Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Trump NY Case BLOWS UP After Cohen ADMITS He STOLE 60k From Trump w-Michael Rectenwald | Timcast IRL

00:00:00.000 In, I guess what you would call bombshell testimony, which to be honest, probably isn't

00:00:25.000 surprising.

00:00:26.000 Michael Cohen, the star witness for the prosecution in the Trump trial in New York, admitted that

00:00:31.000 he stole $60,000 from the Trump organization in the actual payment that allegedly was to

00:00:38.000 pay back Stormy Daniels. 1.00

00:00:40.000 Now, I'm sorry.

00:00:42.000 Even CNN has a legal analyst explaining how could Trump have known what was going on with this money, that it was going to Stormy Daniels, if Cohen was actually stealing large portions of it.

00:00:53.000 So there's a bit of confusion right now.

00:00:55.000 Even I was confused because you're getting a bunch of different reports on different numbers.

00:00:59.000 Cohen, and I'll break it down for you.

00:01:00.000 Real simple, right?

00:01:02.000 Not to bury the lead.

00:01:04.000 Cohen said he needed $50,000 to reimburse an IT company.

00:01:08.000 So they include this in a large lump sum payment he's getting.

00:01:12.000 He goes to that company and apparently he hands them a brown paper bag with $20,000 in it and says, take it or leave it.

00:01:19.000 Pockets $30,000.

00:01:21.000 And then as part of that $50,000, the Trump organization actually reimbursed additional tax liability, assuming the 50 grand was going to that company.

00:01:30.000 He said, here's extra money in the event that you actually have to pay tax on it, because they were paying Cohen.

00:01:35.000 It wasn't necessarily a reimbursement.

00:01:37.000 It was payment for the job he did.

00:01:39.000 And it was basically them knowing he was paying an IT company.

00:01:42.000 So the 30 grand on top That he should not have gotten also went into his pocket, and this is where CNN began reporting the $60,000 number.

00:01:50.000 So this absolutely destroys the case that they have against Donald Trump.

00:01:55.000 He didn't even know he was being robbed.

00:01:57.000 Now they're arguing, no, he didn't know he was being robbed, but he did know that he was paying off Stormy Daniels, I guess.

00:02:02.000 We're going to break this down.

00:02:04.000 In this trial, apparently they brought in Cohen's own lawyer.

00:02:08.000 Rob Costello.

00:02:10.000 The prosecution will not let him answer any questions.

00:02:13.000 They keep an objection.

00:02:14.000 He gets into it with the judge.

00:02:15.000 The judge gets pissed.

00:02:16.000 This whole thing sounds like bad television.

00:02:19.000 Oh boy.

00:02:20.000 So we'll talk about that.

00:02:21.000 Then we've got USA Today calling on Joe Biden to resign to stop Trump.

00:02:25.000 Yeah.

00:02:26.000 And then there actually is really big news.

00:02:29.000 The president of Iran and the Iranian foreign minister died in a helicopter crash over the weekend.

00:02:34.000 Many people are speculating assassination.

00:02:38.000 Some are saying this is just like Franz Ferdinand.

00:02:41.000 Israel denies any involvement.

00:02:42.000 From the photos we've seen, it looks like the helicopter just crashed on a foggy day, which does happen.

00:02:49.000 But considering this is coming a month after rocket fire exchange between Israel and Iran, He has a lot of people who don't believe in coincidences, so we're going to talk about that.

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00:04:00.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Dr. Michael Rechtenwald.

00:04:05.000 Hello, how are you doing?

00:04:06.000 Okay, so I'm Michael Recktenwald, and former NYU professor, author, and now libertarian candidate for president.

00:04:06.000 I'm doing well.

00:04:14.000 It's great to be here, man.

00:04:15.000 Well, there you go.

00:04:16.000 And we got the LP National Conventions coming up this week.

00:04:19.000 When does it start?

00:04:20.000 It starts Thursday, but the fireworks begin, I should say, Saturday.

00:04:20.000 Does it start Thursday?

00:04:24.000 We will be there on Friday.

00:04:26.000 Okay.

00:04:27.000 We'll be doing the show from the convention Friday night.

00:04:29.000 Awesome.

00:04:30.000 And this is sounding like it may be the biggest party in politics.

00:04:34.000 I mean like physical party, like literal party, not political party.

00:04:38.000 Great.

00:04:39.000 The amount of people who are planning on being there and the rumors that are flying around Trump is going to be there, RFK is going to be there, I mean this is going to be wild.

00:04:45.000 You're going to be there?

00:04:46.000 I'm going to be there.

00:04:47.000 Vivek Ramaswamy is going to be there.

00:04:50.000 Trump is going to be there.

00:04:51.000 Thomas Massey is going to be there.

00:04:53.000 And there's a special surprise guest that I can't reveal tonight.

00:04:57.000 It's the biggest guest of all, in my opinion.

00:05:00.000 It's going to be interesting.

00:05:02.000 I also think, don't be surprised if just a bunch of other political commentators and personalities end up showing up because of how big this is becoming.

00:05:09.000 It's going to be huge.

00:05:10.000 Once they said Trump was going to be there, then if you are in the political space, if you're a commentator and you are not in D.C., you are missing out and you'll be sitting at home with FOMO.

00:05:18.000 But we'll talk about that later as well.

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00:05:36.000 Hi, Serge!

00:05:40.000 I can't believe this is the news today.

00:05:43.000 Michael Cohen admitted to stealing from the Trump Organization in the actual reimbursement they claim was supposed to go to Stormy Daniels.

00:05:52.000 I will break this down very quickly for you.

00:05:55.000 Cohen says he needs to reimburse this IT company, Redfinch, $50,000.

00:06:01.000 They say, OK, we'll add $50,000 to your total pay package.

00:06:05.000 So Cohen is a lawyer working for the Trump Organization.

00:06:07.000 He says, here's my invoice.

00:06:08.000 This is for reimbursements.

00:06:09.000 And they say, OK, we'll give you $50,000.

00:06:12.000 Michael Cohen testifies, he takes that money, puts $20,000 in a brown paper bag, hands it to the IT company and is like, take it or leave it, puts $30,000 in his pocket, and then the Trump organization says, by the way, we're putting another $180,000 in your total pay for potential tax liability.

00:06:30.000 They had no idea what they were giving this man money for.

00:06:35.000 The argument from the prosecution is that Trump knew this was going to Cohen for For paying off Stormy Daniels, among other expenses.

00:06:44.000 But how?

00:06:45.000 I don't believe that is believable beyond a reasonable doubt, or even plausible, considering Cohen ripped them off for $60K.

00:06:54.000 Now, a lot of people are confused about the $60K number, as was I.

00:06:58.000 In this whole pay package, the Independent actually breaks this down.

00:07:02.000 So here we have the story.

00:07:03.000 Michael Cohen admits to stealing from the Trump Organization while clawing back Stormy Daniels' hush money.

00:07:07.000 Of course, all of the more left-wing outlets are still going to try and make the claim that the Trump Organization knew they were paying up this $130,000 reimbursement, which I doubt.

00:07:16.000 So here's what they say.

00:07:20.000 The reimbursements to Cohen for the hush money payment, which Mr. Trump paid out in monthly $35,000 installments in 2017, totaled $420,000.

00:07:29.000 As part of the reimbursement plan, Cohen had also billed the Trump Organization $50,000 plus taxes for money that Cohen was supposed to pay to the tech firm Red Finch.

00:07:40.000 He gave Red Finch a brown paper bag filled with $20,000 in cash, still owed the vendor $30,000 for the contract he testified.

00:07:47.000 The initial payment was only enough to placate him for the time being.

00:07:50.000 He said, I still needed his service and I need his availability.

00:07:53.000 You stole from the Trump Organization, Defense Attorney Todd Blanche asked.

00:07:57.000 Yes, sir, Cohen replied.

00:07:59.000 Mr. Blanche also asked whether he has ever pleaded guilty to larceny or paid back any of the money to the Trump Organization that he stole from them.

00:08:07.000 He did not.

00:08:08.000 So basically what ends up happening is this.

00:08:10.000 The reimbursement payments ultimately included $130,000 to Ms. 0.97

00:08:14.000 Daniels, $50k to Redfinch, $60k bonus, and $180,000 to compensate for taxes.

00:08:22.000 There's only one way this makes sense.

00:08:26.000 If these are reimbursements, you don't pay tax liability on them.

00:08:30.000 Okay?

00:08:31.000 So, let's just play this game.

00:08:34.000 Cast Brew Coffee, right?

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00:08:39.000 In the event there is any kind of crossover, and Cast Brew ends up covering a cost that ultimately should be the responsibility of TimCast, TimCast does a flat reimbursement.

00:08:49.000 Let's say it's $100.

00:08:50.000 They say, here's the $100 back you paid at the time.

00:08:53.000 Let's say it's a guy walks up and says, this parking bill for your vehicle is $100, and only Cast Brew has the money on hand, and say, okay, we'll reimburse us, and we'll cover the cost of the vehicle.

00:09:03.000 We don't pay taxes on that.

00:09:04.000 It's a reimbursement for a business expense.

00:09:07.000 The only way this makes sense, in my view, they gave $180,000 tax compensation to Cohen because they had no idea what any of the money was for.

00:09:17.000 I explained this a couple weeks ago.

00:09:19.000 I said, I bet Cohen was invoicing the Trump Organization, and they were just paying it out.

00:09:26.000 They're a multi-billion dollar organization, and here's the lawyer with an invoice to say, yeah, yeah, whatever.

00:09:31.000 They didn't itemize it.

00:09:32.000 And so when he says, oh, I need another $180 for taxes, they're like, sure.

00:09:36.000 I think it's fair to say, if that is true, it's not just $60K he stole, but the $130K on top.

00:09:43.000 They had no idea what they were paying for.

00:09:45.000 They thought they were paying services.

00:09:47.000 So where the $60K number comes from is what we can say.

00:09:50.000 The media, the court, there's been no ruling out on whether Trump is innocent or guilty, although we think, I think everybody who's paying attention thinks it's absurd and he's innocent.

00:09:58.000 But what they're saying is by taking the $30K, Putting in his pocket, and then getting the 50k expense, getting tax liability on top, which is 30k, and then putting that in his pocket, he lied to get a $60,000 bill on top of the money that he was actually owed.

00:10:16.000 So, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.

00:10:18.000 I don't see how this trial... I'll say one last thing.

00:10:24.000 I really thought there was a possibility that on the last day of the prosecution's case, they were going to slam the piece of paper on the table where it's like, I, Donald Trump, hereby request Michael Cohen reimburse Stormy Daniels that nobody finds out, blah blah blah, sign Donald Trump, notarized in the state of New York, something like that, like here's the bombshell.

00:10:44.000 Not only was there no bombshell, the bombshell was for the defense.

00:10:49.000 Laughably insane.

00:10:51.000 There's already conversations about why he's not going to prison for grand larceny, having admitted he stole this money.

00:10:57.000 And the crazy thing is, even CNN is now saying that this is a worse crime than anything Trump's been accused of, and they're having him testify against Trump.

00:11:09.000 One of the craziest bits of legal analysis that I saw so far was, never have we seen a prosecutor have a felony criminal case flip to try and get a misdemeanor.

00:11:21.000 I mean, it's almost too bad that he didn't say, yes, I paid them a brown paper bag and then I carried out everything else in a canvas sack with a dollar sign painted on it, right?

00:11:30.000 Like, he's blatantly stealing and it's, I mean, he's already been convicted of campaign finance violations.

00:11:36.000 Like, he has had to defend his credibility on the stand before.

00:11:39.000 I heard a couple talking heads try and defend since doing a testimony, a former lawyer of Of Cohen's was on MSNBC saying, well, let me remind you that Donald Trump is on trial and he doesn't have to defend his credibility at all.

00:11:52.000 In fact, the documents corroborate it.

00:11:54.000 But I think the defense has done a pretty good job of pointing out kind of how this key witness, this star witness is not reliable.

00:12:01.000 And in fact, he presents lie after lie after lie.

00:12:04.000 I mean, it's not it's not the smoking gun case they seem to pretend it was.

00:12:08.000 Let's operate from—so this $60K theft, this is the wild thing.

00:12:12.000 It's from the prosecution's perspective.

00:12:14.000 If the prosecution is correct and Donald Trump actually did the things they claim he did, then it is a fact.

00:12:20.000 Michael Cohen stole $60,000.

00:12:23.000 Let's take a view from the—let's take the perspective of the defense.

00:12:30.000 They had no idea what Cohen was doing.

00:12:32.000 And Cohen's own former... They say lawyer.

00:12:35.000 Costello says he was his lawyer, but he's arguing it's a legal advisor.

00:12:40.000 Their defense is that Cohen did this of his own volition without them knowing.

00:12:44.000 If that's true, Cohen stole the $130,000 by lying to the Trump Organization about what he needed the money for, and the Trump Organization just blindly paid invoices.

00:12:57.000 I will stress that again.

00:12:58.000 I have worked for large corporations.

00:13:00.000 I got a story for you.

00:13:02.000 I worked with a guy.

00:13:04.000 We had a three-month contract.

00:13:06.000 I said, thank you and have a nice day.

00:13:08.000 At the end of the year, some nine months later, they told me, in passing, someone from accounting was like, oh, we got your invoices paid up.

00:13:16.000 And I was like, invoices?

00:13:18.000 And they were like, for your contractor?

00:13:19.000 And I was like, contractor?

00:13:21.000 And they were like, yeah, so-and-so.

00:13:22.000 And I was just like, yo, that guy hasn't worked with me in like nine months.

00:13:26.000 And they were like, uh...

00:13:28.000 He's been invoicing us every single month.

00:13:30.000 Yeah.

00:13:30.000 It happens all the time.

00:13:30.000 Yeah.

00:13:31.000 Typical white-collar corporate crime.

00:13:33.000 This goes on all the time.

00:13:36.000 I predict that Cohen will not only not get prosecuted, he'll be hired by MSNBC.

00:13:42.000 As a legal analyst and financial crimes expert.

00:13:45.000 Yep.

00:13:46.000 I mean, I have a problem following all of the stuff going on with Trump, the legal stuff, because there's so many different cases.

00:13:54.000 And to be honest with you, I don't find any of it particularly compelling because I just feel like it's all just Things being thrown at him to see what would stick.

00:14:04.000 And I feel like that's what the average normie kinda does.

00:14:08.000 I don't think the average person is tuned into this.

00:14:11.000 You have to really hate Donald Trump or really, really love Donald Trump to go ahead and pay attention to this.

00:14:18.000 This isn't moving the dial.

00:14:20.000 This isn't convincing anyone that doesn't already feel that they, you know, that hasn't already made up their mind.

00:14:26.000 They're not moving the needle at all.

00:14:29.000 And I think this hurts the credibility of both New York, and I think that it filters through to the rest of the government.

00:14:37.000 Just the overall... This is the party that's... People are going to look at this as extremely partisan, and this is a Democrat-run operation.

00:14:46.000 That's how they're going to look at it.

00:14:48.000 There's reports from the courtroom that the jury's tired, right?

00:14:51.000 That they're starting to shift in their seat.

00:14:52.000 They're getting more restless.

00:14:53.000 I mean, we're in like week five or six of this case.

00:14:56.000 At a certain point, you know, everyone can see the writing on the walls.

00:14:59.000 Yeah.

00:15:00.000 And I agree with what you were saying, Michael.

00:15:03.000 Anytime you can dunk on Democrats, I'm on board.

00:15:07.000 Because I really don't like the Democrats.

00:15:09.000 They've really, in my opinion, they've dropped the ball on a lot of things that didn't need to be dropped on.

00:15:16.000 Um, that being said, like, I just don't see how the, the government doesn't kind of get

00:15:24.000 smeared overall because I forget what it was.

00:15:26.000 There was something that just came out last week.

00:15:29.000 The phone call, which phone call there was a phone.

00:15:32.000 So there was this recording playing court last week that they said... No, no, this isn't about court.

00:15:35.000 This is about something else.

00:15:36.000 Oh, it was the stuff about the Fauci stuff.

00:15:40.000 The fact that everyone knew that it was actually... Game of Function.

00:15:43.000 This harms... Like, right now, the population is significantly skeptical of institutions, whether it be the government, whether it be... And it goes through whether it's the government, the judicial system.

00:15:58.000 There has never been a time in my life when the institutions have been more suspect by the population, and the institutions have earned every bit of that suspicion.

00:16:11.000 Everything from the financial markets, to the government, to the judicial system, to the elections.

00:16:17.000 Everything.

00:16:18.000 To the world, obviously the World Health Organization, but the United States Health Organization,

00:16:24.000 you know, the NIH here in the US, or whatever it's called, Center for Disease Control, whatever.

00:16:30.000 CDC.

00:16:31.000 Yeah, CDC.

00:16:32.000 But the point being, at a time when the population has never been more skeptical of the government 0.90

00:16:41.000 They're doing this garbage stuff that isn't going to go anywhere. 0.76

00:16:45.000 Let's jump to this on the Post Millennial. 0.98

00:16:47.000 CNN legal analyst says Michael Cohen's stealing from Trump org is a more serious crime than Trump's alleged falsification of business docs.

00:16:56.000 I'd say Democrats have lost CNN, but they lost them weeks ago.

00:17:00.000 Yeah.

