Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - WW3 Looms, BRICS Preps Gold Backed Currency, Ukraine May Join NATO w-Haley Kennington

00:00:00.000 World War III.

00:00:22.000 Oh man, I love to say it.

00:00:23.000 Yeah, I don't know if it'll actually happen.

00:00:25.000 It may already be happening.

00:00:27.000 It may be that in 50 years they look back and say that the Ukrainian invasion was the start, or I should say the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the start of World War 3.

00:00:34.000 But we got some crazy news that's been circulating for a couple days.

00:00:37.000 BRICS. 0.57

00:00:38.000 That's Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and many other nations.

00:00:42.000 41 countries are seeking to join BRICS.

00:00:45.000 BRICS announced, and they've confirmed, a gold-backed currency.

00:00:49.000 To be used internationally.

00:00:51.000 It's going to compete with the U.S.

00:00:53.000 And I think it's likely the petrodollar goes away.

00:00:57.000 I don't know for sure.

00:00:58.000 I can't see the future.

00:00:58.000 But if that happens, my friends, those of you listening in America, your standard of living will drop precipitously.

00:01:04.000 Yeah, you'll notice it.

00:01:05.000 It's going to get really bad.

00:01:06.000 Why?

00:01:06.000 Because the U.S.

00:01:07.000 for too long has tried relying on military might to maintain its economy.

00:01:11.000 And this is what I think Donald Trump was worried about. 0.99

00:01:13.000 And this is what's going to come and bite us in the ass. 0.99

00:01:15.000 So we'll talk about that. 0.99

00:01:16.000 Plus, we got a bunch of other cultural news.

00:01:19.000 We'll talk about a bunch of different stories.

00:01:22.000 I'll save them for later, actually, so we can get through the intro without getting in trouble on this channel, but I just... We'll leave it there, and then we'll talk about what's going on with Ukraine, potentially joining NATO.

00:01:32.000 They had a meeting, they said, okay, maybe we'll let you join if that happens.

00:01:35.000 That is a direct declaration of war with Russia.

00:01:38.000 So, you know... Yeah.

00:01:40.000 It seems like World War 3 may be a real possibility. 0.97

00:01:43.000 As for the other stories, they're a bit cultural and they're related to gender issues, so we'll just save them for later on in the episode so we don't get in trouble.

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00:02:46.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and a whole lot more is Haley Cunnington.

00:02:50.000 Thank you for having me, Tim.

00:02:51.000 I appreciate it.

00:02:52.000 You want to introduce yourself?

00:02:54.000 Yeah, I'm Haley Kennington, and I'm a journalist.

00:02:57.000 I was research director and story editor for The Plot Against the President and Daily Wire's What Is a Woman, and I'm the news editor for Wrong Speak Publishing.

00:03:06.000 Right on, well thanks for hanging out.

00:03:07.000 We also have the Irishman Who Lives Under My House and Steals My Spoons. 1.00

00:03:10.000 You sound insane. 0.99

00:03:11.000 Do you hear yourself when you say things like that? 0.99

00:03:15.000 Confess, Seamus.

00:03:16.000 An Irishman lives under your house and steals your spoons? 1.00

00:03:20.000 Confess, Seamus.

00:03:22.000 This is the man you're coming to for news?

00:03:24.000 You're gonna go to church.

00:03:25.000 Tim's out of his mind. 1.00

00:03:26.000 He's insane. 0.99

00:03:27.000 Confess to what? 0.99

00:03:28.000 Your delusions?

00:03:30.000 Tim, I'm worried about you.

00:03:32.000 I'm worried about you.

00:03:33.000 My name is Seamus Coghlan.

00:03:35.000 I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes.

00:03:36.000 We just released a cartoon today on lefties and the way they project.

00:03:40.000 I think you guys are really going to enjoy it.

00:03:42.000 We have a membership portal at freedomtunes.com where we release cartoons that are a bit too spicy for YouTube.

00:03:49.000 There's one every week there, so if you become a member, you'll be able to check those out.

00:03:53.000 Thank you very much.

00:03:54.000 Head over to freedomtunes.com and become a member.

00:03:57.000 Subscribe to us on YouTube as well.

00:03:59.000 And if you get some kind of care package when you become a member, let me know if it contains any spoons.

00:04:04.000 Tim, if you think that I'm planning to steal your spoons and send them to people as incentive to support my animation business, I don't even know how to respond to you. 0.92

00:04:14.000 That is such a ridiculous accusation. 0.99

00:04:16.000 That is such a ridiculous accusation. 1.00

00:04:18.000 People are legit going to think that they're going to get a spoon from you now. 0.98

00:04:23.000 I mean, if people subscribe expecting a spoon, I'm just saying that's not my problem or my fault.

00:04:28.000 I think you should add one anyway.

00:04:30.000 Well, this man literally just said on air people are going to get spoons if they subscribe to me.

00:04:33.000 I never said that.

00:04:34.000 I'm not giving you guys spoons.

00:04:36.000 I'm trying to figure out what he's doing with them.

00:04:38.000 Nothing.

00:04:38.000 Because I didn't take them.

00:04:40.000 And you sound insane. 0.82

00:04:44.000 Hi, I'm Phil LaBonte. 0.92

00:04:46.000 Lead singer of All That Remains, anti-communist, and counter-revolutionary.

00:04:50.000 I have no information about the spoons here at the castle, so that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. 0.99

00:04:56.000 Hey, what's going on, Serge?

00:04:58.000 I'm Serge.com, and I'm ready to start when you guys are.

00:05:01.000 Let's do it.

00:05:01.000 We got this story from MSN.com.

00:05:04.000 Bricks, gold-backed common currency, a shock to global fiat money system, says economist.

00:05:10.000 As Russia confirms launch in August, oh boy, is this one esoteric.

00:05:15.000 I'm sure many of you at home are like, yo, I don't even know why I clicked the link to this video because I have no idea what you're talking about. 0.92

00:05:21.000 I'm sure many of you who are in the know saw the headline and went, holy crap.

00:05:25.000 And I'm sure most of you who are really in the know said, Tim, we already knew this. 0.90

00:05:28.000 But bear with me.

00:05:30.000 This is big news.

00:05:31.000 BRICS is the principal rival to basically NATO and the Western powers.

00:05:36.000 The world operates on the U.S. 0.96

00:05:37.000 dollar as its reserve currency.

00:05:39.000 You want to buy oil, you use U.S.

00:05:40.000 dollars.

00:05:41.000 With BRICS launching this currency, backed by gold, they're basically giving a massive middle finger to the U.S.

00:05:47.000 and telling all the countries in the world, our money actually means something theirs does not.

00:05:52.000 Further, we've already seen countries like Saudi Arabia trying to do deals with China, or actually doing them, to trade oil in Yuan.

00:06:00.000 This means we are inching ever closer to the U.S. 0.68

00:06:04.000 no longer having the reserve currency.

00:06:06.000 And you know what that means?

00:06:08.000 That means all of you at home, you're going to see your standard of living drop dramatically.

00:06:13.000 And therein lies the double-edged sword when it comes to international politics.

00:06:17.000 The United States does not export enough.

00:06:19.000 We export culture, movies, music, sure.

00:06:22.000 But other countries can do that.

00:06:23.000 Other countries can export a lot of stuff.

00:06:25.000 So what do we really provide?

00:06:27.000 To be honest, military might.

00:06:29.000 When we want oil, we print the dollars, we buy the oil.

00:06:32.000 When any other country wants oil, they need to buy dollars from us first.

00:06:37.000 With this deal from BRICS that basically shuts down our International Ponzi scheme or whatever you want to call it.

00:06:44.000 And then all of a sudden we have nothing to trade.

00:06:46.000 What will the U.S.

00:06:48.000 trade for BRICS currency?

00:06:50.000 That's the big question.

00:06:51.000 What are we manufacturing?

00:06:53.000 What are we exporting that BRICS would want so that they would give us gold-backed currency that we could use to buy oil with?

00:07:00.000 Yeah.

00:07:01.000 So, here's my fear, and a lot of other people's fears.

00:07:06.000 The reason why the deep state, the bureaucratic state, the neolibs, the neocons want war is to make sure we don't lose this status.

00:07:15.000 So, the likelihood that we enter into a dramatically escalated conflict is ever so increasing to the point where, let me tell you how desperate the machine has become.

00:07:24.000 Earlier, last year or so, I think it was last year, when Russia started using, was accused of using cluster bombs, the US, the Western forces claimed that was potentially a war crime.

00:07:35.000 Now the West has become so desperate that Joe Biden has approved the sending of cluster bombs to Ukrainian forces, something that they had previously said could be a war crime.

00:07:45.000 This is what I'm talking about.

00:07:46.000 The people saying, oh you can't do that because that's evil and wrong and then a year later being like, if we lose this we're done for so just do it anyway.

00:07:54.000 How far off are we from someone saying, yeah well nukes are no longer off the table.

00:08:00.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:08:00.000 It's a very frightening situation.

00:08:02.000 All I really have to say about it is this, to quote the venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, if a nation would behave more justly if it were conquered, it should expect to be conquered.

00:08:11.000 And the United States has not been a nation which operated in a moral way domestically.

00:08:16.000 We're on the international stage in a very long time.

00:08:19.000 I've seen some of that turning around.

00:08:20.000 I think the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the fact that we've saved tens of thousands of children has been incredible.

00:08:26.000 I think there's been massive backlash against the LGBTQ agenda.

00:08:29.000 More young people are waking up and seeing the farce of the sexual revolution.

00:08:32.000 But ultimately, this country has a lot of problems, and I hope that we can pull through them.

00:08:38.000 I hope that the United States can be a strong, dominant nation that behaves morally, but that's not the track we've placed ourselves on over the past 50 or 60 years.

00:08:44.000 So I hope for good things, but I don't know that I necessarily expect them.

00:08:52.000 I mean, considering the fact that the BRICS currency is already in motion, it's not something that's being talked about anymore, it feels like the writing's on the wall that the petrodollar, the time is limited.

00:09:09.000 And I mean, people need to plan accordingly.

00:09:12.000 If we're in as much debt as we are to China and to other countries and stuff and our national

00:09:18.000 debt's like it is and we lose the status as the reserve currency of the world, interest

00:09:26.000 rates are going to keep going up and the buying power of your dollar is going to keep going

00:09:30.000 down and it's going to have a massive effect on the average person.

00:09:39.000 Unfortunately these things are...

00:09:40.000 It's slow moving.

00:09:41.000 So a lot of people have kind of, you know, shut the idea of a currency crisis out because it has been something that you've heard people talking about it since like 2008, you know, like since the financial crisis, people have been talking about, oh, if you keep printing money, then there'll be inflation, etc.

00:09:59.000 And we're in debt.

00:10:00.000 And I feel like the average person is kind of Kind of just gone numb to that. 1.00

00:10:04.000 And if people are numb to it and they haven't been preparing for it or they don't, it's going to come back and bite them in the ass. 0.99

00:10:10.000 And as usual, the poor people in the U.S. 0.99

00:10:15.000 and people on the margins, you know, people that are just making it are going to fall into poverty and people that are already poor, you know, they're going to be screwed.

00:10:22.000 And to be clear, the point I want to make here is that I hope that doesn't happen, right?

00:10:28.000 Again, I hope the United States is able to maintain our status as world reserve currency And we turn a corner and start behaving more morally with respect to our conduct both on the foreign stage and domestically.

00:10:41.000 And there's actually some precedent to think that that might happen just based on the last year or two and the way some things have improved in some areas.

00:10:49.000 But yeah, I mean, if we lose world reserve currency status, if this country continues to spend and print money in unsustainable ways and also get involved in conflicts we have no business being involved in, I think it's probably fair to say that we're not going to be able to sustain that, and just like any nation that starts fooling around because they become powerful and hubristic, we're going to end up seeing our own collapse.

00:11:11.000 But what if?

00:11:12.000 The Democratic nominee for president in the debate says, here's what we're going to do.

00:11:18.000 We're going to invade Ukraine. 0.97

00:11:20.000 We're going to, in order to fight the Russians, I shouldn't say invade Ukraine, but we're going to send boots on the ground in Ukraine.

00:11:25.000 Boots on the ground in Syria.

00:11:27.000 We're going to build a corridor through Syria, Turkey, into Europe to offset the Russian gas monopoly.

00:11:33.000 And we are going to do these things specifically to destroy the economies of the BRICS nations to prevent them from subverting the world reserve currency. 0.99

00:11:41.000 What if they just flat out came out and said, this is what we're doing and why we're doing it.

00:11:46.000 Because our economy is propped up by the fact that we print money and we don't export, and the only thing we can do is point guns at the rest of the world and tell them that they must serve us.

00:11:55.000 And all of your computers and all of your components, the materials in there are mined by children who are working as slaves. 0.99

00:12:01.000 You can have that, or you can live in squalor.

00:12:05.000 Make your pick.

00:12:06.000 What do you do?

00:12:07.000 Oh, the average person would decide to... They'd vote for... I think they'd vote for the machine in two seconds and make an excuse.

00:12:13.000 I think, well, the machine makes excuses for itself, right?

00:12:16.000 So I think the way it's going to be advertised to the American people is, there's some human rights atrocity or violation that's occurring in these countries, so now we have to go step in and intervene.

00:12:25.000 That's what they're doing now.

00:12:27.000 But I think the issue is, When they were like, cluster bombs are a potential war crime.

00:12:32.000 And then Joe Biden's like, well, might as well send cluster bombs.

00:12:35.000 It's like, okay.

00:12:37.000 That's not going to work.

00:12:38.000 You're not going to be able to go and say, look, a war crime is happening.

00:12:41.000 And then we're going to go ahead and do the same thing.

00:12:43.000 That propaganda, it's not going to work.

00:12:45.000 Regular people might just lie to themselves to justify why we should be in war, but.

00:12:51.000 Yeah.

00:12:51.000 What do you think?

00:12:52.000 I don't know.

00:12:52.000 The whole thing is scary to me.

00:12:54.000 Of course.

00:12:55.000 I mean, there's not a good option either way, as far as what you just said.

00:12:58.000 I don't, I mean, I don't know, it's all doom and gloom, you know.

00:13:03.000 I mean, in reference to what you said about, Tim, about cluster bombs and stuff, I mean, the Vietnam War started in 1954, I think is when, and the French were kind of doing most of the combat role there and doing most of the fighting, and the U.S.

00:13:19.000 didn't actually really get involved until 64, and then it was a whole nother 10 years.

00:13:25.000 It's completely reasonable to say that, you know, we're a year and change in on the war in Ukraine or whatever, and all this stuff that we said we weren't going to send, all of these things that the government said they weren't going to be doing, they keep coming and coming back and saying, okay, well, you know, now we're going to, so there's no actual line That the US won't cross, or at least that we as a population can reliably say, okay, we believe the government won't do this.

00:13:57.000 The government has demonstrated over and over that they'll say one thing, and as soon as it comes time to be what they deem a necessity, they say we need to go ahead and do this for this reason.

00:14:10.000 It's completely Expected, or should be expected, that if the US has said, no, we're not going to do this, if the conditions on the ground demand it, or an argument can be made that the conditions on the ground demand it, they're going to do it.

00:14:27.000 And I think that is up to and including a nuclear exchange with Russia, if it gets to that point. 0.64

00:14:35.000 Now, I'm not saying that it will, but if you put Americans on the ground in Ukraine, I could see that happening, and I don't see the off-ramp to get us out of eventually sending people to fight in Ukraine. 0.82

00:14:52.000 This is why I bring this up.

00:14:54.000 This is the tit-for-tat.

00:14:55.000 We say, oh no, cluster bombs.

00:14:56.000 You can't do that.

00:14:57.000 Then we do cluster bombs.

00:14:58.000 They start producing an international gold-backed currency.

00:15:01.000 We have this here.

00:15:01.000 Take a look at this.

00:15:02.000 Willem Middelkoop says 41 countries have applied for BRICS membership.

00:15:06.000 This is massive.

00:15:08.000 What is this, like just about a third of the world?

00:15:10.000 Yeah, and I mean- And not in terms of population.

00:15:13.000 But maybe with China.

00:15:15.000 To many in government, I mean, these are fighting words.

00:15:17.000 Saying that we are going to use a currency that is not controlled by the United States of America is something that's very frightening for those in the ruling elite to hear.

00:15:26.000 And to be frank, those are frightening words for your average person, too, if they really consider them.

00:15:30.000 Because if we do lose our status as world reserve currency, the quality of life is going to diminish for basically everybody in this country.

00:15:36.000 Now, you gotta imagine the position that foreign leaders are in and foreign nations are in.

00:15:42.000 They see how we have absolutely abused our status as world reserve currency and the fact that people need to trade in our dollar and are compelled to by the way the market functions currently.

00:15:52.000 In 2020, when COVID-19 Crippled our economy, or at the very least, I should say, when the lockdowns and the overreaction to COVID-19 crippled our economy, what our government did is they responded by engaging in the most gigantic transfer of wealth that has ever occurred in all of human history, and they gave virtually all of the money to the wealthiest people in this nation

00:16:17.000 And devalued the currency of everyone who had savings in order to engage in that transfer of wealth.

00:16:25.000 Now, anyone who was paying attention at that time said, this is going to massively harm those in the lower classes, this is massively going to harm people who have saved, and this is also going to harm people who own small businesses, because the SBA was expected to handle something like 10 times its yearly budget over the course of A month or two weeks in order to get this bailout money to small businesses.

00:16:50.000 Now the giant businesses that got, what, $4.2 trillion in low-interest loans were able to leverage that to purchase up a lot of those smaller businesses after they closed down, and it was done with your currency being devalued.

00:17:03.000 Now, poor and working-class people don't have a whole lot of recourse for that, but you know who does have a lot of recourse for that? 1.00

00:17:10.000 Rich people in other nations who are holding U.S.

00:17:13.000 currency who didn't get that payout, as well as oligarchs and rulers of other countries that have stashed U.S.

00:17:20.000 dollars because they had some faith that the United States dollar was going to carry its value over into the future, and many of them are saying, you know what?

00:17:28.000 We're probably going to use our clout to punish the American dollar and punish people who are in control of it by pulling out and signing on to some new currency.

00:17:38.000 What gets me kind of worried is, let me jump to this story.

