Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Trump Approves IRAN ATTACK PLAN, Holds Final Order, Iran May Meet At White House | Timcast IRL

00:02:29.000 Donald Trump has approved a strike plan on Iran.

00:02:33.000 That's right, ladies and gentlemen.

00:02:34.000 Donald Trump has approved a U.S. military strike plan on Iran.

00:02:39.000 But wait!

00:02:40.000 He's holding off on giving the final order.

00:02:43.000 He wants to negotiate with Iran, and we all hope that's the case. 0.95

00:02:47.000 He actually said the Iranians want to come to the White House, and that may happen. 0.93

00:02:52.000 I hope so.

00:02:53.000 Anything is better than a drawn-out, protracted war.

00:02:57.000 And if you win without having to actually get involved and waste money and resource, that sounds like a good plan.

00:03:02.000 Hopefully, this is just Trump's big ask.

00:03:05.000 Saber rattles makes it look like we're gearing for war, but then brings them to the table.

00:03:09.000 Well, maybe that's what happens, but we also have this story that I think a lot of people missed yesterday.

00:03:14.000 China sent a mysterious plane, a transport, we don't know exactly what it is, to Iran.

00:03:21.000 Maybe it's to evacuate, maybe it supplies, who knows, but it was a single plane still.

00:03:25.000 Interesting.

00:03:26.000 Then we've got, over at the Pentagon, one of Hegseth's top guys escorted out of the building.

00:03:32.000 This may be another leaker.

00:03:35.000 We'll talk about that.

00:03:36.000 Plus, we've got a bunch more.

00:03:37.000 Obama says we are steps away from autocracy because apparently he was sleeping for the past seven or eight years, not paying attention to what was going on with the Democrats locking up Donald Trump, his confidants, his lawyers and associates. 0.99

00:03:49.000 Holy crap. 0.95

00:03:50.000 We've got a lot to talk about, my friends. 0.91

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00:06:23.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more, we got Mike Duran.

00:06:26.000 Hello.

00:06:27.000 Who are you?

00:06:28.000 What do you do?

00:06:28.000 I, um...

00:06:33.000 So you know a whole lot about what's going on right now with all this Iran-Israel stuff.

00:06:37.000 I do.

00:06:38.000 Oh, so you're the perfect guy to be here!

00:06:40.000 Well, I appreciate it.

00:06:41.000 It should be fun and insightful.

00:06:42.000 I look forward to you explaining things to us.

00:06:45.000 So thanks for hanging out.

00:06:46.000 Great to be here.

00:06:47.000 We got Brett hanging out.

00:06:48.000 Yes, guys.

00:06:49.000 I'm not expected to know anything about what's going on in the Middle East, but we're going to talk about it because normally I'm doing Pop Culture Crisis Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, which is noon Pacific.

00:06:58.000 You should join us there.

00:06:59.000 But you know about Caitlin Clark.

00:07:00.000 Yes.

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00:07:03.000 She's been getting body checked for the last year. 0.66

00:07:06.000 You also know about the made-for-TV movie that's made about the real events.

00:07:12.000 Look, I saw Zero Dark Thirty in Argo.

00:07:16.000 Good stuff.

00:07:16.000 That's all we need.

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00:07:20.000 I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band All It Remains.

00:07:22.000 I'm an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary.

00:07:25.000 Let's get into it.

00:07:25.000 Here's the story from the Wall Street Journal.

00:07:28.000 Trump privately approved of attack plans for Iran but has withheld the final order.

00:07:33.000 The president is hoping that threatening to join Israel's strikes will lead Tehran to abandon its nuclear program.

00:07:40.000 They say, since his private instructions in the White House Situation Room to the military, Trump has disclosed publicly that an attack is an option.

00:07:47.000 Quote, I have ideas on what to do, but I haven't made a final.

00:07:51.000 I'd like to make the final decision one second before it's due, he told reporters.

00:07:54.000 Very Trumpian.

00:07:55.000 Trump is hoping that threatening to join Israel's strikes in Iran, which continued for a sixth day, will compel Tehran to meet his demands.

00:08:03.000 The people said he acknowledged that a U.S. attack was under consideration, but said he still might decide against it.

00:08:09.000 Well, we do have this.

00:08:10.000 Trump says he may meet with Iran at the White House.

00:08:14.000 This is amazing.

00:08:15.000 We actually have a clip.

00:08:16.000 Let's roll the tape.

00:08:18.000 They should have made the deal.

00:08:20.000 I had a great deal for them.

00:08:21.000 They should have made that deal.

00:08:22.000 60 days, we talked about it.

00:08:24.000 And in the end, they decided not to do it.

00:08:27.000 And now they wish they did it.

00:08:29.000 And they want to meet, but it's a little late to meet, but they want to meet, and they want to come to the White House.

00:08:35.000 They'll even come to the White House, so we'll see.

00:08:37.000 I may do that, but it's a shame it could have been done the easy way.

00:08:43.000 Could have been done the easy way.

00:08:44.000 Well, I certainly would prefer that, but what do you think, Mike?

00:08:48.000 Do you think Iran's going to come to the table, actually negotiate something legitimate, or do you think we go to war?

00:08:53.000 I think they're in really bad shape.

00:08:56.000 And I think they're only now starting to understand how bad everything is.

00:09:00.000 Israel's in total control of the skies of Tehran. 0.89

00:09:03.000 I think this is something they couldn't have imagined.

00:09:05.000 Today, completely blue skies and Israel was bombing in the daylight. 0.56

00:09:10.000 Iran hasn't shot down a single drone or a single jet of the Israelis, as far as I know.

00:09:17.000 It's just amazing.

00:09:18.000 Do you think there's a possibility that Iran may bring in some allies?

00:09:22.000 I don't think so.

00:09:23.000 I don't know who would do it, who could do it.

00:09:26.000 The only power in the area that could cause Israel significant trouble is Turkey, and it's not inclined to.

00:09:37.000 Israel has an unimpeded air bridge from Israel across Syria into Iran.

00:09:44.000 If the Turks wanted to cause trouble, they could. 1.00

00:09:46.000 They don't want to do that.

00:09:48.000 nobody is upset about what Israel's doing.

00:09:51.000 They don't want to participate in it, but everyone wants to see Iran's nuclear programs There was a story earlier about Russia giving some kind of warning, but the warning was actually just fears of destabilizing the region. 0.93

00:10:09.000 You know, all these different news outlets are trying to make it seem like Putin was saying, Trump, I'm going to come for you and join Iran.

00:10:14.000 He was actually saying, oh man, if Iran falls, that could destabilize the region.

00:10:17.000 It wasn't even Putin.

00:10:18.000 It was a foreign minister, an advisor, I guess.

00:10:21.000 And so it really just sounds like they're all kind of saying, yeah, Iran, you're on your own on this one.

00:10:25.000 We don't want to get involved.

00:10:26.000 I know for a fact that Khamenei called Putin.

00:10:29.000 After Trump was elected, in October, the Israelis knocked out all of the air defenses of the Iranians.

00:10:38.000 And they were, at that point, totally naked before the Israelis. 0.93

00:10:42.000 And Khamenei called Putin and said, he didn't ask, he ordered him.

00:10:47.000 He said, when you were in trouble, I came to help for you.

00:10:50.000 You must come and help me now.

00:10:52.000 And Putin said, niet.

00:10:55.000 Putin has been keeping a certain amount of distance from Iran since Trump was elected.

00:11:00.000 A lot of people, one of the strongest arguments against going to, for the U.S. getting involved in anything going on with Iran is that there would be a rush to support Iran from not just...

00:11:18.000 Neither of them seem to be doing anything.

00:11:21.000 Do you think that that changes the equation regarding China and Taiwan as well, or do you think that these are too different to make comparisons?

00:11:33.000 To me, it's a huge question, a hugely important question.

00:11:37.000 How is China going to read the implications of the Iran war?

00:11:45.000 For its relations with us over Taiwan.

00:11:48.000 And I don't know that I have a good sense of that.

00:11:51.000 I think that Trump taking his whole point about peace through strength, I think the stronger he is, the more decisive he is, the more he'll be able to deter Xi Jinping.

00:12:03.000 But how Xi Jinping is reading it, it's not clear to me.

00:12:06.000 One little small thing that's interesting about China and Iran.

00:12:11.000 The Israelis, we say that their goal is to destroy the Iranian nuclear program, but it's not exactly true.

00:12:17.000 They have two goals.

00:12:18.000 destroy the nuclear program, and also destroy the ballistic missile program.

00:12:23.000 And the reason for that is that last October...

00:12:37.000 They got through and hit the Nevatim air bases, which is where the Israelis have the F-35, and it really rattled the Israelis.

00:12:43.000 So they responded by taking out part of the production supply chain, the production chain of the Iranians for these ballistic missiles. 0.96

00:13:01.000 And the Israelis calculated at that time that they had set the production of the ballistic missiles back or stopped the production for at least a year.

00:13:09.000 But what happened was the Chinese moved in and gave the Iranians new equipment.

00:13:14.000 And then the Iranians started a plan to double or triple their supply of these weapons, or their arsenal of these weapons, within the next five years.

00:13:29.000 And if they had got that kind of arsenal, from the Israeli point of view, that would be the equivalent of an atomic bomb, even though it's a conventional weapon because of the firepower it would have. 0.77

00:13:38.000 So there's kind of two things that are pushing the Israelis forward.

00:13:41.000 And one of them is this...

00:13:50.000 I don't think they'll intervene directly militarily, but they'll be there to try to help Iran rebuild.

00:13:55.000 They'll violate U.S. sanctions, right?

00:13:56.000 Because that's what they're doing with that?

00:13:58.000 Or are there no sanctions on the parts that Iran would need to...

00:14:03.000 They do it through companies.

00:14:05.000 So they will violate sanctions, but they'll also play fast and loose.

00:14:13.000 And it's a kind of a sort of a whack-a-mole game of trying to find which part of China you're going to...

00:14:26.000 Does this hurt Trump's credibility?

00:14:28.000 I notice he gives himself an out at the end of his speech there.

00:14:31.000 He says, or I might not do it at all, basically.

00:14:33.000 Which is like, look, I could do this.

00:14:35.000 I could end up doing all these things, but it might not.

00:14:36.000 That way it doesn't look bad if the time runs out on the arbitrary timeline he gave Iran and then they...

00:14:48.000 Do you think it'll be perceived as weakness by the rest of the world?

00:14:51.000 If the time runs out, nobody comes to the table and the U.S. doesn't get involved.

00:14:56.000 We don't know what the negotiations are.

00:15:00.000 The Iranians are sending messages. 0.98

00:15:02.000 He's not totally happy with them.

00:15:04.000 So he's trying to move them.

00:15:05.000 But we don't know what it is.

00:15:07.000 So I think it gives him options.

00:15:10.000 He always likes that, to keep options open.

00:15:12.000 I don't see it's a bad thing.

00:15:13.000 It felt like the type of thing where if he doesn't make that statement at the end there, then it's going to be perceived a certain way.

00:15:19.000 So the messaging was designed to give him that out.

00:15:21.000 It kind of feels like, based on the news about, you know, as you're describing, Israel's just bombarding Iran.

00:15:28.000 Iran's not blocking any of it.

00:15:30.000 They've got no defenses for this.

00:15:31.000 And Israel's heavily defended.

00:15:34.000 It looks like Iran's already been crushed. 1.00

00:15:36.000 I wouldn't go that far.

00:15:38.000 Because there's another article in the Wall Street Journal about the magazine of the Israelis, their interceptors, running out.

00:15:49.000 Because the interceptors to shoot down the ballistic missiles are much more expensive than the missiles themselves.

00:15:55.000 Because you have to build a much more sophisticated missile to hit a missile than the one coming in.

00:16:02.000 And then sometimes it takes two or three to do it.

00:16:04.000 So the Israelis are running up against a clock.

00:16:09.000 So the Iranians are running a marathon, and the Israelis are sprinting, which is one of the reasons why I think Trump might actually bomb Iran.

00:16:20.000 Wow.

00:16:21.000 I mean, yeah.

00:16:22.000 I hadn't considered that, and it sounds like that's what's going to happen.

00:16:27.000 I'd be willing to bet on it.

00:16:29.000 Iran's basically saying, we're going to wait until Israel's defenses are run out, and then go full bore.

00:16:35.000 Well, I think what they would do is, if they could, because it's a kind of a race, I think they would like to demonstrate that they're not going to be toppled.

00:16:51.000 And wait until they can see that Israel is having trouble with interceptors, and then producing interceptors, and then start a serious negotiation with Trump, if they could hold out that long.

00:17:03.000 And then Trump would be, that would give Trump leverage over Israel to shut the thing down if he were so inclined.

00:17:10.000 Their only way out is to have...

00:17:23.000 So you think the most likely outcome then will be Trump will order a strike on Iran?

00:17:28.000 I think he probably will.

00:17:30.000 It depends, unless they come with, basically he said to the, So I know that one, not one thing or another.

00:17:38.000 I think the highest probability is that Trump will...

00:17:50.000 Because that's all the Israelis want from the Americans. 1.00

00:17:53.000 In terms of American intervention, they want the bunker busters and the B-2 bombers.

00:17:58.000 So they want that operation.

00:18:05.000 Trump is going to look at this and see, unless the Iranians are coming and capitulating and saying, we will destroy our nuclear program, we will destroy all the underground facilities, we'll do it under IAEA supervision and so forth.

00:18:18.000 Unless they say that, then they're just playing for time.

00:18:21.000 And he's going to see that the closer the Israelis get to running through their magazine, the more they're going to be inclined to take extreme measures to put pressure on the Iranians. 0.63

00:18:34.000 Worst option will be to just destroy the program and then we're done.

00:18:39.000 Interesting.

00:18:39.000 Well, let's jump to the story from the Telegraph.

00:18:41.000 We missed this one yesterday.

00:18:43.000 Serge found it.

00:18:44.000 China sends mystery transport planes into Iran.

00:18:48.000 Flight plans indicate a final destination of Luxembourg, but the aircraft appeared to have never flown near European skies.

00:18:53.000 Take a look at this map.

00:18:54.000 This is fascinating.

00:18:55.000 You can see all of the planes that are avoiding this area for a good reason.

00:19:01.000 Iran, Iraq, Syria.

00:19:03.000 Jordan, Israel, ain't nobody flying over these countries right now.

00:19:06.000 Save for a few.

00:19:08.000 We've got this one, CLX-9877.

00:19:10.000 They say, a day after Israel attacked around on Friday, a cargo plane took off from China.

00:19:14.000 The next day, a second plane departed from a coastal city.

00:19:17.000 Then on Monday, yet another departed, this time from Shanghai.

00:19:20.000 Three flights in three days.

00:19:22.000 They say, to add to the mystery, flight plans indicated a final destination of Luxembourg, but the aircraft appeared to have never flown near European skies.

00:19:31.000 Aviation experts have noted, The type of plane used, Boeing 747 freighters, are commonly used for transporting military equipment and weapons and hired to fly government contract orders.

00:19:41.000 Quote, These cargoes cannot but generate a lot of interest because of the expectation that China might do something to help Iran, said Andrea.

00:19:48.000 Gisele, a lecturer at the University of Exeter, who specializes in China's relations with the Middle East and North Africa.

00:19:55.000 They're going to mention that China and Iran are strategic partners, aligned primarily in their opposition to the U.S.-led world order and in favor of a new multipolar phase in global diplomacy.

00:20:06.000 They mention Iran is one of China's key energy suppliers, sending as many as 2 million barrels of oil a day.

00:20:13.000 So it's no surprise that Beijing might be looking for ways to support and stabilize the Islamic Republic.

