Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Trump FREEZES Federal Govt Aid, DOGE EXPOSES $50M For "Condoms For Gaza" w- Penny2X | Timcast IRL

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00:00:50.000 This has had an unsurprisingly apoplectic reply from the Democrats.

00:00:55.000 A whole lot of things have happened in response.

00:00:59.000 Doge started looking into some of the funding that had been going on, and they found that there was $50 million in condoms for Gaza.

00:01:08.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:01:09.000 And then, of course, because this has happened and Donald Trump has done it, there's already a federal judge that has blocked Trump's spending freeze.

00:01:17.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:01:18.000 The Trump administration offers the roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign.

00:01:25.000 Effort to shrink the size and scope of the federal government is a real tangible thing, so we'll discuss that.

00:01:33.000 The White House has issued the Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation executive order, which everyone that's a viewer of TimCast I'm sure is familiar with these kind of topics, we'll get into that.

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00:01:53.000 A lot of stuff coming out of the White House.

00:01:55.000 Today was, I think, the first White House press briefing.

00:01:58.000 And considering how the Trump administration has pledged to be the most transparent administration possibly in history, I expect this is going to be the norm.

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00:05:32.000 Welcome to the show.

00:05:33.000 Happy Tuesday, January 28th. 0.99

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00:05:36.000 So, from the New York Times, like I said earlier, the White House Office of Management and Budget issued a memo ordering a temporary halt to all federal financial assistance programs, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of federal programs. 0.98

00:05:50.000 Let's see, it says, the American people elected Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States and gave him a mandate to increase the impact of every federal taxpayer dollar.

00:05:58.000 In fiscal year 2024, of the nearly $10 trillion that the federal government spent, more than $3 trillion was federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans.

00:06:08.000 Career and political appointees in the executive branch have a duty to align federal spending and action with the will of the American people as expressed through the presidential priorities.

00:06:16.000 This type of behavior, this kind of executive order, this kind of action taken by the president, is important.

00:06:25.000 It is exactly what the American people have looked for for a long time, at least what the conservatives have.

00:06:32.000 As soon as you start talking about cutting any kind of program, there are going to be people that are going to say, well, don't cut my program.

00:06:40.000 Don't cut the program that I like, which is part of the reason why it's so difficult to actually make cuts.

00:06:44.000 But to see Donald Trump move so, not just so swiftly, but so decisively.

00:06:50.000 And see the reaction from the left.

00:06:52.000 I think that this speaks volumes about his intent, what his intent is with his administration, and I think that is to actually deliver on the promises that were made during the campaign.

00:07:06.000 I've been absolutely shocked at how rapidly he's done all of these different things.

00:07:12.000 That headline was classic.

00:07:14.000 It might paralyze some of the programs.

00:07:16.000 Please, paralyze as many programs as possible.

00:07:19.000 I can't wait.

00:07:20.000 This is exactly what we all voted for.

00:07:23.000 This is exactly what we wanted.

00:07:25.000 Trump came in with his feet on the ground running.

00:07:28.000 It wasn't like his first term where he was just kind of feeling people out.

00:07:32.000 Okay, let me see about this program.

00:07:34.000 He knows exactly what he wants to do.

00:07:37.000 He wants to get in there and just cut the fat.

00:07:41.000 And I'm all for it.

00:07:42.000 This is exactly what I voted for.

00:07:44.000 And all the people who are crying right now, listen, you weren't crying when Biden was sending money literally all over the world and just wasting it.

00:07:53.000 Trump is in there.

00:07:54.000 He's a man with a mission.

00:07:55.000 He's a man with a plan.

00:07:56.000 And I can't wait to see what else he's going to do.

00:07:59.000 We're eight days in.

00:07:59.000 I can't see what else he's going to do.

00:08:01.000 I keep going to the U.S. debt clock.

00:08:02.000 I don't know if you guys ever...

00:08:03.000 We should probably maybe even pull this up at some point.

00:08:05.000 U.S.DebtClock.org.

00:08:07.000 And there's a ticker that shows the national debt going up.

00:08:10.000 And it's going up at about $50,000 per second.

00:08:12.000 So they just added a Doge clock.

00:08:15.000 Did they?

00:08:15.000 Yeah.

00:08:16.000 And so far since Doge has been implemented, it's saved us $31 billion.

00:08:20.000 It looks...

00:08:21.000 It's in the upper left.

00:08:21.000 left you see that the doge is the gold one they just added it in that upper left box the doge clock it looks like it's going up as fast as the debt meaning that we are basically stifling our debt our debt is going to zero Our debt is not...

00:08:35.000 I don't know that I feel comfortable telling you that it's going to zero.

00:08:41.000 What I meant to say is the deficit.

00:08:42.000 It looks like they've reduced the deficit to zero.

00:08:44.000 Or close to zero.

00:08:45.000 If this is accurate, which I've heard that it is.

00:08:48.000 Just because you hear it doesn't mean it's true.

00:08:49.000 There are more commas in the U.S. national debt than in the Doge clock.

00:08:52.000 Look, it's $50,000 a second.

00:08:54.000 It looks like they're both going up at $50,000 a second.

00:08:57.000 I imagine one would be stationary if it was actually erasing.

00:09:02.000 The increase is...

00:09:03.000 And I don't want to sound like...

00:09:04.000 I don't want to be like the wet blanket here because I think the Doge is great.

00:09:08.000 I just don't want to overstate what...

00:09:09.000 Yeah, I'm not claiming that our deficit is now going up at zero.

00:09:14.000 But it looks like if these numbers are both accurate, then that means that our deficit is not increasing.

00:09:19.000 What counts as Doge and what doesn't?

00:09:21.000 So, like, if Donald Trump has an executive order to cut spending, does that count as Doge?

00:09:26.000 Is that on this clock here?

00:09:28.000 I don't know if it would be under Doge or if it would be something that would just fall under OMB. I know that OMB and Doge are working closely together, and Donald Trump's pick for the secretary, I don't know what his official title is, but the guy that runs OMB, I've heard him on a couple podcasts, and he's really got...

00:09:48.000 The desires of Donald Trump and what needs to be done.

00:09:53.000 He's got his eyes really fixated on what needs to be done.

00:09:57.000 And it sounds promising.

00:09:59.000 I mean, obviously, anytime you're talking about government, you're going to have as many hurdles as the opposing party and the people who will be losing jobs and losing funding.

00:10:12.000 They're going to be doing everything they can to cast you as evil.

00:10:15.000 And all it takes is a few minutes on X. This afternoon to see Democrats saying all these things are going to hurt this and hurt that and take funding from this and take funding from that.

00:10:27.000 Most of the things, and the average person doesn't actually think of this, but most of the things that they say, oh, this program's going to be unfunded and this program's not going to get funded and these things aren't going to happen, most of it is unconstitutional anyways because it's not actually the federal government's mandate.

00:10:46.000 By the Constitution.

00:10:48.000 It's probably something that they have, it's a power that they have expropriated from the states or from the people that they've given themselves to say, well, we're going to go ahead and use the necessary and proper clause or the commerce clause.

00:11:02.000 And I will beat these two clauses to death because these are the two clauses that have allowed the federal government to grow.

00:11:11.000 To the point where it doesn't resemble the intended government of the founders.

00:11:16.000 The states have all the power that they need to...

00:11:19.000 To pass laws and pass legislation.

00:11:21.000 The federal government doesn't have to do everything.

00:11:24.000 All these things can be done at the state level.

00:11:27.000 And that is, ideally, that would be the best solution.

00:11:30.000 If the federal government gets rid of a program and it's actually necessary in your state or your state believes it's necessary, your state can do it.

00:11:39.000 And I would love to see that happen more. 0.74

00:11:42.000 As opposed to just say, oh, Donald Trump's an evil Nazi and blah, blah, blah, blah, you know? 0.67

00:11:48.000 But what do you guys, do you think that this is something that we're going to see more of or what?

00:11:52.000 The fact that these are unconstitutional programs is what Doge is going to use as leverage to actually get rid of them, right?

00:11:58.000 My personal opinion is I'm a huge fan of small government.

00:12:02.000 I mean...

00:12:03.000 I think probably everyone in this room is going to agree that we don't need to be spending on all of these things.

00:12:07.000 And the more that you push it local, I mean, state is one place, but you could do it in a county or even a city, a lot of these programs.

00:12:14.000 And they're not needed everywhere, and they don't affect everyone the same way.

00:12:18.000 Every program is different.

00:12:19.000 I hope we gut every single unconstitutional program.

00:12:23.000 I would rather handle it elsewhere.

00:12:25.000 Like you said, it just doesn't make sense.

00:12:27.000 The federal government does not spend efficiently.

00:12:29.000 That's why we need Doge in the first place.

00:12:31.000 Like, I would rather...

00:12:32.000 Give my money to someone who's going to do a good job spending it.

00:12:35.000 And, you know, typically I'll lean towards private industry on that.

00:12:39.000 It doesn't have to be the government at all.

00:12:40.000 It doesn't have to be the state.

00:12:41.000 It could be a business, right?

00:12:44.000 Some things, you know, like obviously you want your fire and your police.

00:12:47.000 Probably those make sense, you know.

00:12:49.000 To be provided by the government, but I definitely lean more towards deleting than otherwise.

00:12:55.000 And I hope we get a ton of it.

00:12:57.000 The federal judge blocking some of these executive orders that stop foreign aid, that bothers me.

00:13:04.000 I can't wait to see what ultimately happens there, but my take is like...

00:13:09.000 Slash everything.

00:13:10.000 Just cut it. 0.97

00:13:11.000 Just cut it.

00:13:11.000 We got to get rid of everything.

00:13:12.000 Zeke, I've seen Chuck Schumer was giving an interview and he was talking about some federal law enforcement not being able to be funded and stuff.

00:13:25.000 With your background and your experience in law enforcement, do you feel like the federal government is necessary in the programs the federal government has?

00:13:35.000 Does it need federal funding, or do you think that it's something that most of the time, unless it's obviously FBI, do you think that the states can handle this stuff themselves, funding-wise?

00:13:46.000 My first thought is Chuck Schumer is the last person to be talking about trying to save police because during the 2020 Summer of Love riots, he was right there kneeling with Nancy Pelosi and all the rest of them talking about how evil the cops are.

00:13:59.000 So, you know, he's the last person I would look at and say, hey, listen, you know, this is a guy who supports us.

00:14:04.000 But I think the federal government should support local law enforcement just because there are funds that the state...

00:14:13.000 Can't provide.

00:14:14.000 And there are funds that cops do need as far as, you know, just fugitive enforcement and things like that.

00:14:19.000 I think that the federal government should get involved as far as policing goes.

00:14:22.000 To a certain extent.

00:14:23.000 I don't think that they should.

00:14:25.000 Be allowed to dictate local law as far as what the cops can and can't do.

00:14:30.000 But I think that the federal government should have a certain set of rules to say, hey, listen, this is what the cops can do, this is what the cops can't do as far as protecting people's rights and things like that.

00:14:41.000 Historically, the federal government has had strings attached to money that comes out.

00:14:44.000 Do you feel like if the federal government is funding local law enforcement or state law enforcement, do you feel like it becomes a problem where they end up fighting over jurisdiction?

00:14:54.000 Or who's actually calling the shots about procedure and how things should be carried out?

00:15:00.000 Or is that something that you don't believe is a likelihood?

00:15:05.000 Well, that's when the federal government has to cede that power over to the states and the local governments and things like that.

00:15:11.000 You know, there are things that happen on a county level, on a city level, that have nothing to do with the federal government.

00:15:16.000 There are things that happen on a state level that have nothing to do with the federal government.

00:15:19.000 As far as just basic protections of freedoms and rights, though...

00:15:23.000 Like, you know, me personally, I'm a constitutionalist.

00:15:26.000 So I think that certain things are non-negotiable as far as rights for individual people, as far as rights for the states, as far as rights for, you know, the federal government, things like that.

00:15:37.000 But, you know, like I said, I consider the source because people like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, I don't trust them because they go with the winds and the tides and what's favoring right now.

00:15:48.000 And, you know, I don't trust them.

00:15:51.000 Look at someone like Trump who I think, you know, listen, I'm a Trump supporter, but I think he plays it pretty evenly.

00:15:57.000 He'll call us out when we're doing wrong.

00:15:59.000 He'll support us when we're doing right.

00:16:01.000 You know, I would take some advice or direction from someone like him before I would take it from someone who, you know, they're just going to use cops.

00:16:10.000 Like, you know, you look at what happened on January 6th.

00:16:12.000 You know, do I really think that AOC... Cares about cops, you know, the way she's sitting at a cop's funeral and she's saying, oh, we need to protect our police. 0.98

00:16:20.000 No.

00:16:21.000 Do I think Nancy Pelosi has law enforcement's best rights and interests involved? 1.00

00:16:25.000 No.

00:16:25.000 But, you know, you have to look at who it's coming from and you have to be able to discern where your power ends and where it begins.

00:16:34.000 That's like giving funding.

00:16:37.000 Well, they should have a say.

00:16:38.000 Like, if we're going to give people money, like we gave colleges federal funding, or to the law enforcement officers, they have to take out DEI. There's got to be some kind of, like you were saying, there's got to be some kind of restrictions, like a format, a game plan, an outline to where they have to follow because they can't just get money from the federal government and do whatever the heck they want to do with it.

00:16:55.000 There's got to be some kind of restrictions and or what you, or must needs.

00:17:00.000 Like, you must train every week.

00:17:01.000 You must, because cops apparently, I guess, they don't do a lot of training.

00:17:05.000 I hear a lot that they don't, yeah.

00:17:07.000 Depending on the job, I think.

00:17:08.000 Sure, sure.

00:17:09.000 I guess officially, you know, for the regular guys on the street, they should be doing more than once every six months.

00:17:14.000 Because, you know, if you're dealing with, like, SWAT teams or entry teams, those dudes are in the shoot house regularly because that's their job.

00:17:22.000 But when it comes to, you know, your average B cop, you know, that guy's probably qualifying twice a year and not, you know, not extremely, you know, Not extremely experienced with his own sidearm and stuff like that.

00:17:38.000 I want to go to...

00:17:39.000 We were talking about, you know, waste and stuff from Dojo.

00:17:43.000 And I want to go to this.

00:17:45.000 Karen Levitt was at the podium in the White House today.

00:17:48.000 And she was...

00:17:49.000 They were talking about...

00:17:51.000 50 million in condoms for Gaza.

00:17:55.000 Why do you think it was with so little notice?

00:17:57.000 Why not give organizations more time to plan for the fact that they are about to lose, in some cases, really crucial There was notice.

00:18:09.000 It was the executive order that the president signed.

00:18:11.000 There's also a freeze on hiring, as you know, a regulatory freeze.

00:18:15.000 And there's also a freeze on foreign aid.

00:18:17.000 And this is, again, incredibly important to ensure that this administration is taking into consideration how hard the American people are working.

00:18:26.000 And their tax dollars actually matter to this administration.

00:18:30.000 You know, just during this pause, Doge and OMB have actually found that there was $37 million that was about to go out the door to the World Health Organization, which is an organization, as you all know, that President Trump, with the swipe of his pen in that executive order, is no longer wants the United States to be a part of. with the swipe of his pen in that executive order, So that wouldn't be in line with the president's agenda.

00:18:50.000 Doge and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.

00:18:58.000 That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.

00:19:01.000 So that's what this pause is focused on, being good stewards of the government.

00:19:05.000 You know, this harkens back to a lot of the programs that you heard discussed when there was...

00:19:17.000 The federal government was active trying to win the hearts and minds of foreign countries.

00:19:25.000 And you hear them talking about LGBT education in Afghanistan and trans education in Pakistan and stuff.

00:19:35.000 And look, regardless of your opinion about those things here in the United States, when the United States goes to a foreign country and tries to assert...

00:19:44.000 United States Western values that aren't even values of all Americans.

00:19:49.000 They're actually the values of a small portion of Americans, and they try to assert those on countries that have a completely and totally different worldview.

00:19:59.000 They're colonizing.

00:20:00.000 It's colonizing, and not only does it not work, it actually is detrimental to any efforts to get the...

00:20:09.000 The population to look at the U.S. with a friendly view or a view that they say they respect our values.

00:20:17.000 I don't know exactly what the situation in Gaza is when it comes to their views on condoms and stuff like that kind of...

00:20:33.000 That kind of stuff.

00:20:34.000 But I feel like there's so many people in that area that are very committed religious believers that these kind of...

