Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - TRUMP WON, Canada & Mexico CAVE Over Tariffs, Elon NUKES Deep State w-Terry Schilling | Timcast IRL

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:29.000 Thank you.

00:00:35.000 Last week was a crazy year.

00:00:37.000 That's the meme, I guess.

00:00:39.000 Donald Trump is doing what people are referring to as, I guess, he's overwhelming the system.

00:00:45.000 He is implementing so many rapid-fire changes that Democrat activists cannot keep up, and it is brilliant.

00:00:53.000 It has been an amazing past two weeks.

00:00:57.000 Donald Trump has done a tremendous job, and just today, Canada and Mexico have caved instantly.

00:01:02.000 Donald Trump said, you know what?

00:01:04.000 25% tariffs.

00:01:05.000 10% tariffs on China.

00:01:07.000 What can they do?

00:01:07.000 Trump was asked, what can they do to stop this?

00:01:09.000 Nothing.

00:01:10.000 Sure enough, before anything kicks in, both the president of Mexico and Justin Trudeau called up and said, please, for the love of all that is holy, do not destroy our countries, our economies.

00:01:20.000 And they caved.

00:01:21.000 And they're going to help secure the borders.

00:01:22.000 Exactly what Trump was saying needed to be done.

00:01:24.000 And that just shows that Trump's been...

00:01:27.000 He's been playing this whole time.

00:01:28.000 Now, a lot of people have been saying the tariffs were good because we need to restore American manufacturing and industry, and that's true too.

00:01:35.000 But hey, two things can be true at the same time, and this was a win-win situation for Donald Trump.

00:01:39.000 Either they agree to secure the border, or we bring back American industry, and that's what we're going to have to do because these countries are not playing fair.

00:01:47.000 Then we got, holy crap, probably what may be one of the biggest stories of our lifetime.

00:01:53.000 This is the... 0.89

00:01:55.000 Okay, Marco Rubio wants to reform USAID, but Trump and Elon are saying they should shut it down.

00:02:01.000 USAID is a very, very interesting organization that has long been accused of effectively being a CIA front to funnel resources to activist organizations to stage soft and hard coups around the world.

00:02:12.000 Among other things, they're also accused of funneling money to activist organizations, which then kick back money to the United States, which then finds its way in the hands of other politicians, which are used to get them re-elected.

00:02:23.000 It's very, very weird.

00:02:24.000 And the files that we get out of USAID, when the information gets released, assuming it does, and I don't see why it wouldn't, it's going to be massive.

00:02:31.000 So, my friends, we have lots of news to break down.

00:02:34.000 There's a ton of stuff.

00:02:35.000 FBI threatening to protest, to leak information.

00:02:38.000 Elon saying, you'll be fired.

00:02:39.000 People saying, you know, got Chuck Schumer saying, it's a shadow government.

00:02:43.000 It's funny, Democrats were calling for a shadow government just before the election, and now they're mad that Elon's doing it.

00:02:48.000 Well, it's not really.

00:02:49.000 Elon's acting is essentially a volunteer advising the president.

00:02:52.000 There's nothing you can do about it.

00:02:54.000 We got a lot more news, but before we do, my friends, head over to casprew.com.

00:02:57.000 Holy crap, Ian sold out again.

00:02:59.000 Ian sold out of Graphene Dream. 0.99

00:03:01.000 This dude, it's nuts.

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00:04:24.000 For those that are wondering why I was gone all week, I had a bone graft.

00:04:28.000 I had some dental surgery done.

00:04:30.000 Nothing you can do.

00:04:31.000 You gotta do it when you gotta do it.

00:04:32.000 You gotta do what you gotta do.

00:04:34.000 And unfortunately, I want to give a shout-out to Dr. Sarandli in D.C. who did a bang-up job, masterfully done, painless, 20 minutes, easy.

00:04:42.000 And in all seriousness, I was actually pretty good.

00:04:47.000 So that was Friday.

00:04:48.000 Saturday, I was fine.

00:04:49.000 Sunday, I was fine.

00:04:50.000 And I was like, I think I'm going to be good to go Monday.

00:04:51.000 It was really well done.

00:04:53.000 I had a reaction to the lidocaine, which no one could have predicted, and that basically took me out for a week.

00:04:59.000 But they did a bang-up job over at Dr. Sronly.

00:05:02.000 She was really, really great.

00:05:03.000 She was amazing.

00:05:04.000 And I really appreciate the help she gave.

00:05:06.000 I told her I'd give a shout-out because I'm not kidding.

00:05:08.000 I've been to a lot of dentists, and she was really great.

00:05:11.000 So thank you so much.

00:05:13.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more, we've got Terry Schilling.

00:05:16.000 Hey, guys.

00:05:16.000 Thanks so much for having me.

00:05:18.000 Part of the conversation we had earlier was...

00:05:22.000 About surrogacy because I have seven kids.

00:05:25.000 So anyway, I'm excited to be here.

00:05:27.000 Some of my kids are watching tonight.

00:05:28.000 But that doesn't mean I'm going to be filtered.

00:05:30.000 I am who I am regardless of if my children are present.

00:05:34.000 So thanks so much for having me.

00:05:35.000 Right on.

00:05:35.000 Mary's hanging out.

00:05:36.000 Yes, my name is Mary Morgan.

00:05:38.000 I co-host Pop Culture Crisis here at TimCast.

00:05:42.000 And I guess all you need to know about me is that I'm just a girl and I don't have any political opinions.

00:05:48.000 You can go watch The Green Room to find that out.

00:05:51.000 Hi, Phil.

00:05:52.000 She's lying.

00:05:52.000 Hi, I'm Phil Labonte.

00:05:54.000 I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band, All That Remains.

00:05:56.000 I'm an anti-communist and counter-revolutionary.

00:05:57.000 Let's get into it.

00:05:58.000 The biggest news, of course, for everybody who's already noticed, I'm wearing a wedding ring.

00:06:03.000 Check it!

00:06:04.000 That's it.

00:06:05.000 Congrats.

00:06:06.000 Thank you very much.

00:06:09.000 Allison and I had planned the wedding for some time, but...

00:06:12.000 For a while, but we're just super busy.

00:06:14.000 She does administrative work six hours a day.

00:06:16.000 I do the show, morning show, night show.

00:06:18.000 And so we're just working all the time.

00:06:19.000 But we knew we had to go and do it.

00:06:22.000 So we did a courthouse wedding.

00:06:23.000 It was very nice.

00:06:24.000 But we're planning to do a big family ceremony in the summer.

00:06:26.000 This was just because we wanted to be married.

00:06:29.000 And we went and got married.

00:06:31.000 And then I tweeted, Trump's first month was the best month of my life.

00:06:35.000 Which was an inside joke to literally just me and my wife.

00:06:39.000 And I showed her and we both just started laughing.

00:06:41.000 And then everyone, it got like 5,000 retweets from people who were like, it has been great, hasn't it?

00:06:47.000 And then some liberal was like, or I don't know if it was a liberal, but they were like, what has Trump even done that you're so excited about?

00:06:52.000 And I was like, no, no, no, I got married.

00:06:53.000 I never said Trump did anything.

00:06:55.000 Like his first month was the best month for me.

00:06:57.000 You know what I mean?

00:06:58.000 You put those together.

00:06:59.000 So there you go, everybody.

00:07:01.000 And I will not be wearing the ring.

00:07:02.000 So thank you all so much.

00:07:03.000 Leave your comments and super chats if you want to shout out and give me...

00:07:07.000 I see everybody congratulating me and everything.

00:07:09.000 I really do appreciate it. 1.00

00:07:10.000 Or just say nothing and call me stupid. 0.99

00:07:12.000 You know, I don't want to... 1.00

00:07:12.000 But let's jump into the news. 1.00

00:07:15.000 So here you go, ladies and gentlemen, from NBC. Trump and leaders of Canada and Mexico say tariffs will be delayed one month after talks.

00:07:23.000 Guys, I love Donald Trump.

00:07:26.000 He has exceeded all of my expectations.

00:07:29.000 This is absolutely incredible.

00:07:30.000 When he announced the tariffs, I started clapping and cheering because I can't stand that we have given away so many of our jobs and our industries to Canada and Mexico to the point where it was like 80% of their exports are coming to us.

00:07:42.000 Okay, well, what about our jobs and the people who work here who need to have a job, teach their kids how to have jobs, do hard work?

00:07:48.000 We're not going to become a bunch of gluttonous, lazy, partying, oh wait, because we're giving away all our jobs to these other countries. 0.58

00:07:55.000 But it's win-win.

00:07:56.000 Because it was going to go one of two ways.

00:07:58.000 They were going to beg Donald Trump for whatever, whatever they could possibly give him so that he would lift these because this will destroy the economies of Canada and Mexico.

00:08:08.000 And then Trump said, OK, I want troops on the border.

00:08:11.000 So Canada, I think they're going to be doing like a border, a fentanyl czar of some sort.

00:08:15.000 They're going to be enforcing border protections.

00:08:17.000 Mexico is sending additional 10,000 troops to the border.

00:08:21.000 And there's been other concessions.

00:08:24.000 So Donald Trump just waves the pen.

00:08:27.000 And instantly, Canada and Mexico are like, okay, okay, we'll take this problem that you're having seriously now.

00:08:33.000 Masterfully done.

00:08:34.000 There's a whole bunch of other stuff to get into, of course, with, like, Elon Musk, Doge, and USAID. But we'll start here.

00:08:40.000 Man, how are you guys doing?

00:08:42.000 You know, the people have been, like, wigging out about the whole situation with Canada and with Mexico.

00:08:51.000 As if this wasn't the big ask, as if this wasn't a negotiation, it was just like, oh, Donald Trump's going to put these tariffs on, and they're going to be there forever, and they're going to be there until the whole country falls apart, and until everything burns up.

00:09:06.000 They're acting as if this wasn't intended on getting a deal out of both.

00:09:14.000 Canada and Mexico.

00:09:15.000 That's Donald Trump's M.O. And we had four years of him as a president already doing things like this.

00:09:22.000 But yet the left is in such disarray now.

00:09:25.000 They refuse to look at reality, I guess.

00:09:30.000 I mean, they were harping on eggs for the first week and a half of his presidency.

00:09:37.000 They've lost any semblance of direction, and I don't have it in front of me, but I think it was a Wall Street Journal article about how totally in disarray the Democrats are.

00:09:46.000 And so it's almost as if it's worth nothing to listen to anything they say, just because they have no idea what to say.

00:09:54.000 All they're saying is, they're back to whatever Donald Trump decides he's going to do, we're against it.

00:10:00.000 It's as bad as Donald Trump says, drink water's good, so we're going to try to drink sand.

00:10:06.000 They can't give him one good day.

00:10:08.000 No, God, no.

00:10:09.000 No, because it's not about that.

00:10:11.000 It's always about power with the Dems.

00:10:13.000 They don't really care.

00:10:14.000 He could actually save the economy and give everyone a horse.

00:10:18.000 Everyone could make a million dollars and never be prosperous, and they'd still find something to attack him on.

00:10:22.000 They'd call him a racist.

00:10:23.000 And the thing is that that's really been killing me is they're losing, and they're not changing their strategy.

00:10:31.000 What Donald Trump just taught the American people, by the way, was that America has leverage.

00:10:36.000 Over all these other nations.

00:10:38.000 We don't need to be the punching bag.

00:10:40.000 We don't have to accept things the way they are.

00:10:42.000 We have 325 million Americans that buy products from everywhere else in the world.

00:10:47.000 Let's leverage that.

00:10:49.000 I saw a video this morning.

00:10:50.000 40% of the Canadian economy is based on their exports to the United States.

00:10:55.000 That is huge leverage, right?

00:10:57.000 And I didn't realize that.

00:10:59.000 And I'm looking back and I'm thinking... 0.53

00:11:02.000 Trudeau was running his mouth for way too damn long.

00:11:06.000 So much tough talk, right? 0.57

00:11:07.000 Oh my gosh.

00:11:08.000 My favorite thing about tariffs is that no one gets to vote on them.

00:11:12.000 Hate voting.

00:11:13.000 Hate voting.

00:11:15.000 Hate democracy.

00:11:16.000 You know, the Democrats' unfavorable now is 57% with the most recent Quinnipiac University poll.

00:11:23.000 I don't know...

00:11:25.000 That there's anything that they can do to fix this until they get their own house in order.

00:11:30.000 We might talk about it later, but there was the Congress.

00:11:32.000 There was the the they voted on who was going to run the DNC and they were doing things like land acknowledgements.

00:11:38.000 They were doing all they were doing things like let them let them cook, bro, talking about talking about pronouns and stuff.

00:11:45.000 Things that that clearly regardless.

00:11:47.000 I know I know there are people out there that are going to say, well, Donald Trump won on the economy and he won on illegal immigration.

00:11:53.000 I think that's true largely.

00:11:54.000 But I think the thing that turns the average person off about the Democrats.

00:11:59.000 The things that they're just like, "I don't like that stuff," is the whole woke stuff.

00:12:02.000 The whole, you know, trans stuff. 0.98

00:12:04.000 The LGBT stuff, the fact that you have to hate America, which whether they want to admit it or not, when they're doing things like land acknowledgement, you're saying that you're ashamed of the country that you're in. 0.81

00:12:15.000 No society in human history has ever given credit to the society that came before them that they essentially conquered.

00:12:24.000 Oh, you're talking about like mud flood in Octaria, right?

00:12:27.000 I'm not sure what you're talking about.

00:12:29.000 The indigenous people, they have land acknowledgement to the Tartarian.

00:12:32.000 You don't know about mud flood theory?

00:12:33.000 No.

00:12:34.000 You guys know mud flood?

00:12:35.000 No.

00:12:35.000 There's a conspiracy theory that there was a great civilization that ran Earth or whatever, and then there was a great mud flood, and it buried all the buildings.

00:12:42.000 People actually believe this.

00:12:44.000 And they think that we're discovering these old buildings and pulling them out of the dirt and living in them.

00:12:49.000 Yeah.

00:12:50.000 Anyway, so I made a joke tweet about how we're going to conquer Canada.

00:12:54.000 Because I saw all of these Canadians really angry on X. And so I tweeted something like, after we destroy the Canadian economy, their will to resist will erode, and we will march in and put Canada in its rightful place as a, what did I call it, as a territory of the United States with no political representation?

00:13:13.000 I got so many death threats from that.

00:13:15.000 Is that why the one thing...

00:13:17.000 Yeah, yeah, so I... From Canadians! 0.98

00:13:20.000 But they're supposed to be so nice.

00:13:22.000 What kind of Canadians? 0.82

00:13:23.000 Well, so we got a bunch of death threats, and then I posted one of the threats that was the most egregious, and it got like two million hits or whatever. 0.80

00:13:32.000 And the guy said he was, among other things, I'm not gonna, it's very vulgar, he was going to do horrible things to my family and sell them to rabbit Indians.

00:13:43.000 And... 0.74

00:13:43.000 Rabbit. 0.74

00:13:44.000 Yes, like rabbits.

00:13:45.000 Does he mean like, what kind of Indian?

00:13:48.000 I don't know.

00:13:49.000 The rabbit kind.

00:13:50.000 And so people started posting pictures of rabbits wearing headdresses and then rabbit Indian started trending on X. Grok was busy making pictures of rabbits with Indian headdresses or rabbits in India from the country.

00:14:07.000 We've talked quite a bit about how Democrats don't understand humor. 0.97

00:14:10.000 That's why the onion sucks now. 0.99

00:14:13.000 And I'm like, Canadians are just like... 1.00

00:14:16.000 Just like Democrats.

00:14:18.000 They genuinely thought my tweet about us conquering Canada through...

00:14:22.000 They think it's real.

00:14:24.000 And they're angry about it.

00:14:25.000 Like, to the point where I was...

00:14:26.000 We're getting a bunch of death threats from these people.

00:14:28.000 And, like, we have to take it seriously.

00:14:31.000 Yeah, you have to. 0.99

00:14:32.000 Because they're all unhinged. 0.97

00:14:33.000 The type of person that's that unhinged that would send a death threat is exactly the type of person that would go crazy and do stuff like that. 0.98

00:14:40.000 Look, it's a bad idea to make death threats.

00:14:42.000 It's a bad idea to do that kind of stuff on theinternet.com.

00:14:47.000 Like, you know who you are, they can find you, and that's forever.

00:14:52.000 Yeah.

00:14:52.000 So they're losing right now, right?

00:14:54.000 Oh, yeah.

00:14:54.000 Well, they're losing their minds.

00:14:56.000 We're all, like, in a really good mood, right?

00:14:57.000 I'm in a good mood.

00:14:58.000 I'm in a great mood.

00:14:59.000 You know what really bugs me is I tweeted the, what did I say, like, the era of the extraction of America is finally over. 0.58

00:15:09.000 No country that can only...

00:15:12.000 I forgot how I phrased it, but any country that requires U.S. subsidy in order to survive shouldn't.

00:15:18.000 And this means any and every country.

00:15:21.000 The idea that you said, what, 40% of their economy is based off exports to the United States?

00:15:24.000 That ain't our problem.

00:15:25.000 If they want to be a vassal state, okay, and they want to be subservient and then live off our good graces, fine. 0.82

00:15:32.000 But the idea...

