On this week's episode of Tales from the Inverted world, we discuss the latest in the Trump/Dani Trump saga, the GameStop stock surge, and the latest on the Ashley Biden diary. Plus, a new podcast hosted by Shane Cashman and Alex Ayala.
00:00:48.000CNN's Fareed Zakaria said this criminal trial against Trump would not be brought against anyone if their name was not Donald Trump.
00:00:57.000And even Bill Maher has now surfaced an old interview with Stormy Daniels where she contradicts herself and even Bill Maher is calling her a liar.
00:01:15.000And some say it's because the internet user named RoaringKitty has returned.
00:01:20.000Well, we already have a SuperChatter saying, actually, this is because there were a bunch of calls made a while ago, and this is actually predictable.
00:04:15.000I wonder if there's any other, you know, I was mentioning this before the show, our generation had the big skateboard boom, so it's no surprise that as we're getting older, you're going to start to see the hobby and the sport, you know, of skateboarding entering Congress.
00:04:31.000I mean, people in Congress play basketball, they play football.
00:04:33.000Yeah, no, I mean, I think you're going to see a lot more people that skate.
00:04:36.000And I mean, I, you know, I don't know if I can do this or not, but I'd love to start like a, you know, a skateboarder caucus, something like that.
00:05:27.000I had to choose the news source that not only referenced the 100,000 number but also insulted Joe Biden because we are very biased here at Timcast.
00:05:40.000Donald Trump recited all his greatest hits at a massive Saturday evening rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, but managed to avoid violating his court-imposed gag order by focusing on President Biden, whom he called a total moron, and blamed for his web of legal troubles.
00:05:54.000Trump wearing his typical blue shirt, I'm sorry, blue suit, blood red tie, and Make America Great Again cap Railed about inflation, offshore windmills, electric cars, the press, and Chris Christie.
00:06:06.000But unsurprisingly, it was Biden who drew the most intense vitriol.
00:06:30.000What I will say is we're getting all of these signs and signals that Donald Trump is on track to win bigly.
00:06:36.000The question is, I'd imagine that there's going to be some sort of shadow campaign.
00:06:40.000And, you know, I'm not so sure that we should just sit here and rest on our laurels just yet.
00:06:47.000I think that's the problem with a lot of Republican voters, right?
00:06:50.000They're easy to say like, oh, Joe Biden's so bad and inflation's awful, you know, of course Trump is going to win.
00:06:56.000But the reality is that you have to go to the polls, right?
00:06:59.000And the other part is that, you know, if you had a Trump presidency, if you're really looking to see the reawakening of conservative values or America First values in this country, you would need to also support, you know, those Beliefs and policies, down tickets, so you have to be able to vote for Senate, Congress, you know, everyone in your local level.
00:07:17.000It's so easy during a presidential election year to just say, like, oh, yes, these two guys are running when actually, I mean, you're the best person to talk about this.
00:08:21.000Please, people, be politically engaged because they're going to do everything they can on their side to try to make this thing difficult for us.
00:08:29.000I mean, I think that's why you see the hyperfixation on abortion, on these issues that are not getting the same attention that the mainstream everyday kitchen table issues have, right?
00:08:38.000Like, how much your grocery bill pay- how much your grocery bill is really makes a difference to the voter.
00:08:44.000Being able to say, well, I was the president who, you know, what- My vice president toured an abortion facility.
00:08:52.000I feel like the Democrats are already campaigning uphill because the economy is so bad and that's such a number one issue.
00:08:59.000But on top of that, the things that they are alternatively trying to direct to aren't as motivating in terms of getting voter turnout as, you know, some other issues.
00:09:15.000So, I don't know if I'm reading into that too much.
00:09:17.000It would be an interesting VP pick because I know there's been whispers about that.
00:09:20.000Yeah, now there has been whispers about that, but to me, I think the person who makes the most sense to be the VP nomination for Donald Trump is J.D.
00:11:09.000Obviously, we're going to win Ohio anyway.
00:11:11.000But point being, look, Trump has one term here that he's going to do.
00:11:16.000We have to have a succession plan because there is going to be an empire strikes back moment where the establishment and the neocons are going to try to take it back.
00:11:27.000They're gonna try to bring in a... It'll be a pseudo-MAGA candidate.
00:11:33.000Someone you think will try and fit into the MAGA mold, but slowly drift into Uniparty mold.
00:11:40.000Or at the very least, get elected and then go full Uniparty.
00:11:43.000Was Nikki Haley the only person he officially ruled out?
00:12:13.000And so the building we're in is not a legitimate Faraday cage, but it basically acts like one because your phone doesn't work inside the building.
00:12:22.000But it does a little bit, so I think what may be happening is that in the room, the phones, when the signal gets weak, it blasts.
00:13:39.000For me, the best way to deter against a potential, you know, usurper of the MAGA legacy would be if there was a clear understanding of what the future momentum of the MAGA movement would be, right?
00:13:50.000Because ultimately, without one defined leader, you know, when Trump can no longer be in office, It's going to inevitably fracture into different interest groups.
00:14:00.000One of the best things about it right now is there's a cohesive rallying point.
00:14:03.000And even with all the trials and everything that he's in, ultimately people look to Trump as like the way forward through the mess that we are in.
00:14:09.000And if people felt that way in 2016, but now given the state that Joe Biden has left the country, it's even more so, right?
00:14:46.000During his election, which was not popular, and he took He had a lot of guts coming out like that and took the risk because he thought it was the right thing.
00:14:57.000And that is where, it turns out, a lot of the electorate is, actually.
00:15:02.000So, I mean, I think that's what you want.
00:16:54.000But he recently tweeted at me, I just gotta reach out, he said, Trump truthed Nikki Haley is not under consideration.
00:17:00.000And Will said, looks like you've won this one, name the charity, and so we'll figure it out.
00:17:05.000But I don't think it's fair to say the charity bet is over, because just because Trump said she's not under consideration doesn't mean it's not the case, and we're all hoping it's not the case.
00:17:14.000We're hoping he's serious when he says no to Nikki Haley.
00:17:29.000I believe in salvation and people coming to the light and they found the light and that's good.
00:17:34.000You know, I'm not into cancel culture and saying, well, they said this, that, that, not saying you are, you're not, but you know, we get that sometimes with Republicans where it's like, oh, well, they said this along.
00:17:44.000I don't care what they said a long time ago.
00:17:46.000I, you know, they're, they're where they need to be now.
00:17:49.000And I think JD has been a great advocate for the American first movement.
00:18:56.000And you even had an MSNBC, a legal analyst, defending Trump's team because Stormy Daniels is so bad.
00:19:04.000They said that Stormy Daniels basically turned this into a sexual assault case, which has prejudiced the jury.
00:19:11.000And it's shocking that it's being allowed.
00:19:13.000I'm like, When CNN and MSNBC are defending Trump, we don't need Nikki Haley for Unity, right?
00:19:19.000We've got Unity now because they've gone so sour with these, they've screwed these trials up so miserably.
00:19:28.000Everyone's seemingly being forced to defend Donald Trump.
00:19:30.000But I just want to say I love that we're in the moment where everybody, everybody, probably not everybody, a lot of people were Trump supporters from day one.
00:19:37.000But for a lot of those holdouts, you know, me included, we had those stop making me defend Trump moments where Trump would come out and say something like, you know, we're gonna we're gonna secure the border and we're gonna make sure we Deal with this properly because these cartels, these people are animals.
00:19:55.000I'm telling you, the people come and they're animals.
00:19:57.000And then the left comes out and says Trump calls immigrants and calls refugees animals.
