In this episode, we talk about the food riots in Sicily, the lack of food on the island, and some of the weirdest things going on in the world right now. We also talk about a new product that could be a game changer in the toilet paper industry.
00:00:28.000Yeah, because usually what I do is when I do my morning show, then I go eat, and then I come back, and I was just like... That's okay, I just played Division 2.
00:00:36.000Yeah, New York, they're back in... It's crazy how many similarities... You know how you find the random microphone recordings every so often?
00:02:00.000The lead of this is that earlier this month, there was a story from Defense One about Iranian, Russian, and Chinese media pushing the bioweapon conspiracy theories.
00:02:09.000They're blaming the United States for it.
00:03:42.000The story here was that he listened to the stuff that we said that they were, it looked like they were kind of running out of, and he sent us all that stuff from his store.
00:04:10.000So, let's go to the first story, because we were going to talk about climate change stuff too, which we will get into this, but the lead story is the UK is pissed off because China's been engaged in this disinformation campaign since the start of this.
00:04:26.000They've been lying to us, it's been getting worse, and I had to wonder, at what point do we consider that an act of war?
00:04:32.000Look, so BuzzFeed reported that Chinese trolls are going online and they're sowing disinformation which results in a slower response and it actually results in people dying.
00:04:45.000So at what point do we say they're actually killing our people and we do something about it?
00:04:49.000I honestly don't know, but in this whole controversy involving the UK government, this circumstance, they're actually saying they think China's numbers are 15 to 40 times worse, so that China might actually have 45,000 dead.
00:05:04.000Why would people choose to, like, believe this kind of stuff, but then... Convenience.
00:05:11.000Yeah, it's like, they're obviously not giving us the truth with their numbers, but then they're like, oh, well, but they say it's the U.S.
00:05:17.000now, so let's jump on that and run with that story.
00:05:44.000So I see this story, and I started wondering about, like, what the limit would be to where we actually say, hey man, you know, like, you're getting people killed.
00:05:53.000And this is a story from Defense One from March 10th, where you have major adversaries of the United States, you know, their media is pushing bioweapon conspiracy theories.
00:06:02.000I believe what they say in this article is that Iran is the main culprit in doing this.
00:06:07.000So, you have Chinese officials going on Twitter.
00:07:27.000And we have a timeline that, going back to like December, China had evidence there was human-to-human transmission, and this was getting really bad.
00:07:35.000But then January 5th or something, the WHO was like... 15th.
00:10:53.000So let's actually, let's read this, get some context.
00:10:55.000Defense One says, Chinese authorities maintain that COVID-19 likely originated at a market in Wuhan where people were selling bat meat.
00:11:02.000But Iranian, Russian, and Chinese propaganda media outlets would like you to believe without evidence, I love that, without evidence, that the emerging public health crisis comes from U.S.
00:11:13.000Disinformation about the coronavirus is spreading as quickly as the outbreak fueled by Iranian, Russian, and Chinese government-backed campaigns blaming and attacking the United States as the source of the scourge.
00:11:23.000One narrative all three countries, including China, highlight is the notion that the U.S.
00:11:27.000is weaponizing the crisis for political gain and thus worsening its spread globally.
00:11:31.000Rachel Chernasky, a project manager for the Foreign Influence Election 2020 Project with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, wrote yesterday.
00:11:51.000Well, so I guess the way I see when they say the U.S.
00:11:54.000is weaponizing it for political gain, it sounds like... And thus worsening it spread globally, I feel is a separate statement to the first part, is weaponizing for political gain, period.
00:12:05.000I definitely think that there is an activist media contingent with a political overlap that are trying to exploit this to hurt Trump and make political gains.
00:12:15.000I mean, you look at Joe Biden saying it was xenophobic to close the borders, and it's like every country in the What planet did this dude?
00:13:09.000When all of a sudden, another ship comes up, privateer, with, you know, black sails or whatever, whatever they did, and they start firing on you.
00:13:32.000And then the next day, they go to another privateer and say, here's your mission, go disrupt the French supply lines, and if you get caught, we disavow.
00:13:39.000So what we see with China and other countries today is something very similar, where you'll see private criminals Yeah.
00:15:00.000I'd be willing to bet, based on the title of this video, me, like, criticizing these foreign countries, they're gonna claim I was pushing the conspiracy.
00:15:51.000And I think, you know, the bigger question I have about all of this is at what point are we going to see a crackdown on the First Amendment?
00:16:17.000And they're saying you can't go to places of worship and they're actually, you know, they're calling out people who are engaging in worship and it's like the government can't stop you.
00:16:31.000Yeah, it's a tough question, you know.
00:16:34.000I don't know how to answer it, really, because, you know, I believe everyone, like, you know, we're both libertarians.
00:16:40.000Like, I want everyone to do what they want to do, but then at the same time, I don't want stupid people going out and gathering and spreading it around, like that story we read, or that we're going to later on.
00:16:53.000So, you know, this whole thing is interesting.
00:16:56.000And I think we should actually touch a little bit upon like the possibility of war before we get into like, you know, because it's, it's, it's the war.
00:17:03.000If we go, if we get, if we enter any kind of war, then you'll see your, your civil liberties gone.
00:18:37.000So, China's claiming they have 2,500 dead, and they're like, no new cases, and we're like, on the downturn, and people are uncritically showing their numbers.
00:18:45.000There was a really funny thing I saw on Twitter, where this guy has a graph, where he's like, I took all of the data on coronavirus and you can track different countries, and then there was a frequently asked question, why isn't China on this graph?
00:18:56.000And he said, because their numbers are fake.
00:20:17.000So we're, you know, one of the first things that needs to happen is hard dividing lines, so people know who's, you know, who's fighting who.