00:17:01.000 This court case has been so abysmal for the anti-Trump activists that even CNN Fareed Zakaria saying this case would never be brought against anybody whose name wasn't Donald Trump.

00:17:14.000 And I hate how he framed it that way.

00:17:16.000 Please don't use the double negatives.

00:17:17.000 Just say the only reason they brought this case is because they are going after Donald Trump.

00:17:22.000 But they don't want to necessarily cross that bridge, but they'll get close enough.

00:17:26.000 Take a look at this.

00:17:29.000 CNN's Ellie Honig says Michael Cohen is guilty of more serious crimes in New York than those alleged against Trump.

00:17:37.000 The fact that he was never charged with larceny is important because stealing $60,000 through fraud is a more serious of a crime than falsifying business records.

00:17:47.000 I want to stress this again.

00:17:49.000 I believe, based on the testimony we've already heard from Costello, and what we know about Michael Cohen, The story is that Cohen wanted to pay off Stormy Daniels without anyone knowing, so he took a home equity loan to do it so nobody would know what he did.

00:18:04.000 It doesn't make sense that Trump went to his lawyer and says, can you take care of this and get an NDA signed?

00:18:07.000 Because that's normal, normal contractual work.

00:18:10.000 You go to a lawyer and say, someone's got a bad story.

00:18:13.000 Get him to sign the NDA and pay him a settlement.

00:18:16.000 Why would Trump or anyone need to hide that fact that they're doing something like this?

00:18:21.000 The fact that Cohen took out a home equity loan, admitted to doing this, suggests he was trying to conceal what he was doing.

00:18:27.000 That would mean it's not just $60,000 stolen from Trump.

00:18:30.000 I was wrong.

00:18:31.000 I said in a previous segment it was $130,000 on top.

00:18:34.000 It's the tax liability on top of the $130,000.

00:18:37.000 So we're talking about $130,000 stolen without the Trump Organization knowing what they're giving them the money for.

00:18:44.000 $30,000 because he pocketed it and didn't give the money to the IT company, and then the tax liability for both payments.

00:18:51.000 Tax liability and $160,000, which is going to be what?

00:18:53.000 Like $70,000 or something like this.

00:18:55.000 Co-install hundreds of thousands of dollars if the defense is telling the truth that Trump had no idea.

00:19:01.000 And why would he?

00:19:02.000 He's the head of this big organization.

00:19:05.000 He's not even dealing with accounts payable.

00:19:08.000 This idea is absolutely insane.

00:19:11.000 I guarantee you Trump's got 80 lawyers or more with all these different organizations, all these different properties.

00:19:17.000 He doesn't know which lawyer he's dealing with.

00:19:19.000 He's just a functionary.

00:19:20.000 Cohen, he's nobody to Trump.

00:19:21.000 Exactly.

00:19:22.000 And so the idea that Trump personally goes, no.

00:19:24.000 Cohen was taking care of it because he's trying to, I think he's trying to butter himself up to the Trump administration, or the Trump organization.

00:19:31.000 I keep saying administration because he did become president.

00:19:33.000 And I think the reason was Cohen was able to steal money through invoices and he didn't want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

00:19:38.000 So he kept the story going as well.

00:19:40.000 Yeah, I think for Cohen, it's like, what's your incentive to pay off Stormy Daniels?

00:19:45.000 He could eventually, if he pulls it off, this heist behind the scenes, make himself look good by saying, I took care of this for you, don't worry about it.

00:19:55.000 I don't know that's actually the case.

00:19:56.000 I wonder if he's just trying to protect Trump to protect himself. 0.94

00:20:01.000 The longer the Trump train keeps going, he gets to latch on and suckle from the teat without them realizing it. 0.92

00:20:06.000 Let me play this clip from CNN for you guys. 0.96

00:20:10.000 The way this was raised and addressed on direct is what Julia Louis-Dreyfus would call yadda yadda yadda.

00:20:15.000 I mean, here's what Michael Cohen said.

00:20:17.000 I think that was George Costanza.

00:20:19.000 No, no, no.

00:20:20.000 It was Elaine.

00:20:21.000 It was Elaine on yadda yadda yadda.

00:20:25.000 Here's the direct testimony, the way Michael Cohen explained what happened.

00:20:28.000 It was actually a girl that Costanza was dating.

00:20:32.000 Michael Cohen explained this whole thing, quote, that's what was owed and I didn't feel Mr. Trump deserved the difference.

00:20:39.000 That's a lot different than I stole $60,000 from my boss on the transaction at the heart of this case.

00:20:46.000 And by the way, the fact that he was never charged with larceny is important because stealing $60,000 through fraud, which would be larceny in New York state, is more serious of a crime than falsifying business records.

00:21:00.000 This is grand larceny.

00:21:02.000 This is years in prison.

00:21:03.000 Couldn't he go to jail for like 15 years for this?

00:21:06.000 Absolutely insane.

00:21:07.000 I can't.

00:21:08.000 He described it apparently as, well, I looked at it as a form of self-help, which makes me wonder about any other business interaction Cohen has been involved with with the Trump Organization forever, right?

00:21:18.000 I mean, Again, he is convicted of campaign finance issues.

00:21:22.000 He's lied under oath.

00:21:24.000 He's not a trustworthy guy.

00:21:26.000 And on top of that, like now he's openly admitting, oh, well, during this time I was stealing.

00:21:30.000 What else?

00:21:30.000 I'd like to see.

00:21:32.000 I bet you if I was one of his clients, I'd be looking at everything, man. 0.98

00:21:35.000 This guy's a total, total fraud.

00:21:37.000 Take a look at this from Paul and Gracia.

00:21:39.000 Actually, I'm wondering if you could try and fact-check this real quick, Hannah-Claire, to pull this up, because this looks like Paul is sharing direct testimony, but I'd like to have the actual transcript.

00:21:49.000 Blanche, did you mean it when you said revenge is a dish best served cold?

00:21:52.000 Cohen?

00:21:52.000 Yes, sir.

00:21:54.000 You were willing to lie under oath if it affects your personal life, correct?

00:21:57.000 Cohen says, I don't understand your question.

00:21:59.000 Blanche, you testified under oath months ago that you were willing to lie if it affects your personal life, correct?

00:22:04.000 Cohen says, yes, sir.

00:22:05.000 So I'm asking the same question to you now.

00:22:08.000 Would you still be willing to lie if it affects your personal life?

00:22:11.000 Objection!

00:22:12.000 Objection sustained!

00:22:14.000 Blanche asks again, would you be willing to lie if it affects you personally?

00:22:18.000 Cohen says, yes sir.

00:22:20.000 So this came out during the trial, of course, so I'm assuming it is correct, but we will get a fact check if we can find direct testimony on that, just to make sure we have it right.

00:22:30.000 I'm sorry, Cohen is as degenerate as you can get. 0.90

00:22:33.000 Yeah, he's a total degenerate. 1.00

00:22:34.000 I mean, the guy's a complete fraud. 0.99

00:22:36.000 I would think that this is his whole M.O. 0.97

00:22:39.000 through life.

00:22:40.000 So, I mean, I'm sure Trump's not the only person he's defrauded like this.

00:22:44.000 We'll shift a little bit because, Dr. Recktenwald, you want to be president.

00:22:48.000 Yes, sir.

00:22:49.000 How would you... One of the things I want to know is that First, I think Trump is on track to win right now.

00:22:57.000 That being said, as someone who is running for president, how would you deal with these abuses of government that we've seen, not just in this case, but first and foremost, likely, I should say, with cases like this?

00:23:10.000 But also, we can go way down the line with FISA, Julian Assange.

00:23:14.000 What is a libertarian president going to do with things like this?

00:23:18.000 You mean with this kind of abuse by the state, the outrageous prosecutions and so forth?

00:23:26.000 I think this goes down to that we need to boil down these institutions to the local level and that we would eventually privatize all this.

00:23:37.000 The state shouldn't be involved.

00:23:40.000 Ultimate aim, but I think in the meanwhile, you know, you de-weaponize these departments immediately, like the DOJ and the New York Attorney General's office.

00:23:53.000 This is unbelievable.

00:23:54.000 But does this mean prosecutions for these people who are acting corruptly?

00:23:59.000 I think so, yeah.

00:24:00.000 Sure.

00:24:01.000 Why wouldn't they? 1.00

00:24:02.000 Because they're corrupt, and they're abusing power, and they're thieves. 1.00

00:24:06.000 You know, first of all... Sorry, Gateway Pundits reporting the same thing, and they're saying that Paul Inglis was live reporting from the courtroom. 0.92

00:24:14.000 Okay.

00:24:15.000 He was sitting in there, so... So there you go.

00:24:16.000 I can verify the exchange. 0.99

00:24:17.000 They're as big of thieves as Cohen. 0.94

00:24:19.000 I mean, these people are just, you know... 0.95

00:24:23.000 They're robbing us to engage in their own vendettas here.

00:24:28.000 I wonder.

00:24:29.000 You know, I saw this really interesting tweet from the Hodge twins.

00:24:32.000 I was surprised to see this tweet because no one's expecting this.

00:24:37.000 They asked if anyone thought a civil war was coming.

00:24:39.000 And I was just like, oh wow.

00:24:40.000 It's a new concept for you, right?

00:24:42.000 Yeah, never thought about that.

00:24:43.000 And it was interesting.

00:24:44.000 But I bring that up because there's a reason why it's not, you know, we on the show has talked about the prospect.

00:24:50.000 If Donald Trump gets elected in November, and I think based on all standard metrics it looks like that's going to be the case, but there is shadow campaign, we don't know what's going on behind the scenes.

00:25:05.000 I mean, we want to see, I want to see, I know probably everyone in this room wants to see accountability for corrupt government, which is a broad, which is a bit nebulous, but that ultimately means firings, criminal prosecutions where warranted.

00:25:17.000 Yes, starting with COVID.

00:25:19.000 Let's take it to the COVID issue.

00:25:20.000 I mean, we need prosecution.

00:25:22.000 We need investigations into what happened here.

00:25:25.000 The gain-of-function research, all the lies and dissembling about that, you know, paying Echo Health Alliance.

00:25:31.000 And I think when they were Correct me if I'm wrong, gain-of-function research was banned in this- In the United States under Obama.

00:25:39.000 That's why they did it in China. 0.95

00:25:41.000 But they actually still were keeping it up at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

00:25:46.000 So, okay.

00:25:49.000 First and foremost, I think that's going to be a product of Congress in concert with the next administration, which we absolutely want to see.

00:25:59.000 My fear, however, is that, one, This is a fear a lot of people have, especially, this is a reason why a lot of people are leaning Libertarian, because Trump hired people like John Bolton.

00:26:11.000 Trump had bad hires.

00:26:13.000 Very bad.

00:26:13.000 And while I still think he did an overwhelmingly good job, there is a concern that he's going to try and negotiate a deal which results in no prosecutions.

00:26:25.000 I mean, he was the one saying, lock Hillary up, and then gets elected and says, we don't want to do that.

00:26:30.000 I'm hoping that his attitude has changed quite a bit.

00:26:33.000 Phil's smiling.

00:26:34.000 But they put him in a compromised position so that he is at a place where they could push him to negotiate.

00:26:39.000 Listen, he's hilarious and everything, but that man will make a deal in a heartbeat.

00:26:44.000 In a second.

00:26:46.000 If you think that Donald Trump isn't going to cut a deal, any deal that makes him look good, that gets him into the good graces of Democrats, or of the establishment, because at the end of the day, I would love to see him go in there and actually be the bull in the china shop, like everyone talks about, and I'd love to see him go in there and be mad and want to get revenge, and I'd love to see all that stuff, because I want to see, you know, cabinet-level bureaucracy is just eviscerated, right?

00:27:17.000 I don't know.

00:27:17.000 remember who Donald Trump is. He is gonna cut a deal as soon as he can, but

00:27:23.000 but shouldn't he? Maybe not because the cases are getting weaker all the time so

00:27:29.000 I mean he may be in it. He should realize he's in a better negotiating

00:27:34.000 position than he was.

00:27:35.000 Well, I think Trump has pushed back against the deep state for the past four years.

00:27:42.000 And I think he made the mistake in his first term of thinking, now that I'm the president, they're gonna fall in line.

00:27:49.000 And I'll have to work with these people.

00:27:51.000 But he did not realize what he was up against.

00:27:53.000 Not a clue.

00:27:56.000 He probably has gained enough leverage to where he probably will still cut a deal of some sort, but I think we're gonna... I don't think that when it comes to any kind of conflict, most of the time, you're not looking at absolute victory and claiming everything.

00:28:12.000 Even if you win the battle, the battlefield's destroyed, the buildings are burned, and there's losses.

00:28:19.000 Yeah, you're gonna lose resources on your side.

00:28:22.000 I wonder if... I mentioned the Hodge twins asking about Civil War.

00:28:27.000 Civil war is good for communists. 1.00

00:28:29.000 This country fighting itself is good for the authoritarians who can then use, you know, oligarch style tactics of seizing control in the chaos.

00:28:38.000 And this is what we see with revolutions and how totalitarian regimes rise.

00:28:41.000 So I wonder if it actually would be better for us if Trump gets the upper hand but does cut a deal that prevents some kind of national divorce or collapse.

00:28:52.000 It means we don't get everything we want, but I'm hoping that it means we get enough of what we need.

00:28:57.000 The enough of what you need kind of thing, that'd be really great.

00:29:00.000 I know that I've been harping on this and I'm probably going to keep harping on it.

00:29:03.000 We're really, really, really in debt.

00:29:06.000 And unless we get the economy going in a way that, growing in a manner which outpaces Inflation.

00:29:15.000 And that will only slow the problem down.

00:29:17.000 That's not going to fix the problem.

00:29:20.000 I don't think that we can actually grow our way out of this.

00:29:22.000 We do have to cut, especially like entitlements, but that's the thing.

00:29:25.000 It's entitlements.

00:29:26.000 It has to be like the unfunded liabilities, your social security, the stuff that they have to pay for, not the discretionary stuff, the stuff that they have to pay for.

00:29:36.000 A trillion dollars every hundred days now, man.

00:29:39.000 A trillion, I saw this, I tweeted this, a trillion seconds ago was 30,000 years before Christ, okay?

00:29:46.000 And we're putting a trillion, a trillion dollars every hundred days is added to our existing 35 trillion now, yet over 150 trillion in unfunded liabilities.

00:29:56.000 Just real quick as an aside, if ten years ago you were like, I'm gonna, instead of putting a hundred dollars in the bank, I'm gonna put it in my Bitcoin account, Oh boy, you'd have a lot of money.

00:30:06.000 Ten years ago?

00:30:06.000 Was it like three grand?

00:30:07.000 A hundred bucks ten years ago is three grand in Bitcoin now?

00:30:11.000 Or no, six grand.

00:30:12.000 Yeah, it's more than that.

00:30:14.000 What would Trump concede?

00:30:15.000 I would hope he wouldn't concede like putting these people on trial for COVID.

00:30:21.000 And I hope he wouldn't concede the possibility of even entertaining a bill like Massey put forward to end the Fed.

00:30:29.000 That's a massive I know it's I know it's a it's a it's largely symbolic at this point.

00:30:35.000 But if it starts gaining traction, as libertarianism gains traction in the public mind, I think it could happen.

00:30:35.000 Yep.

00:30:42.000 And the Fed is like the shining golden star in the sky.

00:30:47.000 It's virtue signaling for libertarians.

00:30:49.000 Okay, we know that.

00:30:51.000 Yeah, Trump's not going to do that.

00:30:53.000 But I do think Trump may forego criminal prosecutions of higher-ranking individuals, and this is what they always do.

00:31:01.000 Remember in Russiagate, they got that lawyer, what was his name, Clinesmith?

00:31:05.000 Was that who it was?

00:31:06.000 I think so.

00:31:06.000 They get some low-level lawyer on falsifying an email, and then the people who are actually running the show having these big meetings, they get away with it.

00:31:14.000 And that's a mistake Trump made.

00:31:15.000 I'm hoping Trump learned his lesson.

00:31:17.000 But then again, there's the possibility that Trump is looking at the collateral damage in keeping this conflict going, which ultimately results in absurdities like in 2020, the Boston Globe reporting that war game, that Democrat war game, where they suggested the West Coast secede from the Union if Trump were to win a second term.

00:31:41.000 I think we want to avoid things like that at all costs, because as much as people would love that emotional satisfaction of, like, let the commies leave the country, the communists need to fracture the United States so they can steal power.

00:31:57.000 In the chaos during revolutions, you look at how communism comes to power, they need chaos, they need fractured confidence so they can start seizing institutions.

00:32:05.000 Yeah, they did that in czarist Russia, that's exactly what they did. 0.85

00:32:09.000 So in order to avoid all that, what if Trump says, I'm going to win, but it means these people go off and live on an island somewhere and they don't go to jail?

00:32:18.000 Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.

00:32:19.000 Which island do you think?

00:32:22.000 The Epstein Island.

00:32:23.000 I mean, I figured that was implied.

00:32:25.000 No, hopefully not.

00:32:27.000 I mean, hopefully he says those people are getting locked up and we're going to send the Marines to go find them.

00:32:31.000 Maybe an island you could sink.

00:32:35.000 Oh, yes, if we get enough people on it.

00:32:37.000 Remember, they can't sink.