00:20:02.000And then I'm like, no, no, look, he's talking about the cartels.
00:20:06.000Like, stop making me defend him, okay?
00:20:09.000Now we're at the point where CNN and MSNBC are in the, please, no, like, stop making me defend Trump phase, which means give them six months and they'll be Trump supporters.
00:20:18.000Well, storytelling is interesting because initially they're like, she's so brave.
00:20:22.000And initially, like the first, I would say 12 hours of coverage, they're like, she got at all these great points.
00:20:27.000And then, you know, the further we got away from her testimony, the more and more people were like, actually, this could be a major issue on appeal that she prejudiced the jury.
00:20:34.000Actually, she really couldn't rein herself in.
00:20:36.000Actually, she said way more than the prosecutors wanted her to say.
00:20:39.000And I think you're seeing this every time they put up a new witness in this case.
00:20:43.000They're like, This is the star witness.
00:20:59.000You know, he's convicted of tax evasion.
00:21:02.000Like, it's not a great cast of characters for the prosecution there.
00:21:06.000This is a serious issue, I believe, for the Joe Biden campaign, because they're actually big fans of Vareed Zakaria, which kind of represents, like, the median Democrat.
00:21:14.000And for him to, like, plainly and nakedly see that this is political and publicly say so, I think is a serious issue for Democrats.
00:21:21.000Did you hear about Jen Psaki's lie in her book?
00:21:25.000Where she said Biden did not check his watch at the—was it a funeral or was it a memorial?
00:21:35.000And she said in her book he didn't check his watch, it was fake news, and then... And cited an article that said he checked his watch while the bodies were being unloaded.
00:21:44.000My view here is, MSNBC, these Democrat media-aligned people, they want to lie to you.
00:22:07.000A lot of stupid people do believe it, but they're at a point where they're like, guys, look, we can slip a lot past these dumb viewers, but this one's not going to fly.
00:22:52.000They want to make him seem like an adulterer.
00:22:55.000But they've been doing this for so long, and I'm surprised that they haven't understood that this isn't an effective message.
00:23:03.000They're just rehashing the Stormy Daniels stuff.
00:23:04.000We've already done all the Stormy Daniels stuff.
00:23:07.000When Cohen was on trial today, they were talking about, you know, that it would have been devastating if the story came out because Trump would have lost among women.
00:23:14.000But he went on to win that election and also is, you know, as far as I can tell, it's not really the major thing that turns women off.
00:23:26.000Feel very strongly about Stormy Daniels.
00:23:29.000She's the representation of all of us.
00:23:31.000That's who I want the moral hierarchy to be.
00:23:33.000I think you look at the case, though, and the fact that it's taken this long, as Trump stated, I think it was today, it's four weeks he's not been able to campaign.
00:23:42.000When you look at the case and there's no real criminal charge here, none of it makes sense.
00:24:27.000It's just convenient timing for them, just like Tim's saying, to try to hobble them in his election.
00:24:31.000But Trump Look, he is a genius when it comes to the media and just flipped it right on his head and he's just holding a press conference right in front of me.
00:25:01.000But imagine if Trump said just abruptly at the last minute, Madison Square Garden rally on like the last week of the trial and the last day right after he gets out of court.
00:25:21.000You know one of the ones that hit for me too is that he was either coming out of court or into it and he stopped and talked to all the labor union guys there in New York and they're like, yeah, what about Trump?
00:25:32.000Yeah, he brought pizzas to the firemen.
00:25:33.000What's a little bit shocking about the most recent Trump rallies too is that it doesn't have as much vitriol from the left as they used to.
00:25:41.000There aren't these protests outside all of his rallies like there was coming up on 2016.
00:25:45.000I've been to like a half dozen of them.
00:25:47.000I'm constantly looking for protesters, but there are none.
00:25:52.000But it's interesting, too, because the Democrats are dealing constantly with protesters at their left flank.
00:25:58.000The Joe Biden campaign is constantly screening people coming to his campaign rallies because they don't want viral videos of him being yelled at by Palestine protesters.
00:26:05.000So it's just interesting seeing how that plays out.
00:26:08.000Yeah, I think there's completely different energies coming from the two campaigns, and Trump's is sort of gaining momentum in a positive way whether you like him or not, and Joe Biden's is constantly hitting these roadblocks because the sort of most intense people in their demographic, what I would say, are young progressive voters who feel like they are called to activism over everything else.
00:26:28.000You know, instead of rallying for Biden, they are prepared to rally against him.
00:26:31.000I don't know if you saw all the videos of people walking out of college protests over the weekend because they were, you know, waving flags or doing whatever.
00:26:38.000Like, in another universe, these people would have been like, we can't have Trump.
00:26:43.000And instead, they're like divided on this major issue, meaning they are separated from their parties.
00:26:48.000They're protesting at their graduations for Palestine, not that, oh, Trump's a threat to democracy and, oh, Trump's a fascist and the world's going to end because of it.
00:26:55.000And I'll tell you this, I bet there will not be very big protests at the RNC in Milwaukee.
00:27:39.000They're going to boo tons of people at the convention.
00:27:42.000Progressive activists who are the Democratic Party are going to be screaming about Palestine.
00:27:46.000I was going to make a joke that by having him in the basement, they can pull his skin back and hook him up to an IV so that he can be functioning during the duration of it.
00:27:55.000This is also what happened during COVID.
00:27:56.000So they have the framework to have a virtual convention.
00:28:00.000They already have the It's happened before, so... I mean, the world in which Biden functions right now, he himself as a person, at the end of the day, a presidential election, like any election, my election, anybody's, people are hiring you to do a job.
00:28:17.000He couldn't get hired right now to be a greeter at Walmart.
00:28:20.000He wouldn't be able to complete the sentences.
00:30:22.000Yeah, look, yes, Trump is older, but, you know, I mean, his current state physically and mentally is vastly different than Joe Biden.
00:30:35.000Let's jump to the story from the New York Post.
00:30:37.000Bill Maher dredges up 2018 Stormy Daniels interview that totally undermines her Trump trial testimony.
00:30:44.000What's wild about this is that you've basically got Bill Maher, who hates Donald Trump, has Trump derangement syndrome, defending Donald Trump.
00:30:54.000Look, okay, you got Fareed Zakaria, you got MSNBC's legal analysts, and now you've got Bill Maher, and they're all being forced to defend Trump.
00:32:56.000It's kind of like Stormy Bob, Bob Stormy.
00:33:00.000It's amazing that even when Bill Maher is basically saying she's lying, they're still trying to att- Yeah, but she was subjected to Donald Trump.
00:33:15.000Because at the time, he was a billionaire Reality TV celebrity real estate tycoon at every party with his name on all of these buildings around the world.
00:34:00.000A lot of the time when there isn't any evidence of rape or sexual assault, I find that, I don't know if to call them activists or not, they go back to this buzzword power imbalance.
00:34:11.000And it's not well defined, but I mean, if Donald Trump has sex with anybody, isn't it a power imbalance?
00:34:17.000Just you see that buzzword a lot and when there isn't any Smoking gun, that's what they'll go back to and that you know It's Donald Trump of having sex with Stormy Daniels because and the power imbalance existing.
00:34:29.000So well, she's changed her mind like four or five times Yeah, she admitted in court that she signed that letter stating like there was no affair.
00:34:36.000I don't believe that it even happened The crime is that not not it was the because it was a FEC violation for not- and then the case back that happened.
00:34:57.000Well, I think what they're alleging the crime is that he was getting... Donald Trump was paying Michael Cohen... Yeah, so they're saying he falsified his payments to Michael Cohen.
