Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - Yemeni Rebels Declare WAR On Israel As War Expands, Ukraine Ends w-Michael Rectenwald

00:00:00.000 I saw this tweet earlier.

00:00:10.000 People were saying that Yemen basically declared war on Israel.

00:00:13.000 Well, it's the Houthi militia that is claiming they've launched attacks on Israel.

00:00:17.000 They're Iranian-backed, and so there is concern that the war is beginning to escalate.

00:00:22.000 However, calm down there, my friends, because it seems like the Ukraine war is over.

00:00:27.000 And so while all war is bad, it is like, it's kind of good news that Zelensky is losing. 0.96

00:00:32.000 Time Magazine has published their front page story.

00:00:36.000 Zelensky is desperate to win, but his advisors are saying they've lost the war.

00:00:40.000 Russia is winning. 0.98

00:00:41.000 They're losing the war, I should say, to be clear.

00:00:43.000 And there's little interest in the U.S.

00:00:45.000 to continue funding what is already lost.

00:00:48.000 As we said this some time ago, it looks like Russia's won this one.

00:00:51.000 In the meantime, however, it looks like things are escalating over Israel.

00:00:55.000 We've got other breaking news that Israel has now admitted to bombing a refugee camp, killing at least 50 civilians.

00:01:04.000 And apparently they went on CNN and they said they did it.

00:01:06.000 So things are getting absolutely horrifying right now.

00:01:10.000 And as this escalates, there's concern with other nations saying that if Israel keeps up these bombing campaigns which kill civilians, then it's going to escalate further.

00:01:18.000 Hopefully, as we see Ukraine wind down, the things that are escalating in the Middle East do not become a World War III scenario or go beyond the region.

00:01:27.000 We're all hoping for that.

00:01:28.000 We'll talk about that.

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00:02:49.000 Joining us tonight to talk to us about all of this is Dr. Michael Rechtenwald.

00:02:54.000 Hi there, Tim.

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00:04:02.000 Let's get ready.

00:04:02.000 Here's a story from the New York Times.

00:04:04.000 Yemen's Houthi militia claims to have launched an attack on Israel.

00:04:09.000 The Israeli military said it had thwarted a batch of aerial threats, but did not say who was behind them.

00:04:14.000 Yemen's Houthi militia claimed an attempted attack on southern Israel on Tuesday, saying it had launched a large batch of ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones toward Israeli targets.

00:04:24.000 The Iran-backed militia carried out the attempted assault in response to what it called brutal Israeli-American aggression in Gaza.

00:04:31.000 The military spokesman Yaya Saraya said on the social media platform Axe.

00:04:38.000 Ms.

00:04:38.000 Saraya said the attack was the third operation conducted by the Houthis in support of our persecuted brothers in Palestine and threatened further missile and drone assaults.

00:04:48.000 The Times could not independently verify the claims.

00:04:50.000 On Tuesday, the Israeli military said its aerial defense system had intercepted a surface-to-surface missile fired towards Israel from the area of the Red Sea.

00:04:59.000 It said it has also intercepted other aerial threats in the area, none of which entered Israeli territory.

00:05:05.000 Now here's the big concern, I suppose.

00:05:07.000 If you're looking at this through the lens of the Ben Shapiro perspective, his view is that if the U.S.

00:05:13.000 does not get involved and stamp out aggression or assist in the stamping out of aggression towards Israel, we are going to see an escalation of these kinds of assaults Which results in Israel taking the nuclear option, perhaps quite literally, resulting in a World War III scenario, when, uh, basically the idea is, there's two ideas.

00:05:33.000 One, in response to a serious military threat that could end Israel, Israel says, fire everything we've got.

00:05:39.000 The second scenario, similar is, Israel, facing its demise, says, we're going to fire everything, everywhere, and we're going to force the intervention of other countries to stop this conflict. 0.57

00:05:50.000 Yeah, I mean, it's the exact inverse of what Shapiro's saying.

00:05:53.000 The more we do, the more we intervene, the greater the threat of this turning into a wider conflict.

00:05:59.000 More countries that'll get drawn in.

00:06:01.000 You know, you have, of course, everything points back to Iran here, supposedly, with Hezbollah and now the Houthis, and so we're looking at the possibility of drawing other actors into this, and the United States is seemingly itching to attack Iran, and that's a problem.

00:06:19.000 You know, the arming and funding of Israel is outrageous.

00:06:23.000 This is drawing all these actors out.

00:06:25.000 So we're actually, our interventions are causing this conflict to escalate.

00:06:31.000 So the, I guess my question is, If the U.S.

00:06:36.000 does nothing, do you think these other countries, these Iranian-backed militias in Iran, do you think they just ignore Israel?

00:06:43.000 Or do you think they attack Israel?

00:06:44.000 I mean, if the U.S.

00:06:45.000 does nothing but fund them to the tune of $3.8 billion a year, and now another $14 billion, Then, of course, there's going to be our involvement.

00:06:55.000 We're already implicated in the whole conflict because of the arms and funding we've been giving them over all this time.

00:07:02.000 So, yeah, we need to retrench.

00:07:05.000 We need to pull back all of our funding.

00:07:07.000 And, yeah, we would see that if we didn't intervene in all these conflicts, there would be less conflict in the world, and especially the Middle East.

00:07:15.000 Do you think that if the United States were not giving funding, giving weapons and essentially

00:07:22.000 essentially it's probably just giving weapons that the U.S.

00:07:25.000 pays weapon manufacturers for, but if the U.S. were not and the Israelis were just buying 0.89

00:07:31.000 weapons from U.S. manufacturers, do you think that the the Houthis in Iran would look at it

00:07:36.000 any differently?

00:07:37.000 Because in my opinion, I don't think that the people, the countries and states that

00:07:43.000 don't like Israel would see a distinction even if we weren't giving it away.

00:07:47.000 If we were like, look, U.S.

00:07:49.000 firms are allowed to sell you, like Raytheon and Boeing can sell you weapons, but we're not paying for it.

00:07:55.000 I don't really strongly believe that the Iranians are going to consider that a, they'll call it a difference without a distinction.

00:08:03.000 Well, I don't know.

00:08:04.000 We're giving them the money, and then they buy the arms.

00:08:06.000 That's how it works, $3.8 billion a year.

00:08:09.000 So I think that, you know, I don't think, first of all, Israel would be able to afford as much arms if it weren't for these outlandish grants every year.

00:08:19.000 And then add $14 billion on top of it, and you've got the United States totally implicated.

00:08:25.000 I mean, I don't see how that helps anything at all.

00:08:30.000 Yeah, if they were just buying their arms, and largely from the United States, perhaps those countries would still consider the U.S.

00:08:37.000 implicated.

00:08:38.000 But there's no doubt that we're fully involved in this because of that.

00:08:43.000 And right now, U.S.

00:08:45.000 rockets and bombs are falling on children in Palestine.

00:08:49.000 This is an outrage.

00:08:50.000 This should be something that we completely oppose.

00:08:54.000 We have no business doing this, and I think it's blood on our hands, frankly.

00:08:58.000 I agree.

00:08:59.000 The U.S.

00:08:59.000 shouldn't fund it, but I just am not convinced that other countries would see a distinction.

00:09:06.000 Let's try it for once.

00:09:07.000 We haven't tried this ever.

00:09:10.000 Why don't we give it a try?

00:09:12.000 100%.

00:09:13.000 I'm not trying to push back against the idea.

00:09:15.000 Actually, I think we tried it during the Barbary Wars.

00:09:20.000 The U.S.

00:09:21.000 was kind of like, hey, can we not go to war with you guys?

00:09:23.000 Like, what's going on?

00:09:24.000 And then they were like, nah, we're gonna keep stealing.

00:09:26.000 There was no Israel back then, but yeah. 0.92

00:09:28.000 No, but my point is like, it was only the founding fathers who were like, the United States will not be involved in these foreign conflicts.

00:09:34.000 And then you get to, you know, late 1800s, early 1900s, and the politicians then are like, I think the U.S.

00:09:39.000 should be involved in foreign affairs and just start setting up military conquests.

00:09:42.000 Why not?

00:09:44.000 And there you have it.

00:09:45.000 And now we have 800 bases around the world.

00:09:47.000 Oh yeah, yeah.

00:09:48.000 And one in Israel, by the way.

00:09:50.000 Apparently there's a secret base in Israel right now.

00:09:53.000 It's called 152.

00:09:55.000 It's this very, you know, nondescript name and we're actually, we have forces located in there.

00:10:02.000 They're saying it's just living accommodations, but it has U.S.

00:10:07.000 forces in it.

00:10:08.000 This has been revealed.

00:10:10.000 Site 512, is that what it is?

00:10:11.000 Yes, that's it.

00:10:12.000 Yeah.

00:10:13.000 So this is the intercept.

00:10:15.000 Right.

00:10:15.000 U.S.

00:10:15.000 quietly expands secret military base in Israel.

00:10:18.000 Government documents point to construction at a classified U.S.

00:10:21.000 base offer rare hints about little noted U.S.

00:10:23.000 military presence near Gaza.

00:10:25.000 And there was some reporting, hard to know what's true, claiming that U.S.

00:10:29.000 forces were actually in Gaza during the invasion and may be there now.

00:10:34.000 And, uh, perhaps?

00:10:36.000 It's very hard to tell.

00:10:37.000 I mean, all this is kept secret.

00:10:39.000 These 2,000 troops that were sent over, they're sent to an undisclosed location.

00:10:44.000 We don't know where they are.

00:10:45.000 The Defense Department will not say where they are.

00:10:48.000 So, I mean, for certain military reasons that makes sense, but we still don't know.

00:10:53.000 They may be in Israel.

00:10:55.000 I'm not familiar with the troop deployment.

00:10:58.000 I know that there's two Marine Expeditionary Units that are with some carrier groups, but I don't know about... Yeah, there's 2,000 troops that have been sent over.

00:11:05.000 2,000, you know, I don't know if they're infantry or Marines or whatever they are.

00:11:10.000 They're there and in the region, but they won't tell us where they are in the region.

00:11:14.000 I bet they're in Iraq. 0.99

00:11:16.000 And then, of course, we have two aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean and, you know, we have tons of arms just loaded around.

00:11:24.000 So I think they're trying to bait the U.S.

00:11:27.000 into a conflict.

00:11:28.000 If something gets struck, we're going to go in.

00:11:30.000 Oh, yeah.

00:11:31.000 Well, now with the U.S.

00:11:32.000 hostages.

00:11:34.000 You have the argument that, oh, the reason we have Delta forces on the ground is because of the hostages.

00:11:39.000 The presence of 2,500 U.S.

00:11:41.000 troops in Iraq and another 900 in eastern Syria, both on missions against the Islamic State, this is... Trump tried bringing them back.

00:11:49.000 Yeah.

00:11:50.000 But don't you think that... What are your thoughts on this?

00:11:52.000 I mean, a lot of people say that if the U.S.

00:11:55.000 is not, if the U.S.

00:11:57.000 just retracts everything, China just sweeps in. 0.95

00:12:00.000 I don't agree.

00:12:01.000 I mean, they moved into Afghanistan.

00:12:04.000 Well, I mean, the thing is, in terms of China, what we're doing is provoking them as well, because we're talking about now sending military aid to Taiwan.

00:12:14.000 This is an utter provocation.

00:12:15.000 So we're drawing China into conflict, seemingly on purpose, and I don't think China is going to try to... First of all, they don't have the military power to do it.

00:12:25.000 They do not have the military power to take over the United States or invade us or anything like that.

00:12:30.000 No, but I mean, they'll start They'll grow that power.

00:12:33.000 They'll move into Central America. 0.95

00:12:34.000 There's already concerns they're going to try and make a move.

00:12:37.000 They were trying to build the Nicaraguan Canal to gain control or at least compete with the Panama Canal.

00:12:43.000 There's a rumor about them trying to gain control of the Panama Canal.

00:12:46.000 They're already moving into Africa and South America.

00:12:50.000 I mean, these are not military conquests, though.

00:12:53.000 No, it's more like, you know, the West uses the IMF.

00:12:57.000 It's the Belt and Road Initiative, and this is how they're growing their soft power.

00:13:02.000 And, you know, frankly, we should open up trade with China.

00:13:05.000 We are now embargoing their chips.

00:13:08.000 We refuse to send certain chips to China.

00:13:10.000 What's this going to do?

00:13:11.000 This is already hurting our economy, and what it'll do for them is they'll just go elsewhere for these chips.

00:13:17.000 They'll make them themselves or get them elsewhere.

00:13:20.000 We refuse to send them certain chips, yeah.

00:13:23.000 There's a concern though that they're reverse engineering a lot of our intellectual property, a lot of our technology,

00:13:29.000 but they're also sending us compromised electronics.

00:13:33.000 That was a big story a few years ago where they're like, your toaster could be broadcasting a signal and you wouldn't

00:13:39.000 know and it's stealing your information.

00:13:40.000 I don't think China's our real threat, the number one primary enemy, frankly.

00:13:46.000 The state.

00:13:46.000 Who is?

00:13:47.000 Our government.

00:13:48.000 Our government?

00:13:49.000 Our government.

00:13:50.000 Well, elaborate.

00:13:52.000 Look, who's responsible for more deaths of Americans than our government?

00:13:58.000 We have sent more people over to die than any country has killed. 0.94

00:14:02.000 So we're actually provoking other countries, we're entering in all these military expeditions, and in that way the state itself is more responsible for U.S.

00:14:11.000 deaths than China, Iran, Russia, or North Korea combined.

00:14:18.000 You know, I thought about this, and I was thinking that it seems like there's an occupying force that's been controlling this country, because the American people don't want war.

00:14:26.000 They never want war.

00:14:27.000 Almost never.

00:14:28.000 And yet here we are, consistently going into wars without having declared war on anybody.

00:14:33.000 And then I think, no, it's probably better to just say we were sold out by our politicians who continue to sell us out.

00:14:41.000 So it's not so much that we're occupied, it's that we have a fractured government and corrupt politicians, which everyone agrees with.

00:14:50.000 Well, I don't know how fractured it is, because when it comes to war and military expeditions and foreign policy, this is a uniparty.

00:14:58.000 There's no distance between these people.

00:15:00.000 It does seem to be like the only time they ever actually agree on anything is when it's going to war in other countries.

00:15:05.000 Right.

00:15:06.000 Have there been polls done recently about what the American public's thoughts are on war right now, given, obviously we know what the American people think of war in Ukraine, but have there been studies or any type of polls that have been done talking about what they think about military intervention in Israel?

00:15:21.000 Interestingly, there was a pulldown on Biden's approvability rating, which fell by 11% among Democrats.

00:15:28.000 So that's a good sign.

00:15:29.000 So it went from 86% to 75%.

00:15:30.000 86 to 75 percent and for Arab Americans it fell like from like 58 to 17 percent in a matter of

00:15:38.000 weeks. So interestingly there is a divide in the population in terms of support for Biden

00:15:45.000 because you know I mean a lot of the left doesn't want this conflict. 0.89

00:15:50.000 Now, they are hypocrites, because they were fully in support of the Ukraine war, and the right is also hypocritical, because now they're in support of this war in Israel, but they weren't in support of the war in Ukraine. 0.91

00:16:02.000 And also, in hindsight, they oppose the Iraqi war. 0.97

00:16:05.000 Isn't that convenient?

00:16:06.000 I want to pull up this story.

00:16:07.000 We got this from the Wall Street Journal.

00:16:09.000 Israeli airstrike hits Jabalia refugee camp and forces extend their advance into Gaza Strip.

00:16:16.000 We have live updates.

00:16:17.000 Apartment buildings were flattened in the strikes.

00:16:20.000 Egypt said it would defend its territory but take in wounded Palestinians.

00:16:24.000 So I think we have a clip from CNN that I'll play for you.

00:16:28.000 Basically this is from Ahmad Eldin.

00:16:31.000 He says, Wolf Blitzer, you knew that there were innocent civilians in the refugee camp, right?

00:16:36.000 IDF spokesperson says this is a tragedy of war.

00:16:38.000 Let me just play the clips.

00:16:39.000 I don't want anything being taken out of context for you guys.

00:16:41.000 So we'll just, uh, we'll play this clip for you now.

00:16:43.000 But even if that Hamas commander was there amidst all those Palestinian refugees who are in that, in that Jabalia refugee camp, Israel still went ahead and dropped a bomb there attempting to kill this Hamas, uh, this Hamas commander, knowing that a lot of innocent civilians, men, women, and children presumably would be killed.

00:17:05.000 Is that what I'm hearing?

00:17:08.000 That's not what you're hearing, Wolf.

00:17:09.000 We, again, we're focused on this commander.

00:17:13.000 Again, you'll get more data who this man was.

00:17:15.000 He killed many, many Israelis. 0.99

00:17:18.000 We're doing everything we can.

00:17:20.000 It's a very complicated battle space.

00:17:22.000 There could be infrastructure there.

00:17:24.000 There could be tunnels there.

00:17:26.000 We're still looking into it, and we'll give you more data as the hour moves ahead.

