.win, because Donald Trump is no longer president, But this was a sign that things were changing.

00:56:58.000 People realized, big companies, these fat cat elites, these establishment elites realized the power of Reddit and its influence, how it helped Trump win.

00:57:06.000 Now when you go to Reddit and you go to r slash all, which is just a directory for every post in their rankings, you'll see like three or four pages of Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, and all far left.

00:57:18.000 That was the political people realizing we need to control the ballot box, or effectively the soapbox.

00:57:25.000 Those who would speak and speak up can't speak up for Trump.

00:57:28.000 Ban them, promote far-left.

00:57:30.000 And they did.

00:57:31.000 And so you'll often see in the politics tab and the news tab, it's all far-left stuff.

00:57:35.000 But what they didn't count on is that many of these people with this anger towards the elite and the establishment were still functioning but focused on the finances.

00:57:43.000 And much like they went after Donald Trump, They took them a while to realize that Donald was providing Trump this resource, this soapbox.

00:57:51.000 Now Wall Street bets is there and it's embodied that anger.

00:57:54.000 Trump is out.

00:57:55.000 It's pure rage at this point.

00:57:57.000 And now they're going after something outside of politics, finances.

00:58:00.000 I think it's only a matter of time before Reddit panics and then does the same thing.

00:58:04.000 Prevents this community from functioning, bans them outright, and claims hate speech.

00:58:09.000 What concerns me is when Someone has a forum, and then one of their enemies decides to make an account and starts saying nasty stuff.

00:58:17.000 Exactly.

00:58:17.000 False flag.

00:58:18.000 Yeah, and then Reddit will be like, well, there's hate speech.

00:58:20.000 The whole thing's getting the axe.

00:58:22.000 That's what happened with the Donald.

00:58:23.000 You see, if I were to tell you that the Donald was posting violent threats against police, would you believe me that Trump supporters were posting violent threats against police?

00:58:33.000 That's what they claimed they were doing.

00:58:35.000 They claimed that there were people in the Donald subreddit threatening cops.

00:58:39.000 And when I saw that, I laughed.

00:58:41.000 You gotta be kidding me.

00:58:42.000 The people waving the cop flags?

00:58:44.000 They're the ones threatening ant- You go to the Antifa subreddits, the anarchist subreddits, all they do is threaten cops.

00:58:50.000 Reddit said, well, you know, it's threatening people, and I was like, BS.

00:58:53.000 You know what it probably was?

00:58:55.000 Far leftists or establishment Democrat types with powerful interests could very easily just go to the Donald, create an account, and then post something nasty.

00:59:03.000 And that's it.

00:59:04.000 And then they submit themselves.

00:59:05.000 They make the post, log into a different account, and submit it to Reddit and say, hey, look, hate speech.

00:59:09.000 Hey, look, a threat.

00:59:10.000 Yep, and it happens a lot.

00:59:11.000 And Elon Musk, by the way, just tweeted, quote, even Discord has gone crow-poor.

00:59:17.000 So crow-poor, dot, dot, dot, dot.

00:59:19.000 And of course, he's responding to Discord taking down Wall Street bets because of alleged hate speech.

00:59:24.000 What's crow-poor? 0.62

00:59:26.000 Thank you.

00:59:27.000 C-O-R-P-O. 1.00

00:59:29.000 That's what it is.

00:59:29.000 Corpo?

00:59:29.000 Corpo.

00:59:30.000 Yeah.

00:59:30.000 Like corporate?

00:59:31.000 Yeah.

00:59:32.000 Dot, dot, dot.

00:59:34.000 You can't let the people rise up, man.

00:59:36.000 You can't let the hive gain power.

00:59:38.000 So they stopped Donald Trump.

00:59:40.000 Donald Trump was memed into existence, man.

00:59:42.000 I mean, I know he exists, but I didn't mean like the presidency.

00:59:44.000 I watched it happen as a Minds admin.

00:59:47.000 It was slow and insidious.

00:59:48.000 The memes were just funny.

00:59:50.000 The jokes and everyone shared it and it worked and it worked.

00:59:53.000 The Pepe the Frog face with Trump's hair.

00:59:57.000 Yeah.

00:59:57.000 This may not be connected, but I just want to throw it out there.

01:00:00.000 Just ask the question.

01:00:02.000 Does the Drudge Report's pivot connect to any of this at all?

01:00:05.000 I don't know.

01:00:06.000 That's weird, though, right?

01:00:06.000 The drudge used to be like right wing and now they're not.

01:00:09.000 Yeah, well, they turned they were very pro Trump.

01:00:12.000 They turned against Trump.

01:00:13.000 So did Rupert Murdoch and all of his institutions, especially the Daily Mail, especially a lot of

01:00:19.000 people accused Fox News of doing this, obviously not Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, but the

01:00:23.000 other kind of reporting that happened there.

01:00:25.000 But there was one definitive switch where any kind of support in the institutions went away

01:00:31.000 dramatically.

01:00:32.000 And some people said that was because of personal arguments that Donald Trump had with, you

01:00:37.000 know, Rupert Murdoch.

01:00:38.000 So that's also a possibility here that we have to understand.

01:00:41.000 So we got to.

01:00:44.000 So I gotta tell you, man.

01:00:46.000 I'll say the unity.

01:00:47.000 Check this out.

01:00:47.000 This is on Wall Street Bets.

01:00:49.000 They say we got a shout out, bros.

01:00:50.000 Hashtag GME.

01:00:52.000 AOC tweets, gotta admit it's really something to see Wall Streeters with a long history of treating our economy as a casino complain about a message board of posters also treating the market as a casino.

01:01:03.000 I love it.

01:01:03.000 Props AOC.

01:01:05.000 Let's bring on this unity.

01:01:06.000 I will absolutely stand side by side with all of the leftists and right-wing whoever if we're talking about the establishment elites and their manipulative games to steal our money.

01:01:15.000 I'll take it.

01:01:15.000 I'll take the win.

01:01:16.000 We can argue the politics and policy stuff after the fact, but this is what they were most afraid of.

01:01:22.000 The left and the right realizing that as working class people, as the non-elite, as the non-establishment, they got more in common.

01:01:29.000 Like Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi are basically part of the same political party as far as I'm concerned.

01:01:33.000 There's no question about it.

01:01:35.000 I still think this identity politics thing is really strong and maybe that's just me as a black person because I know the influence of Black Lives Matter and that will potentially stand in the way of people awakening from my community to like Hey, no, no, because that's all I've been trying to promote probably my entire career is like, hey, man, working class people, you have far more in common than you have in contradiction or in conflict with each other.

01:02:05.000 If you can just get past the race thing, you'll see you guys are natural ally.

01:02:11.000 We're natural allies, but they've used this race thing so effectively You know, the whole Democratic platform seems to be, you know, pull that lever.

01:02:23.000 For white people, it's pull that lever and no one can call you racist. 0.96

01:02:27.000 And for black people, pull that lever and no one can call you a coon or an Uncle Tom. 0.99

01:02:31.000 And it's worked. 0.99

01:02:33.000 It blows my mind.

01:02:34.000 You know, that's their platform. 0.70

01:02:36.000 You know what really blew my mind is when RNC had a few speakers come up who were black.

01:02:42.000 And then the left started calling them tokens.

01:02:44.000 And I'm like, you complain they're not diverse enough, so they say okay, and they put forth some black speakers, and then you say they're tokenizing them.

01:02:50.000 I'm like, there's no winning, is there? 0.98

01:02:52.000 No matter what they do, they're racist.

01:02:53.000 I don't even like the word black and white, because we're not. 0.99

01:02:56.000 Me and you aren't white or black.

01:02:58.000 You have like an auburn colored skin.

01:03:01.000 I have like a pinkish skin.

01:03:02.000 And so these ancient words of diversion, they're like, look at that person that's black. 1.00

01:03:08.000 It's like they were never black to begin with. 1.00

01:03:10.000 I understand pigmentation is different.

01:03:13.000 Where are you guys at on religion?

01:03:15.000 I'm a Christian.

01:03:16.000 I was raised a Christian.

01:03:17.000 I believe in principles from the Bible.

01:03:24.000 I've written and talked about it.

01:03:25.000 I don't want to be defined as black.

01:03:27.000 I want to be defined as a Christian, patriotic American.

01:03:31.000 That's what I want my identity to be.

01:03:33.000 That's funny, but you're not allowed.

01:03:35.000 You know what I mean?

01:03:36.000 You can identify as basically anything you want, except for that.

01:03:39.000 That's the bigoted.

01:03:40.000 That's the wrong.

01:03:41.000 You can identify as whatever.

01:03:43.000 I think Jesus was tight.

01:03:45.000 I think that the church is like built a business around.

01:03:48.000 No question.

01:03:49.000 But I think so much of our identity is tied to politics now.

01:03:54.000 And to me, I've never wanted to be judged on that.

01:03:57.000 And for black people, I don't understand To me racist slave owners 400 years ago said your skin color is the most important characteristic you have and it limits your freedom and now here we are 400 years later and

01:04:18.000 Black people are saying, my skin color is the most important characteristic I have and it limits my freedom. 1.00

01:04:23.000 Right. 0.52

01:04:23.000 It's your Christianity in that Christ means anointed. 0.52

01:04:28.000 So to be anointed by the Christian means the anointed one. 0.81

01:04:32.000 And so they call Jesus the Christ because he was anointed by God, but we're all anointed by God.

01:04:36.000 This energy is flowing through our bodies and we're able to create with it.

01:04:41.000 You know, these, we can touch each other.

01:04:43.000 Yeah.

01:04:44.000 And that's what we should be focused on.

01:04:45.000 One of the things anyway, Well, I think we're people, you know what I mean?

01:04:49.000 And I remember growing up and rolling my eyes as a teenager when I would hear things like, race is not relevant because we're all human beings and we all bleed the same.

01:04:56.000 And I'm like, I know, I get it.

01:04:58.000 Racism is bad.

01:04:59.000 Now I'm older and they're saying the opposite.

01:05:00.000 The left is like, no, race is everything.

01:05:02.000 Don Lemon goes on TV and says he wants to know that everybody sees him as a black man.

01:05:08.000 And that's, you know, and I'm like, it's all BS.

01:05:10.000 And I wish I could say what I really think, but he's lying because that's not what's most important to him.

01:05:20.000 His sexual identity trumps his racial identity. 0.87

01:05:23.000 In terms of what he talks about?

01:05:27.000 What he's most passionate about.

01:05:31.000 I've asked people all the time.

01:05:35.000 If you had a choice, I asked friends of mine.

01:05:37.000 I said, let's say that there was some deal where the government came down and said, hey look, you're either going to have to choose being heterosexual or black.

01:05:46.000 Which one are you going to stick with?

01:05:50.000 That's what I was thinking about that earlier.

01:05:52.000 And so I say, so go ask Don Lemon that question and see what the answer is.

01:05:57.000 It's not going to be black. 1.00

01:05:59.000 And I'm like, so why are you prioritizing blackness when it's not your most important characteristic?

01:06:08.000 And again, so if God came down and said, I'm Christian, I'm American and I'm heterosexual.

01:06:16.000 All that would come before black in terms of if I want to hold on to certain things.

01:06:23.000 I want to hold on to being Christian.

01:06:24.000 I feel incredibly lucky to be born in this country.

01:06:28.000 So I want to be here in America.

01:06:30.000 Yeah.

01:06:30.000 And then I tend to like women, so I want to hold on to being a head of church.

01:06:35.000 I think when it comes to politics, you've got high-functioning individuals.

01:06:40.000 I'm not trying to be mean or disrespect anybody, but you've got people who are more logical, less emotional, and you've got people who are more emotional, less logical.

01:06:48.000 And so somebody who's not particularly logical, they judge a book by its cover.

01:06:52.000 It's an emotional response.

01:06:53.000 They can look at you and see, hey, you look very different from me and what my family looks like.

