Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Yale Speaker Expresses Desire To Execute White People w- GPrime85 & FreedomToons

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00:00:49.000 you a Yale lecturer spoke about her desire to brutally murder a 0.99

00:01:15.000 bunch of white people because we're at this and we got a bunch of cool 0.98

00:01:19.000 But I must point out to everybody listening, last night we had a technician come out.

00:01:19.000 people hanging out.

00:01:25.000 Turns out our internet was struck by lightning.

00:01:30.000 Dead serious.

00:01:31.000 And so it fried some of the ground wiring.

00:01:34.000 We're in the middle of nowhere, so we have long ground wires that run from our property out into where the street is and then connecting up.

00:01:40.000 And at some point, it got struck by lightning and it fried the cable going up our property, so they laid a cable, like, on top of the ground.

00:01:48.000 Quite literally, a squirrel could walk up to it and nibble, and we get cut off.

00:01:52.000 But hey, maybe we'll have internet for this show?

00:01:55.000 Otherwise, welcome to Rural Livin'.

00:01:57.000 But we're hanging out with some great people.

00:02:00.000 We have the one and only G Prime 85, George Alexopoulos.

00:02:03.000 That's right.

00:02:05.000 Hold that microphone, brother.

00:02:06.000 What's going on, everybody?

00:02:07.000 Thank you for inviting me.

00:02:08.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:02:09.000 You have a picture behind you of Joe Biden eating OK Boomer Girl.

00:02:12.000 Oh, my goodness.

00:02:14.000 Whoever drew that must be a conspiracy theorist.

00:02:17.000 Something is wrong with whoever drew that. 0.83

00:02:19.000 What kind of freak?

00:02:20.000 You know, I bet that person only has one joke.

00:02:24.000 That's, that's, yeah.

00:02:25.000 Like, like, talentless, waste of talent.

00:02:28.000 Say something obnoxious, then empty panel, empty panel, and then shocked face. 1.00

00:02:32.000 What kind of jerk? 0.99

00:02:34.000 I certainly wouldn't invite him. 1.00

00:02:36.000 Do you read a lot of Junji Ito?

00:02:38.000 I love Junji Ito.

00:02:39.000 Yeah, that's kind of why I'm here.

00:02:40.000 He's, uh, you know, he's, he was training to be a dentist, I think, at one point.

00:02:44.000 Wow.

00:02:44.000 And he decided to draw a horror manga, so whatever he saw in the dental school inspired him.

00:02:51.000 Well, now Joe Biden is a monster looking out of the walls and eating OK Boomer Girl, which is interesting because OK Boomer Girl is back in the news because she bought a $2 million... I don't know if she bought it, but she has a $2 million apartment.

00:03:03.000 And she's getting slammed because, for some reason, these young socialists are always very proud to be successful capitalists.

00:03:10.000 But you know, whatever.

00:03:11.000 Well, really, that's the power of, you know, looking good.

00:03:14.000 And that's why I'm also buying a million dollar house.

00:03:17.000 Exactly.

00:03:18.000 I too, on my Patreon, you know, people are paying me to take off my shirt.

00:03:22.000 Because everyone wants to see that.

00:03:24.000 Only fans?

00:03:25.000 Live on this show, I'm going to at least... I wonder if there was like a... and the internet gets cut off.

00:03:32.000 I wonder if there was a point where, you know, like Bernie Sanders is looking at his speech and it says, like, millionaires and the billionaires, and then his assistant or aide or whatever goes, Mr. Sanders, you are now a millionaire.

00:03:41.000 And he just scratches out millionaire.

00:03:41.000 He goes, oh, okay.

00:03:43.000 Just the billionaires.

00:03:44.000 Just the billionaires.

00:03:45.000 Not the millionaires.

00:03:46.000 Don't worry, millionaires are fine people.

00:03:48.000 Some of them, I assume, are good people.

00:03:50.000 There's nothing, not all the billionaires are bad.

00:03:53.000 Very fine people.

00:03:54.000 Yeah.

00:03:55.000 So, well, you've probably noticed that Seamus is here as well.

00:03:57.000 I'm also here, we have two cartoonists on tonight, this is unbelievable.

00:04:00.000 It may cause a singularity.

00:04:03.000 I don't know what's gonna happen by the end.

00:04:04.000 We need a crossover where it's like a Freedom Tunes thing, where it's like, it's very hokey kind of like violence, you know what I mean?

00:04:10.000 What?

00:04:11.000 Yeah, no, no, I mean like they punch and it's cartoon, it's very, it's cartoony.

00:04:14.000 We need to throw in some like, you know, G-Prime Junji Ito style vibes of like Joe Biden eating a child or something.

00:04:21.000 You know, someday, maybe 10 years from now, I want to have drawn at least one other thing that people remember me by.

00:04:26.000 That'd be very nice.

00:04:27.000 Well, it's just that we have two of your comics, and behind Seamus is Joe Biden eating a child.

00:04:31.000 Yes.

00:04:32.000 And behind you, George, is Joe Biden eating OK Boomer Girl.

00:04:35.000 Yeah.

00:04:35.000 That's a trend.

00:04:36.000 There's a trend.

00:04:36.000 That's true.

00:04:37.000 What do you really believe? 1.00

00:04:38.000 What kind of sick mind? 1.00

00:04:41.000 This is an intervention, isn't it? 1.00

00:04:43.000 You guys brought me here to... Thanks for coming.

00:04:45.000 These cartoons really are an act of violence.

00:04:47.000 They really are.

00:04:47.000 That's true.

00:04:48.000 I gotta know, George.

00:04:50.000 Tuesday I was talking about I was just desperate to see a Fauci image.

00:04:54.000 And then up on Twitter the next day... Had you been working on that or did you whip it up that night?

00:04:58.000 No, no.

00:04:59.000 Every morning, this is my process.

00:05:01.000 It's amazing.

00:05:02.000 And everyone cares.

00:05:03.000 So I wake up real early.

00:05:05.000 I take a shower.

00:05:07.000 I breakfast, you know, I'm looking through my Twitter and I see what's in the news and I, you know, Fauci was trending, whatever.

00:05:13.000 So it's for a long time.

00:05:16.000 I've, I had this one image of him.

00:05:18.000 What was he?

00:05:20.000 There was a, there was a Biden like in holding a needle or something.

00:05:24.000 And he was in the background looking kind of creepy Fauci.

00:05:27.000 And then I said, you know, let's feature him as the As you know, let's caricature him in that six flags kind of way.

00:05:34.000 And then I start like exaggerating, just doodling for fun.

00:05:37.000 So by eight o'clock in the morning, I finished my breakfast.

00:05:39.000 I'm like, Oh, this is an actual thing that I have to finish drawing now.

00:05:42.000 And it's this horrifying, again, by accident, I wasn't intending.

00:05:46.000 These are my warmups most of the time.

00:05:48.000 And then it finished, I upload it, whatever.

00:05:50.000 Yeah, Ian was furious.

00:05:52.000 He was screaming.

00:05:53.000 He was like, I won!

00:05:54.000 A picture of Fauci!

00:05:58.000 And George does as Ian commands.

00:05:59.000 That's just how it works in the artistic community.

00:06:01.000 Ian called George and...

00:06:05.000 Get me the photograph!

00:06:07.000 I want pictures of Dr. Fauci!

00:06:10.000 And he got it.

00:06:10.000 That checks out, yeah.

00:06:11.000 I get what I want.

00:06:12.000 I live to serve.

00:06:13.000 Yeah, we got Lydia's pushing buttons. 0.99

00:06:14.000 I am.

00:06:14.000 I'm pushing buttons in the corner.

00:06:15.000 It's going to be a great show.

00:06:17.000 I'm loving all the artistic in it.

00:06:18.000 Yeah. 0.69

00:06:19.000 We have artists here and to talk about something cartoonishly ridiculous, which is a woman giving a lecture at Yale, a psychiatrist of all people. 1.00

00:06:27.000 Yes, yes.

00:06:28.000 Before we get into the news, though, you guys, you got to go to TimCast.com.

00:06:31.000 Of course.

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00:06:35.000 Last night we did a full bonus episode.

00:06:37.000 Where me and Seamus were screaming at each other.

00:06:38.000 He punched me in the face.

00:06:40.000 I punched him right in the face.

00:06:41.000 You know, and then Chucks under the table, so I sprung back up.

00:06:43.000 It was a brutal and intense debate.

00:06:45.000 He caught his wrist in the chains.

00:06:45.000 I got hurt.

00:06:48.000 Yeah, but then Ian had a whip.

00:06:49.000 It was intense.

00:06:50.000 No, actually, Ian channeled plasma and fired a plasma ball at me.

00:06:54.000 There's a window behind me, you can't see because it's covered up.

00:06:54.000 And I just flew up.

00:06:56.000 And I just flew 40 feet in the air.

00:06:59.000 How did you confuse that for having a whip?

00:07:00.000 Right.

00:07:01.000 Well, because he had both.

00:07:02.000 Struck by lightning, they said.

00:07:03.000 I was a little out of it after I got hit in the forehead with the nunchucks, you know? 1.00

00:07:06.000 My hair was able to cover up the scar.

00:07:08.000 What really happened, and it looks like the internet might be working right now, is our internet literally got struck by lightning.

00:07:13.000 So we had a guy come out and he was like, this is a problem.

00:07:15.000 And I was like, what happened?

00:07:16.000 He's like, the cable underground is fried.

00:07:18.000 And I was like, I think it got struck by lightning.

00:07:22.000 And I was like, whoa, it's fried.

00:07:24.000 I wonder if it was poorly insulated.

00:07:25.000 Do you have any thoughts about that?

00:07:28.000 You just can't stop it, the lightning.

00:07:30.000 You can't stop the lightning.

00:07:33.000 How about we talk about this crazy lady in the current state? 1.00

00:07:36.000 Well, I think that's a little unfair. 0.96

00:07:37.000 I wouldn't call her crazy.

00:07:37.000 What?

00:07:39.000 Oh, okay.

00:07:41.000 So we pulled this up from the Federalist.

00:07:41.000 Here's the story.

00:07:43.000 Here's what I love.

00:07:43.000 The Federalist is called Fake News by NewsGuard, but this story is like 100% legit.

00:07:49.000 Over at Barry Weiss's Substack, Katie Herzog wrote about this, interviewed this person, And when the Federalist writes it up, they get called fake news, but it's like, it's 100% verifiable. 0.98

00:07:57.000 Lecturer at official Yale event fantasizes about brutally murdering white people, claims all white people are rotten. 0.96

00:08:04.000 I don't know if I can read what she said on YouTube. 0.99

00:08:06.000 I don't think you, but, well, let me just put it this way.

00:08:10.000 It's not something somebody should be able to get away with saying on a college campus, considering the environment we're in politically, and also the fact that there have been mass shootings in educational settings.

00:08:21.000 Botch it and get us demonetized. 0.99

00:08:22.000 That white people are deranged. 1.00

00:08:25.000 And her talk was on the psychopathic problem of the white mind. 1.00

00:08:29.000 So I don't know what they expected her to say.

00:08:31.000 Is that actually the name of her lecture? 0.99

00:08:32.000 The psychopathic problem of the white mind.

00:08:34.000 I don't know what they thought she was going to talk about, what she was going to say, but yes, it did involve using a weapon Using a weapon against the head, placing it to the head of a person, and I'm not sure how much more I can say without getting you in trouble here, Tim.

00:08:46.000 In an official lecture called, The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind, given by Aruna Kilinani.

00:08:52.000 Yeah.

00:08:53.000 What a name.

00:08:53.000 Wow.

00:08:54.000 At the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Child Study Center, Kilinani graphically described her fantasy about killing and burying white people. 0.97

00:08:59.000 I'm not going to read the quote. 0.96

00:09:00.000 Normal college stuff.

00:09:01.000 Yeah, you know.

00:09:02.000 Sounds like slam poetry.

00:09:03.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:09:04.000 She's just delivering a little slam poem. 1.00

00:09:06.000 Talk about murdering the English language. 0.90

00:09:08.000 Oh my goodness.

00:09:10.000 Fair enough.

00:09:10.000 Well played.

00:09:11.000 So obviously this lady's psychotic, and this is really... We're getting into seriously dangerous territory. 1.00

00:09:18.000 What's fascinating is that there were a lot of people, I think like Scott Adams, was talking about how all of the white privilege stuff was bubbling into... Maybe it wasn't Scott Adams, but correct me if I'm wrong. 0.67

00:09:26.000 Talk about how this rhetoric will lead to genocide.

00:09:29.000 All these cartoonists making great points.

00:09:31.000 Yeah, that was Scott, right?

00:09:32.000 Yeah, that was Scott.

00:09:33.000 And it's funny because like, um, I wouldn't say he's 100% right just yet.

00:09:38.000 I'm saying straight up being like, this is what I want to fantasize about.

00:09:38.000 I'm not saying he's wrong.

00:09:41.000 This is what I do.

00:09:42.000 And this is what's insane.

00:09:42.000 So she was previously a professor.

00:09:44.000 She taught at Cornell, Columbia and New York University, which is fantastic to have a professor going out there saying things like they want to kill people of a specific race.

00:09:53.000 But also she's a psychiatrist, which to me seems strange.

00:09:57.000 I don't know that this is a person who I would want to go to for psychological help.

00:10:01.000 She's like, I can't even make some of these jokes.

00:10:05.000 It's so over the top. 0.99

00:10:06.000 She said white people sound demented. 0.99

00:10:08.000 It's just crazy to me that she was able to get through this speech. 0.96

00:10:11.000 First of all, the thought of even going on a college campus and talking about intentionally harming people, being violent against them with a deadly weapon, I would imagine is enough to get you thrown off, even if it's not You're not racially based.

00:10:24.000 You're not, you know, talking about a specific group of people.

00:10:26.000 It seems to me it's like saying bomb on an airplane or something.

00:10:29.000 I can't believe you're... Right.

00:10:30.000 There's a difference between telling people to do something and to say you're fantasized about doing it.

00:10:35.000 But I mean, there's also kind of not really a difference.

00:10:38.000 And I know that this is like the cliche thing that every conservative says.

00:10:41.000 Imagine if the situations were reversed.

00:10:43.000 But seriously, just imagine any professor going out there and picking out a racial minority and saying that they wanted to do this to them.

00:10:50.000 You'd get instantly banned.

00:10:52.000 Also, it would be on the front page of everything and it would be used as an excuse to censor every other conservative.

00:10:57.000 So you're gonna love this.

00:10:58.000 This is the caliber of people now lecturing at these universities.

00:11:02.000 So in the interview, Katie says, uh, could you give me an example of what, of how this is picked up in all aspects of culture?

00:11:09.000 How do you see the after effects of colonialism manifesting itself in the white mind today?

00:11:14.000 This woman, this crazy lady says, it's gonna be hard for me to give you one sentence soundbite on this, but I would say a high level of guilt. 0.96

00:11:20.000 I've never seen anything like this before other than in white people not eating bread. 1.00

00:11:25.000 An incredible level of shame.

00:11:26.000 Feeling really exposed all the time.

00:11:28.000 A lot of perfectionist tendencies.

00:11:30.000 And so, somehow, like, it seems like Katie's trying to have like an honest conversation, but this lady's like, bread! 1.00

00:11:37.000 They don't eat bread!

00:11:38.000 And then she goes on to say... Let me find... So it does seem like you generalize a lot, this is Katie, about white people, but also people of color.

00:11:46.000 Why do you do that?

00:11:48.000 And this woman says, what do you feel is a generalization?

00:11:52.000 Katie asks, like white people having a high level of guilt or not eating bread.

00:11:56.000 That's true for some people for sure, but I eat bread.

00:12:00.000 And then she says, you don't think you're generalizing? The lady goes on and somehow it

00:12:05.000 comes back to this. Sure, this is Katie. There are a lot of white people who don't eat bread, 0.97

00:12:09.000 although I am not one of them. I exclusively eat bread. I don't think Katie exclusively eats bread. 0.97

00:12:15.000 However, she goes on.

00:12:17.000 Also, I'm skeptical of some claims of gluten intolerance, but my assumption has always been that they're just buying into pseudoscientific BS and following health needs.

00:12:25.000 You think it's white guilt?

00:12:27.000 The lady goes, on an emotional level, absolutely. 0.54

00:12:29.000 Like, if I raise an eyebrow at a white person around bread, the first response is like, it's real. 1.00

00:12:35.000 What does that mean?

00:12:36.000 They mean it's not psychological.

00:12:38.000 Right, it's a medical issue, not a mental one, says Katie.

00:12:40.000 The lady goes, I don't deny that people may get symptoms, but how is it that all the violence has occurred are not eating bread?

00:12:47.000 It's like the weirdest effing thing.

00:12:49.000 Katie says, but what does bread have to do with violence?

00:12:52.000 What's the connection there?

00:12:54.000 I think the bread is about guilt and needing to keep them in a state of deprivation and stay guilty.

00:13:02.000 Okay.

00:13:03.000 That's the famous bread section of this lady's interview. 1.00

00:13:05.000 That's brilliant.

00:13:06.000 Now, could you imagine paying that person to go to a college and teach your children?

00:13:11.000 You may notice white people not eating bread.

00:13:13.000 Why? 1.00

00:13:13.000 Because they're racist! 1.00

00:13:14.000 Guess what I want to do to them? 0.99

00:13:16.000 This is what we have to do to white people for not eating bread, ladies and gentlemen. 1.00

00:13:18.000 This is the only solution.

00:13:19.000 You heard that socialists want bread lines?

00:13:21.000 Guess what?

00:13:22.000 Something much worse.

00:13:23.000 We don't want anyone having any bread.

00:13:24.000 Dude, Yale didn't release the footage, obviously, for good reason, and she claims it's because they're trying to suppress her?

00:13:30.000 It's like...

00:13:31.000 Could you imagine, like, she's in a Starbucks, and the lady's like... The message needs to be censored. 1.00

00:13:36.000 I know, like, the message needs to be put out there.

00:13:38.000 It's too real!

00:13:39.000 Part of me wonders if, like, Yael is just kind of trying to help her by downplaying this, because they know the more it gets out there, the worse this person's life is going to be.

00:13:46.000 I'm not sure what Yael's motivations are.

00:13:47.000 Maybe they're helping her with their silence, as Dave Chappelle would say.

00:13:51.000 Or did say.

00:13:52.000 This is the kind of thing where it's like, this lady will be in a Subway or something, and someone will be like, um, do you have anything without bread? 0.84

00:13:59.000 And then she looks at it and goes, Like, you remember Body Snatchers when Donald Sutherland's like...

00:14:06.000 You're not eating bread.

00:14:07.000 It proves it.

00:14:08.000 I thought I thought Ibram X Kendi's thing was crazy when he was like Denying racism is proof of racism.

00:14:13.000 I was like, well, that's nuts now.

00:14:15.000 We've got I'm sorry. 0.99

00:14:16.000 This is crazier If you don't eat bread, you're racist. 0.97

00:14:19.000 I just really have to eat bread. 0.99

00:14:20.000 So I'm black. 0.96

00:14:21.000 Wait a second Okay, so I coming over here driving right I had in my car cold cuts pastrami Turkey listen in a in a ziploc bag and I'm reaching into the ziploc bag with my bare hands and eating the cold cuts No bread Oh, so you're racist. 0.98

00:14:38.000 I'm black! 0.97

00:14:39.000 No, but that's actually cultural appropriation because you are. 0.86

00:14:41.000 I'm racist?

00:14:42.000 Yeah, she said if you don't eat bread. 0.84

00:14:43.000 Wait, no, I've only been black for a little while. 0.99

00:14:45.000 No, no, no, if you don't eat bread, you're racist. 0.99

00:14:47.000 She's not saying white people eat bread, she's saying white people don't. 0.97

00:14:50.000 So it's racist to not eat bread.

00:14:52.000 Am I correct here?

00:14:53.000 I'm trying to figure out the rules right now.

00:14:54.000 I don't want this lady to come to my house. 1.00

00:14:56.000 Remember when milk was racist?

00:14:58.000 Yes, it was for quite a while.

00:14:59.000 That's so weird.

00:15:00.000 Now you only get lactaid?

00:15:02.000 Well, it's because Asian people don't drink milk, I guess. 0.97

00:15:04.000 Black people don't either. 0.99

00:15:05.000 Really? 0.96

00:15:06.000 Yeah, it is.

00:15:06.000 Is that a thing?

00:15:07.000 Actually, it is.

00:15:08.000 Yeah, in other countries, people tend to lose their tolerance for milk as they mature.

00:15:11.000 I've heard this actually.

00:15:12.000 White people don't, for whatever reason. 0.85

00:15:13.000 There are definitely genetic differences, you know, like sickle cell anemia seemed to strike the African-American community harder than other, you know, genetic races or whatever.

00:15:23.000 None of that's true.

00:15:23.000 That's not true.

00:15:24.000 Yeah, sickle cell anemia was, like, notably found in, like, African culture.

00:15:29.000 No, race is a social construct, Ian.

00:15:30.000 Oh, well that's true.

00:15:32.000 I have nowhere to go from here.

00:15:35.000 You do, the door's right there.

00:15:36.000 You do have somewhere to go.

00:15:37.000 Maybe certain people are more sensitive to gluten tolerance.

00:15:41.000 I don't know.

00:15:41.000 Is there something to that?

00:15:42.000 I've never heard that before.

00:15:43.000 I guess.

00:15:44.000 Italian ice.

00:15:47.000 That's a good alternative to ice cream.

00:15:50.000 That's racist.

00:15:53.000 How do we pay for our two million dollar apartment? 0.79

00:15:57.000 I'm gonna eat only bread.

00:16:00.000 I can't afford anything.

00:16:01.000 Is okay boomer girl white? 0.72

00:16:03.000 I have no idea.

00:16:03.000 Because I think like they just now will say they are or they aren't even if they they are.

00:16:07.000 She's Latinx though.

00:16:09.000 Latinx.

00:16:09.000 Latinx?

00:16:11.000 Latinx.

00:16:11.000 Like Kleenex, yeah.

00:16:12.000 Yeah, like Kleenex.

00:16:13.000 Is that how it's pronounced?

00:16:14.000 Latinx? 0.67

00:16:15.000 Or is it Latinx?

00:16:15.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:16:16.000 Like Kleenex.

00:16:17.000 Latinx? 0.67

00:16:17.000 Like Kleenex. 0.67

00:16:17.000 Yeah. 0.67

00:16:18.000 Like Latino, Latina, Latinx. 0.99

00:16:18.000 Okay. 0.99

00:16:20.000 That's great.

00:16:20.000 And how many Latino people actually... Latina.

00:16:24.000 3% I think it is.

00:16:25.000 College women. 0.66

00:16:25.000 Yeah, exactly. 0.66

00:16:26.000 There we go.

00:16:26.000 Yes, college women.

00:16:28.000 It's white college women mostly, too, probably. 1.00

00:16:30.000 Yeah, it is.

00:16:30.000 Yeah, definitely.

00:16:31.000 Everything has to be cleansed, including language.