00:17:31.000 But you know that there are a lot of refugees, a lot of innocent civilians, men, women, and children in that refugee camp as well, right?

00:17:40.000 This is the tragedy of War Wolf.

00:17:42.000 I mean, we... Wow.

00:17:43.000 As you know, we've been saying for days, move south.

00:17:46.000 Civilians that are not involved with Hamas, please move south.

00:17:51.000 I'm just trying to get a little bit more information.

00:17:53.000 You knew there were civilians there, you knew there were refugees, all sorts of refugees, but you decided to still drop a bomb on that refugee camp attempting to kill the Hamas commander.

00:18:03.000 By the way, was he killed?

00:18:06.000 I can't confirm yet.

00:18:08.000 I mean, Wolf should have just let him answer the question, then he just jumped to another one.

00:18:11.000 We get the point.

00:18:13.000 Israel says they carried out an airstrike that Hamas claimed killed more than 50 people in Gaza's Jabali refugee camp, dozens of bodies.

00:18:20.000 Here's my issue with this.

00:18:22.000 I don't know about the hospital, frankly.

00:18:24.000 damning. But Hamas lied about the hospital and many on the left, 0.83

00:18:29.000 pro-Palestinian groups and left, lied about the hospital.

00:18:33.000 So when stories like this come out what am I supposed to do? I don't know about

00:18:36.000 the hospital frankly.

00:18:36.000 I'm not sure that the story has really been debunked. Well it has.

00:18:41.000 They claim the hospital was leveled and 500 people were killed.

00:18:45.000 Okay, well the hospital wasn't leveled, they hit the parking lot.

00:18:47.000 Yup, and it may have been a couple dozen injured with a certain number of deaths, we don't know.

00:18:51.000 But there's been other hospitals hit, and they've told them to get out of the other hospitals.

00:18:55.000 They've said, evacuate these hospitals.

00:18:58.000 Then they tell them they're gonna bomb the north, so move south, while they're bombing the south.

00:19:03.000 This is unbelievable.

00:19:04.000 So there's nowhere for these people to go.

00:19:06.000 They're shooting fish in a barrel, and they've got them trapped there in a virtual concentration camp.

00:19:12.000 I'm sorry if that sounds like leftist rhetoric, but these people are in a walled area.

00:19:16.000 No exit.

00:19:17.000 No exit.

00:19:19.000 What do we do?

00:19:20.000 Nothing?

00:19:20.000 Should the U.S.

00:19:21.000 just back away?

00:19:22.000 First of all, the U.N.

00:19:23.000 had a movement to have a ceasefire, and we were one of, like, seven countries that refused to go along with it.

00:19:32.000 Hillary Clinton is very anti-ceasefire.

00:19:34.000 There was a ceasefire when Hamas initiated the terrorist attack, like, three weeks ago.

00:19:38.000 There was a ceasefire between Gaza and Israel.

00:19:41.000 Then Hamas broke the ceasefire.

00:19:43.000 That's what started this whole shindig that's going on now. 0.95

00:19:46.000 It's very typical.

00:19:47.000 You know, listen, I'm not going to adjudicate the whole history of the region, but there's no way October 7th is the beginning of this.

00:19:55.000 No!

00:19:55.000 That's why I'm kind of like, I got a really good idea, you guys.

00:19:59.000 We should not be involved.

00:20:00.000 Exactly.

00:20:01.000 It's like, there's a very serious fight happening between two of your neighbors, and people keep asking you whose side you're on, and I'm like, bro, I don't live there, I don't know what's going on, and they're like, yeah, well, you know your kid, your dad is giving weapons to one of your neighbors, and you're like, maybe we shouldn't be doing that!

00:20:17.000 I don't think that there's actually any good answer for the United States at all.

00:20:20.000 Because I don't think that we should give any money, I don't think we should be funding, I don't think we should in any way be involved in it.

00:20:27.000 But I also don't think that if we do what is the right thing for the United States, which is not fund it, not give any money, not support, we're still going to be implicated and we're still going to be attacked.

00:20:39.000 Even if we're not dealing with actual terror attacks, we're still going to be considered the evil Satan that supports Israel and whatever, just because of our history. 0.83

00:20:46.000 Yeah, I mean, it doesn't help that we bombed Iraq under a completely false pretext, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and created millions of refugees. 0.98

00:20:56.000 Any amount of backpedaling now, if we were to just suddenly start backing away from any funding of war, would make us look like the ultimate hypocrites.

00:21:05.000 I don't think so.

00:21:06.000 Look, Trump gets elected. 0.92

00:21:07.000 To them, to the people on the other side, if you're talking about the people in Gaza or Hamas, they're going to look at us as hypocrites anyway.

00:21:15.000 See, I just strongly feel this is an anti-Western movement.

00:21:18.000 The reason, so the Palestinians that are on the ground in, you know, in Israel or in Gaza or whatever, they hate the Israelis because they have that direct, actual situation.

00:21:30.000 They're fighting them, they're being oppressed by the Israelis, and that's the situation for them. 0.97

00:21:36.000 The broader context, where you're talking about the region and other countries, sometimes Western countries, the people that are They're pro-Palestine and against the Israelis.

00:21:47.000 They're more about being against the West more broadly.

00:21:51.000 They're against Western society.

00:21:53.000 They tend to not be supportive of democracies.

00:21:58.000 They want more authoritarian-type governments.

00:22:00.000 I'm not saying that I have an answer.

00:22:03.000 If the West lived up to its proclaimed values, perhaps they wouldn't feel that way.

00:22:10.000 Colleges have kind of implicated that to them.

00:22:12.000 Yeah.

00:22:13.000 And I mean, go further down to TikTok and all these other ways in which kids get this messaging now.

00:22:17.000 Like, I don't know how much of that would even matter now.

00:22:19.000 I do agree.

00:22:20.000 Like, I don't think we should be funding any side of it, but I think that what it's created for me is what I call, I mean, like it's post-concern.

00:22:26.000 It's like a post-concern attitude where it's like, there's so much information There's so much propaganda.

00:22:31.000 There's so much coming out from every side in a part of the world that I inherently have nothing to do with other than my government's continued intrusion in other people's business.

00:22:41.000 What am I?

00:22:42.000 What am I as an American citizen whose taxes are going to fund all this?

00:22:45.000 What am I actually supposed to do in this situation?

00:22:48.000 You're telling me I have to care about this side.

00:22:50.000 They're telling me I have to care about this side.

00:22:52.000 I'm not allowed to care about the people here, apparently.

00:22:55.000 That's the only people you're not allowed to care about.

00:22:57.000 Hold on.

00:22:57.000 Which people?

00:22:58.000 Americans.

00:22:59.000 People actually living here now.

00:23:04.000 How about the people in Hawaii?

00:23:05.000 How about the people in any of the things that have gone on here in the last several years?

00:23:10.000 Helping trim down the debt in this country.

00:23:13.000 All of the things that we have to worry about stateside before we go and start getting back re-involved in other countries.

00:23:19.000 We might revolt against the fact that they're robbing us to do this.

00:23:23.000 I mean, they're robbing the American public, the American taxpayer, to fund these wars.

00:23:28.000 I think Trump was one of the first attempts of people saying, we will rationally decide this man will enact many of these things.

00:23:38.000 And now things are getting pretty tense with the machine's desperate attempts to keep Trump out of office.

00:23:44.000 I mean, it's crazy when we have Scott Horton, of all people, being like, Trump tried getting our troops out and they lied to us!

00:23:51.000 He tells the truth about those matters.

00:23:53.000 But Trump wasn't some, you know, savior.

00:23:56.000 I mean, he killed Soleimani for, you know, and that could have instigated some conflict with Iran.

00:24:02.000 Imagine if Iran had killed one of our major generals.

00:24:06.000 I mean, this would have drawn us into war.

00:24:09.000 The only reason they didn't get drawn into war is because we have a greater force.

00:24:13.000 But that's not the way the United States should be acting across the planet.

00:24:17.000 We ought to be the beacon on the hill in the sense that we are a free people, that people admire, that trades with other countries is cooperative and peaceful.

00:24:27.000 This would actually promote peace worldwide.

00:24:29.000 It is true, Phil, that what you said about it being an anti-American movement.

00:24:32.000 Did you see the infographic meme the other day?

00:24:35.000 It says, Free Palestine is a queer movement. 0.96

00:24:37.000 Free Palestine is... Okay, that's at the heart of it.

00:24:40.000 It's an anti-Western, anti-democracy movement more than anything else.

00:24:45.000 It's not that they support or love Palestine or Gaza.

00:24:48.000 It's that they love the fact that it puts the West between a rock and a hard place in dealing with the con.

00:24:53.000 Because there is, and you're right, because there is no good policy that's going to make the United States look good.

00:25:00.000 I personally, like I've said over and over, we shouldn't be involved, we shouldn't have troops over there, we shouldn't be spending money on it, we shouldn't be funding it.

00:25:07.000 Israel can fight its own war. 0.80

00:25:08.000 I 100% believe that, but that doesn't mean that if that were the course of action that the United States took, that the rest of the world would be like, oh, cool, the United States is doing the right thing or the good thing.

00:25:21.000 There are still going to be people that are going to say, oh, the West is bad, America's bad, democracy bad, liberalism bad.

00:25:28.000 I mean, when you try to export democracy with bombs like we did in Iraq, of course people are going to be skeptical about what is this democracy you're talking about.

00:25:38.000 I agree, and I just don't think that it's limited to the Middle East.

00:25:43.000 I think that there is an anti-Western, anti-liberal movement that is pretty global.

00:25:51.000 I think there's an anti-liberal movement in the United States.

00:25:54.000 I don't think there are any liberals left.

00:25:56.000 I agree.

00:25:56.000 We're looking at an illiberal left, effectively, but there's no liberalism here.

00:26:01.000 There are.

00:26:02.000 It's just they're the post liberals.

00:26:03.000 They're the disaffected liberals.

00:26:05.000 The funny part is, is like in what I do, like talking about movies, celebrities, Hollywood and pop culture, you see this right now because a bunch of celebrities try to make a post that makes everybody happy, and they can't make anyone happy.

00:26:17.000 And this is the first time they haven't been given a clear marching order about who the good guys and who the

00:26:22.000 bad guys are when they write their virtue signaling letters, everyone gets mad at them from every side.

00:26:27.000 And I think that the people that are inherently anti-American and anti-Western love that about this.

00:26:32.000 Yeah, I think you see the people that only understand the wave tops of the movement,

00:26:40.000 those are the people that are shocked when they are kind of learning what decolonization means,

00:26:45.000 and that it's a violent revolution that's being endorsed.

00:26:48.000 And they're shocked, they're like, wait a minute, I don't want to see people getting their heads cut off, I don't want to see people's businesses and lives being destroyed.

00:26:55.000 Well, that's what decolonization is.

00:26:57.000 If we could jump back to the China thing, what are we doing with reference to China that's weakening us?

00:27:03.000 Well, we're doing all kinds of things.

00:27:05.000 We're instituting a deindustrialization campaign in the West, with the ESG and the stakeholder capitalism, which is about eroding our industrial base, supposedly to mitigate so-called climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

00:27:22.000 And this is favoring China.

00:27:24.000 That's something that we're doing to ourselves, It's a self-inflicted wound, it's suicidal in effect.

00:27:31.000 We're taking our industries and we're saying you can't burn fossil fuels and we must use this ESG to force all these companies into this regime while China then gains all this power and wealth on the back end because they're not doing it. 0.87

00:27:46.000 So let me pull up this story.

00:27:47.000 This is from the Wall Street Journal as well.

00:27:48.000 It's actually just below the other one.

00:27:50.000 Israel goes unnamed on China online maps.

00:27:53.000 So a lot of people noticed that two big companies, you've got Alibaba and I believe Baidu, have removed Israel from their maps.

00:28:02.000 That is to say...

00:28:04.000 This is the CCP.

00:28:05.000 There's no private sector in China that just, at the same time, decides, hey, we're doing this thing.

00:28:10.000 It looks like the Chinese Communist Party has said there is no Israel now.

00:28:14.000 So the concern here, there's been a bunch of reporting, or I should say opinions and analysis, suggesting this shows China is gearing up to join this on the side of Palestine.

00:28:25.000 It's possible.

00:28:26.000 I mean, they're saying Israel doesn't exist on their map.

00:28:28.000 China is a totalitarian state, and they institute their measures without any kind of consent.

00:28:38.000 There's no question about it.

00:28:39.000 So I'm not surprised that they would do this.

00:28:42.000 I don't necessarily think it means that they're going to intervene right now.

00:28:47.000 No, but it's a definite... I mean, look at BRICS, right? 0.95

00:28:52.000 China is absolutely in partnership with Iran, and this is the fear. 0.88

00:28:52.000 Right. 0.88

00:28:58.000 World War III is NATO versus BRICS. 0.95

00:29:00.000 Yeah, it doesn't have to be World War III.

00:29:02.000 You know, look, BRICS could be actually something that's good in the sense that if we open up our own trade, then we could probably be part of this, and we don't have to disband our affiliations and our trade associations as we're doing right now.

00:29:21.000 The conflicts that we're creating and really escalating are actually causing these rifts.

00:29:29.000 Okay, because, like, when we sent arms to Ukraine, and I think even though, you know, you said the Ukraine war is dying down, I bet you that 64 billion is still going over there.

00:29:39.000 Being stolen by somebody.

00:29:40.000 Yeah.

00:29:41.000 Gonna find its way into the pockets of Biden, perhaps.

00:29:43.000 Yeah.

00:29:44.000 Again, I should say.

00:29:45.000 Yeah, I agree.

00:29:46.000 I mean, there's no question there's corruption here.

00:29:48.000 Yeah.

00:29:51.000 Well, hopefully it doesn't become World War III, I suppose.

00:29:54.000 But what we're seeing now from China is like the first red flag where I think we should be concerned, like, guys, we need this to turn down. 0.98

00:29:54.000 I hope not. 0.98

00:30:07.000 And so I'm now, especially with this bombing of the refugee camp, I see a lot of people, I see Hillary Clinton.

00:30:12.000 Hillary Clinton had a statement recently where she was like, a ceasefire, you know, Israel's being attacked and you want a ceasefire, but Hamas is not going to give it.

00:30:21.000 And, you know, anytime Hillary Clinton says something, I'm like, the opposite must be true.

00:30:25.000 So she comes out and she's like, we can't have a ceasefire, and I'm like, maybe we need a ceasefire.

00:30:25.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:30:30.000 We need barometers like that out there.

00:30:32.000 Right, exactly.

00:30:33.000 And you know, it's like, I was hanging out in a poker room, we were talking about Jim Cramer.

00:30:41.000 Because I can't remember what came up, something about it's gonna snow, the farmer's almanac, and then someone mentioned tracking stocks, and I was like, oh yeah, if you short anything Kramer says, you're gonna be up.

00:30:53.000 And this one guy was actually, yeah, I think it's up 14%.

00:30:57.000 If you bought, if you shorted everything he told you to buy, you're up 14% so far for the year.

00:31:01.000 Tremendous, tremendous.

00:31:03.000 But anyway, my point is, Hillary Clinton says, no, we can't do it, we need war, and I'm kind of like, All right, let's figure out this peace solution.

00:31:10.000 And I think it's fair to say that, like, I agree.

00:31:14.000 Hamas attacked Israel, killed civilians.

00:31:17.000 And there's two ways to look at this.

00:31:20.000 One way is Israel is going to be taking out Hamas leaders.

00:31:23.000 I think if someone comes at you and attacks your family, you defend yourself and you stop the threat.

00:31:28.000 The problem now is, especially with the bombing of this refugee camp and the dead civilians, the collateral damage is becoming too great.

00:31:35.000 And so I actually, I agree with AOC.

00:31:38.000 I think AOC had a better answer than Hillary. 1.00

00:31:40.000 She said, a ceasefire goes both ways.

00:31:42.000 We want Hamas to stop.

00:31:44.000 And we want Israel, she effectively said, Hamas needs to stop firing rockets at Israel and Israel should go in and assassinate Hamas leaders.

00:31:52.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:31:53.000 Look, if some cartel members from Mexico came into the United States and, you know, very conspicuously killed 1,400 people, Okay?

00:32:06.000 We would not bomb Mexico, okay?

00:32:08.000 We should use intelligence assets to find those people and bring them to justice, not to bomb these civilians.

00:32:16.000 So Israel's turning the world against them. 0.89

00:32:18.000 I mean, look at all the countries that are lined up now that wanted a ceasefire, and how many countries across the globe are condemning Israel right now?

00:32:26.000 I mean, it's almost unanimous.

00:32:28.000 There's only a few holdouts.

00:32:30.000 You know, what's interesting about this conflict is that this is... We are at the red... How do you describe it?

00:32:36.000 The threshold of Western sensibilities in warfare.

00:32:41.000 If you go back 200... Let's go back 300 years.

00:32:44.000 300 years.

00:32:45.000 And I think y'all are gonna know the answer to this.

00:32:47.000 What would Nation A do to the people who were conquered of that land? 0.93

00:32:55.000 What would be happening if it was 300 years ago?