00:35:10.000That, I think, would be a misdemeanor in New York, except now they're saying it's a felony because he did it to cover up another crime, which they're saying is election interference.
00:35:18.000But they don't have to actually charge him with that, and they don't have to prove it, really.
00:35:48.000Yeah, so he started- the idea is that he started authorizing them beforehand, but then they were made in like installments and they went through when he was in office in the White House.
00:35:55.000So they brought in like his secretary to be like, did you hand him these letters?
00:35:58.000And she was like, sure, because it's the mail that was for him.
00:36:51.000Yeah, so the idea is like she went to the media and was like, I have this story.
00:36:55.000And so they worked with the National Enquirer to be like, we'll buy the rights to the story
00:36:59.000from you so that then they can hold it and they never print it.
00:37:02.000But then the National Enquirer publisher was like, I already did this for someone else, a different playboy model, who, by the way, from what I'm remembering of the numbers, got more money than Stormy Daniels?
00:37:10.000Like, it doesn't really make sense other than the fact that they were like, When you're in an election year, theoretically, any of these women come forward, say anything, and it's actually faster, not that this is great, but like, it's faster to just pay them to go away, but that doesn't actually admit that there was anything there.
00:37:25.000It's that they have the ability to damage your reputation and you have the money to make it quiet.
00:37:29.000It's like LBJ, you know, said back in the day, you know, and this is, I'm paraphrasing the quote, but you know, he'd want to ask his opponent, when did you stop beating your wife?
00:38:14.000I can't speak to all of Trump's personal activities.
00:38:16.000I can just say this is not someone the public looks at and is like, I really believe her.
00:38:19.000I don't know that it actually matters at this point.
00:38:21.000I think the bigger picture here is just that Bill Maher Fareed Zakaria, MSNBC's legal analysts, they're all saying like, this is bunk.
00:38:33.000On MSNBC, they were saying that this is just prejudice to the jury.
00:38:36.000Trump's gonna win an appeal in two seconds.
00:38:41.000If you go to court, here's the example that I gave earlier in the day.
00:38:45.000If guy A is accused of kicking guy B's dog, you've got like simple assault or something.
00:38:51.000I don't know if they would charge for that, but you know, he attacked the guy.
00:38:55.000You can't in the courtroom mention that the dude accused of kicking the dog had previously served jail time for mail fraud.
00:39:02.000Because it prejudices the jury against him, even though it has no relevance to whether he kicked the dog or not, it's not evidence, it just makes him look bad, so they want to say he must be a criminal.
00:39:10.000So they usually say you can't bring that up, that's nothing to do with this trial.
00:39:14.000The fact that in a court hearing about falsified documents, Stormy is effectively accusing Trump of rape, turning it into a Me Too case, has absolutely prejudiced the jury.
00:39:23.000But there's some reports saying that Trump was fuming, he was muttering to himself the whole time, like basically saying she was a liar and this is ridiculous.
00:39:30.000This is exactly what Trump's team wants.
00:39:32.000And this is what MSNBC is pointing out.
00:39:34.000They're saying, fantastic, by refusing to sustain the objections to this and do anything about it, Trump's going to file an appeal and they're going to say the jury was prejudiced with this testimony.
00:39:48.000The appeals court's going to say, oh absolutely.
00:39:52.000Which says to me, the goal of this trial is to hobble Trump and take up his time and just try to run his name through the mud as much as they can.
00:40:04.000Yeah, I mean, it's the same strategy again, too.
00:40:06.000It's like, we heard this Stormy Daniels story, give us something new.
00:40:08.000Yeah, and again, now all these theoretical details are out, I don't think it affected anything, right?
00:40:14.000If the whole thing was to keep her from being able to talk about the whatever alleged encounter they had, and now it's on trial, but actually everyone is sympathetic to Trump because she's not trustworthy, what did this actually achieve for anyone other than maybe giving Stormy Daniels 15 more minutes of fame?
00:40:29.000Yeah, and to be fair here, it's a little...
00:40:31.000Tough to, in the public eye, Me Too Donald Trump with a porn star.
00:40:48.000Ashley Biden officially confirms her diary where she talks about showers with her dad.
00:40:53.000Joe Biden is real, an emotional letter to judge.
00:40:56.000And I wanted to pull up the Gateway Pundit because they actually reported the news.
00:41:01.000But I'm going to throw it to our good friends over at Snopes.
00:41:04.000who updated their article titled, Did Ashley Biden accused Joe Biden of inappropriate behavior
00:41:10.000in a leaked diary? Quote, I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal
00:41:15.000can be viewed online. Ashley Biden wrote to a district court judge. Wow. True. On April 29,
00:41:21.0002024, Snopes changed the rating of this fact check from unproven to true
00:41:25.000based on testimony provided by Ashley Biden.
00:41:27.000In an April 8th letter to a New York judge requesting jail time for one of the two people convicted of stealing her diary, Biden wrote, which I just read, I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online, Previous versions of this fact check noted strong evidence the diary existed, but argued that no source had authenticated the contents of the pages published online, writing that the authenticity of photographs reported to be from a diary is a separate question from the factual existence of a diary.
00:41:52.000My response to that, Snopes, is there's no proof Donald Trump had any classified documents.
00:42:26.000The corporate press was screaming to the high heavens, no, no.
00:42:29.000While it may be true that some woman did have it, gave it to Project Veritas, who gave it to National File, and National File did report on it, the images they published may be fake.
00:43:10.000I mean, I can understand we're having your personal diary, talking about, like, you know, what seem like very traumatic times in your life.
00:43:16.000You know, on the internet, that's not fun.
00:43:18.000On the other hand, again, Why is the Biden family always the victim, yet also somehow everyone is responsible for everything that happens to them?
00:43:27.000She should have brought the diary to a computer repair store first, and then the computer repair store could have been like, it was left here by someone.
00:43:36.000Well, and I'll say this, you know, for her is... I feel terrible for her.
00:44:06.000And it's obviously, I mean, it's corroborated his, in my view, long history of illegal sexual behavior.
00:44:17.000Yeah, I mean, look, this is a guy on camera who's sniffing little kids one too many times.
00:44:22.000And then you hear this in the diary where she says that she thinks she may have been sexualized at a young age, or she was, and that she took showers with her dad.
00:44:51.000Otherwise, the other parts of her diary that I remember seeing are like, she's talking about her marriage being chaotic, having substance issues.
00:44:58.000Hunter has also famously struggled with addictions.
00:45:01.000Aside from everything else, these children of Joe Biden clearly have a lot of emotional and psychological baggage they're dealing with.
00:45:08.000A lot of Americans do struggle with these things.
00:45:11.000It's just interesting because you look at this family, and they're supposed to be the representation of the first family, and we say, Joe Biden's such a family man, he likes all his granddaughters or else, and it's like, all of the family around you is in chaos.
00:45:22.000Like, something seems wrong here, you know?
00:45:25.000There is a question, though, and it's public right to know.
00:45:31.000So first and foremost, it's like, look, if you find someone's private diary, it doesn't matter if they're a public figure or not.
00:45:36.000You shouldn't try and sell it to make money.
00:45:39.000But there's a question of, you know, this guy, Joe Biden, wants to be president.
00:45:43.000And if there's documented evidence from a victimized family member of, or I should say potentially victimized family member, then is there a public need to know that this is the case?
00:45:54.000And so I suppose here it's actually pretty clean cut.
00:46:05.000If she handed it off to a journalist for nothing, and then it'd be an interesting question of someone found a diary that makes allegations against the man trying to be president, accusing him of potentially assaulting children.
00:46:18.000Maybe that's something a journalist should figure out.