00:15:34.000 That we would, for Canada and Mexico, forego our own manufacturing base.

00:15:38.000 Not necessarily manufacturing, but any industry.

00:15:41.000 I know there's some things Canada does we can't.

00:15:43.000 They got tar sands.

00:15:44.000 I know Mexico makes avocados.

00:15:45.000 We don't make nearly as many.

00:15:47.000 That's fine.

00:15:48.000 I don't think 40% of the Mexican economy is avocados.

00:15:51.000 What happens is we send our auto plants to Mexico and say, you do the work and we'll buy the car from you.

00:15:56.000 That only works for like...

00:15:58.000 20 years, you get fat profits, but then the next generation has no jobs.

00:16:02.000 So they make no money, and there's no economic access, and then your country implodes.

00:16:06.000 So it's time to put a stop to this.

00:16:08.000 Now, I like what Trump did.

00:16:10.000 The tariffs are going to be paused for a month because he's basically saying, we'll see if you follow through.

00:16:14.000 Well, but the real reason why he's doing this is not economic.

00:16:18.000 It's because...

00:16:19.000 With Trudeau's lax immigration policies and his virtue signaling, what's been happening is Canada is actually the bigger threat to the United States when it comes to unsecured border.

00:16:29.000 In that video I saw this morning, they said that there were 150 encounters and arrests of terrorists at the southern border, but there were over 350 of these arrests at the northern border with Canada.

00:16:42.000 And that's because Trudeau is out there signaling, saying he's not going to do anything to stop this illegal immigration. 0.67

00:16:47.000 So the guys that really...

00:16:51.000 Yep.

00:16:56.000 Well, it's time to put a stop to it.

00:16:57.000 I mean, look, anything that needs to be done or the government, the federal government and ICE and Homeland Security should go to any lengths.

00:17:06.000 To stop illegal immigration coming into the United States. 0.67

00:17:09.000 It doesn't matter if they're coming from Mexico or if they're coming from Canada.

00:17:13.000 If we have to build a frost wall along the northern border, that's fine with me, too.

00:17:18.000 We can have the hot wall and the cold wall.

00:17:21.000 I'm fine with it.

00:17:23.000 It's perfectly fine to build walls.

00:17:25.000 I don't care.

00:17:25.000 Especially if these other countries, our neighbors, are facilitating or allowing for Foreign nationals to come into the United States without putting legitimate effort into preventing them from coming here when these people are intending to do damage to our country and hurt American citizens.

00:17:46.000 You're saying we need a Castle Black?

00:17:47.000 I have...

00:17:48.000 What's a Castle Black?

00:17:49.000 Game of Thrones.

00:17:50.000 I guess.

00:17:50.000 The fort where they had the big wall on the north of ice to keep the White Walkers out?

00:17:55.000 Yes.

00:17:55.000 Give me a frost wall to keep the frostbacks out.

00:18:00.000 Is it offensive to call Canadians White Walkers?

00:18:02.000 I don't know.

00:18:03.000 I've never heard that one before.

00:18:05.000 Probably.

00:18:07.000 Everything's offensive, so let's just say you're undoing it.

00:18:09.000 Let's just call them White Walkers. 1.00

00:18:11.000 Everything is offensive, especially to people that are upset about the whole situation with immigration.

00:18:18.000 If they're upset about the immigration situation, anything you say to them is going to set them off.

00:18:23.000 You can say, you know, we want you to stay in Canada and they're going to call you all kinds of names.

00:18:27.000 Isn't it funny that Democrats are all basically admitting that they illegally hire...

00:18:31.000 Illegal immigrants?

00:18:32.000 Mm-hmm.

00:18:32.000 They're like, but if you deport these people, then who's gonna pick your crops and clean your toilets?

00:18:37.000 And it's just like, Americans.

00:18:40.000 Americans.

00:18:40.000 Next question.

00:18:41.000 Well, it's a red herring.

00:18:42.000 They don't pick our crops.

00:18:44.000 It's like literally 90% of all the illegals that are here are in major cities.

00:18:49.000 They're not out there farming.

00:18:50.000 They're not making sure our crops don't go bad.

00:18:52.000 They're in major cities taking jobs for Americans.

00:18:54.000 But I have an answer to that when they say, like, if you deport all these people who's going to pick our crops, I'm like, well, there's a bunch of FBI agents.

00:18:59.000 Here's attorneys and DEI coaches who are looking for work.

00:19:02.000 That's right.

00:19:03.000 So, you know, job openings available.

00:19:06.000 Yeah.

00:19:07.000 But it's all just, it's BS. But I just think it's funny that Democrats are basically saying, we do this.

00:19:13.000 But Tim, the more important thing, though, that I'm seeing and that I'm loving is there is this IDGAF mentality amongst everyone in the White House.

00:19:24.000 They don't care what the media says to them. 0.56

00:19:27.000 Stephen Miller just last week, he lectured Jake Tapper.

00:19:32.000 Online.

00:19:33.000 You know, these guys don't care.

00:19:35.000 They were beaten up and bruised.

00:19:36.000 And here's the other thing.

00:19:37.000 Trump and his entire team had four years to look back at their first term, what went wrong, what went right, and a really plot and plan.

00:19:47.000 Meanwhile, they were trying to destroy this entire apparatus that they built.

00:19:51.000 It's beautiful.

00:19:52.000 Not a lot of two-term presidents get four years to look back at their first term and assess what they did right and wrong.

00:19:57.000 And that's why I think we're seeing such a big change.

00:20:00.000 Literally only one other.

00:20:02.000 That's right.

00:20:03.000 What do you think that he got wrong the first time?

00:20:05.000 I think he thought it was going to be a traditional American presidency where there's the play fighting, but at the end of the day, you're going to get an infrastructure bill done.

00:20:16.000 Yeah, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, they're going to fight you like they fought George W. Bush, but it's not serious.

00:20:21.000 They're not actually going to try and put you in prison.

00:20:23.000 They're not actually going to try and kill you and do all this stuff.

00:20:26.000 But they were serious.

00:20:27.000 This was about power for them.

00:20:29.000 He thought that they were going to treat him as a member of the club because he got elected.

00:20:33.000 So the way that the government behaves is there are certain people that are acceptable to be president and then there are people that are not.

00:20:43.000 I think every single person that's been a president has either been in government somehow before or they were a general.

00:20:52.000 I don't think there's been anyone else that came directly from corporate America, from the business background.

00:21:00.000 And so they essentially treated him as if he was not a member of the club.

00:21:04.000 And they treated him like that from day one, actually before, because they were spying on him.

00:21:10.000 The FBI. I'm not sure if...

00:21:12.000 Well, I think it was the FBI that had tapped his...

00:21:13.000 tapped Trump Tower.

00:21:17.000 So they treated him as if he was hostile to the country from day one.

00:21:22.000 Because they were never going to let him in.

00:21:25.000 The goal was to keep him out.

00:21:26.000 And you could see that with the FBI, with people like Peter Stroke, were saying, don't worry, we're going to prevent this from happening.

00:21:32.000 We won't let it happen.

00:21:33.000 I forget the woman that he was having an affair with that he was texting, but the FBI had aligned against him.

00:21:39.000 You had everyone in.

00:21:41.000 Basically in government was working against him.

00:21:44.000 So his biggest mistake was believing that they were going to allow him in and believing that hiring people that were clearly, for lack of a better word, swamp monsters, for lack of a better word, those people would listen to him as opposed to work against him.

00:22:04.000 And then the four years...

00:22:06.000 That he was kind of off in the wilderness.

00:22:09.000 That's where he really had the ability to look back on his presidency, see what they were doing.

00:22:14.000 Obviously, he had to deal with what they were doing.

00:22:16.000 They were trying to impeach him after he'd left office, which is unprecedented.

00:22:21.000 Twice they impeached him after he left office.

00:22:24.000 They tried to use lawfare on him.

00:22:26.000 They tried to throw him in jail.

00:22:28.000 They created felonies out of misdemeanors.

00:22:31.000 They said, oh, these were felonious actions when there was no underlying crime to actually elevate them to felonies.

00:22:38.000 So he saw what the deep state and what the bureaucracy, what the government itself wanted to do to him.

00:22:44.000 And he was like, okay, well, how do I stop this if I win again or when I win again?

00:22:50.000 He obviously knew that if he didn't win again, he was going to go to jail.

00:22:53.000 And there's a lot of other people that would end up in jail, too.

00:22:55.000 I honestly truly believe that people like Tim, people like and other other pundits and other people that are involved in the in the political space, they would either go to they would either end up in jail or they would be run out of the business.

00:23:07.000 They would have Nixon and resigned.

00:23:09.000 Yeah.

00:23:09.000 Right.

00:23:09.000 And I think Trump, to his credit, he learned from the Nixon.

00:23:15.000 Yeah, coup.

00:23:16.000 Let's call it that because that's essentially what it was.

00:23:18.000 But he learned from that and he didn't back away and he stuck with it and he fought them even more, you know, violently than he did before.

00:23:25.000 Yeah.

00:23:26.000 I just want to say before we move on to the next story, to all of our Canadian viewers, I know that most of you don't like your own government and don't agree with the way they're running things and you want Canada first too and I respect that.

00:23:36.000 So hopefully the future we get to is a stronger Canada for Canadians with a government that the people actually need and support.

00:23:43.000 And the United States has much of the same thing.

00:23:45.000 But let's jump to this next story from CNN. Elon Musk said Donald Trump agreed.

00:23:51.000 USAID needs to be shut down.

00:23:54.000 This may be one of the biggest stories, if it happens, of our generation.

00:23:58.000 Now, the latest update from the Wall Street Journal, Marco Rubio wants USAID to undergo overhaul, backs off of full shutdown.

00:24:07.000 Secretary of State plans to reorganize the foreign assistance agency that Elon Musk and Doge are pushing to eliminate.

00:24:15.000 USAID. It's not USAID. There's no aid.

00:24:19.000 Shout out to Mike Benz.

00:24:20.000 It's the U.S. Agency for International Development.

00:24:23.000 And what they basically do is they funnel money to various activist organizations around the world.

00:24:28.000 That's literally what they do.

00:24:29.000 The accusation, I believe RFK Jr. talked about this, was that USAID was funding revolutionary groups in Ukraine to overthrow the government in the Maidan protests, culminating in the ousting of, I believe it was Viktor Yanukovych.

00:24:42.000 Was his name Viktor?

00:24:43.000 I don't know.

00:24:44.000 Yanukovych was the president's name.

00:24:46.000 Was it?

00:24:46.000 It was Viktor?

00:24:47.000 Okay, there you go.

00:24:49.000 So basically, the accusations, USAID is basically a CIA front for U.S. soft coups around the world.

00:24:58.000 A lot of this money, this is crazy.

00:25:00.000 Here's the accusation.

00:25:02.000 US government funds USAID. That money goes to various NGOs and activist groups around the world.

00:25:09.000 Those various NGOs give money to various other organizations, which somehow that money finds its way into the election campaigns of politicians.

00:25:17.000 This may be the system by which the deep state keeps its cronies in office indefinitely because you can't go up against them.

00:25:24.000 They're basically getting money from the government.

00:25:27.000 They're taking your money and they're paying themselves to run again.

00:25:30.000 How do you compete with that?

00:25:31.000 If they get shut down, it's going to be massive.

00:25:34.000 Either way, if information comes out from Doge, from Elon Musk and his crew, about what they've been doing, and we uncover serious malfeasance, I think it's a strong possibility.

00:25:46.000 This could be massive, like...

00:25:49.000 One of the biggest scandals in U.S. history.

00:25:51.000 James O'Keefe did this whole series of exposés for ActBlue.

00:25:57.000 He would go up to these old ladies' houses and ask them about if they had ever contributed $75,000 in $16,000 donation increments.

00:26:07.000 And they were finding out that ActBlue was acting as a money laundering scheme for the Democrats.

00:26:14.000 And I think this is probably part of it.

00:26:17.000 This old lady... 1.00

00:26:18.000 One of them only made like, or she's on retirement income, so it's like, just Social Security.

00:26:23.000 Can't pay, you can't do $75,000 in a year.

00:26:25.000 And definitely make, I mean, anyone to make 16,000 donations in a year is like, you're really working hard just making donations itself.

00:26:34.000 But this is all front.

00:26:35.000 I mean, there's got to be a connection here.

00:26:38.000 I just want to shout out, look, we need to get cash confirmed.

00:26:44.000 We need, have they confirmed?

00:26:46.000 Who have they confirmed?

00:26:47.000 I'm going to look right now.

00:26:48.000 Obviously, I had Seth and stuff, but I mean, of the remaining, they're delaying it.

00:26:53.000 James O'Keefe went to these people's homes, as you mentioned.

00:26:56.000 One of these old people, he's like, did you make $200,000 in donations to ActBlue? 0.99

00:27:01.000 And they're like, what?

00:27:02.000 I don't have that kind of money.

00:27:04.000 And he's like, are you making 47 donations of $5?

00:27:08.000 47 donations per day of $5 to $20?

00:27:10.000 And they're like, no.

00:27:12.000 Someone, some entity, is using ActBlue, it appears, To funnel money through people's names that they've stolen into politicians and PACs and other people's hands.

00:27:24.000 This needs to be criminally investigated.

00:27:26.000 The ponderance of evidence is in front of our faces.

00:27:29.000 Yeah.

00:27:29.000 So for a little context, USAID was created in the 60s by...

00:27:34.000 Kennedy.

00:27:35.000 JFK. By executive order.

00:27:37.000 Yeah, by executive order.

00:27:38.000 Now, there was a bill passed, right?

00:27:39.000 So the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 was passed by Congress, which authorized the establishment of a new agency.

00:27:45.000 But that...

00:27:46.000 That isn't actually USAID. USAID is essentially a front for, like we said, for CIA. And there was a time where it was important to have USAID, and that was when communism was a threat.

00:28:00.000 There was a time where the domino theory was legitimate, the idea that more and more countries were going to fall to communism, that the influence of the Soviet Union was something that threatened the whole world. 0.85

00:28:13.000 And so that was when USAID existed to help to influence other countries, to prevent them from becoming communist by providing them with funding, providing them...

00:28:25.000 Providing them with help with infrastructure, and also there was the covert actions which CIA would do, which was trying to topple other governments.

00:28:34.000 But it was important.

00:28:35.000 But after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, organizations like USAID and the like, they don't have the same...

00:28:44.000 The same goal anymore.

00:28:46.000 There is no communism.

00:28:48.000 There is not global communism in the way that it was when the Soviet Union existed.

00:28:53.000 There's no effort of global communism.

00:28:54.000 Now the effort for global communism comes from the UN. It comes from the NGOs that the US is actually involved with.

00:29:05.000 It's not the same kind of communism.

00:29:07.000 It probably would look something more like...

00:29:10.000 Chinese communism where you've got markets and market communism or whatever, but it's still a top-down authoritarian government and USAID doesn't need to do the same kind of things.

00:29:22.000 And so if it's actually just turned into a money laundering operation, get rid of it.

00:29:29.000 It's not something that's necessary the way that it used to be.

00:29:32.000 And, you know, Doge is showing that it's...

00:29:35.000 What does it ultimately mean, though?

00:29:36.000 Let's say that the U.S. stops engaging in these international soft coup manipulations.

00:29:41.000 You guys ever hear that story?

00:29:42.000 I think it's called Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

00:29:44.000 I haven't seen that.

00:29:45.000 It's a book, right?

00:29:46.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:46.000 This guy, it was a while ago.

00:29:48.000 He was saying that the U.S. strategy was basically, first they go to you and they say, okay, we're going to give you a bunch of money if you do what we want you to do.

00:29:56.000 If the leader says no, they say, okay, well, then we're going to manipulate your system and we're going to throw you out of power.

00:30:00.000 If that fails, then they send in the wetworks.

00:30:03.000 They go in and remove that person.

00:30:04.000 And the examples they give is like Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.

00:30:08.000 Assuming that's true, if USAID is dismantled to a great degree and the U.S. stops engaging in this, what does the world look like?

00:30:18.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:30:20.000 I'm pretty pro-America.

00:30:24.000 I do think that in the absence of the United States being the global hegemon and having the influence that it does, you end up with something like China, you know, someone like China or possibly Russia.

00:30:35.000 Russia has like, if you list all the countries that have the most slaves, currently Russia is like number five or six, right? 0.82

00:30:44.000 It's a train wreck.

00:30:45.000 And China's not a whole lot better. 0.97

00:30:48.000 As much as the U.S. has problems and there is human trafficking and stuff, that's not something that the United States openly is okay with.

00:30:59.000 And there are other countries where that is still okay.

00:31:03.000 The U.S. is the best country in the world still, even though we have our own problems.

00:31:10.000 I'm not trying to say that the U.S. is perfect and that we're completely clean.

00:31:14.000 When you're a government doing government things, you're going to do bad things to people sometimes.

00:31:20.000 And that's not an excuse.

00:31:21.000 That's just the reality because we live in a complex, dangerous world.

00:31:24.000 But the idea of having China in that position or having Russia in that position is far worse.

00:31:31.000 I mean, what is the path that we're on that leads to that not being the case?