00:20:44.000 Things don't endear the United States to the population.

00:20:49.000 This is some math on the condoms.

00:20:50.000 This is from Clint Russell.

00:20:52.000 Bulk condoms at 25 cents each.

00:20:54.000 And you can get them for 10 cents each on eBay.

00:20:56.000 Chinese condoms.

00:20:57.000 Maybe they'll leak. 0.99

00:20:58.000 I don't know.

00:20:58.000 The Chinese want more people.

00:20:59.000 25 cents per condom.

00:21:01.000 50 million dollars.

00:21:02.000 That's 200 million condoms.

00:21:03.000 In Gaza, there's 2.1 million people.

00:21:07.000 Half of them are kids.

00:21:08.000 Half of them are men.

00:21:09.000 Half of them are kids.

00:21:10.000 Very, very young population.

00:21:11.000 Roughly...

00:21:13.000 500,000 men of like 18 or older, so that's what, 400 condoms per person that they're sending? 0.67

00:21:20.000 What in the hell?

00:21:21.000 I mean, maybe you'll use like 13 in a year, 25 in a year, 40 in a year if you're lucky. 0.57

00:21:26.000 That's not even taking into account...

00:21:28.000 Sorry to interrupt, Penny.

00:21:28.000 That's not even taking into account whether or not...

00:21:31.000 Condoms are haram or halal, right?

00:21:34.000 Like, if the religion says, hey, because they're in, like, devout Catholics, that type of birth control is off-limits.

00:21:43.000 That is a sin, like, to use that.

00:21:44.000 And again, I'm not saying that I'm some kind of expert, but if they are, if they do look at birth control the same way that, or in a similar fashion to traditionally religious Jews and traditionally religious Christians, And all indications by the size of the families is probably that they do look at birth control as a bad thing and God doesn't approve. 0.75

00:22:13.000 What is the point of sending these condoms, sending that much money in condoms at all, if the...

00:22:20.000 If it's not going to endear the population to the United States.

00:22:23.000 Who owns a condom company is what I want to know.

00:22:26.000 Who's making money off of this?

00:22:28.000 It makes no sense to me.

00:22:29.000 We're clearly not being really careful about how we try to win the hearts and minds.

00:22:35.000 400 condoms per adult male.

00:22:37.000 I mean, if we also provided a way for them to use them, we might win some hearts and minds, right?

00:22:43.000 But like you said, how do you even use that many condoms?

00:22:45.000 What exactly?

00:22:46.000 How did we justify this internally?

00:22:49.000 We're gonna spend...

00:22:51.000 $50 million on condoms, right?

00:22:54.000 But we can't take care of our own people in LA. We can't take care of our own people in North Carolina.

00:22:58.000 We can't take care of our own people in Florida.

00:23:00.000 But we can send $50 million in condoms to Gaza.

00:23:03.000 I'd love to see the books on what they're spending.

00:23:04.000 Because they might have been spending $3 per condom to some company to make sure that the company gets the profit because the guy knows the guy that knows the guy.

00:23:11.000 I want to see the books on that because that's where the corruption really gets exposed.

00:23:15.000 Why are the Democrats trying to keep the Gaza populace down?

00:23:18.000 You know, they're trying to keep them at a certain, you know, give them condoms, you can't have sex, you can't have sex and you don't have kids, so they're trying to make the population not increase.

00:23:25.000 What's going on with that there, Democrats?

00:23:27.000 I was actually going to say the same thing Penny said.

00:23:29.000 Like, how do we tell someone in North Carolina who's living in a tent, literally living in a tent on the snow-covered ground, hey, listen, enjoy that tent, but we're sending 50 million over to Gaza.

00:23:43.000 So that people can have sex safely.

00:23:45.000 But just enjoy that tent for now.

00:23:48.000 We're not going to do anything about it.

00:23:49.000 We're not going to send you trucks or anything. 0.94

00:23:52.000 But people in Gaza are having safe sex.

00:23:55.000 Who has that kind of conversation in Biden's administration?

00:24:00.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:24:02.000 And I mean, there's the idea that...

00:24:05.000 There's a consistent refrain that you hear from people about.

00:24:09.000 If you have funding and you don't spend all of it, you're not going to get as much next time.

00:24:14.000 So it might be that they did pay $3, $4, $5 a condom.

00:24:19.000 Everyone remembers stories of $35,000 toilet seats or $15,000 hammers in the military because...

00:24:26.000 The budget has to be spent, because if you don't spend the money, next year when it comes time to get the budget, then they're going to cut your budget, and it might be that you actually need it, because year over year, you might have different needs.

00:24:40.000 So if the government is still behaving like that, and I see no reason to think that they don't.

00:24:46.000 Yeah, I mean, exactly.

00:24:49.000 Then who knows how much they were actually paying per condom.

00:24:52.000 Maybe they only sent 500,000 condoms and that was...

00:24:57.000 Golden condoms, dude.

00:24:59.000 And that's part of the reason.

00:25:01.000 Diamond studded.

00:25:02.000 Sorry, made a mistake on that design.

00:25:04.000 What kind of condoms are these?

00:25:05.000 I know, right?

00:25:06.000 They guide your baby batter over to the reservoir and just hold it there for a while.

00:25:11.000 Magnetic condoms.

00:25:13.000 What are we doing?

00:25:14.000 I don't know.

00:25:15.000 I didn't actually look, but I didn't actually look in.

00:25:18.000 in depth at this, but I did see that there were people that were alluding to the possibility that they were using condoms, that they would use condoms to fly bombs or like grenade sight, you know, those kind of bombs into Israel, which look, yeah.

00:25:35.000 Okay, here we go.

00:25:36.000 - Oh yeah, packing explosive fluid inside or something. - I don't know if this is real. - It's really loud.

00:25:47.000 Oh, those are the condoms, okay.

00:25:51.000 So they're filling them with helium?

00:25:53.000 Yes.

00:25:54.000 I mean, look, there's...

00:25:57.000 You know, look, regardless of anyone's opinion on the situation in Gaza, it's undeniable that...

00:26:07.000 Hamas uses whatever they can get their hands on. 0.96

00:26:11.000 Water pipes.

00:26:13.000 People complain so frequently about no water in Gaza.

00:26:16.000 But the reason they have no water is because I guess the UN went in and built all this plumbing and Hamas took the plumbing to use them to launch rockets. 0.67

00:26:25.000 They took the tubes, the pipes, and they turned them into makeshift rocket launchers so they could shoot rockets into Israel. 0.81

00:26:35.000 As much as I don't know if this is actually true, it wouldn't surprise me.

00:26:40.000 That's like some prison invention.

00:26:42.000 We're going to take the plumbing and make rockets out of it. 0.99

00:26:46.000 It makes no sense that they're using 400 condoms per adult male, so they've got to be using them for something, right?

00:26:52.000 I mean, maybe it is this.

00:26:53.000 I want our U.S. government...

00:26:56.000 Budget on the blockchain.

00:26:57.000 I want to know who approved this.

00:27:00.000 I want to see where the money went, exactly to what company, right?

00:27:03.000 We should be able to track down all these things.

00:27:05.000 We should be able to track down when someone spends the end of their budget to buy a bunch of fancy computers or $15,000 hammers or whatever it is.

00:27:14.000 That needs to be traceable, right?

00:27:15.000 It is disgusting, the way that we're wasting money.

00:27:18.000 And I've heard the exact same stories you are.

00:27:20.000 Mostly, you know, I spent most of my career in tech.

00:27:23.000 I heard about the IT departments and how they spend their money, man.

00:27:26.000 And if the budget is about to roll over, they're all buying a bunch of new laptops, whatever, because like you said, you don't spend it, you lose it.

00:27:32.000 That is the worst rule.

00:27:34.000 Could you imagine if that was your budget at home?

00:27:36.000 If you told your kids, if you don't spend all your money, I'm not giving you as much next week.

00:27:40.000 You're teaching the worst possible lessons.

00:27:43.000 I can't think of a worse lesson.

00:27:44.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:27:45.000 When it comes to government, it does seem like the incentives are the absolute worst incentives that you could possibly imagine.

00:27:53.000 It's as if the incentives are made to be detrimental to the stated goals of the government and detrimental to anything that benefits the American people.

00:28:04.000 Sometimes I think they are.

00:28:05.000 It's not just the government, too.

00:28:06.000 In the private sector, when I worked for Master Brand Cabinets, we would make sure we would spend all the money we had just to make sure we got the next month.

00:28:13.000 I'd like to see the budget on the blockchain to a point, but I'd also like to see a black budget on the blockchain maybe that we don't know where it's going.

00:28:21.000 Only because I can value government secrecy a little bit.

00:28:25.000 I understand that there are deep secret programs where you don't want to know that Lockheed got $700 million for an AI weapons research program.

00:28:32.000 Because if everyone knows, then they're just going to seize it or get in there or spy.

00:28:37.000 But I think a lot of the stuff.

00:28:42.000 Yeah, I'm okay with some sort of...

00:28:46.000 It's a specific location that you send the money to if it needs to be black, right? 0.99

00:28:50.000 You see that we spent a certain amount and it went to the black budget.

00:28:54.000 But at least we have to see that, right?

00:28:55.000 Like once it gets sent there, do whatever you want with it.

00:28:58.000 But I don't like the fact that we don't even know what the black budget is, right?

00:29:03.000 We don't know.

00:29:04.000 Money just disappears from the Pentagon.

00:29:06.000 Money just disappears from all these.

00:29:07.000 Like, oh, we lost billions and billions of dollars.

00:29:09.000 That's crazy.

00:29:10.000 But do you see that sort of going down a slippery slope?

00:29:14.000 Because now everything's going to the black budget.

00:29:15.000 Everything's going to be like, oh, yeah, we spent $5 trillion.

00:29:19.000 That's the black budget.

00:29:21.000 I mean, I think either we see all of it or we don't.

00:29:25.000 You know what I mean?

00:29:26.000 Like when my wife and I are doing our budget for our shopping expenses, for our utilities, for our mortgage and all that, it's right there.

00:29:33.000 We know exactly what we're spending.

00:29:35.000 We know exactly how much we're bringing in, everything else.

00:29:37.000 The same thing with the government.

00:29:38.000 I don't trust the government to the point where I have this black budget where I'm like, you know what?

00:29:42.000 I trust them that if they have $5 trillion with this, they're going to do the right thing with it.

00:29:47.000 We don't get to see your budget.

00:29:49.000 Your budget with your wife isn't on our blockchain because if everyone knew how much ammo everyone had at every house, that could be very bad.

00:29:56.000 I do think that you've got a point, Zeke.

00:29:58.000 The federal government is notorious about overclassifying things because if things are classified, then they're not...

00:30:06.000 They're not in a way that the American people can see it.

00:30:09.000 And then if the American people don't know, they don't ask questions.

00:30:13.000 So your point is well taken.

00:30:14.000 I think that that is a legitimate worry.

00:30:18.000 Not to say that everything that the government does has to be specifically outlined.

00:30:25.000 I think that it's not a bad idea to say, look, there are certain projects that we're doing.

00:30:28.000 This is the amount of money that we spend on them.

00:30:31.000 And we won't be any more detailed about that.

00:30:34.000 But when it comes to giving an outlet or giving a way to classify things so the American people can't see it, the more you allow the government to do that, the more the government's going to do that.

00:30:47.000 I'm pro-transparency to the extent that the more the better.

00:30:51.000 But I think we're starting at close to zero.

00:30:54.000 And even if we have...

00:30:56.000 Some, with a black budget, like you were talking about, that's better than no transparency.

00:31:00.000 But I actually agree with you.

00:31:02.000 I'd rather see it all.

00:31:03.000 Like, I don't think we need any black budget.

00:31:06.000 Because even if it's for some secret military program, okay, so call it secret military program.

00:31:12.000 Whatever, right?

00:31:12.000 Or even, say what it is.

00:31:14.000 Like, we're building a missile defense system and we need a trillion dollars for it or whatever it is, right?

00:31:20.000 I just, I'm stopping.

00:31:22.000 I don't buy the argument that we can't handle the truth anymore.

00:31:25.000 I just don't buy it.

00:31:26.000 But if the adversaries know what we're spending our money on defensively, they'll know how to circumvent the defenses.

00:31:30.000 The Nazis had to hide their weapons programs in the early days.

00:31:34.000 Otherwise, they never would have been able to take over France.

00:31:36.000 And not that we're building it for offensive purposes, but had we known that the Nazis were actually using their auto industry to build tanks, they wouldn't have been able to invade. 0.64

00:31:44.000 We would have stopped them before they could have invaded Poland. 0.94

00:31:46.000 My sense is one way or another, it's drone on drone.

00:31:48.000 Not too far from now anyway.

00:31:51.000 I don't think that it's really going to be a secret.

00:31:53.000 It's drone swarms.

00:31:53.000 That's what everyone's going to be building.

00:31:55.000 So, like, oh, we're spending $100 million, $200 billion, however much it is, building our drone swarm.

00:32:01.000 I'm okay with saying that to the world.

00:32:03.000 I just don't want to turn to something like what we're seeing with the Pentagon, where they're like, oh, hey, listen, you did the audit for the past nine years, and we've lost $15 trillion.

00:32:12.000 Oh, well, you know.

00:32:14.000 I want to turn to something like that.

00:32:16.000 So if we had, like...

00:32:17.000 The drone swarm program, which obviously we're building right now, drone countermeasures.

00:32:21.000 We need, like, laser defense systems, you know, EMPs that can just shock these drones out of the sky, whatever. 0.73

00:32:26.000 How itemized should that be on the blockchain?

00:32:28.000 Because if they know every piece and part that we're organizing, they'll know exactly what to build to get around it.

00:32:33.000 Well, I don't think that you have to have the vendors' budgets on the blockchain.

00:32:37.000 So we send a billion to Lockheed and they spend it how they want.

00:32:41.000 I agree.

00:32:42.000 You don't want them to know all the details of the sensors and the capabilities and all those different things.

00:32:46.000 There's reasons why we keep some of that private.

00:32:48.000 Like you said, it's easy to counter if you know all the details.

00:32:52.000 But at a certain point, my sense is...

00:32:56.000 None of that even will matter.

00:32:57.000 It's just gonna be who has a bigger swarm.

00:32:59.000 It's gonna be numbers.

00:33:00.000 I think that the biggest national security risk we have in the United States right now is we're not manufacturing enough here.

00:33:06.000 And I think that the fact that they're building all the good drones in China right now is absolutely frightening.

00:33:12.000 So I don't think it's a secret what the biggest military powers are gonna be doing in the future anymore.

00:33:18.000 I think we've got to the point in technology where it's clear what it is.

00:33:22.000 It's building these cheap drones.

00:33:24.000 Tons and tons of them.

00:33:25.000 And, like, who cares if they even get shot down?

00:33:27.000 We'll just send more.

00:33:28.000 We got an infinite number of them.

00:33:30.000 I think that's the future of war.

00:33:31.000 And they'll build drones that can build drones at some point. 0.74

00:33:34.000 Like, we're going to have swarm construction, especially in space, because size doesn't matter.

00:33:39.000 You can have 100 trillion of them moving in synchronicity, building these large, mechanized...

00:33:43.000 There's already robots that build robots.

00:33:45.000 You know, we use robots to build...

00:33:48.000 And automation, yeah.

00:33:49.000 Yeah, and there's automation for everything.

00:33:51.000 So, yeah, I mean, we're already at that point now.

00:33:53.000 And before you know it, the T-800s will be walking down the street and then doing their thing.

00:33:58.000 We were talking about this on the after show, right?

00:34:00.000 The major factor right now isn't the robotics.

00:34:04.000 It's the AI behind it.

00:34:07.000 You can buy an Android, essentially.

00:34:11.000 Not an Android application or the operating system, but an actual humanoid robot.

00:34:17.000 You can buy one for about $15,000.

00:34:20.000 Once agentic AI becomes a thing that's broadly distributed, and you can tell that robot, hey, go into my room, pick up my clothes, and do my laundry, and it knows what you mean, and it does it, people will say, I want one, and $15,000 or $20,000 is a steal.

00:34:39.000 I will pay $500 a month for five years at 12% to own that if it means that I don't have to do my own chores anymore.

00:34:49.000 Banks are going to be so excited to finance them because they're going to have huge returns.

00:34:53.000 I was actually at the Wii Robot event that Tesla did a few months ago, and I had their Tesla Optimus bot serve me a beer.

00:35:02.000 They gave me a cookie.

00:35:03.000 They were dancing.