00:20:25.000We've talked a lot about, like, the possibility of a civil war in the U.S., and one of the things that makes it less likely is that there's not going to be a clear delineation between factions.
00:20:34.000And so it's really difficult to fight if you go outside and you're like, here's a guy, okay, he's wearing a muse shirt.
00:21:29.000You know, if we go to war, that means, you know, we would want to supply them with food and whatever to keep... But the supply lines are already kind of... Oh yeah, man.
00:21:38.000They're getting interrupted, so... In some areas, I'm already hearing that people can't get supplies anymore.
00:21:45.000So, it's interesting because when you're on Twitter, you're like in one place where you can see everyone talking.
00:21:50.000But then you gotta realize, people are all over the world.
00:21:53.000So I saw one person tweeting about how there's no, you know, like, there's certain supplies are completely drained in my area and we can't get them anywhere.
00:22:36.000There were some things, but for the most part, it seemed like there was a little bit less of most things, but most things were there.
00:22:43.000But in some areas, they are getting hit.
00:22:45.000So anyway, I guess... I don't know, man.
00:22:48.000I think if China gets strained, and their factories are shut down, and they can't produce food, if we can overproduce food, then I don't think we have anything really to worry about.
00:23:24.000I think to a certain point you can criticize the president, you can criticize Bill de Blasio a lot more because New York City is the hardest hit place, and Cuomo gets some of that criticism, but come on, the fault is really on China for lying to us.
00:23:35.000If they came out right away and said, look, preliminary data shows human-to-human transmission, it could be a false alarm, but seriously, get ready for this.
00:23:57.000They did it through the free market, which leads to a serious conundrum I see on the internet where they're like, all they did was buy up as much as they could through free market practice.
00:24:06.000And my response is, by lying to us, lying to the World Health Organization so that no one understood how bad it was, And then a lot of people were like, oh, that's really cool that we're helping China with their medical gear, because, you know, they're facing a shortage.
00:24:20.000And now that we've got 120,000 or so people in the US, we're like, we need medical gear.
00:24:24.000And that, to me, is why it's so annoying when people are like, Trump has fumbled this across the board, and it's like, look, man.
00:24:31.000Well, people feel better when they have someone to blame.
00:24:51.000We can move on to another subject, but I'm just... To the people whose families have lost their lives, you know, who have lost loved ones, if they want answers, you know, are they going to ignore this?
00:25:01.000Or do we need to tell them, like, China lied and the people you cared about died?
00:25:06.000And is there anything that's gonna come from it?
00:25:08.000And if we do want something to come from it, what if China says, F you?
00:25:13.000Do we just say, okay, that's cool, we're not gonna do anything, you're good?
00:25:16.000Or does somebody say, nah, and then, you know?
00:25:20.000I think really in order for war to break out, you need some kind of hard desperation or ideological zealotry.
00:25:25.000China would have to be like, We are seizing the South China Sea.
00:25:37.000says we're going to, you know, fly in international waters and then, you know, because China already lasered a plane a couple, you know, last month or whatever.
00:25:47.000I don't want to act like I think it's guaranteed, but I've had people, you know, who cover this stuff and who have, you know, worked in military stuff being like, dude, it's getting worse than it's ever been.
00:25:57.000Especially with the pandemic, with the loss of food stores, hoarding.
00:26:04.000And then you have these media companies, or I shouldn't say companies, but state-run propaganda, trying to convince their populations, we did this to them.
00:26:13.000Yeah, there's this article I read about the escalation of the blame game between China and America, basically.
00:26:21.000Because once Trump went on and said the Chinese virus, it was kind of like pointing a big finger at China and saying, you're to blame.
00:26:29.000And it's not necessarily the Chinese citizens, you know, it is the CCP who was like, we're not saying anything to anybody, you know, and that's why CCP virus is better.
00:26:41.000But then now they're doing this because it's what, how are you going to go further up from it's not our fault and like, we're, it's not the Chinese virus.
00:26:49.000Well, you're the one who put it there then.
00:26:50.000Yeah, but a bioweapon claim is so much like more egregious.
00:26:57.000It's, look, if we've got a bunch of random people on the internet claiming that it was a Chinese bioweapon, like, come on, of course, it's like people are gonna go on the internet and say whatever they want.
00:27:07.000If state-run media organizations or state-sanctioned or controlled media organizations are telling their citizens the United States engineered a bioweapon to go after them, they're gonna be like, they're gonna be rallied, right?
00:27:18.000So this is what people, you know what a false flag is?
00:27:24.000So this is what people basically, it's kind of like a false flag.
00:27:28.000Convince your people that you're under attack.
00:27:31.000You know, a false flag would be they attack themselves and then blame it on someone else flying a false flag, right?
00:27:36.000But it's similar in that they need to get all of their people on board with full-on conflict with us.
00:27:42.000Not that some of these countries actually need that, but Russia kind of does.
00:27:45.000Because the Russian people and the American people, for the most part, they absolutely do not hate each other.
00:27:49.000You know what, this almost feels like, remember we were talking about those videos that were emerging, we weren't able to show them to you guys because we can't really confirm them, but we were seeing videos out of China of almost like civil war, like people were fighting and like being locked away and like joining their own police force and fighting other police forces.
00:28:07.000Well that video is public, everyone's seen it, that's reported.
00:28:09.000Yeah, Wuhan, they're flipping a police vehicle.
00:28:11.000I mean this almost seems like they're trying to convince their own citizens, and it has almost nothing to do with us.
00:28:17.000I mean, obviously it does, because we're the main target here, but it's like, if people are actually rising up against the CCP in China, we won't know.