00:17:42.000 Again, we'll keep it all particularly esoteric.

00:17:45.000 We have this from Coindesk.

00:17:46.000 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says Bitcoin could revolutionize finance.

00:17:50.000 A lot of people are starting to ask themselves why it is the CEO of BlackRock, this massive financial institution, is all of a sudden doing a turnaround and supporting Bitcoin.

00:18:00.000 That one's kind of concerning.

00:18:01.000 Or I should say disconcerting.

00:18:03.000 When there's talk of the U.S.

00:18:04.000 losing its status as a reserve currency, especially over the past several years, and now more so with BRICS Nations launching a gold-backed currency, the idea that this guy's gonna come out and be like, I care about people and I think, you know, they should listen, I don't know, maybe I shouldn't say anything.

00:18:17.000 Maybe not.

00:18:18.000 Maybe what happens is, and again, I don't know, I'm not a finance guy, so don't take my advice for it.

00:18:22.000 If the U.S.

00:18:22.000 loses its status as a reserve currency, war breaks out.

00:18:25.000 The dollar's gonna fall to garbage.

00:18:27.000 You're not gonna be eating bread, you're gonna be eating bugs and living in a pod.

00:18:30.000 And that's what I wonder about all this.

00:18:32.000 When they say you will owe nothing and you will be happy, Maybe what they're not saying- People think they're saying they're gonna take the world from you?

00:18:39.000 Maybe what they're really saying is when the war happens, you ain't getting none of this stuff no matter what you do.

00:18:44.000 The food's gonna be going to the soldiers, to the front line.

00:18:47.000 Resources and everything will be straight into war.

00:18:49.000 And what will you have?

00:18:51.000 Worthless, green pieces of paper.

00:18:53.000 To be honest, digital numbers on a computer screen.

00:18:56.000 We'll see rationing all over again.

00:18:58.000 During the Second World War, that was a reality. 0.93

00:19:00.000 People could only consume so many resources regardless of their level of wealth because the government was saying, we need to use this rubber or fuel or food for the war effort.

00:19:08.000 So let me ask you guys, what makes more sense?

00:19:10.000 That powerful elites in Europe and the USA want you to eat bugs because of their ideology?

00:19:16.000 Or they were preparing you for eating bugs because ain't gonna be no food when war breaks out?

00:19:22.000 Well, I think it's a combination.

00:19:23.000 I think that if your ideology is so corrupt and you hold human life so cheap, then it's inevitably going to be the case you'll make the sorts of reckless decisions that will result in your economy being destroyed and people ending up being plunged into warfare, which will destroy their resources and lower their quality of life.

00:19:39.000 I don't think that it needs to be either or.

00:19:41.000 I mean, I think that there are ample reasons for ideologically possessed people that are in positions of power to say, look, you shouldn't be eating steak, you shouldn't be eating all this beef and red meat and stuff.

00:19:57.000 You should be eating something that's simpler and something that's better for the planet because there are people that truly believe that the world is overpopulated and that we need to significantly decrease the number of people on earth because we keep devouring the resources and we can't produce enough resources and food to sustain the population that we have.

00:20:20.000 Well, I don't believe that.

00:20:21.000 I do believe that there are probably a considerable number of people in positions of power that

00:20:28.000 are capable of doing something about it and actually affecting populations and policy

00:20:35.000 that will, could or at least could significantly lower the population of the earth.

00:20:41.000 And I think that the global warming alarmism that you see is the most likely method.

00:20:49.000 So things like, you know, you can't have cows because they are bad for the environment and

00:20:54.000 these bugs are better for the environment are compelling arguments to people that are

00:20:59.000 already ideologically kind of aligned or are used to getting beat down with the world is

00:21:06.000 ending because of climate change kind of thing.

00:21:08.000 So I don't think that it needs to be one or the other.

00:21:10.000 I think that there are multiple reasons why people in positions of power would want to say, look, you can't live the life that you've been living and you need to roll back your standard of living.

00:21:22.000 Do you guys remember that there was a document that went viral from some security contractor that claimed the U.S.

00:21:29.000 population would be reduced by like 60%?

00:21:32.000 We talked about this.

00:21:33.000 I never remembered seeing that document.

00:21:36.000 Because it was erased from everywhere.

00:21:37.000 Based on what though?

00:21:38.000 So there, we don't know, some kind of defense contractor put together a report talking about future plans and it listed the populations of many countries as having been reduced by like 30 to 40 percent or something like that, or more.

00:21:52.000 And the document was deleted.

00:21:54.000 I don't think we ever got a real explanation for it.

00:21:56.000 I'm not saying it means it's true or anything, I hate conspiracy theories.

00:21:59.000 So, you know, for all we know, they were creating a hypothetical scenario in the event of war or something like that.

00:22:05.000 But then the archives all got deleted, and now it's really hard to find any information.

00:22:09.000 It is as if it has been erased from the internet.

00:22:12.000 It makes you wonder about what's really being talked about behind the scenes.

00:22:15.000 Because, look, for all we know, Occam's Razor suggests this is just a nonsense document.

00:22:20.000 Some random guy said the population would go down or something like this.

00:22:23.000 But as we see more and more signs of major conflict escalating, like the cluster munitions thing is a big deal, there's fears of the Zaporizhia plant being blown up.

00:22:34.000 I believe it's the Zaporizhia one, right?

00:22:35.000 That's where they're saying that the Russians have lined explosives all around it or something like that?

00:22:38.000 I don't know.

00:22:39.000 I don't know!

00:22:40.000 You know, you get propaganda on both sides, and you gotta figure out who you want to trust.

00:22:46.000 But isn't it convenient for all of us, as Norman Donald pointed out, that the good guys won every war?

00:22:51.000 Keep that in mind as you consider the news that's coming out today with all of these major conflict stories.

00:22:56.000 But also, I think it's important to think about... I talked about this during COVID, and I don't know if we were talking about the context of war, but what is the one thing that is guaranteed that COVID did?

00:23:08.000 It got people to move out of cities.

00:23:10.000 It decentralized our economy.

00:23:12.000 You had everybody working from the office.

00:23:15.000 Yet that office got destroyed for some reason.

00:23:17.000 Let's say everybody's working in an office and the fire breaks out and people get trapped inside.

00:23:20.000 That company's gone.

00:23:21.000 Let's say you push everybody to remote work and get them out of cities.

00:23:24.000 That office gets caught in a fire.

00:23:26.000 Your company still exists.

00:23:28.000 Digital economy.

00:23:29.000 People are able to communicate, facilitate, and keep working.

00:23:32.000 So it made me wonder when we saw COVID and the main result was large exodus of major economic power from large cities.

00:23:41.000 Decentralizing the US economy sure was helping us prepare, whether intentionally or not, for a major conflict.

00:23:48.000 If New York were to get nuked now, our economy would still function to a great degree because many of these people who run these systems have left.

00:23:55.000 And they've spread out even.

00:23:56.000 So it's harder to target.

00:23:58.000 Pre-COVID, with all of the big heads of industry in San Francisco, in California, in New York, many in Chicago, a single nuclear weapon, your economy's gone.

00:24:08.000 Post-COVID, not so much.

00:24:11.000 They're not gonna be able to target the CEOs in all these different random places.

00:24:13.000 Even celebrities and actors are moving all over the place.

00:24:15.000 They're not in the same place anymore.

00:24:17.000 The people running these blue states are secret heroes.

00:24:19.000 They're trying to get everybody out of the cities.

00:24:21.000 Russia still, I mean, Russia still is the country that has the most nuclear weapons in the world.

00:24:25.000 Are their nukes as powerful as ours, though?

00:24:27.000 I don't know.

00:24:28.000 I'm not 100% sure the yield-wise.

00:24:29.000 I think they're more powerful.

00:24:30.000 Oh.

00:24:32.000 Yeah, they have the Satan 2.

00:24:34.000 Title Wave bomb or whatever it's called.

00:24:36.000 Yeah.

00:24:37.000 Some of them, in fact, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built was by the Soviets.

00:24:41.000 Tsar Bomb.

00:24:42.000 Wow!

00:24:42.000 Yep.

00:24:43.000 And they only, what was it, only ever used at a quarter yield or something?

00:24:43.000 Okay.

00:24:45.000 Half.

00:24:46.000 Half, yeah.

00:24:47.000 It was 100 megatons was the design, and they only used 50, I think, is the number.

00:24:52.000 And the bomber that dropped it fell two kilometers from the sky in the shockwave, because it then recovered.

00:24:59.000 Oh my gosh.

00:24:59.000 Yep.

00:25:00.000 Oh my gosh, that's terrifying.

00:25:02.000 Imagine what they have now.

00:25:03.000 I don't think it's nuclear weapons.

00:25:04.000 I think they're way beyond this stuff.

00:25:07.000 I mean, we're talking about a weapon from a hundred years ago.

00:25:10.000 A 100-year-old bomb.

00:25:11.000 Come on, they got something else already.

00:25:13.000 For sure.

00:25:13.000 Yeah, antimatter weapons?

00:25:15.000 How much you want to bet they have antimatter bombs?

00:25:17.000 Well, I mean, look, we know that different countries have been creating bioweapons, and we just know this because one was released. 0.96

00:25:25.000 Now, Sir Francis Boyle, who was the author of the American Implementing Legislation for the Bioweapons Convention, has stated as a lawyer that these are, if anything, made with gain-of-function research, is classified as a bioweapon.

00:25:36.000 So that's not even like a conspiracy theory or a hot take.

00:25:39.000 That is the author of the legislation that governs these affairs, specifically stating these are bioweapons, like anything made through gain-of-function research.

00:25:46.000 And we know gain-of-function research is happening.

00:25:47.000 So who knows what's been created?

00:25:49.000 Who knows the kinds of ugly things that have been engineered by scientists that could be unleashed onto the public at any moment?

00:25:57.000 So we learned during COVID that Asians were more susceptible to the virus because they have more ACE2 receptors.

00:26:04.000 Think about something like that.

00:26:05.000 We know that this particular group of people has more of one type of receptor in their lungs, therefore they may be more susceptible to a virus.

00:26:12.000 Now think about how they're going to make bioweapons.

00:26:15.000 They're going to be like, hey, this particular group of people is susceptible to this particular thing, and then one day everyone in that country is very sick.

00:26:22.000 Mm-hmm.

00:26:22.000 That's bioweapons.

00:26:24.000 And there will be collateral damage.

00:26:25.000 Yeah, well, no, we also know, like, based on the part of the world you're in and a lot of genetic factors, you can be more or less susceptible to diseases.

00:26:31.000 This is the entire point that gets brought up anytime anyone wants to discuss, like, colonization and the conquistadors, the fact that the Spanish were totally immune to the diseases they were bringing over, so they didn't even know they had them.

00:26:40.000 Someone could theoretically engineer viruses and disease that would be more likely to wreak havoc on populations of different people genetically.

00:26:48.000 That's terrifying.

00:26:49.000 I always get real, like, and I don't know how realistic this is because I have no idea about how bugs are engineered or anything, but the idea of Ebola with like a three-week incubation period or two-week incubation period.

00:27:03.000 An airborne Ebola.

00:27:04.000 Just spreads around and it takes weeks before you just start puking and bleeding out your eyes and you're contagious the entire time.

00:27:14.000 The idea of that just terrifies the absolute crap out of me because that would run wild through the whole country.

00:27:20.000 And then you would have basically everyone in this country demanding lockdowns.

00:27:23.000 Oh yeah.

00:27:25.000 We did talk about this too.

00:27:26.000 I think Ian asked the question when we were like, oh, we're all against lockdowns.

00:27:30.000 He was like, what if it was an airborne Ebola?

00:27:32.000 And it's like, that's a tough question, because now you're looking at people puking up their organs and stuff in the middle of the street.

00:27:36.000 Uh-huh.

00:27:36.000 But the question, the issue is still, you have a right to choose if you want to take that risk.

00:27:40.000 Well, but there's another point here.

00:27:41.000 I think a lot of the argument against, like...

00:27:45.000 Vaccinations, or forced vaccinations, or lockdowns, or whatever it is, they aren't necessarily axiomatic arguments, they're questions of whether factors are such that it justifies it.

00:27:53.000 So if you did have an Ebola, if there was an Ebola that had like a 99% transmission rate and 99% mortality rate, 100% you lock things down.

00:28:01.000 Except you have no trust of the government, that's true.

00:28:03.000 Yeah, exactly, exactly.

00:28:05.000 But I'm saying if that really is the case, and you really have those numbers, of course people are going to say, yeah, do it.

00:28:09.000 But that's the thing, it's not even going to be a question, because if you've got people Like, in mass, just like puking and dying in the streets and stuff like that.

00:28:19.000 People are going to voluntarily be like, get the F out of here.

00:28:23.000 Get away from my house.

00:28:25.000 I'm not going out.

00:28:26.000 It would be a lockdown that was completely voluntary.

00:28:31.000 The police and, I mean, the only people that would be going to work would be like doctors that actually could do something.

00:28:38.000 And if even, because a lot of times when you get to something, if you get to something that dramatic, there'd be a lot of people that are just like, I'm staying home with my family.

00:28:46.000 Yeah, no, I definitely agree with you.

00:28:47.000 It would mostly be voluntary.

00:28:49.000 My point is simply that when you get to a certain point of transmission and mortality with a disease, lockdowns are going to be more or less justifiable.

00:28:55.000 What will destroy the world?

00:28:57.000 Incubation period of two weeks, airborne, high mortality, and a disease that takes four to six weeks to kill you.

00:29:08.000 So, escalating degrees of severity.

00:29:11.000 Let's talk about the absolute worst case scenario, because if we're talking about actual engineered bioweapons, these things are going to be horrifying.

00:29:19.000 We're talking about a virus that is airborne, transmissible when a person is asymptomatic, couple weeks incubation period, high mortality rate.

00:29:29.000 It would be impossible to stop, unless everyone locked their doors and no one did anything ever again.

00:29:34.000 What are the chances of a government actually trying to build that virus?

00:29:38.000 I think 100%.

00:29:38.000 Yeah.

00:29:38.000 I mean, we may have it now.

00:29:42.000 I mean, they're not, you know, gonna tell us what's going on, but... Why wouldn't they do it?

00:29:46.000 I mean, look at nuclear weapons!

00:29:48.000 They can wipe out a whole city with a single Merv. 1.00

00:29:52.000 I mean, they can wipe out multiple cities with a MIRV.

00:29:56.000 Twelve warheads in one ICBM.

00:29:58.000 I hate these acronyms.

00:29:59.000 Let's try this again.

00:30:00.000 Twelve warheads in one multiple independently targeting re-entry vehicles.

00:30:07.000 That's what a MIRV is.

00:30:08.000 It's an intercontinental ballistic missile.

00:30:10.000 You say like MIRV and ICBM and people are like, I have no idea what you just said.

00:30:14.000 Yeah, I don't know, man.

00:30:16.000 It's tough.

00:30:17.000 Are we sitting here spinning our wheels and wasting our time arguing about culture war nonsense?

00:30:21.000 No.

00:30:21.000 When you go to the highest levels and you see this is the case.

00:30:26.000 Let's talk about the realm of domestic politics in this regard.

00:30:30.000 If Donald Trump's worldview is really, let's not have the war that destroys the planet.

00:30:36.000 Let's shore up our borders, protect the United States, bring back manufacturing, and become self-sufficient because the long fall is coming.

00:30:45.000 And the alternative is, no, let's go all out, take over the world, and destroy BRICS by any means necessary so that we can stay on top of the world. 1.00

00:30:53.000 Which do you choose?

00:30:55.000 I think the Trump angle is the better one.

00:30:58.000 Well, absolutely.

00:30:59.000 Not just practically speaking, but morally speaking.

00:31:02.000 Not only would there be so much bloodshed and lost life if we tried doing something like that, but it is It assumes that other nations don't have the right to

00:31:13.000 develop currencies while we're debasing ours.

00:31:15.000 It assumes that other nations should be forced into dollar slavery and have to hold this asset, this currency, while

00:31:22.000 we're abusing it and showing them we don't respect it ourselves.

00:31:24.000 Here's the challenge. The Chinese Communist Party is pretty dang evil. 0.99

00:31:28.000 They are very evil. 1.00

00:31:29.000 Absolutely.

00:31:31.000 So there's the other argument of, if we just decide, you know what, we're going to close our doors, to a great degree, not completely, but we're going to bolster the American economy and we're going to focus on ourselves, China's going to keep expanding, they're not going to stop.

00:31:43.000 Well, it depends.

00:31:44.000 I mean, firstly, China does get a lot of money from the United States just with respect to the business that we do with them.

00:31:50.000 So if we just started doing everything domestically, it would be painful for us, but I also think it would be very painful for them.

00:31:55.000 I'll also add that if we were to go to war with China over human rights abuses, if there was like a real legitimate reason for us to go to war, if you went through all the tenets of just war theory and they all lined up, then yeah.

00:32:06.000 But that's a different question than just going to war with them over them wanting to use a currency that isn't ours.

00:32:15.000 Okay.

00:32:16.000 The justification is a massive part of it.

00:32:17.000 Yeah.

00:32:18.000 Yeah.

00:32:19.000 I think everyone was just in agreement with you, Seamus.

00:32:21.000 Good.

00:32:22.000 Good.

00:32:22.000 I like that.

00:32:23.000 Perfect.

00:32:24.000 Shimcast. 0.93

00:32:25.000 IRL.

00:32:25.000 Here we are.

00:32:26.000 There you go.

00:32:28.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:32:30.000 The question is, what does a regular family do?

00:32:34.000 Uh-huh.

00:32:35.000 Yeah, well, I mean, that's a very good question.

00:32:38.000 You've said this on the show before, but at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I'll say it again for you.

00:32:43.000 I believe it's a good idea for people to get out of blue areas, generally speaking.

00:32:47.000 Not even necessarily because of this question, but just the fact that blue states and blue cities end up having really bad policies.

00:32:55.000 There are going to be a lot of people there who are not a good influence for you and your family, so I'll put that out there.

00:33:00.000 You know, it's recommended by federal agencies, even in the United States, that you should have some emergency food stored up.

00:33:05.000 I think people should do that.

00:33:07.000 Just try to live as moral a life as possible.

