The TimCast is back, and better than ever! This week, the boys discuss the new season of Rick and Morty, social justice warriors, and the future of the podcast industry. Plus, we get into the latest conspiracy theory that the sun is going to go extinct.
00:01:36.000I got a splinter right in the middle of my- the point I was making.
00:01:38.000Anyway, the point I was gonna make is- What is the point you were trying to make, Tim?
00:01:41.000Listen to all these podcasts, and they do the same thing with music, and they do this- they talk in the same way, and it's like, you'll turn on some podcast and like, it'll be like- So recently I was watching a TV show, and then it'll go like- In the background, and I'm like, it's all the same thing.
00:03:14.000But it is interesting because one of the arguments made by a lot of conservatives in reference to climate change is that, one of the arguments I should say, is that it's solar activity which causes it.
00:03:23.000And now that there's going to be some kind of solar minimum, they're saying, it's going to get really cold.
00:04:25.000I'm imagining people with cats and the cats are running around and cats are chasing butterflies and there's like people having a picnic and they're smiling and laughing.
00:04:33.000People of all races and creeds are all, you know, dancing and frolicking.
00:04:48.000The world we live in is the one where the corporations, like the big tech corporations, prop up large, powerful media corporations who are large and powerful because they lie.
00:06:20.000So, you know, I'm not going to accuse a lot of these companies of doing it on purpose, but I will say They're not unhappy when... Yeah, they don't care.
00:07:52.000Millennials and some of Gen Z. Look at this.
00:07:56.000Rick and Morty fans took to Twitter in a rage as they said they would boycott the animated show due to its use of 9-11 and Pearl Harbor jokes.
00:10:10.000Like, I have done security consulting for people traveling to dangerous places, and it's not appropriate to dance around and act like parts of the world are completely and totally fine.
00:10:40.000Fans of the hit animation Rick and Morty have threatened to boycott the series over its inclusion of controversial jokes about the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 9-11.
00:10:48.000Of all the things they could have been offended by, these are the least.
00:10:51.000Like, if they at least said white privilege or something, I'd be like, oh.
00:10:54.000During a new episode of the series called Promo Promortius, The characters Rick and Morty are seen flying towards two
00:11:02.000skyscraper towers in a clear reference to 9-11.
00:11:05.000After swerving to avoid them, Rick quips, Honestly, I'm proud of us for not.
00:11:09.000Totally. Would have been cheap, replies Morty.
00:11:13.000Rick then says, Pearl Harbor on the other hand, before flying towards an alien harbor and bombing it.
00:12:05.000The SJWs are sitting in their offices at the independents, other companies, and they're like, well, it's lockdown.
00:12:11.000They're like, ooh, this'll get clicks.
00:12:12.000No, they're sitting in a room, and a guy's got one of those cylindrical cages they use for bingo, where you crank the thing.
00:12:20.000And there's a bunch of things bobbing around, and the Spanish flute is playing in the background while they're all like laying there hot in the summer heat.
00:12:26.000And you hear it like... And the guy's just like lazily churning this thing.
00:12:31.000And then the music stops and he goes, ding!
00:12:32.000And he goes, okay everybody, today's outrage is... Shuffles in, he goes, Rick and Morty 9-11 jokes.
00:13:31.000They're looking for any way to make an article that'll get clicks, because they get paid for that, and now we're in a time where, like, we need any way to get clicks.
00:13:42.000They probably write the tweets themselves.
00:13:46.000I'll stop short of directly accusing any individual, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're using sock puppet Twitter accounts to be like, oh, Rick and Morty is offensive because of 9-11.
00:14:17.000There's also a joke where, in the episode where they're in Rick's memory, when they're trying to extract the portal gun equation or whatever, he's like, he's like, I store this memory between, you know, I can't remember what it was, he was like, the morning of 9-11, and when, you know, I had like ice cream or something, and then as they're leaving, you hear very faintly in the background, you see him in the background by the TV, and he goes, oh, they're gonna use this to take away our freedoms!
00:15:05.000And then all of a sudden they start flying up and there's two towers and they both look at each other like, ooh, and then they swerve out of the way.
00:15:10.000And that's where the joke comes in, where they're like, yeah, you know, I wouldn't feel good about that one.
00:15:15.000And then they look down and there's a harbor.
00:15:17.000It's like, well, I could do a Pearl Harbor though.