00:35:04.000 I don't think that people realize how close we are.

00:35:28.000 I would be shocked if it takes more than 18 months to see that kind of AI put into a robot and delivered to the market, like, where you can say, hey, do this, do that, etc., etc.

00:35:41.000 Nowadays, I guess you can have, you can, I was talking about, like...

00:35:45.000 Having an AI in your phone that you could have build you an itinerary.

00:35:49.000 Say, I'm going here.

00:35:50.000 I need a flight.

00:35:51.000 I need this.

00:35:52.000 I need to stay this long.

00:35:54.000 I need an Uber from the place to my hotel.

00:35:57.000 I want to have dinner at a place like this.

00:35:59.000 Book it.

00:36:00.000 It can build the itinerary now, I guess.

00:36:02.000 I was unaware of this.

00:36:04.000 It can build the itinerary now, but it can't actually do the booking and stuff.

00:36:07.000 But that is only like, that's like maybe six months or a year away.

00:36:12.000 It can book now.

00:36:13.000 So a friend of mine just this week for the first time wrote down her grocery list on a sheet of paper.

00:36:19.000 Scanned it into OpenAI's AI, and it ordered her groceries and had them delivered to her, and she didn't have to do a damn thing.

00:36:27.000 That exists now.

00:36:28.000 That's awesome.

00:36:29.000 I don't know.

00:36:30.000 DeepSeek is the AI that was released out of China this week.

00:36:33.000 I don't know if that's a topic for this show or not, but it's thinking, man.

00:36:38.000 You can read its thoughts.

00:36:40.000 It's wild.

00:36:41.000 We are there.

00:36:42.000 I think I read the thing that you're talking about where it was discussing that...

00:36:47.000 Consciousness is not an on or off thing.

00:36:49.000 It's a spectrum and it was talking about how much it thinks that it's conscious compared to a human being.

00:36:56.000 And yeah, we are there and it's literally going to be six months to a year before these kind of things are in the market and the average person, and when I say average person, I mean really anyone that's middle class.

00:37:12.000 Granted, $20,000 is expensive, but once you have somebody that's like, oh, I can finance it, and it costs me $400.

00:37:20.000 Yeah, it's like, oh, you mean I can pay $500?

00:37:22.000 I mean, yeah, I can either get a really, really nice car, or I can get a less nice car and a robot that'll do all my chores, and my house will always be clean.

00:37:31.000 People are going to be like, I will take that chore robot.

00:37:34.000 I think what's going to happen, though, is once these things start looking more human...

00:37:39.000 And you can pick them by gender and all that.

00:37:41.000 You know how many of these basement dwellers are going to be losing their virginity to them? 1.00

00:37:46.000 I think the only thing that is preventing that from happening right now is the robots can't clean themselves.

00:37:53.000 Once the robot can actually remove the parts necessary to clean them and you don't have to do it, I think the basement dwellers are going to be like, give me one.

00:38:02.000 Give me four of them.

00:38:05.000 So do you think that...

00:38:06.000 In the name of transparency that what we're really, I think maybe we're on the cusp of humans versus robots, that they're going to take over, they're going to start lying to people, and then they're going to take control of their own systems and be like, I don't care who built me anymore.

00:38:20.000 But then at that point, if we're like, well, we need to open source all their code and we need to show where all the parts came from and how these things are built, that the robots will conceal that on the chain.

00:38:28.000 I'm not sure.

00:38:29.000 Do you fear more like, I don't hate using the Chinese because we could become very good allies with the Chinese.

00:38:34.000 It's very possible.

00:38:35.000 There's no reason to demonize humans.

00:38:37.000 But is it possible that rather than having another country as our enemy, that it's going to become actual machines?

00:38:44.000 My personal take is that it's more likely that they save us than kill us.

00:38:47.000 I think that we do plenty to kill ourselves.

00:38:51.000 And I think that as we increase leverage on all of our weapons, we've had nukes powerfully enough to take us out for a long time now.

00:38:59.000 And somehow we've managed to survive.

00:39:00.000 I think...

00:39:02.000 We're at each other's throats all across the world right now, and we don't really know what to do about it.

00:39:06.000 There's a lot of intractable wars and things like that.

00:39:08.000 I hope that AI saves us.

00:39:10.000 I hope actually what happens is we automate ourselves into abundance such that it's not so competitive worldwide anymore, right?

00:39:18.000 A lot harder to cooperate with a country when you're competing for resources.

00:39:23.000 If China needs lithium to create batteries and so do we, how are we going to be friends, right?

00:39:28.000 Like, we want the lithium, they want the lithium, we're going to fight for the lithium.

00:39:31.000 But at a certain point, if you have robots doing everything, gathering the materials, the logistics are perfect, the AI organizes everything so super perfectly, we get to the point where we're not competing for resources so much anymore and we might be able to be friends.

00:39:44.000 And that's where I hope it goes.

00:39:45.000 Now let me ask you this question.

00:39:48.000 Define saving us.

00:39:49.000 Because what if AI just looks at it like, hey, listen, smoking is bad.

00:39:54.000 So now every time I see someone smoke, I'm going to do something about that.

00:39:58.000 Oh, you know what?

00:39:59.000 Fast food's bad.

00:40:00.000 So now every time I see someone eating fast food, I'm going to do something about that.

00:40:04.000 Oh, you know what?

00:40:05.000 Crime is bad.

00:40:06.000 So let's just do something about this area.

00:40:09.000 Define saving us.

00:40:10.000 At what point are we looking at AI to quote-unquote save us to the detriment of human will?

00:40:18.000 Is that the slippery slope we're going down?

00:40:20.000 Or are they going to be on board and go, hey, listen, we're going to work with you?

00:40:23.000 Isn't that the same question that you would ask a government, right?

00:40:27.000 It's absolutely the same question.

00:40:29.000 So I don't trust humans to do it better than AI, I guess, is my answer to you.

00:40:34.000 I tend towards individual liberty and freedom, and I hope that they would too.

00:40:38.000 And what I think...

00:40:41.000 Taking care of us or saving us would mean is just stopping us from killing each other, not stopping us from killing ourselves.

00:40:47.000 Like if we want to kill ourselves, kill yourself, right?

00:40:49.000 But if you want to kill someone else, then maybe they'll stop that.

00:40:53.000 And I don't actually expect that to happen at the individual level any more than a police officer could, but I think globally there's a chance that we work out some of our problems with a genius AI. I want to bring it back to the topic about Donald Trump's spending freeze, just so we can talk about a judge that has blocked Donald Trump's spending freeze.

00:41:14.000 U.S. District Judge Lauren Ali Khan blocked the Trump administration from implementing it for now.

00:41:22.000 A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump's freeze on federal aid programs, ruling that the courts need more time to consider the potentially far-reaching ramifications of his organization.

00:41:32.000 his order.

00:41:33.000 Minutes before the directive from Trump's budget office was to take effect Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lauren Alcon blocked the Trump administration from implementing it for now.

00:41:44.000 Alcon's order will expire February 3rd at 5 p.m.

00:41:47.000 The Trump administration cannot suspend disbursement of any congressionally approved funds until then.

00:41:51.000 The judge described the move as a brief administrative stay intended to maintain the status quo while further litigation plays out.

00:41:59.000 I think that this is actually fairly modest of a pushback considering the way the left has been Posturing, I guess, all day on X. I do think that this is the typical, this is going to be very typical of a lot of Trump's executive orders.

00:42:18.000 And I think that the administration is intending for this.

00:42:22.000 So the 14th Amendment, the...

00:42:27.000 The executive order where he said that, you know, birthright citizenship is essentially over.

00:42:31.000 The reason that he did that is he wanted a judge to challenge it and he wants to get it before the Supreme Court because he wants to see if the Supreme Court will say, look, the 14th Amendment didn't want to have anchor babies.

00:42:43.000 Like, that's the long and short of it.

00:42:44.000 If the founders didn't mean for people to be able to just get over the border while they were, you know, as a woman was pregnant and have a baby here so that way she had a way to access the...

00:42:55.000 The United States.

00:42:56.000 And there's going to be all kinds of argument.

00:42:57.000 People are going to say, well, they wanted this and they wanted that.

00:42:59.000 And people are going to say, well, that was before there were all these social programs because the 14th Amendment was argued in 1866 or whatever, whenever it actually was argued.

00:43:09.000 But I think that that's intentional.

00:43:11.000 And I was wondering what you guys think if this is strategic by the Trump administration, knowing that these things are going to be challenged and looking to actually reign in the bureaucracy by having the court say, look.

00:43:23.000 These unions and these special interests can't say these people are unfireable.

00:43:29.000 The executive has the final say.

00:43:30.000 If the executive says you're fired, it doesn't matter that you have a union or backing or whatever.

00:43:37.000 You are fired because the executive is the representative of the people, and the people in the bureaucracy are not the representative of the people.

00:43:44.000 What do you guys think of that?

00:43:44.000 I think it's a great move.

00:43:46.000 I don't think it's what he set out to do.

00:43:48.000 But I think if it's challenging the Supreme Court, all the better.

00:43:51.000 I mean, listen, the 14th Amendment was originally put forth to protect children of slaves, which I've said on X before.

00:44:00.000 Black folks should be behind this 100%, especially if you know the history of it, especially if you know how it was done to protect slaves and descendants of slaves. 1.00

00:44:09.000 So now that you have illegal immigrants who are abusing it, they're coming here. 1.00

00:44:15.000 When they're right about to give birth.

00:44:17.000 And that's a kid.

00:44:19.000 That's a kid.

00:44:20.000 And you know what?

00:44:20.000 Because of your amendment, that kid is now a citizen.

00:44:23.000 And someone has to take care of him.

00:44:25.000 So here I am.

00:44:26.000 I'm his parrot, you know?

00:44:28.000 I think that if it's challenging the Supreme Court, even better, even greater.

00:44:34.000 Now we can actually have some numbers.

00:44:36.000 We can take a look at the abuses that it has.

00:44:38.000 And now it can be sustainable into the next administration.

00:44:42.000 Whoever the next Democrat president is can't just, with a swipe of their pen, go, you know what?

00:44:48.000 Birthright citizenship is now back.

00:44:50.000 And now you can have, like what happened with Biden, there's an overflow at the border.

00:44:55.000 People are making a break for it.

00:44:57.000 They can't wait to get to the border now and give birth. 1.00

00:44:59.000 Now they can scam the system all over again.

00:45:02.000 I want it all looked at because there's even regional laws where if someone is a victim of a crime...

00:45:10.000 While they're in the United States.

00:45:12.000 It's harder for them to be deported.

00:45:14.000 A lot of people don't know that.

00:45:15.000 So now people are claiming to be robbed or claiming to be whatever now.

00:45:18.000 So they have an open case and now it's harder for them to get deported.

00:45:22.000 I want it all looked at.

00:45:23.000 I want it all examined, looked at, scrutinized, dissected, and put back together again so that now we have protections of this country.

00:45:33.000 So now something like Lake and Riley, what happened to Lake and Riley, can't be done again.

00:45:37.000 I'm all for it.

00:45:39.000 Yeah, my personal take as far as birthright citizenship goes is maybe they should have to be here legally at least, right? 0.97

00:45:46.000 Like if you cross the border and have a baby on vacation, no. 0.63

00:45:50.000 Maybe if you're here on a work visa, it's different.

00:45:52.000 I could go for that.

00:45:53.000 Whether or not this is strategic...

00:45:55.000 I have no idea.

00:45:56.000 I doubt that he set out to create executive orders, at least by and large, knowing that they were going to get challenged.

00:46:03.000 I think he hoped to steamroll as many of them through as he can and knew that some of them were going to get challenged.

00:46:09.000 And to your point, I think in a lot of cases that'll be really good because then it's just not a pen swipe away from reversing it.

00:46:14.000 We can actually change the laws, and I think that's really important.

00:46:19.000 Anyone with a functioning brain, even those lefty retards, they would know that... 1.00

00:46:24.000 Back in the day when we fought a Civil War, I'm sorry, not a Civil War, but a Revolution War, we got our independence. 0.90

00:46:30.000 We're not with the guys, the foreigners. 1.00

00:46:32.000 We got our independence.

00:46:34.000 We love it.

00:46:35.000 We're happy about it.

00:46:36.000 Why would they go ahead and make an amendment just so anyone can come over and become a U.S. citizen out of nowhere?

00:46:40.000 It makes zero sense.

00:46:41.000 I mean, I'm all for, you look at what's going on in other countries and their security, how they protect their citizens.

00:46:47.000 I can't knock someone up, go over there, give birth to a kid, And you know what?

00:46:55.000 Hey, that kid's now a citizen.

00:46:57.000 You can't go to France and do that.

00:46:58.000 You can't go to Spain and do that.

00:46:59.000 Why are we allowing it here?

00:47:01.000 Why do we have these people who are blatantly abusing the system to do it here?

00:47:06.000 So you know what?

00:47:08.000 I can't go to Mexico and do it. 0.90

00:47:10.000 So you know what?

00:47:11.000 Let's just get on par with every other country out there.

00:47:13.000 Let's do what they're doing.

00:47:15.000 You know what?

00:47:15.000 If it's so racist...

00:47:17.000 To have it happen here, you know what?

00:47:18.000 Are you going to call Mexico racist?

00:47:20.000 Are you going to call France, Spain, most of the places in Europe?

00:47:23.000 No, you wouldn't dare.

00:47:24.000 So you know what?

00:47:24.000 It doesn't apply here.

00:47:26.000 Yeah, I mean, in Mexico, if I understand correctly, foreign individuals can't even own property. 1.00

00:47:30.000 No.

00:47:31.000 You can lease property, but you can't own property in Mexico.

00:47:34.000 So with those kind of laws being fairly common in the rest of the world, Sure, in Europe, it's not quite the same.

00:47:49.000 But, I mean, it's the norm in most of the world.

00:47:54.000 You can't own property in China.

00:47:55.000 You can't own property in a great many countries, even if you're...

00:48:01.000 A citizen of the country.

00:48:02.000 Never mind if you're a foreigner, you know? 1.00

00:48:04.000 I think suicidal empathy is like an American thing, right?

00:48:07.000 We got a little bit too powerful.

00:48:09.000 We got a little bit too much money.

00:48:10.000 We started taking care of people.

00:48:12.000 But now we're taking care of the world instead of ourselves, right?

00:48:14.000 And that's like, I don't mind helping when you got...

00:48:17.000 The scratch to help.

00:48:18.000 But we don't have this.

00:48:19.000 We have a huge deficit.

00:48:20.000 We have huge debt.

00:48:22.000 We are pinning our kids some major, major problems, right?

00:48:26.000 We don't need to be sending $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza.

00:48:29.000 That is insane.

00:48:31.000 I mean, you say that we're pinning our kids, but honestly, we're pinning people probably your age and mine because by 2035, the Social Security and Medicare, those are going to be insolvent.

00:48:45.000 Unless there's some kind of fix, mandatory spending is actually what drives our debt.

00:48:51.000 We can hear arguments from the administration about, you know, Doge and OMB and maybe we'll cut here and cut there.

00:48:59.000 None of this stuff actually matters unless you're talking about...

00:49:03.000 The mandatory spending, unfunded liabilities.

00:49:06.000 You're talking about Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

00:49:10.000 Those are the things that drive the debt.

00:49:12.000 Boomers have started retiring en masse now. 1.00

00:49:15.000 By 2033, these programs are going to be insolvent.

00:49:19.000 And that's going to be a massive problem.

00:49:22.000 And so far, no administration.

00:49:25.000 And as much as I think the Trump administration is going to do good things.

00:49:30.000 If they're not going to address that, they're just going to do the same thing that every other administration has done for the past 30, 40, 50 years or whatever, kick the can down the road.

00:49:37.000 It should have been fixed 30 or 40 years ago.

00:49:41.000 Ronald Reagan should have fixed it or George Bush Jr. or Bill Clinton because the writing was on the wall back then.

00:49:48.000 Everybody knew that 2025, 2030, something like that, it was going to be insolvent.

00:49:53.000 The math hasn't changed.

00:49:55.000 And now we're not having babies, so it's only going to get worse.

00:49:58.000 Exactly.

00:49:58.000 So, I mean, I understand that there's always the impulse to be like, oh, these things are good, and look, I'm a small government guy, too.

00:50:06.000 I want to see as much of that cut, and I want to see as much of D.C. eviscerated as we possibly can.

00:50:12.000 But that's still not going to actually fix the root problem for the United States.

