Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Timcast IRL - YouTube CENSORS Steven Crowder AGAIN, PERMANENTLY Demonetizes Him w-Daniel Turner

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00:00:37.000 YouTube has temporarily suspended Stephen Crowder from uploading live

00:01:01.000 streaming and they've also permanently demonetized him once again

00:01:07.000 So we knew that a while ago because of this controversy with a Vox personality, Steven Crowder was removed from the Partner Program.

00:01:13.000 For those that aren't familiar, I assume most of you are, he is a very prominent conservative commentator and comedian.

00:01:18.000 And it seems now that they're coming after him for investigative reporting.

00:01:22.000 And that seems to be just about it.

00:01:25.000 He was accused of hate speech recently and YouTube said, no, that's not the issue.

00:01:28.000 They're taking down certain videos that they deem to be deceptive.

00:01:32.000 Now here's where it gets crazier.

00:01:35.000 Crowder did an update on a different channel explaining what was going on and that got removed as well.

00:01:42.000 They claimed that it was circumventing a ban, and that is absolutely not true.

00:01:48.000 I've spoken with people at Google.

00:01:50.000 I know the rules.

00:01:50.000 I know exactly how... All the rules they claim, every guideline they say.

00:01:56.000 Steven Crowder did not break that rule with his update video, and they still took his video down, gave him a warning, and they're claiming he's trying to circumvent the ban?

00:02:05.000 We'll get into this, and I'll break it all down.

00:02:06.000 This is huge because, look...

00:02:10.000 Crowder is not Alex Jones or Milo.

00:02:14.000 He is a very high-profile, mainstream, conservative personality and comedian, and his show is absolutely not like these other personalities who have been banned.

00:02:24.000 Now, I'm not saying anyone deserves to be banned, but this is serious, so we're going to get into all this.

00:02:28.000 Joining us today, of course, is friend of the show, Daniel Turner.

00:02:31.000 I think you should just introduce yourself.

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00:02:34.000 Yeah, no, thanks for having me back.

00:02:36.000 Daniel Turner, and I run a, I founded an energy advocacy group called Power the Future, and it is great to be back here with you guys, so thanks for having me.

00:02:44.000 We were gonna, well, one of the things we will talk about was gonna be, like, this tax program from Joe Biden, the mileage tax, the energy stuff they're doing, and then this Crowder stuff, you know, kicks off, and this is probably one of the biggest stories in social media censorship in a long time.

00:02:57.000 Because I think YouTube absolutely is lying about what's going on, what they're telling the press.

00:03:02.000 So we're going to get into this.

00:03:03.000 Of course, Ian's hanging out.

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00:03:07.000 Good to see you, Daniel.

00:03:08.000 Nice to see you.

00:03:09.000 And of course, me in the corner pushing buttons.

00:03:12.000 That's my job!

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00:05:10.000 And listen, With Steven Crowder getting hit so hard by YouTube over what I can absolutely say is bunk BS, it's only a matter of time.

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00:05:24.000 My Facebook's already gone.

00:05:26.000 So we're gonna make, for my other YouTube channels, TimCast and TimCastNews, YouTube booted me from the monetization program for simply talking about what happened on January 6th.

00:05:37.000 That was it.

00:05:38.000 They said, you're out, you're gone.

00:05:39.000 I did not express any opinions for it.

00:05:42.000 I was just like, here's what's happening at the Capitol.

00:05:44.000 This is crazy.

00:05:45.000 This is breaking news.

00:05:45.000 Here's what we're seeing.

00:05:46.000 Well, breaking news is not allowed.

00:05:48.000 In the case of Steven Crowder, he did investigative reporting.

00:05:50.000 They called it deceptive.

00:05:51.000 They took his videos down.

00:05:52.000 They gave him a strike.

00:05:53.000 He can't upload.

00:05:54.000 It is going to happen.

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00:07:15.000 Alright, ladies and gentlemen, let's talk about this story because this is getting to me, man.

00:07:20.000 Uh, first, the first story we have is from The Verge.

00:07:21.000 YouTube has removed Steven Crowder from its partner program indefinitely.

00:07:26.000 They say he'll be back in a week, but without YouTube ad revenue.

00:07:29.000 Why?

00:07:30.000 No, seriously.

00:07:31.000 When you get a strike on YouTube, you don't get removed from the partner program.

00:07:36.000 You just get told, hey, you got a strike, you can't upload for a week, you can't livestream.

00:07:41.000 Why did they remove him from the partner program to take away his revenue?

00:07:44.000 See, that is not legitimate, in my opinion.

00:07:48.000 And I don't know if, you know, Crowder would agree with me or if he's gonna appreciate it.

00:07:52.000 They're just trying to remove him.

00:07:54.000 And they're gonna find any reason.

00:07:56.000 I'm gonna try and go through these quickly.

00:07:56.000 And we got more stories.

00:07:58.000 The Verge says, two weeks ago after YouTube revealed its definition of hate speech was so narrow that it couldn't remove a wildly racist tirade for being wildly racist.

00:08:08.000 What is this, The Verge?

00:08:09.000 Is this an opinion piece or is this fact-based news?

00:08:11.000 You see, this is the problem with media.

00:08:13.000 That's why channels like Crowder's are important.

00:08:14.000 That's why shows like ours are important.

00:08:16.000 They're giving you their opinion as the opener because they don't report the news they never did.

00:08:21.000 They say, we wondered out loud what it would take for YouTube to stop promoting conservative commentator Steven Crowder as an official YouTube partner and allowing him to profit from those tirades.

00:08:30.000 Notice, they just say conservative.

00:08:32.000 That's it, ladies and gentlemen.

00:08:33.000 They're not saying far-right anymore.

00:08:36.000 The Overton window is shifting, but it's very interesting.

00:08:39.000 They no longer need to say you're far-right, you're getting banned.

00:08:40.000 Now it's just, he's a conservative.

00:08:42.000 They should remove him from the partner program.

00:08:43.000 That's it.

00:08:45.000 They say today we have a partial answer.

00:08:46.000 YouTube has officially suspended Steven Crowder's main channel from YouTube's partner program indefinitely, which includes removing his ability to run ads.

00:08:53.000 It's also banning him from uploading videos for a full week after his latest infraction, a now-removed video that reportedly challenged the legitimacy of the vote in Nevada.

00:09:03.000 YouTube has a policy against false claims the election was stolen.

00:09:06.000 Full stop.

00:09:07.000 Lies. 0.99

00:09:08.000 Or misframing, to say the least.

00:09:10.000 The policy that YouTube has, as it was explained to me by YouTube, is that two criteria must be met.

00:09:16.000 You must say something specific about the election, and you must say something specific about Donald Trump, together.

00:09:23.000 Crowder did a video where he investigated voter addresses and sent people to those locations.

00:09:29.000 In those videos, he never says anything about the overall implications of the election, and even said in an update video he couldn't anyway.

00:09:36.000 He doesn't have the evidence.

00:09:37.000 In fact, he even pushed back on Mike Lindell, saying Mike Lindell's claims about Dominion are wrong.

00:09:42.000 Someone gave him wrong information.

00:09:44.000 So what YouTube is claiming about what Crowder did is illegitimate, and even if it was true that he did one video where he said this, why take him out of the partner program?

00:09:53.000 Now, here's where it gets absolutely insane.

00:09:56.000 Crowder put up a video explaining what was going on.

00:10:00.000 He put it on Instagram, and he put it on his other YouTube channel, CrowderBits, because he's got like 855,000 subscribers there.

00:10:07.000 YouTube took that video down and issued a warning, saying that he was circum- trying to circumvent his ban.

00:10:12.000 Alright, I'm gonna break something down for everybody.

00:10:14.000 I know, I'm going on- we got people here to hang out and talk, but I've got to explain all this.

00:10:20.000 I had a conversation.

00:10:21.000 You may know this.

00:10:22.000 We had Alex Jones on the show.

00:10:23.000 Alex Jones said something.

00:10:24.000 A lot of people misheard what he said, including myself, and it didn't matter.

00:10:29.000 YouTube didn't care.

00:10:30.000 They said, well, it was bad enough, and they removed that episode with Alex Jones and Michael Malice from this channel, issued a warning, and I talked to them on the phone for quite some time, and they refused to reinstate it.

00:10:40.000 I said, we could take out that little tiny one-second snippet.

00:10:43.000 We could take it out, maybe put it back up, and they said, no.

00:10:47.000 And I said, OK, I'm going to have him back on the show then.

00:10:51.000 We're going to do it again.

00:10:52.000 And we did.

00:10:53.000 And I said, in the event you guys give me a strike, what does that mean for my other channels?

00:10:58.000 And I was told by YouTube, so long as the content is different from what you do on these channels, it is fine.

00:11:06.000 And I said, OK, Timcast IRL is a conversational show with guests where we go over news stories.

00:11:12.000 My other channels are me and my personal rants and monologues.

00:11:16.000 Is that substantially different?

00:11:18.000 And I was told, yes.

00:11:20.000 They're not the same thing.

00:11:21.000 They're different channels for a reason.

00:11:23.000 And I said, okay.

00:11:24.000 Well, that means that's what I want to know.

00:11:26.000 Because if you give me a strike on this channel, I can still keep producing on my other channels, right?

00:11:30.000 Then I'm willing to take that risk.

00:11:32.000 We're going to have them back on the show.

00:11:33.000 And we did.

00:11:34.000 And it did well.

00:11:35.000 Because a lot of people were like, oh, Tim is giving up in censorship.

00:11:38.000 I'm like, no.

00:11:39.000 As soon as they did it, I called them right back up and said, guys, come back on the show.

00:11:42.000 We're not doing this.

00:11:44.000 Now what they're doing with Crowder.

00:11:45.000 Crowder does a show on his main channel that's produced.

00:11:49.000 There's multiple people involved.

00:11:50.000 There's microphones.

00:11:51.000 They're sitting in chairs.

00:11:52.000 And they have cameras.

00:11:53.000 And he's sitting at a desk.

00:11:54.000 And he's wearing his outfit for the show.

00:11:56.000 He's got his holster on and all that stuff.

00:11:58.000 It is produced and set up.

00:12:00.000 On Crowder Bits, he filmed a video on his cell phone explaining what was going on.

00:12:05.000 Content that was 100% substantially different from his produced show.

00:12:11.000 They took that video down and gave him a warning.

00:12:14.000 That means if he does it again, they're gonna give him a strike.

00:12:17.000 That is illegitimate.

00:12:18.000 YouTube is not issuing legitimate strikes against, or warnings, or whatever, against Crowder.

00:12:24.000 100%.

00:12:25.000 And I have a feeling It has something to do with Media Matters because they put out this story where they said after being suspended from YouTube, Steven Crowder announces his plan to evade it via his other YouTube channel.

00:12:39.000 I'm not going to go into great details, but I'm going to vaguely mention something very interesting that's been going on, that was going on for some time.

00:12:45.000 We had a video that Media Matters targeted and made false claims about.

00:12:50.000 For some reason that video got demonetized.

00:12:52.000 So I contacted YouTube and I said, why is this video demonetized?

00:12:56.000 And they said, seems to be an error, don't worry, we will monetize it for you.

00:13:00.000 And they did.

00:13:01.000 And then there was an update, I guess, on this Media Matters piece, and then all of a sudden I noticed the video was demonetized again.

00:13:07.000 And then I reached back out to Google and said, oop, that's strange, we'll fix it again.

00:13:10.000 It happened twice.

00:13:11.000 There was a back and forth.

00:13:13.000 Somebody at these activist organizations knows people at Google or YouTube and they go in and they're screwing with channels.

00:13:18.000 So when I see YouTube say, oh, Steven Crowder broke the rule, he didn't actually break because they laid it out for me.

00:13:24.000 They sent everyone an email.

00:13:26.000 YouTube sent me an email and said, here's the specific criteria you would have to say in order to get a strike on your channel.

00:13:31.000 Crowder never broke those rules.

00:13:33.000 So you know what you're telling us, YouTube?

00:13:35.000 That there's literally nothing we can do.

00:13:37.000 If you want to take us down, you will lie and you will do it.

00:13:40.000 And then what we see from all these news organizations, they say, well, Crowder was taken down because he violated the policy where he claimed X, Y, and Z. They claim that because YouTube said the policy was violated, that affirms that Crowder did something wrong.

00:13:53.000 He did not.

00:13:54.000 If YouTube tells me, You can't, you can't drink bottled water on your show!

00:13:59.000 And then I say, okay, I won't.

00:14:00.000 And then they give me a strike anyway, claiming I did?

00:14:02.000 The media report Tim Poole got taken down for drinking bottled water on his show, even if I didn't, that's what they're doing.

00:14:08.000 It's only a matter of time.

00:14:09.000 And I tell you this, people are saying, oh, Tim's too milk-dosed, he's not gonna get censored, he's not gonna get banned, or whatever.

00:14:15.000 We had Alex Jones and Michael Malice on the show and they took it down and I immediately called them and brought them back because I'm not going to bend the knee to lies and manipulations and just unreasonable actions, unprofessional behavior from YouTube.

00:14:28.000 If you get a problem with something one of my guests says and I offer to snip that out, that is me going well above and beyond my own principles because I think we should be allowed to have that conversation up as it is.

00:14:38.000 But I'm willing to recognize YouTube has this platform And I say, OK, what's the best thing we can do to make sure 99.99% of this gets out?

00:14:46.000 Fine.

00:14:46.000 I'll obey that rule, but I'm going to launch TimCast.com, and we're going to talk about what we want to talk behind this members-only paywall to protect ourselves in the event YouTube does take us down.

00:14:55.000 Facebook removed me from the monetization program for simply covering the news.

00:14:59.000 Steven Crowder is suspended for a week and removed from the partner program for simply sending out reporters to track claims about voter irregularity.

00:15:06.000 That was it.

00:15:07.000 He did not make any claims.

00:15:09.000 And now here we are.

00:15:10.000 Rant over, I suppose.

00:15:12.000 Hot.

00:15:13.000 No, it's a necessary rant, you know.

00:15:15.000 I would love to know who is receiving the same wrath from YouTube on the other side of the spectrum, right?

00:15:23.000 I mean, there have been amazing allegations for four years about President Trump as a puppet of Vladimir Putin, right?

00:15:30.000 There have been out-and-out lies from what we would consider, quote-unquote, the left.

00:15:34.000 Is there any Leftist group as big as Steven Crowder, who has been kicked off the platform for these types of violations of service.

00:15:42.000 No.

00:15:43.000 Only small progressives have been banned.

00:15:45.000 There have been many of them, smaller channels, and they shouldn't have been banned either.

00:15:49.000 I 100% defend the right of all of the socialists, democratic socialists, progressives, communists who produce on YouTube, and I've seen some of the channels that got removed on the left, and I don't see a legitimate reason as to why they were banned.

00:16:01.000 It seems like what YouTube is trying to do is create a monoculture.

00:16:04.000 They're trying to force everyone into a, I don't want to say center-left, I don't necessarily want to say far-left, but a homogenous establishment Democrat left position.

00:16:17.000 Getting rid of Crowder is necessary for them to pull off something like that.

00:16:21.000 And I tell you, I'm not big into conspiracies, but they just came out and made claims about why they removed Crowder's content, and I, actually having privy to information, speaking to Google, know these statements are just not true.

00:16:34.000 The claims made against him, not true.

00:16:36.000 Here we go.

00:16:37.000 I'd like to add, so you know, I built Mines.

00:16:39.000 I was one of the co-founders of Mines and I helped design and construct the website.

00:16:43.000 Real quick, for those that aren't familiar, Mines is another social media platform.

00:16:47.000 It can host videos, you can post things.

00:16:50.000 So I had to ethically build out the terms of service.

00:16:52.000 Like, how are we going to adjudicate user violations of our terms, basically?

00:16:57.000 And I was an administrator.

00:16:58.000 What I realized pretty early on is you don't ban people.

00:17:01.000 You ban the channel if the channel is in violation.

00:17:05.000 Assume nothing about the people.

00:17:06.000 Because that person can make another channel.

00:17:08.000 And if that new channel doesn't violate, you don't mess with it.

00:17:11.000 So them going after Steve is F'ed. 0.93

00:17:15.000 It's messed up.

00:17:15.000 You don't target individuals.

00:17:17.000 That makes no sense.

00:17:18.000 Your terms specifically target channels, not people.

00:17:21.000 So, the thought that he would make another channel and do something that doesn't violate terms and still get it taken down is insane to me.

00:17:27.000 This is why I'm saying they're targeting him and his business.

00:17:30.000 Because, as I stated, the rules are, if you have two channels, I'll try to make this clear, if you have two channels and one of them is videos about dogs and one of them is videos about cats, And your videos about dogs gets a strike because a dog, you know, snipped a butt or something, and they're like, oh, it's inappropriate.

00:17:45.000 And you put up a video about a cat?

00:17:47.000 That's supposed to be allowed, because it's a different form of content.

00:17:50.000 If Crowder uploads something that's not his show, he's not commenting on the news, he's simply saying, hey guys, here's an update as to what's going on, they are screwing with him.

00:17:59.000 That's it.

00:18:00.000 They're targeting him, and it's unfair.

00:18:02.000 And I'm sick of the Buttma private business argument from all of these establishment crony types.

00:18:08.000 It's just not the case.

00:18:10.000 We need balance, and we need representation for people of different ideas, different ideologies, and different perspectives.

00:18:18.000 If they get rid of Crowder, Crowder's fans don't go away.

00:18:21.000 They get angry.

00:18:22.000 They go other places.

00:18:23.000 So you know what?

00:18:24.000 In that regard, maybe YouTube will absolutely cripple itself by doing this.

00:18:28.000 But the problem is that Alphabet, Google, subsidizes YouTube so that other video platforms can't be as successful.

00:18:37.000 And that keeps a stranglehold on the market for channels like mine or everyone else's.

00:18:42.000 But more importantly, YouTube is first in, best dressed, and the biggest.

00:18:48.000 The second biggest search engine, I believe, in the world, and it is used by everybody.

00:18:53.000 We ask only that those rules be applied fairly, and that the contracts they have people sign are upheld.

00:18:58.000 So I wonder this.

00:18:59.000 If YouTube says, you must abide by our community guidelines, otherwise we can ban you, but then they ban you or strike you, Even though you didn't violate those guidelines, I wonder if they're in breach of their own terms on their end.

00:19:12.000 I wonder if there's a possibility that you could go after them, because we have seen strategies like this before.

00:19:16.000 I don't know exactly what Crowder will end up doing.

00:19:18.000 I know that his half-Asian lawyer, Bill, made an announcement about, you know, what's happening.

00:19:23.000 The Blaze posted it.

00:19:24.000 And for those, you know, I want to make sure I give a shout-out to Crowder to the best of my ability.

00:19:28.000 They say you can go to louderwithcrowder.com.

00:19:30.000 What is it?

00:19:31.000 louderwithcrowder.com slash mugclub?

00:19:34.000 Or just go to louderwithcrowder.com.

00:19:35.000 Go to his website.

00:19:37.000 And if you want to support him as well, if YouTube is going after Crowder in such a way that is illegitimate, Do you really think a channel like this can last much longer after they take him down?

00:19:49.000 It's the canary in the coal mine for everybody.

00:19:51.000 The way I explained it a long time ago was, we're standing on this big island with cliffs all around, and the waves are just crashing and eroding at one side.

00:20:00.000 Sure, the far right gets banned.

00:20:02.000 This is what they do.

00:20:02.000 This is what authoritarians do.

00:20:03.000 They say, oh, nobody likes the far right, fringe, weirdo, racist, and conspiracy theorists.

00:20:08.000 So when they get banned, the establishment types are like, I don't care.

00:20:11.000 Then they come for very staunch, hardcore, pro-America conservatives.

00:20:14.000 And even regular conservatives are pointing out, like, hey, that's bad.

00:20:18.000 Regular people are going like, well, I'm not a fan of those.

00:20:21.000 Those kind of people.

00:20:22.000 And the left ignores it.

00:20:23.000 Now they're coming for regular, run-of-the-mill, high-profile, mainstream conservative types.