00:31:36.000 Of us not being the...

00:31:37.000 Everything we're seeing right now with tariffs and the potential shuttering of USAID, does that lead to a China-dominated planet, a unipolar China Communist Party, or a...

00:31:51.000 U.S. dominated?

00:31:52.000 I don't think so.

00:31:53.000 I think the most likely way that we end up with the Chinese dominating or with Russia dominating is if we don't take care of our economy and we allow the unfunded liabilities, the mandatory spending to blow up the dollar.

00:32:05.000 I think that's the most clear and present threat to the U.S. You know what's crazy is that for I don't know how long it's been, what, 50, maybe 40 years, the U.S. economy has been extracted.

00:32:16.000 We've been giving away our jobs and industry to Mexico, to Canada, and to China.

00:32:22.000 And this has led to the threat of nuclear annihilation with a massive superpower that is China. 0.97

00:32:28.000 That didn't have to be the case.

00:32:31.000 Well, and if you look at the numbers for median household income, adjusted for inflation, we have totally plateaued.

00:32:39.000 And in a lot of ways, we've gone back.

00:32:42.000 When, was it Nixon that finally got us, closed the gold window?

00:32:46.000 Yeah.

00:32:47.000 You could support a family off of one income.

00:32:49.000 Good luck doing that now.

00:32:50.000 Well, so how does Trump make Americans have more babies?

00:32:55.000 Well, I've got a lot of thoughts on this.

00:32:58.000 Be my guest.

00:32:59.000 Well, look, I don't think it works just to pay people, but...

00:33:03.000 One thing that Elon brought up recently that I thought was creative was, I think it was Bill Clinton, he did a budget cutting bill, and essentially they offered federal employees $25,000 to retire early and quit.

00:33:20.000 And that $25,000 opened up the doors for us to cut even more.

00:33:26.000 So you could think about it.

00:33:28.000 In that terms, where you give a super high baby bonus, I don't know if it'll work.

00:33:33.000 I think we've got to look at countries like Hungary that have tried a bunch of this stuff.

00:33:38.000 Married, three kids, no taxes.

00:33:41.000 I love that.

00:33:42.000 And if you get divorced, you lose it.

00:33:44.000 I agree with that.

00:33:45.000 But what about, like, a friend of mine, he actually brought this up.

00:33:48.000 What about, like, a new Homestead Act for families?

00:33:50.000 We have all this federal land, like, literally, I think millions and millions and millions of acres that are just taken up by the federal government.

00:33:57.000 Just to preserve the lands.

00:33:59.000 What if you gave anyone that signed a forgivable loan after 25 years, you pledged to have children, but you have to go out there and you have to build your own home, and it's forgiven after 25 years of marriage and being open to life?

00:34:13.000 I think that's an interesting idea.

00:34:15.000 And it's very American, right?

00:34:17.000 Westward expansion would de-center the power structures of these big cities, get a lot of people moving out.

00:34:24.000 People want a home.

00:34:25.000 They want something that they can invest in.

00:34:26.000 It's empowering to them.

00:34:27.000 After we conquer Canada and Greenland, we're going to need to settle in these territories. 0.64

00:34:33.000 You know, I know that started off as a joke, Tim, but I think we should actually consider conquering Canada.

00:34:37.000 I mean, they need to be colonized.

00:34:39.000 I think that one of the things that the federal government can do, and this might sound...

00:34:46.000 It might sound...

00:34:49.000 It doesn't matter.

00:34:50.000 One of the things the federal government can do is stop focusing on LGBT issues.

00:34:55.000 And the reason I say that is when the goal of the federal government is to center the marginalized.

00:35:02.000 And so this actually goes beyond LGBT issues, but actually goes to more the impulse of everyone on the left or the left-leaning people.

00:35:11.000 The federal government should be focusing on families, should be focusing on traditional families, should be focusing on men and women having babies. 0.86

00:35:21.000 That's what continues your society.

00:35:24.000 We need to have education that does not demonize our history.

00:35:29.000 I think the 1776 Project or whatever it is.

00:35:33.000 They're bringing that back, by the way.

00:35:34.000 Yeah, which is great.

00:35:35.000 That kind of stuff is what you should be teaching your children in schools.

00:35:39.000 If you refuse...

00:35:44.000 The federal government should not be paying for schools to teach children that the American people and American history is uniquely bad.

00:35:57.000 Okay, think about how insane it is.

00:35:59.000 You have the U.S. American government funding schools that are teaching the kids, not that America's bad, but that their United States of America government... 0.96

00:36:10.000 Is corrupt and evil and intrinsically... 0.73

00:36:13.000 What interest do you have besides destroying the country? 0.98

00:36:15.000 Who mentioned Hungary?

00:36:17.000 I did.

00:36:18.000 I love it.

00:36:18.000 Oh yeah, I think we both did.

00:36:19.000 I just looked it up and it says Hungary's birth rate has been declining over recent years.

00:36:25.000 This trend has been consistent since 2022. Probably why they're implementing...

00:36:30.000 The utility rate has shown a slight increase in recent years.

00:36:34.000 Well, it's still early, but 1.5 births per woman in 2025, a 0.45% increase from 2024. Despite these efforts, the birth rate has continued to fall, and that reached 1.5 births per woman in 2023, which is 11% lower than in 2022. It's feminism. 1.00

00:36:57.000 I don't think that the government can do anything about it.

00:37:03.000 It's about people's hearts and their values, and the government can't do anything to prevent a cultural change on that level.

00:37:12.000 They can do some things.

00:37:14.000 The question is the level of impact it would have.

00:37:16.000 So I think that offering tax incentives and things like that benefits will help, but not enough.

00:37:24.000 You're right.

00:37:25.000 There has to be a cultural shift.

00:37:26.000 And I think largely through USAID, we've had this massive shift towards telling women that they should be girl bosses and they should live alone.

00:37:37.000 And it's wild to me that I think if you look at the voting patterns, you basically have families versus Single people. 0.96

00:37:47.000 Like, liberals are largely single women who have cats. 0.83

00:37:51.000 That's not an insult.

00:37:52.000 Cats are great.

00:37:52.000 I got a cat, too.

00:37:53.000 I'm saying that's just what they are.

00:37:54.000 And if you go to one of these people and you ask them about what would you want to invest in, they're going to say, but Trump putting tariffs is going to make my avocado toast cost more money.

00:38:05.000 And then I'm saying, if we don't bring back American culture and industry, what will be left for our children?

00:38:13.000 And they go, I don't care.

00:38:14.000 I don't have any.

00:38:15.000 I think you're exactly right.

00:38:17.000 And I think that the idea that, you know, like Mary said, it's not something that government can do, but government can push around the edges, right?

00:38:26.000 It seems counterintuitive to make it more comfortable for people so that they feel comfortable with having children.

00:38:32.000 Because historically we can see people only really have children when they're uncomfortable and they're afraid for their lives.

00:38:39.000 No, no, no.

00:38:40.000 It's the opposite.

00:38:42.000 It's actually more closely tied.

00:38:44.000 People getting married and having kids is actually more closely tied to their outlook of the future.

00:38:49.000 You had a baby boom after World War II. Why? 0.96

00:38:52.000 Because Americans were coming back and they just got done with a bloody, terrible war. 0.99

00:38:57.000 And they knew and felt that the future was good.

00:39:00.000 One thing I want to point out.

00:39:01.000 So I read this book years ago called What to Expect When No One's Expecting.

00:39:05.000 It was by Jonathan Last before he went nuts on this Trump derangement stuff.

00:39:09.000 And he points out one very important thing.

00:39:12.000 The population carries a lot of momentum.

00:39:16.000 It's very tough to stop a baby boom or to slow it down because what happens is you have a bunch of kids and then those kids just naturally have a bunch of kids. 0.99

00:39:24.000 But at the same time, population decline is incredibly hard to stop.

00:39:29.000 Once it starts to get in motion, for example, once your average woman who hasn't had a kid turns 35, well, her fertility drops by 50% when she hits her 30s. 0.52

00:39:40.000 So it's incredibly difficult to have more kids.

00:39:42.000 I will say this though, Mary, is in terms of what the government can and can't do to get people getting married and having kids again, there's a lot they can stop doing right now that would help at least stop the bleeding.

00:39:54.000 And what I mean by that is like, why are we, we have 1.6 is our fertility rate right now, which is like, you know, 0.6 under, to be fair.

00:40:03.000 Liberals are like 1.3 and conservatives are like 1.8.

00:40:07.000 Well, we got to get those numbers.

00:40:09.000 I know, but I'm just saying like liberals are doing it.

00:40:11.000 What I meant when I said that is that you can just see when any country becomes wealthy, they just stop having kids and it just seems to be their preference.

00:40:22.000 That's a great point because it really is like the unsolved...

00:40:29.000 The problem is that wealth creates a society that doesn't want to have kids.

00:40:36.000 And the funny thing is, kids are like the physical manifestation of a hopeful society.

00:40:41.000 You don't have a lot of kids if you think tomorrow is going to be worse for your children.

00:40:48.000 If you think that the world's going to end, and that's part of why liberals don't have kids nowadays is because they think, oh, I don't want to bring kids into this world that's getting hotter and we're going to have a war.

00:41:01.000 They're all nihilistic at the end of the day.

00:41:03.000 And so they're like, well, I want to live for myself.

00:41:06.000 Whereas people that have religion and have hope for the future, or at the very least hope in general, even if they don't have hope for human society, they're like, well, when we die, we all go to heaven, so it's okay to have kids.

00:41:18.000 That's better than not having kids.

00:41:21.000 Because they believe that that's what...

00:41:23.000 They were told by God.

00:41:24.000 They were instructed to go forth and multiply.

00:41:26.000 But I do think that children are the physical manifestation of a hopeful society.

00:41:29.000 And I think that without religion, you end up with a lot more nihilism and a lot of people that are just like, I don't want to have kids.

00:41:36.000 I'm going to live for myself and live for today.

00:41:38.000 How you solve that, I don't know.

00:41:41.000 But with wealth...

00:41:43.000 It seems to come more, less religion, or more, it's weird because it's not really like less religion, they just turn it into a state religion, but like, it's not the same kind of traditional religion, and then you have fewer people having kids because they don't have the same impulses.

00:42:00.000 They think, oh, you know, I'm going to live for me.

00:42:02.000 So I don't know that I have the solution, but I do think that the government shouldn't be...

00:42:07.000 Focusing on the margins.

00:42:08.000 I think the government should be focusing on people that want to have families and want to have kids.

00:42:13.000 We were talking about this a little bit before the show because I was playing Like a Stone by Audioslave, which to anybody with a brain is about a dude reading the Bible and then he says, I regret all the things I've done and I want to be in heaven and all that stuff.

00:42:25.000 And the point I was bringing up is that culturally in this country, when we have these songs or movies that are very right-wing in their, I guess, message, The right never cheered for it.

00:42:38.000 It was just taken for granted.

00:42:40.000 It was the way it was supposed to be.

00:42:42.000 So Captain America is a reference I give quite a bit.

00:42:44.000 The first Captain America movie, and it was like 2010 or whatever, is about a dude who's desperately trying to enlist to serve his country.

00:42:50.000 The second movie is about a guy realizing the government was corrupt and overrun by fascists who had secretly taken over it for the whole time and been operating since World War II. It's a very different message.

00:43:00.000 People still enjoy these movies, but I look at it like...

00:43:03.000 Why don't conservatives, or why didn't they, I suppose it doesn't matter why they didn't, but they didn't say, hey, this is really, really great, make more of it.

00:43:11.000 What ends up happening is the woke activists come in and complain, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and you end up with, you know, 14 years or 10 years of wokeness. 0.96

00:43:18.000 Until finally, it's not even necessarily conservatives, just regular people were like, we do not want this weird garbage.

00:43:24.000 You know, that's a good point, Tim.

00:43:26.000 I do think conservatives and anyone on the right needs to do a better job of rewarding anyone that's doing the right thing and producing beautiful pro-America, pro-God, pro-family art.

00:43:37.000 And as you were talking, it reminded me of the Chick-fil-A protests.

00:43:42.000 I think it was around 2011, 2012. Their founder comes out and says they only respect one man, one woman marriage.

00:43:49.000 And the left back did a whole backlash.

00:43:51.000 All the LGBT groups started boycotting them.

00:43:53.000 And conservatives...

00:43:55.000 Rose to the challenge, and they did a boycott.

00:43:58.000 And it literally put Chick-fil-A even more on the map than it already was.

00:44:02.000 It exploded their growth.

00:44:04.000 And if you think about what would have happened if conservatives just went away and didn't go and do the boycott, didn't reward Chick-fil-A for...

00:44:14.000 Didn't Chick-fil-A ultimately cave to a lot of bulk demands later on, though?

00:44:16.000 They did a little bit, but it was more on the tolerance of things.

00:44:20.000 But they never changed their position on gay marriage.

00:44:24.000 Yeah, I guess maybe I'm talking myself out of this.

00:44:26.000 I mean, they did kind of cave.

00:44:28.000 Well, that's because you're right.

00:44:30.000 Conservatives did this.

00:44:31.000 But then in the late 2010s, they stopped.

00:44:34.000 Yeah.

00:44:34.000 It was, I guess, just battered and beaten down.

00:44:37.000 But now things are starting to turn around.

00:44:39.000 Yeah.

00:44:39.000 I think we're seeing a major shift in the culture.

00:44:42.000 But, you know, who knows?

00:44:43.000 Let's do this.

00:44:45.000 I'll jump to this story, which I painstakingly do.

00:44:48.000 From People, Alicia Keys delivers powerful message at 2025 Grammys.

00:44:53.000 DEI is not a threat.

00:44:55.000 It's a gift.

00:44:56.000 You know what I absolutely love about this is that you got this video, and I think it was like Billie Eilish.

00:45:00.000 Was that who it was?

00:45:01.000 Who's like sitting there going like, yeah, you go or something.

00:45:03.000 And I'm like, yo, you guys lost.

00:45:06.000 Like, the popular vote was for Donald Trump.

00:45:08.000 It's clearly not working out, and they're doubling down at their weird cult fest.

00:45:14.000 DEI may not be a threat, but it's purely illegal.

00:45:17.000 It's a violation of civil rights law.

00:45:19.000 Exactly right.

00:45:20.000 It's absolutely illegal.

00:45:21.000 And eventually, these companies that hire based on DEI quotas and stuff like that, they're going to find out.

00:45:29.000 They're going to see people that are going to, you know...

00:45:32.000 We're going to take him to court.

00:45:33.000 I don't know if we're going to talk about it tonight, but there's a...

00:45:36.000 Someone suing a company about hiring...

00:45:43.000 What's it called?

00:45:46.000 The...

00:45:47.000 Air traffic controllers.

00:45:49.000 There was like a thousand people that were...

00:45:51.000 They were saying if you were mentally unwell.

00:45:53.000 Yeah, there's that.

00:45:54.000 But there's also, apparently, there was like a thousand people that were looked over that had some of the best scores on the test.

00:45:59.000 One dude got like 100% on this eight-hour test.

00:46:02.000 You have to score 85%.

00:46:04.000 But they didn't hire him because he's a white guy.

00:46:06.000 And there's multiple cases pending right now like that.

00:46:11.000 If I remember correctly, it's been going since like five years, I'm not sure exactly.

00:46:19.000 But the point is, once these actually come to light and you see that there's a lot of people that are suing or that have been passed over for important jobs, this kind of talk is going to be widely rejected.

00:46:33.000 People are going to be like, no, this is not okay because you're making the world worse.

00:46:37.000 We've talked about a crisis of competence.

00:46:40.000 On this show multiple times because of hiring people that are not qualified because of their identity.

00:46:48.000 Like, that is happening.

00:46:49.000 That has been happening.

00:46:50.000 And granted, thankfully, there haven't been a lot of these things that have happened, a lot of accidents.

00:46:56.000 But the more you do it, the more the possibility becomes a reality.

00:47:01.000 The more frequently things are going to go wrong.

00:47:03.000 And, you know, air travel is very, very...

00:47:08.000 Redundant.

00:47:09.000 Like, you have to have a lot of things go wrong to have an accident, especially one like this.

00:47:13.000 Well, the meme now is that Pete Buttigieg was holding this all together like Spider-Man in the train.

00:47:18.000 And that as soon as he's out, like, planes are bursting into flames and they're crashing.

00:47:22.000 I'm like, it is kind of funny to me that we've been warning you about this for years, and then Trump's not even a week in, and we see a bunch of disasters, you're like, Trump must have done it.

00:47:30.000 And it's like, or...

00:47:32.000 We've been warning you this was going to happen.

00:47:34.000 Trump has not had enough time to do anything related to any of this.

00:47:36.000 Did you see the latest disingenuous attacks from the Dems, like Schumer and Pelosi and all that?

00:47:41.000 They're saying to have the President of the United States blame these tragedies on...

00:47:47.000 What is it?

00:47:49.000 Persons of color and minorities is absolutely tragic. 1.00

00:47:52.000 Like, no, no, no, no.

00:47:53.000 We're blaming it on the system that you created that forces, not forces, but where you actually choose people based on their identities, not on their qualifications.

00:48:03.000 And it's just more and more the same from these guys.

