In this episode of the TimCast, we're joined by Jodi Shaw, a former employee of the University of Maryland, to talk about why a white staff member resigned from the school and why they should be held accountable for anti-white racism.
00:00:45.000under Donald Trump get an executive order that banned effectively critical
00:01:02.000race theory trainings at in the government as well as any company that
00:01:06.000implemented these trainings as well Well, when Joe Biden got in, he rescinded this executive order, and now there are questions about what's going to be happening at universities.
00:01:14.000Apparently, there was a rule from the Department of Education that racial affinity groups were discriminatory.
00:01:20.000These groups are basically when they take a bunch of people of one race and make them segregate.
00:01:25.000Under Donald Trump, that was against the rules.
00:01:27.000And now under Joe Biden, it is within the rules and, in my opinion, shockingly discriminatory.
00:01:33.000Well, we have a very specific story from Smith College and one of their staff members, who was a white staff member, who is accusing the University of anti-white racism.
00:01:43.000But instead of me trying to break down the long and arduous journey for you, we actually are joined by Jody Shaw, who You are the staffer who resigned.
00:02:07.000So, uh, there's a lot of context, but essentially Smith, uh, is various initiatives and policies aimed at achieving racial justice are grounded in critical race theory.
00:02:19.000And what we know about critical race theory is not, um, it's not that somebody commits an act of racism.
00:02:26.000It's that somebody is racist simply based on their skin color.
00:02:31.000And that skin color happens to be white.
00:02:34.000Basically, wokeness is taking over these universities, and you had to experience it firsthand, and it essentially forced you out.
00:02:40.000So, we'll talk about your story, and there's a bunch of other stories.
00:02:42.000Apparently, there's another professor who's come out and, you know, called it—what does he call it?
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00:05:13.000Today is going to be much more focused on a lot of topical stories, but we're going to jump into the story from Jodi, so we can better understand exactly what's going on with your case and what you're experiencing at these universities.
00:05:33.000They seem to be formless, in a sense, like the rules don't really make sense.
00:05:37.000They just want you to bend the knee and adhere to their strange, subjective reality.
00:05:42.000It's resulting in overtly bigoted and racist policies which, in my opinion, violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
00:05:49.000For me personally, one of the reasons I supported Trump in this election cycle, in this past election cycle, was because of his executive order banning critical race theory in the government, as well as contracts with companies that do this.
00:06:01.000Because I've seen firsthand what happens when you implement these neo-racist, neo-segregationist policies.
00:06:08.000Universities are creating affinity groups.
00:06:10.000They're telling all the white people to segregate and all the black people to segregate.
00:06:14.000And then it creates very strange problems with whether or not Asians are minorities or they're white and privileged.
00:06:19.000So, you've experienced this firsthand, and first, just tell me the story, in whatever detail you want to tell us the story, where you ultimately resigned from your job because I guess they were being racist to you for being white.
00:06:39.000So I started off at Smith as a temporary librarian, working in the library as an outreach and engagement librarian.
00:06:48.000And I was hired to do, you know, kind of out of the box things to engage students who otherwise normally wouldn't engage very deeply with the library.
00:06:58.000And, um, About, I don't know, almost a year after I was hired, or six months after I was hired, I was tasked with doing a wild and crazy event for 600 first-year students.
00:07:13.000And I decided, and I was given a big venue, and the people who gave me the venue said, we will give you this venue if you do something wild and crazy because these kids are going to be exhausted.
00:07:27.000So I did, and I thought, and I have a musician background, so I thought, well, what's the best way to transmit a bunch of very boring information to a bunch of 600 first-year students?
00:07:41.000So everyone knew I was going to be doing a rap.
00:07:45.000I spent months preparing, working with musicians, getting everything set up, the sound and everything, and simultaneously I was up for a permanent job at Smith College.
00:07:55.000So I worked all summer on this, and then something happened at Smith.
00:07:59.000On July 31st, 2018, a student, a black student, accused a white custodian of engaging in racially
00:08:36.000She made a Facebook post, so she didn't even file a formal complaint.
00:08:41.000She simply posted about the experience on Facebook and said that this was just another example of a pattern of systemic racism she had experienced at Smith College.
00:08:51.000So the college immediately sprung into action, announcing a profuse apologies to the student and to the student body, and announced its intention to launch all these initiatives and committees and conversations and dialogues to combat this issue of systemic racism at the college.
00:09:09.000And this was before they'd even conducted any investigation into what had actually happened that day.
00:09:15.000So, they did conduct an investigation, a very thorough one, and they found that there was absolutely no evidence of racial bias.
00:09:22.000And anyone who has, is privy to the facts of what happened that day and has read this investigatory report, which is, it's 35 pages plus 130 pages of exhibits.
00:10:21.000He showed up and he actually, I think he recognized the student.
00:10:24.000I heard he recognized her and she was able to stay.
00:10:29.000So yeah, it was like they were really trying hard to almost to prove that it was, in my opinion, almost to prove that it was, and they weren't able to.
00:10:38.000The outside investigators said this is not an incident of racial bias, and yet they proceeded with all these initiatives.
00:10:47.000It's almost like it didn't matter what the event was.
00:10:50.000They wanted the anti-racism, which is just a name by the way, they wanted the critical race theory.
00:10:55.000Policies in the school and it sounds like they knew it was bunk, but they needed a pretext and even though it was
00:11:49.000I said, I said, so if I was not white or I know I said if I was a person of color and I didn't indicate what color I said, if I was a person of color, would I be allowed to do it?
00:13:59.000And so the fact that they did it so blatantly and explicitly, I was genuinely confused.
00:14:08.000I I was like, because when I heard about the student, all I heard was a black student was just lying on a couch in a house and somebody called the police on her.
00:14:48.000And I thought, well, gee, if I report it, I'll never get a job here because white people aren't supposed to complain about this stuff.
00:14:54.000They're not supposed to do that and so it was a very um hard hard for me emotionally to wrestle with what I was supposed to do with that and what I ended up doing was I ended up leaving the library and moving to a different department on campus thinking that I could get away from because there was also lots of these discussions and dialogues that discussions dialogues that were happening even before this event had occurred that I just went along with and again I had no reason to believe oh there's systemic racism okay
00:15:24.000And I guess, you know, as a white person, you're supposed to talk about your privilege and that's going to help somehow.
00:15:30.000So I thought, OK, but inside it always felt like it felt kind of disingenuous.
00:16:11.000Yeah, I definitely need to be watching Tim Kast.
00:16:15.000So, yeah, I moved into this department and other things started happening on campus, like the campus police officer who showed up to that incident was terminated a year later.