01:06:57.000 Then they can manipulate and exploit that.

01:06:59.000 They can say, oh, you must be racist.

01:07:02.000 So these are low-functioning people who are easily exploited by racial politics, whereas high-functioning people are like, I don't know, people, it's merit, it's hard work, it's what you choose to do. 0.66

01:07:13.000 Some people are smarter, some people are dumber, some people are stronger, some people are taller, some people are shorter.

01:07:18.000 Everybody's different, you know, and we have to respect those differences, but there's bigger differences between, like, there's, you know, a white dude who's 6'7", and there's a white dude who's 5'3". 0.89

01:07:29.000 And there's a bigger difference between them than, like, you and me.

01:07:31.000 Race doesn't even play that big of a role.

01:07:33.000 I've asked people all the time if they're even aware that there is a height bias in all of society.

01:07:39.000 The taller you are, the more successful you tend to be.

01:07:42.000 And, you know, there's height privilege.

01:07:47.000 Oh, but they play that. 0.97

01:07:47.000 They do. 0.97

01:07:48.000 They call it low-hanging fruit for a reason.

01:07:50.000 No, the leftists have all of that, like the super critical race.

01:07:54.000 It's not even critical race, it's the critical theory people.

01:07:56.000 They've got thin privilege, they've got tall privilege, they've got all of it.

01:08:01.000 Heidest, I think is the name for it, but again, you bring up a very important point.

01:08:05.000 If the most important and the most interesting thing about you, if you think it's something superficial, You're not interesting.

01:08:11.000 You're not important at all.

01:08:13.000 You're divulging from the actual thing that makes you special, and that's you as a unique human being, and you're either a very bad one or a very good one, or in between.

01:08:21.000 But you decide that, and it's not superficial. 0.99

01:08:24.000 It's based on your morals, your virtues, and your actions that people don't care about anymore because they care about only how you look, which is ridiculous and dumb to me. 0.97

01:08:34.000 It does have some advantages. 0.97

01:08:35.000 If your legs are longer, you can run away from hungry lions faster.

01:08:40.000 You can reach the fruit that's higher up on the tree easier.

01:08:43.000 If your skin is dark, you have some advantages. 0.58

01:08:45.000 If you're trying to hide at night, it's harder to see you if you have dark skin. 1.00

01:08:49.000 Sun doesn't damage me the way that we have sun.

01:08:51.000 Yeah, yeah, you can take more sun damage.

01:08:54.000 I glow.

01:08:55.000 My skin almost glows at night from a little bit of ambient moonlight, so I'll jump out.

01:09:00.000 So there are inherent advantages to the way we look and our shapes and our sizes, but that doesn't mean that we're better or worse.

01:09:06.000 Well, look, look.

01:09:07.000 It's pros and cons.

01:09:08.000 A tall person's not gonna be able to hide as effectively than a short person.

01:09:11.000 Exactly.

01:09:11.000 But they could potentially run faster.

01:09:13.000 So it's really just, you know, the way I've always been, you know, growing up with my family, who of course, you know, it's been mentioned a million times in my various shows, is mixed race.

01:09:23.000 It's that everybody's dealt a hand of cards when they're born, and you might have a bad hand, but you can still win.

01:09:31.000 You ever watch a poker game where a dude's got like two seven off suit and he still wins?

01:09:35.000 Yeah.

01:09:35.000 Because he played it right.

01:09:36.000 If the blinds are high, you gotta go all in, yeah.

01:09:38.000 Well, it's about strategy.

01:09:40.000 You may not have the best hand in the world, but if you play your cards right, you can get ahead.

01:09:43.000 Or the other saying I like is, we can't control the wind, but we can adjust our sails.

01:09:48.000 So, some people look in the mirror and they look at themselves and they think, it's unfair, I'm wrong.

01:09:53.000 And that's on them, man.

01:09:54.000 It's on you.

01:09:55.000 You can succeed if you choose.

01:09:56.000 We talk about...

01:09:58.000 Like, what would you call it?

01:09:59.000 Familiarity bias, which seems to be a real thing.

01:10:01.000 Like, if you're surrounded by a bunch of people that look like you, then other people that don't look like you are different.

01:10:08.000 And so there's this inherent, like, fear of the unknown that seems to be prevalent in our consciousness for some reason.

01:10:15.000 So, like, I spent time in South America, and it was noticeable.

01:10:17.000 I stood out.

01:10:18.000 Like, the people had darker skin.

01:10:19.000 I looked like a foreign person, and they would all, like, look at me, like, oh, that's different.

01:10:23.000 And I noticed it firsthand then.

01:10:25.000 And then, you see, the thing is people, the first thing they notice is what you look like.

01:10:30.000 So we try very hard, and we've succeeded very much so in the past hundred years, to realize there's more to people than just what we see.

01:10:37.000 That's why we say don't judge a book by its cover.

01:10:39.000 But now we have this new group of critical race theorists that are saying, no, no, we must judge the book by its cover.

01:10:44.000 Not only that, they're burning books!

01:10:46.000 So it's regressive.

01:10:47.000 It's not progress.

01:10:49.000 They're literally reactionaries who are trying to bring us back to the way things used to be.

01:10:54.000 The left likes to call the right reactionary because the phrase comes from the French Revolution when you had the reaction to the revolution.

01:11:03.000 So those that wanted to maintain the status quo were called reactionary.

01:11:06.000 My friends, what is the status quo in this country?

01:11:08.000 How long have we had civil rights in this country?

01:11:12.000 So, do you want to tell people how old you are?

01:11:14.000 I'm 53.

01:11:15.000 So, you seriously remember, like, when things were substantially more racist in this country.

01:11:20.000 Yes.

01:11:21.000 And my parents certainly reminded me.

01:11:23.000 What was it like?

01:11:27.000 Look, interracial dating used to be a huge deal when I grew up.

01:11:32.000 A huge.

01:11:32.000 If someone dated outside their race, the whole, all the kids talked about it, the parents talked about it, blah blah.

01:11:38.000 It was a big deal.

01:11:40.000 If you lived in a neighborhood, a black person lived in a white, it was a big deal. 1.00

01:11:48.000 None of that stuff.

01:11:49.000 And first of all, the obstacles that I faced, I don't think we're anything in comparison to my parents.

01:11:57.000 I was raised with no excuses, you've been put in position, and I was put in a great position because I got two supportive parents, but I grew up poor.

01:12:09.000 In 1984, my senior year of high school, me and my dad lived in a 400 square foot, one bedroom apartment in the ghetto.

01:12:17.000 But there were no excuses.

01:12:20.000 My dad was a Booker T. Washington, cast your bucket down, do for yourself.

01:12:26.000 When I lived with him my senior year of high school, the IRS had taken everything from him.

01:12:32.000 He hadn't done well with his taxes or whatever.

01:12:35.000 But he was a small businessman in the inner city most of my life.

01:12:40.000 And, but there were no excuses. 0.97

01:12:42.000 I tried to quit my college football team and I was on scholarship and both of my parents said, good luck with the rest of your life if you're dumb enough to quit that free college education. 0.98

01:12:53.000 And, good luck Jason.

01:12:55.000 And so, there's just no excuses and I really can't, I look back at my child, it was awesome.

01:13:00.000 Weren't you just talking about how you made a bunch of money in stocks?

01:13:03.000 Yeah.

01:13:04.000 Like you're kind of well off and your mom thinks she's an elite now?

01:13:07.000 She certainly lives like one. 0.83

01:13:09.000 But I mean this as a sign of the utmost respect that you're talking about how you were in the high school, in the ghetto, in this tiny apartment, and that sounds like you're doing really well, man.

01:13:19.000 Yeah, no, I've been doing well for a while, but my high school was working class where I live with.

01:13:25.000 My dad was poor, but anyway, I had, I have lived the American dream.

01:13:33.000 My parents divorced when I was young.

01:13:35.000 I've lived in the hood.

01:13:36.000 I've lived in working class suburbs per se, and I have worked my way up.

01:13:44.000 My first job out of college was $5 an hour.

01:13:46.000 This is the point I was trying to get to, just to go back to where I was at.

01:13:51.000 I grew up hearing these stories from my family as well, especially from my mom, who experienced growing up in, you know, before the civil rights era.

01:13:58.000 She was a little kid before there was even civil rights law, the 1967 Civil Rights Act, before Loving v. Virginia.

01:14:04.000 So my mom's side of the family literally was illegal.

01:14:09.000 This was back when, before the Supreme Court ruled that interracial relationships were allowed.

01:14:15.000 So I think about that, and I think about where we've progressed to, right?

01:14:18.000 To a point where we're now saying, don't judge people based on their race.

01:14:21.000 These things aren't important.

01:14:23.000 We need to be human.

01:14:24.000 And what do we get?

01:14:25.000 The critical race theorists have reacted to that racial revolution.

01:14:29.000 The realization that we're human beings.

01:14:30.000 They're reactionary.

01:14:32.000 They want to bring us back to that old status quo of the past several thousand years, where people immediately judged everyone based on their race.

01:14:39.000 That is the old status quo we fought so hard to get past.

01:14:42.000 So that you could have somebody who's a black man who grew up working class and also in bad neighborhoods and became very successful.

01:14:49.000 That you aren't judged by the color of your skin but by the content of your character.

01:14:52.000 To me, that's the stories I grew up with from my family who told me how bad it was and how we won.

01:14:57.000 I'm a little kid and I hear the story, oh we won, that fight's over.

01:15:01.000 Now they've come back and they're trying to take us back in time to the Stone Age.

01:15:04.000 I'm not okay with that.

01:15:06.000 I keep thinking there are differences in genetics.

01:15:10.000 Fine, whatever.

01:15:12.000 Maybe it's intentional.

01:15:13.000 On Earth, if your ancestors got more sunlight, your skin would get darker to handle the sunlight.

01:15:19.000 I think that Asian people, their eyes are more slanted because their ancestors lived in the high winds of the plains, the Mongolian plains, so they had to squint a lot. 1.00

01:15:29.000 I don't know if that's true.

01:15:30.000 I don't know.

01:15:30.000 I'm trying to figure out why.

01:15:32.000 It could be, it could be just nothing.

01:15:33.000 Well, it's got to be something that caused our bodies to shape differently.

01:15:37.000 Like, I think the really light-skinned people were, they either worked and lived at night, the Aryans I've heard. 0.97

01:15:42.000 They lived up north.

01:15:43.000 And they lived up north with blinding sun, the snow, so they would blend into their background more.

01:15:48.000 No, they covered up and it didn't matter.

01:15:51.000 Well, there's all sorts of possibilities, but they're real, and our genetics are real.

01:15:55.000 You have more melanin in your skin.

01:15:56.000 I don't know if you inherently have more melanin in your skin, and that's why it's darker, or pigmentation-wise, but it's real.

01:16:03.000 It's genetically real, so okay, fine, deal with it.

01:16:06.000 But it doesn't mean that we're better or worse than each other.

01:16:08.000 We're people.

01:16:10.000 Yeah.

01:16:10.000 and we fought really hard to get to that point where we can break bread together and live together and respect one

01:16:16.000 another and is now coming from the left to break us back down and

01:16:18.000 send us back to the sick to you know every six months

01:16:21.000 i'd your point that it now is coming from the left

01:16:25.000 is one that i've been pondering at think

01:16:30.000 that it's always been the left That the left, the Democratic Party, everybody says that Lyndon Johnson somehow had this conversion and he stopped being racist and he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Democratic Party all just changed and they love black people.

01:16:51.000 I don't believe that.

01:16:52.000 I believe that tactics change.

01:16:56.000 That the agenda stays the same, but people adapt different tactics.

01:17:01.000 And that's why last week, and I got a lot of heat for this, for saying, hey, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, they operate the way the KKK operated. 0.77

01:17:08.000 The KKK was started in the 1860s after the Emancipation Proclamation.

01:17:13.000 It was the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party.