00:20:27.000 People like Steven Crowder.

00:20:28.000 What's next?

00:20:29.000 Moderates.

00:20:31.000 And then we're gone.

00:20:32.000 I'm pretty critical of Google.

00:20:33.000 I have been since they bought YouTube 2007.

00:20:36.000 I was freaking out.

00:20:36.000 I was a YouTuber 2006, seven.

00:20:38.000 I was like, Oh, well, Google's bought about to buy YouTube.

00:20:41.000 It's going to get super corporate and we'll see.

00:20:43.000 And Google, whoever's running Google, you guys do an amazing job at search algorithms.

00:20:48.000 I love your search, your search engine, but I don't think you guys are equipped to run a social network.

00:20:53.000 You had YouTube in 2007, you screwed it up.

00:20:56.000 And then you built Google plus, which nobody used when you could have been using YouTube as your social network.

00:21:01.000 Right.

00:21:01.000 And they got rid of video responses, which was one of the hottest community building pieces of tech on the website.

00:21:09.000 And they make these heavy-handed... It's just a huge company.

00:21:13.000 I'm not... I don't know.

00:21:14.000 I can't get too critical because I don't work there.

00:21:16.000 I never have.

00:21:18.000 But it saddens me that you would drag your social network through the mud like this when you have an opportunity to build the best one.

00:21:26.000 It's a growing cult infection.

00:21:28.000 It's a cult.

00:21:29.000 There's I was trying to find I knew there were a bunch of Google execs.

00:21:32.000 I wasn't I was listening clearly, but I was trying to Google the trying to Google a whole bunch of Google execs who went to the Biden administration trying to find names.

00:21:40.000 But the stories that I'm finding in this search are all about how the Biden administration will be tougher on big tech than the previous administration.

00:21:48.000 None of them will.

00:21:49.000 Well, you know, I mean, these are questions... we'd like to have legitimate hearings on this, right?

00:21:53.000 We've talked about it before.

00:21:54.000 They every now and then get hauled up in front of Congress and Zuckerberg is there, right, with his really pasty face, you know, and just an awful, usually an awful camera angle, which is kind of bizarre that no one does a good job on his...

00:22:08.000 Yeah, you know, like framing your shot a little bit, but you got 60 billion dollars.

00:22:11.000 But it would be curious to get some of these folks involved to say, how much further does the Big Tech censorship get to go before it becomes like a true violation of civil liberties, of the Constitution?

00:22:22.000 We've already seen it egregiously, but how much more?

00:22:25.000 They have had so many hearings.

00:22:27.000 I just don't care anymore.

00:22:29.000 They just lie.

00:22:29.000 They lie in their hearings.

00:22:30.000 I used to watch them.

00:22:32.000 I was like, this is really exciting.

00:22:33.000 You know, Ted Cruz is going to grill Jack Dorsey.

00:22:35.000 This is going to be fantastic.

00:22:36.000 And now it's like, oh, it's the fifth time, huh?

00:22:38.000 It's a rerun.

00:22:39.000 You know what I mean?

00:22:39.000 At this point, I'm not interested in watching.

00:22:41.000 That's a waste of time.

00:22:42.000 Not doing anything.

00:22:44.000 I'm obsessed with freeing the software code of large social networks.

00:22:47.000 If a network starts getting massive traffic, like becomes part of the commons, 100 million hit users a month, I don't know, some arbitrary number, that you free their software code of the social network aspect so that other people can build that same network tech.

00:23:00.000 Other than that, I'm always at a loss of how do that... That's why I don't think they have done anything about it, because if you break up Facebook into multiple Companies, and I talked about this last week, like Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Prime, and then Zuck owns the same percentage of all these new companies.

00:23:16.000 Nothing's changed.

00:23:17.000 He still commands the terms of service of all the new companies.

00:23:20.000 He still owns them all.

00:23:21.000 So you can't break and remove them.

00:23:23.000 Yeah, but I don't think you can legally do that.

00:23:25.000 So what's the real risk then that people looking for internet freedom end up on TikTok, which is owned by the communist Chinese? 1.00

00:23:32.000 Oh, and there's less there.

00:23:33.000 I mean, it's going to be worse, you know?

00:23:37.000 We need decentralized social media, I suppose.

00:23:39.000 I don't necessarily think the blockchain is the answer, but I do think there's great prospects in blockchain technology.

00:23:46.000 But we just need, and something we've talked about on the show quite a bit is, you know, I'm talking about creating an open source plugin that people can put on their websites that just networks websites together.

00:23:53.000 So, no one could ban anybody.

00:23:55.000 And there's something called the Fediverse we talk about a lot, which is, it's like a protocol instead of a website where you can follow someone from a different, you can follow like John at John.com or whatever.

00:24:06.000 Instead of following at John, you follow John at John.com and you can follow John at Gab.com and get all of their feeds showing up like Twitter or other social media.

00:24:15.000 There's other than blockchain, there's like Rweave, which I think Minds is looking into right now, Bill has been, and like IPFS, Interplanetary File System.

00:24:22.000 And they tend to be faster than the blockchain for stuff like this sometimes.

00:24:27.000 So they're advancing this decentralized tech.

00:24:29.000 And I think we'll eventually have something that can host videos as well as text.

00:24:33.000 You just mentioned that you thought, or I'm sorry, that you just mentioned Biden apparently is going to go harder on big tech.

00:24:41.000 These are all the articles, yeah, that I was looking at.

00:24:43.000 You were seeing it.

00:24:44.000 So here's something funny that's happening right now.

00:24:46.000 TechCrunch reports, YouTube is testing hiding dislike counts on videos.

00:24:52.000 I wonder why that might be!

00:24:53.000 Could it be that every single video that Joe Biden puts out or that Democrats put out are just slammed by everyone?

00:24:59.000 That's democracy.

00:25:01.000 Now what is that?

00:25:02.000 Is it a Russian bot conspiracy that people are saying, I don't like this video from Joe Biden?

00:25:08.000 My question is, where are then the Democrats to counteract that and give an upvote to Joe Biden?

00:25:13.000 They don't exist.

00:25:14.000 No, you know what it is?

00:25:15.000 They're still downvoting Trump's content.

00:25:17.000 I think the people who vote for Joe Biden don't pay attention, don't watch the news, have no idea what's going on, and they're not going to watch a Joe Biden video.

00:25:26.000 The Trump supporters, the conservatives, the moderates, the people who are quote-unquote red-pilled, who have woken up to the media's lies in the narrative, it's because they're looking at videos of Trump.

00:25:35.000 They're watching the source material on YouTube and then going, I don't like this.

00:25:39.000 So YouTube now has to intervene and remove the dislike button counter.

00:25:43.000 It's a matter of time until they remove the live views counter as well, because there are times that they are streaming the Biden giving remarks at the White House, or even during the campaign, Biden is gonna sit down with these activists, and you would see in the bottom left corner, 800 people are watching, 900 people are watching him.

00:26:01.000 People would circle it and tweet it and say, is this a joke?

00:26:04.000 Like, this is the president.

00:26:06.000 The most popular president in American history.

00:26:08.000 900 people watching this video, and I'm one of them, right?

00:26:11.000 But listen, listen, Democrats have always gone for low information voters.

00:26:16.000 And a lot of people might be like, oh, here we go.

00:26:18.000 Tim Pool is so biased against Democrats.

00:26:20.000 He's right wing.

00:26:21.000 No, actually, I'm pretty far left politically.

00:26:23.000 It's kind of strange.

00:26:24.000 My problem is you're not going to get me to say something that's not true.

00:26:27.000 All right.

00:26:28.000 I'll tell you something.

00:26:29.000 Democrats want 16-year-olds to have the right to vote.

00:26:35.000 16-year-olds, you are not going to convince me, are high-information voters.

00:26:39.000 Some, maybe.

00:26:40.000 But as you get younger and younger, the likelihood of finding a low-information voter goes up exponentially.

00:26:46.000 No offense to young people.

00:26:48.000 But 16-year-olds are also eating Tide Pods.

00:26:51.000 They're not really eating Tide Pods.

00:26:56.000 No offense to 16-year-olds.

00:26:59.000 One guy did though.

00:27:00.000 We can allow the 16-year-old to vote if the 16-year-olds can also buy alcohol, buy cigarettes, and get drafted.

00:27:07.000 Because what I have a problem with when it comes to these age things is I still enjoy my cigarettes every now and then.

00:27:13.000 Right, you gotta be 21 to smoke now in a lot of states, 18 to get a beer, but the 16-year-old can vote you off to war in Afghanistan?

00:27:20.000 And you're like, wait a second, so what is the age of adulthood and make everything that age?

00:27:27.000 I don't know, what if the requirement for voting was just you have to live on, you have to have, you no longer, maybe it has to be you have to have a job.

00:27:36.000 Maybe the requirements are you have a job.

00:27:37.000 You have to be paying taxes.

00:27:38.000 Yeah, you pay taxes, you can vote.

00:27:40.000 Taxation requires representation.

00:27:41.000 You should have to have some sort of skin in the game, right?

00:27:44.000 I mean, the original Constitution was they argued about landowners and that was considered, you know, offensive or however you want to phrase it.

00:27:51.000 But the idea was skin in the game.

00:27:54.000 And if you are, I'm sorry, this is the problem that Romney got into back in 12 when he talked about the 44% that we don't care about.

00:28:02.000 And he phrased it terribly, but I think the point he meant to say was there's a large population of this country that is on the taking side.

00:28:11.000 And so they will vote for things to be given to them for free, whether it's stimulus checks, whether it's welfare, whether it's free.

00:28:17.000 Look at the people voting for free, you know, absolution of their college loans.

00:28:22.000 Well, I didn't go to college.

00:28:23.000 I don't have any debt.

00:28:24.000 Right, but you did, and you got a degree in modern dance, and I have to now pay... Welcome to my personal life.

00:28:30.000 Exactly, right?

00:28:31.000 So there is going to be always a class of people that will vote for more free stuff for themselves.

00:28:35.000 Oh, I totally would have done that as a kid.

00:28:37.000 There has to be skin in the game, exactly.

00:28:38.000 That's why kids shouldn't vote. 0.99

00:28:40.000 Just to bring it back...

00:28:42.000 The ultimate point is, Democrats like voters who are on the low information side.

00:28:46.000 Yet at the same time, these are the same people who claim to be more educated.

00:28:50.000 I'm sorry, I need to explain something to everybody listening.

00:28:52.000 Going to college does not mean you are more educated.

00:28:55.000 No.

00:28:56.000 I mean that.

00:28:57.000 And a lot of people confuse going to university with being educated.

00:29:01.000 You can spend four years in college and read almost nothing.

00:29:04.000 Yeah.

00:29:04.000 And just, you know, squeeze on by.

00:29:06.000 Party hard.

00:29:07.000 Party hard and just do the bare minimum.

00:29:10.000 Or you could be Someone who goes to the library every day, and reads a book every day, and you're substantially more educated than somebody who just decides to go to college.

00:29:18.000 Now, I think there's a correlation between getting an education and being in college, but in the past generation or so, college seems to be a big, fat waste of time.

00:29:26.000 No, it used to be a huge opportunity to have access to books and stuff, but you don't need that.

00:29:30.000 Got the internet now.

00:29:32.000 Yeah, if I can go online and learn whatever I want, what's the point of spending 40-50 grand for it?

00:29:36.000 I will say though, if we think about this from a solution-oriented perspective, maximizing the best outcome for this country, I do believe we need some form of student loan forgiveness.

00:29:47.000 Probably in the form of eliminating interest rates, and at this point saying, pay off your principal.

00:29:53.000 You borrowed the money, you gotta pay it back.

00:29:55.000 Maybe with inflation as a standard, you know, interest rate, not compound interest or anything like that.

00:30:03.000 But I will point out too, for a lot of these people on the left who are like, we should have our student loans forgiven.

00:30:09.000 That would be, and this is what they don't understand, giving a $50,000 grant to the wealthiest Americans.

00:30:18.000 Fund the rich?

00:30:19.000 Is that what they want to do?

00:30:21.000 I wanted to Google this before I talked about it, and some of the largest endowments in American university systems.

00:30:27.000 Harvard has over $40 billion in endowment.

00:30:29.000 So if you want to talk about student loan absolution, why doesn't Harvard kick in some of their $40 billion, which literally just accrues interest every year.

00:30:37.000 They charge these people $70,000 a year.

00:30:38.000 Yale has, what is it, $27 billion?

00:30:43.000 Sorry, 30 billion dollars.

00:30:44.000 Stanford, 27.

00:30:46.000 Princeton, 25.

00:30:47.000 MIT, 17.

00:30:48.000 So if we want to talk about student loan forgiveness, obviously there has to be reform of the tuition system, because it is being paid for by the taxpayers. 0.98

00:30:55.000 But why doesn't Harvard give up some of their damn money to pay those guys who have useless... I mean, quite honestly, if you have a graduate degree in critical race theory from Harvard, you have a useless degree. 0.98

00:31:07.000 I'd like to give a shout-out to our good friend Will Chamberlain and say, seize the endowments!

00:31:10.000 So when you say endowments, is that the yearly, like government gives them 30 billion a year?

00:31:16.000 No, this is, you know, rich people who write a hundred million dollar check and they want to endow a chair in their name or they want to endow a building or whatever.

00:31:25.000 But Harvard's been around for 200 and something years and they've accrued over time.

00:31:28.000 So that's money sitting in an account?

00:31:30.000 Exactly, literally sitting in the bank.

00:31:32.000 Just the other day, Georgetown announced they got a $100 million grant from somebody, I forget who, $100 million donation.

00:31:39.000 Georgetown's gonna take that $100 million, they're gonna put it in the bank.

00:31:42.000 They're not gonna drop the tuition rate for any of their students a dime.

00:31:45.000 They're just gonna put it in the bank and say, thank you very much for your money.

00:31:48.000 What I can't understand, I know we were supposed to be talking about YouTube dislike count, but I think- It's all related.

00:31:54.000 It is, I really do think so.

00:31:56.000 I think that these people who go to university, think about it for two seconds, They're told to do it.

00:32:01.000 Not everybody.

00:32:01.000 I know a lot of you listening probably went to college.

00:32:03.000 You didn't realize it.

00:32:04.000 But there's a lot of people who are like, what should I do?

00:32:06.000 And then someone comes along and says, you're going to take out $50,000 worth of loans.

00:32:11.000 Don't worry.

00:32:12.000 You have to do it.

00:32:13.000 Everybody has to do it.

00:32:14.000 And they go, OK, I'll do what you say.

00:32:15.000 Then they go to college.

00:32:17.000 They do as they're told.

00:32:17.000 They rack up all this debt.

00:32:19.000 Now they're living in this massive debt, doing as they're told every step of the way.

00:32:22.000 And they're miserable.

00:32:23.000 Some people Finally realize what's going on.

00:32:26.000 They'll drop out.

00:32:27.000 They'll leave or they'll realize it after the fact.

00:32:29.000 Hey, wait a minute.

00:32:30.000 That was a big mistake.

00:32:31.000 I screwed myself up by not listening to myself.

00:32:35.000 Now you look at these people, these college educated, they say overwhelmingly vote for, for Democrats correlation between those who don't investigate.

00:32:44.000 Absolutely.

00:32:45.000 don't watch a Biden speech to see what he actually has to say, and don't watch a Trump

00:32:50.000 speech to see what he has to say, and thus the only people who are watching Biden are

00:32:54.000 the people who actually listen to what he has to say, don't like it, hit the dislike

00:32:57.000 button, and then YouTube decides, well, we've got to remove it because it's making us look

00:33:01.000 bad.

00:33:02.000 And you've come full circle.

00:33:03.000 Absolutely.

00:33:04.000 I love that.

00:33:05.000 Yeah.

00:33:06.000 No, you're absolutely right.

00:33:07.000 And when you get into the college level, the way YouTube is removing content, the way

00:33:09.000 universities are removing content that they don't like, the way they're banning certain

00:33:12.000 clubs, banning certain speakers, heck, it wasn't that long ago that people like Ann

00:33:15.000 Coulter tried to speak at Berkeley that it looked like the Minnesota riots.

00:33:19.000 And you say, well, you or You are not being sent off to D-Day, right?

00:33:24.000 But you, 19-year-old boy, can't handle the fact that a woman whose commentary you don't like is on your campus? 0.96

00:33:30.000 Just, you know what?

00:33:31.000 Man up and stay in your dorm room and say, wow, that's too bad.

00:33:33.000 I mean, that's what I do when a baseball team is on that I don't like.

00:33:36.000 Oh, the Red Sox are on tonight. 0.99

00:33:37.000 Well, I'm not going to watch the damn channel, right? 0.95

00:33:39.000 So not only are they not exposed to this stuff, but it's being banned from it, proactively banned. 0.99

00:33:45.000 And on top of that, the political stuff.

00:33:47.000 We're banning certain authors now.

00:33:49.000 Not Dr. Seuss, but we're banning parts of Shakespeare.

00:33:52.000 There was that op-ed a little while ago about the undeniable whiteness of Shakespeare or something absurd like that.

00:33:59.000 And you say, I don't even think Shakespeare knew he was white because it was the 1520s in England.

00:34:04.000 He just knew he was Shakespeare.

00:34:06.000 And we're banning those types of things.

00:34:07.000 Who is the dude from Braveheart that movie's based off of?

00:34:11.000 William Wallace yeah, I think someone graffitied a wall and like Scott saying William Wallace Wallace was racist or

00:34:16.000 something and someone commented I'm pretty sure he never even saw a black person in his

00:34:19.000 entire. No. I guarantee you he never did yeah I mean it was it was 12 12

00:34:24.000 13th century yeah, you know dude everybody was racist back then

00:34:30.000 That was when you were all... Well, they were more like xenophobic, afraid of the other.

00:34:34.000 Yeah, because the last people they knew who didn't look like them were the Vikings, and they killed everybody. 0.89

00:34:39.000 And they stole all their church goods, and they stole all the women. 0.65

00:34:43.000 Exactly.

00:34:44.000 Take a look at Scandinavia now.

00:34:46.000 What happened to that place?

00:34:48.000 I don't know.

00:34:49.000 Oh, they received too many immigrants, right? 1.00

00:34:51.000 No, no, no.

00:34:52.000 I don't think the issue was immigration.

00:34:54.000 You know what's really fascinating is that, I mentioned this the other day, Think about illegal immigrants right now coming to the US. 0.98

00:35:01.000 They're willing to climb mountains, ride on the top of trains, make it through 90 miles of desert with limited supplies because they believe in that American dream.

00:35:11.000 And look, I can respect that.

00:35:13.000 That's drive. 0.99

00:35:14.000 But you gotta come in the proper way for a variety of reasons.

00:35:16.000 We don't want people going through the desert risking their lives.

00:35:19.000 And we want to make sure that when they come here, they're given real opportunities.

00:35:22.000 If they just come in, they get exploited and it creates a lot of problems economically for many of the migrants.

00:35:27.000 But you take a look at some of these countries... 0.99

00:35:30.000 Even the United States, it's the domestic population, mostly suburban progressives and liberals that have become just absolutely weak and pathetic. 0.95

00:35:42.000 You take a look at Scandinavia, and it is the overwhelmingly white, you know, indigenous of the region, I suppose you'd call them, who are opening up all these policies that will erode and eventually destroy their own governments. 1.00

00:35:57.000 And I'm speaking specifically about, like, Sweden's policy on their welfare system, for instance, is unsustainable unless they keep bringing in more and more migrants. 1.00

00:36:07.000 Now, that's not what I'm referring to.

00:36:08.000 That's actually them trying to stem the bleed.

00:36:10.000 The problem is, they wouldn't need to desperately ask people to come to their country if their country was properly run.

00:36:16.000 But you look back at the Vikings.

00:36:19.000 They got on boats, they went to England, they stole all the women and came back, and they were brutal.

00:36:23.000 The Vikings were brutal! 0.96

00:36:24.000 All the really hot women.

00:36:25.000 That's why apparently they're so attractive up here.

00:36:29.000 I was told this.