00:16:57.000Because the other thing that happened with this student was she made this Facebook post and then she made a subsequent, she didn't know the name of the custodian.
00:17:05.000She couldn't identify the custodian who had called campus police on her.
00:17:07.000So she posted the photos and email addresses of two other unrelated, like people who were not involved, a dining room person and another custodian who wasn't even there.
00:17:19.000He left to shift for the day before it even happened.
00:17:22.000And those two, the lives of those two people were, I mean, I think it was catastrophic.
00:17:28.000One of them, during the investigation, he was put on leave and a paid leave and he ended up not coming back to the college.
00:17:35.000He had some pre-existing conditions and it was too much.
00:20:27.000But is that how you ended up quitting?
00:20:29.000No, so then I started gently, I felt, gently talking to my supervisors.
00:20:36.000Because the other thing they were asking me to do was to support a curriculum for students that was essentially telling students that you can break the world down into two groups of people.
00:22:40.000You might want to feel like you empathy for them but don't.
00:22:44.000What they're doing is a power play and it's called white fragility.
00:22:48.000And so they said this and my heart just dropped because this was in front of all my colleagues and that's when a line was crossed for me because I realized this wasn't just, I couldn't just keep, you can't just keep your head down and mouth shut in this environment.
00:23:04.000This is an environment in which now shame and public humiliation is being used as a tool to compel certain behavior.
00:23:12.000Because they wanted me to talk about my race and they wanted me to talk about it in a certain way.
00:23:16.000I answered the question authentically which is I am uncomfortable discussing my race and that was not an acceptable response.
00:23:25.000So at that point I knew I had to file a complaint.
00:23:28.000Which brings me to filing the complaint with the officer in charge of making sure Smith complies with EEOC, which is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission laws.
00:23:42.000And when I went to file my complaint, I met with her and she looked at me, she was rather incredulous, and she said, do you believe in white privilege?
00:24:05.000And then the last thing she said was, you know, I'm going to have to hire an outside investigator to deal with this if you're going to proceed with filing a complaint of racial discrimination and harassment.
00:25:14.000And the college comes out with this four-page document called Toward Racial Justice at Smith, outlining further initiatives, including initiatives aimed at measuring pay across registers of identity.
00:25:28.000So we're talking about like, now it's being tied to your job performance.
00:25:32.000So at that point I started sending emails to HR and other people asking, you know, can you give me definitions of this stuff?
00:25:39.000Because now you're telling me this is tied to my pay.
00:25:43.000And they, there was, Nothing happening.
00:25:48.000In the meantime, I was getting invited to white staff only meetings and being told that letters from the president saying white people are especially responsible for combating racism and doing this work and we all have to work and do this hard work and It felt like it was just constant, constant emails and constantly talking about being white and how responsible white people are for all this racism and how horrible the systemic racism is and how I need to do all this work.
00:26:27.000It's been made clear to me that it's not optional, right?
00:26:29.000I mean, they say, well, you know, it's optional, but if I don't go, I've been, you know, it's like clearly that could be interpreted as an act of aggression or a power play.
00:26:39.000So cut to October, I finally decided that I was in a bad state psychologically and physically, and I decided that my… My health was, the damage that I was causing to myself by remaining in this environment was worse than what might happen if I made a video about it.
00:27:00.000So I made a YouTube video and that actually kind of just blew up.
00:27:11.000Yeah, kind of, I guess, but not really.
00:27:13.000I'm just curious if like, you know, I'll put it this way.
00:27:16.000It really does sound like you were constantly being pushed to your breaking point.
00:27:20.000And from what you're telling me, you're like, they told me I had to say this.
00:27:23.000And I'm like, wow, surely that made you quit.
00:27:25.000But hearing that each and every beat in the story, you're like you stayed through it.
00:27:29.000I try. Yeah, because I was going through all the internal channels of trying.
00:27:34.000I had I was a good faith effort on my part.
00:27:37.000I thought, well, surely if I show them that this is wrong, surely they will be like, oh,
00:27:45.000maybe we should review our policies or oh, gee, this is hurting.
00:27:48.000A staff member is coming up telling us this is hostile and she's being hurt.
00:27:52.000Like, surely we should listen to this person.
00:27:54.000I just have, I have, I no longer have faith in Smith College, but I still had some faith at the time that perhaps, and I also knew I needed to exhaust my internal remedies too.
00:28:08.000Um, so I made some videos and I got put under investigation, like within a month for an unrelated thing.
00:28:16.000And, um, then I was, they found me not guilty of whatever it was I was under investigation for.
00:28:23.000Do you know what the investigation was for?
00:28:25.000Yeah, we had received, after I made the video, we received a bunch of emails to my department, the departmental email, which I respond to, a bunch of people respond to it, and it was like, you know, Jodi Shaw is a white supremacist.
00:28:37.000She went on Tucker Carlson, because I went on Tucker Carlson after I made the video.
00:28:41.000She's associated with a white supremacist, therefore you should fire her.
00:28:45.000And so I was forwarding these emails to my personal account because I'm documenting everything by now and they said one of those emails contained student information.
00:28:57.000They didn't tell me which email it was.
00:29:01.000And I wasn't able to determine which email they meant, but it was a slap on the wrist and then it was like, okay, you can come back to work.
00:29:11.000And it felt like that was a hard choice whether or not to go back or, I'm not going to talk about the, there were some settlement negotiations, which I won't get into, but It felt like going back into an abusive relationship.
00:29:29.000And I thought I wouldn't go back into an abusive relationship.
00:29:39.000But you know, I absolutely can empathize.
00:29:42.000When I worked for Fusion, they had an event where they had all of their, you know, stars, their personalities.
00:29:51.000hosting a specific event, except for one person.
00:29:55.000And, uh, well, I should say, I'm not going to pretend like I deserve to be a part of all of the big productions from this Disney corporate, this Disney corporate, you know, cable channel.
00:30:05.000But I did question why it was they brought in an outside personality who was black to be involved in an event when I was actually on staff under contract to be one of their hosts.
00:30:15.000And I don't care about the race of the individual.
00:30:18.000My question was, why hire someone from the outside if you're paying me to do this?
00:30:21.000And I was told explicitly by the president, it's because you are white.
00:30:24.000And I said, don't you know that I am not?
00:30:30.000And I said, I come from a, you know, everybody knows this by now, especially the people who watch the show, second generation mixed race family.
00:30:45.000I wonder if I really should have, if I should have gone, because maybe if, you know, at the time I didn't really think anything of it, but you mentioned something really interesting.