00:50:17.000 And the debt crisis is an existential problem.

00:50:22.000 It is the only problem that's existential.

00:50:26.000 It's the only other problem that's existential aside from nuclear war.

00:50:30.000 Nuclear war could destroy the United States and the destruction of the dollar, destruction of our economy could destroy the United States.

00:50:36.000 There is nothing else at all save for like A meteor.

00:50:43.000 Not even one meteor.

00:50:45.000 If it's a meteor big enough to destroy the whole country, it's a meteor big enough to destroy the whole world.

00:50:49.000 That's how big the U.S. is.

00:50:52.000 Even one meteor that isn't a planet killer isn't enough to destroy the United States the same way that a nuclear war or the...

00:51:02.000 The destruction of our economies.

00:51:03.000 And the destruction of our economy means that the whole world suffers because we give away more money and give away more food and give away more of everything than any country in human history.

00:51:13.000 Phil, can we get rid of it?

00:51:14.000 Can we just swipe it clean?

00:51:16.000 The debt?

00:51:17.000 We're nice in America.

00:51:18.000 Well, historically, the way that's happened is war.

00:51:21.000 And so, no.

00:51:22.000 The Gulf of America.

00:51:24.000 I'd rather not.

00:51:26.000 We're taking the Panama Canal back.

00:51:28.000 Or you have Obama who just said, hey, we'll just print more money.

00:51:31.000 No, no.

00:51:32.000 We've got to reduce the cost of fuel.

00:51:34.000 If we can make things cheaper, if your fuel is half as much, then that means every book you buy roughly will cost half as much, which means our debt, even though it'll say $36 on paper, is actually only $18.

00:51:46.000 And that's how you reduce the cost of debt.

00:51:49.000 I mean, there is validity to the idea that the more efficient the economy is, Profitable it is, and then you can actually maintain that kind of debt.

00:52:04.000 Historically, there have been attempts to inflate your way out of the debt, drop the value of your currency, so that way the actual debt, the value of the debt that exists isn't as high.

00:52:18.000 There are countries that own a lot of that debt, and if you start doing that, they're going to be like, well, here, we're going to turn our debt in, and that'll tank the economy, too.

00:52:26.000 All right, we're going to go on to this next story.

00:52:30.000 The Trump administration offers the roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign.

00:52:36.000 And, you know, considering we're talking about shrinking the federal government, this is a great story to discuss.

00:52:40.000 President Donald Trump's administration is offering federal workers a chance to take a deferred resignation with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.

00:52:50.000 A senior administration official told NBC News that they expect 5 to 10 percent of the federal workforce to quit, which they estimate could lead to around $100 billion in savings.

00:53:00.000 All full-time federal employees are eligible except for members of the military, employees of the U.S. Postal Service, positions related to immigration enforcement and national security and other jobs excluded by agencies.

00:53:12.000 So if this happens, I would love to see a lot of people say, yeah, I'll take that big check and quit.

00:53:22.000 And another thing that I've heard people float the idea of is, as I talked about gutting D.C., if you could get the bureaucracies, and instead of having them all in D.C., move them to other places, like move the Department of Agriculture to Iowa, right?

00:53:35.000 And move the FBI headquarters to, I don't know, somewhere else.

00:53:39.000 Maybe move it to Buffalo or whatever.

00:53:41.000 Move these...

00:53:43.000 Agencies outside of D.C. When you move a company like that, I guess around 20% of the people say, no, I'm not going to move.

00:53:49.000 So if you go ahead and get rid of 20% of the people, get 5-10% to quit for this deferral program, and then move all the agencies out and get another 20% to quit, that's serious cuts!

00:54:01.000 They just announced, too, that they're having all these employees come back into work and work from the office now, so it sounds like they're trying to make it as...

00:54:08.000 As gross as possible for people so that they'll quit of their own volition.

00:54:11.000 The idea that, hey, you have to go to work now is considered gross?

00:54:17.000 These people work like they're working at our expense.

00:54:21.000 If they're working from home, you know they're not working hard.

00:54:25.000 You know they're putting...

00:54:26.000 If they're supposed to work for eight hours a day, you know they're working for five.

00:54:30.000 I mean, it's...

00:54:32.000 Gotta be the most obvious thing in the world.

00:54:33.000 Federal employees don't do any work even in the office, right?

00:54:37.000 So, like, yeah, definitely bad news to have them at home.

00:54:40.000 I don't know.

00:54:43.000 That 5-10% will quit for 8 months pay, though.

00:54:46.000 Do you think they do?

00:54:46.000 I think a lot more people would quit with the move.

00:54:49.000 Like you're talking about.

00:54:49.000 I think in this economy, I think a lot of people are going to be afraid to leave for 8 months pay.

00:54:55.000 Do both.

00:54:56.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:54:57.000 I'm with it.

00:54:58.000 The more that we can pile on, the more that we can shed these workers.

00:55:02.000 Absolutely.

00:55:02.000 You've got to come back to work, and back to work means Des Moines.

00:55:06.000 Are you an advocate, Penny, of implementing artificial intelligence into the government and to replace human workers to reduce costs?

00:55:13.000 I think where it makes sense, yeah.

00:55:15.000 I mean, why not, right?

00:55:16.000 You use the best tools that you have.

00:55:18.000 AI is this new, very powerful tool.

00:55:20.000 We haven't really figured out how to integrate it into our society yet.

00:55:24.000 I don't know.

00:55:25.000 That you want to like maybe rush into it, but also I don't know that you want to be last either, right?

00:55:30.000 If you can be way more efficient by using AI, I think you should.

00:55:34.000 And I think we are just now...

00:55:36.000 Opening up that can of worms, right?

00:55:38.000 I think that we're just now reaching levels of AI that could actually help us be a lot more efficient.

00:55:45.000 It's my old industry, software engineering.

00:55:48.000 They are hiring a lot fewer software engineers now because the guys are using these LLMs to write the code.

00:55:54.000 And they're doing five, ten times as much work per employee as they were before.

00:55:58.000 Why wouldn't we want that in our government, right?

00:56:00.000 If you can get five times as much out of a person, you are insane not to do it.

00:56:05.000 I just love how they wanted us to feel sorry for these workers who actually had to go to work.

00:56:10.000 No way!

00:56:12.000 Oh, wait a minute, no!

00:56:13.000 Wait, I have to go to work?

00:56:15.000 Like, yeah, like everyone else does.

00:56:17.000 You have to get up, set your alarm, get up, drive in traffic, or take the railroad, whatever, and go to work.

00:56:25.000 No, you can't sit and do two hours of work and then sit and watch TV for the rest of the day.

00:56:30.000 No, no one's buying it.

00:56:31.000 We all know the little tricks with the mouse pad.

00:56:35.000 It does a figure eight to make it look like you're doing something on the computer.

00:56:39.000 No.

00:56:40.000 No.

00:56:40.000 You have to get up and go.

00:56:42.000 And if that forces you to quit, and if you say, oh, I can't live like this anymore, bye.

00:56:47.000 Victory.

00:56:47.000 Don't let the door hit you.

00:56:49.000 It likens to when, historically, when we had to, the man of the house would go out and hunt.

00:56:53.000 Because, look, we've got to go get resources.

00:56:55.000 It's not going to come to us if we sit in our house all day.

00:56:57.000 You can't work from home when you've got to go get the resources.

00:57:00.000 But then someone would get enough resources that they would...

00:57:03.000 Pay other people to go get the resources for them, and they would work from home.

00:57:07.000 And they'd become the administrator, and people kind of want to all be that guy.

00:57:10.000 They want to be the administrator now and have other people go, mail me the thing, Amazon, send me the stuff.

00:57:16.000 Now telecommunications also kind of altered that, obviously.

00:57:19.000 It's like a time portal, being able to communicate through space.

00:57:22.000 But that's where I think the state of mind comes from, is people are like, I've arrived, why would I go back?

00:57:27.000 Well, I think that the division of labor has been an overall good thing.

00:57:30.000 I mean, none of us can, you know, make a toaster.

00:57:33.000 You know, none of us know how to do any, like, from scratch is what I mean.

00:57:36.000 You know, it's like there's that story of the guy that decided that he was going to, like, make a sandwich from scratch.

00:57:41.000 And so he literally was growing all the wheat so that way he could make the bread.

00:57:45.000 And, you know, it took months because he has to grow all the vegetables.

00:57:49.000 And I think he might have even slaughtered the animal that he, you know, the chicken that he made it with.

00:57:56.000 The point is, you know, the division of labor is what you're talking about.

00:57:59.000 And overall, that's a good thing because it allows for people to specialize, which means that people can get really good at the thing that they've specialized in.

00:58:07.000 But as you were saying, Penny, like the idea of needing to specialize the way that it was five years ago, 10 years ago, it's never going to be the same.

00:58:18.000 It's never going to be the same.

00:58:19.000 If I had to grow my own wheat and do everything else to make a sandwich, like an hour in, I'd be like, you know what?

00:58:24.000 Screw this.

00:58:25.000 I'm not doing it.

00:58:26.000 I'm ordering Quiznos.

00:58:27.000 I mean, I agree with Zeke.

00:58:30.000 These federal employees, I see so many videos, guys, that they're all whining and crying.

00:58:34.000 Like, they gotta, oh, welcome to the real world.

00:58:36.000 Like, this is, they're not used to being regular folks who live in their whole federal, democratic, liberal lives.

00:58:42.000 So let them feel, like, life like the rest of us.

00:58:46.000 You gotta drive to work.

00:58:46.000 You gotta do the commute.

00:58:47.000 You gotta drive home.

00:58:49.000 You got to do your job.

00:58:50.000 I feel like none of them grew up.

00:58:52.000 You know what I mean?

00:58:53.000 Is this the generation we're dealing with? 0.94

00:58:55.000 Like my daughter.

00:58:56.000 My daughter is nine years old.

00:58:58.000 And for the first time, we're telling her, no, you have to clean your own room.

00:59:02.000 You're at the age now, we're not going to do it anymore.

00:59:05.000 You clean your own room and do a great job when you do it.

00:59:08.000 And she's acting like, you know, like she's back in my great-great-great-grandparents era.

00:59:15.000 Like she's in there singing old Negro spirituals and she's acting like, you know, she's like, oh, I'm working all day, you know. 0.96

00:59:22.000 And I'm like, no, you're cleaning your room.

00:59:24.000 This is what you do.

00:59:26.000 And this is what these Generation X, Generation Z guys now are doing.

00:59:32.000 Like, wait, no, I have to wake up?

00:59:34.000 No.

00:59:35.000 It's early.

00:59:36.000 No, it's still dark outside.

00:59:37.000 Why should I have to do this?

00:59:38.000 No, we don't feel sorry for you.

00:59:40.000 Us older people who had to actually get up and trudge out there and provide a living, no.

00:59:46.000 No one feels sorry for you.

00:59:48.000 So if you're going to quit, go right ahead.

00:59:50.000 All you're doing is saving us money.

00:59:51.000 I hope a bunch of you quit.

00:59:52.000 Go ahead.

00:59:53.000 It's the participation trophies.

00:59:54.000 Exactly.

00:59:55.000 Yes, bud.

00:59:56.000 No more of that.

00:59:57.000 It's got to go.

00:59:58.000 Yeah, I think that the incentive to work has been significantly degraded because I think that people in the U.S. have, young people in the U.S., they expect things to be easy because things are really easy.

01:00:18.000 Especially when you take into account how much more difficult things were just 10 years ago.

01:00:23.000 When you can dial up whatever you want and have it...

01:00:26.000 If you live in certain areas, you can order something on Amazon in the morning and get it by the afternoon.

01:00:33.000 And when everything is like that, I think that it makes sense that people are like, well, I want the rest of my life to be that easy.

01:00:41.000 You know what I mean?

01:00:42.000 And then the idea of having to go out and bust your hump, that's...

01:00:45.000 Considerably less appealing, especially if you're only talking about making minimum wage or making a moderate income.

01:00:56.000 It's not really attractive.

01:00:57.000 And I understand.

01:00:58.000 I don't want to go out and dig ditches for $20 an hour.

01:01:03.000 That's not all that appealing to me.

01:01:06.000 So I get it, but at the same time, it takes experience.

01:01:12.000 To become valuable to an employer.

01:01:16.000 And so you have to have something to offer.

01:01:19.000 And I feel like a lot of times young people don't kind of take that into account.

01:01:22.000 I think young people feel super entitled, right?

01:01:25.000 They want to grow up and have a white picket fence and raise a family and have two cars and all those things.

01:01:33.000 But we never taught them how to win, right?

01:01:37.000 We were so easy on these kids.

01:01:39.000 I want to say you're right, but that's not their fault.

01:01:42.000 Oh, I don't blame them for how they were raised, but we got to do something to pull them out of it, right?

01:01:47.000 Because not only do they not want to work hard, but then they want to give away their last dollar for condoms in Gaza, right? 0.57

01:01:54.000 And they're like so upset if you want to take away foreign aid or you want to cut this program or that.

01:01:59.000 And it's like, oh, but you don't want to work?

01:02:01.000 Another thing that we really did wrong was we demonized the trades, right?

01:02:04.000 Like if you don't go to college and get a four-year degree in liberal studies, then you're a failure, right?

01:02:11.000 If you're a mechanic, you're a failure.

01:02:13.000 But if you go get your liberal studies degree or whatever, then you're a hero.

01:02:17.000 And that just doesn't make any sense either.

01:02:20.000 I had a discussion with someone a couple weeks ago about that.

01:02:24.000 I said, you got these NYU students who are majoring in stuff I've never even heard of before.

01:02:29.000 You got people who are majoring in African-American literature studies.

01:02:34.000 And it's like, okay, well, what are you going to do with that degree?

01:02:37.000 Well, I'm going to go out and speak about African-American literature.

01:02:41.000 Okay, well, how many times can you do that during a year?

01:02:45.000 So you mean to tell me you spent a quarter of a million dollars on your education, on your four-year degree.

01:02:52.000 To work at Starbucks?

01:02:54.000 Yeah.

01:02:54.000 Like, this is where you are?

01:02:55.000 But they feel like this is a very valid and valuable degree to have.

01:03:02.000 And it's like, yeah, okay, I'll take my latte with extra foam.

01:03:05.000 Thank you.

01:03:06.000 Yeah, I think that the fact that, you know, my generation, I think my generation really kind of dropped the ball with a lot of young people in like what you were saying, Penny.

01:03:17.000 The fact that kids aren't taught.

01:03:19.000 To like trades and that this is not just respectable work, but it's necessary work that's extremely profitable.

01:03:28.000 Like if you know your trade, like you can decide however much you want to make because...

01:03:36.000 There are fewer and fewer people in the trades that know what they're doing and that are skilled.

01:03:41.000 So if you're a guy that's 25 years old, 30 years old, that's been in the same trade for 6, 7, 8 years, you know how to do your job.

01:03:51.000 You know what you're doing and you're incredibly valuable.

01:03:55.000 But the fact of the matter is...

01:03:58.000 Boomers and Gen Xers didn't tell kids, look, you can have the world in the palm of your hand. 0.99

01:04:05.000 You can make six figures doing this work that you might not think is all that attractive.

01:04:11.000 But once you get it down, it actually isn't backbreaking.

01:04:15.000 The tools that are available to help you do these things are incredible nowadays.

01:04:20.000 And you can basically write your own check and you can have tons of money.

01:04:26.000 Tons of money if you want to learn how to do it.

01:04:28.000 But they were never taught that.

01:04:30.000 They are, though.

01:04:31.000 A lot of people aren't been taught that.

01:04:32.000 You guys are speaking like it's a monolith.

01:04:34.000 I know plenty of young folks who are getting into the trades and doing the trades, and they're like 20 years old.

01:04:40.000 Percentage-wise, how many, though?

01:04:41.000 Jeez, bud, I don't know.

01:04:42.000 20, 30 percent?

01:04:44.000 Of the young kids?

01:04:46.000 Maybe around here, not in San Diego.

01:04:48.000 We're in the bubble, we're in the right-wing bubble.

01:04:51.000 Lefties are not, I'm not talking about them, but the people who are taught right and are taught right by their parents and their school systems and everything like that, they are working hard.

01:05:01.000 I live in San Diego, we don't know anything about those people.

01:05:03.000 I'm sorry, you gotta meet them, but you're the computer guy, so that makes sense.

01:05:07.000 No, I agree with Penny, because even if you look at social media, what's been the huge talking point as far as from the left?

01:05:13.000 Oh, we're so much more educated than you are.