00:36:31.000 I was told this joke when I was in... I think I was told this joke every... I was in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

00:36:36.000 And they were like, you want to hear a Scandinavian joke? 0.65

00:36:39.000 Why are there no beautiful women in England? 1.00

00:36:41.000 And I'm like, why?

00:36:42.000 Because we stole them all.

00:36:43.000 And I'm like, it's a really amazing joke for a group of people that are like some of the most demure and like, you know, I guess...

00:36:52.000 Weak-willed, I suppose?

00:36:53.000 Docile.

00:36:54.000 Docile?

00:36:54.000 They seem very calm.

00:36:55.000 Maybe they're in the cold all the time, so they move slower.

00:36:57.000 That's because socialism ultimately is an effete system, and it will emasculate you.

00:37:05.000 They have been soft socialists for generations now.

00:37:09.000 And I think ultimately it is a defeatist philosophy, and it is a weakening philosophy.

00:37:15.000 And I think that's what you get after three generations of quasi-socialists.

00:37:19.000 That's what happens to you.

00:37:20.000 Are you familiar with Strauss' Howe Generational Theory?

00:37:23.000 No.

00:37:23.000 So we had Ben Stewart on the show, and it was a really fascinating conversation.

00:37:27.000 It's a book called The Fourth Turning, and they talk about how there's four seasons.

00:37:31.000 Every 20 years, it's a season.

00:37:32.000 There's the springtime, there's the summer, the autumn, and then the winter.

00:37:36.000 And we are about to hit the winter season.

00:37:38.000 So the way it goes is that every 80 years, there is a massive upheaval, violent war, or something like that, right?

00:37:45.000 Eighty years ago, what did we have?

00:37:47.000 World War II.

00:37:48.000 Eighty years before that, what did we have?

00:37:50.000 Civil War.

00:37:50.000 Eighty years before that, what did we have?

00:37:52.000 Revolutionary War.

00:37:53.000 And so, they're basically like, we're about to enter this period.

00:37:56.000 I bring this up because everything we're mentioning, you know, for those that are just tuning in or just jumping on the segment, we're talking about countries like Scandinavia, and you mentioned, like, after three generations of just, I guess, everything's granted to you, we have prosperity, we become weakened.

00:38:14.000 And I want to show you this story from the New York Post.

00:38:15.000 I want to bring this up.

00:38:16.000 Pentagon diversity chief reassigned amid probe of social media posts.

00:38:23.000 I don't care about this guy being reassigned.

00:38:25.000 I care that the Pentagon has a diversity chief.

00:38:28.000 I keep hearing these stories about diversity, inclusivity, and equity, liaisons, and czars, and chiefs, and officers.

00:38:37.000 Why do our businesses have ideological arms or employees?

00:38:43.000 To me, I know it's not identical, but it's no different from the Communist Party saying, if you want to open a business in China, the Communist Party needs to have a position in your company.

00:38:52.000 Here in the U.S., they're like, well, if you're running this company, you need to give our cult a position in your company.

00:38:57.000 The Pentagon has it now?

00:38:59.000 I'm sorry, man.

00:39:00.000 We've weakened beyond... It's perhaps too late.

00:39:04.000 In my opinion.

00:39:05.000 I don't know, maybe it's not too late, but the generations that came before us were not paying attention, and they don't care.

00:39:11.000 I've talked to people in the intelligence community, and they tell me, leadership doesn't care.

00:39:15.000 They just wanna get home at the end of the day, they wanna maintain the status quo, whatever pays the bills, they don't care.

00:39:21.000 So this is crazy.

00:39:23.000 No, it is.

00:39:24.000 And the role of the Pentagon should be to train and prepare a force to be lethal and brutal to defend the country if need be.

00:39:33.000 And hopefully that day never comes, but that's the only diversity and inclusion they need.

00:39:37.000 They need to be as diverse and inclusive to the point that they will destroy any enemy that faces them.

00:39:43.000 And the fact that we're pushing these sociological or psychological philosophies That just runs counter to the goal of the military.

00:39:53.000 Diversity, inclusivity, and equity in terms of the military should be a diversification of armament, inclusion of different ordinance, and equity in the amounts that they have across the board to be able to defeat any threat.

00:40:08.000 Not some weird cult-like ideology about, you know, training soldiers that the Gadsden flag is racist, and that if somebody has it on their face, they gotta pull them out of their mission in DC.

00:40:17.000 Yeah, military philosophy is legit, but that's the philosophy of combat and confrontation, not of how people feel.

00:40:24.000 Not really.

00:40:24.000 I mean, there is the hearts and minds battle that we're trying to win.

00:40:27.000 And maybe some people think that by doing this, we're going to, we're going to get more hearts and minds on our side, but it seems like it's, it's rupturing the system when it doesn't need to.

00:40:37.000 And I think we've been playing, the military at least, has been playing the hearts and minds game for 20 some odd years.

00:40:42.000 I was at State Department a long, long time ago, spent time in Iraq, Afghanistan, as part of the hearts and minds war.

00:40:49.000 And for 20 years now, we've been saying, well, maybe if we just work with the Taliban and build their kids' schools, and maybe if we send more of their girls into jobs trainings, and here we are 20 years later, and how many trillions of dollars more? 0.77

00:41:00.000 And it's like, and how's that going for us, right?

00:41:03.000 We can't get out of Afghanistan. 1.00

00:41:04.000 Even Trump couldn't pull out of Afghanistan because the mission isn't yet accomplished.

00:41:08.000 So maybe the hearts and minds game isn't what the military should do. 0.99

00:41:10.000 Maybe the military should kill all of the enemies. 0.99

00:41:13.000 And I'm sorry to say that. 1.00

00:41:14.000 And then what happens after that?

00:41:17.000 That's their problem.

00:41:17.000 You're no longer a threat to us.

00:41:19.000 Like if they wanted to create like a global arm of goodwill and they wanted to build water systems and roads and all these countries across the world, cool.

00:41:26.000 But if you drop bombs on a country, it's going to set the whole process back 20 years.

00:41:30.000 Maybe they should be building infrastructure, roads, water, here.

00:41:34.000 Yeah, they should!

00:41:35.000 And over there!

00:41:36.000 Like, just do it!

00:41:37.000 Well, they just did around the Capitol for the last two months.

00:41:40.000 They built a great wall.

00:41:41.000 It was as secure as could be. 0.95

00:41:42.000 None of the crazy Trump supporters... A big, beautiful wall. 0.78

00:41:44.000 No Trump supporters penetrated the Capitol for months on end. 0.83

00:41:48.000 They kept saying walls don't work, and they built a wall to keep out Trump supporters.

00:41:53.000 Amazing.

00:41:54.000 Well, Tom Cotton is doing something about it.

00:41:56.000 Cotton introduces a bill to ban critical race theory teaching in the military.

00:42:00.000 My man.

00:42:01.000 Yeah.

00:42:02.000 That's very cool.

00:42:03.000 It's not going to pass.

00:42:03.000 Republicans don't have any power right now.

00:42:06.000 And what the Democrats seem to be doing right now is they know they have a very slim majority and they are pushing as hard as possible to gain as much power as possible because they know it won't last.

00:42:17.000 Yes.

00:42:17.000 Come 2022, the Republicans will take the House back And probably the Senate.

00:42:22.000 In 2022, you think?

00:42:23.000 It's 50-50, yeah.

00:42:24.000 Are there seats up for Democrats?

00:42:27.000 Yeah, and I think, I mean, literally, you flip two seats and that's all that matters.

00:42:31.000 I mean, starting with Georgia, right?

00:42:33.000 You flip one seat?

00:42:34.000 Yeah, starting with Georgia.

00:42:35.000 there's a re-election there because it was a temporary seat.

00:42:39.000 So yeah, I agree with you 100%.

00:42:41.000 They know they have a two-year window to enact as many things as possible.

00:42:44.000 Obama did the same thing back in 2009, right?

00:42:47.000 He passed health care because he knew he had one shot to do it.

00:42:50.000 They had a super majority.

00:42:51.000 They had to get it done.

00:42:52.000 They got it done, and they lost.

00:42:55.000 I'm not confident the Republicans will be successful.

00:42:58.000 I think there's a lot of people who don't like the Republican Party who only voted Republican because Trump was something different.

00:43:04.000 He was actually trying to do things.

00:43:07.000 You take a look at Biden right now.

00:43:09.000 Did you see that they apparently rebranded to the Biden-Harris administration?

00:43:12.000 Creepy.

00:43:13.000 What is this?

00:43:14.000 I had a tweet about it and I was like, I was like, amazing and inspiring.

00:43:18.000 Despite every obstacle from racism, sexism, to not even getting a single delegate in the presidential primary, Kamala Harris is proving that nothing will stand in her way and she will eventually become president. 0.53

00:43:28.000 She didn't get a single delegate.

00:43:30.000 And now they're slowly inching towards making her the president. 0.75

00:43:33.000 And it's right there in our faces.

00:43:34.000 Did Biden get any delegates in 2008?

00:43:35.000 I don't remember.

00:43:36.000 I don't remember either.

00:43:37.000 When he was up against the wall.

00:43:38.000 He was a nobody in that running, though.

00:43:40.000 He was one of the worst guys on stage. 0.98

00:43:42.000 That's a disgusting question. 0.96

00:43:44.000 How soon did he drop? 0.86

00:43:46.000 And I was paying attention those days also.

00:43:49.000 Um, he wasn't, I think Hillary was Obama's biggest competition in 2008.

00:43:54.000 No, not Bernie, it was pre-Bernie.

00:43:57.000 It was pre-Bernie, and I'm sure Biden, and there were probably like three or four other folks out there who ran who dropped out pretty quickly.

00:44:05.000 Was that also... Biden got zero delegates.

00:44:07.000 Zero! 1.00

00:44:09.000 A couple of losers. 1.00

00:44:12.000 Then Biden got all this free press, being the VP, and they would make fun of him and be like, oh, Joe, shut up. 1.00

00:44:19.000 You know those memes where it shows Joe saying something stupid and Obama's like, oh. 0.99

00:44:24.000 That was real, I think. 1.00

00:44:26.000 I think critical race theory in the military is... it's the demise of the military.

00:44:31.000 Dude, it's dangerous.

00:44:32.000 Listen, what you need to understand about critical race theory is that it's not actually a theory of anything.

00:44:36.000 No.

00:44:37.000 It's basically just one person going, I've decided that water bottles are racist.

00:44:43.000 And does everybody agree?

00:44:44.000 And then someone goes, I don't think it's racist.

00:44:46.000 Well, then you're a racist for denying it.

00:44:48.000 Yeah.

00:44:48.000 That's all they do.

00:44:49.000 There's like no rhyme or reason.

00:44:50.000 Define racist!

00:44:51.000 Oh, God.

00:44:52.000 Ibrahim X. Kendi, the guy who wrote that book, How to Be an Anti-Racist, said that the heartbeat of racism is denialism.

00:45:01.000 And by denying your racism is a sign of your racism.

00:45:05.000 And that is Kafka, right?

00:45:07.000 That whole Kafka book, The Trial, was about that.

00:45:11.000 Like, if you admit it, you're guilty.

00:45:12.000 If you deny it, well, only someone who would have done it would deny it.

00:45:15.000 You're guilty.

00:45:16.000 And so Kafka, how many dozens of years ago, a hundred years ago was like, well, this is where we are headed.

00:45:22.000 And that's what critical race theory is.

00:45:24.000 You are racist intrinsically by your race.

00:45:26.000 And if you deny it, it's only because that is a sign of your racism. 0.99

00:45:30.000 And there you go.

00:45:30.000 I think we did that with witches and the Salem witchcraft.

00:45:32.000 They throw them in the water.

00:45:33.000 If she's a witch, she'll float. 1.00

00:45:35.000 No, no, that was Monty Python.

00:45:37.000 Okay, that was a joke.

00:45:38.000 But they're funny, those guys.

00:45:40.000 If she weighs as much as a duck, right? 0.97

00:45:43.000 What else weighs as much?

00:45:44.000 Ducks float!

00:45:45.000 What else weighs as much as a duck?

00:45:46.000 Churches!

00:45:47.000 Wood!

00:45:47.000 Small rocks!

00:45:48.000 Wood! 0.54

00:45:49.000 That's right, so if she floats, and she weighs as much as a duck, which means she's made of wood, she's a witch! 1.00

00:45:54.000 Was it that they would burn them alive, and if they didn't burn, then they were a witch? 0.85

00:45:57.000 And they always burned?

00:45:59.000 I don't know.

00:45:59.000 When the knight said a duck and the man said, who are you so wise in the ways of science?

00:46:05.000 I reply often on Twitter with that when people are like, solar panels are renewable forever.

00:46:10.000 And I'm like, who are you so wise in the ways of... I love that line.

00:46:14.000 I guess this is an issue of...

00:46:18.000 People who vote when there's no skin in the game. Yeah, you know and so the challenges, you know

00:46:24.000 Someone asked me about they're like, oh, you know, you know back in the day when people would vote

00:46:29.000 They had to be landowners because it was about racist white slave owners. Well blonde 0.99

00:46:33.000 I was like, I thought the idea was that they didn't have IDs

00:46:35.000 And so it was like you had to actually live there and be able to prove you lived there to vote

00:46:39.000 and so land ownership proved not only were you a member of the community proved you lived there and

00:46:44.000 That you had skin in the game and a stake in what this vote represented the issue now is and I'm not I'm not saying

00:46:50.000 I I'm actually a fan of like universal suffrage people about having the right to vote

00:46:54.000 Well, I shouldn't say universal because I don't know what that implies.

00:46:55.000 It could be anybody, like dogs voting or something.

00:46:58.000 But I think, you know, people should have the right to vote.

00:47:02.000 We're in a different system.

00:47:05.000 But now we have people who will, like, move to New York, and then after, like, a month, they're eligible to vote, vote for something ridiculous, and then a few months later be like, oh man, this is awful, I regret that, and then they'll leave.

00:47:14.000 And they just leave the place worse off.

00:47:16.000 There needs to be something staking your vote, like, and you, in this community, where you know that what you do will impact you.

00:47:25.000 Otherwise, people can come in, vote, and then leave.

00:47:27.000 Yeah, like local, like waiting a couple years before you can vote locally.

00:47:30.000 That got brought up a couple weeks ago.

00:47:31.000 I like that idea.

00:47:32.000 And yeah, and so then what happens is we remember like in this past election, there were a lot of people who are like, I think it was Andrew Yang got in trouble, because he said he was gonna go on down to Georgia and help the Democrats win and people are like, yo.

00:47:45.000 And the Georgia Republicans were like, if you move here and try to vote, he was like, I'm not gonna do that, I'm not doing that.

00:47:49.000 But it was actually a big issue because people can move all over the place.

00:47:53.000 Andrew Yang should run as a Republican.

00:47:54.000 He could win 2024.

00:47:56.000 He's running as a Democrat for Mayor of New York.

00:47:58.000 Oh.

00:47:59.000 Well, good luck, Andrew.

00:48:01.000 After having tweeted multiple times about leaving the city and how he hated living in New York, and he...

00:48:06.000 I mean, he's always had a condo there or something, but he lived outside of New York, and now he sees this as a viable opportunity, and he's like, eh, maybe I'll run for mayor of New York.

00:48:16.000 Republican president, because they want a populist.

00:48:18.000 The Republicans love, well, the people that went for Trump love a good populist, like, energetic fireball of a personality.

00:48:25.000 And Yang, I think, he's got more of a populist appeal, yeah, without a doubt.

00:48:31.000 But going back to the voting thing, I agree with you in that we establish thresholds for things for a purpose, and by lowering the threshold, by dumbing it down to put it pejoratively, does not do society a service.

00:48:43.000 So we've made it so easy to drive now, right?

00:48:46.000 We got rid of a lot of the driving exam.

00:48:49.000 Parallel parking is no longer part of the driving exam in New York City.

00:48:51.000 Really?

00:48:52.000 Wow!

00:48:53.000 Yeah, the K-turn is no longer part.

00:48:55.000 Well, are we making our roads better?

00:48:57.000 It's like, well, no, we're allowing more people to drive.

00:48:59.000 Well, I don't want more people to drive.

00:49:01.000 I want driving to be something that you actually can prove that you can do.

00:49:05.000 Same with exams.

00:49:06.000 Same with citizenship, to a certain extent.

00:49:08.000 And I think voting is the same way.

00:49:09.000 I don't want to lower the threshold down to get the lowest common denominator in.

00:49:13.000 I think we have to keep standards high.

00:49:16.000 Look, we talk about this with, do you want your medical doctor to be someone who is like, well, I, you know, I did the multiple choice test.

00:49:22.000 Well, maybe I want your exam to be a little bit harder than that if you're gonna operate on my eyes, right?

00:49:27.000 Maybe you should pass a certain threshold, and we've lowered the threshold down for voting to the point that, like you said, you can show up to a state same day and say, I live here now with no ID, no COVID passport though, that's a little different, but with no ID, with no proof of anything, I want to vote in this election.

00:49:43.000 Okay, you can vote.

00:49:44.000 Why?

00:49:44.000 Because that's fairness.

00:49:46.000 That's not.

00:49:47.000 Service guarantees citizenship.

00:49:50.000 Are you familiar with that?

00:49:51.000 Starship Troopers?

00:49:53.000 Yeah.

00:49:54.000 Everyone brings that up.

00:49:55.000 See, I don't know if I agree with that concept, but it's an interesting concept, and I guess the author got called a fascist for implying that you'd have to serve the community or the country in order to have the right to vote in that country.

00:50:08.000 I don't agree with that.

00:50:09.000 But it's skin in the game of somehow.

00:50:11.000 I think there has to be a standard required for voting.

00:50:16.000 And it was funny, I think I got accused by leftists of saying, you know, like, Tim Pool thinks that it should be harder to vote.

00:50:21.000 And I'm like, I mean, it should be, to a certain degree, there should be a standard to vote.

00:50:26.000 Some kind of thing where we don't want people to be laying, you know, on their couch, covered in grease, stuck to their sofa because they've been sitting there for six months.

00:50:35.000 And they're like, I don't want to work.

00:50:37.000 And then they get a letter in the mail, and they're like, they pick it up, you know, their mom throws it at them, and they're like, mail-in ballot.

00:50:43.000 And they open it up, and they're like, I'm gonna vote for this guy, and send it in.

00:50:46.000 Meanwhile, there's a guy who's overseas, got his leg blown off in Afghanistan, his vote is now negated by this person who does nothing, and he's risking everything.

00:50:53.000 So, I feel like there's got to be at least, you have to get up and go vote.

00:50:57.000 Yeah.

00:50:58.000 And maybe something more, my general idea is, if people want to vote, they need to choose to get up and go vote.

00:51:05.000 And we even talked about this, I think Ian and I agree, we should remove party affiliation from ballots.

00:51:09.000 Because what happens is, people show up and they're like, R! 1.00

00:51:12.000 D!

00:51:13.000 And then you end up with a bunch of wackos running the government, which is where we're at right now. 1.00

00:51:17.000 Well, yeah, and I think getting rid of Lowering the voting age, the reason why I'm opposed to it is, and I said kind of cruelly like 16 year olds eat Thai pods and of course I'm joking, but we used to understand that like with age somehow came experience, came wisdom, came knowledge. 0.99

00:51:36.000 And that can all, not necessarily, but it's more likely to have more knowledge as an older person than as a younger person.

00:51:43.000 At least until age 23, right?

00:51:44.000 Because of time, right?

00:51:45.000 Just because of time.

00:51:46.000 Sure.

00:51:46.000 Brain maturation.

00:51:47.000 But hold on.

00:51:47.000 Then that's an interesting point because that still could be ageist.

00:51:50.000 There's very wise 16-year-olds.

00:51:51.000 Maybe somebody started working the family business when they were 7.

00:51:54.000 So, aptitude test?

00:51:55.000 How do you do it?

00:51:57.000 You know, how do you make sure that people... That'd be cool if a kid, and no offense to 16-year-olds, I know you don't feel like a kid, but legally you're a kid until you're 18.