00:20:19.000 Now, I'm wondering, could these have been evacuations?

00:20:22.000 Maybe they're trying to...

00:20:27.000 We can get him when we want to.

00:20:29.000 Could these planes be meant to get people out of the country safely?

00:20:33.000 I don't see why not, right?

00:20:36.000 I mean, it could be anything that we were just talking about.

00:20:39.000 I don't see why they'd be bringing in military equipment, to be honest.

00:20:41.000 Maybe, though.

00:20:42.000 Unless it's uranium.

00:20:43.000 They could have been bringing in components or something.

00:20:46.000 Microcontrollers, chips for computers.

00:20:52.000 I really have no idea.

00:20:54.000 It could be anything.

00:20:55.000 What about you, Brett?

00:20:56.000 Is there any movie that you've seen that will explain what's going on?

00:21:00.000 Actually, the thing that I thought was funny about it was like, what if we really need to get to the other side really, really fast?

00:21:05.000 Like, look, we're not going to go around.

00:21:06.000 We're just going to.

00:21:07.000 Like, sure, a missile might hit us, but we've got places to go.

00:21:10.000 Well, that is this story.

00:21:11.000 Check this out, this tweet.

00:21:12.000 Can I call somebody?

00:21:13.000 Yeah.

00:21:14.000 Well, I mean, who is it?

00:21:15.000 His name is John Kasapolu.

00:21:17.000 He works with me.

00:21:17.000 He's a Turkish open-source military analyst.

00:21:20.000 He'll have an idea.

00:21:21.000 Do you want to try to do it?

00:21:22.000 I mean, yeah, if he doesn't mind being live to millions of people, I guess.

00:21:26.000 We'll find out.

00:21:27.000 Here we go.

00:21:27.000 He's going to be like, what do you mean I'm on the air?

00:21:29.000 Yeah.

00:21:30.000 All right.

00:21:31.000 We're going to phone a friend to get an answer as to what these Chinese transports are.

00:21:35.000 They're rules.

00:21:38.000 In the meantime, while you're getting him on the phone, we have this one.

00:21:41.000 Alex Fazio posted this image.

00:21:43.000 Someone wasn't monitoring the situation, and there's a lone UAE flight going straight over Iran.

00:21:49.000 I love this.

00:21:50.000 Patrick Blumenthal said, quote, I deleted my social media and stopped reading the news, and honestly, my mental health has been so much better.

00:21:56.000 See?

00:21:57.000 I'm on air right now on a podcast to millions of people, and I want to beam you in.

00:22:00.000 Is that all right?

00:22:03.000 Yeah, to millions of people, and I want to beam you in.

00:22:06.000 Is that okay?

00:22:07.000 Are you ready to?

00:22:08.000 Just say yes.

00:22:08.000 Okay, here we go.

00:22:09.000 I'll put you on.

00:22:11.000 What's that?

00:22:12.000 Like that?

00:22:12.000 And he'll be able to?

00:22:16.000 No, no, no.

00:22:17.000 Like that?

00:22:19.000 Yeah.

00:22:20.000 Oh, hey.

00:22:21.000 Okay.

00:22:21.000 All right.

00:22:22.000 And don't put it on speaker.

00:22:23.000 No.

00:22:25.000 No, don't put it on speaker.

00:22:25.000 Can he talk?

00:22:26.000 Maybe we can hear him.

00:22:27.000 Hey, John, talk.

00:22:30.000 No, I can't hear him.

00:22:31.000 Okay, hold on.

00:22:32.000 You might have to do the earpiece.

00:22:33.000 Speaker.

00:22:34.000 Yeah, put it on speakerphone.

00:22:35.000 Okay, talk now.

00:22:39.000 Can you hear me?

00:22:40.000 Yeah, now you can put up to the microphone.

00:22:42.000 Okay, now I'll put up to the microphone.

00:22:43.000 So, John, we're looking at a map and there was, in the Telegraph, there's this report that a Chinese plane or three Chinese planes a couple of days ago flew into Iran.

00:22:56.000 What do you think they did?

00:22:57.000 What are they doing?

00:23:00.000 Depends what kind of planes they are.

00:23:02.000 Are they cargo planes?

00:23:04.000 Yes.

00:23:04.000 Like strategic lifts?

00:23:05.000 Yes, cargo planes.

00:23:07.000 So if they're cargo planes and if they're Chinese, I would say my number one guesstimate would be solid propellant components for Iranian missiles.

00:23:20.000 My second guesstimate would be guidance systems or microprocessors for, again, Iranian missiles. 0.61

00:23:32.000 My third guesstimate, and these are all, I'm ranking them according to their probability, my third guesstimate would be a Chinese attempt to boost Iranian air defenses or electronic warfare systems, but this is helpless against Israeli technologies.

00:23:50.000 I know the Iranians use Chinese anti-ship missiles, but I don't think in this case they are looking for them. 0.85

00:23:57.000 Iranian Shahid drones have...

00:24:00.000 Chinese DNA.

00:24:01.000 So my fifth guesstimate would be some drone components.

00:24:05.000 But if I had to bet on one thing, I would say Iran needs solid propellant medium-range ballistic missiles against Israel as a counter-offensive deterrent. 0.85

00:24:19.000 And I know that the Israelis hit their solid propellant production facilities hard back in October 2024.

00:24:28.000 So if they had one chance to go Chinese for something, and if I were advisor to So, the full missiles? 0.82

00:24:42.000 Missiles are like superstructures.

00:24:46.000 So you have to produce the microprocessors, mission computers, multiple re-entry vehicles, the fins, the airframes, the part...

00:24:58.000 That the Iranians are mostly depending on the Chinese is the solid propellant fuel for the solid propellant ballistic missiles. 0.83

00:25:12.000 Why solid propellant is very important?

00:25:14.000 Because it minimizes the launch cycle almost three to one compared to liquid fuel systems.

00:25:22.000 And it is very important in two kinds of situations.

00:25:27.000 First, A, if your adversary is flying over your airspace and looking for your transporter erector launchers, which is the cool way of saying the vehicles that launch your ballistic missiles.

00:25:40.000 And second, if you want to boost the surprise factor against your adversary, like a blitz, like a lightning attack.

00:25:49.000 Interesting.

00:25:51.000 I want you to know, John's getting married on Saturday?

00:25:54.000 Oh, okay.

00:25:55.000 Congratulations.

00:25:56.000 Yeah, thank you.

00:25:57.000 And it's in the middle of the night for him.

00:25:59.000 3 a.m.

00:26:01.000 Oh, wow.

00:26:01.000 Thanks for calling in.

00:26:04.000 Whenever I have a question about what's happening militarily in the world, I can call him up in the middle of the night and he never complains, even when he's about to get married.

00:26:12.000 I think, I mean, it sounds spot on.

00:26:14.000 This is actually what you and we were just speculating as to what this may be.

00:26:19.000 Components for missiles or something.

00:26:21.000 But he said it with a much greater degree of certainty.

00:26:25.000 I know, it's fantastic.

00:26:27.000 Yeah, the Chinese, actually, we know that the Chinese wanted to ship those to the Iranians. 0.96

00:26:33.000 And some news stories suggest that they did it.

00:26:36.000 But we, 100%, we know that they tried to do that.

00:26:40.000 By sea lanes.

00:26:41.000 But if they dispatched an airlift, a strategic airlift, and if it is really solid propellant components, it means that the Chinese and the Iranians, because they are the demanding party, they were in a hurry, literally.

00:26:59.000 Yet again, there comes another question.

00:27:01.000 If they were in a hurry...

00:27:11.000 Yeah.

00:27:12.000 So I looked it up.

00:27:14.000 Three cargo planes, 747s, can carry 360 metric tons of solid fuel.

00:27:22.000 Yeah.

00:27:23.000 793,000 pounds.

00:27:25.000 Yeah.

00:27:26.000 And it would equip like high...

00:27:38.000 Wow.

00:27:39.000 Yeah.

00:27:40.000 The internet says it could be 12 ICBMs, 24 to 36 MRBMs, and 60 to 90 SRBMs.

00:27:49.000 26 MRBMs?

00:27:50.000 No, much higher.

00:27:51.000 Because you can play with it.

00:27:54.000 Like, look, it is like a child's play.

00:27:57.000 If you reduce the warhead weight, For instance, the Horamshar missile that the Iranians fired, like signal fired, it is more than test fired, like signal fired a few days ago, the warhead was almost empty.

00:28:16.000 They wanted to show something.

00:28:19.000 So it depends.

00:28:21.000 But it's going to get dangerous because they have some toys that they haven't demonstrated yet.

00:28:27.000 Like Fatih 2, like Hormshar with an actual warhead. 0.70

00:28:32.000 The actual warhead is more than three times the warhead of the Hach custom missiles, for instance, or EMAT missiles that they have been throwing at the Israelis.

00:28:42.000 So is it possible that right now Iran is using weaker warheads to try and run out the interceptors?

00:28:49.000 I wouldn't say the weaker warheads.

00:28:51.000 I would say the mid-range warheads in their arsenals.

00:28:56.000 These are not the weakest links in the overall Iranian arsenal, but these are not the rock stars either. 0.95

00:29:04.000 The rock stars are still waiting.

00:29:06.000 So the question was, is it possible that they're holding back somewhat in order to run down the magazine of the Israelis?

00:29:15.000 Yeah, of course, because look, the magazine death, the Interceptor magazine.

00:29:20.000 Which interceptor we use for?

00:29:22.000 Defensive missiles that intercept other missiles, like the Aero missiles, like the TAT missiles.

00:29:28.000 So the magazine depth is at the highest point during the opening stages of a conflict.

00:29:36.000 So you want to troll, you have to be very careful, you want to troll your less important assets in the beginning of a conflict.

00:29:47.000 To deplete the adversaries, interceptors.

00:29:50.000 But you cannot go very weak and very low with that because also you have to signal that you are powerful and you are capable of inflicting damage to your adversary.

00:30:02.000 So what the Iranians are doing right now, like Hachkasen, Imad, this kind of missiles, this is the sweet spot. 1.00

00:30:09.000 And I think their choice of weapons are really good.

00:30:12.000 I would advise the same if I were advising Armani.

00:30:15.000 If I were on the dark side.

00:30:19.000 Interesting.

00:30:19.000 Wow, thanks, man.

00:30:20.000 This has been very insightful.

00:30:21.000 Okay, John.

00:30:22.000 Thanks a lot.

00:30:23.000 Thank you.

00:30:24.000 Thank you.

00:30:24.000 Bye-bye.

00:30:25.000 I'm going to be awake for one more hour.

00:30:28.000 My fiancée is sleeping here.

00:30:30.000 She hasn't left me yet for some reason.

00:30:33.000 I don't know.

00:30:34.000 Mike is coming all the way from United States, like continental United States to my wedding just to apologize.

00:30:43.000 I'm starting my relationship with your wife on a really nice foot.

00:30:49.000 Thank you.

00:30:51.000 Bye-bye.

00:30:52.000 Wow, that was amazing.

00:30:55.000 He's amazing.

00:30:59.000 Do you remember when there was that missile that went into Poland?

00:31:05.000 Yeah.

00:31:06.000 And it was the question, did Russia strike Poland or was it a Ukrainian interceptor?

00:31:11.000 And there was a report that came out saying that a Western intelligence official had said it was a Russian missile.

00:31:21.000 And he immediately said, he looked at the picture of the engine.

00:31:29.000 There was a picture of the burnt wreckage of the engine.

00:31:31.000 And he immediately said, no, this is a...

00:31:36.000 He said, there's an 85% probability that this is a Ukrainian interceptor.

00:31:42.000 He said, there is one possibility that it's a Russian missile.

00:31:51.000 In that case, it has to have been fired because of the distances from Belarus.

00:31:56.000 And we don't have any information that the Russians have these missiles in Belarus.

00:32:00.000 So it's really probably the Ukrainian.

00:32:03.000 And he did that just from looking at the records.

00:32:06.000 I don't know anyone else who knows all of the technical details to that level.

00:32:15.000 Those rocket engines.

00:32:16.000 He was saying how many He said high double digits, I thought.

00:32:24.000 Yeah.

00:32:25.000 So what JetGPT gave me is short-range ballistic missiles could be between 60 and 90 missiles fueled by those three flights from China.

00:32:33.000 Yeah.

00:32:34.000 The medium ranges are the ones that are doing the real damage on the Israelis. 1.00

00:32:37.000 It says 24 to 36, but of course then he made the point they can reduce the warhead yield so they can get more flight time, really play with it.

00:32:46.000 Does it surprise you that this story got missed by so many people given all the implications that there are for that?

00:32:52.000 Yeah.

00:32:54.000 I mean, people were making jokes about the UAE flight.

00:32:56.000 It literally flew under the radar.

00:32:57.000 Yeah.

00:32:58.000 Well, there's that...

00:33:02.000 Let's try and grab it.

00:33:04.000 This image of the single UAE flight going over Iran that everybody was sharing.

00:33:11.000 Nobody thought to share the one of the three Chinese cargo planes going into Iran and then taking off and going to Europe.

00:33:15.000 Now the question is, why would they allow them to then come into Europe?

00:33:18.000 That's a crazy thing.

00:33:20.000 I mean, I guess, what do you do?

00:33:22.000 China's supplying Iran with something.

00:33:24.000 Did they go to Europe?

00:33:26.000 They said they were going to go to Luxembourg, but then they never showed up.

00:33:29.000 Is that what it said?

00:33:29.000 Yeah, I think so.

00:33:30.000 Oh, okay.

00:33:31.000 Interesting.

00:33:32.000 They just, they faked Luxembourg.

00:33:34.000 I thought it said...

00:33:39.000 Or that it just turned around?

00:33:42.000 instead of going to Luxembourg, it went to Iran.

00:33:45.000 Is that?

00:33:47.000 I think this was a...

00:33:53.000 Oh, okay.

00:33:54.000 I was assuming that meant past tense.

00:33:57.000 Like, they had never been to Europe before.

00:33:59.000 I see what it's actually saying.

00:34:01.000 My mistake.

00:34:01.000 I don't know if, like, flight plans tell you the route that they intend to take.

00:34:06.000 Like, I don't know if they generally would say we're going to Luxembourg via, you know, Tehran.

00:34:17.000 They're big.

00:34:18.000 Yeah, that's 747s.

00:34:20.000 Yeah.

00:34:21.000 Yo, that's wild.

00:34:23.000 So they say Cargo Lux, the Luxembourg-based company that operated the planes, said its flights did not utilize Iranian airspace, but the firm did not respond to questions about what they were carrying.

00:34:32.000 Cargo manifests are not considered a matter of public record, and though any dangerous goods or special loads have to be declared to the operator and handling agents, information provided could be inaccurate or misleading.

00:34:42.000 China has tried before to send weapons disguised as commercial goods, labeling drone components as wind turbine parts or shipments intercepted by European authorities.

00:34:51.000 Technically, they are wind turbines.

00:34:54.000 Indeed.

00:34:54.000 It does raise an interesting question about what China will do.

00:34:58.000 Let's say things get really desperate for the Iranians.

00:35:00.000 What will China do?

00:35:02.000 I don't think it will intervene militarily, but will it take some kind of steps to bolster the Iranians?

00:35:10.000 I don't know.

00:35:10.000 I don't know what those would be.

00:35:12.000 It said that Iran was their largest energy provider, right?

00:35:16.000 Two million barrels per day.

00:35:17.000 Who is their second largest?

00:35:18.000 Let's pull a list.

00:35:19.000 Probably Saudi Arabia.

00:35:20.000 Because then the question is, what would you do to protect the number one source of energy for your country, right?