00:30:53.000early on when you said that, you know, you as a white person, you had this idea that, like, you don't complain about these things when they when they criticize you or they or they, you know, negatively impact your life based on you being white or whatever.
00:31:08.000And it was interesting for me because I didn't look at I've never I've never had like a white racial history or identity or anything like that because I grew up in a mixed race area with with a bunch of different friends of different races.
00:31:20.000And I had a mom who made bulgogi for dinner.
00:31:23.000But when I heard this, I had a more libertarian gut reaction of, you do you, I'll do me.
00:32:29.000Well, the money is for, I mean, Anything, the GoFundMe is complicated, but the GoFundMe was started because I was quitting my job and I wasn't going to have income.
00:32:42.000And I'm going up against an extremely powerful institution that has a $2 billion endowment and has hired a very expensive attorney.
00:32:56.000And actually, my goal was $150, and anything over $150 actually is going into a fund.
00:33:04.000I'm working out the details now for other people who are in similar situations.
00:33:09.000And then I cut that off at $290, so now it's going back to me because I realize now how little $150 actually is in spite of what people think.
00:33:47.000They're going to have tremendous resources, and each and every one of these woke individuals can put money towards this university if they want to.
00:33:58.000The university itself has more resources than an individual.
00:34:00.000These lawsuits, when it comes to defamation, going up against the establishment, you're going to spend a quarter million dollars in a couple months.
00:35:13.000It is and they have a state level and a federal level and I believe in Massachusetts where I am it gets cross filed with the federal government.
00:35:22.000So that is the first step and so right now I did file the complaint and Smith College has a certain time limit to respond so we get to see how they're going to defend.
00:35:34.000We get to get a little insight into how they might defend themselves against these claims.
00:37:47.000Conservatives have seen this and have been railing on it for some time.
00:37:50.000Then moderates got roped in and now many liberals, people like Barry Weiss for instance, are complaining about what happened at the New York Times.
00:37:56.000And you have anti-woke leftists even now criticizing the establishment and what they call neoliberalism.
00:38:02.000The problem is a lot of conservatives thought Donald Trump was the answer.
00:38:13.000Trump did come in and he did eventually Sign, you know, enact this executive order.
00:38:20.000But it took what James Lindsay and Christopher Ruffo going on, you know, shows Christopher Ruffo going on Tucker Carlson and saying this is a problem for Trump to enact this what in the last several months of office.
00:38:31.000The issue is, these government agencies had been doing absolutely racist practices.
00:38:38.000In one instance, there was like, I think it was, there was a certain laboratory sent all the white people on a retreat to like talk about whiteness and white privilege and why it's, you know, bad and things like that.
00:39:51.000Joe Biden has come in, rescinded the executive order, and it doesn't change the fact it's still illegal.
00:39:57.000That means every single person who works in the government, works in these universities, or is affected by the wokeness needs to be filing a lawsuit today against these institutions for what they're doing.
00:40:13.000I mean, really, it's even before that, the question is why I mean, I feel like more people are speaking out, but I mean, people don't even talk about it, let alone file a lawsuit.
00:41:57.000We have this from the Atlanta Black Star.
00:42:00.000They say black mom sues school after she says biracial son received failing grade in sociology class for refusing to confess his white dominance.
00:42:10.000A black mom is suing her biracial son's Nevada charter school after she claims he received a failing grade for refusing to link aspects of his identity to oppression and dominance in his sociology class.
00:42:20.000Gabrielle Clark and her son William Clark filed a suit in U.S.
00:42:23.000District Court of Nevada against public charter school democracy prep Agassi Campus in Vegas on December 22nd, alleging a violation of constitutional free speech and due process rights.
00:42:34.000William Clark claims that in that class, Sociology of Change, taught by Catherine Bass, who was named as a defendant in the suit, he was harassed and punished for refusing to attach derogatory labels to aspects of his identity.
00:42:47.000Clark, whose deceased father was white, is generally regarded as white by his peers, according to the complaint, and has green eyes and blondish hair.
00:42:55.000The far-right advocacy group International Organization for the Family, which has been tracking the case closely, reports that a U.S.
00:43:02.000District Court judge said at a February 22nd temporary restraining order hearing, I think William is likely to succeed on the merits of his compelled speech claims, saying that the defendants will have to find a way to justify the critical race theory curriculum under a strict scrutiny test, adding, that's a very high bar to meet.
00:43:19.000In the class taught by Bass, a self-described white Irish-American citizen, Clark was allegedly forced to reveal his race, gender, sexual and religious identities, and attach labels to the identities, which the lawsuit claims violated his right to privacy.
00:43:34.000An instructional slide included in court documents displays dominant groups in American culture as white, male, middle-upper class, heterosexual, and Protestant Christian, while everyone else is categorized as submissive.
00:43:45.000Labels like white are associated with B.A.S.S., are associated by B.A.S.S.
00:43:49.000with privilege, while words like female and working class are associated with oppressive.
00:43:55.000It's really twisted, this kind of stuff.
00:43:59.000Yeah yeah that's that's a particularly egregious but this is happening all over the place you know and Gabrielle Clark stood up and said no no thanks I'm not I'm not gonna do this.
00:44:13.000I was given a similar one of my colleagues was like offered to help educate me and I took her up on it I was like okay I'm gonna I'm going to have an open mind and she handed me a worksheet and it did have that the oppressed it was two columns oppressed and it was dominant group and subordinated group and the dominant group only had like one thing like race was white, gender male.
00:44:40.000Religion, Christian, you know, and then over here you had all like everybody else in the entire world and I was like, wow!
00:44:47.000That was a very reductionist view of the world, but that sounds it's very similar to what William experienced and I believe I think he was the only white presenting person in his class too, which made it especially Have you taken the privilege test?
00:45:05.000Where it's like a slider bar, and it's like, how white are you?
00:45:41.000But what happens when you're dealing with race and orientation and national origin and religion?
00:45:45.000It's impossible to quantify how standing on top of religion allows you to see a baseball game.
00:45:51.000So these are the kinds of manipulative tactics they use where you kind of understand it.
00:45:55.000But here's what I truly despise about this.
00:45:58.000That equality versus equity argument is about wealth, not race.
00:46:02.000Everyone who gets access to a box to stand on is their access to resources.
00:46:10.000Giving the shorter person two boxes is giving them access to resources to help them.
00:46:15.000The argument that we actually need to be having is about class issues.
00:46:19.000Well, they do mention working class and middle-upper class as part of the oppression scale, but when they make everything about your race That, in my opinion, is meant to disrupt actual... What's the right word for it?
00:46:56.000I mean, clearly that's a false... But that's the kind of narrative they use, like they used it with Serena Williams.