00:52:04.000 Could take a special test.

00:52:06.000 If you're under 18 and you wanted to vote, you could go apply.

00:52:08.000 Take a civics exam or something?

00:52:10.000 Yeah.

00:52:10.000 I want to clarify that Tide Pod thing.

00:52:12.000 Nobody actually ate Tide Pods.

00:52:14.000 It was a meme.

00:52:14.000 But one kid, as part of the meme, put the Tide Pod in his mouth as a joke.

00:52:18.000 And then his saliva broke it.

00:52:20.000 Oh no!

00:52:20.000 And as soon as he tasted it, he...

00:52:24.000 And aspirated some of the pod and then spit it out.

00:52:27.000 Did he live?

00:52:28.000 Yeah, permanently.

00:52:29.000 It scarred a ton of his lung tissue.

00:52:32.000 He was not trying to eat the Tide Pod.

00:52:34.000 He was jokingly putting it in his mouth.

00:52:36.000 These things are dissolved by water like almost instantly.

00:52:40.000 And then he went and like inhaled a bit of it.

00:52:43.000 Don't put Tide Pods in your mouth!

00:52:46.000 Don't pretend like you're going to hurt yourself.

00:52:48.000 Yeah.

00:52:49.000 So let's talk about the kind of leadership we deserve and that we need and that we get.

00:52:54.000 From the Daily Mail, Biden's dog Major bites another government employee on White House grounds while out for a walk three weeks after biting White House security guard.

00:53:05.000 I'm going to pass it off to you, Daniel, because you've trained dogs, I take it?

00:53:10.000 It just drives me absolutely crazy.

00:53:12.000 I have two right now.

00:53:14.000 I have fostered several dogs, but my better half has fostered I would say in the hundreds.

00:53:20.000 He's been doing it for 30 years, right?

00:53:22.000 I mean, fostering dogs, you have them for, you know, sometimes three weeks, four weeks, five weeks.

00:53:26.000 He rehabilitates them to get them to a good point so that they will be adopted into a permanent home.

00:53:32.000 The fact that a 75-year-old fairly senile man was given a six-month-old German Shepherd male puppy As a prop, right, like I am mad at the Bidens for doing

00:53:46.000 this, I'm mad at his handlers for doing this,

00:53:48.000 but I am angriest at the foster group because the reason why there are so many dogs in fosters

00:53:54.000 right now being held in pens is because they are so stringent on who fosters a dog.

00:54:02.000 And they are pretty strict, right?

00:54:04.000 You can't get a dog pretty easily.

00:54:06.000 But this guy somehow got one, and he got a difficult one.

00:54:09.000 German Shepherds, they are wonderful dogs, but they are by nature protective dogs.

00:54:14.000 They are guardians, and they are alphas.

00:54:17.000 They're dominants, right?

00:54:18.000 And Joe Biden is no alpha.

00:54:19.000 No matter how many aviators he wears, the leather jackets, the rhetoric, the, come on, man, I'll challenge you to push-ups right now.

00:54:26.000 That is all bluster. 1.00

00:54:27.000 And a dog is not as stupid as the American press corps. 1.00

00:54:31.000 And that dog is like, well, guess what, you know, bitch? 1.00

00:54:34.000 I am the alpha of this family. 1.00

00:54:36.000 Joe Biden's not disciplining me.

00:54:39.000 Jill is not disciplining me.

00:54:40.000 Hunter is off doing something else.

00:54:42.000 I am in charge of this family and that is why he is biting.

00:54:44.000 It bit two people?

00:54:46.000 Yes!

00:54:46.000 Okay, you might have to consider putting the dog down.

00:54:50.000 That is the law in multiple states.

00:54:53.000 I'm pretty sure it's the law in D.C.

00:54:54.000 Let me tell you something.

00:54:56.000 When you are training a dog, especially a German Shepherd, if you are too weak, the dog will not obey you.

00:55:03.000 German Shepherds are particularly tough.

00:55:06.000 These are, these are soldier dogs, man.

00:55:08.000 That's why, you know, cops use them. 0.96

00:55:09.000 These, these are some of the most, uh, intelligent and strong dogs.

00:55:15.000 Joe Biden, 78 year old man being given these dogs.

00:55:18.000 And you were right as a prop.

00:55:19.000 Yeah.

00:55:20.000 It was a prop because he wanted to look cool.

00:55:21.000 They made a big deal about the fact that Trump didn't have a dog.

00:55:24.000 And what man doesn't have a dog in the White House?

00:55:26.000 The White House always has dogs.

00:55:27.000 Obama got a dog.

00:55:28.000 A Portuguese water dog.

00:55:31.000 Right?

00:55:31.000 But leave the Portuguese water dogs alone.

00:55:34.000 No offense to all you Portuguese water dogs out there who are listening to Timcast. 1.00

00:55:38.000 But this was a prop.

00:55:39.000 This was to make him look cool and to get that talking point, he has a rescue dog.

00:55:44.000 And I, I think it does a lot of damage to the rescue dog community because it scares people, but he should not have been given this dog.

00:55:50.000 You can be 75 and foster a German shepherd puppy.

00:55:53.000 If you have been doing this your whole life, if you know what you, if you know what you are doing.

00:55:58.000 If it's your full-time job.

00:55:59.000 And if you are retired, yeah.

00:56:01.000 And I'm lucky that I work from home.

00:56:02.000 I live on this farm.

00:56:03.000 But you know, my older Blue Heeler, which is a great dog, but also is a guardian dog.

00:56:08.000 It's a cattle dog.

00:56:09.000 It is an alpha dog.

00:56:11.000 He's a year and a half, which is in dog years, you know, 17, 18.

00:56:16.000 And he sometimes, I will have to hold him down and yell it because He's like, I'm in charge.

00:56:21.000 You know what?

00:56:22.000 I'm going to do this and he will push and you have to push back if you want to.

00:56:26.000 And now that's why my dog, which is an interesting breed and aggressive, not aggressive, a happy, excitable breed, but it is as docile could be that people come over and they're like, Oh my gosh, your dog is so sweet.

00:56:37.000 That's not a friggin' accident.

00:56:38.000 My dog is sweet because it takes constant work.

00:56:41.000 And this poor Major... Can I have Major Biden, by the way?

00:56:45.000 I will take Major off your hands, because this dog is now probably gonna get put down as a vicious dog, and it's not. 1.00

00:56:52.000 He's got a stupid handler. 1.00

00:56:53.000 What if we send in the Dog Whisperer? 1.00

00:56:56.000 Who's that guy?

00:56:57.000 Caesar?

00:56:58.000 Caesar Milano?

00:56:59.000 Why, so Biden is on another reality show?

00:57:01.000 All right, you know.

00:57:02.000 Let's do it.

00:57:03.000 Dude, humans are being given a really bad name lately.

00:57:06.000 Because I was talking about this on one of my earlier segments.

00:57:09.000 There's this really, really awful video.

00:57:11.000 Where a 65-year-old Asian woman is walking to church, and some guy just brutally beats her, just stomping on her head.

00:57:17.000 Can't even watch it. 0.98

00:57:18.000 It's disgusting. 0.89

00:57:18.000 It's horrifying. 0.89

00:57:19.000 And these two security guards just watch.

00:57:21.000 And then one of them walks over and closes the door.

00:57:24.000 Even after the attacker leaves, some people are like, oh, you know, he didn't want to... Security guards couldn't intervene because they could get in trouble or be liable, and people were like, dude...

00:57:32.000 The attacker leaves, and the woman is writhing on the ground and, like, raising her hand. 0.98

00:57:36.000 And they come and close the door and walk away.

00:57:38.000 They could've got on their phones and called somebody and didn't do anything.

00:57:40.000 And I'm sitting here like... 0.94

00:57:42.000 Humans are doing really dumb stuff right now, and animals are starting to look a whole lot better. 0.96

00:57:47.000 Say this incident with the German Shepherd. 0.99

00:57:49.000 Joe Biden was given this dog.

00:57:51.000 It was a prop, as you said.

00:57:52.000 They were like, look at this guy with this dog.

00:57:54.000 And then the dog does dog stuff, and now it's just another news cycle.

00:57:59.000 And I'm thinking about this story with this Asian lady, and even a rooster will run and fight predators to protect chickens. 0.99

00:58:09.000 After it warns the chickens, it will make a certain call and the chickens will run in, which is great.

00:58:15.000 But we have people these days that are incapable.

00:58:18.000 They're weak.

00:58:19.000 And I guess what I'm trying to say is when you have a culture of people who just stand there and watch a 65 year old woman be brutally beaten on the street and they won't do anything and a rooster will, something's going good with chicken society. 0.97

00:58:30.000 It's not going good with our society because we vote for Joe Biden.

00:58:33.000 I don't mean we here on the show, but 80 million people vote for this guy.

00:58:36.000 And then he ends up being given this dog he can't control.

00:58:39.000 I'll tell you this, man.

00:58:41.000 If he can't control a German Shepherd, how is he going to control Putin or Kim Jong-un?

00:58:46.000 We are not doing well for ourselves when we're not electing even someone as capable as a rooster to protect us.

00:58:51.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:58:52.000 That's extremely well said.

00:58:55.000 Chicken society is going better than America. 1.00

00:59:00.000 And, you know, I'm sure they got this six-month-old puppy, and German Shepherd puppies are adorable, as all puppies, most puppies are.

00:59:08.000 But they do grow up and it's like people who have kids and they're like, well, this will be fun.

00:59:11.000 That's why I hate that MTV show, Teen Mom, because I think it glorifies how cool it is to be 15 or 16 and have a kid.

00:59:18.000 And I think it does a great disservice because kids do grow up.

00:59:21.000 And if they don't grow up in a good environment and I'm not, I'm just saying in a good environment, we'll leave it at that.

00:59:28.000 And Hunter, oh, not Hunter Biden.

00:59:30.000 Well, he didn't grow up in a great environment, but Major Biden the dog has now had three years not in a good environment, an undisciplined environment.

00:59:38.000 And look at where he is.

00:59:40.000 Does that maybe explain Hunter Biden?

00:59:41.000 Well, you know, there's an awful lot going on in Hunter Biden, and I will just say this, and it's going to be a little bit moralistic, and I apologize, but I'm just going to throw it out there.

00:59:51.000 The laptop stuff is bad.

00:59:52.000 The Chinese firms are bad. 1.00

00:59:53.000 The Ukrainian firms is bad. 1.00

00:59:55.000 That you are sleeping with your dead brother's wife and her sister simultaneously while you are fathering a child with a stripper? 1.00

01:00:04.000 You are a bad person. 1.00

01:00:08.000 I mean, period. 0.99

01:00:09.000 I have lots of sisters-in-law. 0.75

01:00:10.000 I couldn't imagine, well, for a couple reasons, but I couldn't imagine my brother dying and being like, you know what?

01:00:16.000 She's looking pretty good.

01:00:17.000 And then dating their sister simultaneously and having a child with a stripper.

01:00:23.000 And we're supposed to just pretend this is totally normal.

01:00:26.000 Well, you know, nope.

01:00:26.000 Not allowed to discuss it.

01:00:27.000 Family business.

01:00:28.000 Vile.

01:00:28.000 about it too is like it's his sister-in-law so it's like you know he's hooking up with a sister-in-law

01:00:35.000 and I thought about how weird it would be that they're like walking around in a relationship

01:00:38.000 and they both have the last name Biden yeah and they're not married and their kids are first

01:00:42.000 cousins but now they're stepbrother and sister so it's like so what do you what does your dad know

01:00:47.000 Is it Uncle Daddy?

01:00:51.000 I blame Joe, man.

01:00:54.000 I'm just imagining Joe Biden standing there with the dog, and the dog bites a guy, and then the dog's got the guy's arm, and he's like, Help me, Joe!

01:01:04.000 And Joe looks at the dog and goes, Come on, man!

01:01:06.000 and i just keeps going and it goes back to during the transition period when

01:01:11.000 biden had that cast on and he said i got out of the shower he pulled the dogs

01:01:15.000 tail which a i've never pulled my dogs and tail that's just not a somewhere

01:01:20.000 all you know why is a dog in the shower well it's a lot and why you play with

01:01:24.000 Also you could say.

01:01:26.000 But my point is, these are the questions that when Ivanka tweeted a photo of her two-year-old making a Lego house, they were like, we demand to know if he did this on his own or did he have help?

01:01:38.000 And you're like, what's going on with the dog and the naked and the foot?

01:01:42.000 And it's like, no, no, no.

01:01:44.000 And the son.

01:01:44.000 It's like, no, not off limits.

01:01:46.000 Family is off limits.

01:01:48.000 Joe Biden was in the shower with the dog in the bathroom, and he opens the shower and tries to grab the dog's tail.

01:01:54.000 You think it was a towel?

01:01:55.000 And yes.

01:01:56.000 Oh, God.

01:01:57.000 And that's how he that's how he sprained or broke his foot.

01:02:00.000 I think the dog might have bit him.

01:02:02.000 No, well, I think maybe the dog jumped on him.

01:02:05.000 You know, maybe the dog is trying to be the alpha, which is what I think probably happened.

01:02:10.000 Or the dog just jumped on him because it's a dog and fell over because he's 78.

01:02:14.000 Big German Shepherd.

01:02:15.000 But there's something not being told.

01:02:17.000 I'm going to put it this way.

01:02:20.000 I'm imagining Joe Biden.

01:02:22.000 I don't want to be imagining this.

01:02:24.000 I'm imagining from outside the shower.

01:02:26.000 I can't see within the shower.

01:02:28.000 Joe Biden is in there, he has the door open, and the dog walks in, and is sitting there for some reason, and then Hunter in his, I'm not Hunter, Joe, in his senility, goes like, he reaches and sees the tail, and thinks the tail's a towel, and starts pulling on it, and the dog yanks him, and he falls forward.

01:02:45.000 And I'm kind of like, I mean, it's a little Benny Hill, but maybe?

01:02:49.000 You know, maybe?

01:02:50.000 It's a weird story.

01:02:52.000 It's a very weird story.

01:02:53.000 I'm thinking he pulled the shower curtain open, the dog was like, excited to see him, and he maybe even was like, yeah, come here, and the dog knocked him down.

01:02:59.000 What is a dog in the bathroom?

01:03:00.000 That makes a lot of sense.

01:03:01.000 What is a dog in the bathroom?

01:03:02.000 And that's the rule.

01:03:03.000 He's got separation anxiety.

01:03:04.000 No dogs in the bathroom.

01:03:07.000 I am sometimes a little bit even prudish.

01:03:10.000 Bathroom time, my time.

01:03:12.000 My one dog will try to knock on the door all the time. 1.00

01:03:14.000 I'm like, nope, outside.

01:03:15.000 Bathroom.

01:03:16.000 No matter what's going on in the bathroom, no one needs to be privy to it.

01:03:19.000 Animal, person.

01:03:20.000 I gotta ask.

01:03:22.000 Maybe that was the first sign that the dog should have been taken away.

01:03:25.000 When we were like, why is the dog in the shower?

01:03:28.000 Or outside the shower, or whatever's going on.

01:03:30.000 What are you doing, Joe?

01:03:31.000 But now you see why Vladimir Putin is challenging him to a live conversation that has to be streamed on YouTube in real time.

01:03:37.000 And it's like, maybe this is why.

01:03:39.000 I mean, and I'm not mocking his senility because we all have family members who have gone through and we witnessed it.

01:03:45.000 I have a grandmother.

01:03:46.000 I have a great aunt.

01:03:46.000 I've seen it before.

01:03:48.000 It's heartbreaking.

01:03:48.000 And it may happen to me one day, but I tweeted this actually a couple weeks ago.

01:03:54.000 I like to think the person I am married to Loves me enough at least that when I am senile they will protect me from myself and not parade me around for the world to see.

01:04:04.000 And what is happening to him right now in real time we are witnessing and no one loves him enough to say this is not right.

01:04:11.000 And that's tragic.

01:04:12.000 But listen, it's everything we talked about.

01:04:14.000 It's weakness.

01:04:15.000 It's people saying, I'm not going to get involved.

01:04:17.000 I'm not going to stick my neck out.

01:04:18.000 It's the security guards saying, I'm not going to help this woman.

01:04:21.000 It's Joe Biden's own family not telling him to sit down and shut up. 0.94

01:04:26.000 Joe, you're too old. 0.97

01:04:27.000 It's time to come home.

01:04:28.000 Listen, man, he served in government, what, 47 years?

01:04:32.000 I was saying this when he was running.

01:04:33.000 It's like, Joe, thank you for your service.

01:04:36.000 I'm not a fan of Joe Biden or his policies, but I get it.

01:04:39.000 We're gonna be respectful and say, it's been a great 47 years.

01:04:43.000 You're 77 years old.

01:04:44.000 We got a nice little rocking chair in the sunroom for you.

01:04:46.000 We'll get you a nice little blanket for your lap and you can read some books, maybe play some Candy Crush or whatever it is.

01:04:51.000 I don't know, you probably need big glasses because he's pretty old.

01:04:54.000 Instead, everyone around him is like, you should be the president!

01:04:58.000 And now we're at the point where it's the Biden-Harris administration.

01:05:03.000 I genuinely wonder if Joe doesn't understand what's happening around him.

01:05:06.000 I don't know, I mean you look at that summit recently in Alaska, now he wasn't present there but his administration was and China just basically laughed at us on our own territory.

01:05:16.000 You look at these comments from Vladimir Putin, you look at the increasing hostility from Iran and you say the world is not the slightest bit concerned with him and so the collectivist world, the UN is pushing The Paris Accords, the climate change stuff.

01:05:31.000 Heck, we don't even have the backbone to stand up and say, let's not have the Olympics in China because they have two million Uyghur slaves who they are beating and raping on a daily basis. 1.00

01:05:40.000 And we're like, nah, it's cool, man. 0.72

01:05:41.000 Make another Disney movie.

01:05:42.000 To be fair, and with respect, the Biden administration did issue sanctions on some Chinese officials from the Xinjiang region.

01:05:49.000 So I can give credit for that.

01:05:50.000 Good.

01:05:51.000 Absolutely.

01:05:51.000 We give credit.

01:05:52.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:05:53.000 I hope it's the right strategy.

01:05:54.000 I say it that way because I'm like, listen, I'm glad he's doing something.

01:05:58.000 And I hope it's the right move.

01:05:59.000 It might not work.

01:06:00.000 It might backfire.

01:06:01.000 It may work perfectly.

01:06:02.000 I'm glad the Biden administration is at least doing something.

01:06:05.000 And I wonder if...

01:06:07.000 What was really going on is that China was this growing threat to the U.S., to the world, for a lot of reasons, and we ignored it, mostly because it didn't sell.

01:06:19.000 You want to run for office?

01:06:20.000 You don't got to talk about China.

01:06:21.000 You talk about all these other issues.

01:06:24.000 We mentioned the other day, I was watching Man of the Year with Robin Williams.

01:06:28.000 There's this scene where he's complaining.

01:06:29.000 He's like, they're talking about an amendment to the Constitution to ban flag burning while four million illegal aliens cross our border.

01:06:36.000 That was Robin Williams saying that, mind you, so it was really interesting.

01:06:39.000 But that's the point he's bringing up.

01:06:41.000 When it comes to politics, they're going to come out and they're going to be like, oh, look at all these problems we have.

01:06:45.000 And then Trump comes out and goes, China.

01:06:48.000 And he starts that narrative.

01:06:49.000 And now all of a sudden, people have started to realize this.

01:06:52.000 There have been polls showing that even a small percentage, like a decent, I think it's like 30% of Democrats are worried about China, mostly Republicans, but not to the point where Joe Biden's realizing the sentiment and the focus on China has become too much to ignore.

01:07:06.000 So now he kind of has no choice.

01:07:08.000 It's a remnant of the Trump era policies he has to maintain.

01:07:11.000 I'll never understand when it comes to China and we've really gone off course from Crowder

01:07:17.000 but it's fascinating how this conversation evolves.

01:07:21.000 I'll never understand when it comes to China being a kid of the 80s, I'm older than you,

01:07:25.000 we just talked about ages earlier.