00:33:09.000 People aren't going to be surprised to hear this from me, because this is the advice I'm going to give in every situation, but get close to Jesus Christ, really get right with God, live a moral life, and then if something horrible ends up happening, if America ends up being destroyed, well, you lived a good life, you did the right thing, you formed the proper relationship with the truth.

00:33:24.000 Let's jump to some domestic politics here, because we have this story out of Georgia.

00:33:28.000 Actually, it was trending earlier in the day.

00:33:30.000 Georgia's state representative makes moral decision to leave party.

00:33:34.000 Rep.

00:33:34.000 Mesha Mainer quit the Democratic Party and has joined the GOP, saying for far too long the Democrat Party has gotten away with using and abusing the black community.

00:33:44.000 That's it.

00:33:45.000 She's from District 56.

00:33:47.000 She's been in since January of 2021.

00:33:50.000 She ran unopposed by a Republican challenger in the 2020 and 22 Democrat primary elections in the state.

00:33:55.000 And now she's quitting. 1.00

00:33:57.000 It's not the first time.

00:33:58.000 Won't be the last time.

00:34:00.000 But I have to wonder what's in store for us in 2024 if this trend continues, because the reality is we're not seeing the inverse trend.

00:34:08.000 No.

00:34:08.000 This idea of Republicans jumping ship and becoming Democrats is just not a thing.

00:34:12.000 It happens sometimes, but not really.

00:34:14.000 Typically, it's neocons and people who want war siding with neolibs who agree with them on war.

00:34:19.000 But when it comes to cultural issues, like her issue with school choice, Democrats say outright, no, do as you're told.

00:34:26.000 And she was like, I'm out.

00:34:27.000 I'm out.

00:34:28.000 I think that what you mentioned about it not going the other way, that it's not really conservative or whatever, I think that they all kind of beat feet in 2016.

00:34:39.000 If you were anti-Trump or whatever and you were an establishment-type Republican, they kind of have already left the party and they did it years ago.

00:34:52.000 So to speak to this phenomenon of Democrats, I mean, you see it.

00:34:58.000 You see it in the, you know, in the political space, but you also see it, you know, with, uh, what's her name?

00:35:03.000 Anna Kasparian.

00:35:05.000 Um, there was another leftist that had recently come out and, and left, you know, essentially left the left.

00:35:10.000 And a lot of it is because they find out that the narrative that is spun by the left generally does not map onto the truth or doesn't map on re onto reality.

00:35:22.000 Um, and.

00:35:24.000 There are going to be people that are going to disagree about the places where it doesn't map onto reality, but I think that the LGBT issues when it comes to transitioning kids is where the breaking point for most people are.

00:35:38.000 It's like, look, you cannot You cannot have trans kids. 1.00

00:35:43.000 You cannot have kids that are prepubescent, that you're encouraging, not just allowing, but encouraging at times, to live their lives as if they're a different, you know, as if they're biologically different.

00:35:57.000 That is unacceptable to the mass majority of the population.

00:36:02.000 And I think that that's starting to show when it comes to, you know, I don't know the specific reasons that Rep... What's her name? 0.92

00:36:10.000 Rep what?

00:36:11.000 Maynard?

00:36:11.000 Misha Maynard?

00:36:13.000 I don't know why she specifically left.

00:36:15.000 I don't know, you know, I haven't read her specific story.

00:36:18.000 School choice was the big issue.

00:36:19.000 She wanted parents to be able to... She was concerned that many of these schools were so awful that these kids were struggling on how to read and that parents should have a right to take their kid and put him in a better school and the Democrats were like, no, shut your mouth.

00:36:30.000 See, and that should be something that is That should be something that is really important to especially poor communities and communities that have kids that aren't, you know, making, they're graduating with a third grade or fourth grade reading level.

00:36:44.000 Like, that is a huge concern and that's something that you hear about all the time.

00:36:48.000 So, you know, more power to her.

00:36:51.000 I think that that's something that more people should be concerned about.

00:36:53.000 Absolutely agreed.

00:36:53.000 There are a lot of issues that people say shouldn't be political, and most of the time, when I hear that phrase, I roll my eyes.

00:36:59.000 It's like, well, too bad.

00:37:00.000 It is political.

00:37:01.000 That's how this country works.

00:37:02.000 We have one party that's heinously evil. 0.98

00:37:05.000 Not to say every individual person in the party realizes that, but yeah, what the party wants is disgusting and horrible and will destroy the country. 0.95

00:37:10.000 But when it comes to school choice, I just want to finish this thought.

00:37:13.000 When it comes to school choice, it's so obvious from any framework that this is the right thing.

00:37:20.000 Let parents choose where they send their kids to school.

00:37:23.000 Don't force kids to stay stuck in failing school systems.

00:37:28.000 Now, I don't know why I would have the expectation that people who think it's okay to groom and mutilate kids and kill unborn babies would see that.

00:37:34.000 Also, maybe parents shouldn't be forced to put their kids in failing schools.

00:37:37.000 But even without those other two questions, that people end up being tied up with their party's language on and not examining critically, with the school choice stuff, you just gotta think, it's... Whenever they say things like, You're going to destroy or defund the public school system.

00:37:52.000 What they're acknowledging is parents would choose anything besides the public school system if they had a choice.

00:37:58.000 So even their own arguments against school choice are arguments for school choice.

00:38:03.000 I wanted to say, real quick, Up until recently, both parties were discernibly evil.

00:38:08.000 And then you had this insurgency with Bernie and with Donald Trump, and then Bernie showed himself to be quite a bit duplicitous, and Trump showed himself to be particularly anti-establishment in some areas.

00:38:21.000 And so what you end up with now is a lot of people of influence in the Republican Party who oppose war, who oppose these things that are objectively evil, And objectively evil, and abjectly evil, and now you have still the neocons trying to claw back power in the Republican Party to once again restore the two massively evil machines in this country.

00:38:41.000 Yeah, no, well, I think you're right that all the elements of the Republican Party that it ended up shedding during the Trump administration, at least the bad elements, are ones that people want to restore.

00:38:50.000 I think there's things the Republican Party shed as a result of the Trump paradigm and him taking over the party that I don't think the Republican Party should have shed.

00:38:58.000 I think the Republican Party's become too socially liberal.

00:39:01.000 But when it comes to the warfare issue, oh yeah, I mean, it's one of his greatest accomplishments was pushing the neocons into the Democratic Party.

00:39:07.000 Yeah, who was it?

00:39:08.000 Was it Mike Pence recently? 1.00

00:39:09.000 Somebody, uh, some Republican was like, we don't care about culture war issues that are stupid. 1.00

00:39:13.000 I saw that. 0.99

00:39:14.000 Yeah, who was that?

00:39:14.000 I don't remember who that was, but I saw that.

00:39:16.000 It's like, that's, you're so wrong, but oh, firstly, firstly, the two are unbelievably closely linked.

00:39:23.000 This is, I understand sometimes we want to separate issues into economic issues and social issues, and sometimes that can make sense, but broadly speaking, it's not possible.

00:39:31.000 It's really not possible.

00:39:33.000 Your social views are going to inform your economic views.

00:39:36.000 I don't understand how that could possibly not be the case.

00:39:38.000 But even so, to say, well, you know, like, I'm really interested in slicing the top marginal tax rate by 3%, and I'm not concerned by the fact that children are being abused and systemically groomed through this horrible school system.

00:39:51.000 I disagree.

00:39:52.000 I disagree.

00:39:53.000 Jimmy Dore is left with a lot of economic stuff, but not on a bunch of other weird, creepy stuff.

00:39:57.000 Sure, no, I totally agree, but I think that he would tell you that his moral vision for America is holistic and combines his economic and moral perspectives.

00:40:04.000 Even though I would disagree with him, right, on how he applies those principles.

00:40:04.000 Yes.

00:40:07.000 You take a look at this Mesha Maynard Democrat who's now a Republican, and this is a good example of someone who's like, Yo, I disagree with this one issue, and they say basically, get out of the party.

00:40:17.000 The Democratic Party is basically the party of, are you in the cult or not?

00:40:22.000 And anybody not in that cult is right-wing.

00:40:25.000 Is this how the media works?

00:40:27.000 Kind of hilarious.

00:40:28.000 I mean, you can think about it in any context.

00:40:31.000 Jimmy Dore.

00:40:33.000 The dude advocates for very socialist policies.

00:40:36.000 They'll call him right-wing.

00:40:37.000 However, considering he is fairly socialist on a lot of issues, they struggle with it.

00:40:42.000 You take a look at how they refer to me.

00:40:44.000 Liberal on many issues, traditionally, not modern leftism.

00:40:49.000 And they'll say that's right-wing.

00:40:51.000 Because the only thing that matters, and what this Democrat is realizing, either you march in lockstep with the cult, or you get out.

00:41:01.000 Yes.

00:41:03.000 I don't care what they call me, I'm not marching next to them.

00:41:05.000 Have you guys seen that video where they're all holding their hands up and they're like, I will respect my black brothers and sisters.

00:41:11.000 No.

00:41:12.000 Let me pull that one up.

00:41:12.000 You never saw that one?

00:41:13.000 It's such a blatant virtue signal.

00:41:14.000 I feel like I would die.

00:41:15.000 It's a cult, bro!

00:41:16.000 I'll mention this. 0.99

00:41:19.000 You know, the Democrats will say, if you disagree with us on, like, 0.5% of our values, you're an evil fascist or whatever.

00:41:26.000 The right, I think, has become far too inclusive on the other end, where we just say, anyone.

00:41:31.000 What is funny, what the left says is, if you disagree with the left on 0.5% of anything, you're not on the left.

00:41:36.000 And we say, and you're on the right!

00:41:38.000 It's like, no, no, no, no, no.

00:41:39.000 They're not necessarily on the right, just because the left doesn't like them.

00:41:43.000 It's not to say we can't work with them on the area where there's agreement, it's just to say we have to have some way to define these terms.

00:41:49.000 Like, just because the left is way too strict and purist doesn't mean that we abandon principles.

00:41:53.000 Wanna play this clip?

00:41:53.000 Yeah.

00:41:55.000 I will use my voice in the most uplifting way possible.

00:41:59.000 I will use my voice in the most uplifting way possible.

00:42:03.000 And do everything in my power to educate my community.

00:42:06.000 And do everything in my power to educate my community.

00:42:08.000 Look at this.

00:42:10.000 I will love my black neighbors the same as my white ones.

00:42:16.000 That's colorblindness. 0.52

00:42:17.000 You don't think it's a cult when you see that.

00:42:17.000 Look at this.

00:42:20.000 Is that a white person saying it too?

00:42:22.000 Yes, of course.

00:42:23.000 That is the whitest group of people that I have seen. 0.97

00:42:29.000 Join the cult.

00:42:30.000 That is definitely in Vermont.

00:42:33.000 Or something like that.

00:42:36.000 I don't see anyone complaining about the fact that these are all white people either. 0.92

00:42:40.000 We were talking about that post on Twitter.

00:42:44.000 How many videos do we need to show people to be like, yo, this is a cult?

00:42:49.000 I'm not exaggerating.

00:42:50.000 I'm not being cute.

00:42:51.000 I'm not being derisive.

00:42:52.000 I'm being factual and academic in saying the modern left is a cult.

00:42:57.000 It is a large cult.

00:42:59.000 Yeah, to be clear, they're praying.

00:43:00.000 Like, that's what they're doing, they're praying.

00:43:02.000 That's a prayer ceremony right there.

00:43:03.000 They have a leader up there who's leading worship and they're chanting, but that is prayer.

00:43:06.000 That's what's happening there.

00:43:07.000 It's the same thing as a confession of faith into Catholicism, or it's the same idea.

00:43:12.000 They're confessing that they're a member of that particular ideology.

00:43:18.000 No, this is like a prayer service.

00:43:19.000 Yeah, that's more or less what I'm saying.

00:43:21.000 This is like when you go to a church and, you know, the preacher's up at the front of the priest, depending on which group of Christians you're talking about, and he's stating something and the congregation repeats it.

00:43:31.000 I mean, when we're talking about, like, ancient prayers that have a precedent and point to something true, good, and beautiful, that can be a wonderful thing.

00:43:36.000 When we're talking about ideological language that was invented ten years ago in order to shame you for the color of your skin, well, I think it's pretty creepy.

00:43:44.000 But, ultimately, it is prayer.

00:43:45.000 It is prayer.

00:43:46.000 And there's nothing wrong with prayer and religion in and of itself, but there is something wrong with these prayers in this religion because they're wrong.

00:43:52.000 Very wrong.

00:43:53.000 You need to make a better argument than that.

00:43:53.000 Dangerously wrong.

00:43:57.000 Like, the way I think about any kind of true religious prayer is sort of a Name the religion that believes in a higher power, and prayer is effectively an admission or, you know, in some way, it's rooted in knowing you are not the end-all be-all.

00:44:17.000 It is not all about you.

00:44:18.000 Exactly.

00:44:19.000 There is something greater and beyond you.

00:44:21.000 And there is a component of reaching out to the universe, to God, or whatever it is you believe.

00:44:26.000 So, I don't believe that prayer, in this context, is just specifically rooted to one religion.

00:44:31.000 In that context, you know, Seamus, you might say, Christianity Catholicism is the correct one. 1.00

00:44:36.000 The rest, people are praying to nothing or whatever.

00:44:39.000 However you want to describe it, my point is this.

00:44:40.000 This is prayer to a person.

00:44:42.000 Yeah, well exactly.

00:44:43.000 So I would say that... These people are praying to a person.

00:44:45.000 A human.

00:44:46.000 One specific human.

00:44:47.000 Yeah, so what I would say is that obviously Christianity is correct. 0.99

00:44:50.000 I think sometimes people in like certain pagan religions are like praying to demons or praying to themselves or if it's someone who hasn't been introduced to Christianity before and they're like trying to find God, you know, and they're just innocently asking questions, I think it's possible for God to, you know, hear that.

00:45:03.000 But that said, Um, I think that what you're seeing here is a kind of self-worship, because these people are able to fit in with the group by chanting these words, and it's more or less about that.

00:45:15.000 It's more or less about fitting in virtue signaling, saying, I'm one of you guys, I have the trendy opinion.

00:45:20.000 That's a scary video, man.

00:45:22.000 It's very scary.

00:45:22.000 Creeps me out.

00:45:23.000 I don't like it.

00:45:25.000 You know, to be honest with you, I don't mind it because I'm hoping that there can be some kind of something brought to the Supreme Court to get that whole ideology declared a religion so that way you can have it completely and totally quarantined from legislation.

00:45:41.000 Let it have it have it be declared a religion so that way people can exercise their religion They can you know live their life that way believe what they want just keep it completely and totally isolated from from state power So the government can't you know give any kind of past laws based on any of that any of the the ideology Well, I think what people have to contend with is a problem that has existed ever since we started talking about a separation of church and state, which is that we have determined that one set of moral truth claims should be placed in this category, called religion, and other sets of truth claims, even if made about the exact same thing, because they don't openly claim that they reference a creator or a god, are not to be considered religious, and therefore can meddle with legal processes.

00:46:29.000 The reality is, these views are fundamentally religious because an ideology is basically just a false religion that doesn't expressly purport to worshipping any kind of god.

00:46:41.000 And so, you have a religion, you have competing religions, but these ones, because they don't call themselves that, because they call themselves something else, are able to, you know, have themselves declared legally as national or state religions, basically.

00:46:55.000 We need a good legal understanding of what a religion is.

00:46:59.000 The Supreme Court has a... I'll Google it, because they actually have a specific definition.

00:47:06.000 And I believe it includes, like, belief in a deity or something like that.

00:47:09.000 No, it couldn't.

00:47:10.000 It couldn't.

00:47:11.000 Because then Buddhism, I think, is out.

00:47:13.000 Well, yeah, people have argued about that before, like, Buddhism, because it doesn't technically say that there are... I think some interpretations don't.

00:47:19.000 I'm not a Buddhism expert.

00:47:20.000 Yeah, I don't think Buddhists believe in God. 1.00

00:47:23.000 I think it might, does it depend on the Buddhists or do they all just say there is no God?

00:47:26.000 Because I remember learning about it as an atheistic religion, but I think some might believe that there is some kind of God.

00:47:33.000 Yeah, I think Buddhism doesn't necessarily require you to believe or not to believe in a higher power.

00:47:38.000 Yeah, like base Buddhism does not, like the Buddha himself would have said that's incorrect, because it's a life path essentially.

00:47:45.000 It's not, that wouldn't be real Buddhism, I sound so crude in saying that, but no, the point is that- Those are heretic Buddhists? 0.50

00:47:53.000 Essentially, yes.

00:47:54.000 Honoring Buddha and rubbing his belly and things like that are human things that have come up later on.

00:47:59.000 They're not actually part of the original core idea that Buddha Sattva set out when he was on Earth.

00:48:03.000 It was not his thing.

00:48:04.000 But they would say they're all human things though, right, if they don't believe in a god?

00:48:09.000 Well, they believe in enlightenment.

00:48:11.000 They do believe in a state of being beyond that, which would be akin to, like, heaven.

00:48:16.000 But again, like, rubbing the belly and all that stuff like that are human idols that have been created in time beyond that.

00:48:22.000 I don't see anything that specifies the definition.

00:48:25.000 It brought me to the... It was auto-correcting to scouts, as in the Boy Scouts at first.

00:48:31.000 So I'm still looking at it.

00:48:33.000 I don't see anything, though.

00:48:34.000 So what do you think when you see stuff like this?

00:48:36.000 I think it should be classified as a religion.

00:48:39.000 I mean, it might as well be.

00:48:40.000 I don't know.

00:48:42.000 It's really creepy to see them worshipping.

00:48:45.000 I mean, what is it that they're worshipping?

00:48:47.000 Themselves.

00:48:48.000 There's nothing else there.

00:48:49.000 There's no ethos.

00:48:51.000 There's no moral structure.

00:48:52.000 There's no plan.

00:48:53.000 It's literally just, will you repeat the words I say?

00:48:53.000 There's no path.

00:48:56.000 Yes or no?

00:48:58.000 Mm-hmm.

00:48:59.000 Yeah, well, and I think some element of it is also a humiliation ritual, because, all right, so let's say we just take their words.

00:49:07.000 I don't remember every single thing they said, but one thing is, I will, like, love my black neighbors just as much as my white neighbors.