00:15:50.000Let's do a podcast where we're doing the same thing!
00:15:56.000But I feel like we're winning here though.
00:15:58.000It's a big conundrum that I've talked about quite a bit where it's like, Are we just as bad for engaging in the same bickering by calling them out for doing it?
00:16:09.000Or do they need to be called out for doing it?
00:19:51.000Like, they have done endless jokes, and so you get a bunch of kids who grow up seeing that as comedy, and they laugh about it, and they embrace it.
00:20:00.000So looking at Count Dankula's tweet where he says, 90s, 2000s, you know, absolute golden age where anything was allowed, yeah, South Park went nuts.
00:20:08.000I mean, I'm not saying it in a bad way, I'm like, it was funny, we grew up watching this stuff, we were like, you know, we're not offended.
00:20:14.000And now today, you have people emulating a lot of these things they grew up watching, thinking it's funny, and also pushing the boundary.
00:20:20.000And now we're getting the moralistic SJWs harrumphing, like... You know what's really funny about these people?
00:20:27.000One of the things they pointed out was that when Rick mentioned the Saudis, it was like xenophobia.
00:22:10.000Typically, when I heard it used, you know, ten years ago, it was when corporations were literally hiring people and paying them to go stand in a field and they didn't even care about the politics.
00:22:27.000Like, you're creating the circumstances where they can do this.
00:22:29.000Well, and if you're the one paying them and you're gonna benefit, like, you know, if you're a direct opponent, if they want to come because they don't like your direct opponent and then you bring them over, it's like, eh, you know, it's right in the line, I guess.
00:23:44.000You know, they complained about the Donald, which is like one of the biggest... It's the subreddit, right?
00:23:50.000Yeah, it's actually one of the most prolific meme generators.
00:23:54.000MIT Technology Review did a study and found that Donald and 4chan were the most prolific creators of memes that went viral around the internet.
00:24:40.000Yeah, so you would go into the... So, for those that aren't familiar, when you want to play this game Destiny and you need people to play with you, you would go onto the reddit and be like, yo, who wants to do this?
00:24:49.000And then, like, here's my username, come, you know, add me.
00:25:22.000So I bring this stuff up, for one, I love complaining about Reddit because it's just like, this website's been totally destroyed.
00:25:29.000It's, you know, World Politics, one of the biggest social media forums in the world, 1.2 million users, went so far to the left, they started posting rule-breaking anti-Trump posts, and people were just like, what's happening?
00:25:43.000So then eventually they said, well, if there's no rules, and they said, it just became porn.
00:25:58.000I think we might see that, depending on how much stress is put on, say, Twitter or Reddit as a whole, if the people running these platforms keep doing this, what they're doing is, imagine you've got a bamboo pole.
00:26:12.000And so you start pulling it to the left, and you're pulling it harder and harder and harder, eventually it's gonna break.
00:26:17.000And that's what happened with world politics.
00:26:19.000I think it's possible that, you know, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, all these sites, as a whole, are pulling so hard it's gonna break.
00:26:27.000But it's not just the companies doing it.
00:26:29.000One of the problems is there's, I'm gonna avoid naming them, but there's some high-profile companies that hire people to manipulate on social media.
00:28:10.000I've been saying for a long time, this is fringe political BS.
00:28:15.000Social justice nonsense will not work, but for some reason they just went for it.
00:28:20.000So in the context of how social media is being manipulated and they're putting these fringe opinions out there, they're actually lighting themselves on fire.
00:28:29.000I have to wonder if the real goal is to make people like you vote for Donald Trump.
00:30:12.000I mean, I'm not that deep into politics, but...
00:30:15.000The nightmarish reality of it is that, you know, everything could be fake.
00:30:22.000Somebody made a joke a while ago, like, what if all of these, like, SJW leftists are actually right-wingers trying to make the leftists look bad?
00:30:29.000And then all the fringe, like, far-right people are actually leftists trying to make the right look bad?
00:30:34.000And meanwhile, irregular people are like... What are you guys doing?
00:30:38.000So this is funny, the funny thing about the Gillibrand stuff, and I'll talk about this and then we'll talk about more black propaganda, is that this was obvious to everybody.
00:30:46.000She ran her primary campaign for the Democrats going woke as possible.
00:31:41.000I really can't stand is inefficiency Okay, like when I see something someone doing something wrong like I want to be like yo stop like let me let me just do it Stop what you're doing like you're doing it wrong You've got it upside down.