00:32:38.000 There was a congressperson that was worrying about an island tipping over.

00:32:42.000 Tipping over for having too many... We could send everybody over there.

00:32:45.000 Yeah, right.

00:32:46.000 There was an island I saw, totally as an aside.

00:32:49.000 It's like a small island that's only like half square mile, but it's got like 5,000 people living on it. 0.86

00:32:55.000 Something ridiculous like that. 0.79

00:32:56.000 Anyway, anyway. 0.90

00:32:58.000 I think we kind of, like, got to the point on that one.

00:33:00.000 We can come back to it, I guess.

00:33:02.000 But let's do this first.

00:33:03.000 The first question is, will Trump even become the president?

00:33:06.000 We have this story from the New York Post.

00:33:08.000 Trump demands drug tests for Biden before first presidential debate.

00:33:12.000 Seconded.

00:33:13.000 I swear Phil made this joke the other night when we announced the debates.

00:33:16.000 Someone on here said this, that we had to screen Biden for uppers and see what's going on.

00:33:20.000 Oh, definitely he's on Adderall or something like it.

00:33:23.000 I got a shout out that viral tweet, because I don't remember who, I don't know the account who said it, because I just saw it going around.

00:33:29.000 And they said, it was a CNN tweet saying the debate June 27th between Biden and Trump is on.

00:33:35.000 And they said, we are about to see the Manhattan Project of psychoactive stimulants on this night.

00:33:40.000 A shortage of Adderall in the city.

00:33:43.000 Yeah.

00:33:43.000 Oh, no, no.

00:33:44.000 It's going to be something new.

00:33:46.000 Yeah, that's probably right.

00:33:47.000 They're going to have like, there's going to be like an IV tube going out of Biden offstage.

00:33:51.000 Right.

00:33:52.000 And that's why he doesn't want any audience, because, you know, we could see just how much of a prop he is.

00:33:57.000 He'll be booed.

00:33:58.000 Yeah, that too.

00:33:59.000 I think his support is so low that he can't have an audience.

00:34:02.000 Otherwise, Trump's going to say something like, the economy's bad.

00:34:04.000 People are going to be like, yeah.

00:34:06.000 And then Biden's going to say, Bidenomics is working, man.

00:34:08.000 And boo. 0.99

00:34:11.000 I don't think that they will be saying Bidenomics.

00:34:14.000 I think they moved away from that term.

00:34:15.000 It's a little on the radioactive side.

00:34:17.000 Trump will say it.

00:34:18.000 Well, Trump will say it, definitely, yes.

00:34:19.000 But I don't see Biden talking about it because the Biden economy is not.

00:34:25.000 I mean, if you look at the numbers, Unbelievable.

00:34:29.000 They're nothing to brag about, right?

00:34:30.000 your rent and stuff like that. Those numbers are just out of hand.

00:34:36.000 Unbelievable.

00:34:37.000 Unbelievable.

00:34:38.000 There's nothing to brag about, right?

00:34:40.000 Compared to 2019 particularly, if Trump's like, you know...

00:34:44.000 But, I think the inflation is always lags behind the administration that's in.

00:34:52.000 So for example, Trump did print, or had created for the CARES Act, $6 trillion worth of new

00:35:01.000 money that was put into the economy, which definitely has added up to inflation.

00:35:08.000 It's definitely added to the inflation.

00:35:10.000 He's a Republican.

00:35:11.000 He's a Republican doing this.

00:35:13.000 Democrats don't lie about their economic spending, and Republicans lie about their economic policies.

00:35:18.000 That's just the way it goes.

00:35:19.000 He's absolutely contributed to this.

00:35:22.000 But I think it still remained bad under Biden, and then everything anyone would need to combat

00:35:27.000 this didn't accommodate it, right?

00:35:29.000 The cost of living is so expensive, wages aren't keeping up, people are suffering.

00:35:33.000 Every metric with the economy, if you're a young person starting out, is bad.

00:35:37.000 I think the problem Biden's going to face during the debates is Trump can Stay laser focused on the big weaknesses in his administration.

00:35:45.000 He can talk about the Afghanistan withdrawal.

00:35:46.000 He can talk about the economy.

00:35:48.000 He can talk about the southern border.

00:35:49.000 And I don't know that Biden is going to be able to coherently defend his record and also launch a counterattack against this.

00:35:59.000 I don't know that Trump is going to actually make it about economics or monetary policy because that's not Trump's wheelhouse either.

00:36:07.000 But there was that video that went around two weeks ago or whatever, three weeks ago, of Biden's lead economic advisor or whatever, completely incapable of articulating why we borrow money from the Fed.

00:36:20.000 Now, not that I can articulate it better, but I yell at a stick for a living. 1.00

00:36:25.000 That guy's head of the president's monetary policy, uh, whatever.

00:36:31.000 A lot of spending isn't actual spending.

00:36:33.000 that you can just keep printing money.

00:36:35.000 The modern monetary theory that they're operating under, that's still fairly new when it comes to monetary theory.

00:36:44.000 A lot of spending isn't actual spending.

00:36:46.000 So it's like, let's say I've got a thousand bucks in my bank account,

00:36:50.000 and someone who works here is like, hey, we need to get the lawn mode.

00:36:55.000 I can say, I'm going to increase your spending limit to $100.

00:37:00.000 And they go, OK.

00:37:01.000 I didn't give them any money.

00:37:03.000 Right.

00:37:03.000 They then call a landscaper who says, can you mow the lawn?

00:37:06.000 The landscaper comes, mows the lawn, and sends us a bill for $100.

00:37:10.000 That bill comes due.

00:37:10.000 So a lot of spending is like that.

00:37:12.000 So we're adding to the national debt, exactly, when we're saying like, okay, we're good for the money, we're the U.S.

00:37:18.000 government, go do the work and then we'll pay you later. 1.00

00:37:20.000 We'll send $60 billion to Ukraine for aid, for military aid.

00:37:25.000 It's not spent yet, obviously.

00:37:27.000 Yeah, of course.

00:37:29.000 And what that basically means is we're going to tell all these weapons manufacturers, we're going to tell these PMCs, do it, bill us later.

00:37:36.000 And then this is what drives inflation.

00:37:39.000 We're, like, you know what I love about the IRS?

00:37:42.000 What is it, 87,000 agents they're doing?

00:37:44.000 New ones.

00:37:44.000 The reason they're doing this is because they need the money to pay the debt.

00:37:48.000 They're like, look, we're not gonna get money from millionaires and billionaires.

00:37:51.000 That's a leftist lie.

00:37:53.000 There's not enough millionaires and billionaires to actually get enough to move the budget in any meaningful way.

00:37:58.000 But you get a hundred bucks.

00:38:01.000 from every single American, and now we're talking.

00:38:05.000 We're talking quite a bit of money.

00:38:07.000 You go after millionaires and billionaires, they're going to file lawsuits, they're going to challenge you, they're going to file claims, and you're only going to end up getting what?

00:38:14.000 Maybe tens of millions of dollars?

00:38:17.000 A lot of people don't realize that the so-called 1% are actually paying a lot of taxes already, and they're certainly not the The bounty that these leftists think that they are, that that's where all the money is at, that's absolutely not true.

00:38:36.000 They think that the way that leftists talk about, you know, billionaires and stuff, it's as if they think it's Scrooge McDuck.

00:38:44.000 Right.

00:38:45.000 You know, he's got a vault full of gold coins and then they go and just swim around in it.

00:38:49.000 And if they just tax them, if you tax them enough, Then you'll give enough money to the government to make the debt go away and pay for everything, and then they'll also still have a vault of money that they can swim in.

00:39:01.000 Yeah.

00:39:01.000 This is all premised on the idea that just by virtue of making a profit you're a criminal, that this is actually theft.

00:39:08.000 So it really does go back to Marxism, the idea that they're robbing the workers at the point of production, exploiting them, and that's where your surplus value comes from, and then And then, that's why the state is necessary to intermediate between the two forces, the two bodies. 0.96

00:39:27.000 The labor theory of value is a load of garbage. 0.96

00:39:32.000 Totally. 1.00

00:39:32.000 It doesn't matter how much you shovel garbage. 1.00

00:39:37.000 It's just garbage for almost everybody. 0.54

00:39:40.000 It doesn't matter how much labor you put into shoveling that. 0.98

00:39:43.000 The value of something is decided by the person making the purchase.

00:39:47.000 It's just the way that it goes.

00:39:48.000 Going back to this drug test thing, it's really funny, is that I tweeted this.

00:39:51.000 I tweeted, drug test before the debates.

00:39:54.000 And I got someone who was like, how about we test for felonies?

00:39:57.000 And it's like, okay, well, there's no, there's no felonies.

00:39:59.000 I don't know what that... Test for felonies?

00:40:02.000 But like, they're making a point like, yeah, well, what did Trump do?

00:40:06.000 And I'm like, my guy, Trump's probably on drugs too.

00:40:08.000 Like, what are you talking about?

00:40:10.000 We're talking about an advantage in a debate, not a total character assessment here.

00:40:14.000 But I think the idea that Trump is going to have something, I wouldn't be surprised.

00:40:19.000 I mean, they say he's a germaphobe.

00:40:21.000 They say he's kind of like a straight edge guy.

00:40:22.000 So probably not, especially if he's called, yeah, he doesn't drink.

00:40:26.000 There were rumors that he was taking some kind of uppers at some point or whatever. 0.66

00:40:29.000 I don't know that that's true, but I'm like, okay, well, if Trump's willing to do it, Biden, oh, Biden's going to be hopped up on goofballs.

00:40:36.000 See, I want Trump to come out and be like, sure, we can do a test, but I'm only taking alpha brain or whatever.

00:40:43.000 Yeah, right.

00:40:44.000 Yeah.

00:40:46.000 I think, I mean, the thing is, I don't know if they responded yet, but the Biden administration is going to act like, you know, Trump is this terrible person for suggesting this and how dare he insulting character.

00:40:55.000 And the reality is they insult Trump's character all the time.

00:40:58.000 They say terrible things about him.

00:40:59.000 Like we're just in a mudslinging phase of politics. 0.94

00:41:01.000 Neither one of these people are going to have anything to say.

00:41:03.000 Interesting to say.

00:41:05.000 But it is notable that Biden's team, when they released this video, saying, oh, well, I challenge you to debate, you've pointed this out several times.

00:41:12.000 There are so many jump cuts.

00:41:14.000 If you listen to a plate by NPR, you're like, wow, this Biden sounds very different than other Biden who I heard the last week.

00:41:20.000 You know, when you see the jump cuts, you're like, oh, this isn't just a continuous take.

00:41:24.000 When you're editing audio, you can use faders and dissolve.

00:41:31.000 Crossfade.

00:41:32.000 Crossfade.

00:41:34.000 And this blends the two tracks together.

00:41:37.000 There's also something called room tone.

00:41:38.000 I don't know if you guys are familiar.

00:41:40.000 Yes, I have heard of that.

00:41:41.000 Yeah, we do this in... You get the exact, you know...

00:41:44.000 Well, what you do when you're producing a video is you record the room for 30 seconds to a minute with no one talking so that you have what's called room tone.

00:41:55.000 And then you can play that anytime there's a jump so it sounds seamless.

00:42:00.000 Yes.

00:42:01.000 And they didn't even do that for Joe Biden.

00:42:02.000 They just jumped.

00:42:03.000 They did a really bad job.

00:42:05.000 I mean, they could have at least cut it from the side, moved the camera somehow, but obviously they cut that so badly.

00:42:12.000 If I was Trump, what I would do is I would have someone take a single word from a bunch of different speeches so that it's, I, Trump, hereby accept your debate.

00:42:21.000 And he'll be like, I beat you with the jump cuts, Biden.

00:42:23.000 Do you think that they were doing that stylistically because that's how a lot of YouTubers do their videos?

00:42:29.000 Nope.

00:42:30.000 Oh, it's just that they can't get a single singular complete sentence out.

00:42:34.000 Well, but I feel like if you had a competent editor, you could edit that.

00:42:39.000 No, so there's a technique that they do where they have two cameras set up.

00:42:46.000 One wide, one long, and that way when they press record on both cameras, no matter how many times you mess up, they can do this thing where it jumps forward and jumps back, and that's what Biden was doing.

00:42:58.000 When he's like, you know, look here, and then it gets closer, and then he says something, and then it goes further away, and then further.

00:43:03.000 It's a technique for, in the least amount of time, trying to get the sentences you need.

00:43:09.000 If they had a single shot of Biden, You could zoom in, but it hurts the resolution.

00:43:15.000 If you shoot in 4K, you can downscale to 1080 and you don't need two cameras anymore.

00:43:19.000 That's what they used to do.

00:43:20.000 There's no way to edit that seamless.

00:43:23.000 Because if Joe Biden's going, what was the line again?

00:43:26.000 He's moving, and so no matter what, you're going to have weird fades and weird jittery movements.

00:43:31.000 So you just can't do it.

00:43:34.000 I think the reality is that was the best they could get.

00:43:35.000 That's amazing.

00:43:37.000 It was 14 seconds and it had five jump cuts in it.

00:43:40.000 Meanwhile, Trump goes on stage for two and a half hours and is like, I don't need a teleprompter!

00:43:44.000 We're gonna put it, we're gonna put it, the wind blew it away!

00:43:46.000 And then he just talks.

00:43:47.000 He just goes for it and it is funny.

00:43:47.000 Yeah.

00:43:51.000 He's a stand-up comedian.

00:43:51.000 Yeah.

00:43:52.000 I mean, you see, it's hilarious.

00:43:54.000 There's no question about that.

00:43:56.000 It's very different, and I think that's the problem between the two candidates, right?

00:44:00.000 The difference is stark, and if you were a Democrat analyst right now, if you were advising this campaign, I don't know what advice you could give Biden if this really is just mental decline, right?

00:44:09.000 There's no coaching him out of that.

00:44:10.000 Well, we have this story from the post-millennial.

00:44:13.000 USA Today, with tremendous advice to Joe Biden, says, to save America from Trump, Biden must drop out of the race.

00:44:23.000 No, please don't.

00:44:24.000 Biden, please.

00:44:25.000 You're our only hope.

00:44:26.000 You have to stay.

00:44:27.000 I want Joe Biden to be the Democrat nominee.

00:44:28.000 I hope that's clear to everyone.

00:44:30.000 In an op-ed published on Monday titled, How Can Biden Save America From Trump's Return to the White House, Drop Out of the Race, USA Today urged for Biden to drop out for the good of the nation and the party.

00:44:40.000 Jeremy Mayer, an associate professor at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government, wrote for the outlet that Biden and GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump are the two oldest among the most unpopular candidates in our history.

00:44:53.000 The Republican Party, the piece stated, is stuck with former President Donald Trump unless he dies or is incapacitated medically, adding that he may have to win to stay to jail.

00:45:03.000 But there is a way for President Joe Biden, a step aside, to voluntarily remove himself for the good of the nation and the party.

00:45:10.000 See, I think they keep Biden alive and they want to push him down our throats because it's a ritual humiliation practice.

00:45:14.000 is one of the few national Democrats who could get Trump reelected.

00:45:18.000 Let's uh, no, wait, don't, Biden, you're our only hope. You must run. See, I think

00:45:25.000 they keep Biden alive and they want to push him down our throats because it's a ritual humiliation

00:45:31.000 practice. I mean, they want to say, look how, how much power we have. We can put this guy who

00:45:37.000 can't even walk and talk in the presidency.

00:45:40.000 And it's very cynical. And that's like, this will make you realize we can do anything here to you.

00:45:46.000 That's the black-pilled view of it?

00:45:47.000 Yes, it is.

00:45:48.000 I'd like to give the white-pilled view of it.

00:45:50.000 And that is, the Democrats have nothing.

00:45:53.000 They are so flaccid right now.

00:45:56.000 Joe Biden is the best they have to offer.

00:45:58.000 Name me one Democrat that they can put up right now.

00:46:01.000 Everyone's going to say Gavin Newsom, but I disagree.

00:46:05.000 Maybe in the future, but right now he's weaker than Mitt Romney.

00:46:08.000 Yeah, he's real bad now.

00:46:09.000 I mean, his policies are outrageous.

00:46:12.000 California is a complete wasteland.

00:46:15.000 It's like If you want to understand California, watch the new Fallout show on Amazon, which is in California, by the way.

00:46:22.000 And it's indistinguishable, if you were to ask me.

00:46:24.000 I'm kidding, by the way.

00:46:25.000 But the narrative around California's failure, Newsom can't do it.

00:46:30.000 Come on, give me another Democrat. 1.00

00:46:31.000 Who do we got?

00:46:33.000 I can name Democrats, but I don't think there is any.

00:46:34.000 No, name me a Democrat who actually stands a chance of beating Trump.

00:46:37.000 That's the thing.

00:46:39.000 Well, with Russian help, Hillary could. 0.99

00:46:42.000 I've heard Michelle Obama is a popular choice. 0.93

00:46:44.000 So Hillary is less popular than Biden. 0.81

00:46:46.000 Yeah.

00:46:47.000 Let's say Buttigieg, and the argument is he's moderately disliked, but they could shadow campaign him into the presidency.

00:46:56.000 Maybe.

00:46:56.000 I think the reality is Biden is there because the Democratic Party, because the Uniparty has evaporated.