00:49:16.000 Now, there's, like, Someone stands you up at the front of the room and they're like, I need you to say in front of me that, like, you're not going to go, you know, hurt innocent people.

00:49:25.000 Okay, well, the fact that you're being asked that is an indictment of you.

00:49:28.000 And the fact that you would take that question seriously suggests that you do need to answer that question because we can't really be sure about you.

00:49:37.000 So, there's a strong element of a humiliation ritual to this, which, if you're trying to abuse people, which is effectively what happens with bad religions and ideologies, is you're just kind of abusing your congregation, well, you want to see them prove that they're willing to humiliate themselves for you.

00:49:52.000 They're willing to put up with any kind of treatment.

00:49:55.000 James Lindsay makes a compelling argument that it's Gnosticism, and it boils down to the existing religions that people are familiar with, like your Abrahamic religions, those are actually the devil, and that there is a god behind them that's hidden from everybody, and that god is actually imprisoned in reality.

00:50:18.000 So the gods that we know of as Abrahamic religion gods, They have imprisoned the real God in reality and the God is in everyone.

00:50:29.000 So you hear people say there's a lot of times where people will make remarks that they don't realize are actually like a cult or Gnostic.

00:50:36.000 But when people say God's in everybody.

00:50:38.000 I don't think there's anything that's Catholic that says that God is actually in everyone, but the Gnostic religion kind of, and this is not all Gnostic.

00:50:48.000 Like the Gnostic heresy almost. 0.54

00:50:51.000 Yeah, it's called the heresy.

00:50:52.000 heresy. So it's like it's as if God is in everybody and the ideal is to have

00:51:01.000 everybody realize that they are God and then once everyone realizes that they

00:51:07.000 are God that's the beginning of history or the end of history

00:51:11.000 depending on the way that you you are describing it.

00:51:15.000 But yeah, it's people believing that they are God, and they want to transcend their bodies to become one with God or whatever, and that's part of why the trans community, transhumanism, Kind of mixes into it too because they believe that their bodies are prisons and if you talk to people on the left a lot of times when they're describing the way that they have their their their Outlook on life is they look at the world being unfair and their bodies a prison and they're not really free and you hear that through the left when it comes to like oh if you have to go to work then you're not really free that's

00:51:50.000 articulating that they believe that their own body and maintaining their own body is actually imprisoning them and they can't be their true selves because they have to go to work and these are these are themes that you hear the left talk and I'm talking about the far left but these are things that you hear the left talking about frequently and it lines up with the idea that it's it's a Gnostic ideology or Gnostic heresy.

00:52:13.000 Yeah, I mean, there's a couple things there, and of course we believe as Christians that every human has God's image and likeness on them.

00:52:21.000 Yeah, but that's not saying you're God.

00:52:23.000 Exactly, exactly.

00:52:25.000 That's basically what the devil says, I am God.

00:52:27.000 That was his claim.

00:52:28.000 Now, I also think that you touched on a very important point, which is that in Gnosticism there's this kind of idea that, like, the flesh itself is evil and that you can transcend it in the sense that your mind can be something other than what your body is and it's superior, and the internal state of someone who says they're a woman when they're clearly a man must be honored above the actual physical reality, because not only do the two not conform, But the quote-unquote spiritual reality is higher.

00:52:53.000 Gnosticism is a little bit difficult to pin down just because it's similar to the New Age movement in the sense that there's different kinds of varieties, but generally, yeah, I think you're right, that there's this heavy element of Gnostic spiritualism to all of it.

00:53:07.000 Yeah, this like Gnosis, this case of Gnosis of like, You're only your knowledge and only your truth is the truth that matters not objective truth.

00:53:15.000 There is no objective reality Yeah, and I think that's where I see it as well That's why I think is it's Gnostic in that sense and one of the things that I that I have heard people heard again Lindsay was talking about this is that A lot of the Gnostic cults that have existed in history actually kind of like mask themselves onto existing religions.

00:53:36.000 So they'll say to Christians or whatever, they'll say, well, you know, you're getting this information from your priest or whatever, but I know this other part that is actually your religion, but it's a secret part.

00:53:51.000 And that's where the gnosis comes from.

00:53:52.000 They know the secret.

00:53:55.000 Exactly, the esoteric knowledge, the secret, hidden religion, and it's actually your religion, but your whole religion, not the piece that's only been hit, because you've only been given a little piece, because the people that are in power want to stay in power, so they only give you a little bit.

00:54:11.000 I have the gnosis, I have the knowledge to give to you, and it's done a whole, throughout history, Gnostic Gnostics have used that type of argument to infiltrate religions that exist and kind of, you know, turn them into a symbiotic religion.

00:54:27.000 No, not a symbiote, like a parasite, I guess.

00:54:29.000 Well, they'll do the same thing.

00:54:30.000 I have the real science.

00:54:31.000 Science actually says biological sex doesn't exist. 1.00

00:54:34.000 I can make that claim.

00:54:35.000 Let's jump to the story from ABC News.

00:54:37.000 Kansas must stop changing trans people's sex listing on driver's licenses, judge says.

00:54:43.000 A state court judge has ordered Kansas to stop allowing trans people to change the listing for sex on their driver's license.

00:54:49.000 This one caused a lot of contentious issues there on the internet, as many people on the left are saying it's far-right fascism, etc, etc.

00:54:56.000 But my question with this story is actually quite simple, the reason why I wanted to bring it up in this conversation.

00:55:02.000 If the left continually says sex and gender are different, Why would a trans person ever change their sex on a birth certificate or driver's license when they are not in fact changing their sex?

00:55:12.000 They are just trying to affirm or confirm their gender, which is a social construct. 0.64

00:55:18.000 Yeah, well right, this is how it started.

00:55:20.000 They created this nonsensical distinction between sex and gender.

00:55:25.000 Gender is a term that was only used to describe language.

00:55:29.000 So they took something that only referred to inanimate objects, or I shouldn't even call it an object, but an artifact of language, and they applied it to humans, which already has dehumanizing connotations to it.

00:55:38.000 Hold on, they didn't do that.

00:55:41.000 We did it because words naturally acquired meaning.

00:55:45.000 Hold on.

00:55:45.000 No, no, no.

00:55:46.000 John Money coined the term gender identity.

00:55:47.000 Absolutely.

00:55:48.000 And then on government documents, it'll ask you your gender, not your sex.

00:55:52.000 Yes.

00:55:52.000 So it's not referring to the male or female nature of a word.

00:55:58.000 It eventually came to mean biological sex.

00:56:00.000 So what happened was, because people were uncomfortable saying sex and wanted a euphemism, they would just say gender instead.

00:56:00.000 Exactly.

00:56:05.000 So in some instances, it was used interchangeably.

00:56:08.000 And then sometimes it was used to say, well, your sex and gender identity are two different things, because your sex is the biological reality and your gender is the expression.

00:56:14.000 And they said that for a very long time to get people to accept transgenderism, but now, hmm, they've pushed the two back together. 0.84

00:56:19.000 And what do they say?

00:56:21.000 Oh, actually, your gender is also your biological sex, because if you say this is what you are, we have to also say that that's what your biological sex is.

00:56:28.000 So the issue here is there is a reason why we ask for the sex of the individual, typically for medical reasons.

00:56:35.000 I mean, that's basically it.

00:56:37.000 We can see the picture of your face on the card.

00:56:39.000 If we want to know it's you, we'll look at the picture on your face.

00:56:42.000 The reason sex is listed is literally in case someone needs to identify your biology and they can't tell.

00:56:50.000 Some people are naturally feminine looking and some women are naturally masculine looking.

00:56:54.000 There are instances where people are androgynous.

00:56:57.000 And so, let's say you have a heart attack and you collapse.

00:56:59.000 Medical person's gonna come in. 0.55

00:57:00.000 Do they have an ID on them?

00:57:01.000 They're gonna look at your ID and be like, okay, they're female. 1.00

00:57:03.000 Okay, we know.

00:57:05.000 A bit about their body, it's gonna be different from a male body. 0.99

00:57:08.000 Changing it does nothing to inform anyone of anything.

00:57:11.000 Quite the opposite, actually.

00:57:13.000 So if the real issue is they want to affirm their gender, and they believe gender and sex are different things, to the point where there are non-binary people simply because they don't want to wear a suit or a dress, then why would you ever change sex on a government document?

00:57:28.000 Yeah, well, because you constantly need the constructions of your own mind to be validated, and you constantly need a grievance, so you're just going to keep pushing it down the line, saying, like, well, you've accepted my gender identity, but you don't accept my sex.

00:57:39.000 I mean, it's all nonsense, but you're absolutely right.

00:57:42.000 You need to know a person's sex medically, especially if they're unconscious and they can't communicate it to you like you described.

00:57:48.000 Different medicines might be able to be used in a specific situation, but not another one, like, depending on your sex.

00:57:53.000 It's also true of dosages of medicines.

00:57:56.000 Well, so this is one of the principal edifiers of it being a cult.

00:58:01.000 The left adheres to things that make no sense for no reason other than you must.

00:58:06.000 That's it.

00:58:07.000 The larger group agrees on a concept, and you must fall in line with whatever the majority of that cult believes and does, even if it serves no purpose or makes no sense.

00:58:16.000 If you disagree, in fact, this is actually probably the principal component of the cult.

00:58:21.000 The ultimate test.

00:58:23.000 Will you agree to something that is not true?

00:58:25.000 Yes or no?

00:58:26.000 And so as you can see, many of these people will come out and say, gender and sex are different.

00:58:32.000 And you'll say, okay.

00:58:33.000 And they'll say, also, a person can change their sex.

00:58:36.000 And you're like, whoa, hold on, hold on, hold on.

00:58:39.000 If a person is gender-fluid, their gender can change.

00:58:44.000 And if a person wants to get gender confirmation surgery, they are confirming their gender, not their sex.

00:58:50.000 You're now conflating sex and gender as a single thing, while simultaneously arguing.

00:58:55.000 Oh, you've challenged us.

00:58:57.000 Exposing yourself.

00:58:59.000 I think to a great degree the point of holding contradictory claims is so that people who aren't falling in line with the cult expose themselves.

00:59:08.000 Exactly.

00:59:09.000 What do you feel about this?

00:59:10.000 Do you think this is a horrible bigoted thing? 1.00

00:59:12.000 I think it's ridiculous.

00:59:13.000 I mean, it's all about their affirmation, you know, and they need to, you know, everyone needs to confirm what they are, but it's definitely two different things.

00:59:22.000 And medically, I mean, it's important to know when somebody arrives in the emergency room and there's, you know, a problem, there's different you know, ways to go about approaching the patient. So yeah,

00:59:32.000 I mean, I think there are medications. Yeah, or even like CPR, I think is a

00:59:36.000 little bit different.

00:59:37.000 Or, you know, there's all kinds of different things. But this is just it's, it's right.

00:59:40.000 You're right. It's a cult. And it's either you, you know, go in lockstep with what they say,

00:59:44.000 or you're bummed out, which is why I think the lady you had on earlier, 1.00

00:59:48.000 that's great that she finally, you know, But it only took one thing.

00:59:52.000 It only took one thing for her to go against, and then that was it.

00:59:54.000 Well, apparently it's been a couple years.

00:59:56.000 Oh, I see.

00:59:56.000 And she's finally like, okay, I can't do this anymore.

00:59:58.000 Right.

00:59:58.000 I wonder how far off we are from them just removing the sex category from a driver's license and having you put your pronouns there, and that's it.

01:00:05.000 That's all we need to know.

01:00:07.000 Pronouns are also another thing.

01:00:09.000 It's all meant to identify you as a part of the cult.

01:00:12.000 That's really it.

01:00:14.000 I think it also adds to that element of there being a humiliation requirement or humiliation ritual.

01:00:21.000 I mean, before this ideology infested everything, the idea that you would ask someone whether you should call them he or she would be, and should be, considered incredibly insulting.

01:00:33.000 What are you talking about?

01:00:35.000 You can't tell?

01:00:37.000 I would welcome anybody.

01:00:39.000 There's a meme going around where it's like, I tried the Lizzo test, That's what they called it.

01:00:46.000 Oh no!

01:00:47.000 And my aunt started crying.

01:00:49.000 They basically said, he said he went up to his aunt and said, in a polite way, you look like a trans woman.

01:00:55.000 And he said his aunt started crying.

01:00:56.000 That's mean.

01:00:57.000 And he was like, but she was very liberal and very pro-trans and was arguing and saying all this stuff. 0.98

01:01:02.000 And then he said something like, well, you know, you look like a trans woman.

01:01:05.000 And then she got really angry and started crying.

01:01:08.000 And his point was like, why are you crying?

01:01:10.000 If you like and respect trans women and you think they're good and beautiful, why would you cry if someone called you that?

01:01:16.000 Because they're lying. 0.99

01:01:19.000 They're in a cult.

01:01:20.000 She knew he wasn't calling her brave.

01:01:22.000 Right.

01:01:22.000 Yeah.

01:01:24.000 It's not what that implies.

01:01:26.000 Yep.

01:01:27.000 So I'm kind of thinking about this, like, in the future, I'm not going to ask someone where they are politically.

01:01:31.000 I'm going to say, are you in the cult or not in the cult?

01:01:34.000 And then just see what they say.

01:01:35.000 Because I've had, like, liberal family members be like, you're saying that I'm in a cult because I disagree with you?

01:01:40.000 And I'm like, no, I'm saying you're in a cult because you believe things that are contradictory and you're too afraid to say anything against the contradictions because people will attack you and you fear that.

01:01:49.000 Yeah, see, other people will be like, that quite doesn't make sense, whether or not they get attacked.

01:01:54.000 One is free, knowing freedom is dangerous, and the others are scared into saying things that don't make sense and contradict themselves, like 2 plus 2 equals 5, out of fear of what might happen to them socially.

01:02:04.000 One's a cult, one's not.

01:02:05.000 Yeah.

01:02:06.000 No, exactly.

01:02:06.000 I mean, all of us disagree on certain things.

01:02:09.000 I don't think we've ever really, like, accused each other of being cult members on the basis of those disagreements. 0.89

01:02:13.000 So the idea that we're just gonna claim anyone who's outside of our values as a cult member is ridiculous.

01:02:19.000 It's not about that.

01:02:20.000 Like, this is a particularly strange set of values that have incredibly strict standards.

01:02:26.000 It's not even a set of values, dude.

01:02:28.000 Well, values is a term that can just refer to what somebody literally values, and the things they value are very bizarre.

01:02:35.000 When we had a particular leftist on this show, we were talking about these books, these shockingly gratuitous books in schools, and she goes, so you're in favor of abstinence-only sex ed?

01:02:46.000 And I was like, no.

01:02:46.000 And she was, oh.

01:02:48.000 I'm like, because you're in a cult, right?

01:02:50.000 You can't comprehend Contradictions.

01:02:55.000 It's all just... anything the left says must be true no matter what, and anyone who disagrees must be the other.

01:03:00.000 With me or against me.

01:03:01.000 That's it.

01:03:02.000 But look at who you... I mean, it is worth taking into consideration who you are dealing with.

01:03:07.000 And the point of them being... But that's most of these people!

01:03:09.000 Well, they're not... look...

01:03:11.000 There are intelligent political commentators.

01:03:14.000 Hey, surprise, surprise, they tend to fall in a similar set of beliefs.

01:03:19.000 We can talk about Destiny, a liberal guy, but he has no issue coming here and having a discussion because he actually believes things and is having a real conversation about them.

01:03:28.000 Then you have cult members who will say literally anything so long as it fits the cult narrative.

01:03:33.000 It's not about politics.

01:03:34.000 Yeah.

01:03:35.000 Like, Destiny would look at the information, he'd change his opinion.

01:03:38.000 He's not going to, like, totally be disingenuous.

01:03:40.000 He'll look at something, see facts and see numbers and be like, oh, okay, you were right about that.

01:03:44.000 Whereas many other people would look at the numbers or just completely look beyond them.

01:03:47.000 So when you mention the people we're talking to...

01:03:51.000 There's a reason why when we have Destiny on and have this conversation, it's not generating millions of clips and millions of views.

01:03:58.000 And when we have a cult member on it, it does.

01:04:00.000 Yeah.

01:04:00.000 Because Destiny's not a cult member.

01:04:02.000 Exactly.

01:04:03.000 And so people are not... He may as well be considered right-wing at this point.

01:04:07.000 Well, I'm waiting for it.

01:04:09.000 No, your political positions do not determine whether or not you are left or right anymore.

01:04:14.000 I mean, as long as you anger that group to some extent, they're going to label you far-right.

01:04:19.000 Not just right-wing, but like far-right and fascist.

01:04:21.000 If you say that Joe Biden, there is evidence that he engaged in corrupt activities, insert whichever one, you are now conservative.

01:04:29.000 If you make a movie criticizing child trafficking, they call it a conservative movie.

01:04:34.000 Yes.

01:04:34.000 They call it faith-based, religious.

01:04:37.000 Sound of Freedom was just a movie!

01:04:38.000 They call it a QAnon fodder, and it's pro-QAnon. 0.77

01:04:43.000 What else do they say about it?

01:04:44.000 That it's for dads with brain worms or something?

01:04:46.000 I think that was the Rolling Stone review that was published.

01:04:49.000 I wonder why people connected to Hollywood are so concerned about a movie that sheds awareness on child trafficking becoming popular.

01:04:55.000 This is the point.

01:04:56.000 There's nothing political in the movie.

01:04:59.000 Nothing!

01:04:59.000 It's a law enforcement agent tracking down criminals and saving kids.

01:05:03.000 But you know what else?

01:05:04.000 And here's the thing, you're correct that that's not political, but to them it is.

01:05:08.000 Not only for some of the more nefarious reasons we could point to, but just portraying law enforcement in a positive light is already a massive issue for them.

01:05:17.000 It does speak to the fact that the left does politicize everything.

01:05:22.000 And there are going to be people that, or there would be people that would push back on that and say, well, Phil, you know, the right does it too, or, or whatever.

01:05:29.000 But if you look at the philosophy of the, of the left and the thinkers on the left, the idea of the personal is political came from the left.

