Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Trump Admin Notifies Congress USAID Is CLOSED, Fires EVERYONE, ITS OVER w-Dan Holloway | Timcast IRL

00:02:37.000 The State Department has officially notified Congress USAID is done.

00:02:43.000 It's closed.

00:02:44.000 They've fired the remaining employees, so it's over.

00:02:46.000 Now, Congress is supposed to be the one to shut it down, but the executive branch can run it as they see fit, so they've effectively shut it down.

00:02:54.000 This is huge, because this is the final nail in the coffin for one of the accused way in which the Uniparty Deep State was funding its NGOs, its activism, etc.

00:03:03.000 We got big news that XAI has officially acquired X, absorbing the social media platform into its AI company, which is going to integrate everything you do or say on the platform into training the Grok AI, which you were already doing.

00:03:17.000 That's why Elon bought it.

00:03:19.000 And this is just making it easier and faster for him.

00:03:22.000 And then, oh boy, so much news.

00:03:24.000 Tim Waltz says that the Democrats need to get woker to defend wokeness and DEI, and they should have done it from the get-go.

00:03:31.000 I agree, Tim Waltz, please.

00:03:33.000 Please do this.

00:03:34.000 And then we got a bunch of crazy videos.

00:03:36.000 Some dude in Texas appears to, he's driving next to what looks like a cyber truck.

00:03:41.000 And it looks like he draws a gun and points it at the truck.

00:03:44.000 The truck speeds up to get away and he chases after it.

00:03:46.000 These things are getting crazy.

00:03:49.000 And then there's another story claiming the CIA found Noah's Ark.

00:03:53.000 I guess we'll talk about that.

00:03:54.000 But what I really want to say is the video of Roseanne paying Michael Malice the money she owes him for losing the bet about military tribunals and an election not happening is we've got it.

00:04:05.000 We're going to play it.

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00:05:45.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Dan Holloway.

00:05:48.000 Good evening.

00:05:49.000 Who are you?

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00:05:50.000 My name is Dan Holloway.

00:05:52.000 I'm one of the hosts of the Drinker Bros podcast, and I have another show called Citizen.

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00:07:57.000 Well, right on.

00:07:58.000 Let's jump to the news.

00:07:59.000 It's a chill Friday night.

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00:08:03.000 And you guys are here listening to the news because you care.

00:08:06.000 Here's a story from the Post Millennial State Department officially notifies Congress of USAID closure.

00:08:12.000 I'm down for it.

00:08:13.000 The State Department officially notified Congress that the U.S. Agency for International Development has been dissolved and the remaining operations of the agency will be run by the State Department itself.

00:08:22.000 According to United Press International, the State Department officially told Congress that USAID was dissolving on Friday.

00:08:31.000 Secretary of State Mark Rubio said in a statement today, This is massive.

00:08:50.000 I think the reason they're doing it is because Congress basically passes a bill saying you have to have these certain functions.

00:08:58.000 And so if they can accomplish those tasks set forth by Congress through the State Department, they shut down USAID, which for those who don't know...

00:09:09.000 Has been accused of basically funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to activist organizations, lawyers, and political outfits to fund establishment shill politicians.

00:09:18.000 So along with this, Donald Trump's citizenship requirement for voting, it looks like, I don't know, Trump's march to the sea on the deep state is ramping up.

00:09:29.000 In progress.

00:09:30.000 In progress.

00:09:31.000 It's a battle for sure.

00:09:32.000 Without the help of Congress, it's going to be for naught at some point.

00:09:36.000 But yeah, I mean, I don't know what...

00:09:38.000 You guys are gonna miss the most from USAID.

00:09:40.000 Is it gonna be...

00:09:41.000 The CIA overthrowing governments and then installing new ones that people like me have to go fight in 20 to 25 years?

00:09:47.000 Or is it the 11 out of the 13 Ukrainian media companies that are funded by it?

00:09:52.000 It's hard to tell which one's going to be the bigger hit to my own personal entertainment.

00:09:56.000 Somebody will one day be like, I miss the days of the color revolutions in other countries. 0.53

00:10:01.000 You kind of alluded to it as well.

00:10:03.000 There's this circular feature to the USAID funding where money comes out of your wallet and it goes to USAID and then it goes to a foreign country and it somehow ends up in the hands of some enemy adversary that ends up being spent back here on Antifa, BLM and so forth.

00:10:17.000 Indeed. Indeed.

00:10:18.000 It's like digging your own grave, I guess, right?

00:10:22.000 Which is something that you see in bad Western movies, mostly.

00:10:26.000 But now it's just kind of been our reality for the last 70 years, and we had no idea.

00:10:30.000 I look at it like Capital City and the Hunger Games.

00:10:33.000 Basically, these are people who don't have to work.

00:10:35.000 The machine takes from everybody else to fund and feed them.

00:10:39.000 Have you ever spent any time in Loudoun County, Virginia?

00:10:41.000 Oh, yeah.

00:10:41.000 It is a magical place.

00:10:45.000 Magical is one way to put it, yeah.

00:10:46.000 Oh, but I mean, like, when you understand that it's all military, industrial contractors, lawyers, and behind every smile is someone funding or helping to bomb children in foreign countries and never declared war on, you go to the park and they're singing Disney songs and they're eating delicious food and it looks...

00:11:03.000 It looks like magic, but I imagine that if you could see into the souls of these people, not all of them, a lot of them are actually fans, but going down there and seeing just how beautiful everything is and knowing what funds it...

00:11:17.000 Oh man.

00:11:18.000 I literally had a tweet like two weeks ago that says driving through Loudoun County is crazy because what do you mean you built a castle next to a gas station?

00:11:27.000 Which is basically what it's like.

00:11:28.000 It's like there's huge just massive properties next to small businesses and you realize that driving through there driving through anywhere through Virginia you're basically being propped up by all of the money that we the taxpayers have dumped back into it.

00:11:42.000 I wonder what's going to happen to this place.

00:11:44.000 Loudoun's a big county so it's not just like No, I mean, it's like art.

00:12:11.000 It's all a fake shell game to make money.

00:12:14.000 But that's what government is, right?

00:12:15.000 Government, no matter how noble, I guess, its intentions, and it's not always noble, but even when it's in its best form, eventually becomes an engine to extract labor and wealth from the population.

00:12:26.000 That's really what it is, right?

00:12:27.000 And that's gotten harder the larger the government has grown over time, which is why they're fighting so hard.

00:12:33.000 Exactly. So that's why we created this.

00:12:40.000 If you look at government as an experiment over the course of human history, you can kind of see how it matures just like a human being would, right?

00:12:48.000 It starts in this rudimentary phase that doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:12:51.000 In the same way that our religions have evolved as well.

00:12:53.000 So it starts where we...

00:12:55.000 See the natural forces that are happening.

00:12:58.000 We're like, oh, that must be something bigger and more powerful than myself.

00:13:01.000 So earthquakes, that's God.

00:13:03.000 Lightning, that's God.

00:13:04.000 The sun, the moon, all this stuff.

00:13:06.000 And then you get a little bit farther down the rabbit hole in religion and you start to ascribe social controls to it.

00:13:15.000 And when I say social controls, I mean...

00:13:18.000 Like the aspects of human nature, love, hate, war, wine, whatever, right?

00:13:23.000 And then you get a little farther down, you start to get to monotheism, which is, like, it's an individual with a personality.

00:13:30.000 And really, it's a mirror of yourself.

00:13:32.000 That's the point of it, right?

00:13:34.000 In the same way you see government as an experiment that happens over time, we try this, we try that.

00:13:39.000 The Athenians, for example, tried a direct democracy for two years, and they were like, nope.

00:13:43.000 No way. 1.00

00:13:44.000 This is stupid. 1.00

00:13:45.000 You guys are too dumb. 1.00

00:13:46.000 We can't do this. 1.00

00:13:46.000 And then they tried some other stuff like representation without pay. 1.00

00:13:51.000 So they had basically like a Congress but no pay.

00:13:54.000 And what they found was that only rich people were able to serve.

00:13:57.000 So they only took care of rich people, right?

00:13:59.000 So you had to make it such.

00:14:00.000 And that's why...

00:14:01.000 You know, when Congress asked for a raise, I'm like, yeah, do your job, and I'll consider it, right?

00:14:05.000 But you can see it kind of grow up over time, and that's why we know that it's an experiment, because you can look—it is a testable hypothesis.

00:14:14.000 Does communism work?

00:14:15.000 No. We know it doesn't.

00:14:17.000 So when anybody—if anybody starts talking about communism or socialism, you can be like, hey, let me stop you right there, bud. 0.98

00:14:22.000 I don't ever need to hear anything you say again, ever, because you're not a smart person. 0.69

00:14:26.000 I mean, we talked about this the other night.

00:14:28.000 The funny thing about communism is that— It's fundamental precept is basic arithmetic that is wrong.

00:14:35.000 So when they say, from each according to their ability to each according to their need, you're basically saying, we've got ten people in a room, half of them consume more than they produce, the other half sustain themselves.

00:14:46.000 It's like, okay, that's called net negative.

00:14:49.000 And you will all starve to death.

00:14:50.000 And then when you do that basic, you know, one plus negative one equals zero, you realize if you implement communism, everyone dies.

00:14:58.000 And then surprisingly to these people, whenever they try communism, everybody starves.

00:15:03.000 Yeah, it's wild how that works out.

00:15:04.000 And so back to the point, even in the noblest form of government, which is the one we have, I think.

00:15:11.000 Still, it doesn't scale indefinitely.

00:15:12.000 It can't.

00:15:13.000 That's why we created federalism, to send power back to the lowest possible level.

00:15:16.000 That makes the most sense.

00:15:17.000 But even then, it doesn't work because we don't operate it in that way.

00:15:20.000 And that's because of all of us, by the way.

00:15:22.000 And I don't mean just the five of us in this room.

00:15:25.000 Just every American who thought it was okay to, because I have an iPad and Hot Pockets, to not pay attention to what's going on with my money in Washington.

00:15:33.000 And we did that for a very long time.

00:15:34.000 Eisenhower warned us about it in the 50s, and we paid no attention to him.

00:15:38.000 Right? We just kind of went on about our business and let it grow and grow and grow.

00:15:41.000 And now it's going to be very difficult to unseat some of this stuff.

00:15:44.000 And one of the things I find most interesting, like USAID and like Doge is kind of exposing right now, is people have been propagandized so much by these organizations that are likely funded from institutions with our tax dollars that they've propagandized people into believing that firing inefficient government employees is actually a bad thing.

00:16:04.000 And you're seeing the death throes of that last 70 years of Poor, inefficient government, but fantastic propaganda reeling its ugly head and showing people that they don't really understand the scale of which the rot is within the government.

00:16:19.000 And then there's a part of it that's like a weaponization of our better natures.

00:16:24.000 You know what I mean?

00:16:25.000 Empathy is a good thing.

00:16:27.000 So this is something that people need to start understanding and acting on.

00:16:31.000 It is the folks in power who are performing this magician's patter.

00:16:36.000 To make you think you should hate the left or you should hate the right, right?

00:16:40.000 The reality is that the left and the right don't exist anymore and that we have to hate the people who did that to us.

00:16:45.000 That's got to be the first mission.

00:16:47.000 And that is like we need justice and we need empathy from the left.

00:16:53.000 We need laws and we need strength from the right.

00:16:56.000 We need these things in the same way that we need men and women to raise a child, right? 0.98

00:16:59.000 That's just a fact of nature.

00:17:01.000 And we've allowed these...

00:17:06.000 Usually on my show, there would be a string of bad words right here.

00:17:10.000 We've allowed these people to completely, as you say, propagandize the dialogue now, where when somebody posits some left position, and you have to understand from them, there's this impetus to want to take care of people, right?

00:17:24.000 And as a man that's on the right side of things, my idea of taking care of people is teaching them how to fish, not giving them one, right?

00:17:32.000 And also...

00:17:33.000 Giving them the means to protect themselves and the information to protect themselves, not to coddle them.

00:17:37.000 But not everybody is a man on the right.

00:17:40.000 Some people need to be coddled sometimes.

00:17:41.000 Children, for example, right?

00:17:43.000 And we need that feminine presence. 1.00

00:17:45.000 And we can't have it, right?

00:17:46.000 If these people are left in charge of the public discourse, if they're allowed to say, because you want to own guns, you don't care about kids dying, right?

00:17:55.000 If they're allowed to say that without repercussion from their own side, the left has to step in and say, hey, that's wrong.

00:18:00.000 These are good people.

00:18:01.000 But they weaponize toxic levels of empathy, usually on an out-group bias because they push for laws rather than taking care of things within their own home, right?

00:18:13.000 Yeah, and that's the secret sauce there, to be honest, because when the government shows up to your neighborhood and nobody's got their hand out, they've got no power there, right?

00:18:22.000 So if you want this decentralized government...

00:18:25.000 If you want this lowest level possible, if you want federalism, if you want this dream that Jefferson had to be a reality, you better go down the street and take care of your neighbor before the government shows up to do it.

00:18:34.000 Otherwise, you're not doing your job and you have no right to complain about anything that's going on.

00:18:38.000 I think there's a middle ground in either you teach them to fish or give them a fish.

00:18:42.000 I think you can give them a fishing pole.

00:18:43.000 You know what I mean?

00:18:44.000 Let them figure it out?

00:18:45.000 No, it's like...

00:18:46.000 We can teach them to fish, but you find a guy who's got no fishing pole, and you say, look how I cast the bait or whatever, and they're going to look at you and be like, that'd be great if I had one of those.

00:18:56.000 So there's a middle ground of the help that we provide in society is to give you the opportunity to help yourself.

00:19:03.000 We don't just say, hey, look at me.

00:19:04.000 I can do it.

00:19:04.000 Why can't you?

00:19:05.000 We say, okay, let me give you a boost.

00:19:08.000 Here's how you do it.

00:19:08.000 Figure it out.

00:19:09.000 But the left goes...

00:19:11.000 All in.

00:19:11.000 Here's a bucket of fish.

00:19:12.000 Have fun.

00:19:12.000 We took it from that guy.

00:19:14.000 And now this person's like, I don't even got a fish.

00:19:15.000 I just get it for free.

00:19:16.000 Well, and we just had that.

00:19:17.000 Literally, the discussion was last week.

00:19:19.000 It was about soda and EBT.

00:19:21.000 And the discussion came about what items should be on EBT.

00:19:24.000 And I think a lot of people would rather have a discussion.

00:19:26.000 As important as that is, is looking to weed out fraud in divisions like that.

00:19:31.000 The idea of limits on the amount of time you can be on those programs.

00:19:34.000 But even having that discussion a lot of the times with people who have certain beliefs in just how powerful government should be or at least unlimited power in helping people because they see it as a virtuous cause, they don't want to have that discussion at all.

00:19:47.000 But I would like to believe that most moderates do want to at least be able to have that debate.

00:19:51.000 Even if you don't believe that everybody should be on food stamps all the time, you should believe in some type of responsible federal, Yeah, well, there's a saying that I liked.

00:20:03.000 It's hard to hate up close, right?

00:20:05.000 So it's easy to...

00:20:08.000 It's easy to create this caricature of your enemy that exists in your head and hate them on Twitter or from afar.

00:20:14.000 But when you see somebody that's hungry up close, that's quite a bit more difficult, right?

00:20:17.000 And there is, regardless of what your politics are, there is some impetus to be like, hey, I need to help this person.

00:20:22.000 There's no way that, like, if you're, if you believe, if you're like a patriot and you believe in America and what it is, then you want it to be the best, right?

00:20:31.000 This is just like standard broken window theory stuff.

00:20:34.000 If I want my country to be the best, Then I damn sure better put some effort into that.

00:20:40.000 Otherwise, I have no claim to its goodness.

00:20:42.000 How could I?

00:20:43.000 Like, every now and again, you'll hear these people like, oh, we won World War II.

00:20:46.000 Like, oh, you were there, huh?

00:20:48.000 Like, what have you done lately for this country, right?

00:20:51.000 And there's a lot of ways to serve.

00:20:53.000 I was in the military, but it doesn't have to be that.

00:20:54.000 It doesn't have to be police or fire, EMS or first responder stuff at all.

00:20:58.000 You can serve your community by taking care of the people that are closest to you because that's your job to do it, right?

00:21:02.000 And for me, I think what's interesting about that is most, like I said, I think that both sides have this impetus to the right these days wants as little federal government as possible, which I tend to agree with for the most part.

00:21:15.000 And most people aren't focusing on their state-level government anyway.

00:21:18.000 They're too interested in the pro-wrestling nature of federal politics these days, right?

00:21:23.000 But when it comes to the left, they don't really see value politically on the left.

00:21:28.000 There isn't inherent value placed on the family.

00:21:31.000 So they look at the government as a surrogate to the family where they say, dump in all the money, put in all the resources there so that we can take care of people without actually trying to operate under the premise that there are steps that you can do to alleviate all of that that start at home.

00:21:47.000 Yeah, I wonder how much of that is a scarcity mindset, too.

00:21:50.000 Let's jump to the next story.

00:21:52.000 We have this from Fox News.

00:21:55.000 Tim Waltz says Dems weren't bold enough to double down on DEI and immigration.

00:22:00.000 He said that they should have defined what woke was and defended these ideas, but they let the other guys do it.

00:22:08.000 I agree, Tim Waltz.

00:22:10.000 I am glad you brought this up, Democrats.

00:22:14.000 No, don't, because then you will win.

00:22:17.000 You can't have them do that, Tim.

00:22:20.000 So, you were saying a moment ago that there was no left and no right.

00:22:25.000 What do you mean by that?

00:22:28.000 Well, let me, I hate to answer a question with a question, but who was the last conservative president?

00:22:33.000 Depends on your definition of conservative, I suppose.

00:22:36.000 In your opinion.

00:22:38.000 The last conservative president.

00:22:42.000 I would argue Donald Trump.