00:35:25.000 It's as much a strategic relationship as it is an economic relationship.

00:35:31.000 They benefit from the fact that Iran gives them oil at very cheap prices.

00:35:36.000 But it also helps them...

00:35:47.000 So if anyone in the region, if our allies want help with Iran, they're inclined to go to Beijing.

00:35:55.000 Does it say?

00:35:57.000 This doesn't say that Iran is their biggest.

00:36:00.000 It says Saudi Aramco.

00:36:06.000 Saudi Arabian.

00:36:07.000 Rosneft Russia.

00:36:08.000 It makes sense that Russia would be a bigger energy provider because they just call it a cold...

00:36:15.000 Yeah.

00:36:16.000 That's what they sell.

00:36:17.000 They sell energy.

00:36:18.000 ExxonMobil provides a lot to China as well.

00:36:21.000 Shell.

00:36:22.000 Woodside Energy.

00:36:24.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:36:25.000 They said Iran is one of their top energy partners.

00:36:28.000 One of their key energy suppliers, whatever that means.

00:36:31.000 They buy from everybody.

00:36:32.000 Yeah.

00:36:33.000 That's interesting.

00:36:35.000 I wonder how much of a threat a fractured and shattered Iran would be to the region, though, and how much China is concerned about it. 0.73

00:36:43.000 Concerned.

00:36:44.000 Very concerned.

00:36:44.000 If Iran were to fracture, of course, they'd lose an ally because it's China, Russia, Iran, North Korea against us and our allies.

00:36:57.000 But if Iran were to actually fracture, I think the big winner in the game will be Turkey. 0.92

00:37:02.000 Because one-third of all Iranians are Turks.

00:37:06.000 Interesting.

00:37:07.000 And so it will change the ethnic composition of Iran.

00:37:15.000 It could actually break it up, but more than likely I think there would just be an Iran that had a more Turkic flavor to it.

00:37:23.000 People need to understand the region.

00:37:27.000 And a lot of people don't even know where Iraq and Afghanistan are, but you can see Iran borders Turkey.

00:37:33.000 And the whole northeast quadrant of Iran is Turkish-speaking, Azerbaijani-Turkish-speaking.

00:37:42.000 Very interesting.

00:37:43.000 So Turkey and Azerbaijan are allies.

00:37:46.000 And there's Kurds up there.

00:37:47.000 Don't forget about the Kurds. 1.00

00:37:48.000 There's Kurds there, too.

00:37:49.000 But the overwhelming population in the Kurds are down a little bit, closer toward Iraq.

00:37:56.000 Up in the northeast quadrant, it's overwhelmingly Azerbaijani Turks.

00:38:02.000 And Turkey and Azerbaijan are allies.

00:38:05.000 So you'd have a Turkic population in Iran that would have strong allies right across the border that could help them out.

00:38:19.000 So, that's going to happen, I think, anyway, one way or another.

00:38:22.000 I don't mean that Iran is going to crack up.

00:38:24.000 I mean the ethnic mix in Iran is going to shift.

00:38:28.000 And it's going to shift to the advantage of the Turks. 0.79

00:38:31.000 You know, it's such a strange coincidence how Iraq and Afghanistan, these two countries we just had to invade, just so happened to surround Iran.

00:38:40.000 They did.

00:38:41.000 But, you say it like that.

00:38:46.000 When we went into Iraq and Afghanistan, we took out the enemies of the Iranians. 1.00

00:38:53.000 Saddam Hussein and the Taliban were both hostile to Iran.

00:38:57.000 But you know, as far as Iran's concerned, they were just replaced by someone else hostile to Iran.

00:39:03.000 Yes.

00:39:03.000 I'm not sure the equation was made better.

00:39:05.000 Well, that's the way some of them saw it.

00:39:11.000 But I think that they found this pretty easy to play.

00:39:15.000 Yeah.

00:39:15.000 I know that's a...

00:39:19.000 Yeah.

00:39:20.000 That's how I see it.

00:39:21.000 I think that we have And it's not us.

00:39:27.000 I mean, the other day, Donald Trump said, or yesterday, that eye controller, The Israelis are.

00:39:37.000 Ted Cruz said, we're striking Iran.

00:39:39.000 People are saying it's a Freudian slip.

00:39:41.000 Or the royal we.

00:39:43.000 Yeah.

00:39:43.000 It's our allies that are engaged in this with our interests.

00:39:46.000 It's our alliance.

00:39:48.000 Yeah.

00:39:49.000 How harmful is that to Trump at home now with polling saying that people are – that CNN reporting that people are in support of what he's doing.

00:39:58.000 Then maybe I'm just kind of fractured and living online.

00:40:01.000 But the anti-war right now, the anti-war right has a problem with this and it's causing problems.

00:40:07.000 It's causing discontent.

00:40:08.000 So in my opinion, it is – There's a significant sliver of the anti-war and anti-Israel right that don't want Trump to do any of this.

00:40:20.000 The majority of people that would consider Israel an ally, they're fine as long as the U.S. doesn't actually invade.

00:40:28.000 That's where we're at now.

00:40:30.000 Yeah, they're mostly fine with airstrikes, if I understand correctly.

00:40:33.000 And this is from the polls that I've seen.

00:40:35.000 But they don't want to see Americans on the ground. 0.93

00:40:37.000 And I think that just so long as we don't end up with a situation of Americans on the ground fighting in Iran, I think that this will be a total non-issue just so long.

00:40:53.000 Yeah.

00:40:54.000 100%.

00:40:54.000 Do you think they end up with boots on the ground?

00:40:56.000 No.

00:40:57.000 No?

00:40:59.000 No, go ahead.

00:41:01.000 No, no, I'm far more interested in what you've got to say.

00:41:07.000 You said they, you mean Americans?

00:41:09.000 Yes.

00:41:10.000 Yeah, no, I don't think so.

00:41:11.000 But there's a significant chance that the Israelis will go in. 0.99

00:41:17.000 If Trump decides not to, it's one of the reasons why I think Trump will decide to bomb.

00:41:21.000 Because if the Israelis are going to destroy Fordow... 0.74

00:41:33.000 But then that creates dynamics that could end up being more destabilizing than if we just went in with the bunker busters.

00:41:43.000 So we're going to have planes over and around, like American planes?

00:41:46.000 Yeah.

00:41:46.000 And if an American plane gets shot down, is that perceived differently then?

00:41:51.000 In the eyes of the American people, does that change things entirely?

00:41:55.000 If an American plane gets brought down, are they going to look at it differently than if we were to send boots on the ground?

00:42:02.000 Yeah, I think so.

00:42:03.000 Don't you?

00:42:03.000 Yeah, I do.

00:42:04.000 I'm just curious about it because I can only go through what it looks like reflected back at me.

00:42:10.000 And most of the people that I interact with are kind of given the platform that Trump ran on.

00:42:16.000 No wars in his first term, peace through diplomacy, foreign policy through diplomacy.

00:42:21.000 And what you're seeing right now, one of the questions that I had was like, would he have handled this differently if he was in a first term and seeking a second term?

00:42:28.000 Remember in his first term when he struck Soleimani and he said to take out?

00:42:33.000 So those are two things that really kind of cast him as credible when he makes a use of force threat.

00:42:42.000 And I think that this particular issue, he will in the future use this as the evidence that he's willing to use.

00:42:52.000 He's still willing to use force because of how powerful the United States military is.

00:42:58.000 That comes with, that threat comes with real danger, but I think that he will not, he'll still try to avoid using force, and he's going to use this as his quote-unquote trump card to be like, ah, you don't know, maybe I will.

00:43:12.000 I'm crazy like that.

00:43:12.000 It's a credibility enhancer if he does it.

00:43:16.000 Let's jump to the story from the AP.

00:43:19.000 Pentagon senior advisor Dan Caldwell ousted during investigation into leaks.

00:43:24.000 This is crazy.

00:43:25.000 Oh, wait, this is an old story.

00:43:26.000 How did we get this into the mix?

00:43:28.000 I don't know.

00:43:29.000 This is an old story.

00:43:30.000 Let's jump to the next story.

00:43:30.000 I don't know.

00:43:31.000 Someone put that in the mix and then I read it.

00:43:33.000 I'm basically Ron Burgundy.

00:43:34.000 I'll read whatever's on the prompter.

00:43:35.000 We got this story from Times Now News.

00:43:39.000 J.D. Vance was suspended minutes after joining Blue Sky.

00:43:42.000 Here's why.

00:43:44.000 They say Vice President J.D. Vance's Blue Sky account was suspended within minutes of him joining the platform.

00:43:48.000 His post criticized medical treatments for trans youth and claimed pharmaceutical influence over healthcare decisions.

00:43:55.000 His account has now been reinstated.

00:43:57.000 So this is actually pretty fascinating.

00:43:59.000 J.D. Vance tweeted this out.

00:44:00.000 Let me see if I can pull up his tweets on the matter.

00:44:02.000 His ex-post on the Blue Sky.

00:44:04.000 He wrote, Hello, Blue Sky.

00:44:05.000 I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis, so I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.

00:44:14.000 He then posted, A series of posts to that end, I found Justice Thomas' concurrence on the medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating.

00:44:21.000 He argues that many of our so-called experts have used bad arguments and substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth.

00:44:28.000 I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from Big Pharma to push these medicines on kids.

00:44:34.000 What do you think?

00:44:35.000 And they blocked him.

00:44:39.000 After the story went viral, they brought him back.

00:44:42.000 But what's funny is that Blue Sky was supposed to be – I remember talking to Jack Dorsey personally about this.

00:44:46.000 He was like, look, we're going to make this Blue Sky crypto blockchain thing.

00:44:51.000 That way everybody will be able to speak freely and now it is the most violent and censorious platform that exists. 0.99

00:44:59.000 It is a literal hive of scum and villainy. 0.98

00:45:02.000 Twitter 2018 like trapped in a time loop on a separate app. 0.99

00:45:08.000 Empowered to police each other and themselves.

00:45:12.000 It was that way almost instantly.

00:45:13.000 From the moment it went live, it was that way, especially once the election happened.

00:45:16.000 It got way worse.

00:45:18.000 Yeah, people were getting suspended immediately for saying, you know, not particularly racy stuff at all.

00:45:26.000 Well, and then a lot of the people, like, a lot of celebrities will end up, say, they'll make a big show of leaving X and going over to Blue Sky, and then they come back to X, because you can't actually have a discussion on Blue Sky with anyone.

00:45:38.000 One of my favorite things about that is when they have their name on X is blah, blah, blah, at bsky, blah, blah, blah, and it's like they're making sure that you know I also have a Blue Sky account.

00:45:51.000 Not that anyone on X is going to go to Blue Sky to find them.

00:45:54.000 The people on Blue Sky that are interested in what they have to say are probably already following them.

00:45:59.000 But yeah, I love the fact that they're just like, I'm on Blue Sky.

00:46:03.000 You should follow me there.

00:46:05.000 And everyone on X is like, no, that place is.

00:46:07.000 It's a great place to go to mine content when people are angry at stuff.

00:46:11.000 If you do work like we do, it's a fantastic platform.

00:46:14.000 It is the literal salt mines where you go to mine salt.

00:46:17.000 Reminds me of Tumblr.

00:46:18.000 Almost exactly like Tumblr.

00:46:19.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:46:21.000 That's where it all went wrong.

00:46:23.000 Tumblr.

00:46:25.000 Just like every conservative attempt at making some alternative Twitter, it just didn't work.

00:46:30.000 That's why Elon just bought it.

00:46:33.000 Not everybody has that option, right?

00:46:35.000 Yeah.

00:46:35.000 But I think what we end up seeing from platforms like Blue Sky is that that's a cult.

00:46:42.000 Remember, Blue Sky ran Jack off because Jack Dorsey...

00:46:48.000 Because he had his mini-libertarian phase for a while.

00:46:50.000 Yeah, and he was thinking that he was like, oh, Blue Sky is going to be like this, blah, blah, blah.

00:46:54.000 And they literally ran him off. 0.93

00:46:56.000 They're like, get out of here, Jack Dorsey, you're a Nazi.

00:46:59.000 Proves that he doesn't understand the people that he courted all that well.

00:47:03.000 I mean, maybe he just thinks that he's got magical powers.

00:47:07.000 This time it'll work.

00:47:09.000 He does kind of have that look about him.

00:47:10.000 Just throw apps at it.

00:47:11.000 Throw apps at it until one finally sticks without turning into a police.

00:47:18.000 Is this held in the same regard that you can't ban a public official on X?

00:47:23.000 Wasn't that a thing for a while?

00:47:24.000 You can't ban the profile of a public official because the public has the right to engage with them?

00:47:30.000 You can still ban them?

00:47:30.000 Yep.

00:47:31.000 I thought they banned Trump because he was no longer in office.

00:47:34.000 No, it was a big issue when Laura Loomer was running for office and they banned her on all these platforms. 1.00

00:47:39.000 And it's like, you're giving free airtime to her political rival while blocking.

00:47:44.000 That's crazy that these companies are doing that.

00:47:48.000 The loose guy invites it, I guess.

00:47:50.000 I mean, a lot of people have kind of fallen by the wayside on that because it seems like the tech bros have kind of tried to cozy up to the right since Trump came back to office, right?

00:47:59.000 But it doesn't mean that, you know, next election cycle comes around and they lose that they won't go right back to the way they were before.

00:48:05.000 Yeah, I suppose the bigger question is, how do you break people out of the cult?

00:48:15.000 as like you yourself, like how do you as a person do it to somebody else?

00:48:21.000 It's always, to me, been the same thing.

00:48:23.000 you have to do it yourself.

00:48:24.000 Like you cannot be led to that information by yourself because when somebody leads you to that information, your hackles are up and somebody's already, The best thing that a person can do is go seek new information on their own.

00:48:40.000 But most people don't go and do that.

00:48:42.000 I would argue that most people that shift politically probably get there because maybe somebody showed them one thing one time.

00:48:50.000 They didn't think much of it, but they went on that journey themselves and they had to get to that information themselves.

00:48:55.000 They couldn't be led there by another person.

00:48:57.000 It feels like a fool's errand to try.

00:48:58.000 I think this characteristic is largely what defines what we would call the left or liberals in that they're not looking for stats.

00:49:10.000 They tend just to agree with whatever the other part of the crowd agrees with.

00:49:15.000 And so you end up with violent echo chambers that ban the vice president when he cordially and politely brought up a major Supreme Court ruling.

00:49:25.000 Yeah, I mean the same thing comes true when you go look at the protests and stuff like that.

00:49:28.000 Call and response.

00:49:29.000 You're not allowed to actually go and have a discussion with them because they understand that most of the time their arguments fall flat when you try to engage with someone honestly and you have a different viewpoint.

00:49:38.000 Yo, it is wild.

00:49:39.000 The protests I've been to, you walk up.

00:49:42.000 I'm at one of these protests and these people have no idea.

00:49:44.000 This is years ago.

00:49:45.000 Let's go back 10 years.

00:49:46.000 You walk up to some guy.

00:49:47.000 And you'll just say, hey man, how's it going?

00:49:49.000 And he'll be like, can I ask you some questions?

00:49:51.000 Someone will immediately run to you and go, no, no, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop, stop talking.

00:49:55.000 And I was in San Bernardino and there were Trump supporters on one side and Antifa and Farnes on the other.

00:50:01.000 And I walked over to the far left side and people were standing around and I was like, hey, how's it going?

00:50:06.000 You guys want to tell me what the protest is about?

00:50:08.000 Immediately a woman ran up and started chanting, Mike, check, Mike, check. 1.00

00:50:12.000 And they all start, they want to make sure you cannot get information to them.