01:05:38.000 Like that, that's what the, the early feminists were saying. 1.00

01:05:41.000 I think it was the feminists that first started saying the personal is political. 0.87

01:05:45.000 And it's something that expands to, to other, uh, Types of leftism or other genres of leftist leftism or whether the the LGBT issues that we see right now are because they demand Sexuality to be a political topic.

01:06:01.000 It doesn't have to be it could be simply look you don't teach children You know sex ed possibly at all because you know human beings have figured it out for A couple hundred thousand years that human beings have been human before we had, you know, government schools.

01:06:19.000 So it's not like it's necessary to ensure the survival of the population for the government to explain how sex works. 0.97

01:06:28.000 That's not necessary at all.

01:06:30.000 But the reason to have these things in school is because they can be made political.

01:06:35.000 If you can Cast something in a political light and make young people start asking political questions when they're, you know, 10, 11, 12.

01:06:46.000 Then you can make activists out of them.

01:06:48.000 And that's the goal.

01:06:49.000 The intent is to make activists out of kids.

01:06:52.000 So whether it be LGBT issues or whatever the dynamic is, whether it be race issues or whatever, Any time you can get young people activated politically, you're going to get a portion of them that are going to become committed political actors, and they're going to become the activists of the next generation and stuff.

01:07:16.000 The point is to politicize as much as possible from the left with leftist talking points or with leftist perspectives.

01:07:23.000 That's why you have your average mom and dad that are like, hold on, we don't want our kids to learn this stuff.

01:07:30.000 And the government's, you know, sending the FBI after.

01:07:34.000 You know?

01:07:34.000 Because that's literally what happens.

01:07:36.000 I've made up one thing.

01:07:38.000 All of that stuff is factual things that have happened.

01:07:41.000 So again, I'll get pushback from some of the people that are friends of mine that are left-leaning.

01:07:46.000 And it's like, look, I'm not making any of this up.

01:07:48.000 This is just talking about things that are happening and have happened.

01:07:52.000 So the idea that the person was political is something that lives on the left.

01:07:58.000 Yeah, no, I mean, I would agree with a lot of that.

01:08:00.000 I would say that, and I don't think you would actually disagree, that there are some, and probably many, massive goals with showing this stuff to kids that go beyond just a mere political statement.

01:08:08.000 Yes, yes.

01:08:09.000 Those are opportunists, I think.

01:08:10.000 I think it's a mixture.

01:08:12.000 I think they're opportunists, but I think there actually are people who want to uphold, like, a kind of systemic grooming.

01:08:17.000 And I'll also add here that the reason we have Sex ed of any form.

01:08:22.000 Firstly, I don't think it's going to shock anyone to hear me say I think this is something that parents should be doing and not schools.

01:08:28.000 But the whole reason we have these programs is to tell people what not to do.

01:08:33.000 People are going to figure out what they can do with their bodies, alright?

01:08:36.000 You have to tell them what they're not supposed to do.

01:08:38.000 So to show them a bunch of perverted stuff that they hadn't considered is not sex ed.

01:08:43.000 That is grooming.

01:08:44.000 The purpose of sex ed is boundaries.

01:08:47.000 Don't do this thing.

01:08:48.000 Don't do this till you're married.

01:08:50.000 Even like the more comprehensive programs, by the way, which I don't agree with that terminology, I don't agree with teaching kids about birth control, but even they'll say, don't do this without birth control.

01:08:58.000 Like the whole point is supposed to be about saying, don't do this.

01:09:02.000 Phil brought up the FBI.

01:09:04.000 I wanted to jump to this story from the post-millennial.

01:09:06.000 Take a look.

01:09:06.000 FBI facilitated censorship requests on behalf of Ukrainian intelligence agency compromised by Kremlin.

01:09:13.000 Wow, that's a mouthful.

01:09:15.000 Okay, so let's slow this down.

01:09:16.000 So the Ukrainian intelligence agency is going to the FBI and being like, we want these ideas censored.

01:09:20.000 And they're like, you got it, boss.

01:09:21.000 Meanwhile, it was actually the Russians facilitating it. 0.79

01:09:24.000 How incredible is this?

01:09:26.000 A new report released by the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has revealed that the FBI, under Joe Biden, facilitated censorship requests to American social media companies on behalf of a Ukrainian intelligence agency infiltrated by Russian-aligned actors.

01:09:44.000 Okay, let me wrap my head around this. 0.99

01:09:46.000 Does that mean the people who are doing the censorship are actually Russian useful idiots? 1.00

01:09:53.000 I have no idea. 0.99

01:09:55.000 No, no, so this story is Russians, pretending to be Ukrainians, got the FBI to censor people.

01:10:02.000 So that means the people being censored were being censored at the request of Russians. 0.98

01:10:07.000 Joe Biden His administration inadvertently colluded with the Russians to silence Americans. 0.51

01:10:14.000 Yeah, Joe Biden's a Russian puppet, and I think I can say that with full sincerity. 0.99

01:10:17.000 Maybe since the 80s.

01:10:18.000 Because, well, here's the thing.

01:10:19.000 So maybe a Soviet puppet?

01:10:20.000 People accuse Donald Trump of having been a Russian puppet.

01:10:23.000 I don't believe that's true, but if he wanted to choose to be a Russian puppet, he could have been. 0.99

01:10:27.000 The thing about Joe Biden is he's in a very precarious position because it's very easy to become a puppet when you don't have a brain.

01:10:35.000 And anyone who sends him any information That is vetted by the people around him who supposedly care about him, who I also don't think are necessarily the brightest minds this country has to offer, can get him to say and do things that are very much not in line with the interests of this country.

01:10:49.000 So yeah, Joe Biden censoring people on the behest of a foreign power because there was misinformation spread by that foreign power that eventually reached him is not exactly a shocking thing.

01:10:57.000 But I just want to point out, once again, the Democrats were the ones doing what they were accusing the Republicans of doing.

01:11:04.000 It's projection.

01:11:05.000 As usual.

01:11:06.000 Beyond projection.

01:11:07.000 Also, uh, smash the FBI into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds?

01:11:13.000 Just saying.

01:11:15.000 Just an idea.

01:11:15.000 Yeah, that sounds about right.

01:11:17.000 Yeah?

01:11:17.000 Sounds good to me.

01:11:18.000 I guess the larger question is, what do we do to solve a problem like this?

01:11:22.000 What do you think?

01:11:23.000 I have no idea.

01:11:24.000 Come on, it needs to be you.

01:11:25.000 You have to figure this out for us.

01:11:27.000 Right now.

01:11:27.000 Pressure.

01:11:28.000 Pressure's on.

01:11:29.000 Yeah, I have no idea, but I mean, you're right.

01:11:30.000 I mean, he's a puppet anyway.

01:11:32.000 You know, you could get him to do just about anything, but that's interesting that they've got it framed like that.

01:11:37.000 The FBI was working on behalf of the Russians? 0.80

01:11:39.000 Right.

01:11:40.000 Wow!

01:11:40.000 Insane!

01:11:41.000 That's amazing.

01:11:42.000 Yeah, isn't it?

01:11:43.000 Maybe the real goal is to deflect the U.S.

01:11:46.000 away from what China is doing.

01:11:49.000 The Russians aren't working with China.

01:11:51.000 The Russians want us preoccupied. 1.00

01:11:53.000 Maybe everything they're doing is a distraction so that China can move on Taiwan, which is substantially more important strategically than Ukraine is to Russia.

01:12:01.000 Before all those new chip fabs can be built in the desert.

01:12:04.000 Yeah.

01:12:05.000 And then think about this.

01:12:06.000 The people who get censored on social media tend to be right-wing and tend to oppose the war in Ukraine.

01:12:11.000 That's a good point.

01:12:12.000 Why would Russia want these particular individuals censored?

01:12:16.000 Unless they were targeting the left or liberals or something like that.

01:12:20.000 It'd be interesting to see what those censorship requests were, what was censored at the behest of, I guess, now Russian moles in Ukrainian intelligence, which is such a crazy statement to make.

01:12:30.000 This is amazing.

01:12:31.000 The SBU, this is Russian intelligence, sent the FBI lists of thousands of social media accounts accused of spreading Russian disinformation, which the U.S.

01:12:40.000 agency then distributed to social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. 0.91

01:12:44.000 Holy crap.

01:12:45.000 Wow. 0.99

01:12:46.000 Compromised by Russia. 0.93

01:12:48.000 Who could have seen that coming?

01:12:50.000 not on the bingo card. Yeah, we've honestly developed a very strange view of Russia over

01:12:55.000 the past five or six years. You guys remember about 10 years ago when Mitt Romney said that

01:13:00.000 Russia was going to become a massive geopolitical threat and everyone laughed at him? And to be

01:13:03.000 fair, rightly so. Mitt Romney is to be laughed at. But this was something that even the left

01:13:08.000 thought was ridiculous at that time.

01:13:10.000 And then as soon as it became politically advantageous to them to start blaming Russia for everything, they did.

01:13:16.000 And they haven't stopped.

01:13:17.000 They have not stopped.

01:13:19.000 And now we have the Biden administration, I guess, maybe changing their tune on that, of course, inadvertently, it seems.

01:13:28.000 Joe Biden.

01:13:30.000 Joe Biden.

01:13:33.000 I've been saying that unironically for a while, but the more and more that you talk about it potentially being China and Russia essentially playing blocker for it, that's what I kind of think is happening.

01:13:41.000 It's unfortunate, but that's what I think is happening.

01:13:42.000 We talked about World War III.

01:13:44.000 I guess the question is, is all of this a distraction, or what will lead up to, say, the invasion of Taiwan, which is really going to kick things off?

01:13:52.000 I, there's part of me that's that thinks that regardless of what happens, uh, what the Chinese do in, in relation to Taiwan, the U S can't really do anything about it.

01:14:02.000 I, as far, I mean, this is, you know, this is an un, uh, an expert opinion.

01:14:07.000 Cause I'm not, I'm not a, uh, geopolitical, uh, expert or anything, but I just don't see the United States, you know, having the, the wherewithal to actually go to, you know, have any kind of combat in the South China Sea over Taiwan.

01:14:26.000 If I understand correctly, we don't have the munitions, the US military power is down 25% I think is the recruitment goal that they were down last year that they missed it by.

01:14:40.000 Overall, I don't know exactly which branch had what the deficit was for each branch, but They're not making recruitment goals.

01:14:48.000 They're sending all of the bombs and stuff that we have over to Ukraine and our stores of munitions have run low, if I understand correctly.

01:14:57.000 But that's also just good for a lot of like the military industrial complex.

01:14:59.000 They want to make new ones.

01:15:00.000 Yeah, but what I'm saying is I don't see how, that's true and I agree with you, but I don't see how the U.S.

01:15:05.000 is in a position to actually engage in any kind of defense of Taiwan, especially if we're What amounts to a two front war, at least logistically, like we don't have, you know, people on the front lines in Ukraine, but we're, you know, sending munitions to Ukraine, as if we're engaged in it.

01:15:24.000 So a two front logistical war, I don't see the US being able to handle that.

01:15:28.000 Well, I mean, I can't speak too much to, like, the tactics or what we have with respect to, you know, munitions or anything like that, but what I'm curious about is how the United States would be able to get enough people to sign up to fight in any of these wars.

01:15:46.000 I think a lot of the people who are supporting the Russia-Ukraine war are not people who are going to enlist for combat roles in the U.S.

01:15:53.000 military.

01:15:54.000 I think that if China were to invade Taiwan, there's probably more people who would be willing to enlist to fight that war, but I can't imagine enough people for that to be a possible reality who would be willing to sign up.

01:16:07.000 So the question is, what does the government do?

01:16:09.000 I mean, how does the government get people to enlist if this happens?

01:16:12.000 The moment There becomes a true existential threat to the United States.

01:16:16.000 All of these leftists are going to start screaming, good, America is bad and it shouldn't exist anyway.

01:16:22.000 Yeah, they're not going to fight anything.

01:16:22.000 Think so?

01:16:23.000 They're going to be like, yay!

01:16:25.000 Or run.

01:16:26.000 Or what they'll do is they'll demand that other people fight it for them.

01:16:30.000 This is something kind of remarkable too, when you look at how much we've stratified as a nation, how much we've broken apart, how little people see themselves as part of a common project anymore.

01:16:40.000 When you look at what happened on 9-11, New York City was attacked and a bunch of guys from the South signed up to fight a war because of it.

01:16:52.000 Do you think that Southerners would enlist to fight a war if New York got attacked today?

01:16:59.000 I think fewer of them probably would.

01:17:01.000 I think we don't see ourselves- because at that time it was understood that was an attack on our nation.

01:17:06.000 I think today, we don't really see ourselves as a unified whole.

01:17:11.000 And I think if one part of the country got attacked, way fewer people would feel as if it was an attack on our entire country, and they would just see it as an isolated attack on that group of people.

01:17:22.000 I don't think we view ourselves the same way we did in 2001 with respect to national loyalty.

01:17:27.000 I don't think we see ourselves as loyal and also I think whether we would sympathize with them enough to like enlist in some kind of conflict or whether people in other parts of the country would is also going to be highly dependent on who attacks them.

01:17:38.000 I agree with you pre-attack.

01:17:41.000 I think that the temperament of the most people in the U.S.

01:17:46.000 would change post-traumatic attack.

01:17:49.000 I think that your assessment is correct, like the way that the stratification of the population of the U.S.

01:17:56.000 has gone in the past 20 years, I think you're dead on.

01:18:00.000 But I do think that a massive attack that claims a lot of lives or is dramatic would change.

01:18:06.000 Now, I don't think that it would have the same.

01:18:08.000 You don't think there'd be any change at all?

01:18:09.000 Nope.

01:18:09.000 I do.

01:18:10.000 Everybody thought that COVID would unite the country.

01:18:10.000 Yeah.

01:18:12.000 They're like, oh man, this virus.

01:18:13.000 No way.

01:18:15.000 Yeah, well, I think what might end up happening is there would just be competing narratives on which political party was to blame.

01:18:21.000 Even if it was a foreign nation that attacked us, people on the left would say this is because the right wasn't hawkish enough.

01:18:26.000 People on the right would say this is because the left wasn't serious enough about the threat.

01:18:29.000 I think it would become a culture war-ish.

01:18:31.000 I think it would become a left-versus-right.

01:18:32.000 If New York had attacked today, the left would come out and be like, the right wasn't

01:18:32.000 Absolutely.

01:18:36.000 taking Russia seriously and we've been screaming and the right would be like, oh screw you, you 0.99

01:18:40.000 know what you're talking about. 0.99

01:18:41.000 You escalated tensions.

01:18:42.000 Yeah, you are the ones who are causing the fighting in Ukraine. We're trying to tell

01:18:44.000 you to stop. We're not defending you. This is your problem.

01:18:46.000 You clean it up.

01:18:47.000 Yeah, true.

01:18:50.000 I still think, I mean, when it comes to Taiwan, I think the main reason that China wants Taiwan is partly for political gain inside China, to be able to say, like, oh, we've united China, like we meant to for a long time.

01:18:50.000 I don't know.

01:19:01.000 It could be Xi, like all the Chinese presidents for years had their crowning achievement.

01:19:05.000 It could be what he's using to, like, You know, uh, leave the- leave with his good legacy.

01:19:09.000 But they need the chip fabrication.

01:19:11.000 That's the valuable part.

01:19:12.000 And that's so easy to- to tamper with, to destroy.

01:19:15.000 It can be done with- by Taiwanese people inside the country immediately. 0.99

01:19:18.000 I don't- I don't- I know Taiwan- or, uh, Ukraine is important for the warm water port for Russia.

01:19:24.000 I- I don't know.

01:19:25.000 I just- I just- I think Taiwan is- as- as much as I hate to say it, you know, like it- I don't know if people would be willing to go and jump for that war just as much as they would be willing to jump for Ukraine.

01:19:32.000 It'd be the same kind of debt stalemate.

01:19:33.000 People aren't gonna wanna go do it.

01:19:35.000 Yeah, well, I think also when you look at the country in 2001, people were all willing to come together and agree that Al-Qaeda was an enemy, that they were a real existential threat.

01:19:44.000 Obviously, we all believe that that was misapplied in retrospect when you look at the wars we went to.

01:19:49.000 But today, whether you're talking about Russia or you're talking about China, for the most part, the American people have no agreement on who their enemy is, other than to agree that our enemy is one another.

01:20:00.000 That's what the American people Believe today.

01:20:03.000 That's how we see the country.

01:20:04.000 We are each other's enemy.

01:20:06.000 Trump said that the threat is not China, it's within our own country.

01:20:10.000 Yeah.

01:20:11.000 Let's jump to the story from the post-millennial.

01:20:13.000 We'll talk some domestic politics.

01:20:15.000 My friends, we are entering the beginning.

01:20:18.000 Of the presidential cycle.

01:20:21.000 So you did have a bunch of announcements, we've seen rallies, but oh boy, this is where things start to heat up.

01:20:25.000 Especially as we get into the next several months when the primary races are going to get hot because early next year, I believe, is when we're going to see all the primary votes actually happen.

01:20:33.000 So the ads are going to start popping up right now and here's the latest.

01:20:37.000 Trump currently holds a 39% lead among GOP voters nationwide.

01:20:42.000 What I find truly fascinating is the rate at which Vivek Ramaswamy is skyrocketing.

01:20:48.000 They say with Trump at 59%, DeSantis at 17, Vivek Ramaswamy is now at number 3 with 8% and rising.

01:20:57.000 I'm curious what you guys think.

01:20:59.000 I think Trump's got it in the bag.

01:21:01.000 I do think, I want to add to this, in terms of the Democratic race, it is fascinating that there even is one.

01:21:07.000 There should not be.

01:21:08.000 The precedent for this is that Joe Biden as president is just going to run again and there's no primary, but there is a primary.

01:21:14.000 And get this, RFK Jr.

01:21:17.000 is polling higher comparably with the Democrats than DeSantis is with the Republicans.

01:21:22.000 That I find really interesting.

01:21:23.000 It's not a one-for-one correlation.

01:21:26.000 But DeSantis, as probably the leading Republican politician in the country, like Trump's not in office right now, and there's nobody else who got anything close to him, can't get that close to Trump, RFK is at 20% doing better in the polls as a non-politician, presumably because of how bad Joe Biden is doing, which I find fascinating.

01:21:48.000 So how are you feeling?

01:21:49.000 Are you riding with Biden?