00:32:57.000 That's a good question.

00:32:58.000 I think what happens- I think it's fairly obvious.

00:33:00.000 What?

00:33:01.000 I think if it was 300 years ago, and we were looking at Israel passing as it was today, 0.90

00:33:07.000 with the power of Israel and what Hamas is doing, the Israelis would go in and shove everyone in the ocean 1.00

00:33:16.000 and just mass purge and kill everybody.

00:33:19.000 I shouldn't say that absolutely, because there are many circumstances where countries did not do this. 0.95

00:33:26.000 But the issue is, as we advance as moral, civilized people, we are like, hey, we don't think it's good to just go and just kill everybody.

00:33:37.000 But during the colonial period, a lot of that.

00:33:40.000 And so now, this is what's interesting.

00:33:42.000 You've got the left claiming that Israel are the colonizers, and they must be resisted with decolonizing things like that.

00:33:49.000 And if they really were the colonizers that the left is claiming they are, the colonizers of, you know, of yore, it would be merciless.

00:33:57.000 It would be brutal.

00:33:59.000 You don't think it's merciless and brutal right now?

00:34:00.000 I think, oh, no, no, no, no, no.

00:34:03.000 If you're saying today's brutal, then we need a new word for how brutal it would be if this was 300 years ago.

00:34:08.000 Three hundred years ago there were colonists in Africa.

00:34:11.000 They didn't wipe everybody out.

00:34:12.000 What they did is force... No, but we're talking about if we, three hundred years ago, had something akin to Gaza and Hamas and Israel, and a bunch of people stormed into the borders of a settlement and massacred fourteen hundred people, the response from the more powerful nation would be a purge of everyone. 0.63

00:34:33.000 I want to qualify something about the fourteen hundred, by the way.

00:34:37.000 There's pretty good evidence that the IDF actually killed some of these people.

00:34:41.000 Now, I'm not saying this is not Hamas's fault, and I'm not exonerating Hamas, but they bombed houses that they thought people were being held hostage by terrorists.

00:34:52.000 They bombed people, they shot people on the street.

00:34:54.000 So, I mean, there's a good number that were taken out by the IDF.

00:35:00.000 And those charred bodies that you saw in the media, that is not possible vis-a-vis... Do you have a source I can pull up for that?

00:35:10.000 I've read it in five different places, Tim.

00:35:12.000 I mean, those are serious claims.

00:35:14.000 I've not seen that.

00:35:15.000 Did you say that Israel blew up their own villages?

00:35:17.000 They blew up houses in which they suspected the terrorists were holding hostages.

00:35:23.000 But you need to know your sources on that one.

00:35:26.000 Look at Middle East Eye. 0.96

00:35:30.000 We'll try and pull something like that up.

00:35:32.000 Mm-hmm.

00:35:34.000 I don't know how, uh...

00:35:41.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:35:45.000 I...

00:35:47.000 That's a bold claim.

00:35:48.000 Even some of the IDF forces said, we didn't know what we were shooting at.

00:35:52.000 We didn't know, and we just started shooting randomly.

00:35:55.000 We didn't know what to do.

00:35:57.000 Because they were so disorganized.

00:35:58.000 Now, I would admit, and it's very true, that the Moss caused a great deal of confusion and threw the whole IDF into a complete quandary. 0.84

00:36:07.000 They didn't know what was going on.

00:36:09.000 And so they actually committed some acts of violence against, inadvertently, their own people.

00:36:16.000 You see, this is why I don't go anywhere near that.

00:36:18.000 I think that's not true.

00:36:19.000 I think what you're saying is false.

00:36:20.000 Okay, I'll have to follow up with that.

00:36:23.000 So this is the issue I take with the Israel-Palestine conflict, is all the lies and misinformation that are spread.

00:36:30.000 All the time.

00:36:33.000 Where do you suspect?

00:36:35.000 I've heard nothing about Israel bombing its own villages.

00:36:40.000 No, not whole villages.

00:36:41.000 I did not say that.

00:36:42.000 It's houses in villages.

00:36:44.000 I'm not saying they blew up a whole village.

00:36:46.000 It accidentally shot people on the street.

00:36:49.000 And that just sounds like lies.

00:36:50.000 And bombed cars where the charred bodies were found.

00:36:53.000 This is not possible.

00:36:55.000 I don't believe it.

00:36:56.000 Okay.

00:36:57.000 Let me ask you this, Tim.

00:36:59.000 I'm not saying it's not possible.

00:37:01.000 What would you think is more likely, the more powerful propaganda, that what's being told by the mainstream media and coming out of Israel, that these are the truths, or would you think that it's more possible that the propaganda is coming from the more dominant forces?

00:37:20.000 Propaganda is coming from both.

00:37:21.000 However, the left has a very strong predisposition towards manipulation and lies and deceit.

00:37:28.000 Well, I'm not a leftist.

00:37:30.000 No, I know.

00:37:31.000 And so, the issue is, you don't have to be a leftist to fall for leftist propaganda.

00:37:35.000 We debated the hospital bombing on this show believing, and we should not have, Because Hamas made a claim and it wasn't true and now we know it's not true because video emerged the next day showing the parking lot.

00:37:47.000 I think it's that's kind of it's frankly that it's it's really a mood point because of all the civilians they have bombed.

00:37:54.000 They are killing children.

00:37:55.000 You know more children were killed in three months or three weeks.

00:37:59.000 I'm sorry three weeks.

00:38:02.000 This year, that have been killed in all wars, from 2019 to now, in each year there were like 2,000 children killed, roughly, 2019, 20, 21, 22.

00:38:12.000 In this three weeks, they've killed over 3,000 people.

00:38:16.000 This is why I just say, why are we involved?

00:38:18.000 Because I don't know why we're arguing the morality of two factions fighting a war, and what the justification is for arguing at all that either side is better or worse.

00:38:26.000 I agree.

00:38:26.000 Listen, I'm not saying there's any good guys here, okay?

00:38:29.000 And I did read that claim in a few sources, and I don't have the exact source on the tip of my tongue, but let me just say this.

00:38:37.000 It's really immaterial, because you're right.

00:38:41.000 We don't need to find the good guy and exonerate one side over the other.

00:38:45.000 That's not the issue.

00:38:48.000 I just don't see that... And that includes Israel, by the way, because I think that what they're doing, if they have a superior morality to the people that they're killing, then why haven't they shown it? 0.83

00:39:00.000 Well, I don't think that there's a situation where the United States is going to be able to come to a policy position that's going to make anyone happy.

00:39:13.000 Well, it's not going to be utopia, but it's got to be better than what we've been doing.

00:39:18.000 I don't know that I believe that.

00:39:20.000 And again, I'm not saying that we shouldn't try or that we should fund it.

00:39:24.000 Every time I talk, I have to put this caveat because people are going to start saying, oh, you're just pro-Israel or whatever, but that's not what I'm saying.

00:39:31.000 I'm just saying that I don't think that whatever course of action the United States takes is going to be sufficient or have a substantive We have a lot of history that we, frankly, are besmirched with, and that would take years to actually dissipate.

00:39:51.000 We can't take back the fact of what we did in Iraq. 0.64

00:39:55.000 You're right, but the tumultuous Middle East goes back to the birth of our country. 1.00

00:40:02.000 The reason we have the Marine Corps is because of the Barbary pirates off the coast of North Africa. 0.96

00:40:08.000 That area is a shitshow, and it's always been an absolute mess.

00:40:13.000 So the United States can, we can do our best to stay out of the political issues and tribal warfare that happens in the Middle East, but I don't know that whatever course of action we take, it doesn't matter about like as much as This is not condoning the Iraq war, but the Iraq war is not why the people in the Middle East hate us. 0.68

00:40:35.000 That's not the reason.

00:40:37.000 It's not THE reason, but it's one of them.

00:40:39.000 It's not that we built bases in Saudi Arabia.

00:40:43.000 It's not that Israel exists.

00:40:45.000 It's been that way forever.

00:40:47.000 Well, I mean, according to Iraq, they attacked Kuwait the first time because of our bases in Kuwait.

00:40:53.000 Because the bases in Kuwait, and that was the reason for 9-11 as well, is because the bases in the Holy Land, they looked at it like the United States was conquering a part of Saudi Arabia, and I understand that. 0.90

00:41:06.000 Our footprint is too broad.

00:41:08.000 That's the problem.

00:41:09.000 So yeah, it'll take a while to wash off the The dirt that we've been involved in, but you know, there's no time like the present to start.

00:41:18.000 Again, I'm not arguing that we shouldn't.

00:41:21.000 What I'm saying is even if we take, I think that even if we take the course of action that you believe is the, or that libertarians believe is right, and I support it.

00:41:30.000 Not all libertarians, but I do.

00:41:32.000 And I support that course of action.

00:41:34.000 I believe that that would be a good policy, but I don't think that that fixes the problems.

00:41:39.000 I think it's naive to think that that will solve problems eventually.

00:41:43.000 I think that it's going to be a mess over there.

00:41:45.000 I want to pull up this video.

00:41:46.000 We have this from Clown World, and this is nothing unique.

00:41:52.000 It's just another one of these videos where we have far leftists tearing down posters for the people who are kidnapped and being held hostage.

00:41:59.000 There's a bunch of these videos.

00:42:01.000 There's another video where a guy puts up a flyer for a Thai farmer, not even an Israeli citizen, a guy who is just working in Israel who was kidnapped, and this Asian woman basically, in front of him, tears down his flyer, his property, destroys it, and then basically tells him to screw off.

00:42:17.000 I see these people and what they're doing.

00:42:19.000 This is evil.

00:42:21.000 This is malicious, intentional evil.

00:42:25.000 These people think they're justified in causing harm, chaos, and destruction, and so this is the challenge I see when it comes to... I don't care to get into the history of the region.

00:42:35.000 We just talk about literally October 7th.

00:42:37.000 You have people glide in, kill a bunch of civilians.

00:42:40.000 Max Blumenthal said it's because they see civilians as targets of opportunity.

00:42:44.000 I'm sorry, specifically, the music festival was a target of opportunity, and they target civilians to use bargaining chips against the Israeli government.

00:42:51.000 I'm like, oh, okay, so they're evil.

00:42:54.000 That's it, right?

00:42:55.000 Evil.

00:42:56.000 And what's that you say?

00:42:58.000 The US has done really horrible things in the Middle East?

00:43:00.000 Hey, I never said we were the good guys.

00:43:02.000 I'm saying right now we've got a crisis.

00:43:04.000 And what happens is you see these people in New York City.

00:43:07.000 Defending Hamas, cheering on Hamas, celebrating it. 0.99

00:43:11.000 They're now in the United States.

00:43:12.000 They're in the West.

00:43:13.000 There was this massive protest in London.

00:43:16.000 This is why I don't believe anything they say.

00:43:18.000 I understand what you're saying and let's talk about that story and what's going on there.

00:43:22.000 What is that being done?

00:43:23.000 What's being done here with this imagery?

00:43:26.000 This is despicable what these people are doing, okay?

00:43:28.000 But why has this become news?

00:43:31.000 This has become news because it serves as a deflection.

00:43:34.000 It serves as a deflection.

00:43:36.000 It says instead of being angry about what's going on in the Gaza Strip, what's happening to people dying, instead we're diverted into this particular You know, a despicable act that takes the pressure off of Israel, in effect.

00:43:56.000 This works as propaganda.

00:44:00.000 But you know why this imagery is important?

00:44:02.000 I think it's very important, but what are they doing with it?

00:44:05.000 That's the question.

00:44:06.000 These people, given the chance, would kill you in your sleep.

00:44:09.000 I don't know that.

00:44:10.000 I mean, listen, I'm not sure... What does decolonize mean?

00:44:13.000 It means get rid of the colonizers. 0.95

00:44:15.000 And how do you do that?

00:44:17.000 Well, I mean... Let's talk about what from the river to the sea means.

00:44:21.000 Well, I agree with that.

00:44:22.000 That's nonsense rhetoric, and I certainly would never use it.

00:44:25.000 I'm not saying you do.

00:44:27.000 I'm saying these people have an extremist ideology.

00:44:30.000 It is widespread in the West now.

00:44:32.000 And that's the point I was making about Israel, the clash of warfare and Western sensibilities. 0.94

00:44:38.000 We as Western liberal nations are like, we do not want to Like, wipe out an entire people.

00:44:45.000 We want to figure out how to stop the fighting, and then chill everybody the F out.

00:44:49.000 Their ideology is, from the river to the sea.

00:44:52.000 If you even just walk through what that means... It's horrendous.

00:44:56.000 They're talking about genocide, but I mean, they're not capable of executing it.

00:45:00.000 So the issue then becomes, Western sensibilities would say, act in such a way that allows them to persist, The people who would kill you in your sleep.

00:45:11.000 That's the liberal paradox.

00:45:13.000 Exactly, exactly.

00:45:14.000 That's the clash of Western sensibilities with modern warfare.

00:45:18.000 If it were inversed and the Israelis were in the Gaza Strip, there is no question they would be shoved into the ocean and mass executed by the Palestinians. 0.99

00:45:29.000 That's the Golda Meir point.

00:45:31.000 But I mean, look, I don't know about that.

00:45:34.000 I guess we're going to have to adjudicate the history in a little bit.

00:45:37.000 I'm not here to talk about the history of the region.

00:45:41.000 We'll remove Israel-Palestine from this. 1.00

00:45:43.000 If far-leftists like this are given power, we see what they do with it. 0.99

00:45:48.000 They kill people. 0.97

00:45:50.000 Well, they do more than that. 0.99

00:45:51.000 They kill and torture. 0.62

00:45:53.000 They're totalitarians at base. 0.85

00:45:58.000 It's intrinsic to leftist ideology.

00:46:01.000 This is what they did in the Soviet Union.

00:46:03.000 Once they gain power, leftists are totalitarian.

00:46:06.000 They're for free speech, they're for all this when they're aspirant, but once they gain power, they become like, you know, Lenin and Stalin.

00:46:15.000 Right.

00:46:15.000 Even then, it's not even necessarily that they're for free speech.

00:46:18.000 The liberals are for free speech.

00:46:19.000 I don't know if I would even bother.

00:46:20.000 I don't know if there are any liberals.

00:46:21.000 Where are the liberals?

00:46:22.000 Well, we're here, I guess.

00:46:23.000 Yes, I guess.

00:46:24.000 Classical liberal.

00:46:25.000 But my point is this.

00:46:27.000 To sort of move on from the broad, topical Israel-Palestine, but more into the philosophical and ideological, We are confronted by right now, actually we can maybe pull this up in a little bit, Elon Musk saying the woke mind virus is destroying civilization.

00:46:42.000 You take a look at San Francisco, we'll go into details on the Joe Rogan podcast, but you take a look at what the woke left represents and what do you see?

00:46:49.000 16 year olds chanting from the river to the sea.

00:46:52.000 They don't know, they don't care, but they will do it.

00:46:55.000 Well, look, I admit, and that's why I'm involved in this, and this is why I was asked to be a candidate, because I have been involved in cultural issues, and this is a cultural war.

00:47:08.000 We must fight in the battle of ideas.

00:47:11.000 My bigger question is, how do you win against a group of people who you know want you dead?

00:47:19.000 When you, as a faction, try to preserve life.

00:47:23.000 They have to be deprogrammed, frankly.

00:47:25.000 They have to be deprogrammed.

00:47:26.000 That's not easy, but it's possible.

00:47:28.000 Almost impossible in this day and age.

00:47:30.000 In the age of the internet, when you cannot get them away from a phone, when you cannot actually get them out of the environment that's used.

00:47:36.000 It's not just the colleges.

00:47:37.000 It's not just the high schools.

00:47:38.000 It's not just the elementary schools.

00:47:40.000 It's everything they're getting on their I don't think there's a liberal solution.

00:47:44.000 Because in order to get someone to leave a cult, you have to remove them from the cult.

00:47:51.000 I gotta say it happened to me, Tim.

00:47:53.000 I mentioned at the beginning of the show, I used to be a Marxist.

00:47:55.000 You know what did it for me?

00:47:56.000 I was traumatized by them.

00:47:58.000 And that caused my eyes to open.

00:48:00.000 Once I was traumatized by the left, I then said, this is a totalitarian contention that I want nothing further to do with at all.

00:48:10.000 And I instantly became a civil libertarian.

00:48:12.000 This can happen.

00:48:13.000 The left eats its own, but not quite fast enough.

00:48:17.000 I think that the terror attack on the 7th did a lot to wake a lot of Jewish liberals up or A lot of liberals in general.

00:48:26.000 Liberals in general.

00:48:26.000 I've had several people who were very much BLM in 2020, who started to at least, I don't know if they were just getting their news from different sources, but saw the stuff that Patrisse Cullors said back in 2015, who are now seeing that what you were sold in those early years in 2020, which everyone told you said, this is not what it is.

00:48:48.000 Look at what their website says.

00:48:49.000 Look at what all this information says.

00:48:50.000 They weren't willing to listen.

00:48:51.000 They were too filled with emotion at that time.

00:48:54.000 And because it was scary.