00:28:25.000We're not going to know anything about that.
00:28:27.000But if that's actually happened, which it looks like that could be happening, we won't ever know about it until years from now.
00:28:34.000You know, finally the CCP will get overthrown and people will be like, oh yeah, remember back when the coronavirus hit?
00:28:39.000Yeah, we started at that point and we had a civil war.
00:28:44.000And how does China stop that from happening?
00:28:45.000It was America. Yeah, let's let's you know, don't worry. It wasn't us. It was America. They did it
00:28:50.000It's like and we're here to protect you right? You must trust us. Yeah, that's what Americans are doing
00:28:54.000That's what it sounds like to me. Yeah, it's like they're really
00:28:57.000Because it's it's stupid like it's I think it was a Chinese doctor that that
00:29:03.000That no, no that not that blew the whistle but confirmed that it was an animal like natural in nature
00:29:10.000And then like we confirmed it and like a bunch of doctors around the globe were like, yeah, it's a natural thing,
00:29:26.000We can kind of wrap up on this point because I think you kind of nailed it, but when the people of China flip over a police vehicle, these are people who get arrested and tortured for saying naughty words.
00:29:37.000Yeah, for saying, I think you're stupid, policeman.
00:30:18.000But there's a few stories and this kind of, there's a pastor got arrested because he's ignoring the quarantines and lockdowns.
00:30:28.000Another pastor died and he was posting on Facebook things like he thought it was a hoax or that the numbers didn't add up and stuff like that.
00:30:35.000And then in Spain, something I was talking about earlier, Thousands of feminists ignored warnings and went out and marched on March 8th, and now Spain is like the third worst country.
00:30:47.000And they actually said that masculinity kills more people than the coronavirus.
00:30:52.000Yeah, so what I kind of want to talk about in that one is like the ideological ignorance, essentially, of people who are refusing to accept it because their ideology is, you know, their tribalism, but also civil liberties.
00:31:30.000Kyle Buchanan says, if you look back at world history after a major problem with a nation, they go to war.
00:31:36.000So do you think this one will be any different?
00:31:39.000There are a lot of factors involved in whether or not a war breaks out, but I think there has to be a hard reason for someone to go into someone else's territory.
00:32:43.000It seems, based on South China University, and look, I gotta be honest, I don't trust them for the most part, but this is stuff that makes them look bad and counters their official narrative.
00:32:52.000It seems like there was someone working in the Chinese version of the CDC that got contaminated by a bat.
00:32:58.000That seems to be at least the best guess we have now.
00:34:08.000And if the economies don't get back on track, Sicily could just be the beginning.
00:34:11.000But yeah, I guess the difference would be, is it going to be a world war with countries fighting countries or just everybody, humans fighting humans on the world?
00:34:36.000Because Hillary was very much adversarial.
00:34:38.000We still are very adversarial with Russia.
00:34:39.000The media doesn't give Trump credit for, like, the pushback he's given to Putin and stuff.
00:34:44.000But if it's true that Trump is trying to, you know, ease relations with Russia, like, if there's a world war, and it's US and Europe versus, like, Russia and China, that's gonna be devastating.
00:35:08.000All of a sudden, they're gonna deplore, like, XO suits, like, Iron Man crazy, like, jet packs, and, like, you're gonna see a whole bunch of... You know the city shield over Asgard that they turn on in Thor?
00:36:36.000But I know people who were there when they were like, you know, like, oh my God, and they like run and hide and take shelter and the sirens are going off.
00:36:42.000Yeah, so we wouldn't be sitting here going, like, oh, look, a missile!
00:36:49.000Dude, not something you want to experience.
00:36:50.000All right, let's grab some more of these Super Chats.
00:36:54.000Corto says, I know you're no fan of authoritarians, but how does it make you feel that a particularly authoritarian-leaning person, me, is a big fan of yours?
00:37:20.000But I think I should clarify too, it's little L libertarian, not like big L American libertarian, because I'm pretty lefty libertarian.
00:37:30.000And I would probably actually say, while I have very libertarian ideals, I'm a liberal, in that I do believe in authority.
00:37:37.000So the easy way to put it is, on a scale of like 1 to 10, if you actually look at like the authoritarian libertarian spectrum, If 5 is the middle, 6 is towards authoritarian, 4 is towards libertarian, I'm like a 3.5 or a 4.
00:37:54.000Because I was higher than you on that chart.
00:37:56.000Someone actually tweeted at me, like, you guys should do the political chart, and we actually have, and that's what he's talking about right now.
00:38:02.000And I'm a little higher than you, and I think a little to the left?
00:38:39.000MinMac says, CNN be like, Tim Pool, far-right conspiracy theorist and Zeppelin architect, spills gumbo on his shirt, so I just watch as in anguish.
00:38:48.000You know that my Wikipedia said I built a Zeppelin for like years.
00:39:29.000If I came out and said, I personally believe in free speech, and then someone at Huffington Post says, Tim Pool does not like free speech, they would ignore what I said, even though I espoused my belief, literally.
00:39:41.000I could show someone a picture of my ballot saying, I voted for Barack Obama.
00:39:46.000Then Huffington Post can write, but he didn't actually.
00:40:12.000And I was like, there's an institutional media bias that exists which defends fake news from predominantly left-wing sources, in that if the Washington Post is considered to be a good source, therefore, if someone else writes something and the Washington Post says it's fake, the Washington Post must be telling the truth, proving it's fake.
00:40:33.000So it's like a default assumption that long-standing newspapers are correct.
00:40:37.000It's so circular though. Exactly. It's like we know it's true because the New York Times said
00:40:41.000it's true and we know the New York Times is true because they... The New York Times said it's true.