00:16:34.000 They love it when you cleanse their language. 1.00

00:16:37.000 Yes, exactly.

00:16:38.000 People from other cultures love when white people come around and tell them that their culture is actually insensitive.

00:16:43.000 I have my Latinx friends that I have to go over to their house and just like, hey, I heard you talking in your fake language that's not real anymore. 0.95

00:16:51.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:16:52.000 Where is the person to just kind of roll with this?

00:16:55.000 To go to one of these meetings or hang out with some woke people and just absolutely play into it?

00:17:00.000 Oh, that was what art school was for me too.

00:17:02.000 So when they say like Latinx, you go, oh, oh, T-R-O-B-F-N-2-plus-Q. 1.00

00:17:08.000 Absolutely.

00:17:09.000 I'm trying to remember the best. I'm getting wrong.

00:17:11.000 But it was like 15 or 16 letters.

00:17:14.000 Yes.

00:17:14.000 And so when I'm reading it, I'm like, the activists wrote this message saying,

00:17:18.000 we stand in solidarity with the LGBTQIAP2-plus-T-R-O-B-N-Y-X-3 community. 1.00

00:17:23.000 And I'm like, I literally have no idea what that means.

00:17:26.000 I'm not trying to be disrespectful.

00:17:27.000 I'm literally like, I don't know the message you're trying to convey to me about Chick-fil-A.

00:17:32.000 There's too many letters there to learn the code.

00:17:34.000 And then there's another one. There's another code. That's like trans indigenous 1.00

00:17:39.000 Yeah, trans indigenous people of color and like other it's like it's like

00:17:44.000 Tipock any or something like that like at some point you lose the entire purpose of having a group in it the point

00:17:49.000 of an Acronym is just supposed to keep it short, right?

00:17:50.000 It's supposed to be something that, like, everyone can just say to a group of people.

00:17:53.000 Easy to remember.

00:17:54.000 And also, it's supposed to refer to, like, a limited group of people, so you start tacking on all these letters and it defeats the entire purpose.

00:18:00.000 Like the FIRED Act.

00:18:02.000 That one was, FAUCI INCOMPETENCE REQUIRES EARLY DISMISSAL.

00:18:05.000 That's brilliant.

00:18:06.000 Excellent.

00:18:07.000 Fire the guy. 0.87

00:18:08.000 Yeah, but that's why I'm confused, because I wonder why it is people don't speak up and just say outright, like, this is, like, not communicable.

00:18:18.000 You know what I mean?

00:18:18.000 Like, I don't know what it is you're conveying.

00:18:21.000 Oh, they're scared.

00:18:22.000 That's the thing, too.

00:18:22.000 All of them are scared.

00:18:23.000 I wonder how many of them actually believe this, because I met a number of people, again, I was sort of joking earlier about art school, but I met a number of people who, behind closed doors, Wouldn't say all this far-left stuff.

00:18:32.000 In fact, they would agree with me that The left has gone off the deep end a lot of the other students were Really too far to the left and made them feel uncomfortable to voice their own opinions But and then I guess I ended up wondering is that really true?

00:18:45.000 Or do you just kind of say whatever the group is saying?

00:18:47.000 And so now that you're around me you're saying something you think I might agree with it's hard to know but I imagine there's a large number of these people who Who do think it's way over the top?

00:18:56.000 Who do think it's a little silly?

00:18:57.000 Maybe they believe in the cause, but they think all these extra letters are ridiculous, but they're just not gonna say it, because they're terrified.

00:19:02.000 Well, you know what'll happen if these people do?

00:19:04.000 It's not even necessarily about getting cancelled, it's about just a net detriment to their lives.

00:19:09.000 You don't want to get put down as the racist.

00:19:09.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:19:11.000 You don't want to have to be lectured at and educated by your friends.

00:19:13.000 It's not even that.

00:19:15.000 I won't get a speaking position, or I'll get a worse grade, or people will start saying mean things about me on Facebook.

00:19:23.000 It's just like I don't want to deal with the stress.

00:19:25.000 This woman lecturing at Yale will point a weapon at me. 1.00

00:19:28.000 Do you think she graded white students fairly?

00:19:32.000 Yeah, no.

00:19:32.000 Yeah.

00:19:33.000 No, definitely not.

00:19:35.000 She's like, F. 0.74

00:19:36.000 Watched a lot of that stuff.

00:19:37.000 The early seasons of Simpsons were the best.

00:19:39.000 Oh yeah, absolutely.

00:19:40.000 And then it started to trail off.

00:19:41.000 No, I'm a huge fan.

00:19:42.000 I've watched basically every episode until like maybe season 25 or something.

00:19:45.000 It's horrible now.

00:19:46.000 I'm sure you know that.

00:19:47.000 We had like Adult Swim back in the day.

00:19:49.000 Sarcastic. 0.79

00:19:50.000 It's actually, no, not Mike Judge.

00:19:53.000 Alright, so Beavis and Butthead was Mike Judge.

00:19:56.000 Yeah, it's a spin-off, right?

00:19:57.000 Right, it was a spin-off, right.

00:19:59.000 But just, it's very smart comedy.

00:20:01.000 I like the... Nowadays, like, I don't actually love the Seth MacFarlane stuff so much anymore.

00:20:06.000 It's more like gag-ish.

00:20:07.000 Yeah, 100%.

00:20:08.000 As opposed to, I don't know, cultural commentary.

00:20:11.000 Well, and that's the thing, like, gags are great to take you through something really short, but when it's like 22 minutes long and I'm supposed to be roped into a story, I kind of stop caring about it when my attention is brought in every different direction for some short, cheap joke.

00:20:23.000 Well, especially with the McFarlane stuff, I think they have a thing where every 10 seconds or something we have to do a joke, even if it's a flashback.

00:20:23.000 So I hear you on that.

00:20:30.000 Well, that reminds me of the time I... Yeah, exactly.

00:20:32.000 It doesn't really advance the story at all.

00:20:34.000 You guys' ADD comedy or something.

00:20:36.000 You guys, you gotta understand this lecture at Yale.

00:20:38.000 You know, she's fighting very serious mainstream oppression.

00:20:43.000 Yeah, I know.

00:20:43.000 That's true.

00:20:43.000 You know, just recently we have this viral video, this viral meme that's been going around for some time.

00:20:47.000 It's true.

00:20:48.000 Skittles.

00:20:49.000 I don't know if you guys know that.

00:20:50.000 Skittles.

00:20:50.000 Oh boy.

00:20:51.000 Absolutely, it's a neo-Nazi organization.

00:20:51.000 This is a tough one.

00:20:54.000 Wait, Taste the Rainbow? 0.85

00:20:54.000 Racist company. 0.85

00:20:56.000 Oh, we have this photo.

00:20:57.000 We're not Tasting the Rainbow.

00:20:57.000 Not anymore.

00:20:58.000 We have this photo, and it's a bag of Skittles.

00:21:01.000 It's all white.

00:21:02.000 And it says, Skittles White Pride. 0.80

00:21:04.000 It's literally it's what the skittles white the skittles are white or gray They're literally white white and it says and it says on the not not none of skills bag But on the label at the spa store.

00:21:16.000 It's a skittles white pride Yes, yeah, they want to do something unique for pride month Oh my gosh. 0.93

00:21:21.000 So, but think about this, like, okay, joking aside, joking aside, Skittles thought it was

00:21:26.000 appropriate to remove all of the colored ones to replace all of the Skittles with just white

00:21:31.000 ones. 0.99

00:21:32.000 I'm like, that is the stupidest marketing campaign I have ever heard of. 1.00

00:21:37.000 Here's the thing, it is really dumb, but then again, we are talking about them. 0.99

00:21:40.000 Every single company does this Pride Month stuff, and I guess Skittles is like, we're gonna shake it up, and what did they say? 0.92

00:21:47.000 This is the only rainbow that matters, or they said something, only one rainbow matters this month.

00:21:54.000 And I'm thinking the promise God made to not flood the earth again, because that's what the rainbow is for, but then it got stolen, and now it's just a cheap marketing gimmick that every company uses in June.

00:22:04.000 A lot of fun.

00:22:06.000 Skittles?

00:22:07.000 Like, they made a bag of white Skittles?

00:22:09.000 They removed the colored Skittles?

00:22:11.000 I don't know what they were thinking this was supposed to be.

00:22:13.000 They should have just been like, you know, like this is the rainbow, whatever.

00:22:18.000 June is the perfect month for Skittles!

00:22:21.000 Taste the rainbow!

00:22:22.000 Come on, exactly. They could be like look we were supporting pride all along since the brand started existing

00:22:27.000 We've always been about the rain. That's what we're trying to tell you. Here's it's funny, right?

00:22:31.000 So you see how all these brands change their Twitter accounts? Yeah, so they put like, you know

00:22:35.000 But then in Saudi Arabia, they don't yeah skittles decided to go the complete other direction 0.71

00:22:41.000 You take the rainbow out and then make all of the Skittles white. 0.99

00:22:44.000 That's a really good idea.

00:22:46.000 That's inclusive.

00:22:46.000 His co-workers are like, that's really smart, man.

00:22:49.000 Dude, you were thinking.

00:22:50.000 You've got a future here.

00:22:52.000 You ever hear the story of how Hot Cheetos flamed Hot Cheetos?

00:22:54.000 No.

00:22:55.000 I think it was like a, you know the story?

00:22:56.000 I was gonna say Hillary Clinton got to him.

00:22:59.000 Oh my gosh, that's awesome!

00:23:01.000 That's awesome!

00:23:02.000 No, no, it was... Did you see what's in my bag?

00:23:04.000 Hot sauce!

00:23:04.000 So this is a crazy story.

00:23:05.000 Apparently it was like a janitor, right?

00:23:07.000 And the CEO or something put out a company-wide message saying, we respect all of our employees.

00:23:13.000 You know, that being said, if anybody has any ideas, we're always listening.

00:23:17.000 And so this one dude who worked there, he would always take the dry Cheetos with no cheese on them, and they were extras.

00:23:23.000 He'd bring them home and he would put chili powder on them and shake them up.

00:23:25.000 And it was a lot like some kind of Mexican snack.

00:23:29.000 Not necessarily elotes, but something like that.

00:23:31.000 And so then when his family started trying it, they were like, you should tell them.

00:23:35.000 And so then apparently he made a video or something and sent it in.

00:23:37.000 And everybody at the company was like, what are you doing?

00:23:39.000 Don't send this.

00:23:40.000 The CEO isn't serious.

00:23:42.000 And then when they got the message and they saw this and they realized that

00:23:44.000 people really liked the snack, they were like, let's try making it.

00:23:49.000 And it's like the number one, or it became the number one, like, chip snack that was sold in stores.

00:23:55.000 So this guy got promoted, became this high-level six-figure dude.

00:23:57.000 They really meant it.

00:23:58.000 It's one of the coolest stories ever.

00:23:59.000 Yeah, that is great, actually.

00:24:00.000 This one's gotta be the opposite.

00:24:02.000 Like, some kid's like, I got a really good idea for diversity and pride.

00:24:07.000 Get rid of all of the colored Skittles. 1.00

00:24:09.000 Here's the question though.

00:24:10.000 I mean, we're making fun of them for it, but has this been negatively received?

00:24:14.000 Or are they doing well?

00:24:15.000 I tweeted an image that says Skittles white pride. 0.94

00:24:18.000 I don't think Skittles is having a good day of this.

00:24:22.000 You never know, dude.

00:24:23.000 People could buy into it.

00:24:24.000 They could be like, this is a great Skittles.

00:24:25.000 That was very brave Skittles.

00:24:27.000 Dude, I wish I was a multi-million dollar corporation so I could like fight oppression with like junk mail about BLM and I'm sure you're right that there are many Identitarians who are cheering this, just like the left cheers for all their little corporate logos. 0.91

00:24:41.000 I'm sure there are a certain sect of a certain racial Identitarian group that's very happy that Skittles made a white pride bag. 0.96

00:24:47.000 You know, this is a problem I have.

00:24:50.000 All their logos are white, by the way.

00:24:51.000 I just looked at their Twitter.

00:24:52.000 Oh, did they change it to gray?

00:24:53.000 Did they change them to gray as part of the backlash?

00:24:56.000 Oh, bro, this is the worst thing ever.

00:24:58.000 They also, their number, their top tweet right now, our most recent tweet, second most recent is, hey Samsung girl, they get us fellow kids, you know what I mean?

00:25:06.000 Oh yeah, they do.

00:25:07.000 Did you guys see this, the Samsung girl that everyone was like fawning over for no reason?

00:25:09.000 That's gonna end really well.

00:25:10.000 Oh, they made them gray, they changed it!

00:25:12.000 They made the Skittles gray.

00:25:13.000 That was fast.

00:25:14.000 We were ready.

00:25:15.000 Well, I think calling them colored Skittles was probably the mistake in the first place.

00:25:19.000 I would say so, yeah.

00:25:21.000 I have an inappropriate joke.

00:25:22.000 Can I say it?

00:25:23.000 No.

00:25:24.000 How inappropriate?

00:25:24.000 No, there's like a scale.

00:25:25.000 Is it family friendly?

00:25:26.000 Yeah.

00:25:27.000 You know what?

00:25:27.000 No.

00:25:28.000 It's my reputation on the line.

00:25:29.000 What do you call colored Skittles? 1.00

00:25:31.000 Oh no.

00:25:31.000 No.

00:25:32.000 No.

00:25:33.000 Delicious.

00:25:34.000 Don't do this.

00:25:35.000 Delicious.

00:25:35.000 Don't do this.

00:25:36.000 Yes.

00:25:36.000 Don't do this.

00:25:37.000 Ian was correct.

00:25:38.000 This is a problem I have with calling people- Oh wait, do you want to answer that joke?

00:25:43.000 I think it's too risky.

00:25:44.000 Let's save the punchline for the after show.

00:25:46.000 Oh wait, is there going to be an after show?

00:25:49.000 Oh, there's no after show on Fridays.

00:25:52.000 Let me derail this one real quick.

00:25:53.000 I didn't even say the joke!

00:25:55.000 Derail it quick, Ian.

00:25:56.000 This is a problem I have with calling people black and white.

00:25:59.000 Firstly, we're not.

00:26:01.000 And then when people try and market white candy, all of a sudden it's considered racist, which is insane. 1.00

00:26:06.000 Because there are no white people in the- No, it's the stupidest thing. 1.00

00:26:09.000 It's stupid. 1.00

00:26:10.000 It's stupid. 1.00

00:26:10.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:26:11.000 Agreed.

00:26:12.000 I think it was, I don't think it was just that it was just white candy, but like white, if people were upset about this, I think like the combination of white and pride together might've... Yeah, we had people were upset.

00:26:20.000 Isn't this supposed to have to do with sex somehow?

00:26:23.000 Sexuality? 0.70

00:26:24.000 Yeah, the rainbow taste.

00:26:26.000 Talk about tasting the rainbow.

00:26:27.000 Yeah, there you go.

00:26:28.000 That's pretty good.

00:26:29.000 Every joke I have is rated R. Come on, George!

00:26:32.000 So Ian, Ian is wearing the, are you wearing the OG gorilla shirt?

00:26:35.000 This is the OG, I am a gorilla.

00:26:37.000 Let me stand up and get this on.

00:26:39.000 So when we first made this shirt, many of you may not be familiar, this shirt was misprinted, where for some reason, Teespring made the face of the gorilla darkened black, but only the inside of the face, so it looked like it was paint, and the hands were white, which makes no sense because it's just a gorilla, and it was like, what a weird thing to do, to paint the face of the gorilla black and give him white Hands.

00:27:01.000 This is strange.

00:27:02.000 And so it created this huge controversy and then, you know, Teespring fixed it and apologized.

00:27:07.000 But I was pissed off.

00:27:09.000 A lot of people were messaging me saying like, why is there a blackface gorilla shirt?

00:27:12.000 Like, what is this?

00:27:13.000 And I'll be like, dude, clearly we don't sell that.

00:27:15.000 It's just meant to be a meme about the show.

00:27:17.000 It's an inside joke about Alex Jones.

00:27:19.000 And then I started getting lefties.

00:27:21.000 Once I called it out saying like, this is not our mistake, the lefties were like, having a gorilla t-shirt was racist enough.

00:27:28.000 What?

00:27:29.000 No joke.

00:27:29.000 And I was like... That's extremely racist to say!

00:27:31.000 I know!

00:27:32.000 I know! 0.87

00:27:32.000 That's a ridiculously racist thing to say! 0.87

00:27:34.000 Apes Together Strong, never forget.

00:27:36.000 I was like, dude, it's like Magilla Gorilla isn't a race thing, it's a cartoon.

00:27:40.000 It's like, having a shirt that says I'm a gorilla was a reference to Ishmael is no reference to race.

00:27:45.000 If you see that and think race, man, you got problems.

00:27:48.000 You have serious problems.

00:27:50.000 These people say they're racist.

00:27:51.000 Like Robin D'Angelo, she wrote a book about it.

00:27:53.000 She says she's racist. 0.99

00:27:55.000 Well, there you go.

00:27:56.000 That's true.

00:27:56.000 They're not lying.

00:27:57.000 She walked into a party and saw the group of black people and said, you know what? 0.95

00:27:59.000 I'm scared of those people. 0.89

00:28:00.000 That's a true story, though.

00:28:01.000 She said that.

00:28:02.000 She literally wrote that.

00:28:03.000 Wow.

00:28:04.000 And she's like a foremost expert and lecturer on critical race theory. 0.96

00:28:08.000 She wrote in her book that when she goes to parties with black people, she's uncomfortable around them.

00:28:12.000 And I'm like, dude, lady. 0.57

00:28:13.000 What a weird thing to say.

00:28:14.000 Original sin, man.

00:28:16.000 People like most people don't feel that way.

00:28:19.000 That's so weird.

00:28:21.000 I don't know, man.

00:28:22.000 Is it something I'm missing?

00:28:23.000 Like, I grew up in Chicago, so I don't have, like, I don't think of the world that way, and she's from the suburbs or something?

00:28:30.000 I don't know, but even though, like, I mostly grew up in the suburbs, and I don't feel that way.

00:28:35.000 I think it's just a weird putting race on a pedestal type thing where you're gonna evaluate people on that basis for better or for worse.

00:28:44.000 I mean, it's...

00:28:45.000 The way the left has said that we should analyze people, and she's on the left, so that's how she's gonna look at everybody.

00:28:50.000 She's gonna put them in those categories, and if she feels uncomfortable, maybe it just becomes, well, I must be uncomfortable because of that person's race, because I've internalized racism.

00:28:56.000 Or maybe she actually just, like, straight up is racist. 0.99

00:28:58.000 I don't know.

00:28:58.000 I'll tell you this, I went to... Oh, well, yes, she obviously is, of course, but you get what I mean.

00:29:03.000 I was in Thailand during Chinese New Year in, I think, 2014, and I was standing in this market where there were, like, thousands of people on the streets doing their thing.

00:29:14.000 I could see clean all the way, like, everybody was shorter than me.

00:29:19.000 So I was standing, you know, with my friends, and I had clear field of view all the way down the market.

00:29:25.000 And it's an interesting thing, you know, when these people say that, like, race is a social construct, and then you go to Thailand, and you're like, then I go to Scandinavia, and I'm in a crowd, and I can't see anything at all, because everyone's seven feet tall.

00:29:35.000 No, it's true, though.

00:29:36.000 You just thought they were, because you internalized racism.

00:29:38.000 But I wonder if a big component of this, of, like, Robin DiAngelo's fear, is that she's never been, you know what I mean?

00:29:43.000 Like, she's never actually interacted with these people.

00:29:46.000 And so, if these people who think race doesn't exist, ever actually traveled to another country, they might be

00:29:52.000 like, hey, like people here tend to be a little shorter, people here tend to be a

00:29:54.000 little taller.

00:29:55.000 And hey, guess what?

00:29:56.000 In America, race is not a, you have no reason to be uncomfortable.

00:30:00.000 It's like the weirdest, the weirdest thing to be uncomfortable about, in my opinion.

00:30:03.000 Like what about that does she not feel comfortable with?

00:30:06.000 You know what I mean?

00:30:07.000 Reminds me of male feminists who want to hang out around other women. 1.00

00:30:10.000 Listen, I'm a pig. 0.98

00:30:11.000 When I'm around you, the thoughts that are in my head... Let me just tell you for a half hour what I'm thinking. 0.97

00:30:17.000 I was tempted to say you shouldn't vote when I first walked into the room.

00:30:19.000 You know how inappropriate it would be if I said this, this, and this? 1.00

00:30:24.000 Aren't men such pigs? 0.99

00:30:25.000 The guy's in the party. 1.00

00:30:27.000 One of these male feminists is in a party and he's looking at the women and he goes, I just think we should repeal the 19... I'm sorry. 0.96

00:30:32.000 I'm sorry, I can't help it.

00:30:34.000 I was at a party and I saw women and I thought it was wrong of me, but it's what I thought. 1.00

00:30:39.000 I just wanted to end women's suffrage. 1.00

00:30:43.000 Haven't they suffraged enough? 0.98

00:30:45.000 They definitely have.

00:30:46.000 Some would say so.

00:30:50.000 I think you're right about D'Angelo's not being familiar.

00:30:53.000 Rather than be like, it's because of the race, I'm uncomfortable.

00:30:57.000 If it's unfamiliar to you, yeah, you might be uncomfortable with something new.

00:31:02.000 Whether it's the height, the skin tone, the way that the posture of the body is.

00:31:07.000 I don't think that's what she was saying, though.

00:31:08.000 Yeah, but it's weird.

00:31:10.000 I think maybe she's just never met a black person before she wrote these books.

00:31:13.000 That I can understand.

00:31:15.000 If you grew up in a cloistered environment around one color and size of human, and then you go to an environment where a bunch of all humans are a different shape and size and color.

00:31:24.000 Why size?

00:31:26.000 I wasn't in the shire, bro.

00:31:28.000 Yeah.

00:31:28.000 Probably.

00:31:29.000 Well, she, yeah, she is a hobbit. 1.00

00:31:32.000 I didn't feel, I don't feel uncomfortable going to Thailand.

00:31:34.000 Like noticing that, you know, people were shorter than me.

00:31:37.000 Like, I don't, I, Also, it's meaningless.

00:31:40.000 She might have been beat up as a kid not even as racially just she might have been abused as a child So she has fear in general in her life unresolved fear or something I think it's just that she's racist, but you have close communities that have negative views, and then you have elitist racist views.

00:31:56.000 So, like, she probably grew up in this hoity-toity, like, white community with her mom being like, oh, you know, talk down to people, condescend, you're so much better, and it's like the whole ideology of these people is that they are better.

00:32:09.000 Like no joke, it is a form of white supremacy. Not in the same sense they try to convey, right?

00:32:14.000 So their version of white supremacy makes little sense.

00:32:17.000 They're like prejudice plus power.

00:32:18.000 Yes.

00:32:19.000 But when you think about the core of their ideology, that they think that white people

00:32:22.000 hold special privileged positions and have more power and more control, and they literally tell 0.90

00:32:27.000 minorities they can't succeed, I'm like, bro, I think you're a white supremacist. You know what

00:32:30.000 I mean?