00:48:55.000 The consequences of saying, I am not for Black Lives Matter, you know, in 2020, if you were not a staunch conservative that had people around you that would support that and that also agreed with you, you are not And this is true, this happened with COVID of course as well.

00:49:15.000 These people effectively become state agents.

00:49:19.000 These people that are walking around telling, get the mask on, and they're actually corralling you into the state's propaganda and its narrative.

00:49:26.000 They have these programs where, this is like 10-15 years ago, a company would ask you to go out and write down license plate numbers and where you saw them.

00:49:40.000 So that the state and private companies could track down the people and know where they were.

00:49:45.000 Mass surveillance, essentially.

00:49:46.000 Snitch on your neighbors.

00:49:48.000 But here's the scary thing.

00:49:49.000 They don't need it anymore.

00:49:50.000 Nope.

00:49:51.000 Because now you're carrying around a tracking device everywhere you go.

00:49:54.000 Yeah, you are.

00:49:55.000 So the main issue I see with this is these videos of them tearing down the poster I think are extremely important.

00:50:03.000 The reaction from the left cheering on Hamas, even right now these mass protests in New York, and I say cheering on Hamas, I quite literally mean it! 0.99

00:50:11.000 I am not being cute and conflating Palestine with Hamas.

00:50:14.000 They're in New York bullhorning in support of Hamas, calling them the resistance fighters

00:50:21.000 who fired X amount of rockets and killed X amount of settlers.

00:50:25.000 They say settlers are not civilians.

00:50:27.000 How do you, I mean, is it, this is the challenge.

00:50:31.000 How do you deprogram someone when you cannot isolate them from the information?

00:50:37.000 The challenge we face as people who believe in, you know, civil libertarian values,

00:50:41.000 the right of free speech is that, okay, on a platform like X or on Facebook or YouTube,

00:50:47.000 we're gonna let everybody speak.

00:50:50.000 What happens?

00:50:51.000 Silos emerge of far-left extremism.

00:50:53.000 We allow that to happen.

00:50:55.000 Then, within that sphere, they start spreading, oppressing, and crushing their opponents, gaining more and more power, and silencing the rest of us.

00:51:04.000 If we allow them the platform, they'll use it to destroy us.

00:51:07.000 They will not allow us the platform.

00:51:08.000 So we have set ourselves up in a downward slope, as it were, where it seems... And this is why, again, Elon Musk, we'll pull that up in a second, why he bought Twitter, to reverse this process.

00:51:22.000 But how do you de... Like, the answer to deprogramming these people?

00:51:26.000 Ban TikTok.

00:51:28.000 There you go.

00:51:29.000 Ban TikTok, regulate the algorithms, and mandate American ideas.

00:51:34.000 Who does that?

00:51:35.000 Exactly.

00:51:35.000 You can't.

00:51:37.000 Am I supposed to expect that the U.S.

00:51:39.000 government is going to do that?

00:51:40.000 I don't want the U.S.

00:51:40.000 government doing that either.

00:51:41.000 So the problem is, what would need to happen is an organic, pro-American, OG ideological faction Canceling people and saying, this is the way we do things, and if you are a communist or a fascist, we don't sell to you, we don't welcome you in our stores.

00:52:00.000 This is very much of a tradition within libertarianism, it's kind of a joke, you know, physical removal of communists from our midst.

00:52:10.000 Let's get back to the technology aspect, if we can.

00:52:14.000 The problem is not just that these people are cultivated in these echo chambers, that until Musk bought Twitter, and I think Musk is kind of a black swan right now, until he bought Twitter, the whole big digital social media and search was all dominated by leftism, all the way down the line.

00:52:33.000 Google, for example.

00:52:35.000 Try de-googling your phone.

00:52:36.000 Yeah.

00:52:37.000 Oh, yeah.

00:52:38.000 Actually, let me pull the clip up from Elon, and then we'll carry on.

00:52:42.000 Charlie Kirk has this tweet.

00:52:43.000 A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter, he finally explains why.

00:52:47.000 He says that the niche ideology that turned San Francisco into a zombie apocalypse would historically be geographically isolated, and the fallout would therefore be limited.

00:52:56.000 But Twitter gave that philosophy an information technology weapon, which it could use to spread that mind virus to the whole planet unopposed. 0.56

00:53:04.000 In order for the mind virus to propagate, it must suppress opposing viewpoints.

00:53:09.000 Rogan says, because it doesn't stand up to scrutiny, and Musk says, correct.

00:53:12.000 I'll just play the clip for you, it's two minutes long.

00:53:15.000 You've owned X for a year now.

00:53:16.000 It's a costume.

00:53:18.000 Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and have a dream that you didn't do it?

00:53:25.000 And your life is infinitely easier?

00:53:28.000 Well, it's certainly a recipe for trouble, I suppose.

00:53:34.000 Contention.

00:53:36.000 What was it ultimately that led you to make the decision to do it?

00:53:43.000 I mean this is going to sound somewhat melodramatic, but I was worried about

00:53:50.000 that it was having a corrosive effect on civilization.

00:53:54.000 and I'll see you next time.

00:53:56.000 That it was just having a bad impact.

00:54:00.000 It still is.

00:54:04.000 I think part of it is that it's where it was located, which is downtown San Francisco.

00:54:11.000 And while I think San Francisco is a beautiful city, and we should really fight hard to kind of right the ship of San Francisco, if you've walked around downtown San Francisco, right near the ex-FKA Twitter headquarters, it's a zombie apocalypse.

00:54:27.000 I mean, it's rough.

00:54:29.000 Have you been in that area?

00:54:30.000 Not lately.

00:54:31.000 No.

00:54:31.000 I've heard.

00:54:32.000 It's crazy.

00:54:33.000 I've heard it's crazy.

00:54:34.000 I've heard you really can't believe it until you actually go there.

00:54:37.000 You can't believe it until you go there.

00:54:38.000 So, now you have to say, well, what philosophy led to that outcome?

00:54:43.000 And that philosophy was being piped to Earth.

00:54:48.000 So, you know, a philosophy that would be ordinarily quite niche and geographically constrained, so that the fallout area would be limited, was effectively given an information A weapon.

00:55:05.000 An information technology weapon to propagate what is essentially a mind virus to the rest of Earth.

00:55:13.000 And the outcome of that mind virus is very clear if you walk around the streets of downtown San Francisco.

00:55:19.000 So, I mean, really, he hits the nail on the head. 0.95

00:55:23.000 If you look at San Francisco, the human feces everywhere, the ridiculous real estate prices, it's a wasteland of failed policy.

00:55:32.000 But because so much information control was centralized there, information systems, it was piping that, I would call it like fecal data, the equivalent of feces in data form into the brains of people. 0.91

00:55:48.000 It was just melting their brains and tainting them with the mind virus. 0.72

00:55:52.000 You look at San Francisco and you can see that ideology is and has been popping up all over this country.

00:55:58.000 Elon is trying to shut down.

00:55:59.000 I still think he's got a long way to go.

00:56:01.000 Beyond that, there's also just failed governmental policy that plays a huge role in that.

00:56:06.000 If we're looking at DAs who aren't prosecuting violent crime, people who are like... I'd actually be interested to know what your position is as a libertarian.

00:56:19.000 But the policy is because of social media.

00:56:23.000 It's the ideology that spread.

00:56:27.000 It was the free speech wing of the Free Speech Party, and then it turned into a campus safe space for a bunch of whiny baby millennials. 0.98

00:56:37.000 But look at who's opposing Elon Musk now.

00:56:41.000 He's gotten a lot of pushback from the woke cartel, as I call it.

00:56:46.000 And one of the major pushbacks he's getting is from the ADL.

00:56:49.000 I mean, he had to sue them because they really wrecked his business in the beginning, ruining his advertising base, pulling all these advertisers out.

00:56:58.000 Now, what is that about?

00:57:00.000 So we're looking at this mind virus is in the establishment, and it includes trying to squelch speech, and it includes critical discourse about some very serious issues.

00:57:13.000 And groups like the ADL that have all of this kind of power in the system because they're automatically perceived by anyone who isn't aware of what's going on as a net force for positive good in the world, when we know that it's been weaponized time and time again against various people who just happen to have ideas that they disagree with.

00:57:30.000 So you were a leftist professor?

00:57:32.000 Yes, I was.

00:57:33.000 And you broke out of this because you said the left traumatized you.

00:57:37.000 Yeah, they traumatized me.

00:57:38.000 What did they do?

00:57:40.000 They came after me.

00:57:41.000 They called you racist?

00:57:41.000 I started criticizing all this social justice woke stuff on campus.

00:57:45.000 For example, the no-platforming, the bias-reporting hotline, that was a big one.

00:57:52.000 They instituted this reporting spy system in which the students could report on you

00:57:58.000 for making a woke infraction, what they call a bias infraction.

00:58:03.000 I thought it was like a Stasi state system.

00:58:05.000 I spoke up about it.

00:58:07.000 I would not put the phone number or the email address of this biased reporting hotline on my syllabi.

00:58:17.000 And then I was interviewed.

00:58:19.000 I started this Twitter account.

00:58:20.000 It's now been canceled before Elon took over, but I can't get it back.

00:58:25.000 It was called Anti-PC NYU Prof, and I started tweeting criticisms of all this.

00:58:30.000 From the standpoint of a professor at NYU was interviewed- And Twitter banned you?

00:58:35.000 Not yet.

00:58:36.000 Not yet.

00:58:37.000 They did ban it. 0.80

00:58:38.000 They eventually banned this profile.

00:58:40.000 Yes, they did.

00:58:41.000 And I haven't been able to revive it even after Elon's takeover. 0.93

00:58:46.000 Then I did this interview and I criticized all this stuff publicly and within two days the dean calls me into the office, coerces me into a leave of absence, the diversity equity inclusion group condemns me, I get a bunch of blistering emails from faculty saying that I was alt-right, Nazi, short pants, white devil, all kinds of ludicrous things, racist, sexist, the whole nine yards. 0.97

00:59:12.000 Anti-gay? 0.96

00:59:13.000 Now, today, I would just, you know what I'd write back is LOL.

00:59:17.000 But then, I actually cared what these people thought.

00:59:21.000 Just remember, the people tearing down those photos of the Israelis would actually be the ones calling you a Nazi back then.

00:59:27.000 Probably.

00:59:27.000 Yeah, they would.

00:59:29.000 So at the time, what did you do?

00:59:30.000 You wrote an apology or something?

00:59:32.000 Oh, no.

00:59:33.000 No, I wrote Springtime for snowflakes, for one.

00:59:37.000 And I stood up to them.

00:59:38.000 And I eventually sued them.

00:59:40.000 I sued NYU and five professors that were libeling me all through the official NYU listservs.

00:59:47.000 And eventually they settled with me.

00:59:50.000 You know how I got them to settle?

00:59:51.000 You'll love this.

00:59:53.000 They filed a motion to dismiss the case, and my lawyers could not overtake this huge army of attorneys that NYU had.

01:00:03.000 So I invited Milo Yiannopoulos to speak in my classroom.

01:00:08.000 Listen to this, on Halloween itself, okay, and the topic of the talk was going to be how you're not allowed to wear a Halloween costume for one night, but you can change your gender by day.

01:00:19.000 Okay, that was the topic, and they shut it down.

01:00:22.000 Guess this?

01:00:23.000 De Blasio actually intervened and shut down my classroom himself.

01:00:28.000 Whoa! 0.71

01:00:29.000 Yeah.

01:00:30.000 What did he do?

01:00:31.000 He called NYU and said this is too dangerous to take place.

01:00:35.000 Now of course we know the danger was coming from Antifa who actually put a target on my back and through Twitter were threatening to kill me.

01:00:42.000 Wow.

01:00:43.000 I've been told that Antifa is not even a real thing.

01:00:45.000 It's not even real.

01:00:46.000 Oh, it's just an idea.

01:00:47.000 It's just an idea.

01:00:47.000 It's an idea that's in a lot of people's heads to make them act like Antifa.

01:00:51.000 To what you said, though, like what you went through kind of circles the point of what you're saying.

01:00:56.000 It's like, if you push back, most people don't have the resources to go against groups like this, which have massive budgets, endowments, whole groups, you know, prodders of lawyers to back up.

01:01:08.000 And this has been probably the first I touched the third rail.

01:01:11.000 There was significant power behind that, and I realized at that point that this social justice, or what we now call wokeness, was really the power.

01:01:21.000 This was embedded in the power structure.

01:01:23.000 If everybody who is currently facing a criminal proceeding pleaded not guilty, the system would collapse.

01:01:30.000 Yeah, the system relies on people taking plea bargains, and so that's why the system, in my view, is completely unconstitutional.

01:01:40.000 I refer to it as the jury tax or the trial tax, people call it different things.

01:01:44.000 The idea being that they will always say to you, Whatever it is you've committed, you're getting the maximum.

01:01:51.000 Right.

01:01:51.000 You know, it's like, oh, you were speeding, that's, you know, you were going 20, you were going 30 over the limit, that's felony territory, you're getting a year in prison, and we're gonna make sure that when you're convicted, you get it, or plead guilty.

01:02:01.000 It accelerates the process, so they can funnel more people through.

01:02:04.000 Because they don't, it's impossible to act, well, it's because nobody wants to do the work.

01:02:09.000 And so this is a huge failure of our system.

01:02:11.000 It's supposed to be difficult and expensive to make sure we uphold justice.

01:02:16.000 But you see we got a lot of people who don't want to deal with it, they're lazy, I don't know you, I don't care.

01:02:20.000 Used to be that if a cop stopped you, and I mean like early days of cops, people knew the cop in their neighborhood.

01:02:26.000 Or get a sheriff, you know, or a constable, I guess.

01:02:28.000 And they knew the people and social scrutiny played a role in whether or not they would be abusive.

01:02:33.000 Most cops don't even live in the area.

01:02:35.000 Absolutely.

01:02:35.000 And so when COVID happened and Attila's gym stayed open, the local cops said, have a nice day, everybody.

01:02:42.000 So they pulled in cops from a different city who said, we are now going to start putting the boot on your neck.

01:02:46.000 Yeah, this is why in my campaign is a promotion of localization and decentralization to wrest control from the central government vested in the people at the local level and then nullify unconstitutional laws and mandates that are coming down.

01:03:03.000 Yeah.

01:03:03.000 How many cabinet-level departments would you get rid of if you wanted to?

01:03:08.000 I get to the cabinet-level departments after I get rid of the IRS, the CIA, the ATF, the FBI, of course the Fed, etc.

01:03:20.000 The Fed is obviously the big monster, okay, but it's not as easy to get rid of as just go in and axe it.

01:03:27.000 You have to get an act of Congress.

01:03:28.000 But in the meanwhile, we can erode its power by promoting parallel currencies, Bitcoin, etc.

01:03:34.000 And that means you wrest the power away from this money monopolist, and you use currencies on your own in the local communities or across communities.

01:03:44.000 This erodes their power base as a monopolist.

01:03:48.000 I like this.

01:03:50.000 Endorsed.

01:03:51.000 Thank you.

01:03:53.000 Well, all right.

01:03:54.000 Huh?

01:03:54.000 I said, well, all right, then.

01:03:55.000 All right, then.

01:03:56.000 You see all the memes have been going around for, like, all libertarians, dad libertarians on Halloween.

01:04:02.000 It says, like, me, it's a picture of Ron Paul says, when I implement the dad tax on my son's Halloween candy, and he slowly turns into Bernie Sanders.

01:04:12.000 Yeah.

01:04:13.000 Let's, uh, let's, uh, I guess we'll just talk about Ron DeSantis' boots again.

01:04:18.000 Those boots are made for walking, but not for DeSantis.

01:04:22.000 Has this been happening every night or is it just the nights I'm on here?

01:04:25.000 It feels like every time I'm on we're talking about DeSantis' boots.

01:04:27.000 Okay, well look, it's because Donald Trump has chimed in and said this is the kiss of death for Ron DeSantis.

01:04:35.000 And, uh, this, you know, look, Ashley St.

01:04:38.000 Clair, I'm, look, let me slow down.

01:04:42.000 You know how we have these really awesome quotes from the Founding Fathers?

01:04:45.000 And you'll, you'll like, look in a book, and you'll be like, reading about some crazy dude in the 16th century, and he'll say something like, the, the king hereby declare through divine providence means as much, uh, declarations of divine providence mean as much to me as the manure of a horse!

01:05:01.000 And you're like, wow, like, look how bold.

01:05:03.000 Now it's like, That was because when they wrote things down, it was rare.

01:05:07.000 They talked a lot of smack, but they rarely wrote things down.

01:05:11.000 So when they did, they really thought them through.

01:05:14.000 Now you're gonna have quotes from people in the history books that just like, I got some quotes for you, man.

01:05:21.000 Like if you go through my Twitter and pull up some of the quotes, people are gonna be like, What?

01:05:28.000 I posted a picture of a hairless rabbit once, for no reason!

01:05:33.000 And it's like, you couldn't imagine the Founding Fathers doing... I mean, you could, they would be silly sometimes, like Ben Franklin was known to have a sense of humor. 0.71

01:05:41.000 So now we're looking at the story about Rhonda Sanderson and his high heels.