01:07:27.000 We always treated the Soviet Union like an enemy. 0.70

01:07:30.000 We were told communism is an evil belief.

01:07:35.000 Communists don't want our best intentions.

01:07:39.000 They are our enemy.

01:07:40.000 We never moved our factories there.

01:07:43.000 Right, but when it came to China we were like, Communists are bad, but I mean you can make all of our DVD players and our cars and now our wind turbines and our solar panels and basically everything that is sold on Amazon and 95% of our, yeah, of our pharmaceutical industry and I'll never understand why we got into bed with the Communists because we always knew Communism was an evil belief. 0.80

01:08:02.000 Was that Nixon?

01:08:04.000 He opened up China to trade, yeah.

01:08:06.000 As opposed to saying, no, they're no better than the Soviets. 0.99

01:08:09.000 They look different, but they are just as evil, because communism is evil. 0.85

01:08:13.000 We treated Cuba that way. 0.93

01:08:15.000 We never said Cuba's bad, but you know what?

01:08:18.000 Why don't we move all of our sugar cane production there? 0.53

01:08:21.000 But we did with China, and it will always remain fascinating to me.

01:08:24.000 And that is not a partisan issue, because Bush did it, Clinton did it, another Bush did it.

01:08:31.000 You know, we all watched China rise, but we never had this fear of China that we did with the Russians.

01:08:37.000 And people will say, wow, the fear of the Russians was overblown, it was exaggerated.

01:08:41.000 But we believed as a country that communism was evil.

01:08:45.000 It is.

01:08:47.000 China's like a weird neo-communist capitalist amalgamation.

01:08:51.000 Probably we're using the wrong word when we call them communists.

01:08:54.000 We have defaulted to authoritarian, but maybe there's a new socio-political movement or structure that could be named and China has enacted it.

01:09:05.000 I don't want to offend our good communist viewers by besmirching the good name of communism.

01:09:10.000 Of course!

01:09:11.000 Communism works locally.

01:09:12.000 Absolutely.

01:09:12.000 I was kidding, but all right.

01:09:16.000 In the family, communism.

01:09:17.000 In the community, socialism.

01:09:18.000 In the country, capitalism.

01:09:20.000 I always put it like this, like, left libertarianism, which is like communism, you know, at its core ideology, only works when it's like a handful of people live in a farm together.

01:09:29.000 Yeah.

01:09:30.000 It's like, you know, I picked up the eggs from the chickens.

01:09:32.000 Would you like to share?

01:09:33.000 A commune.

01:09:35.000 Exactly.

01:09:36.000 It doesn't scale up because, you know, that was the joke you made the other night.

01:09:40.000 This is the question I was actually wondering when you mentioned, like we said, Russia, the Soviet Union was bad. 0.96

01:09:44.000 China is bad, but we can still trade with them. 0.99

01:09:47.000 Who killed more people? 0.97

01:09:48.000 Didn't Mao kill, like, substantially more people?

01:09:51.000 Close to 100 million.

01:09:52.000 Yeah, that's what I thought.

01:09:53.000 Starving them.

01:09:53.000 Almost double.

01:09:53.000 Most people don't even know.

01:09:54.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:09:55.000 Isn't, like, double what Stalin, what the Soviet Union did?

01:09:58.000 Yeah.

01:10:00.000 Let's work with them, I guess!

01:10:01.000 Exactly, exactly.

01:10:02.000 Yeah, I mean, he starved close to 100 million of his own people. 0.96

01:10:07.000 Pig iron.

01:10:08.000 You know about the pig iron stuff?

01:10:10.000 No, I've never heard of that.

01:10:10.000 I don't know the full story, but it was like he ordered everybody to melt down their tools or whatever.

01:10:14.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:10:15.000 What was that about?

01:10:16.000 Like, they were trying to make weapons, I guess?

01:10:17.000 They were, and build their infrastructure.

01:10:20.000 Yeah, and then no one had anything with which to cook or to farm or to...

01:10:24.000 Same with the sparrows.

01:10:25.000 That's what I was going to say, the sparrows.

01:10:27.000 The Great Sparrow Campaign, because the sparrows were eating the wheat.

01:10:30.000 And that was the biggest predator of wheat.

01:10:31.000 So they were like, great, kill all the sparrows.

01:10:33.000 And you would get a little badge every time you killed a sparrow.

01:10:35.000 And all the kids were taught to kill sparrows to get badges until the locusts came.

01:10:43.000 No sparrows to eat them? 0.99

01:10:44.000 Because there were no sparrows to eat them.

01:10:45.000 And then something absurd, like 13 million people died that year because there was no wheat, because the locusts.

01:10:53.000 destroyed all the wheat crops and you say, well, this is why communists should not be ever in control.

01:10:58.000 Well, but hold on.

01:10:59.000 Can't you eat the locusts?

01:11:02.000 I imagine you could mill them into a paste and, you know, make bread with them or something.

01:11:06.000 Probably.

01:11:08.000 But they come from above.

01:11:09.000 I will not eat the bugs.

01:11:10.000 I will not live in the pods.

01:11:11.000 Yeah, I'm not eating bugs.

01:11:13.000 I got no problem with eating bugs, man.

01:11:14.000 As long as you can catch.

01:11:17.000 I watch these videos where it's like some dude out in the middle of nowhere and he's like all super ripped and he's like, if you want to survive in the wild, you got to figure out where to find water.

01:11:24.000 And then he goes and he like drinks muddy water and then he's like, and food and he lifts a rock and he's like eating millet.

01:11:28.000 I'm kidding.

01:11:29.000 I'm half kidding.

01:11:30.000 But there's a lot of these videos of like survivalists.

01:11:31.000 And dysentery.

01:11:33.000 Here are the bugs you can eat.

01:11:34.000 Here's how you eat them.

01:11:34.000 Here's how you cook them.

01:11:35.000 And I'm like, I don't care about eating bugs.

01:11:37.000 When there's no other food, I will.

01:11:39.000 I mean, whatever.

01:11:40.000 Yeah, same.

01:11:40.000 You know what you do?

01:11:41.000 Listen, listen.

01:11:42.000 You do what you need to to stay alive.

01:11:44.000 We got chickens.

01:11:45.000 I brought it up earlier, but we have chickens.

01:11:47.000 They walk around all day.

01:11:47.000 All they do is eat bugs.

01:11:48.000 Yeah.

01:11:49.000 And then when they're old enough, they poop out an egg.

01:11:51.000 Yes!

01:11:52.000 And they eat the egg.

01:11:53.000 I don't got to eat the bugs.

01:11:54.000 I eat the egg.

01:11:54.000 There you go.

01:11:55.000 Problem solved.

01:11:56.000 Were we talking about China?

01:11:57.000 Transmutation of matter, yeah.

01:12:00.000 Yeah, having all the locusts.

01:12:02.000 The problem ultimately was the command economy.

01:12:07.000 The idea of communism is this utopian idea that everyone's holding hands and everyone owns everything and the factory just operates and there's no hierarchy, no leadership. 0.77

01:12:17.000 And it's usually children and the ignorant who propose it because they don't realize what specialties are.

01:12:27.000 You have someone whose specialty is building a keystone pipeline as a welder with 25 years experience, and then you're told by quasi-communist John Kerry, well you can just build a solar panel now. 0.91

01:12:38.000 Exactly.

01:12:39.000 So what happens is, when somebody who actually knows how the infrastructure of pipelines work, Is seeing all of his specialists who build pipelines and they're told by the guy in government, make solar panels.

01:12:53.000 He's like, we don't know how to do that.

01:12:56.000 Think about how that scales up in communism.

01:12:58.000 The communist government says, just have them all make solar panels.

01:13:01.000 And they go here, here, and they bang the gavel.

01:13:03.000 And then all of a sudden a bunch of people are like looking down at circuitry and photovoltaic cells.

01:13:07.000 And they're like, What do I do?

01:13:09.000 I plug what into what and where, and do what?

01:13:12.000 That's what Mao did with the farmers, right?

01:13:13.000 He took a bunch of professors in intelligentsia and moved them out to the farms.

01:13:18.000 And it was like, now you farm.

01:13:19.000 And they were like, we don't know how.

01:13:21.000 And then they all starved.

01:13:22.000 Yeah.

01:13:23.000 In the Soviet Union, they used to determine output by weight.

01:13:29.000 So they would say, how many nails did you produce? 0.84

01:13:31.000 Well, we measure output by weight.

01:13:33.000 So they made really fat, heavy nails.

01:13:36.000 And which are useless, right?

01:13:38.000 They're not any good, but they were hitting the criteria, and that is the collectivist concern I have of this administration when it comes to, tomorrow they're gonna unveil a $4 trillion infrastructure and jobs plan, and who's going to, $4 trillion.

01:13:51.000 How long is the, over how many months or years is that coming?

01:13:55.000 Oh, you know, I have no idea.

01:13:57.000 Wow, another $4 trillion.

01:13:58.000 We'll see it come out tomorrow, but who are these collectivists saying, yes, this is what we need to make happen?

01:14:03.000 It's democratic.

01:14:05.000 I have willed a train, we were talking about this earlier, from Miami to Seattle is on the map.

01:14:10.000 And they showed you the map of going through Florida and all across the panhandle.

01:14:14.000 Oh, the high-speed rail?

01:14:15.000 The high-speed rail.

01:14:16.000 Now, how much land they're going to have to confiscate will be absolutely fascinating.

01:14:20.000 But who is this person that has decided, is there really that much of a move from people from Miami to, well, probably from Seattle to Miami, because everyone's going to Florida.

01:14:29.000 California's been trying for 10 years now to build this high-speed rail.

01:14:32.000 They are a hundred billion dollars at price point.

01:14:36.000 It's not even close to done.

01:14:37.000 It's 12 years behind schedule and the price point is so expensive that no one will be able to afford to take the train.

01:14:44.000 Well, this is what happens when collectivists decide they want to be in charge of the train system, right?

01:14:48.000 Vanderbilt never had this problem, and he built more darn trains in this country than anyone in the world, and somehow he made it work.

01:14:55.000 Take a look at what China's doing. 0.94

01:14:56.000 They've somehow managed to use the authoritarian system to control capitalistic infrastructure, allowing them to rapidly expand their infrastructure.

01:15:04.000 They have, what, 40,000 kilometers of high-speed rail?

01:15:06.000 Yeah.

01:15:07.000 We can't even get this one done in California.

01:15:08.000 You know why?

01:15:09.000 Because there's no environmental group suing to say, what about the spotted turtle?

01:15:13.000 There is no labor group saying, you cannot do this.

01:15:16.000 We need to have weekends off.

01:15:18.000 There's no child protection group.

01:15:20.000 There's no OSHA.

01:15:21.000 So you can get a lot done.

01:15:22.000 And that's what drives me crazy when authoritarians like Paul Krugman and other economists say they marvel at what China is able to do.

01:15:29.000 This is incredible.

01:15:30.000 They built this whole Olympic Stadium for Beijing in a week.

01:15:33.000 It's like, well yes, they were able to do that.

01:15:34.000 When you have basically slave labor with no opposition, with no freedoms, you can build the bird's nest in Beijing in record time. 0.77

01:15:41.000 Yeah, it's amazing what you can do as a country when you weld people into their homes when they get sick, and you kidnap them overnight for insulting their police.

01:15:50.000 And the authoritarians like John Kerry and Paul Krugman are never the ones who will be conscripted to the labor.

01:15:58.000 And that's why when people were like, Bernie Sanders is a communist, I would always say he's not a communist.

01:16:02.000 He is a Communist Party leader.

01:16:04.000 Because at the height of the Soviet Union's misery, there was never a shortage of vodka or caviar.

01:16:10.000 And that is what John Kerry and Paul Krugman and all these folks are.

01:16:13.000 They are never the working class nine-year-old girl who was forced in the labor mines.

01:16:18.000 They are the party leaders that show up in big fancy cars and have a toast.

01:16:22.000 Remember when Maduro ate the empanada on TV?

01:16:25.000 You remember that?

01:16:25.000 In Venezuela?

01:16:27.000 His nation is starving to death.

01:16:29.000 And he's still very plump.

01:16:31.000 And while he's talking, he just reaches into a drawer in his desk and pulls out an empanada and takes a bite of it.

01:16:37.000 And I'm just like, dude, you couldn't wait 10 minutes?

01:16:40.000 He had to eat an empanada while his nation's starving.

01:16:43.000 Absolutely insane.

01:16:44.000 When I was in Venezuela, you know what I saw?

01:16:46.000 How a command economy functions, very similarly to what you were saying about China, in order to make jobs.

01:16:52.000 They just say, make it a job.

01:16:54.000 So I went to go buy a cell phone.

01:16:56.000 And there was like six different desks you had to go to.

01:16:59.000 I walk and talk to one guy.

01:17:00.000 It's the acquisitions department.

01:17:01.000 I tell him what I'm looking for and he explains to me.

01:17:03.000 Sends me over to the supply desk.

01:17:06.000 I had to go to each individual person.

01:17:07.000 You want to pick out your plan?

01:17:08.000 You gotta go to the person who helps you pick out the plan.

01:17:11.000 Then you gotta go to the person who actually goes and gets the card for you.

01:17:14.000 Then you gotta go to the person who helps you pick out a phone.

01:17:16.000 Then you gotta go to the person who actually gets the phone.

01:17:18.000 They made fake jobs for the sake of having jobs.

01:17:21.000 Whereas in the US, you walk into the phone store, this person walks up to you and says, I'd like a phone.

01:17:25.000 No problem.

01:17:25.000 They pull it up, they punch in the number, take your card, swipe it, you're good to go.

01:17:28.000 For the sake of having jobs, they just make everything worse.

01:17:32.000 Oh, that's because a private company in the United States wants to cut down on overhead, so they don't hire superfluously, but the government can just accrue tax dollars to pay for nonsense.

01:17:43.000 And then they work for me now.

01:17:44.000 But it's not just about tax dollars, because it's, you know, communism or whatever.

01:17:48.000 They're just basically like, we want everyone to be working.

01:17:52.000 You know, idle hands of the devil's playground or whatever, so.

01:17:55.000 Make them work, make jobs.

01:17:57.000 And so I'm like, why did it take me three hours to buy this phone?

01:18:00.000 And the phone barely worked!

01:18:01.000 I went to the mall, the mall was dead, it's like all the stores are closed, well...

01:18:05.000 They can't just mandate, you can mandate a job for a company that's a necessity.

01:18:08.000 People need cell phones.

01:18:09.000 This technology is important for people to work and for the economy to grow.

01:18:12.000 So that was in spite of what the government was doing.

01:18:16.000 At a mall where small businesses are supposed to flourish and experiment and make products, they couldn't.

01:18:21.000 They couldn't do it because people didn't have the resources.

01:18:23.000 Now, the craziest thing, these photos from Venezuela of the Bolivar, I think it's the Bolivar Fuerte now, their currency, because they had the Bolivar.

01:18:30.000 The billion dollar bill, right?

01:18:33.000 Yeah.

01:18:33.000 They had the Bolivar first.

01:18:35.000 Then they were like, we're gonna change this to the Bolivar Fuerte!

01:18:38.000 And then they launched that, and now those videos are just people shoveling it into the trash.

01:18:42.000 It's like garbage bags full of money, and it's like more useful as toilet paper than anything else.

01:18:48.000 Venezuela will always fascinate me.

01:18:50.000 I always have to talk about energy, it's what I do for a living, but they are the country with the world's largest oil reserves, proven oil reserves, Venezuela.

01:18:58.000 They went from one of the world leaders in oil to now there's roughly a week wait to fill up your car with gas And then you say how Milton Friedman used to joke that if the federal government were in charge of the Sahara Desert They'd eventually run out of sand right was his favorite joke and and this this is the country with the largest oil reserves Cannot produce oil anymore It seems as though it's intentional by the CIA because they don't want to use OPEC dollars.

01:19:23.000 They've been staunchly anti-military-industrial complex and like, yeah, we're gonna destroy your economy, suffer.

01:19:28.000 Maybe, dude.

01:19:29.000 Yeah, they're one of the targets.

01:19:30.000 Sure, but Venezuela can mine, can pull the oil out of the ground.

01:19:35.000 It's like they don't have the technology and the machines.

01:19:37.000 But they've been sanctioned.

01:19:37.000 They couldn't get like, well, I heard they couldn't get toilet paper.

01:19:40.000 I was never there.

01:19:42.000 And then they made a villain out of their leader.

01:19:43.000 Like, it's textbook CIA stuff.

01:19:47.000 The CIA makes the toilet paper?

01:19:48.000 No, the U.S.

01:19:49.000 government sanctioned Venezuela.

01:19:51.000 So Venezuela needs to, if they were a capitalist economy, hey, they'd do really, really well.

01:19:55.000 If they joined us, if they simply joined the military industrial complex.

01:19:58.000 I'm not saying that.

01:19:59.000 I'm saying if Venezuela allowed small businesses to grow and flourish, and they didn't mandate ridiculous garbage jobs, maybe they'd have their own toilet paper and wouldn't be worried about the sanctions.

01:20:08.000 Maybe they would then have the infrastructure and the capability of producing machines that could harvest the oil and the petroleum and refine it.

01:20:14.000 But there's kind of a small country, and they're a jungle country too, so they don't have a lot of the resources.

01:20:18.000 A jungle country? 0.96

01:20:19.000 Yeah, there's a lot of jungle in Venezuela.

01:20:20.000 So they need to develop it.

01:20:21.000 The problem is they're a mismanaged command economy where an overweight man eats an empanada on TV while his nation is starving.

01:20:29.000 I want some con.

01:20:30.000 Look, man, if my neighbor was mad at me and he was blocking the road to my house or whatever, and there were still tons of land on my property and a capability of taking care of myself, there's a certain point where you gotta be like, well, I shouldn't have bought a property with no easement for the road.

01:20:46.000 Venezuela has the ability.

01:20:48.000 The problem is they are a horribly mismanaged country.

01:20:51.000 Maduro was a bus driver.

01:20:53.000 Hugo Chavez was like, we want a working person to be in charge, so this bus driver is going to be the president from now on.

01:21:01.000 Didn't Venezuela dissolve their Congress or something?

01:21:03.000 I mean, Venezuela, before Hugo Chavez came into power, was by far the wealthiest country in Latin America and by far the most educated.

01:21:10.000 I mean, they were almost on par with the United States in terms of GDP, in terms of prosperity.

01:21:16.000 So to watch their decline under someone who was elected under a lot of the same rhetoric we hear, fair share, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, when I'm in charge we're going to have a blah blah blah and people, going back to one of the earlier conversations, people vote for their own interests and if you make their interest taking other people's prosperity, wealth, absolving your debt, People are going to vote for that.

01:21:40.000 And that's what happened.

01:21:42.000 Bush hated Chavez, Bush Jr., because he used military-industrial complex all the way.

01:21:46.000 They wanted Venezuela's oil.

01:21:48.000 So maybe Maduro was kind of like a CIA plant.

01:21:51.000 They got him in and now they're villainizing him.

01:21:54.000 They let him ruin the country.

01:21:55.000 Now they're like, we got to get him out and put another guy in that's even more sympathetic to our cause.

01:21:59.000 This is all conspiracy level stuff.

01:22:01.000 Yeah, but it's also in plain sight stuff.

01:22:02.000 the CIA and their involvement and we just, we're never gonna know.

01:22:06.000 We understand the tales of the economic hitmen, we know about all that stuff.

01:22:10.000 But the fact of the matter remains, I have been to Venezuela.

01:22:14.000 I have literally seen how awfully managed the country is.

01:22:17.000 I have seen other journalists go there and go to Potemkin supermarkets and lie about

01:22:22.000 the food they have.

01:22:23.000 Luke went there.

01:22:24.000 He went to a random neighborhood market, he's like, it's empty.

01:22:27.000 He traveled around and saw how bad it was.

01:22:28.000 And there's other journalists come out with these videos where they're like, look at all this glorious food in Venezuela!

01:22:32.000 And it's like, clearly that's not true.