01:21:51.000 Oh, yeah.

01:21:52.000 No, but it is interesting, because I feel like there's not that many people that have been, I mean, I don't know when I hear what's I don't even know how to pronounce his name.

01:22:01.000 Ramaswamy? 0.88

01:22:02.000 Yeah, I know.

01:22:03.000 What is what is Trump calling?

01:22:05.000 I don't think he calls him anything.

01:22:06.000 He hasn't got a name yet.

01:22:08.000 Oh, okay.

01:22:09.000 We think it's going to be Rama Swampy.

01:22:12.000 When is Trump going to christen him?

01:22:14.000 But he's not an establishment guy, so I don't know.

01:22:19.000 But I like Vivek, and I think...

01:22:21.000 I'm wondering if Vivek ends up in second place in the GOP primary.

01:22:25.000 Because the dude, if you've seen these viral clips of him, he is hitting it out of the park.

01:22:28.000 Yeah, he's a sweet talker.

01:22:29.000 There's a viral clip where a woman starts yelling about Republicans being evil, and a bunch of people get up and start yelling at her, and he's like, no, no, no, let her come up, let her come up, let her speak, let her speak.

01:22:37.000 And he's like, ma'am, I believe in the First Amendment, please say what you had to say, are you a mom?

01:22:39.000 He's like, thank you for coming, thank you for sharing your thoughts.

01:22:42.000 And the woman's like crying, and then she leaves.

01:22:44.000 Viveka knows how to handle this stuff.

01:22:46.000 Trump knows how to handle the press in his way.

01:22:49.000 Vivek knows how to handle them in a very clean and tactful way.

01:22:53.000 So I'll be really interested in seeing what happens as time goes on, because Vivek is starting to pick up.

01:22:59.000 Yeah, well, one thing I appreciate that's being acknowledged here is that in order for any presidential candidate to really be successful or worthwhile, they have to understand that the media is their enemy and they have to know how to combat them.

01:23:11.000 Well, Donald Trump doesn't seem to get that.

01:23:14.000 He's his enemy?

01:23:15.000 Yeah, he can go on the fake press all day and night, but he keeps giving them interviews and one-on-ones and they secretly record him and then leak it to the government.

01:23:20.000 He gets arrested for it.

01:23:21.000 Come on! 0.61

01:23:22.000 He knows they're there.

01:23:22.000 Well, it's funny.

01:23:24.000 But I think he also engages with this in such a way that if they air footage of him saying something he wishes they hadn't recorded him saying, he can just use it.

01:23:33.000 Exactly.

01:23:33.000 And then he can also call the reporter a mean name or something.

01:23:36.000 It just ends up being way worse optically for the person who released the audio.

01:23:40.000 True, true, fair.

01:23:42.000 I'm really interested to see how Vivek handles this stuff.

01:23:44.000 Because he's not a politician.

01:23:46.000 He's got no record.

01:23:47.000 He has ideas.

01:23:48.000 I like his ideas.

01:23:49.000 I like his attitude.

01:23:50.000 He was talking, I saw one video today where he was talking about how he would end the war in Ukraine.

01:23:55.000 And I'm like, these are bold and direct statements to make.

01:23:57.000 He said he would have like an armistice with Russia where it would divide the country like Korea. 0.91

01:24:03.000 He would then demand, in exchange for these territories, they cease their military alliance with China because of how big a threat them and China have become, especially with the BRICS nations, etc. 0.79

01:24:12.000 And I'm like, typically politicians give wishy-washy answers because they don't want to be overtly direct, and Vivek is just coming out and saying it.

01:24:20.000 Like, I've said this before, I think that Vivek is nothing but a positive addition.

01:24:26.000 I don't think that he has a significant chance of actually being the nominee, but I do think that his position on the debate stage is going to make a lot of people Make commitments and discuss topics that establishment candidates would never touch.

01:24:47.000 And I think that's extremely good.

01:24:49.000 What about VP Ramaswamy?

01:24:52.000 You think that could happen?

01:24:53.000 I think so.

01:24:54.000 DeSantis is impossible at this point.

01:24:56.000 They hate each other too much.

01:24:58.000 I think he's running.

01:24:59.000 I think that's what he's kind of running for is a position.

01:25:02.000 I don't feel like Vivek really thinks he can win.

01:25:04.000 I feel like he's running for it.

01:25:06.000 And he can't admit that.

01:25:07.000 I mean, obviously.

01:25:08.000 Sure.

01:25:09.000 No, no, obviously not.

01:25:10.000 No.

01:25:11.000 But I think that he's running for, you know, a position in cabinet or maybe VP or something like that.

01:25:14.000 But he's running to, you know, raise his star in D.C.

01:25:19.000 And I do think that he's got A good argument, and there's good reasons for him to be running, and so I think it's a positive.

01:25:30.000 I think a Trump RFK, a Trump-Kennedy ticket, hits it out of the park.

01:25:35.000 I think you would see tremendous margins.

01:25:37.000 Yeah, with RFK polling 20% on the Democrat side, if Trump was like, I'm gonna give you guys the guy you wanted, He could theoretically poll, let's just say half of that.

01:25:47.000 Let's say half of the Democrats polled in favor of RFK.

01:25:52.000 That's 10% of Democrat voters voted for Trump.

01:25:54.000 Trump wins, no question.

01:25:56.000 Well, it's interesting, right, because I've mentioned some of my issues with RFK in the past.

01:26:00.000 That said, he has the Kennedy name.

01:26:03.000 He has this unique advantage of having a dynastic name while also being anti-establishment.

01:26:09.000 I like that word.

01:26:10.000 I mean, it is.

01:26:11.000 He's part of this political family.

01:26:13.000 He's a Kennedy.

01:26:14.000 He's not just a total outsider in the sense that the American people have no reason to be familiar with him, but he also is an outsider in the ways that are meaningful to the American people.

01:26:24.000 Yeah, true. 1.00

01:26:25.000 He's got a bunch of dumb tweets. 1.00

01:26:26.000 Don't get me wrong. 0.99

01:26:27.000 I mean, he was like, what did he call the NRA terrorists or something?

01:26:30.000 Yeah, I like sharing that stuff.

01:26:31.000 I'm not bothered by it.

01:26:33.000 Yeah, look, like I said, I disagree with him on a lot.

01:26:37.000 I wouldn't vote for him as a candidate, but that said, he does have this unique advantage.

01:26:41.000 I'll acknowledge that.

01:26:42.000 I don't know, I might vote in the Democrat primaries and for RFK.

01:26:47.000 I like the idea of, I think, an RFK leadership in the Democratic Party.

01:26:52.000 forcefully realigns it in a positive way for this country.

01:26:57.000 I think, again, I would agree with that in a sort of cautious way.

01:27:02.000 Like I said, there's a lot RFK believes in that I think is really bad, but when you look at how awful the Democratic Party is right now, he would absolutely be an improvement.

01:27:10.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:27:11.000 Even if RFK, on a scale of negative to 100, to positive 100, is a negative 10, negative 10's a huge improvement from the current Democrat Party.

01:27:19.000 I totally agree with you.

01:27:20.000 Reluctantly.

01:27:22.000 Yeah, and so, you know, I was talking about Trump in 2020, and I've had these Libertarians be like, but are you really going to vote for the lesser of two evils? 0.90

01:27:30.000 And I'm like, I don't think Trump's evil.

01:27:32.000 I give him a net positive score.

01:27:34.000 I mean, the foreign policy was tremendous.

01:27:35.000 That's because the Libertarians' perspective, like, they're expecting you to see things like a Libertarian.

01:27:41.000 Exactly!

01:27:43.000 It's because it's the archaic view of the two parties.

01:27:46.000 But Trump was an insurgent who came in with a different perspective.

01:27:49.000 Well, also, dude, when people say that to me, it's like, so I should vote for the lesser of three evils and pick your candidate?

01:27:56.000 I don't like the Libertarian either.

01:27:58.000 Yeah.

01:27:59.000 Sometimes I will.

01:28:01.000 I like the Mises Caucus. 0.98

01:28:01.000 I like the Libertarian Party. 0.98

01:28:03.000 Where is their announcement?

01:28:06.000 Come on, guys.

01:28:07.000 What's going on?

01:28:08.000 Who's running?

01:28:10.000 The Democrats and Republicans are in full swing.

01:28:12.000 The Libertarians got to get going.

01:28:14.000 I don't know.

01:28:15.000 I like the Libertarian Party, but come on.

01:28:16.000 I don't know if they're going to have a candidate.

01:28:19.000 Honestly.

01:28:19.000 Why do you think?

01:28:20.000 Because no one's announced.

01:28:21.000 It's supposed to be Dave Smith?

01:28:23.000 There was talk about Dave, but I don't think that Dave's going to do it.

01:28:23.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:28:26.000 This is just a vibe.

01:28:28.000 I have no inside information or anything.

01:28:30.000 But if he was going to announce, I feel like he would have announced already.

01:28:34.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:28:35.000 And it wouldn't be this coy if wishy-washy maybe stuff.

01:28:39.000 It would be like we're in full swing.

01:28:41.000 We'd at the very least be seeing him do more Do more.

01:28:45.000 Yep.

01:28:46.000 Because right before everybody announces, they start ramping things up.

01:28:49.000 You can see the gears in motion, and we're like, oh, it looks like they're going to announce.

01:28:52.000 Like, even Ron DeSantis, they were like, next week it's going to happen.

01:28:54.000 Then rumors circulated, then sources say, and then finally he announced.

01:28:59.000 We've got nothing from the Libertarians so far.

01:29:01.000 But what I was saying about Trump in 2020 is like, you know, look, I'm looking at him, the school choice I'm in favor of.

01:29:09.000 I'm looking at his banning the wokeness in government contracting because it violates the Civil Rights Act, agree with that, and foreign policy. 1.00

01:29:16.000 I thought it was fantastic.

01:29:17.000 And so I'm like, I'm not looking at Trump as the lesser of two evils.

01:29:20.000 I'm looking at him as like a small net positive.

01:29:23.000 No new wars.

01:29:25.000 Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Abraham Accords, massively net positive. 1.00

01:29:30.000 So I'm like, if you were to do the Trump presidential quotient and took all of the different elements of the presidency, there's a lot of different categories where Trump is negative.

01:29:41.000 And there's a lot where he's positive that leads us to, on a scale of minus 100 to 100, Trump might be at a 6.

01:29:48.000 And I'm like, so I'm not here to praise the man and scream he's the greatest guy who ever lived or God Emperor or anything like that.

01:29:52.000 I'm just like, You know, I get enough from it.

01:29:55.000 I don't feel like I'm voting for a net negative.

01:29:57.000 I feel like the foreign policy stuff was good for us.

01:30:00.000 And there are, of course, some negative areas.

01:30:02.000 But overall, we got a great economy.

01:30:05.000 I can't blame the president for COVID.

01:30:06.000 I can criticize him for his policies.

01:30:09.000 Lockdown support in the beginning.

01:30:10.000 I can criticize him for not firing Fauci.

01:30:13.000 But look, I gotta say this.

01:30:14.000 At the time, I didn't know better either.

01:30:16.000 So it's like, those are slightly net negatives, but overall we had three great years, plus they put weights on his legs.

01:30:23.000 That's exactly it.

01:30:24.000 I look at RFK.

01:30:25.000 That's huge.

01:30:26.000 RFK Jr., I see a lot of really great things in terms of calling out the establishment, massive multinational corporations. 0.99

01:30:31.000 He's got, he's had stupid things in the past I disagree with. 0.95

01:30:34.000 I disagree with him on some of his takes as of recent. 1.00

01:30:37.000 Of course, of course.

01:30:38.000 But like I was saying, wherever you view him on the scale of negative to positive, he is a dramatic improvement from the Democratic Party. 0.65

01:30:45.000 So I would be interested in seeing him be the new leader of the Democratic Party.

01:30:49.000 That is to say, I don't know how the rules work, where I currently am at.

01:30:52.000 Some states require you to be a registered member of the party if you're going to vote in the primaries.

01:30:55.000 Some have open primaries.

01:30:56.000 I don't like to inject myself.

01:30:59.000 I don't consider myself a Democrat.

01:31:01.000 I don't want to go to the Democratic Party and vote in a primary.

01:31:03.000 I don't do that in Republican primaries.

01:31:05.000 However, considering how substantial and important it is, I'll consider voting in the primary for RFK.

01:31:12.000 The dramatic improvement over the rest of the Democrats.

01:31:15.000 This guy works out!

01:31:16.000 I mean, wow, talk about body positivity!

01:31:18.000 Well then, I guess the question for you, right, since you're more... You know that makes you a far-right extremist, right?

01:31:23.000 Hey, great, put a far-right extremist in the Democratic Party.

01:31:25.000 Let me ask the far-right Democratic question.

01:31:28.000 Since you are more moderate, then I guess the question is, what matters to you more, a good Democratic candidate or a good Republican candidate?

01:31:34.000 Good Democrat.

01:31:37.000 When we're looking at a Democrat and a Republican on the debate stage, imagine the cultural shift that will happen if on strong cultural issues it's RFK versus Trump and they're like, we agree.

01:31:49.000 Right.

01:31:50.000 And we're talking about... I think there's truth in that.

01:31:52.000 Because a lot of these people on the left will be like, we hate Trump so much, we're going to agree with RFK, and it's going to force more positive cultural elements onto the debate stage.

01:32:02.000 Biden's going to say crackpot crazy stuff to defend leftists and whatever he can get from the media.

01:32:09.000 If they're forced into having RFK on the stage, Let me just say this.

01:32:14.000 You guys ever see that Rogan episode with RFK where he said he was concerned about potentially being assassinated?

01:32:20.000 Yes.

01:32:20.000 I'm not surprised he said that.

01:32:22.000 I'll put it that way.

01:32:23.000 He's a stark opposition.

01:32:25.000 20% in the polls.

01:32:27.000 There's a real opportunity to realign the Democratic Party in a positive way.

01:32:32.000 That doesn't mean you have to vote for RFK for president, to be completely honest.

01:32:36.000 I would probably love to see a Trump-Kennedy ticket, to be completely honest.

01:32:39.000 Yeah, that'd be great.

01:32:41.000 I think that'd be something interesting.

01:32:43.000 I like the anti-establishment bent on it.

01:32:47.000 And whoever is most likely to do significant, or whoever's most likely to do damage to the bureaucracy.

01:32:59.000 Cutting jobs, cutting parts of the bureaucracy.

01:33:02.000 I'm not talking about, like, small changes.

01:33:04.000 I'm talking cut, you know, actual cabinet-level bureaucracy stuff.

01:33:11.000 Just get rid of them. 0.51

01:33:12.000 Anyone that'll do that, I'll vote for.

01:33:15.000 Yeah, you know, I would love to talk with RFK and be like, will you commit to firing all of these bureaucrats and setting term limits for government employees?

01:33:23.000 I think he would.

01:33:24.000 I think so too.

01:33:25.000 Yeah, I do, I do.

01:33:27.000 If anyone in the Dems is going to do it, it'll be him.

01:33:29.000 Yeah.

01:33:30.000 He's the only one.

01:33:31.000 Literally.

01:33:33.000 And everyone else that's run or that is running, they're all going to increase the size of government.

01:33:39.000 You know, I'm not a member of the Libertarian Party, but small government is something that is in my opinion extremely important because it allows for different areas to make their own rules.

01:33:55.000 The intent of the United States is to have a bunch of different experiments in democracy and to have federal level arguments for most of the things that we fight about is completely pointless and unnecessary.

01:34:12.000 So, uh, we're gonna go to Super Chats, and I'm gonna start by reading this one from WeAreChange.

01:34:16.000 It says, Joe Exotic for Libertarian President with McAfee VP, let's go. 0.95

01:34:20.000 Plus, Seamus is a dirty statist.

01:34:23.000 So, the first thing is, the implication here is that McAfee is alive. 0.64

01:34:28.000 And the other question is... He's not.

01:34:30.000 Uh, hey, hey, uh, hey Luke!

01:34:32.000 How you feeling about DeSantis these days, huh?

01:34:34.000 Mr. Luca Cassi comes on the show and goes, I don't like politicians, but man, DeSantis is doing a really great job, he's the best, and I'm really excited about him, and Trump's not good, and Fauci and all that stuff.

01:34:42.000 A genuine question, I wonder what Luke's position is on DeSantis now.

01:34:46.000 Only because what we've seen is, despite the fact that DeSantis has probably the best track record of any Republican politician in the country, he has not done well in the press.

01:34:55.000 His press team has handled things miserably, and unfortunately for DeSantis, what's exacerbating it is his base is incredibly Yeah.

01:35:04.000 angry it's like you i'll tweet something in defense of the senate

01:35:08.000 still start attacking insulting me

01:35:10.000 in fact they're even do it is something in the comments like

01:35:12.000 i said i mean what about the gal day and they're still insulting me bro i will

01:35:16.000 not vote for the guy y'all are not so i think that maybe those people should be

01:35:20.000 attacking insulting lucas that attacking you that's a good point to the point

01:35:24.000 uh... i'm interested to see where i was in the schools I'm not going to blame DeSantis for what his bad press team is doing, but I do think it's fair to criticize DeSantis on who he's hired and their inability to properly manage this.

01:35:37.000 I think his record speaks for itself.

01:35:38.000 If you look at Florida and see how well they've done in terms of what their COVID response was, how they've handled culture war issues, that is something good to vote for.

01:35:46.000 The problem is his press team has been apocalyptic and that reflects poorly on him.

01:35:50.000 But let's read some Super Chats. 0.69

01:35:52.000 And I'm curious to see what Luke's stance on this is.

01:35:55.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:35:56.000 says, Tim, if we're going to have a nuclear World War III, at least we know we can take down a number one business.

01:36:02.000 Our U.S.

01:36:02.000 leaders care not about human lives.

01:36:04.000 May those who lead go down as hard and as fast as Anheuser M. Imbev.

01:36:10.000 F them.

01:36:11.000 Also, smash that like button and become a member at TimCast.com because the members-only show will be coming up in about 25 minutes on the front page of TimCast.com.

01:36:19.000 Here we go.

01:36:20.000 PoliteRudeGuy says, I filed a lawsuit in Texas challenging gay marriage in America. 0.60

01:36:25.000 Here is the case number.