00:32:31.000 Well, I think for some of them what it is, it's sort of the phenomena you see with the

00:32:36.000 kid who didn't do that poorly on a test, but they complained about how poorly they did.

00:32:41.000 Like they want you to think that they think they're great as bad.

00:32:44.000 So someone will get like an A minus and go, oh.

00:32:46.000 Oh, I did so bad on this.

00:32:48.000 And then you ask how they did and they got an A minus.

00:32:50.000 So they're saying they did something bad, but it's really for the purpose of signaling how great they are.

00:32:54.000 That's kind of what I think.

00:32:55.000 Oh, I was racist, but I'm aware of it.

00:32:58.000 You're talking about Asians, right? 0.99

00:32:59.000 What?

00:33:01.000 Maybe, maybe.

00:33:02.000 How they get A's instead of A pluses.

00:33:05.000 And then... I'm sorry.

00:33:09.000 It's very funny to me.

00:33:10.000 I had a friend who was Chinese, valedictorian, amazing grades, perfect, right? 1.00

00:33:15.000 Cried about getting an A- on one of our finals.

00:33:18.000 I'm like, are you kidding me?

00:33:19.000 I would kill to have a C on anything.

00:33:24.000 That's the end of my joke, but it's not a joke.

00:33:26.000 Yeah.

00:33:28.000 Asians are smarter.

00:33:31.000 I don't, I think, I think, hold on, hold on. 0.91

00:33:33.000 But think about this.

00:33:35.000 You have, you, you grew up in a household where you feel shame for not getting a perfect score, you know?

00:33:41.000 Oh yeah, I mean the strictness, in reality, the strictness of these parents.

00:33:46.000 If you're happy with getting a C like George and I, you become a cartoonist.

00:33:50.000 Have you ever played those like mobile games where you gotta like, it's like a puzzle game, there's one where, there's one game I play sometimes, it's like you press the start button and water comes out, but you have to like draw a ramp to like get the water to go in the bucket.

00:34:01.000 Dude, I see those ads constantly.

00:34:03.000 Okay, now hold on, hold on.

00:34:04.000 So like it's it's I've heard it's called but like a water faucet you'll draw a picture you can draw lines in the water flop follows the line you try to get to like ramp up into the bucket and you have to get three stars when I get two stars I read to the level I'm like you didn't beat the level unless you get all three stars you know that's not how I work.

00:34:21.000 You just get one star.

00:34:22.000 Ian's like, I'm going.

00:34:23.000 I'll do all of them first, and then I'll go back and like, try to get three stars on the ones that I didn't.

00:34:27.000 Bro, you should have seen me beat Sonic the Hedgehog earlier.

00:34:30.000 I didn't care how many rings I got.

00:34:32.000 I was like, to the end of the level.

00:34:33.000 Yeah, see, I have to get literally every ring in the game, otherwise I start the whole thing over.

00:34:37.000 No, not that much.

00:34:38.000 You unplug the arcade machine.

00:34:40.000 But it's like if you don't, if like I've got one game where you have like a little guy and he does a backflip and you tap the screen and he jumps and you tap it again and he tucks and then you let go and then he lands the backflip.

00:34:49.000 And I'm like I gotta get in the ring perfect max score every time and if I don't I just keep restarting until I do it.

00:34:54.000 It's frustrating.

00:34:55.000 Like I feel like if I don't get a perfect score I didn't beat the level.

00:34:58.000 Yeah.

00:34:59.000 I'm not gonna cry about it.

00:34:59.000 You know?

00:35:00.000 Do you think that's a nature or nurture thing?

00:35:02.000 I've always...

00:35:04.000 Man, this is interesting.

00:35:06.000 I think it's probably a little bit of both.

00:35:09.000 But I definitely grew up in a household where, before I even started kindergarten, my mom was teaching me math and reading.

00:35:09.000 Yeah.

00:35:14.000 Yeah, that's good.

00:35:15.000 So I started kindergarten, I knew multiplication and division and long division and all that stuff.

00:35:19.000 All the other kids were like, 2 plus 2 is 4, and I was like, 27 times 493.

00:35:21.000 I could do the math, you know?

00:35:26.000 So maybe it's a multicultural thing, I don't know.

00:35:27.000 Do your parents expect greatness out of you and punish, or not punish you, but be like, it wasn't good enough if you didn't get the perfect score?

00:35:34.000 Or were they just kind of hands-off?

00:35:36.000 At the level, at the video game, they made him replay video game levels if he didn't beat it completely.

00:35:39.000 No, but there was this game we used to play in first grade called Around the World.

00:35:42.000 Oh, I love that game, yeah.

00:35:43.000 You know what it is?

00:35:44.000 So you stand up at your desk, and then you stand behind the person with your hands on their shoulder, and then the teacher would do a flash card.

00:35:49.000 Me and my brother would never lose, so the teacher would eventually ask us to stop playing.

00:35:51.000 Oh, man.

00:35:52.000 Because it's like first grade, you show the card and be like, boom, I know the answer.

00:35:55.000 Seven.

00:35:56.000 Fourteen.

00:35:56.000 Three.

00:35:57.000 Isn't that ridiculous? 0.97

00:35:58.000 What an example of how public schools busted. 1.00

00:36:01.000 The smart kids can't play.

00:36:02.000 No, this was Catholic school.

00:36:04.000 Even Catholic schools busted.

00:36:05.000 The kids that are so good can't participate because they ruin it for everyone else.

00:36:09.000 What were they supposed to do?

00:36:10.000 I don't know.

00:36:11.000 I had the same thing in typing class.

00:36:12.000 They're like, Tim, we get it.

00:36:13.000 You know your math.

00:36:14.000 Like, you won.

00:36:14.000 Have a nice day.

00:36:15.000 Here's your prize.

00:36:16.000 Now go play with your prize.

00:36:18.000 Like, the other kids gotta learn math too.

00:36:20.000 So what is it?

00:36:21.000 It's interesting, right?

00:36:22.000 So, I'm literally Asian and I'm good at math.

00:36:26.000 I've had this theory for a long time.

00:36:27.000 It offends me that you said that, Tim.

00:36:29.000 I'm allowed to say it.

00:36:30.000 Well, I grew up around a lot of Asian kids, just in the area that I lived in, so I would go to their houses and see how their parents interacted with them a lot.

00:36:38.000 And I had this theory of, like, from certain countries, when they were immigrant parents, they understood how hard it was to climb the social ladder, let's say.

00:36:48.000 A lot of immigrants start with very little, let's say. 1.00

00:36:50.000 So their parents know, like, you have to study ultra hard.

00:36:55.000 I'm gonna push my kids super duper hard because we're not gonna- we're gonna, like, leapfrog up.

00:36:59.000 You're not just gonna be a normal person.

00:37:01.000 I'm gonna, like, train my kid to be- like, for instance, I grew up- I won't say the towns, but, uh, I used to tutor kids after school and stuff with art and whatnot.

00:37:10.000 A lot of Asian parents would not let their kids come home after school.

00:37:13.000 You have piano practice, art practice, whatever, all kinds of different practices.

00:37:17.000 They would push their kids You weren't even allowed to come home.

00:37:20.000 You had to go to the library after school.

00:37:22.000 Like, I just, I noticed the way that they raised their kids a lot, and the kids resented at first. 0.98

00:37:28.000 But then they kick so much butt as they get older.

00:37:32.000 I do remember, you know, when I was a kid, like, my mom, like, drew a picture. 0.86

00:37:35.000 It said, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

00:37:37.000 And, like, those messages, that messaging.

00:37:39.000 I also remember being, like, 13 and trying to learn how to kickflip.

00:37:42.000 And, by choice, I stood outside my house for, like, eight hours every day.

00:37:47.000 Kickflip, heelflip, like skateboard tricks, right?

00:37:49.000 So, heelflip is when you pop the board and then, with your heel, you kick it and it flips.

00:37:54.000 One day I could just do it.

00:37:55.000 It was like it came naturally to me.

00:37:56.000 Everybody kind of has the tricks they're just natural at.

00:37:58.000 But kickflip, like one of the most basic tricks everybody can do, I struggled with.

00:38:03.000 And no one made me do it.

00:38:04.000 There was no prize.

00:38:05.000 There was no parent sitting there saying you have to land it.

00:38:08.000 It was just like one day I went outside with my board for eight hours just trying and I was frustrated.

00:38:11.000 I was angry.

00:38:11.000 I could never get it.

00:38:12.000 It made no sense to me.

00:38:13.000 And then I remember the first day I finally landed it and I landed it crooked and I was like...

00:38:18.000 No one told me to do it.

00:38:18.000 I did it.

00:38:19.000 There was no, I wasn't forced to do it.

00:38:21.000 I got no prize for it other than my own.

00:38:23.000 So I wonder, you know, I think, I think everything's a little bit of nature and nurture.

00:38:28.000 And for me, especially, there was, I don't, I don't think there was something in my life that I can't recall other than maybe just being around hardworking parents that maybe I don't realize how much that really did a rebuff on me.

00:38:40.000 But there's a lot about me, obviously, where I'm just like, I have to do it.

00:38:43.000 It has to be perfect.

00:38:44.000 Yeah, it's similar with me and drawing and stuff.

00:38:45.000 And I'm sure Seamus, you can agree, there's a certain satisfaction to setting a goal for yourself.

00:38:50.000 And then realizing, wait, I did that, but nobody taught me how to do it.

00:38:50.000 Oh, yeah.

00:38:54.000 There's just some miracle of this feeling of hard work.

00:38:59.000 It equals results, and if I keep doing this one thing over and over, like, I'm a huge fan of the 10,000 hour rule, let's say.

00:39:05.000 If anyone asks me how do I get good at drawing, it's like, well, have you drawn 10,000 hours?

00:39:09.000 Get started, or continue down the road.

00:39:12.000 But that lesson, I don't think it's necessarily racial in the sense of like, it can be passed from parents to kids or something like that.

00:39:19.000 I don't think, maybe some people are born with it, some aren't.

00:39:23.000 I don't like that there's a cultural excuse of, I'm born in a position where, let's say, some people are more ahead of me than I am.

00:39:32.000 I don't like the excuse of, well, I'm just not going to try because I was given a bad hand at birth.

00:39:40.000 That's the narrative of the left, man.

00:39:42.000 It's not your fault, don't try.

00:39:43.000 But it's such a lie.

00:39:44.000 It's such a... You're playing yourself if you think that you are not in control of your future.

00:39:51.000 If you keep trying to do something, just one thing, pick one thing you love.

00:39:55.000 Yeah.

00:39:56.000 Just keep doing it and eventually, like, I didn't make my big break or whatever in cartooning until two years ago.

00:40:03.000 I'd been drawing... I made my debut or whatever back in 2006.

00:40:07.000 Exactly.

00:40:08.000 I couldn't get a job in comics until two years ago.

00:40:11.000 A lot of people don't know this, but before Seamus started Freedom Tunes, it was Commie Tunes.

00:40:15.000 It was Commie Tunes.

00:40:16.000 I was actually a far-left activist, and then I was like, alright, I'm gonna try to be a little bit more moderate, so I made Biden Tunes.

00:40:22.000 And I've said this before, I was a huge Biden fan.

00:40:24.000 Which is good.

00:40:25.000 But then at one point, I was like, you know what?

00:40:27.000 I've got an idea.

00:40:28.000 Let's try Freedom Tunes.

00:40:29.000 And I'm here today.

00:40:31.000 The grift paid off!

00:40:33.000 The grift paid off!

00:40:35.000 It's funny, because it takes a really long time to become successful in anything, and for me, It wasn't just drawing.

00:40:41.000 I mean, I'm pretty mediocre at just like the raw art of drawing something photorealistic.

00:40:45.000 I'm much more into cartooning.

00:40:46.000 I used to be a lot better at drawing in college when I was doing it consistently.

00:40:50.000 But the point is, for me, the payoff was trying to see how quickly I could get something done that looked decent.

00:40:57.000 And that skill set obviously turned out to pay out for me because we're uploading stuff all the time and that's a huge strategy for our growth.

00:41:03.000 But yeah, I hear that.

00:41:06.000 On the other hand, there's very much a nurture component to it.

00:41:09.000 How much were you pushed as a kid to not give up?

00:41:12.000 How many virtues were you instilled with?

00:41:14.000 But there is a nature part of it, which is how interested are you in the thing to begin with?

00:41:19.000 Passion.

00:41:19.000 Exactly.

00:41:21.000 I think parents can give kids drive.

00:41:23.000 I think if parents just make their kids stick to something, it helps.

00:41:26.000 Whatever gets your butt in that seat for 10,000 hours, honestly.

00:41:29.000 Oh, I was told that I could do it, which is why I believed I could.

00:41:34.000 Otherwise, I never would have tried.

00:41:35.000 My parents never pushed me to do art.

00:41:38.000 Actually, it's a funny thing.

00:41:40.000 Your parents never pushed you to do art?

00:41:44.000 Nobody pushed.

00:41:44.000 I'm giving you a hard time.

00:41:45.000 I think most people's parents are like, please don't do art do anything besides art my whole life It's been that story.

00:41:51.000 No for real like I was I tried to go to art school They're like, why don't you go to like real school exactly?

00:41:56.000 Can you get a real degree and then just do art in the side?

00:41:58.000 But there was just something in me that said I have to do this and this this is the only thing I can do I'm not good at anything else This is one of the, I think one of the biggest problems with modern society, especially for young people, is the obsession with college.

00:42:12.000 So, after Occupy Wall Street, and I'm featured in, I get all this press, I'm featured in magazines, I still had family being like, will you go to college now?

00:42:20.000 And I was like, no, no, no, I'm going to college right now, I'm on my way.

00:42:24.000 25.

00:42:24.000 I was like, I'm going to college right now, I'm on my way to give a guest lecture to the PhD course on journalism.

00:42:29.000 I was like, what do you think I would learn when I'm the one being brought in to teach these people things they don't know?

00:42:33.000 Dude, Stephen Colbert got an honorary degree after he was just Stephen Colbert the goofball on TV.

00:42:38.000 They were like, we love him so much, we're gonna give him a college degree for that.

00:42:41.000 I know art school dropouts who, they dropped out of art school and then later they got a degree, honorary degree, something like that, and they ended up teaching at that school.

00:42:49.000 Yeah, art school's a weird thing.

00:42:50.000 You should really only go to it for the skills you're gonna pick up.

00:42:52.000 The degree probably isn't gonna feel a lot better.

00:42:55.000 Yeah, networking is the biggest advantage to it.

00:42:58.000 We kind of veered off in this direction.

00:42:59.000 I wanted to stop before and move into the ramifications of having a worldview built upon, you can't succeed because the world is the problem.

00:43:09.000 So one of the key things is like, Core elements of the culture war.

00:43:13.000 One side says you can do better and you know find your path towards victory.

00:43:19.000 The other side says there is no path because the world is bad and the world must change for you.

00:43:24.000 Which brings me to this story from the Daily Mail.

00:43:24.000 Yeah.

00:43:26.000 Quote, it's like living in Palestine.

00:43:29.000 Minneapolis is renamed Murderapolis as children of under-policed city pay the price in blood for violence that has skyrocketed since the death of George Floyd.

00:43:41.000 So they go on to mention 211 people have suffered gunshot wounds up from 81 last year.

00:43:47.000 More than 200 cops have left or are leaving, signing off or on disability.

00:43:51.000 More than 300 people gathered at the site of Ania's fatal shooting for a peace walk, a call from the community to put down the guns and pick up the love.

00:43:58.000 What's happening now is I've experienced it with Occupy Wall Street, I've experienced it with these activists.

00:44:03.000 When you keep telling people over and over again, there's literally nothing you can do to succeed, what happens?

00:44:07.000 People give up.

00:44:08.000 They don't succeed, believe it or not.

00:44:08.000 Yeah, they don't succeed.

00:44:09.000 But some people decide, okay, then I'll take.

00:44:12.000 Then you get crime, you get violence.

00:44:14.000 Then they demand the system change.

00:44:16.000 And, you know, we see a lot of these stories about police brutality and police shootings.

00:44:20.000 There's a story right now.

00:44:21.000 So in Minneapolis the other night, they were rioting.

00:44:23.000 Because an armed fugitive who was arrested like 20 times and had multiple felonies, U.S.

00:44:23.000 Why?

00:44:29.000 Marshals tried to stop him.

00:44:30.000 They said he drew a gun.

00:44:31.000 They shot and killed him.

00:44:32.000 Of course, then they start rioting, and one guy is caught on camera, and they ask him what he's here for, and he says, believe it or not, I forgot the guy's name.

00:44:38.000 He's like, I'm not gonna lie.

00:44:39.000 I don't remember the guy's name.

00:44:40.000 They clearly have no idea what they're talking about.

00:44:44.000 So, in a sense, it's kind of sad.

00:44:46.000 They don't know why they're doing what they're doing, other than it's the only thing they were told they could do to effect change.

00:44:52.000 These are people who were never told when they were younger, you gotta keep trying until you figure it out.

00:44:57.000 If you're trying to find a path towards victory and it's not working, try a new path.

00:45:00.000 These are people who were told, there isn't one.

00:45:02.000 You will never succeed.

00:45:04.000 And so what do they do?

00:45:06.000 They just go out and smash.

00:45:07.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:45:08.000 I mean, that's a huge cause of crime, right?

00:45:10.000 People believing that there's nothing they can do to improve their material circumstances within the system.

00:45:14.000 They have to break the rules in order to get ahead.

00:45:16.000 And so if your view of the world is that the only way you're ever going to make something of yourself or achieve any level of status is by hurting other people, guess what?

00:45:24.000 You're going to hurt other people.

00:45:25.000 You're going to take their stuff.

00:45:26.000 Or just destroy things and burn it down because if I can't have it, no one can have it.

00:45:31.000 Well, you're hurting the insurance companies.

00:45:35.000 I'm so glad insurance was invented so we could just burn down anything for any reason and no one gets hurt.

00:45:40.000 There's no victim.

00:45:42.000 I just want to mention this about insurance.

00:45:43.000 There are people who have literally gone into debt Just cleaning up the debris from their place of work or the business they own being destroyed in a riot.

00:45:54.000 And the insurance check didn't even cover that.

00:45:56.000 So they went into debt without even getting to reopen their business.

00:45:59.000 Insurance will pay for it.

00:46:00.000 But let's not forget, you ever go to a pizza restaurant and you see a picture of like the owner and he's like Tony Danza and he's giving a thumbs up?

00:46:07.000 That photo's never coming back. 0.60

00:46:09.000 You can't get insurance for that photograph, but let's be a little less silly. 0.89

00:46:13.000 The first dollar.

00:46:14.000 Everyone frames their first dollar they put up on the wall.

00:46:16.000 The first dollar that comes in, never getting that back.

00:46:18.000 Let's say the guy had a painting from his mom on the wall, never getting that back.

00:46:21.000 Let's say his mom died and the last thing she gave him after she died was this beautiful painting and he says, I want to see this painting every day in my shop.

00:46:29.000 And they threw a brick through his window and they burned it down.

00:46:31.000 Insurance will never pay for that.

00:46:33.000 Exactly.

00:46:33.000 And also, profit margins are very thin.

00:46:35.000 So even if you're lucky enough to have your insurance company pay for it, your rates are going to increase.

00:46:38.000 And it's possible your rates will increase so much that you're not going to be able to afford to operate in that area anymore.

00:46:42.000 So fewer people are going to open shop in that area.

00:46:44.000 The only people will be able to afford to will be massive businesses.

00:46:47.000 So you're just hurting the little guy in the end.

00:46:49.000 Yeah.

00:46:50.000 This is what happens when, you know, people are told throughout their whole life, there is nothing.

00:46:56.000 And that's the danger of this white privilege ideology these leftists, and they talk about white privilege.

00:47:02.000 Like, we talked about this last week or whatever, when Chris Rufo was challenged by that guy Mark Lamont Hill.

00:47:06.000 Because, you know, he was saying they're trying to say whiteness is all bad, and then Mark Lamont Hill is like... I think it was Mark Lamont Hill, I think his name.

00:47:12.000 And he's like, tell me one good thing you like about being white, and Chris Rufo was like, I reject that framework.

00:47:17.000 Like, as if race is the component.

00:47:19.000 And he's right.

00:47:21.000 That dude who is interviewing him views the world through you, by nature of being white, have something. 0.80

00:47:27.000 This is critical race theory.

00:47:28.000 That whiteness is property. 1.00

00:47:30.000 That's literally what they think.

00:47:32.000 They think that you're walking around with, like, plus-two charisma because you started as a white person.

00:47:37.000 Racial passives. 0.98

00:47:38.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:47:39.000 Like, as if you have, like, a little book, you open it up, and it's, like, white.

00:47:41.000 It means you get plus-one all stats and plus-one money.

00:47:43.000 It's like, it doesn't work that way.

00:47:45.000 It doesn't.

00:47:46.000 You have to be a good person.

00:47:47.000 And it's the weirdest thing that they attribute it to white people because imagine it this way.

00:47:51.000 Let's say a baby is born in the middle of the woods, and the mom dies, and then wolves come and take the baby, and the baby's raised by wolves.

00:47:58.000 Is that baby going to have privilege?

00:48:01.000 No, it's not.

00:48:02.000 It's going to be living with wolves and eating refuse.

00:48:05.000 Look, that's the kind of argument that somebody who doesn't care about history or is intentionally not Alright, so I'm Greek, right?

00:48:15.000 My great-grandparents were having to deal with the Ottoman Empire.

00:48:20.000 It's not a modern thing that a lot of people talk about, but they were basically on-the-run refugees. 1.00

00:48:25.000 Some of my extended family back then might have even been like slaves, who knows?

00:48:29.000 And then they were on the run for many years, and eventually they made their way to America, whatever.

00:48:34.000 That had nothing to do with race.

00:48:36.000 It was just a terrible thing that happened to a certain region of the world that there were bad people doing things to people who were just trying to live their lives kind of thing.

00:48:45.000 It's terrible.

00:48:47.000 But I use the example of this.

00:48:49.000 Like, I'm first-generation American.

00:48:51.000 I was born here.

00:48:52.000 I had opportunities that my parents didn't have, that my grandparents definitely didn't have.

00:48:55.000 Like, my grandma was picking tobacco as a girl.

00:48:58.000 You know, she told me about, like, her hands were brown because, like, she was picking up all this tobacco.

00:49:02.000 She didn't have a childhood.

00:49:02.000 Like, a girl.

00:49:04.000 My grandpa, same thing, didn't finish middle school.

00:49:07.000 I got to finish high school.

00:49:09.000 It drives me nuts to think, I didn't realize this until I was an adult, but just to have been born here is such a lucky thing for me compared to the rest of my family just one generation ago.

00:49:24.000 My dad, I don't want to talk too much about him out of respect, but he was born in terrible conditions, and just the fact that he made it to America at all is such a freak accident.

00:49:34.000 And then for me to have been born here is even more of a freak accident.

00:49:37.000 But then for me to go around and... I can't blame... Alright, let's say my career didn't work out until recently, whatever.