01:22:35.000 I had to flee the country rather quickly because I got accused of being a spy simply for being there and showing people what was really going on.

01:22:41.000 There were protests, students were revolting.

01:22:43.000 It was bad.

01:22:44.000 Caracas at the time was the murder capital of the world.

01:22:48.000 This is a problem of leadership.

01:22:50.000 And I get it.

01:22:51.000 Maybe there's the CIA doing everything in their power to stop them, but listen.

01:22:54.000 If they're a jungle nation, maybe they should start developing parts of their country. 1.00

01:22:58.000 It used to be that people would go out with a saw and just chop trees down and develop land.

01:23:02.000 Then we got machinery.

01:23:03.000 Maybe they can't get access to a lot of these things, but it doesn't explain why they have ridiculous jobs at ridiculous companies, why they can't start small businesses, why they can't produce food, and they have all of this oil they don't know how to use properly.

01:23:13.000 Now, apparently, oil is cheap for the people there, but it's really hard to get because they're horribly mismanaged.

01:23:19.000 Well, when you're shoveling your currency into the fireplace, it doesn't matter if it's cheap.

01:23:23.000 Right.

01:23:24.000 I mean, if it costs 45 cents a gallon, you say, well, that's cheap.

01:23:27.000 But if hyperinflation makes your currency useless, well, then 45 cents is as expensive as $4.

01:23:35.000 And also hyperinflation is obviously their fault.

01:23:39.000 It is the fault of their own country.

01:23:41.000 They're reacting.

01:23:42.000 I'm not going to call it reacting.

01:23:44.000 It's mismanagement, bro.

01:23:46.000 Communists don't.

01:23:47.000 It doesn't work.

01:23:49.000 Now, I'll tell you this.

01:23:50.000 China certainly figured it out, but look at what China does with their capitalistic enterprises.

01:23:55.000 Venezuela doesn't do that.

01:23:56.000 They have a command economy.

01:23:58.000 Maybe they'd learn if they just looked at what China was doing and they could make their pseudo-communism work, but I guess that wouldn't really be communism.

01:24:03.000 They're so tiny.

01:24:03.000 That's their problem.

01:24:04.000 They're kind of a satellite state.

01:24:07.000 I feel like...

01:24:09.000 It's not an excuse for our country to be like, but America is mean to us.

01:24:13.000 It's like, so?

01:24:15.000 You have to, like, you're responsible for yourself, man.

01:24:18.000 You can't complain that someone else won't send you toilet paper.

01:24:21.000 I'm curious to see what happens with China as their crackdown on Hong Kong continues because it is a huge economic engine.

01:24:28.000 It's a world economic engine, a financial hub.

01:24:31.000 uh... there and there they're really cracking down hard on hong kong

01:24:35.000 and if if hong kong is unable to compete on a on a financial world level

01:24:39.000 and freedom i wonder what that is the overall chinese economy and i'd

01:24:43.000 like taking over hong kong heart has been a twenty year plan

01:24:46.000 since the turnover of the which i think was like january first two thousand

01:24:49.000 right wasn't right at the beginning of the millennial was when when the millennia when when

01:24:54.000 the u k gave up on kong I don't remember the exact date.

01:24:56.000 And there was like a certain time frame.

01:24:57.000 There was a certain time frame.

01:24:59.000 And here we are 20 years later.

01:25:00.000 And basically that even I'm sure the Biden administration would recognize the word on the street is for the expats is don't stay in Hong Kong.

01:25:08.000 Hong Kong was a British colony.

01:25:10.000 And then they were like, after 100 years, I think it was, we're going to give it back to China. 0.98

01:25:13.000 China's like, we're going to take Hong Kong, but we're not going to infringe on some of their sovereignty.

01:25:17.000 Although they did by extraditing criminals to the Chinese courts.

01:25:20.000 But Hong Kong is never supposed to be independent.

01:25:23.000 That was never part of the deal.

01:25:24.000 So this whole like free Hong Kong thing is not what was ever part of the global plan.

01:25:29.000 The U.S.

01:25:29.000 is pushing it right now because everyone I think a lot of Americans would love to see a independent Hong Kong state.

01:25:34.000 But the idea was the British give it to the Chinese.

01:25:36.000 Terrifying as it is.

01:25:37.000 That was the plan.

01:25:39.000 Are we going to what are we going to back out on that?

01:25:41.000 What year do we live in?

01:25:42.000 2021.

01:25:42.000 Thank you.

01:25:43.000 Thank you.

01:25:45.000 Where a country, the UK, can be like, we're going to give the people of this, you know, small island city.

01:25:51.000 It's still a colonization plan, man.

01:25:53.000 They still have Australia and Canada, Britain, it's crazy.

01:25:56.000 But what I'm saying is like, if, what would happen right now if the UK was like, we're going to give America to Canada. 0.99

01:26:03.000 We'd be like, shut your mouth!

01:26:05.000 That's just not happening.

01:26:07.000 And so what really happens is China sends in spies and propagandists and military, and they conquered Hong Kong.

01:26:16.000 They did.

01:26:16.000 They install their people, they remove anyone who opposes them, and now they're just eroding away at the institutions and Hong Kong will be taken over at the administrative level.

01:26:25.000 It's freakish, and I can't see... I mean, I feel justice at the core of my soul.

01:26:30.000 And I feel like justice is to deliver Hong Kong to the Chinese, as was planned. 1.00

01:26:35.000 Because that was part of the contract.

01:26:37.000 The people of Hong Kong didn't agree to that contract.

01:26:39.000 No, people a hundred years ago agreed to it.

01:26:41.000 They're all gone.

01:26:42.000 It's crazy system.

01:26:43.000 I mean, would we break the contract?

01:26:45.000 I don't think we have to stick to the contract.

01:26:47.000 You know, they did... The Balfour Declaration, I think it was post-World War I, was like, Hey Arabs, since you betrayed the Ottomans and helped us win World War I, the British and the French were like, we're gonna give you the land of where now Israel is. 0.80

01:27:00.000 And then at the end of World War I, they reneged on that contract and said, no Arabs, we're not gonna give it to you. 0.95

01:27:06.000 They created the Israeli state, and that's where all this tension came from.

01:27:08.000 The Arabs were like, we were supposed to have that! 0.96

01:27:10.000 It was a contract!

01:27:11.000 Yeah, I think giving people their freedom is always a good thing, but returning people to an evil regime is not.

01:27:17.000 And so to say like, we're gonna give Hong Kong its independence from the crown, I mean, we got our independence from the crown.

01:27:23.000 I would be in favor of that.

01:27:24.000 But that would be like America saying, and now we're going to give Puerto Rico to Cuba. 0.53

01:27:28.000 And it's like, well, because you speak the same language and you're very close to each other.

01:27:31.000 Well, wait a second.

01:27:32.000 Why?

01:27:32.000 Why are you sacrificing us as your people?

01:27:35.000 And I feel like the British had they were their people and they turned them over and they turned them over to the communists. 0.60

01:27:41.000 And I mean, we fought the whole eastern block of Europe was to prevent the Soviet Union from infringing more and more in there. 0.56

01:27:50.000 Because we realized how evil it was.

01:27:52.000 And now it's like, eh, you can just take it.

01:27:54.000 Well, you know, take the Czech Republic.

01:27:56.000 It's all good.

01:27:57.000 Take Austria. 0.84

01:27:58.000 You guys speak the same language anyway.

01:28:00.000 Isn't it really funny that two world wars and a cold war were fought for the express purpose of stopping one consolidated power taking over Europe?

01:28:09.000 And then finally they're just like, maybe we should just do it anyway.

01:28:13.000 And then the European Union comes in and there you go.

01:28:15.000 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

01:28:17.000 And now we're teaching all our kids Mandarin in class because we think it's fun.

01:28:20.000 It's like, great.

01:28:21.000 Just learn the language of your conquering overlords.

01:28:24.000 Hey, you know, get ready for assimilation. 0.97

01:28:26.000 Hong Kong is the elephant in the room right now.

01:28:30.000 Like, what do we do if it becomes independent?

01:28:33.000 China will invade and we'll be forced to have some defensive pact. 1.00

01:28:37.000 Catalyzing World War I all over again or whatever, some stupid... If the British keep it, then they're under violation of contract. 1.00

01:28:44.000 I mean, that'd be a terrible situation.

01:28:46.000 China would take it even if Britain was like, we're keeping it. 0.99

01:28:48.000 They'd be like, we don't care.

01:28:49.000 Don't care.

01:28:50.000 I mean, it's basically connected to China.

01:28:52.000 They're going to take Taiwan because to the pro-Chinese individuals, they genuinely think Taiwan is already part of China.

01:29:00.000 The one China policy. 0.90

01:29:02.000 So are there, like, other YouTubers who are super pro-China who have, like, ragged on me?

01:29:06.000 And they're like, Taiwan is not an independent nation.

01:29:08.000 It is not recognized as one.

01:29:09.000 It is a part of China.

01:29:12.000 And I'm like, okay, well, you know, you have no control over them, so I beg to differ.

01:29:16.000 You're gonna need to send in military to conquer that island because you don't have control over them. 0.97

01:29:22.000 They are independent.

01:29:23.000 Yeah.

01:29:24.000 And that's completely different than Hong Kong.

01:29:26.000 Taiwan is like another pseudo-independent state.

01:29:29.000 Oh, but my point is, China is preparing to go in and take Taiwan.

01:29:34.000 So you think the UK saw the writing on the wall and they were like, Well, we've fallen from grace as one of the great empires of the world, and now we're a tiny island nation that can't even win a deal with the EU for, you know, takes three or four years.

01:29:48.000 What are they gonna do against China?

01:29:50.000 The Queen is powerless.

01:29:52.000 So she dropped to her knees and she kissed the pinky ring of Xi Jinping.

01:29:56.000 That's what the Queen did. 1.00

01:29:57.000 Pathetic. 1.00

01:29:58.000 And that's why we should impeach the Queen. 1.00

01:30:00.000 Absolutely!

01:30:00.000 Impeach Queen Elizabeth!

01:30:01.000 She's a bigot. 0.99

01:30:02.000 Dude, this, this, um, the Olympics in China, it's so World War, reminiscent of World War 0.83

01:30:08.000 II.

01:30:09.000 Like we're going to seed land of them like we did with Czechoslovakia, I think it was. 0.99

01:30:12.000 And then we're going to hold the Olympics in China to appease them, show the world they're

01:30:15.000 not so bad.

01:30:16.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:30:17.000 And then Joe Biden's going to go, come on, man.

01:30:19.000 Peace in our time!

01:30:20.000 And for reference, we hosted the Olympics in Nazi Germany.

01:30:23.000 What was it, 1930 or something?

01:30:24.000 And our U.S. 0.51

01:30:25.000 Olympic Committee just allowed, today they passed a ruling that you are allowed to protest the National Anthem at the upcoming Olympics.

01:30:34.000 So we will have quasi-communist athletes in China kneeling at the National Anthem after their taxpayers just paid for their, like, four years as a speed skater or whatever their little activity is.

01:30:45.000 Why are people ragging on me for being so pessimistic?

01:30:49.000 We've got a diversity chief at the Pentagon who's now being canceled for offensive tweets.

01:30:56.000 We have these diversity, inclusivity, and equity officers at all of our companies and schools.

01:31:01.000 Our military is purging people who believe in the vision of the Founding Fathers.

01:31:05.000 Sorry, man.

01:31:06.000 We are turning into a satellite state of China.

01:31:08.000 If I were, people who should be most afraid of China is not the EU or the UK because of

01:31:14.000 their relationship with Hong Kong.

01:31:16.000 If I were in South Korea I would be the most afraid because they are still a free and independent

01:31:22.000 and autonomous and capitalist country and thriving and prosperous but they are small.

01:31:28.000 And now they have 30,000 Americans who are standing at the DMZ as if North Korea is going to invade, which is all a joke.

01:31:34.000 But the other side of North Korea is Communist China.

01:31:37.000 And if I was in South Korea, and maybe there are some of you, I'm sure there are some of them listening.

01:31:42.000 I'd love to know their thoughts if there are, you know, what do you think of this rising Chinese state?

01:31:47.000 Because we're still pretty far from China, and they're growing their navy, but they're still an ocean away. 0.60

01:31:51.000 They don't have an air force per se.

01:31:53.000 They do have nuclear warheads.

01:31:54.000 But North Korea is within a march. 0.85

01:31:57.000 And that would scare me.

01:31:58.000 I think we spend too much time focusing on things like nukes.

01:32:01.000 China has been developing powerful cyber warfare capabilities.

01:32:05.000 They've been attacking our infrastructure.

01:32:07.000 I would not be surprised if China has infected the U.S. 1.00

01:32:13.000 industry, Silicon Valley, at every single level.

01:32:15.000 It's so easy, man.

01:32:17.000 It's almost like they could unleash a virus on the world.

01:32:21.000 Yeah, a computer virus.

01:32:23.000 And all these infrastructure systems.

01:32:25.000 So what they do is, hackers, it's an age-old trick that will always work because humans are predictable.

01:32:31.000 I remember back in the day, a guy would have a floppy disk.

01:32:34.000 You know, the old A drive floppy disk?

01:32:35.000 5.5?

01:32:35.000 1.44 megabytes.

01:32:36.000 It's still the same symbol on your Mac.

01:32:37.000 People don't know why it is.

01:32:38.000 There's the 3.5 and then there's the 5.25.

01:32:44.000 The three and a half, but the 1.44 megabytes, and they put a virus on it, and they would drop it in front of a bank, and they'd walk away.

01:32:48.000 You know what happens?

01:32:49.000 A bank employee sees a floppy disk and goes, I wonder what this is?

01:32:52.000 Sticks it in their computer.

01:32:53.000 Don't ever do that.

01:32:53.000 It affects the whole system.

01:32:54.000 Nice.

01:32:55.000 Then CDs came out.

01:32:56.000 You know what the hackers started doing?

01:32:57.000 Dropping a CD in front of a bank.

01:32:59.000 Then USB sticks came out.

01:33:01.000 You know what the hackers started doing?

01:33:02.000 Dropping a USB stick in front of a bank.

01:33:04.000 Oh, I wonder what this is.

01:33:05.000 Yep.

01:33:05.000 So you find a Google employee.

01:33:08.000 And someone who supports China or is operating at China's behest, it's so much easier than this.

01:33:15.000 They could literally apply for a job.

01:33:17.000 A member of the Chinese Communist Party could move to the U.S., become a citizen, slip through the cracks, go to school or university, plug in the USB into their hard drive, and own their entire network. 0.80

01:33:27.000 It's almost like one could be Senator Dianne Feinstein's driver for 20 straight years, and no one even knows about it.

01:33:33.000 That was real, right?

01:33:34.000 A Chinese spy? 0.75

01:33:36.000 20 years as her driver, and no one questioned, who's a driver for 20 years?

01:33:42.000 My first job in the Senate was a driver, but that's the job of a kid. 0.98

01:33:46.000 It pays nothing, and it's a driver.

01:33:47.000 You eventually kind of work your way up, but this guy was like, nope, I just want to be her driver, listening to all of her phone calls.

01:33:54.000 Or you could be a Democrat running for office being supported by your good friend Feng Feng.

01:34:02.000 Yes.

01:34:03.000 He's been in China in more ways than one.

01:34:05.000 And he knows what's happening.

01:34:11.000 Well, look, man, I try to be optimistic as much as I can, but there's a lot of things to be optimistic about.

01:34:17.000 Chickens, technology, human spirit.

01:34:22.000 Start Starbase City Elon Musk's new city wants to build a million fans who are watching right now who believe in freedom and the human spirit and prosperity And there are a lot of us out there But you're right.

01:34:35.000 It is easy to be defeatist.

01:34:37.000 Yeah Yeah, but you know what every every day we get up we do this show and talk about this stuff It's because we're not giving up Otherwise, I just made Minecraft videos.

01:34:45.000 If we were playing Civ, right, if this was a global game of civilization, I would not be trying to militarily defeat China.

01:34:50.000 I would be looking for other ways.

01:34:52.000 Cultural victory, scientific victory.

01:34:54.000 Let's build a spaceship first. 0.95

01:34:55.000 Elon Musk is going for that spaceship victory.

01:34:57.000 If we can colonize Mars before the Chinese colonize Mars, that's a big jumpstart on control of our solar system, if that's such a desired plan. 1.00

01:35:07.000 Elon Musk is building Starship.

01:35:09.000 They had a failure again on the fourth test, which is sad, but he'll keep working.

01:35:13.000 And one of the victories in civilization, the video game, is to colonize space before anyone else.

01:35:17.000 So, uh, if Elon Musk gets that done, I don't see China working on, you know, colonizing space.

01:35:21.000 They're well behind us in that regard.

01:35:23.000 Yeah.

01:35:23.000 So maybe we'll be on Mars, and then China will be like, yeah, well, we got the biggest economy, and then a bunch of Americans on Mars will be laughing and cracking open champagne and being like, look at all this red rock we got!

01:35:34.000 You got nothing!

01:35:35.000 It's iron, baby!

01:35:36.000 It's iron.

01:35:38.000 All right, let's jump over to Super Chats.

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01:36:02.000 My friends, I believe We're gonna give another projection.

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01:36:25.000 That being said, it is time to go to those Super Chats.

01:36:28.000 So, as always, YouTube for some reason blocks the name of the first Super Chat, so I apologize.

01:36:33.000 They say, our country is effed.

01:36:35.000 What skills should I pick up to survive in this dystopian world?

01:36:38.000 Okay, you should download a general survival guide app to your phone right now.

01:36:46.000 Not because the world is going to end, but because sometimes people get lost in the woods.

01:36:50.000 Imagine that.

01:36:51.000 You're lost in the woods, and you're like, what do I do?

01:36:53.000 And you pull it up.

01:36:54.000 If you're lost in the woods, do this.

01:36:56.000 Boom, you get saved.

01:36:56.000 You know what a lot of people do they make a mistake of?

01:36:59.000 Their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they leave their car.

01:37:01.000 Really easy to spot a car from the sky, really hard to spot a person.

01:37:05.000 That's a big mistake.

01:37:06.000 See, survival apps, you gotta do.

01:37:10.000 Alright, let's see.

01:37:10.000 Tony Peaces, I love how the NRA is posting ads on your channel.

01:37:13.000 Everyone just remember, no other group has done more for gun control than the NRA.

01:37:17.000 Is that true?

01:37:18.000 I don't know.

01:37:19.000 I'm not a big fan of the NRA.

01:37:20.000 I'm not a huge fan.

01:37:21.000 I'm a fan of gun rights.

01:37:22.000 But there's a lot of other smaller organizations that I feel do way more.

01:37:26.000 I was really, I wasn't, you know, I've only in the past year or so been getting more and more into guns and stuff.

01:37:31.000 But when that Philando Castile thing happened, I got really mad at the NRA.

01:37:34.000 You know that story?

01:37:36.000 Legal gun owner, black man, in his car with a legal gun and the cop, you know, he gets pulled over and the cop is talking to him and he says, I got my firearm with me.

01:37:44.000 The cop panics and shoots him.

01:37:46.000 And where was the NRA?

01:37:47.000 They dragged their feet.

01:37:48.000 Well, we got to get all the details.

01:37:49.000 I'm like, nah, dude, a legal gun owner was shot by a cop who was legally holding his gun.

01:37:53.000 That's messed up, dude.

01:37:56.000 Not a fan of that stuff.

01:37:57.000 But I don't know.

01:37:58.000 I guess I don't know enough about the NRA to say, you know, anything.

01:38:03.000 Alright, let's see.

01:38:04.000 Tony Rogers says, Tim, you should have Crowder on your show.

01:38:06.000 I dare ya.

01:38:09.000 I would love to have Steven Crowder on this show.

01:38:13.000 But Crowder runs his own company.

01:38:15.000 And so I will tell you this.

01:38:17.000 I have spoken with Crowder, and I have said, bro.

01:38:20.000 Open invitation, whenever, just come on the show.

01:38:22.000 He's in Texas.

01:38:24.000 He's got his own employees, his own business.

01:38:26.000 This is the difficulty with having people on the show who do other shows.