01:17:16.000 The agenda was to impose Force people to support democratic politician politics and to keep black people in a substandard condition here in America 1.00

01:17:30.000 I don't think things changed in the 1960s.

01:17:33.000 I think the tactics changed.

01:17:34.000 You could no longer lynch people.

01:17:36.000 Technology basically eliminated that.

01:17:39.000 Because now people have phones in their homes.

01:17:41.000 You can call the police.

01:17:42.000 The KKK comes to your house and tries to pull you out of there.

01:17:45.000 You can call the police.

01:17:46.000 You can't lynch people anymore.

01:17:48.000 It's too easy to get caught.

01:17:50.000 We started prosecuting people.

01:17:51.000 So we no longer lynch people, but we do bully them through social media campaigns.

01:17:57.000 You have Black Lives Matter.

01:17:59.000 Antifa, they will come to your home and intimidate you. 0.98

01:18:02.000 They'll take your job. 0.93

01:18:03.000 Take your way of living.

01:18:05.000 Instead of burning crosses, we have burning buildings. 0.53

01:18:08.000 And then, if you look at the policies that the Democratic Party adopted from the 60s on, the elimination and the destruction of the black family, intentional. 0.97

01:18:19.000 Intentional in my- and so basically we've infused black people, if you just go look at it, we've infused black people with a racist mindset, an anti-black mindset. 0.96

01:18:33.000 Instead of the KKK or white racist person being most likely to use the n-word, it's now us! 0.97

01:18:38.000 Instead of the KKK killing us, it's now us killing each other in record numbers in our own communities it's it's now instead of us putting out blackface 1.00

01:18:54.000 music or entertainment instead of white people doing that we now have rappers that do that and put out these very negative stereotypes about black people and we celebrate this as our culture we have been turned into our own worst enemy we act and have adopted the mindset of the KKK And we're doing it at the behest of the Democratic Party, and I'm sorry if that pisses people off.

01:19:21.000 I think it's true, dude.

01:19:22.000 You know that the Black Lives Matter website said one of their goals was to disrupt the nuclear family. 0.98

01:19:27.000 They're doing it to other races. 0.94

01:19:28.000 I don't even know if we're, are we, is it technically, are we different races?

01:19:31.000 I don't know if that's the right word to use, but whatever.

01:19:33.000 But like, I hate saying white people. 0.95

01:19:35.000 They say the white knight concept of a guy that's like, I side with the feminists, so I dislike men.

01:19:42.000 Like they're turning men against men in that sense.

01:19:44.000 Or I should be guilty because of my skin color.

01:19:48.000 Like they're trying to turn me against that race or whatever.

01:19:51.000 Is it the Democratic Party?

01:19:53.000 It's about divide and conquer.

01:19:55.000 It's just about make people racially conscious so that they have negative stereotypes to people based on race.

01:20:01.000 I don't think, you know, there's a lot of like alt-right people who think that they want white people to dislike themselves or something.

01:20:06.000 No, I think it's just divide and conquer.

01:20:08.000 They don't care who hates who as long as people don't like each other.

01:20:10.000 That way the heat is taken off the establishment.

01:20:13.000 They don't want- I think it started with Occupy Wall Street.

01:20:15.000 Because I remember, my first real encounter with the critical race theory crazies was at Occupy.

01:20:20.000 And it was like, after, I saw conservatives and libertarians down there, and I was like, wow, this is crazy.

01:20:25.000 But then it went straight up progressive stack.

01:20:27.000 You know, it really started with 9-11, where they turned us against the Middle Eastern people.

01:20:33.000 No, no, that unified us.

01:20:34.000 Well, they unified white-skinned people against dark-skinned people. 0.71

01:20:38.000 It wasn't about race, though.

01:20:39.000 It kind of was.

01:20:40.000 It was about religion. 1.00

01:20:42.000 They were like, Muslims are dangerous. 1.00

01:20:44.000 But then it was like, who's Muslim primarily in the world? 0.97

01:20:46.000 It's people in the Middle East. 0.97

01:20:47.000 The target of 9-11, after this, was Saddam Hussein and the Taliban. 0.79

01:20:53.000 Yeah, but they made us afraid of a certain people first.

01:20:56.000 Like the xenophobia.

01:20:57.000 It was a target of a country and the idea of terrorism. 0.84

01:21:00.000 They unified this country against its perceived enemy, terror.

01:21:04.000 And so there was no heat on the establishment.

01:21:06.000 George W. Bush's approval rating skyrocketed.

01:21:09.000 This country came together in anger in a direction the establishment could weaponize.

01:21:17.000 Are you sure it's any different?

01:21:18.000 And I'm asking, I don't know.

01:21:20.000 The Japanese were responsible, or we say, for Pearl Harbor. 0.98

01:21:24.000 9-11, they flew planes into the building.

01:21:29.000 I can't be mad at the Middle East people, or Saddam Hussein, or Osama bin Laden for flying those planes into America? 0.98

01:21:40.000 I can't be mad at the Japanese for Pearl Harbor?

01:21:44.000 Well, those were acts of organized groups, and the anger was pointed at organized groups.

01:21:48.000 The problem is when the Japanese American civilians got thrown in internment camps, because the Japanese Empire... So like, if Osama bin Laden, or whoever it was, destroyed some buildings as a small group of terror, to go after civilians in our own country, in response, I thought, I think was heavy handed.

01:22:06.000 Sure, but for the most part, if the establishment can unify this country, but as a weapon against, you know, the enemies to empower the establishment.

01:22:14.000 Like, they wanted to go to war in the Middle East for a variety of reasons.

01:22:18.000 There's strategic positioning around Iran, then you've got Qatar-Turkey pipeline.

01:22:22.000 There's always an excuse for what's going to rally Americans, but something started changing with mass media.

01:22:28.000 When we had Syria and the gas attack, You had a lot of people on the left saying they didn't believe it.

01:22:33.000 They didn't believe the propaganda against Assad.

01:22:35.000 And then you had people on the right saying there's gotta be a red line.

01:22:38.000 It wasn't necessarily the right or the left.

01:22:39.000 We're at a point now where they can't unify us because we're mad at them.

01:22:44.000 And every attempt they make to point the finger at someone else, it just comes right back to the establishment elites because we figured it out.

01:22:51.000 The mask has come off, the curtain has fallen, and we're like, hey, wait a minute.

01:22:54.000 Hey, wait a minute.

01:22:55.000 You've been manipulating us this whole time.

01:22:57.000 You, listen.

01:22:59.000 9-11 was a nightmarish scenario for this country.

01:23:02.000 Nightmare.

01:23:02.000 Never forget.

01:23:03.000 And so was Pearl Harbor.

01:23:05.000 And what did they do?

01:23:06.000 They took us at our weakest, when we were scared, when we were angry, and we wanted justice, and many of us were emotional.

01:23:12.000 I was just a kid. 0.98

01:23:13.000 And they said, it was that guy who did it, go kill him. 0.97

01:23:16.000 And we said, yes sir, for America, we will have justice. 0.98

01:23:20.000 And then we realized it was fake, it was a lie, they tricked us.

01:23:24.000 They sent us overseas, this nation, to Iraq and Afghanistan, for what?

01:23:27.000 There were no weapons of mass destruction, they weren't involved, it was a lie.

01:23:31.000 They manipulated us at our weakest moment.

01:23:33.000 That's what they do.

01:23:34.000 And now people are finally realizing we are done with this.

01:23:38.000 And so are we sure?

01:23:39.000 So they elected a reality TV guy.

01:23:41.000 Well, but also, but I want to ask this because, and this is where I disagree with a lot of people.

01:23:47.000 I think the siege at the Capitol is the most overplayed thing.

01:23:52.000 This alleged insurrection where I never saw one of these Trump supporters that I've seen draw a gun.

01:23:58.000 And, and so I've watched Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell basically stand up and they're pulling it off.

01:24:05.000 Oh my God, did you see the Trump people?

01:24:07.000 They tried to overthrow the government.

01:24:09.000 All because we're protecting you.

01:24:12.000 And people are going for it.

01:24:14.000 Because I'm looking at it and I'm like, hey man, I watched all of 2020 people burn down buildings, loot, riot, kill police officers, and they're acting like this thing at the Capitol Was worse than what I saw in Minneapolis, Kenosha, Atlanta, L.A.

01:24:30.000 The stuff that's going on in New York and Chicago.

01:24:32.000 9-11.

01:24:33.000 And I'm like, hey man, I've watched the video.

01:24:36.000 I keep looking for this crazy insurrection and I just don't see it.

01:24:41.000 You remember the officer?

01:24:42.000 I think it was in Vegas.

01:24:44.000 He was just out because there were riots and so he was just standing around and so one of these rioters is walking away and just turns and fires two shots and keeps walking.

01:24:53.000 Hits him in the head.

01:24:54.000 Paralyzes the guy. 0.99

01:24:56.000 Why?

01:24:57.000 They don't care about this.

01:24:58.000 They don't care about this.

01:24:59.000 Right, it's because the centralized authority, another problem about having, like, Congress people.

01:25:03.000 But people are going for this Capitol thing.

01:25:05.000 It's because the people at the Capitol that got most affected by it are the politicians.

01:25:10.000 And it's because all that power is centralized in these 450 people that it's so vulnerable that if those guys get messed with, the whole system shutters.

01:25:18.000 Well, what happened to him?

01:25:20.000 I think Tim just said he's from the south side of Chicago.

01:25:23.000 I've been in some neighborhoods in Indianapolis where helicopters, gunshots, kids are traumatized on a nightly basis.

01:25:32.000 Nancy Pelosi had some people in a wolf's uniform come into the Capitol and she's acting like she's a kid on the south side that she's been traumatized. 0.99

01:25:40.000 I tell you, man, I used to spend a lot of my time covering conflict around the world.

01:25:45.000 I worked for VICE.

01:25:46.000 I went to Egypt.

01:25:46.000 I was in Ukraine.

01:25:47.000 I was in Venezuela.

01:25:49.000 And I always had people ask me, like, did you train for this?

01:25:52.000 Like, it's got to be scary.

01:25:53.000 People are shooting.

01:25:53.000 I was in Ferguson.

01:25:54.000 People were shooting live ammo.

01:25:56.000 And I was like, oh, no, no, I'm just from the south side of Chicago.

01:26:00.000 I was like, dude, I went to Ukraine during the start of the Euromaidan movement, which eventually led to the ousting of Yanukovych.

01:26:07.000 And, you know, there was Molotov cocktails, there were guns.

01:26:09.000 I got surrounded by people.

01:26:10.000 I was in Turkey.

01:26:11.000 I went to one neighborhood where a bunch of guys surrounded me, pushed me up against the wall and held a Molotov cocktail to my face.

01:26:16.000 And I'm cool as a cucumber, man.

01:26:18.000 I'm like, people are like, aren't you scared?

01:26:20.000 We were filming when that happened too.

01:26:22.000 And I'm not trying to brag.

01:26:22.000 I'm just like, dude, in Chicago, you want to talk about growing up with Like, dude, high school fights where I'm from, people had guns.

01:26:30.000 And so people would scream and run, and we were laughing as we were running from the guns.

01:26:35.000 It's like, it's just, you grow up in this, man.

01:26:37.000 Dude, if you're black, and my, we're, we've been conditioned, we go to nightclubs where we have to go through metal detectors to get inside the nightclub.

01:26:47.000 Commonplace. 0.97

01:26:48.000 Almost every black metal detector is to make sure you weren't carrying a gun.

01:26:52.000 And so we've been conditioned to normalize this, but I'm just looking at this Capitol thing and I'm going, there are kids in communities that are hearing gunshots every night, their cousins have been killed, their uncle, somebody's been shot, he's ganged up and blah blah.

01:27:08.000 These kids are traumatized on a daily basis and no one cares!

01:27:15.000 But Nancy Pelosi, oh my God, she hid under a desk or something. 1.00

01:27:20.000 Look, it's bad.