00:48:06.000 They lost and they still didn't get the memo or they're like refusing to accept the memo.

00:48:12.000 It's been 10 years of this stuff or longer.

00:48:15.000 You know, I think the first kind of inkling of this stuff was probably like when Barack Obama first got elected.

00:48:22.000 So easily 10, probably 15 years of this stuff has been going on.

00:48:27.000 And it's really, really ingrained now.

00:48:30.000 And it's something that people have been complaining about. 0.65

00:48:32.000 And being called all the names in the world, you know, if you said, oh, this is a bad policy, it's like, oh, you're a racist, sexist, bigot, blah, blah, blah, all the isms and stuff like that. 0.59

00:48:41.000 And now... 0.89

00:48:42.000 No one cares anymore.

00:48:43.000 Everybody that's, you know, would be critical of this stuff, and they, you know, if someone on the left says, oh, well, you're only saying this because you're a racist, they're like, I don't...

00:48:53.000 Your magic words don't work.

00:48:55.000 Try to put your magic spells back in your pouch because none of it works anymore.

00:49:01.000 I don't care about your mumbo jumbo.

00:49:03.000 I'm telling you something that's true.

00:49:04.000 You're talking about air traffic controllers being hired for DEI reasons, right?

00:49:09.000 That was the specific issue that I was talking about.

00:49:11.000 That's like homicidal.

00:49:12.000 Yes.

00:49:13.000 If I envision who I would think of as the ideal air traffic controller, he's like a...

00:49:21.000 Kind of nerdy white dude who's like played video games since he was like eight years old and has incredible hand-eye coordination and incredible focus.

00:49:31.000 He's always the Chad meme.

00:49:32.000 I don't care.

00:49:33.000 Whatever the job is, the ideal guy is the Chad meme.

00:49:35.000 He's a big ripped guy and he's sitting there and he's like...

00:49:39.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:49:40.000 I don't know the qualifications that, you know, you have to have to be.

00:49:45.000 You better be a gamer.

00:49:46.000 I mean, maybe.

00:49:47.000 And, like, back to the Grammys, this is just, like, a huge moment of catharsis for all of these people because, like, the wound of Trump winning is still so fresh for them.

00:49:57.000 It was not just Alicia Keys.

00:49:59.000 It was everyone who was making statements like this.

00:50:02.000 I think...

00:50:04.000 One other celebrity dedicated, I think it was Shakira, dedicated her award to immigrants.

00:50:11.000 Not really sure which immigrants she's talking about. 1.00

00:50:14.000 Rabbit idiots. 1.00

00:50:15.000 They're seen and loved and everything. 1.00

00:50:17.000 She's mothering them. 1.00

00:50:20.000 And then Lady Gaga was making a statement about how trans people just want you to know you're not invisible or whatever.

00:50:29.000 And it was just non-stop after that. 0.82

00:50:33.000 Nonsense.

00:50:34.000 Can you do that Shakira impression again?

00:50:35.000 I think that was really good.

00:50:37.000 That was really accurate.

00:50:38.000 Can we do this?

00:50:40.000 It was almost a Kamala Harris impression.

00:50:44.000 We did it, Joe.

00:50:46.000 That was good.

00:50:47.000 I can't remember who tweeted it.

00:50:49.000 It might have been Milo.

00:50:49.000 Somebody was like, I don't watch the Grammys because it's basically like the pre-show for the Diddy Party or whatever.

00:50:55.000 No one watches it.

00:50:56.000 They've been struggling for years and no one even...

00:50:59.000 Who cares about these things anymore.

00:51:02.000 You just see clips of it show up on your timeline.

00:51:05.000 I didn't even know what happened.

00:51:07.000 The only positive thing I can say about the Grammys this year is the Grammys actually managed to give a Grammy to a good metal band.

00:51:14.000 Usually they blow it.

00:51:15.000 Which one?

00:51:16.000 To Gojira.

00:51:17.000 Yeah, but they gave Beyonce a country award. 0.82

00:51:20.000 Well, she wrote a country record.

00:51:22.000 Biggest DEI win maybe in history.

00:51:25.000 Beyonce got best country album.

00:51:28.000 Are you kidding me?

00:51:29.000 Nobody liked or cared about Cowboy Carter, and it was just, it was cheeks.

00:51:34.000 It was so bad.

00:51:35.000 Wait, wait, what's cheeks? 0.99

00:51:36.000 Is that like ass? 0.99

00:51:38.000 Yeah, it was ass, and she got it because she was, like, making a statement about how, like, black people belong in country music. 1.00

00:51:48.000 Like, that was what they were framing it as. 0.99

00:51:52.000 So, it was like...

00:51:53.000 Black History Month, like, we're just gonna give Beyonce the award because she's here.

00:51:58.000 Like, participation trophy.

00:51:59.000 I'm gonna make the Hollywood Actors Award Ceremony, and I'm gonna give it to me and Phil.

00:52:05.000 And, uh, you know, basically just, when they give an award for country music and they're not the country music awards, it's just meaningless.

00:52:13.000 She won over Post Malone.

00:52:16.000 Who has made so much country music recently, he's really good at it.

00:52:19.000 I mean, I kind of like him more as a rapper.

00:52:22.000 F1 Trillion's good.

00:52:23.000 Aside from that, he lost to Beyonce, which is just a joke, and everyone knows it.

00:52:28.000 Well, I mean, Beyonce, the music, the Grammys are all about the music industry patting itself on the back.

00:52:35.000 Right?

00:52:36.000 It's all...

00:52:37.000 The people that are on the Grammy Council or whatever.

00:52:41.000 It's a small group.

00:52:41.000 Yeah, it's a small group of people.

00:52:43.000 Tom Morello's on it.

00:52:43.000 They get bought off.

00:52:45.000 Oh yeah, Jay-Z wrote a check.

00:52:47.000 Yeah, when you end up, like, the way that you get submitted is your label submits you, and then it's always like, who does your manager know?

00:52:56.000 Does your manager know the right people?

00:52:58.000 Can they grease the palms of the people that are on there?

00:53:01.000 Or at least, are they going to take them to dinner?

00:53:03.000 Are they going to...

00:53:04.000 No.

00:53:04.000 Well, there's been times where our label submitted, but I've straight up said that if we ever got a Grammy...

00:53:08.000 Like, we would never get one because I'm not in with the people, but if we ever did end up with one, I would do the same thing that Randy from Lamb of God did.

00:53:15.000 Randy from Lamb of God.

00:53:16.000 Lamb of God won a Grammy.

00:53:18.000 Randy didn't go.

00:53:19.000 I wouldn't go either.

00:53:20.000 Randy took the Grammy award, he auctioned it off, and he gave the money to charity.

00:53:26.000 And that is the exact correct thing to do.

00:53:28.000 Or even better, do what Kanye did.

00:53:29.000 He just pissed on it. 0.96

00:53:31.000 Or he brought his wife naked to the Grammys. 0.99

00:53:34.000 Yeah, he did that.

00:53:36.000 Yeah, that's a thing.

00:53:37.000 You know, everyone's saying that he's controlling her and forcing her to do this.

00:53:43.000 I find it...

00:53:44.000 Incredibly easy to believe that this woman is debasing herself for money and clout. 1.00

00:53:50.000 Like, it wouldn't be the first time.

00:53:52.000 Yeah, I mean, I just assume she's into it.

00:53:55.000 Oh, and you know, there were kids there, by the way.

00:53:57.000 There were children present.

00:53:58.000 You can even see in one of the videos, there were children present on the red carpet because there were all these, like, make-a-wish kids there.

00:54:06.000 It was insane.

00:54:07.000 And that's, like, a crime.

00:54:08.000 Like, I don't know how they're not in jail right now.

00:54:11.000 You know...

00:54:12.000 Honestly, what she did, it's like, for those that don't know, she was wearing completely see-through garment of some sort.

00:54:20.000 It was the most see-through garment that you can imagine.

00:54:25.000 It's just one step past the line that the Grammys were already at.

00:54:28.000 Oh yeah, I'm not saying the Grammys are the pinnacle of human decency or anything. 0.74

00:54:33.000 No, I'm just saying that we've already seen nipples and stuff, and they just go like... 0.51

00:54:38.000 But it's only a little bit.

00:54:39.000 And they do things like that.

00:54:40.000 She just was like, I'm going for it.

00:54:42.000 I mean, I don't think that Kanye could have gotten away with walking out there naked.

00:54:45.000 No.

00:54:46.000 But she did.

00:54:48.000 It's really disheartening because you can't get away with this once you have cultivated a mainly Christian fan base or at least people who profess to be Christian with this worship music that he was making as recently as 2023. And then now with his current behavior, you can either We're talking about Kanye?

00:55:18.000 Yeah.

00:55:19.000 I mean, he's a...

00:55:20.000 Look, I love him.

00:55:21.000 I listen to all of his music.

00:55:24.000 One of my only regrets is that I've never been to one of his shows.

00:55:27.000 I've been to a hundred other shows, but he's a bit unstable.

00:55:30.000 I mean, I don't know if there's really any method to his madness.

00:55:33.000 Like, he's all over the place. 0.97

00:55:35.000 I think he's one of these crazy artists.

00:55:38.000 A lot of people just wanted to take him at his word when he was talking about converting to Christianity and wanting to make music that isn't offensive and indecent. 0.93

00:55:46.000 And then Carnival comes out and you see, okay, I guess you went back on that.

00:55:50.000 And it's straight up blasphemous.

00:55:52.000 There are blasphemous lyrics in that.

00:55:53.000 In the Gospel album?

00:55:56.000 No, in Carnival, his recent album that was nominated, there's a line that's like, he's calling himself Jesus Christ.

00:56:04.000 So it doesn't get more unambiguous than that.

00:56:07.000 Well, he called himself Yeezus for...

00:56:08.000 I mean, look, I think he's an unstable person.

00:56:10.000 And also, like, he's obviously unstable.

00:56:13.000 He was praising Hitler on Alex Jones.

00:56:15.000 Like, I don't know.

00:56:16.000 I just don't...

00:56:17.000 I think he makes good music.

00:56:19.000 And that's where it is with me and him.

00:56:21.000 Let's move on and get back into the world of boring politics.

00:56:24.000 We have this from the New York Times.

00:56:26.000 Top FBI agent in New York vows to dig in after removals at agency.

00:56:31.000 It's not just him.

00:56:33.000 We've got some posts.

00:56:34.000 Let me see.

00:56:34.000 We got one from Jack Posobiec.

00:56:36.000 Federal workers are actively stating they're declaring war on Trump, on the Trump admin from within the government.

00:56:41.000 Look at this.

00:56:41.000 To my fellow feds, especially veterans.

00:56:43.000 And I'm just not going to read it.

00:56:45.000 It's long-winded. 1.00

00:56:45.000 It's stupid. 1.00

00:56:46.000 It's like, they don't care about us. 1.00

00:56:47.000 E-2025.

00:56:48.000 It's a goon. 0.98

00:56:49.000 Yeah, Project 2025. Then we got this from Elon Musk.

00:56:52.000 R slash FBI says, OPSEC reminder, use of fingerprinting on emails and notices.

00:56:57.000 Basically warning that Elon and his Doge team are using...

00:57:02.000 There's this technique called coloring the water, where to prevent leaks or to track leaks, you send out slightly different information in every direction, and then whichever information leaks, you know who the leaker is.

00:57:14.000 In this instance, they use fingerprinting in emails.

00:57:17.000 So if you screen grab the email, they know exactly who it came from.

00:57:21.000 It looks uniform, but there's something tiny about it you don't notice.

00:57:24.000 So Elon Musk is saying, if you leak, you're fired.

00:57:29.000 Yes. 0.95

00:57:30.000 The idea that there would be no resistance is a silly one. 0.91

00:57:33.000 Of course they're going to resist.

00:57:35.000 And now even James O'Keefe has this video out where they're basically saying they're going to defy the orders from Kristi Noem.

00:57:39.000 Absolutely.

00:57:40.000 This is something that at least libertarian kind of minded people have had a sense of because the libertarians have been unaffected forever.

00:57:52.000 But this administration is actually the most libertarian administration in...

00:57:57.000 Probably 75 or longer years.

00:58:00.000 This is the kind of stuff you can expect the government to do.

00:58:03.000 These kind of like, oh, he's such a terrible person, and oh, they're going to put all these people out of business and are out of work, etc., etc.

00:58:11.000 That's the same thing you get any time you try to cut in government at all.

00:58:16.000 If you try to cut...

00:58:17.000 Any program, the people that are made a living off of it, of course, are going to call you names.

00:58:24.000 They're going to say that you're this bad person, etc.

00:58:27.000 And if you're a president that is so polarizing with an opposition that is so sure that you're the worst person ever, they're going to do everything they can to cast everything you do as the worst. 0.99

00:58:42.000 It's ridiculous because they're saying, oh, Donald Trump is a fascist and he's like Hitler. 0.99

00:58:47.000 And it's like he's trying to make the government smaller. 0.99

00:58:51.000 Fascists don't try to limit the scope and size of government.

00:58:55.000 They want a government that's involved in almost every aspect of your life.

00:59:00.000 Because, I mean, Mussolini said everything within the state, nothing outside of the state.

00:59:05.000 And Mussolini is the quintessential fascist.

00:59:09.000 Aside from the Nazis, which were a whole other kind of fascism. 0.74

00:59:13.000 But Mussolini really kind of wrote the book on fascism.

00:59:16.000 And there was nothing that the Italian fascists were not involved with.

00:59:21.000 Any personal life was gone.

00:59:24.000 The government had a stake in all of it. 0.99

00:59:26.000 The idea that Donald Trump is a fascist when he's trying to cut things, trying to remove government from your daily life, is ridiculous. 0.90

00:59:34.000 But they have nothing, which is... 0.98

00:59:38.000 I wish that Trump were the person they say he is.

00:59:43.000 I always think about this.

00:59:45.000 It makes me so sad that he's not the fascist dictator that they say he is.

00:59:49.000 The irony shouldn't be lost on us, though.

00:59:51.000 I mean, for the last, what, eight years, we've had to listen to the left talk about how Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.

00:59:58.000 The principles of democracy are under attack every single day from every direction from Trump and his team.

01:00:05.000 Meanwhile, we have a democratically elected president who gets into office, who has a, what, 57%, 56% approval rating?

01:00:12.000 Yeah.

01:00:13.000 His approval rating's rising as he's doing his agenda, and now you have this deep state, this shadow government, let's call it, who's trying to thwart him every which way.

01:00:24.000 Which is it?

01:00:25.000 We all know.

01:00:27.000 We all know it was never about democracy.

01:00:29.000 What they really meant, what Elon said, if you change out democracy with bureaucracy...

01:00:34.000 It makes a lot more sense.

01:00:36.000 I just retweeted it so it's at the top of my Twitter feed if anyone's interested in looking.

01:00:43.000 There's a New York Times piece that was written today and it says the Democrats are saying we have no coherent message.

01:00:50.000 Democrats struggle to oppose Trump.

01:00:52.000 More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders reveal a party struggling to decide what it believes in, what issues to prioritize, and how to confront an aggressive right-wing administration.

01:01:01.000 That's exactly what we want.

01:01:03.000 What if with this USAID purge, you know, they're going to fire a bunch of feds, FBI agents.

01:01:10.000 I mean, that's pretty crazy.

01:01:11.000 Basically, any FBI agent who was involved in J6 investigations is on the chopping block, including, like, leadership.

01:01:20.000 Yeah.

01:01:21.000 What if they take USAID and just start funding a bunch of conservative organizations the way that they were funding?

01:01:28.000 To make up for it.

01:01:28.000 I think that's more than justified.

01:01:31.000 I don't want a hundred years of populist right-wing rule in this country.

01:01:36.000 I don't know if you get that, but it would definitely make up for...

01:01:39.000 I'll tell you this.

01:01:40.000 So my dad was a one-term member of Congress.

01:01:43.000 He got elected in 2010. And we killed it with fundraising.

01:01:46.000 We raised $1.5 million.

01:01:48.000 Our opponent raised, I think it was $2.1 million.

01:01:51.000 That was like real money at the time.

01:01:53.000 You look at what these congressional candidates are raising now.

01:01:56.000 It's $3, $4, $5 million if you're a Democrat.

01:02:00.000 And it's always been puzzling to me where the hell all this money is coming from.

01:02:05.000 What was the big change where all of a sudden Democrats are raising mid-seven figures?

01:02:11.000 It has to be this government stuff, and it had to have been led by Barack Obama.

01:02:15.000 They got too close.

01:02:16.000 I think the 2010 wave year really scared the bejesus out of the Democrats. 0.53

01:02:21.000 They thought, holy cow, there's this populist backlash to all these Obama policies, and they started plotting and planning.

01:02:28.000 Barack Obama got elected, and then everything started becoming super dysfunctional.

01:02:33.000 It's like he exacerbated everything.

01:02:35.000 Yeah.

01:02:36.000 Yeah, it's interesting.

01:02:37.000 The argument is that with USAID, it was funding the Uniparty, which was Republicans and Democrats as well.

01:02:44.000 I don't know.

01:02:46.000 It's circuitous.