00:50:16.000 That mic check stuff is insane.

00:50:19.000 They just sit there and start repeating the things that each other said.

00:50:23.000 It's craziness.

00:50:24.000 What is your answer to your question?

00:50:26.000 How do you break people from the cult?

00:50:28.000 I don't know if there's a classically liberal or traditionally liberal way to do it.

00:50:35.000 Perhaps.

00:50:38.000 I don't know.

00:50:40.000 Isn't that your mission here?

00:50:42.000 I mean, largely the mission is just to kind of break down what's going on in the world and try and discuss it with the most accuracy possible and then our opinions on the matter.

00:50:51.000 The internet as it is right now, it's like everything is so algorithmically programmed that the people that want this information are going to find it.

00:50:58.000 And the people that want a different set of information, albeit maybe less accurate, are going to go find it wherever they go because their computer, their phone is telling them this is what you like looking at.

00:51:08.000 So it's going to feed you more of the same thing.

00:51:10.000 There's no good answer.

00:51:12.000 I can say, based on the facts of the case, it is clear.

00:51:18.000 Whatever it is that is our side, the moderate to right-leaning side, has a bias in reality.

00:51:27.000 Reality has a right-wing bias, as I would describe it.

00:51:31.000 And the left does not.

00:51:32.000 The problem is, both sides are saying the exact same thing.

00:51:36.000 The left says people on the right are lying and making things up and it's all fake news and it's a cult.

00:51:41.000 And then we are saying quite similarly about them.

00:51:44.000 The fact is we are correct, however.

00:51:46.000 And the easiest way to break that down is the right is a disparate hodgepodge group of random ideologies.

00:51:54.000 Look at what's going on right now with Iran and Israel.

00:51:57.000 There's people on all sides of the right arguing about what's going on and whether it's the right thing to do.

00:52:02.000 And the cultists are trying to discredit the anti-war side, which is the weirdest thing.

00:52:08.000 So two great examples.

00:52:10.000 Jon Stewart mocked Steve Bannon, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jack Posobiec, and Charlie Kirk, who are all anti-intervention with the war in Iran.

00:52:19.000 Why?

00:52:20.000 Jon Stewart says, well, credit where credit is due.

00:52:23.000 You know, we shouldn't engage in these protracted quagmires in the Middle East.

00:52:26.000 But hold on there! 0.80

00:52:27.000 And then mocked and belittled them. 0.65

00:52:34.000 These people are bad.

00:52:36.000 Don't listen to them.

00:52:37.000 Then Jon Stewart comes out and goes, you know, I don't like war, but if you actually were listening to, say, Jack Posobiec, or Steve Bannon is a better example, he's going to be like, no war, no, no, no, never.

00:52:51.000 Jon Stewart will say, no war, no war.

00:52:53.000 Wait a minute, what's that?

00:52:55.000 They attacked who?

00:52:56.000 Well, now we have no choice.

00:52:58.000 Sam Seed is another example.

00:53:00.000 He made a video attacking me, calling my anti-intervention stance a grift.

00:53:07.000 For what purpose?

00:53:08.000 There are people who are Trump supporters who were tweeting up, no new wars under Trump, vote for Trump.

00:53:15.000 And now that Trump is talking about a strike in Iran, they're saying, I trust my president. 1.00

00:53:19.000 And it's like, go after the hypocrites. 0.99

00:53:21.000 But the point is, discredit. 0.97

00:53:24.000 So they're not, I think the issue largely is that these liberals, they're very pro-war.

00:53:29.000 And like we saw in the 2000s, the goal of the media narrative will be to convince people why war is necessary if that's going to be the plan of the United States.

00:53:38.000 So attack anybody who is staunchly opposed to it and then play the moderate voice that reluctantly says, I guess we have to go to war.

00:53:47.000 What do you think the – where's the source of the power of what you're calling the cultists?

00:53:56.000 So it seems to me that it's more than just control of the internet.

00:54:03.000 There's a whole ecosystem and an economic system built around it, starting with the universities.

00:54:10.000 I have my own view.

00:54:11.000 I mean, I would say that what we're up against is progressivism.

00:54:17.000 It's an ideology.

00:54:19.000 Yeah.

00:54:19.000 And even a theology.

00:54:21.000 Yeah.

00:54:24.000 Not everyone is going to see the theology, so let's just call it an ideology.

00:54:27.000 But it's the entire ideology of all the universities.

00:54:32.000 Big business has gone in for it, not because it's really sincere about it, but because they figure that the right will be with them automatically, and they can buy the left with some wokeness.

00:54:45.000 Yeah, they did that after Occupy Wall Street, they had to shift their business model, what they call rainbow capitalism.

00:54:51.000 Right, yeah, they shift their business model.

00:54:53.000 And they thought there would be nothing to pay for that.

00:54:55.000 The conservatives would never account for that.

00:54:58.000 So if you want to break the cult, it has to be more than just an informational effort.

00:55:07.000 There has to be an economic effort as well.

00:55:09.000 I'm asking.

00:55:10.000 So where do you believe the power is?

00:55:14.000 Look at it this way.

00:55:15.000 If you were to take all of the political factions, put them in a big circle, you'd get a yin-yang. 0.91

00:55:21.000 There's light and there's dark, and within lightness there is darkness, and within darkness there is light.

00:55:24.000 The power base of the liberal structures, it's an amorphous group of individuals, and it's a murmuration.

00:55:31.000 By moving together, they become a powerful force, similarly to what the right is, but the right is a bit more disparate.

00:55:37.000 On the right, you have nodes.

00:55:40.000 Of different ideologies that have moved together because of the insanity of the left.

00:55:45.000 They've actually cost themselves a good amount of their political power.

00:55:49.000 Right now what we're seeing is Democrats staging arrests, like intentionally trying to get arrested because they have no policies to campaign on, so they just attack cops.

00:55:58.000 We've seen this three times now.

00:56:00.000 Three times now.

00:56:01.000 Democrats have attacked cops, getting arrested, and I think what happened was the first ICE arrests we saw with McIver and Baraka, This was an accident.

00:56:11.000 They got into a fight with cops, got arrested, saw something and said, hey, that worked.

00:56:15.000 Then Padilla says, I'm going to play.

00:56:18.000 He charges in, screaming, gets thrown to the ground.

00:56:21.000 Then you get, was it Lander in New York?

00:56:24.000 He's like, let's go.

00:56:26.000 And Trump won't charge them.

00:56:28.000 I think that's a large component of the problem.

00:56:30.000 The Trump DOJ did go after McIver, but my understanding right now could be wrong.

00:56:36.000 They're not charging Padilla and they're not charging Lander.

00:56:38.000 They dropped the charges.

00:56:39.000 Of course not.

00:56:40.000 They need to go after him.

00:56:41.000 Just throw the book at him.

00:56:42.000 So one of the issues I would say right now is there are a lot of personalities on social media that produce fake news intentionally.

00:56:53.000 This has been the case for some time.

00:56:55.000 There was a period during the first Trump cycle.

00:56:59.000 Where there were websites that were literally writing fake news.

00:57:02.000 These were not Trump supporters, but they were trying to manipulate Trump supporters to get clicks, largely boomers. 0.64

00:57:07.000 And they would write one story that went really viral, I remember, was ambulance blocked by far-left protesters on highway.

00:57:16.000 Woman dies.

00:57:17.000 And it was two guys that were in, I think, like Tempe, that would just make up fake stories, put them on their website, post them to Facebook, and then get millions of views.

00:57:28.000 Because it was confirmation bias.

00:57:29.000 And Facebook eventually shut this down and said, you can't do this.

00:57:33.000 The issue is YouTube never did.

00:57:35.000 YouTube has shut down some stuff, but largely what we've seen from the left is they've just adapted to how they do the fake news.

00:57:42.000 So now you have people on YouTube that will produce to hundreds of thousands of views fake news by pulling Trump out of context.

00:57:50.000 Daily Show is a great example.

00:57:52.000 They actually, in their criticism of Bannon, Connected two different sentences before they were completed and cut them together to make a fake statement from Bannon.

00:58:03.000 That's unreal.

00:58:04.000 It was nuts because Bannon didn't say the thing they claimed he said.

00:58:09.000 They made a fake quote up.

00:58:11.000 And this is going to be on YouTube and it's going to get hundreds of thousands of views and YouTube lets it happen.

00:58:17.000 But here's the question.

00:58:18.000 Should YouTube be in the game of taking those things down?

00:58:23.000 That's tough.

00:58:24.000 Because if you say that YouTube should have the power to censor what they think is fake news, they will just start getting rich people on the right as they were doing before.

00:58:31.000 Then what's the other response?

00:58:32.000 Should the right just do the same thing the left is doing? 0.75

00:58:35.000 Welcome to hell, I guess.

00:58:37.000 Yeah.

00:58:37.000 I mean, wouldn't the proper course of action there be for Bannon to sue?

00:58:41.000 You can't sue for it.

00:58:42.000 You can't sue for it.

00:58:44.000 So the issue is they're a comedy show that no one would expect to believe is true.

00:58:50.000 Now, what The Daily Show and other shows like it do...

00:58:57.000 They say the facts are correct and now we're going to insult them for it.

00:59:03.000 That's what the average person thinks it is.

00:59:05.000 What it actually is is we've fabricated a set of events that we can make fun of for your entertainment.

00:59:11.000 But most people don't realize that.

00:59:13.000 My idea is we're working on a project.

00:59:16.000 We're just going to make fake videos of Jon Stewart and other liberals saying really off-putting things because it's comedy.

00:59:23.000 And we're going to call it Comedy Sketch News.

00:59:24.000 And we're going to show videos of them saying it.

00:59:27.000 And it's going to be funny.

00:59:29.000 Now, here's the issue.

00:59:30.000 I was talking to my team and I was like, let's make a video where Jon Stewart will use AI.

00:59:37.000 We'll make it look as real as we can.

00:59:38.000 And then we'll call it Comedy Sketch News.

00:59:41.000 You can tell it's comedy.

00:59:43.000 And then I will say, I can't believe Jon Stewart would say something so off-putting and offensive and honestly gross.

00:59:52.000 Can you believe it?

00:59:53.000 I don't think anyone could believe it.

00:59:55.000 But there's the video.

00:59:56.000 Obviously the implication being, it's real.

00:59:59.000 But I literally said I could not believe that it was real.

01:00:03.000 You can't sue me, right?

01:00:04.000 But what happens then, if we put a video like that out, someone will clip out the Jon Stewart just said whatever it was.

01:00:15.000 And it'll be permanent and forever.

01:00:17.000 That's what The Daily Show does to all of us and everybody else.

01:00:20.000 But no one on the right wants to do it to them. 0.94

01:00:22.000 And so you wonder why it is the left believes psychotic nonsense. 0.87

01:00:26.000 This is the world they live in. 0.96

01:00:28.000 In fact, I've got proof. 0.75

01:00:29.000 Let's jump to this beautiful tweet from crazy Eric Swalwell.

01:00:35.000 Trump's America.

01:00:37.000 For those just tuning in, I was just explaining how the left media is basically fiction.

01:00:43.000 We were talking about it yesterday that liberals base their view of reality on movies and TV shows.

01:00:49.000 A great example is what liberals think suppressors do.

01:00:53.000 They think you get a suppressor and it goes pew, pew, pew.

01:00:56.000 Yeah, no, anybody who's fired a gun knows it certainly does not do that.

01:00:59.000 What happens?

01:01:00.000 They ban them.

01:01:01.000 They put them on the NFA.

01:01:02.000 Take a look at this video that Eric Swalwell posted of Trump's America.

01:01:08.000 I had a really good time today.

01:01:09.000 Yeah, me too.

01:01:11.000 What are you doing?

01:01:13.000 She's coming with us.

01:01:14.000 What are you talking about?

01:01:15.000 Who are you?

01:01:16.000 I'm your Republican congressman.

01:01:18.000 Now that we're in charge, we're rounding up illegals. 1.00

01:01:21.000 She was born here!

01:01:22.000 She's a citizen! 0.99

01:01:22.000 I don't care. 0.99

01:01:23.000 She looks like one of them.

01:01:25.000 But don't worry.

01:01:26.000 When she's in prison in El Salvador, she'll have lots of company. 0.97

01:01:33.000 Is the implication that he's going to rape her? 0.95

01:01:35.000 When he like leans up to her face and says that. 0.99

01:01:38.000 Yeah, that's probably what it is.

01:01:40.000 It then says, the homegrowns are next, Donald Trump, April 14th, 2025.

01:01:44.000 This is the psychotic and deranged world liberals live in because they can't tell the difference between, and obviously the pundits are going to be like, of course we know it's a skid, it's to make a point, but many of the older liberals, people I know, think this is real.

01:02:01.000 The example that I love to use, Hassan Piker.

01:02:04.000 Did not know that Abrego Garcia was from El Salvador.

01:02:07.000 This is a guy who's got one of the top streams in the world who genuinely thought Trump arrested an American citizen and sent him to El Salvador.

01:02:15.000 And that's what they say in this video.

01:02:17.000 How do you break this so that liberals stop getting fed these lies?

01:02:22.000 You can't in that situation.

01:02:23.000 The funniest thing about that one was you have to actually show them side by side the amount of headlines that suspiciously use the phrase Maryland man, which makes no sense.

01:02:32.000 It's like when you look at the videos that were made by news networks during That's a level of taking ownership of your own life experience and how you get information that is unique to somebody who actually cares

01:03:03.000 about these things beyond just the idea that they're right and that the other side is evil.

01:03:09.000 Approach it from the side of actually wanting to get information because you think it affects you and the world.

01:03:13.000 Which would lead you down a path to the idea that some things that you believe or that you've been told are wrong.

01:03:19.000 But that means it's a lot of work.

01:03:20.000 And for the most part, what you were saying earlier, like, where does the power come from?

01:03:24.000 I think when the average everyday American is busy and they've got stuff to do, they for decades have been trained to believe that the talking head on television, the guy wearing the suit, is going to tell them the accurate information because that's a trust in the institutions that's been instilled in them since they were young.

01:03:41.000 That's why the boomers are more. 1.00

01:03:49.000 Now, that doesn't mean that they don't fall victim to it as well in the age of TikTok, but it does mean that one generation specifically is more prone to that.

01:03:57.000 And like you mentioned earlier, the colleges, the institutions, it's been reinforced to them at every level.

01:04:03.000 But there is a sense that you have to be kind of your own arbiter for how to get your information that I think precludes a lot of what's going on in the left.

01:04:11.000 The right doesn't make videos like this.

01:04:14.000 Conservatives have traditionally insulted and mocked artists.

01:04:18.000 And it's only recently they've kind of chilled out on doing this and then started to actually come up in this space.

01:04:24.000 Daily Wire did a pretty good job.

01:04:26.000 I don't know if they're going to continue it.

01:04:28.000 Angel Studios does a really great job with their films.

01:04:31.000 Daily Wire's not going to continue it?

01:04:34.000 Well, I don't know if they are.

01:04:35.000 They're making the movies?

01:04:36.000 Yeah, it seems like there's a big shakeup over the Daily Wire and so they've changed things around.

01:04:40.000 It's a hard path to continue because I tend to be critical of those types of projects because as left-leaning as most artists in Hollywood are, at least it used to be the case that they started from a place of being an artist first and then their views kind of trickled into the art that they were making.

01:05:00.000 Whereas when the right tries to make art simply for the sake of making the political opposite, it rarely turns out well.

01:05:07.000 Yeah, right-wing art is...

01:05:12.000 And I'm not talking about Tolkien.