00:46:21.000But then if you try to sell it to him, it sounds like you just stole property and you're selling it for money.
00:46:27.000So you're mentioning, you know, it's horrible for her.
00:46:31.000But I'm curious, what do you think about that?
00:46:34.000I mean, maybe it's not fair at all to say, but is there some kind of like public need to know when it's someone trying to become president about what his behaviors may be?
00:46:43.000Yeah, I mean, like, when you're talking about somebody who's potentially preyed on their own kids or done something inappropriate like this, I mean, that's certainly a discussion.
00:46:53.000Then that, coupled with these accusations of what he had done as a United States senator as well, that, remember, those just disappeared.
00:47:04.000I think that is a conversation to have.
00:47:06.000We're certainly having it in court right now about Donald Trump.
00:47:11.000You know, I mean, I think it's a fair conversation to have.
00:47:14.000And, you know, look, you just mentioned right now, you know, you got his kids having substance abuse issues and obviously a lot of emotional distress and baggage and things of that nature.
00:47:27.000I can't imagine being in a position where it's like, yeah, I can go run for president.
00:47:32.000When your whole life, I mean, the things you're supposed to care about the most, I mean, I got kids.
00:47:38.000And just being like, oh, their lives are falling apart.
00:47:44.000When you look at how messed up Hunter is, when you look at the things that Ashley's writing and the things she's described in her life, I'm like, this sounds like children who are traumatized.
00:47:51.000And then you look at the behaviors of Joe Biden and you can make assumptions.
00:47:55.000You can you can sort of make assumptions what you think there.
00:47:57.000So I wonder what happened to his kids based on what they allegedly call him.
00:48:03.000And now they have serious drug and, you know, substance abuse problems.
00:48:08.000He seems like a pretty, pretty bad guy.
00:48:13.000It's also hard because, you know, again, it's obviously we're going to contrast him to Trump, right?
00:48:17.000And people will go after Trump saying like, oh, he said stuff about Ivanka or like he's got he's been married three times or whatever it is.
00:48:32.000And even the children that were from different marriages, from all I can see from the outside, appear to have some pretty positive relationships.
00:48:39.000It doesn't seem like this internal chaos where one of them is like, Leaving his marriage to then be with his brother's widow.
00:48:47.000Like, it's very chaotic in the Biden household.
00:48:50.000And the Trump in comparison is like, again, no families are perfect.
00:48:55.000But like, if we had to pick a first family right now, I don't think we'd pick Biden.
00:48:59.000I think the issue at hand here is the double standard, because if it was one of Trump's kids who lost his diary or lost his laptop and it was leaked to one of these news organizations, I don't think anybody would be calling it, like, they would all believe it.
00:49:45.000And it's, you know, look, there's been widely reported you got, you know, Hunter marrying his brother's, getting together with his brother's widow.
00:49:53.000And I mean, it's just like... Remember the WikiLeaks thing with Don Jr?
00:49:57.000Where it was like, they misreported the date of the email that he got to make it seem like he had advanced knowledge of WikiLeaks releases?
00:50:30.000He's like a, man, it's like the Burisma thing just makes me feel like Hunter is just some used and abused tool for his dad to basically operate as his proxy in these business affairs.
00:50:41.000And then it's funny because you look at the Trump family and like you were saying, they're like well-adjusted, normal people.
00:50:47.000I like to bring this up all the time, like if you saw Don Jr.
00:50:49.000just like out walking around, you wouldn't know the difference between him and any other regular dude just walking around.
00:50:53.000There's no nothing, you know, and I mean this respectfully, he's a very regular, normal dude.
00:51:16.000And not to beat a dead horse with Joe Biden's family issues, but I think it goes underreported that Hunter Biden has another child that Joe Biden doesn't acknowledge.
00:51:47.000This is like 15 years away from being a Game of Thrones storyline.
00:51:51.000There was this thing because they were going back and forth and there was like a lot of press coverage.
00:51:55.000I was really interested in this because I think the family is one of the most important structures that we have as a society and community.
00:52:01.000And so again, all families have issues.
00:52:35.000So when you are looking up like Joe Biden's youngest grandchild, that's the one that's going to come up as a little boy.
00:52:40.000And again, When he was finally through negotiating this arbitration over this poor kid's child support, Jill and Joe Biden suddenly were like, well, we love all of them, including Navy, this little girl.
00:52:53.000It's so opportunistic, and I just think this is not the message we want to send to children in America, that when your parents acknowledge you, or if they do, it's totally at their will.
00:53:04.000Yeah, I mean, look, Biden's thirst and hunger for power has probably destroyed his family, unfortunately.
00:53:11.000I mean, if anybody was going through a situation like this, they'd say, you know what, time out, you know, I need to go focus on my family.
00:53:25.000We got huge news from Reclaim the Net.
00:53:28.000Rumble files billion-dollar lawsuit against Google for lost ad revenue and exploiting ad tech dominance.
00:53:36.000Rumble escalates its battle against Google with a groundbreaking $1 billion lawsuit challenging the tech giant's alleged monopolistic maneuvers in the ad tech landscape.
00:53:44.000Before I even read the article, I want to show you the opening paragraph here from their lawsuit.
00:53:58.000The complaint asserts claims and seeks damages and injunctive relief that are entirely separate and distinct from that being sought in the currently pending case against Google Rumble Inc.
00:54:08.000The case relates primarily to Google self-preferencing its wholly-owned vertical YouTube in Google search results over links to the searched-for videos on Rumble.com and other video platforms, and various agreements that Google entered into with third parties that allow Google to dictate that the YouTube mobile app must be pre-installed on various smart devices, that the YouTube app must be given prominent placement on the smart device, and that the YouTube app cannot be deleted by the end user of the device.
00:54:38.000I hear that right away and I'm like, oh man, judgment for Rumble on this one.
00:54:43.000You can't even delete the app off the phone?
00:54:50.000The company contends that Google's actions have deprived it of significant ad earnings.
00:54:54.000Rumble, once a Google ad client before developing its proprietary ad tech in 2022, asserts that Google's monopolistic behavior has manipulated the ad tech market to its own advantage.
00:55:04.000According to the complaint, Google exploits significant conflicts of interest that stem from its multiple roles in this electronically traded marketplace.
00:55:12.000It further accuses Google of skimming an undue share of advertising revenue, which should rightfully benefit publishers like Rumble and its content creators.
00:55:20.000This is not Rumble's first legal foray against the tech giant.
00:55:24.000In 2021, it accused Google of illegally prioritizing YouTube content in its search engine and Android operating system, which I think is absolutely true.
00:55:31.000If you Google search a video, YouTube is shown first.
00:55:35.000There was a funny thing that happened in the infancy of this channel.
00:55:39.000YouTube, for whatever reason, Google, removed my TimCast channel and this channel from YouTube search.
00:55:45.000If you typed in the title of a video, it would show you Facebook instead.
00:55:51.000It's a funny move they made, which did not remove the ability of people to find my videos, it just drove them away from YouTube for whatever reason.
00:55:58.000And I think they realized the mistake.
00:56:00.000And then one day we were on this show, and I said that, and then as we were talking, people started chatting, your videos are back on YouTube, meaning Google was listening when we were talking about it, and they're probably listening right now.
00:56:13.000Not only is it insane, this idea that the YouTube mobile app is on all the devices, it's default, it can't be deleted, YouTube reportedly, Alphabet subsidizes YouTube with extra cash to make their model function better.
00:56:29.000The cost of running a streaming platform.
00:56:31.000If I was going to upload a video, let's say it was one megabyte, and then, very small video, one megabyte.
00:56:38.000Let's say it's one megabyte, and then a million people download, watch that video.