00:47:03.000When she had, uh, so she's the famous tennis player.
00:47:07.000When she had a bout of rage, you know, with all due respect, she got angry and she like bounced her tennis racket or something like that.
00:47:15.000They, they, they penalized her for it.
00:47:17.000And then there was this big narrative that the only reason they did it was because she was a black woman and that they were basically attacking her as the trope of the angry black woman, as opposed to the fact that she just acted out in violation of the rules.
00:47:30.000And to act like one of the most famous, celebrated, and wealthy athletes in the world is in any way oppressed is just shockingly, I don't know, ignorant in my opinion.
00:47:40.000But I think it's part of the weaponization that we see from a lot of people.
00:47:43.000I mean, heaven forbid, there's a large push towards, you know, stripping away the resources of corrupt politicians who somehow make millions of dollars off of their office when they're getting a salary for $174,000 a year and then all of a sudden become worth $50 million or $5 million or whatever.
00:48:00.000They don't want you to come after him.
00:48:02.000So they'll say, hey, don't look at me.
00:48:39.000Donald Trump called for $2,000 checks for everybody in the stimulus, and it was the Republican Party that said no.
00:48:44.000And it shows you that Donald Trump really was an insurgent in the Republican Party.
00:48:47.000They did not like what he had to offer.
00:48:49.000And then after Donald Trump says $2,000 checks, Joe Biden's like $1,400.
00:48:54.000You know, he's like, okay, so we already gave you the 600, we're only gonna give you 1,400 right now.
00:48:58.000But there's something interesting about Trump supporters and left populists in that I don't think Trump supporters care all that much about billionaires.
00:49:07.000I think there's certainly a conservative argument against giving the government too much power.
00:49:12.000So when they talk about wealth taxes, right, it's a big thing we see on the left, the Bernie Sanders crowd, they want a wealth tax.
00:49:18.000You know, I used to, I thought about this.
00:49:30.000The way it works is they treat wealth like property and tax a percentage of your hard wealth you gotta pay for.
00:49:36.000Now, I've been very critical of this because it makes literally no sense.
00:49:41.000You know, Jeff Bezos, for instance, I think his total income from Amazon is like $1.3 million per year.
00:49:46.000His net worth, however, is like $160 billion or whatever, or more at this point, because Amazon's, you know, gaining a lot of value because of the pandemic.
00:50:01.000If they implement this wealth tax, they're like, Bezos will pay, you know, three billion dollars a year, but he's worth, you know, a hundred and something billion.
00:50:09.000And it's like, okay, well, where does that billion dollars come from?
00:50:13.000The government doesn't want stock in Amazon, and he can't give it up anyway.
00:50:44.000The Koch brothers, the Mercers, any one of these billionaires, I don't like.
00:50:46.000I think they flood money into politics.
00:50:49.000They subvert the will of the working class.
00:50:52.000And I think many Trump supporters would much prefer working class individuals have their say-so as opposed to billionaires, namely George Soros, who they criticize all the time.
00:51:00.000But I think we can throw out all the names of Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, left-wing billionaires, right-wing billionaires.
00:51:05.000I don't care for any one of these billionaires.
00:51:06.000I think we do need to have a reckoning on class issues.
00:51:10.000The problem is, critical race theory disrupts that.
00:51:15.000And I think we have a really strong opportunity right now with Biden in office.
00:51:18.000To actually look at some of these anti-woke leftists, many socialists and progressives, and be like, which part can we agree on where we think the billionaires are disrupting the will of the working class and kind of like put a stop to that?
00:51:36.000Critical race theory was introduced by powerful interests who knew it could distract the masses and create a fight that protects them, right?
00:51:43.000So there's this comic we love to reference on the show where it's a rich guy in his office, everything's really pretty, outside is an Occupy Wall Street protest, they're holding a big sign saying Occupy Wall Street, and the rich guy's on the phone smiling saying, introduce them to identity politics.
00:51:56.000And that's really what it feels like, because I was at Occupy when this happened.
00:51:59.000It went from, you know, people like Luke Rutkowski, who was on the show for a couple of months.
00:52:10.000But we agree on these libertarian issues, not liking the elites, the authoritarians.
00:52:15.000And we met at Occupy Wall Street because these people were down there.
00:52:19.000Until the critical race theorists show up and started segregating people based on race.
00:52:23.000And then you saw people leave and get angry.
00:52:26.000That was the ultimate slap in the face and the insult, especially to a lot of younger, white, idealistic individuals who are now being told it was their fault.
00:52:33.000And they're like, yo, I'm here and I can buy Wall Street with you.
00:53:15.000It was a, it was a brilliant attack vector, in my opinion.
00:53:18.000Accusing people who oppose racism of being the true racists.
00:53:22.000Yeah, you know, the other problem is the left-right thing.
00:53:26.000Just the massive fear of people on the, and I know these terms are probably meaningless, that's kind of the point, but people, classical liberals, right, who are on the left, who are like, the ground has now shifted.
00:53:45.000So people confuse the tradition, like the actual classical liberalism of, like, John Locke with saying, Right and left is another attack vector thing.
00:55:10.000It's really and I see there's so many people I mean like I know you all know this well but I was still a little surprised when I went on Tucker Carlson, you know, I made my video and I said in my video, I'm a lifelong liberal.
00:55:23.000And I went on Tucker and Tucker's like, lifelong liberal Jody Shaw.
00:55:26.000How many emails I got afterwards saying, you know, I was with you, but then you went on Tucker.
00:55:34.000And he's right wing, so I can't, I'm not with you anymore, even though my message had not changed at all.
00:55:41.000And so that's when I realized this is a big problem is that people who otherwise would be able to see this stuff in their midst, the CRC stuff and be like, well, this is wrong, but they're still kind of confused if they're so scared of if they Go off the script of being associated with the right.
00:56:54.000There was another quote, which was either a derivative of this or spawned from it, where that, you know, I've often misattributed to Breitbart, but it's similar.
00:57:18.000And there's a lot of there's a lot of like, you know, moderate leftist personalities and I shouldn't say leftist, like traditional and classical liberal types that are absolutely terrified of finding themselves in league with conservatives.
00:57:34.000But if you live that way, then you're living on your knees.
00:58:33.000I mean, you kind of explained that in your story before where you thought if you just went along with things and kind of kept your head down, is that how you felt?
00:58:52.000This is now, we are now not talking about like suppression of speech.
00:58:55.000We're talking about there, you're going to be asked to say things that you do not necessarily believe in as a continued condition of your employment or you're getting a good grade.
00:59:04.000You're going to lose your job unless you bend the knee.