01:05:14.000 I'm not talking about Lord of the Rings.

01:05:15.000 I'm talking about the stuff that is made now.

01:05:17.000 Well, I guess to be fair, it's all right-wing art these days.

01:05:20.000 Harry Potter is right-wing.

01:05:23.000 Tolkien is right-wing.

01:05:25.000 Anything that has winners and losers in it is right-wing.

01:05:27.000 Anything that has hierarchy that's not, you know, smashed is right wing.

01:05:33.000 I mean, literally everything nowadays is right wing except for like.

01:05:39.000 I just saw Joe Biden hanging out with Alan Richson from Reacher.

01:05:43.000 Oh, really?

01:05:44.000 Yeah, he showed up.

01:05:45.000 It did look like a photo where Biden wandered onto the set.

01:05:48.000 He looks completely clueless as to what's going on in Hunter Biden.

01:05:52.000 He's going to be in season three of Reacher?

01:05:53.000 Season four.

01:05:54.000 I don't think he'll show up.

01:05:55.000 That'd be hilarious if he didn't.

01:05:56.000 They're filming season four?

01:05:57.000 Yes.

01:05:58.000 Season three is out?

01:05:58.000 Season three is out.

01:05:59.000 Really?

01:06:00.000 Like six months ago.

01:06:02.000 Oh, wow.

01:06:03.000 I didn't even see season two.

01:06:05.000 Season wasn't the best of them.

01:06:07.000 Okay, that's probably why.

01:06:08.000 You guys don't feel that things got better since the Trump election?

01:06:12.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:06:13.000 Since Elon Musk took over X?

01:06:15.000 It's definitely got better.

01:06:16.000 I mean, people need to recognize just how much better things have gotten.

01:06:20.000 I think it's important not to always be so black-pilled, but the gender issue has largely inverted.

01:06:26.000 Yeah.

01:06:27.000 Retard is back. 1.00

01:06:29.000 Yeah.

01:06:30.000 Hey, look, it is a useful word.

01:06:34.000 It has a meaning totally separate from any kind of insult, and it is a useful word.

01:06:40.000 Well, it's market.

01:06:41.000 It's competition.

01:06:42.000 When Elon bought Twitter, turned it into X, and said, we're going to bring back a bunch of people, he changed the threshold.

01:06:49.000 So what had happened was everybody was racing to the bottom.

01:06:52.000 If you were on Facebook and you said a naughty word, you'd get banned.

01:06:56.000 YouTube would then freak out and be like, well, we don't want to host a person saying naughty words, so we'll ban him too.

01:07:00.000 Elon said, I'll bring him back.

01:07:09.000 Other networks then said, wait, wait, wait, wait, don't leave, don't leave, don't leave.

01:07:13.000 So I wonder about YouTube in this regard because Rumble has actually done a big jab at YouTube.

01:07:22.000 Rumble has several of the top ten, I think when it comes to news, Rumble's got all of them.

01:07:27.000 Let me check actually.

01:07:28.000 Let's do our latest update.

01:07:30.000 As in the biggest news shows?

01:07:33.000 Live streams.

01:07:34.000 Live streams, yeah.

01:07:35.000 Yeah, so right now in the top ten, Rumble has two of the top ten live streams in the country of all streams.

01:07:46.000 That's Tim Castile and Steven Crowder.

01:07:48.000 And then in the top 25...

01:07:59.000 But if we do news, let's go to news.

01:08:03.000 Rumble's got, in the top 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 60% of the biggest live streams in news in the U.S. are on Rumble.

01:08:14.000 That is because YouTube intentionally banned news channels.

01:08:18.000 For a long time.

01:08:19.000 If you're talking news, you are out.

01:08:21.000 They intentionally prop up things that are not news.

01:08:23.000 And the worst thing is, this is where I say, like, we're in trouble.

01:08:28.000 I think Miss Rachel is one of the most demonic, evil things on the internet. 1.00

01:08:32.000 Cocomelon as well. 0.95

01:08:34.000 And YouTube doesn't care.

01:08:37.000 Humans are incredibly susceptible to these two are two.

01:08:43.000 Gutting ourselves and destroying ourselves with this psychotic content.

01:08:46.000 I'm an old man.

01:08:48.000 I don't know what Coco Melon and Rachel are.

01:08:51.000 So Ritz Rachel's a really great example. 0.85

01:08:53.000 I think she is absolutely...

01:08:57.000 Personally, she could be very nice.

01:08:59.000 Professionally, I think she should delete her channel and she should stop doing what she's doing. 1.00

01:09:03.000 It's disgusting.

01:09:04.000 She makes videos where the thumbnail will have, like, a minute count in the top right. 0.55

01:09:08.000 It'll say, like, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour.

01:09:11.000 Parents then take an iPad, say, I gotta do 40 minutes to do the laundry. 0.99

01:09:16.000 They'll find a video, hit it, put it in front of their baby, and leave. 0.99

01:09:20.000 It is demonic. 0.99

01:09:22.000 It is going to fry the brains of these kids. 0.97

01:09:24.000 It is frying their brains.

01:09:26.000 And it is terrifying.

01:09:27.000 She doesn't care.

01:09:28.000 She's a millionaire. 0.97

01:09:29.000 She makes tons of money. 1.00

01:09:30.000 She's going to keep justifying what she does. 1.00

01:09:32.000 Cocomelon is not too different.

01:09:34.000 Parents turn on these tablets, put it in front of their baby, and leave, and they don't understand.

01:09:38.000 They don't get it.

01:09:40.000 The system that we are building with social media is going to create a generation of retards. 1.00

01:09:48.000 Broken children.

01:09:50.000 Yep.

01:09:51.000 I drugged my kids until they were 18. I didn't seem to...

01:10:00.000 They're doing fine.

01:10:01.000 How old are they now?

01:10:02.000 21 and 25. I would...

01:10:05.000 I'm sorry, 22 and 25. I'm going to get in trouble for that.

01:10:13.000 Or like doctor prescribed?

01:10:15.000 Johnny Walker.

01:10:17.000 You gave your kids booze when they were children?

01:10:19.000 The thing is, I would say that when you look at the generational trends, I think it's pretty obvious to see...

01:10:33.000 And so I'm not going to have any of that for my daughter.

01:10:35.000 And you take a look now at what's going on with the algorithms, and I think it is going to be in the next 10 or 15 years.

01:10:43.000 Mark my words.

01:10:45.000 Clip this segment right now.

01:10:47.000 Take it.

01:10:49.000 Post it.

01:10:50.000 Store it.

01:10:51.000 And just wait.

01:10:52.000 2018 was Elsagate 1. Okay?

01:10:55.000 That's seven years ago.

01:10:57.000 Give it 11 more years and you are going to see the most psychotic generation imaginable.

01:11:06.000 Children who in their most important formative years were not watching adults fix cars or pick up the laundry.

01:11:13.000 They were watching Spider-Man inject pregnant Elsa with a syringe for hours a day as babies.

01:11:21.000 The Elsagate stuff wasn't just Elsa running around, getting stabbed by Joker with Spider-Man.

01:11:27.000 It devolved into children eating feces and drinking out of urinals and other grotesque things.

01:11:35.000 There were Peppa Pig videos of Peppa Pig getting run over by cars and mutilated and then eaten. 0.55

01:11:41.000 Just psychotic deranged things.

01:11:43.000 And this was around 2018 on YouTube.

01:11:47.000 And they said, whoa, okay, this algorithmically generated stuff being fed to kids is bad.

01:11:52.000 Take out the weird gore and the eating of feces, and now it's fine, which it's not.

01:11:57.000 Parents were putting tablets in front of their kids and pressing play, and YouTube would start with something like a nursery rhyme, but then autoplay would eventually bring them to Peppa Pig eating feces.

01:12:09.000 And their babies are watching this.

01:12:11.000 Two-year-olds are watching this.

01:12:13.000 The two-year-olds would mash the screen and all the comments were gibberish.

01:12:17.000 People started to realize this is babies just smacking the iPad.

01:12:22.000 YouTube said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:12:24.000 As long as it's not weird, it's fine to fry their brains.

01:12:28.000 So YouTube actually promotes and allows this to the tunes of hundreds of millions of views.

01:12:34.000 Ten years from now, 20 years from now, we are going to have a generation. 0.97

01:12:39.000 Let me tell you this.

01:12:40.000 We're already seeing the effects.

01:12:42.000 You combine this with the COVID lockdowns, we've got kids who are like nine years old who can't read.

01:12:49.000 And having their most consistent conversations with AI now.

01:12:54.000 Yep.

01:12:55.000 And drawing actual emotional responses from people when they can't have those conversations with real humans.

01:13:00.000 You know who won't have this problem?

01:13:02.000 China.

01:13:03.000 China.

01:13:04.000 Nope.

01:13:06.000 My hope is that as Gen Z grows up, I guess they're having kids now, but the point being that growing up with technology the way they have is that they are more acutely aware of how much damage it can do, and the hope would be that when they start having kids that they do not let their kids have access to technology.

01:13:24.000 I think that's Gen Z. What do you mean?

01:13:27.000 Gen Z, when these things were coming to fruition, Gen Z was of the age to recognize how insane it was. 0.70

01:13:35.000 Gen Alpha was not.

01:13:37.000 So what we're seeing now is Gen Z turning away from this, becoming more religious. 0.56

01:13:41.000 That's what I mean. 0.99

01:13:42.000 But Gen Alpha is going to be a bunch of lunatics.

01:13:45.000 Yeah, like the hope would be that the generation after, those generation betas are going to have to hopefully— Yeah.

01:13:52.000 Are they changing it?

01:13:54.000 No, it's Bravo.

01:13:55.000 No, it's literally Beta.

01:13:56.000 Was it?

01:13:57.000 Yeah, pretty sure it was.

01:14:00.000 Let's find out.

01:14:00.000 Is it the...

01:14:05.000 Oh, okay, you're right.

01:14:07.000 It's an alternative to Generation Beta.

01:14:08.000 Yeah, see, they didn't want to get stuck with the label.

01:14:11.000 Yeah, nobody wants to be Beta.

01:14:13.000 Well, the thing is, by the time they're old enough to understand it, that term won't be in fashion anymore. 0.88

01:14:19.000 It's so dumb because they mean the same thing. 0.59

01:14:22.000 Beta turned into a bad thing because you're a Beta. 0.97

01:14:26.000 The funny thing is anybody who knows about the social hierarchy of males knows that beta was actually a positive thing.

01:14:34.000 The Betas are the lieutenants. 0.98

01:14:36.000 And then you have beneath that, like, the Delta, which is the average run-of-the-mill guy.

01:14:40.000 And it was the Gamma and Omega males that were considered the creepy incel losers.

01:14:45.000 But now Beta just means incel loser, I guess. 0.61

01:14:47.000 It's weird, because if you're Delta in America, you're one of the most dangerous people in the world. 1.00

01:14:51.000 Indeed.

01:14:52.000 Let's jump to the story from CNN.

01:14:54.000 Supreme Court upholds Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for trans youths.

01:15:00.000 This is what J.D. Vance was talking about when he got...

01:15:03.000 banned temporarily from Blue Sky.

01:15:06.000 That's insane.

01:15:07.000 They say the 6-3 decision by a conservative majority is a major blow to the transgender community and its advocates at a critical time.

01:15:14.000 Since 2020, Republican-led states around the country have passed a wave of laws regulating the lives of trans Americans with a particular focus on minors.

01:15:23.000 And President Trump, who ran for re-election in part by ending the transgender lunacy, has taken several steps and tended to roll back gains made by that community. 1.00

01:15:31.000 So they say roughly half the states have similar bans.

01:15:34.000 I believe this is the first step.

01:15:36.000 Maybe not the first, but we are very close to a nationwide ban.

01:15:40.000 I think it's entirely possible that the Supreme Court could ban it outright.

01:15:45.000 No more mutilation of children.

01:15:47.000 I like that.

01:15:49.000 The idea that we have to continue to make believe that this is possible while they're literally ruining the lives of children is insane.

01:16:00.000 There is no such thing as a trans child. 1.00

01:16:03.000 I don't care what anyone says.

01:16:08.000 And the Supreme Court got this right. 0.97

01:16:11.000 The fact that there were three justices that were on the wrong side of this shows how useless they are as justices.

01:16:19.000 Yeah, that's about all I got on this.

01:16:22.000 So in this context, I want to explain to you what transgender is while stepping out of the political space. 0.84

01:16:31.000 I'd like to pull this up here.

01:16:33.000 This is r slash reality shifting.

01:16:35.000 Serge just said, oh, no.

01:16:37.000 Reality shifting is a community of people online who believe they have the ability to transport their consciousness into an alternate reality.

01:16:46.000 The things they believe get dangerous.

01:16:49.000 In one of the posts on Reddit, they say when you die in your current reality, don't worry.

01:16:55.000 You don't die.

01:16:55.000 Your consciousness will just shift to another reality.

01:16:59.000 The TikToks on this are crazy.

01:17:01.000 And they're going massively viral.

01:17:03.000 Reality-shifting TikToks are where they're more viral, of course.

01:17:07.000 And you may be saying, well, what does that have to do with transgender?

01:17:10.000 Let me explain.

01:17:11.000 Obviously, you know nobody can transport their consciousness to another reality.

01:17:18.000 Maybe if we first discover that parallel realities exist through science and then build a machine where you can literally do it, maybe that's possible.

01:17:27.000 But the idea that you can lock yourself in a closet, close your eyes and go, it's impossible.

01:17:35.000 That's called imagination, not reality shifting.

01:17:39.000 So what happens is, 15-year-olds go online.

01:17:43.000 They hate their life.

01:17:44.000 They hate school.

01:17:46.000 They're going through puberty.

01:17:47.000 They're awkward, whatever it may be.

01:17:49.000 Depressed, angry. 0.98

01:17:51.000 And they say, why does my life suck? 0.99

01:17:54.000 Well, guess what? 0.95

01:17:55.000 Someone's got the answer for you.

01:17:56.000 And it is that you're in the wrong reality.

01:17:58.000 Did you know this?

01:18:00.000 You are trapped in the wrong reality.

01:18:02.000 You need only close your eyes and focus and believe the things we tell you.

01:18:07.000 And you can shift into the correct reality.

01:18:10.000 You're trans reality, unfortunately. 1.00

01:18:12.000 That's right. 0.95

01:18:14.000 Now, this sounds insane.

01:18:16.000 And we can tell it's insane.

01:18:18.000 The gender thing is no different. 0.97

01:18:20.000 The only problem, liberals have adopted it as if it were true.

01:18:24.000 We are only a few years away from...

01:18:40.000 We are years away if this is the trend where doctors providing reality shifting care will bring you to a hospital bed and put you in an induced coma so you can transport to your desired reality like in the show The OA.

01:18:55.000 Canada will do this for you. 0.70

01:18:58.000 Yeah, they'll just kill you. 1.00

01:18:59.000 Yes. 0.98

01:19:00.000 So this is actually, this is the premise of the OA, right?

01:19:03.000 Like you die and then you transport to an alternate reality.

01:19:06.000 And so people think, this is literally a TV show that children think are real.

01:19:11.000 Think is real.

01:19:12.000 And there's even talk of self-harm in this because it transports you to another reality.

01:19:17.000 The way they describe it is psychotic.

01:19:19.000 They say things like, when you close your eyes, you can temporarily enter the, first you go into the void state.

01:19:25.000 Where you're in blackness, and then you'll emerge in a desired reality only temporarily as a dreamwalker.

01:19:32.000 Unless you die.