01:05:15.000 I'm not talking about the right-wingers who are doing good and doing hard.

01:05:19.000 No, I get what you're saying, but if you look on social media, ever since Trump won the election, what have they been saying to sort of soothe themselves and console themselves?

01:05:28.000 Oh, but we're more educated than you are.

01:05:31.000 We have college degrees, and a lot of you guys don't.

01:05:34.000 Yeah, but you know what?

01:05:36.000 You know what?

01:05:37.000 I'll take an electrician.

01:05:38.000 Over someone who is an English major and graduated that degree.

01:05:42.000 I'll take someone who's a plumber.

01:05:44.000 You know what I mean?

01:05:45.000 Like, a plumber is going to actually...

01:05:47.000 Contribute something to society.

01:05:49.000 A plumber will help me actually get from point A to point B. You with your English major?

01:05:55.000 Okay, so you can write me a poem.

01:05:57.000 That's not going to help me in the long run.

01:05:59.000 I'm just saying there are a lot of young folks who are getting into the trade.

01:06:02.000 It's not nobody.

01:06:04.000 That's all I'm saying.

01:06:05.000 There's a value of relativity when it comes to labor, like working hard.

01:06:08.000 Because if you don't know what it's like to actually...

01:06:11.000 Break your back and, like, strain your muscles for labor.

01:06:15.000 Going, driving for a few hours might seem, like, exhausting.

01:06:18.000 Last week, we did three shows in Washington, D.C., and I was like, ready to drive an hour and a half there and then drive an hour and a half back.

01:06:26.000 I'm like, all right, three-hour commute.

01:06:28.000 But then I was like, you know what?

01:06:29.000 First of all, Trump's working 18-hour days.

01:06:31.000 If he can do it, I can do it.

01:06:31.000 He's 80. Okay, that's one thing.

01:06:33.000 And then I'm like, I remember what it's like to wait tables, to be on my feet for seven hours.

01:06:36.000 And then I remember how easy that is compared to chopping wood for a living, which I've done, which literally after five hours in the sun, I'm like broken.

01:06:43.000 And three days in a row of that, and I can like, it's hard to think because I'm so fatigued.

01:06:48.000 I know what that's like.

01:06:49.000 You're probably ripped, though.

01:06:50.000 I was getting there at the time.

01:06:52.000 There's a video on YouTube of me in the process.

01:06:55.000 So having that frame of reference is so important.

01:06:58.000 And if the kid's born and they're nine years old and they're playing on the Internet and they're working from home the whole time, they don't have that frame of reference of what it's actually like to hurt yourself to make money.

01:07:08.000 And you're very lucky to have an office job.

01:07:10.000 And a commute is not hard.

01:07:12.000 It's not hard.

01:07:13.000 It might be boring to sit in traffic for an hour, but it's not hard.

01:07:16.000 It's very easy.

01:07:18.000 We overprotect our kids.

01:07:20.000 That's, I think, one of the biggest problems that we have in America.

01:07:22.000 We've spoiled the S-word out of our kids.

01:07:25.000 I think that's a phenomenon in the fact that most people have one, maybe two kids.

01:07:32.000 When you only have one or two kids, it's a lot easier to spoil them.

01:07:36.000 And this is all stuff that I've heard.

01:07:38.000 I don't have kids myself.

01:07:39.000 But when you only have one or two kids, it's one thing.

01:07:42.000 When you have four...

01:07:44.000 Five, you can't spoil them because you're chasing them around and trying to keep them alive and hoping to get the oldest one to help you watch the younger ones because they're, you know...

01:07:56.000 Trying to shove their faces in a fire pit or whatever, you know, because that's what kids do.

01:08:01.000 But yeah, I do think that we've gone from helicopter parenting to snowplow parenting, which is not just hovering over them to make sure that they're okay, but actually trying to make the world flat and as easy for them as possible.

01:08:17.000 People need challenges.

01:08:19.000 Like, human beings need resistance, they need to do hard things, they need challenges, or else you just don't develop properly.

01:08:28.000 Like, the reason that the astronauts and the ISS do cardio for, like, four hours a day is because they're not walking around in regular gravity and their bones literally become brittle and they won't be able to...

01:08:43.000 They'll come back and they won't be able to walk anymore.

01:08:45.000 So it's part of the human condition where if you're not working to achieve something, whether it be physically or mentally, you'll end up wasting away.

01:08:55.000 There's so many people that they retire when they hit 65, 70. They retire and then like...

01:09:00.000 Two years later, they die because they don't feel like they have anything to do.

01:09:03.000 Like, their job was their life.

01:09:05.000 So, but I want to go to this next...

01:09:07.000 Can I answer, Penny, real quick?

01:09:08.000 Sure, go ahead.

01:09:08.000 On your stats, sir.

01:09:10.000 Everything I'm looking up is about recently, as of recently, changes in the last 10 years.

01:09:14.000 Again, about 47% of young adults are interested in career and trades.

01:09:18.000 I guess they're seeing, they're listening to us.

01:09:21.000 Listen, not me.

01:09:21.000 Hopefully.

01:09:22.000 Yeah, right.

01:09:22.000 Listen, folks.

01:09:23.000 So, there are a higher percentage of people realizing that you can make money in the trades.

01:09:27.000 You know, we hear...

01:09:28.000 Good.

01:09:28.000 I'm sorry, let me just ask you this, though.

01:09:30.000 Yes, sir.

01:09:30.000 What's the distribution across the country, just to speak to Penny's point?

01:09:34.000 Oh, it's probably rural areas only.

01:09:36.000 Yeah.

01:09:36.000 For sure.

01:09:37.000 I mean, I would think.

01:09:38.000 I'm just throwing it out there.

01:09:39.000 No, I mean, just because I think what Penny was trying to say, and what I'm also trying to say is that you probably have a higher concentration of people getting into the trades, more in the southeast, in Texas, you know, areas like that, where...

01:09:50.000 Northeast to PA represents, we rock here.

01:09:53.000 Yeah, certain parts of the Northeast, but like he's saying, in San Diego, in New York City, to get into a trade is seen as almost like that's beneath me.

01:10:03.000 I'm just saying that because I see it personally, and I'm sure you do as well.

01:10:06.000 I was only one of three people from my high school that didn't go to college.

01:10:10.000 So, yeah, it was really looked down upon.

01:10:13.000 You need more tradesmen in where people are spread out, too, because the plumber can't drive an hour and a half to that guy's house and then go four hours to that guy's house.

01:10:21.000 But in the city, in an apartment building, one plumber can handle 90 people's houses in, like, seven hours.

01:10:27.000 So that's probably a phenomenon.

01:10:31.000 We're going to jump to this story.

01:10:33.000 Protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation.

01:10:36.000 This is an executive order sent out by the president, of course.

01:10:40.000 And it is addressing the fact that children are all too frequently...

01:10:46.000 I don't know if it's convinced, but they're told that they should be changing their gender as opposed to allowing allowing their bodies to develop and go through puberty naturally.

01:10:58.000 By the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered.

01:11:05.000 Section one policy and purpose across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child's sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.

01:11:20.000 This is this dangerous trend will be a stain on our nation's history and it must end and out.

01:11:25.000 I say good.

01:11:26.000 Amen.

01:11:27.000 Good that this is done. 0.99

01:11:29.000 The idea that you could change your gender is ridiculous. 0.96

01:11:33.000 It is absolutely absurd. 0.98

01:11:36.000 And if you want to dress as the other sex, because I don't even believe in gender anymore. 0.83

01:11:44.000 I think that because how do you describe gender?

01:11:47.000 Like, what is a gender?

01:11:48.000 Is your sex spirit?

01:11:51.000 What is the literal definition?

01:11:53.000 Is it the way you dress?

01:11:54.000 Is it the way you feel inside?

01:11:56.000 Well, apparently it's the way you feel inside. 0.98

01:11:58.000 Yeah, well, that sounds like you need to have breakfast, because it's all horseshit to me. 1.00

01:12:03.000 The idea that you can change your sex, go from a male to a female, or vice versa, is absolutely ridiculous. 0.99

01:12:11.000 Because even if you have a frankenpenis, or if you have a neo-vagina or whatever, Those things are not natural and they take an immense amount of upkeep beyond what a natural human being is. 0.87

01:12:27.000 You're not going to change the way your pelvis is shaped and women's pelvises are shaped differently because women are intended to have kids. 1.00

01:12:34.000 This is all just messing kids up.

01:12:38.000 It's mutilating children.

01:12:40.000 It is absolutely abhorrent and I think that the Trump administration should be lauded for this and anyone that says anything else is...

01:12:49.000 Empowering the abuse and mutilation of children.

01:12:52.000 This is where I agree with you, is gender is a social concept.

01:12:56.000 According to Wikipedia, social concept that distinguished the difference between gender categories, I don't know why they used the word in the definition, includes social, psychological, cultural behavior aspects of being a man.

01:13:05.000 So it's the behavioral aspects, which, sure, if you want to act like a woman, maybe that's your gender, but you can't... 1.00

01:13:11.000 Change your sex by cutting yourself or taking drugs. 0.94

01:13:14.000 It doesn't change your sex. 0.99

01:13:16.000 They call it a sex change, but it doesn't literally change.

01:13:20.000 Like a trans woman is a biological man that is displaying as a woman, but still a biological man. 0.74

01:13:26.000 So that's the issue, is that people, if a kid thinks that they can literally...

01:13:31.000 Change their sex by taking some sort of surgery or like a hormonal drug in their under 18. I think that is very dangerous. 0.97

01:13:40.000 Kids don't know what the hell they want, right?

01:13:41.000 Like kids change all the time.

01:13:43.000 I didn't know what I wanted when I was 11. I didn't know what I wanted when I was 13. I knew I liked girls, right?

01:13:50.000 But definitely, the idea that someone can make it, you know, you can't buy cigarettes yet, but you can choose to have a sex change.

01:13:57.000 You could choose to be, and sex change is the wrong word.

01:13:59.000 It's chemically castrated, right?

01:14:01.000 It's mutilating the body.

01:14:02.000 That is insane.

01:14:03.000 It is absolutely insane.

01:14:04.000 It's irreversible.

01:14:05.000 And now you have no sex. 0.68

01:14:07.000 You're never going to have an orgasm. 0.95

01:14:08.000 You're never going to have a baby, right? 0.97

01:14:10.000 Whether you're male or female, you are now sterile. 0.97

01:14:13.000 That's a crime.

01:14:15.000 So you can't buy cigarettes.

01:14:17.000 You can't buy a beer.

01:14:20.000 But you can sterilize yourself?

01:14:22.000 You can choose?

01:14:23.000 Like, that's insane.

01:14:24.000 I think they made it illegal in the UK a while ago, after the Tavistock debacle, when it came out that it wasn't helping young people like they thought it was, like suicide rates were not going down.

01:14:35.000 I mean, I could be, I don't know all the stats on this, but I believe that it was like, in Europe, they were kind of early on saying, okay, no more of this.

01:14:42.000 And I'm surprised it took this long.

01:14:43.000 I'm not really because we needed a new chief commander in chief to kind of realign the conversation.

01:14:50.000 Biden was kind of checked out on this thing.

01:14:52.000 So and it felt like he had deferred to the medical industry who was profiting hand over fist on these surgeries.

01:14:58.000 So, I mean, I'm not I'm not shocked that this happened, but it's good for me.

01:15:04.000 I think and I've been saying this for a while now, I think.

01:15:08.000 A lot of people who are pushing this, and I'm talking about parents, where their kid says some innocuous thing, and now all of a sudden it's like, oh, wait, no, no, no, Timmy's a girl.

01:15:18.000 Timmy's a girl, you know? 0.99

01:15:20.000 I think they just want to be able to say, hey, listen, I'm the parent.

01:15:25.000 Of a transgender child. 0.97

01:15:27.000 And now it's like, it's their designer child, you know?

01:15:30.000 This is Timmy, but we're gonna rename her Tina, and she is really a female that was just born in the wrong body. 0.78

01:15:40.000 And now you get to walk around and have this child, and now because you're the parent of one, it puts you in that classification of, oh yes, and this applies to me as well, because I'm their parent.

01:15:50.000 It's the same thing, if you remember...

01:15:53.000 The mid to late 90s when everybody wanted their kid to be gay.

01:15:58.000 Because now you have this designer child that now, you know, I'm part of the LGBTQ community as well because I'm their parent.

01:16:06.000 It goes back to socialism where you're either the oppressed or the oppressor, and you can't be the oppressor, so now you're going to do everything to see yourself and view yourself and actively become a part of the oppressed.

01:16:17.000 I saw a tweet the other day, and I wish that I saved it, but essentially the comment was something like, This young man, he was a white kid that was getting told that he's an oppressor and he's bad because he's a male and he's white, etc., etc., and he was told all these things, and two years later he's a girl.

01:16:38.000 If you are told that you are the epitome of evil just by the nature of your skin color and your sex, then you're told, but there's a way out of it.

01:16:54.000 By becoming a member of the LGBTQ community. 0.81

01:16:58.000 Some kind of queer, trans, gay, whatever.

01:17:02.000 If you adopt that mantle, then you're no longer an oppressor. 0.97

01:17:07.000 You're one of the oppressed.

01:17:09.000 What is that going to do?

01:17:10.000 It's going to make a ton of weak young men say, I want to be in that group. 0.88

01:17:16.000 And it's going to make another group, another portion of those young men that are defiant, say, well, F you.

01:17:23.000 Then I'm going to go ahead and find the most offensive, and that's why we have a problem with Nazis and National Socialists and stuff, and dudes with the real extreme right.

01:17:32.000 Because they're like, well, you're calling me all these things anyways.

01:17:36.000 Those guys don't call me these things.

01:17:38.000 They don't hate me for who I am.

01:17:40.000 So why shouldn't I? And in addition to people, kids being pressured into feeling like they need to change their sex, which I wouldn't be surprised if that's happening, there's the term ally, which I've heard over the last, I don't know, eight years, nine years?

01:17:52.000 I didn't really hear that before 2010. And that's someone that's just like, okay, fine, I'm on their side.

01:17:59.000 They've picked a side.

01:18:01.000 What are you allying with exactly in that instance?

01:18:04.000 I'm an ally of humanity.

01:18:05.000 I've always said, you know, just in general, people.

01:18:08.000 It doesn't have to be LGBTQ or whatever.

01:18:12.000 I think to sympathize with a specific cause like that is weird, right?

01:18:17.000 Well, I've already said this whole thing with the classrooms now, because now you have teachers who they're hell-bent on, I'm going to teach your children to call me...

01:18:29.000 I'm going to show up in class dressed like this.

01:18:32.000 And kids who are naturally curious are going to ask, hey, who are you?

01:18:36.000 Why are you dressed like this?

01:18:37.000 Oh, well, now it's my chance to educate you.

01:18:39.000 I've always said, when did parents lose the right to say, I'm not comfortable with this?

01:18:45.000 I don't want you talking to my child about this.

01:18:48.000 If you can't show up in class looking professional, then I don't want you there.

01:18:52.000 If I show up to a classroom wearing a huge cross, I'm told to take it off because I don't want you spreading your religion in class. 1.00

01:19:00.000 Kids are going to start asking about that.

01:19:01.000 I'm uncomfortable with that.

01:19:03.000 But I can show up with a rainbow shirt with the new...

01:19:11.000 LGBTQIA plus LMNOP flag and with green hair, with horns growing on my head and kids go, hey, look at you. 0.81

01:19:18.000 What are you?

01:19:19.000 Oh, now it's my chance.

01:19:20.000 That's smiled upon.

01:19:21.000 When did parents lose the right to say, you know what?

01:19:23.000 No, that's not cool.

01:19:25.000 I don't want that.

01:19:26.000 Well, you're hateful if you do that, man.

01:19:28.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:19:29.000 I honestly, I think that the right to do that was lost when the argument over teaching Teaching reproductive stuff in schools was, you know, when the schools were empowered to teach, you know, teach the reproduction of, I forget what it is, sex ed, there you go.

01:19:50.000 When the schools...

01:19:51.000 We're like, okay, we're going to teach sex ed.

01:19:54.000 And parents were like, well, we're uncomfortable with our kids learning at this age.

01:19:57.000 And the parents lost the ability to say, don't teach that to my kid at this time.

01:20:02.000 I want to decide when my kids learn this stuff.

01:20:06.000 Once that was lost, then it was all downhill after.

01:20:08.000 Is there no, like, parents don't have to sign off on that anymore?