01:27:22.000 It is.

01:27:22.000 But Ian's right.

01:27:24.000 It's the nucleus.

01:27:25.000 When that got hit, it shook the whole system.

01:27:27.000 But I'll tell you why.

01:27:29.000 The establishment elites, the people with power, the politicians, they don't care about you.

01:27:34.000 They don't know.

01:27:35.000 They're not there.

01:27:36.000 They're not getting their windows shot up at night.

01:27:39.000 There's some truth there.

01:27:41.000 When I got here today, you told me that there were no police, basically.

01:27:49.000 Yeah.

01:27:49.000 And that was something I didn't know.

01:27:50.000 Welcome to the wilderness, man.

01:27:52.000 Yeah.

01:27:53.000 So to clarify, there are cops.

01:27:55.000 But I tried explaining this to my very lefty friends who grew up in cities.

01:27:58.000 I'm like, you realize people who live in the middle of nowhere don't have a local police department to rush to you.

01:28:04.000 Like, you've got to take care of yourself.

01:28:05.000 For me, that's no big deal.

01:28:07.000 I grew up on the south side of Chicago where you pretty much can't trust the cops anyway to do anything for you.

01:28:11.000 And to be fair, a lot of them are bad cops, but also a lot of them are overwhelmed with how crazy things can get.

01:28:17.000 So I get it, and I've always just been like, I gotta rely on myself.

01:28:20.000 But to the point about Pelosi, I think, look, they know what's going on in Chicago.

01:28:25.000 They've not experienced it.

01:28:27.000 I don't think they care.

01:28:28.000 I think they hear about it in the news, and they're like, yeah, well, what else is new?

01:28:31.000 And then to them, never experiencing it, finally having, you know, I tell you, when I saw some of these videos of, like, the bumbling and bewildered, you know, older folks walking through the Capitol, and then I see these people panicking and, like, ducking and hiding, I'm like, really?

01:28:45.000 Like, you've got these pictures of the politicians, and they're, like, laying down, hiding, and I'm like, these people, for the most part, weren't armed.

01:28:52.000 Now, I do think there was some real danger, because some of these people seem to have been really nuts, really, really crazy.

01:28:57.000 Many of them, I believe most, were probably just befuddled.

01:29:00.000 Like the cops opened the door in several instances and people just walked in with

01:29:03.000 little flags and didn't know what was going on.

01:29:05.000 I was surprised to see, you know, there's this meme, it's really funny.

01:29:09.000 It shows the P these politicians laying down and hiding with gas masks on and

01:29:13.000 says, these are the people who send your kids to go fight in wars and die.

01:29:16.000 Yup.

01:29:18.000 And look the other way as bodies pile up in cities all over America. 0.99

01:29:22.000 But if a white cop kills somebody black, the whole country shuts down. 0.97

01:29:28.000 Everybody takes a knee at arenas and stadiums all across the country. 0.96

01:29:33.000 And George Floyd becomes the MLK of this generation.

01:29:39.000 And I just want to add here, I had a cousin that I helped raise.

01:29:44.000 That I loved.

01:29:45.000 I paid for his funeral.

01:29:46.000 Killed by the police.

01:29:47.000 Killed by sheriffs in Indianapolis.

01:29:49.000 I am not Uncaring about police brutality.

01:29:55.000 But I'm also not a liar.

01:29:58.000 That is not.

01:29:59.000 Again, my father never left the hood.

01:30:02.000 Built a brand new house in the hood.

01:30:04.000 He carried a .38.

01:30:05.000 He had an alarm system at his home.

01:30:09.000 And it wasn't to protect himself from the police.

01:30:11.000 Let's quit telling that lie.

01:30:14.000 The Masterpiece Lounge in the inner city of Indianapolis.

01:30:16.000 My favorite place on earth.

01:30:18.000 My dad's bar.

01:30:20.000 We weren't sitting around, oh my god, hope I can make it home, hope the police don't kill me on the way home.

01:30:26.000 When somebody or when a man walked you to your car, woman, in my dad's bar, it wasn't to protect you from the police.

01:30:35.000 It was from the dudes that walked them streets in that neighborhood.

01:30:39.000 I'll never forget the last, my dad died and I threw a big party at his bar, the Masterpiece Lounge.

01:30:43.000 My brother wanted to keep the bar and I was like, Jim, We ain't built for this.

01:30:47.000 We not like my father.

01:30:49.000 We can't.

01:30:50.000 And we're closing it up at 3 a.m.

01:30:53.000 and right outside the door, the back door, two dudes are beating the living hell out of another dude.

01:31:00.000 Bottles upside the head.

01:31:01.000 And I can remember I told my brother, I said, you think we built to run this business when this is going on every night?

01:31:06.000 This ain't us.

01:31:07.000 We too soft for this.

01:31:08.000 You know, I grew up with some really bad stories about cops.

01:31:11.000 I've had cops kick the door into my apartment at gunpoint.

01:31:14.000 I've been, while covering a protest in Chicago, surrounded by cops at gunpoint.

01:31:18.000 A lot of just really nasty stuff.

01:31:19.000 Yeah, I was there.

01:31:20.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:31:21.000 Luke was filming it.

01:31:22.000 They put the gun to my head after I took out the video camera.

01:31:25.000 That's a common occurrence.

01:31:26.000 So we dealt with this.

01:31:27.000 I was in Chicago.

01:31:28.000 And I'll tell you this, though.

01:31:30.000 I've had some bad experiences, but I've also been saved from a mugging by a group of cops.

01:31:34.000 And a lot of people, I guess, if you don't experience these things, you don't really get it.

01:31:38.000 But I was in the north side of Chicago, and I don't know how old I was, I was like 20 years old.

01:31:43.000 I'm broke, hanging out with my friends, crossing the street, and some dude, he comes up to me and he starts basically threatening me.

01:31:49.000 Telling me I gotta give him, he asked me for my money.

01:31:52.000 Can I have your money, man?

01:31:53.000 Come on, let me get your money, I'm just trying to do the right thing.

01:31:55.000 And I laugh, I'm like, I don't got any money, dude.

01:31:57.000 I was like, I'm a 20 year old dude, I'm broke!

01:32:00.000 And so he kept pressuring me.

01:32:01.000 He had a guy following about 15 feet behind, basically a spotter.

01:32:05.000 Something goes wrong, his buddy comes up and helps him.

01:32:07.000 I pull up my empty wallet, literally nothing but an ID in it.

01:32:10.000 And then he's like, I know you got money in your shoe.

01:32:13.000 I know you got money. 1.00

01:32:13.000 You think I'm stupid? 1.00

01:32:14.000 I got a knife. 1.00

01:32:15.000 And then I started laughing.

01:32:16.000 I'm just laughing.

01:32:17.000 I'm like, what is this guy gonna do?

01:32:18.000 Is he gonna like frisk me?

01:32:19.000 I don't got money.

01:32:20.000 All of a sudden.

01:32:22.000 It's like, it's like a split second.

01:32:23.000 I have no idea what happened.

01:32:25.000 I just get like, kinda pushed to the side, and this big dude in this overcoat grabs the guy by the front of his collar, spins him around and slams him into a fence, and screams in his face, spit-flying, NOT IN MY TOWN!

01:32:38.000 And then out of nowhere, two uniformed beat cops are behind me and I'm like, what is going on?

01:32:44.000 They pull me aside like, you okay, sir?

01:32:46.000 And I'm like, yeah, yeah.

01:32:47.000 They cuff the guy, take his information.

01:32:49.000 They were like, we've been watching these dudes.

01:32:51.000 We're, you know, we're tracking them, trying to see, we didn't know what they were up to.

01:32:54.000 We're glad we were here.

01:32:55.000 And I was like, cool.

01:32:57.000 It's like, wow.

01:32:59.000 I have more bad experience than positive ones, to be completely honest.

01:33:02.000 But that was an amazing experience, where they shook my hand, told me, you know, everything cool, you're alright, have a good day, sir, we caught him in the act, we don't even need you as a witness.

01:33:11.000 And I was like, alright!

01:33:12.000 And that was it.

01:33:13.000 Turns out the guy actually lived on the south side, not too far from me, by the way, so it's a funny story.

01:33:18.000 But, I think people, you know, get too much of the negative propaganda when it comes to cops, because it's shocking, and it plays well, it gets shares.

01:33:27.000 Worldview by anecdotes, rather than data, facts, and we have an anecdote-driven society, and that's very dangerous.

01:33:36.000 And I don't understand why Congress or lawmakers haven't focused in the biggest spreader of misinformation, disinformation, information that makes people violent.

01:33:49.000 It's Twitter.

01:33:50.000 It's not Parler.

01:33:51.000 And they never go after Twitter.

01:33:56.000 Jack Dorsey, to me, is one of the five most powerful people in America.

01:34:01.000 Who is he?

01:34:03.000 Did we vet this guy?

01:34:04.000 He's not an elected official, but he gets to decide public discourse, the tone of it, who gets to speak, whose voice gets amplified.

01:34:12.000 The guy has an incredible amount of power and I don't know who he is.

01:34:18.000 And I don't think most of America knows who he is.

01:34:21.000 It seems ridiculous that we're shutting down Parler and no one's looking at Twitter.

01:34:27.000 It's protected.

01:34:28.000 Facebook too. My buddy posted a video that has a it's a clip of Anthony Fauci saying masks

01:34:34.000 You don't need masks are not needed. They they don't do what you think they do

01:34:38.000 They give people a false sense of security like I think end of March or April and then Facebook

01:34:43.000 Hey, Clinton masked it and said this has partially false information and then it's like what?

01:34:48.000 Thought she was wrong It was out of context, it was just a clip, but he was very clear saying, you don't need them, they don't give you the benefits you think they do.

01:34:59.000 Well, it's old.

01:35:00.000 It's an old video.

01:35:00.000 So his position has changed.

01:35:01.000 Man, he was emphatic.

01:35:03.000 And he's been in the industry for 70 some... or he's 80, 70, so he's been doing this for decades, and for him to not know...

01:35:10.000 After 30 years of serving in his position to not know that masks are effective or not.

01:35:16.000 Well now he wants you to wear two of them?

01:35:17.000 Yeah.

01:35:18.000 Three.

01:35:18.000 CNBC wants you to wear three of them.

01:35:20.000 So he spent 20 or 30 years studying this stuff and then within eight months he completely did it a 180 degree turn.

01:35:27.000 Wasn't there a meme where you said someone's smothering their grandma with a pillow?

01:35:29.000 Yes.

01:35:30.000 That's the only way to be sure!

01:35:31.000 Are these enough masks?

01:35:34.000 Alright, alright everybody, let's jump to Super Chats and take out comments.

01:35:37.000 If you haven't already, smash that like button, subscribe, hit that notification bell, and more importantly, we're gonna have a bonus segment.

01:35:43.000 I shouldn't even call it a bonus segment anymore, just members-only content over at TimCast.com.

01:35:47.000 So, we're trying to do more, talk about more stuff, more issues.

01:35:52.000 And things that typically we get kind of hard to talk about because of censorship on social media.

01:35:57.000 So TimGuys.com is really our opportunity to do whatever we want.

01:36:00.000 We're going to be filming some more behind-the-scenes stuff as well.

01:36:03.000 And we're going to... I shouldn't say too much, but we're going to do some on-the-road stuff, talking about guns and survival stuff, just to get more content to show you behind-the-scenes stuff.

01:36:14.000 I mentioned this as we go to our first Super Chat, because they'd be ragging on us.

01:36:19.000 All right.

01:36:20.000 Petty says, hearing you guys talk about guns is almost as frustrating as hearing Ian talk about things other than how banking is evil.

01:36:28.000 You'll catch up eventually though.

01:36:30.000 All right.

01:36:31.000 Listen, I've never pretended to be an expert.

01:36:33.000 I always say like, I'm a new gun guy.