00:49:43.000 I can't blame anybody but myself for that.

00:49:46.000 I didn't work hard enough, I didn't have the right opportunities, whatever.

00:49:48.000 Maybe I had bad luck.

00:49:49.000 But I...

00:49:51.000 I was born in America and that's already, not to disrespect anyone who wasn't, but like, just to be born here in this time.

00:49:58.000 In this time, that's what I was going to say.

00:50:00.000 Makes you so lucky.

00:50:01.000 Because you realize, if we were doing this show, if we were trying to do this show maybe like seven years ago, Seamus would be surrounding me with all his buddies pouring milkshakes on my head and like laughing.

00:50:11.000 No, it would be the opposite, dude.

00:50:12.000 The Irish would be getting made fun of and insulted.

00:50:14.000 They'd be being mocked. 0.75

00:50:15.000 No, I mean, it's true that the Irish are extremely lower class. 1.00

00:50:19.000 I know that my grandfather, on my mom's side, was basically pulled out of school in fourth grade, so that was the highest education he ever got, and he just had to work for the rest of his childhood.

00:50:27.000 In America?

00:50:28.000 Yeah, in America.

00:50:29.000 Okay.

00:50:29.000 In America.

00:50:30.000 So things it and also I won't get too into the details of my family history, but a lot of really horrible

00:50:35.000 Horrible circumstances that just befell my pretty recent ancestors even in this nation

00:50:41.000 This is an incredible time to be alive And also when I look at where my ancestors were just one or

00:50:46.000 two generations ago and where I am now It's really incredible that people could work their way up

00:50:51.000 any kind of hierarchy that quickly over time Because in many other countries you just have a kind of

00:50:56.000 caste system and people look at the United States and they say well

00:50:59.000 There is a hierarchy and so that must mean you have kind of a caste system the richer at the top poor at the bottom

00:51:03.000 But what people don't recognize is that there is so much There is so much moving in and out of income brackets in

00:51:10.000 the United States. That is entirely unprecedented Historically and also in the world today

00:51:16.000 There's more economic mobility in the United States than any other country in the world.

00:51:20.000 But you will never be told.

00:51:21.000 You're only told about income inequality.

00:51:23.000 You're not told about the fact that people move through their income bracket extremely fluidly in the United States.

00:51:28.000 And that just isn't the case to the same extent in other developed countries.

00:51:31.000 And even our low income brackets, like the fact that we have like air conditioning in our houses that you could pay for an air conditioner or whatever.

00:51:37.000 That you can go and buy groceries.

00:51:38.000 Half the world can't buy groceries half the time.

00:51:41.000 The fact that you can buy a crappy car, let's even say, that just kind of runs, like puts you already ahead of so many people.

00:51:48.000 We have fat homeless people. 0.96

00:51:51.000 I mean, that's what drives the problem.

00:51:53.000 Well, yes, but in homelessness also often, and I know a number of people who are homeless, and it's horrible, but oftentimes homelessness is a product of mental illness or alcoholism.

00:52:02.000 It's not as if we don't have enough resources for everybody.

00:52:06.000 You also have that video... I tweeted this video out from a Twitter account on the Venice Boardwalk.

00:52:12.000 It's three guys just laughing about how they love being homeless.

00:52:15.000 So I worked at a homeless shelter and one of the biggest problems is people don't... We get this so often from the left when they're like, we could end the homelessness if we just stop spending money here.

00:52:24.000 I'm like, bro, you can't.

00:52:26.000 It's like...

00:52:26.000 You can't.

00:52:28.000 Children.

00:52:29.000 And I mean this with respect.

00:52:32.000 Children just lack knowledge.

00:52:34.000 They're young.

00:52:35.000 They haven't experienced things.

00:52:36.000 They also lack wisdom.

00:52:37.000 And it's not absolute.

00:52:39.000 There are a lot of really smart and wise young people for sure.

00:52:41.000 But they look at homeless people and they're like, we could just pay to end this.

00:52:43.000 And I'm like, go down to Venice.

00:52:46.000 And ask the beach bums, and they're gonna be like, I'm not going anywhere. 0.98

00:52:48.000 They're gonna be like, I like living out here.

00:52:50.000 Dude, I gotta admit, like Venice is rad.

00:52:53.000 They got public showers that are beautiful, and tons of people just sleep on the beach.

00:52:57.000 You can't convince them to stop doing it because it's their passion, they love it.

00:53:01.000 And it's true for other places, too.

00:53:03.000 They're rail jumpers. 0.97

00:53:05.000 What do they call them, these people?

00:53:07.000 They ride cargo trains throughout the United States.

00:53:07.000 They ride the rails.

00:53:10.000 And they have, you know, it's like that trope of the hobo with the stick, and he's got the handkerchief wrapped in the back, and it's full of stuff.

00:53:16.000 Not like that specifically, but I knew a ton of people when I lived in Seattle.

00:53:20.000 They were rail jumpers. 0.93

00:53:21.000 They would wait for a cargo freight train and they would jump on the back and ride it for free across the U.S.

00:53:26.000 Sometimes the train would stop and the engineers would get out and start beating the crap out of them and chase them off.

00:53:31.000 Typically they would just ride for free across the U.S.

00:53:33.000 They don't want to not be homeless.

00:53:35.000 So the solutions to these problems are not particularly easy and people have to realize a lot of it comes down to personal responsibility and personal choice.

00:53:42.000 Well, I also want to say this.

00:53:43.000 I want to be really careful here, too, because there are a lot of homeless people, and I know homeless people who don't want to be homeless.

00:53:48.000 They wish they had a house, and I see this in the city I live in.

00:53:51.000 I also see this in the Chicago area.

00:53:53.000 Tim, I'm sure you saw this.

00:53:54.000 When you were working at a homeless shelter, was it in the Chicago area?

00:53:56.000 No, no, it wasn't.

00:53:57.000 So, obviously, different parts of the world have different problems with homelessness, but In Chicago, where it's freezing out, I mean, a lot of those people, they really wish they had a home and they don't, but that's not necessarily a product of the fact that there weren't enough resources for everyone.

00:53:57.000 Okay.

00:54:11.000 I mean, we have multiple empty homes for every homeless person. 0.98

00:54:14.000 It's also that a lot of these people are really seriously mentally ill. 0.99

00:54:18.000 Right.

00:54:18.000 Or have a very serious addiction problem, and just putting them in a house is not a solution to that problem.

00:54:23.000 They have to be monitored, people need to be taken care of them, or they need to be in a mental health facility somewhere.

00:54:28.000 So there's more that we have to be doing for these people, but it's often made out to be this problem we could solve by just throwing enough money at the right people, or just placing them in these empty houses that are already there, and it's totally naive.

00:54:38.000 Once again, like I say, children.

00:54:39.000 You know, people who have never owned a home, or been responsible for a home.

00:54:43.000 So, look, two days ago this fire alarm went off.

00:54:47.000 And so everybody has to get up, fire department comes, we leave the house.

00:54:50.000 So lightning struck the other day and our internet broke.

00:54:53.000 So something happened.

00:54:54.000 This was after the outage, but something happened that may have fried some electrical circuit.

00:55:00.000 We don't know, there was a storm before this.

00:55:02.000 And so when the smoke alarm went off, we were worried there may have been something internally, some wiring that tripped it.

00:55:08.000 I swept the house, couldn't find anything, and we're like, what are we supposed to do?

00:55:12.000 So we call them, they come, did a sweep, turns out we're good.

00:55:14.000 Hopefully we're good.

00:55:15.000 Maybe it wasn't lightning that struck it.

00:55:17.000 Maybe there was an electrical fire on one of these cables or something that we didn't realize and that's what made the alarm go off.

00:55:21.000 Maybe it wasn't lightning.

00:55:22.000 I don't know.

00:55:23.000 But I recognize that having to maintain this house and having to be responsible for people's safety.

00:55:27.000 Now imagine you took a homeless person and just put them in this building and said, it's an empty house.

00:55:30.000 There you go.

00:55:31.000 The alarm goes off.

00:55:32.000 Let's say this person is not mentally capable of taking care of the house and then the house burns down and they're in it.

00:55:38.000 No one calls the 911.

00:55:39.000 No one's there for them.

00:55:40.000 You can't just put a person in a house.

00:55:42.000 It doesn't work that way.

00:55:43.000 But let's talk about, uh, let's talk about, you know, I guess the left and hypocrisy because we

00:55:43.000 Exactly.

00:55:48.000 got this, uh, this story here. Oh, it's from the other day, actually, but it's been picking up.

00:55:53.000 Okay. Boomer tick tock influencer called hypocrite after showing off $2 million flat. 0.88

00:56:00.000 Everybody knows a Nico lol. 0.96

00:56:02.000 She is an influencer.

00:56:04.000 And if you're not, if you don't know who she is, just take a look at George over here.

00:56:07.000 He's got a picture that he drew.

00:56:08.000 What kind of freak would draw that?

00:56:12.000 Yeah, especially that top left one.

00:56:13.000 Something's wrong with that artist.

00:56:16.000 Biden emerging from the wall like some kind of gigantic Junji Ito demon.

00:56:21.000 So what's happening in this in this piece of art, George?

00:56:25.000 Well, she regrets being a part of the party that ended up devouring her.

00:56:32.000 I mean, she was obviously supporting one guy, and then, oh no, it's the other guy!

00:56:37.000 And you fed him.

00:56:38.000 Turns out you fed him the whole time.

00:56:39.000 There are, like, other faces in his body.

00:56:42.000 Oh, yes.

00:56:43.000 You see, there's the sequel.

00:56:45.000 My book, Oh No, It's Uncle Joe, which is not based on anyone real, you see, where the story is that Anyway, she's a very popular influencer.

00:56:57.000 She did this dance, you probably saw it, where she's saying, okay, Boomer, gets 50 million views, now she's rich. 1.00

00:57:03.000 The thing is, everybody's dragging her because she's got a Bernie shirt on, she's wearing a Tax the Rich shirt, and then she makes a video where she's like, my $2 million apartment.

00:57:11.000 The first thing I'll just say is, when did you expect that, why would you believe that any of these people actually knew or understood economics or politics?

00:57:19.000 Right?

00:57:20.000 Like all of these young DSA types.

00:57:22.000 My assumption immediately is that they're children.

00:57:26.000 You know, that's why they have that saying, it's like, um, if you're not, uh, conservative when you're older, you have no head.

00:57:31.000 If you're not liberal when you're younger, you have no heart or whatever.

00:57:33.000 Yep.

00:57:34.000 Well, I think it's obvious what I was going to get and I needed desperately the money.

00:57:38.000 And I look at my check and I'm like, nah, this ain't right.

00:57:42.000 And I was like, Hey, there's something wrong with my check.

00:57:43.000 And they're like, no, look, there it is.

00:57:44.000 It's like all the breakdowns there.

00:57:45.000 And I was like, why am I being taxed so much?

00:57:48.000 Like that blew my mind.

00:57:48.000 Yep.

00:57:49.000 I'm like, bro, I'm poor.

00:57:50.000 I can't afford that.

00:57:51.000 It's insane.

00:57:51.000 They talk about raising the minimum wage while they're taxing people who make minimum wage.

00:57:56.000 It's like, how about you just take less of their money?

00:57:58.000 Oh, that's a great idea.

00:58:00.000 I mean, they get it back at the end of the year, for the most part, if they're poor.

00:58:03.000 But anyway, what ends up happening is, you get a lot of people who go to college, they never had a job.

00:58:07.000 So while they're in college, they hear Bernie, socialism, communism, and all this other stuff.

00:58:11.000 They've never had a job.

00:58:13.000 Then when they get out, what happens?

00:58:15.000 Some of them become famous.

00:58:17.000 Start making hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars.

00:58:20.000 And now they're just like, okay Boomer, you know, buy a two million dollar flat or whatever.

00:58:26.000 I don't know if she actually bought it, but they just, they never actually understood any of the politics they were espousing.

00:58:32.000 Because I tell you this, any one of these people, if they had to provide for a family, they'd be like, abolish taxes.

00:58:37.000 Taxation is theft. 100%. The moment they look, they're like, I just worked all year and what do I have to show for it?

00:58:37.000 Yes.

00:58:37.000 100%.

00:58:43.000 Well, 40% of your income. I think the total taxes with sales tax and everything

00:58:47.000 It's like 48% or something like that of your income goes to the government or higher

00:58:51.000 And with sales tax it also depends on how you look at it.

00:58:54.000 So goes to the government or higher And with sales tax, it also depends on how you look at it.

00:58:59.000 So if you're self employed or you run your own business, you have to pay more into social security.

00:59:05.000 You pay in what your employer would normally pay.

00:59:07.000 And what people don't realize is like their employer, when they do pay into that, they're taking that out of that person's check.

00:59:14.000 So you're paying more into taxes than you actually think you are.

00:59:17.000 So this is an OK Boomer thing, right? 0.92

00:59:20.000 At first, I was actually going to do a segment where I was like, guys, I really don't care that she's rich. 0.56

00:59:25.000 You can be a lefty and still believe in class and wealth.

00:59:30.000 If you're like a Sockdem, yeah, maybe. 1.00

00:59:32.000 Right, right, right.

00:59:33.000 And so I'm like, there's nuance here.

00:59:34.000 Maybe she's going to learn.

00:59:35.000 But then I saw this video where she made a video called, How Much Money Do I Make?

00:59:38.000 And she said, I think when people are talking about the wealthy, they're talking about billionaires.

00:59:43.000 And I'm like, oh, here we go.

00:59:45.000 That's hilarious.

00:59:46.000 I'm not.

00:59:47.000 So here's the thing.

00:59:48.000 I made this joke years ago.

00:59:49.000 I did a cartoon about the 99.99% complaining about the 0.01%. 1.00

00:59:55.000 Oh, 0.01%.

00:59:56.000 Or 0.01%.

00:59:57.000 And the whole bit was that in the United States, where the vast majority of people have a standard

01:00:04.000 of life significantly higher than basically everyone else in the world.

01:00:06.000 So if you make more than $30,000 a year, you're in the top 1% of the world economy.

01:00:11.000 are constantly complaining.

01:00:12.000 I shouldn't say all people in the U.S., but many are constantly complaining about income inequality.

01:00:16.000 And it's literally like, to some extent, millionaires complaining about billionaires.

01:00:20.000 Not always, I understand when you get into things like healthcare, there are actually a lot of legitimate problems that need to be solved there, but...

01:00:26.000 I think it's funny that now we literally do have millionaires complaining about billionaires.

01:00:30.000 It's a joke I made years ago and it's an actual thing which is happening now.

01:00:34.000 You should make a video with Bernie being like...

01:00:37.000 I am a humble millionaire, upset with the billionaires.

01:00:41.000 Look how much I have to work.

01:00:43.000 If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire too.

01:00:46.000 No, no, but it's got to be like he's leading a rally of millionaires.

01:00:48.000 It's a bunch of millionaires with pitchforks angry at the billionaires.

01:00:51.000 I made a cartoon like that years ago, and it was these rich guys complaining about how other people are more rich than them.

01:00:57.000 It is unfair!

01:00:58.000 And now it's I have to write an entire book to buy my fourth house

01:01:01.000 There might be something to it because the founding fathers of the United States were basically millionaires of their

01:01:06.000 time Up against the billionaire of their time the king who was

01:01:09.000 unfairly You know fiscally robbing them taxing them and so these big

01:01:14.000 companies with these bailouts and are basically that That's like the modern day monarchy.

01:01:19.000 And maybe we need a class of millionaires to rise up and fix things. 0.97

01:01:23.000 There is a massive disparity between the wealthiest and the poorest in the world that's like we've never seen before.

01:01:29.000 So what happens is in the U.S.

01:01:30.000 you end up with these like, what do we call them yesterday?

01:01:33.000 Silver spoon socialists?

01:01:35.000 where, this is what someone superchatted, yeah so she's a silver spoon socialist where they're like 1.00

01:01:40.000 supporting Bernie Sanders and democratic socialism while they're millionaires complaining about

01:01:45.000 billionaires and I'm like dude I think it's all bad. I get it people are allowed to be rich,

01:01:49.000 I got no problem with people being rich, I'm saying my problem is with the ultra wealthy

01:01:53.000 manipulating elections and using undue influence and everything.

01:01:56.000 It's a challenge.

01:01:56.000 I don't know how you solve it.

01:01:57.000 Because it's not just about having money.

01:02:00.000 Like, the fact that I have this show, that we're on this show, is more valuable than money.

01:02:04.000 People pay so that they can get a message out across through this show or something.

01:02:08.000 So, I don't know how you actually deal with problems like that, but I can tell you this.

01:02:11.000 Someone who's got $50 million has massive power, and someone with a billion dollars has a lot more, but they can still have massive influence over elections.

01:02:20.000 Yeah, you don't need money to be super popular and influential.

01:02:24.000 You just need a little bit.

01:02:25.000 Just put, hold it up.

01:02:26.000 No.

01:02:26.000 Are you sure that's acceptable?

01:02:27.000 No, don't do it.

01:02:28.000 Why not?

01:02:28.000 Don't do it.

01:02:29.000 Okay, fine.

01:02:30.000 I gotta do it.

01:02:31.000 Don't do it.

01:02:31.000 It's gross.

01:02:32.000 No, James said not to.

01:02:32.000 Can I do it?

01:02:33.000 James is explaining stuff.

01:02:34.000 James is mad. 0.85

01:02:36.000 I drew a butt. 0.84

01:02:37.000 You drew a butt? 0.86

01:02:39.000 And it says, it says money please.

01:02:42.000 Well, so this is the funny thing about Nikolo.

01:02:43.000 I'll take your money.

01:02:44.000 That's right. 0.97

01:02:45.000 I'll draw butts all the time. 0.89

01:02:48.000 The funny thing about Nikolo is that people are commenting. 0.99

01:02:51.000 People are dragging her being like, you're a hypocrite and all that stuff. 0.97

01:02:55.000 But her fans are like, I literally only follow her for her body. 1.00

01:02:58.000 I don't care what she believes.

01:03:01.000 Whatever, man.

01:03:01.000 She's getting rich then.

01:03:02.000 Fine.

01:03:02.000 Whatever.

01:03:03.000 It's her hustle.

01:03:04.000 Everybody's got their own hustle.

01:03:04.000 Whatever.

01:03:07.000 I don't know what we were expecting from the TikToker here at the same time. 1.00

01:03:11.000 Maybe that's a little condescending.

01:03:12.000 I'm a YouTuber, so maybe I shouldn't be dumping on TikTokers. 1.00

01:03:12.000 I mean, what? 1.00

01:03:15.000 But I like to think we're a little bit above that.

01:03:18.000 I like to think that.

01:03:18.000 I'm not above that.

01:03:19.000 I think Dragon Bernie is perfectly appropriate.

01:03:21.000 Absolutely.

01:03:22.000 I do it all the time.

01:03:23.000 He stopped saying millionaire when he became a millionaire.

01:03:25.000 No joke.

01:03:25.000 There was an article.

01:03:26.000 It's like you can track the moment he removed millionaire from his speeches, and it's around the same time he became a millionaire. 1.00

01:03:30.000 That's the stupidest thing ever. 1.00

01:03:32.000 Welcome to the club of wanting money. 1.00

01:03:34.000 Like, we were talking about this before we went on air.

01:03:36.000 I don't see why every young people isn't saying, I want to be a millionaire.

01:03:40.000 I want to do whatever is morally okay with me, whatever.

01:03:44.000 I'm going to do what's got to be done to earn a living and maybe earn more than a living so I can, you know, take care of my family, whatever.

01:03:51.000 Buy a nice car if you want to buy a nice car.

01:03:53.000 There's no guilt factor.

01:03:55.000 I don't understand why people have this guilt of like, It's okay to make money and then have the money and then, you know, you can spread it to other places, invest, give it to other people so they can do things with that money.

01:04:07.000 Don't just sit on, you know, people have this idea of, all right, so there's the idea of if certain people who don't have a lot of money win the lottery, it actually is worse for them in the long run because they don't know how to spend the money or save it or reinvest it.

01:04:20.000 But like, if you, I feel like if you have this, if you work for your money, maybe you have a little bit more of a, You understand the value of that dollar or something.

01:04:30.000 It's like I have a couple of dollars in my pocket.

01:04:32.000 I'm not going to just let it sit there.

01:04:34.000 I want to make it do something.

01:04:36.000 Buy Bitcoin.

01:04:37.000 Whatever.

01:04:38.000 It doesn't matter.

01:04:39.000 The whole point is you've got to try this idea of when you have a couple of bucks, you don't just sit on it.

01:04:45.000 You don't just waste it.

01:04:46.000 You want to try to do something with it.

01:04:48.000 Give it to other people.

01:04:49.000 Hire other people so that you can make more money and they can make more money.

01:04:52.000 That's one of the good things about earning money.

01:04:55.000 So I can understand how you might look at someone who has a lot and just assume they're just going to waste it all the time.

01:05:03.000 You can be responsible.

01:05:04.000 Everybody thinks they should have your money.

01:05:05.000 Everybody thinks they should be rich.

01:05:06.000 Well, that's kind of, I mean, you sound a little Keynesian for me on the point about savings, but I hear you.

01:05:10.000 I think what it goes back to is what we discussed earlier with people thinking the only reason anyone has money is because they've done something evil to get it.

01:05:17.000 And if you're at the top of that hierarchy, it must be because you participated in a rigged game.

01:05:21.000 Yeah, of course.

01:05:21.000 Until they get some.

01:05:22.000 Yeah, until they get some, and then they're like, well actually, you can become a billionaire, a millionaire ethically, but billionaires, and then as soon as Jeff Bezos becomes a trillionaire, it's just gonna be him that everyone's mad at, and all the billionaires are gonna be like, no, being a billionaire is fine, it's the trillionaires who are really doing it to us.

01:05:36.000 We need a Bernie in ten years, and he's like really old, and he's a billionaire now, cause he wrote like, he wrote a thousand new best-selling books and made a billion dollars, and he's like, The multi-billionaires in this country are the problem.

01:05:49.000 Not the billionaires.

01:05:50.000 and then it's like Jeff Bezos, he's like, he's like, he's looking at his phone and he's sweating

01:05:54.000 and it says like Jeff Bezos net worth is at $999 billion and then it rolls over to $1 trillion

01:05:59.000 he goes, the trillionaires in this country!

01:06:01.000 And that's it.

01:06:02.000 Here's the great thing about Joe Biden's administration and what,

01:06:05.000 what our political leaders decided to do with printing all this money.

01:06:09.000 We might all be millionaires soon!

01:06:10.000 Yes!

01:06:10.000 Look at that.

01:06:12.000 I can't wait.

01:06:13.000 You guys want to see something crazy?

01:06:15.000 Oh, that hyperinflation is gonna be fun.

01:06:17.000 Let me pull something up for you guys.

01:06:18.000 All right, check this out.

01:06:19.000 You ever see the U.S.

01:06:20.000 Debt Clock?

01:06:21.000 Yes.

01:06:21.000 It's crazy.