00:22:44.000 Before Trump, though, is what I mean.

00:22:45.000 George W. Bush.

00:22:47.000 I am not wrong.

00:22:49.000 What did he do that was conservative?

00:22:51.000 You can't be wrong because it's your opinion.

00:22:53.000 That's the point, because what it means to be conservative changes with every generation and every step.

00:22:58.000 But when people say it, though, right, because people say I'm a Reagan Republican, typically, when they refer to what conservatism used to be.

00:23:05.000 Oh, yeah.

00:23:06.000 Reagan destroyed marriage and gun rights.

00:23:09.000 And he gave amnesty in California to illegal immigrants.

00:23:13.000 Got rid of mental institutions.

00:23:14.000 Absolutely. Closed the asylums. 1.00

00:23:15.000 Yeah, and I wasn't— He raised taxes in five out of the eight years he was president.

00:23:20.000 Right. I was alive for, I think, two years of his presidency.

00:23:23.000 And before that, a lot of the worst things that he brought to this country came from California.

00:23:27.000 So, yeah, I don't think that guy was a conservative at all.

00:23:30.000 But that's what—if you ask the average Republican today, they'll say Reagan.

00:23:34.000 Right, but that's not left and right.

00:23:35.000 Left and right doesn't make a direct reference.

00:23:37.000 No, no, sure, sure.

00:23:38.000 The last time that we had a right-leaning, in the traditional sense, president was probably Eisenhower.

00:23:45.000 Maybe Nixon.

00:23:45.000 Nixon got railroaded quite a bit.

00:23:48.000 That's a whole other conversation we don't need to go on.

00:23:50.000 But when I say there's no right and left anymore, I mean, if you ask somebody to define their ism, whatever it happens to be, conservatism or liberalism, they have no idea what those words mean, right?

00:24:02.000 And they're not represented in the true fashion.

00:24:04.000 As you say, though, they do evolve over time.

00:24:08.000 But the words do mean something, right?

00:24:10.000 Right. When we say classical liberalism, what we mean is liberalism.

00:24:13.000 No. That's what it means, right?

00:24:15.000 No, it doesn't.

00:24:15.000 That's not what people mean when they say it, but that's what they're trying to refer to, what liberalism was during its inception, right?

00:24:21.000 So this actually is really interesting.

00:24:23.000 Classical liberalism is a reference to the 1700s.

00:24:25.000 Right. It's a reference to, you know, Locke and a lot of the founding fathers.

00:24:28.000 Exactly, yeah.

00:24:29.000 Yeah, but liberal doesn't mean left, right?

00:24:31.000 Right. I thought you were saying what liberal was 20 years ago.

00:24:35.000 No, no, no.

00:24:35.000 I mean, like...

00:24:36.000 300 years ago.

00:24:37.000 Right, exactly.

00:24:37.000 When people say classical liberal, they mean, I believe, a free speech, basically.

00:24:41.000 That's what you should mean when you say that.

00:24:43.000 That's the most free speech and property rights.

00:24:45.000 That's classical liberalism.

00:24:46.000 Yes. Basically, right.

00:24:47.000 And then liberal turned into from classical to traditional to social liberalism, which is what we had in the 90s.

00:24:54.000 Right. And now...

00:24:56.000 People hear the phrase classical liberal, and I think it means 90s liberal.

00:24:59.000 Right, but that's not what it means.

00:25:00.000 It does not.

00:25:01.000 It's closer to libertarianism.

00:25:02.000 This is what I'm saying.

00:25:03.000 We don't even know what the words mean anymore.

00:25:06.000 So people say them to identify themselves, and they have no idea what it means, which gives this space for these...

00:25:13.000 Useless politicians to come in and redefine what things are, and they're not special people, right?

00:25:18.000 They won a popularity contest. 0.73

00:25:20.000 The only person in Congress that's special is Thomas Massey, frankly, because he's a literal genius.

00:25:24.000 Right. Like, he built his own house off the grid, and...

00:25:28.000 I gotta tell you, I've got a lot of pipeheader friends, but if we were in a legit...

00:25:34.000 Thunderdome situation, I think I'm going to Thomas Massey's house.

00:25:36.000 I agree.

00:25:37.000 You know what I mean?

00:25:37.000 He's off the grid and he built his own self-sustainable farm.

00:25:42.000 It's ridiculous.

00:25:42.000 So he's special.

00:25:43.000 I don't want to single just him out.

00:25:46.000 I'm sure there's a couple other people that are great.

00:25:48.000 But for the majority of these people, they're not special.

00:25:52.000 So typically when people say liberal or conservative, what they really mean is left or right.

00:25:55.000 And what left and right define is the umbrella of each dominant political faction in opposition to each other in this country.

00:26:04.000 Yeah, but conservative doesn't even mean right.

00:26:06.000 Conservative means to concert.

00:26:07.000 Like, I want things to stay the way they were.

00:26:09.000 That's not necessarily a right-leaning position.

00:26:11.000 Maybe things were left and they want to conserve the left.

00:26:13.000 Exactly. And reactionary.

00:26:14.000 I refer to leftists as reactionaries.

00:26:16.000 So reactionary was a reference to...

00:26:19.000 Let's go back in time.

00:26:20.000 The French Revolution, where we have the terms left and right.

00:26:22.000 The left side of the court was saying, Revolution!

00:26:26.000 And the right side was saying, no, no, we want the monarchy.

00:26:28.000 We don't want to do this.

00:26:29.000 And so the right were called reactionaries in that they were responding to the revolution of the left and largely opposed it.

00:26:37.000 So reactionary came to represent.

00:26:40.000 It basically means you want the status quo.

00:26:42.000 You want to return things to the way they were.

00:26:46.000 The issue is that for leftists, they think they're revolutionaries. 1.00

00:26:50.000 The problem is when they're too stupid to realize they're trying to revert the United States back to the way it used to be. 0.99

00:26:55.000 For instance, DEI programs are actually how things used to be. 0.99

00:26:59.000 The reality is for the majority of human existence, race-based policy was the norm, and it's only in the past couple of decades we've actually had law preventing this. 0.83

00:27:09.000 Redlining and blockbusting housing policies targeting minorities ended in the 80s.

00:27:14.000 So when the left comes out and smashes things and using violence and says, we want things to be the way they used to be, I say they're reactionaries. 0.99

00:27:21.000 And then they go, you're so dumb. 0.99

00:27:22.000 Reactionary means right wing. 0.99

00:27:23.000 I'm like, no, it means you want things to be the way they used to be.

00:27:27.000 And we do not.

00:27:28.000 Well, this is the problem when you let the people who are engaged in the power struggle define the terms, right?

00:27:35.000 Because it's all a magician's pattern.

00:27:37.000 None of these words mean anything anymore.

00:27:38.000 And that's why there is no...

00:27:40.000 There is a functional right and left, but not a definable one where there's two sides.

00:27:46.000 People ask me all the time about...

00:27:48.000 Well, not so much anymore, but before Trump was elected about civil war and stuff.

00:27:53.000 I'm like, between who and whom and what exactly, right?

00:27:57.000 You're kicking it off, I gotta tell you.

00:27:59.000 I know I'm provoking you intentionally right now.

00:28:01.000 Who are the factions in the Syrian civil war?

00:28:03.000 Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda.

00:28:05.000 Well, who were the actual factions at the start of the Syrian Civil War?

00:28:08.000 This latest one?

00:28:09.000 When the Syrian Civil War began, so when the Arab Spring kicked off and Syria was overcome by partisan conflict, which involved government forces and other forces killing each other, who were the factions?

00:28:21.000 Al-Qaeda, ISIS versus the Ba'ath Party. 0.86

00:28:24.000 Well, actually, there was the Free Syrian Army was one faction.

00:28:27.000 There was...

00:28:28.000 Kind of analogous to the Kurds, I guess, in that regard, because...

00:28:32.000 What I'm getting to is basically there were about 12 different factions.

00:28:35.000 And the argument everybody had before this was, you're not going to get a civil war because who would the factions be?

00:28:40.000 What happened after three or four years?

00:28:42.000 Well, the CIA funded that, though, right?

00:28:44.000 Sure. So, I mean, maybe they fund some kind of...

00:28:47.000 The point is, historically...

00:28:50.000 Historically, civil wars everywhere aren't started by two aligned factions marching towards each other in the street.

00:28:57.000 Pockets of violence erupt.

00:28:58.000 For instance, the U.S. Civil War started with bleeding Kansas.

00:29:01.000 So this was not the U.S. government versus Confederate states.

00:29:03.000 It was seven years of anti-abolitionist and slavery forces across the country killing each other.

00:29:10.000 And then people argued, yeah, but it's a bunch of random people.

00:29:12.000 I mean, so even after Fort Sumter happened, nobody thought a civil war could happen even though it already did.

00:29:17.000 And so they went and picnicked at Manassas thinking there can't be a civil war.

00:29:21.000 But that's when it bubbled up to the highest points of each respective faction.

00:29:24.000 So right now...

00:29:25.000 Who would the factions be?

00:29:27.000 You know, honestly, I don't know, but you look at Rudyard Lynch's analysis, which it appears he's got three days to make his prediction.

00:29:33.000 I don't know if his prediction was 1,000 dead by April.

00:29:36.000 Maybe he means end of April, so he gets an extra month if he wants to really nitpick.

00:29:40.000 But he said that there would be a People's Congress in Texas, and there would be the traditional Congress in D.C. I said you're wrong.

00:29:50.000 The people's Congress would be in New York City and the traditional Congress would be in D.C.

00:29:55.000 run by Donald Trump because Trump – he thought Trump was going to win.

00:29:58.000 And I said – and New York is the epicenter of where the Democrats and the liberals are waging their lawfare and their campaigns.

00:30:05.000 And the issue largely is – I guess my point ultimately why I asked about the left and the right is there is a left and the right, though it's not like there is this rigid cube for which there are boundaries you can't be in or out of. It's more like – So it has its orbit.

00:30:34.000 It's a planet with a bunch of different factions that orbit within it that work in tandem periodically.

00:30:39.000 The right has something not so similar.

00:30:43.000 For the nerds out there, the left is the Alliance and the right is the Horde.

00:30:46.000 And what I mean by that is...

00:30:48.000 The right is a hodgepodge group of disparate ideologies that have come together largely only because the unified forces of the left are psychotic and burning everything down.

00:30:57.000 And they're actually forcing your hand to be labeled as right just by virtue of having one qualifying thing that you disagree with them on, forcing you into a box that you don't even necessarily see yourself in.

00:31:07.000 What are the X and Y axes here, right?

00:31:10.000 Like if we're graphing left versus right, but they're both kind of...

00:31:19.000 There is no easily defined X and Y axis.

00:31:23.000 I can give you several examples that many people have posited.

00:31:26.000 Recently I've been saying it is those who serve God and those who want to be God.

00:31:31.000 What that idea tries to encompass is the further you go to the right on this scale, you have people working towards and being part of something larger than themselves, which includes each—and it's funny because you'd imagine that means communism, but it certainly doesn't.

00:31:45.000 As you go closer to the left, you get hedonistic and people who are willing to do whatever it takes for their own personal benefit, even if it destroys everything else.

00:31:54.000 But there's a bunch of different ways to approach it outside of that, and I think culturally it is— There's so many ways to define it. 0.96

00:32:04.000 Smart versus dumb.

00:32:06.000 Independent thought versus dependence. 0.98

00:32:10.000 Cult-like adherence to disagreeableness.

00:32:14.000 All of these different things are components of this multidimensional axis.

00:32:19.000 So the way I see it is, on the right, what do you tend to have?

00:32:22.000 Disagreeable nature.

00:32:23.000 The right has...

00:32:25.000 Christian conservatives, it has post-liberals, it has disaffected liberals, it has atheists, agnostics, largely Christian, some Catholics, some evangelicals, some Jewish, some hate the Jews, some pro-Israel, some hate Israel.

00:32:36.000 On the left, they largely adhere to whatever the group think is, even if it's contradictory.

00:32:41.000 So, for instance, their anti-military industrial complex, for which they scream about Israel, but then they support Ukraine.

00:32:47.000 They're seeming paradoxes in what they're arguing, because it's not about...

00:32:52.000 It's really fascinating.

00:32:53.000 There's no underlying principle.

00:32:54.000 They're just taking orders, basically.

00:32:56.000 That's what it feels like.

00:32:59.000 Man, on the right there is logic and code, and on the left there is chaos.

00:33:06.000 So as long as you are within the orbit of the sphere of chaos, and you are aligned with its whims, you're fine.

00:33:13.000 And its whims change every single day.

00:33:15.000 So today they say, you gotta buy an electric car, tomorrow they burn your car down.

00:33:19.000 It makes literally no sense.

00:33:22.000 It's also a party of – oddly enough, they've done a very, very good job of posing the right as the party of money, as the party of resources, whereas a great number of the very, very rich very much support the Democratic Party.

00:33:40.000 Yet they talk about hating billionaires.

00:33:44.000 That to me is the one – they've turned billionaire into pejorative.

00:33:47.000 It's now used to other you in a way where it's millionaires.

00:33:51.000 Trust funds, politicians who live wealthy off of the citizens who have turned certain rich people into an enemy and use their wealth.

00:34:00.000 And now they use the term oligarch as a way to other you or other somebody who makes a lot of money.

00:34:05.000 And there's no actual logical conclusion there because a lot of them come from wealthy families.

00:34:12.000 The politicians have made millions and millions of dollars off of the American people.

00:34:16.000 Most of them just willing to look the other way, not realizing that a lot of these politicians...

00:34:21.000 Sure. I gotta address this, Super Chat.

00:34:32.000 I don't normally do this.

00:34:33.000 No, you don't.

00:34:34.000 But Josh Branson said, Tim, the right is the alliance, preserving order and discipline, and liberal anti-establishment are the horde.

00:34:40.000 The left are the void, a vacuous nothing, seeking to consume everything and bind it to its will.

00:34:45.000 My friend, you don't know the lore of World of Warcraft.

00:34:47.000 That's embarrassing.

00:34:48.000 I can't believe you did the Super Chat.

00:34:49.000 No, I'm kidding.

00:34:51.000 But let me try it this way.

00:34:53.000 At this point, Warcraft lore has become a convoluted mess of hodgepodge garbage. 0.95

00:34:57.000 So we can all agree it's nonsense. 0.93

00:34:58.000 There's pandas running around.

00:35:00.000 I don't even know why anymore.

00:35:01.000 And they do kung fu. 0.96

00:35:02.000 This is now a World of Warcraft show.

00:35:04.000 Absolutely. Period.

00:35:06.000 Yes. So when they...

00:35:07.000 Look, Lich King was great.

00:35:09.000 And I played vanilla.

00:35:10.000 I played Burning Crusade.

00:35:11.000 Lich King is where I slowly started walking away.

00:35:14.000 Then they introduced kung fu pandas. 0.98

00:35:16.000 Anyway, I digress.

00:35:17.000 The analogy is this.

00:35:19.000 In the original Warcraft...

00:35:22.000 World of Warcraft at least.

00:35:23.000 The Alliance were the establishment forces.

00:35:26.000 The humans with their great kingdom of beauty.

00:35:28.000 The elves with their great kingdom of beauty.

00:35:30.000 Well, to be fair, they didn't have night elves in that point.

00:35:32.000 And they were like mystics or whatever.

00:35:34.000 And, you know, I'm going to get some arguments here from diehard fans.

00:35:39.000 The point is, the undead were a faction of the Horde.

00:35:44.000 These were, the Lich King destroyed Lordaeron, the city of humans, cursed them to be undead. 0.73

00:35:51.000 They were mindless zombies serving evil.

00:35:54.000 They broke free from the curse and were immediately shunned and poo-pooed by the establishment. 0.72

00:36:00.000 So the Horde took them in.

00:36:03.000 The Horde originally was a hodgepodge group of disparate ideologies and factions who were teaming up for survival, and the Alliance were the establishment forces of the existing nations that wanted to keep everything the way it was.

00:36:14.000 So I view the left, which represents the neocons and the neolibs and the establishment as the established order.

00:36:20.000 And what happened is Trump and a bunch of other groups of varying ideologies, even libertarians, come on, joined together despite the fact they disagree.

00:36:28.000 But I think it's largely a good thing. 0.64

00:36:30.000 So enough silliness.

00:36:31.000 My point is, on the right, you have people who completely disagree, but will hang out with smiles on their faces.

00:36:37.000 And on the left, agree with me or burn.

00:36:40.000 But the right and the left are political positions.

00:36:44.000 We've assembled ourselves in this new alliance, if you want to call it that, or horde, if you want to call it that, with very disparate political positions.

00:36:54.000 And I guess you have to...

00:36:56.000 So what we call the left, leftists, progressives, whatever the hell it is, you have to stay in good standing with the party to be a functioning member of it.

00:37:04.000 Right. That's the point, right?

00:37:06.000 That's just authoritarianism.

00:37:07.000 There's no need to call it anything else.

00:37:09.000 They are the side of authoritarianism, period.

00:37:12.000 And everybody else, to include people who would consider themselves to be classically liberal or leftist or whatever, or libertarian, it doesn't matter.

00:37:19.000 They're moving into what used to be called the right, but it's just the anti-authoritarian.

00:37:23.000 But this is just semantics.

00:37:26.000 It is to a degree, but the point I'm making is that...

00:37:30.000 This authoritarian wing has to be defeated by good ideas and pressure.

00:37:35.000 And then from it, sometime in the next several decades, a new left and right will spring out of this coalition that's been made.

00:37:41.000 You're right, right.

00:37:42.000 So Jimmy Dore is a really great example.

00:37:45.000 He's a right winger.

00:37:48.000 I have no idea how.

00:37:50.000 Because he opposes the war machine, he opposes the establishment, the lies, the international order and all of these issues. 0.61

00:37:59.000 They say he's right wing.