01:36:35.000 Like, you know what I mean?

01:36:36.000 Like it's only been just over a year, not even a year for me so far.

01:36:39.000 We're all learning, and we're open to learning more.

01:36:42.000 We're not always right.

01:36:43.000 Fact check everything yourself.

01:36:45.000 And another thing, there is a gun culture in person, which is absolutely incredible and amazing when you're on the range and you meet certain people.

01:36:51.000 But online, especially when it comes to people's opinions about guns, holy cow, watch out.

01:36:56.000 I don't know anything.

01:36:57.000 I'm a noob.

01:36:58.000 I'm a novice compared to all the... I mean, the best things I could do is literally post something that I'm doing with firearms.

01:37:05.000 I'll get so many critiques.

01:37:06.000 And thank you.

01:37:07.000 I'm willing to get better.

01:37:09.000 I'm willing to listen to them.

01:37:10.000 Some of them are right.

01:37:11.000 Some of them are wrong.

01:37:12.000 But I'm willing to get better anytime.

01:37:13.000 So thank you for your constructive criticism.

01:37:15.000 So I'll say this too.

01:37:17.000 Mr. Petty.

01:37:19.000 Now, we here on TimCastIRL, we're tough as nails, so you can criticize us all day and night.

01:37:23.000 I actually try to read the very critical messages about us, too.

01:37:27.000 I won't shy away from them.

01:37:29.000 Recently, we did a segment where we talked about the Jacobin Magazine cover with Joe Biden as Jesus, and we thought it was serious!

01:37:35.000 I think that's mostly my fault because, you know, Jack and Luke couldn't even see it.

01:37:39.000 Yeah.

01:37:39.000 And I took it seriously and later on we were like, oh, that was satire, wasn't it?

01:37:43.000 I got roasted.

01:37:43.000 I got roasted and I deserve it.

01:37:45.000 And Kyle Kalinske did a segment.

01:37:47.000 It was really funny.

01:37:47.000 I laughed.

01:37:48.000 He's like, oh, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, what are we going to do with you?

01:37:50.000 And I was laughing.

01:37:51.000 I was like, you got me.

01:37:52.000 You got me.

01:37:53.000 I screwed up.

01:37:54.000 Clever.

01:37:54.000 I thought it was funny.

01:37:55.000 I'll own up to it, man.

01:37:56.000 But I would just say to the people who, uh, we've got a lot of comments about, like, you guys don't know what you're talking about, have on some expert.

01:38:02.000 We're trying.

01:38:03.000 And I think, uh, a lot of people online, you should, uh, you know, flies with honey, not vinegar.

01:38:08.000 You know what I mean?

01:38:08.000 Well, I appreciate the constructive criticism.

01:38:10.000 Thank you.

01:38:11.000 Uh, we're always, uh, we always could be better.

01:38:14.000 I want to have an expert on dreams on the show somewhere.

01:38:17.000 I had some crazy dreams today, like super vivid.

01:38:20.000 I thought I was there.

01:38:21.000 What time?

01:38:22.000 Like four in the afternoon or something.

01:38:25.000 I don't remember.

01:38:26.000 I was asleep.

01:38:26.000 I'm warped.

01:38:27.000 All right.

01:38:28.000 All right.

01:38:28.000 Let's read a Super Chat.

01:38:29.000 We got Jesse Pyle saying, Jason Whitlock is the man.

01:38:31.000 Fact.

01:38:32.000 Outstanding insight and journalism.

01:38:33.000 Much wisdom and looking forward to your group's discussion.

01:38:36.000 Right on.

01:38:37.000 Well, we had the discussions of earlier Super Chat.

01:38:38.000 These are from earlier.

01:38:40.000 A lot of people are pointing out the Wall Street bets back up.

01:38:43.000 We did see that eventually.

01:38:44.000 I get it.

01:38:45.000 I do.

01:38:45.000 Mike Green says, Pool Sunbay or Pool Appa if you prefer, I am the heir of a wealthy

01:38:50.000 family and I have been personally hurt and offended by leftist populist rhetoric for

01:38:54.000 my entire life.

01:38:55.000 I always thought that the rhetoric of the Occupy movement was hate and bigotry against

01:38:59.000 me.

01:39:00.000 I get it.

01:39:01.000 I do.

01:39:02.000 And I think there's too much where like, we need to clarify what we mean and what we're

01:39:07.000 So when the left says tax the rich, what they only sometimes clarify and should do more often is that they're referring to the exploitation, the people stripping value from the working class, not those that genuinely do good and earn it.

01:39:18.000 And when we were talking about the elites and stuff, I pointed out, like, I actually think Elon Musk is really cool.

01:39:22.000 I don't think he's perfect. 0.97

01:39:23.000 I think he's done some really dumb stuff. 0.69

01:39:25.000 But I don't think, you know, my concern is, are you ripping people off? 0.98

01:39:29.000 Are you evil?

01:39:30.000 Are you stealing from people and hurting them?

01:39:33.000 If you're a good person who helps people and they lift you up for it, that's awesome.

01:39:36.000 I think that's great.

01:39:37.000 My problem with elites, let's take, let's stay in the sports lane.

01:39:41.000 LeBron James.

01:39:43.000 I have a problem with him.

01:39:44.000 He's an elite and I don't think he says things publicly That he actually believes.

01:39:52.000 I think he caters his comments to how they'll be, will they be popular over Twitter.

01:39:58.000 And I see so many people on the left or these influencers say things like, is that what you would tell your child?

01:40:08.000 The same thing you're saying over the excuses you're making, uh, the advice you're giving, is that the same thing you would tell your child?

01:40:16.000 I just think they're, they're just too dishonest.

01:40:19.000 I once heard someone on the left say that, uh, during this whole Black Lives Matter deal, that they, that he and his wife had forbid his 17, 18 year old son from driving anymore out of fear that he would be assassinated by the police.

01:40:39.000 And and so we make him take uber Because we're so afraid of a boy, and I'm like are you being serious?

01:40:46.000 What what city do you live in and the person lived in Houston? 0.94

01:40:51.000 And I was like go check the stats 17 year old black boys if they're gonna die by gun violence go see if it's the police or if it's not another 17 year old black kid and And then tell me, so are you forbidding your black son from hanging out with black kids? 0.78

01:41:07.000 But you're gonna forbid him from driving out of fear of the cop. 0.98

01:41:10.000 It's that kind of dishonest rhetoric, hyperbolic rhetoric that I find offensive and it makes me despise these people.

01:41:19.000 Yeah, and it never deals with the root cause of the problem.

01:41:21.000 It's never going to fix the problem because it obfuscates it so people don't even understand the reality of it.

01:41:27.000 There you, and again, And again, I've had bad experiences with the police.

01:41:31.000 One in particular.

01:41:33.000 But even in my bad experience with the police, and it was bad.

01:41:36.000 It went on for about 30 minutes in South Carolina 25 years ago.

01:41:41.000 Compliance got me out of it.

01:41:43.000 Got me home in bed to be pissed off at them.

01:41:46.000 Nothing happened to me.

01:41:47.000 Yeah, comply.

01:41:49.000 I have friends who are police officers.

01:41:52.000 Just comply. 0.99

01:41:54.000 And again, complying and killing them with kindness, because I like to drive fast. 0.98

01:42:00.000 I no longer drive, but when I did, I drove really fast. 0.98

01:42:04.000 If I had a chance to go over 100 miles an hour, I went over 100 miles an hour.

01:42:07.000 Pulled over many times.

01:42:09.000 I got out of so many tickets just killing police officers with kindness. 1.00

01:42:13.000 Just killing them. 0.99

01:42:15.000 They'd be mean to me and I would still... Officer, I'm so sorry. 1.00

01:42:18.000 It was so stupid of me to do that.

01:42:21.000 I get a warning ticket. 0.99

01:42:22.000 I get a... Most of the time, I get a warn... It's incredible.

01:42:26.000 People don't get it, man, that cops are people who are at work.

01:42:28.000 Like, how would you feel if you're at work and then someone did something that bothered you?

01:42:31.000 You'd be like... Or like they're breaking the rules.

01:42:33.000 You're like, dude, I'm doing this thing.

01:42:35.000 Here you are.

01:42:36.000 You gotta be like, I'm sorry, I know you're frustrated.

01:42:39.000 You probably just want to go home, see your kids, have a burger.

01:42:42.000 Last thing you want to do is be dealing with some smart aleck mouthing off at you.

01:42:46.000 I see these videos where people are like shouting their rights at them.

01:42:49.000 And I'm like, I get it.

01:42:50.000 I respect it.

01:42:51.000 I would never do that.

01:42:53.000 I just try to be tactful and understand the circumstances. 0.99

01:42:57.000 If my goal with anybody, if it's, hey, I want to get a phone number from a girl, I'm going to kill her with kindness. 0.98

01:43:04.000 I'm not going to tell her I have a right to her phone number. 0.99

01:43:06.000 If I want to get out of a situation with the police with a warning ticket or not getting arrested, You're the best way to do it is kill them with kindness. 0.97

01:43:15.000 I try to always make their life better. 0.98

01:43:18.000 Even if they're screwing me over or being cruel to me, I just think like, okay, when this is over, I want them to have a better life.

01:43:25.000 Here's what's comical, Ian, is that many people believe that the police see your white skin and just go, oh my God, sir, I'm sorry for pulling you over.

01:43:36.000 Hey, just slow it down a little bit, buddy.

01:43:38.000 Go ahead.

01:43:38.000 They have no idea that police Just because of the job, they're pretty much a-holes to anybody they can get away with.

01:43:45.000 The most pissed off a cop has ever been to me is when I was on my phone in my car.

01:43:49.000 He drove by on a motorcycle, looked at me, went, and pointed.

01:43:52.000 I went, oh.

01:43:53.000 And he went, like the face, like, I will arrest you on the spot if you don't pull that car over.

01:43:58.000 I was like, oh, comply with the police.

01:44:01.000 Yeah, I mean, I got beat up by the cops.

01:44:03.000 There you go.

01:44:03.000 It's true.

01:44:04.000 I think, you know, the fact that we often end up in this situation where we're like, oh, I understand they're mad.

01:44:09.000 Let's just be very nice to them.

01:44:10.000 We shouldn't have to.

01:44:11.000 there in the first place they should understand that they have a public duty to serve and they

01:44:14.000 should actually be responsible for serving. It's true. I think you know the fact that we often end

01:44:20.000 up in this situation where we're like oh I understand they're mad let's just be very nice

01:44:23.000 to them. We shouldn't have to but I do think that you know understanding the strategy and tactics

01:44:31.000 of yeah you know be successful. 0.98

01:44:34.000 Yeah, you know, you could be, you know, tactful, you could be respectful, but doesn't mean you have to overly brown nose and kiss their butts. 0.97

01:44:40.000 You shouldn't have to do that. 0.97

01:44:41.000 Would you, if you could pick cops to be robots, would you?

01:44:44.000 No.

01:44:44.000 Would you?

01:44:45.000 Absolutely not.

01:44:46.000 Because you've got a lot of emotional experiences with them, I think, right?

01:44:48.000 Probably more than anyone at the table.

01:44:50.000 Well, I got the crap beat out of me a number of times for, you know, not even breaking the law.

01:44:54.000 For hanging out in the wrong crowd, the wrong neighborhood and, you know, growing up in New York City. 0.97

01:44:58.000 Did you look black at the time?

01:45:00.000 I find it hard to believe that you got treated poorly by the police. 0.92

01:45:03.000 You're white. 0.95

01:45:04.000 Well, I grew up in Brooklyn, New York City. 0.91

01:45:06.000 But you're white. 0.90

01:45:07.000 I mean... 0.57

01:45:08.000 You've got white privilege.

01:45:09.000 Didn't you show him your white privilege card?

01:45:13.000 In New York City, a lot of it was based on the neighborhoods you were in.

01:45:17.000 You've seen the South Park episode with Michael Jackson?