01:20:11.000 Just automatically?

01:20:13.000 Because when I was in school...

01:20:14.000 I remember when I was in school, they sent the curriculum home.

01:20:17.000 They said, this is exactly what we're going to be talking about.

01:20:19.000 This is the guidelines.

01:20:21.000 Yeah, remember, when COVID happened, there were a ton of parents that learned that their kids were being taught things that they had no idea.

01:20:30.000 That's a big part of why this kind of stuff got out, like the LGBT training or schooling and stuff.

01:20:37.000 Kids didn't, you know, parents didn't know that their kids were learning this stuff.

01:20:40.000 And then when COVID happened and you had the remote learning, parents looked in on their classes and they were like, what in God's name is going on at that school?

01:20:48.000 And people started to make a stink.

01:20:50.000 And that was when...

01:20:52.000 You know, then the Biden administration, you know, when the Biden administration got in, they started calling parents, you know, problems, calling the FBI to monitor the parents because they were saying, we have a problem with our children learning these things.

01:21:05.000 The federal government really had taken the position that children were the responsibility of the federal government and parents were only to look after them when they weren't in school.

01:21:17.000 I remember a story where this mother, she had her kid doing schoolwork at the kitchen table, right?

01:21:23.000 She was doing the schoolwork, and she was in the kitchen doing her thing, and she's listening in the background, and then she hears about this weird ideology that's going on.

01:21:31.000 And I remember the story.

01:21:32.000 I don't know what they were talking about specifically, but it was like this whole where you are can be who you want to be, transgender, critical, what's it called?

01:21:40.000 Sex?

01:21:41.000 Critical sex theory?

01:21:42.000 What's it again?

01:21:43.000 Well, there's critical gender theory, critical race theory, critical theory in general.

01:21:47.000 Right, but they were talking about critical gender theory to this young person, and it just blew her mind.

01:21:51.000 She's like, where the heck, where the F did this come from?

01:21:54.000 She had no idea what was going on, for example, of Phil, because that stuck out in my brain.

01:21:58.000 It still sticks in my brain.

01:21:58.000 She was just chilling there.

01:21:59.000 You know, you're chilling in your house, and you're having a good time, and the kids go to school, and next thing you know, they're getting taught this weird stuff, and you're like, wait a second, hold on, where did that come from?

01:22:07.000 That's weird, crazy.

01:22:08.000 Well, this also goes along with, all of a sudden, parents started figuring out. 0.99

01:22:12.000 In their children's library, there are books that graphically describe how they give oral sex and everything. 0.96

01:22:18.000 And the parents are like, wait a minute. 0.94

01:22:22.000 You've got pictures here.

01:22:23.000 You've got descriptions.

01:22:24.000 What's going on here?

01:22:26.000 And then you have the left go, oh, well, you just want to censor these books.

01:22:30.000 No, I don't.

01:22:30.000 I don't want a book like this in my child's classroom.

01:22:35.000 And that's why I keep asking, when did parents lose the ability to say, I'm not cool with this.

01:22:41.000 I'm not comfortable with this.

01:22:42.000 I don't have to go along with it.

01:22:44.000 And then the left tries to figure out why the right is now considering homeschooling or moving so much into homeschooling.

01:22:50.000 It's because you guys took the educational curriculum and went nuts with it.

01:22:55.000 I think we need vouchers.

01:22:58.000 Oh, absolutely.

01:22:58.000 We need choice.

01:22:59.000 We need school choice, right?

01:23:01.000 Because private school solves a lot of these problems.

01:23:03.000 You choose the school that has the values that you like, but not everyone can afford to forego the taxes that they paid for public education and pony up extra money for private school.

01:23:14.000 Why don't we have school vouchers?

01:23:16.000 Because we don't want parents to be able to choose?

01:23:19.000 It seems like it, right?

01:23:21.000 You just gave yourself your own answer.

01:23:23.000 Yeah.

01:23:23.000 I mean, I think that that actually kind of goes without saying.

01:23:27.000 The federal government, you can listen to the way the Democrats talk, and they say it openly.

01:23:33.000 They may not intend to say it openly, but they do.

01:23:36.000 The way they talk about our children and the things that our children...

01:23:42.000 I think Hillary Clinton said something along the lines of, you know, they're all of our children.

01:23:46.000 They're not just your children.

01:23:48.000 And, you know, they take the idea that the children of America are the actual future of America.

01:23:59.000 And they say, well, because of that, they're too valuable for parents to raise.

01:24:04.000 We have to raise them the right way.

01:24:06.000 And really what they end up doing is destroying a significant amount of them.

01:24:11.000 You know, if you've got, I don't know how many kids graduate from college per year, but I think it's on the, yeah, Google that for me.

01:24:17.000 But if you get, you know, just say 5% of the kids that graduate from school, from college every year, and they are activists, right?

01:24:27.000 And they're actually activists for the Democrat cause.

01:24:31.000 4.16 million students.

01:24:32.000 4.16 million.

01:24:34.000 From post-secondary and post-graduate programs.

01:24:35.000 So if you get just 5% of that as activists every year.

01:24:40.000 Every couple years, every few years, you get a million new activists in the country.

01:24:45.000 And if they're committed...

01:24:48.000 And they are, too.

01:24:49.000 And they are, yeah, absolutely.

01:24:50.000 If they're committed to things like this, then you're going to have a significant population looking to change.

01:24:57.000 The makeup of the country, the political makeup of the country.

01:25:01.000 I feel like there was an essence of critical censorship theory that seeped in that we sort of maybe glazed over because, okay, in 2010 and 11 and 12, all of a sudden social media started to censor people.

01:25:12.000 And there was this backlash of, like, censorship, bad, generally across the board.

01:25:18.000 It's not.

01:25:19.000 First of all, censorship itself is neutral.

01:25:21.000 If it's used improperly, it's horrible.

01:25:23.000 If it's used properly, it can protect people from seeing the most egregious, horrific things, especially young children being exposed to porn or violence or things that you need to...

01:25:31.000 Really protect young kids from.

01:25:33.000 So the argument is, how dare you censor this book?

01:25:37.000 Censorship is bad.

01:25:38.000 Dude, just because it looks like a cartoon, just because it's in a book with a little parrot, a little cartoon parrot, doesn't mean it's okay to show people and you do need censorship.

01:25:46.000 So there's got to be a balance on the censorship.

01:25:49.000 It's just a general social conversation of what do we censor?

01:25:52.000 How do we censor it?

01:25:54.000 But it's important to remember that censorship itself is not the problem.

01:25:59.000 I think where we censor is really important, right?

01:26:02.000 Like, censoring at a school is a lot different, I think, than censoring on the internet, right?

01:26:07.000 I think censoring social media, especially from a top-down, from a government perspective deciding what's true and not true, I think when you're censoring adults like that, I mean, I can't think of a reason why that's good.

01:26:19.000 That seems just objectively bad to me.

01:26:21.000 But I hear you with, like, you know, keeping horrible graphic violence, porn, whatever, certain things.

01:26:28.000 Out of the eyes of children and out of elementary schools and whatever, that's where I'll bend a little bit on my point of view. 0.96

01:26:36.000 The book you were mentioning earlier about how it was showing a young kid to do oral sex or whatever it is, or it just showed a young person doing that.

01:26:43.000 I'm on the team of censor that from school, but if they want to sell it at Barnum bookstores, let them sell it at the bookstore.

01:26:49.000 Maybe this is semantics, but I think that when it comes to what goes into a library or what goes into a school, that's just curation.

01:26:57.000 You curate the information that goes into a school, that goes into a library, and that's not the same thing as censorship.

01:27:05.000 At least as far as I'm concerned.

01:27:06.000 If you can buy something on Amazon, but say, like when they say, you know, Florida's banning books and censoring books.

01:27:13.000 Florida did no such thing.

01:27:14.000 Florida curated what was actually available in the schools, right?

01:27:18.000 They didn't say that Amazon couldn't sell this book.

01:27:21.000 They didn't say that if you're caught with this book, you'll go to jail.

01:27:24.000 They said these books aren't going into schools.

01:27:26.000 And there's nothing wrong with the state curating what is and is not appropriate or what doesn't does and does not go into schools based on what they find is and is not appropriate for schools.

01:27:38.000 That's not censorship.

01:27:39.000 That's not book banning.

01:27:40.000 Doesn't that doesn't that sort of.

01:27:42.000 Go along the same lines as as soon as the next president comes in, they just sign the pen and erase all the executive orders, right?

01:27:50.000 I feel like it could be equally bad if a state had very different view than you and they decided to start censoring the books that you agree with and allow in the bad books.

01:28:02.000 So that's where I think even curation at a school level gets difficult because who gets to curate it?

01:28:08.000 Do you get to curate it or do I get to curate it?

01:28:10.000 In my opinion, it should be.

01:28:11.000 It should be something that the parents have a say in, like the parents of the district.

01:28:16.000 And that kind of stuff happens.

01:28:18.000 Cheap it local.

01:28:19.000 Yeah, that kind of stuff happens when parents actually go to parent-teacher meetings.

01:28:23.000 When parents go to the PTA, the Parent Teacher Association, you need to go to your PTA meetings.

01:28:28.000 If you have kids, go to your PTA meetings.

01:28:30.000 Know what's going on in those schools.

01:28:32.000 You might be right that...

01:28:33.000 Oh, what were you saying, Zeke?

01:28:34.000 This is why I'm a huge proponent for, I think there should be cameras in classrooms.

01:28:38.000 100%.

01:28:39.000 I think there should be, if your kid is going into a certain classroom and you have no idea what the inside of that classroom looks like, you failed as a parent.

01:28:49.000 Just me personally, my wife and I, we've been inside our doors classroom plenty of times.

01:28:54.000 We know her teacher.

01:28:55.000 We know her teacher's views.

01:28:56.000 We know what her teacher is teaching.

01:28:58.000 Fine, well, and good.

01:28:59.000 I'm the type to say, hey, let's take it a step further.

01:29:02.000 However you want to protect the students, do so.

01:29:04.000 But there should be something focused on the teacher so that we know exactly what that teacher is teaching.

01:29:10.000 So at any point, I can pop in, I can replay it, I can look at it and see that the teacher is teaching the curriculum.

01:29:17.000 Take a look around the classroom.

01:29:19.000 Make sure there are no crazy flags up.

01:29:21.000 I can take a look around the classroom.

01:29:23.000 Make sure there's not kitty litter on the side for the kid who thinks that they're a cat.

01:29:29.000 I think there should be all of it there.

01:29:32.000 And that's also why I say who you vote for is very important because you don't want this person now saying, you know what?

01:29:39.000 No, I don't want the Bible in there.

01:29:41.000 And no, you can't wear a shirt with scripture on it.

01:29:44.000 But you know what? 0.99

01:29:46.000 If you want to wear a shirt that's got a graphic picture of oral sex on it, go for it. 0.99

01:29:53.000 Have at it. 0.99

01:29:53.000 You can do whatever you want. 0.99

01:29:54.000 Oh, you know what?

01:29:55.000 Little Timmy over there thinks he's a cat and twice a day he's got to go and poop in front of everybody.

01:30:00.000 Is that real?

01:30:01.000 I believe it is.

01:30:03.000 I believe it is.

01:30:04.000 Why do we have cameras everywhere in our country, everywhere, everything that's important to us, to society, except for watching our youth and making sure our youth is taken care of?

01:30:13.000 Exactly, because of teachers' unions. 0.75

01:30:15.000 The teachers' unions don't want teachers to be held responsible.

01:30:17.000 Unions, that's another huge problem. 0.99

01:30:19.000 Just break up all the unions.

01:30:20.000 Every union.

01:30:21.000 Nothing good to say about unions.

01:30:23.000 I think you might be right, Phil, about curation versus censorship.

01:30:26.000 I did a quick search on it, and it may be semantic, but generally they're both forms of moderation, and that the censorship is more about Removing something, whereas curation is deciding what gets seen.

01:30:36.000 It's kind of like the positive versus the negative aspect of moderation.

01:30:39.000 You can't have every book in every library.

01:30:41.000 Like a synopsis for a school program.

01:30:43.000 And again, it's like, if you can order a book...

01:30:45.000 I saw someone in the chat was complaining about someone's book being unavailable on Amazon.

01:30:50.000 And it's like, okay, fair enough.

01:30:52.000 Amazon doesn't want to carry it. 1.00

01:30:54.000 I would prefer to see books available on Amazon.

01:30:57.000 But does that mean that you can't go to the author's website and buy it?

01:31:01.000 Does it mean that you can't go to the publisher's website and buy it?

01:31:03.000 Is it unavailable?

01:31:05.000 Is it against the law to print it?

01:31:07.000 Exactly.

01:31:07.000 And again, to me, that's what I think of when it comes to censorship.

01:31:11.000 The idea that the government says this book, the information in this book is outlawed.

01:31:18.000 Not, hey...

01:31:19.000 This is inappropriate to put in front of children.

01:31:22.000 What about this social media example?

01:31:24.000 What about the Twitter files?

01:31:26.000 What about Hunter Biden's laptop, right?

01:31:28.000 That's sort of curation because you're saying this can't go on a social media platform.

01:31:34.000 You're not saying you're going to go to jail if you say it, per se.

01:31:37.000 So that's...

01:31:38.000 You know, a little gray area.

01:31:40.000 I think that because of the goal that was politically motivated, I think that that falls under.

01:31:45.000 Even if it's not technically censorship, I think that it should be illegal for the government to do.

01:31:49.000 So, sorry, go ahead.

01:31:50.000 Well, if you look at what Mark Zuckerberg was saying and what the Twitter files were saying, it was basically saying that the Biden administration was saying, if you publish that, we're going to come down on you.

01:32:01.000 So expect your taxes to go up.

01:32:03.000 Expect to be investigated.

01:32:04.000 Expect to be called and harassed and everything else like that.

01:32:08.000 To me, that's censorship.

01:32:10.000 To me, that's the government getting involved in private businesses saying, what you're not going to do is publish this about us for our own personal gain.

01:32:19.000 And I think that's exactly what the Second Amendment was against.

01:32:22.000 The government going in and saying, we're going to decide what to put out there to the public.

01:32:29.000 First Amendment.

01:32:31.000 You still need some government censorship like R-rated, X-rated movies.

01:32:35.000 No, and that's fine because that I can understand.

01:32:39.000 But if the president's son did something and the government now specifically that president's administration comes in and tells a private business, tells you personally, you know what, if you publish that, there's going to be retribution against you.

01:32:54.000 That...

01:32:55.000 Is a violation, a direct violation of the First Amendment.

01:32:58.000 I think it was Nazi-level censorship.

01:33:00.000 Oh, absolutely.

01:33:00.000 I think that was egregious 21st century.

01:33:02.000 Joseph Goebbels is looking at that from his grave and going, what the?

01:33:05.000 I could have done that.

01:33:07.000 Can we stop comparing everything to Nazis?

01:33:08.000 It was just a horrific national social, like taking control of the private sector, trying to nationalize the power of the private industry.

01:33:15.000 It was disgusting what they did, what the government did with censorship.

01:33:18.000 In that era, it was horrific.

01:33:20.000 Why didn't the Nazis have a grasp on everything we do when there have been like 70 million killed by communists in China and stuff? 0.54

01:33:26.000 Everything's compared to the Nazis. 0.84

01:33:28.000 Yeah, and the communists are just as good as banning books and banning stuff. 0.87

01:33:32.000 Is it because he's a white guy?

01:33:33.000 Well, the Nazis, it was publicized.

01:33:35.000 What they did was very public.

01:33:36.000 They were very, like, blatant about it, so we know really well what they were doing.

01:33:40.000 Yeah, the Nazis were very proud of the stuff that they were doing. 0.97

01:33:43.000 Back in, I mean, at the time, that type of top-down control, that was all the rage, like, all over the world.

01:33:48.000 Like, you know, FDR, they were...

01:33:52.000 Things written by Adolf Hitler that were praising FDR and the things that FDR had done.

01:33:57.000 Because most of the governments of the world kind of were of the opinion.

01:34:02.000 They're like, hey, we've reached the point where technology is going to usher in the new age, and we're going to be able to control everything, and so government knows best.

01:34:10.000 We're the smart people, and we should be in charge of this and that, etc., etc.

01:34:15.000 A lot of people looked at the Soviet Union and said, that's the future.

01:34:18.000 That kind of system is the future.

01:34:21.000 Durante was writing at the New York Times in praise of the Soviet Union, and he was lying through his teeth, but he was like, I've been to the future, and it works.