00:38:01.000 Because, you know, even though the man is for universal health care, even though he's very Israel critical, it doesn't matter.

00:38:07.000 He's far right.

00:38:08.000 He's alt right.

00:38:09.000 He's all of these things.

00:38:10.000 And it makes no sense.

00:38:13.000 No, it's not.

00:38:13.000 The question was, do you support the established order of the left or not?

00:38:18.000 And he said, I support what I believe to be true and correct.

00:38:21.000 So that means he will tell the Trump, he will say Trump is bad.

00:38:25.000 He will say the Democrats are bad.

00:38:26.000 And people on the right, they like that.

00:38:29.000 They say, Jimmy, that's a good point.

00:38:30.000 I'm glad you brought that up to us.

00:38:32.000 We'll try and do better.

00:38:33.000 The left says, how dare you defy us?

00:38:34.000 Yeah. Well, that's it.

00:38:36.000 You've got to stay in good standing with the party.

00:38:38.000 And this is what this jabroni is talking about.

00:38:41.000 He's out of his mind.

00:38:44.000 No, no.

00:38:45.000 No, I know.

00:38:46.000 I know.

00:38:47.000 Well, we'll throw you a campaign rally, bud.

00:38:51.000 The idea of a party being self-corrected over time.

00:38:55.000 Through better information, that's what makes it last, right?

00:38:58.000 That's the whole point.

00:38:59.000 Like, you have to be able to call out when your side is wrong.

00:39:02.000 They were clearly wrong.

00:39:03.000 There's a lot of people that are calling out the left from the left and like, hey, this is nonsense.

00:39:07.000 You guys got to stop this.

00:39:09.000 And I think there's been more...

00:39:12.000 There's been a lot more activity in calling out Trump when he does goofy things this time around.

00:39:17.000 I actually have a running list on my phone of the things that people on the right, where at least you get a strong sense of people who are like, look, the Christian conservatives are going to disagree with him about IVF.

00:39:29.000 There are certain issues that they're going to push back on, which is a good thing, and you should be looking to do that.

00:39:34.000 But I think the point is like I wonder if they worry that the current right, what is considered the right as we see it, meaning like a big tent of disparate ideas that have kind of coalesced under Trump's leadership because he is such a strong face, a strong voice in politics.

00:39:51.000 I wonder sometimes whether that will fracture when he is no longer...

00:39:56.000 In office.

00:39:57.000 And if the machine that operates the left, meaning you have the politically uninitiated who vote left just because that's what they've done their whole life, and the rest of them who fall in line with the party because they're scared of what happens if they speak out, if that actually ends up outlasting because the disparate voices that argue on the right won't have a voice to coalesce around if nobody steps up in 2028.

00:40:20.000 Right. And leadership matters for sure, which is why you've got to be critical in a way that leaves room.

00:40:27.000 You get in an argument with your spouse or your co-worker or something like, hey, you guys still got to live together.

00:40:32.000 You can't burn the bridge here.

00:40:34.000 You got to keep this going.

00:40:35.000 But there are things that I think are really important to call out when they're wrong.

00:40:40.000 This is one of them for the left.

00:40:42.000 They absolutely have to do away with this progressive stuff or it won't exist anymore.

00:40:45.000 And then on the right, there's some of this, like buying Greenland, I don't care about that.

00:40:50.000 Funding war stuff, I don't care about that.

00:40:53.000 There's a couple of things in the tax plan from Trump that are problematic for me, like carried interest tax.

00:40:58.000 This is something you particularly should be invested in.

00:41:03.000 People on Trump's team, I don't know about himself, but people on his team want to get rid of what they call the carried interest loophole.

00:41:09.000 That is, you as an investor or a business owner pay yourself through dividends at the capital gains tax rate rather than the 37% income tax rate, right?

00:41:18.000 And they want to get rid of that.

00:41:20.000 They want to bring it back up to 37%, which means you paying dividends from yourself, from IRL, Inc., or whatever your top-level organization is called, would now, instead of being taxed at 20% capital gains plus 3.8% net investment income tax, you would pay a full 37% plus your state income tax on that.

00:41:39.000 That's unacceptable.

00:41:40.000 You're referring to profits as opposed to income?

00:41:44.000 Sort of.

00:41:45.000 Yeah, you're basically paying yourself a dividend.

00:41:46.000 I don't know that it applies to me.

00:41:48.000 I think a better analogy is just in general, somebody who owns equity in a company but doesn't work there is receiving dividends from the shares.

00:41:54.000 No, no, no.

00:41:55.000 You as an owner and a manager of the company, you can pay yourself in dividends instead of paying yourself a salary, right?

00:42:00.000 And a lot of people do that.

00:42:02.000 But also, any kind of capital investment you make in a company that's not like a stock or something like that.

00:42:09.000 Again, for comparison, the top tax rate is 37%.

00:42:11.000 You're talking about 17 additional percent in tax for the people who move the most money around in the community, and it's completely unacceptable.

00:42:20.000 Think about it this way.

00:42:22.000 Tim Cass makes—you sign some new big deal, and you make a bunch of new money, a bunch of new revenue.

00:42:29.000 I've known you for a while.

00:42:30.000 You don't just go buy a Lambo.

00:42:32.000 You're starting to do new media stuff.

00:42:33.000 You're going to hire people.

00:42:34.000 Just to clarify, when you said dividends, I said the same thing.

00:42:38.000 Just to understand.

00:42:39.000 That refers to the profits.

00:42:41.000 Yes. Right.

00:42:42.000 You get paid out?

00:42:43.000 Right, so...

00:42:44.000 So you can pay yourself a percentage of the profitability of your company as your salary, but it only gets taxed at the capital gains rate.

00:42:50.000 Right. And the purpose that this exists for, the net investment income tax exists for, is such that...

00:42:58.000 You as a business owner are going to spend more money in your business.

00:43:01.000 Let's take a really clear example.

00:43:03.000 You own McDonald's franchises, and you have a really good year, and you get taxed 20% on the dividend you take out of it instead of 37%, and you use that extra money.

00:43:11.000 What are you going to do?

00:43:12.000 Most people are going to go get a couple more McDonald's because they want to make more money.

00:43:15.000 You expand your business.

00:43:16.000 That's typically what people do.

00:43:18.000 Even at the lower level, when people get tax rebates from Uncle Sam, what do they do?

00:43:23.000 They don't put it in savings.

00:43:24.000 They pay off credit card debt or they start something.

00:43:26.000 They spend that money and they put it in the economy.

00:43:29.000 An economy is the same as a body of water.

00:43:33.000 It's either stagnant and it's got a bunch of algae in it or it's moving and it's clean.

00:43:37.000 So for us, when I get paid in profits, the only thing I save on is employment tax.

00:43:45.000 I don't get a dividend rate.

00:43:48.000 So without getting into too much detail, all the profit of the company.

00:43:52.000 Is taxed the full income tax level, even if it's dispersed as profits.

00:43:57.000 You don't have to do that.

00:43:59.000 I do.

00:44:00.000 We've got a big accounting firm.

00:44:01.000 We have a big account.

00:44:02.000 It takes a really long time to do our corporate, all of our taxes.

00:44:05.000 We've got several tax attorneys, and this is how we had to do it.

00:44:09.000 If I could pay less in taxes, if it was a legal means and they were like, hey, look, here's a deduction, I'd take it.

00:44:14.000 But I pay an obscene amount of taxes.

00:44:17.000 It's like 50%.

00:44:18.000 That's insane.

00:44:20.000 Well, like as a business owner, especially somebody that's been a successful business owner for some amount of time that employs a lot of people, the government should be like, yeah, let's give this guy more of his own money.

00:44:31.000 So he goes, because you will create more employment for other people.

00:44:35.000 Well, here's where it's broken, is that...

00:44:39.000 And I suppose this is just an issue of corporate structure.

00:44:43.000 You can choose to do a C-corp, and then your money is retained by the corporation and tax at the corporate tax level as opposed to the individual level.

00:44:49.000 Once it goes to an S-corp, you start to get into a little bit murkier territory.

00:44:55.000 Yeah, so I talked to an accountant when we were setting everything up, and I said, why would we want to do either of these things?

00:45:02.000 And you can be a limited liability corporation.

00:45:04.000 Pass-through means at the end of the year, all those taxes are your income, and you've got to pay income tax at the full rate as an individual.

00:45:10.000 I do that.

00:45:11.000 I said, I don't want anything special. 1.00

00:45:13.000 I'm not playing any stupid games. 0.99

00:45:14.000 I'm going to pay my taxes I'm supposed to pay them. 0.99

00:45:16.000 Give me deductions where I get the deductions.

00:45:18.000 The problem is, December 31st to January 1st, in this flash of a moment, your company can be utterly destroyed by the way our tax system works. 1.00

00:45:30.000 It's the stupidest thing imaginable.

00:45:31.000 They say, because this date ticked over from 1159 to midnight, we now are going to take a large portion of your operating account funding. 0.98

00:45:42.000 So I want you to understand this.

00:45:44.000 Timcast is a corporation as an operations account so that we can pay our bills.

00:45:49.000 Payroll, keep the lights on.

00:45:50.000 Everything. As of January 1st, it's effectively frozen.

00:45:53.000 Because we now have incurred a massive debt to the government that we don't know what it is until our We need a massive profit margin to make sure that we can cover whatever our projected taxes may be.

00:46:11.000 And so throughout the year, we are forced to save.

00:46:15.000 We can't invest it.

00:46:17.000 So you could do one thing.

00:46:18.000 Hey, what if you operated a loss?

00:46:19.000 Bigger corporations, but at our size, maybe once we're bigger, we can play this game.

00:46:25.000 At our size, the challenge is we make money every month, and then we have to have that money set aside because we know we have a tax liability coming up.

00:46:32.000 We have estimated taxes that we have to pay every month.

00:46:35.000 The state takes it as well.

00:46:36.000 West Virginia is very burdensome.

00:46:38.000 And then once it ticks over from December to January, January 1st, we need money to operate.

00:46:44.000 And we don't know what our tax liability is going to be.

00:46:47.000 So it's this really ridiculous position.

00:46:50.000 Literally right now, until our accountants come back and tell us what our liability is, we effectively can't invest in anything.

00:46:55.000 So the profits that we earn, we may be at zero.

00:47:00.000 We may have earned enough profits to where we've got to pay the government most of it, and there's very little money left over.

00:47:05.000 The biggest concern is we operated at a loss or close to one.

00:47:11.000 And come January, we're going to pay taxes, which puts our operating account lower than we need to be and puts us in murky territory.

00:47:17.000 If we want to keep money in the account, we get taxed at an exorbitant amount.

00:47:20.000 It's an insane system.

00:47:21.000 I'll just keep it real simple.

00:47:23.000 From January until December, every month we're trying to budget effectively to make sure we have enough money every month to pay all the bills.

00:47:32.000 And we need money set aside for if there's going to be a rainy day, a power outage, equipment failure.

00:47:38.000 As soon as you jump from December to January, all that's out the window and you can't budget effectively anymore. 0.86

00:47:42.000 It's very silly.

00:47:44.000 It's a huge liability for... 0.84

00:47:47.000 The most important businesses in our country, which is small to medium-sized businesses, right?

00:47:51.000 Yep. Because those are the family-owned ones.

00:47:53.000 Those are the ones where if they go broke, it isn't shareholders losing value.

00:47:56.000 It's people losing their livelihoods.

00:47:58.000 And it creates these huge burdens downstream in the economy as well.

00:48:02.000 Because as you said, the big guys can operate at a loss for years and just keep writing that loss off and passing it down the road.

00:48:07.000 You don't have the option to do that.

00:48:08.000 I don't have the option to do that.

00:48:10.000 When they hit you with a 50% tax instead of a 20% tax, which is still too much, but it is what it is, right?

00:48:16.000 Like, we've got to fight this battle somewhere.

00:48:17.000 When they hit you with 50%, that means that you have to make the upcharge on your services, as it were, have to be 51%, or your business doesn't exist anymore.

00:48:27.000 Here's a good way to explain it.

00:48:29.000 In this line of work, January is a dead marketing month.

00:48:33.000 Yep. It's where you build infrastructure, though, and if you don't have the money to do it, how do you do it?

00:48:37.000 Right. And so what ends up happening...

00:48:40.000 We build around this.

00:48:41.000 But let's say at the end of December, your profit is $200,000.

00:48:47.000 So that means the year ends, you've got $200,000.

00:48:50.000 You need $200,000 to operate January when your revenue sinks because no one's buying ads anymore.

00:48:57.000 So January hits.

00:49:00.000 And these are net 30 contracts.

00:49:02.000 You're not going to get paid to the end of the month.

00:49:03.000 So February is the actual dead month because December is actually where they offload.

00:49:07.000 So this is an interesting phenomenon.

00:49:09.000 December is where the marketing departments offload all of their money and ad rates skyrocket for ridiculous reasons.

00:49:14.000 Largely, they're just like, we got a million bucks left in the budget.

00:49:16.000 Let's buy something.

00:49:17.000 So that money is not going to hit your accounts until February.

00:49:20.000 So January, you've got a couple hundred thousand dollars, just hypothetically.

00:49:24.000 You use that for payroll, for infrastructure, and now your revenue is way low.

00:49:29.000 You also owe taxes, but you're using the money that you made from the last month for your operations.

00:49:35.000 So that means every month you need to save up so you have a buffer, but now you have higher profit, which is a higher tax liability.

00:49:40.000 So the more you try and save to offset that you're going to have January, February, and March as weak revenue months, to be fair, largely March and April, every February, people who run media companies get sad because you know your ad rates are low.

00:49:57.000 The revenue from January was very, very bad because nobody was buying.

00:50:00.000 And the money you had left over from last year is being taxed massively. 0.67

00:50:04.000 So the first quarter always sucks. 0.88

00:50:07.000 This is a ridiculously insane system. 0.99

00:50:09.000 It's ridiculous. 0.95

00:50:10.000 And look, there are good companies and bad companies. 0.92

00:50:13.000 Some of them take advantage.

00:50:14.000 The ad sellers, a lot of them want to do their contracts in February and March for that reason.

00:50:19.000 Because they want it to be your lowest period of the year.

00:50:23.000 It's anti-sweeps basically, right?

00:50:25.000 And, yeah, we get hammered every March, actually.

00:50:27.000 Yep. When they come to you and offer you dirt rates.

00:50:30.000 Yeah, we're just like, nah, we're good, we're good.

00:50:32.000 Keep it.

00:50:33.000 Yep. We'll wait until next time.

00:50:35.000 Right. So, to simplify, because we have a tax liability abruptly put on us as a day passes, we try every month to make sure we have a certain margin of profit because we know we need...

00:50:47.000 Tax liability and operating costs.

00:50:49.000 The problem is the more we save to cover the tax liability, the bigger the tax liability gets.

00:50:54.000 It's nuts.

00:50:55.000 It's recursive. 0.64

00:50:57.000 Certainly the tax liability for everyone sucks, especially for the less amount of money you make. 0.99

00:51:04.000 It sucks. 0.97

00:51:05.000 Any amount of money is going to help you more. 0.96

00:51:07.000 But if we're trying to build a stronger economy from the inside out, taking people's ability to expand what's actually working.

00:51:15.000 For no apparent reason either.

00:51:17.000 Seems like a very silly thing to do.

00:51:20.000 It seems intentionally to keep people kind of, you know, away from upward mobility in my opinion.

00:51:25.000 Well, let's jump to this viral video that's popped up today.

00:51:27.000 Oh boy.

00:51:28.000 We've got this from...

00:51:29.000 I've got to be careful here.

00:51:29.000 You've got to be careful here.

00:51:31.000 You've got to watch it here, Dan.

00:51:33.000 I'm going to stretch.

00:51:34.000 So this is a video from Donald T. News.

00:51:37.000 Unhinged driver pulls a gun on a cyber truck in a road rage incident.

00:51:40.000 What's your reaction?

00:51:42.000 Share so we can identify this man.

00:51:43.000 The question is, is this a road rage incident or is this an anti-Tesla guy?

00:51:50.000 This might just be a road rage incident.

00:51:53.000 Hard to say.

00:51:54.000 It is, especially because of what's going on.

00:51:55.000 Now, we don't know that he actually pulled a gun, but look at this.

00:51:59.000 When are people going to learn that these vehicles have cameras on them?

00:52:02.000 That guy's going to lose his arm.

00:52:06.000 You can see his license plate, too.

00:52:07.000 I don't know if this video is going viral.

00:52:08.000 And let's just jump to it.

00:52:10.000 There you go.

00:52:10.000 What is that?

00:52:12.000 I don't think it's a gun.

00:52:13.000 I don't know.

00:52:14.000 It looks like his index finger is tucked, but I can't tell what it is.

00:52:19.000 That would be...

00:52:19.000 Look, if you're in Texas, his plate suggests he is.

00:52:23.000 Jeez. And you're pulling something that looks like a gun on somebody, you may want to make sure that it is.

00:52:28.000 Oh, I think I know where that is.

00:52:29.000 Stafford, Texas is where it is.

00:52:31.000 Is it?

00:52:31.000 Yeah, it's right around Houston.

00:52:32.000 Is the idea that that was like a holstered weapon?

00:52:34.000 Maybe. That's what somebody said to me.

00:52:36.000 It looked like a holstered weapon to me?

00:52:38.000 It's hard to tell, to be honest.

00:52:39.000 I don't know.

00:52:40.000 I don't know, man. 0.99

00:52:41.000 Either way, it's really dumb. 0.97

00:52:43.000 And again, like you said, this has been going on for some weeks now. 0.97

00:52:47.000 People know that sentry mode's a thing, yes?

00:52:49.000 Do they know this?

00:52:50.000 I guess they don't.

00:52:52.000 Who did we have on who just said they didn't know?

00:52:54.000 Carl? Carl Benjamin said, I didn't know the Tesla's had cameras.