00:47:03.000 It is a withered, feral ghoul on the ground struggling to move.

00:47:08.000 Thank you.

00:47:08.000 It's time for libertarianism and libertarians to move in and seize the day.

00:47:12.000 Do you think they will?

00:47:15.000 Well, I think we're going to be in the conversation more than ever.

00:47:18.000 We're going to be pushing the Overton window toward liberty.

00:47:21.000 We're going to get our principles and our views out.

00:47:24.000 But do you think you'll convert former Democratic voters to libertarianism?

00:47:28.000 Well, they have to go through a lot of decompression and other types of... I mean, that's the hardest batch to get.

00:47:34.000 But I think Republicans will fall off into libertarianism, thanks to... Once we show them, here's the things that would really benefit America first.

00:47:44.000 And this is what Trump's done.

00:47:45.000 And look how much better this would be for America than what he's done.

00:47:49.000 And I think that's... Some people are saying Fetterman.

00:47:54.000 This is the thing about Fetterman and Joe Manchin.

00:47:56.000 Joe Manchin, a lot of more independent or old school Democrats like him a lot.

00:48:01.000 He hadn't announced that he was going to retire yet, but there were a lot of rumors that he was considering a bid for presidency either as a Democratic challenger or an Independent.

00:48:08.000 Now that would bring my black pill back in. 0.98

00:48:10.000 Because if they do that, this guy is brain dead. 0.99

00:48:14.000 I mean, he has real serious cognitive impairments. 0.98

00:48:16.000 Biden or Manchin?

00:48:18.000 Or Fetterman?

00:48:18.000 Fetterman.

00:48:19.000 Yeah.

00:48:20.000 I mean, he's really in bad shape.

00:48:21.000 But I don't think they could pull another progressive Democrat right now, right?

00:48:26.000 Like, the other thing is, I don't think Gavin Newsom would want to run and inherit this economy.

00:48:29.000 I think he has a bad record and he doesn't want to be the one to have to fix this.

00:48:32.000 I don't know that he could.

00:48:33.000 People are saying Michelle Obama.

00:48:35.000 And I want to add something.

00:48:38.000 I don't know that we have any strong evidence that Michelle Obama can actually handle good public speaking. 1.00

00:48:42.000 Or wants to run.

00:48:44.000 Well, but like, even if Michelle Obama wants to run, because that is the argument that Michelle does not want to run. 0.88

00:48:48.000 She doesn't want to.

00:48:49.000 But what is the argument that Michelle is a known orator who can actually handle a public debate? 0.98

00:48:57.000 As Michelle Obama just made it, there's no evidence of that.

00:48:59.000 I think she gave speeches as First Lady. 0.94

00:49:01.000 I think it would all be just identity politics.

00:49:04.000 It would all be identity.

00:49:05.000 And if you go too hard at her, it's identity, it's you're attacking a woman, you're racist, you're blah, blah, blah.

00:49:11.000 And it's to try and milk the Obama name for a little bit more.

00:49:13.000 Well, yeah, yeah.

00:49:14.000 I mean, clearly it would definitely be a milking of the Obama name.

00:49:17.000 But I think her strength lies in the Obama name and her ability to capitalize on identity politics.

00:49:24.000 You know, people are going to be afraid to attack her.

00:49:26.000 They're going to be afraid to go.

00:49:27.000 I think Donald Trump would, you know, go, go full out against her, but I don't, I don't know how that would go, uh, with your normies because they already don't like the more coarse side of Donald Trump.

00:49:40.000 So that's just my, my take on it.

00:49:43.000 But I don't, I don't see her as, as, uh, actually being substantial.

00:49:47.000 I think Trump's going to win.

00:49:50.000 I do think it would be absolutely fantastic if, as the Democrats are imploding, the Libertarians rise up.

00:49:57.000 I would just say, maybe it's a bit of a pipe dream, but the idea of the two parties being Libertarian and Republican would be absolutely fantastic.

00:50:04.000 It'd be cool, but the thing is, at least for me personally, COVID really blackpailed me on how much people want liberty.

00:50:12.000 I think that people want security more than they, at least nowadays, because we've had, historically in the U.S., we've had, for the most part, people have been so free for so long that they're so used to it.

00:50:26.000 The idea of not being free doesn't really register.

00:50:29.000 It's safety.

00:50:31.000 I disagree.

00:50:31.000 I completely disagree.

00:50:33.000 I think what we learned from COVID was that people were terrified and would bend the knee to a corrupt regime.

00:50:40.000 Right.

00:50:40.000 The riots show that people do want freedom, but that they're unwilling to actually do any kind of meaningful organization.

00:50:47.000 To get it.

00:50:48.000 So you get all of these states locking down, you get the governor of New York murdering people, and not just New York, you've got New Jersey, Pennsylvania, I believe it was Pennsylvania, as well as California, you got Michigan, nursing homes with COVID patients, and it's killing the elderly.

00:51:04.000 And people were angry.

00:51:06.000 There certainly were people who love to be a part of the mob.

00:51:10.000 They want to join the communist revolution.

00:51:12.000 Yeah, they love totalitarianism.

00:51:13.000 But I think what we actually saw was not so much people don't want freedom, because they do, But they were unwilling to defend it.

00:51:20.000 I do not think that people have a significant fire in their belly for liberty the way that libertarians do.

00:51:30.000 And I don't think that the libertarian argument right now is something that there is a significant hunger for.

00:51:39.000 I think it's great that Donald Trump and RFK are going to be at the Libertarian Convention.

00:51:45.000 Hopefully that means more people hear libertarian arguments and more people are brought to libertarian arguments.

00:51:52.000 I just don't think that people.

00:51:54.000 I just want to say, the Libertarian Party has a lot of wackos in it.

00:51:59.000 Oh, listen, I'm not, you're putting me on the spot there.

00:52:03.000 Tell us about your party here, sir.

00:52:05.000 There's different milieus inside the party.

00:52:07.000 How many people are going to be naked this week? 0.99

00:52:11.000 Vermin Supreme is not running, so he will not be on the stage, but there are.

00:52:15.000 This is a character who wears a boot on his head and ran for president.

00:52:19.000 But there are different milieus within the party, and I love the most radical milieu.

00:52:25.000 By the way, they're having a party called Enemies of the State on Friday night at the convention.

00:52:32.000 This is going to be big.

00:52:34.000 That's my milieu.

00:52:36.000 That's the one that I identify with.

00:52:37.000 The most radical, and interestingly, Tim, The most radical people in the party are the people that are willing to roll up their sleeves and do work to actually make this happen, to make liberty come true.

00:52:52.000 They actually go to bat for real.

00:52:54.000 They don't just sit on the sidelines and criticize.

00:52:57.000 I think the Libertarian Party needs a better identity.

00:53:00.000 But I suppose it actually makes a whole lot of sense.

00:53:03.000 When you look at Jonathan Haidt's research on moral foundations, the only... So I love this, because at first they were like, there are five moral foundations, and then they met a libertarian.

00:53:12.000 Nope, there's only one.

00:53:13.000 That's it.

00:53:13.000 Just one.

00:53:14.000 Right.

00:53:14.000 That's it.

00:53:15.000 They met a libertarian, and they were like, this is strange.

00:53:17.000 This individual is not registering on any moral foundation.

00:53:20.000 Certainly that can't be correct.

00:53:21.000 Straight up autism.

00:53:23.000 And so what they ended up finding was there was a sixth moral foundation, liberty, and libertarians have like—okay, so let me pull up the moral foundations, actually.

00:53:34.000 It's hilarious.

00:53:35.000 Were you always a libertarian?

00:53:36.000 No.

00:53:38.000 As I mentioned in one of the shows here, I was actually a Marxist, okay?

00:53:42.000 So I know exactly how the left thinks.

00:53:45.000 I know what the premises are of their values and their philosophy, and I know how to debunk it entirely.

00:53:52.000 What made you change?

00:53:55.000 This is a sample of a left-liberal moral foundations breakdown.

00:54:00.000 And you can see care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and purity.

00:54:04.000 These were the original moral foundations.

00:54:06.000 But then they kept running into libertarians.

00:54:08.000 And you can see libertarians are very low on everything except liberty.

00:54:12.000 And liberty is higher than everybody else.

00:54:14.000 And so they were like, there's something else going on here.

00:54:17.000 They created the liberty spectrum.

00:54:19.000 And this is the interesting thing.

00:54:21.000 So if you take a look at this, it's actually fascinating because it shows left-liberal, conservative, and libertarian averages alongside whoever took this test.

00:54:28.000 I don't know who it is.

00:54:29.000 The individual who took the test scored a 100 on care, an 80 on fairness, but loyalty is 40, authority is below 40, purity is a little bit above 40, and liberty is 23 or so percent.

00:54:44.000 This is a liberal.

00:54:45.000 This is a socialist.

00:54:47.000 Right.

00:54:47.000 This is a far leftist.

00:54:48.000 Now, if you look at the blue graph, the blue bar, you can see that care is around 70%,

00:54:56.000 fairness 75%, loyalty is 40%, authority is 40%, purity is 30%, and liberty is 60%.

00:55:05.000 This is your average left liberal.

00:55:08.000 Conservatives still score higher on liberty.

00:55:11.000 Conservatives believe more in loyalty, authority, and purity, and they have slightly less care

00:55:16.000 and fairness.

00:55:17.000 But here's the interesting thing.

00:55:19.000 Conservatives are balanced.

00:55:20.000 When you look across the board, conservatives rank around 65-70% on all moral foundations.

00:55:27.000 It's a balanced moral view.

00:55:29.000 Whereas, libertarians are liberty, and liberals are care and fairness.

00:55:34.000 Yeah, see, here's the problem with this scale, I think.

00:55:37.000 And I know Jonathan Haidt personally.

00:55:40.000 The problem is that it distinguishes between caring and wanting liberty.

00:55:45.000 Whereas when you have liberty, you have the resources to care for people and you'll do it.

00:55:51.000 But when the government is robbing you on a daily basis, taking x percentage of your money all the time, you don't have anything left.

00:56:01.000 So they're looking for caring from the state.

00:56:03.000 That's where they want it to come from.

00:56:04.000 What you're referring to is loyalty and authority.

00:56:07.000 Okay, how so?

00:56:08.000 Well, so the idea that the state is taking your money is an authority and loyalty question.

00:56:12.000 I see.

00:56:12.000 Yes, it is.

00:56:13.000 Yes, it is.

00:56:14.000 But I think the care and liberty, they're posited as antipodes here, whereas I think they're not.

00:56:21.000 They are antipodes.

00:56:22.000 The idea from liberals about care is, you don't know better. 1.00

00:56:26.000 So Bloomberg, for instance, we're going to tax the poor because they're stupid and they buy bad things. 1.00

00:56:32.000 Liberty is, let them buy whatever they want. 1.00

00:56:34.000 Care is, no, no, they're hurting themselves, so we're in charge.

00:56:37.000 So what it really means is government intervention, that kind of care.

00:56:40.000 In other words, we can't let people alone because they can't be trusted to take care of themselves.

00:56:45.000 That's authority.

00:56:46.000 Okay.

00:56:47.000 So what I'm talking about is, if you mix care and authority, you get Bloomberg.

00:56:51.000 Right.

00:56:51.000 If you say care, it's someone who's like, care and fairness really just come down to the idea of other people should be happy.

00:57:00.000 But that is an ignorant impossibility in and of itself. 0.93

00:57:03.000 Yes. 0.82

00:57:04.000 So this ends up, you get a bunch of leftists who, this person's actually, I don't even know if they're a socialist because they don't have any authority, but they have no liberty, so clearly there's something at odds there.

00:57:14.000 Yeah, there's something wrong.

00:57:15.000 But care and fairness is basically just like, if two people, you know, look, a rich guy and a poor guy, hey, that's not fair. 1.00

00:57:22.000 But they're just stupid. 1.00

00:57:22.000 They don't understand. 1.00

00:57:23.000 What is fair?

00:57:24.000 Who's doing the most amount of work?

00:57:25.000 Exactly.

00:57:25.000 Liberty is the guy getting naked on stage at the Libertarian convention.

00:57:30.000 That's not my idea.

00:57:31.000 That's Libertine, not Libertarian.

00:57:34.000 So this is the issue, I think, with the Libertarian Party.

00:57:36.000 Okay.

00:57:37.000 Is that when I'm talking to friends, and I say things like, look, the Mises caucus are actually pretty great, listen to what they have to say, they point to woke libertarians.

00:57:45.000 There are some.

00:57:46.000 I mean, Joe Jorgensen.

00:57:47.000 Yeah.

00:57:48.000 One of the guys that's running against me is, I would say, woke and he's trying to hide it, but definitely.

00:57:53.000 Who's that?

00:57:54.000 Chase Oliver.

00:57:55.000 So what's his deal?

00:57:57.000 He's for Ellis Island-like immigration, and he's pro-choice, bodily autonomy, and also he believes that people under 18 children can take transgender... So he's woke?

00:58:14.000 Yeah, he's woke.

00:58:15.000 How is he a libertarian?

00:58:16.000 And he wants the state to take special care of these particular beleaguered minorities, if you know what I mean. 1.00

00:58:23.000 So how is he even in the Libertarian Party?

00:58:26.000 He's managed to mask his leftism with a little bit of libertarian rhetoric mixed in.

00:58:35.000 And people that don't really understand the principles are falling for it.

00:58:39.000 I think they're going to be disabused of this this weekend.

00:58:43.000 One of the challenges, too, is a large portion of the Libertarian Party is for open borders.

00:58:47.000 That's a mistake, too.

00:58:50.000 It's almost like there's no unified party.

00:58:52.000 Well, I think it has a consistent philosophy.

00:58:55.000 There's three principles, self-ownership, Ownership of what you make and the non-aggression principle.

00:59:02.000 That's the core.

00:59:04.000 But then you get into such issues like immigration and people read the same principles differently in terms of those issues.

00:59:11.000 I am not for open borders.

00:59:13.000 I believe in invitation-based immigration.

00:59:17.000 That is, if you're invited to come here and somebody's willing to take liability for you economically, then sure.

00:59:25.000 Would you be for ending birthright citizenship?

00:59:27.000 Um...

00:59:29.000 I don't...

00:59:33.000 Citizenship is not the issue.

00:59:35.000 The question is whether they're allowed to come here or not, and that would be on an invitation basis.

00:59:40.000 But people use birthright citizenship as a way to legitimize their path towards immigration, especially if they've entered illegally.

00:59:46.000 Right.

00:59:48.000 Yeah, I mean, that's a tough one, because I am for liberty, but I don't want people infringing on property that they don't own.

00:59:58.000 And I think public property is really the property of taxpayers, whereas the state takes custodianship over it.

01:00:07.000 I don't think that's right.

01:00:09.000 Let's jump to this next story from the AP News.

01:00:12.000 I don't know if this means World War III or what, but Iran's president and foreign minister died in a helicopter crash, and the AP says it's at a moment of high tensions in the Mideast.

01:00:22.000 So this is, you can see from these images that were released, it was very foggy, and so the official story is that they were struggling to see, they crashed.

01:00:29.000 It happens, they died.

01:00:30.000 Many people are saying, hey look, this happened to Kobe, right?

01:00:33.000 Israel has denied involvement, but there are many people who are saying that it doesn't matter.

01:00:37.000 It's like a Franz Ferdinand moment.

01:00:39.000 This is the death of the president.

01:00:40.000 He's the second most powerful individual in Iran, underneath the supreme leader there, Ayatollah.

01:00:47.000 So there is now an interim acting president who is in charge.

01:00:50.000 But a lot of people don't believe in coincidences, especially a month after rocket fire was exchanged between Israel and Iran.

01:00:58.000 The president dies.

01:01:00.000 And they killed some high-ranking officials earlier.

01:01:03.000 At the embassy?

01:01:04.000 Yes.

01:01:04.000 Right.

01:01:05.000 So Israel strikes the embassy in, I believe it was in Damascus, is that where it was?

01:01:09.000 In Syria.

01:01:10.000 Yeah, in Syria.

01:01:11.000 And then Iran retaliates.

01:01:14.000 Israel strikes back.

01:01:15.000 Iran denies it.

01:01:17.000 And now the Iranian president is dead.

01:01:18.000 So, well, see the fog of war.

01:01:22.000 It's very, you know, how often do heads of state die in helicopter crashes like this?

01:01:26.000 Very, very rarely.

01:01:27.000 And he's not flying in.

01:01:28.000 I doubt he was he flying in some rinky dink little commercial. 0.98

01:01:31.000 I think it's interesting because a report from a European news service was pointing out or saying,

01:01:37.000 you know, because of American tariffs and restrictions on Iran,

01:01:42.000 they're all of their flight infrastructure is very old.

01:01:45.000 So the helicopters are old, the airplanes are old.

01:01:47.000 And so actually there are some issues.

01:01:50.000 I don't know.

01:01:51.000 Well, it's also interesting because even, regardless, like if it is bad weather, he crashed the mountain, like total accident, there's another underlying tension of like, but if you guys weren't so restrictive of us, we wouldn't have this problem.

01:02:02.000 So even if it wasn't direct aggression, there's a way for anyone who wants to spin it to blame.

01:02:08.000 They're going to blame Israel anyways, right off the bat.

01:02:10.000 In that case, you'd be blaming America, right?