01:05:45.000 Of course, he is absolutely, I think it's proven at this point, beyond a reasonable doubt, he's wearing high heels.

01:05:49.000 He's been convicted in shoe court?

01:05:51.000 In public court.

01:05:52.000 Well, because there's that video where he's walking and his foot doesn't exist.

01:05:58.000 It folds.

01:05:58.000 It folds straight in.

01:06:00.000 Well, I saw the interview.

01:06:01.000 He says it was off-the-rack shoes.

01:06:03.000 Yes, and who says that?

01:06:04.000 My point is this.

01:06:05.000 The history books are going to say, I don't know what date it was, but in October of 2023, Ashley St.

01:06:12.000 Clair posted a video making fun of the Ron DeSantis campaign and putting on thigh-high cowboy boots, which generated a response from Ron DeSantis' PR team.

01:06:22.000 This led to a larger conversation on the Tim Guest RL podcast, finally a statement from the frontrunner for the Republican Party on his rival wearing high-heeled boots.

01:06:34.000 This is what the history books are going to say.

01:06:36.000 Unbelievable.

01:06:36.000 We live in such an unserious time.

01:06:38.000 It's unbelievable.

01:06:39.000 It is unserious in a sense, yeah, but... It feels like a sitcom episode where, like, he's going around and they're like, you're wearing high heels.

01:06:45.000 Like, they're not heels, they're lips!

01:06:48.000 And he has to keep correcting people.

01:06:49.000 It's a dystopian dark comedy, though.

01:06:51.000 I'm okay with it, though.

01:06:51.000 It is.

01:06:53.000 Why didn't they stuff his boots?

01:06:55.000 Like, look at this picture.

01:06:57.000 Like, guys, take some toilet paper.

01:06:59.000 They're even too long.

01:07:00.000 Not only are they too high, they're too long.

01:07:02.000 What is this?

01:07:03.000 They're too long because his foot's pulled back on a lift.

01:07:09.000 So, and then a lot of people pointing out when he said, uh, they're off the rack Lucchese boots.

01:07:15.000 People are like, who says off the rack?

01:07:17.000 He also said he hadn't seen the clip.

01:07:17.000 No.

01:07:19.000 He's like, oh, I haven't seen this.

01:07:20.000 I'm like, you've seen this, bro.

01:07:21.000 Don't lie to me.

01:07:22.000 Anyway, the point is Donald Trump chiming in.

01:07:27.000 And do we have the, I think the post-millennial, let me pull up the post-millennial's version because they, I think they actually have the statement from Donald Trump.

01:07:36.000 I guess the Daily Beast didn't have the statement.

01:07:38.000 They just mentioned that Donald Trump chimed in.

01:07:43.000 I don't know, whatever.

01:07:44.000 Let me see.

01:07:44.000 I think What do we got?

01:07:47.000 Here we go.

01:07:47.000 Trump campaign responds to boot-gate!

01:07:50.000 Calls it the kiss of death!

01:07:52.000 Kellan is claiming boot-gate is his.

01:07:55.000 Kellan is claiming that that's his term, that he came up with boot-gate.

01:07:58.000 Kellan claims a lot of things.

01:07:58.000 A scathing new article from Politico about Ron DeSanctimonious' high-heeled shoes comes on the heels of an embarrassing interview on the Patrick Bet-David show that led to boot-gate trending on X. When asked directly about why his boots look like stilts, DeSanctus offered up the implausible explanation That he just wears off-the-rack Lucchese boots doing major brand damage to a great American footwear company.

01:08:20.000 Oh yeah.

01:08:21.000 That's some brand damage, alright.

01:08:23.000 This is why Trump wins.

01:08:26.000 Against DeSantis at least.

01:08:27.000 Because that's the kind of funny statement, like a side joke where it's like you accuse DeSantis of besmirching the good name of Lucchese.

01:08:36.000 He says, if there's any enterprising journalist willing to contact the Lucchese press team for their thoughts on DeSantis, they're reachable here.

01:08:43.000 And then he lays to it.

01:08:44.000 In another moment of insanity, Ron offered up a laughable claim that he's 5'11".

01:08:48.000 Instead of telling the truth and just being comfortable in his own skin, he resorts to borderline psychotic behavior by lying to the American people.

01:08:56.000 Is that what this country wants in a president?

01:08:58.000 Okay, blah, blah, blah.

01:08:59.000 How am I telling you?

01:08:59.000 It's Stephen Chung, Trump's spokesperson.

01:09:01.000 But I just want to say, I think Ron DeSantis is the dumbest politician I've seen in my life. 1.00

01:09:06.000 The dumbest. 1.00

01:09:08.000 Look, policy-wise, did some good stuff. 1.00

01:09:11.000 I'm now going to chalk it up to the Florida State Legislature, a large body of individuals, pushed forth a bunch of ideas, and Ron said, okay, sounds good, and he's getting all the credit for it. 0.65

01:09:21.000 Ron has got to be the dumbest guy in politics, because he's had every opportunity, after every single blunder and failure, he won't fire these guys. 0.75

01:09:31.000 He won't fire his PR team. 0.99

01:09:33.000 It's almost like he's doing it on purpose.

01:09:35.000 Maybe.

01:09:36.000 Ron's the smartest guy in politics, and I can't understand why it is he would destroy himself in this way. 1.00

01:09:42.000 Or he's just really, really dumb! 1.00

01:09:44.000 He's dumb. 1.00

01:09:45.000 But let's talk about how unfortunate it is that our political discourse has, and I don't want to come off as the pendant and the Former professor, etc, etc. 0.99

01:09:57.000 But look at the depth to which our discourse has sunk.

01:10:00.000 If we can't win in the realm of ideas, we have to resort to boots and boot gate.

01:10:06.000 Look, it's Halloween.

01:10:09.000 This was the trending story this morning when I wake up.

01:10:11.000 I'm like, are you kidding me?

01:10:12.000 It's like 100,000 tweets, boot gate.

01:10:16.000 It's accessible to everyone.

01:10:18.000 It is kind of what has turned politics into a bit of a spectator, team sport, which I admit that it's, is it necessarily the greatest thing for America as a whole?

01:10:30.000 No, but I have a lot of fun with it.

01:10:31.000 It doesn't bother me.

01:10:33.000 It's fun.

01:10:33.000 I wish it was like a cartoon instead of reality.

01:10:38.000 Recently, Glenn Greenwald was on Jordan Peterson's podcast.

01:10:42.000 And one of the things that they were talking about was, People today, with the fact that religion became less important in communities and less important to Americans, people replaced religion with essentially what boils down to state worship.

01:11:01.000 It's not quite that, but that's essentially the effect.

01:11:06.000 And I think that's probably the biggest problem that we have in the U.S.

01:11:10.000 Now, I'm an agnostic.

01:11:11.000 I don't particularly have a religion that I'm more likely to be supportive of or whatever.

01:11:22.000 But I don't think that we have the option to not have a religion.

01:11:26.000 People think There's a lot of people that get it in their head that humans should just evolve past religion and they just don't have any idea that They don't have any idea how evolution works if they think because it takes an outside force for there to be evolution Religion is ubiquitous across humanity whether no matter what society you you you look at every society no matter how far they are

01:11:53.000 Apart in distance or in time, every society that has been created by human beings has had some kind of religion with it.

01:12:02.000 Religion is as inseparable from the human experience and from psychology as, I think, as humor or as any other interpersonal relationship. 0.78

01:12:13.000 It's probably a psychological phenomenon built to deal with having the motivation to keep us alive and at the same time...

01:12:23.000 Well, no, at the same time, dealing with the fact that we are finite and going to die.

01:12:27.000 Real quick, I was thinking a lot about this earlier, and I was thinking about Kurt Cobain, and I was thinking about, who was I thinking about?

01:12:36.000 Just a bunch of musicians who've killed themselves.

01:12:38.000 And I was just like, how is it that someone like Kurt Cobain, okay, maybe it's not a good example because there's conspiracy theories around whether or not he actually killed himself, but there are many rock stars who, you know what I was thinking about?

01:12:50.000 I was thinking of Matthew Perry.

01:12:52.000 And he's found underwater in his hot tub, drowning, cardiac arrest, depends on the reports.

01:12:58.000 And a lot of people said, look man, this is a guy who did a lot of drugs in his day and was like pretty messed up and depressed for a while, right?

01:13:04.000 Is that just... Yeah, and also hot tub with any heart condition is a no-go.

01:13:10.000 Not a good idea.

01:13:11.000 So I started thinking this, like, how could you be on the show Friends, the biggest show, And like still one of the biggest shows ever.

01:13:19.000 How much were they making per episode?

01:13:20.000 It was like a million bucks.

01:13:21.000 More than that.

01:13:22.000 Yeah, several million dollars.

01:13:23.000 And then resort to doing drugs.

01:13:26.000 I'm like, how do you?

01:13:26.000 That's the norm.

01:13:28.000 No, no, no.

01:13:29.000 But I think I get it.

01:13:30.000 How come Elon Musk is the world's richest man and is not doing drugs and not drinking?

01:13:36.000 Purpose.

01:13:37.000 Exactly.

01:13:39.000 So if you're a regular dude, And you're funny.

01:13:42.000 And then someone says, would you like to be funny in my show?

01:13:45.000 And you're like, sure.

01:13:46.000 And every day you struggle.

01:13:48.000 Every day you're trying to figure out how to pay the bills.

01:13:50.000 Every day you're waking up figuring out how you're going to pay your rent.

01:13:52.000 And then one day someone says, make this joke on TV.

01:13:55.000 You do, boom!

01:13:56.000 Biggest show in the world.

01:13:57.000 All of a sudden, you have no struggle.

01:13:59.000 All of a sudden, you are loaded with cash, you have nothing to do, you don't have to worry for anything, and you've never had a strong purpose.

01:14:07.000 Your purpose has always been to survive, but now you don't have to.

01:14:10.000 Whereas Elon Musk's purpose is advance humanity in the ways he wants to.

01:14:15.000 So what's missing, I believe, it just roots down to one simple thing for many people, religion.

01:14:21.000 Yeah, and I think the point was made that statism has become a religion.

01:14:27.000 And that's how they fight the depression.

01:14:32.000 Right. 0.83

01:14:33.000 You've got these young women that are chock full of crazy pills. 1.00

01:14:35.000 You know what the most irritating thing to me is? 0.69

01:14:39.000 When I hear like some millennial woman be like, he needs a Xanax or like, I took a Xanax. 1.00

01:14:43.000 Stop doing these things!

01:14:43.000 No!

01:14:45.000 Well, look, I'm not gonna tell you what to do.

01:14:47.000 You do what your doctor says.

01:14:47.000 Your doctor prescribes it.

01:14:49.000 But I'm just like, it's insane that people are like, well, Better take a mood stabilizer!

01:14:53.000 Or they tell everybody else to get therapy, not realizing that it's not necessarily for everybody.

01:14:58.000 We've medicalized a lot of the world today.

01:15:00.000 To your point with actors, I think a lot of it also has to do with the fact that they have a very dangerous combination of both insanely high egos and extremely sensitive personalities because the profession as a whole requires you to be very much vulnerable all the time.

01:15:16.000 Which leads to heavy drug use for a lot of them.

01:15:18.000 And I think that's true of a lot of what's going on in American culture right now.

01:15:23.000 There's a lot of depression.

01:15:25.000 There's a lot of sadness.

01:15:26.000 And people, it could be that they're not filling it with religion like they did in the past.

01:15:30.000 And the people that are filling it with what we would call now identity politics, or the state as a religion, are being fed an ideological means of hatred.

01:15:40.000 A state is a failed religion.

01:15:42.000 A statism is a failed religion.

01:15:44.000 It will not sustain you. 0.96

01:15:45.000 Like, if we're talking about Marxists telling you, whoever told you, you've been raised to hate your country, you've been raised to hate people that see the world differently than you, while being told that they're oppressing you, even though that dude is as poor and as miserable as you are.

01:16:00.000 How is that not a world of depression and sadness?

01:16:03.000 And it gives you a sense of moral superiority.

01:16:06.000 Which is the most dangerous part.

01:16:07.000 It allows you to oppress people, to act violently, the whole punch a Nazi thing. 0.88

01:16:13.000 It's like as soon as the argument was it's acceptable to punch a Nazi, everybody became a Nazi because it was just whoever I want to punch is a Nazi. 0.64

01:16:21.000 That's the excuse.

01:16:23.000 So it gives people the excuse to behave terribly, to behave with aggression and malice towards other people and feel like they are They're doing the morally correct thing, and that's, I forget who it was, but someone quoted that that's the most delicious of psychological treats, to be able to abuse someone and feel like you're doing it as a good thing. 0.88

01:16:45.000 And if you look at the jihadis, the Islamic terrorists, that's what they all do. 1.00

01:16:50.000 They all believe that they are in the right, and if they beat the crap out of an infidel, God wanted them to, so that was a moral thing. 1.00

01:16:58.000 Throwing gay people off a building, it doesn't matter, because God wanted it. 1.00

01:17:02.000 You can be as atrocious to people that don't believe in your religion as you want, because God has said it. 0.99

01:17:08.000 And it's the same type of attitude from the Marxists in the far left when they're saying, oh well, beat the Nazis up.

01:17:13.000 Another thing about wokeness as a religion, it's, you know, unlike Christianity, there's no redemption under woke.

01:17:19.000 Right? 1.00

01:17:20.000 So if you're white and, you know, male, you're damned. 1.00

01:17:23.000 For eternity, there's no way out. 0.99

01:17:26.000 And, you know, going back to your point about religion, anthropologists have suggested that, you know, why religion is so durable is because it actually came at the same time as civilization, as we got into creation and, you know, creativity, innovation, etc.

01:17:44.000 It sprouted at that exact same moment.

01:17:46.000 So it's no surprise that it's so It's a recalcitrant for some, or otherwise you might say it's a kind of permanent part of human life.

01:17:57.000 And I'm agnostic as well, but imagine the hubris of just now in this time period feeling like you found the answer that every generation in the past didn't need.

01:18:07.000 The atheist movement in the early 2010s probably did more damage to America than... It's exhausting. 0.99

01:18:14.000 I do love these, like, 18-year-old leftists who think they've discovered universal truth that no one else has ever thought of and, like, they just have not read any philosophers.

01:18:28.000 Yeah, I was 18 for once, too.

01:18:29.000 I think a lot of it is, like, in the age of the internet, The ease of access to information, and this is something that I think we're all, at least somebody like me is guilty of as well, and I have to put myself in check.

01:18:40.000 Knowing something isn't the same thing as understanding it.

01:18:42.000 And you have access to a lot of information, and then you have people believing that they know better than somebody who's practical in their field, and that's just not the way the world works, right?

01:18:51.000 Yeah, you have to actually live things and experience things to have real knowledge.

01:18:56.000 It isn't something you can impart through just information per se.

01:18:59.000 Yeah.

01:19:02.000 I don't know.

01:19:03.000 It's all of it is very like that is the most depressing like out of all the conversations we just had that might be the most depressing like all the war and everything but it's like everything that's going on I find like what's gone on in the last because it's like it's been so quick in the last 12 to 15 years the the shift in American values in the last 15 years has been so abrupt.

01:19:23.000 But why is that shift happening?

01:19:25.000 Because Millennials are entering the workforce. 0.64

01:19:28.000 So it was a crazy moment for me when I used to play shows as a teenager.

01:19:33.000 I'd go to a cafe and I'd play an open mic and then one day I turned 21.

01:19:37.000 And when I used to play shows as a teenager, everyone at the shows was always between the ages of like 16 and 20.

01:19:44.000 Because as soon as you turn 21, you're at the bars.

01:19:47.000 So I turned 21 and I'm like, I'm gonna find an open mic.

01:19:49.000 And I'm like, oh, here's one.

01:19:50.000 I'm like, I'd go to openmic.com.

01:19:52.000 And I'm like, oh, it's at a bar.

01:19:53.000 I show up, everyone's 40.

01:19:55.000 And I was like, whoa, this is kind of weird, like I've never experienced this.

01:19:58.000 All of a sudden, it was like the training wheels come off and welcome to the real world.

01:20:02.000 The entire bar is full of people of all different, there's like several decades here of different values, different worldviews.

01:20:08.000 I had now, at that point, entered That this adult space for the first time playing shows with people with tremendous, way more experience, way more opinions, more knowledge, more wisdom. 0.99

01:20:19.000 Some stupid people, don't get me wrong. 0.99

01:20:21.000 And so what happens is, we're like, how did the world, how is this country changing? 1.00

01:20:25.000 It's not that people are becoming woke, it's that Young people were indoctrinated to be woke, and now they're old enough to have an influence in the marketplace, in politics.

01:20:35.000 There's a white pill I'd like to drop on all this.

01:20:38.000 I do think there's going to be a renaissance of liberty-minded people.

01:20:43.000 It's going to come out of this movement.

01:20:45.000 Because, as you pointed out, it's a path to destruction, destitution, economically, socially.