00:40:45.000And then so like the New York Times will say like apples are yellow and then all these other sites
00:40:50.000will say apples are yellow and then Wikipedia will say apples are yellow and then if you
00:40:53.000actually pick up an apple and say I'm an apple farmer...
00:42:02.000We did the first ever live broadcast via drone.
00:42:07.000Or live news broadcast via drone, because drones do broadcast, but we streamed it to the web, we did a series of tests, and then I went to an immigration protest, and we were filming live via drone of this protest.
00:42:17.000And I don't know if they've, like, I think they may have done it, I think CNN may have done it.
00:42:22.000But I don't think for the most part they've done live broadcasts from the drone.
00:42:43.000And so what most of these companies do, or did, they don't really do the drone stuff anymore, they just recorded it and then uploaded the raw footage later.
00:42:50.000So I don't know how many people have actually done live broadcasts.
00:42:53.000Well, I mean, as far as the media goes, they probably don't want to do much live stuff because they can't control it.
00:43:00.000And they like to be in control, I'm sure.
00:43:02.000Well, they do live stuff, but it's like they've given up on actually covering the news.
00:43:05.000All they want to do now is sit at a table and complain about Trump.
00:43:08.000That's where they make their money, you know?
00:43:22.000What turns your run-of-the-mill conspiracy theorist that doesn't believe the official story of 9-11, or who killed JFK, into an anti-Semite for not believing the official Holocaust story?
00:46:09.000Trump's approval is going way up, and I think there's a lot of people who are begrudgingly accepting it, but there's also a lot of people who are waking up to how much the media lies, and they're also realizing how vulnerable we are and how scary it is.
00:46:19.000That's, I think, the biggest factor out of all of it.
00:46:23.000Brett Hutchinson says, hey Adam, once you finish Doom Eternal, check out Shadow Warrior 1 and 2.
00:46:28.000They're great games in a similar vein as Doom.
00:46:31.000Should also scratch the same itch for anyone who can't afford retail price games.
00:46:34.000All right, Shadow Warrior, I'll check it out.
00:46:35.000All right, I'm gonna speed up a little bit.
00:46:37.000Brett Marino, thanks for coming to member.
00:47:22.000I mean, we actually have a meme in this country, going back to when I was a kid, where stuff would be, say, made in China, and it would break.
00:47:50.000Tyler says, China, Russia, and Iran could be prepping their own populaces for war by spreading claims that we released a bioweapon on them.
00:48:24.000Because this is, like, I mean, these are draconian measures we're seeing starting to be implemented, especially for liberal democracies like us.
00:48:34.000And no, liberal democracy doesn't mean left.
00:48:36.000It means, like, freedom and of liberty.
00:48:39.000But I did a video once about, like, how America is a liberal democracy, and I had a bunch of people hitting me up being like, We are not a liberal country.
00:48:46.000We are a conservative constitutionalist.
00:48:47.000And I'm like, that's not what it means.
00:48:50.000Matt says, y'all probably consider me a conspiracy nut at this point, but I really do get a strong gut feeling that the disinfo we're seeing from China is just the prologue to actual war.
00:49:01.000That's not a conspiracy theory at all.
00:49:02.000Like, a lot of people are... I'm talking to journalists, I'm talking to people who work in Intel, and they're saying, like, what are the chances of this?
00:49:09.000Because we've been worried about it for a long time.
00:49:11.000Like, I'm telling you, man, when I was working for the ABC News Univision company, there were journalists there talking about China invading and, like, doing these things in other countries.
00:49:58.000If we start playing this game where we're like, we know it's- They're still lying.
00:50:00.000They're still lying too, and it's costing lives.
00:50:02.000If we play the game where we start accusing them of a bioweapon, that's when it discredits you.
00:50:07.000Because you need hard evidence for that.
00:50:08.000Yeah, when I was talking earlier about the back and forth, it's like, we gotta just stop the back and forth and not keep escalating it back and forth until then it becomes a war.
00:50:16.000It's not that, look, if you go to a regular person and say, I bet it was a bioweapon, they're gonna say, I don't know about that.
00:50:22.000If you say, it started there, they lied to us, and they're still lying to us, and now our people are dying, they're gonna be like, whoa.
00:51:02.000Yeah, but I'm eating rats or something around for a while.
00:51:04.000Well, yeah, but I just mean like yeah eat nasty right up So yeah, man, and the fact that they just they finally implemented that the banning of eating wild animals It's just like the timing is crazy like well, they have to it's it's the same face for sure I are they saving face cuz it's like you think that they would yeah, it's all about saving face.
00:53:35.000I'm sure you will find, like, okay, so Donald Trump comes out and says hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine shows we're seeing studies with promising results.
00:53:43.000And he's literally touting some preliminary research that is promising that could cure this disease, and the media comes out against him.
00:53:51.000There was a joke that Trump could cure cancer and they would find some way to make it negative.
00:53:56.000And now Trump literally comes out and says, like, there were studies.
00:53:59.000Numerous countries were like, these things may work.
00:54:31.000And then he talked about how these treatments have been approved before for other things, so we know that you won't die if you take them, so we're hoping we can go quickly.
00:55:09.000The hard line for me... I don't know what the hard line is, man, because I'm a very, like, anti-war kind of person, but China's got a camp full of a million people where they steal their organs.
00:55:18.000You know, what's funny is these activists on the left talk about, there's a saying, if you have ever wondered what you'd be doing in World War II Germany, you're doing it right now.
00:55:43.000But now people are saying, back to them, if you ever wondered what you'd be doing in World War II Germany, you're doing it right now because China has a million plus people in a concentration camp where they harvest organs and you are doing nothing and saying nothing.