01:02:12.000 Pardon me?

01:02:13.000 In that case, you'd be blaming America.

01:02:14.000 If you're saying, you guys put all these restrictions on us.

01:02:16.000 It's the same thing.

01:02:17.000 Six of one, half a dozen to the other.

01:02:19.000 To Iran, it is. 0.53

01:02:20.000 Literally.

01:02:21.000 To Iran, it doesn't matter. 0.96

01:02:24.000 And they were going to blame Israel anyways, as soon as it happened.

01:02:30.000 Israel got blamed for the rain in Dubai.

01:02:32.000 You know, like they're going to blame the Mossad for this.

01:02:35.000 So I don't think there's any kind of question about whether or not anything's going to become of it.

01:02:41.000 I don't actually think so, because I don't think the president, being that he's just the president, he's not like the Ayatollah, he's not really the guy in charge.

01:02:49.000 Right, he's not really the guy in charge.

01:02:51.000 And they do have a cover of this fog, right?

01:02:54.000 I mean, there was very low fog.

01:02:56.000 But that's how you do it.

01:02:58.000 Yes, pilots often go under the fog in a crash.

01:03:01.000 That's how you assassinate a world leader.

01:03:03.000 Right, at that moment, that's what I'm saying, using that fog, the literal fog of war here.

01:03:09.000 Yeah, if Israel, or I shouldn't even bring up Israel, but literally any nation, the United States wants to get rid of the Iranian president, that's the time you do it. 0.99

01:03:18.000 And then deny all involvement.

01:03:20.000 And the crazy thing is, with the way cyber warfare currently, the state of cyber warfare, You know, I'm at the point where it's just like, I think it's fair to say every nation has its finger straight in the machines of the infrastructure of the other nations, and they're all ready to pull the pin at a moment's notice.

01:03:42.000 And that's keeping things tied down.

01:03:45.000 Because I tell you this, I don't think we'd be able to detect intrusions. If the

01:03:50.000 Iranians, the Russians, the Syrians, anybody, if they found a backdoor and then wrote themselves some

01:03:59.000 access, it would be difficult to find where and how they did it. And they could be sitting on a button

01:04:05.000 that could shut off electricity, they can shut off oil. And I doubt with this. I mean, let's

01:04:10.000 let's start from this point.

01:04:12.000 How many federal law enforcement agents are in this country?

01:04:15.000 What is the number, like 100,000?

01:04:16.000 federal law enforcement.

01:04:18.000 Yeah.

01:04:19.000 So we're talking, how many people are in cyber command?

01:04:22.000 How many people work private and public cyber security?

01:04:27.000 I do not believe it is possible to secure our infrastructure based on how massive the infrastructure is and based on how difficult it is to actually track security vulnerabilities with how many people we have.

01:04:43.000 The same is true for literally every nation.

01:04:45.000 I'd be willing to bet the US, China, Russia, Iran, Israel, they've got pins in every machine and they're ready to pull them at a moment's notice and it's going to shut down gas, electricity, key infrastructure, bridges are going to be going wild, and look what the US and Israel did with Stuxnet. 0.92

01:05:02.000 Do you guys remember this?

01:05:03.000 Made a virus.

01:05:05.000 I could be wrong, it's been like 12 years since this happened.

01:05:07.000 But the general idea was, Israel and the U.S.

01:05:09.000 were like, we're gonna make a virus that will infect every computer everywhere.

01:05:15.000 And then as soon as the virus sees that it's in an Iranian nuclear centrifuge, it will blow itself up.

01:05:22.000 So people had this virus on their computers, it did nothing.

01:05:26.000 And then one day, the Iranian nuclear centrifuges blew themselves up.

01:05:30.000 They wouldn't stop spinning, they kept spinning faster and faster until they destroyed themselves.

01:05:34.000 That's something that we know the US and Israel did.

01:05:37.000 Yeah.

01:05:38.000 I'd be willing to bet zero day exploits, meaning there's too many systems.

01:05:43.000 There's way too many systems.

01:05:46.000 I'd be willing to bet that if we went to war with Iran, All of a sudden, like, our pipelines shut down. 0.82

01:05:51.000 And then, I mean, look, you know what's wild?

01:05:54.000 Last year, I think it was last year, MGM, the casino chain, got hit by ransomware.

01:06:00.000 And they were like, pay up or we're shutting you down.

01:06:03.000 It was a couple casinos.

01:06:04.000 One casino paid, they were back online.

01:06:07.000 MGM said no.

01:06:09.000 And they were offline for months or some ridiculous amount of time.

01:06:12.000 Unable to unlock their computers, yeah.

01:06:14.000 When you go to the casino, they would hand, like if you were trying to play a slot machine, they have to walk up and hand you cash.

01:06:21.000 Yep, crazy.

01:06:22.000 Maybe that's fine, kind of old school, kind of vintage.

01:06:25.000 Not even.

01:06:26.000 Used to get quarters.

01:06:27.000 You put a quarter in, you pull the thing, quarter comes out.

01:06:28.000 It was mechanical.

01:06:29.000 Now with computers, the whole thing was fried.

01:06:33.000 That just reminds me how delicate the whole system is, right?

01:06:35.000 Once everything is integrated online, it just seems like the right person could take it

01:06:39.000 all out.

01:06:40.000 Yeah.

01:06:41.000 Not to be cynical about the internet.

01:06:43.000 Do we see this driving, well I'll put it this way, I think it was Newsweek and Intercept both ran articles saying this is World War III.

01:06:54.000 The Intercept said Israel's attack on Iran is not risking World War III, it is war.

01:07:01.000 Effectively implying World War III is now.

01:07:04.000 Yeah.

01:07:04.000 I don't see it.

01:07:06.000 I honestly, I feel like And this is just, not that I'm any kind of expert because I don't know anything about anything.

01:07:13.000 But Phil, you were talking to a stick for a living.

01:07:15.000 I know.

01:07:15.000 I just, I feel like the operations that they're doing in Gaza, like, they're coming to a close.

01:07:20.000 They don't have any more major operations that they're talking about.

01:07:24.000 Like, they're about to- Rafa, there's still a question of whether they're going to They're in Rafa now, though.

01:07:29.000 Yeah, but a further siege with more bombardment, yeah.

01:07:33.000 Okay, well, okay, so I don't know exactly what's going on, but it seems like it's winding down there, because there's not a whole lot much.

01:07:41.000 There's nothing left.

01:07:42.000 Yeah, there's nothing really left.

01:07:43.000 And they're starting the conversation about, like, well, what will it look like once it's over, which is interesting.

01:07:48.000 I just, I don't see that, I don't think that this isn't going to be, I don't see an escalation is what I'm saying.

01:07:54.000 And not, again, not that I, not like I have any kind of like inside information or oh blah blah blah, I just don't think that there's going to be any more significant escalation with Israel and I don't think that Iran I don't think it's going to do anything.

01:08:09.000 I don't know that they have the weaponry to do much.

01:08:11.000 No, I don't think.

01:08:12.000 I mean, they shot missiles at Israel and they didn't really do any damage as far as I know.

01:08:17.000 I mean, there was very little damage done by those missiles in Russia.

01:08:20.000 Do they have anything else?

01:08:22.000 But Russia's got too much stuff to do.

01:08:23.000 They've got plenty of their hands.

01:08:25.000 They do have their hands full with Ukraine, like whether or not like it's not like it's not like they could go ahead and have another war that they could actually. 0.71

01:08:33.000 Yeah, they're not as crazy as the United States.

01:08:35.000 We could be in three of them.

01:08:36.000 At the same time.

01:08:38.000 I mean, the U.S.

01:08:38.000 It is.

01:08:39.000 actually has a big enough military to do it. 0.97

01:08:42.000 Russia doesn't, you know, whether or not it's a right idea. 1.00

01:08:46.000 What do you think happens with all these geopolitical tensions?

01:08:49.000 Like, how do the next couple of months before the election go?

01:08:52.000 There's a possibility that this administration tries to exacerbate tensions and make something happen so that now we're at war.

01:09:00.000 A wartime election makes it a whole different environment.

01:09:07.000 And that's a very serious and pernicious possibility, I think.

01:09:13.000 I don't disagree.

01:09:15.000 I just don't know that anything could save Joe Biden at this point.

01:09:18.000 I mean, polls are coming out claiming that Trump's at 23% among black voters.

01:09:22.000 Yes, that's huge.

01:09:23.000 I never believe it.

01:09:25.000 Well, it's probably not that high, but it's still high.

01:09:27.000 Yeah.

01:09:28.000 And I think there was this moment today where, oh man, I was watching Fox News and Joe Biden was just saying a whole bunch of racisms.

01:09:35.000 Did you see this one where he went to the university?

01:09:37.000 He went to Warhouse.

01:09:39.000 And then he was just basically saying, you can't succeed.

01:09:43.000 It's too bad, not fair. 0.98

01:09:45.000 We had one line that... White supremacy is the biggest plague, the biggest problem that faces us. 0.97

01:09:52.000 You have to be 10 times better than the other guy to get the position or something like that? 0.97

01:09:56.000 Quite the opposite, frankly.

01:09:57.000 This is not the inspiring graduation speech that you've been getting.

01:10:00.000 Didn't they turn their backs on him?

01:10:02.000 Some did.

01:10:03.000 Over the Israel issue.

01:10:04.000 Over Palestine. 0.85

01:10:05.000 And their valedictorian called for an immediate ceasefire, and Joe Biden applauded.

01:10:11.000 But he said on stage... Yeah, he did.

01:10:13.000 He's called for a ceasefire.

01:10:15.000 Yeah.

01:10:16.000 I mean, it isn't.

01:10:17.000 And then he went on to speak to the NCAA, he had another meeting during that week.

01:10:24.000 And I just think that that was a blunder on Joe Biden's part.

01:10:29.000 I think it's, I mean, I don't know, but I think that his administration is kind of

01:10:34.000 clunkily trying to court voters among minority people and they can't do it.

01:10:39.000 I think he's gonna, for everyone, he's going to have to answer for the economy and he's going to have to answer for the geopolitical tension.

01:10:45.000 Any young graduate, regardless of race right now, is looking at the world saying... That's why he's at CFAR.

01:10:49.000 Because he's trying to win these voters.

01:10:52.000 They're not going to do anything.

01:10:53.000 They've been sending these arms without any hesitation whatsoever.

01:10:58.000 There was one Well, let's jump to some lighter news I suppose then.

01:11:02.000 you know, we're going to withhold these arms. But then they made a shipment soon thereafter.

01:11:06.000 So it's it's just pretense. I don't believe anything he says about that.

01:11:11.000 Well, let's jump to some lighter news, I suppose, then we have this from the Daily Mail. Kid Rock

01:11:16.000 uses N word waves handgun and challenges reporter to physical fight as he claims Donald Trump

01:11:23.000 cheats at golf in unhinged interview.

01:11:25.000 That's hilarious.

01:11:27.000 Ah, I love this country so much.

01:11:28.000 This guy is the best.

01:11:31.000 How old is Kid Rock now or something like that?

01:11:33.000 He's like 50-something, right?

01:11:34.000 I think he's older than that, right?

01:11:35.000 Is he?

01:11:36.000 I think he's in his 60s.

01:11:38.000 Well, let's read the news, I guess.

01:11:40.000 Yeah.

01:11:41.000 Daily Mail reports, Kid Rock wielded a gun, hurled racial slurs,

01:11:44.000 and instigated a physical altercation with a reporter, according to a new Rolling Stone article.

01:11:48.000 Of course, I don't believe Rolling Stone because they lie about too much.

01:11:51.000 Writer David Peisner recalled the encounter in a piece published Sunday,

01:11:55.000 following his interview with the country rapper in Nashville last month.

01:11:58.000 During the unhinged chat, they delved into topics ranging from immigration

01:12:01.000 and Donald Trump to Kid Rock's right-wing warrior persona.

01:12:05.000 As the drinks flowed and Kid Rock's intoxication grew, Peyser described a tense moment where the musician abruptly produced a black handgun, waving it before Peyser's face in an apparent attempt to make a statement.

01:12:16.000 And I've got a effing GD gun right here if I need it. 0.94

01:12:20.000 Kid Rock, who is also close friends with Trump, reportedly, Trump Jr., reportedly shouted, I got them everywhere.

01:12:26.000 The cowboy hitmaker reportedly used the N-word multiple times, notably while asserting that Republicans were the one who freed the slaves.

01:12:34.000 He says, do you think you could whoop the ish out of me? 1.00

01:12:39.000 He allegedly asked Peisner, who responded, probably not.

01:12:43.000 I agree, probably not.

01:12:44.000 He's 53, apparently.

01:12:46.000 Kid Rock would be able to win a fight with his... Kid Rock?

01:12:50.000 What else is this?

01:12:51.000 You're not supposed to say the N-word.

01:12:54.000 He says, you think I like Trump because he's a nice guy?

01:12:58.000 I'm not electing the deacon of a church.

01:13:01.000 That MF-er likes to win. 1.00

01:13:02.000 He likes to cheat in his effing golf game.

01:13:06.000 I want that guy on my team.

01:13:07.000 I want the guy who goes, I'm gonna fight for you.

01:13:13.000 Yo, this headline is America.

01:13:15.000 Yeah.

01:13:16.000 Unfortunately.

01:13:16.000 It's a total circus.

01:13:19.000 It's the bull god.

01:13:20.000 But the thing is, when they say he uses the n-word, you know that he didn't.

01:13:25.000 You don't think?

01:13:26.000 No.

01:13:26.000 Use and say are two different things.

01:13:29.000 The idea that Kid Rock was actually intending to insult and demean a person based on their race, I don't believe for one second.

01:13:36.000 The idea that he said that Yeah, I wouldn't put it past them.

01:13:40.000 America's a free speech place where people are going to tell you.

01:13:44.000 You know, it's the country where a homeless guy can give the middle finger to the president.

01:13:48.000 Go to Thailand and say this about the king. 1.00

01:13:53.000 And they'll kill you, right? 1.00

01:13:54.000 I think you go to prison. 0.99

01:13:55.000 I don't know if they'd kill you, depending on what you say.

01:13:58.000 But it's so bad, it's called les majesté, it's so bad that if you condemn someone who said, let's say in Thailand they say something like, F the King.

01:14:10.000 And then you go, how dare you say F the King?

01:14:13.000 You both have just committed les majesté.

01:14:15.000 The fact that you repeated it in condemnation is a crime itself.

01:14:20.000 And so people are terrified.

01:14:23.000 In America, you can be like Kid Rock.

01:14:26.000 Yeah, you might get canceled.

01:14:28.000 I don't know what he can get canceled from.

01:14:31.000 He just added another 10,000 new fans.

01:14:33.000 Probably right.

01:14:34.000 Yeah.

01:14:35.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:14:36.000 Although, like, I actually think, you know, Rolling Stone wrote how Kid Rock went from America's favorite hard-partying rock star to a MAGA mouthpiece.

01:14:44.000 I don't even know why you'd agree to do an interview with these people.

01:14:47.000 Why really do an interview with Rolling Stone?

01:14:50.000 I mean, come on.

01:14:51.000 Is that his name, Bob Ritchie?

01:14:53.000 Yeah.

01:14:54.000 His real name?

01:14:54.000 Bob.

01:14:55.000 Bob.

01:14:56.000 Good job, Bob.

01:14:58.000 Hope you didn't use the hard R.

01:15:00.000 I really doubt this guy's telling the truth, to be completely honest. 0.97

01:15:04.000 Like, the Rolling Stone is absolute garbage. 0.98

01:15:06.000 Look at what we're- we're talking about a man swearing. 0.99

01:15:10.000 There's crazy news out there today.

01:15:13.000 In a day when we were just talking about the president of Iran crashing you down.

01:15:18.000 This is intentional.

01:15:19.000 It's like we're talking about all these really awful things, a demented president, the death of another president, World War III, and so I intentionally pulled up the silly stories for levity.

01:15:29.000 It is fair, but there are people that do get really upset about that.

01:15:32.000 I mean, there are people that will, you know, Make threats and try to get people fired and stuff.

01:15:38.000 I just gotta say to everybody who's listening, if we talk about Kid Rock cussing up a storm and screaming, go Trump, there are gonna be people who are going to say something like, why are we talking about this?

01:15:49.000 This is a waste of time.

01:15:51.000 And then if we're like, okay, let's pull up the, you know, the story from Iran and the present, I'm going to say, you guys are pessimists talking about war too much.

01:15:57.000 Let's talk about something calmer.

01:15:59.000 There's nothing you can do.

01:16:01.000 I'm not even talking about the intensity of it, it's more of a comment on the fact that an adult swearing is something that actually is, even though it is for levity.

01:16:11.000 Oh, I get your point.

01:16:13.000 The fact that he supposedly wielded a weapon, that's the question.

01:16:16.000 I bet you he didn't.

01:16:18.000 I don't believe that part of it.

01:16:20.000 I don't think he took out a gun and started But even if he did, that's kind of hilarious.

01:16:25.000 He brandishes a gun and he swore.

01:16:29.000 And he used a dirty word. 0.99

01:16:32.000 The fact that Rolling Stone even mentions it is just so ridiculous. 0.90

01:16:35.000 I'm going to tell you right now, I don't believe Rolling Stone. 0.99

01:16:38.000 This is just diarrhea. 0.94

01:16:44.000 It's news story diarrhea. 0.84

01:16:47.000 However, if I'm hanging out anywhere and someone's drunk and they pull out a gun, I'm leaving.