01:38:29.000 I know a lot of people are like, get Skype, get Skype.

01:38:32.000 We're not set up for it.

01:38:34.000 I honestly don't want to be set up for it.

01:38:35.000 There is a much better dynamic when you're sitting in a room with someone, looking them in the eyes and having that conversation.

01:38:41.000 So, I'll be honest too.

01:38:42.000 We've had a lot of people who have hit me up, high profile, prominent personalities who are like, I want to come on your show.

01:38:50.000 Via Zoom or Skype.

01:38:51.000 And I'm like, I'll be honest.

01:38:53.000 First, I did install Zoom on this when we were first getting set up.

01:38:57.000 And it somehow, like, broke OBS.

01:39:01.000 And I had to do a, uh, one of those, um, previous state thing.

01:39:05.000 What was it called?

01:39:06.000 Rewind?

01:39:07.000 I had to rewind the computer.

01:39:08.000 Yeah, I know what you mean.

01:39:08.000 Because I don't know what caused it.

01:39:10.000 We even, we even had a recent guest who was like, I'm gonna use the browser version of Zoom.

01:39:13.000 And that also disrupted.

01:39:14.000 And I was like, oh geez, it's causing us problems.

01:39:17.000 So I was like, you know what, man?

01:39:19.000 Remote doesn't work the same way.

01:39:21.000 It really, really doesn't.

01:39:23.000 But, you know, I'd love to have Crowder on.

01:39:25.000 Michael Konany says, have Crowder on the IRL.

01:39:31.000 Yes!

01:39:32.000 Well, what you guys need to do is you need to tweet at Steven and say, go fly out to Tim's place.

01:39:37.000 Mr. Steven, fly out to Tim's, come on his show, because we'd love to have him.

01:39:41.000 Titus Flavius says, Just felt the need to correct your Fallout lore from yesterday.

01:39:45.000 Bottle caps are not a fiat currency.

01:39:47.000 They are backed by clean drinking water for their value.

01:39:51.000 Clean drinking water?

01:39:52.000 I'm gonna need some documentation on that statement.

01:39:56.000 I didn't know you could melt them down into bullets.

01:39:58.000 Maybe.

01:39:59.000 It's crazy.

01:40:00.000 JTWGeek says, Tim, did you know the Book of Revelations was written in code?

01:40:06.000 It's revelation.

01:40:06.000 Someone yelled at me for saying revelation.

01:40:08.000 Yes, no S. It's revelation.

01:40:10.000 John the Baptist was a prisoner and couldn't send religious texts to his followers, so he had to make it sound like a madman's ravings.

01:40:16.000 Interesting.

01:40:16.000 Wow.

01:40:18.000 I love this.

01:40:18.000 Austin D says, Tim and the gang love the show, so when are you bringing on Crowder?

01:40:21.000 Literally right now.

01:40:23.000 Crowder could show up at two in the morning.

01:40:24.000 I would go live with him if he was here.

01:40:26.000 That'd be fun.

01:40:27.000 I'd have to drive down.

01:40:27.000 It'd be fun.

01:40:28.000 You should bring Crowder on.

01:40:29.000 Yeah, that's a good idea.

01:40:31.000 And also Steve Crowder if you can get him.

01:40:33.000 Good idea, right?

01:40:34.000 It's more up to Crowder than it is to me, because of course he's welcome to come on the show.

01:40:39.000 There's a lot of people who want to have him on the show, but some people are big, popular, famous with their own platforms.

01:40:44.000 They don't need or want to come on the show.

01:40:47.000 Rising Underdog says, Tim, fly Steven Crowder out and have him on your show this week.

01:40:52.000 Also, you and Adam Carolla need to be on each other's shows.

01:40:54.000 Adam Carolla's neat.

01:40:56.000 Something tells me that Steven Crowder is substantially wealthier than I am and doesn't need me to fly him out, but I would absolutely fly him out first class, put him up in a five-star hotel, all that stuff, because I like Steven Crowder, I think he's great, and I'd love to have him on the show.

01:41:10.000 But look, I can especially imagine right now, with everything that's going on, he's going to be ten times busier than usual.

01:41:15.000 I mean, this is his business they're putting under threat.

01:41:18.000 But it would be great to have him, absolutely.

01:41:21.000 Sean Reynolds says, Tim, you and Steven and Tom McDonald are single-handedly changing the next generation.

01:41:26.000 My 14-year-old brother-in-law listens to you, Steven, and Ben Shapiro all the time.

01:41:30.000 I hope to meet you someday.

01:41:31.000 Keep it up, brother.

01:41:32.000 Hey, appreciate it, man.

01:41:33.000 That's awesome.

01:41:35.000 I heard recently from a friend that there are some 13- and 14-year-olds who watch the show.

01:41:38.000 And I'm like, I'm glad we're family-friendly then.

01:41:41.000 I'm honored.

01:41:42.000 And I actually think You see, we need to inspire kids to do things, to be responsible, to be strong, to grow up.

01:41:51.000 And I'm also willing to believe that a lot of parents wouldn't let their kids watch a show if we were cussing non-stop and if we were saying really lewd and lascivious things.

01:41:58.000 So it's probably a good thing that we're family friendly because it's not just about whether a kid wants to watch a show.

01:42:03.000 It's about like, you know, when I was a little kid, my dad would turn on Star Trek The Next Generation.

01:42:07.000 And I don't know, I just sat there and watched it.

01:42:09.000 But I grew up with that show.

01:42:10.000 It's my all-time favorite show.

01:42:12.000 I watch it still like every single day.

01:42:13.000 Reruns over and over again.

01:42:14.000 Brilliant!

01:42:16.000 And that's the power of some kid sitting with his dad and his dad being like, this show is fine for my kid to listen to.

01:42:20.000 It's important ideas.

01:42:22.000 If we were cussing up a storm, they'd be like, I'll watch this later.

01:42:25.000 I'll listen to this later.

01:42:26.000 You would still get a few, like I had mother and daughter would watch my YouTube videos, but I was pretty profane, but not, it's hard to measure.

01:42:34.000 Like if I hadn't been swearing, I probably would have been a lot more of them.

01:42:38.000 I would guess.

01:42:38.000 I don't know.

01:42:39.000 Yeah.

01:42:40.000 But that's rockstar when you get multiple generations of family.

01:42:43.000 That's awesome.

01:42:45.000 Justin Bookman says, Hey Ian, as a fellow Ohioan, did you ever go to Kings Island or, I don't know, how do you pronounce this, Geauga Lake?

01:42:54.000 Oh, Geauga Lake!

01:42:54.000 Yeah, in Aurora, Ohio.

01:42:56.000 That was my go-to.

01:42:57.000 That was my first theme park.

01:42:59.000 I went on the Big Dipper and the Corkscrew eventually.

01:43:03.000 The Double Loop.

01:43:04.000 No, it was the Double Loop.

01:43:05.000 I did go on the Big Dipper.

01:43:06.000 And Cedar Point.

01:43:07.000 I never went to Kings Island though.

01:43:09.000 All right.

01:43:09.000 He also says, I also have some book recommendations.

01:43:12.000 Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard.

01:43:14.000 Great movie.

01:43:15.000 I mean, kind of a terrible movie, but great movie.

01:43:18.000 Sphere and Prey by Michael Crichton.

01:43:21.000 Excellent.

01:43:21.000 Oh, Crichton.

01:43:22.000 Crichton.

01:43:23.000 Street Lawyer and the Testament by John Grisham.

01:43:25.000 High lids.

01:43:26.000 Hello.

01:43:26.000 I hear Sphere is really epic.

01:43:28.000 Did you ever read that?

01:43:28.000 No.

01:43:29.000 Michael Crichton novel?

01:43:33.000 Liam Deans has discovered Crowder back in 2016 when it was just him and Not Gay Jared.

01:43:38.000 He introduced me to Shapiro, Sargon, and even you, Tim.

01:43:40.000 Thanks to you all, I've been able to stay sane in a world full of Jigglypuffs. 1.00

01:43:45.000 Much obliged, all.

01:43:46.000 It is truly a world full of Jigglypuffs. 1.00

01:43:48.000 I remember Jigglypuff.

01:43:50.000 Oh, what a good memory.

01:43:52.000 Yes, thank you.

01:43:54.000 Get this hate speech off our campus.

01:43:56.000 Mike Sullivan says, been watching your show for a couple of months.

01:43:58.000 Subscribe to your page after seeing Lieutenant Colonel West on your show.

01:44:01.000 Always great content.

01:44:02.000 Thought-provoking, intelligent discussions.

01:44:04.000 Thanks.

01:44:04.000 Well, thank you very much for those superchats.

01:44:08.000 Alright, let's see. 0.97

01:44:11.000 Paul Sikora says this nonsense with Crowder is ridiculous. 0.99

01:44:14.000 Bill Richmond drinks their milkshake. 0.97

01:44:16.000 Here's money to plug Mug Club again. 0.98

01:44:18.000 Release the half-Asian Kraken. 1.00

01:44:19.000 Yes!

01:44:20.000 If you guys want to, look, I can shout out my website, but for now, the important thing is to make sure that Crowder is able to keep doing what he does, and that's louderwithcrowder.com, and then join their Mug Club, because they're, look, Again, they might not want to hear it, but it really does seem like they're coming for Crowder.

01:44:38.000 And this time it seems to make—it's unjustifiable, it's illegitimate.

01:44:43.000 I disagree with a lot of the rules anyway, because I had a question earlier.

01:44:46.000 At what point do community guidelines become editorial standards?

01:44:50.000 Almost immediately.

01:44:51.000 Well, hold on if YouTube's like you can't harass other people on this platform define harassment

01:44:58.000 Well, you know when you see it, I'm like, okay, that's kind of vague when they say you can't talk about this

01:45:03.000 You can't have an opinion on this. You can't present data on this. Okay. Well, hold on there

01:45:09.000 These are editorial guidelines for people at you know, who are posting to YouTube publisher, but not that that really

01:45:16.000 matters It doesn't change the 230 distinction.

01:45:19.000 But at a certain point, there's questions that need to be raised about whether or not they're news publications who just are bypassing, I guess, regulation by claiming that people who are posting to YouTube are free to do whatever they want.

01:45:30.000 Because we saw Uber already got, you know, that... I can't remember.

01:45:34.000 I think it was somewhere in Europe.

01:45:36.000 Uber drivers are now employees or something.

01:45:39.000 YouTube is treading dangerously close to this territory by telling me what opinions I can or can't have.

01:45:45.000 What names I can or can't say.

01:45:46.000 It is not a community guideline to tell me I can't say a name.

01:45:50.000 They've done that.

01:45:51.000 No, that's an editorial stance because I've worked for news companies and the editor is like, don't do these stories because we've got issues with that.

01:45:58.000 Okay, well is YouTube an open platform for posting videos?

01:46:00.000 Then I should be allowed to have whatever opinion I want.

01:46:02.000 If I target people, Or even groups of people.

01:46:05.000 That I get.

01:46:06.000 If they're like, hey, you can't disparage a group of people.

01:46:08.000 Okay, I understand that.

01:46:10.000 But what about my political opinion on, say, an election?

01:46:12.000 Nope!

01:46:13.000 Those are banned.

01:46:14.000 Now that's getting creepy.

01:46:17.000 All right, we got Samuel Powell says, my generation's Zoomers are going to do a tax strike and we need at least 10 million people to show the government we patriots won't be ignored.

01:46:25.000 I don't know how you pull off something like that, to be completely honest.

01:46:30.000 I've always wondered, like, people need to stand up and just, if every individual said, you know, I refuse to work as a waiter unless I get paid this wage.

01:46:42.000 Then you'd get paid that wage.

01:46:43.000 The problem is people are all willing to work for a company for a trash wage and then just complain about it.

01:46:49.000 All right, Daniel O'Sullivan says, on Crowder's last vid on the Chauvin trial, he pulls up a message received from Twitter regarding his suspension, but the overlaid is blurred.

01:46:58.000 Kahoots!

01:46:59.000 I don't know much about that.

01:47:00.000 I do know he's also suspended from Twitter because they said he made offensive comments or something.

01:47:05.000 I have no idea.

01:47:07.000 Brent Smith said, Tim would like to teach you and your crew how to scuba dive, if you have any interest.

01:47:12.000 Think would be a great episode.

01:47:13.000 Can put together safety divers for movie if ever needed.

01:47:16.000 Scott's scuba service.

01:47:17.000 We will travel.

01:47:18.000 Hey, thanks man.

01:47:18.000 I appreciate it.

01:47:19.000 That sounds pretty cool.

01:47:20.000 I love it.

01:47:22.000 All right.

01:47:22.000 Let's see.

01:47:22.000 We'll grab some more super chats here.

01:47:25.000 It's just a period and they say, why do the Republicans think they're going to win?

01:47:30.000 They keep ignoring and discarding their voters.

01:47:32.000 Why would anyone support them?

01:47:34.000 That's exactly what I was thinking.

01:47:38.000 I really don't expect to vote Republican ever again.

01:47:42.000 And a lot of people are like, Tim, that's defeatist.

01:47:44.000 You have to vote Republican.

01:47:45.000 No, I don't.

01:47:46.000 I voted for Trump because Trump was something different.

01:47:48.000 And there were a few things I liked that he was doing.

01:47:50.000 I do not like the Republican party at all.

01:47:52.000 None of them.

01:47:53.000 No, I do a lot of Fox and the last time Fox TV show and I'm usually the token Republican and I usually take umbrage.

01:48:01.000 I mean, I love doing it, but am I Republican?

01:48:05.000 Holy cow, I don't think so.

01:48:07.000 I mean, am I on the right?

01:48:08.000 Absolutely.

01:48:09.000 But I don't want to know what Republicans are on the right these days.

01:48:12.000 There doesn't seem to be a whole heck of a lot.

01:48:14.000 If I lived in, where's Rand Paul, Kentucky?

01:48:16.000 Kentucky.

01:48:16.000 If I lived in Kentucky, absolutely, I'd vote for Rand Paul.

01:48:20.000 I don't, and I'm not, maybe, I mean, I guess the idea is I don't want Democrats in Congress because what they do as a collective is different from what they do as individuals.

01:48:30.000 You know, you could have an individual, you know, saying like, we're going to be a moderate and we're going to do all these nice things for you.

01:48:34.000 And I'm like, no, you're not.

01:48:34.000 You're going to get on your knees as whoever the Speaker of the House is.

01:48:37.000 So I'm not interested in that.

01:48:38.000 Yeah, problem is voting against is a dangerous game because if you don't know what you're voting for and you vote against something, you might end up voting something worse than.

01:48:46.000 Exactly.

01:48:47.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:48:48.000 Well, I don't know what else you do about it.

01:48:51.000 Start your own party.

01:48:52.000 I mean, really, honestly, what it comes down to is you do it yourself.

01:48:55.000 That's the nature of this country.

01:48:55.000 I'll just write in Ian Crossland.

01:48:57.000 Write me in.

01:48:57.000 And then we'll make a, it'll be a, it'll be a funny, um... T-shirt.

01:49:00.000 We'll meme it.

01:49:01.000 No, no, it'll just be like a very funny circumstance where Ian one day wakes up and everyone just wrote his name in and he finds himself as president and he doesn't know what's going on.

01:49:08.000 I almost wrote my name in 2016.

01:49:09.000 I was so flustered with that experience.

01:49:12.000 Alright, Pepper O's says, Many of us in the military look at this as a joke.

01:49:17.000 We know this is not training.

01:49:18.000 This is brainwashing tactics that many college lefties say we go through this time.

01:49:22.000 I agree, they can shove it.

01:49:24.000 We see through their BS.

01:49:26.000 I think that person raises a great point in that I'm sure a lot of people are just like,

01:49:30.000 I have to sit through this class for an hour?

01:49:32.000 Alright, I'll sit through the class.

01:49:33.000 And what do you want me to say at the end?

01:49:34.000 Say this?

01:49:35.000 Okay, fine, I'll sit through it.

01:49:36.000 It still shouldn't be happening, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the predominant response of just like, let me just get through this.

01:49:41.000 Easy credits.

01:49:42.000 Yeah, you know, like when you were in college.

01:49:45.000 Professor, what do you want me to say?

01:49:46.000 Okay, sure, I'll say this.

01:49:47.000 You don't have to show up all the time.

01:49:49.000 Give me an A. Yeah, I am.

01:49:51.000 All right, so the Civic Nationalist says, Tim, earlier today you said that very few people stand up for people nowadays, but that is how it's always been.

01:49:58.000 There are those who are adventurers and those who learn about those discoveries.

01:50:02.000 Be the change you want to see.

01:50:04.000 That's a very good point.

01:50:05.000 Frank says, make the voting test be the same as the immigration test.

01:50:09.000 I mean, that's actually a really good point, you know?

01:50:12.000 And then we can frame it as though like, well, you support immigrants, don't you?

01:50:15.000 There was a statistic not recently, but maybe two weeks ago, that was 60% of Americans couldn't pass the citizenship exam, and it's not exactly a hard exam, and most couldn't possibly pass it.

01:50:30.000 We've got a... Timothy Peterson says, CRT, critical race theory in the military.

01:50:34.000 On my first day of basic, drill sergeant Clark said, quote, There are no, insert every slur you can think of, in this platoon.

01:50:41.000 We're all green.

01:50:42.000 If you don't work together, you will fail.

01:50:44.000 That's not critical race theory.

01:50:45.000 Hmm.

01:50:46.000 That actually like.

01:50:48.000 That's, in my opinion, a great statement.

01:50:50.000 Don't be racist.

01:50:51.000 Learn to work together.

01:50:53.000 Critical race theory would be like them coming in and then saying like, there are no of this, you know, racial slur, but there are some of this racial slur, and they need to recognize why they're a problem for this platoon, and you should go do push-ups.

01:51:07.000 That's what critical race theory is.

01:51:11.000 Alright, we got Shoddy Viceroy says, I find it funny that people say solar energy is super good.

01:51:15.000 I started working in the field and holy moly there's a lot of circuitry and issues with the inverters.

01:51:21.000 I love this guy.

01:51:22.000 Yes, absolutely.

01:51:23.000 Amen.

01:51:24.000 Explain.

01:51:25.000 Elaborate.

01:51:25.000 Well, I mean, look, the technology is not there yet.

01:51:28.000 And so we are forcing it.

01:51:30.000 We talked a lot about collectivism and central government.

01:51:33.000 We are forcing it faster than the technology allows.

01:51:36.000 Solar panels on your house can maybe power your house if you're not running the washer, I'm sorry, the dryer and the microwave simultaneously.

01:51:43.000 But there is no country that is running its electricity on 100% renewable.

01:51:49.000 And there are countries that are way greener than America wants to be, and it does not happen yet.

01:51:55.000 There are no advanced countries.

01:51:58.000 Isn't Denmark doing 100% wind?

01:52:00.000 No, God no, not even close.

01:52:02.000 No, no.

01:52:03.000 And they may be claiming they are, but they all have fossil fuel redundancies, right?

01:52:08.000 There is no, there is no 100% renewable.

01:52:10.000 And so, and where are they all made?

01:52:12.000 Well, 75% of them, China. 0.95

01:52:14.000 Now there you go.

01:52:15.000 So keep buying solar panels from China.

01:52:17.000 This is a very important point from K. Lorraine.

01:52:20.000 I honestly think Major the Dog just sees the evil in the government.

01:52:24.000 Dogs are good at that.

01:52:25.000 I'm a groomer.

01:52:26.000 Peawater dogs are stubborn but sweet. 0.99

01:52:28.000 Ian, I want to slap everyone who's mean to you. 0.99

01:52:30.000 LOL. 0.99

01:52:31.000 Oh, be nice.

01:52:32.000 So the actual story is Major the Dog is the hero who's trying to fight against the evils and the corruption.

01:52:37.000 I like it.

01:52:38.000 Sounds like a comic book.

01:52:39.000 That's great.

01:52:41.000 That's not nice.

01:52:41.000 Oh yeah, definitely.