00:56:47.000No user of YouTube, like us right now live streaming, we don't see the cost going up to 38,000 people, which is massive, and we're streaming at like eight megabits per second.
00:56:56.000a massive cost absorbed by YouTube so that they can maintain monopolistic control.
00:57:01.000This means that Rumble is never going to be able to compete.
00:57:06.000They've got these massive costs, and if they do, if they sell ads on their network, they're
00:57:11.000not going to be able to run it the same percentage YouTube does, presumably. That being said, in
00:57:17.000full transparency, should Rumble win this one, it could upend the YouTube
00:57:24.000If Google is forced to split their ad company out of the Google network or YouTube and separate them, and then Google's ad network, AdWords, if they're forced to serve all video platforms, including Rumble, That means the YouTuber share of revenue is probably going to drop dramatically and it's going to massively alter the landscape.
00:57:45.000The good news is, it means there will be massive competition for alternative video platforms.
00:57:52.000It means that advertisers will still have a choice if they want to appear on certain content.
00:57:56.000But it would mean that Rumble would become a viable contender in serving ads because YouTube couldn't lock anybody out.
00:58:01.000It means that people on YouTube will probably end up losing a lot of money.
00:58:06.000Full disclosure, I have about 10 grand in Google stock, so before we get into it, I wanted to say that.
00:58:12.000I think it makes sense that YouTube's search results would come higher on Google than Rumble would.
00:58:19.000The issue with Rumble is that they're an echo chamber, unfortunately, because they're not reaching that critical massive audience.
00:58:26.000Good luck in their lawsuit against Google.
00:58:27.000They have some of the best lawyers in the game, I hope.
00:58:30.000I agree and disagree with the echo chamber idea.
00:59:47.000Just a bunch of normie, regular stuff.
00:59:50.000Rumble's definitely dominated by the political scene, and you know, that was kind of their angle, like the free speech platform.
00:59:55.000But I don't know if they're innovating, I don't know if they're bringing anything new to the table besides A little bit more alleged free speech.
01:00:01.000The issue though, right, if they're stymied on how much advertising dollars they can have, they have a lack of capital formation in terms of how they can try to innovate within that technology because they're not able to raise the capital to do it.
01:00:13.000Now this might help them do that or help somebody else do that and then we could become perhaps and some other platform comes up that's even better than YouTube.
01:00:35.000What do you think West Virginia's role in terms of technology innovation is?
01:00:40.000Because at one point, this is sort of an off-topic question, but at one point I had seen that Wyoming was pushing to become sort of the crypto mining capital of the world because they have so much coal.
01:00:49.000Where is West Virginia in sort of all of this?
01:01:08.000We have a massive amount of excess energy in West Virginia, particularly from coal and natural gas, and we generally export it out of states, and then they consume it, and we make money off that, and that's great, and it goes over the transmission lines.
01:01:21.000But because of that excess energy, we were thinking, and as we've talked to some of these Bitcoin miners, things like that, is They do a lot of that in Texas, and which doesn't make a lot of sense because of the heat, right?
01:01:34.000So, I mean, they're running all these computations and these servers have a tendency to overheat.
01:01:40.000What we were looking at doing was trying to put these in abandoned coal mines, which on average are about 55 degrees.
01:01:49.000Put those servers down there and then let it run off the energy that we're generating from the coal-fired power plants and things like that and the excess energy that we have and they could get it really cheap.
01:01:59.000So this is a conversation we've been having a lot with different cryptocurrency companies, Bitcoin miners, things like that.
01:02:07.000So it is something that we're trying to incentivize and or rather enter in conversations with them to say,
01:02:16.000look, West Virginia is a great place to do this.
01:02:36.000But I remember, especially during COVID, the conversation was, you know, especially students were going homes.
01:02:41.000In southern parts of West Virginia, there's just not access to internet at home.
01:02:44.000Or I was at a video store, you know, one of these places where you rent the DVDs.
01:02:48.000And the person was like, well, people come down from their homes on the mountain and They rent the DVDs they have for the week, and then they go home, and the next time they come to go grocery shopping or whatever, they return them.
01:02:57.000I mean, life is slightly different when you have a geographical challenge, but in some ways, because you have the coal mines, there are benefits to it.
01:03:04.000There are benefits, and we are in the middle of an expansion of broadband internet right now, billions of dollars going into that throughout the state of West Virginia, RDOF grants and things like that, and the state has been able to ensure the construction of that, underwriting
01:03:21.000it essentially, because these companies aren't collateralized enough to be able to take
01:03:24.000on the loans. And so we're underwriting those. Actually, that is your state treasurer that's doing
01:03:28.000that. That's me. And which I'm very happy to do, because the problem is you got this last mile,
01:04:25.000We have to have broadband to be able to, particularly in the southern coal fields, where there's such a lack of it and opportunity, but people want To remote work in places that are cheap to live, great people like you mentioned.
01:04:38.000We got the greatest people I think in the whole country and a great kind of lifestyle and a lot of natural beauty and a lot of things you can do and that's why we're hoping to bring those remote workers in.
01:04:50.000It's called Ascend West Virginia that if you are a remote worker we will literally pay you to move here.
01:04:57.000So anybody listening go to ascendwv.com I think is the website and We auction off different slots around the whole state throughout the year.
01:05:09.000And if you're a remote worker, I think we'll pay you, if I remember correctly, $15,000 to move to the state of West Virginia, $12,000, something like that.
01:05:27.000The meme stocks and the stonks, whatever you want to call them, GameStop surges more than 110% as Roaring Kitty makes surprise comeback with Cryptic Post.
01:05:38.000GameStop shares surged as much as 110% on Monday after Roaring Kitty, the day trader who played a key role in the so-called meme stock rally of 2021, made a surprise comeback on social media, putting the squeeze on short sellers who lost $1 billion because of the rally.
01:07:23.000And so right then I was like, wow, I guess I was wrong.
01:07:27.000I really thought it was Trump supporters who would not give up this stock.
01:07:32.000And I assumed it was people buying it for fun.
01:07:34.000As it turns out, when I was talking to Trump, he mentioned they're short selling it.
01:07:37.000It was an attack by institutional investors to destroy the value of the Trump stock, to hurt Trump's base, and to hurt Trump and profit off of it.
01:07:46.000The price has since rebounded easily to $52.
01:07:50.000So apparently this was a short sale attack on Donald Trump.
01:09:54.000You needed a brokerage account, you needed a broker or something, and then they made it very easy where you just use Robinhood.
01:09:59.000I think the way Robinhood works though is that They're basically a company with brokers, and when you buy things on their app, you're not really buying it.
01:10:09.000You're just instructing them to buy something like that.
01:10:11.000I thought it was they sell the data of the trades that you make to those big hedge funds.
01:10:18.000But my understanding is that if you go on Robin and you say, like, I want to buy one share, you only technically have the share, and that's how you're able to buy share fragments.
01:10:25.000You can buy, like, 0.3 of a share or something because it's actually held by Robinhood and you're, like, staking a claim in their share or something like that.
01:10:34.000It sounds like what that situation was with, like, Bitcoin wallets where you thought you were buying them but you only had, like, a proxy of them or something.
01:10:40.000Yeah, so, like, crypto wallets, a lot of people don't realize, because they go to an exchange, they'll buy it and they think they have the money and it's like, well, yeah, but the account is held by that company.
01:10:52.000So everybody was saying, like, You doing that is kind of like going to a coin shop and asking them to hold your cash for you because you trust them as opposed to putting the cash in your pocket or storing it in a safe in your closet.
01:11:03.000Sometimes banks make sense, but these aren't banks.