01:06:22.000 I can't even look at it.

01:06:23.000 It's a real-time debt clock.

01:06:24.000 Let's check this out.

01:06:25.000 Tim, why are you doing this to me?

01:06:26.000 TheUSDebtClock.org says savings per family $36,875.

01:06:33.000 The average savings per family.

01:06:35.000 So that means, grab a random family in the U.S.

01:06:37.000 They got $36,000 in their bank account.

01:06:40.000 That's a lot of money, right?

01:06:40.000 That sounds wrong, but okay.

01:06:42.000 That used to be a lot of money.

01:06:44.000 But hold on.

01:06:45.000 That's the average, because don't they say like most families can't come up with $600 for an emergency or unseen expense?

01:06:53.000 It's the average, not the millions.

01:06:55.000 Liquid cash in personal savings for all U.S.

01:06:57.000 families divided by the number of U.S.

01:06:59.000 Okay, so there's a small group of them that are super rich.

01:06:59.000 families.

01:07:03.000 I don't think there's enough rich people to skew it that heavily, but it's probably like okay

01:07:03.000 Exactly.

01:07:08.000 So maybe the the median for the like middle class probably like 20k or whatever

01:07:13.000 So but let me let me let me jump over we have this button look at this button right here 0.96

01:07:17.000 It says debt clock time machine, and I'm going to click this and I'm going to jump to 2025. Let me ask you

01:07:23.000 Oh, what do you think the average savings per family will be by 2025?

01:07:27.000 107.

01:07:29.000 Based on the inflation we're seeing now.

01:07:31.000 All right, Ian.

01:07:31.000 107.

01:07:32.000 What do you think, George?

01:07:34.000 Uh, sure.

01:07:35.000 108.

01:07:35.000 Your price is right in here!

01:07:37.000 What have I done?

01:07:38.000 Wait, wait.

01:07:38.000 Can I go with 109?

01:07:39.000 Yes.

01:07:40.000 You're all wrong.

01:07:40.000 Yes.

01:07:41.000 Wait, wait, can I go with 109?

01:07:43.000 Yes, yes, you're all wrong.

01:07:44.000 Can we get the means?

01:07:45.000 You are all wrong.

01:07:47.000 170.

01:07:49.000 $512,000.

01:07:49.000 U.S.

01:07:51.000 debt clock, by taking the current tracking and the current numbers, jumping four years from now, says that if you take the total number of liquid cash in all savings and divide it by the number of families, the average is half a million dollars.

01:08:06.000 That's pretty bad.

01:08:07.000 So, and here's the thing.

01:08:08.000 Wait, but that's a big number, right?

01:08:08.000 Oh man.

01:08:10.000 That means we're rich!

01:08:11.000 Like I said, we're all millionaires!

01:08:12.000 So think about this.

01:08:13.000 Wait, wait, wait.

01:08:13.000 That means if one Bitcoin right now costs $36,000, one Bitcoin in 2025 will be worth half a million dollars.

01:08:22.000 That's a lot of... Oh man, and here's the thing.

01:08:24.000 I'm gonna buy Bitcoin.

01:08:26.000 That's a lot of ceilings to buy for your grandma. 1.00

01:08:27.000 Here's what's...

01:08:30.000 Here's what's really scary about this.

01:08:30.000 Excuse me.

01:08:31.000 So this is the projected numbers by 2025.

01:08:33.000 But I mean, look, back in 2016, no one would have predicted that by 2021, we'd be $28 trillion in debt.

01:08:40.000 So it could be far worse by 2025.

01:08:43.000 Inflation.

01:08:44.000 In 2016, the national debt was $19 trillion.

01:08:48.000 $19, yeah.

01:08:48.000 It was just under $20.

01:08:49.000 We are now at $27.

01:08:51.000 2028, dude.

01:08:51.000 Which is good.

01:08:51.000 Yeah.

01:08:52.000 That's fine.

01:08:53.000 So by 2025, the national debt is projected to be $50 trillion.

01:08:58.000 Which is good.

01:08:59.000 That's fine.

01:09:00.000 That's fine.

01:09:01.000 Everything's okay.

01:09:02.000 Well, you can see how it manifests.

01:09:04.000 $512,000 savings per family.

01:09:07.000 What people need to understand, that means, right now, what's happening?

01:09:10.000 Somebody's like, I got 36k in the bank.

01:09:13.000 Why do I need to work?

01:09:14.000 I'm good.

01:09:16.000 So then, in order to get people to work, McDonald's is offering a $1,000 sign-on bonus.

01:09:19.000 In order to pay for that sign-on bonus and those increased wages, they charge more for burgers.

01:09:24.000 It just makes everything cost more.

01:09:25.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:09:26.000 So right now there's the Bitcoin conference going on.

01:09:28.000 Have you guys seen this?

01:09:29.000 Yeah, I think Max is down there.

01:09:31.000 He walks in, everyone's like standing ovation and he was yelling and he's like, F Elon or something like that.

01:09:31.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:09:36.000 It was hilarious.

01:09:37.000 And there's a big dumpster outside of it that says cash is trash and it's full of Venezuelan, you know, boulevards. 1.00

01:09:44.000 Yes.

01:09:45.000 So people were actually making paper art out of their Venezuelan marks and selling it online.

01:09:45.000 Forte or whatever.

01:09:52.000 So they would make like bags and wallets and sell those on the internet to get a higher return on their money than they would have just converting it to dollars.

01:10:00.000 Interesting.

01:10:02.000 So when you Google it, it's what pops up is our good friend, Luke Rutkowski.

01:10:08.000 He says there's free Venezuelan boulevards in a dumpster at the Bitcoin conference.

01:10:13.000 That's nuts.

01:10:13.000 Except they require energy to acquire.

01:10:15.000 So nothing's free.

01:10:17.000 I think, you know, I would take a bunch of those as well.

01:10:19.000 Oh, I mean, we're fighting over toilet paper right now.

01:10:23.000 Like, come on, they're giving away for free.

01:10:25.000 Wood costs a lot.

01:10:26.000 I think it's made of plastic, though.

01:10:27.000 Oh, I thought it was.

01:10:28.000 But either way, it's like boxes and boxes of Bolivars just in a dumpster.

01:10:31.000 You know what the craziest thing is?

01:10:33.000 Because, like, I've been to Venezuela.

01:10:35.000 We had a big black garbage bag full of the money.

01:10:38.000 And I was like, what's the point, dude?

01:10:40.000 Just bring a $10 bill from America to buy your pizza.

01:10:42.000 Otherwise, I'm not a handsome guy with a garbage bag to throw in his trunk.

01:10:45.000 And eventually, you're just like, dude, I don't even want to carry it.

01:10:46.000 It's not even worth the carry.

01:10:47.000 Fiat.

01:10:49.000 Well, they keep printing all this money.

01:10:50.000 Joe Biden is $22 trillion in borrowing, $6 trillion in spending.

01:10:55.000 So what do you think is going to happen to the economy?

01:10:56.000 What does that mean?

01:10:57.000 Where's he borrowing that from?

01:10:59.000 So he's issuing another $22 trillion borrow from the Federal Reserve?

01:11:03.000 Is that what this is?

01:11:04.000 I mean, the borrowing probably is bonds and loans, et cetera.

01:11:07.000 Debts.

01:11:08.000 So it could be like, you know, they pledged to pay something and then track an invoice.

01:11:11.000 But they're going to knock our debt from 28 trillion to 50 trillion with this.

01:11:15.000 By the time Joe Biden leaves office after his first term, because, you know, he will.

01:11:20.000 And Donald Trump has already issued an email where he said the next time I'm in office,

01:11:25.000 we are going to be nearly double the national debt.

01:11:28.000 50 trillion!

01:11:30.000 That's amazing.

01:11:31.000 I remember when they were like, the debt ceiling and the national debt is too high and now it's just like, deficit spend until nothing is worth nothing and everybody just, you know, lives off of saltine crackers.

01:11:43.000 Basically, yeah.

01:11:46.000 That's gonna be fantastic.

01:11:46.000 50 trillion.

01:11:48.000 Well, it just means, look, I think the economy will keep on churning, but your savings is gone.

01:11:54.000 dollars right now, this is why people are buying, you know, houses like crazy.

01:11:54.000 So if you have U.S.

01:11:59.000 But I'll tell you what, man.

01:12:01.000 So I got a message today from Jessica, who does our graphic design stuff.

01:12:05.000 She had a photo.

01:12:07.000 I think it was Starbucks.

01:12:08.000 And they were like, we're out of peaches, we're out of strawberries, we're out of fruit, we're out of coffee, we're out of this, we're out of that.

01:12:12.000 And it was like a sign.

01:12:13.000 They're like, we don't got nothing.

01:12:15.000 So they keep saying supply hasn't caught up yet and I'm like then why is the shortage why are the

01:12:20.000 shortages getting worse? You know like maybe Joe Biden keeps paying people not to work and printing

01:12:26.000 money like crazy and uh I don't know. I'm looking for a silver lining here. I don't know.

01:12:32.000 Buy silver.

01:12:33.000 Oh, okay.

01:12:34.000 Buy silver.

01:12:34.000 Well, that's financial advice!

01:12:35.000 I would never give financial advice.

01:12:37.000 Just kidding.

01:12:38.000 Don't buy silver.

01:12:39.000 That's not what I said.

01:12:40.000 That's financial advice, too!

01:12:42.000 If I ask you for financial advice, can you give it to me as a friend?

01:12:46.000 He ran away.

01:12:46.000 Even if you're not a finance officer?

01:12:48.000 Seamus!

01:12:49.000 Seamus!

01:12:49.000 Seamus, come back!

01:12:50.000 In my time of need!

01:12:52.000 James is just chugging all of this water.

01:12:54.000 He's like a gallon of water.

01:12:56.000 He's hot tonight.

01:12:57.000 Look, you guys, I wasn't intending to give financial advice.

01:13:00.000 I didn't.

01:13:02.000 That's a silver lining.

01:13:03.000 I feel like I'm on trial right now.

01:13:04.000 Right now, the average savings for family, $36K.

01:13:07.000 Price of Bitcoin, $36K.

01:13:09.000 Coincidence?

01:13:10.000 Maybe.

01:13:11.000 But if inflation I think it'll be higher, actually.

01:13:15.000 I think it'll be higher, yeah.

01:13:17.000 I mean, just not financial advice.

01:13:18.000 2025 I think it'll be higher. I think it'll be higher. Yeah, because it's not just not financial. Well, no, cuz cuz

01:13:22.000 listen listen Bitcoin tracking just for inflation half a million but add

01:13:26.000 on the fact that it's going to be more widespread Yeah, so at this Bitcoin conference

01:13:30.000 It was crazy someone posted a video where the line was like blocks and blocks long to get in

01:13:34.000 Bitcoin is legit here man Yeah, Elon Musk can cry as my you can cry all day and night

01:13:40.000 about it poses little silly memes and nobody cares People were like posting they were going to sell off Tesla stock.

01:13:45.000 They don't want to be involved because Tesla is playing dirty games or whatever. 1.00

01:13:48.000 Yeah, good for them.

01:13:49.000 Or because Elon is.

01:13:50.000 But I think if it's tracking just for inflation, half a million for a Bitcoin, you add in the fact that we got four years of Bitcoin growth and you got development, a million dollars, two million dollars per Bitcoin.

01:14:05.000 And then people are going to wish they had some.

01:14:07.000 That's not financial advice.

01:14:08.000 No, I don't... Don't buy... Don't... That's financial advice, Tim!

01:14:12.000 Don't do anything!

01:14:13.000 Just don't listen to me.

01:14:14.000 Is it financial advice to tell people to invest in Freedom Tunes t-shirts?

01:14:19.000 If I ask someone to buy something?

01:14:21.000 This is not financial advice, but if you want a Freedom Tunes t-shirt, just go to freedomtunesmerch.com, and there's a t-shirt.

01:14:27.000 Invest!

01:14:28.000 I think you're allowed to suggest them to buy them, but not to invest in them.

01:14:32.000 It's not investment, alright?

01:14:33.000 Now, here's the thing.

01:14:34.000 The money you have might be worth less, In the future.

01:14:37.000 And you could've got a t-shirt out of it, but you won't be able to.

01:14:39.000 It'll be too late.

01:14:40.000 So, freedomtunes.com.

01:14:42.000 Or freedomtunes.merch.

01:14:43.000 I'm sorry, freedomtunesmerch.com.

01:14:45.000 I can't even get a domain name right!

01:14:47.000 Bro, this- freedomtunesmerch.com.

01:14:49.000 This Bitcoin conference was lit.

01:14:51.000 Because like, not only do they have the Venezuelan dollars in the dumpster, Not only was it jam-packed with people who are super enthusiastic about this decentralized currency, but Laura Loomer confronted Jack Dorsey, and I'm all here for it.

01:15:03.000 He was there?

01:15:04.000 Jack Dorsey was at the Bitcoin conference?

01:15:06.000 Jack Dorsey was speaking, and she got up, and she's like, you're manipulating elections.

01:15:12.000 And then I guess she got, you know, security threat or whatever.

01:15:15.000 But I'm like, that's excellent.

01:15:16.000 So you've both taken him to school?

01:15:19.000 Oh, I mean, Laura's gone after everybody. 0.90

01:15:21.000 She chained her... She handcuffed herself to the Twitter building in New York. 0.83

01:15:24.000 Really?

01:15:25.000 Yeah.

01:15:26.000 Yeah, so that's... You know, I just yelled at the guy, I guess.

01:15:29.000 I argued with his voice.

01:15:30.000 He had his bodyguard.

01:15:31.000 That was when Tim and I met.

01:15:32.000 I asked him to do a voice in the cartoon I made about you yelling at Jack Dorsey.

01:15:37.000 I was unaware of everything that was being done about it.

01:15:40.000 We have to discriminate against conservatives if we want people to be free on our platform.

01:15:44.000 That's the only way.

01:15:45.000 And then who did the voice of Vijay Gowda?

01:15:48.000 I think it was me.

01:15:49.000 I couldn't do an impression of her so I just did a generic bad female voice.

01:15:52.000 I was like, well actually, the reason the website did this...

01:15:56.000 But I was more, I mean, the Jack. 0.98

01:15:58.000 Twitter exists to just make sure all conservatives can rot in hell. 0.90

01:16:04.000 The only way people are free to speak is if conservatives can't talk. 0.95

01:16:07.000 It's just the only possible solution.

01:16:09.000 Yeah.

01:16:10.000 No, I think they genuinely believe that a run-of-the-mill conservative is like, you

01:16:16.000 know, when they imagine a regular conservative, it's like a liberal, like Ezra Klein.

01:16:23.000 That's how they see conservatives.

01:16:24.000 Well, I'm going to take a line from Michael Knowles here, but as he says, or to put it in his words, the only thing conservatives have been able to agree on since the Cold War is to cut taxes.

01:16:34.000 And so I think to many people on the left, that's just what conservatism is.

01:16:37.000 Conservatism is when you talk about tax cuts, but everything else is just, that's weird alt-right stuff or something.

01:16:44.000 That's not right-wing at all.

01:16:46.000 That's one of the least right-wing things I've ever heard in my life.

01:16:48.000 I was like, that's not correct.

01:16:49.000 I know.

01:16:50.000 What is this topsy turvy world now?

01:16:52.000 I don't understand.

01:16:53.000 I hang out with Tim.

01:16:54.000 Ian is literally a long haired freaky people.

01:16:56.000 You know, I try to be centered, but I mean, I'm drawn to the left.

01:17:00.000 I'm drawn to the wicked wacky, wild, you know, psychoactive experience of reality.

01:17:05.000 That's not right wing at all.

01:17:07.000 That's one of the least right wing things I've ever heard in my life.

01:17:10.000 That's what I'm talking about.

01:17:11.000 Timcast IRL is a far right podcast hosted by a liberal and some weird hippie guy.

01:17:15.000 As soon as I'm off air, Ian's telling me I need to read Aquinas.

01:17:20.000 People don't realize it's a wig.

01:17:22.000 Well, that's actually crazy, too.

01:17:23.000 Ian's got a very short haircut.

01:17:25.000 It's funny that that's also considered right-wing now.

01:17:27.000 It's just strange how all the foundational philosophy of our culture is scary and dangerous.

01:17:33.000 I would suppose Jesus was probably left-wing, would have been considered left-wing for his time.

01:17:37.000 He was a radical anti-establishment.

01:17:40.000 He spoke out against the empire.

01:17:42.000 So, but here's the whole way we're real quick. Yeah speaking out against the Empire. What do you think?

01:17:46.000 They're not left-wing. Yeah, it's like the Bitcoin conference is loaded with libertarian left and the right

01:17:52.000 thing. Exactly. Well, here's the thing and this is why we have to be very careful.

01:17:56.000 Left view everything real quick. Sorry. Sorry just yeah sure left literally means evil. That's all you need to know.

01:18:00.000 Oh, yeah, basically. I'm right. No, that's what I'm trying to say. It's true. No, I mean kind of because here's the

01:18:04.000 thing we view everything as left versus right when it comes to our social structures right now, but these were not

01:18:09.000 terms that were used prior to the French Revolution.

01:18:12.000 And so you kind of have to stop trying to put different moments in history into those boxes.

01:18:19.000 I know that the left literally exists and existed from the very beginning to counter the Catholic Church and its goals.

01:18:26.000 If you look at the French Revolution and the foundational thinkers of it, and the foundational thinkers of leftism, their entire purpose has always been to counter Christian values, and more specifically, the Catholic Church and its goals.

01:18:39.000 I was wrong.

01:18:40.000 It doesn't mean evil.

01:18:41.000 Okay.

01:18:41.000 I looked it up.

01:18:42.000 We have, uh, etymology.

01:18:45.000 Left means opposite of right. 0.95

01:18:48.000 From Old English, lift, which means weak and foolish. 0.98

01:18:52.000 Oh my gosh. 0.96

01:18:52.000 I'm not, I'm not kidding. 0.96

01:18:53.000 It also, uh, the Dutch dialect, loef, meaning weak and worthless.

01:18:57.000 Wow.

01:18:57.000 And sinister.

01:18:58.000 And also if someone goes away, they left.

01:19:00.000 Yeah, there you go.

01:19:01.000 Odd.

01:19:01.000 It's all bad.

01:19:02.000 Word has such a negative... They say, the usual old English, Winstray, Winestra, left, left hand, literally, friendlier, a euphemism used superstitiously to avoid invoking the unlucky forces connected with the left side.

01:19:15.000 Compare, sinister.

01:19:17.000 And there you go.

01:19:18.000 I would suggest we don't put ourselves in the same position that the French revolutionaries found themselves in.

01:19:25.000 Dividing people into a left and a right.

01:19:26.000 Dude, sinister literally means to the left.

01:19:29.000 Yes, it does.

01:19:30.000 It means contrary, false, unfavorable, to the left.

01:19:32.000 And the word sin is in it.

01:19:33.000 Well, I could have told you, yeah.

01:19:35.000 And the right literally means right.

01:19:37.000 Correct.

01:19:38.000 You are right.

01:19:39.000 That's busted.

01:19:40.000 So saying someone is far right, you're saying like, you are very correct.

01:19:43.000 You're very correct.

01:19:44.000 You're very correct.

01:19:44.000 Sir, I agree with you very much.

01:19:46.000 No, I disagree with you because you're right and I'm wrong.

01:19:48.000 Extremely correct.

01:19:49.000 That's the, that's all you got to say from now on.

01:19:50.000 People are like, you know, you're far right.

01:19:52.000 Be like, thank you.

01:19:53.000 I am correct.

01:19:54.000 I am.

01:19:54.000 I am very right in all of my opinions.

01:19:56.000 Like they are correct.

01:19:57.000 They are right.

01:19:58.000 You're wrong.

01:19:58.000 There's so many like common words, like right, left, wrong, right, light, heavy, dark, light.

01:20:07.000 Like this word, the word light and the word right have so many, there's so such simple, proliferative words in our language, but have vastly different meanings depending on how you're using it.

01:20:19.000 I don't like it.

01:20:21.000 It's not enough words.

01:20:22.000 We need different words for those.

01:20:24.000 Just make stuff up.

01:20:25.000 Yeah, looking up the origin of light and it's not related.

01:20:28.000 Light, dark, or it also means light, not heavy?

01:20:30.000 Not dark, I don't know.

01:20:32.000 It comes from loot, light, brightness.

01:20:35.000 It's just the word light, that's it.

01:20:37.000 Nothing special.

01:20:38.000 Light means right.

01:20:39.000 There you go.

01:20:40.000 Light makes right.

01:20:42.000 No, I don't like that direction you're going in, Ian.

01:20:44.000 Alright, thanks.

01:20:46.000 Hold me back from the edge, baby.

01:20:47.000 Dude, I saw him buying a pack of Skittles earlier, and I...

01:20:51.000 Should we?

01:20:52.000 I think humans really prefer light because we're so visually oriented.

01:20:55.000 I think definitely.

01:20:56.000 Well, it was because darkness was like, nighttime was scary.

01:20:58.000 Yeah.

01:20:58.000 You know, there's like bears and stuff.

01:20:59.000 You're like sleeping and you're like, you know, mind your own business.

01:21:02.000 And like a bear comes out and like bites you.

01:21:03.000 We really are in, this goes back to what we were talking about earlier, like the Americans, being born here is such a, just valuable in and of itself.

01:21:11.000 And I was thinking, just talking earlier today about how it's kind of like being in the king's court.

01:21:15.000 Like, as Americans, if the earth was a kingdom, we were the ones that were born in our living court drama right now.

01:21:22.000 This is all that's going on inside the castle.

01:21:24.000 It's really great.

01:21:24.000 Well, let's be real, like, you know, Ian, when we were choosing our characters for the simulation, like, we all chose easy mode.

01:21:31.000 Basically.

01:21:32.000 I want the best ending.

01:21:35.000 I'm just gonna beat it.

01:21:40.000 Help as many people as I can.

01:21:41.000 Beat it.

01:21:42.000 And maybe I'll try it on hard mode next time.

01:21:44.000 Yeah, and hard mode would be what?

01:21:46.000 Being born like Somalia? 0.99

01:21:48.000 Today it would be, yeah.

01:21:50.000 Or you can be born in, like, the middle of Australia, I guess, to, like, a witch doctor family of, like, weird European settlers who found themselves in the middle of the Outback, and you're fighting scorpions and kangaroos at the same time, and kangaroos that throw scorpions at you.

01:22:03.000 Oh, yeah.

01:22:04.000 They carry them in their pouches.

01:22:05.000 The worst kind, yeah.

01:22:07.000 And then once you, like, once you get close enough to the cities, the kangaroos are now, like, pink.

01:22:11.000 They're, like, the same animations, but they're ten times stronger, because the simulation didn't feel like making new monsters.

01:22:16.000 Yeah.

01:22:17.000 That's just the reality of it.

01:22:18.000 Elite kangaroos.

01:22:19.000 Uh-huh.

01:22:20.000 They're purple.

01:22:21.000 Have you guys seen that video where the kangaroo is at the guy's window, like, banging, trying to get out?