00:52:57.000 He's like, I don't drive one.

00:52:58.000 I don't know.

00:52:59.000 Yeah, then we have this from Libs of TikTok.

00:53:01.000 Tustin Police in CA are asking for information on this Tesla vandal keyed a Tesla.

00:53:06.000 Well, there you go.

00:53:07.000 I mean, these people...

00:53:08.000 We don't need the music.

00:53:13.000 No, we definitely don't need that music.

00:53:17.000 This is crazy.

00:53:19.000 It's a high emotional dysregulation.

00:53:22.000 It is.

00:53:23.000 That's the way I see most of it.

00:53:24.000 The hallmark of most of these cases is they get really, really emotional. 1.00

00:53:27.000 They have no ability to center themselves or stop themselves from doing something stupid. 0.99

00:53:32.000 And they don't care what the repercussions are. 0.99

00:53:34.000 That or they've just never actually suffered the repercussions from their actions.

00:53:39.000 And all the cognitive dissonance as well.

00:53:40.000 Their own actions are causing a lot of the problems.

00:53:43.000 They just can't see it.

00:53:44.000 They're never going to, unfortunately.

00:53:45.000 I think some of it is a result of oppression FOMO.

00:53:48.000 None of these people have ever...

00:53:49.000 They've been literally oppressed in their entire lives.

00:53:51.000 And you notice how, aside from the obese man on the homemade four-wheeler, which is impressive, by the way.

00:53:58.000 That was impressive.

00:53:59.000 Of all the things that happened, I was like, alright, that's kind of cool, actually.

00:54:02.000 Yeah, I mean, not the vandalism.

00:54:04.000 I think someone's going to die.

00:54:08.000 I mean, I can't believe no one's been killed in the firebombing stuff yet, to be honest.

00:54:13.000 It's so dangerous, especially with those lithium batteries.

00:54:15.000 We saw it in the Vegas guy that blew himself up.

00:54:16.000 That stuff really ignites.

00:54:18.000 So this is crazy.

00:54:19.000 When we saw the story from Vegas of the firebombing in the vehicles, we did not actually know the full story, which they've now released with the arrest of this guy.

00:54:28.000 He actually took a rifle and shot upwards at cameras.

00:54:33.000 So those bullets went somewhere.

00:54:34.000 Somewhere, yeah.

00:54:35.000 Yep, because he missed.

00:54:36.000 Because gravity exists, obviously.

00:54:37.000 Right, but also he missed.

00:54:38.000 He did not hit the building.

00:54:39.000 He then spray-painted resist on the building, unloaded the rifle on a bunch of cars, and then started throwing Molotov cocktails.

00:54:46.000 So it was a sustained and prolonged terror attack on this thing for some time.

00:54:51.000 I think a lot of people assumed, I know I did, that it was a guy who threw some Molotovs and ran away.

00:54:56.000 No, he was there for a while.

00:54:57.000 And they ended up fighting him, probably because of this.

00:55:00.000 But, I mean, the extent of these attacks that we've seen, they're worse than we realize.

00:55:06.000 Do you really think it's FOMO because they have oppression, FOMO, or is it that they truly do see themselves as somebody who's doing something good for people?

00:55:15.000 That's part of it, too.

00:55:16.000 That's what it feels like.

00:55:17.000 It's the ultimate virtue signal.

00:55:18.000 I think it's a symptom of the same disease because now the social currency used to be honor and integrity, right?

00:55:26.000 Are you a good man?

00:55:28.000 And that would be your purchase into a community.

00:55:30.000 I'm a good man, I'm a good woman, whatever.

00:55:32.000 Now it's like, rank me on the victim scale, and that's where I am.

00:55:36.000 But if you're a middle-class white person, where do you land on that?

00:55:40.000 So you've got to manufacture it, right?

00:55:42.000 You have to manufacture it somehow.

00:55:43.000 So you have to take on the burdens of other groups.

00:55:45.000 Basically, it's what happens.

00:55:46.000 So that's why you see all the white people at the BLM stuff. 0.89

00:55:49.000 They don't actually care about this.

00:55:51.000 Come on.

00:55:52.000 It's why they use the language ally.

00:55:53.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:55:54.000 Because they want to make sure that you're part and parcel to their cause. 0.99

00:55:57.000 It's why they're showing up to black neighborhoods and burning them down while black people ask them to stop. 1.00

00:56:01.000 Yeah, it's like, hey, I gotta shop there, bud. 1.00

00:56:03.000 Yeah. I mean, that was all over.

00:56:05.000 Like, in Minneapolis, there was independently owned businesses that were like, please don't burn us down.

00:56:09.000 Yeah, it's not.

00:56:10.000 The famous video of the, there was a firefighter who saved up.

00:56:13.000 And then opened a bar.

00:56:15.000 A sports bar was his dream.

00:56:17.000 And he's in the building, being interviewed by local news, crying because they ransacked it.

00:56:23.000 And as he's being interviewed, people are stealing the safe and carrying it out the back.

00:56:27.000 They came back after he gave the interview and burned the building to the ground.

00:56:31.000 So you were at some of this stuff with Occupy back in the day.

00:56:35.000 I lived in Oakland during that whole thing.

00:56:36.000 In uptown Oakland on P. Bond Avenue, right?

00:56:39.000 And I remember...

00:56:40.000 All these Berkeley students, and I was working in security contracting back then, emergency management stuff, and I was plainclothes in some of these things.

00:56:49.000 But even by my house, which was on Piedmont Avenue, I saw this large group of white children marching by saying, whose streets are streets?

00:56:58.000 And I'm like, you guys may want to take the temperature on your whole situation here because I don't think you're understanding what's actually going on.

00:57:05.000 It was very bizarre. 0.98

00:57:09.000 I was at, I recall being at Berkeley, actually, and there were protests going on, and a buddy of mine, he's a cop that grew up in West Oakland, black dude, and there's this 19-year-old white kid yelling at him, hey, you're a racist, you're a racist. 0.90

00:57:21.000 I'm like, oh my god, this is the best thing that's ever happened to me. 0.95

00:57:24.000 This is hilarious.

00:57:25.000 Like, you couldn't pay for this kind of irony anywhere.

00:57:27.000 Right. You know what I mean?

00:57:28.000 So I think these people's minds, to your point, there's a part of it that is like trying to search out this social...

00:57:38.000 I guess acceptance from somebody somewhere and they just don't get it anywhere because they're not part of the new victim class as it were so they have to reach out and find ways to identify with that and part of it well the way it started was Doing the protests, and then it moved on to thoughts and prayers and pronouns and flags in your bio.

00:58:00.000 Black squares.

00:58:01.000 It's nonsense, right?

00:58:02.000 You've gotten all the dopamine and serotonin from helping somebody, but you've never actually helped them.

00:58:07.000 The true definition of slacktivism. 0.95

00:58:09.000 Yeah, it's absolute nonsense.

00:58:10.000 And now it's like, I think they're waking up to the fact that they've been doing nothing for the last 15 years while all this is going on.

00:58:17.000 They're like, oh, I better go key somebody's car.

00:58:18.000 I better actually do something.

00:58:19.000 And this is how revolutions begin sometimes.

00:58:22.000 Well, so I was...

00:58:23.000 I think I was talking to Cody about it.

00:58:26.000 We were talking about how insane everything's gotten politically on the ground.

00:58:29.000 And I was saying that if 20 years ago, a dude dressed up in full neo-Nazi outfits and started going around spewing racial slurs at people, what would happen to that guy?

00:58:41.000 He would probably get beat up by somebody.

00:58:42.000 He'd probably get beat up by somebody.

00:58:43.000 And that's still true to this day.

00:58:45.000 That's just Kanye West now.

00:58:46.000 So it's still true in every circle.

00:58:49.000 When this guy showed up in Portland...

00:58:52.000 And you had a bunch of right-wingers having a rally, and he was wearing swastikas.

00:58:56.000 This is when you were out there?

00:58:56.000 I was not there when this happened.

00:58:57.000 Okay. A guy showed up with a swastika flag, and he was doing the Seagull and all that stuff.

00:59:03.000 They kicked him out, and they told him they shoved him.

00:59:05.000 They said, get out. 0.99

00:59:05.000 The right did that. 0.99

00:59:07.000 The left would have knocked him out.

00:59:08.000 But the point is, I think what we're seeing with the keying is that 30 years ago, anybody in anywhere would have probably said, you know, someone would beat up a neo-Nazi guy.

00:59:22.000 The left views literally anybody outside of their political sphere like that. 0.98

00:59:29.000 And so the problem is they're insane.

00:59:31.000 But these people who are keying these cars literally think we are in a society that is 99% anti-Nazi, and that is a Nazi car, so I'm going to damage it. 0.55

00:59:43.000 They're wrong because they're deluded based on what the media has been feeding them and what they're getting from social media.

00:59:48.000 But I guess the point of the story is so that...

00:59:52.000 We can see how we used to have a cohesive moral society.

00:59:55.000 Regardless of political affiliation.

00:59:57.000 Right. There's one thing we could all agree on.

00:59:58.000 My point is that these people have not become more violent.

01:00:02.000 Is it the violence always existed in people to attack those who are deemed outside of the Overton window?

01:00:08.000 And today, the Overton window is bifurcated, and we are all outside of their Overton window, so to them, they are justified in doing this, and always have been.

01:00:16.000 What do you think the impetus for that is?

01:00:17.000 Do you think people are just naturally growing apart, or do you think it's more the constant propaganda?

01:00:22.000 Technology. It's technically the propaganda, but it's rooted in algorithmic distribution of information.

01:00:27.000 Like the outrage algorithm?

01:00:29.000 You can tie it back to when you got the internet in your pocket.

01:00:33.000 Absolutely. Like, that was a weapon that was just fed into everyone's pocket.

01:00:37.000 We were talking about it with Rachel Zegler in her new movie, and I was like, you do realize that these companies aren't putting social media clauses into their contracts, and every one of these actors carries around a nuclear weapon in their pocket that can blow a $200, $300 million piece of entertainment in 10 seconds.

01:00:56.000 Yet, we as a society haven't found a way to deal with that.

01:00:58.000 Don't you think it started a little bit earlier, though?

01:01:00.000 Like, with the...

01:01:02.000 We saw little flashes of it, and certainly technology made it way worse.

01:01:06.000 It just made it easier and more quick, and it also made it so much easier to get it out to everybody all at once.

01:01:13.000 We saw little flashes, like there was the Atwater thing with Nixon, with the unfortunate things he said about the South, mostly racist stuff.

01:01:22.000 But then more in the mainstream was the Newt Gingrich.

01:01:28.000 When New Geekers became Speaker of the House, he and—what's that guy's name? 0.99

01:01:32.000 I can't remember the guy's name from the right-wing messaging service, but they kind of turned the word liberal into a bad word.

01:01:38.000 That was their main focus in the mid-'90s, was to make the word liberal a pejorative term, huh?

01:01:43.000 No, no, no, not Rush, no.

01:01:44.000 Although, no, it was a—man, I can't remember the guy's name.

01:01:48.000 He's a communications expert for the Republicans.

01:01:50.000 You still see him around everywhere.

01:01:51.000 He's the guy that invented the phrase death tax, actually.

01:01:54.000 To me and the capital gains tax.

01:01:57.000 But yeah, we saw flashes of it.

01:02:00.000 There were already these people trying to make this point that, hey, that's not just somebody you disagree with.

01:02:06.000 That's your enemy.

01:02:07.000 And then social media obviously amplified that to the nth degree.

01:02:10.000 But in the early days of social media, it wasn't that. 1.00

01:02:12.000 It was cat videos and stupid nonsense, right? 0.99

01:02:15.000 So the debate that happened eight years ago in the culture war at the time when it was intersectional femininity, we didn't say wokeness. 0.99

01:02:24.000 Dr. Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose argued it was universities that created these ideas.

01:02:30.000 They fomented them, and then the students came out and did their thing.

01:02:34.000 And I argued that's not correct, because universities contain many different ideologies and many different student groups.

01:02:42.000 The universities adopted these ideologies largely because of the internet and what young people were using to communicate on a daily basis.

01:02:49.000 So it wasn't the professors that were telling the kids be communists.

01:02:53.000 It was social media telling them this, and then the kids told their professors, we are communists.

01:02:57.000 The universities then said the customer is always right.

01:02:59.000 But it doesn't help that these are echo chambers that you're in.

01:03:01.000 I got a TikTok a few years ago, and I started following a bunch of skateboarders, and then I think I came across one of Tim's videos and watched it.

01:03:08.000 And then it started kind of feeding me more and more kind of conservative things.

01:03:11.000 I was like, oh, this is cool.

01:03:12.000 You know, I kind of get down with this.

01:03:14.000 But then it started actually becoming, like, extreme things.

01:03:16.000 And now sometimes I'll go on my TikTok and there's very, like, crazy, like, we need a white Europe, like, just very to the extreme right thing. 0.99

01:03:24.000 On TikTok!

01:03:25.000 Yeah, I'm like, dude, I just want to watch skateboard videos.

01:03:27.000 This is crazy to me.

01:03:28.000 See, and this is what I was saying, too, because everybody always wants to make the joke.

01:03:32.000 You're given.

01:03:33.000 I mentioned something like their zit-popping videos on Instagram.

01:03:38.000 Dr. Pebble Popper.

01:03:39.000 No free ads, but that's okay.

01:03:41.000 Is that a person?

01:03:42.000 It's a real person?

01:03:43.000 She's made millions of dollars. 0.99

01:03:45.000 These are vomitous, disgusting videos. 0.61

01:03:48.000 And Instagram will try and show them to me.

01:03:50.000 And then people go, haha, Tim, it's showing you what you like.

01:03:53.000 No, no, no, no.

01:03:53.000 It's testing the waters with various random things at a time.

01:03:56.000 So when you go on Instagram or TikTok, it periodically will show you something random, a mutation in the algorithm.

01:04:01.000 It feels like it does that on Sundays to me.

01:04:03.000 Like, my Sunday algorithm looks vastly different.

01:04:05.000 It's multivariate testing is what it's called in the market.

01:04:07.000 Right. It's a genetic mutation.

01:04:10.000 Periodically, it's going to show you a little bit of what you like, and it's going to slowly evolve.

01:04:12.000 You know what I'm really, really, really, I want to swear so bad?

01:04:16.000 I hate ping pong.

01:04:19.000 That's a weird thing to hate.

01:04:21.000 But I hate it because of Instagram.

01:04:23.000 Oh, really?

01:04:23.000 Because they keep sending me the videos and I don't watch them.

01:04:28.000 Like competitions?

01:04:29.000 Of people playing ping pong.

01:04:30.000 And it's crazy because I feel like they're running an experiment on me, which is why I'm so pissed off about it.

01:04:35.000 Because I've never watched the video.

01:04:37.000 I don't watch the video.

01:04:38.000 It all started when I went to the Apple Valley Mall or whatever in Winchester with Allison.

01:04:43.000 And we were waiting for Zoomies to open and we were 10 minutes early.

01:04:47.000 So we walked to the mall and they had a ping pong table and I chuckled and I said, hey, let's play.

01:04:50.000 And we played a silly game with, we don't really know the rules.

01:04:53.000 And then I said, whatever.

01:04:54.000 Never tweeted, never posted, never took pictures, went to Zoomies, looked around.

01:04:59.000 I think I was buying, I was buying, it was when I bought a bunch of wheels and bearings for the park that we have downstairs.

01:05:03.000 I was like, we just need a ton of bearings for people if something breaks.

01:05:06.000 On the way back in the car, I look, there's a ping pong video in my feed.

01:05:10.000 I ignore it.

01:05:10.000 I don't watch it.

01:05:11.000 Now, it endlessly feeds me ping pong, and I've actually got, so first I said, I'm going to ignore it, and just keep doing the skateboard videos, poker and skateboarding, and sometimes, what do I get?

01:05:23.000 Poker, skateboarding, and food.

01:05:25.000 Lots of pizza.

01:05:26.000 Dave Portnoy videos where he's eating pizza for days, but I do like those videos, so that's okay.

01:05:30.000 So it got to a point where I got so many ping pong videos that I just actually went in and said, this is disturbing.

01:05:37.000 On every single one, every time, it will not stop sending me ping pong.

01:05:41.000 To this day.

01:05:41.000 To this day!

01:05:43.000 You may want to call either an exorcist or the FBI or something.

01:05:47.000 I think it's an experiment to see if they can force someone, through repeated exposure, to start watching content they don't like.

01:05:53.000 Well, they haven't met you.

01:05:54.000 That's not going to work.

01:05:55.000 I know, I'm getting angry.

01:05:56.000 You're just going to get angrier as it goes on.

01:05:57.000 No, that's how these TikTok videos are.

01:05:59.000 Like I said, I just want to watch funny. 1.00

01:06:01.000 I sent a lot of memes to my girlfriend, Julia, like a bunch of cat shit. 0.99

01:06:03.000 And it's like, okay, we... 0.99

01:06:05.000 Send skateboard videos, we send this. 0.91

01:06:06.000 And I keep getting all this weird propaganda shit just being completely fed into my feed. 0.66

01:06:12.000 I'm like, dude, I don't want to see this type of stuff. 0.71

01:06:14.000 This is on TikTok?

01:06:15.000 Yeah, this is on TikTok, man.

01:06:16.000 It's really weird.

01:06:17.000 With Instagram, it's not as much.

01:06:18.000 It's weird to me how they decided to couple the different groups of information together.

01:06:24.000 Yeah. Maybe that's the result of the testing that's gone.

01:06:28.000 Okay, I just gotta say, real quick.

01:06:30.000 Are you seeing one right now?

01:06:31.000 No, no, no.

01:06:32.000 But I pulled this up and it made me realize something.

01:06:35.000 So I get a lot of skateboarding, Magic the Gathering, and poker.

01:06:41.000 And then comedians.