01:11:06.000You know, these exchanges are, uh, they're, they're exchanges and your money sitting on it could disappear overnight.
01:11:11.000I think there was one infamous one, BitConnect, among many of, uh, where they eventually went under.
01:11:17.000A whole bunch of them imploded and people lost all their money.
01:11:20.000Do you think Americans are financially literate enough just to survive in the economic landscape that we have
01:11:26.000Like I think when most people talk about stocks, even with the internet, the meme stocks,
01:11:30.000I think that was a motivator for a lot of people to learn about the stock market.
01:11:34.000Otherwise, it's sort of just noise that's on in the background.
01:11:36.000Yeah, it's a very different environment than it was even 30, 40 years ago, right?
01:11:41.000I mean, you have computer programs and all that that are working on algorithms as it relates to stock trading and all of that.
01:11:49.000I mean, which is faster than the human mind obviously can compute where that investment is.
01:11:55.000Trying to formulate what the next ETF is going to be or this or that and so obviously the billionaire class has a massive advantage here and that's why this thing is so interesting because they're kind of if you don't think these guys the billionaire short stock market all that they do that all the time.
01:12:14.000Do you think people should be banned from trading stocks?
01:12:20.000I mean, just so we get the... Yeah, well, so just for me, I'll say as the state treasurer of West Virginia currently, I hold no stocks.
01:12:29.000I liquidated everything I had when I got elected just because I thought, you know what, I don't even want any sense of impropriety or anything like that.
01:12:36.000So you don't have any investments or is it just in real, you know, you're completely divested?
01:12:53.000But I haven't done that as state treasurer.
01:12:54.000Now, in Congress, they're privy to so much information that the average individual is not, that they do have an informational advantage as it relates to the stock market.
01:13:06.000I just, to me, could they put this, you know, their stocks in trust or something like that and have some outside entity manage some?
01:13:17.000But the day trading aspect of it that's going on there, I think that's wrong.
01:13:22.000You know, putting, you know, shares of some company, like you might have some guy that gets elected to Congress and owns shares in his own company.
01:13:30.000I'm not saying divest, you know, liquid out of that, but put it into a trust, have it, you know, passively managed or something outside, not where they can actively manage it.
01:13:39.000Can I ask, why do you think so many Congress people then are still doing these trades?
01:16:05.000But then they wouldn't have to, it should be banned to begin with, but obviously Congress isn't going to ban itself from trading stocks.
01:16:11.000But I, Yeah, well, I will tell you this, point blank, if that bill were to come up, I'd absolutely vote for it.
01:16:19.000And you know, look, if, but just to be clear, if there's somebody who has, you're gonna have to disconnect yourself from any securities that you own.
01:16:28.000It has to be, you know, passively managed by somebody else.
01:16:39.000There is also something I think to be said about if you're already a millionaire and you're very well off, then you're not worried about the pay.
01:16:45.000So we're creating a bias towards rich people in Congress as well.
01:18:59.000I'll find it in a second or I might have to tell you during the after show.
01:19:01.000But it is interesting because obviously you would have a variety of incomes pre-Congress.
01:19:08.000You don't want it to be only one type of people.
01:19:10.000On the other hand, if you make it impossible to Stay in this career like any like you have a young family you have to decide like is this service worth it or am I taking too much of a financial hit?
01:19:21.000Am I not being able to provide for the people who depend on me the most which are my children and you know my spouse.
01:19:25.000A big sacrifice for what and especially in a time where I think we're seeing a lot of congressmen resign generally.
01:20:16.000His 30 Rock meme, his appearance where he was a private investigator and he goes to the high school and he's like, how do you do fellow kids?
01:20:22.000This guy's got some great work behind his belt.
01:20:27.000He went on The Daily Show, and I believe it was him, and provided a voiceover for the segment, Biden Perfectly Adequate Under the Circumstances, where they basically did this joke where Trump was so bad that even though Biden was bad, it was perfectly acceptable.
01:20:51.000And so, you know, I don't I don't want to put the weight of all of the weird crime we're seeing just on Joe Biden, but it's on the Democrats as a whole.
01:21:07.000But I hope people like Steve wake up now and realize all of that propaganda about under Trump, it was the worst country, the country was in dire straits.
01:21:37.000And after he says this, the next administration gives us Joe Biden and...
01:21:41.000I think a lot of these incidents in New York City are particularly unfortunate because these are preventable in my belief, but there just isn't the political will in the city to prevent crimes like this.
01:21:53.000There's like a top hundred worst offenders who commit like 80 or 90 percent of the crimes in the city.
01:21:59.000If there was the political will to deal with the worst criminals, we'd see a dramatic decrease in attacks like this.
01:22:05.000Many of these attackers are repeat offenders, but Because of some soft on crime policies because of a lot of different reasons because of how democratic the city is people just don't want to deal with the issues like this and
01:22:18.000If you're not in the right mental capacity, if you're a drug addict, if you're a homeless person on the street, we need to have a responsible way to do outreach to you.
01:22:25.000And allowing you to fester and have manic episodes and attack others on the street isn't ethical, it's not moral to you, to the person, or any of these victims.
01:22:34.000So, I think it's unfortunate because these are preventable in my estimation.
01:22:41.000Just outside observer, I mean, wouldn't you say crime is worse in New York than it's been?
01:22:45.000I think there's something to say about if you look like a stereotypical easy lick, then you're more likely to get attacked.
01:22:51.000That is, like, if you look like... He looks like an old man who can't defend himself.
01:22:57.000If you're a woman, if you're an Asian, you're more likely to be, I think, picked on, unfortunately, by bullies in the city.
01:23:07.000And we have opportunities to stop this.
01:23:09.000We in New York City elected a cop mayor, Eric Adams, a former cop mayor, and he's putting more people on the subway.
01:23:16.000At one time the National Guard was supposed to come in with Kathy Hochul on the subway and whatnot, but it's a real issue we're seeing.
01:23:22.000I just figured, you know, because you live up there, you like living dangerously, you know, you're an adrenaline junkie, and you're replacing skydiving with walking the streets of New York.
01:23:31.000I mean, it's really the cultural mecca, I think, of the United States.
01:23:35.000It really is the epicenter, I think, of the United States, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
01:25:17.000That one's, you know, what do we got, like 60 miles due east.
01:25:20.000But New York is a different kind of disgusting slime-filled bog with monsters lurking in streets and brave adventurers like Elad carrying a torch through the wilderness.
01:25:29.000So, I don't think New York City is for the faint of heart, but I think, in my estimation, Brooklyn alone, the borough of Brooklyn alone, is better than most cities.
01:25:37.000I don't know if that's selling Tim on anything because he hates cities.
01:25:40.000No, it's a city that voted for a cop mayor who's still a Democrat who's still not solving any problems.
01:25:45.000There are a ton of issues in New York City, and there's no denying that, but here's the thing.
01:25:49.000The highest paying jobs in the country are in New York City.
01:25:52.000If you want to make it on Broadway, you're in New York City.
01:25:55.000If you want to make it in fashion, you're in New York City.
01:25:57.000If you want to make it as a hotshot lawyer, all the best and biggest law firms are in New York City.
01:26:29.000And what if more states had cities that, like, people were like, no, that's the best place, I'm gonna live there until I die.
01:26:35.000Like, we would stop seeing this mass, actually I know that's something West Virginia struggles with, of young people who are like, there's no opportunity here.
01:26:41.000Like, I wish there were more cities in the country that, you know, even mid-size cities where people are like, this is the best place and I want to be here.
01:26:48.000The opportunity availability in New York has gone way down and the cost of living has gone way up.