01:52:42.000 Morgan Kuika says, I joined the army straight out of high school, but I had to prove that I was going to do that.

01:52:48.000 Bring a recruiter in with me while college was basically being rammed down my throat.

01:52:53.000 Interesting.

01:52:56.000 Jonathan says, from your video earlier, the problem goes beyond physical altercations.

01:53:00.000 The average age of firefighters, especially volunteers, keeps going up as the younger generations don't join the fire service.

01:53:07.000 Yeah, it's gonna be a bunch of YouTubers.

01:53:09.000 Yeah.

01:53:10.000 How sad is that?

01:53:11.000 Who would want to be a YouTuber?

01:53:13.000 The worst job ever.

01:53:14.000 Would you actually make money on YouTube?

01:53:15.000 Awful.

01:53:16.000 I know, it's not even a real job.

01:53:18.000 Join the army.

01:53:19.000 Join the fire department.

01:53:20.000 Don't be some guy who sits in a chair and complains in front of a camera all day.

01:53:22.000 Listen to my opinions, I'm smart.

01:53:24.000 I gotta be honest.

01:53:25.000 I would absolutely say that a firefighter is much more important than the average YouTuber.

01:53:31.000 Oh, for sure.

01:53:33.000 The problem we have right now is that trade jobs are being completely ignored because the younger generation is being told you want to be a computer scientist or something.

01:53:41.000 It's like, dude, we need people who can fix toilets.

01:53:44.000 And you know what's funny?

01:53:45.000 When your toilet breaks, you will be on your knees begging, please show up today. 0.90

01:53:49.000 Please show up today.

01:53:49.000 And they're going to go, sorry, we're booked.

01:53:51.000 We can be there tomorrow.

01:53:52.000 And you're like, no!

01:53:53.000 My toilet is broken!

01:53:54.000 Ben's made this point.

01:53:55.000 Ben Townsend, who works with us, he's our official intelligence engineer, more or less.

01:53:59.000 But he's like, the things we will still need are manual trades that our fingers do because we don't have computers that can do those things yet, like plumbing, electrician.

01:54:07.000 I just want to stress this point.

01:54:10.000 You might need a computer scientist.

01:54:12.000 You might need a vlogger or a blogger.

01:54:14.000 Maybe people are saying, Tim, you provide a great service because you're helping break this information, having very smart conversations.

01:54:19.000 But I will tell you this, the moment your toilet breaks, you will be begging for a plumber at that moment.

01:54:25.000 Look, we had a condensation happening on a pipe, and it was dripping, causing damage.

01:54:30.000 And we're like, this is really bad.

01:54:32.000 And we call the plumbing, heating and air, and they're like, we can be there in three days.

01:54:37.000 And I'm like, ugh.

01:54:38.000 No one has ever screamed out in fear, like, is there a critical race theory major?

01:54:43.000 I need a YouTuber!

01:54:44.000 I need a poetry major, quickly!

01:54:46.000 Along that same thing of learning to fix things, etc., the very first question you got was that kid or younger person who said, like, what can I do to get ready?

01:54:54.000 You said the survival video.

01:54:55.000 I would also, if I could say one thing, watch YouTube videos, don't play with electricity if you don't know what you're doing, but try to fix things yourself.

01:55:03.000 That's the best advice I think I've given young people.

01:55:05.000 I have so many splinters on my hands from trying to fix things on the farm that I don't know what I'm doing.

01:55:09.000 You know, like I said, don't play with electricity.

01:55:11.000 Don't get yourself killed.

01:55:12.000 But if something breaks, even your toilet, and you're like, I'm gonna try to fix it.

01:55:15.000 I guarantee you there's a YouTube video.

01:55:17.000 See, we love YouTubers.

01:55:19.000 Try to fix things yourself.

01:55:20.000 It makes you feel like you've accomplished something.

01:55:23.000 And you learn stuff.

01:55:25.000 Can we get some firefighters to film and do a vlog about being a firefighter?

01:55:28.000 Oh, with GoPros?

01:55:29.000 That'd be awesome!

01:55:30.000 Think about how amazing that would be in terms of, like, content!

01:55:34.000 Now, you can't blur the victims, you don't show certain things, but explaining what goes on in a fire department?

01:55:39.000 Showing the fire poles and the outfits?

01:55:41.000 Explain what the outfits do?

01:55:43.000 There's gotta be someone who does that.

01:55:44.000 I probably just don't know about it.

01:55:46.000 If there was a YouTube channel where it was just videos of them going into fires and you see their perspective and their tactics.

01:55:52.000 You know why there's probably not is because it's probably liability lawsuits, right?

01:55:57.000 They're government employees.

01:55:59.000 They're probably not allowed to be in the firehouse and say, hey guys, here's what this does, here's what this does.

01:56:03.000 But it would be great if they did.

01:56:04.000 I mean, I understand in the, in the, in the firehouse, we've had cops, you know, so we could film firefighters going around and saving people and doing that kind of stuff.

01:56:12.000 And that would inspire people.

01:56:13.000 And everyone likes firemen.

01:56:14.000 I mean, like seriously, usually good looking and one of the oldest jobs of humanity firefighting on the South side, people would say, don't call the cops, call the fire department.

01:56:24.000 Yeah.

01:56:25.000 Because a big fire truck pulling up with the sirens blaring would usually clear up conflicts, altercations.

01:56:30.000 You know, if like a gang fight was happening, people would run and hide.

01:56:32.000 You call the cops and it just goes crazy.

01:56:33.000 It goes south.

01:56:34.000 And then, so that's what people would say.

01:56:36.000 I'm not saying it's the right thing to do.

01:56:38.000 Become a fireman.

01:56:38.000 You're like the biggest recruiter now for the fire department.

01:56:42.000 Absolutely.

01:56:43.000 All right.

01:56:43.000 Brandon, Tom says rooster 2024.

01:56:45.000 I'm going to be honest.

01:56:47.000 Like.

01:56:49.000 You think China's gonna eat our lunch? 1.00

01:56:50.000 Come on, man.

01:56:50.000 the president, at least they would run full speed towards Putin and, you know, like, flap

01:56:54.000 their wings at him and, like, kick at him.

01:56:57.000 Biden's just, come on, man.

01:56:59.000 You think China's going to eat our lunch? 1.00

01:57:01.000 Come on, man.

01:57:02.000 You're right.

01:57:03.000 Look, you put Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in a room and Joe Biden's going to be deferential. 0.72

01:57:08.000 That rooster is going to be going nuts.

01:57:09.000 I mean, you put anybody in the room with a rooster, the rooster goes after you.

01:57:13.000 Well, I think one of the things they hated about Donald Trump is that he did point out who our enemies were.

01:57:16.000 People didn't want to hear that.

01:57:18.000 It made them feel unsafe.

01:57:19.000 Donald Trump was like a rooster. 0.53

01:57:21.000 He was a little bit of a rooster. 0.99

01:57:22.000 China is bad. 0.99

01:57:24.000 This huge immigration problem is bad. 1.00

01:57:25.000 Screaming all the time.

01:57:26.000 Yelling.

01:57:27.000 This is bad.

01:57:27.000 Absolutely.

01:57:28.000 Big, weird hair.

01:57:30.000 I want someone who has, like, aviator sunglasses and a puppy, and that will make me feel better.

01:57:35.000 And now the puppy's growing up to be a full-blown dog and it's biting everybody.

01:57:38.000 He's an ace.

01:57:39.000 He looks like a fighter pilot.

01:57:40.000 He dresses like one. 0.55

01:57:42.000 Jay Rich says, I think if a person is actively on welfare, they should be disqualified from voting.

01:57:47.000 As we've seen, low-info welfare voters often vote for policies that are ultimately to their detriment.

01:57:52.000 Sounds harsh, but they need to be saved from themselves.

01:57:55.000 That's tough, man.

01:57:57.000 I do think it makes sense when we talk about some kind of tie to the community as a requirement for the vote.

01:58:03.000 Which would mean at the federal level, everybody always gets to vote.

01:58:06.000 At the local levels, the state level, there would be different requirements and restrictions.

01:58:10.000 But...

01:58:11.000 I mean, it's a double-edged sword.

01:58:14.000 People have the right to vote and talk about what their government does.

01:58:17.000 The problem, ultimately, though, is I don't think any of these votes matter.

01:58:20.000 Like, we know that special interests sway public policy more than a welfare voter.

01:58:26.000 Yeah, wasn't there a study that came out that Congress followed?

01:58:29.000 This is like back around Occupy Wall Street.

01:58:31.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:58:31.000 That Congress would follow the will of the corporations over... Of the wealthy individuals who they fundraise, you know, off of.

01:58:38.000 Over the people.

01:58:39.000 Absolutely.

01:58:40.000 That was weird.

01:58:40.000 Yeah.

01:58:42.000 Jason Dunn says, I also have a blue healer, Goose, 17 months and he will be my guardian for life.

01:58:48.000 But if you are weak or unattentive, he will see himself as the leader and all bets are off for control.

01:58:54.000 It's pathetic that they thought a German Shepherd was a good idea as a PR tactic. 0.87

01:58:59.000 They could hire a trainer, you know what I mean? 0.86

01:59:03.000 Tweet me a photo of Goose, I'd love to see what he looks like.

01:59:05.000 They're beautiful dogs, but he's right.

01:59:07.000 They are not.

01:59:08.000 They're not French Bulldogs, right?

01:59:10.000 That's what people, they're not.

01:59:12.000 You have to constantly dominate them.

01:59:15.000 And German Shepherds even more, because at least Blue Heelers are a moderate size, you know, 45, 50 pounds.

01:59:20.000 But Shepherds can be 75, 85.

01:59:22.000 They're big dogs and they're strong.

01:59:24.000 They're attack dogs, right?

01:59:25.000 Yes!

01:59:26.000 I mean, yeah!

01:59:27.000 And so, it was crazy they gave this man a German Shepherd.

01:59:30.000 Unless, and I will give him that caveat, he has had a history of raising German Shepherds.

01:59:35.000 That's a good point.

01:59:36.000 Ahmed Smith, I'm sorry, Ahmed Malih says, love watching the podcast while I work out, Tim.

01:59:42.000 Here's my obligatory $50 for you to read my resume.

01:59:45.000 I'm applying as a writer.

01:59:46.000 You can find my blog at AhmedMalik.com.

01:59:49.000 Hope to hear back from you soon.

01:59:50.000 Love you guys.

01:59:51.000 That was never a legitimate thing.

01:59:52.000 That was a joke.

01:59:53.000 You don't need to give us money for us to read your resumes or anything like that.

01:59:56.000 And I have to say we like explicitly will not look at resumes based on people sending in super chats because...

02:00:02.000 It's called solicitation.

02:00:04.000 We're not doing that.

02:00:05.000 We're not.

02:00:06.000 Nice super chat, dude.

02:00:07.000 You're getting pumped to this.

02:00:08.000 That's I used to do that with Rogan podcasts.

02:00:11.000 I get so inspired.

02:00:12.000 I start doing pushups.

02:00:13.000 You should watch.

02:00:14.000 I got a bunch of super chats, but you should watch Carl Benjamin's mini doc on Venezuela

02:00:20.000 and the history of what happened.

02:00:22.000 But Ghost of Recon says Ian needs to read the history of Venezuela instead of relying

02:00:26.000 on the Vox breakdown.

02:00:28.000 Chavez destroyed Venezuela long before the CIA got involved or sanctions were imposed.

02:00:33.000 Well, I don't know.

02:00:33.000 How do you know that the CIA wasn't involved since the 70s?

02:00:38.000 Because maybe these people have read the history and watched the documentaries.

02:00:40.000 Yeah, but CIA does stuff that's called clandestine where no one knows about it.

02:00:44.000 Sure, but I think at this point the proper response should be like, I should watch those documentaries and I will.

02:00:48.000 I gotta educate myself on that as well.

02:00:50.000 Sargon is a really, really great one.

02:00:53.000 I remember I was watching it on a road trip and it was just like 40 minutes and I was like, wow.

02:00:58.000 He used to go deep.

02:00:59.000 I loved it.

02:01:00.000 Really good.

02:01:02.000 Jeffrey Grajic says Hugo Chavez was on a Venezuelan late show one night talking about soccer and Colombia got so upset he sent a tank division to the Colombian border from the set of the show. 0.78

02:01:14.000 Lunatic! 0.97

02:01:16.000 And they said Trump was bad.

02:01:20.000 People are not happy with the Venezuelan stuff.

02:01:22.000 Let's take it.

02:01:23.000 Let's go with it.

02:01:24.000 Chavez was a nationalist populist.

02:01:27.000 Not necessarily great, but...

02:01:30.000 All right, we'll read just a couple more here.

02:01:32.000 Casey Finnegan says, hey Tim, watched your interview on Joe Rogan with Jack and his puppet.

02:01:36.000 You totally shut them down.

02:01:37.000 Also saw your recent interview on Fox.

02:01:39.000 Great stuff.

02:01:39.000 Hey, thank you very much.

02:01:40.000 Yeah, the Fox thing was funny.

02:01:41.000 They were like, hey, we want to have you on the show.

02:01:43.000 And I was like, sorry, man.

02:01:45.000 Look, I live in the middle of nowhere.

02:01:47.000 I'm busy.

02:01:47.000 And they're like, we will send a truck to your house.

02:01:49.000 And I was like, what?

02:01:50.000 And they're like, yeah, it's a truck.

02:01:52.000 And I'm like, what?

02:01:54.000 It's a van.

02:01:56.000 They opened the side door and inside is a chair with a TV behind you.

02:02:00.000 They literally pulled him in front of my, in front of my studio house parking lot.

02:02:05.000 And I just climbed in and sat down and there was a camera in front of me and I was in this weird, it was cool.

02:02:10.000 It was like this little weird, little like soundproof room.

02:02:12.000 They gave me an earpiece.

02:02:14.000 So we should build something like that for the road trip.

02:02:16.000 I mean, we- Mobile.

02:02:17.000 We tech a sound booth.

02:02:20.000 Yeah.

02:02:20.000 So we actually, for those that are listening, we actually are planning a, uh, a tour set up.

02:02:25.000 We have a truck, we've got a 40 foot RV where we can do this show.

02:02:29.000 And the goal is at some point, go to Nashville, spend a week there, then do a Friday night live show at a venue, then go to Austin, spend a week there, Friday night live show at a venue, then go back to, you know, I don't know what the next city would be, but another city on the way.

02:02:43.000 And then a week later, make it back to home base.

02:02:46.000 So, uh, yeah, we probably could.

02:02:47.000 We were talking about media manipulation.

02:02:49.000 Did you see his Fox?

02:02:50.000 I did, yes.

02:02:51.000 There's something about that, like, official, um, what would you call it?

02:02:55.000 Like, spectacle.

02:02:56.000 Where, like, it's got the thing in the background that you're used to seeing.

02:02:59.000 It's got the bar across the bottom.

02:03:01.000 The chyron, yeah.

02:03:01.000 It made it look like, he's got, he arrived, he's arrived!

02:03:04.000 And people are like, I'm so glad you finally made it to the big times.

02:03:07.000 And, like, Fox is legit.

02:03:07.000 I was on Tucker's show.

02:03:09.000 I was on Tucker Carlson before.

02:03:10.000 But when you see that spectacle, it, like, almost, like, brainwashes you to think it's official.

02:03:15.000 I've actually been on cable news, like, a lot.

02:03:18.000 I've been on Jesse Waters' show a lot.

02:03:20.000 They used to have me on all the time, more so when I lived in the New York area.

02:03:23.000 Can I encourage you, on this road trip, hit rural America also.

02:03:27.000 Cities are great, but even ruraler.

02:03:31.000 I'm sure you've got listeners right now, or watchers, who are going to say, come to this small town in Idaho, but small town America is the heart of this country.

02:03:42.000 The issue is mapping out connectivity.

02:03:44.000 So right now, it took us months and months and months, but we finally got the strong gigabit internet connection.

02:03:51.000 Ridiculously expensive to get rural gigabit, mind you.

02:03:54.000 If we go out to small towns and we're on cell tech, cellular lines, in order to do the show... You're dead.

02:04:01.000 Well, just lower quality.

02:04:02.000 That's a valid point.

02:04:04.000 But I'm actually fairly confident we can find areas where they'll have 20 to 30 megabits up or down.

02:04:09.000 But, you know, when I've driven across the country before, even to this day, there are a lot of areas that only get four or five megabits.

02:04:15.000 That's what I get on my farm.

02:04:16.000 Yeah.

02:04:17.000 Via satellite.

02:04:18.000 It's not very good.

02:04:20.000 So I've actually, we've been looking into satellite internet, because satellite internet, we've actually used on this show before, when our internet's cut out, it automatically jumps over to the satellite feed, which is, I think, like, what is it, five or six megabits up?

02:04:33.000 And that's good for a broadcast.

02:04:36.000 Uh, it's not a safe amount, but it's possible.

02:04:40.000 And I'm like, if we could get that satellite on the RV, we'd be good.

02:04:43.000 I just, I've looked at all these different companies and they don't offer the speeds for RV internet.

02:04:48.000 So we'd have to like figure out some stronger solution.

02:04:51.000 But, uh, let's just do one more super chat.

02:04:54.000 RG Merkel says I was a firefighter in North St.

02:04:57.000 Louis County during the Ferguson riots.

02:04:59.000 We were assisting Ferguson Fire Department when needed.

02:05:02.000 We sadly kept firearms and body armor on our fire truck for our safety.

02:05:07.000 Man, that's sad.

02:05:08.000 I was there at those fires, man.

02:05:09.000 We were driving down the street and you could feel the heat of the fire through the car.

02:05:13.000 The fires were so massive.

02:05:14.000 It was insane.

02:05:16.000 The whole street, West Flores, and everything just lit up.

02:05:19.000 Every building.

02:05:20.000 We saw people walking around with gas tanks.

02:05:22.000 With gas cans, sorry.

02:05:24.000 And pouring it and lighting things up.

02:05:26.000 I remember there were some cops walking by.

02:05:29.000 And we watched someone light up some garbage trying to burn a building down.

02:05:33.000 And as the cops were walking by, I was like, hey yo, they set a fire over here.

02:05:36.000 And then a bunch of people got mad at me.

02:05:38.000 I'm like, whose side are you on? 0.79

02:05:40.000 And they were like, shut up man, what are you doing? 0.98

02:05:41.000 You're gonna get us beaten up. 0.97

02:05:42.000 And I was like, The cops are coming and to put a fire out?

02:05:46.000 I don't know, man.

02:05:47.000 Like, I wanted to let them know there was a fire.

02:05:49.000 That's crazy to me.

02:05:50.000 They wanted the buildings to burn down.

02:05:52.000 That was the right thing.

02:05:52.000 That's the wrong thing.

02:05:54.000 I'm not, look, I'm here reporting, but like, someone sets a building down.

02:05:57.000 I'm going to be like, yo, like.

02:05:58.000 You're like the paladin in the group in D&D. 1.00

02:06:00.000 You're like, I cannot allow evil.

02:06:02.000 And you're like, call it out.

02:06:03.000 Even if it's your own party member.

02:06:04.000 Well, they think the cops were evil, but I'm like, I don't know what burning down this building has to do with anything.

02:06:09.000 And someone could be in there and get hurt, man.

02:06:10.000 But they wanted it.

02:06:12.000 So when I shouted out, Ferguson.

02:06:14.000 Yeah.

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02:07:52.000 It's been awesome being with you.

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02:07:57.000 And the people who said, like, what you are doing for the culture, cannot emphasize that enough.

02:08:02.000 We need more people doing this, and so it's great.

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02:08:05.000 You got a social media account?

02:08:06.000 Yeah, so powerofthefuture.com if you care about energy issues.

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02:08:33.000 And thanks for putting up with my diatribe on Venezuela.

02:08:35.000 I'm definitely going to look into that because it's probably one of the most pressing issues on earth right now.

02:08:39.000 So something we could all probably educate ourselves with.

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Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - March 30, 2021

Timcast IRL - YouTube CENSORS Steven Crowder AGAIN, PERMANENTLY Demonetizes Him w-Daniel Turner

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