00:33:10.000So like apparently, I gotta be very careful in the details, but there was like a high-level meeting where this high-level person is supposed to be talking to a bunch of other like marketing, like advertising people to like sell content.
00:34:15.000They thought they were young and edgy or something.
00:34:17.000You know what I think it was for a lot of these companies?
00:34:21.000I was actually told this by one of these consultant marketing guys who said, if you want a company that starts today and is successful in five years, you gotta look at what young people are talking about and then track that, and then basically in five years, you'll be that source.
00:34:34.000And I said, the people talking about that are like a microscopic fraction of this country, and you're looking at the squeaky wheel.
00:34:40.000Regular people watch Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan, and they're opposed to this stuff.
00:34:45.000They lit themselves on fire, flushed down the toilet.
00:39:17.000And you see all of these people and all these media companies.
00:39:20.000I wonder if the goal was to destroy them.
00:39:23.000You know what, every time we have different conversations about different points, you know, of the whole bubble of politics, and the more you say it, the more it does make sense that they're just trying to sabotage themselves.
00:39:35.000Not themselves, but there's people trying to destroy them.
00:39:38.000Like, this, you know, Fusion wants to start a company.
00:39:41.000They, ABC and Univision, have this plan, they put in hundreds of millions of dollars, and then they start looking for consultants, and someone comes in and thinks, how can I destroy this company?
00:39:52.000And you know, what makes me curious is there was very, very heavy Hillary Clinton influence in what Fusion was doing.
00:40:02.000So I'll be very, very careful about how far I go with that, but big, powerful donors.
00:40:07.000It was in the family, you know what I mean?
00:40:10.000So I had to wonder if one of the reasons they decided to go full-on feminist was because they wanted to create a narrative so that when Hillary Clinton ran, they'd be like, you know... We are for her.
00:40:19.000But I don't, I don't, and a lot of people would argue it's a big conspiracy theory.
00:40:23.000I was like, it's not a conspiracy theory for some, for this big Hillary Clinton donor to pay for media.
00:40:46.000Oh, I thought you said they were, they were doing fine.
00:40:49.000When they first started, they were trying to figure things out.
00:40:51.000Oh, they were just funded, that's what you said.
00:40:52.000And then they had consultants come in and tell them to do something.
00:40:56.000And they flushed themselves down the toilet and burned all the money.
00:41:00.000But when it comes to the internet and people like Jill O'Brien and stuff, I have to wonder if one of the reasons the left can't succeed is because black propaganda.
00:41:11.000Like, if all this cancel culture stuff is just people trying to make sure they can never succeed, I think about it in terms of real leftist anti-establishment activists.
00:41:20.000You can see people like Matt Taibbi, for instance.
00:43:08.000Without naming any specific individual.
00:43:10.000There are people who would make content that was like anti-SJW, you know, moderate, not super political, but like anti, you know, in the culture war, anti-SJW.
00:43:20.000And then once they got their careers threatened, immediately started saying, oh, but I'm actually left wing.
00:43:24.000Oh, and then totally just slowly sneaking in.
00:43:28.000And then there are people in the middle who do the same thing, and then slowly become more and more right-wing and start entertaining more conservative and right-wing positions.
00:43:37.000And it's because they're getting what's called a love bomb from the right.
00:43:40.000And so that's like the ongoing phenomenon right now of the culture war.
00:44:18.000Because I'm like, you used to call it out.
00:44:20.000Like, if you believe in universal healthcare, and you want to have an argument about what I just said about the DMV, and there's real arguments against that.
00:44:27.000Just because the DMV is bad doesn't mean you can't make a system for universal healthcare that works properly.
00:44:57.000So if you want to make a, have a real conversation and a fair argument and stuff, like I'm totally down, but it seems like that doesn't really exist for the most part because the screeching wreaths, you know, the social justice warriors prevent these kinds of conversations and make sure everyone's just, maybe it's just humans, man.
00:45:46.000I mean, he was right, although it was bad timing.
00:45:49.000No, the full context of his statement was, he laughed and said, he was asked, how will history look back on, you know, what happened, and he laughed and said, well, history is written by the winner, so I guess we can see, but I think it'll look favorably on us because we upheld the rule of law.
00:46:40.000So when Chuck Todd lies, they know he's lying and they go, good, because it'll convert more people.