00:59:07.000So if you would rather live on your knees than fight on your feet, well then so be it.
00:59:13.000That's what you deserve and it's what you want and far be it from me to criticize you for doing it.
00:59:16.000But no, you should criticize because that lends to the problem.
00:59:41.000But I'm not going to create the same environment where you are not welcome.
00:59:45.000If you want to live in this world where you are at the behest of the woke cult with no real ideology, just strange do-as-the-tribe-says-or-else, that's up to you.
01:02:48.000You want to talk about the real grift?
01:02:50.000It's the YouTubers who are on the left.
01:02:52.000It's the YouTubers who tow the party line and the establishment line, knowing they will never get banned for this, and have nothing to worry about, and can milk it for all it's worth, even when they put out fake news.
01:03:18.000For for an administrative reason mind you but GoFundMe has deleted the the the fundraisers for many conservatives It's not it's not it's not a grift.
01:03:28.000Yeah, it's interesting though how it gets framed You're talking about these other youtubers these social justice warriors.
01:03:33.000They frame it as if they're counterculture they're they're fighting against the power, you know, and it's like they don't I don't know if It's hard for me to believe that they don't understand that they are part of the power, that this is the establishment.
01:03:49.000It's like, since when was the group aligned with the major political parties, well, the Democrats at least, and like Coca-Cola, the resistance?
01:04:06.000I mean, every, just about every major institution in this country and every major news outlet just about mainstream media.
01:04:13.000I really, really love wokeness in these companies that use slave labor because it's just like, they're like, we're here because we think racism is wrong.
01:04:21.000Meanwhile, they're literally operating sweatshops that pay like a quarter an hour or whatever, just like awful conditions, hiring paramilitary groups to go in and suppress workers' rights groups in foreign countries.
01:04:40.000But I mean, I often wonder about, you know, the true believers.
01:04:44.000I remember at Smith, I could kind of get an I mean, I talked to a lot of people in hallways, but I could kind of if you, you know, you can kind of tell who the true believers are, you kind of just get a vibe.
01:04:55.000You know, when you're when you're talking about the stuff in the eye contact, some, I think it's a very small percentage.
01:05:01.000I don't think there are such thing as true believers.
01:05:32.000Well, then something changed, and now, you know, these hate crimes started happening because of, you know, the COVID stuff, and for a variety of reasons.
01:05:40.000Now there's the Stop Asian Hate movement, which, good, mind you, I respect that.
01:05:45.000But now, all of a sudden, Asians are minorities again.
01:05:47.000So what happened is you have some individuals, there's one woman who at her, at her school, she's a member of a school board, I think in like Sacramento, was disparaging Asians, calling them racial slurs.
01:05:58.000Well, because it was allowed in 2016, Asians were white.
01:06:01.000Universities were discriminated against them legally because they were overprivileged.
01:06:05.000Now that that's changed, they're calling for her resignation, but she's a black woman.
01:06:08.000So there are people like James Lindsay who point out when a black woman is getting canceled for Racism towards Asian, the structure is inverting.
01:06:39.000They change the narrative and sacrifice their own zealots who believe their own narratives.
01:06:45.000So there's no core ideology, there's no true believers, just tribal zealots who will do whatever the tribe says, which is why it's very difficult to interview these people outside of their safe spaces.
01:06:56.000Do you think that's why... I've been wondering about the popularity of zombie movies for a long time.
01:07:04.000I think I've been wondering, like, why are zombie movies so popular?
01:07:08.000I started thinking this a few years ago and now I'm like, hmm, maybe it has something to do with this.
01:07:14.000Deep down they have a desire to just be the zombie.
01:07:17.000So we all watch zombie movies terrified and they watch it longingly.
01:07:21.000Like, oh, to be a zombie and just not have a brain anymore and not have to think!
01:07:26.000The CDC's been putting out zombie stuff about zombies and like, I think it's a dehumanization effort, maybe consciously, maybe subconsciously, I don't know.
01:07:34.000If people start starving and are on the street eating other human bodies because they're starving to death, and then it's like, it's okay to kill them because they're zombies.
01:07:42.000I think CDC is trying to be silly and put out a joke.
01:07:45.000Like in the Holdemere, in the USSR, in like the 30s or 40s or something, 50s maybe, that people were starving to death and eating humans.
01:08:33.000But they get sacrificed, like I mentioned, that woman on the school board now being told to resign because of anti-Asian, you know, racism.
01:08:41.000The Hive will cut off whatever it needs to, to gain power.
01:08:45.000So when you join this, you are quite literally a mindless cog, a mindless gnat swarming in the Hive, whose strength is derived from each individual cog.
01:08:57.000But they'll, they'll swat you and destroy you.
01:08:59.000I was thinking about... So, well, the interesting thing is, I wonder, I wonder about this, you know.
01:09:04.000I think there is a, there are a lot of lines as to what divides the culture war.
01:09:09.000Authoritarian versus Libertarian, Nationalist versus Globalist, Collectivist versus Individualist, and Ideologue versus, like, Pragmatist or things like this.
01:09:18.000And there's, there's no clear dividing line.
01:09:22.000But I will say, There are many people who are, when you say true believers, I don't think they actually believe in anything other than they're a part of the cult.
01:10:05.000And so they're just like, I don't know, whatever.
01:10:07.000You see these people on Twitter saying, cancel culture is not real.
01:10:10.000And there's like regular people I see like on Instagram, there's a skateboarding account, one of the most prominent in the world called The Barracks.
01:10:18.000And they tweeted, what are your thoughts on cancel culture?
01:10:20.000And I saw some like 17 year old kid who's like a skateboarder saying cancel culture is not real.
01:10:24.000The kid has no idea what he's talking about.
01:10:26.000His photos were like fishing and skateboarding.
01:10:28.000Clearly he's not experienced or watched anything that's going on.
01:10:37.000But then you have people who know exactly what's happening and are like, well, I'd rather be on this side because I think they're going to win.
01:10:44.000In the end, they won't, but they're hoping that when the dust settles and the conflict ends, I'll tell you this, These people have one thing right.
01:10:52.000We, the people who believe in individual liberties and freedoms and civil rights, we're the good guys.
01:10:58.000Historically, the ones who fought for civil rights, freedom, liberty, etc.
01:11:02.000have always been the good guys, at least in recent history.
01:11:05.000And they know, if we win, they'll be fine.
01:11:33.000I'll call this the... It's something I've brought up before.
01:11:36.000But I'll call it the intersectionalist wager.
01:11:40.000If you are anti-woke and the anti-woke win, you're fine.
01:11:45.000If you are woke and the anti-woke win, you are fine.