00:56:51.000Augustine Uribe says, I hope it will not come to war, but as a soldier who has trained with forces all over the globe and observed the capabilities of our opposing countries, I know we can win.
00:56:59.000It will be a terrible cost, but we would prevail.
00:57:52.000So I'd assume that complications related to coronavirus would be pretty much all of the ways that you could die of coronavirus in a hospital.
00:58:02.000That's just basically how they say you died of coronavirus.
00:58:05.000Sean says, EU civil war more likely than anything else.
00:58:09.000When Spain and Italy decide to no longer pay the dues and Germany and France send an army to force them to, the rest of the EU nations pick sides.
00:58:47.000Kaj says, Soy Jesus, World War III is inevitable.
00:58:49.000War brought our economy back from the Great Depression, and if you, our economy, tanks because of Chinese plague, war will bring our economy back again.
00:59:46.000Jean McLeod says, a YouTuber, Mr. Reagan, has a friend that says Italy is fudging their death numbers.
00:59:52.000The friend had a grandma die of cancer, but the doctor wrote down death as CCP virus.
00:59:56.000Do you have friends in Italy that can confirm this?
00:59:58.000No, but I have heard the exact same rumor from several different people, and I don't believe it's real.
01:00:03.000I don't know who Mr. Reagan's source is or anything like that, so this is nothing on him, but outside of anything he does, because I'm not trying to impugn the honor or credibility, I have had people say to me, like, dude, my friend's grandma died of cancer and they claimed it was this.
01:00:17.000Cause like seven people have all said the same thing to me.
01:00:19.000My friend's grandma, my friend's, it's very much like the text messages that were going around where it was like, my friend works for the military and they said, Trump's going to do this.
01:00:32.000So look, before his video came out, I already had three people tell me that their friend or family member or, you know, friend of a friend in Italy died of something, you know, died of cancer, and then they recorded it as something else.
01:00:45.000So it could be a sign that they're actually doing it, because it's happening a lot.
01:00:49.000Or it could be kind of strange that people keep saying, my friend's grandma died, my friend's grandma died, my friend's grandma died, and I'm like, you know, at the third or fourth time I hear about someone's friend's grandma dying, I'm kind of like, did someone just claim that's what happened?
01:01:01.000And you're acting like it's your friend, when it's actually just you repeating someone else's, you know.
01:01:06.000Yeah, I'm pretty sure they can tell if it's a death by coronavirus.
01:01:09.000Well, it's not just that, it's like, if someone has a pre-existing condition, like cancer, and the coronavirus kills them, Wouldn't they say it was a complication due to the coronavirus?
01:01:18.000A death with a pre-existing condition?
01:02:34.000Sumner Robertson says, Is it more beneficial for you if I become a member or donate weekly?
01:02:40.000Um, well, I'll tell you guys, we used to be heavy on the membership, but there were, you know, there's a lot of challenges with maintaining it, and we wanted to make sure we had the podcast available on various platforms, which kind of negates the purpose of, like, making someone pay, so now it's just unlisted every day.
01:02:57.000Superchat's probably the best way to do it, but there was also a challenge with overlap between my content and the content we do for the show, because it's not necessarily the same thing.
01:03:04.000Like, you know, I don't want to get into too much of the details, but...
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01:04:51.000And at the time, you know hindsight is 20-20, so at the time they didn't really think anything of it.
01:04:56.000Oh a couple hundred, it was 600 or so people who had the coronavirus.
01:04:59.000Now Spain is one of the hardest hit areas.
01:05:03.000So it's easy to look back and claim how stupid these people were, and I certainly think it is a criticism.
01:05:09.000This was at a time when we already had China locking down the entirety of their country and people were really concerned it was going to get bad.
01:05:17.000But it's not just about the feminists.
01:05:21.000A Florida pastor was arrested after ignoring coronavirus emergency orders and bringing crowds to his church.
01:05:28.000There is, you know, a bunch of studies, a bunch of polls, I should say, came out showing the left is more willing to adhere, you know, to the warnings, I guess, and the right is less likely to.
01:05:52.000So, you know, even though—the funny thing is, I feel like the right also got roped into this, they got baited, because Trump actually started the task force on the 29th, banned travel on the 31st, I think, and the media was still saying, nah, ignore Trump, he's a xenophobe, he's overreacting, the flu is worse, and then finally when Trump and his supporters started buying into what they were saying, saying, oh, we don't think it's that bad, the media flipped and then started saying, ah-ha, we got you!
01:06:21.000And it made sense, because if you have a media saying everything's fine, and then you say everything must be fine, but then they start accusing you of saying everything's wrong, you're like, I don't believe you.
01:06:28.000You're just lying to make me look bad.
01:06:30.000And so now we have this, you know, basically, this thing basically happening.
01:06:33.000But it actually does get kind of a bit more sad.
01:06:38.000A pastor who claimed COVID-19 hysteria was a plot against Trump dies from the virus.
01:07:12.000You know, we were talking about this earlier, and I was like, you know, making fun of a large group of feminists is like, you know, who's really going to complain?
01:07:21.000It's like a group of people, it's not an individual.
01:07:23.000None of them, like, necessarily lost their lives or anything.
01:07:27.000And so this stuff kind of worries me that if people aren't going to take it seriously or they're going to, you know, downplay it, And then they're going to end up losing their lives.
01:07:54.000I mean, he was basically believing the media, or not believing the media, like, no, this is just some thing against Trump, and Trump's telling me it's okay, so I'm going to go out and keep doing it.
01:08:07.000And, you know, believing that the Lord was going to keep him protected, which is obviously not true.