01:36:26.000 I can't read that whole number.

01:36:27.000 The federal government is violating my Texas rights.

01:36:29.000 Interesting, interesting.

01:36:31.000 Actually, you know, I'm going to read this anyway because, uh, Seamus, you want to write this down?

01:36:38.000 Based, yeah.

01:36:40.000 It is SA23CA08510G.

01:36:42.000 I'd be interested into looking that up and seeing what your argument is because that's a tough argument.

01:36:48.000 How something someone else does infringes upon your rights.

01:36:54.000 Interesting.

01:36:54.000 Yeah.

01:36:55.000 I don't know.

01:36:57.000 It depends on what Obergefell, was it Obergefell?

01:37:01.000 Obergefell, yeah.

01:37:02.000 Obergefell.

01:37:03.000 It depends on what that actually is arguing.

01:37:08.000 Because if it's an issue of churches can't discriminate, then the government, you know, it'll be interesting to see what the argument is.

01:37:15.000 Here we go.

01:37:17.000 Joe Spinella says, per Dr. Peter Zeihan, the dollar isn't going anywhere, and how BRICS is being backed by gold isn't the same way our currency once was.

01:37:24.000 BRICS will still go through using the dollar.

01:37:27.000 Interesting.

01:37:28.000 Well, we'll see how that goes.

01:37:30.000 Yeah, I've heard that.

01:37:31.000 I've heard that from him before.

01:37:32.000 Yeah.

01:37:33.000 Doss Wood says, if you make the like button a child, I bet the Dems would smash it.

01:37:38.000 That was brutal.

01:37:40.000 Yikes.

01:37:43.000 FreelyAshley says, awesome to see Hayley on.

01:37:45.000 Love her and her work.

01:37:47.000 Thanks, Ashley.

01:37:48.000 Right on.

01:37:49.000 BellyFlop has a question for Ian, who's not here, so you'll just have to answer this one.

01:37:54.000 Go ahead, Phil.

01:37:54.000 Alright.

01:37:55.000 Ian, last night you mentioned getting aggressive.

01:37:57.000 Seemed like you were trying to find the right word.

01:37:59.000 I think that word is intense.

01:38:01.000 You get intense.

01:38:03.000 Yeah, you know, sometimes I will just think about graphene.

01:38:07.000 It gets me so angry!

01:38:09.000 And it'll get me worked up because if other people understood the implications of using graphene and getting carbon out of the air, then, you know, we could really move society along.

01:38:24.000 20.

01:38:24.000 20 right there, Ian.

01:38:27.000 Cheers.

01:38:27.000 WeAreChange says, he did a really good job in Florida during COVID, but horrible foreign policy.

01:38:32.000 So what is that?

01:38:33.000 Is Luke changing his tune?

01:38:34.000 Is that what's going on?

01:38:34.000 Well, he is changed.

01:38:36.000 What else did you expect?

01:38:37.000 Oh.

01:38:39.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:38:39.000 Puke, we are strange in the chat.

01:38:42.000 Insulting me all show. 0.89

01:38:43.000 You stay up all night thinking that one?

01:38:45.000 What can we expect?

01:38:46.000 It took me a while.

01:38:46.000 I had to write some material this last week.

01:38:49.000 No, it just came to me really effortlessly.

01:38:51.000 Because, you know, when Luke's on the show, I'm not spamming the chat the whole time insulting him.

01:38:56.000 I guess I have better things to fill my time.

01:38:58.000 Luke likes to get on the internet and throw some mud.

01:39:00.000 That's right.

01:39:01.000 He does.

01:39:01.000 That's all right.

01:39:02.000 We'll read this.

01:39:03.000 William Tresh says, my law firm has a franchise group working with franchisers nationwide if you're interested for Casper.

01:39:08.000 I do general business law and can help members form entities for their projects.

01:39:12.000 So the challenge we're facing is coffee's up and running.

01:39:15.000 The new, the Keurig cups, the new blends are coming out very soon.

01:39:19.000 It takes several weeks to launch.

01:39:21.000 It took us months to launch in the first place.

01:39:23.000 The building we have Historic building.

01:39:26.000 Requires a lot of work, and it's taking forever, unfortunately.

01:39:29.000 But, uh, we're getting there, and it is what it is.

01:39:32.000 Once we have the first location set up, I think we're instantly gonna go for franchises, because that's the fastest way to rapidly expand.

01:39:38.000 And I got a feeling we can have, like, ten or twelve stores opened up within, like, six months.

01:39:43.000 We can even do, like, investor stuff, where people want to open franchises and have experience.

01:39:47.000 Let's say you were, like, a manager for a couple different coffee chains in your area, And you would rather run your own, we could, you know, we could, I should say this very potentially, we would be interested in, if legal and possible, financing someone opening their own set of chains and things like that.

01:40:05.000 Because my goal with this is, and I'll tell you this right now guys, first thing I tell you in business, never say what I'm about to say to anyone who you might work with.

01:40:16.000 I am not interested in money.

01:40:18.000 You say that and all your investors walk out the door and say it was really great meeting you because no one expects to make any money if you don't want to.

01:40:24.000 But I don't.

01:40:25.000 What I want is a successful business that can survive, that will be able to stay open, that will be able to make enough to pay the bills, pay the employees a good rate, make a little bit on top for a rainy day fund, but function.

01:40:39.000 I want a bunch of businesses that can survive and exist and have a positive impact on culture.

01:40:45.000 They need to make money to do that. 0.94

01:40:47.000 But my priority is not to become a billionaire from a coffee chain.

01:40:50.000 Don't care about that.

01:40:51.000 So when we launch these franchises, I think we're going to have ridiculously favorable terms in terms of revenue.

01:40:57.000 And the only thing I'm concerned about is enough off the top so that we can have a fund to help any one of the franchises should they fall in hard times and we can keep them staying open.

01:41:06.000 It's all a beautiful pipe dream as of right now until we actually get the ball rolling.

01:41:10.000 Perhaps the first thing we should do, we don't even need a location, is start discussing with someone the basic format, style guide, and structure of what a franchise should be, what makes it a franchise, and uh...

01:41:22.000 That's where we're at for now.

01:41:23.000 We're talking with some people about potentially running this.

01:41:27.000 And when that happens, maybe then we'll get the ball rolling.

01:41:33.000 Get the ball rolling.

01:41:35.000 We will grab some more Super Chats.

01:41:37.000 Callan Shaw Indie Game says, just get the Federal Reserve to start printing BRX dollars instead of USD.

01:41:41.000 Checkmate.

01:41:43.000 It's called counterfeiting when you do it to someone else's currency.

01:41:46.000 That's right, but North Korea does it. 0.96

01:41:48.000 Apparently, like, yeah, North Korea has, like, a masterful USD printing thing, so they're just making money anyway. 0.56

01:41:53.000 Maybe they were the ones who did it.

01:41:54.000 Maybe they were the ones who crashed the dollar.

01:41:58.000 George M. says post-World War III currency will be chickens and spoons.

01:42:02.000 Hey sir, can you break a chicken for a dozen spoons?

01:42:04.000 I need exact change.

01:42:06.000 In all seriousness, people need not fear being poor.

01:42:09.000 Richness of character cannot be bought.

01:42:11.000 You know what they say, I don't know what currency will be used in World War III, but for World War IV it's going to be chickens and spoons.

01:42:19.000 Famous quote.

01:42:20.000 You know what's fascinating is today, wineberry season is coming to an end.

01:42:26.000 So, uh, most of the wineberries have begun to rot and fall off.

01:42:29.000 We've harvested a whole bunch.

01:42:30.000 We made wineberry cookies.

01:42:32.000 We made wineberry candy.

01:42:33.000 It's like a chewy candy.

01:42:34.000 Tastes pretty good.

01:42:36.000 You tried it?

01:42:36.000 Yeah.

01:42:37.000 Yeah, it was pretty good.

01:42:37.000 You forced me to.

01:42:38.000 Yeah.

01:42:38.000 You're like, have some.

01:42:39.000 I was like, I don't want it.

01:42:40.000 You're like, have it!

01:42:40.000 Yeah, and then, you know, I was like, raising my fist.

01:42:44.000 Then your spoons went missing.

01:42:45.000 Cookies were really good.

01:42:46.000 We also, today, we made Roberto Junior coffee cookies.

01:42:49.000 We used the Roberto Junior coffee.

01:42:51.000 Those are awesome.

01:42:51.000 And then we, we, uh, I made espresso with it.

01:42:54.000 Oh, wow.

01:42:54.000 And then used it to make cookies.

01:42:55.000 They're really good.

01:42:56.000 They're really good.

01:42:56.000 Yeah, super good.

01:42:57.000 Yeah, we made a crispy and a fluffy one.

01:42:58.000 But, um, the reason I bring this up, I'm riding, I, I, I come up to the studio Before the show, I ride up on my little electric motorcycle and, yo, there are berries everywhere.

01:43:08.000 There's blackberries.

01:43:09.000 We got Allegheny blackberry.

01:43:12.000 We got another one.

01:43:13.000 I forgot what it's called.

01:43:14.000 It's another kind of blackberry.

01:43:15.000 We've got wine berries everywhere.

01:43:16.000 We have... This is the craziest thing.

01:43:19.000 There is a tree with probably 5,000 grapes on it.

01:43:22.000 I can't, I'm not even exaggerating. 0.80

01:43:24.000 It's just you look up and they're not big enough to eat yet, and I'm just like, holy crap.

01:43:28.000 And there's grapes everywhere.

01:43:30.000 I don't know what's up with this property, because the other, Freedomistan, where we're building a bunch of stuff out, ain't no food there at all.

01:43:35.000 But we got pawpaw.

01:43:37.000 Massive pawpaw.

01:43:38.000 There's so much food here, and there's a ridiculous amount of deer and turkey everywhere.

01:43:42.000 There's a ridiculous amount of deer out there.

01:43:45.000 Yeah, like, you'll go outside and there'll be like twelve.

01:43:48.000 Twelve of them!

01:43:49.000 I'm like, dude, worst case scenario, we got too much food.

01:43:53.000 Too much!

01:43:54.000 Too bountiful.

01:43:56.000 Yeah, I'm gonna bring like a bucket and just go grab a whole bunch for myself.

01:43:59.000 Well, I keep telling people to get the wineberries because they're going bad.

01:44:02.000 Yeah, they're about to.

01:44:03.000 Yeah, and so we juiced a whole bunch and we're making wineberry syrup.

01:44:08.000 Nice.

01:44:08.000 We juiced them and then we took the juice, we added a little bit of water to it so you could drink it.

01:44:13.000 It was really good.

01:44:15.000 And right now the blackberries are starting to come in.

01:44:18.000 Then we have green briar, which I'm not super familiar with, but apparently you can eat.

01:44:21.000 Then we have grapes.

01:44:22.000 What?

01:44:23.000 Yeah, it's a vine.

01:44:24.000 And look it up, Greg Greenbrier.

01:44:27.000 Mulberries are staying for a while.

01:44:31.000 My point is this, man.

01:44:32.000 Delicious.

01:44:32.000 We're talking about conflict, crisis, lack of food, going poor, the currency and all that stuff.

01:44:39.000 Bro, if you learn to actually live the way people were supposed to live, and it's funny because we can take the W.E.F., hippie, dippy, corporate stance of like being in tune with nature or whatever.

01:44:50.000 However, whatever you want to call it, I think it's a net positive.

01:44:53.000 If people were living outside of cities and responsible for their own consumption and refuse, at least to a small degree, the world would be a better place for one simple reason.

01:45:04.000 Teaching people responsibility.

01:45:06.000 Yeah, true.

01:45:07.000 That's what's lacking.

01:45:08.000 People live in these cities and they're like, I'm gonna go downstairs and I'm going to have... Check this out.

01:45:13.000 Imagine what it takes to make a modern American dish.

01:45:17.000 It's like, I'm gonna have a chicken.

01:45:20.000 I'm gonna have some kind of like a Thai chicken with peanuts, shrimp, chicken, pineapple, avocado, cilantro, and I'm like, bro, you basically pull a plant from every different part of the world, ship it all to your city, A tremendous amount of resources and then eat like a king.

01:45:38.000 It's true.

01:45:39.000 A gluttonous one.

01:45:41.000 You go to these actual countries where people eat steamed chicken and rice.

01:45:44.000 Very, very basic food.

01:45:45.000 But it's kind of crazy when you think how, you know, I walked into a supermarket in New York in the dead of winter and there's avocados.

01:45:52.000 I'm just like, that's crazy.

01:45:55.000 They grew them in Mexico and drove them all the way up here.

01:45:58.000 But people don't, they're so spoiled by luxury.

01:46:02.000 So I'm just like, one of the best things politically for this country would be if people actually learned to live with nature.

01:46:08.000 Yeah, definitely.

01:46:09.000 Farming, even if 10% of their food came from themselves, they would take things more seriously.

01:46:15.000 Yeah, if you think about apples, apples are frozen for a year.

01:46:18.000 If you see the one on the shelf today, they've been frozen for one year.

01:46:22.000 That's crazy.

01:46:22.000 No, that can't be.

01:46:23.000 Yeah, that's what I've heard.

01:46:24.000 I've heard that apples that are put onto a lot of shelves have been in cryo and freeze for quite some time.

01:46:29.000 I think it's up to a year.

01:46:30.000 Maybe, I mean, but we have apple farms all over the place here.

01:46:32.000 There was one for sale.

01:46:34.000 Super cool, it's an apple farm.

01:46:36.000 Yeah, for sale for like a million dollars.

01:46:38.000 And I was just like, if I could own an apple farm, but I can't.

01:46:41.000 But you can go fruit picking out here, because they have the farms where they let you come and just take it, and you get like a little thing and you grab the apples off.

01:46:48.000 We have apple trees on the property, we have three of them.

01:46:51.000 There's too many.

01:46:52.000 There's too many apples.

01:46:53.000 We got like 30 people who work here.

01:46:55.000 We can't get enough apples to feed everybody.

01:46:57.000 It's insane.

01:46:58.000 Well, for one thing, nobody can eat 12 apples in one day.

01:47:00.000 No, you don't want to.

01:47:02.000 Your evening and next day will be bad.

01:47:07.000 That is very unadvisable.

01:47:08.000 You will eat the apples and you will be happy.

01:47:10.000 You will not be happy.

01:47:11.000 It's a lot of fiber.

01:47:12.000 Don't do it.

01:47:14.000 It is kind of crazy, though, because we got critters up the wazoo.

01:47:18.000 Like, we got bad critters.

01:47:19.000 But, uh, I went to, I went to, um, I think it was Stonewall Jackson's headquarters in Virginia.

01:47:25.000 I think it was Jackson, I'm not sure.

01:47:26.000 And in the kitchen they had a, uh, a smooth-bore musket above the stove.

01:47:32.000 And then I was just like, is that decoration?

01:47:33.000 What's that for?

01:47:33.000 And they're like, nope!

01:47:34.000 It's a critter gun.

01:47:35.000 The chef would open the back door and wait for a critter, shoot it, and then throw it in the stew.

01:47:42.000 Wow.

01:47:42.000 Wild.

01:47:42.000 Yeah.

01:47:43.000 Yeah.

01:47:44.000 Could you imagine, like, in your backyard, I see a groundhog.

01:47:47.000 Bang.

01:47:47.000 There he goes.

01:47:48.000 Dinner's on.

01:47:49.000 Like, we consider it to be, like, hillbilly, you know?

01:47:51.000 Like, you know, Ma!

01:47:53.000 We got dinner!

01:47:54.000 Well, it's weird that we, like, make fun of people for doing normal things the way they were always done.

01:47:58.000 You know what that is?

01:47:58.000 That's literally just rich people being snobby and laughing at people who do things normally.

01:48:02.000 Yeah.

01:48:02.000 Like, oh, his food comes from outside.

01:48:08.000 Yes.

01:48:08.000 From outside.

01:48:10.000 He gets his own food from nature.

01:48:13.000 You had to clean that yourself?

01:48:15.000 My.

01:48:18.000 Tops and Bruce says we need an official TimCast spoon in the merch store.

01:48:21.000 It should have Seamus' face on the end too.

01:48:27.000 Falsely accused Seamus.

01:48:29.000 Falsely accused Seamus.

01:48:30.000 No way.

01:48:30.000 I'm buying it now.

01:48:33.000 You sound insane. 1.00

01:48:34.000 You've started a movement of other crazy people. 1.00

01:48:35.000 That's the real cult.

01:48:36.000 It was really funny because when we were like, yo Seamus, do you have our spoons?

01:48:40.000 He was like, oh yeah, I'll grab them.

01:48:40.000 And it was like, not a big deal.

01:48:42.000 And then Seamus walked upstairs and as he's handing us three or four spoons, he was like, an Irish man lives under my house and he keeps stealing my spoons, but no one believes me! 1.00

01:48:51.000 And then made it a funny joke. 0.94

01:48:52.000 Yeah, I was like, look, no, I told you, you sound insane. 1.00

01:48:55.000 You sound crazy. 0.99

01:48:56.000 No one believes me. 0.98

01:48:58.000 He's trying to make the story sound more rational at this point, but it's still, it's crazy.

01:49:02.000 You're the one that lives under the house.

01:49:04.000 Who says I live under the house?

01:49:05.000 Tim says that.

01:49:06.000 Tim says an Irishman stole his spoons.

01:49:09.000 You're Irish!

01:49:11.000 Ethnically, yeah, but I'm American.

01:49:13.000 See the flag behind me?

01:49:14.000 What are you talking about?

01:49:16.000 Like, I'm ethnically Irish, that's true.

01:49:18.000 Alright, we'll read some more Super Chats. 0.73

01:49:20.000 Sparky says, Tim, from year to year the bug population fluctuates severely, so in many years there won't be enough bugs to feed humanity alone.

01:49:27.000 I won't be surprised, but I will tell you this.

01:49:29.000 One secret technique.

01:49:31.000 You put wood boards down in your chicken coop, and then every day, you pick them up and move them.

01:49:37.000 And you know what happens?

01:49:39.000 There are bugs under them, and the chickens eat all the bugs, and they turn the bugs into eggs.

01:49:44.000 Into eggs, yeah.

01:49:45.000 It's one of their many talents.

01:49:46.000 One of the funniest.