01:19:34.000 That's what they think. 0.96

01:19:36.000 Now again, the point is, trans is the same. 0.87

01:19:39.000 A teenager who's awkward, who feels depressed, is weird, goes on the internet and they say, maybe you're a girl.

01:19:46.000 And the little boy's like, what is that?

01:19:48.000 And like, transgender. 0.80

01:19:49.000 Look.

01:19:50.000 What we learned from, we had Helena Kirshner on the show.

01:19:54.000 She said what happened was she goes on, I think it was Tumblr, and she was angsty and depressed, and someone commented, maybe it's because you're trans, just abruptly for no reason.

01:20:04.000 And she was like, what is that?

01:20:06.000 They explained it to her, and they said, look, don't take my word for it.

01:20:10.000 Why don't you just, like, put on some boyish clothes right now, no big deal, take a picture and see how you feel.

01:20:17.000 So she went, okay, and she put on jeans and a t-shirt, took a picture, posted it, and they said, You look so cool.

01:20:24.000 Wow.

01:20:25.000 That is the coolest thing ever.

01:20:27.000 You're amazing.

01:20:28.000 So beautiful.

01:20:29.000 Now how do you feel?

01:20:31.000 And she went, I feel really good.

01:20:32.000 Because they were love bombing her.

01:20:34.000 Right.

01:20:35.000 Then said, see, it's because you're trans.

01:20:38.000 Why don't you cut your hair short?

01:20:40.000 See how you feel then.

01:20:41.000 She goes, okay.

01:20:42.000 Cuts her hair short.

01:20:44.000 Posts a picture.

01:20:44.000 Oh, you look so good.

01:20:45.000 You're so, oh man, you're beautiful.

01:20:47.000 You're amazing.

01:20:48.000 We love you.

01:20:49.000 And she goes, wow.

01:20:50.000 And they go, how do you feel now?

01:20:52.000 She goes, I feel really good.

01:20:53.000 They're like, yep, you're trans. 0.98

01:20:54.000 That's proof.

01:20:54.000 She said she went to Planned Parenthood.

01:20:56.000 In 15 minutes, they gave her the maximum dose of testosterone.

01:21:00.000 This is where society is going.

01:21:02.000 Best of luck.

01:21:03.000 This is why I was saying Miss Rachel and Coco Mellon and its other kids stuff on the internet is no different. 0.76

01:21:10.000 It's the same detached from reality psychobabble garbage.

01:21:14.000 And kids are going to attach their brains to it and they're not going to function properly. 0.97

01:21:20.000 Yeah, and not only that, when it comes to at least Miss Rachel, she started jumping into politics as well. 0.99

01:21:26.000 And it's bad enough that it's not really all that nourishing content for kids in the first place, but then to be shoving into it political opinions for whatever, toddlers or something.

01:21:42.000 Yeah, no thanks.

01:21:44.000 I don't want my kid watching that stuff.

01:21:46.000 I want to say a few things, but I don't because I have friends who have transgender.

01:21:56.000 Not after tonight.

01:21:57.000 No, but it's...

01:22:00.000 How can I say this without insulting?

01:22:03.000 I mean, there's no way I can not insult them, but it really amazed me, and I still don't understand it now.

01:22:12.000 Anybody my age...

01:22:15.000 YEAH.

01:22:20.000 Let's see, the vast majority don't believe.

01:22:22.000 And yet, they do.

01:22:24.000 I have friends who have supported their children in this.

01:22:31.000 I'm talking about children who are over the age of 18. But – and they clearly were uncomfortable with it but felt that they had to go along with it.

01:22:45.000 There's – What was the calculation?

01:22:47.000 And I just want to say, I originally thought they were just going along with the ideology to be accepted and not to go against the grain.

01:23:02.000 But when your own children are mutilated or their lives are ruined...

01:23:14.000 They have actually assimilated it.

01:23:16.000 So I have a question.

01:23:18.000 If someone was suffering from suicidal ideation because they were suffering from what we would call dimensional displacement, what's the treatment for it?

01:23:29.000 Yeah, psychiatric treatment.

01:23:30.000 Drugs.

01:23:31.000 Yeah, depending on the severity of their threats of self-harm, we lock them up.

01:23:35.000 Yeah.

01:23:36.000 So when a kid claims they're in the wrong body and they need to be altered because they're actually a koala bear, do we give them surgery to make them a koala bear?

01:23:48.000 No.

01:23:49.000 There's no difference on race or gender when a person who is a 6 '3 white man who weighs 220 and goes, I am a woman.

01:23:59.000 It's like, that's no difference than saying you're a raccoon or you're suffering from dimensional displacement.

01:24:05.000 It is not a fact.

01:24:06.000 It is not a reality.

01:24:08.000 And the issue is, we have created a medical treatment, the only, the only DSM-5, as far as I know, that affirmation is the treatment.

01:24:18.000 If you, if you, Pica is my favorite example.

01:24:21.000 DSM-5, you know what Pica is?

01:24:23.000 No.

01:24:23.000 It's when you eat things in our food.

01:24:24.000 How did you know I didn't know that?

01:24:25.000 Pica?

01:24:26.000 I didn't see that.

01:24:27.000 It's the only time you've asked me, do I know?

01:24:29.000 I didn't know.

01:24:30.000 Did my face show it, or you just sensed?

01:24:32.000 The assumption is that most people have not heard of the term pica.

01:24:35.000 Okay.

01:24:35.000 What is a pica?

01:24:36.000 Pica is when you eat things that aren't food. 0.75

01:24:38.000 Some people eat hair.

01:24:39.000 Some people eat pennies.

01:24:41.000 Nails. 0.99

01:24:42.000 Nails. 0.99

01:24:42.000 Yep. 0.99

01:24:43.000 And really messed up stuff.

01:24:46.000 Should we affirm them?

01:24:49.000 Well, I can see you're eating rocks again.

01:24:53.000 Well, I don't want you to feel depressed or upset.

01:24:55.000 You gotta eat the rocks.

01:24:57.000 There isn't a pica lobby.

01:24:59.000 Right.

01:25:00.000 That's the problem.

01:25:02.000 The other thing that I think it is when it comes to parents is that society now, because think of your Facebook mom groups in the way that everybody is now kind of viewed.

01:25:11.000 The idea is like everybody's running for president all the time.

01:25:13.000 You have to be perfect all the time.

01:25:15.000 You don't get to employ your own methods for parenting without being under the scrutiny of everybody else, not just in your friends group, but whoever may interact with your kids down the line.

01:25:25.000 And somewhere along the line— I took for the Johnny Walker and the baby.

01:25:28.000 Yeah.

01:25:44.000 Right now, if you're a parent and you don't unconditionally support everything your kids do, you will be viewed as a bad parent not doing your job and you will be ostracized.

01:25:54.000 I think women especially will fall victim to this with the Facebook mom groups and the need for women to be part of the social cohesion and the way that they interact with one another enforces a certain level of conformity amongst all of them. 0.96

01:26:10.000 And that's where a lot of this starts is that you aren't allowed to be.

01:26:14.000 Your own autonomous parent anymore without having to worry about the judgment and sometimes the intervention of people, of the state and people who might get the state involved.

01:26:23.000 That's the thing that I'm most scared about about becoming a dad is the idea of me wanting to do something with my kid or not wanting my kid to see something or whatever and then having to deal with the state.

01:26:34.000 That's the last thing I want.

01:26:36.000 Well, it's not so much the state right now.

01:26:38.000 It's insurance companies.

01:26:40.000 Oh, okay.

01:26:41.000 Insurance companies are one of the biggest threats to human civilization, and I think people need to understand that.

01:26:48.000 Depending on the medical treatments your child will get, you will be cut off from hospitals and doctors.

01:26:55.000 Yep.

01:26:56.000 There are certain things where they're like, here's some medication we want to give to your child.

01:27:02.000 And they go, if you don't get it, you will be blacklisted from every medical provider because they're an insurance company.

01:27:07.000 I feel like the left and the right can come to you.

01:27:09.000 Maybe not everybody agrees that we should have universal health care, but we can all agree that insurance companies are pretty much evil.

01:27:16.000 As much as you...

01:27:18.000 We can agree to that stuff, but that doesn't mean...

01:27:30.000 The issue is humans in general.

01:27:33.000 It's a system.

01:27:34.000 Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

01:27:36.000 I'm not saying that everybody's going to agree on what the solution is and God knows that getting the government involved rarely helps anything because it doesn't help anything ever.

01:27:43.000 But to look at what's going on right now with insurance companies and pretend like that isn't a problem is also ridiculous.

01:27:51.000 I think we should make a dimensionally displaced lobby.

01:27:56.000 Dimensionally displaced lobby.

01:27:56.000 Like, you know what we could do?

01:27:57.000 We could hire Alex Stein to go to like...

01:28:02.000 Yeah.

01:28:02.000 Like we can hire Alex Stein to go lobby for the dimensional displacement.

01:28:05.000 These kids are depressed because they're actually supposed to be popular and beloved.

01:28:10.000 And the reason they're not is because they're temporarily in the wrong dimension.

01:28:13.000 And if they were given the proper treatment, induced coma, they could reality shift into the dimension where they're...

01:28:23.000 There was never an Otherkin lobby.

01:28:24.000 There could have been an Otherkin lobby.

01:28:26.000 Ooh, I don't want it to do with Otherkins. 1.00

01:28:28.000 But are you talking about the more reasonable of the, and that's a stretch?

01:28:33.000 Yes.

01:28:33.000 I was going to say, what are you talking about?

01:28:35.000 Well, because there's the people who think they're dragons and the people who think they're monkeys.

01:28:38.000 And werewolves.

01:28:40.000 Yeah, and it's like, so Otherkin was a big trend. 0.99

01:28:43.000 It still kind of is.

01:28:44.000 And it's effectively trans-species.

01:28:48.000 Yeah, you're going to laugh, but it's crazy.

01:28:51.000 There are people who walk around with fake cat ears and tails in their pants.

01:28:56.000 They believe they're animals.

01:28:57.000 This is not furries, by the way.

01:28:59.000 Not the same thing.

01:29:00.000 Yeah, not the same thing.

01:29:01.000 And there have been people who have surgically altered themselves to be animals.

01:29:05.000 Are we going to start providing them with species-affirming care?

01:29:08.000 Nope.

01:29:09.000 Well, you guys remember the transgender, trans-species tiger woman, right? 0.92

01:29:13.000 Yeah.

01:29:14.000 An adult human man.

01:29:16.000 Got surgeries to look like a tiger, split his lip, got metal plates put in for whiskers, pointed the ears, shaved the teeth down, and then got a sex change to be a female tiger, and then committed suicide.

01:29:32.000 Good grief.

01:29:33.000 That came to an abrupt end.

01:29:35.000 Yeah.

01:29:36.000 And guess what?

01:29:39.000 I think it's fair to say the reason why suicide rates are high among trans people is because of the treatment. 0.83

01:29:45.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:29:45.000 And so what we find is the science shows...

01:29:52.000 Here's the issue.

01:29:52.000 Desistance is the...

01:29:55.000 that means that a person who is trans simply stops being trans, called desist.

01:29:59.000 Trans children, children who are suffering from or diagnosed with gender dysphoria, So that means if your 10-year-old is suffering from dysphoria, do nothing.

01:30:13.000 By the time they're 13, they'll be like, I don't even remember what that was.

01:30:17.000 The problem is they're now trying to do gender-affirming care on these kids and give them drugs and surgeries. 0.99

01:30:22.000 Reinforces it.

01:30:23.000 What happens?

01:30:24.000 It locks them in, reinforces it, and then they end up suffering extremely high suicidality.

01:30:31.000 Because of the treatments.

01:30:32.000 When I was a boy, I grew up in Indiana, and I used to get sick from nerves.

01:30:40.000 If I had a test or a baseball game or something, I wouldn't be able to go to the bathroom and so on.

01:30:47.000 They sent me to the hospital for a week of tests and then decided that it was all in my head.

01:30:54.000 And then my mother took me to the doctor, and the doctor sat me down and said, It's all in your head.

01:31:01.000 And you have to learn to get over it.

01:31:04.000 And I think it's one of the greatest things that ever happened to me.

01:31:08.000 Now they would give you a medication.

01:31:10.000 No, that's the whole thing.

01:31:11.000 Now they'd be like, you're a girl.

01:31:13.000 If I grew up today, I would have been severely medicated or something.

01:31:18.000 Yeah.

01:31:19.000 Either that or your parents would have lost you.

01:31:23.000 They'd have come and taken you away from your parents, you know, if they didn't, if you didn't do or if they didn't do the things that the state said they should, which is.

01:31:43.000 Yeah, they are.

01:31:44.000 By the way, I have an uncle, my aunt's husband, who has out-of-body experiences.

01:31:52.000 And he's a scientist, now a retired scientist.

01:31:57.000 And he wrote a book about it.

01:31:59.000 And in that community, it has kind of a special status because he's a scientist.

01:32:06.000 So like lucid dreaming?

01:32:08.000 He says no.

01:32:09.000 He actually leaves his body.

01:32:11.000 And then he has like a golden umbilical cord that connects you back to your physical body.

01:32:19.000 And then over time, you can work with it and you become better.

01:32:22.000 You can go further distances and everything.

01:32:24.000 At first, it's very hard to learn how to navigate.

01:32:26.000 But you get better over time.

01:32:28.000 Joe Rogan would love to have him on.

01:32:30.000 It sounds like Joe Rogan stuff.

01:32:34.000 I don't know that I have all that much valuable input on golden umbilical cords and stuff.

01:32:42.000 I'll have to do my research.

01:32:44.000 Right?

01:32:45.000 To the astral plane and stuff.

01:32:47.000 If Ian were here, he'd be.

01:32:52.000 Yeah.

01:32:53.000 I don't have anything for it, though.

01:32:56.000 That's my contribution for the evening.

01:32:58.000 I feel like we've just dumped a bunch of social ills on you tonight.

01:33:04.000 Here's all these things that are crazy in the world.

01:33:06.000 Enjoy.

01:33:08.000 It's crazy.

01:33:09.000 There's this viral video where a young boy is getting injected with puberty blockers by his dad.

01:33:15.000 It's so crazy.

01:33:17.000 It's just like...

01:33:19.000 Look, the UK is conquered for their own reasons.

01:33:22.000 The US, I think, is lost.

01:33:30.000 We'll see if Trump can actually pull it off.

01:33:32.000 But that's the issue with, say, like the big, beautiful bill.

01:33:34.000 I talked to Rand Paul today.

01:33:36.000 He said if he is deciding to vote, he will vote yes.

01:33:38.000 And I'm like, that's good because the crisis we're facing right now goes well beyond whether there will be inflation.

01:33:45.000 We're going to overspend.

01:33:46.000 The debt will go up and inflation is going to happen.

01:33:48.000 It's like, yeah, they're also sterilizing children.

01:33:52.000 Among other things.

01:33:53.000 It's weird, because when everything was going on, it feels like that was nine crises ago when everyone was discussing the different things that were in that bill.

01:34:01.000 But maybe it's just me, but I never thought of Trump as fiscally prudent at all.

01:34:07.000 No, he's not.

01:34:08.000 He wasn't in his first term.

01:34:10.000 That's not to say that that's good, it's just it wasn't something that I was expecting.

01:34:13.000 I was going to wear the shirt that I got of Bill Clinton.

01:34:16.000 When was the last time we had a balanced budget?

01:34:19.000 Bill Clinton.

01:34:21.000 But it's just I never thought of Trump as the dude who was going to come in for fiscal responsibility because for the most part, whoever's going to get elected is going to – it's not a good thing, but the deficit's going to get worse.

01:34:33.000 And I don't know if there is a candidate that is electable that is actually going to be able to take a dent out of it.