01:08:14.000Or like that other article we just had, what did the pastor Rodney Howard Brown told his followers there was a plan to shut down Christianity and that God might replenish their low supply of toilet paper.
01:08:26.000It's just like... You know, I almost don't believe it though.
01:08:47.000Because it was right around our birthday.
01:08:49.000Oh, tell people what the Smurf thing was, because they probably don't know.
01:08:51.000Right, so actually in France, the same day as this feminist gathering was the Guinness World Record of the largest Smurf gathering of people dressed up as Smurfs.
01:09:04.000And sure enough, two or three days later, France's COVID-19 cases spiked up.
01:09:10.000Well, but the incubation period's a couple weeks.
01:10:48.000It's like, it doesn't make sense to be going out and when this is going on.
01:10:52.000It's like, I don't understand why they would want to still, you know?
01:10:55.000It's like, Yes, I get, you know, coming together for a reason, you know, like the Feminist March makes a lot more sense to me than the Smurf gathering.
01:11:06.000You know, it's like that could have very easily been postponed.
01:12:17.000Like, if there was, you know, the National Guard on the bridge, and there was, like, I don't know what that would entail, like, would they just park a couple trucks and, like, have it just, you know, like you were saying, like, turn around, go back, you know, like, have, like, some sort of turnaround system.
01:12:31.000But, like, if enough people wanted to get over that bridge, They're gonna make it over that bridge.
01:12:36.000I think we're still close to that happening.
01:14:25.000Like a lot of people even people that I know I'm sure a lot of people out there are staying in They are abiding by the quarantine and like trying to stay in and only go out when needed But then we got all these stupid spring breakers and like, you know people gathering going like I have a lot of friends in New York that are posting pictures of the park and And there's mad people in the park.
01:15:40.000I mean, I would definitely deny that because if they're going to do that, it's going to be, you know, at a hospital or some sort of like, you know, tent that they set up.
01:15:50.000Let's say they announce, um, in order to lift the quarantine, everyone's got to get a vaccine and they get, you get a card in the mail and it says you must arrive to the, this, you know, makeshift FEMA emergency camp at 10 AM.
01:16:01.000You show up a bunch of people in line one at a time and they walk up they prick you in the arms next person
01:16:06.000They just keep giving everyone vaccines. Would you would you walk in and just take the shot from the government? I
01:17:29.000It feels like they have everything they can on this because I still believe that they're freaking out.
01:17:35.000The reason they... I mean, one of the reasons, because there's many reasons I'm sure they're freaking out, is because it's hitting the generation that's in charge.
01:17:43.000You know, so they're really trying to figure this out so they can have a vaccine soon.
01:17:48.000Let's say the government showed up, and badges, verified, you're like, it's very obvious it's the government, and they said, we want to take this pill of hydroxychloroquine and this pill of azithromycin right now.
01:18:24.000The reason I'm asking it this way is... Hide it in the closet for, if I do get it.
01:18:27.000The reason I'm asking this way is because what people need to understand about my reticence is that the media just spent the past several weeks telling me that these treatments were dangerous and will kill you.
01:18:45.000Well, I don't believe the media and hopefully a lot of people, I mean, seriously, a lot of people are learning that the media is crazy and not paying attention to it anymore.
01:18:53.000Look, a ton of sites told me that the drug tethered by Trump will kill you.
01:18:58.000And I just heard a story about a man in Arizona who took the drug and died.
01:19:01.000And they're going to try and explain to me it's not true.
01:19:03.000And I'm going to be like, blame BuzzFeed.
01:19:24.000There are a lot of people who ask legitimate questions and get smeared in the press as being anti-vaxx.
01:19:29.000Like one of the things that comes up is they ask, I don't think my child should be forced by the government to medicate in order to go to school.
01:19:35.000I'm like, okay, that's an interesting point.
01:19:38.000You can believe that vaccines work and they're very important, but not like the idea of the government forcing you to medicate.
01:19:43.000I certainly don't like the idea of the government mandated medication.
01:20:05.000But it's a question of, if we just give in today, what does that mean for tomorrow?
01:20:10.000If we just say like, I don't care if the government forces us to medicate, then at what point are they just like, it's a normal thing, everyone medicates, take your pills, shut up.
01:20:19.000You know, I don't think the chip thing will ever really catch on though.
01:20:24.000It's like, I feel like the implant chip idea, which exists, and it's not a conspiracy theory, there are companies and people actually voluntarily get the chips in their hands.
01:20:33.000It's like, you know in Back to the Future?
01:20:37.000In part two when they go to the future and they see the hologram of the shark and the self-lacing shoes?
01:20:42.000It's an archaic view of what the future would be.
01:20:47.000They hit a hoverboard because they had skateboards and they're like, what if a skateboard could float?
01:20:52.000And so they imagine that, no, we invented cell phones and now we can have access to the summation of human knowledge anywhere we are and use it to look at pictures of cats and argue with strangers.
01:21:00.000But we don't have self-lacing clothes.
01:21:03.000I think the chip in people's skin is the equivalent of that.
01:21:07.000It's like 20 years ago they were like, what if you had a chip that could do these things?
01:21:11.000Now we have cell phones and we're like, I can just... Nike did actually build the shoes.
01:21:22.000It's funny that you mention smartphones and chips because in China they are requiring you to have a little green barcode before you go back to work.
01:21:53.000The system can only handle so much, but I will say a surveillance state makes it substantially more likely the authoritarian regime stays in power.
01:24:09.000Alright, Summoner says, I know YouTube takes some of the money when you do memberships, but I was wondering if you receive 100% of the money via donations.
01:24:16.000I know you're not making as much money as normal, so I wanted to help.