00:46:45.000I don't think everyone knows that they're lying.
00:46:47.000I think some people just want to believe it.
00:46:49.000They're like, oh, he's saying what I believe, so.
00:46:51.000But the dude Matthew Iglesias of Vox.com once wrote that progressive messaging had successfully convinced people they had not received a tax break when they really did and that was a success, a messaging success.
00:47:05.000He celebrated the fact that they had successfully lied to people and tricked them into hating Trump for something he actually helped them on.
00:48:36.000They're thinking, we gotta kinda do it, but we're not gonna do it.
00:48:40.000That was the early aughts, where it started changing.
00:48:44.000And there was a post, it was like a viral post, I can't remember where it was, but someone said, you don't even watch MTV anymore and you're complaining that they found a new audience that's more receptive to a different kind of content.
00:48:57.000Just face it, you've grown out of what they offered.
00:49:49.000And when we do opinion segments, we're just two dudes hanging out in a home studio talking about how we feel with people who share similar feelings.
00:50:27.000CNN pays airports to put them on the screen.
00:50:30.000Yeah, next time you're stuck in an airport, think about that.
00:50:33.000So anyway, I want to talk about space.
00:50:36.000So let me just wrap this up and say, there's going to be a ton of people banned.
00:50:40.000There's going to be social media suppression.
00:50:42.000You're going to see brigade campaigns.
00:50:45.000So recently on Reddit, and I want to be very careful so I'm going to avoid calling out specific people, but there have been brigade campaigns.
00:50:51.000what they'll do is they try to pretend like they're fans of yours that are
00:51:08.000it's it's very obvious but that's the attempt to manipulate you
00:51:13.000So it's part of the black propaganda thing.
00:51:15.000You might go on Twitter one day and see like 50 messages where they're like, bro, dude, dude, I love you, man, that show's awesome, but hey, when you mention this thing, it's not cool.
00:51:23.000And then you see all these messages and think everyone's mad at you and you go, oh, I better not say that again.
00:52:16.000And so I always, you know, I always say things like, I'm, when people tweet at me and say nasty things and go on Facebook, I'm like, my honest feeling about this is a weird sense of like accomplishment.
00:52:29.000You know, like growing up being a high school dropout and not getting to the point where there are all these people that feel like I'm important enough to where they have to complain about me to their friends.
00:55:15.000We're gonna get to that, but we're gonna do Super Chats first, so we're gonna read your questions and comments, but make sure you follow me at Timcast.
00:55:21.000Make sure you follow Adam at... Oh, hey, yeah.
00:59:29.000I want to make sure they never do anything like I do, where they complain about Democrats, and they never do anything like anyone else where they complain about Republicans.
01:00:53.000But then we would talk about context and then do, like, you know, analysis pieces after the fact.
01:00:58.000So that's like, that's... Long story short... Well, it sounds like they're a good team with you because they'll do it their way.
01:01:05.000And then I'll... And then you can give the analysis.
01:01:08.000Basically, the goal is to sit down in the morning with some people and be like, here are the stories that I think are really big that I want to talk about, and then have them be like, we need to fact-check this.
01:01:17.000So, it's a way of expanding, basically.
01:01:20.000It's already what I do, when I read a story and give my take on it.
01:01:24.000Now I'll have a fact-checking team, which I can make sure that I don't get things wrong, and then I can also do more.
01:01:32.000So like a story comes out and it's like Donald Trump threw, you know, food into the Koi pond.
01:01:36.000It's, it's, it's, I don't want it to be like, um, they have these fact-checking websites like factcheck.org and stuff.
01:01:42.000No, I want it to be like an actual destination where you can come, see videos, see other content, but you will get your articles with like, you know, a breakdown of like fact-checking different sources and things like that.
01:01:56.000But this is the next, you know, mission.
01:01:57.000And the reason I'm separating them is the field reporting, the on-the-ground original reporting that they're doing needs to be protected and independent from me and from anybody else.
01:02:07.000There's a risk of bias, but the only thing I would ever do is if they ever came out and were like giving their opinions and stuff is when I would be like, kibosh, no dice.
01:02:19.000No, it's just like... No, I know, I know, that's not what you want them to be.
01:02:23.000I don't think this is a perfect answer to anything that's going on in the culture war, because you can criticize me for writing on Democrats all day.