01:16:52.000 No questions asked.

01:16:53.000 If they're drunk, absolutely.

01:16:54.000 No questions.

01:16:54.000 You are drunk and you touch a gun, I say, I'm leaving.

01:16:57.000 Yeah.

01:16:57.000 Have a nice day.

01:16:58.000 That's it.

01:16:59.000 I'm getting out of here as quick as possible.

01:17:00.000 Because there was another story that we had.

01:17:02.000 It was on the sidebar of the New York Post. 1.00

01:17:03.000 Some dumb rapper teenager shot himself in the head. 1.00

01:17:08.000 Like, dude, you don't mess around with guns, man. 1.00

01:17:10.000 You gotta get training.

01:17:11.000 You gotta know what you're doing.

01:17:13.000 He broke three rules.

01:17:15.000 There's only four rules and he broke three.

01:17:18.000 I think the thing is with Kid Rock, they're always going to want to pull him out to be like, this is what everyone who supports the MAGA movement looks like. 0.87

01:17:25.000 He is this crazy guy with his long hair and he says crass things and he has a gun or whatever it is. 0.94

01:17:31.000 This is your Trump vote. 0.98

01:17:35.000 If you have a neighbor who has a Trump sign in his yard, this is who lives next door to you.

01:17:40.000 Regardless of what you think of what Kid Rock said or Alleged said or did or whatever, like, the idea is to be able to hold up people who seem distasteful to the public and say, anyone who supports Trump is like this person and here's why you should be not just like, not friends with them, but also sort of scared of the weird and crazy things they do.

01:17:57.000 Yeah, they do the same thing to, you know, on a smaller scale, of course, to the people in the Mises caucus in the Libertarian Party.

01:18:04.000 They find, you know, they try to associate us with all kinds of racism and, you know, other kinds of indiscretions that they don't like, but it's, you know.

01:18:16.000 You know that someone at Rolling Stone was like, are we a music publication?

01:18:20.000 I feel like I haven't been for a long time.

01:18:23.000 Maybe that conversation happened 10 years ago.

01:18:25.000 Right, the editor walks up to one of the Democrats that's working in the office currently on the phone with Joe Biden and he's like, you know how we used to be a music publication?

01:18:34.000 Let's interview Kid Rock so we can smear and insult Trump supporters.

01:18:39.000 And the Democrat was like, that's a great idea and I can pretend to be a journalist.

01:18:43.000 And this is where we are.

01:18:44.000 This is America, everybody.

01:18:46.000 I mean, that's what I always thought about Teen Vogue when they started having political reporters.

01:18:49.000 And I thought, you're a teenage girl magazine.

01:18:52.000 We got to pull that one up.

01:18:53.000 What was that Teen Vogue mark thing?

01:18:53.000 We got to pull that one up.

01:18:56.000 Teen Vogue.

01:18:57.000 Teen Vogue talking about Marx.

01:18:59.000 Yep, there you go.

01:19:00.000 Teen Vogue.

01:19:01.000 Who is Karl Marx?

01:19:02.000 Meet the anti-capitalist scholar.

01:19:06.000 Insane. 0.99

01:19:07.000 The anti-capitalist scholar. 0.58

01:19:10.000 Oh, wow.

01:19:10.000 Okay, so that's all he was, was just a scholar.

01:19:13.000 Insane.

01:19:15.000 He wasn't a mad ideologue who tried to destroy civilization with an utterly flawed theory Uh, and it wasn't a, you know, really he didn't cheer on mass terror, although he did. 0.99

01:19:31.000 What a lunatic this guy. 0.88

01:19:32.000 So why were you a Marxist? 1.00

01:19:33.000 Like, how did you get... Listen, I mean, I was indoctrinated through... I went to graduate school and got indoctrinated through English departments and tons of books and reading they kept thrusting on us and, uh, eventually... But you weren't political before that?

01:19:48.000 Not really.

01:19:48.000 Okay.

01:19:49.000 Yeah, I was somewhat political.

01:19:52.000 I was very anti-war, but they kind of just drilled into you.

01:19:58.000 I mean, I have agency.

01:19:59.000 I thought there was some ethical basis to it.

01:20:03.000 I thought it was more ethical than capitalism, but I realize now that it's absolutely the most unethical economic system there is, because it's premised on theft.

01:20:14.000 And what made you, when did the tide start to turn?

01:20:17.000 When I was at NYU and I started speaking up against, like things started percolating in my head about this social justice of wokeness and all that.

01:20:26.000 It wasn't called wokeness yet.

01:20:28.000 This was 2016 and I started speaking up on Twitter.

01:20:31.000 I started a handle, anti-pcnyuprof.

01:20:37.000 That got a little attention and then they came for me.

01:20:40.000 Yeah.

01:20:41.000 You got fired, didn't you?

01:20:42.000 No, I was not fired.

01:20:43.000 I left with a settlement, as a matter of fact.

01:20:47.000 They like to lie, speaking of lies.

01:20:49.000 Wikipedia is a lie rag as well.

01:20:53.000 But it's because you've got collectivists up against individualists.

01:20:56.000 The individualists are like, I'm gonna do my thing, my business.

01:21:00.000 The collectivists are like, all for the revolution.

01:21:02.000 Oh, absolutely, and they're very interested in destroying the individualist.

01:21:06.000 To the point where Teen Vogue wrote a puff piece on Karl Marx.

01:21:11.000 This is unbelievable.

01:21:12.000 What's it say?

01:21:12.000 I can't see it from here.

01:21:14.000 You may have come across communist memes on social media.

01:21:17.000 The man, the meme, the legend behind this trend is Karl Marx, who developed a theory of communism, which advocates for workers' control over their labor instead of their bosses.

01:21:25.000 The political philosopher turned 200 years old on May 5th, but his ideas can still teach us about the past and the present.

01:21:31.000 The famed German co-authored the Communist Manifesto, which scholar Frederick Engels in 1848, a piece of writing that makes the case for political theory of socialism, where the community, rather than rich people, have ownership and control over their labor, which later inspired millions of people.

01:21:45.000 Here's the trick.

01:21:46.000 You want to know what the trick is?

01:21:47.000 You already own your labor.

01:21:49.000 Yeah.

01:21:50.000 You never didn't.

01:21:51.000 Right.

01:21:51.000 And so the issue is, the idea, when they tell you, you don't actually own your labor, your boss does.

01:21:58.000 What they're really saying is, you provide little value beyond what labor you have.

01:22:03.000 And what I'm actually saying is, you would get more if only you had some kind of nebulous claim to something.

01:22:10.000 Basically, the issue is, for a lot of people, They sell their labor for what they can sell their labor for.

01:22:16.000 And the unfortunate reality of the world is some people can sell their labor for very little.

01:22:22.000 Well, if you want to steal power and destroy an institution, go to all the workers and say, you're getting paid ten bucks an hour.

01:22:30.000 You know that he's getting paid 15, right?

01:22:32.000 Yeah.

01:22:33.000 And so what you do is you sow discord by tricking people into thinking that they're getting less than they deserve.

01:22:37.000 Right.

01:22:38.000 And so there are instances where certainly people are getting less than they deserve, but the market is the market.

01:22:43.000 Yes, there are cases, usually by monopolies, which only come into existence thanks to the state.

01:22:51.000 I don't think it's only the state that makes monopolies, but the state certainly makes monopolies.

01:22:55.000 It makes monopolies, but I would argue that there are no natural monopolies.

01:22:59.000 The East India Trading Company?

01:23:01.000 That was a state project.

01:23:03.000 Great Britain was completely behind that, even with military assistance.

01:23:10.000 Yeah, but you could argue that the power of the East India Trading Company basically dictated the government was operating outside of its borders.

01:23:17.000 I suppose that at a certain level the state and the corporations operate interchangeably.

01:23:21.000 It was a colonialist project as well, so... But I think it's probably just fair to say that at a certain level there's a coalescence of government and corporate power into a fascistic machine.

01:23:31.000 Yes, that's correct.

01:23:32.000 So that's the kind of collusion... We're looking at the top of the hill from both sides of the enemy.

01:23:36.000 Exactly.

01:23:37.000 Absolutely.

01:23:38.000 I always look at it from the side of the state and what they're doing, and they would not be able to have collusion with corporations if they didn't exist.

01:23:48.000 Well, for what reason teenagers need to learn about Karl Marx?

01:23:53.000 I don't know.

01:23:53.000 So they don't learn about anything else.

01:23:54.000 So this is what they're like, wow, he seems like he helped the workers.

01:23:58.000 You're right.

01:23:59.000 But this is something that I've talked about before.

01:24:01.000 It's not just Teen Vogue.

01:24:02.000 You get Teen Vogue and GQ will have the same thing and then Good Housekeeping.

01:24:07.000 all run a similar leftist. And essentially you're getting this mono message from all

01:24:14.000 of establishment media or from a vast majority of establishment media. There's no reason

01:24:19.000 why GQ and Teen Vogue would be running the same articles.

01:24:25.000 Why would, you know, 30, 40 year old upper, upper middle class men.

01:24:30.000 be interested in the same thing that teen girls are. There's gotta be an orchestration going on. 1.00

01:24:36.000 It's completely ridiculous to think that they would, other than to try to feed a narrative.

01:24:41.000 Let's jump to another story here. This one's just kind of fun and silly, but it's kind of scary. 0.88

01:24:47.000 From NBC News, Scarlett Johansson says she was shocked and angered when she heard a chat GPT

01:24:52.000 voice that sounded like her.

01:24:55.000 The Her actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its Sky voice from ChatGPT, which many people sounded like her.

01:25:02.000 This is the degree of insanity in which we are currently living.

01:25:06.000 If an AI sounds too much like a celebrity, the celebrity complains, and then they pull the AI, even though it was not actually based on her voice.

01:25:14.000 Scarlett Johansson said on Monday that OpenAI used an eerily similar voice to hers for their new ChatGPT 4.0 chatbot, despite having declined the company's request to provide her voice.

01:25:25.000 Blah blah blah.

01:25:25.000 I guess the gist of the story is they did offer, she said no, and so they found someone else who sounded kind of like her to use her voice instead, but then she was like, hey, that sounds too much like me.

01:25:36.000 This is intellectual property law.

01:25:38.000 Complete sham.

01:25:39.000 It's got to be stricken. 1.00

01:25:40.000 It's garbage. 1.00

01:25:41.000 All the way down. 0.68

01:25:42.000 I think the reason why I wanted to get into the AI subject, and this was certainly an open door, is that the end is here, my friends.

01:25:49.000 I believe it's the end.

01:25:51.000 It was nice knowing all of you, and I am preparing to live in a van down by the river.

01:25:55.000 The reason is there is an increasing trend that TikTok videos are going away.

01:26:03.000 You know what people are doing?

01:26:04.000 They're making completely AI-generated videos in every way.

01:26:08.000 So, eight years ago, between six and eight years ago, we had this Elsagate fiasco on YouTube, where people were using computer programs to auto-generate videos that they could upload to YouTube that would manipulate the algorithm, and they'd make money.

01:26:25.000 The problem is, at this point, the computer-generated videos were rudimentary at best.

01:26:30.000 They would write a simple program that says, like, first they created an animation.

01:26:35.000 Two figures doing Tai Chi and dancing to a poorly recorded version of Finger Family, a nursery rhyme.

01:26:41.000 Then they wrote a simple script saying, choose at random these skins for the figures.

01:26:47.000 It could be the Incredible Hulk.

01:26:49.000 It could be Hitler. 0.86

01:26:50.000 It could be a woman in a bikini. 1.00

01:26:52.000 Any combination of colors.

01:26:54.000 And so there was one that was funny where it was Hitler's head on a woman's body. 0.63

01:26:58.000 In a bikini doing tai chi with the Hulk.

01:27:00.000 YouTube quickly saw this and said no no no get this stuff out of there and deleted it.

01:27:04.000 It was up for a little while.

01:27:06.000 These videos were getting thousands and tens of thousands of views and making money for people.

01:27:10.000 But it was so ridiculous they got rid of it.

01:27:13.000 A.I.

01:27:13.000 has improved.

01:27:14.000 And now if you open up TikTok or Instagram, you will see videos that are completely A.I.

01:27:19.000 generated, where it's like a CGI man and he's like on a pogo stick.

01:27:23.000 And then the voice goes, did you know the world record for pogo sticks hops is 1,274,000?

01:27:29.000 And it's playing this song.

01:27:31.000 It's like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

01:27:35.000 You've heard the song, I know you have.

01:27:37.000 And these videos all have millions and millions and millions of views.

01:27:40.000 But they're not crazy.

01:27:42.000 Someone, and it's 100% AI.

01:27:45.000 The AI chatbot program pulls a factoid, generates a quick video of it, and then, or it's a random selection of clips related to the keywords, and then an AI-generated voice says it, with text appearing on the screen, auto-uploads it, and this is replacing all media.

01:28:05.000 With ChatGPT voice and stuff like this, people aren't going to talk to people anymore.

01:28:11.000 They're not going to listen to podcasts.

01:28:12.000 You're going to get a call from your, in my case, you're going to get a call from supposedly my son.

01:28:18.000 I need X amount of dollars.

01:28:20.000 They're going to be able to simulate your voice entirely.

01:28:24.000 And you could use this to rob people, to scam them, all kinds of stuff.

01:28:28.000 I'm just saying...

01:28:30.000 But also reality.

01:28:31.000 You're talking about the fact that we're living in a simulation.

01:28:35.000 That's the problem.

01:28:36.000 We are going to be living in a simulation.

01:28:39.000 Not even in the Matrix, but with a...

01:28:42.000 You know, people – I love the podcast era.

01:28:45.000 It was amazing.

01:28:47.000 And it's going away, right?

01:28:49.000 So we had radio.

01:28:51.000 Everyone listens to radio.

01:28:52.000 Wow, amazing.

01:28:53.000 Then you get television, and all of a sudden everyone in the country is watching the same few shows, knowing the same things.

01:29:00.000 If you live in New York and you drive to Chicago, you can talk about what was on, you know, Jimmy Carson or whatever.

01:29:05.000 Right.

01:29:06.000 And then we started moving into the internet era.

01:29:08.000 And in this period, you've got decentralization to a little bit where things flattened out and shows like this were able to emerge.

01:29:15.000 But now we're entering total saturation with AI generation.

01:29:18.000 Meaning, at first it was like, are you skilled enough to do a show and speak to the masses?

01:29:24.000 You gotta have the technical capabilities, you gotta have a producer, a sound guy, all of these people come together to build a machine to send that broadcast out.

01:29:33.000 And it was so hard to do that there were very few and everybody watched the same ones.

01:29:37.000 Then with the internet became easier and easier and easier.

01:29:40.000 So shows like this could emerge.

01:29:42.000 Still there's a level of work ethic and technical know-how you need to record videos, produce a show.

01:29:48.000 We are now at the point where people are almost entirely, not almost entirely, but we're moving very much into Minute soundbite, social media.

01:29:58.000 So people are just scrolling up, scrolling up.

01:30:00.000 Random video, random video, random video.

01:30:02.000 Consuming no real information from them.

01:30:05.000 And we're coming to the point where it's CGI and AI.

01:30:08.000 So now, the barrier of entry is zero.

01:30:12.000 The value is zero, but the dopamine is 100.

01:30:17.000 So this is the end, and the good news is that it's gonna be Scarlett Johansson who's whispering sweet nothings into your ear as you fade away into the Matrix.

01:30:27.000 It's fake Scarlett Johansson, right?

01:30:29.000 Allegedly?

01:30:30.000 We have Scarlett Johansson at home.

01:30:31.000 There'll be no original left.

01:30:33.000 There'll be simulations with no original remaining.

01:30:37.000 We're there, man.

01:30:38.000 Suno.com, this AI music generating stuff?

01:30:42.000 It's nuts.

01:30:44.000 The capabilities of AI and what people are going to do with it is definitely something that is unnerving, I guess.

01:30:55.000 Welcome to the end, Phil.

01:30:56.000 Read it.

01:30:57.000 Portable, non-invasive, mind-reading AI turns thoughts into text.

01:31:02.000 Oh, so we're going to not, so we won't... This is what Neuralink is really going to come down to.

01:31:07.000 You're going to be connected to the cloud, your brain will be connected to the cloud, your brain, your thoughts will be known to the cloud, the central database, and they'll actually import, impute thoughts to you.

01:31:19.000 I feel bad for Elon.

01:31:21.000 I feel bad.

01:31:22.000 You know, he's working so hard on Neuralink, and Neuralink has been talking about one of the challenges they have is that these very thin wires apparently get displaced.

01:31:32.000 It's difficult to do.

01:31:32.000 Of course.

01:31:34.000 And what they're doing with AI is they're using electroencephalograms.

01:31:40.000 Basically, they may be using something much more advanced than that.

01:31:45.000 I read something on this earlier, and that's what they were using in EEG.

01:31:49.000 They put a helmet on your head, and it monitors brainwaves that are coming out of your head.

01:31:54.000 And humans have no idea what the waves mean.

01:31:58.000 They can't interpret this.

01:32:00.000 But the AI can.