01:34:40.000 Yeah, I mean at the risk of sounding like a – The Borg will win out.

01:34:43.000 Yeah, I mean at the risk of sounding like a mouthpiece for the administration, like he never – He was never a fiscal conservative.

01:34:51.000 Everybody that was pro-Trump knew very well that he was a Democrat.

01:34:59.000 He likes the unions.

01:35:01.000 Yeah, he does.

01:35:02.000 That's the mindset, I think.

01:35:04.000 He's like, I can work with him.

01:35:05.000 I think part of it might be because the first thing that he seemed to go into doing when he took office was the doge cuts.

01:35:12.000 So it became more of a discussion about fiscal responsibility for the government.

01:35:18.000 And I was just like, so when does the spending start?

01:35:20.000 Because I know the spending is going to start.

01:35:22.000 Yeah, I mean, the spending is definitely starting now.

01:35:25.000 You know, I assume it's because that...

01:35:35.000 But that's the same thing you hear every year.

01:35:37.000 It doesn't matter what year it is.

01:35:39.000 It's always the same refrain.

01:35:41.000 Well, we have to do this to keep the government open and blah, blah, blah.

01:35:44.000 And in this particular issue, there's like, well, you know, we need to go ahead and pass this funding bill so that way we can keep doing stuff with the border and blah, blah, blah.

01:35:53.000 You know, it's like they're just referencing things that...

01:36:01.000 So it's nothing new and nobody's surprised at all.

01:36:06.000 I guess I didn't expect anything except for maybe some tax cuts might happen.

01:36:10.000 Or like they have to ratify the 2017 tax cuts again.

01:36:14.000 That's important.

01:36:15.000 That was the only thing I thought was going to happen this entire cycle of president.

01:36:21.000 I mean, you're probably right.

01:36:22.000 It probably will be the only thing that happens.

01:36:24.000 I mean, I could conceive of possibly getting some of the doge cuts, getting something passed with the doge cuts, but I don't know what the House and the Senate schedules are like, so I don't know for sure if they have time because their schedule is so crazy.

01:36:41.000 So, I mean, like I said, I could conceive of it because I could imagine that there are Republicans that would be like, yeah, let's do this, and that I could see it getting passed, but I don't know if they're actually going to do anything, and to be honest with you, that should come as no surprise.

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01:38:46.000 He says, first, indeed you were.

01:38:47.000 Good job.

01:38:49.000 Shady Chawaler says, I'm unsure if the possible Iranian visit to the White House will be a sign of peace or political theater.

01:38:54.000 The fog of war is thick with all the Senate classified briefing next week.

01:38:58.000 It feels like war.

01:38:59.000 Yeah, maybe.

01:39:02.000 Arsonist says, Tim, you're a bit harsh on Ted Cruz.

01:39:06.000 He's a neocon, not a monster.

01:39:08.000 I can fix him.

01:39:09.000 Also, I was playing GTA 4 and Roman called me and said, you want to go watch Timcast together?

01:39:14.000 You got to chill.

01:39:14.000 Hey.

01:39:16.000 Bye.

01:39:17.000 He goes on to say, Is there anything you think you've changed on drastically?

01:39:34.000 That was in 2018, so that counts today.

01:39:38.000 How old are you?

01:39:40.000 I am 39. I had two conversions.

01:39:45.000 When?

01:39:47.000 Hard to say exactly.

01:39:49.000 One was political.

01:39:50.000 It went from left to right.

01:39:51.000 When was that?

01:39:55.000 It really started when I got married and had kids.

01:39:58.000 But I actually changed parties after 9-11.

01:40:03.000 Oh, really?

01:40:04.000 I voted for Al Gore.

01:40:06.000 Oh, wow.

01:40:08.000 Holding my nose.

01:40:12.000 My thinking was out of sync with my behavior.

01:40:15.000 I was a professor, though.

01:40:16.000 I was in academia.

01:40:17.000 So I was trying to make it in that world.

01:40:20.000 What were you a professor of?

01:40:21.000 Middle Eastern Studies.

01:40:23.000 Oh, okay.

01:40:23.000 Interesting.

01:40:26.000 And then I converted religion.

01:40:28.000 Ah, to what?

01:40:30.000 Catholicism.

01:40:31.000 Oh, okay.

01:40:31.000 The Superior.

01:40:35.000 You're Catholic? 0.74

01:40:36.000 No, no, we just did a debate last week on various denominations.

01:40:40.000 It was largely Orthodox versus Catholic, and they were screaming at each other.

01:40:45.000 Yeah, Tate came in for the show. 0.98

01:40:46.000 He was like, man, they were yelling.

01:40:47.000 He was like, no, there's something going on.

01:40:49.000 I know, and it was like...

01:40:52.000 But it was yelling, and they were speaking Latin.

01:40:54.000 And I was like, I have no idea what's going on.

01:40:59.000 Yep, I was like, what?

01:41:01.000 I don't know that one.

01:41:02.000 What were you before?

01:41:03.000 Nothing.

01:41:04.000 Ah, okay.

01:41:05.000 My parents were Irish, but I'm on both sides of the divide.

01:41:10.000 My dad was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant, and I was raised as nothing.

01:41:14.000 What made you convert?

01:41:16.000 Well, when I got married, I committed to raise my kids Catholic.

01:41:23.000 So I kind of just brought it all together.

01:41:27.000 But I had long had the inclination to do it.

01:41:32.000 It was like coming home.

01:41:35.000 My dad was a non-practicing Catholic, but Catholicism to me seems like common sense.

01:41:42.000 I am a lapsed Catholic.

01:41:44.000 Come back.

01:41:44.000 I was when I was little.

01:41:46.000 I don't believe it.

01:41:47.000 It's not there.

01:41:48.000 So I'm not going to pretend to.

01:41:50.000 My favorite line from the Bible is, I believe, I believe, oh Lord, help me in my unbelief.

01:41:57.000 You know, if I'm ever looking at a massive collapse of subscribers and a desperate move, need to grift, I'll just be like, oh Lord.

01:42:07.000 I'm kidding.

01:42:09.000 I think there's a lot of people who do that.

01:42:10.000 I think you're right.

01:42:11.000 They're like, oh, hey, look at me.

01:42:12.000 I found God.

01:42:13.000 And I'm like, well, you know, I'm not going to pretend.

01:42:16.000 I lost subscribers, so I found God.

01:42:18.000 That's what the worst thing is about when people call me a grifter, and I'm like, I wish.

01:42:21.000 I mean, that term has no meaning anymore.

01:42:24.000 That just means you said something I don't like.

01:42:26.000 That's right.

01:42:26.000 Like, they can't imagine a world where somebody would say something they disagree with because they believe it, other than because it's some op against them.

01:42:34.000 Yeah.

01:42:36.000 That's hilarious.

01:42:38.000 It's crazy how many words have been totally ruined because people just use them so carelessly and imprecisely.

01:42:45.000 It's one of the hardest things to prove, too, because you're actually saying that you know what's in that person's heart, that they don't believe what they're saying, and that's a very, very lofty claim to make against somebody.

01:42:56.000 It's like sellout.

01:42:57.000 All right.

01:42:59.000 T-Bomb says, new board idea.

01:43:01.000 Have Tim write with a calligraphy pen the word merciless until he gets a good sample.

01:43:07.000 Until he gets a good sample and slap that on a board.

01:43:11.000 You know what?

01:43:12.000 I can announce this.

01:43:14.000 Let me see if I can pull this up.

01:43:16.000 I didn't understand that at all.

01:43:18.000 Skateboards.

01:43:19.000 Oh, okay.

01:43:20.000 We got t-shirts.

01:43:22.000 Look at these boonies t-shirts.

01:43:24.000 So if you guys want to get the boonies, look at that one.

01:43:27.000 The American flag with skateboards.

01:43:29.000 And it says boonies.

01:43:31.000 And then we got this one.

01:43:32.000 It's got a rooster.

01:43:32.000 And it says skateboarding content and culture.

01:43:36.000 So, plus, we are going to make shirts of the board graphics, and we're going to make Casper shirts of the coffee graphics, but without, like, the writing, of course.

01:43:44.000 But, you know, these are the skateboards that we got.

01:43:46.000 My favorite, of course, is the 28th Amendment.

01:43:49.000 It says, chickens being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep, bear, and breed chickens shall not be infringed.

01:43:57.000 And if you own chickens, you must own one of these and hang it up.

01:44:01.000 But Step on Snack and Find Out sells out all the time.

01:44:03.000 We got one of those.

01:44:04.000 But I will say this.

01:44:05.000 Just in reference to the boards that the Superchip brought up.

01:44:09.000 The next series, and if you know what it is, don't say it.

01:44:13.000 It's going to be a surprise.

01:44:14.000 The next series will be coming out hopefully in like the next few days or a week or so.

01:44:19.000 We will get in a lot of trouble for them, but I imagine they'll sell out instantly over and over and over again.

01:44:25.000 They're going to go fast.

01:44:27.000 They're going to go fast.

01:44:28.000 And I think people are going to get very mad at me.

01:44:32.000 They're going to get very mad.

01:44:33.000 Oh yeah.

01:44:34.000 But it must be done!

01:44:37.000 So, you know, it's going to be fun.

01:44:38.000 Stay tuned.

01:44:39.000 For the lulz, I guess.

01:44:40.000 Anyway, T-Rex Pet Shop said, You should have had a Mormon on the culture war. 1.00

01:44:45.000 They believe they're the only true Christian church based on the original organization and doctrine restored in the latter days.

01:44:50.000 They were wrong to say they're non-Christians.

01:44:52.000 Mountain Jews. 0.98

01:44:54.000 We should do that.

01:44:56.000 We should do another debate where it's like Orthodox, Catholic, and Mormon.

01:45:01.000 Get a Jehovah's Witness, too.

01:45:03.000 I mean, honestly, I'd love to get a Scientologist to actually discuss Scientology.

01:45:06.000 They won't.

01:45:07.000 They won't do it.

01:45:08.000 They won't.

01:45:09.000 And I know a lot of prominent Scientologists.

01:45:12.000 I'm friends with some, and they won't.

01:45:15.000 They will not admit it either.

01:45:17.000 And when I say friends, it's not like I hang out every single day, but there are people that I talk to on a regular basis that I know are Scientologists, and I don't care, but they don't talk about it.

01:45:27.000 They will not.

01:45:29.000 And in several instances, we've had people actually say, nope.

01:45:32.000 They're like, and if it comes up, I'll leave.

01:45:34.000 And I'm like, okay.

01:45:36.000 I don't really care about that.

01:45:37.000 You know, we can talk about news and stuff, but I think it'd be great to actually have a Scientologist talk about what they believe.

01:45:41.000 I don't know why you don't hear it.

01:45:44.000 Like, honest question.

01:45:46.000 Shouldn't they be on shows being like, here's our actual belief structure?

01:45:51.000 Guess not.

01:45:52.000 Probably not.

01:45:53.000 I stopped by one of their, the one in Hollywood.

01:45:56.000 I was walking by their center there.

01:45:57.000 This was years ago.

01:45:59.000 And I tried to, I was curious too, so I just wanted to have a conversation.

01:46:04.000 But they start sucking you in.

01:46:06.000 They make you fill out stuff.

01:46:08.000 I bought the book.

01:46:09.000 I got bored very quickly.

01:46:10.000 I bought Dianetics.

01:46:12.000 And?

01:46:15.000 I kind of laughed after the first chapter and then stopped reading out of boredom.

01:46:19.000 So I was skateboarding down Hollywood.

01:46:21.000 And there was a guy waving and, you know, I got nothing else to do.

01:46:25.000 So I stopped and he was like, are you familiar with Dianetics?

01:46:28.000 And I was like, that's like a precursor to Scientology, right?

01:46:31.000 And I can't remember what he said, but something like, well, it's associated, but it's not necessarily.

01:46:36.000 But are you familiar with it?

01:46:37.000 And I was like, nope.

01:46:38.000 And he's like, well, what are you familiar with?

01:46:40.000 You don't know anything about it?

01:46:41.000 And I said, just what I've seen on the TV.

01:46:43.000 And he goes, oh, South Park, huh?

01:46:45.000 And I was like, yep.

01:46:48.000 And he was like, do you always base your beliefs off of cartoons?

01:46:52.000 And I laughed and I said, no.

01:46:53.000 And he goes, why don't you come in and I'll tell you about it.

01:46:56.000 But then he gives me an e-reader and tells me to hold it and tells me to envision things.

01:47:01.000 And I was like, my guy, you're not.

01:47:02.000 He was like, I want you to hold these things and then I want you, I forgot what he said, like think of something that caused you trauma.

01:47:08.000 I can't remember.

01:47:09.000 And then I'm like, okay.

01:47:10.000 And then I see like the needle move and he goes, what were you thinking about?

01:47:13.000 And I was like, the letter F. And he was like, what?

01:47:15.000 And I was like, I literally just pictured a big letter F and nothing else.

01:47:19.000 And he was like, oh, and I'm like, why'd the meter move?

01:47:21.000 And he didn't know.

01:47:22.000 And I was like, look, man, come on.

01:47:25.000 Because I think what they do is they're like, imagine a trauma and then you imagine like getting spanked by your dad.

01:47:29.000 The meter moves and you go, I imagine a spanking. 0.99

01:47:31.000 That proves it. 0.57

01:47:32.000 And I'm like, nah, big letter F, yelling at kids.

01:47:35.000 I mean, that's just to weed you out anyways, as somebody who's not pliable for what they...

01:47:41.000 Yeah, of course.

01:47:42.000 It's like in the Nigerian email scams. 0.98

01:47:46.000 I've seen this before. 1.00

01:47:49.000 People will be like, I got one of these email scams, and they're so dumb. 0.97

01:47:52.000 The grammar is all messy, and it's obviously a scam. 1.00

01:47:55.000 These people are stupid. 1.00

01:47:56.000 I'm like, no, they're smart. 1.00

01:47:58.000 They intentionally write with bad grammar because they want to avoid smart people. 1.00

01:48:02.000 They want only stupid people who are not going to notice these mistakes to send them money. 1.00

01:48:08.000 And it works. 1.00

01:48:10.000 Yeah.

01:48:11.000 All right, what do we got here?

01:48:14.000 TraderPotator says, Yo, Phil, what pants are you wearing in your last IG reel?

01:48:19.000 Been looking for a good pair with knee pad inserts.

01:48:23.000 They're cry combat pants.

01:48:26.000 Ah.

01:48:26.000 So.

01:48:26.000 Based African says the anime How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom explores how a country should approach debt, war, and internal corruption.

01:48:36.000 Basically, it follows the idea of minimize harm.

01:48:39.000 to endear yourself to enemies'citizens while removing their leadership.

01:48:43.000 Ian Kinney says, Why did YouTube just give me an ad in the chat?

01:48:49.000 Hmm.

01:48:49.000 the middle of the live stream.

01:48:50.000 Never had that before.

01:48:51.000 So YouTube has changed how ads work on YouTube.

01:48:56.000 So earlier this year, they announced we started We started getting these notifications on videos where it said, soon all ads will be placed automatically.

01:49:06.000 And it was like, as of May, the ability to...

01:49:10.000 You can still place ads.

01:49:11.000 But they automatically run them no matter what.

01:49:13.000 So if you turn off automated ads...

01:49:17.000 right?

01:49:17.000 You can drop your own ads in there.

01:49:19.000 And what I found is like on the live stream, I'm not talking about the segments.

01:49:22.000 You drop your ads every 15 minutes, 15, 30, 45, all the way to the end.