01:06:42.000 Because I follow Ryan Long.

01:06:44.000 He's hilarious, by the way.

01:06:45.000 He's fantastic.

01:06:46.000 And Danny.

01:06:46.000 Danny Polishchuk.

01:06:47.000 Shout out.

01:06:48.000 But it started showing me a bunch of severance clips.

01:06:52.000 That's because you were saying the word in front of all these devices.

01:06:55.000 I guess so.

01:06:56.000 That's what that is.

01:06:56.000 I used to not think that was the case.

01:06:59.000 Tim Cook in particular was like, no, Tim.

01:07:02.000 You're going to watch the show.

01:07:03.000 Samsung's been sued twice for this.

01:07:05.000 The TVs and then the refrigerators were listening to you.

01:07:07.000 Your refrigerators!

01:07:08.000 Yeah. To your point, though, about the emotional dysregulation in your phones, you notice, especially before bed, if you spend a lot of time on your phone, it can absolutely affect your mood.

01:07:20.000 So you fall into a death spiral of just looking, looking, looking.

01:07:24.000 Now imagine you have no self-control and you're consistently looking at your phone and you're out in public and you're watching all of this stuff that upsets you and then you see a Tesla.

01:07:34.000 And stuff like that.

01:07:35.000 Like maybe 10 years ago, that guy sees that at home on his television, but he goes outside, he gets fresh air, he gets away from the screen for even 20 minutes, right?

01:07:44.000 And it somehow recalibrates his brain, even just a little bit, to allow him to say, that's not a good idea.

01:07:50.000 Do not do this.

01:07:51.000 Something bad could come of doing something like this.

01:07:54.000 But if you have it being fed to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you're not going to be able, especially if you're not aware that it's happening.

01:08:02.000 And I wonder sometimes if any of them even think about what their algorithm is actually doing to you.

01:08:07.000 I feel like people maybe in this space actually do more than your average person because your ideas are being called into question so you're wondering about the content that you're looking at.

01:08:16.000 And I feel like both sides end up falling into it at least.

01:08:19.000 A little bit, right?

01:08:21.000 So if you're not paying attention to what the algorithm is feeding you, it's upsetting you, it's angering you, and you don't have any other way to let it out, and all you do is you see a Tesla, you see a Cybertruck, and you say, I have to do something about it.

01:08:33.000 It's also immoralized, right?

01:08:34.000 Yes. They've rationalized it, and they believe they're right.

01:08:37.000 Who could have...

01:08:38.000 I actually...

01:08:39.000 So I got one of the videos.

01:08:40.000 Do you ever see one of these?

01:08:42.000 Um, no.

01:08:44.000 It says, can the ball escape all 1,000 rings in time?

01:08:50.000 That's just a death scroll sentence right there.

01:08:52.000 And there are tons of videos like this where they're nonsensical mind rot videos where you just look at the screen and then watch a ball bounce around for one minute.

01:09:03.000 I catch myself sometimes.

01:09:05.000 Watching it, I'm like, oh, I gotta get out of here.

01:09:06.000 You know, to your point about emotional dysregulation, we have completely interrupted the very natural process.

01:09:14.000 Or relationship, rather, between effort and outcome.

01:09:16.000 And I think that's a big part of this.

01:09:18.000 It used to be that, you know, if you don't work, you don't eat.

01:09:20.000 That's the best way to say it, I guess.

01:09:22.000 But effort used to equal outcome, right?

01:09:26.000 The effort in this regard, in this social regard, as far as social acceptance goes, it used to be that my community needs something, so I'm going to either develop my skills to be able to do it, or I'm going to help right now, and I'm going to win the social reward for that, both physically, like the biochemicals in my body are going to reward me for it, but also society rewards me for it.

01:09:43.000 And now we get those rewards without having actually done anything.

01:09:47.000 So that's the positive.

01:09:48.000 It's weaponizing the positive stuff against us.

01:09:51.000 And then what you're saying is weaponizing the negative part of it.

01:09:54.000 And they're both...

01:09:55.000 Very true.

01:09:56.000 So, to try to wrap up that point I was making earlier, which launched this conversation about universities and social media, because someone super chatted saying professors are commies.

01:10:06.000 Indeed they are.

01:10:07.000 You are correct.

01:10:08.000 But none of them.

01:10:08.000 Many of them were classical liberals.

01:10:10.000 There weren't a lot of conservatives.

01:10:12.000 Actual classical liberals.

01:10:13.000 Right. Not the way that people say it now.

01:10:15.000 So, what ends up happening is, I know I explain this a lot to, you know, periodically on the show, but...

01:10:23.000 For those that don't have the context, forgive me, but for those that don't, let's say you're 10 years old in 2006.

01:10:29.000 You're not on Facebook.

01:10:30.000 A couple years later, you joined Facebook.

01:10:32.000 You're now 13. At that time, at the end of the 2000s, there was a website in the top 500 websites in the world, and all it did was display police brutality videos.

01:10:44.000 They were making millions of dollars doing this because Facebook would promote those videos more than anything else.

01:10:52.000 The rage and injustice generated traffic, clicks, and shares.

01:10:57.000 And Facebook didn't care what was causing it.

01:10:59.000 It just said, whatever works.

01:11:02.000 So at the time, YouTube was largely promoting big-tittied women.

01:11:07.000 Thumbnails for most YouTube creators that were successful were constantly incorporating women in bikinis because you had a choice on the front page of YouTube. 0.97

01:11:14.000 What are you going to click?

01:11:15.000 YouTube said, whichever one gets clicked the most, that's the one we want.

01:11:18.000 And so people started clicking on...

01:11:21.000 Thumbnails of big-tittied women.

01:11:23.000 On Facebook, it was a scroll feed.

01:11:25.000 Whatever you'd stop and look at and then share, Facebook would say, more.

01:11:30.000 What ended up happening to these young kids, you're 13 years old, you're on Facebook, you're seeing, you know, it's my birthday today, you know, just got married, a new movie is out, and a police murdered a black man.

01:11:41.000 You scroll down, movies, movies, police murdered a black man.

01:11:44.000 You scroll down.

01:11:45.000 This is how we have a generation of people when asked.

01:11:48.000 How many unarmed black men are killed by police?

01:11:50.000 They say 10,000, 20,000, when the number is actually nine.

01:11:53.000 Nine, yeah.

01:11:54.000 Douglas Murray had that in his last book, I think, talking about that.

01:11:57.000 Like if you ask, the breakdown is if you ask somebody who is a solid Democrat, they say 100.

01:12:03.000 If you ask somebody who is a, or I'm sorry, center-left, if you ask somebody who's a solid, I only vote for Democrats, it was 1,000.

01:12:10.000 And if you ask a progressive, it was 10,000.

01:12:12.000 And the answer is nine.

01:12:14.000 So what's happening is, at this time, companies were trying to figure out how to make money, and they said, what articles get shared the most?

01:12:22.000 I actually worked for some of these companies in the early 2010s.

01:12:26.000 And they said, rage.

01:12:29.000 So mothers, middle-aged women, are the most likely to share content, and content that makes you angry is most likely to get shared.

01:12:38.000 So the target was, make content that's going to piss off moms. 1.00

01:12:43.000 A kid grows up on Facebook seeing literally nothing but police beating black people. 1.00

01:12:48.000 They believe this country is a bunch of white supremacists running around beating black people. 0.99

01:12:53.000 They see a black cop and think to themselves, why would he support an institution that literally exists only to beat black people? 0.99

01:12:59.000 But they don't realize that they were being fed an echo chamber. 0.96

01:13:03.000 For us, they were older.

01:13:04.000 We talked about the echo chamber at the time.

01:13:06.000 We lived before it.

01:13:07.000 We had the good fortune of having lived before it, actually.

01:13:10.000 So when we were all saying, ah, it's an echo chamber, we know, we still understood what life was like before that.

01:13:15.000 But this exists for the right and the left as well.

01:13:18.000 That being said, one of the greatest gifts the left accidentally gave was the censorship of the right, which forced the right onto a bunch of different platforms, resulting in a bunch of different ideologies, and it made rational, normal people find the ability...

01:13:33.000 to communicate in a space that was dominated not by one powerful ideology, but many different that came together.

01:13:39.000 Whereas the left, it's adhere to the culturels.

01:13:42.000 Yeah. Yeah.

01:13:43.000 And I think in very simple terms, we amplified religion.

01:13:47.000 Yeah. Yeah.

01:13:50.000 Yeah. Yeah.

01:14:03.000 Which stoicism is basically just like the first thing you should master is yourself.

01:14:06.000 If you wanted to define stoicism, that is it.

01:14:09.000 So, should we as a society take control of the social media platforms and decide what content gets shared?

01:14:17.000 I don't think you can.

01:14:19.000 I mean, these algorithms are so complicated now.

01:14:21.000 I don't even know if the people that made them understand what's going on.

01:14:23.000 You can.

01:14:25.000 What YouTube does is they put a negative algorithmic threshold on right-leaning content and a positive one on left-leaning content.

01:14:32.000 Sure. So TikTok does this very heavily.

01:14:36.000 And then what ended up happening with the TikTok ban is you got a bunch of conservatives cheering for it, despite the fact they were in the ghettos of TikTok. 0.98

01:14:42.000 They wanted this machine to exist, which props up leftist ideology and destroys conservatives because they were getting morsels.

01:14:50.000 So it's possible.

01:14:51.000 Well, when you say we as a society should take it over, who is we?

01:14:55.000 Exactly. The ones who win the culture war. 0.51

01:14:58.000 I have to say I do disagree with that to a degree, being able to control what's being put out there.

01:15:04.000 I think that...

01:15:04.000 You should be able to be the creator of whatever you want and however you want yourself to be viewed online.

01:15:09.000 I just think the aggressiveness of some of these algorithms gets out of hand.

01:15:12.000 I think it starts leading you down these radicals to extremism.

01:15:16.000 So I do have to say, I don't agree with necessarily controlling what's put out on the internet, but not just leading.

01:15:21.000 I think what Tim means is, how are we going to manage this in a way that they're not doing exactly what you're talking about?

01:15:27.000 So I would think it would be more of a...

01:15:28.000 Let off the gas pedal on those algorithms instead of controlling the media.

01:15:32.000 Yeah, but people will create their own, I guess.

01:15:35.000 One of the early things that Elon talked about on Twitter, and it never really materialized, probably because it's just too much of a lift at the moment, and we both agree and have since he purchased Twitter that he got it for the AI purposes.

01:15:46.000 Agreed. But anyways, beyond that, one of the things they talked about in the very early days was being able to open source the algorithm and then manipulate it yourself.

01:15:55.000 With radio buttons or whatever it was, right?

01:15:57.000 That never materialized, but I would be very interested in seeing even a small test version of that somewhere.

01:16:02.000 Or the Fediverse.

01:16:04.000 Yeah. Where you basically network into how you see fit.

01:16:08.000 But I would say to you, Cody, the issue with what you're describing is we let off the gas put on the algorithms.

01:16:12.000 There is...

01:16:13.000 So when YouTube first started, when Facebook and Twitter first started, there weren't algorithms.

01:16:20.000 It was reverse chronological feeds.

01:16:23.000 The content that dominated YouTube, Was any thumbnail with boobs in it.

01:16:28.000 I'm not trying to be crude, but that's true.

01:16:29.000 Because YouTube's 93% men. 0.50

01:16:31.000 Of course it did.

01:16:32.000 But even then, I guess the joke is, who's on the cover of a woman's magazine, a man or a woman? 0.89

01:16:40.000 On the cover of a woman's magazine? 0.90

01:16:41.000 It's a woman.

01:16:42.000 Who's on the cover of a men's magazine?

01:16:43.000 A woman, exactly. 0.98

01:16:44.000 It should be.

01:16:45.000 Right. And so women have no problem clicking on these things, maybe not at higher frequencies, but men will always.

01:16:51.000 And so it didn't matter what the content was.

01:16:53.000 Early YouTube had a problem where someone would make a video where it was just like a black screen with a timer, but the thumbnail would be, you know, a hot woman, and it would have millions of views. 0.97

01:17:03.000 So YouTube said, okay, when we do nothing, people flood the zone with insane garbage that's pissing off our users because they think they're clicking a beautiful...

01:17:13.000 Okay, here's what we can do.

01:17:14.000 A light touch.

01:17:16.000 Thumbnail fraud.

01:17:17.000 If your thumbnail does not represent the video, we can ban you from the platform.

01:17:21.000 And they did other smaller things, too, like a view doesn't count until it's 7 seconds or 10 seconds or 13 or whatever.

01:17:27.000 They changed it over time.

01:17:28.000 Now it's 30. Remember the days of old 301 plus? 0.99

01:17:31.000 Oh, yeah.

01:17:32.000 Early YouTube, any video that exceeded 301 views within a short period of time would freeze at 301, and you knew.

01:17:38.000 It's like, ooh, it's getting a lot of views.

01:17:39.000 I wonder what the number's going to be.

01:17:40.000 So that's the issue of do nothing. 0.92

01:17:42.000 You do nothing, and you get garbage, pure garbage, because then the algorithm is simply the human algorithm. 0.99

01:17:49.000 So we want sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and that'll be the only content. 0.96

01:17:53.000 So YouTube said, the problem is that results in people leaving the platform because people would click on this video and get nothing and say, that's not what I wanted.

01:18:03.000 I'm getting frustrated and leave.

01:18:04.000 So they implemented rules.

01:18:06.000 Then the advertisers, a long story short, they started making a bunch of changes.

01:18:10.000 One of the issues with social media was too much content was being posted.

01:18:14.000 So YouTube has completely abandoned subscribers.

01:18:19.000 Subscribers mean literally nothing. 1.00

01:18:20.000 To everybody watching this show right now, hit the notification bell and make sure, because you have to say this, YouTube warns you.

01:18:28.000 How many of your subscribers actually have selected the notification bell?

01:18:31.000 And now the notification bell doesn't even work either.

01:18:34.000 The argument was, when you subscribe to a channel...

01:18:37.000 You will get a notification when that channel produces a video, and those are the videos you will get on the front page.

01:18:42.000 But I only send several notifications per day.

01:18:44.000 Not at first.

01:18:45.000 Right. So what happened was people started getting angry.

01:18:48.000 I'm getting too many emails every day.

01:18:50.000 And YouTube said, you subscribed to these channels.

01:18:53.000 Unsubscribe, but I don't want to.

01:18:55.000 It's like, okay, then we're going to limit the notifications you can receive.

01:18:59.000 People then started subscribing to too many.

01:19:02.000 So they were subscribed to too many, so when they would go to the front page, it would be a random spattering, and now they weren't watching anything.

01:19:07.000 So YouTube said, we're going to have to decide for you.

01:19:11.000 Now on YouTube, 40% on average of a channel's viewership are unsubscribed and do not subscribe, but they watch regularly, which is nuts.

01:19:20.000 That's crazy.

01:19:21.000 What's the percentage for this channel?

01:19:23.000 I think it's 40. 60-40?

01:19:27.000 Actually, it's less.

01:19:28.000 It might be like 25-30.

01:19:30.000 Ours is like split 50-50.

01:19:32.000 Yeah. Like, it's about 50% is unsubscribed.

01:19:36.000 We're talking about a mountain of content.

01:19:37.000 I think it's over 700,000 hours of content uploaded to YouTube daily now.

01:19:41.000 700,000 hours.

01:19:42.000 You know what's the funniest thing about YouTube?

01:19:45.000 I actually, I was meeting with Google back in like 2012 at Google HQ and talking to them about their plans and what they were doing.

01:19:53.000 They wanted to compete with Netflix.

01:19:56.000 Explicitly. The YouTube managers, I'm sitting in the Google room at lunch, and they said, Netflix is stealing all of our users.

01:20:02.000 And I said, you're not going to compete with Netflix. 0.98

01:20:05.000 You're insane.

01:20:07.000 Before Netflix existed with online streaming, YouTube had all digital viewership. 0.90

01:20:11.000 People had nowhere else to go.

01:20:13.000 That's why Vice documentaries were so big, because it was long-form content.

01:20:17.000 So YouTube said, let's prioritize videos that are at least 10 minutes long, with a high watch time, That way, we start getting more Vice documentary style videos.

01:20:30.000 What did they get?

01:20:31.000 Video game streams and podcasts.

01:20:34.000 How did they respond?

01:20:36.000 No, this is not what we want.

01:20:37.000 Ban them. 0.99

01:20:37.000 Ban them all. 0.99

01:20:38.000 We don't want video podcasts.

01:20:40.000 And they can't compete with the streaming services with documentaries anyways because they get them out.

01:20:46.000 The infrastructure is so well built that they get documentaries done two days after a story breaks.

01:20:51.000 Which is really funny too now because YouTube's heavily invested in live sports.

01:20:55.000 Oh, yeah.

01:20:55.000 As well.

01:20:56.000 And so, I mean, Netflix is getting into that as well.

01:20:58.000 Oh, yeah.

01:20:58.000 Netflix has WWE now, which is crazy.

01:21:01.000 You know, what I will say is really fascinating is 10 years ago, I predicted fame would be over in the next 10, 20 years.

01:21:08.000 And I stand by that largely except in sports.

01:21:11.000 And it's because sports leagues can only be so big as a league, whereas media distribution can be an infinite number of channels. 0.99

01:21:19.000 You just described why a fiat currency is stupid, by the way. 0.98

01:21:24.000 Explain. Because there's a finite amount of real currency. 0.99

01:21:27.000 And a fiat currency is printing more, which means it has no intrinsic value.

01:21:31.000 Indeed. So where do you draw the line at celebrities?

01:21:34.000 Who's going to be the last celebrity?

01:21:36.000 Having 200,000 people that know who you are isn't really a celebrity in the way that we think of it.

01:21:41.000 Right. So I was at NAB in the Netherlands having this discussion, and some guy said...

01:21:50.000 You're wrong.