01:32:01.000 So what they do is, they have people watch videos, and then they tell the people to say what they're watching.

01:32:09.000 The AI, the computer, then scans the brainwaves of all the people watching these same videos, and after enough samples, the AI says, I got it.

01:32:19.000 This pattern correlates with these things.

01:32:21.000 And they got to the point where I was watching this video, And the guy says, now we're at the point where you can put on the headset, watch the video, and then the computer will tell us what you're watching.

01:32:35.000 Reading your mind.

01:32:36.000 Yes, reading your mind, absolutely.

01:32:37.000 So they're inferring backwards from those tests, yeah.

01:32:41.000 It's more than just watching the video, though.

01:32:44.000 So the more people watch the videos and provide this data, it's more than just, they play a video of a teenage girl walking her dog.

01:32:54.000 What the video showed was, the AI doesn't just say, a video of a girl walking a dog, it shows what the woman was thinking.

01:33:02.000 And the woman who was recording saying, that woman looks like me, and she's walking her dog.

01:33:06.000 This is the observer, not the woman walking the dog, right?

01:33:09.000 It was a woman watching a video, and the AI read her thoughts.

01:33:14.000 Yeah, this is all possible.

01:33:15.000 Absolutely, they've been talking about this for 20 years.

01:33:18.000 So, we're gonna get to the point where, More than that.

01:33:22.000 Kurzweil, you know, going back to... This EEG technology, if it improves dramatically, and the market will dictate, and there's a value for government especially, they're going to find ways to minimize the requirements of an EEG so that they can scan your thoughts at a distance, and maybe they already can, and then use AI to decode what you're thinking.

01:33:47.000 Let's show them a picture of Hitler and see what he thinks!

01:33:50.000 It's not just that.

01:33:51.000 It won't matter.

01:33:52.000 You'll be walking down Times Square, and they will be scanning all of the thoughts, and then all of a sudden there will be a guy walking, and the cops are gonna run out and grab him, and he's gonna go, I didn't do anything!

01:34:02.000 And they're gonna find a knife.

01:34:04.000 Thinking about it.

01:34:04.000 Oh yeah.

01:34:06.000 So it's premeditated.

01:34:07.000 To crime.

01:34:07.000 It's pre-cog.

01:34:08.000 Yeah.

01:34:09.000 Weren't for a wild ride.

01:34:12.000 Needless to say, this is my nightmare.

01:34:14.000 There's gotta be a way around it.

01:34:15.000 There has to be a way to... A tinfoil hat.

01:34:17.000 Yes, that's probably right.

01:34:19.000 I'm not kidding.

01:34:21.000 I imagine there will be some, I mean they figured out ways to beat facial recognition with masks and different types of face painting.

01:34:28.000 I imagine there will be people that are going to be figuring out ways to try to come up with some kind of jammer.

01:34:33.000 There's already talk about jammers for drones and stuff like that.

01:34:38.000 I don't think so because what will end up happening is, let's say they do implement this in Times Square.

01:34:45.000 You walk into Times Square with a jammer, they run in and grab you.

01:34:51.000 Sell jammers are illegal.

01:34:52.000 You have any kind of blocking.

01:34:56.000 Masks are, in many places, illegal.

01:34:59.000 They can actually stop you and detain you for wearing a mask and make you remove it.

01:35:03.000 Granted, a few years ago, it was the opposite.

01:35:06.000 They would stop you and detain you if you weren't wearing one.

01:35:07.000 The most dangerous prospect here is if the government uses this stuff to control people, to read their minds and actually control their behavior.

01:35:17.000 What if they're already doing it?

01:35:20.000 If military already developed this technology a while ago... They're always in advance.

01:35:24.000 Yeah, they're way out ahead of consumer technology, for sure.

01:35:27.000 No.

01:35:27.000 That's what I thought was interesting with Colorado, Jared Polis, the governor, just signed into law the bill

01:35:33.000 regulating AI or attempting to regulate it.

01:35:35.000 And they're kind of presenting it as a, we don't want you to use the algorithm to discriminate against people.

01:35:39.000 So we want, you want you to have to like release certain amounts of data and whatever else.

01:35:43.000 But he was like, you know, he's a Democrat and he was saying like, I understand that you want to protect

01:35:47.000 consumers and their privacy, but this could really stifle technology.

01:35:51.000 And I think we're at this.

01:35:52.000 I mean, AI really does represent this very strange knife blade kind of thin razor line point where people are.

01:36:01.000 Saying, you know, Elon Musk is pointing out you can use certain technologies to help people really in need or paraplegics or whoever else.

01:36:06.000 But on the other hand, in the wrong hands or just in the unknowing hands, AI could potentially be destructive.

01:36:15.000 You don't know what it's collecting.

01:36:16.000 You don't know what it's referencing.

01:36:18.000 I mean, chat GPT is fallible.

01:36:19.000 It cites things.

01:36:20.000 It messes things up.

01:36:21.000 And so where do we stand?

01:36:23.000 Because, you know, if you don't want government regulation, How do we keep all of these things in balance as the technology races forward?

01:36:31.000 The only regulation I would like to see is to keep it out of the hands of the state altogether.

01:36:38.000 And otherwise, I think competition is the only answer because otherwise we're going to have these dominating forces like who monopolize the market and they have a particular ideological standpoint, have a particular agenda.

01:36:53.000 We need to have competition and let it flow.

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01:37:53.000 Mind sharing as well, Tim.

01:37:54.000 Also, any updates on the espresso roast?

01:37:58.000 We are backlogged on, we've been waiting for months for Ian's graphene dream.

01:38:05.000 I don't know what the holdup is.

01:38:07.000 It's Ian's Graphene Dream.

01:38:08.000 I believe it's a low-acidity blend, and we've got really cool graphic design for it and everything, and we're backlogged.

01:38:14.000 I don't know what's going on, and it's a bit frustrating, but it takes a long time to get the stuff off the ground.

01:38:20.000 But I did share it, sir.

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01:38:24.000 This is our Cast Brew Coffee now has wholesalers selling the coffee at their stores.

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01:38:34.000 Howdy, howdy. 0.99

01:38:35.000 Alright, we'll grab some more Super Chats.

01:38:35.000 Let's go.

01:38:40.000 Based Ventura, we got a three-parter here.

01:38:43.000 He says, Women have in-group preference, being girl's girl.

01:38:47.000 Men have out-group preference, separate selves from the pack.

01:38:50.000 Compliment natures.

01:38:52.000 Help women foster community, men defend it from threats.

01:38:57.000 Feminism weaponizes, though. 1.00

01:39:00.000 Push women to always empower women, make men attack every man who opposes, leading to never-ending feedback loop breaking society. 1.00

01:39:07.000 Khan's oppose feminist message can't root out due to innate desire to nurture vulnerable. 1.00

01:39:14.000 To stop evil invader Pearl's value not in the hot takes, but she rejects normal group preferences, thus defangs feminists of most subtle useful weapons, open more people to seeing Purge virus. 1.00

01:39:26.000 I believe you probably needed four or five to get the full message out, because your shorthand became very difficult to understand.

01:39:31.000 Yeah.

01:39:32.000 That was hard to follow.

01:39:33.000 But I did a follow-up on the Culture War episode we did earlier at four.

01:39:38.000 Because, you know, Pearl's pretty nasty on Twitter. 0.98

01:39:42.000 She's allowed to be.

01:39:42.000 I get it.

01:39:42.000 It's the internet.

01:39:43.000 I'm not saying she shouldn't be, but I'm saying she is.

01:39:45.000 And my thoughts, she basically, you know, some guy said, you know, my wife and I pray, you know, try to talk about how to serve the Lord better, and I pray that you find someone.

01:39:56.000 And then she said, like, your wife is 40 and overweight. 1.00

01:39:59.000 Nobody wants what you have.

01:40:01.000 And I was like, I really feel the only reason to say that to somebody is because you're hurt.

01:40:07.000 Like, you're trying to blast someone who has something you want.

01:40:12.000 Yeah.

01:40:12.000 Because there's no real logic behind someone saying, I pray that you find a life partner, and then you say your wife is an overweight old woman, you know what I mean?

01:40:21.000 Yeah, I like to take that as an insult and attack.

01:40:23.000 Yeah, it's like, for what reason?

01:40:24.000 And then saying no one wants what you have really sounds like you kind of want what they have, you know what I mean?

01:40:30.000 It's hard to say.

01:40:32.000 Yeah.

01:40:32.000 I mean, my impression of Pearl, who was a perfectly lovely guest, was that her audience is... Her message is for men who are looking for information about the way, you know, modern culture has changed women, and it's sort of looking for confirmation of things they already feel.

01:40:51.000 So, you know, maybe the fact that she's so aggressive online appeals to... Pearl's a masochist. 1.00

01:40:56.000 I think Pearl is right about a lot of important things.

01:40:59.000 When she talks about divorce court, and the biases in the system, and the problem with the laws, I agree.

01:41:03.000 But I do believe that she is an anti-feminist by speech, but a feminist by practice.

01:41:09.000 Sounds like it, yeah.

01:41:11.000 I don't mean that disrespectfully.

01:41:12.000 And I'm sure she might not appreciate it, or maybe she agrees.

01:41:15.000 She's a 26-year-old, unmarried, professional woman running a company with employees. 0.96

01:41:20.000 I mean, this is the second-wave feminist dream come true. 1.00

01:41:23.000 A woman choosing in her mid-twenties to not get married, not have a family, to be a leader of industry with millions of fans, and to be making—I'm assuming she's making millions at this point with how big her audience is, I could be wrong—but she started a new company. 0.99

01:41:40.000 She's hosting a show.

01:41:41.000 This is, this is, it's absolute feminism. 1.00

01:41:43.000 I, I, I wouldn't know what else you'd call it.

01:41:46.000 I don't know what your thoughts are, Phil.

01:41:48.000 I don't know that I would call it feminism. 1.00

01:41:51.000 Um, because just because she's just because she's, uh, an entrepreneur or doing entrepreneurial things, because I don't know exactly how much she is.

01:42:01.000 She does it compared to like, whether, whether it's like a team or whatever.

01:42:06.000 Um, Because if I understand correctly then this could be this is just what I've heard I could be wrong But if I understand correctly her father's involved with with her Her stuff as well But but I mean I don't think that she's actually a feminist just because the message that she's putting out there isn't a feminist message I said anti-feminist speech, but a feminist in practice well again again I don't I don't think that I don't think that just having a a career is is in

01:42:35.000 is indicative of being a feminist. 1.00

01:42:38.000 You don't have to be a feminist that's like... What was first wave feminism? 1.00

01:42:43.000 Well, I guess the first wave of feminism was about voting. 1.00

01:42:46.000 And what was second wave feminism? 1.00

01:42:48.000 Second wave feminism was about property and about whether or not they could work at all and whether they could own property and stuff. 1.00

01:42:54.000 So I called her a second wave feminist in practice. 0.99

01:42:58.000 I mean like like so the victories of feminism resulted in the creation of Pearl and she's 1.00

01:43:04.000 saying that she speaks out against third and fourth wave feminism for sure but she upholds

01:43:08.000 second wave feminism. I get I get the point that you're making because she's out there working 1.00

01:43:11.000 and stuff like that but I don't know that she's actually looking to promote that message so.

01:43:17.000 Right I don't think she is but there's there's a difference between the words you say and then

01:43:22.000 That's why I said her speech is very anti-feminist in a modern context, but she wholly represents feminism. 0.99

01:43:28.000 When you're debating a conservative Christian woman and saying, what makes you think you have the right to tell your husband how to worship God, and what makes you think you have the right to tell other men how to lead their households?

01:43:40.000 It's like, You're taking a Christian conservative perspective and critique while being a feminist. 0.52

01:43:48.000 I don't even know what her actual beliefs are, though.

01:43:50.000 Like, I know that she says that she's against feminism and wants to see, you know, I guess she's kind of red-pilled. 1.00

01:44:00.000 But other than that, I don't know if she's actually all that religious.

01:44:02.000 Right.

01:44:03.000 It's cultural.

01:44:05.000 And this is why she says things like, during the debate, she was like, I'm going to tell people how to live.

01:44:11.000 She's like, I'm just criticizing these groups, and I'm like, oh, okay, well then, like, you represent feminism well. 0.93

01:44:17.000 Like, the idea that she could be critical of conservative women for not following their moral standards while being a girlbot, like... 0.97

01:44:27.000 I agree with the criticism.

01:44:29.000 I agree with a lot of Pearl's criticisms when she said, like, how many of you here were virgins on your wedding night?

01:44:34.000 And then people are going like, oh, because like conservative Christian women don't really often stand up to those values they claim to because they're not actually ultimately traditional.

01:44:44.000 But then she defaults to when someone says, what's the solution?

01:44:46.000 She goes, I'm not telling anyone what to do. 0.99

01:44:47.000 And it's like, oh, OK, so you're criticizing conservative women because you think they're hypocrites. 0.99

01:44:51.000 Fine. 0.99

01:44:52.000 Fair point.

01:44:52.000 A lot of times they are.

01:44:54.000 And then what does that leave?

01:44:57.000 She's critical of women, she's critical of the feminist hypocrisy, she's critical largely of conservatives right now and how they talk about God and all that, and she is an unmarried 26-year-old professional woman running her own business.

01:45:08.000 Is she trying to get married? 1.00

01:45:11.000 Again, not that I know anything about her personal life or anything.

01:45:13.000 I think the issue is if she was living in practice, this idea of being a traditional mother and a woman, She wouldn't be living that.

01:45:23.000 And so, I believe her position is, this is the way things are, so this is what we do, much like Fresh and Fit.

01:45:29.000 And that's why I'm not saying she's espousing a feminist message. 0.92

01:45:31.000 I'm saying she represents a wave of feminism, and the hopes and dreams of feminists are what she... I'm not saying it's a bad thing. 0.52

01:45:37.000 I'm saying, like, it's interesting.

01:45:40.000 It's an interesting point.

01:45:41.000 Yeah, except that there's been a time, I mean, there's a whole history of women in power that weren't feminists and well before the feminist movement and owned businesses and ran, you know, whatever. 1.00

01:45:56.000 They ran the whole country.

01:45:59.000 They ran empires.

01:46:00.000 If you told a woman in the 70s that there would be, you know, or the 60s, 50s, women

01:46:06.000 as if you described probably like, wow, you know, these feminists would be like, that's 1.00

01:46:10.000 the dream.

01:46:12.000 Criticizing the machine, criticizing the hypocrisy of conservative values, even other women and 0.99

01:46:17.000 being a wealthy, successful, independent woman who doesn't have to get married and have kids 1.00

01:46:21.000 and like.

01:46:22.000 And I think a lot of feminism is viewing the world through the framework of what are the 1.00

01:46:26.000 men doing, right?

01:46:27.000 What do they get to do that we don't get to do?

01:46:29.000 What should we be doing in relationship to the actions they're taking?

01:46:32.000 I mean, it's a very – even though it has the root word feminism, it has female in the name, it's actually very much about men and reacting to them.

01:46:42.000 Yeah, especially third wave when it's about just taking down the patriarchy and all that.

01:46:46.000 And fourth wave being like should we let biological men into our club? 0.76

01:46:50.000 The one thing that I think creates a logical inconsistency for me is Pearl offering up no solutions.

01:46:55.000 Literally, I mean, that was her position, was, I'm not telling anyone how to live, or to live like me.

01:46:59.000 I'm saying, this is just the way things are.

01:47:01.000 And it's like, are you mad about the way things are?

01:47:04.000 Because you contribute to the way things are.

01:47:06.000 Even, like, if you're upset that women are doing certain things that you don't like, that courts favor women, the laws favor women, all of these things are bad, then It's almost paradoxical to be a representation of second-wave feminism.

01:47:22.000 Aside from the fact that she's got a red-pilled message, I don't know exactly what her... I don't know where she's coming from.

01:47:28.000 I don't know if she actually considers herself trad or anything other than just, oh, red-pilled and I think women are whores. 1.00

01:47:37.000 Which is kind of falling short of her stick. 0.99

01:47:39.000 Let's read some more Super Chats. 0.91

01:47:41.000 Pile of Kyle says, all rail and marine shipping ports in South Carolina have been shut down all day due to software issues.

01:47:47.000 Saw a bunch of signs driving down the state for work.

01:47:50.000 This does not appear to be a cyber security issue.

01:47:52.000 Fun.

01:47:54.000 Yeah, a lot of people don't realize that the industrial control systems that a lot of our machines operate on haven't been updated since the 80s.

01:48:02.000 Mm-hmm.

01:48:03.000 And so, like, hacking into them is easy, to put it mildly.

01:48:03.000 Yeah.

01:48:10.000 But I do think that they've been rapidly trying to update this infrastructure and make sure that it doesn't fall apart.

01:48:20.000 But it's like trying to fix a building while you're still working on it, right?

01:48:23.000 It's ever expanding and also you have to go back and maintain it.

01:48:27.000 It's not a job I would want.

01:48:29.000 I mean, look at the power lines.

01:48:30.000 It was a point I heard a long time ago.

01:48:33.000 The power lines, it was a trivia question, what's the oldest operating machine in the United States?

01:48:39.000 The power grid.

01:48:40.000 These power lines were installed, you know, 130 some odd years ago, and we've only done routine maintenance on it.