01:45:20.000 So Michael Jackson moves to South Park and the police are at the department and they're like, what's this?

01:45:26.000 A black man has moved, moved in and he's wealthy. 0.99

01:45:29.000 Oh my God. 0.96

01:45:30.000 And so they like raid his house to arrest him.

01:45:33.000 And then when they see that he's white, they're like, What have we done? 0.78

01:45:36.000 Oh, God!

01:45:37.000 And then they apologize.

01:45:38.000 South Park's been on it, you know?

01:45:40.000 What do you think about robot police?

01:45:42.000 Terminators?

01:45:45.000 Emotionless law enforcers.

01:45:47.000 We gotta do super chats.

01:45:49.000 I agree.

01:45:50.000 I wanna hear Luke's take on emotion.

01:45:51.000 A lot of the laws are bullcrap, so I wouldn't want robots using them anyway.

01:45:55.000 And I'll say one thing before we move on to the Super Chats.

01:45:58.000 Disorderly conduct.

01:45:59.000 What does it mean?

01:45:59.000 How could a robot determine whether or not you were disorderly?

01:46:02.000 They can't.

01:46:03.000 So you might get arrested for nothing.

01:46:04.000 But anyway, we'll read some Super Chats.

01:46:06.000 Alright, let's see what we got here.

01:46:07.000 Fisk the Lombax says, The hedge funds want to keep all the rewards when they make risky decisions and win.

01:46:13.000 When they lose, they want to get bailed out and make everyone pay for their losses.

01:46:17.000 Exactly.

01:46:18.000 Ooh, here's one.

01:46:19.000 Concussed Gamer says, Luke, you should get Tulsi Gabbard to wake Tim up in the middle of the night.

01:46:23.000 That's the one.

01:46:24.000 Hit me up, Tulsi.

01:46:25.000 Follow me on Twitter, LukeWeAreChange.

01:46:27.000 We'll have Tulsi on the show.

01:46:28.000 We'll do that.

01:46:29.000 Yes, let's do it, Tulsi.

01:46:30.000 Hit me up.

01:46:30.000 Well, I'll just leave it at that.

01:46:33.000 We'd love to have Tulsi Gabbard on the show. 0.91

01:46:34.000 I think Tim would contain his rage if Tulsi busted him open at 3 a.m.

01:46:38.000 That would be weird.

01:46:39.000 Be like one of few people in the world that you would like, OK, I'm not going to get angry.

01:46:42.000 I've got to be honest, like, I probably wouldn't get mad at anybody walking in the middle of the night, unless it was like someone wanted to hurt me.

01:46:47.000 We should all dress up like gorillas and then storm Tim in the middle. 0.63

01:46:52.000 I like where this is headed.

01:46:53.000 Actually, I'd probably get really, really, really mad.

01:46:57.000 Because if I get woken up, I get migraines.

01:46:59.000 That's what I'm talking about!

01:47:01.000 Nasty migraines, and then I'll get nauseous.

01:47:03.000 But Palsy has the magic touch.

01:47:04.000 She got the power! 0.98

01:47:06.000 I'd probably get a migraine.

01:47:07.000 It's not nice to wake people up in the middle of the night.

01:47:09.000 Yeah, it messes me up real bad.

01:47:11.000 Messes me up real bad.

01:47:13.000 Let's see what we got here.

01:47:15.000 Oh, what's this?

01:47:16.000 Oh, here's a bold one.

01:47:17.000 Insight on the Ages says, David Pegman has gone insane.

01:47:19.000 Please have him on.

01:47:20.000 He needs help.

01:47:21.000 Half truth, the only way to explain.

01:47:24.000 Please help.

01:47:25.000 I'm not sure I understand.

01:47:26.000 I don't know what happened with David Pegman.

01:47:28.000 Honestly, I used to watch a bit more of his stuff.

01:47:30.000 I haven't recently.

01:47:32.000 So I don't know.

01:47:33.000 What's he doing?

01:47:33.000 He's doing really well.

01:47:34.000 Congratulations to him though.

01:47:36.000 You know, I've seen some of his videos pop up and he's getting a ton of views.

01:47:38.000 That's cool.

01:47:39.000 Unless he's saying crazy things.

01:47:40.000 I don't know.

01:47:40.000 He's getting more and more famous, but doesn't have like a grounded group of friends.

01:47:44.000 Maybe.

01:47:44.000 I've actually known David for a really, really long time.

01:47:46.000 I like that guy.

01:47:47.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:47:47.000 We have our disagreements, for sure.

01:47:48.000 I've been watching him since, like, right when he started.

01:47:50.000 When he was getting, like, 50 views, 300 views.

01:47:52.000 Who is this again?

01:47:54.000 David Packman.

01:47:55.000 P-A-K-M-A-N. 1.00

01:47:55.000 He had this really famous moment where he had the Westboro Baptist Church on his show, and then Anonymous hacked their website in real time. 1.00

01:48:02.000 So it's like, you know, he's been around for a minute.

01:48:03.000 But let's read some more as well.

01:48:06.000 Let's see what superchats we got.

01:48:07.000 We got DJ Strickland saying, I didn't like Jason years ago when he was ragging on the Raiders, but caught a YouTube video of his opinions last year about America.

01:48:14.000 God bless, brother.

01:48:15.000 There you go.

01:48:16.000 Your sports opinions are bad, but your America opinions are good. 0.95

01:48:19.000 Were you calling out the Raiders when they actually sucked?

01:48:21.000 I lived in Kansas City, and I covered the Chiefs, you know, and so he's just caught up in the Chiefs-Raiders rivalry.

01:48:29.000 I gotta tell you guys, I think we're gonna have a really, really funny bonus segment, because I already know what we're talking about.

01:48:34.000 I'm not gonna say anything right now, but trust me, you're gonna love it.

01:48:37.000 It's gonna be really funny, we're gonna laugh, and you definitely wanna go to TimCast.com to become members, or you can wait, because we'll post the video, and then you can decide then, but I think it'll be hilarious, it'll be fun.

01:48:46.000 Jason's great, so I think we got a good segment.

01:48:50.000 Mitch L says, one of your best guests.

01:48:52.000 Big J, you are the man.

01:48:54.000 Thank you.

01:48:55.000 Everybody loves you.

01:48:56.000 Brandon Freeman says, love Jason Whitlock.

01:48:58.000 Love this format and guests you guys have been having on.

01:49:01.000 Thanks for the great shows.

01:49:03.000 Right on.

01:49:04.000 Jamie Richard says, buy some stonks.

01:49:06.000 And then posted seven rocket emojis.

01:49:10.000 And it says, colon rocket colon.

01:49:11.000 I guess that's how you type the emoji.

01:49:14.000 Carl Engstrom says, been sharing your channels hard for a while here.

01:49:17.000 Keep the truth coming.

01:49:18.000 Greatly appreciate it.

01:49:19.000 Please, please share.

01:49:20.000 It helps.

01:49:22.000 Josh Martina says, finally, I can lurk in the CNN comment section and upvote each one in good conscience.

01:49:28.000 It's about time we had a good day.

01:49:30.000 Trumpism.

01:49:33.000 Omega Blade says, hi Tim, check out John Schaffer's Sons of Liberty.

01:49:37.000 One of the songs Jekyll Island lyrics mentioned ending the Fed.

01:49:41.000 Sounds like a Ron Paul kind of band.

01:49:44.000 Yeah, let's see what we got.

01:49:45.000 Let's see some of these.

01:49:46.000 Gareth Green goes on to say, Oh, I think there's probably another one I missed.

01:49:49.000 He was the heir from earlier.

01:49:51.000 Yes, but I think maybe he had another one.

01:49:53.000 It is the beauty of the true free market that human hands cannot control.

01:49:56.000 Oh, I think there's probably another one I missed.

01:49:59.000 He was the heir from earlier.

01:50:01.000 Yes, but I think maybe he had another one.

01:50:03.000 It's hard because sometimes they get broken up.

01:50:05.000 Here we go.

01:50:06.000 This one's important.

01:50:07.000 You know, that is one of the questions being mentioned about hedge funds.

01:50:11.000 Reddit ruin people's retirement funds for the lulz is like watching Antifa burn small

01:50:15.000 business to fight the establishment.

01:50:17.000 You know, that is one of the questions being mentioned about hedge funds.

01:50:20.000 Are they managing people's retirement accounts and betting it all and losing it all?

01:50:24.000 Look, it's still an issue of the establishment crony elites rigging the game to enrich a

01:50:29.000 small group of people, and they are using these retirement funds to do so.

01:50:35.000 Right.

01:50:35.000 It's different if you have a business and then someone comes and burns it down as collateral damage, as opposed to if you're giving hedge fund managers money to invest and ignorantly not knowing that they're gaming the system.

01:50:46.000 When you're, you know, you get to choose how risky of an investment you want to make as an individual.

01:50:51.000 So that's a personal decision that a lot of people are making.

01:50:54.000 So that's up to them.

01:50:55.000 Bobby Lane says, Luke, I always vote with my dollar, which is why I'm leaving a super chat.

01:51:00.000 Keep up the good work over there.

01:51:02.000 And I'm ready.

01:51:02.000 I'm really glad to see Wall Street bets making the rich big sad.

01:51:06.000 LOL, Alex Jones, 2024.

01:51:07.000 Oh, geez.

01:51:08.000 There we go.

01:51:08.000 Oh.

01:51:12.000 PsychoDwarf says, Tim, fact of the day, a time-on-target artillery attack is called a stone.

01:51:18.000 Ah, yes, interesting.

01:51:19.000 I don't know what that's a reference to, but probably something important.

01:51:22.000 Someone said, what is it, uh... Spell checker, stonk.

01:51:26.000 Interesting.

01:51:28.000 Nobody knows what it means.

01:51:29.000 Stonks?

01:51:30.000 Yeah, well, yeah, it's just a slang term, right?

01:51:31.000 I mean, Luke said stonk earlier when he was saying stonk.

01:51:34.000 Well, it's a meme.

01:51:35.000 Stonks.

01:51:35.000 Oh, it is?

01:51:38.000 Michael Tierney says, we just need the 99% to stop buying from companies like Amazon and Walmart, spend at small business to keep the money in the community.

01:51:45.000 Lockdown, transfer of wealth opened my eyes to this and instantly canceled Prime and go to local stores.

01:51:50.000 It's a very, very good point.

01:51:52.000 That's a tough one for me.

01:51:53.000 Yeah, I watch a lot of Amazon Prime videos.

01:51:58.000 I'm watching one right now, America This Is Us or something like that.

01:52:02.000 It's about American history.

01:52:05.000 Because I think about getting away from Amazon.

01:52:07.000 Well, I've been going more to a more regional chain grocery store instead of Walmart, because we used to go to Walmart all the time.

01:52:13.000 I don't want to go to Walmart anymore.

01:52:14.000 Oh yeah, I'd never go anymore.

01:52:15.000 So now it's like trying to avoid it, but it's rough, man.

01:52:19.000 Does Amazon own Twitch?

01:52:21.000 They own Twitch, don't they?

01:52:22.000 I don't know.

01:52:23.000 They gave me Prime benefits for Twitch for Red Dead Redemption.

01:52:26.000 I got a bunch of in-game benefits for having Prime.

01:52:29.000 Oh, they're everywhere.

01:52:31.000 Let's see.

01:52:32.000 Anglo-Saxonite says, look into Pelosi buying Visa stock after she helped pass a law that helped Visa.

01:52:38.000 She and her husband made millions.

01:52:40.000 They're pretty rich.

01:52:40.000 Wouldn't be surprised.

01:52:42.000 Gareth Green says, FYI, Poland was a Soviet satellite, but it was officially an independent nation.

01:52:47.000 It wasn't actually part of the Soviet Union.

01:52:49.000 It was part of the Russian Empire from the Napoleonic Wars until World War I, though, after it was partitioned out of existence in the late 1700s.