01:21:51.000 There will always be celebrities, athletes.

01:21:53.000 He's like, the messy, or I can't remember who he mentioned at the time, but like, the top soccer player in the world is always going to be super famous.

01:22:01.000 And I said, I disagreed.

01:22:03.000 I would actually split the difference now and say he was largely right about that I was wrong, but he wasn't as right as he thought.

01:22:10.000 The amount of people who are going to know who the top basketball player is goes down, but they will still maintain celebrity status more so than...

01:22:19.000 Any other area of media.

01:22:21.000 Because there's only so many teams.

01:22:23.000 Only so many games.

01:22:25.000 So right now for media, some people watch CNN.

01:22:30.000 Some. Some people watch Joe Rogan.

01:22:32.000 Some people watch Jeremy Hambly.

01:22:33.000 Some people watch Russell Brand.

01:22:36.000 Sorry, Russell.

01:22:36.000 Russell Brand.

01:22:37.000 Some people watch Timcast IRL.

01:22:39.000 I think Russell's great, by the way.

01:22:40.000 That was a slip of the tongue.

01:22:41.000 Whatever you think of him, Bland is the last thing you can call him.

01:22:44.000 Right, right, right.

01:22:45.000 But the point is, it's not one show anymore.

01:22:50.000 There's even, you know, with all due respect to Joe Rogan, based on the current podcast stats across the board, his numbers have decreased substantially from where they were several years ago because more and more shows keep emerging.

01:23:01.000 And people are dispersing.

01:23:04.000 So some people, you know, I went on a radio show in New York and the guy said, man, you're like the king of the internet.

01:23:09.000 And I'm like, oh, come on, bro.

01:23:10.000 We have like two million subs.

01:23:11.000 It's a big show, but...

01:23:12.000 There's two billion people on YouTube.

01:23:13.000 Yeah, and there are shows that get...

01:23:16.000 A million, two million per night, and we're doing six, seven hundred thousand.

01:23:19.000 So, you know, we're big, but he watches the show.

01:23:22.000 And his friends watch the show.

01:23:25.000 There are so many shows, there's going to be mid-level fame, but then athletes, because they're not going to make more soccer leagues, more World Cups, that fame will still be there.

01:23:34.000 Yeah, Ronaldo will still be the most subscribed person on social media.

01:23:39.000 Yeah, we might be going through just like a modality change.

01:23:44.000 Real quick, someone superchatted this the other day.

01:23:46.000 Taylor Swift is considered to be a megastar right now, but she's pulling in a fraction, a tiny fraction of what Metallica pulls in.

01:23:55.000 And that is the celebrity superstar of the day.

01:23:58.000 And she gets nowhere near...

01:24:00.000 What was that video from the 90s of Metallica playing in Germany or whatever?

01:24:04.000 There's like 15 million people or something.

01:24:07.000 It was Russia. 0.70

01:24:09.000 It was Phil when you need him.

01:24:11.000 We need Phil to talk about that.

01:24:12.000 It was Russia, for sure, yeah. 0.99

01:24:13.000 I can't remember how many people were there, but it was like a lot of fucking people. 0.99

01:24:16.000 Oh, excuse me, sorry about that. 0.98

01:24:17.000 There was a lot of people there.

01:24:18.000 In 1991.

01:24:19.000 91, yeah.

01:24:20.000 That's insane.

01:24:21.000 Yeah, it's wild.

01:24:22.000 So we might be reaching the point...

01:24:23.000 1.6 million people in attendance.

01:24:26.000 This might be like a natural process of the physical world that's happening right now, to be honest, because...

01:24:32.000 If you think about the counterbalance between nuclear fusion and gravity in a star, it's what holds it together, right?

01:24:39.000 Well, it continues to explode.

01:24:40.000 At some point, it gets dysregulated, turns to iron in the core, and it blows up, or it becomes a red giant.

01:24:45.000 Whatever happens, right?

01:24:46.000 I think we're seeing some decentralization in media that isn't planned.

01:24:52.000 It's just happening as a natural result.

01:24:54.000 There's too much.

01:24:55.000 There's too much.

01:24:58.000 Nobody in your lifetime is going to watch one day's worth of YouTube.

01:25:01.000 No. It's 720,000 hours a day.

01:25:04.000 You won't watch that much in your entire lifetime.

01:25:06.000 Nobody will, right?

01:25:06.000 Most people aren't going to be able to do that with regular entertainment.

01:25:09.000 Exactly. That's the thing I laugh about.

01:25:10.000 People are like, we need to make great new shows.

01:25:11.000 I'm like, bro, there is enough stuff out there from the last 30 years that you could watch everything.

01:25:16.000 You wouldn't be able to watch everything if you tried.

01:25:18.000 But the scale is way different now.

01:25:19.000 So that's the problem we're having.

01:25:21.000 Our brains didn't evolve to be constantly impacted by attention to media like this.

01:25:28.000 So what's the natural?

01:25:29.000 Reaction for a human being.

01:25:31.000 I'm going to narrow my focus down and just look at this.

01:25:33.000 So to your fans, Tim, you are a celebrity, right?

01:25:36.000 And you always will be, even though it's not what Michael Jordan was at any given point.

01:25:41.000 And it never will be again, probably.

01:25:42.000 I think you're right about that.

01:25:43.000 I think it's also affecting our modalities of communication.

01:25:47.000 We've gone in this big circle where we started out around a campfire, listening to the wise old dude tell stories about our ancestors.

01:25:57.000 And then we kind of graduated to sitting around a campfire, listening to somebody read from a book after the printing press.

01:26:02.000 And then we went to sitting around a ritual.

01:26:04.000 So, Taylor Swift, her largest show ever.

01:26:23.000 96,006 attendees.

01:26:25.000 Metallica, 1.6 million.

01:26:28.000 That's how many were at that Russian show?

01:26:29.000 1.6?

01:26:29.000 1.6 million.

01:26:30.000 To be fair, however, looking it up, after the Black Album tour, wherever we may roam, Metallica was getting 40,000 plus, many around 60,000.

01:26:42.000 Taylor Swift currently does around 60,000.

01:26:45.000 So, you know...

01:26:47.000 Comparable. And what you're saying about celebrities are a result of institutions.

01:26:51.000 So when you say Michael Jordan, the institution is basketball or LeBron James.

01:26:55.000 When we talk Michael Jackson, you're talking about the music industry, which are built up by large-scale companies that put millions of dollars into this one individual because the return on investment is very, very high around that one person.

01:27:09.000 Now you have institutions like platforms, which would be like YouTube here, where somebody can, in a decentralized manner, build up a following of their own, but it's fractured compared to the size of it.

01:27:20.000 It also tracks with what we value as a civilization, not the sport or the type of entertainment, but the type of person.

01:27:27.000 Because we go from, I guess, people like Jimmy Stewart, who interrupted his career multiple times to go serve in the U.S.

01:27:35.000 military, or Bob Feller, or Ted Williams, or Joey D., all these guys that left highly successful entertainment.

01:27:46.000 We went from that to the Kardashians over the course of 40, 50 years.

01:27:50.000 And, you know, they're out there on the hustle.

01:27:52.000 They're making their money.

01:27:53.000 No hate, I guess.

01:27:54.000 But, you know, if you...

01:27:56.000 As a society, admire people who, to your point from earlier, who sacrifice to something greater than themselves versus just looking in the mirror.

01:28:04.000 We wrote a story about this.

01:28:05.000 It's called Narcissus.

01:28:06.000 It's where the word came from.

01:28:07.000 He looked in the water so much at his own reflection that he turned into flowers, right?

01:28:12.000 That's not a guidebook.

01:28:14.000 That's a warning.

01:28:15.000 So I think maybe what we should do is seize all of the big tech platforms and then what we do is alter the algorithms to only...

01:28:24.000 The only channels that do well will be firefighters, police, EMTs, and U.S. service personnel.

01:28:31.000 So you will get a little bit of music here and there, but all the kids growing up are going to see...

01:28:36.000 I mean, Elvis was in the Army.

01:28:37.000 Indeed he was.

01:28:38.000 Maybe Hendrix was in the Army.

01:28:40.000 He was in the 101st Airborne.

01:28:41.000 There you go.

01:28:42.000 I am kidding, by the way.

01:28:44.000 I wouldn't prefer these things.

01:28:45.000 This is one of the reasons that entertainment is worse now, is that the people who have gotten into these industries haven't lived the lives that those in the past have.

01:28:53.000 Served in the military, did something really, really monumental with their life before they found their calling in the arts, right?

01:29:02.000 They've got Adam Driver.

01:29:03.000 I think Adam Driver was a Marine.

01:29:05.000 They've got that going for him now.

01:29:06.000 Not to say there are good people in Hollywood either.

01:29:09.000 There's plenty.

01:29:09.000 I know a lot of them.

01:29:10.000 You've got a book.

01:29:11.000 Nick Searcy was in Hollywood for a long time.

01:29:13.000 He's a good dude.

01:29:14.000 Everybody should watch Justified if you haven't seen Justified.

01:29:16.000 Fantastic. Don't watch Severance.

01:29:19.000 He's not in that, I don't think.

01:29:21.000 He was in Justified.

01:29:23.000 I'm just ragging on Severance.

01:29:26.000 Is there something like an anti-ad?

01:29:29.000 Is that a thing?

01:29:30.000 I don't know.

01:29:31.000 Just keep talking trash about Severance and sending them an invoice?

01:29:35.000 Actually, the best thing I could do if I want to hurt the show is go into liberal circles talking about it's the best show ever and they should watch it. 0.99

01:29:42.000 Or you could just play it on your show and people would see how bad it sucks.

01:29:46.000 I don't need to get into all that. 0.99

01:29:48.000 I was just joking, but I hate that show.

01:29:50.000 And season two is really...

01:29:51.000 Season one, I give a C-.

01:29:53.000 It's not that it's bad.

01:29:54.000 It's just not good.

01:29:55.000 But season two is remarkably bad.

01:29:57.000 I haven't seen season two.

01:29:59.000 Remarkably bad.

01:29:59.000 I'm not going to watch it then.

01:30:02.000 Spoiler alert.

01:30:03.000 There's an episode that ends with a major plot development in the middle of it.

01:30:07.000 And then the next episode completely erases it from happening.

01:30:10.000 Totally changes the subject.

01:30:12.000 And then so I'm skipping through being like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

01:30:15.000 I'm not in this situation where I'm watching a TV and I can't skip.

01:30:18.000 So when I turn on the next episode, and I'm like, I want to know what the story is.

01:30:22.000 I'm just fast-forwarding.

01:30:23.000 And I'm like, uh...

01:30:25.000 I look around, I'm like, guys, what just happened?

01:30:27.000 Like, the episode was intense.

01:30:29.000 Shocking moment.

01:30:30.000 High-pitched music.

01:30:31.000 And then a shock!

01:30:33.000 And then I'm like, whoa, next episode?

01:30:35.000 Nothing. So I skip the episode.

01:30:37.000 The next episode starts.

01:30:38.000 Nothing. And then he talks to a character and says, that thing?

01:30:43.000 It's over.

01:30:43.000 And I was like, what?

01:30:45.000 Wow! That's really bad writing.

01:30:47.000 Really bad writing.

01:30:48.000 Just go re-watch The Wire.

01:30:50.000 Yeah, The Wire's great.

01:30:51.000 Just go re-watch The Wire.

01:30:52.000 Yeah. The Wire's great.

01:30:53.000 You can actually go participate.

01:30:54.000 It's right down the road.

01:30:56.000 It literally is.

01:30:57.000 You can go participate.

01:30:59.000 It's still like that.

01:31:00.000 I started watching it.

01:31:01.000 I've never seen it.

01:31:03.000 The Wire?

01:31:03.000 Yeah. Oh, it's really good, yeah.

01:31:04.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:31:05.000 I've heard great things.

01:31:06.000 Yes. They jumped the shark a little bit in the final season with the serial killer stuff.

01:31:09.000 I stick to, like, the first three.

01:31:11.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:31:11.000 It was still good.

01:31:13.000 Yeah. Daredevil Born Again is a C-minus show, but considering how bad Severance is, wow.

01:31:19.000 Daredevil Born Again is a C-minus show.

01:31:20.000 I'm two episodes behind.

01:31:21.000 Have you gotten to the...

01:31:23.000 Are you caught up?

01:31:24.000 Oh, yeah.

01:31:25.000 Okay. The episode, like...

01:31:27.000 Episode 3 with the guy who gets caught stealing the fiddle faddles might have been the worst writing I've ever seen on television ever.

01:31:36.000 He is the least sympathetic person in the history of television.

01:31:39.000 Is he supposed to be, though?

01:31:40.000 No, I think you're supposed to sympathize with this guy who gets caught stealing.

01:31:44.000 No, because Matt Murdock doesn't.

01:31:46.000 I don't buy that the writers are that nuanced.

01:31:48.000 I don't know.

01:31:50.000 I mean...

01:31:50.000 He still goes and...

01:31:52.000 Unless you're saying that the argument here is that even though he disagrees with him, he goes and pleads his case because that's his job to the...

01:31:58.000 Well, that's what John Adams did, right?

01:31:59.000 Okay, so he pleads his case to this lady and he talks about the failure...

01:32:02.000 That was awesome.

01:32:02.000 He talks about the failure of...

01:32:04.000 That was the best scene in the show.

01:32:05.000 But he talks about the failures of broken windows policy and stuff like that.

01:32:10.000 It's the worst writing and the character...

01:32:11.000 I disagree.

01:32:13.000 That he's the worst character?

01:32:15.000 He's the worst character.

01:32:15.000 No, no, no.

01:32:16.000 I didn't think it was like...

01:32:18.000 Lord of the Rings or anything.

01:32:21.000 So basically there's a guy, he steals five boxes of fiddle-faddle garbage snacks.

01:32:25.000 He starts complaining about how he's poor.

01:32:28.000 He can't get a job.

01:32:30.000 Nobody wants to hire a felon.

01:32:31.000 And he's hungry, so he steals.

01:32:33.000 Then they lock him up again.

01:32:34.000 Now he can't get welfare.

01:32:36.000 Now he has no food.

01:32:36.000 Now he's hungry again.

01:32:37.000 The system is busted.

01:32:38.000 It's not his fault, so he refused to go to prison.

01:32:40.000 And Murdoch is like, you stole.

01:32:43.000 You're going to jail. 1.00

01:32:45.000 It's a real liar, liar. 0.98

01:32:46.000 The point is, there is a way to write that character with a tiny bit of introspection that makes you feel for him. 0.98

01:32:53.000 Like, okay, the system is broken, okay?

01:32:55.000 There are a lot of ways in which once you find yourself...

01:32:58.000 One bad decision leads you down a path of just absolute hell that you can't control.

01:33:02.000 But he doesn't have a second of introspection.

01:33:04.000 That's not what I took from it.

01:33:05.000 What I took from it was there are these people who want to be serial criminals who think they're justified in doing so and they should go to jail.

01:33:13.000 And so what happens is Matt Murdock, lawyer, he goes to the prosecution and he goes...

01:33:17.000 What are you giving him?

01:33:18.000 And she's like, 30 days.

01:33:19.000 And he's like, come on.

01:33:21.000 That scene was great.

01:33:22.000 That was the best scene they've done in the show.

01:33:24.000 He wants probation.

01:33:25.000 And she's like, are you joking?

01:33:27.000 He's been arrested several times already for the same thing.

01:33:31.000 And then you see them negotiate.

01:33:32.000 And she goes...

01:33:33.000 And then he finally talks her down to 10 days and he goes, yes!

01:33:36.000 And then he goes, I got you 10 days.

01:33:37.000 And the guy's like, no, I ain't going to jail.

01:33:39.000 I want to go to court.

01:33:39.000 And then Matt Murdock is like, you stole.

01:33:41.000 You're going to jail.

01:33:43.000 Take your 10 days!

01:33:44.000 There's a point in which he could have been thankful for getting the 10 days where he has a moment of self-reflection.

01:33:50.000 He goes, thank you.

01:33:51.000 Thank you for the 10 days.

01:33:52.000 He doesn't even get that.

01:33:53.000 The next episode...

01:33:55.000 So you haven't watched after that?

01:33:57.000 I'm too behind.

01:33:58.000 Well, there's...

01:34:00.000 I'm like, I finished those two.

01:34:02.000 I finished that one and the one after it.

01:34:03.000 I'm not up to you.

01:34:05.000 I haven't watched that one yet.

01:34:06.000 So, this episode is...

01:34:08.000 Is Vincent D'Onofrio back and everything?

01:34:10.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:34:11.000 Skinny Vincent D'Onofrio.

01:34:12.000 Oh, he's skinny now.

01:34:12.000 He's getting fat again.

01:34:13.000 Oh, good.

01:34:14.000 Yeah. Wait, wasn't he just fat in that Godfather's Harlem thing?

01:34:19.000 When did he get skinny?

01:34:20.000 Okay, skinny is relative.

01:34:21.000 He's skinnier than he was when he played the Kingpin in the Netflix version.

01:34:24.000 He was a big boy back then.

01:34:25.000 The next episode of Daredevil, it may as well be a one-off.

01:34:29.000 Short film?

01:34:30.000 Unrelated to anything?

01:34:31.000 It was.

01:34:31.000 That was the only one from the original set of order that they did for this series that didn't get edited or reshot in any way.

01:34:39.000 So that was shot in the original run when they first started trying to make Daredevil Born Again.

01:34:44.000 They scrapped everything.

01:34:45.000 Episode 2 had some reshoots.

01:34:47.000 Episode 5 is left completely alone.

01:34:49.000 That's why it feels so different.

01:34:50.000 Well, it's a standalone.

01:34:51.000 Yes. It's a completely standalone episode.

01:34:52.000 It's just good Daredevil fun.

01:34:54.000 He just beats up a bunch of bad guys.

01:34:55.000 Sometimes you need to.