01:11:50.000But if you are woke and the woke win, you're at risk, but you're gonna keep your head down and hopefully you'll be safe.
01:11:59.000But if you're anti-woke and the woke win, they'll come for you and they'll destroy your life.
01:12:04.000So ultimately you look at this equation and you have many people saying the safer bet is to pretend to be woke because in the event that the anti-woke side wins, they're not going to do anything bad to me.
01:12:15.000But if you challenge wokeness, the woke will absolutely destroy you.
01:12:54.000So I wonder, will you just bend the knee and be a servant to this cult?
01:13:00.000You know, I was thinking about identity, because I was talking poorly about it earlier, about like, I'm on the left, I'm a Democrat, whatever.
01:13:07.000And it's insanity to like, stake who you are based off of some label.
01:13:12.000But in the same rate, I'm a Crossland.
01:13:31.000I think it's too meticulous to say I the color of the skin has starts to have to do with it because I think it's more of a class issue personally like Gandhi.
01:13:38.000He revolted against the white British imperialist, but he was revolting against the conquest in the capitalizing of his country.
01:13:45.000It wasn't didn't matter what color the skins were.
01:13:48.000Now, hopefully, I think we can take that moving forward.
01:13:52.000I wish I had something more profound to say after that awesome devocation of Gandhi.
01:13:56.000Listen, when you go back far enough, and nations and cultures were divided by race, like countries were literally a group of people who were one race, it's easy to see how racism emerged.
01:14:07.000Because they were like, I know who's in my country and who will protect me, and that person looks different.
01:14:13.000But we're now in an era of, you can fly across the planet in a matter of hours.
01:14:18.000We live in a country that's the Great American Melting Pot.
01:14:20.000Martin Luther King Jr.' 's dream was correct.
01:14:24.000The Civil Rights Movement was correct.
01:14:26.000In order for us to now function in this amazing new reality, we have to treat people, we have to treat them based on the content of their character and the color of their skin.
01:14:47.000No, just because they identified with that party didn't make them evil.
01:14:50.000Some of them, like, hated the violence.
01:14:52.000If you are a cog in that machine that is, you know, advocating for genocide, I'm sorry, I'm gonna discriminate against you for your politics.
01:14:59.000It's like that, you gotta say the Chinese Communist Party.
01:15:01.000A lot of those people aren't... aren't...
01:15:03.000Evil or yes, they are stuck in that system.
01:15:06.000No, no, no, no, no, you join the chinese communist party.
01:15:08.000You know what they do at threat of gun.
01:15:10.000No, you don't Regular citizens don't have to join and become party members.
01:15:15.000Well, the chinese communist party is something they choose to be a part of Listen, I think most politics I can respect within certain boundaries, but there are political factions.
01:15:25.000I don't care for and i'm not gonna Yeah, true.
01:15:27.000I'm talking about the conservative-liberal thing that Ian was referring to earlier, that liberals and maybe conservatives do need to get over.
01:15:34.000I don't think we have any hope of toppling this woke invasion unless we can link arms with each other.
01:15:45.000I think that maybe the ideology of the Nazi Party is dangerous, but the individuals aren't necessarily just because they affiliate with something.
01:15:52.000The problem is conservatives are not Nazis, and the woke left and the establishment machine claimed they were, and then they used a very natural predisposition for regular people who hate racism, bigotry, and genocide.
01:16:08.000You go to a regular person and say, would you link arms with a Nazi, and they're gonna say, no way!
01:17:49.000Well, there's a difference though, right?
01:17:51.000Well, I'm sure there is, that I don't know, but... Look, there could be libertarian identitarians, and I'm not a fan of their ideology, and I think it's wrong.
01:17:59.000Granted, I'll give them more respect in not beating and caging and killing people, for sure.
01:18:04.000The authoritarians are the ones who do that.
01:18:06.000But identitarianism, in my opinion, is a problem.
01:18:39.000Well, you can be a woke and be libertarian in that you would calmly and peacefully advocate for your beliefs and say these things without forcing people, without insulting them, without coercing them or beating them.
01:18:54.000When you see Antifa, who are identitarian, because Antifa is a nebulous term, when you see leftist identitarian groups going around beating people, and many Antifa are, but the flag is a nebulous reference to communism, then You can have someone... Actually, let me say this, because I've said it before.
01:19:12.000I met a communist guy in Berkeley, and he told me Antifa was wrong for beating and attacking people, and that true communism would never support that.
01:19:19.000And I was like, all right, well, there you go.
01:19:21.000We can break bread and have a conversation.
01:19:25.000I think your ideology is bad, but if you're not authoritarian, then we're all right.
01:19:30.000The problem is communism itself is arguably authoritarian because the libertarian spectrum of the left doesn't scale up into large numbers.
01:19:40.000Anybody who truly wants a communist society will never implement it without force.
01:19:56.000It centralizes power, it corrupts systems, and it causes them to break down, which is why all of these communist countries fail.
01:20:03.000However, the Chinese Communist Party learned from the failures of these other countries, implemented capitalist policies and institutions to protect their party control and authoritarianism in their country, and they're a weird kind of pseudo-communism, I guess.
01:20:47.000When you see conservatives, and, you know, right now there's a big gun control thing going on on Twitter, there was, Kyle Kalinske tweeted a poll about gun control.
01:20:58.000He was like, gun control, should we have strict regulation, light regulation, no regulation, ban guns?
01:21:03.000Most of his followers said strict regulation, but a ton of his followers who are leftists said, quote, under no pretext.
01:21:12.000That is the left, the leftist version of, shall not be infringed.
01:21:16.000So many people on the right will reference the Second Amendment.
01:21:20.000The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
01:21:22.000And they'll quote that and they'll respond to people when talking about gun control.
01:21:25.000For the leftists, it's Karl Marx who said, under no pretext should ammunition and arms be surrendered.
01:21:30.000The working class should frustrate any attempt, even by force if necessary.
01:21:34.000So the leftists reference Marx saying, don't give up your guns.
01:21:37.000And the right references the Constitution saying we can keep our guns.
01:21:41.000And it's interesting then when these two factions could probably agree and have something meaningful linking arms and going against the establishment, the corporatists, the authoritarians.
01:21:51.000So I look at, you know, I got into a mini-argument with Cameron Caskey, who is one of the Parkland kids, and he's very pro-gun control.
01:21:58.000But I think the general assessment is he's not really pro-gun control.
01:23:30.000He's like, I'm not, I'm not the way you describe, you know, black people.
01:23:34.000And he said the Klan member told him, oh, it's because your, your genes are recessive.