01:02:47.000 I wouldn't call it conspiratorial because the money is traceable.

01:02:50.000 You can actually see that this organization received money from USAID and then donated money to these activist groups.

01:02:55.000 It's all there.

01:02:56.000 The intent is a question.

01:02:58.000 But if the U.S. goes in, if Elon and Rubio or whatever, they go in and say, no, no, no, we're just going to make sure that all that money goes to Bible study or something like that.

01:03:07.000 That could dramatically shift things in a way that's worse than just shutting it down.

01:03:10.000 Right now, they shut it down.

01:03:12.000 The deep state says, dang, we lose our funding.

01:03:15.000 They reappropriate all that funding in the populist direction, and it's game over.

01:03:20.000 I like it.

01:03:21.000 I kind of like it.

01:03:22.000 Maybe we should petition that.

01:03:24.000 Well, Rubio is saying he doesn't want to shut it down.

01:03:26.000 I'm not sure what policies you should be focusing that money on if we were to do that.

01:03:34.000 1776 curriculum in every public school.

01:03:36.000 I don't think that that's going to take that much money.

01:03:39.000 No, it probably won't.

01:03:40.000 I think that the actual things that the Republicans or conservatives want the government to do...

01:03:47.000 Probably don't take as much money as is being cleaned up.

01:03:51.000 And again, this is just discretionary, right?

01:03:53.000 So even if you took that excess money, did a couple things that conservatives like, and threw the rest of it at mandatory spending, you don't do anything about the coming economic crisis.

01:04:04.000 No, you know what you do is you redirect the USAID funding.

01:04:08.000 To helping women afford pregnancies.

01:04:10.000 You pay for every single pregnancy in the country as long as they're married. 1.00

01:04:14.000 That's how you do it.

01:04:15.000 And that would shift so much power.

01:04:18.000 Tim, I think we've talked about this on your show because we did this report years ago.

01:04:22.000 It was like 2019. And we studied the impact that family structure has on voting behavior and ideology.

01:04:29.000 If you're married and have kids, you're way more conservative.

01:04:32.000 And if you come from a household of a married mom and dad that didn't get divorced, didn't cohabitate, you are way more likely to be conservative than their never married peers.

01:04:42.000 Enforced monogamy.

01:04:44.000 They just incentivize monogamy. 0.99

01:04:46.000 So, Jordan Peterson got yelled at by the liberals for this.

01:04:50.000 Enforced monogamy is just the sociological term for when a society has pressures on wanting you to be monogamous.

01:04:57.000 So, like, back in the day, if you were a woman and you were not married, you were a spinster, and so there was a shame involved in it.

01:05:04.000 Enforced monogamy was then taken to imply that Jordan Peterson was saying the government should force women to marry incels.

01:05:10.000 That's not what he was saying.

01:05:11.000 He was saying that a society should have its own guardrails.

01:05:17.000 This is what people need to understand.

01:05:20.000 Mary, you made a really great point about how government can't really do much to change these things.

01:05:24.000 You can't rely on the stroke of a pen.

01:05:26.000 The moment you're writing things down to make them happen, you're already in trouble.

01:05:30.000 Society needs to dictate its own rules.

01:05:32.000 And we have a degenerate, immoral, amoral society right now.

01:05:35.000 Well, I think a lot of that's...

01:05:37.000 We're winning.

01:05:38.000 It's shifting.

01:05:38.000 We're starting to win, but again, we have this report that's coming out later this week.

01:05:44.000 We analyzed all of the funding streams that the federal government's using to push gender ideology on our kids and throughout our entire culture.

01:05:51.000 It is over $100 million, at least, right?

01:05:56.000 This is insane.

01:05:58.000 Government is doing so much to cause dysfunction that if you were to just get the government to stop doing the programs that are causing dysfunction, I think you'd have a lot of healing that would naturally start happening.

01:06:10.000 I don't think we're winning.

01:06:12.000 I don't think we're winning at all.

01:06:14.000 People just look at the end of a battle and they look at Trump winning an election and they think that's the end of a war.

01:06:21.000 And that's incredibly naive.

01:06:24.000 I don't know.

01:06:25.000 I don't think it's over.

01:06:27.000 It's far from over.

01:06:29.000 I don't think people think it's done yet.

01:06:31.000 It's not even close to over.

01:06:32.000 We're not winning.

01:06:33.000 We're not winning the culture.

01:06:35.000 We're not.

01:06:36.000 I disagree.

01:06:38.000 The popular vote shows a cultural shift.

01:06:41.000 It doesn't mean that we've won the culture, but we are winning.

01:06:44.000 And then you look at, was it Rachel Maddow's key demo average was 68,000?

01:06:49.000 Like, we have just about that much watching live at one moment.

01:06:54.000 And that was her, like, cap viewership in the demo.

01:06:57.000 So I do think it's a big mistake of Trump and his team to start defending TikTok all of a sudden.

01:07:03.000 That's going to flip on a dime in two seconds and start pushing Dylan Mulvaney all over again. 0.94

01:07:06.000 But I think Trump wins.

01:07:09.000 Facebook backs off censorship.

01:07:11.000 YouTube does as well.

01:07:12.000 Rumble's expanding.

01:07:13.000 He's got a billion-dollar investment from Tether.

01:07:17.000 There's tons of cultural victories and we've been gaining.

01:07:20.000 I think with Trump's victory, a popular vote win for the first time in 20 years, we are gaining ground.

01:07:26.000 But doesn't it signify that there's like a real shift in people and where they get their news from?

01:07:31.000 I mean, I think that's the most hopeful thing is people really don't watch CNN or MSNBC anymore.

01:07:36.000 They are going to Timcast and they're going to Rogan and they're going to all these other sources.

01:07:41.000 It's becoming decentralized, which is a beautiful thing because it's one less tool that the state can use.

01:07:47.000 And look, we're expected to believe that the FBI and the CIA and USAID, that they do regime change and operations in every other country except the United States. 0.98

01:07:57.000 It's garbage. 0.98

01:07:58.000 Everyone knows that that's not true. 0.99

01:08:00.000 Let's jump to this next story.

01:08:02.000 We got this one from the New York Post.

01:08:04.000 Democrats' unfavorability rating reaches a new 16-year high as party keeps licking its wounds following disastrous 2024. Phil had this post.

01:08:14.000 We have no coherent message.

01:08:16.000 Democrats struggle to oppose Trump.

01:08:18.000 More than 50 interviews with Democratic leaders revealed a party struggling to decide what it believes in, what issues to prioritize, and how to confront an aggressive right-wing administration.

01:08:26.000 I just want to make it simple for everybody.

01:08:30.000 There is, let's count, just Tulsi Gabbard, she was a Democrat. 1.00

01:08:35.000 RFK Jr., he was a Democrat.

01:08:37.000 Donald Trump, he was a Democrat.

01:08:39.000 Who else do we have?

01:08:41.000 Basically, they're calling it an aggressive right-wing administration that's led largely by a bunch of moderates. 0.93

01:08:48.000 They don't understand that they are the extremist lunatics and they need to moderate. 0.60

01:08:54.000 Instead, what did they do? 0.95

01:08:55.000 They voted David Hogg as their vice chair.

01:08:57.000 They've lost the plot.

01:09:00.000 That's a great point.

01:09:02.000 The fact that they made David Hogg the vice chair.

01:09:05.000 We talked about this a little bit earlier.

01:09:06.000 The DNC, when they were doing the voting, they did a land acknowledgement.

01:09:12.000 People were talking about what gender you were allowed to vote for.

01:09:16.000 If I understand correctly, you were not allowed to vote for two men or two women.

01:09:20.000 You had to vote for one man and one woman.

01:09:22.000 You weren't allowed to vote for two women. 0.99

01:09:24.000 No, I don't think you could do that either.

01:09:27.000 I think you had to have some kind of non-binary or something.

01:09:30.000 I could have misheard.

01:09:32.000 You had to vote for one man and one woman? 1.00

01:09:34.000 Yeah, you couldn't vote for two men.

01:09:35.000 Sounds like marriage to me.

01:09:36.000 I could have misheard because it sounded like the people that were actually reading the rules at the DNC convention were confused as well, so I might have misheard or misunderstood.

01:09:45.000 But the point is, they're still doing the same things that turn people off.

01:09:51.000 If they do this stuff and they have policies that are working, most people will be like, I don't care, whatever, right?

01:09:58.000 Until your child is confronted with a man and until your daughter is confronted in the bathroom with a man, for the most part, most people will be like, nah, you know, it's not that big of a deal.

01:10:07.000 And they're like, it doesn't really matter to me.

01:10:09.000 It doesn't affect me until it becomes personal.

01:10:11.000 But when they're doing this stuff and they're mismanaging the government, when they're doing this stuff and you have inflation, when they're doing this stuff and you have an economy that's not...

01:10:21.000 When they're doing this stuff and there are actual tangible problems, these things become important.

01:10:27.000 Like no water in your fire hydrants.

01:10:29.000 Like no water in your fire hydrants.

01:10:31.000 Look, if I was Trump or if I was one of these billionaire conservative donors, I would be getting my team together and plotting and planning on how we can start to make California purple.

01:10:42.000 Do you listen to the All In podcast at all?

01:10:45.000 I do every now and then.

01:10:46.000 Yeah, I listen to it like every week.

01:10:47.000 It's good.

01:10:49.000 That's Mark Halperin and Sean Spicer?

01:10:51.000 No, no, that's two-way.

01:10:53.000 Mark Halperin's new platform.

01:10:54.000 The All In podcast is...

01:10:56.000 Chamath, I forget what his last name is.

01:10:59.000 One of the guys is now on Trump's team.

01:11:04.000 He's the crypto and AI guy.

01:11:07.000 David Sachs, yes.

01:11:09.000 But these guys were all former Democrats, right?

01:11:12.000 They were all...

01:11:13.000 Silicon Valley guys.

01:11:15.000 Chamath and Sachs had an actual, legit fundraiser for Trump.

01:11:20.000 They have all seen what the Democrats are doing.

01:11:23.000 People like Marc Andreessen, who's also a...

01:11:26.000 I think he was an early investor in PayPal.

01:11:28.000 He was a...

01:11:30.000 Yeah, great.

01:11:31.000 But these guys were all...

01:11:33.000 Staunch Democrats.

01:11:34.000 And they've seen the way that the government has been behaving and the way that the government has been stifling innovation and stifling new technologies.

01:11:43.000 After the RFK Jr. hearing, I was watching that.

01:11:48.000 And this was last week, right?

01:11:50.000 Because I'm like sitting in the couch, unable to talk or open my mouth, watching this hearing.

01:11:54.000 And I just thought these people are evil.

01:11:56.000 Like, RFK Jr. is moderate on a lot of these issues.

01:11:59.000 If you go to any L.A., if you go to, like, what's that neighborhood called?

01:12:05.000 Electric Avenue or whatever.

01:12:07.000 All these hippy-dippy leftists wearing their sundresses and, like, refusing modern medicine and doing their holistic crystal woo-woo stuff.

01:12:16.000 Those are Democrat voters. 1.00

01:12:18.000 And they're being told they're stupid and they're wrong. 1.00

01:12:21.000 When RFK Jr. Who's not even as far as them is saying we should have more rigorous science on vaccines. 1.00

01:12:27.000 They go, oh, you're a crazy person. 0.70

01:12:29.000 I saw so many tweets from people being like, that's it. 0.99

01:12:31.000 I'm done.

01:12:32.000 I can't believe the Democrats would say something like this.

01:12:34.000 I'm disgusted.

01:12:35.000 You know, there are Democrats who are woke-ish, who are liberal, who hate Trump.

01:12:40.000 And very much say, Big Pharma's screwing us over.

01:12:42.000 Yes, yes.

01:12:43.000 And then they go to RFK and they attack them, and tons of other Democrat voters are just like, I'm out.

01:12:47.000 The Maha movement is like the most beautiful new addition to the MAGA movement.

01:12:51.000 I mean, it is the most popular aspect that they've added on, and it's so...

01:12:57.000 It's so copacetic because it flows with all of the opposition to the trans stuff.

01:13:02.000 It's beautiful.

01:13:05.000 Republicans, and I'm telling you, it's not the Democrats that are going to kill RFK Jr.'s nomination.

01:13:09.000 It's Republicans, and those Republicans better watch out because I'm telling you, there's so many of these moms that are heavily involved in the Republican primaries. 1.00

01:13:19.000 Here's looking at you, Bill Cassidy.

01:13:21.000 You don't want to mess around with these people.

01:13:23.000 You're out if you kill this nomination.

01:13:25.000 He's the most popular...

01:13:27.000 Remember the Turning Point rally that they had where they announced that he was endorsing Trump?

01:13:31.000 That was a huge gain of momentum for us.

01:13:34.000 This is the Kennedys making right for all of the Catholics that they misled into the Democratic Party, right? 0.71

01:13:41.000 That's what this is.

01:13:42.000 It's beautiful.

01:13:43.000 What are they worried RFK is going to do?

01:13:46.000 He's going to screw over Big Pharma.

01:13:48.000 And all of these people who are paid by Big Pharma are obviously...

01:13:51.000 So Bernie Sanders got so mad about this because RFK pointed out he's the largest recipient of Big Pharma dollars.

01:13:57.000 And he goes, not from CEOs, just from the people who work there.

01:14:01.000 It's like, okay, dude.

01:14:03.000 Unreal.

01:14:03.000 Who are all making so much...

01:14:05.000 It's not like...

01:14:05.000 He's acting like these are blue-collar workers at Big Pharma that are cutting him paychecks.

01:14:11.000 No, these are like people that are making high six-figures, seven-figure salaries.

01:14:15.000 It doesn't even matter.

01:14:16.000 The point is, Bernie, I got a question.

01:14:20.000 How come so many people who work for Big Pharma want to give you money, Bernie?

01:14:23.000 Honest question.

01:14:24.000 Could it be that under your policies of getting rid of insurance companies and giving single-payer, they're going to go on government contracts that will never break?

01:14:30.000 Could it be that they're going to essentially start functioning like USAID, where the government just writes them a $20 billion check?

01:14:36.000 They can pay themselves because their private entity is getting government money forever, and they'll never have competition ever again because the government is going to give them infinite cash?

01:14:43.000 Maybe that's why the people who work there are like, I want to donate to this guy.

01:14:46.000 And he's the number one recipient, and he was like, no!

01:14:48.000 Not from the CEOs.

01:14:50.000 It was only $1.5 million out of $200 million.

01:14:54.000 The fact that it didn't come from the CEOs doesn't change the fact that he got all that money from people in pharma.

01:15:02.000 You don't have to be a CEO. This is what the game the Democrats try to play because they know that the average person doesn't follow the news.

01:15:08.000 They go like, you know that Donald Trump is increasing your taxes and you're like, how?

01:15:12.000 With the tariffs.

01:15:13.000 What does that mean?

01:15:14.000 And Democrats go, tariffs are a tax on you.

01:15:16.000 And it's like, okay, well, that's not necessarily true.

01:15:19.000 Taxes are going to be on the people importing, and the assumption is they'll raise the cost of the price of the product to cover the cost of the tariffs.

01:15:26.000 However, because of market forces in the United States, that may not actually be true.

01:15:30.000 If there's two coffees, and one comes from Canada and one comes from the United States, and there's a 25% tariff, that means that $10 bag of coffee in Canada is now $12.50.

01:15:39.000 So the company says, to absorb the cost of the tariff, we're going to raise the price at $12.50.

01:15:43.000 Good luck.

01:15:44.000 The American coffee is still $10.

01:15:45.000 So you can raise the price.

01:15:48.000 What's going to happen?

01:15:49.000 The company is going to say, if we raise the price, we will not be competitive in the marketplace.

01:15:54.000 So we're going to have to eat it.

01:15:57.000 So our margins are going to go down.

01:15:58.000 And if they can't afford it, they might not even sell to the United States anymore.

01:16:01.000 It's not a guarantee they're going to raise taxes on you.

01:16:03.000 But Democrats are lying, saying all of those taxes will be on you.

01:16:07.000 No.

01:16:08.000 That's the game they play.

01:16:09.000 They use assumptive language to trick you into thinking the wrong thing.

01:16:13.000 Well, how about the slow sucking sound that took all of our manufacturing jobs away over the last 30 years?

01:16:20.000 I mean, there are other costs besides...

01:16:22.000 I'm willing to pay a little bit more for my coffee or my tables or my clothing if it means my neighbors have jobs still and that they aren't humiliated and told by Joe Biden that they need to learn how to code after getting kicked out of their coal mine.

01:16:36.000 Well, it's funny because we've talked about this forever.

01:16:39.000 Before the election, I'm ranting on free trade and talking about how our jobs have been extracted four years ago, longer.

01:16:47.000 I'm talking about how Trump threatens a tariff on Mexico and the auto manufacturers come back to Michigan.

01:16:52.000 Biden gets in and they rip it off and they go back to Mexico.

01:16:54.000 It was crazy the back and forth they were doing.

01:16:57.000 We've talked about how...

01:16:59.000 We as Americans are willing to pay more for American-made products because it's better for our culture, our economy, and our children's future.

01:17:05.000 And I made the point, we launched Booneys HQ well before the election.