01:22:24.000 Dude, yes.

01:22:25.000 That's terrifying.

01:22:26.000 It's all ribs.

01:22:27.000 This is why Australians need guns. 1.00

01:22:29.000 There you go.

01:22:30.000 Don't know why they got rid of them.

01:22:31.000 Can you imagine a kangaroo just banging on your door?

01:22:33.000 I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have my weapons.

01:22:35.000 Aren't like- Look, I'm not- I'm sorry.

01:22:36.000 I'm not gonna get into a fistfight with a kangaroo. 1.00

01:22:38.000 Nope.

01:22:39.000 I thought they were friends with kangaroos.

01:22:40.000 I thought, like, in Australia, kangaroos are, like, people, you know?

01:22:43.000 I don't think so.

01:22:43.000 I watched a video where there was like a- Australia went to war with emus, didn't they?

01:22:47.000 And lost.

01:22:48.000 No one can beat the emu.

01:22:50.000 What happened?

01:22:51.000 I need to double check this.

01:22:53.000 I saw a video where like people had a barbecue and a kangaroo just like jumps in and everyone's like, hey mate!

01:22:57.000 And the kangaroo's like doing his thing or something.

01:22:58.000 That's awesome!

01:22:59.000 It's like bouncing around at once.

01:23:01.000 Yeah, so they're not that nice to animals.

01:23:03.000 Australia did go to war with emus and they did lose.

01:23:05.000 They did lose the war. 0.56

01:23:06.000 They were just a pest all across Australia.

01:23:09.000 Fun fact, you learn something new every day.

01:23:10.000 What is an emu?

01:23:11.000 I'm pretty anti-war, but I might be able to get behind the emu war. 0.98

01:23:14.000 Unfortunately, they did lose, though.

01:23:16.000 It was funny when Sydney Watson was here and she told Ian about drop bears.

01:23:19.000 Yeah.

01:23:20.000 Ian was all like, whoa.

01:23:21.000 But they were fake.

01:23:22.000 Yes, there's no drop bears.

01:23:23.000 She took me for a ride.

01:23:24.000 What was she saying drop bears were?

01:23:26.000 So, like, it's a joke that Australians have to trick non-Australians where they claim that koala bears will, like, drop from the trees and land on you and, like, maul you or something.

01:23:34.000 Drop bears.

01:23:36.000 I'm not in a position to deny or confirm.

01:23:38.000 I believe it, right?

01:23:39.000 Don't they have, like, big onion rings or whatever?

01:23:40.000 I'm not going to, like, question the lived experience of someone who's come to my country from a foreign land.

01:23:44.000 She likes you here for good.

01:23:45.000 Do Australians get mad at Outback Steakhouse and Foster's Beer?

01:23:48.000 That's a good question.

01:23:48.000 Is it, like, cultural appropriation?

01:23:50.000 Foster's, yes, I think.

01:23:52.000 Fosters isn't in Australia though, I think.

01:23:54.000 Right.

01:23:54.000 Yeah, not there.

01:23:55.000 It's Australian for beer, but it's not Australian.

01:23:57.000 Looks like the Irish people get angry at Guinness.

01:23:59.000 Which is too bad, because that's a great beer.

01:24:01.000 Yeah, here's a secret.

01:24:02.000 Y'all have never had a real Guinness.

01:24:04.000 Unless you've actually been.

01:24:05.000 Yeah, the Guinness that's in Ireland is different.

01:24:07.000 When they ship it over, it actually messes with the consistency.

01:24:09.000 Well, I had one in Dublin at an airport.

01:24:10.000 Yeah.

01:24:11.000 Yeah, I had it in Scotland.

01:24:12.000 Sounds like Guinness.

01:24:13.000 Sounds like Guinness.

01:24:13.000 That's right.

01:24:13.000 The legit Guinness gives out only to the people in Ireland.

01:24:16.000 The history of Guinness is pretty interesting.

01:24:19.000 The Irish dockworkers didn't have any money.

01:24:20.000 They were making beer and then they'd sell all the beer would be gone and at the bottom

01:24:23.000 of the barrel there'd be this dark sludge and they didn't have any money so they just

01:24:26.000 started making beer out of the sludge.

01:24:27.000 Of course we'll drink it, it's alcohol.

01:24:28.000 It's like at the bottom of the barrel, yeah of course we'll try it.

01:24:31.000 It became one of the most delicious beers in my opinion on the planet.

01:24:35.000 I love that our contribution was the bottom of the barrel.

01:24:38.000 That's a racist stereotype.

01:24:39.000 British people actually drink more per capita than Irish people do.

01:24:42.000 Is that true?

01:24:43.000 Yeah, I was reading about it.

01:24:44.000 It's the guilt.

01:24:45.000 And the Irish drunk emerged because, this is what I heard, it could be false, that when Irish immigrants were coming to the United States, like in the early 1900s and like late 1800s, they would pretend to be drunk if they were homeless so they can get a free night's sleep in the local jail.

01:25:01.000 I know that they're called paddy wagons because Irish people were disproportionately arrested, but I don't know about that.

01:25:06.000 They're like, oh, I was pretending, of course.

01:25:08.000 I was just pretending so I could go off to jail for the night.

01:25:10.000 I wanted somewhere warm to sleep.

01:25:13.000 It's just an act.

01:25:13.000 I'm totally just pretending because I've had too much alcohol in me system right now.

01:25:20.000 People do it now, though.

01:25:20.000 People, like homeless people, will commit a low-level crime to get a free place to stay.

01:25:24.000 That's so sad.

01:25:25.000 You occasionally get people that claim that they're I can't make this joke.

01:25:31.000 I was gonna say that they complain that they can't breathe in order to get taken to the hospital instead of the jail.

01:25:36.000 Brutal.

01:25:37.000 He did that.

01:25:37.000 It's not a joke.

01:25:38.000 That's the worst part.

01:25:39.000 That's true, yeah.

01:25:40.000 People feign medical illness when they're being arrested so they get taken to the hospital.

01:25:43.000 Often.

01:25:43.000 That was testimony in the Chauvin trial.

01:25:45.000 They do it a lot.

01:25:46.000 So then that makes it just harder to deal with everything.

01:25:49.000 And then you get young people who don't understand how the world works and they're like, burn it down! 0.96

01:25:54.000 And then they literally go and burn it down and they forget the name of the guy they're fighting for.

01:25:59.000 They were fighting for a guy named Sony as they walk out with a 50-inch flat screen under their arm.

01:26:04.000 Yeah.

01:26:04.000 There was looting and fires the other day in Minneapolis.

01:26:07.000 In the no-go zone.

01:26:09.000 And around it.

01:26:10.000 After they put it back up?

01:26:11.000 Yeah, it was after they shot a guy.

01:26:13.000 The marshals killed a fugitive.

01:26:14.000 And so they were like, let's go riot!

01:26:16.000 And then Unicorn Riot, this lefty group, interviewed a guy and he's like, I'll be honest, I don't even know the guy's name.

01:26:21.000 I can't remember.

01:26:22.000 And his name was like Winston, I think, or something.

01:26:24.000 Yeah.

01:26:24.000 I can't remember his name.

01:26:26.000 But then he was like, I don't even know his name, and like, you're torching stuff in the street.

01:26:29.000 Like, don't you think it's kind of important, you know?

01:26:31.000 The joke I made was like, could you imagine if you showed up for like a business meeting, and you're like, I'm on the 50th floor for a business meeting, and who are you meeting?

01:26:37.000 I don't know!

01:26:38.000 No idea!

01:26:39.000 It'd be like, sir, you can't come in.

01:26:41.000 Like, you're not here for any particular reason.

01:26:43.000 That's the nature of activism these days, though, guys.

01:26:47.000 I guess one of you can just draw a picture about it and then we'll carry on as if nothing happened.

01:26:51.000 Act first, figure it out later.

01:26:54.000 That's what I would say.

01:26:56.000 Well, you know, we could do, we can take superchats from the audience.

01:27:00.000 And if you haven't already, smash the like button.

01:27:04.000 I'm very excited.

01:27:05.000 You know, we had some internet hiccups early on, but so far the squirrels have not chewed through the line.

01:27:10.000 It's just like on the ground.

01:27:12.000 Leading outside.

01:27:13.000 So I'm like, I'm waiting for a car to run over.

01:27:15.000 I don't even, I don't know.

01:27:16.000 I guess the guy made it work.

01:27:17.000 So, you know, good on him.

01:27:19.000 Run some tape, electrical tape over it.

01:27:21.000 Cause it's going over the sidewalk.

01:27:22.000 Yeah, it is.

01:27:23.000 Yeah.

01:27:24.000 I think, I think that's the corner to go all the way down to the street or something.

01:27:27.000 I didn't check.

01:27:28.000 It looked like it might though.

01:27:29.000 Yeah, and then like just around driving over it right now.

01:27:33.000 The internet is gonna run over by a car anyway Smash the like button if you haven't already done so thanks for hanging out everybody Christina H says did y'all see Tom McDonald's new music video today?

01:27:42.000 It was fire Blair white is in it. 1.00

01:27:44.000 Happy Friday.

01:27:44.000 I saw clips.

01:27:45.000 It's on an Instagram.

01:27:45.000 It's cool All right Rob Lowe, Rob's Lowe says, regarding your members show last night, I will say the whole thing, the whole having a kid kills your dreams argument is not true as a father.

01:27:56.000 The moment I laid eyes on my daughter, all of my mistakes meant nothing and all I saw was the future.

01:28:01.000 There you go.

01:28:02.000 That's beautiful.

01:28:03.000 Ethan Randall says, happy Killdozer Day.

01:28:04.000 Oh, is that, is it the anniversary of?

01:28:07.000 Yep.

01:28:11.000 All right, let's see.

01:28:14.000 PoliticalBioDad says, did you see Blair White was in Tom McDonald's new music video, Snowflakes?

01:28:18.000 We need to support non-woke artists like Tom, G-Prime, and Freedom Tunes.

01:28:22.000 Thank you.

01:28:22.000 That's correct.

01:28:23.000 This is actually something you mentioned earlier about, like, going off to art school, and I sort of joked about how parents generally don't like that, or don't like their kid pursuing a career in art.

01:28:31.000 I just want to say this.

01:28:32.000 If you're a conservative person, and you, like, are upset about the fact that conservatives are not represented in artistic careers, you gotta become comfortable with your kid going into one.

01:28:40.000 Yes.

01:28:41.000 And conservative artists should also feel emboldened, even though I don't like that word.

01:28:46.000 You see Seamus there, you see, to a smaller extent, myself.

01:28:50.000 There aren't a lot of conservative artists for some reason.

01:28:52.000 It's like we're scared of getting cancelled or something.

01:28:55.000 If we don't step up and... I mean, there's this stereotype, a cliché, of a lot of artists and cartoonists and even humorists are left-leaning.

01:29:03.000 But where are all the right-leaning or even middle-slash-conservative creators?

01:29:10.000 If you like to step forward, it's because there needs to be a sufficient tribe for money to exist.

01:29:15.000 And what happens on the left is there's a massive market for leftism.

01:29:20.000 And so it's basically a Mexican standoff.

01:29:22.000 They may not believe these things, but they're like, I'm not going to cross this group that pays me.

01:29:27.000 I'll get too much flack.

01:29:27.000 It's not worth it.

01:29:28.000 The same thing exists on the right.

01:29:29.000 Yeah.

01:29:31.000 Stribalism. 0.91

01:29:32.000 100%.

01:29:32.000 I mean, somehow we've got to be able to find the time to do this X hours per week.

01:29:37.000 Let's say if this is a full-time job, at least 40 hours a week.

01:29:39.000 For me, it's like 60.

01:29:40.000 Yeah.

01:29:41.000 But like, I'm trying my best.

01:29:43.000 And a lot of us are trying our best.

01:29:45.000 We just got to try to find the money to do this.

01:29:47.000 I don't know, like... Alright, so a lot of left-leaning creators like The Daily Show and stuff like that.

01:29:52.000 They have actual late-night shows where they have, you know, back-end commercials and all that stuff.

01:29:56.000 People paying them to do their SNL, right?

01:29:59.000 Like, what happened to comedy?

01:30:00.000 I don't know.

01:30:01.000 But they're not funny anymore.

01:30:02.000 They haven't been funny for 20 years.

01:30:03.000 But like, alright, so those people are getting paid to do their thing, and conservative creators, I think if more of us step up, and if you have the guts to step up, don't be afraid of being cancelled, because if you're working for yourself, kind of, you can't be cancelled.

01:30:18.000 I feel like there's just got to be more of us and more high-quality stuff.

01:30:23.000 I'm not saying... You can still be cancelled, but to a lesser degree, right?

01:30:26.000 Like, if you work for a company and you cross the left, they'll fire you from your job.

01:30:31.000 If you work for the right and you say something out of turn, they'll probably just, like, argue with you and it might be bad for you in the long run.

01:30:37.000 But, you know, you can get cancelled on the right.

01:30:40.000 Yeah, it happens.

01:30:41.000 You can have clients refuse to work with you in the future if you're self-employed.

01:30:43.000 You could also just be completely deplatformed.

01:30:46.000 That's true.

01:30:46.000 But I agree completely with your message.

01:30:48.000 Completely.

01:30:49.000 Somehow we've got to find a way to make a living at this.

01:30:52.000 Fine.

01:30:52.000 But there are a lot of us who want to do this for a living.

01:30:56.000 Somehow there's got to be a connection between finding an audience and then just giving them something that they're willing to throw you a tip or something.

01:31:03.000 Yeah, I hear you.

01:31:04.000 Here's some money for t-shirts.

01:31:06.000 Here's a super chat.

01:31:06.000 Speaking of which, super chats.

01:31:08.000 Sean Easton says, he got three questions, so we'll go with the first one.

01:31:11.000 Do you guys think that anime and eastern cartoons have become popular due to the decline in quality in western shows?

01:31:16.000 Yes.

01:31:17.000 Well, I'll answer this first.

01:31:18.000 I grew up watching anime because American shows are, like, episodic, and anime is like, you know, what is it called, like a serial?

01:31:28.000 Like, it's continuous.

01:31:29.000 And so, watching, like, Dragon Ball Z growing up, What happens next?

01:31:34.000 And they always leave in the cliffhanger, you know, like, Goku's about to go Super Saiyan, and you're like, I gotta see the next episode, oh man!

01:31:39.000 And you have this really long story where someone asks you, like, what's happening in this episode?

01:31:43.000 Oh, dude, you gotta watch a hundred episodes to figure out what's happening here.

01:31:46.000 And then American shows, it was like, at the end of every show, it just restarts.

01:31:50.000 Yes.

01:31:51.000 It's just like, nothing changes, and it was just gag humor, and I wasn't a big fan of it.

01:31:55.000 I don't know, what do you guys think?

01:31:57.000 Do you want to go first?

01:31:58.000 No, no, you go ahead.

01:31:59.000 Well, there's a lot of history.

01:32:00.000 I've been studying the history of comics for a long time because before I did silly political strips, I was trying to get into indie comics again.

01:32:07.000 And if you study sort of what happened to American comics in the past few decades, There was a massive bubble in 92-93.

01:32:15.000 So, Image Comics, around 92, when Spawn was coming out and it was getting formed, was like the peak of American comics since, I want to say the 50s, 40s, something like that.

01:32:27.000 The Golden Age and the Silver Age was happening.

01:32:30.000 So then the bubble burst for various reasons.

01:32:32.000 And then there was a lot of stores closing in the mid to late 90s because of the speculator market.

01:32:41.000 So long story short is a lot of creators ended up scattering and doing what they're doing now, which is crowdfunding a lot of their comic strips.

01:32:49.000 So you get a lot of the creators who want to, I don't know, I create an Indiegogo or something like that.

01:32:56.000 And I say, Hey, everyone who follows me, if you want to buy this book, you can back the book.

01:33:00.000 Wow!

01:33:00.000 But what happens in Japan, there was a famous story a couple of weeks ago or a couple of days ago

01:33:06.000 where one manga series called Demon Slayer, I think, is outselling the entire American comics industry.

01:33:12.000 Wow!

01:33:13.000 Just one.

01:33:13.000 Well, hold on, hold on.

01:33:14.000 Manga.

01:33:15.000 That was the second question.

01:33:16.000 As animators, what do you think of the Demon Slayer movie?

01:33:19.000 Okay.

01:33:19.000 Never saw it, yeah.

01:33:20.000 But the story is interesting because... Real quick, Demon Slayer in America is outselling entire American comics?

01:33:27.000 I'm not sure in America, but maybe worldwide.

01:33:30.000 Like, if you go to Barnes & Noble right now, right?

01:33:32.000 If you look at the comics section, the graphic novel section, the Western comics, versus the manga section, the manga section is almost always three times the size.

01:33:41.000 for various reasons, but People here even want to read more manga like young people want to read manga more than American comics.

01:33:49.000 They're more into it for numerous reasons I've always said like Manga is like the MMA versus if you've ever seen those videos of the MMA fighter versus like the Tai Chi fighter and it's just like a brutal beatdown of like a American comics look really great, but if you pit American comics versus manga, manga's gonna win every time.

01:34:10.000 Why is that?

01:34:11.000 There's... I could do a whole thesis on that.

01:34:13.000 Look, look, look, I'll tell you this.

01:34:14.000 When I see these, like, ultra-woke trash comics, I don't look anywhere near that.

01:34:20.000 Why did that happen?

01:34:20.000 It seems like that happened to comics in a way that it just hasn't happened to me.

01:34:23.000 happened to other industries in an overt way. So most creative industries lean to the left.

01:34:27.000 But it just seems like comics are really far to the left compared to the other ones and

01:34:31.000 in a much more overt way. Most movies and television shows will have a left-wing message,

01:34:37.000 but they're not like making a big deal of the fact that they are having a left-wing

01:34:41.000 message not as often.

01:34:44.000 But why comics though?

01:34:46.000 Why don't the same rules apply to these other industries?

01:34:48.000 Probably because Disney bought Marvel.

01:34:50.000 Hold on.

01:34:51.000 My assumption is that comic sales were slumping, and these companies thought, we're only getting white men.

01:34:58.000 We have this whole untapped audience of diversity, of non-white, female, etc.

01:35:04.000 Did they, though?

01:35:06.000 Yes, that's what a lot of them do.

01:35:07.000 They think their core audience is this one group, and how do we expand into all these other areas?

01:35:13.000 So what they start doing is making diverse messages because they think that's what people want instead of realizing nobody wants that and maybe you should just make... So I'll put it this way.

01:35:25.000 It used to be that if you were a TV host, you were super rich.

01:35:29.000 Now there's millions of hosts who do YouTube shows who are all doing well, who are well off, but not like 50 million dollars like, you know, Hannity is.

01:35:37.000 It's changing.

01:35:38.000 So these comics start seeing their sales decline, and instead of saying, let's make another brand new comic for this market, they say, let's make Iron Man a young black woman. 0.62

01:35:47.000 Because then the Iron Man fans will watch and read, and the other communities who don't now will, and it's like, no, now you've just made a weird character that nobody cares about.

01:35:57.000 It doesn't work that way.

01:35:59.000 I look at manga, It's not in there.

01:36:02.000 Like, I got Crunchyroll, man, and I'm like, each and every one of these action shows I just watch, I'm like, wow, it's actually pretty good.

01:36:07.000 Yeah, I've never watched any anime, but I'm curious, I mean, it could also just be that the stories are more interesting to people?

01:36:14.000 Yeah, what's your thesis, George, at least?

01:36:17.000 Man, alright, so I don't know if you guys know, but there was a company called Tokyopop back in the mid-2000s that was translating a lot of manga.

01:36:25.000 Back before the recession of 2007-8, long story short, they were trying to do original English manga, and I was involved with that stuff.

01:36:34.000 My first book was published through them.

01:36:37.000 But what was happening with manga in those years, and even in the late 90s, was a lot of manga was getting published In English, that's why they started doing the formats going from right to left, because in the original Japanese they read from right to left.

01:36:52.000 It seemed foreign and weird at first, but they weren't flipping the books anymore.

01:36:58.000 You had companies like Viz, Tokyopop, Anyway, there were a lot of companies doing this, but you want to talk about diversity, for example.

01:37:09.000 There were so many female creators in Japan creating, let's say, shoujo series. 0.84

01:37:15.000 That's a girl series, you know. 1.00

01:37:18.000 I've got a couple of Rumiko Takahashi, Masami Suda, Fuyumi Soryo.

01:37:23.000 Rumiko did Inuyasha and Raya. Dude, she did so many and if you want to talk about like female creators and those are 1.00

01:37:28.000 huge Massive she's one of the richest manga creators in history 1.00

01:37:33.000 woman And there was no I there was no inkling of like oh she was

01:37:37.000 oppressed or she wasn't She just made good books and she found an audience that

01:37:42.000 wanted to buy and read her stuff They were crazy about it, even here in the states.

01:37:46.000 That's why if I go to Barnes & Noble, I try to like talk to some people like, hey, why do you read this series?

01:37:51.000 And they just tell me, oh, I just like the story.

01:37:53.000 I want to find out what's happening next, even though it's not in color.

01:37:56.000 Americans love books in color, but if you give them like Berserk, the creator of Berserk, Kentaro Miura, recently died.

01:38:03.000 Everybody now was talking about, all of last week, we're talking about how much they love Berserk.

01:38:08.000 It's a black and white series, one of the coolest Darkest fantasy series you've ever heard of.

01:38:13.000 They love that series.

01:38:15.000 Is that by Rumiko?

01:38:17.000 Berserk?

01:38:17.000 Yeah.

01:38:18.000 No, that's Kintaro Miura.

01:38:20.000 I was going to say though, for Inuyasha, what year was that?

01:38:23.000 90s?

01:38:25.000 80s, I want to say.

01:38:25.000 The manga at least.

01:38:26.000 The anime would have been 90s.

01:38:28.000 So Inuyasha is about a furry, and Ranma is about a transgender martial artist. 0.67

01:38:33.000 Really?

01:38:34.000 But there's a reason I don't watch anime but people reading those I'm grossly mischaracterizing the enemies

01:38:40.000 I was also no but in a way I mean really that gives you an idea of the people just

01:38:44.000 wanted to read a story that they wanted to enjoy there was no

01:38:47.000 Pushing of an ideology. Yeah for them, especially in manga story is the king you've got

01:38:53.000 The writer. All right So you've got the mangaka who is the writer artist? 0.68

01:38:59.000 Who has assistance working with them and then you've got the editor who helps them write the stories

01:39:04.000 But they're really focused on what's how how do I get the readers to read the next chapter always?

01:39:11.000 They're planning the story in such a way like I just started getting into One Piece and I can't get enough of it.

01:39:16.000 It's so fun and I want to find out what's happening next.

01:39:19.000 I just like the characters.

01:39:20.000 I like the world.

01:39:21.000 It's fun to read.

01:39:22.000 An American comic nowadays, I open it and I have to push myself.

01:39:26.000 I have to force myself to turn the page.

01:39:28.000 It's so boring and I can't explain why.

01:39:31.000 But when I read a manga, I can't put them down.