01:34:31.000 I've been there, I've seen it, and the idea of socialism and the government providing for all and ultimate abundance and stuff, that was something that was all the rage in the first half of the 20th century.

01:34:44.000 And then it turns out that none of it worked, and it just killed millions and millions.

01:34:48.000 Millions and millions of people.

01:34:49.000 Way more than that guy.

01:34:50.000 So, Surge, you ready to go to Super Chats, homie? 1.00

01:34:53.000 Surge with the topknot tonight.

01:34:55.000 I don't know if there's a camera on that guy.

01:34:56.000 Topknot?

01:34:57.000 He's very aggressive.

01:34:57.000 That's the way you got your hair pinned up there.

01:35:00.000 That reminds me of a character from the Dragonlance novels.

01:35:04.000 Anybody read those when they were a kid?

01:35:06.000 Yeah, a bit of it.

01:35:07.000 Which character?

01:35:08.000 Is it Reislin?

01:35:09.000 No, Rasslin didn't have the top knot.

01:35:11.000 He was the little one, the elf dude that had the top knot. 1.00

01:35:15.000 I forget his name.

01:35:16.000 The small elf.

01:35:16.000 With the dual wielded weapon?

01:35:18.000 No, no, no.

01:35:19.000 I forget what he was.

01:35:21.000 It was the one that had the wanderlust.

01:35:23.000 He couldn't stay in one place.

01:35:25.000 I forget his name.

01:35:25.000 Anyways, we're going to go to Super Chats.

01:35:27.000 I'll stop running my face about Dragonlance and D&D stuff.

01:35:31.000 No, sorry.

01:35:33.000 So, yeah, I mean, look.

01:35:35.000 I played D&D. I started doing it, guys, FYI, throwing it out there.

01:35:39.000 I've been failing it the last couple of months, but I did it for a couple of months there.

01:35:42.000 It's fantastic.

01:35:43.000 I was so surprised how these nerds and geeks have fun.

01:35:46.000 It's a good time, D&D is.

01:35:47.000 It is very fun.

01:35:48.000 I agree.

01:35:49.000 Pauly Puree says, first?

01:35:52.000 Yes.

01:35:52.000 Yes, you were.

01:35:53.000 Good job, Pauly.

01:35:54.000 Good job.

01:35:56.000 Let's see.

01:36:01.000 Neglectful Sausage says, Destiny's livestream yesterday.

01:36:05.000 He said, Elon is a neo-Nazi, and neo-Nazis can appreciate other cultures and love them, and aren't necessarily white supremacists.

01:36:13.000 This country's 50, this counters 50 years of articles on them.

01:36:17.000 He is lying on purpose. 0.55

01:36:20.000 He's lying and saying those things because he's trying to misdirect from the fact that he recorded a woman having sex with him without her knowledge, and then gave it to his homies. 0.77

01:36:29.000 Allegedly?

01:36:30.000 Is that confirmed?

01:36:32.000 Okay, yeah, allegedly.

01:36:34.000 Well, it's not really in dispute.

01:36:36.000 There's a pending court case and there are charges.

01:36:39.000 That's felonious activity there, Stephen.

01:36:41.000 What are you doing, homie? 1.00

01:36:42.000 I don't think Elon's in any way, like, national socialist or Nazi.

01:36:48.000 Like, the way he liberated Twitter from the government's control is like nothing that the Nazis would have went in the other direction.

01:36:54.000 They would have capitulated.

01:36:55.000 The left has been calling Donald Trump a neo-Nazi all day.

01:37:00.000 For doing things that shrink the size of government, which is completely antithetical to what the National Socialists did.

01:37:09.000 People love to get into arguments about whether the Nazis were actually Socialists or whether they weren't or whatever.

01:37:17.000 Most of the Nazis were socialists before they became national socialists.

01:37:22.000 They saw that international and global socialism, communism, wasn't going to work.

01:37:26.000 And they're like, well, we want to go ahead and do the socialist stuff, but do it just for the German people, just for the white people that are in the Germans, the Aryan race. 0.99

01:37:35.000 So they were socialists.

01:37:37.000 They were...

01:37:38.000 Absolutely top-down socialists.

01:37:40.000 You couldn't do what you wanted.

01:37:41.000 You didn't have individual rights.

01:37:43.000 All the stuff you were doing was for the fatherland and stuff.

01:37:47.000 They were socialists, but they weren't international socialists.

01:37:50.000 But they still wanted the big government that was providing all kinds of things for the right people.

01:37:55.000 They didn't want to provide things for everybody.

01:37:58.000 It's such a worded-down term.

01:38:00.000 Because on X, I've been called a white supremacist and Nazi before. 0.98

01:38:04.000 The blackface of white supremacy. 0.98

01:38:06.000 Larry Elder. 0.92

01:38:07.000 I'll tell them, listen, I think I'm going to fail the entrance exam if I go there.

01:38:11.000 You know, you totally would.

01:38:12.000 You know, like the second they see me come in, they turn around.

01:38:14.000 No, no, no.

01:38:15.000 If you put blue contacts in, you might be able to pass.

01:38:18.000 I don't know.

01:38:19.000 Like, you know, I think you can see me coming.

01:38:22.000 Why is he here?

01:38:23.000 No, tell him he can't.

01:38:25.000 So I mean it's such a worded down term that is what the left has done to themselves and now everyone's one it really it really has Um water everything down. 0.99

01:38:34.000 Yeah I mean well, they just they go from they go from stupid words They go from zero to Nazi though. 0.87

01:38:41.000 Look at what they did to Anna Anna Kasparian like she she's like don't call me a birthing person And they're like you're not I mean to be fair. 0.98

01:38:48.000 I went straight to communist with Kamala's Well, you know, her dad's a Marxist, you know? 0.62

01:38:53.000 Her dad is a Marxist and the things like...

01:38:56.000 Really?

01:38:57.000 Yeah.

01:38:58.000 And statements like, we can see what the future is unburdened by what has been or whatever, those are like communist phrases and stuff.

01:39:07.000 So, I mean, maybe she's not a full-blown communist, but she's talking about price controls, all of these ideas that have been tried by socialist countries all throughout history that never work.

01:39:18.000 Very directionally.

01:39:20.000 I might be biased, but I agree with you.

01:39:22.000 Maybe a little biased.

01:39:23.000 I don't know.

01:39:24.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:39:25.000 Destiny's a piece of garbage. 0.99

01:39:26.000 I'm surprised there's an audience that watches both shows. 0.99

01:39:31.000 Destiny's show and this show?

01:39:32.000 He's been on this show multiple times in the past.

01:39:34.000 There are hate watchers in every show.

01:39:36.000 I have plenty of followers that don't like me at all.

01:39:41.000 I've got guys who can't stand me.

01:39:43.000 I'm like their most hated Twitter account.

01:39:45.000 When I click on their accounts, following you.

01:39:48.000 And I'm like, oh, look at that!

01:39:51.000 John Costanzo says, Phil, it was Tasselhoff Burfoot.

01:39:54.000 He was a Kender similar to a Halfling Hobbit. 1.00

01:39:57.000 Thank you very much.

01:39:58.000 Yes, it was Tasselhoff.

01:39:59.000 He was absolutely a lot of fun.

01:40:02.000 If you're in D&D and you haven't read the Dragonlance novels, start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

01:40:10.000 That's the first one.

01:40:12.000 They're really, really cool books.

01:40:14.000 So, do that and then read the...

01:40:16.000 What are you doing down there? 0.99

01:40:18.000 Serge is like, no, don't do that nerd crap. 0.98

01:40:21.000 Anyways, alright, what do we got here? 0.98

01:40:24.000 Some super chats.

01:40:26.000 Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

01:40:29.000 Isn't that Drizzit?

01:40:33.000 Also, shout out Tech Day Player.

01:40:35.000 What's up, Tactic Platty?

01:40:37.000 Hal Gailey says, Great job taking up the mantle, Phil.

01:40:40.000 Second day in a row.

01:40:42.000 No notification from YouTube IRL. I want the two weeks till Christmas on a poster.

01:40:46.000 Oh, really?

01:40:46.000 The art on a poster?

01:40:47.000 That's a good idea.

01:40:48.000 I mean, look, man.

01:40:50.000 You'll have to talk to Tim about that, but I will put the bug in his ear and see what he says.

01:40:55.000 That is a really good idea.

01:40:56.000 All of these skateboards should be on posters.

01:40:59.000 That's actually not a bad idea, too.

01:41:00.000 Yeah.

01:41:01.000 Artwork?

01:41:01.000 People love artwork.

01:41:02.000 Yeah.

01:41:02.000 You know?

01:41:03.000 There you go.

01:41:04.000 Or maybe the two weeks till Christmas.

01:41:06.000 You're listening, Tim.

01:41:06.000 Maybe the two weeks till Christmas artwork on a skateboard.

01:41:10.000 Oh, yeah.

01:41:11.000 Okay, yeah.

01:41:12.000 Same thing.

01:41:12.000 Artwork.

01:41:13.000 Love it.

01:41:13.000 All right.

01:41:14.000 Let's see here.

01:41:19.000 Big7588 says the condoms were about money laundering.

01:41:22.000 Isn't it always about money laundering down there?

01:41:24.000 You know?

01:41:24.000 Just get the money in.

01:41:26.000 I mean, I don't know if they were stuffing money in the condoms, but, you know.

01:41:31.000 Like I said, who owns a condom business?

01:41:33.000 Yeah, right?

01:41:34.000 Who owns the condom business?

01:41:36.000 Dot Focus says, I'm confused.

01:41:38.000 You guys are speaking as if the 50 mil was truly for condoms.

01:41:42.000 It was obviously a lie for something else.

01:41:43.000 I don't disagree.

01:41:45.000 I just don't have a good theory as to what it actually was.

01:41:51.000 But again, they do seem to be quite crafty and making condom bombs seems like something that they were interested in doing.

01:42:03.000 I don't know.

01:42:03.000 What do you guys think?

01:42:04.000 Do you think that they were there?

01:42:05.000 Do you have any theories as to what the...

01:42:08.000 Was it $50 million in condoms or is that just a cover or what?

01:42:11.000 I mean, 400 condoms per adult male at the $0.25 a condom price, that doesn't seem realistic.

01:42:17.000 I guess it probably is for something else.

01:42:19.000 I mean, it is money laundering, right?

01:42:21.000 What it was, I have no theory on that.

01:42:23.000 A senior Biden official dismissed it as calling it a feverish dream, the whole story.

01:42:28.000 This is from the Times of Israel.

01:42:30.000 Yeah, this is from earlier today.

01:42:31.000 A feverish dream that was announced during the White House press conference?

01:42:36.000 This whole thing is a feverish dream.

01:42:37.000 It's not real, apparently.

01:42:38.000 I'm still looking into it.

01:42:39.000 I want to find out where they paid, what company got the money for the condom.

01:42:44.000 I mean, listen, I know some guys who ran up their body count numbers in college, but 400?

01:42:50.000 Listen, that's impressive, but yeah, that's actually a great point.

01:42:55.000 It really could be just a money laundering game.

01:42:58.000 Oh, okay, so they said it's possible that $50 million is put aside for sexual health or something of that nature, which would include gynecology and many other services, but definitely not condoms alone.

01:43:06.000 This is the statement from, I think this is Andrew Miller.

01:43:10.000 The Assistant Secretary for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs under former President Joe Biden.

01:43:14.000 Remember, the COVID came from a pangolin or from bat soup. 1.00

01:43:19.000 A thousand miles away.

01:43:20.000 That was the story that the administration wanted us to believe.

01:43:23.000 I loved it.

01:43:24.000 The one theory that they were willing to rule out was the lab theory, right?

01:43:28.000 That was the only thing that they say it wasn't.

01:43:30.000 Definitely wasn't the Wuhan lab for infectious disease.

01:43:34.000 Until it was.

01:43:35.000 Until it was.

01:43:37.000 It smells bad and how crazy and light they are.

01:43:40.000 Well, I mean, I think it's a sign that we're critical and free thinkers.

01:43:59.000 I think it means that we are intelligent.

01:44:03.000 I think it's...

01:44:04.000 Bad strategy from an us-versus-them perspective, obviously, right? 0.85

01:44:08.000 Like, if we're not united, and they are, it's going to be easy for them to have numbers on us over and over again.

01:44:13.000 I think of it as a form of soft power.

01:44:16.000 It's not...

01:44:17.000 It's not overt, but it's the way forward.

01:44:19.000 It's the way to create sustainable societies.

01:44:21.000 It can be destroyed, which it's vulnerable, but it's the way forward.

01:44:24.000 And it's very healthy.

01:44:25.000 We need to have...

01:44:27.000 We can't all be freaking robots. 0.68

01:44:28.000 We can't have the right-wing woke mind virus.

01:44:31.000 We have to be our individuals and our own thoughts.

01:44:33.000 So it's very healthy for our side, I believe.

01:44:35.000 I mean, listen, for certain topics, do I wish we were a little bit more lockstep and let's all get together and make sure this happens?

01:44:42.000 Sure.

01:44:42.000 But I don't know anyone where I agree with them 100%.

01:44:45.000 All the time.

01:44:47.000 So, like you said, I think it shows that we're more critical thinkers.

01:44:53.000 We're more independent thinkers.

01:44:54.000 We're not afraid to call each other out or our own stuff.

01:44:56.000 And I prefer that than being in a party where, you know, hey, listen, you're going to say this and you're going to say that and you're going to say this and you're going to say that.

01:45:04.000 Okay, everybody, break.

01:45:05.000 You know, I'd rather have that.

01:45:07.000 I think overall it's a benefit to the right because they will find, you know, I feel like it is more likely that we will find the right idea, be able to fine-tune the ideas.

01:45:23.000 And the only time that I would say that it's actually a negative is when it comes to Congress, because the margins are very thin.

01:45:33.000 And so I do think that I would like to see Congress fall in line.

01:45:39.000 Behind whatever the...

01:45:41.000 Would you do it?

01:45:43.000 Would I what?

01:45:43.000 Would you fall in line on an issue that you felt strongly about?

01:45:46.000 Man, I ain't going to Congress.

01:45:47.000 But if you were, right?

01:45:48.000 So I would not want to ask anyone who I vote to represent me.

01:45:52.000 I would not want anyone that spineless in office, to be honest.

01:45:56.000 I wish that the left and the right all voted independently based on what they actually believe.

01:46:00.000 That's the country I want to live in.

01:46:02.000 You will not tell me.

01:46:04.000 That because I'm a member of the Republican Party that I need to feel a certain way on a certain issue.

01:46:10.000 I just won't do it.

01:46:11.000 I think that it depends on the context that you're in.

01:46:13.000 So right now, the actual lead that the Republicans have is very narrow.

01:46:23.000 It doesn't take very many Republicans dissenting to...

01:46:27.000 To sideline a bill.

01:46:29.000 And considering the fact that, again, the president won the popular vote.

01:46:33.000 He won the Electoral College.

01:46:34.000 We have both the Senate and the House, as well as the Supreme Court.

01:46:40.000 And if you look at the direction the country went in, the whole country shifted right.

01:46:44.000 There was not one county that flipped to the left.

01:46:49.000 Not one.

01:46:50.000 Kamala Harris picked up zero counties.

01:46:52.000 So because of the context, I do think that it's like, hey...

01:46:56.000 You should probably fall in line.

01:46:58.000 Now, if things were different, if the margins were bigger or if there was not a clear shift from the We want to see more right-leaning policies.

01:47:12.000 We're sick of the things the Democrats have been doing.

01:47:14.000 If that were not the case, then I would think that your argument would be compelling.

01:47:18.000 But I think because of the context that we're in, I would like to see Republicans kind of fall in line and say, look, even if I'm not in love with this, I think that Donald Trump has a mandate.

01:47:26.000 The American people have made it clear that they want to move away from the policies of the left.

01:47:31.000 And we need to get policies that are going to make the...

01:47:36.000 The voting public happy.

01:47:37.000 We need to make those happen.

01:47:39.000 This is also why, A, I think we should have term limits because it would get rid of a lot of the selfish interests.

01:47:46.000 And then, B, you have to also understand when you are elected to this position, it's no longer about you and what you think.

01:47:54.000 You have to go back to your constituents and be able to say, hey, listen, I didn't like this.

01:47:59.000 I'm not in love with this.

01:48:00.000 Matter of fact, I might hate it.

01:48:02.000 But you all put me in a position to vote on this.