01:26:52.000It's no longer, so, when I left, it was at the point where I was in a one bedroom but they called a two bedroom because they put up a wall in so you had a kitchen and you had a bedroom and they sectioned off part of the kitchen into another bedroom and called it a two bedroom.
01:27:10.000And I'm like, so where's the living room?
01:27:24.000And then among the males, about 25% of them are gay.
01:27:27.000So your numbers in New York City are really good.
01:27:30.000So if you're a young man and want to go on a quick adventure, a few years in and out, you know, if you can make it in New York City, you can make it anywhere.
01:29:58.000Did you mention something earlier about the I don't know if West Virginia is still doing this or if you brought it up that if people move here, there's a grant or something?
01:30:05.000Yes, it's called Ascend WV, Ascend West Virginia, and I believe it's $12,000 to $15,000 we will give you as a remote worker to move to the state of West Virginia.
01:30:38.000Yeah, so they'll open it up like an auction, essentially, and say, okay, Morgantown is now open, and we got a thousand slots here.
01:30:45.000And then they'll do Jefferson County's open.
01:30:47.000There'll be a thousand slots, and they'll do it all around the state, kind of auctioned off, and basically you enter like a lottery to win it.
01:30:58.000That's why we're here and we've, you know, at first our operation was split partly in Maryland but we were on the border literally 10 seconds away.
01:33:06.000And so what we looked at was, let's say we go to New York.
01:33:08.000And I was like, what if we went to Chicago or New York, and it's like anywhere you go in those cities, the drive from the airport's an hour.
01:33:15.000And I'm like, If we were to set up in Manhattan or even Williamsburg or, you know, in Bay Ridge in New York, we're talking an hour and a half from someone landing at the airport and then being driven to the studio, not to mention tolls, taxes.
01:33:50.000And so I was just like, we can get cheaper land, we get bigger space, we can build more, we can expand more, and in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia with better laws, constitutional carry, we have less security costs, and we can hop in the car, and we can be in DC, we can be in Reston, we can be in, there's Frederick even, you've got big cities, But in terms of, like, if you're somebody who's gotta... I wanna go to the scene and go to Steakhouse.
01:34:18.000If you were in Brooklyn, it'd be the same thing.
01:34:20.000And if you're in Bay Ridge, it's gonna take even longer than that.
01:34:22.000So the costs are way less, the land is way cheaper, your cost of living is way cheaper, you still have all of these urban metros available to you.
01:34:29.000From where we are, Pittsburgh's what, two hours?
01:34:48.000If I'm going to build a company, building in New York is the stupidest move imaginable.
01:34:54.000Building on the West Coast, also very, very...
01:34:57.000Look, the West Coast, it's just obvious.
01:34:59.000There's very few markets, there's much less people, and it's expensive to operate.
01:35:03.000East Coast is where it's at for a lot of reasons, but if you're trying to operate in New York or even any of these big East Coast cities, it's gonna be expensive, dangerous, hard to move, hard to get space.
01:35:13.000And look, there are worse places than New York, but New York is not a good place.
01:35:18.000That's why, at first, we were like, if we're on the Jersey side of things, we get cheaper real estate, more space, and we still have access to New York.
01:35:25.000And it was, look, we were in the Woodbury area, like I mentioned, when the Summer of Love happened.
01:35:35.000Philly's going nuts, there's shootouts, there's craziness going on, but that's why we're on the other side of the bridge in Jersey.
01:35:41.000And then the riders crossed the bridge into our area, and I could hear the helicopters not too far from my house, and I was like, I don't want to be in a place like this.
01:35:51.000Because in New Jersey, if someone kicks in your door and literally screams they're going to kill you, you can't defend yourself.
01:35:58.000They'll tell you today, not you can, but you cannot.
01:36:01.000In West Virginia, it's constitutional carry.
01:36:03.000You walk into the gun shop, you fill up your NICS form, they hand you your gun, and you put in your holster and you walk out.
01:36:45.000And I think they got the same thing in D.C.
01:36:47.000Oh yeah, you can't even have guns in D.C.
01:36:49.000But in West Virginia, you're the one that entered the home.
01:36:53.000Armed or unarmed, you're gonna get shot.
01:36:56.000The presumption in West Virginia is that if someone enters your property they have done you wrong. There's still a reasonable
01:37:03.000expectation on the property owner to avoid conflict.
01:37:06.000Yeah. If someone walks on, I think you correct me if I'm wrong, you probably know better,
01:37:10.000but if someone comes onto your land, and West Virginia is particularly good with this because
01:37:13.000a lot of property is large acreage. Yes. It is still presumed that you have a, you can perceive
01:37:19.000a threat and you will be defended if someone illegally enters your land. But someone walks
01:37:24.000onto your open land, you can't just shoot them.
01:37:26.000No, you can't just shoot somebody onto open land, and obviously we've got a lot of hunters and all that other stuff, but if somebody is, let's say, on your front yard threatening you...
01:37:36.000With violence, with a firearm, you can shoot that person.
01:37:38.000I will say I'm envious of your firearms.
01:37:41.000That doesn't seem so great right now, does it?
01:37:44.000And the crazy thing is, I told this story, I was walking, I think it was like near Charlestown or wherever, a guy was carrying a crossbow with a bunch of bolts.
01:38:34.000I'm not doing this under the assumption.
01:38:35.000Okay, so West Virginia's crime is just about half of Well, West Virginia's crime is below the national median at 2.78 per capita, violent crime per thousand residents, and New York's is 4.29, slightly above.
01:39:30.000But if you're thinking long-term, if you're thinking about having a family, anything like that, like, you want to go somewhere where you run into your potential congressman.
01:39:53.000They put a camera in front of them, and then they take the booster pack in front of it, and they open it up, and they very slowly go through the cards, and people love to watch this stuff.
01:40:02.000In what reality would you want to do that in New York City, where your rent is three grand?
01:40:05.000For three grand, you could own your own house with five acres in West Virginia.
01:40:11.000And if you go further in, out of the panhandle, it gets better and better.
01:40:15.000With high-speed internet being, you know, not everywhere, broadband has got to get fixed.
01:40:40.000A lot of digital business can be run from anywhere.
01:40:44.000So why not go somewhere with lower cost of living, with more land, more space, fresher air, greener pastures?
01:40:51.000And then when you're buying your equipment, if you're spending 35% of your income, 35% of what you would normally spend on rent, as opposed to New York, you've got extra money for building your setup and starting your business.
01:41:04.000I'm not saying everyone's gonna be a vlogger or a podcaster or something like this, but there's a lot of opportunity in digital sales and online business, and that being said, we should stop debating that and go to Super Chats.
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01:42:00.000Earlier today, Allison and Sarah, Informed me that we officially have a wholesaler who is now buying Cast Brew Coffee to sell at their location.
01:42:10.000Very awesome and thank you so much for supporting Cast Brew Coffee.
01:42:14.000The main goal of course is, and I'll keep it simple, We started a coffee product because my family actually owned a coffee shop in the past.
01:42:23.000And in terms of creating physical locations where people can hang out and organize, coffee really is the quickest and fastest way to get things up and running.
01:42:31.000So with the family experience and with the ease of access, that's the route we went.
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01:42:39.000Protein powders, supplements, teas, all that good stuff.
01:42:44.000He also says, check out the song the Gatsby expressed by Sweet Plot.
01:43:37.000There are a lot of people who have funny usernames.
01:43:40.000Johnny Haynes, one of the skaters for the Boonies, username is Llama Hands with a Z. And you know, perhaps he did not realize that he was going to be, you know, like he's been skating
01:43:52.000for a while, but the clips that he's getting and the views he's getting, it's like you ask
01:43:56.000someone, what's your Instagram? Llamahands.