01:39:34.000 It's crazy.

01:39:34.000 But it's a martial arts thing to me.

01:39:36.000 I grew up reading manga my whole life.

01:39:40.000 I grew up hanging out at comic shops and they've just always been boring to me.

01:39:45.000 Have you, but if you saw a manga on the shelf, like, did you feel?

01:39:49.000 Yeah, dude.

01:39:49.000 There's something about Alchemist.

01:39:52.000 You got to know what happens next.

01:39:53.000 The politics of it was brilliant.

01:39:55.000 Yeah.

01:39:55.000 I loved the 92, 91 is when I got into comics.

01:39:58.000 I was reading like the Infinity Gauntlet.

01:40:00.000 X-Force was all right.

01:40:01.000 X-Men, they were good stories.

01:40:03.000 I mean, the relationship between Jean Grey and like Jubilee or like Cyclops and like, you know, Colossus or whatever.

01:40:09.000 And then and Spawn came out and it was like, oh, this is amazing.

01:40:12.000 This is Jim Lee's started a new company with Image.

01:40:15.000 And then maybe they just fell into the spectacle.

01:40:18.000 I mean, Marvel got bought.

01:40:19.000 That industry got torched by Disney.

01:40:21.000 Basically, it looks like Marvel was struggling for a long time.

01:40:23.000 If you look at the history of what happened with Image, those are Tom McFarlane, Rob Liefeld and all those guys.

01:40:29.000 They were originally they were the top guys at Marvel, and they all decided to quit at the same time and form Image Comics.

01:40:36.000 It was this whole flip of like the whole industry turned upside down.

01:40:39.000 And everyone was like, oh, all right.

01:40:41.000 So a few years later, there was something called the speculator market, which a lot of comic books were selling, like a Superman number one sold for a ton of money.

01:40:50.000 And everyone's like, oh, I got to buy issue one of this book.

01:40:53.000 And there's all these variant covers.

01:40:56.000 It's super rare.

01:40:57.000 So I have to invest in this comic.

01:40:58.000 So what ended up happening, unfortunately, was Image Comics was so successful that they were selling millions and millions of copies of their first issues.

01:41:06.000 Everyone was buying them, and it created a bubble by accident.

01:41:09.000 And then the bubble popped.

01:41:10.000 So all these comic shops, like novelty comic shops that used to be card shops, opened and then closed, and everyone saw the recession and was like, oh, comics are over.

01:41:19.000 But it was just a bubble.

01:41:21.000 So, Image Comics is an interesting anomaly, and then... Alright, so they were struggling for a while, and then Image Comics did a... Alright, so they had Walking Dead, which was really, really successful.

01:41:32.000 Robert Kirkman ended up becoming a partner at Image after Walking Dead was doing really good.

01:41:39.000 Which is another black and white book, incidentally.

01:41:41.000 And everybody wanted to, it was one of those page-turner books that everyone wants to find out what happens next.

01:41:46.000 Just go back to the 80s, man.

01:41:48.000 And it was just a lot of really great stuff.

01:41:51.000 And then, I don't know what happened, like late 90s, 2000s, it started to get dry.

01:41:55.000 eBay destroyed the market.

01:41:58.000 What I mean is the writing.

01:41:59.000 So we're talking about like manga and anime versus comics, right?

01:42:03.000 So I'm growing up and I'm reading comics in like 2000 and they're getting dry and boring and I'm reading and I'm just like... You know what it might be?

01:42:12.000 I can only read about Cyclops so many times.

01:42:14.000 Sure.

01:42:15.000 But you know with... I started watching Dragon Ball Z. I watched that in the 90s.

01:42:19.000 I was a little kid.

01:42:20.000 It was on... I would turn on channel 50 at 8 in the morning.

01:42:23.000 It was like...

01:42:23.000 Or I think the only way to watch it was in Spanish.

01:42:25.000 And so there was like that scene where Vegeta... That's why you speak Spanish now.

01:42:28.000 Vegeta's about to kill Nappa. 0.91

01:42:30.000 And Nappa goes, PORQUE VEGETA? 0.95

01:42:32.000 And then Vegeta blasts him.

01:42:34.000 And I'm like, PORQUE?

01:42:35.000 And then, uh, but that has, you know, I'm a little kid.

01:42:38.000 And then I started watching and I'm like, whoa, and like the lore was really cool because I'd watch an episode, and then someone would start telling me like, here's this character, here's what happened ten years ago, and I'm like, whoa, and I'm getting really, really into it.

01:42:50.000 I open a comic, Yeah, like a lot of the X-Men lore and like the DC lore stuff was interesting, but it started to get boring.

01:42:56.000 And then, the difference is, there's so much different manga that are long, that are in-depth, that have different characters, that I could just find the one that I thought was really good and stick to it and watch it or read it and get through the whole thing.

01:43:08.000 I don't know, man.

01:43:09.000 You compare, like, Fullmetal Alchemist, the politics of that manga.

01:43:13.000 Brilliant.

01:43:14.000 Like, government corruption and just the general aspect of how they have the powers they have.

01:43:19.000 Alchemy, they can just make things with code like they write on the tables or whatever.

01:43:22.000 And then you have Death Note, which is probably one of the greatest.

01:43:25.000 Fantastic.

01:43:26.000 Yeah.

01:43:26.000 Just brilliant.

01:43:27.000 Yeah.

01:43:28.000 And then it's like, what can we say right now?

01:43:30.000 MCU.

01:43:31.000 Cool, I like the MCU movies, but it's regurgitated.

01:43:33.000 They're not hiring or searching for new talent.

01:43:36.000 Like the way that Manga... Alright, Shonen Jump and all those companies over there, they have talent searches all the time.

01:43:43.000 Submit your stuff.

01:43:44.000 Submit a chapter.

01:43:45.000 The editors will pick the best.

01:43:47.000 You get to talk to an editor.

01:43:48.000 Maybe you get to develop a series.

01:43:49.000 Over here in the States... Alright, so you got even veteran creators.

01:43:53.000 I was talking to a veteran creator who has multiple Eisner Awards.

01:43:57.000 Super amazing.

01:43:58.000 He used to... I won't say his name out of respect, I guess.

01:44:00.000 But like, he can't find work anymore because the editors running Marvel DC, they won't even talk to him.

01:44:06.000 Because they're woke?

01:44:07.000 They're woke and he, let's say, is conservative, let's say.

01:44:10.000 There's a whole bunch of, I won't name names, but there's a whole bunch of conservative creators who can't find work in the industry.

01:44:16.000 But they're able to get crowdfunding.

01:44:18.000 There are some of them who have hundreds of thousands of dollars.

01:44:21.000 A couple of them broke even millions on their books.

01:44:25.000 Is there like an American Shonen Jump?

01:44:27.000 No.

01:44:28.000 I mean, there is a translated version of Shonen Jump.

01:44:33.000 There needs to be an anthology, yes.

01:44:35.000 The problem is with printing.

01:44:37.000 I don't know if I mentioned last time I print my own books at home, let's say.

01:44:40.000 I can't do a lot.

01:44:42.000 I'm doing all this stuff by myself.

01:44:45.000 To print in color is so expensive, you would have to print tens of thousands of books just to break even, let's say.

01:44:50.000 Yeah, but doesn't Shonen do the manga chapters in black and white?

01:44:53.000 They do it in black and white, but they can, yeah, they have, it's called an anthology, if you've ever seen heavy metal in America.

01:45:00.000 But yeah, if you look at Shonen Jump, Pulp used to do it back in the 90s too.

01:45:05.000 There needs to be things like talent searches, anthologies, creators.

01:45:09.000 Creators nowadays, like, we're trying to do indie comics, it's just that To get funded to do them is so hard and those of us who get funded we're working super slow because like I have a book on Mary Sue for instance that just got it got funded like months ago and I'm trying to find time to work on it.

01:45:27.000 It just barely got funding.

01:45:30.000 Right on, right on.

01:45:30.000 I was just thinking an awesome new genre would be, have you ever seen the app where you take a beer bottle and you scan it with the app and it animates?

01:45:39.000 The picture on the beer bottle becomes an animation?

01:45:41.000 If you had a comic like that, you open, you read the comic, or you could put your phone up and view it and it's a cartoon happens.

01:45:48.000 Dang, that's gonna be good.

01:45:49.000 That's gonna go on the website and watch the cartoon You know the argument of digitizing comics like they've

01:45:54.000 they've been trying to experiment with that for a long time And then there's the people who want to have a physical

01:45:57.000 book at the store or mail to them I'm sorry we should we should move on but I just want to

01:46:02.000 point out that this is this is a really good example of American cultural stagnation that you know it used to be

01:46:07.000 that Americans were pushing culture and culture was being exported and 0.80

01:46:11.000 And now we have, with comics, I mean, for me growing up, I'm not interested in the American comic industry.

01:46:16.000 And Angus crushed us.

01:46:17.000 It's over.

01:46:18.000 Well, good for them.

01:46:19.000 I'm part Japanese, I'll take credit. 1.00

01:46:21.000 You guys, you all suck. 1.00

01:46:22.000 Nice work, by the way. 1.00

01:46:22.000 Moving on. 1.00

01:46:23.000 The last part of this Super Chat, because that was a Super Chat, was Seamus, Jordan Peterson doing a Ben Shapiro impression.

01:46:30.000 It's like, okay gang, if you're going to tell me that I can body the archetypal mess of the hero by metaphorically dying, and you're also going to argue for universal healthcare, you're absolutely out of your mind.

01:46:36.000 Because here's the thing, we can't have universal healthcare in a system where people are actually being their best selves, because that requires that you force other people to take responsibility for your actions, alright gang?

01:46:43.000 Oh my gosh.

01:46:44.000 That's Jordan Peterson as Ben Shapiro.

01:46:45.000 Epic!

01:46:46.000 Excellent.

01:46:47.000 Garrett Savant says, white Skittles drain the rainbow.

01:46:51.000 Rob Santana says, Tim, the speaker at Yale found the line.

01:46:54.000 Do you think it will move, and in which direction?

01:46:56.000 Of course it will move!

01:46:58.000 Over the line! 0.74

01:46:59.000 She didn't find the line, she was well past it, dude.

01:47:01.000 That's nuts.

01:47:02.000 She backflipped over it.

01:47:04.000 No, it was like, it was like a round off back layout.

01:47:07.000 It was, it was, it was, you know, it was, it was an excellent maneuver.

01:47:11.000 All right.

01:47:11.000 Vapor Trail says, You can be rich or you can be left wing.

01:47:15.000 Everyone who is both is pure evil.

01:47:16.000 From Nico to Silicon Valley to Hollywood.

01:47:18.000 Communism has always been an ideology of the rich imposed from the top down and they stay rich.

01:47:24.000 That is correct.

01:47:25.000 Karl Marx was super rich, wasn't he?

01:47:27.000 I don't know.

01:47:28.000 He was born to a really wealthy family, I think.

01:47:31.000 JMaxx said, with a big super chat, say the punchline, Gerddamnit.

01:47:36.000 Which one?

01:47:37.000 Well, we're just going to move on from that, because I don't know what his punchline was going to be, and I don't think we should get the show kicked out of YouTube.

01:47:45.000 Josh Van Horn says, I released a children's book on self-improvement that centers around jealousy and loss.

01:47:50.000 It's called Boy, Girl, Monster, and it can be ordered from, what does it say, umni.rocks.

01:47:56.000 It's my little part in helping take the culture back.

01:47:58.000 Thanks, crew.

01:48:00.000 I pointed this out on my segment about Nico.

01:48:02.000 She's doing these TikTok videos, and she wears a Bernie shirt.

01:48:06.000 Clearly, she doesn't know a whole lot about the ideology, and it doesn't matter.

01:48:09.000 Young people who watch that will like her and like Bernie.

01:48:12.000 What am I doing?

01:48:13.000 What are we doing here?

01:48:14.000 Well, we're doing a vlog.

01:48:15.000 What do we have in the skate park?

01:48:16.000 A big ol' Gadsden flag.

01:48:18.000 That's the point.

01:48:19.000 So people are gonna watch it.

01:48:20.000 I know what the Gadsden flag represents.

01:48:21.000 Don't tread on me.

01:48:22.000 It represents part of the American Revolution, a symbol of it.

01:48:25.000 And freedom, liberty, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.

01:48:28.000 And when people watch the vlog and they see something silly like, you know, chickens eating cicadas or something, there it is.

01:48:35.000 Building the culture, having those symbols exist and be prominent.

01:48:40.000 Rainforest says, I think the Skittle market plan was, we are getting rid of our rainbow because only one rainbow matters this month, the rainbow flag.

01:48:47.000 The store messed up.

01:48:48.000 Yes, that is correct.

01:48:51.000 That's what they did. 1.00

01:48:52.000 And it was really, really dumb. 1.00

01:48:54.000 Bad idea. 1.00

01:48:55.000 Poorly executed.

01:48:56.000 All right, let's see what we got here in the Superchats.

01:49:02.000 Jack Bailey says, do you know about the four basic personality types?

01:49:06.000 Sanguine, Chloric, Phlegmatic, and Melancholy.

01:49:09.000 I highly recommend you look them up.

01:49:11.000 Explain, Seamus.

01:49:11.000 Yeah, so Sanguine, Chloric, Melancholic, and Phlegmatic.

01:49:16.000 This is something that dates back to ancient Greece.

01:49:18.000 The idea is you have people who are, basically everyone fits into one of these categories.

01:49:25.000 You're usually bleeding into another category.

01:49:27.000 You'll have a secondary temperament.

01:49:29.000 Someone who is sanguine is someone who is much more in their body. 0.99

01:49:32.000 Sanguine actually means blood.

01:49:34.000 It means you're a person who takes more pleasure in things, laughs more often, and tends to be less responsible but much more fun-loving, more pleasant and upbeat.

01:49:44.000 Choleric people tend to be more angry. 1.00

01:49:46.000 They're fiery.

01:49:46.000 They like to analyze things.

01:49:48.000 They're a bit more quick.

01:49:49.000 Fragmatic people are the people who more or less don't care or seem not to care. 0.74

01:49:55.000 It takes a lot to really get them motivated about things.

01:49:58.000 They're very chill as people.

01:50:00.000 And then melancholic people are usually very introspective.

01:50:04.000 They're more likely to be down about things.

01:50:07.000 And most people fall into more than one category.

01:50:10.000 It's rare you meet someone who perfectly falls into one of these categories.

01:50:13.000 So you can take these tests.

01:50:14.000 I know I'm like Sanguine Caleric based on the tests I've taken.

01:50:17.000 You guys are probably, I mean Tim's definitely Caleric.

01:50:19.000 I wonder what your secondary is.

01:50:21.000 I highly recommend taking the test.

01:50:23.000 It's very interesting.

01:50:24.000 I'm a Sun and Moon Pisces and a Rising Leo.

01:50:26.000 It's different.

01:50:28.000 So what's different about this and like astrology is it's just an interesting way of categorizing people based on behaviors we know that they have.

01:50:36.000 And the belief is that it's in the body very much.

01:50:38.000 It's based on humor.

01:50:40.000 Yeah, the general idea is there are certain aspects of your personality that are just innate.

01:50:45.000 I think that's really what it's getting at.

01:50:48.000 There are these elements of you that aren't necessarily learned.

01:50:51.000 It's just who you are.

01:50:52.000 What, what, what, what animal are you?

01:50:55.000 On the Chinese zodiac?

01:50:55.000 I'm a human.

01:50:57.000 On the Chinese zodiac?

01:50:58.000 Oh, I don't know.

01:50:58.000 I have no idea.

01:50:59.000 Monkey.

01:51:00.000 Are you?

01:51:01.000 I don't know.

01:51:02.000 Someone pull it up on their phone.

01:51:03.000 I'm a tiger.

01:51:03.000 Oh, you're a tiger.

01:51:04.000 But it's interesting.

01:51:05.000 They brought the temperaments up and maybe it was because earlier we were talking about nature versus nurture and the fact that you really need to complete things.

01:51:12.000 I was thinking of temperament when you were talking about that as well.

01:51:14.000 I think that's a huge part of it.

01:51:15.000 We got a super chat here from NOS.

01:51:17.000 He says, I've been having a really hard time in my life, struggling with my life goals and other things.

01:51:21.000 I know you guys say college is bad, but with what I want to do and the way I learn the best I need to.

01:51:27.000 Been struggling with school, but this really helped inspire me, so thanks.

01:51:31.000 Glad to hear it.

01:51:32.000 God bless you.

01:51:32.000 I'm glad we could help.

01:51:33.000 Definitely, dude.

01:51:34.000 So what year were you born, Ian?

01:51:36.000 79.

01:51:36.000 Did you look it up?

01:51:38.000 No, I'm in the process of it.

01:51:40.000 Every time, I've heard his age before, but every time I hear it, it still shocks me.

01:51:44.000 42, the meaning of life.

01:51:45.000 Yeah.

01:51:46.000 According to... What is it, Ian?

01:51:47.000 I don't know.

01:51:48.000 Where do I look for this?

01:51:48.000 I'm on Wikipedia.

01:51:49.000 What if Ian's a gorilla?

01:51:50.000 I'm looking at it.

01:51:50.000 I am a gorilla.

01:51:51.000 Just type in Chinese zodiac.

01:51:53.000 Lydia's got it.

01:51:54.000 Yang Yin, Yang Yin.

01:51:56.000 Every 12 years it repeats.

01:51:58.000 Yeah.

01:52:00.000 So you are... What'd you say you were, Tim?

01:52:02.000 A tiger?

01:52:03.000 Yeah.

01:52:03.000 That's fixed element wood.

01:52:05.000 It looks like Ian is a horse.

01:52:06.000 Sure does.

01:52:07.000 Take a look at his face.

01:52:08.000 What year?

01:52:08.000 1992?

01:52:09.000 95!

01:52:09.000 He's young!

01:52:09.000 1995.

01:52:09.000 Let's see, what do we got here?

01:52:10.000 95 is a pig. 1.00

01:52:10.000 You're a pig. 1.00

01:52:10.000 What about you, bro? 1.00

01:52:11.000 I'm a capitalist, you know?

01:52:12.000 Of course, 85.

01:52:12.000 What year 1992 95 95, yeah, right. I'm young 1995. Let's see

01:52:17.000 95 is a pig I'm a capitalist, you know, I think that means you're a hat. 0.92

01:52:27.000 No, is it? 0.99

01:52:28.000 This just seems insulting, frankly.

01:52:30.000 Are these stereotypes?

01:52:31.000 No, he's an ox. 0.98

01:52:32.000 You're an ox. 0.56

01:52:33.000 Nice.

01:52:34.000 Well, I am.

01:52:34.000 It's like none of these have sounded like good things to me.

01:52:36.000 Ian, you're a sheep.

01:52:37.000 We represent all the four elements.

01:52:38.000 We've got water, fire, earth.

01:52:42.000 I'm sorry, you're an ox, you're earth, and Tim, you are wood.

01:52:44.000 Ian's a sheep. 0.98

01:52:46.000 Oh, I am.

01:52:47.000 So I'm not a horse.

01:52:49.000 Hey, sheep's not in here.

01:52:50.000 What are you?

01:52:51.000 I don't know.

01:52:51.000 I didn't look it up.

01:52:52.000 Are you making fun of my political stance?

01:52:57.000 91 is also a sheep.

01:53:01.000 There are two sheep in this room.

01:53:02.000 Unbelievable.

01:53:03.000 You guys just aren't independent thinkers.

01:53:04.000 I'm not clocking.

01:53:06.000 Sheep aren't on my list.

01:53:06.000 If you were born at a different time, I'm sorry.

01:53:08.000 You'd be better at thinking. 0.99

01:53:09.000 You're all a bunch of sheep. 0.60

01:53:10.000 All right, Firefox says the worst thing about the left is that they look at an object and try to imagine offensive stereotype associated with it. 0.96

01:53:17.000 That being said, we should stop talking about Harambe because it's racist and I said so. 0.70

01:53:21.000 That's sad to me, Harambe.

01:53:23.000 Brian Nord says, did you see the footage released of the F-35 dropping a nuclear bomb in a test?

01:53:27.000 It reminded me of what you were talking about with escalating tension.

01:53:30.000 Did you guys know that the Pentagon stopped buying weapons for use in the Middle East and started buying weapons for use in Pacific warfare?

01:53:35.000 Yeah, we were discussing this earlier.

01:53:36.000 Military.com reported this.

01:53:37.000 Oh boy.

01:53:38.000 And I'm like, bro, people, you gotta like, look at the grains of sand in the news stories.

01:53:43.000 It's like the Pentagon is avoiding, is pulling back on war with ISIS and escalating war with China.

01:53:50.000 And then, like, China says, we're going to start preparing for nuclear war with America.

01:53:55.000 Then Taiwan says, China's preparing for war.

01:53:58.000 And, like, they're crossing the Taiwan Strait, the center line.

01:54:00.000 Which is crazy.

01:54:01.000 Wasn't that their reaction, too, to our discussion of investigating the origins of the virus?

01:54:06.000 Which is what you do when you're innocent.

01:54:08.000 Did you hear what Joe Biden said?

01:54:09.000 Probably the scariest thing.

01:54:11.000 Come on, man!

01:54:11.000 I was like, whoa.

01:54:13.000 Oh, no.

01:54:14.000 Come on, man.

01:54:15.000 I got hairy legs.

01:54:20.000 It's like, if I could beat Corn Pop, I can beat you. 0.91

01:54:23.000 Dude, that's horrifying. 0.93

01:54:25.000 I got hairy legs! 0.93

01:54:25.000 China, isn't that kind of a telling response? 0.93

01:54:27.000 We're like, we're going to investigate this. 1.00

01:54:29.000 Actually, if you do, I'll kill you. 1.00

01:54:30.000 Well, maybe you're guilty. 0.99

01:54:32.000 Mr. Toad says, can we get a G-Prime 85 and Freedom Tunes production of a Fungus Butt cartoon?

01:54:36.000 Oh my gosh, we were talking about this fungus, which is ruining cicadas by causing fungus to grow out their bungus.

01:54:48.000 Basically, we got into the implications of a virus like that crossing over to human beings and how horrifying it would be.

01:54:55.000 Like, like The Last of Us? 0.99

01:54:57.000 Yeah, The Last of Us, but like, instead of their head, it's their butts. 0.99

01:55:00.000 Yeah, it produces, this fungus makes them produce like an amphetamine and then they go hyper-sexual crazy, their butt falls off. 1.00

01:55:06.000 They pretend to be female. 0.99

01:55:07.000 That's right!

01:55:08.000 Yeah. 0.90

01:55:09.000 They pretend to be female so the males will bang them and then spread the fungus. 1.00

01:55:12.000 And they spread the fungus.

01:55:13.000 Seems like a job just for me.

01:55:15.000 It does, doesn't it?

01:55:16.000 Frankly, I heard this and I'm like, you know, I'm the man for that show.

01:55:19.000 A full book.

01:55:20.000 That's right.

01:55:20.000 A whole book.

01:55:21.000 Fungus spot.