01:23:37.000So then Darryl looks at the Klan member and says, did you know that there's a gene in white people to make them predisposed to be serial killers?
01:24:47.000And so I challenge, I question anybody who's trying to divide us and make us fight each other.
01:24:52.000And I really do think a large component is powerful special interests, elites, billionaires, the billionaires and the millionaires, who have an interest in making us fight each other instead of them.
01:25:03.000When they're dumping hundreds of millions of dollars, like Tom Steyer, into our elections to subvert our rights.
01:25:22.000But that story you told, I mean, Daryl Davis, that was an individual, those were individual conversations.
01:25:28.000It's not like he was up in front of a group trying to convince the whole group.
01:25:32.000The part of it is getting people out of the, you called it a cult, getting them alone, I guess, and developing a relation, humanizing Humanizing the other side.
01:26:14.000I got a feeling it's like a dam built up with like this energy flow that's blockaded by this like racist ideology.
01:26:21.000And if you chip away at it piece by piece, like person by person and have the conversations, eventually it cracks and Bursts open and there'll be a flood of like this energy that we're trying to free this.
01:27:09.000I'm, I'm, you know, or I'm, I'm the free speech individual, not, not the conservative or anything, but they don't, they don't return the same favor.
01:27:17.000When a good example, when a journalist at the New York times was being heavily criticized by all these outlets, the media calls it a harassment campaign.
01:27:26.000When the same media then targets our harassment campaign against conservative individuals, they all laugh and gloat.
01:27:32.000So I can sit here and be like, stop name-dropping people to drive, you know, a flood of emails their way.
01:27:44.000They're not going to respect me for doing that.
01:27:46.000But I do it because it's the right thing to do.
01:27:48.000They won't return that, which means we are at a very serious disadvantage.
01:27:52.000Yeah, it's an information war, really.
01:27:56.000I like internet video because you can reach individuals in mass.
01:28:00.000Yeah, the video I made did very well in terms of views.
01:28:06.000A lot of people saw it and resonated with it, and I'm very happy that I hear from people now who are saying, you know, that helped me.
01:28:17.000And I don't think everyone can just wake up and make a video, but I always tell people Part of what Helen Pluckrose is doing right with counterweight support, this is an organization in the UK that helps people affected by woke ideology in their workplace or their school, is that she has a community there where people can talk to other people and essentially deprogram.
01:28:41.000Because when you're in an environment where you're sitting at a table and somebody says, you know, rich white women, rich white women, and nobody says anything, You kind of think maybe I'm crazy.
01:28:52.000Maybe you start to doubt what's reality, what's real, and you start to think, am I racist because I think that's unprofessional?
01:29:02.000I think it's really important to find at least one other person you can talk to to get a reality check.
01:29:10.000I think we need more ways to find each other.
01:29:13.000So when people do speak out, they become like lightning rods, you know, like emails pour in.
01:29:18.000Jonathan Kaye, the Quillette journalist, was talking about this, about how whenever he publishes an article about higher education, all these faculty and students write to him and say, hey, here's my story and I can't and I'm afraid.
01:29:31.000And so it's like they need a way to find each other, like instead of just going, To the one person who spoke out. We don't have any
01:29:39.000infrastructure to support. I mean our entire infrastructure has been captured
01:29:43.000We don't have any infrastructure to support These people
01:29:47.000And and that's part that's a major problem. We're starting to it's starting to get built
01:30:20.000ISPs are still centralized, which is a problem.
01:30:22.000So we'll have to eventually build a decentralized ISP, Internet Service Provider.
01:30:26.000I think the infrastructure gets built when we get people to just stand up for themselves and start building it.
01:30:32.000And so long as there are people who are cowering in fear, understanding what's happening, but not wanting to stick their necks out, then, you know, there you go.
01:31:08.000Well, there was a change.org petition going around.
01:31:12.000But then somebody, Karlyn Borysenko, started another one calling for him to be to have the job of the diversity, inclusion, equity czar or whatever.
01:31:21.000I mean, the diversity, inclusivity and equity position is itself like a chaplain.
01:31:28.000It's like these institutions are appointing religious affirmation officials to these organizations.
01:31:36.000I'm guessing they probably very well paid.
01:31:40.000The religion is infecting these institutions and they're creating jobs for them and people don't resist.
01:31:46.000They're just allowing their religion to sweep over.
01:31:47.000The best way I can find to help to bring light to these people is to play the long game like the Chinese Communist Party or other intelligent long-term, but like you got to make videos every day.
01:32:17.000Like people like boots on the ground, like other, like giving them a platform and making them feel supported.
01:32:24.000Not just that, but one of the things we're working on outside of this show is we're planning the vlog, which is going to be a vlog of the house and crazy shenanigans.
01:32:32.000And we got chickens and they're small.
01:32:44.000I want to make this a fun place for everybody to come and periodically enjoy various things.
01:32:49.000Music, comedy, whatever it is for building culture, we're going to do that kind of stuff so that people can have an opportunity to build culture and show people, the other side of that fire, we're having a good time.
01:33:00.000You guys go get locked down in your cubicle apartments in New York City and drop to your knees and pray to your woke diversity, inclusivity, and equity officer.
01:33:11.000And we're going to be rocking out some old school rock and roll, and writing new music, and baking bread, chickens are going to be everywhere, clucking and jumping, and there's cats doing cat stuff.
01:33:22.000We're going to be doing tray flips, and tail whips, and macchio grinds or whatever, and just having a good time.
01:33:29.000I must say, I forgot what it was like to be able to talk with people openly.
01:33:36.000I've made so many friends since I came out.
01:34:50.000And I Somebody said something about totalitarianism, that it's not a top-down movement, that it's a bottoms-up, that people start internally policing themselves first, and then somebody just steps in.
01:35:04.000That's how it happens, and that's what I was doing.
01:35:07.000I was internally policing myself, and it's very damaging.
01:35:10.000I mean, a lot of people in the Cultural Revolution, we had a lot of suicides.
01:35:13.000And in Soviet Russia, too, like a lot of people committed suicide.
01:36:25.000Yeah, I mean we talked about DMT and God and all that stuff way too much
01:36:29.000but we're gonna be talking about ghost stories and theories and I really want to get academics and I want to have like
01:36:35.000researchers in the paranormal legitimate academic university researchers who are not the kooky TV show types
01:36:42.000So we're doing all that stuff and it's actually it's actually happening. The new site might be up even by the
01:36:48.000end of this week And then with the new site, we're gonna bring on writers, and there's gonna start being articles on, you know, moderate, liberal, cultural commentary from other people.
01:36:59.000So it's going to be, like, there's so many conservative sites, like the Daily Wire, the Daily Caller, the Blaze.