01:52:56.000 Yeah, Amazon owns Twitch.

01:52:59.000 Okay.

01:53:00.000 Yep.

01:53:01.000 Billion dollar company.

01:53:02.000 Matthew Herbeck says, you know what?

01:53:03.000 I feel for these hedge funders.

01:53:05.000 Maybe I can offer a glimmer of hope.

01:53:07.000 There's night school.

01:53:08.000 Cut your spending.

01:53:09.000 Maybe pick up another part-time job.

01:53:11.000 Think of a change of trade.

01:53:12.000 Learn to code.

01:53:13.000 Work longer hours.

01:53:15.000 They are going to get a $1,400 check soon, so they got that going for them.

01:53:21.000 Actually, it's based on last year's income, I believe, where they probably made millions of dollars.

01:53:26.000 So now that they're broke and destitute, they're not even gonna get that.

01:53:31.000 Too bad!

01:53:33.000 Stevie B says a stock is only worth the next person will pay.

01:53:36.000 90% of those buying GME will lose.

01:53:39.000 Wealth will be destroyed when stock gap down.

01:53:41.000 Don't touch GME.

01:53:43.000 It's a good point.

01:53:44.000 It's true.

01:53:44.000 But you have to think about 3 million people each putting in a couple hundred bucks.

01:53:50.000 The maximum loss for them is a couple hundred bucks.

01:53:53.000 So it's bad.

01:53:54.000 Some people bet big, and they'll lose big for sure.

01:53:56.000 But these hedge funds bet way big, with no bottom.

01:54:00.000 And so the more people keep buying up, as long as there's massive demand, it'll keep going up.

01:54:05.000 And then these hedge funds are going to be in serious trouble.

01:54:08.000 How did GameStop make out after all this?

01:54:10.000 Are they actually getting fiat from the stock purchases?

01:54:13.000 So some people are saying that maybe GameStop will issue more stock to raise capital to help save the company.

01:54:21.000 I think some people pointed out that executives of the company sold a long time ago when it was at like $30, and so they got out while they could.

01:54:29.000 Ultimately, it's irrational.

01:54:32.000 The money is just being traded between people, not the company.

01:54:34.000 The company could theoretically, you know, raise capital somehow.

01:54:37.000 They may have already done it.

01:54:39.000 I wonder if GameStop will take the opportunity in the PR to actually make some positive changes to survive.

01:54:44.000 I think, in my opinion, if they can, still, if it's not too late, they need to make GameStop kind of like Steam.

01:54:49.000 They need to create a browser-based game downloading system, and their brick-and-mortar stores should become event spaces with gaming competitions, local stuff that should lead to state level, then regional, then national, really promote the community.

01:55:03.000 They should do board games, card games, video games, and they should sell stuff.

01:55:06.000 And if people are playing the games online and downloading kind of like how Steam works, but then they go into the physical shop as a member to compete, And then the winners get to go to the, you know, the regional stuff.

01:55:16.000 That's gonna create a whole market around a professional space, new products, new economy.

01:55:22.000 That's the way you play it.

01:55:24.000 Maybe they won't do it.

01:55:24.000 Maybe they can't do it.

01:55:25.000 I don't know.

01:55:25.000 That's what I'd do if I was them.

01:55:28.000 Grand Kai says they are not afraid of their buddies failing.

01:55:31.000 They are afraid of losing their money.

01:55:33.000 From newsroom to politicians, all their wealth is at risk.

01:55:38.000 Tell me how many people got their money back from Madoff.

01:55:40.000 This is the same.

01:55:42.000 Yup, they're gonna be really, really salty.

01:55:46.000 Let's move down here.

01:55:47.000 We got some more from Gareth Green.

01:55:48.000 He says, I would like to say that hedge funds do provide a service to those who invest in them, like me and my parents.

01:55:53.000 That said, I was revolted when our financial manager expressed approval of massive money printing in our last meeting.

01:55:59.000 I disavow him.

01:56:01.000 Yeah, man.

01:56:02.000 You know, I have a lot of friends, and I've known for a really, really long time, who have always been really well off, and they're really good people who are really aware.

01:56:09.000 The problem is the snooty elites who think they're better than everyone just because they were born into it.

01:56:14.000 Mostly the people who exploit the system.

01:56:16.000 I guess some people are bad people, you know?

01:56:18.000 I try not to be mean to people.

01:56:22.000 BasePlayer2011 says, Sellers lost almost 40 billion dollars trying to short Tesla.

01:56:27.000 Not hard to see why Elon is loving this.

01:56:30.000 Yup.

01:56:32.000 Jaya Surin says, I heard that Elon was only briefly the richest man in the world and Jeff Bezos came back to the top after a day and Elon was the richest guy because of Bezos' alimony to his wife because of the divorce.

01:56:43.000 That's for sure.

01:56:43.000 Well, there you go.

01:56:45.000 Lurch says Enrique Tarrio turns out to be an FBI informant.

01:56:55.000 Curious.

01:56:56.000 I did do a segment about it, but it was a while ago.

01:56:58.000 I don't think it was actually recent.

01:57:01.000 We got way too many- I'm so sorry guys, we got way too many superchats, but y'all are awesome and I really appreciate it.

01:57:06.000 Chris Pavotto says, Tim Luke, did you see that Governor Newsom approved $1 billion tax bucks in contracts to a Chinese company for N95 masks reported a few days ago?

01:57:15.000 Been pushing my family to leave CA even though our special needs son benefits from CA weather.

01:57:21.000 That's a bummer, man.

01:57:23.000 Definitely.

01:57:23.000 California's brutal.

01:57:25.000 I escaped.

01:57:26.000 I'm happy.

01:57:27.000 How long were you there?

01:57:28.000 10 years.

01:57:29.000 Can you disclose where you went afterwards?

01:57:32.000 Yeah, I'm in Nashville.

01:57:32.000 Okay, awesome.

01:57:33.000 What decade were you in California?

01:57:36.000 2010 to 2020.

01:57:37.000 Yeah, I was there for part of that too.

01:57:40.000 I think they're getting rid of Newsom or they want to issue some recall?

01:57:42.000 Is that what they're doing?

01:57:44.000 We got a religious post here.

01:57:45.000 Josh Shuster says, Jesus Christ is God.

01:57:48.000 He shed his sinless, perfect blood to atone for mankind's sin.

01:57:52.000 Corinthians 15, 1-4.

01:57:54.000 You must trust Jesus for salvation and not a religion or your own good works.

01:58:00.000 And that's Ephesians 2, 8-9.

01:58:05.000 I am not a very particularly big religious person, but much respect to those who want to express themselves.

01:58:12.000 Dr. Doctor says, with the advent of automation, and the fact that humans as a species is not evolving quick enough compared to its computing machine, so we're going to have a mass displacement of workers in the near future, 30 years or so, how do we as a society figure out how our bartering system... Perhaps there's more, but I think I get the general idea.

01:58:33.000 What was this?

01:58:34.000 Someone mentioning that Canada's going to go full UBI or something?

01:58:37.000 Like, universal basic income is around the corner and they really want to push it?

01:58:40.000 They want everybody just getting money?

01:58:43.000 Hey, they crash the market, nobody owns anything, and then they decide what you can have.

01:58:48.000 That's the elite global authoritarianism.

01:58:50.000 I mean, that's the Great Reset, basically.

01:58:52.000 You've seen that, right, Jason?

01:58:53.000 Oh, yeah.

01:58:54.000 You will own nothing and you will be happy.

01:58:56.000 Well, they're talking about the fourth industrial revolution with technology and their advancements, particularly in AI, removing a huge swap of the labor force.

01:59:07.000 So that's literally what they're discussing at Davos right now, that they're calling the Great Reset.

01:59:11.000 The great redefining of capitalism, aka more centralization, more control, more regulation, more big government, all done in the name of social justice.

01:59:21.000 Naomi Klein said, this is all going to be, all the good things that they promised are never going to happen.

01:59:26.000 All the bad things and the consequences are going to happen because of this.

01:59:29.000 Microsoft has patent 060606, something like that.

01:59:33.000 And it's like, it's an implantable where it can measure your bioactivity and then pay you cryptocurrency.

01:59:38.000 We're in a simulation, bro.

01:59:39.000 They want you to like, it'll be able to register if you're watching an ad on TV, and if you watch specific ads it'll pay your account crypto, just for watching, just for being a certain way.

01:59:48.000 We got Isaac Lux, he says, first super chat, but newish viewer, 5 months, recently MI unemployment got stimulus, so I wanted to support you guys, I watched your 10am video and almost hopped on the train, but I saw this coming.

02:00:00.000 Well, you know, I'll just shout out.

02:00:02.000 I really appreciate it, Isaac.

02:00:04.000 But I do think if you're on unemployment and you have a stimulus, you should keep all that.

02:00:08.000 You should keep all that.

02:00:10.000 But if you really want to support the show, by all means.

02:00:12.000 I mean, you know, I'm a pretty lefty guy.

02:00:15.000 I don't like the idea of people having money getting special access for the most part.

02:00:19.000 But it's just kind of how the system works.

02:00:21.000 There's no real way around it.

02:00:22.000 Tim's gonna get super rich and then distribute the wealth to a bunch of people.

02:00:27.000 Yeah.

02:00:28.000 I'm gonna leave my address here when you cut those checks.

02:00:31.000 He's about as socialist as I am.

02:00:33.000 Dude, I was, you know how we saw Mega Millions hit like a billion dollars?

02:00:37.000 I bought some tickets and I, no lie, I was like, as the guy's printing it, I'm like, I'm gonna give you a million dollars.

02:00:42.000 And he started laughing, I'm like, no, I mean it.

02:00:44.000 If I won a billion dollars, dude, I'd give tons of money.

02:00:46.000 I'd give it all away.

02:00:47.000 I'd give almost all of it away.

02:00:48.000 I'm too, I'm just, I just give it away.

02:00:51.000 Luke would keep it and he'd buy Bitcoin with it and then he wouldn't let anyone know.

02:00:54.000 Are you kidding me?

02:00:57.000 Would you give the money away?

02:00:58.000 If I had millions, yeah.

02:01:01.000 Without a doubt.

02:01:01.000 Dude, I would just start investing in all these people I know.

02:01:04.000 People don't understand just like how stupid rich people are that they don't know even what to do with themselves with that money. 0.99

02:01:10.000 To be fair, it might not help people. 1.00

02:01:11.000 It might hurt them.

02:01:12.000 Seriously.

02:01:12.000 A lot of people who get a lot of money really quickly end up actually putting themselves in very horrible situations.

02:01:18.000 But I tell you what I would do, I would go to a random house, knock on the door, and be like, I was wondering if there's any bill you're having trouble with.

02:01:24.000 And then when they're like, oh yeah, you know, I got this one bill, it's like a thousand bucks, I'd be like, here you are sir, have a nice day.

02:01:29.000 So it's just enough to help them out with that one thing.

02:01:32.000 The problem with just giving a random person a million bucks is they don't know what to do with it.

02:01:35.000 How do they put in the bank?

02:01:36.000 So if I actually won the lottery, you might actually cause a lot of stress and problems for them by giving them too much.

02:01:42.000 If you win the lottery, you want to give them enough to where they're jumping up and down, yes, and they've alleviated a lot of their problems, but not to where it's more money, more problems.

02:01:51.000 Creating a situation where you just give people money is a lot different than creating opportunities for people to earn money doing good things. 0.89

02:01:58.000 If I had a whole bunch of crazy stupid money, I would literally build it into developing tech, social media, internet 2.0 like it was before. 0.96

02:02:05.000 That's what I would do. 0.99

02:02:06.000 Start investing in companies like startups.

02:02:08.000 You know, I would build an own decentralized central internet network that was the internet of the old bringing it back on its own servers on its own platforms and giving people jobs and opportunities to work in the future giving a service that's going to free people.