01:02:29.000It's funny, like, people post and they're like, oh, Tim does complain about, you know, Democrats, and I'm like, that's basically true.
01:02:34.000I mean, it's not entirely fair, because I do segments about UFOs, I do segments about media, and I'm very media critical.
01:02:40.000But the media and the Democrats are, like, very much in sync, and so you end up seeing a lot of fake news, and that's where the overlap comes.
01:02:46.000But then it's also, for me, it's like Trump is winning, Trump's been winning, and we're trying to track what are the Democrats doing.
01:02:54.000It's not news that Donald Trump is the president and he's running again.
01:03:11.000I'll find some people that are, like, down and want to do journalism, and I'll help, you know, fund in a variety of ways.
01:03:18.000We did a crowdfunding thing, a bunch of people donated, and that is a way to have them be editorially independent and make sure news exists.
01:06:59.000Probably the best Flippin I'm like I think for me is not only he'll flip front crook To fakie yeah, and that was that was that was me skating 14 years ago So now I kind of just chill and do like a lot of basic stuff I don't really film a whole lot, but I'm hoping that with the ramp and skating more consistently.
01:10:08.000So, the pitch that got accepted was three parts.
01:10:12.000And it was about me getting into the hacker community and my friends and social engineering stuff, then the height of the hacktivism and activism in Occupy Wall Street, and then into news media and fake news and all this stuff.
01:10:26.000And they actually storyboarded everything out.
01:13:28.000Jack Dawes says, with all these people leaving, or planning to leave, tyrannical centers right after the census, this is going to seriously mess up election predictions and campaign strategy for a long time.
01:24:37.000Have you seen the Rekia that media's vid on Arbery shooting?
01:24:39.000He broke it down with Andrew Branca of law of self-defense. I did not haven't seen it
01:24:45.000Oswald says would y'all be down to join blaze TV if you get shut down only asking because you mentioned getting shut
01:24:51.000down plus I Don't want to lose you guys. Love y'all Tim so I just and
01:24:54.000Lydia and don't want y'all to ever quit I mean, I mean I'm down to talk to anybody but I got my own
01:25:00.000companies You know, we got Scanner, we got a bunch of things, so... It's not the same, like, if you're an individual personality with a show and someone wants to sign you, that makes sense, but I have, like, three different companies.
01:29:30.000JDNX says Joe Biden is Hillary Clinton in a Donald Trump mask, complete with a veneer of confusing, belligerent language and a sexual assault.
01:31:03.000But it's a complicated question of where to draw the line when we implement something like that.
01:31:09.000John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt says, Hey Beanie Brigade, you keep talking about relocation with West Kansas very libertarian and still moderate.
01:34:25.000It's Fat Ed says, Mr. Poole, how do you rectify the want to be an activist versus the fact that I have to work every day and can't make the time to go make a change?
01:34:33.000Is there a middle ground that I can choose?
01:35:48.000I think the solution might be Scanner.
01:35:49.000That's why I'm interested in making sure that they have their independence and can do real journalism without someone coming in and trying to jam them up and make them do biased nonsense.
01:38:05.000I found some stores and I was able to make some orders, but I was like going to the usual stores and they're like sold out, sold out, sold out.
01:38:59.000Odysseus says it's funny that reporter pulled down her mask when we could see her just we can see it just fine in her eyes like we understand you don't need to take your mask off to like make that point.
01:40:22.000Evan says, Tim, why do you decry when innocent people die by the state or by accident, but you don't shed a tear when innocent babies are killed?
01:40:29.000That is an ethical and moral conundrum that is too complicated to discuss in a short question.
01:40:36.000I had a really great conversation with Glenn Beck about it, and ultimately it's just, there's a serious freedom challenge in terms of the rights of individuals, the rights
01:40:47.000of the states, and there, I don't know, I don't know it's tough, but I
01:40:50.000think the conversation with Glenn Beck, if you check it out, it's on his podcast.
01:41:02.000Downskated says, Tim, if you're going to speak about the South China Sea, look up Defense Update's video about the USS Barry and China Uncensored on the Nine-Dash Line.
01:41:10.000These issues have been long ongoing in the region.
01:41:16.000Bo says, as an American from Kami, California, I think the solution to this mess is to protest for a 2020 Bill of Rights, a national veto, UBI.
01:41:51.000I especially want to make sure we have edit history in all the stories so you can actually look to see the changes and explanations for changes and things like that.