01:17:09.000 Booneys HQ skateboards are made in America.

01:17:11.000 We sell them at a cheaper price.

01:17:13.000 We give a better royalty to our pro-riders.

01:17:15.000 We make profit.

01:17:17.000 And we were told we would make an additional like $10 per board if we sold Chinese-made boards.

01:17:21.000 I said, no.

01:17:22.000 We want to invest in America.

01:17:24.000 Donald Trump coming in and threatening tariffs.

01:17:27.000 Now they're going, I thought you guys wanted cheaper eggs.

01:17:30.000 And I'm like, uh-huh, well, buy chickens.

01:17:32.000 Like, I am deeply concerned about the jobs in this country being extracted, and I am personally willing to pay more for American.

01:17:37.000 That's always been the case.

01:17:39.000 A great example is Mammoth Nation and Public Square, as if Trump supporters and MAGA and populists were not actively building industries around supporting American-made products.

01:17:48.000 No, it's obvious.

01:17:49.000 They just wanted to keep their gravy train running.

01:17:53.000 The Democrats' campaigns are all funded by the major corporations that don't want to have to worry about restructuring or changing anything in their business.

01:18:01.000 They just want the profits to keep coming through.

01:18:03.000 The Democrats are now both the party of big corporations and big government.

01:18:08.000 You're starting to see a bit of a shift from big corporations.

01:18:11.000 They're starting to come back to the Republican side after Trump won, but I don't know how long that's going to last, actually.

01:18:18.000 I mean, I don't know how long it's going to last either.

01:18:24.000 Man, as the joke goes, this past week was a hell of a year.

01:18:28.000 You know, Trump's...

01:18:30.000 I can pull up his approval rating right here.

01:18:32.000 Trump's approval rating from RCP aggregate plus 4.6.

01:18:37.000 You know, if we go back to the first few days of his presidency, he was up like 13 or whatever, up 8. Still...

01:18:43.000 We expect it to normalize a little bit, but he's never been above water.

01:18:47.000 No, that's right.

01:18:48.000 And so clearly, in terms of what the American people want, they're liking what they're seeing.

01:18:51.000 I like the fact that he's got high approval ratings, but to be honest with you, the substance of what he's doing, all of these executive orders, all the things that Doge is doing, that's the real victory.

01:19:04.000 Even if people started to get a little weak in the knees because it's big changes too fast for them or a little faster than they're comfortable with, I feel like that's okay, because these changes are what he actually did run on, and these are the things that are necessary.

01:19:20.000 Making the government smaller and more efficient, making sure that the bureaucracy has...

01:19:29.000 There's a limit to the bureaucracy's ability to stymie the will of the American people.

01:19:33.000 The bureaucracy passing rules has the same effect as Congress passing laws, and that's not supposed to be how legislation works in the United States.

01:19:45.000 The executive branch has the ability to implement things, and so they're going to make some rules, but they shouldn't be making more rules than the American people can deal with.

01:19:55.000 I think it's like three felonies a day is what the average person commits accidentally.

01:20:01.000 And really, that puts everyone in a position where at any point, the government might stick their nose into your life and say, hey, you have a massive problem now because we want to make your life a problem.

01:20:12.000 Well, that's why I love Trump talking about...

01:20:14.000 Look, I don't know how feasible this is.

01:20:16.000 I'm not an economist.

01:20:17.000 But I love Trump talking about eliminating the income tax and going to an all tariff based system because right now with all of us having to pay an income tax, Every single one of us is at the at the whims of the federal government and the IRS and whether or not they decide to go after us.

01:20:35.000 But if you put I think I think the onus on federal revenues and taxes should be on major corporations and businesses that do do business overseas.

01:20:44.000 They've already got the accounting firms.

01:20:46.000 They've got the best tax lawyers.

01:20:48.000 But everyday people like you and I, we can't afford these guys.

01:20:52.000 And so basically we have a tax code that can be weaponized against us at any point.

01:21:00.000 Do you think a consumption tax is a better option?

01:21:03.000 I don't know.

01:21:05.000 I really don't know.

01:21:07.000 I've seen proposals for a gross receipts tax on corporations.

01:21:11.000 It's like a super low flat tax that corporations have to pay on their gross receipts.

01:21:16.000 I just think the tax code, whatever the taxes are, should be the lowest possible rate with the widest possible base.

01:21:25.000 Well, no, I'm not talking...

01:21:26.000 I would love to get rid of the income tax, too, but the idea...

01:21:29.000 Like a VAT. Well, I'm not sure if a value-added tax is the same thing that I'm thinking of.

01:21:34.000 Essentially, a federal sales tax, or a federal...

01:21:37.000 I mean, the reason it's a consumption tax is on everything, right?

01:21:40.000 And if you had 1% tax on every dollar that was spent, right?

01:21:46.000 I don't know exactly what it would generate, but it would generate a considerable amount of money because our GDP is $27 trillion or something.

01:21:54.000 $1 on what?

01:21:56.000 1% on every dollar.

01:21:58.000 So it's like a penny on every dollar.

01:22:01.000 But our GDP is $27 trillion annually or something like that.

01:22:06.000 So that would be $270 billion in additional revenues?

01:22:09.000 Yeah, something like that.

01:22:10.000 And it wouldn't fund the whole government.

01:22:12.000 But if you actually shrink the government, I don't know the number.

01:22:21.000 I don't know if it's 1% or 2% or whatever.

01:22:23.000 But the point being, instead of taxing people's income and taxing the people that go out and work...

01:22:30.000 Tax what's spent.

01:22:31.000 So that way, if you decide you're not going to spend money, you're going to save your money, you're not paying the tax on your income.

01:22:38.000 You're paying the tax only when you're actually engaging in economic activity.

01:22:42.000 And I don't know the percentage or whatever, but to me, it seems like that would be a better system than taxing people for going out and creating work or working and having an income.

01:22:56.000 A lot of people just...

01:22:58.000 We live our lives.

01:22:59.000 We don't really think about how the tax code impacts our lives.

01:23:01.000 It does in so many different ways.

01:23:03.000 Huge.

01:23:03.000 So I like where you're going with this.

01:23:05.000 What I would want to do is have this...

01:23:07.000 If I was going to do this, have a national consumption tax, but then give a rebate for families.

01:23:13.000 You get X amount of dollars for a rebate on this for every kid you have or whatever it is, but you reorient the entire country, the entire economy around the family.

01:23:24.000 I think doing it around individuals is just too...

01:23:29.000 It's too individualistic.

01:23:31.000 I mean, like I said earlier today, I like the idea of focusing government policy on promoting families as opposed to focusing government policy on...

01:23:39.000 And this sounds horrible, and I understand that there are people that need help and stuff like that, but the idea that we incentivize women having children outside of wedlock is bad.

01:23:53.000 We need to stop doing that.

01:23:55.000 We need to stop...

01:23:57.000 Incentivizing people to have multiple children.

01:23:59.000 And you hear the stories and the anecdotes.

01:24:02.000 Oh, you know, I don't want to go and make more money because I'll lose this benefit from the government.

01:24:08.000 I don't want to go and try and get another job.

01:24:11.000 Or if me and my baby daddy get married, then we're going to lose this and we're going to lose that.

01:24:17.000 Those kind of things incentivize single motherhood. 1.00

01:24:19.000 They incentivize people to not become families and not start families.

01:24:23.000 So there should be...

01:24:25.000 Policies that incentivize families and incentivize normal, traditional male and female families. 0.66

01:24:32.000 Stop focusing on the margins.

01:24:34.000 Stop trying to center the margins.

01:24:37.000 Stop trying to incentivize LGBT people to have whatever kind of... 0.78

01:24:44.000 Polyamorous lifestyle they want. 0.98

01:24:46.000 There's no benefit to society from that.

01:24:47.000 There's no benefit to that.

01:24:48.000 None whatsoever.

01:24:49.000 To be honest with you, all it does is make society worse.

01:24:54.000 When Trump signed the executive order to bring all the federal employees back to working in the office instead of remote work, a lot of people actually said that that decision was anti-family because the women who were working for the federal government from home We're no longer able to work from home.

01:25:16.000 And people were like, okay, but we're paying as taxpayers.

01:25:20.000 We're paying for them to basically do nothing all day.

01:25:24.000 That doesn't seem fair.

01:25:26.000 And they're like, no, but you're incentivizing them to stay home with their children. 0.73

01:25:31.000 That's a good thing.

01:25:33.000 I think that it's leftist lying.

01:25:35.000 I think it's leftist lying about it. 0.69

01:25:37.000 They lie about everything.

01:25:39.000 I'm telling you right-wing conservative people who are saying this is a bad thing to force federal employees back into the office because the women who work for the federal government are no longer going to be able to stay home with their kids while they work this laptop job or whatever. 0.99

01:25:55.000 I'm pretty sure if you're doing telework, you're required, at least my organization requires it.

01:26:00.000 We're small.

01:26:01.000 But if you are working from home...

01:26:02.000 You should just let them pretend to work while they take care of their kids. 1.00

01:26:18.000 Are they married?

01:26:24.000 I would be in favor of firing them and coming up with a program for married couples to supplement the income that they would have and then actually getting rid of that job. 1.00

01:26:35.000 Because once their kids are old enough, they can not have that whatever program it is anymore.

01:26:44.000 The example I was reading about was that she did have the... 0.99

01:26:49.000 Availability for subsidized childcare through her federal government job, but she made too much money to qualify for it. 0.97

01:26:59.000 Okay, so I just didn't understand the argument there.

01:27:04.000 I mean, I'm not 100% sure the argument there either, but I mean...

01:27:09.000 I think that it is...

01:27:10.000 Moms should just have as many fake email jobs as possible. 1.00

01:27:15.000 As long as they don't work for the federal government, I would like for them to go steal money from a corporation instead.

01:27:23.000 Instead of me.

01:27:25.000 Well, I mean, I think that...

01:27:28.000 If you're working for the federal government, you should have to actually go to work.

01:27:33.000 You should actually have to work for the government.

01:27:35.000 You should have to do your job.

01:27:37.000 Where are all these people?

01:27:38.000 Are they even living in D.C. or are they just all over the country?

01:27:41.000 I don't have any idea.

01:27:44.000 It's bad that we got to this point, right?

01:27:46.000 COVID is what made this happen, and we should have gone back to normal as soon as we could have after COVID. And at some point, we should go back to normal, because you know if there are people that got onto this program while COVID was going on, if they didn't end it, then more people were getting onto these programs, and it becomes a...

01:28:07.000 A program that doesn't go away.

01:28:09.000 It'll never end.

01:28:10.000 There will always be people that are working remotely that are saying, well, you know, I can just sign up for this because I have a kid or I want to have a kid, so I'm going to work remote and I'm going to make, you know, $200,000 a year working remotely and I'm actually only going to work about, you know, 30 hours a week for the federal government.

01:28:25.000 I'm going to work on the, you know, it's going to be the taxpayer dime or whatever.

01:28:30.000 So, whereas people may be making that argument, honestly, I find it uncompelling.

01:28:36.000 It's like luxury welfare.

01:28:38.000 Yeah, it's like, look, it's bad that you're in this position, but it has to end.

01:28:44.000 We have to stop these things.

01:28:46.000 We can't have a system where people are working remotely and not going to work.

01:28:50.000 All the competent, self-governing, conscientious people out there are saying, "No, as soon as I started working remotely from home, I got so much more done." And I don't really even disbelieve what they're saying, but most people, the vast majority of people do need to be supervised in order to get anything done.

01:29:12.000 Yes, and honestly, I imagine that people that are that...

01:29:21.000 At that point, just own your own business.

01:29:23.000 Exactly what I was going to say.

01:29:25.000 They probably would be successful at whatever they do.

01:29:28.000 If you ever did, you wouldn't want your employees to work from home.

01:29:30.000 Yeah.

01:29:31.000 It's true.

01:29:31.000 Because, I mean, it does seem to me that the majority of people that work from home are not the extremely go-get-em kind of people.

01:29:41.000 They are people that are doing their best to kind of skate by.

01:29:44.000 And that's not everybody, of course.

01:29:48.000 And I'm the most productive person I know.

01:29:50.000 I'm not addicted.

01:29:51.000 And either way, I don't want the people that work for the federal government doing that.

01:29:57.000 I want people that work for the federal government to be kind of like ridden by their boss, being like, yo, are you getting this done?

01:30:04.000 Are you getting this done?

01:30:04.000 I like the idea that as much as you're probably not going to get this in the federal government, but I like the idea that when Musk was going around to people at Twitter saying, what did you get done this week?

01:30:15.000 What did you get done this week?

01:30:16.000 What did you get done this week?

01:30:17.000 Like, there should be a goal of being productive, especially in government.

01:30:23.000 If you are in government and you have a job to do, there should be someone walking around saying, what did you get done this week?

01:30:29.000 What did you get done this week?

01:30:31.000 Elon Musk and Vivek got a lot of flack when they were saying a couple months ago that Americans are lazy.

01:30:36.000 And that was their excuse for hiring non-American labor. 0.99

01:30:39.000 Well, I will say this. 0.99

01:30:41.000 Americans are lazy. 1.00

01:30:42.000 But we have to hire American and build up our culture and infrastructure to reverse this cultural track. 0.98

01:30:48.000 We can't function this way.

01:30:51.000 But, man, I gotta tell you, I talk to a lot of people who own businesses, and the conversations are, I don't know if it's always been this way, but a large majority of the people who come in for work do not want to work.

01:31:03.000 Elon Musk goes in and says, what did you get done this week?

01:31:06.000 Because I bet 90% did nothing.

01:31:09.000 I mean, there are times where there are people that...

01:31:12.000 I've hired for, you know, when we're on tour.

01:31:14.000 And there are people that are like, they get up in the morning and they're smiling and they are, you know, like, okay, let's go.

01:31:21.000 And it's like, it's raining and they're just like, okay, well, let's get this done.

01:31:25.000 Or it's whatever the weather is outside and they're like, oh, let's get this done.

01:31:28.000 And then there are people that get up and no matter what the situation is, they just look miserable.

01:31:34.000 The people that look miserable, I don't hire a second time.

01:31:37.000 I'm not looking to get that kind of person on the crew again.

01:31:42.000 When it's people that are like, yo, I'm going to get this done.

01:31:44.000 Let's go get this.

01:31:45.000 Let's get the push on.

01:31:46.000 Let's get the gear out.

01:31:48.000 Let's crack that trailer. 1.00

01:31:49.000 Let's go.

01:31:50.000 Those are the people that I'm like, that dude should be hired again.

01:31:53.000 And if people call me and they say, hey, you worked with this guy, right?

01:31:57.000 And what was he like?

01:31:58.000 I'm not helping someone that was like... 0.99

01:32:03.000 Dragging ass and acting like it was a chore to get out of bed. 0.98

01:32:07.000 Because, to be honest with you, there are times where, if you're on a crew, there are times where it's hard work. 0.99

01:32:13.000 But for the most part, it is a pretty cool job.

01:32:16.000 You get up at 10. 11. You know, you get off the bus.

01:32:22.000 You go and you crack the trailer.

01:32:24.000 You push the stuff to stage.

01:32:25.000 Each person sets up their stuff.

01:32:27.000 And then, like, once 3 o'clock rolls around, you got from, like, 3 o'clock until whatever time the band goes on to kind of, you know, do your own thing.

01:32:35.000 And you can play video games or whatever.

01:32:37.000 Then we play.

01:32:38.000 And you got to be busy for however long our set is, an hour or whatever.

01:32:42.000 We get done.

01:32:42.000 You got to pack the stuff up and throw it in the bus.

01:32:46.000 Most nights you're done.

01:32:48.000 Before the show's over, unless we're headlining.

01:32:51.000 If we're headlining, it's a little more work.

01:32:53.000 But even still, it's an alright gig.

01:32:57.000 And you chose to do this job.

01:33:00.000 At the end of the day, that's the thing.

01:33:02.000 You chose to do this.

01:33:03.000 We didn't twist your arm to get you to come out on tour with us.

01:33:07.000 You're here, and if you're a bum out, then you're making it worse for everybody on the bus.

01:33:14.000 We've got to live with you, and you're all bummed out.

01:33:16.000 I don't want that.

01:33:18.000 It's like that a lot of times.

01:33:19.000 So it's really hard to find people that are actually going to do the job and do the job well and actually going to seem like, okay, cool, man, I'm here to do the job.

01:33:27.000 If you're not here to do the job, it's real obvious real quick.

01:33:32.000 And it's like, all right, I'm not seeing nearly as many of these videos anymore.

01:33:36.000 But, you know, these a day in the life of a Google employee or whatever.

01:33:41.000 And they're usually made by, like, girls my age who are, like, recent college grads or something.

01:33:47.000 And I don't see these videos as much anymore, but they definitely radicalize some people to see these luxurious laptop jobs where you do...

01:33:55.000 Like, a meeting, and then you get coffee, and then maybe you have another meeting, and then you get coffee.

01:34:01.000 Then you have, like, afternoon drinks?

01:34:02.000 Yeah, and then you go for drinks after work or whatever.

01:34:06.000 Do you think that those are PR departments doing that?

01:34:09.000 It could have definitely been, like, an effort by the company to get more people, get more, like, candidates to apply, but...