01:37:05.000Where's, like, the anti-woke, anti-establishment, liberal version for, like, regular, moderate individuals?
01:37:11.000Well, hopefully, I think we'll actually put that together, and, you know, we'll see how it rolls.
01:37:15.000Christina H says Tim has inspired me to get chickens.
01:37:21.000I hung out today for the first time So we have the chicken city, but right now they're confined to one building in the chicken city because they're still very small And we're just getting them used to it.
01:37:29.000So I'm gonna go check on them afterwards make sure they're okay We've got some motion sensor lights to scare away predators.
01:37:34.000We've got the fence double layered Might not be enough.
01:37:53.000They're invasive, they're massive, and they're everywhere, and they're really dumb and slow, but apparently the chickens just, they see it, and they can see the bug before I can.
01:38:03.000I wonder if we made like tracks, if they would go on a chicken race with the one in the lead with the bug in his mouth, like running circles around.
01:38:57.000Yeah, so we're thinking right now the plan is for the first trip is going to be Nashville for one week, then we travel over the weekend to Austin, then back to Nashville and then back home because we're on the East Coast.
01:39:07.000And then from then on we'll try like Florida and we'll slowly branch out.
01:39:12.000And we stay a week in that city so we can get a variety of guests from the area.
01:39:35.000Yeah, I mean, hopefully, you know, you got to say everything you wanted to say so far
01:39:40.000and telling your story and everything like that and people can understand what's happening.
01:39:45.000Chris Debon says, Tim, you are wrong about seceding.
01:39:48.000West and Northeast coast states with disproportionate control house all comp institutions and corporations, allowing CCP infection to spread.
01:40:54.000William Martin says, Hey Tim, with gun control back in full swing, have you thought about having Colleen Noir or someone like that on the show?
01:41:03.000Also, have you ever looked into John Lovell from the Warrior Poet Society Network?
01:41:07.000I think they would both be great guests.
01:41:09.000Yeah, we'd love to have Colleen Noir on.
01:42:20.000It's funny when they try and claim I'm a conservative and it's like, they watch the show and Tim Pool rags about how like the weed attacks the rich or something.
01:42:27.000It's like, I'm pretty sure that's not a conservative opinion.
01:42:44.000I think he's made some really offensive comedy, but it's weird how like, you know, Media Matters went after him because he did this segment they called really racist.
01:42:52.000And I'm like, what was the difference between what he did and what Family Guy does literally every single day when I watch Family Guy?
01:47:16.000John Baloo says, there was a comedian in the early 90s that said, the only people you can make fun of is white Protestant males because they're the only ones that don't have a group to come after you.
01:53:20.000You know, but, but, but they, what they basically said was it's not that you're, you know, right wing or left wing or whatever.
01:53:28.000It's that you're exposing how they operate.
01:53:31.000And I was like, yeah, well, you know, there you go.
01:53:34.000So yeah, anyway, join TimCast.com, become a member, because that's the safety net.
01:53:40.000If we get shut down, the show's over, like, we can still work so long as TimCast.com exists.
01:53:45.000And that's why I'm trying to get the new site, we're gonna launch a brand site, which is gonna do way more content, articles, news, and all that stuff, and everything, and video games, and skateboarding and stuff, because we need to build something independent so that we can't get shut down.
01:54:02.000YouTube implemented this new thing where it, like, when you upload a video, it runs a percentage check, like scanning your content for negative words.
01:54:12.000And so demonetization has started hitting me again.
01:57:24.000Bobby Digital says, I'm subscribed at TimCast.com.
01:57:27.000Can you pretty please make videos downloadable and pocket listenable?
01:57:33.000I don't know how to do that right now, but we have a new website that's about to launch, and it's going to create new subscriber options through different, you know, new subscriber options, just because right now it's just basically PayPal, but we're going to be opening up for, it's just improving.
01:57:48.000Basically, we built what we could build initially.
01:57:53.000When everyone became members, then we basically used that, all those resources to start Hiring a new dev team and expanding and we want to we want to build open source Social networking code that anyone could put onto their website.
01:58:06.000So you mentioned you had what Jody Shaw net?
01:58:08.000How cool would it be if we had an open source plugin that you put on your website?
01:58:12.000And it was a social media app that networked you to every other website that used the same app that way.
01:58:17.000No one could ban you It's just your website and but people on your website could interact with people on other websites, too.
01:59:08.000We want to get there, but we're small and we're growing and we can't just snap our fingers and instantly be 100% company.
01:59:13.000Yeah, it's like a community project, which is the nice thing about it being open source too, is contributors from around the world will go on GitHub and GitLab and be like suppositing code for others to use.
01:59:22.000Free software actually, so like a MIT license or something.
01:59:26.000All right, we got Political Pothead, he says.
01:59:29.000Shout out to rappers Tom McDonald, Upchurch, and Adam Calhoun.
02:00:00.000His eyes are blue, I guess, and it's just too dark.
02:00:03.000But I'm a bit reluctant to show the misprint one because before this got sent to us, Teespring emailed me and said, you're going to be getting double your order.
02:00:20.000Because the first shirts that went out were printed too dark, and so we're sending you double the order, so you're getting, like, two for the price of one.
02:01:22.000Uh, look, I'm not talking about woke insanity.
02:01:25.000I'm talking about regular freedom-loving social and classical liberals who are like, look, man, I don't agree with burning the flag, but if it's your flag, do what you want with it.
02:01:35.000It's the George Carlin type liberals that you, you are like the conservatives have won over in a lot of aspects, threatening to imprison people for burning a flag.
02:01:42.000You're going to lose all of them quick.
02:01:47.000Would you, do you think burning the flag should be allowed?
02:01:49.000Oh gosh, I haven't thought about it, but I'm just thinking about, like, I don't know that that's a reason to write somebody off, just because they have that one belief.
02:01:59.000Because they think you should be arrested for burning the flag?
02:02:01.000Or because they believe in burning the flag?
02:02:03.000Well, maybe they shouldn't be president.
02:04:58.000You can get Gatling guns though, because those are like, I guess each like crank or whatever is a single action, so you're allowed to have a legal Gatling gun.
02:05:06.000But doesn't it do like 60 cranks a second?
02:05:13.000Luke wanted me to buy a Gatling gun, a 9mm, 100, it was like a massive magazine thing on the side, and you hold it and go ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.
02:06:09.000Yeah, so I'd love to have Lauren Southern on, but... Yeah, I want to hear her personal, like, perception of her story for the last four or five years, because she was, like, came out of obscurity and was super famous for a short period of time and kind of got burned by, like, the cancel culture.
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