01:43:04.000Big news this week about the giant, burning, boiling, spinning thermonuclear reactor, which lies 93 million miles away from Earth, but is our primary source of life-giving heat and light.
01:43:12.000That was the stupidest way to say we have news about the sun.
01:43:28.000It turns out the sun has gone into lockdown, recession, or more accurately, a deep period of solar minimum, which means that the activity on the sun's surface has fallen dramatically, and its magnetic field has become weaker, letting into the environment more of the sort of cosmic rays that cause dramatic lightning storms and interfere with astronauts and space hardware.
01:43:47.000They can also lead to the explosion of sprites, clusters of orange and red lights that shoot out of the top of thunderstorms like 60-mile-high palm trees in the sky.
01:43:59.000And on top of all of that, theoretically, it could cause the temperature on Earth to drop to potentially catastrophic new lows.
01:44:05.000While the Met Office and members of the Royal Astronomical Society are urging us not to panic and reminding us that this is just nature, nothing to worry about, and the sort of thing that happens every 11 years or so as the sun passes through its activity cycle, some doom-and-gloomers are much less optimistic.
01:44:19.000I'm gonna just interject a bit, and, um, nature is scary, and nature is often reason to panic.
01:44:25.000Like, if a volcano explodes and you're nearby, well, you don't want to panic, but you should be alert and worried and running.
01:45:09.000What if like, what would you do if say like Australia right now got hit by like a massive, you know, just like asteroid or meteor or whatever.
01:46:13.000That is not what happened in the 17th and 18th century.
01:46:16.000Okay, for those that are just listening, it is like Big Ben covered in ice, frozen up to the clock, and there's like some kind of tanker, like boat, ship, just in the snow.
01:46:29.000Yeah, somehow up like halfway through like the distance of Big Ben, too.
01:46:33.000It's because the water level rose, I guess, and so they're... It's beautiful, but that has never happened.
01:46:39.000Alright, well check it out, there's some cool stuff.
01:46:41.000She writes, perhaps they're haunted by the extreme solar minimum, thought to have contributed to the so-called Little Ice Age in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.
01:46:48.000When the temperature fell so low, the River Thames froze over, crops failed, lightning storms lit up the skies, and in 1816 the weather was so crazy that it snowed in July.
01:46:57.000As we all know, the Sun, which is 4.5 billion years old, and more than a million times bigger than the Earth, is not only a source of cheer when it finally pops out from behind the clouds, it also keeps us alive.
01:47:09.000Which means that the tiniest change in its activity levels can have extraordinary consequences triggering lightning storms, the appearance or disappearance of the northern lights, and those amazing sprites.
01:47:18.000But the sun's activity is changing constantly as it passes through its regular cycle, from solar maximum, hottest and most active, to solar minimum, quiet and cooler.
01:47:28.000Since the 17th century, scientists have been measuring the depth of a solar minimum by counting the sunspots, areas of magnetic activity on the solar surface, which show up as relatively dark spots, and solar flares, large explosions that hurl charged particles into space.
01:47:43.000The general rule is the fewer the sunspots, the more severe the minimum and the higher the chances of lightning storms, sprites, and disruption of Earth.
01:47:52.000So far this year, the sun has been blank, with no sunspots, 76% of the time.
01:47:59.000A figure passed just once since the 50s last year, when it was 77% blank.
01:48:04.000So could we be heading for a grand solar minimum, based on a sustained period, decades, even centuries, or particularly weak solar cycle?
01:48:13.000Are we now on top of everything else facing another mini ice age? So what do you think?
01:48:18.000Huh interesting. So so we could actually be All this climate change the climate that we've been saving
01:48:26.000our lives. Yeah, we've been messing it up Preparing for the temperature to be lower, but we've been
01:48:32.000raising it. So it's actually just gonna be normal It's just gonna be normal for a while
01:49:27.000They say 200 years ago, we were deep in the midst of the Dalton Minimum, which occurred between 1790 and 1830 and was marked by periods of brutal cold.
01:49:36.000Temperatures fell by 2 degrees Celsius over 20 years, which may not sound much, but had the effect of devastating the world's food production and causing widespread famine.
01:49:47.000So we're about to add this on top of this pandemic.
01:49:49.000That's interesting though, because aren't we at the point of about one to two degrees higher than average?
01:51:13.000Yeah, kind of, but this is not even nearly as bad as the flu.