01:49:27.000 It automatically demonetizes the first three ads, which is your largest space of time where you're actually getting viewership, which sinks any ability to really get revenue from that.

01:49:36.000 Cause the people who are watching to the end, theoretically, you're going to see more.

01:49:40.000 Like if somebody makes it to the fourth ad, they're staying the whole way to the end anyways.

01:49:44.000 But the ones who joined For just the first few segments, you're not going to get any ads on any of that.

01:49:49.000 You have to leave the automated ads on.

01:49:52.000 YouTube basically said, if you don't run ads, we nuke your monetization.

01:49:56.000 So it's like, you can be off-platform and broke, or you can just run ads the way we want ads to be run.

01:50:01.000 And it drops like 60 ads in there, but not all of them are going to end up showing.

01:50:07.000 Right, so basically what happens is, if you upload a video to YouTube, it'll let you place ads, and then when you do, if you go back like half an hour later, they're all red.

01:50:16.000 Nope, not allowed.

01:50:17.000 And it's okay.

01:50:19.000 And then it will automatically choose where to put ads on all your videos from now on, and it does a ton.

01:50:24.000 But YouTube claims they have a limiter so that you can't see a certain amount of ads in a certain amount of time because they're tracking you individually.

01:50:32.000 It's per person, my understanding is, because they want to make sure you don't leave the program or leave the video.

01:50:38.000 So everybody has a different threshold for ads.

01:50:42.000 And it's different for videos as opposed to live streams.

01:50:45.000 Like on the live streams, there's an option to like turn on ads during the live stream, which most people don't.

01:50:51.000 Well, yeah, you have to turn it off every day.

01:50:54.000 And actually, so what happens now is it just changed on us.

01:50:58.000 No longer gives us – it used to say, do you want ads?

01:51:02.000 A little bit, a lot, no ads.

01:51:04.000 Now it just says, ad frequency, low, medium, high.

01:51:08.000 And then you have to go in, and then there's like a drop-down menu, drop-down menu, drop-down menu to get, I will choose where the ads go.

01:51:15.000 And it basically gives you a warning, like, we're going to nuke your channel if you do this.

01:51:19.000 I don't even want the XP stuff in the live chat.

01:51:22.000 You don't want it?

01:51:23.000 I want that.

01:51:24.000 Yeah, Tales from the Inverted World live at 10pm tonight.

01:51:27.000 They have the Experience Points ranking system already.

01:51:30.000 And I reached out to Google and said, we want that.

01:51:33.000 And they said, it's an experimental product, so it's not available.

01:51:35.000 Nobody in our chat even knows how it works.

01:51:39.000 It doesn't seem to follow any type of rule whatsoever.

01:51:42.000 It's not real yet.

01:51:44.000 But the general idea is, for those that are wondering, some channels have a ranking system now where if you are a dedicated user who super chats and is a member, you earn experience and then actually get ranked and appear next to the stream.

01:51:59.000 Like in the chat, you can click XP rankings and you can see who the biggest fan is.

01:52:03.000 When we click the XP rankings, nothing shows up.

01:52:06.000 People will get the badge when they're chatting, but when I go and look at the XP rankings, it's just blank.

01:52:11.000 Man, that's a bummer.

01:52:12.000 Could be because it's beta testing?

01:52:15.000 Yeah, it's an experimental launch, I guess.

01:52:18.000 I mean, they're just looking for ways to keep people engaged and non-platform.

01:52:22.000 Yeah, we don't have it.

01:52:24.000 Lame.

01:52:25.000 Shameful. 0.96

01:52:26.000 Lame.

01:52:27.000 I'm excited because Real Hydra would be like number one.

01:52:30.000 Yes.

01:52:32.000 Shane H. Wilder would be high up there.

01:52:34.000 Yeah, Raymond G. Stanley Jr.

01:52:36.000 He'd be huge.

01:52:38.000 All right.

01:52:40.000 CyberCast says, I'm 23 and conservative.

01:52:42.000 I will cheer them losing the midterms.

01:52:44.000 My entire life American legacy has been actively sold.

01:52:47.000 I'm no longer conservative.

01:52:48.000 I'm far right.

01:52:48.000 Oh.

01:52:49.000 Did you guys see that weird clip where...

01:52:53.000 I'm assuming.

01:52:55.000 Israel? 0.53

01:52:56.000 No, don't do it.

01:52:57.000 Don't do it.

01:52:58.000 You guys see the clip where Tucker was asking Ted Cruz about Israel spying on us?

01:53:03.000 Yeah.

01:53:03.000 And I don't understand why Ted Cruz...

01:53:09.000 He tried doing the, why are you so obsessed with Israel?

01:53:12.000 And I'm like, no, no.

01:53:13.000 I thought he got the better of Tucker on that issue.

01:53:18.000 On the Israel one? 0.55

01:53:19.000 Yeah.

01:53:19.000 I disagree.

01:53:20.000 He tried playing the, why are you obsessed with Israel?

01:53:24.000 That doesn't work when you're actively involved in war with Israel, like alongside them. 0.90

01:53:29.000 The point I bring up to people— Like, U.S. presidents go to Saudi Arabia and beg them to stay on the petrodollar lease and not pump oil.

01:53:44.000 But when there's a bombing campaign from Israel, our ally, that we're defending and supplying, it is absolutely understandable why we are talking about Israel in this context. 0.97

01:53:54.000 So then go, well, what about China?

01:54:00.000 We're allowed to talk about it.

01:54:01.000 That's why it's annoying when people are like, someone commented and they were like, oh, Tim, I thought we were obsessed with Israel.

01:54:07.000 Why are you talking about Israel?

01:54:09.000 And it's like, my dude, it's because they bring it up when we are not engaged in a conflict and there's an active conflict that we are engaged in.

01:54:15.000 When Ukraine is the war, they're talking about Israel. 0.65

01:54:18.000 Now Israel is involved in the war.

01:54:20.000 We talk about Israel.

01:54:21.000 That's fine.

01:54:21.000 That was always allowed.

01:54:23.000 I thought Tucker did a terrible job.

01:54:25.000 He should have just said, It's really easy.

01:54:27.000 Should Mossad spy on us?

01:54:28.000 No.

01:54:29.000 Next question.

01:54:31.000 I don't see how hard that is.

01:54:33.000 It's like, okay, well, they do.

01:54:34.000 Ted Cruz said that.

01:54:35.000 Ted Cruz said that.

01:54:37.000 Yeah.

01:54:38.000 I actually had a different reaction.

01:54:42.000 Number one, I don't think the Israelis spy on us in any serious way.

01:54:46.000 They can't.

01:54:48.000 If they do, they get into all kinds of problems.

01:54:53.000 And I have talked to Mossad people about this.

01:54:56.000 I talked to a former deputy head of Mossad, and he said, you don't know how strict it is for us.

01:55:02.000 If I'm running an operation anywhere in the world and I want to surveil someone, if it's an American citizen anywhere in the world, I have to go all the way up to the prime minister to get permission to do it.

01:55:15.000 I believe him because the power disparity is such that if they did actively spy, it would— But I'd imagine that's for the average American citizen.

01:55:28.000 I imagine there is select spying that they do.

01:55:31.000 No, I would say we spy on them much more than they spy on us.

01:55:35.000 Sure, but they spy on us.

01:55:37.000 There will be, I mean, it depends on what you mean by spying.

01:55:40.000 They're not running any active programs to try to surveil us.

01:55:52.000 It could be that there's a few people of interest that they have approval to spy on, and they do.

01:55:58.000 That could well be a few people, but it's not to spy on the U.S. government.

01:56:02.000 There'll be American citizens who get wrapped up into something.

01:56:07.000 I can't believe it.

01:56:09.000 I thought that what Ted Cruz said was right.

01:56:12.000 As a general principle.

01:56:15.000 everybody's spying on everybody yeah the world is the way it is and we the amount of spying that we do on other people is I think the issue was that he was flustered for no reason and it looks really bad.

01:56:27.000 It was a classic Nixon-Kennedy situation.

01:56:30.000 His demeanor is another thing.

01:56:33.000 Wait, real bad.

01:56:34.000 Yeah.

01:56:35.000 Yeah, like, optics-wise, if you're somebody that's not paying the closest attention to what's going on, if a government official looks that flustered over those questions, like, regardless of whether you think his answers are right or not, it doesn't help if he doesn't look like he can handle the questions that are fed to him.

01:56:50.000 Yeah.

01:56:51.000 So it's like, if Tucker says, do you think Masada's spying?

01:56:54.000 Yeah.

01:56:55.000 Isn't that a bad thing?

01:56:56.000 Yep.

01:56:57.000 I mean, that's just like, I imagine that the average person just believes that allies spy on allies and that this stuff is going on at all times.

01:57:04.000 Except for the Five Eyes Spy Club, we just share all the data with each other.

01:57:08.000 Hey, UK, I'll spy on your guys, you spy on mine, and then you give me the data and I give you mine.

01:57:14.000 We bypass the law.

01:57:15.000 That's really frustrating that they do that kind of stuff.

01:57:18.000 Yep.

01:57:19.000 I tweeted earlier today, it's kind of a joke, but it's kind of taken off.

01:57:22.000 I said I want regime change in the UK.

01:57:23.000 Because of the...

01:57:28.000 No, just because. 1.00

01:57:29.000 The UK sucks. 1.00

01:57:32.000 Regime change. 1.00

01:57:33.000 No, I was watching something about some fat middle-aged woman getting arrested for being mean on the internet. 1.00

01:57:38.000 I was like, dude, Karen's are allowed to Karen.

01:57:40.000 Not in the UK, they're not.

01:57:42.000 Not in the UK.

01:57:43.000 Not at all.

01:57:44.000 Oh no, I was watching a thing where when they're swearing in politicians who are Muslim, non-Muslims aren't allowed to touch the Quran.

01:57:52.000 Did you hear that?

01:57:52.000 Non-Muslims aren't allowed to touch the Quran?

01:57:54.000 Yeah.

01:57:55.000 Really?

01:57:55.000 So it's in like a special cloth that they have to then hold up and give to a Muslim so they can swear on it because, you know, non-Muslims can't touch it.

01:58:03.000 Something like that.

01:58:04.000 And I was like, really?

01:58:05.000 That's weird.

01:58:07.000 I don't know what's going on over there, huh?

01:58:09.000 But I did see that Count Dankula is thin.

01:58:12.000 Yeah.

01:58:12.000 Has he lost weight?

01:58:13.000 That's some regime change I am for.

01:58:15.000 Yeah.

01:58:15.000 Shout out to Count Dankula.

01:58:17.000 Yeah.

01:58:17.000 How's it been, buddy?

01:58:18.000 It's been a minute.

01:58:19.000 Hopefully he's doing okay.

01:58:21.000 Seems to be.

01:58:22.000 He's fit as a fiddle.

01:58:24.000 Alright, what do we got here?

01:58:26.000 A B-52 departs from Taiwan at 500 nautical miles per hour.

01:58:32.000 An Israeli B-2 departs from Tel Aviv at 350 nautical miles per hour.

01:58:36.000 Which one gets to make a three-mile Ayatollah first? 0.79

01:58:42.000 Does that mean, like, what does that mean?

01:58:45.000 Oh.

01:58:46.000 Making a nuclear joke.

01:58:48.000 Oh.

01:58:50.000 Common Sense Fishing says, could it be possible China smuggled a nuke into Iran via three trips?

01:58:56.000 Making plausible deniability if nuke used, that would sure mess things up globally.

01:59:00.000 I don't think they need to use three planes to bring in a nuke.

01:59:06.000 When you mentioned the story earlier about the three planes, and when you look at that image of the planes on satellite and how everybody's kind of skirting around it, it's like if there's actual uranium on those planes, that is something they end up making a movie about 20 years later, once all the information is declassified.

01:59:25.000 There is a realistic possibility that the Iranians have something in escrow in North Korea. 0.92

01:59:36.000 in escrow in North Korea, as in, like, just saved up?

01:59:39.000 No, that the Iranians have... 1.00

01:59:47.000 Yeah.

01:59:48.000 That's not an unrealistic possibility.

01:59:51.000 North Korea gets caught with it.

01:59:52.000 Like, I'm sorry, I was holding it for a friend.

01:59:54.000 Yeah, North Korea is...

01:59:55.000 Yeah.

01:59:57.000 It wasn't mine.

01:59:58.000 It wasn't mine.

01:59:59.000 And, I mean, well, North Korea has already thought to have nuclear weapons, so they probably assume that it's safer to have them hold on to it and say, and rely on the fact that the international community is not going to be like, we need to send inspectors in to make sure, because the international community is kind of like, ah, well, they already got them, so it's a little too late for these guys. 0.51

02:00:21.000 Extonman says the Boeing 747 stops in Turkmenistan.

02:00:26.000 And continues on to Luxembourg.

02:00:28.000 Bad coverage for flights in that area.

02:00:30.000 Interesting.

02:00:33.000 No idea.

02:00:34.000 He says Cargolux operates regular service between Luxembourg and Turkmenbashi.

02:00:40.000 Flight trackers have issues in that area, possibly due to authoritarian rule.

02:00:46.000 Interesting.

02:00:46.000 We should have gotten those Taylor Swift flight trackers on all this.

02:00:49.000 We would have solved this problem weeks ago.

02:00:52.000 What do you guys do?

02:00:52.000 Well, you know, they're not.

02:00:54.000 They're busy.

02:00:55.000 Trailing Taylor Swift.

02:00:56.000 Like, if we just tell them, like, look, it's about climate change.

02:00:58.000 It's not about nuclear war.

02:00:59.000 It's about climate change.

02:01:00.000 We'll get this solved in no time at all.

02:01:02.000 I feel like they'd still be busy chasing Taylor Swift.

02:01:05.000 Conant says, DJT met with Saudis, UAE, and had China trade deal in the last 30 days.

02:01:10.000 Iran was discussed with all three behind the scenes.

02:01:13.000 Interesting.

02:01:14.000 I think so.

02:01:15.000 I think so.

02:01:17.000 Yep.

02:01:17.000 Yeah, except the Saudis told Trump that they want peace and quiet.

02:01:23.000 Interesting.

02:01:24.000 Who doesn't?

02:01:26.000 You know.

02:01:27.000 I'm sure they just want to sit back in their lounge chairs, some chicken wings, football game.

02:01:32.000 That's what I want.

02:01:33.000 International football, though, so soccer, as you call it.

02:01:36.000 It's called soccer over there, but we say soccer.

02:01:40.000 They say football.

02:01:42.000 All right, we'll grab one more here.

02:01:43.000 What do we got?

02:01:46.000 What is this?

02:01:48.000 Jimmy says this is nothing new.

02:01:50.000 All large civilizations that become technologically advanced go insane and destroy themselves.

02:01:54.000 Ah, Fermi's Paradox.

02:01:55.000 The Great Filter.

02:01:57.000 We build VR chambers, lock ourselves in, and then die.

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02:02:19.000 I don't have anything to say.

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02:02:21.000 Oh, I have a podcast, Israel Update.

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02:04:19.000 So, Whoopi Goldberg claims living under Iranian regime is the same as being black in America.

02:04:27.000 Can you confirm that, sir?

02:04:29.000 She's definitely right.

02:04:31.000 Oh, I'll tell you something really funny.

02:04:33.000 Back when the George Floyd riots were going on...

02:04:41.000 Uncensored.

02:04:42.000 But is it recorded?

02:04:44.000 Yeah.

02:04:45.000 So what I'm saying is for posterity?

02:04:49.000 Okay.

02:04:50.000 So, when the George Floyd riots were going on, our authorities were saying that we're an evil country and we're racist.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - June 19, 2025

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