01:55:22.000 Fungus spot.

01:55:23.000 On their bungus.

01:55:24.000 Fungus on their bungus. 0.88

01:55:25.000 Fungus on their bungus, yeah. 0.96

01:55:27.000 I'll do it.

01:55:30.000 1976 says, if you get 100,000 likes next Friday, will you guys dress up as the 60s Batman cast and have a chef prepare you various bugs and critique the food on Cast Castle?

01:55:40.000 Yes.

01:55:40.000 If we get 100,000 likes on a single episode, we will dress up like the cast of the 1960s Batman as we do the show, and we won't mention it once.

01:55:47.000 Just don't even say anything.

01:55:48.000 I'm into it.

01:55:49.000 Hold on, I'm just saying I didn't agree to this.

01:55:51.000 So maybe if I'm on the show, everyone else will be dressed like Batman characters.

01:55:55.000 We'll have to get Michael Malice on the show.

01:55:57.000 Malice would do it.

01:55:58.000 Yeah.

01:55:59.000 Who would he dress up as?

01:56:00.000 The Joker?

01:56:01.000 Probably Robin.

01:56:03.000 He's a Riddler.

01:56:04.000 Yeah, he's a Riddler.

01:56:07.000 Here's a serious one.

01:56:08.000 Bretton Mabee says the Tiananmen Square Massacre was 32 years ago today.

01:56:11.000 Wow.

01:56:12.000 Please remind your audience to never forget.

01:56:14.000 Absolutely.

01:56:15.000 It's a big deal.

01:56:18.000 You know how they got that footage out?

01:56:19.000 Did you hear about that?

01:56:20.000 No.

01:56:21.000 Oh, we forgot to talk about this.

01:56:22.000 Sorry.

01:56:23.000 What and what?

01:56:25.000 Did you see the GoFundMe Matt Walsh set up to help AOC's abuela this morning?

01:56:29.000 It's up to $93,000 as I write this.

01:56:32.000 I wonder what nasty, poorly thought out things she will say about those who donated.

01:56:36.000 I wanted to launch the Get AOC's Abuela a Tesla GoFundMe so she can ride in style to her new crib. 1.00

01:56:42.000 So what happened?

01:56:43.000 She lost her house.

01:56:44.000 It just dilapidated.

01:56:45.000 I see.

01:56:46.000 So now we're going to crowdfund her out of it. 0.99

01:56:47.000 But let's let's support this.

01:56:48.000 I think this is a good way to cross the line.

01:56:50.000 It is a good turn for our political turmoil.

01:56:52.000 It's the most epic own ever.

01:56:54.000 We totally helped your grandma!

01:56:57.000 High five each other.

01:57:01.000 I love that for as difficult as things are getting and as horrible as tensions are, we're still going to leave the grandmas out of it.

01:57:14.000 I'm not gonna say we're clearly involving her, but like, they're being cool to Grandma.

01:57:17.000 Dude, I'm imagining, like, at the Daily Wire HQ, like, Ben Shapiro and, you know, like, Matt Walsh, they high-five each other and they're laughing.

01:57:25.000 Like, we totally owned!

01:57:26.000 We fixed your house! 0.77

01:57:26.000 Totally owned AOC. 0.77

01:57:27.000 Oh my goodness, guys.

01:57:28.000 Okay, AOC's never gonna recover from this, folks.

01:57:29.000 You're her house.

01:57:30.000 You're her grandma.

01:57:30.000 This house is repaired.

01:57:31.000 Get owned, alright, libs? 0.95

01:57:35.000 It's weird, like, what's... AOC's gonna be like, thank you very much.

01:57:38.000 Like, I'm curious.

01:57:40.000 It's a really, really smart move, because...

01:57:43.000 AOC I think will want to react tribalistically because people are just in tribes, but the appropriate response is like Thank you. 0.99

01:57:51.000 I saw people responding to Matt's tweet about it.

01:57:54.000 They're like you're sick He raised a hundred grand for his grandma.

01:58:00.000 He is legally obligated to give it to her.

01:58:03.000 It's not a scam.

01:58:04.000 He's actually doing it.

01:58:06.000 I guess it's like, you know, I read that tipping in Asia is an insult.

01:58:12.000 Really?

01:58:12.000 Oh, because it's like you think I'm a charity case.

01:58:15.000 You're telling the owner that they can't afford to pay their staff and their staff need help.

01:58:19.000 Well, the staff already works so hard that they feel like I've already given it my all.

01:58:23.000 There's nothing more that you can give me to reward me.

01:58:26.000 It's changing nowadays, but I guess that's the idea.

01:58:29.000 Ben Shapiro tweeted he put in $500, the standard monthly payment for the Tesla, to help AOC's abuela.

01:58:36.000 And it's clearly being disrespectful, but giving her grandma $100,000, it's kind of a weird thing.

01:58:46.000 Part of why I guess it's an own is because we're showing that these problems can be solved through voluntary charity.

01:58:51.000 It's not just about the government.

01:58:52.000 And it's hilarious because people on the left will totally miss that point when it comes to GoFundMe and other crowdsourcing platforms.

01:58:58.000 Every single time someone does something charitable, they're like, that's just socialism.

01:59:02.000 They're like, can you believe these conservatives trying to raise money for their cause?

01:59:05.000 It's like, dude, A, we're not talking about seizing the means of production here, but B, even if you want to argue that the government doing anything is socialism, just helping people, Scott Bromley says, Jesus did not speak out against the Empire.

01:59:20.000 He talked about personal responsibility and devotion to God.

01:59:23.000 He never spoke about things of this world, like governments.

01:59:26.000 Even when he went before Pilate, he didn't say anything about Rome.

01:59:30.000 He did speak of governments, but it's true.

01:59:33.000 I mean, he did speak of governments because he talks about rendering unto Caesar, but it's true. 0.99

01:59:37.000 I mean, a lot of people will try to take Jesus and just fit him into their particular political ideology. 0.96

01:59:44.000 Or they'll say things like Jesus is a socialist, which is completely ridiculous. 0.54

01:59:47.000 I mean, if you're so brainwashed that you think this ideology that came around in the 1800s was being embodied by Christ 2,000 years ago, you're at a point where you almost can't be reasoned with.

01:59:59.000 Basically, what happened was Marxism plagiarized certain good elements of Christianity, and then bastardized them, and then did away with a lot of the parts of Christianity that are actually worthwhile, and became openly hostile towards them.

02:00:10.000 But then, because they stole some values from Christianity, they start saying, see?

02:00:14.000 Christianity is Marxist, or Jesus was Marxist.

02:00:16.000 It's like, no, you're getting it backwards.

02:00:17.000 You took some of our principles, and now you're sort of projecting that onto us, and arguing that we took them from you.

02:00:23.000 But we were here first!

02:00:25.000 Yeah, Ian, when you mentioned that about Jesus being against the empire, they actually expected Jesus to come with a sword and to actually take back the kingdom for the people who follow God.

02:00:34.000 And that he told them, this is not the case.

02:00:36.000 This is not what I'm doing.

02:00:37.000 My kingdom is not of this world.

02:00:38.000 And also he's referring to a kingdom as well here.

02:00:40.000 So, yeah, it's not a problem with an innate problem with a political structure.

02:00:45.000 All right.

02:00:45.000 General XTA says, I'm an electrician and the economy is wrecking everything.

02:00:50.000 The price of material is exponentially going up because of the combination of inflation and shortage of raw material.

02:00:55.000 Even bidding is lasting less than a month.

02:00:58.000 Crazy, man.

02:01:01.000 Drew at Richmond says, Tim, to explain some of the recent shortages, you should watch the Wendover Productions video about 2021 shortages.

02:01:08.000 It would answer a lot of your questions about what's causing a lot of the supply shortages right now.

02:01:13.000 My question is, you know, where do we go from here?

02:01:16.000 And so I mentioned this yesterday.

02:01:16.000 I'll say it again today because, you know, George didn't hear it.

02:01:19.000 The work that we got done on the studio to expand, I would not be able to do this time because it's four to five times more expensive.

02:01:26.000 Yeah.

02:01:26.000 So that means the money that we made last year has lost 80 or some odd percent of its value in terms of expanding this business.

02:01:33.000 Isn't that insane?

02:01:34.000 And the investments we made last year are worth five times what we put into it.

02:01:37.000 Insane!

02:01:38.000 That's crazy.

02:01:39.000 Yeah, I bought a stack of Bitcoin like six years ago and forgot about it.

02:01:43.000 And now I'm just looking at it like, jeez, man.

02:01:45.000 I'm excited about shipping container housing as a future.

02:01:48.000 I got contacted by someone that runs a shipping container company.

02:01:51.000 Live in the pod, Ian.

02:01:52.000 Live in the pod, babies.

02:01:52.000 Live in the pod, eat the bugs, baby.

02:01:54.000 We did eat the bugs.

02:01:55.000 We had cricket bread last week.

02:01:56.000 Livin' the dream, livin' the pod.

02:01:57.000 That stuff molded fast.

02:01:59.000 Yeah.

02:01:59.000 Like a day.

02:02:00.000 Maybe because it's neat.

02:02:01.000 Oh, there was an egg in it, too.

02:02:03.000 I think we did an egg in it, too.

02:02:04.000 Is that why it molded so quickly?

02:02:05.000 Maybe.

02:02:06.000 Animal product tends to mold faster than plant product.

02:02:09.000 Crickets, yeah.

02:02:10.000 Yeah?

02:02:11.000 Alright, let's see what we got to pee in the old, eh, eh, old soup of chits. 1.00

02:02:16.000 Sam T says, all colors in the visual light spectrum combine to make white light.

02:02:21.000 Maybe that was Skittle's point.

02:02:22.000 Science illiterate people don't get it.

02:02:24.000 That's what I'm saying.

02:02:26.000 Nerdy joke.

02:02:27.000 I like when you do super chats in different places.

02:02:28.000 Day one.

02:02:29.000 XRunner says, the second RPG video game for South Park, you can play as Black, less loot, less XP, and trade in at shops.

02:02:36.000 Saying the title can get you banned.

02:02:38.000 It's actually funny, the difficulty, you can, it's a difficulty bar, like you can make it more difficult, and if you choose hard mode, your character turns black.

02:02:44.000 It's a really funny joke.

02:02:45.000 That is very funny.

02:02:46.000 Gareth Green says, koalas are not bears, they are marsupials.

02:02:50.000 Also, apparently elderly Japanese people commit crimes to get in jail so they'll be taken care of. 0.92

02:02:54.000 Oh my goodness.

02:02:54.000 Wow.

02:02:56.000 Crazy, man. 0.92

02:02:57.000 That's really sad. 0.94

02:02:58.000 That's crazy.

02:02:59.000 That is indicative of a problem.

02:03:00.000 I would say so.

02:03:02.000 In the way the system is built.

02:03:05.000 Bryn Teranova says, first time, long time.

02:03:08.000 Ree Comics, George, how do you feel about the storytelling in webcomics and specifically publishers like Hiveworks?

02:03:14.000 I have works I haven't heard of, but let's see, webcomics have been a thing for a very long time I would say, since I was in high school at least.

02:03:23.000 You got the grandfathers like PVP, Penny Arcade, those guys, and they were able to monetize for a very long time.

02:03:29.000 I guess since a lot of the audiences have shifted over to social media, so I publish my stuff mostly on Instagram and Twitter and stuff like that, I don't really have a website that I fully... I don't maintain it.

02:03:42.000 I'm not very responsible with it, but I've been doing alright.

02:03:45.000 Webcomics... You see, it really depends on the reader preference.

02:03:50.000 Do I want to read a book on a screen or on a piece of paper?

02:03:54.000 A book?

02:03:54.000 Do I want something I can collect and give to my friends?

02:03:58.000 There's something shareable about that.

02:04:01.000 It's kind of a kitchen sink problem.

02:04:03.000 Like for instance, Shonen Jump, I think you can subscribe for like two bucks a month or something like that and you can read their entire history from like decades back.

02:04:11.000 You can read it for free.

02:04:12.000 And that was a response to people reading Scanlations for the longest time.

02:04:16.000 Oh yeah, me too.

02:04:17.000 I used to download anime like on my 56k modem back in the day.

02:04:21.000 Every Wednesday, when the scanlation for Naruto would come out, from the beginning to the end, for like, how long was that?

02:04:26.000 Like, 15 years or something?

02:04:27.000 Longest time, yeah.

02:04:28.000 I did that with Jeff, yeah.

02:04:30.000 But, I mean, the response to that, I remember I went to, I was lucky enough to go to Japan and I talked to a couple of editors, the editor that was working on Naruto, actually.

02:04:39.000 He told me that their biggest problem at the time, this was 2014, was dealing with pirating here in the States.

02:04:46.000 They knew that the passion for manga was huge here in the States, but people didn't have the money.

02:04:52.000 Like, the audience?

02:04:53.000 Say, teenagers, 20-somethings.

02:04:55.000 They want to read the books, but they don't have a ton of money to, like, if you want to read One Piece now, there's 97 volumes or something.

02:05:01.000 That's nuts, dude.

02:05:02.000 Even at 10 bucks each back in the day, or 12 bucks now, you can't afford that.

02:05:05.000 Yeah.

02:05:05.000 And you don't have the shelf space for it anyway.

02:05:07.000 So, Webcomics solved that problem in that you can read the entire catalog.

02:05:13.000 I wouldn't know how to monetize that personally.

02:05:15.000 There's a couple of solutions that I would propose for creators.

02:05:19.000 Say I have a Patreon.

02:05:20.000 I could put my entire catalog on Patreon right now.

02:05:22.000 You could read my whole catalog.

02:05:24.000 That's one way to solve it.

02:05:26.000 Or I offer my comic strips for free on Twitter and I have like a tip jar system.

02:05:31.000 It's not perfect, but I think there's a sort of relationship that can be developed, cultivated between creators and audience.

02:05:40.000 Having a middleman like a publisher can help, but then you have to ask what value does the publisher bring?

02:05:46.000 What value does the retailer bring?

02:05:49.000 If you don't have money, money.

02:05:50.000 Right, like right now, the biggest problem the past couple of years is that there was a distributor called Diamond Distribution in the States that, long story short, if I had a book that I wanted to sell at comic book shops, I would have to sell or solicit a couple thousand of them, say 3,000, and they wouldn't even touch my property if I couldn't sell 3,000.

02:06:12.000 I would have to ship, print my books, send them to Diamond, and they would distribute them to retailers who would order my book based solely on the title that they would find in a catalog.

02:06:22.000 That makes no sense.

02:06:23.000 It was a terrible system, especially for indie creators.

02:06:25.000 So indie creators in the States have a really hard time right now finding an audience and finding, like, to even talk to a publisher.

02:06:34.000 They won't talk to you.

02:06:35.000 But most of the time.

02:06:36.000 Unless... There's a lot of... Maybe I'm biased, but I think there's a lot of nepotism going on in the... I won't name names.

02:06:43.000 But there are certain publishers, unless you're friendly with them already, you can go and talk to them at a convention.

02:06:50.000 Talk to an editor or I know a guy who knows a guy who will get me a book deal so I can write And we'll find an artist who lives in like Thailand or something who will work for like pennies But their quality ironically their quality is just as good if not better than a lot of American creators And they cost nothing almost Well, we got the super chat from Rockslide.

02:07:11.000 He says, I'm an anti-woke artist and plan to make lots of cool comics.

02:07:14.000 Elevator pitch?

02:07:15.000 A futuristic world where mythology is real, and that's just one.

02:07:18.000 I want to build culture, like you've said.

02:07:20.000 I would absolutely fund a manga or graphic novel.

02:07:25.000 Or like an entire company.

02:07:26.000 We're not Japanese. 0.98

02:07:27.000 Like a production company.

02:07:28.000 What should happen, and I think it can happen, there just has to be like a sort of pirate attitude.

02:07:34.000 Not pirate, but like...

02:07:35.000 All right, say I have a certain number of people on Twitter that follow me and like read my stuff or something like that.

02:07:41.000 I know how to print books.

02:07:43.000 I know how to write books.

02:07:44.000 I know how to draw.

02:07:44.000 I can do the entire production myself.

02:07:47.000 So if I were to get a couple of people that know how to also do this, a couple of editors, a couple of people who can oversee certain steps on the production line, we can print a couple thousand copies of an anthology, let's say.

02:08:00.000 Get a couple of creators who will do a 20 page short story you guys submit your book submit your story uh if your story does well maybe we'll do another volume after this so you can crowdfund something like this like i could just say anthology we'll call it whatever what was the butt cicada

02:08:19.000 Bungus.

02:08:23.000 You call this anthology Bungus Fungus or something, volume one, and you just get like a couple dozen creators who submit a 10, 20 page story in color, black and white, whatever.

02:08:33.000 It's just a single volume thing.

02:08:35.000 All right, let's do it.

02:08:36.000 You can crowdfund that pretty quick.

02:08:37.000 Crowdfund it.

02:08:38.000 Let's just do it.

02:08:38.000 I'll fund it.

02:08:39.000 Well, alright, we can talk about this afterwards.

02:08:41.000 So everybody, you heard it.

02:08:43.000 If you've drawn up a graphic novel and you've got a series, we're going to do an anthology.

02:08:47.000 Even just a short story, I think that's the right way to go.

02:08:50.000 Just introduce yourself as a creator.

02:08:52.000 And we'll have a submission system, you can do something like that.

02:08:55.000 I mean, really, it's not that hard, and it's kind of a talent search kind of thing, so that you can gain an audience.

02:09:00.000 Everybody shares... Alright, say I have 70,000 people, whatever, on Twitter, and a couple... 40,000, whatever, on Instagram.

02:09:09.000 I can share that audience, and then some other creator comes along and brings their audience, and they are introduced to mine.

02:09:16.000 Mine is introduced to theirs. 0.69

02:09:17.000 We share the audience.

02:09:19.000 We can get comics going again, sort of like a jumpstart kind of thing, but...

02:09:24.000 Let's do it!

02:09:24.000 Alright, so that's the biggest obstacle I think for American creators who want an in and some veteran creators can contribute to something like this.

02:09:34.000 Just start doing it.

02:09:35.000 Everybody submit your graphic novels, your comics, your short stories to pages at TimCast.com and we'll start publishing.

02:09:43.000 And we'll figure it out.

02:09:44.000 We'll make a portion of the website.

02:09:45.000 We'll find a handful of series that we think are good and then we'll aim for like a chapter a week, right?

02:09:51.000 Chapter a week would be very high quality.

02:09:54.000 So in Japan they do a chapter a week, like 18 pages, but they have a ton of assistants helping them.

02:10:00.000 That was the big problem with Bleach, though.

02:10:01.000 The guy was overwhelming.

02:10:02.000 He got so burnt out.

02:10:03.000 Same thing with Berserk, and I love a series called Vagabond, where the same thing happened, where they have assistance, but they get burnt out.

02:10:11.000 In America, it's sort of... So what chapter a day?

02:10:14.000 America, it's like 20-something pages per month, something like that, I think is reasonable for a single creator.

02:10:20.000 Man, that's rough, though.

02:10:21.000 It's pretty slow.

02:10:22.000 Yeah.

02:10:23.000 Manga comes out faster, it's in black and white, that's the problem.

02:10:25.000 Yeah, we'll do it in black and white.

02:10:26.000 Alright.

02:10:27.000 Well, we could talk about this off-air again, but... Well, I'm doing it anyway, so pitches at TimCast.com.

02:10:31.000 What's happening?

02:10:31.000 All right.

02:10:32.000 We'll have... I'm totally down to have a section for our comics.

02:10:35.000 Anyway, we're getting late, so everybody go follow us at TimCast IRL on Facebook and Instagram.

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02:10:44.000 We got the vlog coming out tomorrow where we eat the bugs, and you'll probably enjoy it.

02:10:47.000 It's fun.

02:10:48.000 And other weird shenanigans, and it's gonna be a good time.

02:10:52.000 So thanks for hanging out, man.

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02:10:59.000 George, you want to shout anything out?

02:11:01.000 Yeah, just if you guys want to follow me, I'm gprime85 on Twitter and Instagram.

02:11:05.000 And if you want to buy my stuff, I have my links to my shop in my bio on both, and on Patreon too, if you just want to throw me a tip.

02:11:13.000 And I try to offer my stuff for free as much as I can, and buy my books, buy other indie creators' books, and let's see what happens with this anthology thing.

02:11:22.000 I think it's a great idea.

02:11:24.000 Follow me at Sour Patch Lids on Twitter.

02:11:28.000 That's right.

02:11:29.000 I'm at YouTube.com slash Freedom Tunes.

02:11:32.000 That's where I post my cartoons.

02:11:34.000 We do two a week.

02:11:36.000 We only were able to do one because we were trying to get caught up, but we do two cartoons a week.

02:11:39.000 You guys should really enjoy them.

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02:11:45.000 If you want to buy one of our shirts, FreedomTunesMerch.com.

02:11:49.000 There we go.

02:11:50.000 And I do want to remind you, Bungus Fungus, and if you want to help your enemy's grandmother, go ahead. 0.54

02:11:56.000 Maybe we've got more in common than we thought.

02:11:58.000 If you were an artist... 0.71

02:12:00.000 Draft the story of the Bungus Fungus, the fungus from the Bungus, and it's about a fungus that makes people's butts fall off and replaces their butt with a fungus and turns them into Bungus zombies.

02:12:12.000 I could see an entire industry creating new underwear just for those people.

02:12:16.000 So it's kind of like a parody of The Last of Us.

02:12:20.000 It really is the story of Last of Us 2 if you think about it.

02:12:22.000 But it's Bungus Fungus.

02:12:23.000 It's a guy, he's reading BuzzFeed, and BuzzFeed says eat a cicada, and he's a soy boy, and he does, and then he gets the Bungus Fungus, and then he becomes the first patient zero of the Bungus Fungus zombie apocalypse. 0.83

02:12:35.000 Tim, when the Bungus- Write it up, submit it, we will publish.

02:12:38.000 When the Bungus-Zombie Apocalypse actually happens, you're gonna be very embarrassed.

02:12:42.000 I know that right now there's like 10 people running and drawing the first chapter. 0.98

02:12:46.000 Draw it with your butt if you can. 0.99

02:12:48.000 Yes, definitely. 0.99

02:12:49.000 No, I'm serious.

02:12:50.000 Let's get the Fungus from the Bungus-Zombie Apocalypse comic.

02:12:53.000 And I'm in the corner pushing buttons.

02:12:56.000 I am sarahpatchlids on Twitter.

02:12:58.000 You guys can follow me there.

02:12:59.000 I am trying to get more followers than sarahpatchkids, who I was happy to note did not change to a rainbow symbol on Twitter this month.

02:13:07.000 I like that.

02:13:08.000 That is pretty good.

02:13:09.000 Thanks for hanging out everybody.

02:13:10.000 We will see you tomorrow at youtube.com slash castcastle.

02:13:14.000 And you can watch us hang out, eat the bugs, and we'll see you then.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - June 04, 2021

Timcast IRL - Yale Speaker Expresses Desire To Execute White People w- GPrime85 & FreedomToons

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