01:20:53.000 It leads to decadence, and there's going to be a renaissance of liberty-minded people coming out of this woke contagion.

01:21:03.000 I hope that's true, but I'm going to be honest.

01:21:06.000 The number one place where I see this topic is when people talk about the housing market, when they talk about the price of housing, how so many young people are being priced.

01:21:14.000 Your parents say, go to college.

01:21:15.000 You're like, oh, you went to college in a part-time job, blah, blah, blah.

01:21:18.000 We see these very, very doomer descriptions that are accurate.

01:21:21.000 They're accurate to the world we're living in right now, but I don't think that creates people who want free markets, because they've been poisoned to believe that the free market is a... It's going to create communists, and it's going to create socialists.

01:21:35.000 Yeah, but they're going to experience the misery that that brings.

01:21:38.000 We're all going to experience misery, and we're going to have to fight our way out of it.

01:21:42.000 We have to fight our way out of it, there's no question.

01:21:44.000 I think we get that before we get back to living.

01:21:47.000 It's going to be San Francisco times 10 everywhere.

01:21:50.000 Oh, that's depressing.

01:21:52.000 I'm not convinced that it gets to a communist, Soviet-style country.

01:21:58.000 Not exactly, no.

01:21:59.000 No, I think we may already be out of the tailspin and starting to pull back.

01:22:02.000 If you look at Bud Light sponsoring UFC, we all kind of groaned when they did, but now you see Sean Strickland being like, oh yeah?

01:22:10.000 Let's see how Bud Light responds to this dude getting up on stage with a Bud Light in hand saying a whole bunch of anti-woke and offensive things.

01:22:17.000 To make the point, Bud Light is forced to back him now, and back his speech, and his speech is not favorable towards trans people.

01:22:25.000 Even if the tide is turning, and you might be right about the tide turning, even if it is, this is something that is going to take a while to get out of the schools because there are people that are going to fight like hell, and there's also industry that's already built in.

01:22:38.000 You've got people with tenure that aren't going to want to give up their jobs, you've got niche industries... Yeah, but who cares about schools?

01:22:44.000 As long as they're in schools and they're teaching kids these things, kids are gonna be coming out of schools. 0.99

01:22:49.000 And you have 20 years of graduating classes that believe this crap. 0.98

01:22:53.000 But what I'm saying is, two things. 0.98

01:22:56.000 First, part of the movement has already been to criticize schools in general for everything they are, not just be like, oh, there's wokeness in schools.

01:23:05.000 No, it's not right.

01:23:06.000 Like, schools are bad.

01:23:07.000 Homeschool your kids. 0.99

01:23:08.000 But then also, if you go on Twitter, If you go on X, if you go on Instagram, you go on these platforms, and you have the wrong opinion, you're made fun of, you don't get followers.

01:23:08.000 Exactly.

01:23:19.000 If the shift among prominent popular people and celebrities is against the wokeness now, especially because of Israel... Yes. 1.00

01:23:26.000 These young... Look.

01:23:28.000 I've told this story before, when I went to VidCon in like 2016, and as I'm walking in, I see this group of kids, probably 13 years old, and one kid goes, you have 80 followers?

01:23:39.000 How do you have 80 followers?

01:23:40.000 Wow!

01:23:41.000 And like, these little kids are growing up in a world where follower count matters, and that's gonna warp their brains in crazy ways, but guess what?

01:23:48.000 If you're in high school and you're like, I want a million followers, and then you see all the celebrities are getting behind Israel and opposing the left, and now you get Amy Schumer retweeting or posting on Instagram, campus reform, which is a more right-leaning outlet.

01:24:04.000 Now these young people are like, I want a million followers, I want to be a celebrity, and they're going to go in this direction.

01:24:09.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:24:09.000 I've said this in my book, Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty, we need defection from the elites.

01:24:14.000 We're always going to have elites.

01:24:15.000 There's a natural elites, you know, not just those that are propped up by the state and other artificial measures, but we need defectors.

01:24:23.000 And, you know, perhaps Elon Musk is one.

01:24:25.000 We need other defectors from the elite.

01:24:27.000 And yes, you could be right, and pull, you know, so give people somebody to, you know, we need public voices that come out against all this, and that will be a big part of this, and I hope to make my campaign part of that, and that is to, you know, be publicly stating these things.

01:24:43.000 I'm doing the mind virus.

01:24:45.000 Is there like a primary for the Libertarian Party?

01:24:46.000 Yeah, there is a primary.

01:24:47.000 When is it?

01:24:48.000 It's ongoing now.

01:24:49.000 Oh, it's ongoing now?

01:24:50.000 Oh, yeah.

01:24:51.000 Well, see, we have a convention in May.

01:24:54.000 And that convention, that's where the candidate is chosen by delegates.

01:24:58.000 Delegates?

01:24:59.000 Yes, it's not an open voting system.

01:25:01.000 It's a delegate selection system.

01:25:03.000 That doesn't sound very libertarian.

01:25:07.000 What you mean to say is that doesn't sound democratic, but libertarianism and democracy are kind of, there's a tension there.

01:25:15.000 Let's be real about that.

01:25:18.000 Because actually, democracy in its extremes, it infringes property rights.

01:25:23.000 Okay, so, you know, three out of four say, your money is mine, you know, there you go, you can rob that guy.

01:25:23.000 100%.

01:25:31.000 But I do kind of feel like... Democracy is the least bad system.

01:25:33.000 But I do kind of feel like, you know, just start from the ground.

01:25:37.000 If you're a libertarian, the question is, why does anyone have authority over me?

01:25:42.000 Good question.

01:25:43.000 And as libertarians, we don't think we should have authority over you.

01:25:48.000 So why am I running for office?

01:25:49.000 Is that where you're going?

01:25:50.000 No!

01:25:51.000 Why is it a delegate-based system that's determining who gets to be the nominee?

01:25:56.000 Why does the party have the authority over my choice in who should be the nominee?

01:26:01.000 Who should be... To be fair, it's because the party is giving them the backing, basically.

01:26:07.000 So the party is choosing... At least it's honest about it.

01:26:07.000 Yes, that's right.

01:26:10.000 Look at the Democratic Party, what they're going to do.

01:26:13.000 Well, what they were going to do to Kennedy, for example.

01:26:15.000 And they made it very clear.

01:26:16.000 It didn't matter how many votes he got.

01:26:18.000 They were going to give it to Biden or whoever.

01:26:20.000 I don't think it was Biden.

01:26:21.000 Whoever they stand up.

01:26:23.000 Biden needs to be the nominee.

01:26:24.000 I don't think he will be, though.

01:26:26.000 Whoever they stand up.

01:26:27.000 If they can stand him up long enough to... Gavin Newsom met with Xi Jinping because he knows...

01:26:35.000 He sees it running on the wall, same as everybody else.

01:26:38.000 It's not going to be Biden.

01:26:39.000 It feels like Gavin Newsom, the more that I see about it.

01:26:42.000 Yeah, there's a lot of play out there.

01:26:44.000 Even when you see conservative women being like, I hate his guts, but the guy's handsome. 0.87

01:26:48.000 You're just like, man, he definitely has an evil quality about him.

01:26:51.000 Take a look around Los Angeles.

01:26:53.000 Take a look around San Francisco.

01:26:55.000 Look at the outrageous destitution and horror that this guy's policies have brought to this state.

01:27:03.000 We've talked about how the way to remove Joe Biden is like, the perfect scenario for the deep state is Joe Biden suffers some kind of medical issue, Gavin Newsom runs on- Biden's at a rally in California and then grips his chest and then Gavin Newsom runs out, performs CPR, saves the life of the president.

01:27:22.000 Kamala Harris steps in as acting president, but says she does not want to start a campaign this late in the season.

01:27:28.000 She wants to do her duty to this country.

01:27:30.000 Gavin Newsom then says, I will do it.

01:27:32.000 Goes on every, also the press tour.

01:27:34.000 But what if, what if it's just something crazy like Joe Biden sacrifices himself in some really crazy way, like bringing peace to the Middle East or whatever.

01:27:42.000 He personally goes there and like walks on the battlefield and holds up his hands and then they're like, no Joe.

01:27:47.000 And then he goes down in history as like the savior.

01:27:49.000 That's how they get rid of him.

01:27:50.000 Yeah, I'd be very surprised about that.

01:27:53.000 He's gonna eat an ice cream cone too fast and die of a brain freeze.

01:27:58.000 Sniffing someone's hair by the edge of a mountain, and he just falls in.

01:28:00.000 Right now, this guy's just a prop.

01:28:02.000 I mean, he's a ventriloquist dummy.

01:28:05.000 There's nothing there.

01:28:07.000 Also, to your point, Phil, to what you were saying, but I think it's fair to say more of, like, I don't know if ventriloquist dummy is the right phrase, because he's also sort of this vacuous pit for money laundering.

01:28:18.000 Yeah, that's true.

01:28:19.000 Yeah, that's true.

01:28:21.000 He has kind of a money pocket in his puppetry.

01:28:24.000 Maybe he's a pneumatic banking tube.

01:28:26.000 where the government can put the money and then... yeah yeah yeah that's true.

01:28:31.000 To what you were saying Phil also about the you were mentioning the schools but

01:28:36.000 also the companies the corporations where all of these policies have been

01:28:39.000 enacted in are now enshrined it's going to take an inordinate amount of time to

01:28:43.000 get that removed from their what they call mission statements or their

01:28:47.000 company values, which is I still laugh maybe more funny than anything else is the idea that a corporation has like

01:28:52.000 a mission statement or Has values but you know, you've got you've got mid-level

01:28:56.000 mid-level employees with hiring capabilities that have been Indoctrinated with these viewpoints who have been shoveled

01:29:02.000 this stuff for the last two decades You're not just going to have to get rid of them. You're

01:29:05.000 gonna have to get rid of the people under them Yeah, I don't think there's a lot of conflict between my

01:29:10.000 point and what Tim says I'm just talking I'm thinking that it's just gonna take

01:29:14.000 time to actually get this stuff out It didn't happen overnight.

01:29:18.000 No.

01:29:18.000 It happened quickly because of the internet and stuff, but it didn't happen overnight.

01:29:21.000 I don't know if it said it happened quickly.

01:29:23.000 It's that they placed the chess pieces over a long period of time.

01:29:27.000 I agree about that too.

01:29:29.000 And then the internet just allowed the game to move faster.

01:29:31.000 There's something else involved with wokeness.

01:29:34.000 It's not just cultural or ideological, it's actually economic.

01:29:38.000 And they've seized upon this as a means for establishing what I call a woke cartel. 0.88

01:29:44.000 And that is to get rid of businesses by virtue of saying, look, if you don't get Larry Fink of BlackRock, If you don't live up to this ESG, now he's changed the name of it because it's got such a bad name.

01:29:56.000 If you don't live up to this ESG, we're not going to vest capital on you.

01:29:59.000 So this is kind of a cartel scheme on top of all the cultural stuff.

01:30:04.000 Wokeness is kind of like a demarcation device to siphon capital to the right players and get rid of the rest.

01:30:12.000 I think a big component of it was creating division amongst the working class as it pertains to the populist uprising, with Bernie and Trump.

01:30:20.000 They were like, uh oh, you occupy Wall Street, that's a scary thing, you got a bunch of people complaining about big bank bailouts, what do we do?

01:30:28.000 Make them complain about the race of the other person, and that's what happened.

01:30:32.000 Mostly the left, right?

01:30:33.000 The right didn't go... 0.98

01:30:35.000 Racist.

01:30:36.000 No, but I think both sides took the bait and they fight about it back and forth non-stop.

01:30:41.000 I think everybody ends up taking the bait.

01:30:43.000 I disagree.

01:30:44.000 We are complaining about wokeness because wokeness is a bad thing. 1.00

01:30:47.000 The left took the bait and became woke.

01:30:49.000 Oh yeah.

01:30:50.000 And I think it was used... Sorry, just real quick.

01:30:53.000 I'll put it this way.

01:30:54.000 You've got two guys that are teaming up against the big fat cat, so the big fat cat throws

01:31:03.000 some coyotes into your room, and then all of a sudden you're like, now we have to deal

01:31:07.000 with these coyotes.

01:31:10.000 They're a problem.

01:31:11.000 Yes, wokeness is a distraction, but it's not something that we can ignore.

01:31:15.000 No, it has to be fought directly.

01:31:17.000 I'm just thinking more like 2020 when George Floyd happens and you have Black Lives Matter and then you have the people saying all lives matter and then they fight about what that means for the next eight months, right? 0.58

01:31:29.000 That's a distraction.

01:31:30.000 But both sides ended up taking the bait because both sides felt like they had a right to have their opinion heard and neither side felt like the bad guy.

01:31:37.000 Except that the DOJ made one side the bad guy. 0.94

01:31:41.000 They told us that the biggest threat to our country was white supremacists as domestic terrorists.

01:31:46.000 And a lot of times, like to me, I believe a lot of the people who took into this ideology on Facebook, who weren't necessarily the most politically inclined, but buy into the slogan, right?

01:31:55.000 That's why the slogan is so effective.

01:31:57.000 Give it a good name, you know, good company.

01:32:00.000 We're the good company.

01:32:01.000 Why would you not support good company?

01:32:03.000 Right?

01:32:03.000 You buy into that.

01:32:05.000 So the average person who's just working his nine to five job, who just wants to support other people, he doesn't realize that he's being used as a pawn by these companies and making it impossible for people to have honest discourse.

01:32:16.000 Yeah.

01:32:17.000 All right, let's go to Super Chats!

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01:32:39.000 Tyler B says, if you ain't first, you're last.

01:32:43.000 Ooh, those are fighting words.

01:32:44.000 He actually beat I'm Not Your Buddy Guy.

01:32:46.000 I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says, I hope people appreciate the gravity of 2024 and the consequences should the left win.

01:32:51.000 Clinton has already teased what they're thinking.

01:32:54.000 What, World War III?

01:32:56.000 Mm-hmm. 0.97

01:32:57.000 The Bonus Hole says, if you don't fall-o, Oh, if you don't follow the bonus holes on X, Kathleen Kennedy will crawl out from under your bed and release a rebooted version of the OG Star Wars trilogy, and she'll replace Vader with a chick and make her gay. 1.00

01:33:10.000 Happy Halloween.

01:33:11.000 Did you watch the Pandiverse?

01:33:12.000 No, was it good?

01:33:14.000 I loved it.

01:33:14.000 Oh, really?

01:33:15.000 I should watch it.

01:33:16.000 They end up criticizing Kathleen Kennedy and the people that criticize Kathleen Kennedy, but it's done in a way that's pretty good. 1.00

01:33:24.000 Trey Parker and Matt Stone are pretty good at that still.

01:33:27.000 Yeah, everyone gets it.

01:33:30.000 Cartman is always the stand-in for, because Cartman is the anti-woke person.

01:33:35.000 He's still the stand-in for, that lets you know a little bit of what they think of you, but also what they think of Kathleen Kennedy.

01:33:41.000 But she goes and she finds the pander stone in the depths of Disney.

01:33:44.000 I saw that clip.

01:33:45.000 Yes.

01:33:46.000 It's a, it's really, it's open a hole into like the multiverse or something.

01:33:49.000 The layers of irony are wild. 0.99

01:33:51.000 The human brain can't fathom the multiverse because the idea they're making fun of how the multiverse is stupid. 0.99

01:33:58.000 Randy's just in the multiverse and all that's happening is his clothes is changing. 0.96

01:34:01.000 He's like, oh my god, I'm wearing a dolphin's jersey!

01:34:04.000 Oh my god, I'm wearing a giant's!

01:34:07.000 It's really, really funny.

01:34:08.000 It's good.

01:34:10.000 All right, let's grab another one.

01:34:12.000 Waffle Sensei says, the DeSantis Heelsgate, it's BootGate, scandal is the most attention Ron has had in months.

01:34:18.000 It's actually all coordinated to get his name in the press.

01:34:21.000 This is 4-D chess, boys and girls.

01:34:23.000 Strut your stuff, little D. The world is watching.

01:34:25.000 Tiny D, maybe he just wants a boot sponsor.

01:34:28.000 One of the things this BootGate is diverting attention from is the weird fact that DeSantis sends from Florida arms and aid to Israel. Is that weapons? Yes, including

01:34:42.000 citizens' weapons who were given them. Now whether they are allowed in or not is 0.53

01:34:47.000 another question, but DeSantis is actually arming Israel himself.

01:34:50.000 Wow. He's like, if I'm not gonna get to read President, I'm gonna do this before just

01:34:56.000 in case.

01:34:56.000 I'm gonna act presidential, send arms over now and then.

01:34:58.000 Neo-Con Ron.

01:35:00.000 Right.

01:35:00.000 Neo-Con Ron.

01:35:01.000 Juan Castle says, Waha, Tim Pool, where is your Count Chocula costume?

01:35:07.000 Nobody's dressed up.

01:35:10.000 I'm just dressed as me, a thought criminal.

01:35:12.000 We had multiple Halloween topics, Tim.

01:35:14.000 Best I can do.

01:35:15.000 It's Tuesday, though.