02:02:23.000 I'll tell you what I do.

02:02:24.000 I would pay off tons of medical debt.

02:02:25.000 I think that's the easiest way.

02:02:27.000 I don't want to give money to those companies right now.

02:02:29.000 No, but buying debt is like 10% of the actual cost.

02:02:35.000 So when Occupy Wall Street organized this thing, I forgot what it was called, but they raised a bunch of money.

02:02:40.000 And then you have this debt that's sitting that they can't collect because the people are destitute.

02:02:45.000 So they say, how about we resolve?

02:02:47.000 You want 10 grand?

02:02:48.000 I'll give you a thousand bucks and we'll consider it resolved and say, deal.

02:02:51.000 And then the people who are in debt are no longer in debt anymore.

02:02:53.000 There's still the problem of them having to pay taxes on it.

02:02:56.000 So then you have to figure out a way to give them enough money to where they can cover all of the taxes, so you'd have to give them some money and pay their medical bills.

02:03:02.000 I think that would be a really good way to give away a lot of the money if you won the lottery.

02:03:06.000 Dude, people don't realize, if you won the billion dollar prize, you would have more liquid cash than Elon Musk.

02:03:13.000 You would give up about half of it to the government.

02:03:16.000 You'd end up with probably like $400 million because the cash prize, the total annuity prize is a billion, but then the cash payout, if you choose cash, is $735 million.

02:03:25.000 Then you pay half of it, so you end up with, you know, just shy of $400 million.

02:03:30.000 You'd have more liquid cash than most billionaires in this country, maybe even in the planet.

02:03:34.000 Because they have hard assets that are very valuable, but liquid, not so much.

02:03:38.000 You'd then have to figure out what to do with it.

02:03:40.000 It's not so easy, but let's be real.

02:03:42.000 If you won the lottery, you'd be like Richie Rich.

02:03:44.000 I was sitting here listening to you guys.

02:03:46.000 I would invest a lot of money in my school, Ball State University, and I would make them teach things that celebrated traditional American values.

02:03:58.000 I'd run all the Marxists off campus and create an entrepreneurial school that taught kids how to start their own businesses.

02:04:06.000 Oh, yeah.

02:04:07.000 I love that.

02:04:09.000 And I hope my school president's not listening to this.

02:04:11.000 What's the name of the documentary?

02:04:12.000 We'll grab a couple more super chats here.

02:04:14.000 Art Vandalay says, check out the new Thomas Sowell documentary

02:04:18.000 on Free to Choose Network, an upcoming bio by Justin Riley.

02:04:21.000 Sowell is a national treasure.

02:04:23.000 He is a smart fellow.

02:04:25.000 He's the second person that suggested that in the last 24 hours.

02:04:28.000 What's the name of the documentary?

02:04:29.000 I don't remember.

02:04:30.000 You should watch, Shelby still did a documentary, What Killed Michael Brown.

02:04:36.000 Awesome.

02:04:38.000 Alright, we got JQ Nelson Film says, Whitlock, heard you moved to Nashville from LA.

02:04:43.000 I just moved from NYC to Nashville due to the lockdown, homelessness, etc.

02:04:46.000 Do you think these big cities will come back post-COVID?

02:04:49.000 Also, we go to the same barbershop.

02:04:52.000 I don't think the big cities are going to come back.

02:04:57.000 Not to what they were, no.

02:05:00.000 And I was telling Lydia when she picked me up from the airport, I think that's a mistake for conservative people.

02:05:07.000 Go play home games in Texas, in Tennessee, in Florida.

02:05:10.000 New York, and LA, quit playing away games.

02:05:14.000 Go play home games in Texas, in Tennessee, in Florida.

02:05:21.000 Go be with your customers.

02:05:24.000 And I wish that Fox News would relocate to Nashville or Dallas

02:05:30.000 and that way Lachlan Murray, Lachlan Murdoch, or any of them, when they went out and socialized,

02:05:37.000 they'd go out and be amongst people who thought like them, rather than playing road games and being intimidated.

02:05:44.000 Because the whole atmosphere around you is so far left.

02:05:48.000 There's a meme I tweeted today in relation to this.

02:05:50.000 It says, if lockdowns weren't profitable cash cows for the global billionaire class, they'd end tomorrow.

02:05:55.000 Yeah.

02:05:56.000 Yep.

02:05:56.000 Good point.

02:05:57.000 All right. 1.00

02:05:57.000 We got James Kaliri saying, take this money, you capitalist pigs. 1.00

02:06:01.000 Love you guys. 0.99

02:06:02.000 Appreciate it.

02:06:03.000 Tilt Rod says, on police reform, Sir Robert Peel basically invented the idea of a uniformed police force.

02:06:09.000 I think you would appreciate his original principles about policing.

02:06:11.000 Peelian principles.

02:06:12.000 We abuse the power of police by using them as tax collectors.

02:06:16.000 Interesting.

02:06:17.000 Well, my friends, thank you all so much for all of your comments and superchats.

02:06:20.000 We had a lot tonight, and as you know, we really can't get through everybody, but we try.

02:06:24.000 But we're gonna have another segment coming up at TimCast.com, which is going to be, at least I hope, very funny and fun, and more relaxing and chill.

02:06:33.000 I can cuss, I was told. 0.93

02:06:34.000 You can cuss, you can go nuts! 1.00

02:06:36.000 So it's going to be hilarious.

02:06:37.000 I've had two hours without cussing.

02:06:40.000 I'm shaking.

02:06:41.000 We do tell everybody they can cuss if they want, but YouTube is just really nasty about it.

02:06:47.000 And we try to be family friendly.

02:06:49.000 So it's really up to you, but everybody kind of respects the idea that we'll keep it down.

02:06:54.000 But at TimCast.com, we're gonna go crazy, and it's gonna be hilarious.

02:06:57.000 We're gonna be laughing.

02:06:58.000 So please go to TimCast.com, become a member, smash the like button, subscribe, hit the notification bell.

02:07:02.000 You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, Parler.

02:07:05.000 Why did I just say that?

02:07:06.000 Keep saying it.

02:07:06.000 Stop it.

02:07:07.000 Because Parler's coming back.

02:07:08.000 It is?

02:07:09.000 I don't know.

02:07:09.000 Maybe.

02:07:09.000 One day.

02:07:10.000 Mine's at TimCast and my other YouTube channels are YouTube.com slash TimCast and YouTube.com slash TimCastNews.

02:07:16.000 And we do the show Monday to Friday live at 8 p.m.

02:07:19.000 So we will be back tomorrow.

02:07:20.000 Jason, you want to shout out anything you're working on?

02:07:22.000 Your podcast, your Twitter, what you got?

02:07:24.000 You can check me out on Twitter at Whitlock Jason.

02:07:26.000 I'll just leave it at that.

02:07:28.000 It's a good Twitter account, too.

02:07:29.000 I've been following for a while, so good for you.

02:07:30.000 No, you haven't been following.

02:07:31.000 What?

02:07:32.000 Yeah, you unfollowed me.

02:07:34.000 I didn't unfollow you.

02:07:35.000 I know, somebody did.

02:07:36.000 I follow you, trust me.

02:07:37.000 I've been heartbroken about it.

02:07:39.000 Lydia, what did I say when you asked me to?

02:07:42.000 No, I followed you a long time ago.

02:07:45.000 So when she mentioned, I was like, yeah, of course.

02:07:48.000 Heck yeah.

02:07:49.000 Oh, now I'm mad at Twitter.

02:07:50.000 I've been mad at Twitter for a long time.

02:07:52.000 But this has been happening.

02:07:53.000 There's also Ron Coleman.

02:07:54.000 He's a lawyer.

02:07:56.000 I've been unfollowed for him like five times.

02:07:58.000 I don't unfollow him! 0.94

02:08:00.000 And I literally was like, damn, I wonder what I said. 0.97

02:08:06.000 I'll follow you right now. 0.97

02:08:07.000 Luke, you're here.

02:08:08.000 What are you doing?

02:08:08.000 This happens a lot, by the way.

02:08:09.000 Also, if you'd like to buy the t-shirt that I'm wearing right now that says, if you trust the government, you don't know history, you can on thebestpoliticalshirts.com.

02:08:19.000 Thank you so much for purchasing those t-shirts and supporting me over at wearechange.org.

02:08:24.000 It means a lot to me.

02:08:25.000 Thank you.

02:08:26.000 Yo, what up everybody?

02:08:28.000 I'm Ian Crossland.

02:08:29.000 You can follow me basically all over the internet at Ian Crossland and probably gaming later tonight.

02:08:34.000 If you want to follow me on twitch.tv slash Ian Crossland, I'll be firing out a tweet to let you know when I go live.

02:08:40.000 Jason, you mentioned that you were going to be starting a show.

02:08:43.000 I know maybe it's too premature to really talk too much about it.

02:08:45.000 It's exciting though.

02:08:46.000 I'm going to follow you on Twitter as well.

02:08:48.000 I'm so offended at Twitter.

02:08:50.000 Yeah.

02:08:50.000 Twitter.

02:08:51.000 Because I remember you tweeted something in response to me and I immediately followed you.

02:08:55.000 Yeah.

02:08:55.000 And then I guess I just didn't even notice.

02:08:57.000 You haven't followed me in about six or seven months.

02:08:59.000 Trust me.

02:09:00.000 I have the day written down next to my heart on my nightstand.

02:09:05.000 But we've also read OutKick articles before too, I think from you.

02:09:07.000 Yeah.

02:09:08.000 Yeah, Twitter's dirty, man.

02:09:10.000 I'm saying this in all seriousness.

02:09:11.000 There have been two podcasts I wanted to come on, and I can now cross this off the list.

02:09:15.000 Oh, dude, you're welcome to come back anytime.

02:09:17.000 It's a fun show.

02:09:17.000 Joe Rogan is the other one.

02:09:18.000 Tim Pool and Joe Rogan are my favorites.

02:09:20.000 It's way bigger, though.

02:09:22.000 I feel like if you're interviewed by Tim Pool and Joe Rogan, you've made it.

02:09:27.000 I promise you.

02:09:28.000 Then you gotta get interviewed by Tim Pool and Joe Rogan at the same time.

02:09:30.000 That would be incredible.

02:09:33.000 Everyone always brings up that episode about Twitter or whatever.

02:09:36.000 I am eternally grateful to Joe for having me on.

02:09:38.000 I told the story before, but when Joe asked me to do it, I was like, are you serious?

02:09:43.000 I had like 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.

02:09:45.000 I'm like, what am I doing?

02:09:46.000 I don't think you smiled once on the show, too.

02:09:47.000 It was awesome.

02:09:48.000 No, he did not.

02:09:48.000 It never broke character.

02:09:50.000 He never broke character. 1.00

02:09:52.000 You were in their ass. 0.99

02:09:54.000 Oh, I'm sorry. 1.00

02:09:55.000 You were right, though.

02:09:58.000 When I went to that show, I didn't even care about the cameras.

02:10:01.000 I was like, oh, these guys.

02:10:03.000 I'm going to say some stuff.

02:10:04.000 Anyway, anyway, we'll save it for the bonus segment.

02:10:06.000 We also got Sour Patch Lids pressing all them buttons.

02:10:08.000 Yes, I'm pushing all the buttons.

02:10:09.000 I had a great time talking with Jason when I picked him up from the airport.

02:10:12.000 You guys can follow me on social media if I can recall.

02:10:15.000 I am RealSourPatchLids on Gab and Instagram and I am JustSourPatchLids, SourPatchLids on Mines and Twitter.

02:10:23.000 Right on.

02:10:24.000 The conversation continues at TimCast.com.

02:10:27.000 We're going to have a special segment talking about some funny stuff related to the gorilla t-shirts, and we'll have some fun with it.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - January 28, 2021

Timcast IRL - WallStreetBets Gets NUKED For Hate Speech, Subreddit Goes Private w-Jason Whitlock

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