01:34:56.000 Oh, dude.

01:34:56.000 He shatters a guy's leg.

01:34:59.000 He's fighting a bad guy, and let me just say, they show, he knocks him down, and then the guy is leaning against the wall, and his leg is straight, and he jumps on his knee.

01:35:10.000 Maybe he learned something from Jon Bernthal there on that one.

01:35:13.000 Well, the original Daredevil on Netflix was pretty brutal.

01:35:16.000 And now it's kind of not, but this was, so I appreciated it.

01:35:19.000 The first six episodes, the first arc of the Punisher in season two of Daredevil is some of the best writing that they've done on television.

01:35:26.000 Yeah. It was pretty good.

01:35:27.000 Punisher was great, but now it's Disney-fied.

01:35:30.000 Even the Punisher show wasn't really that great because the CIA arc for that doesn't actually make sense for the character.

01:35:37.000 No. Yeah, but what other good shows we got going on right now?

01:35:40.000 We're waiting for Tulsa King, right?

01:35:41.000 That show's great.

01:35:42.000 It's crazy that Stallone's like 900 years old.

01:35:45.000 He's like in his 70s and he's just jacked.

01:35:47.000 I know.

01:35:48.000 Have you seen Tulsa King?

01:35:50.000 Oh yeah.

01:35:51.000 I only watched the first season.

01:35:53.000 I watched season two.

01:35:54.000 Also, through the magic of medicine, Dana Delaney has aged back 10 years as well.

01:36:01.000 Well, you know, they can reverse aging in mice now.

01:36:03.000 You've seen this, I'm sure. 0.98

01:36:04.000 What I like in a show is like, Sylvester Stallone's character in Tulsa King is kind of a dick. 0.97

01:36:09.000 But he's kind of alright, too. 0.92

01:36:12.000 That's just a guy from 25 years ago.

01:36:14.000 Right. But so, like, he does some bad stuff, but he protects the people that work with him, and when you wrong him, he wins.

01:36:21.000 I like that new show.

01:36:22.000 The anti-hero model works really well.

01:36:24.000 Tony Soprano works really well, right?

01:36:27.000 Breaking Bad worked really well.

01:36:29.000 Vic Mackey worked really well.

01:36:31.000 Jax Teller worked really well.

01:36:32.000 Anti-heroes do well.

01:36:33.000 I don't mean just anti-hero.

01:36:35.000 I like watching...

01:36:36.000 He has a moral code.

01:36:38.000 Right, but what I mean is, he doesn't deserve you to be the bad guy to him, and when you try, he destroys you.

01:36:45.000 That's what I like.

01:36:46.000 You know, I like the scene where the guys at the bar are like, hey man, I don't want to fight, leave me alone.

01:36:50.000 And the guy picks a fight, and then he gets crushed.

01:36:52.000 And the dude's like, I told you not to fight me.

01:36:53.000 I like those scenes, where the honorable guy is like, I'm trying to avoid the conflict here, buddy.

01:36:57.000 Yeah, like that scene early on in the...

01:37:00.000 When Tom Cruise played Jack Reacher, where he was like, remember, you wanted this.

01:37:04.000 The guy's outside of the bar.

01:37:07.000 Yes. When they work very hard to make him look taller.

01:37:10.000 Yeah, because Jack Reacher in the book is 6'4", 6'5".

01:37:13.000 The guy playing him now is quite a bit closer.

01:37:15.000 I maintain that that first Jack Reacher film is actually really good.

01:37:19.000 It's a great movie.

01:37:20.000 The fact that he isn't necessarily accurate as to the...

01:37:22.000 Well, if you'd never heard of Jack Reacher before, that's a great movie.

01:37:24.000 But it's because Cruise wanted to make the film, right?

01:37:26.000 It only got made because...

01:37:27.000 They were trying to make Jai Courtney a thing at the time.

01:37:30.000 It didn't really work out, but he was great as a bad guy.

01:37:32.000 He was good on Rome.

01:37:34.000 They tried him...

01:37:36.000 Say what you will about Tom Cruise.

01:37:38.000 I love his movies.

01:37:39.000 He's the best entertainer.

01:37:40.000 I have the Tom Cruise...

01:37:41.000 I have the Tom Cruise candle.

01:37:43.000 Vote of candle.

01:37:44.000 Oh, yeah.

01:37:45.000 I think he's the best entertainer of our lives.

01:37:47.000 You know who else I really like?

01:37:48.000 You give me a movie.

01:37:50.000 I don't care the plot. 0.85

01:37:52.000 Jason Statham goes around beating the crap out of people. 0.73

01:37:54.000 I'm gonna watch.

01:37:55.000 I'm going to see Working Man this weekend.

01:37:57.000 He's on a string of these.

01:37:59.000 Beekeeper and Working Man are the same movie.

01:38:01.000 Exactly. It's literally the same movie, and it's just like, oh, we're calling it Working Man now.

01:38:04.000 I'll watch every single one.

01:38:06.000 I'll watch it, too.

01:38:06.000 Every single one.

01:38:07.000 There's going to be a couple of sequels, I think, to Beekeeper.

01:38:09.000 I think there's two more of those coming.

01:38:10.000 I'm down.

01:38:11.000 It's because, I mean, David Ayer's kind of single-handedly going to bring back the mid-budget movie, mid-budget-esque, because he's got a fairly good reputation, Suicide Squad notwithstanding.

01:38:21.000 That wasn't his fault.

01:38:23.000 You know, I'm looking forward to that one.

01:38:26.000 But, you know, go back and watch The Transporter.

01:38:28.000 The Transporter is amazing now.

01:38:30.000 By today's, like, it kind of gets lost in the weeds at that time period because there were so many movies like that being made.

01:38:36.000 But you go back and you rewatch it now and it's just so much fun.

01:38:39.000 I mean, to be honest, Transporter was a better version.

01:38:41.000 Of the Fast and Furious movies, in my opinion.

01:38:44.000 Like, I'm not a huge Fast and Furious.

01:38:45.000 Landman is really good.

01:38:46.000 Landman's great, yeah.

01:38:47.000 Really great show.

01:38:48.000 I feel like The Meg, though, is kind of where I draw the line.

01:38:50.000 I don't know.

01:38:51.000 I didn't see The Meg.

01:38:53.000 Yeah, that one didn't hit as hard.

01:38:54.000 Oh, Jason Statham's in it, right?

01:38:56.000 Yeah, but he's not traveling around beating the crap out of people.

01:38:58.000 He's fighting a shark. 0.98

01:38:58.000 He's just beating the crap out of a big-ass fish. 0.98

01:39:00.000 It's a Megalodon? 0.73

01:39:02.000 Yeah. You know some executive is like, how about instead of bad guys?

01:39:07.000 It's a shark.

01:39:09.000 It's very 80s Hollywood.

01:39:11.000 The story is deep underwater there's like this layer of some material and underneath it there's a bunch of megalodons that can't penetrate through it and then something breaks through and the...

01:39:21.000 Megalon gets through it or whatever.

01:39:23.000 It's probably graphene down there.

01:39:25.000 I'm glad Ian's up.

01:39:26.000 I will say, however, if anybody wants to talk to you about the difference between honest diversity and forced diversity in Hollywood, The Fast and the Furious is the movie you bring up if you want to talk about a movie that's actually diverse, that nobody actually talks about it being diverse.

01:39:39.000 In fact, they talked about making a female Fast and the Furious movie, and then everybody crapped on it because nobody wants it to be forced into you. 0.69

01:39:46.000 We're going to go to your chats, my friends, so smash that like button, share the show.

01:39:51.000 With everyone you know, give us a like.

01:39:53.000 Every like you give represents one more federal employee getting fired.

01:39:58.000 I wonder how many people are gonna be like, I'm not gonna like that.

01:40:00.000 All the homes on sale in Loudoun County.

01:40:02.000 Alright, let's go.

01:40:04.000 We'll start with Evan for us.

01:40:05.000 Can anyone tell me if there are actual differences between gender and sex?

01:40:08.000 I have a family member who's studying clinical psychology and I suppose there's supposed to be actual differences.

01:40:12.000 Is it BS?

01:40:13.000 It is BS.

01:40:15.000 It was used interchangeably forever.

01:40:18.000 And now, to suit the needs of leftists, whose ideology makes no sense, they decided there are two different things.

01:40:23.000 Ask them what gender means, and they can't tell you. 0.97

01:40:26.000 They would define gender as self-expression in law, which is what they do in most jurisdictions, and that literally means personality.

01:40:32.000 So gender then means nothing.

01:40:33.000 Or they give you the, it's a spectrum, and then don't explain what that means either.

01:40:37.000 Yeah. Tyler Today says, I love the show and the Timcast Discord community.

01:40:41.000 Tim, need help to reach 100 followers on Rumble by Monday?

01:40:45.000 Please shout me out, Tyler Today News.

01:40:47.000 Well, best of luck.

01:40:48.000 Good sir.

01:40:49.000 Best of luck.

01:40:51.000 Freedom Sauce says, Utah just became the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water.

01:40:56.000 Let's go.

01:40:56.000 Wow. And pride flags in government buildings, if I remember correctly?

01:41:01.000 Or was that somebody else?

01:41:02.000 Wow. Meanwhile, Colorado's trying to outlaw hunting rifles, which is not great.

01:41:09.000 Could be worse, could be ninja swords.

01:41:11.000 Ninja swords.

01:41:12.000 Ninja swords.

01:41:14.000 Do you have this law from the UK that they're trying to get passed this upcoming week?

01:41:19.000 They're trying to vote on it this upcoming week.

01:41:20.000 Yeah, is it specifically katanas?

01:41:22.000 I want to know what the word they use.

01:41:24.000 I hope it actually is ninja swords.

01:41:24.000 Is there going to be a British?

01:41:26.000 Commonwealth law that says that ninja swords, literally ninja swords, that phrase are illegal.

01:41:31.000 I hope that's actually what they use.

01:41:33.000 Please tell me that that's true.

01:41:34.000 So does this include wakazashi as well?

01:41:37.000 Little sword, right?

01:41:39.000 Yeah, because when they would fight indoors, you had the long sword for outside and the short sword for inside?

01:41:43.000 The short one's the wakazashi, right?

01:41:44.000 Yeah. But that's a samurai sword.

01:41:48.000 Okay, that's gonna be the best.

01:41:50.000 Somebody's like, ninja swords are banned.

01:41:51.000 You guys are like, yeah, this is a samurai sword.

01:41:53.000 It's different.

01:41:54.000 Actually, he's gonna do the voice too.

01:41:55.000 Actually, this is a samurai sword?

01:41:57.000 What if it's a Chinese jian? 1.00

01:41:59.000 A Chinese broadsword?

01:42:00.000 Is that okay?

01:42:01.000 Yeah, and then call them racist because this is not a ninja sword.

01:42:04.000 Ninjas are Japanese.

01:42:05.000 This is Chinese. 0.99

01:42:06.000 You racist. 0.99

01:42:06.000 Is a British claymore banned? 0.99

01:42:09.000 Scotty. Scottish?

01:42:10.000 There you go.

01:42:11.000 Scottish Claymore?

01:42:11.000 I don't think that was ever illegal there.

01:42:14.000 Are they just banning Asian sorts because they're racist?

01:42:16.000 Yes. You gotta ask the questions.

01:42:20.000 Alright, what do we got?

01:42:21.000 Kyle says, Trump should sign dozens of executive orders on July 4th that shrink government and strengthen our freedoms.

01:42:27.000 It would then be on us to encourage our reps to sign them into law, which should be first.

01:42:33.000 Or you can just do it and then say, sue me.

01:42:35.000 You know?

01:42:36.000 There was a really great point that was brought up.

01:42:39.000 On the culture war this morning, we were debating the legalities of Trump's actions, principally the deportations of Mahmoud Khalil.

01:42:46.000 And the liberal fellow argued, you can't sign away your rights.

01:42:52.000 The conservative fellow argued, as a condition of visa and entry, you can be deported, you can't speak, you can't do these things, you can't be disruptive.

01:43:01.000 The liberal argued...

01:43:03.000 Free speech applies to all that are here, whether legally or otherwise.

01:43:06.000 The First Amendment applies to everybody.

01:43:07.000 And you can't waive your rights just because you're coming here.

01:43:11.000 To which I countered, in order to buy a gun in this country, you are legally required to waive your Fifth Amendment rights.

01:43:18.000 Why do we tolerate something like that?

01:43:20.000 So, you know, I think that's something that actually needs to be addressed.

01:43:23.000 It's been brought up many times by gun rights advocates that the next form requires you to self-incriminate.

01:43:28.000 And this is what Hunter Biden refused to do.

01:43:30.000 So I defended Hunter Biden.

01:43:32.000 I was on his side with this one.

01:43:33.000 He should have won on that gun charge.

01:43:35.000 He should have taken it to the Supreme Court and won.

01:43:37.000 So I'll just stress.

01:43:38.000 If you would like to exercise your Second Amendment in this country, you forfeit your Fifth Amendment rights as it pertains to certain issues.

01:43:45.000 How is that constitutional?

01:43:47.000 It's definitely not.

01:43:48.000 Well, we got to win that one.

01:43:50.000 Yeah. Let's go.

01:43:53.000 I'm an American man says, hi, Tim, do a kickflip.

01:43:56.000 You know what we should do?

01:43:57.000 We should get a remote HDMI so we can actually, you know, free float around the room when we need to.

01:44:05.000 That'd be fun.

01:44:06.000 Because then someone could be like, oh, okay, maybe.

01:44:08.000 Actually, my legs are stiff from sitting here for three hours, so there ain't no way I'm landing a kickflip right now.

01:44:13.000 Actually, I could probably do it.

01:44:15.000 Maybe not in a couple years, I'll be too old.

01:44:16.000 As long as it's not a front shove.

01:44:18.000 Not a front shove.

01:44:19.000 A pop shove, maybe.

01:44:22.000 Kenneth Hart says, the culture war was exhausting today.

01:44:25.000 My wife is here after 10 months on 10-year green card.

01:44:29.000 It took two months to prove she wasn't a member of Filipino terror group.

01:44:33.000 We were both clearly warned if she offends the U.S.

01:44:36.000 in any way, she is out.

01:44:37.000 I think that's a pretty reasonable standard, to be honest.

01:44:40.000 Like, you're here, if you're not a citizen, or you haven't received a green card specifically, not a visa yet, why should the entirety of the protection of our natural rights extend to you, right?

01:44:55.000 I think that's a reasonable question for people to ask.

01:44:58.000 Because the cost, the price for entry used to be assimilation.

01:45:02.000 And that was a reasonable thing.

01:45:05.000 Even Jefferson said this, that a great deal of immigration at one time could disrupt our natural culture in America. 1.00

01:45:12.000 He said that in 1801, I believe.

01:45:15.000 It seems like...

01:45:18.000 It used to just be that way.

01:45:20.000 It used to just be that the price for entry was assimilation and people all agreed to it. 0.94

01:45:24.000 They came here because they wanted to be American.

01:45:25.000 Now they come here for other reasons.

01:45:27.000 So maybe we need to take another look at that is all I'm saying.

01:45:30.000 We have a great chat from Sinov1.

01:45:33.000 He says, Lotus Eaters said they weren't even Japanese.

01:45:36.000 They were Somali. 0.96

01:45:37.000 So now the Somalis have both pirates and ninjas. 0.99

01:45:39.000 We're done for. 0.97

01:45:43.000 I was going to say something like they're light years ahead of us.

01:45:46.000 You know.

01:45:47.000 One can only be jealous.

01:45:48.000 I don't know what timeline Somalis are light years ahead of us on, but that's a timeline. 1.00

01:45:52.000 They have ninjas and pirates.

01:45:54.000 I think that this argument over constitutionality and rights and everything has become redundant and it is everyone deluding themselves.

01:46:03.000 So I just, you know, and I argue this to both the liberal and the conservative gentlemen.

01:46:07.000 They both disagreed and I disagree with them.

01:46:10.000 When the left justifies their arrest of Donald Trump's lawyers because Well, they weren't just providing legal advice.

01:46:17.000 The legal advice was for criminal endeavors.

01:46:19.000 It's like, what codified law?

01:46:21.000 RICO. What RICO?

01:46:23.000 Well, they were trying to overturn an election.

01:46:25.000 You decide...

01:46:26.000 I'm done.

01:46:28.000 The left is going to argue whatever they want, whenever they want, to be able to do whatever they want, and the right tends to let them.

01:46:33.000 So what's the point of even arguing?

01:46:36.000 It's a violation of the free speech of Mahmoud Khalil if he's deported.

01:46:41.000 I'm like, he wasn't being deported for his speech.

01:46:43.000 He's being deported because he's a threat to national security under, what is it, 237 Subsection A or whatever?

01:46:50.000 It's 1180 and 1220, I think, in 8 USC when it comes to visa, even immaterial.

01:46:59.000 Support of any kind of foreign terror group or any kind of foreign adversary can get you ejected immediately if you're here on a visa.

01:47:05.000 Well, you can agree or disagree that that's correct or just or whatever, but it's legal.

01:47:10.000 That's the law, right?

01:47:11.000 The reality is what we deem to be allowable or not is meaningless because it goes to the courts and the courts make determinations.

01:47:18.000 And the courts are comprised of judges who are put in power by those who held the power.

01:47:23.000 So really, here's what it is.

01:47:25.000 If the economy is good or bad, someone's going to win.

01:47:28.000 When they do, we're then hoping the Supreme Court shifts so that we can put appointees on.

01:47:33.000 Lucky for Donald Trump. 0.87

01:47:34.000 He ends up getting lucky enough that Hillary Clinton sucked and the economy was bad enough that people would vote for him.

01:47:39.000 He gets to put in three conservative justices, which now starts siding across the board with the worldview of Trump. 0.84

01:47:45.000 Otherwise, I'm sitting here listening to lawyers be like, well, in this year they said this, and this year they said this, and I'm like, I don't care at all who said what.