01:24:19.000Uh, the stuff on my website is like, I think, if you go to timcast.com slash donate, it's like, uh...
01:24:42.000One of the challenges was that I was getting hit up by people who were saying they were going to cancel the donations to my other content and then move to YouTube, which YouTube actually takes a massive cut of.
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01:25:33.000Nunya Biz says, Tim, here is the overstated Italy figure story.
01:25:37.000Remember, Tim, you're talking about a media complex that censored Brazil's leaders and berate Trump for talking about a studied, trusted medicine as well.
01:28:25.000It's like, it's totally fine if people don't have dads.
01:28:27.000And then 20 years later, they're like, it was really bad that they didn't have dads.
01:28:30.000We tried to kick out the legs from our culture.
01:28:32.000We're like, we can take this all for granted.
01:28:33.000And this is something Heather McDonald, Heather Haying talks about.
01:28:37.000She talks about how she feeds her kids organic food because she doesn't think that you should mess with stuff that you don't understand completely.
01:28:44.000Like, don't change things that have been this way for, you know, millennia.
01:28:49.000Yeah, you don't mess with it, and we're trying to do that.
01:28:51.000It's not even about trying, it's that we don't care, because we're like, I don't see any negative effects to having no dad.
01:29:07.000JMAC says, I found that the more libertarian-minded individuals that trust the government less have been more prepared for this crisis than those that either like governmental control or are geopolitically unaware.
01:29:53.000They don't pay attention, and I don't necessarily blame them because it's not everyone's job to know everything, but if you're not paying attention, this is what happens when you vote for this stuff.
01:30:00.000You should know what you're voting for.
01:30:49.000Have you seen the article about the guy who owns a closed Philadelphia hospital and is refusing to let the government use it unless they pay him one million a month?
01:31:11.000If the government is going to seize your property or requisition in any capacity, they owe you the fair market.
01:31:15.000If the government doesn't do it, you don't give it up.
01:31:18.000Think about what would happen if this dude, like, you know, it's easy to say, do the right thing for our society and give them access to your hospital.
01:31:28.000But it could also be him looking at his books and being like, if you take these numbers, we can't maintain the building, the power gets shut off, all the staff are fired.
01:33:24.000Well then, all of these hypocrites who are like, California did a good thing with this, but if you have the coronavirus, obey the government.
01:34:38.000The movie is literally about the right and the left, and Trump tweeted that it was like, it's really awful that the liberals are depicting conservatives being hunted for sport.
01:34:50.000And what people didn't realize is that Because I was absolutely critical of the concept from the beginning.
01:35:04.000If I told you there was a movie that shows liberal elites as maniacs who are so vindictive they would kidnap strangers for saying mean things about them on the internet and then hunt them for sport, you'd be like, okay, you're making fun of the left.
01:36:21.000Yeah, there are people who are gonna watch this and they see a caricature of the left as violent psychopathic murderers who mock and belittle them and then hunt them for sport, and I'm like... We already have it bad where people create a caricature of the left and the right.
01:37:27.000But here's the thing, the way the movie is set up, it's very obvious based on the tomato meter and the audience score.
01:37:33.000I think the split might be due to the fact that they do make conservatives, some of them, look really stupid and awful people, but they more so make the left look like really nasty, evil people.
01:37:46.000So the critics on Rotten Tomatoes normally give social justice lefty movies top scores, and the audience rags on it.
01:37:54.000So there's like Death Wish, for instance, the Bruce Willis movie.
01:37:57.000It's got like a tomato meter score of like 10%, but the audience is like 90-something.
01:38:37.000So let me ask you, of all the people that are watching this movie, like, are you worried that people are like, how many people do you think are going to take it as though this is how people are?
01:38:47.000I don't feel like there's that many people out there, or am I just too optimistic?
01:38:52.000If I feel like, based on what I watched in this movie, there's going to be a contingent of people on the left who are disgusted by it and angry that it makes them look like monsters.
01:39:01.000But there will be a contingent of people on the right who look at this and they say, that's exactly who these leftists are, I swear to God.
01:39:07.000I mean, what's the percentage of people out there that are like that, though?
01:39:24.000The premise of the movie is that these, in the beginning, these super wealthy liberal people are texting each other about going to their vacation home in Eastern Europe.
01:40:24.000So hired a, like a military consultant and a bunch of her friends to hunt people and drug them and then drop them in Eastern Europe and then murder them all.
01:41:03.000It's really, really funny seeing, like, people talk, like, one guy's, they're driving in a car and they don't realize one guy's a bad guy and he's like, I would never blame the victim.
01:41:14.000And then as soon as he says that, the main character, like, just slowly turns.
01:42:04.000Enough that you're like, okay, we get it.
01:42:07.000But I do think there will be a small contingent of people who look at this and it will make them feel an increased animosity towards the left.
01:42:14.000There's a small group of people that look at anything and it does the exact same.
01:44:10.000It's like the premise of The Invisible Man is she's like, out of nowhere, her, so this guy, look, man, I can't even explain the movie because it makes no sense.
01:44:19.000It starts with her, what appears to be like robbing a dude.
01:46:59.000I was critical of it for sure, but I was more tepid critical like I usually am.
01:47:03.000But they do make fun of conservatives.
01:47:05.000Like, they make one guy look like a really nasty dude, but you don't really relate to him.
01:47:10.000Like, I think you're supposed to relate to the woman who's in between these people, like, rolling her eyes like, ugh, who are these stupid people?
01:47:31.000Is a, you know, a woman who lives in Mississippi, who served in Afghanistan, knows how to use a weapon, more likely to be conservative or liberal?