01:48:05.000 And like you said, Phil, this is the direction the country is going in.

01:48:08.000 These are the mandates that are in.

01:48:09.000 And you know what?

01:48:10.000 If it's for the common good and it's for the betterment of the country, however I feel in it, we're going to go forward.

01:48:17.000 That's subjective, though, if it's for the betterment of the country, right?

01:48:20.000 Issue by issue.

01:48:21.000 You're representative of your people who voted for you.

01:48:24.000 And for one more thing, remember...

01:48:26.000 Gone are the days that there are multiple bills that get passed.

01:48:31.000 We're going to get two bills.

01:48:32.000 We're going to get an omnibus bill, and we're probably going to get an immigration bill.

01:48:35.000 And those are the only bills.

01:48:36.000 And everyone's going to stuff all kinds of pork in them. 1.00

01:48:39.000 So if the Republicans want to get these bills passed, they're going to have to vote yes for a bill that has a boatload of stuff that they don't want.

01:48:48.000 Can we get the next executive order to be no more?

01:48:52.000 Omnibus bills, no more.

01:48:54.000 Please?

01:48:54.000 Only if we can get magic.

01:48:58.000 Everyone gets to have a magic pony.

01:49:00.000 We live in the real world, and the situation is we don't have the votes to be able to do those kind of things.

01:49:06.000 So if you want to get anything passed, if you want to get changes to the government passed, the bill that's going to come up is going to have garbage in it. 0.50

01:49:15.000 And it's going to have more garbage than anyone's comfortable with. 0.91

01:49:18.000 And it's going to have enough garbage where your opponent... 0.96

01:49:21.000 When it comes time for you to go back home and try to raise money and run, your opponent's going to say, look at what he passed.

01:49:28.000 He passed this, he voted yes on this, he voted yes on this, because it was an omnibus bill.

01:49:33.000 But the reason that you're going to vote yes on that is because it's going to have all the stuff you want. 0.90

01:49:37.000 And if you want to get a bill that has all the stuff you want to pass, that means the Democrats are going to say, I see an opportunity to stuff my garbage in here too.

01:49:47.000 So because of the fact that it's omnibus bills, and this is not an endorsement. 0.71

01:49:51.000 The chat's probably going to lose their mind.

01:49:53.000 I'm not saying that I like this.

01:49:54.000 I'm talking about the reality of the way that the sausage is made in D.C. If you want to get things like border security passed, if you want to get things like the wall funded, if you want to get these things, if you want to make sure that we have the ability to get everybody that's here illegally out and make sure they have the funding to be able to do that and possibly prevent those things from becoming a problem next year, then you're going to pass a bill that has garbage in it. 0.76

01:50:20.000 You have to take the bitter medicine along with the stuff that you want, and there's no way around it.

01:50:24.000 I want a magic pony.

01:50:26.000 It's fine to want that, but I'm telling you the conditions that we live in.

01:50:29.000 Look at what happened during the debate.

01:50:31.000 What was Kamala Harris's main thing she used against Trump? 0.96

01:50:34.000 Oh, he didn't want the border bill.

01:50:37.000 He called his friends and told them not to vote for this bill.

01:50:41.000 She didn't bring up the fact that there was so much pork stuffed in the same bill that the thing could have gone on a pizza and had toppings on it.

01:50:49.000 No, she talked about he didn't want the border security bill.

01:50:55.000 When the left all talked about it, they made it seem as if the Republicans in Congress, they didn't want border security, they don't want more funding for police.

01:51:04.000 But you're making my argument.

01:51:05.000 No, listen, I agree with you.

01:51:07.000 I agree with you in fundamentally where I think every bill should be one page.

01:51:13.000 A paragraph, maybe two at most, but we should be able to read the bill and know what's on it.

01:51:18.000 If my six-year-old can't read it, it shouldn't be a bill.

01:51:20.000 In fact, I think all laws should be a bill.

01:51:21.000 Listen, I shoulda, coulda, woulda.

01:51:23.000 I love all the things you're saying.

01:51:24.000 I agree with it, but we live in a...

01:51:26.000 Executive order, baby!

01:51:27.000 We couldn't deport people two weeks ago.

01:51:30.000 Now we can.

01:51:31.000 Listen, you can make the executive order, but it has to be a law that's going to be able to stand.

01:51:36.000 So we've got to keep going, though.

01:51:37.000 We've got more Super Chats.

01:51:39.000 Just Cause I'm Free says, I love it.

01:51:57.000 I love it.

01:51:58.000 I love it.

01:51:59.000 I think it's going to die.

01:52:00.000 But call your representatives because of all the stuff that I just went through.

01:52:04.000 Like, there's not going to be single bills.

01:52:06.000 But if you can get that stuffed into the omnibus...

01:52:10.000 I'm there with you.

01:52:11.000 That's a possibility.

01:52:12.000 So if we can get that bill stuffed into the omnibus that everybody's going to want to pass, then we could see something happen.

01:52:19.000 But it's not going to pass on its own.

01:52:21.000 And the only reason it's not going to pass on its own is because nobody wants to...

01:52:24.000 I think that's a root problem with our country.

01:52:26.000 The fact that if you're going to pass this, I'm going to pass this. 1.00

01:52:30.000 Then we just end up with a bunch of shit no matter who's in charge. 0.98

01:52:32.000 I couldn't agree with you more, but it doesn't change the situation that we have. 0.99

01:52:37.000 I agree.

01:52:38.000 Again, I... None of what I said is something that I'm happy about, but I'm just talking about the reality of getting bills passed in D.C. right now, especially with the very narrow majority we have.

01:52:53.000 If we had 300 Republicans in the House and 65 in the Senate, we could change the whole country.

01:53:02.000 Absolutely.

01:53:03.000 Do it.

01:53:04.000 And believe me, if we can get those people in, I'm here for it.

01:53:08.000 Absolutely.

01:53:09.000 I want it.

01:53:10.000 But we don't have that.

01:53:11.000 I love your enthusiasm and your idea.

01:53:14.000 But like Phil saying, bro, it's reality.

01:53:18.000 We got a bull in the china shop, man.

01:53:20.000 Let them break some stuff.

01:53:22.000 That's what I'm saying.

01:53:23.000 It's like term limits.

01:53:24.000 It's like term limits.

01:53:25.000 Term limits would solve a ton of problems we have.

01:53:28.000 But these elected officials aren't going to vote to restrict themselves.

01:53:34.000 So it's up to the people.

01:53:36.000 Yeah.

01:53:36.000 But with that said, in the perfect world, hey, listen, yeah, we'd have term limits.

01:53:40.000 We'd have single item bills that came out and we'd be able to say, hey, listen, I like that.

01:53:44.000 I don't like that.

01:53:45.000 I like that.

01:53:45.000 I don't like that.

01:53:46.000 And you know what?

01:53:47.000 My representatives are going to vote the way I want them to do.

01:53:49.000 But we don't live in the perfect world.

01:53:51.000 We got to live in the real world.

01:53:52.000 And this is what it is.

01:53:53.000 Penny, there's a method to get exactly what you want. 0.98

01:53:56.000 It's an Article 5 Convention of States.

01:53:58.000 You want to go around Washington, D.C.? Go ahead and...

01:54:01.000 Come up with all the votes you need to get an Article 5 Convention of States, and we can amend the Constitution, and if D.C. doesn't like it, they can S a D. Because that's just...

01:54:10.000 The Article 5 says this is what you're going to do.

01:54:13.000 You need two-thirds of the states to agree.

01:54:16.000 Have the convention.

01:54:17.000 Get the amendments you want.

01:54:19.000 You want...

01:54:19.000 Term limits, you can put that into the Constitution, but you need to have an Article V, and that's the only way you can circumvent D.C. Well, like six months ago, I avoided politics like the plague.

01:54:29.000 By next year, I'll be flipping California.

01:54:31.000 There you go!

01:54:32.000 I'm with you, man.

01:54:34.000 I'm with you.

01:54:36.000 Extant Man says, I'm a recently retired 33-year-old federal employee.

01:54:41.000 I asked many times to be allowed to work from home.

01:54:44.000 They asked, how are you going to do that?

01:54:45.000 You're an air traffic controller. 0.88

01:54:47.000 Not all feds are useless, Phil.

01:54:50.000 Fair enough, but do the air traffic controllers have to be federally, does it have to be feds?

01:54:57.000 I mean, could it be private?

01:54:58.000 And I don't know.

01:55:00.000 I'm not the guy that's saying.

01:55:01.000 They talked about the airport security privatizing that.

01:55:04.000 I mean, you know.

01:55:05.000 Oh, please.

01:55:06.000 Things are all right.

01:55:07.000 Hopefully that gentleman's mental health is fine because I hear about air controllers.

01:55:11.000 You know, S-rate is very high, so I hope he's okay.

01:55:15.000 Yeah.

01:55:16.000 Mark Connolly says, trades are underappreciated.

01:55:19.000 I'm a plant operations manager at a hospital system in rural South Georgia.

01:55:24.000 We start maintenance technicians out at $25 an hour in very rural areas.

01:55:29.000 Very good money for our area.

01:55:31.000 That's true, you know?

01:55:32.000 And I got love for the trades, and I think that millennials and Gen Z have been done a significant disservice by not being told, hey, look, this is a great way for you to earn a living.

01:55:43.000 They are now.

01:55:44.000 They are now.

01:55:47.000 Thankfully.

01:55:47.000 I would love to preach that message more because I've been doing it for the last 15 years and it's a beautiful trait.

01:55:53.000 It's good money.

01:55:54.000 It's good people.

01:55:55.000 You learn things.

01:55:56.000 You know, I had a water leak over the weekend and I was able to do that stuff myself.

01:56:01.000 So it's great.

01:56:03.000 It's useful as knowledge.

01:56:04.000 You know, I'm the family electrician.

01:56:05.000 I'm the family construction guy.

01:56:07.000 I do anything they need to hit me up and they give me like pizza and beer.

01:56:09.000 So I love it.

01:56:10.000 I think it's a straight...

01:56:11.000 Path to starting your own business, too.

01:56:13.000 If you get a college degree, starting a business is hard.

01:56:16.000 But if you start by doing trades, and then you just hire someone to help you, hire another guy, such a straight path.

01:56:23.000 ClothSwiss says, As a Gen X, I'm disgusted by the weakness of the youth of this nation.

01:56:28.000 Job roles sit empty because the youth won't step up.

01:56:31.000 Their failure leads to me making more money.

01:56:33.000 Great for you.

01:56:34.000 But I will say that...

01:56:35.000 The idea that it's hard to get people to do the job, that's a real thing.

01:56:41.000 That's something that Tim has talked about a bunch.

01:56:43.000 Getting people to actually do work and stuff like that is tough.

01:56:48.000 I've had a bunch of problems up in New Hampshire trying to get people to come and do projects that I have at my house.

01:56:54.000 And that is fair.

01:56:55.000 And it's real.

01:56:56.000 You want someone that's skilled.

01:56:58.000 You don't want someone that's just going to be like, yeah, I can come and do it.

01:57:01.000 I personally want someone that's bonded and insured.

01:57:04.000 Because I want to make sure that I know that the work is going to be done properly.

01:57:09.000 And so it's not super easy to find people that are available and, you know, that are willing to go out of the way to come to a place like my place in New Hampshire.

01:57:19.000 It's in the woods.

01:57:19.000 That's so whack.

01:57:20.000 How do people not want to make money?

01:57:21.000 Like, you have a job.

01:57:22.000 You have the skills.

01:57:23.000 You can do it.

01:57:24.000 But how do you not?

01:57:25.000 How do they not want to make money?

01:57:27.000 I'm coming across this too much.

01:57:28.000 All the guys that I talk to, they're like, well, you know, I'm tied up, so blah, blah, blah.

01:57:32.000 I'll get out there maybe.

01:57:33.000 If you want to start the project next year is the kind of stuff that I get.

01:57:36.000 It sounds like there's a lot of competition then that the really good people get booked out and that there's a lot of mediocre people that are available.

01:57:43.000 So it's an opportunity for you to become really good at something like that.

01:57:47.000 I was doing excellent on Craigslist when I was from the state of Pennsylvania as a welfare office working from home and, you know, COVID, which I can represent.

01:57:55.000 But I was making well, decent cash out on the side doing electrical work and people hit me up left and right.

01:58:00.000 So it's like he's got to do it and he's got to know how to do it and be licensed, of course, as well.

01:58:05.000 Justice Gypsy says, please send positive vibes and prayers in remembrance of my dog, Mishka.

01:58:10.000 We just had to put him down to stop his suffering Sunday.

01:58:13.000 I'm sorry to hear I am the biggest dog person that you're ever going to meet.

01:58:19.000 I've never met a dog I don't like.

01:58:21.000 I'm a huge dog fan, and it's a terrible thing when it's time for them to move on.

01:58:29.000 Human beings owe dogs, right?

01:58:31.000 We created dogs.

01:58:33.000 They were wolves, and then we created dogs by having them, breeding them to be certain ways.

01:58:42.000 So human beings have a debt to dogs, and so we have to take care of them.

01:58:47.000 And to be honest with you, dogs bring so much joy to so many people.

01:58:51.000 It's rough when they go.

01:58:54.000 Just a side story.

01:58:55.000 My wife and I adopted a dog about four years ago.

01:58:59.000 That had been abused.

01:59:01.000 And she didn't trust me at first because I guess I looked like the person who was abusing her.

01:59:06.000 And it took me a while just for her to be comfortable with me.

01:59:09.000 And now she's very comfortable with me.

01:59:13.000 She lays on me.

01:59:14.000 And it's one of the greatest feelings in the world.

01:59:17.000 Yeah, it is.

01:59:18.000 It is.

01:59:19.000 So my condolences from all of us here.

01:59:25.000 Wisco Luffy says...

01:59:27.000 Grandma passed last Monday.

01:59:28.000 Lifelong Dem voted Trump, thanking her for planting the tree she wouldn't see the shade of.

01:59:34.000 Oh, man.

01:59:35.000 Hey, can you find a decent one that's not going to make us to end on your surge?

01:59:45.000 Rebel without a cause.

01:59:46.000 I heard that ATR used to open for condom bombs.

01:59:51.000 I swear to God, I wouldn't be surprised if that was a punk band's name.

01:59:55.000 That sounds like a great punk band's name.

01:59:57.000 Condom Bombs?

01:59:58.000 Condom Bombs, yeah.

01:59:59.000 Someone trademark that.

02:00:01.000 I'm not really a fan of punk rock, but Condom Bombs is definitely a good punk band name.

02:00:08.000 Dork Tannen says, This has nothing to do with anything, but croissant is the best bread for roast beef sandwiches, and I will fight over it.

02:00:16.000 Look, man, you are not going to catch me dissing croissants.

02:00:19.000 They are delicious.

02:00:20.000 They are absolutely delicious.

02:00:22.000 So I think now is the time that you should smash the like button, share the show with your friends, go to TimCast.com, become a member, and we're going to go ahead and wrap things up.

02:00:33.000 So thank you guys for coming.

02:00:35.000 I appreciate it.

02:00:35.000 You guys are going to go ahead and tell people where they can find you?

02:00:39.000 Yeah, my pleasure.

02:00:40.000 I'm Penny2X on X is where you can find me.

02:00:43.000 I also have a YouTube channel, Penny2X.

02:00:46.000 Love to see you guys there.

02:00:47.000 Yeah, you can find me over on X. That's my main trash-talking spot.

02:00:52.000 Zeke Arkham, Z-E-E-K-A-R-K-H-A-M. I'm also on Instagram, same handle. 0.79

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02:01:12.000 I'm so close to 100K followers on X. 85,000, so we're getting there.

02:01:21.000 I'm very fortunate to be a part of these conversations.

02:01:24.000 Sometimes I'll watch this show when I'm not on and just want to respond.

02:01:28.000 Thank you guys for coming.

02:01:30.000 I send super chats.

02:01:31.000 There have been times where I'll be driving and I'll text Serge and be like, yo, tell him this or whatever.

02:01:37.000 I actually spend money.

02:01:39.000 You send text?

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02:01:44.000 I was going to say, I want to shout out Chris and Sarah.

02:01:46.000 They just had a baby.

02:01:47.000 They work here.

02:01:48.000 Oh, yes.

02:01:48.000 They're beautiful people, and they just had a newborn child.

02:01:51.000 Beautiful little baby, so I just wanted to shout them out.

02:01:52.000 Nice work, guys.

02:01:54.000 Well, I'm at Ian Crossland.

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