01:34:18.000 I don't doubt that some of those videos were more realistic to the picture of what it looks like for an employee.

01:34:25.000 I can confirm they're real.

01:34:26.000 And I just look back at these videos that were made by Twitter employees, you know, before it was X, and I just laugh and laugh because they're not there anymore.

01:34:36.000 I've been invited to Google's office like 10 years ago.

01:34:40.000 Maybe not 10 years ago.

01:34:41.000 Yeah, about 10 years ago.

01:34:42.000 I used to go to Google's office all the time.

01:34:43.000 Maybe like, I don't know, once a month, if that.

01:34:47.000 And they were Google and YouTube.

01:34:50.000 YouTube was at Marketplace in New York.

01:34:54.000 Man, I haven't lived there in so long.

01:34:55.000 But Livestream headquarters were there right next to that Google HQ, right by that market.

01:35:03.000 And then YouTube was like a block away.

01:35:06.000 Man, I'd get invited to the Google office and people are just sitting in like...

01:35:14.000 I don't know how to describe it.

01:35:15.000 Fake little diner tables.

01:35:17.000 They just get up and they go walk to the cafeteria where there's tons of free food and drink.

01:35:22.000 It's exactly like what you see in those videos.

01:35:26.000 Well, George Gilder, he wrote a book with us on monetary policy, but he's like this prophet from Silicon Valley.

01:35:33.000 He wrote this original book called Men in Marriage in the 80s.

01:35:37.000 And then in the 90s, he wrote this book called Life After Television.

01:35:41.000 But in the book that he wrote for us, it's called The Scandal of Money.

01:35:44.000 And it's a good read.

01:35:45.000 And it really helped me understand the purpose of monetary policy.

01:35:49.000 But he brought up the fact that there were way more mergers and acquisitions coming out of Silicon Valley than IPOs.

01:35:55.000 And he detailed how Google, their entire existence was essentially buying up all their competitors and giving them paperclips to play with.

01:36:03.000 Like, they suck up all the guys that are going to disrupt things, really, and they buy them out, and then there's no real innovation.

01:36:10.000 There's no real disruption in the market anymore.

01:36:13.000 I read a story about a guy who had an office job and he said that his company got bought out and he's like, "I guess they didn't realize that I was still in one of their satellite And so he would just show up every day, but nobody was there.

01:36:25.000 It was empty.

01:36:26.000 People stopped emailing him, but he kept getting paid.

01:36:28.000 So he just kept showing up and then he had nothing to do because he was like, I have no boss.

01:36:33.000 I have no idea what's going on, but I'm here as I'm contracted to do.

01:36:36.000 And he played video games all day.

01:36:38.000 And part of me wonders if just we as a country have become extremely inefficient.

01:36:44.000 Lazy.

01:36:45.000 And these corporations, all of them are largely legally automated through HR and stuff.

01:36:50.000 So, like, it's like an office space when that dude kept showing up to work.

01:36:54.000 The stapler guy.

01:36:55.000 The stapler guy.

01:36:56.000 And he's like, he stopped getting paid, but he keeps showing up anyway.

01:36:59.000 I think there's a difference between, you know, office jobs like that and then, like, the kind of tech bro, you know, Silicon Valley jobs.

01:37:07.000 My ex used to work for Palantir.

01:37:10.000 And in D.C. And we would go to...

01:37:13.000 I think it was...

01:37:14.000 Anyway, I went to the office with her and they had like...

01:37:18.000 It was all, like, there were, like, rooms for people to sleep in.

01:37:22.000 They had, like, a stocked pantry.

01:37:25.000 And by stocked, I mean there was booze and all the food you could imagine.

01:37:29.000 They had, like, catering every day.

01:37:32.000 And they had, like, this big old Lego Death Star hanging up.

01:37:36.000 And all the rooms were named after, like, dudes from Top Gun.

01:37:39.000 And, like, it was all...

01:37:42.000 It was literally like if nerds had unlimited money and they were just like, do what you want.

01:37:48.000 Not like that.

01:37:48.000 It's just that.

01:37:49.000 They want you to live there or something?

01:37:53.000 Well, because they were working on defense contract stuff, if there was something where they had to be there overnight, there were beds and bunks and stuff like that.

01:38:02.000 If you had an emergency and they needed you, they might be like, you have to stay here until this national emergency is over.

01:38:08.000 But the point is...

01:38:10.000 I think that that's a significant difference between, like, the stuff that goes on in Silicon Valley and the way that, because you see videos of Google and how they have, like, you know, the rest, the meditation rooms and the stress balls and, you know, they bring puppies in and all the stuff that they do at those companies.

01:38:26.000 And that's real different than what you see, like, in office space or, you know, whatever kind of, like, call center that's a whole different animal, you know?

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01:39:23.000 Let's grab your super chats and see what is up.

01:39:27.000 All right.

01:39:28.000 Mike C says, we got Tim Pool gets married before GTA 6. Congrats.

01:39:34.000 Yep.

01:39:35.000 That's true.

01:39:37.000 Tony Nagy says, congratulations, Tim.

01:39:39.000 Remember, rule number one, she's always right.

01:39:41.000 You're golden then.

01:39:42.000 Long life.

01:39:44.000 Happy wife, happy life.

01:39:46.000 That's right.

01:39:46.000 Someone else super chatted that too.

01:39:48.000 What do you make of that?

01:39:49.000 Happy wife, happy life? 0.69

01:39:50.000 Yeah, this phrase that goes around.

01:39:52.000 Do you think it's correct?

01:39:54.000 It's misinterpreted?

01:39:55.000 I think it's like tongue-in-cheek.

01:39:58.000 Yeah.

01:39:58.000 Like obviously you don't want to be bad to your wife, you know?

01:40:01.000 You want to have her be happy.

01:40:03.000 That's it, you know? 0.99

01:40:05.000 A lot of people just interpret it to mean, like, you should just simp for your wife and do everything she tells you and be a lapdog. 0.99

01:40:12.000 Nah. 0.97

01:40:13.000 That's not what...

01:40:14.000 I think that's an intentional misinterpretation, though.

01:40:16.000 I think...

01:40:17.000 Terry, when did you meet your wife?

01:40:18.000 How old were you?

01:40:19.000 I was 20. So I met her in 2007 at CPAC in D.C. We were volunteering for Sam Brownback, who was a senator from Kansas, running for president.

01:40:34.000 And then we started dating on the campaign trail out in Iowa.

01:40:39.000 Look, I'll say this.

01:40:41.000 I think that that's what it's meant. 0.94

01:40:43.000 When people say it today, it really is more like a just shut up and just do whatever your wife says. 0.94

01:40:51.000 Dying to yourself to support your wife, right?

01:40:55.000 And sometimes that means disagreeing with her and protecting her from a mistake she's about to make.

01:41:00.000 I don't know.

01:41:02.000 I think your life's a lot better if your wife's happy.

01:41:04.000 Let's take it to its logical position.

01:41:07.000 If your wife is like, I want to jump off this bridge, and you are like, well, I'm not going to... 1.00

01:41:12.000 Whatever makes you happy, sweetie.

01:41:14.000 Well, she's clearly not going to be happy for much longer.

01:41:15.000 Right.

01:41:16.000 So part of what makes a person happy is understanding the balance of short-term and long-term satisfaction.

01:41:21.000 The problem we have with liberals in this country is that they're all short-term.

01:41:25.000 They want to party, do drugs.

01:41:27.000 They don't want to work.

01:41:29.000 You need a balance.

01:41:30.000 We have two weeks of vacation because sometimes you want to go skiing or whatever.

01:41:35.000 You want to go to Wisconsin Dells.

01:41:39.000 If you live in Chicago.

01:41:40.000 Or Vegas.

01:41:41.000 There you go.

01:41:41.000 Everybody likes Vegas.

01:41:42.000 But you go for two weeks.

01:41:44.000 You lose some money.

01:41:45.000 You spend a bunch of money on stuff you don't get back.

01:41:47.000 But it's that short-term fun.

01:41:49.000 But most of the year is spent preparing for that long term.

01:41:52.000 So a happy wife is kept happy when you plan for the future.

01:41:55.000 You do what you gotta do.

01:41:56.000 And that's what it's all about.

01:41:57.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:41:58.000 That means disagreeing sometimes.

01:41:59.000 That means being stern and responsible.

01:42:01.000 That means...

01:42:02.000 Doing your duty.

01:42:04.000 And it also means being stern if your wife is not doing her duty as well.

01:42:08.000 Well, it means doing things even if she didn't ask, right?

01:42:11.000 Like doing the dishes, cleaning a room when she, you know... 1.00

01:42:14.000 Moms...

01:42:15.000 Well, if you're a liberal, it's more about hiring Consuelo to do your duty. 1.00

01:42:18.000 Yeah, otherwise, yeah.

01:42:19.000 For all these people, who's going to clean your toilets?

01:42:23.000 That Meghan McCain line, that's wonderful.

01:42:26.000 Was that Meghan McCain?

01:42:27.000 Oh, no, no, no, no.

01:42:29.000 That was out of war.

01:42:30.000 Kelly Osborn.

01:42:31.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:42:31.000 Sorry.

01:42:32.000 Get the mix-up.

01:42:33.000 Megan McCain's actually great.

01:42:34.000 I have no issue.

01:42:36.000 Mixing them up is probably more offensive.

01:42:37.000 Yeah, that's probably...

01:42:38.000 Oh, man.

01:42:38.000 I'm a deep...

01:42:39.000 We're sorry, Megan.

01:42:42.000 All right.

01:42:42.000 Let's grab some more.

01:42:43.000 What do we have?

01:42:44.000 The Oracle says, the Dems are currently trying to break into USAID offices, and they don't have high enough clearances.

01:42:50.000 LOL. Did you see Trump banned Brennan from ever going into any federal buildings?

01:42:54.000 And I think...

01:42:57.000 Bolton.

01:42:58.000 I laughed so hard when I saw that.

01:43:00.000 And I was like, Elad, most deeply impacted.

01:43:02.000 Sorry, Elad.

01:43:04.000 He loves Bolton.

01:43:06.000 All right.

01:43:08.000 Captain John Rackham says, My boss's wife passed away this weekend.

01:43:11.000 I've known her for ten years.

01:43:12.000 She was a beautiful, wonderful person, and she will be missed.

01:43:15.000 Rip Victoria. 1.00

01:43:16.000 Sorry to hear it, man.

01:43:16.000 Sad to hear it.

01:43:20.000 Okay, let's go.

01:43:22.000 Quantum Strange Quark says, Tim, congrats to you and Allison.

01:43:25.000 You can never, ever win another argument again.

01:43:27.000 Seriously, congrats.

01:43:28.000 See, that's like the weird thing.

01:43:29.000 I think, like, I was already referring to Allison as my wife to anybody who asked.

01:43:36.000 That's like, there's no intention to be with anybody else.

01:43:39.000 Like, we're here for each other.

01:43:41.000 And that's why when we got married, we were like, well, let's do the ceremony when we have time.

01:43:45.000 But we'll go to the courthouse and we'll get it legal.

01:43:47.000 And it's largely just about protections and the legal protections and all that stuff.

01:43:51.000 You know, our commitment to each other was already there.

01:43:54.000 I do think that when your missions are aligned, you don't have to worry about these tropes and these claims and, like, sin for your wife or whatever.

01:44:02.000 And it's like, I don't know.

01:44:05.000 I don't really have to worry about it because, like, both Allison and I don't like it if there's garbage or if work isn't getting done.

01:44:11.000 Like, there doesn't have to be an argument about it.

01:44:14.000 Look, I'm telling you, like, the Bible is full of wisdom and there's all these passages about how...

01:44:19.000 Valuable a good wife is. 1.00

01:44:22.000 If you have a good wife, just the peace of mind knowing that you're fully aligned on things, she's never going to stab your back. 0.84

01:44:29.000 It's literally like having a guaranteed best friend if you really do marriage right.

01:44:33.000 You know what, man?

01:44:34.000 I tell you.

01:44:35.000 I talk about this hypothetical quite a bit when Chelsea Handler... 1.00

01:44:39.000 Was bragging about how she wakes up at 6 a.m., does drugs and masturbates or whatever, and she has no kids and she's excited. 1.00

01:44:45.000 And I'm like, you're not going to be excited when you're in the hospital by yourself. 0.91

01:44:47.000 Yeah.

01:44:48.000 Have you ever been in the hospital alone by yourself?

01:44:51.000 Miserable.

01:44:52.000 It's terrible.

01:44:52.000 Miserable experience.

01:44:53.000 I had a kidney stone in 2014. I had to go to the hospital for a couple days.

01:44:57.000 They had me on all these drugs.

01:44:59.000 And I'm like, what do I do?

01:45:01.000 And I was like, this is just life.

01:45:02.000 Be a man.

01:45:03.000 And this was, you know, this is 11 years ago.

01:45:06.000 So I'm like in my late 20s.

01:45:08.000 And I'm just like, there's no one here to make sure.

01:45:12.000 At first, we didn't know.

01:45:13.000 I didn't know if it was appendicitis or what was going on.

01:45:15.000 So I'm being admitted to the ER being like, well, if I die, nobody knows.

01:45:20.000 That's just it.

01:45:20.000 A week from now, this was in between.

01:45:23.000 I was leaving Vise and going to Fusion.

01:45:24.000 A week from now, they're going to call my phone, get no answer, and shrug.

01:45:28.000 Never think about it again.

01:45:29.000 Yeah.

01:45:30.000 My parents...

01:45:31.000 Look, I'm an adult man, so I call my parents periodically, but not enough to where...

01:45:35.000 They would notice.

01:45:36.000 Yeah.

01:45:37.000 If, like, something bad happened, and I'm like, no, you don't want to live in that experience.

01:45:41.000 Like, there's a reason why we have families, and there's a reason why we have families when we're younger.

01:45:46.000 But the U.S. has stopped doing that.

01:45:47.000 I mean, I'm old to be having a family.

01:45:50.000 Like, we've got problems we've got to fix.

01:45:52.000 But I tell you, Chelsea, one of the most terrifying experiences is going to be when you're admitted to the hospital, and they're like...

01:45:58.000 Is there someone we can call?

01:45:59.000 And you're like...

01:46:01.000 So I'm the eldest of 10 kids.

01:46:04.000 I'm one of these weird Catholic families.

01:46:06.000 But my dad got diagnosed with cancer in 2020. And they gave him three months to live.

01:46:14.000 He ended up living another year.

01:46:16.000 But I'm telling you what.

01:46:19.000 He died at home on his own bed with me and my nine siblings and my mother.

01:46:26.000 At his bedside, thanking God out loud for him, praying for him.

01:46:32.000 Like, death is miserable.

01:46:34.000 It is horrific.

01:46:35.000 But, like, that's as happy of a death as you can possibly be.

01:46:39.000 You know, like, all the ten kids that you helped raise, all thanking God out loud for you.

01:46:44.000 Have you seen Interstellar?

01:46:45.000 Yes, yes.

01:46:46.000 The ending of Interstellar, when Matthew McConaughey meets his daughter, who's now older than him because of time dilation or whatever, and she's like, no dad should watch your daughter die.

01:46:54.000 I have a family, and there's like 30 people in the room with her.

01:46:58.000 Her kids and all their kids.

01:47:00.000 And I'm like, I'm telling you, man, anybody who's been in the hospital by themselves, they're like, you don't want to go that route.

01:47:10.000 You want to have people.

01:47:12.000 We're social beings.

01:47:13.000 Were you in the hospital during COVID? No.

01:47:16.000 Okay.

01:47:16.000 That was a whole other...

01:47:19.000 Nope.

01:47:19.000 We were at the castle at the time, and I was surrounded by friends and family.

01:47:27.000 I was with Allison, of course.

01:47:28.000 And then we got the magic medical treatment of monoclonal antibodies, which seemingly cured me overnight.

01:47:34.000 It was nuts.

01:47:35.000 It was amazing.

01:47:36.000 And, yeah, being alone in a hospital on your deathbed is probably...

01:47:44.000 That's hell.

01:47:46.000 That's what people were forced to do during the lockdowns.

01:47:51.000 That's why Fauci needs a security detail.

01:47:54.000 And there's never been a freaking apology.

01:47:56.000 You know what I mean?

01:47:57.000 No one ever apologized.

01:47:59.000 No one's ever owned it.

01:48:00.000 No one's gone to jail over it.

01:48:04.000 Terrible.

01:48:05.000 Kenneth Hart says, Hey Tim, don't take this the wrong way, but there was no drop in quality when you took time off.

01:48:09.000 It was like hearing a band you like cover a song you like.

01:48:11.000 But you do it more often with other folks like Seamus.

01:48:14.000 Solid week, Phil.

01:48:15.000 Indeed, solid week, Phil.

01:48:16.000 Cheers, thank you much.

01:48:17.000 Seamus did fill in a week last year, and I heard it went smashing.

01:48:22.000 It was swimmingly.

01:48:23.000 And then Phil filled in last week.

01:48:25.000 The only issue we're trying to figure out is the morning show is not the same.

01:48:28.000 Because it's one thing to have a group conversation.

01:48:30.000 It's another thing my morning show is an hour and a half of me monologuing.