01:48:03.000Like one guy is like... It's like the premise is they were saying mean things on the internet about these people and that was justification for executing them all.
01:48:13.000decides to literally go and murder tons of people for being mean online.
01:48:55.000So, a conservative guy saying, it's my right to have a gun to defend myself, and these people are trying to kill me, and their justification was that, so, it's their right to have guns too.
01:49:04.000Like, what sane person would agree with that statement?
01:52:57.000Right now we have condoms, so people are gonna get them.
01:52:59.000So we'll see what happens if in nine months there's a major boom and we're gonna wake up tomorrow and it's like, for some reason, people all across America were running to the store and buying out condoms.
01:53:09.000At one moment, 12,000 people went out right around 10 p.m.
01:54:06.000This theory was behind a series of articles published by the New York Times in the aftermath of the great New York City blackout of November 1965, when several local hospitals registered an increase in births starting in August 1966.
01:54:17.000The Times attributed the spike to how the infants' parents kept busy when the lights went out.
01:54:58.000They say sociologist J. Richard Udry wanted to test the assumption for himself and in 1970 published his findings.
01:55:05.000As it turned out, upon reviewing the citywide data, Udry found no statistically significant increase or decrease in the number of conceptions during the blackout.
01:55:14.000Yet ever since, each new disaster seems to have brought reports of a surge in births.
01:55:19.000If lack of alternative entertainment doesn't spur a COVID-19 baby boom, might the widespread calls to come together for the sake of our civilization inspire people to start working on the next generation?
01:55:32.000This banding-together theory was one of the main explanations in a 2005 study showing an increase in births in the counties surrounding Oklahoma City after the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Yep.
01:55:45.000When a population unites around a common goal, people feel more ownership of the future.
01:55:50.000We might therefore expect more baby-making to result from the nationwide campaign against
01:56:22.000Especially guys, I guess, when they retire.
01:56:25.000They die really soon after retirement.
01:56:27.000Think about the advantage in evolution.
01:56:29.000If someone is no longer producing for the collective, for the tribe, for the family, they're a drag on resources.
01:56:36.000They're no longer working, they're not producing.
01:56:38.000Them dying would be a net benefit to the rest of, to the survival, survivability of the family because now they need less resources.
01:56:45.000So if you have 10 people and, you know, one buffalo can feed 10 people and one person does no work, everyone is doing extra work to support the person who doesn't.
01:56:54.000There are some people, they found this in the blue zones, the areas where people live to be over 100.
01:56:59.000One factor is that they all work well into their, you know, 90s or 100.
01:57:03.000There was one interview I saw, I don't know if it was an interview, but there was a guy in Japan, and it was a really old guy in his 90s chopping lumber, chopping wood, and they were like, you're 90, why do you still do this?
01:57:19.000So I wonder if the reason people don't have babies is for the same reason.
01:57:23.000We know, internally, we're not doing anything to better our society.
01:57:27.000It would be a drain on society to, you know, reproduce in a world where there's no purpose anymore.
01:57:33.000So now that we have an actual common threat and a goal, and our survivability is under threat, people all of a sudden now start reigniting a desire to have kids, and it might be subconscious.
01:57:44.000It might just be like, all of a sudden, they're like, I'm gonna have kids, and it could be because now we are actually being threatened.
01:57:48.000Or like what we were talking about the other couple, maybe a month ago now, is like how This whole thing bringing factories back to America is like bringing Americans back together.
01:57:57.000So it's like back to the 1950s Well, you know, it doesn't have to be back to the 1950s, you know But still bringing production back here is simply a thing that could can be bringing people together It's like a lot of people on either side are like we should make our own medicine, right?
01:58:12.000Like, China shouldn't have control over our medicine.
01:58:17.000But a lot of people believe that, so it's like, we should start working towards that, and then the we in that sentence is the key, you know?
01:58:24.000So maybe it's already kind of begun, and now we're quarantined.
01:59:08.000Maybe for a lot of women who are working, they never have the opportunity.
01:59:11.000So now that people are at home, they're thinking, we don't know how long it's gonna take, how long it's gonna last.
01:59:15.000There's a window now where you can't work.
01:59:17.000Like, one of the concerns I read about, because I'm not a woman, so I wouldn't know, is that if women choose to have a family, they take time off work and it holds them back.
01:59:25.000If now everyone has to take time off work, no detriment.
01:59:31.000Maybe we gotta have a bunch of kids so we can raise the farm in the old school way and get to work, kids.
01:59:43.000The governments of the world are seeing the declining birth rate of all of the different countries and we're like, we gotta figure out how to lock everyone in their homes and make them terrified of their own mortality.
02:00:33.000If we, if we have a hard reset, we have a hard reset to our economy and all of a sudden now we're like truckers, doctors, nurses, police, EMTs, like core jobs that actually make society function are now getting, you know, people are clapping and cheering.
02:01:19.000You're literally crying in your mansion, bro.
02:01:21.000We're not interested in hearing about you right now.
02:01:23.000No, this is actually another interesting point is, all of a sudden now, they're not sympathizing with the wealthy people crying in their apartments because they see how bad it is for the doctors and nurses actually catching this, getting sick, or putting themselves at risk.
02:03:02.000Benjamin says authoritarian regimes that crush individuality will inevitably collapse because without it, they won't be able to adapt to new situations, and I agree with that.
02:03:11.000Odd Hall says, keep up the great work.
02:03:12.000Also just realized you always tell us about your bug out van to distract us from the fact you have a bug out Zeppelin.
02:03:21.000Stephen says, be safe, do the right thing.
02:04:07.000Coronavirus, fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers and seas boiling, 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, and that is a Ghostbusters reference.