01:43:58.000And you're like, oh, that's a weird name. But hey, there you go. You never know.
01:44:02.000I think when social media came out, people didn't realize that it would become part of
01:44:05.000their professional identity. Right. Yeah.
01:44:07.000Tyler Furr Page says, I'm 33 and listen to every episode of IRL at Dialysis.
01:44:13.000I can't afford my medications or gas money to get to Dialysis.
01:46:02.000A lot of people, so something happened where someone super chatted asking for assistance with something, and then I gave it to him, and then someone else asked, and then someone's like, I'm gonna be late on my rent, I need help.
01:46:11.000So I was like, I'll pay your rent, and I paid his rent.
01:46:13.000And then someone else needed their rent paid, so I paid his rent.
01:47:28.000So there are some individuals that people are fans of that are dedicating their lives to good causes, and I've given them gifts like, no consideration, it's free to do whatever you want with.
01:47:38.000And because I know that they're doing good things in their lives.
01:47:41.000So it's not, it's not, it's a, you know, I don't know.
01:47:45.000It's just like, hey man, I've seen what you've done and it's good and it's helping everyone else.
01:47:48.000So it's up to, it's up to these people if they want to come out and say that I sent them any money.
01:48:01.000You know, basically the budget was around like 10 K per month towards helping people in some way.
01:48:06.000And what, what I've mostly been doing is like, If someone is a prominent activist, I'm trying to do like a mini Soros thing where it's like, I see that billionaire guy.
01:48:15.000So if someone's like fighting to protect women's sports or something like that, I'll be like, Hey, you know, here you go.
01:48:21.000If someone's working on like, uh, I actually, I think I'm a member of like three or four different, uh, gun, gun rights organizations.
01:48:28.000So I get all these things in the mail of like, you know, that stuff I definitely care about.
01:48:32.000I remember as soon as Taylor got involved with her whole skateboard issue, you were quick to bring her on and try to bring her in and help her any way you can, so good work.
01:48:42.000Yeah, she got her own board for the boonies, her Taylor Silverman skateboard.
01:48:47.000Yeah, you know, it's it's it, you know, what I was thinking, too, is like, well, I skateboard.
01:48:50.000So this was it was a no brainer for me.
01:48:52.000It's like someone who's willing to stand up and defend women's rights is Taylor Silverman, by the way, shout out, definitely needs the support.
01:48:58.000If you're like a college level, like swimmer, you're like facing like, it's like an Olympic level thing.
01:49:13.000I mean, you're just kind of doing it on your own.
01:49:14.000You're trying to pick up your own sponsors.
01:49:16.000I mean, there's not, there's not like a whole, like the same level of system, like Tim saying, is it is like college sports.
01:49:22.000And by the way, I don't know if you all saw this or not, but there's brave, brave girls down in Southern West Virginia that decided, you know what?
01:49:31.000We're not doing the shop put with you.
01:50:20.000First of all, they've already had, I believe they're getting chastised for having a bunch of voter errors in 2020 that everyone already knew about.
01:50:29.000But apparently there's some story, I haven't read too much into it, I don't know if you saw that one, 380,000 missing vote records.
01:51:00.000I don't think it's just that we've gotten worse.
01:51:02.000I think that there's something going on in some of these places.
01:51:06.000And I think this is bad, ultimately, for a sense of patriotism and national morale, right?
01:51:12.000If you think your vote doesn't matter, you're going to really think that when it turns out the votes don't even show up where they're supposed to.
01:51:17.000Well, people are looking at this right now in West Virginia.
01:51:31.000All of this mail-in ballot, we don't do that in West Virginia by the way, but all this mail-in ballot and all this other nonsense and drop boxes and this, all it does at the end of the day when it takes a month to know how an election turned out is erode the confidence in the system and erode confidence in the country, right?
01:51:53.000I mean, I really think that this is the biggest challenge that America—one of the biggest challenges America has right now is creating a cohesive culture and attitude that encourages people to participate.
01:52:12.000And also, you know, they don't listen to you anyways.
01:52:14.000And also, you know, like it's constant problems that just burden the mind in a way that, you know, I think is meant to destroy us internally.
01:52:23.000And some state passed a law here recently.
01:52:57.000They, they, you take a duck, and they, uh, shove a tube of, like, corn and oil into its throat and pump its stomach full of it, and then diseases the liver and makes it massive and fatty, and so they torture the animal before killing it to make its liver- Is PETA against this?
01:53:14.000I'm assuming all the animal rights people- It's illegal in certain states, right?
01:55:01.000My wife, we're talking about getting chickens, we don't have any chickens right now.
01:55:04.000You'll get a couple, you'll be alright.
01:55:06.000Travis Boss says, Riley, Alex Mooney seemed to be taking his voting cues in all the right ways from Thomas Massey, often one of a handful of votes against the Deep State.
01:55:16.000Would you take up this mantle as our representative?
01:55:19.000Yeah, you know, Travis, if you look at my voting record when I was in the state legislature, I had one of the most conservative voting records in the entire state legislature.
01:55:27.000So it's going to look exactly like that if elected to Congress.
01:57:02.000Let's go check it out, and there's gonna be drinks.
01:57:04.000Now it's at the skate park, and so really, if you have no reason to be at the skate park, you don't go to the skate park.
01:57:09.000So I feel like we need more of these, it doesn't even need to be skateboarding, I'm just saying in general, these pop-up community events that happen periodically.
01:57:15.000I do love the Charlestown Farmer's Market on the weekends, though.
01:57:19.000So way back in the day, like in the 90s, this is like 99, something like that, Do you remember Tony Hawk, Dave Mirra, all of them were doing this tour around the country?
01:58:44.000Who says, uh, I don't know what that says, and I don't speak that language.
01:58:47.000I'm just gonna say, he says, hi from Guam.
01:58:48.000Tim, I'm a longtime listener and a member, and today's my birthday.
01:58:51.000For my birthday, I'm super chatting $100 for you to help donate funds to help a listener in need.
01:58:56.000And I think, I know there's a lot of serious ones.
01:58:58.000Some people say there's some brain tumors, but I think the guy who needs dialysis We're gonna, we're gonna help keep him alive.
01:59:04.000I feel like the dialysis is much, it's, it's like, man, a brain tumor is very pressing as well, but dialysis, like, you could die in a, in a week.
02:00:01.000Without the YouTube ad revenue, we're in the red and we're sinking.
02:00:06.000That's why I shifted after the 2020 election.
02:00:10.000That's why we created the membership program, because I was like, we cannot rely on YouTube ad revenue for this reason, because of censorship and because of the need for competition.
02:00:17.000So we have to build our own site and our own base.
02:00:19.000But right now we still rely on YouTube revenue, which the ad revenue on IRL is relatively small, 20-30%, but we do.
02:00:28.000And we actually lost a decent amount of money with our move to Rumble by duplicating the videos.
02:00:35.000People who watch on Facebook, we get paid.
02:00:37.000People who watch on YouTube, we get paid.
02:00:38.000People who watch on Rumble, we get nothing.
02:00:40.000But we're on Rumble because there's got to be, like, you have to forward the line.
02:01:38.000I was thinking, like, there are different platforms that seem to be leading the pack, but with TikTok, they're kind of doing what Vine did beforehand, right?
02:01:47.000Sort of short- Yeah, I think it's the algorithm, and it's the endless swipe.
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02:02:41.000Riley, do you want to shout anything out?
02:02:43.000Yeah, look, if you're in West Virginia, tomorrow's the election.