01:48:47.000 It's the oldest functioning machine that's never been taken down and replaced or restored.

01:48:52.000 There's a fascinating thing with how infrastructure works.

01:48:54.000 In the United States, we invent cell phones.

01:48:56.000 Oh, I don't know that we invented cell phones here, but we build cell infrastructure and we invent and pioneer some of the first networks.

01:49:02.000 I believe the first network, it might be the first network with data, was the IDEN network.

01:49:07.000 And famously we got CDMA and everyone was super excited over the second generation of cell technology and the speed of communications.

01:49:16.000 And then I believe CDMA was, might have been CDMA Plus or something, was the first foray into 3G.

01:49:25.000 2G, we typically refer to a GSM as 2G.

01:49:28.000 And then CDMA was faster.

01:49:31.000 And you could start to get close to like, like 100 kilobits or something like this.

01:49:35.000 It was crazy.

01:49:37.000 When other countries started building their infrastructure, they skipped the CDMA technology and went straight for I believe it was called... GSM.

01:49:46.000 GSM was 2G.

01:49:48.000 After for international stuff?

01:49:51.000 So the GSM standard was upgraded to HSPA plus.

01:49:56.000 HSPA and then HSPA plus.

01:49:58.000 So what happens is we build this technology and we're like look at this great new thing and it cost us hundreds of

01:50:03.000 millions of dollars.

01:50:04.000 Then a foreign country says we want to build cell phones here too.

01:50:07.000 So they go to the American firms and they say, what should we build?

01:50:10.000 We see that you guys have 3G and they go, no, no, no, no, don't build what we have.

01:50:13.000 It took 10 years to build this, the permitting, the contracts.

01:50:16.000 The new thing we're working on is HSP, high-speed packet access.

01:50:20.000 This is going to get you way better speeds, a megabit up and down on your phones.

01:50:23.000 Build this instead.

01:50:25.000 So we wonder why it is internet and cell phone is better in other countries, because they built it after us.

01:50:32.000 I believe for the most part we've dumped CDMA and now we have a global standard which is LTE.

01:50:40.000 What do they call it?

01:50:41.000 3G?

01:50:42.000 It's, yeah.

01:50:43.000 LTE and now 5G, which is, you know, but it's all, it's all basically built off of GSM now.

01:50:50.000 That's like the global standard, global standards, what that means.

01:50:53.000 But it's fascinating that we, we invent this high speed technology.

01:50:56.000 Very few countries actually adopted it.

01:50:58.000 So when I was in Ukraine, they were like, Oh, we're on CDMA.

01:51:01.000 And I'm like, that's so weird.

01:51:02.000 Cause every other country was on GSM.

01:51:05.000 And it mattered a lot if you're trying to do live streams in foreign countries.

01:51:08.000 How fun.

01:51:10.000 All right, anyway, enough nerd talk.

01:51:12.000 Let's read some more.

01:51:14.000 Roto-Rooter says, now we know why President Trump has a reputation for not paying his bills.

01:51:18.000 His underlings are all skimming the payments he tells them to make and then invoicing him for reimbursements plus a small fee.

01:51:25.000 Yep.

01:51:28.000 Yeah.

01:51:28.000 What is that?

01:51:29.000 Joseph says, so long CDMA.

01:51:31.000 Yeah, it's gone now, isn't it?

01:51:33.000 CDMA, I don't know that we use it anymore.

01:51:35.000 LTE came into play and everyone's like, oh man, my favorite was WiMAX.

01:51:40.000 What's that?

01:51:41.000 WiMAX was a short-lived 4G iteration that Sprint launched first, that they said, we have 4G first, fourth generation cell tech.

01:51:51.000 And you could tell them apart because on cell antennas, 3G uses long rectangle antennas, and WiMAX used drums.

01:52:03.000 I used to do all of this crazy cell tech stuff.

01:52:06.000 And then WiMAX just couldn't go anywhere.

01:52:08.000 Short range, crummy, nobody wanted it.

01:52:11.000 Sprint, oof, big mistake.

01:52:14.000 Yeah, now 5G is giving people all the conspiracy theories.

01:52:20.000 All right, Joe Hall says, Marine Corps vet here.

01:52:22.000 Marine Corps vet?

01:52:23.000 Maybe my mind might be messed up, but I always says liked Venture Lowe's.

01:52:31.000 Thoughts, Tim?

01:52:31.000 I don't know what you mean, sir.

01:52:33.000 Anybody understand?

01:52:33.000 It is a thought-provoking message.

01:52:35.000 What does he mean?

01:52:36.000 What does he mean?

01:52:38.000 Sorry, man.

01:52:39.000 Don't know.

01:52:41.000 All right.

01:52:42.000 The Obscene Unicorn says, you missed the opportunity to call your fitness challenge in the Super Chat last night a call to arms.

01:52:48.000 Ha ha! 0.86

01:52:50.000 In the Super Chat last night?

01:52:51.000 Or Friday night?

01:52:53.000 It must be Friday night, huh?

01:52:54.000 Well, other people called it FitCast IRL.

01:52:56.000 I didn't make that up.

01:52:57.000 I just said, everybody should just get as fit as you can by November.

01:53:01.000 And that's the challenge.

01:53:02.000 Because people are always like, what can I do, you know?

01:53:04.000 And it's like, well, the first thing you can do, the easiest thing you can do, without even to think about it, is eat right, track your macros, and get fit, and get healthy.

01:53:11.000 So I always recommend MyFitnessPal because it'll tell you how much you should eat every day.

01:53:15.000 And that's the fascinating thing because you're like, there's a lot of people are like, I don't understand.

01:53:19.000 I eat and you know, I'm not losing weight and I don't know how much I'm supposed to eat or what I'm supposed to do.

01:53:23.000 It's like you download this app, you put in your age, your weight, what you want to weigh.

01:53:28.000 When you want to weigh it by.

01:53:29.000 And then it gives you a list of the food you need to eat every day.

01:53:32.000 It gives you a chart.

01:53:33.000 And then all you got to do is scan the barcode of the food and don't eat more than it tells you.

01:53:39.000 Does it pay for it too?

01:53:40.000 Because that's going to be necessary.

01:53:43.000 Paying for the food?

01:53:43.000 Yeah, because people are unable to buy groceries these days.

01:53:48.000 That's true.

01:53:48.000 But the good news is with shrinkflation, you'll be like, wow, I had three portions of this meal already?

01:53:53.000 I'm losing weight.

01:53:54.000 Yeah.

01:53:55.000 Joe Biden diet.

01:53:58.000 Brian Egan says, Tim, why do you so often pick on Dubuque, Iowa?

01:54:02.000 We love you here.

01:54:03.000 I don't pick on Dubuque, Iowa.

01:54:05.000 I highlight Dubuque as the perfect example of quintessential America.

01:54:09.000 When we're not talking about West Coast potheads and New York Democrat failed policies, when we're talking about your average everyday red-blooded American, I bring up Dubuque, Iowa as your quintessentially middle American town.

01:54:28.000 It's the perfect, it's the perfect city for it.

01:54:30.000 I've been there a couple of times.

01:54:32.000 Have fun.

01:54:36.000 All right.

01:54:37.000 Sam Whiter says, shout out to my loving wife, Brittany, who was pregnant with our first child.

01:54:41.000 Even with all this chaos going on in the world, she is the brightest part of my life.

01:54:48.000 She is, they are, he says.

01:54:50.000 Did you guys see that Argentina Coca-Cola commercial?

01:54:53.000 Going super viral?

01:54:55.000 So I'm assuming it's new.

01:54:58.000 I'll describe it to you, but we'll play it on the after show, because wow, I can't believe you haven't seen it.

01:55:03.000 So it's a guy and a woman, and then she walks in the room and she holds him a pregnancy test,

01:55:06.000 and they're like, yay! And then they hug and kiss. And then it blinks, and then they're holding the

01:55:11.000 new baby, and they bought all the stuff, and they're smiling. And then it's like, scenes of

01:55:15.000 all of the frustrations. The kid pulls the tablecloth down, knocking all the groceries and

01:55:20.000 all the food on the floor. Then the guy like, opens one of his vinyl records, and it's covered in goop.

01:55:25.000 And then he's sitting in his living room trying to work, and the kid's kicking his head,

01:55:28.000 and he's got this look on his face as he's getting hit.

01:55:31.000 And then the wife walks in with a tray of food, puts it down, and looks at him with this look on her face, and holds up a pregnancy test. 1.00

01:55:36.000 And then he looks forward and starts going, aaah, yeah!

01:55:40.000 And then he runs up, and they both smile, and he hugs her.

01:55:43.000 And so for a split second, you think he's going to be frustrated with his kid, but then he's super excited!

01:55:47.000 that they're having another one and then it's like Coca-Cola is love is life or

01:55:51.000 whatever in Spanish. Wow. Yeah and everyone's praising this amazing

01:55:55.000 marketing from Coca-Cola that they did not put in the United States.

01:55:58.000 Well first of course they didn't put in the United States.

01:56:01.000 The United States doesn't cultivate a family that loves culture or a culture that loves family.

01:56:06.000 Right.

01:56:07.000 But it is interesting because this is – I mean I remember traveling in Turkey and I – at the time, one of my little sisters was very, very, very small, like stroller age, infant in lap kind of thing.

01:56:16.000 And everyone would come up to her and be like, oh, she's beautiful and it's just a – it's such a different attitude and I think that's really important for young people right now to know that like If you're surrounded by a community that's like, hey, having kids is good and we're excited for you and we'll be there with you, it's such a different attitude going into something that of course is challenging and frustrating and probably at times not super glamorous or fun, but ultimately like it is an important investment in your culture, in your life's future.

01:56:42.000 That commercial is A++ from Coca-Cola and we should start a boycott campaign to demand they bring that commercial here.

01:56:54.000 It's like for a split second you think the guy is like, noooo, but he's actually super excited and happy that he's having another kid.

01:57:01.000 I don't imagine that that kind of commercial or advertisement is going to be in the United States anytime soon, especially considering the reaction.

01:57:09.000 Then I'm going to make it.

01:57:09.000 Well then, there you go, Tim.

01:57:11.000 For Coke.

01:57:12.000 No, no, no.

01:57:12.000 The reaction that Buckner got, right?

01:57:14.000 No, no, no, no.

01:57:14.000 Okay, Casper.

01:57:15.000 There you go.

01:57:16.000 Casper Coffee, if Coke does not make the commercial.

01:57:18.000 You're doing that.

01:57:19.000 Give him a time limit.

01:57:21.000 We will make a very similar one.

01:57:23.000 For Casper coffee.

01:57:24.000 And then the baby will have coffee and we'll be drinking it.

01:57:28.000 And we'll be like, he was happy because now he can share coffee with his baby.

01:57:32.000 I think you could do something like that, because a lot of women don't drink coffee during pregnancy. 1.00

01:57:36.000 Like, the first cup of coffee she has after delivering their baby, you get the shot in the hospital where they're all happy, and he, like, brings her a cup of Casper coffee.

01:57:43.000 Adorable.

01:57:44.000 Trevor Ritsky.

01:57:45.000 This is a really good point.

01:57:46.000 He says, honestly, it seems Michael Cohen was the one to sleep with Stormy Daniels.

01:57:51.000 He took a home equity loan to pay off a porn star specifically so his wife wouldn't know, and then he stole money from his employer in order to pay that loan back.

01:57:58.000 I gotta agree!

01:57:59.000 That's hilarious.

01:58:00.000 And then she was like, I'll just say it was Trump.

01:58:02.000 And he's like, okay, well leave me out of it.

01:58:04.000 For real, that does actually make a lot more sense.

01:58:07.000 Like the story is weird.

01:58:08.000 It doesn't add up properly.

01:58:09.000 Yeah.

01:58:11.000 Well, there you go.

01:58:13.000 That's the real story, guys.

01:58:16.000 WG5 says, I'm one of the LP delegates from California.

01:58:18.000 Flying out tomorrow.

01:58:19.000 Can't wait for this weekend.

01:58:21.000 Yeah, thank you, man.

01:58:22.000 Memorial Day weekend.

01:58:23.000 A great choice.

01:58:25.000 This weekend, it's going to be the craziest party ever.

01:58:28.000 It is going to be wild.

01:58:30.000 How does it work with tickets?

01:58:31.000 Uh, there's different, uh, ticket packages, so, uh, there's, uh, there's press passage, of course, and you also have, uh, tickets to different events, like, uh, the different speakers, and, and so forth.

01:58:46.000 I think, uh, I'm pretty sure Luke's gonna be there.

01:58:48.000 He'll be joining us.

01:58:48.000 Yes, Luke will be there.

01:58:49.000 Yeah, Luke will be there joining us for the show.

01:58:51.000 Uh, Clint will be there, of course.

01:58:54.000 Yes, Clint will be there.

01:58:55.000 I, I, I mean, he's, he's running.

01:58:57.000 He's running.

01:58:57.000 Is he the only VP candidate?

01:58:59.000 Uh, there's, there are a couple others who seem not to be, rather nondescript.

01:59:04.000 Who knows who they are?

01:59:05.000 Just keep your clothes on, boys.

01:59:06.000 Keep your clothes on.

01:59:07.000 So it seems like it's going to be the VP choice.

01:59:09.000 Uh, it looks good.

01:59:11.000 All right.

01:59:11.000 Michael Malz, press secretary.

01:59:13.000 That's all that matters.

01:59:14.000 Yeah.

01:59:16.000 I think you can't miss this weekend.

01:59:18.000 I mean, I feel like everyone's going to be there.

01:59:20.000 Well, it's in D.C., so already all of the D.C.

01:59:23.000 politicos you know and love are probably going to show up.

01:59:25.000 Considering Trump said he was going to be there, tons of conservatives are going to be showing up.

01:59:29.000 It's going to be wild.

01:59:31.000 It's a real great opportunity for the party, too.

01:59:35.000 Oh, yeah.

01:59:36.000 Excellent move.

01:59:37.000 They won't invite you to their party.

01:59:39.000 We'll invite them to ours.

01:59:40.000 There's two ways to skin a cat. 0.97

01:59:43.000 All right, Aaron says, love the show, know you aren't a Christian, but how can you overlook over the 2,000 prophecies that have come to pass from the Bible?

01:59:52.000 Read Revelation, check out chapter 18, USA is Babylon, these things will happen, get your hearts and minds right.

01:59:57.000 Oh, there's more, and I forgot to add, serve Lord Jesus Christ.

02:00:01.000 There it was, the next super chat.

02:00:04.000 Um, because I've talked to tons of people, even on this show, and one of my favorite subjects, eschatology, and they all have different answers.

02:00:13.000 I mean, no one really knows.

02:00:15.000 So, you know, I don't know what to tell you.

02:00:17.000 I do think, we had this really great discussion on the Members Only show last week.

02:00:22.000 about the existence of God, and what I was saying is I think a lot of atheists conflate religion and God instead of the idea that God could exist outside of religion, and that religions just give sort of a quantified rule-set moral structure and, I guess, canon around their faith and their religion and why it exists.

02:00:44.000 Even if the Jews are wrong, or the Muslims are wrong, the Christians are wrong, or the Hellenistic Odinists are wrong, or whatever, God could still exist and everyone could be wrong.

02:00:55.000 All right, let's see if we can grab one more real quick.

02:00:59.000 Dom says Pearl is the other side of the Hasan Abi coin. 0.77

02:01:03.000 I wouldn't know what that coin is.

02:01:10.000 Oh, here's a good one.

02:01:11.000 I gotta read this one.

02:01:12.000 Yes!

02:01:12.000 We are all participants in a republicanist form of government, and that's why the actions of the modern few are different from what they represent.

02:01:16.000 is like calling college students Republicans, because they vote for representatives.

02:01:20.000 Yes, we are all participants in a republicanist form of government. And that's why the actions of

02:01:29.000 the modern few are different from what they represent, like what, like, this is my point.

02:01:33.000 The the the people who are these like college students, who actually go out and vote,

02:01:42.000 trying to burn the system down are still participating in a republicanist form of government.

02:01:48.000 That doesn't mean they're Republicans, right?

02:01:51.000 Just because they're voting.

02:01:52.000 But in the core sense of the moral philosophy and the government structure, yes, they are.

02:01:56.000 My point about Pearl is that she doesn't have, like Phil was saying, like, what is her actual position?

02:02:02.000 She says, I'm not telling anyone how to live.

02:02:05.000 I'm not telling you to live like me.

02:02:07.000 Here's what I think is wrong with the system.

02:02:08.000 And I'm like, okay, so this is, if you were a communist saying, I want to destroy the system and I'm going to vote in ways that destroy it.

02:02:15.000 It's like, okay, I get it.

02:02:16.000 If you said, I'm a conservative woman and I'm going to be hosting a show so I can burn it all to the ground and weaponize them against it. 0.99

02:02:21.000 I get it.

02:02:22.000 If you say, I don't have a position.

02:02:24.000 No one should live like me.

02:02:25.000 I'm just going to call these women. 1.00

02:02:26.000 I say, this is a feminist disposition criticizing hypocrisy and conservative, uh, Christian women, as well as many modern third and fourth wave feminists. 0.61

02:02:35.000 So it's a second wave, nondescript feminist, in practice, targeting the hypocrisies of modern feminism and the failures of conservative Christian women. 0.81

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