01:35:16.000 That's the challenge.

01:35:17.000 If Halloween's on a weekend, then people... Yeah, Halloween's past weekend.

01:35:20.000 Yeah, everybody, uh, I saw a lot of people once in Pittsburgh trick-or-treating on Saturday.

01:35:24.000 Oh yeah, that was big time that night, yep.

01:35:26.000 Yeah, so it was like, they'll have trick-or-treating on the weekend or something, not on Tuesday.

01:35:30.000 It was, uh, I was in Hagerstown, and there was like a parade going on, and I was like, oh, this is kind of wholesome, there's all these families out with their kids, that was great, until it was like impossible to get out of Hagerstown trying to drive around the parade.

01:35:41.000 All right.

01:35:41.000 Eric Mack says, Tim, are you recording the process of building the coffee show?

01:35:45.000 Because people do like watching that kind of thing.

01:35:47.000 We're not.

01:35:48.000 That actually would be a really... People love that type of stuff.

01:35:51.000 Yeah, just like how to build a coffee shop?

01:35:53.000 Well, just like, yeah, like you could even do like weekly updates.

01:35:55.000 Like, I mean, there's people here with cameras.

01:35:57.000 Just simply like go out, grab some B-roll of what's going on, talk to whoever's in charge and get like a two to three minute update on what they've done this week and post it on TimCast.com.

01:36:08.000 The reason I think that the economy is collapsing and the end is nigh is because of how difficult it is to do simple things.

01:36:13.000 Oh, the red tape is insane for everything.

01:36:15.000 But it's not even red tape, it's the inability of contractors and companies to function.

01:36:20.000 Yeah.

01:36:21.000 And we've got a bunch of people being like, my company can do it.

01:36:23.000 People don't know how to do anything.

01:36:24.000 It's not just that, it's that the system is completely broken.

01:36:28.000 So when we get hit up by a company saying they can do the job, and then it's like eight weeks go by, and they're like, why haven't you started?

01:36:35.000 And they're like, well, you know... We didn't get the permit yet, yeah.

01:36:38.000 And then there's some kind of error or problem, and then it's delayed again.

01:36:42.000 We got a frog pond installed, and we were like expedited, and they're like, we'll come out this weekend.

01:36:47.000 A month later, it was done.

01:36:50.000 Now, a pond is a really simple thing.

01:36:51.000 They dig a hole, they line it, and they put rocks around it.

01:36:53.000 Right.

01:36:53.000 And a filter.

01:36:54.000 And it took a month to do what was supposed to be a week project.

01:36:57.000 And I'm like, I think the world is collapsing.

01:37:00.000 Yeah, it's pretty bad, man.

01:37:01.000 People can't... You know, we've got a kind of dysfunction in the system because people have been...

01:37:07.000 You know, they've abdicated all these rules to the state and so they don't know how to do anything anymore We need to resume taking over That's the other storyline and it is the storyline is that all of the handymen in South Park are billionaires now because because of AI nobody knows how to do anything Yeah, their jobs have been so there's it's talking about taking down the billionaires It's just these two handymen who are both just insanely rich because nobody knows how to do anything in the universe.

01:37:31.000 Yeah.

01:37:32.000 Oh All right.

01:37:32.000 Bomani says They find it funny how Tim has armed security, fled to West Virginia, hides on a compound, obscures his address, hasn't not worn his beanie in years.

01:37:44.000 I haven't worn my beanie since I was... I haven't... I've always worn the beanie.

01:37:48.000 Go back and look at the photos when I was 14 and skateboarding.

01:37:51.000 Yet calls his financial supporters cowards.

01:37:53.000 Wait for the coat.

01:37:54.000 When did I call my financial supporters cowards?

01:37:56.000 That literally never happened.

01:37:57.000 But I'm more than willing to read your fake criticism.

01:37:59.000 It's amazing what people say.

01:38:01.000 Outrageous things that they have no basis for. 0.99

01:38:04.000 They just make shit up. 1.00

01:38:05.000 Make shit up constantly. 1.00

01:38:08.000 We'll break it down. 1.00

01:38:09.000 You bet!

01:38:09.000 Armed security.

01:38:10.000 I also have a bunch of guns myself.

01:38:12.000 Why would I not have security?

01:38:13.000 Do you have people threatening to kill you all the time?

01:38:16.000 Sometimes if you go out into public, Antifa, maybe, but like, do people send bombs and bomb threats to your house?

01:38:22.000 So why wouldn't I have armed security?

01:38:24.000 Fled to West Virginia.

01:38:25.000 Why would I want to live in New York or California?

01:38:27.000 I went to a place where I could push back the wokeness. 1.00

01:38:30.000 Where we are in the panhandle in West Virginia, you've got woke people trying to move in or pushing them out.

01:38:35.000 We're going to be building an anti-Times Square and helping to secure Americans' values.

01:38:40.000 Hides on a compound.

01:38:41.000 I love how everyone calls this a compound.

01:38:43.000 It's like a single office building.

01:38:45.000 It's a building, yeah.

01:38:45.000 I mean, I'm not going to give anything else away.

01:38:47.000 Also, they're like, obscuring your address, like, yes.

01:38:51.000 My 50 acres in New Hampshire is the compound.

01:38:55.000 It's like, bro, obscures my address?

01:38:58.000 Are you now going to post in the chat your address?

01:39:01.000 You're going to dox yourself.

01:39:01.000 Yeah, really.

01:39:02.000 Yeah, yeah, right.

01:39:05.000 And then I literally... You're doing localization and you're doing decentralization and you're doing it in real life.

01:39:11.000 This is what we need.

01:39:12.000 It is the weirdest thing, though, how people call this a compound, and it's like, if we bought a building in the city, they'd call it an office, but you buy a building outside the city and they call it a compound.

01:39:21.000 And I'm like, okay, now hold on.

01:39:22.000 So it makes you sound like David Koresh.

01:39:23.000 Yes, that's exactly what I was going to say.

01:39:25.000 Yeah, like, the point is, the people who are trying to tear down I think it's fair.

01:39:34.000 All is fair in love and war.

01:39:35.000 The left needs to lie, because that's the only way they can win.

01:39:39.000 So, for instance, Phil is a failed musician, according to Son Piker, despite having multiple gold records and a platinum record, coming out with new music, and opening for Metallica, quite literally the hallmarks of success.

01:39:51.000 But they have to lie about it.

01:39:52.000 That's also why he didn't say his name.

01:39:54.000 They claim, I don't know how to skateboard.

01:39:56.000 We got a whole bunch of clips.

01:39:57.000 We got a couple clips I could put up, I just didn't even upload them.

01:40:01.000 Richie comes in and he's like, hey Tim, do a switch tray flip.

01:40:03.000 And I'm like, alright, I guess, first try, switch tray flip, no problem.

01:40:06.000 They have to lie.

01:40:07.000 It's also a ridiculous criticism that has nothing to do with this here.

01:40:10.000 The idea of Claiming that Phil is not successful, or I'm not successful, is because they don't want young people to look up to us.

01:40:20.000 That's what they fear the most.

01:40:21.000 Yeah, actually.

01:40:22.000 So that's the thing.

01:40:23.000 It's a compound.

01:40:24.000 It's like, well, it's a giant mansion with a mini-ramp in the basement, a skate park outside, but it's just one big building.

01:40:29.000 Yeah.

01:40:30.000 However, Freedomistan is 50 acres.

01:40:32.000 That's more of a compound.

01:40:33.000 But what does compound mean?

01:40:36.000 Yeah, you've got arms in here and you're basically barricaded behind walls.

01:40:43.000 They're trying to claim it's like, yeah, there's a big fence keeping people out and everyone lives here, like nobody... The feds should come after you, too.

01:40:49.000 That's the other thing I'd suggest.

01:40:50.000 Right.

01:40:53.000 Alright, well I'll tell you this, the building that we have at Freedomistan is a big sterile white building, like any other office building, so there you go.

01:41:00.000 They'll love that.

01:41:01.000 Yeah, they'll love that.

01:41:02.000 They'll be like, okay, well, it's just a regular office building, I guess.

01:41:04.000 I like that Tim guy now, he's great.

01:41:07.000 Alright, what do we got?

01:41:08.000 We'll read some more Super Chats. 0.99

01:41:10.000 CBA Buck says, last night you talked about first aid for a severed jugular.

01:41:14.000 Look up Scott from Kentucky Ballistics and his injury.

01:41:16.000 Just stick a thumb in it.

01:41:18.000 Yeah.

01:41:18.000 That- was that when the- When the cow blew.

01:41:20.000 Yeah, it blew up and it hit his neck?

01:41:22.000 Is that what he did?

01:41:23.000 He literally stuck his thumb in it, yeah.

01:41:24.000 Oh, wow.

01:41:25.000 And that- and he lived.

01:41:26.000 If this dude who got hit in the neck in the UK just went... Instead, he just put his hand on it and then just bled out in 50 seconds.

01:41:26.000 He made it.

01:41:35.000 Yeah.

01:41:36.000 That's crazy, man.

01:41:38.000 The Lion says there is no such thing as Palestine.

01:41:41.000 The region was renamed by the Romans as a slight to the Jews, who had been expelled from the region following the BK Rebellion.

01:41:48.000 Philistia, Philistines, Palestine.

01:41:50.000 Right, because the Philistines are the people that came from the water, or the water people that came on the boats.

01:41:55.000 I don't know what this kind of point is that this poster is trying to make.

01:42:00.000 I think it's trying to suggest that there's no historical conflict over the land there.

01:42:05.000 No, no, no, they're arguing that the land belongs to the Jews.

01:42:08.000 Yeah, it's kind of like saying that there isn't a real historical conflict between the people that lived there and the people that live there now.

01:42:18.000 This was one of the issues I had with Max Blumenthal.

01:42:21.000 I think it was Max.

01:42:22.000 Was it Max?

01:42:23.000 No, it wasn't Max.

01:42:25.000 I think maybe Scott Horton said this.

01:42:29.000 The people who currently live in Israel, the people who have always lived there, they were Jews, but they were conquered by the Muslims and told, convert or else, basically.

01:42:38.000 So they did.

01:42:38.000 And then I'm like, so the argument is that a conquered people are being reconquered?

01:42:43.000 I don't know that history.

01:42:45.000 But if that's the argument, you're like, war is happening again.

01:42:48.000 What I would defend is the property rights of people that own houses and things like that.

01:42:51.000 They own property and they, you know, they were, you know, either scared out of their property or ejected from it.

01:42:57.000 That's for real.

01:42:59.000 I'm sick of the lies, and it's funny because... It's very difficult to get to the bottom of this history.

01:43:04.000 Yeah, but it's the left lying, like, 90% of the time.

01:43:06.000 They could lie.

01:43:07.000 It's just everything we see.

01:43:09.000 Donald Trump didn't overfeed the koi fish.

01:43:12.000 He did what Shinzo Abe did.

01:43:13.000 Donald Trump didn't call Nazis very fine people.

01:43:17.000 They just lie about...

01:43:19.000 They lie about everything, but sometimes a clock is right twice a day, a broken clock.

01:43:24.000 I mean, sometimes they're right, and I don't discriminate about what's true based on who's saying it necessarily.

01:43:29.000 But guess what?

01:43:30.000 At any point, when you look at a broken clock, and you know it's broken, you check another clock.

01:43:35.000 Yeah, that's true.

01:43:36.000 Yeah, I'd go for other sources, absolutely.

01:43:39.000 I would not go with leftist propaganda ever.

01:43:42.000 So let's amend that.

01:43:43.000 They say a broken clock is right twice a day.

01:43:45.000 Find another clock.

01:43:46.000 And I would add to that, and yet still you will always check a working clock to verify.

01:43:52.000 Absolutely.

01:43:52.000 I would never rely on leftist propaganda for anything.

01:43:56.000 The problem is the average person just doesn't have the time inclination or they're not as involved in this situation.

01:44:02.000 I go back to Israeli historians, actually, and look at what they say.

01:44:02.000 It's very difficult.

01:44:03.000 It's really is what's concerned like post concern for me, like everything I read, I have no idea without checking

01:44:10.000 three to four different sources, whether it's true or not.

01:44:12.000 And that just leads a lot of people to disengage.

01:44:14.000 I go back to Israeli historians, actually, and look at what they say.

01:44:18.000 These people that did deep research into this.

01:44:21.000 And that's where I get my source from.

01:44:24.000 All right, the Bahamian rain man says, I turn thirty nine tomorrow and all I want is for you all to tell me whether

01:44:30.000 or not Trump's voters can legitimately write his name in on the ballot should his name be removed and whether or not he

01:44:36.000 can still win with these improvised written bouts.

01:44:39.000 No, he can't!

01:44:41.000 If his name is removed, then the state has decided they will not honor those votes, as Trump is ineligible, so no matter how many votes he gets, they're not going to tally them.

01:44:51.000 They're gonna ignore them.

01:44:52.000 And so, A lot of people don't get it.

01:44:55.000 If New York removes Trump's name from the ballot, let's just say New York, and how many Republicans they got in New York?

01:45:01.000 Five?

01:45:02.000 No, maybe like 10 million?

01:45:03.000 A few upstate, yeah.

01:45:04.000 Right.

01:45:05.000 But that's, so let's say California, I think California has 10 million Republicans and 20 million Democrats.

01:45:10.000 So although it's always going to be Democrat, that's still 10 million votes to the Republican in the national popular vote.

01:45:16.000 California removes Trump's name from the ballot and they argue, who cares?

01:45:20.000 It's a blue state anyway.

01:45:21.000 Now that's terrible.

01:45:21.000 And the popular vote comes out and Joe Biden's got 80 million and Trump's got 65.

01:45:26.000 And then Trump wins the electoral college and the left lose it and says, what?

01:45:30.000 And then we get four more years of, we need to get rid of the electoral college. 0.66

01:45:34.000 And this will be their excuse, because if Trump wins the Electoral College, but only gets 37% of the popular vote, they're going to be like, two to one, Biden won.

01:45:42.000 How is our country being ruled by this man without realizing it's because it took his name off the ballot?

01:45:47.000 Yeah, that's true.

01:45:48.000 And I would say this, even though I hope to be running against Trump directly.

01:45:52.000 I'll say this, this is an outrage.

01:45:54.000 And what they're doing to him, the legal prosecutions and all this, is unbelievable.

01:46:00.000 It's completely a miscarriage of justice entirely, and it should be stopped.

01:46:05.000 Agreed.

01:46:06.000 All right, Daniel Karimian says, Ditching Hennedy for Timcast equals best decision ever.

01:46:11.000 That is correct.

01:46:11.000 Yes.

01:46:12.000 That is a correct statement.

01:46:13.000 I am not a fan of Hennedy.

01:46:15.000 I really don't.

01:46:16.000 Tucker, awesome.

01:46:17.000 Awesome.

01:46:18.000 No.

01:46:20.000 Hannity is just a straight down the line neocon no matter what.

01:46:24.000 Right.

01:46:24.000 I remember that one famous handoff where Tucker was criticizing Amazon for screwing their employees over and then, you know, Hannity, they do the crossover thing, Hannity defends Amazon and Tucker's like, oh.

01:46:36.000 They seem to have been, back then they were like battling for a while there.

01:46:41.000 Yeah.

01:46:42.000 Let's grab some more.

01:46:43.000 Donald Dowd says, I worked at that secret base near the southern end of Gaza and the Sinai Desert.

01:46:49.000 It's a radar site pointed at Iran and has like five U.S.

01:46:52.000 military at it and a ton of contractors.

01:46:57.000 That's crazy.

01:46:58.000 Well, there you go.

01:46:59.000 It's not a secret anymore.

01:47:00.000 Yeah, it's out there.

01:47:01.000 I hope that wasn't, like, a violation of any kind of, like, confidentiality.

01:47:05.000 Well, I mean, we shouldn't have the state keeping all these secrets from us, and I don't know how many 500 million classified documents that we aren't allowed to know about.

01:47:14.000 The Emperor's Champion says, why do people act like the CCP, Iran, and the Russians are completely innocent and all this stuff is 110% the fault of the U.S.?

01:47:23.000 Well, um, I will say, because the U.S.

01:47:25.000 won.

01:47:27.000 There you go.

01:47:27.000 I don't think anybody... I certainly didn't mean to be saying that, whatsoever.

01:47:31.000 Well, the issue is, the U.S.

01:47:33.000 wins, and then puts a bunch of bases everywhere, and then causes a bunch of problems.

01:47:37.000 We then criticize creating those problems.

01:47:39.000 Right.

01:47:40.000 Yeah.

01:47:40.000 Russia's bad, China's bad, Iran is very bad.

01:47:43.000 They're all very, very bad.

01:47:44.000 The BRICS nations are a big threat. 1.00

01:47:46.000 And I'm really concerned about South Africa.

01:47:47.000 They're probably the worst.

01:47:50.000 Yeah, you could say that.

01:47:51.000 I mean, one of the things that people forget about... I looked over at Sergius and he said it.

01:47:54.000 Yeah, one of the things people forget about the U.S.