01:51:15.000This pandemic is like a, just a, it's just another, I don't want to call it the flu, but it's like a new thing that is just basically like a flu going through the human race.
01:51:42.000So the economic crisis is actually much worse, or I should say has the potential to be substantially worse than COVID is.
01:51:52.000But I just mean, like, Alien invasion, great war, massive volcanic eruptions spewing ash into the sky for hundreds of miles or thousands of miles.
01:54:07.000and then it crawled into her shirt and I noticed and I was like hey hey like there's a there's a bee and then by the time she noticed the the wasp freaked out yeah and stung her 16 times or something it was a wasp she started going yeah they don't die when it's like Yeah, that's the worst.
01:55:19.000Meanwhile, like a giant like 35 foot spider is like, yeah, like spitting acid and like, you know, they're like an umbrella with the acid falling on them.
01:55:28.000And they're like, Oh, it's a normal day in Australia.
01:56:39.000It's like, you know, I guess it's, you know, not literally, but much more than here.
01:56:45.000But you compare New Zealand's animals to Australia's animals and it's like, Australia is like Australia is like five times the size though, or maybe even more.
01:56:53.000I don't even know the actual percentage.
01:59:43.000Yeah, the microphone we have for music is, like, to get better room, you know, sound and stuff like that.
01:59:49.000Uh, I'm liberal on a lot of policy ideas, and I'm, like, moderate center-left, so you can be classical liberal, which is slightly center-right, social liberal, which is slightly center-left.
01:59:57.000I've always been relatively social liberal, but, uh, politics have gone—has been absolutely insane as of these past few years, so I don't—I don't know what anybody is, or I don't even think anything makes sense at this point.
02:11:25.000Remember when We used to fight for peace But heroes were only on TV screens My market's made up Broken hopes and dreams To put me back into mediocrity Taking more, taking spite of this Focus on the ways I guess you never changed that day
02:12:07.000It's hard to believe that you mean a thing to me.
02:12:21.000Remember when we used to fight for peace?
02:12:29.000When villains weren't only on TV screens?
02:12:36.000My heart is made up Of broken hopes and dreams I'll take my place in this story Taking more, taking spider-less And focus on the ways I really wished you'd change that day It's hard to believe that you mean nothing to me.
02:19:52.000Now playing the sixth string feels weird.
02:19:55.000See, when I've been jamming now, I've been playing the twelfth string, just, like, kinda messing around, because we went and got it, and it's awesome.
02:32:46.000I probably have like 300 songs awesome.
02:32:50.000I probably have more than that but like a bunch of them just are kind of I Well, I mean, I was reading the chat and there is a call for Friday night jam sessions.
02:43:23.000When I learn a new song, I like to cover a song.
02:43:26.000I'll always learn a new chord and then I'll forget that cover completely and just focus on that new chord and be like, how does that go with all the other chords that I know and then I'll create like five new songs out of that.
02:44:35.000Tharpinitup says, he needs a vocal coach to teach him to open up his throat and nasal cavity more, but he could be an awesome musician if it's what he wants to do, I see.
02:46:22.000And if you can spend up to 300 bucks, Go to Guitar Center, when you can go to Guitar Center, or Sam Ash, or a small town guitar store, maybe that's even better.
02:46:34.000You know, because if you can find an older, like an old Martin for $200-$300, they're really good guitars.
02:47:06.000Acoustic, you need to build up calluses on your fingers, and that takes a while.
02:47:12.000It's easier to play acoustic because that's all you need.
02:47:14.000Electric, you need electricity and an amp.
02:47:17.000I mean you don't need it you can still learn how to play guitar on just the electric but it definitely is nicer with a you know amp so but just just try them out just go go play them all the same thing that I tell anyone who asked me about what kind of skateboard to get you just just go find the one that speaks to you that you're like this sounds really nice I like the sound of this guitar it's easy to play my fingers aren't hurting I mean your fingers will hurt if you don't know how to play guitar there's gonna come a point when you're like oh Oh, my fingers!
02:47:44.000And that's just, I mean, I don't know if you can see.
02:50:56.000My Urban Exploration says, hey hey, I live in Adelaide, South Australia, and we have had no new Wuhan case for almost three weeks now, and the last person that had Wuhan virus recovered yesterday.
02:51:08.000Rock on everybody, rock on, and keep it up.