01:48:33.000 So I don't know how to do that.

01:48:35.000 Even right now, my mouth hurts.

01:48:38.000 But it is what it is.

01:48:39.000 It's not as bad as it was last week.

01:48:40.000 Last week I couldn't eat anything.

01:48:42.000 I was on what I call the Jocko diet.

01:48:44.000 That was where the only thing I had was a Jocko protein shake.

01:48:47.000 And I was grimacing in pain as I was drinking it.

01:48:53.000 But that kept me alive and I lost three pounds.

01:48:56.000 Skinny!

01:48:57.000 It's good stuff.

01:48:58.000 There you go.

01:48:59.000 It hurts too much to eat diet.

01:49:01.000 Yeah.

01:49:01.000 Well, protein shakes are good.

01:49:03.000 I mean, that's what Ensure is, essentially.

01:49:06.000 Those things that they tell for seniors and stuff.

01:49:09.000 I mean, I drink a boatload of protein shakes myself.

01:49:12.000 Do you really?

01:49:13.000 Yeah, I did.

01:49:15.000 I got a bunch of those.

01:49:16.000 Really?

01:49:16.000 It's just easier than eating if you don't have enough time.

01:49:21.000 Why do I feel like you have enough time and you just don't feel like cooking?

01:49:24.000 I'm getting home at like midnight tonight.

01:49:26.000 Fair enough.

01:49:27.000 Times like these.

01:49:29.000 Times like these.

01:49:29.000 Well, it was Brian Johnson.

01:49:31.000 You know who he is?

01:49:32.000 That guy who's going to live forever?

01:49:33.000 Yes.

01:49:34.000 He says don't eat within two hours before going to sleep.

01:49:37.000 Really?

01:49:37.000 He says a lot of things.

01:49:39.000 Yeah, he said have olive oil.

01:49:41.000 He's a vegan.

01:49:42.000 Why didn't we listen to any of his opinions about health?

01:49:44.000 Because he's spending a million dollars to get his blood tested every day. 0.94

01:49:47.000 That literally just means he's crazy.

01:49:49.000 That means nothing. 0.58

01:49:53.000 Touché.

01:49:53.000 It's like harvesting his son's blood.

01:49:55.000 That's true.

01:49:57.000 Weirdo.

01:49:57.000 Yeah.

01:49:58.000 The olive oil thing's interesting, though.

01:49:59.000 He said that a teaspoon of olive oil with every meal is, like, one of the most effective things you can do for anti-aging.

01:50:05.000 And I was like, but olive oil is delicious.

01:50:09.000 You know, I could...

01:50:10.000 I'm already doing that.

01:50:11.000 I know.

01:50:11.000 Yeah, that's great.

01:50:14.000 All right, what do we got?

01:50:15.000 Jeff Rock says, not all Canadians are like that, but all Canadians don't want to be a part of the USA. We also have seen a rise of white supremacists.

01:50:23.000 In Canada?

01:50:25.000 What are you doing wrong? 0.94

01:50:28.000 Sounds like you have a white supremacist government that needs to be overthrown.

01:50:32.000 We can help with that. 0.65

01:50:33.000 Hey, you know.

01:50:33.000 I have this thing called USAID.

01:50:34.000 Basilis says, hey, I'm an air traffic controller, and I can say that maybe DEI affects us in the management hiring, but as controllers, we have a staffing problem.

01:50:45.000 When I got hired, there were 17K.

01:50:47.000 Now there's around 12K.

01:50:50.000 Yeah, I thought that it was a problem with getting enough people to be hired.

01:50:57.000 Wasn't in the Potomac crash, wasn't it like one guy was at two stations?

01:51:02.000 Yeah, they had someone that was running the—it's supposed to be one person for airplanes and one for helicopters, and there was one person running both of them.

01:51:12.000 Have you seen the new footage of that crash, though?

01:51:14.000 That chopper flew right in that plane.

01:51:16.000 It was like the scene from Austin Powers where the steamroller's coming and the guy's 200 feet away going, And then just slowly coming.

01:51:26.000 Yeah.

01:51:27.000 Rough.

01:51:27.000 I mean, I'm kidding.

01:51:28.000 It was brutal, but a lot of people are now saying that they think it might have been intentional. 0.81

01:51:33.000 Like, whoever was flying it may have been mentally ill.

01:51:37.000 Yeah, I was about to say before you said it.

01:51:40.000 I just don't know how he didn't see the plane.

01:51:41.000 It was a woman. 0.60

01:51:42.000 Oh, it was a woman that was flying it? 0.99

01:51:44.000 Yeah, it was a lesbian woman. 1.00

01:51:45.000 I believe, right?

01:51:46.000 The jokes just write themselves now.

01:51:49.000 We're not being offensive, I'm just stating a fact.

01:51:50.000 No, they've scrubbed her whole online history.

01:51:54.000 I believe it was a lesbian woman who was flying the plane. 1.00

01:51:56.000 I'm not making any implications about that.

01:51:58.000 You guys are.

01:51:59.000 I didn't make any of that.

01:52:00.000 That's Phil.

01:52:01.000 That's all Phil.

01:52:01.000 What are people in the chat saying?

01:52:03.000 Why are you saying that?

01:52:03.000 I'm just stating a fact.

01:52:06.000 Actually, I'm fairly certain.

01:52:08.000 I'm not entirely sure, but I heard that people were saying that it was some lesbian woman or something. 0.96

01:52:12.000 It's sad that it happened.

01:52:13.000 But the implication that people are bringing up with that video is that she was...

01:52:19.000 She didn't want to be alive any longer.

01:52:21.000 And I'm not saying that's true.

01:52:22.000 It's what people say on the internet.

01:52:24.000 You know, I try to be a bit more respectful.

01:52:26.000 It was a terrible accent. 1.00

01:52:26.000 A lot of people lost their lives, and we don't know. 1.00

01:52:29.000 So.

01:52:31.000 All right, where are we at?

01:52:32.000 We'll grab some more Super Chats here.

01:52:34.000 Anthony T. Schrade says, My wife and I are trying to raise five daughters in this crazy world, hoping and praying for a positive outcome for our country and world, MAGA and MAHA. I hope you live on a large piece of land with chickens and goats and maybe a mini cow.

01:52:49.000 Because one thing that can really help you out is making your own food.

01:52:52.000 Mm-hmm.

01:52:53.000 Man, gardens are fantastic.

01:52:54.000 I gotta tell you, we don't have one anymore, but when we did, I love it.

01:52:58.000 I wake up in the morning, I walk outside, I grab a zucchini, a handful of cherry tomatoes, then I grab some eggs right from the chickens, right from their butts!

01:53:07.000 Because they're sitting down on them.

01:53:08.000 Because they're warm.

01:53:09.000 They're still warm.

01:53:10.000 And then you walk in and you just, boom, you throw it in the pan.

01:53:14.000 And you got breakfast.

01:53:15.000 Mm-hmm.

01:53:16.000 Don't need nothing else.

01:53:18.000 Milk.

01:53:19.000 But I don't have a cow, so. 1.00

01:53:21.000 You a raw milk person?

01:53:23.000 No.

01:53:24.000 No?

01:53:24.000 Why not?

01:53:24.000 I am not a raw milk.

01:53:25.000 Because I think I completely agree with Matt Walsh.

01:53:28.000 Oh, you think it's disgusting?

01:53:29.000 I don't think it's disgusting.

01:53:30.000 I have no problem with people who want to drink raw milk.

01:53:32.000 I'm just like, pasteurization doesn't bother me.

01:53:34.000 I don't like the generic store-bought plastic carton milk.

01:53:38.000 I would prefer, like, organic farm fresh, but pasteurized is fine.

01:53:42.000 You're pasteurizing out all of the...

01:53:45.000 Enzymes or whatever.

01:53:46.000 So they say.

01:53:47.000 You're also pasteurizing it.

01:53:49.000 I don't have no dog in this fight.

01:53:51.000 I don't even drink milk.

01:53:53.000 I find it funny that people care so much.

01:53:55.000 Yeah, I actually don't drink a lot of milk at all.

01:53:57.000 I don't either.

01:53:58.000 Because I'm not a child.

01:53:59.000 Yeah, right?

01:53:59.000 Raw milk has this taste to it, though.

01:54:03.000 Yeah, it's good.

01:54:04.000 It tastes like a farm.

01:54:05.000 You have to get used to it.

01:54:08.000 European milk tastes different.

01:54:10.000 I haven't had European milk.

01:54:11.000 Whatever we do to the cows here...

01:54:14.000 I think a lot of people are probably just drinking milk from, like, factory-farmed, like, corn-fed cattle.

01:54:20.000 You know?

01:54:21.000 Tastes different.

01:54:22.000 Well, and who knows?

01:54:23.000 I mean, look, they have all those chemicals they're injecting those cows with, and we know that they have chemicals that can make, you know, men who identify as women lactate, so, like, you don't know what the hell they're putting this. 0.63

01:54:37.000 There's some questions about whether that's...

01:54:40.000 It's not milk.

01:54:41.000 It's not milk.

01:54:41.000 That's not milk.

01:54:42.000 That's some weird...

01:54:43.000 Abomination?

01:54:44.000 What is it called?

01:54:45.000 Colostrum or something?

01:54:47.000 No, there's no way that's true.

01:54:50.000 Yes.

01:54:50.000 Men take female hormones to induce lactation.

01:54:53.000 Yeah, it's not.

01:54:54.000 But they don't produce milk.

01:54:55.000 I would not drink it.

01:54:56.000 Mary, do not drink it.

01:54:57.000 They produce some kind of milk precursor.

01:54:59.000 I forgot what it's called.

01:55:00.000 Colostrum is the first batch of breast milk after a woman gets birth. 0.98

01:55:04.000 It's thicker, though, in something.

01:55:05.000 Yeah.

01:55:06.000 Yeah, like they call it liquid gold. 1.00

01:55:08.000 Not whatever you're talking about is coming out of a man's nipples. 0.99

01:55:12.000 I don't believe that for a second. 1.00

01:55:13.000 That's disgusting.

01:55:15.000 I think without hormones, men can actually lactate as well through physical inducement.

01:55:20.000 There was like some...

01:55:22.000 I can't remember which...

01:55:23.000 It was probably like a Libs of TikTok thing that was posting about it.

01:55:25.000 I don't know.

01:55:27.000 I'm not drinking it.

01:55:28.000 My kids drink it.

01:55:29.000 I'm not drinking it.

01:55:30.000 Man milk.

01:55:31.000 That's what we call it.

01:55:33.000 All right, all right.

01:55:34.000 What do we got?

01:55:35.000 The text vet says, you all keep talking about the work from home and bashing people who do it, but none of you have experienced it.

01:55:42.000 No, we're not all lazy, do-nothings getting paid.

01:55:44.000 I go to the office and get on Zoom, same as at home.

01:55:48.000 I am anti-work from home, 100%.

01:55:50.000 It is destructive to industry, destructive to culture, and destructive to business.

01:55:54.000 It's antisocial.

01:55:56.000 Right?

01:55:56.000 Like, I kind of like going to work and seeing my co-workers.

01:55:59.000 I think it's important.

01:56:00.000 Or you go to lunch with people that are, you know, with different groups of people, you know, during the week and stuff.

01:56:06.000 There's a lot of, like, ideas and a lot of exchanges that you miss out on.

01:56:12.000 Like, I forget what...

01:56:14.000 I've heard a lot of anecdotes about this, but I don't have a specific one.

01:56:17.000 But there's just this...

01:56:19.000 This familiarity with people and you miss out on, like, maybe you go out after work to go get dinner together with your friends or everyone's going, oh, we're going here to grab lunch.

01:56:32.000 Those kind of things, a lot of ideas are shared and a lot of things can come from that.

01:56:41.000 Things that are beneficial to the team, to the...

01:56:44.000 To the jobs that you're working on together and stuff.

01:56:47.000 So I agree.

01:56:48.000 Going to work is important.

01:56:51.000 And I think that even in my field, when it comes to writing songs, you can write songs.

01:56:58.000 Over the internet.

01:56:59.000 Now, you can email parts and come up with ideas and send other people ideas and stuff.

01:57:03.000 But one of the things that we used to do with the band is, like, we would always say, no, you can't say no to anyone's idea.

01:57:09.000 You have to try it.

01:57:10.000 You can say you don't like it after you've tried it, but you can't say, no, we're not going to try it.

01:57:14.000 Because there's been so many times where, like, we had tried an idea, and two people talking don't always understand what the other person's saying.

01:57:21.000 And sometimes, you'll try an idea, and it'll go bad, but that'll make a third person say, ooh, ooh, ooh, that made...

01:57:27.000 Let me think of this.

01:57:28.000 Try doing this.

01:57:29.000 And that kind of creative stuff you can't fake.

01:57:32.000 And you can't do it unless you're all in the same room.

01:57:34.000 So there's a lot of people nowadays that write music that way over the internet and stuff like that.

01:57:38.000 But I do think that there's value being in the same room with the same people, whether it be writing music or working together.

01:57:45.000 That kind of stuff just spontaneously happens.

01:57:47.000 They say you are the summation of the five people who surround you.

01:57:50.000 When you work remotely, you are surrounded by no one.

01:57:53.000 You are watching TV. Probably The Office.

01:57:57.000 I don't know.

01:57:57.000 Netflix got rid of that.

01:57:58.000 And someone said that I'm working from home right now.

01:58:00.000 I'm not.

01:58:01.000 I don't live in this building.

01:58:04.000 I'm not.

01:58:06.000 And so what I find largely with the remote work stuff is like, it's basically what Phil's saying.

01:58:13.000 If there's something, a project needs to be done.

01:58:15.000 Maybe we want to film a documentary.

01:58:18.000 Remote work, never going to happen.

01:58:20.000 You put ten people in a room, they're all hanging out.

01:58:22.000 Someone says something to the other person.

01:58:23.000 They have a conversation.

01:58:24.000 Someone overhears it.

01:58:26.000 Those spontaneous conversations don't happen remote.

01:58:29.000 Right.

01:58:29.000 A Zoom meeting will never accomplish that.

01:58:32.000 Dude, literally, we've come up with so many ideas for things that we've done where it's like somebody was walking past someone else in the kitchen and they made a joke and they were like, hey, actually, what if we actually did bake pizzas today?

01:58:43.000 It's like, oh, man, let's do a thing where we get, oh, let's go.

01:58:45.000 Never happens remote.

01:58:47.000 So tolerance for remote work is limited.

01:58:50.000 There are some jobs that are fine based on, you know, certain limitations, obviously.

01:58:54.000 But for the most part, I think it's bad.

01:58:57.000 Let's go!

01:58:58.000 Let's get some more Super Chats in here.

01:59:00.000 Uh-oh, YouTube froze.

01:59:03.000 There we go.

01:59:04.000 Yep, figured.

01:59:05.000 YouTube likes to crash.

01:59:07.000 That's weird.

01:59:08.000 Yeah, it always happens.

01:59:10.000 Let's see.

01:59:12.000 Ren says, will Canada still have free healthcare without the U.S.? Wasn't Trudeau proposing COVID-level recovery efforts if the tariffs went in place?

01:59:23.000 They were going to give guaranteed incomes to people and they were going to go into emergency mode?

01:59:28.000 Really?

01:59:28.000 I didn't hear that, no.

01:59:30.000 I think Trump should keep the tariffs on.

01:59:31.000 The Democrats right now are saying that Trump caved.

01:59:33.000 They're saying that Trump gave up.

01:59:35.000 I think that that, I mean, they're going to say that regardless.

01:59:38.000 Like, they have nothing.

01:59:40.000 Obviously. 0.94

01:59:41.000 It's dumb because Trump issued a letter being like, because of these particular issues, fentanyl and immigration, tariff. 0.91

01:59:47.000 And Mexico and Canada are like, okay, we'll alleviate those things, these measures. 0.95

01:59:51.000 And Trump said, okay, one month pause.

01:59:53.000 And they're like, haha, Trump lost.

01:59:54.000 And it's like, what?

01:59:55.000 Trump literally said these issues must be addressed.

01:59:58.000 They addressed them, and now it's off.

02:00:00.000 It's just cope.

02:00:01.000 That's all it is.

02:00:02.000 Just massive cope.

02:00:03.000 Maybe a little bit of seethe.

02:00:04.000 Yeah, maybe a little bit of seethe.

02:00:05.000 I'm sure.

02:00:06.000 Actually, I think it's a lot of seethe and a little cope.

02:00:08.000 They're angry.

02:00:09.000 Those tariffs, though, on Canada are no joke.

02:00:11.000 In Toronto, I forget the name of the mayor, but right now in Toronto, they have 400,000 people in the surrounding area or whatever that are unemployed.

02:00:20.000 They said if those tariffs go into effect, it would be another 400,000 to 600,000 people that are unemployed.

02:00:25.000 Wow.

02:00:25.000 So it would be devastating.

02:00:27.000 And again, it goes back to that 40%. 0.67

02:00:29.000 Of their GDP. You know, I just gotta say, I don't care about Canada.

02:00:31.000 It's not my responsibility.

02:00:32.000 I'm with you.

02:00:33.000 I'm with you.

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