01:47:53.000 The question is, right now, do we in society tolerate what they're doing?

01:47:56.000 And the left and the right are completely bifurcated on what they deem to be moral and just.

01:48:02.000 So the left is going to argue for their whims and power when they want.

01:48:05.000 The right is going to do the same. 0.98

01:48:07.000 I think the right is comprised of a moral worldview that is correct, and the left are degenerate amoral crackpots. 0.88

01:48:14.000 The left think the inverse. 0.99

01:48:16.000 The right is an evil cult, whatever.

01:48:17.000 I don't need to argue with people who...

01:48:20.000 I think are degenerate and amoral and are doing things that defy moral and principle.

01:48:25.000 But they're going to do that and accuse me of doing the inverse.

01:48:27.000 I'm like, then why are we going to have a conversation?

01:48:30.000 The question is, to what degree of force is being exerted to implement our worldviews?

01:48:34.000 I am happy with nonviolent court cases.

01:48:37.000 I don't want any chaos or conflict.

01:48:40.000 And if we can all agree that if the judge bangs the gavel, the battle is over, fine.

01:48:45.000 The problem is the left isn't doing that.

01:48:47.000 They're firebombing Teslas.

01:48:49.000 They're shooting up Teslas.

01:48:50.000 They're beating people in the street.

01:48:52.000 So I don't know where this goes, but this argument that people have that it is or is not allowed in the Constitution is completely meaningless.

01:48:58.000 Right now you have, under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, everything Trump did is allowed.

01:49:03.000 Yet somehow a court is still saying it's not allowed.

01:49:06.000 Well, clearly the interpretation is meaningless then.

01:49:08.000 Well, even the reasons that have been given for some of these injunctions, like the one that pertained to transgender people in the military, what the judge says that was...

01:49:19.000 I'm sorry, there's no constitutional guarantee of not being demeaned at some point.

01:49:23.000 So what the hell are you talking about?

01:49:25.000 Well, so I asked him, is it cruel and unusual punishment to put a male prisoner in a female prison? 0.83

01:49:35.000 It is for the females. 0.99

01:49:36.000 Not according to the left.

01:49:38.000 For the left, the cruel and unusual punishment is a trans person being put with males. 0.99

01:49:41.000 Sure, yeah.

01:49:41.000 Okay, so now the 8th just said there shall be no cruel and unusual punishment.

01:49:45.000 So what are we allowed to do?

01:49:47.000 Nobody agrees.

01:49:49.000 So the left and the right are both going to claim they're following the Constitution and the other side is unconstitutional.

01:49:53.000 Do you think it's wise that we keep referring back to this?

01:49:56.000 And I mean the minutia of the law, like common law, constitution, and so on, case law that's happened over the time.

01:50:04.000 Do you think it's wise for us to do that?

01:50:06.000 And not just like, let's have a couple of principles that we definitely agree on, and then every generation will figure out the next thing.

01:50:12.000 I remember...

01:50:13.000 Well, principles are meaningless is the point.

01:50:15.000 To some degree, but...

01:50:19.000 Jefferson wrote a letter to James Madison when he became president, or right before he became president, and he said, the earth belongs always to the living generation.

01:50:27.000 They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, and as they please during their time here, and however they see fit.

01:50:34.000 Basically, life belongs to the living, not to 250 years ago.

01:50:38.000 And I'm not saying, obviously, the...

01:50:42.000 Bill of Rights is a very important thing to us, and I think most people should agree on the underlying principle of that.

01:50:48.000 And if you don't, there's probably something messed up.

01:50:51.000 I disagree.

01:50:52.000 On which part?

01:50:53.000 The Bill of Rights is indeterminate.

01:50:56.000 The seven articles of the Constitution are fair and fine.

01:51:00.000 They outline the structure of governance, the three branches, etc.

01:51:05.000 First of all, the Second Amendment has never been protected.

01:51:09.000 Never. And it's only until 2008 and then 2010 that we actually had a right in this country to bear arms, despite the fact it literally says.

01:51:16.000 Technically speaking, that is true, yeah.

01:51:18.000 I mean, literally speaking.

01:51:21.000 I mean, we operated as if we did, but there was no codified law that actually said it.

01:51:25.000 We just assumed that that was the case.

01:51:27.000 Except you'd be arrested and charged for having a gun in numerous places, which triggered D.C. versus Heller and then McDonald's v.

01:51:32.000 Chicago. Free speech has never been protected in this country.

01:51:36.000 Obviously, in the 70s, George Carlin got arrested for swearing at a nightclub doing comedy.

01:51:41.000 But even before then, when they codified and established the Bill of Rights, you could be arrested for blasphemy.

01:51:47.000 You could be arrested for public obscenity, which was things you spoke.

01:51:50.000 So they did not deem those things to be free speech.

01:51:53.000 You have, once again, the Eighth Amendment, no cruel and unusual punishment.

01:51:56.000 But we...

01:51:57.000 Have consistently had cruel, unusual punishment.

01:52:00.000 How about, in recent times, the mockery of men who are raped in prison, and that is the punishment you are told you will get.

01:52:06.000 So, everybody always says...

01:52:08.000 Even the 9th and 10th.

01:52:10.000 Oh, right, like...

01:52:11.000 We don't actually operate under a federalist society in any meaningful way, right?

01:52:16.000 I mean, that's just not true.

01:52:19.000 Now, the 7th Amendment... 0.79

01:52:19.000 The 7th Amendment is my favorite, because we have absolutely... 0.79

01:52:23.000 This one makes the least amount of sense.

01:52:26.000 It makes the least sense of any of the amendments, for sure.

01:52:29.000 Well, it's because of inflation.

01:52:30.000 And because the Federal Reserve destroyed our system.

01:52:32.000 Do you guys know what the Seventh Amendment is?

01:52:33.000 The right to a civil jury trial for matters $20 or more.

01:52:38.000 It's the one...

01:52:39.000 $20 back then was $200.

01:52:41.000 Yeah, it's the one...

01:52:42.000 Even if it was a gajillion back then.

01:52:45.000 You know what I mean?

01:52:46.000 It's like, that's a completely...

01:52:49.000 The expectation was when they wrote the Bill of Rights that it was going to be a timeless document that we could refer to and adjudicate based on the circumstances of today.

01:52:56.000 That was supposed to be the point.

01:52:57.000 How the hell does the Seventh Amendment apply to that in any meaningful way? 0.75

01:53:01.000 It's just nonsense. 0.92

01:53:02.000 That's like the redheaded stepchild of the amendments. 0.86

01:53:06.000 So, the Ninth Amendment, the enumeration of the Constitution of certain rights should not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, but we haven't ever defined them.

01:53:15.000 No, we haven't.

01:53:16.000 Also, to the point you made a minute ago, the adjudication of the Second Amendment that happens at the federal level puts you in hot water with the Fifth, right?

01:53:24.000 So you have, like, the standard for purchasing certain types of weapons has been codified in law to violate the Ninth and the Fifth.

01:53:36.000 And the second.

01:53:38.000 What the hell? 0.77

01:53:39.000 The NFA?

01:53:40.000 I mean, this is another instance where you have to waive your rights in order to try and exercise some of your rights, not to mention the purchase of literally any weapon.

01:53:49.000 And the Tenth Amendment, of course, the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people.

01:53:56.000 Yeah, seriously.

01:53:57.000 That's the least respected thing that's ever been written on paper.

01:54:00.000 Right. Give me a break.

01:54:02.000 Come on, man.

01:54:03.000 Yeah, the federal government applies laws and then goes and enforces them wherever they want.

01:54:06.000 So my point is this.

01:54:09.000 Everybody tries to use the Constitution.

01:54:13.000 All they're really saying is, I bet I can make an argument that will convince enough people who don't pay attention to agree with me.

01:54:19.000 This piece of paper gives me an argument.

01:54:21.000 The liberals say...

01:54:23.000 I will use the exact same document and argue the inverse, notably the Second Amendment.

01:54:29.000 They argue that you've got to be in a militia.

01:54:33.000 I mean, that's basically just an ontological argument, but about the laws of our country.

01:54:38.000 It's a metaphysical discussion.

01:54:40.000 It doesn't have any basis in reality because you're operating on two different data sets, your facts and my facts at that point, and our interpretation is based on those facts.

01:54:48.000 Right. It's silly if you think about it.

01:54:50.000 In the Constitution, you have seven articles.

01:54:53.000 And they basically outline the structure of governance.

01:54:55.000 When people say it's unconstitutional, they're always referring to the Bill of Rights.

01:54:59.000 They're never referring to the actual structures of the Constitution.

01:55:01.000 Only until Trump, with Articles 1, 2, and 3, are they now arguing what Trump is doing is unconstitutional or otherwise, which is hilarious.

01:55:08.000 The Bill of Rights, so these things are clear-cut, the first articles.

01:55:12.000 The executive shall have the power, the judiciary shall interpret, blah, blah, blah.

01:55:16.000 But the amendments themselves...

01:55:19.000 So abridging the freedom of speech, it's been abridged the whole time and to this day.

01:55:23.000 And the other argument is the interpretation of these extends beyond just their initial meaning, the best example being the Third Amendment, which says, So a lot of people always ignore the Third.

01:55:45.000 They say, When do we have to worry about soldiers being in our houses?

01:55:49.000 This has been interpreted by the Supreme Court not to refer to soldiers, but to mean the government can't commandeer your house for any reason unless prescribed by law.

01:55:58.000 So eminent domain?

01:56:00.000 So arguably, yes.

01:56:01.000 But eminent domain is codified in law, so as prescribed, they're allowed to do it.

01:56:05.000 In which case, what's the point of the Third Amendment when it literally says Congress can just pass the law to overwrite it?

01:56:11.000 So my point ultimately is everybody wants to claim They're protected under certain amendments to live in the moral world they want, and the real problem this country has is there is no singular, cohesive, moral foundation.

01:56:25.000 Right. So...

01:56:27.000 We should probably look into that.

01:56:30.000 That's why I say we're in a culture war, and at this point, they're going to accuse anything Donald Trump does of being a constitutional crisis and unconstitutional.

01:56:37.000 So Trump is like, I have the legal authority to deport, you know, enemy combatants and illegal invaders that I declare.

01:56:44.000 They're now saying, no, you can't.

01:56:46.000 The Babylon Bee had a great article.

01:56:48.000 Donald Trump resigns from presidency to take a D.C. court, a more powerful D.C. circuit court judge position.

01:56:56.000 Right. Of which there are what?

01:56:58.000 Well, I don't know about the D.C. circuit, but of the district courts that exist, I think there's like 680 some judges.

01:57:05.000 So any one of them would get to say no.

01:57:07.000 Which is not true.

01:57:08.000 The guy who got 80 million votes, you're not allowed.

01:57:10.000 Right. Come on, man.

01:57:12.000 Is this what we're doing here?

01:57:13.000 And the question then is going to be, will Donald Trump exert authority to combat those who would seek to stop him?

01:57:23.000 And there's already been two zealots who tried to kill him.

01:57:27.000 We don't really know what happened with the first one.

01:57:29.000 The second one was pro-Ukraine.

01:57:31.000 Democrats, literally Democrats, I'm just not being cute, have arrested his lawyers in, I think, two different states, criminally charging his lawyers.

01:57:38.000 They've tried seizing his property, accusing him of crimes.

01:57:41.000 Will Donald Trump just say, That's the way the cookie crumbles.

01:57:44.000 Or is he going to say, if you want to play that game, I'll play that game all the same?

01:57:48.000 And I think the only thing we can do is hope for is that Donald Trump is willing to exhort all authorities and powers he has under his interpretation of the Constitution because the Democrats are operating under their interpretation of the Constitution.

01:58:01.000 And then we hope it doesn't come to any kind of extreme violence or anything and people chill out and then we get singular order.

01:58:08.000 I would say we have to hope as well that Congress...

01:58:11.000 Codify some of this stuff and Trump can exit like Cincinnati's and not leave us with a succession problem with powers he created that are going to be abused by people in the future.

01:58:20.000 Yep. Like, that's a big thing.

01:58:22.000 I like J.D. Vance.

01:58:24.000 I think he's got a really good shot of winning moving forward.

01:58:26.000 People seem to like him, except for the extreme left.

01:58:29.000 And he's a very bright guy.

01:58:31.000 But this is always the problem with any kind of concentrated powers, the problem with succession.

01:58:38.000 Can you trust the next guy?

01:58:40.000 But to be fair, the Democrats have nothing.

01:58:44.000 They're talking about running Kamala and Walz again.

01:58:48.000 And I don't know, other than certainly Shapiro is an attractive candidate, but he says he doesn't want to run.

01:58:54.000 He can't.

01:58:54.000 He's Jewish.

01:58:55.000 He's Jewish.

01:58:56.000 He's got young kids.

01:58:57.000 A lot of reasons.

01:58:57.000 Well, but I'm not trying to be cute.

01:58:58.000 I mean, Serge's laughing, but it's true.

01:59:00.000 It's a hard sell right now.

01:59:01.000 To me, so he turned down Harris when she asked him.

01:59:05.000 Right. And the reason he turned it down is because he looked around at his friends on the left and were like, you guys hate me.

01:59:09.000 Why am I going to run for you?

01:59:11.000 They would lose Michigan, and that was the concern.

01:59:15.000 I have a question then.

01:59:16.000 So how many votes did Trump get in 2016?

01:59:20.000 And then 2020.

01:59:21.000 What was that, 61?

01:59:22.000 60-something, yeah.

01:59:24.000 Okay, and then how many in 2020?

01:59:26.000 74. And then in 2024.

01:59:29.000 I think it was 74 again.

01:59:30.000 We got the real numbers.

01:59:31.000 Trump got 62.9.

01:59:32.000 Okay. And then in 2020...

01:59:35.000 Trump got 74.2 to Biden's 81.2.

01:59:39.000 I think it was 74 in this one as well.

01:59:40.000 And then 2024, Trump got 77.3 to Kamala's 75. Outside of the anomalous of 2020, what did the Democrats get in 2016 and 2020?

01:59:51.000 2016, Hillary got 65. And then...

01:59:54.000 And then in 2024, Kamala got 75. Okay.

01:59:58.000 So if they can run a candidate as bad as Kamala and get 74 million votes, is it not reasonable to think that unless they get a very, very, very good Republican candidate that can also coalesce a whole bunch of people under that banner again, that they run the risk of default...

02:00:16.000 Liberal Democrat types just voting for whoever is there and without a strong personality in place?

02:00:22.000 You don't think so?

02:00:22.000 Because the census shift is going to pull like 12 votes or something.

02:00:28.000 So with mass deportations...

02:00:31.000 I think California's losing two, right?

02:00:32.000 Was it?

02:00:32.000 California's losing two.

02:00:33.000 It's going to be way worse than that.

02:00:35.000 Wow. Because of the mass deportations.

02:00:37.000 So when you look at net out-migration of blue states to red states, it's going to shift something like, what, seven or eight?

02:00:44.000 Then when you add in all the mass deportations, that's not a net plus for the Republican states in terms of migration.

02:00:50.000 It's a straight net negative for the blue states.

02:00:52.000 Yeah, this is something that people don't understand about the Electoral College.

02:00:56.000 The census is what determines, not the voters or even registered voters or even citizens.

02:01:00.000 The census is what determines whether or not you get an extra.

02:01:03.000 It's, what is it, 780,000 people in a district or something like that?

02:01:06.000 Yeah. So Democrats want illegal immigration so they get more votes for the president. 0.99

02:01:11.000 And a legal servant class.

02:01:13.000 Indeed. And more seats in Congress.

02:01:16.000 So this is the funny thing.

02:01:18.000 They argue illegal immigrants don't vote, and then the right says they do. 0.98

02:01:22.000 They don't.

02:01:23.000 They don't need to.

02:01:24.000 By merely existing in a district, they get an extra congressional rep, so the state has more power over everybody else.

02:01:31.000 Yeah, which is funny because Trump's mass deportation is going to do more to protect our elections than any election law, any voter ID law.

02:01:37.000 But I think that Democrats probably won't win, as Ezra Klein pointed out, as of right now.

02:01:43.000 The census shift, still five years away, is going to result in Democrats losing so many electoral votes that even if Kamala won Pennsylvania and Michigan in the last election, she could not have won.

02:01:54.000 So when you bring up the point about 75 million votes, maybe the next president, maybe J.D. Vance, doesn't get the popular vote, but the electoral college votes, it won't matter.

02:02:05.000 So we'll see.

02:02:07.000 Alright, let's grab one more here before we head on out.

02:02:12.000 Eric Skelly says the left vandalizing the Cybertrucks are turning them and owners into true cultural rebels due to just owning the vehicle could get you hurt.

02:02:20.000 Badass truck, badass owner, just like punk rock or being in a metal band.

02:02:25.000 We drove around in the Cybertruck.

02:02:27.000 Me and Cody and people were screaming at us.

02:02:28.000 Well, do you go ahead and preempt it and tag up your own truck?

02:02:34.000 There's a guy driving around.

02:02:35.000 So I live in Dripping Springs, just west of Austin, right?

02:02:38.000 And there's a guy that drives a Cybertruck around, and it's covered in very detailed graffiti.

02:02:42.000 It was done on purpose.

02:02:43.000 Oh, really?

02:02:44.000 By him.

02:02:45.000 But not, like, months ago.

02:02:46.000 Oh, okay.

02:02:47.000 It's been cruising around for probably six, eight months now.

02:02:50.000 My joke was that if anyone ever comes up to me yelling at me, I would just be like, don't look at me.

02:02:55.000 I didn't know Elon was going to go crazy, but as soon as he did, I bought a Cybertruck.

02:02:59.000 These things are great.

02:03:01.000 Yeah. All right, everybody.

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02:03:42.000 Yeah, Drinking Bros Podcast, that's my main.

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