01:49:47.000 Among other things.

01:49:48.000 The funniest things about having chickens is how the hens are ravenous and the roosters are chill.

01:49:53.000 And it's probably because the hens are, like, they're craving food non-stop because their body makes eggs.

01:49:57.000 They're always pregnant. 1.00

01:49:58.000 People that don't have chickens don't realize how many eggs come out of chickens.

01:50:02.000 Like, you get a couple chickens and your fridge is gonna be full of eggs.

01:50:06.000 But so, like, when we do sushi, we take the leftovers, like the raw fish, and we'll just throw it in.

01:50:10.000 And the roosters just watch and then look and they stare at it.

01:50:13.000 And the hens just go nuts, like, like rugby.

01:50:17.000 That's what we call it, rugby.

01:50:18.000 And then, like, one will pick one up, and they all chase after it, and they're smashing into each other.

01:50:21.000 It is crazy. 0.81

01:50:22.000 They're insane.

01:50:23.000 Ravenous little things.

01:50:26.000 We'll grab some more Super Chats.

01:50:28.000 Alex Bean says, Timcast rules!

01:50:30.000 Future Culture War episode guest ideas.

01:50:32.000 Trish from Teacher Therapy, and Joseph Everett from What I've Learned.

01:50:36.000 Keep it up.

01:50:38.000 Yeah, we want to have that Harry guy.

01:50:40.000 Harry Sisson.

01:50:42.000 Come on, Harry!

01:50:43.000 But he won't do it.

01:50:44.000 No, he never will.

01:50:46.000 But it's because... I mean, come on.

01:50:49.000 He's 20 years old.

01:50:50.000 He really doesn't know a whole lot about policy.

01:50:52.000 He doesn't know a whole lot about history or politics.

01:50:54.000 He's just like a stock model.

01:50:58.000 What is his talent agency like?

01:50:59.000 We need someone who's young to convince young people to vote Democrat.

01:51:02.000 You're hired?

01:51:03.000 Pretty much.

01:51:03.000 It seems like it.

01:51:04.000 So it's gonna be sheltered.

01:51:05.000 It's gonna be controlled.

01:51:06.000 There's gonna be no free-form conversation.

01:51:08.000 Of course not.

01:51:09.000 So when we're like, hey, it's a raw two-hour conversation, it's just like, whoa, whoa, I can't do that.

01:51:14.000 Sorry.

01:51:14.000 Yeah, I don't think that'll happen.

01:51:17.000 We will grab some more.

01:51:18.000 Eden.

01:51:20.000 HiDick says, Tim, YouTuber LowEye86 has a video where Chinese domestic press interviewed their army's CBRN warfare chief, literally saying they're producing and will deploy ethnically targeted biological weapons.

01:51:33.000 Wow.

01:51:34.000 Ethnically targeted.

01:51:35.000 That's wild.

01:51:36.000 Can you imagine that? 0.98

01:51:38.000 This is only going to affect white people, or this is only going to affect black people.

01:51:41.000 Yeah, but then it's like, which group too?

01:51:43.000 Scottish or English?

01:51:45.000 In the United States you have such a mixture of different groups, but yeah.

01:51:51.000 It's going to be mulatto supremacy. 1.00

01:51:54.000 Mulatto.

01:51:55.000 I just looked up that apple fact here that I gave about a minute ago.

01:52:00.000 It's from the U.S. 0.96

01:52:01.000 Department of Agriculture's website.

01:52:03.000 They say, and a lot of, the average amount of apples being stored up to 14 months.

01:52:07.000 So, they often say 9 to 12 months.

01:52:08.000 So, yeah, just for everyone that's giving me, trust me bro, in the comments, come on.

01:52:15.000 Camgirl Asuna says, Tim, I want to talk with you all about conflict sometime.

01:52:21.000 You think peace is always better than war, and that isn't true.

01:52:24.000 It's a huge blind spot of yours that should be addressed.

01:52:27.000 Hit me up on the Discord anytime, public or private.

01:52:29.000 I understand the concept.

01:52:30.000 I mean, if you look at how the world is.

01:52:34.000 Conflict is a natural component of life.

01:52:38.000 All of it.

01:52:39.000 Animals and all life competing and conflicting and eating each other and destroying things and... I get it.

01:52:44.000 I get it.

01:52:45.000 Maybe there has to be some kind of conflict within humans, otherwise we become hedonistic, lazy, and we have to fall apart.

01:52:52.000 Yeah, I mean, there is such a thing as, like, a just war, in the sense that there might be reasons for a country to become involved, but that doesn't mean that we should jump on every single war that the media tells us we need to join or become a part of.

01:53:07.000 I love this, whichever here.

01:53:08.000 Demoralize says, Let's see if Tim can go one episode without triggering his DeSantis derangement syndrome.

01:53:14.000 If I hear it one more time, I'll unsub. 0.92

01:53:16.000 What I love about this is that, like, Every episode we do, we've got some kind of criticism of Trump, and not a single Trump supporter's been like, Screw you, Tim! 0.96

01:53:23.000 You've got Trump derangement syndrome!

01:53:25.000 Like, we literally say something like, He hired a bunch of bad people, he wouldn't fire Fauci, he wouldn't... And Trump supporters come on, and they still say, Yeah, well, you know, we get it.

01:53:33.000 But, man!

01:53:35.000 Point out, like, a couple criticisms of DeSantis, and these people lose their minds!

01:53:41.000 It's crazy, like, I'll unsub if you criticize DeSantis one more time!

01:53:45.000 Biden's over there.

01:53:46.000 Go hang out with them.

01:53:48.000 Bro, we're gonna criticize everybody.

01:53:50.000 Like, it's remarkable to me how our position has consistently been DeSantis has done a great job in Florida, but his PR team is bad.

01:53:55.000 And he's done some bad things that have pissed me off.

01:53:57.000 And they're like, well, for that, you have DeSantis Derangement Syndrome.

01:54:01.000 By the way, I wish more of my fans would threaten to unsubscribe when Tim criticizes me with his insane false accusations.

01:54:08.000 If I hear one more accusation about Seamus being Irish, I swear I'll unsub.

01:54:12.000 Not that, well that is a mean thing to, but when you say the thing about the spoons, where are my people at?

01:54:17.000 Where's my audience at?

01:54:18.000 Come on, guys.

01:54:19.000 You're just letting him get away with it?

01:54:21.000 Maybe we can, with every purchase of the Sheamus coffee, a spoon comes with it.

01:54:25.000 Yeah, a scooper spoon.

01:54:27.000 A scooper spoon.

01:54:27.000 Yes.

01:54:28.000 Oh my goodness.

01:54:28.000 Like a little spoon.

01:54:30.000 And then every time someone buys one, she'll be like, oh, another spoon Sheamus took for me.

01:54:33.000 I know what you're doing.

01:54:34.000 That's right.

01:54:35.000 And I'll be like, if you received the Sheamus coffee and there's a spoon on it, that spoon's mine.

01:54:40.000 We're entitled to a recall.

01:54:41.000 And there'll be a little note being like, you may have received this spoon, but it is not your property.

01:54:45.000 We'll give like golden spoons out instead of golden tickets and they can come on tour.

01:54:50.000 If you receive a golden spoon.

01:54:52.000 I actually don't think we can do that, but... What?

01:54:54.000 You can't?

01:54:55.000 Send spoons out the coffee?

01:54:56.000 No, I don't think so.

01:54:57.000 What if you do that on accident?

01:55:00.000 How would you accidentally send a spoon out?

01:55:02.000 I could figure it out.

01:55:04.000 Not that I would.

01:55:04.000 If you figure it out, it's by definition no longer an accident.

01:55:08.000 Not necessarily.

01:55:08.000 Maybe I solved a logical conundrum.

01:55:12.000 Alright, we'll grab some more here.

01:55:13.000 Thank you, Tim.

01:55:15.000 Shane Knox says, we were exporting energy under Trump.

01:55:18.000 Do we not have enough oil to mine and sell to BRICS?

01:55:22.000 We don't.

01:55:22.000 I do not believe we do.

01:55:26.000 No, the exporting under Trump was under very specific context and circumstances.

01:55:30.000 All these other countries had shut themselves down.

01:55:34.000 And so we ended up with a bunch of oil producers who could not store what they had.

01:55:38.000 They had too much.

01:55:39.000 So we actually had to just offload as much as possible.

01:55:43.000 However, I do believe we have more than enough energy for ourselves, especially with Alaska.

01:55:49.000 And we should definitely be working towards that.

01:55:52.000 Yeah.

01:55:52.000 So theoretically, well, I'll put it this way.

01:55:54.000 Theoretically, the answer is yes.

01:55:55.000 Based on where we're at right now, we could be exporting.

01:55:57.000 However, we want to keep the energy for ourselves, especially if BRICS is expanding.

01:56:03.000 Yeah, so at least energy independent would be good.

01:56:06.000 Jason Hutchison says, what did we do in Afghanistan for 20 years, but clear it out and make ready for China to move in? 0.99

01:56:12.000 Yep.

01:56:13.000 And now they're going after, what is there, lithium?

01:56:16.000 Good luck.

01:56:17.000 I wish them luck.

01:56:17.000 Have you guys seen that video of all the kids mining the cobalt?

01:56:20.000 Yes.

01:56:20.000 So brutal.

01:56:21.000 It is.

01:56:24.000 These urban liberal types, man, they would break down.

01:56:27.000 Their worldview is predicated upon putting on blinders, ignoring the fact that they are colonists, enslavered imperialists masquerading as humble, nice anti-racists.

01:56:41.000 But if you go to them, I guarantee you say, hey, We want you to stop using your computer, your iPhones, your cars. 1.00

01:56:48.000 They're gonna say, well, it's so stupid, you're dumb. 1.00

01:56:50.000 It's like, I'm not saying it because of capitalism. 1.00

01:56:53.000 I'm saying because you have slaves making it.

01:56:55.000 Stop buying the things that are made by slaves.

01:56:57.000 They're gonna be like, no, I refuse.

01:56:59.000 Zero accountability for anything, ever.

01:57:01.000 It's never, ever about any kind of personal change they can affect in their own lives.

01:57:04.000 And anytime they do affect, like, a personal change, it always happens to be something which is very economically convenient.

01:57:10.000 So they'll say something like, well, I care about climate change, so, like, I'm not gonna have kids when they were already planning to not have kids.

01:57:15.000 And you're like, okay, dude, stop.

01:57:18.000 Noah Yelverton says, Freedom tunes?

01:57:21.000 More like free dem spoons.

01:57:23.000 Yeah, I know.

01:57:24.000 Well, I wouldn't need to, because the spoons are already free.

01:57:27.000 Tim has them.

01:57:28.000 It's nonsense.

01:57:30.000 Nah, I don't buy it.

01:57:32.000 The Yeti says Vivek will likely be VP.

01:57:35.000 Why?

01:57:35.000 They probably like each other, and more importantly, Trump has zero ammo against this guy.

01:57:40.000 I don't know, I... Trump can literally make up ammo!

01:57:44.000 Yeah, but Vivek is really good.

01:57:48.000 So Trump will find something.

01:57:50.000 But I don't know.

01:57:51.000 In 2020, Trump wasn't that strong against Biden.

01:57:54.000 You'd think he had so much to go after.

01:57:56.000 And people kept saying, well, it's because it's sad to go after Biden.

01:57:58.000 That's why they chose him.

01:57:59.000 I'm like, I don't know about that.

01:58:01.000 There's a lot of people it's sad to go after that Trump has gone after.

01:58:05.000 I think a lot of the people Trump has gone after have been sad people.

01:58:07.000 Yes, exactly.

01:58:08.000 Jeff is a perfect example.

01:58:09.000 Thank you for mentioning it.

01:58:11.000 He's like the quintessential example.

01:58:13.000 He might even be sadder than Trump.

01:58:15.000 Or I'm sorry, than Biden.

01:58:16.000 Oh, yeah, it was it was bad.

01:58:18.000 Please clap.

01:58:20.000 That's all we had to do.

01:58:22.000 That's what we'll have.

01:58:24.000 Smile... What does it say?

01:58:26.000 Smile... Emily?

01:58:29.000 Seamus didn't steal your spoons, Tim.

01:58:30.000 He's been framed like a painting.

01:58:32.000 Freedom spoons isn't a thing. 0.98

01:58:34.000 That's right.

01:58:34.000 Thank you.

01:58:34.000 Wow.

01:58:35.000 Freedom spoons.

01:58:37.000 Thank you.

01:58:38.000 I really appreciate that.

01:58:39.000 Did she say who stole the spoons then?

01:58:42.000 Excuse me, sir, that's not how a court of law works.

01:58:44.000 I've been exonerated.

01:58:47.000 They don't have to give you the real spoon thief.

01:58:50.000 My bad.

01:58:52.000 Basically, Seamus makes some kind of self-deprecating joke, and then we all roll with it, and then Seamus acts like he's outraged.

01:58:58.000 No, it hurts me.

01:59:00.000 Yo, the story about me watching Leprechauns is a true story.

01:59:03.000 That's not true.

01:59:04.000 I was on the couch watching Leprechaun 2, and I think it was 2.

01:59:08.000 There's a guy who gets bitten by the leprechauns and starts turning Irish. 1.00

01:59:11.000 And so he goes to a restaurant and he's like, he orders french fries, waffle fries, mashed potatoes, tater tots.

01:59:17.000 He just like, orders all baked potato.

01:59:19.000 And then, literally as the scene is happening, Seamus walks in and he's like, hey man, what's up?

01:59:23.000 And I'm like, watching the movie.

01:59:24.000 He's like, oh, what are you watching?

01:59:24.000 And he looks at the screen, and it's a guy turning into an Irishman eating potatoes.

01:59:29.000 And he's like, what is this?

01:59:30.000 That's actually, that's not what happened.

01:59:31.000 Tim was watching this movie.

01:59:32.000 He says, Seamus, Seamus, get in here, get in here.

01:59:36.000 And I watched and he said, this is what you look like and your people are a joke to me.

01:59:41.000 I was like, that's so harsh!

01:59:43.000 And then everyone in the room laughed at me and pointed at me. 0.62

01:59:46.000 Everyone else walked in the room as it was happening and they all started busting out laughing.

01:59:48.000 And Shane was like, leave me alone!

01:59:49.000 I said, I was born here!

01:59:51.000 I was born here!

01:59:52.000 And they're like, Irishmen!

01:59:54.000 Irishmen!

01:59:55.000 I was born in Chicago!

01:59:56.000 But everybody loves potatoes.

01:59:58.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:59:59.000 Thank you.

01:59:59.000 It's true.

02:00:00.000 It's a hurtful stereotype.

02:00:00.000 Yo, it is really hilarious.

02:00:02.000 They made that movie where a guy gets bit by the leprechaun and turns Irish.

02:00:04.000 I know, that's insane.

02:00:05.000 What?

02:00:06.000 I love the low-budget movies like this.

02:00:09.000 I think that's either okay to do with every group or no group.

02:00:11.000 That's what I think.

02:00:13.000 Let's grab, uh, we'll grab one more super chat.

02:00:16.000 Oh, just the Irish? 1.00

02:00:19.000 Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

02:00:20.000 says, Shamus, return the spoons to Tim or I'm unsuffing.

02:00:25.000 I would return the spoons if I had them, but the truth is, I don't have them.

02:00:29.000 I don't have Tim's spoons.

02:00:31.000 All right, James Lynch says, 40 years tonight, bro.

02:00:33.000 Congratulations, guys.

02:00:36.000 Well, happy birthday!

02:00:37.000 I'm assuming you're saying to everybody.

02:00:38.000 Alright everybody, it's time for the members-only show.

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02:01:01.000 Right on.

02:01:01.000 TimothyCast is a deceiver.

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02:01:05.000 I am an innocent man.

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02:01:22.000 Get an extra cartoon each week, and you'll also be helping support me in what I do.

02:01:25.000 Thank you very much, and have a lovely evening.

02:01:28.000 I am Phil Labonte, lead singer for All That Remains.

02:01:30.000 You can find me on Twitter, at PhilThatRemains, on Instagram, at PhilThatRemainsOfficial.

02:01:35.000 The band is All That Remains on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube... I think I'm missing one.

02:01:42.000 Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube... Pandora!

02:01:45.000 There you go.

02:01:46.000 Serge, how you doing?

02:01:47.000 I'm alright, I haven't used Pandora in forever.

02:01:49.000 I kind of forgot Pandora exists.

02:01:50.000 We do really well on Pandora.

02:01:51.000 I was really surprised.

02:01:52.000 I just, I only use Pandora.

02:01:53.000 Yeah?

02:01:54.000 Oh, really?

02:01:54.000 Huh.

02:01:55.000 Well, Iamsurge.com.

02:01:57.000 You can find me on Twitter and I guess that new Zuckerberg Twitter or whatever it's called, Threads, stuff like that.

02:02:03.000 Yeah, look me up on SoundCloud, look me up on Instagram.

02:02:05.000 I will talk to you guys.

02:02:06.000 Does anybody use Threads anymore?

02:02:07.000 I don't know.

02:02:08.000 I don't.

02:02:08.000 I just think it's the, I don't use Twitter anymore because I don't like Elon Musk.

02:02:13.000 Oh yeah, and you know, so I want to say, we will see you all, you shouted out your Twitter already, right?

02:02:18.000 Yeah, at Surge.com, spill it out.

02:02:21.000 Give me a second.

02:02:22.000 We're gonna head over to TimCast.com for the members on the show, but I do want to give a shout-out to Nate Silver, who's currently in 47th place in the World Series of Poker.

02:02:29.000 Yo, legit.

02:02:31.000 That's pretty cool to see his name pop up.

02:02:33.000 He was actually in 30-some-odd place.

02:02:35.000 There's still a long way to go as they eliminate players, but this is a 10,000 player pool down to 211 players.

02:02:41.000 And yo, straight up, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight is currently in 47th place.

02:02:46.000 Good for Nate.

02:02:47.000 Good for Nate, good for Nate.

02:02:48.000 It would be really cool if he ends up winning the $12 million prize, just because I know who he is.

02:02:53.000 But, uh, may not agree on everything, but it is cool to see that, you know, he's doing so well.

02:02:57.000 Anyway, we'll see you all over at TimCast.com.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - July 11, 2023

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