01:47:56.000 is that we basically keep international trade safe with our military.

01:48:02.000 Our military, meaning our navy, etc.

01:48:03.000 Our naval power.

01:48:05.000 I don't know if the countries would do that.

01:48:06.000 They haven't indicated that they would do that as well, so... I think it's something people forget about.

01:48:10.000 You were born in South Africa, right?

01:48:11.000 I was born in Belgium.

01:48:12.000 My parents left South Africa before I was born there.

01:48:15.000 And why did they leave South Africa?

01:48:17.000 Well, let's think about South Africa in the 80s, you know?

01:48:19.000 Some stuff happened.

01:48:20.000 I think you could have safe international trade without a military, per se. 0.93

01:48:25.000 You could have armed... Hypothetically.

01:48:27.000 Or at least enable people to stop piracy.

01:48:29.000 Private protection firms that would protect property as it moves through various regions.

01:48:34.000 Yeah, that would develop over time, but without having the development, it's going to take time.

01:48:39.000 It wouldn't just... Yeah, I agree.

01:48:40.000 But let's get rid of the state. 0.71

01:48:42.000 I don't disagree with you.

01:48:45.000 I think a lot of us agree with you, especially on this podcast.

01:48:47.000 But yeah, I think that people forget how much that protection it gives so many people, so many nations.

01:48:54.000 It literally protects global trade.

01:48:56.000 It's a huge thing.

01:48:57.000 Another part of that is what Trump used to point out.

01:49:00.000 It's like, we get a crap deal out of this.

01:49:01.000 We protect everybody and we get nothing for it, right?

01:49:04.000 So that's even a more neutral neutral take them.

01:49:06.000 That's the thing we should be arguing against.

01:49:08.000 We have to foot the bill.

01:49:09.000 We have to become the police, not just, you know, we're trying to protect trade.

01:49:12.000 That doesn't mean to be the world police and go and get involved in every conflict and

01:49:15.000 every single thing that happens.

01:49:17.000 It's not just us for- Which makes us a target as well.

01:49:19.000 Yeah.

01:49:20.000 We're not just, you know, salesmen for Raytheon.

01:49:22.000 The KL Tanker says, I was thinking after you said yesterday about how conservatives just

01:49:26.000 need to have kids, but as a Californian, I have friends that have heavily conservative

01:49:30.000 parents that try to pass down their values and their kids are far left.

01:49:33.000 Okay, this one's really simple.

01:49:36.000 It's because they gave their kids to the state.

01:49:37.000 Yeah, the school's got them.

01:49:39.000 That's it.

01:49:40.000 So it's like, you're conservative.

01:49:42.000 Listen, if you're a conservative and you send your kids to a state-run institution, you're a progressive by traditional standards.

01:49:51.000 Go back a hundred, go back two hundred years, go to the Founding Fathers, and have a discussion with Thomas Jefferson about how your kids are going to go to a state-run learning facility and you will not see them, and he's gonna be like, that's insanity!

01:50:04.000 They didn't have communism, they didn't have a word for it back then, but he'll say, that's communism!

01:50:08.000 Yeah, they put out little status, that's it.

01:50:11.000 Some status production factor.

01:50:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:50:14.000 It's very hard to get away from that.

01:50:16.000 The economic standards are the way they are now with both parents.

01:50:19.000 Almost all households, both parents are working.

01:50:22.000 It's very hard.

01:50:23.000 We can do pod learning, stuff like that, but it's very, very difficult.

01:50:27.000 Look, man, all of this is a choice, okay?

01:50:30.000 And for these parents who did not see it coming and thought their kids would be okay, I understand they were victimized.

01:50:38.000 That being said, now that we know these things, the answer is Make the difficult decision.

01:50:44.000 Figure it out.

01:50:45.000 And suffer the hardships for your children.

01:50:47.000 That is to say, get out of the cities, sell, find new jobs, and start the process of... Look, we had colonists who came from Europe on boats, I say this all the time, 20% of them died on the ships, they landed on barren shores and said, this is worth it.

01:51:06.000 And a lot of them died.

01:51:08.000 You don't even gotta do that!

01:51:09.000 All you gotta do is go on Craigslist and look down and move to a different neighborhood and get out of the city.

01:51:13.000 Start looking up job listings in MAGA areas in MAGA country, find a job, and then move!

01:51:19.000 Unschooling is better than going to these state schools.

01:51:22.000 Unschooling altogether.

01:51:23.000 But get out of these states, and it is not... Look, here's what I do in skateboarding.

01:51:31.000 What I like to do is I like to imagine a ridiculously hard trick As I'm about to do a somewhat easier version of it.

01:51:37.000 So I try to visualize doing the hardest version and say, okay, now I pull it back.

01:51:41.000 I do a big sail on myself.

01:51:42.000 So imagine you have to run through fields of landmines with your family to escape a totalitarian regime, hell-bent on locking up in the gulags, and then stop and say, oh, thank heavens, all I have to do is find a new job and find a house and sell a bunch of stuff and then move.

01:51:59.000 What do you do about TikTok and social media?

01:52:02.000 Is it just keeping your kids off the phone?

01:52:04.000 Yeah, it shouldn't be arbitrary.

01:52:07.000 Vivek Ramaswamy actually said that it should be illegal for people 18 and under to go on social media.

01:52:14.000 No.

01:52:15.000 No, no, no, no.

01:52:16.000 I don't know about that.

01:52:16.000 We don't need that.

01:52:18.000 It's going to be very hard, because like you said, it's about their schooling, where they're living, and also phones, the internet, there's all the ways that this information comes.

01:52:27.000 If you found out that one of the moms in your neighborhood was hosting sex parties for teenagers in the neighborhood with beer, this is an actual story that just happened, would you go, What am I supposed to do?

01:52:39.000 Tell my kid they can't hang out with the other kids?

01:52:42.000 It's a normal social thing the kids are doing.

01:52:44.000 No, you say, you cannot go to that house.

01:52:46.000 Exactly.

01:52:47.000 So when the argument that, oh, but like TikTok is what all the kids are doing.

01:52:52.000 It's like, and if all the kids were jumping off a bridge, would you let your kid do it?

01:52:56.000 No.

01:52:57.000 So what do you do?

01:52:59.000 Move to an area with similar values, keep your kids away from bad influences because they're absorbing the world around them, and, uh, yeah, don't let them use these things.

01:53:08.000 For as long as possible.

01:53:09.000 For as long as possible!

01:53:10.000 And it's like, it's like when your kid turns 18, they get a tattoo, and you say, look, you're my kid, you live in my house, and my rules, when you turn 18, you can go get a tattoo and smoke cigarettes, but right now, you live in my house, so no TikTok.

01:53:20.000 And hopefully they won't do it afterwards.

01:53:22.000 By the time they're 18, they'll realize.

01:53:24.000 Well, it really is about, you know, these conservative parents had far-left kids because they handed their kids over to the far-left, to the state.

01:53:32.000 Yeah, what I mean is that they would not become far-leftists.

01:53:34.000 Yeah, I don't care about the tattoo.

01:53:36.000 You need to teach your kids, man!

01:53:39.000 And you know the real challenge is, and I don't have kids, but I certainly know this just from my upbringing is, it's hard to know if hardship will make or break your kid.

01:53:51.000 Some people are made by hardship, some people are broken by it.

01:53:54.000 But I guess the challenge is, you are worse off not having the hardship.

01:53:59.000 If someone is gonna be broken by a moderate degree of hardship, then they weren't cut out for this, and you gotta figure something out for them.

01:54:05.000 But I think it's better off... I really hate the idea of people like, I'm gonna make sure my kids never know the hardship I went through, and I'm like, why?

01:54:14.000 You're successful.

01:54:15.000 Yeah, then you end up with Elon Musk's kid.

01:54:17.000 He's a Marxist, by the way.

01:54:19.000 Human beings, like... 0.86

01:54:20.000 We're anti-fragile.

01:54:21.000 We need struggle and resistance.

01:54:25.000 Whether it be our biology, our bones need gravity or else they become brittle and they lose mass.

01:54:32.000 The way that you build your body is by putting resistance on it.

01:54:36.000 You have to struggle with things that you don't understand to learn things.

01:54:41.000 Everything about our existence requires some kind of struggle.

01:54:46.000 That is another thing that is ubiquitous across all of human society.

01:54:52.000 You don't get anything by just sitting there.

01:54:55.000 You have to go out.

01:54:56.000 I agree.

01:54:58.000 The helicopter parents and the snowplow parents who go out and just try to make the world flat for their children are doing their children a massive disturbance and our society is suffering now

01:55:08.000 because again we're at the point where we have multiple you know multiple graduating

01:55:12.000 classes a decade two decades worth of graduating classes where since no child

01:55:16.000 left behind since the Bush era where they did stopped failing kids and stop

01:55:20.000 having you know trying to get kids put him in safe spaces and pacifiers get

01:55:24.000 them out just put them through the system and let them out and that's why

01:55:27.000 you have a whole a whole this little kids that can't read at grade level and

01:55:32.000 stuff the craziest thing to me this has been I thought about this my whole

01:55:35.000 life I watched several educational videos on education I watched some some

01:55:41.000 great TED talks about schooling and the problems of schooling and the most

01:55:46.000 important years of a human being's life zero through five

01:55:50.000 Where the brain is developing and absorbing everything around it, and what does the average American do with their kids?

01:55:55.000 They sit them down, put them on an iPad, and have them do nothing.

01:55:59.000 Right.

01:55:59.000 Before iPads, it was nothing.

01:56:02.000 TV?

01:56:04.000 That's crazy!

01:56:05.000 For all of human history, these kids were with their parents all the time, learning from adults.

01:56:11.000 And so we see that viral video, where you've got a bunch of 10-year-olds talking about the war, and it's like black and white, and they sound like adults, and everyone's like, why do the kids sound like this?

01:56:19.000 Because they were raised by adults.

01:56:20.000 Yeah.

01:56:21.000 Because their influence was adults, so they acted like adults.

01:56:23.000 They need to be outside, by themselves, playing with each other.

01:56:27.000 And, you know, I mean... No, no, no, no, no.

01:56:29.000 That's the opposite.

01:56:30.000 Kids need to be raised by their parents. 1.00

01:56:31.000 Oh, absolutely.

01:56:32.000 But what I'm getting at is here, they need to have some independence.

01:56:35.000 They don't need helicopter parents, which are completely crippling them.

01:56:38.000 The issue right now is that kids are being raised by each other.

01:56:41.000 Exactly.

01:56:41.000 Yeah.

01:56:42.000 Or being raised by social media.

01:56:44.000 We're the state.

01:56:45.000 Mostly the state.

01:56:46.000 Yes, but schools...

01:56:49.000 At least when I was in school, we had no respect for teachers. 1.00

01:56:51.000 Anything a teacher said was meaningless garbage. 0.99

01:56:53.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:56:53.000 And we made fun of anybody who agreed with the teacher. 0.99

01:56:56.000 So the kids were raising each other.

01:56:59.000 Yeah, I get it.

01:57:00.000 Yep, you have to fit in with the other kids instead of fitting with the adults.

01:57:02.000 Sure.

01:57:03.000 I was working for my family's business, and so I was surrounded by adults, on the weekends at least.

01:57:09.000 And so I'm like, okay, that's the behavior they're engaging in, and how do I, you know, how am I supposed to behave in things like this?

01:57:15.000 then the kids are all just doing fart jokes.

01:57:17.000 And they grew up and they do the same thing.

01:57:19.000 There's a viral photo.

01:57:20.000 Someone had a tweet and they said, 40 years old, married with kids,

01:57:24.000 living in the suburbs or this.

01:57:26.000 And it's a mattress on the floor, pile of laundry.

01:57:29.000 Yeah, and it's like, because that person never grew up.

01:57:33.000 Because that person was raised by children.

01:57:35.000 And it is, I mean, it, look, I feel for parents who didn't see this coming

01:57:40.000 and didn't know, you know.

01:57:42.000 But at a certain point, you have the responsibility to solve the problems and to see the pitfalls and the dangers that will befall your family.

01:57:51.000 And if you were like, I got an idea, I'm gonna give my kids to the state for eight hours a day and have no idea what they're being told or what's happening, what do you get?

01:58:00.000 You get kids being bullied, kids killing themselves.

01:58:03.000 You get school shootings.

01:58:06.000 You get Marxism and cultural Marxism, critical race theory, because parents were just like-

01:58:13.000 Genderism ideology. 0.98

01:58:14.000 Gender ideology, because parents were just like- It is- 0.98

01:58:19.000 They abdicated their responsibility early.

01:58:20.000 There's a video where a guy asks dads about their kids and he's like, what's your daughter's birthday?

01:58:25.000 And they don't know.

01:58:26.000 What's your daughter's teacher's name?

01:58:27.000 No idea.

01:58:28.000 I'm like, they, look, I'm sorry.

01:58:30.000 If you don't know the name of your kid's teacher, you don't care.

01:58:32.000 Yep.

01:58:33.000 And I'm not saying there's a slight.

01:58:35.000 That is not meant to be, like, I am insulting you, like, how dare you not care?

01:58:38.000 No, I'm saying, like, you literally don't care, right?

01:58:41.000 Yeah.

01:58:41.000 Like, I don't know the name of the guy who fixes the septic tank here.

01:58:44.000 Why?

01:58:44.000 Well, I don't care what his name is.

01:58:46.000 I don't handle that.

01:58:47.000 Someone else calls and, like, has that maintained.

01:58:49.000 So I don't care.

01:58:50.000 Yeah.

01:58:51.000 If you don't think about your teacher, your kid's teacher, you don't care.

01:58:55.000 Maybe you should care.

01:58:56.000 That's all.

01:58:58.000 Perhaps.

01:58:59.000 Alright, Ian Crossland says, I'm coming for you tomorrow, Tim Pool.

01:59:04.000 Oh no.

01:59:05.000 Well he's mad because I said if he's not back by Wednesday, we're taking that Ian Crossland down.

01:59:09.000 We're gonna put up a Phil Labonte one.

01:59:12.000 We actually don't have one.

01:59:14.000 We gotta hit up the company that made these, because these are really awesome.

01:59:18.000 Yeah, we actually have a Timcast IRL one laying down over there.

01:59:20.000 It's over here.

01:59:22.000 Oh, it's over there?

01:59:23.000 Yeah, it's over here.

01:59:24.000 I gotta say, this studio's way bigger than it looks on air.

01:59:28.000 Yeah, the Timcast IRL one.

01:59:30.000 Yeah, I don't know.

01:59:32.000 We framed the Timcast one, and so we never put the Timcast IRL one up, but we probably should.

01:59:38.000 But we should probably get a bunch of those mixed up.

01:59:39.000 I just noticed the beanie on that one.

01:59:41.000 And the UFO on that one.

01:59:42.000 That's awesome.

01:59:42.000 So good.

01:59:42.000 Yeah, Ian's has a UFO on it.

01:59:43.000 This is really good. Yeah, here's... here's... ah! So good.

01:59:46.000 Yeah, yeah, Ian's has a UFO on it. That's me. Yeah. He's got that little, yeah, little top. That's me. And then, uh,

01:59:52.000 what did Luke's have? Luke's is in there. Oh, I don't remember. I think it has his, his logo actually. And Lydia's

01:59:58.000 had some... Yeah.

01:59:59.000 Yeah.

02:00:01.000 Yeah, Luke says his own logo.

02:00:03.000 Shim cast, but it's fine. 0.98

02:00:04.000 Seamus abandoned us.

02:00:05.000 So, you know, we don't we don't care about him anyway.

02:00:08.000 So, you know, whatever Eddie.

02:00:10.000 Kazada says, I'm looking for a gang expert to give expert testimony in Owosso, Oklahoma.

02:00:16.000 My father unalived his daughter's traffickers who tried to take her.

02:00:19.000 The police are treating traffickers like the victims.

02:00:22.000 Just a simple website.

02:00:24.000 Site will have the info.

02:00:26.000 Yeah, that's what's going on.

02:00:27.000 It's called anarcho-tyranny.

02:00:29.000 They're letting criminality run completely rampant, and you can't even defend yourself against criminals.

02:00:35.000 It is not strictly what libertarians have always talked about as over-policing.

02:00:39.000 What we're seeing here is instead a terrorizing of people by criminality.

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02:01:55.000 I'm on, uh, what's it called?

02:01:56.000 Uh, Truth Social now, which would be sweet, I guess.

02:01:59.000 Did South Africa win the World Cup or something?

02:02:01.000 Yeah, we beat the All Blacks.

02:02:03.000 We are the winningest country four times, and we're also back-to-back.

02:02:07.000 No big deal, guys.

02:02:08.000 Wait, like, this is, like, the big game?

02:02:10.000 Yeah, this is the Web Ellis.

02:02:10.000 This is the Rugby World Cup.

02:02:12.000 Oh, wow!

02:02:12.000 Yeah, so that's why I'm so excited.

02:02:14.000 So, uh, Yeah, Boca Boca.

02:02:16.000 Forever, guys.

02:02:17.000 Alright, we'll see you all over at TimCast.com in a couple minutes.

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